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», ¥ blished Dally and Semi-Weekly by BRITISA PUBLISHING . President i ony TES in ecity iif 5 n advance ....35.00 offices. $2.60 REPRESENTATIVE ran Ma. i Pranic RB. Notthrun, Manawer. PROTECTION VS. FREE TRADE Tenders for supplying the United States navy with bunting were recent- Iv cailed for, and a British firm's ten- der is the lowest. By a law passed at Washington in 1835 it js enacted BN ithat the price paid by the navy de ? para 'partment for supplies and material 'must not exceed that at which an rticle of equal quality can be im- ported." A high protectionist papar in Philadelphfa ' lampoons the secre- tary for' the navy in President Wilson's cabinet thus - "Buy British bunting! "Panis is Ashanting] in ot h; shops for cheaper tags _ . float oth to mgke American flags!" Fe i: Representatives in congress of the % "infant" bunting industry in the Un- {ited States are raising a cry of pa- hrivtism. of course, in the regular high {protectionist way in favor of paying mare for the protected home goods in preference to: gétting a good bargain {dn _star-spangled banners abroad. The | inéident, says' the Winnipeg Free Press, is interestibg. ds 'one more proof of the manner: in which' manufacturers in free trade Great Mritain can mvade a * 'protectionist country. Could they continue. to do it if protection were Teo be established in Great Britain, in- | fereasing the cost of living and. the vost of production in that country ? QUIT HIS PARTY. . "Reeve Steele, of Port Colborne, a * life-long comservitive, has been nomi: pated by the Temperanee and Moral jorm Association of Welland in the Rowell interest, Mr. Steele fell out with. his party over its intétference in the Canada Temperance Act campaign dn Welland, and the boldness of his preseltt course is likely to appeal to conservative temperance men throngh- out the'province, Referring to the re- went campaign, Mr. (Steele said : "Dur- "ing that campaign a representative of the Ontario government, Mr. Snider, came into this pounty and tried to use the government influence against the act. I have been a conservative "any years, but the time has "when I eannot and will not support Ahs present. conservative government. for come x HS Ste io kw my" Opinion the conservative party aishA-of. the provinee to-day is AOS M3 iih and has a coalition with linked up the . hguor party of the province, and I be- So Tieve the campaign funds for the con- ""Wervative party in the toming election yon i will be put up by the liquor people. To-day the men in the Whitney gov- ernment are shaking in their boots they should not be able to go to people under the name and banner of Whitney. We have seen what has { #5 been done and will be done in his ab- ) A ------------------------ DECIDEDLY AUTOCRATIC Hocbert Spencer complained {hat : the British parliament was, so far as Be ything . humdn could be, omnipo- | bot, but the president of the Chin- ese republic will, if possible, be more unrestrained than .any parliament un- dé thy amended constitution + which thas just been formally promulgated. He can ke, open, pend, close and dissolve the legislature. He can send back to the legislature for re- consideration any bills that it has passed. Even if a measure be re ¢ by a three-fourths majority , with the consent of the ad- i tive council, withhold its pro- mulgation. The svle power of ap- pointing and dismissing civil and military officers is bested in the pre- _ wident. He can, without consulting anybody, declare war and conclude peas, He will be in complete con- trol of the army and the navy and i at A ' hat Po republicanism may have | philosophic doubts whe- is really a republic at + KINDERGARTEN PROGRESS In ten yoars kindergartens in the United States have grown from "© 3,- 244 kindergartens with 205,000 child- ren, to 7,057 kindergartens enrolling 364,189 children, according to a bul- letin issued by the United States bureau of education. Notwithstanding this encouraging igcrease in schools and pupils, the 'great majority of children ars still without the advantages of kindergar- ten training. Only nine per cent. of the children of kindergarten age--fonr to six-were in kindergartens. "Much constructive work must le done," declares Miss Myra Winches- ter, of the kindergarten division of the bureau, reviewing the figures. "The child of kindergarten age is so young, so impressionable, so incapa ble of defending himself against {he faulty words.and actions and mental attitudes of the teacher, that means must be devised to eliminate or at least diminish the number of faulty teachers. Standards oi requirements as to personality and academic and professional ° training must be raised and maintained, for the surest guar- antee of the extemsion of kindergar- tens is good work done by tenchers."" CANADA'S WAR EXPENDITURE. It is quite interesting t6 read the following editorial in the very conser vative Montreal Star : "Col. the Hon. Sam Hughes made a desperate attempt in parilament yes- terday, to justify his conception of the duties of a war lord for Canada. It cannot Be said that he succeeded. Over and above all his eloquence stands out the bald fact that in three years he expended through the militia depart- ment no less a sun than $43,000,000, What has the country got for this? It has got a number of imposing drill halls, built in places where they will Le' politically effective. 