MILLION DOLLARS So Sir Sam Hughes Intimated In the Housg Before He Made His Hur- ried Trip to England. \ Ottawa, March 30.--Members are wondering just what the real magni- tude of the munitions profiteering has been. . Mr. Kyte declared that he had only 'lifted the veil a little," What has been disclosed has been the result of digging ander great difficulties by Mr. Carvell and his as- Thor hari ARC to all The Srocoes. not having to - ings of the Shed Committee, and with all the beneficiaries of the mid- dlemen's commissions naturally do- ing their best to keep them off the trail. The light has been let ib on- Uy on the two fuse comtracts to the American companies, aggregating $22,000,000 out of a total of over $300,000,000 worth of contracts let. The basis of commission to the mi- dlemen on these contracts wa per cent. Sir Sam Hughes inth ed to the House that Col. J. Wesley Allison's total war purchases, both for the Canadian and for the British Governments, aggregated about $5600,000,000, If the same methods hreld good in the other purchases as 'have been shown in the fuse con- tracts, it would appear that the pro- fiteers have got away with tens of millions of doHars. As Mr. Kyte said fn Che conclusion of his arraignment last night, the Canadian Pacific gcan- dal, which wrecked ¥&: Government of Sir John A. Macdonald in 1878, pales into insignificance beside the magnitude of the scandal now emerg- \ ng. Whe is This Yoakam? According to the articles of disso- lution of partnership between Allis- on, Yoakum and Lignanti, which Mr. Kyte read covering the various com- tracts in which the three were joint- ly interested up to the time of disso- lution, the total estimated profits were to net $1,863,000, Out of this Lignanti for bis share of the transac- tion. 96, and Yoak- um were to divide the balance. It is significant that in all the contract with the, American co gs Yoakum is nam- ed ag the prin¢ipal partner and the man who was to have practical con- trol of funds. The suspicion is gen- era] among the members to-day that he was the principal partner in the plot, and that when the trail is fol- towed in all its ramifications it will be found that there were other in- side agreements pointing to some- ne "higher vp." ? » Who this Yoakum is wil] be more fully known a little later on, Mr. Kyte described him. last night i ther silvery curb operator middleman in New York. He has EIN ANNAN LOOKING. FOR WORK Everywhere men complain about wotk: even boys 'and girls in school or. business find work tedious and irk- some, but it isn't the work half so much as their own lack of physical strength, that makes it hard. Rich blood, strong lungs and health- ful digestion make work pleasurable in business, in school or even house- work, and if those who are easily tired who are not sick, but weak and ner- vous--would just take Scott's Emul- sion for one month and let its pure concentrated food créate richer blood to pulsate through every artery and veirh--let it build a structure of healthy tissue and give you vigorous strength --~you woul fing work easy and would look for more. ' Insist on Scott's. Scott & Bowne. Toronto, Out. 15-35 , is authority for the statement been in Ottawa, so it is stated, sever- a] times since the war began, traV- eling in a private car, and showing ali the marks of sudden weathh. He has figured in several investigations of financial operations in the Unit- ed States, of Lignanti As to Lignanti Mr. Kyte gave the to a f Em a few years ago, the Ritz-Cariton orchestra in Momt- real. 1 will not undertake to what particular instrument he ed, because if I told this House the he played the flute and it turned out afterwards upon that he played the piccolo : Solicitor-Genefal would take as & reason for voting down this reso- tution. Therefora I shall not ticularize as to who he Is 1 than that. But Lignanti has given up hig flute-playing and hae gone to New York and taken up quarters at the Manhattan Hotel with Col. J. W, Allison as his associate." W. F. Nickle For Investigation This feeling is frankly expressed in the Conservative press. The Ot- tawa Citizen, for instance, says: 'Many Conservative members are plainly dissatisfied with the situa- tion. They take the view that they hold mo brief for Col, Wesley Allis- on, and that because he is a friend of General Hughes the party as a whole is not bound to rush to his defence or to that of the Minister, and refuse investigation. Sir Sam Hughes enjoys mo striking popular- ity with the Conservative party, and a big group of members are demand- ing that he be brought back to de- fend himself." The Ottawa Jornal, through its Parliamentary correspondent, and with undoubtedly the imprimatir of its editor P. D, Ross, one of Prem- ier Borden's closest personal friends, says "Amongst the names of Con- servative M.P.'s mentioned promin- ently as advocating Government ac~ tion are W, F. Nickle, R. B. Bennett, Hon. Andrew Broder, Donald Suther- land, Col. John A. Currie, Clarence Jamieson, W. F. Maclean and W. B. Northrip. Jt is said that there are twenty Ontario Comservatives alone who woulil prefer angipvestigation."" HUGHES I8 BILLED FOR APRIL 10TH DINNER. Carson and Beresford To Be the Chief Speak- ors. : London, March $1.