LONDON DIRECTORY CO. LID, " -- . WILL WE EVER WALK ON AIR? Train Of Thought Inspired By a Lett. About "Fruit-a-tives® MR. D. MCLEAN Orillia, Ont., Nov. 25th, 1914. "For over two years, 1 was troul with Constipation, Drowsiness, 1 Appetite and Headaches. medicines, but got no results and my Headaches became more day I saw your sign w a-tives' make you feel like air. This appealed to me, to tty a box. In a very short time, 1 began to feel better, ind now Z feel fine. Now I have a good ap; everything I eat, and the Headaelics are gone entirely. _much for 'Fruit-a-tives', and mend (his pleasant fruit icine toall my friends", DAN MeLEAN "FRUIT-A-TIVES' is daily proving s of rouble I tried seve severe, One 1 read 'Fruit. walking on so I decided etite, relish I cannot say too recom its priceless value in relieving case Stomach, Liver and Kidney I General Weakness, and Skin Discases, b0e. a box 6 for $2.50, trial size, On. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. 4 ho a" "3 USING \ WILSON'S \ LY PADS \ | | R LLL (TTT / will prevent the little illness of today from becoming the big sickness of tomorrow and after. For troubles of the digestive organs you ean rely on BEECHAM'S PILLS Sold everywhere. In boxes, 28 cents out. 7 7 7, "7, (\! £™ : 7a 4 This modest man, oesn't want to,dis- cover that 7th point. It would make him too. famons.... Sterling Gum 5¢ The'/-point gum PEPPERMINT AND CINNAMON FLAVOURS MADE IN CANADA rn THE LONDON DIRECTORY (Published Annually) enables traders throughout the World to communicate direct with English MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS in each class of goods. Besides being 4 complete commercial guide to Lon- Nn and 1ts suburbs the Pirentory con- tains lists of EXPORT MERCHANTS y with the goods they ship, and the Colonial and Foreign Markets they supply; > STEAMSHIP LINES arranged under the Ports to which they sail. and indicating the approxim- ate Sailings: PROVINCIAL TRADE NOTICES of leading Manufacturers Merchants, ete, tn the principal provincial towns and Industrial centres of the United om, A copy of the current edition will be forwarded freight paid, on receipt of al Order for $5. lors seeking Agencies can adver. tite their trade cards for 83 or larger advertisements from $13. | ARehureh Lane, London, B. ©. camera never flatters, re almost The often the retoucher has to be guilty. =» locks Wima; A Death Blow te the German . Ambition, SLAVS ARE DRAWING THEIR ENEMY AS FAR AS POs. SIBLE INTO RUSSIA And Making Great Sacrifices--Wheis They Want To Make a Stand They Will Do So. London, The Petrograd correspon- dent of The Dally News, Frederick Rennet, says: The bank of the Niemen forms the worst stumbling block the Germans have had to encounter. On it many thousands of bodies have been left behind by the enemy, who is still on the south bank of the river. The German efforts against the fortress of Kovno have cost .them more dearly than 'any previous attempts at storming during the eas- tern campaign. They brought up by rafl and motor their heaviest artili- ery, and tried bodily to take by main force what ordinarily would have re- quired prolonged operations. They used an entire army and spared neither men nor shells to order that they might take Kovno quickly. They lost a colossal num- ber of men in trying to prevent the garrison of the fortress from: re- pairing the damages. On the third day of their attack" the Germans became more insistent in their assaults on the western and northwestern. scetors of Kovno, which protrude for five or gix miles between the lower Niemen and the River Yessa. The Russians made a counter-at- tack, destroying three German bat- tallions and capturing many men and maching guns. Kovno Chief Obstacle. Kovno is the chief obstacle to the German effort to.obtain control on both banks of the Niemen. Hence their continued desperate efforts to reduce the fortress which is to be the base of the Russian line when the regrouping of the Uzar's armies in the south is completed. Field Marshal von Mackensen has been frustrated by the change of front of the Germans on the Narew from the southward to the eastward. When von Woyrsch"s army stepped in between the latter and the fourth Austrian army, whose purpose it was to cut off the Russians from Brest- Litowsk, this operation was foiled. The Russians fought so désperately that although Mackensen was sup- ported "by seven or eight corps, and had the best technical means of war- fare at his command---including poi sonous gases-- this attempt to pierce the Russians" front on the right bank of the Wieprz failed, and the enemy has now repulsed twenty miles lias now been repulsed twenty miles back to the River Ukherka. Russian Front Favorable, --~-- but too Experts here regard the Russian front as favorable. The Zlota Lipa- Dniester line is very secure, the Nar- cw-Bug line varies according to the stubborness of the offensive con- ducted by the Austro-Germans, and the Niemen front is secure, while the Drina-Niemen front is gradually moving to the westward. The results of the mobilized