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TH URSDAY, JAUARY Nth, W. S. Dingman is the proprietor of the Stratiord Herald. To add to his other troubles, he was elected Mayor of Stratford on Monday. The Strat- ford Beacon is not apparently fright- ened to death of its opposition, for not only did it treat him fairiy and cour- teously during the contest. but also on Tuesday it published on the front page the name and picture of Strat- iord’s new mayor. There is nothing very striking in all this, for newspapers conducted by men of ability (as the Beacon assur- edly is) will not descend to petty and picayune persecution. The incident is noteworthy, however in contrast with the tactics of two local papers â€" one Subscription Rates. The Daily Free Pressâ€"Delivered by carrier or by mail to town subscrib- ers, 25¢. per month. By mail to out- side points in Canada or' the British Empire, $2 per year. ‘ The Weekly Free Press, 81 per year in advance; $1.25 if not. so paid. Postage m United Statesâ€"Daily or Weekly, 50c. ”Guyana-- --., --__ V v light of The Beacon. One of these 10- cal papers deliberately stroked out one of the names to an address which it pdblished simply because the name was that of a citizen who is also con- nected with The Free Press. The other paper achieved the same result by leaving out ALL the signatures. Simi- lar incidents have also occurred re. cently, and the wonder is that petty childishness could go so far in pro- iessedly public pgints. In the case of the Simcoe Chief of Police who is under arrest on very se- rious charges, Dr. Bruce Smith, me- dical inSpector and expert for Onta- rio, failed to discover any reasonable grounds for believing that the Chief was other than sane, in the common acceptation of the term. The fact that an examination was made of this prisoner, suggests at once the idea that a plea of insanity was at least considered. , The other day Rose, the Toronto jail-breaker, the thug, the brutal rob- her and assaulter of women and old men, was brought forward as a pro- bable victim of some mysterious form of mental absurdity. His lawyer, however, had too good home training and too honorable a conscience to press the insanity plea. 1.1.3“ A: NOT AFRAID OF A FACE OR A NAME. of whom nrofesses loudly and often its love of Stratford’s lead, though not necessarily following the intelligent There seems to be a growing tend- ency in Canada to secure sympathy and short sentences for brutal crim inals by following the United States fashion of discovering new forms of insanity which the brutal criminals aforesaid are supposed to suffer from. Walter Blythe, the death of whose wife followed a. brutal beating which he gave her the other night, is the latest candidate for possible admis- sion to the ranks of the insane. An examination into his medical condi- tion is expected shortly, with what results, of course, it is impossible to Speaking, as it were, in a theoreti- cal and technical way, brutal crimin- als have nearly all a touch of imam ity. The wife beater is never norm- al; the brutal assailant. the coward- 1y midnight marauder, the thief and the thugâ€"all these are lacking in rightful appreciation of the pro- portion of things. It is not well, however, to take too much stock in their evident lack of balance andto overlook their still more evidentmn ness of deviltry. For the protection of decent, honest, hwoabfiding dfiz- ensanefiort.ahonldhemadetoles- sentheefiectsoffliet'generalrunof THE LINDSAY the sudden discovery of insanity in a criminal after he has been caught at some evil work. As long as this high spirit of justice and decency exists among professional men and judges and juries, there is little prob- ability of Canadian justice bearing the same stigma that is rightly ap plied to so many notable cases of brutality and murder recently com- ing before the United States courts. If, however, the tendency towards insanity pleas of this kind grows, there is danger that doctors and law- yers may be unable always to resist the blandishments that may be offer- ed. In the latter case it would be well for the people of Canada to deal with the new danger to justice and in this country judges and juries alike have refused to be swayed by are to hand and have proved else- where most eflicam'ons. . PAGE SIX. Publihsed in Lindsay, Ont., by rec Press Printing 00.. Limit J. V. McNAULTY, President. R. J. MOORE, Bus. Manager. 