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TN NO. 59 Sm 5 VISITED AMERICA 1 HETEOR Sir Fréderick E. Smith Suddenly Called Home. | SUCCESSFUL CAREER This Yo ng Man Has Never Been Discresfs 'In His Utterance and It = Beon Assumed That Some of the Things Said by Him Were Not to Liking of Leaders, NOLAND'S recent recall of her Attorney-General, Sir Fred- erick Edwin Smith, who came to this continent the last of December as a guest of the American Bar Association, leads to the assump- tion that certain speeches he made here and interviews granted news- paper men, which occasioned com- ment in Washington, occasioned also the displeasure of his own Govern- ment, Sir Frederick was Britain's war censor in the first year of the war, but in September, 1914, he was or- dered to the front. He was spoken of then as ome of the cleverest men in England. 'The New York Times" printed a brief sketeh In which ap- | peared the following paragraphs: | "His father was at one time a pri- vate soldier, who by his own exertions | und ability became a barrister. The SIR FREDERICK KE. SMITH. son carried everything before him at Birkenhead School and Oxford, win- ning practically every scholarship for which he competed. After leaving the university he became a member of the bar, and his present Income is said to be larger than that of any othes English barrister. "hough bitter palitical enemies, Mr. Smith and the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, are close personal friends, and it is prob- ably due to this circumstance that Smith was appointed head of the Of- ficial Press Bureau when the war be- gan. His conduct of this office has not been at all pleasing to the news- papers, and it may be a result of their many criticisms that he is now going to the front as an ofMeer of the King's Own Oxfordshire' Hussars, a militia regiment." Sir Frederick has "the gift of say- ing the most cutting and insulting things in the most suave and gentle. manly manner," and pofkesses a hap- py faculty for repartee, It is told that on one occasion, when hé was dis- coursing on the advantages of tarif reform and a heckler kept on inter- rupting him with the cry, "What about our food?" he silenced him with the rejoinder: "Don't you worry, sir. Your food is quite safe! Neither Mr. Chamberlain nor myself, nor any one else, has ever advocated putting a tax on thistles." : Sir Frederick's "ame was in the New Year honor li.* this year. A baronetcy was bestowed upon him. Although it was officially denied that his recall was due to his indis- creet utterances, many observers give the British Government credit for having acted in the best interests of the allied cause, while also trying te eave the feelings of the Tory lawyer. The New York World, the leading or- gan of the Democrats, spoke none too kindly of him after his departure, and thought that his showing on this side of the water indicated that the English writers are correct who say that the success of Smith is due, not to great talents, but to his ability ag a persistent thrister, A lot of people call to-morrow the rest day, and; therefore, keep on working, Face Covered With | PIMPLES | i ASHAMED TO GO OUT. Many an otherwise beautiful and |attractive face is sadly marred by un- Isightly pimples, blotches, flesh jworms and various other blood dis- eases, { Their presence is,a soutce of em- | barrassment to t e afflicted as well as pain and regret tb their i friends, | Many a cheek and brow cast in {the mould of beauty have been sadly defaced, their attractiveness lost and | their possessor rendered unhappy for years. | Why, then, consent to rest under {this aloud of embarrassment? { There is an effectual remedy for {all these defects, | It is Burdock Blood Bitters. This {remedy will drive out 411 the im- purities from the blood and leave the complexion healthy and clear. {| Mrs. Katherine Henry, Port Syd- iney, Ont., writes: 'Two years ago {my face was 80 covered with pimples {I was ashamed to go out at all. Ij tried several remedies, but they were | |of no use. At last a friend advised | me to try Burdock Blood Bitters. 1| got a bottle, and by the time it was [used I could see a difference. I then | 80L two more, and when I had used | them the pimples were completely | gone, I can highly recommend | B.B.B." | Manufactured only by The T. Mil- | burn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. Si rs A ii, | i Camouflage, The word "camouflage," which is a {War addition fo the English lan- | Burge, is also comparatively new in French, I think it was not used hy our allies until this war. Anyhow, it | does not appear in the authoritative { French dictionary published in 1896, {nor Is it included in Larousse, It Js |darived fram "'camouflet," which orig- | inally meant 'smoke puffed in the | { face of a sleeping person," and after- ! |wards™eame to mean mystification, | | "Camouflage" is military mystifica- | { tion, the disguising of guns and mili- | tary positions so that they may escape | the enemy's observation, Many ca- | movflage schemes are adopted at the | front. Their effectiveness deggnds on i a4 proper appreciation of the colors | 7hich most completely blend with the landscape. ------------------------ Fund for Blind Soldiers' Children," Since Sir Arthur