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The Herald, 1901-02-08, Page 4i One of the most important the UVtCI teraLb I meaaure to coma before the Legfs- laturo of Ontario at the coming E. Znorsei,;, Puer Isents, session Will be the Good Roads Bill. IThe Government propose to give FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8 1001 1$100, 000 a year on condition that •- ; counties and townships participat B. B. Osler X. 0., the foremost criminal lawyer of Canada, died at Stfi Atlantic City, on Tuesday, whither I °R, he had •Bono in search of health. I owe4 About it, year ago, Mr, Osier's con- of stitution broke down from over-• • work and it was understood that I • lie was regaining his usual vigor, f }ng when a telegram reached Toronto arum announcing his death. vher,; tr'uei nest- The Dominion parliament met on' •' the 0th Instand as there is no hale tram heavy business in sight, the men - Oe begs ought to got away from Ottawa mum before May 24th, and have a suni- itlg mer holiday once in their lives. • The absence of George E. Casey, we, Mr. Nicholas Flood Davin, Jtmles nig McMullen, and long-winded gentle - the ata, nen from the House of Commons, tha will make the program of a short to session easier to carry out. the June An important conference between Stet members of the Executive Commit Engtee of the Municipal good roads Bert Association of Ontario and Premier' be Ross took place last week in. regard longi to the proposed legislation of the 141r0; Ontario Legislation along this line. beau bye It is understood that the views of Pure the committee were expressed fully 7,,t0 to the Premier, and after consults. lt4.4s tion it was decided to : ci end u, r- &nes miler to the various County Colm- felda oils asking for an expression of ma opinion. Their proposal is under - heir stood to be that a system of country P roads, comprising the main high-' ways in each county, shall be con- a)>rs strueted, the cost to be borne in hes equal portions that is to say, mug lieu third each, by the Government, the e r county and the municipalities th• through which the roads pass, the ietroads to be kept in repair by the bits counties. This is the scheme which fc found most favor with the dela- eta gates at the good roads convention ter held in Toronto a little over a year ery ago, The Premier expressed his C pleasure at the views of the coin- `O1�g hnittee, and the latter expect legis • { •luno mitt kation will be put into practice the { er• lilt Premier's pledge to give ;100,000 a 1 year for ten years for the improve - Role ment of the roads of Ontario. the se know, Discussing Sir Wilfrid Laiu'ier's En,glana i speech at the liar dinner in Toronto, for eat The Liverpool Daily Post says :— a "No alarm need be felt at the o o growth of these young nations in iQallorth America, Australia, and—if a g.evP third can be treated in South din Africa. On the contrary, they are ng taro"the natural evolutionary product of lin the policy that has been pursued �' by this country ever .:ince British Edinln statesmen learned wisdom by the • pe ea''d toss of the,American colonies. But swayer the creation of these nation -colonies • thez brings new political conditions lame irides into view. TIid? Imperial idea has ffeota} taken hhoicl of the British people, ' rett3 both in the United Kingdom and in et the colonies,and it is larger than the 11��,� co.iception of a tnited 1 ingdom. 63171 IBM Lord Rosehery warned the country etch In long ego that the policy of d xl)an- ill0iath+e sion had reached the Ihnits of St ow safety-. Lord Salisbury has pro - T`1116 v nonnced against indiserinhiihate tivZlo n seizure of new territory. The . bo ate whole world, except the dying eaea r nations—and they show no haste to casdfn d'le — has now beeil disturbed 9 re+ amongst the e great powers. The Illglals time for digestion of territory and , ttio_vCIIi i consolidation of power has come. And when penple within the United kno vn Ringdoxn take a survey of the eul- • f d pire, and of the defensive forces* slaking that are recanted to protect its doien,e interests in all parts of the world, int t a 'wen they consider the enormous wert4 cost of the Boer war,and remember' is that it is only a shall war eolnpar•- i ed to what they ry mad y be called Idaotr, e. upon i tete It to undertake, they realize that the 1 o'e 1 time has come when -the great, Win''=i nation -colonies that have come into c 'end bl existence may fairly he as=ked to tato )ass from the stage of