In'; 1 and 2 pound cans. Whole --~ ground -- pulverized -- also Fine Ground for Perco~ 13 YOUR HEALTH WORTH $5.00? Woman Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- 'pound Restored Her Ohio. ~*'1 was all broken down displacement. egetable Toutes specatadrion rie Co. (contidential), Lyin, Mass. ase none | | | lin. all the pew | shades and" choi | materials, in | Fawn, Battleship. Grey, Light Vs Crea } diana MAJOR D,® WELLER HAS CLAIMS OX FAME. Engineer in Charge of the Welland Canal Was & Crack Rifleman and Was & Member of the Bisley Team of 1808---He Served in the North-Wesi Rebellion--His. Fa gineering Feats Are Notable, AJOR J. L. WELLER, on whose shoulders rests the main burden of the mam- moth construction work now in progress on the new Welland Ship Canal, is a native of Ontario, having been bora at Cobourg in this Province, some 56 years ago. He was graduated from the Royal Mili- tary College with honors in 1882, faking the first prize in civil engin- eering, physics, aud artillery, He has been constantly In the employ- ment of the Department of Railways and Canals of Canada from 1882 to the present date, being connected with the construction of the Trent, Murray, and St. Lawrence Canals. He was superintending engineer of the Welland Canal from 1900 to ¥912, and at present is engineer-in-charge of the survey, design, and construe- tion of the proposed Welland Ship Canal, which is estimated to fost $60,000,000. He bas had a varied experiensn both as soldier and as engineer. He served in the North-West Rebellion in 1885 as lieutenant in thé Midland Battalion, and as staff adjutant at the base under Major-Ceneral J. W. Laurie. Later he served as captain and adjutant in the 59th Stormont and Glengarry Regiment, retiring when senior major on movihg out of the dipfxict. He was a member of the Eislgy team of 1896, winning many prizes, amo#g others the High Commigisoner"s Cip. He was also a member of the Kolapore Cup team of that year, which was successful in winning the cup. He was pl.ced in'charge of the re- pairs of the disastrous break in the Cornwall: Canal bank in 1908, which was repaired by building a timber crib dam 428 feet long by 20 feet wide and 20 feet high around the washout, in ten days, and the canal was in operation in less than three weeks afterwards. Among his other claims to distinction may be men- tioned the fact that he was the orig- inal inventor of reinforced concrete poles for electric lines. Major Weller's great daring and resourcefulness bave won him a re- putation, Some years ago: he accom- padled a part, of Government offi- ciald on a trip of inspection from Port Colborne to Port Stanley on Lake Erie, The party traveled om Lake Erie. The party traveled on a tug boat and the trip was made in November, when the weather is usu- ally cold and the lake rough. A skiff was being towed. behind the tug, and on the way to Port Stanley the tow line became fouled in the screw of the propeller of the tug. Bf- forts to free it were unavailing, and navigation of the boat was rendered impossible. The only solution was for one of the party to go down under the water and cut the rope away-- Bot a very inviting prospect 'in tye, fee cold waters of the lake, and with a fair gale blowing. jor Weller voluntered for the service, and, after stripping off his outer garments, was lowered down behind. Owing to the coldness of the water he was unable to accomplish the task at onee, and was raised to the boat again.' In a short time he again went do and succeeded in partial- ly freeing the propeller, but net suf- ficiently to enable it to be opefated. It was necessary for him to be raised and lowered five times before the task was completed, and by that timé he was completely exhausted and indifferent as to the state of the elements. With careful attention, however, and, thanks to his robust tounstitution, he was gradually brought back to normal, but not without lous cogitation on his part as to the possible.consequences of such exposure, By next day he was himself again, and bad added another instance to the many where his daring has overcome difficult situations, Major Weller wads a splendid marksman, having been (as men- tioned above) a member of the Bis ley Team of 1896, from which he brought back many trophies and on such trips as the one just mentioned, he would often entertain the party by shooting pennies from between the fingers of his companions, who had such ¢onfidence in his aim that they were not at all difident about offering a mark of this kind for his revolver. Maj. Weller in 1885 married Miss Whitehead of Kingston, He has one son and two daughters. The