r~ THE DAILY BEITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, OCTOBE _PAGE THREE '18 POUNDS OF BLOOD is the average quantity in a healthy! adult, but it is the quality of the blood that detefmines our strength to resi sickness. With weak blood we find cold hands and « hilly feet; in children an aversion to study, and in adults rheumatic tendencies. In changing seasons get abundant fresh air and take a spoonful of Scott's Eihulsion Emulsion' is a rich blood-food that will mcrease both quantity and quality of the blood while it warms the body and helps carry off the impurities. When multitudes of people are to- day taking Scott's Emulsion to avert winter sickness, and are giving it to their children, it is careless to neglect its benefits. Look out for substitutes, Scott & Bowne, Toronto, Ont 15-26 Camera SupplyDepot Best's | Cameras, all' makes, for films and plates, Papers both gaslizht and P. O. P., the best brands procur- able, Films, the best makes, inelud- ing the Eastman films. Supplies A complete stock of Albums, Chemicals, Tripods, Trays, Frames, ete. Repairs--We mak. repairs to any make of Camera. Exchange made for any Cam- eras taking your old one at a good valuation. The Amateur Finishers. Best's « | The Popular Drug Store, | { | Open Sundays. EYE GLASSES The kind you want<--the kind most everyboly wants MODEL glasses ' scientifically - ground. MODEL adjustment insuring perfect comfort, MODEL shapes' that add dig- nity to the face. MPODEL clips that don't slide, tilt or hurt the nose. ODEL methods lowest prices. KEELEY Jr, M. 0.D. 0 OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN 206 Princess Street 3 doors above the Opera House thsuring Underwear Problems ! after meals, because Scott's i | | i ( 4 Money- Wastin SOME OYTAWA GLIMPSES | | Special Correspondence by H. F. Gadsby. ey g Commissions L Ottawa, Oct, the average Canadian every cent to keep down Government :s going in hired help in a generous lavish, fashion. . Without much strain on the mind, | it is possible to recall at least half a dozen Royal Commissions--which 29 At a time when Borden extra £0 say inehses the for not tl is the big name they give their hired | who are now being paid to do | i! help i what work Just -a-few off the top. the Davidson Commission whose duty is to follow up, amplify and ex- | tend the revelations made before the t¥ Public Accounts Committee. The || Purchasing Commission which is to {| cleanse and elevate the business of {i buying army supplies, and free it {| from the breath of seandal. The | Shell Commission which is to play {| the shell game for Canada in an || honest and efficient manner. The || unemployment Commission, which || tells the working man that God || moves in a mysterious way, but most- || ly in alternate cycles of seven fat is really the Government's || and seven lean years, The Market- |/ing Commission which aims to pro- || vide the wheat farmer with kind words in lieu of transportation facil- ities, The High Cost of Living Commission, which drew up a report but never printed it because it was overshadowed by the .high cost of {dying in Europe The Better Terms for British Columbia Indians Com- mission, whose function is to prevent the red men being skinned alive un- less the B.C. Government gets its share. The Ferguson Commission, whose mission was to unearth dead Grit sins, ransacking the cemetery, as it were, for the gold fillings. Phe Georgian Bay Canal Commission, which serves its chief purpose when it links up that amiable philosopher Sanford Evans with a Government job. The but what's the use of stringing out the list of those pre- sent? Suffice it to say that Royal | Commissions are almost as preval- | ent as sausages. { ~ All thesé Royal Commissions are at work but there is some doubt as { to whether they are earning. their | money Take the Davidson Cém- mission for example. It consists of one man, a Quebec Judge, Sir Char- les Peers Davidson. An opinion grows that for a gentleman whose middle name is Peers he might peer | more deeply and widely than the i facts appear to indicate. The Dav- | idson Commission is following up | the 'scandals all right; but that is { about all. It keeps strictly in the | footsteps of the Public Accounts { Committee, covers the same ground, | and . doesn't budge from the middle of the road to see what is behind the hedge. A goad and faithful Reyal Commission, that won't hurt . any- | body that Wasn't been hurt before. Reports from British Columbia { tend to show that the interesting | transaction of the two submarines, | purchased in a moment of inspira- i tion by Sir Richard McBride, and ! billed to Canada at $1,150,000 is be- ling scrutinized as between gentle- 1 men. Suspicion cannot live in that | genial atmosphere. Sir Richard ap- pears and handsomely denies every- thing. Nobody seems to wish to { bring that dignifitd and beautiful head of early grey hair in sorrow to {the grave, So far, as can be seen at this dis- | tance, the chief facts remain unex- | plained, and no satisfactory answer il is given to questions like these, Why did Sir Richard telegraph to Ottawa i first that the price was to be §1,050,- 000 and then send a second telegram | raising the ante another hundred | thousand ? Why was the cheque | split two ways? Why, moreover, {| was $1,150,000 paid for two bargain All lines at Old Prices. Now is the time to buy. ¢ All duplications