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S, under the name "GINO" Pills, Trial treat- met free if you write National Drug & Chetrical Co. of Canada, Limited, Toronto, Pure Marmalade . Orosse and Blackwell Chivers and Son's In 7 1b. tins 841-3 Princess St. D. COUPER Phore 76. Prompt Delivery. Every 10¢ Packet of WILSON'S FLY PADS Ad KILL MORE FLIES THAN : La SB CATCHER HH. MILNE Blettric Carpet and Varun suing wing an : ying. Cleveland, Standard and Falcon Bicycles. Phone 542. 272 Bagot St. | NEW TELESCOPE WILL BE IN OPERATION NEXT WINTER. | Huge Instrumént to Be Mounted em Little Saanich Hill Near Victoria, B.C, Has a Seventy-Two Inch Reflecting Mirror.--Star and Ne- bulae Photographs May Be Taken Now With Far Greater Speed. .. Canada is having built for her use the biggest telescope in the world. It is expected that it will be in uper- ation next winter. It is being con- structed for the Dominion Govern- ment Observatory and will be placed on Kittle Saanich hill near Victoria, B.C., says Francis A Carman in To- ronto Saturday Night. The outstanding feature of the new te pe is that it is to have a reflector, or mirror seventy-two inches in' diameter. The largest telescope now in operation is that at the Carnegie Solar Observatory at Mt. Wilson, California. The mirror of this instrument has a diameter ol sixty inches. The Carnegie Observa- tory has for some time Been experi- menting for a mirror with a diame- (ter of oné hundred inches; but so far the success has been discourag- ing. A curious obstacle to the task, which would not occur to the lay- man, is that a mirror of this diame- ter is apt to bend under its own weight, The superiority of the new Cana- dian telescope to. the largest now in operation is by no means fully ex- pressed by a comparison of the dia: meters of their mirrors, The mirror on the Dominion instrument is only lone~fifth- - larger than that of the telescope at Mount Wilson; but it will attract nearly fifty per cent. more light. The exact percentage is forty-four. The result of this is that the light in the image of the stars will be much more intense, An observation may be taken in two- thirds of the time necessary for the smaller instrument, This superiority is brought out into sharper relief by comparing the Dominion telescope with that now being used at Ottawa. The lens of the Ottawa instrument, which is a refracting telescope, has a diameter of only fifteen inches, The new re- flector will be nearly five times as big as the old lens and will gather nearly twenty-five times as much light. By it an observation--for ex- ample a photograph--may be taken in little more than one-twenty-fifth of the time necessary for it at Otta- wa. (It may be explained parenthe- tically that a 'reflecting' telescope, such as the new Dominion inatru- ment, has a "reflecting" mirror in the lower end of the tube, while the "reflecting" and more usual teles- copes, such as that now in use at Ottawa, has a lens or "refracting" mirror in the upper end). There are a number of telescopes in use which rank in size between the new and tLe oid Dominion teles- copes. Among them are a twenty- four inch refractor in Arizona, thirty-six inch refractors at Ann Har- bor, Michigan, and at Lick Observa- tory, Mount Hamilton, - California; and one of forty inches at Hamburg, in Germany. The photographs of the "canals in Mars' have been tak- en by the twenty-four inch instru- ment in Arizona. The question which "the man in the street" at once wants to ask about a new telscope is '"'What will it do that has not ne be- fore?" I put this gqueation Dr, W. F. King, C.M.G., chief astronom- er for the Dominion, and I put it to Dr. J. 8. Plaskett, who is to have charge of the big 'scope at Victoria. The answers I-got were full to the brim of scientific caution. * "It will assist us in solving the problems of the motions and dis- tances of the stars and nebulae," each sald, each speaking separately and without consultation. I suggested that that was rather a4 general answer, an answer that might have been given by several generations of astronomers, and ask- ed for something more specific. would enable them to take a photo- graph of nebulae or comets. But further they would not go. Of course the size of the reflector and the con- sequent greater speed with which photographs can be taken by would materially assist in all ob- servations made with it. i es BIGGEST IN THE WORLD|" tense--and they suggested that it Nas DOCTORS AT THE FRONT. Canadian Mecdical Men Are Now Recognized by War Office. At a banquet tendered recently te Lieutenant-Col. Walter McKeown, M.D., and Major John Amyot, M.D, who are going to the front as mem- bers of the staff of the Base Hospial of 1,040 beds, which the University of Toronto will establish in France, some interesting facts were disclosed as to the part that Canadian doctors are playing in the present war. Dr. Edmund E. King, an old military man himpgelf, stated thai though in the South African war doctors from this country went to the sceme of conflict, this was the first\time that Great Britain bad accepted from the overseas dominions hospital corps that were units in themselves and not directly officered by physicians chosen from the staff of the War Of- fice. It showed, he thought, a grow- ing recognition of the scientific standing of the men of the Lritish colonieg/ that such should be the case. It was an outcome of the new Imperialism. Dr. McKeown also re- vealed a fact about his collehgue Major Amyot, that jis not generally known to thé Canadian public. In university circles the latter is known as one of the greatest living bacter- fologists, and his discoveries with regard to the sterilization -of witéf ® not only saved many lives in Canadian camps in this country dnd abroad, but they have been adopted by the Government of Franee, and #re about to be adopted by the Brit- ish War Office. Dr. Amyot though of French descent is a native of the city of Toronto. Other speakers pointed out that the reason Dr. Mc- Keown and others were going to France was that there was likely to be a great shortage of surgical specialists in the heavy fighting that was expected in the near future. That was why men like the latter, though over military age, and busy practitioners were making the grea: sacrifice, financial and otherwise, in- volved In going to the scene of con flict. It is interesting to note tha! the new practice of the British Vac Office of giving medical men mil: tary rank enables them to exercise a great deal of authority over soldier: who are careless in carrying ou sanitary regulations. They can nov order the stupid, refractory man whe refuses treatment or who disobey sanitary regulations into: solitar) confinement. The recognition of the value of preventive medieine and rapid expert surgery in war has ma- terially affected the death rate from sickness and wou~ds in this confiict A Scientific Farmer. Professor Alexander Macphail, o Queen's University, Kingston, whe has been offered the appointment of professor of Civil Engineering at the Royal Military College, in succession Professor W. T. Butler, is a bro- ther-in-law of Dr. Andrew Muacphall of Montreal, the well-known physi- cian and writer. The Macpbail's are Prince Edward Islanders of Scottish descent, and, although the scenes o! their onal activity are Monut- real and Kingston, they still retain -an-dntimate connection with the Is- land province. Both own farm: there, and both operate them on sci- entific principles, with the object of demonstrating to their neighbors the value of scientific and intensive Marming. Professor Alexander Mac- phail is still considered so much a: "Islander" that at a provincial bye election in November, 1911, he was elected to the Assembly for the fourth district of Queen's County a an Independent Conservative, The election practically determined the fate of the then existing Libera! Government, and ai the general elec- tion the following December, follow- ing the formation of the presen Government, Professor Macphail wa re-elected by acclamation. He stil: holds the seat, but in the event oi his accepting the Military Colleg appointment, which is a position under the Crown, he would have to resign Professor Macphail was educated at the public school at his native place, Orwell, at Prince of Wales' College, Charlottetown, and at Mc @ill University, Montreal. When h graduated in the faculty of dpplied They | geience of the last-named institution with the degree of B.Sc., he carried AHA Div: soaduntion ho. Tor & 0 r n he, a time, engaged with the Geological of Canada and in railway work. War Orders a Boon. Officials in touch with factory con- ditions in Ontario are of the opin- that but for the war and the orders which have sprung therefrom industrial conditions would have a ES 3 PRIVATE ARMIES, The Gaekwar of Baroda Controls Over 9,000 Men. Although t:chnically legally 'for- bidden, there are several people in Great Britain who, with the approval of royalty, either tacitly or openly expressed, keep private armies. The best known of these, perhaps, is the Duke of Atholl's Highlanders, num- bering over 200 men of all ranks, which has furnished at various times guards of honor to our present King, as well as to his father, while many years ago it was publicly reviewed by Queen Victoria, who presented it with a néw stand of colars. The officers as- well as the men of the Duke of Atholl's private army are recruited entirely from among the tenantry of his estates, and at the present moment practically all of them are serving as regular soldiers at the front in ome or other of the Highland regiments, mostly in the Black Watch. The majority of the Duff High- landers, the famous private body- guard maintained by the Dukes of Fife, are also fighting for King and country in France and Flanders. The peculiarity of this private army is that in peace times the corps, which numbers 100 men, are still armed, and uniformed exactly as were their | foréfathers three or four centuries ! ago. The Marquesses of Donegall have for centuries kept up a show of both military and naval strength on their Irish estates, which include Lough Neagh. Of this sheet of water, the largest in the British Isles, the reigning marquess for the time being is Hereditary Lord High Admiral. The present holder of the title, it is interesting to note, succeeded to it 80 that he was at that time, without doubt, the youngest "admiral" on record. Quite an imposing army is that maintained in Borneo by Sir Charles Brooke, better known as Rajah Brooke of Sarawak, the force being made up of about 500 natives under an English commandant, Mention might also be made of the private armies maintained by Indian feudatory prinees, beginning with the Nizam-of Hyderabad, who pays, fe-ds, and clothes a splendidly drilled and mag ently-équipped forée of 8,000 picked warriors, to private armies, composed of no more than. ten or a dozen mén, says Lloyd's Weekly News, which com- prise the bodyguards of the chiefs of the tiny statelets islanded in the forests of Central India. So far as actual numbers go, it is probable that the Gaekwar of Baro- da owns the biggest private army in the world. It numbers in all 9,000 men. The Maharajah of Mysore, too, has a big army of 4,000 men, which, like those of other Indian princes, has been placed at the service of Britain in this great crisis, Battleships' Bible Names, The custom of giving Bible names to men-of-war at one tMpe prevailed extensively in the British navy. To- day we believe there "i only one vessel, the battleship Goliath, which has a Biblical appellation. The names are chiefly pagan like Her- cules, or adjectival like Audacious, In the seventeenth century, hov- ever, the British naval fleet included vessels named Abraham, Begjamin, Ephraim, John the Baptist, Jona- than, King David, Rutk, and Solo- mon, In Nelson's tne @there was both an Adam and Zve and an Eden, but by then ths use eof Biblical names for engines of destruction be- gan to be zat of favor. At a still earlier dw.te the practice was very much more common. One warship, commissioned in the time of Henry VII1., bore the name of Christ, and smong the fighting fleet of Henry V.'s time were ships named Jesus, Holy Ghost, Peter Paul, and Pater- noster, The falling off does not mean that we are less pious than our fathers, but that we have a better sense of the fitness of things. The Other One. A tourist relates the following reminiscence: "I was traveling through England on foot with a knapsack on my back and in com- pany with a facetious friend of mine, and in our wanderings we came to an inn. It was late at night, but by the bright moonlight we were able to see that the sign bore a counter- feit présentment of two asses' heads, with this legend over the picture, 'When shall we three meet again?' We stood for a moment gasing at it. Then my friend went to the inn door Lt i f fh al 2 in 1904, when only-about & year-old; | WHIG, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1015 Outflanks all others. 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