i _ L_PAcEYOUR _ -- Poronto- reform farms, with Tout aue cash . i tates ......H1. rats. months pro REFORMING THE FALLEN Taspector Stewart makes one feel, a8 he reads the prison report, that he is afraid of losing his job, and that any reform which means, less imprisonment for the unfortunates in Canada, must be tabooed. "The self-constituted . reformers' are not to be discouraged by Mr. Stewart's remarks. These reformers have accomplished a great deal by their reasonable service, and theré] is a great deal more which they can do, The, Guelph prison farm, and the farm of the City of Toronto, in York county, supply the evidence that men and women can be reform- ed and made useful members of so- "elety, It was only a day or two ago that the Whig heard the mayor of King- ston recite his experiences in the To- ronto_ retreat for minor offenders. Here' "men were restricted in - their service, "but they were employed by the farmers in the vicinity, at a wage which was paid to the prison manag- ers, and turned over, less the cost of their keep, to the men when they left their prison home. +A woman, young in years, and ad- dicted to drink, had been committed to all 80 often that her's appeared to be a hopeless case, and yet, under the guidance of those at the farm, they become sober and industrious, had worked for & number of persons in the neighborhood, at a good wage. She accumulated a sufficient sum to "buy herself a trosseau that would be a Credit to anyone and give her a well-filled purse when she set out for home. # The tendency to regard fallen men and womén as hopejess wrecks Is a sad mistake, and it cannot bg/ too soundly repudiated by re nable men and women. A committee of parliament should see that Inspector Stewart is furniafied with the evidence; of reforms which Toronto supplies. Better still, the government should see that he visits 'the Guelph end tions to study them and report as man forsight and ingenuity are gome- times baffled dnd defeated in a most surprising way. The plans and speci- fications, and the Wethod of con- struction, were in both instances com- plete, Science and skill and genius co-operated in amplifying the pre- parations for the great undertaking. And in spite of all accidents happen- ed. : What-a commentary there is on the rash judgment of inconsiderate] men, The first collapse oéecurred while the Laurier government was in power, and then men, in a partisan spirit, did not hesitate to fasinuate that some one was criminally at fault. The second collapse accentuated -a painful fact, namely, that accidents should be discussed without ' party bias and with something like human feeling for those who are crushed. No one who is considerate thinks or imputes blame tc any government in connection with the bridge dis- asters. The governments are not to blame. They entrusted the contracts to the best engineers and contractors, and they can rest assured that a dis- criminating people will know how to value and appreciate their work. The 'government of Canada will have to increase its accomodation for the care of its'Soldier sick and in- valids. The number - of retiring heroes is very large, and no expense is being spared for their care. TRANSFER OF MANAGEMENT. The Mowat Hospital board has done the only thing that was possible under the circumstances. \It has agreed to transfer the management of the institution, antil after the war, to the Military Hospitals Com- mission, which has to do with the care of the returned and sick sol- diers, especially those who are suf- fering from tuberculosis. Fop some time the soldier patients have been numerous, and the number will cer- tainly increase. Why this is the case is explanable, The exposure of 'the men in the trenches, in inclement weather, develops the disease in all who show a tendency towards 'it. There are over twenty tubercular pa- tients in the Mowat Hospital now. There will be others, many of them, as soon as the accommodation has been provided. time being, has been interfered with. It was planned to offer relief, if not & cure, to the tubercular patients of this district, and it has already per- formed in this respect a service of the very highest value. The contin« produced changes in its work of a most_significant character. The hos- pital took in a few: of the soldiers, and then a few more, and ere long the capacity of the Institution was reachéd. Then became apparent a condition whose presence was very insistent as time went by. The mili- tary and the civils could not be very well looked after in the same estab- lishment. tion, and hence the enquiry as to whether thé Hospitals Commission could not have the building and