WARAND THE CHURCHES REVIVAL OF RELIGION IS LOTICED IN CANADA. 'NO United States Men Who Po Church Work Have Gone to Visitor From Finds That Young Used to the Front in Exceptiondlly Large Numbers revival of religion is notice 'anada as 3 result The church » scarcely better says Dr. Wil begun with _ to observe the spiritual jife Recruits are sual y has re- the ed. iinisters in order to ; and so far as to learn from eon clergymen and there is no special problem of jmmortal 8," They are wnair-lot, and not eart upon their i of is, how ile espécially 'dead among among reaq 'The of 'the Ve :cems to be the : Canada anew to the war have community and ) and over anada did not ce of the war jead began to and to: be an- tie {hat ! Lod Fort reached | into evers again T wa cateh until « nounced f the pul 3 "While 1 in Winnipeg the Na- tional Cound Women was in ses- sion 'rnoon they held a sorviee ssion Mm a theater, and | atten I'he occasion was electric. no addresses. A program of printed prayers had been provided---prayers for the sol- diers and sa for the prisoners and wounded and those who care for them; for victory and for 2 righteous peace: for the harvest and for the women at home, The hymns sung were all prayers. These women were of Canada's best and 1no0st progres- sive. They stood for 'club life, and for the modern conception of their gox's mission. Yet bere they were, fashionably gowned (not a few in mourning 'garh), engaged in wo man's old, old function. of praying for the men whom they had sent forth to battle. -Alter witnessing that service, no superficial observer . could make. me believe that the war has not sent Canada's women and parents to their.knees. Sol whe not surprised to {learn+of the fréguwency of special seryices for intercession in private homes and in local chuyches. 'When Lady Aikins closed that solemn sessioh of Canada's leading r women, she {simply said, 'Now we shall pray fon anr gracious King and for eur splenflid men! The crowd arose, the piapist struck a chord, and the first stanpa of the national ans them swelled |forth. - Then there fol- lowéd, with 4 fervor that put many handkerchiefd to eyes, another stan- 2a, written sipce the war began, and now sung all over Canada: iS were ilors; fod Rave our Send them sa . God splendid man Kev Wanted | Customers holding keys for the cabinet of silver are asked "to return these at once to be fitted, - so the cabinet' can be awarded to the holder of the lucky key, and keys must be returned to the main store. Popular Drug Store. Phone 59, Branch 2018 a N- ed ---------- iE £Y RR, 'M.0D.0. Thosé people (and they are many) who dread the ordetl of an eye examin- ation are agreeably aston- ished to find that, as made Y us, it causes no pain, discomfort, or inconven- ieee. = § I A iA And We Use No- Keeley Jr. MOD.0. 226 Princess Street i (LX Fe valrang oo RREEt A Fe o dear ® God save ogy mien! foq t amendment tg one of the most significant- ts upon the, war [i reveals he new and democrstic Taood of the le who are giving of their bés © great cause. 1p all the long and generations that Britishers been singing 'God Sve " the | never occurred 16 anybody A prayer for (he aly Now it is done in-. at i and fervently, thought of disloyalty te his but only in the natura) that the welfare of th, equal with that of ¢ religious services in Canada, at jeast n the Protestant churches, include the singing of the national anthem: and all, except where the strain. js loo great uDPoR the mothers, include God save our splendid men.' Who can trace all the wonderful ways in which democracy is dofng its work in these changeful days?" The' néw note that hgs been put into the churches of Canada by the war is describe® by Dr, Bilis as the "life-and-death interest in the front line of battle in France": . "The part'cular occasion 1 cite was in St. "tephen's Presbyterian church Winnipeg, whose pastor js 'Ralph | Connor," the novelist, now Major Charles W, Gordon, chaplain on ser- vice, 'The associate pastor, Rev. Dr Charles P, Paterson, was jofficiating. The congregation was large, with an od 'Saye the year have King ' assumption » soldiers ranks he King. All -J almost. total lack of young men. "Smalls wonder. For on the of honor' in front of the every Canadian church now displays such a flag-draped 'roll éf honor' were the names of 264 'men of the chuveh who up to the end of the year had enlisted. A revised list would Increase the number, as well as the. toll of those killed, wounded, and in prison. In front of this purticular honor-roll ig a picture of a soldier dying on the battle-field, with the crucified Christ beside him in bene- diction---and that in a Presbyterian church, with a predominantly Scéteh membership! "One reason why the of enlisted men from the churches is unusually bigh in Canada is that church-going young més, aside from alli question of ideals; cannot with- stand the pressure that comes uppn them in these weekly fervices. 