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ne * among the belligerent nations, ATER HED SY SF ARCHING / STRONG: MEN a We ila pom- y ihe Military Caste, the x N pemoctacy Has Made ard tn Forcing Changes the Rules Midst of jovd George :pecch "in 1 the re- od: DY ga 158estion oratory be.can dls- sme wud secure {ihe Premiership. ved with consid- Able reserv me Minister gevere crities fn I He and y seq havi been made ladaly to a ement n displace bp, Water iton is dug fo & belief that Bie oon to ba bronght back, Br whether it js due 10 ¢ celing that ® man of Balfour's or. Carson's type BUBHT to be placed at the head of af- 'airs is a point obscured Dy the cen- worship, Undoubtedly 1h2 return of Asquith would cause the gravest ap- * prehepsions in all parts of the Em- wire, even admitting his conrtesy and fairness to Mr, Lloyd (ieorge since the latter succeeded him. But since there is no doubt that the British people are more determined ever on winning the war, there can be little prospect of the politicgl suc- cess of the group referred 'to disre- spectfully as "the old gang." There have been many shifts leadership sinc» the war began, and 'some of them surprisingly, sudden, It seems a long time ago since Sir BEd- ward Grey (now Lord Grey of Fal- loden) was Forelgh Segretary. Yet when he was retired he had for a year or more been the only For- eign Minister then holding office ex- cept Baron Sonnino in Italy ,who had been' in a similar position at™the, outbreak of the var. Germany has had three Imperial Chancellors since the beginning of the war, and there is a general idea that the present in- cumbent will not emain lgng in of- fice. Even the Geman war machine, which was supposed to Pe the last word In efficiency in August, 1914, has had new chiefs for its army and for its navy. Va Kluck, for in- stance, who hil the world's atten- tion in the eady months of the war, has fallen io sbscurity, and one even forgets shéfher he lives or has gone the 'war of 80 many of his guard. Von Fdkenhayn, formerly chief of staff, yssretired, but is now engaged in killing up a. Turkish army. Hindaburg, Ludendorfr, and Mackensen ofthe leading German generals ale continue high in favor. The Diltistmy has in had two ee First an has h state; \'er the + The cessive Petain, 0 bring him su- Allied ts. too, fed Lords. A noe a *tisen to be chief of the B a former engineer presid Admiralty as First French army has been led «ly by Joffre, Nivella, a and now there is a propo Joffre 'back again and gi preme command of, nll armies, There hav "oe em -- ag Customers ho! 2 the cabinet of si tasked 40" Pete hess Mitte. so! the eg awarded to thé £s Ziucky ket. and to be an be' dgf of the i « fast be in store. | bs 0 people | ) Who dread th an eye oxamin= | are agreeably: 8, it causes no" pain, im ar! a OF ' inconven: and Military (and they | : | 10 find that, a8) ade' Ted Last April the GQ ilin $312,000, 000. | vet" loans were, $851,000,000, -- ot a movement te 1. ..e Halg, whicl Seems astonishing in vier: of the Breat achievements of the British hitales under his eommand, Even he Canadian Amy has' had three iY ers in the field, Alderson, Byng, nd Currie. while the Canadian mili {41a hag Been presided over suc »888{ve- 1¥. by Lieus.-Gen. Sir Sam Hughes 8 | Edward Kemp, end Gen urn Mew- The italian army was under the Supreme command of Gen, Cadorna from' tha beginni Ing of the war until 4 Tew days ago, when © adorns was -put in relatively an inferior position and a new general appointed, assisi- by a British and French officer Of the changes in the Russian com- mand It would be tediqus to speak without the assistance of gu 'adding machine, bat in Russia the chan ges have been by nosmeans for the pet ter, and most people Believe that Russia had her best general in her first, namely, the Grand Duke Nieh- olas, who, many -maintaln, was the most brilliant leader that the Allies have developed since the beginning of the war. Who is now in chaige of the Russian armies, or what ' the Russian armies are in charge 6f no- body knows, Still less conc#rned is anyone over the Russian fleet, whose part in this war has beén largely a thinking one. Even in she United Staves the war has brought changes, Mr. Lansing 'is now Foreign Secretary because of the attitude his predecessor, . Mr. Bryan, took regarding the war. Sim- larly Secretary Baker now' presides over the War Department Secretary Garrison disagreed with President Wilson over matters con cerning his department. Both these changes were made before the United States