IRE in a { Pubitaned Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED, ; i G. Elliott ... A, Gulia .Managin and Sec.- Telephones: Business Office ...... Rditerial Room Job Office reas. sesseeneses 248 229 192 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) 8 year, delivered In city +..36.00 e year, if pald In advance ....$5.00 ® year, by mail to rural offices .$2.50 Ome year, to United States ......53.00 (S8em1-Weekly Edition) Due year, by mall, cash ....... One year, if not pald In advan One year, to United States 1x and three months pr Attached is one of the rinting offices in Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE KE E Smaliplece ... .32 Church St. U. 8. REPR NTATIVES few York Office 225 Fifth Ave. Frank ER. Northrup, Manager. Om b Hg. best THE POWER QUE The Utilities on Monday the vroper study of pany"s offer of power taken up BE pe Thursday. evening eral features of the tract which the Commission TION. had for Commission not time required a Seymour Com and it will he meeting the fal on There are at a sev- proposed con- may and it is want modified he hed the representatives The advisor matters reac com. of the there reconciliation can of t a by a meeting missioners with the company Whig in should ment of these says I be bar to the agree- Commission and points in the a tech. not between any the the Company Many ;gested agreement nical character. They can only be di by experts. The ity will probably associate some one with Mr. Folger in the consideration of these technical items, and to the end that there may be no misunder- standing of them now.or hereafter The Board of Trade on this (Tues- day) evening takes up the Seymour roposal for the publie are of cussed clearly general discussion in The Mayor will lead with a of the retent conference of municipal representa- tives in Toronto. interest review THE MISSING LINK. A question of Supreme importance Is the relation of the City Council with. the Utilities Commission. * This Commission, électod by the whole peo- ple, is independent of the Council is expected to run and its businéss in an economical and efficient manner. At the same time it is running the busi- ness for the city, and is expected, if it is not compelled, to report to the Council from time to time as to its work and progress. There hag to be a connecting link between the two bodies, and the Commission has this subjeet under consideration. The Mayor is ex-officio a member of the Commission during his term of office, In all probability he will meet every contingency that arises during the year Members of the Council will ask questions about light, power and water, and the May- or w answer them. He ought to have near him, however, some one with the facts on record, and Dr. Sands, the City Clerk, otlight to be! that one, and he will be if appointed secretary of the Utilities Commission Mr. Folger has been conducting business department at house, and it is the opinion of ex- perts that he should be relieved of all clerical work or the supervision of it in connection with the plants. All the books of record and statistics should be in one place, and the sug- gestion is that the accommodation at the City Hall be enlarged so as to in- clude and embrace the entire staff of the Utilities, % . 'The City Clerk could then, as sec- retary of the Commission, supply any detail which he was authorized to lay before the Council. At present there is a missing link, and jt should be found without delay. a the power WANT AND IMMORALITY. One thinks of Raymond Robins and liis reference to slum life'in the larger cities as he reads in the even- ing paper and faces the daily chron- jcle of man's follies and .woman's sins, +X A serious reflection follows. Ev- L ery resort of immorality should be suppressed. There are too many of them in every eity They are talked of, and it is probable that they are known to the members of the Police Department. Why they ist at all, as sore spots in the body politic, as snares that attract and entrap the unwary, goodness only knows. Vigilance, eternal vigl- veseese. President Director ! probable! lance on the part of those who have Ufilted 'States must not be antagon: 1 | | city, would effect a great deal 200d, and why it is not exercised be- | comes a problem for the police com- | missioners to solve. | { There is an aspeet of* human life {that is unfortunately too often over- | looked, It became apparent in con- nection with a Police Court case re- ! cently. The busband had been taken from his family, to spend in prison a good long petiod in atone- ment for his offences. His earnings, if they ever amounted to anything, ceused, Wife and children must 1 live, But how? Society owes it to people like these, as well as to it- | self, Mo help them. They are not helped, however; on the contrary, they are neglected, and sooner or later, without the uplift they need, ithe sympathetic touch of a kindly hand, they fall deeper into trouble. | Dissipation and abandonment follow. The virtue of the individual should stand above all else. There are some people who would rather die than dispose