the iron ore #t wants for WURIUON | purposes from Sweden, Norway and) Spain. It goes through Helland andy [rien merchantmen that are armed be refused a landing in New York. It 3 : ------ie : is that 'the Government ownership of Reglster The Aliens, "SANTA WEARS SAME KIND OF SHOES AS Kai's gunmen bis troubles will be | over. CO, LIMITED. 3G ElMott Leman A. Guild "A MAN'S FEET TELL YOU WHAT KIND OF A CHAP HE . IS." You oft-times sav 'Hello to a fellow before you see his face--yvou get a gentle idea of who he is"by referring to his footwear or some other artise of his apparel. Well-boot- ed ¢haracter is personalitv--plus come in and see us and join the grand march of happy feet. iy We Sell the Celebrated Just Wright Shoes for $5.00 -- * y New Models. . THE HIKE - THE RUNAWAY -- THE "HOBO -- THE ' GRIZZLY BEAR -- THE CLUB Tans, Blacks and Patents; Button or Lace Style. FIRST QUALITY OVERSHOES AND RUBBERS /- We Sell the Best $4.00 and $5.00 Shoes in Canada. . See Bibbys $4.00 Bench Made Shoes. Sge Bibbys Cold Weather Shoes, $4.00 Genuine Calf Up- pers, Wool Felt Lined; Felt Sole; Rubber Heels-- A Genuine $5.00 Shoe for $4.00. ° A nn ..Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. . Business Office © TT houen! Editorial Rooms Job Office 5 SUBSCRIPTION RATES . ? (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in city One year, If paid in advance . One year; by mail to rural office One year, to United States (Semi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mall, cash von $l One year, if not paid tn advance $1 One yedr, to United States ... $1. Six and three month§ pro rata. Attached is one of the best printing offices in Canada TORONTO H. E Small J, 8 New York Or German officers in Constantinople] than Job The coal barons hey to pay miners an increase of in( the wages the demand will mean $23#400,000 annually, or the profit of the operators. something about this that the average man cannot under stand. } De, Schurman Suns Up. I se Post-Standard Jacob Gould hurman, president of Cornell Unjversity, in a speech at Utica ow Saturdaygmade this sweep ing assertion 5 Had the President advocated' pre paredness in 1914, as he is doing in 1916, the most serious international difficulties which now confrent our | Government would never have ari sen, ? The anthracite coal operators pub | The critic ism of the halting course American papers of the Wilson administration con- a ; tained 'in this short statement is unt statement to the effect that tire net answerable In fact, the President profit bard 20¢ a don himself admits his mistake, when he Coal sells at $7.25 a ton, The dif-| asks for the military and naval pow- ference between these figures repres- | er that will guarantee the notes he | ents the expenses and profits of the say that the per if coal | 5¥ cent have 1 } 20 twice There calculation Germany is afraid to call for an-| lished in the other war loan on 'the ground that | charges on coal is writes serious attention. He con cedes tHat lils writing of notes has Here is something for been most futile because no'force lay | behind them and yetswhell he wrote them, he was standing with Bryan | against the force he now demands INDEPENDENT PRESS. Mr. Fallis' Failure, middlemen. BURDENS OF THE WAR. one to thing about The budget speech of Sir Thomas | White has been fairly digested and most people appear to have become reconciled to its effects. The | war is a contingency which the Government has to meet in a courageous spirit, and Canada must share in the determination of the Mother Country to see the fight to a PA AA A Ay L NGSTOM EVEN 25 YEARS AGO Ee eck The sleighing is completely gone ly it seems unfortunate that Mr. Fal and the streets are deep with slushy lis should have seen fit to accept an- and mud. {other nomination By so doing he . Is Maclaren's Products|] Are being demonstrated inj our store: lian O¢ Cold Weather The merchants held another most uw nt : is trans in. barges up the Moutréal Mail nr marsha steamships may be stimu. shipped in b e- kade is The desirable thing is not just of ted fn America. 