£ ' ada Temperance Act, i in the average, be larger, but : ' ganizations into line'and #5 Aw BE RN 24 ww se pe ae a Oty oo os i bath rl Thre ees co fais. yon Sil Weakly Rion) aE hie asta AL of the best job 18 "Canadas 4 6.00 1.00 1.50 Mew York Office ...... 336 Fifth A Frank R. Northrup, Manager. ve see Trib Bl R®. Northzup, Manager. as THE BARS ARE GOING The Canada Temperance Act has scored a decided triumph in the west, "in the three counties in which voting occurred last week, namely, Huron, Peel, and Welland, closing 104 bars, The overwhelming majority in Huron , puts the question as to what the peo- ple want out of doubt. There may be recounts in the other counfies, and until they have been made the result is in Uncertainty. The majorities were small, and on the scrutiny of ballots may waste away or diminish. The fact remains that a great wave is passing over the province, and that it is closing the bars as fully and as tightly as if 'the . slogan which Mr. Rowell raised 'in the house had been the only one heard in an election. The further fact has been demonstrated, namely, that a proper vote can only be secured on prohibition when it is ihe only issue before the electors. In the counties in which "abolish the bar' was raised, . in provincial elec- tions, there was a conflict of opinion. +. Temperance men did not vote temper- ance. That is clear. The reason is that they allowed themselves t§"he in- fluenced by political appeals and con- siderations. The province can he put eventually nearly, if not entirely, un- der prohibition by the use of the Can- and the politici- ans had better make a note of this and govern themselves accordingly. Parcel post in Canada, to become popular, must be cheaper. The rates for a thirty-mile zone are higher in Canada than the American rate the 150.mile zone. Parcel therefore, to be very much used, es- pecially by the farmers, has to be made more = reasonable in its cost. Mr. Pelletier has to revise his tariff. post, THACHERS GOING TOO FAR The Teachers' 'sAssociation, or the Principals' Nssgeiation, of Toronto, | blundefed when they undertook to belittle and depreciate the report of | Chief Inspector Cowley on class at- tendance. Mr. Cowley's scheme is to bring about a more equitable distribution of the attendance. The classes will, i there | will be none too large or two small. That is a great consideration, and it will be attained. at a saving of "many thousands of dollars a year. The teachers and principals. made a great mistake in swinging their or- for purpose of bull-dozing the trustees. These latter decided to let Mr, Cow- Joy and his associates carry out A Teachers associations have their _ functions but it is not to coerce the . Arustees, or compel, if possible, a _ compliance with, their views. "deputation that essayed to "indict" _ iho chief - inspector and to "lecture" The . the Toronto Committee of Manage . ment made a serious mistake. The are declared to} .. changes contemplated "be in harmony with the department's regulations. 'An_Fnglish paper Justifies the: use © of ithe military in South Africa in putting down disorder. But for this anarchy, it says, would have pre vailed. So it might. But what about -{ much. But of for | the | ish News in,Cansda will not be on the list for advertising patronage now that he has had the tomerity to ex- press views that are pot shared by the ministers, especially on the navy. Of the earlier acts of Mr. Hawkes, when he presumed ' to direct public opinion, in the name of the Pritish- born, the Whig did not think very his later proceedings he has been displaying 'a courage and individuality that command attention, He lost his deposit in Lanark, not having received a sufficient number of votes to entitle him to a refund, and ingtead of erving about it, or of ae cepting the sympathy of those who re- garded the election law as severe, he approves of its provisions. Practical- as fit and proper under the circum- stances, The loss of many thousands in ad- vertising does not worry him. He must have contemplated the possibili- ties of his candidature in Lanark, and probably expected abandonment to his fate by the ministers who crossed him in the bye-election. This indicates that he values his inde- pendence more than money and is pre- pared to make sacrifices rather than forfeit his right as the to speak and write spirit moves him. Mr. Hawkes is a bigger man because of his experi- 1 ence. The Fedisteiimtion bill is being work- with the aid of the party Bucks The last hill in- troduced in parliament was the joint product in which liberals and conservatives were represented. That was the correct procedure, but it is too much to ex- pect from the present government. of a special committee CITY PLANNING AND HOUSING The president of the Toronto Hou- sing Company read before the servation Commission a city planning, paper now printed for general circulation. It is a plea for the guidance of cities and towns in the designing and di- recting of water supply, transporta- tion, and other public services. City planning is not a fad, though at one time it was regarded. To- day Great Britain, Germany and the United States are alive'to the value of the subject and providing the ma- chinery required to carry out this work. The cities of England are being §- terally made over. In Germany civie development has reached its highest point. "Indeed,'" says Mr. Beer, "the welfare of the people of Canada might well begin with a thorough study of German methods and' legislation." The United States has awakened to the significance of the movement; and local Planning Boards are being es- tablished in many of the cities. A special duty of them is to plan the housing of the people. The absence seen in every Con- paper on and this is so for of this planning is city. The ratepayers have to remedy the results of early neglect, at a heavy