BIG SHOW OPENS TUESDAY. "in the war zone will characterize the PAGE TWENTY THE DAILY BRITISH WHI WHIG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1918. ss ---- 5 TOUR DAYS AND NIGHTS FOR is i List of Entries Show Large Increase! n Over Other Years--A Fine Racing Programme and a Grist of Novel Attractions. ia The big show starts S next. On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs. day and Friday all roads will lead to the fair grounds, where the Kingston Industrial Exhibition' will hold = full SWay. R. J. Bushell, manager and secretary, the directors and all who have to do with making the annual event a great success, are ready to turn the key that will set everything in motion, and a drive second only to that which our boys are putting up i fifth exhibition which has been on ynder the shadow of the war Most prominent in connection with the fair is the appeal for increased production, an¥ as this is part of the war propaganda it in itself augurs well for the success of the undertak- ing. This year the prize list has been added to materially. The directors have given the list a thorough oves- hauling, and as printed it presents the best ever handed out by the fair asso- ciation, In addition horses, cattle, tables, roots, put 1 11 b tl w : w to the grand display of sheep, poultry, vege- it dairy products, and in b Jer of enines { make the fair a KINGSTON INDUSTRIAL FAIR. |from A to Z i of everything that Tuesday | 41, | out up to the to go to the she help make the 15 1 ; success int the history of the associa- tion. FAIR BUILDINGS IMPROVED SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS The Race Track in Excellent Condi- have been much improved since this become no longer weather-proof, and ir is that of adies' wi are out to Everything work will be how should howing hown. T} ye overlooked : . Space will not t of a review g be exhibited ent has been ome idea of h. has been There w ¢ r days for the eople to have a good time, and it is seople of the city and county sw early and often and air of 1918 the biggest t the big show aid to gave the programme gh said. Ent EXPENDED IN REPAIRS. tion--The Grounds To Be Much Used Hereafter, I'he buildings in the fair grounds me last year. They were fast fall. 1g into decay, and something had to ¢ done to preserve them and make em really habitable during fair eck. The palace, which years ago as a most ornamental structure, had s approaches and flooring were in ad condition After much argu- J. A. WILMOT One of the directors of the Kings- ton Fair. fact everything that goés to make up a good exhibition, there will be the usual muth-talked of midway, with its carnival of fun, and a long list of oth- er special attractions. No fair would be complete without a balloon ascen- sion, and "Bob" Bushell has arranged for this. J. A. Farley and Madame Farley, regarded as the greatest bal- "loonists in America, will be here, and will give some thrilling parachute drops. This is sure to be a great attraction, Another attraction, and one which takes with the farming community, as well as the city folk, is the racing card, and a splendid one has been arranged for. On the open- ing day there will be the greén race and the 2.35 class; on Wednesday. the programme will include the 2.40 class and 212 class; on Thursday the 2.35 trot and 2.18 class will be pulled off: on Friday, the closine day, there will be a frée-for-all and 2.25 class. In addition to these races arrange- ments have been made for something real new on the track here, when a celebrated mare will run a race with another horse, and will appear drivers less. This attraction was put on for the first time at the fair recently held at Ottawa, and proved one of the best features of the programme. Wil- liam Murray, the well-known auction- Xr is secretary of "the races and sports. There is one thing that must not be forgotten, and that is that the fair will be open four days and four nights. The night attrac ion is a new ven- WILLIAM McFEDRIDGE theta )s Superintendent of Tickets at ture. "Give us something at night," has been the appeal of the people, and the wide.-awake manager and his col- + leagues have decided this qo to open the gates every night. and in addition the regular attractions have, signed a contract with the Hand Com- works that is bound to make a ~ Every one likes to see , und the fair grounds to visit to 'see it all every minute. This i pany, Hamilton, to put on a display x A f t at 'serve as an #ducation, er all has been said, it is in n that it gives tha i e best. purpose. 