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The proposal to have the Dominion Government participate in rural road improvement in the several Provinces One of these dimculties will be found in the division of authority, Federal, Provincial, and municipal authorities will all demand a voice in spending the money. Is there not cer- tain to he waste where there is such .a multiplication of authorities in control and with one party in power at Ottawa. another in power in some of fie Provinces. and with more or ”mm o! partisanship in municipal LINDSAY, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12th is one that should not be finally de- cided on without full consideration of all the dimculties to be met with in; carrying the proposal into efiect, says } the Farmers’ Sun. { ‘Fnea, when the roads are built. the question of who owns them will be certain to. arise. The scheme in view appears to contemplate the building of trunk lines hundreds of miles in length. No farmer wants to drive a hundred miles. His longest haul, save in the pioneer sections, is seldom ov- er ten miles. This trunk scheme of -highwats looks like a. device to tax the whole people for the making of speedways for motors, and in the end if the roads are built, it will be found that no horses, unless so blind it cannot see. and so badly blemish- «2d it cannot run, will be safe upon them. $1.25 per yaar; $100 if paid in advance direct to pub‘liSher We have no subscription agents. WILSON av WILSON, Examiner: A great many persons seem to think that the passage of the Hydro-Electric power by-law is an end; whereas, it is only a. means to an end. There are many things to be done before Peterboro will reaâ€" lize dividends upon the big vote poll- THE LATEST 690i) ROAD SCHEME POWER QUESTION AT PETERBORD office. I); vs“ \ 'j‘fxe- t‘ULULIBIAN CONSERVATORY is now teaching more pupils than :wy mine:- in Canada, and has the endorsabiun of allleaditg Gullah" SiHl‘. of the cust. The COL. 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KENNEDY 45 William S; reet Lindsay Wifilam St BY MAIL taco-ooocnooao 0-... on .00....unooo.o. fthe inducements represented by cheap 'power. We should be able to put up a very strong bid for new industries. §To our exceptional railway facilities 'of transportation, is to be added at 'no distant date the very important :advantage of water transportation gthrough completion of the Trent Ca- nal. It therefore becames the duty of the City Council. Board of Trade, and other interests. to take on an activity that has not heretofore been shown in the direction of making electric power, when we shall get it. of real advantage. in the develop- ment of the city, and not an unde- manded commodity. ed in favor of the by-law on Monday. We have to go through the process of application the power by-law confers, and when we shall have pow- er brought to our doors at cost, the real problem appears. If we get four or five thousnnd horse power at cost, What shall we do with it ? If we canâ€" not make profitable use of it, it be- comes the. fifth wheel to a wagon. This calls for the adoption of a more energetic campaign to attract new industries to Peterhoro. We canâ€" not expect to sell power to our pre- sent largest power using industries, for they are independent; they have power of their own, beyond their present needs, and sufficient for much greater use as expansion comes. It therefore becomes necessary for our City Council, our Board of Trade, and our citizens prominently inter- ested in industrial development to project and apply an energetic scheme to place new industries in the city. Much will depend upon being early in the field, in our ability to ofler The Reichstag election campaign has been resumed with vigor after an almost complete interruption during the holidays. The elections will be held on Jan. 12. An observer accus- tomed to the heated ten days clos- ing of a British campaign can see few evidences of interest. and is apt to conclude that only the South Ger- mans, whose elections coincide with those for the Bavarian Diet, are real- ly excited over the struggle. The Ger- mans as a people, however, take poâ€" litics difierently. As a matter of fact THE GERMAN ELECTIONS on. 0"! It! 0.00.: on receipt we 5 Elec ', Phos vim ant weakne 1111‘:ch .0‘5': interest in the elections was never greater, although it is not so notice- able as in the sensational patriotic campaign of 1907. and according to statements made at