Aprly a little : . Bluc-jay plaster, That brings a wonderful wax in touch with the corn, and | protects it, This wax was invented by a chemist who has spent 25 years studying corns. Tomorrow You'll forget the corn. Blue jay ends all pain, It will proveto " you that all corn : pains are need. Yeu can ctop them inan ' --and forever--with a f Eluc-jay. You will always do iat when you know the facts, fese. Blue-jay SONG RIE er oS | Cold Robbers Pr. Hickey's Speedy Cure and Dover's Cold Breakers have robbed more people of colds preparations. No cough and cold ean remain after a few doses of these splendid reme- dies. We are justly proud of them, 25¢ Each. "Best's The Popular Drug Store Open Sundays. ~ E.P. Jenkins New Spring Hats The man who gets his hats in cafes--or once in a while at ghureh -- always Jooks at the an Arrow or Bennett he knows that is correet In style, and of superior qual- ity. Arrow Hats '. Bennett Hats ....$3.00 Saturday Our Opening Hat Day. All we need to say is our spring line complete and the clerks are at your service. EP. Jenkins' ) Clothing Co. jor on it, roll myself in my blan- F than any other similar || label. If he has| SOLDIERS GET ACCUSTOMED TO THEM BEFORE GOING AWAY. The Occupant of Stall Eight, Stable Eighty-seven, Toronto Exhibition Camp Moved to the Office and the | Luxury of Sleeping on a Desk, Top--After That the Tart of France Will be a Picnic, He Says. was a big, stalwart fellow, and proud of being a full private in the Canadian army. He had given up a splendid position in a bdnk ard a comfortable home in order to,' as he expressed it,- 'get into the game." In earlier years he never had found time to go in for the milit- ary life because he had worked hard for the promotion ih banking that had jusidy come te Lim. When one thought of hig home surroundings, with every element of luxury, it was rather funny to think of him out at Exhibition camp, sleeping in stall eight, stable sixty-seven. He laugh- ed as he told his experiences and in- sisted that it was the greatest life in the world, says E. Kingsmill-Morgan in Toronto Star Weekly. : | The other day we were asking him how things were panning out at the camp and whether the stall had be- gun to produce nightmares. 'Oh, by the way, I've moved from the stall," 'he laughed. "You know, I've been j transferred to the office to fix up | Boome clerical work. Since moving to | the office, I've been sleeping on the {top of my desk. It has a long, broad | | top, and I throw a bunch of newspa+ ket, and climb up. What's the use," | he went on, 'of waiting until we get |to the front to encounter hardships? [¥'m getting ready for any old experi- |ences, and so long as I can get a crack at half a dozen Germans [ll | put In any old training. 1 guess the top of a hardwood desk with no pil- low will maké the soft turf of France- a sort of pienic." This Is the spirit in most of our | strong young Canadians, the spirit | that is making a name for Canada on \the battlefields of Flanders. He .was a quizzical-looking little i man who collected fares in a-Toronto | street car, but somehow he seemed to understand the philosophy of liv- ing more accurately than the { wrinkled-browed capitalist who flew | past in his high-power limousine. The capitalist ad a fat purse, which was the result of a curious power of accumulating dollars, while the coh- { ductor had only a cheery heart and {a curious power of distributing sun- | shine. It was really an easy mat- | ter to decide which man was actually the happier, for the onlooker knows that the facial expression is a very i reliable index of the feelings. | More times than one could count | the little conductor had brought a | smile to the tired face of the down- cast worker who was wending his | way home, tired of the grind and | wondering aimlessly what the whole | problem of living meant anyway. | And then the bright smile and ready | wit brought one to one's senses. His life was surely- no joy-ride, and yet | there was the invariable smile, .whe- i ther he was struggling at the back of the car with a wayward trolley pole, while~the sleet poured into his f or trying vainly to pass a seeth- ing mass of strap-holders and at the same time avoid tripping over a doz- en protruding feet. One afternoon recently a Yonge street car left the Queen street cor- ner_aud the cheery conductor began | to collect fares. Presently a post- { man entered the ear, while the can- ductor chanted "Shu-ter."" Now the long-drawn-out name puzzled - the | postman because the genial little con- | ductor had, on every other afternoon insisted "that !'Shu-ter'" should be "Shuter-Louisa," He touched the | conductor on the arm and said in an | agitated voice, "Bill, ye got tired | with ye'r voice. What happened to | Louisa?' Quick as a flash the con- | ductor assumed an apologetic tone, {and leaning + ver, said in a suppress- | ed volce, "Louisa's taken the chijl- dren out for the afternoon.' The garbage man paused beneath the window of the apartment house as he struggled with a box of empty bottles. "Everyone's talking booze," he said to the man that empties the ash cans. 