EF me 3% Shure St sess ure BPRESONTATIVES oases 235 Fifth Ave. rthrup, Manage: Two remarked reports emanated from Torgnto on Thursday. One -was to the efféct that the Govern- ment had anticipated the Committee of One Hundred with regard to the closing of the bars during the war. The order was that at 'a party cau- «Cus a division of opinion occurred upon the expediency of the proposed legislation. There were some mem- bers on the Conservative side of the House wno questioned the wisdom of the party moving so rapidly and so precipitately, , It is most certainly one thing for" the party to get ahead of the Com- mittee of One Hundréd; apparently, and another thing for it to square ftself with the liquor men who were iti allies, its supporters, and its efactors, insofar as they could be oy through their generous con- tributions to the party funds. The y ty was flush, very hi, during 'the last local election, it- was more than suspected that | it was very liberally assisted in all Mts expenses by the License Victual- ters, : «These men. see a vanishing busi. ness. They realize that it is only a little while unt' pro}iibition becomes general throughout Canada. The "License Commissioners of Ontario are acting in an imperious and sug- gestive way. Public opinion is show ing itsel? through the demand for local option and all that.it implies. The Committee of One Hundred is . the later interpretation of that will power that, freed from party bias, is asserting Itself in an alarming man- ner. : But 'why should the Government hasten to do something before it is ly understood that there has never been an honest attempt at a curtail- ment of expenditure by the Fed- oral Government. With the advent of the Borden Government to power was a riot of extravagance a parallel. The revenues of 'country fell off, with the depres- sion which preceded the war, and continued to fall off for'some after the war began. But the ex- penses went on rising higher and higher each w'th the experi- of the Governm until there } cit of been in | FSA: a defi 4 mis-named, for - {eral leaders, namely, that the west- | case in hand, and that they had evi- who is very: | Ottawa some days ago, and announc- Ing that a Federal Minister had been concerned in the Saskatchewan char- ges against the local Govérnment, Was not meant to be sensational. It did convey a certain fact to-the Lib- ern provincial ministers had their dence which would be, later on, more ig In the east than ia the west. A cligue or faction, represent- ing or following the men who man- age elections, had embarked in a desperate gamble, and the Hon. Mr. Calder wis in a position to make rev- elat'ons. ' The Federal Minister became identified with the new political deal legitimately enough. As soon as a mémber of the Saskatchewan Legis- lature reported that he had been ap- proached respecting the proposed bribery of members, and had heard enough to advise the Hon. Mr. Ca'- der respecting the plot, the Thiel De- tective Agency was called in. Some of its best men shadowed the con- spirators from place to place and found themyin conferences in which the Federal 'Minister and his hench- men dominated. A mass of mem- oranda was laid before the special committee in Regina, and it looks to be a great deal worse against the conspirators than against the men they sought to eqtrap. ' The Li 1 papers are invited by the apologists of the Roblin dynasty to come out and demand that no one be screened in Saskatchewan. The Whig has no hesitation in de- manding that the enquiry into the 'Saskatchewan scandals go on. It should be most searching. No guil- ty man should be allowed to escape. THe political life of Canada must be purged and purified, and no 6ffend- er should be saved from the scarify- ing which he deserves.. But charges EDITORIAL NOTES. - Lord Kitchener's last word is, French lines every ag 2 Germany "Save and give me soldiers." Evi- receives no deserters from the Al- dently he is not expecting an early| : : : 8. collapse "of the war. : ------ President Wilson 'has come to close quarters with the members of \Congress. He wants no more fenc- ing on his policy towards Germany. Elections And Prayers, : (Ottawa Citizens.) The result in Peel courty again demonstrates that elections are not won by prayers. Mr. Fallis having He demands that the representatives) with him the devotional individuals a who occupied the penitent bench at] stand out and be counted. Bolton and elsewhere, Canada 48 recruifing its armies at} / . the rate of one thousand men a day. At this rate it will take somewhat over a year in which to provide théh second great division which the ernment has promised to the Mother Country. Women in Politics, Torontgp Waorld. ' Men who object to women in poli- tics object for the same reason they objected to the extension of the fran- ETE SE TN ~ | chise to various classes of men. All Now. it is charged that the liquor franchise extensions raise awkward men bribed some: of the Alberta rul-| questions, but if this were a reason ers. These liquor men are being for limiting thef ranchise most of . 