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THE SOLDIERS' AID, COMMISSION r Province itiag and has been incorporated hy of Ontarly for the pury 10 reinstate discharged men In civil life, EMPLOYMENT, We cordially invite 'thé co-operation of the public in the important work of securing employment for soldiers who have b service. - & VOCATIONAL TRAINING. Classes for the vocational ra-educa- tion oF soldiers who have beel so dis. abled as to prevent them from resum- ing thedr former occupations are pros vided free of cost, and in addition, the support of the soldier and his depead- ants 4s provided during the periog of retraining and for one month after. Further Information as to courses may be obtained from W. W. Nichol, pombe i el of Education, 116 Ceol ng from een discharged military treet, Toronto. RELIEF FUN, Donation for the aswistance of aol diers' famdlies in temporary distress will be thankfully received and ack- nowledged, and should be made payable to the order vf the Commission, Hesd Office: 118 COLLEGE STREET, TORONTO, Kingston Branch: 281 BAGOT STREET, KE, C. Southey, Iuspector of Branches. f W. B. Mclaughlin, Secretary. Major FIGHTING TIN CROWING SHORT Within Few Moths Hie of 1918 Cam- paign Will Be Decided. GERMANS HELD ADVANTAGE AND IT WAS HARD FOR THE Al- LIES TO MAKE HEADWAY German Results Diminish, While Civilization's Last Army. Grows-- Allied Armies Endowed With Un- conquerable Spirit. By Lieut. Col. | Repington. London; July = 23.--Four months of the 1918 campaign have gone by and not much- more than three re- main of the normal campaigning sea- son. By the close of October, or No- vember at the latest, the fate of the 1918 campaign will be decided. The Germans began this year's campaign under conditions of advan- rd tage which they never should have i kbeen allowed to ce, pamphlet. of doe: COOK MEDICINE CO, ONT, (Formerly Windsor.) THOMAS COPLEY hit ch 987 also harde All orders Shop Ottawa Dairy ICE CREAM - Pints Delivered to All Parts of the City. Price 25¢. Wholesale and Retail. F. C. Hambrook Salesman. Phone 1273. 176 Alfred St. Orono Weakueséss. Fi toads. HOM ' IS ON 8 PACKETS - At Best's stores is second to none. That it is appreciated 1s amply proven bv the number of doctors who send their prescrip- "tions here and by the hundreds of satisfied customers. Both at the main store and at the Branch a qualified drug- fe is always on the job, wait- which d medicine ion may nreans life or death. in Mrvien : Jong: rs carefu it Jars hours ind easel really up to you to -- _ | tage of it and all your doc- tors' orders to * » enjoy, and it has been an extraordinary hard task for the Allied armies in France, and for the commanders of these armies, to make headway against these advan- tages, With the whole weight of their united forces the Germans pressed heavily on the allied armies in France, as the Austrians did in Italy, and it must be admitted that in France we suffered serious defeats and great losses, All the same the close of these first foar months of campaigning has not found the al- lied armies broken nor their spirits depressed. Aftér suffering losses which can- not be placed at less than 600,000 men in the aggregate, losses parti- cularly grievous to Germany by rea- son of her past heavy sacrifices, and a total failure to bring about a.de- cision, the Germans find the allied arinfes presenting 'an unbroken front and endowed with an unconquerable {spirit. Great though the numbers {were which the Germans massed in France, and great as was their mass piof war material and reserves avail- fable, the enemy finds, at the close of four months of terrific combat, that his successive efforts show steadily (diminishing results, while the allies have greater hopes for the future ithan he has, thanks to thelr great promise of eventual reinforcements {and their firmer belief in the justice of their cause. Way Tidings, J A German airplane made an unsue- | cessful attempt to reach the region of | Paris on Monday. It was driven off | by %rench anti-aircraft, The French jn Champagne between {the River Suippes and Messiges have | regained a all their old front line, American Red Cross supplies are f being sent into Viadivistok. I" "The Allies, It fs beloved in Pekin, ! cannot do