IS THE GREATEST FEATURE OF THE WAR. Talks Of : Moment Is Once and For All Time To Destroy Prussianism, the World's Greatest Curse. 2 London, Feb. 23.--The Daily Chronicle publishes an interview which its special correspondent ih Petrograd has had with the Russian Foreign, Minister, M. Sazonoff. Ask- ed if the war would lead to disarma- ment or partial disarmament, M. Sa- zonoft replied: ""Fhat depends entirely upon the extent of our vietory. If Prussian militarism is destroyed, if that evil thing which has darkened all our lives for so many years is findlly des- troyed, as I' most firmly believe it will be destroyed, then I think some measure of disarmament may be pos- sible, it should be quite possible, for with England and Russia friends the rest of the world is safe. The peace of the word and the happiness of humanity are bound up with the friendship of England and Russia and I believe this friendship will be eternal." The correspondent asked M. Sa-; zonoff if there was any truth in the mimors which have reached England of Russia's dissatisfaction with Brit- ish efforts in the war. "None whatever," fie replied. "The German propagandists may have tried to make a few ignorant people here dissatisfied, but did not succeed. We trust you absolutely. We kiiow you hold the sea, and we know that while England holds the sea, Germany, who is the enemy of the human race, cannot win the war. I bave said again and again in com- miftees of the Duma, in the Imper- ial: Council, and to my sovereign, 'that England apd Russia together can secure the peace of the whole world, and I am sure of it. It is my supreme political conviction that England's hold of the sea is the grea- fest fact of the war. We know that fact in Russia, and we are perfectly sotistied.". | oo... The correspondent says: "When, I came to ask M. Sazonoff whether, perhaps, we had not played to the hands of the war caste in Germany by our insistence, that we must crush Germany if we intended to invade and violate her territory," he said: Prussianism Must Go, "Our purpose is to destroy once and for all tid greatest danger which ever menaced the human race. We shall fight on and shall never cease fighting until that menace is destroy- ed, and we cannot rest with a victory 'which would permit that menace to lift its head again. Our victory must be absolute. We must be free to live without continual fear of war. Things must be s0 settled by this war -. that the nations will feel themselves safe, and until German militarism is destroyed to its roots no nation ¢an feel itself safe. Let the German pee- ple know I have not the least objéc- tion to this; that if they themselves liké to destroy their militarism abso- lutely then the, war will come to an end; but as for us, we shall never stop for one moment until we are sat- isfied that the cufsé of Prussianism is Tifted from the human race." Questioned as to dangers of an in- conclusive peace, M. Sazonoff replied with great energy: "England, France 'In 3,1 and 2 pound cans. Whole-- ground -- pulverized -- CHASE & SANBORN, * MONTREAL. . ands Russia are responsible now. for ithe future of Europe, which means the future of civilization, the fate of the world. We can and we shall Prussianisnt. - It may take a long time. 'We are prepared for that; there will be no inconclusive peace, no peace with a risk attached to it. . 'Prussianiam, which is a dead- 1y poison, must be flung clean out of the human body. We dare not leave #t there to work once more for the destruction of nations." The co told M. Sazon- off that in Scandinavia he encounter ed considerable fear and dislike of Russia and said the uneasiness of the Scandinavians 'would be sensibly re. lieved if they knew for certain that Russia was to occupy Constantinople. "Well," said M. Sazonoff, "that is essential for us. It is essential for our trade." M. Sazonoff concluded: "Russia desires with her whole heart and soul the peace of the world. It was the Emperor of Russia who propos- ed disarmament in the hope of sav- trophe, and it was Germany who de- liberately frustrated that noble in- tention, Well, let us hope that af- ter this war is over we may find our- selves near to that noble ideal of my sovereign. Russians do not wapt war. They are fighting now to end war, and with England and Russia victorious .in this war the peace of the world will bé assurred. 