--Major-Gener- al Sir Sam Hughes will be the guest of the Constitutional Club at dinner on April 10th, when Sir Edward Car- an investigation | Hon. Died in Kingston on Marel TRACING TWO PRIESTS WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BEEN MURDERED. HAVE * In The Far North--That Both Are Dead Appears Cerfain From R.N. W.M.P. Expedition's Report. Regina, Sask., March 31.--News of the expedition headed by 'Inspector La Nauze, R.N.W.M.P., which left son and Lord Beresford will be the chief apeakers. Thé compliment to the Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence will. be appreciated by the | Dominion, since the Constitutional | Club may be termed one of Britain's most cherished and most honorable political institutions. It is probable that this function, which, will beat- tended by a large number of distin-| guished military and naval persona- ges, will be the occasion of some im- portant pronouncements. It will al- 50 'ba the first public gathering at- tended by Sir Edward Carson since' his recent illness. x Sir Sam Hughes was interviewed yesterday for the Daily Chronicle by Harold Begbie, the well-known nove- list, A REAL SMART TOWN. It Shows Every Evidence Of Marked Prosperi Carleton Place, March 31.--Carle- ton Place is one of the best towns in The mayor that there has been practically no relief asked for from the council this win- ter. Everybody who is able to do so is working. For a long time fit has been practically an impossibility to hire a man for odd jobs of amy kind, everyone being steadily em- ployed. In addition a great number of people have been brought in from outside points to work in the differ. ent industries of the town. There is every prospect that the population will pass the 4,000 mark in the re- port shortly. to be made by the ass- essor-- a high water mark below which we dropped several years ago when the C. P. R. train crews were case for many months. moved from here. Ontario to-day and this has been the |! Regina in May last. for the Arctic Coast - to i le the reported murder of Father Rouvier and Fath- er Leroux, "has been received at headquarters hare. While the com- munication gives a mass of informa- tion, Inspector La Nauze is not yet in a position to explain the fate of the (wo priests, who are devoting their lives to the Esquimaux tribes in the frozen north. One thing ap- pears certain, they both are dead. The last news to arrive from In- spector La Nauze is contained in a ee HAS PN Ae You cut your fin- ger and the wound is slow to heal. The blood is watery and fails to form a clot. The lips and gums are paic. You are TT anpemic, This condition is best overcome by using Br. Chase's Nerve Food. ia this food eure there are combined in con- centrated form the clements that go to fori new, rieli, red blood. The appetdite is sharpened, digestion improves, colar 'and. wirength return, | and you rid yaurseli of weakness and many suneying derangements. 00 ets. m box, @ for £230, all dealers, or Edmanssen, Bates & Co., Ltd, To- ronto. Xin: Dr Tr of, J ~ [3 NPCS Be fol A A rr enn | There's no Law Against Figuring; na Indeed { seven ERem a 4 NINE LEANES FOUR PLUS Five 1s Tey | r i ' DIVIDE EQUALS Two PLuS TW HUNDRED 18 -- -- ft the city. 1916. 1 30th, 1916; born in 1822. letter dated December 15th, and was written from a point at tlie far north- west corner of Great Hear Lakes, where he made his winter camp. One of Inspector Bates' party carried the letters five hundred miles by dogsled to Fort Norman, where it was again | relayed on its way to Regina. The inspector reached his winter quarters September 8th, five months after he From there he was to leave for the Arctic Coast op the 15th of the present month, a ding to the letter. With Inspector La Nauze are two members of the niounied police, a guide, an Esquimaux interpreter and Father Lastrance, a friend of the missing missionaries. The tribe with which the priests are known to have been located is well west on the North ArcticCoast. The last word to come from them was in October, 1914. It is expected that many months will elapse before their fate is determined Inspector La Nauze's long journey is in every sense an Arctic expedi- tion, and is considered by the Mount- ed Police to be second only in im- portance to Inspector Bates' expedi- tion to the Arctic to investigate the murder of Radford and Street, Arc- tic explorers. Inspector Bates is now believed to be on the Arctic Coast hundreds. of .miles east of the point where Inspector La Nauze will strike the same coast. Though Inspector Bates left Regina about the same time as did Inspector La Nauze, no word is expected to reach headquar- ters/until next August. ASKED TO RESIGN. Reta On to Chair in University Until Pried Out. London, March 31.