several of the party headquarters, it is expected that the vote will be fully up to the record polling of that year, when more than 84 per cent of the qualified ; voters cast their ballots. The issues are not so clear cut this year, but they concern national in- terests of vital importance to a greater degree, involving as they do financial legislation to a large ex- tent. the possibility of further taxa- tion at the coming session, and the ‘high cost of living At Radical head~ *quarters enthusiasm is displayed ov- ler the chances of success on these is- sues. The Radicals say that the lat- est reports show that the position recently assumed by the Vatician with regard to modernism and the relation of the clergy to the civil courts is playing a considerable role in the strongholds of the clerical con- re. The other side points to the menace to agriculture contained in the possibility of legislation affectâ€" ing agrarian protection. The recent war scare seems to be playing a secondary part, the hear- ing of which is uncertain. Most of the parties have succeeded in asso- ciating themselves completely with the popular feeling aroused by paâ€" triotism. thetic because they cannot even feel that they defended themselves to the last. Their fall was nnheroio, and their present position is ignominous. Ignominous is the description of their future position under the Parliament Bill they always choose themselves. Let them realize it now and not ac- quiesce. Their present position is imâ€" possible. Either let them go on in the sole and avowed intention of get- ting the Parliament Bill repealed or let them give up work inside the Chamber altogether and devote their energies to work outside where they can do a very great deal with very good effect. The worst thing possible both for them and for the country would be to lapse into the illusion that because they are still called the House of Lords and have escaped the great injection of new peers, things are as they were; that they either are or are taken to be the old House of Lords. Inside everything looks so exactly as it did, all seems to go on so much as before, that the mistake might be natural, but it would not be less deadly. The forecasts generally admit a gain for the Socialists, who are ex- pected to overcoine the losses they sustained in the great anti-Socialist landslide in 190?,” and corresponding losses by the Conservative party of the Centre. But only the rashest prophets venture even now to make definite predictions as to the num- ber of seats which will undergo a change. Those best informed believe that the Socialists will return with at least 81 seats, which they held at the time of the dissolution in 1906, but the prediction that the Social- ists will carry 100 seats is frequent- ly heard. It is quite generally ex- pected that the turnover will be suf- ficient to dethrone the present Con- servative-Centrist majority and force theGovernment to bid for additional allies in the next Reichstaz. The Russian bear, with distressful experiences of his own as to what revolution means, to say nothing of the severe punishment which he suffer- ed from Japan as the result of his attempt to annex Manchuria, is hav- ing rcascn in these days to realize that things are coming his way at last. The Chinese revolution is resultâ€" ing to Russian advantage in that alâ€" ready E-astern. or as it has been known, Chinese, Turkestan and Mon- golia, Those vast areas which the Chinese Empire has heretofore man- aged to hold as Chinese territory are -v â€"‘â€"â€"v H" restores every nerve in the bod Phosthl to it: proper tension . restore: I * [tundra-liq. Prmtuedecayand ndellsexnl m.-..k Iun-A‘ fl“ no Ion-get to be subject to whatever central authority to be set up in China but are to be Russian. Not that there has been any an- nouncement of this as yet. What is announced is that Eastern Turkestan and Mongolia, have declared themselv- es autonomous;\ which, being interpre- ted, means that presently the Russian authority will establish itself in those regions of immense extent. Mongolia which occupies both terraces of the great plateau of Eastern Asia, has a population which is estimated at 9,- 600,000 ; and the population_ of East- ern Turkestan, which fcrma part of Electric Restbrer to; ‘Men I , L-)â€" u..