'Yes, blame him." cried the ash man, with an oat "and those big bugs think they'll run 'our glass of grog." Ln nm so NN CHILD'S TONGUE BECOMES COATED IF CONSTIPATED cross, feverish and sick give "California Syrup of Figs." When Children love this "fruit laxative," | and nothing else cleanses the tender stomach, liver and bowels so nicely. AX child simply will not stop play- ing to empty the bowels, and the re- sult is, they becoimne tightly clogged with waste, liver gets sluggish, stom- ach -sours,. then your little one, be} comes cross, half-sick, feverish, don't | an' free band . "Ob, I dunno," answered the bot- tleman, dublously, giving the box a kick. "'Quess some of us need some one to look after our glass of grog. I've been thinking, boss, we're cursed glad to let the big bugs run us some- times, if it's to provide cheap amuse- ment, and then make it clean so as the kids an missus can get | a little clean fun fo *a nickel. An' we're | also durned glad when the big bugs | pull wires and get us cheap car fare concerts an' play- grounds for the kids. We don't know the how to do it ourselves, boss, and I guess there's a chance that we don't know how to take care of ourselves sometimes and keep from hitting the booze too hard. I like my glass of grog an' so do you; but, blame it all, it comes bard on Susan and the kids--and on your Dan, just turnin' into a man, and on Mollie, too. Curse it, boss, every man-Jack of us would be better without the rotten stuff, but we ain't got the brains to cut it. Oh, I dunno, I guess, after all, we need lookin' after" TRAINING X-RAY NURSES, Big Demand for Specially Trained Women in Britain. gnized aid to both physician and urgeon. Bullets and other' foreign bodies are located by thesé rays; heart and lungs, and almost all dis- eases of the internal organs are dia- gnosed by this same wonderful means. hospital can do without it. sent there is a demand in England for women to take the places of male assistants as operators, nurse must be thorough and should be obtained in a well-equipped and organized X-ray department in a hospital or infirmary where there is a radiographic medical officer in charge. The Great Northern Central Hospital and the West London at Hammersmith give such training, and if the applicant has fo wait for a vacancy as student .it is a good plan to study osteology (that section of anatomy which treats of the bones) and the theory of radio- graphy. i nurse, X-ray instruction, which lasts from three months to a year or even long- er, varies which a student-ean be put in department. A knowledge of photo- work at once---developing radio« cleaning dishes, and generally keep- ing the dark-room in order, and in consequence her premium will be less than that of a woman who knows learn. of an X-ray nurse should also in- clude enlarging and reducing and the making of lantern-slides for lectures on the X-rays. = a.m. to 5 p.m. The salaries for train- ed X-ray nurses vary from £1 to £2 per week where the sister or nurse the hospital, together with dinner or tea, while the salary for an X-ray nurse living in should not be less In some cases stifdents have: to pro- vide their own uniform and pay for their own washing and meals. Many radiographers' in private practice now employ an X-ray nurse, and the salary, on an average Ms about.30s a week, . Easily Fooled. In Leslie Ward's "Forty Years of 'Spy' " is this story of the absent- which, "since he was not aware of taken advantage of. He used to dine at the Athenaeum and usually at the same table. for dinner for himself, All being engaged, the waiter was obliged to refuse the extra guest; when the "Oh, sir," said the waiter, apologetic deference, "that's Crewe's." ! "Never mind," said the urgent would-be diner. "Tell him when he comes that he's dined!" It is to be supposed with Lord the waiter when Lord Crewe arrived he was met with surprise and quiet -expostula- tion. "You dined an hour ago, my lord," said the unscrupulous waiter. "So I did!" murmured the poor victim as he retraced his steps. What a Four Million Army Means. Some startling figures were quoted by Mr. Herbert N. Casson in an ad- dress in London recently. He said Britain's little army of '276,000 be- came 4,000,000 in such quick time that we could not count the