of or tarnish it. They [are blessed with high and proper am- | bitions. They have a stamina, too, | that is equal to any crisis They {are the Tew, . Over the many, in {their low and unfortunate state, let i the mantle of mercy fall A VERY LARGE SURPLU On Monday the annual financial report of the Water Department was presented at a meeting of the Utili- [ties Commission, and read. Noth- jing was suggested by the Commis- | sioners with regard to it, they had not the time to linger over anything, and it takes time to study land comprehend any special report. { There was one great fact brought out, however It was 'that the cash for calendar year because surplug the was | $17,000. At-once the question arises, What | is to be done with it? Well, there { should be the usual or needful contri- {bution to the depreciation fund. The | Commissioners will show the proper spirit if they consult authorities and satisfy themselves as to what this fund represents, and how it should be raised. It surely is not a YTund which can be robbed with impunity {any more than the sinking fund of a corporation can be misdppropriated | without the certainty of disaster { The depreciation fund is an absolute } wecassity in connection with any | large plant, and it should be main- tained and governed by an inflexible {rule or policy. After that the Com- { missioners should give the people 2 | benefit in lower rates. The water { to do with order and decorum in the! ized lest it stand between Germany of and Britain after the war So the LGermans are bent against Britain later or would have been. the Europe but for Britain in this Britain, therefore, has vited the everlasting hatred of Germany on vengeance, Germany conqueror of war | PUBLIC OPINION | Ft 0 0 Br Gr A Bb Bnd Yes, Rather (Ottawa Free Pre A Washington despatch says that radium is now worth $9,000,000 a pound. The stuff is still more ex- pengive than potatoes. The What? tToronte Weeki Von Bernstorff winds up a mes- sage to Wilson with a reference to the "honor of the German Govern- { ment." The. what, of the German iovernment? Not Very Long. (Toronto Mall.) : If it can be shown that the Parlia- ment buildings were set on fire by Germans, it will not take very long, after the information becomes known, to enlist the extra 250,000 soldiers that Sir Sam Hughes has called for How Ottawa Helped. ted that as they knew about (W i General Hughes as for Australia, all shell-making was learned from eur Shell Committee. Sir Sam may have preached well to the Australians. Ob servation does not reveal very strik- ing evidence that he what he preached practised Quite Sure, (Montrea ar.) 3 There is nothing surprising in the falling off of immigration to Canada during war time; we would not have it otherwise But we will make up, for it a hundred fold when peade re- turns if we are wide emough awake now to prepare for the rush that is coming CONSERVATIVE PRESS. Mr. Fallis and Mr. Blain, Mr. Fall late member for Peel in the Ontario Legislature, will do a most patriotic thing if he declines | the Conservative nomination, if - fered to him to-day. Should he be 3 ? re-elected that will be the end of any attempt to better political life in Ca-| nada, If he comes back De Wit Foster will come back to the com-! mong from Nova Scotia, and Mr., Garland from Carleton; and Sir Ro- bert Borden and the whole Conser- vative party. will be that much dis- credited And The World trusts that Rieh-| ard Blain, M.P Will also see the sitnation in this light, and that he, es- pecially, will be held responsible for | the example of Peel, on the. fortunes of the Conservative party. Mr.. Blain cannot counsel Mr, Fallis to stand if he has the prime minister's welfare at heart, If an Ontario constituency stands for whitewash so will Ontario and Canada have to stand for man n- "other thing while this war last Peel and Mr, Fallis do the thing the country will benefit immea- surably therefrom and a certain dis. loyal element in the community will think again before defying public op- inion and the public welfare in this day of extreme peril LIBERAL PRESS. ------ What He Deserves. Teronio World, Having been exposed in conduct that necessitate his resignation, ! why should Mr. Fallis expect his deeds to be condoned by the people of Peel? Walking out of the Legis- lature because of his misdeeds, why should he expect the people of Peel to carry him back in again--exoner- ated, whitewashed, his blemishes painted over like those of a hand- painted horse? The people of Peel should bear in mind that the two members who were ejected from the Dominion House have not been re-nominated in Carleton and Kings, although anx- receive that endorsation, y still remain outside resting un- der censure Why should Peel be supposed to condone, the acts of Mr. Fallis that required his resignation, and not his acts alone, but similar acts of other men all over the coun- try That is just what it would mean, and that is just what a certain of men all over the country want it to mean. It is to be hoped that Mr. Fallis will not be re-nominated in Peel, but that the nomination