AMERICAN PRESS. 'A Japanese Move. Post -E: b Japan and Russia have mutually agr i greater men, Sir Adam Beck and Hon. Mr. Hanna, could not win out. The result is a government which is not by one of masterly mind, and one who was elected be- cause he was believed to be the best or only available man for the office. Mr. Hearst is not "the" strong man of the cabipet. He is one of several. The others assert superiority occasionally and with em- barrassing effects. There has been friction, difficulty and dissension in the government. Prior to the last session Hon. Mr. Ferguson took it upon himself to as- sume great responsibilities with re- gard to the power question, and in doing so he came into direct collision with the chairman of the Hydro Com- mission. This was followed by the Very Busy All Around . (Montreal News) Germany is now busy on all her fronts. She'll be on her back soon. A Patriotic City. (Windsor ;Record) Since November of last year Windsor has raised $230,000 for patriotic purposes, Not a bad re- cord, wot? eed, as announced at Petrograd, that neither will take part in any ar- rangement or political combination against the other and that they will consult and co-operate whenever the interests of either one are menaced. The meaning of this convention appears to be that the contracting parties propose to assert and main- tain those favored nation relations with 'China to which they consider themselves entitled. Perhaps it may be taken as a polite announce- ment of Japan's Okuma doctrine sol} to call it, of the nature of opr Mon- |i} roe doctrine, warning the Western nations not to exploit the Orient. In any event it can be taken as'a hint |} that the powers which question the HH right of the contracting parties to|Ji}l dominate their spheres of influence Hi | Bibbys r on) on Style. (Hanuiton Tunes) New York is going to have a "splash" week when everybody is expected to take a bath whether they need it or pot. Hamilton is Airy. (Hamilton Spectaior) . That new high water mark----$4,- a a CI BOE i See Our Norfolk Suits See Our $15.00 Two Piece : Suits Grey Homespuns, $15.00 oy challenging of the accounts of the commission and the appointment of a controller of its finances. The final act was the curtailment of the com- mission's power and the assumption by the government of the "last word" (Dally Edition) One year, delivered in city Sie Joan it paid in Sdvanes 'ees ® year, mall to rural offices . One year, to United States . (Bem"-Weekly Edition) year, by mall, cash ear, if not paid in advance ear, to United States Xx and ree months pro rats. Attached is one of the best Job printing offices in, Canada. One One TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE H. BE Smallplece ........33 Church Bt U. 8. REPRESENTATIVES New York Office 226 Fifth Ave. Frank R. Northrup, Manager. CARO bune Bldg. Frank R. Northrup, Manager. SERVING THE GERMANS, The minister of mines, the Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, is annoyed over the report that the German submar- ine Deutschland will load Canadian nickel to the value of about $600,000 for return cargo. The nickel is on a point on the Chesapeake Bay where it has been accumulating for some time. Mr. Ferguson's argument is that the International Nickel Co. has given a guarantee that not a pound of Canadian nickel shall be shipped to Germany, and he proceeds to soothe or dope the people by de- claring that the imperial govern- ment is entirely satisfied with the arrangement, But Mh Maclean, M.P., who has ably seconded Judge Barron in the discussion of the question, is assured that the nickel is Canadian because Canada has a monopoly of the metal in America, and Germany is beiag supplied with this ore through the diplomacy or duplicity of her friends, 'When one of the Germans, Mr. Hilkin, interested in the marine ser- vice, was asked if the Deutschland would return to Germany with a car- go of rubber and nickel, he replied facetitiously, "It will be four o'clock in the morning in August or Septem- ber," That is the reply the enemy would be expected to make. If the nickel be not Canadian in its origin, where did the pile on a point in the Chesapeake Bay come from? Mr. Ferguson says about a thousand tons of nickel are made annually from the bye products of copper. Is the cargo on the Chesapeake Bay made up of this particular nickel? The army of secret service officers, to which Mr. Ferguson refers, if any good, should be able to settle this question, Mr, Maclean is in dead earnest in demanding that Canada shall control the export of her nickel. He prom- | ise8 some further revelations if. tne local and federal governments do not wake up. "If it is necessary that further representations shuld | be made, "he writes, "it may mean al short shift for the great Conserva- | tive party, the bulk of whose mem- bers, we believe, are absolutely pa- triotic on this subject." He says that the people resent what has ta- ken place in the past, and are deter- mined.that Canadians shall manage the refining of their nickel ore, shall market and have complete con- , troll of it, and that none of it shall * ever again fall into the hands of an | sponsibility of defeat, quor deal. that they helped to sustain the gov- ernment in the last election. contributed of their energy means to the killing of prohibition. They thought they had finished it. o| Then, to their great surprise, Mr. Hearst announced that he was in fa- 9! vor of immediately adopting it. seems to have concluded that it was coming issue of the war, and, in a subterfuge of 'having it forced on him, he acted hastily and friends by the vigor of his course. for Kingston They did not even materialize. What is wanted is an organization, with a plan and a purpose, under the direc- tion or influence of ministers of the government, trading purposes, dive and disappear when they ap- proach other craft, is not likely to supplant Britain in the control of the seas. master stroke in naval architecture. in power deals and contracts. The climax was reached in the li- The license holders say They and He that it was an anyway, surprised his political Did he use his position to make his colleagues accept of his dictum? Did he commit the strong men of the government to the prohibition policy before he consulted them? cross the bridge, between prohibition and anti-prohibition, and burn bridge, so that there could not be any retreat on the part of himself or his colleagues? mise, and there is glumness all over the province sincg the North Perth election dent. want to talk politics. do it they confess among themselves that there is something wrong with the government, and the sooner they discover what it is the better. Did he this That is the sur- which is without a prece- The conservatives do not If they must EDITORIAL NOTES. Deseronto's loss by fire, and to the extent of wiping out its woodenware factory, is a serious one.' town cannot afford visitations of this kind, with tends them. The little the disaster which at- A direct tax by the federal gov- ernment for Patriotic Fund purposes. That is the prospect. and direct taxes the people have be- come pretty well used already. p city and the province have blazed the way With special The The recruiting meetings planned have been a failure. The discontent and disorder among] the London soldiers indicate a grettable lack of discipline. fault wholly theirs, or does some of it lie with the Militia Department? Recruits should not be detained too long at home inactive or inert. re Is the The nation that can only use, for submarines that The Kaiser is welcome in his Sir Adam Beck is perhaps well out of the local government under the circumstances sion will survive the Hearst Govern- ment. rary institution, throttle private power enterprise. The Hydro Commiis- But it will not be an arbit- and it will not everything in the way of The tendency is to throw the re- in the last enemy country like Germany. Strong bye-election, upon Hon. Mr. Hearst. but expressive language. He was not the choice of the party for the premiership, it is said. Just 000--set by the Board of Education when it- engaged that technical ex- pert, looks like a costly move, judg- ing by the way the old employes are endeavoring to get in the run- ning. LIBERAL PRESS. Great Change in Votes. Toronto Globe Mr. May's election is no more a triumph for the liquor interests than Mr. Makin's election would have been a triumph for prohibition. The truth is that Ontario is tiring of the sort of Government that is provided from Queen's Park, and is turning toward Mr. Rowell as the ablest man in the public life of the province. Ever since the death of Sir James Whitney this tendency has been marked. No other meaning could be read into the bye-election of 1914 in West Hamilton, when a Conservative majority of 1,411 in June was re- duced to 36 in November. In Dun- Was, when a successor to Sir James was elected, the Conservative ma- jority of 673 shrank to 62 In Peel, where Mr. Fallis' horse-trading me- thods alienated hundreds of Con- servative electors, a Conservative majority of 627 in June, 1914, was changed to a Liberal majority of 305 in February, 1916. North Perth is but another example of a tendency that was clearly marked long before any breach occurred between the liquor interests and the Government and when the reason advanced by Conservatives for the turnover in North Perth was not operative. On- tario, by these