cost. The effect lis inevitable. "A few | says Mr. Deer, "they | the problems in aggrevated The remedies are still more expensive and the money spent for i half-remedies is found to have been {largely wasted." Some organized thead is needed to suggest legislation and give"it directness, and Mr. Beer thinks this duty is the Conservation Commisgion" 8. years later, are found with ama { forms. It has been giving its { time to ,the conservation of the fish, | the forest, the water 'powers. Why (not the conservation of the people's ! { health ? In every community there is a need of a local body, which takes its sapien from some central or na- tional body, will go forward with the | problems of the hour. In every com- | munity, too, theme should be mmni- ! cipal night schools for the benefit | of members of the council and = per- | spective members. = Men can never be- | come active, alert, and useful legis- i lators until they have. been thorough- ly séhooled in municipal government, and to the lack of this schooling we may attribute the blundering and hungling in municipal afiairs. ¥ ar tizans need special instruction in their vocations, so dé municipal agents and officials of every kind, and the future will see the want of the hour supplied. EDITORIAL NOTES favour of free wheat. ; fow farmers have been got together in the west, under the direction of are united. The divided. , ; The Montreal Hefald inspired the exposure of the Quebec corruptors {and the Montreal Mail launched the scandal and made the most of it. Am- other evidence of the strange mix-up which has occurred in the Montreal press. MeGibbon. of the Herald, was to pay expenses, but has not so far put up anything, Where did the bri- bery fund come from ? 3 ly he accepts the loss he has euffered' In the west the farmers are unmited, J and in Manitoba the politicians, in} In Ontario a} an | ex-minister, to declare against the proposition. The liberals everywhere | conservatives are} paper 'at' 'a niinimum of cost. ~ His influence was felt in editorial clrclen. The, Herald -vensed to be a liberal paper of the Penny brand when Gra- ham's money reached its coffers. Russia has become so drunken that Count Witte, who levied the spirit tax when he was in power, protests, declaring, that the money from a great monopoly was heing used for defence purposes, and mot for | education. Witte says his country is rushing to ruin, and that some of the revenues of the government should be used in fighting the vice of drunkenness. Money is getting easier. It is had | with less difficulty from the banks. In England the national banks = drop- ped ita rate ove per cent. last week, In Canada municipal securities ave selling" at a lower rate of interest, and presently when the fifty-odd mil- lions the hanks have been guarding get into circulation, people will. for get that there have been bad times. PUBLIC OPINION The Injustice of It London Advertiser. A man steals a few pounds of coal from a railway. He is sent to jail. The state keeps him warm, but lets his family perish of cold. What's the answer ? A New Industry Brantford Expositor. Dr. Bruce Smith thinks there ought to be one place in each province at which all the executions in the pro vince would . take . place. Here's a chance for some city, Toronto per- haps, to catch a new industry. Oh, We Recall Him Orillia Packet. In the enjoyment of the many rights secured for the people through the Do- ininion Hoard of Railway Commission- ers, how many remember 1)V'Alton Me- Carthy, the father of the reform in Canada ? Very few, we fear. Some Toney Ones Ottawa Journal When a hundred men applied for help to the Hamilton civic authorities they were ofiered 25 a week and board to help cut trees. Not one man accepted the job. Probably do them good to be allowed to do a little more grumbling. Could Not Forsee It, Galt Reporter. When the explorers first gazed on Niagara Falls they little thought that in the future the mighty cataract would be the means of milking cows hundreds of miles away ! Incr rease of Mstuity Ottawa Free Pre According to Rev. Dr. Dwight Hillis every person in America will be insane in four hundred years, These prophets put off time sb jong that no one fan hope to live to sce if they are false or true. After all, it is a comfort to know that if true we shll not be there to 'be included amongst the insane. errr e-- Homeless Men. Woodstock Sentinel. A total of 2,040 sleeping on the ce- ment floor of the Salvation Army niejropole, and 23,940 accommodited | there during the year, is convincing roof that Hamilton has many home- po mep, transient and others, alto- gether out of proportion to its popu- lation. Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. The ice 'below the Pride is a toot | thick. An Imperial Federation league will be formed here, circulars are being sent to various citizens asking them to join the league. F. M. Carroll and W. Block, two convicts at the penitentiary, made a daring but unsuegessful attempt at escape today. They secreted them- selves in a false bottom of a garbage! sleigh coming out of the prison; but the guard at the north gate discov- ered them. : . the originatorsiof the bachelor's ball - haps attracted miest of Mr. Braith- J wry. He drifted to Montana, and it "1S AN OLD TIMER, © D. Braithwaite Had a Vigorous Life Ia the Far West, Nr. Arthur- Douglas Braithwaite, recently appointed assistant general manager of the Bank of Montreal, and who Js widely known in fashion- able circles of Eastern Canada as a society man and generous patron of art and wholesome sport, is widely and popularly known throughout Alberta as an "old timer." He was conneeted with the Bank of Mont- réal during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and it was his lot to pass along from ome frontier office to another, as the Bank of Montreal established branches' behind the rail