Ee = Where Quality Does Count! ECAUSE an egg aged in cold stor- age, has lost its flavor; has noth- ing todo with the eggs which the . farmer brings jresh from the rm. Because you can't male a good cup of coffee with poorly nourished and im. pupedy roasted coffee beans; ng to do ith the coffee ; be can make with SEAL BRAND COFFEE "SEAL BRAND" --from the plantations, cultivated by experts, Then, blended and roasted and ground by those who have made a lifetime study of the subject. "Seal Brand" is a rich, full bodied, de. licious beverage -- wholesome, invigor. ating, fragrant, In 24,1) and 2 pound tins--in the bean, ground or fine ground for percolators. "PERFECT COFFEE, PER- FECTLY.MADE"' is our new book. let, we are mailing free to coffee lovers. Write for a gopy. 196 CHASE & SANBORN, MONTREAL Neem AAA Stig Ns } OPEN NOSTRILS! END A COLD OR CATARRH How To Get Relief When Head and Nose are Stuffed Up. .. SOVODPPPPVPIDIOVCSPARI EDD County fifty! Your cold in head or catarrh disappears. Your clogged nos- trils will open, the air passages of your 'head will clear and you can breathe freely. No more snuffling, hawking, mucous discharge, or headache; no struggling for breath | at night. Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your druggist and apply a little of this fragrant antiseptic cream in your nostrils, It pene- trates through every air passage of. the head, soothing and healing the swollen or inflamed mucous mem- brane, giving you instant relief. Head colds and catarrh yield like magic. Don't stay stuffed up and miserable. Relief is sure. T SOOO DE LLL For the Hoys at the Fromt. CHOCOLATTA "The Rendy-to-use Chocolate" Contalus the Chocolate, Milk and Sugar, DD Botiing Water Onis Ne Cooking or Mik Required. For Sale By D. 9 Phone 76, 841.3 Princess Bt EE -- Liberal Leaders of Ontario PA rr pr i rr opr T is a proud and honorable in- heritance which comes to Wil liam Proudfoot, M.P.P., the new sessional leader of the Liberal party in Ontario. For half a cen~ tury his predecessors have carried the banner of reform and have led in the great works of constructive statesmanship which have given the Province its high place in the Do- minion. For a generation or more their work was to make a habitable Province out of a backwoods: later leaders have assumed new duties fighting the battles of social reform. Each era has brought its own pro- blems and its own leaders, ani it is no reflection on the men of the past to say that most of them would be unsuited to the conditions of to-day, As we look over the roll, the men of the early days, shorm of petty criticisms by Time's kindly hand, seem to have been giants in leader- ship and debate, but it may fut he rash to say that men of our own generation will likewise leave an indelible mark on the history of their time. As we come down from Confederation we, have in succession such men as Edward Blake, Sir Oliver Mowat, A. 8S. Hardy, Sir 2 Pedi eats VYVPVeVTe George W, Ross, George P. Graham, A. G. MacKay, N. W, Rowell, and | Proudfoot. | others, | that they rallied a progressive party dryness! | der" now, for the time at least, William The terms of some were and less productive than In general, it may be said brief and stood strongly for definite ideas. Although the first Premier of On-' tario, John Sandfleld Macdonald, was nominally a Reformer, he was the appointee of Sir John Macdon- ald, and as the years passed he drifted gradually into the Conserva- tive ranks. During his Premiership Archibald McKellar led the Reform Opposition In the Legislature for the first two sessions. He was 4 man of considerable natural talent and a resourceful platform speaker. Edward Blake then took the reins of the Opposition leadership, and he was a strong figure in Canadian Lib eralism until 1887, when he retired from the Federal leadership, De- spite his great Parliamentary ecaps- city and exhaustive manner of speaking, his fame resis largely om his work in the larger arena. Two years as Opposition leader at Toron= to were followed by a year in the Premiership, to which he succeeded on the defeat of Sandfield Macdon~ ald in the fall of 1871. Blake's leadership was marked by strong championship of Ontario's rights, an issue to +be still further developed later. Oliver Mowat was adorning the Bench as Vice-Chancellor of Ontario when an influential deputation, coms , prising Edward Blake and George | Brown, called one fine morning and | offered him the Premiership. He ao- | cepted, little dreaming that he was enlisting for 24 continuous years in that office. That period was marked by steady progress in the develop= ment of the Province, by the comple- tion, of the administrative structure, and by a succession of legal battles with the Dominion Government, which established the rights of the Provinces firmly under the new cone stitution. When Mowat answered another sudden call in 1896 and joined the Laurier Cabinet as it swept inte power after eighteen years of Conger. vative rule, he handed the sceptre to Arthur S. Hardy, who had been one of his powerful Ministers since 1887, and often called "'Little Thun- from his powerful voice. It was now the turn o! George W, Ross fo take the Premiership, and earnestly did he labor against &| adverse conditions until defeat came b| in the beginning of 1905. Ross had éarned honor and praise for his ad- ministration of the Education De partment since 1883, for he was & painstaking Minister, and his plate form eloquence has never been equalled in the Provincial field, and seldom if ever in the wider Domin- jon. It is te his direct inftia- tive that we owe the Timiskam ing & Northern Ontario Railway and the opening up of that great' northéra hinterland. Bowed witn WHILE AT WAR. ) . Women Suffer at Home Toronto, Ont.