'CANA FOR MAKING SOAP, SOFTENING WATER, CLEANING AND DISINFECTING SINKS, CLOSETS, DRAINS, AND FOR p MANY OTHER PURPOSES, a---- { THE STANDARD ARTICLE | hE DARKEN GRAY HAIR, LOOK YOUNG, PRETTY REFUSE SUBSTITUTES Sage Tea and Sulphur Darkens So Naturally That Nobody Can Tell, Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea and Sulphur, properly compound. ed, brings back the natural color and lustre to the hair when faded, streak- ed or gray; also ends Dandruff, itch- ing scalp and stops falling hair. Yéars ago the only way to get this mixture: was to make it at home, which is mussy and troubfesome. Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound," you will get a large bottle of this famous old recipe for about 650 cents. Dof't stay gray! Try it! No one can possibly tell that you darkened your hair, as it does it so naturally and evenly, You dampen a sponge Gr s0ft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morning the gray hair disappears, and after ano- ther application or two, your hair becomes beautifully dark, thick and glossy. 'Agent Geo. W. Mahood. Dr. Hickey's Speedy Cure for Coughs and -Bron- chitis, The most pop- ular and surest remedy sold. Used with Dover's i Cold ° Breakers, guar- f anteed to cure any Cold, | Grippe or Bronchitis. 25 Cents at At Best's The Popular Drugstore. fl Open Sundays. | i i i i | don as Acting C | he has just bee fl ' pleasant, but if | very keen, very order'y, § |» Judgment, and a real expected, --t-chires, for the Government s LZ 5 's GOOD QUALITIES Along With Wealth, Diguity and Cul. ture--~He Is Now Filling a High Office in London. A few years ago every bright ehild In Canada could ratile off the list of titled' Canadians, but Ww many men | on the Not long ago a man who rose to be chief whip of his party at Otiawe, a Dom- inlon Cabinet Minister, and then Can- adian Commissioner in London, with 4 "Sir" to 'his name, had his bio- graphy, -- general appearance, and characteristics inscribed in the mem- ory of just about everybody in the country. ' But Canadian affairs and Canadian titles have grown and mul- tiplied exceedingly and so the mass of the electorate know little about Sir Gedrge Halsey Perley, who has risen to all the points of eminence Just enumerated, the knighthood---a K.C:M.G.~--being a New Year's honor. says The Toronto Star Weekly. Sir George Perley Is one of the few business men of large wealth who have become prominent in Canadian polities. He is one of Ottawa's rich men--a big lumberman. He was born in the United States -- at Le- banon, New Hampshire, in 1857. But he was brought to Canada in infancy and becamé a naturalized British subject in 1885, his father having previously "taken out papers" and represented Ottawa In Parliament for some time. Mr. Perley attended Harvard University, taking an arts course. After some years of travel be returned to Ottawa. His father bad become one of the largest lum- bermen of that district, and Mr. Per- ley himself became a millionaire and & prominent society man. Now what influenced this million- aire te enter politics? In the first place they say he likes to do his bit of work for the general good, For example, he has served ag a church warden in the Anglican Church and As a delegate to the Synod. He was chairman of the rellef tund th 1897 when a forest fire In Casselman, east of Ottawa, did a lot of damage. He was chairman of tke relief fund | when In 1900 Hull was devastated by | fire, Anyway, in the latter year he ran | for the Dominion House as candidate for Russell County, but was defeated. In a bye-election fn 1902 he ran again, for the County of Argenteull, Quebec. He was elected and he has | represented that constituency ever street cau do it row? # | since. . He was made Chief Whip of { the Conservative party in 1911, and in that capacity displayed tact and | ability. Premier Barden soon recog- nized him as Cabinet material, or at least a man who must be given im- portant recognition. It wag expected | be would be made Minister of Fin- | ance, but instead he was taken into the Cabinet as a Minister without portfolio. But he was swore in right after the Premier, and through this | right of seniority has at times been | Aeting Premier, After Lord Strath- cona's death Mr, -Perley went to Lon- anadian Commission- i er, but as Ne f& still acting and as n knighted, it would ble to suppose that he to act In'that high ca- | seem reasona | will. continue | pacity, Sir George, personally, fy describ- {ed as being cultured, intellectual, not a. great "mixer," véry sound philanthrop- 1 } | Mies Annie Bowlby, daughter of W, | H. Bowlby, K. C.. of