Na ---- ie ------------------------------------ { Bait ha ) , 3 ' your, dalivosid in Sty .....] 00 year, if in advance ....$5.00 year, 1 to rural offices .$2.50 year, ed 8 Bi eekly Editio year, mall, cash ........5100 your, not ae in advance $1.50 year, to Uni States ......51.50 Six and three months pro rata. Attached Is one of the best srinting offices in Canada. TO REPRESENTATIVE ae Iplece 3% Church St . 8. REPRESENTATIV New York OM Fit Frank Pp. Manager. Ave COMPULSION IS NECESSARY, Sir Sam Hughes, in London, as in Canada, indulges in some very in- discreet talk, and he is always ready and willing to be interviewed. Asked if the withdrawal from civil life of many men meant a seri- ous loss to Canadian trade, the min- ister is reported to have said em- phatically, "Not a bit, There are enough men loafing around, just as + in London, to do ak«the 'work of those away fighting." This confirms a point which Sir Sam does not, or will not, see, name- ly, that the fellows who fire lo loaf- ing around in Canada are not very anxious to work and so not very anxious to serve their country in any city. All over Canada there is the call for recrulls and in some Jlaces the response is slow enough. What is wanted and very badly is a law which will compel these alleg- ed "loafers" to register so that the minister or some one acting In his behalf, (not an Allison, of course), may know who are available for mi- Htary service and who are not. : It may be that the men most willing to serve can least be spar- ed from the industries of the coun- try. , A dislocation of busines s is now reported. It Is the result of men' being withdrawh from positions which it is impossible to fill with skilled labor. These men should be retained at home, on command of the government, and the 'loafers" compelled to take their places at the front, . In their desperation to secure me 1, in certain places, the military forces have been detailed for special duty, They visit house after house and call upon the men who are out of the service to enlist. All this would be avoided if the minister, in place of talking nonsense, would select Some competent man and by act of parliament, clothe him with auth- ority to number the people. Compulsion is quite necessary and excusable, when all other means, gentle and persuasive, have failed. SERVE IN ANY CAPACITY. The Toronjg Telegram, in com- menting upon the death of Capt. Fred. Shaughnessy, son of Baron 7 Shaughnessy, says: "The Shaughnessy home did not send out its sons to safe appoint- ments. Baron Shaughnessy did not exert his influence to install his son t0 a place where he could wear an officer's uniform, and draw an offi- cer's. pay, and do clerical work that 'take the same chance that the sons of industry have to take." n his men,-and he died would want to die, fighting "I would hate to be in Can- w," writes a young Canadian 3.50 | great and principal offender, | holders $450,000,000 in cash "} declared that commissions in the Canadian army would be given to the men who earned them. The four thousand officers who are idlingabout the city of Winni- peg, unattached, would be in. the ranks now somewhere, and earning honest tribute with their worth, had this rule of promotion been in force. It is a rare one who follows the example of the young Canadian who enlisted as a private in an infaptry regiment with desire to serve in _| any capacity, anywhere, rather than wait for a commission, and 'without any assurance that he would ever get it. ---- THE COST OF GASOLINE. Why should gasoline, or "gas," as the motormen call it, be selling at 30 cents a gallon wholesale? "Oh," the answer is, "there is such an ex- traordinary demand for it, and the supply affects the price." Over in the United States, however, that idea is combated, and the politicians and power men believe that the high prices are only another evidence of the plans of the monopolists to squeeze a few more millions out of the people. The Standard Oil Company is the It dic- tates the rates to the five other com- panies which co-operate with it, and with as clear an understanding as they had before the order of the court was issued dissolving the trust. The effect of that understanding is seen in the fact that the allied com- t'panies have, since the dissolution of the said trust, paid to their stock- and stock. The trust remains, though it was