became a belligrent. There have been other changes in the army and- navy commands which would not have been made had the United States not entered the war, older men being replaced by those likely to stand. better the arduous strain, In France Viviani, Briand, Ribot, and Painleve have been war Pre- miers, and Georges (Clemenceau has the task of forming a fifth Ministry. Clemenceau is a "tiger" on German intrigues, and Caillaux and Boloism will get short shrift from him, if his Ministry withstands Socialist pres- sure. The war will not lose in vigor by Clemenceau's , acceptance of the French Premiership, MONEY RU NNING SHORT, Foe's Income Will Not Meet Interest on Debt, The German announcement that the seventh German war loan. Had brought in a total of 12,430,000,000 marks, or nominally $3,107,500, 000, raised some familiar questions." A total war debt of 74,416,300,000 marks, or $18,104,000;000, has now been created in the seven war loans. On this amount, which excludes Treasury biils outstanding or dis- counted at the Reichsbank, the an- nual interest charge is, roughly, $900,000,000. Early in 1916, when Germany was still refusing to impose any heavy war taxation on its peo- ple (being still obsessed with the Idea of making France agd England nay thé German war expenses through a stupendous indemnity), it was estimated that about dne-gixth of the proceeds of its war loans had to be used to meet interest on the existing war debt. In another year or two, one- fourth would have to be thus used. ierman Government began to on additional taxes. Those on coal, transportation, and was profits 'were estimated to bring In. the fiscal year end 'Mgreh 21, 1914, pire' VBveRiIs Tron all sourced' ex-s in- cluding $220,000,000 from post and telegraph and $41,000,000 trom rail- roads. .In neither of the two sue- ceeding years did total ordinary revenue, acearding Ho the budget estimates, rise above $830,000,000. In the bridget for the year ended | last 'Mé&rceh the "special. war taxes" brought the 'ordinary r®enue up to' $915,000,000; but;sas this included $260,000,000 of gross revenue from railways, post, and telegraph, and rinting office, agaist which there ra! 'tkiprténance charges totalling $218,000,000, it left . barely $700,- 000,000 net, But with intérest pay- ments now $900,000,000, this means that even the increased Imperial rev- enue falls short by about $200,000," 000 annually of meeting interest the war debt, and meantime Treds- ury bills and new war loans follow one another on the market, ' Fur- thermore, the annual interest on that debt now exceeds by nearly $50,000, 000 the éntire Imperial revenue of the year 'before the war. How Glass Beads Are Made. Most of the world's beads are Venetian, In the island of Murano a thousand workmen are devoted to this work. The first process is te- draw the glass into tubes of the dia- meter of the proposed bead. For this purpose the glass house at Mu- rano has a kind of gallery 150 feet long. By gathering various colors from different pots and twisting them into, one mass, many combina- tions of é6lors are made. The tubes are carefully sorted by diameters and iehipped into fragments of uniform size, Thess pieces are stirred in a mix- ture of sand and ashes, Which fills the holes and prevents the sides from closing _ together: when they are 'heated, - They are next placed in a kind of fryiug pan and constantly stirred over the fire until the edges aré rounded into a globular form. When cool they are shaken in ene set of sieves until the ashes are sep- arated, and in another @eries of sieves until they are perfectly. sorted. by sizes. children, who work with wonderful rapidity, tied in bundles, and export- ed to the ends of the earth. France has long produced the "pearl beads" whith in finer forms are close imitations.of pearls. They are said to have been invented by M. acoin in 16586. threaded for orpament is blown from glass tubes. AR expert workmen can blow five 'six thousand globties in 'a day. are. Hinedl with powdered Tish: | sees and 'filled with wax. Tt takes fn thousdnd fied' 0 make & Of acaly sage because' the Em- | tie common variety | - ng { ARIZONA MINE BOSS LAY HELPLESS WHEN WIFE G( Got 'TANLAC Was Bix Feet Te Tall and Got Down to Where He Only Weighed 1186 Pounds. heibjass » en first bottle of Tanlae from Tex. writes Harry KE. Dragdon, Ariz , under date of Nov. 18th, in telling of his res markable recovery from an illness] that had defied the. skilf of the best | physicians for over two Years, nothing of his failure to fine at