Berlin, Ont. Mrs, Perley dled, and in 1913 he mar- ried Miss Milly White, one "of Ot- Hye soclal leaders, and deughter of thé late Sir Thomas White, Big 'Tnevsh Expected. Canadian rallway officials are na- turally looking forward to a desfr- able Increase in trafic when the im- migration' movement, to follow the lose of thé "war, gets under way. Canada's need is for tillers of the soll, ana every effort will be made to attract the farming class, - Te Information received at Grand Trunk Pacific headquarters at Mont- real recently from the British Colum- bla Government shows that the coast i province has made preparations te | welcome thousands of cultivators, { Though final figures for 1914 demon. strate that 1,963 land pre-emptiong | were taken up in the newly opened districts of the provinces during the year. This figure will show a large hoerease," it is before 1915 tates { that there are about 1,500,000 acres of surveyed land ready ser along the lime of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, and tracts * 160 acres can be taken possession on payment of a record of Of the surveyed lands avallable to settlers, th are 146,913 a In acres the land district, with 44 000 acres in the coast district. the Cariboo district the avatlable sur- red lands total 789,75 acres, ¢ NEW | SIR GEORGE PERLEY HAS MANY IN THE UNITED Ur George was married in 1884 to | which is sure fr the get- TED STATES OVER WAR SUPPLIES, The Agent Of One Government" Is Now Investigating Alleged Graft In Army Contracts. New York, Murch 4.---Information was. obtaived yesterday that at least one of the governments allied ngninst Germany in the war had appointed a confidential agent to. investigate ru- mors that had reached Furope to the eficct that the allies were being swindled in a vast majority of the purchases of war supplies foade in the United States. The confidential agent, whose name was given, was visited at his. hotel by a reporter. After insisting that his name be withheld from publica- tion because of the secrecy of the mission, he eonfirtred the report, le could not begin to estimate the to- tal amount which graft in the buying of war supplies had aggregated dur- ing the seven months of the war, but declared that it ran into the mil- lions. "1 have heen conducting this vestigation for moro than months," said the agent. "Some of the things I have found out would be amazing, but they will never he made public, unless in history. In one case, where an brder was given for 100,000 pairs of strong shoes to he made of the strongest leather obtain able, the gommissions taken from the amount the government in question had to pay for the shoes amounted to 25c.%on each pair, or $25,000 the entire order. An order for 150,- 000 pairs of shoes was placed in Am- erica when the first consignment was delivered. The commissions were oven higher on this order. But the government had to have shoes and needed them quickly: Another or der for '250,000 pairs was placed here and the commissions were still high- r in- three "This will not sound so when the' circumstances under these goods are bought has been explained. Each of the allies has hundreds--one of them over a thous- and-military and other agents in this country to buy war supplies. The mili tary agents know little of business, and many of them do not speak Fng- lish, They deal with the Americ: manufacturers through a most cuitous route. There are business re- | presentatives associated with _ the niilitary agents who deal with' Am- erican 'agents representing, in | cases, brokers, who in turn place the {owders with the manufacturers of the fgoods. Often there are even | hands through which the transaevion must pass. "The natural result is that the manufacturer, who must substract so strange which many commissions from the total he | is to receive for his supposedly west grade goods, supplies goods of very | inferior grade instead of the goods bargained for, thus allowing him~ self p big profit in spite of the ewn- missions." The agent explained the ecircum- stances under which he was selected | government, | to investigate for his and said that he was under the im. | pression that other governments than is were secretly conducting srmatar | investigations in the United States | at the present time. LOW DEATH RATE RECORD | Pneumonia Greatest Cause Of Mor- | tality Among British. London, March 5 the expeditionary forces and the troops in the British training camps. | Smallpox claimed only one vietim in the United Kingdom, but returns in this respect have not been given out by the armies in France and Egy- | pt. Of 783 cases