1 have no firmer faith than that." PROTESTS AND_ RIOTS IN GERMAN CITIES. People Shout Down With Gov- ernment at Demonstra- tion Near Hamburg. London, Feb. 23.--The Rotterdam correspondent of the Daily Mail says he has reliable information to the ef- fect that rioting is increasing in Ger- many. He telegraphs: "Protest meetings, especially by women, con- tinue to be held notwithstanding se- vere police measures. The most serious riot which has so far taken place in Germany occurred on the evening of Feb. 19th in Bergedorf, a suburb of Hamburg, 'Where a wo- men's meeting was held in front of the Burgomaster"s house in protest against the butter and fat regula- tions. It developed into a big street demonstration, people shouting: 'Down with: the Government!' "The police, summoned from Ham- burg, drove the screaming and strug- gling women into their homes after a street battle.'" A despatch from Zurich reports se- rious protests and riots in Hanover. NEW LAKES CONCERN BIG FLEET COMPRISES VESSELS TAKEN OVER FROM RAILWAYS Capital Is $20,000,000--Buflalo Man Is Chairman Of the Board Of Dir. ectors. New York, Feb. 24.--<Organization of the Great Lakes Transit Company to control 85 per cent. of the. pas- senger, packet freight and grain steamships navigating the (ipeat Lakes is announced by Levy Mayer, Chicago, general counsel of 4he com- pany, on behalf of W, J. Connors, Buffalo, elected chairman of the board of directors. The company's fleet will comprise thirty-five vessels with a freight capacity of 150,000 tons. . The steamers were formerly owned by six railroad companies which were compelled to relinquish them under the section of the Pana- ma Canal Act forbidding rail lines to own competing water routes. The capitalization of the company, it was announced, will be $20,000, 000, Tariffs for through rail-and- water east and west-bound traffic will be filed with the Inter-state Commerce Commission by April 1st The new rates, it was stated, will not differ from those which prevailed he- fore lake navigation closed last De- cember. The company plans to overhaul all its vessels and to begin active opera- tions April 1st with the transporta- tion of 3,000,000 bushels of wheat from the head of Lake Superior to Buffalo. The principal operating offices will be in Buffalo. . . The names of the men who will serve on the board of directors with Mr. Connors 'will be announced as soon as the charter papers have been completed. ' James Carey Evans, now vite-president and general ma- nager of the Anchor Line, whose boats the new ny took over from the Pennsylvania Railroad, will be pi Other officers elected, all residents of Buffalo, are: Marvin M. Marchs, vice-president in charge of finance; Harry, Seymour Noble, vicespresident in charge of traflic; Edwin T. Douglas, manager in charge of vessel operations; Merton L. White, assistant to-the president; W. R. Evans, auditor; -L. W. Lake, general freight agent; F. A. Stanley, assistant general freight . agent; Harry D. Hosmer, genéral"passenger agent; R. M. Russell, secretary and treasurer. : ing mankind from this very catas'| .' IN THE MESHES. --New York § mm The Four Real Medicines The Pictorial Review for March, spaces Dr. Frank Crane in the Pictorial Re- walls, view for March, 1916. | The disease of civilization is the | meniows, the wide sky, and house Puiting the American Indi- | Winding road. : : ans, for instance, in houses instead | More than any other invention the of tents Killed them off faster than ~*utomobile has brought the enam- the bullets of the white man. ored townsman to his ' sweetheart i 4 spring. Looking over the list of marvel- A deal has been said of the com- ous inventions in this ingenious era, | ym oroial uses of the gas-driven ve- such as telephones, talking-machines, | pile It carries freight, 'supplants typewriters, sewing-machines, print- | the grocer-wagon, delivers 'dry- Ing presses, vacuum cleaners, and | o004¢ ang cheats the railways out of coffee-percolaters, you may note that Ap , le {a lot of suburban nierchandise traf- most of em are for use ase- | go But its ministry to the human inhabitants, ol h They increase the ef-| opin ig fully as considerable, ficiency, comfort, and bacilli in stufty | pho pest dividends the automo- room d steam-heated offices. i bile pays are those of health and The distinguished exception is the | happiness. It is making a redder- automobile. It is an outdoor de- | blooded, brighter-eyed, more vigor- vice. It implies fresh air. It con- | ous-bodied generation of