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PATRICK Bewing Machines, Umbrellas, Suit Cases, Trunks repaired and refitted, Saws filed, Knives and Scissors sharpened; Razors honed; All makes of firearms repaired promptly. Locks repaired; Keys fitted, Ail makes of Jaw mowers sharpened and repair. "149 Sydenham Street cure ia a few URRAH The blem Solved. Reduce the-High Cost of Living Kinds at UNITED GROCERY, Princess Street, HALIBUT HADDOCK , SALMON Con WHITE FISH HERRING SMELT SHRIMPS HADDI FHLETS KIPPERED HERRING All 13% Delivery to AH Parts of the City, United Grocery. Den Lee & Co. 118 Princess St, Phone 207 man , and effects al well known You can travel far gear is. a i qumanit miss their To who ve rambled type that Rouen can boast no means unfamiliar. it has heen preserved in its presence those books, the of is by the years along the highways and bye- yy means of his gfumps which were perhaps haman legs, can appeal 10 the ination 'as a mediaeval fy pe. A Sun- day sircil around the = precencts of Rouen Cathedral will give a study of types that amaze you They seem distant from one another, and they appeal to you with their éyes| alone. Of course, They are very care- ful that you should see their partic- ular deformities. And you marvel that they should be so varied Per- haps that one r mn why do not seek localities where would have the field to .themselv and still catch the of the passer- by. I wonder if by paces is the eve y any chante'they have "pride in their deformities, and do they imagine that they get the more pity and sympathy finan- cially, contact with the lesser or someti 3 greater deformities of their fellow unfortunates? It has occurred to me that they glory inj their ptofession, for most of them may he classed as professional beg- gars. It is known to have been a cus- tom in European cities, amongst cer- tain classes, to have them to become heggars. that many children have been wilfully maimed or deformed in some way, so as to keep up-----shall I say the repu- tation_ of the profession. But the class ¥ems to be dying out, They are evolving into a much 4ess ple Buresgue type, 1 was strolling along the Rue St Romain, a favorite haunt of Rouen Keys I 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. | Best's | Popular Drug Store. Phone 59. Branch 2018 On want = iante ¢ tiful, glossy, silky air, a0 ww all means get rid of aanaiuir, 10F iv Wal "starve your hair ahd ruin it if yom don't. : It doesn't do muth good to try to brush or wash it out. Theonly sure way to get rid of dandruff is to dis- solve it, then you destroy it entirely. To do this, got about four ounces of ordinary liquid arvon; apply it at night when retiring; use emough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. . By morning, mpst-if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and three ory four more applicationg will complete i$. mn ly dissblve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it, You will find, too, that all itching and digging of the scalp will stop and your hair will look and feel a hundred times -better. You can get liquid arvou at any drug stofe. It is inexpensive and four ounces is all ou will heed, no matter how much dandruff you have. This siniple rem- edy never fails, > p= | vey, 4.0.0.0 Those are man "ordeal of an-eye examin- ation are agreeably aston- ished to find that, LA made by us, it causes no pain, 1 ose pea (and they | 2} discomfort, or Jnconven- 3 H ho dread. the | ince. And We Use No beggars, one Sunday afternoon, and the picture presented to me recalled old types of beggars that I met with my travels through "Bookland," when my friend awoke me from my reveries "Some quiet beggars, these! Why, they want to go. over to the other side and take lessons! Take that fel- low over there minus.two arms. He wants to get a placard and tell the public he was wounded in the Great War, and then he should string a lot of stuff about a wife and children starving. If they want to play the game, let them at least be up to date. But I suppose it is hopeless, ages of custom will not wear off. One day 1 Was looking in a shop window when 1 felt someone take'me by the arm. it happened to be a blind woman. RN AA, A FASCINATING MSR] they | And it is not untrue to say| { She asked me to buy some bootie es. | beggar. speci- | and it is doubtful whether think through | asking Though caught is ness. The poor fellow you sees hands and two There is another type. once often: imag-| find her any starless or starlit night i 4 of Rouen. NORTH SHORE OF LAKE 8U-| PERIOR A COLD SPOT. Kingstonian Gives a Description of This Part of the Prdvince--Con~ trast with Kingston. A Kingstonian who 1s acquainted with that little known portion of this province--the north shore of Lake Ontario-~has written the following for the Whig which shows. the com- parison with local conditions and what a tremendous contrast thére may be inthe life and circumstances of communities which .are ¢ompara- tively close together. "Fiity- one below zero was son's recoffl at White River, a typi- cal spot in that country. The parfient has a Gavernment ther- mometer at White River which is of- ficial for the district Of course the places near here do not have sum- mer weather duriag a cold spell, It