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NO. 103 mes Ottawa ----= BY F. | 8 Glimp GADSBY ----= Ses & May Corridor gossip itself No d«¢ Ottawa, with occupied strange matters of it is these days ubt much speculation, but, -on_ the other hand, there is no doubt that the wid est speculation has 'a substratum of fact i Most of the gossip is based on hints which have appeared from time to time in the Tory press as to what the Borgen Government might do ifthe Opposition squeezed it-too hard One of the threats is a reconstruc Reconstructions sport for the re this one is no ex ception to the rule Every recon struction that fancy can suggest has been put forward by the cabinet ma- kers during the -last two week Most of the reconstructions let Prem ier Borden' out. » 9 Sir Robert ig to hecome Canadian lord on the Judicial Committee the Imperial Privy Council t is to say, the cabinet picked out that job for him of the more liberal-minded Conserva that Sir Robert put his foot in J his Manchester speech, which he outlined a sort of tial trade among the Entente Allies the programme drafted at conference in Pari The chief trouble with this that the United States has since cole into the war as an ally, and no readjust could coutemplate keeping Un-| wild ted government are always: great constructors and law of have Some makers tives ay it in in preferen short trade in the is ment cle Sam out . Another statesman who is booked by the rumor-mongers for retirement is the ton Job Rogers - that it to] gay, if he will let himself be retired. | As he sald to have the Federal] campaign tund in his own name he may take a lot.of convincing. There, is a brisk division of opinion in the, party in regard to, the Hon Bob's possible withdrawal from.the affairs! of the Government. Some say that if Bob goes he takes all the "pep with him. JOthers say that if he goes a heavy load goes, Meanwhile Bob's own patty news papers refrain. from defending him, | and his name is not pu forward in) the campaign literature aps Rangely | enough the person who id mentioned | as. his successor in the affections of! the West is Arthur Meighen, at pres- ent Solicitor-General. Oue would] think that Arthur would be about] hg popular in the west as a doze is nj Jemons, but there's no accounting for| tastes. The Hon. Bob is by way of being real folks, but Arthyr is a knife-edge. 4 | In fact, Arthur lets the hair-split-| " ting habit run away with him. His] latest feat of overplaying a fine] point was when he argued that the| Government couldn't get out of its] Ross Rifle contract when, at the very same time, Sir Charles Rass was protesting that he didn't want to| stick to any contract that was not| beneficial to the Empire. Such is: Arthur Meighen, who is booked by, the cabinet reconstructors . to" fill Bob's shoes in the west. -Arthur is' to become Minister of Justice, vice Doherty resigned--R. B. Benfett being stated for Solicitor General. The Hon. Bob is to be High Com-!| missioner at London, if he will take] it. - It is felt that hé could do work over there, handling the ballots which | are noW stacked up in the High Com-| missioner"s office against the day the British Government will permit a Canadian general election/at the battle front. If an election distracts the attention of the fighting man from his real job it might be possible to mark the ballots in London, and save the soldiers the trouble. Rumor has 'also picked out the Hon. Frank Cochrane for the seclus- fon of private life, The Hon. Frank is no addition to the debating] strength of the Government--in fact | lié is as dumb as an oyster--and the party" is "kicking because this office Napoleon has mo gift of eloquence. With a thing as hard as his connec- tion with the Nickel] Trust to explain it 'is felt that Mr. Cochrane ought to cut loose and explain or get out. Sir Harry Drayton, chalrman of the Rail- way Commission, is said to be party choice for the portfolio of Railways and Canals It is said that Dr.. Roche a would Makes One Feel Young | Strong and Full of Life This is How One Kingston Lady Describes the In- fluence of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food--She Had Been Badly Kingston, Ont., May 2. Nearly everybody feels the need of restor- ative treatment at one time or