supposed to be no more. It is only legally dead; in fact, it is very much alive. The United States Congress wants to fight the trust, by a new enquiry on the part of the attorney-general, and why resolution to that effect did not carry cannot be defined. Mean- time the motor men are 'persuaded that they are being literally robbed by the trust, and 'the National Auto- mobile Chamber of Commerce has announced that a company | organized, with a capital of $10,000,- 000, to produce gasoline, This article is the rich find from a former waste or residue of coal oil, and of coal oil there is no scarcity. Capital, judiciously applied, will se- cure relief from the oppression of the great monopoly, but it will continue only until the Standard company, with its usual octopus tendencies, reaches out and absorbs the new con- cern. GREAT NAVAL BATTLE. The London Mail, which has a daily grouch against the government, and is never satisfied with the pro- gress of the war, has a special article from Holland of great interest. This article was written by James Dunn, whogwent to Holland in order to get into closer contact with those who could advise him upon the subject. Mr. Dunn has conversed with many péople who have come into contact with the Germans, and the general impression is that the expected clash between the German and British fleets is very near at hand. Mr. Dunn bases this judgment upon two facts: (1) That the Ger- man naval staff has decided upon a great naval engagement, and that they think they can deal Britain a deadly, if not a fatal blow; and (2) that though their equipment is not at all such as has been extravagantly described, it is much Yee, than it was, and with the aid. of th new super-submarines especially, the Ger- mans think they can strike effectively at the British navy. 'The submarines are, next to the battleships, the most in demand, and a huge flotilla of them will engage in the next battle, The Dutch fisher- men have seen the German cruisers, attended by destroyers and mine lay- ers, off the northern Dutch coast, The fleet has been preparing, it is said, for an early dash, and the Germans say, "if we are to be destroyed then all Europe will fall with us." _. To this Mr. Dunn replies: oY "Germany is preparing for a last desperate throw, in which she 'will employ all her resburces of land, sea, and air. Zeppelin are being built with feverish speed, and private firms are invited to manufacture vi- rious parts of the huge airships. Ger- many's plan is to forestall the Allies and to strike before our men, guns, and munitions have achieved a supe- rlerity that must omsure victory. "The fierce attack on Verdun is the. prelude to the last phase of the world-war. A blood-red dawn is rising; whole armies will be de- stroyed, mighty ships will be dere- lict, thousands of homes will be de- vastated in the awful tragedy of a great nation rushing to suicide." War councils have been held in France and Germany recently. Great forward movements have been or- dered, it is said, on both sides. There is to be a great and final clash on both land and sea, and Mr. Dunn's vivid delineation of what he expects seems to be in the minds of most people. - .' DRUGGISTS NOT PLEASED, Some one sees that a tremendous advantage will be given to the-deyg- gists by the pouring into their col- fers of money that is at present go: ing in the coffers of the License Vic- not want whiskey or any other al-| municipal bakery because the price choli¢ drink as a leading staple or attraction for his store, On the con- trary the pharmacists as a body do pot want the liquor under any cir- cumstance. : Hon. Mr. Hanna has declared, pub- licly, in moving the second reading of the prohibition hill, that 90 per cent. of the dmiggists protest against their being made the only media for the distribution of liquors. Granted that the sales will be restricted to those who need alcohol for medicin- al' ahd Industrial purposes, that it must be purchased in certain quan- titles, and used for the purposes for which it is requisitioned; the fact | remains that the druggists will be handling a great deal more of it than they want and to the manifest detriment of the trade which they desire to develop. The average druggist, high-mind- ed, honorable, and d prohibitionist, does not want to distribute lMquors. The protest against the bill, on the part