: # STEELE BRIGGS RENNI'S . FERRY"S Fresh Garden Flower Seeds. il and Grass Seed, a strong, thick grawer, 25¢ pound Best's The Popular Drug Store Open Sundays. A Paradox ? No! We provide proper glasses through which you can see. Being eyesight special- 158 ° we ' 'know when eves are wrong and H why glasses are 'right. See us--we un- . derstand our business. KEELEY Jr, M. 0. D. 0 orToM AND OPTICIAN us Street 22¢ 8 doors above the Opera House E. P. Jenkins' Rain Checks Spring Freshets re- mind one of Raincoats. Both are here. Freshets on the outside; Coats on the inside. New Shapes in Fine Checks, Serges and plain cloths. Paramattas in all grakdes. . Military Coats in In« verness and colonel . style in khaki. Sa All prices. at reasonable = PICTURE OF DOOMED NFS, vo o toactond sak board a chénce to save their lives. Since then six er carry. ships ing Americans have been sunk and a seventh attacked, besides many ships in which Americans wefe not inter- ® [ested and many more cargo ships, : ; ; | some of which carried Americafls in -- { their crews and sailed under neutral i : | flags. ln some ciises the submarine Will They. Submit To More claimad Austrian nationality. | other cases it never was leafed what German Atrorities 7 | Rationality the submarine claimed. $ i . In no instance, either before or after -- { the Arabic promise, has Germany f | ever admitted responsibility for the | Act of a submarine which concerned | Americans until proof had been ob- | ined from other sources that Ger- | many was guilty. In the case of the ON SUSSEX IS GIVEN BY BUFFA.| LO EXPRESS, i % a | Which Comments Upon the "Huns | Despieable Act of Murder on the . High Seas. : | Bulfale Express AS the details of the Sussex story are gathered, it becomes clear that! here is a case as bad as those of the! Lusitania, the Arabic and the Anco-| no. Read again Bdward Marshall's! réflettions of the feeling of the pas- sengers while they sat around on mail bags after the boats had gone, | waiting for probable death. Says Mr. Marshall: i "I presuine, save for a few ship's | | officers, who may have been armed | {as all ship's officers may well be at) | all times, there was not an armed | | man on the vessel. Surely she was! {not a fighting ship. She did not | hive even a signal gun aboard. She j carried no munitions nor anything! { which could be for [comfort to the { fighting men of France and England, | {save the malls, whick were to bring| | them news from home. Yet she had | | bean torpedoed with all the ruthless- | ness and malevolence which would be | be excusdble only if directed against | an actual fighting ship. We who! | talked this matter over had seen wo- | {men and little children sinking to, | theirdeath in the cold sea or mangl- --------p-- _--_-- aii - on {ed to death oi board the vessel. Not | Persia, not only Germany, but her one of us bore any more relation to Wo maritime allies, Austria-Hungary the great war than taine, which, up and Turkey, have all denied respon | to this time, has been merely that of | Sibility. In Her dealings with the | a recorder of opinion, The mad-| United States on the submarine | dest enemy mind could not attach to | Question, Germany appears to at | the poor little old ship Sussex any tach as little value to her word as { military importance whatsoever. Any | in her violation of Belgium's neutra- sormally humane mind would have lity and of many of the clauses of { stayed a tempted band at thie thought The Hague convention. "What disav | of the entirely innocent character of OW al or promise could she now make { the vessel's burden. Yet, without an| Which the United States would be | instant's warning, a torpedo had justified in regarding as 1wvthing but been launched at us." a ruse of war, intended to satisfy | our complaints for the moment with- out in any way changing German | practices? Honor and good faith, as we Ame- | ricans understand those terms, are evidently meaningless words to the autocrats who control the German empire. The doctrine developed by Bernhardi, with a seriousness which showed his own absolute belief in its | correctness, that power determines right and wrong, is plainly the guid- ing principle by which the German Government is conducting this war and which, if it is trinmphant, it ex- pects to establish as the standard of the world. If that standard is to re- place the old principles of justice and rectitude, as we have learned them, let it, at least, not be 'said that we Americans submitted eravenly and without a struggle. Picture of The Doomed. Is there an American or a civiliz- {ed and humane man of any nation- | ality who can grasp the picture of | those apparently doomed people -- { more women and children than. men | among them---sitting on the deck of that wrecked and sinking ship through the long hours of that