1¢ usual prizes for be a field crop co ion ts and ensilage is 'also a school . Prizes are the papils of thé schools of the city ddi-|ible, white shells. The ment, an arrangement was entered into between the City Council and the fair directors that the former would expend $1,500 in repairs if the direc- tors would do the same. The Kings- ton Gentlemen's Driving Club also made a grant, and with this money City Engineer McClelland, assisted by Manager Bushell and Ald. S. S. Corbett, chairman of the city property committee, has made a very marked improvement .in the buildings. The foundations of the palace have been strengthened, and there is no longer the feeling that the place is unsafe, More electrical lighting has been added. The stock and poultry build- ings have also been improved, and the accommodation for exhibits and spec- tators bettered The race course is in excellent cos dition, It has been used a good deal by the Kingston Driving Club, which is keeping it in repair with the result that «this old track is now among the best in the province, It is the intention of the civic au- thorities to continue making repairs to the fair buildings from year to year. For years the City Council was im- bued with the idea that the city would never have a fair again, and that the old buildings were plenty good en- ough for a joint township fair, Now the exhibition is being revived as a city as well as county affair and the grounds are going to be used after the war for most of the city's sports. The Kingston Driving Club is go- ing to hold a series of horse races, and the old fair grounds will become a most popular place. AMIENS CATHEDRAL INTACT. Population Returning to Restore City. Paris, 21.-~French Govern- ment officials are supervising the returd of residents to Amiens, which was almost completely eva- cuated after the German offensive last March. The first to be admit- ted to the city were artisans, who were organized to repair damaged houses and bulldings shattered by shellfire. 2 'One house In every 25 has been found damaged. The cathedral was hardly affected by the bombard- 'ment, having been hit by only three shells. The works of art and sculp- tures in the edifice were not harm- ed. Civilian The Wit of Choate. The wit for which Mr. Choate was famous sparkles in the book which Cassells recently brought out on the former American ambassador to Lon- don. There are many good stories, examples of the lawyer's dry humor and of a gift for repartee. On one occasion a well-known clergyman, who had applied to Mr. Choate for legal advice in a long case, came to his office and, in a deprecating man- ner, said: "I always understood,' Mr. Choate, that you gentlemen of the bar were not in the habit of charg- ing clergymen for your services," "You are much in error," returned Me. Choate firmly, "much in error. You look for your reward in the next world, but we lawyers have to get ours im this." When he first an- nounced his intention of entering the legal profession, somebody expressed the opinion that he would not make a good lawyer, but Mr. Choate was not the man to do anything but suc- ceed in his undertakings. There was amusing evidence of it one day when, proceeding to court, with a large package of papers contained In the traditional green bag used by the Boston Bar, he was accosted by a son of Israel with the query: "Old Slothes?" "No," he replied, "a new suit." . 'An Ambitious Youth. A youth of seventeen who is a Government contractor with eleven men and eight women on his pay rail is ome of the unusual figures of the war in London. The young employer is Robert Scott and two years ago he was earning $7.50 a week in a machine shop. Later, he and another boy formed a' partnership to manu- facture nits and screws. The part- ner joined the army last year. Scott then invested all his savings in ma- cliigery and opened 'a shop for the manufacture aeroplane parts and soon obtained Government work. Tho Duckbill, tga a female Sukhi lays 'two or ree eggs about t ree-quAren ¢ an inch A incigsed in strong, flex i young are suckled by the mother, 2 5 ar ee An alarm clock which. been \vented In 6 : dren' pons J and of year the nm) ow tly incredsedy + ea use LORD OF LUMBERJACKS. Alexander McDouga'l Is a Astonishing Man. Famous in Canada, from one en' of that great Dominion to the othe as a masterman, a man of imagin ation and andacity, Gen. Alexande McDougall, who at forty years of ag is Director-General of the Canadia: Forestry Corps, has Liade a lke im pression upon those Englishmen wh: have encountered him on this sid of the Atlantic. He is not so much a remarkabls as an astonishing man, a man whe takes your breath away and scatter: to the wind a number of your pre judgments concerning the prope behaviour of civilized men.. "Mos people are other peeple"; but her: is a fresh-minted soul stamped wit} no image now in currency. The lif¢ force within his sturdy body is of s« driving and fierce an energy that i could no more stop to copy other peo- ple than it could spend ten minute: before # looking-glass in search of its reflection. This life-force has ons passion, and that is work; itis in hi work, and the bigger and the harde that work the more he is pleased that the spirit of Alec MeDougall quite unconsciously, affirius its owr essence. He lives in achievement, "Say," he cries, "I'll tell you something that will make yo laugh. Listen now. When our fel lows got over here they though they'd come to cut faggots. The) thought that was all the timbe: they'd find in the little island. Bu! when the train was running out of Liverpool gone of 'em, with his eyer starting out of his head, calls out 'Why, dam it, there's a big tree!' and then jumping up and looking out of the window he exclaims 'Why, dam it, there's two or three trees." Since then they've cut dowr a tree in Windsor Park seventeer feet in diameter, and looked at one still living that's mentioned 0 Domesday Book." Here the genera' flung back his "ead and laughed til the room seemed to shake. Consider these figures. The Cana dian Forestry Corps, the whole ex penses of which are defrayed by the Canadian Government, have provides us here in England with 300,00¢( tons of sawn timber a year, exclusive of 5,000,000 tons of mining -timbe: cut in 12 months, . "The boys are splendid," says the general. '""There's not a man among them who isn't in this war up to the neck. The Germans can't beat them They've made big sacrifices to come over here, and but for them the wai would have been lost a year ago that's a fact, Timber essential. Luck) for us you've got it here--thanks to your sporting landlords of a hundred years ago. Wonderful timber! But England's wonderful altogether. Af- ter the German offensive in March the army sent out a sudden demand for 40,000 tons of timber, wanted at once. Our boys were so keen they worked all hours God ever made (be- it was for the men at the front), and they provided 30,000 of the 40,000 tons ten days before the date fixed for delivery. They can hustle, I tell you, when they've got a reason. One of our sawmills over here was designed to cut 20,000 feet of timber in ten hours; the actual performance in that time was 155,- 366 feet. Some output, what? Ah, I tell you, they're fine."--From the London Chronicle. Gen, New Canadian Section. An important development in the administrative organization of the Canadian overseas military forces has recently taken place. It consists in the formation of a' Canadian see- tion at the British General Head- quarters in France. The section is a branch of, and responsible to, the Ministry of Overseas Forces in Lon- on. This new department is an out- come of the desire on the part of Canada to maintain as complete con- trol as possible of her own forces. Sir Edward Kemp has, for some time past, been negotiating with the Im- perial authorities, and has been suc- cessful in establishing the principle that the Canadian authorities should have complete' control of all matters relating to organization and admin- istration of the Canadian overseas forces, with the exception of those which directly affect military opera- tions. This section at General Head- quarters will be a direct and conven- fent channel whereby the Canadian viewpoint may be presented in those matters which require reference to General Headquarters, and through it documents and communications re- lating to such matters will be for- warded direct to the Canadian Over- seas Ministry in London, and vice versa, for consideration, instead of going through channels which in the past have caused more or less delay. It is understood that the head of the new section will be Brigadier- General J. F. L. Embury, C.M.G. Our War Orders. According to figures compiled by the Monetary Times, Canada's war orders from the outbreak of war to the end of 1917 totalled $1,812,000,- 000, and during 1917 the value of munition orders totaled $338,000,- 000. The volume of munition orders placed up to September 30 was $262,000,000, of shipbuilding orders, $46,780,000, 'and of all orders since the outbreak of the war, including shipbuilding, §$972,000,000. The number of people engaged in the munitions industry in Canada was approximately 325,000. Pow Labor Unions Grow. 