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JfiWiJ g It L Vctfc5c Compound I J Tex a After my bom a 1 ferine with end could hardly do my I very nervous but just kept drag ging on until loot I got could not do my work I would have a hot fleshes end and my herd would moot I lot whero I utmost walking end vro burden to mo until my husband If ho did not do for mo would not So ho got Ilnkhnmo Vcgotcblo pound forme taking tho flrct I begun Improve I con tinued end I I my to you AM m doctors could not do will ilvayn It wherever I 0 fllrcet Texas If you Buffering from of ills got bottle of Vcgetablo end trcRtmcnt Furnace Work Kcnip of and a t ago told wq Parliament that people Canada outbreak tho had for of munition guns yum loolc place In A lively took place In the over nickel Mr arraigned the very Mr that Idea wan to lands The House Is inking matters lively Legislation giving to right up coal and to is now being promoted In Ontario Hon Mr has a bill in preparation extending pro visions of the Municipal Act to give Municipal Corporation powers exigen cies Of War is demanding legislation not considered necessary heretofore did bring up lluj Ho had- insisted upon vilth the and was closest attenllori to of ihc silver dish that lilarnB he spoke iVtlv mains to JVL nd of Ive about madeup my mind to buy Cliff mother fis600 io Loan 4 Mr Out witUThRTC your C The A I I ti y Plumbing Kavetroughing Our Specialties Hoe the Bathroom Outfit at the THE OSBORNE SONS NEXT TO winter route issue of The Canadian thus saerifics the Dominion and Us officials Not- fact that the ermor- at and Halliburton Comity were destroyed fire some llireo years ago the Mr Iloburt Adams comm ies to draw bis salary and enjoy lh comforts of a position Surely the who certify Mr pay re fifteen of Kendall in the Mm Cure for keep a lllQ If ft on the trouble quickly up 11 tt to you fli Jig remarked Cliff Hhcet know that the no longer In existence ibr Dominion Government has been receiving some pretty hard knocks recently Mr for In the House of Commons referring to Ihe motto of the party observed The motto or tho party from the inception of the War been millions for the War hut not a dollar for graft Patronage Is bad enough hut there ore certain things that are even worse In our circumstances than patronage No one will dispute the position taken by the M p for Gainsborough Past experience emphasizes the observa tion CO to the villi wiaic J Dear At Any Price all right I Merlons looked at the that dipped and hi the shallow water of Likely Ill lake It Cliff but I want to talk over a little more at hi first riot wait too long with an air of assumed Some of the other nap It up If you dont Its a pretty near at eighteen dollars cost no inoren twice thai summer before Inst and can see for yourself Its good as new Just fresh painted Too I Yes Its all right repeated but well I cant decide rlli off whether Ill take or not Ill let you know In the morning sure Now If you had a nice little motor boat then of course you wouldnt have so much need of it Cliffs voice had grown patronizing Then you could clip It over lo the different Islands in short order anil have your moonlight rides and all that sort of Hut- well as you dont own a boat youre missing it not to take my were lota of vioitora in llila from country delegates to tho Annual Meeting of the United of Ontario and del egates for the good roads deputa tion which waited upon tho gov ernment Liberal mem ber for Lincoln and Car- tor Liberal member for Wellington introduced a debate protecting against the approval of the plane of the Canadian Northern between Toronto and Niagara Falls and made strong Speeches in support of the Hydro The government accepted Mr Marshalls motion adding to it a formal clause and the resolu tion of protest was sent to the Dominion Davidson complained of an item in the Public Accounts of for out flowers for Govern ment The government is going to appoint a Provincial Forester Race track gambling and iockey club licenses promise to be one of the interesting topics of the canoe Ill tell you that frankly Very likely I Merlon said with a a dandy all right session 0 Children MR FLETCHERS 1 ifio In Canada icr- Fares now in effect to resorts inFlorida Georgia North and Louisiana other Southern Slates and lo and the West Indies ALLOW- full information write to D P Union Station Toronto J Depot Agent Phone 10 J Phono UpTown Agent COAL VOW SALE Ileal Anthracite Coal at bargain prices Orders filled at all hours Telephone No South of Osbornes Main St North FUANK GLASS to Toronto i- tj la done and for taklno a In It by term In of Given School for it thaw Attend ELLIOTT Yonuo Ik Toronto Etc taught and correutly AHE KEEN iil Enter Any Time Write for Catalogue J ELLIOTT mm High Cash Prices Toronto