{acing attitude 'at the end of - * Mea A CRISIS 18 COMING. The mayoralty or the council should not be a question of politics. The municipal government of the city ! should be improved; and how can it if the only issue with some men is the political bearing of some others 'who aspire to office. The council of this year has been frequently sub. jected to censure and commént for its vacillating policy, © and this policy will never be removed until the peo- ple awake to the necessity of electing to the council. men of pronounced business capacity. Of course the council is not so important now as it used to be. It has been relieved of the care and direction of the utilities which represent an invest- ment of 'about $800,000, and still "there is a work devolving upon the that only capable men can do satisfactorily. Good men, busy with their own affairs, will not both- or with the "machine" if the council degenerates into the lowest political out any ambition but to the demands of the par: ty or its heelers. If this thing is to £0 on it is hoped that the people will get a dose of it that they will be cured of their partizanship for all time. : AGAIN TOO MUCH TALK. Speaking in. Liondon, and before the Canadian Club,. General Hughes said he had refused to let the [Princess Patricia's sail until a satisfactory convoy had been provided, that he would not even accept Secretary of War Kitchener's assurance of ample protection, that he demanded to know what ships were being provided, . and what guns they carried, and whether the English Channel was relieved of submarines. He also discovered that German 'spies were interested in the sailing of the troopd and misdirected them. Then he handed out a state- ment some days later, that the ' es- eort for the convoy was satisfactorily arranged, and that there had been Ho controversy between himself and the war office and admiralty. The reporter comes forward with his notes, taken at the luncheon, and he says the report which he prepared in what Hughes is working 1 the outfitting of the Ca- contingents, and can be for- " | dian Courier, from Rotterdam, made. Japan made a treaty with Britain respecting the defence of ter- titorial interests in the Pacific ocean, and Japan keeps it. Inci- dentally Japan closes an old t Twenty-Five Years Ago with Germany, repays it for ite men- the Russian-Japanese war, and disposes of German domination in the Pacific ocean, f Japan could the manner of Germany. respect them so long as it suited her purpose, and when it does not suit her she could, like Germany, treat them as a "scrap of paper," and tear them / up. "Truth to tell there will not be, in the world, at the close of this war, a principality or power that can want to imitate Germany in anything, and least of them all the Asiatic empire which the Germans despise. The Japanese consul contrasts the treatment of the Japanese in Germany with the treatment of the Germans in Japan. In Germany the Japanese are im- prisoned. In Japan the Germans are allowed their freedom, so long as they behave themselves. The Ger- mans from Kiau-Chau were received with regard. The leaders were pre- sented with bouquets. Verily, in the attributes of civil government, the Jag ¢ are the mentors of the Ger- mans, despite their boast of culture. keep treaties after She could OFFICIAL TREACHERY 8. N, Dancy, writing to the Cana- tells a story of Belgian traitorism that is almost incredible. It is a story that reflects most seriously upon the Belgian officers, and indirectly upon the Belgian government, since one party proved to be made up of Judas Iscariots and the other of men who were notoriously and fatuously blind to the dangers of the hour. Accord- ing to Mr. Dancy long before the war, and in secret preparation for it, Ger- mans laid the foundations for their great siege guns outside of Antwerp and Liege and Nuwiner, in the cellars of the villas they occupied, and in the homes of Belgian peasants whom they bribed into silence. These audacious Teutons did more-- they sought places in the Belgian army, and bribed its officers, so far and so heavily, that in the war they acted as traitors and sold their coun- try to the enemy. Antwerp did not fall because of the heroic attacks of the Germans. It was, to a large extent, in the hands of men who gave up its secrets for money, whose | service generally was'more damaging than the " geevide * of 'the dQwcentimetre howitzers. "Antwerp was sold," says Mr. Dancy, who has lived in the trenches with the Belgians, and knows what they have suffered from the treachery of their officers. Namar was sold. Liege waa not, thanks to the honesty and loyalty of General Leman, : who could not be bribed, So far had German espionage suc teeded that the Belgian soldiery was suorificed by the officers. At length, through the removals of the misfits, some of them as the result of court- martials, whose Belgian regiments were without officers, and others were directed and saved by French and Sritish officers. Mr. Dancy cites a few instances of the treachery for which the Belgians suffered. Belgian officers carried away the focussing instruments and deprived the gunners of their use. Belgian officers rode about in auto- mobiles while the wounded had to be dragged or carried out of the dan- ger zone. Crossing a pontoon bridge, which was mined to prevent pursuit from Germans, a British officer