of diptheria, six ended fatally. est cause of mortality among troops has been i ch re [sulted -In957 deaths out of 1,508 | cases, As regards other diseases, 625 cages of typhoid fever and 49 deaths |are reported in the expeditionary | force, and 262 cases and 47 deaths iin the camps in the United Kingdom. | Scarlet fever had only 196 cases and four deaths in the expedition, as | against 1,379 cased and 22 deaths in | Great Britain. -- Measles, a disease {associated with childhood, sent 1,- | 843 recruits to the English camp hos- { pitals, with 66 deaths, while the sea- |soned men on the contingent hac | onkf T75 sick from this cause with two deaths. only So far the great. the Considering that the British, regu: | | lar and territorial, began the wat | with a half milliéen men and | since expanded to about 2,500,000, i the low death rate is said to have | probably established a record. \ | The report of the Canadians be- mowed down by camp sicknesser 5 ng ded, and the ad | proved to be unfo | miralty now says, in regard to a sim- | ilar rumor aescting the naval divi- | sion in training at the Crystal palace that only two per cent, of the §,00¢ men there are now on the sick re f on | wir | some | more | The first six months of the war passed without a | single case of typhus or of cholera | in the British army, including both pneumonia, which re- | bas | op selling 1t.--Condervation, | : aE Gananoque March 5.--The ¥iananégue Board of Trade held 8 supper at the Brophy House last evening, which was quite inrgely attended. The funeral -of the late James Reid was held yesterday afternoon from the family residence. Charles svaeet. to Willow Bank vault, and was large- ly attended. Leeds lodge, Ne. 201. | AF. & AM, of which deceased was a menber, conducted the last rites. The annual tea meeting of the won- gregation and friends of Maple (irove Church, of the Fast Gananoque Cir- cuit. was held last evening. Dr. J. I. Sinclair occupied the chair for the entertainment. . Rev. €. W. Hollings- | worth and the pastor,Rev. A. FE. Oliver, gave addresses, and Gerace church male quartette, consisting af Messrs. Robert and William Allan, | and Thomas and George Scott, : add- ed to the. interest of the progratare, ww id also selections "from (Yifford Sine, O'Gorman Lee, of the staff of the TLR. Co, of this town, has been accepted by the Militia Department as o telegraph operator with the, ge- cond contingent, and has gone (Ottawa, - ' Miss Laura McCammon, trained nurse, is in Quebec, taking prepara tory work before leaving with the second contingent for service in hos- pital werk. Wilson and Son made another targe delivery of agricultural implements to [the farmers of the' surrounding séc- | tion. It cpnsisted of some four car | loads. The purchasers were all bil- leted for dinner at the local Roiels by the firm. é Rev. Melvin Taylor is representing Grate Church, and Frank Wright, the Royal Templars ' of Temperance, No. 284. at the Dominion Alliance con- vention in Toronto this week. Rev. William Henderson, superannu ated Methodist winister, has heen as- sisting Rev. Mr. Doherty in speeial evangelistic work at Warburton. Rev. Father J.P. Kehoe,, who has | been confined to his home for {he padt week, is able to resume his du- ties to Fresh vs. Stale Fish. A writer in Conservation gives |'some timely advice te'Canadian read- ers regarding the methods of telling | if fish are fresh. He says: | "Fresh fish is an exceedingly per- ishable food product. Even when rea- | sonable care has been taken by the packers and dealers, such fish will | | frequently deteriorate rapidly. | "It bas been scientifically demon= | strated that the toxic or poisonous | | elements formed in decomposng fish, | greatly exceed those produced in the | flesh of warm-blooded animals, Fur-, ther, these are usually most danger- | | ous in the early stages of decomposi- tion. Consequently the need for extra | precautions in the selection of | fresh fish is plain, The following i points are worth remembering | | when purchasing fish. | "Dead fish are unfit for food: (1) When the eyes have lost | their sheen and bave become cloudy. i (2) When the red gills have be- come pale, : I" (3) When the flesh has become | soft so as to pit if pressed with the | finger (4) When the scales are easily | | loosened, 1 (5) When the fish will float on water,' aa "Obviously all these fests cannot be applied to all fish that are offered for sale in the market stalls, but some of them cen, and the house- | holder would do well to apply them | before Purchasing fish," | Flowers and Weeds, { { The propagation of weeds has at