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Res, 1337J. 378 BRUCK STREET Drowning was formerly a method of capital punishment in Europe, NN, SAVE YOUR EYES If you find that you cannot work at your office without having to stop frequently, to rub your eyes, to stop them smarting or aching, it means that somethi with them. ng is wrong Why not have them attended to at once, and saye further trouble and inconvenience ? If you need Glasses we will tell you and we will tell you if you don't. ; | 'R. J. RODGER - - Optometrist - © 132 Princess St. Phone 347. SPECIAL Women's Oxfords and Pumps--in Patent and Kid Leathers. A wide range of styles to choose from. ~ While they Jast-- $3. 75 SHOE STORE iy | THE MIGHTY BOLIVAR! | paxovs AS THE LIBERATOR OF | Told I n SOUTH AMERICA. | | He for Years, When thé Spaniards | 'Were Driven Out of the Western World, N memory + Simon Bolivar, - whose memory in- South Amer- lca is revered as is that of | George Washington in the Unit- | {ed States, President Harding unveil- | | ed a statue in New York.on April 19. The date chosen was the anniversary | Miss Marion Rankin will return | of the Battle of Lexington, where lel : { . rof. | and when, according to the poet: los AR shortly to take a course | By the rude bridge that arched the {at the university there. fiood, |" Miss Dorothy Howe, Toronto, ar- Their flag to' April's breeze un- rived in town on Tuesday to visit her | furled, | sister, Mrs. R. J. Leach and Major Here once the embattled farmers | oacn, King street. : Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cook, ntin 1ed From Pages 3 and 8) fon , Mrs. Eric Phillips, wita { Peterboro for the week-end. | Dr. and Mrs. Greer, Mrs. Greer, King street. Mrs. Anthony Rankin, stood who ; . . h \ i Was Born In the Aristocracy But | 1 wilig t Took Sides With the People In a | : Desperate. Struggle That Lasted | : | | : | i Miss Doris Browne, motored up io | Peterboro, | spent the week-end with Major and Collin's | Bay, will go to Toronto nex eek | | for the closing-ef Havergal College. th Keith Johnston will leave | And fied the shot heard round Ue! ere in town for the sports at the | world. { ed to Montreal. It was no precise anniversary of . | anything 'of unusual importance in 5 in | the career of Bolivar, though it is Miss Jessie Bryson, Ottawa, wit | Just about -one hundred years ago| DC @MONE the out-of-town guests a: 5 : : the M¢Kay-Minnes wedding. that he fought one of the series of | battles that was destined to drive | the Spaniard from South Amorica. But in the fretful history of that part of the continent, there was a | Street. | period of some ten years when it| Prof. and Mrs. | would be difficult to select a day | Miss Nonie Scott, New York, are with | when Bolivar important battle or abou | Probably he fought as many battles | Scotl | as Napoleon. Indeed it would be] | dificult to mention offhand general who fought more in t to fight it. [art street, and to spend some months. the | | Royal Military College, have return- | I Miss Helen Watson and Miss Mox- | ton, Toronto, will be in town for the | June ball and will be at 63 West E. F. Scott, with | [-- was not fighting an| Dean and Mrs, Oswald Skelton, Stu- | and will shortly sail for | | Mrs. Keith Johnston, Queen street, | any i will go up to Toronto this week and | | span of 5 comparatively short life. | Vill bring Mrs. MacDowall back with | The Liberator was born in Cara- | her for a Visit | cas, Venezuela, on July 24, 1783. He] \d . came of a wealthy patrician family,! Mr. Glover, Meaford, who has late- and of the class that was stoutly | supporting Spain's claim to rule the | country. But Bolivar, perhaps in- | spired by the American Revolution, | held from boyhood a strong convic- | tion that the Spaniards were in- | truders and that the affairs of Vene- | zuela should be managed from Car- | acas and not from Madrid. He | studied and traveled in Europe as a | Young man, and married at the age | of eighteen. He took his bride home | but she died in less than a year and | he went back to Europe and remain- |ed for some time a saddened exile. { It was the death of his dearly loved | wife that proved the turning point in | his carcer. Had she lived there is | every chance that his earlier revolu- | tionary ideas might have been modi- | fled by her influence and he would have allied himself as time. went on with the Spanish party into which he was born. caused him to turn for solace to the conspiracies that had as their object the independence of Venezuela. In 1809 he began by joining hands with Miranda, a veteran in many South American wars, who