# i 2 I g af § EF ie ; £ F i ! Hh Es £ | § §i ! ; i | te x i HF H Our! pontemporary is not prepared to trust the politicians in the manage- mont of public utilities, and so it ap- proves of the independent commission. "A body of men" "who are given a security in the ten- Who | ure of their offices like that of the judges, and then are paid enough to 'make them 'contented in their posi- tions, probably comes as near to an ideal form of public control of public utilities as we have not yot achiev- Mr. Borden must have realized how unhappy has been the experience of a platiorm on which the par- ty cannot stand. He and some of his ty haa not been consulted with regard of Ott Hon. Mr. Foy, against the decision the two magistrates w nomination in the provincial bye-elec- tion. On that day the crown asked Jot an djouramen Bind the fase was enlarged ie, being: - aban- doved altogether." All the indications point to an early election, and the causes of grievance " A are being removed one by one. Hanna has been depicted as going his way, smilinglv indifiérent to what the people want or say. But he is doing some serious thinking, and he will do some more before the next election McKay's comment on the Beck power plans, and to the effect that 'the pro- vince as 5 whole will finance for the good its deficiencies. The announce- ment was recently made that the gov- ernment would build transmission lines, in competition with those erect.' od by private capital, and would give power to certain municipalities within a reasonable distance of Niagara Falls Mr. McKay said the province geémer- ally would not stand for taxation im the interest of only a part of it, and Woodstock-Sentinel Review dogs not know that this is "sound business con- sideration or good politics." The pro- position of getting all that is possibl from the g t at the exp of the province, by any locality, may be popular with the favoured or _ {effected districts, but it is not popu lar elsewhere, The Niagarg Falls power scheme can- not 'benefit any place east of Toronto, and Eastern Ontario wants to be con- sidered by the Hydro-Electric commis- sion, in launching its expensive enter- prise. Kingston, for instance, was told by Mr. Beck that there was a possi- bility of getting electric light nearly as chepp as candle light, and it would be encouraging for the people to sup- port some scheme which would mean the intérest of all and not the few. The leader of the opposition is not knocking anything. He is simply de- manding that all Ontario be consider ed in the power schemes of the gov- ernment, end where lectric energy is not available other power should be suggested including that of producer gos. The injury of no locality is be ing sought, but the good of all locali- ties, EDITORIAL NOTES. Mr. Borden is back in Ottawa, hap- py and confident. The London Morn- ing Post, on reliable information, pre- dicts that he may be premier in five or six years, -- A Montreal judge has held a village council" liable, personally, for a defec- tive voters' list, and ordered a new legal and complete revision. Is there anything suggestive in this? |. The mayor of Toronto refers to Dr. Beattie Nesbitt as a "Rip Van Win- kis," or a ghost communing with a host on the water question. Will the 'doctor stand this sneering ? ~ Americans, in pursuit of deer with magazine guns, exvite the anger of the real sportsmen. The $ffenders are {of a class with those who "fish" ia in our rivers, bays and streams with drag vets and tugs. ia sss, The government's wobbling on the power question is not clloulated to "ldo it any good. It ought to take a stand. The fact »that it can be so easily stampeded is not indicative of the strength of character of which feeling pretty good. You know. ho | "My wile 't say a word, * my vest. You see, she thought 1 suffering from severe injuries, the re- sult of a horse's kicks. The horse be- gift is purchased at. the last minute with funds secured at the greatest sac- rifice. Her Mean Husband. ; He said: "I'm the meanest man in home the other eveming and 1 w about 2:41 am. 1 woke up and ob ponder for a short time, went to a bureau, secured something, put it in the vest and came back to bed. 1 as still snoring. 2 The mext morning ! found a dol- lar bill and forty cents in change in would suspect something i there wasn't anything at all in my pockets, and when she took the $10 note she 40. 1 would like to see her expression when some firm hands her back that $10 confederate Geography And Men. Chicago Inter-Ocean. This is from the philosophy of Mrs. Louisa Schmitt, who berated a teach- er in the Nixon school for uot ror moting ber daughter because the lat- ter was deficient in phy : "Teacher, you don't know it all, 1 guess," said the irate ' Mrs. Schmitt. "I wish it that my daughter gets through achat ao ht a man. Never mind about the geography; just te her without it. "Why, my other daughter, she didn't know geography, and she got a man. I don't know geography and I got a man. And you know all about geo- graphy and you ain't got a man at all, What is this geography good for ? Financial Asphyxiation. During the Wall street flurry Sena- tor Elkins appeared af the White served a