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1t is announced that there is . NO graft in Switzerland. . It certainly ‘ sounds refreshing to hear that there is at least one country under _ the sun where the people are sufficiently honest â€" to find public men to do their business without accepting either rakeâ€"offs or graft. ‘The dictum that all ts fair in love and war seems to be éxtended to matters of finance as well, and such a hold has this . cusâ€" tom obtained among public men on this Continent that they are . often not considered smart unless they fill their pockets with public funds. t Mr. Arthur Connolly _ of Chic&go.{ who has just returned from . a trip to Europe in which he spent muohl time in the Swiss republic, says he + thinks the people of Switzerland are | one of the finest and most ad\‘ancedl nations on the face of, the earth, and ‘ fully equal to Americans. This counâ€" | try has everything of the best. . Its ! government is about as good as gOVâ€" ernment can â€" be here below. Its school are the best he . ever _ Saw. ‘The silk mills there are the finest in the world; and what is better still, the hotels are superior . to anything he has secn. Mr. Connolly points . out what he considers to be the resâ€" son of this varied superiority. Every man there takes a business and sticks to it. If he is a lawyer, why he is a lawyer out and out, and not a half lawyer and half something else. This is most strikingly true of the hotels. In this country very often when _ a man makes a failure of every pther occupation he turns hotelman as a job which anybody can hold down if he only allows himsell to do so. But in Switzerland they do things differâ€" ently. Hotel running is recognized as a profession there, something to be studied and learned. People who want to be hotel men work at the trade as they would at any otner, and so they become proficient. . The result is that their hotels are the finest in the world for the excellence In connection with the announced intention of the Postmasterâ€"General to withold the privileges of _ the mails from Canadian newspapets pubâ€" lishing the lucid and filthy details of the now famops Thaw trial in New York City, the Toronto Globe says: ‘ continue to deserve to be free. Buti how is the Postmasterâ€"General going to withhold the privileges of the mails from offending Canadian newsâ€" "It is not at all a question of the Jrcedom of the â€" Press. â€" The Press must â€" be free. And the Press must papers, or how is the machinery . of justice to be set in operation against Canadian | publishers, if all the time the widest license is affordcd to foreign journals containing the same matter to te Lrought into Canada and scattered "far â€" and wide by the postoffice and news stands? It Parâ€" liament or any Oother authority â€"takâ€" es action in this affair an end cannot befiudt,' or even a decent beginning ungil more â€" than half of the daily newspapers from (he United States and more than threeâ€"fourths of the London dailiesâ€"The Times, The Daily Mail, The Chronicle, and the likeâ€" _are forbidden circulation in Canada. NO GRAFT THERE. * THE PRESS It is a far larger question _ than Parliament supposes, and, as the teâ€" cent observations of Mr. Justice Maâ€" bee and others indicate, Canadians, even educated . and »tnvelled Canaâ€" dians, do not appreaiate the . high standard set and [fairly maintained, by Canadian newspapers in the matâ€" #er of keeping their news colamns free from â€" unnecessary details ol erime and from the disgusting slorâ€" fes of libertinism in and outiof the diâ€" worce courts, which are a feature of both English and American jo»nalâ€" lam, And it may be worth saying that the readers of a newspaper have in their own hands the power, . of . most effective regulation . of. â€"that newspaper‘s moral tendencies. ..If the thoughtful and decent _ ‘subscribers would make known their objection to : adoption ol vulgat features or Afle pandering to depraved tastes ediâ€" Nors: and. publishete would M 000 ) yor annum in advend> .*_.