jeading health resorts Mr. Scott's vollintary. statement has the rue ring of sincerity : gratitude -and is unquestionably one of the most remarkable ever given in connection with a proprietary {cine : "I Jay dere; i our El 480, my wife or Scott, of relief le. I. Moss, Benson, a well-known druggist of Ariz., who has the agency for that town," and arded by Mr. Moss fo the ss in Atlanta, Dragoon, Ariz, Mr. C. F. Moss, Bensan, Ariz., Dear Sir: As you expressed a de- sire to hear more about my gase, I} will try and tell you part of it. down and oul nearly all the time Nov. 15, for ach trouble' tors, two of Three ot Case, say ing the 80, and went to eight dos whom were osteopaths them refused to it was incurable, and | as they did me no good. internally and externally, to Hot week's relief at a time, and sixteen pounds--which light for a six'footer---I kept getting! worse until I couldn't move, couldn't sleep more than two hours, a night. Some of the officials of the | mine, of which I am foreman; would call to see me then go pout and say, 'poor old Scott has fired his last man.' get out of bed alive, my condition else, s At last, when I lay helpless my wife ordered a hottle of Tanlac from the druggist at El Pago, Texas, which was the nearest place we-eould get it at that time. better than lac [the first in many months. time I had taken half of the first bottle 1 had a good appetite = but when 1 finished my second bottle I could hardly eat enough to satisfy me.. Well, I have just finished my ninth "bottle have gained eighteen | pounds and am back on the job every day. I-have cohverted lots of sufferers to the '"Tanlac route" and it affects them all about like it did me--their stomach trouble; nervousness and rheumatism all yield to Tanlac. Mrs. Scott and myself are willing to go be- fore a netary and make affidavit as to the truth of every statement in this letter, which you are at liberty By _ to publish and use for the benefit of | others, | Yours very truly, | (Signed), Harry E. Scott. | Accompanying the -ahove was a {letter from the Moss Pharmaey ad- dressed to the Tanlac Offices, Atlanta, Ga., referrng in the highest terms to Mr. Heott ns a man and citizen with the added statement that both Mr. Scott' and "his wife were ready at Any time to.go before a Notary Public and swear that Tanlac is the only medicine he had ever taken that Wad any effect on 'his rheumatism and stomac h trouble, - He algo stated he had another cus- tomer, an old gentleman, who had taken five btttles of Tanlac and had gained twelve to fifteer pounds and that 'they were building up a large , buginess on Tanlae, ete. Tanlae is sold) in Kingston, ky Al fr. Shown.» . --ADVT, ASKED FOR SHELTER. Young © Man 'Accommodated . oo --~ Police Station. } Please sir; can [I stay in the police {station until the weather moderates? This savas the appeal made by a young man to the police officers at the station ox Monday afternoon. The station always afiords shelter (for any person van if storm and _at the fthe young fellow was gecommodated. {| He belongs to Kingstén, but stuted that he did not want to go home. 'After spending a few "houss in the 'lock-up' the young fellow departed, i's much, better in here than out {in the cold," he remarked shortly af- ter he was taken in, " ry Samad Hill. Red Cross Report. The final. meeting of the Sand Hill Red Cross seiety. for 1917 was held fo' the church oh Dec. 18th. The fol. lowing: report shows the actual work accomplished by thé society: 56 pairs knitted socks, 56 hospital shirts, 6 pneumonia jackets, 14 py- jama sults, 170. abdominal bandages, 52 towels, .14 army shirts, 50 opera- tion. socks, 176. pads, 1287 binders, 410 triangular bandages. Kir Bain Hughes has left for Wine nireg, where he expects. to. spend aboat a week. He will ten proceed further west, ® Don't Saffer!, Here's Toe Quickest ¥ our Surest Stomach Retief Known, Biv Ny bm Time it! 