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W'RBW” OP cam}: . in? MILROADS no mn- urine}: ‘. IS A GOVBRIIHBNT SECRET , , BATES (Toronto Star Weekly.) ' In the Bache Review for March 18 Any misconduct or WhiCh y‘ou are it is pointed out that in 1921, a starv- guilty in the army can never be Of’ ing vear for railroads, Panama Canal ficially proved against you without traffic. doubled over the preceding your express permission. For the vear. This did not mean an increetse 'motto of the militia department of in general business but simply that Canada is that war records are con- the business was taken from the fidential between the King and the railroads on account or the 1’1?“ o v. u 3" 101‘ , ., - frela'ht rates... making It cheap“ ex-soldltr. - PM U m-“ m, lnngm‘ trio from In the military records office at Ottawa there are complete confidenâ€" tial records of every one of Canada’s 500,000 citizens who joined the army. Their health, their conduct, their share in the war, are fully docketed and filed for eternity. Naturally, this would be a mine of priceless information to insurance companies, bonding companies, banks, and countless other organiâ€" zations that require facts as to a man’s character and health. And shortly after the army returned home. insurance companies began demanding the medical history sheets of their clients who had been overseas. These medical history sheets were a complete record. of each soldier’s health, including not only a most thorough medical ex- amination. but all serious diseases and injuries he sufl‘ered during his enlistment. But the militia depart- ment ruled that this he refused the insurance companies. One unfortunate young fellow who had been sent to prison by court martial for refusing to obey an order secured a splendid job on his release atuthe end of the war. and in his ref- erences gave as the date of the con- clusion of his military service the date he was discharged from mzli- tary prison. T he company he was employed with tried to confirm his statements and if that had been‘pos- si‘ole, they would have found out a- bout his disgrace, which even though it bore little or no relation to his real character, would have lost him his job. The divulging of information re- lating to character is more stern-1y forbidden. Banks and bonding com- panies are given statements of a man’s army record only on a written permission df the subject of their inquiries. In connection with char- acter “omen lime actuallv applied to the depaitment for clean bills 01 health for their fiancees. but this in- formation has also been refused as being a breach of confidence. There have been cases of people deliberately trying to ruin others on the strength of the military records. There was some one they wanted to “get” and they saw no reason why they should not be permitted to run through the man’s war record to that end. Another common efi‘ort is that made to discover whether a man has had venereal disease. Even in the case of a deceased soldier, where the army had to make a financial statement. to his next of kin, infor- mation as to venereal disease was never disclosed, the pay forfeited while he had the complaint being shown as otherwise disposed of. In the army, men are peculiarly at the mercy of the government. These confidential records at Ot- tawa are necessary in. order to proâ€" tect the government against all sorts of fraudulent claims in time to come. But it is comforting to know that they are kept in strictest confidence. "THE MOUNTAIN WOMAN” HERB FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Probably no group of peOple in North America are more picturesque! and interesting than the mountain-; eers of .Kentucky and Tennessee. Pearl White‘s. latest \Villiam Fox picture. “The. Mountain Woman." is laid in the heart of the Kentucky timberlanrls and Miss White has the part. of a tempestuous daughter of the hills who has been reared as a boy and named “Alexander" by her (lisappé'iintl‘ul father, who had wanted a boy. "The Mountain Woman.