a x vo HE FOUGHT AGAINST IT" SEVEN LONG YEARS, For years Mr. Rowell and his followers and Allan Studholme have fought with and pleaded with the Whitney government to pass a Work: men's. Compensation 'act. Not wntil this yesr aid Sir James consent to pass this act, and it was only with (he co-operation of the opposition that it was passed. Ever since Allan Studholme entered the house in 1907 he had urged this reform upon Sir James. Wearied with the isiace tion of the government, William Proudfoot, liberal meniber for Cemtye Huron, in 1910 introduced a Workmen's Compensation bill. = Sir James asked him to withdraw it, promising to take adtion himself, but nothing "was done. Again in 1911 no legislation was brought on and Mr, Prond- foot made another eftort, the government saying that the matter was under investigation. During the 1911 campaign the liberals poiitéd ont the urgent neces- sity for this legislation. The government, on the other hand, emphasized their opposition to the demand of the workingmen, hy the prite minister himself coming up to Epst Hamilton to secure, if possible, the defeat of the one labor member in the honse--na man who had' been most persist- - ent in pressing upon the attention of thé louse (he need of an adequate Workmen's Compensation act. Mr. Studholme, however, was returned by n greatly increased majority. v The government delayed seven years before joining with the opposis - tion and putting a Workmen's Compensation act on the statute books. The liberal party, on the other hand, and Mr. Rowell, from the moment leader, pl 1 andl re-emphasized the necessity of work- Mr. Rowell's predecessors did the same, The total delay lasted seven years. In the seven years, although it is dificulf to get accurste statistics, it is estimated: that about 5,500 WORKMEN WBRE KILLED AND 27,000 SERIOUSLY INJURED IN ONTARI(, WHAT OF THEIR FAMILIES? WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? There wonld have beén no Workmen's Compensation dct on the stis tute hgoks to-day had not Mr. Rowell, Mr. Proudfoot, Mr. Studholme and others, backed by the labor: organizations of the province, compelled Whitney fo take action." He did not want to do anything, and he delayed seven whole years. Even now the act is not in force, although workmen are being maimed and killed every day. he b men's compensation. AS A WOMAN SEES IT Sir John A. Macdonald once said in reply to the demands of a deputation who waited upon him for advanced liquor legislation: , "Gentlemen, when the churches unite and say you must go, this trafilc must step down and out." - 3% , Thank God the time has come. The clock has struck the hour, and every one who is following the Divine Master must take his stand with the harroom or against it. The issue in this provincial election is not grit or tory, but righteonsness against iniquity. The home, or the bar-room, its deadly enemy. Decency, education, happy family life and prosper- ity, or poverty, ignorance, misery, brawling and disgrace, the natural outcome of the Heensed liquor traffic, The ballot is a secret vote; in this instance a sacred one also.-- Mrs. Ratherford, Toronto, ge Gary &fractecal ii Some Dress Making) LEIFONS Prepared Especially For This Newspaper by Pictortal Review IN CHIFFON TAFFLiA. According to directions, the walst wi! be very eaxy to cut out. The outer front and back (H) piece ie laid on a lengthwise fold of the materind, the triple "I'T'T" perforation of: the pht- tern being parallel with the told. The coliar and beit are also laid on this fold. It us best to arrange the largest plece of the pattern near the far end of the silk, because of its unusual shape. At the epace to the Jeft of the collar the sleeve is laid on a lengthwise thread of the silk. Sleeve band (GQ) and vest (C) * are arranged on similar lines. These detdils may seem tedibus, but In just such measure as ti are earried ont » will the waist have & professional ap" arance when completed, , After making the lining, which-con- sists simply of sewing up the shoulder and under-arm seams, gathering the bottom and fitting, proceed to lay th- vest of Roman striped silk upon it and A dressy separate walst in one of the 4), waist will be ready for the outside season's most fashionable silks, made = (yoge the under-arm seams and gath- upon a fitted lining and trimmed WIth op. the bottom Into the waist-line; then Roman striped silk. aad the turn-over collar. Arrange on underbody, center-backs and under | Mouth tw pot uty wa syne Sui, ST inh Rover Soc able materials, there 1& nothing smart- together, bringing front edge of outer er tor the separate silk waist for sum- Jront - suutap from. Sew elt to mer wear than chiffon taffeta, The Ove SORe centers even. 0" per- silk comes Ji very Hight weight, is of fordtion at under-arm: seam. Front of soft finish and brilliant Juster and looks PePlUm Indicated by large "0: perfo- . charming fu the delicate colors the vest to the lining, sewing down side and adding eyes to the other RPA cceisvssmsnibpssnsssersasisssrsnsirrion oO % yard all-over 1 PAM disieiianasnnrrsasstncasspasesses I batiste § yard double DIAIING: cvrerre $ 1% will The waist front and It the waist is coarse lawn at 18 tor the Durpos. troll, the outer lined, cents and 4s pus Tre ed Above Patterns Can be Obtained from Sg Princess Street : The recent ¢ troops at Dacca, in Eastern Bengal, caused much exellement among all {| classes. Never has such a large body ! of soldiers been gathered together (n ; those parts, and few people cin realize the feelings of wild terror and dismay that stirred the hearts of the inhabitants when they heard that not only was a Highland regiment to pass through their midst, but was to halt amongst them for some days. The very name of the Black Watch suggested something sinister to these simple-minded folks, Those of the native who can read English, and especially those who have studied it for examination purposes, have {earned from the novels of Sir Wal- ter Scott that the Highlanders are a very wild race, with no regard for property of any kind, and quite above all laws, certainly ag' these are set forth in the Indian Penal Code. So they declared when they heard the news of the" coming of the Black Watch, and promptly made arrange- ments for the safe bestowal of their womeénfolk and children, and above all, their store of rice just put aside ta Jue new year, hdeed their terror was so extreme and so real that the district magis- trate considered it advisable to send a potice by beat of drum round. ihe L country side to reassure the people. He described the corps as one of the best in the British Army,-and as a well-disciplined body of men. . Many were the questions eagerly asked by the babus. "Were the men of the Black Watch the same color ag the gahibs? What do they eat? Do they undebstand the English language? Do they wear clothes like the sahibs? Are these men really Christians?" The regiment at last marched into the town of Barisal with the pipes playing gaily and watched along the route by anxious eyes hidden in the jungle. As it always does -ih this quaint land, word spread quickly that the doldiers were 'very gentle," and a few of the more daring spirits came to watch the men playing football in the afternoon. : ; Next morning a ceremonial paradé was held -- a wonderful sight for these Bengalis, who gathered in great force; -and-then-the-whole regiment marched through the town; up and t ge, down the main bazaars dnd streets, (0 fet every one, male and female, get a chance of looking at them. It was particularly important that the wo- men should see the soldiers, for their power in the country is immense, By this time many of the houses in the] town had been decorated in honor of the event, and the streets were thronged with people. Ere the regiment left Calcutta the Wolonel had received a letter stating that he would be bombed if he dared | to enter Barisal at 'the head. pof his i men. At one point of this march one of the officers, seeing a man stoop down as if to lift something, was ready to |det if it chanced to be a bomb, but to his surprise and relief the man threw flowers symbolizing good luck over his company. On the Bengali mind the impres- sion made by this visit will be a last- ing one, for they have had it clearly shown to them that power and re- source are in the hands of the British Raj. At last the dwellers in the coun- try places have seen with their own eyes, bow British soldiers behave, and from personal knowlefige, can confute the agitators who spread the tales of atrocities committed by the regiments, All classes are loud in praise of the men. Consolation For Stammerers, There are, of course, stammerers who cultivate the art in conversation and have not the least wish to be cruel because, as 'with Charles Lamb, the point of the remark is delayed for a moment by the hesitancy: Cur- josity, expectancy, anxiety, are arous- ed, and then the amazing word comes. The tremendous fluency of our pres- ent political speakers raises a certain longing for a stammerer on the plat- form--the man who could make you wonder whether he were about to burst, what he was about to burst with and then after the dreadful sus- pense said it. But the word _ must have been there all thé time.--Lon- don Chronicle. Guns Recovered From Sea. While fishing thirty-five miles off Sunderland, Scotland, the steam trawler Lord Chancellor brought up from the ocean bed a huge bundle of muskets. Antiquariané who have ex- amined the find consider that they date from before Nelson's time, and that they are relics of some futile gun-running venture by a Dutch gal- leon. Other trawlers bound for the Dogger Bank intend to traverse the course of the discovery in the hope that other treasure may be located. Remarkable Removal. The waterman's cottage on an is- land in the River Thames at Cavers- ham, Berkshire, which forty-five years ago was moved bodily 24 feet, is te be pulled down to make room for the larger bridge which will be built in place of the present one, The house, weighing 180 tons, was moved by hydraulic power, the occupants re- maining inside during the operation, which took only three hours. © Good Sense. To Lady Cardigan is attributed the following somewhat pert comment, when 4 very ignorant person was complimented on his good sense in Jer presence: "I.don't wonder," she said, 'at 'his possessing a large stock of good sense, He "never spends any."-- Strand Magazine. - Doesn't Like the Word. Rev. J. W. P. Silvester, vicar of Wembley, Middlesex, Eng., has reso- lutely set Lis face against the use of fhe word 'died! on _tombstodes in 'ehurchydrd, and allows only gurh expression as "at rest," 'sjeeps," and "passed away." : Evety time she 'loses ninety-eight cents she worries a dollar's worth. Sometimes a girl does a young man a great favor by jilting him: Better a- woman with rosy = cheeks. than 4 man with a rosy nose. 4 comp, : BOOTIE BANONETCY : Be aki { It is Nova Seotian in Its Oleh "Ross Unstléis a Very Fine One. ° The barenetey of Balnagown, whieh Sir Charles Ross, the head of ihe Ross Rifle Co. fs the present holder, is Nova 'Scotian in *g -arigin, | and dates back for wu cocs'dsrable period. Balnagown Castle, ibe fam- | ily seat, is 2ituatéd in the district | pdesignated Faster Ross, which is: the most fertile portion" of ihe county. In fact, Easter Ross in the! worth and Midlothian in the south | of Scotland are considered the { two | of dering to-and fro on ihe face of tropl- | cal Australia I saw the old order siowly c¢hahging," writes Bishop Frodsham in The Cornhill. "It has not yet quite gore, but one by one the old hands are 'crossing the great divide'----i0 use their own metaphor, with its faint aroma of the gum trees on the mountain ranges that once separated the colonists from their land of pastorial promise. The suc- ceisful men die in their southern homes--for as a rule these leave the north to build themselves mansions near Melbourne, or homes by one of the landlocked inlets of Sydney Cove. "The unsuccessful ones do as they have often done before. They start finest agricultural aFeas in the Brit=| ¢at alone on their last journey. The ish' Isles. The castle. thaugh lying busy world who follow in their foot- close to the Highland. Railway line B!eDS quickly forget the men who hag "the north, is "so enclosed. with | found mpd blazed the track. When towering trees that it js passed un- | they read in the papers that such and observed by the railway traveler, It! such an 'early citizen' Ted at the 'playing, for least of all the hazards which beset the strenuous life of this fish. is the hook of the angler. and no such genius, or prowess to escape id, according to Dr. W. H. Ballou, possessed vby another. The doctor has fought the fish, and ought to know its might. He speaks of a and one-hal! hours to bring to gaff, "A salt-water fish that can swim siz hundred to two thousand miles in fresh water. that is ~ at "enor mous altitudes, and that take', leap- ing up precipices as part of its life's game, naturally declines to stop for every angler." WE There are. numerous devices to catch such fish, but the enormous size they attain shows that millions of them escape for years even nets, sharks, and other set monsters. An is a residence that the owner may: well be proud of. Beautifully situ- ated in the garden of the county; it is a combination of the modern and the medieval. As one approaches the front through shfubberies and bean- tifully-kept lawns, the castle up, ears a modern enough strieture, but to- wards the west, north, and east it is typical of other times with iis strong buttresses, parrow winding stone stairs, and small mullioned windows overlooking a winding stream. deep down below. . The bulk of the do pot le in that country; they extend westwards, with buf: - glight integruptiohs, through tlig parislies of Tain, Kdder- ton, and Kincardine for a distance of close upon 50 wiles, terminating on the watershed of Scotland, with mean breadth of from six to eight miles. In addition to all tliese broad acres in Ross-shire, Sir Charles Is also owner of Bonnington estate on the Clyde, near Glasgow, sa that he may fairly lay claim to being one of the great landowners of Scotland, over and above being president of the Ross Rifle Company. On the Easter Ross portion of the estate there are numerous large farms, and further inland well on to-200 smaH | tenants-and crofters.