» read thé Nationallet platform, | which twenty members had been vg 'el-!and that" vontingency . is wi lita panicky feeling. - < tee meer Which Bourassa and Lavergne had | . { | PUBLIC" CPINION | been approached in 1911 by the Conservative party. In considera.- | tion of a promise that they would | vote for the repeal of the Laurier! | Naval Act, and the repudiation ot | Sir Wilfrid's imperialistic tenden- " ) h i ¢ies, Bourassa supplied the candid | ©F birthday, hut a. million German, | ates and the Conservative party sup. "°2'diers have mot." : | plied the election funds. The twenty Poor Business. | mén were elected on the pledge "that (Brantford Expositor.) | they would defend these (National- «Value Of His Birthdays. (Toronto Star.) The Kaiser. has lived to'see anoth-| Bases 2 0 dob Difice' "04 (Dally Edition) 8 year, delivered in city ...... 6 Year, It pald In advance .... Year, by mall to rural offices One year, to United States araney mi-Weekly dition) by mall, cash ......,. if not paid in advance ear, to United States .,..,. IX and three months Pro rata. Attached 1s one of the best wrinting offices In Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE EB Smallplecs ......., 32 Church St. J. 8. REPRESENTATIVES | ™ ' New York Office .....,..225 Fifth Ave. | cational theories by the Teachers Frank R. Northrup, Manager. tm . ia University ea Tribune Biag.| College of Columbia Univer y ; ank Manager, | The object is to save a year, ani FALLIS AND HIS TALK, | perhaps two, in the public schol Mr, Fallis has resigned his seat in| course by adopting improved meth- : eminla ti i ; . 1s, by adapting the progress of the the Legislature, and will seek re {-0u8, 2Y ape E acity for study, by | M-P., chief Liberal whip, there are election. He proposes to pay over Pupils to their capacity for s * " |too many knights in Canada. "You about $1,880 of the toll which he | encouraging the talented ones to go can't walk along the- street without collected on the horse transactions| forward and make the most of their stumbling over a knight," he says. It} in Peel County to the County battal-| opportunities. It the experiment fat is Jr Pardes . SP erence, why| . oh n doesn't he have 1e nights summon-| fon for general purposes The mo-| be successful it will be eXtended to, ed for obstructing he streets? ney was filched Federal other pupils in the public schools, Government. The fact that he is glv-| particularly those who contemplate INDEPENDENT PRESS. ing it up is a confession that he was| a college course. The reason for - - It is questionable if the men in| { Baa khaki will induce shirkers to enlist} | ist) ideas and principles and carry by calling out to'them as they pass | out their promises." along the street. Man is a stubborn| | The members of the Government, | animal, and is usually better handled | | elected with Nationalist aid, have | bY being coaxed than } n. | been mum. So have the members © m-- : . a of the House who owe their seats to Good Exchange. Nationalist influchce, This made. Mr, a Suskaloon Plivenix dw ard's Published Dally and Semi-Weekly b. amarche i he unmercifully ome to think of it, . Edward's YHRE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING | Lamareheo angry and h | suggestion that Arnland lLavergne, E CO. LIMITED, | sacrificed them all around. | Henri Bourassa and Senator ¢'Lo- The Nationalist members of the | guette be exchanged for Dr, Boland | fu Elton Managing Dy ident House who have disturbed the party [is a good one. One good man and | J and Bec.-Treas. .. who at least offered no defence of | Patriot at this time is easily worth | x 5 i three breeders of racial sirife, { OmertiePhones: its policy--should either repudiate | iors gl acl & irrrers i their Nationalist speeches and pled- Poor Judgment, 2 ig The no other (Montreal Star.) resign, here is no © ] : y | ges ur 9 them Two lieutenants in Toronto are Goarse open to them, said to have left a hotel where they were staying because g privates of SHORTENED SCHOO TERM, | their regiment were given Ae Salus i ro » Educe nists | treatment as themse ves. And yet j In New York the Education oa is to fight just that spirit 'that these have seriously mediated upon the young men are wearing uniforms. length of the public €chool term, and | the possibility of shortening it. As job | # result ad experiment is being tried. In the McCutchéon' trial, at Tor : | A mcdel elementary school has been onto, an Ontario woman complained { opened in the Speyer School, which | that