_ Current. * political results. . disappeared. out, some of them at great personal E NOTES. sacrifices, in order to. serve their| Even the honorable mentions and couples. Col. Currie cannot be ac-| decorations of the army go by favor: "lctised of talking politics, When, bav- | Col. Currie has made ah exposure ing paid the highest tribute to the | that will bé remembered. manner in which the Liberals had! 'acted, under Sir Wilfrid Laurier, he! said: "In some way the matter of) Let us hear no more about the | decorations of our military men If promotions should be regulated, | 'DEY Te not to, be jaware ad sosore Poys who went to the front as ley-| NE to merit. and: Co Bat they are tenants sefghteen months ago, and | Derience Foyld suggest tha hd i services, are not. ; / still lieutenants, while their comrades) phe' Sergeant-Major and 'the Ser- who have not been outside of Canada| geants who drill the recruits on the; have been promoted time after time, | yarket Square are thoroughly up in until they are no longer lieutenants, ipeir business, but oh the provision- {but full-fledged colonels." al officers! dhe marvel is that the Col. Currie wants the promotions men stand for the dragooning they in the army to lie with the Canadian | receive. Government, since it has to provide | the money which maintains the forces | 'lin the field. But Canada is not ay, will regulate the collections To ves : | 4 (more injudicious than the pd bg purposes and put an end to Bihilshed Dany aul Sa Cquatry in this matter of promotions. | all "seeming impositions. There, CO, LIMITED, They come to some young men sud- | are too pany appeals in every com-] 'J. G. Eldott denly and surprisingly. They ate, munity and they are leading to great Leman A. Guid . lieutenants one day, without service | confusion. + and experience, and captains the | Austioss Oftcy" Phones next. The officers in Canada reach | Sidhiorial Sl ovms remarkable altitudes in the prepara- reece tions for war, while the men at the front, who aré enduring all sorts of | Sa 3 privations and performing a splen-! { or malfeasance in office He $250 did service, are given little attention, | Deer preferred in the Legislatdr? 2.30 land many are fighting away without | Mr. Scott's conduct contrasts stioug. HH any notice and certainly without the! ly with that of Sir Rodmond Roblin One year, if not pala, in advance 150 One year, to United States .... promotions which they earn. | in Manitoba: : 2 fix and three months pro Fata? { ------------ | { CANADIAN SECURITIES Col. Currie wants the Canadiyn b | Ei aE Ce y y ppquire into some offices in'Cannda. dy | The Finance Minister Las follow- Government ang bein ome _| grafting in whic eo B TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE {ed up his announcement, in the bud-| & tors were engaged at Salisbury HB Smallplece } Church St. | get speech, by presenting a bill, the| Lraclors U. 8. RE PRESENEATIY | Plains. Is not this purely Imperial New York Office as Ms Ave. | | purptse of which is to make life in- beea the Can Frank R. Northrup. Manager { surance companies invest more large- | business? We ask because the Chicago Tribune "Bag. | { adian Premier has ruled that one Frank R, Northrup. Manager. ly in Canadian securities. tb i Three are three clauses in the bin Government cannot look into another POOR RACIAL CRIES. : : bree clauses In the Bill} orients. aMairs. The Sir No. 3: / s 2 "Let us now and forever abandon So ! Rg st a 50 Knights who manage the these old weapons of the seventeenth | Auires that m- a 4 tl affairs of Canada must be consist- century (racial cries). If those who | PET cent. of { ie gtd of pe ol ont. . sets 915 shi o in- foment such strife could only visit the| 12d4Eer. assets o 3 .5ha | Jo IN ------ Ln trenches for a few days what a dif-|Yested in Canadian securities, affer| Lord Rhonda will scarcely b™re- ference there would 'be! They would | making due allowance for the in-! cognized by some people as the D find the despised Orangemen of On| 'Tease in actuarial reserves and the| A, Thomas, Welch coal baron, who tario and the despised French-Cana-| nCreaso is loans, liens and premium came to Canada and regulated the dian of Quebec side<by fighting | | obligations He is trading posts Peace 'River ------------ Toronto was seeking a law which President Managing Director 'and Sec.-Treas. 