will be very much dearer. ' Combination Suits.' Nearly all men are considering wearimg these garments and put- ting the two piece aside. Elastic Ribb Conform- ing Suits are the favor- ites. All the best mak- § ers' goods and all at last year's B jrices. suitable for outdoor wear, at 75¢, $1 and $1.25 per garment. Two piece goods car- ried in all lines, * Get supplied at onee at the Underwear Spe- cialists. SR | H | | i || counter submarines that Chili turn- down at $750,000 To all i questions, echo answers, why? these | At all events ogly faint replies are| made, as for exapiple when Manage: Patterson, of Seattle Drydock {and Constructidn Company, explains | that Chili didn'y get the boats, be- | cause Chili was broke, which is pro- | bably news to CHili. Chili declares {that she refused the boats because | they were better divers than they | were swimmers--that'is to say 'when | they went down tleey wanted to stay | down, and couldn't be coaxed up short of wrecking tugs and steel cables. But now that Sir Charles | Davidson has been down in ome of | 'em and has come to the top agaia, | the .Chilian contention may be held i to have been disproved. When a || High Court Judge consents to actas Jonah to a tin whale he must be pret- ty sure of his return ticket. Out in || Victoria they will tell you that the is squeezing | and cutting out the 4rills | There is | | submarines are pretty" safe as long | as they go down only once at a Lime --they have to go down three times | in succession, beforz they drown. Talking of British Columbia and | Royal Commissions, reminds one &f | the Joint Indian Commission, ap- | proved by the Dominion and the Bri- i tish Columbia Governments. it is! | built largely on' a sense of humor, is now in its third year, and has al- | ready cost the country over $200,000 ! One of its members once told me | | that it it were necessary in the pur-| suit of better terms for the British Columbia Indians, the Commis¥ion | would not hesitate to cross the ocean to England and remain at the Savoy y Hotel in Londom, for 'six months while it looked up state documents, treaties, crown grants from George the Third and similar matters. Some men are like that--they go where duty calls and to hell with'the expense. missfon is to make a valuation of the various Indian reserves, =o that the Indiana. will get as fair a price as they cah expect from the white man in event of a sale being made. this basis the McBride Government purchased the Kitsilano Vancouver | The alleged business of the Com- | P FOR TRIAL ON CHARGE OF UTTERING FORG- ED CHEQUE Man Chopped on Top of Thumb -- Napanee Prepares To Collect For the British Red Cross Fund. (From Our Own Correspondegt.) Napanee, Oct, 21.--In Police Court | yesterday before Magistrate Rankin, | 0. Deshane, Belleville, appeared to answer two charges, one of uttering a forged cheque and one of conspir- acy to prosecute an unlawful pur- pose. He was defended by J. E. Mad- -- den. D. H. Preston, K.C., acting for the Crown. Several witnesses were ex mined and accused was commits | ted for trial at thé next court of com- I mon jurisdiction. } ed to answer' a cliarge preferred against by C. Marble of using abusive language. She was allowed to go by paying the costs of the court. The milk wagon owned and drive en by H. Baldwin was upset this morning whilst being turned zround on Water street. was spilt. Whilst trimmipg some branches of a tree for a neighbor, yesterday, ! John Schryver had the misfortune to | let the axe fall on his thumb, sever- ing the top of it, just above the first joint, | MM. B. Mil's left'for Hay Bay ports with his yacht the Dolphin, to load apples for Picton evaporators. Lat- er he will lead apples for Napanee. | The committee appointed to ar- range for a canvass of the town to get funds for the British Red Cross Society met last eveming and ap- i pointed a number of canvassers. Mrs. Lena Asselstine also appear On | * Much of the milk Pi wd eA A A A A A Pr Ap A a nen?" Corsets 25 doz. only of heavy Coutil and Batiste, P.. GC. and D, and A. French Model Corsets--all new models; regularly sold at $1.50 and $1.75. Friday Black Suiting 80 yards imported Black Amazon Suiting--full 54 inches dye--excellent value at 90¢ thie vard wide--fast as a special attraction . in our Black Goods Department, Friday Habutai Wash Silk reserve for $350,000, a fraction of & its true value. Incidentally, Law- yer Read, one of Attorney General Bowser's friends, picked up $80, G00 by way of commission on the* deal. The Kitsilano purchase was subsequently disallowed by the Dom- inion Government because it had been made without consent from Ot- tawa, but history says nothing about Lawyer Read's commission. It pro- bably held good. Such gwork:' as there was for' a lawyer iF skinning the guileless red man he did, and | it's up to him to hang onto the mo-' ney. 