@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "2f75e3b7-144c-42c0-9382-219ca45980f0"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2016-07-14"@en, "1918-02-28"@en ; dcterms:description "The oldest mining camp newspaper in British Columbia. ; The Ledge was published in Greenwood, in the Kootenay Boundary region of southern British Columbia. The Ledge was published by James W. Grier until 1907, and was subsequently published by R. T. Lowery (1907-1920) and G. W. A. Smith (1920-1929). The paper's longest-serving editor was R. T. Lowery (1906-1926), a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. The Ledge absorbed the Boundary Creek Times in April 1911, and was published under a variant title, the Greenwood Ledge, from August 1926 to May 1929."@en, ""@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xledgreen/items/1.0308521/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ /��%x LEDGE elm THE OLDEST MINING CAMP NEWSPAPER IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Vol. XXIV. GREENWOOD, B. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1918. No. 33 Make Home Attractive BY FILLING IT WITH OUR Substantial Furniture, Artistic Pictures, Soft Carpets, and Elegant Crockery Plenty of Oils, Harware and Tinware In stock MAIL ORDERS solicited from all points of the Compass T. M. GULLEY & CO. New location���Russell-Law Caulfield Building PHONE 28 X GREENWOOD, B. C. I HAVE A FEW TONS OF Pantry Queen Flour At THE OLD PRICE Next Shipment all Standard Flour Wm P ADTIII1DC greenwood ��ity bakery Ttiii. \\j, AH I film 3, flour ahd feed store ����e��mi��e������weim��^ee��f* X Windsor Hotel Greenwood, B.C. The Windsor Hotel is one of the 'oldest and most comfortable hotels in the red metal metropolis. It is located in the heart of the city, and convenient to all business houses, Heated with steam and electricity, Fine sample rooms. Many of the bedrooms contain electric heaters, The bar is replete with modern beverages. Hot coffee, sandwiches, and light lunches always ready. Touch the wire if you want rooms reserved. X 2C $ P. BHRNS & CO. Dealers in Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish and Poultry. Shops in nearly all the towns of the Boundary and Kootenay. COPPER STREET, GREENWOOD, B.C. The Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada, Limited Offices, Smelting and Refining Department TRAIL, BRITISH COLUMBIA SMELTERS AND REFINERS Purchasers of Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead and Zinc Ores TADANAC BRAND PIG LEAD, BLUESTONE, COPPER AND SPELTER TOE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE SIR EDMUND WALKER. C.V.O.. LLD.. D_CL, Pr��ident SIR JOHN AIRD.Gen��alM*n����er ' H. V. F. JONES. A��'t Gen'L M*fl*g�� CapttalPaid Up.$15,000,000"TReserve Fund, . $i3,50o,ooo Every effort Is made to provide the banking service required by miners. A current account facilitates the -;^^';;^hamidlln�� of business re- ;:-'%; vc: ;:c:. c-cceipts, and' payments^ f -#| Xy.i H. C, LUCAS, Manager ��* Insurance Life, Fire, Health and Accident Real Estate, Ranches and Mining Brokers' AUCTIONEERS SMITH A KING GREENWOOD. B. C. You want the best in Cigars, Tobaccos, Gum AND Chocolates GANONG'S FANCY BOXES At Popular Prices 0. K. CIGAR STORE R. J. MUIR. - - PROP. British Columbia has been here a long time so has the B, C. Cigar. Absolutely Guaranteed. Clear Havana Filled. The Cigar that never varys. . , . Haveyou triedonelately? WILBERG & W0LTZ B. C. CIGAR FACTORY NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C . OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO T. THOMAS CLOTHES CLEANED PRESSED AND REPAIRED TAILOR - GREENWOOD oooooooooooooooooooooooooo "STORE OF QUALITY" Call or phone when you want Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes and Gents Furnishings Try my Eggs and Butter J. G. McMYNN MIDWAY - - B.C. H. McKEE GREENWOOD COAL AND WOOD AGENT FOR LETHBRIDGE COAL PHONE 13 Auto and Horse Stages Leave Greenwood Twice Daily to Meet Spokane and Oroville Trains Around Home Last of the League Games Autos for Hire. The Finest Turnouts in the Boundary. Light and Heavy Draying Christian Science service will be held in theMELI.bR BLOCK on Sunday at ii a. m. All welcome. Every Wednesday at 8 p. m., testimonial meetings will be held in the same block. Sunday School every Sunday morning. MATTHEWS BROS. GRAND FORKS Stage Palace Livery And GREENWOOOD. B.C- GILLIS & ION, Proprietors. ASSY AER E. W. WIDDOWSON, Assayer and Chemist, Box biioS, Nelson, B. C. Charges:���Gold, Silver, Lead or Copper $i each. Gold-Silver, (single assay) Ji.oo. Goid-Silver (duplicate assay) $1.50. Silver-Lead $1.50 ; Silver-Lead- Zinc $3.00. Charges for oth��>r metais etc on application. , . DR. A. MILLOY DENTIST Agents for Chevrolet, Dodge, Hudson, Chalmers, Cadillac cars, and Republic truck motors. Garage in connection. BOTEL PRINCETON Princeton, B.C., now completed on the site of the old Great Northern. Only brick hotel in Similkameen. A first class house, . Swanson & Broomfield. Props. ^ * 4* ��H* ���*�� 4* 4* 4* * ���$* ���&* 4* * 4* 4* 4* 4�� 4�� Float C LOAT ie nofe a periodic- ^ al. It is a book containing 86 illustrations all told, and is filled with sketches an d stories of western life. It tells how a gambler cashed in after the flush days of Sandon ; how it rained in New Denver long after Noah was dead; how a parson took a drink at Bear Lake in early days; how justice was dealt in Kaslo-in '93; how the saloon man out- prayed the women in Kala- ^ mazoo, and graphically de- J* picts the roamings of a T western editor among the ��j�� tender-feet in thd cent belt. ������� It contains the early history ' j, of Nelson and a romance �� of the Silver King mine, 'j" In it are printed three 4* western poems, and dozens *f�� * 4* 4> 4* All the latest methods Dentistry. in . high-class LOO BUILDING Corner Abbott & Hastings Streets. VANCOUVER. - - B.C. Red Cross Must Save The executive of the Red Cross Society uf Regina haB asked that the advice of the Food Controller be carefully observed at any gatherings in the interests of the Bed Cross and that if the hostess really wishes to serve food she should at least be careful not to use the commodities most needed overseas. What She Wanted "Well, little miss," said the grocer, "what can I do for you?" "Please, air, mother wants a bottle of good-natured alcohol."��� Bystander. of articles too numerous to mention. Send for one before it is too late. The price is 25 cents, postpaid to any part of the world. Address: all lefe- 4* ters toXxi ii.> J obeenwo6d^r-c.;c * ���������'x^XM^ 4* + 4* * The Phoenix Senior Hockey team went to Grand Forks on Monday where they defeated tbe Forks team by a score of 15-3. J. W. Murphy, a prosperous wheat farmer from Southern Saskatchewan was calling on old friends in this district last week. Mr. Murphy was formerly employed at the Mother Lode mine, leaving there about nine years ago for the prairie. During the period he worked at this mine he was president of the then famous Dutch Club. He found several of its old members there but even though few in number they were able to get near the kind of time when tbis.camp was first started. On Saturday lastWMr. /Murphy left, for his home near ".-Neville; Saskatchewan ���. X D. J. Matheson drove down from Phoenix on Tuesday. Danny Deane recently returned to Phoenix from Vancouver. Mrs. T. O. Gunderson has been in the hospital for a few days. James McGregor, mines inspector, was in town this week. The showings at the Bell mine, Beaverdell, are better than ever. The Windsor and Pacific hotels had very few vacant rooms this week. Mr. McKay, of the Foundry in Grand Forks, was here on business this week. F. M. White, former city electrician of Grand Forks, recently died in Spokane. Mrs. J. H. Twells, of Trail, a former postmistress is in charge of the local postoffice. Just in a shipment of Ladies and Childrens, Black Cashmere Hose. G. A. Rendell. Born.���At Vancouver on Feb. 17, to Mr. and Mrs. James Marshall, of Phoenix, a son. L.-C, H. A. Sheads, and Pte. L. W. Barker, of Vancouver, were in town last week. D. R. McElmon, Greenwood. Watchmaker and Jeweler, Spectacles and pipes repaired. H. J. Bishop of Nelson, and R. K. Higman of London, Ont., were in Greenwood on Tuesday. John Tait, of the C. P. R- Telegraph was in the city this week in the interests of the company. We still have, some Ladies pure wool underwear which we are selling at the old prices. G. A. Rendell. F. F. Ketchum was fa town on Tuesday to attend the funeral of his old. friend the late K. C. B. Frith. Mrs. Silas Smith has returned to her home at the Mother Lode, after being in the hospital for a few days. Next month the Public Schools will go in at 9 a.m. and close at 4 p. m., with lunch time from 12 to 1.30 p. m. Mrs. James Harris, of Alder- grove, is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. L. Bryant. Her two sons Lewis and William accompanied her. Duhamel and McDonald who leased the Freemont mine some time ago are taking out some exceptionally fine looking ore from a seam that runs high in silver values. . If the party who took the Junior Hockey Championship Cup from the Greenwood Rink office last Friday evening after the game will return it to Mr. R. Halcrow a lot of trouble will be saved. St. Patrick's Dance. The Pythian Sisters will hold a Dance on . March 18th, in the Masonic Dance Hall. Bush's orchestra will be in attendance. Admission, Gents $1.00, Ladies 