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ABC _ + Audit Burean of Circulations. _ The January thaw arfived in March this year, ------ ' Life in the United States is one Seservation after another.--Toronto Globe. w ; entree % It is enough for a man to under- Stand his own business, and not to Interfere with . other people's.-- Obarles Dickens, A ------------------ » In order to séll goods to the smart B6t, you have to raisel prices instead of lowering them. Any merchant will' confirm this statement. ' The Brockville Recorder professes understand why some people in da want a navy--they are als on the water-waggon, 'The motarisation 6t the fire? de- hes been dropped for fn. Telling what the Union Govern- has dome is not such a strain the newsprint supply as telling \ it bas not done.--Peterboro miner: . itn iy @ Bell Telephone Company in- upom a two-party line. It may kh & saving for the company, but ink what; 4 restriction it imposes family gossip! ~ ---------- The failure of the federal govern- in appointing permanent offi- at the local penitentiary is very nt. The vacant positions should been filled long ago. This promises to be the best year Kingston's history. The city 1s its part. Will the government } its share by inaugurating the needed harbor} inyfovaments tT Soma time or other & warden and ty warden must be chosen for to soll the West In. to the United States, as advocat- by Mr. McAdoo, a presidential ite, finds no support anywhere' British Empire. Britain does regarded her subjects as chattels 'can be bought and sold without consent, ee ------------------------ i v @ Unifed States semate has re- 1 to endorse President Wilson's | of Bainbridge Colby as secre- of state. Inasmuch as it turned the president's peace at action is not without sig- 9 x papers and real estate offices flooded with enquiries for houses but are unable to satisfy the 18, and-can only be met. bx a united on the part of the municipal United States was three yours iting into the great war, and it ne The situation is a serious os tical as well as economic relations with the rest of the world. n this offer the Soviet govern- ment proposes eonstructive conces- sions of the most far-reaching character and scope. " One of ese concessions is a pledge for the establishment of demoératic principles in Russia "by the calling of a constituent assembly, Another concession is the promise to withdraw the decree annulling Russia's foreign debt and to pay the arrears of interest. These two pledges, even though the Soviet government undertakes to recognize ohly sixty per cent. of its liabilities To foreign countries, con- stitute indubitable proof of the re- turn of sanity to the councils of the Soviet republic, of "the desirs of Soviet Russia to deal reasonably with its own people as well as with the rest of the world. . The offer of raw materials in ex- change for financial assistance from American and British sources place the entire Russian plan for a re- sumption of economic relations with the great powsrs on the tangible basis of mutual advantage. Having definitely reached the con- clusion 'that their efforts to reorgan- ize Russia's political life by pressure from outside have ended in complete failure, and having admitted that the economic rehabilitation of Russia is essential to the economic reéhabilita- tion of the world, the logical coursé for the Allies now to pursue is to accept Russia's offer and enter into negotiations with the Moscow gov- ernment, ALL'S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD. While the world has not yet pass- ed very far into the period of recon- struction following upon the war, there are indications on all sides that the worst has been passed. - We may look forward to a more rapid rate of .| recovery gnd to a speedy resumption of normal conditions. In this opinion Mr. Bernard M. Baruch, former head of the United States War Industries' Board, apparently concurs. "The zenith of scarcity of world supplies has been reached," he 'told the Graham war Investigating commit- tee, "and 125,000,000 people directly and {rectly engaged in making war have returned to the work of production and distribution." Few perhaps have realized how stupendous has been this task of re- storing a war habituated world to & peace basis. It has necessitated the 'transfer of workers from war to peace industries, the dismantling of munition factories, the restoration of depleted rolling stocks, the importa- | tion of needed raw stuffs, the repair- ing 'of rulned districts, the' firing of exhausted peoples with new spirit and new aspirations, the setting up of new governments, the settling of international disputes, the repression or radical revolutionists, the recast ing of curreficy systems. It requires but the reciting of the Work which had to be done to under- stand why the world has recovered 80 slowly. It is true there have been mistakes. -National ambitions and clashes of interests have brought dis- putes and delays, the deadening hand of Socialism has clogged the wheels of industry avd limited the output of factories and mines, the excéssive issues of paper money have compii- «| cated foreign exchange and retarded trade. But when all has been sald, a vast deal has been aceomplished in the fifteen months since the signing of the armistice. As Mr. Baruch says, 'the situation is curing itself day by day. We are emerging from our troubles : ---------- 4 Courage consists not in bHadly overlooking danger, but in meeting it with the eyes open.--Richter., ~ *. 