men as they came in. Four million soldiers Yorkshire, one for every two houses had now an army which, marching ereigns, and there we had the army reach from Land's End to John o' Groats. We could stand our army round the coast line, elbows touch- ing, and with every man bearing his eat, sleep or act naturally, breath is bad, system full of cold, has sore] throdt, stomach-ache or diarrhoea. ! Listen, Mother! . See if tongue is coated, tien give a teaspoonful- of | "California Syrup of Figs," and in a| few hours all the ¢onstipated waste, sour. bile.and undigested food passes | lout of the system, and you have a well, playful child again. Millions 'of mothers give "'Califor-| nia Syrup of Figs" because it is per-| fectly harmless; children love it, and it never fails to act on the stomach, liver and bowels." \ Ask your druggist for a 50 cent pottle of "California Syrup of Figs," | which has full directions for babies, American troops will be across border within few hours. Prepara- tions are now comwiete, and chase for Villa will begin very soon. % thé children of all ages and for grown- aps plainly printed on the bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold here. Get! the genuine, made by "California Fig| Syrup Company." Refuse any other kind with contempt. | mee : Ants at Work. A botanist in the far east reports that in Burma and its vicinity the natives set the ants to work. Sandal- | wood, as everybody knows,.is worth its weight in silver, but it is only the hard heart of the wood that is frag- | rant and valuable. This precious por- tion is overlaid by a soft and worth- less layer, which forms two-thirds of the trunk of the tree. When a tree is felled and cut into suitable lengths the loggers just let it lie. - Then the | ants, attracted by the sweetness of the wo attack the chunks, Within a few weeks the little insects have finished their work, and the valuable heart of the wood is freed of its worthless sappy covering: and be- comes a 'valuable "wurticle of com- ~ The use of the X-rays is now a re- | fractures, abnormal conditions of the | Day by day X-ray work in- | creases in value and importance. No | At pre- | Training for the work of an X-ray | A knowledge of phofography is of | the utmost value to a waquld-be X-ray | for the premium charged for | according to the use to | the | graphy enables a student to begin | grams, making up solutions, prepar- | ing plates and films for exposure, | nothing at all and has everything to | The photographic knowledge | The working hours are usually 9 | lives out, uniform being provided by | than £40 per annum with all found. | " | town this week the guests of mindedness of Lord Crewe, a failing | it,"" caused him to be considerably | Another member came | rushing in qne day to obtain a place | flurried member pointed to an empty eat | found his deception worth while, for | meant one soldier for every acre in | in Great Britain, and thirty-three for | every square mile of this island. We | four abreast, would be 760 miles | long. Let every man carry 500 sov- | and the cost--an army which would | own weight of silver we had the cost, | v { Told In ~ Twilight | hore M A Dutch luncheon was given at tae Country Club on Saturday when those present were Mrs. P. G. 'C. Campbell, Miss Jessie Smith, Miss May Rogers, Mies Marion Leslie and Miss Marjorie Pense, - . The Catardaqul chapter of the Daughters of the \Empire are plan- ning a charity bridge, the date bf which is not yet d Ditely arranged. . . Miss Mamie Garrett, Johnson street, entértained at tea on Tues- day in honor of Miss Madeline Han- son, Montreal. * The last curling tea of the season was held this afternoon when Miss Betts and Miss Cartwright were in charge. . * - | Mrs. J. M. Platt arrived frorh Pie- | ton to-day to be the gugst of Mrs. W street. Z 8 WwW. H. Wormwith entertained at the tea | 8. Ellis, Albert ., - . Earl hour { Mrs street, | to-day. oes" { Miss Agnes Johnston was hostess | at the Bridge Club last evening. | * . * * Mrs. .G. F. Emery, West street.] {went to Toronto to-day where shel | will be the guest of Mrs. Charles Mc- | Dunnoy. | Capt, and Mrs. P. K. Ketcheson | | who are vigiting Mrs. Earle, Univer-| sity avenue, will return to Belleville {on Friday ' | { Mrs, Jack Craig, Oftawa, is in| { Cape Vincent, the guest of her. fa-| | ther, Albert Scobell. | | Lt.-Col. and Mrs. A. B. &unning- | hapi#ind their family are moving in| from "Ogwanada'" this week, and will be with Mrs. Henry Cunning- | ham and Miss Florence Cunningham, { Earl street, A Lt.