she did not make 40 per cent. off . hay her investment. This brings the as hee #ed for the practise of edu- : 3 | has been: ured for : timely. remark from the Calgary News-Telegram that it was a shell, and not a real estate contract she wanted Shell Contract, (Medicine Hat News ) Too Many Knights, - { (Hamilton Times.) = opinion of F, ¥ In the Pardee, | from the a 1s it is Borden until on {calculated fo create a famine in food] wbout Which regarded| unable "to ¢ / | justly would be ough airing. | Prince Arthur Chronicle | marines for $350,000 or so above the get any torpedoes for them, by being driv-|, | ufacturers who Te ¥eburse ra ily, or the better of a thor- | ti | LIBERAL PRESS. Poor Junk. -- J KINGSTON'S ONLY So they bought those B. C. sub- regular price and in the hurry of making out the cheques forgot hid X The | subs did not carry the load specified, | they did not submerge very well, and | they had ne torpedoes to fire, but | apart from 'that they were alright. CONSERVATIVE PRESS. How Canada Suffered. Toronto Telegram Canadian industry suffered an | gi economic wound when Sir Robert | i Borden's Shell Committee handed over Lo American brokers a $22,000, 000 tile fuse contract that the Brit- ish Ministry of Munitions tried to | place with Canadian manufacturers. # Britain dnd her Allies suffered .a military wound when the Yankee fa- | ji vorites of Sir Robert Borden Shell} Committee failed to deliver the time fuses called for by their $22,000,000 contract. and $23,750,000 advance | money, | Canada is advertised in this na- tion's dealings with the British Min istry of Munitions as a country that needlessly confesses its own indus | trial inability to find Canadian man- could make time fuses, and proved its inability to pick | Yankee brokers who could make time | fuses. Sir Robert Borden's Shell | Committee has, if not exhausted } Britain's. patience, extinguished Brit- | ain's hope of securing a Supply of munitions from Canada | SEE BIBBYS $15.00 YOUNG "MEN'S SUITS Masterpieces of Tai- lors' Art. New large soft lapels, high cut vest with soft collar; English cut trousers; sizes 84 to J8. PAA A SEE BIBBYS $15.00 YOUNG 'MEN'S OVERCOATS New Raglans, New Slip Ons, plain or velvet collars; new patterns: new colorings; sizes 33 to 38. Bt 0-00 ttn | KINGSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS ACO WBS iarned | Capt. Dix is arranging for a big carnival in his rink. { Part of the old G. T. R bridge at Kingston Mills was transferred to To-| ronto, | The police force was inspected- to- day by the Police Commi ioners. John Matthewson was awarded the | contract to build the Portsmouth! breakwater. | | | | - woe) ROLLED OATS EXPORT NOT PROHIBITED. | Order-in-Council of December Forbade to' Ports in' Europe. Clover Honey In the Comb, 25¢c per large section. | ! Ottawa, Feb. 4.-----In reward to a ' { despatch from Calgary to the effact that the Canadian Pacifie, Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific railways had announced that an em- bargo had been placed on all ship- ments of rolled oats to the United States, the ruling applying also to breakfast foods, tmeal of all va- rieties, and all special mill products manufactured from oats, it is pointed out here that under an ordér-in-coun- cil passed December 16th, it is en- acted that the exportation of the fol- lowing goods is hereby prohibited to all foreign ports in Europe and on Also in 30 and 60 1b. tins, the Mediterraneati' and Black seas, Jas. Redden & Co. other than those of France, Russia | : { Phones 20 and 990. | (except Baltic ports), Italy, Belgium, | {pain and Portugal, viz. "Oatmeal, r8lied oats." | It is to'be noted that this does not | prohibit the éxport of rolled oats to the United States. 4 # Extracted: In glasses ........17¢c & 20¢ Quart sealers ..........50c| 2121b. tins .......... 35¢c] Blb. tins ............. 