A hh I, " 'tacks delivered WHEN. IT SOUGHT TO SUBSTAN- TIATE ROGERS CRITICISM. Facts Proved Even Understated by Hibn--8ir Wilfrid Protests That Charge Should Be Proved or With. drawn. Ottawa, March 5. lhe comment on political patronage evils Prof Adan Shortt, chairman of the Civil Servis (Commission, as exemplified in his recent remarks about 2,000 dis missals and' 10,000 appointments 10 ree (ears under the present Govern: ment, produced the most vigorous and flluminative debate, of the session in the Commons yesterday. Last week Hon. Robert Rogers declared that Prof. Shortt's criticism was "untrue, unfair, dishonest and dishonorable." Nesterday Sir Wilirid Laurier brought the matter up at the opening of the House, and maintained that such a eqmment from a mimister of the Crown on the man who was the guar- dian of honesty and effectiveness in 'appointments to the civil service de served either substantiation or with- drawal. The Government attempted to substantiate the criticism and fell into an unexpected trap. The which one Minister after another gave was that Prof. Shortt had neglected to rele to resignations or other with: Jdrawals from the civil serviee, and had deliberately magnified the Gov ernment's offence of crowding the pay rolls, The reply came promptly. Mr. Sin clair, of CGuyshorough, pointed out that Dr. Shortt had very much under stated the facts. | Ipstend of there being only 10,000 appointments made during the three years, there had been no fewer than, 21,803. Dismissals to talled 3,957, and '"'resignations" 6,997 There was therefore an increase of pearly 11,000 in the number of Gov ernment employees after giving the re turn the best face that the ment eould put on it. The moral as to the need of new faxes to meet extravagance was fully drawn. Premier Borden, who spoke shortly before midnight, joined with the other Ministers in lecturing Dr Shortt, but declined to adopt the . miggeation of Sir Wilirid Laurier, em phasized Ly W. F. Nickle, Conserva tive member for Kingston, and F. M. Macdonald, that Profi. Shortt should either be allowed to vindieate him sell or that an inquiry should be con- ducted. MENINGITIS OUTBREAK by excuse Govern Cansed Eight Deaths in Ontario Dur- ing January. Toronto, March 5. The recent break of uwerebro-spinal meningitis out. m _ dlifferent parts of the Province is re- venled in" the return of cases ang deaths reported to the Provincial Board of Health for January. So far there have - been thirteen cases and sight deaths, distributed as follows : Toronto, eight cases, three deaths; Kingston, London, Port Arthur, Fort William and Georgetown, one death each. For February, 1914, there were peven cases and seven deaths reported in the Province. Smallpox also shows a consideralile increase, there being 117 cnses, as against 60 for the same period last year, that is, 37 more lor February, but 53 less than Jenu- ary last. THR USUAL BERLIN TALE © Of German Progress and British Re- tirement. (8pecial to the Whig.) Berlin, Match 5, (via wireless)-- German forces in Flanders and France have repelled a series of ai- at many points, along the battle line from near Ypres to the Vosges, according to the | official statement from the war office this afternoon. +. From positions in Lorette Hills that were eaptured from the French, | the Germans poured a hot fire into | a British force that attempted to re- capture the lost ground. The Bri- _.tish retired; leaving many dead and. preventing conmmodities of all kinds, wounded. _ Enemy's Guns Silenced; Along S48 | - This announcement will create no. ooo grana @ surprise. It is the logical, inevi- Baulogne, March S.~Every Ger man battery in the Lombaertzyde dis- Grand Dune. All this ground, once an stronghold, now lies tween two armies, forming a meu- Aral zone. ; Little by little the Allies are repul- sing the Germans steadily, The lat- ter have already been forced to ~re- treat as far as the Lombaertzyde farm on the Westende road. Certain portions of the enemy's li ve heen heavily reinforced during past. twenty-four ho nd they determined to hol line | WOMAN WAS FINED $ -- i Accepting Military Clothing From a Deserter. Napanee, March 5.