*® THEY GAVE HER VINOL FOR RONCHI And i Cured Her--Read Mrs. Thayer's Letter West Somerville, Mass ~"T suf- fered from a severe attack of bron- NO. 53 chitis, with a terrible cough, no ap- | te, no ener oss of slesp. fai to help me, but they gave me Vinol and it restored my appetite, stopped the cough and built up my strength so I am able to do my house- work again,"--Mrs. P. B. Thayer. , no strength and « We guarantee Vinol for chronic | coughs, colds, bronchitis, because it | is a constitutional cod liver and iron | remedy. Formula on every bottle, Mahood's Drug Store, Kingston. Also at the best druggist in all On- tario towns, LL SYSTEM LOCAL BRANOH TIME TABLE IN EFFECT MARCH BRD Traing will leave and arrive at City! Station, Foot of Johnson Street. Going West. Live. City 19 Mag . «+1220 am. Ex 58 . .. 10am 3.5 . 9.458.m Ltd. 1.20 pim, «. 3.08 p.m, Going East, Ive, City Arr. City « Led am, 7 Express . 3.10 a.m, Mail .. .. ..12.20p.m. Intern'lt Ltd. 1.20 p.m. local , .. .. 6.48pm 7.27 8. 1, 14, 14, 16, 18, 19 Tun daily. Other trains daily except Sunday. Direct route to Toronto, Hamilton, Buffalo, London, Chicago, Bay City, Saginaw, » Ottawa, Quebec, Portland, Halifax; Boston and Naw Pullman accomadation, all other Information, Hanley, Agent, steamship Mnes. ~~ JOY LROREL Passenger Service Halifax and Bristol came i os gr A ry The Robert Heford Co, Limited, General Agents, 50 King St. East, Toronto, Ont DRINK MORE WATER IF KIDNEYS BOTHER Eat Less Meat and Take Salts For Backache or Bladder Trouble, Arr. am. 10.17 a.m. 1.50 p.m, 3.40 pm. Mail . tickets and| apply to J. P| Agency for all ocean Open day and night. Urle acid in meat excites the kid- neys, they become overworked; get sluggish, ache, and feel like lumps of lead. The urine becomes cloudy; the bladder is ifritated, and you may be obliged to seek relief two or three times during the might. When the kidneys clog you must help them flush off the body's urinous waste or you'll be a real sick person shortly. At first you feel 4 dull misery in the kidney region, you suffer from back- ache, sick headache, dizziness, stom- ach gets sour, tongue coated and yon feel rheumatic twinges when the weather is bad. » Eat less meat, drink lots of water; also get from any pharmacist four ounces of Jad Salts; take a table- spoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This fa- yous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to clean clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal acti- vity, also to neutralize the acids in urine, 80 it no longer is a source of irritation, thus ending bladder weak- ness, Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot injure; makes a delightful efferves- cent lithia-water drink wl. 'ch every- one should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and active. Drug- gists here say they sell lots of Jad Salts to folks who believe in over- coming kidney trouble while it is only trouble. \ Glassco's Es Pure Jams A New Shipment IRB. Gage, W-------- - hy New in the sutomobile emergency brake line is an attachment to lift the driving wheels of a car clear of the ground by dropping two curved metal plates that also serve as drags. Japan has prohibited the many ture and sale of and 8 containing wood hol and sale of any article of which it forms a part usual remedies | Peterboro, | Detroit, | 12 Pages 7 The |MAN POWER WILL WIN | | i i THE MOST IMPORTANT IN THE WAR. 1 | | FACTOR i i | Germany's Strength Is Slowly But i Surely Being Undermined and the Allies, Particulariy Great Britain ~The United States Stil] Possess Great of Wealth Strength. Reserves and ! | | | N a recent number of The Boston | News Bureau, Mr. C. W. Barron, i the aditor, a recognized financial : authority and a deep student of | world conditions generally, presents | a review of the war situation to-day | that is enlightening and heartening. Beginning with Italy, he says: The [Italian appears to have created more disturbance than | the Russian revolution; yet Venice situation has not been a commercial city in the centuries since commerce discov- ered a way to the east around Africa To the thoughtless and topographi cally uninformed, it looked as though Germany might break through norta- | ern Italy and attack the French from the rear, or lovk in Switzerland and force the opening of the Swiss fron- tier. But a study of the maps show- ing elevations would have revealed | that the opening of the Sw would have been to the a tage the French, who could quickly get to the upper Rhine the outlet of the Swiss through France is as good as 'the outlet through Italy, As for the Germaos coming from the east around Switzer- land, every traveller to Rome ought to know that there is but the very narrowers defile for any highway to Italy between Switzerland and the Mediterranean The Italians had never climbhad the Austrian heights and had as littie hope of getting to Vienna as the Rus- sians had of getting to Berlin. Now it is open plain work and there is opportunity for the [talian soldiers thus more And .| and their allies to get at the Germans and Germany has now no men to lose, For many months it has been evi- dent that Italy could move forward only as she had coal and coal was $100 per ton and not even to be had at that price. In September, one of Italy's munition factories employing 50,000 men was closed for lack of coal and, of course, the Germans soon knew it. This is the real meaning of Lloyd George's qall for co-ordination between the allies, Coal may be more valuable at times to the lines of de- fence in Maly than in England, italy has a surplus of man-power, Fifteen years ago it was declared that Italy eeould sustain no more than 23,000. 