SE ; -- --__, YEAR 82 NO, 78 -------- FORTY ¥ RS IN CANADA, Reminiscences of the Great North West, With Some Account of His Service in South Afriea, by Ma- jor-General 8. B. Steele, ('. B. M. V. O., Edited by Mollie Glen Niblett, With an Introduction By J. G. Colmer, C. M. B., and 17 Plates, Toronto, McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, Ltd; London, Hubert Jenkins. 128 Pages. The title of Major-General Steele's book is in a sense misleading, for while it correctly describes the per fod covered, which is from 1570 to 1910, it suggests that he came to us from without, and to obscure the fact that the General is an Ostario man horn and bred Major-General Steele was born in 1849, in the County of Simcoe. He came of fighting stock, his father having been an officer in the British navy, who was a lieutenant on the Leopard when she forcibly searched the Chespeake, and who fought 'un- der Cochrane in the Basque Roads. Later he was one of a number of half pay officers who came to Canada, where he "took up 1,000 acres of land in the picturesque county of Simcoe, cleared off the forest, built at his own expense the first Anglican church ip the township, and event ually became the first member of Parliament Tor the county." Young Sam wag a husky lad who early joined the militia, and in 1870] enlisted as a private in expedition to the Red River In this he did well and rose to be Ser geant Courses of instruction in Kingston and Toronto followed, and in the autumn of 1873 he was sworn in Sergeant-Major to assist in the organization of the North West Mounted Police. From that time General Steele's life has been identi- fied with that of the West. He fose Eteadily through the grades of his corps, was in command of the de- tachment in the Yukon, after which, as every Canadian knows, he was ap- pointed Colonel of the Stratheona's Horse, and saw service in South Af- rica, At the conclusion of the war he returned for some years to South African Constabulary. In 1914 he was promoted to the rank of Major- General. Recent rumors connect hig name with an appointment which would enable him to add new and thrilling chapters to his memoirs. General Steelé's -book reveals a kindly personality, with a warm word for almost everybody, devoted to his work aud to the west, and passion ately loyal to his superiors. He has the military gifts of reticence, and anyone who knows much of the his- tory of the west must wish that he had unburdened his mind just a little more freely. Yet even so more than one secret is brought to light. The reputations of Col. Irvine and of Major General T. 'B. Strange, both well known to Kingstonians, under whom Steele, then a major, served on the North-West rebellion in 1885, are fully and generously vindicated from charges which had been brought against them. Reading between the lines, one can see that Gensral Steels has not the highest opfnion of the late General Middleton. "It did not matter, however, who was mentioned in despatches," no one but the G.0.U. received any reward. He was voted in Parliament the sum of $20,000 and was knighted; but there was nothing for General Strange after all his hard work. He had saved Alberta, had rescued the cap- tives who had been on Pig Bear's hands, not 'one shot had been against the chief or his murderous tribe and their allies the Wood Crees, except by Strange's men, he should certainly have been the K.C MG." "Put General Steele's great hero is the first commandi otheer of the NWM.P., Lieut. Col. James Far- quharson Macleod, whom we are proud to claim as a graduate of Queen's University, "As a soldier, a judge and a gentleman - he had few equals. From the 'time he arrived, in everything for the well-being of the ople of the North-West Territory his and was seen. No one was jeal- ois of hi; he was the admired of all, and kind to a fauit.| To an historian perhaps the most valuable part of Colonel Steele's hook is his account of the terrible lawlessness among the Indians of the North«West before the NWM.P. was founded, Tn 1870 and the following years ies of gmatl. 0 pox, spread by Indian ignorance of | sanitation, had swept away perhaps half the on of the plains and of those who remained the ma jority were being bhedevilled by illi- cit liquor traders." So: strong were these rascals that country. Ome of the principal posts of the traders in that region was Fort Hamilton, commonly kmown as "Whoop Up," situated at the forks of the Belly and St. Mary's' rivers. « + « « The trader stood at wicket, i pushed in a hiffalo robe to him through the hole in the wall he handed out. a poisonous decocs Wolseley's! fired granted | «d up these gentry and ran them out of the country is well told, with not "a littla human sympathy for some of the rascals. "There were many strange charac- ters in the country at that time, who socn became acquainted with the Mounted Police. One old trader had a store not far -from Fort Macleod His trade had. been largely in whis- key, and when he was arrested a great number of