â€"-J- s AND THE POST OFFICE. +very Tours and will be T. H. Preston Introduces. KCo0iuL TS 25 Ontario Legislature for the Abolition of Child Labor In the Province. aHeey s 20 0C C ty s oc alt House: (1) Every child has a right to health and . education; . (2) Child labor interferes with that right; (3) Child labor is in itself crael and wasteful: it is mentally has 44 dn i cetchorencP t PYe i cruel‘ and wasteful; it is mentally morally and physisally injurious to the child, and a distinct menâ€" ace to the nation, (4) No child under 14 should work in a . facâ€" ME T1 s "Child Lator" was the subject 0: a resolution introduced as above, i the Legislature on Wednesday _ by Mr. T. H. Preston, M.P.P., _ Brant. He did not propose to deal with the matter in a partizan position. L‘ there were defects the present Govâ€" ernment â€" was . not n?s)w y _ t« blame. ~ $ Higher education, the speaker said, was demanded in every walk 0 life. He was speaking for the chil dren of the common people. Childre: nowadays were anxious to. becomt wageâ€"earners. _ Many men had con signed themselves to â€"lifeâ€"long servi tude at the lower form of labor, because they had neglected the mean: tory, workshop, mercantie house, store, hotel or apartment house, in any place of public amuâ€" sement, or. shoulkd be employed in making, preparing or distributing articles of sale of commerce _ at home or in any place, in the nature of a factory, workshop or metâ€" cantile _ establishment; . (5) No child tRiween 14 and 16 should be permitteg to work under the conâ€" ditions specifed unlees the child can reâ€"d Auently and write legibâ€" ly, simple sentences in the Engâ€" lish language; (6) No child under 16 should be employed tetween the hours of 7 p.mâ€" and 7 a.m., or longer than 8 hours in any 24 hours, or longer than 48 hours a week; (7) No chiki under 16 should be employed in pecupations dangerous to life, limb, health or morals." because tney had nCgICtU2R MOR C CCMC: of education. It might be truthfully said that the schools were‘ the nursery of citizen ship. The children of toâ€"day _ Wer the citizens of toâ€"mortow. Ever) child, ticn, was entitled to an elem entary cducation, and the Govern ment should not permit them to sel | P Some years ago England was labâ€" oring under whats was called _ "a splendid isolation.‘‘ She had not yne friend in all Europe, and â€" the United States had not then vulearnâ€" «d the art of twisting the lion‘s tail. 3ut England was cqual to the occaâ€" sion, a;d she assembled the fleets of a dozen stations in the channels, and Europe vell knows what that means. The stoimi went by, but the â€" Boet: war came, and the pluck of John Bull was put to the test. It was the pluck of Cressy, of Agincourt, of Flodden Field, and, cf later times, Blenhcim and Qudinarde; . of Blake‘s and of*Neison‘s navies. of Wellington in Spain and of Wellington in _ Belâ€" gizm, cf the Light Brigade at Balakâ€" lava, cf the rescue of Lucknow, _ of \ "Pobs" in the east, and of all that. | We may not love her, but _ there |lihcrty is regulated | by law; there conservatism exercises a controlling l influence. This new King England has is the most consummate diplomat in Eurâ€" ope. e is no Disraeli, no _ B‘sâ€" marck; but he kr~ws how to _ d« things. More than na‘if German _ in blood, Le is altogether â€" English it sentiment. No Plantagenet eser thought so imuch of his native Sand He has found friends for England. On thy other hand, Germany is sioâ€" latedâ€"r ot so splendid as was _ Engâ€" land‘s, but perkaps more complete. What vill Germary co with / it" France, England and Italy atre in virtual alliance. Japan and England are in actual alliance. Could _ Gerâ€" many destroy the army of France bofore rcinforcements could be rushâ€" e from _ the ceast? Possibly. But where, would the German nawal . and merchant marine be by that â€" time Meanwhile _ Germany is _ ta‘king about a commercial war with . the United States. She is at even greatâ€" er disadvantage there. â€" Ver;rlllflly they would eat supper af Dave Jones‘ locker. GERMANY 1SOLATED ‘Nelsom‘s mavies. of Wellington in and of Wellington in Belâ€" if the Light Brigade at Balakâ€" f the rescue of Lucknow, ol " in the east, and of all that. (Washington Post.) weak and sickly. His arms were soft and