--Mrs. Laura Cowan, Gasanoque, who has been de tained in jail for the past two weeks on the charge of attempting to <om- mit suicide, appeared before the pg magistrate this morning and was taxed ¥20 and costs. When she appeared in enurt. D- H Preston, K.U., acting igr the crown, asked that the charge of attemipting to commit suicide be dropped, and an other charge, that of accepting mili- tary clothing from Arthur Wood, =a deserted from the 21st Battalion sta- tioned at Kingston, be substituted The woman pleaded guilty to this charge, and was shgiven time to pay the fine. Her husband is at the pres- en® time in France with the first Ca nadian contingent. i For Tice CAPT. NEWTON'S WILL. Thé Bulk of the Estate Goes to Three Brothers, Montreal, March 5.--The will of the late Capt. D. O. C. Newton, the first member of the Princess Patric ias to fall in battle, was filed for pro- bate 'in this eity yesterday. The will is dated September 12th 1914, a few days after the captain bad joined the Princess Patricias. A gold watch which was given him by Prince Fus himi on the occasion of the prince's tour of Canada, is bequeathed to Capt. Newton's aunt, Lady Elizabeth Cochrane Five hundred pounds are bequeathed to a sister of the de. cegsed soldier. Florence Cetilia,| Countess of Dysart. The bulk of the estate goes to three brothers, Thomas, Alexander and Basil New- ton. The value of the estate is not, mentioned. What He Needed Most, a De lady in de next house give me a | piece of home-made cake. Won't you give me somethin' too? Certainly! Ill get you a tablet. pepsin The Allies' Reply to Germany. New York Herald a "The measure in question has for its object the shortening of the war| by incredsing the difficulties of the enemy, and it is a justifiable step in war if impartially enforced all neutral ships." This from Bismarck, dealing with a dimilar situation, reveals the high-| est German authority justifying the extreme measures now announced by | the Allies to "increase the difficulties of the enemy' with a view te bring-| ing the war to a speedy conclusion. If as a result of these measures neu- tral commerce is temporarily embar- rassed, this embarrassment will be more than compensated for by the earlier cessation of hostilities, since with their ending neutral commerce will be freed of all shackles and will! once more come into its own. i Great Britain and France have | notified neutral governments that the | Allies intend to resort to every pos-| sible expedient to stop supplies of all kinds reaching Germany, Austria- | Hungary and Turkey. In retalia- | tion for Germany's war zone, pro-} claimed with the avowed object of against | including food, for the civil popula- tion, from reaching or leaving the British Isles or Northern France, Great Britain and France "will hold | themselves free to detain and take into port ships carrying goods of pre- | sumed enemy destination, ownership or origin." . table result of Germany's previous | action. The Allies will fight ! devil with fire, , { packets tea deteriorates rapidly and | | often becomes. tainted. 'Salad' tea | {is sold only in sealed alumina Bie, { | kets and is blended, . cleaned © ® {packed by the most modern machin- ery. It is the enormous demand that { enables, us to give you such quality | at the price. . + Negotiations are under way which: | may ultimately result in tuingingt one | or more large industries to ater | town, N.X. : i Marshall, aged three, : | government for prohibition. | delegates | sweeping, | ment for circulating inflammab the |, buy 13 n ¥ bon bulk. Utes put up in sealed re HOCKEY AND - CURL TWO KINGSTON THE ALL-EA PLAYERS ON IRN STARS. Belleville Won the Western District C, 0, C. L. Game, Defeating Kings ton in Napanee by 36 to 22 Two Kingston hockey players will appear on the eastern all-star junior O.H.A. team, which is to meet a team of western all-stars in Toronto on thé 13th. They are Robert Fer- guson, captain and defence player of the Collegiates and 'W. Cook, right wing of the Frontemacs. J. T. Sutherland was asked to submit the names of four Kingston players, and he