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this year it will pay you to get our prices for cement, blocks, bricks, ete., as you will save $250.00 between solid brick and cement blocks. We alse have all sizes in wills, lintels, piér blocks, caps and vases at reasonable prices. Kingston Cement Products Factory Factory Cor. of Patrick and Charles Sts. OfMce: 177 Wellington St. How Anyone (Can anish Hair or Fuzz (Modes of To-day.) Superfluous hairs are easily quickly removed with the aid of n delatone paste. Get an original package of delatone from your drug- gift and mix enough with water to cover the hairy surface. Apply and after. two or three minutes rub off, wash the skin and the hairs are gone. No possible harm or injury follows this treatment, and excepting in rave instances, only one application is requiced to remove every trace of hair. Results are more satisfac. tory when you get the delatone in an original package. MID-WINTER FURNITURE SALE Everything reduced 10 to 20% and > Grand opportunity to save money. Iron Beds, $2.50, $3.50, $4.50 and up. Brass Beds, $11.50, $15.00, $18 and up. Springs Dressers and Washstands, Chiffon. ers in oak, mahogany, walnut, white and Mattresses, enamel, at sale prices. R. J. REID isading Undertaker Poose &TY TO MAKE YOUR HAIR MORE BEAUTIFUL To give your hair that gloss lustre and wavy silky-softness Harmony Hair Beautifier. 1t and SUNN takes away' the dull dead look of the hair, | and 'makes it bright--turns the strin- giness into fluffiness--overcomes the oily odors and leaves a sweet, true- rose frggrance--~makes the hair eas- ier to put up neatly and easier place. It is just exactly what it 18 named--a hair beautifier, and whether your hair' is ugly now or beautiful, it will ireprove its appear- ante. You'll he delighted with the resalts, Simply sprinkle a little on' your hair each time before brushing ft. Contains mo oil: will not change ihe color of hair, nor darken gray To keep your hair and slp dan- drufi-freo and clean, use armony. Shampoo. This pure, liquid sham- | poo is most convenient. to use, be- catise it' gives gn insthntancous rich, | foaming lather that immediately pene _ trates to every part of hair and op insuring a quick, thorough cleansing. Washed off just as quickly, the entire operation takes only a few moments. ta nothing that can harm the har; leaves no harshmess or sticki- noss--just a sweet-smelling cleanli- fess, Bath .eome in odd ' sha , very ornamental bottles, with ; tops. Harmonv Hail Beau- ter $1. Harmony Shampoo, 8S0c. or back. Sold y your money only at the more than 7,000 Rex- we would not take so much a Stores, and in this town only hy ; Matiood's re Store, Lat. Le Tl, with the bar COSTS souTh AFRICAN NA. TIVES MONEY TO MARRY. Strange Levy Which Upsets All No- tions of Taking Bachelors Is That of $10 a Year for Every Wite Imposed "Upon Blacks In the Transvanl---/The Assessor Simply ~ Counts the Huts. in Canada, the federal of provin- cial poll tax collector is an unknown person, but this is not the case in other parts of the British Empire. For instance in South Afriea, stich a tax is collected from the individual by authorized officials of the Govern- ment in person, says The Family Her- ald and Weekly Star. There is a single tax, called a poll or but tax, levied on all native mar- ried men in the Transvaal. Curious as it may sound to us, this amounts to $10 a year for every wife! As each wife has her own hut or house, no matter how many wives man may have, the connection be- tween the term poll or hut tax is casily seen. Possibly the incidence of the tax is expected to militate against the prac- tice of polygamy. But the collection of these taxes is not effected 'without some difficulty, since the native population of the Transvaal, estimated at two millions, is sgattered throughout the rural dis« trieta, and instead of being called up- on to pay their dues at some town in the district In which they live, -the collectors go to the native villages or camp near the farms on which the Kaffir is employed and receives the tax. The Transvaal is divided into dis- fricts, each district having its mative commissioner 'who decides all native disputes, and who tries all cases in Lis district. Besides this he has charge of the collection of all native taxes, and «ldo directs the spending of native grants from the treasury. To asaist him in this work Le has usually two or three white clerks! a native interpreter and a staff of na- tive policemen. An interpreter seems an unnecessary member of his staff when it 48 considered that the com- missioner has to know the Kaffir ver- many different tribes and 80 many different dialects that it is absolutely necessary for him to keéép one, The commissioner finds it best, to conduct all conversations through