4 Rhine. The British blockade i get possible enemies out of the couli- | The Herald says that evidence has! therefore not complete. {try but to see they are pui where | they can do no htisehief--in prison tration is willing t | im | coil EE Ing to go to almost |... oo 0" This may turn him] court procedure it may be well | y length in promoting the ship- from thoughts of rebellion to] Eive the prisoner the benefit of any | ping * legislation, and that it would doubt, but it is not good policy when | {If be ever crosses into China and] there Is dou: republic in international entangle- : » $18 ie hotter 10 wer tie alls i g po | side. of safely, i {ments in order to accomplish this falls into the hands of Yuan-Shai| side ely, and take uwuy from ond {to free them to do mischief ip { It ls high time that action was ta- |} were compelled by American accept- | { ken lo have all Germans, Austrians, |} Rl . » { + i " | hate of this new: phase "of Teutonic | cont speech, said the Allies will| registered, and, wherever any sus-| Ehtfulness to: keep their ships{hold their own in France. . It has|picion exists, examined Appedr-| § ay no : since been admitted that they have| A3¢S Ol innocence is the most valu. |g I es, there would be a shortage of | pi i | shipping that would deaden ag : j lost six hundred to eight hundred pore "where inquiry casts any. sha 2 ean-Tndust vs meri- | feet of valuable trenches in the last" dow on the allies he should be con TY, and this might .be|drive ,and the Allies cannot afford to] sidered an enemy, not necessarily to [shipping bill". { HINA | guarded. { The Herald thinks there is no like-| Britain is deglared by the Londgn | TS rie eo ike-| ritain is deglared by the Lond lihood of this form of boycott for: Mail to be feeding Germany when AMERICAN PRESS. will not invite or accept the German | neutral countries unhindered. Neu- Now York Times Ss |PTOBTamme. Whatever else may | trality under thescircumstances bes] The defeat in Congress of the Pre happen, the Government will not tomes a by-word or a word of re-| Sident's plans for national .defense | meds} A y { If" to thdt he added the shameless | Hie it, apd can only mean contin- | breach of trust. involved in with assassination of non-combatants, drawing our protection from the} high seas No adminis 3 . . {they wished they bad British, Aus-| dreaded, of a settlement of the Lusi wf tration whic i i i did this could hope to retaii eich, tralian and Canadian soldiers to! fania case incompatible with the na- 4 tional dignity and honor, the coun- It is intimated that the Govern-|ery which the Canadian troops must! jie party more it can or will iments of the Allies may be willing | greatly appreciate stand . REPRESENTATIVE to give assurance that the guns upon plece | 32 Church St REPRESENTATIVES Peak Office. a or for offensive purposes, but they will] Northrup, e Chicago : " A ina "Blig not write into international law Frank R. Northrup, Manager. land practice the doctrine that this The Ottawa Citizen suggests that [chant ship into a, warship. Ottawa co-operate with Kingston re-| The American Government appears gpecting the improvement of to have taken a position upon which Rideau Canal, provided the entrance | it must eventually back down. of the canal at Ottawa be diverted |8etting used to this sort of thing. WO as not te imterfere with the in-| a subject in which Kingston is\ not | particularly Interested, Nor jgi It cannot pay the interest Kingston pushing this Rideau Canal | OP the public debt which it already, Ottawa a movement originated look- | isis which is at hand. ing to the improement of the canal. | and it was suggested that Kingston these improvements upon the Gov- ernment, The matter in this way tame before the docal Board of opinion at th Capitol-and the Rideau route cannotheé*Fmproved without & change in trance of the can- there wil] be nothing done. The Citi- Zen says the trade of the canal is| vegligible. "Oh, that is the way our been accumulating that the adminis-| ap i B Sun Yat San bas married his priv-lor internment camp, . In ordinary | even go the length of involving the | CUSit# Of love and save hie life. yng nation's toes are the prisoners. 1t | i | aliens the power to work barm, than |§ "Ot course," it adds, "if we Allies i - | 3 The Premier of Britain, iu a re | Hungarians, Turks and Bulgariaos | away from the ports of the United d' possession of a spy, and, there turned to account in behalf of the go back a fool. { be. willfully punished, but lo be the r 1 5 Li 8 8 e : pent In | eason that the United States! it allows supplies to go through Government In Danger, give 'its. approval to a policy that | Preach. wonld provoke the public indignation | Women and children and men, on the| 'C'} 2 Evelish Correspondent that| philippines, with the possibility, stil {fi spect of the . > é i J ir. brav- ¥ of the American people. command. A tribute to their brav try will have had from the Democra the merchantmen are not to be used fice . Fifth Ave. THE RIDEAU CANAL. {arming for defence transforms a wmer- the { It is dustrial growth of the oity. This is! matter as the Citizen supposes. In| hag, An intimation of the financial co-operate with Ottawa "n préssing Trade. If there is a difference of 'al at Ottawa #amenormous expense contemporary regards the issue ! Sir Adam is Being feted and praised in the West for his wonder: ful skilj+in handling the power question. Here is an object in all this at the present time. What is i?