" PAGE TEN HE WRITES A LETTER J, MoDONALD MOWAT AD. DRESSES M. A. MACDONALD He Suggests a Big Recruiting Cam paign in Province of British Col- umbiaHe Calls For a Real Politi- cal Truce, J. McDonald Mowat, a former Kingstonian, writes the following Jetter to M. A. McDonald, Vancouver, B.C. It is published {n the Vancou- ver Sun: My dear Macdopald- ly virtue of your position you have bec¢a active during the last few months in criticis- ing the local government and point- ing out its shortcomings and the con- sequent crisis in the affairs of the province. In your views on these matters, as you know, I quite agree. But the thought somewhat insistent- ly arises, is this the time to labor these questions, or ratien, there not' a problem of much more vital fmportance calling for the united ef- forts of all parties and fa ions in the province, in the Domin , in the empire? The. empire, f by the greatest crisis in its his! 5 fight- ing desperately for ite « ce and for the maintenance « :als of life und conduct for v stands The most optimistic cannot honestly suggest that the Aghting has been in favor of the Allies. Or the eastern front the Russians have been and are being pushed steadily back with en- ormous losses, Id the west, after ten months' fighting, Germany Is still in occupation, in practical pos- session, of most of Belgium and nor- theastern France, and the war, with its attendant devastation, is there be- > ing carried on. If the war should terminate un- favorably, we will not be troubled about the crisis in British Columbia. It may then be German Columbia: or simply Columbia, or, perhaps, Alvon- slebenia, and the only way to prevent this Is to make a reality of the call for the last dollar and the last man. I would suggest that even contin- uance, in the meantime, of govern- ment by the czar is vastly preferable to permanent government by the Kaiser. What then is to be done? By each one the thing nearest to his hand. By you and others before the public eye I would suggest a general recruiting campaign. Our population is, say, one-sixth of that of the Brit- ish Isles. There 3,000,000 men are sald to be under enlistment for for- eign service. In Canada we have, at most, 160,000 or 350,000 less than our due proportion. Why? Because our young men are less brave or en- terprising than their brothers in the old land? The blood-stained tren- ches, the graves of our dead In Franee and Flanders, give a trium- phant negative to that. Then why? Simply because, thousands of miles away from the battlefront and learn- ing what is taking place there only in such measure as is allowed to fil- ter through, the fierce realities of the struggle have not yet struck in. Most of us read of it as an interesting nar- rative of something that does not directly and personally concern us. For this reason you can see, almost any evening, at a game of some ama- teur ball league, or at the bathing ches or on the downtown streets, undreds, thousands of young fel- lows splendidly fit, just as courage- ous and patriotic as those who have gone forward, but to whom the call to service has not yet gone home, |To Help Nature Shed a Bad Complexion Beauty devotees Are enthusiastic over the beautiiying ualities of mercolized . Nothing Hscovered within re- ca nt years accomplishes so much, so , &t such small pense. rincipal reason for its wonderful merit 1s that it works in harmony with physiolog ca! laws. Ine stead of hiding comple ion defects it them: Ut #ctuuily 'akes off d, faded, sallow, freckled or surface skin, gently, gradually, causing no inconvenience. is Na- ture's way of renewing complexions. When the matural process is retarded because of defigient circulation or nerve tone, mercolized wax comes 10 the res- cueand hastens the skin shedding. The new complexion which appears is a na« tural one, youthful, healthy, exquisite- iy beautiful. 