better for the moment than to aid the Caecho-Slovaks by occupy- ing Vladivostok and securing . their base. Jt is known that until recently the Germans had more than 100 divisions in reserve for manoeuvres in France. The latest offensive absorbed at first thirty odd of these divisions and now the Allies'. counter-offensive, brilli- antly earried out, has forced the Geér- mans to put in more reserves to check the advance, 'Germany has rushed three hundred thousand troops into Rumania to put down uprisings in the conquered Bal- kan 'country, All the Italian artillery in France and three battalions of infantry are participating in the counter-offensive, , begun in the Ardre river région ! (south-west of Rheims) Sunday, The Austrian army is preparing for 1 & monster offensive against the Ital- fans, despatches published in the ldea Nazionale, Rome, declared to- day. The drive, it was stated, will be nder German leadership, with an Austrian in nominal command. The submarine base at Kiel ' is filled with submarines undergoing re-' pairs, Montreal Tramways Conipany employees: threaten fo go out on e on Saturday on a matter of wages. Fiecght She Would Lose Her Little Girl With D OEA Thousands of infants die annually who could be saved by the timely use of Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild | Strawberry, ¢ There can be no doubt about it. cing the Javeuty two years that jo. tly onderful remedy has been on ls onder it has been proved con- SRE t it is the best for diar- Sentarys sole 6: cramps, « Shak | TRIED TO TIP SQUIRE. i Some Americans Thought Plain "Sir | George" Was Gatekeeper. merican nurses at a rest camp in nd are stil blushing from an lence they had recently, which ey are still confessing in letters, 1 one of their many strolls around a country 50 beautiful that many de- clared it couldn't be true, they peeped side a. lodge gate and cried 'with rapture at the exquisite private park that lay beyond. There was a sporty little lodge tear the gate, arrogant with .@ monsirous chimney, wearing it like a dudish high hat, and from the lodge came a man in knicker bockers to discover who was at the | gate. He was past middle age and wore a slouchy cap and rough shoes, "Would you like to look 4n?""" he in- vited. "Believe me, yes!" exelaim- ed one lively nurse, and the others looked hard at her as if they were shocked by her language. Tliey struggle to forget their slang in Eng land. They all went in, were led through a park laid out by Richard Cromwell; saw rhododendron beds as flamant as bonfires--Italian gardens, Japanese gardens, and a vegetable garden that was pretty in its nestness, They wandered down an avenue through a towering wood that gave many of them homesick recollections of main streets in America. Seteral score of deer took fright at their approach and slid . through the wood like ghosts. Then the kindly guard let them to a great manor house and showed them through its many mag- nificent rooms labelled on the out- side as "The Tapestry Bed Cham- ber," "The Rose Room," "The Jap- anese Room," all now being occupied by wounded soldiers. At the end of their delightful ad- venture the girls turned at the lodge gate to thank the pleasant old man. One of them took a shilling from her purse, and that started all of them covertly slipping shillings in her hand so that she might present the whole fund as a tip. They supposed he was the gatekeeper, Luckily the front door of the little lodge opened at that moment and a man called out, "Telephone for you, Sir George." The nurses stammered their thanks and evaporated. DEATH OF A LADY. Three Pupils Passed the Entrance Ex- aminations, Hartington, July @2.---Sunday af- ternoon death came as a happy re- lease to Mrs. William Patterson, She has been a great sufferer for several months. The mines have closed down, the owners are going to move the machinery away. Mrs. Edley Campsall is seriously ill, -Mrs. Sol- lins, Sydenham, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Fred Denison. Mr. and Mrs. Woods, Kingston, at R. Whitty's. Harold Ryan is at Wolfe Island. Three of Miss Walker's pu- pils were successful at the entrance examinations, Jessie Campsall, Mado- lin 'Babcock and Gerald Clement, Friday evening at the literary in the League, Miss Muriel Stew=rt, Al- bert College, gave several selections, which were much appreciated. Mrs. (Rev,) Kelly, Cataraqul, called on a number of her old friends last week, She was accompanied by M. Clow and family and Mrs, McQuaid, Kingston. Miss Hazel Clement, Sydenham, is spending part of her'holidays with her brother and sister, Mrs. Woods and baby, Kingston, at Capt. Free- man's, TO CAN EVERYTHING, The Picton Ruetory Is Busy With Vegetables, Pleton, July 20.