of the druggist, must have been pretty hot when the provincial sec- retary spoke in pleading terms about the matter and suggested that the chemist assist the government to give effect to the prohibition law. A better plan--if liquor must be sold--is to have dispensaries, such as 'there are' in Saskatchewan, under governmental control, and subject to such an inspection as will guard against any Inacio of the law. It is a matter which is even yet wor-| thy of the serious consideration of the government. EDITORIAL NOTES Hon. Arthur Meighen has been si- lent for some days. Cogitating somewhere? Hatching out some new | mischief? Col. John Wesley Allison promises to return to Ottawa, some time: Meanwhile he is living like a prince or a king in the gilded walls of America. The war has made him very rich. Thanks to Sir Sam Hughes, Sir Sam delayed in England! On| Anotfier dinner was Was he to go away What account? probably on. and leave it untasted? ple might show a want of considera- | thon for their entertainers, but Sir Sam is not one of this kind. Henry Ford, of auto fame, should deal with the gasoline monopolists. "apital is required, and he has it. There will be more sense in knock- ing out the trust thap in financing a peace commission. All the Ford car owners are sufferers from the trust. The Ontario immigration depart- ment has failed to cut its estimates, though its business has gohe to smash. In Montreal the staff in the Immigration Office has been in- creased from eighteen to thirty, and all they have to do is draw their sal- aries. by Hamilton proposes to éstablish a Some peo-| of bread has gone up from , six to seven cents per loaf. And if the private capitalists cannot get men to do the baking, at any wage, how is the municipal management going to do it? Twitted because his government has not done anything about a new naval policy, on which he was sup- posed to hawe set his mind, Sir Rob- ert Borden blames the grits. They would not let him make a present of three-dreadnoughts-te the Admiralty He was going to pay for them just the same . Why hasn't he re- deemed his promise? | The Ottawa Citizen, conservative, says that the government is being bombarded for information with re- gard to the sale, since August 4th, 1914, of small arm ammunition, And if the answer is not a plain and satislying one public indignation, we are told, will force an expression of { opinion more vehement than any- thing the fuse question has provoked. Hoity toity! What's coming now? | George W. Smalley, the distin- | guished journalist, and London rep- | resentative of the New York Trib- une, is dead. The last of the great | men, who din their day, formed a | famous literary coterie whose influ- | ence is far-reaching. The places of | Delane, Smalley, Frederick, and oth- | ers cannot be filled. The later gen- eratign of newspaper writers are bot on to sway public opinion with | their pens rather than with the brii- { Mancy of their speech, i KINGSTON or 26 YEARS AGO | There are 175 members connected | with the Orange Young Britons, { + A meeting was held in the bar- | racks to form a Golf Club, in Kings- | ton. Col. Cotton was elected cap- | tain; secretary-treasurer, Mr. Hewat. | W. J. McNeil has a fine collection { 'of rare coins. iE. Wilmot of McKelvey & Birch, | left for Napanee to look after a con- | tradt for the firm. | PUBLIC OPINION - No Alibi, (New York Herald.) Anyway, the Kaiser has no "little bad man from Egypt" to blame it on. Poison Gas. (London Advertiser.) It might be a good idea to give all Zeppelin crews captured a dose of the pcison gas they are so fond of giving away. a ------ Will He Come (Peterboro Review.) But, if Col. J. Wesley Allison would only show the moral courage and consciousness of innocence dis- played by Sir Sam Hughes and come hack at once to face the charges! RANDOM REELS "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing JEALOUSY. Jealousy is comes between something husband and wife and sometimes between wife and husband. It consists of a dark, ol- ive-green ache under the left shoul- der<blade, which ebbs and flows like the dividends from an Oklahoma oil well. Sometimes it refuses to ebb until it strikes the divorce court and is appeased by an oblong chunk of alimony. : There are two kinds of jealousy, masculine and feminine, but both haye the same prehensile strength and high