bufialo roves, ob- tained ° largely in that way, were confiscated, and he was fined and in- prisoned. When he came before Col- onel Macleod and was convicted he said : 'Colonel, I'll make them wires hum to Washington when 1 pet loose." The magistrate calmly ° re- plied, 'Let them hum!' He did his six months, but instead of making 1 the wires tingle with his message 'to the President of the United States, her became quite fond of the force, who had 'always treated him kindly, as f= as lay in thgir power He was given leave to go Once a week to his store to see that his books were being « kept correctly and the as it' should, ing with a treat of California tinned fruit for "the boys.' Many more culled from" f'olonel but we must close. done her work well, are well chosen, and and binding busi ness poing on return could be: Baok, I'he editress has the illustrations print, paper, anecdotes Steele's wre good 6 THE WAR AND DEMOCRACY a By B. W. Seton-Watson, J. Dover Wilson, Alfred E. Zimmern and Arthur Greenwood, The Macmil- lan Co. of Canada, Toronto, Publishers, 390 Pages, 8 Maps. Price, SOc. To those who wish to familiarize themselves wifh the underlying cau- ses that led up to the present world- war--not the mere excuse. of a royal murder at Sarajevo, but the racial, national and geographical differene- es whose early beginnings can be traced back through centuries of jealousy and fear and conflict --we can most heartily recommend this book. Numerous volumes dealing with war have been reviewed on this page, but they have either dealt with some particular aspect of the present struggle or only superficially touch- ed on the real causes. In "The War and Democracy" the authors go back to the beginning of things and there lay their foundations. No more comprehensive or thorough treatment of tlie various subjects could scarce- ly 'be hoped for. The men who have written the various chaplers are scholars well-informed, both by study, insight and personal observa- tion They have lived among the people whom they describe, and have noted their hopes and their aspira- \tions, their excellencies and their de- ficiencies. It is impossible, in the small compass of a newspaper review to do more than indicate the scope of this book and state briefly some of the conclusions arrived at. : The book is divided into the Tol- lowing chapters: "The National Idea in Europe," "The Real Germany," "Austria-Hungary and the Southern Slavs," "Foreign Policy," "The Is- sues of the War," 'Social and Econo- mic Aspects of the War," "German Culture and the British Common- wealth." The guiding idea of the authors uas been the sense of the great, néw responsibilities, both of thought and action, which the pres- -ent situation lays upon British Demo- cracy and on believers in democracy throughout the world. The issues of the war--what are they to be? How shall the spoils be divided in order that permanent peace may be assur- ed? Divisions of territory must be along national as well as geographi- cal lines. New s{ates will undoubted- ly be created, and-justice done to the smaller Slav nations which were rob- | ber of their rights at the close of the late Balkan war. Russia will no doubt be allowed to occupy the whole of Turkish Armenia. She is the only power which can replace the Turks as master of Constantinaple. "The Turkish Empire has committed sui- cide, and dug with its. own hands its grave," and te Britain will fall more fully than ever before the leadership} of the Mahommedan, world. The granting by Russia of Polish autgno- my, the restoration of the Finnish coustitution, the relaxation of lingu- istic & among the lesser races of the Empire, and the adopt- | Ton of a humaner attitude toward the | Jews of the Pale--theseware steps which follow logically from the pro- clamation of Grand Duke Nicholas, nd indeed from the alliance with the western powers. The authors agree J with Prof. Gilbert Murray when he | says: "Shall we try again to achiev) Castlereagh's and Czar Alexander ideal of a permanent Concert, pled- ged to make collective war upon the | peace-breaKer? Surely we must. We | must learn to agree, we civilized na- ' tions of Europe, or else we mast pe Lish." a; BELGIUM. 'By R. C. K. Ensor. (Home Univer gate, London, and William Brig- never pushed sity Library.) Williams & Nor-l 5. g0004 Stewart, KINGSTON ONTARIO, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1913 -- sive and authoritative volume on Bel- gium This is a sound, sensible book on that country which will give readers what they require. Mr. En- sor writes with encyclopaedic know- ledge of his subject, yet he conveys with lucidity the historical and oth- er information that, carries convic- tion as well as instruction. Here is the epitome of all that can be said about Belgium Mr. Ensor admir- ably shows how Belgium has been presented in a new lighi. "They have seen a nation where they had supposed that there was only a ggo- graphical expression They have seen martial courage where they had forgotten it had