PAGE EIGHTEEN PT PCTURESOLE HASTINGS IT IS RICH IN SPOTS OF A MOST yHSTORIC NATURE. Mallory Shaw Writes an Interesting Account of Some of the Places he Visited and Gives Some vions--Very Attractive ists, Large cities fascinate, the moun- tain attract, inland watering places have their charm; yet'I know of nothing more pleasing than the "Sunny Sputhern Coast" of England in season, Everyone has heard of Brighton--it is more or less world famous. Eastbourne, Weymouth, Bournemouth, and Hastings present ever phase of seaside life--bathing, rowing, motor-hoating, sailing and dancing; for dancing pavilions are Yjuite common, Unfortunately I have never heen able to visit the watering places on the southern coast of France, such as Nice, Cannes, or Monte Carlo; so I am not in a position to compare them with the English resorts. However, I may say that I have found the coast cities of Northern France most en- joyable; the Plage at Calais is an agreeable spot; Wimereux, on the outskirts of Boulogne is not at all bad; Le Havre and Dieppe (including Trouville) are better. As for the Paris Plage at Etaples, it is lively and 'tres chic," as our French friends would say. Yet on the whole I prefer Hastings to any of the above mentioned places. It is rich in spots of historic inter- est also, tending to enhance its value as a place for visitors. At Battle, a village about seven miles from the city, William the Conqueror defeated Harold in the Battle of Hastings Quite a collection of trophies may be seen in the old apbey at Battle In the city of Hastings stand the ruins of what was once Hastings Castle High up on the cliff, it majestically overlooks the sea; although but one single arch of the original structure now remains intact The time: for castles as objects of defence has long since passed; so the castle has na- turally fallen into decay, The moss covered walls are interésting and unique; but little of the battlements remain. It is very attractive along the promenade on the sea front. Small candy booths in the shape of oriental kiosks ornament the "prom" at in- tervals. On the pier may be seen the new band-stand, an up-to-date structure, surrounded by rows of seats arranged in amphitheatre style Nearly every morning, afternoon and &vening the public aré entertained with a good selection of music grand opera, musical comedy hits, national airs, and even rag-time. Now that the United States has en- tered the war, the Englishman does not mind American music at all. In fact it is quite a common thing to hear the band playing: "Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground," "The Star Spangled Banner," and many other familiar airs. Flags of the allies ornament the whole waterfront. Visitors from London and else- where" prefer Hastings to Margate, Ramsgate, and other places farther north; as the Germans occasionally annoy the inhabitants of the Eastern coast towns by giving them severe doses of their famous "iron rations," "made in Germany," by Bertha Krupp. Civilians as a rule do not care to become involved in these east coast "arguments"; as someone gen- erally gets hurt before our destroy- ers chase Fritz back to his lair at Zeebrugge or Kiel. Hastings is quite safe from sea raids, and were it not for the occasional boom of a big gun at practice at Lydd, the "natives" would "never know that there was & War on. Of course they have "po- tatoless" days the same as every- where else in England; and as Shakespeare says, so may they well Say: "ay there's the rub." Still the people are not depressed to any no- ticeable extent--cinemas, dancing pavilions, the Gaiety and other the- atres, and even the bowling greens seem to be doing a thriving business. A word about the hotels and res- taurants of Hastings: like every south coast watering place, the city has its Grand, Metropole, > and Queen's hote!s; these names seem to be almost catching, so frequently do they occur. One happy feature about them is that they are all good hotels, and as a consequence the traveller Is pretty certain to secure first class Service. 1 would not for a moment try to compare them with the average first-class hotels in Canadian and American cities, since our service is much quicker and more efficient. The idea of speed i# a hard one to knock into the average Englishman's head; he acts slowly and deliberately, as if time were not to be considered at all. And as for telephones--they are usu- ally conspicuous by their absence; in Ne A rere SERVICE TO THE NATION DEMANDS GOOD HEALTH War is bragis home to every man, woman and child the fact that service 10 the nation is not a matter alone tor the soldier and sailor and munition worker, There is work, necessary work, for everyone to do, in the way of thriit and uction and 10 do this work, health s the first