3 » A TY Sn Te dy D nd Semi-Weekly by TRA ERrToH WHiG PUBLISHING i' €0, LIMITED, J.-C BIMIott .ocavvinainarass President Leman 4 Guild ....Managing Director and Bec.-Treas. x Telephones: Business OMe v.e.rcrccsnvasessns 243 Editorial Rooms Job Office BSORIPTION RAT ~ (Daily Edition) Ong year, delivered in city somes 6.00 One year, If paid In advance .... 00 One year, by mailité rural offices $2.50 Ooo year, to United States ...... 3.00 Six and three months pro rata, (Bemi- Weekly Edition) One year, by mall, cash ........ « $1.00 One year, if not paid In advance. $1.50 ® year, to United States ...... Leo Six and three months pro rata, Attached is one of the best job printing offices in Canada, TORONTO REPRISE H. E. Smallpelce . REP Al é 225th Ave. . Northrup, Manager, Tribune Bldg. Manager. REGULATING CURRENT PRICES, The advance in the cost of living, the unnecessary advance in many cases, 'suggests that Canada must ap- point a Commission of far-reaching power. ' This Commission should be large enough and energetic enough to deal heroically with all who, under the pretense of war-charges, would oppress "the people with high prices, The necessities of life have been mer- cifully passed by the government in its new taxes, but, apart from the tariff," and 'not in consequence of it, prices of foods have been advancing, and a Commission 'could ascertain 'the cause: of this, and, if uncalled for, put an end to it. Over in England "war prices" became 'alarming at' the very outset of © the 'campaign, aye, before circumstances had' made any changes in the supplies or the cost of thei. The government' appointed an efficient Commission. It. announced, publicly, "ithe prides 48a 'ould prevell for cet tain goods, and immediately thers was a compliance with orders. The trade realized it could not trifle with the Commission. "Something like this is 'an absolute necessity in Canada. The Department of Cominerce could, centre, make itsell famfiar with market conditions and rs ------------ MARRIAGE IN THE COURT. The New York papers have had long and 'readable articles on the Kleist Breitung case, in which a young man, who married the daughter of a rich clandestinely, syes 'him for $250, for the alienation of her affeo- ti "The. case 'will fail the young eof the bride, who: had res- 0 tivsat with her choice, have tried to make some without -success. , 3 ey kl f ) £ *{ must be helped. 1 ternal mood, made s genercus pro- mise." It had in mind the tillage of a large tract of country in 1915, in order to meet the demands for in- creased production, and the Commis sioner of Immigration 'was atithorized to make certain announgements. "They were to the effect that to bona fide settlers who had lost their crops in 1914, 'good clean seed in | the spring--wheat, oats, and barley-- would be supplied, starting about the | middle of February. The seed would | be furnished at cost, and payment '| would be secured by liens on the un- | patented lands. The o®ners of pa- tented land would be expected to! give notes, payable, at 5 per cent. in- terest, on January lst, 1916. that assurance Now before them the farmers disposed of the poor grain they 'had, the grain which was unfit for sol. Recently of unpatented land, and in the re gions which had suffered through the drought. The defence by the goverament, made in the Commons by Hon. Dr. Roche, is not ncceptahle. This de- fence is that the government did not go do far as the Commissioner of Im- migration in October. Whether it did or! did not is a matter of no impost- ance. The fact 'is that the farmers of the west, thousands of them, ac. cepted the letter as gospel, and they are without money and seed grain, and in a desperate condition. They In a sense their plight is as pitiable as that of the Belgians. So far $6,000,000, it is said, has been spent on the seed for the drought district. But the money is secured. The government will not be out by the transaction. ' Dr. Roche says it will cost $11,000,000 to meet all the demands of the west. Sup- pose it does. The seed must be sup- plied. A promise must be kept and the tore cheerfully when, through liens and notes, the cost of the ser- ice can be recovered later. EDITORIAL NOTES Not a very good year in which to float a thirty million loan on ac- count of good roads. - Coaldn't this scheme not stand over for another session ? Abolish the laeal license hoards and inspectors ! Not very - likely. Mr. Hanna will have to do some 'clever work in order to reconcile the garty to the loss of its best and biggest Wheel in the _palitical mac "5 = A. fine of $250 in each case will be, a lesson the sellers and buyers "of liquor will not forget should an in- spector "of the Inland Revenue De- partment some of these days find that the Tariff Act is not being obey- ed, Innocent men hanged by some mis- carriage of justice. That is bad. -A good reason why the death penalty should he abolished. : Not even ane man should lose his life by mistake, misapprehension, or misapplication of the law. . : wit A church in Baltimore has opened its parlours on Sunday afternoon for the meetings of young people who are boarding out and dre without "courting places." Such is one way of adapting the church 16 the needs of the people ! The local government: asks. power to close the licensed for | When it comes to It was given in October and with it | they were shocked to learn that seed low "dry." could only be advanced to the owners |* v- THE DAILY | PUBLIC OPINION Poor Sports Hamilton Herald Even in the shell game the (Cir mans show their luck of the true sporting spirit by poisoning the shells Well Defined { Toronto News. ! A genius is a man who can unfold and fold a map in the back of an historical work without tearing it Why Is That? f Toronto Globe i ving out con- tracts for war supplies tory Toronto seems to have mighty few friends in was definite enough. |the dominion government. 