Joeed at larged river and to the seaboard. "This seems like rushing and ronfus- ing things. Kingston, al any rate, has a deeper interest in this matter than any of the Seuth Ontario rid- ings, cities, or constituencies. Tt does not see the wisdom of advocating the expenditure of $150,000,000 which, it is said, the deepening of the St. Law rence will cost, It does not see any this time for a departire from the proposition that Kingston's is to be a national harbour and suf- ficient for the transhipping of the grain: trade which passes through the enlarged Welland canal. * The Montreal Herald holds that the Welland canal and .MMe Georgian Bay canal cannot go on at the one time, have won hia 'spurs in the public life ith a next representative in London shall of the country." Ths will bar- out several ineligible aspirants. is A : The people of Ulster will now. get what they are said to have demand- ed, a right to vote on 'Home Rule as a distinct and separate issue, and Sir Pdward Carson is not satisfied. Mr. Asquith has given the electors what they desired without dropping. or imperilling the Parliament Act. Cheap power is building Windipeg up, There is the possibility of de- veloping 400,000 h.p. in the vicinity of the city and 7,000,000 in the pro- vies. Already it has four hun- | Ld ---- Unless you settle down you can't hope to settle up, Some men are so gloomy that even their laughs gpund lke crying. Somé men regard themselves as mas. terpleces of painting when they are really only caricaturés. It is not always talking too muck that makes people unpopujar, They may New Collars | "2for 25¢c. | New Spring * Bibby's | New Coll : ore : 2 for 25¢. Ay Society Brand Say '"'good-bye' to your old winter suit when everybody else is blossoming out in spring things. There are many new style features this spring, and you certainly do not want to trail along in the rear of the procession. Drop in any day just to see what's . colors : @ a and that the Georgian Bay project |dred factories = and they give em- |Hten too Hue. what in Spring Suits. ; LB mo on A would render the deepening of the Wel- | ployment to 20,000 men. The out. Cant Pe Menten, - There are new suitings in handsome AS ; re land canal a superfluous work. There put of the city for the year, fn Knicker--What is the ideal library? E : ma is 'a grave doubt whether the Georgi- an Bay canal can ever, if built, be made really profitable for any trade, manufactures, is valued at $50,000, 000. This spells success. Bocker--A cook book, a cheque book and a dictionary for the bahy to sit on. fam eee New style creations in the way of nar- row shoulders, soft roll coats. Coats are age Re AS: : t wn fireside a and a great deal more must be learned The mie in Gistaissale Bas buen {IOP Ee i he ~eut shorter and trousers smaller... : 0 RATES about it before the government can |Te8Ched. It is no_longer necessary gardens. --Douglas Jerrold Some of the new Spring models are L CItY ceaers commit itseli to an outlay of two |t® Prove that one has been guilty of spetnanns hundred thousand dollarg or more. The deepening of the St. Lawrence would be useless without the enlarge- ment of the St. Lawrence canals; and jeanal is wanted, for Canadian ship- partizanship. It is sufficient to know that an official is a grit, or has a grit partner or voter. Some day this low-grade political meanness will necessity for civil service reform. Where have the auditors heen all these 'Way Up, Howell--IJe's usually on horse. : Powell--Yes, he is a sort of eques- trian statue of himself. his high hence the imprudence of seeking to|bave its reward. The Borden gov: make practicable a scheme which is|érnment will not rule forever. In An Obstacle. : . " . ses : # Photographer--Look pleasant, please. so impracticable. The deeper Welland [opposition its members will see the Victim--I guess you'll have to move very "Englishly," you know. The clothes we sell are characterized by good taste in fabric, by correct style and by expert tailoring. New Shoe Style that "Terms Cash" sign : i ping, and Xingston, for many long Cotta ERA 5 : - The best £4.00 and $5.00 Men's: Shoes years to cone, must be the mational 'rafting is alleged to have heen Subtle Appreeiation, » in ¢ d harbour. As such it must be deep- practiced in connection with' the Enicker Jones outs Canada ened at once and made equal to|Trent canal accounts for years--un- Bey Ket--Noi Neds E the needs of. the times. der 'the Laurier government and un- OUR SCHOOL GEOGRAPHIES phe der the Borden government by the At the Kitchen Daor. The ¥duecation Department has sent ULSTER CANNOT FIGHT padding of the pay sheets. Money out an official statement which is de-| The imperial government has dis-|is said to have been spent on per- signed to counteract that which Mr. armed the unionists and made rebel sonal divisions and for political pur- Just Hanna, of the Uanadian Northern rail- [lion against Home Rule impossible. | poses, without check, until now. : way, made public, and to the effect | Mr. Asquith has been mentally dis- "Wright that our geographies are many years behind the times. It is intimated that Mr. Hanne was quoting, so far as the C:N.R, is concerned, from an old book, but. that the geographies published hy the contractors of the department are corrected