an- other. The blood gets thin and wat- ery, the nerves become starved and exhausted, the head aches, digestion fails, you don't sleep well and feel tired in the mornings. Under these conditions you will appreciate the restorative, upbuild- ing effects of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food As Mrs. Brown says in her letter. "It makes a person feel young and full of life." A Mrs. G. Brown, 1434 Clergy W., Kingston, Ont, writes: --*A year ago last summer'l was badly run down, and so/nervous that I could not sleep at night, but would have to get up and walk'around. I had no appetite, had pains in my stomach and back. | <1 sent for a box of Dr. Chase's Nérve Food, and found it gave such good results that 1 kept up the treatment until I had taken fivé boxes, I have gained in flesh, my nervousness is gone, and I can eat as much one + This | ter- i tend its own life by making use of | to get back to democratic principles-- PAN A et AA ABN A in ' ' be willing to quit ir he eonld get a will pro-| place in the Senate, and he bably get his wish, becayse servative majority of two in the Sen- just now very precarious. Only week two Conservative senators and the majority disappeared senators must be appointed if! this off-again-on-agaid habit of the| Conservative majority in the Red} Chamber is to be overcome, { The Hon. Mr. Burrell is willing to] juit, toé. All he wants is to hed master at Ottawa. He likes the L here, the golfing and the tango! and wwmftd trade ambition for! a pleasant life almost any day Ru-| does not say who would take his place from British Columbia perhaps Mr. Green, who is known to fame as the man who looks like Sir William Mackenzie. The cabinet re constructors also 'intimate that -Mr Crothers would make a good High Court Judge and that a real labor man Minister of Labor would do )e work in that department and inspire greater confidence in the mas ses than a corporation lawyer But i{ Premier Borden drops out, wig? Well, the wise ones say Sir Thomas White, with pemiaps J. | W. Flavelle, his fidus Achates, .a Minister of Finance Can vou heat| it? Imagine how the high cost of] living would moan 'with Mr. Fla-| arranging the tariff! 'The Na-| tionalist alliance is to be maintained. | Not only maintained, but strength- ened. The Government believes that it has a prodigy in young Mr. Sevi- gny anfitant phenomenon not se- | cond even to Vincent Crummiles ! Another story, wbich shows how] desperately the wind blows for the | Borden Government, is to the effec that alien enemies in Canada whe cannot read or write are to be dena | turalized and deprived of their votes is to be an offset against the four hundred thousand brave who are overseas fighting for our | freedom, and whose votes the Bor-| den Government has now discovered | cannot be taken, because re.) quarters of .them would be cast against thé Government of a thou-| sand scandals. This measure, so the| gossips say, will 'be put through, ify necessary, under closure. { This story is hardly worth credit-| ing, because any such measure of| disfranchisement would wipe out | what little there is left of the Con-| servative party in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan. It is only men- tioned here to_show what sad, bad, mad thoughts get into the heads of/ people when they are staring defeat! in the face. Gossip revolves about a third mat- --extension. Will the govern- ment accept the counsel of some of its more pig-headed advisors and try, in defiance of the Bretish North America Act, custom, precedent, good taste and common decency, te ex- the Con- ate is last died More »ost- | 80 | teas as ter si its fMhjority of forty-seven in the Housé of Commons and its present majority of one in the Senate, or will} it take its medicine at a general elec- tion? The latter, I think. A Govern- ment eannot prolong its own Jife in- definitely. Sooner or later it has the people have got to vote. Even in Great Britain the latest extension takes the Government only to No- vember. The 'Borden Government has an extension which is valid until October. Some of its best friends are saying that ought to be long enough. Its profiteering friends will have-got all there is out of the war by that time. Why, then, linger su- perfluous? * --H. F. GADSBY. Petrograd Garrison For Front. ~ Petrograd, May 2.