¢ UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY, Mr. Wilson has at last, and after some trepidation, decided to 'let his name go before @ nominating con- vention of the Democratic party. Mr. Bryan is out of the way and cannot give him any worry at a great party meeting, Champ Clark has got over his desire to be President, or a can- didate for the Presidency. He is better off in the speakership if be can bank upon a Democratic Congress and a re-election, But Mr. Wilson hag lost immense- | ly as a diplomat and jn all the ter giversation which his letters have re- vegled stands immeasurably weaker than he did a year ago. He has lost ground with his own party, and wth #4 Republican candidate in the field, on whom the party can unite, he will be swept aside by public opinion, | The Republican candidate will be! either Chief Justice Hughes, who persists that he will not accept pf a nomination, dr Mr. Roosevelt, but in all probability #t will be Mr. Roosevelt, and his pol'cy is one of preparedness, and positiveness which the people will surely endorse. Mr. Roosevelt has described Mr. Wilson as afMacawber, and appropriately so. Mr. Wilson is waiting for something to turn up and Mr. Roosevelt is ready to turn this something wup without waiting. Had he been in of- fice during this 'wer there would have been no temporizing ou the Lusitania question and no wobbling, at the dictation of Von Bernstorf, iu the foreign policy of his Govern- ment, : : 'To-day the United States might be in the war with Germany, under "Roosevelt. Im any case there would bo no humiliat in the attitude of the President. He may be somewhat theatrical at times, but he is always forcible in thought und .word and action. Such a man the United Sta-| tes needs at the helm of the ship of State at a critical time. i | ---- 18 wny of the food supplied so pleatifully to the soldiers in Kings- ton wasted? Canada has many in- spectors, for many purposes, but does not seem to have inspectors of food, and the services of men of this kind would pay. ANOTHER BACK DOWN. - | 'The New York Herald has a rea-| son why the Wilson aduministration | favors the German démand that the | penses was $50,000,000; the second | { the ute and tillage of large areas 4 the German demand against armed | finish at any cost. The first vote towards t successful drive around the city They held a dinner at the Windsor Hotel afterwards. Kingston horses did well in the ice races held at Bath, War ex- was $100,000,000; the third, and | probably the last, will be $250,000, 000. Much of this money must be | borrowed and the interest upon it, $36,000,000 next year, will be met by special taxation. The ' excess in the revenue over expenditure, un- der special taxation, and amounting to about $45,000,000,.can be applied on the war debt. General business will not be fected by imposts upon the articles | that, go into domestic consumption. Only-oils and apples have been taxed, and the apple trade will be consider- Saving Money. An old couple who used to buy a quart of ale every night" were per- suaded by a friend tbo purchase a keg of the beverage on economical grounds. , The evening that the keg was broached, and the first gqudrt consumed, the old wife said: "Well, George, we've saved cents on eur ale to-night, and cents saved is five cents earned." "That's so," replied her husband. "Let's have another quart and save ten cents." ri. five al- five has put his party in a-situation which must prove awkward. While he may be chnically guiltiess of any- ! thing more than thoughtless conduct, | for which he has tried {0 make am- , ends, nevertheless; he has forced his | party either to condemu. an offence! 'or to suffer defeat in a constituency | | Under such circumstances the elec tors of the county of Peel are to be . asked to decide between voting for a candidate of the Liberal party who does not represent 'their political views, or to cast their ballots for a man of, their own party whose con duct is subjeet to sxriticism. from those who hold that.every public man | Whether | should be above criticism. Mr. Fallis is elected or defeated, the { Conservative party will open to the charge that he did uot em -- ny ably improved or protected. The ** farmers will be exempt from special taxes. They will be qucouraged the more to contribute to the prosperity of the country by the larger cultiva tion of land now occupied, and by > not at present worked Commer cial corporations of all kinds, with capital of $50,000 and over, will be required to contribute one-fourth of their profits over seven per cent. In the case of individuals and firms the taxes will be one-fourth of the ne profits in excess of ten per cent. The act will 'be retroactive and will call for a collection of between $25,000, 