Pa og Bas "and Bec Treas. ete tere ene is one of the best job n Ci anada. REPRESENTATIVE A ROW IN TORONTO, The differences between the mayor of Torouio and the ° provincial gov- ernment, with regurd to war taxes, have been accentuated by the attacks of the provincial treasurer upon Sir Adam Beck. The mayor does the people outside of his own city a fa- vor by resenting the disposition of the provincial government to usurp the functions of the municipalities, to exact taxes which are in some cases purely municipal, and to impose upon the municipal couneils by requiring them to collect and pay these taxes over to the province. But Mayor Church does even better in protest- ing against the uncalled-for re- proachment of Sir Adam Beck by coupling his name with Toronto's rebellion, Sir Adam Beck bas certainly had nothing to do with Mayor Church's action, and Hon. Mr. McGarry shows his animus towards the former min- wwrdater of pawer and the present chair- man of power by insinuating that he is behind Mr. Church in his abuse of the provincial government, The Whig says "abuse" because all that Mr. Church could have contended for could have been said in a more moderate language, and accomplish the same purpose. The tact that Sir Adam's name 1s used at all in this connection is an evidence of how far the figures in the affair of the province and how far he and his former colleagues have differed in certain particulars. When, in a side issue, the provincial+ treasurer be- comes offensive towards the chair: man the Hydro-Electric Commis- sion, it can be taken for granted that it will not be long until there is an open rupture between them, and the local TE abont will have occasion to regret it. Mr. McGarry and Mr. Ferguson are great men in their own estima- tion, and the premier has spoiled them by letting them pose as politi cal gladiators. But there is a great- er, Sir Adam Beck, who has behind him thé western municipalities. Sir Adam has tried to serve them, and thelr confidence in him the premier had occasion to observe very recent- iy. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. The United States government has a serious issue on it hands. Itis to determine, as it seems to be willing to do, whether the German government has administered to the commanders of the submarines that sank the Lu- sitania, the Arabic, the Ancona, and Sussex a punishment that fits the cvime. With the torpedoing of each there was first a denial of lability on the part of Germany, but gradually, as the evidence established the crime, the Teutons admiited this lability and promised to make amends in the usual way. The loss of life and property are to be made, good as far as possible, though in paying a sort of life insurance for the men and wo- men aud children who went down with the ill-fated steamships it can- not be sald that the bereaved friends have been adequately com- pensated In addition to money payments the wommanders of the piratical craft with any partial atonement. The punishment must be made to fit the crime, and when it is, and the commanders of the submarines which torpedoed the Lusitania. the Arabic, the Ancova, and the Sussex, have been treated as capital offenders, there will be some guarantee that Germany's reign of terror is at an end. The story printed in some of the European papers and copied in the American papers is to the effect that the Kaiser has decorated with double cross the commanders of the submarine referred to, and this only aggravates the situation to a marked degree, WHAT THE CHARGES SHOW. In presenting charges against the shell committee, and indirectly against the government, Mr. Kyte did not rest his case on what the re- presentatives of the defence would admit or prove. The data on which he depends came from other sources. Early in the case unexpected develop- ments occurred. The counsel for the government expressed surprise at the relations of the shell commit- tee and the war office. ' The com- mittee seemed to be the servants or agents of the war office at the out- set, and then these relations changed and members of the committee be- came contractors of the war office through the minister of militia, who was its agent. In this connection avenues of information were touch- ed, but not opened up because the commission was confined in its en- .|quiry to four particular contracts, those with which Mr. Kyte charges scandalous things. The question of widening the scope of the enquiry became a par- liamentary issue, and here is where the members of the house expressed themeelves in a remarkable way. The minister of justice insinuated that Mr. Carvell was trying to get away from the case which Mr. Kyte pre- sented, after staking his all on the endeavour "to cast reflections on the government through the shell com- mittee." Mr. Meighen emerged from his retreat, after nursing the wounds which had been given to him In hig conflict with Mr. Kyte. He indulged in a sarcastic criticism of the form of motion, believing it to be Mr. Carvell's, when it turned out to be the handiwork of the speaker. The government and its friends in- terpreted the motion as a sign of weakness and defeat for Mr. Car- vell. They voted it down. Then the defence began to open up, and parliament and the country have been scandalized by the reve- lations brought to light. Out of the mouths of the government's wit- nesses the charges of Mr. Kyte have been supported, and there is a lot of evidence yet to be heard. | Mr, Carvell failing in his case and | wanting to get away from it! Surely not. What one thinks of it now can only be surmised. What he may think of it later, when the rec ord is complete, cannot be imagined. Meanwhile two things stand out con- spicuously: (1) The manner in which the contractors for the war office have or have not performed their duties, and (2) the shabby and inexcusable manner in which. Cana- dian contractors have been ignored by the agent of the war office. EDITORIAL NOTES. The Lindsay -Post refers to the Whig as "one of the newsiest and most enterprising of provincial dai- lies." Thanks. ------------ Sir Roger Casement is the last of the capital offenders to meet his trial. With the disposition of his case the nest of Irish traitors will be disposed of, . Se ---------- X The provincial license commission- ers are not inclined to close down on the clubs that sell liquor after eight p'clock during the next three months. This is very kind of them. i -------------- War has made some people to economize. But there is no econ- omy in the public life of the nation. The expenditure of the Dominion Government, in some respects, is very much open to