we PAGES 9-12 1 + : i pd \ YEAR 84, NO. 38 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY FE The Daily British Whig BRUARY 14, 1917 3 12 PAGES SECOND SECTION FOOD SUPPLY VITAL FACTOR x | who, facing dea daily serve their The Hon Mi Burrell Eamestly (alls for country at thé battle front. Thous- . : . jands of us car 0 serve, but we Increased Production. who are mercifu » from the iron | t EE a NT heel of the invaders-- we, who know - 1 nothing of terrors by sea' and the] 3 - - privations on land which others suf- 5 GIVES PICTURE OF EUROPE fer, may well redouble our efforts to | | j supply what they may sorely need. ! year to those in whoYhithertq ha sity" for food production u . . - FRANCE REAPS HARVEST WITH- IN SOUND OF. GUNS, Thousands Who Cannot Render Greatest Sérvice, Facing Death at in the aggregate mean much. By =p . . A | plying their labor to uncultivated Battlefront, Can Redouble Efforts) land near their homes, or by assist-| to Furnish What May Be Needed. | Ottawa, Feb: 14.--The following] appeal, inscribed to "The People of} Canada," has been made by Hon.| Martin Burrell, Minister of Agricyl-| for increased production: ing farmers, eve can accomplish need not only f ply, but for a w If" all labor is n at least be patie ture, Two years ago in message in the State now for either half the farmers. of Canada special em | heartea "service or ill-founded cri-) , phasis was laid on the important part{ ijem In the common task whi 4d ! food production and distribution faces the country co-operation should be the watchwor Provincial ture are already tinue to give whuld play in this world war. It was] pointed out that the drafting of} twenty millions of men into "urope more not wil prodacts, il "1 especially appeal in this critical directing even though small and unskilled, will | where partial efficiency i ied by willingness Departments special attention to the difficult condi auseltof the high doubtless hold oN but becaus t and special servic agriculture can ren 3 juncture All ork render a great I do wot say the done by those be our cities and towns ve not felt the neces- their energies to Individual efforts, rybody having health something There 'is or an increased sup-| ise economy of food. | ot eflicie there gan nce and forbearance accompan- is no place There d. The Dominion and of Agricul giving, and will con- an battlefields and the destructive! many problems involved The Na process of war itself must inevitably | tional Service Board and the muni | ; dimi hed productic n | cipalities are also devoting their en he followed by diminished prods ) borgies to hase questions, and 1 am aud enhanced cost of food, To day| confident that the various organiza Rumania, Poland and Belgium are| tions, both of men and women conspicuous and tragic exampleshof | throughout 1% Soustey will sive Sa % The Gop. | Wholehearted and active support to What these things nea The Ger a rk which at this special time |i man food ratiop Is now half the nor- a high and necessarys national ser mal requirement, and under the|yijce" steady pressure of British sea powen| . the Hun is daily tightening his belt GERMANS WILL KILL But though the great stress is on the| o BRITISH OUNDED | ~ Central powers, other nations are} feeling the strain. Thg smaller neu-| tral countries are cénfronted with] food 'shortage and high prices. Swit zerland and Holland, in arms for de New Barbarism Is Revealed in| yer an Announcement From h ------ ONE TO JOCK. Irate Passenger: (as the train moves out): "Why didn't you put my luggage in, your blithering old ass?" Porter:\""There's mair sense in yer trunk than there is in eid, mon. It's you that's in the wrong train." fence, feed from their own scanty] Berlin. porarily suspended until Great Brit supply thousands of refugees who, | ain Ayplied to this note homeless and destitute, have fled London, Feb. 14. The Foreign he Foreign Office appénds the thither for sanctuary. England, men-| Office has issued a statement show-| note i | omment on the nature of . aced by an ever-increasing submarine} ing that just before the rupture of |suche#kcommunications or upon the warfare, is organizing her agriculture| diplomatic relations between Ger-! character that inspires them: seems on a new basis, - enlisting for her farms the services of women and dis abled soldiers, and putting her beau- timl and historic parks under the plough France sows her grain and reaps her harvest, even