son is Mr. W. H. Weller, general contract= ing engineer, who also graduated from the Royal Military College. Cotton Prices High im Britain A Canadian manufacturer, ly returned from the cott: in the United States, is vinced as a result that cotton will continue to advance until the twenty-cent mark is reached. At presemt the pfice in Liverpool is four cents above thut im New York, and that*aecounts for the fact Canadi who have were lB a ae [To All Russia the War is Considers + 4 Crusade. "The war," said a friend of the writer, just returned from a visit to Russia, "bas wrought no such change | in any capital of Europe, not évén in Paris, &s8 in Petrograd. From a city of careless pleasures it has be- come a city of the deepest serious- ness and a gric and deadly earnest- ness. It is possessed of one thought oply--te" win the war; and on/that object all its efforts are concen- trated, "It is a city, too, of profound piety, and this 'plety is <umiversal. You. will see the roughest cab-driver and the most high-placed officer alike remove their, and cross them- selves reverenfly when passing a street-shrine, / Every Russian regi- ment has its own special ikon, which to it is a real living thing, the very body of the'saint whose spirit dwells fn it; and every soldier carries a cross as bis most precious treasure and consoler. To all Russia the war is a crusade--a holy war waged for the little brother, Serbia. "And for this great and holy cru- sade everyone is working. The very boys are always busy rolling band- ages, making 'swobs," or sewing strips of bombazine together, which the soldiers prefer to socks. At the hospital of Tsarskoe Selo the Caar- ina, her daughters, and Court ladies are ministering night and day to the nded and dying, and in all the in- oY socidl stages everyone is equally hard at work. "In the streets of Petrograd tha war meets you everywhere, Wher- ever you go'you encounter collectors ~--selling metal crosses for the Red Cross, postcards for a fund to heip the Poles, or relics from the battle- fleld--all in the sacred name of charity. "At a street corner you will see a patient, serious crowd gathered to listen while someone reads aloud the latest news of the-fighting from the leaflets 'posted Pp on the walls. Here you pause to watch a regimient of stalwart, grim-faced soldiers march past, with the slow, rhythmic tread peculiar to the Russian fighter, A little farther on a band of students passes along singing--to your aston ishment-- Tipperary,' while every onlooker removes his hat in tribute to Eugland, the great ally who is making victory assured."'--Answers. Hamburg's Deserted Harbor, The London Daily Mall quotes from The Berliner Tageblait's de- scription of Hamburg written by a» recent visitor to that pert. "If any- one wabts. to realize the picture of Hamburg as a sleeping beauty he need only take a rum round the docks. The sound of sirens, the grogaing of cranes, the clanking ofly,ye fey or no Canadians in them. anchor chains is heard no more, Only from the shipbuilding yards co - casional sounds of blows of hammers. Through the silence of the quays and ships everything is completely 1. Before the war boats made an unin- = chain right to the mouth of the Klbe, but now the tenants of the villas on Blankenese tell me they rush to the window every time a4 ship goes by. The whole place is desertéd excepting for some ware- Imperator lay empty Strange to say the porthole fittings of this ship are untouched. The ship has 2,000 portholes and the weight of brass is 75 toms, but it is too much trouble to remove it." A\ A Comparison. 1, The British farmer feeds from 45 to 50 persons, the German farm- er feeds from 70 75 persons. \ 2 The British\ farmer grows 15 Gov tons of grain, th grows 33 tous. ~ §.. The British farmer grows 11 tons of potatoes, the German farmer grows 55 toms. 4, The British farmer produces 4 tons of meat, the German farmer pro. duces 4% tons, 5. The Britsh farmer produces 17% tons of milk, the German farm- er produces 28 tons. z 6. The British farmer produces a neglible quantity of sugar, the Ger- man farmer produces 23% tons. It is further stated in the report German farmep that the soil and climatic conditions! in Germany are inferior to those in England. A Cricket Story. Canon Lyttelton, Eton's headmas- ter, who is retiring in favor of the Rev. C. A. Allington, and a famous cricketer in his early days, was once address! p ng > Sashianible audience un su URRECONSRTY ury a boy's life. "Even cricket," be remarked, "has become largely a soelety fumetion, with elaborate luncheons and high teas"; and he weat on: to say that 0 io dae eeper, n éricket, but