boys and notes ozone. It means sup, wind, | girls. Even the old folks, and a and red blood. good portion of the invalids and shut- It is hard to overvalue fresh air. | ins, are able to get out for a daily Its effects are far-reaching, ramify-/ bit of air and sunshine, "when they ing in sanity and vigor to the most | can speed along in the cat-footed unsuspected cells of human activity. | motor instead of bumping slowly It permeates even to religion; for | down the road in the carriage. doubtless what was the matter with| The trend of these times is back many of the cruel creeds and fierce | in the country. But few of us own fanaticisms of a former day 'was thal] country homes Tn addition te our they were concocted in close rooms; town dwellings.- We can, however, bad aif in the council chamber affior- | by means of the motor, get away on esced in auto-da-fies in the cathed- | pleasant days to forest and stream. ral square. People that ride in au-| And we 'don't. have to own the pas- tomobiles could not thumbscrew | tures and flocks, the long vistas of heritics. appealing landscape, the wild flow- There are but four real medicines | ers, the cathedral naves-of arching in the bag of old Dr, Medicatrix Na- | trees over the road, and all the in- turae: they are Air, Sun, Water, | spiring beauty of the countryside; gets you somewhere. Time was| wa can get the usufruct of beauty that it took you all day to go out to | out of it without having any other Uncle Eben's farm, twenty miles deed to it than the right and title of away; now you whisk out there in| appreciation. an hour, | ~The progress of the human race When father had a surry and a | cam best be marked perhaps by the claybank mare the best we could do, character of its amusements, We for a ride was to poke about the | are molded by our play more than city. Our seven miles an hour wore | by our work. It is play that cap- out the whip. Now the family and | tures the imagination, and the imag- some of the neighbors pilethemselves | ination is the determining factor in We loath the stove, the and the bookcases. Our souls are hot with the passién for the Twenty-five Zeppelins have been destroyed in battles in the ajr since the beginning of the war. | A mutiny in Hungarian and Bos- nian regiments near Durazzo was quelled by Maxim gunfire, : Premier Scott of Saskatchewan promised a Royal Commission to in- vestigate alleged theft of road money. ! The late J. B. Smallman, London, hequeathed $200,000 to Western Univérsity, and large sums to other institutions. : A Royal Commission to investigate the alleged theft of road money was promised in the Saskatchewan Legis- lature by Premier Scott. Albert Armstrong Yerburgh, Un- ionist member of parliament for Ches- ter, Eng., has resigned. Ill-health is given as the reason. ! Lucy Duffy, 17 Seaton street, To- | i 'ronto, committed suicide following al police rail and conviction on a charge | 9f keeping a disorderly house. Fire broke out at a little after three | ;a.m. Wednesday in the British steamer Arracan, in St. John harbor, 'just as she was.ready to sail. | Monday next has been fixed for the {discussion in Parliament of Harry Stevens' resolution calling for fedesal prohibition as a war measure. | The Finance "Minister is contem- {plating some important amendments {to_his original proposals with regard {to the taxation of business profits. | Gunner James Marshall, 29th Bat- tery, Guelph, who deserted last De- cember, was sentenced by court-mar- jtial to six months' hard labor in the county jail. Major Perry G. Goldsmith, Toron- to, was promoted to lieutenant-col- onel and appointed to the staff of the Canadian Eye and Ear Hospital in Folkestone, England. German newspapers print de- the Mediterranean Sea, together with a great number of aircraft. Canada is to raise at once, at the request of the War Office, a wood- men's battalion, for service in Great Britain, companies to be drawn from Dominion. The fall of Erzerum will have a great effect on public opinion in the Balkans. Greece seems to be swing- ing 'in favor of the Allies, who "are daily receiving reinforcements at Sal- onika, and strengthening their posi- tions. INDESTRUCTIBLE UNITY. Whatever Happens, France and Brit- ain Will Fight To Finish, Paris, Feb. 24--The Anglo- French Parliamentary Committee be- gan its session yesterday. Viscount Bryce, head of the British section addressed the French delegates, over whom former Premier