Seba Rnasa tigre Guild , ... ents, It did not take com- on of that kind, with a touch of x "in it, to induce some in to do their duty. They donned the khaki because they desired to do ¢ "satisfied, of course, that their em- W were willing to keep their | places for them until they returned from the war. Now the trustees have a new difficulty on their hands. The female teachers, who took the places of the men who have gone to the frout, or are in active military training, demand the same pay as the men. Why not? There is an acute aspect to this question and it As asserting iteell in an insistent way. It 1s the work that is being paid for, not the sentiment either for or against the woman. The woman teacher sometimes fails because she cannot physically enforce the disch pline that is required. Discipline aside, her teaching is quite as good #s that of any man. Then why should one's pay not be as good, es- pecially when the woman is filling the place of an absentee and per- forming his duties satisfactorily? The situstion is pressing upon the Toronto trustees and well it may. '. The immorality charges against T. 'M. Osborne, the former en of . Bing Sing 'prison, have Hoen dismiss: ed, untried, and as unworthy of trial. 'Meanwhile he has suffered as all good men do while lying under im- putations of the most cruel and un- "Just character. Mr, Osborne, a maw Of wealth, accepted an important of- fice largely for the purpose of deve- lopitig his ideals, = He brought to prison life rules and methods that had not been triéd before. His plan was to establish a confidence among prisoners that is usually lacking, He gave the convicts privileges they had 'previously been denied. He aliow- €d them * to govern fhemselves to some extent, and by a code of laws '#8 unique as it wag peculiir. = @om- munity Interests became a conspicu- ous 1 ® of prison life. Reforms Were reached by new amd - direst and while the experiment was 'height Osborne was accused of defects and immoralities. The 'character of a great and good man was besmirched by men who had no &pecial object to serve. They were simply jealous of him. They were willing to do anything in order to ond his rule.. .They succeeded. Os- borne could notibe retained in office while charges hung ' over 'bis head. Now that they have failed. he ought to be vindicated by re-appointment and for the -purpose of carrying through his cherished ideas. Time is on the side of most good men, and time brings to them the satisfaction they deserve. The state officials who co-operated and conspired to do the 'ax-warden an injury owe him an ab- ject apology. © Te Fancy the province assuming a la- bility of $8,350,000 in connection with the power plants, and. without details with regard to. the assets it was supposed to be acquiring. : . Only now, when the legislature of British Columbia is passing its esti- have his way in a new election, 1915, he decided to retire from public . life. 'He chose the softest place in which to rest. = © But there were difficulties in the Way. Mr. Turner bad to be remov- ed. A lot of negotiation followed. Richard made a special trip to London in order to pacify , Turner. ¥ 'have been its details. fry. y| tario if its law with regard to adoles- They created, lo some extent, the em- ergency, without considering all of Of course, the experi- ence in Toronto may be the experi- ence of any city or town and hence the larger interest that attaches to it. The apposition in the legislature proposed that any 'commission which is to be appointéd to manage the Hy- dro: business for Eastern Ontario $houl have upon it a representative of the municipalities. This was voted down An enterprise in the interests of the municipalities, and without municipal representation, is an unbusiness-like proposition. ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE. Canada, through the Department of Commerce, will prepare for what is to happen after the war. = There will be a certain dislocation of busi- ness as it is being carried on and in connection with the war, and the question will be how the people are to be profitably employed, and how the trade of Canada is to be devel oped. To this end there will be es- tablished: (1) A bureau of informa- tion which will deal intelligently with 'business in all its details (2) a mun- seum which will represent and com- tain samples of all of Canada's natu- ral resources and manufactures, and (3) trades commissions whose mem- bers, by travel and personal enquiry, will ascertain what Canada may do to meet the commercial wants of the Allies. , Sir George Foster referred inciden- tally to what Britain is doing in the way of improving her transportation, banking, industrial and engineering departments, for the emergencies of the hour, and the Whig has been pay- ing special attention to this, and has been moved to express its profound admiration for what it has read. The commissions in England have been appointed by the British Board of | Trade, and