indus- tries of Russia are beginning to be observable in the armies' work in the field in which confidence daily be- comes more evident. When the Russians want to stand they will stand, but it is advisable for the purposes of this war that the Germans. should penetrate as deeply as possible into Russia. The wes- tern Allies should know this. Rus- sia's sacrifices should prove a death blow to German ambition. The sac- rifice has been very great, for Rus- sia yielded up to the German advance nearly as much space as would make another whole German Empire. I regard it not impossible that Russia will not hold more than tem- porarily even that line on which she is supposed to be withdrawing. Her main object is to maintain her arm- ies intact. No losses can cool the ardor of the Russian soldier and no sacrifices of space can break the re- solution of the Russian people to des- troy the German hydra. ' Sb i, In a Bad Way. British Medical Journal. Private Tommy Sims had had pneumonia and had been for some time in the hospital, where they treated him so well that' he was much averse to the prospect of be- ing discharged as cured. One day the doctor was taking his tempera- ture, and while Tommy had the thermometer in his mouth the doctor moved on, and happened to turn his back. Tommy saw his chance. He pulled the thermometer out of his mouth and popped it into a cup of hot tea, replacing it at the first sign of the medico's turning. When that worthy examined the thermom- eter he looked first at Tommy and then back at the thermometer and gasped: "Well, my man, you're not dead, but you ought to be!" Things Should Harmonize. Correspondent London Paper. he innumerable stories, some tragic, some humorous, concerning the African soldiers, the funniest, I think, is that of a coal- galese who was carried laid open by a shell splinter (writes Alexander Powell to the New York World). The surgeon, after exam- ining the wound, decided that a number of stitches would have to be taken in it. The in Jus Suached to the e Senegal bo done. "The do Sene- to one of RUSSIA GIVING THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1915. THE CANADIAN BORN, Only Two of Our Premiers Have Been Natives of the Dominion. What, for the practical purposes of everyday life, is lian? The word "Canadian" ily a politieal not a racial, designation As monly used, it certainly includes those born in the Dominion. But it is also very generally, whether accar ately. or accor 1 than that, being extended to apply to those who have definitely made their permanent home in the Dominion. In that sense, Sir John A acdonald, who ' came to Canada when but five years old, and was the first Premier of the Dominion, was beyond all question a Canadian, and not "Scottish" statesman, though he was certainly a Scotsman by birth. Dut the expression "Canadian" haz a wider application even than to those who have definitely. made their per- manent home here. For . cxample, Lord Strathcona and Lord Mount Stephen were both Old Countrymen by birth, both were grown up when they came to Canada, and' both re- turned to the Old Country to speud the evening of their days. Yet one would certainly speak of both as great "Canadians." So that it seems that the expression 'Canadian' has, in common parlance, beer extended to embrace those whose active carcers have been identified with the Domin- fon. There have been eight Premiers of the Dominion since Confederation. Of thése, three, namely, Sir John A. Macdonald, the Hon. Alexander Mac- kenzie, and Sir Mackenzie Bowell, were born in Great Britain. Sir John Macdonald, who came to this country when he was five years old, was born 4a-Dornoch, Sutherlandshire. The Hon. Alexander Mackenzie was born at Loglerait, near Dunkeld, in Perthshire, and received his educa- tion in schools at Perth, Moulin, and Dunkeld, subsequently learning the trade of a stonemason in the Old Country. He was a grow n-up man when he came to this country, and settled at Kingston, Ont, where he worked for some time as a journey- man builder. Sir Mackenzie Bowel, who was born in England--at Rickingthall. in Suffolk---came to this country when he was ten years old. Of the other five Premiers of the Dominion, only two are "Canadian- born," if one uses that expression, with absolute strictness, In its poli- tieal sense. For the remaining three were born in Nova Scotia at a time when that Province was not part of Canada, but was a colony by itself The two "Canadian-born Premiers are the late Sir J. J. C. Abbott and, of course, Sir 'Wilfrid Laurier. Sir J. J. C. Abbott, who was Prewmler for less than six months, was born' in Quebec, - his father, a missionary, having hailed from Cumberland, England. Sir Wilfrid Laurier was born at St. Lin, Quebec, The three Nova Scotians who at- tained the Premiership are Sir J. 8 D. Thompson, Sir Charles Tupper, and the present Premier. Sir J. 8. D. Thompson's father emigrated to Nova Scotia in the year 1844 from Waterford in Ireland. - While Sir Charles Tupper was born in Nova Scotia, his ancestors emigrated from the Old Country