---The Kinney & Colliver canning factory is a busy place now.' Strawberries and peas bave been canned and barrels of jam made. The proprietors intend also to can rhubarb, wax beans, corn, toma- toes, apples, ete. Sir R, Roblin is vis- iting his brother, J. Roblin, at Fish Lake, R. G. Mitford, editor of the Toronto Sunday World, has returned to Toronto after a brief holiday in Pieton. Mr. and Mrs. McKenna, Black Creek, were recent visitors at Glenbrook farm. The Greenbush Red Cross held a picnic at Glenora on the T2th inst, Misss Arilla Smith and Estella Price spent the first half holi- day of the business season at C. G. Fox's, Maple Dell farm. S. Head has purchased a new car. D. Ferguson is Putting repairs on W. Colliver's house, & Hastings In Sweet Clover Col Belleville, July 23.-- Hastings has swung into the sweet clover column, says District Representative Meln- tosh. This movement In Hastings began three or four years ago, and there are hundreds of acres in this crop there now. This has proved satisf@ctory both as a hay and ture crop and as a soil builder. Hay erops are fair, but there will not be as many hay stacks in Hastings this year as there were last. Grain crops are looking splendid, and even, corn is in fair condition. Buckwheat shows a considerable increase in acreage. Spring wheat has also been mote largely sown than usual. The fruit erop will be a very light one in the county, hundreds of apple and | 8h pear trees Rating been k last pas-ilabor, but, for once that it does EFFORTS TO "COMPLETFLY El | MINATE GERMAN INFLUENCE, Germans Losing. Oltizenship and | None Will be Granted For Five] Years After War. London, . July 23.---The 'British people are determined to completely eliminate G an influenée and ae tivity frox ir social, commercial and political life. For a generation previous to the great war insidious German propanada made its influ- ence felt in British commercial af- fairs, and, in the belief of the ma- jority, in policy and administration of public affairs. The people' are thoroughly aroused and determined that until German kultur ceases 1° be the German créed the people of that nationality must be foreigners to the British and must be segregat- ed from British activities: Since the putbreak of the war 265,000 civilian enemy aliens have been in- terned, but there stili remain at liberty, though registered, nearly 22,000 of these nationalities. That this number will be greatly reduced in the near fujure is assured by the prevailing sentiment "a German at liberty "in Britain is menace to Britain," but even gnore drastic ac- tion is being taken against those of German birth in Britan. All natu- ralizations granted those of enemy alien origin since the war will be cancelled and others naturalized previous to the war and shown to be out of sympathy with British purposes will lose their citizenship. Nor will any German be permitted to become a British subject for at least five yéars after peaco is de- clared. Even such sweeping mea- sures do not satisfy the majority of the 'British people, and nore far- reaching action is possible Ger man and 'Austrian banks in Britain, and most powerful agencies in gro- paganada of peaceful penetration, are being wound up, and such in- stitutions will not be allowed In Bri- tain again while the memory of German efforts to paralyze Britain remain. All great British concerns are eliminating German imtereits. Most important of all is the uni- fied effort of Britain and the Do- minions to check for ever the Ger- man effort to control metals ossert tial to success both in trade and war. 