The daily witness, 22 mars 1909, lundi 22 mars 1909

[" Ls.ile 940, ail 088, ohn 2).30 089.38.\u2018est 444, LL ; .7 2e og FR TE TS RET aie] 3 yh r, > + , 1%) .Es | ° : 5 > Cold - | Fine and Cold SSS & > : ig ; = oS a ST \u2014 SLE, No.67.| MONTREAL, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1909.Price One Cent.v > ane ; \u2014 \u2014 = + mT vm \u2014 .CAN.«DA FOR THE PEOPLE Dominion is Being Spoliated to Enrich a Few, Says Prof.Cox.OVERNMENT WARNED NOT TO PUT A TARIFF ON BRAINS.Professor John Cox, the director of \u201cae Pavsid Luding ar MeGill Umi- cersity.gave au adtte-= on \u2018Canada tor Canadians, at ine wedkdy luncheon of oe Candin Clit or Montreal to-day.Pure was a LdlRe attendance, The le ure sand he would put aside the astra peut of \u2018Canada for the Canadtate.wach was the ballot cry : à sul local patriotism, saying «hat ver tarif Canada might put upon munulac:ures, \u2018fur heaven's sake don't .Uda taritt on brains, for if you do you 1b mot even secure a monopoly.Can- \u201c1 needs the best.and it would be ry poor patriotism to be put off with \u201cthing secondary merely on the ground «1 locality or birth! The sense in which he wished to plead for \u2018Canada for the Canadians\u2019 was in the couservation of the country's natural resources.First of all there were the forests, which ought to he strictly conserved and protected.He bad heard of a party who followed a trail throuzh the torest, and put out several mmnouldering camp tires which | would inevitably have set the forest atire.At last the party caught up \u201chese who had left the fires, and found they were a couple of fire rangers! Tinos like thie showed that there ught to be other qualifications for ap- yontment besides political ones.Then water rights ought never to be cranted in perpetuity.They should «niv be granted on condition of immediate development and for a definite i- mod only.Several years ago one of \u2018h greatest water powers in the pro- once was given away to a company argely using foreign capital for some =n 000.000.Yet the water power might \u201cave been made to pay for the educa- +n of the whole province.('aal was another thing being prodi- Vv wasted\u201460 percent in getting it «i of the mines with all possible svéed, and much more in using it when + was got out.The lands of \u201che coun- =v were one of its greatest assets, yet rvery possible means were being taken to bring out hordes of immigrants miny of whom were the scum of Eur- j=.anl placing them on the lands of he North-West.\u201cSurely,\u201d he eaid, \u2018vou cannot be so mich im love with modern civilization = to Wish to multiply ity wer4 agperts 2'l over the earth.Surely wé ought to go more leisurely and develop our lands along better lines.\u2019 He thought the haste to be rich was at the bottorm of many of the present evils, resulting in the resources of the country being held up so as to enable a few men to make big fortunes, while the mass of the people remained poor.The evils werc largely due to the usur- vation of other function by \u201coinmercial men, Moneyed interests had got hold of the theatres, of music, and of news- Japers, which were applied to the pur- yo~as of making money.Thus the wells of public opinion were poisoned at thir source\u2014and even the universities were feeling the grip of commerce, ~ He was, however, an optimist, and ne believed he could see signs that the lea of the accumulation of riches be- yood the dreams of avarice was becom- nz played out.They must not underrate the genius of captains of industry * L b > = - = = 2g YT ov = .- raw Po .A i 1.3 PTI A rtm er jm pan 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Daily V'itness,\u2019 $3.50 extra; \u2018Weekly Witness, ¥ extra; \u2018Northern Messenger,\u201d 60c extra.The last edition of the \u2018Dally Witness\" 16 delivered in the city every evening of publication at $4.00 per annum, and \u2018word Wide at $1.50 per annum.All business communications should be ad- dreseed \u2018John Dougall & Son, \u2018Witnees Ofice, Montreal.\u2019 All lettere to the Editor should de addressed \u2018Editor of the \u2018Witness, Montreal,\u2019 While the pubilaners of the \u2018Witness\u2019 excivae from ite columns all financial and o'he: advertisements which tuey consider calculated or intended to take advantage Of or injure the reader, !* must be under stood that they in no way guarantee advertisements, and mus: leave their readers to exercise their own dimcretion in tbe way of putting faith in them.It ts, of course, impocsible to know much about ruining advertising.which offers probab:y the most epeculative, and, therefore, the most risky of all investments.The great chances of gain are balanced by the great chances of loss, ana no one should invest in a very épecu:ative property more than he can afford to lose.ew Keaders of the \u2018Witness\u2019 leaving the city ror a shorter or longer period, can have the \u2018Daily Witness\u2019 each day of publication, by mati, at twenty-five cents per month, Creat pritain and the United Stutes included.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 F.M.6 j , Cans MARCH Maa Ss M| T{WI|T 3 10 17 24 31}.2 9 15/16 22 23 29 |30 MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1909.The rumor that Barl Grey will be selected to succeed the Earl of Minto as Viceroy of India is to say the least not impossible.(0 many governors- general of Canada have gone the round of promotion from Ottawa to Calcutta that it has almost come to be locked upon as a natural sequence in the highest ranks of the Imperial service.Three names will occur ab once of men who were fortunate in having had great opportunities and cf having risen equal to them.The Earl cf Elgin, the Marquis of Dufferin, and the Marquis of Lansdowne, each in his day, had established a reputation for administrative ability in Canada at a time of popular excitement before going to Inda to.fill the more difficult and responsible position of Viceroy of India.To represent the Crown in Canada, with a population of a few millions and a constitutional government is an easy task to that of actually ruling India, with two hundred million population, divided into many races, religions, castes and na- tonalities, and speaking an almost endless diversity of languages.But the also- lute constitutionalism taught in this school would hardly fail to prepare the most arbitrary of Englishmen to take a more British view of the possibilities of any country, however backward in its institutions and conceptions.Lord Min- to, the present Viceroy, whose r:tire- ment is expected, has worthi'y fulfilled the duties of his exalted office.Canadians, who knew him first as Lord Mel- gund, on the staff of Lord Lansdowne when that nobleman was our governo:- general, have watched his career with kindly interest.When it came his turn to represent the Crown, in the government of the Dominion, he was heartily welcomed and on his retirem>nt cariied with him the re-p-ct and good wishes of all Canadians.Of Earl Grey it may be truly said that he has bcen in all respects a model Governor-General.Fortunately for him and for the country, there bas been no political crisis during bis term of office.His duties bave) commending that Australia present a \u2018Dreadnought\u2019 to the British Navy.Australia has a population of nearly four millions to Canada\u2019s seven millions.New Zealand with a population of nine hundred thousand, about twice that of Montreal and suburbs, has gone further and has actually offered to undertake the cost of a first-class battleship of the \u2018Dreadnought\u2019 type.We of Canada arc content to see the Mother Country, as would appear from a special United States Jingo correspondent, in an agony of terror because a Liberal government refuses to lay down eight \u2018Dreadnoughts\u2019 at once.We are told that such is the concern in England\u2014 which probably means in London club- dom and in suburban London villadom, where the \u2018Englishman's Home\u2019 is, which is being so eplendidly smashed night after night at a London theatre\u2014 that Mr.Balfour has only to say the word and walk into power on the top of a panic.There may be reasons, however, why the storm-king stays his hand.For one, he may not have the game confidence that the United States Jingo correspondent has as to how the voter would vote.For another, he may not feel quite sure that he could manage the storm once he has raised it.For another, it is whispered that Great Britain could not lay down eight \u2018Dreadnoughts\u2019 if she would, and that he would stultify the empire as well as that issue.The same pessimists who say that Great Britain, the great shipbuilder for the world, could not lay down eight \u2018Dreadnaughts,\u201d make the still more astounding announcement that Germany can.This view is at least measurably supported by the recent utterances in parliament of Mr.Reginald McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, when he said that two years hence Germany would have seventeen \u2018Dreadnoughts.This was officially denied in Germany and reduced to thirteen.But the Reichstag has demanded an explanation of the discrepancy, to which the minister, nothing loth apparently to have the story believed, has answered mysteriously, Whatever be the merit of the scare, it leaves Canada in a not very noble position\u2014 Canada, which has never been slow to demand British protection when she has neighborly differences.Canada has a much greater population than either Scotland or Ireland.Canada is in population bigger than Australia ,New Zea- land and White South Africa put together.Yet Canada does nothing for the Navy.Mr.Joseph Martin, of British Columbia\u2014Fighting Joe Martin \u2014an out and out anti-imperialist Canadian, has been saying some plain things to the Canadian Club at Toronto.He demanded that Canada, out of respect.for her own dignity, should contribute pire, and denounced the meanness that would not only hang on to the maternal apron string, but would actually demand new favors at the cost of our poorer fellow subjects: \u2018When I remember the terrible amount of poverty in the Old Conafry, a condition of things we do mot apprcach here, I am ashamed of those people in Canada who are asking the old land to do anything for us.They say we want you to tax the food of these poor unfortunaté individuals who do not know where they are going to get their meals for the day.And this muney is to go to swell the pockets of the Canadian farmer.