--Professor Lud- wig Becker, a native of Germany, at the desire of Thomas MeKinhon Wood, Secretary for Scotland, has withdrawn from the chair of astron- omy in the University of Glasgow, and departed from Glasgow. Con- siderable feeling has been aroused by Professor Becker's continued oecnpa- tion of the chair and the position of chief of the most important observa- tory station in western Scotland. WAR WILL RESULT = IN EMANCIPATION East will be the complete emancipa- tion of women says Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt, in an interview in The Temps. 3 ' "Orientals understand too little the great part women play in the world's progress," he says. "Since the woman is called to the high voca- tion of caring for the and instructing the child, she should have the op- portunity of developing and educat- ing herself to the highest possible de. gree. "No Qriental political or social pro blem is so important as the question of woman's emancipation, I we could end the ignorance of our wo- men and give them a chance to as- sert themselves all the other trouble- Some questions would succumb to their healthy influence and the new generations would be raised in the light of intelligent motherhood. "We can never be wholly happy in the east til we free women {rom the semi-slavery to which they are subjected under Mohammedan laws." MUST PAY UP OR LOSE THEIR LANDS. Speculators in British Colum- bia To Be Given Short Shrift. Victoria, March' 81.--Liberals -al- leged that speculators hold erown lands on which only a very small amount has been paid, and owe the Government 10 to 12 million dollars in the aggregate, { The Government will bring down a bill this session to give only six months to speculators in which to pay up. If buyers are unable to make good within that time the Gov- ernment will give a deed for that proportion of the land represented by | the amount paid in cash and the re- mainder will return to the crown. | - The land thus returned, the Pre- | mier announced, will form the basis jof a large land grant for returned soldiers, " CARE FOR GRAVES | Memorials Will. Not Be | While War Continues. { London, March 31.--A national { committee has been appointed by the | Bovernment for the making of per- { manent provision for the care of | grayes of officers and men who have {fallen in France and as | Prince of Wales, the president, . de- | cided that no permanent memorials { would be erected in any 'British mi- | litary cemetery during the continu- ance of hostilities or until the mil- tary situation should appear to jus- tify the giving of the necessary sanc- tion. Al requests for information regarding the graves of officers and men who have fallen in France and Belgium should continue to be ad- dressed to the director of graves reg- istration; British general headquart- ers, THOUGHT HUSBAND SLAIN Defence Of Simcoe Woman Charged With Bigamy, Windsor, Ont.,, March 31.--Mts. Alice Adams, aged 21, of Simcoe, Ont., was arrested here on a gharge of bigamy. {It is claimed that she married Harry Adams, of Simeoe, while being the legal wife of George Fisher, of the same place. According to the police the woman claims that she married Adams only after she had been informed that Fisher, with whom she had not been living for some time, had been killed at the front. Fisher, it is said turned up.in Simcoe a few days ago, and her ar rest followed: CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Erected Paris, March 31.--One of the! Breatest results of the war in the' (Tune: "gl he Signature of Vv L BY THE RRITISH AT ST. ELOL BLEW UP. The Trenches of tho Foe--Survivors Were so That They Were Easily Taken Prisoners, hy Philip Gibbs, in London Chron- cle, British Headguarters, March 30.-- German prisoners captured near St. Eloi on Saturday last after we wreclted their trenches by a series +I mine explosions, paraded to-day before being taken down to the base. These men were lucky in their es- cape from death. Tha explosion of our mines was so terrific that it shook the ground six miles away and its effect upon the German trenches was volcanic. Tous of earth were flung up hundreds of feet high, car- Tying away trenches, dugouts and sandbags. * A Jaeger regiment which was holding this part of the line suffered heavy losses. A captured officer says that two companies of his battaldn werd blown to pieces. The earth was so disrupted that the communi- cation trenches were choked up and there was no possibility of escape for the men who remained alive in the first and second lines of this sec- tor, nor for any supports to be sent up to prevent the occupation of the craters and trenches by the British, who still hold this ground. The Germans survivors were caught in the trap, and in a dazed condition were taken prisoners easily enough. The exact number of them is still un- certain, . as men are still being brought down to-day, but the num- ber is about 200 with several officers. SONG FOR SCHOOL