givingvoh.n �� n. tars' i~� leermilitary rat ,, and naval assistance t y With 1 to a definate and clearly apportion- t be her ed participation in the defence of h to glia the empire, Grant this, and you! II Ole a arrive at the point of Imperial tax- a th tt 1 ation, which must he with the con-' •cc sent of people thr. �tii.9 Br taxed, and Lnlthen s t e you ate confronted me i � ; c with the great y g t Awe Constitutional principal that taLxa- tlso is ; tion and representattion go together. { h the Ii- This also means that those who par h w the taxes determine the policy to bel ot1 a n' pursued,. So long as the whole inter -7i national ori f policy of the en ' • , s4d h p empire is e 1 ing in this grant shall each give a proportionate amount, Thus if 1;,300,000 are spent on good roads in. any ono season, the townships through which the road runs shall contribute $100,000, the county in which they are built ;1100,000 and the provil)re ,33100;000. To earn the grant the roads must be of the most modern and permanent construct- ion, and must be maintained in thorough repair. There is a probability that the other vacant judgeship in the IIigh Court of Justice will be filled at the Legislature by the appointment of Hon.F.R. Latchford, the present Commissioner of Public Works in the Ontorio Government. The Federal Administration by offering the position to Mr. J. J. Foy, K. C., as representative of the Irish Cath- olics of the province, created a THE 21..1 .ICI3 EFtAi.l One of tlie,olevorest and most humorous frauds over operated in Canada has been discovered by the Toronto police. The dupes who are said to number many scores, are of the fraternity known as "sports" ; gentlemen who have a line on the t'ponies, " and aro at home in the baldheaded row. The fraud was discovered by the following adver- tisement which appeared in several Canadian papers. "On receipt of one dollar we will send, securely sealed a beautiful bound book, of four hundred pages full of good things. The most wonderful book ever written, Wrench and English ' translation. Prohibited in some 1 countries. Every sport should have one. Write at once." The "wise guys," who parted with four of the Queen shillings in the hope of securing some spicy reading,receiv- ed by return of mail—a 15c copy of the Bible. The firm who sent out the advertisement has its head- quarters in Toronto. Itis quite unlikely however, that the police will spoil so good a joke,, or that they could if they would,for all the precedent which makes it necessary pi onhises in the advertisement wore that they must new abide by, and filled. as Mr. Latchford happens to be the most prominent Catholic lawyer of Owen Sound, Feb. 1.—Tho sad his own political stripe, pressure is news was received here this morn - being brought to bear on him to ing from South Africa that Sergt.- aoancton poilracs sor 1310 0031011. els Major Dayton Brown Hammon Mr,Latchford is not much. enamour- 0110 of the Owen Sound volunteer s ed of political life, it is probable head been killed in a skirmish that he will accept. Eerstofabrieken last Monday. T The Woocitock 'Express' in speaking of Private Molloy, states that he was on a scouting expedi- tion when he was hit on the right eye by an explosive bullet, the shot glancing off after carrying away his right eye and part of the bridge of his nose and part of his temple. The left eye was stricken with blindness. Sinco the accident considerable has 'been hoard of the good qualities of this brave soldier. While in the hospital at Winburg, South Africa, he was presented with a handsome chair bythe Duchess of Teck. Later when removed to England, he had all honor paid him. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool entertained the homeward -bound Canadians, and at this gathering Private Molloy lade an excellent speech. Sup- ported by two of his comrades, he told of how he had loft his school in Canada and gone to fight for his country. Though he had been maimed for life, he had no regret for having gone to South Africa. Before leaving England he wrote a letter to a friend. in Woodstock. It was written in tin institution for the blind in Norwood, England, Though lie had been there but a week the letter told of the progress he had made. It was written almost without a mistake. He said in this letter that he had decided to waste no time, hence his action in spending what spare time he had in this college while in England. d, He further stated that he had no regret for having gone to