flabby. Hodidn’thnnohon(mmdoinllil The physi .n who had attended the family for thirty years prescribed Scat! s Emulsion. would think he was apprenticed to a mercantile To NOW : talking their birthright for a Weqyts : Mr. PrestoA noted some appalling discoverics and statistics from the United States He drew attention to the fact that nothing . had. been done to improve the laws against child Jabor in Ontario _ for eighteon or twenty . years. Something ~should be done in the interests. of the future. Energeti¢ eforts. were . I€ sulting in extensive immigration . inâ€" t on uCl CIKs ‘ hi L. Li â€" Picath coatintndr y 9 m to the Province. ‘"Whether the fw ture shall be a blessing or a curse," declared the member _ for _ Brant, ‘‘depends on how we handle the chilâ€" "dren." © The reports of the factory inspecâ€" tors of Ontario sounded the _ alarn. in this Province, and they urged imâ€" mediate and effective action, parti cularly in the canning factor.es. Here scores of small children were employâ€" ed for long hours and at exacting work. They had not attended schoo: and often could neither read _ not write. Mr. Preston had no bill to intro‘ duce. He was anxious that the mat ter should be dealt with. from _ an entirely monâ€"political standpoint. . He presented his motion ard his â€" facts> ior the consideration of the Governâ€" ment in tlie bope that they woulu deal with it in the manner best calâ€" amiated 4o redound to the weal 0 ior the consideration ment in tlie bope deal with it in the culated to redound 1 the Province. Hon. Nelson Montelth, ANNISMU _ "* Agriculture, complimented Mr. Fres won .on his careful and lucid presen: wation of an important subject. H« welt that there might be some imâ€" provement ;;:;l vfhc‘;\‘cd that the ter be referred to a special mittee, consisting ql Messrs. provement and moved that the matâ€" ter be referred to a special _ com mittee, consisting of Messrs. _ Monâ€" weith, Pyne, Pattinson, McNaught, Dargavel, Preston (Durham), Presto:. \Brant), Studholme, Pense and Tud hope. â€". mr. Preston accepted the amend: ment. lt was precisely what he oped ERRRCS the Prime Minister praised Mr. »reston for the manner in which h« iad taken up the matter. The comâ€" mittee would be expected to work, .o bring a report upon which _ the douse could take action. ‘The Paris Board of Trade banguetâ€" ted Mr. John Penman, the manufacâ€" turer, the other evening, _ on _ his retirement â€" from business. _A beauâ€" tiful illuminated address was presen ted. In his speech Mr. Penman said that when he came to Paris _ about forty years ago there were 110 busiâ€" ness and professional men, but now . only eight of them remain. His â€" in dustry had a hard struggle for years but now has 40 sets of cards, 1,600 bhands, and turns out over $2,600,000 worth of geods per _ annum, and Pay» $75,000 a year for duty. The feature of Mr. Penman‘s noteble address was the announcement that he would give $10,000 towards the erection ol a new school costing $40,000 or $50,â€" 000 if the school board would accept the offer before the close of 1907. Seaforth, Feb. 14.â€"The new clothâ€" ing hcl(',(! which has just been | CSâ€" tablished ~by Mr. W. E. Southgate, formerly of Berlin, is soon to be in operaticn. Some twentyâ€"five young women, employes of the above conâ€" cern, arrived in town yesterday. We understand that the _ factory will, when under full swing, employ | upâ€" wards â€" of one hundred hands. Houses are already very scarce in town, in fact, are scarcely to be hadâ€"at any price, and it would seem, that unless some enterprising capitalists wtderâ€" take to build a few rentable houses, the lack of them will become a setrâ€" jous drawback to the progress of our industrics. _ There is no doubt, whatâ€" ever, that if twenty new houses were "tLuilt, they would not be idle a week. Inspectors Sound the A big shoe factory for C. S. Peaslec & Son, of Prospect, N.,Y., is to be built at Niagata Falls, Ont. to-r;;wllbn;-r;é«-im‘vvltfi using "diggers‘" have Lein committed for trial. Resolution in WILL EMPLOY 100 HANDS The Hamilton street cat condgcâ€" A GENEROUS OFFER Monteith, Minisu:r mess of \ poÂ¥ Alarut O. One Drop of :A prominent milÂ¥ Gealer of Toront« % $ C"7 molghts, of the ~Erov % 4 ing of: eream, aud . the use of preservatives by which old‘miln' can be. "wade as good as new."