-- Towards the west the estate runs inte mountain- ous ground, devoted to sheep, grouse and deer. Some of Sir Charles' deer forests yield from 50 to 100 stags each.season, as well as good bags of small game besides. There are about a dozen shootings in all on the es- tate, with as many shooting lodges. Sir. Charles himself, though one of the best shots in Scotland and keen on deé@r-gtalking, does not reserve much shooting ground for himself. His Quebec engagements do not ad- mit of his spending very much of his time in Scotland, yet each autumn at the close of the shooting season he contrives "to have nine or ten days at deer-stalking, bringing down in that brief period as many head as the ordinary shooting tenant can in an equal number of weeks. Sir Charles is proud and fond of his Highland estate and often deplores how the exigencies of modern cou- ditions entail on him the necessity of spending so much of his time 'so Balnagown lands guarter of the frankly admits, a landed proprietor in Scoftgnd is now little better from a pecuniary point of yiew than a sub-~ collector of taxes, so heavy have local and imperial burdens become, Whilst. the gross revenue from Balnagowa estate runs somewhere between 15 and 18 thousand pounds sterling r afinum, management and Toeal dna imperial taxation cut deeply into this income, leaving the honor of being a landowner a some- What yen one now that feudal feefings and feudal obligations have died out. Time was, even in the not very distant past, when the relation- ships bétween the Highland laird and his tepants were of a much more intimate and amicable nature than now. This was, however, before the period of royal commissions for fix- ing fair.rents and adjudicating such other disputes as might arise tween the laird and his tepants. It was then 'man to man, with no go- betweens, and an occasional tiff or small dispute once disposed of oaly left the laird and his tenants better and w..mer friends than before. Lost Gold Mine In West. Headed by Bishop Lucas, who has had twenty-three years' experience in the Anglican mission fields of the north, and Archdeacon Whitaker, with nineteen years, a party of ten left Edmonton recently for the north, Bishop Lucas goes to Fort Chippews yan; ,Archdeacon and Mrs. Whitaker to Fort McPherson, and Rev. C. H. Quaterman, of Wycliffe College, To- rontp, to Fort Chippewyan and Smith's Landing. - Archdeacon Whitaker relates a remarkable story of a lost gold mine of great value between Fort McPher- son_and Herschel Island. It is to the effect that many years ago it was discovered by a party of nine men. Seven of them starved while returning to civilization, and the others have never been able to again And the spot. Miners Are Critical. At a meeting of the Colonial and Continental Church Society in Lon- don the other day, Bishop Stringer, of. the Yukon, while inviting min- isterial candidates to come to the Dominion, said that Canada pre- ferred to give thei their training in its own ¢hlleges. He objected to the idea that any type of a minister would do in the camps, and declared that the miners were most critical, Joynson "Hicks, M.P., who occu- pied the chair, suggested that it would he better to missionize thelr own race before endeavoring to ron- vert the savage nations. Disects Ravage Forests At'the result of recent seicntifie investigations: of insect ravages in British 'Columbia, it was found that ih some places forest insects have de- stroyed (26 per cent. of the timber crop. ¥ eee ak 'Bi ©. Permits Picketing. : British Columbia bas a Taw legil- izing picketing during strikes, rag el £ Duilding fatlways, : Canada ta 1913 bad 6.000 mliek of ruil 'ay under construction, tocal hospital or was found dead in Lis solitary camp they remember for ¢ while and then ag forget. Yet the battered old derelict was not in- freguently one whose name will live in the nomenclature of mountains, viver, lakes and plains, \ The ptory of Australian explora- holdeth alike old men from the cliitmuey corner, and' children from their play. 