14 PAGES YEAR 84. NO. 67 A LANDMARK OF PRINCE EDWARD * Mis. Mary Connor, of Cressy, is Ninety Years of Age. ER GRNIATIER FELL DURING THE WAR OF 1812-181 AT ERIE, He Was Lieut.-Col. John Gordon, o the Royal Scots--For Over a Cen tury the Family Has Made Cressy Its Domestic Centre, "eton Times It is a matter of interest to those who know something of the history of the County of Prince Edward anc of the old line settlers now so nearly disappeared because gathered to their aged representative of one of THOSE ties that dccupied the most: éastern point of the county bordering on the upper fathers, to know #that a very Gap---the Indian Poinfl region 1 { mat vy of 'us were born. J { Even through the weight of heavy years she keeps her resiliency of spirit The sorrows of her old age and the loneliness of a life that has spanned so large a part of a century and that has seen its former com- rades pass bevond the' sunset, have never been able to master her in- domitable vitality or soul and bod}. She still lives eager to know and think, and her heart is tuned to the voice of Naturé's moods and changes. Born and raised by the sounding shores of the lake and the bay, she; is not happy unless these form part | of her environment. Unconsciously! she grows miserable when removed | for long from her ancient shores. It 1 is as though the great stretches of | Quinte's waters, upon which she | has looked out since early woman-| hood, have grown into the fabric of | f| her mind and heart. And to lose .| these is misery. For ewen though | the eyes cannot see, the bay speaks to her soul in unmistakable language | of its proximity. And for her this, is to live, where thought and fancy may poise in the midst of scenes made good and great by the utter-| i| ance of that grand organ of Nature's speech, the voice of many waters. This doubtless, let us think, will she | carry, when the time is full, into the homeland of the spirit, when life's troublesome storms are passed and peace is found on another shere. The Cause of Backaches| is yet living in the old Cressy home at Every muscle in the body needs al the ripe age of ninety vears. This is supply of rich, red blood in propor- | Mrs. Mary Connor: L. Connors, Aaron Connors, whoiwas the original owner and set- son of tler of practically all the bjoad acres which juts forming thal! peninsula into the blue waters of Lake Ontario at the Upper Gap. Mrs. Connors, moreover, in her own paternal lineage, has an inter- esting history behind her. She. is the daughter of John Gordon, who came to the county as a mere boy after the hewilderment of losing both parents in the war of 1814814, his mother first of fever at Fort George on the lower Niagara, and then his father, who was Lieut.-Col. John Gordon of the Royal Scots, after the battle of Lundy's' Lane and Fort Erie. The boy who was a drummer in the regi- ment his father commanded, lost track of his parent, who received a mortal wound at Erie and later found a soldier's grave on Lundy's sunhy slope. The father's actual death was at the time unknown to the son, though later history has commemor- ated the fact on the battlefield by a granite shaft apd bronze tablet to Lieut.-Col. John Gordon and others who Til at Fort Erie. The son drifted away from the service at the conglision of peace, and after some waillderings came to the county pr where he was raised to manhood in Si% Doxes gor 2.0 Jom, The Dr ---- theh ome of Ernest Snider at the foot Ont Ay eCicine LO, = fats of the great rok thut overlooks Lake Ontario in Cressy. For over a cen- tury his family have made. that neighborhood their domestic centre, multiplying in numbers and spread- ing their family branches from there over many of the remotest places of the earth. But the old parent stem of the family tree has remained fx- ed in its Cressy setting and has vet an abundant representation into the fourth and -fth generation, tracing down from the young army drummer of 1814. Mrs. Connors, who achieved her|} Ainetieth birthday on March 13th, 1917, has in no way except in oye- sight, suffered seriohis impairment of her keen faculties. She- is, perhaps, | t the best informed person in that end ponditiives he declares "ninety per He was ip France with the 2nd of the county as to the general lore, cont. of those tools could not he Battalion, being with Lieut." A: bipgraphical and