THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 115. 7 3 shee inspector fulfills his whole duty] ¢ ------ ' : a : when be is firm and positive, He { PRESS GALLERY GLIMPSES Special Whig Correspondence From the House of should not stray into regions of pure! ha Commons. PAGE THREE GOING MAD FROM | THE TERRIFIC PAIN Promingat Merchant Thinks His Life Y 1 A Was Saved By *Froit-a-tives ", DRYSDALE, ONT. Jose 15th. 161 "I am a general storekec per. at above address, and on account of great, good I have experienc using ** Fruit-a-tives"', I recon them to my customers, They great boon to me, I can tell about two years ago, I was laid up i hed with vomiting and a terrific " ak 1 at whe Jase of wy geal, In a way the Shoe, Commiitée it wonld (a to 1 ae " 2 solemn humbug, It sees before it Brain but I . Br oa every day bags, heaps, stacks, pyri- steadily until I was cured. ad . i en 300 . : : akine shoes ir stages [ delapida Rained fifteen pounds since taking | 4 decay shows summone - "'Fruit-a-tives", and I verily believe : fre i aif parts © they saved me from a disastrous ill- slices fran pall Hess : > $ 28. f eouver, JA CORRIVEAT . from Valcartier, from soc, a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, Plain in a word from whatever 25¢c.~or sent tpaid on receipt of rhapsody, as, for example, when one's of them blamed the whole thing on the soldier's feet. He said the shoes esmss---------- Tf m-------- ; : Glad Tidings for Children in Easter Wear Opening Display of 'Tops for Tot feet would get broken in. He passed Snow flurries; generally fair and cold to-day and on Tuesday. act that while the soldiers' : breaking in the shoes were out; but that, as Mr. Kip- anather story. Coe gath- 1 his remarks that Canadian i soldiers are as tender of their feet as moccasioned Indians, that the Dom- infon of Canada was combed for thirty-three thousand men who would misfit shoes to the extent of wearing them out in six weeks, that thirty-t » thousand pairs cf tend- er feet had set out to prove that thir- y-three 'thousand pairs of shoes could -be tenderer still. It looks like crowding the meurners, but it only goes to show how far bad shoes will carry an inspector once he gets star- ed "oy {Committee : a Solemn Humbug , =which is to keep cost down and a! diviaends up. The factory handsd went back to their work, and that particular bateh of shoes was no better and no worse than the ordin- ary run ef the mill---goed shoes for Sparks perhaps, but bad ones for soldiers. Other manufacturers may not have put as much loyalty into their sheces, but their material was about the same, and their shoes (Copyrighted.) their s fe I have . idation ¢ street, im sr a nesses (Translated means Children's Millinery.) far ~H. F. GADSBY. price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Otiawa. 2 Specials 2 4 CANS PEAS (No. 1 Quality). 2 DOZ. ORANGES ....25¢ (Sweet, Juicy, Seedless), J. R: B. Gage, Montreal St. Phone 549, 2514 "RADNOR" "ARROW corner of the earth they gave their last! squeak and yet that commitee goes on asking for proof. It reminds nie of the colored lady whose husband caught her rifling his pockets in the middle of the night, "Does you believe yo' eyes," she ask- ed, "or does you believe yo' honey?" No one acquainted with parliament- ary praetice doubts what the com- mittee is doing to do. The minority report is going to believe its eyes and the majority report is going to be- lieve its honey. The public naturally brushes aside the Militia Department inquiry into shoes as not guite relevant. When a flock of colonels is asked to report on what their fellow colonels in the department have been up to they re- turn a soft answer of course. The! real jury is the Parliamentary Com- mittee and what they have found out is what the people are interested in: A great cloud of witnesses has been examined by the committee and as the majority report will probably make that cloud denser by plausible verbiage the people will look to the minority report for the naked facets, {| Those who are afraid of losing the footprints on account of the great number of shoes involved will do well | to keep their eyes on the minority | report. It will lead them safely through the tangled web, Among other things the minority report will probably point out that! the manufacturers were primarily to blame. Specifications or no specifi- | cations they knew for what purpose the shoes -were being made and - if they could not make a good shee for a patriotic purpose and $3.85 in real turned out the same way. They did the Dest they could for the money, but the upset price was. not big enough. It is only fair to state that they allowed themselves on an ave- rage forty cents profit on a $3.85 pair of shoes, which is not excessive if the quality is there. . The minority report cannot fail to draw attention to the fact that not a single manufacturer lived up to all the specifications. 