1 Gone, Friend i Montreal Mail i Canadian troops at Salisbury Plain {keep their wet canteen, bit no doubt they would all like to see the place ! A Gérman Joke. | London Advertiser Von Bernstorfi maintains that hy- ! dro-aeroplanes are warships because | they can float on the water. The gull | has the same ability, bui nobody | would. call it a fish. Hamilton Spectator. No less than 1,500 mines have heen picked up in one week by trawlers em- ployed by the British government. It ! gives an excellent idea of German aec- tivity in this hellish phase of fare, regardless of 'cost. | KINGSTON EVENTS | war- ) 25Y EARS ACO by Principal Grant. "Leo the Royal Cadet" produced at opera house. ! County Council committee appointed to ask City Council to repeal market forestalling' by-law. | J. T, White went west on a trip. Public school property committee considering doing away with stoves in schools. TWO THOUSAND YEARS _ OF WARFARE ON MEUSE. Valley Of River, Through France, Belgium and Holland, Scene of # Many Battles. The valley of the Meuse siver, ex-' tending through France, Belgium dnd Holland, and up and down whi course +2,000 -years' of intermittent warfare has been waged, forms the subject of a statement given out by the National Geographic Society. ' "Above every other valley, that. of the Meuse his become a battlefield. At Liege, on the Meuse, the, first great battle of the war broke forth and the struggle blazed and red all along the picturesque splendor of this. wild, rugged-banked stream, dir- ectly southward through Belgium into France. According to the cay by day dispatches, some of the most fierce efforts are still raging on its banks, Liege, Namur, Dinant, Givet, Sedan, Stenay, Verdun and St. Mih- fel--each name recently become fa- miliar to Americans----all 1ié along its Seuss vi "Three countries share the Meuse, It rises in France,. flows northward through Belgium, crosses the Diteh frontier, sweeps westward through Holland, and empties into the North Sea. Its journey fo the sea is one of 580 'miles, of which 460 are navigable: 2 ; ~ "The valley! eof . thé Meuse for ages has been a clisnnel for the ebb and flow of armies. It might be sald to drain one vast, historic battlefield. Cesar pursued path into the unknown, barbari¢ North, The wild Tdutonic tribes pressed down between its ph toward the wealth of Rome. = "Christian Europe has been settling its differences along the valley of the Meuse by force of arms down to the present day. 3 "In the Forest of Ardennes, the Meuse flows through a country rich in romances of Charemange. Vine- lands and hop-gardens lie further its banks, and then it washes Ef E7ssst i3: est | iz; 130) {ii ol ie ® x 2 i ji ground that it would be "an in. fringetnent of public order and a vio- HI great uw es, Ba B itself the ashes, rust and acids of factory and furnace waste, Finally it drifts through the flatlands of Holland, supplying the numerous canals which lazily divide the plains. "Here and there, as between BRITISH { tro their house and lot. | quired into. Ong man who had been War is Hell. | | In attendance at the meeting were : St. Andrew's new church andicated | WHIG, TURBDAY, FEBRUARY 16, AN ADDITIONAL - $500 GRANTED BY CITY COUNCIL FOB THE BREAKWATER Winter Carnival Commiiiee Given Permission To Erect Flags and nts For Just right Shoes A ------ Agents For Just Wright Shoes Banners Over the Streets. The City Council last night, on mo- tion of Ald. Graham, voted $500 ad- ditional for the completion, of the work on the King street breakwater. A month ago, $1,000 was voted, so the total cost of repairing the hreak- water will be 81,500. : Ald. Wright asked thé chairmen of the Board of Works if it was trus that worthy men, owning a piece of property, were refused work on breakwater, and jobs given only to men with families who did not hap- Pen' fo own property. "He had infor- 'mation that such was the case, as a man, who possessed a piece of pro- perty, had complained to him thatthe was refused work. : Ald. McCann said that such n rule should not be followed, for in many cases men who owned property had it mortgaged for all that coud be rais- ed on: it, and were as worthy of em- ployment as. those who did not econ- $1 Ald. Graham replied that between twenty-seven and thirty men had been given work on the breakwater, and their conditipns | were carefully en- New Spring Suits Knowing that this price is so popular, we place great stress on our Fifteen Dollar Suits, and we offer lines of suits that we believe can- not be duplicated elsewhere. 