fc t HI JSc if oar VOX I one Woman Amid of yellow daffodils presented by Women and worn by all tho members of the Legislature the women of On tario wore given vole on same terms as men Tuesday February was the his toric day Four bills granting the reform passed their second reading by a unanimous vote and nothing now remains but the technicalities closing up the legislation Since 1012 the gov ernment each year has voted down proposals to give women the vole but this time all parties united and the Minister una Newton Howell both made speeches Can we justly deny to our wo men a share in tho government of the and the right to have a flay in the making of laws which they have been bo trying to defend asked Premier And Mr great democratic basis of the reform Tho wo men of Ontario he said would exercise great influence for good in social legislation and in the difficult problems which will face this country at the close of war who had the sat isfaction of seeing their become law were Win McDonald Liberal member for J Johnson Conservative member for West Hastings and J Elliott Liberal member for West Middlesex Mr McDonald who with Mr Alan Labor member for West Hamilton is mem ber who has for the longest lirm been urging tho full franchise for women made a strong and hu morous speech After review ing the former antagonism of government lo Woman Suffrage and what ho called their tardy conversion ho referred to government as a government of trailers a phrase which has been widely repeated and quoted Charlies Liberal member for South West Toronto and Liberal member for Sturgeon Falls figured promi nently in alleged disclosures against Ontario Government Mr Dowart claimed that valuable nickelbearing lands in the year wore granted by the govern ment to employees of Inter national Nickel Company at S3 an acre significance of these charges he said lay in fact that on Jan the Hon Ferguson declared that not one acre of nickelbearing land bad been sold and the Min- then said that it had been given lo a private prospector Now Mr claims that after searching titles in Sudbury ho finds that this private prospector was an employee of the Interna tional Nickel Company and that another employee had also been given lands And Mr it was suspicious that these further privileges bad been given to a company which already had received so much more than it deserved and that too at expense of the rights of the common people Mr charges wcie that the government was Improperly expending money In Northern toido In road building una activities for political yiuoosia The year was the most prosperous year in the history of Canada says William Lewis Ed monds writing in Canadian Magazine for March Mr Ed monds point out also that the Dominion awoke to the fact that she bad been transformed from a debtor to a creditor nation The balance of trade ho ob serves began to take a turn more favourable than was at one time deemed possible This en abled Minister of Finance who had all along been closely laugh and I may lake it Sudden ly it struck him as amusing this com bination of Cliffs pretended Indiffer ence to the sale and his Insistent urg ing He went whistling back to Slimmer cottage which he had helped Ills father to the summer he- fore the cosyllllle fourroomed house screened porches which had meant such wonderfully Improved health for little mother whose bend scarcely readied Merlons shoulder Ills heart was very tender where that gentle browneyed mother concerned was silling now on the front porch a bit of In her bands and a glad shining look In those brown eyes a look that her hoy never failed to call forth Well what for this afternoon asked A shore supper Yes If you feel like going to mother Otherwise dont core about it Oh but Merlon of you must go anyway Im afraid I dont tea studying situation to try hitherto unheard of experiment of floating a domestic loan Ah banks had promised to subscribe liberally ho asked for fifty mil lion dollars To of almost everyone the amount sub scribed wan more than that sought Of the amount sub scribed one hundred millions was accepted onehalf of which was set aside for tho purpose of estab lishing a lino of credit in in lerest of tho Imperial Govern ment Later on in cooperation with the banks further line of credit was established Last September the Minister of Fi nance sought a further domestic loan sum aimed at being a hundred million dollars Again the amount subscribed by one hundred per cent tho sum asked for Besides the two hun dred millions which have been raised by domestic loans banks and the Finance Depart ment between them lisbedcredit in the Interest of the Imperial Government to the amount of cOOfl early and I shant mind at all No I dont care for It without you and wilh father gone Do you think