--The. council of soldiers' and workmen's dele- gates today decided that in view of the necessity of providing new for- mations for the army operating against the Central Powers, the Petrograd garrison, hitherto held in the capital by order of the Provi- sional Government 10 be in readiness to oppose any movement against-the revolution, may henceforth be sent to the front if needed ,provided au- thority is first given by the council, Run Down. well, and have not had a sick head- ache for a long time. "Dr. Chase's Nerve Food is worth a' lot of money to any person that is suffering like I did; it makeg a per son feel young and full of life, net downhearted and dull. I am glad to recommend it to all suffering from nervousness, sick headaches and run-down conditions." The strong point ut Dr. Chase's Nerve Food is its lastifgly beneficial effects. - It takes a litthe patience to restore exhausted nerves, but you 'an feel yourself daily and weekly growing stronger, and can confident- ly look forward to your complete restoration. Put Dr. Chase's Nerve Food to the test to-day; and ¥ou vill soon be Able to join with your neighbors in the 'praise of this great restorative medicine. "50 cents a box, a full treatment of 6 boxes for $2.50, at Al ad rs, or Edmanson, Bates Co., Ltd, Toronto. Do not be talked nto accepting a substitute, Imita- day as I used to in a week, I leer dons only disappoint, men | ---------- {¥s dry enough to esaablé the fapmers|ant and in many Case: White Patients Object to Be- ~[ graduate them. ---- KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY GERMAN NAVAL &+FICER AND AMERICANS ON » © . MAY 2, 1917, TRIAL AS PLOTTERS wm SRANZ RINTEL EN mco8 C. TAYLOR FRANK HAN AN Here are shown Franz von Riutelen, the German naval officer, DAV] Corvaiamy , and five of the seven Americans on trial in New Aofk accused of conspiring to prevent the shipment of munitions to the Entente Allies. The eight defendants are Franz von Rintelen, Frank Buchanan, one-time Representative from Illinois; H. Robert Fowler, also once a Representative from Illinois; Henry B. Martin, of Washington; Frank 8S. Monnett, formerly labor leaders, and David Lamar, once known as the "Wolf of Wall St Atlanta penitentiary to face trial. ep HAD INDIGESTION |"SAVE 11 SEEDING COMMENCED ! IN SASKATCHEWAN Lateness May Make Wheat | Area Smaller, Oats and Flax Replacing. Could Keep Nothing on Stomach | Indigestion is one of the worst May 2.---Seeding | forms of stonfach trouble. The stom- | commenced in many parts of the|ach becomes upset and you have a Province during the past few day raw, debilitated feeling in it. according to information obtained by | After a meal you feed that you your correspondent from the Pro-| must get rid of that nasty, bilious, vincial Agriculture. Department to-{ burning sensation; that souring and | day. In a number of places the land | rising of the food which is so unpleas- | 8 very. painful. | It is not necessary for you to be week, | troubled with indigestion when Bur- Sask., Regina, to harrow preparatory to seeding,' which should be general this under favorable conditions. the general lateness of the sowing| obtained. This old and well-known season it afticipated that there remedy, which is a combination of will be a considerable decrease in| nature's best roots, herbs, barks and the amount of land sown »6 wheat. | berries, will cure indigestion and all THiS will probably be offset 'by a|stomach troubles. a n Aq [RE ne 6 a RQ ; { a east, ihe gxoaisa®a to . Mr. Lazare Savoy, Pokemouche, | mgh price of seed wheat, many N-B., writed: About two years ago El a vo te i" ro ny I was troubled' with indigestion that ners oy et port ul re | bad 1 could keep nathing on my stom- | rom jach. I was sorely disappointed in y late. everything I tried to relieve me. At -------- last a friend advised me to try Bur- | dock Blood Bitters. - I took four bot- PL LO ENTS tles and can now eat anything that is set in front of me." | That grand old medicine, B.B.B {has been on the market for the pas forty years, and we claim, without any fear of contradiction, that it is; thie best cure for all stomach trou- | bles. g Manufactured by the T. Milbarn Co., Lintited, Toronto, Ont. is | ing . Treated by Them-- M'Gill's Difficulty. Montreal, May 2.