to New England so far back as the year 1635. It was exactly 61 years ago to-day that Sir Robert: Borden was born at Grand Pre, Nova Scotia. His great-great- grandfather was one of the old set- tlers who went from New England to Nova Scotia in the year 1760. Of Ontario's seven Premiers every single one of then was born in Can- ada. And every single one, moro- over, was born in the Province of On- tario, from the first Premier, the Hon. John Sandfield Macdon was born at St. Raphael, in the Coun- ty of Glengarry, in 1812, to the Hon. William Hearst, the present Premier, who was born in the Township of Ar- ran, in the County of Bruce, fifty-two years ago. ---- Very Few Sheep Now. The other day I saw a flock of sheep grazing on the roadside, says o writer in the Torcnto Globe. It was the first time 1 have witnessed such a sight in the present summer. In- deed I can recall secing only two flocks all this season. It would, I believe, be easily possible to drive for days in parts of Ontario without see- ing a single one of the animals with the golden hoof. It was different forty years ago. ' Ther it was as unusual to find a farm without its sheep as it whs to see a farmyard without a lot of hens. At that time every con- cession lino was almost filled with dams and their lambs feeding by the roadways, and the roadways were clear of weeds. The sheep saw to that. It is'fiot so now. Neither road- Ways nor farms are as free of weeds as they were when the woel-bearers were everywhere. One of the greatest losses of On- tario agriculture is in the practical disappearance of sheep and the al. most simultaneous lessening of the pea crop which furnished a large part of the rough winter feed for the animals. Phe crop enriched the land, and the sheep materially help- ed in keeping 't clean, com not, Fruit Publicity. The fruit men of the Niagara pen- insula are going into the publicity business. It is a matter of educating the public to the quality of Niagara peninsula fruit and to tell them the right time to buy. They have learn- ed the value of true publicity partly | FINANCIAL To Enlarge Plant Of American Can Company. | Aug. 13.--It is an- Geneva that the plant NEWS held -at Hamilton or September Sti to authorize a new i oonds to $1¢ The total 20 banks of deposit and discount in New York State increased from $579, 111,234 to $605,977,648, a gain $26,866,385, during the period f March 19th June 23rd ording to filed Banking Department. i 1 Ho0,000 h up deposits of the 1 Ro notinced from there of American Can Company, the past two yéars, will be to four and reopened n Company the hester, closed cnlarg at present size lard Construct 1ke once times its to The. Dol of Syra- alternations reports i cuse, wili m mun Jeport Is A Good One, Montreal, Aug. 13.--The annual report of € Montreal Tramways: Confpany, which is being sent out to shareholders to-day, shows that Bross er gs fell off ~$617,572, while a reduction in operating ex penditure of $492,118 brought the decrease earnings down to $125,454, or 27 per cent, yment Net tne year, $687,870, the war. was equal to 24.5 per cent. ea the average paid-up capital the year, as compared with cent. the previous year and cent, 'in 1913 » preferr having scontinue aration of income f¢ THE WESTERN HARVEST Require Many This ands of men will be require hélp-harvest i tically the en 2 great | fall to the | | Will Thousand Season. Distiller's Year, York, Aug. 13.--Distil Securitie eports 3.64 per cent. ear- ned on the stock in, the year ended June 30th, compared with 2.27 per cent. in 1914 New this ! harvesters will 1 Pacific Railway, ns from poix in Ontario to Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al- berta wilt be run, and special trains operated, making the trip in about y nd avoiding any Kerr Lake Buys Caribou. Toronto, Aug. 13.--The Kerr Lake Company . has purchased control the stock of the Caribou Cobalt Mine. | ¢ The latter company owns the | stock of the Cobalt Comet Mining | Company of Cobalt, the operating company, the properties of which ad-| Join those of Kerr Lake at Cobalt. f of al "Going 2.00 to Winnipeg. "Returning Trip East," from Winnipeg, : The going dates gre: -- August 19th to 26th--From Kings- ton, Tichbhorne Junction, Sharbot Lake, Renfrew and East in Ontario and Quebec; including intermediate stations and branches $18.00 Commercial Notes, It is rumored in London that Bra- zil Traction stocks are to be ifliro- duced on the New York Curb market. B. Ford, New York, com- mittee on city plan, says that scrapers are poor investments geldom paid more than 21% cent. President Ripley, of the Atchison Railway, says the annual report will show a net of $36,000,000. The un- usually large movement of grain southward was tle principal item causing the increase. A special general meeting of the shareholders of the Toronto, Hamil- | p. R. Agent, or write M. G Murphy, George ront Sault Marie, Ont., and East in Ontario, jncluc 2 intermes diate stations and branches but not last of or including Kingston, Tich- borne. 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