other, of that dis-|found if five hundred detectives were Strachan, of the city, ct. These things she easily keeps|engaged t6 look for them." He charg-| LT ------r-- in her marvellous memory. She ed that a large amount had: been At South Bend, 'Ind., J. Moseler knows ages and relationsiips, marri- paid for "rent of tools" to a man who Studebaker, eighty-four years old, age dates of local people with an in- fallibility that falls short of the Re- cording Angel's, but that still is striking and prodigious. Cases are known recently where she has re- stored correct ages to those whe did not know the measure of their own achieved longevity. She has the gift of humor and of pungent speech, and the delights to recall in fancy the scenes and doings of bygone years of rm ------ Arn i ue IS YEARS' " FIRE Just think! That is the time through which Mr. H. C. Buckley endured all the flery torture of itching, burning eczema. His life was & perfect misery until Zam- Buk--the great herbal skin cure-- bought complete relief. Mr. Buckley, who lives at 461 East Broadway, Portland, Oregon, writes: -- For fifteen years I syf- fered with eczema, and although I tried many so-called 'eczema cures,' nothing seemed { with & case like mi until T had Buk recommended to me that I began to have This wonderful skin relict of Thomas eau (Sturgeon Falls), who spoke on an amendment to a motion that the Mr. public accounts to dreds of dollars had been spent on tion to the work it does. The mus-| cles of the back are under a heavy | the blood is thin they lack nourish- | ment and rebel. The result is a sen- | sation of pain in these muscles. | Many people are frightened into believing that backaches are due to] kidney trouble, but the best medical awrthorities agree that backache is] very seldom due to kidney trouble. | In fact not more than ane backache | in a hundred has anything to do with the kidneys. The whole trouble is due to thin or impure blopd, and those who are troubled with pains in the back or loins, either frequent or occasional should look to the condi- tion of the blood. It will be found in most cases that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills by building up>the blood and feeding the starved nerves and mus- cles will banish the pains and make you feel better in every other way. How much better it is te try Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills for your blood than to give way to unreasonable alarm about your kidneys. If you really suspect your kidneys any doctor can make tests in tefi minutes, that will set your fears at rest, or tell you the worst. All dealers in medicine sell br: Williams' Pink "Pills, or you can get them by mail at 50 cents a box or MONEY WASTED ON ROAD. Mr. Yagean, ( 'riticizes Government's Methods. Toronto, March 19.--Alleged mis- use and deplorable waste of public roads in connection with the con- struction - of colonization roads in New Ontario was warmly condemned in tne Legislature by Mr. Zotiqu Mag- {ouse go into committee of supply. Mageau gave figures from the show that hun: ools, and commenting on these ex-|p 'does not own a horse, a cow, a sevap- er or a plow, or a tool of any deserip- tion. The Government's system ' of building colonization roads resulted in frightful = waste of money; graft and dishonesty, he said. In the township of Chisholm the Govern- hent had paid $131 to roadmen for 53% days' work, and the inspectors sent to see that the work had been properly done in another case were not qualified. One was a watch. maker. (Laughter.) The second was a carpenter and the third was a butcher. (Laughter.) He de olared theusands of dollars had been squandered. Mr. Mageau's amendment, which was declared by 46 to 17, condemned "the deplorable waste and misuse of the public funds of the province, arieing out of the present system of expending the moneys voted for col onization roads," and asked that tie moneys for such roads in organized townships be expended by the muni- cipalities, and in unorganized town- ships under publie tender. Deferiet Paper Mill Shut Down. Watertown, N. Y., March 19--The mills of the St. Regis Paper Company at Deferiet are shut down as a re- sult, it was claimed by employ of the mills, of the orders of the of- ficials directing that the plant be- come unionized. Officials of the mill 'claim that the shutdown is the out- come of the embargo on freight placed by the New = York Central Railroad. Clergyman Has Hamilton, Ont., March 19.