Baily B ---------------------- HOW SCO KINGSTO) ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2. {get near enough for them to pani} } ari sed b; { erica are to be left free to be used by me in before I lost count of things. } b their people, as those people Choose | | to" use them under a 'system of na. tional pepular sovereignty as absolu-- "I was told the rest in the mqrn- ing lane: US NAWY THE SECRET S READY To Fight At Once, Says Pre. "WE MEAN BUSINESS * AID WOODROW WILSON TO CHI- CAGO GATHERING, The United States Cruelly Wronged --~=Furope Does Not Understand Country's High Ideals, He (one tends. he Chicago, Feb. 1.--The United Sts tes has made preparations for imme diate war as far as the navy is con- cerned, although the present naval force is inadequate in size, President Wilson declared last night in an ad- dress before several thousand per- fons in the auditorium here. "We mean business," he said in speaking of. the preparedness plans of the ad- ministration, . of "Wa have given to the fleet of the United States an organization such 48 it never had before, I am told by Admiral Fletcher," the president sald, "And we have made prepara tion for immediate war so far as the navy is concerned." The army, the president said, as at present constituted, "is not large enough even for the ordinary duties of peace." The president repeated his warn- Ings that no time must be lost in strengthening the defences-of the na tion was doing everything it could for pre paredness, "When I see some of my fellow ¢i- tizens spread tinder where the sparks are falling, I wonder what their ideal of Americanism 1s," the president said. America, the president said, been cruelly misjudged by the tions now at war. "I know that on the other side of the water there has been a great deal Qf cruel misjudgment with regard to the reasons why America has re mained neutral Those looking at Us irom. a distance do not feel the strong pulses of ideals and principles that are in us. "They do not feel the conviction of America that our mission is a mission of peace and that righteous- ness cannot he maintained as a stan- dard in the midst of arms. not realize that back of @l our ener- BY we are a body of idealists much more ready to lay down our lives for a thought than a dollar," has na- . Cruel Misunderstanding. "They.suppose, some of them, that we ars holding off because we can make money while others ars dying, the most cruel misunderstanding that any nation has ever had to face «80 wrong thyt it' seems almost use- less to try to correct it because it shows that the very fundamentals of our life are not. comprehended or un- derstood." Rulers, not public opinion, brought about the present war. Mr Wilson declared. "I thank God there is no man in the United States who has the auth- ority to bring on war~ without the consent of the nation," he said. The task of the United States, he fall, has been to assert the prinei- ples of law in a world in which the principles of law have broken down. © "We are not now thinking of in- vasion of the territory of the Uaited States," the president declired. "That is not what is making us think. We are not asking ourselves shall we be prepared only to defend our own homes and our own shores. "Is that all 'we stand for? To keep "the Uo6F Shit Security against our enemies? What about the great trusteeship set up for liberty of na- tional Government in the whole wes- tern hemisphere? We stand pledg- ed to see that both continents of Am- AAA i, He declared the Government | They do | i lely unchallenged as our own. : { "AL this moment the Americans | are growing together upon that hand- {eome privilege of reciprocal respect { and defence." . Detailed plans for strengthening {the army and navy and the aviation corps, ard for making munitions and | armament by the government, were outlined. The president spoke for nearly an hour. | SHADE TREE BUTOHERY | By Robson Black, Secretary Canad- inn Forestry Association. { Jor years the people of Ontario i have permitted themselves to be vie- | timized by all sorts of spacious | claims regarding the rights of tele- | phone and telegraph linemen, build- ing contractors and others to destroy ror-niutilate shade trees, As a matter of Ontario law, no one other than a specially deputed muni- cipal officer has the 'right' to remove or trim a shade tree, Linemen, con- tractors, etc, have no authority | whatever in such matters and con- not legally remove any part of a | tree without nermission of the own- | er or municipality. A few legal con- | tests such as have recently occurred in the United States would impress this fact once and for all time upon | the shade tree owners of Ontario | Only a few months ago a contract- or wa s obliged by an American court to pay nine hundred dollars for cutting down two trees, The chief flaw in our sysfom of | protection is that we have very few | skilled tree inspectors. in municipal employ, so that municipalities are themselves responsible for a great deal of the everyday butchery. , The Ontario statutes give a muni- cipal officer delegated by the City En. fgineer power to remcve a tree from { private or public property on forty- eight hours' notice, but the owner must be recompenséd for planting jand. protecting the tree No live | tree, unless within thirty feet of