ghostly figure going through my clothes. I snored gently. In aj niinute or two the figure drew some-| ing from a west pocket, looked at} it in the faint moonlight, appeared to] kno See that my daughter gets through 1 school." physicians that drugs often do good. Years ago, for all sorts of remedies were ad- ives, and nine- the patients died. To-day oon: your bruise is cured. It is the same with more serious ies. As soon as a germ of tu- berculosis or pmeumonia enters your body the white corpuscles in your blood begin to Sght it. If itis but went single germ, making a solitary ex- cursion, it is soon killed. But if, instead of one germ, a million or a undred million invade your tissues, the battle is more strenuous and it lakes lomger for your white corpuse- les to do their police work. - But in the end, if your stamina is , they will succeed. To a per- ectly normal and vigorous man no wn disease is invariably and ne- cessarily fatal. Even the worst plague may be fought and routed by the white blood corpuscles. Even such terrors as ecarcer, leprosy and hydrophobia have been cured in this way. Of course the germs of some dis eases give the white corpuscles and the other anti-germ guardians of the body a much harder tussle than the germs of other diseases. For example, the minute organisms which cause a cold in the head are comparatively easy to kill and the body usually gets rid of them in a few days. It would seem extraordinary to hear of a maw dying of a cold in the head. But the germs of such diseases as tuberculosis, diphtheria and smallpox are very virulent, and it often hap- pens that the white corpuscles in a patient's body are unable to cope with them. Then that patient dies. Thus it is apparent that the serious- ness of a disease may be measured by the effort the body must expend in getting rid of its germs. A pimple on the face usually cures itself within two or three days. That is because the staphylococous which. causes pimples is a germ which falls an'easy prey to the anti-germ substances in the blood. But an attack of rheumatic fever lasts a couple of months, even when the ratient is in good condition for fight- ing it, and that is because the germ which causes it is a tough one and Puts up a hard battle against the blood, Nevertheless the body always makes House and after a conference with president, delivered hi him. "The phatically, *'is not responsible for the situation. He merely turned on the light which resulted in exposing the terrible corruption and dishonesty that exist in some corporations." The senator went down town and learned from a broker that three more New York banking houses 'had closed their doors. "I said at the White' House," he ob- served, "that the president turned on the light. Now 1 believe he bas blown out the gas." Looks And Sounds. Cleveland "Plaindealer, A teacher in one of the lower grades of the public schools gave a talk to her pupils the other day about pro- verbs. After citing several proverbs, such as the one about the early bird and others, she told the pupils that they were each to write out some old proverb and bring it to school next day. The next day when the teacher took up the proverb proposition again, one little girl handed in this: "Ferrick's change is no robbery." "Did you copy that from 2 book we from a phonograph?' as the teacher Just Retribution. A hostler has just been admitted in- to the hospital at Clevelund, Ohio, longs to a circus, and the man states that he was trying to teach the ani- mal to "spell phonetically," when it attacked him, Fatal Quick Lunches. The leading physicians of Chicago declare that Re cases of suinde in that Sey ane dos to 3 quick-lunch | habit. ing to physicians, this haste over meals causes icons, | tion, which affects the nervous temper- ament and causes omaciation, morose: ness, mental disorder, and suicide. Have you tried our baby jelly rolls yot?.. They are fine, R:-H. Toye, King street. Even after = man is. thoroughly dis- couraged he ought to make one more trial. ~ { _ Fatalities From Diarrhoea. Smid afin be avoided if Nerviline were promptly. It is prepared Cpesially tog stomach and bowel trou- Dles- swiltly It was the Theodore Dover com Honolulu, which put 4p el all one. All that d rho clustered about | etimes 5 very small one. tha ad "he said, em {modern medicine professes to do, in | a hot fight and always has a chance winning, albeit this chance fs most cases, is to help the body in its good work and to surround it with the most favorable conditions. A consumptive is ordered to sleep in the open air and is fed on rich milk and eggs in order that his blood may e clear and healthy and so be able to wage 5 successful war against the tubercle bacilli in his hmgs. No effort is ordinarily made to combat the 'bacilli directly. The same thing occurs in the case of pneumonia, typhoid fever, yellow fev- er and other diseases. The patient is well nourished and well nursed, and whenever medicine may lend a hand ~by reducing a fever or aiding in the removal of waste products--this aid is given. But the main fight--the actual war on the germs--must be conducted by the body itself. All bodily pains are more or less evanescent. Even