Pearson opened a campaign ia Great Britain to rafse £250,000 for a fund to provide a | weeklyyallowance of 5s. until the age | of sixteen for the children of blinded soldiers and sai' \rs ngarly £20,400 has been subscr. sed. China's Most. Ancient Mystery. The wayfarer in China who turng south to Anglicized Hong Kong, mul- titudinous China or that vivid hybrid of East and West Shanghai, rails even to brush the strangest and mos, \gn- cieht mystery of the dragon kingdo, immemorial mystery that wraps Pe- kin like an imperial mantle, a sombre northern inscrutability that enfolds the Great Wall as impenetrably as the mists obscuring its turrets It is & mystery so invincible that, once in a man's' blood, i there, is 'little. choice left Him Dutito Zollow. its lure on and on, seeking it8 source in that hinter- land still farther to the north. From the Great Wall one can gaze far over this unknown land rushing swiftly away to the north, not days but months by caravan--the great plain of Mongolia» Once yellow armies flooded across it as the sunshine floods across it to-day. Now a single horseman picks his way along the trail. Over all broods the utterly- vanished - from - the - earth silence which marks the home. of a people who are no more. Is there no life now in that Millness which once begat 80 fiercely updn the cividization be- low that a barrier must be hurled against it over the mountain tops? What of these latter-day sons of Ghenghis Khan? A Poisoned Sea. : For the eighth time since 1844 fish have been killed along the west coast 1of Florida in an area of : poisoned water. Not only the water, but the air has been charged with a suffo- cating gas, odorless but irritating to the air passages. The last mortality was reported in October, and Novem- ber of 1916. The Bureau of Fisheries {sent experts to the spot but they were obliged to admit, after a careful in- vestigation, that the cause of the strange occurrence is a mystery. One explanation adyanced is that earth- quake shocks, possibly due to West. Indian hurricanes, released poisonous Bases from the sea-bottom.-- Popular Science Monthly, , ---------------- Many of our ideas are too high to be of practical use to ourselves or others, J Curiosity is both father , and mother to impudent questions, The devil makes the first. partion X/ \ and how to make "America's most famous chefs? : Coffe--Pcucly Mad", wl i ars eA you. It's free. Write OULD YOU rick « postage SED learn more about "SEAL BRAND COFFEE of the road to ruin attractive, it? How to equal That mystery lies in North China, an.; world; 27, KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY, MARCH 11. a x hit GERMANY'S EFFICIENCY TEUTON MIND MERELY BORROWS FROM OTHERS. The Germans Have Invented Very Few Things of Great Value to the World, But Have Claimed a Great Deal of Credit for Adaptiog the Things Given to Mankind By the Brains of Other Nations, URING the last few months 1 bave beard the Germans ar- ralgned as blatant, boorish, barbarie, yet in nearly every case the speakers suffixed to their invectives such an expression as, "But when it comes to brains you will have to band it to them; they have made science." "What -- hand it to them? What epoch-making invention or discovery is of German origin--except a stamp on which is inseribed 'Made in Gey- many"? Their scientists have kicked up & fair amount of spray as they gamboléd in their pool, but the world bas yet to' hear a mighty Teutonie splash, Time and again French, Eng- lish, American, Spanish and Italian inventors and discoverers have gent tidal waves around the globe. Let us now be specific: The steam engine has been called { the greatest of all inventions; it broke the shackles from slaves: it mingled the marts of the world! It made neighbors of the antipodes. Newcome, a native of Devonshire, obtained the patent for the first partially suecess- ful steam engine; Watt, a Scoteh- joan, perfected it; Guygot, Mirdock and Trevithick brought forward the locomotive, not on @erman soil. Stephenson, an Englishman, was the first to apply the locomotive steam engine to railways for passenger traf- fic. France, England and America ap- plied it to navigation. When all had been completed Germany pulled the whistle cord, shouted "Hoch der kaiser," and tagged 1t "Made in Ger- many." The telegraph, which brings us the | daily history of the world, was in- vented by an American, Prof, Morse, who also suggested the Atlantic cable, which was subsequently laid by that American merchant-scientist, Cyrus Field, assisted in 'mooring the new world alongside of the old" by Lord Kelvin, the prince of physicists... A British subject, Graham Bell, the € 'ef inventor of the telephone was bo, '\ in Scotland and grew to fame in | \nada. A young' Italian, Mar- cond, Jave wireless telegraphy to the world, The houses of Hohenzollern has made great use of those inven- tions in telling Great Britain, Amer- fea and Italy in arrogant verbiage what the vaterland bas done for the benighted peoples of the earth, Cyrus McCormick, a native of West Virginia, produce' the reaping ma- chine which harvests the foods of the Meike, of England, brought forth the threshing machine, thus was famine banished. El Whitney, of Massachusetts parentage, invented the cotton gin; Hargraves, an