remarkable reversals |of majorities, is trying to wake the Seven Sleepers of Queen's Park. War Expenditures. Ottawa Free Press, On the authority of a Toronto newspaper and without confirmation, the Free Press made the statement the other day that "Canada has been financing its own war expenditure for nearly a year." This, C. M. God- dard, of the Canadian Liberal Head- quarters, informs us, is not quite cor- rect. The last issue of the Canada Gazette, we find, contains the follow- ing item in the Dominion financial statement: "Temporary loans, $189, 207,017." Deducting $45,000,000 from this (the short loan made in August, 1915, in New York), there is left a balance of $144,207,017. This balance was advanced to the by the British Government for the purpose of financing Canadian war expenditures. The whole of it, we are officially informed, has been gra- dually taken by Canada as needed, some of it during the past year. Sickness is often a mask worn by lazy people Dominion at the outset of the war in China will invite trouble on them- selves. The arrangement may make enough near home to keep her busy and makeg an outlet for her manufac- tures, she may be less concerned to get a foothold in our hemisphere. CONSERVATIVE PRESS. The Thumping Class. Toronto Telegram. Ontario mourns that Hon. I. B. Lucas and Hon W, J. Hanna should have respectively sniffed treason and threatened "percedins" in the case against F. Wellington Hay, the Lib- eral candidate in North Perth. In Mr. Lucas and Mr. Hanna are a pair of Prussian State councillors and Sir Sam Hughes, K.C.B,, is the Kaiser, then the orators at Stratford right in tearing passion to and otherwise reducing the discus- sion of public affairs into a simili- tude of the trial scene of Bardell vs. Pickwick. If Stratford be a portion of a British country, criticism of Sir Sam Hughes, K.C.B., is no crime. Hon. I, B. Lucas and Hon. W J, Hanna put themselves in the tub thumbing class of H. B. Morphy, M.P., with their attempts at PLAT- FORM PRUSSIANISM. WESTERN GRAINS COMING ON WELL. Improved Weather Conditions Are Causing Rapid Growth. Regina, Sask., July 12,--The Sas- katchewan Department of Agricul- ture in the fortnightly crop report, issued to-day, states that all crops are making good progress. Wheat ranges from eight inches in height in the Eastern central districts to 30 inches in the Prince Albert and Battleford districts. A small per- centage Of the wheat is now in the shot blade, and all other grains are making rapid growth under improv- ed weather conditions prevailing generally during the past week. Damage from hail is reported from Humboldt, Cadillac, Battrum, and along the Saskatchewan river for sev- eral miles, south of Swift Current, and west to Gull Lake, but in no place has the damage been serious. Heavy rainfalls and high winds have been general, and have delayed plow- { ing of summer fallows and breaking. | Weeds are showing up badly on un- plowed lands, Continued hot wea- | ther with little or no rain is now re- | quired for all crops to accelerate ma- | turity and bring the crops through | early. All hay crops have every appear- ance of a heavy yield. Alfalfa is es- | pecially good. Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." THE TURKISH BATH. The Turkish Bath is a successful method of finding out what purga- tory feels like. Long 'before the people of this country had come to know and love Turkey it was the custom in that strange land to take a bath every once in a while. The peaceful, hyena-hearted subjects of the Sul- tan tried out several kinds of baths before lighting on the one which has brought comfort to so many burdened souls and voleanic stomachs. They tried out the sponge bath and the 'wash-basin bath and the tub bath and the mud bath and the alcohol rub, but none seemed to meet the needs of their rough, hac-saw natures as well as the home-made variety, which is still used in Turkey at painful and irregular intervals. The Turish bath was brought to this country to stimulate the crop of total abstainers and has been an effeetive aid to temperance. After a man who has become "darefully in- toxicated from his ears down enters a Turkish bath for the first time and watches himself turn to the bright or draw a short, crisp will leaving his property to the W.C.T.U. A Turkish bath, property given, will drive a brand new drinker so high up on the water wagon that he can't be heard without talking on his fingers. The Turkish bath is given in a small, tight room which contains everything but the head of the pa- tient, which is allowed to stick out and wonder how Jong it will be be- fore the roast is done. Live steam which has never been used on any- body before is' introduced into the| room