'The wages of skin is $80,000.! At present the Joint Commission for Better Terms for the British Co-' lumbia Indians is working the nor- thern part of the province. Better terms 'for the Iuilians do not neces- sarily interfere ¥with high "6ld times for the Commissioners. | During th have "conferred" with the Indian chiefs in the north, three times -- | five hundred mile journey each way, | The first and second times the com- missioners went north they used the ordinary palace steamers of the C. .P.R. and G.T.R. which ply in the In- side Passage, but on the last visit they make the trip from Victoria on the Union 8.8. Co.'s steamer, "Chel- oshin,"" which they chartered for $350 a day. This charter with side trips, and picnic interludes, will pro- bably run three weeks. Some Char- ter! --H.F.G. Past Neglect of Forests. The future forest industries which are almost the only industries pos- sible on three-fifths of the area of ' Eastern Canada, must be supported | by the timber grown on the logged- over and burned-over non-agricultu- ral lands. Looking at these lands we should see, mot wastes, holding no promise for the future, but produc- tive lands, needing only protection from fire to enable them to support logging camps, pulp mills, rural and industrial communities of a type which has done much for Canada. If the young forest growth on. the non. agricultural lands of Eastern Canada had been protected from fire during the past twenty years, railways would not now be importing railway ties; and saw mills in 'Western On- tario, each the centre of a thriving community, would now be supplying the markets with lumber, 'which, be- cause of lack of forest protection in the past, is being supplied from British Columbia and the United States.--~H.R.M. ax Sailing Ships Back. One effect of the war on Canadian seaports is that the windjammers' have come back. When steam came the big sailing ships were gradually sent to the. graveyard where they 'rested on the mud. Not for several 'years has a sailing vessel slipped up the St. Lawrence to berth here with a4 cargo or to load one. But war changed the face of things at sea as well as on shore. So the four mast- ers have come back, and the square rigged barque is seen in port once more, The Calumet came in to Mont- real recently with a huge load of mo- lasses from the Barbadoes and the Pelican with supplies from London for the Hudson Bay Company. Others are to follow in the track of these i |» i last six months they' 3 WAR BULLETINS. > . -, + + + > - ¢ + Roumania has sent a mission + % to the Allies in regard to tak- + + ing part in the war. R + * Britain offers the Island of # Cyprus to Greece for her assist- & ance in the war. The battle of Riga grows more serious and the Russians may evacuate that part. +* c Russia is making an inter- nal loan of five hundred million dollars for war purposes. + * Italians are pushing on into # Austrian territory in a new of- % fensive ode -- King George has given his re- + sidence in Surrey to the Canad- %+ ian Red Cross. PbO tele ped TEPER P PRED R EPROP E POPP IL ID DERBY'S RECRUITING PLAN Has Met With General Approval In Great Britain, London, Oet. 21.ggl.ord Derby's recruiting scheme with gener- al approval, both in conscriptionist and non-comscriptionist circles to- day, especially that part of the plan which calls on unmarried men first. The Daily Mail says it will sup- port the scheme most strongly now in the case of single men first. The Times, while welcoming the inauguration of Lord Derby's move- ment, says the Government should provide themselves at once with the power .to introduce compulsory ser- vice if the necessity arises. The Daily Chronicle calls scheme "real recruiting at last." President Pardons Spear. Philadelphia, Oct. 21._Presidgnt Wilson announced that he had grant. ed a pardon to Cameron Spear, sen- tenced to five years in the Atlanta penitentiary for unlawfully using the mails in connection with the Collins Wireless Telephone Company. It was alleged at the trial that $1,000, 000 of fraudulent stock was sold. He was convicted in the United Sta- tes district court at New York. From Steam to Flectricity. St. Leuis, Oct. 2i:.--Prediction that all steam railroads in the Unit- ed Statés would be electrified in the next few years was made by M. W. Storer, of Pittsbyrg, in an address at a luncheon given to the members of the American Institute of Electrical | Engineers, which began its national convention here. "No: railway tbat has been electrified has ever gone back to steam," he said. Kaiser Has Quarrel, Petrograd, Oct. 21.--German, los- ses in the attempts to capture Dvin- sk are officially estimated at 80,000 killed and wounded. The war office says it has learned, through German prisoners, that the defeats inflicted by the Russians on the Dvinsk front have provoked a serious quarrel between Fleld Mar- shal Von Hindenburg and the Kaisér. Will Canada Lift Wheat Embargo? (Special té the Whig.) Minneapolis, Mian., Oct. 21. -- There is a story here that Canada wi.l lift the embargo on wheat in or- der to sul Canadian wheat in the United States. y The average woman knows the ins and outs of flirtatiom She draws a man out, then she pulls | in. the 110 yards of White and Ivory Real Habutai Wash Silk -- splendid for Waists, fine quality; Underwear and Kimonas--full 36 inches wide: sold right in town at $1.25 yard. Friday Watch papers to-morrow for a very special announcement ! | DAVIES' A very special quality of Table Butter 3c Lh. THE Wm. Davies Co Ltd.,, Phone 597. Whistle Cords, Whistles. Spurs, Leggings, Shirts, Caps, N.C.O. Badges & Lanyards--White G. E. MARRISON, (Successor to Mrs. M. Hénderson) AA aaa HIGH CLASS POR- TRAITS AT NIGHT Our powerful new 8000 ¢ p. Nitrogen Magda Lighting Sys- tem enables us to give you first Sass service at night or dark VS. Office Hours: 5.00 a.m-6 p.m; 7.00 Bm-000 pm. 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