ter- rible night, without sharing in his own mind the indignation which they {felt against the nation which had |'brought, this fate upon them? Is there an &'merican who ean wish that his own country shall longer ex- tend the hand of friendship to power capable of such i1uthless and wanten cruelty? It we Americans can do nothing else, we can, at least, | refuse longer to recognize the author of this act among the civilized gov- ernments of the world and te ad- mit it, in our thought and speech and diplomatic relations, to a plane In} | be distributed by the wind in -- ks FARMERS OST THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS LAST YEAR. -- Tho Diseases Are Easy to Control -- Methods Used and Results of Som» Experiments. : The loss from Smut diseases. in grain erups in Ontario in 1915 is es timated at five million dollars. This is a lot of money which the farmers are losing and it is a loss which can be overcome by a little effort on their part. 'The loss in this coun- ty would be equally as serious as'in any other part of the province. Every producer could figure out for himself what his own loss may have been. Take oats for example, which ¢rop by the way is mostly affected by smut in this district. The head of smut which is found in the straw has @isplaced the grain which would have been produced had it-not been for the disease. Hence, if the crop showel ten per cent of smut, there would be a decrease of ten per cent in the yield of grain, which would be a lois of six bushels per acre, when the yield would be 60 bushels per acre under normal conditions. Es- timating the loss at ten per cent. is, it anything a little below the aver- age, and we may safely say that! many oat growers have experienced | a very much greater loss, Nature Of tire Disease. The different Kinds of smuts are, loose smut of oats, the most com- | §i mon an} most prevalent smut in On- | tario; the stinking smut or bunt of | wheat, covered smut of barley, leose | smut of wheat and loose smut of | barley The tliree first mentioned are capirolled by treating with for- | malin or bluestone, while the last| two cannot; and can , only be con- | trolled by hot water treatment. NIGHTGOWNS AND / regular $1.00 to $3 0. 8. DRAWERS d doz. extra large NEMO CORSETS "The ideal Corset fi We} will discuss chiefly those that can be| controlled by treating with formalin. | The smuts are fungous diseases, | that is, they are caused by minute] colorless plants, called fungi, which| have lost the power to manufacture their own fool, and have become thieves and parasites, stealing their food from other plants, and in so do-| ing injuring them in many ways, thus} causing what are known as fpngous diseases. The bodies of the fungi are delicate threads which are so small that they can only be them. These fungi reproduce by! spores or seeds, which when formed | the decrease can usually be deteet- | ed. It is these spores which attach | themselves to the grain and remain] , 107 dvz, made of the finest lin 318, in broken sizes; regular AMERICAN LADY CORSETS Style Nos. 352 and 178, in this most regular $2.00 to $2. SUITS! SUIrNs!! SUITS!!! During this great *'Dress Up and Fare Refund" Sale extraordinary inducements are being offered Tomo Frow SKIRTS 2 00 size drawers; regular 50c¢, wr the stout: fign 3. 75 and $4.00 o- {2 In price gerie abn embroidery Sale Price Less One-Half popular corset--in We specialize on fine Whitewear --with bargains a-plenty. trimmed -- re----special to-morrow, Nos. 345 and Sale Price $1.98 broken sizes; . ..Sale Price $1.48 Special values now on Sale, seen | = ' with the aid of the microscope. They! Reni NI Bh ih i od = A live between the cells of the plant, 1 y . } and obtain their nourishment from { attached until it is sown, when they | | | will germinate the same time when 3 : the grain germinates. When they | | germinate, delicate fungous threads | HAVE i are produced which penetrate the | ' ; Ul BEAUTIFUL HAIR } very seedling plants. . This is the only time that oat smut infection can Particle of Dandruff pears And Hair Stops, take place The fungous threads live inside the tissues of the plant, following the growing ppoint up the stem, and when the heads form, gu ter the young developing grains anc A { éonverting them into a mass of Coming Out spores or smut. These spores may the field to healthy grain or during] threshing, which is the most likely | way. As the seed or sporés are on| the outside of the grain it can be de-| stroyed by a fungicide, but in the| case of the loose smuts of wheat ands barley, the threads or roots of the Every Disap- Cloth Through Hair | and Double Its Beauty At Once, | Draw a Moist Your hair becomes light, wavy, | fluffy, abundant and appears as soft, | lustrous and beautiful as a young! girl's after a "Danderine hair elean- | se." Just try