'It is a rdeord of men who knew. how to face failure, and, when necessary, to die with' dignity. "It. Is a strange thing that gentle- men, like women, when they fall, sedm to go under ecompletely--irre- tricvably. One blazing summer noon 1 mei a rough-loo®ing man in the gray thirt and moleskin trousers so characteristic of the bush. I remem- ber that I was similarly clad. He was leaving, as I was entering, a bush 'hotel.' 'We recognized each other at aight, although we had not met since the night when I sat next him at his regimental mess. I agked him to come and see me at Bishop's Lodge, and told him he could use any cognomen | he like. But, with the smile I re-! membered almost painfully; he refus- | ticing up and the big fellows train- ed. He had forgotten how to behave, | ing down. In the dead line area, he said, and all I could urge did not! many fish 'may be seen with bruised shake his determination, There are | heads and battered fins, from con- perhaps twelve years and upwards of growth, and thousands of "miles in a minute egg deposited, perhaps, at the very border of pel ual snows. Most of his life has A fish so trained, repeats our author- ity, can neither be drowned nor ex- hausted by the art of the angler. In the torrential rivers of British Columbia picturesque and dramatic scenes are visible, usually the last week in April, or later, if heavy floods hold back the season. Above the dead line; salmon are massed solidly, even on the 'stairways. So many try to jump at once that only a few succeed at a time, the others falling back into the mass. The small three-pounders and the big forty-pounders---some of them weigh up to one hundred and foriy pounds ~--geem to have the hardest luck get- 'ting up. The little fellows lack suf- ficient weight for catapulting them- selves and the big fellows are too clumsy for it. All succeed eventual ly, however, the small salmon prae- of wanderings from its initial home tarraway from it, for, as he himself .' be- | "many such: They meet-their fate, as they met their disgrace, with a nen- chalance that is not the least valu- abla asset of a gentleman. "There are lower 'Cepths for+gen- tlemen: than boundary-riding under an ssumed' name - depths more abysmal because more hopeless A ! man who is above the average gets on Australia far quicker 'than he 1d do normally in the old coun- t Such a man-may retrieve a fol- ly, even a disgrace, and build up again an honorable name. -But what ahout the feeble folk who are sent abroad to. reijeve their friends at home of their prefence, with a remit- tance paid regularly upon one condiz that they themselves do not re- in tien turn? The late Mr. Whymper used to | gay that the hardest task of all in mountaineering was helping a weak climber. The same is true of these poor'derelicts of family life. What is the 1e of mind that makes fathars --gons of their own beget- Fig the otitposts of civilization? Is it the same short-sighted opiimism as that which makes their boys so little eapable of distinguishing be- tween dreams and reality----castles in { Spain and the squalid actualities of a bush hotel?" A Swordsman's Prowess. Among those who displayed their prowess before the King at the 2nd Life Guards' aspawit-at-arms recently was Corpl.-Major Grainger. He has won. the title of Best Man at Arms (dismounted) in the army. Perhaps the best of his performances is the one that' may be termed the fazor trick. He takes a thin staff of wood, ' about the size.of a broom-handle, and suspends it resting on two slips of thin paper. The rolls of phper are themselves suspended on the cutting edge of razors which are Leld by his assistant. The corporal-major, with one clean sweeping cut, slices the '"'broom-handle" in two and leaves the paper uncut by 'the razors. Giant's 'Skeleton, An interesting discoyery Tas he made at Dysart, Courity Lo Dur- ing excavations two men ur carthed three human skeletons in separate graves. The skeletons were complete- ly encased with stones. The skull of one skeleton was entire, and measur- ed 18 inches from the crown to the chin. The leg bones were abhiormally large, and altogether the skeleton ap- peared to be that of a person 10 feet high. The teeth were also very large, and the remains are supposed to be those of a prehistoric age. en A Wedding Present. A widower in Scotland proposed to and was accepted by a widow whose husband had died but a month or tWo previously. To elebrate the occasion he asked the widow's daughter what she would like for a present. She wanted noth- ing, she said, but being pressed to name something she replied: "Well, if you want to spend some of your siller you might put up a heidstone to my father." -- London Telegraph: > { | Retired King's