pai 4 1X . Cleaning, Pressing, and Repairing. Neatly Done. We make a Npeclalty of Ladies' Work M. F. Patton, Prop. 119 SYDENHAM ST. Near Princess St. Phone 214 | Sopa { Ne, cui | $L000 WME No.3. cms | ViTaL WEaenreS | FADIAGCHEMINTS. PRICEIN ENGLAND, ). vrponsior PREE | follow wculars, | PC THERAPION 1S ON | LL GK PACiETR | mr Kimas Wan s "CANADA'S BILINGUAL PROBLEM Pope's Letter to Archbishop of Quebec Has Paved Way for |, Amicable Settlement of Serious Difficulty--=@Qood Will on Both Sides Will do the Rest. of Queen's caticn acts to suit themselves. ile in eror 'Wiliam Conacher University,. Kingston, New Yo "8 : Readers 'of the New York Times) the language of the Province must Magizine were informed. some De taught, and taught efficiently, in months ago of the acuteness of the! all Ontario schools; that French question of a nacent nationalism in| Primarily only be used where ul uctl 3 @ French Canada and the bilingual | struction in English issue raised by the efforts of French | ess, and that further teaching of Canadians fn Ontario to secure! Fremch was only permissive and an French teaching in the schools. The! Ct of grace Subject to departmental agitation has recently received two control, : : strong rebuffs in the Pope's letter to Then came the Pope's:letter and the Cardinal [Archbishop of Quebec,| the judgment of the Privy Council and the decision of the Court of Ap- Tae Pope took a ground at first sur- peal of the British House of Lords in, Prising, but comprehensible from a a test case, brought by a Ottawa broad point of view, He entirely Board of School Trustees against the threw over the contention that the Provincial Government of Ontario; Perpetuation of French was necess- The | their opinions. regulation laid down that English as !they hold the German soldier ine to fight it ous, would be use-|time. PECLARE THA?-#%18 MERELY A QUESTION OF TIME. "We've Gor Fritz's Nambey," They Say--The Condition of the Can- adian Troops is Splendid. William Phi With the © itish Front in Franee, Doc. 8 (By catle; delayed ).~--1 talked wifh seve- ral Canadian privates in order to gel Taken by and largely i no {better than the others, He's not a! | super-soldier, in the Candian view. The Cana ns are perfectly satisfied hand-to-hand, at any However, they do hold the) ne guns in respect. The {Germans are using these in vast npum-| bers. Moreover, the machine gun jeraws are said to be the flower of the! | German army, unless the coast guard! regiments recenily hrought to the! front are better. These men are {spoken of as "marines." They are] {the toughest opponents the Can- {adians have yet encountered. It is a isfgnificant fact that the coast guards| ar {German mac | The decision confirms its own edu-| &T¥ for the maintenance of Catholi-|soemed wiped out by the Canadians | ity. cation, while declaring that the! "1 { Provincial Legislature went beyond | Guestions broadly were obviously the | helped to defend its powers In appointing trustees to affairs of the State, and that the The condition 0 | administer the recalcitrant school. main pofut for Catholics was to do troops is most splendid, 1 i As usual we are well stocked up with good sensible holiday goods: | Cameras, { Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Hand Wallets, Fountain Pens, Perfume, Chocolates, Fie, Let us assist in selecting ac. ceptable gifts, At Best's THE POPULAR DRUG STORE Qren Sundays He set forth that educational right to Of the two the more important is DOthing to. endanger the the letter of the Pope, because it! their separate Schools. cuts at the root of the extreme nat-| Belore this, and reference as to ional contention, while, at the same] /angnage, however natural, must time, it comeerns itself solely with lve way. 4n so far as the bilingual the Catholic side of the question.