within the sound of her guns, by the heroic and unceasing tabor of her old men, wo men gnd children. Ariat many and the no longer permi hospital ships tc such method of "no longer consi changes which It was transportation w Food Supply a Vital Factor, "Such is the picture of Europe at many, through an American channel, notified Great Britain that she would transportation of British and man incapacitated war prisoners on| have) occurred added United States, Ger-|superflous." | | Governor t, as heretofore, the Chatham, Fel Ger- | lw Vanless y and from Holland, | oa y lle ye transportation being | as been namet dered safe, owing [was born. 0s as I 1 : | tives here that henceforth | Ves here ould/only be permit-} to! Essex County Jail at Sandwich. Che of Essex Jail, ) 14 Word - has been received in Chatham that Sergt. | of the 99th Battalion as Governor of the He rela- atham and has this hour. Facing the fateful days ted either by .Duteh paddle-wheel « Prof. Charles White Dead. -- which lie before us in this third and steamships, which guaranteed safe Boston, Feb, 14 Charles Joyce sternest year of the war, we Feaiise conduct from the German side, or by | White, professor emeritus of Har- with increasing clearness how vital a hospital ships to southern France, |vard University, died at his home factor in the final decision the food supply must be, The Government of this country fully appreciate what oa dns the farmers have done during the The German past two years. In urging them to announced that maintain their efforts, though con-| severely wound AA A A AA AAA PANINI. ite "There's «dd outside the prohibited maritime zone, | here late this afternoon, and thence to Switzerland. notification j Fo one of the further! tors in thig cour of tem the transport British was 1) + 4 Vad, "i Lt br) I 2 HA Vir 77 2! " bh KY A i '2 4 yA Pi$1 a Substantial everage for Grown-Ups | a Reason' a | Prof, White best known instrue itry and Canada, be- ing known personally to hundreds of Harvard graduates in both countries '| Franklin LAYS: BARE PRISON RECORD Lan EDITOR TELLS COURT + BEING BLACKMAILED OF | Pedisived Story 'That He Had Been Robbed in Order to Make Black- mailers Think' He Was Poor, Washington, D.C., Feb. ,14.--Phil- ip F. Franklin forty-eight years old, went to Gaithersburg, Md., a village not far from Washington several | months ago looking for opportunities | to make his future home. He found a newspaper for sale, the Gaithers- burg Journal, a weekly publication. He bought it," rented a little house and brought his wife and young son to the village, They were happy. Mr, Franklin forked hard. Mrs. Franklin made Wany friends. The little boy went to school. Mr. Frank- lin soon became one of the most jprominent citizens of the village. | Strangers came to Gaithersburg oe- | casionally to see Mr. Franklin. He j received them at the Journal office. {They were men, and Mr. Franklin | explained that they were friends from anothergpart of the State. Everything went ' well with 4he Franklins, so far as the public knew, until sevéral weeks ago, when Mr. announced to the authorl- ties and published an article in his newspaper saying that he had been robbed. of $530- in cheques, . The cheques, he explained, had been in his office, . Three Boys Arrested. The officials of Montgomery coun- ty, in which Gaithersburg is located, set out to find the robbers. Suspi- cion rested on three boys, Beverly and Frederick Gray and Clifton Day, when the authorities learned that they had called at the Journal office one day and left town mysteriously the next. They were arrested and taken to Rockville, Md., the county seat of Montgomery county, for trial, Mr, Franklin,was called ag the first witnesss in the Rockville police court, -as the prosecutor helieved it necessary to prove_ first that a theft had been committed, 'Those boys are not guilty," Mr. jFeanklin began. "There has been no robbery." > Instantly the Court, listless from routine; sat at attention. "I told the story to hold off black- mailers," he said. "I have been in hounding me for money are formef conyicts who know my record. "It would add nothing to the story to tell the nature of the crime for which 1 served my term. 1 served four years for a erime for which I was convicted when I was thirty-one. 1 "Since my liberation I have led an upright, righteous life and tried to be a Christian. I have been honour- able and honest, and shall