1 know of one young man, rejected from the Canadian Army bheeause of | varicose veins, who refuses to attend | cbureh; he .cappot - rtand either the ' appeal fur the'sérvicé or the looks of the congreg: tion, since to them be ema It for enlistment. No man, be @ never so chaven, could continue yf the fellowship of a Canadian chuvth jand in regular attendance without offering himself to the colors." All sorts of unexpected side-lights upon the intensity and sacredness of the spirit of patriotism, we are told, are to be met with now in Canada: "Authorities told me that there are {now no volunteers for foreign mis- sion work, because as one mission board secretary put it, 'young men | who wére volunteers for the mission- ary war are now where they ought to be, engaged in that other missionary enterprise to which the Allies are deveted." It was another mis- sionary secretary in Toronto who told me that fourteen of the mission- aries in China of bis board have left their work .in the Orient to don. his Mdjesty's 'iniform. Most of them act ag officers . of the detachments of Chinese artizans-and laborers who , Lave been brought oger: for labor behind the lines in France. . As men speaking the Chinese language, and dcquainted with the ways of the na- 'roll pulpit--and proportion |}.tives, this service is simply invalu- able Other missionaries, and sons of missionaries, have gone directly into the military service. J "Despite the tremendous drain upon the resources ®f the Canadian churches 'made by the war, mission- ary contributions either remain as great as formerly. or else have been increased. . Evidantly the -stay-at- home women and older men have deep convietions abput the import. anée 'of Christian work and instruc- tion in thig 'time of universal | change. Likewise, the departure of tens of thousands of church-workers for the frdnt has greatly depleted the ranks of officers and teachers in the Tocal congregations... This, toq,'1s met by an excess of 4 fon and'sec-' tivity on the part of{ those left be- hind. * Even the enlistment of many clergymen as chaplains and officers meefd with nothing but approval from the people. it . "While T fcund no signs of what Is conventionally called a revival in the Canadian churches, thére is un- doubtedly manifest such a spirit of deep purpose and loyalty that-if is a new vitalizing force in the religious life of the Empire. The war is a spiritual experience for Canada. Whether the organized Cliristian | Church is equal to the unprecedented task of capitalizing this fervor and exaltation and ute purpose, after the soldiers return, only time can tell. For one thing is sure, neither the nation mor the Church iil over again be the same after this trans- tormi ence," ti To Leave Lax.s tor Good, At east 120 ships left 'the Groat Lakes at the end of the season of navigation, mever to return. The ships have been commandeered or purchased by the American Gove e ment for the Atlantic Ocean service. The' vessels so far gelected pot | go moval from the lakes. total of Sut 130,000 tons. Forty-three she ships are small enough to base thr~ugh the Welland Canal" wi a | alteration, venty-géven must " Tut in two to pass the Jocks. Li tonnage now .on the lakes to about 2,700,000. : "The appropriation, ake boats is RY jean budget of Jd 3 { mitted to be Secretary of he Treas {urs by. gh Board. fo + {amount about 140 million ol | intended to pay. for lake a arid | Tie vesiels will not be tals. bos | ta, the lakes, because ofie veasels | eve that, aitowing TOF CCN, Sette | for lake service which cal hie Wait during the wa¥, 359.000 . hoe spared from the ia rads Ww ko seriously epippling « the DE " trade i hs . { cts SS | ' § for. purciase of d in the Ameri 1 4,500,000 sub- : Jat work ab op : 'alone a Tweed; A with no ! Majesty, | Blom. j Ocean, dropped anchor off the city of _ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDA Discoverers oi ' 3 . & oS \ . ie } of N&w Lands | i AP rehired NIA rs Ent N the filustrions, year of 1498, which witnesséd ' ' Sebastian Cabot's westward discoveries along North America, and Co- lumbus' sighting of Seiith America, Vasco da Gama, pursuing his east- ward navigations, er ssed the Indian i 1 | i | Calicut, on the Madagar coast, and i 8¢f up on shore a marble pillar as proof of his discovery of India by an ocean highway. Thus Portugal offset Spain's claim to the West Indies by priority, of discovery, with a claim through first discovery to .the East Indies, and stood ready to assert it, while England allowed her right, by