\u2019 \u2014\u2014\u2014 TREASURE ISLAND AGAIN.Stories of treasures of gold and silver, doubloons, or pieces of sight, \u2018as they were called on account of the octagon shape in which they were coined, valuc $16, diamonds and other precious stones, hidden away by the pirates of two centuries ago in the then remote islands of the western ocean, are all myths.Enthralling as a subject of romance, there are tales in every language of the hiding and finding of fabulous stores of gold, gems, jewelled swords, ropes of pearls and chests of valuables.But, as a matter of fact, there is no well- authenticated account of any such discovery.Edgar Allan Poe's \u2018Gold Bug\u2019 and \u2018Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s \u2018Treasure \u2018Island\u2019 are the best typical staries of pirate treasure hiding.Yet yarns like these have fired the imagination of many adventurers, none more so than the tale of Captain Kidd depositing his blood- bought treasure on Oak Island in himself if he should win a victory on .to both the navy and army of the em- | Mabone Bay, on the coast of what is 4 limb of a tree.Right beneath it the ground showed signs of having been dug up.A short time after this discovery a ship visited Mahone Bay, anchored near Oak Island and remained there for a month, none of the few people on the coast daring to go near the vessel to find out what its crew were doing.One fine day the ship sailed away, when it was found that the block had been removed from the tree and the earth showed where a hole had been dug and hastily filled up again.On several subsequent occasions other treasure-hunters dug down in the same spot, but the inflow of water always brought their labor to naught at a certain depth.Legends gathered about the island and stories, probably invented, told of curious finds of planks and bits of gold buried deep in the soil.The history of the pirates and of their ways of disposing of their booty is now pretty well known.They were the most thoroughly abandoned criminals of whom there is any record.Reckless in their plans of robbery on the high reas, they were as reckless in the extravagance of their expenditure in orgies of dissipation and wickedness.When they made a haul and were in want of provisions, water or ammunition, they went to ports where they.knew they would be welcome or could overawe the authorities.There they stayed until their funds ran out, then they sailed away in search of fresh victims.Their booty was always divided among them, according to pirate law, and always spent in drunkenness and debauchery.Sometimes a crew, when hard pressed, would run their ship ashore and disperse, cach man taking his share.Often these quarrelled or waylaid each other, murdering and robbing their mates with thé\u2019 same ferocity that they showed in theif piratical exploits.Some of them may have hidden their spoils, but little has: ever been discovered.Most of them.came to their end on the gallows, and the records of their trials show them to\" have been as low a lot of scoundrels as ever trod decks.Their only virtue was courage, arising from the fact that.they fought knowing they had no hope of mercy if taken alive.FIRES AND FORESTRY.It has been established beyond cavil that the great majority of forest fires have been due to carelessness and other preventable causes.The fire that started in the St.John region of the Saguenay River, in 1870, and devastated the north shore of the St, Lawrence River down to Labrador, burning timber worth many nrillions of dollars, and destroying many homes, was caused by a farmer setting light to brush in a high wind.Inquiry just concluded in the Lake Megantic district has disclosed that the fire which destroyed the woods on the south side of the Victoria River for several miles last fall was caused by two men going to the bog to fish and leaving their fire burning.In the same district a fire was caused by a farmer setting a light to scme old tree stumps.This extended to the dry grass and soon got beyond his control.A fire on the Maine side of the boundary line, near Loweltown, which swept over miles of country in dii- ferent directions; according to the wind, was started by a hunter setting fire to a.hornets\u2019 nest for the fun of it.Many of the fires have been caused by farmers setting fira to slash fences, and others to smouldering fires from old burnings.of logs and stumps in the woods, which cnly awaited a strong wind to fan them into iife, and cause them to run amok among the dry and inflammable sur roundings.Many fires are started by sparke from steam engines, which ignite the grass in dry seasons; others by campers starting fires to cook by and neglecting to extinguish them ; and others by smokers throwing away a lighted match or knocking live ashes out cf their pipes.Not only do such fires destroy the woods, many farms and everything om | - them, often causing loss of hyman life, but in many places where a fire has raged it is found that the section is left unfit for agricultural purposes, for zhe fire has burned the mould down to the hard pan for miles around, and there is nothing left but stones.A sin- |Gulerly reprebonsible practice is that of 4 than others.\u2018trees\u2019 ard, in the case of pulp wood, stripping the bark off, and leaving it to dry with the leaves on the branches veritable tinder for the forest.As the report of the Megantic investigation says: \u2018When this is done for a number \u2018 of years and over a large track of coun- \u2018try, it leaves a vory great quantity of \u2018waste matter which drics out every, \u2018summer, and when a season like 1895 \u201cand 1908 comes, and fire catches hold \u2018 of this accumulated waste, it does nct \u201cstop until the whole district is fire ¢ swept, and all the hard wood and other \u2018 timber that has been left standing is \u2018destroyed.\u2019 Every practical man will agree with Mr.Ellwood Wilson, Forest Engineer of the Laurentide Paper Compumy, that some adequate system of fire protection is now absolutely necessary.A system much in favor by experts is the patro! system, in which as much territory as possible is controlled by guards, ¢ho go at once to any place where smoke is seen and endeavor to extinguish the fire.A watch is kept on all peiscns entering the territory and they are not only warned to be careful of their fires, but the rangers follow them around as much as possib'e to see that they are careful.In Maine high towers are erected, connected with each other and with the nearest source of aid by telephone.Fach tower has a watchman, who bas an ac curate map of the country properly oriented, a powerful glass and a range finder.He is thus enabled to lccate Canada and Canada\u2019s public men go.are now awaking to the importance of \u2018this question as never before.As Mr.\u2018Wilson remarks: Now (hat we know \u2018how narrow a margin of timber we have } for the future, we should start a campaign of education in regard to this question of fire protection, showing the peo- of our danger.Once this is done, and public sentiment aroused, the government will be compelled to enforce the law, just as now they are timid about it owing to the influence of the railways and the settler\u2019's vote.Then, too, limit holders should be compelled to have competent fire rangers, and to extinguish fires on their own limits.Last geason one prominent limit holder let a fire rage on his territory, forcing his neighbor to fight it in order to protect himself.If we can keep out the fires we shall help very materially in the conservation of water supply and in the reg- wlation of stream flow, for burnt land allows the water to run off into the streams much more rapidly than land which has merely been cut over, and streams with burnt over watershed are liable to greater alternations of level Education of all the people who work in the woods, who own woddlands and who live in the neighborhood of forests is the best and only last ing sort of fire protection.This and a rigid enforcement of fire laws would soon render forest fires a thing of the past.Quebec has a great stake in this matter, as were the forest wealth of this province properly conserv.d and managed, we could, as Mr.Wilson confirms, supply not only our own industries but those of the northeastern scction of the United States with raw material practically forever, eel.AFTER THE SPREE.Constables Burke and Shallow, of No.5 police statien, arrested a man named Christopher Roche, in a saloon at the corner of Craig and Coté streets, late on Saturday evening, on a charge of being drunk and causing a disturbance.After getting over his little spree om Sunday, Roche found that he was minus his watch and a roll of bills, which contained about forty 6.Sing hope :0o mr Sweet notes, my hope memory.