been famous for centuries", It is good to be re- minded now that its nobility headed the crusades, and that its' common people established the first free city life north of the Alps. He emphasis- es their nationality even though they have no national language. He deals with the influence of geography on the character and destinies of the jelgian people before he passes on to describe their more general char- acteristics Then is traced /for us the glorious epochs in the. history of the country hefore we come to those evil days when Belgium was "the cock-pit of Eurcpe." Once the king- dom was established we are shown the social conditions and the ambi- tious art and literature of modern Jelgium SIR JOHN FRENCH, By Cecil Chisholm, M. A. McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Toronto, Publishers. Price, 50¢c. R, Ug- low & Co., City. A particularly timely sent is this authentic the commander-in-chief ish Expeditionary Force -which is fighting the battles of liberty /and equality on the continent. Field- Marshall Sir Evelyn Wood, V. C., contributes a briet introduction, pay- ing 4 worthy tribute to a worthy sol-| dier. The biography is not a lengthy one, but it is carefully and accurate- ly compiled. It reveals the man to us as he is-- a student as well as a soldier, a man who can afford to await his chance, and, while wait ing, to improve every moment. He himself forward, ne' never sought preferment, but labored that he might deserve it. And when it came, as ultimately it did, French was well-fitted for the task devolv- ing upon him. His masterly work with the cavalry forces in the Sou- dan campaign and "in South Africa proved his worth. During his com- mand of Aldershot camp he revolu- tionized training methods. Then came the Ulster troubles and his resigna- tion. Nothing, however, could ob- secure his military genius or dim the fame of his daring ipittative in ac Ive service. When the great war came and the nation looked around for a trusted and an ideal leader, French was the one man to be sel- ected. The nation's faith in him will not be misplaced. His mas- terly retreat from Mons won for him, from his French allies, the title of "the modern Marlborough." Inevitably, perhaps, says the auth- or, French suggests Napoleon in cer- tain subtle traits of character rather than in personality. His rapidity of thought, for instance, has probab- iy not been equalled since Napoleon set Europe by the ears. Although his temper is irascible it is not enduring. He never nurses hatreds or broods over 'trifles. He is impervious to the wiles of flattery or the snares of favouritism. To read his despatch- es is to find praise lavishly given to subordinates but no mention of self. He has, indeed, mastered the art of being great enough to allow others to be great. You feel that you are safe with French. Nothing, you know, will ever upset the cool sanity of his reasoning, the balanced decis- ion"of his judgments. This impres- sion of certainty is strengthened by the distinctly masterful carriage of the man. His short, stocky figure, like General Grant's, suggests that fatigue is unknown to him. This is indedd the case. His mind, too, is as tireless as his body. One might sum him up as the beau-ideal, not only of the cavalry spirit, but of the scientifi¢ soldier. \ He can lead a cavalry charge with the dash of a Hotspur, and he can plan out a cam- paign with the masterly logic of a Marlborough, . The biography eloses with a re- print of the famous Mons despatch, as forwarded to the War office by General French. It reveals him as a writer of parts, as a master of lucid and incisive English. It might well be printed in our school histories, nay merely as a vivid historical do- cument, but as a model of English prose. - ba me lr---- LITTLE COMRADE. -- By Burton K. Stevenson. MeClel- land, Goodchild & Stewart, Toron- ta, Publishers. Price, $1.20. R. -- Uglow & Co; City. Doubtless the present great war, like the American Civil War, will furnish the material and the back- ground for many an interesting and inciting novel.. Already Mr. Steven- book at pre- biography of of the! Brit- 4 he is bound to have many imitators. Let us hope that they will keep up to the high standard-which he has set. 'Little Comrade, a Story of the Great War" is a thrilling tale of mystery, love and international in- trigue, Jaid during the first few weeks of the war. Vividly the auth- or pictures the irresistable advance of the German hosts, the attack up- on the forts of Liege and the gal- lant defence the Belgians. Ap- | parently Mr. venson knows the scenes of his story at first hand, son has started the movement, and | white, surgeon's. and this idea senseless - waste is emphasized throughout the book. In the first chapter Bloem disappears from the book, but Stewart is caught up in the maelstrom of the Belgian ecam- paign. Then follow some exciting weeks as he and his "little. comrades" struggle heroically to elude the Ger- mans and find a haven in the Bel- gian lines. Through many