| | SOME OTTAWA GLIMPSES | Special Correspondence by H. F. Gadsby. 1 This War, a Tory Bun Feed. L Ottawa, Sept. 2. Recruiting practically at. a standstill because the impression has got abroad that the Berden Government 'mever intended the five hundred thousand limit to be taken seriously anyway. It was what you might call a bluff. When Premier Borden said five hunderd thousand he meant it in a Plekwick- fan sense, Lately the Government has heen visited by a gleam of common sense. The necessities of an army of three hundred and fifty thousand men are s0 great that the list of supernumer- ary officers has been cut down. These gentlemen will draw pay no longer for. their superfluous services. They wer® mostly friends of the party or sons of friends and they were put on the pay roll while the paying was good and they have got their bit, they may be expected to drop out gracefully. There has never been any trouble at any stage of the game in getting supernumerary officers they are thicker even than honorary colonels. The real difficulty has been getting private soldiers to do the A A AAA A AE NAAN NN is Wow ntterly weak and helpless one becomes when the nerves give way. Sleepless, nervous, irritable and des- pondent, life be- comes a burden. But there is Dr. Chase's Nerve Food to) rebuild your exhausted nervous system, restore the action fl of your hodily or- gans and change gloom and des- pondency into new hape and courage. Try it--to-day. 50 cts. a box, at all «dealers. 1D): § PEE PSR Re Ar 3 Every 10c Packet of WILSON 'S Ff. THAN Clean to handle. Sold by all Drug- gists, Grocers and General Stores. SERIE 1. Good frame dwelling, 4 bedrooms, B. & CJ; also hen house and small orchard; Albert St............ 51,800 2. First - class modern © britk dwelling; loca= tion exceptionally good * ........$3,400 3. Double brick, in good repair, 8 rooms each, central location,$4,800 For 'particulars apply to T. J. LOCKHART, Clarence St., J jwork and the fighting at $1.10 a day, | while supernumerary officers, who had no idea of running risks or in- curring hardships, were drawing 'three dodars a day and up / The truth of the matter is.that so far as the Borden Government is | concernéd the greatest war in history has been a great bun. feed for the friends of the Conservative party. The first, fine, careless rapture for recruiting has been killed by the dis- closures in regard to Sani"s friend the late Honorary Colonel John Wes- ley Allison, the predatory operations of the Bertram Shell Committee, the revelations of the Public Accounts Committee, the report of the Duff- Meredith Commission, the inquiry into paper shoe§, the belated excom- munication of De Witt Foster and W. F. Garland, the procrastinating methods of the Davidson Commission and other sins too numerous to men- tion. ' 1s it any wonder that recruiting lags under this accumulation of hor- rors? Iu it any wonder that men ask why should we bo abroad to do.the fighting and leave these fellows at {home to do the looting? A rumor is afloat that the Govern- ment is in no particular hurry about recruiting because it is hard put to | supply the present demand for | war supplies. "Chairman Flavelle of | the Munitions Committee complains | that the manufacturers are far be- | hind with their orders. They don't seem to" furn out shells' with the same zeal, speed and precision with which his own factories turn out sausages. If Chairman Flavelle looks closely into this he will find two | reasons. One. reagon is that the | Bertram Shell Committee spoiled things for the Munitions Committee by accustoming manufactures to a profit of nine hundred per cent. How gzenerous, the Bertram Shell 'Com- mittee's idea of price was may be judged by the fact that Mr. Baillie, {of Hamilton, who made a profit of | one million dollars on'his first order, | could afford to be patriotic and hand back $750,000 to the Government as +the difference between the manu- | facturing gost of shell cases and the price fixed by the Committee... Now | that profits are more normal, the | manufacturers naturally do not show the same zeal to turn out enormous quantities in a tremendous hurry. The other reason-----and Mr, Flavelle will not have to look for it--is that | the munition manufacturers are not | paying high enough wages to tempt | skilled labor from other employ- | ments. A | All of which is to say that the rich | are making the gains out of this war while the poor have to take what they can get. The contrast between the ease and dispatch wit hich the munition mahufacturer caxrids away his swag and the lingering red-tape which keeps widowed mothers out of | their pensions is notorious. Only | the other day a widowed mother in | Toronto got a letter from the Pension | Board saying that her application for {a pension was refused because 'her husband had died a year later than {her only son who was killed in action lat Langemarck. That is to say the | widowed mother was refused her | pension because being deprived. of | both her supports, shy needed the money twice as badly. There's bur- eaucratic logic for you! Another thing which chills rheruit: ing is Camp Borden and its horrors. {Camp Borden is the home of