was fifty dour below zero at sula a few stations west. "W bite River 38 a division terminal on the C.P.R., nbrth share line. About every 125 niles there is a round house and "local repair shops. At these points there are usually several but- dred employees, which makes it quite a town. In that district there is nothing but rocks, with no 4rable lind for hung dreds of miles, not even enough for "backyard" gardening. Earning big wages, these people have all that maney will buy, but many of the old- est residents have never seen such or- the sea- (| dinary things of life as hay, grain, ap- ple trees or automobiles. . The rail- roads make special forts to induce employees to stay there. Good ac- commedation is furnished by Y. M. $C, the company providing = a building that is heated and lighted. Beétween these -towiis there are smaller places where agents, track: men and other employees live, = At such places they Yiave necessaril Yess advantages. o churé#hes, schools, stores or post offices, Twice a month the "Missis" travels on a pass. to Chaplean, White River, e¢tcoand buws!' the provisibns and supplies or sends to Toronto for the latest wniliinery. Having no regular post office, mail clerks pasging on the through trains tie up the tittle bundle of letters aud 3 papers and throw them off. I | + Penin- N i AR The Turks are reported spill, BEHIND THE LINES | The Joys and Sorrows of he Base. . HL me The Beggars of Rouen (A Contrast) veldy fo this Whig he AMI, 4 I did not need them, coin into her hand. And what do you she. said? She asked my par- don for troubling me. I watched her another fellow who snapped rather brusquéd 'non. -Yet I her whisper 'pardon, mon- ieur, 8i je vous derangef Pardon me, it I annoy you'). It is certainly a great comfort from the other side. see quite You must know her. You will hut I slipped a out a huddled up on the steps of a big store on the Mwe de la Republique-- | a pitiable figure. She never looks {at you as you pass, never murmurs a to squat themselves down at so many | word. And I have heard that she re- fuses a refuge. She -is apparently {content to endure the cold and the discomfort. Sometimes you will see her crying. Give her a coin, and she will take it in a_manner that gives you the impresefon that she does not want it. It Is.all a puzzle to me." We were well away from the Rue 8t. Romain by this time. My com- panion, .in his energetic way, had given me a rough view of his impres- sion of the beggars of Rouen as he found them. He admitted that they fitted into the picture of Rouen's guaintness and picturesqueness. i asked him to try and imagine a.To- 'onto or Montreal type accosting him on the Rue Grand Pont. You all kiiow him. He is the fellow that has had just enough money to bring him into the city, and is without the price of a mea] or a bed for the night. He explains that he will start work on his new job to-morrow. "Even a dime will help me out," he pleads, And- to get rid of him, you give it to him. Then some time later he may forget he has tackled you be- fore and gives you the same tale of } woe. You remind him of the former] time, and, cursing his luek, he quiet- ly disappears. "Weil," my friend chimed fn, "He would spoil the picture. That type is too modern for Rouen, but she cer- tainly cleans up o rea deal more than our poor defolmed specimens And he i away with it too.' I had to admit he was right. I think that it will be many years hence that Rouen beggars will take up. modern methods. And then we will not see them huddled up by the walls of the churches, but rather out- side the many cafes that the city can boast. We will then see the New York or Montreal type . hanging around the Brasgerie Paul. They might make quite a few francs around the hour of nine---when Bac- chus reigns supreme, and dispenses the contents of his subjects' purses on what might be much less praise- worthy thah the twentieth century ®nd mr Santa Claus passes through quickly. Where there are Pose offices the mails are cdught on a "citcher," the outs | oing mails being thrown off. Oe casionally in a storm 'these bags will come back rinder the train and be dé stroyed. Railroading on, the north shore in winter is "Fob. With 50 below oil in kh unps will freeze and a train st a few minutes freczes up so that it cannot be started right off... It must be loosened up by a se- ries of shunts back and forth. "While navigation is closed winter is the busy season. and business is only limited by what they tan mave. Long lines of wheat trains at' every passing track, occasionally there is a as rails crack like pipe stems. Recently there was one of thése at Jack Fish where the road on a sheli blasted put of the sheer rock hundreds of feet high and deep water of the lake below. The mén were eight hours clearing away and renew- ing the track, with weather 40 below and a cold wind coming off Lake Su- periof | "One wonders how a railroad was constructed through such a country-- a bridge over & gully,a tunnel through vin, a ledge cut away at the projection over the lake, At Jack fash Bay it is only about a mile across but eight around, At Port Caldwell sthere is a loose rock, which washes away, To preserve their foundation the C. P. Ris constructing a con- crete face forty feet dep And seven feet thick. "The C. P. R. takes the bad with the 'good. and has everything that money will provide. Ip such a dis- trict men keep up the tack, even at 50 below. Buried in snow, engines not steaming well, délays to other trains, vet the express trains often in three or four sections make the daily trips. and seldgni are, more than a couple of hours later, while, as Baron Shaughnessy modestly "stated that no ship Bae ever been detained an hour waiting. Tor the much waitted wheat fromthe prairies." 