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Ottawa, March 14 When the Un- fon Gover was off again, on again, gone again--or if you like, when the out could not tell whether it was on the knees of the gods or was slipping off, a studious member of the House of Commons, who has given more than usual proof of rare abiliity and even rarer inde- pendence, asked for-a forecast of the position of the private;member in the new House of Commons. He said he had frequently put a great deal of work "into a question which the House ought to take up, truly for the general advantage of Canada, but that the results were altogether out of proportion to the labor, and he had often been discouraged at the barrenness of the outlook for real service by men who, though they wanted themselves to serve their country, were often driven to the thought that the parliament was the last place in which to do it. "Why," he asked, 'should a man who has his profession, this books and his home, presided over by a wife with whom he i8 in love, come here, wast- ing his time, and when he goes home, have a pack of patronage hun- ters on his trail, all the time making life a burden, and public office a con- tinual surfeit of Dead Sea apples?" The old member will be in his place again on Monday; but he is not the nominee of a party, which presumes to make drudges of free men. He has a free hand, and an unhindered ton- gue, #f any man in the House has. What will he-do with his blessed lib- erty? What will many others do with their strength, represented by big ma- jorities, and their own declarations of independence of the bad old ortho doxies of a bad old partyism? This House of Commons ought to be the best in Canadian history. Whet- her it so proves itself depends upon the private member, more than upon the Government--which means that the private member must show him-! gelf in a different quality from what he has hitherto accustomed us. He will develop a new phase of parlia- mentary life, of whose possibility he has not seemed to be aware. The outstanding private members has been W. F. Maclean; but he has illus- trated the incohesiveness of indepen- dence, and not its ¢combinative power, He has been an Ishmael, by. tempera- ment and practice. This in his twen- ty-seventh year in the Commons, but he has not secured avowed supporters for the policies he has forced upon the public attention with a persis- tence, courage and ability which have not been adequately recognized. He hag flitted in and out of the House like a disquieted spirit, and has not cultivated the art of aiding others, or even of encouraging them. He might well be taken as the example and warning by new men who went to take parliamentary life seriously, be- cause in them the spirit of service is the autocrat of their ambition, The war, every aggressive meas- n e e e e e d Rg Keeley Jr., M.0.D.0. Those people (and they are many) who dread the t ordeal of an eye examin- ation are agreeably aston- ished to find that, as made by us, it causes no pain, discomfort, or fence. And We Use No Drugs. Keeley Ji., MO... 226 Princess Street inconven- } Suffered Great Agony FROM PAIN IN STOMACH For Over 5 Years. Most of the misery and ill-health that humanity is burdened with arise from disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels. If you are feeling out of sorts, have pains in the stomach, es- pecially after eating, bilious spells, headaches, sour stomach, coated tongue, sallow or muddy complexion, specks floating before the eyes, you should take a few doses of Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills and note the change. Miss Ida Hogan, Dunrobin, Ont, writes: 'for over five years 1 have suffered great agony from pains in the stomach. I tried several reme- dies, but got no relief until a friend advised me to take Milburn's Laxa- Liver Pills. 1 started with two vials and before 1 had one quite used -I found much relief. I continued un- til 1 used four vials, and they com- pletely cured me. That was four- teen months ago, and 1 have not had the slightest return since. The best praise 1 can give them is not enough." Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills are 25¢ a vial at all dealers, cr mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn '0.. Limited. Toronto; Ont. Fish Specials ! HALIBUT STEAKS HALIBUT PIECES . . WHITE FISH... FRESH 'The Private Members' Chance of Salvation, Under the Union Government. 