'In a few minntes all stomach distress ~ No indizes- Alon, jJearthur, Su pre or Tolthiv fod, no ao bloating, "Headache, "to say {se medi- Mr. Seott's letter was addressed to!tin, Tanlac| was for-| Tanlag, . His letter follows: | 191%] I was | two years with rheumatism and stom-| Monday take my | for the New Year. ¥| others might as well have done| I guess| I have taken a barrel of medicines | dance to-night I also went| Springs and out of all that] was ever done I never -got over one| | Sydenha = After going down to one hundred {New Year's Bye. is very! even to] feed myself, had no desire to dat and | My wife thought I would never | and she knew | anybody | One evening about four days after I began taking Tan-| AAA in as I ate a fair meal and enjoyed it, | Wedding dtr Monday, the id Sg 7 In Twilight § . * 'A number of a very jolly day evening, the home of Earl street, nt were heivey, Moogrs, oF ®o 0» 3 young péople enjoyed riving party on Mon- afterwards going to Mrs, John Donnelly, for supper. Those pre- the Misses" Gertrude Me- Isabelle Mooers, Grace Isabelle Minnes, Florence i. Helen Mclean, Kathleen , Dorothy Burton, Mdry Jones, Jones, Phylis Coates and Gordon Cunningham, Jack Ted Day, Harry Orr, Ernest George Carson, Frank McMar- Herbert Rohertson, Donald Nickle, Reg Sawyer and Millar Donnelly, ie : : ? ow. ¢ Justice and Mrs. Campbell Montreal, entertained about twenty young people at an informal house dance on Saturday for their spn, Ar- thur Lane, home from tha Royal Military College. . . * Lane, . Hendrie night at ¢ Lady gave a dinner. on Government House adame Melba and Ylarence, her guests n hon ady Susan * . Mrs. 3 enter H. A. taining Lavell, at a in Barrie street, young people's "honor of Miss Doreen Lavell * » » Mr, Mrs street, and Garnet - Lockett, entertained on . # curling tea of held this afternoon, s The first son was the sea- 2 * Miss Helen Campbell, Emily | street, was hosteess at an informal dance on New Year's Eve. ° Capt. and Mrs, Morton Hall, Liam street, . haves 'returned Galt, 7 Major and Mrs. Charles Hanson, Bagot street, spent New Year's in Montreal the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Davidson. Miss Helen Uglow and Miss Mar- jorie Uglow, Barrie street, have re- turned from Fenelon Falls, where they attended the Uglow"Robertson Wil- from Lieut. Kenneth Taylor, street, has retuwrged ' from York. \ King New Miss May Chown, "Sunnyside," is leaving early this month for New York to spend several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. John Leslie, who have been with Mr..and Mts. D. G. Laidlaw, have returned to Mont- real. Miss Katharine Farrell, Utica, N.Y., is the guest of Miss Clara Far- rell, Barrie street. Miss Myra Dyde, the guest of her parents, Mr, and Mrs. 'Hobart Dyde, Johnson street, returned to Ottawa to-day. » * Mr, and Mrs. Herbert Horsey and their daughter, Miss Mildred Hor- sey, spending Christmas at the Rox- borough, Ottawa, are returning to Picton for the winter on Wednesday. 'Ralph Smith, of Chantry, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Smith, Alfred street, Sergt. Bruce Craig and Sergt, J. R. Craig ,of London, Ont., werg the guests of Ald. and Mrs. B. A, Couper over the holiday. a . * 'Miss Marie McMinn, been visiting Miss Mary the Avonmore. Mrs. . Gordon Smith, street, has "returned after with her mother in Toronto. Miss Phylis Welsh returned to Montreal on Sunday after spending the past week with Mrs. C. Smith, Bagot street. fed Miss Evelyn Nickle, Barl street, left on Monday to visit Miss Mar- jorie Lacey in Prescott. Miss Blanche Kent is returning to: Montreal to'morromw rafter' spend- ing the past two. weeks with her mother, . Mrs. 'Noel - Kent, King - - wv Ottawa, has McPhail at Johnson a visit - street. . r - * Capt. and Mrs. Cecil Adams, who were in New York for New Year's, will visit Washington before return- ing home. Mrs. D. (. Macphail and the Misses Mary and Katharine Mac- 'phail, William sireet, have returned from. "Toronto. Miss Edna Chown is returning to Branksome Hall, Toronto, this week after spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Y.: Chownp "Sunnyside." Major-Arthur Turner has been in town from Hamilton for. a few days. » - * Miss Cecil Macnee, who has been spending the holidays awith her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frapeis Macnee, $s returning to Trafalgar College, | Montreal, this 'week. Miss Bessie Caldwell, Hospital, Toronto, is the gnest of her mother, Mrs. W. C. Caldwell, Lanark, and is expected shortly to visit Miss Aileen Folger, Sydenham street. Lisut, - A. Steacy from Brockville. 'Miss Hilda Hague, whe has heen with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Hague, University avenue, is re- has returned AT ONCELLPAPES DIAPEPSIN STOPS They are then threaded by | L-thev know ie is. neadless to have a bad stomach." Get. a Jarge fifty-cent case of Pape ss' Dianepsin' from anv drug I and put vour stomach right. Stop heing miserable----life is too shori-"you're hot here long: so make your-stiy figresable: Far whet you] 3 Tike dnd digest i enjoy it without feer of rebellion in the stomach, Pape's aENNEN AGREE A NAR EEEARAN AARNE NERNENRE Wellesley] in owad, -. INE Thursday, Joif a very cold. J anuary ! 