â€"~_ év‘éifib matted” _ If a. nuke outnum. Prioc $5. ailgd t) may addgegg. MW “3 beat I'm-loo 3 5. “o" q 3 The position of the House of Lord: aw in pitiful; pituul rather than pa- PRESENT POSITION OF HOME OF mm at wcnngzsumuh In: RUSSIAN ADVAELES IN ASlA IL ‘6‘ It is to be hoped that Col. Hughes thas not aspirations to be a war lord, and that he does not come from ‘Lindsay to Ottawa as one who came frorn Corsica to Paris to carve the : iworld into new shapes with his of sword. , Canada is a. busy modern country, whose inhabitants feel disposed to I, live in plenty rather than die on as fields of glory. If. by minding their 3% .own business, they can preserve the 8. ‘and o! no very long time at that un- til both Mongolia and Eastern Turkâ€" cstan are Russmn dependencies, with- out any pretence to the contrary by ‘Russian diplomaey. ! Toronto Star: Hon. Col. Hughes is credited with saying that if Canada will give him an army of a million men who can hit a target at five hundred yards, no foreign foe will {ever set foot in Canada. Next sum- mer, in addition to the regular mili- tia, he will drill 40, 000 schoolboys in the art of war, and whether such is his purpose or not, will familizrmm their minds with the expectation of the vast moantainâ€"girdled central â€"â€"-“g Asian plateau. is figured by SVen Hai task din as being from 1,800,000 to 2,000,- any 000. Speaking roughly, Mongolia and has Eastern Turke-stan form an area, on the the map of Asia comparing with the see remaining area of China and Tibet as on this country compares With the United well States on the map of this continent. Lthe T150 beat informed accounts agree @311 that in the regular Russian way there ‘ ate has been a prolonged infiltration of; '1") Russian influences. 1.th local mag-mates aim being secured by bribery and prozimsi sire of greatness c3 wealth. The dispatch-«8m! esstate that on 'l‘huradaylaat the; pron Russian representative in Penn enlieéftiee at the Chinese Foreign Odice and Bug-3‘} ‘ hat China ghoul?! at once cue-undo con- trol of Mongolia, which the Chinese authorities deflated their inability to do. This is taken to mean that Rue» eta will assume control, on the plea that China's inability makes such ac- tiOn necessary. On the same day that Russia's omcial representatiaes “were made at Penn, to the eflect that Chinese authority should be mâ€"eetab- fished in Mongolia, Russian influence installed in the highest position of ecclesiastical authority in Mongolia 3. strongly pro-Russian subordinate and representative of the Dalai Lama of Tibet. It is only a. question dE time, AFTER _ 7 YEARS SUFFERING At present there are protestations. from St. Petersburg that Russia is : adhering strictly to a policy of non-I interference, rand has no other aim than to protect the integrity and in- dependence of the two regions in ques tion. These protestations are] of the same character as the assurances from St. Petersburg that the Russian Government entertained no designs on Persia, and Would withdraw its mili- tary forces from Persian son when the Persian Government had apologiz- ed, and- dismissed Mr. Shuster. 91fhese are days when Russia is realizing its opportunities in Asiaâ€"Winnipeg "Freei I Was Cured by Lydia E. Pink- hn‘s Vegetable Compound “rmmmdmwm mm“ munmwmwMWWMm . i .mle ummmmmmé mMMmMMMflMmMMWW pt 30 bJ that I - " could not. dupday . «night. Whilein ‘ thicondifionlnud of Lydia I. Phraâ€" ham 9 V ohbk Coupon: .36 been in In ad wrote to.“ Mm to. advice. ‘3 Another Grate” Woman London, Ontâ€"J feel as if I could not tell others enough about the ood Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable gam- nd has done for me. I was so weak and tired that I could not rest nights. A friend recommended your Compound and I soon gained health and strength and could not wish to sleep better. I know other women who have taken itfor the same purpose and they join me in praising it.â€"â€"MRS. WM. A. BUFFY, 905 Dame St., London, Ont. _ _ . cc 1 1‘ RA ,, THE LINDSAY POST. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound has surely cured many cases of female ills, such :13 inflammation. ulcer- ation, displacements, fibroid tumors, irregularities. periodic pains, back- adme, that bearing-down feeling, and nervous prosttation. peace which so tar as they are conâ€" cerned has remained unbroken for a century, they will be satisfied to al- CANADA’S MINISTER OF WAR mmwwm MNmmawmm Government low the abilities of our military ge- niuses to remain undemonstrated for- ever. Let it be conceded that with an army of a million men, all good Ihota, Col. Hughes could drive back any foreign toe. This country will take his word for it. Nobody will claim that the Rt. Hon. R. L. Borden got a mandate from the people to hunt up a Napo- leon Bonaparte who will utilize us all as recruits for war, who will set us drilling, pipeclaying and bombast- ing, and turn our nurseries into shooting galleries. If it is supposed that the abolitiou of the navy which was designed to uphold Britain's bands can be stoned for by the luv. ieh expenditure of money in the fuse and feathers of such an exaggerated local militarism ee Col. Hughes, would delight in, it will be found that thin wlll not long amuse nor finally satiety Ontario. on the making of roads, is money well invested, but in no province has ithe “good roads" movement shown . Thomas Ritchie, of Belleville in the ’Inulligencer, makes clear a very great idefect in the law with regard to ne- gglected children. It is very gratifying ;that a love for humanity puts it into gthe hearts of our legislators to pro- .vide for the unfortunate of our race, and the most unfortunate. truly, are the title ones who are the oflspring of dissipated and degenerate” parents. Federal coâ€"operation in securing better roads may some day put us in a. position to talk better roads with our neighbors on a. basis of some- thing like equality. The obvious danâ€" ger is that the acceptance by the Government of the principle that it should co-operate until townships and municipalities feel that they can wriggle free of all financial responsi- bility. . “This undesirable progemy” writes §I~3r. Ritchie, “beget their like, and this class is usually more prolific than the well borne; thus. the evil be- ing ntglected, keeps multiplying. The only practical application of any ra- tional system of eugenics is to deal with the subject .at its source, that is, with the children; we can do little or nothing to stem the tide by deal- ing with the depraved men and wom- The Montreal Star, speaking on the good roads question, says; Assuming, however. that this pit- fall is escaped and that the work of improving the roads is taken up, loy- ally and energetically, by those who will reap most of the benefits, we must still be prepared to wait sever‘ al years before the results will be generally apparent. Building roads, â€"“good roads,” that isâ€"is not .1 task that can be accomplished by any temporary enthusiasm. Ontario has done something and is reaping the results; Quebec is beginning to see that public money. spent wisely an early vitality at all proportion- ate to the local necessities. That the Ottawa government recog- nizes both the condition and the deâ€" nix-ability of correcting it, the para.- graph in the Speech from the Throne proves conclusively. Few municipali- ties will allow local pride to stand in the way of getting what money they can from the government for this excellent purpose. Under the cir- cumstances, the good work should The 13W says these shall claim the protection of the municipalities which have the necessary refuges and legal Now there is authority for the re- moval of children from parents who are incapable, for any cause, of dis- charging their duty. There is authori- ty, in towns and cities, with not less than 10,000 population. to place the , helpless children in temporary homesi or shelters. But these homes are not} always forthcoming, and it is simply impossible, outside of a public insti- tution, to secure accommodation for some degenerates. What is more, there ing of them, or chloroforming them, as some would suggest; such resourc- es are impracticable, except for the worst criminals." ' m;;chinery for making them what they ought to be. en who bring these children into the world. We cannot dispose of them by locking them up or otherwise dispos- are neglected children. hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, outside of the towns and cities, that are speci- fied, and they ehould be cared for. The country must provide a home for its aged and infirm and friendlees peo CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. the Kind You Han Always Bought Bears tho Signature of ENFORC HG THE LA W CO” READS ple. Why drould it not provide for the helpless children ? The defect of all these well-intention- ed and philanthropic measures is the inability of the government to enlorce them. Evary'poor and helpless person rightfully belonging to the municipal- ity. and a. resident within for a speciâ€" fied time (not a float/er) should be in a pubLic institution. But is he ? What steps