the same token, if the North Ameri~ tan continent to lapse, Spain and Portugal continued in| sharp rivalry during the half decade immediately following, In 1499, the coast of South America was touched at about Surinam by the Spaniard Alonzo Vespucei, sailing for Spain, The same year the coast of Brazil was discovered by a Portuguese navigator, Vincente Yarez Pinzon He | had been a companion of Columbus. | The next year poggession of Brazil was taken for the crown of Portugal by Pedro Alvarez Cabral, .a PoMu-| Buese commander, who was driven to fits coast by adverse winds when | making a voyage to India by Vasco | da Gama's course. Three years later | a settlement was begun there hy Amerigo Veéspucei, now in the ser- vice of Portugal In- 1500, Gaspar de Cortereal, Portuguese, attempted to follow the Cabots' track of dis- covery opened in the North West, | Ig upon the coast of Labrador, he explored it for 600 miles, He dis-| covered Nova Scotia, the Law- rence, and also Hudson's Strait. | Then he returned to Lisbon, with his! two caravans freighted with natives men, women, and children--whom | he had captured and brought home| for - slavery, 'ia Upon tha strength df Gaspar de Cortereal's| voyages, Portugal attelypted to es- tablish a claim to the Niscovery of Newfoundland anc the adjacent coast of North America. But in this she was not successful. Spain, how ever, held firmly to all of her Am= erican possessions, indefinitely de- fined. England remained passive till 1501, when a new movement was started in the Cabots' home city of Bristol. Three Bristol merchants-- Richard Ward, Thomas Ashehurst, and John Thomas---and three Por- tuguese mariners--John Fernandus, Francis Fgrnandus, and John Gund- lur---came together for a venture in the track of the Cabots: A patent was obtained from King Henry, under date of March 19, 1501, which conferred upon ' them the same powers that had originally . been given the Cabots, and was in terms similar tp the Cabot patents. Whe- ther they sent out an expedition that year id not known, The next year, however, th¥ personnel of the company had changed, with the drop- ping of Wird and Thomas and the substitution of Hugh Eliot in their Jlace; and under this organization, probably in 1503, a voyage was made which resulted in discovery at New foundland and-alopg the Labrador coast. "The only record of this voy- age is, given by Hakluyt, in the fol- lowing excerpt from the merchant, Robert-Thorne's "Booke" of 1527, dddressed. to the English ambassa- dor. at the court of Spain: | . "A briefe extract concerning the discoverie of Newfound-land taken out of the booke of *M, Robert Thorne, to Doctor Leigh, ete. "I reason that . this in- clination or desire of this discovery I inherited from my father, which with another "marchant of Bristol named Hugh Eliot, were the discov- erers of the Newfoundlands; of the which there is no doubt (as nowe plainely appeareth) if the Mariners would then have bene ruled, and fol- lowed their->Pilots minde, but the lands of the West . Indies, from t whence all the golde commeth, had | been ours; for a]l is one coast as the Card appeareth and is aforesaid." The "'card" here referred fo was a ude map of the world on which, Lalong the line of the coast of Labra- dor, was written the inscription in Latin, 'This land wag first discover- 'ed by the English."". A short time aftér this voyage; the fisheries about Newfoundland. had become well | known to Frenchmen, and were being- frequented by the hardy fish- ermen of Brittany and Normandy. Hence the later name, of the isle of Cape Breton. 3 St. . = The Vanishing Elk. Next in importance to big-hora sheep, though least IR numbers among the Rocky Mountain bik game, is the American elk or wapiti, 1t once ranged nearly the entire continent in millions, Its habitat was originally from -Mexico to the Peace River, and from the Pacific fo the Atlantic, between the St. Law- rence and the coast of South Caro- lina. 'fo-day a few scattered bands .along the Rockies between Colorado and the Brazéau River, and some isolated herds in the forests of northern Manitoba and Saskatche- wan, comprise the entire wild elk left in North America. Probably the total does not exceed 60,000 » less than 5,000 of which are found in Canada.' In the Rockies there are {probably from 175 to 365, of which ithe insignificant remnant in the val- ley of the Brazeau is the last of the iorizinal elk herds of Alberta. Those inow found in the. south are British {Colum elk that have migrated' to the ope since the inauguration of a d season on elk in Alberta some Aye or six years ago. * errs -- A Tip for the Ladies: . A firm of cleaners in Grinnell, Adowa, adveriizes as follows: 'Notice '~<Ladies. why worry about your