700 {10 1b. tins 1.30] To Free Your Skin of Hair or Fuzz « (Boudoir Secrets) No toilet table is complete without "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealin fluid by mo Gasolene is a watery, which is drank as a beverag ar- . ~ 1 | tor cars, some ears are heavier pendent | : Moreov is Orange of Sentinel wonders of in cruiting. This member of the Gov- they would not be protesting. ernment or leader of the department | would have such a classification of men as wbuld enable him to draw upon them intelligefitly and wisely without disturbing the industrial or commercial interests 'as they have been distiorbed in some places by in- ----------n discriminate recruiting. The Hamilton-Toronto highway «ost $320,000 THE LAMARCHE EXPOSE, | was estimated to do. The Conservative leaders, includ- | sion offers no explanation or apology. | ing Bir Robert Borden, might have | In fact it says"through its chairman | week! Whatever happens, His duty is to return the cash to the| compelled to devote too will | x information available js meagre and | 'hg up money which should not have) The average class is suit | one foc ms to be satisfied with the! ; { al battalion must be seriously em- | any community. there is mental in- ister of Munitions The busi- | 3 hv Malli The # be forced hv Mr. Fallis, The David-| to break away from this not greatly swollen the i caught up with the needs of the | oe differentiate between them. The CO-ORDINATING THE FORCES, | 18 pounders, and that, in effect, no- idea, namely, that there should be a Some are given a grind after school can be spared without seriously af- | for a college career. The students Mr: Graham, "and by every recruig; | tened? The New York S2Y8 | yuan would be provided with the neces EDITORIAL NOTES. Hons collecting funds, rivaling eacn | loated from the Government on pa-| thirst, after whigh they are traded TI «| any one of which will run an auto There should be a Department ie " The Ruthenians, the! and can be told from keroseme at fF Polon a , 3 inkl a .| once by setting a match to it, Every Derby, would make a success of re- | oles, and others must think so or Hon. Mr. Marci} pleads that On- burn with great rapidity. Nobody warm up more-upon the war. The Scene by piecemeal. remon| tric heater to the gasolene stove, : . : Mus An Enquisy. not entitled to it, that it was the emphasis on the latter the fust Be An Enquiry many years | hoped that Sir Robert Federal Government, as Mr. Garland | to their preliminary education. not shut. up Parliament the | voip A ._ | public has been given a full explan- | +» returned his loot, and at the same In every city there is the experi- | | conflicting, and there seems to be been paid to a military unit will ot average pupil, The clever ons is{ Much uncharitableness among those | salve hig conscience, nor mollify his! held in check. The dull one is drag | administration, The Bertram Coni- | misgion was forced to make way for | barrassed by the proposition he jury done to the children in: the at-| the Flavelle Commission, and that is| makes, and the commander's POSi-| tampt to regulate the class by the ness which was to found an unparal-| | is 'bound leled prosperity seems to have been SON report must in ro ! is ] I Hust contain a powerful Other cities will be ! ] ! ang arraignment of the member for Pell, | induced to follow suit: fuiddlemen to the United States. I'hé | vi exports of | call 1 ace i Es i s € | - tim ry a ount and make him lems. They concern the brigh: pu- manufacturers. It is announced from | disgorge h i g 3 y s . A e gory 8 gotten gains to the pils and the army and at least, Mr. Flavelle an-! nounces that Canada has been ma- | | quick to learn are let out a little ear- Hon. Mr. Graham - has enlarged | lier in the day. 'The others are thing now remains but to load' the piled up and unexploded shells | co-ordination of effort in order that | hours. This does not help the cle- the military forces may be recruited | ver children, nor does it shorten the fecting the industrial, agricultural, | who need an education for the pro and other resources of the country. | fessions have long periods of study said | before them. Cannot these be shor | : | yt that the nation cared for the depen they can and much depends upon his GASOI EE be rx +{ASOL dents left in Canada while the way ies of life, a ade » Toe nk) eva = . , sd 24i, mad J he Teronto Mail says txt Mi drinkers-than others and are unable on spasmodit generosity, Fallis' action "becoming.' Into get ten miles from a filling sta- others efforts and sometimes spend- | triotic purposes? The fates preserve | Of Xo Somahos y who hag Dover $ i ) Lol automobile in any fo 'm ing the*funds which they collected on | us Owned. 34 .auto ) mobile down hilt in a very satisfac- Government, outside of the Minister | the Masitoba Guyernimont eans thel.tory manner. Low-test gasolend- of Militin'd, and it should be abolition of bilingualism from the few days some fearless hired girl tries to start the kitchen fire with tario should withdraw its vexatious ;.. ever set fire to a five-galion can bilingual regulations. Why? In| of low-test gasolene without regret- : . 