--After differences with his congregation over a period ol many years, Rev. E. J. Etherington, of St. Thomas' Anglican Chureh, has resigned, aj- though he has repeatedly declared received full satisfarction. Disaster at Cologne. Copenhagen, March 19% (via Lon- don).----A large munitions plant at Cologne Mew up on Tuesday, ecards ine to information received n elfian sources 4 newspaper al Kolb Jv ng near tier. Several hundred w are reported to ' The Daily ) - i i long ago--beenes that ceased before KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY MARCH 20, 1917 British Whig 4 Jack Canuck--*Thri strain and have but little rest. When | How about heiping ours# lk: rE PA RRA eT A SUGGESTION. An excellent thing, EXPECTED FOOD AND | FOUND CHIFFON oresses [JJ Member of Belgian Relief! Commission Relates Ex= perience. Montreal, March 20.-- George Barr | RN Baker, a member of the Commission | i for the Relief of 'Belgium, stated The Artillerymen Show the Highest Mor that a large amount of the energy of And Whistle And Sing the Commission is being exhausted . appealing for funds and explaining the terrible condition of the Belgia nation, so that help may be forth- comiug to save them from wholesale death by starvation. z "We have worn out one good mah after another," 'he states, "in ex- plaining the appalling conditions and begging for help. One city sent us ton of boot trees, for which the sommission paid the freight, not knowing the contents of the cases, and thinking that they. might con- tain sadly-needed necessities. When the cases were opened our people were broken-hearted. Another con- signment consisted of five tons of chiffon dresses and party shoes for peasant children to go to schopl in and peasant women to use in their work in the fields. "Incidents like GARDLESS OF SHELL HOLES The Pioneers, British Headquarters in France Associated Press.)--The retreat these show how little the public realize. the appalling Thomas. to a little pork, for instance?" |=----8am Hunter in Toronto World. Scanty meals they arg, too, compared | the Allies in the \battles with what people.on this continent understand as meals . There are as many as 3,000,000 people out of these to whom we serve food every day, who only get to keep them alive a hunk of bread and a bow! of broth of fighting became so bitter and resistance so dogged that the vance could be eounted almost the by Re- Ottawa, Premier Borden's Appeal. March 19 ing cable from Premier Borden in London: -Sir Edward Kemp has received the follow- "Upon my visit to the Canadian divisions in France, from which I have just returned; training all that could he desired 1 found their spirit, r physique and their Having traversed some of the ground won from the enemy during recent months, I was voi proud to know that at Courcelette and elsewhere our troops distinguisred themselves highest admiration dash and determination Including Railway by courage, which Construction evoked the and Forestry Battalions, .the value of whose services cannot be overestimated, Can- ada now has one hundred and thirty thousand men. in France. "We are entering upon the most critical period of the war, and I voice the feeling at the front when I appeal to Canadians to support with the most earnest efforts the proposals which You are putting forward to partially mobilize the 'active militia of Canada. Splendid response to these proposals is vitally necedsary in order that the full strength of our Dominion, in co-operation with the whole Empire, shall be thrown into the struggle with the least possible delay. "RL. Borden." feet, if not at times by inches , cently the onward movement has been reckoned in miles, and it is strange to see fleld fortresses that last year cost thousands of German lives to defend now yield within a few hours after the British '"'heav- ies" have begun to pour out their torrent of high explosives, The Gunners Are Joyous, It is interesting to stand behind a battery of British howitzers and watch the gun crews in action, The men show the high morale which is in evidence throughout the British army. per day. "A short time ago. the need of money was so urgent that Mr. Hoov- er, the chairman of the Commission, had to appeal to the Governments of