2 \ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1918. PARLIAMENT MEN sure for its prosecution is the funda- mental of support of the Government, The Government has wit enough to know that, if it has a big policy and shows reasonable ability in interpre- ting it to the country, its political for- tune is safe. Some men joined the Government in the expeetation that they 'were committing political sul- eide. They were mistaken in their fears. The country wants strong ad- ministration, and will respond to strength, whether it is in the govern- ment as a whole or in indivdual mem- bers of it. Preparation for after the war conditions, too, will carry sup- port, in proportion as it is far-seeing and courageous, But there are regions of service which private members may make their own, and in which they may lead the country, if only they will show the capacity outside the Gov- ernment which they would expect to show if thew were inside. Look, for a minute, at a couple of examples from across the water, and then at one or two things that belong to our own recent history; and then at some of the possibilities that are before the men who will be sworn in next Monday. Four private members of the Con- servative party in the Parliament of 1880-5, concerted measures in op- position to the Government, in which they showed a «courzge, brilliance and resource that were as far ahead of their leaders as a car is ahead of a team. They were called the Fourth Party, but they were after improve- ments in their traditional party. Two of them became leaders of the House of Commons; one was in several Governments anad the fourth took high rank 4n the diplomatic ser- vice, They were the sublime gueril- las of an ancient and ultra respecta- ble party. That example may not be attracs | tive just now, From time to time there have been unofficial commit- tees drawn from all sides of the House, and, acting on special ques- tions that were outside immediate party warfare. Such was the Mace- donian Committee, when the Turk was ravaging Macedonia. Those who were specially interested in In- dia found means of acting together, The list could be extended almost indefinitely. The most cburageous concerted action of private members during the opposition to the Government's Ca- nadian Northern legislation by Mr. Nickle, of Kingston, and Mr. Ben- nett, of Calgary. They were made to suffer in their party afliliations, in ways that never became public, and only some of which were known to those in touch with the inside of things at Ottawa. Of course, their criticism of the Government was re- garded as giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When political standards make it a more heinous offence to serve the country according to con- science then it is to support a party measure which you believe to be highly injuriois to the state, the way of the independent-minded man is exceedingly hard. Mr. Nickle op- posed the Government several times, even when he was aoting as a sort of unofficial assistant to the Minister of Finance, He is a progressive thinker--not at all a Tory of the old school. When he speaks the House immediately becomes silent and at- tentive; and he wins the respect of 'his opponents as fully as he does the good will of his friends. He ought to be in the Government, for the country's sake. Next to that ser- vice he is qualified to be a leader of independence and conciliation among private members. If he were i to take the initiative on lines which should be agreeable to him, it might be much easier to find a bridge with l41fe French than would bo the case of a Liberal who has changed his lo- leat on in the House were to begin te | move in the same direction, {ft js only the purblind who view lightly tue racial division in the i House of Commons, Nobody whol knows anything of parliament wants the present estrangement to be per- manent. You cannot afford to. treat two and a quarter millions of the native-horn as negligible, either for purposes of war or for ideals of peace. clgdividnal men 'find thay can get along together, when they talk with the freedom of friends, without the fears of partisan poli- tics. Some way will have to be found for translating that character- istic of racial relationship into pub- lic terms. The west could become & blessed force for future entente, it its outstanding men care to ignore the trammels of the out-of-date par- tisansidp, Two newgomerp stand out romarkably as qual to bear a leading pact in the happy vindica- tion of the private member as the representative of his constituents, fot a than as the obedient servant of a government. They are Chan- cellor Whidden, of the Daptist Col- loge of Brandon, and John Maharg, of Moose Jaw, who represents Maple Creek, and is president of the Can- adian Council of Agricalture, of the Saskatchewan He is A. R. McMaster, who holds Mr. Fisher's old seat of Brome. and his friends have solved the prob-| lem of getting along admirably with their French fellow citizens. There is a group of five men, each! carrying splenc y the confidence of all who know him best, and quali- fied to be in the lead of an extra- government, extra-opposition, extra- party getting together of citizens who care for Canada above and before and after all. In the narrow sense, this discussion of their possibilities is a taking of their names in vain But, if it is proper, at times to point out men who deserve honor; it is also proper to mention such as are for