'The seventh annual report of the labor organizations of Canada shows that where as in 8 | in the air. JUGGLING WITH FACTS HUNS STILL CLAIM U-BOATS ARE WINNING. Sample Speech Delivered In Munich Shows How the German People Are Decelved by the Authorities, Who Declare That England, France and Italy Are Being Starved Out. OW the German Government attempts to convince its people that the ruthless sub- marine warfare is after all not .a failure, but only.a necessary element of its 'great offensive," is shown in an address recently deliver- ed by Capt. Bruninghaus of the Ger- man navy before the Deutsche Wacht, a pan-German Fatherland society of Munich. A translation of the article follows: 'There can be no doubt that the situation, not only in the British Isles, but also in France and Italy, has been so aggravated since Septem- ber of last year by the U-boat war- ware that, as a matter of fact, as stated by the British Food Dictator as early as the end of September, the number of ships is no longer ade- quate to the needs for them. This opinion can be found in papers of.all shades, from purely pacifist ones to the most jingoistic that are now di- rected by the present Minister of Propaganda, Lord Northcliffe, "The misleading jugglery of fig- ures in net tons, gross tons, and car- go tons has, in fact, not only deceiv- ed the people in Britain, but also misled many among us. As a mat- ter of fact, there were sunk up to March 1, 1918, 15,500,000 registered gross tons, of which 10,270,000 tons were sunk since the beginning of the unrestricted submarine warfare. If we assume that about two-thirds of the cargoes of these ships would have gone fo the advantage of the Entente, 205,000,000 hundredweight of munitions, food supplies, raw ma- terial, and other commodities were withheld from our enemies in the last thirteen months. 'Among these ships up to the end of December alone there were twen- ty-seven transport vessels and 6566 ships carrying war materials. Now, in the matter of finished munitions and high explosives, this represents the amount required for twenty-five divisions for a full month of great offensive oper: ns. In the last quarter of the year this amount has greatly increased. From this can be gathered how extraordinarily effec tive the offensive on the sea has anti- cipated that on land; and the navy is proud of it. "To-day the attempts to mislead over there no longer succeed. Plain proofs of this are at hand, Whether we regard the cargo conditions from the point of view of the Entente cargo space or of the total world car- g0 space, the case is fundamentally the same, In the first case we mus add the tonnage available for our foes from other sources; in the se- cond case we must make deductions for the needs of the non-belligerent states after the war--to be spre, not arbitrarily, as, for example, h n in counting as to the advantage of our enemies among the total world tonnage, the tonnage of German, Aus- trian, and Turkish shipping that lies in our own harbors, amounting to 4,000,000 tons. There are to-day at hand many German, neutral, and en- emy calculations which all uniformly agree that the continuation of the war will soon be impossible for our enemies by reason of lack of cargo space. "The expectations of new ship- building have till now proved decep- tive, and we may count upon the fact that for 1918 the losses through submarines will remain more than double the tonnage available for the Entente through new shipbuilding. As for the assumption that the sub- marine warfare will diminish by rea- Son of increased defensive measures, there is no foundation for that. The system of convoying ships has great disadvantages. Aside from the sink- ings, the number of damaged ships is very large. The natural loss through accidents is at least com- mensurate with the new shipbuild- ing that countries aside from Britain and America can furnish, "Th# material assistance through America has not increased owing to America's entry into the war, but rather has diminished; and as for its military assistance,.we can afford to pass over that altogether. The opin- fon that America entered the war because of unrestricted submarine warfare, which is still voiced here and there, does not stand the test of serious criticism. Far truer is the explanation voiced by a New York bank magnate, who said: " *Your paper'--that is to say, for the billion dollar contracts in war materials--'is of value only when stamped with victory. We have tak- en a mortgage on your triumph. The shadow of American capitalism stood behind the President when he hand- ed Bernstorfl his passports.' "On the other hand, there has al- ready been an increase in prices in America, amounting in one year to $5,000,000,000, and this continuation of the war is growing constantly a worse business for The material distress of the Entente not grown less through the entry of America into the war, but has rather grown worse, and it will not prevent our victory. Ratfoning in England is the confession that it will not hold out much longer. This step must lead to a flasco in a country which imports four-fifths pf its food sup- spirit in the plies. " "Theré is an u it in the count>y; the ¢ru e 'of revolutio : The lino that divides and anarchy is very narrow; "> Re are getiing dangerously close to 'way they are siready ingland. It will not be pplics alone that 'will gh Dritisher