the | interpreter, as it tends to uphold his dignity and gives far more weight to his judgment when he ig trying cases. A native has much nore respect for a white man 'whom he cannot address | directly, than for one whom he could | talk to without an interpreter. The collection of the poll or head tax is gene A summon- ing all the chiefs' of Abe: 'different tribes in thi district to an Indaba, or council meeting, with the native commissioner, at. bis headquarters, He then tells when he will collect the taxes from tHe" different tribes and informs them of. any-eh in the amount of. ibe tax levied .and. any. othier matters that may concern them. Ly hor in turn intorm their xi as gen later on the ne 1 aissioner Bron through the district. to collect the taxes and a journey which generally occupies two months, #8 the territory to be eovered is always great. When commissioner starts on his travels¥ he carries a good supply ' of provisions and camp equipment, because to reach the greater number of the natives he has to leave civili- zation far behind him. He considers himself fortunate if he can get a roof to sleép in his tent, by far prefer- able to a mative hut which is very seldom free from vermin, As the natives cannot read, it would be useless ta send them a writ- ten notice of what they owe in the way of taxes, so & very ingenious and simple method is adopted. The commissioner has his district laid out in sections, generally, with natyral borders. When he starts to collect in a section he sends out about twenty pollee boys to round up the inhabitants. As they come to each kraal they can see at:4 glance how many wives a man owhs. sum- oe a amall piece of. flat stick, usually creeper: shout &b thick as a lead peeled off it. They put a: nick in this for each wife a man husion one of ita side, and a smaller nick on the other side for each dog. Both wives and native have to pay a tax of about $2.00 for each dog. The police boy tells the native {where he must go to pay his tax, | which is. generally located at some spot where the commissioner will camp for a day or two. No one who knows South Africa ls out of sympathy with the dog tax. The collection of the taxes is usual- {ly a pieturesque affair, The commis- (siomer sits at a table placed in the to | { i pe] 4 shelter of a tree, "whilst the natives squat around in a half circle with the interpreter and a native police ser- geant. The latter calls up the natives to pay their taxes, starting with the chief of the tribe, followed by the Indians 'or head men and then the lesser members of the tribes, The sergeant atis-as the go-be- tween, collecting the money and handing back the written receipt which the commissioner gives, | payments being generally made in isovereigns. There are very few na- tives who cannot pay their taxes, as there is lots of work to be obtained jin the mines and other industries. Although the methads of collecting taxes might lead one to axpest fran dulent practice creeping into it, cases of substituting 'or changing the pieces of stick given by the police boys are very rare, for the tribal laws are very strict on trickery and theft. In the old days, before the 'white races bedame the predominent power in the land, a man would be driven out of the tribe or put to desth for such practices. It we had no faults of our own, sure in watching the faults of A woman who slanders Nbr n Kingston, By is no worse than she who I If of all words of tongue or pen, nacular thoroughly, but there ure so | over his head. Generally he will have | ber of huts. They then give the Kaf- | the | THEIR wou AIDES. British Seatesttion' Hi Have Strong Supe port Tn Their Wives. Miss O! 'en Lloyd George, eldest daughter of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has just become Press cuttér-in-chief to her father. Diligently every day she applies herself to the self-imposed task of searching newspaper periodicals, and magazines for references to Mr. Lloyd George, making her cuttings, and classifying them in easily gets at-able order. It is paturally hard work for & girl of twenty-one, Mr. -Lloyd George must be just about the most written of public men of the day, but it is not the first tice Miss' Olwen has "helped" her father: A A year or two ago someone who was evidently seriously annoyed with the chancellor threw a box at him. Migs Lloyd George was with him on, this occasion, and she promptly sel herself to defend him from any further outrage. "I just sat mext to father after that fo oase anything oelse was "thrown at him," she explained in the most matter of fact way afterwards, Mr, Lloyd George is very happy in his children, for, besides his eldest daughter, there is Megan. When she was only eight Megan conducted an election campaign so earnestly in the Carnarvon boroughs that they called t "Megan's Campaign." Not content with' motoring all over the plate with her mother, she ace tually made little speeches -of her own-in Welsh! One day she asked an old man, "Please will you vote for father?" "Indeed I will. But you must give! me a kiss first," he said jokingly. "Ah,'"" replied Megan gravely,!