¥ : 1.00 Cn anne dl months pro rata. Attached is one of Printing ofices tn Condes "om lob 'pect ork th ATIVE . : oe ENEATIVES st * Jor) oflca 138 th Ave. Oe ank R. Northrup. Manceer™: ALL OUT OF ORDER, 80 the Saskatchewan legislature repealed an amendment to the school law because it was deemed to be un- necessary. The judges of the Su- preme Court of the province have de- cided that the school ratepayers have no choice as to the boards to which they wil] pay their taxes. They must contribute to the public or separate schoolg according to their standing in the community, And all the riot about that amendment, when it was intended to "clarify the situation," was ont of erden? . So it seemess: ONTARIO'S GROWING DEBT." The Weekly Sun does not think much of the provincial treasurer's plan of setting forth the assets of Ontario in public buildings, rail ways, timber, mines, and water pow- . prs. The theory is all right. It is well to have and keep ah inventory of the resources of the province and to charge up the debts. < 'The province is not correct, how- ever, when the treasurer sums up its assets and labilities. The assets are said to be $535,000,000, and the Ha- bilities $60,000,000. Sun, putting aside the railway and private debts, finds that the gross liabilities of the province are really $200,000,000, plus the provincial share of the dominion debt which, at the end of the war, will be not less than $400,000,000. This means, says the un, that the people of Ontario will eventually have a burden of $700,000,000, which is equal to $260 or $300 a head. The receipts and expenditure of the government can be ascertained oanada of 42,195 officers and men! at any time. The surplus is more or less mythical. It can be raised or lowered, increased or extinguished, as one dissects the assets and charg- os or fails to charge to capital ae- count the items that belong to it. But Ontario is rich, they say--that is Hon.. Thomas MoGarry et al--so hang the expenses. 2 THE MEXICAN EMBROGLIO. The pursuit of Villa, the Mexican + outlaw, has been begun. the recognized president of -the re- public, allows the American soldiers cent. of the whole, or about 25,000 to run him down just as the United States, we are told, would allow the Mexicans, if need be, to penetrate its territory in a chase after distinguish. od criminals. Thero is an implied weakness in the position of the Mexi- can government. Villa, the re. jected of the people, in bis presid tial aspirations, should have been suppressed long ago. The fact that Carranza has left him alone fs suggestive of a timidity on his part which is inexcusable. The uerta, who usurped the mistake of his life in the Urited States and in fir« Aud murdering American citi- » must be punished, §6¢ in his attempts now to escape how unwise he was to tempt a <oilision with the only force 'that 18 fn a position to conquer Mm. Villa way not, a some allege, have The Week ? securing the number - there will be an end of their troubles. and a proper lesson will be taught to all men of their kind, : EFFECTIVE HOME Pury. w' The war has & meaning all its own for the business man. He reads of the manner in which the enemy _ ibrings up its great guns, its tremen- dous armies, and its attacks upon certain points which are wanted be- cause of their strategic value. The conflict fs incessant. There is no limit to the discharge of explosive shells. There is a ruthless hurling of men, in massed formations, against the defences of the other side, and the attacking regiments, decimated and demoralized, are beaten back. term. On the firing line great issues are detefmined, but not until the enemy's strength and strategy have been exhausted. There is a coun- terpart of all this in the business en- ts of the day. Our local merchants and manufacturers know what it js to hold their own through constant _ vigilance. They know what it is to meet the asasults of the big dealers and producers, the men of capital, who essay to break down all opposition by the mightiness of their assaults. Metaphorically, stores, with their mail departments, bring up their great guns, as the Germans bring them up before Liege and : Namur and Ypres, and Verdun, and only the activity of the home guard has saved the situation. ' Community building tests 'the *n- dividual. He must do his share, his best, and do it constantly, He must sleep, as,it