--The Maptreal Maternity Hospital® has closed its doors to colored students, and as a result the Medical Faculty of Mec- Gill University has been compelled to m------ inform all intending colored medical | Of Potatoes Are Still in Evidence in| students that it cannot guarantee to | Canada. | The diploma of Mc-| Ottawa, May Gill cannot be given by the Univer- | yesterday afternoon Archie MeCoig sity unless the full course is carried | referred to a statement made some | out, and this includes the carrying time ago by the Minister of Agricul- out of swenty maternity clinical |fure, to the effect that there was a cases by each student at the end of surplus of potatoé® in the Dominion. | the fourth and duning the fifth year. "In Ontario," said Mr. McColig, For many years thig clinical work |"there is a very real «shortage both | has been taken in the ! Maternity | for- seed and food. Could the honor-| Hospital, but the white patients ob-|able Minister tell us where we can | ject te being treated by colored stu-|8&et them?" | dents, Hon. Martin Burrell replied that Dr. W. W. Chipman, head physi- when the shortage had been reported | cian of the Maternity Hospital, will|'etters had been sent to the Previn | try -to make arrangements for the |Cial authorities asking them to re-i colored sfudefits to get their clinical |POTt On conditions. As nearly as! work in New York. {could be ascertained they found that ay there were a million , and a half | bushels surplus of potatoes over the FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS {seed and food requirements. These | surpluses were chiefly \in Alberta, P.,E. I. and New Brunswick. The exports td the 15th of April were | then checked up and these totalled Of! half a million bushels. There was, for voca-| therefore, a surplus: of a million . d5guss| buShels now in existence. The Pro- 0 Strict | vinefal authorities had been advised vocational officets of the Militar¥ ! to keep tlhe consumers in touch with Hospitals Commission. Every sol-| sources of supply. y dier so disabled by his service that | - he cannot return to hie former work is entitled to claim re-education for a new occupation. So far 407 men have come before the Disabled Sol- dier Training Boards, and 208 have had their applications granted, 83 are" awaiting final decision, and 26 have been found ineligible' isl Ae, nn A MILLLION BUSHELS " In the Commons! Conference of Vocational Officers of - Hospitals Commission. Ottawa, May 2.--The system training disgbled soldiers tions in civifian life is bein ed at a conference here ego -- British guns have resumed heavy firing. Another advance is expected. AA AAA AA AAA a NO BASEBALL NEXT YEAR HK Peace Does Not Come by' Next i December, =~ | New York, May 2. nb major league baseball next year. Ban Johnson, p:esident of the American League, flatly stated his belief to-day that unless peace comes 'by December and conscriptien as now planned goes through i: will he 'necessary for the two big leagues to call off their 1918 schedules. Governdr John K. Tener, president of the National League, foreseeing the conscription of hundreds of young ball players, said he did not ~--There may be | zanized Owipg to | dock Blood Bifters may be so easily | | economies Assistant Attorney General of Ohio; Herman Schulteis and Jacob C. Tayor, who was brought from the Te ', 'a \ reet," [3 ~~ ,000,000 LOAVES PER DAY" {Slogan of Sixty Americans Who Would Divert Grain From Brewers. New York, May 2 A committee ol sixty prominent men represeuating has been on ington, with head- quarters in New York, to divert grain now used by brewers and dis tillers to purposes or general foed consumption, The committee's slogan is "Save 11,000,000 loaves gf bread a day." It was stated tt} he committee was not connected with any temper- ance movement, and Gid not intend to identify itself with that cause. It had decided that it was not od to devote millions of bushels of grain to I:quor when the need for it was so pressing as it was to-day. No effort would be made to "influence le ation except thronzh pubt it was as- tt ount in Was e all parts opinion, serted. AUSTRIA IS READY FOR PEACE MOVE [Allies May Successfully Nego- tiate for Separate Action by Her. 0 Petrograd, May