Great Britain and France to add more to the generous aid already given, because voluntary subscriptions were falling so much behind what had been hoped, and, hard pressed as they were, they borrowed money to give him to save these poor people from death by hunger and disease and cold. The people of Britain are themselves voluntarily contributing $600,000 a month, but we are $3, 000,000 a month behind actual re- quarements" Will you help the Belgians? Any subscription from a dollar up will gratefully received by the Belgian Relief Committee, 59 St. Peter street; Montreal, or the Kingston Board of Trade. grim jests as they work. As the fir- ing button is pressed the crew jumps Mack for a moment from the gun car- risge, but have led¥ped again to their alloted posts beforp)the easy acting Yecoil bas return fhe mammoth weapon to ity orfEinal position, Tt is easy to distinguish the scream of a departing projectile from one which is being sent in return by the Ger- mans, and the on-looker can watch without. difficulty the black base of LONG DISTANCE SERVICE. Bell Telephone Company Sells Ath. ens Exchange. Went to France Lieut. burg township, returned to the city on Monday morning from France af- ter being on the tiring ling for four months, : Lieut, Franklin nm was .in the west: et etme oat whom it is understood that nothing has been heard in America for some time, it is stated here 'that he ig in excellent health, and that he travels a British shell as it travels in a long March 19.-- Athens, March 19.--Although the loop to ward its destination, entire business has not been settled, ROADS BULT OVER NIGHT H RAILWAYS FLUNG FORWARD RE- | British Revelling in Joy of Occupy- | ing High Ground--Evacuated 'Vil-| lages Supply Brick and Stone a March 17 (via London, March 19.)-- | (From a staff correspondent of the | of the Germans in the Ancre and Scmme | regions continues "to give thé zest | the | Somme last summer and autumn, but | after the initial forward sweep the| ad- | They whistle and sing and bandyY when he decided to enlist and coming to Kingston qualified pointed to the 146th, going overseas with that Battalion, months in the trenches he was allow- ed to return, owing to the €llness of | is father, and After was ap- four] freely from town to town in his dio- cege imrthe discharge of his ecclesias- tical functions," On the same author- ity, the correspondent is able to deny the rumors that his Eminence has been restricted in his 'movements by German officials. He is free to travel anywhere he likes within the limits of the Belgian district under the con- trol of the German Governor-General, LIEUT. B. W. FRANKLIN BACK. CARDINAL MERCIER FREE? {there seems to he no prospects of a| The forward movement of the es : et < hitch in the transfer of the Bell Tele-| British on so wide as front has With Lieut. A.|Berlin Denies Belgian Primate is I11- | phone exchange at Athens the com-| Prought into play all the machinery Strachan to 2nd Battalion, used. y bined independent. companies, The of okion n Hata. Reads jocm : a > 3 a 9) g up ver. It In most un- Benjamin Franklin, son of Berlin via Tuckerton, March 20.-- | Plum Hollow and Eloida and The ¥ Peni ; W. J. Franklin, Joyceville, of Pitts-| Regarding Cardinal Mercier, of | Lyndhurst Rural Telephone corpora-| ®Xpected places. Railways have tions, The Addison, Rockspring and Greenbush Cowmpiny are consid- ering the purchase of a Bell line run- ning to Frankville. Many of the phones on the Athens exchange will be taken over by the Rural people at' 'a set price. Long distance service is one of the fea-|t tures of the transfer, and subscrib- ers will be enable to talk anywhere over the Bell system. The yearly subscription price will be raised to $13 for residences and $15 for places of business. which exist now only as geographical remnants . It is also a revelation of ern war to see a six-inch water main stretching itself into territory recently occupied by the Germans . | audaciously flung themselves forward regardless of mud and shell holes, and with a completeness which, even includes most preténtious ign posts he intensely practical side of mod- but bearing the names of French villages | The fresh fal- | vard of upturned soil. {len German dead have mostly been | carried away and buried in secluded | hollows, but now and again an ex- | ploding shell unearths. bits of skele- i | tons, stray hands and stray feet and | | stray skulls IA | One of the problems with which Y the British are grappling in their { drive forward is how to sufficiently { hammer their foes with artillery, and still keep from plowing the ground | ahead of them into another morass | with their shells, FRENCH OFFICIAL OF THE ADVANCE Briefly Tells Part the. French { Took in Following Re= treating Germans. * Paris, March 18.