difficulties, which ave the road to honor. The Great Need For Rich, Red Blood 0 To be perfec tly healthy the human body requires a constant supply of new rich blood. Nearly all the ills from which people suffer arise from one cause--poverty of the blood. If the blood is rich and strong it absorbs nourishment from the food which passes into the stomach and distrib- utes that nourishment to the brain, nerves, muscles and every part of the body. When the blood is weak and poor in quality it cannot do its na- tural work of feeding brain ' and body--- hence weakness and disease. Headaches and backaches, loss of appetite, poor estion, nervous ir- ratibility, pimples and unsightly blotches on the skin all indicate that the blood has become impure, that it} is not doing its appointed work, and that your condit if not remedied will grow worse and worse. To bring about a perfectly healthy con- dition no medici can equal Dr Williams' Pink Pills. Their one mis- sion is to make rich red blood, which reaches every part of the hody bringing with it new health and in- creasing vitality. Thousands testify to the truth of this statement, many of whom may be found in your own neighborhood Dr. Williams' Pink Pills may had from any dealer in medicine, by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.60 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Broc kville, Ont. THE ISLANDS OF ARAN. d be or One of the Beauty Spots of Old Ireland: The laburnums of Eyre Square were fountains of gold, and the lilae was delicate and cocl; a perfect still- ness lay upon Galway. Passing on through the streets there was no sign of life, and the morning sunshine smote on ranks of muffled windows; here and there on (he old houses the coats-of-arms of the Galway tribes up- lifted their melancholy witness to by- gone greatness, but the town spoke with no living voice. Emerging at length from behind blind-eyed house fronts, the docks were reached, and in the large vacant spaces of water now to be found where was once the second port of the United Kingdom, the smoke of a little steamer rose in lonely activity, with the mountains of Clare and the glitter of Galway Bay for a background. There was some delay in departure, owing partly to a genial sympathy with the unpunctual, partly to a ques- tion of precedence among a pig fam- ily in the process of embarkation, The captain, a large clerical man in a soft felt hat, bore it with the equan- imity of one who has learned in many journeys between Galway and Aran what is the full significance of the devils having entered into the swine. The boat moved out at length into the gleaming breadth of the bay; slowly the gray town grouped itself in its low-lying corner, the spires rose walist-deep in roofs, and the heavy tower of St. Nicholas bore its asso- ciations of seven hundred years in the brilliant youth of the spring sun- light. Inexpressibly pure of plumage the gulls rode the clear wavelets, and swooped from poise to poise with striding wing, masters of art in the elements, with cold eyes observant to the cumbrouse creatures that crawl- ed on the face of the waters with smoke and foam and splashing. Thirty miles away a low blue mound on the horizon represented those Islands of Aran described in the ancient "Book of Rights" as "The Aras of the Sea"; the bows of the steamer swung to them, gradually the grown and rag- ged coasts of Connemara opened away to the north, and to the south the barren verge of the County of Clare was shorn perpendicular to the sea at the thousand-foot drop of the cliffs of Moher. The steamer plodded on at her ten miles an hour, the pig families utter- ed no more than an occasional yell of fractiousness or dolor, and a party of Aran women sat and conversed under their red shawls with that unflagged zest and seemingly inexhaustible sup- ply of material that may well be the envy of the cultured. 1t was eight o'clock whens the an- Shot M43 let go 38 Rilranan Bay: op- posite the principal village of the principal island, while the changeless battered ty and et canvas Sorat with r bows high out of the Mandl wart nearly, | year, Mr. Mabarg Represents a padi {fonce intinitely 'more powerful than 'the fleeting behest of any rinister. Sich men, making the promotion of national un their own; So nizing tint the more trouble "there nn English and French the more difficult will it be to weld the multilingualists of the west into a living sense of Canadian sationality: euch men give tone of the what sort make with unhappy fick as the observer sees it, the centre 'arch of that bridge is waiting to be! utilized. There is a body of men ships -- ers, elected by of dandreft or any Froneh votes, One of The new men is Salling hate, and the scalp will never 1 (outstanding in more nan one way, grok Taghe president | in 3EsEE 3 L rE = As 5 ed 5 a p= He! ! ge i Probs: Snow and rain; clearing during Friday. JASE AREA FRIDAY Bargains ¢ A day of rousing bargain opportunities