1f you've mever tried mer- colized wax, get am ounce of it at the drugstore, use at n t like cold cream, 'washing it off in tl morning. Another natural beautifying treat- ment--for wrinkled skin--¢ to bathe the face in a lotion made hb. dissolv~ ing an ounce of pow§éred suxolfte in a half-pint witch hazel. Ti re- markably and instantaneously effective, and who only need"¥o realize the em- ergency to induce them to crowd the recruiting offices faster than they could be equipped. . Would not you and others in pub- lic life be doing the very highest service if you would establish a real political tryfe and devote your time and talents to. an energetic platform recruiting campaign, here, there, ev- erywhere where you can reach the young fellows who, if they only knew the necessity, would not hesitate to answer the summons? What an in- fluence it would have if, say, the at- torney-general, Justice Murphy, Sir C. H. Tupper and yourself' would appear on the platform WER different parts of the city and ppov- fnce, telling the plain, grim truth of the situation and sounding the bugle call to duty, The settlement of the erisis in British Columbia can wait. Will you not devote your time and talents to this transcendent question that we may be sure there will still be a British Columbia to have a crisis in? PITH OF NEWS. Despatches From Near and Distant Places. Butter is being experted from Ca- lifornia to the Antipodes. Recruiting officers will make a speclal appeal to Canadians to eniist. Eight full cases of dynamite have been stolen from a Cobalt mine pow- der house. John Campbell, a Howick township | farmér, committed suicide by cutt- ing his throat. The Ontario Medical Council is considering the question of recipro- city with Britain. The acting Fire Chief, of Toronto dismissed District Chief Gunn for insubordination. Sir Rodmond Roblin was on the stand four hours in the investiga- tion in Manitoba. A Toronto fire ranger named Chas. H. Porter, 12 Halton street, was drowned near Sudbury. Stephen Nicholson, a noted Short- horn cattle breeder of West Wil- liams township is dead. Colonel Currie is 10 the Highlands of Scotland recuperating from the effects of gas poisoning. Col. John A. Currie, M.P., of the 48th Highlanders, is sailing from Britain on Saturday for Canada. Lieut.-Col. J. E. Cohoe, Niagara Falls has been appointed Command- er of infantry at London Camp. Red Deer Liberals have. re-nomin- ated Dr. Michael Clark as their can- didate for the House of Commons." Major-General Hughes will sail on Saturday for England. He will visit the Canadian: troops tn the fighting line. At the Ontario Medical Councili meeting Sir James Grant advised greater specialization in the care of infants. The United States Embassy at Constantinople reports 108 British and French prisoners in the hands of the Turks. Alpsre well treated. Physicians who are at the bed- side of Archbishop Quigley df Chi- cago announce that the prelate is slowly sinking. The archbishop is in Rochester, N.Y. General Barond Wessels, ék-mem- ber of the council of defense of the union of South Africa, was acquit- ted at his second triel on a charge of treason. A stenographer employed in the office of E. T. Lightbourne, Toronto, near the scene of the fake hold-up, says she jwas attacked by gunmen, who stole $200. Rev. Gordon 8. Jury, B.A., is re- tiring from the pastorate of the Bap- tist church at Cobourg at the end of this month. He intends to pursue a post-graduate course. The death occurred on Tuesday at Alexandria Bay, N.Y., of Frank Grif- fin, a well-known merchant. He had conducted a general store at Alexan- dria Bay for many years.: At Prague, hemia, the newspa- per Narodni Listy, leading organ. of of Young Czech party, has been sup- pressed by the police. It has been alleged to be an organ of peace pro- pagandists. Five hundred and fitty men and women crowded into a temporary structure for a moving picture scene were imperilled by fire in New York on Tuesday by the premature ex- plosion of powder which was to have been used later to demelish the building. 'Several actresses were se- verely burned. Newspaper Advertising the Best. We have the very best in Cooked Hams, Jellied Tatigue, Jellfed Hocks, Pressed Ham and Veal, Bologna and Head Cheese. P.8.