--' 'I consider Daoétor Piesea's wins the otf nervous bresk- and tired dl The and tired all the sondltion, It is a glad to recon ASD 259 Seaton a "ome1 ean Nhat . [ lad covers backache and pains. in extending down into my rod, but ot ger relieved ¢ recommend a to et fp ail Jom rx, i tion of the bar, and after it had been down, 1. cold nie | It "I've {vies sid 9 Pe THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1918. TROUBLED FOR YEARS WITH BRONCHITIS DR. WOOD'S NORWAY PINE SYRUP GAVE, INSTANT RELIEF. Bronchitis is a disease which is very prevalent during the late win- ter and early spring, when there are sudden atmospheric chatiges. It is a condition of inflammation of the bron- chial tubes which produces mucons and phlegm. This irritates the throat and causes you to cough in order to get rid of it. The cough may be tight or loose according as to whe- ther this mucous is sticky and hard ts remove, or soft and easily expell- ed. Bronchitis is not really dangerous, but the complications which are liable to follow makes it necessary to get rid of it on the first sign. This you can do by using Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, A remedy that has been on the market for uver 25 years. John D. McFarlane, Jr., 8. W. Mar- garee, N.8., writes: "Il was troubled for years with bronchitis, and could not find any relief. I was especially bad on a damp day. 1 went to a druggist, and asked him for some- thing to stop the constant tickling im my throat. He gave me a bottle of Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, which I found gave me instant relief. It is the best remedy for bronchitis 1 know of, and I now take care that I always have a bottle of it on hand." See that you get "Dr. Wood's" Put up in a yellow wrapper; three pine trees the trade mark; price 26¢ and 50c; manufactured by The T. Mil- burn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. At AN AN NNN PPP gO the weight part reenrd, in office chr ngs for over thirty vears. defeat came, but Mr. Ross remained leader of the Opposition until called to (he Sonate in January, 1915. Two of the later members of the Ross Cabinet 'followed in the leader- ship. George P. Graham served from January, 1907, until the fol- | lowing August, when he became Minister of Rallways in the Domin- ion Government. Party unity was returning after the debacle of 1905, and there was general praise for his leadership. A. G. MacKay followed, and his great ability as a forceful platform speaker kept the party alive during further dark days. When Mr. McKay resigned in October, 1911, later to go to Alberta, where he entered the Legislature, the Ontario Liberal party did an un- precedented thing by choosing a leader who was not even in publie life. This was N. W. Rowell, a man who though a private citizen had given many signs of capacity for publi¢ service, Mr. Rowell gave six years of unremitting work to his new task, and had latterly the satis= faction, notably in the temperance issue, of being in power if not in of- fice. His elaborate program of social reform had as main plank the aboli= voted down year after year it was suddenly adopted by Premier Hearst in 1916. With another dramatic turn Mr. Rowell has been called to the !new Union Cabinet for the Dominion, but tie supporters have the satisfae- 'tion of seeing one of his colleagues in his place, and an earnest group of followers in the Legislature pledged to continue his progressive policies. What Thumbs Are Worth, One has only to grasp a pen or a tool of some sort lo realize that the different fingers are far from hav- ing the sama value in regard to thair usefulness in performing work. The most important is the thumb, for without it seizing or holdin® would be very imperfect. The hand is no longer pincers, but merely a claw, when deprived of the thumb, It may be estimated that the thumb repra- sents fully a third of the total value of the hand. The total loss of the thumb is estimated' vy by competent authorities as 15 to 36 pér cent. for the right and 10 to 15 per cent. for the left hand, except for workers in art, when 40 to 50 for the right and 25 to. 40 per cent. for the left hand comes pearer the value. The total foss of the index finger causes an incapacity estimated at from 10 to 25 per cent. for the right hand and 10 fo 15 per cent. for the left. The middle finger is less im- | portant than the index. The ring finger is least importamt, and