South '1 Africa. It only strengthened him tlz or a duty that ho believed was His best endorodi rival for the news was received everywhere wi position i5 Mr. F. A. Anglers, K. C. profound regret. Tho sad intell In the event of his leaving the genes l Ctlbiuet , 1ilr. a.atehforcl will pro` aito the parents of t1 e d deceWaS first received in a ase bably be succeeded in the Ross who reside in Derby townshi t Cabinet by Mr. Glias. Murphey, of two miles from here. Serge' Hou Ottawa, mond was a 11'leml)er of No. 1 Co 31st Regiment, and was a gradual It is only a few days since the of the London Infantry Schoo news flashed over the world. that When the second contingent w Queen Victoria was seriously ill. , organized he enlisted. at Toronto It filled the hearts of the. people all , C Battery,and was one of the Ca over the empire with foreboding of diens who took part in the relief what has now been realized.. It is Mafeking. Though he enlisted stated. that the interview with. a driver his abilities were soon i Lord Roberts on the second of cognized, and at the time of his January, was the proximate cause death he held the position of Sergt.- of the fatal attack. The great 1 Maj or. He was a modest, retiring soldier was commanded to be .)lain , young man, and in order to avoid a and toll the Queen the true state oft public farewell slipped quietly things in Africa which so excited f away from here at the time of his Her Majesty that, she became { enlistment. He was about 23 years hysterical. Her sympathies for the of age, and among his companions families of the bereaved, together and messniatos of the 31st Regiment with the present situation in the : was generally popular. In a recent field of warfare were too much for ; letter to his mother, dated about her enfeebled health and the whole the tiine of the departure for home frame soon collapsed. The death of the second contingent, he an - of her second son and the critical flounced his enlistment in "Gat" anddying condition of her first-born , Howard's Scouts, with the remark child, the Dowager Empress of ' that "he had not yet had enough Germany and many other sorrow- of soldering,ancl was determined to ful events have all tended. towards see the business to a finish." His the event of Tuesday. death comes as a shock to the whole The World's correspondent at community. The young man was London has obtained from a. source a member of Court Pride of Grey, within court circle:; a pathetic ac- A. O. F., and was insured. in that count of the Queen's illness. It lodge for $1,000. Since his depar- shows that her mind has been fail- tore his fellow -members have kept ing for months, even before her his insurance paid up. The town visit to Ireland. Several tinges also a policy of :x1,000 on his life, when she appeared in public during and only last Monday night renew - the past six or eight months she ed it. fell asleep. But for her physical breaking up The keynote of Russian dipionl- the past week and an attack of a.cy is persistency. It has always paralysis ill the left side, it would been a popular belief that in diplo- have been possible for the court auto, the Russians possessed an and the royal household to keep occult power, that where other from the British people the know- nations only employed such gifts ledge of her serious condition fora as nature endowed them with,the definite period. ' Muscovite could call to hiaid The SQueen'st'Strong constitution some secret influence which, of manifested) the first symptoms of course, enabled hili. to thwart the serious dheetty during the stay of the feeble attempts of his less favored court at Windsor in November and. rivals. As i matter December of 1S99,when evil tidings1 el fact then of the South African war began to the Russian isnot more less oi' than the Etiropeail,llo ie not lost; sol Llplll•• arrive in rapid sueeessiou, ons, as scruples go in diplomacy, The Queen did not look for any and, as a rule, he is not more serious clisastcr to her army. She resourceful, But he has the great expected noting but a series of advantage of working for a Govern - easy victories, Gen. Buller before nient which has fixed a policy and leaving England had assured the which is never swerved from its path. It is persistency' arrayed against genius, to quote Lord. Rnse bei y, which was the reason why England. overthrew Napoleon, as in a, long -continued contest persis- tency counts for more than genius. An illustration of the bulldog-tenac- lie f i ahead of