hardships and adventures Stewart passes suc- cessfully and finally comes into the presence of General Joffre himself, where he is decorated with, the rib- bon of the legion. Always the note fine, wasted, hands are of useless, war sounds clear and distinct throughout the boek: There is no glory about the war, as the author sees it. ; The "little comrade" is a young and beautiful Frenchwoman of Al- sace, who is seeking to escape to France with important plans of Ger- man fortifications. She throws her- felf upon the mercy of Stewart, and the story of their slipping through the clutches of that marvellous piec: of machinery, the Gerfaan army reads like a romance. There 'are many hairbreadth escapes, all told with much dash and spirit. They witness the mobilization, the cross- ing of the Meuse and the attack on Belgium, and meanwhile fall in love with each other. Both are injnred by bullets. and while Stewart seeks heip for his wounded comrade tha Germans attack and burn the village they are in Vainly he seeks her, and is at last compelled to go on and deliver to Joffre the letters she fervently entrusted to his care. In the last chapter the duthor, as a sidelight, pictures a hospital scene in France In one of the cots lies the "little comrade", recovering from her wounds, and confident that somewhere, sometime, they will meet again. Apparently the author in- tends to continue the story in an- other hook It will be awaited with much interest < THE PRESENT HOUR By Percy MacKaye. The MacMillan Company Of Canada, Toronto, Publishers. Price, $1.25. Mr. MacKaye is well-known as one on? the leading American peets of the present day. His verse ranks high for its noble thought and .its heauty of expression, no less than for the vigorous, wholesome truths he proclaims. Some of the songs in the present volume are soul-stir- ring. Amid the clamour of war, when the Empire is fighting a life and death struggle for freedem and democracy, it is helpful to hear an American poet lift up his clear- sounding voice in commendation and brotherly encouragement. In *"'Am- erican Neutrality," a sonnet in which he attains a high note of ex- cellence, he sums up 'the better feel ing of the republic in one masterly sentence: '"'Being 'American, our souls cannot keep neutral and keep true." Re The first part of the present vol- ume is devoted to war sonnets and poems of unusual excellence. In them is unmistakably censure of the iermans, pity for the Belgians and a fine spirit of hope for the allied cause. To quote the sonnet above referred to: AMERICAN NEUTRALITY. shall we Keep an armed neu- trality our own souls? our lips, seek to hold our How With That eclipse And hide the wound sympathy, Baying: 'One's might be Kindled to wrath, were the whips Of truth."+Great God! red Apo- calypse Flamés eon the {blinded world: and what do we? Our souls belie passion in of our sharp neighbor differs; he we to wield A Peace! do we ery? Peace is the god- like plan We love and ded'cate our children to: Yet Englaud's cause is ours; the rights of man, Wihich little Belgium battles for anew, Shall we recant?, No!--Being Ameri. can, Our souls cannot help keep neutraland keep true. - To Canadians he extends ' hearty greetings as to kin-folk fighting in a notable cause. A fine note of brotherhood breathes in this impas- sion poem, which should find a wide circulation in the Dominion. MEN OF CANADA. Men of Canada, * Fellow Americans, Proud our hearts beat for you over the ler: Proud of the fight you wage, Proud of your valiant youth Sailing to battle for freedom and order. ~ On our own battlefields _ Many's the bout we had-- Yankee, Canadian, redcoat and ranger: But our old drotherhood, ; Saqneh the Shoiits in our now to share in your danger. Ah, it's a weary thing Waiting and watching here, Numbing , ourselves to a frozen neu. trality; Yet, in a world at war, 'Tis our good t th ke Patient to forge rou ace of nality: Though, then, our part be Peace, Yet our free fighting souls League with, your own 'gainét the workd-lust of Vandals; Yea in the dreary night, We, with your women, weep And for vour shroudless dead burn our shrine candies: = Bo, by the guniess law Of our same borderiine, By dur wouls' faith, that no border can sever, Freedom! --now may your fight, Waging the death of war, Silence the demons of cannon forever. Kin-folk of Canada, So may vour allied arms» Smite with is legions the Lord of Diso: rder. ' speed your noble cause! save your gallant sons! The poems of peace, which com Norise the latter part of the maintain the same standard of ex- a of waste and futility and horror of} ,iand compact little God . Would we might sail with them--over "the' border. © Space permits only a b tion, rief quota- GOETHALS, A man weht down to Panama Where mitny a man had died Te slit the sliding mountains And lift the ernal tide: A mag plo: Panama, And the wm ns stood aside The Power that wrought the tide and peak Wrought And mightier the the Ore who made He made the engineer And the good God he made