the little finger may be compared to its neighpor, except in the' professions in which it serves as a point of sup- varg for the hand. Ex-Czar's Superstition. The ex-Czarina's belief in the un- speakable Rasputin proves that she was of a strongly superstitious turn of mind, and she is generally re- garded as the true maker of the re- volun in Russia, but dn incident occurred whilst the ex-Czar re vonitition presented | a to one of the Car's ean for diplomatic reasons. ' The value he Dates on this supposititions relic | 'when. be. left. would a ry ee makmate dt e discovered Jabop-e de- Smith, "wich one to --~ said Bis Hatener 'And In' sharp one skins you, Next to charity is the appreciation; CASTE IN GERMANY, Only Members of Ruling (lasses Eligible for Appointment. For the years James W. Gerard was Ambassador from the United States to Germany jurisprudence in that country beld an impelling ap peal because of his service in New York jas a Justice of the Supreme Court and the diplomatist-jurist made an exhaustive study of the sub- Ject, the result of which he related to some Supreme Court justices recent- ly. The impotency of the middie ang lower classes of people in attaining high judicial offices was emphasized by Mr. Gerard, who told of "caste" rule governing the ippointments to the higher courts, "Judges are not slected in Ger many," he said. "There is no such thing as an election for a judge, in fact of an election that in the cities they elect the Bur- gomeister and the Ober-Burgomeis ter, but they have absolutely no power. Then the police president of each city is appointed by the Crfvtr=t ant chief clerk, a 'referenda' {ley call it, or he may move on to be an asgistant district attorney in a small town "After that he may be assistant police' president in a larger town. Then he may be a judee in 2a small town; then a clerk of the court in a large town, avd so o., gradually moving up the official ladder. "The Chancellor, at the head of the personne! oi the military, marks the great apptintments, and they, in turn, make the smaller appointments, and all the: appointments are con- fined, in Prussian at least, to the noble ruling class. In Prussia you can to- day cieote a form of estate abolished 500 years ago in England. "That is to say, as we can tie up an estate for only two lives in being in 21 years, a man in Germany who has made a fortune can buy 15,000 acres of ground and create what they call a mazura. For instance, Count Estérhazy was made Premier of Hun: gary. He has enormaus estates that were handed down fo him from"an-/J céstor to years ago. "It is the condition of marriage that he cannot marry and have chil- dren unless he marries a girl having a certain number of guarterings of nobility. These quarterings are so great in number that only 13 girls in the world come up to the specifica- tion. So, If he wanis to have his children inherit his estate he must choose from those 13 girls "It was part of my business in Germany to go about inspecting the camps of prisoners-of-war, and very often 1 encountered a judge in com- mand of these camps. These judges, in their youth, had been members of the army, usually rocond lieutenants, and then had volunteered at the apaning. of the war and had been given back their:rank and uniform and were put in command of prisen camps." ancestor over five hundred tVood for War. The quantity of wood used as raw material in the present well nigh incalculable, Walnut trees all over for instance, are being cut down in order (7 make gunstocks. You can- not mak» as good a rifle stock out of any oiber kind ol woad. Willow, before the war, was used almost poatirely for cricket . bats. Practically all tho available supplies hays rw been taken for artificial linths fr soldiers. Grouad fresh wood-flony makes the fir dyescing for a certain type of won On the Russ an front many of the sold ers are wearing - paper shirt: mad~ from pulp wood, Mi'lions of fori of timber are need- ed |: trench and dug-out buildings. Ter, piteh, turpentine and resin, the products ¢? the pina tree, are esceniial to every y Millions of acres of forest arc boing utilized to supply these noeds. The spaces between the bullets in a shrapoel shell, again, are filled with resin. The powder used in such shells is also a wood product--black powder made from charcoal. The reason for this is that no great explosive force is needed for shrapnel, while the cloud of smoke given off by the black powder is just what the gunners require in order to mark the bursting point of their shells with the view to correcting the range, a war is the world, Pte. Bruce Elmhurst formeriy of the Review staff, Madoe, and who has reeontly been discharged from overseas, has secured a good posi- || thon as proof reader in tue Methodist Book Room, Toronto. When a girl tells a young man to take heart ft sounds suspiciously like hint, {of time 10 the study of PAGE ELEVEN Everywhere and Always FRUIT SALT A spoonful of Eno's Fruit Salt in a glasp of water makes a delightful drink --cool,' sparkling and effervescent. NO'S * FRUIT SALT" is the best tonic and