--All our meats are kept. i cold in our mod sn = 10 handling, Orders sent to any part of city. needs BGAGE, Kingston P Brass Simple Mixture Many J oni "oraise the bi ture of pad bark, ne et wn ae Adler i . the most * THO ever ig even' used sue aj E relieves almost ANY I of constipation, sour or gassy aa . MINUTE af | he de fied Sh a -- -ka cannot CA gripe and the rprising. G. W. Princess cor, E This remed, OUGH bowel William C. Freeman, New 'York when addressing the premium sec- tion of the big conventions in Chica- go of delegates representing 'the Ad- vertising Clubs of the World, sald of newspaper advertising: That he considered newspaper space the best for advertising. He has found, he sald, that stores offering premiums were usually the largest newspaper advertisers. "I feel that newspaper | advertising stands so pre-eminent as a business builder that 'it need never fear the competition of other forms of advertising, providing its advocates go about their business without wasting time in slamming competition. There are times 'when a man should feel too proud to fight. The newspaper advertising man should always feel too proud to fight any other form of advertising. 4 THE DAILY BRITISH Rg HR Tat TOBACCO FOR SOLDIERS Postoffice Will Carry Out Plan to Provide For The Men. The Government has approved of a plan suggested by the: Overseat Club, Amalgamatéd Canadian Toba- ¢co Funds, to provide the soldiers at the front with tobacco, and it will be put inte effect at the Kingston post office. The scheme is one whicl will be carried out in all the post of fices in Canada. It is proposed , to have subscrip tion lists at the post office made ou in the name of the Cverseas Club To bacco Fund, the money to be paic over to the Bank of Montreal by the postmaster. The Club proposes also to chain te the counter in the post office, a tir box upon which the following wil be marked "Please leave your chang: for the benefit of the Soldiers' Tobac co Fund, administered in Canada and delivered through the Overseas €lub.," The money received through these boxes is alee to be paid direet to the banks as dbove, and as a box becomes full it w\ll be removed and simultaneously replaced. Military Pigeons. A military pigeon system is still maintained in France, owing to the success of experiments made during the siege of Paris, when, of 302 car- riers liberated from balloons, 73 re turned safely. These messages photographed on colle dion, enclosed in goose quills, at- tached by silk threads to the upper part of the tail feathers. The modern French carrier pigeon is a eross between the biset and the Ilelgian "traveller." The prevail ing type is large, with a long body head, neck and beak. The female lays two eggs at a time, from which are usually 'hatched a male and a female. Incubation lasts eighteen days,.and both parents ghare in the process of upbringing. Birds cho- sen for swift work are fed on wheat, but when they are to be put to tests of endurance their diet is small dried beans and maize with water that contains iron. Training begins when birds ar three or four monthg old. They are placed in baskets, taken a mile or so from home, and liberated. A few days later the process is repeat od at a greater distance; and so op n successive stages, until a bird lies homeward 100 miles or more At five months it wil} fly 300 miles in ten hours. A pigeon, however, fs not at its best untit four or five years old, when it can easily cover 600 or 700 miles, The average speed of a good carrier 1s twenty miles an hour, and the height at which it flies is from 450 to 500 feet. Aiding the Enemy, Sir William Ramsay, in a special article in the London Dally Express, siys Mr. Lloyd George, must add to his arduous' duties that of excluding the materials of ammunition from Germany. The responsibility for not 'declaring cotton contraband rests with the Board of Trade. Pri- vately and by a deputation the presi. dent of the Board of Trade has been urged since February to place cot- ton on the contraband list, but in vain, Fear of offending American; susceptibilitls may have been the cause of this want of action, but if £20,000,000 was to be expended in purchasing cotton destined for our adversaries there is every reason to believe that patriotism would prove good business. The Exchequer would gain at_legst £1,800,000 by pur- a low and selling in a high market. The question of de- claring cotton contraband is really | one instance of the extraordinary dislike of our ex-Government to take expert advice. British science must be