ie PACES 8-12 Training The Colonels \; Ottawa, Feb, 10.--One of these days I expect to see this question on the order paper under the name of one of the fifty-nine honorary--or otherwise -- colonels in the House of Commons--How many male mem- hers of the Hughes family are not generals? If not, why not and when? : You see the colonels are keen on strategy and they do not like to think that any smallest fraction of the Hughes talent, remains undevel- oped. It is not every country that has a 'whole family of Napoleons. The only reason why Major General Sam is allowed to waste himself on a desk in the Militia Department is that there is nobody to take _his place, nobody to gather up the tangl- ed threads of detail and handle them as he does. If it were pot for that Major General Sam would have been in the field long ago crushing the en- emy, Meanwhile his head is full of stra- regems which need only to be accept ed by General Joffre and General Halg to he completely effective, For instance there is his plan of raising an Orange brigade mounted on white horses and thus turning the conflict into-a Twelfth of July parade. A Protestant nation lke Germany would be just naturally. forced Wo join the procession Another plan of his Is to raise a regiment of par- sons who would entangle the Ger- mans In theological discussion and hus give eheetto?y. . meett talo thus give the reserves time to come up. , The Germans, being a nation of philosophers, always fall for any thing in the shape of metaphysics Of late the Major General has been thinking seriously of forming a regi- ment of Urgers. This is the quick est way of bringing the army up to the authorized five hundred thous- and, Iisa matter of statistics that there 's one able-bodied Urger to every five enlisted men and the nearer that Urger is to the forty-five age limit, the harder he shoots ad- vice at the other fellows, Major General Sam believes that the Urgers should be given a chance at over-zeas They are as gallant in €y are on the platform the war will not last long. The enemy, maddened by their speeches, will retreat in headlong panie. Anything to get away from that blasting eloquence Inciden~ tally it would take the fat off quite a few of the prominent Urgers, im- prove their wind, and to a certain ex tent clear up the political situation in Canada. These plans by no means exhaust the schemes both bright agd new AAA AAA A Rr A aR a AR Eas 2 5h Fo! A Vast Army they can depend upon forees. nourishing. \. MADE IN CANADA Canadian Postum Cereal Co. Ltd. Windsor, Jat. | he was a raging yplcano. So full of | with which Major General Sam's brain seems for the good of Canada and the benefit of the british Empire. A new idea blooms in that {fertile mind every minute, All bright ideas too, =o bright that the War Of- fice hesitates to take them up for fear of Bright's disease, But the master plan of all, the one Major- General plays as the last trump, hurling it like a thunderbolt at the stricken foe, driving the |victory home, is the Hutton Correspondence, When .the Hun is at his last gasp, walting for the push that will send him reeling, it is Major-General Sam's intention to pull the Hutton correspondence on him and read ev- ery last word of it out loud. This will naturally spread terror in the German ranks, and while they are still trembling on the verge of flight Major General Sam will follow it up with the letters he wrote to the news- papers when he and Turpin were winning the Boer War This will complete te rout After all this is fair fighting The Germans can- not expect to pursue a campaign of frightfulness without reprisals io kind. Though humanitarians may object to this use of the Hutton Cor- regpondence, unless the enemy i¢ previously warned to wear respira- tors, the weight of © ion is that Major General Sam justified on the ground of public policy. It must not be imagined that all the strategy in the House: of Com- mons is confined to the silver-grey cupola of Major-General Sir Sam Hughes No, the colonels have it tao Until recently the colonels were satisfied merely to be brave but now they want plan campaigns and work out. victories Not 80 long ago it took as many as six strong men to hold one full-sized col- onel back. He wanted to be at their throats, he did. He'd show em, so he would. His friends would plead with him not to lose his temper and kill all the Gesmans at once. They would point