him. It might be said of Private Molloy's early life that he was an earnest Christian always felt that (Le it was his duty to offer himself for Ha the ministry. Before going to the front he held a position as principal iof a school in Winchester. He received his education at the high lis school in Morrisburg. His father Ls Is dead, but his mother is still net- , , n of � in;,. A significant feature of this letter to his chum is that he says as he believes his experience had e- I merely hurried his decision to take up the work ho had so often • r thought £ .i o entering upon, b and which, previous to his joining the army he felt that he had not the strength to undertake. His pur- pose now is to set to work immedi- ately and study for the ministry. He says that he cannot remain idle, Even though he is sure of a pension of at least $500 per year, and pro- bably more. While in England. an.X-ray exam- ination of his remaining eye was made, but it was discovered that nothing could be clone for it. Sev- eral pieces of lead. were found in his head, believed to be from the explosive bullet that carried away his right eye. Queen that the vs'ar woiilti be cult, but not dangerous." III t eliisc'clti,eilee, the iiet;'s of the nhanv reverses ra311e to her with added severity. . It was at this time that the Queen had the fits of cry- in in an aggravated) form, which ininediateiy preceded her critical ity with which Itessiaa holds to llnr'ss. what she wants is shown in Eng - The excitement incidental to her land. having, after many years of tiSit to Ireland—which, despite negotiation, at last permitted Rus- teirthing stated to the contrary, :via to establish 0 Consulate at was her own idea—seemed to revive Betea y, \ 'hen the request was her. but before the visit ended a re- first made England refnsed it, on 0 I cti n had c set t 131. When she went o Bahhnoral her Highiland home, interests groundts that the India were y interests of Russia in were er spirits revived tinder the in- not of sufficient importance to uence of Gen. Roberts" brilliant warrant the appointment of a chieve)nents in the South African Consul, Russia 'was disappointed, `ar, but the improvement was but not-uiduly cast downwhen- hnr t ever it appeared that England'sgIan 1 ' sIt always had. een a source of heart Was softening, the request wonder of her physicians that with was renewed, and always diplo- er geed appetite and. physique she ad escaped an apoplectic strclh;.e. About this time there was, a fall - ng away of her left side,accornpani- dl by a los. of )ozvher 1. f'1 in left rm and leg. These symptoms eased apprehension of apopletic a yea, deter/1)1140d by a _Ministry regpon- ( a ettun t,' sible only to the Imperial P.rriia- c tnt•..,,ni. meat colonial contributions to the IrJtlri0' cost of defence can scarcely he more mine) io d than voluntary. Certainty the e cannot be enforced by the United I se war Itingdom, If there is to come into +tlecil, .t existence the Imperial Bxeheglier � I across for which Sit Michael Hicks Bench i4ians recently longed, there will have to thesecome -with. it scene form of Imperial hnis>;ed I representation which will exercise control over Imperialpolicy, whether military and naval.political or commercial. T ls r we Y na„i ney is what Sir Wilfrid Laurier has in vie'w,Ltiad in formulating the settle- ment, come When it may, he does Slot mean Canada to take a stib- f " Sidiary part." inatically declined until a fere weeks ago, when persistency, as tianel, won its reward. England. has no objection to01 entertaining g a Consul firs Bombay; what she does object to is giving her Asiatic rival the facilities to establish an outpost paralysis, and unfavorable esaar of her secret service corps under news and reports of the •acute suf- such favorable circumstances, as feria „"r of her dying daughter, the Consul must be treated with. Empress Frederick, affected the the respect due to an accredited Queen keenly, Government agent. Why- England B'IGHT'S DISEASE OF TEE has yielded at this time, after ha- ing resisted so strenitotisly for so Mr. Andrew ;Duffin, ALiltsville, many years filo elle knows ; perhaps Ont., Bright's ;-=e"I was troubled she receives an equivalent some - with Bright's disease of the kid- where, but, ireespectiye:of reason, treys for five year's. :h tried a limn- it shows that Rusaiaa, lake an en - bee of doctors and preparations,but °reaching sea, inay meet with tem - got no relief. 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