6. A. MACDONALD, Editor. (the free prees THE CURE FOR CRIMINAL INSANITY. peace of honest citizens thatwili "EREE PRESS WEEKLY EDITION. Telephone 271. ANOTHER ADVANCE PROMISED IN THE POWER PROBLEM. Thomas A. Edison, the famous in- ventor and electrical expert, has made many wonderful promises to the world Some of the inventions which he has, at times past, announced as being brought to a. successful completion dementia, fufia transitoria, 9. er learned names for insanity. and - Operation, seemed almost too revolutionary and too wonderfu'l to be true._ Mr. Edison, however, has the happy knaek of following up his an- nouncements with inventions, that, no matter how marvellous; they may be, prove after all to be everything he claimed for them. This habit of the inventor’s of following wondrous an- nouncements with more wonderful discoveries has been 5.) notice- able that nowadays when he announces the reaching of success in any inventive line the people in gen- eral take it for granted that the ad~ vance has been made, even before the proofs are finally submitted. Mr. Edison’s latest announcement on this account open to the average mind the vast possibilities for im- provement and extension in the hand- ling of the country’s traflic by electric methods of locomotion. Mr. Edison, this, week, expresses his full confi- dence in the succescs of his latest in- ventionâ€"a practical storage battery for power-propelled cars. Mr. Edison’s plan is to place these batteries under the seats of the cars, and his claim is that they can be suf- ficiently charged at the power-houses to run continuously for an entire day without re-charging. In an interview, this week, Mr. Edison explained that no additional tracb ,poles or power- houses would be required ior his plan. The new battery cars would :AL _._a_ _A seems to prevent criminal assaults. Under the sweet fear of the at nine out 01 ten of these bmtes lose this form of insanity. , Bread and water and work, and a little of their own medicine; as an appetizer, seems to have similarly good results on those whose insanity takes the fleeting form of wife beat~ outpouring of real justice will do much to check the spread of many of the mysterious forms of b‘rutal crim- inality that pose in Yankeeland as In the article from the Bowmanville Review, reproduced elsewhere in this issue. incidental reference is made to a certain class of objectionable‘adVer- tising that is not fit to be pub- lished in any decent journal. If news- papers continue to neglect or refuse to keep out this filthy form of adver- tising then they need expect that in the very near future an enlightened and Christian community will refuse to allow the offending journals into their homes. run one hundred miles without; re- charging and would even utilize the machinery which brings the car to a stop for re-charging. The cars would -w-~ If this latest invention of Mr. Edi- son’s proves as successful in opera- tion as his other wonders, the whole be revolutionized. It does not require any large stretch of imagination to see how easily and how economically system of handling trafic bids fair to Mr. Edison’s battery car could be utilized to displace the reign of steam, even on the transcontinental railways. With the passing of the steam roads the country would be the gainer in a hundred and one ways, while the one gain alone of added comfort and cleanliness by the stoppage of the steam and smoke nuisances, that steam cars bring, should cause the inventor’s name to be remembered in .deepest gratitude by a long-suffering people. "'r 7 _ run on any rails, either the present street car rails, or the steam car rails, and if they jumped the track at any Advertising matter may be omec- tionable because of an intention to deceive and defraud the public, or it may be improper on account of the vulgarisms and indecencies which it contains. The class of objectionable advertising which The Free Press most strongly condemns is the black- guardly, advertisements of certain pa- tent medicine firms that combine iraud with indecency, vulgarity and loathsome suggestions . Advertisements offering for. sale pills and potions that are meant and used for infant murder, disgrace and condemn every journal that allows them entrance to its columns. Adver- tisements of quack nostru‘ms for di- seases that should never be spoken of tiEeâ€"ihey 'céuld'be put back on the rails with their own power. Bnuayu Uuwv -â€" except in the course of medical confi- dence are outrageous articles to send into unsuspecting homes. For children to read the foul and disgusting adver- tisements of some infamous and fraudulent quack devil doctors is to poison the young minds with unSpesk- able filth. If the law of the land will not prevent and punish the publica- tion of indecent and suggestive“ slime in the form of quack advertisements and place a penalty on the publica- tion of alleged aids to infant murder. then surely it is at leet high time that honest and honorable memhen of the newspaper proiedonshonld purge their columns Fot these “fled- vertisements of ‘ their own volition The Montreal Wfinessnd The Can- OBJECTIONABLE ADVERTISING. lash not only cui'es‘ Bowmanville objec- adian Farm nnd Duty ”0 ‘W "1" Wing journals that have “ken 1 firm stand against these domains nnd objectionable idvertisementl, and