saw a B.lgian officer in the act of firing the structure. The king himself, who" has endeared himsell to the Belgian soldiers by his devotion, was nearly handed over to the Germans by his chauffeur. He had ridden towards the front to see some breastworks, and suspecting his chauffeur of evil designs ordered him to halt. He only oleyed when a pistol was placed at his head. The chauffeur confessed that he had been bribed, and he had wo his person, in addition to much money, a German chéck for a mil liva francs. it is a sordid 'and sorrowful story, particularly so when one reads that "ciany a British soldier lies in a forgotten grave to-day because of the treachery and treason of the Belgian » officers were not teed, there would have been more jus There is two feet _of enow on the level im the northern purt of -the county, St. Andrew's church sports a stylish weather vane. A cow owned by R. MeUCammon was choked to death to-day by an apple. MILLIONS ON SPIES, Most Effective Part of the Kaiser's ; War Machine. The author of "The German Army from Within," who signs himself "A British Officer Who Has Served In It," has little that is complimentary to say of the kaiser. The war ve- terans of the army, when they drank to the coming of "The Day' that has now dawned, at the same time pray- ed that their war lord would keep out of it. "When Germany goes to war," they said, "we hope that He will not lead us. We want to win." "Hé" is always given the dignity of a capital. But "He" is measured at his true value as a military genius by the men who make war their life's work. At manoeuvres, when the kai- ser commands, there is generally muddle and confusion. And the lead- er of the opposing side, we are told, is very unwise if he comes out vic- torious! Of 'piquant interest are the chap- ters dealing with the Secret Service ~~ the most complex and most per- fectly organized part of the great war machine. Germany, we are told, spends a minimum of £780,000 a 'year on her spies. These parasites are of all nationalities and of both sexes. The mages range from £10 to £20 a month, with special pay for' special work. But true to.the es- sentials of jock-boot bureaucracy, there are spies set to watch the spies. "The minor swarms of ser- vants of the war lord,' says the author, "are men of no country, nd belief, no morals, and no means of support." It is a sentence heavily charged with significance. Women play an active part in this subterranean scheme--that was to be expected. "High in the hierarchy of spies is the international courtesan': "In Berlin they have regular meet- ing places, one of which is so well known that I may without indiscre- tion name it: the Blumensale." Farmers, laborers, bank clerks, waiters-- and especially waitresses, All these guises and many more are adopted by the parasites who are yet minor cogs in the great machine. "Every German 'of any ability is an unofficial spy." is the author's sweeping assertion. No Time For Treating. Collier's Weekly. In the British Islands, they are em phasizing the need for treating the gs in camp as "athletes in train ibg" very strongly. Lord Kitchener as appealed to al] civilians to re rain from "treating" the recruits in the training camps, or exposing them to any other deleterious temptations. Bord # Kitdhetier's "iden ig tit: local' committees should be formed in the 'meighborhood of camps to educate Rublic opinion on this point. As the Hondon Spectator puts it- 'People should try to think of the soldiers as being 'in training" in the athletic setise. © What i8 not too: strict a regime for, say, the Olympic games, is not too strict when tie prize 1s saving the British empire and ridding the world of the sintolerable Germitn militarism." A Very Responsible Influence. Collier's Weekly. H, in 1775, the British had held the same ideas about retaliation for snip ing, every New England farmer who resisted the British march from Bos ton to Lexington would have been murdered, as the Germans are now murdering the Belgian farmers, In tification for the British to punish the New England patriots, because ev- ery American in that case was, tech niedlly, a rebel. Within the present vear, when American sailors landed at Vera Cruz, some Mexicans defended their city by shooting from the house tops. Had the Americans held the same ideas about sniping as the Germans they would have revenge themselves by burning Vera Cruz. The Soiling Explained. The hard working fancy goods dealer had vainly ransacked his whole shop in his efforts to pleasc an old lady who wanted to purchase a present for her grand-daughter, For the fifteenth time she picked up and critically examined a neat little satchel. "Are you quite sure that this ig Stnuing alligator skin?" she enquir- "Positive, madam," quoth the deal er. "I shot that alligator myself." "It looks rather soiled," said the lady. "That, madam, is where it struck the ground when it fell off the treé." British Sang As Ship Sank. There is a peculiarity among na- val men which is repeated whenever their ship sinks beneath them and they find themselves in the water--- they burst forth into song. Over and over again this has occurred, just as it did recently in the North Sea when the seanfen of the '"'Hogde," after three cheers for their captain, who was in the watér with them, stari- ed to sing "We'll all go the same way' home." And that is