1 . | Gasolene is.algo used for cooking proposition is not a 'popular one. purposes, being inserted by hand in more than it jwhich has to be taken to the plumber he Commiss+ every once in a while and be fitted with a bright new stomach. RANDOM REELS + |a small package of delatone, for with {it hair or fuzz can be quickly ban- Ished from the skin. To remove liairs you merely mix into a paste enough of the powder and water to jeover the objectionable hairs. This should be left on the skin about 2 minutes, then rubbed off and the skin washed, when it will be found free, Gasolene is composed of Pennsyl- [from hair of blemish. Be sure you Vania crude oil and plain, uufer-!get genuine delatone. ! mented river water at the rotio of J8& | ~~ AA AAA A psn to 1. The free coinage of gasolene RAILWAYS CARRIED in this count has become so preva lent that th ratio varies from 16 OVER 46 MILLIONS. to 1 to 1 to 16, with the result that ro thousands of automobile owners have to stop on the public: highwiy and swab out the carburetor with a sponge. It js extromely annoying--tw-- a conscientious tourist to stop at a wayside garage and pay 20 cents' L Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." Records of Passenger Traffic in Canada--Grade Crossing Elimination. Ottawa, Feb!' 4.---The annual re-| gallon for garolene, and then dis port of the Board of Railway Com- cover a little later that he might Missioners for the last fiscal year 4 shows that out of 46,702,280 passen- Just. as well have turned in at. the gers carried by Canadian railways| during the year, eight were killed and | 239 injured. Out of 159,142 rail . way employees, 99 were killed and | rides in anything but steam yachts g73° injured. Trespassers on rail-| and is sold in large quantities to way property to the number of 170 people who have not paid a grocery | were killed. ~The report notes that bill sin®e the South African war. |the Board is taking up with the At- This price varies from' week to week, | torneys-General of the various pro- and for some time has been varying | vinces the question of instituting | upward in a series of heart-render- | more rigorous prosecution for tres- | ing leaps. But we are so constitut- | passers on railway lines, with a view ed as a people that we can get along' to further decreasing the number of without meat and flour and under- | casualties. © } wear easier than gasolene, which en- | The Board also recommends fur- | ables us to visit relatives who do not | th er action by the Government to- | own a car and trade jay rides for! Wards assisting the elimination of room and board town pump, The price of gasolene is controlled by a board of directors who do not | of expense is so great as to prevent | municipalities from undertaking known {hat they could not make a | 'Put up and shut up." The muni- political tompaet with the National- | cipalities, will see about that, iat and escape Hving Upto). Theil ton Mr Patemsiide 1s suppress- expose of, Mr. 1amarelig in the Gom- { ing himself, and hig turbulent feel-| | ; Sun wrongful and scandalous exaction. | feéling that such pupils are now to be| i ic] { ation of the shells business. The time expressed his repentance. Giv-| ence which is recited in New York. | to the who are financinlly interested. No offence. The commander of the doc-| ged along. In any .event, and fn DOW, it is said, to make way for al tion is one inte which he should not work of the ordinary one. New York | system at once. largely traded off by hucksters and J 3 ors . . exporters, at all events, have so far | and the Federal Government should | Kingston has had its school prob: | Hupils that are not so England that the factories there have | st cent, ; : ast : es bright. There has been a desire '0 king practically nothing but empty | Upon and emphasized the Whig's | kept at work until the last minute Clearly, a matter of such importance from the walks of life where pren | time for which they are preparing "It 'should be understood," | expert experiments, thin Journers were at the front, that they : thers have been too Many organiza- | what respect. In spending the money | tion, without developing a raging i Gasolene comes in several grades; objects not vitally wecessary." the most popular, as ite costs less charge of some one who, like Lord | Public schools. gasolena and discovers that it will order that the French-Canadians may ting the act and retiring from the a stove. Many people prefer the elec- yD Ri bir nons on Mondayewgs