__ THE DAILY B ---- rma Jo DOWN WOMAN RUBERS 7 : GERMANS NOW ADMIF™™™ "Si wera re nd en © , §~ On a Warship When the Seas | Queen Williclmina of Holland Js -c, ------------ oe » . A Chicago man has just died from blood po : E -- ! : TEST ZAM-BUK 4T OUR EXPENSE! THAT THEY CANNOT WIN OUT IN: Ave Rolling cot F t ring Neutrality ~-- Magistrate Perry, of Goldfields, B.C., believes in making a | ing arising from neglect of a small sore. Don't We appreciate thie position taken by the man or woman who THIS WAR : A : R & High 1s Not Fn re = Eiri ~ good thing knows. Wriling of Zam-Buk, the great hodsehold nefect a Tut, a' ge of eczema, Or au open, sore says =--** If your prepacation is what you claim,' you should S WAR. joyable. No Army 4 balm, he says :--'*After a véry fait trial I have proved Zam-Buk of any kind. The air is full of poison germs, have no objection to letting us tty it'before spending out money T Realize That Their Offensive While the above words may not], Queen Wilhelmina of Holland be-| 'emineatlyTatisfactory. In my case it cured a skin rash of five | Jrairing 10 Starp.up their evil refuits in neglected on it." To every person taking this view we say, send one gent They ealize hat oir ensive | voy MICH 10-8. Loaarnn hoy lieves "diséretion is the better part] years' suaniiing which no doctor liad been able to do any good sores, woundsjetc. In Zam-Buk is safety. Zam stamp (to pay return postage) and najue and date of this paper Campaign Is a Failure, Londomlan ay the difference RD ey of valor." "Sel-preservation is the| 'for. I wauld certainly encourage any person to keep Zam-Buk Buk is so highly antiseptic that applied to any to Zam-Buk Co., Toronto, aid we will mail you a free trial box Hears, But Are Strong on Defence. ifort and misery to the sailor, | 11° Ja¥ of nature," she counselled | in his heme.' The SaREUVEMPIEHEIL Every bomeneeds | ckindisease orinjuryit makes blood poisoning im- of Zam Buk. Zam-Buk prety hehe! itablp for (he delioste gh the risk of $lthealth in the bar. | NCC little 'cousin, the Grand Duch-| Zam-Bek! Unequalied for cuts, burns, bruises, eczema, blood In uting Zam-Buk you have three London; Jan. 4. ----According 10 information received .from two dis- tinct neutral sources, Germany has ilready come to the realization that he cannol.conguer in this war. The correspondent has seen a letter _froni a Danish banker, written to the head of one of the world's greatest financial houses, in which it was sta ted that a Berlin magnate of finance had admitted to the writer that the ruling powers of Germany had acks mowledged that it was impossible to win The text of this part of the letier was: . "Un des magnats Berlinois de la finance m'a avoue que les dirigeants allemande &e rendraient compte d6 {'Impossibilite de vainere."' German heads of state were recops {One of the Berlin captains of fi- nance has confessed to me that the ctled to the fidea of the impossibility of winning." Information from another source strikingly confirms dhe statement made in- this letter This comes from. an official of a neutral éonn= try who has just arrived in London after a long visit to Germany and France Throughout Germany, he says, popular confidence in the military organization and the eventual ris umph of the German armies re- mains unimpaired, but the military authorities themselves have been] ohliged to recognize that their chan? ces of a smashing victory are gone 'Their view now 'is that the war must result in a sort of military stalemate. All hope - of reaching warsaw is abandoned, and even the capture of Warsaw would not affect ,the issue. The allies, according to this view; will be equally impotent to inflict & fatal blow upon Germany. The als lied offensive, gecording to the Gers man calculations, will cost 5,000 men for every mile of ground gains od and the talk of an allied mareif upon Berlin from either east of west is regarded as mere foolish HES, Tha present siuation, according to the German military point of view," Is entirely in favor of Ger many. Her armies hold hostile country and her own hordes, except in one unimportant instance, are ins violate. . While, however, the Germans, acs cording to this informant, claim the honors. of war, their military leaders have reluctantly reached clusion that a decisive tri not be won by force of arms. After Church Visit Casey's. The women of a church in a su- turb were soliciting money to pay for decorating their house of wore ship. They were told diplomatic gn. 'Battened Down' means #R more to the modern sailor than sim of Nelson's time. In weath- #9¢ which the old ships, with their gh _freehoards and protecting hul- wks, took little notice, the modern # is battened down. The open, sirotected upper deck is swept fore # aft by high seas, and the small- gle class of ship the more is she feted. 2 iverything that science ean eon- #* has been done to alleviate the gomlorts of 'battening down," wh is closing all upper deck yhes to keep the seas which sweep # the deck from penetrating to # interior of the ship. but even # the mess decks are often awash, jwever, it is the lack of exercise ¢ fresh air that tell most heavily she health of the crew. fie difienlties with: which old- @f Admirals had to contend, as 1s the health of their men was werned, 'Were not bad weather but gi of fresh provisions and fresh er These do not afféct the PED seamen at all, as a pleii- ge of fresh water ean be distilled gi (resh provisions can always be menished at the same time as the ol bunkers are refilled. An - old- te salling ship would ride out the wicst of gales without taking wd water on board, and even when feed to batten down the discom- fus Of between decks were intim- wal compared with those of to- & 2 inay not be generally known that vib nearly every new type of ship teiving space afforded to the men gown less and less. This is due i multitude of eauses--increased gel, Increase in the size of guns, af he multitude of "huxiliary en- gis with" which a warship is fitted ~4 We ne longer find. the great sin neks-decks of even thirty years an but a multitude of | iron boxes wih, at the best of times, have to emstantly ventilated. When all min] ventilation is stopped the imicams and sides begin to sweat ai he atmosphere becomes foul minnk. Yet it is doubtful if in a gonml way the mien trouble much ami these conditions; cards and oir games are played or sleep is wml; the sailor now has a little mo of his' Wh: "More wind less wit" and it really works out like tiivhen the upper deck is merely aus of tumbling waters. ka spectacle a modern fleet -in age of wind is an imposing sight, ad me hardly knows whether to gnthe palm to the stately leviath- air the perky torpedo craft, A bitte ship ean hardly be called an ally that if they would call on Casey, who kept the léading hotel; they § might get a good donation. . { "They called. Casey met them genially, listened to what they had} 10 say, and promptly subscribed $50.§, This was go much moré than the collectors had hoped for that they] were much. flustered, and could do nothing but stammer their thanks Finally one of them managed to say "Why, MF. Casey, this is most gens ous of you. It will allow us to gét what we want very much -- a fine stained glass window." Casey- thought that wotild be tho right thing to do. "And, Mr, Casey," said the spokes. woman, "in view of this magnificent donation, isn't there something yo would like to put on the window some sentiment or "some remem- brance, or something of the kind?" "Well," said Casey, "I think it would luk foine to havé on the glass in nate letters, something loike this: 'After Church Visit Casey's.'" Bequest: Problematical. ; Myre. Lucinda C. Tucker, of Win. ona, Minn., who died recently, left an estate valued at $113,000. Hoar will has just been fiiled. Forty-two rehttives share in the} distribution, and in addition she re- membered Miss Veronica Baumgart- ner, her maid for many years, who Jie was given a special bequest of $50. In addition, says a dispatch to the § Now York World, it-was directed tha all of Mrs, Tuckeris money in the sav- ings department of a local bank he turned over to the maid. There is § no record in probate court of the amount of this sum, > {dul ea-going craft, she is much too 3 to. he buoyant sud too cum- with top hamper to recover easily. So she staggers a- hitting. at the seas but never to ride them; down will ga 'heise right up to the fore turrets, (fn, 19 she rises, hundreds of tons ol nier are lifted to be flung aft in ji forrents. And yet for some Tam known only. to itself the navy pan that when it goes into action 'itay be in a gale of wind. Our Ton lieve, rightly or wrongly, that F noder navy has had so much sea fF tnishg as itself, and that, therefore, theese the weather conditions the Dbetirit will be for them in action, - Te small cruisers and torpedo enit lave nothing to do with wea- sueir job at sea is to get from ne dstination to another as quickly spsible. How they live through § s mystery, for very often the hings above water are the Brig nd the funnels; then one ny we them poised on the crest of 'Bw with fifty feet of keel show- Hines each end, --Navy and Army. ~ PRADING PANIC IN PARIS Wil fries Circulated Of German A Successes. his, Jan. 5--The extraordinary Spd of panicky rumors, or, more d reports of gigantic Ger- Bat ieesses, with the object of ex- lige people, has often caused tions in. the press, notably By i Qemenceau, and even official Hts that, despite: rigorous removal ns and Germans to concen- amps. Paris is still thron- vik gpies acting in the interest wemy. ™ herRasigeant gives the latest of their activity in the shape immplilet entitled: "We are ! 'which during the ui has been distributed night- Bir Joorways of private houses if tire on his own troops. If ple to demand peace. |' t a clue to the h oy : gS royal blood tainted with the plebei- an" decided finally that they, too, | 11i@ hot soup served to them in Get In. [U Bepaget vo | ess Adelaide 'of Luxemburg, when the Germans tame to her borders, after a formal protest. The grand duchess allowed them to go unmo- {ested through -- Knowing that a thrust of the German arm i she re- sisted would push her toy kingdom azide. . Her people are -prosperous and happy, kpowing nothing of the ter- rors and horrors of war. While tritain, Germany sad France,- the neighbors of Holand, are said to be spending $5,000,000 ar day upon war--Holland is spend-% week in maintaining. the victims of war. Her people give it willingly through motives of comparison. But Queen Wilhelmina and her govern- ment must, by the rules of war, re- ceive it back again with interest from the governments to whom the refugees 'belong. If desolated Bel- gium is not able to pay her board and lodging hill, the allies will have to pay-it. If the war should last a year, Holland's bank account will become increased by quite a respect- able sum. The longer the war, the poorer her neighbors will be--but the richer she. Wilhelmina is not queen also in Luxemburg becduse of.a freak of fate. Her father ruied over it; but when lie 'died in 1890 Luxemburg rofused to set aside the law by which it was always to be goverm- ed by a male, and the grand duchy becamé the Inheritance of the Prince of Nassau, the nearest male relative who was made grand duke of Luxemburg. His son and succes- wr died two years ago, leaving a family of five pretty daughters, but no son. The only heir is the male line was Count Merenberg, a grand- son of the first grand duke, whose mother was a Russian woman mar- ried morganatically after the birth of her two children. The Countess Torby, 'morganatiec wife of the Rus- dian Grand Duke Michael, who lives exiled -in "England on that account, in the sister of Count Merenberg. He himself is married to the daugh- tor of the Czar Alexander IL by a morganatic marriage. The Luxemburgers, contemplating a sovereign with such a mixture of would prefer to liave a woman rule over them if she were really royal and they chose the eldest daughter of their late grand duke. Adelaide became a sovereign upon her eigh- teenth birthday. She is a high-spirited little lady, first cousin to Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians, ~ Without amy near male relatives, bereft of thes counsels of a father, brother, uncle, or even cous- in, she had during the past two years gone often to Brussels {o ask the advice of King Albert. In the ques- tion of opposing the passage of the kaiser's troops through her land, she went for advice to Queen Wilhelmina ofl Holland--and there are comsequen ly two wise women among the sov- ereigns in Furope to-day. Last year Grand Duchess + Ade- laide's betrothal was announced to Prince Henry of Bavaria, a' nephew of the King of Bavaria, older than herself by ten years and ten days, and a good Catholic like hersell and the-majorily of her subjects, whe nuntber altogether about a quarter of a million. Prince Henry is fighting under the flag of the German em- pire, and this has had, doubtless, something to do with Grand Duchess Adelaide's acquiescence in the. kais- er's wishes. os The little grand duchesd in he little kingdom protected with an "army" of 150 soldiers--who also perform the duties of postman, fire- engineer, etc.,--means_to be as happy and as prosperous as she can. IN A DESPERATE STATE Are Deplorable. Northern France, Jan. 5.