IN THE THE PROVINCE. . NH ; Wife of Liberal Leader in Ontario is | IS ACTIVE POLITICAL AFFAIRS OF | i an interest in educational matters. All matters pertaining to the high- er education of woman have her ac- tive sympathy nd snpport, and is' not svrpiis>l to hear that organizations as the W ence Club, the University Worien's ® Great Help to. Him in His Cam- Club, the Women's Art .issociation, | paigning--An Mrs. N. W. Rowell, wife of the t-| beral 8 rio, has come fn- | out the province of Ontario since her | hussand was called upon to assume to Mr. Rowell's sud-| © urgent request of influential men | his party, Mrs. Rowell was well | rkers, in Toronto as an active and most useful participant in orga- ed: 1 conditions. Today her JEsuiation as a talented and energe- woinan extends the ce, for she has actively se- against the bar, and has made it her 688 to Interest various women's Rowell makes no effort to disguise her personal fnterest in politics, and, self definitely on the women's suf- frage question, she has shown by Jy than words, that she beliaves it to be the duty of women to keep an intimate knowledge of. politics, to form their own opinions thereon, ard lite by urging their views upon the electors directly and through the Mrs. Rowell took an uctive inter- est last December, enlisting ihe ac- women in different parts of the pro- vince on Hehalf of the candidates of taking an active and even responsible part in. the contest in Mr. owe!l's kind of work drs. Rowell hus the ad- vantage of being not merely a wo- of superior education. He: father » the Rev. Dr. Alexa 1dr Langford, of the most learned divines of the Methodist >bureh in Canada, so that 0 AN Atmosphors of culture and learnfug, She is, moreover, a gradu- ever since Jer graduation she has kept up her reading, and has taken Social Worker, to inence through- | joadetahiiy of the provincial ow ten unge into active politics, at | Bown to a wide circle of active wo- | efforts to improve social and Pretty weil over her husband in his crusade perance organizations in it. Mre, although she has not expressed her- actions which speak more eloguent- themselves abreast of the times in to make their influence felt in public medium of their women folk. tive co-operation of many men and her husband's party, and personally own riding of North Oxford. In this man of great natural ability, bat onc to, now superandinated, one in Ber childhood she was gecistoned ate 8 of Toronto university, and A ------------------------ Active Church and (3nd the Women's Histori has from girlhood taken a great in-! er t: hat he half a ton "just to be doing The dayghter of a clergyman, she terest in Bunday school and general | mémber of the executive of the Do-| minion Council, Up to the time her husband. as-| sumed the leadership of the provin-| cial liberal party in Ontario, Mrs. Rowell was so much engrossed in her | church benevelent and educational | work that she had not much time for what, for want of a better term, we | call fashionable society; but she real- | izes apparently that society has good | claims upon the attention of wives of public men, and she has lately been | seen much more frequently at fash-' ionable society functions than for merly, and to the delight of Toronto society, for a woman of her ability and grace is no small acquisition. Mrs. Rowell has been married since 1901, and has two children, a boy and a girl, to whom'she is much de- voted, taking personal supervision of their early tuition, ete, Mrs. Ro- well is a very bright and attractive conversationalist, and a self-posses- sed, clear platform speaker. donot GREAT DUELIST WOUNDED Daudet Beaten at Neuilly by Jacques Roujon. Paris, June 15--Leon Daudet, a notorious duelist, was wounded in the forearm in the course of a sword duel at Neuilly by Jaeques Roujon, son of Henry Roujon, the late sec- retary of the academy of fine arts. Roujon was the challenger, and he fought in defence of the name of his father, whose memory he consider- ed to have been injured by articles which appeared in Daudet's paper. The Action Francaise, a Royalist or- gan. The encounter took place in pri- vate, only the principals and the se- conds being present. Reddish brown snakes that drop from trees near Milan, Ohio, have not only baffled amateur naturalists, but ruined a perfectly good lover's lane .in the neighborhood. Steve Urban, Lorain, O., admitted L_he stole. j-set of stone steps al sotiety. | church work. She is an active work- | Jin the Toronto, YW.CA., and a' |ternoon at this | brought on EINGSTON, sie js | BY THE FARMERS OF HIS OWN an especially active member of such | {Toronto imen's Canadian Club, the Socal Sci RIDING. onservatives * Come Forward and Tell Liberal Leader They Will Vote for His Policy. well and his platform are both Popular in his own riding of North ford was demonstrated at the two meetings he addressed Saturday af- place, which is about twenty miles from Woodstock, and at Lakeside. The public hall was corwded with farmers who had dri- ven in from miles around when the liberal leader took the platform. "Phe election has not been called to serve any particular public' inter- est)" declared Mr. Rowell. "The leg- islature had one and a half years to "A new election costs the people a great amount of money. There was NO 'reason why