out that it was his duty to spare a few of the Germans for the . other colonels. But their words fell on deaf ears, For the av- erage parliamentary colonel nothing but complete. oF ition of the Central Powers would fill the bill and moreover he left that he was cal- led on personally to do the job, You have no idea what a strain it was keeping these bold blades at home. This, 1 repeat, was the spirit un. til last week. An honorary colonel might to all outward appearances be as calm as ice cream but inwardly to brimstone was he that he breathed the fumes from Eddy's sulphite mill of Workers who need sound nourishments sshether for labor of hody or brain, have come to know by actual test that . Grape-Nuts Made of whole wheat and malted barley this famous pure food supplies all the rich nutriment of the grains, including their valuable mineral elements Jacking in many foods--but mighty necessary for energizing of the mental, a physical and nervous Grape-Nuts has a delicions nut-like tflavour--is always ready to cht --easy to digest, and wonderfully "Theres a Reason" for . Grape-Nuts -- SOME OTTAWA GLIMPSES | Special Correspondence by H. F. Gadsby. | thinks of turning his back on the en- KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, ---------- y a8 if it were human nature's daily { food. A close observer might detect that he was on fire inside from the | | way he smoked---sometimes as many | as a d¥zen big black cigars in a day | --but to a casual glance he was as | | cool as a skating rink. When it came | | to hiding his feelings the ancient | Spartans had nothing on him. Only his friends know what havoc the! | lame of war was making in his bo- | som. He might smoulder like al { Toronto News editorial on recruiting | | in Quebec but he never broke out. | This silent struggle which each hon- | orary colonel waged with his belli- | | gerent soul has not been sufficiently | noticed in the newspapers. ; | Knowing the determinéd men he | | had to deal with Major-General Sam | Inaugurated an officer's training | course for honorary colonels in par-| | liament. It was his idea that it} {might he useful to them to become acquainted with their own feet which | many. of them bad not.seen for years. | The colonels received the idea with | enthusiasm and the Major-General | naturally looked for a large atten | dance at the first performance in the i Ottawa armouries He w pained { and surprised when perh twenty { per cent, of the honorary colonels { turned up, most of them late, though | { punctuality is the first virtue of a | soldier. Of course Sam told the col-' j onels what he thought of them and | | let me remark right here that some {of Sam's thoughts will {ry eggs--but that didn't increase the number of those present. The Major-General was-puzzled to account for the change of heart in the warlike col- onels. Looking about he espfed tw shorthand reporters "What are you here for? | ed sharply. "To take down the lecture, { al," one of them replied "So that's it," said Sir Sam his eyes snapping "You fellows get out of here! This isn't a blue book we're getting up. It's a training course. If those blankety blank blighters up on the Hill want to learn they'll come here and listen.' The Major-General's eagle eye had | penetrated the ruse' The colonels | | reckoned to do their training by Han 'Ssard, so to speak, a method which { does not involve physical exertion | and naturally favored by parlia- | mentary colonels, who are mot accus- tomed to early rising. Besides | what's the use of learning to right- about-face when no colonel ever he ask Gener is emy ? Still there is something in the view Major General Sam takes of it--namely that an honory colonel should be taught how to avoid fall- | ing over himself. | The main reason for the lack of | interest in General Sam's training course for parliamentary colonels is to be found in W. F. Maclean's re- | 'marks on British strategy. Freely | spanslated W. F's idea is that the | British War Office doesn't eat enough | fish, that too many of the fine old | tawny generals who are bungling things at the front have no foreheads and three chins--in short that it's up ! to Canada, as haying a stake of five hundred thousand men and five hun- dred million dollars in the conflict, | to contribute a few. gleams of intel- ligence to the deadly struggle. The Canadian generals would come to the { eouncil board with a