Daily British Whig (1850), 7 May 1918, p. 3

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is so delicious. 1f you could see the choice oriental fruits and spices being blended with Pure Malt Vioegar to make H.P, you would know. Just a few drops of H,P.--it makes the weal so enjoyable ~ Pure Spring Water Fresh daily to yonr home, for 10 cents a gallon, 'A limited number of new "customers can be taken on at present, and more added as soon as suitable conveyances are completed to deliver. This water been. ex- amined at Queen's College and h ea found absolutely pave. ... .., Don't neglect, but phone at once and make arrangements for prompt delivery. Phone 59 or 1056 - ip Kedley Jr, 10D. TMidse peopl o (and they are Hl Th dread the prdeal of an Rye Exapmin- ; ation are agreeably aston- § ished to find that, as made | by us, il causes no pain, : d scomforl, or inconven- ] 4 fence. ll places in getting into close quarters, t completely held the Germans ii then threw them back. Hlwas smashed and beaten off. Hl through this year's it! past Voormeezele, if] positions known i] side, whic they had rushed the pre- fl] shell fire was followed by an intense Ljof the most prominent of Canada's ALES N- FINE frie THEIR OOU RAGROUS FIGHTING iN RECENT OFFENSIVE. New Drafts Are Gallanteedntense | Hattling for Days Tried Britons' 'and French to Utmost, Lotidon, May 7.---Pérry Robinson | in a long despateh t to the Daily News | smphasizes the gallant way in which the new drafts fought in the repent battles yh describing the herole story of the defence of Kemmel by the French, Robinson refers to the hag to-hand fighting which oecur- The troops of the Forty-ninth Di- vision were holding a line toward a ridge. of wood. The Germans had tried to attack (perhaps in connec- tion with the abortive assembling mentioned, above as broken wp by French artillery) on the afternoon of the 28th, but were stopped by our artillery over a great part of the front. At the wood where they got close they were shrivelled up by rifle and machine-gun fire from South Alricans. A On the morning of the 25th .the Germans came on afler a bombard- ment in their old-fashioned masses and with fixed bayonets. They suf- fered terribly in the advance, but.by virtue of numbers succeeded in -and the York Lancashires and West Riding regiments both had hand to hand fighting, in which they, first, and Alfter the first great failure ithe enemy tried to come forward again three successive times, but each time Be- sides this the Scottish Rifles and the Royal Seot Fusiliers both fought splendidly. Of the way in which the Twenty. first Division has behaved ail fighting 1 have spoken nore than once. On this oo- <casion they held the (ine wduve vue ridge of woods toward the canal and There was no attack north of the nal, though the Cepmans held as the Lankhof farms, near the canal eon the north ceding day. Near Voormeezele were some Lelcesters, whose fine fighting of the enemy in March will be remembered. They naturally now contained some new drafts who behaved extremely well. A day and a half's nerve-racking bombardment and the new men re- mained steady as rock and cool. When the attack came they had to meet it wear their gas masks, hint they just settled down steadily to their rifles and shattered tae Ger man waves as they came on. We had a small "post -at the northemn edge of Yoarmeszel, though our real line was behind These posts were "rushed under tha weight of the first attack, as had been expected, but they broke the foree of the German blow before oar fain positions were reached, and then the killing began. There was a hin mist, but not enough effectively to screen the enemy advance, and in wo had them coming on in masses over an open 400 yard front. Close to the ridge were some Lan- eashire troops, who especially did eformdous execution. Here again some ew, men showed great cool ness. and | resource, push- ing out machine guts to positions commanding the enemy approach. But it was the same story every Nieto, +The German losses were he. yond Jan doube wh plignally heavy. Of- ranks of their me &, not. nat. tha. heats bet ng the trandpbrt, came. ehzpueh. 