Clemenceaw presided. He sald there would be no separate peace among the warring Powers, nor any compromise, He ite proof of the indest of the Entente Allies, M. Clemenceau said that some such evidence of Anglo-French ac- cord had been long awaited. He said the French and British people would live in a union which would be un- broken, and that whatever might happen, these two nations would con- tinue the war to the end. ructible unity REVOLT'S ISSUE SEIZED. U.S. Postal Authorities Take Excep- tion To N. Y. Publication. WARE Gi the chief lumbering regions of the! characterized the meetings as defin- | 10 RUSSIA Canadian Salvation Army Gives Five Ambulances. WHICH ARE DEDICATED AT SERVICE IN ENGLAND BY GEN. BRAMWELL BOOTH. {Sir George Perley and Lord Mayor of London Praise Salvationists--Rus« sian Journalists Visit England. London, Feb. 23.--The public dedi- {cation and presentation to Russia by |General Bramwell Booth of the.am- |bulance ciéirs subscribed by the Sal- {vation Army in Canada coincided with {the arrival of a small group of Rus- {sian journalists who have come to {study conditions in England. Count {Benckendorff, the Russian ambassa- |dor, was unable to be present, but the {Russian consul, in accepting Canada's igift, spoke of the unbreakable bends {of friendship set up between Russia {and the British Empire. | Sir George Perley, in his tribute te ithe Salvation Army, pointed out that |the gift was entirely the result of the officers and members of the army in | Canada. He also alluded to the { presence of many Russians in Canada, iand to the fact that some were fight- ing in thé Canadian contingents. | The Guildhall was crowded when | ispatches from Italy stating that a the procession, including the five mo- | Japanese fleet has arrived safely in tor ambulances, arrived at the por- | tals. The Lord Mayor received a {warm handshake on the platform from the General when he declared that he had been a friend of the late General William Booth in the days of the Army's unpopularity. General Booth described the gift as from one of the Empire's fairest {| daughters to her mother's friend. "It has been a feature of our work," {he said, *'to assist men and women in {poor circumstances here to go out to {Canada to better their condition. That {work had been very useful. We were building perhaps better '. than we thought' when we see thousands of those men whom we sent from poor {circumstances here volunteering for the defence of the Empire. These ambulances have been contributed in {no small proportion by the very men land women whom in the past ten years we have assisted into better cir- {cumstances if Canada." {| General Booth finished his speech] {by handing the British Red; Cross treasurer £2,000 from English Salva- tionists for five ambulances on the {same lines as Canada's gift. | MASONS IN KHAKI. | Soldiers Initiated and Raised In Can. | ada Lodge. | London, Feb. 24.--Last night's ga- | thering of Canada Lodge, A. F. & A. [ M., showed that while English Mas- {onry is suffering from a dearth of | candidates owing to. military de | mands, the Canadian Craft in Eng- { land is benefitting by the presence of Dominion troops. Four new ¢andi- | dates from Canada, all in khaki, | were initiated, and three were rais- | ed, 'while two were admitted as join- | ing Dominion members, - the latter | being Lieut.-Col Gunn, of the 24th | will soon be completed. into your car and you are among the woods and hills in a few minutes. The horse js a noble animal, but the bucket of gasoline under the buggh seat has relegated him to the a pleasure locomotor he -is out of | date. i No time is the motor more appreci- ated than inthe spring. Nature is beginning her shy advances. Her violets and spring-beauties and cro-| cuses call city-souls with an irresist- | ible love-making. The woods are | greening, . strange new birds are whistling, the grass is growing, | fuzzy catkins are nodding, buds are swelling, the vast, strong, sweet cre. ative sap of nature is mounting, and we are homesick for sun-swept circus and the park bridle-path. As| development. We follow our dreams. People who take their recreation out-of-doors are drawn away from those forms of amusement which im- ply stuffy parlors, smoke-dimmed club-rooms and badly aired! meeting- places. The trolly has done much to loos- New York, Feb. 24.