50c. Everybody come and have a good time. Keep this date open. . Friday, March 1st, will be Red Cross Night in Greenwood. Commencing at .8:15 a hockey match will be played between the Ladies team and a picked aggregation from the Cigar and C.P.R. teams. Admission 25c, everybody pays. After the game there will be a Dance in the Masonic Dance Hall. Gents $1,00, Ladies 50c Refreshments served by the ladies. Proceeds go to the Red Cross. It is seldom that skating is as good as it is at the present time in the local rink* A good number take advantage of this aad enjoy themselves at their favorite pastime. None of the pleasure seekers have had anything serious happen to them to any extent this season, but this week one of the most enthusiastic skaters met with a slight injury in a head on collision by having one of his optics discolored. The last two hockey league games were played at the Rink last Friday evening. Phoenix teams opposing the locals. The Ladies game was some what one-sided. The home girls were playing in great form and easily defeated their opponents by a score of 4 to 0. The visitors though outclassed put up a hard fight and on more than one occasion feheir efforts to score was blocked by fehe locals defence. The scoring took place in the first and third periods. Kathleen Carson 'was the star for the visitors, while all of fehe home girls played strong. Ethel Ferguson scored two of the goals, while Gladys Jackson and Edith Willcox each gofe one. The Intermediate match followed and it was one of fehe most exciting games played here this season. Tbe play was very snappy and featured with heavy checking. Tbe visitors were in fehe lead mosfe of (he time. They scored in the first period and got another in the second when the locals got one also. <|The home boys forced their opponents hard in fehe lasfe ��� period when Nelson shot one in, two minutes before time, making the score 2-2. The usual good time was had in the I. O. O. F. Hall after tbe game. Patriotic Fund The local Treasurer of the Canadian Patriotic Fund wishes to acknowledge receipt of the following subscriptions from January 14th, 1918 to February 25th, 1918: W, C. Arthurs 5.00 Boundary Police 23 20 A J Morrison 600 H B Larsen 6 00 W George 450 W Jenks 3 00 CPR Employees rr 30 JB I^ane.. 2 00 P Burns & Co 7 So A Legault 4 35 G. Grosvenor , 3 65 P.Mytton 250 J Keady 3 65 R C Conyers '.'. 3 60 Canada Copper Co..., 100 00 J. V. Mills... ........ 5 00 W. R. Dewdney......... , 4.85 P. H, McCurrach... , 3.70 C P R Employees 1 00 Hon; J. D. Maclean ..,:..... 20 00 K. C. B. Frith , ..... a 00 WP Miller...... 200 Greig & Morrison 500 j. Simpson...... ...; 5 00 J.L. White:..... 600 MissIS Ferguson... 230 Boundary Police ...;.....,...... 23 20 D Mcintosh . .��. 500 GB Taylor.- 300 J. B. Lane . 200 P Burns & Co... 760 PW George .....;...;..;......;..���...... r 5 00 CPR Employees- 11 3o Smith & King..... 2 50 SP Dixon.... 400 Canada Copper Co 100 00 Smelter Employees and Townspeople per Central Fund Com. 190 00 Old-Timer Passes Away The townspeople were shocked >n Saturday evening, after the uewe was spread around that Kenneth C. B. Frith, died very suddenly at the Greenwood Club, while playing billiards with several prominent citizens. The late Mr. Frith was born in St. John, New Brunswick, about 49 years ago. He spent some time in Flordia, then returned home for a time, after which he came west with F. F. Ketchum, now of Beaverdell. Thev arrived in Cranbrook in 1898, and the following year they moved to Greenwood, when soon after Mr. Frifeh's arrival he received the appointment of postmaster, succeeding Robert Wood, this position he held until his demise. The deceased was one of Greenwood's mosfe highly esteemable citizens. He has held many honorary positions in the past of which some of them were: President of the Greenwood Club; President of the Curling Clubj Sec-Treas of fehe Greenwood Rink, of which he was one of tbe main movers in getting the building built; a Past Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias; and was an active member of the Farmers Institute, being its secretary. He was as popular as he was well known and his death will be mourned by a large circle of friends; also by those who came in contact with him during his official duties as our worthy postmaster, 'lihe synapathy b| the whole com? munity is extended to relatives, but more especially to his brother, W. M. Frith, who is well-known here, coming from Princeton where he now lives, tc attend tbe funeral, which took place on Tuesday, service was held in St. Jude's church a large crowd attending. The remains were shipped feo Princeton where interment took place. The pall bearers were: George Swayne, J.^L. Coles, G. A. Rendell, J. H. Goodeve, J. L. "White, and G. B. Taylor. Store the lee A. Legault P Mytton ..... G Grosvenor., J Keady........ J C Boltz ...... C J Eales ...... J V Mills....... 4 35 2 70 36* 400 400 5 #23.95 H. McCURRACH. : Secy-Treas, Greenwood Branch. His Example ''What is the meaning of 'alter ego'?" asked the teacher of fehe beginners'class in Latin. "It means 'the other I-'." re>- epondsd a pupil. "Give me a sentence containing the phrase." "He winked his alter ego." May Come To It - The Girl���Bo you ever write ou an empty stomach? The Author���"Well���er���no; bufe paper is getting to be pretty expensive.���Sketch. By storing all the natural ice that is possible to harvest, ice companies, farmers, creamery owners and others will help materially in saving ammonia this year. Even at the present time there is an absolute shortage of ammonia in the United States of 60,000,000 pounds per annum for war and commercial purposes. Best Color For Uniform Onr khaki soils are good. Bufe "horizon blue," the color which the French use for feheir uniforms, is said to be still better, says the Popular Science Monthly. _ Against certain backgrounds ife is altogether invisible from a distance. An artist painting a landscape puts his objects back by washing them over with a mixture of white and bine, the horizon blue. This makes it appear as if there were air between the objects and our eyes, so fehat the objects themselves appear indistinct. The uniforms of horizon blue make the wearers appear, if not actually a part of the. landscape, at least considerably farther away than they are. And since a man is recognized by his shape rather than by his color, tQe blending of his clothes with the color of the horizon helps his camouflage considerably. One can often dodge a coming event by obperving its shadow. ^LJMtfffiL J&IEElOKXHSk ARE YOU SATISFIED With your work, with your business? Is there promotion ahead of you ? 5 Men ot energy, with salesmanship ability j�� will find it to their advantage to write to ��� S THE EXCELSIOR LIFE INSURANCE CO., Toronto 1 1 Saving the French Children Fighting Sirength Of Germans of L'Eclio dc total strength only Says the Kaiser Has Still 3,130,000 Fighters Military experts, like doctors, fre- cjuenlly disagree. The latest instances come with the estimates of thc fighting strength of the German ancl Austrian armies on the various fronts. Thc military expert Pans figures that the of tlie German forces today is 3.130,000, divided as follows: On the western front, 2 million; on lb<:en the eastern front 1 million; on the Italian front 100,000; on the Balkan front 30,000. The French army headquarter* estimate of the Austro-Hungarian army ���lone is 1,200,000, however, while Italian army authorities figure Aus- tro-Gcnnan forces in Italy at 840,000 men instead of thc one hundred thousand the l.'Echo de Paris writer E��ves. The latter justifies hi? estimates by saying that on the Anglo-French front where thc British and French forces exceed 2 mi'lion considerably, there arc now 15-t German division, each of three regiments of infantry and eacli regiment made up of only- two or three battalions. Each battalion, lie says, counts on a maximum of only 650 rifles, making a maximum of 5.850 rifles to a division. Tn thc same way, on the eastern front, while there are still 113 divisions in service, each has been greatly weakened by withdrawing individual units. His theory is that only a skeleton of Germany's great army really remains, and that counting; noncombat- nnt units, thc total strength of the kaiser's forces now is only Sj'a million men. Great Bravery of Canadians Seven Officers and Twelve Men Awarded the Victoria Cross Seven thousand decorations havc been conferred to date on members of the Canadian expeditionary forces for valor i:i the field :-id for out- 1 standing war services. Seven officers p.nd twelve men have gained the coveted Victoria Cross; 306 officers have received the Distinguished Service Order; six have gained the bar to the Distinguished Service Order, and 105 Canadian nurses have received (the Royal Red Cros?. There have one K.C.H., 16 C.B.'s and three K.C.M.G.'s bestowed on Canadians. One thousand men and ten officers and 26 of other ranks havc been decorated with thc Military Cross. One hundred and eighty- eight foreign medals have been awarded to Canadians. 