hi Telephones: Falter room ss ws as sesa we oo BAS rooms prt | wh 65 AY se an an se ss +o BD2 EsCRIPTION RATRS th , aed a OS. 's in advance . -- to United Biates ices, J Bhd 'three months pro rete. (Bemi-Weekly Bdition) by A ) i yoar, mail .. Pig to United States .. .. three months, pro rata. t is one of the best job ring vince in Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE nu Smalipisce 32 Church BL U. 8 REPRESENTATIVES: ¥ew Yors Office 225 Fifth Ave 1 Frank R. Northrup, Manager. Tribune Bldg Manager. 6.00 5.00 3.60 3.00 1.00 1.00 ORICAEO ovo sobs sis » rank R. Northrup, A NEW GIVIC SPIRIT fown aor city planning is the le of the day. It heard of evry hand, Our citizens go and see what can be done, or rather what has been done, in the interest of some place, making it a power- ful and profitable attraction, and one comes home, like Ald. Harrison, to talk about it and become dis- couraged by the lethargy of those who 'should he active in every public movement. A representative of a city institu: tion which bas made good by its plans, to the advantage, the awaken- ing and benefit of the community, <'Htke Mr. Macleay; of Oswego, comes here by "inwvitdtion, and the people | who are supposed {6 be most inter- ested in his' mission, and were asked to meet linyy failed to catch' the in- aspiration' of 'the hour. So the visit counts for ivery little: There may be \ & pleasdt; memory. © Only] that and nothing madre. : The speaker at a Canadian function, Martin Harvey, what city planning means to the eity, in the eyes of the tourist. He 4s an! arfist as well as actor. "His advice is geod, and his suggestion * should. pit new 'life ints the thought that Kingston should be represented in 'a popular "cause. 'Town planning is. a practical issue. In it every citizen should be interest- ed. Away with the. feeling or con- viction or impression that it is some- thing which' concerns, only the smart wet, the select few, the leisured ones. Town planning is the question that means more than the javerage man weoms to ymderstand, Tt is something = with regard to which the: people have' to be. eduoa- ted, and it is gratifying that a start in being' made through the Board of Trade; and the address, on * next Tuesday evening, hy Prof. Skelton. It will be jllustrated, and in that way made the 'more impressive. top- on abroad is Club tolls The British naval estimates have been-out to meet the exigencies of the moment, and to make the Chancellor af the Exchequer meet the deficit of Inst year without new taxation. Talk of suicide, 'It 'oceurs to the unpreju- diced thind that the man who commit- ted the suprems folly would be the one who kept on burdening the people to ti breaking poi . ATTACK ON KINGSTON The Orange Sentinel, is off on an- o tangent. . This time it berates the Public 'Library, Board because it does mot' subscribe to the paper. and present. it 'model of journalistic ; /i8", news to the' people "that; the Public Library oling with 'any narrowness "has been, and must still With a desire to rub a 'me its And _without re- ligiousit ipel among the fyle Jt is because bscribing ca- : not. because there ay prejudice 'against the Sentinel ny debire to "ban" it, as our Other papers, there. It is to ; 'of the people of stot can get along © t periodical Tigious or racial distemper, that the * electors cab occasionally, as in the case of Mr. Rigney (referred to), elect "a. Roman Catholic mayor. Muniteipal- ly all the citizens want .is good gov- and - Mr. Rigney gave such tant of the editor of the Sentinel. The peoples -of Kingsfon do not de- serve, and certainly resent, the plea that they nre responsible for any mis- government at the penitentiary, that the majority of them are "flabby Pro- testants," and that they have impos- ed on the Library Hoard, or the board has imposed on them, "a policy that is a reflection on the municipality." In' this attack on Kingston ihe Senti- nel i8 showing neither sense nor rea- gon. The secretary of the Retail Merch- ants' Association antagonizes the idea that the middlemen, or the distribu® tora, are the cause of the higher cost of living. He differs from the econo- nilats in this respect. They argue that there are too many middlemen, and that they are living and prospering at the cost of the producer and the con- sumer. Fewer of them could do the work at a lower cost. SOME ASPECTS OF LABOUR