fund of common ! sense uncomplicated by the little red rule books which ball British strate- gy up. Genius will have full scope unhampered by precedent. In oth er words our fire will not be put out by too much fuel and things will get along a good deal better 1 beg W. F's pardon if '1I have stretched hig point but that is what I took out of it and that is certain- ly what the colonels did Then and there they decided that'their highest duty td-the Empire was to become strategists, to leave killing to the coarser natures and let the Marlbor- ough and Wellington in each man's breast have a chance, Strategy is something that can be handled at long distance. In fact some say the longer the distance the safer the] strategy. Strategy can be written | in a letter and sent by mail. If it's a rush order it ean be cabled and get there in plenty of time. The colon- els are liable to produce some mighty fine stragegy because they know no- thing whatever of the subject. This naturally gives them a great deal of room for flashes of insight, brilliant inspirations, dramatic things like that. Strategy is all the talk among the colonels on the Hill. So many col- | onels, 50 many strategems For ex- i ample Colonel Cockshutt, casually introducing one of his justly celebrat- ed plows as a case 1n point, would in- yolve the Kaiser in a high tariff ar; ro mantSRY would last until the artillery stung him in the reaf, Col- onel Hugh Clarke would tell one of his funny stories and thus cause the enemy's western front to laugh itself to pieces. Colonel Sir Jam Alkens would shatter the Kaiser's army with 'one of his perorations which are al-| ways highly explosive, Colonel ! Glass would throw himself at the, | foe--his object being to have the! | splinters pierce the brain. Colonel | my Northrup' would blind the en. | emy with one of his chainslightning| waistcoats. : Of course Captain Ham. Burnham | has a scheme of his own, ' It is bas-; ed on his skill as an interrupter. In| "ile thick of the battle with the Jack | ! Johnsons hurtling through the air and the big guns roaring like Vesu- viug on a sprees, Captain Burnham { would, stick hig head above the para- | | pet and trumpet, "Gentlemen! why | {all this Dally row?" Naturally | | there would be a lull while Captain | Burpham argued the point of order. | | During the interval the British Army | would march around by way of Rus-| | gia' and enter Germany by the back | dopr while the people were still lis {'tening to Captain Burnham's logic. The Germans, as I said before, have | the greatest admiration for logic. They use it pften to the exclusion of sommon sense. Captain Burnham is Sold by Grocers. ake a hit--Be might even | Make & 8 knock out.--H. P.O. | Brockville military people are to have a big carnival alj next week, strokes and |' & "HERE, UNCLE SAM, ~Cartoon from New York HOCKEY AT NAPANEE I THRER PLAYERS CARRIED OFF THE ICE, Prohibiticn Petitions Well Signed In Lennox and Addington.-- Woman Arrested For Defamation OF Char- acter. Napanee, Feb, 9 Lieut. J. J. Gra ham went to Morven to take charge of the funeral of the late Pte. E Sweet, 146th Battalion, who died in Kingston. A very rough zame of hockey was | played at Normiles"- rink Monday night between a team from Gapano- que and panee, Three had to be carried off the through injuries, The game result ed in a win for Napanee by 12 to 3 The results of the prohibition peti- tion campaign in Lennox and Ad- dington County have surpassed all expectations. The committee an- nouness that it has secured 86.6 per cent. of the voters, to sign the peti- tions, and over 60 per cent, of the voters on the voters' lists, The Red Cross Society yesterday sent to the headquarters in Toronto, a large consignment of socks and hospital supplies. The Imperial Order of the Daugh- ters of the Empire, opened an exhi- bition of pietures in the town hall, vesterday. The proceeds will in aid of their patriotic work. Mrs, C. North was arrested Chief Barrett yesterday and brought before Magistrate with "defamatory libel." She was manded to the county jail for el days be ght Copper Underneath (abbages., London; Feb. 10.--The- Copenha gen correspondent of the Daily telegraphs: According to the Hel- singborg newspaper, two tons of cop per have been found in railway wa- gons underneath cabbages consign- ed to. Germany. The authorities have seized the copper and are now hunting the smugglers. A man should never make his wife ery except by buying her a matinee ticket, Don't. work when you are tired, if you can avoid it, its work. "HAD ALMOST GIVEN UP." Sarnia, Ont.