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12 Pages YEAR 85. NO. 48 The Daily Q British Whig KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1918 etn SECOND SECTION ~-on Bread instead of butter, ~--on Puddings and Blase Mange. All grocers sell it. 2,.5, 10, 20 pound B tins and "Perfect ES Seal" Quart Jars. iN vty Write for free / fruit Cook Book. (dt THE CANADA STARCH C0, Linfleg Grup MONTREAL, 7 5 hh A er En Carpenter and Builder W. R. BILLENNESS Specializing Store Fronts and Fit. ngs. Remogelling Aulldings of all 1 . ESTIMATES i: EXPERIBNOR Address 272 University Ave. a Ht 80000 Bey ee NOSTRILS-AND HEAD } Says Cream Applied in Nostrils Relieves Head-Colds at Once. rs A i esses If your nostrils are clogged and your head is stuffed and you can't breathe freely because of a cold or catarrh, just get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm at any drug store. Apply a little of this fragrant, anti- septic cream into your nostrils and let it penetrate through every air passage of your head, soothing and healing the inflamed, swollen mucous membrane and you get instant relief. Ah! how good it feels, Your nos- trils are open, your head is clear, no more hawking, snuffling, blowing; no more headache, dryhess or struggling for breath. Ely's Cream Balm is just what sufferers from head colds and catarrh need. It's a delight, Carat tte § STOP CATARRH! OPEN || Gigantic Task 3 of British Navy hy . . pretreat settee dod | SO HEN Lord Salisbury trad- island of Heligo~ land to Germany, it may : suggestion of | Queen Vietoria, he made the present | war possible, If this rock had ret {| mained in our possession Germany { would never have run the risk of | fighting Great Britain. The island 1s some 30 miles from the German { naval bases, and in British hands { would command them. Possibly, it | the island had remained Britis}, Ger- | many would have chosen some othér port than Wilhelmshaven as her { chief naval base, but this would have entailed grave disadvantages, To- | day this tiny island, about one square mile in area and rising to a height of 200 feet above sea level, is price- less to Germany, for it is not only! | powerfully fortified, but it and an | adjoining sandbank have been made {into a harbor and shelter for sub- | marines (Cestroyers, light cruisers, zeppelins, and aeroplanes. The near- by waters are shallow enough to be { effectively mined to the 'coast and make it absolutely impossible for enemy vessels to pass except at con- i siderable loss. Undoubtedly one of {the terms of peace will be that Ger- { many shall lose possession of Heligo- | | land. { This island and others along the coast give Germany a great advan- tage in the war game against Great Britain. Writing in the New York | | Tribine, Mr. Gherardi Davis says hat the guns on Heligoland would | be exceedingly difficult for hostile | ships to deal with. On the other | hand, there are no such flanking is. { lands on the British coasts which are | exposed to German attack, and the { configuration of long stretches of the | English coast makes it impossible to be successfully protected by mines. | Thus, if German cruisers choose to | take the risk of encountering British | fighting ships they need not_ fear i mines in a dash to bombard cértain English coast towns, especially those that are not adjacent to military | ports. It is true that there are thou- sands, perhaps millions, of mines laid by the British in the North Sea, but they are in certain zones, and not turned lose promiscuously. it these particular safe known to Swedish and ed the be at the Dutch sea . a "Fresh cn . Haddock and Cod, Whiting, Tom Cods, ] Smelts, Oysters. Dominion Fish Co. 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Get three ounces of ¢ at any pharmacy and m the grocer and make rier pint of this sweetly I lemon and massage to the face, neck, arms and { 16 naturally should help to soften, freshen, bleach and bring out the roses and beautify any skin. ! British have had command of the sea captains, there is not the slightest reason to suppose they are not equally well known to German naval chiefs. : Why thé Germans have not dona more bombarding of the undefended English towns is not clear to Mr," Davis, unless, as he supposes, Gers man losses in the Jutland fight ser fously reduced her supply of vessels! suitable for these attacks. He notes the tremendously more difficult work that has fallen upon the British navy compared with the duties of the Ger. man navy. The latter are comprised almost exclusively in the words "safety first." The chief business of the German navy is to keep from being sunk; the duty of the British navy is to keep the North Sea clear. English mine-sweepers, patrol vessels, destroyers, and light crsisers are j constantly on duty well off shore to- {ward Germany, and even the battles | ships are at sed. They are not pro- | tecting British coasts by hugging them! they go as hear the German {navy as the mine fields will permit, | Only on one ocomsion was the whole German fleet #it, and then followed | the Jutland battle, about which con troversy continues to rage, the Northcliffe press, for example, con= | sidering the result as unsatisfactory | to Britain. Mr.