were, with his rifle across his knees. He must co-oper- ate with his fellew-cifizens, through the press, through public opinion, through the commercial clubs, in or- der to exercise the influence which is effective and far-reaching. Community building is slow en- ough in some places. It cannot be otherwise until the people unite in re- sisting the common enemy, which seeks, by insidious approaches, to win support for its cause. The cartoon- ist makes this very clear in his work in this Ay Whigsr Theenemy: is the mail order house, whose represen- tatives must be driven off, not by violent means, but by a faithful sup port of the home trade, HINTING AT CONSCRIPTION. Hon. Mr. Mason (who was a bri- gadier-general in the Canadian mili- tia) has in the Senate, stated that Canada has reached the cross-roads in the recruiting business. It must imitate the Mother Country, in na- tional service and in modified con- scription, or it will not succeed in of recruits i which the government has in mind. He has, therefore, moved that steps be taken to find out the resour of Canada insofar as its fighting men | are concerned. According to the last census (1911) there were in the dominion ,1,637,5681 men between twenty-one and forty years of age, Of these 734,- 384 were single. On them the gov- ernment should make the first de- mands. Of the first contingent from the department highly organized | only 12,498 were native Canadians. | "There. are now," said Brigadier- | General Mason, "in round numbers {probably 1,000,000 men of British | and Canadian birth, who, by reason of their age, are available for ser- vice, and some registration steps should be taken to find out how the country stands in "relation to these men." It will be no easy matter to raise the second 250,000. men, still Carranza, Wanted, and to maintain the army at! hand-sewed complexions, the front. The wastage is over 5 per men per month. How are these to be ! obtained without a compulsory -ser- |.vice such as Great Britain has pro- vided and enforced? Hon. Mr. Mason was interrupted during his speech by Hon. Mr. Cho- quette, who asked, "Has my friend consulted the government about this new scheme of recruiting?" Mr. Mason did not answer the question, but one can infer what was in his mind. The Canadian Government is against compulsion in recruiting. The Imperial Government was also against it, at the beginning "of the war, but realized the futility of try ing to raise as meuy men as the em- ergency required and of fitting them out for active service. The resujt was the registration - scheme of Lord Derby, which is working out fairly well, although not giving entire sat- isfaction. Mr. Magon may be sonnd- ing the Senate mpon the great change which is surely going to take"filace in Canada at an early date. A ---------------- © EDITORIAL NOTES. The ban his been put upon Pastor | Russell's talk in Canada, He had bet. ter confine his proclamations against war to Washington for the pres- ent. A The niilitia department has sup- 'plied some of the Canadian troops' "The firing line" is a suggestive [them be treated as they deserve newsp chaps are always seeing wonderful things, especially Garvin and Northeliffe. 2 "The Hydro-Electric Commission has spent, according to the provin- cial auditor, $1,564,068 without the authority of the statute which ap- plies to it. Time to call a halt and have the situation examined by a committee of experts. What is the use of a provincial auditor If his protests against in- fractions of the law are ignored and disputed? Mr. Clancy may be held in contempt by the Hydro-Electric Com- mission, but is supposed to be the watch dog of the people. > | 'The council takes great chances of serious loss through fires. It refuses hose for which it asks, and. without it fiow can the department render effective service in times of emer- gency? The Fire Underwriters will probably have something to say about this. . 