---Revolt, an Battalion, Montreal, and W. M. Bur- arachist weekly published by the | rows, of Winnipeg. Capt. the Rev. Revoit Publishing Association at 63 | A. P. Shatford, late chaplain of the East 107th street, has come under | 24th Battalion and now on duty. at the ban of the postoffice authorities. | Wokingham Hospital, in replying to The entire issue for the week was | the toast of "Our Visitors," madé an seized by order of the superinténdent | eloquent'speech on the good work be- of second-class mail. en the tangled knot of cities; the motor-cars will do more. The standardization of parts-is bringing the price of automobiles within the reach of an increasing number of persons of nioderate means. ¥ And the more the congest- ed towns empty their blood into the arteries of country lanes the better will that blood return to them, aer- ated, purified, enriched by God's great sanitarium.--Outdoors. It was confiscated on the plea that it incited to violence in some of iis writings: and another ground of ecri- ticism was that some parts were ob- scene. "WHY WOMEN CANNOT " U FRIENDS OF ALLIES REASONS FOR SYMPATHY WITH GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE. Diplomatic Tangles-- Viscount Bryce Refers To End-Of-War Problem Before World. y Paris, Feb. 24.--Viscount Bryce, who heads thé British delegation of twenty-five members of both Houses Parliamentary Committee which is to hold meetings here, has given an interview to the Paris Journal. "The situation in the United Stat: es is much too complicated and, changes too quickly from day to day," he said, "for me to be able to form any conjectures as to the man- ner in which events concerning the of Parliament to the Anglo-French | Washington Government are liable to develop. There is, however, one thing which should be known and, it is. that the sympathies of the great majority of the American people go out clearly and indisputably to the Allies, I never had t slightest fear of real difficulties arising be- tween the United States and the Al- lies, because it is hardly necessary for me to say that there are histori- cal reasons why a genuine friendship should be felt in the United States { for France and Great Britain." i he Lord Bryce expressed his sat'sfac- DErvous tion at the fall of Erzerum. ° He DO Ian can ever : the mental said: The of mind, "The cause of the Armenians is! 80d ent det difficulties, especially dear to. me. There is no necessary happy } a perfectly healthy condition. people in the Sarid which has sul-| 3 fered more. t has been a victim, | there derangernent respect not of religious fanaticism, but of Shere be ny stangetiont i this ree cold-blooded, premeditated hatred on stores womanly health as the I the part of the brigands who term "Favorite Prescription" invented by Dr. themselves the Turkish Government, | R. V. Pierce, and who do not intend to permit the; 'existence of any national vitality ex- * {cept in their own element." « Although he had only just got iu e touch with the members of the 8b times | French' Senate and Chamber who are I sew of to take part in the conference. Lord Bryce already felt that the meetings | mens and the exchange of views would be "The great problem which the al- fam < Een rks reat. pleasure in recommeniog said, "will be the creation of } Ir. Pieters er of en: hey are ail that dl | vent a eqaflagrati plunges Europe in desolation." of the greatest benefit both during very and after the war. 2 lied. Governments will have to face at the end of the hostilities," he | instrument able for all time to pre- | gamer Buvawr, 87 Park Ave., Chatham, on" such as now !QOnt . Tag {ing done by Canada Lodge. G. Mac- | Laren Brown presided, in the ab- | sence of Worshipful Master Gurney, | who is on service in Egypt. {WEAMES TO DIGNIFY TRENCHES, | -- {Lord Mayor's Footman Given a Month of Grace. New York, Feb. 24.--A London ca- {ble to the Tribune says: Weames, the dignified, gold-braided Lord Mayor's footman, may soon lose some of his aplomb ducking and dodging bombs in the frenches. Tv-day the Lord Mayor asked the city tribunal to post- pone the calling up of his footman, and obtained a month's grace on the ground that Weames' capabilities made him invaluable for recruiting at the Mansiol) House and that he could not pe replaced. Weames is so robust and calm, however, that it is thought he will soon don the khaki. SEPARATE SCHOOL FIGHT. Motion To Have Salary Cases Heard By Supreme Court. Ottawa, Feb. 24.