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TI -------------- YEAR 85. NO. 215 I --, TARIO, MONDA SECOND SECTION THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY GIVEN Desalhes om x fon Nett hn TIDINGS FOR OUR READERS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST POSSIBLE FORM. The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News of the Warld From Tele. graph Service and Newspaper Ex- changes. ' The Edmonton City Counc has fixed the tax rate at 30 mills. British officers are required to wear brown regulation pattern gloves if they wear any. A smath boy with a mateh started a fire in the east end of Montreal that resulted in $62,000 damage. Nhe German imperial vice-chan- cellor says that Germany might re- store Belgium without conditions or indemnities. It is announced at Ottawa that the rubber bands of fruit jars con- tain a little carbolic acid for sterili- zation, but not of such quantity to cause trouble. The Dominion -Government will expropriate twenty-eight acres of land north of St. Andrew's College, Toronto, for military hospital pur- poses. Rev. Father Damase Dandurand, St. Boniface, Manitoba, has celebrat- ed the seventy-seventh anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. He is in his 100th year. Claiming $10,000 damages for al- leged breach of promise; Miss Mary Carson, of Toronto, has issued a writ against James W. Rabertson, also of Torgnto. All Tacoma newspapers have an- nounced a new selling price, effect- The Back Aches Possibly you do not re- alize . that this - indicates derangement of the kid- neys. Neglect usually means the development of Bright's disease. You know how dreadfully painful and fatal that is. There is quick relief for the kidneys in the use of - Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills. This medicine is known in the great major- ity of homes as the great- est of regulators, FOR DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION Hegprtburn, Belching, Sour Acid Stomach, Gas in Stomach, etc., take a teaspoonful of Bisurated Magnesia in a half glass of hot water after eat- ing. Is safe, pleasant and harmless to use and gives almost instant relief. It neutralizes stomach acidity and Sweetens the food contents so that digestion 18 easy and paipless. Sold by druggists everywhere, g_~ a. ay TRV Ye | 'prediction that a navai battle be- coma and five cents outside. Sir Clifford Sifton has arrived in Ottawa from a lengthy visit to Eng- land and France Eleven days' attendance at the United States war exposition at Washington was 1,661,232, Conservative Tokio newspapers predict the early resignation of the Japanese Cabinet headed by Pre- mier Terauchi. Christopher H. Chase aged eighty-four, one of the oldest super- visors of the county, died on Fri- day at his home in Burrs Mills, N.Y. Prince Peter A. Kropotkin has been arrested at Petrograd charged with participating in ap English conspiracy against the Bolshevik Government. Charles A. Magrath, fuel con- troller, has been appointed director of coal operations for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The powers given him are wide. The miraculous statue of the Virgin, formerly an object of pil- grimages to Albert, near where it was found by a shepherd in the 11th century, has been placed in the Amiens Cathedral, Mrs. Ann Hiscox, widow of the late Thomas Hiscox, died at tae home of her son, George T. Hiscox, London, Ont., Saturday. She was in her hundredth year, and was born in Devonshire, Eng. Once more little children roll their hoops on the sidewalks fn Amiens, trains arrive in the great railway station, some of the shops are open and there is animafion mn the streets lined with ruins. Substantia] wage increases, the recognition of the eight-hour day, and time-and-a-half pay for over- time were on Saturday granted the operators of the C. P, R. Telegraph Company by the labor committee of the Canadian Railway War Board. Premier Lloyd George who suf- chill accompanied by high temperature after his speech at Manchester, Eng., on Sept. 12th, when he received the freedom of the city, is progressing satisfactorily. Col. J. W. 8. MeCullough, pro- vincial medical health officer, will not accompany the Canadian €x- peditionary force to Siberia ag re- quested by the Deputy Minister of Militia at Ottawa, as the Ontario Government ig unable to give him leave of absence, MARINE SLAUGHTER FOR THE TEUTORS If They Leave Haven at Kiel to Meet Allied Fleet. -- New York, Sept. 14. Confident tween the German . seg forces and the