every year. They are, there- for, "abreast of the times." The Whig has examined one of the ~ geographies, a new hook, in the hands of 'a stationer, and assumes that it is up-to-date. One cannot tell, hy « eursory inspection, whether it is re- cussing various aspects of the sub- ject, and has reached a solution of his difficulties which should be satis factory. During the months which intervened between the last session' of the house and this there have been conferences between the leaders of parties, and these said to have heen useful though without result. They were useful in that they showed how utterly the Carson faction to any settlement. Ap- are irreconcilable was the political | years ? Approved Them AJL London Advertiser. When the government voted against censuring' Mr. Crothers for his failure to act in the British Columbia strike, it sanctioned all his acts, and assum- ed full responsibility for them. ' PUBLIC OPINION]! vised up. to 1913 or not. If it is it parently the issue was not approach- Glad News. y : ; a i o . A, . i Int wis aven't v potter ZAVe You a should hive printed on ite cover, con-|ed by the opposition with open mind, 3 Guelph Mercury. Wh Sen oa & . he o R 3 ece e yY ye ay: spicuously, an announcement to that {but the meetings, though fruitless, de- . The wan Nha fds g hand 10 et Yerm: I've riod to forget and fors : a Job 18 pr 8 , = effect, monstrated more clearly that the is- |p ~ that iy ar rece ase On give. Moreover, the department should not | sue was attended with the greatest | tarid's $1,250,000 Government House . he content to see that the contractor rovised hia maps and reading matter once a year. The department should fee that the information which is giv- en by these geographies is fuller and promptly' placed in the hands of the people, The corset data and statis tical matter are of no value unless made - public as been printed. : The . Education Department. should Bo further and see that the publishers are up-to-date with their methods. They 'should see that the work is put tinto the schools, and that the scho- lars; the many thousands of them, are getting the benefit of it. What would it cost to call ir all the old geographies and replace them with the new? A considerable sum, no doubt, yet a sum that would be well spent by the province. soon as they have A VERY DAMAGING REPORT All tog soon for the government, and in contradiction of the $64,000 special commissioners, admission has anxieties, Meanwhile the premier says he la- boured with' a sincere desire to settle the question. He was willing to make concessions, but not to abandon the measure mutilate it beyond rea- son. Home rale within homerule he jdecided was undesirable, because it brought all Ireland under one parlia- ment, and made an appeal to the im perial parliament necessary when Uls- ter's representatives became dissatis- fied with any legislation. Home Rule for all, with the right to secession i the Ulsterites felt, that the Irish par- or liament was not doing them justice, was considered rejected. | The third and final proposal--the one now before parliament--of a vote of the people, by counties, in Ulster, pro- mises to go through parliament. It is something that dumbfounded the unionists. They have been demanding an ap- peal to the people, and now that that appeal has been provided for, without and has was a g success, A Great Success, Toronto Globe. Woodrow Wilson, "the professor in politics," at whom the Tammany type of politician jeered two short years ago, is now recognized ass ihe groat- esl statesman the union has produced since Lincoln's day. Hard on Gustave Ottawa Free Press, The Ottawa Evening Journal finds "another object lesson" in the case of Gustave Evanturel, M.P.P., the bribe seeker. Mr. Evanturel could, it SAYS, "probably defend himself hy claiming that the money was simply to retain his servicet as a lawyer." ~The Jour- nal's moral has holes in it, because Gustave Evanturel is not a lawyer. Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. Council will pass a bydaw, making Sayings of Children. Freddie--Ma, what is the name? Ma--The baby hasn't any name Freddie--Then how did hey know he belonged here? baby's ppp, Mamma (to. Tommy) am sorry you and your sister quarrelled over that orange, and. that James had to inter- fere. Whose part did James take? Tommy--Whose part? Ha took whole orange. the Bdbbie had been studying his grand- father's wrinkled face for a long time, "Well, Bob," said the old gentleman, "do you like my face?" ° "Yes, grandpa," said Bobbie, "it's an awfully nice face. But why don't you have jt ironed?" Ruth had been looking forward eag- erly to her birthday with very exagger- ated ideas of how large and old and changed she would be when 3 years old, She had expected to sit on a com» mon chair at the table, work instead of play, be as large as Sister Mary, and give her clothes to some smaller child, and be fitted out with new. The event- ful morning arrived, and, after due de- SHOE / Authorized in Agent Kingston for BIBBYS Kingston's One Price Clothing Store a general election and an abandon- |it necessary for milkmen to take out liberation, she said earnestly: B C been made. and to the effect that cer- | ment of Home Rule, they are puta jlisene, ion 3 : "I feel as big as