Frg- lishman, made the spinning jer yg; Arkwright, also English, supplies ts efficiency with his famous spit Jig frame; the Englishman Kay falro- duced the fly shuttle. in weaving; Brunel, who devised the knitting ma- chine, and Cartwright, inventor of the power"loom, were British citizens. Thus was the world clothed. Although Germany Is militaristic and worships at the shrine of Mars, what votive offering has she made to the god of war? It was not she who contributed guncotton, gunpowder, smokeless powder, per:ussion cap, ni- tro glycerine, dynamite, torpedo, shrapnel, automatic cannon, maga- zine rifle, breech-loading gun, Gatling gun, revolver, Maxim, silencer, him- merless gun, gunboat, ironclad bat- tery or ship armor plate, revolving tutret, submarine or airplanes, Since Germany borrowed her mili- tary appliances from other natiohs, We are not surprised that she obtain- ed ber devices of orosperity from the same source. She did mot produce the first aniline dye, vulcanized rub. ber, liquid gases, gas engine, water- gas, thermometer, barometer, piano- forte, barbed wire, axt nails, plate glass, circular saw, cab car, electric car, sleeping car, air JMrake, bieycle, automobile, pneu ic tire, sewing machine, typewr fer, calculating ma- chine, cash register, steel writing pen, ete, ad infinitum. The greatest thing Germany has done is to falsely advertise herself as the light of the world. No son of hers invented the electric light, the gas light, the acetylene light, the Kerosene light, the Aashlight, the aalely lamp, the candle ip or the friction match. America, France , England and other "untu- | {tored" nations performed these tasks. The sun, moon and stars are the only lights lef Tmany"s contention, {and according to the Mosaic account, 1918 surgery of Dr. Lister of England &hiouid be recorfled. Edward Senner the discoverer of ¥aecinalion, and Harvey, the discoverer of the elrcu lation of the blood, were Englishmen An American taught the world the use of anesthetics. 'Selentists from this continent exce! ali others. They --even the kaiser has his. . The Teutons have not shown | the cut the Suez Cahal, or of the Ameri- cans, who joined the Atlantic and the Pacific at Panama. The decimal or metric system by which the Germans make their measurements is a gift from France. The method by which they make their steel is that of Sir Henry Bessemer, pf England, Many of the fruits snd Vegetables, of which they eat an enormous' quantity, were brought forth by Burbank. No won- der that the Grrmans: can "goose step" so high, for what else bave they practiced? Lavosier, the father of modern chemistry, was a Frenchman; Lin- naeus, the founder of botany, was of Swedish origin. To Hutton, of Eng- land, we are indebted for geology; to Maury, of Virginis, for the physio- graphy of the sea: do Descartes, of French parentage, for amalytical geo- metry; to Comte, of France, for so- ciology; to Germany for sauerkraut and pretzels. Germany has not con- tributed her quota toward the world's advancement. How she struts in ber foreigu plumage. She is neither in- ventive, resourceful mor original. She has made no geographical dis- coverings of importance. Her neigh- bors have. What role did she play in discovering various portions of the Rew world? Did she establish any colonies? 1 thank God she did not. Her sons did not compose the Crew of Magellan's fleet, the firét to circom- navigate the globe. A German did not discover the North Pole, nor lead the way toward the South Pole. It is high time to cease talking of Germany's achievements unless one wishes to indulge. in satire, History and study win reveal that the world's greatest teacher, scientist, inventor, discoverer, statesman, gem- eral, philosopher, Preacher, painter, spoet, architect, novelist or singer was not made in Germany, Kultur, The car came to a'halt by a broken wall. The party hurried out and dived behind a mound. He was pulled down & kind of shart, and found bimself in & room buried right underground, where 'three officers wera drinkin, and smoking. The soldiers saluted and banded them a type-written despateh. The officers looked at him drunkenly, and one éame up and' pull- ed his beard and spat in his face and called bim "an old English swine." He then shouted out some ipstruc- tions to the soldiers, and they led him out into the marrow french. One walked behind him; and oecasionally prodded him 'with the butt-end of a rifle. : The trenches were half full of water. and reeked of gases, powder and. decaying matter. :Shells: were constantly bursting overhead, and in: place. the trenches "ha: crumbled and were, nearly blocked: up + They | stumbled on sometimes falling; some- times dodging moving Masses; occa sibnally: erawling over:the dead bod: les 'of men... At last they réactied a deserted-looking tremch, 'and one of the soldiers pushed him dnto the core' ner. of, 't: and growled something, and then disappeared - round the. angle. Old Sam was exhausted. He leaned panting against the mud wall, expect- ing every minute to be blown to pieces by .one of those infernal things that seemed to be getting more and more insistent. The din went on for near- ly twenty minutes, and he was alone In the trench. 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