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1 semis lilo In | oy corner stood a churn, and in another a dresser with pots and < rth was the hob a huge iron pot b hook by a sooty chain.- As we steamed before {1 beald yo took covert note of the household. Three or four yed child- ren in sensational stages ef dishabille truck, from safe "rick re bousing. of Bight as ASrocably_as might ba, uni the * raing." It proved avery Jolly 'time, especlal-, Iy the Strainer phase, ag ' assumed the: drylagnt_proshes ns halt-eircle before 'glowing peata |. while The Woman of the House scur- ried about to provide sleeping ac- 'commodations. It was then Himself proved the cordial and. "host, ready with song and tory, and with a fine scorn of g for what was oby! the best hospi tality he had to certina were had down. rom the wall, and the roar of the storm was soon drowned in the Jolly' ghllop of figs and' reels. No one hung back from firthoring the fun. Himseltiled off with "The Exile of Erin" to the reso! * which he time being emphasized with vigorous stamps of the foot and sideways jerks of the head. His encore has "The Wind That Shakes the * Even Barney July obligate w ins a dota of '"ochones," ebbed and a mournfully on the anclent Celtic fivetone scale and eventually expired on a blood-curd- ling minor in alt. I did my best with "The Foggy, Foggy Dew" and pleased Granny, at least, with "Mother Ma- chree" Lansden, who has "the way" with him, invelgled the little beauty Eileen onto his lap, drew her head to his shoulder and stroked her cheek to the loved croon, seven centuries old: I know a valley fair, Eileen Aron: X know & cottage (ners, Eileen Aroon: Far in the valley's shade, i I know a gentle maid, Flower of the gentle Sinde, Hileen Aroon.. = live. igi in gli of r moth | aad j "out dry to roast on ofr charges, i parations were set on foot to pass the er, Fiddle and con-{ Eng ~"Savourneen Deelish, rendered With eyes tight shut' and} many a flourishing demi-quaver, the] T think it Ig oo that a n order an al tone ew by a wT of 'unconsclou Case of Traitor : Yet it may be objected, such a sac- 'rifice 18 for the life of the community. 'The death penalty is a punishment there, Shel no. crime which is aimed t the life of the community? * What, then, aré we to say of a for- eign spy who is "discover and betray our pcats 12 to the enemy? What 'as to that viler® traitor who seeks to subvert the laws sia ie the. wp not it 1s rx t 1s law bu rer the enemy . xl bia in open and manly conflict Is it not aldo right to trample out the 1 lite ot the worm who is a canker in 2 at is the object of p t? 1 take it that primarily the object is to inflict upon the offender punish- Dent for his misdeede, and also, if it to cause him (or similarly disposed) to reform. It must lan not be to that it acts as a deterrent to "and further punishing an offender after a due ex- amination into hls gulit, it prevents both the comunity and and | from taking the law into their own hands to exact retribution. We have no desire to introduce lynch law into] land. y i Penalty as a Deterrent I'am unmoved by the 'that the death penalty-does not deter murderers. In the sense that no pun. ishment has. ever been sn effective deterrent to a man who has commit- ted a crime, it is a mere platitude. If were. an effective deter nt fn all cases, there would be no who has not criminal is a Hon suming] | arn he be a pick: pocket, a burglar, a bigamist or a murderer. In his case the deterrent has failed. But to argue from the ox- that | ceptions that hanging Is no deterrent Fes NE commit murder is to advance a very grave error of reasoning. We should | require to know all the cases In| which that temptation has: arisen and has been resisted, and in what num ber or proportion of cases the death for an offence against its. laws. Is|often 'person, the individuals | to.a man who may be tempted to|described are, I believe, ng' others. We must remember that it is not sufficient to dispute the justice of the death pen- may ['alty in the case of any particular crime; it may well be, that with re- to, thaf oftense the need for such ent has ceased though the ty is retained, but that will not J Se that the penalty should be in- fiicted in other cases. It must be 'there is mo crime 80 enormous 'that the offender must die. Now as to treason. We know that, in days gone by, treason was a charge made on Inadequate facts and under barbaric laws, We do not al- ways bear in mind that those bar- barous- laws have been repealed, and that the law of treason is now com- paratively simple, Penalty Sometimes Excessive. 1 conceive that in some of the exist ne Fy At may well be that the oath panaliy is excessive, but most 2 "th are so triable under the Treason-Felony acts which were pass- ed so that the offense cam be treated as a felony without capital punish- ment. 'Of the ir that there is no modern instance in this country. During the war there was found no one so base as to inflict that injury upon the country or to give such assistance to the enemy. It there had been, the offender would 1'heli fo 'have been. aiming at the Hfe of the community, he would have forfeited his right to continue among us. I 'as- sert that it would' not be right that such a man should iive.: . The third offence is piracy with vio- lence. We think that piracy is an obsolete crime. There are no pirates s, and time has confused in one golden haze the exploits of those of England who ted re- tribution in the days when private veng wag still arguably lawful, 'and the misdeeds of the 'truculent | ruffians who disgraced the high seas before the British Navy drove them into oblivion, But history proves that piracy re vives 'whenever government is weak and at the present time we are mourn- ing the loss of two gallant men who died defending their ship from the pirates whom lately we dislodged from Bias. Bay. ' In the olden times the pirate was ai' "Hostis humant generly" and he alone of all criminals could be hunted down and tried by any nation, 'no matter what his allegiance or where he preyed. The rule applies to this day. » But when people talk of the death | penalty they usually have in mind the 4 | tourth offense, murder, The offender | has not considered the right of the' victim to live. . That victim is now | dead and buried. Sometimes we are 'tempted to think, when we read of hysterical interest in murderers, that the victim is forgotten. * Experiments Held Inconclusive It is sald- the