sent Secretary Hewitt the names of two Collegiate boys and two Frontenacs. Only two could be chosen for the team. Belleville Won: C.O0.C.L. Game The Junior C.0.C.1.. game lost by Kingston to Belleville which, defeat- ed the locals in Napanee on Thurs- day evening by 36 to 22 The rinks were : Kingston Belleville J. Pigeon J. L. Diamond . MeCannell B. Backus W. J. Frizzell J. G. Galloway, G. Hanson J. W. Davison (Skip)--14 (Skip)--13. J. Mellquham J. OQ T. R. Carnovsky Dr. J. M. Elliott Dr, J. H. Birkett A. (Skip)- Pitney Day Clark P. Allan (Skip)--21, THREAT OF FAMINE 57 HANGS LIKE PALL Over Germany, Reports the American Vice Consul- General in Berlin. ' ' (Special to the Washingtdn, March 5. famine hangs over Germany like a pall, according to a report received at the Department of Commerce from Viee-Consul-General louis G. Drey- fur, jr., in Berlin, which was made public today. The report is dated Jan. 8th, and, therefore, it is felt in Washing- ton that with the conditions 'serious more than a month ago the - eon- stant drain of war must by this time have made: the situhtion infin- itely worse. Whig.) The threat of PITH OF THE NEWS. Despatches. From Near and Distant Places. Dr, August Ledoux, a Jelgian, has received* a special appointment on the stafi of the University of Toron- to. A George Thompson, Toronto, was | badly lacerated by a hammer in the hands; it is alleged, of his wile. German With but three horses 'to each 100 | residents, Switzerland has the small est equine population of any tion. The Dominion Alliance adopted a | resolution asking the Dominion Nome thought the request too Miss Katie Clarke, maid at Stratford General - Hospital, died cerebro-spinal meningitis, from an unknown source. Frank Hayes, a member of the 19th Regiment guard at Niagara Falls, was sentenced to $wo and a half years in the penitentiary for biga- wy. A turtle, estimated to weigh 500 pounds, was drawn against the in- take pipe at lLeamington's water supply, cutting the town off Tor seve- ral hour the of contracted 8. + Hon. George P. Graham madd a telling arraignment of the govern- cam- paign literature with insulting allega- tions of disloyalty against liberals, while professing to keep the party truce and charging the Opposition with breaking it. ' THANE & 'a na- | BORN LEADER OF MEN. | Arthur Henderson's Motto Is "More "Work and Less Talk." That Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P., chairman of the British Labor party, whose name was included in the New Year's honors list as a Privy Coun- cillor, was a born leader of men is evident from the faet that before he had reached his twenties his gifts as a speaker and organizer so impressed his fellow-workers that they always chose him to head their deputatioms. Those were the days when Mr. Hen- derson was working as an irom moulder in the firm of Robert Step- henson and Co, of Newcastle-on- Tyne, to which trade he had been apprenticed when he left school at a very early age; for bread-winning! was more important than education to the Henderson family, which had migrated from Glasgow to New- castle. In the north Mr. Henderson. is al- ways referred to as "Arthur" by working men, and by the irofi found- ers he is regarded with real affec- tion, for few men have done more than Mr. Henderson for their fellow) _ workers. The labor leader owes not | a little of his success to the fact that! he does not belong to the aggressive type of labor man. "He is the re-; presentative of laber in all that is best, in the right apd responsible sense of the term," said an important Londen Tory journal about him not | long, ago--high praise indeed for a man who began to earn his own liv- ing before he was twelve years of age. « Solid and quiet, is the description which has been applied to Mr. Hen-| derson" on more than one occasion, and it is a fact that his motto, from the day when he began to think for | himself, has been, 'More work and less talk." To quote the words of a; north countryman overheard on one occasion by th8 writer, "Arty's deep 'un, He don't say much, but, | by gum, he can think!