~ noes for The eap will eurc.y j: Krn econ or hate.The tardiest bird w.on :er \u20180 a mair.So spring mue: daxn agin With warmts and blem, Or in this word, «r .2 the worid to come, Sing.voice of pring! Till I too b.cesom and rejoice and sing.\u2014Christina Horeeti.Meieorological Office, Toronto.March 2,\" a.m.\u2014The following are the maximum «ni minimum temperatures:\u2014 Victoria, 04, 7 Kamloops, 50, 28, Edmonton, 8, 16; Prin.» Albert, 36, 16; Calgary, 38, 15.Qu Ajpe 32, 20; Winnipeg, 36, 20.Port Arthur, 5 10; Parry Sound, 32, 18: Toronto.wl Ottawa, 28, 14; Montreal, 24, JS: Queh 28, 12; St.John, 4u, 28; Halifax.4, Fresh norih-west and north winds.17 and cold to-day and Tuesday.A low area which was in the Lowe\u2019 Méssissippi Valley on Saturday moved a rectly eastward and passed off the Ar.an®\u201d coast during Sunday.A high area off .he great lakes has remained almost! £3\u2019: nam and increased.The weather continues ce.throughout the Domin'on, and snow'a.\u2026 have occurred in Manitoba \u2018wan.10-12 Notre Dame street West -Mentra\u2019 March 22, 1906\u2014Readinge by Hearn & Ha~ rison'e Standard Darometer at noon Yesterday, 29.96; 11 a.m.to-day, 37.03, Temperature\u2014 Max.Min To-day .«i or oo +.B 17 Yesterday \u2026 .\u2026.38 16 { J ame Hakes a Nith LISHES L al cable sin Ber- Ly bord, 1.the « reated tried 1 Tom if - bearing of the te Never leronau- Ivçesstul * ascen- les, and or four ade the tie.and .brings /cppehin cht cared the uld with eight ot tHciency lon will ing \u20acx- SUCCES peneved, the Te- liameter cach d is a © aurship posverful mu TS.PPING N TRA- Hx w.T.Jrown & irr.d on fternoon er, Mrs.« strect, m- time, ficiated.r health ~eemed veek h- pad\u2019 for 3 emp ry any for able and fiftvene rebellion the let ec]! ness \u2018on require.| s-veral e Rova\" :8 sur- invalid; M.Cop- C.D tnd the Messrs, J.C.ontreal.|.Que; Morgan.Barr w ls citv.by the number ccesstul e were Lambert pt's pu- and re- Ps.AND.of ex- dent of him a an Oi.and their sing; es for br hate, maie; armth come, singh 22, 11 m and n+, 32; Prince ppelle, ur, 34, 2, 28.uebec, , 2.fine Lower ed di- tlantic hf the innafy es cold wfalls atche trend, Har- 0.08, Kim FELL.THROUGH THE IkE [WO MEN DROWNED IN THE LACHINE CANAL.vo men, one of whom is still un- «n.vesterday paid tor their 1m- ence in venturing On to the thin : aangerous ice on the Lachine canal, Ww cher hives.fatality occurred opposite the < of the Montreal Steel Co, west Wellington street br dze, between 3 $ o'clock in the morning, and the er at the foot of Murray street, at 3 nm.Neither ui the bodies are iv to bs recovered tll the canal is \u201cied for repairs next month.[he man who was drowned opposite © steel} works was seen by the watch- Can of the malls as he was crossing the anal.and after he went through the ice \u201cas shouts for help were heard by warkmen of the mich sluit, but it Was :mpossible to reach him owing to the darkness.When dayhight broke there was a hole visible In the ce at the spot where the man was sven to dizappear.Amate Tectio, an Italian, 58 years old, of Conwav ~triet.and three compan- ons, were crossing the canal in the \u201ctemoon.al a pont onposite Murray treet, where the jee was marked dan- serous.when it gave way under them and Teotio and a man named Andrea lisa, 34 years of age, of 7 School street, went througn.The younger man, who \u201could swim, caught his companions 'othes, but the others could not get near enough to give any assistance and he was forced to let go.\u2018leotio leaves a widow and three children.re WOMAN FOULLY MURDERED.Niagara Falls.N.Y.M:rch 21.\u2014 Mrs.Anthony Pereak.38 vears old, was ha k- cd to death with an axe and a but.cher-knife at her heme on Buffalo avenue to-night, The house, a mall structure.is set a hun- red feet back from the street, «nl 1s surrounded by trees.The po- :e were notified of the murder about une o'clock.They arrested three lvarders and the husband.The print « a bloody hand was found on the back door.A secilon of the deor was taken wav by the officers and the imprints 4 ~{ the hands of the four prisoners will te taken and compared with the marks nn tne door panel.Le SEVEN Magnificent Carnival Pictures Ready for framing and descriptive of Canadian Winter Sport and Scenery - - - including STORMING THE ICE CASTLE (14 x 21 inches.) TOBOGGANING THE BOUNCE SNOWSHOEING The Start.Ths Finish, ICE BOATING And a\u2014\u2014= BEAUTIFUL PICTURE SHOWING SPRING\u2019S AWAKENING {10 x 14 laches), ALL ON HEAVY PLATE PAPER.| ONLY 15 CENTS ; THE SET.JIT! wii } Ha These pictures are printed to tupply a clamorous demand, and It 1s because they are printed in enormous quantities that the price can be made so low.The Pictorial Publishing Company \u2018Witcess' Flock, MONTREAL.NEW SUBSCRIBERS To \u2018CANADIAN PICTORIAL\u2019 can have all the atove ple- tures freo of charge by remitting 65 cents to cover the remaining issues of the present volume, which ends November next.This is splendid value, and only open as a trial offer that new subscribers may become acquainted with the \u2018Canadian Pictorial.\u2019 CAPTURED MILK THIEF CONSTABLE SAW HIM LIFT BOY: TLE FROM HUTCHISON STREET DOORWAY.During the past few weeks, Captain Loye, of No.5 police station, has received many complaints from citizens residing in Sherbrooke street west, that their milk has been stolen from their { doorways.Constable Focault was put jon the case to see if he could capture \u2018the thief.About six o'clock yesterday i morning, he was standing in a door- \"way in Hutchison street, just above ; Sherbrooke street, when he saw a young man walk up to a doorway, pick up a i bottle of milk and put it in his pocket.; He reneated th:s trick several times, and the officer, jumping out of his hiding place, gave chase to the thief, and after fa run through lanes, yards and over | fences, caught him on Major street.i The prisoner gave his name as Ernest Dubois.This 1s the second arrest for milk theft Constable Foucault has made within Lwo months, SEDITION IN INDIA UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD PROPOSE TO RETURN ENDOWMENT TO ONE LEADER.London, March 20.\u2014Leading member of Oxford University, heads of houses and a dozen of the most eminent professors, are petitioning the Hebdomadal Council to abolish the lectureship endowed by an Indian alumnus, and to return the money to the donor.This unprecedented step is due to the fact that Shyamaji Krashnavarma, the founder of the lectureship, has become -à Tabid promoter of sedition in India, and the university authorities are un- Pilling to remain under obligation to im.Much attention has recently been given to the propaganda of rebellion carried on from India House, High- gate, London.Krishnavarma, who is the leading spirit of the movement, is a graduate of Balliol.He has become the bitterest enemy of British rule in India, attempts to justify the recent murders of linglish officials and women by natives, and is assisted by a corps of Indian students who frequent India House, writing incendiary pamphlets and sending them to India for circulation In immense quantities.Great uneasiness prevails the conditions at India House.The propaganda was the subject of interpellation in Parliament last week.Herbert Gladstone, the Home Secretary, stated that the Government could not make public the steps being taken to here over | repress the incendiaries.ORMSTOWN MOVED THE JOHN H.ROBERTS'S TEMPERANCE CAMPAIGN SHOOK THE COMMUNITY.Never has Ormstown been more deeply moved by any series of meetings than it has been during the week of Mr.John H.Roberts's Christian temperance campaign just closed.Night after night the audiences have increased, and the impression has been strengthened.When Mr.Roberts, on Thursday night, delivec- ed his famous life-story lecture, the McDougall Hall was crowded in every nook and corner.Many signed the pledge at the close.Last night Mr.Roberts closed his campaign by giving his new stereopticon lecture: \u2018The Oid Country,\u2019 when another great audience heard him.It proved a splendid finish to a splendid campaign.The liberal collections given by the audiences nightly paid all the local expenses.\u2014\u2014 PROTESTANT HOUSE OF REFUGE.The visiting governers for the present week to the Protestant House of Industry and Refuge and to the Homes at Longue Pointe are Messrs.Walter Livermore and John Simpson.The number of night lodgings given last week was 444 and the number of meals given was 782.The Board of Outdoor Relief supplied 200 families with 191 parcels of provisions, 80 quarter cords of wood and 14 quarter tons of coal.Back Strained By Heavy Lifting Lay Helpless in Bed for Four Days Crippled, Suffering Agony and Torture.¢ While engaged with a large construction company, writes Amos E.Wilbur, from Concord, *| wrenched my back while lifting a steel beam.1 realized at once that I was hurt, but finished the day out.1 was so lame when 1 reached home that my wife insisted on my going to bed.I applied noultices, hot water bags and other remedies, but at the end of the fifth day my suffering was more Intense than at first.A fellow workman brought me a bottle of NERVILINE, and rubbed my back twice during the evening.This gave me relief.Rubbing with Nerviline was continued the next day, and by night I was much improved.Nerviline must have penetrated right into the muscles that were sore, because it took out the stiffness, cured the pain, and had me well in four days\u2019 time.Of course, to strengthen my back, I put on a Ner- viline Porous Plaster and find it a wonderful help to a working man.