I am in a pos- "ition to state that the question of the future of Austria is now regarded as one of purely military expediency, even by the mest marked anti-Aus- trian elements here. K would .appear, therefore, that the fime has arrived when the En- tente might decide on an Austrian policy, with the objeci of securing a separate peace, with real guaran- tees for the rights of European na- tionalities and of the Dual Monarchy. It is recognized here now that such a peace would facilitate the defeat of Germany, and for this reason, and not for love of Austria, that modi- fications of views have taken place. AN (IRISH SETTLEMENT Satisfactory-RNegotizitions for Basis---- Important Meeting. London, May 2.-¥Phe Times poli- tical correspondent writes: "The ur- gent demands of the war may |re- vent the Prime Minister from making a statement this week regarding.the efforts of the Government to secure an Irish settlement. . The Gover:- ment is still hopeful of the success of the difficult task. Negotiations are proceeding satisfactorily on a basis which,» while ring the: rights of the Protestant minority and involy- ing no to 'coercion, woud make partition impossible. The posi- tion was discussed last night at a meeting of Unignists and members of both Houses under the chairmanship of Lord Salisbury. The confereade the most dmportant charac- TEDDY WILL HUSTLE Dutch Want to See "Warm Blooded Teddy" Lead. The Hague, May 2.--Commenfing onthe news just received that Amer ica is about to adopt compulsory ser vice, the Nieuwe Courant says it is largely, due to England's excellent example that the bill has been passed | so quickly, adding "If the Senate also agrees to let Roosevelt bring four divisions of in- fantry to France we can be sure that warm blooded Teddy will not let the grass grow under his feet, and that the Entente will receive help sn™the west front more speedily than if ob- liged to wait until the details of com- : baseball could continue un- d A conditions, Sa - pulsory service are completed." \ - Che Daily ritsh Whig [ro - ------ aw v= ANTHRACITE OUTPUT GREATER THAN EVER Statement Made by- United. States Official--What Bos- ton Paper Says. The Boston Journal of April 27th had the following: The output of anthracite the mines for the month of | was the largest in the history of J industry, according to a statement is- sued last night by United States At- torney Anderson, who declares that there no real reason why vcoab should not be sold in New England at a reasonable price, or, at any rate, at a price much lower than many consumers are now paying. Mr. An- derson said: "The condition of the local coal market is again becoming artificial, panick¥, hysterical, Apparently buy- ers are indulging in the foolish pr tee of bidding against each other, with the natural result that sellers put up the price, both to make profits and to check demand. wa "I have good--1I think adequate-~ reasons to believe that if people will wait, keep cool 'and stop hoarding their reasonable wants for coal will be supplied at much less than current prices." Congressman Tinkham vesterday filed in the National House of Repre sentatives resolutions adopted by the Massachusetts General Court urging | Congress to take such measures may be necessary under the com merce clause of the Federal consti tution to regulate the price at which anthracite coal may ld min ing companies and their agents, coal at March th | | I | e is as be s¢ by DERNBURG WARNS GERMANY Must Not Wait Too Long With Her Reforms. Amsterdam, May Dr. Bern hard Dernburg, former Secretary of State for the Colonies, in a speech at Breslau, warned the Government, ae cording to The Tageblatt, not to wait too long with reforms. He contend eid that ithe popular movement had a fundamengal power which could not be stifled and.which must break through, He also reqwested the Im- perial Chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann- Hollweg, to make public Germany's war aims. ' Dr. Dernburg emphasized that It would have been wiser if the German- Government had given President Wilson an answer to a concrete question on this matter, adding: "Then we would have been, perhaps, today a step further." 