1 the shelled attas | and alone and snetieq roi in perfect nonchalance and courage. Prizes for "Bob's" Fair, To stimulate gréavter production, W. Burden, 136 Victoria street, has offered a Srize of five dollars to the hibiting the beat collec- | S0ns tien of vegetables tables, four varieties and six of each at Kingston Indus- trial SE hibidon ek ay has offered Bier be held thirty dollars as 'a special prize te the owner of the best sheap exhibit- ed at the fair, The Grand T 122nd to 8 to $1,086, 134, over last r's f 841, or nk sarpings from ve amount- Or an increase £1 $1,481, Srantytive per cent. lis the food controller's compilation from preliminary returns. Edward F. Fauquier, Ottaws, ond railway contractors, died on Suntuy in fils. sixty thing year, i Sap- tS 0 THE ORIGINAL AMERICANS. Facts About 'the Strong Women of the North, The original Americans of the far fiorth are brown Instead of red and are not Indians. Their name Eskimos ~~whick they disiiké--means "eaters of raw fish." But they haven't been driven yet to change their name by cooking the fish, The Eskimo woman could easily put forth a good excuse for not cook- ing all the food her family eats, be- cause she bas so many oiber things to do, After she has heiped bulld the] igloo, ghe takes her place beside her husband in fishing. This mens #n- ing out and chopping a hole in the frozen ocean and keeping it open hy swishing around a reindeer horn la. dle with one hand while holding a line baited with red Sanne! with the other, When the family wants a change of diet or some new clothes, she goes out to help hunt seal, walrus, whales, deer and caribou. She may be physically stronger than her modern American sisters, but she has the same love of adorn- ment and wears over her fur parka or coat a. bright ealigo. proteciing shirt often decorated with fancy patchwork borders. When she joing the. polar bear hunt, however, she must wear white ~white drill trousers over the fur ones that both men and women wear, and white snow shirts to match the landscape and the sky. But the Eskimo woman's chief adornments are half-chewed-down teeth whieh she gains in this fashion: When she has eome in from a day's hunt and crawled through the var- lous doorways of her igloo, each made smaller than the one outside to keep out as much €old alr as pos a; and cooked her family a dinner put the baby and any stray or- phaps that may have elected her house as a home, fo bed on the shelf that makes the igloos upstairs, she sits down by the light of the seal oil lamp and chews leather to make boot sales turn back over the foot so the top ean be sewed on. women phéw, the further down (heir teeth are worn and the more beau- tiful they "become In. the sight of Eskimo society, There (3 no suffrage question among the Eskimo---the women owns the igloo with the man and has equal voice In the counell meetings. And there are no vexatious ques- tions about property rights to settle, because besides the igloo and per- gonal belongings there Is no property, The Eskimos cannot conceive of land 4s belonging to any one person. When told how .it is held as private pro- perty In pther parts of Canada they showed great surprise, and one old man asked if the white men also. di- vided 'the oceans 'in the same way, World Outlook. A ---- tit Isolation of French-Canadians. The phenomenon of all most strik- ing, dt hay again be répeated, is that the Frefich-Canadian, whether the al- most illiterate peasant or the man of education; has no passionate at tachment for France and no burning fervor for Canada. By choice he has isolated himself. from 'his English- Bonar peighbors and withdrawn m $piritnal contast with them, 1f be has any pride it is a stubborn pride in not speaking English and In encouraging bis children to scorn ®uglish, who hearing only French spoken in the home, the school and the church, have patty aly Lisle in eaation and less - opportunity to learn any other language. If France to the French-Canadian were home, ag England was to the Puritan, driy- n into exile but stil united to the land of his birth by the ties of senti- mefit, one could yndérstand why the HMetol-Canadian keeps from Eaglish; or it French-Canadians ré pnly blding their time when Canada from Labrader to . British Columbia is to be dominated by the SONS: tance. Latin culture id to take place of n, aod in the Taste hemisphere is » be planted Ww France that shall redound of the Old, then the atti- tude of the Freneh Canadian would be cosily comprehensible. But there 1 no evidence that any sueh bought ae through hil mind. He § the British A fae and British rae, oS Coal a Cant of a Canad n Canade.