64 to offi eers and 124 to men, Men in thc ranks have been rewarded with 676 Distinguished Conduct Medals, and six received bars to thc D.C.M. Four thousand three hundred ancl twenty-four havc received tlie Military Medal, 125 received bars tothc Military Medal and three received llie second bar. Sixty-three havc earned the Meritorious Service Medal. Keeping It Up The Airplane in War Sj American Red Cross Will Retrieve 51 ! Health and Happiness for 11 Them Si '-I'be war has made terrible inroads ���5 on thc next generation in France. A birth rate already alarmingly lowhas fallen to a point where France in a single year���the second of the war��� suitered a net loss of almost 2 per^ cent of her population. Thc_ Red' Cross has sent three groups of specialists and nurses to France to_ engage in educational and hygienic work throughout the country to help check the increase in infant mortality. The children who were born just before thc war in the devastatecl_ districts have lived through such frightful experiences as to rob them of anything approaching normal growth and development. It is marvelous that they survive at all. To take these children from the peril of bombs and gas' and unnumbered horrors, to keep them in bodily safety under devoted and intelligent care until they can be sent back to their homes or relatives, is the purpose of the Red Cross children's work. For this purpose several centres have been established behind the lines. At one such centre six hundred children were gathered together from villages which had been bombarded. They arc now housed in a comfortable Red Cross barracks, provided by lhe French government, under the care of au American specialist and American Red Cross nurses. From another centre of children's work a travelling dispensary mounted on a small motor truck is making [the circuit of thc surrounding villages. Thc shower bath which this motor truck carries gives many of these youngsters the first bath tbey havc had for many months. Thc Red Cross is caring too, for children who havc been exposed to tuberculosis and for thc children, often sick and miserable, who come back to France 1 ^fis* IN canadT^1 For making; ' soap. For ��oft��n- | ' Ins water. For r��movln�� | | paint. For disinfecting rdfrlir��rator��, ��� Inks, closeta, drains and for SOO other purposes. ItKFUSE 5UB8TITUTIS. ^T"�� 1CH0KT0 O"*. i*"^ Consecration and Sacrifice Air Fighting Has Now Become a Distinct Science When Uncle Sam's flying men ( _, come, to take their part on the west-iwith thc repatriated prisoners from em front they will find their job a - behind thc German lines after months "cinch" in comparison with our taskl0f undernourishment and neglect, in 1914. Our 'brave fellows were J These children, after all, need only a little good feeding and a little skill- Nameless Atrocities are Committed by the Hungarians Has the boasted "Kultur" of the jpure and simple has no imagination, Teuton undergone any change in the ' '" : ; :~.*.~n in. nsr fellows among thc pioneers in air warfare, and they gave their lives freely m learning how it should bc done. Our flying men bad, at thc beginning, to conform to rules and regulations. Army discipline handicapped them, right and left, % consequently they worked at a disadvantage all the time. Thc military man usc course of this war? Hc is only the more fixed in his conviction that "frightfulness" pays. Witness his hideous brutality to thc unfortunate peasantry in Italy who have fallen into his hands. Nor arc the Atts- trians or Hungarians far behind their leader in devilry. The veneer worn by the Austrians and Magyars in times of peace, and their less gross personal habits, caused them to bc judged less strictly on their deeds. In all thc crimson records of fiendish oppression and savage blood- thirstiness of this war neither Belgium nor Armenia has worse to show than Bosnia, Slavonia and Serbia. In a speech rclivcr.ed on October 17 last, in the Austrian parliament, fey Di-. Tresic-Pavicic, a Dalmatian politician lie there publicly charged thc government with atrocities to its own subjects, as'well as to'Serbs, and Montenegrins, as horrible as the worst infamies perpetrated by thc German soldiery. Oh the outbreak of war the. Hungarians (Magyars) let loose a .tempest of destruction on: their Slav fellow citizens. All the nationally, enlightened, responsible and honest elements of thc male population, said Dr. Tresic-Pavicic, were arrest-, ed, interned, imprisoned, ruined, condemned to death* executed; the very young and the aged were fated to die of hunger, the remainder were terrorized, demoralized and dishonored. Some of the details hc gave are almost too horrible for publication. The following passages in his speech are quoted from "The Ncw Europe": "The autocrat of Bosnia, General Potiorek, ordered all Serbs to be removed from the frontiers of Bosnia, and his orders were carried out. The inhabitants of tbe village of Sircc, when they reached Mount Rudo, were forced by their guards to . dig their graves and to lie down quietly each in his: own.. .'��� Many . women, lay down with tlicr children at their breasts. The soldiers did not shoot them all at once, but one by one. The living had to heap earth upon thc dead until their own turn came to be covered by the soldiers. "At the village of Golubinci the 6oldiers with their bayonets drove tlie people into the court yard of thc school, and there shot them down like hares at a shooting^ match. Human imagination cannot picture all the methods employed to kill these people, They were shot down by machine guns, drowned in the Save, tied to' hayricks, which were then set on fire. Outside Zubac 28 people were Changed without trial, at Trcbinje 102 In all, and of these 39 for the excellent reason that they were notable; at Foca 71 for the same reason. Ai single Magyar battalion had 1,000 i yards of rope with it when it was Rcntfrom Sarajevo to the frontier. At 'Tuzia oyer 300 Serbs were seen hanging on the trees. .;The whole Scrbo- Montenegrin frontier lias been almost cleared of its population and transformed into a desert." While such things arc done, while autocratic governments can make such a hell of this fair earth, there can bc no . pcac*. 'The free countries of'thc world, iiow happily banded together to extirpate this evil, cannot relax their efforts for one moment.���"Canada." London. aud it requires imagination to flying machines at the front. Early in the war it was said: "Listen to the flying men and let them tell us what we need. And as soon as wc listened to the flying men we progressed in the air by leaps and bounds. , It was the flying men themselves who discovered that the monoplane was of no value for observation purposes. No monoplanes are used in warfare today. It was thc flying men who learned how to dodge shrapnel fire. Thc obvious thing seemed to bc to climb out of range. Bnt more often than not thc obvious thing in flying is.the wrong thing/Pilots today drop like a plummet to avoid shrapnel. It is possible to drop, st a much greater speed than it is to climb���and the greater the speed of a machine the more difficult it is to hit. It is not very long ago���four years to . be exact���that everyone gasped at thc daring of Pegoud, the French aviator, who was thc first man to loop the loop, . And yet today every lad���and the majority arc lads���who- holds a pilot's-certificate in the flying corps, loops the loop without turning a hair.- In fact, looping is one of the favorite dodges in air fighting. To be behind an enemy plane is the most favorable position, and if, when chased by a hostile machine, a pilot can loop the loop and come up behind the enemy, bc immedi- lcly becomes the chaser, and has his opponent at a disadvantage. But it. used to be thought that to get above "and in front of an enemy flier was the most advantageous position in air fighting. Now, through actual experience,, our men realize that.it is easier to. turn a machine gun on to an enemy machine when he is above or iii front. Kitchener once said, that one airplane was worth a thousand men, and it is certain; that a thousand men have the value of ten thousand now that it is possible .to slip oyer to. the enemy's lines.and sec what is afoot there. It is the sanic in the navy. A battle ship is C comparatively hclplcs ful care to become well and hearty again. It is thc privilege of the Red Cross to help tide them over the period of helplessness, when outside aid is imperatively necessary.���Eliot Wadsworth in the Outlook. Face to Face With the Most Stupendous Crisis in Human History We are face to face with the most stupendous crisis in human history. This is thc most momentous hour that civilization has known. There is no middle ground. It is death or victory. Death to our country; death of the women and babies of thc land; deatli to its men; death to_mir civilization and to the civilization of thc world, all on the one side; or :t complete victory of this country and the allies over Germany on lhe other side. The struggle will bc ;\\ Ions aud desperate one-. It will tax to thc utmost every latent and every developed, mental, moral, spiritual, financial.! -cnt to its and physical force of this country. ' ' He who is a slacker in thought, in word or deed is an enemy to every woman and every child in this country, an enemy to our nation and to civilization. Let it be preached from thc pulpit, let it bc taught in the classroom, let- it be proclaimed wherever men meet; let every individual soul outside of the insane asylum think nnd speak in terms of consecration and concentration of all that is in him and all that to which the world lias ever been called. Wc can win, wc can gloriously win, if thc nation will consecrate its all to the winning. But it mcans a fearful sacrifice of thc flower of thc nation's life thrown upon thc altar in defense of all that men and women hold dear on earth. It means consecration to thc nation's salvation or eternal damnation by Germany. Which do you choose?