| difficulty was a difficulty and a divis- | The aim of the party of which Bour-| ion between Catholics it was necess- |vision ware | assa is the most notable figure has | ary to remove it "that brotherly love been topreserve and perpetuate the] continue," and his Holiness enjoined French Canadian nationality. It has the Catholic hierarchy of Canada to not concerned itself primarily with | meet and work for that end. the question of the relation to the| There the judgment of the Roman loyality of French Canadians to the Pontiff remains, a monument of British Empire; in fact, a good deal] Catholic statemanship and recalling of the argument of the Bourassa ID it< tone and wording some Pauline sctiool is 'based on questions of .the| €pistle to a distant Asian church, rights of French Canadians under And there, 100 one may confidently the British North America act, and | "Xpect will ensue an exhibition of that implies an acceptance of the Catholic obedience and submissiop in prineiples of the act and an acquies- | the future acts of French Canadians, conee in the position of French Can-| Curiously similar, in some respects ada within thé British Empire, { In its bread analysis of the situation, None the less in the present war and in its interpretation and defin- Bourassa has taken up the position | ition of the law, was the judgment that there is no call for Canadians, °f the oldest representative judicial and particularly Canadians, to fight body in Christendom, the legal peers the battles of the Empire averseas, of the House of lords, the Lord But the chief peint in the econ- Chancellor, with tention of Bourassa et Cie. is the pre-| Shaw, and others, servation of the French Canadian| In the main they uphold the right entity in the Dominion of Canada,| of the Provincial Legislature of On- perhaps with a far-seeing eye to the tarfo to administer its own educa- distant day when Canada shall be in! tion, and by their ruling on the all respects an independent nation, | British North America act deny the Lords when the Canada in its term may as-| French contention that the French | pire to become an independent state, | language has equal rights with Eng- carved out of, or amputated from, lish throughout Canada. Yet in the the parent body. And the Natiomal-| particular case at issue they decide ist party in Quebec has found to|that the Ontario Legislature went hand an immediate object for which | beyond its powers in replacing the to contend and an aim with whick | offending School Board hy commiss- it can identify its nationalist ideas. | ioners to perform the duties which That aim is the preservation and only that School Board was empow- safe-guarding of their national | ered to perform, tongue on the ground that such a! And so it would seem that, with course is essential to the safe-guard-| some good will on both sides--Ilet Haldane, | of trenches which they! {in taking of Canadian They are I watched the column unload, a cap- ecking up every box, | ly as systematically the certainly well fed daily supply jtain in charge « | bag and bale of jand in as business-like a manner as {the manager of a great wholesale pro- nm in the American! a surplus added daily the field base, so that {failure of a supply column to arrive {does not prevent the men and horses {from having their food as usual. Tha Canadian field forees not oniy {have the staples, but they have also plenty of "palate teasers in thei {shape of pickles and other | dainties to the monotony of! | regular fare. i The relation between the Canadian jofficers and the men is similar to that | so often marked in the French army There is a cordial understanding be-! tween both. } Everywhere I found the Canadians| confident of the outcome, an expres-| sion of the Vancouver boys summing up the common belief: | "It's merely a question of time.| We've got Fritz's number." | FEEDING HENS FOR EGGS IN' WINTER! Some Suggestions From Poul-| ; tryman at Amercian Agri- | cultural College. ! | Start now to tone up that egg ma-! l,.chine and get it in order for maxi- | | mum winter. egg production by put-| { ting those early hatched pullets and | | hens to be held over on a good stimu-| lating egg-making ration, i | The following ration is stated in} a6 west, The {to the stores best sauces, break be ing and preservation of the Church; | with which the French Canadian is] identified, | cident might be closed, and the Eng- | us say a zeal on the part of Bour-| parts by weight: ASSa to carry out the expressed de-| Wheat . . . .. . . _ . _. 