+ Sune THR us i ural offices, Red cra J the ponther prs ica on) ie rata. Sesensnanen rp ATIVE sscees. 33 CI abit Northrup, nager, Ave Tribune Blag Manager, R. Northrup, "AN INFLUX oF FARMERS Times are said to ba getting bet- tor. The financial situation is cer- tainly easier. And yet many thou- sands ' of men are unemployed and mist be, 80 far as the trades are . conegrvied; for 'a considerable time. i The -pinciy of poverty is felt the more Since. the savings of some thrifty men are about exhausted. : sagt At such a season ies the announcement that the far. mers of Canada, and representing all the provinces, 'would Ike this year 100,000 nen who will give themselves up. to the tilling of the 'soil. An in. flax. of that kinh oan . joo mutiny in the conservative party ~ comet SAR END tas only be. wel over the C.N.R. guarantee. There ts = they .are 4a stay on the farm, 'that their employers will see the necessity of providing for their employment all years round. The result will be that the larger aumber of Workers 'will lead to the most desirable of 4ll accomplishments, namely, the Istger' production of the fruits of the "earth, and it is the one precursor of tha Jowered cost of living. x 5 ' Sii---- 'Tho Mindest. things have heen aid wavy, dieing thelt poli- "were 'fmplicable oppon- ents--Sir «James Whithey and | Sir George Ross. 'Which goes to ' show that the oriticlsm of! our public men ib generally severe and uncalled for. Their' motives 'are constantly under suspicion; and it' prevents them from doing _ their best, ; 3 evista LU NBW BSE SRCHLORINE The reportiof the manager of the utilities «on the water mains is: very comprehensive. dt aims at several nt things=-the: removal of the dead ends, Ts which aré very numerous the renewal of the-segvices 'on the streets wifich are to be paved, and: the 'enlargement 'of extension 'of the main feeders so « that Yhe "Witet supply may be freely taminbtion: * 'The main feeders. are the expensive ilema--costing about = $67,000. The dqliestion ix, Will they be necessary, of will théir usefulness be impaired by a removal of the pumping station? It ikVasstmed that some day the intake pifies and' the pumps must be trans ferred to the lake front, where the sewage 'will' be 'avoided and pure wa- ter soured | for an indefinite period, bechiuge it: oan. be protected from con- taiination. ea "Mbénwhile, the water supply must be obta'ned from the present sotrce, and there'is a constant protest against the ' present chlorination of it. Tnoi- " dentally 7t_has been learned that there isa vew chlorinator: for the steriliza- tion of water and sewage, the inven- nd last week, Miles Dawson, another actuary, and re on which the Insurance Commis sion of New York acted a fow years go, candidly criticised the Meredith bill. He approved of it, but favoured the proposal of paying the compensa: tion of workingmen out of a state fand which would. he ami istered by a Commission. * This' Commission would free the business of all agency entanglements and should have the power to group occupations according as it found the risks by them in the experiences of the day. Mr. Dawson took decided issue with the suggestion that the cost of com- Pensation should be capitatized bo cause that plan necessitated the col lection of the présent value of all moneys needed during the continuance of one's incapacity, and the. communi- ty should be called on to pay only the sums required plus a reasonable 1 nee for fluctuations. ihe chiet feature of Mr. Dawson's argument was against the agency system of com- Fpensation insurance as being the more expensive, as involving a diversion of at least twenty-five per cent. of the money for the purpose for which it shoul he applied. ; New York had been quoted as possessing a law of the most desirable character, snd My. Dawson warned Ontario against it because it entailed a diversion of at least fifty per cent. of the contribu- tions to legal and other expenses, A plea has been offered for a delay of the Compensation Bill because it is not: as completa as it should be made. It is opposed by the manufacturers on the ground that it easts too big a burden on the industries. Mr. Daw- son, the expert, says the bill as it stands is not only excellent, but far in advance of the exceedingly defec- tive legislation which has already been enacted in several provinces of Can ada, and of more than twenty of the states of the union. It is, therefore, a pretty good measure, and the soon- er it becomes law