\u2019 Not a liniment on earth to-day that compares in pain-subduing, healing and curing power with Nerviline.Fifty years\u2019 record has established -its unusual merit.Look out for the substitutor, insist on \u2018Nerviline\u2019 only.Large 25c.bottles at oll dealers, ea including seven.- THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS, MONDAY, MARCH 22, Called by the Local The meeting held in Strathecna Hall on Saturday afternoon to discuss the enfranchisement of women, was attended by as many as the room would hold, | mostly women, although a few men were \u2018also present.The discussion was conducted - seriously and with complete amiability, and the audience appeared to be about equally divided in opinion, or perhaps, many were in a middle position, ready to appreciate a good argument on either side.The speakers on the platform were, some for, others opposed to, the suffrage for women, but in the discussion by members among the audience, the opposition was conspicuously absent.Some who had been asked to speak were firmly opposed, but \u2018hadn\u2019t thought about it\u2019 and had noth- Ing to say.On the other hand, several on the suffragist side seemed to have plenty of arguments ripe for utterance.Miss Derick, who presided, explained that the Canadian Council of Women had as yet taken no decided position on the suffrage question.There were three parties in the Council, suffragists, anti- suffragists, and those who believed in equal clectoral righis, but thought that the time was not yet ripe to agitate the matter.However, the Council must soon take a stand on one side or the other, and their wish was to arrive et a wise decision.Miss Hurlbatt, Warden of the Royal Victoria College, wae the first speaker, Education, labor and the franchise, she said, were the three main pillars of the state.The franchise must give to every one the means of self-expression in the corporate life of the state.so that the state may truly be the reflection of the individual human beings of which it is made up.Self-asserticn for selfi purposes 18 not the motive of the women\u2019s \u2018movement.e movement is avowedly for the purpose of obtaining the fullest opportunity as a means to tha fullest service.The profoundest reason for giving women votes is that they are different from men and can contribute something peculiarly ther ¢wn in the ideal state, all give and al! receive.If that 1s to be achieved fully, woman\u2019s own testimony as to her needs and nature will be required in all legal and political transactions.In the wWoman's movement, the ways of motherhood, its personalizing tenderwres, ite standard of discrimination, should be exalted and developed, rather than put out of sight.As to granting the suffrage to married women, it was argued that one household should have but one vote, and it was feared as a cause of family differences One argument in its favor often overlooked was that the family is a stab\u2019 element in the state, and that the iv Ing of votes to married women might encrease the aight of family and so : = ; political power.to se Sable element in eleve that educated wom= Prevented from thimking, or \u201cthat they can be forced into agreement with the male members of the household by the mere fact that they cannot back their Opinions by a vote ?The domestic peace argument was an ineult to the cntelligence and social capacity of men women alike.In the last fifty years great changes have come about which, in conjunction.have given a strong color to the cause of woman\u2019g : uffrage\u2014 the achieved \u20acconomic Independence of women, industrial development, and the Spread of education.Miss Hurlbatt touched on the relation between the ballot and mproved conditions for women\u2019s labor, a forcible argument in Great Britain, where 82 percent of those who would be enfranchised on the same terms as men would be Wage-earners.Parhament legislates on matters affect- Ing the interests of vast numbers of women and children.\u2018There are subjects in which the judgment of capable and experienced women deserves a hearing, and they may fairly ask to have an opportunity for doing what they can to raise the standard of public opinion, and to bring improved conditions to bear upon the homes and work places of the Empire.Miss Hurlbatt dealt with the three main arguments against women\u2019s suffrage, the physical force argument, the dread af increasing the number of ignorant voters, and the claim that women themselves do not want the vote.There were other services as essenthal to national existence, performed by women, equally ag important as those performed by soldier and Faior.The bearing and rearing of children should be sufficient to instance.After all, what part was taken in maval and mih- tary matters, diplomacy, ete., by bun- dreds of thousands of male voters?Government was concerned with direct- ting and controlling physical force.It might be doubted if the proportion of ignorant voters amon?women would be greater than among n.At all events, while the ignorant male voler was a fact, there was the irbmaly of the educated woman, tax-payer.property holder, without a vote.'I\u2019hat women do not want the vote could no longer be contended.in Great Britain.The Anti- Sufirage Society holds that in matters of social *reform womeh at present stand apart from and bevond party politics, and are listened to accordingly.But thie, said the speaker, is not true, except with rezard to a few favored women, and if 1t were true it would be lamentable, for there is nothing more pernicious, nothing more likely to de- dissuaxkz serious people with serious aims to stand apart and to have nothing to do with them.Women\u2019s patriotism is not to be tested by willingness to stand aloof from their country\u2019s business, mor women\u2019s common sense by acquiescing in the doctrine that they are unfit to judge of their country\u2019s imter est.Miss Kate Campbell followed with a the suffrage.Her argament was based, jot on the unfitmess of womem, but om SHOULD WOMEN HAVE THE FRANCHISE?any one seriously grade politics, than the tendency to.spirited protest against women\u2019s having\u2019 - A are A Lee 5 a eR 3e = IGN, PEN = ARTS NV PRE 6 MES RE SN EEE RE ENN COMTE UE YE SET FS a RE, LE Pme CO PI ER SE TEL TA i TR in Both Sides of the Question Argued at a Meeting Council of Women.\u2018the final triumph of unfitness\u2019 in democracy itself.She deplored the political corruption of the times, and declared that experience in certain of the United States had shown that granting the ballot to women had not purified or ennobled politics.The women had followed where the men led.Women bad other instruments than the ballot for advancing sccial weltare.\u2018l'hrough independence of party politics they could have more influence in obtaining reform than through sharing in politics.Framing the laws of a country was not the only avenue of public service.Women, by the ennobling of private life, could do much to cure the crying evils ot society.Miss Campbell had a vision ot a more ideal system of government based on public service, in which woman, kept free from party spirit, would be fitted to take her part.Mrs.Gerin Lajoie, who spoke in French, asked what was this public life into which the introduction of woman gave such uneasiness, as if it were going to turn her aside from the accomplishment of her functions in private life.Were not these public interests only the sum of our private interests considered in their general character?In proportion as women become more enlightened on their own mission, In proportion as science reveals to them the importance of their functions on future generations, above all, as they realize the difficulties of their vocation, they feel that there is necessary a concerted, intelligent movement, sanctioned by the public authorities, that women create national aspirations responding to their ideal.Women claim the suffrage, not because they are similar to men, but because they are different, and as wives and mothers they have responsibilities which nature has imposed on them.Mrs.Cox gave a bright and able paper representing \u2018the women on the fence.In Canada there is, she thought, a large proportion of women who take no particular interest in women\u2019s suffrage.They were well off and happy, and were not conscious of any serious wants of their own.Whatever \u2018we in Canada think of the righte and wrongs of the suffragist agitation in England.it has undoubtedly stirred all up to think about it.Considering what women have done in private business and the professions, in eking out the man\u2019s 1n- come in and out of the home, in the business of the nation, by public service on school boards, health committees, etc, the lookers on \u2018from the fence\u2019 claim to see that women are capable in affairs, and that they understand the people.