sun- {stroke, sand, sand storms and other | discomforts. Its chief result is two | thousand desertions and an almost | complete subvérsion of discipline |among the soldiers stationed there. || The only way to pacify the men is to ipromise that they will be sent over- seas immediately. Thus it happens | that a regiment goes to Camp Borden {one week and leaves it the next. This | shifting costs money. Camp Borden ! was dédigned as an all-the-year-round camp, but it is now anhounced that it will not be occupied in winter. The costly 'buildings will be allowed {to run down, and the watei pipes | will freeze. ! | Another discouragement to recruit- ing is the Ross Rifle, which is more | deadly to our soldiers than it is to {the Germans. Although the British { War Office made a report almost two {years ago--which was promptly | pigeonholed by the Militia Depart- Kingston. Phones 1035 or 1020. - ' FACE ALL COVERED 4 E Ey g » HT {ment of Canada---that the Ross rifle {was a positive failure as an active Tservice weapon, the Militia Depart {ment kept loading up each fresh eon- {tingent with .these useless and ex- | péhsive tools. The Ross rifle; with | bayonet, costs $36.80, almost twice [the price of the Lee-Enfield, with | which our soldiers were equipped in | England and are now, at last, being | equipped in Canada. Meanwhile the [bill for Ross tjfles, aince the war | began, approximates eight million dollars. These rifles are now stacked up and rusting somewhere in Eng- land. Another eight millions thrown to the birds, Who was interested, to keep this "graft" going? That is what our soldiers at home and at the front are asking. No amswer can 'Ibe given which does not put a crimp At the next general i put nothing more. /hile they are at | the Government might issue a special badge for war profiteers, showing | that' they had got their bit and how much. 8 Plays and Plgyers ~4 --H.' F. GADSB oy » : Willlam"Farnum is said ¥o sée the {end of the silent drama, becjuse "in | the higher grade scenario 'thege.are many scenes in which the best: 'ac- ition' is the good old-fashioned 'word- of-mouth' kind." PAE, WEAK CRS. Gow i Weak Despondet Wome How 10 Overcome tc J Trouble. Healthy Girlhood is the only path to healthy womanhood. The passing from girlhood to womanhood lays a! new tax upon the blood. It'is the : oh ' . overtaxing of the blood that makes]. 3, question which is agitajing the growing girls suffer from headaches | Foadway is 'whether Rose Stahl will and backaches, from paleness "tall heir to "Our \Mrs. McChesney," and. weakness and weariness, a It fs known that EXhel Barrymore is languor, despondency and constant |, use "Our BetteNy"" for her next ill health. Unhealthy girlhood is vehidle. and inasmud ds there is 8 bound to lead to unhealthy woman-ie territory open r the Edna hood and a life of misery. Nothing | aber Din it looks \like 'a B ire the bleod building qualities ot proposition for Miss StaW, * lio was Dr. Williams" Pink Pills can save a| oc 0 010 ted for the tI irl when she undertakes the trials] E'nally s and tasks of womanhood. That is] the time when nature makes new de-| \ " {died last January, left prope' in mands upon the blood supply, - Dr.| phgland valued at $2,321. The value Williams' Pink Pills actually make | © her property in America io said new rich blood to. meet these new |, be about $170,000 : demands, In this simple, scientific| ? pi , way Dr. Willlams' Pink Pils give | growing girlg new health, and makes| their dawning * womanhood bright | ooo tion and attractive. Miss A. Sternberg! a Haileybury Road, New Liskeard, Ont., says: "I have nruch reason to be grateful to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills as they restored me to health, if, in- deed, they did not save my life. . In| 1914 I began to feel run down, and | the doctor. who s called in sajd| x daa TE A x A | Guy Standing, the English ator, mines bag of scm, wine th coor sb the 8 sh, SY | break of the war, is now in the Eo Retvous that J sou a sareely| British military intelligence office, it : or Es | with the rank of captain. His head- woulg fiuttes alarmingly SThg gostor quarters are in London. For more a ag may Tamy, ad Frinton all as & Year bc was » Jeutenant in thought that 1 was in a deciine and | pneumonia caused his transfer to some weeks when an aunt cme 10] 1274 duty. see me and urged that I try Dr.| Williams' Pink Pills. My father got| Mabel Taliferro, who has been a supply, and by the time I had taken | appearing in motion _ pictures. . for three boxes there. was a noticeable|several years, is to return to the improvement, and from that on I|stage, according to reports, to play steadily progressed toward recovery. the ; title role in "Little Orphan I continued using the pills for some | Annie," a dramatization by Robert time longer, and they restored me to| McLaughlin of James Whitcomb my old time health and strength. I| Riley's poems. The drama was re- Y. The Dramatic Mirror publishes a | picture of Sarah . Alexander, who toured from Pittsburg to Salt Lake in 1860 by ox-team and 'played in the | first stock company of Salt Lake City, swhich opened March 6, 1862. Mrs. Alexander is still living and wprks for the movies. . 