18 The difference welween 'a man and a bov is that each thinks that he is having all the fun in life, Of course; there are some things that you can't understand--but then there arg gihers, WAR BULLETINS. Trotaky has made a pledge & to make zn - honorable peace ¥ < with Germany or continue the '& . war. ha + Twenty-one British & ships were sunk by 2 marines last Week, 3 100, 100. Austrian are 'fight + ng gained he ¥ Franch army. * 3 Welehadt Han sub: "F] + 10 i. have deserted their Sultan. Sa ing aime of i Ger balng 1 te IY Gerihany. Bren the dogs have nals 0 3 ben ed > YT LINKING MALAY § STATES. Orient Opens in April. By the linking Jip of the Federated { Malay States railways (which now extend northward to border) With the douthern system of Siam, munication has been established from Singapore to Bangkok, a dis- tance of nearly 500 miles. It is pro- posed to open the line for through passenger and freight traffic in April of next vear, this length of time he- ing required for perfecting the road- bed. and securing the necessary roll- ing stock, which has been unobtain- able owing to war conditions. gengers will then be able to make a continuous trip by rail between the capital and chief. port of the Straits Settlemenis and the capital of Siam, thus effecting a' cousiderabie saving in distance and time over the sea route, which requires at present from three to four days between Singapore and Bangkok. The railway from Prai, opposite the Island of Penang, to the Siamese border, is the property of the Feder- ated Malay States Government. The railway fro meriis {ohe of the non- federated Malay States) border to Bangkek has been built by the Siam- ese Government, and will be oper ated by the Siamese Railway Depart- ment, It is intended, at the opening of the line for through trafiic in April next, toYcommence with a weekly express service in either direcyen, the journey from Penang to Bang- kok occupying 30; hours, The Federated Malay States Gov- ernment proposes to construct deep- water wharves at Prai for the use of ocean-going ships, and it is antici- pated that as a result there will be a considerable increase of trade be- tween Penang and Bangkok, the pre- gent railway connection shortening the distance from Bangkok to Eu- rope by something like five day. It will also shorten the European mail service to. Bangkok by causing the mails to be discharged at Penang instead of at Singapore, whence they will be forwarded by rail to Bangz- kok. Tourists from Singapore and Penang to Bangkok will further have the opportunity of going by train through an interesting and compara- tively. unknown country, and return- ing by boat to Singapore to continue their journey eastward. Deer Roam Exmoor. Even the war's needs have scarce- ly touched Exmoor. The uplands remain an unspoiled heirloom of the past--a place where the wearied brain of the city "worker finds that tare rest of open space swept by the free sea wind, where in every direc- :ion the eye ranges over unadulating wild country fading, gold 'upon gold, into the blue horizon, beyond which sven on the clearest days there rise only faint cloudy outlines of the 1ighest hills of distant countries, Thus, sometimes with glasses you may trace the shape of the Malvern heights; but over all the rest of the invisible landscape you know that the air comes to your lungs fresh and unbreathed by men. = On this free table land it is appro- priate that the wild red deer should have found In our far south-west one of the last :tromgholds in Britain. Over a space twenty-five miles in width and many more in depth the afitlered stags still fight for thelr narems as their ancestors fought be- fore men had learned -to fashion wea- pons of rough stone, They still bel- low out their prehistoric challenge, and the silent hinds gather dutifully to the summons as of old. When the stags shall have drop- ped theid antlers for the year, and the hinds, conscious of coming ma- ternity, shall be 'stealing apart to secret places amid the heather and bracken, where they will lay their precious speckled burdens down, will the whirlwind of war be over and our men be coming home again? There has been nest to no hunting on Exmoor for many months now, only just enough to keep the stags down, and the meets have been ill attended. Visitors have been tow," "and the dwellers op Exmoor have had other things t6 think about. Man here easily becomes merged in his sur- toundings, " only one of the slow- moving specks that the buzzard, circling aloft on level pinions and fan-spreasd, barred tail, looks down upon. Unweariedly, with scarcely a wing flap, the great bird patrols the sky, and to the listener below its slurred Cry of all the vowels, "a-e-i- o-u," seems to emphasize