digestive regu- lator ever prepared --a safe and valuable remedy at ali times. Be prepared for eme! bottle in the house. Ask your Druggist for E genuine "FRUIT SALT"--and beware of imitations! neics by Ways having : p @ onl Prepared only by J. 0. ENO, Ltd., "Fruit Salt" Works, London, Eng. Sole Agents for North America: HAROLD F. RITCHIE & CO, Limited, 10 MeCant Street, Toronto % ih ur 5 FA Wt h HEALTH CIVING FLEASANT COLIN \ pe sr THE ROAD TO VICTORY, Transports on Highway. There is a broad road which runs like a spiral column across the north of France, which the British private has nicknamed the "Read to Vie- tory." His fondness for this road is perhaps due to the faet that it is broader, better paved, and more di- rect than most other roads, being one of those highways which Napol- eon laid out many generations ago. Over this "Road to Victory" there moves a never-ending procession of transport of the most varied charae- ter, Standing at a cross-roads, one sees first a group of four wagons; theirs is' a pleasant load, for they carry rations--clean, wholesome yel- low cheeses, sides of prime bacon, fresh white bread in sacks, chests of tea, sugar, jam, tinned butter and bully-beef, sacks of potatoes and onions, sides of frozen beet and nfat- ton. Behind the ration carts follow a string of twenty great hooded motor- lorries laden with lumber of various kinds. Each lorry in. this group car- ries its name proudly on its side, the names all taken from Dickens' char- acters-- Betsy Prig, Martin Chuzzle- wit, Micawbar, Oliver Twist, Mr. Bumble, Sairey Gamp, and others. Some are carrying "duckboards," which are little dections of skeleton sidewalk for foot trafic over the mud. Others are 'laden with "tur- key trots," little wooden bridges for shell-holes, Still others have long bundles of brushwood "fascines" for filling in hollow places In roads. Yet others have lengths of bench pladk- ing for corduroy roads. . Next in line behind the lorries is a battery of field guns painted in a strange motley of 'greens, browns, and yellow. The horges are in pink of condition, their coats agleam, their drivers tanned brick-red by ex- posure, After the guns come long strings of pack mules wearing brown can- vas "carriers," from the pockets of which peep the gleaming cases of eighteen-pounder shells, or the squat yellow bodies of field howitzer am- munition. The mule is certainly do- ing his bit in this war. Plodding and patient, he works his ten or twelve hours a day back and forth bétween dump and gun position, mostly ander shellfire, always through roads muddy and wet and shell-torn. So the long column moves onward under the beckoning hand of the mil- itary policeman at the cross toads. More lorries pass, filled with men all singing lustily. Then come two strange looking tractors hauling big howitzers; a labor battalion march: ing forward to work and carrying shovels instead of rifles; more mules; more lorries--endless procession, al- ways going forward along this great road. And the road itelf, on which the traffic never ceases day or night, moves always, pushing further and further forward to the east. Stream of Ancient One English Lady. Maude Radford Warren, the well known writer, has written an article on what women in England are do- ing, and she says: In England and in France, I met women of all classes, giving all there was of them to their country. The poor woman, who thought she was working as hard as she could, has been taught by the war that she can get more out of herself. The career of the great lady is no longer society, |' but the business of war, and she asks more of herself than she ever used to esk of her maids. The first great lady I saw at work was Lady Henry Grosvenor. I found her, not in either sf the beautiful h wes that were hers before the war tut in Queen Mary's Hostel, a barracks-like building whiclr is a hoarding house for wo- men munition workers at Woolwich. Her sitting-room, heated by sn ugly little gas stove, was less than com- motplace, The o bjects which gave it distinction = pieces of old mahogany and photographs jot two handsome young men in uni- form. The handsome, vivid woman in black who came forward to meet me is not only a soca Baper I hes or Jane 'but 8 1 powerful families in She Ts the adnt of the | End woman of the poorer el TR theme ones was leading iife of her ¢lass, pS friends chiefly in the was 'a celicctor of an het fufniture and art objects, and sc & Now she lives aa, building with munition girls, pats the same { kind of food they do and works eves lon ir hours. She iz in charge of the LCA workers, und = feeds, aa eer, And she does it so skilfully there a 2o waste And no complaint," : mr Dr. Martel's Female Pills have been ordered by physicians and sold by reliable Druggists everywhere for over a quarter of a century, don't accept a substitute. For Women's Ailments i an an pn! that she k 690d deat tees in Woolwich | "Woks Lotion Root Compound; medicine, Sold fu " x T stre fe io 8. $5 per box, Sold b, Fre THE COON MEDICINE C6: TORONTO. 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