organized. Doubtless the de- partments of State are too busy to, undertake the organization. But thig is not a time to stand on cere- mony or to defer to prejudices. It, is not yet too late. e war Is. unfortunately, far from . over. It this had been done at an earlier date we should have been spared the ab. surdity of seeing our Government de- partments providing our enemies with the sinews of war, Remembered the Teacher. On Friday, June 25th, the primary pupils of the junior room, Bath Pub- lic School, whorhad been dismissed the previous week, marched 'up fo the school, a little girl heading the procession, carrying a beautiful: bou- quet of white peonies and heliotrope At 2.30 p.m., the little band joined the senior class of the room, to say good-bye to 'their teacher, Miss Ad- ams, who Is leaving. After the pu- pils 'were seated, three manly boys came forward, the first reading an address of a highly complimentary character. the second presented: a splendid volume ' of: Tennyson's Poems complete while the third in a rousing voice shouted, "Three cheers for Miss Adams," Just at this mom- ent the little girl beamed as she car- tied her flowers 'to Miss Adams. Though the children looked 'very pledsing and gave their teacher a complete surprise, she found it very difficult to find words to express her sincere appreciation. The happy ga- thering closed with singing, "God Save The King." A Leather Medals. Leather medals were originally conferred as a genuine mark of hon- or, -4§ King John of France, , was forced + ' birds bore £m When yon Jolid, Chocolates ATT"S STOUT The very best for use in ill-health and convalescence' Awarded Medal and Highest Points in America at World's Fair, 1893 PURE--SOUND--WHOLESOME JOHN LABATT, LIMITED, LONDON, CANADA James M ariand, Agent, across them don't pass them by. NO PLACE LIKE HOME---IF YOU OWN IT. Six room brick veneer house on the - west side of city, for $2,150 for quick sale. Six room frame house, near Frontenac Park; with improve- ments, for, $1,550, Solid Brick house on Cle: Street, with hot water fu all improvements, stable, $3,250, Frame house on a corner With good stable, suitable for ecarfer, must be sold By May 1 $1,300, Rough cast house, six on very efay terms, $1,300, ' 8 s , Ls oy HORACE F. NORMAN Beal Estate and Insurance Office 177 Wellington St. They're a treat to eat-- Cool Shoes For Hot Days There's refreshing coolness and an unusual degree of summer style in our varied showing of FINE SHOES. Coolness counts just as much in footwear as in frocks. See the new ones in our windows to-day -- fine fitting shoes that you will enjoy eve minute and that will help you to be delicious- ly cool-and wonderfully stylish these hot days. The Sawyer Shoe Store 212 Princess Street. Phone 159. : COAL The kind you are look- ing for is the kind we se Scranton Coal Is good Coal and we guarantee prompt de- Liven Boe ees BOO! H Co. But self-interest 18 more likely t OT sMf-intere 5 > n 0 of West St. | warp a man's judgment than any- 'thipg else, : From a recipe of Charles Francatelli, Chief Cook to Queen Victoria. Published in 1865. Clean 2 lbs. cherries and a hand- ful of red currants, and bruise stones and kernels in a mortar ; place in small preserving pan with 1b. John Redpath's sugar-loafe and } pint spring-water ; boil on the stove-fire about five minutes, taking care to remove scum as it rises ; pour into a Beaver jelly-bag and filter in usual way. Mix juice with two ounces clarified isinglass, and pour into jars or mould. EXTRA GRANULATED Canada for Because it is absolutely pure and always the same, you can use SUGAR to preserve its luscious flavor for the winter days to come. For over half a century Regal has been the favorite sugar in and jelly-making--and with good reason. it according to your recipes, year altér year, with full confidence in the results. Fruit put up right, with Sagal Extra Granulated Sugar, wil keep as long as you wish, and when opened a month or ayear hence will delightyouwith ifs freshness and flavor. "Let Saal sweeten it." Get your supply of sugar in Original REDPATH Packages, and thus be. sure of the geouine- : favorite sugar, at its best. Put up in'2 and 5 Ib. Sealed Cartons and 20, 50 and 100 Ib. Bags. nin,