--The official story of the French advance is told in the official reports: Saturday morn- ing's report, chronicling the begin- | ning of the offensive, stated that »| North of the Avre and between the Avre and the Oise French detich- ments continued to exert vigorous pressure on the enemy and during the night extended their progress on a front of 20 kilometres. The text of Saturday night's state- { fiiisery from sheer want of Tood whi of HorSment 40-4lo. Whi tiie Oe AOhE he whole f between which, the members of the Comnfis-| West, and a trip nowadays. along the | A ae the Re ont Yet ten sion are'so familige. People here can|eVer-extending new British lines re- | the enemy declining Eo » mn on get some idea of what conditions we}-Yeals'a picture the like of which | jon04 under the To ae are facing in Belgium when I tell has not been seen on this front for) troops powerfully re a 2 Sus them that the Commission has to| more than two yegrs, | tified lines which the yo h 1 tar. serve. 10,000,000 meals per day. Substantial progress was made by | A C1 ey had held for more than two years, % "To-day our advance movement | continued rapidly. Our advance * guard entered Rove, pursuing an | enemy contingent, which blew up crossings and streets in the interior section, About 800 of the eivil popu-~ lation, whom the Germanys did not have time to remove, greeted our sol- diers with enthusiasm. "North and north-east of Lassigny, which we likewise occupied, we have reached at several points, and even advanced beyond the road between Roye and Noyon. In the course of our pursuit we made prisoners, who have not.yet been counted." Sunday afternoon's. War Office ro- port redd: "Between the Avre and the Oise our troops made important progress during the night. All the ground be- tween our old lines and the Roye- Noyom road, 'is now in our hands. There were rather spirited engage- ments with portions of the enemy rearguard, which terminated. to our advantage and did not impede our progress. The pursuit continues north of the Noyon road." Sunday night's report read: "From the Avre to the Aisne on a front of more than sixty "kilometres 'he advance of our troops "continued during the course of the day, North of the Avre our oa this meorn- Ing entered Nesle afid wi immediate- ly sent our patrols in she direction of the Somme, There were several en- gagements with enemy rearguard de- tachments, who resisted feebly. The Nesle acclaimed our inhabitants of troops. / "Northeast of Lasstgny we have up to the present advanced more than . twenty kilometres in the direction of Ham. - "Further to the south our light {cavalry detachments, moving along the valley of the Qise, occupied Noy- on about ten o'clock this morning. "Between the Oise and Soissons (Aisne sector) they entire German first line, as well as the villages of that he wowld not do so until he had| 8 honorary president and last five founders of the Studebaker Cor- poration, died on Sunday night. . A A A A A A A AA AS AAA AA nn. of the v dre concerned. It is also denied that the German authorities put difficulties in hid way when he planned a trip to Rome, he wishes to make such-a journey, it is asserted, there will be.no objec- tion so far as the German authorities The question.of a new exchange is Quick Road Building | Road building has called into play | all the Ingenuity of pioneer battal- | tons, composed not oply of experienc- | ed British Workmen, but of reatpion- | eers from the prairies and mountains of Canada and far lands tralasia-and South Africa. Road ma-| terial is scarce-in/the stricken wilder: | ness of No Man's Land, but the re-| fuse of battle often: serves the pur-| pose during the first hours of a new | forward move. Broken rifles, bits of clothing, fragments of shells and oc- | casionally a few shells themselves | that fail to explode are used in the | foundation of the few paths, The! remains of a recently