-Col. €. W. Belton came from | Ottawa to spend the week-end with | Mrs. Belton, Alfred street * - - * Mrs. Malcom Gibson who has {been visiting her mother, Mrs. { Richard, Elmer, for some time will | leave on Tuesday of next week for | { her home in Simpson, Sask. | Arthur Smythe, of Vancouver, | iwho ig leaving shortly for overseas | is the guest of his sister, Miss Bessie | Smythe, West 'street, having been | | granted leave to precede his battal-| | ion across the continent. { Miss Lilias Sanderson, Barrie | | street, who has been visiting Mrs. | | Walter Boyd, and Mrs. A. G. Troop {in.Gttawa returned home yesterday. | Miss May Macdonnell, University | avenue, will be hostess of the Read- | {ing Club on Thursday afternoon. . * * * Mrs. Charles Goldmark, 223 King | | street, who has recently come here! | from New York, will be at home Fri | day, March 17th, and Friday, April} 14th, ! Mrs. E. J. Adams who has been | spending the winter with her sister, | Mrs. James Craig, Earl street, left | | yesterday for Ottawa. | Word has come from India that i Capt. Harold Hackett's regiment has | | been ordered to proceed to the front {and Mrs. Hackett, who was formerly | | Miss Edith Hague, will remain in | | India for the present with her sister, | | Miss Alice Hague. 2) { Mrs. Leech and Miss Elizabeth | | Leech, Toronto, spent a few days in| Mrs. | | Walter Sage, Clergy street. \ . * * * i The engagement is announced of | Agatha, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P | Kehoe, to W. E. McHenry, Deséeron to. £8 8 Mr. and, Mrs. William Davie an-| announced the engagement of their] younger daughter; Jessie, to Charles] A. Baird, of the Bank of Montreal, | Montreal. The marriage is to tgke | place early'in April. a (Continued on page 10.) Don't Feel Neglected. J The "Y" canvassers are determin- foa to get that remaining $1,000. Don't let them miss vour subscrip- | tion. Three New Judges. Ottawa, March 16---John S. Camp- bell, K.C., St. Catharines, has been appointed County Court judge for Lincaln; G. IH. Hopkins, Lindsay, for Haldimand, and DD. Swayze, Dunn- ville, for Victoria-Haliburton. Numerous are the thmes when {| foregone - conclusions are. anything. | but right conclusions, | ome A A RID STOMACH OF GASES, SOURNESS, AND INDIGESTION | "Pape's Diapepsin" Ends All Stom- ach Distress in Five . Minutes, You don't want a slow remedy | when your stomach-is bad--or an un- certain one--or a harmful one--your stomach is too valuable; you mustn't {injure it with drastic drugs. *Pape's Diapepsin is noted for its speed in giving relief; its harmless. ness; its certain unfailing action in | regulating sick, sour, gassy stomachs. Its millions of cures in indigestion, | dyspepsia, gastritis and other stom- ach trouble has made it famous the | world over. | Keep this perfect stomach doctor in your home--Kkeep it handy--get a latge fifty-cent case from any drug Lstore and then il anyone should eat | something which doesn't agree with | them; if what they eat lays like lead, | ferments and sours and forms gas; | causes headche, dizziness and nau- | sea; eructations of acid and undigest- ied food--remembér as soon as | Pape's Diapepsin comes in contact | with the stomach all such distress i vanishes. Is promptness, certainty and ease in overcoming the worst stomach disorders is a revelation to those who try It. .o | sales of the series 17 cars, which are | front seats. The adjustment process { Ing windshield. ple protection on cool nights. temperance reform; in Manitoba and You May Have a Beautiful Figure Corsetry has reached such perfection to-day that any figure can obtain shapely lines and good poise. . It is due hw not look better than thev do. aste and carelessness that the majority of figures do However, two things are necessary in selecting a model--first, selecting one to suit vour individual figure; second, adjusting the corset properly to that figure. ¥ ® ® We Specialize In Corset fitting and have two expert corsetierres with diplomas from Chi- «ago and Toronto schools--make your appointment early and learn real Cor- set satisfaction by wearing: -- FROLASET Y AMERICAN LADY GOSSARD (front lined) KABO : NEMO America's Best in Corsetry. sen, 4g 4, | LA REINE Y'S "THE. WOMAN'S STORE OF KINGSTON." te ee DIVIDED FRONT SEATS. New Studebaker Cars Advantages. Among the features of series 17 Studebaker cars that are attracting the interest of Canadian { motorists are the divided front seats i on both the four-cylinder and six-cy-| linder 7-passenger models. Accord- ing to J. E. Grady, Canadian sales | manager, this divided front seat fea- | ture has had its effect in the record the product of the great Studebaker factories in Walkerville, Ont, Not only are these front seats di- vided and of the individual type, Bilt they are also adjustable fore and aft. Arfother advantage is that the seats