recently had failed in an effort to overthrow the Spanish power in Venezuela. The fighting did not begin until 1811. Then, says T. R. Ybarra, in the New York Times, commenced a struggle of deadly ferocity. Pat- riots and Spaniards fought with fine courage marred by - implacable cruelty; towns were sacked and burned without mercy; noncombat- ants were massacred by hundreds; disease and starvation ravaged the land; Caracas, the capital, lost more than half its population within a few years, as a result of death and emigration. Not the least of its troubles was the appalling earth- quake of 1812, which caused the death of some 10,000 persons in the Venezuelan capital. . By the following spring the plight of the Venezuelans from a military point of view was so bad that Mir- anda made an agreement with the Spanish commander and prepared to leave the country. Bolivar and others had him arrested and turned over to his enemy, who sent him in chains to Spain, where he died. The incident is regarded as a blot on Bolivar's career. However, there were many other blots, for nowhere was warfare carried on with greater Savagery than by Bolivar on one hand and the Spaniards on the other. Time and time again victorious arm- les refused to take prisoners. They massacred the inhabitants of captur- ed towns, and they recognized no neutrals. If a man was able-bodied and had not a spear or a musket in his hand when one or the other came upon him, he would be taken for an enemy and shot. The hatred between the two factions is almost incredible. © For instance, Campo Elias was a Spaniard who hated his country so bitterly that he declared; "I would like to kill every Spaniard and then commit suicide, so that none of the accursed race should re- main alive." For ten years the strug- gle raged over the country which as a result of it was to became Vene- suela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Bolivar thrice escaped assassina- tion by a narrow margin. Once a murderer invaded his tent at night, and had the general at his. mercy, but mistook a secretary for 'him and slew the wrong man. Time and again his cause seemed hopeless but he never despaired. His most not- Shiq Jeat Was. to cross the Andes in midwinter to surprise the Spaniards in Colombia. When he seemed to have not only liberated the great northern part of South America, but to have welded it into a republic that might one day rival that of the United States, his work went to pieces. The nation split asunder into several republics, once fear of Spain had a8 a factor to drive South Americans together. The Liberator sick and dis- Supeluted gave up his presidency, 3 is ok, : 'Those who fought for the E e > » ¥ -- 'Dondon, June §--While no date is been fixed for the departure of of Canada, mh foreman. Sq 18mm are his wite, who is an favalid But his grief at her death { ly Me [63 West street Col. A. Z. Palmer, i awa. | Mrs. Colin Hamilton, Ottawa, was {a visitor in town this week. | Mrs. Oswald Wright and Miss { Mildred Wright, who spent the week- {end with Prof. W. C. and Mrs. Baker, Centre strcet, have returned to Ot- tawa, Prof. T. Callander, who spent tha week-end in town, has returned to | Kirk's Ferry, Que. C.' W. Topping, New York, who has been attending-- Columbia Uni- versity and the Union Seminary aud has just received the degree of M.A, S5.T.M., arrived in town on Tuesday and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs, Elmer Woodman, Earl street. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Carnovsky, Princess street, and Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Nash, who motored to Cornwail for the Methodist conference present at the laymen's dinner on Saturday evening and returned home on Monday. Miss Nan Skinner is still in Italy, but will go to England later in the summer, Sir Augustus Nanton was in town for the meeting of the board of visit- ors of the Royal Military College. Mrs. Lillie Perry, Camden East, has been spending a few days in town, % h:-» Dr. Ross K. Childerose will leave shortly for Gravenhurst, where he has received a good appointment un- der Dr. Kendall. Mrs. Childerose will go to Ottawa, and later pay visits in Quebec. Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Denyes, Shan- nonxille, will motor to Kingston on Saturday, Mrs. Denyes will pay a visit to her parents, Major and Mrs. F. A. Walsh, Aberdeen avenue, while Dr. Denyes is at Barriefield camp with the A.S.C. Miss Lily Murray, Frontenac Street, went to Toronto on Tuesday to attend one of the numerous June weddings, * . . Miss Anne Minnes will come from Toronto this week for the McKay- Minnes wedding on Wednesday next, and will be with Mr. and Mrs. James Minnes, Bagot street. Rev. Manley Brundage, Quebec, is the guest of Mr. and A. W. Brun- dage, York street, Miss Molly Lyons and Master Her- bert Lyons have returned after a week's visit at Watertown, N.Y. Earl Stroud, of the head office staff, Bank of Toronto, is visiting in town. : . Edward Whelan and party motored from Ottawa and have been visiting at' Mrs. Chas. A. Lyons for a few days. SYDENHAM STAGE MAN DIES OF HIS INJURIES Sydney H. Alport Struck in Abdomen by the Tongue of a Wagon. Sydney H. Alport, & farmer residing at Sydenham, passed away at the General' Hospital oh Tuesday night as the result of an accident he sustain- ed on Saturday morning at his home, when the tongue of a wagon struck him in the abdomen. He was brought fo the General Hospital, but the in- jury was very p It been decided that work will be suspended till after the funeral 'on the road where the late Mr. Alport was employed as been appointed to the staff of tho | rchants Bank in Kingston, is at | who was in | i town for a few days has returned to | | were | Kid Strap Slippers. --$1.50-- $150 Little Girls' Patent and Black 10}. Special low price-- $2.25 Girlg' Patent Strap Slippers -- sizes | | to 2. Special this week --$2.25 ox: EN Sizes 8 to Abernethy's Shoe Store a NOTIC Seasonable goods just received at the Unique Grocery-- ~Welch's Grape Juice. ~--Sweet Heart Lemonade. --Orangeade. --Raspberryade. ~Gingerett. ~--Lime Juices. --Fam-ly-Ade--all flayors. C. H. Pickering 490 and 492 Princess Street. Phone 530. \. S-- R. H. JONES Auto Tops repaired, recover- ed; slip covers; all kinds of cushions repaired. BOAT CUSIilUIONS made all sizes with KAPOK filling. 390 PRINCESS STREET Phone 1352, AA eee ae Production of tractors in the Unit- ed States this year is estimated at 315,000. BOYS KHAKI | i THE JUNE BRIDE Choose Furniture that will last JAMES Phone 147 for Service. TROUSERS LONGS--with Cuff ....7.. BLOOMERS . . RONEY'S, Princess St. Se ae ain 0a ay AND 4... HOME until the Golden Wedding. REID THE LEADING UNDERTZKERS NAA ot eit ... $1.90 suffering from rheumatism; one dav- ghter, Mrs. Harry Stoness, Wilmur; four sons, Van, Weyford, Clarence, and Raymond; besides one half-bro- ther in the west, two sisters of Sun- bury, and one half-sister of Cole- brooke. The late Mr. Alport was a man generally respeeted and held in high esteem. The funeral is to be held from his late residence at 2 o'clock Thursday; service in Syden- ham Methodist church. Interment will take place in Cataraqui ceme- tery. Remember Hotel Diev- Tag Day, Saturday, June 11th | TWICE TOLD TALEs News of Kingston TEN YEARS AGO. A record number of cases was a:- tended to at the General hospital last month. 'The Congregational Union of Can- ada is in full session here. Rev. Frank J. Day, M.A., of Montreal, is Ottawa baseball team game with Victorias. Commercial travellers will send a deputation to W. J. Hanna, protest- ing against the gemeral increase in hotel rates. Vi The medical men say the new Do- minion council means more compn- cated machinery. Chicago Kings:on Old Boys are wants a planning an excursion home next month. SRE ' + pe ------ -------- ~ Taking of the Census E. W. Skinner, census commission- or, stated on Tuesday that the census work in Kingston was being conduct- ed with expedition, and he was hope- ful that the work would be complet ed within the allotted time of two weeks. During the .first week over eight thousand persons have contrib- uted the necessary information and he stated that the census enumerat- ors were not experiencing any diff- culty in securing the information. Foreigners will give the details con- cerning 'themselves through inter. preters if no other method is avail- able, - +d TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO About sixty members of the Free Methodist brotherhood arrived at Lake Ontario park yesterday and will conduct regular camp meetings start- The young Liberals of the city he: an enthusiastic. meeting ' in their rooms in the Golden Lion block last evening. { The employes of the wholesale houses in the city are preparing for 1] their annual sports which will pe held in October. Charles and Joseph Brophy rowed up from Long Island park in forty minutes to-day. This is a record for that stratoh, County court opened this morning TTT - At Chicago, Willlam Hale Thomp-' son suffered his first reverse at the! polls since his election as mayor in! 1915, when a coalition Judietal' ticket swept Chicago on Monday, with no jury cases on he aocke:. carrying every Thompson candidate] to defeat. 3