are taken to make a. canvas of any country in order to ascertain the conditions of its indigent poor and to insist on their removal to the county refuge? The question has been raised before, and it will be raised again, and some day all the deserving, poor will get their dueâ€"Kingston Whig. A FATHER’S TALK TO CARELESS DAUGHTER A father, talking to his careless daughter, said: “I want to speak to you of your mother. It may be that you have noticed a careworn look on her face lately. Of course it has not been brought there by any act or yours; still it is your duty to chase it away. I want you to get up early to-morrow morning and get breakfast and when your mother comes and heâ€" ‘ grins to express surprise go right up to hr and kiss her on the mouth. You Can't imagine how it will bright- en her dear face. Besides, you owe her a kiss or two. Away back, when you were a. little girl. she kissed Full when no one else Was tempted by your fever-tainted breath and swollen face. You were not as attractive as you are now. And through these years of childish sunshine and shadows she was always ready to cure, by the magic of a mother’s kiss, the little dirty, chubby hands, whenever they were injured in those first skirmishes lwith the rough old world. And then, ithe midnight kiss with which she {routed so many bad dreams, as she ‘leaned over your restless pillcw, have all been on interest these long, long years. Of Course she is not so pretty, and kissable as you are; but if you had done your share of the work the last ten years, the contrast would not have been no marked. Her face has more wrinkles than yours â€" far more; and yet it you were sick. that race would appear more beautiful than an angel's as it hovered over you. watching; every opportunity to minist- to your contort. and all thou wrink- les Would seem to be bright wavelets of eundxim chasing each other over 'her dear face. She'll leave you one that have done so many necessary things for you, will be crossed upon her breast. Those neglected lips. that gave you your first baby k'iBS. will be forever closed. and those sad, tired eyes will have opened in eternity. and then you will appreciate your mother. But it will be too late." of these days. These burdens, if not lifted from her shoulder, will break her dcwn. Those rough, hard hands. Do you know there's lot of people, Settin’ round in every town, Growlin' like broody chicken, Knockin’ every good thing down ? Don‘t be that kind 0’ cattle, Cause they ain't no use on earth, You just be a booster rooster, Crow and boost for all your worth. If‘ your town neads boostin’ booster Don't hold back an' wait an' see, If some other fellow's willin'â€" Sail right in; this country's free. No one's got a mortgage on it, 6 cocosoasooso...oooooouooooccooooooooooooooB oOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. GQOOOOOOOOOOOCOCOOOOOC BE A BOGSTER LINDSAY, FREAY. JANUARY 12th It's just yours as much as his, If your town is shy of boosters. You get in the boostin' biz. If things don't just seem to suit you, And the world seems hnder wrong, What’s the matter with s bowtin' Just to help the thing along. If you know some Eeller’o man's J ust forget 'em, 'cause you kno ’Caune if things should stop sâ€"goin' Wo'd be in a. 6011'! plight, You just keep that horn a'blowin‘ Boost ’er up with all you might. “Cast your lqaves upon the waters, They'll ccme back" ’5 a oayin' true, Mebbe too. they’ll come back buttered When some teller boosts for you. Mr. Fred J. Faed, of Kitkteld yrs in town toâ€"day. Messrs. R. T. Thurston and J. 11. Thompson were Bobcaygeon visitas to town yesterday afternoon. Iilh LOCAL APPLIt'ATIOSS. as they cannm reach the seat. «f the eman- i‘amrrh 15 a blood or constitutional din-am . and in order tn FUR it 5011 nut lab: internal run: “‘3. Hall’s Ca. tarrh Cure is taken internally. mud acts directly on t1.e blnod and matous a rfmres Hall‘s ('1; tarrb (.‘ure IS not :0. track medi me. If. I'm nrw scribtd by one of ill: best nhysiciens m this country for years and is 3. 11‘2qu pmriptiun. It in confirmed of the best comic knuwu. (:nlnhint‘d with the be“ blood purifiers. stung d‘rectly on the mucous surfaces. 1 he period combix 3.2km at the two ingredients in win! pmduceo men “underâ€" ful results in caring (Damask, Semi for teati- monlals fm. F. J. CHENEY «5: CO . Props, 10‘96'). 0. Sold by Drugzisu. pnee 75c. Take Hall'- Famfl) Pills for mnsfinJion. Than's the ones you want to show, Gatanh Canno be Cured