\"It is surely a mistaken idea that if the women get the vote they will desert their proper business, the home, and run with one accord into public affairs.The vast body of men ave their business to attend fo, and do not devote any great amount of time to \u2018public life.There would still be women to sew on buttons and prepare the dinner.Perhaps that essential sauce to appetite, good conversation, might be increased by the wider interests introduced into the life of the home.As to the classification, \u2018men\u2019s work,\u2019 \u2018women\u2019s work,\u201d were we quite clear of our division there?How much of life 18 purely \u2018human\u2019 work?The speaker was inclined to think that what stands in the way of woman's voting, or wanting to vote, is the survival of the old feminine ideal.the woman who exists as a vision of beauty, apart from the rough world, and the other ideal of the housewife, busied in purely domestic cares.Both are survivals of states of society long gone by, but both still hold our vision.And women, too, shrink from going where they are not wanted, and realize that they lack training.Their ideals are high, and they wish to attain a high level.But it looks as if the day were near when women will be wanted even in the last stronghold of masculine dominance, when, together, in .the great club of the nation men \u2018and women shall try to arrange the affairs of the life they have to live together, the women having learnt to take the long view, the men to appreciate the detail so clear to a woman s eye.\u2018 \u201cThe Rev.Mr.Shatford was strong'y opposed to women taking part in peli- tics.- He had been shocked by a suffragette demonstration he witnessed in London.Was that what we might expect if women had the vote?He complimented Canadian women on their sanity and prudential intell'gence.ae shown in such a meeting, but he denied that women had a natural right to enfranchisement.Men and women \u2018were different in physical, mental and moral constitution.Man was physically and intellectually supericr.The governments of the world, in the last resort were based on force.Man was pre-eminent in physical force.women pre-emin- ent \u2018in love (\u2018Hear! hear!\u201d from a solitary man in the corner, who appeared to bz enjoying the meeting).Women were prone to be carried away bv their strong feelings and emotions.Mr.Shatford went to Genesis and St.Paul on one hand, \u2018and to the lower orders of creation on the other, to prove that God and nature int-nded the ma'e creature to be the guiding and control- Ying force.As to women\u2019s influence in politics, reforms were not brought about by law, but good laws were brought about by reforms.The speaker doubted if women would be less amenable to bribery than men, or if the promise of an expensive bonnet would not carry the day.The time a woman would need to give to the study ne ne i Loans, fecrenss The etatement Tn foreigners who have set themselves to| M.S.R.\u20141140 at 206, 2 at 207.5 bl ved \u2018Change, it a colored, however, js quoted at at a complete and amicable adjustment ane , ot es TI k ism nfusion Asbestos\u201450 at 92.rom Cables received on ange, | 13% cens.ex ! settlement of all the Steel Ccoimpany's Deposits, decrease .3,683,700 work to epread dismay ihe East.Textile common\u201425 at 64%.would appear that the Liverpool cheese The Dbut'er market is well supplied at claims, We wish the Steel Company to Circulation, increase ce ee es 32,200 through the coal wor ers 9 industry of E.T.Bank-1 at 159%.market is frm.There bas been a f«ir de- present, and prices have gone down to 22 prdersinnd clearly that Coal has no desire gogal tenders, increase .EF Noor Scotia dep nds upon i's being able Nipissing\u2014300 at 10%.mand at unchanged prices.Colored cheess and 23 cente.There is a little fresh but- \" 0 prolong ation even over disputable Specie, increace .139,300) Nova pe os M ith American coll} C.P.R.\u201430 at 167%, 125 at 165, 25 at 108% is etill very scarce and commands a good ter being received from the Eastern Town- Lome and will endeavor to agree to those Reserve, increase .\u2026.\u2026.ou.a as markets T+ 125 at 168% quotation.English cheese, under a fair ships almost daily, but the shipments are \u201cens if at al.possible.\u2019 Reserve required, dec.ste sree 920,925 | Pere 1 tt ¥ dicial to the industry Quebec Railway\u2014160 at 53.demand, is slightly higher in price.Finest very email and most of the butter now on so the malter stands.We cannot think Surplus, increase .1,453,525 would be most prejudicial Teleph 145 Canadian colored is quoted at 62 to 63 shil- the market is the old etock.It is selling n (pal: attitude is altogether unreasonable, Ex.U.S.deposits, inc.1,461,900 if the miners became eubiec os of Am Ri > 50 ac 8.= lings per 112 pcunds, while English checse at 22 to 23 cents per pound.airhoueb Steel may have reason to believe trol of the United Mine Workers of AM.9 trol % 714, 1 at 561 t t is eelling at from 72 to 86 shillings per 120 Eggs are coming into the city in large oy etEorwise.C-NADIAN SECURITIES erica, which is organized in the Waited 58.seroir- » at 57%, a la, = at 57, 25 a pounds Éccord.ng to quality.quantities, and prices are as low as 20 Anyway.now that the parties have so Sta-es, ES fact that The coal opera- Mexican\u201420 at 75.There has been a steady demand for but- to 21 cents per dozen.This price is not nearly reacted a settlement, we cannot be- aw ; States are makin: Sao Pavio-25 at 152%, 13 at 1523, 25 at ter and continental produce of choicest likely to remain for many daye.D \u2018ve that they will commit the (rime of (Canadian Associated Press.) tors of the United Js o uality has been well cleared Coloniai \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 (fying the good work.By a litrle good London, March 22.\u2014Canadian Securities ctrenuous efforts to oust Noa Scotla cont WL clegraph 10 at 147 Batter is in free supply, and while firmly Wall St.Strong at 2 O'clock ! ing changes in from e .Lawrenc arke \u2014 .i su , \\ me MAS At à concluclon of the prices Demiaion ot Chanda nscribed 1947.Dominion Coal Company is determined ta Iron\u2014195 at 23.held at the beginning of the week, \u2018bere New York, March 22.\u2014Wall Street\u20142 p.m.?hours, sut (o De possible in a few 79s to 81s, Ontario registered 1946, 92148 to protect its business and the vial interests Coal-175 at 63, 10 at 631, 25 at 63'%, 235 has been a slackening in values later, ei \u2014The undertone of the market remained 93Les ; Quehec inscribed 1937, 83s to 85s.| of ite employees by preventing this fereign at 63, 25 at 627%.| market closes quiet.There Da aie, strong, and there was a further rise in de \u2019 \u2019 labor union from exercising control over cover 15 at IU 700 at 2.90, 500 ai 2.03 30 | est Jemant for seront rate RA boxes, selective stocks.Union Pacific Jhoved, up the majority of its workmen, rown Reserve-3700 a at 2.03 | Ce \u2018 >, © 21: American Smelting, 2; New Yor en- HARRIMAN MERGER IS BEING MONTREAL STOCK : y das.selis at 100 to 101 shillings per i pouls.tral and Missouri Pacific, 1!4.andi Atchison, \" CONTESTED IN THE COURTS On Tour of Inspection to Can.Conv.\u201485 at 41, Improving conditions of the produce (rade Denver and Rio Grande and Great North: EXCHANGE PRICES John Black Mining Claims Iron vref\u201460 at 15.0 are apparent.ern ore certizcates one.- ; ac en.coniou\u201450 a ITS _\u2014 vy St.Louls, March 22.\u2014Hearings began to- ohn \u2014 i .Gay in the Federal Court here before an Reportedby W.P.O'Brien.82 St.Francois Xarise Dank of Con merce.Lat 175, 12 at 17415, HAMILTON MARKET PRICES La Rose Dec ares Dividend h raminer \u2018a the government's suit to de- Eucet- Idk Mum \u20ac3).ack, managing director o! L.of Weods\u20142 at 101 To ; New York.March 22.\u2014The directors of d care the merger of the Union and South- Eellers Buyers Sellers Buyers the robe Black Mining Company, accom- Rio bonds\u2014$2000 at ue Hamilton, March 22.\u2014We quote prices the La Rose Mines Company of Cobalt have 0 Cn fie fines by = OH.Harriman\u201d pell Tel Co, 150 145 Dom La 8 33 32% panied by the president and directors, hive AF1'ERNOON SALES, Sy as follows: \u2014 White whea:, per BUsh:: declared the regular quarterly dividend of T \\.p-atioa of the Sherman anti-trust law.BCPk Ask 35 94 pid.115 114% left for Cobalt where a thorough inspec- \u2018Textile pfd.\u20141 at 100 $1.10; 2 red, $1 to $1.02; spring, $1 to $1.02; three percent, also cne percent extra,which \u2018he Harriman interests are being looked B.C bik.As.b.95 93K Duluth com 19 17 n à Mr._ 1 : peas, 78 to 80c; barley, 45c ta Hic; oats, is payable on April 20 next.afer bv J.C.Stubbe, Chicago trafic di- Can.Coa.4] 404 td.32 2 |Uon of the property will be made.« Twins-50 at 103%.46c to 48c; corn, 69c to T0c; clover seed pay ; 9 rector of the Union and Southern Pacifie Can, Pac.Ry.xd 168% 163% abi i Ry.113 i Black and Mr.C.E.Lewis will visit the - Molsons Bank\u20145 at 205%.$5 to $6; timothy eeed, $1.75 to $2.25; white \u2014- - lt} nes; Judge Love:t, of New York, counsel {own Reserve 288 2.82 lav.Yee.8 ë ë Gow Ganda district for another Inepec ton | \u2018\u2019ffextile Com.\u201425 at 6fle, 10 at 614, 125 wheat four per barrel $4.20 to $4.40: financial t ; ' She > etroit Elec.ô 59 ! pt J of the John Blac xtension Syndica'e : at 64] ; ers.$4.5 1.60; g gs, / or Man roads, and JH H.Loomis, oi D.Coal com.xd 6244 8,4 Mex.L.&P.76 75% properties, which embrace eeven claims, fg.%.Bank\u20141 at 160.strong De 34-50 de $60: de an ot \u2014 = Poe 69002 counée Ni, Trad MS N.8% Pal 148 16}; Ave on tBe west of Gow Ganda Lake and | Scotia.5 at 59%, 50 ai 6.bushel and a half, $1.50 to $2; ariea apptes, Pl f Int Coal.70 pfd.xd the two Keeley properties on the west of Coal pfd.\u2014100 at 102%.per lb, $3 to $4 .potatoes, per bag cf ° .r CUBA SUGAR CROP ESTIMATE in: 6h65 IU ost def hong Oncle Lake © Mor Lg PB Beth.000 a 58 Je to 2e: butrer, ia Arkine, per 15.151 Insurance Agents & Brckers , LW'de, com U2 11 Newst Ly.hm : ; : to 2lc; butter, in firkins, per Ib, 9 Washington, March 22.\u2014Cuba will pra: \u201c= ppd Oo Le Mont.Steel .REPORT ON COTTON SUPPLY CPR\u201420 at 168%, 50 at 168%.to 20c; eggs, per dozen, 1Sc to 22c.nsur g - duce about 1.,400,000 tons of sugar bi Laur.Paper 113 * panne 108 I04 M.S.R.