who choses into a side to Cs RA AA SO 8 2 IC New Canadian Hospital Was Fav. orite Residence of William IV. The flavor of Royalty pervades yet another Capadian convalescent hos- pital, which is shortly te Le opened by Miss Winnifred lewis, of Ottawa. Clarence House, at Roehampton, in the Richmond district, was ai ene tithe the residemce' of King William IV,, and just as ybu enter the portals there is a heavy door like that of & streng-room, which conceals a seatry box from which the movements of ¢ every entrint or outgoer could be watched, Colonel Hodgetis was tak- ing stock of the house when a corre- i spondent called. It is am old-fash- loned, plainly-built country mansion, ! standing in ample grounds, and fro | the windows theres is a long Toth over the meadows and heath. the grounds there i§ x stone b: ind which it is asserted the old used to take a dip, but, 4 the mass of icaves and the late occupants did open-air cure. is proclaimed by the Fremeh and Ger: man pictures, maps, and rules for behavior. ) Clarence Housé is to be run as an adjunct to the Bushey Park Hospital, from which it is only separated by a mile or two. Miss Lewis expects to get all ber furniture in and every- thing ready to take in patients by the middle of September. There will be accommodation for 75 men at the outset, and as the hospital is near Queen Mary's Roehampton Hospital, where men are fitted up With artifi- cial limbs, it is probable that the cases admitted here will be chiefly of that clase. - Miss Lewis, who has recently visit- ed Ottawa to gather both financial and personal help, has already had experience in war hospital work, having been associated with Mrs, Sandford Fleming at Selling, Kent. Her staff is entirely a voluntary ome and. comprises the following Ottawa ladies: Mrs. Harold Pinhey, Miss Helena Hughson, Miss Jessie Mc Lachlin, Miss Lilian Monk, Miss Mar- sary Jones, Miss Mildred Goodeve, rs. Irving Robertson (Sir George Perley's daughter), and Miss June are also temporary helpers. To a question as to whether there was still furt'ier need for convales- cent hospitals, Colonel Hodgetts re- plied in the affirmative and added that the Canadian Red Cross were intending to establish another with accommodation for 1,000 beds not far from the Shorneliffe area, It is ap- | parently with convaléscenut hospitals it thought then that the Eastern sec. that the Canadian medical services can do most good. It is easier to keep them up to the normal number of patients than the primary bospi- tals. The latter are generally very busy or very slack and frequently This policy has been explained and approved by Surgeon-General Jones, but it does not apply--broadly speaking--to the convalescent hospi- Canada's Railways. Thousands of vigitors to the To- prosaed with she Ao dinptay made bv w op! the Canadian Government railways the Federal rn Building. the exhibit, which is now a perni- feature of Government dis- in In lamps tracing the, railway lines from Winnipeg to the Atlantic Government. Two years ago the Government limes were the Interco- lonial between Montreal and the Maritime Provinces and the Prince Edward Island Railway, Little was tion of the T ntinental was to be taken over closer bonds of unity with the great wheat centre of the Canadian Do- on, mralon, 'the rotite of red fift moving shadows that represent the through trains that annibilate distance be- tween Canada's winter shipping ports and the great western ay. It is a brilliant spectacle and an enter- taining and fascinating instructor. Cr ------------ Unclenned Grain, : About 40 per cent. of the clean- Br i Agw Britala Urged Recruiting and Feonomy in the Press Here are some of the advertise- ments used in the recruiting at 'SCONOmMY campaigns in Britain. One contained the following appeal to bose who employed male servants: "Have you a butler, groom, chauf- eur, gardener, or gamekeeper serv: ing you who at this moment should be serving your King and country? Have you a man serving your table who should be serving a gun? Have you a man digging your garden who should be digging trenches? Have you a man driving your car who should be driving a transport wagon? Have 'you a man preserving your game who should be helping to pre- Serve your country? A great respoti- sibility rests on you. Will you saeri- @ your personal comvenience for your country's need? Ask your men to enlist to-day." What is considered by many as one of the best recruiting advertisements was addressed to the young women of Ireland, where the commissioners spent some time during the cam- paign. It follows: "Is your 'best boy' wearing khaki? IT not, don't you think he should