its equipment, until the end of the war, and a little later, for a considera- tion. oo The' board of mandgement has given its consent, and the friends and subicribers to thie funds of the institution will approve when they know all the circumstances. The Hospitals Commission will have to add to the 'accommodgtion, and as far as this may, be necessaty, through a number of cottages, all of a given plan. These will be copstructed on capital account, and they will be- come a part of the plant when the Hospitals Commission is through with Ahem. The Ontario government The design of the hospital, for the] gencies of the war, hogever, have There had to be a separa-|. rEEDAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, gformérs began their agitation. men were set to work quarrying marble. The practice was to drive from fifty to one hundred men on chains attached to poles of | the, carts that carried heavy blocks, ahead of a team of oxen. The whip minister of public works in Manitoba meddlesonte he suggested an amendment to the contract of Carter & Company, who were building the Agricultural Col- lege, and that later the Conservative Association profited by the contribu- tien of .many thousands of dollars. |qlike. The transaction looks very. bad all | Sometimes men alone were used, | the same. It has the usual Rogers' | appearance fs Bers | the legs of those nearest the front |i : / | wheels were broken by a sudlien jolt, | ili | The cells were seven fet long, three|jjy 2 | feet and three inches wide, and six | PUBLIC OPINION | =. 4 [ York. Sometimes | placed in one cell. lodging houses in Newlj Don't Look Well. ' (Hamilton Times) Rev. Dr. Chown is an | once in every twenty-four hours. The stench was frightful. Did any "self-comnstituted reform- ever make so terrible a mistake Are the engineers who worked on |as that? Did any '"'self-constituted the Forth Bridge livihg? If so, bet- | reformer" ever make so terrible a ter engage them to complete the | mistake as that which resulted in the Quebec Bridge. "| sale of liquors and drugs by keepers | to prisoners? Talk about coddling! | The indulgente that is prompted by | desire for reform is divine wisdom | compared with the cruelty that leads to ruin. We that militant. Call Them In. (Hamilton" Herald) | er" Perhaps He Was. (Ottawa Free Press) At the last hour the U. 8. Congress dropped all reprisal legislation. Per- haps somebody was afraid of hurt- ing the crop of munition million- aires. suggest would do not. mean to Inspector Stewart countenance these horrors and crimes of the old regime. But we have a notion that a certain obstinacy and love of controversy are putting him on the wrong side, and against such men as Thomas Mott Osborne, the man who reformed and humanized Sing Sing. Depend upon it the reformers are right. A New Retreat. (Hamilton Times) The Brantford rane) have re- fused to dispense liquors under the prohibition law. Perhaps the doctors can open a bar in their consulting room. aime to Think on "Mivertiser) Plaintiff' yg a lawsuit at New Or- leans says an enginyer stopped his train for two hours in order to go fishing.' "This is a relief frqm those noted American hustle storie Historical Precedent. (Toronto Globe) Those persons who are seriously disturbed at the language of Sir Sam Hughes, which, as Truthful James would 'say, "is frequent and painful and free," should study his- torical precedents. Rome was saved by the cackle of a goose. SOLDIERS VOTING IN THE TRENCHES Montreal Gazette (Con y The soldier from #British Colum- bia in camps in the United Kingdom have already voted for the provincial election in the Pacific coast province, and now the war office has given permission for the extension of the voting privilege to those on active service in Europe. . This creates a precedent. It dlso proves that vot- ing in war time does not necessarily upset the voters' balance to the ex- tent of causing trouble between the various political sections, a condi- tion which some of the observers pre- tended to fear would be the case. There have been parliamentary bye- elections in Great Britain as usual during the war and there have been general elections in some of the self- governing lands. The Commonwealth of Australia is soén to hold a refer- . All Hope Is Gone, _ (Brantford Expositor) Swiss despatches indicate that German manufacturers are demand- ing payment for machinery supplied to Switzerland in French francs, in- staad of German marks. When the citizens of a nation of the pretensions of Germany lose confidence in their own coinage the financial condition must indeed be bad. military service, a contentious issue if ever there was