7 The Scott Government shows iis { bona fides by immediately grant | ing Royal Commissions fo investi. SUBSCRIPTION RATES | gate the charges of mismanagement (Daily Edition) - year, delivereddn city year, if pald in adya Yon + year, by mall to ruil offices . year, to United States , (Seml-Weekly Edition) year, by mall, cash ° ne One One One Attached fs one of the best printing con- military { shells' hus The second clause provides for the, ested in the investment on Dec, 31st, 1917, the { Canadian securities of 50 ness, now ide, together, dying ni for the one cause. They threw all differences of | race and creed into the sea as they! crossed together. These things have no place in the shadow of the great| tragedy." --~Col. Currie in the House! of Commons. and in| wells of cent, Company per It is to be hoped that he will realize | sets for th | after years 1915 and 1916; allowing for the increased ob- [ ligations of these years. ---- The Third clause requires that aftér } = PUBLIC OPINION | POLITICS IN THE WEST, 1916, all deposits ealled for by the; The Opposition in Seskatchewan Act & shall consist of the SECUTrities Of| Srewsmt-eant tue tat tuts ot tutnttme-eue-sd has only to define its charges, to| Canada. There will be two effects: (Montreal Mail.) make them specific and particular, | (1) The securities held by the insur-| Peing "on the waggon," and 8 royal commission, or two or 21ce companies will be largely Can-|first act will be to take the three of them, will enquire into the!2dian, which will give them a stand-|°f SErzeram.' tacts. The Premier refuses to ac-| ing in insurance circles peculiarly cept an indictment against himself | their own, and (2) the market for since the Opposition will not go. into | municipals Will be restricted some- details, and it is a little too general) what and with the result that they or indefinite to say that his election | will Be less in demand and yield a expenses wefe reliexed to the extent! lower rate of interest, of $1,600 by the liquor men in Swift than some people the wi z Knows. Good Act. "rum" ou The Widow's Future. (Ottawa Free Pres If the Salvation Army ships. 4,000 widows to Canada it's safe betting {there won't be 4,000 widows in a short time. <tgood Germans. { of the increase in the net ledger as-| more handsomely out of his oil stock | | Russia's A That is to say, they were all dead Germans. All Don't Die. {Montreal News, No less than 1,200 Canadian sol- diers have now arrived back from the! trenches, proving that. war service | does not mean certain death, as_ so | manly recruiting orators imply. Submarine ¥ E 13. Toronto Star Another story from the front tells! 'of a sentry challenging a figure com ing along the trench waist deep in wa-! ter. "Who are you?" demanded the |seniry. "Submarine E 13." the answer, A Stiff Task Alea, Monireal! Herald Recruiting gures just Liven out in! Ottawa show that Canada has not yet) {quite halt Of the half million men she is to raise; which means that recruit- ing has to be. done more energetically and systematically than has been done yet, Who's Responsible? (Ottawa Journa Prof. Adam Shortt pa br. Carter have been telling an Ottawa audience that the German®army officers were! § respongible for the war. Some peo- ple think it was the German profes-| SOTS. We guess there wasn't much to choose between any classes of Ger- pans. i | { | KINGSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS AGO y Two lous owned by to-day by J. on Johnson street, isher, were purchased Laidlaw for $3,600 During February there were births, 2 marriages and 24 deaths in the city. Sir John Macdonald quite but Js carrying on his campai against Mr. Gunn. He has two goc- retaries employed. . THE DOMESTIC LOAN HAD 24,862 TAKERS. Over Four Millions in $100 Bonds--N. Y- Loan Yielded is ill, inter oil! Ottawa, Feb. 24 in the House by the | ance shows. that the subscribers to the domestic 1$100,000,000 was 24,862 | gregate of the amount taken in $100 ir} Minister loan of The ag- came, § total number of | ji THIS IS THE PATH = rhe. bai S\N A Shoes "If your frankness pleases your friend it proves he is your friend." J [f.vou should sav to vour friend Bill: "How do you ever expect to win out in this life, Bill,with your feet looking like a pair of steamboats sending out the S.0.8. signal? You've iatehed vour brains against the world--now match your feet ainst the i dressers,' If he stood for that line of conversa- on you dl our friend and if vou sent him here he'd feel fri ndlv toward us ever afte rward. SEE BIBBYS GREAT $4.00 SHOES--Tans, [wed he was Blacks and BIBBYS $3.50 BUI BIBBYS $4.50 tents, { "TON SHOES--Cloth top. BENCH MADE SHOES--Tans, SEE i acks and Pai r We dle nt 1 Kingston for the cele brated Just Wright FIRST QUALITY | § RUBBERS AND | J OVERSHOES || MILITARY SHOES AND RUBBERS | bonds whs $4,099,500. The amount] taken in $500 bonds was $8,699,500. | The amount taken in $1,000 londs aggregated $58,876,000. The institutions 'which took amount | $5,000 or over got only $28, The return states that it i sible to give details of expenses t| connection with the loan until } last installment comes in. | In regard to the New York loan of $45,000,000, the Finance Minister re- ports that the commissiop paid to J. P. Morgan & Company.Associates for floating the loan, amounted to $331,- 250. Other expenses totalled $47.- 654. The loan, which was issued at 993%, yielded, not Safety First ---------- work means a great deal to you that electrical equipment that you ,, should have 'at least some Insp: c= I "for your electrical syste --the service is FREE pe we may make, 1 day If you wo our inspector cal do not have to acce Just telephone 8 i have Our workmen are reliable, mate i hig in an Id It onl t 1 A grade, and we guarauvtee our work. The liguor men are at the bottom of this latest sensation. ° They: are! Suggesting some of the charges which | will occupy the attention of commis- | sions or committees, and two or three of them have been put under arrest .88 the best way of holdingghem Yor the serious charges of seeking to! bribe members of-"the Legislature. The expectation is that these, in de- fence; will "peach" on others, and ¢hat presently a great conspiracy will! be opened up and with far-reaching The sensation of. the hour is the discovery that the filgs and records | of the Roads Department have been tampered with, and that the chief clerk in whose custody they were has Following this is the statement, coming from a Conserva- tive source, and to the effect that the | ronage, announces that money misdirected. or misappropri- ated in connection with the Roads] Department runs into hundreds ot thousands of dollars. © Who is tol blame 'does not appear for the pres-| At the present time the munici- palities are not issuing debentures at a large extent. | pal securities have bLeeome pxeeed:| has fallen somewhat. This rate wil rise again as soon as the National! Government {issues another ' loam which will be necessary before very! long. A NOTICE TO QUIT The Government print, ed this because of the extent to which it has been remembered in the distribution of Government pat-| the pam- phlet which the Ministerial Associa-, and call- 1 tion of British Columbia put in ecir- culation, and reflecting most severe-| ly upon ihe lceal Government, been withdrawn. = The inference that there is something inaccurate! in this pamphlet and that its fur- ther circulation would be injudici- j ous. A) It can be accepted as true that there Is a great deal in the pamphlet] avhich will not be withdrawn, % Lonely -husbands Indeed munici-|gypurh have started as club. thusbands anywhere ingly scarce, and the rate of interest! get rid of ennui by enlisting for ser: 11 vice overseas. -------------- A Sure Cure. (Toronto Globe) } Sweeping has! Which has been attached to house is; WOTK so that women may not idle the precious hours away. nated ina Lonel in Among Canadian Troops. (Toronto. Mail There were many Germans in the {Canadian trenches. after the fighting near Ypres, but they were all and Empire.) RANDOM REELS "Ot Shoes and Ships, and Sealing, Wax, of Cabbages sand Kings" Po SWEEPING. is by some' tween meals, Sweeping is accomplished by seiz- ing a stiff-necked corn broom in hands and leaning heavily a muscular effor Bluebear her 'breath ot Pittsburg! Canada will recent It was origi- E "modern who was afraid that his wife might have time to catch he ag ainst counting ex- penses, $44,900,000. At thé scrutiny into the local op- tion vote in Wallaceburg, evidence ghowed that practically every '1vcry outfit in the town was hired by the liguor men a month in advance. Lt.-Col. Nael Marshall was elected president of the Canadian National Exhibition directerate,, He has been | a member of the Board of Directors | since 1905. yi The Electric Shop W. I MORE & SON mes --TRY-- LIBBY"S CALIFORNIA CANNED FRUITS Pears Peaches Pineapples Apricots Black Cherries v § k " "KITCHENER Is the name of the new Electric Iron made by the Canadian General Electric Co. Under the new power rates, it will cost only 2 1-2 cents per hour to operate this Iron. | --FOR SALE AT-- Roval Anne Cherries Electr oon Gr P AY . Halliday' 5 Cc Sol: Phon e 94 Jas. Redden & Co. j Fhoaa a ~__ Phones 20 and 990. : AAA AAA, essmt country along with the rag carpet t. which caught everything that eae into the house except the measles. If it were _not for the rag carpet our houses could be swept with a gar den hose and our wives would more contended with their lot, oe sides having more time in which to - 'be away from home. If all houses were built with cement floors !| tion-wide appeal is to be 1 curb and gutter, sweeping would en- the blic voroEnite. the x e public to recognize the tirely disappear and married men | could be alone more. $ a_i A A AAA SAAN it must content itself with the simp lest colors apparel. This was an- Cold Weather is. Soup nounced yesterday at-theDepartment Weather of Comme er a conference be- . tween department officials and offi- -|SNIDER'S TOMATO SOUP it cers of the National Association of ' Clothiers be- Told to Wear Simple Colors, Washi rb 24 Clothing manufacturers of the United are so short of dyestuffs that d ngton, States fact that h | Nothing to equal it in flavor--easily On| gvery rug in a nine-room house with be amglified,! the small of the back. This is good the election is ordered, - and exercise for the back, which proceeds plunder be established, it is for the] prossed home with all the power of: '® curl up in the form of a horve- ent, but it is immaterial in a sense|the comtrary it will 48 fo what their pelitics are. If | when As society grew and flourished, un- til a $5,000 income .Wwould hard! spread over the buiter and egg pi 1 the rag carpet was pushed ruthless prepared---highly