'us would have no vote. advertised as a very bad lot, but are There. are no more women adapt- they as bad as the men higher upied to politics than there are men, whom they have been trying to and a woman will not rush into the serve? {political field merely because she 3 has a vote. But the possession of a vote will tend to stimulate her in- telligemce and this alone is sufficient is only the cloak for the extrava-| Jo 8 to adopt woman's suffrage. gance of the Government, The It may do no more in this direction chief taxer of the Dominion is not,| than it has done for man, but both like the late Sir James Whitney, bold| Meh and women display all degrees enough to be candid and candid en-| °F intelligence, and there is no con- """|tention that can be made about one ough to be bold. that does not apply to the other. ------ ! Equality of political treatment for The British Columbia temperarice| one's father and mother, or for one's men and the Hon. Mr. Bowser have|son and daughter, ought to look come, to terms. The Premier has {1easonsble, but there are Jome Jeo / | ple who have no reason in matters beeh scared by the result of two by-| holltical. These may be ignored. elections, and is willing to concede |The great mass of both men and wo- anything to the temperance party. men are reasonable and they should They can have a plebiscite right away | Fécelve, equal' treatment on the --it they will only vote for him. {grounds of its reasonableness. 2 sir anion Hon. Mr. Oliver says the war tax eee a The Ad Club, through its mem- bers, are trying to Teonvince the Church that it wants, in order to be The Language Question. fully wakened up, Publicity, The | Journal of Commerce. "ad," judiciously written and dis. To a certain extent the Ontario played, can d Government have recognized the de- ved, can do a great deal, but the: girability of both languages being so Church does not think go. It de-| used, for they have made a regula- pends on other and less efficacious, tion that provides that a part of the expedients. school work, in what may be called COMMERCIAL PRESS. are one thing and proof is anather, | and the proof against the Govern- ment of Saskatchewan thus far is! scant enough. STARVATION IN BELGIUM. Frederick C. Wolcott, who has re- presented the Rockfeller foundation in Belgium and Northern France, has returned to London ang declares that there will be a wholesale star-.! vation of the people in three or four | weeks if the importation of food into | Germany be stopped. He says that | in Northern France the percentage of | indigent people is even greater than in Belgium because there are virtual- | ly no native supplies. i Mr. Wilcott ektimates that of the | 7,000,000 iphabitants in Belgium | about 3,000,000 are destitute and | drawing one meal daily consisting of | the equivalent of three thick slices of bread and a pint of soup. He | says he has seen thousands of 'peo- | ple lined up in snow or rain, soaked | and chilly, waiting for their bread | and soup. He has returned to this | station later in the day and found | that men and women and children | were stil] standing in: lines and lat- er compélled to go to their pitiful homes without the food which they did not get until eighteen hours af- terwards. # | It is unfortunate that the emergen- | cies of war have caused so many ap- { peals to the people, and appeals which. have not been systematically organized. In Canada, as in Briain, complaint has been made ahout the manner in which these appeals have collided with each other. Indeed; the British Government has been asked to undertake a supervision of all 'the collections of funds on be- i half of the needy Belgians, Russians, Poles, and Serbians. In Canada there has been a mani- fest want of the same supervision. Belgium is represented by a General Committee in Montreal, which gladly receives any contributions for the re- lief of the starving poor, but this | Central Committee does not seem dis. posed for some reason to organize any effort through which a larger sum may be realized in Canada for relief purposes. In this coufitry sums of money have been coliected ; on behalf of the Belgians, but larger | sums would be available if commit- tees were organized under the direc- tion of some central authority or committee, and now that the needs of the hour are being made so mani- fest it is hoped this organization will take Ore Angiicsn clergyman, not so far from Kingston, and within the bounds of his parish, has collected over' $400, and he intimates that his parish is not a rich one; on the con- trary it is a parish which is not so well off financially as" some other parishes which could be nained. His opinion is that an organized effort should be made all through-the coun+ ty in order that the money so absolu- tely needed in Belgium, or the food which it represents, may be supplied atonce. Se ! | | |the French sections, shall be con- {ducted in the French language. The real question is whether this regula- {tion makes adequate provision for ete | PUBLIC OPINION } How Many? . (Hamilton Times.). We wonder how many Englishmen the German Government has in its employ. instruction. The French people say it does not. That difference of opinion ought not to be an occasion for heated controversy or bitter quar- rels in Ottawa, much less in other parts of Canada which are being drawn into the battle. Surely there must be, on both sides of the dispute, men who have a common desire to promote the cause of edu-. cation and to mantain the proper au- thority of those who are chosen to Glad Tidings. (Detrgit Free Press.) c Evang, of Chicago, says that deep breathing is good for cold feet. We'l] ask her! to try it out. m-------------- Only The Talk? (Ottawa Journal.) The Germans say they do not want to fight the United States. * Then why all this talk? The United Sta- tes certainly doesn't appear to want | to fight Germany. | stitutional rights 'as about the de- sirdhility of the friendly adjustment of any differences that may arise from time to time between different sections of a community. It should be possible to find such men on both 5 | sides 'of the conflict, who could meet CONSERVATIVE PRESS. * the use of French as a language of | manage public school affairs--men | who are willing to think not so much about their