will go to some- body else, But .if nominated, it is to be hoped, for the credit of Canada, that the people of Peel will condemn his pra and discourage them everywhere, permanent ¢ class tices ect at the polls A lot of people are simply fashion ably foolish et a a tt Pl, ttt consumers are practically the house-. | holders of the city. They are enti- jtled to cheap water and to an abun- dant supply of it. It contributes to the life and health of the people. Therefore, the baths and flush closets i should be-made free if possible. The more use that is made of water in | connection with the sanitary condi- tions of the city the better. A $10,000 cut jn rates would please the people, and come as a glad surprise. By the way, the Commis- sloners should decide, while great is- Sues are on, to meet once a week. A meeting every fortnight will not facilitate business," and the people have a right to expect that the ques tions that affect the masses in a very material sense should be disposed of with" the greatest promptitude FDITORIAL NOTES, Premier Norris has announced that the end of the bilingual controversy | has been reached in Manitoba, Eng- lish will be the language of the pub- lic schools A. waiter in New York dropped in the elevator of the hotel his bank book, showing that he had deposits to the extent of $25,000 Tipping agreed with him, Cheap power might not, at pres- ent, bring many new industries to Kingston. But it would keep and develop the industries the city has ! That is something to aim at. President Wilson's patiente has been tried. Eventually lle must, says the New York Herald, pack home the German Ambassador with his thousand offences against ihe As a pest and im postor Von Bernstorff is the [mit ------ The Lindsay Post thinks the Town Council made a serious mistake | when it did not endorse the proposi- tion of jKingston with regard to leg- islation for the Patriotic Fund Lindsay, of all the places In Outatrio that vere appealed" to, failed catch the desired spirit Is recruiting on Sunday allowable under the moral law? It is under the Sherter Catechism which teaches that on the Sabbah "one may n- { dulge: in works of necessity sha merey." The .only question is | whether enlisting comes under this heading, Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, the: Un- der-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, jo Germany, in answering President | Wilson in regard to the Lusitania af- | fair, says: "You must not attempt to humiliate Germany." Here is a bluff in real earnest. Will the Presi dent call it? < { ---- German papers pleads that to i | thé i TIONAL MUSEUM, WHERE This building gained considerable notoriety because of tower, which has never been repaired PARLIAMENT NOW "MEET its cracked RANDOM REELS "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealln;, Wax, of Cabbages aad Kings." THE LAW SUIT. The law suit is a modern substi tute for brass knuckles and the stuff- ed club, and when resorted to in a methodical and systematic manner does not disfigure anybody but the client "wlio expects to win in the su- preme court, A' vindictive client with #4 stern purpose and ample. security can be knocked cold by a decision of the lower court, only to rise with his checkbook in one hand, fully recov-, ered and thirsting for more of the same. As a painless method of pun- ishing people whe do' net own any- thing in their own name except a singia aarness, the law suit is a pro- nounced success. Law suits are conceived in hope, born of confidence and kept alive by an expensive stimulant known as the appeal bond. This is a mild form of death warrant which enables a cock- sure client to talk turkey to the su- preme court by proxy. A great many clients would prefér to talk to the supreme court direct and thus save the expense of hiring a proxy, but are prevented from doing so by laws against. the use of profane speech It costs almost as much to rent a con- sclentious, loose-tongued proxy for a nine-year law suit as it does to run a garage in the winter time. Law suits are always decided upon the law and evidence, except in jury cases, which are usually determined by one upright, iron-jawed juryman who was sued in 1894 by the plain- tiff's brother The jury system has been the salvation of many a client who has been obliged to rest his case almost wholly upon Providence an? an unprejudiced blood-relative in the jury box. More law suits, settled by supreme court n rendered in Rhode"dsland 892 and whith, though dead, speaketh, The law suit is an effective means of separating brother from brother and friend from friend, and both from their money, After two brothers in the church have gone to law over the ¢hurch have gone to law over a chased said account through the su- preme court and back for re-trial, a coldness is apt to arise which makes it necessary to pry them apart dur- ing the Sunday-school lesson. This teaches us never to go to law with anybody but a tota] stranger, some one who is not liable to meet us in a social way and splatter our linea- meants in rich profusion about the home of a neutral host. de- in