--"About 27 years ago I was taken very bad, my blood, too, was in bad shape. I got so I bad to go to bed and I was there for over three months. 1 could not eat and suffered untold agony. had three of the best doctors 1 get but it just seemed nothing was going to help me. I had almost given up. 1 thought I would never be any better and was willing to give up and die rather than suffer as I was. A of mine told me of Dr. Pierce's wor remedies and I decided to use them, ' My husband bought me six bottles of 'Favorite Pre- scription.' 1 had not taken it long until 1 felt better. In less than six weeks I was out of bed, and in Jess than six months 1 was cured and have been well ever sinee. Even resting does all my own work. I have raised three | aughfers, two are married and have en. They have used it and they healthy, so are their children. I am it waa all on account of my having use the medicine. "1 keep all of Dr. Pierce's medicines in the Have "Favorite Prescrip- Pierce is . 1 also hare a copy of the 's Common | Medical Adviser, which I have had 26 years; it has been very valugble to me." -- Mass, J, Way, 232 Ontario St., Sarnia, Ont. H you are a sufferer, if your daughter, mother, sister need help, Dr, Favorite Prescription uid or tablet orm from any medicine Ys Then address Dr. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel, uffalo, N, X Aud get confidential medie oal advice entirely irce, A most valuable book In any home is Dr. Plerce's Common Sense "Medical Adviser. A splendid 1008-page volume, with engravings and colored plates. A copy will be sent-to anyone sending fifty cents in-stamps. to pay, the cost of wrap- ing and mailing only, to Dr, Pierce, Buffalo, X. ¥. y r. iy i rcaeunt Pelicts are the orignal little liver pills, first put ly 90 years agp, Pr pe. FEBRUARY 10. players | © p a | formal | decided Mail | edical Discovery'. and | i by Dr. | 1916 SAVE THIS FOR ME" Evening Sun. APPAN'S RECAPTURE ANNIOUS THAT ASYLUM BE Gl VEN VESSEL IN PORT: Contention Of Has Not Decided How Long Ship Shall Remain, Washington, I'eh 10. ~--Germany contends that the British liner Ap- pam, brought to Hampton Roads Dy a German prize crew, is entitled, un- | der the terms of the Prussiai-Ameri- can Treaty, to remain in American waters indefinitely, and in support of her position Count von Berustorfr, the German Ambassador, yesterday presented to Secretary Lansing a communication on behalf of the Berlin Foreign Office, The United States practically has that the treaty guarantees the ship to the Gerinans as a prize, as against the British contention that The Hague-Convention. ..ZUarantoes. her return to-her British owners, but it has not decided how long she shall be permitted to remain in Ame- rican waters To accept the German contention would mean that the Appam would be permitted to remain until the end of the war To compel her depar- L ture would mean, sure capture by the Allied cruisers outside the Vir- ginia Capes, There was no indication to-day of how soon a decision might be announced by | Rankin enarged |CONFINE THE DRIVE UPON THE TEUTONS. | British Military Expert. Urges | a Concentration of Force. 10. of London, Feb military expert Times writes Germany has to-day in the field t armies 2,600,000 strong. Shé has suffered casualties and | has 2 Col the tepington, London 25700,000 for field service, | The strength of these armies will not begin to fail until the supply is exhausted. If the Germans lose 250,000 men a month they will ex haust their power of reinforcement by September next. If the rate of Toss is 150,000 a month, then the field armies can go on till February, 1917. Finally, iT we dispose of no more iermans per month than we did dur- ing the month just elapsed, namely, why we should set term upon thewar, If wesinsist Upenifightifig Turis, Bulgarians and what not instead of Germans, we make a great mistake. We have only onesenemy that counts and whose fall will bring his confed- erates down with him. any particular him offe | ROUMANIA Berlin--Washington | 2,000,000 reserves still available | NOW HELD | + BY RUSSIAN STRENGTH. [No Possibility Now of Being Swayed by the + Teutons, London, Feb. 10.