Id knowing you were here alone She reached out to take his hand the hand of this dear boy who had never seemed to grow away from her as she used to In his he would do when he should so nearly reach mans estate He lurnd the pressure of her fingers silently Somehow didnt seem al together easy lo broach Ihe subject of the canoe And yet the money was his very own every penny of it earn ed by faithful office work and laid by for something extra of Ihls kind They looked silently over the blue shining waters of the hay the green Islands beyond What a delight the summers are good new and hes offered It to mo for eighteen him more than twioc thai He could hear the quick of his mothers breath and caught the look of solicitude In her eyes Merlon not a she said Imploringly Id never have on easy moment knowing you were out In II Oh but mother Why Merlons tone coaxing and he tried to surprise and wonder at fears but somehow failed in the at tempt The conversation was taking the exact turn that he had expected and dreaded Theyre such treacherous things these Utile light Im uneasy enough when youre out In the row boat but these canoes I Why Mer lon you con hardly pick up a paper without reading of some ones fatal accident from a canoe I Wcll mother havent bought it yet Only It does seem too good a chance to lose if we had a motor It would he so different but heres not much prospect of hav ing one for yearn as far as can sec Now with the canoe think of the trips I could lake Yes I do think thats what frightens me I said his mother with a little shiver mother I lie repeated It isnt bought yet and perhaps youll feel dif ferent about It In the morning I told Cliff Id let know in the morn ing Hes going lo sale to somebody else If I dont lake It And it is snap Merlon lay awake for a while that night not yielding at once as he was accustomed to the swift sound sleep of a healthy youth Through the thin partitions between Ids room and that of his mothers he heard restless sounds thatmade him sure that his mother loo was wake ful and not being lulled and soothed by the music of the waves Several times he beard her cross floor and go lo the window Suddenly he felt he could stand no longer He rose tiptoed to her door knocked upon softly and opened it a crack Mother stop worrying 1 he said lovingly Tin going to tell Cliff I dont want his canoe It would be dear at any price If It meant you were worrying over every time went out In it Oh Merlon you blessed boy I she said a little catch In her breath Its so dear of you but but Im afraid you think Im selfish wor rying old killjoy and Stop calling yourself names I Morton Interrupted Settle down and go to sleep Ill save my money to ward the motor boat were going to have some day And whenever we go out in lhali youll be along to rescue father and me if anything should hap pen I he ended laughingly A few moments more of playful reassur ance and he slipped back lo his room and was soon lost In refreshing sleep Well I can tell you youre mak ing a mistake Cliff answered with some bitterness wKen Merlon an nounced decision next morning Youll not get such a snap again I Ill lake my chances when I want one 1 Merlon said goodnaturedly Its giving away to sell it for eighteen dollars Cliff went on hut lo lell the truth I need some cash right now and how about fifteen for Take it at that No dont want a canoe Ive made up my mind Merlon said in a voice Uial discouraged further urging It never was Merlons way to spoil his acts of selfsacrifice by wearing a Heater la Efficient lento on gib iwvrro OF- GURREttT 1 no price Is Guaranteed I Vacuum to GO day Alloon Pa Feb Twenty persons nineteen passengers and a negro porter were killed in a rearend collision between an press train and a freight on lie Pennsylvania Hallway at Mount Union Station miles east of this city early today The ac cident occurred shortly after mid night and the bodies were so badly mangled that six hours lat er nine bad been identified Washington Feb The sinking of the by a Ger man submarine was staled offi cially today to constitute a clear- cut violation of American rights Conclusive official information at stale department shows that two American women lost their I lives that if four other Ameri cans the passengers and the crew were saved il was only by good fortune and that the vessel was bunk without warning in direct defiance of all principles for which the has stood here And this glorious salt air she said It Is doing wonders for me I have learned lo love every nook and corner of this cottage And to think of its being so largely Ihe work of you and your father I My room Is so pretty too with Its view of Ihe bay And if I happen to be wakeful the sound of the water lulls me- to sleep often If it doesnt it Is so restful Just lo