yet a Nt ar A ANN tll A ' Rippling Rhymes ify, is hailed needing working Speaker's Wind. Sv WIND-JAMMING At all our mddern colleges, true knowledge is, they train boys to orate; dent who can speechify, and paw the gir and scredch- as something great are told the stu- where we The country's men, and not the loud-voiced shirk- ing men who labor with their jaws; the list is' ever narrowing of men who're fit for harrowing, for wield- ing plows and saws. of fellows who are strengthening their lungs by exer- cise; they talk to us eternally, diurnaily, doggone their useless eyes, »Methinks rather dangerous to take the young men and make them orateers; to send them mering, the poor their futile years. | LT MASON ~ all the punk commodities of all the things that clammily depress the human family, the worst The list is always lengthening they whoop it up it's grangerous, vawping, vam- old welkin hammering, through all Of all the worthless pddities, of , from here to furthest Ind, is SE Quit foe however, | Bibbys Rt Pi SHouwLD ALWAYS BE ON errands for vou. mond mn ForMen's Special Brno son pe Shoe Values! '""A MAN CAN'T BE ON GUARD IF HIS BRAINS AND HIS FEET ARE ASLEEP" brains to vour some mighty Trot in hére and step into a pair of shoes that order take care of they'll run profitable If vou vour feet, were built to help you make vour way in the world. Wee the Best $5.00 Shoe in See Our New Shoe Models: Goin'-Sum, laim to have ny, ('anada, "~ $5.00; The Club, $5.00-- : The Best $4.00 Shoe, the Best $3.00 Shoe, The Runaway, : $5.00; The Tans and Blacks and Patents. Beneh made Shoes, made from ehdice leathers. We sell only First Quality Goods, Rubbers and Overshoes. by giving his resignation Clover Honey In the Comb, 25¢ per large section. Extracted: In glasses ........17c & 20¢ Quart sealers 21-210. tins .,.. blb. uns... ......... . (10 1b; tins... ....... $130 i Also in 30 and 60 1b. tins. Jas. Redden & Co. Phones 20 and 990. N.3, rench MEDY. N.1. No.2 Us 4 C15 HROS CLERC ENG TAKE TRY KEW DkA ERAPI AT SEE THAT TRADE MARKED W BD "THERAPION WRIT. GOVT. STAMP Af} IXKED TO ALL GENUINE PAC URE KETS AAA rt AAA Soir LIEUT. BRRGE ADpams cop GOT PICTURE OF RAIDER. British Officigl on Board A Thoughtful. New York, Feb, 8.--A fiotosraph Of the German raider which captured the Steamship Appam apd put a' prize crew aboard British official who was among the| Appam's' passengers. Through fore- sight he outwitted the Germans when | they seized all cameras from passen- gers on board the Appam, ; "i4 It occurred to this official as soon * the imperial Gérman * flag was, ppam Was 70¢ her was taken by a' Military Shoes. Military Rubber Boots. AeA Limited During We are re: the right price. We. Extend a Wel come lo All Visitors Garnival Week dy to supply all vour Foot- wear needs with the best quality goods at Look for the Big Rubber Boot at the Door. | J.H.Sutherland & Bro. THE HOME OF GOOD SHOES. Quickest, Surest Cou Remedy is Home- Made Easily Prepared in a Few Min- utes. Cheap hut Unequaled Some people are constantly annoved from one year's end to the other with a persistent bronchial cough, which is whol: ly unnecessary. Here a home-made remedy that $ets right at the will make you wonder what became of it Get 2% ounces Pinex (50 cents worth) from any druggist, pour into a lG-ounce bottle'and fill the bottle with plain granu lated sugmr syrup. Start toking it once. © Gradually but surely you notice the phlegm 'thin out and disappear altogether, thus ending a cough. that vou mever thonght wonld end. It also loosens the dry, hoarse or tight cough~.and heals * the in flammation in a painful cough with remarkable rapidity. Ordinary coughs > conquered by if in 24 hours or less. Nothing better for - hronchitis, winter coughs and bronchial asthma, his Pines and Sigrar Syrup mixture makes 16 otinces--encaigh to last « family $ long time --at-a cost of only 54 ernts, eeps perfectly and tastes pleasant. Easi ly prepared. Full diecetions with Pines. Pinex is a special and highly concen trated compoimd of gennine Norw ay pine extract, rich i guaiacol, and is- famous the world over for its ease. certainty and prompiness in oversoming bad conurhs, chest and throat colds. . ® Cet th i sk vour drugeist for 5 ourees * and do not aceept any hing else, "A guarantee of absolute satisfaction, or money promptly refunded, goes with. this preparation. The Pines Co., Toronto, Ont. is Ab cA AA hoisted aboard the raider that a pho- tograph of the vessel would be of great value to the British authorities. After taking the picture-he tore off the film in a dark room and tossed the rest of the film. overboard. , He kept the undeveloped film wrapped Call Up No. 9. Get busy! This cold weather is but a mild | sample of more--on its | way, | Take mo chances, If your coal supply is short, phone us vonr or- der, | For Our GOOD COAL Do this today ! Our Phane works splendidly, CRAWFORD, (Foot of Queen Street, A na in lightproof black paper in his in- side waistcoat pocket. It is believed that through the pie- [ture the whereabouts of the raider may be ascertained from sea cap- tains. ' . \