always re- grét the error of my yoypg life. Work Long to Redeem Himself. "Determined to redeem myself I went to Wilmington, DX., and work- ed hard, lgpg and faithfully and was able to save sufficient money 'on which to marry and take care of my wife. A year or two later the little boy came along and my wife and I have been happy. "It was not many months after my liberation that my fellow convicts found me in what they considered fortunate cifeumstances, J was doing fairly well, but I was not mak- ing enough money to pay blackmail for silence. I was proud of my standing in the community, I loved my home and family, and I could not bear to have every thing near and prison and' the men who have been | ~ 1 oo ¥ weakne based rave them money, started the blackmail t which 1 have been subjected for sev of moment ride, 1 €n years, | -- Threatened Worse Story. ' on| ifs KIDNEYS LGERIANS HELP, ' Gia i They followed me from-Wilming wean) ALLIES: IN FRANCE: waetya" To pains i other place I have been. They were ] THE BACK | never satisfied. They always de- 3 ms e P There "h 2 be Le 5 : { Hali NS, . 15, 1918, : an 3 Dt. There 2 pi Redoud! ble Be i About pion Ei . Lior | Jast penny I had. The more . 'they The Descendants of the ta I-| our, advertisement in ole of tne got the more. they wanted. bers hie Very Hardy. sample of Gin Pils for the Rid: - ears to intense pains across the ack and decided to try Gin Filla { "When I went from town to town Poi i | one of them would find me. They STR | time in years perfectly free from | tireatened to manufacture 'a great " 1 = { deal worse story than the truth. -- Yours 0 Percy. They trie 4 5 lieve they . a N | : 1 : They tried to make me believe they | \pbopapn BY FRANCE FROM] All droggists sell Gin Pills at | could tell anything about a former | 0 y 2 TR <Q B0c. a box, or 6 boxes for §2.L0, would' believe » ITS COLONIES. | convict and the world it. I paid them to keep their lying mouths shut, "They have been after me in i Gaithersburg since October and have | gotten $700 from me 'since 1 be- came editor of the Journal. | ly they came to me again with black- mailing demands, "To make them money, I, manufacfured the "story that some cne had entered my office and stolen $930 in checks from me. No such theft ever was committed, | | I made this story up so the black- mailers -would see it or hear it and believé 1 was a poor man who had Just been robbed." The three boys were released, Mr Franklin will tell hig story in the next issye of his paper. SUING FOR $13,000 FOR SENDING HIM TO ASYLUM Euphemia Township Man En~ ters Actions Against Lawyers, Doctor, Bank. : Chatham, Feb, 14.--George Aaron Annette of Euphemia Township, who was recently discharged from the asylum at London, whera he. had been Sonyned for some time as a re- sult' of alleged mental derangement, has issued writs against six Kent County men, claiming a total of $13,- 000 damages, as a result Of their part in the legal proceedings which resulted in his being placed in the institution for care, | The- defendants, whom he claims were guilty of misrepresentation, un- professional duplicity and 'issuing misleading affidavits in invaking the lunacy act on him are W. R. Hickey, K.C., of Bothwell, and Wilson, Pike & Co,, barristers, Jof this city, from whonl he claims $3,000; the Merch- ants Bank of Bothwell for $5,000; Dr. T. K. Holmes of this city for $2,- £00; "W. Moorehouse of KEuphemic Township, for swearing to untrue d¥idavits, $1,000 and A. D. Graham of Bothwell, for similar affidavits, $2,000, The plaintiff is handling the cases himself, Summer Throug/ Winter in Cali- foruia. Get away from the cold, disagree- able winter. California temperature is from 60 to 75 degrees the year round, It ig not expensive to spend the entire winter there, Bungalows rent from $23.00 per month up. Special Winter Fares. <The fam- ous Los Angeles Limited, a fast, re- fined and exclusive through train from Chicago to Los Angeles, leaves Chicago 10.00 p.m. daily and arrives Los Angeles 4.30 p.m, third day-- less than three days enroute. Write to B. H. Bennett, Gen, Agt., Chicago & Norths Western Ry, 46 Yonge St. Toronto, Ont. He will send you descriptive literature and train schedules, help you plan an attractive trip, and make reserva- tions for you clear through to the Pacific Coast. Women Drink and Smoke, Washington, Feb. 14.