The Free Preu prides itself on will in columns free iron these foul adver- tisementa that are fraudulent nine times out of ten and debasinc and loathsome nine hundred and nine- ty-nine times out of a thousand. That decent people allow papers containing vile and suggestive adver- tisements to come into their homes for the. perusal and perhaps the di- for the. perusal and perhaps the di- rect degradation of their children. simply shows how lax is the average parent in watching the general tone of the papers that his youngsters read. Two Lindsay papers that are often given to loud prating about Christi- anity and morality and holiness and heavens know what. publish these ad- vertisements of indecency and these incitements to murder. This is plain talk, perhaps, but it is time that the peeple were awakening to a sense of their responsibility and looking af- ter the public press with a. view to preventing the instilling into chil- dren’s minds of foul and filthy things. The newspapers that love a few dol- lars more than decency and cleanli- ness are not fit for any decent com- munity to support. Walter Blythe. the C.P.R. section- men at Agincourt, whose wife died af- ter one of the terrible beatings that it appears he was in the habit of giv- ing her. is credited with saying that he expects that he will be hanged now. but that he can go to that death “like a man." If Blythe is found guilty of murd- er and the stories that he was in the habit of beating his wife early and of- ten are shown to be true, he should be given full opportunity to fulfill his boast of being able to "hang like a man." Some evidence of manship, even in his dving hours, would be a bright spot on the life of a wifeobeat- er. Assuredly a wife-beater does not “live” like a. man â€" no, nor even like a dog, or a beast. or a reptile. Even the lowest of the lower creatures are good to their own, and man seems to Of course, it is generally known that the Light, Heat Power Com- pany does not “declare” such large dividends now as 16 per 'cent., tut it is equally well known that there are more ways of reaching a given point than walking straight there. The “res ” fund, or “reserve’ ’fund, or similar fund under a fanciful name, often takes care of the surplus earn- ings of companies that know the pub- lic would wipe them out of existence it the people really knew how large the dividends. were for most unsatis- factory service. The Free Press trusts that Mr. Don- ald and other earnest citizens will keep this power and light question constantly before the public. in its varied- phases until the peeple wake up to energetic action. Neither the service, the rates, or the treatment ac- corded the public are what they ought to beâ€"and that is putting the matter very mildly indeed take naughty pre-eminence as the on- ly animal that abuses its mate. If Walter Blythe is a wife-beater, then by all means let warm justice allow him the compensation of dying “like a man.” After a record that the beasts do not deserve and that humanity unanimously agrees is not living up to the lowest ideals of man~ liness, it would be well to have one touch of manhood even if that came not till the last great drop. tered’ can draw sixteen per cent. in dividends, it is easy to imagine that the dividends would be enormous if only paid on such stock as was mor- ally, as well as legally, bona-fide, in- vested capital. It may be pointed out that this condition existed scme years ago, and it is doubtful if the present conditions are not even more remunerative to the stock holders in this money-making institution. A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECo TION. In his letter in this issue. Mr. J. P. Donald calls attention to the fact that in a suit some years ago the lo~ cal electric power and light plant ad- mitted to making 16 per cent. on their stock, which undoubtedly had more or less aqua pura in its makeup. When stock commonly known as ‘wa- If Lindsay’s interests are to come first, there must be a change in the power and light situation. tion wi1 The resolution moved by Ald.~Ky1ie and seconded by Ald. Dobson at the Council meeting Monday is a move in the right direction. and the mover and seconder are to be highly com- mended for their sensible and ener- getic action. The Council. in accept.