Proctor, Mr. William Brown, Assistant King's Proctor in England, has just | retired after forty years' service. As an official he was very much of 2 | mystery to the general public. He had to see that the parties in a case in the Divorce Court in which a de- (cree nisl had been granted conducted i themselves properly until the end of the six months'which usually elapse | before decrees are made absolute. i I -------------------- Singing Under Difficulties. | At a competition at Carnarvon for {he 'best rendering of a comic song , the, prise was a live pig, which the competiiors bad to hold under heir 'arms while singing, » a r cr¥ oe ! A man isnt necessarily honest cause he is poor. dlisht kisses are ish on 'bach' other; 4 Humpn nature sets a man up as a judge of his neighbor, - be- the kind girls Ja tact: with-unyielding rocks. Dead females found aftér spawn- ing "in small numbers occasionally have, without proper autopsy, been | exhaustion, | considered victims of { due to jumping falls. In Dr, Bal- lou's opinion, a proper autopsy would show that a fungus attack | would kill the females, taking ad- vantage of their low vitality. Great advances are being made in diagnos- | Ing the deaths of fishes, due to fun- | goid diseases, no species examined | being immune. While science has | discovered no instance of salmon | breeding in salt water, the subject ! is an open one, very difficult to in- vestigate. b Even as late as 1904, authorities asserted that after ascending streams and spawning, all salmon, male and female, without exception, died. ' Up to that time there had been no of- ficial investigations on the subject. Since then, the theory has been com- pletely destroyed. At the great western fish hatcheries, as already mentioned, salmon have been tagged with brass tags after spawning and hundreds of them have returned an- nually to spawn, Even "stripping" the females of their eggs at the hatcheries has been found to cause no inconvenience to them. Further, on examination disclosed that dehth was caused by parasites. A Canadian Hero. "When the war is over the general is: made a hero and 'Bill Smith' forgotten," said Commander Evans of the fatal Scott Polar expedition before a gathering of the members of the Canadian Club in Montreal re- cently. Continuing, the commander said: ¥ "Such hds been the.case with the Polar expedition, for some of the men have not received the credit that is due them. "The man who stands out fére- most among them is Charles Wright of Toronte. He, at the risk of his life, piloted a party over the glaciers for 600 miles, while his pony was the second to be killed and he was forced to pull his sleigh and do a good dedl of hard work. "He is a splendid type of man- hood and a credit to his country and & practical Canadian, and it is to him that scientists have to thank for the second year's observations of the expedition." : Moth Causes Tuberculogis. That in addition to being a destroy- er of fruit and ornamental forest trees, the Brown Tail Meth is a threat to the health, is amongst the discoveries made by the Entomologl- cal Experiment Station of the Dom- inion Government at Fredericton. The investigators have found that when ever the hairs of these insects come in contact with human flesh they produce a most painful itching and eruption, the eget of which may last for months;/when breathed into the lungs they have been found to 'cause inflammation and become pro- ductive of tuberculosis. New Brunswick is making strenu- ous efforts to purge itself of the Brown Tail Moth fovasion. In the vicinity of Sussex the exterminators, armed with cans of petrol, have sue- ceeded, it is reported, in exterminat- ing 19,000 of the pests and destroying their nests. The moth is the most dangerous pest that déstroys trees dnd orchards that has yet-appeared in New Brunswick, ve An old wooden building at the rear of 'the United States consulate In Prescott bas been tord down. This building was perhaps the most an- cient in Prescott, the oldest residents of the town having po recollection of dts erection. The timbers used in its construction, probably 100 years ago, ere fdund to be as sound as the ed Structure went up, ~- Hot arguments can cool ships. ow a The 'world soon gets tired of a chromic kicker, . : friend- Bett = a penny in the hand than nickel Gi fhe Sh. : tis salmon that have been found dead, fifty-two pound salmon that took five average fish of forty pounds shows| fought out in stupendous currents, | i Getlemen - Toronto. Ladies' Pumps. White Colonial Pumps. The Sa rs Yours Faithfully DR. WILL SPAN SOW... 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