'The federal "government still re- fuses fo let a judicial commission look into the contracts of the shell committee -- unless Lloyd-George orders it. The people of Canada are paying their share of the $80,000,- 000 which are alleged to have been lost through the committee's mis- management. Have they nothing to say? Are they not to be allowed to lift the lid? BARR RB A ny | PUBLIC OPINION | Villa's Friend. (London Advertiser.) Villa was i Bfyan's friend. That's how geod Bill is in sizing up situations--and men, Fervent Wish. (Hamilton Herald.y Von Tirpitz is sick. Here's hop- ing the old pirate chief will live long enough to see the smashing of the fleet which is the darling of his heart! Knew He Would Win. (Montreal News.) Premier Norris must have had an assured, feeling jin regard to the pro- hibition vote in Manitoba, when he felt it unnecessary to call in tHe afd of the women voters. Teutonic Logic. (Montreal Star.) Boiled down, the German argu- | ment with America is that because Great Britain has hit her in the eye, she has a moral right to go out and kick Uncle Sam in the ribs. Not Thankful. (Toronto Globe.) Hon. A. B. Kemp never heand of the contract given to his company by | his Shell Committee until Mr. Car- vell brought it to his attention. . And yet he is not even thankful to Mr. Carvell. Enough Troubles, 3 (Toronto Mail.) Isrdel Zangwill thinks that after the war the Jews might get a piece of Canada all for themselves. This country has enough racial and reli- of them. : cise." push criticism to the extent of em- bagrassing wrong-doers. the fire: department the supply of |" + +* > + + + ceived SPP errr eee rere Windsor on $10,000 a year, although he less Bennett's Appeal. (Montreal Herald made an y RB portant admission, in supporting Sir Robert Borden's refusal to gran gation into the 8he]l Committee's do- ings. He admitted that "The func- tion and duty of Opposition is fear- t an investi- lessly to oppose, and boldly to criti- But never, apparently, to | KINGSTON EVENTS 26 YEARS AGO » , Mr. Newlands, jr, of the well known firm of architects, has left on a trip to South Carolina. The schooner Wood Duck has been chartered to carry wood be- tween Kingston and Belleville. A movement is on foot among the temperance® people to have the sa- loons closed at 11 p. m. J WHERE ONTARIO STANDS, N. W. Rowell, "At the cloce of the fiscal % year 1905, the first year in # which the Government of Sir % James Whitney had the manage- # ment of the finances of the + Province, there was an ex- # cess of liquid assets over # liabilities of $1,220,563. From # 1906 to - 1916 they re- increased revenues of $$53,408,744, and I find -at the # close of the fiscal year, 1915 there is a deficit of liquid assets as against liabilities of the Prog vince of $8,346,833. In other words, starting ten years ago with 2 surplus of $1,220,663, with an increased gencral rev- enue during that period of over $53,000,000, we find ourselves at the close of the decade with a balance of Habilities over li- quid assets on the wrong side of the ledger of $8,346,833, or a difference of $62,971,000." * * +* + + + + + + + +> * * + + + +> +* * A Question Of Salary. Record. 'The salary Hon. Mr. Lucas re- celves is almost as much paid Sir Robert Borden, prime minister, whose allowance is $12,000, and is considerably-higher than the amount paid. Dominion cabinet ministers, which is $7,000. | Mr. Lucas also gets more than Sir Henry Drayton, chief of the Domin- ion Railway gommission, whose sal- ary is $10,000 a year. ® The premier of Ontario, Hon. W. H. Hearst, draws $9,000 & Year, while the cabinet ministers, receive $6,000 per annum, The lieutenant-governor, Hon. J. S. Henlrie, manages to worryalong 18 provided with a palace toi live in, built at the expense of the province, Even the chief justice of the su- preme court of Canada, Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, derives less than Hon. Lucas, the salary being $10,000 Other supreme court judges are paid $8,000 a year. Is it because Hon. Mr. Lucas has such exceptional ability that he is favored with a total of $11,000? est we have a care a moderate credit becomes immoderate, with a big debt as the result gious divistens without adding more RANDOM REELS { "Ot Shoes und Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and "Kings." . THE COMPLEXION. | The complexion is an ornamental | attachment to the feminine frontis- | piece. Sometimes this attachment is put on by nature and an outdoor life, but if necessary an excellént substi- tute can be obtained at any first-class | drugstore. ~ { 'There are several varieties of ranging | from the gentpel Cleopatra pallor 'to the ardent crimson effect peculiar to the Indian squaw. Some of the best complexions produced in any country are now to be seen on the American stage, and consist of four