essential. Even the most willing will find progress is slow tf the health is bad. Probably the most common complaint among those doing unaccustomed tasks G48 ache, Work may capse a tired feeling that will'easily pass bif but this backache that almost doubles one up is an indication of a condition of the sys- tem that needs treatment. The Kulneys are giving evidence of their weaknecs and the sufferer should be thankful jor the timely warning given by this pain. The quickest and surest reliet trom backache is a treatment with Gin Pills Gin Pills are the} tested specific for the healing of the K¥dneys. Anyone who wishes to perio isor her full duty to the Nation mn thesdsirenuons tunes will find reljef from bacRuclie in Gin Pills. «Sold by sll dealers--50c. a box, or 8 "boxes for $2L0 Money back if you are not satisfied Freé semple on request to National Drag & Chemical Co. of Canada, Limited, Toronto, or to the U.S. Address, Na-Dru-Co ne. 28 Main St., Buffalo; N.Y, 2s Impres- for Tour- a-- as 'luxuries. > systems such as we are quite unknown. glish hotel can 'boast >. the food is well tue menus telligible English, and semi-English, 'semi- ted to impress the un- Tipping is 'the cus- t becomes a bore. hamber-maid, fact they are classed Rural I hav M'sually of a good « cooked sty, printes not" in p! French sophist tom 1 waiter ter and English elevat term them exercise for their are are not burdened with lifts," as the English They belleve in plenty of which probably accounts villingness to climb tread thee four or five flights of stairs taurant Hastings is undoubtedly Ferrari's lecent little place where season to order. It has been a mys- tery to hy the Italian waiters other Tea shops are to be found everywhere their prices are moder- deed. The parks and the drives are un- lawns are well suited to bowling, tennis, and other outdoor pastimes, away a few spare hours at leisure. Taxicabs there are in abundance; so Ore, St. Leonard"s-On-Sea, or St. Helens, you merely have to say the Henry Ford's tin tanks certainly take the hills around Hastings like some real cars there as well. Fair- light Glen is a beautiful little vale, unusually attractive, being in the heart of a pretty wood where winding small waterfall known as the Drip- ping Well, reminds one strangely of scene of Longfellow's Hiawatha. The cold water, clear as crystal, tum- the whole glen. The sence is truly rustic, possessing nothing of the ar- of nature. In the morning the sound of the cuckoo echoes and re-echoes evening the clear, resonant notes of the nightingale ring out in their Keats' Ode to the Nightingale: "Thou wast not born for death, im- No hungry generations down; was heard [in ancient days by emperor and It 18 a scene of perfect restfulness and quiet; nothing grates on the of noise, bustle, and the stifling air of the city is most agreeable to the 8t, Helens, Ore, Hollington, Bo- lemia, and St. Leonards-on-Sea are town; although St. Leonards has a couple of fairly decent business be classed as entirely residential. Near St. Helens there is a Jesuit's training; and two sanitariums, Pine- wood and Fairlight. Because of the Helens, it is an ideal spot for fresh, dry air. The tram system connects vice is none too good. The scheols of Hastings are well constructed nearly surrounded by concrete court- yards which serve as playgrounds for ducts are to be seen everywhere on account of the hilly nature of the not a manufacturing city, there is a distinct abeence of smoke and. grimy and in certain parts of London, Ol Town is the more ancient part the greater part of the inhabitants. In the Fishermens' church a huge interior of the little building. Nar- row streets, some of them paved with irregular rows of old fashioned houses, and little plots of cultivated ground. Owing to the war, much of its business activity has ceased, and mer days might well boast of cease- less activity, are practically deserted, ertson street, on Old London Road, on Queen's 'Road--everywhere, you khaki, all doing their "bit." Some are preparing for the front, others are still others" are training to become 'officers. A boy scouts' company is at its head the boys bugle, fife and drum band is proudly playing "Sus- worth visiting, being one of nature' choicest spots. . WOLFE ISLAND HOTEL Is to Be Reopened----J. Briceland Has Wolfe Island, Oot. 10.