--Repre- sentative Madden, of Illinois, states he had never seen a 'woman drink- ing and smoking in a cafe. Repre- sentative Feider, former governor of Georgia, offered to take him up town and show him, and declared "the damnable habits of smoking and drinking ia public by -women" had been transferred to the south and were thriving, He sald the farm interests 'of 'his State are being ruin- ed by liquor dealers who sent ad- vertisements of their waresito farm- _ DYSPEPSIA Most Difficult to Cure BUT B.B.B. DOES IT. Dyspepsia is one of the most diffi- cult diseases of the stomach there is to cure. . ¢ You eat too much; drink too uch; make the Stomach work over- time. You make it perform more than it should be called on to do. The natural result is that it is goihg to rebel against the amount of work put on jt. It is only a matter of time befdre dyspepsia follows. That forty-year-old remedy, Bur- dock Blood Bitters, will cure the dys- pepsia, and will cure it to stay cured as.we can prove by the thousandssof testimonials we receive from time to time, A * Mr. Neil A. Cameron, Kiltarlity, N.S., writes: "I am writing .you a few lines to tell you what your great medicine Burdock Blood Bitters has done for me. I was troubled very much with dyspepsia for the past two years. [I was recommended all kinds 'of medicines, but they did not help me any. 'At last a friend advised me to try a bottle of B.B.B. I took four bottles and was totally cured. I will gladly recommend it to all sufferers." dear to me blasted by the disclosures, The T. Milburn Co., Limited, 'To- the convicts threatened to make. In_ronto, Ont, , B.B.B. i* manufactured only by Recent- belleve I had no | 'I lities of the experiment may be judg- Sample free if you ite to NATIONAL DRUG & CHEMICAL CO. OF CANADA, LIMITED Toroute, Out, Nearly Every Ship Arriving From Algeria Now Brings More of the Kabyles, Who Will Solve the Prob. lem of Labor. Feb, 14 of the Associated Press) 63 Paris (Correspondence Sixty tall Kabyles, mountaineers from Eastern 'Domsion Fish Co. 1 { i Algeria, descendayts from the hard | ill and redoubtable race of Berbers ' | have lent a useful hand to the solu u it : x = | tion of the Paris street cleaning . i » problem te i Garbage boxes that are now set) ys Irs it out of doors in some quarters as ear fh | ly as 10 in the evening, to the dam- 60c and 70¢ i {age of a great many shius in dim] a quart. ith lighted streets," are encountered in Ii other quarters as late as 3 in thie af mir B a ternoon, all on ac ournt of the lack of 1 help, Paris thus has been enjoying 1 1 uie sgventeen hours of continuous con This Simple R Yemplation of city refuse that is Soon 'Strengthens stirred, shaken and overturned in . the meantime for rags, paper and a A Delicate Stomach bones. The Kabyles have done so well toward remed§ing this situa 1 . ' \ tion that 300 more of them will .be | coir uw epstin pills or a utilized in the work. ti to hive t ¢ ! "There are now g0,000 of our peo- | ple working in France for the na- tional defense," says 8i Salah'Si Ah i mend Caid or governor of the Dour Maatkas of Tizi-Ouzon in : Labylie "Neither the climate nor the conflict daunts them,' he added. Si Salah | was sent by the 9,008 inhabitants of Ris Douar to tell the French Govern- a ment it may count upon them. for! prepa: anything it want Inst 2 The experiment of Algerian help ™ FI sh in the field and fattory 'in France gies has been a great success. These men, ------" Ye particularly those from the moun tain regions, have wonderful endur WE TRY TO AVOID ance, are very industries and easily contented. They dre working along side other Musselmen from Morocco and Tunis, while a great many others are jn the ranks of the Algerian rifle men at the front. They have proven a great deal more effective than the Senegalese in this climate; they have shown quite a taste for farming, have, learned quickly the use of machine tools in factories, and their apprent iceship in municipal work has per- haps been-the greatest success of all MISTAKES BUT NEVER TQ AVOID RIGHTING THEM. Have You Tried: Celeste Whole Figs packed' in corn The Annamites from the French ! and sugar syrup, 20c per tin. colony. of Indo-China, also unskilled, I'he choicest dessert before the have been quick to learn and are |, Public. .probaply more fastidious in their Fresh Dates, 15c 1b. work than the Babyles; as gleaners Maple Sugar, 10¢ cake. in the harvest field last summer, thi, Sunkist Oranges, 20c to 50¢ doz, ach, 3 and 1 for 250. " Grape Fruit, 5 4 