- ing the motion also iustifies the peo- ple’s recently expressed confidence in diet body. A There has been so much written, so much more said, and. most of all, BURNTRIVER. thought, regardingathe rates and treat. (Special to The Free pm”) ment accorded the town by the I... H. The bridge being erected by the P- 00- that the 001111031 8'0 only Ontario government over the Burnt following the interests of the people river near' here, is neg-1y completed. incommen‘dnganenqniryastohow The ironwork will be in place this wrongsmay be righted, if they exist. week; ‘ - V That Ald. Kylie introduced the no- In Adolph my in the“ ma 1 ..tâ€" EASY RICHES \FROM AN PEOPLE. IT WOULD BE A CHANGE. "EASY" The Moral Reform Committee of the Anglican Church at Otta- wa has taken active steps to pre- vent the sale of immoral literature in Canada. Representations have been made to the Government and enquiry and action asked for. The amount of evil and degrading lit- erature of one kind and another circulated in this county is no doubt alarming, and the Moral Reform Association deserves high credit for its steps in the direction of saving the young and the fool- ish from being mind-poisoned and debased by filthy and suggestive trash that can have no other efiect than the making for physical, spiritual, and moral degeneration. The country, however, is threat- ened with a greater moral danger than that arising from the circula- tion of literature that is, openly bad and brazenly immodest and immoral. This danger is all the greater because it is so little rea- lized. Reference is made to the objectionable matter in professed- ly respectable papers. By strict watchfulness parents may keep out of their homes and out of their libraries that class of liter- per and illegal suggestions. } Every decent man and every de- jcent women owes it to him- self and to herself and to the growing generation to match professedly respectable j‘onr- ature which is commonly termed immoral, but so called respectable newspapers are often' admitted without thought of question when at the same time they contain ed- vertisements that have in them more evil suggestions. more dis- gusting vulgarity and more out- rageous filth than a half a dozen admittedly immoral books._ Some of the vaunted leading journals of Canada are willing for a few paltry dollars to sell space to be given to the use of fraudulent quacks whose adver- tisements are sometimes a mass of immoral details and at other times the thinly veiled cloak for impro- from his self-imposed task of cas- tigation when the whip broke and so became useless. All these facts taken together impress the necessity for some change in the custom of treating the brutes who mistreat their wives. Prison is not the place for them. In fact it would be adding unnatural and undeserved punish- ment to the legal sentence 9f fine to force the association of the wife-beating brutes upon them. In the second place,_ while the fife-beater is in jail, his sponse prived of the small assistance such fellows give to the np-keeping of the house. - meteenngseemedwbem_m nals, and when such papers allow themselves to become the tools of immoral and degrading quacks and the instruments for the furth- erance of the crime of infant mur- der, it is time for decent people to prevent the entrance of such jour- nals into their homes. in jail. The alleged man used a horse- whip to thrash his wife, and he left her bleeding and with terrible welts and bruises all over her body. The brute _only desisted The proper prescription for the wife-beater is his own medicine. The knowledge of a sure applica- tion of the whip to their own backs would be a certain deter- rent to the odd form of alleged in- sanity which prompts men to abâ€" 188 their defenceless wives. hir .trelgment md dl due condderr tion, but the very pm 01 this spirit would also out“! “I“ “10 in- mm of me mwn will not be “10'- ed M) suffer Let the good work 80 on. Ziaâ€"mag! wthiev‘és, rogues, black- guards and murderers who are confined in the penaljnstitqtiops A burly brute in Toronto was this week sentenced to thirtydays in jail for beating his wife. The light sentence was due to the pleadings of his wife in his be- half, and the fact that she would be without support while he was 7H! wzzxw n35: mm ANOTHER WHIP NEEDED. A WORTHY MOVEMENT. councillors in (Correspondence Free Press.) Jan. Nthâ€"Skating is now_ the tav- orite pastime for the young. , our grain merchant, Mr. A. He- Leen. is kept busy these days ship- pins emin- On Thursday last the Women's Missionary Society met at the home of Mr. M Msybee, when a. social :1- temoon was spent. the Rev. Mrs. Tonkin being present to mnke the acquaintance of the several members. Miss Brown, of Oshood. hes org- anized s music else: here. end will give lessons on Tuscany and Wednes- day of each w‘eek. ' C u an A..