When Mother Bakes She * knows that right sults cannot come unless u the right materiale, The wrong baking powder, poor Hortening, or A post will spoil every- thing. . The good materials by experience But she must know what fo and for that reason she likes to keep posted She finds i p the advertising in papery like The Whig, It tells her from tine to time of the new food products and thesstores that sell them. . In fact the advertising col- umns are an educational course. in Mmestic re- she flour, tn Tove cool hor proves try to read ood news science, Best' Medici Short Stop 'ix . Dr. Hickey's Bronchitis Cold Breakers Musteroil Paste Mentholated Balm io Emulsion Cod Liver Oi] Se Best's Liver Pills, 100. for 25¢ This list, "wilt form a com plete medicine for all winter ills, prepared and sold Best's The Popular Drug Store. Open Sundays. chest SEE US WHEN YOU CANNOT SEE A Paradox ?_ No! We provide proper glasses through which You can sce. Being eyesight special- ists we know when eves are wrong and why glasses are iight, See us--we un- . derstand our business. KEELEY Jr. M. 0. D. 0. OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN 226 Princess Street 8 doors above the Opera louse . THE DAILY BRITISH THE BOARD OF TRADE! TAKES POWER AT 1.20 CENTS. | (Continued trom Page 1.) engine has tobe rebuilt. It willf = y {probably take eight er'ten weeks 1a} BY SEYMOUR COMPANY SAME AS MADE BEFORE, URGES ASSISTANCE IN t46TH RE- | CRUITING CAMPAIGN. A Resolution 'Regarding Harbor Improvements--The Utili- ties Chairman Explains Some Mat- ters, : . 3 (Mt a meeting of (he Board of Trade on Monday night , there were present, R. Meek, il the chair, and the following other mem bers: W. H. Carnovsky, John Mor- rig, H, C. Nickle, F. Conway, G. A. Bateman, F. C. Lockett, T- M. Camp- | bell, F. King, R. T. Rodgers, A. Rees, Rev. J. D. Boyd, J. M. Powers, and J. Hughes, A communication from I. H. Ward, ( sent, regarding the 7 | freight Before 5.50 p. | that the wholesalers wait until af-| fl ter 5 p. m., to deliver freight. The | matter was referred to the Railway | Committee on da it. We will have to have power! | from some source or else close down | Kingston | entirely We are quite sure the city | des not want us to close down these | | two months; therefore it would be! v | expedient for you to delay your in-| Street Lighting. . -- stallation until we can get this engine| 7 he offer of the Seymour Con pany of ours rebuilt, and will take power t0 give a supply of waier power to from you, which, although it will not the Utilities Commission is practical- | be sufficient to run to full capacity, 1 the same as it made some years |atill will, with ordinary weather con. 80. The Commission must take not ditions, give fairly satisfactory scr- less than 1,000 horse power. The | vice to the public. figure for Kingston's requirements "All of the above subject to the Would be $25 a horse powep: corporation of Portsmouth concur-| The Seymour offer was received by ring in similar variations of the com-| the Commission at its meeting Mon- pany's contract. day afternoon, but discussion was left 'AVe are not prepared to deviate! 9Ver till next meeting. v or change one article fromy the remarked that he was very much dis- above, and would be obliged for a appointed over the proposition. { prompt reply from you if the above is satisfactory. Gas and Electrical Profits Totalled $36,000----T), was received | P.R. freight delivery of m It seems dro-Electric Commission stating that the request of the Kingston Commi sion for a price on Power would re ceivé a prompt reply. J. M. Campbell also wrote the Com- mission withdrawing his offer of pow- er from Kingston Mills, The Pole Question. Commissioner Elliott asked if the | Commission would request the City A communication from the Depart- ' ment of Agriculture was read stating Council to make up the difference ba~ tween 1.20 cents a kilo-watt hour| the condition that potatoés were now i : il 5 being shipped into the United States. | and 2109 Semis: Which was held to be Gas and Electrical Profits, Lieut.-Col. C. A. Low, ©. C., 146th | 8¢ a SL remarked that this The City Treasurer informed the Battalion, asked the Board to pass a wo 1d aise th {rt sstic n of bonus te | Commission that he estimated the resolution which stated that the ibd the OL 9 Be vad Fur-| Profits on gas and electricity for 1915 | 146th had its sy mpathy and all pos- ! thermore the PRY of 1.20 cents had | 28 follows: ible recruiting been anghorized by vote of the peo- Electricity--For the six months campaign He said that the Davis | ple. < ? ending July 1st, $20,000; for the six Tannery had given him the list of With regard me company's months ending December 31st, $6.