™ One of the first men to recognize the abilities of Mr. Henderson was Lord Morley, whose eulogy of a clever speech which the labor leader made in 1895 placed him in the di- rect running for the Liberal candi- dature of Newcastle-on-Tyne. In- déed, his name was actually submit- ted by the local executive, but at the last moment Mr. James Craig, a former colleague of Viscount Morley in the representation of the eity, was) persuaded to stand again; and thus it was that Mr. Henderson came with- in a hair's-breadth of becoming Lib- | eral candidate for Newcastle. Ultl- mately he entered Parliament as Labor member for the Barnard Castle Division of Durham in 1803, which constituency he has since represented. The amount of work which Mr, Henderson has accomplished and his many activities have often amazed | his colleagues. He is chairman of a | dozen and one labor committees, has | sat on several royal commissions, is secretary of the Labor party outside Parliament, has worked indefatig- ably on the local councils of Durham and Darlington, of which latter place he was mayor in 1903, and is a mem- {ber of the Wesleyan Methodist Church he' has for many years been an active lay preacher and a repre- i entative at the annual conference. The work of the National Brother- | hood and the P.S.A. movement, of which he is president for 1914-15, | also claims his attention. ---------------------- An Early Reflected Light. The following account of the dis- | gard 'demand being light and sup- | covery of the advantages of the Te- | neq plentiful. Eggs were downward, | flected light now so widely used In lighthouse construction, is given Fepit-Bits." In the latter half of the eighteenth bers of a little scientific society in "Liverpool laid a curious wager. He declared that he would read a news- paper by the light of a farthing dip at a distance of thirty feet. His com- panion, knowing tifat the feat was difficult at even a sixth of that dis- | shingles, sash, cord, wire cloth, tur- | ance, challenged his statement. | The scientist merely ' side of a shallow wooden box with sloping pieces of looking-glass so as to form a concave lens, put his farth- ing dip into the box, and readily de- ciphered the small print at the stipu- lated distance. | The experiment was witnessed by | a. Liverpool dock master. He was a | thinking man, and saw great possi- bilities in this learned jest. He straightway adapted the principle to | lighthouse requirements, and forth- | with the modern reflected light, with century one of thé mem- | coated the in- | Increased Growth and Tmprowd Methods Required In Canada. The linen industry in Ireland and Scotland is in danger as a consegu- ence of the war. Much of the raw material, flax fibre; has come -from Belgium, France and Russia, and these sources of supply are, for the time being, closed. Representatives from the large mills of Great Britzin have recently visited Canada in &n endeavor to emlist the co-operation of farmers in a greater production of Hgre is an opportunity to develop the ustry in this country, and by modern methods of production and handling, put it on a basis that will make it profitable 'under normal condition and prices. Flax for fibre can be grown in Canada wherever mixed farming cana be carried on. In some parts of Que- bec and in Western Ontario, from the days of early settlement, flax has been grown and homemade into linen. In only a few sections & On- tario in 1904 some 700 tofs of fibre were produced, which sold for $391 per ton. This fibre was of @ poor commercial grade, owing to anti- quated methods of preparation for spinning. A shipment to Belfast produced by slightly improved meth- ods sold for $240 per ton, The aver- age price for Irish flax fibre during the last five years has been $395 per ton; while Belgian flax has aver- aged $405 per ton. It is obvious that @anadian flax should supply the present deficiency and future require- ments of the Empire's raw material for: linen production, and that more remunerative prices will be received if improved methods of production are employed. The average acre of flax grown for fibre, under normal "market comdi- tions, and using the new process, would