To cleave the hemisphere > . sear; the 'sthmus Goethals » So from our age three glants loom I To vouch . man enturons soml; yeak, from his pe ¥. where tha 3 ans meet, Goethals--heside his goal, A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY By Clement C. J. Webb. Williams & Norgate, London, W, C. and Wilk liam Briggs, Toronto, Publish. ers. 256 Pages. Price, 35¢ and 75. : This is another of those handy volumes of the Home University Library series, of which over a hundred have already been issued. Each is written by a! man who is a thorough master of his subject To write a bock on philo- sophy without a dull page from cov- er to cover is in itself no mean feat. Mr. Webb has done yet more, because he has enabled the man who knows nothing "about philosophy to obtain some knowledge of all the teaching of all the great Thinkers from the earliest time. This has been set forth =o clearly and simply without any descent into superficiality that the work must take an unique place among serious books . henceforth Here is no ephemeral production that will be excelled by the next on the subject, but a final and conclusive' summary of what has been thought and taught by the most profound in all the ages. It has bean admitted that two of the most popular successes of the now established Home University Li-! brary have been achieved by the "Problems of Philosophy" by Hon. | Bertrand Russell and "Ethics" by| Prof. Moore. To them Mr. Webb's "History of Philosophy" furnishes! an able companion, but it may go further, for in its more direct assis- tance to the most rudimentary en- quirer it may lead many others on to the study of the other volumes. The whole history of philosophy is the narrative of a discussion that has been constantly carried on from the sixth century betore the Christ ian era to our twentieth century. Plato had his predecessors, among them Socrater who showed him the way out of the doubt of the very pos- sibility of true knowledge, ' It wae! Plato who gave us the werd "ideas" | though in modern English it usually | means something very different from | what it did to him, for he regarded | it as the Form. Like Bacon he lit his! torch at evemy man's candle, but he! was really a eqntemplator of supre-' me goodness. If he was mystical, ! Aristotle was more cautious and pra- tical. The Epicureans were regard- ed as sensualists, but the Stofos wir- tually created a religion which cane! to be contrasted with Christianity. Marcus Aurelius has been surpass ed in popularity by St. Paul, whose philosophy Was been spread through tige 'Bible, To follow the path of the later thinkers Mr. Webb's little book must be read. The views of ' Pythagoras, Francis Bacon, Descar- tes, Berkeley and Locke, Kant who was waked from dogmdtic slumber, Fichte, Hegel, Darwin, Herbert Spen- | cer, down to the American' WHHam James, are all clearly embodied in| pages that form a telescope whereby | the reader can be the spectator of all | thought and learn the noblest theor-| les as to existence. A volume with, this high, aim, coupled with such clarity of method, is one which can | give incalculable assistance to every- one of a serious bent. The April Magazine. "The Steelhead' the great gamy trout that comes out of the ocean, is| the subject of an article by the well! known writer Bonnycastle Dale in| the April issue of Rod and Gun in| Canada. "The Wise Fish" by William Hubbard, is a humorous ichthyologi- | cal dialogue in which Sol Pike, Jerry Minnow, Bill Tench, Peter Perch, Johnny Roach, Tim Gudgeon, Jimmy | Grayling and others.of their ilk take part. The Forest Fire Problem in Al-| gouquin Park is dealt with by W. L.| Wise. In addition there are many i her stories and articles of interest to the readers of an outdeot magazine. vent it, should never wages : a 1 Do You Know the Origin i Easter Bunny? S them? UPPOSE the kiddies ask you why the rab- bit belongs to Easter, what will you tell Perhaps you would like to know the legend which established the bunny as a symbol of this particular season. Many years ago, Here it is: during a cruel war in Europe, a duchess, with her two children and An old servant, fled for safety to a little ob- scure village in. the mountains. She found the people very poor, and one thing that sur- prised her much was that they used no eggs. She learned that they had heard of hens. So never seen or en the old servamt : ~ went off to get tidings of his master and the war, he brought back: with him some of these barnyard birds. The simple wllage folk were greatly in- terested in the strange fowl, and when they saw the tiny" yellow chickens breaking their way out of the eggs they were full of del ght. But the duchess was saddened by the thought that Easter was drawing near, and that she . had no gifts for the little mountain children. Then an idea came to her. some of the eggs. She would use So she made bright dyes out of herbs and roots, and colored the eggs, because (he spring was beginning to color the earth leaves and flowers. with Then the