| "ah, but that would be bribery and corruption, wouldn't it?" { Although she is only eleven years' old, Migs Megan has already de! clared a creche for {fifty babies: at Pentonville "open," amd once, ox-| Diamning her absencé from the. open. ing of a bazaar her ather wrote as follows: "She is helping me to get well, Her cheerful presence is better than, any physic." In another way Mr. Joseph Chim! berlain ofice paid an equally charme« ing tribute to the value of his wife's influence on him. In one of hisyare | moments of public confidence he ssid of Mrs. Chamberlain: "She. has sustained me by her courage and cheered me by her | gracious companionship, and I have | foun her my best and truest coum- | seHor."" No stateman could have paid s { higher compliment to a woman than tha Mra. Winston Churchill is well | known to be one of the most active ! of feminine influences behind the political scenes. - She takes a most practical and enthusiastic interest in the First Lord's work, and, whether he is - inspecting docks or experi- menting in naval aircraft, "Mra. Winston" is: more often than. not with him or else close at hand. Will Crooks is another politician d with w folk not merely to-beseploited and put-Yon show" at election time. In Mrs. Crooks, for instance--"the missus,' as he calls her--he has a most valu- able helper, a woman who not only otganizes a club for poor working girls, Hut whe is quite capable of making a speech 'off her owh bat' on occasions. | Mr. Asquith, Mr, Bonar Law, and others employ women as their con- fidential secretaries, too, and so al- together, despite what the suffra- gettes may siy, women undoubtedly do have a good deal to do with the inside of Parliamentary matters. Stolen Goods Found. Burfed treasure which has been discovered in the Crystal Woods, near Cardiff, throws a light on a burglary which took place about forty years ago. A workman noticed some articles protruding from the carth at the foot of a large tree, and found them-to be pieces -of old silver. He dug out 11 silver candlesticks, two large~ gilver wine cups; a silver model of a cow, a silver 'inkstand, four silver punch ladies, two glass inkpots, and some silver dishes. He 'informed the police, who be- leve the articles to be property stol- en from -the Heath House when in the occupation of the late Mr. Wynd- ham Lewis. Mr. Wyndham Lewis was married in 1873 to the present Lady Orr-Ewing, the widow of Sir | William Orr-Ewing, and the articles] have been forwarded te her in Scot-! land. Barred Queen From Museum. Because she refused to give up her umbrella the Queen of England was refused admittance to Norwich Cas- tle Museum. Queen Mary was accompanied by the Bishop of Norwich. As it was a -purely private visit, no notification had been given. The attendant, failing to recognize the Queen, stub- boraly refused to admit her with the umbrella, ' which she, with equal stubbornness, refused to surrender: The bishop intervened, but with- out effect, until he disclosed the identity ofthe royal visitor. = Pro- fuse apologies followed, and the Queen entered bearing her umbrella in triumph. Rich Salt Deposits. Enormous deposits of salt exist in the Esperance district of Western Australia, which are now being work- ed by a strong company. The salt Is Scraped from lakes and treated ina mill, recently erected. It is then bagged and exported, the quantity so treated being some 13,000 bags & month, S Farmer Turned Hangman. The. execution of a man for the brutal assault and murder of & farm- er's wife has: been successfully car ried out in New Zealand, by a well: to-do farmer, without fee, from sense of public duty. Genuine repentance is the kind fon makes you own up before detee- on. It is by the lack of their work---- i their work--=that we know some THE DAILY BRITISH whIG, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1914. TT crusen NeaAMSTAN, Butter State to" Novem or Pidia Une safe For White Men. A report on industrial and living | conditions in Afghanistan, which a Christian enters on" pain of death, has been made by Henry D. Baker, on special commercial service in the far east. Mr. Baker calls Afghanistan the "buffer state between British India and the Russian Possessions in Asia. It has an area of 20 0 square miles and a. aiuation ehtithated ai at 5,000,000, though no census | ever been taken.: I& inbabltants are without éxception Mobamme- dans, and, save only TI it is the largest closed country. in. ihe