000 people; and a half million must emigrate to the Americas annually. But Italy entered the war with 36,- 000,000 people and still has mow more than 3,000,000 men under arms. She bas more surplug men than surplus munitions. But #co-ordination may remedy this and also forward (he plan that Gen. Joffre has had from the beginning when he said the war would be ended only by the slaugh- ter of the Hun: Neither the success of the German propaganda in Russia nor the mili- tary outflanking in Italy raises the hopes of Vienna or Berlin that Ger- many can dictate a German peace. The people of Central Europe have only one question: "When will it end?" They do not ask "how": they ask "when'; and the Kaiser still pro- mises a nearby peace, All sides endeavor to conceal their losses. When a Zeppelin raid blows a London street full of plate glass, the first work of the police isto clear up the street and the Government re- places the window glass early the next morning. If the building is damaged it is instantly repaired by the Govern- ment, and if beyond repair, it is im- mediately torn down, the plot fenced around; and the appearance is "busi- ness as usual.' In Germany the dam- age is to man power. All the hotels of southern Germany are vast hos- pitals for the wounded and every dis- tant valley is filled with the cripples and convalescents. As in London, so In Berlin; the endeavor is to keep the streets clean and the appearance "business as usual." But London window glass and London roofs are not in the category with the lessen- ing man power of Germany. When her casualties passed the 5,000,000 mark, a ban was put upon their pub- lication. But with the lists still far behind, the casualties are noted as above 6,000,000. This we figure to be a loss in Ger- man fighting power of 4,500,000 men, or 10 times the number of men with which she conquered France in 1871. France had figured that she also had 450,000 men to stay vom Moltke, but after events indicated that the French people had been grossly deceived. For the beginning of her attempt- ed world conquest, Germany in 1014 mobilized 4.500.000 men and figured upon another 4.500,000 men in re- serve. The first army has been dis- posed of thus as nearly as we can figure it: "Dead .... Prisoners 1,500,000... 500,000 + 2,000,000 500,000 Total .....cuvu.. 4,500,000 There is an additional 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 casualties that with some duplication represent men wounded but returned to the front, Germany has now a second srs annae In hospital beds. ! army of 4,500,000 men, but she cannot raise a third 4,500,000, for including the recruits which have come of age, her reserves cannot reach to half 4,500,000. Those who talk three to live years of indefinite warfare have to face the argument of the above approximate figures. The length of this European War is dependent more upon Ger- many's man power than upon her fin- ance or her food. She could not close the war to-morrow and put her peo Rle back into industry withcut an in~ debtedness of $20,000,000,000, or ap- proaching one-half of her total pre-| war value. Her mark is quoted in! nearby countries at 45 cents on the | dollar. But as she fights and fin-| ances in a cirele within herself, regu- lating wages and values, paxing her | men with their own paper promises, | her present financial position will be no grave concern until she comes forth again in the international battle | of the commercial world. People can live and fight on far less than their normal rations. Man | power losses are final and irreplae- able. Germany has not the men by | which to lengthen her fighting line | either in Italy or Russia and as to | seizing the food supplies of Russia, the people in the inner circle know full wellsthat poor food supplies were at the bottom of the 'Russian revolu- | tion. You cannot summon 15,000,- | 000 to 20,000,000 men to arms even | in Russia without pinching the food supply. Although Russia has suffered in the aggregate the gheaviest losses-- | 4,000,000 dead and 4,000,000 erip-| pled and in prison camps -- France | has had the largest relative loss when | total population is considered. Al- though she "waded in blood" to | knock out 500,000 funs at Verdun, she has under arms more men by | 1,000,000 than when she entered the | war. { The British Empire still holds the | reserve power in the war and fhe | United States will spend $50,000,- | 000,000 long before approaching the | present fighting strength of the Bri-| ton, The British Empire has swept | the seas from pole to pole and belted | the earth at the equator. From Scot- | land to the ice-bound northern pole | she guards a waterline of 610 miles day and night so affectively that un | German gruiser has yet passed north | of Scotland. From the Persian Gulf | she has dredged the River Tigris of | far-famed Babylon for 500 miles. It! ie like a romance of the Arabian | Nights to contemplate the British | moving from Egypt and the Suez ca- | nal to Jerusalem in a northern line | that may yet meet her forces coming from Bagdad and the east, | The restoration of Palestine and | Babylon, their refertilization and the | harnessing of their water powers are | in sight with the dawn of peace and | the loosening of the Turk strangie- | hold on progress and the waters of | the Bosphorus. , Britain has punctured fhe Zeppe- | lin,*crushed the submarine and trans- | ported 13,000,000 passengers during | this war with a loss of less than | 2,500. It only remains for America | to reinforce the finances of the allies | and the man power defending ecivili- | zation on the western front and put the liberty metor into the air over Germany in flocks of 10,000 with tons upon tons of dynamite, and the military power of Prussia endanger: | ing the peace of the world will be | but a matter of history. Influence of German Scholars. In France, as elsewhere, there are diffienities in the way of educational reciprocity. But in France as else- where, these can easily be removed by joint committee action such as I have mentioned. The enemy has en- deaviited to confuse the issue. You have. to go to Paris to realize-the wideness and the intricacy of German "bother" to the world. The mani- festos of German scholars, scientists and theologians have had some weight. Some Canadians who have studied in years past in Germany may be found among the pacifists who still retard the settlement necessary before there can be world-wide peace. | What they zot from Germany is uot what Germany is now trying to com- pel the world to make its own, | Culture is not culture if it is com- | pulsory. When Germany took to the | sword she broke with what other na- | tions have found worth while in Ger- | man universities. The roots of Kul- | ture may be found in Fichte, but | from Fichte to the ruthless Nietzsche, the brutal Bernhardt, and the tribal | Treitsebke, is a long, long way. Kant, who died in 1807; Beethoven, whose death took place in 1827, and Goethe, who died in 1832, never learned to sing '*'Deutschland Ueber Alles," or to cry "Gott Strafe" anybody. The hands are Esau's, but the voice is Jacob's, even though to hear it may be diffieult among the booming of big guns. The German people have been fooled. No matter if the siren voices of the aged Eucken and the seduc- tive Harnack whisper in our ear, we must not be fooled. The allies must stand together. The Biter Bit. ' A good story comes from sorely tried Venice of the "biter-bit" kind. The Kaiser was once a yearly visitor to the "Queen of the Adriatic" on his way to and from Corfu. At the Palas- zo da Mula he met the famous beau- ty, Countess Morosini and her daugh- ter. The countess was the recipient of many gifts from her imperial and conspicuous among these, on palace walls, was a large oil painting of the Kaiser, signed with his own august hand. Now comes the sequel. An enemy aviator, bent on one of those piratical raids upon Venice for which the allies will hold. the central powers to strict account- ability, dropped a bomb on the cen- tre of the huge roof.of the Palaszo da Mula. To the delight of the Vene- | oak comes next followe » MONDAY, MARCH 4, WOOD'S VALUE AS FUEL. Le Heat Value Depends oun Amount of Moisture Present. Persons who plan to relieve the { coal shortage this winter by burning wood can figure, roughly speaking, that two pounds of Seasoned wood | have a fuel value equal to one pouhd of coal, according to experts. While different kinds of wood bave differ ent fuel values, the foresters say | that in' general the greater the dry weight of a non-resinous wood the more heat it will give out when burned. For such species as hickory, oak, beéch, birch, hard maple, ash, lo- | eust, long-leaf pine or cherry, which have comparatively high fuel values, one cord, weighing about 4,000 pounds, is required to equal one ton of coal. Weight for weight, however, there | Is very little difference between var- ious species. | twice as auch heat as wooed, so that Resin affords about resinous woods. have a greater heat value per pound than non-resinous woods. The available heat value of a cord | of wood depends also on the ambunt of moisture present. When the wood | is green part of the heat which it is capable of yielding i§ taken up in evaporating the water, The greater the amount of water in the wood the more heat is lost. Where wood is to 'be burned in a stove or furnace intended for coal it will be found desirable, the forest- ers say, to cover the grate partly with sheet iron or firebrick to reduce the draft. If this is not done the wood is wasted by being [consumed too fast, and makes a yery hot fire, which, in a furnace, aay damage the fire box. i It is pointed out; 'however, that heat value is not the only test of usefulness in fuel waod, and since ninety-five per cent. of all wood used for fuel js consumed. Tor . domestic pvrposes, largely ~in farmw houses such factors as.fapidity of burning and ease of lighting are important. Each section of Canada' has ite favored woods, and these are said te be, in general, the right omes to use. Hickory, of the non-resinotis woods has the highest fuel value per unit volume of wood, and has other ad- vantages. It burns evenly and, as housewives say, holds the heat, The by beech birch, and maple. The white pines have a relatively low heat value per unit of 'volume, but have other ad- vantages, They ignite readily and give out a quick, hot flame, but one that soon dies down. This makes them favorites with rural housekeep- ers as a summer wood, because they are particularly adapted for hot days in the kitchen. The same ik true of gray birch er "white bireh," as it is ofteg called 'yn the regions in which 1 Noundses Range Horse Steak, As a partial solution of the meat problem W.