--The statement | of General Polivanoff, Russian Minis- ter for War, to the effect that Rus- ¢ia's munitions crisis is over, re- | ceives great attention here, as it is | intimately bound up with Rouman- fa's future, It has long been an open secret | that the fortunes of Ryssia are close- ly interlocked with Roumania's de- cigion to remain neutral. There is no doubt that, should Russia's effort to come back be sustained, the En- tente can count upon still another ally in the not far distant future. But all depends upon Russia, so that M. Polivanoff's statement at the present juncture is doubly welcome to the Allies, Should the worse come to the worst there is no doubt about Rou | manian sympathy and her determin | ation never to take up arms against the Allies War Tidings, French troops captured a small section of the German trenches in | the Champagne but failed to recover their ground lost near Vimy, a Ber lin despatch says, United States private cables {rom ! Bermuda and other Atlantic islands ; on Wednesday told of the capture of the German raider Roon by the Brit. ish cruiser Drake. THE HOSPITAL IS FULL | REGRETTING THE DEATH OF LIFUT.-COL. H. BR. DUFF. | A Resolution Of Condolence Passed Miss FE. A. Hunter Thanked For Her Splendid Services and Made a | Director. | The Mowat Memorial | crowded with patients, | thirty-three in and space is utilized This was -the re port given at the monthly meeting of the directors on Wednesday, February financial statement the receipts as $489.90 ¢ $753.66. ay Hospital There are every inch of The overdr The February ace paid totalled $927.87 The association elected Miss KE. A Honter, the efficient secretary, a dir- ector of the board and recorded in the minutes 'its appreciation of her more than generous aid in helping to place the hospital on a sound basis. She gave time and labor in its be- half. "The direetors feel uo words can effectively tell", said the resolu. tion, "hew much your goodness and helpfulness are recognized." The members expressed much sor- row over the loss through death of Lieut.-Col. Duff, a stalwart worker for the Health Association, and adop. tea the following resclution mnfpved by J. Slliott, seconded by J. Connell ts ordered bat this Board has learned with deep regret of the death at Cairo, Egypt, of Lieat.-Col, Hew Ramsay Duff, a faithful and earnest member {and officer of the Health Association, a splendid © citizen, - a tender physi- cian, 1 noble hushand, father ane friend We mark witli exceedingly t faction deceased's devotion | Empire's needs, his loyal response | to duty's call. even in the face of { declining health "and needed care; | we note with comfort and pleasure | his uprightness, his gentleness and gentlemanliness and all those virtues thai give strength and force to char- | acter We extol and reverence the | qualities that made the late Dr Duff a power in the community and an honor to Kingston's citizenship. To those who mourn we offer ten- | derest sympathy. As husband and fa ther he worthily lived for he marked 'he rears with a fullness of life and a cheerfulness of spirit that will long remain to soften and assuage the grief in many hearts, rn ---- to the Q 26,000, there is no particular reason | We should | concentrate upon him and act against | sively with all our might, | J recall ull useless detachments, liguid- | ate all foolish adventures which Germans no loss, and act defensively i with the least possible numbers in {every theatre other than the princi- pal oné This should be the cardinal plan wasie our army while causing the | / COFFEE, | of the war, and victory is assured if | we pursue it relentlessly. Sank/FOrty Turk Ships, / i New York, Feb. 10,--A news agen- i cy despatch from Paris says Russian torpedo boats sank ferty | bombarded three naval construction | yards, along the Anatolian coast, ac- | (cording to despatches geceived here 3 to-day, To Oppose Fallis, - Brampton, Feb. 1%. Peel Liberals yesterday nominated W, G. Lowe to oppose Mr. Fallis, Conservative ex- M.P.P., who resigned Government horse deals. According to reports, the game at Ottawa Monday night bétween Wan- derers and Ottawa was anything but a pink tea, and numerous oc- curred. Coach Alf, Smith ef the Ottawa club ¢laimed that Wanderers were trying to cripple his players. Turkish | sailing vessels in the Black Sea and | following the | There are other Coffees --but--they are not "Seal Brand" In 3% 1 and:2 pound cank Whole ~~ ground -- pulverized -- also Fine Ground for Percolators, CHASE & SANBORN, MONTREAL. 