both humfliat- | ings on the naval question, during the » their share ofthe cost. Government assistance tow. | nating grade crossings is {$5,000 per crossing. HE During the year the Board issue | 1,897 orders. The principal ea ards eli limited to grade crossings, where the question ing and complete, © Mr. Laimarche | war. His emotions are sander check is a sug orter of the Government, | , the steam of a boiler is under and oneof the twenty members of He is lable the House, who, he alleges, under press- | been elected with the aid of Boy { sa and Lavergne. | ------ : Mr Lamarche could not stand for| The Hamilton Spectator says the the further abuse of the mbm whose | Government; to save time, lot the op- | cause he had espoused. He said he | position have a monopoly of the talk | expected some others, holding high | On the address. Or was it because places in the Government, to defend | the criticisni of the opposition, of the men who had politically befriend- | the Waste in, and bad management od them, and men who, though pro- | oL the munition contracts was in .- vounced bad, had not, like Sir Eg. | Sefensible. 'ward Carson, preached rebellion, nor | like a certain Canadian knight, re- dered to the War Office as "rotten." Bn ad tt diam matic | ' v | check by a safety valve, hive | io blow off at any time, ITas | yre. i - the way they rob -------- : English shippers demand that th mn! p : Government shall take hold of the ES hay ships and manage them during the print. Wor asidt manages the mines, and Tatlwiys, The vise in - freights is my aching feet, a ONE MAN'S MEAT. The snow is ggod good for rheumatic feet all things on ear sterling w#rth; to some woe--there's rheumatiz i wind is bitter and keen _ light to the plumber bold bidding frown, for pipes a The ashes thrown on the i from a beastly shock; bat The snow is good for all feel like two third-rate b. as he lightly treads, th sleds; the bards sing od find new charms in a wint © a dark green tint, the ed ees | leard was the application of the rail. | ways to increase rates on eastern | lines. The decision on this appli~ for winter wheat, but it isn't ation is still pending. And that is the way with | Se ---- some they're, loaded with Cheese Meeting. they're bringing a freight of The Patron meeting was held at n the sparkling snow ! The Gananoque factory on Tuesday even- and cold, and it brings de-| ing, Feb. 1st. The following state. but it brings to us the for-| ment was g'ven by the secretary: re bursting all over town. | Total milk, 2,380,928 1bs; total cy walk saves many , "That"s| 994.76: cost of making $2398.20: rate job !"| average price 15.46 cents; total but- | kinds of soils, but my feet ter, $6,017 ibs.: total cash, $1,653-| oils, The young man singy| 42; average price 27.47 cents. Rate! kids exit as they tool theih per ton of milk paid clear to patrons, to the "mantle white," and | $26.39. The officers for 1916 are: ry night; 'but T sit nursing | J. H. Fawcett, thanager; J. B. Wil- I'm saying 1 woe't repeat; | son, salesman; Mrs, J. Belfie, secre- | itor says they won't do to] tary-treasurer, ! nam, Dis Neen | | th; for | m of » @ man like me of a first nd what ---- Auy man whose will power is his witg's name is to be pitied. MEN'S GOOD Bib SHOES Ne ics. 1 WOMAN $0 WEAK COULD NOT SLEEP Made Well by Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound. 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My eyesight would ll leave me and every- | il thing I ate upset | j my stomach. Iwas | | very nervous and if I would start to sweep I would have The difference between good coal and poor eval is the , difference be- tween comfdrt and dis- comfort, Our Coal is' SOLID COMFORT COAL ' oo It is Screened carefully, delivered promptly, and makes warm friends, CRAWFORD, * Foot of Queen Street. hone 9. | f | I was looking over | the paper one day | ho felt as I did | Lyd E. Pinkham"s Vegetable | I tell you I am feeling fine and | iven birth to a bo; baby. Heis nkham™ baby. Frcs 8 bottle | pound in my house always. ""-- PETER Marco, Box 54, North took it too. Now I am | | y.* « | { | rs. Sleeplessness, indigestion, weakness, are symptoms which vitality of the female - § strengthening | > good old fashioned ' § Herbs, contained in Lydia E. Councillor ~ Stainton, who has been confined with sciatic rheumatism ing nicely. needed by every woman . Marco's condition. © + advice in asad to symptom writeto . . james Medicine Oo. | is. very low with Mass, " hope is held out foi in Mrs, Por free