-- meriean Review of 5 ton Other. a Barly ib Loe yes) week i a visitor to one redo 'company natided o ae his the Ki The more jhe, 40 { and Hiustrative material, id {was found near the of | river. ' ARE "BOOTLEQGERS" eon: BiTy? One Man Said He | He Paid $20 Bul Only Got a Few Is thers is & hand of "bootieg- gers" at work in the city handing liquor out to thé thirsty ones who are anxious to satisly their appetite, and this in spite of a high price put on the booze, Which is now under thé ban? During the taking of evidence in a liquor case on Monday morning a man told Magistrate Farrell that [ne had made a man pay $20 for some whiskey, but that afl he got was about three goed drinks. He expected to get several bottles, but it was not forthcoming. However, he was not ready {0 complain, and the story would not have been known had not the young the case. NEED TWO NEW FLAGS. Property Committee 'Held Meeting on Monday. Ald. Samuel Corbett, chairman of the civic property committee, thinks that it is about time the city pur- chased a couple of new [lags for the city buildings. . The two present doing duty on the buildings Civio chairman and Ald. pointed to secure prices on a couple of flags to submit at the next meet- ing of the gomumitiee. The session of the committee was very brief. Afterwards the members took a taxi ride. to the fair grounds, where they met R..J. Bushell, wman- ager of the . Kingston Industrial Fair, for the purpese of going over the buildings regarding proposed repairs. Ald. Corbett presided at the meet- ing and the other members present were Ald. Chown, Ald. Hooper and Ald. Armstrong. In regard to the indemnity. askgd for from the Industrial Fair Asse. ciation, in case of accident, thé <hairman reported that Mr. Bushell had informed him that the Fair As- sociation had put up $75 for this purpose last year, and that the statement -that the eity had net been safeguarded in this respect was news to him. What a Chaplain Thinks, Speaking at Brantford, Ont., re- cently; Capt. Lavell, invalided home atter lengthy service overseas, ag a chaplain, said that he was not in any way connected with the Y. M. C. A. of the organization dn France, where he had seen the, gotual benefit en- acted by its work. He held the Y IM. C. A. high in his esteem. There were few just complaints made of the working of the huts and other buildings of the ¥. M. C. A. in France. . Most of the criticisms were ridieutous. The workers in these huts are wonderfully capable. The ¥. M. C. A. ts are available for any religious m ngs, There are no divisions ; by the different creeds of the men. Any man in khaki knows he is welcome in these huts. | The best advertisement for the drganigation is the fact that re- turned men slam everything except the YMCA. The Y. MICA. Over- seas Fund can only he classed with two others--the Prisoners of War Pund and the Red Crass. ---- Vacation Suggestions. Do not plan your spring fishing trip or your summer vacation be- fore obtaining the "Playgrounds" Booklet, which has just heen issued by the Grand Trunk Railway sys- tem for 1018. This publication, free for the asking, describes the splendid tourist, fishing and hunt- ing resorts of Canada, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Michigan. In this wonderful territory are mountain and sea-coast resorts, and all the favored "haunts ef fish and game. "Playgrounds" is a most complete resort directory, giving, in addition to a wealth of deseriptive lists of hotels and Dboarding-houses with rates, also the latest fish and game laws for the information of sports- men, Copy on application to any Grand Trunk agent or to J. P. Han- t | ley, agent, Kingston, Ont, Boy's Body Found. Belleville, May 6.