be? If ne does pot think that you and your country are worth fighting for, do you think he is worthy of you? Don't pity the girl who is alone--her Young man probably is a soldier, fighting for her and her couniry--- and for you. If your young man ne- glécts his duty to Ireland, the time may-come when he will neglect you, Think it over--then ask your young man to join an Irish regiment to-day. Ireland will appreciate your help." "This appeal met with great suc- cess,' said an official. - , 'The young women flaunted these adWertisements at the young men ou the sthgets until in self-defence. a stream volun- teers began to pour into the recruit- ing offices, It was a plea which by its very simplicity and truth rpached home." From the campaign of rais re- ertfits the experts turned to tredsury advertising for the war loans. They submitted to Mr. M¢Kenna, Chancel- lor. of the Exchequer, a plan for a campaign. It wus a radical venture for the conserviiive Treasury De partment, but M- McKenna believed that it would psy and had the cours age to aprrave 'he acheme, Vast sums: bave been roeded, and the ad- vertisements have been made strong to meet the occas'cn. Business men bav, BR appealed to with such crisp bits as: "Use your money to save the lives of the men who are fighting your bat:les," and "Turn your sovereigns into soldiers." Even the women who "have nobly helped the war in a thousand ways", have ; been asked to aid further by lénding their money. One advertisement' which has attracted great attemtion is in the form of the following imag- inary conversation between a civilian | and a soldier, under the heading, "What is the price of oné of your arms?": Civillan--How did you lose your arm, my lad? Soldier--Fighting for you, sir! Civillan---~1'm grateful to you, my lad. Soldier--How much are you grate. ful, sir? Civitisa--What do you mean? Soldier--How much money have you lent your country? Civilian--What has with 4? Soldier--A lot. How much is oue of your arms worth? Civilian~-Vd pay anything than lose an arm. Soldier Very well. Put the price of your arm, or #s much as you can afford, lute Exchequer bonds or war saving certificates and lend your money to your country. : The Tecantly --'~sugurated plan whereby small savings may be turns ed into war loans at § per cent. com~ pound interest, 15 shillings and six- pence returning 20 shillings at the end of five years, how been advertis ed in many ways, the most striking displays being . those pointing out that 124 cartridges can be bought for 15 shillings and sixpence, that six band grenades cost only 15 shil- 1 5 : : "Fhe advertising that has brought about the greatest criticisga from the more conservative people is that cone demuning extravagance, it . being main that if is beneath the dig- nity of the Government to deal with such matters ia this way. - that to do rather Mang business men also are sald to hav: 1 at this campaign, for it was Striking hard at their business. It wad a delicate mutter to handle, but the Government kept pufting out ads with the result thut there has been a decided turn ih favor of economy throughout the country. In the Same Grave, fs. a @ story of how - Here remarkabi a in the Loyal North Laas : . t died in the recent on the Vimy Ridge, "Ome of our chaps," writes a com- | rade of the dead man in The Times, "was 80 upset by thé cries of a wounded German wath the North Country. Without considering the effects of the recent New Ontatio ffes as re- gards lumbering and other interests, it must be admitted that, the burning of many acres of slash and other land intended for agriculturs! use was mot a0 unmixed blessing, And it has been further pointed out to the writer by an authority tbat the settler who has been depending on his cut of pulp- wood to help him in financing his farming operations sti'l has an op- portunity to realize on this produce provided he gets to work immediate- ly and delivers the wood before worms have a chance to-attack it. Farming is the intended occupa- tion of a majority of the new settlers and they are chiefly interested in geot- ting the plow going in their land, so it can be said that in many cases they will save time and labor to the value of from $3 to $20 per acre in the clearing of the ground, as a re- sult of the fires. For this winter the lot of the settler will be, a hard ome no doubt, as those who had posses- sions such as live stock and hay in stack have lost either ome or both, while those who had not these pos- sessions on account of lack of funds will find the purchase of the neces- saries of life a hard matter. Mr. C. F. Bailey, Assistant De- puty Minister of