--Notice of a mo- tion to transfer 133 Division Court cases for teachers" salaries to the Supreme Court of Ontario has been served by John J. O'Meara, acting on behalf of the Ottawa Separate Schoo! Commission. The ground of the mo- tion 18 that the actions are fit ones to be tried in the Supreme Court. The total amount involved in these ac- tions is $61,842. The motion is returnable on Tues- day, February 29th, before a Judge in Chambers at Osgoode Hall, Tor- onto, Sipe Policies Will Be Reinsured. Winnipeg, Feb. "24.--Justice Pren- dergast signed an order approving thé reinsurance of Prudential Life policies by the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. R. T. Riley has been appointed liquidator for the Prudential . The reinsuran- ce agreement ' also the approval of the Dominion Insurance in- Superi tendent and the Manitoba Insurance Department, ' Stockholm, Feb. 24.--It is report.' ed in well informed circles here that an a gement of the trouble be- tween eden and Great Britai 4B Re A c Saris POE 1s also understood that the British-Russian parcel mail, held up by Sweden and now stored at Gothenburg, will be released as soon as the Swed!sh-Am-. erican Line steamship Stockholm, now en route to New York, has pass- ed the, British Isles. No confirmation can be found of the rumor that Sweden has reques:- ed the United States to join in a pro- test against Great Britain's action in seizing mall matter. At the Ameri- can Legation here. it is stated that the rumor is regarded as unfounded. TO PROHIBIT HALIFAX, Bill Introduced In Nova Scotia Legis. lature, 3 Halifax, N.8., Feb. 24.--At yes terday's sitting of the House of As- sembly, Howard W. Corning, Conser- vative member for Yarmouth, intto- duced a bill to extend the provisions of the Nova Scotia Temperance Act 80 as to bring the city of Halifax also under prohibition. Mr. Tanner tabled a question as to whether the Government intends to introduce legislation to enable Cana- dians serving at the front to vote at the approaching provineial elections. PISTOL DUEL KILLS TWO. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 34--Four teen-year-old Geneva Hall was shot to death during a pistol duel be- tween her mother and father dn their home. The father, Joseph T. Hall, forty-four, also was killed, and the mother, Mrs. Delia Hall, 37, js in a hospital 'in a dying condition. She- received four bullet wounds. The girl was struck by a stray bullet as she crouched under a kitchen sink. TOWN FIRED BY TURKS, Vourla, On Gulf Of Smyrna, Was Completely Destroyed. Feb. 24.---A News Agency despatch from Athens, says: Turkish authorities, for some un- accountable reason, set firelto the Town of Vouria, on the Gulf of Smy- roa (about 20 miles west of Smyraa)' largely inhabited by Greeks, accord- ing to despatches received here to- ay. Greek residents had been warned several days in advance and were taken off by Gréuk ships. The town was completely destroyed. All Around Proxy. = A matron was confiding her do- ° mestic troubles to a friend. "I find," she said, "that my hus- band has charged some ome in his office with the duty of calling me up every afternoon to mumble terms of endearment. That's a pretty way te treat one's wife, isn't it? He's been spending his afternoons at the club. "How was it," asked the triend, "that you didn't at once notice that it wasn't his voice that called?" "Well," explained the aggrieved wife, "I've been - pretty busy with bridge every day, and I've been hav ing the maid answer the phone." Saskatchewan Has Deficit. Regina, Feb. 24.--Estimated re- venue for the province for the com- ing fiscal year is $6,846,225 and the estimated expenditure $8,829,473, leaving 'a 'deficit of $1,983,248, ac- cording to the estimates brought down in the house by George Hell, provincial treasurer. ---------- Bulgaria Apologizes, : Athens," Feb. 24.--The Bulgarian Government has made apologies to the Greek Government for the arrest of a diplomatic messenger and the seizure of Legation decument while the messenger was on his way from Constantinople to Athens. a Greatest Results come from simplest v often means, For instance -- one's dally food plays a big ast in de ciding for success or To bring out the best men- tal and physical forees sound nourishment is imperative. made of whole and "malted barley, ---- in splendid proportion all the rich nourishment of the grains, including he 1 es mineral elemen foods, but most necessary A Hor and activity of brain and ¥. : ® Postum Coreat WH 4g Canadian er