were said to 'have never overlooked a spear _P.H.BAKER & CO. * Phone 141; 302 King St. they. are farmers, yet they are taking to agriculture, and French observers who are watching the experiment look to the result of a most beneficial influence upon the future agricultur- al development of Morocco The Question was raised in the Chamber of Commerce recently as to what complications might de®elop from the presence of so many colo %al laborers in France at the end of the war. The general sentiment was that no'appréhension need be enter- tained on this score, and that it was even Jess menacingeian the formid- The Moors are better fighters than nin, B i Start Tomorrow | and Keep It Up | H Every Morning | abe exiension of the use of Wowie} Ge¢ In. the habit of drinking a n mechanical labor. . The Babyles, h i Indo-Chinese and Moors, it is held, glass nl ot viatge before | awill, after they have laid up a little reakfast. money, be glad enough to go .back ------ i home, where their savings will en- able them to play the "nabob." Nearly every ship arriving from Algerta now brings more of the Ka- byleh, who are more and more count- | ed upon to solve the question of la bor. They are taller than the aver- 'age Algerian, with features resemb Ying somewhat those of the peasants of central France. They are not uni- We're not here long; so let's m our stay agreeable. Let us live we eat well, digest well, work well, slee] well, and look well. What a glorion condition to attain, and yet, how easy it is if one will only adopt the morning inside bath § Folks who are accustomed to f form in complexion, some being dark A dull and heay y when they arist, split and some light, with fair hair. Their | 1g headache, stuffy from a col foul tongue, ty breath, acid stom language is the Berber although they use the Arabian letters. The possibi- ach, can, instead, feel as fresh as a daisy by opening the slujces of ed from the fact that.Kapylie is thefl Pret each morning and flusi most populous part of North Africa® Out the whole of the internal poi having 158 inhabitants per-square OUsS stagnant matter. mile. Everyone, whether ailing, sick or . well, should, each morning, before breakfast, drink a glass of real hot THE CANADIAN-MADE water with_a teaspoonful, of lime EQUIPMENT FOR TROOPS stone phosphate in it to Aish from ' the stomach, liver and bowels the Until the Men Really Get to previous day's indigestible wa *sour bile, and poisonous toxins; thus the Front, That Is the Rule. Ottawa, Feb, 14.-- Canadian sol- diers will continue to wear Cana- dian-made boots so long as the troops are supplied with equipment through Canadian channels. That was the statement given out by the Militia Department in reference to a recent press despatch fm London intimat- ing that a large order was being given cleansing, swedtening and purifying the entire alimeutary canal before { putting more food into the gtomach. The action of hot water and lime- stone phospMite onan empty stom- ach Is wonderfully invigorating It cleans out all the sour fermentation gases, waste and acidity and gives one a splendid appetite for break fuat, While you are enjoying your break fast the water and phosphate is quietly extracting a large volume of out to British manufacturers for Water from the blopd and getting boots th be worn by Canadian troops. ready for a thorough flushing of all All tréops in Canada and all Cana- the Inside organs. The millions of people who are bothered with constipation, biliois spells, stomach trouble; others who here. These supplies are, of course, have sallow skins, blood disorders obfkined as far as possible in Can- and sickly complexions, are urged to ada, When, the troops go to the Et a quarter pound of limestone front the War Office takes over the Phosphate'from the drug store. This duty of finding for all the British | Will cost very little, but is sufficient forces in France, and the cost of sup-| !0 make anyone a pronounced crank plies thus given is being defrayed by| On the subjet of inside-bathing be- Canada.on a pro rata basis of six| fore breakfast: shillings per man per day, Some of | the equipment, which Canadians at| ture, but uniil the men really got to the front are given is, therefore, of | the front Canadian-made equipment dian units in Engldnd are supplied with rations, clothing, etc, wroush the Quartermaster-General's branch British or United Stptes manufac-'is provided wherever practicable.