dirty kids when we clean them for 15 cents." : wn 3 "Tho session of tie legislature this year will open vonsiderably earlier than last session, March 29th is Good Friday and the House likes to | naval officers in { was giving to French | the side of the hill, fillir | Smith's shop. claimed finish its buriness" the day before " Some of the Duties Undertaken by | : Canadians in France. Canada's part in the war is not confined by any means to the splen- did troops under General Currie; now beleaguering Lens. There are scores of officers and men in various Iniperial serviees fitting into the British machine. of places one would never suspect there are Canadian battalions--their numbers now are lagion--which in the aggregate easily make up a large | are | force. Smart Canadians every port feeds the front, keeping to the tions of the British navy. there are the flying men, in services, their range perhaps th greatest of all, sometimes ayes of the Grand Fleet itself, and on Western front a majority in squadrons. To-day the Colonel Railway Troops company him to young that this of Canadian invited me to arc an cxhibition he British engineers. He wall a new main military line Lu rails from Ca 's railways. Tho t miniature Can: 8 many miles south, Wor the Kaiser's Uhlans roan the war. Op in the large yar was in office Y go forwor the Belgian the great engine where light railway adians there, too, "were new lines. Fritz's airm one day and for his artillery wasting hundreds of munition, The Gern was some new masio tion. It used to v dian Pacific grade in tario. a When the Huns broke back clone the coast they left va \ bit of tangled machinery, The Canadian Colonel gathered these yup, comman a big ra'lway truck, and track-layer in his own black minute to the Nort? 1 Or At rail head there is a young Can- adian railway transport officer who used to be train despatcher at a little place on the prairie, In the next yard another officer (in Canada he was general manager of a great elec tric railway company) is quarter- master for railway stores, The dockmaster at the- great port away back was in the stevedoring business on the Pacific coast. Under his command were more transporters and cranes than Vancouver and Vie- toria combined will ever see for years. In the dock was a tramp ship straight from his home on the Pacific coast, A colonel from Nova Scotia with his Labor battalion, men from all parts of the Dominion who know the job, had trebled the port for unloading the rails. At another dock I found a catonel, an Ontario mem- ber of Parliament, handling a bri gade of Chinese coolies piling lum- ber, and even the native interpreter Canadian association-- with sawmills on False Creek.--The Canadian Eye Witness, A Clever Soldier Gone. Among the young Toronto officers wha died oghhe Passchendaele Ridge serving their country was Lieutenant Meyer Cohen of the Forty-second Battalion, who a few weeks earlier earned the praise of General Lipsett, his Divisional Commander, and Sir Arthur Currie, by one of the %lever- est "bits of patrol work done on the | Lens front during the past season. Cohen and five men under his com- mand were out one misty night in No Man's Land,. near Merecourt, when they discovered a hostile patrol of six men sheltering among some bushes. The Canadians stalked the enemy 'until they got within almost pointblank range and then rushed ther, killing three and capturing the others. Having taken his prisoners back to the Canadian lines, Cohen de- cided to go out again with his patrol, reasoning that the »ound of firing and the failure of ¥he German patrol to return to the battalion by which it was-sent out would be followed hy investigation. His little - group of men bad scarcely been postell near the trap in which the first NWostile patrol had been caught when three 10re Germans appeared They were !l captured and taken back to the anadian trenches Thus Lieut. WHILE AT WAR Women Suffer zt Home Toronto, Ovrt--"1 coniider Doct ra Pieres's' Favorite & Preseription the very best of wo. tonics. | suffered 8 reverc MW nervous break down. I could noi sleep, wat weak and tir time. ed all the y I took the 11, 'Preseription' and Kl just a fow bottles \ eompletely built 'me up and relieved : - me of nervous condition, It is n good medicine and I am glad to recommend it.-- Mas. ALraxr SHEPPARD, 259 Seaton St. 2! Ni Falls, Ontr"I can satel 4 ay that *Pavorite "Prescription? di md a lot. of good. I at one time de veloped woman 's trouble; my uerves were completely shattered, and I. o weak, [ had severe backache and pains in my side, extendidfy down into my limbs doctored, But did not get relieved of my ailnent and was down and out when I began Jaki ir. Piores's Favorite Pre scription, and it so completely ctired me and retired me to and 'strength that I was able to do all my own work 'and others besides. 