world, presenting the amachroniim of a nation in the twentieth century which forbids tke entraMee into its territory of the foreign missionaries either of religion or commerce, as well as making the profession of Christianity among its Subject pun. ishable by death. "If dny person partieularly wishes to visit Afghanistan he can get into the country only by interesting the Ameer personally iu the object of his visit, which, however, it may be found very difficult' to de." Mr. Baker says. "No commereial travel- er can get into Afghanistan unless the Ameer might be induced to take an interest in his particular line of business. Even then It would not be found convenient or afivantiage- ous to undertake a trip into Afghan- istan unless the Ameér would per- sonally guarantee one's ¢onifort and safety and provide a milltary escort to Kabul or Kandahar or wherever else it was desired to go, "After application has beer made to the Ameer for a permit, or fir- man, to visit Afghanistan--and by having advanced some particularly potent argument the firtaan may perhaps be granted---the deputy secretary "to the Government, if he deems it wise, will then grant per- mission to cross the frontier st the traveler's own risk. . "A regulation letier granting such permission to a representative of a 1 evirrrem house in Bombay, of which 1 have a copy, reads as follows: With reference to your letter dat- ed ~, I am directed to inform you that the honorable the chief com- missioner and agent to the governor general in the nerthwest frontier province is being directed to allow Mr. -- of your firm to cross the frontier, subject to the production by him of bis majesty the Ameer's firman and the political agent in the Khyber pass being satisfied that the | Afghan Government has made ur- rangements for Mr, --'s escort and transport. 4 am to add that the Govérnment of India accepts no responsibility whatever in connection with the ob- ject of Mr. --'s journey to or stay in Afghanistan and that he proceeds there at his own risk. "About. the only instances in which Europeans have ever been allowed to travel into Afghanistan is when machinery or other articles have been required by the Ameer to his Government or' special medical assistance needed at the court. At present there are understood to be six Europeans and two Americans residing in the country." A Round-about Call. Here is a curious example of how the telegraph has reduced the size of the earth, says an English journal. Not long ago a woman on Valentia Island was taken suddenly ill. The island lies ten miles off the west coast of Ireland, and is peopléd mainly by the operators.and engineers who look after the cables laid between that point and Newfoundland. The nearest doctor was the resi- dent practitioner 'at another large cable colony at Waterville, on the mainland. Strange to say, thers is no means of communication between Valent' Island and Waterville, possibly be- cause the two systems of cables are controlled hy different ir ternsts, But the cable oper.tors st Valen- tia were not to be beaten. They asi:- ed their Newfoundland operators by cable if they could communicate with their end of the Waterville cables The reply was that the two Newfound land offices were connected by tele phone, Thersupon the Valentia men sent a message to Waterville, ten miles ofr, via Newfoundland, asking a doctor tv attend the sick woman. The doctor arrived within two hours, and landed amid cheers from the little colony of o,erators, Barms Creates Record. It Is exactly eight years since Mr. Balfour laid down thie cares of office, and Sir Edward Grey and Mr. John Burns have been Foreigh Secretary and Presjdent of the Local Govern- ment Board respectively for exactly eight years. They are the only two Cabinet Ministers now holding office' who started in the same offices under "C. B." in 1905, and, furthermore, they are the only living men on either side who have held the same office continuously for so long a period. Mr, Burns has created an absolute record for not one of his thirteen predeces: sors at the Local Government Board, among whom were Mr. Balfour and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, was presi- dent for more than six years, ope Maoris and Agriculture, There has been established at Ma- nanui, in New Zealand, an agricul- tural "college for Maori Boys, which consists of some 200 aerés of first- class land, about 70 of which are al- ready under cultivation. Practical as well as theoretical training is given, and dairying is to be a prominent fed- ture of the institution, at which the boys live and which is under the principalship of a clergyman of soma considerable experience in practical agriculture. Adult Maori settlers, it is interesting to note, are realizing the possibilities of