to maka ombination of a lack in | food compel the but ang f lies and obmportant polit the ° has shrinking of its merchant fleet, which has already reached a point where it will 'scarcely be possible for Bri- tain to win back the position she held before the war, ' "Why, then, do the British not al- ready conclude peace? Britain will now make peace only when she can- not do otherwise--after having miss- ed her chance, about the end of Sep- tember of getting away with merely a black eye. This at least is the point of view of those in power in England. Lloyd George, moreover, tells the public it must be made clear to the eneniy that, no matter how long the war lasts, he will never be able to conquer England; but te business men who urged an advantageous peace he expressed himself to the ef- fect that there would always be time for that, because he knew for certain that Germany was ready for such a peace which would spare England, at any time, even in case pf a #om- plete victory; and that according to reliable information the internal revolution of Germany was immi- nent. "In one thing the British are unit- ed: in trying till the last moment to deprive Germany of the fruits of her victory in this war fer existence, and to maintain Britain's supremacy on the sea. A kind fate gave us the U-boat that his goal should never -be reached by the British and 'that the freedom of the seas as we interpret it should be achieved." ? FATE OF A HERMIT. Modern Voluntary Crusoe Caught In War Toils. Down in the South Pacific the Mar- shall Island group smiles up at a cloudless sky. The blue waters break in creamy foam on the coral reefs, the cocoa palms raise their feather- duster heads over a tropic garden. of peace and plenty. There are scores of tiny islands in the group, ranging from mere specks of sandy reef up to eight or ten acres. On one such island, until recent- ly, a man was living quite alone. His existence nrist have been a Crusoé- like idyll. e sea is alive with fish, the land yields its fruits to anyone energetic enough to pick them. The climate is a soft symphony in a minor key. But even here a ripple of the world-war came sweeping, tore the lone philosopher from . his placid pinnacle, and cast him amazed and ruffled, into a prison §,000 miles away. The Marshall Islands are, or were, a German group. To the south lie the Gilbert Islands, a British group. There is no way for the casual of the sea to distinguish between a Mar- shall Island and a Gilbert Island. (An arbitrary line, drawn due southwest from Keats bank, through blue wat- er, divided Germany from England in those latitudes before the war, The man who chose to live alone on his island was an Englishman. Many years ago he selected his fu- ture home with a nice eye for se- curity against tornadoes, advantages in the way of harborage and palm and water. Unfortunately, he got on the wrong side of the imaginary line drawn from Keats banks. He located on a German island instead of a British one. When the Allies set out to sweep up all the odd German possessions, they found this modern Crusoe on his German island. Investigation de veloped that in securing his holding, he had gone through processes ci law which resulted in his being re- garded as a German subject. it was proposed to remove him, but he escaped in disgust to -the United States. After a brief period of tranquility the United States en- tered the war, and the latest report from the wanderer without a coun- try alleges that he is about to be interned as an enemy alien, Popular Legénds of Villa. Francisco Villa promises to be the Robin Hood for future generations in Mexico. Many legends have sprung up among the natives about the ban- dit leader who came out of the Sierra Madres to join Francisco Madero in his revolution against Gen. Diaz and later led movements against Huerta and Carranza. Many of these stories are pure fiction and always made Villa grin broadly when they were told to him. Others have some foundation of faet, One of the most popular legends connected with Villa's life is the one telling of the causes which forced him to assume the role of a bandit chief, According to this legend he avenged a wrong done his sister ai the hands of an officgr of the old Diaz army and was forced to lead a bri- gand's life after thag. As Villa had no sister this story is fiction. Another tale the natives delight to tell is that Villa has the power to change himself into a little dog and bark at the heels of the soldiers pur- suing him. Villa at different times had as many as six wives at the same time. The most he ever had was two. Villa was also said to have been born in Oklahoma and to have fiegro blood in his veins. This is also un- true as he was never out of Mexico except when visiting El Paso or some other border port