this--moisten a cloth of equality with ourselves and with other nations which preserve some tandards of humanity and of honor, even in war, y It is merely dodging the issue to tell ourselves that we have no posi- tive evidence that a éGerman submar- ine did this work. We have much better evidence than we ever had that the Maine was blown up by a Spanish mine, There may be en- | ough lack of evidence to plead as a | timfd excuse for non-action, If the! | government wishes to continue the humiliating role which it has béen playing for the last year; but if evi. dence to justify action is sought, we have it in plenty, and all the world knows we have it. The German in Germany and the pro-German in this {country knows this as well as do | those who think for Awerica and for civilization, Will Americans Be Cravens? The statement came out of Wash- ington, apparently from the German embassy, that if it were proved that a German submarine sahk this ship, Germany would disavow the act and punish the commander. Could Qer- many make any promise or disavow al which would be entitled to belief and acceptance? Can the United States longer be justified in treating GENERAL MANOURY, In "eominand of the of aris in the Fred tires « "wa of 11 military district h amy who re ealth The Nova Scotia Steel Co., prior | eal fungicides has been tried by #x | when used for treating oats it has a fungous penetrate the grain itself, and will remain there until grain is sown, when it will start growth ywith a little Danderine and carefully | draw it through your heir, taking | when the grain germinates. Hence gue ssi Strand al & time, This any application of a fungicide which | ¥ 1 : eanse the hair of dust, dirt does not penetrate the seed would 20d excessive oil and in just a few | not kill these two fungous diseases moments you have doubled the This is a brief account of the life! Peauty.of your hair. my history of grhin 'smuts. ~ ap des bedutiiying the haf at b, atin ; OB errr re, erin seolves every par- The treating With several ehemi-|. dandruff; cleanses purifies and invigorates the scalp, forever stopping itching and falling hair. But what will please you most will be after a few weeks' use when you will actually see new hair--fine and downy at first--yes--but really new tendency to weaken the germ of the hair growing all ever the scalp. If seed and consequently the plant. The | YOU care for preity, soft hair and formalin, a forty per cent. solution | l0ts of it surely get a 25-cent bottle periment Stations throughout "the Dominion Such chemieals as cop- per sulphate or _bluestone, potassium sulphate and formalin, The for- mer has been used a great deal, but | of formaldehyde, has given the best|©f Knowlton's Danderine from any | results. It drug store in are two methods grain. One is to immerse for twenty min- utes in a solution of one pint of for-| malin to forty gallons of water, and the other is to sprinkle with' the same solution, or one a little strong- er would not hurt, until all the grain | dence of Hun Atrocity. is moistened. For detailed -treat- New York, April 4.---Richard ment of sprinkling of formalin, look | Harding Davis has sent to the New up advertisement in Semi-Weekly York Times a "petite fourchette," or: Whig of March 30th or Daily Whig! little fork, many of which, the French of March 30th. If more definite say, have been put into American information is required on any of the | oats and other horse feed by Ger- at a There the secured form. treating can be liquid of druggist or tollet counter, and just! try it. | Save your hats! Beautify You will say ths was the best "ants you ever spent. DIABOLICAL OATS "FORK." 25 25 Richard Harding Davis Sends Evi. | ~ 1,000 Tins Tomatoes 9¢ Tin 1000 Tins Choice Peas «2 for 15c. 1000 Lbs. Finest Creamery Butter 36¢ Lb. it! | the German Government's word as of any value? So long ago as last! September, the German Government | gave its pledge that no more passen- Once the nervous system gets run down everything seems to tend to make it wbrse, You worry over your condition, are unable to get the required rest and sleep, noises ex- cite and irritate you "and the future is most discouraging. The nervous, system does not get the proper hourishment from the food you eat, so you must have some- thing also to lift you out of the run- dows condition. You may find that your experience coincides with the writer of this letter and be encourag- ed to put Dr. Chase's Nerve Food to the test. Yon will make no miistake in em- ployiug this food cure, for, actiugas it does hand in hand with Nature, it is bound to do you good. Mrs. James Jensen, Gwynne, Alta, writes: 'About ten years ago I was troubled with severe attacks.of neur- Nerves Were So Upset Could Not Endure Noise Neuralgic Headaches and Extreme Nervousness Caused Keenest Suffering--Lasting