experience in other conntries hag shown that the aboli- tion of the death penalty has mot in- oreased the number of murders, It |.may be the case in particular areas, 'I'but thie experiment has not been tried for a sufficient perled or over a suf- pr Capes with four wheels In the lead- A Scteutly rile area to form an accu | orisls, Gradually that fact has come Its The new 'engines have a wheel ar- rangement mot previously used in ing truck, six 75 inch driving wheels rate opinion for our guidance. . We need also to examine the fate of the murderers who have been re- gated to life-long imprisonment, It has been sald that in some cases at least the various conditions imposed have constituted in themselves a death sentence far more terrible than one which is expressed to be a death sentence, And while imprisonment is metloned, canfiot it be contended with at least as much force that the state has no right to deprive a man of his liberty? And, lastly, there is the lingering fear that the penalty of death may be exacted in a case where a mistake has been made. If the accused is alive, such a mistake can, though im- perfectly, be put right, but it he is dead, life cannot be recalled. The public can rest assured that the utmost care is taken not to exe- cute the prisoner unless his guilt is manifest and in many cases not even then. But the fear of a possible mis- take has no bearing on the Problem whether the state ought, or cam, in natural justice, deprive a murderer 'of his life, We are all agreed that a man charged with murder should not suffer the penalty, watverer it may be, unless he is guilty. I have considered on many ocea- sions with sympathy an dwith careful attention: the arguments brought for ward against capital punishment. They have not convinced me. DO NOT NEGLECT YOUR LITTLE ONES At no time of life is delay or neg: lect more serious than at childhood. The ills of little ones come quickly and unless the mother is prompt in administering treatment a precious little life may be snuffed out almost before the mother realizes the baby is ll. The prudent mother always keeps something in the medicine chest as a safeguard against the sud. den illness of her little ones. Thous- ands of mothers have found through experience that there is no other medicine to equal Baby's Own Tab- lets and that is why they always keep a box of the Tablets on hand--why they always feel safe with the Tab- lets. Baby's Own Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative which by regulat- ing the bowels and stomach banish constipation and indigestion; break up colds and simple fevers and pro- mote healthy, natural sleep. Con- cerning them, Mrs, Isaac Sonia, St. Eugene, Ont, writes:--"I have been using Baby's Own Tablets ever since baby was a month old and have found that they reach the spot and do more good than any other medicine I have ever tried. I always keep the Tab- lets in the house and would advise all other mothers to do 80." The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mall at 25 cents a box from The Dr, Williams' Medicine Co., Brock: ville, Ont. --p ee Crisis in Russia Paul Scheffer in the London Ob- server (Ind): (The article, written by fhe ablest of all Moscow corres- d mts, and blished in The Ob- server, by courtesy of the Berliner Tagebhls" shevism is finally staked on a gigan- tie hazard). Events in the Soviet Union are steadily moving towards a , states that the fate of Bol-| ala W Write for W JHE wavis P 18H and the engines' tractive effort willl] in the neighborhood of 45,300 pounds. Europe or Empire? L. 8. Amery in the National Review (London): Joining any European economic group would mean tying ourselves up with an already .over-in- dustrialized low-wage area, Our ex- pansion would be continually limited by the competition of great, efficient, and under-paid working populations. Even to hold our own we should be continually having to lower, or at any rate hold back, our standard of living Phone' 7161 TO TORONTO LOW INSURANCE AND STORAGE RATES "FIREPROOF ELEVATOR Write or Phone For Particulars TORONTO ELEVATORS, LIMITED oe GRAIN Queens Quay Toronto, Ontario until the European standard slowly rose towards ours. Most serious ob- jection of all to any such proposal from our point of view 1s that ft would inevitably close the door to the far greater prospects which are of- fered us by the expansion of Empire trade an dthe development of Empire resources. . . . Even to-day, from the point of view of this country, the Em- pire market is by far the most im- portant element in our whole econ omic system. It the Empire trade is already the most important factor in our whole external trade system, it is no less important to the other units of the Empire. Over 40 per cent. of the exports of every con- siderable portion of the Empire find their market in the Empire, and more particularly in the United Kingdom. Something like 84 per cent. of the total of inter-Imperial trade is focus- sed on the United Kingdom either converging upon it or radiating from i Seria Compulsory Insurance R. BE. Davidson in the New States- man (London): In many cases there is no. valid objection to making a man carry the cost of any risk which he creates, But the body of motorists include many thousand persons who are not at present insured because of thelr poverty, such as uninsured drivers ranging from artisan motor- cyclist to struggling owners of a single taxicab. They ought to be in- sured, and it is the duty of any Gov- ernment to see that they are Insured, and of a Labor Government in par- ticular to facilitate thelr insurance at the lowest practicable premium. But the inevitable effect of compulsory insurance is to ralse premjums which are already high towards prohibitive figures. At present, opinion in the House tends to consider that no real solution of this formidable problem is in sight, ee fp ere CONCLUSIONS Our conclusions are determined lar- gely by our predispositions, and our prejudices or prejudgments in great measure monopolize our faculties. We are not so much Ignorant as per- verted.--Gelkle. mmr emt fen Minard's for the Ideal Rubdown. rr A er. NATURE Nature is just towards men, It re- compenses them for their sufferings; it renders them laborious, b to the greatest tolls it attaches the great- est rewards.--Montesquieu. ------pe te CONSCIENCE Hearken to the warning of con- science "If you would not feel its wounds. 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