Mary, but I can etter oal tain statements fin the Guteliy ibe : 3 Jr. Marion Livingstone declined ap- [wear my own clothes yet Lyneh-S ; ' a. out. They realiz that, they Saget pointment of assistant physician in| - are Means Smaller ¥uch-Stanton report are not cor- fight over it, that they cannot call |p, hospital at Blackwell's Island. rect. It is not true that the Davis oyt the troops they have been organ- A little girl in the Eighth ward was Princess street is in a disgraceful { saying her prayers. Coal Bills Brothers were paid, as alleged, a |izing, and forbid the people 'to exer | condition. Lhere are several holes in "Speak louder, 1 can't hear" her rake-off of $740,000 by sub-contractors | cise the franchise and give oxpression (the roadway. mother, kneeling by Wer side, admon- O'Brien, Fowler & McDougall, and that | the National Transcontinental to their views. If a majority of the people in Uls- ished. "I wasn't speaking to the youngster. you," lisped That is why it pays to order Coal that smits, Gun Metal and Patent Leath- er, Buttone dor Laced $3.00 Commission paid it over. ter vote that they do mot want to a us Ae 16% nok tras' that 'there has been [participate in' the Trish parliament P. Ww ALSH Gun:Metal, Tan Calf, Patent a waste of $10,000,000. The charge [they can still be represented in the Colt, on latest lasts, $3.50 is b on' nmiere assumption, on evi- [imperial parliament and be served in PHILOSOPHICAL. 83-57 Barrack Stress and ... .. $4.00 Buttoned or Laced Blucher. Avoid shame, but do not seek glory. Nothing is so expensive as' glory. ~Sydney Smith, défice taken secretly and by men who Wefe not sworn "to faithfully and impartially perform their duties." t {8 Bot true tht the line has heen improved by the changes of the new a public way as they are at present. Six years later there will be another vote on the subject, and it will be for the majority to decide then to try their fortune in the Irish parliament or exclude themselves and continue their imperial relations. The opposition is said to have view: ed the proposal coldly. Were the members expected to receive it cor dially ? They had gone too far te -~ Mind is the great lever of all things. Human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.~Daniel Webster. H. JENNINGS, This is the fty.second birthday of Dr. 8. W. Dyde, principal of Robert: son College, Bd- A tliousand years scarce serve to form a state. An hour may | - 1--A . warrant any hope of reconciliation, A monton. Though lay it in the dust.--Byron. etaris PT, ha Drie contemporary. says the nationalists the head of a We a B. and C. gas, deep i re firm believers in the » have been pleased with everything Presbyterian in- Wasi he Tor oll ight: Sills ot ier k that Mr. Asquith has done. They Stitation, he fis ment of any man or thing it is have been at least generally willing to carrying on his useful--nay, essential--~to see his bedrooms, B. and C., star make concessions. The unionists, jor work today in good qualities before pronounc- ble, deep lot .......$3200) political reasons, have not been will ing on his bad.--Carlyle. ing to concede, anything. Such is the 8--Brick veneer, tenac St. provements in 3 : Se-- Avenue, 6 Dogan Princo All t has cost $150,- difference between them: and it stamps principal of Al It is as impossible for a inan to 000 per mile, exclusive of sleepers and < tr : be cheated by any oné but him- hy T, Ey fact 1h the temper of the parties in dealing berta College, a self as for a thing 10 be And rails, g when, asa matter aor ® with the most trying aitustion of the Methodist found- of eg ayy Barvruny cost has been $80,000 per mile he. times ation. Indeed h ot los At the same tienen 4--New brick dwelling, Fr en M ncton i Pri Rag 4 o ° erson, all i pt a ere and Dr. Riddell, ---- p *- the head of the {atter college, are giving an effective (llustration ut Edmonton of what co- operation can accomplish, for lectures are delivered in common by the facui- ties of both colléges and the students thes, as Dr. Drde expresses it, it is mingle together so indiscriminately, fifficult to tell the sheap from the goats. Principal Dyde wes born ia [Ottawa and before going to Edmontos #as for maiy years professor of men- 'al phliosophy at Queen's University, Kingston. ereee EDITORIAL NOTES Old age pensions will come day in Canhda, but that day ap- pears to be a long way off. It has been estimated that pensions to those over sixtydive years of age would cost $20,000,000, and, without direct taxation, that much money cannot yet be set aside -jor this specific rpose. Association purpose to Purpe damit an Kingston on Friday: evening and | The salary which it is, proposed the deepening of the St. Law [to give a new high commissioner in The idea 3s that the trade of ! Lond, a secure a To be conscious that you are ignorant dis @ great step to some knowledge. --Disraeli. Ei iii Serious St. Paul Charge St. Paul, Marck 11--St. Paul railway officials are accused by the Interstate Commerce Commission of cooking their book accounts to mis- lead the public and make a better market for securities... It is claimed income was 'over Hated $5,000,000 one year and understated $2,000. 000 the following. The stock drop- ped 4% yesterday as a result. Representatives of the Inland Great oon