head. In this way he came to be at Regina whén it was in its infancy, and he was manager -of the important branch at Calgary during the crucial period when that 'place was develop- ing from the canvas and shack fron- tier post into a well-built and sub- stantial commercial centre, During | the eighties, Mr, Braithwaite was one of the leading and most popular citizens of Calgary. Of splendid physique, and being a good rider and athlete, he entered Heartily into the sports of the ¢ountry, and before he had been long in Alberta, he could ride bucking bronchos with the best cowboys in the country, and the pick of Texas, Wyoming and Mon- tana found their way into Alberta in those days, At a time when influ- ence of the most evil kind threaten- ed to obirude themselves into the sport of horse racing on the Cana- dian prairies, Mr. Braithwaite in- duced a number of his friends to associate themselves with him for the purpose of directing the develop- ment of that good rt according | to the best traditions of the British | turf, and' shady practices on the pioneer raee tracks in Alberta were | put down with a strong hand. Mr, Braithwaite himself owned a famous | racehorse, which 'was always fairly | and squarely rum to win, and old | timers in Alberta-still recajl "Hark- | away," not only as a wonderful per- | former on the. track, but as the! champion of: true: sportsmanship at| a time when an example of that ex- cellent quality 'was very much re- quired. Mr. Braithwaite 'was also one of A. at Calgary, an 'annual event which did much towards setting, for all time, a high standard for social en- tertainments throughout Alberta. He was also a patron of the Calgary public library and the local hospital, As became a man born in an English rectory, the imstitution which per- waite's attention, while a resident of Calgary, was the little English par- ish church, which has: since develop- ed into the Cathedral Church of the Redeemer, He sang in the choir, ! was sidesman 'and . churchwarden, | and occasionally took service as lay! reader in outlying settlements, for clergymen were few and far between in Alberta in those days... Since re.' moving to Toronto, Mr, Braithwaite | has been churchwarden of St. James Cathedral and wAélegate to the pro- | vincial synod. Wherever he has gone, he has shown. the same public | spirit. as made him popular in the Far West. From Calgary he was ! removed to Hamilton, Ont., as man- | ager of the bank's branch there. When he left Hamilton, the citizens | : presented him with a public testi- h monial. He then went to New York, to take charge of the bank's agency | there, returning to Toronto, as man- | ager, séven years ago. Mr. Braith- | waite was then appointed general manager of the Ontario Bank, which | had just gone into liquidation, the act of winding up affairs being in| the bands of the Bank of Montreal. | For some time past he has been superintendent of Ontario branches | of the Bank of Montreal, and for two years has been chairman of the | Toronto Clearing House. He is] greatly interested. in musical affairs | in Toronto, and he was president of | the Elgar Choir at Hamilton. He! was also treasurer of the South Afri- | can Patriotic Fund in Toronto. Mrs. | Braithwaite is a daughter of the late | Mr. William Hendrie, the millionaire contractor of Hamilion, Ont, i J. W. Stewart's Carder. The fact that Mr. John William | Stewart, the Vancouver millionaire, | has purchased a great tract of land | from the Duke of Sutherland recalls | a remarkable romance of the High- | lands. Mr, Stewart, who is a native of Sutherlandshire, is of crofter birth, 'and many years ago emigrated | to Quebec, landed with 108. in his | pocket, and was engaged as a farm | hand. Then he went to British Co- lumbia and found work on the rail- was his handling of a big engineering 'contract which pushed him up the irst rungs of the ladder of riches and fame. Ultimately he became a part- ner in the firm of Messrs, Foley and Welch, a firm which to-day carries out huge contracts {in the West, and employes an army of men. Mr. Stew- art, it might be mentioned, remains to the tore a Highlander, and speaks Gaelic as his mother tongue. Money for Fox Trapping. More than 200 live foxes, ranging from black, sliver to'ted crosses, and valued at $320 ,000, have been ship- ped from Edmobton, Alta., to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Isiand, and eastern points. The most valgable 'consignment, which consisted .of fen pure black puppies, went to a firm in Brooklyn, who paid $30,000 for them, it is said, and will send them to Pennsylvania for breeding purposes, ' Manitoba's Profits. Manitoba telephones yielded the province a surplus of $50,264.64 dur- ing the twelve month's ending with November, Print Paper Exports. Print paper exportcd by Canada to the United States in 10 months ends ng April 30, 1913, weighing 180,- 170,000 pounds. The public benefactor, as also Lenefits personally by his | MEN'S NOBBY TWEED SUITS All thas season's models, new colortgs, etc. We have just finished stoek-tak- - ing and have picked out of Ou regular stoek about 100 suits ~ that sold regularly for $16.50 and $18.00, sizes 34 to 44, which we are. going to placeon sale for $12.50 Caedired Bans SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY OF THESE SUTTS. SALE We are going to clean out our stock of winter over- coats and the best and quickest way we know of is to slash prices. - Society Brand and Semi-Ready Overcoats and Ul- : : -- - a. Ld sters, plain or belted backs, split sleeves, ete. Sok» Hand tailored garments. Regular $20 and $22. 50 Coats, for $15 00 "HOSIERY SALE Zoe and 35s i /C Genuine, All Wool Black Hosiery © Better Coal Means Smaller Coal Bills . That is why it pays to order Coal that suits, P. WALSH - rates. 1 have private funds to loan on real estate | only at lowest current | "Ny A --