CADETS. "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, ete") By, W. W. Weese, Parham. We are sturdy school cadets, And no molly-coddle pets, But are daily trained to rough it and be strong; And with muscles hard and tough, If we were but old enough, We would fight in freedom's cause, - nor thing it wrong. Chorus: Left, right, left, we go a-marching; Or if merely marking time, Keeping step is worth our while, Tho' we'd rather march g mile, Just to keep us in condition fit and prime. Every military rule And all others of our school We endeavor to respect and duly keep, For we know that to obey Is but proper and willing pay, And that whatsse'er we sow we also reap. And already we discern That we can the better learn Art and science, Latin, French and g all the rest, When on the athletic field We are taught our strength to wield, ad And are physically at our very best. So in sunshine and in storm We must keep in perfect form, And obscure a due proportion of the CWO With a smile or cheery song Keeping mind and body strong, Our successes will be many, failures few. Then when we are come of age, And in life's pursuits engage, Whether mid the arts of peacg or cruel war, As a patriotic band We shall better understand What our study and our drilling here were for. : A lazy man is a dead ome who can't be buried. On Fortunes. London, Maréh don, : Chronicle gives a to an article tion of wealth.' said to be a wellknown t, suggests at the chancellor of the make a levy on all the im the kingdom and thinks that a vast sum could be raised in uhis way. He presents a calculation to show on a gr ted percen scale £460,000,000 could be pee ie by an initial levy of one per cent, on all roperty valued up to £5,000, the 'percentage gradually jnoredsing. to 10 on property valued over 00,~ 000, He says: "Wealth can be taken in any form --cash, stocks or real estate, and can be sold if there is a market, or held if there is no market. U some- thing like this is done our peace bud- gets will become crushing their weight. With a debt of £10,000, 000,000 interest ,and sinking fund payments will be over £120,000,000; pensions and other war £40,000,000, making the Aajrse annual total of the budgets as high as £400,000,000. 'Such budgets can be met, but on- ly with certain hampering of nation al development and danger to the nation's position in the world." La GIRL'S SECRET OUT. an Kathleen Patch Deserted . a Year, Yet Kept It Quiet, Boston, Mass, March 30.---How she was married and deserted within \ twenty-five days and kept her mar- riage and désertion a secret from her friends for nearly a year, leaked out when Miss Kathleen S. Patch: of Chatham, Ont., actress, and former student at the Emerson School. of Oratory, in real life Mrs. Kathleen Harper, filed a libel for divoree from Robert F. Harper, Morrisburg, Ont., in the Suffolk County Superior Court. The marriage return at city hall shows that Robert F. D. Harper, of Morrisburg, Ont. son of George Har- per, was married to Miss Kathleen 8. Patch, Chatham, Ont., daughter of Ms.;and Mrs. Henry R. Patch, "on May 1st, 1915, Miss Patch came to this ¢ity sev- eral years ago, with a view to edu- cate herself in 'dramatic art. She met with success; one of her principal fies being "Nurse" in Across the 'Border."" th I -------------------------- % . 'Lightost Vegetable Substance. The pith of the gh is by far the Ii eit vagotabie sub stance. Dried 'sunflower Pith, in fact, is ten times lighter than cork; while the pith of the elder trees Is three times as light as cork. The sun-." fiower is cultivated to a gréat extent in Central Russias, where every part of tHe plant is put to some use. The pith, in particular, is carefully re- moved from the stalk and used in making life-saving appliances, OVERWORKED MINISTER Tells How Vinol Restored Strength And Vitality, ; Kingston people will realize that we could mot publish such letters 'as the following if they were not gen vine and truthful statements of facts. The Rev. Mr. Hughes, Holly Springs, Ark. says: -- "I am a Methodist Minister, and suffered from broken-down nerves, loss of appetite and sleeplessness. I was weak, my circulation was ; poor, and 1 was not able to do my duty in my Parish as I felt I should. i I had tried various remedies but did * not seem to get any better. Through Mr. Gatlin of Bearden, Ark., I learn ed of Vinol, and it built 'me ap. 1 regained my appetite, can sleep bet- ter and do more work." There is no secret about Vinol, I derives its power to build up the over worked, brokendown, uérvous sys tem "from the medicinal extractives of fresli cod livers without oil com- bined with tonic iron and beef pep- tone, ~ Anyone in Kingston who wishes ta try Vinol can do so with the under- standing that we will return their money if they are not sdtisfied. Geo... W. Mahood, Druggist, Kingston, Ont. By Bud Fisher - pret titi D THREE aN / { { { { | J / J ~~ op [1 WHAT ARE FlLuRtNg MN You Doing ? 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