9 GENERAL HAIG'S PRAISE Timés is Pleased Commander Singles Out Units. London, May 2. Commenting on General Sir Douglas Haig's latest at- tack on the western front, the Times expresses gratifitation that in Gen- :ral Haig's report mention is made of 'certain units, and particularly of He gallant conduct of the men from Newfoundland. heirs is a small "ommunity and very remoté from the iritish army have blazoned its name Empire." Thirty-four cattle men, who mus tinied on a ship arriving at Montreal | on Tuesday were put under arrest. | ach and i distended by many emine rest of the world," says the Times, pana you wil but the island's fighting men in the] mediate" feeli of the upon the imperishable records of the | ple _SECOND SECTION CHILD'S SEVERE STOMACH TROUBLE Harviston (Ont.) Father Says Dr, Cassell's Tablets Saved His Child's Life. rth' the were % rte any A free sample of Dr, Cassell's Tablets will be sent to you on receipt of 5 centn for mulling and packing. Address: Har- old F. Ritchie & Co, Ltd, 10, M'Caul- St. Toronto. Dr. Cassells remedy Sleep are the pepsia, surest Kidney ws Allments tation and Wea ially valuable f« the « of bn to the ever known only nd no imitldion car be the same Sole Proprietors: Dre. Cassell's Co, Ltd., Manchester, Eng. a a a a a) RN RR Upholstery The Parkes dry cleaning process for upholstered furni- ture grows in favor as it be« comes known how thorough- ly successful it is. Lon It is not necessary to remove coverings and trim- mings. Your furni- ture can be restored to its original fresh- ness agaic and again, as occasion arises. Telephone or write for par ticulars. PARKER'S DYE WORK LIMITED 69 Princess Street, King- ston, Ontario. / S « IF FOOD DISAGREES DRINK HOT WATER When food lies like lead in the stom= you have that uncomfortable, feeling, it is because of iy sufficient blood supply to the stomach, combined with acid and £ a a tion In suth cases try the plan, now followed In many hospitals and advised nt physicians of taking a teaspoonful of pure bisurated magnesia in half a glass of water, as hot as you can comfortably drink it. The hot water draws the blood to the stom- ach and the bisurat psia, as any physici can t neu tralizes food fermentatior plan ad at im ef and, comfort the restoration normal process of digestion. Pe vho find onvenient at time re Ma r 1d travellers who 1 take hasty should always in tablets of meals to neutralize that alwa I § 1 r fermer and in the mach pre the acid 7 Wanted -- Anot "Somewhere in this, happy land," as De Wolf Hopper used io say in kis immortal "Casey," there is another Ostermoor. Nol necessarily another mattress. "In this case "Ostermoor' stands for a lot of other things. at present unknown, which might be made equally famous by newspaper advertising. Onee there was no na tionally known soap. Now, probably folks buy by brand name mare soap than any other household arfiele, Not so long ago "very few housewiyes thought of using canned soups. Soup eould=be made so easily at home. Yet the sale of canned soups, ad- vertised extensively, in creased 204 per, cent. from 1909 to 1914. There's nothing so con- stantly worn and so fre- quently worn out as shoes, and vel for this country 'of © something like 1,000,000 families Mr. Consumer, possibly you could be made a specialty of enough people use it to mak might? you talk it over with us? Statements of . Offier it to.them through Advertising, A her Ostermoor there are mighiy few shoes advertised. True of canned tables and fruits, too, and yet the tendency in housekeeping 1s surely toward ready-prepared dishes. Can you think ol a brand name for to: matoes? You can't name, right off hand, a brand of ¢an- ned salmon, can yon? Chances are vou just ask for "a can salmon," vege - ol Also vou might eal more . salmon if vou were snf- ficiently urged. One "would think that the Life Insurance com- panies, sinee their mar- ket universal, would constantly drive home .in newspaper ad vertising the proleetive value of life insurance, and pave the way for their agents. It would speed up the writing of life insurance, make life insurance really popular, and. inerease the in- comes of thousands of agents. , is 80 have some article which --a leader in its line? Do . e it a safe bet that others wil} DAILY BRITISH WHIG Advertising Department. Only paper between Toronto and Montreal Issuing Audited 4 Circulation,