that should crowd this store to capacity from 9 to 6 o'clock tomorrow. Save 10% morning. on all your cash purchases From 9 to 12 o'clock by DOUBLE DISCOUNT STAMPS shopping in the KABO CORSETS 24 pair only priced from $2.00 sale. For-ayuick TABLE CLOTHS EE RSNAEESEESNSANESNRENENNRNERE 50c. Friday "Kabo™" to $3.00 a pair. Friday FLANNELETTE BLANKETS Just received 800 pair grey and white large sized |12-4 blankets -- a belated shipment due last fall. clean-up Friday Anticipate your future needs and save 507 NEW VOILE WAISTS 10 doz. white voile waists; lace and organdy trimmed. Reg. $1.50. Friday 60 bleached damask table cloths, hemmed, ready for use; with finished borders. Size 66 x 84. Reg. $3.00 each. Friday $2.19 "OLD BLEACH" TOWELS 25 doz. pure linen huck towels with hemstitched ends; size 20 x 36; regular 75c each. Friday BLACK LISLE HOSE 180 pair mercerized French lisle hose in sizes 9 and 9} only. Reg. B.P. C. MERCER COTTON 600 balls B. P. C. Mercer Cordonnet, in all sizes from 10 to 80; regular 15c a balk Friday French model corsets, made of fine coutil with six strong elastic supports; odd sizes to clear. Regulafly Worth $3.50 a pair whole- . 98¢ $2.89 All sizes. 98¢ . 48¢ $ . 39¢, or 2 for 75¢ 10c, or 3 for 25c¢c. Our 3rd Annual "SPRING FARE-REFUND SALE" With its host of sensational bargain opportuniti¢s announced in detail in tomorrow's papers. Watch for it! "will be Steac Ing in to their feet, 4 crowd of large and angular peonle, their faces strong and inquisitive and instantly remark- able to any one accustomed to the mild and half-bashful expression eof West Galway eyes. There is about them the air of a foreign race and of an earlier century. Under circum- stances less stirring than the arrival of the Galway steamer, their long, composed faces cxpress their mono- tony of mood; their eyes are steady and far-looking, as those that from day to day measure the sweep of great horizons. Men and women alike wear "pampooties"---slippers of raw cow- hide, with the hair outside--and walk with the alertness and erectness that are learned from rocky ground and the absence of stiff and high-heeled boots; the men affect the short, full trousers, ending high above the an- kle, so that the pampootie is freely displayed irf its varieties of dum or black or sparkled hide. Topping the costume is a) "Tam o' Shanter" cap, probably mdde in Birmingham. It is not a graceful dress, but the square shoulders and flat backs would dig- nify a worse one, and the mild and mottled pampootie loses its effemin- acy with the people's singularly em- | Fenton tread.--From 'Some Irish estordays," by E. O. E. Somerville and Martin Ross, The Difference, A story is told of a mediaeval sul- 'tan who had all the mirrors removed from his palace so that he might avoid the pain of seeing his own face. This sultan called on his grand vizier one day and by accident happened to catch sight of his reflection. His hide- ousness overpowered him and he broke into violent sobbing. in this outburst the vizier joined Finally the sultan calmed down, wip- ed his eyes and got ready lo smoke and talk. B ot 80 the vizier. He sobbed on At leagtn fh Te tan got angry and exclal Why do you weep jonger than I, vizier?" "Alas!" thew grand visier replied, 'you wept, 0 comamnder of the faith- ful, because yOu =aWw your face but for an instant, but 1 ies it every day." His Regret. ' The boy come ato the house waep- tng abd bis mother wag naturally solieiions, "What's the matter, Wil- Lie?" she asked. "The boy acrons the way hit me" he replied. "Ob, well, { wonidn't cry for that," che returned. :| "Show that you can be a little mag." 'f.ain't crying for phat," be reinried. "He ran inio the house before I could | Jxet « him." 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Fearful Story, Told by by Prisoner Who Has Beached Switzerland, in the London Empire News, there is a first hand report of Hun cruelty to British prisoners. it is from a letter from Rev, A. H. Sew- ¢il, late vicar of Bishopston. now in Switzerland. The article reads: "1 was at the Fribourg hospital. When 1 went into one of the wards one of the men {recently arrived) struggled to his feet. He was shaking from heal to foot and later as he told me his story hie was as 'white as a sheer and had a sort of "palsy. He was sighily wounded when taken prison- 'Hin wounds healed repidly and he was chosen for reprisals, One win- ter day they took him pul, tied Him with yards and yards of yope to #8 post, with his fedf gix inches from the ground. He remained there for seven hours. He wap carried to his room in a #late of gollapse. 'The doke was repeated the mest day, It was weeks before he could leave Wiis Ted and his legs were psoless. "This.'" said the article, "is only one of hundreds of cases of "organ- ized and deliberate deviltry--there is no other word for it" Several Queensiand, Australia; vil lages Were destroyed by a cyclone on Monday. The casyaltles are reporied as heavy.