oth- {er trees, may be removed without | consent of the owner of the property in front of which the tree stands. | \ The municipality shall not be | liable 'for damages for the trim- ming of trees in . parks or whose branches extend over streets if reas- onable care has been exercised in the operation. Any person destroying or injuring (even tieing a horse to) a street tree is liable to a fine not to exceed $25 and costs or imprisonment for | more than thirty days, half of $ | | not {the fine to go to the informant. | The 'rights' of telegraph and telephone linemen to butcher trees is {a fiction. Tiley have no rights what- ever over any tree on public or priv- { ate. property. This association sub- mitted several questions to the At- torney Genera] who replied: "I think it is quite clear that the owner would have the right to pre- vent a telephone, company from stringing its wires in a tree planted | by him in the street, because under Section 2 of the Ontario Tree Plant- ing Act, such a tree is deemed to | be his property. "It is also an offence under Sec. tion 510b of the Ciiminal Code to rdestroy "or damage a tree in park, | pleasure ground, or garden or in any | land adjacent to or belonging to a dweHing house, injuring it to an ex- tent exceeding five dollars "It was expressly enacted by 4 "Edw. VIL, Clause 10, Section 74, that a telegraph or telephoné com- pany should not acquire any ease- ment by prescription or otherwise as to wires attached to private proper- ty or passing through or carried ov- er such property so that. no matter how long telegraph or telephone wires have been attached to a tree, the municipality or owner, if he has property in the tree could compel the removal of the wire" ' Since the law gives considerable latitude to any amateur municipal officer, it is our plain duty at citi- zens to oblige our city and town councils to entrust shade tree super- vision to a skilled person, and in the case of larger municipalities to ap- oint a technically-trained inspector or 'city forester' as he is called in the United States. tive is the weak point in shade tree { protection; the Ontario law is gnite sufficient. | A Al Nt lr 4 est+ouch, Municipal initia- | TOOK | ' Canadian. JAKE MCGOUGH Story Of Gun Capture By & A HERO OUT HUNTING WHEN HE HEART ya OF WA {How . He Won a Commission '-- Climbed Into a" German Trench And Wiped Out a AVhole Pa Londoh Mai { = "This story of Jake McGough, of the. 1st Canadian Contingent, was | tod by a wounded Canadian now in {hospital in England. | "No, | can't tell you much about | Jake before I met him in the train- {ing camp out vonder. Jake don't talk {much'but from remarks he has made | now and then I gathered that he was born somewhere in the Dominion, | that he has tried almost everything { from bank clerking to ranching, and | that he has trapped and hunted ev | erything that carries fur during the | last seven He was out hunt ling when heard the war years. he first of and he just left everything except his gun and came in to jo'n "Jake has great ideas on guns, and | has fitted up his weapon with one lor two little inventions of his own. | When the brigadier-general--at least | I think. that is what vou call him-- | was looking us over before we left { for France he spotted Jake's gun | which he carried along with the regu- lation weapon, of which he has but {a poor opinion The B.-G. sort | objected to the look of the piece and | told Jake it would be no good where | he was going to and he had betier { leave it behind. 1 was standing next | to Jake at the time and I could sort of feel him keeping back his dande: {at the insult to his beloved gun. 'Is it loaded?' asked the B.-G * 'No, sir,' replied Jake hen me look at it.' "Jake handed it oyer, and the old man squinted along the barrel and tried to pull the trigger, , But he couldn't, not even when he tried with both hands. {+ " "Why, you'll never be able to i shoot anything with that, my man.' 1 'Jake took back the gun with the remark, 'I don't let any fool nose round with my gun, sir; try now.' "The old man: took the piece again, and the trigger worked at the slight- Jake had a fixing of his own for lecking the. mechanism, which he could release at a touch. " 'No good,' said the B.-G. *'It | either won't go at all, or it goes too suddenly. Besides, you can't aim | with those sights,' *" 'May I show you, sir?' 'Jake got permission, and before we quite realized what he was after | ne had. stuc a- five-franc Shattered How utterly weak and helpless one becomes when the nerves give way. ", Sleepless, nervous, irritable and des- pondent, life bhe- comes a burden, But there is DF. © H Nerv of | let exhausted nervous system, restore the action of your bodily or- | Eans and change | gloom and des- pondeney into new | hope and ee | B50 cts. a box, at all deale SUR, Rs IL AEE piece, NORTON GRIFFITHS AFTER The big British contractor. Major Norton Griffiths, MP.» D.S.0. who is interested in. many Canadian here shown leaving Buckingham | veslilires, againsg a free, w paces, and planted into the coin 'Good Heavens! I'd give to able to shoot like it with you by all means.' And how Jake got leave to take his gun to France, and good work it has done there, as I've Twice over it has brought offer a comniission he couldn't live up to His companion ked X