'SECOND SECTION ALLIED MOVE. "AT SALONIKA FUL. HER DISEMBARKATION OF FRENCH ARMY CORPS. Bulgars Holding OF--Will Not Take Part Without Promise of Certain Territory. London, Feb. 10.---The Allies at Salonika, after entrenching thor- oughly, are now making reconnais- sances. The newspaper Ethnos, in the course of an article on the posi- tion in Macedonia says: "All signs indicate that the Allies are definite- ly preparing an offensive. Their attention lately has been turned to the east and the indications are for 4 movement towards Bulgarian T hrace and further disembarkations in the Gulf of Orphanos of fresh French army corps are expected shogtly. The Allieg calculate that there are 130,000 Bulgars oh the frontier, It is noteworthy. that Since two German regiments have reinforced the Bulgars in the Doiran- Strumnitza sector, the Bulgarian de- sertions across the Greek frontier have ceased," Bulgarian Demands. "There still no reason for ex- pecting an enemy attack on Salon- ika. The key of the situation real- ly lies in Vienna and Sofia, where negotiations continue to obtain Bul- garian participation, without "which an a % would be impossible. : "The German diplomats are doing all they can to conciliate the diver- gent interests of Austria and Bulgar- la, as the Bulgarians will not take part now without the promise of cér- tain territory which Austria has no- toriously coveted. "One difficulty is that the compen- sations Pulgaria demands, are not, within either Austria's or Germany's power to grant. The Bulgarians offer about 100,000 men in return for the assurance that there will he no attack on Salonika until Ger- many has obtaiped Austria's consent in this matter, "Some advance has been made to- wards sel @W agreement, but much remains still to be done, ------ Passports For Consuls, "It is reported from Bucharest that the German-Bulgarian army commanders intend to request the withdrawal of the neutral consuls at Monastir, in Bulgarian and Turkish Thrace and in other war zones. "Prince William of Wied, instead of being at Scutart, 1¢ on his way to Monastir and is attached to the staff of Gen. von Meckensen. Obviously as a result of Bulgarian opposition he is not participating in the Aus- trian advance on Durazzo, which the Austrians have promised to occupy only provisionally until the town has been garrisoned by the Bulgarians. It was hoped by this means to in- duce the Bulgarians to co-operate in the Austrian invasion of AMania gince Durazzo is destined to be of- fered as compensation to the Bulgar- ians. It is probable that Prince William will renounce the Albanian throne; A despatch from Sofia to the Reu- ter Telegram Company, states that King Ferdinand, Premier Rados- lavoff and Gen. Jecoff, Commander- In-Chief of the Bulgarian forces, left on Monday night for German head- quarters to visit Emperor William and afterwards Archduke Frederick, Commander-in-Chief of the Austrian armies, Gen. Jecoff will 'then re- turn to Bulgaria. King' Ferdinand plans to extend his trip to Coburg. is TEUTONS PLAN BLOW AT ALLIED FLEETS. Chief of Austrian Navy in Bere lin to Confer With Von Tirpitz. London, Feb. 10.--The Copenha- gen correspondent of The Daily Mail says that Archduke Charles Stephen, the Chief of the Austrian navy, has arrived at Berlin with his staff. His errand, according to the de- spatch, is to discuss with 'Prince Henry of Prussia and Grand Admiral von Tirpitz a closer unity in naval action between the Central Empires. The London Daily Mail paval cor- respondent points out that the naval conference at Berlin cofturs' with the reports of intense activity in the ierman fleet, Admitting that it may be intended to mislead ~ Germany's enemies, he remarks, that it is pos ible that it is a preliminary to a ser- ious attempt. : NATIONAL HYMN BY KAISER Replaces Present One to Avoid Brits ish Anthewt's Tune. Geneva, Switzerland, via London, Feb, 10.--The Vossische Zeitung, a copy of which has been received here, says the German Emperor has com- posed the words for a new national" hymn and has asked Richard Strauss to compose the music. "The Em- peror, the newspaper says, aims to replace the Prussian hymn, "Heil Dir Im Siegerkranz," which is sung to the same tune as the British National Anthem, . : 'As a money getter the self-made man may not class with the machines made politician, i : . ms nth