���From the Manufacturers' Record. WOMEN! IT IS MAGIC I LIFT OUT ANY CORN pply a few drops then lift corns or calluses off with fingers���no pain Just think! You can lift off any corn or callus withovt pain or soreness. A Cincinnati man discovered this ether compound and named it free- zone. Any druggist will sell a tiny bottle of free- zone, like here shown, for very little cost. You apply a few drops directly upon a tender corn or callus. Inst: ntly the soreness disappears, then shortly you will find the corn or callus so loose .hat you can lift it right off. Frcezone is wonderful. It dries instantly. It doesn't eat away the corn or callus, but shrivels; it up without even irritating the surrounding- skin. Hard, soft or corns between the toes, as well as painfuLcalluses, lift right off. There is no pain before or afterwards. If your druggist hasn't frcezone, tell him to order a small bottle for ; ou from his . wholesale drug house. ; Lord Rothermere I On Air Reprisals A Complete and Satisfying Retaliation for Wrongs Committed Thc adoption of a more vigorous war policy in thc air than bas hitherto obtained seems to be thc occasion rather than thc result of a change oi personnel in the headship of the British air department. The ncw minis- I ter, Baron Rothermere, spoke after j Mr. Lloyd George at the recent meet- I ing of the Benchers of Grey's Inn, land therefore, presumably, after hav- \\ ing come to a perfect understanding with the prime minister on thc war policy of thc government. He announced thus publicly that his "ad- ivisers" had asked him to make a (���'precise statement" of that policy, and this he prefaced with the intimation that the department is unanimous in favor of "reprisals" for German air raids on non-combatant communities. "It is our duty," he said, "to avenge the murder of innocent women and their children," and, ii" thc enemy choose to havc it so, it will bc hereafter "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth: a complete and satiM'ying retaliation." Citing General von LudcudorfT's opinion that this is a war of nations, and not merely of lighting men, Lord Kothermerc expressed British detestation of war on non-combatants, but he pointed out that if Ludcn- dorfl's policy were to be continued Great Britain could no longer "con- one-sided application," and that Germany has to learn that "outrages on the civilian population of Britain do not pay." In considering what thc ncw policy of "reprisals" may signify for the German non-combatant population one has to take into account only what has been actually achieved by one of the new British airships, which recently crossed Europe to Constantinople by stages and dropped bombs on the warships in the harbor and on the Turkish war office, and came back without serious injury to itself. An air trip to Berlin would bc as practicable as this exploit. It is possible that bombs will be dropped on the Prussian and Austrian capitals as the most effective way of arousing public opinion in the central empires against further air raids on unprotected cities.���Toronto Globe. CROWN BRAND coenUshhjp will do more than satisfy children's craving for ''some thing sweet" ��� it will supply them with a wholesome food. ��/ Dealers everywhere have Crown Syrup" in 2,5,10 and 20 pound tins and "Perfect Seal" Quart Jars. Write for free Cook Book.. THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED, MONTREAL. 29 To Control Price of Fish Food Controller to Take Steps to Prevent Fishermen Withholding Supply for Higher Prices The food controller will not allow THANKFUL MOTHERS any evasion of his order fixing max-, . _. imum prices for western caught fish, cure constipation, colic and indiges Mrs. Willie Theriault, Pacquet- ville, N.B., says:���"I am extremely thankful that 1 tried Baby's Own Tablets for my baby. Through their use baby thrived wonderfully and I feci as if I cannot recommend them too highly." Baby's Own Tablets break up colds ancl simple fevers; A White Night in Russia Olive Gilbreath in the January Yale Review The particular journey herein recorded fell on a white night in June ���one of those eerie white nights against which thc .Russian or.C Siberian-traveller carries a canny blue curtain. Without these blue guards, sleep.is but of the.question, and the senses, pursued by the penetrating j light, arc as rag-ed as the beggars staring out of the stations ,.��� ���...*. ��� . ._T.-.. .. -...-,. .- Vcrst without its accompanying planes, for i after vcrst, hour after hour, the plain during a :modern sea fight the con- i unwinds endlessly^ monotonously like testing fleets are seldom if ever vis- wool iidhva skein. A pale incandes- ible to one another, and depend en- ence hangs over thc earth, fringing tircly on the observers and their objects ghostily. Trees blur in the wireless for instructions. I half = ��� light and. grow phenomenally "Hits hc any head for business?" "Not a bit. He even figures -the solitaire that he gave to his fiancee as an asset, instead of a liability!"��� Life. ��� ������..���-' X-XXX i R^FtiRS OUR ADVICE ^ Ship to ua at once and Reap Benefits of High Prices C: row prevailing. C\\C Prie��*LIH ar>d Shfpplng Tsgt FR���� ; jticKarii. r��T, Fierce.. ?tf .-vhflge r We Also Say HIDES ajfid--Sf HrCA E00T: Nowadays the authorities realize the tremendous importance of the flying man, and they treat him accordingly. At. the best of times his life is short���the span of life of a pilot at the front can be named in hours���and the. authorities endeavor to make it a merry one as far "as it is possible. He is paid well and fed well, and has the best billet that can be secured. Wc have learned that our pilots arc worth looking after. large; izbas and windmills scrape thc sky. ' A tremor of primitive terror runs through one's limbs. One calls to the hills for deliverance��� but there is not even a rise in thc ground. With midnight springs up a delusive promise of respite from the light; a shadow creeps reassuringly over the earth, but it is dusk and not darkness. There is no reprieve. At eleven the sun dips below the horizon;" at two-thirty it balances again His'machVnc "isTworth"looking'afterjlilcc a replenished" bag, spilling, its also, and quite a-small army of men-|orange and amethyst flood over the do nothing all day long but tinker with ihe machines. 1'Cvery pilot has three machines in re so that if one is damaged ef observing can go oh uninterruptedly. John Bright once said that war is a great teacher of geography. If he had said merely that war was a great teacher he would hart spoken just as truly. More has been learned about the air arid the possibilities of its navigation in these few years of war than could have been learned in ;i hundred years in jogtrot 'times ot pence. '���:������'���'.'���'��� y-'XX.XXX'r earth. The relentless cycle has begun again; and still, the plain un- dine'ss'for him. I jvi.1K}s, endlessly, monotonously ��� aged'the'-work \\>r,8"l,y now- At-seven ..mc reaches Nizhiiinovgorod.. If it is Jtn:. sun has been up five hours. the Warts are unsightly blemishes, and corns arc 'painful.growths. Hollo- way's Corn Cure will remove them. he hn>f Job, and thc.Cihinistcr'.. just' read: "YcaV---ihe, CClight;V.6f;.-; wicked .shall be put oiU,"C when mediately the. churcliV- wasC in'-, darkness. ,.::-��� :.X,.Xr- ���-������ ::X.-,'X. -.-:. y\\���'������ C^'Hrethcrn,'', said the .ministers/with '-carcely a monicnt'sCP^use.-'.-'-in^.view of the sudden and startling;:: fulfillment .'.or this prophecy;,vrc-.willC.spcnd V-. iciv.', minutes in:-"si|ct;t'-.- prayer : for '''';U-lei:tric-lightirigC;-Ccqjnp;'iny.:.'-��� 3uCFi!.p;;- xXX ������ v.;;- Twenty-five Per Cent. Increase .:-;-'J'lutl an increase'in hop production next year all over, the Western provinces, of Canada,., i'.niouriiiiig . to twenty-five, per cent., may be r::- l. pecte'd is the report of Mr. J. D.Mc- ! Gregory western rcp-ri.-s.vn^itivt uf thc food controller. . The province-of. Saskatchewan,' Mr. McGregor states, especially, stands out in its enthusiasm and determination immediately to increase its hog supply. There is likely7 to bc kn increase there of even fifty per cent. more than the total of 1917, '������ Information has been received that fishermen on a western lake have 300,000 pounds of white fish on ice and that they refuse to market it at thc price named by the food controller. A telegram was sent to them stating that unless thc fish were marketed, the food controller, in order to prevent waste, would take possession of the entire catch and dispose of it in thc public interest. In case this action became necessary, thc price paid for thc fish would not exceed the maximum price, fixed by the food, controller. Steps havc also been taken, to prevent itinerant dealers from thc U. S. diverting the fish supply across the international boundary by offering prices in excess of the maximum j prices. Ah official has been appointed by thc food controller to investigate such complaints and the commissioner of customs has instructed the local collector of customs . to withhold permission for the- exportation of .fish to the United States firms concerned until it has; been proved that the food controller's regulations are being strictly observed. Following thc receipt of requests that the price of winter-caught fish from the southern Saskatchewan lakes bc fixed, the food controller has ordered that thc prices for such fish must not.exceed by more than one- half cent pcr pound the maximum prices which he fixed recently for fish from thc Big River district of Saskatchewan. The food controller has also fixed ia maximum price of two cents per pound, f.o.bi, primary railway shipping point, for mullets from any waters in Manitoba, . Saskatchewan or Alberta. On and after Jan. 1, it will- be illegal for any person, other .than a fisherman or retailer, to deal in Canadian. fish to an amount exceeding l.OOO pounds in any one month without first obtaining a license from thc food controller. A regulation to this effect, which has been signed by Mr. Hanna, brings under the license system ail persons conducting a.wholesale fish business. Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. The Hqrroni of War Cheerfulness of the Warring Nations Is a Miracle of Courage The.'humors of war arc tire, humors of humanity. They have a body and a substance as real as.are the fighting men who jest before lliey die. They bring relief to our spirits, because they savor of. nature's "indefatigable renewals." The callous levity of tlie trenches never offends .'it's when Wf. remember that the. jokers are pledged to the great sacrilict:. Tin: determined and. riot too easy clitirfulncss of the warring nations is a miracle of courage, Wi: shall havo plenty of chance to be courageous ahing these lines. Bui the mirth cd as the result of an agreement reached between the United States food administration and the Mexican sisal growers of Yucatan. Information to this effect was received at the office of the food controller. The growers were holding out for a high price, but under the< arrangement just cohsumated the entire crop has been secured at a slight advance over last 3rear's price. Co-operation of Canada and thc United States in controlling food exports from this continent was one of the factors which made it possible to secure the sisal supply on reasonable terms. An Anglo-American Alliance George Louis Beer in the January Yale Review _ Thc necessity for close co-operation between all thc English-speaking peoples and also the moral and rational justification of such a combination, are recognized by all who' have devoted serious thought to the problems of the future and'arc willing to face the world as it really is. In Germany, and also in Japan, such an association is widely considered to bc inevitable. But thc question still remains uhat, if any, outward form shall this essential co-operation take. As thc Germans deny thc reality of thc world community and base their policy upon thc assumption of an inherent antagonism between juxtaposed states, they cannot conceive of this future relation as other than an offensive and defensive alliance of thc older type with its aggressive and selfish purposes. To them thc project is merely thc expression of self- regarding, but entirely justifiable, nationalism of a world-wide group of closely related states. But an association of this character, an alliance of governments, would mark no real advance to a better international future. Unless it were an alliance of peoples based upon their common ideals as well as upon the common needs, it would bc an ephemeral arrangement. Fortunately thc spiritual foundations exist. As Viscount Grey has expressed it: i"Thc more closely the two peoples come into contact, the belter they get to know each other, thc more I believe it" will be apparent to each not only that they speak the same language, but that they usc it to mean the same things, that they bothhavc the same idea of freedom and liberty, and desire the same sort of world in which to live." A popular democratic alliance based upon such likc-mindedncss points the road to ncw types of political association which will permanently unite under a common law different nations and stales. Such an organization based upon the will to co-operate would'give some assurance of -the possibility of an ultimate world state. Otherwise the outlook would indeed be black. If mankind is to be forever split up into thc watertight political compartments of the modern state system, if each stateis to cling forever to it's sovereign independence, there will be no ultimate prospect of an effectively organized world community and war will continue to. demand its human holocaust. Distribution of Wealth More Big Millionaires in Britain Than in United States Millionaires arc more numerous in America than they arc in Great Britain, but the multi-millionaires of Great Britain are more numerous than the multi-millionaires of America. In other words, the millions of America arc more evenly distributed amongst lhe very wealthy as a class, than the British millions amongst the wealthy of Great Britain. Only ten people in thc United States havc as much as $125,000,000 each. In Britain 79 people have each as much money. Nine citizens of thc United States havc $100,000,000 each. Great Britain has 68. Only 14 people in thc United States own amounts from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000, but Great Britain has 45 of these. There are 73 who own from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 in Britain while in the United States there are only 34, and Great Britain has 61 people with from $37,500,000 to $50,000,000 while America has of this class only 42. But America has 97 citizens owning from $25,000,000 to $37,500,000, as compared with Britain's 83 and of millionaires in general America has 22,696 while Great Britain has only 5,154. There are also in the United States a great many people with incomes of from $30,000 to $40,000 a year who may be in the millionaire class as regards capital owned if it is invested at only 3 per cent., or whose fortunes may be subject to fluctuations reducing their average income, and placing them on the income basis, at least, out of the mil- lionairc class. It has been discovered that in the United States less than 1 pcr cent, of thc total revenues derived from taxing individual-incomes comes from thc millionaire class.���Financial Post. Muscular Rheumatism Sub dued.��� When one is a sufferer from muscular rheumatism he cannot do better than to have thc region rubbed with Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil. There is no oil that so speedily shows its effect in subduing pain. Let the rubbing be brisk and continue until vase is secured. There is more virtue in a bottle of it than can be fully estimated. Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, Etc. Good Side of Money It the Source of Good Just as It May Be the Source of Evil . Money means, work, it-means production, it means the things that have been made by men's brains and hands. It not only stands for - thc things wc cat, the clothes wc wear and the houses we live in, but it stands for works of art and for the services of artists. It means the services of thc entertaining writer in means Shipbuilding in B. C. Revival of an Old Industry Through the Exigencies of War It is possible that the shipyards of British Columbia may soon be constructing vessels for the Australian .'government;;.; Australia wants vessels, and wants them badly, and negotiations are now Ving carried on by the shipbuilders of British. Columbia,with the government of the commonwealth with a. .view to. acrtt- ing orders. At present, there . arc six shipbuilding yards operating in British Columbia, and the program so far provides for the''construction of forty-one. wooden vessels'.'. Twelve of these are auxiliary wooden .schoou- i crs, and. compose the fleet of th ' Canadian" West | Company, two arc government, and twenty-seven arc contracted for. by the imperial munitions board. The cost of the material that'inust be applied to-thc. completion'of the i ships now under construction in thc ; province will, it is estimated; approximate $1,700,000. the form of books. It means thei^d in action and 18 have been lost pleasure-giving efDrls of the musi- ��t sea, none of them fromthe.lrans- cian'in the-opera or concert, it:ports carrying troops to France because of enemy attacks. Causes oi the deaths of 30 men have not been means musical instruments for the home, educational opportunities in the schools, publicity in the " press, the inspiration in the church, fun and emotional relaxation iu the theatre, police protection on our streets and justice in our courts. Money means.cleanliness, good appearance, self-respect. Money is the source of good just as it may be the source of evil, but in cither case only because of what it stands for.���Hugo Masters in Physical Culture. tufc- ������*'. X: ���Xriri./ityZ'fl: may ���:t)i!l: Iii order to. finance the shipbuild- .. ling undertakings,, actual, and coritern- ... , . ���. . -^Ii'plated, the British Columbia Mr.hu- lish essays. Cowl, y speaks this word j factrirerSl' Association is cmhv.voring ot wisdom: \\vm\\' la.-vglih at a ;ma>i;,n s���r,',��� f^������ ,i���, Don1]-,,;on gov. ������','������ -A Prior Claim Physician (looking into ante-room, where patients are waiting)���Who has been waiting the longest? Tailor (who has called to present the bill)���I havc doc; 1 delivered thc clothes to you three years ago. No Chance .'.'"��� First Golfer (who is .beating the parson badly)���"Never mind, doctor! You. wait till you. arc saying the Coast""l\\Vvigali:oni>��rial..service'over my grave." for the Canadian Parson���'But, my dear fellow, even then-it wiU.bc your licjlc. ��� Boston Transcript.