yield at least §45 worth of fibre and seed worth $13, making a total of $58. This is about three times the usual export value of un acre of wheat. It will be three yesrs at least before normal conditions can again be expected, and during this time higher prices are likely to pre- vail. The area in flax (mainly for seed) in Canada, in 1913, was 1,65%,- 800 acres and, in 1914, 1,084,000 acres." This shows a decided de- crease and it alsd shows that what is | needed fn Canada is a practical meth- od of producing fibre, Information regarding the grow- ing of flax for seed and fibre purposes is contained in bulletin No. 59 of the Central Experimental Farm which ean be had by applying to the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. ~--Conservation, Prices Are Higher. According to the Labor Depart- ment's January record just lssued, the department's index number of wholesale prices was higher for Jan- | vary, standing at 138.6, as compared with 137.3 in December, and 136.5 in January, 1914, The chief feature in the price movemeni was the rapid rise in wheat and other grains, and in flour. Manitoba wheat rose from $1.22 to nearly $1.55 by the end of January, and was still rising. Flour rose 70c. per barrel and was still risin -, while | some grades had risen still more. | Bread advanced in several localities. | Rolled oats advanced in sympathy | with oats. The other principal advances were in poultry, butter and cheese, stocks being lighter, and in raw furs and raw rubber, demand being better, Cattle, beef and hogs were down- | receipts being larger as the season | advanced, except during a brief cold | period. | Sugar was again lower on account | of weak prices for raw sugar and | light demand, but was firmer at the | close of the month, Downward ten- | dencies also were found im coffee, | potatoes, oranges, quicksilver, tin, gasoline, bengine, British Columbia | pentine and pulp, Some upward | movement ia hay. | shorts, baled straw, raisins, tea, raw cotton, zinc spelter] spruce deals and | linsedd ofl |" In retail grices there was a gener- | al advanes in flour, and bread rose | in seversl ities. On the other hand, | sugat in many localities. IM . in some localities. | Canada to Build Warships, | canada is not only supplying Great Britain and her lies with large WEDDINGS AT ELGIN. Two Nuptial Events There During the Past Week.' On Tuesday, March 2nd, at high noon' Miss Estella Coon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hemman (oon, Elgin, became the happy bride of Sinclair + J. Smith, son of Mrs. Charles Smith, The ceremony was performed by Rev. '. J. Phee McFarlane at the resi- dence of the bride's parents. The i bride was neatly attired in a gown of green silk with lace trimmings, and was given away by her father. The happy couple were unattended. Immediate relatives of both parties including Mrs. H. Mustard and Miss Coon, Toronto, sisters of the bride, were present. The house was beau- | titully decorated with plants and eut- flowers. In the dining room every- | thing was arranged most artistically i and a wedding breakfast was serveae {after the ceremony. The mnewly- weds were toasted by several of the | guests. The same afternoon, Mr. ! land Mrs. Smith left by CN.R. for, | Torento and other points," and upon returning will reside at the groom's home in Elgin. Dewell--Stanton, At her parents' residence, Elgin, at noon on Feb. 24th, a happy cere- mony was performed by Rev. W. J. Phee McFarlane, when he united in marriage Miss Martha Stanton, dau- ghter of Mr. and Mrs. George Stan- ton, to Thomas Dewell, Chantry. The bride was dressed daintily in cream- lace over white silk. Miss Sarah Stanton, Seeley's Bay, u sister of the bride, was bridesmaid, and Hollis Chant, Chantry, was groomsman, The bride was given away by her brother in the presence of some fifty guests. After the ceremony =a wedding breakfast was served in the dining room that was beautifully decorated with greens and white flowers and bunting, with wedding bells suspenw- ed. Mr. and Mrs. Dewell left by C.N.R., for Ottawa, and will take up residegce at Chantry, where the bridegroom is proprietor of a general store. The brides travelling suit was of wine colored velvet, with mink hat. . Brantford Retrenches. Prantford, March 5.