--"Jack" Briceland has purchased the island ments before it will be ready for the o ng. It will shortly be ready lic. It has been closed for the past two years. All concerned will be aga, Hugh Horne held a sale of his noon. Everything being sold and commanding high prices. Mr. Horne 140 acres near Syracuse, NY. left via Cape Vincent readiness for neXt season's crop. Vin McDonald, Watertown, N.Y.. tives last week. Walter Yott and bride have returned home after an the principal cities in New York State. Born unto Mr. and Mrs. George Rog- cessful sale of stock and farm im- plements on Wednesday afterneon. g00d prices. A man ean walk a mile without without a murmur. The leading res- you can get practically anything in there 'always speak French to each atg, and their meals very good in- usually pretty and well kept. The making it an easy matter to pass if you desire to take a joy ride out to word and 'James' will do the rest steeple-chasers, Of course there are gituated about a mile from Ore. It is paths point the way to the sea. A Minnehaha Falls, Minnesota; the bling over the smooth rogks, cools Yficial, everything being a product throughout the wood; while in the sweet, melodie tones calling to mind moral bird, | The voice 1 hear this passing night clown," etc., etc. nerves there. The complete absence senses. healthy residential districts of the thoroughfares, and thus can hardly college, where priests receive their comparatively high altitude of St. all of these places, although the ser- buildings of *brick, surrounded or the children. Tunnels and aque- surrounding country. As Hastings is dirt, so prevalent at Liverpool, Leeds, of Hastings. Fisher folk make up fishing net on either side presents an cobbles wind in and out between the ground ornament the hilly back- now the thoroughfares which in for- Yet, along the promenade, in Rob- see the flower of the country in' convalescing from wounds, whereas marching through the streets, while sex by the Sea." Hastings is well ~~MALLORY SHAW, Bought it. hotel and will mike some improve- for the local trade and traveling pub- pleased to see it opened for business household effects on Monday after- has purchased a farm consisting of on with his family to get the farm in motored to the island to visit rela- extended honeymoon, ers @ son. H. BEsford held a suc- was sold and retalized moving more than two feet. The | the por-| "all expect their tips, | | | / To all to whom these presents shall come, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1917. GEORGE the FIFTH, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Defender of the Faith, Dominions beyond the Seas, King, . Emperor of India. wise concern--GREETING: or whom the sanmie may in any- A Proclamation calling out the men comprised in Class 1 as described by the Military Service Act, 1917 HEREAS it is provided by our Militia Act of Canada, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906, chap- Yivsanec ter 41, Section 69, that our Governor- ' o ( General of Canada in Council may » place our militia of Canada or any The Deputy Minister of part thereof on active service" any- Justice, Canada where in Canada, and also beyond for the defence thereof, at any time when it appears advisable so to do b: reason of emergency ; that part of our militia of Canada known as And Whereas the i Expeditionary Force is now engaged in active service overseas for the defence and security of Canada, the preszrvation of our Empire and of human liberty; and it is necessary owing to the emergencies of the war to provide re-enforce- ments for our said Expeditionary Force in addition to those whose inclination or circumstances have permitted them to volunteer; WwW by reason of the large number of men who And hereas Pov already left agncultural and industrial pursuits in our Dominion of Canada in order to join our Expeditionary Force as volunteers, and by reason of the necessity of maintaining under these conditions the productiveness or output of agriculture and in- dustry in our said Dominion, we have determined by and with the advice and consent of our Senate and House of Commons of Canada that it is expedient to secure the men so required, not by ballot as provided by our said Mil#tia Act, but by selective draft; such re-enforcement, under the provisions of the Military Service Act, 1917, hereinafter referred to, not to exceed one hundred thousand men; And Whereas it is accordingly enacted in and by the pro- visions of an Act of our Parliement of Can- ada, holdén in the 7th and 8th years of our reign, and known as the Mili- tary Service Act, 1917, that every one of our male subjects who comes within one of the classes described and intended by the said Act shall be liable to be called out on active service in our Canadian Expedition- ary Force for the defence of Canada, either within or beyond Canada; and that his service shall be for the duration of the present war and demobilization after the conclusion of the war; the men who are under the provisions of the And Whereas said last mentioned a to be called out, are comprised in six classes of which Class 1'is, by the provisions of the said Act, defined to consist of all our male subjects, ordinarily, or at any time since the 