how it has ever . and is one of the secrets of the Briton's success in war, He never knows when he's beaten! The Inevitable. London' Advertiser. Canada must prepare for the in- will be enormous. Canadian manu- The influx of immigrants|{ make AT AGE OF 88 LOOKS AFTER WOUNDED ENGLISH. The Friend of Victoria--Former Em- - press of the French Was in Her Youth Quite a Famous Beauty. Empress Bugenie, widow of the lust emperor ui tne French, that wondertul old lady, has been much to the lore of late in arranging at the age of 83, for the comfort of the wounded soldiers, whom sne is receiving im her beautiful home at Yaruborough, Kngland. The nouse is now alpost eniirely a field hos- pital, and ber majesty has spared No expense in equipping it with niodern scientific devices and every iuxury and comfort, Anucough she became empfess of the French, her majesty was not of tesal Birth. Her father was a Spun ish noblpman,her mother was Marie Kirkpatrick, of Closeburn, Scotland, and she was known before her.nar- riage to Napoleon IIl., in lois, as Mademoiselle de Montijo. Hr beaw ty as a girl was positively dazzling. Her features were perfect, lier vyes typically Spanish, sparr'ca wiih vivacity, and her hands aud feet were so small and so dainty they were in the language of taose duys, "a toast." She was passwcnaleiy fond of riding, and moun! 4 «n a white horse and wearing tho pictar- esque flowing habit of tho pariol she must have been an ertravidin arly attractive sight. * There is no more admirable. in- stance of the union of opposites than the close friendship which ex- isted between this brilliant, erratic, ambitious woman and our own staid Queen Victoria. The emperor Na- poleon our queen disliked most cordially, and took little pains to conceal her feelings, but to his wife she was absolutely devoted, and in the troublous weeks that succeeded thé crowning disaster at Sedan, when the growing unpopularity of the empress (who was looked upon by the majority of the French people as the cause of the Franco-German war and its unhappy ending) reach- ed a formidable height, she showed her unfortunate sister-queen over- whelming kindness and sympathy. The empress Eugenie is still a begutiful woman, and probably the long retirement in England in the ovening of her days has been the happiest and certainly the most peaceful period of her life. She is reputed to be enormously wealthy, and although the loss of her only son, the Prince Imperial, in the Matabele campaign was a great and lasting grief to her, she has been free from care for many years. Farnborough Hill, which is in the heart of Hampshire, has nothing imperial or imposing about it. The house is large and comfortable--one that would be associated with a typical English coantiry gentleman. A few little turrets are all that is reminiscent of a French chateau, and the oufside wall§ dre effectively decorated with insertions of timber. Here the enipress spends all of her time when she is in Kngland, which is very frequently. She varies her stays at Farnborough with visits in her 'magnificent steam yacht, the Thistle, and once a year she visits her villa at 8t. Martin. er ---- A Spy's Cable. I was shown the other day a speci- men of the cables which the state censorghip has prevented being sent, says a London newspaperman. An innocent looking cable it seemed in 111 conscience as it was handed over the counter of the cable company.-1 won't give the cable itself, but I will give one on similar lines which will explain its significance: "Beatrice likes aristocratic coun- tess kinema picture offered.--Olive Lindsay." Imagine a message like this ad dressed to a hotel in New York. Would it ever strike one that it was a report from a spy telling a superior the whereabouts at that time of cer- tain English warships? The authori- ties, however, were suspicious of it, and just ag the example I gave, when only the first letters are read, makes the word "Blackpool," so the real cable they found, when read in the same way, disclosed the name of a well-known port, y Called Him "Sausage." In his early days Brigadier-Gener- al Count Bleichen was a midship- man on a man-of-war. During a cruise in colonial waters the warship put in at a small settlement, and pre- sently the governor came on board to visit the captain. "I hear you have a relative of Queen Victoria among your officers," the governor remark- ed. "Yes," replied the captain. "He is a son of Prince Victor of Hohen- lohe-Langenburg."- "Indeed," said the governor, who, by the way, was a bit of a snob, "I should like to be introduced to him.'* "Certainly," the captain agreed, and sent for the mid- dy. "By the way, what shall I call him?" asked the governor anxiously, "your Royal Highness, your Serene Highness, or what?" "Oh, you can please yourself about that?" remark- ed the captain; "we call him *'Sau' sage" because he's German." Fench's Wit, A new story of Field-Marshal Sir John French was recently told by an officer who served with him in the South African War. A young officer who was attached toGeneral French's staff, being freshs to actual warfare, was very fidgety, and was always im- aging a sudden attack by the Boers, whom he always referred to as "Bores." General French on more than one occasion gently corrected his pronunciation, 'but without per- manent effect. 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