- Davis does not pass judgment | {on this fight, but remarks that "on | every occasion where the Germans | have met the English on even fairly | | equal terms, the Germans _.have { | never fought it out." There seems {to be no doubt that their conception of the average British naval com- |mander is that of a bull-headed | fighter whose sole ambition is to get next a German ship and throw out his grappling-irons. They hope that | this blind fighting spirit will lure' British ships over carefully-planted | mine-fields and that their destruction { will follow. There is in England a | certain school of patriots who in| {sists that it is the business of the ! British navy to assume the offensive, | to "dig them out like rats," as Win | Ston Churchill said. They regard the | matter much as though it were a | question of a terrier drawing a badg- | er, whereas the situation is as though. the terrier were obliged to crawl for | a hundred yards through a lethal chamber before he met the badger. Mr. Davis points out that while the since the beginning of the war, entry of the American navy not ing that command | death channels are | Of the Hungarians, COUNT SCAND. Y, RECALLED, | Favorite of Francis Joseph Dies in Vienna, German newspapers announce the in Vienna of the actress, | Katharina Schratt, for years an inti- mate of the late Emperor Francis Joseph and to whom he left $250,000 in his will. She was one of the most lurid figures in the scandalous life of the old Emperor, Katharina Schratt first met Em- peror Francis Joseph in the early 80s, when she had wou considerable reputation at the Stadt Theatre in Vienna as a mimie, and soon became known ag "the woman behind the Austrian throne." Mme. Schratt, however, lived to see the day when permission was refused her to view the Emperor on his bier. At the time of her first meeting with Francis Joseph the young aect- ress was the wife of Nicholas von Kise, a Huhgarian, who died in 1900. Court gossip had it that the Empress Elizabeth, who had been known as the most beautiful Princess In all Europe, was first to call her royal consort's attention to the young wo- man's loveliness of face, and that the | next day Katharing Schratt was ap- pointed court actress of the Hofburg Theatre. Throughout the remainder of the Empress' lite she befriénded the actress, and apparently encour aged the intimacy between her and the Emperor, about which the coun: try soon was gossiping. Katharina Schratt was described as an extremely handsome woman of | the brunette type--tall and classi cally formed. Her eyes were large | and blue, and she had a wealth ol dark hair, She was possessed ol much personal magnetism, and hei | manners were said to be charming. The actress remained on the stags for many years as leading lady ol the Hofburg Theatre. She occupied an establishment near the palace, and nearly every morning Emperot Francis Joseph took breakfast with her, ® After the Empress Elizabeth was assassinated in Switzerland in 1898 Mme. Schratt wore the deepest of mourning. The Emperor more and more sought her companionship, and she was appointed "official reader" to amuse him with books. He caus- . ed to be published in the State paper of Vienna the following paragraph: "The perfectly innocent character of the relations between the mon- arch and the actress are known to every one here who has the slightest acquaintance with Austro-Hungarian court life." Katharina Schratt, the actress, then became a participant in affairs of State, playing behind the scenes but wielding an influence over the aged Emperor that made Austro- '| Hungarian statesmen eager to gain her counsel. In politics /she was at first an opponent, and then a partisa 3 who desired greater legislative privileges than the dual monarchy permitted. It was the actress who persuaded Emperor Francis Joseph in 1905 to receive in audience Francis Kossuth, son of the | great Hungarian patriot and radical leader. Mme, Schratt"s career as a politi- eal power ended with the death of Emperor Francis Joseph in Novem- ber, 1916, Unlucky Bagdad. A writer in Pearson's tells us that Bagdad, where the British are now firmly established, has well earned its reputation of the world's unluck- fest city. soil on which it stands but has been soaked with the blood of its eiti- zens. When the Mongols, under their terrible Chief Hulaga, took the city in 1258, 1,000,000 of its inhabitants were put to death. Worse still, Hu- laga ruined the whole system of ir- rigation canals which made tamia perhaps the richest country In the world, "thereby destroying the work of 300 generations in as many hours. In 1393 Timur the Tartar sacked the city. He killed all its inhabit- nts, "save only the holy men," and 900,000 skulls were piled up in py- ramids before the walls. The Persians under Shan Abbas, captured Bagdad in 1823, after a desperate resistance, and in revenge he ordered 500 of the principal citi- zens to be tortured to death in pub- lic, the executions lasting over an entire week. Three hundred others were executed by hanging them head downward in the city's 300 wells, thereby poisoning the water supply. Not a square inch of the BUYING TITLES IN ENQLAND. The Check in the House of Lords-- A Distinct Gain for Democracy, It was a sign of {he times in which we live that Earl LoreSurn's resolution aimed at the pytehase of honors and titles in England wae adopted with immaterial amend ments by the House of Lords. The| evil had been growing with the rank ness of a fungus. «The rush for privy copncillorships, knighthoods, baron- etcies and seats in the House of Lords suggested the bargain coun- ter, It is a fact that, while the dis tribution of - "honors 'by the king upon the recommendation of his prime minister grew steadily in vol- ume, hundreds of aspirants were dis- appointed. Since the!war "to save democracy" began 8 considerable number of democrats in Great Brit- ain and the Colonies have