“ whirh will be seen at the Veteran Star to- morrow and Saturday nights, .is ad- apted from Cl‘mrles Neville Buck‘s. famous novel. “A Pagan of the Hills.” The part. of Aiexander (its the well-known athletic ability of this famous star perfectly. and al- together gives her a picture that for shear interest and heart appeal is said to be second to none in which Miss White has apepared. , Two good reliable remedies which guarantee results are RAZ-MAH for Asthma and Bronchitis, and TJLCs 1 for Rheumatism, Lumbago, Nam-ms, 01.0., are sold by s. MacBeth. AZUuil The picture contains some in- tenselv dramatic situations. which include a dangerous logging trip down the river, a hotel fire, and the burning of an immense grain ele- vator. The sub-titles are 331' to he delightful, the quaint, humorous speech of the mountaineers being faithfully recorded. Have you tried Rawleigh’s Gold Tablets fix that cold? Get a box at the Variety, Store. , PAGE FOUR. UIU v Cl]. llulauâ€" V.â€" the Panama Canal gained in 1921 traffic came directly out of the volâ€" ume of business which the railroads would have carried if their rates had been low enough to compete :vith the water rates.» “The layman’s response is. of course. ‘Serves them right. Why don’t the railroads reduce their rates and get the business back? We have said right along that railroad rates were too high and were hurting the railroad business.’ ‘uII-v‘vyâ€" â€" -__ duce their rates? The answer IS that the railroads cannot do it and live, that their Operating expenses are too high to permit it, that of their Operating expenses, rail wages are the principal part, and that the supplies which they must purchase and which are too high also, labor costs keep them- so. "And so it comes about that higgi freight rates are hurting railroad la- hor by reducing inevitably the vol- ume of railroad transportation, and so reducing the number of railroad jobs. And there is no way out Of it except for railroad wages to be reâ€" duced to allow the roads to get back the business they are losing by water competititm. Those losses are liable to increase as shipping‘l‘ates go low- er and make the competition more intense and the volume of traffic taken away from the roads larger. a In the Bache Review for March 181 ing year. for railroads, Panama Canal trafi’ic. doubled over the preceding year. This did not mean an increase in general business but simply that the business was taken from the, railroads on account of the Ligh freight rates, making it cheaper for freight to take the longer trip from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic and vice versa. The Review comments further: “This is a very interesting econom- ic illustration of the power of com- petitiOn, but it also a very serscus matter for the railroads, because the eleven hundred thousand tons which - anon L-LI.§\/n. “ vv The railroad labor unions should employ a sound business economist to find these things out, and impress them upon leaders and members.” IN A BAGDAD BAZAAR The man who loves his Arabian Nights will find little to enjoy inl modern Bagdad. It is no longer the: splendid city of Haroun-al-Raschid‘ where you could not polish a silverl dish without the chance that you would thereby summon into your presence a hideous genie. Neverthe- less, as we learn from Mr. Roland; Gorbold in Asia, bits of the old Bag-l dad remain. Among them are the bazaars. I usually visited the bazaars, says Mr. GorbOId, at the beginning or at the end of the day. But the people of Bagdad spend long hours in them; they are a welcome refuge from the intolerably hot streets. All day men and women surge through the miles of narrow lanes and share with trains of pack animals the protection that the low-domed brick or wooden roofs afford. At the shrill cry of “Ba’black! (Mind your back)” utter- ed by a man who sits on one of a long line of donkeys laden with building materials the crowd moves apart and everyone flattens himself against the wall or retreats into a tiny shOp. Then when the train has passed the scattered folk flock to- gether again and jostle one another along the way until the clonk! clonk! of bells and the advance of a solemn caravan of camels tied together, nose to tail. and swinging along with dis- rlainful heads lifted high, sends them scurrying once more; - 'l‘he shops at the bazaar are mere shallow depressions in the Walls, but they