The labour question is taking on new aspects, and aspects that are not at all encouraging. One reads in the press that in a certain city a contrac- tor made two attempts to hire men in order to go on with urgent work, and on both occasions the labour fail- ed him. outbursts of re-{ Then, in another populous centre, a { meeting was called to hear the dis- tressing stories of hardship among the women, and all went dismally until some one asked why the sufferers did not go cooks, 'fervants, and scarce, good into service. Hougemaids, managers were Why should the women, for wages---wages that are higher than some years ago--not hire out for service in the place where they shonld shine, the realm in which they reign as queens ? "There one said, "some very good reason why the girls all prefer to work in factories or shops, even under the worst conditions, rath- er than to go into people's houses." The very general objection to domes tic service may be found in the fact !that housework, which usually means the doing of many and widely diverse tasks, demands an amount and kind of intelligence that is not required for the efficient performance of the simple task imposed in shop or factory. That may be it, and if "so it is ze gretable, must be," The home is the centra of thé woman's activity. Here she must it is her privilege to prepare for it and qualify by every way she can. The girls have the time at their dis- posal--all of them--and this conclusion. is based upon the fact that the places of' amusement and the streots are rl- ways patronized by them. The whole cost of living, it is held, depends on farm produce and meat, and both commodities are in the care or direction of the farmer. The more reason these tillers of the soil sheuld be organized so that they may handle their produce with expense and go more extensively into the produc- tion of heef. 3 less COST OF THE NAVY Ihe execrations heaped on the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer because he has advocated a reduction in the naval estimates, because he said that for needful' econo- migs, cannot be cast upon the Foreign Secretary. He pre-emin- ently as a man of vision, as a man of wisdom, as one who might tell ev- erything he sees in public. And Sir Edward Gray has put himself on re- cord as saying that Britain led in the Dreadnought craze, that the experi- ments with great battleships had to be tried, that the other great powers were following in the wake of Britain, and it was very doubtful whether they would slacken 'in their expenditures even when she did. ' Sir Fdward made another point clear--that the world could not stand the waste of money in munitions of war, and that if the ruinous competi- tion were continued "'it would lead to disaster and sink the ship of Euro- pean prosperity and Strong language, sirs, and there is not an alarmist in the empite who dare allege him that he is "a member of the Suicide Club." A crisis has been on in England, but it is not going to lead to a rupture between the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer and the First Lord of the Ad- miralty. That has been expected. It has been egged on by. some of the un- ionist papers. Lord Northeliffe, who is somewhat of a political wrecker, has offered to put his press at the dis- posal of Mr. Churchill, as the leader of a new and independent parfy, but Churchill is not impressed. He is the has this is the time stands out civilization." gets all he can for naval equipment. The Chancellor has to provide the .money, and it :is his duty to resist in- creases. ' These facts have to he recalled : That the naval estimated expenditure has advanced from £35,143,000 in 1909-11 to £46,309,300 in 1913-14; that the actual expenditure in the last year was £50,000,0008 and that if the sixty \per cent. standard, agreed upon iwo {years ago, be exceeded, the expendi- fture will be £60,000,000, ' Ta five years a taxation make a success of life eventually, and- champion of the naval supremacy, and | were as sound' nd those [aces a deficit of $8,000,000 on the op erations of the last year, and 'the most of this has been cecasioned by the over spending of the admiralty. Is it mot about time to economize, or re- trench ? Even the First Lord of the Admiralty admits it, and in view of Sir Edward Grey's declaration, it is fitting that the taxing and spending heads should get