4th day of August, 1914, resident in Canada, who have attained the age of twenty years, who were born not earlier than the year 1883, and were on the 6th day of July, 1917, unmarried, or are widowers but have no child, and who are not within any of the following enumerated : EXCEPTIONS: -- 1. Members of our regular, or reserve, or auxiliary forces, as defined by our Army Act. 2. Members of our military forces raised by the Governments of any of our other dominions or by our Government of India. # 3. Men serving in our. Royal Navy, or in our Royal Marines, or in our Naval Service of Canada, and members of our Canadian Expeditionary Force. - 4. Men who have since August 4th, 1914, served in our Military or Naval Forces, or in those of our allies, in any theatre of actual war, and have been honourably discharged therefrom. 5. Clergy, including members of any recognized order of an exclusive- ly religious character, and ministers of all religious denominations existing in Canada at the date of the passing of our said Military Service Act. 6. Those persons exempted from military service by Order in Council of August 13th, 1873, and by Order in Council of December 6th, 1898; WwW it is moreover vided by our said Military And hereas Service Act pe our Governor-General of Canada in Council may from time to time by proclamation call out on active service as aforesaid any class of men in the said Act described, and that all men within the class so called out shall, from the date of such proclamation, be deemed to be soldiers enlisted in the military service of Canada and subject to military law, save as in the said Act otherwise provided; and that the men so called out-shall report and shall be placed on activé service in.the Canadian Expeditionary Force as may be set out in such proclamation or in regulations; but that they shall, until so placed on active service, be deemed to be on leave of absence without pay; WwW it is also provided by the said Act that at And hereas any time before a date to be fixed by procla- mation an application may be made, by or in respect of any man in the class to be called out, to one of our local tribunals, established in the manner provided by the said Act in the province in which such man ordinarily resides, for a certificate of exemption from service upon any of the following GROUNDS OF EXEMPTION: -- | (a) That it is expedient in the national interest that the man should, instead of being employed in military service, be engaged in other work in which he is habitually engaged; (b) That it is expedient in the national interest that the man should, iff of being employed in military service, be engaged in other work in which he wishes to be engaged and for which he has special qualifications; ; (c) That it is expedient in the national interest that, instead of being employed in military service, he should continue to be educated or trained for any work for which he is then being educated or trained; (d) That serious hardship would ensue, if the man were placed on active service, owing to his exceptional financial or business obli- gations or domestic position; . hid (e) Ill health or infirmity; : (/) That he conscientiously objects to the ing of combatant service and is prohibited from so doing by the tenets and articles of faith, in effect on the sixth day of July, 1917, of any organized re- ligious denomination existing and well recognized in Canada at such date, and to which he in good faith belongs; And that if any of the grounds of such application be established, a certificate of exemption shall be granted to such man. i And Whereas Moreover it is enacted in and by the provis- ions of an Act of our Parliament of Canada holden in the 7th and 8th years of our reign, and known as the War Time Elections Act, that certain persons thereby disqualified from vot- ing, with such of their sons as on polling day are not of legal age, shall be exempt from combatant military and naval service ; WwW it is further provided by our sa.d Military And hereas Service Actkthat applications for exemption from service shall be determined by our said local tribunals, subject to appeal as in the said Act provided, and that any man, by or in respect of whom an appl.cation for exemption from service is made, shall, so long as such application or any appeal in connection therewith is pend- ing, and during the currency of any exemption granted him, be deemed to be on leave of absence without pay ; And Whereas our Governor-General of Canada in Council ) " has determined to call out upon active service as aforesaid the men included in Class I as in the said Act and herein- before defined or described; that we do hereby call Now Therefore Know Ye that we do hereby can comprising the men in our said Military Service Act, 