and is a native of Durango. He has no children, de- spite stories written of the prowess of his sons in battle. His only soa died at birth in San Andres. Men In Iron Masks. The Man in the Iron Mask mysti- fied all Europe for many years, and is still the sub of considerable romance and legend, but in our great industries men in iron masks are not at all common. In the process of A ine ha from & he terrific to protect operators | e | heat and dazzling Might. The electric arc is about the hottest (Hing in the whole world and also the sun itself. A perat of the arc is approximately 3.300 deg. Centigrade, and as the heat is con- fined fo a comparatively small space directly in contact with the arc the light "therefrom is blinding. © To Complete the Hiusion, * She---No, you aré too poor. If I washed dishes for a man it might make Bhim 100k upon me a5 a ser- van } He--Oh, no: youa gave to break 'to do that, 5 : > th 'Brave Act of Wile, of FOOLED THE TURKS. American Ambassador, I awoke one November morning at four o'clock. I had been dreaming, or I had had a "presentiment," that all was not going well with the Sion Soeurs, a French sisterhood which had for many years conducted a school for girls in Constantinople, writes Mr. Henry Morgenthau in "The. World's Work." It was a splen- didly conducted school; the daugh- ters of many of the best families of all nationalities attended it; when these girls were assembled, the Christians wearing silver crosses and the non-Christians silver stars, the sight was particularly beautiful and impressive, and naturally the thought of the brutal Turks breaking into such a community was enough to arouse the wrath of any properly constituted man. Though we had nothing more definite than an un- easy feeling that something might g0 wrong, Mrs. Morgenthau and 1 decided to go up, immediately after breakfast. As we approached the buildings we moted nothing particu- larly suspicious; the place was quiet and the whole atmosphere was one ef peace and sanctity. Just as we ascended the steps, however, five Turkish policemen followed on our heels. They said that they were act- ing under Bedri's orders. All the foreign schools were to be closed that morning; the Government intended to seize all their buildings. There were about seventy-two teachers and sisters in this convent; the police had orders to shut all these into two rooms, where they were to be held practically as prisoners. There were about two hundred girls; these were to be turned out into the street, and left to shift for themselves. The fact that it was raining in torrents, and that the weather was extremely cold, accentuated the barbarity of this pro- ceeding. Yet every enemy school and religious institution in Constan- tinople was undergoing a similar ex- perience at this time. Clearly this was a situation which I could not handle alone, and I at once telephon- ed for a Turkish interpreter, While waiting for his arrival I de- layed the operations of the police- men, and my wife, who fortunately speaks French, was obtaining all the details from the sisters. Mrs. Mor- genthau understood the Turks well enough to know that they had other plans than the mere expulsion of the sisters and their charges The Turks regard these institutions as repositor- ies of treasure; the valuables which they contain are greatly exaggerated in the popular mind, and it was a safe assGmption that, among other things, this expulsion was an indus- trious raiding expedition for tangible evidences of wealth, "Have you any money and other valuables here? Mrs. Morgenthau asked one of the sisters, Yes, they had in fact quite a little; it was kept in a safe upstairs. My wife told me to keep the policemen busy and then she and one of the sisters quietly disappeared from the scene. Upstairs, the sister disclosed about a hundred square pieces of flannel into which had been sewed twenty gold coins. In all 'the Sion soeurs had in this liquid form about fifty thousand francs. They had been fearing expulsion for some time --~hence these preparations. Besides this they had several bundles of se- curities, and many valuable papers, such as the charter of their school. | Certainly here was something that would appeal to Turkish cupidity. Mrs. Mongenthau knew that if the police once obtaigzed control of the building there would be little likeli- hood that the Sion sisters would ever see théir money again. With the aid of the sisters, my wife promptly con- cealed as much as she could on her person, descended the stairs, and marched through a line of gen- darmes out into the rain. Mrs. Mor- genthau told me afterward that her blood almost ran cold with fright as she passed by these guardians of the law; from all external signs, however, she was absolutely calm and collected. She stepped into the