layers of cheek-bone paint and one application, of eyebrow paste. When viewed at close rang\, this combina- | tion produces an effect similar to | gazing on a futurist - picture of a storm at sea. 1f the complexion - is carefully handled in youth and is not marred here and there by an overheated curling iron, it will last for a long time and make it unnecessary to wear a dotted veil. A neat, pink com- plexion is a greater mark of distine- tion to a fastidious woman than a platinum wrist-watch - with a crip- pled mhainspring. This is why so many women refuse to spend money Rippling on wrist-watches, but stock up heav- iliy on vanishing creams, heliotrope talcum powder and the non-alcoholic face lotion, The best way to keep the com- plexion in a good state of repair is to take it to a beauty parlor and place it in the hands of providence. This should be done four times a weelk, af- ter securing the consent of the hus- band and free access to his bank ac- count. The beauty doctor can tell at | a glance whether the old complexion can be fixed up and made torun a few more thopsand miles, or wheth- er it will havé to have a new tread. | This tread can be put on by a pain-| less method, and, when properly ap- plied, will permit the use of a broad smile without cracking. The worst enemy of the complex- jon is the wririkle. 'This is a small blemish which starts in the form of a shallow furrow, and unless remov- ed by the foot of the massage roller will develop into a close regpemblance | to an irrigation ditch. Wrinkles are | caused by. thought, which accounts! for the large number of perfect com- plexions in dally use. A person who desires to retain his complexion should not think on any one subject more than twice, and then only at long intervals, Rhymes mn vim 1 had to break 7 OLD, 50NGS Last night I heard an ancient dame hum divers songs of bygone years, and tender recpllections came, which filled my old green eyes with tears. die, I am tired now, I do not care to hedr you sing"; thus warbled on the withered frau, while darning socks, Mike everything. Beneath the bright Canadian skies I used to sing that simple lay; folks heard my boyish treble rise, and wished I'd quit, or go away. Where are the men who cried "Shutwup!" and prompt- ly sicked their dogs at me, when I, before . their wickiup, turded loose that song in ecstasy ? beldame by my fireside waits, and sings old songs to .you unknown, as, "Wait for me at heaven's gate, sweet Belle Mahone, sweet Belle Mahone !" to sing the same sweet Song, beneath the warm Cana- dian sun, and neighbors rang the chestnut gong, and AR put more buckshot' ia the gun. b e track to bygone days and vanis scenes, before my back to earn the béefsteak and the vi Ay = "Oh, Bir- The I used Old songs ! Se (Dh Marin SPPPPPRTPPPPPRe PERI e See | HI +H +i +H + +1 a Lal + | Nl + J} + + Sweet | Sh Soe rain surel , & sectionalism and preju i | SEE BIBBYS $15.00 SUITS The Earl Model. SEE BIBBYS ~ $18.00 SUITS The Alton Model. ARROW BRAND COLLARS, 2 for 25¢ TOOKE COLLARS, 2 for 25c¢. 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Verdict Favors D.D.D, It is foolish to lie awake all the long night through with that intoler- able itching caused by Eczema and await the coming of day. D. D. D. Prescription is made for you if you are a sufferer. It will cool that hot, inflamed and itching skin, you will be able to rest at night, awake in the morning refreshed and life will be worth living." We know it will do all these things, as we have testimonials from many sufferers right among your meighbors. Try a bottle and you will not regret it. = Come in to- day. the Standard D:D. D. zx, sume Montgomery Dye Works French Dry Cleaning, - Dyeing and Pressing. J. B. HARRIS, Prop. 1225 Princess St. For 15 Years Australian 60 cents per tin. Bach tin contains 2 lbs. net. --Just Arrived-- Jas. Redden & Co. : Phoaés 9 aud oho * - (i Telephone 987. Drop a card to 19 Pine street when wanting anything dope in the carpe tery line. Estimates given on all kinds or repairs and new work; also hard. wood floors of all kinds. All orders will receive prompt attention. Shop Queen stree 0 vook's Cotton of Rabbit in Jelly} LARA x (food coal i8 the only | kind we have. 2 We don't keep it in our safe but we do keep it in a safe condition. Tt's eoal that burns free- | ly vet slowly and furn-| ishes its: full quota of | : heat EW