‘" A demonstration was made at the Par ‘lMament Buildings in Toromto show Ing the effect of one of the prepaJA tions on the ordinary â€"or garden Yar "lety of milk.â€" By putting a drop o. th‘s fluid in one of the ‘bottles . 0f mil; he changed it to a rich cream}y eclor, so that the untouched . milb looked to be of a very inferior char ter. He said that he had bought thi myst.rious liquid from a promincn trim in the city and that it . wa: used by _ several milk dealers t make th:ir goods satisfy the de mands of those who want cream in the mili. He displayed a letter from a pio minont firm, which was marked "pri vate and _ confidential.‘" It read, i: rart, as follows: "‘We need bardly remind you that the season is now at hand . when from natural capses, even the . best mil and cream dose their rich . ap pearance and take on a bluish tingc of color. > * The letter, after recommending i "certain material which th: firm har for sale, goes cn to â€" say that they have becn supplying dealers for sever a} rears, and that ‘‘cach succecding \ year brings a greater increase in ths sales." "Ahis is naturally a cause serâ€" ious complaint from the trade . >n wideâ€"awake dealers who are anxiou: to retain and increase their custon. are now on the lookout for a color: ‘ng agent which is at once perfectly harmless and nonâ€"adulterant." C ‘‘We can supply both the milk colo: and the cream color," the letter con tinues, ‘"but to those dealers who sup;ly milcâ€" in bottles we strongly recommend thr cream color, as this latter preparation colors both crean and the milk, whereas the milk colo engiches the color of the mil‘© cnly.‘ Ile also _ exhibited _ preservative which the same firm supplied. "Thes were guaranteed to leep milk swes for several days. Dr. C. A. Hod getts was responsible for the state ment that these were harmful in tw« ways. First, dealers were atle t« sell stale mils, which is harmfual, es pecially to infants. Secondly, thes preservatives contained toracic acid lan'l wers in themselves harmful, pat ticularly to ldren. Guelph, Feb. 13.â€"Wm. Roach, who was employed as cashicr by the Bond Hardware Company, left the city some days ago and the police authoâ€" rities are now endeavoting to lsarn of his whereabouts. , © ing fer his own use some . of the Arm‘s money and the total defalcaâ€" tionrs amount _ to about $100, H held a responsible position in . the company‘s office, having been employâ€" ed there for the past ten years and bcing cashier both for the wholesale wad retail business for eight _ years and was paid a good salary. He was always found to be a very industriâ€" cus worker and a man of good hab‘ its so far as his employers could asâ€" ecrtain, and his accounts : heretofore hare clways becn found to be in order. > _vA's the result of enquiries made, it lranspites that Rouch was appropriaâ€" Just racentlydxweter, there were suspicions that e rything â€" was not going right and after a hurricd <inâ€" vestigation Roach . was â€" questioned about certain missing monics. He deâ€" nied having any knowledge of _ the transaction in question, and pending a further investigation he handed the firm securities amolnting to over $130. He then decamped, and it was found that he had takemn a conâ€" siderable sum with him. The books have bien checked over and so_ far as can be learned Roach â€" has been misappropriating the funds in . small amounts for some months back, and in January he stole the _ bulk _ of the total amount missing. The Bond Hardware Comnrany has placed the matter in the hands _ of the police and everything is being done to bring the culprit to justice. When last heard of on Friday _ last Roach was in Buffalo. The pupils in Toronto‘s public schools now have on deposit in the penny bank $55,037.39. Justâ€" before Christmas they had over $53,000 but ncarly $10,000 was withdrawn at that timie to buy Christmas gifts, etc., showing that the children are not‘ misors. In the new year . the young financiers started out to . exâ€" eeed all previous