5 given employment was released be- cause it was found that he owned a couple of farms and* a' team of horses, The council gave the Winter Carni- val committee permission to erect flags and banners across the streets, subject to the . approval of the fire chief and city engineer. SEE OUR BLUE Hand-tailored garments, ready to try on, finished Mayor Sutherland, and Alds. Bews, y ] Couper, Clugston, Fair, Graham, Gil- lespie, Gardiner, kent, Litton, Me SEE OUR RANGE OF SCOTCH GREYS measure in two hours' time ed BOTANY SUITS ARP new London models, to your $ 1 5.00 Cann, Newman, Nickle, 0'Connor, Pe- jos, Richardson, Stroud, Wright, T Ww 4 5 'hite and Wormwith. X ! These communications were read : NEW NEW NE | Children's Aid Society, asking for a HATS SHIRTS SHOES a. grant. § ra . El Hugh E. Doyle, asking per mm \ i to wh pole 'at a distance of #ix ps Lg 3 bY feet from sidewalk: i Ea Thomas Mills, furrier, applying to 3 ha lease the fair grounds, at $100 a yeae, for five years. ¢ 3 R. J. Carson. and others, against the pavement on Princess street, be- tween Clergy and Barrie streets. Finance Report These recommendations of the Fi- nance Committee were adopted: That the city solicitor be authoriz- ed to inspect the plani of the Re- liance Moulding company, and if he reports. that they, are producing Bibbys | ¢ 78-80-82 Princess Street 8 / J > - o Brand Clothes Al Sariety merchantable gpods that they be re- funded the amount of their deposit, viz., $300, in conmnéction with the expense of holding the election. That the following accounts be paid: : ; 5 Board of works--Pay list to Jan. 28th, $536.55; pay, list, . breaking stone, to.Jan, 28th,, $124.85; pay list to Feh. 44h, $04 breaking stone to John Melntyr PoliceseTh Quick, Safe Way to Remove Hairs . (Toilet Talks.) Keep a little delatone powdbr on your dressing 'table and when ugly, hairy growths appear, make a paste with a little of the powder and some water, apply and let remain on T'the hairy surface for 2 or 8 minutes, ¥| then rub off, wash the skin and the hairs have vanished. This treatment is quite harmless and rarely more vf eS = 2% 0 ¢ 2 pany, rent, $13; than one application is required, but lan, qverceat § (PsC. Armstrong);|to avoid disappointment care should $30. be used to buy the real delatone. War expensé=--Pay list of fore- men to Jan. 3fat, "$70.08. Law expenses--T. M. ° Asselstine, fees, $1.20: WH J, 'MeKendry, claim for damages, $30. Election exp$hse--Nomination for school trustee, $6; Standard Print- ing & Publishing Co., advi. $1.50, Contingencles--0Oity registrar, re- gistrations, $2.25; Jas. Basson, re- moving dead animals, $1.76; D. A. Givens, stamps, $10; Thomas Me- Auley, stamps, $10; J. P. Hanley, pauper passes, $9.25; registration births, marriages and deaths, $241. Farms For Sale Kingston Brick and Tile Co., brick,|] 900 acres ...... Price 31300 $9.60; John Mcintyre, rent, $100. 20 - o - ao _ Fire and light--Anglin & Co., sup-|§ 10 * Gw.cin plies, $33.54; Chown & Co., supplies, uu ores ¥ 3000 $37.62; James Grant, hey, $16.92; 5a - F200 L. W. Murphy, alt and linseed meal, 00 "gee $5.20; N. C. Polson & Co., soap, 100 © 1000 $8.50; 8. G. Turpin, chair seats, 200 + " 4500 $1.25. . 1 " "ATH ------ y "" " Board Of Works. 0: Wig These. Board of Works recom. on... "S000 mendations were adopted: LL That notwitlistanding anything to{} qa0 « [°° " S000 to contrary in the by-laws the re-|} ose a " 10,300 quest of E. P. Halligan to construct} B40 «, " 10.500 an entrance into a proposed plumb-{} 890 « 7 « o4p0 ~The Last Call For Sutherland's Big: Red ~ Letter Shoe Sale We have decided to continue our sale another of fine week. If you have not secured your suppl t : Now 18 footwear at less than wholesale prices; ' YOUR CHANCE. : 20% Diogo: i On all shoes (except Military Boots.) LOTS OF ODD BIZES AT HALF PRICE AND Ao BRO. | 4 J ", 2 : . 1. H. SUTHERLAND & ~The Home of Good Shoes. gH Cape SRST granted, provided that the applicant makes proper provision for the safe- ty/of the public against accidents or injuries by erecting a suitable rail ing and also providing aa Ifo slat door to cover the entire excavation -at night. 5 £ That notwithstanding anvibing to the contrary-in the by-laws, the ap- plication of Hugh Doyle t5 place a in connection with bi: sign at : ce of six feet from tha pide- walk be not granted. but that he be > Has sent us one of the new 1913 models fo the inspection of the. Indian Warriors, and expected os pity. Heap much - 3 EO a aon aud vid the Big Red Flyer. Cradle sovine frame, 2 snesds. fant soto i 2% tance of seven feet from the walk Ta Baty! To, Comin smi et and Rand clutch. and avery. Ton Sormowia wi depart | yet hos cule FHCVCTR, ROG "7 to mach to you Joh. of the ) of Mrs. Ji tre ie whi "is Lo : oy Douell, of form . Miss "easily a match, and, burn- Hannah O'Brien, daughter nes ing without a visible flame, giving O'Biien. of Wolfe, Island The re. out suffisiens heat to warm up ga: gi Rr re Ba. iba ShomoL o in Stent, ai