abstract legal and con- | ibbys KINGSTON'S ONLY CASH AND ONE PRICE CLOTHING MH THE MASTER SUIT THE BUD SUIT THE DUKE SUIT .. THE BARON SUIT ¢ } : {in the right spirit and find means No Iron Crosses. : s pig » a 2 aly (Montreal. Star.) There wilj be no Iron 'Crosses for German aviators who conducted the raid in Kent since they failed to wreck a school. No babies, no crossc ©8, seems to be the Kaiser's rule. {ity of the Ontario Education Depart- | | ment with the justifiable desire of | | French-Canadians to have their chil- | dren taught their mother tongue as | | well as the language of the majority | {of the Canadian people. | Albert Wiltse, Charleston road, | has rented his farm to William Pier-| ce. ~ RANDOM REELS _ 3 y "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealtns, Wax, of Cabbages and Kings" German Deserters, { (Toronto News.) | Hillaire Beiloc comiients upon the | Sa 3 | . » i Mustaches are also put on from! time to time to conceal.the deep, seif-worn wrinkle planted by the shelf-worn wrinkle planted by the insidious finger of worry. Many a low-spirited business man has' been converted into a veritable shaft of sunshine by donning a bright am-| ber mustache, and ' assaulting it] THE MUSTACHE. The mustache is & successful im- Hation of a thatched roof which is worn on the upper lip, where it can be reached with either hand, and mauled into a submissive state, This is. accomplished more easily by the hand which carries a blue diam- ond the size of a queen olive, and when this is kept up for three or {of reconciling the legitimate asthor-| J Bibhys THE COUNT SUIT ... HOUSE. - IF ITS NEW IT'S HERE! A great many men are buying Spring Suits now to have them red wlhien one feels the joy of being dy for the bright "days of living and the pleasure able to make one's appearance dressed in accordance with the new season, » / A There are handsome new fabries--the most expert tailoring -- garments of eXeeptional worth. cr....518.00 .....$15.00 ......$18100 $20.00 , .... $20.00 The Best $4 Shoes in Canada Tans, Blacks and Patents; all sizes. - Prices are Reasonable and Pleasing THE SENATOR SUIT ... $1500¢ THE KENSINGTON SUIT .$15.00 THE NORFOLK SUIT ... $15.00 THE CHESTER SUIT .... $12.00 THE COLLEGIATE SUIT . $12.50 - THE MARNE SUIT .......$15.00 Shoe Special Tungsten Lamps Mazda Tungsten Lamps; Sizes, 10 Watt, 25 Watt, 40 Watt and 60 Watt. four hours at a stretch, the effect is very irritating to people who couldn't buy a diamond if the market price was $3.20 per cwt. Mustaches are worn for various purposes. Some men are not satis- fied with the contour of the lip given to them in early youth, and seek to disgdise nature's mistake by cover- ing it with a rich, warm verdure, which has a duotone drooping effect caused by a four-inch overhang. A man who returns to the scene of his birth with ohe of these mus- taches attached firmly in place will be so thoroughly disguised that he can't eash a check until the local barber has run oyer him lightly with & pair of horse clippers. The first thing an escaped jail bird does is to grow a luxuriant, saddle-stitched mustache, which will stand up and defy the Bertillon system of meas- urements with a harsh laugh. twice a day with the curling iron. | One of the saddest disappdintments | in dife, however is to get along for several years without a mustache of > any kind, and then plane one which | r comes up looking like a cross be- tween a salt and pepper suit and a calico pony, When this happens, the owner is given his choice between surrendering the mustache or pay-| ing alimony to a healthy wife." { For several #ears mustaches have been about as popular as a street-| great profusion this season, along with the cutaway coat and the purple the deep, subdued horse chestnut to y SY the jubilant sorrej masterpiece. The ) a > W. i. MOORE & car strike but word has come from dress pdht. This has resulted in feverish haste in clothing the upper mustache should match the hair, but| It's Grandmother's Recipe to Restore when there is no hair to match any Color, Gloss and Attractive Lunnon that they are to be worn in! | SAGE AND SULPHUR - lip in' foliage of varying hue, from fast -color will go. ness. Almost Sreiions nows that Sage Tea and Sulphur, p cempoun- ded, brings back the natural color and ' justre to the hair when faded, streaked "or gray. Years ago the #fnly way to Ret this mixture was to make it at home, A DEADLY WINTER : It has been a deadly season, which can't be ; and there was no rh I would hear a . the doc," I'd say, and he'd leaye me, mildly scoffing, to cash in next day. I would sdy, to some one sneez- deni mer died. ing, "Dope, ere - and then go breezing gravewal did the men of science exerc to-date appliance, 'were they waging war against the foe, but the demon y went raging, laying people. low. All in vain brown bitters, an in which is mussy and troublesome. Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound," you will get a large bot- tie of this faméus 61d recipe, improve) ed by the addition of other i= ents for about 50 cents. 5 Don't stay gray! Try it! No one can possibly tell that you darkened your hair, as it does it #0 naturally and evenly. You dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morning the gray hair disappears; and after an- other application or two, 'your hair becomes beautifully - dark and attractive. © Wyeth's pound is a © or reason in the way mrade coughing; "See it gets worse!' He would laugh, i the hearse. Nobly their skill, using up- potion, drug and pill; daily, nightly thon 4 their val r pil ng imbed the s 25¢ Each + ° THE BEST LAMP ON THE MARKET. SON --TRY.. 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