the better. EDITORIAL NOTES. Mr. Lancaster, M.P., says there is Tar Rowever, and a to dispense the patronage. The im- perious ways of Mr, Lancaster are at || an end. The shop licenses are excepted, in the agitation Tor loeal option, on the ground that they are a necessity as a kind 'of safety valve in places where local option cabnot hope to be fully enforced. It is mob a very good rea- son, and it will not go down with the oul and out temperance man. Hon. F. D. Monk is referred to as a unique figure in public life, and he He is the first man--at least she first French-Canadian--who, be- cause of prigeiple, and rather than compromise "hirhself, first gave up a place in the ministry and then re tired into private life. And he was the ablest Nationalist of them all, Henri 'Bourassa excepted. 18. The honour was not awarded him fn Bie, but it is due to the late Sir George Ross to Say that he was the leader in the movement that opened up North Ontario, with all its riches, and built the provincial railway with all its posgibilities. A The finitial stages in this movement were bitter ly opposed and by the men taking so much credit with regard to it. Is there any excuse for the Com- A missioner of Works who pleads that he cannot insist that the employees on the government house, Toronto, be paid union wages because there was no provision for it in the eon- tract ? Who is to blame for that if not the Commissioner of Public Works ? The Hotel Keepers' Association de- nied, through its secretary, that it has been responsible for the down- fall of Mr. Evanturel by the publica- tion of his "unfortunate" letters. The member for Prescott seems to have been a prolific letier writer, and 'some one disregarded his confidence Mt, and the water ren- 'safe for drinking pur- also ti . This is the greater sterilizi eliminated hy Trade in' Toronto on the Compensation Act. in that it of providing and gave him away. This one was not the secretary of the Hotel Keep- ers' Association. The. New York legislature undertook to pass a workman's compensation law affer the subject had been under condideration in Ontarlo. Tt looked well at the outset, but it has sui- fered at the hands of the: legislators. First they provided for options in fered at the hands of the legislators. Now they provide for a political com- mission to enforce the act, and we all know what that means. PETITIONED FOR CLEMENCY Man Who Passed Bogus Bills Sent to Penitentiary. Barrie. March 10.--James O'Neill, whose arrest for passing counterfeit bills led to the round-up of the counterfeiters at Lindsay, i sen- , at Lind- O'Neill, a wife ealled. a9. the one who supplied thei or on other honor his consistency. than we can say of some other mem- hers of the present parliament. Monk will take with him in his ie of METS conservative follow- | firement the respect and, best wishes f local committee 2 I ww Toronto. Globe The slipping trast. is kilkng goose that lays the goldin egg. Queer Contention (Ottawa Journal) A magistrate at Windsor, Ont. rules that a quart bottle of , whis- key 'does not hold a quart. Then it is mot a "quart bottle.' : the Humor of the Court. 8 Ottawa Journal A Hamilton man didn't have the money to pay for a meal he ate in a restaurant and was ordered to pay a fine of #30. This appears to be an example of judicial wit and humor. Plot in Prophecy. Montreal Star. For the thousandth time it is pre: dicted that the Asquith government is about to appeal to the people. For a government that has been "killed" 80 often it is still extraordinarily vi- tal. Y ------ Bacteria Triumphant Ottawa Free Press. In Westmount the number of cases of typhoid increased aiter the installa tion of a filtration plant. In Fort William, after a lake supply of water had been secured, the typhoid cases were reduced from 700 to one, Very Expressive Hamilton Times. * In the last year of Sir Laurier's government the militia de- partment spent $6,886,657. The Bor- den government this year will spend in the same department over $14,- 000,000. Col. Hughes is an expen- dive ormament 'Wilfrid Watch Them. Crain Growers' Guide.' Mackenzie and Mann have been denying that they are after = more noney from the federal treasury. This seems conclusive proof that they will get away with the $25,000,000. T.ot 28 watch the two parties closely and see if they are both parties . to the deal, as they were last year. A Man of Honour, Ottawa Free F. D. Monk has resigned. Even those who differ from him in polities matters must