\u20142E at 207, 50 at 2074.A HAMBERS sosson, an es!imate b:eed upon prospect \u2019 p Mont.Tel +.150 LL \u2014 h , b Iron pref\u20142u at 114, 50 at J15.LIVE STOCK MARKET\u2014March 22 ROOM 17 TRAFALGAR © 5 for excellent spring weather, according to Mackay com.xd 75 \u201cila Nipissing.11 107% Washington, March 22.\u2014The c2nsus u- TelepLone\u201425 at 14514, 125 at 148.) 2 40 Hosvital St Tel.Main 2705 1 Coasul-General Rodgers, of Havana prd.xa 72 fio.4uloxd 152 181 |reau in a report to-day announces thit polePLone f at 59.About 730 head of butchers\u2019 cattle, 43 5 He is inclined to discredit the low esti- no Obie.\u2018Bo 224 phare».19 M [the amount of cotton stocks on hand in Detreit\u201475 at 59%.calves, 20 eheep and lambs, and \u201846 fat IAN CONSOLIDATED x mates of probable yield in the crop, de- _\" pla enr 108 Toledo.ing iif the United Slates at the close of February rolodeo\u20142i at 11%.hogs were offered for sale at the Point St.CANADIA spite the f th i .N.W.Lan, d La PP x y as td J get SE: x pr EUR AA As Ei aa PE I at tes EC rT CL 3 alin TZ ah fr \u2014 J aie vA LSA ru PY Che SPST yt ae Pap i ARG AN RR ee.Close Fitting Collars 6 New Shapes.2, 2}, and 24 inches l22 Cents Each.WE WANT À CHANGE to prove to the particular man who wishes his Shirts Made to Measure, that we can give absolute and entire satisfaction, and that we allow no one to give a greater equivalent for your money.R.J.TOOKE, THE NAVAL SITUATION, Germany\u2019s Capacity for Shipbuilding Already Exceeds That of Britain.LATTER COULD NOT BUILD EIGHT \u2018DREADNOUGHTS\u2019 SIMULTANEOUSLY FOR LACK OF SKILLED LABOR.London, March 20.\u2014It would be difficult to describe the effect on the people of these islands this week of the disclosure that England\u2019s two-power naval standard will soon be lost to her.They do not realize it, for it has not been made clear that (Germany\u2019s capacity tor shipbuilding already exceeds that of this country.A point that has not been illuminated is this: Great Britain, in spite of all her resources, could pot build and equip the cight \u2018Dreadnoughts\u2019 which public sentiment undoubtedly demands within two years.Germany could probably do so, for she has been preparing for several years to beat England in speed of pro duction on a large scale.Great Britain has both the money and the materials in the rough, but she has not the men.There is a vast amount of skilled labor required for the armament as well as for the construction of a battleship, and it has been the custom for the skilled workmen to transfer their services from one employer to anotiher wben private firms are engaged in warship construction.There are not enough of them to bud eight battleships simultaneously at high speed in public or private shipyards.This is one reason why the present vernment does not yield to the demand for a wholesale increase in the navy at the earliest moment.The truth, if kmown, would add to the existing panic.But it might as well be acknowledged, for the situation is undoubtedly understood in Germany.What threatens to come to pass presently is this, that both countries will be soon engaged in building warships without regard to expense at the highest speed physically possible to turn them out.This is what British public opinion clamors for and the demand for a great war loan for the purpose is heard on all sides.And this 1s the price of peace, according to the voice of Christendom in the twentieth century.Feeling already runs so high that it may be safely asserted that it Mr.Balfour chooses to go full speed ahead he can force the government.to resign within a moment with the full force of public agitation.He wili be loat to do this, however, from the point of party considerations, for he has no desire to go to the lls so early in the disorganized condi- -tion of the Unionists.He first attempted to make the question non-partisan, but Mr.Asquith refused to give a definite pladge to build eight \u2018Dreadnoughts\u2019 in the present year.He was then compelled by overwhelming pressure to make a party issue of it and TuOve a vote of censure.It is not at all improbable that the government will give way.Cabinet meetings to discuss the situation are held daily and the opposi- lon among the members to a big navy is likely to disappear in view of the fact that overwhelming defeat awaits them if they refuse, and the country can make its voice heard.It is already known that eight \u2018Dreadnoughts\u2019 will be the battle cry in two or three by-elec- tions.To-day comes news of the opening oi a great spontaneous national campaign, with public meetings throughout the country.These will be non-partisan, and will no doubt bring a tremendous response.No government, and least of all a weak one like the present, can long held out against such pressure when once it is brought to bear.The Navy League, whioh Teprosente no particular.party, is in the forefront of this movement.At an emergency meeting, held to-day, at which Lord Elcho presided, the league decided to enter immediately upon \u2018a\u2019 great campaign to arouse the people to the urgency and seriousness of the problem confronting the nation\u201d ; TL There is no necessity for, any agitation in this direction in the big centres, but the big league is arranging meetings at every market place in the more remote country towns and villages.This movement has the support of the most infln- ential people of the country and plenty of funds are promised.The league in- gists that the minimum in the programme for the construction of \u2018Dreadnoughts\u2019 in 1909-10 must be eight, claiming that nothing less will suffice to maintain Great Britain's naval supremacy.The newspapers ever since \u2018Tuesday's debate have been filled with lurid me: tures of the German peril, every retired edmiral is the Kingdom bas been util- 3s - izing the almost forgoiten breezy language of the quarter deck in condemning \u2018the blundering Lords of the Admiralty.Then there will be the bill to pay.Already the country is groaning in anticipation of the heaviest burden ever inflicted by the British Government in modern times.Philosophical persons await the issue with serenity.They hope the naval expenditures will speeds] reach fabulous, impossible _igures, both hare and in Germany.The quicker the crisis of this so-called peace frolicy is renched the better for all concerned.Early war would be cheaper than lung- armel prace.STATEMENT .20\" EXI\u2019ECTED.T.ondon, March 21.-It is reported in Liberal political quarters to-night that Mr.Asquith will make a statement tomorrow in reference to the \u2018Dread noughts\u2019 which will remove the raison d'etre for Mr.Balfour\u2019s motion of censure.It may be pointed out that the government\u2019s embarrassment on the naval question is due to two facts: one, that unless eight \u2018Dreadnoughts\u2019 are built Sir Edward Grey (Foreign Secretary) and the whole Board of Admiralty, both the professional ang political members, will resign; and two, that up to now if the government had pledged itself to build eight such vessels, Mr.Lloyd Geo (Chancellor of the Kxchequer) and Mr.Winston Churchill (President of the Board of Trade) would have resigned.Mr.Asquith favors a fight and it is a perfectly safe prophecy that the vessels will be Jaid down within a year, while, in view of the tremendous agitation that has already begun, it 18 more than doubtful if Messrs, Lloyd George and Churchill will carey out their threat.The Opposition is determined to force the immediate yielding of the point.There is good reason to believe that it will go so far, if necessary, as to throw up the whole budget in the House vf Lords unless the point is previously conceded.If that extreme programme 16 adopted the overwhelming defeat of the government in a general election 1s a foregone conclusion.Berlin, March 21.\u2014In view of the assertions made in the British House of Commons that Germany, in the spring of 1912, would have seventeen warships, all of them of the big-gun type, the Navy Department authorizes the statement that in the autumn of 1912, Ger many will bave thirten such vessels, THE CARMACK MURDER A RUSH TO PROVIDE BAIL BONDS FOR THE COOPERS.Naghville, Tenn., March 20.\u2014After filing a bond totalling nearly a million and a half dollars, Col.D.B.Cooper and Robin J.Cooper, convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary for the killing of former United States Senator E.W.Carmack.retired to the home of Judge J.C.Bradford to-night and discussed the next move in the case.Although Judge Hart fixed the bond at 825000 each there was a rush to sign it on the part of many wealthy citizens of Nashville.- which fadrly swamped the clerk in the criminal court.In vain he protested, over and over again, that more than enough sureties had been signed, but the in- |evitable answer was: We want to put our name on that bond, too.Immediately the d:cfence moved to set aside the verdict because of the verdict of disagreement of yesterday.and asked the court to declare it a mistrial.Judge Hart said he would listen to argument on this motion later.GANGWAY COLLAPSED THREE WORKMEN KILLED AND 40 INJURED IN SHIPYARD.Barrow-in-Furness, England, March 20.\u2014A gangway connecting the battleship \u2018Vanguard\u2019 with the wharf collapsed today.Fifty workmen were precipitated to the dock.Three of them were killed and forty injured.The accident occurred in the Vickers Sons & Maxim yard.: \u2014\u2014 LINCOLN\u2019S INN BOOKS -RE- COVERED.London, March 21.