been en- nobled or raised to envied social d! tinction. And, of course, there were resentment and heart-burning among the applicants who did not see their names on the illustrious scroll, that is to say, in the Gazette. There could be no doubt that, while some of the successful had served the State hon- orably, others simply wrote checks. It had been so before the war, when political funds yawned for the little scraps of paper, and needs for money have greatly multiplied during the last three years. Serving the state by giving money to carry on the war was highly creditable to the donors, but it should not have borne them into the House of Lords, or into the most exclusive circles, on a flood tide ~--that was indecent in the circum- stances, Reports of the debate in the House of-Lords must have had readers who usually find themselves bored stiff by the "proceedings of Parliament." They are usually dull enough, In fact, all England was interested In i the subject. It is curious to note | the sensitiveness of some of the {members of the "hereditary cham ber." They are not disposed to be ! lfeve that titles and distinctions had beén sold; of course, the prime min | ister knew nothing of the abuse, for! he merely submitted his advisers'| recommendations to the King; anv-| how, where, was the direct proof? But prime ministers are not £0 unso phisticated; they are familiar enough { with political waye--and means, The doubting Thomases kad thelr | guns spiked by the evidence of the Earl of Selborne, Earl Loreburn, and other plain-spoken critics of the! scandal. One iHustration will be suf- | ficient, though many were given. | Friends of Mayor George Holman of ! Leeds, a most public-spirited citizen, thought his name should be in the Gazette, and they approached the party Whip. "Yes," said he, "this Is La clear case for an honor. What is your friend preparsd to give?" Mayor | Holman declared that he wouldn't {give a penny; his language was stronger. Could the honor be ob- tained strictly on merit? "Why, no," said the Whip; "an honor he shall) {not have unless he contribuics to my | | party fund." t The influence of Sir James Gildea, | founder of the Soldiers' and Sailors' | { Families Association; was solicited | "by an applicant for a title who offer ed to give $100,000 to that charity {for a baronetey. Sir James flatly re- i fused to have anything to dd-with the (traffic in titlee, The Earl of Sel- | "bore; who has fought it for several (years, declared in the debate that | "the abuse was a menace to the pur- ity of public life and was doing great damage to the prestige of the - Crown." titles in England, "the Marquess of | Salisbury, struck the 'popular note | when he said that the House of Lords ; must 'speak to the democracy in! broad language which could not be misunderstood." In the end the re- 'solution, adopted "without a divi- 'sion," required that "the Prime Min- ister, before recommepding any per- son for any such rn or dignity, {Should satisfy himself that no pay- {ment or expectation of paymént to jany party or political fund is direct- ily or indirectly associated with: the grant or promise of such honor or dignity." This covers the most flag- rant cases, and another paragraph, which ealls for "a definite public | statement of the reasons for which it | [the honor or dignity] has been re- | commended to the Crown shall ac- | company the notification of the | grant," should exclude the common | herd of tuft hunters. It will be more | {dificult in future to add to the | ""Beerage' and to translate purse- bursting nonentities to the sacred in- closure of the House of Lords. De- . The Cereal Food you should use these days is Grape-Nuts fo hi& Tood is a sugar- saver----conlains over 10% sugar by weight "not "put there," but developed in the making from prime wheat and malted barley. Ready Cooked 2 No Waste i Sale in handy, sealed - packets licenséd by the Canadian Govern- meal". - Experiments a | England with a 'method for moeracy Is marching on in England. .. . Bishop of Jerusalem, Not . counting any Turkish troops who may have taken refuge in the city, the population of Jerusalem is 3h 60.900. These include 30,000 ws, 5 Prussia and England three-quar- ters of a century ago Scotland a Hi but the product of Wales £4 per acre. er ---------------- is are under way ' frozen meat without Y Won by Canada --Rebuilt hy Canada he > Our own Canadian boys thrilled the civil ized world when in April, 1917, they stormed Vimy Ridge and pushed back the Hun. Individual feats of heroism are too vast in number to be commemorated singly. Nor would our heroes desire us to waste money on useless monuments. But every veteran of Vimy Ridge will approve of Canada's rebuilding Vimy as a token of our love to France and as an enduring memorial to the boys who fought and died there, The Canadian Secours National obtained from France the privilege of rebuilding Vimy. The Secours National will receive the funds to carry on this inspiring work. But it is you and your fellow Canadians who will really rebuild Vimy, rehousing the homeless, providing for a destitute people at least a part of those comforts that we enjoy daily as our normal right. Don't hesitate. Though your contribution may seem small to you, it will loom large to the homeless! Contributions should be sent without delay to W. R. Johnston, Esq., Hon. Treas., 14 King St. W., Toronto, Ont. Secours National SIR GLENHOLME FALCONBRIDGE MRS. W. W. BEARDMORE : : President Chairman Ladies' Executive MR. JOHN M. 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