- i| the men who were indispensable claim to the ownership of the ne wi 000; total, $26,000. From this i| there and he suggested that the steel poles 'on King and Princess amount must be deducted $5.000 for || Board's resolution might have some streets, Mr. Chown sald that the direct. cugrent meters, which were effect in persuading other employ- { company did not claim ownership of | Scrapped: The profit for the last {| ers to give such a list There were the lamp poles, but only the stay|SiX months of the year were under | ten liting derots in Lennox and | poles which had taken the place of its, the new rates Addington, and in Frontenac, be- old wooden poles, for which the city Gas--Surplus | Sides the city and _after a!gocured the salvage The agree-| 000 | 8reat amount of work he had secured | ment between the company and the : about 500 men City in this regard was read, and it Street Lighting Profit, M. Hughes appeared to be clear that the company Becently the -City Council asked was really entitled to the stay potes: [the Commission 10 supply it with a | However, the-opinion of the City So- Statement as to the cost of the-street nd and Scotland, and was | licitor will be secured on this point, lighting so that it could be in a posi- assistance in its to rect for the year, $40, those in gave the manufac and said that he | orders from South Af- who have enlisted settled. ger Folger reported that theA/ommis- Rev. J. D. Boyd said that there With regard to the removing of | 5ion made about $100 profit on the were men in the pool: rooms who | the cable on King street, between! Street lighting last year. but that hould Le made to go but outside of | Queeh and William, the Commission | POthing had been allowed for depre- | | ving trouble due to the number [so that question of liability may be | tion to enter into a contract. , Mana- | | | them there were few eligible men {2 agreed that the company should notation. The average life of street the city who had not already gone, e put-to dny expense, as its removal lighting equipment 1s only fifteen It was moved by Mr. Hughes, sec- wag for the purpose of improving the years, and $2.000 should be charged onded by Mi Bateman 'that _ the apeargnce of the street up every year for depreciation. There Board of Trade sympathizes with the Gefieral Manager Folger informed are 319 arc lamps and 31 tungstens | vecruiting campaign being carried on ! the Commission that it would not he! The rates are: $75 for ornamental by the 146th Battalion and express|very easy to supply the railway with lamps, $60 for suspension type, and the hope that employers of labor will [ power while its engine was being | $20 for tungstens furnish to Col. Low the names of any | overhauled, bat it could be managed. Mr Elliott asked what percentage | men in their employ whose services { Owing to the contract made with the De iia el paver went to street | can be dispensed with." The rese- | locomotive Works, a new generator 3 vi 2 ; he General Manager re- | lution passed, had to be installed at once, and it was D sae < 2 cen . The Street Rail- | Mr. Campbell Te | already here. However, he would Wa¥ took 20 per cent. of the total | manage to give the power for the POWer-house supply Thus 45 per the much-discussed night vay-freight | ¢ars, but the company would have to rat, the total SULp was sold at ervice on the C. P. It The service | Fent a generator for a couple of x oa Sis 3 3e other fifty-five was still being maintained and the | Months, : I cent, yielded the profit, Further discuss y | railway officials had. asked NAPANEE CONTRIBUTES F iithar Qiscusston upon "all. the ibe : h : electrical rates will take place*at an- | Meeting with the Boayd of ! other meeting, as a tabulated state- I'he second matter was that of nient about them all has to he made. livery of freight at Cobourg that being dealt with | ' + TE ORE Tis Ys faaas . lea sed: "That | A NUMBER OF RECBUITS TO THE 146TH BATTALION, I \ : EN the City Treasurer was instructed to Fire in Boathouses Subdued By Fire Rllow Hie prevailing Hise on hills 4 ro ssuea to one person and due at dif- men With Aid of Men of The 80th | oo 00 times, up to the last due date. Battalion. This will please a good many people From Our Own Corresponde who have been complaining about Napanee, Jan Sergt. Tetral, | having to pay several bills during the | 146th Battalion, with niné re same month Now they Bay pay cruits for Kingston, and Lieut. J. J. | them all on