it should have been now except to simply serve the political fortanes of the conservative, party. They thought that they could take us by surprise. They have already discovered their mistake. We have entered this con- test with a finer list of candidates Ltn: we have ever had in any pre- vioue election, and the government is greatly alarmed at the result. They thought they could rush on an elec. tion, get the support of the liquor in- terests and the support of the con- servative temperance men, but all over the province men are breaking from party lines and lining up in sup- port of abolish the bar. one meeting of this campaign when 4 conservative has not come to me and said: "I have voted conserva- tive all my life, but I am going to vote for you and abolish the bar this time." Last night one man in Wood- Stock told me that he had never giv- en a liberal vote before, but that he would do so in this campaign "Abolish the bar is not the only thing on which Iask your support, although that would entitle: me to election. We have more things on which to ask your support than we have had in the last twenty years. The government has been growing weaker by integdal dissension. "Let me poifit out one thing. In 1904 the public expenditure was $5.- 000,000. If the conservatice govern- ment spends what it has authorized itself to spend this year, the expendi- ture will be $22,000,000. Take out of this the $6,000,000 capital expen something." He was fined $10. ditures for the hydro-electric and the T. and N. O. and you still have an Harrington, June 15--That N. Ww. | "I don't think I have addressed | 'expenditure of $16,000,000. i raise this, among other things, they 'have made new taxes, Among these is 'a tax which affects every man, who | inherits property 'by increasing fhe} 'succession duty about fifty per cent. "With all thelr sources of revenue they can only hope to raise $10,000, 1000 of the sum they intended to} spend." VALUABLE HORSES PERISH. Farmers Near Perth Burned Out! i Toss. : ! Perth, June 12---One of the most | disastrous fires that has occurred in! 'this section of the country complete- | ly wiped out the buildings of R. BE. | and Graham Wilson, on the South Line, early this morning. There pros- | perous young farmers reside on the! old homestead at the head of the! Scotch Line, and for years past have! been wradually improving their! stock, especially In horses. Last year | the purchesed a pure-bred Percher-| 'on stallion, for which they paid $1,-} 100, while the eight" or ten other, head of horses were also well bred. In adition to the horses and stallion, {which were in the barn at the time ithe fire took place, the Messrs, Ire- jton, of Drummond, had a pure-brei Clyde stallion in the stable, haviug stopped there over night. How the fire originated is a mystery. The large bank barn, one of the finest in {the district, and all the outbuildings were destroyed. In addition to the horses there were many articles of value stored in the buildings. The loss will be $15,000 or $18,000, par- tially covered by insurance. Big New Summer Hotel. i The Grand Trunk Pacific railway (will open on June 26th a new sum- {mer hotel that will be among the lar- {gest and most modern in Canada. This is the Minaki Inn, a title deriv- led from fhe Indian word meaning beaukiful country. It is situated om the Winnipeg river, 114 1iles east 'of the city of Winnipag, amid Je- lightful scenery. Not only does the territory around afford the best of fishing to b> had anywhere, but big game, waterfowl and grouse are plentiful. Moose, cari- bou, red deer, and black bear roam through the whole region," and it is not unusual to see the branching antlers of a moose breaking the still waters of the lake near the hotel on a sunimer"s evening. The hotel will be managed by the Canada Railway News company li- mited, and they have placed Mr. Crane, a hotelman with experience, in both the east and the west in charge. | | "sewers and watermains. The new townsite of the Canadian Northern Ry., situated right on the threshold of Toronto--a continuation of Rosedale and Moore Park, just a few minutes walk from the new Government House. Only 31-2 miles from the City Hall, nearer to down town Toronto than the Woodbine or High Park, where property is selling as high as £100.00 per foot." Closer in than many solidly built ap sections right in the city. Leaside is right in the heart of Torento's expansion, and is bound to come to the front as one of Tor onto's finest residential distriets. . 5 Leaside is a complete townsite magnificently laid out by a landscape art- ist, 400 feel above the lake level, with a dry bracing healthy atmosphere, free . from the smoke and dampness of the city, yet within easy access of Yonge St, The development of Leaside is progressing rapidly, most of the streets are graded, and some of them paved, work has eommenced on the construction of One firm alone that haga factory on the property has begun the building of 150 houses which will be completed this year. Srrr---- We have on exhibi- tion in our window a large paint. ing of Tor- onto show- ing Leaside ~ SETS This map shows ! the position of Leaside to Toronto. Building re- strictions on all lots. E! Write, call or phone for plans and information. J. K. 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