a toothache will stop of itself if you have patience en- ough to wait. Neuralria always stops spontaneously, sooner or later. Even the terrible pains of such diseases as sciatica 'cannot last forever, andl so when they stop you ascribe that re- sult to the virtues of whatever remedy you happen to be using at the time. The success of a host of homely re- medies for colds, bruises, sprains, ete., is based upon this error. A cold is a simple infection of the mucous mem- brane, and carcful observation shows that in a man otherwise healthy it is certain to cure itself within a short time. But the victim of a cold al- most invariably demands that '"'some- thing be done for it"--and the result is a host of teas, lemonades, broths, rubbings, liniments, pills, ete. Camomile tea, for instance, is em- ployed as a remedy for colds by thou- sands of persons. Scientific investi gation has proved that the only thing in the tea that in dny manner or form whatever can possibly aid the body in its fight against the cold germs is the hot water. In other words, a drink of plain hot water would be just as good a medicine as a drink of camo- mile tea. Two other [acts help to make the good repute of many a home remedy. One is the fact that a good many of the aches and pains which afflict us from time to time are more or less imaginary, and that. it is thus pos sible to cure them by making up one's mind that they are gone The second fact is this. That the average layman knows very little about diseases and their outward in- dications and so is prone to mistake a simple and minor ailment for some- thing very serious. Thus, when the average man feels a pain in his arm, he says that he has "a touch of theumatinm." As & matter of fact has no a men are decidedly weak. Overcoat Styles We're quite safe in saying that we've the handsomest Overcoats in Town, Qvercoats $20--Tailored in the most striking fashion, Black or Grey, Meltons and \Cheviots. $18--See our $18 Fine Grey Vicunas, or Black Cheviot Overcoat, medium or long lengths. See Our Special $15 Arlington $15 Overcoats, Grey, Black Suits ot Ou Spl $12.50. AND Overcoats |s.. Overcoat. That rival merchant tailoring. See Our Special $10 Grosvenor Overcoat Finished to your order 10, Colors, Black Grey and in two hours. Nobby Patterned Cheviots. THE H. D. BIBBY GO. FASHIONABLE CLOTHIERS. ErorRrRRRRRRRerRlerPeRrrEirRentRrlueadeuod EE -- of causes and is certain to disappear Would Choose His Company. of itself in a short time. In the west, some twenty years ago, Rheumatism is a decidedly serious | there lived a good man who gave up disease, and. when a man contracts part of his time to teaching the In- it he is good for a long time in bed. 'dians the Christian faith. On one of But the man with the vagrant pain in [hig trips he stopped at the ranch of a his muscle rubs his arm' with some | well-to-do and very religious Swede, liniment, and because the pain is nd uested a night's lodging. : gone the next day he believes ever | The Swede thought a great deal of thercaiter that the liniment he used {the missionary and disliked to offend is 'a sure cure for rheumatism." him; but he also disliked extremely He has made two mistakes. One in having a pack of dirty, greasy In- his belief that he had rheumatism and | gians hanging about his place, so ai- the other is his idea that the lini- | ter much hemming and hawing he stat- ment cured his pain. In truth, he had [od his objections. no rheumatism and the pain in his | "But these Indians are Christians, arm cured itself, as such pains always my good brother, and if you can't do ¢rre themselves whether liniment is abide with them for a single night used or not. here on earth, how do you expect to dwell in heaven with them through all eteriity ?"' inquired the indignant Strictly Business. Chicago Daily News . missionary. "Young man." said the old gentle- The Swede was perplexed, but, after man as he shuffled into the parlor, "1 thoughtfully scratching his head a believe, in fact, I know, that you and moment, said: "The Bible says that in my daughter are rapidly edging to- |, py ther's house are many mansions ward matrimony." : an' I t'ank I had a separate house." "It is true, sir," replied the poor, but otherwise honest youth, "and while I" am obliged to confess that it will | have to be a case of love in a cottage, | There is one source to which all still ----" minds revert when this question is "That's all right, young man," in- 'mentioned, a source most promising terrupted the stern parent. "Love in a land yet one which has so far eluded cottage is the true ideal of happiness. the investigator. The sun on a clear You have my consent ----' day delivers upon each square yard "Oh, thank you, sir !" exclaimed the of the earth's surface the equivalent young man. of approximately two-horse power of " "Upon one condition," continued the | mechanical energy working continu- old gentleman, 'and that is, vou must |ously. If even a fraction of this pow- be able to show me the deed Tor the jer could be transformed into merchan- cottage. Good-night, young man!" [ical energy and stored, it wonld do the { world's work. 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