'Some manu- facturers lived up to some of the specifications, others lived vp to others, and some lived up to none. One and all Imad to beat the game sbmewhere. For example, not one manufacturer kept faith in the mat ter of heels. The heels were sup- posed to be reinforcéd with steel slugs to keep them from wearing; soft metal was used instead, the idea of these benefactors' probably being to make grow where only one grew before and so land another order. The specifications called for dubbing or ofl dressing to keep the water out but only one manufacturer thought it necessary to put the dressing in. In many cases the leather was bad, poor parts of thé hide being used, braced steél or wood shanks were substituted for solid leather, and the! soles were not thick enough. Also! the shapes were unsuitable, the toes being too narrow, and the heels coun- A: ters cramped, with the. result that every time the soldier marched out they raised a fine crop of blisters. Generally speaking, stitching was bad. : : Some of the shoes fell apart in five days, others wore out before the two pairs of shoes! Gananoque GANANOQUE, March 29.---Peter Goodfriend, an aged and respected resident passed to- rest at his home on St. John's Island, on Friday last, in the eighty | fifih year of his age. The funeral was held Monday morning to St. Philemon's Church, where requiem mass was sung and his remains laid to rest in Howe Island cemetery. The congregation of Grace Metho- dist Church celebrated the seventy- ninth anniversary of its organiza- tion yesterday by special services throughout the day which were in charge of Rev. W, J. Wood, Picton, a former highly esteemed pastor of the church. The choir rendered a fine programme of special music for! the occasion. Miss Gussie Dempster was the solpist at the morning ser- vice, and Grace Male Quartette, (Messrs. William and Robert Allan and Thomas and George Scott), ren- dered an, excellent seleclion. At the evening service the Mesdames L. Knight and W. J. Kelly favor- ed with a fine duett while Miss Freda Sunbury was the soloist. In accordance with the custom for a number of years the Finance Com- mittee. made request for a collec- tion to cover present needs, on this occasion asking for $600, of which| To-morrow will be a great day at Steacy's --special displays of new Easter bonnets for the kiddies---you are certain to see the newest - creations here at the most reasonable priees. Children's Easter Coats the "specialty shops" from in the metropolis. Priced Children's Kid Gloves A large and varied assortment of quality Kid Gloves in the season's most fashionable shades. Priced 50 Easter Hosiery For the little ones in all the best makes of plain and Eid cashmere and cotton, also special values in Silk ose. We invite all of our little friends to come to-morrow. A charming display of New York styles, the same as featured by trees 92.00 to $6 $500 was placed on the plate during thé day, $275 wt the morning ser- vice, $125 at he Sunday School ses-| sion and $100 in the evening. The other $100 will be handed in during the present week. | Palm Sunday was, as usual, cele-! brated in becoming manner at St. Jolin's Church yesterday, palm branches being handed to each as they entered the church, and re- tained while the celebrant and $ Sanctuary choirs marched about the sacred edifice during the singing of the Benedictus. ! The sale of home made pastry and | candy at the home of Mrs. James| Shing, King street, under the aus-| pices of the ladies of St. John's was quite well patronized on Saturday |- afternoon and evening. } M. J. Featherstone, Leeds town- ship, has disposed of his farm to C. Fodey, Lansdowne, the price be- ing $7,760. Rev. Melvin Taylor will continue his series of special ser- vices in Grace Church on Tuesday, | Wednesday, Thursday and Friday! evenings of this week, Rev, Father Kehoe, rector of St. John's Church and Rev. Father Crowley, curate, attended the funeral of the late Father Salmon in Kingston on Sat urday. Miss Jamieson, Brockville, was the guest of Miss M. M. Carpenter, Charles street on Thursday and left] on Friday for Pieton, where she wiil| conduct a class in physical culture.