these, in certain branchés of 'the iron, steel and engineering industries, and shipping and ship- building, have accomplished wonders already. They haye been employed unostentatiously for months. . The question not only of the demobiliza- tion of labor has been faced, but also the demobilization of the greater por- tion of manulactories which are now 80 largely devoted to war work. These ¢| committees of experts will work out | all the problems in the national inter- est and make arrangements which '| will facilitate the transfer from mu- nition work to peaceful industry with 1the greatest possible speed, and pre pare for meeting the new demands for machinery, engineering work, and general manufactures. Both Britain and Canada are, hows ever; behind Germany in its schemes and projections. On the authority of Lord Haldane the Teutons have, almost from the beginning of the war, been preparing for what will take place after the war. Its schools, in which the youth are obliged to take techfnical training, are said to be ahead of anything of their kind in the world. In Germany there is no gap in the school life of the boy. He may leave the ordinary classes to learn a trade, but his technical work is helped by his school work. Both are continued, and by a system that] is not duplicated in any other coun- It would be duplicated m On- | not. The literary world will hardly | CONSERVATIVE PRESS. accept the ruling of a Chicago judge in this matter. The first thing the Russians did, after landing in France, was to erect an orthodox church and attend ser- vices in it. An object lesson to the French that will not be without great meaning. a italy did not agree to the Pact of London, but she has signed a docu- ment which says that "the signing of peace must remain subordinated to the triumph of the cause that France and Italy are defending." Dr. Pyne waited until the last day of the legislature, and then had the Teachers' Pension Bill read once. What happened to it then? It went into the waste paper basket or into & pigeon hole labelled "Dreams un- fulfilled." 'Where was Bir Adam Beck when the Hydro matters were under dis- cussion in the legislature? The fact that he was in Toronto, and not in the house, knowing that these mat- ters were being dealt with, Is regard- ed as peculiar. The local government asserted that it had Sir Adam Beck's consent and approval of all that it did on the Hydro quéstion. But Sir Adam did not attend the legislature, as he could have done, and speak for him- self. : jams EVENTS i 25 YEARS ACO Eight bicyclists wheeled to Odessa to-da; y. Whooping cough is prevalent in tive city. Twelve trains have been added to the Kingston and Pembroke Rail- way. S. Ramsay shipped 3,000 gallons of maple syrup from Delta. Seventy cents was the highest price paid. The Awakening Of The Churches, Everyman, London. I had the great fortune of listen- ing last Sunday to a most striking sermon, preached in perfect English, by Monsieur Saillens to an audience of 3,000 worshippers. I do not know of any living British preacher who could have delivered so inspiring an utterance as this French pasteur. The sermon on "The Sacrifice of Blood" was a masterly exposition and application of the central dogma of the Christian religion. It was deliver- ed in Spurgeon's old Tabernacle by an orthodox Huguenot, but it might have been delivered by a Roman Ca- tholic preacher in Westminister Ca- thedral.: It was a wonderful experi- ence. Is'this war really bringing us nearer to a union of the churches? Is Protestantism on the eve of being permeated with the Catholic and uni- versal ideals, and, conversely, is the Roman Catholic church, as in the golden age of Bossuet and Pascal, on the eve of being leavened with the Protestant leaven of spiritual free- dom? if we really wish to put half a mil- 3. -- ran Ottawa Citizen. T In Canada, what is our performan- ce so far, and our present effort? Our performances is to have put 310,000 men in uniform, mostly British-born, who have practically recruited them- selves. Our present effort is to let men go on recruiting themselves, or leave persuasion to the local efforts of the officers of new battalions. Un- der this condition, the recruiting 1s proceeding at the rate of a thousand a day or so, according to the Prem- ar, ri At the rate of a thousand a day, Canada will reach something like tie 500,000 mark by the end of this year, but inasmuch as most new troops need a year's training to be fit for the front, a considerable part of the 500,000 thus raised will not be av- allable for the fighting line until nearly two years from now. In this, lion men in the field, as sensible as it could be? Would we uot do bet- ter to get our men more quickly? And so to help in the case presented by Capt, Tryon's appeal, "A stronger army and a shorter war?" Let none of us fool ourselves with the notion that peace is near. The peace rumors which continually crop up here or there are either silly or inspired for & purpose. No peace is coming which the British Empire will share until Germany is completely beaten. . Therefore the British Em- pire, with or without allies, has to lick Germany before the British Em- pire quits; and licking Germany is not going to be done, with or with- out allies, in any short space of time. But dona it must be, The Russians In France. Toronto Telegram. How did the Russian troops get to Marseilles? Transports have no egress from, the Black Sea ports of Russia through the Dardanelles, The port of Archangel is still ice bound. The new Russian winter port on the White Sea is perhaps not available for the movement of troops. Viadivosteck, 1,000 miles to Shan- ghai, and Shanghai 9,050 miles from Marseilles, is the route that the Rus- sian soldiers may have travelled on the way to the battle line in France. Ships take war munitions to Viadivo- stock to be rushed over the trans-Si- berian railway to the Czar's fighting line in Europe. These ships may have taken a return cargo of sol- diers to France, shepherded in safety over 10,000 miles of sea by the strength of the British navy, whose might is the shelter behind which the warring nations arm themselves for the defence of liberty and the over- throw of tyranay. -------- INDEPENDENT PRESS. Premier Not Satisfying. Hamilton Herald. ; The Premier pointed with pride To the fact that about a thousand men are enlisting every day. This an- swer to the representation rmade by the deputation was enough to show either that the Premier does not un- derstand the situation or that he wil- attention. The complaint is not so much that men are not enlisting in sufficient numbers, as that the ranks are being filled too largely by youths who are unfit for military service, by married men, with families, and by men who are needed for work at home, while multitudes of single men of military age who are both Col. A. D. Davidson, CN.R. official is dead at Rochester, Minn. | holding back. physically fit and can easily be spar- ed from the industrial ranks are "Ot Shoes and Ships, and Sealing CARUSO. 'Caruso is a successful tenor sing- er who has become so popular that people gladly pay $5 per night to hear him pop. He is one of the few tenor singers now before the publie who can emoke a rcig- arette between acts and still be lis- tened to with reverence by the Balt. saloon League and the W, C. T. U, Caruso always smokes a long- cork- , tipped cigarette just before going on to assault some grand opera melody, but this does not prevent church peo- ple from flocking to hear him devour a few high notes. This teaches us something, but we don't know what it is. Caruso, was born in Itsly before he was ten years of age, and-lived there long 'enough to imbibe most of the language. He began to sing when a mere infant, and his voice was well placed from the start. The neighbors used to say that when an- noyed by an attack of the croup Ca- ruso could place his voice anywhere he wanted to, within a radius of four miles. When Caruso grew to be a young man somebody with a sensitive ear discovered that his voice n to be cultivated; as it was lumpy in spots and lacked protein. He was REELS Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." tb therefore introduced to the old Ital- jan method, which so many Ameri- can singers have brought back home and pummeled 'the general public with : Caruso's chief charm Yes in his ability to climb up to the top of the keyboard with both feet and hang onto the highest rung until the or- chestra is ou® of breath. Very few tenors can do this without parting with three or 'four valuable arter- ies, but Carusé knows when to let go before rigor mortis sets in, If more tenors would learn this les- son, the church anthem would not excite so much consternation and regret. After Caruso's voice had been thoroughly filed down and thand- cuffed, he decided to take it to American and allow it to escape in one glad, free burst of song. This was one of the most successful bursts on record, and as a result Ca- =! uso is Well fixed, having a lars | ---- repertoire of fancy vests and fin- itialed shirts and enjoying as good table board as can be found in New York. Caruso's life, lungs and Mngo teach us that this is the land of op- portunity for the humble foreigner with a c¢hest high C. ' ly providing, and springing. and laugh at woe may his bark 'on never tempt sane THE SINGER I sing my song the whole day long, and keep my harp a-going, to try to cheer the people near, while dodging bricks they're throwing. + all suth dope, of gay and bright to-morrows, of can- ning care and black despair, and putting lids on sor- rows. Year after year this sort of cheer, I'm tireless- though galled by too much riding. land the folks will stand a lot of niisfit singing, if but the bard, when whooping hard, a gladsome note is Though cracked his voice, if he'll rejoice, ; and gti lly dismal pote oft finds his .goat "5 his ih DN . 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