1 do recommend 'Favority P'reseription' to weak and ail ig women; they cannot get a better medicine, '=Mgs. Joux LOCKHART, 26 Terrace Ave. + » is * Favorite Prescription is an invigorst- ing, restcrativo. tomle; a poolhing and sire, ing berviee and a positive nT: the chronic wegkneosses pecu- liar to women. . This old prescripti Piorea's in extrieted from ro b; Y, JAN 3 effectively | In sgores | tradi- | Then, too, | hoth | .jare 40 go on tour to raise $100,000 nalist, died on Wednesday WOTMINE. aroted fn th - UARY 3,1918. ~ \" PAGE THREE Probs: Fair and bold today and on Friday. » . abet { ~ January ! \ Month of Sales : With special offerings daily -- it will pay every thrifty woman who has an eye to €conomy to watch these columns daily. Friday--Double ~~ Discount Stamps » Ls ' KINGSTON { MALF ent 4 pi AITRIIe i} Discount | NAR STAMP Ey 7 This with our well-known lowest-in-the city pricés -- means an extra saving of 109, on all cash purchases. . Our special sale of imported silk trimmings continues tomorrow and Saturday. Steacy's - Limited a ' SRRNRENE ~ LA SPA Cohen and his patrol took or dispos- ed of nine of the enemy without suf- 1 fering any loss. Young officers such | as he, with keen reasoning power and cool courage, do much to make | the 'operations ofthe Canadian Corps | the success they almost invariably are. That so many of them pass out after a brief period of service is one ! of the great tragedies of the war, A Famous Walker, 1 There died at the hospital at Port | Hope recently of bronchial asthma | James Reynolds, who had gained con- siderable prominencé for his feats of walking from Porf Hope to Toronto and return in a limited time on wagers. He was in his 67th year. On the last occasion when he at- tempted the round 'trip in 35 hours, on June 12th, 1911, 'he abandoned the undertaking at Newcastle, just eighteen miles remaining on the home stretch, In June, 1906, he walked from Port Hop® to Toronto in a little over eighteen hours, In Sap: tember, 1908, he -walked from Port Hope to Toronto and return in 26 hours and 18 minutes, He bad a great many successful shorter walks to his eredit, and held records for sack racing, ATTRACTIVE FURNITURE and CARPETS Everything to Make the Home Comfortable at a moderate cost. ne See our new dining room suites in walnut; ma- hogany and fumed oak. Prices to suit all purses. Rugs, Curtains, Linoleums. ~ Buy Your Records for Your New Victrola in our new Victrola De- partment. ISON CO. LIMITED Phone 90. » $4,000 to Salve Conscience, Four thousand dollars 'conscience money" has been received by the Do minion Department of Finance, from St. John, N.B. The amount is in four $1,000 notes. Tris is an excep- tionally large amount of money to be tHus received at one time "y the de- partment. Across Labrador, There is a very large proportional area of North America yet to be map: ped and charted--vel to be spied out as to possible coal deposits, gold, silver, copper, nickel, platinum, or stones, and as to whether there are subterranean oil lakes. An cxplora- tion party financed conjointly by the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, the |§ National Geographical Society, and 'MH Allred Marshall, of Chicago, has reached Si, Johns, NewToundland, homeward bound, and reports suc- fi cess in the attempt to cross Labra- ff dor "rom a point on the Gult of St. | Lawreace to a point on Uhgava Day. This survey has been. bhetore °_at- tempted, hut not accomplished, ol Labrador, when «ll the region iy- ing betwéen Hudson Bay and the At- |} lantie Ocean {5 included; is of huge || dimensions. It would cut up into |} ten land tracts each as large as the State of Pennsylvania. 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A FINE Dn. & per cent. of al) commissioned or ready for service. ver 40 per cant, of armed werchanlmen. when' attacked, have escaped." : : RECOR od : : 50 Per Cent. of U-Heats Have Deen Destroyed.) . lowdon," Jan v seml-official sqmarifie statement says: "During, the first ten months of 1817 twice ag i many submarifes ware Srtiad during all 1914 he ram - : "tira quarter of 1917 The Italian Gov (Brumant has taken sdestroyed in 1916. Measures to intra oll enemy subjects royed was between 40110 Italy within four or five Satie 2 ap "Phe Paulist choir of boys, Chicago, it is reported that the Bolsheviki have arrested the 'members of the American Railway Mission at Irkuts Siberia, Lee . for the rehabilitation of razdd Preach and Belgiah citles.: © er Heary Dalby, formerly of the Montreal Star, and well-known fou < 6 western cond | igen relieved, i sil amd rim Ras panaty the tn : holm 5 The total des i