8 0» Religion is the most economical police service rendered in the state, ~--Willlam Jing Bryan. Stroke ye here an' stroke y Folk will stan' a deal o' ere: A web Dit crumb that's swallowed wrang Rh 'Gars ye do a deal 0' chokin', toa --Anon. = "0 And as they living among the not here, but is risen : demobilization of vast armies, the | Tah H THE DAILY BRITIS | PUBLIC OPINION | Real World News. (Ottawa Journal) What with "Our Mary's" divorce, Carpentier's marriage, the ido} Fair banks' fractured finger, and Mr. Dempsey's trial for evasion of the draft, all in = single week, who Ras got time to bother about a presi dent's concern for the Jugo-Slavs ? London . Pres. Press) Free Press On YoY oo as day/of 1912-13 Canada bought $1,500,000 worth of goods from the United States and sold $500,000. Canada's exports have increased, but her'imports havo aug- mented in a like ratio--1920 finds her still buying wildly at the same old stand. < Soldiers' Land Settlement. (Calgary Herald)" Thus far the Dominion govern- .ment has loaned to returned soldiers under the soldiers' land settlement scheme some fifty-four millions, and applications are still pouring in, It] is evident that whatever others may think about this scheme, the soldiers themselves are taking to it. : Poison All Round. {Woodstock Sentinel-Review) Facility in phrase-making is some- times a dangerous thing. There is. that man Ivens, for instance, on trial at Winnipeg. He was inspired a short time ago to speak of "a poisoned judge, a poisoned jury and a poisoned sentence," and wow in Winnipeg they spéak of himself as "Polson Ivy." The Only Salvation, (Buffalo News) * All would be well if production in- creased with the increase in wages. If more of everything was produced in a given time now than in the same time before the war, wage increases would be justified. That would be cofaing back to the old<fashioned idéa of the measure of worth being the measurg of service. But there bas been an easing up of everything but demands. This can't go on for- ever. The only thing that will save the situatiofi is work--an increase of it. For it is net as if there Is any scarcity of that ; the supply of it is inexhaustible, _ = LATE T. C. ROBINETTE, K.C. One of the greatest Canadian crim. inal lawyers, who dled of heart failure at his home in Toronto. Chose the Wrong One. A certain drunk, taken to the Police Station recently, was never booked beczuse hé gave the night squad the best laugh they've had for a long time. "How did you happen to be lying there in the gutter?" demanded the sergeant, severely. * 'Sallright, boss. I jus' happened to walk between two lamp posts and leaned against the wrong one," was the candid reply. 3 Engines in Tug of War. A "tug-of-war between the Iatest and most powerful electric locomo- tive and two,steam engines, which took place recently on one of the railroads of the middle west, resulted in an overwhelming victory for the _ |1y trom any place whers there might electric motor. rh A CanadaEast and West Dominion Happenings of Other Days. . dh Rebellion in the West. On the 19th of March, 1885, Major | Crozier 'who was stationed at Fort | Carlton in command of a small cerps | of the North-West Mounted Pelice, | received word that the hall hrecds of the west, acting under u . their leader, had raided and carried oft some Government stores. For a long time there had been rumblings of an impending outbreak but this was the first overt act. At once he went to Prince Albert, a distance of forty miles, for more men with which to cope with the situation, There was a hurried meeting of of- ficers in that place and at ten o'clock the next night a force of forty vol unteers arrived in Fort Carlton. They found a curious state of affairs ex- isting. : Already a messenger from Louis Riel had arrived at the fort, demand- ing its immediate surrender. But as it was known that 100 men of the Mounted Police were making a forced march across the country to their assistance under Lieut. Col. Irvine, Major Crozer delayed his | reply." Col. Irvine arrived at Prince | Albert on the 24th of March but in | the meantime Major Croszier's posi- tion had become so bad that he had decided to remove from Duck Lake, a small half-breed settlement near Fort Carlton, the provisions and supplies stored thers, This he at- tempted to do on the 26th of the month. A small détachment with a dozen sleighs were sent for the stores, They were attacked by Indians and half-breeds under Gabriel Dumont. Then Major Crozier went to the as- sistance of the party. The fight was sharp, ending in the enforced retire- ment of the troops after a dozen men had been killed, Six rebels perished too, Two days later, when Fart Caflton had been set on fire, Major Crozier was forced to retire to Prince Albert, leaving the wreck: of the fort in the hands of the rebels. ENTERTAIN CHILDREN Who! Attend the Home Mission on Patrick Staeet. On Tuesday afternoon the mem- bers of ~tha King's Daughters Sydenham street Methodist chu entertained about sixty boys and girls who attend the Kingston home mission on Patrick street to a sup- per in the lecture hall of Sydenham, street church. The mission, which is undenominational, is conducted by Rev. B. Pierce, a retired Methodist preacher. The services, which are held in a room in a private dwelling on Patrick streét, are well attended by the children, who range from five to fourteen years of age. Mr. Pierce stated that he had real- ized the need of getting the children off the streets on Sunday afternoons, and had organifed the mission for that purpose. The Missing Oylinder. Many times a troublesome skip in a cylinder is due to an unsuspected leak in high tension wire. When hunting for such trouble do over the wires carefully, raising them slight- be a leak. When found , the place must be covered with tape, or a new wire installed. hy, 1 0 3 KIDNEY" Rhymes | EER isk 2 £ § i : +e wr : 4 i pe E 8 £ 2 i : ; z E y 83 EE 8 gt " NO-AUDIENCE I. My neighbors all have had the flu, its flercest they claim to know; and so ther is no man in view who'll listen to my tale of woe. Oh, hone will hearken to the tale of all the agony I know, or pay at- teption to my wall---my neighbors all have bad the flu. 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