together and reach a compromise, EDITORIAL NOTES The Christian Guardian urges the political parties'to get together on the naval question and agree upon a policy. It's not a new idea. It has been urged by many newspapers, with- out result. And yet toa united party it is the prerequisite to suceess and a re- ferendum will cure any one who enter- tains a contrary opinion. ------------------ Is not the Railway Board being un- duly loaded when the regulation of vessel rates is being transferred to it? It is doing prodigious things, but the railway commissioner should not he re- gardeed as a political Pooh Bah who ean tackle alk kinds of difficulties and settle them in an unconventional and arbitrary The board, has its hands full with railway cases. Sir William Ramsey goes than Dr. Osler, and practically advo- cates the elimination of the unfitted from society. A harsh judgment, and one that will not become popular of christianity not way. further 80 long as the influence prevails. e to wipe out the "unfitted, but it should see that they do not increase yn num- bers by the abuse oi.the marriage re- lation Society is called upon A number of parliament would lgo- islate against the use of the detecta- phone. It is menacing the peace and liberty of . the individual. Perhaps, but only the peace and liberty of the crook. When walls reflect and photo- graph the scenes that take place with in them, as 'well as record the conver sations of the occupants, the seandals of society and of political life will be- some scarcer. The question of the hour shouldmot be, What is the'creed of any one ap- plying for a publig position ? But the question should be, What is his fit- ness. Further, an analysis of the field of service should cover all the occupa- tions, of #l the public institutions-- the city hall, the penitentiary, the asylum, the military works and bar- When it is the result may be worth inspection. eacks and fortifications. The federar government appoints the judges and pays. their salaries, But the local government, or the provin- cial administration of justice, is liable for. any misdirection of the courts, and any punishment unduly inflicted in the imprisonment of individuals. This the deduction the is Farsari case. Looks like a dodging of responsibility. S§ampathy, rect a wrong, or compensate the sui- in without the desire to cor- ferer, does not amount to much. PUBLIC OPINION Sure Thing Brantford King Manuel deni abdicated. or the other? sourier, that he has He's out--that's all. ------------ . B. C.'s Egg Famine Greenwood Ledge. If B. C. had half a million more hens scattered amongst its fmous scénery, it would not be necessary to keep our fresh eggs in thg safe. The New Religion Toronto Globe, The decision of the court again makes the: Heberts man and wife. It now remains for legislators to free the marriage laws from uncertaiaty. Free Wheat London Free: Press. 5 The defeat of the Neely amend- ment is not necessanily an express- ion of conservative opinion upon free wheat, There has been no caucus What's the odds, one way | yet on until i week, the general attitude of the party will be unknown. : | e------ Crying For Titles Toronto Globe. And now here's a Cromwell com- plainipg because no Canadian far- mer has ever got a knighthood, Not thus did his great ancestors, regard titles' The Desired Effect Guelph Mercury. A scientist says that it soon will be possible to flash photographs across the Atlantic. If the ocean is rough -at the time, it will have the effect of producing a swell picture. A Change of Base London Advertiser. Perhaps, in contributing a million and a half to the Conservative pap- ers, instead of to the admiralty, the Borden government is simply taking the position that the pen is mightier than the battleship. Strong Demand Montreal Herald Redistribution may, it is said, wipe the federal seat of Broekvilie off the map. If that happens a safe must he found for Webster, The third official language of House of Commons njust not be lost to posterity M. | Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. J. NM. Campbell, I. J. Conroy and | J. Ryder are attending the carnival in Montreal. The school hoard will secure, . if poasible, the Normal school lot and build a twelve-rdéin school upon it. New pupils are being received in the public schools every day. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY SEVENTH | Mamar Greenwood, M.P., the Can | sdiag barrister, who has made quite | s__ a name for him- self in British | politics, reaches ! his = forty-fourth | birthday to-day. His career may | be well illus. trated by a story of his student | life in Toronto which is still re | peated by his fellow - students, They say that when he arrived at the Univer sity from the country, he wore a disreputable "blager" or tennis coat of many and glaring colors, trousers with a pro nounced stripe and somewhat frayed at the bottom and a dilapidated straw hat. In this garb he was a mark for student satire. Next year how ever the raw {freshman blossomed out in a frock coat of delicate grey, with neatly pressed trousers, flowe: in Sbuttonhole, patent leathers and gilk hat. In much the same way he has come to the front in England whither he originally travelled, it is said, aboard a cattle-ship. i | SUNDAYy FEBRUARY EIGHTH . | | Dr. George R. Parkin, CM.G. or | ganizing representative of the Rhode: | Scholarship Trust, celebrates his sixty | eighth birthday today. Dr. Parkin ig | a New Brunswicker and a graduat| of the University -of New Brunswick | Hie was for many years principal of | thé Collegiate School in Fredericton, | N.B., after which he received the ap- | pointment of Upper™Sanada College, | Toronto. He is pariicularly famous | for his advocacy of the cause of Im-) perial . Unity and is one of the small | group of men who are constantly | speaking and writing on the subject. | He has written 'several books, among which his life of Sir John A. Mac- | donpld In the@yMakers of Canada | Serfes stands v.t prominently. Ad s00n as a 'man begins to think | he knows a woman-thoroughly some- | thing crops out in her personalty that entirely upsets his ealciitations. In the city of Pittsbu grew tired of standing arov come to him. pondered over the problem. to him. Hé devised many fective. No matter which way He finally sought the "How can I advertise asked. suggested: flowers for a dollar? week. Give more flowe Pittsburgh ever heard and attractive." "I'll do it," declared th dollar boxes find their way City each week. Hundreds the surrounding territory. To-day that florist is bi * He is rich, but he is growing ri The Florist's Story While his roses wilted and. lost their Boom; when he sifted them to the bottom he found them de- tered advertising, but know ing. he considered it impossible on conceived idea regarding the expense. who constantly used the newspapers in a modest way. The small merchant thon "Why don't you sell--every Offer, something different each rs for a dollar than anyone in of, and see that they are fresh to prepare for his first sale. That was three years a couraged florist sells more flowers florists in Pittsburgh put together, liever in newspaper advertising. p¢ ; --Terre Haute, Ind., Tribune. rgh there was a florist who nd waiting for business to he Many plans were presented schemes of his own. But his mind turned, it encoun- ing nothing about advertis- account of his pre- adviee' of a small merchant flowers successfully?" he ght a moment and then Saturday--a box of e florist, as he hurried away 80. ~ To-day that once dis- than all the other Thousands of those into the homes of the Iron are shipped to eustomers in &. but he is growing bigger. cher. He is a firm Be- 2 § BBO viv ove Bee ", 200 Ww Bee Be @ 1 Tews we BW FEBRUARY sss SUIT AND _---------- OVERCOAT SUITS and OVER- COATS in New Greys, New Browns, New Blues; New Bronzes, hand- tailored by experts. All wool fabries, in the absolutely cor- rect models. All sizes. BIBBYS, Limited 78, 80, 82 Princess St., Kingston so Better Coal Means Smaller Coal Bills That is why it pays to order Coal that suits, P. WALSH 58-57 Barrack Strees Farms For Sale The following is a partial list of farms we have for sale in Kingston \ - Price " Hee Wao VES ie el e's renieee Wael uw (sem wh Ble si nee aoe Woe Jo an pew mes Feel, eRe 100 5 jee Bo Boel Blew@ 170 Te be BY 00 eae' 80s Wool go's Blas w ee Blew! 81 WOW e's om esd is we Jee te Sales Blew' Bee fe res wie Bes gb 118 oo merel wee few wv me. ABO ware woe m int ewes 150 ... Wade Ieee Jue + wo tows (9 "om Wed ve For, further information only te I FEBRUARY SALE J Men's Patent Leather Boots In Box Calf ard Tan,all Goodyear Welt not: the latest last, but 2 49 regular $5.00for . . . a . § =A ¢ 3 ew h H." JE NINGS,