- ���.������-���/������ He 'Stuck',to the Truth She���"How did you dare tell father that you have a prospect of $50.- 000 a year?" '-... . If<������"Why, l.-have, ii I marry you." -���Boston Transcript'.-' Purchase Surplus Flour Allied Governments Make Arrangements With Canadian Mills It is learned that thc purchasing representatives of thc allied governments have arranged to take all the surplus flour and oatmeal manufactured by the mills of Canada, and that already every mill in the Dominion is working to capacity and will continue to do so until thc work is over. Tbe mills arc grinding night and day, and thc surplus above Canada's requirements apportioned to these plants is being- turned over to the purchasing agents for the allied governments by thc managements in the east. U. S. Casualties Total 1,394 Up to December 1, according to figures obtained from official records in Washington, 1,394 members of. the military forces of the United States had died, had been wounded, or had been reported as captured or missing. The data cover thc period from the day war was declared last April. Ol this total mortality there were 937 deaths from natural causes and 352 accidental deaths. Eleven were kil- ascertaihed.' This casualty, list is for all American forces���in Europe, in home camps and in island possessions.-���Minneapolis Tribune. Pills That Have Benefited Thousands.���Known far and near as a sun remedy in the treatment of indigestion and all derangements of th< stomach, liver and kidneys, Parme- lee's Vegetable Pills have brought relief to thousands when other speci* fiics have failed; Innumerable testimonials can be produced to establish the truth of this assertion.' Once tried they will be found superior to all other pills in thc treatment. of thc ailments for which they arc prescribed. Realism The friend had dropped in to sec d'Aubcr, the great animal, painter; put the finishing touches-on his latest painting. He was mystified, however, when d'Aubcr took some raw meat and rubbed it vigorously ovc.t the'-'paiiit-cd rabbit in the foreground. "Why ���oil-earth did you do that?" hc asked. "Well, y��m \\cc," explained: d'Aubcr. "Mrs. Millions is coming to sec this picture todays When.she sees he* pet poodle smell that rabbit, and get excited over it, she'll buy it on tho spot."���Clippings. . says- who ease.'"-"-. arv '.Yak- to bis soul, "Take Kiics kepplicr in the iWi.e\\s-.'C'> ;-���'"���'��� .,..... "to s I ��I,e:ferti.i ^^ling:': .'cure from the :\\rcs >enstor^ :WXXili;XX:VXX,ll9Zy replied. t:l:a;>ntan: ,t;C\\vhnl nrc ancestors:'' .'... l-'atliei--���"VCi.-n,. I'm one of.'yours-��� ;md your grandad is another." Willie��� "Qh, but why is it ^ that folks . brag about, .them:"���-Everybody's Magazine..'-..... "Alice married.a'-..nonagenarian.''-'. .."And did she change her. religion fprChis?''���Boston -Transcript. ��� iont what it terms a'-''shi|>build- loan." If-history can ]><��� i-i!i<s'.l v��.''.s const met e< coast. WX i-'kt\\ ����� 1. W JI/PfNEQTztaAsAtA Eyelid*, \"""""^ISS? Sore Eyes, Ei'��s inflamed by ��Sun, Dost and WirtdvuiMy ' relievejl by Muriuc. Try it ia. ' your tyesand in Eaby's Eyes. )KoSmartiai:, j��t Eye Comfort tiro Sahr*. in Tob��s,23e.''F��r Jloofc rf tk* ."���;..���. - fre*. ttl-H��.i��.ETeS��mi>i"',P :.-;���' :.-....,V.'--.-^��4 ./While making his usual daily : inr spection of the stables,, the Major noticed Trooper Dash giving his horse a piece of lump sugar. "I am very pleased to see. you making : much of your horse, Trooper Dash," ���he said;."it. shows -that you regard 'him with Cthc true spirit,;:- and; I: yvil! notCforgctyou for itC'C'.'-'" -:-;. Trooper Dash waited -"'unlir-C; his commanding officcr was; out: of ��� I.ienr- \\r,%, nnd then turned to -his .neigh-' ' bor. "I .wasn't makin' Cmuch -:Xoi. , hirtfl"';;hc said.: -"The ''-li.lsghte'fC.thrc'w nic;off this inorning. .and I.ainCtrying to give him the blinkin"-.toothache."������ T nii,!, itl Vyn.-y..-':--,: :',XX.X XX '.'X. ' You will heartily enjoy the taste and aroma of Cowan-s Perfection Cocoa ��� and. further, it is the most whotcsqme nourishing Canadian beverage. .A-l! ��-�����-��1t*?���*- xmm SEES IEDG& OEEE^WOOIJu ���� & f* Neuralgia Headaches After shopping or after a hard day are quickly relieved with Sloan's Liniment. So easy to apply, no rub- ' bing, and so promptly effective. Cleaner and more convenient than I mussy plasters and ointments. It does not stain the skin, or clog the pores. Every home should have a Dottle handy for sprains, strains, lame back, rheumatic pains and stiff, sore muscles and joints. Generous sized bottles at all druggist^ 25,c., 50c, $1.00. ful women before and after maternity take Naw for Another War! "Status Quo" Peace a Sure Method I Reserve Strength tOI of Embroiling tne York] , . T . . p r 1 1 Again I motherhood is ot two-told 'Europe, even ap:irl irom Geniuny, j importance and thoilght- enn whole hcartcdly be trusted to - - - take up again the work of war, after thc necessary interval; so long as wc arc careful lo conclude the present round, in the manner suggested by Germany without any pretense of victory or vindication. Nobody who is not a lunatic can reasonably be accused of proposing a peace of the European status quo with any intention of it lasting forever, or lasting at all, except until the time of the rca ltrial and scn- thc time of thc real trial and sen- the German hegemony of Europe will be cither logically completed and made habitable, or logically condemned ancl pulled down. The whole European disease, which the war was once expected to cure, consisted in the fact that the lines of military and imperial occupation | cut across and concentrated thc lines of living tradition and human history. It cannot bc meant seriously, as a piece of magnanimity or hu- nianitarianism, to leave these artifi- ^_ cial lines at thc cud of this European war precisely as they happened to bc The Oak-Ribbed Fleet It supplies pure cod liver oil for rich blood and contains lime and soda with medicinal glycerine, all important ingredients ^ for strengthening the ner- ���"" vous system and furnishing abundant nourishment. It is free from drugs. Insist on the genuine. Every Seaworthy Vessel Now Pressed Into Service Every vessel that is seaworthy, however old, is pressed into the transport service in Britain. Famous racing yachts that once contested with the kaiser's yacht at Cowes for the pennant are now carrying cargoes or doing service as patrol boats under engine power instead of snow- white canvass. Thc old convict ship, "Success," is a tramp steamer carrying cargoes instead of a. museum of ancient penal times. The old "hearts of oak" and teak ships of Elizabethan days are once more riding thc stormy seas with all the old reckless daring of Armada days. Wind-jammers even have been summoned from thc watery deep by England's lord high admiral to bid defiance to the foul boasts of Easily And Quietly Cured with EGYPTIAN LINIMENT For Sale by Ail Dealers DOUGLAS & CO. Proprietors Kap.inee Ont. Huge Airplane Factory K S��oll ft -Rowue. Toronto. Ont. 17-20 Pi^nurino- Pilturp (.arnaiTe nt thc cml of l,U! liist European Avar, rreparing r mure carnage j It c.m on]y |jc mcaii^ aud no dmh[ No Better Method Than That Pursued by La Follette Just as we are familiar in modern discussions with the idea of a mind ���which liberates itself from some small doctrinal religion in the search for a larger and truer religion, so men like Mr. La Follette in America and Mr. 'Snowden -in England are only abandoning the-present limited war in order to find liberty and peace in thc brbatl bosom of a larger, truer, more universal war to bc sought, like all good things, in, the future. It is foolish in&ccd to accuse such 'Clt'l' ,not. a - - . men of any failure in courage. From l011 which it stands but has been soal tin it is meant, as a preliminary cxpedi tion with an eye to the next European war.���G. K. Chesterton in the North American Review. Tne Men of Mons of Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. An Unlucky City Bagdad Has Been Many Times the Scene of Bloodshed Bagdad, where the British are now, , ... ���.-_ firmly established, lias well earned its i tremendous odds, stemm reputation of thc world's unluckicst I of tlie Hun hordes, \\v< Not a square inch of the soil' thc colossal, dimensions-of ���the carnage which 'they prepare even a, pacifist might almost shrink. Nor is their wisdom les.s- worthily proved - than their valor, for if the ideal to be pursued is that -of .; a .sure and. certain hope of the: resurrection' of war in Europe, it would be impossible.to find a better, among.a million -expedients, than the precise expedient they havc chosen. It would.be impossible.so perfectly to combine all possible precautions against peace, as., by this ope method of letting all the nations accumulate more and more aggravated motives lor conquering Gem*, uy; and then to cease firing' suddenly, so as to convince Germany that sl*e cannot bc conquered,���G.> K.