Agriculture for On. tario, who has visited the North country many times in the interest of its agricultural setlement, is of the opinion that nothing more than is at present being done can be effected in the prevention of the bush fires, and he points out that such fires have occurred every 50 years since long before the first occupancy. of Lhe country by man. It is therefore worthy of notice that in spite of these com- paratively frequent burnings of tim- ber and other growth that the land when cultivated produces first-rate crops, Mr. Bailey's own plan for the set- tlement of returned soldiers on Northern Ontario lands, which has been submitted to the Government for approval, is one that will, If made use of, provide a means of safety from fire for those who take up land under-its arrangements. This plan includes the setting aside of certain areas to be devoted to settlement by returned soldiers; each area to have a temporary agri- cultural school situated at its centre. The school and school farm will oc- eupy 2,000 acres, which will be di- vided into four parts for the con- venience of demonstrating different kinds of farming--dairying, . fat stoek, sheep and swine, for instance ~--and after the school has served its purpose as such the school farm will be turned into a townsite, on which such soldier-settleds as are not inter. ested in agriculture can establish themselves in their chosen business. By thé time the school farm is ready for turning to the above use the surrounding country will be well settled by those who bave received instruction at the school or those who, because they are experienced farmers to begin with, have been granted their 160 acres on applica. tion. The idea is to have the school and tbe surrounding country under military management, so that good discipline can be maintained with the intention of bringing the district into a satisfactory state of clearing and cultivation as rapidly, as pos- sible. Business Failures Fewer, Monts. R. G. Duna and Company draw attention to the fact that im- provement in the business mortality is not confined to the United States, strictly commercial failures in Can- ada during July making the best ex- hibit for the period since 1913. Thus, insolvencies numbered 113 and sup- plied liabilities. of $2,615,098, against 310 for $3,265,802 last year, 234 in 1914 for $1,842,851, and 113 three years ago, when, however, the amount involved was only $684,652. Of the total, 27 defaults were in manufacturing lines, and the indebt* edness of these was $879,203, as compared with 62 for $1,282,897 in the previous year, 36 for $459,681 in 1914, and 31 in 1913 for $398,215. In the trading division, failures were comparatively light, numbering 77 and involving $736,794, 137 last year for $1,835,402, and 186 in 1914 for $1,273,169. Three years ago there were 78 similar suspens- ions, and the amount was but $283,- Among agents, brokers, and other comcerns not properly included in either manufacturing or trading, the Habilities of $£99,101. 147,503 in July, 1915, and 12 in 1914 for $111,001. In 1913, how- ever, the sumber was only four, and the indebtedness reached the imwigni- Scant sum of $3,250. production of all output up to June 30 of this year was 507,750 [tohs, compared with 366,825 tons in the frst halt of 1915, and $35.595 returns showed nine defauits, with [I TRICKEN | ~ SIREET Completely Restored To Health By * Fruit-a-tives " 882 Sr. Vausr Sr, Moxraear. "In 1912, I was taken suddenly ill with Acutd Stomach Tvowble and dropped in the street, years, and my weight dropped from 225 pounds to 160 pounds. Then several of my friends advised me to try "Fruit. a-tives", J began fo improve almost with the first dose, and by using them, I recovered from the distréssing Stomach Trouble --and all pain and Constipation werecured. Now I weigh 208 pounds. I cannot praise "Fruit a-tives'l enough'. H, WHITMAN, 80e. ho 6 for $2.30, trial size, 230, Atall dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit. a-tives Limited, Ottawa. --. BUILDERS ! Have You Tried GYPSUM WALL PLASTER It Saves Time P. WALSH Barrack 8¢ J 16's meeded, but does mot affect Weese's new sunshine light. Photos taken rain or shine and Satarday nights. Remember, it is at WEESE'S PHOTOS, FRAMES, PICTURES I A ttc tM att Fresh Shipment -- FOR THE «= Week End Cranberries, new figs, sweet potatoes, McIntosh Red apples, Tokay grapes, chestnuts. P. H. BAKER & C0 302 King St. Phone 141 Ni N shane 0, 4 i. % oi phtehis a, . 8 Nos, 1, & Sally, 'thier tring Gait " nley, Agent, corpor john d Ontario . Kingston Agency for ali Steamship 1 was treated | by several physicians for mearly two ° a a