| 8, ' w 3 for 20¢c purchases Rev, Melvin Taylor lied the! a Si ait of i ~ J. Wood In Pie | The advertising columns are intended for such ton throughout yesterday. Mrs, E.| 8 A harassed housekeepers. They contain real news Price, Brockville, is visiting in town | p y that will help to ease her burden and settle her I he W m. - to Robert Edmund Wilson, Perth. ! J . . pM . Jith_hev Mother, Mrs. James Reid, . uncertainties. = Certainly the advertisers expect 8 et. to make mdney. Are they not entitled to it if they . ; maive life more comfortable for thousands? Da e gs' C 0 Read the advertisements, with discrimination V 1 . The marriage will take place \quietly | . the first week of April. i | Limited, Phone. 597. Thomas Green, Westport, has sold his team of fancy Percherons to Hil-| and intelligence. They will solve many a vexed: liard Green, Newboro, the purchase! question. price being $400. { Dr. Beeman, Perth, has been elect- ed a trustee of the rerth Board of! men reached Valcartier, some sur- vived the sea voyage the Atlantic Ocean not being a favorite spot for walking, and some went (0 pieces on Salisbury Plain. Not one pair of 'em ever got as far as the firing line. Their extreme life without cobbling s six weeks. With cob- bling they might go two weeks long- er but the changes were against them: Private MeGarvie, some time cobbler for the Royal Scottish Fusi- liers, now cobbling for Canada, give evidence before the committee | money it was up to them to agree on a prices that would provide a 'suit- able article and yield a fair profit. A corollary of this propositien is if | that the Militia Department was not if | tied to the $3.85 limit and that it Quickly break up the most ob- Jif | should have seen to it that there! stinate case of cold or grippe. | were proper specifications and that The . the shoes came up to the specifica-| They or gc. oR mless tions even if more money had to be . . paid. Ir. Hickey's Speedy Cure Canada was not niggling about the | quickly "touches the tickle" Bl price of soldier's shoes, What this| and loosens up the hardest §i | country expected was that her sons! cough. It is so good and so | would go into battle well shod, and | that he had never handled worse different from the rest that the Ji ! that whatever risks they ran from | shoes in his life. Flimsy, he said, ll total sales equal all other local § | German bullets, they would be in no| from the ground up--no foundation, 1} cough mixtures. 25 cents. i} | danger from wet feet and pneumonia | do ye ken. Asked his opinion of | These two splendid prepara Jif | The Militia Department can divide! the Private McGarvis replied ! tions we have sv much confi- Jif | the blame on what percentage it | "R-r-r-rotten." Private McGarviae| i} dence in that we are willing Ji} | pleases with the manufacturers, but| is Scoteh and has great command of i} to refund the price if they are Jif | the fact remains that both failed in| the letter r. in any way unsatisfactory. if | their duty. n | Not to put .too fine a point on it, | Try them and save doctors' Ji§| Rotten is a relative term as ap-| bad shoés were the rule, good shoes bills, | PHed to shoes. What is a good shoe the exceptiofi. The committee is in | {for dancing is a rotten shoe for] receipt of samples from every place: 9 ! work in the trenches, but neither the | where Canadian shoes walked - and t Best S$ | Militia Department nor the shoe | not one kind word goes with the lot. { manufacturers seem to have grasped | General Alderson cabled Yom Salle {this point. What makes their con-| bury Plain that shoes were bad. he | The Satisfactory Drug Store, | duet stranger is that the manufac-| Militia Department cabled that forty open Sundurm. turers went on making and the Mi-| thousand pairs of overshoes were on [1itia Department went on buying the| the way to