and locates at once on .its vie- tim, which it proceeds to parboil at slow and easy stages When the patient has been reduced to a mel- low stage and can' hardly be told from a tomato salad, the steam is turned off, after which an unfeei- ing but muscular mechanic seizes a, long towel with a sand-paper finish and uses it as a draw shave. This is one of the mwst soothing proc- esses on record, and imparts a dull gloss finish to the cuticle. It is a great mistake to decry the Turkish bath, or any kind of a bath, but it would be more popular for peace; for if Japan has interests) iii ored. Suits tweeds. Pr Nm on Panama Hats and $18.00. Splendidly tail- See Our $10.00 Norfolk Coat and Trouser, and medium shades of grey See Bibbys $5.00 Genuine New Scots Grey Chevi- ots. ir Bibby's Straw Hats, Special Price, $1.00 Sample Hats, Sold Out, light Ete. See Bibbys $4.00 Oxford Ties Shoes Tan and blacks. nt rd For Age 2 to 6 years. 75¢ Each Sample Suits, Sold Outs, Etc. Boys' Outing Shirts, Cream or White, 50c. For The Hot Weather TOASTERS ELECTRIC FANS : IRONS Do not suffer with the heat when Electrical Appliances can be purchased and maintained at a small cost. Moore's Electric Repair Shop, Phone 815 .e oe 206 Wellington Street McLeod's found this out now. A little cabal in Toronto decides to run things with high hands and fails, and the leader nrust go. Is that it? if there were more bath and less pink color of a porter-house steak, Turk in it. he will either sign the pledge at once Rippling Rhymes CAMPAIGN WHISKERS The statesman Hughes, as all men know, lets his alfalfa always grow; no richer growth has been pro- duced, and there the robins come to roost. And Fair- banks, too, who hopes to win, has ballast on his shapely chin, and Marshall wears a long moustache to strain his soup and corn beef hash. But there fis comfort in this thought: There are no sideboards in the lot. More proudly would our banner wave, if all the candidates would shave, for whiskers indicate a mind unfitted for a statesman's grind, | greatly fear one can't command the confidence of this broad land, or reach the people's trusting heart, if whispers have a place or part. Yet there is solace in this hunch: There are no sideboards in the bunch. I'd view this summer's thrilling fight with more of rapture and* de- light, if all the candidates would go to barbershops, where artists mow the spinach off for fifteen cents and' like human gents. 1 cannot whoop for those who wear a i of ingrowing hair. Yet this one fact must be allowed: There are eboards in the crowd. 5 7 Montserrat Lime Juice. Rose's Lime Juice. Stower's Lime Juice Cordial. Raspberry Vinegar. Orangeade The Stratford Herald quotes the Premier and his Attorney-General as saying that the Prohibition Act is a war measure only and that they will be guided by the will of the people when the time for the referendum cones. Hedging on the subject al- réady, eh? Intimating that they are ready for a backdown or retreat? Too late. The die is cast, Drug Store The ministers who invaded North Perth, and deluged it with their small talk were not surprised with the results of the election! Nor will they be surprised with the results of the general election later on. The People have pretty well made up their minds what they will do with this precious combination. KINGSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS ACO Kingston Orangemen paraded to Chalmers Church. Rev. M. Macgil-|! livray delivered the sermon. The Separate School Board will award tenders for a mew school of four rooms, a large hall, with apart- ments for the caretaker. ~The contract for the masonry work at the House of Providence has been 'awarded to George Newlands. Grape Juice Gurd's Ginger Ale. Gurd's Soda Water Imported Ginger Ale. Imported Ginger Beer, Jas. Redden & Co. ooo . Phones 20 and t& JUST A REMINDER that we are good things C. H. Pickering Grocer and Meat Dealer 490 sud 492 Princess Street. Phone 530, If you are going to take a vacation, be sure to see us about a Kodak. "Take pictures along the way and enjoy the trip the rest of your life. . A large assortment of all Eastman Goods -- All new stock. Let us develop and print your Pictures. | McLEOD'S DRUG STORE BROCK STREET MR. HEARST'S TROUBLES. The disappointment and grief of Hon. Mr. Hearst over the result of the election in North Perth is deeper than any one outside of the man him- self has any idea of. An aspect of it came out in a local discussion, and through the observations of a conser- vative who knows Mr. Hearst very well. He said the premier, although " \ headguart 1 to eat ria. personally likeable, genial, progres sive and amiable in his manner, was not the choice of the party or that sec- tion of it: