ARMIES mee) More Than Two Thousand Years Before the Christian Era, Ninus, King of Assyria, Led Nearly Two Mil lion Soldiers--Xerxes ¢ - of '" There is doubtless a very general impression that in the matter of big armies Russia, Gerimaby, Austria, France, and England have under their colors the biggest bodies of fighting men that the world has ever kvown. This is a mistake, as may be readily seen when a comparison of the strength of ancient and mo- dern armies is made. The standing army of the Rus- sian empire in tine of peace consists of 1,038,000 men, while its war- strength is 76,564 officers and 4,627- 000 men. While the war strength of Ger- niany is estimated at 70,015 officers und 5,334.094 men, it maintains a standing army of only 594,088 off- cers and men. . France, with a war strength of 4,- 695,760 officers and men, maintains a peace army of 613,117 officers and men. The armies of other atidhs in time of peace are as follows: Japan, 348,200; Austro-Hungary, 303,660; Great Britain, 270,128; Italy, 260,- 454; Turkey, 217,960. In the United States the enlisted strength of the regular army is limit- ed by law to 100,000, but this at the present time amounts to only 60,380 to which is to be added a provision- al force of about 5,116 officers, and men in the: Philippines and Porto Rico. Besides these, however, ws have an organized militia of 117,144. So much for the armed strengta of modern nations. Now let us "Teompare with these some ofthearm= ies of antiquity. The city of Thebes had a hundred gates, and could send out at each gate 10,000 fighting men and 2uv chariots----in all, 1,000,000 men and 2,000 chariots. The army of Terah, King of Ethio- pla, consisted of 1,000,000 men and 300 chariots of war. Sesostric, King of Egypt, led against his enemies 600,000 men, 24,000 cavalry, and 27 scythe-armed chariots. 1491 B.C. Hamllcar went from Carthage and landed near Palermo. He naa a Commanded 2,641,610, Darius Had 1,000,000, and Artaxerxes Had 1,200,000. ficet of 2,000 ships and 3,000 small vessels, and a land force of 300,000 men, - At the battle in which he wa: defeated 150,000 were slain. A Roman fleet led by Regulus against Carthage, consisted of 330 vessels with 140,000 men. The Carthaginian fleet numbered 350 ves- sels, with 150,000 men. At the battle of Cannae there were of the Romans, including allies, 80, 000 foot and 6,000 horse; of the Car- thaginians, 40,000 foot and 10,000 horse. Of these 70,000 were slain in all and 10,000 taken prisoners -- more than half slain. Hannibal, during his campaign in Italy and Spain, plundered 400 towns and destroyed 300,000 men. Ninus, the Assyrian King, avou: 2200 B.C. led against the Bactrians his army eonsisting of 1,700,000 foot soldiers, 200,000 horse, and 16,000 chariots armed with scythes. Italy, a little before Hannibal's time, was able to send into the field nearly 1,600,000 men. A short time after the taking of Babylon the forces of Cyrus consist- ed of 600,000 foot, 120,000 horse, and 2,000 chariots armed with secy- thes. ? An army of Cambyses," 50,000 strong, was buried in the desert sands of Africa by a south wind. When Xerxes arrived at Thermopy l@, his land and sea forces amounted to 2,641,610 exclusive of servants, ecunuchs, women, sutlers, etc., in all numbering 5,283,220. - So say Hero-] dotus, Plutarch, and Isocrates. f=Fhe aruiy of ATietcracsy beforathed battle of Cunaxa, amounted to about 1,200,000. ' Ten thousand horse and 100,000 foot fell on the fatal field of lssu:. The forces of Darius at Arbela numbered more than 1,000,000. The Persians lost 90,000 men in this bat- tle; Alexander about 600 men. So says Diodorus. Other authorities say the Persigns in this battle lost $00,000; the Greeks 1,200. The army of Tamerlane is said to have amounted to 1,600,000, and that of his antagonist, Bajaret, 1,- 400,000, A) MEETING OBLIGATIONS. Nearly Nineteen Millions Indebted- ness Discharged Since May. Ottawa, Jan. 16.--It is stated that despite the financial « strain pi] the U.N.R. is carrying out Sta undertakings with the gov in most sati 'style. 1a May Jas Ir to wipe out n olen amar) biomby-cae mili | of capital i s. Uf this would nibeteen million has heen paid, or that is due--the remainder ing drawbacks on work nof yet completed. Bishi Not What He Had Ordered. M. 'Maurice Maeterlinck, the cele- brated Belgian author, is, naturatwy, no lover of the Germans. He stat- ed the other day, that he had irrefu- table evidence that the Huns had made up their minds to blow up Brus sels, Antwerp, Ghent, and Bruges. M. Maeteriinck, unlike most me= © of letters, has one of the calmest na- tures imaginable. Nothing "seems to ruffle bis temper and he takes ali things as they come. While he was dining at a big restaurant, some time age. 2 clumsy waiter spilt nearly a whole plate of clear soup down his back. The awmbor of "The Blue Bird." never turned a hair, but, looking calmly at, the flustered waiter, mere- ly remarked: : ick soup I asked for." Miss Neta Windover, Napanee, leaves for Kingston on Wednesday text to train for a purse. ACHED FOR "iz" Let your sore, swollen, aching feet Spread out in a bath Er walt to take my hat ofl" | quirements. KIPLING TO WRITE SONGS. ° Words Will Be Set To Old English Airs, Is Announced. London, Jan. 16.--Rudyard Kipling v is to 'write new war songs for tish troops, and they will be set to old Eng airs. . This announce- went was made by Sir Charles Stanford, a noted composer, at u meeting held to discuss means for providing music for Kitchener's new army. ir i Sir Charles said that he looked for something better: than "Tipper- ary" for the mon to sing, although he admitted that the marching now so much used is' "fine in sell." song it- Stories Of Places. Though generally adroit in launch- ing an understanding, the Chinese are a people who are poor in bring- ing it te a final success. The num- ber of native industrial companies promoted in China in the last dozen or more years has been great, but extremely few of them live to-day to show any favorable financial results. Roumania holds the honor for ear- liest production of crude petroleum, having put it on the market in 1857, Two years later the United States produced "its first petroleum, 2,006 gallons, The area of California, 157,29% square miles, is approximatery equa: to the combined area of Roumania, Bulgaria, Servia, Albanta, Montene- gro, Belgium and Turkey in Europe --Chlcago Deily News. I'| Quebec's Refugee Scheme Is Frown. ed On In Britain. London, Jan. 16-- A cable .receiv- ed here from Quebec says the provin- cial government is working out a comprehensive scheme for bringing Belgian refugees dut there: W have previously stated that the emi- gration of refugees to the British Dominion is by no means regarded with favor by those charged with their eare. . Many points in this matter cannot be publicly discussed now while Bel- gium is under such a cloud of mis- fortune and whilé the gratitude of] Europe is being extended' to her for Ber heroism, but in any case it may be stated the main endeavor on this} sice Is to keep the refugees here, giving them work wherever possible, keeping in mind the desirability of their returning to their own country as soon as the tide of warfare rolls beyond their own borders. Compet- ent authorities declare it would be ill return to Belgium to denude her still further of her able population when the time comes for her to re- build hér fortunes TWO U. 8. DREADNOUGHTS Provided For In the Naval Appro- priation Bill. Washington, Jan. 16.--The house naval committee agreed on an in- crease of the fleet that will cost $53,168,828. The programme pro- vides for two dreadunoughts, each to cost complete, with armor 'and ar- mament, $14,750,000; six torpedo boat destroyers, each to cost $926,- 000; seventeen submarines, one of which is to be a fleet of sea-going vessel, and to cost $1,400,000, and sixteen to be of coast defense type and to cost $550,000 each; one oil fuel ship, to cost $1,140,000; one transport, to cost $1,900,000, and one hospital ship to cost $2,250,000. The appropriation bill will carry, $148,500,000, which is about $4,- 000,000 more than was appropria- ted last year. ---- The Shape Of The Earth. According to the deductions of J. [A Jeans of Trinity Coiiege; Cambridge, T the shape of the earth when it began to cool and to solidify from a liquid mass was that of a pear. Bat it shape could not have been niaintainl ed long against the enormous strains which would be set upon it as the process of cooling proceeded, and this shape would gradually give place to an approximately spherical farm. Such #7configuration would possess a -single axis of sympathy, and this axis, it is suggested, passed through a point of latitude and longitude 6 degrees north of 30 degrees east. Thus Africa, the gontinent 'whose center above sea level is greatest, land hemisphere, while the protus bance which formed the stalk of the sphere is submerged in the Pacific ocean, which now forms the water hemisphere. Almost the only re- maining evidence of the existence tc. this protuberance is the fact that the axis of the pear coincides with the earth's greatest diameter. If we suppose the pear-to contract to a spherical shape the change in curva- ture and the relative displacements would be greatest in the neighhor- hood of it8 equator, and hence we should expect to find earthquakes and volcanoes in greatvst numbers near to this circle.--Exchange. Portland News Budget Portland, Jan. 14.--The rink has opened for the season under the management of thie -hockey club and many are enjoying skating. Mr. and Mrs... W. Pinkerton, of the Canadian West, are visiting the latter's par- cms, Mr. and Mrs. W. Health. Mrs. M. Donevan and little son are spending some time with her ~mo- ther, Mrs. J .Morris. William Hart is remewing acquaintances tn village. Thomas Cosgrove spent a ow days the guest of his sister, Mss. 'harles Lyons. iss Loretta Mec- Kenny, of the Kingston = Business College, is spending' her holidays at her home here. A number from here attended the ice races at West- Porton the~13th and 14th. John Haw is still confined to the houst with a severe attack of rheumatism. Launcolet. Bolion, of Sault Ste. Marie, 1s a guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Bolton. Howe is spending a few days with SMoCTeay, Distribution of Labor. Toronto News. 1 post offices throughout the United States are to be used as labs or bureaus for the relief of unem- ployment. "The initial difficulty will be to keep the postmasters advised as to vacant positions, but' per! the employing public will soon 1 to send in notifications of their re- hund thous- and field agents of the United Sta- assist by ac as labor rn the report in post © It 18 doubtinl if su of roposal for ces. Sloped in any country, y the moroment 8% serve e township, . » and the nation. SEY ' I ---------- -- . . Used Him As Yardstick. "Golly, but I's tired!" exclaimed a i ahd thin stout friend. . ov tivo been doin' to get tir- for some new yeas goto pedal 8 t | and a-gettin® up all over tes department of agriculture are tof in man, meeting & : a pr the one, | th her-daughter; " be deau Ferry. Stanley Heath and Willlam Pinkerton spent a few days in Smith's Falls last week. Born: to Mr. and Mrs. George Hanna, & son. Not Suffering Greatly Paris Fi value 500,000 in the November preced- ®: to Denmai $13,000,000, Yuinat §1:000,000; to No 6,000,000, against and to Sweden, ngalnst $1,000,000. at first sight as commerce was suffer! from the surveillance orulsers of the cargoes $7,600, does not ap- 80 all ports to- arly . br the Sere Mr ar Tyalid 'oir eueliions.. Bir. Chowh: ERT WAYOF of Va i ty of 674 over his near 'played together, was a star. There was a marked im- must be taken as the cemter of the w White, defense; Elliott, rover; Arnott, and E. Hartrick, penalty time-keep- Wilson Black, for their new home near tertained a number of their friends the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. ley. cent visitors at the home of Mr. aud Mrs: Glen Tay on Thursday. Mrs, Anson | Allison was a week-end visitor her mother's cent visitor in Morewood. the | visitor at her brother's in Cornwall Ani VER stato how una the |; e were at $17,000,000 against '§7,-f & $780,000 il JUNIOR GAME IN BELLEVILLE BY 3 GOALS TO 2. Aller Fiaying Ten Minuics Overiime ~The Soft Ice Did Not Suit the Kingston Team, Belleville defeated the Frontenacs in leville, on Friday night, in a Jun- jor U.H.A. game, by a score of 3 to 2, on soft ice, after playing ten min- utes' overtime. The local boys sur. prised Belleville with what they did, they played good hotkey "ail through, although up against a heavier team There was a good crowd of Kingston people present. The combination plays were few, as the puck wotld stick to the ice. Une- mun rushes were in order, and both Stewart and McCallum came down the ice time after time when the BeHeville boys got through the forwards. 'Ihe Frontenacs played good, clean hoe- key throughout the "gume, and did not yield to the temptation to re tali- ate of unnecessary body-checking. The first period opened with both teams playing hard and the puck went up and down the ice for the twenty minutes without a score. The Fron- tenacs were not used yo the rink, but defeating all at- tempts of the Belleville players to | score. In the second périod thé Frontenacs settled down into a fast stride. 'Ibe uck stayed for some minutes in the |! lleville end and Cooke scored the first goal. Belleville came back strong however, and registered two goals, one by Pimlock and one by Whalen. Stinson: and Smith show up par ticularly . strong in this period. The third period was faster hockey than ever, a lively pace being kept | Hid considering 'that there were pud- dies of water on the ice. The Fron- tenacs got past their opponents' de- fense, and Stinson scored on a pass from Smith, close to Belleville goal. At full time the score was 2 to 2. After ten minutes of a rest, over- time was played. After eight min- utes of play, Whalen broke the tie and won the game for Belleville by a long shot that. bounced along the ice tirethe re ---- White, for the victors, is the most dangerous man on the Belleville team, as he is not afraid to use his weight. Arnott is good, but cannot play clean Hockey y. On the Frontenac team each player iate game. st games and he stopped many wicked "liots. M@lan and Cooke were handicapped by" the heavy ice, which did not al low them to develop speed. The line-up was: Frontenacs--Mills, goal; McCallum and Stewart, defense; Millan, rover; Stinson, centre; Cooke, and Smith, provement over the Coll ills 'played one of his ings. Belleville<Nurse, goal; Pimlock and centre; Whalen and Gover, wings. "Jack" Moxon, referee; Arnott land, *time-kei ---------------- Morewood Reports. Morewood, Jan. 15.--Mr. and Mrs. who leave next week i, en- ers; KE. Laing and James T. Suther- kespers. . 1 on Thursday cvening. Mrs. Vernon Fetterley and babe spent a week at Fetter- Mr. and Mrs. Fennell were re- Wesley Smith. Mrs, John Bowes, after spending a few weeks with his daughter, Mra. (Rev.) D. D. | Efliott, returned to her home at | at home in Winchester. Mrs. Storey, Tamworth, was a re- Miss Gardiner was a recent The Misses Black, of Felton," were ests here on Thursday.. Mr. and , Hutt, Inkermaun, were guests on Thursday at the home of Mr. and rs. Black, Mrs. Merkley, Chester ville, spent. a few days gt the home of Mr. and Mrs. Martin. . George Bogart -was-a- visitor -to Chesterville on Wednesday. Rev. Thomas and Mrs. Shaver left last week for Toron- to, where they will spend a few months. A uumber of the young | Morewood hockey teams played an i i game, resulting in favor ucted i Ee, neat took place at Crys- The You Can't OF FIGHT ? OF LOVE? New Serial Stor Cleverly Written, Inter" 'esting, Thrilling, will be published exclu- © sively in the Daily Whig, Beginning Tuesday, January 26th. Afford to Miss This Story OF MYSTERY? OF CRIME? These are the' chords struck in "The Master Key," a wonderful story of adventure, of gold and the fight for a mine. lI you're human enough to like _excitement, if you relish fast heart beats, like thrills, READ make a mental note now to read this story. IT IN THIS PAPER Then see the moving pictures produced by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company by special arrangemént for this paper. Mgrs. | people attended. the hockey mateh in | Finch last Frilay evening. on Th y evening when Crysler and London, Jan. 15.--The army coun- a has had to appease highland feel- ug by anootincing that the new drab Serge kilt will be used only during the war and not deprive the high- land regiments of their distinctive tartans. The Scottish kilt, like the Scottish thistle, must not be touched with im ly. The news that a new kilt was being used in Argylshire at once affected recruit. us and. aroused a flood of protest rom soldiers'; relatives. 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