-', :Chestcrton in thc North American Itcview. The Indomitable Fighting Spirit the British Army Among Britain's most illustrious military achievements history will record thc heroic and effectual service of thc "contemptible little army" which blocked thc German drive into France in the early clays of the war. The men who fought the battle of Mons, makinj the Teuton pay dearly for every foot of invaded soul, and who, at great sacrifice and against cd the drive on a place among the empire's immortals. Prussian Parma. The old hulks that lay on the sands around the' shores of thc British Isles have been rudely awakened from their slumbers, audi under sail and steam, are doing- their bit in the great war. The: scarcity of oil and coal has brought the sailing craft back to the high seas. Life before thc mast has changed during thc last fifty years, but the yarns of thc skipper who has rounded tho. Horn are unexciting compared with the tales of the sea by men who fearlessly face thc perils of the. unseen submarine that Britain and liberty may not succumb lo lite yoke of kaiserism.���Toronto Globe. All Processes of Construction From Forest to Air Under One Roof Somewhere in America there has been erected a one-story building devoted to the construction of airplanes, which, so far as wc know, is the greatest structure of its kind in existence. It reaches 900 feet in one direction, and 1)800 feet, or, say, a quarter of a mile, in the other direction and the whole of this crca the .lis covered by a single roof and con sittites, except for a fire partition wall, a single shop. Thc layout of the plant upon this vast floor space has been so arranged that the raw materials, in thc shape of sawn spruce, brought here mainly from the forcsis of Oregon, enter the building at one cud, and Ihe finished planes leave it at the other, end. ��� From the. Scientific American. Fortune Came Alter Death $47 Estate of Lusitania Victim Grows to $310,621 George Ley Pierce Vernon, a professional musician, who turned his attention to obtaining war contracts soon after the European war began because of the acquaintance of his wife, Mrs. Inez H. Vernon, with influential persons in England, left an estate of only $47 when he perished on the Lusitania on May 7, 1915. At that lime he was negotiating a rifle contract with the Russian government and was on-his way to complete the details. His wife carried on his work after his death and on July 19 of that year committed suicide through grief over her husband's death. Before she killed herself the Grand Puke Michael, of Russia, largely as thc result of her efforts, approved ihe contract arranged by her husband and his estate collected $310,621 commissions on the sale and delivery of 259,320 rifles. More Heat Moisture in the Atmosphere Saves Coal and Promotes Health To paraphrase a popular definition of life, war is just one form of conservation after another, writes Lewis Edwin Theiss in thc New York Outlook. Hardly had the I clamor and thc shouting Minard's LiriimentV Cures Garget Cows. in Rye Flour ���y. Being Used More Extensively as a Substitute for Wheat While rye - doe's;.exceedingly "-.well, ���especially the winter' variety, it'has not as yet been grown extensively in ������Western Canada. C.Owing to the need7 ;*of conserving as much as possible the wheat supply, rhpwev'e'r,;ijt.is-.p.rob- : able that more use will be nikde of -.;��� rye flour than hitherto ahd it is to be -expected that .considerably more of '������'this' grain will' b'e raised in the Prai- : fie Provinces in future. ; The Agricultural College of Mani- --;. ,toba has been making experiments ������with substitutes for 'wheat flour, and ;has been very successful, in the use 'of rye. Int Winnipeg1- a"." mill * ;f6r ���grinding rye Hour is being opened. ��� -Its capacity _\\vjll. .biQ. one hundred, bafr ���:rels a day,'and "it-'will grind both spring and winter rye. As rye is one .of the best gr&ins.46v"B)&kc use of as ; flour in yeast breads, it is anticipated ; that it will \\>f. adapted by thc bakers to a considerable '.exU'ftlf. The- in ill will also manufacture a mixed flour "of rye and wheat. . ,. ; . -��� cd with thc blood of its citizens. When thc Bongols, under their terrible chief, Hulaga, took the city in 1258, 1,000,000 of its inhabitants were put to death. Worse still, Hulaga ruined the whole system of irrigation canals which made Mesopotamia perhaps thc richest country in the world "thereby destroying the work of 3G0 generations in as many hours." In 1393 Timur the Tartar sacked the city. He killed all its inhabitants "save only thc holy men," and 90,000 skulls were piled lip in pyramids before the walls. The Persians, under Shah Ababs, captured Bagdad in 1623 after a desperate resistance, and in revenge he ordered SOO of the principal citizens to be .tortured to death in public, the executions lasting over an entire week. Three hundred others were executed by hanging them ��� head downward in the city's wells, thereby poisoning the water supply.��� Pearson's Magazine. The scenes in London when the. fonservatlon ��? garden truck died .���_.. ...j r\\- t-���j-.i ..i._ ��..i.i:- ioelore we were cautioned to go easy on coal." Wc can all help if When a mother * detects from tlie writhings and fretting of a child that worms are troubling it, she can procure no better remedy, than Miller's Worm Powders, -which are guaranteed to totally expel worms from the system. They may cause vonuting, but this need cause no anxiety, because it is but a manifestation of their thorough work. No worms can' long exist where these Powders are used. . King and Qitccn headed the public | tribute to the valor of these soldiers were profoundly impressive.. The great choral commemoration was attended by seven hundred of the survivors, the majority maimed and crippled but_ proudly wearing thc decorations which attested their bravery in service. The cables tell that they "cheered, sang, and waved back salutations" from the. great appreciative crowds. This is the indomitable spirit which makes Britons the world over men to be reckoned with. Undismayed by danger, undaunted by odds, cheerful ��� under suffering, they set themselves to the titanic-tasks of service. And they fight to thc end. It is this spirit which insures ultimate and complete triumph for the cause of civilization. Where the men who fought at Mons���the first hundred thousand, thc best army of its size the world ever saw^led in heroism and achievement, their brothers from all parts of the empire have followed. The standard they raised has been kept flying, and the inspiration they supplied still dominates the fighting forces.���Toronto Globe. Nerves of The Stomach World's Biggest Bank Russian Gold Safely Deposited in London, Paris and New York The Russian State bank, the funds of which thc Bolshcviki would like to lay their hands on, was the largest bank in the world before, thc war, and, according lo the latest report available, lias remained so. Increasing deposits have been a marked ten- I dency with the leading banks, generally, as the war has proceeded, the j overshadowing Russian institution That Burned and Pained Four Years. Hair Cama Out. Loss of Sleep. "My scalp was red and very itchy, and a fine rash developed \\> hich burned and pained incessantly. This seemed to destroy tlie hair roots, causing my hair to come out, which disfigured the top of my head. It also caused loss of sleeD. ''The trouble lasted foui-year��� Then I sent for a free sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment which encouraged me so I bought more, and I had one cake ol Cuticura Soap and one box of Ointment and I was healed." (Signed) John Cunningham, Church St., Antigcnish, N.S., April 4, 1917. Why not make Cuticura your everyday toilet soap and prevemskin troubles? Absolutely nothing better. For Free Sample Each by Mai! address post-card: "Cuticura, Dept. A, Boston, U. S. A." Sold even-where. Aviation has Lost its Romance wc will use less anthracite and more water in heating our houses. Ihe heating of the world���and with it our houses���depends largely uPon���,the amount of moisture in thc air. Ihat moisture is like a blanket- over a person in bed. The thicker the blanket, thc warmer the sleeper. A summer temperature of 85 degrees will cause more discomfort on ?nnlUnlld day than a temperature of 100 degrees on a day of dry atmosphere. It is not the actual amount of water present, but the relative amount, that counts. Since the capacity of the air for holding water increases as the air becomes warmer, it is necessary to add more water to air aswe heat it, in order to keep the relative humidity constant. In nature we find an average degree of relative humidity; and this average is essential to health as well as for warmth. But in building our houses we have entirely overlooked this fact. We plan to heat thc Prices Fixed on Bran and Shorts Some Reciprocity; ! A South Dakota"'state: " senator re-" .cently gave a ncw illustration of that 'fine saying of4 an.-ancient. philosopher, '"Man was bdrri foi"' mutual assistance." . A customer,,-entered . tlie smalltown barber shop. ". "How soon can jpu cut my hair?" hc asked of th . "Bill," sai. We lia\\e A ioj> 1 that will convert .'this 'table into (lining^ library or kitchen table. Equipment free. SAMUEL MAY & CO. Adeteid* St. W^ Toronto . VMS MBWFReKCMftEMKOY. N.I ff��9 HJt Tri��RAPiOM SSftM rfcJIJUO ell. CIHBSCHIOMIC WKAXkCSS COST VSOOt vtai ��[onit sLAOtit* oitt*se�� ilooo rotto*. IHllI aiTHEft "O DKVGCIST* ��t MML.U POST * CTt WavattAc-s �� BKEKUitirsr n3-*ro��i;ori.