records in depositâ€" ing mosey, and they have done splendidly, banking $6,156.70 during the month of January. . This was the total" from 71 .schools, Dufferin school leads the %ist with _ $305 while Park school is‘ a close secomt with $300. _ Dawson street . school the largest in the city, has _ only £250, s (Springfield Republican,) The _ latest wriakle in â€"the school system of Clevelarad is an mnfl- mwent by which tie hair of the boy# is to be shorn at the city‘s expense. The departure boging with the‘ of sthall barbershops in three buildings" each sgupplied with < riouis »pupe lm The" patber C logs" will do t M MUNICIPAL BARBERING NOW BOOKS SHORT $700. HOW THE PUPILS SAVE h §A If you are it would be well to obtain a copy early as‘a large number have already been disposed of. When ordering by mail please encose 10 cents | extra to cover Postage. Galt, Feb: 13.â€"The _ old knitting | / factory building,. â€" formerly occupied | . by the C, Turnbull Co., . was this | morning the scene of a terrific boiler explosion, which badly wrecked‘ ths ‘buildinz, besides scalding R. A. Jolnâ€" ston of Peterboro‘ who had . charse of the boiler, so severely that he may .die. The accident occurred shortâ€" ly after firing up. Johnston was standing close to the boiler alter coaling up, when it exploded, with a shock which _ was felt â€" for _ blocks around, _ the 60 gallons of boiling water pouring out, and deluging the Foor. Oneâ€"half of the boiler was thrown the length of the big shop, and the force of _ the escaping water hurled the man 20 ‘ feet. He _ was picked up in a shocking condition, the skin peeling (of his body in great strips. The sufferer was taken to the hospital. f « ; The boilet was of 10 horseâ€"power and rated at 200 ‘pounds, but only 80 pounds of steam . was ever usod. It is supposed the valves . were not working, _ and the gauge failed _ to register the pressure, The wrecked premisus were occupied temporatily by a feather cleaning company, of whom Mr. R."R. Robinson is manaâ€" ger. John Pennicott, of London, a batrâ€" ber,. was sentenced to a yeat in the Central for assaulting his wife. Thos. Taylor, M. P. P. for Revel stoke, was ‘ sworn in as Provincial Secretary in the McBride Govern ment. Miss A. R. Bean, Miss E L. Bean, Honor Graduate‘ Toromto Conservaâ€" tory of Musto. _ TEACHERS OF PIANO, ORGAN AND . THEORY Pupiis prepared for examination a Toronto Conservatory ‘of Mublc and Toronto University, m@n Street, ‘Waterloc, . W. C. A., Frederick Tous::" § Btreot, Waterloo Chronicleâ€"Telegra BOILER EXPLODED. y Seml-Genténhial Sou : it contains a . § a-“%i Hundred Years History _ ; & 4e ‘of the pe Progressive County of Waterloo . and cannot but interest you. 3 Price Forty Cents . s0o YEARS‘ EXPERIENCE Â¥ lb Saâ€"th cannot do better : copy of the ; & m:w-:-ofi-owmmwmfi' We Can Save .=â€"_ _ _ e You Money King 8t Wate®loo Fancy Buns, Bread Rolls and Fancy Cakes. Sanderson‘s Bakery Buy one of our stoves. Out assortment,in both Parlor and Goo« Stoves for élther coal or wood is composed of the latest designs and everyone is guaranteed to give perfebt satisfaction. When in want of any give us a Cfll. We keep a large rtock of Meat Cutters and Sausage Stuffers which we sell at very low prices. ' 6 The Loading Moeat Market . has the reputation of its numerous mm cholcest and best of meats all the year round. In the 2‘. of monts, we have Boof, Pork, Veal, Lamb, Sugarâ€" Cured Hams and Bacon {m own suring}; onte tested, always used. In the line oflmoâ€".%h sauâ€" such as leners, m-‘lm.o"n. Liver of the CONRAD BROS. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY INCORPORATED IN 1863. â€" Total Assoets 3ist December 0 $426,808.17. WATERLOO MUIUAL _ Remi Offitce â€"â€" Waterico 0n, BY THE ROYAL COMMISSION SHOWED is THE Dominion Life LNVESTIGAT 10N « ms 0, A. BOEKM, _ District Age Waterloo, Ont, Phone 240 BOARD OF DIRECTORS®, Geo . Randall, K#., Waterlon, Dr. J. . Wobb, * William Snider, Req., 1 @eo. Disbel, Beq., 3. L Wideman, Meg., Bt. Jaoobs Allan Bowman, Keg., Preston. P, 8. Shants,.Preston., Thomas Gowdy, Reg., Gusiph, Frank Haight, Manages, J, L. Armatrong, Inspecter, TO BE CLEAN THaouchouTt KOME,COMPANY OFFIL