ome. To date no harm has come of these expressions of public will through the ballot box. SING SING PRISON AS IT USED TO BE "If any of you go to Canada, I hope -you will give me a call. You Toronto Star (Lib.). Frank Marshall White, in the At-| you," said the Duke.of Devonshire to lantic Monthly, shéws how the thing|a gathering of his tenants at Pent. vie * Ne Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax ,of Cabbages and Kings." was managed in Sing Sing before the rh Wicarage. od i' roads of the American bunion and the silk mills of, France are turning out shrapnel, we are obliged to rely upon shiny substitutes composed largely of lacquered lisle thread and THE SILK STOCKING The silk stocking is a once proud emblem of aristocracy which has now become more common than flies at a Sunday scheol picnic. Who of our readers cannot re- member the time when the owner of a pair of silk stockings was looked up to, with more reverence than the possessor of a plug hat? In our child- hood there were always one or two pairs of silk stockings in town which were worn on stated occasions and exhaled the aromstic flavor of the moth ball. There were long- wiry, coal-black stockings, and whenever they appeared in public they caused more unrestrained envy than a sedan top does nowadays. As they were made entirely of silk they were hard- er to wear out than a hall cloc nd pasged down to the third and fourth generation of bulging biceps intact. As money had become more plen-. tiful and mid-summer clearijig sales | thicker than the seeds in a water- was applied to the men and oxen|ii { and more than once it happened that|f§ | feet and six inches high, providing{} one-third of the space allowed in the} two men were|li} . There was nol honorary | plumbing, and the bucket provided | i colonel and a member of the church ffor the prisoner was emptied onlyl} endum on the question qf compulsory| 3 will" find 'a hearty reception awaiting |= will "probable continue #its grants, and the federal government will be- come interested, in a way that will be abiding and of great financial ad- vantage. On the Jvhole; the arrange- ment is one which will prove very the possibility of having them eb cated. i a ov. satisfy anyone that harsh treatment will reform a convict. Prison life is designed. to and correct. It | satisfactory. _ punishes all t. Doss it correct and . ly reform, or improve the individual? The J. TTORIAL '. Robes railway bridge will yet be finished, and by the St. Lawrence Bridge Com- pany. Canadian talent, Canadian skill, and Canadian energy will yet ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN The Quebes bridge catastrophy car- ries with it a great and serious les- melon, silk stockings are encounter- ed at every turn of the road. They are thrust jnto the faces of modest men pn thq street, the veranda and the stage. Most of these stockings are bprn to bloom but for one brief summer, when they ravel out at the heel and break down at the ankle, thus discouraging people from tak- ing a second look. The silk stock- Hngs owned by the average girl of sixteen, if placed on end, would reach twice around the world and as far south as the Gulf stream. This is no doubt the reason why father en- joys so many of his vacations. in close Alleged silk hose which after two| = hours of service allow the big toe go eae to cn public confidence. It is extremely dis- appointing to ffivest 39 cents in a pair of alleged silk hose which after two hours of service allow the big toe to protrude in an aimless and dis- 'concerting manner, This experience has driven many a man to wearing some durable form of stocking which will not fall apart before the end of the week. The silk stocking is cool and entic- ing, and can be washed once with "not a country. of unlimited means, son, The enterprise was one which _only the country could undertake, but one of uumited possibilities. | The Na "Transcontinental Railway marked a forward step in - national development of the Srehton into the future and saw Joist ur 80_far away, when another continent- al line would be necessary, and they boldly launched the scheme. Tfie triumph. No ome. bas lost faith in bridge the vontmating cumpan he dt me be as been discovered. I a girder which had been weakened by the strain of several weeks. Good. This will be avoided again. A third effort to complete the bridge will be a suc- cess," surely. : rr Nie . ------------------ - Hon. Mr. Graham is authority for thé statement that there will be a fedaral wlecton within 3 2008 This The truce has been a and studious proximity to the credi- good results. 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