take our beys over tlie | | rotten shoes long after both knew. hard spot. Briton though he is, : that the shoes were utterly unfitted| General Al n's sense of humor | for the purpose for Which they were| was thoroughly aroused. He replied | intended. For that matter, rotten! that all the overshoes in the world | | shoes are being made and bought would not remedy the original de-| | right Dow, the last output being| fects in bad shoes. It is on record i quite as bad as the first. Nobody | that the shoes were ashamed of has the courage to say stop. themselves. One witness testified Some manufacturers seemed to| that when he went out to march his; think that a soul full of patriotism! shoes were brown and that when he would make up for a sole full of came back his shoes were black. cork and paper. A supgerintendent| They had changed color through in one of the shoe factories gave| sheer mortification. i | touching evidence along this line. He! At some concentration camps the { told how the employees were called | shoes were so bad that the men were | | together a day. after an order for | unable to parade, much less drill ir. | thirty-two thousand pairs was land-| them. At Halifax whole companies! ed, and how two of the directors ad-| manoceuvred with shingles on their "I dressed them on ghe high privilege | feet, other compaies with. their feet| which was their in making shoes | tied up in bags. It was that or the for the men who were to bleed and cold, cold ground, the shoes had long die for their country. It was a great ceased to afford protection. There | day in the shoe factory. The place was no excuse for that particular fairly belched patriotism, but the su-| batch of shoes. It was not a rush perintendent didn't lose sight of the order and the Militia Department! main principle of good shoemaking could not plead hurry. Thos: shoes : 5 were taken out-of stores; on hand be i fore the war began. Their badness! 9, | was that you might call a habit. | { Officers and privates, in large Education. | numbers, have been examined by the At a meeting of the Liberals of! [fumamittes. They have nothing to Ee lose by telling the truth and they "the County of Prince Edward, H. H. 'have invariably testified that sthe! Horsey was chosen to represent that shoes were bad. Sometimes they! have put it stronger than that. The! ¥ rte CL -------------- party at the next general election. | defence urges that these men are not! Mr. Horsey has a farm near Cressy shoe experts but that {8 begging the question. In a manner of speaking "every man is a shoe expert hecatse every man buys shoes and knows by Sapetionce how long a pair ought to! II NA Ol Natt DAVIES' Special for This Week Corn J for 20c . For the Home. Every week in the year something is needed for the home, something to eat or to drink, some new furniture or new clothes. The list is endless and the worry of the housewife is almost as endless, unless she uses intelligence and system in her The engagement is announced t Susette Elsebeth Cameron, Toronto,/ _ Picton March 25.+-The femaims of the! late George McMullen arrived in! Picton this afternoon from Chicago The funeral will be held to-morrow. Where he resides in the ;{ He spends the winter in Ot br. ~Curry who Tor Wo sessions this country at Ottawa was requested to run again but he ie would not stand for re-election. : , A company of Boy Scouts has : - | been successfully formed here. Era est Hudgins, of the Union Bank is Fixtures the scout. master. "" "ll Get your electric repairs done. by us. Satisfaction oh hack rant, teller of the Bank' 5 guaranteed. Montreal Is ott of town this week | 8 relieving. a | oi . . Halliday's Electric Sho Phase 4 ahd 5 King 84. All sizes from 14 to 17. Soft Shirts with starched cuffs with soft cuffs and Fifty 16th Regimedt de- tachment of the Third Contingent received orders this week togo to Belleville. Sunday will be their last day here as they proceed under Lieut. B. B. Campbell, (Ottawa), on Monday. 2 ree m- Mrs. Parker, sister of Mrs. W. TH" Tr ---- Hoo aa it the i Fe i : 2 or was the wife of the laie Dr. J| THERE 3A DISTINCTIVE QUALITY he APPEARANCE ) Parker, Boston. About SUN-KIST AZest--fust as dhtinctive the quality of thar hackages just a5 - SUN-KIST Seeded and Seedless Raisins. | GEO. ROBERTSON & SON, LTD. of the