He there and listen to it She was always expressing her ap preciation iir some such way smiled back at her but with an ab sent look In his eyes You sure do love the water dont you mother I wish we could af ford a motor boat Some summer we will gel around to it even if we cant now Yes she said a smile that suddenly became very bright Some summer well have It even if we have to wail for it They were silent for a few minutes Then Well dear sin- said if I persuade you to go lo the shore supper without me what do you say to some Steamed clams for- our sup per with hot toast Fine t said Merton Ill help with the clams and no one heat you making toast Somehow the lime lo mention the proposed purchase of the canoe seemed slow In arriving Not until Ihey bad finished the steaming clams the creamed potatoes depressed face afterwards If any thing he was a little brighter and Jol lier than usual the two days as he went about Ihe collage or strolled along the with his mother The morning of the third day his father returned from Ihe business trip that had him away Then came the surprise He sprang it up on them as he was eating his late breakfast I didnt say anything about it when I went away because I was in doubt about the terms I could make and didnt want to raise any false hopes But Ive nude an Investment that I think is going to bring in some pretty big returns In the way of pleasure for ail three of us Merlon and his mother looked up with quick interest What is it they asked together A motor boat Mr Jackson re plied enjoying the look of delight and amazement in both faces Ive been corresponding with Preston about his for several days though I kept about it He wanted to sell his and sell cheap io when I was at Anna polis look a run down to his place to look it over Its iu fine condition motor gooij as new and hes let me have it for a easy payments by balance Me sat with his bundled down and Ihe month for Ihe back in bis chair coffee cup and I with wy lujtii JVJj 1JVJl vim t Vint gttauktiot it ng a thoroughly enjoying way his news was received the expression on the two faces that were dearest to him see where Merton and I go lo work now at another Job of carpenter ing he remarked Well have to gel busy at tome sort of a boat house for our the launch week I will be litre the first of Lawyers stand up in court houses before Jurors In the pres ence of largo audi a de nounce men as liars scoundrel thieves and perjured villains and when court adjourns the men ap pear lo harbor no illwill them But Let a newspaper faint ly intimate that a mans character Is blemished and the publisher has to confront a libel suit or suffer the people think to be the I est of all lose i subscriber Or Guaranteed for hoi ALFRED STARR Electrical Contractor A Place You J Imperial Bank and Snide and J fir Bono will Saturday appointment Prank I A a i Ccrncr Main Mown Dr Evan Hay Cur St Dp J- I Graduate in University also College of I bora of the Royal of Kan in Moore fields College Hospital bondon Office Corner Newmarket Just as surely as lack of food is strangling Germany day by day so plenty of food is winning the victory for the allies The French armies for instance were never better fed than now f or capnot forget the awful lesson of 1870 the failure of her food supply To this she attributed the loss of that war To feed the French soldiers around Verdun than pounds of food a required This gives a faint idea of the colossal task of feeding an army Canada and every man must have plenty of food in spite of a world shortage Upon Canadas food production all principally rely Hie Ontario Urgently Help flit Department of Agriculture appeals to men boys to enlist in the farm help campaign The Department appeals to men unfit for military service or whofinditimpossible to enlist in the army Do your bit by helping to increase production of foodstuffs This is your hour of opportunity The fanners of Ontario need the help of retired farmers of men following no occupation ictired of business men who can spare a portion of their time appeal to all who can so arrange their ordinary affairs to plan to help some farmer friend particularly in seed time and harvest Confer with your county District Representative of the Department of Agriculture or write Farm Help Cam paign care Department of Agriculture Toronto Department of Agriculture lieuit Parliament Buildings Toronto k In bo signs tor Wear you will find our stock com Worsteds arc but are a color Wo secured a splendid range AH CALL WILL GIVE CHOICE 1 for this YOU VAIL I 1C0 Vs WW 0 lb ill a Si IX In 11 I I I Park Adjoining PAINTER AND Ave Queen Practical Pain and I Teacher of Pi sicnl Ins il Hani Agent for Col Sloe Mar Aft the Oflit is Kept in Stock on at Machinery East of WORTH AND lb Ail Klnda u All iKANITK I