at least That is more Press." Mr. re- both friend and opponents alike. Higove.. --ra 25 YEARS AGO. J. Maecgillivray has a canary which will sing' for three minutes without stopping. The ice bridge weak. : It. is estimated that two hundred Youses will he breited in the western "art of the city this summer. The Frontenac cheese board invit- is getting very »d Prof. J. W. Robertson, of the agri- *altural college, Guelph, to give them an address. TUESDAY, MARCH TENTH To-day, the Hon, Clifford Sifton, one of Canada's most noted public men and chairman of + the Royal Can- adian Conserva- : tion Commission, «celebrates his fifty-third birth. day. To him, per- haps more than to any other man, the country owes most of the Ll development of th West, for he it was who fin- augurated the policy of wide spread advertis- ing which re- sulted in the turning of Immigration towards the western provinces. His career as a politician began whea he was only twenty-seven years of ago. At thirty he had become attorney- general of Manitoba and at thirty-five he was called on to join the new Liberal Government at Ottawa as Minister of the Interior. He broke with his colleagues over the autonomy bills and came out in active oppo sition to his party on the trade question. - SB CANDIDATES FOR JUDGESHIPS Appointments to Oncri> Dench At Early Date. | 'Ottawa, March 10.~Though no 'af- ficial -announcemient ' has yet heen made of the appointments to the Vacant Ontario judgeship, it is un- derstood that these will go through at any time now. The names that lave bing connected Gn the respective {judgeships are as follows: York, | Emmerson Costsworth, of Toronto; {Halton, J. W. FiBott," of Mion 'Parry Sound, F. R. Powell, of Parry 'Sound; Lanark, ' Lieut.-Col. J. H. Scott, of Walkerton; Waterloo, C. R. Hamm Preston; Norfolk, Mr. is also a vacancy | Toronto, March 10. -- After suffer MocLar- "Kingston, for): 'I am an old milkman and dairy man and 1 noticed last week my old friend Mr. Gordon busy taking samples of milk and I am sur- prised at him 'doing so. It only shows how little one man knows an- other man's business, If he had any knowledge of the milk business he would know that the samples he is taking are of no use to show the standard of the milk supply of Kings- ton. Being interested in my old business, I made a few inquiries among the milk men, and found that what 1 suspected was true. Every one has been short of milk this winter and . some had had to send long distances to get enough to sup- ply their customers. One man told me Mr. Gordon had a sample he had shipped in from Bath. Another one had just bought ten quarts from an- other milkman while waiting for the stage to bring him in another sup- Ply.. They are anxious to see if the samples of milk out of the same can will tally the same in Mr. Gordon's report. Now if Mr. Gordon would wait till about May when they have their reg- ular supply, his report might be of some benefit to show the standard of the milk supply, but now it is not worth the paper he writes it on as any one who understands the busi- ness will tell you . Some have to get their milk from three or four farmers. My milk man told me yesterday that my milk came from Collin's Bay, and would for two weeks longer, and never found better milk than is supplied in Kingston, and it is from one to three cents a quart: cheaper here than in other eities. If other things were as cheap accordingly as our milk, there would not be so much talk about the high cost of living. AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. -- DISCOVERY AT EDINBURGH Historic Remains of Ancient Fortress and Well: Unedrthed London, March 10.--W. T. 014- rieve, chief architect of the govern. ment office of works in Edinburgh, who, twe years ago, discovered at the rear of Holyrood palace the foun- dation of ene of the earliest Chris. tian churches, has announced that he has discovered remains in Edinburgh castle of the ancient fortress known as King David's tower. He has also found the well which supplied the castle and garrison with water, _ Excavations revealed much of King David's tower still standing, its walls eight feet thick, and rising to a height of nédrly fifty feet above the original rock Surface. On one fide the. structure had evidently suf- covery from thé Misi ioc wa +hiocann. of many articles, including cannon balls. The disappearance of the tower is explained by the fact that the Half Moon battery, a feature of Edinburgh castle, which has existed for nearly 350 yéars, covers it up en- tirely. Stalagmites rising from the ground, some exténding to seven feet 6 inches long, and the size of the stalactites' from tle roofs show that the vaults of the tower have not been disturbed. for a very long time. This discovery led to the finding of the ancient well, which Mr. Oldrieve regards as one the most interest- ing in Britain. ater was found in it to a depth of sixty feet. The well vas pumped dry, cleaned . out, and thoroughly surveyed. TRADES' UNIONS THREAT London Worknién May Building Trades. London, March 10.