the last due and re Graham left last night with five ceive the discount S | more Bhe 146th is getting quite a Manager Folger reported tliat the absent | pumber in this vicinity. electrical apparatus department in the And be it further | "yg firemen had a run last night te | augurated o month and a half ago ed that the attention of the | gon0 Loathouses on the south side of | had cost $75 labor The wales Dominion Marine ' Association be | Fire broke out in a bhoat- { the river. amounted sk, with a profit of called to the situation and a request house owned by M. B. Mills and | over $80. the department paving for made for such action as may be spread to one helonging to F. Ellj- itself deemed best-to secure the assistance | gon put the quick response of the It was made clear that the depart- of the Government in the desiréd im- | firemen checked the blaze, although ment was not being run in competi provements." | there were quite a number of boat tion with merchants supplying elec- T. J. Rigney ga 1d the report of | | the Railway Committee dealing with | for a Trade. de was - Other Business, This resolution was pas {the Kingston Board of Trade, having | | in view the progress ade upon the { building of the new Welland Canal | { and the urgent need of preparing 'Kingston Harbor to accommodate the heavy tonnage which the new canal will admit to Lake Ontario, re ers the matter Marine Com mittee for weial deration Q renort and that commiftee 4 empowered to add to its number as of its members ure to the left con date the be some from resoly city to Jil! him an answer as to why collections houses | JANUARY SALE OF | Men's and { | | Boys' At Cleveland, Ohio, a poll will be | taken among nearly half a million % | trainmen 'of Canada and United Sta- | # b | tes regarding their demand for an|% i Seasonable Coats Unseasonable Prices, All lines gieatly re- duced and some lines at hall price. Workinemen's 'Coats at $6.50 God hidavy, wari Coats, will made, at half jhice! ey If \ Coat, 1 Vou need" a cood buy now and boy Tight, EY E. P. Jenkins Clothing Company. FEET AREN'T ACHING > the result of the | yoyeos yMacent. With the help of trical goods. 1e object of it. was "afternoon Utilities Commission meei- | the nie ers of "C" Company 80th tO increase the sale of electric ity, and ing. AY the close Mr. King asked of | Battalion the boats in the adjoining the Commission did not urge people wers quickly pulled out ou. !0 buy the utensils it had for. sale the ice, but unfortunately a moto, The merchants were selling cheaper Mr. Rigney explained why the rates | poat and a row boat belonging to articles than the department. were colleeted monthly He said] M, B. Mills were totally destroved. Mr. Elliott held that the depart- that the City Treasurer and the City | Charles Fitzpatrick, Brockville, | Ment was not in the right place. The Auditor have given reasons, after a | was arrested by Chief Barrett last chairman agreed with him. The trip to a dozen western places, why night on a charge of being. drunk Commission will later discu s the the liydro-Electric system of book-| & disorderly. Fitzpatrick was | Centralization of all its busin keepinc should be adopted. The oiunt in the Armouries giving li-4 Partments. > monthly collection saved in interest quor to some soldiers and was TheGeneral Manager was instruct $600 or $700 There was also an | ,Gmptiy ejected and commenced to © 10 secure and store the remainder increase of efficiency Owing to the He struck sey-4ob-the oil called for by the Commis- make things lively. goons + 4 . n Y slon's ( act Oil ¢ sells at fact that the cha; was only DOW | gral sold . and was finally locked' . n's contrac Now Solis a yeing perfected, the real efficiency 1€ ommis i 2 cents a gallon Alter Ping put in : con t be shewn, but he promised Bp After being put sion bought a year ago at 414 cents, could not be s! n,; t he tore his clothes to piece ANd Bie ar Se rr aL 2) ts, it would be in the near future J -- iin) and 1ere are . gallons coming \ resolution of condolence on the . to it at this price death of the late Malcolm S. Suthers | dwpdddobdidddddodiobdddiobipdps | Blectric light poles will be extend land, one of the Board's oldest mem- |g : &* ed up Russell street from Montreal ' LLE to Division, so as to reach the new TS, W sse * AR STINS. , . bers, was passed. * WAR BULLETI Reglopuiie Coles pe] -- EY po a. . 