waiting auto, was driven to the Am- erican Embassy, placed the money in our vault, and promptly returned to the school. Mrs. Mongenthau re- turned to the convent. The sisters showed her a hole in the floor and again disclosed a little heap of gold coins. This was secreted on Mrs. Morgenthau's clothes and once more she filed past the gendarmes out into the rain, and was driven rapidly to the Embassy. In these two trips she succeeded in getting the money of the sisters to a safe place. Richest Man In Europe. The richest man in Europe, ac- cording to the Frankfurt Umschan, is--or was, before the war--Baron de Wendel, who before the war own- ed ore fields and iron foundries in lour countries: France, Belginm, Luxemburg and Lorraine. His for- tune is estimated at $100,000,000. The Germans hope to bring these vast possession, which included the famous Briey and Longwy basins, under their own control. The French ore fields are said to be twice as rich as those in Luxemburg and Lorraine, where already four-fifths of Germany's iron is produced. The Hildesheim Chamber of Com- merce has submitted to the Imperial Government a motion pointing out the importance of the annexatioh of the French Lorraine ore basin. says that German iron and steel in- 'dustry has only been able to satisfy the prodigious German metal re- quirements during the war because of the fact that the Briey and Longwy flelds were at theif disposal. ------------------------------ The Sfrength of Eggshells. Most p e are aware of the pow- er of ells to resist external pressure on th= ends, but not many would credit the results of some tests made, which appear to be gen- vine. Eight ordinary hen eggs were submitted to pressure applied extern- ally all over the siirface of the shell, and the breaking pressures varied between 400 !b, and 675 '1b. per square inch. The average thickness of the shells was 13.1,000 .inch, ------------ en The first 'sell-moving gun carriage was invented in France in 17769. Chatson. Grand It WITH SOME TIMELY COMMENT IN A DAY'S ROUND. Appointment of a Fuel Controller ia Again a Live Topic---Suggestion That Autos Out on Sunday Should Be Spotted. "The appointment of a fuel control. ler is again a live topic of conversa- tion on the street. There are many who believe that such an official should be appointed, while. there are also' quite. a pamber who say that there will be mo necessity for one, When the "City Fathers" recover from their extended summer holidays, no doubt the matter will be the subject of debate around the celebrated horseshoe in the Council Chamber The suggestion has been made that the slogan should be "spot the autos" on Sunday. "Truck load of Liquor Seized," read a scare heading in Thursday's Whig. There were many thirsty ones who would have liked very much to get their hands on a bottle of the precious stuff. There was a day when a train- load of "booze" would not have ére- ated the sensation this truck load did on Thursday. Kingston was "mentioned in de. spatches" on Thursday. Several out- side newspapers made reference to "Kingston the Good," in that a week passed without a session of the Police Court. --~-- "Pipe the girl conductorettes," a couple of young men were heard to re- mark on a street railway car yester- day "Excuse me, but do you want to get off near the penitentiary gate?" was the quick reply of the conductorette. The would-be jokers made no fur- ther comment. * -- Just a short time age the Civie Utilities Commission started the slo- gan, "Cook with Gas" Now they have changed their tune to "Conserve the Gas." No, Johhny. the "cops" are not go- ing to be fired just because there has heen no business in the Police Court for the' magistrate during the past week. Nor is the cadi to be relieved of his position because there is "noth- ing doing." Citizens are expressing much sur. prise over the fact that a local coal schooner has been laid up this week when the demand for coal is so great, Surely some person could make use of the vessel to get the coal while the going is good. Resolved, that the police commis- sioners could not do better than to appoint Sergeant Robert Nesbitt as head of the police force, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Chief Baillie, and that Constable "Sam" Ar- niel be hoosted to the job of ser- geant. . «Both 'age #able men and de- serve. promotion, Our schonl hov contributor came hack with the following to-day: There was an old man named the Kai- ser, The war has made him much wiser, He tried hard to win, But has proved a "has been" And when it is over he will be all in, NOT DISINTERESTED "Who was It sald that a woman's best friend is her dressmaker?" "] don't know. Probably her dress maker," x rARDWARE TALK i Fille --_ Mr. Hammer makes me tired, Yes, pho knocking. THREE FULL LOTS F