--There will be no band concerts in the local ! parks this summer and the indep endent boards will have to get along with smaller appropriations than last year. The estimates com- mittee met this afternoon and even after cutting out all unnecessary ex- { penditures and chopping a liberal 'slice off the appropriation of the parks, Board of Education and in- dependent boards found that it would be necessary to increase the tax rate from 22 1-2 to 23 mills, to which the one mill asked for by the Provincial Government will have to be added. F858 -------- "Buy Face Creams," at Gibson's. The. boaster often finds -it ditlicult to make good his words. Don't Take Calomel } Instead of dangerous, salivating Calomel..to liven your liver when bilious, hegdachy ar constipated get a 10-cent 'box of Cagcarets. They start the ilver and bowels and straighten you up better than nasty Calomel without griping or making you sgiek. -- , Cocoanut 0il Makes A Splendid Shampoo I. vou want to keep your hair in good condition, the less soap you use the better. Most soaps and prepared sham- poos contain too much alkali This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and is very harm- ful. Just plain mulsified cocoa- nut oil (which is pure and entire- ly greaseless), is much better than soap or anything else you can use for shampooing, as -this can't possibly injure the hair Simply moisten your hair with water and rub it in. One or two teaspoonfuls will make an abun- dance of rich, creamy lather, and cleanses the hair and scalp thor- oughly. The lather rin out easily, and removes every pérticle of dust, dirt, dandruff and exces- sive oil. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves it fine and silky, bright, fluffy and easy 10 manage. You can get mulsified cocoanut oil at most any drug store. It is very cheap, and a few ounces is enough to last everyone in the family for months, Shoes For Men EET CIEETEER =] fl You will find in our stock the very latest styles in Gents' Foot- wear in all the popu- lar leathers. q Styles to suit all tastes at prices to fit all purses. § We carry the best wearing and most perfect fitting shoes on the market to-day. The Sawyer Shoe Store. Parker's Special Prices '§{ LITTLE PORK SAUSAGE .............. 18 ' { CLEVELAND PORK SAUSAGE ......... 16c HOME-MADE SAUSAGE ............ WESTERN BEEF, LAMB, MUTTON AND i { PORK A SPECIALTY i i {STRICTLY FRESH EGGS ioe 12 1-20 35¢ DOZ. { [PARKE } { $ i iy Phone 1683, R BROS. Opposite Opera Houce. ve ty a position to build war # es near Bethime, losing one $ + & on the Germaus. * + } tibial Late Mrs. (Di) A. W. Truesdell, cator is the advertising in daily | © + a bol attack on German + EH TiS 1 5 vy loss H changing in a Egypt's The climate of Climate ' Egypt remarkable | the last few years. Rain fell | rents in Alexandria during | bration of the accession of bas been manner in in tor- cele- new Sultan. al Sn i re -- '% fealth plant in the Dominion, The yard in Montreal, belonging te = rly be hSTuE of hie ha 8 of ta ' "0 1,000 feet M length, ae the | verths are emuirely covered, so thal laid down Exports of Canadian manufactures year 1913 were $43,966,733, ring that | soins |. Cubiosity is & folk: or plai Boys' Good Sehool firday special .................. BOYS' SUITS, Tweeds and Blue Serges; made Nor- : D.B. style, bloomer pants; reg. £8.50; Saturday special ~........... $4.50 {MEN'S 8S. AND F. OVERCOATS, Balmacan style; veg. $15.00; Saturday 0 '8S FURNIBHINGS. Men's Negligee Shirts; reg. $1.00 and $1.50; Saturday special ......75¢ Men's Ties, new spring goods; Saturday special 35¢ BOOTS AND SHOES. Men's Boots, Patent, Gun Metal and Tanbutten or lace;Saturday for $3.50 Ladies' High Shoes, Patent and Gun Metal, with ¢loth tops; Saturday for .... $3.50 MEN'S TWEED SUITS, ro. 418 and $20; Saturda MEN'S BLUE SERGE SUITS, reg. $20 to 425. Sat- urday special ......................... 51800 100 MEN'S ODD PANTS, reg. #150 and $2.00 wh speeial ..........$10.00 Boots; reg. $2.50; Saturday for $2