evacuated vil- | lage bring great joy to the pioneers, | for that means a temporary supply at | least of much desired broken brick | and stone. | in the meantime the British troops | are revelling in the joy of occupy- ing high ground. They are now on the Somme crest, and Bapaumie and | the country east lie on a slope that | gradually descends all the way to! the French border. One can but] marvel at tlhip fortitude and endur-| receiving attention. A petition has, been cireulated to have it in a sep- arate building and not in connection! with dhy other business. If. of Aus-| Eva Boyle, the twenty-five-year-old Scotch girl who shot and killed her lover, Albert Haynes, on Pine avenue, near the Roy#l Victoria Hospital, early on the morning of January Sth last, and who was tried at the Court of King's Bench on a charge of mur- der, was found guilty late Saturday of manslaughter, It is officially announced by the Government at Ottawa that the con- tract for 100,000 Ross rifles entered into between the Government and the Ross Rifle Company #p February, 1916, has been cancelled, Obstinate Coughs _and Colds ance Whifli enabled men to "stick it" | : y > :] in the 'muddy depths of the valleys, | DR. WOOD S +f hich 'they have now emerged. | Even the most shallow trenches were | impossible placed, and here men themselves in at outposts Norway Pine Syrup dug | All obstinate coughs and colds yleld quickly to "Dr. Wood's" con- taining as it does all the lung healing virtues of the Norway pine tree com- '| bined with the soothing, healing and y t properties of other ex- cellent herbs and barks. 4 Mrs. H. F. McCormick, Rodney, N.S., writes: "1 had a severe cold one winter, and had been coughing for a month. I could not sleep at night, nor could 1 speak above a After I had taken a bottle of Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup I felt better so I took two or three more and was entirely cured. I have three children and I always give it to them when iney ve a cough or cold." for scores of the khaki-clad soldiers who held them all through the black winter under the pelting fire of their enemy. A Mass of Shell Craters It is poseible now to sit. in the open with a group of resting Tom- mies on' the remnants of a dugout, and watch the British shells drop into the German lines, see the sharp- nel break "with a red h and a opposing trenches, and note the heavier high explosive shells burst into flaring fountains of blackened earth and flying débris. |Oeccasional- ly a protesting shell will come from The earth is a continuing mass of shell craters, most of them over- lapping or separated by less than « . and 50c. Manu- T. Milburn os & whicn | // marked the lowlands lke =o 'ma graves, Graves they wére in trut white puff of smoke just above theC Carleporit, Morsam and Nouvron Vingre fell into our hands. We have gained a foothold on the northern pleateau of Soissons and occupied Crouy." Matron Charged 'With Fraud. London, March" 20.- ~Gladys Mabel Lilian Clarke, described as matron of a base hospital at Boulogne, was re- ,manded at Lincoln on a charge of ob- taintig money with & worthless che- que. She asserted her father was a Canadian member of Parliament. En- quiries of the Canadian Medical Ser- vices ghow that she is not a Can- adian nurse, CASCARETSSELL TWENTY MILLION BOXES PER YEAR Best, Safest Cathartie For! Liver And Bowels, and People Know It, They're Fine! Don't Stay Bilious, Or" Bek, Headacty _ Enjoy life! Keep clean inside with ascarets. Take one or two at night and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you eyer ex- perienced. Wake up feeling grand. Your head will be clear, your tongue clean, breath right, stomach sweet y "s" Norway Pine Syrup! the Germans, but the roar of the and wour liver and thirty feet of has been on thé market for twenty-| British guns is s0 great that the | bowels active. a at any five years and wé claim that it is the noise of the intruder is gearcelly no-|drug store and straighten up. Stop - best cure for a cough or cold you can ticed . There ans black puffs from | the "headaches, billous spells, bad possibly procure. | German shrapnel in the air, and colds and bad days. up, "Dr. Wood's" is put up in.a yellow! smaller brown about on their cheer up, clean up! Mothers should Sapper, three ping trees the trade | war duties overhead give a whole cascaret to .