'The Imperial Conference has agreed that such metals in the Em pire mustt be controlled by the Bri- tish Empire for the British peopls, and their proven friends. The same policy on other essential war ma- terials has been adopted througi- out the Empire. It is equally true of the products, formerly the mon- opoly of Germany, of dyes and pot- ash. The German Empire will no longer be able to place its citizens in security in Britain while they work for Germany by the laxity of the naturalization laws. German commercial propaganda in Britain has been successfully checked by the abolition of German banks and German interests in British con- cerns. Germany cannot paralyze Bri- tish trade by securing control of es- sential metals and other similar re- sources with the Empire, nor threaten the stability of British in- dustry by the monopoly .of certain essential products. British seamen will complete the segregation of German influence from British affairs by refusing to work with Germans or transport German productts for a long period after the war. This country now understahds why the Germans took the British oath of citizenship, why the Germans sought to 'control Bri- tish institutions, commercial or otherwise, why German capital flow- ed into various parts of the Empire to control rare and necessary met- als, and why Bnitain so nearly fell a victim when Germany struck. The slogan in Britain to-day is: "The British Empire for Britons. You can only make others better by being good yoursel.--Hugh R. Hawies. * * * vis To bear is to conquer our tate. -- Campbell. - * Stand erect, and, like a man, Know "They can who think they can!" ~Nixow Waterman. * - - The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art in Mfe is to have as many of them us JDossible.--Bovee, v * The Bible not only dwells on the! rights of property and the duties of that, it preaches ten times over the duties of property and the nights of labor. Charles Kingsley. 5 * - Cleave : hen to the sunnier side of And cling to Faith beyond the formas of Faith: She reels Bat in the storm of war- acs, at the ¢ of "Yea" EES he thr She the Best that glimmers Worst, She teen th The. sun a hia. but for 3 he the sanimer through the ave acts she rat setore the di: tol French [She hears the lark within the song- A Re 1008 0s Toronto wr of 100 average: heathy men Probs: 'Wednesday, mostly fair. NENNEREENNENEENNEREEERESEEEEREEEEN Shopping Hours, 8.30 to 5.30 During July and August. SPECIAL for WEDNE! A list of attractive bargains that every thrifty woman + shotld av- ail herself of. Remember, these Household N eeds AT GREAT PRICE CONCESSIONS 'columns contain only a fraction of the list of wonderful values ofared through the medium of our great: ""Mid-Summer Sale." : Towels -- 25 doz. fine huck towels; good full size. Special value at 35c. Sale price 21¢ Tablé Dansk -- 600 yards of heavy blea- ched damask; full table width in an as- sortment of six new patterns; these are splendid value at the regular price of 85¢ a yard. Sale price 69¢ 1200 yds. ye heavy bleached damask in "Mi ends' of from 1} to 10 yds. Sold only in the marked lengths; reg. 75ca Sale price 53¢ yard. - Towelling -- 360 yards natural colored Jute towelling, with a fine linen finish; Reg. 25¢ a yard value. Sale price 19¢ Lace Table Covers -- 12 only handsome lcs table covers; round and full 54 inch in diameter; worth $5.50 and $6.00 each. Sale price $2.98 Table Cloths -- 18 pure linen table cloths with finished led borders; size 54 x 54; worth $5.00 each. _ Unbleached Cotton -- 600 yds: only heavy wile te: 4 yard wide. tity lasts. wide, especially nice for women's and children's wear. Oc a yard. » price $3.50 Special value today at 23c a yard. While the quan- Sale price 16¢ Bleached Cotton -- 900 yards soft needle finished cotton, full yard orth' Sale pries 21¢ SUMMER READY-TO-WEAR CLEARING REGARDLESS OF COST Our complete stock of summer wearables have been remark: ed to prices that are less than wholesale cost -- no reserve. must go to make room for the incoming fall stocks. Choose now while assortments are at their best. ingly low! The prices are astonish- J New, Positive Treatment y To Hair or Fuzz ~ (Beauty Notes) 5 Wome nare fast léarning the value of the use of delatone for removing hair or fuze from face, neck or arms. ; years old, when they r the of 85--- fonch YY ne Wn pon UP-TO-DATE BEDROOM FURNITURE A Jurge stock of dpitodate designe fo choose from, o Walnut and nd rey on