20 parts sires of his religious father--the in-1 Corn ++.20 parts { Corn Probe: Generally fair and decidedly cold; snow: PAGE THREE A Special Attraction for Friday Morning ! From 9 to 12 o'clock Friday we will offer for the benefit 'of the early shopper DOUBLE DISCOUNT STAMPS This exceptional offer means that by you save 10% on all cash purchases. est and best assorted people and prompt deliveries, should ma stocks of practical centre of every Kingston woman. shopping in the morning This, coupled with the great- gifts--alert, pleasant sales- ke this store the shopping CHRISTMAS NECKWEAR A showing most complete with every late novelt y in crepe de chene, georgette crepe, embroidered voile and broadcloth collars, prettily boxed for $1.25, $1.50, $2.00, gift giving; priced at 25¢, on up to $3.50. We invite you to see these tomorrow. A C 35¢, 50c, 75¢, $1.00, a atl ttt taining, Y'S | Ii is this which has Identified the | i Wind Breakers | Sweater Cogte that keep out the north w FR. . comfort, EARN Ha cure, and perhaps to a certain extent | the Catholic hierarchy, with the] nationalist alms, Moreover, recent years have seen the, French Canadian | population overflowing "its borders! into the States and into Ontario that! part of the overflow which is going into the States is considered lost' from the point of view of language ism it is necessary for that to cease. | Charcoal or religion. Earnest efforts' have] tario. lish and French Canadians together." . t But that' comifg together requires some advance on the part of Ontario, Part of the anti-Ontario feeling In Quebec is due to the anti-French feeling in Ontario. To take the sting out of national 'come And in regard to the recognition of The effort naturally resolves itself | by right. At present the French who|T®0u¢ed to 10 parts, the wheat . 20 party 10 i Oats . parts { | Li Bram . . .... Middlings . rye Linseed meal .. .. Cat bone Beef cerap-. . Oyster shell Grit .10 parts parts parts parts parts i Milk { Green feed The nature of any ration is govern-| | { been made to preserve the emigrant | French claims In Ontario it would be | sd largely by the feed available, and! population which has gone into On-jas well to accord certain matters as | [he Price, | a favor which need not he accorded | MEher priced thaw: wheat. it can be In this ration, if corn is in- into two: Securing French priests in| overflow into Ontario are not in al 'Te8%ed to 30. parts, or 10. parts of French communities in Ontario and| securing an education in French in| the separate schools where the ma-| jority of children are French Cana-! dians, But here come in the difficulties of | a cross-division. Separate schools were established by the Province to! Ulster problem and Canada its own! meet the needs, chiefly of Catholle| children, and in Ontario these chil-! dren would naturally be, prior to the French influx, of Irish descent and! English-speaking or the children of a poun converts, who were simply Cana-| dian without any hyphen. | "SALADA." position to make <¢laims with any ethical justice, But in fifty years it Eastern Ontario is predominantly French it will be a gross anomaly not to recognize facts and make some allowance for changed conditions. Otherwise Ontario will have its own Irish question. ---- Cost of Tea Rapidly Increasing. The nt advance of five cents by no means represents the increased cost of the fine teas used in The markets have ad-| | ground kafir or | #tituted. By increasing | middlings and linseed {| wheat can he reduced. | | Unless corn is so high priced that | grinding is necessary, corn, wheat land oats will constitute the whole | grain to he fed morning and evening in a deep litter. During severe win-| | ter weather, corn should be feed! i sparingly in the morning and heavily} lin the evening. { Bran, middlings, linseed meal, cut hone and beef scraps will constitute the mash. - This can be mixed in large! ~~ ground harley sub-| the bran, meal, the) i | quantities and fed either by the dry | Naturally the parents of such chil-| vanced from six to ten cents a pound | mash method or keeping it in hop-, TENDERS SHOULD HAVE atmosphere of the schools for which they had neither use nor! liking, and hence tue appearance of | a bone of contention. | Government, which is reputed to be} predominantly Orange; recently en- tered into the controversy by a regu- lation restricting French teaching in Ontario schools, t This action was taken in . conse- quence of the proceedings of certain | school boards where French Cana- dians were in control, who Were! practically administering the edu- HAD VIOLENT COUGHING FITS » LOOKED HIKE CONSUMPTIVE. | Mrs. Mary 'Whetén, North Forks, | N.S., writes: "Having taken five bot- tes of Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, during the past few weeks, to} relieve a chronic cough and general | throat "allow me to express nly - unbounded satisfaction and' banks as to its sterling qualities. A hort timo ago | became subject to Wood's" on the market so see that none of these so-called "pine syrups" are handed out to you when you ask for "Dr. Weod's." It has been on the market for twenty<ive years, is put up in a yellow , three pine trees the trade mark, price 25c and 0c. Fo There are many imitations of "Dr. he tures only by the T. Mi! dren resisted aftefnpis to make the and the freight rates jumped two and French, one-half cents a pound in the past two months. Whatever prices these un- controllable conditions may warrant, The Ontario however, you may rely on the quality | a] of "SALADA™ same as ever. More Speed Is Needed. Making munitions is no common task. Neither should it he governed by the common laws of labor. Noth- ing short of 100 per cent. efficiency is accepted in the finished product. Consequently 100 per cent. efficiency Is required of the worker. This 100 per cent. efficiency implies more than physical - obligation to do so much work for some much money. It means doing all that one is capable of do- ing in the period of time one is at work. It is not sufficient to be satis- fied to do a MMttle work and get 'a little pay for it. space occu remaining exactly the 0 | pled and machinery ed bythe slow oF easy-going worker would better be given up to & speedy worker, so that the speedy worker might do more and earn more. The obligation the munitions worker Is to tarh out the greatest possible amount of work within Manufa burp Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. | pers before the birds at all times, or BEEN OR ; |as a wet mash, moistened with milk FEN CALLED F § and fed at the middle of the day. , ; During the coldest winter days and Renovating Building in Fair, io iu Stasing She birds, the Host} Qrounds for the Board i Stimulating resalis w obtained! i if the wet mash is fed warm. Milk of Works. should be before the birds at all 4 b : | times. If milk (skimmed or butter-| Pei yesterday afternoon 8 meeting | { milk) is not available, the cut hone Muir oar of or Shy. Auditor ' . ' i 2 ; ant eel SErap Hust het ill ane: od members the fact that no tenders had oats give best results, but a warm | been called for the work of recon- room or cellar in which to grow it|Structing the old machinery building | must be provided. Bteamed alfalfa? Lay it srounis for the Board's : ES | road machinery, i leaves make an excellent ns sub- | Ho hon oe ud NE work wan dope stitute. Cabbage and numbréus other e: Payne did the + t and Sanden vegetables Sah hg ed. ed other construction work, and WJ | e cost is often proh 3 | : 1s Birds should have constant access VIAge suppiled the glass, etc. . | to oyster shells, bo aiid charcoal | ly ae man of ie Supplied in special hoPhSH, | some misunderstanding. He thought | that the Council had-~ ordered the, YOU GET QUALITY IN Beef SIRLOIN STEAKS .. .. SIRLOIN ROASTS .. .. .. . 27¢ PORTERHOUSE STEAKS . . . 30¢ PORTERHOUSE ROASTS .. .. .. 28¢ BEEF SUET -- BEEF DRIPPINGS .. 22¢ 28c . fee ew » Wm. Davies' Co., limited, Phone 597 | | | Why take chances when the Some hachelors hurry life ba if a leap year widow were chasing im. > Ignorance might be bliss if some wark 10 be proceeded with, but the auditor said the matter had never been before the Council. Ald. Couper also remarked that he had no recol- lection of the Council passing upon body did not think it his duty to put it The City Engineer said he had been instructed by the chairman to go on with the work, as the new ma- had to be housed. A Muir said he had no au- thority (0 pass the accounts rendered Sr DG CONTASOrS What had dome. the e Board of Works will recom- mend to the Council that the de counts be paid, as the work has heen done a hi , : | { | | | ket to the | / E roads 'are covered with snow or ice or slimy mud? Put on chains and have con- trol of your car. All sizes care ried in stock. Robt. J. Fursey, there would be a parade of | Rorses from the mar- ounds at 10, o'clock. be three races. The and members' : along spl im good condition for x ¢ the "but family quarrels are the worst. There are quarrels and quarrels