--The body of Wilfred G0. Lennox, a twelve-year-old boy, who was drowned by rolling from the bank of the Moira River, while rall- {playing hide-and-seek on April 2nd, mouth of the Mr. and Mrs. ¥. James Roblin, Nap- anee, are moving from Mrs. Gibson's 'house to the Presbyterian manse, * : Nervous and Pale i snk BER dhe un the TTT, DODD'S New a Drums Woman ° "ells How k Quick J RB From Ils That {Hoody New Torey, Northumberland Co., .B., May & (Special), -- Mrs. fellow been called as a witness in flags at |S have become tattered and torn. The |i Chown were ap-§ He could not help favoring the work |: Swiss lace and scrim LACE CURTAINS SCRIM CURTAINS CURTAININGS on up to $2.50. Lemons Whiten and Beautify the Skin! Make Cheap Lotion The juice of two fresh lemons strained into a bottle containing three oubces of orchard white makes a markable lemon skin beautifier at about tHe cost one must pay for a small jar of the ordinary cold creams. Care should be taken to strain the lemon juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, then this lo- tion 'will keep fresh for months. Ev- ery woman knows that lemon juiee is used to bleach and remove such blemishes as freckles, sallowness and tan, and is the ideal skin softener, smoothener and beautifier. Just try it! Make up a quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and massage it daily into the face, neck, arms and hands. It should naturally help to whiten, soften, freshen. and bring out the hidden roses and beauty of any skin. It is wonderful for rough, red hands. Your druggist will sell three oun- ces of orchard white at little cost and any grocer 'will supply the lemons, COAL SHORTAGE FEARED Only Betterment In Car Sevvice Can Prevent It. New York, May 7.--The current fa sue of Coal Age says:-- There is as yet no good reason to will be faced with a fuel shortage next. winter. - Only a very rapid and! a very material betterment in ear sefvice can prevent what now seems inevitable, The Fuel Administration' is disturbed because its eyes are fo- cussed on next Winter; the Railroad! Administration apReirs" seteue and' seems to be happy in the fact there is no crisis to-day. | The large tonnage of. coal that {must be rushed to the lake ports for trans-chipaent to the Northwest will undoubtedly have its effect on the quantity of coal available for storage in many parts of the east, and it is not likely that much coal will be This will be some time during the lat-| ter part of October or early in No-1 £. vember, | Alliances Between Austrian and Bul- garian HouRes, Coperdagen, = May 7.--Alliances' will be contracted between the reigo-' ing houses of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria by royal marriages, which are expected to be celebrated in the near future, Aenrans to Sa newspapers, t Crown Prinee Boris, son of Ferdinand of Bulgaria, to Archduc- hess Gabrielle, fourth daughter Archduke Friedrich of Austria, w | L be announced Boos. with the had engagement Archduke Karl Ste aria, to Princess Na sides daughter of Bmpstor Ferdi. Steacy's whole quarter pint .of the most. re-}. change the view . that this country! "7 curtainings. We are ready with large stocks of fine imported English and 1200 pair Nottingham and Point Lace Curtains in 2, 2§ and 3 yard lengths -- a broad range of handsome patterns to choose from. Specially priced at 98c, $1.25, $1.48, $1.75, $2.25 on up." 600 pair of white, ivory and beige English and American scrim curtains ,in plain, hemstitched and novelty insertion styles. All last year's prices, at $1.25, $2.00, $2.50 up to $15. 00 a pair. 2200 yards of novelty nets, scrims, madras and voile curtaining, in white, ivory, cream and Paris, in plain and patterned effects. A broad assortment for your choosing -- priced from 15¢ a yard - Limited ; YY WH You can't afford values in rugs and furniture. Rugs are be- ing sold today at less than wholesale prices. VICTROLAS AND VICTOR RECORDS T. F. HARRISON CO., LTD. IY ramsammand to miss secing 'oUF -- Ripe Tomatoes, 28¢ pound; Large Pineapples, 25¢, 80¢ each; Bananas, 30c, 40¢ dozen; Choice Eating Apples, Fruit, Be, 10c each, 4 for 25¢, 3 for 2B. cucumbers, at 50¢ J Sonen Best Grape all prices, and California stored until the lake season closes 80¢, 40c and Fruit Store Just One Application and the Hairs Vanish -------------------------- {Toilet Talks) Any womun can keep her skin free from unsightly hair or fuzz if she will follow these simple instructions: When halry growths appear, apply a 'simple paste, made by mixing some water with powdered delatone. Ap ply this to hairy surface and after 2 or 3 minutes rub off, wash the skin} and the hairs are gone. This is a harmless treatment, but be sure you et the seal delatone.

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