may be removed if the driver desir- es, an advantage that is particularly appreciated during the open touring season when many motorists like to camp out in their cars over night, By reason of the fore and aft ad- justment, passengers of any size may be comfortably accommodated in the is_a simple one, requiring only the releasing or tightening of set sere Setting the seat its maxi- a mum distance to the réar provides| seating comfort for the tallest driver, | | and setting it forward is a conven ience for the benefit of drivers of} smaller size : | When the seats are removed, it is| possible to lay a cot from front to] read for purposes of camping out. | On ¢ool summer nights the side cur- | tains may be drawn and ventilation supplied through the double ventilat- | On warm nights the | curtains are not necessary Thus, | a motorist ean get away from sleep- ing in a stuffy room on warm sum- mer nights, and yet is afforded am A further use is that, when the front seat next, to the driver is re- moved, the car can be. employed to carry bulky articles, such as small wagons or baby carriages, which oth- an advantage shrdlushrdlvushrdluun erwise would be difficult to handle. Suburbanites. - particylarly find this an advantage. LIBERAL PRESS. Conditions In The West. Saskatoon Phoenix. ; J Whether or not the liquor interest succeaded in: buying one or two out! of the forty-eight Liberal members of the House in 1913, hds to be pro-| ven; what is positively known Is that the nefarious scheme of the I | quor men fell-to pieces tha moment | the Government determinedly put its| hand to the plow in 1915 and swept{ { | | | | in Canada or elsewhere has ever introduced so drastic a temperance measure as a first step, nor acted =o promptly and vigorously in the public interest against a powerful and unscrupulous private interest as the Scott Govern- ment did in 1915, And only a Li- beral Government would have taken the step, for throughout the Donrin-| ion to-day the Conservative - party is the political bulwark of the liquor interests. In Ontario it is the Liberal | Party which stands for thorough in Alberta it is a Liberal Government which is giving temperance reform and in British Columbia a Conserva- tive Government Is blocking all de- mands for reform. i ett INDEPENDENT PRESS. A Military Census, Hamilton Herald. The program suggested by the Hamilton Recruiting league, to be embodied in a memorial for submis sion to the Dominion Government, is at once simple and comprehensive. ~} Have Many | the new! Beef Liver, Ib. Beef Hearts, Ib. Beef Tongues, 1b. Ox Tails, each Hamburg Steak, Ib. ..{1Bc Beef Dripping, 1b. Cooking Faty 1b. ... 8»0ven ..+»40c Roasts, 1b.~..... .-12%c¢|Sirloin oc Steaks, 1b, DAVIES' BEEF SPECIALS 16¢ 3 = N. W. Rowell. The Wm.Davies'Co. Ltd. Phone597 4 Its features are: the taking of a cen-| sus of all male British subjects in | Canada of 18 years of age and over; | their classification according to oe- cupaticn gnd their fitness or prefer Spring Millinery Showing Now On' |Of New Millinery and Im- enca for certain kinds of work; clas-| ported and Domestic Novel- sification of industries with a view of ities distinguishing the essential from the | non-cssential; the application of a Just and comprehensive system draft through which fit men available | for military" service may be secured | for the overseas forces. It is a pro-| gram which, in the Herald's ment, is worthy support jode- | of and should be supported heartily by al | Princess St. | Opon Tuesday & patriotic citizens. We aim to please and finvite all ladies to" examine oflour stoe k before ordering. MISS {BUTLER AND GRAHAM, * Phone 1267. Opp. YMCA PREFERENCE IS URGED, | For War Veterans By Liberal Leader | Rowell. | Toronto, March 15.--Preference | for returned soldigrs in connection | with vacancies in the civil service | | the liquer business out of existence, | was advocated in the Legislature by | | And no Government The 'Liberal leader | put the question straight to Premier | Hearst when he inquired as to whet-' her the Government had comsidered | preferential treatment. The reply in an impatient tone, was: "My Hon. friend wilt find that this Governmeng | ernment | ered the question, \ will give every consideration to the man who fights for his country." From the: interchanges between the Rubbers - JOHN. M. PATRICK Bewing brellas, Suit Cases, Trunks, repaired and ---- had not yet seriously consid. All kinds of cough cures at Gib- | two leaders it whs evident the Gov-son's Drug Store, from 15¢ to $1.00. Rubbers Regulation Military Tan Rubbér Boots . .. Rubbers : Sam Brown Belts Spring Front Leggings, made Regulation Mili IACK JOHN 70 Brock STON'S Shoe 0 AH ¢ olde