1 A Month of Sales Ths month is goi space daily. fancy braids, etc. é maker. tirning to Boston at the end of the week. * ® 2 Lieut. England this week and is with Miss | Bessie and George Smythe, West street. Mrs. H. Macarow and Philip Ma- carow, who were the. guests of Mr. and . Mrs. Willihm Bermingham, Barrie street, have.returned to Of- tawa, Miss Doris Browne, Bagot street, has returned from Ottawa, where shs spent the holiday~vith Miss Hazel Browne. ¥ * ow Miss Marjorie Williams, University avenwe, left to-day for Ottawa'to be the guest of Dr, and. Mrs. 'R. PF. Chevrier. . n . * The fourth 'The Danfant," will take place at 'the Chateau Belvidere next Saturday. : (Continued on 1. Page 10.) # YOUR SELLING PROBLEM May not be so difficult as it ap- nears to 'he. If you have prop- erty to.sell, tell about it in an advertisement - amd' tell - the story . just as you would -tell it in a personal talk with a caller who sought the facts about it. Your property will then be "in the market," and 'the, possible buyers a majority of whom are people with- whom you could not get in touch by any other 'means than through advertis- ing---=will become, interested in your offer, and Fi want to in- vestigate it further. Peer tb ret Herre Err SHEER EB ERED P PER MH E THE UKRAINE PROBLEM. "Little Russia" Does Not Trust Fel- low Countrymen. ~~ The thorniest of Russia's racial | probléms is * undoubtedly 'that .of "Little Ruseia," or thé "Ukrainé" The Little Russians who prefer to be called "Ukrainians,'" differ from the Great Russiang in language and Leulture fully as much as the Dutch do from the Germans. Had the Ris sian Government granted them a | autonomy and respected their lan- guage and customs, there seems little doubt that the Ukrainians would 'to- day tb be loyal citizens of the Russian te, especially when it is remem- bered that the 'great divider of East European people--religious schism | ~=is here abeent, both Great and Lit- | the, Russians being Greek Orthodox in faith, 'AS 4 matter of fact, however, the turies to make the Ukriaglans into. Great Russians, while the middle- class "Liberals" who controlled the dumas afler the inauguration of Russian parliamentary life in 1905; showe . themselves as imperialistic and intolerant towards the "Ukrian- 'lane as the Czarist bureaucrats had - ever been. All this has embittered the Ukrianians and makes them | doubt the possibility of safeggarding their racial identity within the botn- -daries of the Russian state. Ou the other hand, the Ukraine's geographi- cal position, lying as it does between North Russia and 'the 'Black Sea, would 5 rendét it impossible for even thost dewnenatic Russia to view old Czarist government tried for cen- | ng to prove one of the busiest of the year -- +f wonderful value- giving on standard quality merchandise means any- thing -- and we think it does, especially in face of the decided un- ward tendency on all lines of dry-goods and accessories. Watch this It will contain news of truly sensational savings. ~ Tomorrow § Sale of Trimmings | Our entire stock of imported silk appliques, bandings, motifs, Priced in plain figures in our show books. Tomorrow Half Price _ This should prove of great interest to. every Kingston dress- Steacy's - Limited § » V 2 - A a a AAA ANAM. SANA tr NN Nt tN ? 1 ' Jack Smythe arrived from | } ATTRACTIVE FURNITURE and CARPETS Everything to Make the Home Comfortable at a moderate cost. _ See our new dining room suites =n walnut, ma. hogany and forned oak, Prices to suit all purses, Rugs, Curtains, Linoleums. Buy Your Records for Your New Victrola in our new Victrola De- partment. | 1 F HARRISON 0. LIMITED New" Year's Gifts Skating Boots for men at $4.00 and $4.50. Pepfessiond) style hockey boot, our special | ce $5.50. i Ret ls whic e a very accepta sift. Sharpened -- -- Skates | Jack re 5 Shoe Store 70 Brock Street. 5 A 5 alyy are America's 'Wecord Exports, Washington, Jan, 2Z->-Ameriea's esports were estimated at the Departs ment of Commerce to have passed the 86. 000,000,000 mark in 1917, a new nigh record. Imports were fess than $3,000,000,000 and the trade bal. "ance in favor of the Uh.led States Jnhably will be more than $3,130, Wolfe Yehud, : Yor Reeve---Dr. W. Spankie, Briceldnd, . 'For. Councillors Benjimin Lared, Grant shite, i ie . The U.S. Railroads have defi ditely refused the demand. of their organ- zied employees for forty per cent. ine creases in pay, and hae turned the snenihility Entirely" to ° th Gov. erument.: *