3 # -- - Irene Franklin will appear about the middle of September, urder the of Frederick McKay, in zation. by James Montgomery Maria Thompson Davies' novels of the same name. After a few weeks [on tour she will go to New, York for a run. : : cine, and to urge all weak run down| Arkon, O. girls to give it a fair trial, as I have| Middle Western cities before playing proved in my own case their great|a New York engagement. merit." { " Fd You can get these pills from any| cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., | Brockville, Ont. : "The Melting of Molly," 2 dramati-| of! The late Miss Ada Reha) who, | 0 shall never cease to praise this medi-| cently given a trial performance in| musical It will visit the larger | Spalding, the violinist, in the New t | "There are two classes of people | get to the top. dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 whom 1 dissuade from entering the! mously in the making of an artist's I RRO UNPARALLELED IN PROSPERITY. -- UNIFORM COURTESY Tadustriat CAPOSITION! Sept. 26-27-28 Entertainment F or Alland a Good Time 'Reduced fares on] [Premiums, $5,000) [If you attend only all railways and Prize List open to one fair this year steamship lines Province. come to Kingston. al ak | (HH . Featuring Exhibits HORSES, CATTLE, VEGETABLES, FRUITS, FLOWERS, GRAINS, FANCY WORK, POULTRY. : | . | ~ = Sh | Trials of speed, baseball be- ! High class vaudeville daily. | Balloon ascensions and dou- tween picked teams. ENTRIES CLOSE SEPTEMBER 23rd. All Entries in Writing. ' For Information and enquiries address Bushell, Sec.-Treas. and Manager, Kingston; J. A. Wilmot, President; P. D. Lyman, A. W. Sinnett, District Representative, «AONE OO ON success, and to win great fame is, who has been singing in concerts in often only a trick of fortune. There | Berlin and Vienna, has cancelled his are many fine grtists who never | musical engagements and enlisted in become famous, thoagh they deservefithe Austrian army He is reported it." to have left for the Italian front. His youngér brother was killed in aetion near Trentino. an To 0 NOE Robt. 9. Secretary of the Poultry Section, 127 King street west; Sydenham, Superintendent of School Fair Branch. profession," says Albert York Times. "Those who think they could do without it and those who | think all will be lost if they do not Luck figures enor- a Leo Slezak; the Austrian tenor, COMMENTS BY ZACCHEUS. Who Is Convinced That Whiskey is Worse Than War. A--A girl was born to a man the day he buried a boy. f B---Bringing tears to one eye and a smile to the other." ol C--Cemetery is where everything ends and everything begins. D--Deep humanity a solvent for many ills. ' ! E---Enjoyment that leaves remorse | were well left alone. . | F--Fall of Tarquin the Proud not| in it with dashing to dust presently | of wily Wilhem. British bulldog | will make a | G--Good Brutus; don't fret. H---Hinges of true friendship] never rust. I--Insurance latest. | I---Ivy string not unfrequently at-| tuned to chords of melancholy. | K-=Kateri Tegawitha, the | L--*"Lily of tht Mohawks," likely to be canonized. ; rian mind never so ma- estic as when battling for and truth' 8 justios . N--Neéctarian juice gave the gods 0---0f old, immortality, but P--- Present day drugs abbreviate considerably one's usefulness, Dis-| graceful this bibbing habit. ! Q---Quite 'often you can gee by R-----Raifway track at water's edge helpless tipplers S--@&leeping, snorting T---Themselves sober. U---Unsavoury and disgusting the sight of human beings fallen so low. V--Vile trade of intoxicants can't be stopped a day too soon. , W---Whiskey worse than war. X---Xercising its ravages upon the sag] a well as the body. ~~You and I pray for eace. Sadder plight of intemperance Pee. not view with indifference. ~-ZAOCHEUS. pms AMERICAN REPRISAL Against Great Britein Regarding | Some Importations, Washington, Sept. 1.--Senator James' amendment to the revenue bill authorizing President Wilson to! ° - ~into the United States of certain articles from coun- tries. where embargoes are enforced against American products, was un- animously adopted yesterday by the Senate. Senator James explained that Great Britain had placed an embar- go on American tobacco products which eliminated Holland, the Scan- dinavian countries and the Central Powers from the markets heretofore open to tobacco producers.' HAY FEVER OC ~ Is Now in Session at - Bethlehem, em, N.H., Sept. 1.--Seve-| dred_members of the United | against twins. The | EXCEPTIONAL DEALER : OPPORTUNITY Write at once aboul exclusive territory still open in many desir- able loca- lions. ral the SEE IT! HEAR IT! HIS marvelous®invention of musical skill is now on the Canadian market and can be obtained direct, or from dealers, at the remark- ably low price of TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. 2 3 STAND it on the floor beside you. Weighs only eleven pounds. Can be carried easily about the house. Records are protected and carried in dust-proof compartment. Uses any standard needle. | Plays all standard disc records. You can easily rewind or change records without getting out of your.chair. 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