-- Thel floods on the extreme left of the aly lies' line ar¢ increasing and most deplorable weather is continuing to pour its vils of rain and 'wrath up- on the unhappy soldiers. Violent storms burst over the dreary, deso- lated ared of thé Yser yesterday, and on both sides the fighting 'was half hearted and amphibian warfare with waterlogged guns, waterlogged transports, and spirits drowned in the dreuch. - A. lJittle gleam of sun- shine now and again might hearten the plodding combatants but no sun- shine comes-- never a gleam to chéer the desperate fighters on. Sixty German "prisoners 'were brought into the railway terminal at : last night. They were in a des- 'perate state of filth and utterly out. [I never saw such despond men in my life. They swaHow: bowls with the greediness of star- ved wolves. They crouched. around Ing malodorously in the glow of the . There was not hope in the for them but they were d sort of way, that t game of war was o far as it converned ing about half a million dollars a} REMARKABLE PHOTO? OF A ROYAL QUARREL Shows Late King Edward Kaiser in Attitudes of Anger. "I eall the picture ning of the War," the "er _|to the number of 2,500 weekly is a Herbert ising. transigtieq fom 1 Tree describes a remarkable photo-{ ogland,". said Percy Alden, the la- he possesses ilustrat- ing a quarrel between the late King : 3 Edward and the Kalter Wilhelm se-| 5 Flushing for some weeks past, at The origin of the quarrel is net divulged, put Mr. -Bas- set, of London correspondent of the Petit Parisien, relates how he first saw this snapshot, "taken five or six years ago, when King Edward VIL, irritated by certain underhand tricks on the part of his nephew, found it necessary to tell William II, what he thought of him fairly sharply. indiscreet photograph shows the end The two sovereigns bad been 'talking in a corner of the garden, and after a discussion, which veral years ago. The Edward has turned brusquely- away, called his dogs to heel, and, obvious- ly displeased, has refused to hear an- looking thoroughly ashamed ' of himself, trying to detain him, his hands out- stretched in supplication... never seen such a stri phetic picture." Sir Herbert Tree got graph in Homberg in 100% from ¢ertain prominent person who -wit- nessed the royal quarrel. It may well be that that quarrel sowed the seeds of the kaiser's anger that have at- tained such monstrous growth since the war began. It is always better to create a smile than provoke a frown. Insolence is usually one. gf the pro- ducts of ignoraneé: poisoning and all skin diseases. All stores and druggists sell it at no once for Zam-Buk ikhéati - Hovis 4) 50 cents & box. Sure cure for piles. hing going ling be | years ing skin of little children, yet powerini endugh 10 heal chronic sores & draggists and sores, Soc. per box, soothing and antiseptic. Try it without delay. |! 3 for $1.33. 2,500 Belgians Are Crossing From : Holland' Weekly. : London; ~<Jan. 5.--"Belgian refugees bor member, in discussing the matter with thie Gazette. Mr. Alden has been the request' of . tha Board of Trade, on behalf of which a daily boat has been chartered for the transportation oi refugees, either free or subsidized passages being given. The preference is being given to those for whom ac commodation of a satisiactory nature is not being given in Holland, It is not a case, Mr.. Alden declared, of England selecting the best, but, rath- er, the neediest refugees. He further city of Glasgow for reliei in Holland, £5,000 has been applied to helping those whose means are exhausted, £4,000 being given to the Nether: land's committee for ' Zeeland pro- vinee, 'and £1,000 for interned Belgian soldiers. ' Mr. Alden repudiated the idea that the trades unions object to the @m- ployment of reiugees, and said that union rates of pay. 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