times been encouraged ander the | guise of the planting of a beautiful | lower. Instances of this are not rare | | in Canada, and among those may be | mentioned 3a of- the Kochi, or | Burning Bush. This'is an orngmeén- | tal annual, of rapid growth, develop- | ing into & pyramid from two to three | | feet high. The leaves are slender | | and of light green color, changing in | September to a deep red. The flowers | | are small but innumerable, and the | | seed proportionately plentiful. {The plant, if allowed to ripen, | | drops its seed very readily, and, whee. | ever a seed drops, a plant will grow | the following se It has been | largely used as a rder plant along | roadways and drives, and is sold by | the seedsmen for this purpose. On ount 'of its rapid spreading, the -be-diseon- ' nN would be well advised if yn oe from furth- Predicts Fish Slaughter. = | Boh IL ro td game al , Ont, predie there will be a slaughter of fish in | the Seugog waters this year equal to, | g fish mortaiity | So A rh coarse, ogult 'he claimed gas fro ad | tion in the "shallows" and the | te he or Abd he. finny tribe was to i ¥ holes in tise jun. | i The company proposes | power a ois and High Falls on the Madera River, and the North- easterly gales; snow late to-night and on Satu vday. : The New Are Really stripe designs, very dai ty--and do.not require be ironed; reg, 20¢ for 1 Tiger Stripe Voiles, Black and White colors, Shantung Suitings, in large range of colors, ve special, at White Pique, best i ported qualities at 25¢, 30c, 35¢c and 45c. See our showing * gandies, ete., ete. Wash Goods Fascinating Wash Crepes and Ore- pons, printed in floral and and New Silk and Linen 20c, French Crepes, Swiss Or- The New Spring Styles are Here in' Rich Profusion Spring Millinery On opening display--a very broad and authentic: show- ing of what is truly fashion- able for spring--the prices, too, are amazingly small. 1n- to bc in NEW SUITS AND COATS. Never in this store's history have we ha such splendid values, priced from $12.50 to $45.00, See them to-morrow. SPRING WAISTS. At Prices Within Reach of All Everything that is new and fashionable. New Voile Waists, from New Wash Satin Waists, at New Crepe-de-Chene, from New Jap Silk Waists, from DO COME TO-MORROW AND.SEE OUR OPENING DISPLAYS! a ry i= of Excellent Quality. Shoulder Roasts . ..14c Blade Roasts ......15¢ Rib Roasts ........18¢ Round Steaks .... .19¢ Sirloin Steaks . .. 22 Stewing Beef and Hamburg Steak, 2 The for ......... Davies Co. Limited, Phone 507. | Se BLECTRIO RAILWAY PROSPECTS | Mesting To Re Held In Brockville In Tteren Of Proposed Line. Brockville, March b--W. Brown of London England, is town arranging for 3 public meet ing which will be held here shortly in the interest of the Promotion of the 'proposed rence Electrie Rail way. The k ers at the meetin do 1} 2 will include the president of the company, William Gray, M.P., of London, Ont., J. Mor- den of Toronto and W. L. Brown, of Londen England, A nu held in the various towns and vil- lages alofig the proposed route and considerable interest awakened the project, and stock y for. ¥ Work was started on the rise in thirty miles of In 'the spring, amd work 'will also be started upon the Athens-Smith's Falls section Brown states. to secure plans cad Yor a line with Ireight and Passenger Kars. It is stated that only in one place will the grade be over two per cent. The route planned is a belt lime starting #t Ottawa, running south A Jo Morris « through the town. Mr. Brown states tht 4 ri Ottawa and St. Law-| mber of meetings have been | ° i iter Septem last and piv t the rotite havel béen graded bet Russell and Met- | calfe. The work will be. continued ro | the. bata ein, terri Big Discount Off Electric Fixtures Get your electric repairs done by us. Satisfaction guaranteed. ; Halliday's Electric Shop Phone 94 . - 345 King 8s JE ---- NOTICE Having decidéd to stay at {my present pldce of busi- 'ness, all orders placed now for monuments to be erected |in the spring will have my | ---- { | | | I best attention. J. E. MULLEN Cor. Princess and Clergy Streets. | ---- { Try Cairn's Pure Scote | Jams and Marra | 1 1b. Glass. 5 1b Tints. | (At all Grocers.) LIMITED, GEO. ROBERTSON & SON, A 5 Ho SOS & " Headquarters for the Gi 'Wear-Like-Iron Rubber Men's ftom. .............5....c...... 90cto $i Dhild's ; FILS ARAN tars ain arr Eada EN ra ae tresses a 5c and rubbers at right prices. TE RY set v3] av va thbefestcd in Pi £ lo the extent of 31,5 lomas : y us) Telephone d | Drop arn a 3 " Shin » vo 1. : jena 6 ehkiyg Hise. Gaither 040,000, | lying wood Tears Iwill receive dueen Bi