explosive qualities, When we look around us and see so many men who have jealous wives, and then take one long, painful look at the men themselves, we lose several grains of confidence in woman's ca- pacity for self-government, Some husbands also have a tendency to be- come jealous of a wife who couldn't which stir the blood in a clay pigeon, which teaches us that love is blind in both eyes and carries considerable vacant space in its belfry. ' A When a man becomes jealous he is convinced that some cave-man ad- mirer of his wife, in a polka-dot shirt, is going to steal her she is en- gaged in bedding down the cow. A Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." jealous husband can convert a type- written invitation to be present at the annual election of officers of the Epworth League into a cipher mes- sage of undying love, and when his wife returns home she will have to TRY OUR $1.50 ° SUEDE GLOVE 7 Bibbys Spring Overcoats Are Coats you'll admire--see our Joffre Coat at $15.00 . . " = 1 Fabries are fancy Tweeds, patch' pockets, shield lining, self collar. Very classy model, { SEE BIBBYS $15.00 1916 SUSSISRPIILD COATS. Fabries are Black or Grey Cheviots, English Covert and Cravenette Cloths, self collar, fly fronts, three-quarter length, full back; very gen- teel. Sizes 34 to 46. : ¥ SPRING OVERCOATS, $8.50, $10, $12, $15, $18 and $20. BIBBYS NEW SUITS FOR SPRING Are the limit of Swellness. SEE OUR SPECIAL $15.00 BLUE SUITS SEE OUR SPECIAL $15.00 : FANCY TYE SUIT, . ; - i The Clinton. BIBBYS SMART SHOE STYLES We 'claim 'to have the best $4.00 ° and $5.00 Shoes in Canada. (ivé us a try and you won't be sorry. SEE OUR NOBBY $18.00 SUITS, ""The Horton." English Worsteds, Plain Greys and Fancy Cheviots, NOBBY HAT STYLES See our New Fedora, The Ster- ling, Drabs and Greens.. Special price, $2.00. SEE BIBBYS | NEW SPRING SHIRTS, Special values, $1.00 and $1.25. present the sworn affidavits of the pastor and the first vice-president to | thé effect that she wad on hand for | roll call. When this is kept up for | any length of time there is a dis-| tinet explosion, followed by the low, | muffled tones of a petition in equity. | Jealousy on the part of wives is| wholly unbecoming and should not be tolerated. No self-respecting hus- band will allow his wife to interrupt the course of platonic friendship, un- | less it gets too blamed platonic. The | average wife can be lulled into a sense of security by assuming a stern and injured air, and this should be practised in front of the mirror sev- eral times a day until it will not slip when tried out in public. When a wife goes so far as to follow her hus- band to the skating rink and observe his spry and kittewtéh ways, the law should step in and be allowed to take its course. There would be less jealousy be- tween married people if more eyes could be straightened without use of the knife. " a, ~~ Rippling Rhymes . DOWN all things moral dump. - The road down hill is easy, your gait is brisk and breezy, companionship is gay; and as you trot along it, the dead game sports who throng it will cheer you on your way. and jeer the water wagon, the hydrant and the pump, and, laughing at the sorrow whifh will arrive to-mor- row, you hasten to the dump Your gait grows ever swifter, with willie-waught and snifter, four fingers at a throw; with decency you quarrel, and sneer at er-yet and faster, you speed on to disaster, and steep- or is the slope; friend, Stop and look and listen, while yet in sight there glisten the snowy robes of hope; Some turn around and scramble back through the rock and bramble, a weary, racking climb; but there are hands to aid them, apd, though sore feet delayed them, they reach the top in time. But most of those nble Hl don't try to scramble back to the healthful pump, to the sane existence they're leaving in the distance, but keep on to GRADE You ply the bowl and flagon, , and to the dump you go. Oh, fast- MCLEOD'S DRUG STORE ! CEDAR CAMPHOR Jas. Redden & Co. MOTH BAGS (all sizes) | mann STRAW HAT COLORS GARDEN AND FLOWER SHEDS McLEOD'S DRUG STO. -- Electric $2.50 EACH $2.50 EACH GUARANTEED FOR FIVE YEARS. W. J. MOORE & SON The Electric Shop = Canned Fish FRESH MACKEREL MOTH BALLS "we Phone 90 and 990. (All shades) we think these short skirts the wo-| hen are wearing nowadays positivel; immodest." y "It T were as thin as va y your you are