Cure by Use of Dr. : * Chase's Nerve Food. to proceeding with the erection of another blast furnace at Sydney mines, to cost from $200,000 to, $300,000, 4 not get a nishyd rest. I used several medicines regommended by the drug- gist. My doctor also prescribed. but noihing he gave me brought any relief. Instead I got worse and worse until I could scarcely do anything or | bear the least bit of noisd. My ner: ves were all apset. "My husband read about Dr. Chase's Nerve Food and got -me some. Although I had no faith in it, I began its use, and after a few doses began to sleep well and 'the left me entirely. I used six Xes and have never had any o8 from neuralgia or the nerves "This is to certify that I know Mrs. Jensen and believe this state. ment to be true and correct. Fred Freeman, J.P." 7° Dr, Chase's Nerve Food, 50 cents a box, 6 for $2.50, all dealars, or Bd: manson, Bates & Co., Limited, To- i and mpervousoess, and was for Fl months $0 bad that I could rento, ' treatments for smut, apply to 'the Department of Agriculture, Syden- ham, and every effort will be made to explain them. Bulletins are al- ways on hand at the Department for distribution. CONFIDENTIAL REPORT TO THE REICHSTAG. The People Noi Told of Situa= tion of the German Army. Berlin, April 4.--THe Minister of War has made a confidential report to the main committee of the Reich- stag concerning the situation of the German army. According to newspaper reports here thre Minister said that success in recruiting is assurred for a long time to come. He said it is not planned to extend thé age limit beyond forty- five, but, on the contrary, soldiers who have passed this age during the war are to be withdrawn from the front. The Minister attributes the feasibility of this procedure largely to the excellent care which has been given to the wounded. o Figures submitted by the War Mi- nister regarding German losses go to prove that they have not been heavy as compared with those of the enemy. . 2 The Minister reported that Ger- manv'is well provided with raw ma- terial for a long time. He added that it will be necessary to husband these stores carefully, but that there was no reason for fear, no matter how long the war continues. = mans or German sympathizers in | America to cause death by tearing the intestines of the animals of the Allied armies. ? 3 ! To the French eye the small fork might be likened to a diabolical tor- | | ture prong similar to those pictured in use by small caricatured devils. | To the German eye it might be a dis- | lodged part of a feed-mill mechanism. | The "fourchette" is about three-. quarters of an inch long, and breaks; | into two sharp prongs in its middle. | With the fork 'sent by Mr. Davis |: { was a clipping from the Paris Matin { denotincing 'les Boches d'Ameri- que." ( | "Knowing to what lengths German | 'propagandists' are going in this country," Mr. Davis writes, "I be- lieve the charge made by the Matin | is true. That in thYs land of the | 'free and the brave' an act so cruel and cowardly is possible is disheart- ening and sickening. Th to put an 'end to it is fo uncover it." He continues that this can be done "by giving 'the widest publicity to | by warning Americans against the | Germans, who are masquerading among us as American eitizens."- It is said that "any quantity" of the forks: could be obtained in France. " eid The losses by fire in the United States and Canada during February, @as compiled by the New York Jour- nal of Commerce, aggregate $25, 770,770, an inerease of $11:689,- B50 or the figures of February, 1915. King George has subscribed halt a only way. | this torturing of dumb animals, gnd | million dollars for war purposes, The Wm.Davies'Co.Ltd. Phene59] Commercial Notes, 1 Canada Foundries and Forgings | Co., has authorized an extension to! its plant at Brockville to take care! {of an increased business in the tool department, Gross profits of the Standard Che-| mical Company, Toronto, for the | years ending December 31st, 19155 including those of the subsidiary con- cerns, were $301,859, against! a net loss in 1914 of $98,222. | Passengers carried by the Saska'| toon Street Railway in February ex-| ceeded the same month last year by! forty-one per cent. The net earnings | of the railway in February were the greatest in its history. : Te ---- The Marrison | | Studio "Our BABY PICTURES, like all portraits that we 8, aré natural In pose, pre lighted and beautifully finial . High class equipment and tire- less tact are the reasons for our Femarkable success in baby por- ure. Come In some utningesud Tot us get acquainted with the baby." Phone 1318, 90 PRINCESS ST. - ISSIONERS WH Sir William Meredith (left) and Justice (right) have been chosen by the Borden Government to inves tigate the Shell Committee scandal. . 8 WHO WILL | PROBE KYTE uff