\u2014A dozen rare books that disappeared from the Lincoln\u2019s Inn Library have been discovered just as they were about to be sold at an aûctioneer\u2019s.\u2018The library at Lincoln\u2019s Inn now has the volumes.An effort was made to find the man who sent the books to the auction rooms, but he had vacated the address he had given, so it of the Pm 177 $t James Street.493 St.Catherine St.W.473 St.Catherine St E.EE = STRIKE IN FRANCE ENDS First Move For a Settlement Came From Employees.Paris, March 21.\u2014The great strike of the employees of the Post Office Department, which has practically isolated Paris and cut off France from communication with the outside world for the past week, collapsed to-day.The strike committee decided to call off the employees and made the first move to effect a settlement, virtually suing for peace.The Government met the committee half way.This afternoon representatives of the linemen called on M.Barthou, minister of public works, ostensibly for the purpose of protesting against the charges that they had cut the wires, but during the course of the interview they communicated to the minister the terms on which the allied associations, collectively would resume work.These were, first, the resignation of M.Simyan, under secretary of posts and telegraphs; second, that no employee should be dismissed on ac- | count of the strike.They also desired the assurance that the delegates of the association hereafter should be permitted to lay their grievances directly before the Minister of Public Works.M.Barthou received the deputation in a conciliatory spirit.He said the Government could not discuss the resignation of an official except with Parliament, but he practically gave the delegation the satisfaction they demanded on other points, explaining to them, however, that the Government had not yet exercised its right of .dismissal.He said that warnings had been sent to every striker without exception to appear for duty not later than Tuesday.Moreover, he agreed to receive the representatives of the associations whenever they had grievances to present.Premier Clemenceau later met the deputation and confirmed M.Barthou\u2019s statement with regard to the \u2018attitude of the Government.He appealed to the men, both in the interest of themselves and the country, to put an immediate end to the intolerable situation.At the conclusion of these interviews with the ministers, the strike committee met and decided upon the resumption of work to-morrow.This decision was announced at a mass meeting at which 5,000 strikers were present.The decision met with a storm of opposition, but eventually it was agreed to hold another meeting and listen to the explanations of the leaders.Much less opposition developed at this meeting and already the strikers are returning to work.; An official statement, which was issued this evening, reports that more than a third of the strikers resumed work in Paris to-day.The strike will cease at all points simultaneously with the capital.\u2014m{fp0 ADULT SUFFRAGE BILL INTRODUCED IN FACE OF PROTESTS FROM SUFFRAGETTES.London, March 21.\u2014The adult suffrage bill which was read and shelved.in the House of Commons yesterday is regarded by the suffragettes as cancelling the possibility of the franchise being granted \u2018to women at this se:sion.The measure was introduced despite their proteste.They know there is no chance of adult suffrage in England to-day.They have always demanded suffrage only on the same terms as men have it.Therefore, this bill was designed really .to prevent them from achieving it for the present.Mr.Asquith, in discussing the bill, said it was wel'-known that on the woman suffrage question the Government was not of one opinion and it had never been made a Government question.He himself believed, as did most of his colleagues, in the necessity for refor:n in the present franchise apart from eny question of sex.He wished to reaffirm what he had previously said, viz.: that the Government intended to introduce a measure for general electoral reform.These veiled promises did not assunge the suffragette wrath, for while Mr.Asquith was speaking four attendants carried in four huge bundles of paper.They were a petition from the anti-suff ttes, signed.by 243,782 women, praying the House of Commons to reject any measure granting the lia- mentary franchise to women.The dos.ter is not yet known if the thief is & lawyer pov was received with much la me \u2014 AUSTRIA AND SERVIA Former Accepts Powers\u2019 Suggestion and Will Not Send Note to Servia.Belgrade, March 21,\u2014It is semi-officially announced that Austria, complying with à suggestion from the powers, will not send her proposed note to Servia.The powers will make representations here to-morrow, declaring that the question of Bosnia and Herzegovina is settled, and asking Servia to make a similar declaration and dismiss her reservists.Servia will immediately comply.Direct negotiations between Austria and Servia on economic questions will probably begin soon.The general feeling in official circles has become optimistic.It is now generally believed that a peaceful solution of the crisis will be found within a few hours.Vienna, March 21.\u2014The Austro-Hun- garian Government has decided to postpone sending its note in reply to Ser- via, in order to enable the powers to intervene at Belgrade.| Baron von Aehrenthal.the foreign minister, according to \u2018Nieue Wiener Tageblatt\u2019 has expressed the belief that war will be averted.er A PECULIAR CASE BROTHER WHO CONTRACTED A SECOND MARRIAGE MUST COMPENSATE HIS SISTER.Windsor, Ont., March 21.\u2014Because he contracted a second marriage, Harry A.Bradley, a we!l- known business man here, must pay his sister Susan Bradley, $1,530 by order of Judge McHugh in the case of Bradley vs.Bradley.Miss Bradley succeeded in convincing the court that when she left a dressmaking business in Toronto immediately after the death of the first Mrs.Bradley, 13 years ago, and came to Windsor to look after her brother\u2019s home ani children, she did so on the understanding that she was to have a home for life.When he married agan, a little.over a year ago, she claimed the agreement was broken.The award was for damages for six years at $5 a week, no allowance being made for some $700 that she voluntarily expended during h 2 of the house, 8 er ver PRINCE HILKOFF DEAD MEMBER OF RUSSIAN COUNCIL OF THE EMPIRE PASSES AWAY.St.Petersburg, March 21.\u2014Prince Michael Hilkoff, a member of the Council of the Empire and formerly minister of communications, died suddenly today.He was present at the inaugural meeting of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce, when he fainted.The prince was removed to his residence, but did not regain consciousness.Prince Hilkoff was well known in the United States, where he secured his railway training.To him belongs the credit of getting the maximum amount of work out of the Siberian Railway during the war in Manchuria.Prince Hilkoff, who belonged to an old, but comparatively poor family, emigrated to the United States when a young man, renouncing the title, to which he was subsequently restored.In the United States he worked at a bolt- machine at a wage of $7.50 per week.Later he was employed in many minor capacities on American railways, beginning as an assistant stoker.It is related that on one occasion when the Empress was journeying to the Crimea she was astonished to see a general of her suite descend from the train and embrace a man clothed as a common workman.She made inquiries and learned that the man was Prince Hilkoff, former member of the corps of pages and former officer of the guards, who, after the financial ruip of his family, had become an engine driver in order to gain his livelihood.The Empress ordered him to be presented to her, and from that moment the Prince enjoyed the protection of Her Majesty and of her husband, Alexander III., father of Emperor Nichols, protection which led to his appointment as minister of railroads.The Prince, in his ministerial capacity, visited the United States in 1896., Prince Hilkoff took a prominent part in putting down the railway strike in 1895.but resigned his office in the fall of that year because the Government failed to meet the promises made to the railway employees, his resignation being accepted on November 8.He was then appointed a member of the Council of the Empire.lar?© PASSENGERS ON THE \u2018BALTIC\u2019 New York, March 21.\u2014Among the passengers on the White Star liner \u2018Bal- tie\u201d which arrived to-day, were Mr.George Low, the golf player; the Rev.Geo.A.Johnston Ross and Mrs.Ross, of London; Mr.Jack Binns, the wireless operator on the ill-fated steamer \u2018Republic,\u2019 and Mrs.Carrie Nation, of hatchet-wielding fame.- Mr.Jack Binns, the wireless operator, came over after a vacation at his hope in England, to resume h's work at the key.He will be given a position in the Marconi Company's office in this city, a much better berth than he held previously.AN AUTO FATALITY.New York, March 20, \u2014Charles S.Ded- rick, 73 years old, a well-to-do retired commissioner broker, was run over and killed to-day by an automobile.Mr.Dedrick was attempting to cross 8th avenue at 41st street when the machine struck him.The chauffeur, Louis 7.and was then gravely caimied out \u2018égein.| Trouve, was he'd in $10,000 bail ed with homicide, 2-20 RTE THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1909._ THE KINRADE MURDER.Mr.George Lynch-Staunton Condemns Outrageous Methods at Recent Inquest.DECLARES DREYFUS WAS TREATED LIKE A KING COMPARED TO MISS FLORENCE KIN- RADE.