1a In attendance at the meeting were Without Feuling. LOW aot x T. J. Rigney (chairman). GQ YY Miranda' had been: sitting on|* donian towns dropping bombs Chown, R. F. Elliott | George's lap since $8 p.m Ie wae | * on Monastir and Ghevegili, Mayor 'Richardson now 11 p.m., and Miranda weighed | % m-- : : 260 pounds. + Another unsuccessful air raid i" "Dearest, she clock | # was made on Blover by German struck the éleven times, "you don't | + aeroplanes mind my sitting here, do vou? » "No, dearest, not now," gallantly | ¥ I returned George, "J 'I've been Rump} sd since 9 o'clock." ish : --pa is . + 383 - -- The Germans made an , at- tempt to cross the Yser Canal delivering heavy: artillery at- i - y a (8 t were repulsed by/ hi-hour day at ten-hour pay. + tacks, bu 3 | die , | % British infantry. The British force besieged in Kut-El-Amara has sufficient for a long ¥ 3 jes f any weeks. . »! time that Jupiter had sit moons,' i" " 3 supplies for many w + | explained W. C. Brown of Northwes- y .- hdd fod Sob dd ddd deeded tern University, "and something over two years ago a seventh moon was discoyered. Last spring some re- markable photographs were taken, whith evidenced the' existence of still another moon, making eight { This verified the contention of cer-- tain well-known European astrono- more" % he were being made monthly In reply 3s (le- the French aviators -raided Mace- R. H. Toye and® ANOTHER MOON Now. © said as the . = Which Mukes ht ¥or Jupiter, the Scientists Say. The military service bill pass-, ibis "oe ed its third reading in Brit- Chicago, Jan. 25.--A dew moon jommons. The vote was 4 Das _heen discovered. The discov- Tm > 4 ery adds still another to Jupiter's «+ Collection, making a grand total of 4 | eight, Details of the lunar pheno- & | enon were given at the Chicago Ae- + ademy of Sciences, where-an- impor # tant exhibit of astronomical' photo- # Eraphs and instruments is in pro. «& 8ress under the direction of Lowell #4 Observatory. FY "It has been known Use "Tia" for tender, puffed-up, i burning, callonsed feet and corns, RAID HOUSES IN DUBLIN. =~ cht Printing Plant Seized In Home Of : Countess There, London, Jan. 25.---A despatch to People whoSire foreed 10 stand ob their feet all day kpow what sore, ) |tender, sweaty, burning feet mean. the Cenlral News from Dublin says: {They use ""Tiz,"" and "Tiz"" cures their "The police have raided the house {rest right up. It keeps feet in per-| of Countess Markjevicz and seized a {fect condition. *'Tiz" is the only | printing press audl type with which remedy in the world that draws out alleged, pro-Gefman literature was | poisonous: exudations which | printed." Ths countess is the sister of | up. the feet, and cause tender, an Irish baronet, and is married to a . tired, aching-féet. It instantly | Polish nobleman. She was one of the ops the pain in corns, callouses and | leading. sympathizers wiih James ibunions. It's simply glorious. - Ah! Larkin, head. of -the Transport Wor: | f how comfortable your feet feel after | kerg™ Uuion during the . sir Husing "Tia." You'll never limp or] strike riots in Dublin, in 191 draw up your faee in pain. Your! were led by Larkin. She is als lilshoes won't tighten and hurt your | well-known for her activities amon 4 > 1 4 # iileet. v - SEE i! Gét a 26-cent box of "Tix now) "The police have also raided ot J B ltifrom any druggist. Just think! ga suspected houses, seizing arms ahd, | A whole year's foot comfort for only 25 ammunition. In Ho case was resist a str ening § food for delicate and : POWER OFFER T0 CITY Mr. Chown | A letter was received from the Hy-| On motion of Mayer Richardson, | _ | blockade is here re; PAGE THREE Probs.: Light rain or sleet to-night; Wednesday, colder. For 1915 Cost of January ~ White Sale! Specials for To-morrow WHITE SHAKER REMNANTS Just received, direct fron the mill. two cases of fine White Flannelette Remnants inends measuring from 2 1-2 to 10 priced from 12 1-2¢ to 15¢ a vard. To-morrow WHITE SHEETING 800 yds. extra he: wide: reg, 3: e avd. wy best Canadian Sheeting, To-morrow. All orders hemmed freg of ¢haree. PURE LINEN TOWELLING 700 yds. "Shamrock Brand" 18 inches wide; 1 NIGHT-GOWNS 120 Lace, and Embroidery Trimmed Pull-Over Gowns special value at 8: STAMPED GOWNS To-morrow Regular #1.00 an 0 120 only fine Stamped Nainsook Gowns. new ments, as--reg. $1.35 to £1.50 packaged 2. 