000 and $30,000,000 next year yd nition manufacturers will pay a tax of one-quarter of all their profits over seven per cent. without regard to the capital which has been invest- ed. . TWINS. Twins are-a soul-satisfying form of epidemic which causes envy to spring up in the minds of the neighbors and music to spring up in the home. They consist of two children who look so much alike that nobody can tell them apart, unless they are branded with red and blue ribbons. One of the most harrowing experiences in life is for a' husband to be presented with a pair of twins, and, after seeing that they dre properly labeled, discover that his wife: is color blind in both eyes, it is much easier to rdisc a pair of twins than a single twin, according to thoge who have tried both methods mn RT One reason "or this is that dual twins The pubite debt learn at an early age to sing each oth- 1914, $335,000,000, When the war fer to sleep. When two enthusiastic énds it will probably be.half a bil. [twin vocalists begin to engage.in a lion dollars . i oq (duet, starting with a low, andante 1 Baty, and the Tate per fem Imovementand working up to a thrill- Will have increased from $1.60 to ino climax on high B-flat, they will $4.70. The insurance companies appear to be in a sleepless mood for will be required to supply a large the time being, but, if not interrupted art, if not > ic loan, DY & rude and calloused hand, will fa » =ll, of the Public loan, peacefully to sleep along toward sum under the act which obligates them rie Most owners of twins grow to invest of their surpluses in Domin- impatient, however, and prefer to car- ion bonds, and to the extent of half} of their net assets tn 1916-17 For was in March, > RANDOM REELS "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealln, Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." ry a twin on each arm over the sur Tace®™or'a hardwood floor with cold, protruding feet When twins grow ta duplicate man hood, they are a real blessing in the home, as they can wear cach other's clothes and go with the same girl without danger of detection. The parehts of. twin daughters can buy foulard gowns and silk stockings in carload lotx, and thus effect a mate rial saving If there were more twins in this world, there would be fewer proud fathers-trying to elude the baleful overdraft The most successful set of twins ever recorded in history was the Siam ese twins. Neither of these twins could be persuaded to go to the pi ture show or anywhere without the other. Nobody ever saw' a Siamese twin go off by himself without boing followed at a respectful distance by hig brother it must be depressing to be a hrothef of a Siamese twin, who is forever tagging one around and wearing the same colored necktie, and yet these twins earned a great deal of money and escaped matrimony. Twins come to rich and poor alike, but it sometimes seems as if the poor had better luck in the draw. Am ma AA eign companies doing business in | Canada must put up their. deposits i | Canadian bonds. ~~ Une way of finan- | ting the loans and yet one to which! the' Canadian Life Companies will | not object, when the rate of interest | is as satisfactory as that which was offered in connection with the last! Dominion loan. The new. taxes will not fall heav- ily upon the masses, but upon those who can best afford to pay them. The Finance Minister may therefore be regarded as having wisely discrim- inated in his plan of meeting the new | and necessary burdens of the war. EDITORIAL NOTES. President Wilson has changed po- sitions again and does not e pride; ass masterpiece !'\"" Ailoce and review the merchantmen. How long will this decision held? rl ------ 3 Germany appears tovbe getting all Rippling Rhymes ot AFFECTATION The men of simple manners please; they hoast [day confirms thefeport from Geneva not of their "pedigrees, or look profound, or put onjthat the greatest bank in Stuttgart, side, or get swelled up with. futile pride. nian's every action states, "I'm just like other mortal banks in South Gérmany, have prac- skates; I'm here a while to toil and spin, and to get tically gone into bankruptcy, About my harvest in, and when I leave this vale of groans, |*: like Tom and Dick, I'll' make dry bones." 