have wide doors. which an; shut at night and fastened with for- midable padlocks. Everywhere there is. a blaze of color and 0f semibar- harir splemilor. There are piles of hrights ilks in gorgeous patterns interwoven with threads of silver and of geld; there are gaudy prints from the West and delicate, handâ€" printed Shiraz cottons in quaint de- signs and subtle shades; there are bowls and pots and trays of burnish- ed COpper, shining tin vessels made of army petrol cans, and heavy finger rings. earrings, nose rings, bracelets and anklets. ‘ Everywhere there is noiseâ€"the whir of looms; the clang of ham- mops; the shouts of those who have goods to $911; the shouts of those who pretend that they do not wish to buy; the wail of the professional mourner: and the beggar’s ‘CI‘y of “Aims, for the love of Allah!" Ev- eryw he're there is odorâ€"rank exhal- ations from the refuse underfoot; lfetid air; hot, unwashed bodies; rich lspices and heavy perfumes of the Brown Derby. East. You are glad to enter a bazaar and glad to leav e it. took me for a raciiig min. Sally-.â€"-How‘”was that? id that I won the vulgah puhson mis~ wry J-h‘trt ,DURI’IAM MARKET Ordinary sharks constituted the largest single item of diet for the tiger sharks that Mr. Bell examined. The stomach of one/tiger shark elev- en feet three inches long contained a large piece from the side or the head and gills of an eleven-foot ham- merhead shark that was taken in the nets with it. In the stomachs of four tiger sharks were large pieces of black-tip sharks. One tiger shark twelve feet two inches long had swallowed a large shark eight or nine feet long, bitten into seven or eight pieces. An eleven-foot fellow contained a whole hammerhead perâ€" haps three and a half feet long and also several parts of other sharks. In most cases the sharks that were eaten appeared to have been first caught in the nets. It is doubtful whether so many of them could have been captured in the open, although the evil. tiger shark carries with it always the will to eat its weaker brethren. ' The Orpheus Male Chorus, of Owen Sound, will give a » Conqert in Durham under Red Cross auspices, on Orpheus Male Chorus 13 Songâ€"“The Ringers”: ._: ._, . _. . . WHAT DO SHARKS BAT? All sharks are nut man-eaters. r‘ar from it; must. persons who have fa 1â€" en Victim in sharks have been eaten merely because they happened to liw at hand. Then what do sharks eat“? Mr. J. C. Bell of the American Muse- um has answered the question. Mr. Bell, says Mr. John '1‘. Nichols in Natural History, examined the Con- tents of the stomachs of more than thirty tiger sharks. Most of the sharks were from nine to twelvfl feet long, and seventy-six per cent. of them had been eating such creatures as sea turtles, other sharks and large rays and porpoises. Thirty-eight per cent. had eaten a variety of smaller creatureSâ€"crabs. horseshoe crabs, mackerel, shad and other fish, and one had eaten a water bird. Six per cent., probany in their role of scavengers, had swallowed the bones of domestic animals; one shark contained among other mater- ial beef bones and hair, and a second, which landed on the dock still alive, vomited several small mammal bones, among which were the leg bones of three sheep. 11 Songâ€"“A Red, Red Rose” ..... Mr. G. D. Fleming 12 Comrades in Arms. . . . ......... 14 Heroes and Gentlemen ................ Frank Peskett Orpheus Male Chorus 10 Sketchâ€"“Fiction and Fact” Mr. D. B. Patterson Rob Ray Grain Prices. Live hogs .................. $12.25 Wheat ............... 1. 35 @ 1.40 Oats ...................... 55 @ 60 Barley .................... 85 @ 90 Buckwheat .......... 95 @ 1.00 Peas. . .................. 1.75 @ 2. 00 Hay ..... .............. 4;... 16.00 at the Rob Roy Mills. We af‘e paying 550. to 600. for Oats. 85c. to 90¢. for Barle‘y, 95c. to $1.00 for Buckwheat, $1.75 to $2.00 for Peas. and $1.35 to $1.40 for Wheat at our elevator this weekâ€"Rob Roy Mills Limited, Durham, Ont. 2 Songâ€"“A Wreck on the Tide of Time” ........ Lange Mr. G. McGregor 3 Sketchâ€"Exits ‘ Mr. L. A. Duncan 8 Admiral Tom ................. 4 Songâ€"“The Magic_9f Xguy Eyes” ............. Penn PART I. 1 March of the Guard ........ v v ’ Mr. D. Hubbarfl 5 The Bill of Fare ............... Orpheus Male Chorus 6 Solo. -'â€"“Lovely War”_ 7 Zonophone Solo 9 Songâ€"“Mother Carey (as told by the Boatmen)” Keel Mr. J. L. Yule 'lHE ENTERT XINERS F irst T(‘IIOI‘.â€"â€"G. D Fleming: WE. Sm age. L. A. Duncan. Second Tenor. â€"J, M. Chl istin. (1. Dunmn. D. HuIimanl. C. L. Vanwyck. First BaSS.â€"â€"J. C. 'l‘olfm'd. J. L. Yule. E. L. Ireland. H. E. Pembrokv. D. "B. Patterson. Second_Bass.â€"J. G. MacKay, D. R. Dnbie. _ Feed Oats For Sale; Western Feed Oats at 6:20. a bushel PROCEEDS IN AID OF MEMORIAL HOSPITAL THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1922 Corrected April 27, 1922. GOD SAVE THE KING 1rd; ............ :z ....... \ . . .Geibel' Orpheus Male Chorus ' Orpheus Male Chorus PART II. ' .'m“'- V---‘ v-‘ V-“ Mr. H. E. Pembroke Mr. D. B. Patterson ars” ......................... Lohr Mr. J. M. Christie PROGRAM .46tf .70 .416 T. D. Bell, R. \Vallacv. G. M(f:G1'0;znr'. Rough-east 8-room house in the Town of Durham. This property is not, equipped with the modern con- veniences, but is a good home for .somebody. There ,is a good cellar, and a large, good W00dshed. OLD FAMILY HEIRLOOMS Mr. W. (l. Lauder left us a Bible a few «lays ago for insi'metion. It is interesting imitause of its antiquity, being printed in I‘Zdinlmrgh by the assigns of Alexzmiiler Kincaid, His Majesty‘s Printer, in the year 1785. t is regarded as a valuable heirloom in the Lauder family, as it was orig- inally the pi-Operty of the xgreat- greatâ€"grandfather of the present owner, and handed down from gen- eration to generation. It is bound in leather, well printed and still in a good state of preservation. Like all works of the time, it has the old- fashioned “s” made like an “1'”, as well as the one in modern use. It contains also the Psalms in metre, the Apochryph-a, Ecclesiasticus, and other features not given in modern versions. A family record of interâ€" est, dating back to January 7, 1785, when William Lauder and Jean Hastings were married, is given in manuscript, and this is followed__,by other members of the family down to the year 1868, when Thomas Dixon Lauder died at Durham, Octoâ€" ber 6, at the age of 76 years and six' months. On a supplementary sheet the record is continued to June 18, 1889, when John Lauder died in the Township of; Normanby at the age of 74 years. The book will long be treasured in the family. we have also had handed in for our inspection, an Anglican Book of Common Prayer. Though no date appears on it, the book must have been printed about the year 1760. It was handed in by Mr. Erben Sohutz, and is the property of his grandfath- er, Mr. George Whitmore. Like the Bible referred to above, it, too, is printed in the style of that day. We have not learned the history of the Prayer Book. but understand it is a veluable family heirloem of the Wihitmore family and will be e-h'erâ€" ished the more as the years pass on. ~ PROPERTIES FOR SALE We have for sale the following properties: â€" ‘ A O . _ -_n BORN Heraâ€"At Kitchener, on April 20, t0 MP. and Mrs. Reinhold Herz (nee Rita Torry), at daughter. ‘ AA SOD . 1"- 'I' __ 114 acres on the 2nd Concession of Glenelg; 60 acres cleared and in a good state of cultivation, about 20 acres bush, and the balance in pas.â€" ture land; running water on farm. On this prOperty is a good brick house, log barn and frame stable. It will be sold cheap‘for quick sale, on easy term's if desired. ‘ -v-‘vv .__ V McNally -.â€"-In Glenelg on April 26, to M1. and Mrs. Albert McNallV a if you fife vinterested in buying a farm or a house in towp, cogsulfius. .................... Nevin .......... '. . . . . .Zolliner :. .............. Hastings .. ........ . ...... Hastings The chronicle Office, Durham. Mrs. Blyth le't Friday morning to Visit friends in furonto for a couple of weeks. Dr. Cecil Wolfe was in Toronto on Friday attending a banquet at the ‘Ontario Club of the heads of departâ€" ments and the directorate of the ,Farmers’ Dairy Company, of Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Cooper-rand fa- mily. of Paisley, Spent Sunday with Mr. H. N. Burnett. and daughter“, Miss Frankie Burnett. Rev. W H. Smit‘l of th "e Pxesbyter- ian Church, and ...e\. W. H. Burgess of W‘alkerton, exchanged puipits on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Elliott, of Win- chester, spent from Friday till yes- terday with Mr. and Mrs. P. Gagnon. Mr. Elliott was a boyhood friend of Mr. Gagnon in the old home town of Winchester, and ‘ran up to see him for a few days on the occasion of a business trip to Toronto. «Mrs. George Tolchard and daugh- ter, Miss Edna Ritchie, of Chesley, were in town yesterday. Mrs. L. Sanford, sister of Mrs. G. A. Moore and Mrs. J. Crutchley, who came to Durham in answer to a Call to be with her brother, James Hop- kins, during hisrecent illness and death, returned to her home in In- glewaad Park, Ford, Ont” on Monday. Mrs. (D-r.) Robertson (nee Jessie Munro), of Stratford, visited her mother and sister in town this week. Mrs. Robertson and husband have but recently returned from a winter cruise of the Mediterranean. Mr. IL Torry, who has spent the winter in Toronto, has. returned to town. Reputation is an invisible pedestal on which we stand like statues, marked FamOus 0r Infamous. Mrs. S. MacBeth and Mrs. W. Cal- der are in Hamilton this week atâ€" tending: the I.O.D.E. convention. Rm. and Mrs. Hardv are in London this \\ 0013., the former attending Sy- nod and the- lattpr Visiting her old lmmo thorn. Miss K. A. Firth has returned from an extomlod visit with friends at Niagara Falls and Port Elgin. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. White, Strat- ford, were in town Saturday and the. farmer gave us a brief call. Mr. White, who is (in the staff of the Stratford Collerriate, was formerly principal of the High School at, Ir'lOShQI‘ton. Reputation is the right hand P‘atejâ€"that points out the road Success or Failure. Reputation can be the most exalt, ing or the most damning thing in life. Reputatlon IS prlceless and yet, 1t is within the reach of everybody. chutation. is the most precious thing to a woman and the most valu- .‘\11'..I(:m(lan of Charlottetown, P.E.I. President Of the Priceville Fox Company, is staying at the Middaugh House. Mi 38 Janet McLachlan 0f Glenelg. spent Easter with Toxonto friends, and returned on Tuesday. Mr. John A. Darling of Simcoe is visiting his daughter, Mrs. George Gagnon. Mr. Ross Parke of Hamilton visit- ed friends here recently. Mr. J. G. Ross of Montreal and Mr. R. B. Ross‘of London, are in town on business and incidentally guests of their sister, Mrs. J. A. Rowland. Mr. G. G. Robinson of the Jno. E. Russell Company’s Toronto office, was in town this week on business. A bad Reputation is the easiest thing to get and the hardest thing to lose. Mr. Alex. McLachlan of Montana, is visiting the W'eir and McKinnon families here and his sister, Mrs. Robert, Shortreed, of Priceville. Mrs. Charles McInnis of Paisley visited herold pupil, Mrs. J. C..~Ni- ch01, last, wek. “REPUTATION” A MASTERPIECE; AT VETERAN ST'AR NEXT WEEK Reputaion comes in just two varie- tiesâ€"good and bad. A good Reputation is the hardest thing to get and the easiest thing to lose. SOCIAL .zizE PERSONAL SAEEE EEE EEEE of to W1 able thing to a man. Every human being is a peddler of' Reputationâ€"His Gun and the Other fellow" ryâ€"W' hV deal in bad ones when plenty Of good are to be had? This Fruit "Medicine Always: Gives Belief Reputation is the first of a series of “Big” pictures at the regular price that have been contracted for by the Veteran Star Theatre, and will be. shown next Tuesday and Wednesday night, the 2nd and 3rd of May. They will appear every two weeks there; after. See “Reputation” next week and watch for further announce-V ments in this paper. 917 Domox St; Momma” I snfi‘ered terribly with Dyspepsia.â€" I had it for years and all the media files I took did not dome any good“ THRESHING OUTFIT FOR SALE \‘Jhitc engine and \Mount Foregt svmmtrn‘, in good condition; will be mhfl at. a sacrifice.-â€"W. R. T. Clark. Durham. 4 27 4 I read something about “Fruit-a». ‘98” being good for all Stomach Trouble .d Disorders of Digation, so I tried After finishing a few boxes, I was Ontirely relieved of the Dyspepsia and; my general health was restored; and; I am writing to tell you that I owe my life to “Fruit-a-tives” Mlle. 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