away fifty shots straight my arm " that Take seen him the of ut Jake says t How He Got Commission. What had Jake done to bring him the offer of a commission? "Well, I'll tell you one of his do- ings, the last in which I'll be with him for some time, I'm afraid, for lit was ip heping him that 1 German let in me "We d been 'sending scouting parties frcm night and after dark to try to find out one or two things we wanted to know about the ground and the tren ches in front of us Every tin { however, the scouts were either laid out or had to clear back quick to es- cape the fire from two German ma- chine guns. Somehow or other the Germans always got to know cur par ties were out, and, queerer still, they semed able to drop right on to them with their machine guns even in thé inky darkness This completely puzzled our folk At last Jake told me on the quiet that he shought he had tumbled to their trick, and ask- ed me if I would go out with him, "Jake, in looking over the ground in the daytime, had noticed what ap-| peared to be some old tent-pegs, or halter-pegs, dr'ven into the ground in a sort of haphazard way, and| looking as though they had been left behind through hurry or negleet, and: !that is exactly what such scouts as/ had been out and come safely back! again told ud they were. Somehow | or other Jake hyd got it into his head that these pegs were in some ay connected with the fact that the Ger mans. not only knew our men were! out but also exactly where they where It to test this jdea his that we crawled cautiously up to {one of these pegs "We examined our side of the peg with minute care without touching it, but could find no trace of wire or, in fact, anything. Jake then crawls ed away to one side of the peg and { wormed his way forward inch by inch until he could see the other side | the peg which was towards the Ger man trenches He had no soongl caught «sight of it than he gave a gentle Jaugh, and | knew he had found cut something He crawled LI back to me and signed for u¥ to re-| turn to our lines "We did so, and then Jake explain ed the enemy's dodge. Their side of the pegs was coated with luminous paint, and they could thus spot any 'thing which came between the and their view of it Knowing the range of the pegs, the rest was easy g0t thi out our side each was of peg Jake's Plan. "Jake asked me to do the neces- sary reporting, and while I was away ,he set to work and made one or two 'goffer' traps--Canadian rabbit traps. With these and his gun we once nore crawled" eut from our lines. Just before we reached the first Peg Jake drew me close to him and breathed into my ear his plan. "Arrived at the peg, Jake care Jeff Must Have Thought the Corporal Meant Physically Superior RECENT INVESTITURE. enterprises.' is alace after the recent in- is Mrs. Worthington Evans, trap on the ground in and pegged it lightly did the same at the next 'crept away until we a point opposite the posi- of two -trouhigsome now appfoach 1an trench, tak between one. of rces and the my's line "We trailed along with us a light with the 'goffer' traps, and when Jake judged his po- sition to be about right he looked carefully to his gun and then re quested me to pull jerkily on the cord. This caused the traps to flap up and down in front of the pegs. We had not Jong to wait before the Maxim began to spit As soon as the enemy began to fire Jake moved forward until he could make out the of the men working it. "Then, under cover of the noise of their gun and with incredible rapid- ity, he picked off man after man un- til the gun ceased to fire. "We then quite still a short while, but heard nothing and could make out no movement Then 'we crept slowly forward until we could see right into the enemy's trench Not a soul was to be seen, Jake had laid out every maw around the gun. He whispered me to get back to our lines and report the trench empty. set off, leaving him. there, as he said, just to keep an eye on . the trench I had just got past the point where Jake had lain when had picked off the gunners when the second Maxim a little farther along the trench began to talk. Before 1 could get to our line I stopped one of the builets. That's it on the win- dow-ledge there. I just mangged to an n of 1 one the We » Ger ine ns ed nearer to th ing care neve tk cord connected figures ad had lay A beautiful complexion -- how to Insure Its The regular use of Lifebuoy Soap insures a healthy, clean glow- ing skin. And because it is healthy, your eom- plexion will be clear and velvet like. The mild carbolic odor vans fees after use, leaving & ense of utter cleanliness. HEALTHY ARI VHB he as I lay waiting for the ambu- e. "Jake had climbed down into the] German trench and made' his way | some distance along ft till he saw the men round the other machine gun, They were just preparing to fire when he came upon them, and he let them get a start and then simply wiped them out. He march- ed up to their gun and monkeyed its riechanism somewhat. Then he walked back to the first gun, and shortly afterwards our line was startled by some one crying out in amazement, 'It's Jake MeGough come back with a Maxim. But Jake had done more, for he had coolly stopped 'on his way and col- lected his 'goffer' traps so the Ger- mans shouldn't know how theyd been had." A TRENCH SONG. Sing me to sleep where