--The men en- gaged in the building trades of the metropolis have sent an ultimatum to the employers in retaliation for the circular letter issu by the Building Trades .Federation, reques- | ting provincial builders to employ London workmen during the con- | tinuance of the existing dispute. At | a meeting of the men's unions the letter of the employers was passed | which declared that the time had are, rived when all members of the Mas- | ter Builders' association must he! regarded as at war with the trades' | unions, and that only where em- ployers withdrew from that associa- | tion should unionists be allowed to | work for them. The resolution, if carried into effect, will paralyse | the building trades, which have suf-| fered froma p-rtial strike for sev- eral weeks, Paralize EASTERN DRUMMERS TO PAY Montreal and Toronto men, Claimed, Get, Lion's Shave. i Vancouver, Mareh 10.-- Clothing | and prints solicitors who come to this city from the east to sell their goods will in the future be ablized to pay a fee of $50 per week before they arg given permission. to 40 business. This was the decision of the finances commission of. he city council on Friday. 1t was stated by several of the aldermen that solicitors came from Montreal and Torouito and took away with them thousands of dol- lars' worth of orders, thus depriv- ing local men of work. The Mei- chant Tailors' Association asked that the fee be fixed at $1,000 2a year, instead of $100 a3 a: present, but it was - considered that this would be prohibitive. DEATH OF JOHN M'LAREN Passes Away After Long Hiness, ing for sixteen weeks, John en, a wellknown commercial travel- {ler, died Sunday at the Lennox hotel, Yonge street, in Wis sixty-third year. { Mr. McLaren had lived in Foronto {for the past fifteen years, during | which time he was the local repre- fentative.of a brewery. Previous to 'coming here he was proprietor of a Well-known 'Commercial Traveller | 120 Marcel 9.-- (To the Rai |i Ee ed add - 1 New I 2for2 xX N = "Society Brand Wciety Brand i Say tgood-bye" to your old winter suit whe everybody else is blossoming out in spring #ings. : . There ge many new style features this spring, andiyou certainly do not want to trail along i the rear of the procession. Drop injany day just to see what's. what in Spri\g Suits. : -.. There ary new suitings in handsome colors X Now I have been ip other cities || New style \reations in the way of nar row shoulders, oft roll coats. Coats are cent shorter and trousers smaller. > Some of thd new . spring models are very "Englishly!' vou know. . - The clothes we sell are characterized by good taste in fabric, by correct style and by expert tailoring. New Shoe Style Fhe best $400 and $5.00 Men's Shoes in Canada Authorized = Agent 7iif iil Kingston for A BIBBYS Kingston's One Price Clothing Store Coal Bills That is why it pays to order Coal that suits, P. WALSH 88-57 Barrack Strees Farms For Sale The following is & partial list of farms we have for sale in Kingstor districty al Acres 00 vk nee wee Sew ve $1800 $10 visite von mas, ves ae $1500 Wee Nas tee Fem wee wes Wer Mew Wee maw oes Mow - ew - BOO .vvesm ise Bare won gen MO avi noe tese hem ov aites 100 ... mew © Bw Beet ne 170 ou ne Be aw ow' We. (ere ee Blew WIE B0M'e $5500 we REY ey Was @ TET 188 vive mes non mem maw gu SUE ee STE Be BE 185 woe wus vw gon wre ore ets Wem Blew Wes UE WEE SE BWR ENVY fan GER ca saw Tem Wes Rete JTRS 170 ome amsscesimenes smi 160 . (i uve moe Brom ove Be WEE EVE Wem] Me Boe wed FW, 00 mv. Fos sem Ba V Res Wee we ew Bye We mE ae 750 " Ladies' Spring Styles Gun Metal and Patent Leath- ¢ér, Buttone dor Laced $3.00 Gun:Metal, Tan Calf, Patent Colt, on latest ' lasts, $3.50 and nani ran $4.00 Buttoned or Laced Blucher. H. JENNINGS, For turther inZormation agply wl tel in Prescott and one in Calgary eo oy born in 'Beeville, Ont; and 'was lecoased by his wife. He Mason v Presbyterian, ! sb; me yeas well in TREE @ M