*M��KOito�� ���QtOMTO UIIII roi fMt:- ���< TO 0��. Ll cutcc HlD.CO (UvusrocKRo H >������" .kid LokOOn Sack t*i itwo*Matt,titi%rrj.t%i, t'./xot CAXr re ivea THE ti API ON ix>z%��� j eTIUI rMDE XUID WOKO rHHMPIOft 19 om ��� t ��ovt ��rt���� trricic to ��u tmiiiiiirwUM creased output oi ereamery butter and cheese and the higher prices obtained, amounts lo $1,412,016. The lotal returns for th^ province from butter and cheese i-veced $4,70ll,0iitl. The increase in creamery butter- niaking has been general all over the province, hut most uoiabl'. between Lakes Winnipeg and .Manitoba. During the your ninrjy carloads, or 2,000,00') pounds, of butler have been exported. If thi? is compared with l'J12, when fifty-five carloads of butter had to bc imported into Manitoba to supply local ��ccds, some idea of the progress of thc dairy industry in the province is shown. Agrees With Hoover , From a-schoolboy's composition: i"Sonie -bovs arc rude over their *.- .1 V..' .1. II ._. 1 .. -_ . Weed's gta^bs^iaa JO1* Grf?f Xxsiish ��tmtt or :A^��^WMfl��t me. THK WS���� In Charlottetown P. E. I., 1,529 [homes havc pledged themselves by cards to save food. "This represents about 90 prr cent, of the.people of the citv. FOOD CONSERVATION Vou ��3<\\ take yoi'.r full share in ibis important national win-tlie-war uirmiie, anil benefit both in pocket ami i:i bcaltli, ii ycu use the )>roi>sr ftononno ami labrvrsavimT methods in the preparation oi the .^t'iff of Hie��� brea.l The 'Canuck1 Bread Patience Would Help "Patience and proscvcraucc aecoiiiplish :tll tilings," ' was the orite saving of an old farmer. He had just made this remark in' a train . one day on the way to . marlcct, when a pompous individual in the next scat turned to him asm j said: "Nonsense, sir! J can tell j<>u ���,. many things which neither patience . -Sir' nor perseverance can accomplish." ^'TlTT "Perhaps you can," said llic farin-j. ' '"'1( er, "but I have never .Ul romc across ,".- When Harmony Is Needed A _diort conflict can be won or lost hy generals and their.armies. A long struggle is settled hy peoples. The army which has the most unity be- witi. There arc no real tlii> v:ar,i bfcaii.MV everyr | hotly counts. Tlie lla^s of' victory ���ftliuii will fly at the end will be those which iloa.1 over the ^roisp of liatioiis in ihmd it' vvil! | oiviliaus in v'" ! wIiom' peoples havc *lio\\.\\ n the yr��at thai jtsl solidarity. Tlie population proves to be completely as one in its Asthma Victims. Thc man or woman subject to asthma is indeed a victini. AVhat can be .more terrifying titan to- suddenly be seized with paroxysms of choking which seem to fairly threaten thc existence of life itself. From such a condition Dr. T. D. Kcllogg's Asthma Remedy has brought many to completely restored health and happiness. 11 is known and prized in. ever}- section ol this broad land. Production Exceeds $400,000,000 According to Government Statistics Statistics presented by the provincial treasurer of Saskatchewan before the Saskatchewan legislature show that the financial position ol the province is exceedingly bright This year's crop was very satisfactory, and the wealth in' respect to live stock has materially increased during the year. The total value of the wheat crop is estimated at $225,536,315; the oat crop is worth $77,487,141; barley, $15,825,987 and flax $14,405,241. Thi> represents a total grain crop prochic- tion of- the value of $323,254,675. The value of farm products othei than grain is as follows: Potatoes $6,932,000; hay, etc. $9,045,000; roota $1,732,000; Butter, milk, etc. $8,600- 000; wool clip $334,000; game $1,150- 000; garden produce $1,250,000; poultry $4,465,000. The aggregate value of all farm products in Saskatchewan during the year 1917, therefore, amounts to $361,364,518. The increase in the value of live stock in thc province in 1917 over last year is $47,683,071, which brings the total value of farm products up to $409,047,589. This production is not surpassed by any agricultural country of the same (population in the world. The live stock statistics show that Saskatchewan is advancing rapidly in thc adoption of mixed farming. The number of live stock is increasing every year. Compared "with last year there arc 46,766 more, horses, 32,218 more cows, 107,469 more other cattle and 3,655 more sheep. As a result of thc greater production campaign for hogs there arc 43,211 more hogs in the province this year than in 1916. It is estimated that the total value of live stock on Saskatchewan farms this year is $243,426,340 as against $195,743,340 in 1916. Mother���Xnw, Willie, when 1 have to punish you like this it hurts mo more than it docs you. Willie���13 it I you '-.'ain't a-hollcring any.���Baltimore'..-American. ���::VoUr;::.so'i.v�� ���>��;.: one thine '���Well," ; patience ;i'lV<>.bt >'>:'������:: soiu'i- "ivin���;!���'; >>t tii'ii(-ii:i: '.-irV*��� f'��_���'V'i.'t������'.: ,.'a,n;'::asee\\Tt?.- :':;il\\yay:s:Yn'i;i'k:- ciuv;riHi��ru''"7- then, I'll tell you one. Wil and perseverance ever en lhe Rrcct modern exponent! of cheaper, better, clear.ci, dipestibJe home-made liread. Cut j-our baker's bill in half, and eliminate your doctor's account. Save your money, and buy government war-bonds. Sold by your local ile.-i'e-, or may be ordered direct from us vi&c for i917 lT-ust bei cocrtced~t3 usefy!���not luxurious���pfts. E. T. WRIGHT CO., Limited Kimiltea - - - Canada i Tihlc you to carry watfr in a sieve?" : "Cirtainly." "1 would like to know Low." ��� "Simply hy waiting patiently for the water to freeze."���Topeka State jjournal. She had just uttered thc -fateful "yes." "Do you think, dearie," he wuil on, "that you can manage with my salarv of tv.-cntv dollars a week?" "I'll try Toni," replied thc drl. "But what will you dor-'���P-tek. The Girl of Today American Father���Where is :*is>;l Canada an Inspiration Ji -,vc ever hegin to doubt our .-vil- dicrly qualities in this fiercest ofl purpose will triumph over those who'-^niggles 'let us remember Canada arc less united. Never was-- it truer!-"'d the Canadians. The latter are that those who .-ir? di\\i.!cd unisf so 'I k't'1 an<> ,cm oi us, and we share, the dov.n.���Hostnn <"i?obi-. j same'potential and latent spirit and i stamina .in common.- The Canadians. like their \\ American cousins, had ,<.:roy.:i soft in the recent years of ; fatness :Mid flourishing crops and j ready sn-mcy.'' But when the appeal ;.<;amc to their manhood, when they : saw the Motherland menaced and .Belgium ravaged, thp dautlcss spirit and cftiiratfuus grandeur r>{ their . fori-bears ;i>si-rtC(l ihVmsclvcs.. So it i-- with the Y;mkoo fighters i,u both ..-.uh's of the ocean. j As a minor poet sung at Tlianksr [giving time: j "Thank God, for grace to give our iall!"'���Chicago British-American. Served 'Em Right The Vicar���"For shame, my lad* "What have those poor little fish.done to be imprisoned upon the day of rest?" | Tommy���"Tha-that's what they got) for���for chasing worms on z Sundav, i sir." ,:v.'^V"\\ ���':-.'��� ��� stc: American Mother���She'll be back [ in a few moments. She stepped out ��� to get married.���Life. 'Mother.''raves' Worm J-lxtcrmina- tor.-vvill drive worms from thc system Without injury to flic child, because its action, while fully effective, is .mild. ..... '���'[Vrriblv old-fashioned, isn't she?" "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "I actually believe that if she felt compelled to epart- ment of. the .Interior, Ottawia, pr to: any_ Agent "or Subr Agent of pominion.Lands. xx'i :yx '��� XXiXiiwxiwy.mfem are the featured whi^^ f�� make Up th& SeiM^e #e gi^ 3 oUf customers. AM you || oMof their*? 2 1 WEPRINT Letterheads, Noteheads, =1 : (Ruled or Plain) '-���X,X.i-X.-X.:. ��� .,:..-XX-X,.'x, ~S Envelopes, BilHieadsi ���� (All Sizes) Statements, Business Cards, ff "Over The Top" Nature has made British Columbia rich and beautiful* The waters that run through and surround it, are teeming with edible fish, include ing clams, Its lofty sky ^scraping mountains are filled with almost every known mineral, while the yellow power of earth'gold, it hides amid the sands of many a creek, Its fertile valleys and hillsides contain millions of acres that are doing nothing to go "OVER THE TOP/' for lack of cultivation, Its forests of gigantic trees are the envy of the world The scenery is grandly magnificient, while the climate contains the ozone that puts pep into the human frame, filling it with life, health and energy* With all these advantages this Province should have millions of happy people within its confines, and j>et it has a scant 400,000, Then sings the little bird in the tree, "What's The Matter With B, G" Nothing, except that it is like many a business man. It does not advertise, or does not know how. Turn on the bright light of effective and suggestive advertising, until all the world thinks and talks about this glorious B.C, the brightest gem in the cluster of Canada's provincial diamonds. Get a move on, go over the top, waving your flag and blowing your cornet in front of the millions that have not yet been "swiped" by the red hand of Mars. In the meantime do not fall to boost your own business by dropping a soul-touching, money getting ad into Greenwood's Leading Excitement. Come across with enthusiasm and plenty of printer's ink, and the public will shell you with dollars, until you grow tired picking them up. If you are wise, you will always advertise, in $nd get your job printing at the same office."""@en, "Published as The Ledge from 1906-05-10 to 1926-07-29; Published as The Greenwood Ledge from 1926-08-05 to 1929-05-23.

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