the bullets fall, Let me forget the world and all; Damp is my Dug-Out, and cold! are | my feet, Nothing but eat. Sing me plode, And shrapnel shell is a 1a mode; Over the sand bags, helmets you'll find, Corpses in front and corpses hehind bully and biscuits to to sleep where hombs ex- Chorus Far, far from Ypres I long to be, Where German snipers can't pot a me Think of me crouching where worms creep, Waiting for sergeant to sing me to sleep the Sing me to leép in some old shed, A dozen rat holes around my head; Stretched out upon my waterproof, Dodging the raindrops through the roof, a Sing me to sleep where the shells won't burst. Give me a pint to quench my thirst; Dreaming of home and nights of | rest With somebody's chest, (The above lines were - penned "somewhere in Belgium" by Pte, H.! J. Godwin, of No. 6 Co., Queen's Engineers, and sent to a friend) ------ } bi g feet on my Sobeesdifeodesdedesdoodedod dedi dodo ode be de desde AMHERST ISLAND 3 FAMILY ENLISTS. + - & Feb, 2.---Amherst Is- *| not behind in sending | recruits. The latest is Alfred | Willard who has enlisted in the #| 146th Mr, Willard has three sons who have enlisted. Thai # is a good showing for one fam- + ily * 2 * + * + + + + +P Bde dob ded dodeod de dtodd de donde doors Cagles #ly Seven Miles High. There are two animals that puzzle naturalists more than any others. They are nature's submarine and aeroplane, the whale and the eagle. It is known that whales occasional- | ly descend as much as three thous and feef below the surface of the sea, a depth of which, by thé pressure of the water, they ought to be crushed flat, Why they are not injured scientists have yet to discover It 'is this pressure which prevents a' modern submarine descending even three hundred feet, let alone three thousand. Eagles have been seen, through telescopes, to fly with apparent ease { from 30,000 to 40,000 feet above Sea level. At that height no human being can live owing to the rarefica- tion of the air How the birds live and fly at far greater heights than man can endure for long is a question still to be answered. Adele Ritchie, the musical comedy actress, was granted a divorce in | Philadelphia from her husband, Charles N. Bell, New York wine mer- «+ chant. It is announced that the C. N. R. | has borrowed in New York $2,500, 000 for one year from tite Central Trust Company. The loan is in five| per cent. gold notes. mer An RR ve co om me A ne Lge COMPACT MADE Between the Kaiser And the Archduke. "PACT OF KONOPISHT" - f DISMAL FAILURE BECAUSE BRIT. IN WAS MISJUDGED Kaiser Visited the Archduke a Fort night Before He Was Assassinated --Story of Henry Wickham Steed London, Feb, 1. -- A curious ant- icle of Henry Wickham Steed, Foreign Editor of The Times, ap- pears in the February number of "The Nineteenth Century and After" It is eatitled "The Past of Kono pisht," and deals with events alleg: ed to have transpired immediately preceding the war, A fortnight before the assassina- tion of the Archduke Francis Ferdin- and and his wife, says the writer, they were visited at the castle Kogo- pisht, in Bohemia, by the German Kaiser and Admiral von Tirpitz. Os. tensibly the Emperor went to Kono pisht to see the rose gardens. The story Steed tells is Yhat at Konopisht the Kaiser and the Archduke made a secret compact, The paramount desire of the Arch- duke and his wife was to make pro- vision for their sons, who were de- barred by the Hapsburg family law from attaining lmperia] rank. The Kaiser, it is said, unfolded his great scheme of the war. Russia was to be provoked to con- flict with Germany and Austria; France was to be instantly smitten to the dust, while the abstention of Britain was considered certain. The Kaiser proposed to reconstitute the old Kingdom of Poland, which, with Lithuania and the Russian Province of Ukraine, stretching from the Bal- tic to the/Black Sea, was to be the in- heritance of Francis and his eldest son For the second son a kingdom was to be carved out, including Bo- hemia, Hungary, Serbia, the Slav ccast of the eastern Adriatic, and Salonika, , German Austria, with Trieste, was to pass to the present heir, the Arch- duke Charles Joseph, to be incorpor- ated in the German Empire. A pact: would 'be created and a { huge military and economic "alliance made, with the Kaiser supreme in Europe, and perhiips throughout the world. Mr. Steed is an analysis of the ex- traordinary circumstances surround- ing the assassination of thé Archduka and his: consort seems to fmply that it'was "onnected with resentment zainst the sHapsburg family. The writer suggests that the Kais- er persisted in forcing the War after the removal of hig principal acecom- plice because the murders furnished him with a fresh and useful pre. text a -------- KIDNEYS. How They Help St. RAPMARL, h 1 had such in ago uch) gains fy Four years back that I could not work. tended to my arms, sides and used many kinds of medicine for over a year, none of which did me vary muc! i | read about Gin Pills and fora and used them, and found the pais were leaving me and that I was feeling' he te one box and before I used all, the were almost gone and 1 cold keep at work. After I bad taken six other boxes of Gin Pills, I telt as well and strong as I did at the age of 30. 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