prosperity in dairying. The majority of those whe chia it up seriously usé Hag | ma nes. Most persons are at home when ity knocks----only, they re- bportes a. door to any kind of a 'kn She is a girl who can take eligible man away from a widow, os PRIMITIVE FOOTBALL. The OHEIBAF tame Was Plaged With Heads of Danes Football isan ancient pastinie, says fn e The old Teutons are credited with founding the game by playing with the bleached skulls of their enemies, Preliminary practice wis first heard of in Chester, Eng. whete the old English had sufficiently brutalized the game to give rise to many adverse criticisms, fragments of which have survived to the present Legend has it Chat in 962, during the Danish invasion of England, a £00d man of Chester captured a Dane, beheaded him and knocked his head out into the street to furnish sport for the "fellows." The game of kick- ing the head around the city streets and even outside the walls of the an- cient Roman-built city grew in favor. The exercise was indulged in when-* ever a Chester sport could annex a Danish head. But-éventually the sup- ply of Danish heads gave out. But the sport had secured a stronghold on | the exercise-loving Anglo-Saxons and a "balle of leather called a foot balle" was substituted, The game developed into a rough- and-tumble scrimmage, and the ball itself would often lie forgotten for hours while the excited players ¢has ed one another through alleys and lanes and even into the houses of the more respectable citizens as results of arguments over the rule that even before William the queror invaded England the interpre- tation of the football rules was a much-mooted matter. Sconces were eracked, bones were broken and lives | were lost, Yet the game spread in | favor, and, jumping over the inter- | vening centuries, is still spreading. The modern school of football eri- tics, just at present a subdued min- faction expressed by the public and the press, is not a whit more bitter than Philip Stubbs, a literary Briton, who way back in 1583 raked football of that day up and down, over and across in the following fashion:--- As concerning footballe, 1 protest unto you it may rather be called a friendlie kind of a fight than a play or recreation, a bloody and murther- ifig practice than a felowy sport or pastice. For doth not everyone lie in wait for his adversary, seeking to overthrow him and picke him on the nose, though it be on hard stones, or ditch or dale, or valley or hill, so he has him down, and he that can serve the most of this fashion is counted the only fellow, and who but he, So that by this means their necks are broken, sometimes their backs, some- times their arms, sometimes their noses gush out with blood, sometimes their eyes start out; for they have the sleights to mix one between two, to dash him against the heart with their elbows, to butt him under the short ribs with their gripped fists, and with their knees to catch him on the hip and picke him on his neck with a hundred murthering devices." The Pembroke town council has imposed a license of $25 on all per- ER at the Grand on Saturday, To celebrate with their diamond Mrs. F. Manitoba, are. in Vancouver. sons selling cigarettes. TI on wv ee wil Ne, of Hl, If you ave doing u local business talk over your advertising prob- lems with the Advertising De- partment of this newspaper. If you are doing a privincial or national dusiners it would be well for you to have the counsel and sasistence of a good advertising agency. A list of these will be furnished, without cost at obli- gation, by the Secretacy of adisn Press A. th $03, Lumsden Building, Toronto. . , formerly resided in Egremont, - "ee PAGE THIRTEEN Make The. Teapot: Test A scene from the famous divorce play, "A Buiterfly on the Wheel," Feb, 21st matinee and night. 4 10, Cm es---- At an adjourned meeting of tha high school board Wilbert Woodcock was elected chairman; E. Arthur Rixon, vice-chairman, and E. J. Ed- wards, secretary-treasurer. children | Mr. and Hillview, They Ont. their wedding, Stevenson, of W. hs i iE | a ores haw f "" RTL had it aed Whey, e Poor Man's University ~ ONES knows more about motor cars than any other man I know," said a man to his friend. " He hasobtained his knowledge chiefly from motor car advertise- ments, and the catalogues and booklets circulated through them." "All I know about photography," declared a well known amateur, "I have learned from the men who advertise cameras, plates, papers and films." Advertisements have been well called "The Poor Man's University," but other than poor men have been schooled thereby. Much of what the average individual knows con- cerning personal arid office methods, books cious stones, investments, and almost he has learned from 4vertsements, Poor. fan' s University." w cl