nutritious--16 ot. Tin only 12 1-2c at 'decorations and honors to which 1 was may have the effect of causing a people to see that those guilty of it! mon who are bound th are given the severest punishment. COL, CURRIES REPROACH. Col.Currie,M.P. the returned and in- - valided commander of the be referred to as a thrilling experience | of his service at the front. He was in the fights at Ypres and St. Julien. He had his baptism of fire. 16 read to the House the letter of @mmenda- "tion he had received from General Turner in May, 1915. In this letter he received an extended leave of ab- sence, on account of itluess, and at the me time he had the assurance and honorable mentions would be made of his bravery in despatches to the War Office. "There are,' he, said, "only two men who stood between me and the entitled." One was General Alderson, who was six miles away from the fir- ing line, aud the other was the Minis- ter of Militia, who was three thou- sand miles away" This personal reference will havé the effect of di- recting attention to the manner mm which honors are distributed, and it 'greater diserimingation in the awards of the King and upon the advice of | Giovernme nt shall go. 48th High-| He has crowded Hon. Mr, T landers, gave in Parliament what may | op at the Toca) Sir Richard { McBride lias shown his wisdom by| she will not hear anything from it | deserting it. and seeking the comfort! {of a Government office in London. | urner out| a place he was supposed to 0c-| py for life on condition that he se- cured a pengion. 'This pension the! Government may not be able to car- ry through. Meanwhile the best mon on Pacific Joast, the clergymen, laymen \of all professions and call- ings, and the electors generally, have soured on "Rowserism" which means! the incarnation of all that is evil] and bad ian political life. It has en the, driven the best men of all parties in-| to opposition, and the revolt may be] imagined when Sir Hibbert Tupper leads it. Sir Hibbert has ieug been digsat- jsfled with the misrule of the pro- vince, He has mildly protested against it, and'in vain. Now he is disposed to cast his influence in with those who have given the local Gov- ernment notice that its reign is at an end. Charlie Chaplin has many admir- ers in the city. They are to be seen upon the streets at night, and they seein to be very artful and who have gone + i promising students. The tiny "mous had | tache and the cradled walk are very noticeable. the shoe and discharge shooting pains, If &¢ woman has a strong, resolule back in a good state of preservation, ly aside and the ankle-deep velvet rug took its place. Thé ¢orn broom was also adulterated .until it got so that it would not sink over a foot into one of these rugs without dis locating ihe spine of the sinkee. This made it hecessary to secure some- thing "with a longer reach, hence we have to-day the ball-bearing vacuum cleaner, which glides giddily from room to room and consumes dust and electric current in equal quantities. There is less sweeping now than there used to be, and there wouldn't be any if the men had to do il. 4 until the next day, just prior to dres- zing for a club meeting, when it will {contract . a loud, penetrating sche and refuse to move out-of the house. it all of 'the parsimonious husbands now al large could have a stout at- tack of the corn<broom back ache | just once, the dulcet tones of the el- | getric vacuum cleaner would be heard in every home. Sweeping was introduced to this -- - i ~ ARippling Rhymes . METHUSELAH : Methuselah, that great old gent, saw centuries pass by: the generations came and went, and hp re-' fused to die. No doubt among the ancient ranks the! faddists drew their breath, and he was told by health; board cranks just how to sidestep death. I seem to sce them at his side, and hear them' give advice. 'Eat predigested hay," they cried, "that has been; kopt on ice. Sleep out of doors, in rain or gale, oris you'll be on the blink; boil all the air that you inhale, ! and fry the things you drink. Eat less than half of what you wish, put sawdust in your bread; if you are fond of beef or fish, eat liv erwurst-instead. » The | faddists sprung their spiels and died; Methuselah; shed tears, but would not take them as a guide----and | lived nine hundred years. His voice across the dis-| p tance calls a cheering word to me: "I ate ice cream | Ms #4 and codiith balls, and was from sickness free. I fill- | with scrambled 'eggs, and steaks from slaughtered steers, and, anced. around on active legs for near a thousand years, WHO SAID "GOTT STRAFE ENGLAND? ; members of the crew of o British destrayer know the answer, These i 7 St Sdars me ate Sects spss eclited who ur ses ov 20 J. B. B. Gage, - Phone 549. 254 Montreal St. INSURANCE You protect yourself when you buy coal from us. You pay no premium for your protection -- our prices are never a penny more than good coal demands. Some feature of our policy: ~~ Courteous Treatment. Prompt well Screened Coal CRAWFORD, PHONE 9. Foot of Queen Street.