-F. Butler, a well known man in the Western States, is nrg- ing the slaughter of the range horses of the North-West which, he de- clares, aré unprofitable for their pre- sent purposes. Hundreds of thousands who can- not afford to buy beef would by this means be supplied with meat, he de- clares, and $10,000,000 to $15,000,- 000 in cash would be the return. Such a course would also help to re- lieve the hay shortage and provide range for 1,000,000 cattle and sev- eral million head of sheep, he be- lieves. A "There is no staple market for the lightweight horse at the present time," he declares in a statement on the subject: = "Its day of practical usefulness is practically at an end. It is a hay-destroyer--a live liability rather than a live asset, This does not apply te the general utility draft horse. The farm, draft horse is an asset to any country, and will re- main an asset just as long as farms are plowed and man grows crops for his sustenance. "Throughout the North-West I would say that there are over a mil- lion. such animals. Among certain people there is an inherited prejudice against horse flesh, but ' there are many people who have not a preju- dice against this food. In many coun- tries it has 'been used for hundreds of years as a fopd product, and at the present time it is offered for sale in New York, Cincinnati, and St, Louis. "In food valu¢ horse flesh is about equivalent to lean beef. From a sani- tary standpoint; the horse is one of the cleanest animals living. Its habits require that it eat the purest food and drink the best of water. It lives in the open.and is freer from transmissa'le diseases than are either cattle or hogs. . - "I am of opinion that there will be no difficulty in obtaining a steady supply of horse flesh for some time to come. We received a communica- tion, several days ago from one of the large Western horse markets saying that it world contract te supply 3,000 horses monthly for the next twelve months.' and was | leave at home. ain 4 se walk, his 'mother espied a figure in the kitchen #4 ' the: housemaid. 1918 SEEK BOUCHER AS A LOST RELATIVE Veteran of Two Wars Gets Let- ters From All Over the Country. Sapper John W. Boucher, who served eight months on the French firing line at the age of seventy- three, is receiving a number of let- ters from persons throughout the country who claim that he is a long lost relative of theirs. Accounts of the exploits of the Canadian, who is a veteran of the Civil war, have been published in nearly every city which is responsible for the flood of letters received by him, A letter from Texas praises the old veteran for his achievements and concludes, "but you' could pot be otherwise and be a Boucher." "I am writing you because 1 be- Heve we are related," says the letter from Texas, "and T am proud of my ancestral name.I note that you were a soldier in the Civil war. My broth- er served with the Federal troops, and I congratulate you for your brav- ery in going over there to do your bit, but you could not be otherwise and be a Boucher. 1 would like to hear from you, and if you would like to come to Texas, jump on the first train and come out. I have plenty of this world's goods to welcome you with, and if you want a pair of good woollen sox I will have them ready for you. They are made from my own yarn." A letter from a woman in Ute, Ia., thought he might be her long lost uncle, asking him if he was a broth- er of Fannie Cunningham and Min- nie Boucher. One letter was from a San Francisco lawyer, congratulat- ing Boucher upon, "the brave and faithful work you have dome in the service." There was also a letter from Tacoma, Wash., and another from a member of the Canadian Parliament, For warming the reet there has been invented a heating pad 'on which are a pair of slippers, the whole being filled with wires that can be supplied with electric current from a light socket. CASTORIA For Infants'and Children In Use ForOver 30 Years oe Te the Signature of SECOND SECTION =m ADAMS BLACK JACK In France they call it "Chewing Gum Ameri- can." But in Canada and the United States nearly everybody refers to it as Adams Black Jack. A stick a day keeps heart- burn away. 5 SEU ET p . CHEWING Gum $I (__MADE IN CANADA ADAMS ¢ Pure Chewing Gum § i Leading Undertaker. 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MONTREAL, Fiscal Agent of the City of Mont- to offer the above-named bonds for public sale of the City, at par, without accrued interest, payment to be made in full on 8th April, 1918, against delivery of the bonds at the $3 gd The issue is Year of the BANK OF MONTREAL, or of any licant may specify, or at the Agency of the BANK OF ew York or Chicago. 3 made to refund a like amount of Montreal Three . Notes, the original issue having been made for public St works, in anticipation of a permanent loan. be its March, 1918. The offering is 25th February, 1918, applications for the bonds will i of the issue may be obtained on subject to withdrawal on or before the 18th Applications should be addressed to the BANK OF MONTREAL, MONTREAL : | contain full structions as to place of i and payment suitable to the applicant, and the denominations of bonds required. - § The issue is made with the approval of dhe Minister of Finance, '