'It gives, i "me stitches in the side to see a man swelled up with Hague from Berlin is' quoted as say-| uming divers foolish airs, and who, in every act, declares, "The clay I'mv made of is so fine, there : n =. wasn't any more like mine. When I was formed, one until April we shall smash. fateful day, the Maker threw the mold away, and said, | : 'Improvements now shall cease---I have produced. the many'a jar, how blamed ridiculous you are d. The wise When your importance seems so ' steep that all the rest of us look cheap, laugh at your-| self a while, my friends, and let your affectation end. | foolish things say and do, and always-be | now staying at San Remo that that' a catastrophe to the Imperial Jelly Powder Imperial Peanut Butter {Imperial Cream Cheese | {Imperial Prepared Mustard Foot Everybody Welcome Jas. Redden & Co. Phones 20 and 990. » a mn | THE NEW FR THE great success, of KIDNEY, BLADD PILES. EITHER FOUGERA Co. TORONTO, MED. Co. Ha CN TRY NEW DRAGER (TAS IR +3. Used ia French Hospitals with SCHRONIC WEAKNESS, DISCH URINARY DISEASES, Bi iL § MEN'S FELT BOOTS MEN'S OVERSHOES MEN'S MOCCASINS ENCH REMEDY, Nel. No2. WN. fol the flow t Biblical training to shun very. appearance of evil My Fallis would have saved his party from this charge by voluntarily re into private life for at least one term He would > have ord for which Tong bee as a tring A himself n quoted made # would re have political precedent - Caring For The Soldier. M { woldier candidate an candidate are on equal the old soldier should the preference But patriotism, and little better than a gilded insult to the re Whe and a civ terms, certainly it will be re an old the poor fl WOMEN'S OVERSHOES wear This is the time to haie your feet warm and com- : fortable. $2.00 and $2.50 $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00 $1.50 and $2.00 $2.00 and $2.50 $1.50 and $2.00 WOMEN'S MOCCASINS CHILDREN'S MOCCASINS 1.H.Sutherland & Bro. THE HOME OF GOOD SHOES. Wg, { turned hero, to make him feel that he is saddled thé country in sinecure where supposed to per form davies fe which he suipped 1 hero must not he shumiliated by asking hjm to take He is now chief surgeon with the! rank with the party pensioner. Twenty-ninth Regiment of the Sibe- In the meantime, the Government [¢ign Corps; which, was fitted out at might show its good faith by provid- {he heginning of the war hy'the noble] ing, much more suitable receptions families of thie Province of Grodno,| for' our wounded as the y come back land he has the rank of colonel to us There ought 10 *be more Pr. Hurd has had several narrow "bands and banners" about it all. escapes from death or caplure, as There ought to be feastings and pub- | his favorite post of duty is within a} lic rejoicing It ought to be an mile of the front trenches, in -ad event in a ueighborhood when a Ca- nadian soldier, mustered out, comes | frome st a ---- mn on iT wr i than 3,000 surgical operatipns since the war began, most of them within sound of the guns at the front not he A big man--six feet three in his stockings--and weighing 225 pounds, ho is idolized by the Russian soldiers. " For his part, he believes the Rus York. Feb. 17 One of the sian soldier is the hest fighting man men _acéompanying Col. House's mis. iin the world, and he doesn't hesitate sion to Berlin confided to a friend 0 say so y Col [Hous¢ was convinced that financiers in ¢harge of the financial affairs of | 'the German Government fully realize German | says a cable to ix New "QUICKLY STOPS SLANDER. Makes Man Who Hinted at Graft Re- tract Statement, "London, Feb. 17. -- Thomas.diibson i Bowles, in his spece€h attacking the Government's policy, referred to Da- vid Lloyd-George, th minister of mu- initions, by saying: "Mr. Lloyd-George perorates about silver bullets for the enemy and provides golden billets for 'his friends." 2 Mr. Lloyd-George wrote to' Mr Bowles asking him: "Will you be 4 enough te provide me with a list of" the friends .1 have provided golden billets for? As your . re- marks will probably have wide puh- licity, I should like to have your an- 'swer at once." Mr. Bowles replied by wjthdraw- {ing his remarks, as he said they were the Best Soldiers. liable to be misconstrued. , | Petrograd, Feb. 17.--Dr. Eugene, Mr. Lloyd-George, on accepting the {Hurd,. until recently the only Ameri-|declaimer, said that most of the high cau surgeon at the front with the places in the munitions department Russian army, has performed more | were held by business men who were | Empire is inevitable, from Havre, France A despatch from The Hague to- iin addition to the two, other largest 25,000,000 are olved. i Another despatch received at The! {ing thal the director of a leading! {bank there said: "If the war lasts! OPERATED ON 3,000 MEN. i American Surgeon Says Russians Are vance of the heavy artillery positions. | Our Aristocratic Coal on ' it Yas the "blue blood" of qual- and worth. < ° It has the record of Zood cheer and dependableness, It has the "erest" of character, cleanness and satisfaction, It i8 mot besmirched with - dirt or clinkers. CRAWFORD, 3 PFHOUXNE 0. Foot of Queen Street. AANA NN Pll PsP. serving gratuitously, - and by --eisil servants from other departments. A race may be won by a head, but it's usually the legs that land the coin. : ~ ¥ Ek