1t-has had the intense honor of providing a Furo- pean tour for the minister of militia and his retinue. It has, provided a $20,000 train trip for one of the war lord's military guests and got in re- turn a report recommending conserip- tion. And, of course, it has got Bon- nie Bel-Air. How much 7 uropean tours, expensive drill halls, and Bon- nie Bel-Air will help in repelling invad- ers of this great country even the war lord himseéll has not endeavored to de- monstrate. Their effect in striking terror into the heart of a possible foe must be simply incalculable. "But let us look a little more ohne ly into the details of some of the drill hall expenditures of the minister of militia, Among the, contracts he has handed out is one for a $30,000 drill hail for Beauport, Que., which, ac- cording to the last census has pu- lation of 3,546; one for a $30. drill hall at Red Deer, Alta., with a popu- lation of 2,118; one for an $11,800 drill hall at Kemptville, Ont., with a popu lation of 1,892: and one for an #l1;- 000 drill hall for. Millbrook, Ont., with a population of 793. These are some samples from -over fifty drill halls which Col. Hughes has sprinkled over the country. With precedents likes these, well may one ask where Col. Sam's militarism is going to stop, or whether the militia department is not more concerned with political strategy than defensive measures." good EDITORIAL NOTES. It was fortunate for the Monroe doe- tripe that the Haitien government hap- pened to have $62,000. Another time the needed sum may not be available. At Joynson Hicks, a church meeting in M.P., pointing out the desirability of missionizing the people at home before endeas oring to convert savage nations, And there is considerable horse sense in that. With only one daughter leit = un married in thé White House at Wash- ington, there will be. no more petition for the use oi the parlor. \ Some thousands of Orangemen gath- ered in Toronto, on Saturday, and passed a resolution against home rule for Ireland. 1t would be very easy to get together just as large a crowd in Toronto to pass a resolution in favor of Home rule. London, com- cour\ing That unknown Brazilian Lu which Col. Roosevelt was supposed to have discovered and explored, turds out to be a river which is already on the map. But probably the colonel is innocent of deception' in the matter, It!would be unfair to put him in the Dr. Cook class. Opini from citizens of the Uni- ted States, who have been in Mexico, concerning the respective merits of Huwrta and Villa, seem to depend in largavmeasure on which of the two robbed them. The Edmonton Capital is convinced that nothing but the worst of misman- agement will prevent Mr. White rom having a larger surplus this year than he hadéin 1913-14; his tarifi increases make this certain; but the growth in surplus will come from the pockets of the people in: heavier ocusioms taxa tion. . Kingston's City Council seems to enjoy convening into the wee sma' hours. Although it has less work to do than: previous councils, owing, to ""'the sturdy, sheering praepostor Not Caught Yet. Washington Herald. A New Yotk man wants to know if all men are liars. Well, some have not been caught yet. A Coming Problem. New York Sun. When all the reformers have finished making over the prisons, the difficulty will be to keep people out of them Where Ignorance is Bliss, New York Times A girl shouldn't marry a man unless she knows all about him. On the other hand. il she knew all about him she wouldn't marry him. A Fair Fighter. Ottawa Jourgal . A. K. Maclean, of Halifax, whom many regard as a future liberal lead: er, never loses his sense of proportion in his local fights. He is never un fair. 3 Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. Gordon mn- City Commissioner W, 8. and Police! Constable Timmerman spected the slaughter houses at Wil hamsville to-day. Mr. Gordon will prepare a lengthy report for considera' tion by the Board of Health. J. McGillivray has been appointed engineer of the steamer Island Queen. M. J. Grady has purchased a lot on Horseshoe Island. A FAMOUS STORY Interesting Identification of Charac. ters in Tom Brown's School Days In September, 1856, Hughes wrote from Deal to Alexander Macmillan that he was engaged upon a school story, and offered to send some speci- men pages. The Macmillans ap- proved, and began to print the book before it was finishéd. In Decem- ber, 1856, Hughes' little daughter died, and he had not the heart to continue the MS. It was even 'pro- posed that the Rev. Septimus Han- sard (the alleged original of Holmgs, 0 another house") should fhish the book. 'Hughes fortunately soon con- tinued it himself. In 1857 Charles Kingsley wrote: ; "It will be a very great hit. It is an extraordinary book. Take it all in all, you won't see such smart writing, such knowledge of slang, and all manner of odds and ends, combined with the actudl knowledge of boys, and with the really lofty tone of religion and the broad hu- manity in any siving writer. Be- sides, it is the only book of its kind. I should have been proud to have written that book, word for word as it stands. 