1917, and herein- .before defined or described as to the said class belonging, on active service in opr Canadian Expeditionary Force for the defence of Canada, either within or beyond Canada, as we may, in the command or direc. tion of our Military Forces, hereafter'order or direct. And we do hereby strictly command, require and enjoin that each man who is a member of the said class shall, on or before the 10th day of November, 1917, in the prescribed form and manner, report himself for military service, unless application for his exemption shall then have been made by him or by ancther person entitled to apply on his behalf ; wherein our loving subjects, members of the said class, are especially charged not to fail, since not only do their loyalty and allegiance require and impose the obligation of careful and implicit obedience to these our strict commands and injunctions, but moreover, lest our loving subjects should be ignorant of the consequences which will ensue if they fail to report within the time limited as aforesaid, we do hereby forewarn and admonish them that any one who is hereby called out, and who without reasonable excuse fails to report as aforesaid, shall thereby commit an offence, for which he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding five years with hard labour, and he shall nevertheless, if we so require, be compelled to servesimmediately in our said Expeditionary Force. And we do hereby proclaim and announce that for the greater cone venience of our subjects, we have directed that prescribed forms, for reporting for service, and for application for exemption from service, may, at any time on or before the said 10th day of November, 1917, be obtained at any post office in our Dominion of Canada ; and that reports for service and applications for exemption from service, if obtained at any of our said post offices and properly executed, shall be forwarded by our postmaster at the post office from which the same are obtained to their proper destination as by our regulations pre- scribed, free of postage or any other charge. And we do further inform and notify our loving subjects that local tribunals have been established in convenient localities throughout our Dominion of Canada for the hearing of applications for exemption from service upon any of the statutory grounds, as hereinbefore set out ; that these our local tribunals so established will begin to sit in the discharge of their duties on the 8th day of November, 191 7, and that they will continue to sit from day to day thereafter, as may be necessary or convenient, at such times and places as shall be duly notified, until all applications for exemption from service shall have been heard and disposed of ; also that men belonging to the class hereby called out who have not previously to the said 8th day of November, 1917, reported for service, or forwarded applications for exemption through any of our post offices as aforesaid, may make applications in person for exemption from service to any of our said tribunals, on the 8th, 9th or 10th day of November, 1917. And we do hereby moreover notify and inform our loving subjects who are within the class hereby called out, that if; on or before the 10th day of November, 1917, they report themselves for military service, or if, on or before that day; application for exemption from service be made by them or on their behalf, they will not be required to report for duty, or be placed upon active service as aforesaid, until a day, not earlier than the 10th day of December, 1917, which will, by our registrar for the province in which they reported or applied, be notified to them in writing by registered post at their respective addresses as given in their reports for service, or applications for exemption from service, or at such substituted addresses as they may have respectively signified to our said registrar; and we do hereby inform, forewarn and admonish the men belonging to the class hereby called out that if any of them shall, without just and sufficient cause, fail to report for duty at the time and place required by notice in writing so posted, or shall fail to report for duty as otherwise by law required, he shall be subject to the procedure, pains and penalties by law prescribed as against military Of all of which our loving subjects, and all others whom these pres- ents may concefn, are hereby required to take notice, ing strict obedience to and compliance with all these our NE hammlcring trict and requirements, and governing themselves accordingly. : We have caused these Our In Testimony Whereof [eave caused th Patent, Right 1. Se incre here a Cousin by: fu ight Trusty ight ly ed in and Counsellor, Vic istian William, Duke of Devonshire, Marquess of Hart- Under-Secretary of State,