\u2014 Hamilton, March 20.\u2014Mr.George Lynch-Staunton, K.C., one of tn: tam- ily solicitors of the Kirade famly, granted an interview to the press this morning.Said he: \u2018What does it aid the administration of justice in holding such an inquest as this one?Why did not the detectives go to the girl quietly and get the whole history of her lite privately instead of hanging her to a limp- post and shouting questions at her for the whole world to hear.She gave her information in private and held nothing back, vet they got her into that box and dragged the whole history of her life from her.Tt is an awful thing that at a coroner's inquest a man presides who knows nothing about the rules of evidence.They can ask witnesses any question, any way they like, fire them at them, and cast all kinds of insinuations, so that every half-baked intellect in the country can form half-bak- ed guspicions.A coroner\u2019s jury can not try a person ane I say that the American sweat box system is a hundred times more just, humane and decent than this system of inquest.\u201cWhy, Dreyfus, over whose trial Great Britain and France almost came to war, because the former thought it barbaric Was treated like a King, compared with Miss Florence Kinrade.Asked if he intended to take any action against the detectives or authorities who had cast euck: a blot on the family name by insinuation, Mr.Staunton replied that he would make them \u2018sit up.\u201d What do you think of the despatch from Detroit stating that Miss Elliott has been found to be a Mrs.Caillie, a divorced woman, and that Miss Kin- rade has admitted this?Mr.Staunton raised his hand in exasperation.\u2018The man who wrote that i a fool and a liar, he exploded.\u2018Miss Kinrade never made any such statement.It\u2019s perfectly clear who Miss Elliott was.She was an English lady.Her brother went to Queen's University.Kingston.She married Col.Warbur- ton, and I think they are now in San Francisco.It\u2019s all correct, her story of Miss Elliott, every word of it.Why should it be doubted?We are taking steps to corroborate it, and will try and locate Mr.and Mrs.Warburton.\u201d We have not had time to do anything vet.I\u2019ve only been on the case two days.\u2019 Mr.Staunton went on to state that to his mind the evidence of the doctors perfectly corroborated Miss Florence's story.\u2018She heard explosions, she says, when she went upstairs.Later.down in the parlor, she heard three \u201cbangs.\u201d The doctors state the shots into the heart were fired a short time after the shots in the face and head.To say exactly how long is pure theorizing.\u2019 Referring to the pleasant relations which apparently existed among the members of the family, Mr.Staunton showed the newspapermen a number of postcards which Florence had sent the family from Goderich, Stratford and Virginia Beach.Each member of the family.Ethel included.had apparently been the recipient of these post cards, which were of a most loving character.Mr.Staunton read a number of them.\u2018T never saw, he said, \u2018correspondence showing a more loving or intimate family relation.The detectives searched the house again yesterday, and found what thay believed to be the sewer trap in the cellar.They thorcwzhlv investigated the plumbing.bu.found nothing.The concensus of opinion about the month's adjournment of the inauest i= that the authorities are completely un in the air and are figuratively grop'ng in the dark in the hope that thev may stumble un- on a clue which will lsad to a soivtion of the deep mystery.FOSTER VS.SHAW \u2014 STATEMENT OF CHARGE FILED IN LIBEL SUIT.Toronto, March 20.\u2014Mr.George E.Foster, M.P.for North Toronto.has filed his statement of claim in his damage action for $10,000 against Mr.W.H.Shaw, his opponent at the last election.Mr.Foster charges that Mr.Shaw, at a public meeting, did \u2018falsely and maliciously speak and publish the following words concerning the plaintiff: \u2014\u201cWhat commission did you get for promoting a deal in stocks and bonds of the Windsor, Essex & Lake Shore Railway, using I.O.F.bonds?\u201d \u2018The defendant represented at the meeting aforesaid,\u201d Mr.Foster adds.\u2018that he held in his hand a letter upon the authority of which he asked the question set forth, whereas the fact is the defendant held no such letter Mr.Foster also says that Mr.Shaw \u2018maliciously published and circulated shortly before the Dominion elections an undated pamphlet containing what he described as reflections upon him (the plaintiff) as an official of the\u2019 Union Trust Company.calculated and designed to prejudice him and to mislead anyone reading the pamphlet.\u2019 ee KILLED BY AN ENGINE.St.John, N.B., March 21.\u2014Mr.Hugh Simpson, of Fredericton, was cut in two and decapitated by a C.P.R.engine running into the depot here from Fair- ville on Saturday evening.The locomotive was running tender first, and it is \u2014 + ONTARIO LEGISLAT\\ ;: \u2014 Second Reading Given to s.- çÇ Bills \u2014 Additions to Par ment Buildings, ss THE O'BRIEN MINE THE ASSAY on) BELLEVI1} : Toronto.March © Legislature Yesterdav a.lowing bills were River ing:\u2014 To amend the Unorgar, Act, by Mr.W.H.Heu + Marie, the object oi tn protect the farmers oi +1 the ravages on their cu .at.present running wid Sir James POW hin © when refusing tu aes, reading of the bl] to Mia ers a close corporation.that the bill be embain In order to look furticy ter, as it could not he present state, and i; uw.remove from jt the vita) In answer to Mr.MH, quiry, IN suppiv, respecting : $2,675 to be used for tue, an the Normal School, London, mier said it was rendered ne Ing 10 a new ev-tem of ur y.recently installed, and fir wh not definitely known wis the maintenance will be.In reference to the additions + added to the parhament build.which there 15 à vote in the est ot $300,000, the Premier explained 1 owing to the number of people occupying the various rooms throug: the building having been doubled » the former Libera) KOVernmen; was power, and to save the expense «: hiring other quarters in anovhe- of the city.5 In connection with the eXpendiuire « $22,340.to complete the hnlding ro addition to the hospital tar the ren Brockville, the Hon.WW 1.Hanna + vincial Secretary.said twenty phe + tients who could be trusted \u201c4 La\u201d tools were chosen by the SUR TITLE dent of this institution.and po work digging the excavations jo; + building, which they have ncarv « pleted, the work being done «ver as well as 4 would have been o it done by outside contract, and © cost of about two-thirds les.Mr.D.J.McDougal, East (4 asked if there was any agreement gard to the O'Brien mine?The Hon.Frank Cochrane refuse.add anything to his previous exn'a tions.' \u2019 Mr.McDougal demanded a rep.Sir James Whitney protested ava ie & repetition of this question.yemar ing that Mr.McDougal knew as mu about this matter as anv one else in 1 province, and he has been told tn Minister of Crown Lands that no agrn ment with these people had «ver + place.If at anv time it should .to pass that the honorable pene should now occupy the position by Mr.Cochrane, he could co: - himself a very good and noble n° he, like the Minister of Crown 1.turned down las own relative in - to do his duty by the people oF tario; in fact, he could consider | self far above the ordinary humus, The Hon.A.G.Mackay.lia.the Opposition.inquired why 15.se office was located at Belleville.n.- from the mines?In answer, Mr.Cochrane said.©! - mit it 16 situated in a rather awin: © place, but it had been established 1 - some Years ago, at the time co! +.boom at Hastings.\u2019 Mr.W.K.McNaught, Nort} ronto, has given notice of the { » resolution: \u2014 That, whereas milk is a necessa:s .common article of daily fool, one of the most important \u2018ver bodily growth and in mamta.good health of the people of i - vince; And, whereas the developme- \u2014! étrong men and women and \u2018he - tenance of good health ix one «: greatest assets of the people - province; Therefore, this legislature ros; recommends that His Honor - tenant-Governor-in-Council.he to appoint a Royal Comnne posed of a competent perser.petent persons, with euch powers » - instructions as may he 1 cer to enable it to inquire in: 0 tions and methods where! being produced, cared Co to the people of the oon mestic consumption i: Coe TZ purposes; to \u2018investis.method whereby Le La) .ble \u20ac TNL Cy .cal Sanit clean, wi ese milk is being succes: sppred consumers in this, or any etes cour try, and to make a report as te 0° findings in the matter.\u2018agether © n &uch recommendations as may ou sidered advisable.According to the official riper \u20ac are 1.129000 mileh cattle cr thoes that give 150.000.000 gallons © Ton 6 nually, and from the tests airradx all of this milk contains discase 200 that will average 3.000.000 to tie centimeter.While this muy seen a\u201d.the number of bacilli 1» reaiv + for they range in some places on as 150.000.0000 to the enlic cent: These disease germs are declare.the outcome of insanitarv «ou: under which the milk 1s handicd being taken from the cows.TIME \u2018DAILY WITNESS is printel a published in the \u2018Witness\u2019 bu: 1 - the corner of Craig and St.Peer et«« ir.the city of Montreal, by John Re! Dougall and Frederick Eugene [I u- both of Montreal.All business communications should be & dressed John Dougall & Son, \u2018Wiin«e Cflice, Montreal, and all letters to °° supposed he jumped on and fell.He | was 53 years old and single, ; * - Editor, should be addressed Editer ©o Le \u2018Witneeey _.(À "]