criticism. ------------ Anglo-French bonds, which yield an interest of over six per cent., are gilt-edged securities. Thousands of Aollars in this city have been invest- ed in them. . They are not subject to taxation, which make them very desirable for one thing. ---- A broker is quite sure that Kings- ton is a good place in which to sell debentures or bonds. There are, he says, heaps of 'money on deposit here. The difficulty is to get the people to put this money in circula- tion through investments. A conservative paper has it that Col. Allison does not appear In the shell- or fuse business at all. An- other conservative paper has it that it is no one's business what the American contractors do with their ; money. What does the one "higher up" think about jt? Mr. Yoakum was willing to set apart, at some one's suggestion, wad 'not intended for her. No one believes that. ? In Peterboro, In one day, the Wo- men's Patriotic League picked up twenty-three tons of waste paper, and it represented a value, at cur- rent rates, of $300. As much waste paper could be probably picked up in Kingston in any day, and for three hundred days in the year, and it is not hard to figure out what the result would be financially. eee | puBLIC option |! Now For the Fun, (Hamilton Times.) Roosevelt's hat is now in the ring. He has definitely announced himself at Shorncliffe. Some who have ma- ligned the boys in khaki will feel small. . A Big Rake Off, (Torento Globe.) The million-dgilar rake-off would have been impossible if Col. Carne- gle and General Hughes had made reasonable inquiry into the prices paid by the British Government through Morgan & Co. for similar fuses. KINGSTON EVENTS 26 YEARS ACO Since the first of the year D. Cays has shipped 200 horses to the United States. Market Clerk McCammon = seized a Presidential candidate. It Might Indeed. Ottawa Journal.) Judge Duff intimated that he would not continue to sit in the fuse inves- tigation if the counsel continued wrangling. Wouldn't it be better to put out of court offending coun- sel i Maligning the Boys, (London Advertiser.) One of the greatest honors won by Canadians of overseas battalions is that congratulation on their sobriety ---- four bags of potatoes under weight { from a Camden farmer. | RR. H. Elmer, T. Sloan and George | Hentig had a narrow escape from drowning at Kingston Mills while { ishing. Their boat sank and they (had to make a scramble to get to | ashore. Number of applicants for the pos- ition of Medical Superintendent. of {the General Hospital has reached I thirty. | C.F. Gildersleeve and G, M, Mac- | donnell interviewed the Dominion { Cabinet and asked for a bonus for {the Kingston-Smiths Falls and Ot- 'tawa railway, Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." The Dentist The dentist is a mild-mannered mechanic who tinkers with the hu- man mouth at $8 per tink. Owing to the frequency with which people are obliged to have their mouths tinkered with, re-ined, re-decorated and re-shingled, the dental profes- sion bas become highly lucrative and pays larger returns than any other form of investment except stock in a machine-gun factory. For a great many years the den- tist was almost unkmown in this country, and the teeth of the com- mon people were allowed to decay and fall out with depressing fre- quency. Every once in. a while some travelling dentist would come along on a roan saddle horse and true up the teeth of an entire fam- ily in exchange for a night's lodg- ing. How different it is to-day, when it costs more to sit down in a highly-perfumed dental chair and drink a couple of bags of laughing gas than it does to go through the Yellowstone Park in a wheel chair. Every successful dentist knows exactly how many teeth there are in the avérage mouth, and if neces- sary can call them by their. first name. The laws of most states pre- seribe that the dentist shall be able to tell one tooth from anether, so Rippling r that the raw and untried amateur will not settle down 'in seme seclud- ed village and render the inhabit- ants toothless, After a patient who is of a hopeful and ' parsimonious turn of mind has been experimented upon for a few days by some un- fiedged graduate whom nature in- tended for the horseshoeing 'busi- ness, he will retire thoughtfully to his domicile and order some new teeth by parcel post. The dentist does not like to in- flict pain, as it interferes with his aim, and this has given rise to th school of painless dentistry, which does not cost any more than any other kind. It is a great treat to sit down in a dental chair and be played upon by a four-horse power drill without desiring to murder the dentist and his entire family back to the fourth generation. Some people would rather be operated on by a painless dentist and wake up with a mouthful of off-colored porcelain pegs than have their feet toyed with by a crude, butter-fingered chiropo- dist and be obliged to wear felt slip- pers down to the office, The dentist' 'should always be treated with respect, so that he will not become disgruntled and cause Lwo cavities to' grow where but one grew before, & Ali Rhymes PECK'S BAD BOY George Peck is dead; and "o'er hia head they'll place a slab of friend, good night! granite, on whieh I'd write, "Old You filled with glee this planet. How oft with joy your wicked boy in bygone days has filled me! How oft I blessed that ithp possessed, while laughter nearly were on deck, i deeds, wrote heavy screeds, for lofty fame You governed w LT MASON, and say, 'Good night! Grocer'! bier we shed a Old friend, HIGH CROWNS A tall hat with flower $105,000 of the fuse spoils for Miss Edwards. who is Col. Allison's secre-. for a little maid, just as it is tive - Under. the narrow. sleep is a pleati killed me! Old Comrade Peck, you n after days, as speaker, did sober a seeker. vell, so people tell the province of Wis- consin; as magistrate you Wasentrawncin'. But no one cries, Peck, the statesman, thinker; has a grip, he surely was hit a gait that doubtless 'How nobly wise was on statesmanship he a clinker!" But by your tear, and draw our sackcloth closer, tight with Bad Boy and the = "> Seren... (Dus Nees, tit. trimming is the fashionable thing for her mamma, i hat is made of fine straw braid in navy blue color and of blue velvet ribbon, This attrac- crown t against. the back. Flt {one year. Men's and Boys' Wear Store man that buys one. of most critical examination. Bibbys $15.00 Prize Suits We say "Prize Suits" for the reason that the them gets a "prize."' There are more Suits wanted and bought at 'Fifteen Dollars than at any other figure. 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