1 have laughed and cried over the book to my heart's content. Funny bits of it are worthy of Lever, and serious bits of it worthy of--I can't say whom." Dealing with the identification, the '.ondon Spectator mentions that Tom Brown is not entirely a portrait of Tom Hughes himself; both Tom Hughes and his elder brother George enter into the composition; Tom Brown in the fight is partly Orlebar; in the cricket match he is mainly Tom Hughes The fight in which Tom Brown vindicated the propriety of Arthur's having broken down and wept in form as he read aloud the most effecting lines in Homer in un- doubtedly in the main a reminis« cence of an actual fight between Or- lebar and Bulkeley Owen Jones. The Rev. Bulkeley Owen Jones, now in his 90th year, is 'chancellor of the diocese of St. Asaph, after having been warden of Ruthin, North Wales, for more than fifty years. '"The two principles were Augustus "Orlebar and Bulkeley Owen Jones, 'backed' respectively by J. G. Holl- way and Tom Hughes. What causeu the fight has not been recorded, but it aroused interest at the time partly because the combatants were in the upper fifth and upper middle fifth re- bar 'fainted and could not come up to time," and Jones, 'who was much more punished," was so disfigured that Dr. Arnold did not know. him. Arnold stopped the fight; and both combatants, when they recovered, had to repeat two hundred lines of Both also became and remained firm friends." gr BRILLIANTS. Did we not hate the necessary toil Of slow correction and the pain ful file Illustrious youths with Just con- , tempt receive, : Nor let the bardy poem bope to live ; Where time and full correction don't refine, The finished work and polish every line? ~From Horace's Art of Po- etry. ---- - Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived: But what torments of pain you've endured 'From the evils that never ar. rived! ~French Proverb, my soul to know 1 perish truth is so; 80 e'er I stray and It fortifies That That h range, « Whate'er T do thou dost mot 1 steadier step when 1 recall That If 1 slip thou dost pot fail. =Arthur Hugh Clough. the. light and water depart St You and 1 aa demand respect by being ble. spectively, and partly because Orle- | Virgil to him for breaking the rules. | Tt is 'edsier 10 hear a lot than it is raise the maney 14 ay for ong to " in. ney » ) » ° pe . Ag the World goes man goes with it 80 he might as wall make the best of! it 2 Something should be done to dis- courage the belief that comfortable clothog are never stylish I If a young man has the audacity to Propose to a girl, she should have the impudence 'fa accept him Lr "ish. ~~ with 'that cork: thing Please," the fish sald to her "But don't bite anything below; it gives them too much "@ all You son "Play fun" Dallas News Anomalous. ke f { | Marriage is odd; you add ane to one and make one How singular! Words of Wise Men. Though far away, time has scattered some scenes can ne'er de ruthless dream; ay, but rest where all is change, like islands in a | dream. ~Thomas Bryden. 3 | Not all the subleties of -metaphysics can maké me doubt a moment of the mortality of the soul, and of a hene- ficent 1 feel it, I believe it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.---Rousseaun. While actions are always to be judg- ed by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments we pass up- on men must be qualified by consgidera- tions of age, country, station, and oth- er accidental circumstances, and it will then be found that he who is most char- Litable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.--~Southey, Disease generally begins the equal- ity whith death campléfes' Johnson. The secret pledsure of a generous act is the great mind's great bribo den, Show me the man you honor, and | will knot what Kind of a man vou 'aie, shows 'me What manhood is and-What kind of a man to bhe.--~Carivle. though memory's Providence I desire"it, Dry for it your ideal of ou dng Heaven will be inherited by every man whb has heaven in his soul Beecher The not for curlous eostlineas, pleisantest hospitality waiteth | When it can More friendliness r-own ostentation than to the of the guest.--8ir P. Sidney Opportunity, s er later, to all who work ar wish.---Lord Stan- ive cleanly suffiéiency cometh bY pride and greater to com fort or comes es along with it 'ted by the most invites and the Good breeding car a dignity that is resp ! petulidnt. Ul-breeding thorizes. the familiarity of timid.--Chesterfield A person of gemus should marry a person of character { herd with genius au- most, Genlus does not The. musk. deer and [the civet cat are never found in com- | pany. ~-- Holmes, . By what strange law "of mind is it i that an idea long overlooked and trod. {den under foot as a useless stone suds | deny sparkies out in new light, as a | Mscovered diamond 7--Mrs. Stowe. f | TUESDAY, MAY TWELFTH i _ The Hon. Sir Willlam Glenhoime | Falconbridge, chief justice of the { King's Bench Division of the Supreme { Court of Jucature of Onddrio, was { born sixty-eight years ago to-day at | Drummondville, Ont. He is a jurist | of eminent ability and a scholar of Haute, being particularly well up in the classics. Apropos both ; of his kindly disposition and his literary ac ! complishments a good story is told by: | & young Toronto woman journalist. | This young lady was sent in an emer | | gency to report a case then being heard by Sir Glenholme at Osgoode, Hall. She did her best to take in the argument but soon became' so @n- tirely bewildered that she could sot make head nor tail of the business. When the court adjourned she hravely accosted the/ chief justice and ey plained her difficulty. Sir Glenholme then and there sat down and wrog f:out a popular explanation of the ay. which he handed to the reporter. It was duly printed 'in the alterr gon edition and the suppesed suthor 'wis highly complimented By the editor on 'her achievement. She had to ad- mit, however, that *the re prt had been pedned by the Judge "Simself. ANG born ¥h-dayrl- . 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