the soli- tude of the scene, So, too, the croak of the rare raven, perched.on some inaccessible summit above a precipitous gorge which the human pedestrian scales far below, sounds like the forbidding voice of the guardian spirit of the docks. Further on, where the headland; crested with jumbled erags like a devil's rocks fronts the sea, a lit peresr ine,-- Londen Pimes, Cat and Fiddle" 'Lhe house' that gave rise to the sign that Afterwards | became the "Cat and Fiddle" was situated in the east end of Piccadilly, and was opened 2008 after that famous London street as Srst built. It was occupied by a rinehmamini who, being pussion- ately fond of her , inscribed over her door the words, 'Woici un Chit Fidele" Hence the Londoners came to calt it "Cat and Fiddle," and pany other shops adopted the name. pe Control ef Shipping, 'The growing trend towards cen sition o ng is Hlustrated by-the fact that 61 in #ach owning. more than ween them more than 2,000 ves- #i3. feprefeting 'a tonnage of 12. 04,100 gross long, while Lloyd's re igfor gives tae tl ities mereanille marine at. $A20, ind Kross tons. , oBly el smile another 'smiles, there's miles and miles Ho's Both white | Five Hundred Miles of New Road in | the Siamese | railway | through rail-com- | Pas- | there with ragged shreds ees where opce was a long leafy aveni®. | conirol in British whip: | 50,500 grois tons of ships, own he |! tial tonnage of the |B Probs: Friday, fair and colder. § J ITs We have already announced a long list of very special attractions that will be augment Double ed tomorrow by Discount Stamps This special attraction, which represents a saving pf 10% on all cash purchases -- with our well-known lowest-in-the-city prices, should make this store a most attractive shopping centre for every Kingston woman. Steacy's - Limited fassuuasnnanERENSEERRRRRNARORRRNERERS ERNE TANK CRUISE, Gibraltar and: Greville Cross Canal Easily. large part of ¥¢ with another correspondent in a Tank helping "in the salvage of a crippled sister Tank from the crater area. Let us call hem the good ships Greville and Gibsaltar which is pot their namés. Both, though splashed with bullet marks irom re- cent fighting, were staunch and sound, but Gibraltar unhappily had an accident to her steering gear, so that while she could go straight ahead she refused to obey her bel. Having gone straight ahead as far as such a courserwould take her on the road towards home, she had to heave" to and walt for help. And to-day Grevie-hitched on with a 3- inch steel hawser, and with this as sistance, both being under their ! own steam, the crippled ship got safely into port, - . It was an interesting ride, for after the stretch of shell-ploughed ground we had to cross the Ypres canal. Three years of war have made the canal a sad sight, with its bat- tered banks, surmounted here and of trees Ypres 1 spent a terday The canal itself is cut up into small sections by a great many bridges and causeways and crossings so num erous that it is not worth while for the Germans to shell any of them. Between these obstacles a short stretch of the canal lies gtagnaat, half overgrown with reeds and ecov- ered with green scum, with all sorts of ugly debris thrusting up from the mud below. It is an unlovely 'Water- way, and it is an amazing fact that Tanks can.now unconeernedly ' tow other Tanks across Jt by the newly- made causeways in broad daylight. Then we came by what had once been a country lane, where Gibral- tar in some of her ungainly veerings - took liberties with the remaants of the hedgerow trees. Then there was open meadow land, somewhat shell pitted, but still green, with patches of thistles in their down and clumps of ragwort. We ignored the sheli- holes and made a sad mess of the ragwort and thisties. At a bit of swampy land the monsters became amphibious and churned their way through mud and water with as lLit- tie trouble as would a dogcart on 'macadam It was my=first trip on something approaching battle ground inside a Tank, and it has immensely increas- ed my admiration for them : thé men who go down in battle, For a summer outing a man might reasonably prefer 'a caravan, h n Oceabiansity a cone? marr ive Happily: ever Biter they Are alse woreed. If a man, never changes Ris sing, xr) a Js either very gt a yey Babs | ATTRACTIVE FURNITURE and CARPETS | Everything to Make the Home Comfortable at |a moderate cost. i, See our new "dining room suites in walnut, me :hogany and fumed oak. Prices to suifa purses. : Rugs, Curtains, Linoleurhs. NN __" Buy Your Records far Your New Victrola in our new Victrola De- partment. 4 .F. HABRISON C0. LINTED | Sle - Phone 90. ge ge cause 3 soldier to Tock mh A major has the shortest toipap | betwesn two meals, No one may wear more than one | gag helmet on the same head.. Sergeants who swear in the same another, Eucla in the Aron ¥ A 'dugout is that whieh, if In, ! hahited By any given nmmbar of | | quem, contains room for less than | half that mnober, An adjutant is that wirich has no het of gratitude. > Ape pair oof army blacuils tor got her ge worth. less ¥en ono When 3 woman forgives a wound TORN. : she never allows him to forget Any Aw whiz bang out Ber she forgave Mm... | 'manner are' egual to ope Abas ------ » me i