children were invited to visit the duchess, and she told = them stories of the glad Easter Day, and af- terwards bade each make a nest of moss out of the bushes. of, the little fea When they had all partaken st provided in their honor, and went back to the woods. to look at their nest lo! in each were five colored eggs! "What a good hen it must have been to lay such beautiful eggs" said one child. "It could not have other. "The eggs that been a hen," sald an- the hens lay are white. It must have been a rabbit that jumped out from the tree when I made my nest." And all the children agreed that it 'was the rabbit and to this day in that little moun- tain village and in the cou » it the mystic bunny is and gifts at Easter to have been loving and | The Man on Watch | The bars were closed on Good Fri- day and the boys were unable to get a drink of bock beer, the usual Easter beverage. "Bed and breakfast' is what King: ston will give the commissioners to the General Assembly in June. Will they get their breakfast in their bed on Sunday morning, as Harry Laud- er sings. With the wolf. bounty increased from $15 to $20, travel Frontenac will be rendered much safer for Kingston people who some- | times have to take long drives. The Lampman has a vision of the heavyweights of the police force, who are appointed dog catchers, chasing! untagged curs through. the streets. It will be good for their physical well-being, and may develop some marathon runners here. "O For a Thousand Tongues," sighs a Kingston lad who has been invited to a taffey pull at an Alfred street home : Well "Tom" McAuley, what have: you to fay to it? A bookseller fined for flying the Union Jack over the street line. The Lampman thought that the old Union Jack could do no wrong whether flying in a backyard or on a church. ia a time when it is just a rag, ana that time is when it runs up against! a Kingston by-law. How many cabbies comply with | the town ordinance regarding the dis- | | playing of their license number and a copy of the cab tariff in their ve- hicles? It seems strange that the cocking main enthusiasts should pick a night for their bird scrap when "Dan" Couper was attending Town Council | meeting, and invade his immediate neighborhood. The Rideau Ward fa- ther should at ledst have been sent an invitation to be present at a funec- tion of that kind so near his home. The Lampman read with Anterest thé learned discourse of "X" with regard to the versification of the Psalms of David. To "X"" he would | like to say that when he picks up a psalter he likes to see the Huyndredth Our wants, if we can possibly pre- Psalm labelled as such and not an-_ shippers see Pealm 23 on in North| Apparently there! try far beyond pposed to bring eggs e little children who kind"during the year, they' appear surprised when on open- ing their book to see that they are to sing some other Psalm. Now that spring is officially here, if 'there are any native-born Canad- ians in Kingston who have even a sneaking regard for the German peo- ple who applaud the devilish sea deeds of their fighting representa- tives, please let themselves be known 20 that they may be interned in Fort Henry _ + The Lampman sympathizes with the Fire Chief who laments that his department is the town goat. The Fire Brigade and thie Market Clerk can shake with each other, as both are given multitudinous duties to per form, being looked upon as Jaeks-of- all-trades, Now the Peelers have to chase the dogs that violate the law. The good priest, who advised pec- ple: to go and buy all-day suckers with one-cent bits they proposed to put on the collection plate, should have whispered it, for the wee lad- {dies may think they are included, apd carry their Sunday School penay to the candy shop next day. The Lampman has noted the pro- test raised by a Frontenacer against paying three dollars for a license to shoot deer. That is the fovernment figure, hit or mies, and it must be paid, just like the townspeople must pay the farmers fifty and sixty cents a dozen for eggs in winter when they are not worth it. Those who do not want to pay three dollars for a hunt- ing license have two privileges: They can stay at home like ninety-nine hundredths of the people, or they can go ahead and shoot without one and take chances. ~--THE TOWN WACHMAN How Prices Soar. Ottawa Free Press Simultaneously we are given the | details of "funny business by which binoculars originally offered by a merchant "unfriendly" to the Gov- {ernment were subsequently sold to the Government by "friendlies' at an advance of 62 per cent. plus 10 per | cent. paid to a Toronto man for assistance, The binoculars were bought in the United States for $5,318, including duty, .and sold to the Government for $8,632, a profit for the middlemen of $3,314. Tamed, t {| "Wombat used to be a great out- {door man and all-around sport. Is he reconciled to married life?" "1 think so. I called on him re- exceed our nounced as a "selection". 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