60¢ a vard. To-morrow To-morrow aq &1. fine soft finish-- patterns, ZOWNS, yards each--regularly 2 A ards 24c are linen bleached Huck Towelling -- full good full sizes: in two working assort- with floss. ..98¢c 69¢ A er A A AAA A AAA rer rr st stata STANDS OR FALLS BY THE ENTENTE AL- LIE The Kumor Of His Country's Evacu- «ation For A Separate Peace Is. An. other Gorman "Feeler". KING ALBERT London, Jan. 25 I'he report printed in the New York American that the German Fovernment is con- sidering the voluntary evacuation of Belgium. if the Belgians conclude a separate peace is taken here with se- veral grains of salt, In the first place, it can be assert- ed authoritatively that if such a plan really has received consideration from the- German Government no steps ol any kind have been taken to place it before either King Albert's Government or any of the Entente Powers. Secondly, it is. most firmly believed here that any proposals which Germany might place Hefore the Belgian Government would at once be submitted to the Entente Powers, for, although Belgium did not sign the London agreement, her political and econemic destiny is in- | dissolubly bound up with the cause of the Entente Powers. { King Albert's heroic resolution, | according .to persons who have seen | {him recently, is as strong as ever, and his sentiments are shared to the { full by bis Government at Havre. That the American obtained its in- formation from a "high ource' is not doubted there, for sug- gestions that Belgium would lind it! profitable to negotiate for a separate . peace have been published recently in inspired German papers. Germany's persistent efforts to weaken the Entente by detaching one | J or another of the great powers have been unsuccessful. That she should extend her endeavors to suffering 1it- tle Belgium would cause no surprise, but the fact that after a vear and a hall of war she has not progressed in this direction beyond the stage of | newspaper ballons d'essal is as incontrovertibde evidence Bf Ger- many's realization that overtures to | Kink Albert's Government would Llupet' no success, { The further intimation that Ger- | many's benevolent intentious in re- | gard to Belgium would be dependent | upon Great Britain raising the naval 5: y dn a German | taken | &S a move 5 ple, and .create the impression that it is England which prevents a settle- | good light before the American peo- { ment of the war. BLOCKADE BRE Germans Aroused At Brita tening-Up" Policy. Berlin, Jan Britain's | blockade intensions have at last ar- | oused the 'Germans There is Great ~-- This Week a |i strong current of hope here that Am- | {li erica will force Great Britain to keep IH to the letter of Count Reventlow, ung, writes: : . nd's decision to sharpen the | blockade is viewed very generally by | the German press in. a manner of al- | most complete indifference, not share this w. international law. ! in the Tages Zeit: J of British arts and wiles, Since on the other side of the North Sea they have seen that nothing else helps | them. It is a lying phrase when the House of Commons talks of barring | those goods which Germany needs | to mae war. On the contrary and] in reality, 'the British Government means bythe blockade to increase | the needs of the non-combatant Ger- {man population te an unbéarable height. To this nobler purpose all else is subordinated | the fighting part of the German peo- | ple, and knows it, the Gernian peo- | | ple will hold out through this, teo,! | That need not be: said, because it is a matter of course, but it is net a| matter of indifference. The deeper and stronger that the German 'people | | realize that England is an enemy who wants to annihilate us, the ones ; enemy on whose prospects of success | the whole coalition hangs together, the enemy who shrinks back from wo | { means to lower the pational power of ! i resistance the nore undivided must {be otir will to strike back at accursed enemy withsali the means | at our disposal, regardless of the! i consequences and without looking to | the right or left this Percy Snider and Frederick Lam-| hert were drowned while skating at Port Colborne; the latter was mar i Lpied and # soldier ! [ Rev. J. E. Gibson, rector of the | {Church of the Ascension. Toronto, has | { been appointed chapihin of the 169th Battalion, 23 ? Ottawa will likely have its watefled fis rates reduced ten per cen We do! | A sharpening | if of the barrier signifies the strongest i Ji 1000 Lbs. Finest Creamery Butter ..36¢ "Since Great Britain cannot erush (|i NA A rou The Marrison Studio BABY PICTURES, like all portraits that we make are natural in tose, preperly lghted and beauntifuliy finished. Migh clags equipment snd tive. lens tact are the reasons for cur remarkable _guccess iu baby pors Lraiture, " Come In some morning and Jet Ua get acyuaiiited with the bab Phone 1518, 20 PRINCESS ST. "Our et lee bib ot bh Irn A A Att i Dr. J. Standish, a physician of Pal- uerston, aged seventy-five, has offer- services to help the en- '