- Mr. Robt. Bess- has bought the new building 1wa erected by W- Townsend for a blacksmith shop and has had it removed to his farm. 11:. Geo. 00me 3M “19m B. J. (inugh’s Big Clothing and Furnishing Sale. A Regular Feast For the "Public. $45,000 Stock of Clothing Suits, Over- coats and Furnishing Bargains Sell- . ing Rapidly . . . ACT QUICKLY. That the people of Lindsay, Ontario, Victoria County and vicinity have been taking advan. turer’s Outlet Sale has been manifest by the large crowds in use of B. J. Gough's Manatee attendance at this big clothing, suit, overcoat and furnishings sale sinces the opening day. Shipment upon alfipment of Hanufacturen' surplus stocks have been added to this great. and this nioet wonderful clothing, suit and overcoat sale has proven one of the greatest bargain feasts that the maple of Lindsay and Victoria County have ever litre- tofore been able to participate in, and those who are attending the sale buy liberally and are well pleased with their purchases, recommending their friends to B. J. Manufacturer's Outlet Sale of clothing, suits, overcoats, men's, boys’ and children’s wearing spread far and wide of the many bargains that B. J . Gough and children's clothing, furnishings, etc., now sen. is oflering on men's suits, overcoats, boys' Commercial circles have been shaken from centre ing at about oneohalf their regular value. to circumference. The sale is the talk of the entire province. The people appreciate clothing, furnishings, the good quality kind at a bargain price, and they are showing their apprecia- tion daily by buying out B. J. Gough’s big Manufacturer’s purchase by the wagon loads The Sale will last only a few days more. and to those who have not attended this sale and bene- fited accordinglyâ€"we wish to say to you that you are missing a great opportunity to secure for yourself your wearing apparel at about one-half their regular cost. In justice to yourself, you cannot aflord to stay away, as this sale presents an Opportunity to save many dollars on clothing, suits, overcoats, furnishings for men, boys and children. B. J. Gough would be unable to make this great sacrifice on clothing, furnishings, etc., were it not from the fact that manufacturers were forced to realise cash on their surplus stocks with instructions to sell them out at retail at from one-third to one-half their actual value. This is a sale that comes about once in a lifetimeâ€"and you owe it to your family and your pocketbook to make this great saving, when the opportunity presents itself, and this is your Opportunity during this sale to save yourself many dollars. Remember that the sale only lasts a few days more. so buy all you may need for "the next ten years at such a sacrifice sale on men’s and boys'. suits, overcoate, children’s clothing, furnishings will probably never occur here again. Make your arrangements to attend the sale before it closes and secure your share of the many clothing, suit. overcoat and furnishing bargains being ofiered. A word to the intelli- gentphould be suficient, as B. J. Gough's big sale present an opportunity to make your dollar do double duty. Hake no mistake; he sure and find B. J. Gough’s Store. Look for the big sign, reading, 8. J. Oough'aflanufacturer'e Outlet Sale aF‘Lindsay. Ontario. Don't Delay, but Act Quickly. as this tale will seen be a Thing of the Past. Q'me 3 ““1"” 1mm hate amended service at Powleg' 00th.: day afternoon. ' on Sun- nr. Manly lays. i, I. r upâ€"to-da summer. mm to g their BEFORE TOO LATE THURSDAY. «um um fin'n 15E; as'e of 111. Tuesday, ”my. chair. Among “hem, J. an. flint was “8115an ' ,_ for mused 91 yes" In... man no In the for ‘ eterbor Exam): ,.._, the veteran d ' stage, came ‘ 1 his team of h 4 7 CfOS;ing til“ 1 ‘ usual route aCI‘u , at a fast rate. Dun says we ‘ 4 One of the ho ice, but was kw Vite! b\ tht it along. T-lu i inches thick at f t will be learn N-Peterborough Ext ow escape irol gas fumes was r from the south , Saturday mormm Fell were almost 1 .7 which had in from a (-o _« was afiectvd “01 - - . but both have ' bad efiects resul ~Kinden Echo. N . of Little Britain , ’tion as teacher H1, and stairs Ll .., r ey north of Lu ~ train at Kmniul ' ‘ , she lost her m of money. H4 ", which is :1 rial rgnments on both andy for January 30 â€"Jimmy Reynolds, uber, wants to w: 'ort Hape to T oronn iew the other day men't growing aide! [to Ihape quite com o it yet," said Jim! [his previous unsm be old walker seem: a can make the m‘ the annual ( ‘1 Hinisterial As when such a co ' 'al Associat church only om- linden Echo: , of Toronto , to take charg mission at a very fax-o it W111 be 8 pit‘ 1y hear St. P Lâ€"They have snea finden. The Echo ' for such parm .~ I: of this town Inous articles fro hey consist of a papshovel, chain 1 as are suspected 11:1 -â€"The appeal of J. 1 It. Justice Briuon’l using his prelimini Lt. J. H. Burnham’l I eleCtion to the l on: for West. Pete me up before the S laws. on February 1 be! through the! 2 Press to thank theil’ kind aid 1:) as yet mising 1 -'l'he Peter-bore c1} ichurch in a bad I! by all town f‘ serious sicknes lies, at CObUkOlL hding physio mm D for his ten 0\ cl iered that Mr Moon}; train] H. Iniving in ‘ Wing at 6.30 finch, but OWiI .fiy the GT. to be over i was p Finder w i 11 by forwarding Wke star: m for the : be funeral too? PRIZES F0 at Tuesday, Judo Pe‘ W, IOId m to Mr. Ind Mauve. “ Fhvelh H. Squier 310 for th 1y of pen I in each I: Vet-uh are Jo}!