Allied fleetts would result in "a marine slaughter" for the Teutons was made by Representative Daniel Riordan upon his return to New York to-day after an inspection of American naval activities abroad. '""Dhe protection that is being af- forded merchant vessels and trans- ports is improving by the hour," he asserted. "The U-boat was a peril. Now it is simply an annoyance. Very soon it will be obliterated. "We were particularly anxious fo get some idea of the reception that has been prepared for the German navy should it happen to come out. We saw the armor-plated reception committee from the deck of a de- stroyer-and it was a sight that will live in my memory forever, "Stretohed about the point whence the German fleet must emerge was a 78-mile cordon of Allied warships --British, French, Italian and Am- erican--their men on their toes, steam up and guns ready. It took us seven hours to pass this huge flotilla. - For us it was the most Iagnificent spectacle in the world. are waiting, hoping, longing for the fight that I do not think they ever 'will see." --------------ee The crews that man these vessels | ped ive at once, at three cenis in Ta-THREE BROTHERS { DOING THEIR "BIT { { | | PTE. FREDERICK Wi LLIS, | PTE. LEONARD WILLIS. ---------- v PTE. GEORGE WILLIS. Three Kingston boys who are 'at the front doing their "bit,' 'und whose mother, Mrs, J. Willis, lives on. Clergy street. Pte. Frederick | Willis went overseas with the first] contingent, serving with the bth | Field Battery. He was slightly | wounded. Pte. George Willis is at| present in England, sufferiyng from / wounds, and Pte. Leonard Willis is| at the front with the 100+ Battal-| ion, | Industry Fails. A new Montreal industry, started with every promise of success, is | about to expire. When the Ontario | License Board gets through with its | investigations the making of plaster | pedestals of a certain type wil no longer be popular. There is, of course, no inherent evil in 'a plaster estal/ As a pedestal it is dry enough to satlscy even the commis- sioners. The trouble lies in the fact that sometimes, through no fault of their own, plaster pedestals got damp, and give forth an odor 'that is no longer respectable in the pro- Biggest Loading of Coal, Cleveland, Sept. 14.=The docks dumped 4,329 cars of coal yesterday, which was the biggest ding of the Season, and although the fleet took more than 200,000 tons, there was a good supply of coal on hand this morning when .the railroads had 9,387 cars in port and 6.744 cars in transit, making 10,131 cars~m sight. If coal comes forward at the present rate a record for shipment will be made in September, although it.is a short month, Tonnage is in big de- mand, but the supply is liberal, and coal is being sent forward with little delay. Thirty vessels were named for early loading to-day, and: many of the boats will report for cargoes Drink Charm + To Reduce the High Cost, of Living try a package of Charm New Japan Tea at the of 28¢ a half Food Beard License Neo. buh to-day. RYN Tea pound package. Ahh Akh de Aa a ed vinee, It was such a mishap to 'a plaster pedestal in the railway station at Timmins, Temiskaming, that put a damper upon the new industry. An official of the board was wandering about the station, his nose slightly thrust forward, as is the habit of liguor inspectors hunting for odors, when he noticed moisture coming from a carefully wrapped up pedes- tal. The phenomena aroused - his curiosity, which was not satisfied until he had broken open the bottom of the ornament and extracted a five- gallon tin of high wines. A further 3 search revealed another five gallons similarly camouflaged. Both parcels were consigned under a fictitious name and were not claimed. The board, however, is tracing the ship- ment back to Montrefl. =~ Wheat In Canada. There were 20,500,000 bushels of wheat in Canada May ' were, | moreover, products equivalent to an 14,150,000 bushels of the farmers' ¢ . were -in | Bands in the West 5,000,000 bushels; {in Western elevators and 'about 6,750,000 bushels; in flour mills, Eastern ors, 6,635,885 bushels, and in ther I 2,000,000, bushels, It is that there are around Eastern | COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT SHED HEARD Trys Tanlac Herself And Finds' Everything Said About It rue. -- "I could hardly believe all the good things I heard about Tanlac | | | till I tried it myself, and it did me so much good that I started my hus- band on it, too," said Mrs. Ethel Burns, of 2038 Dundas street east, Toronto, the othgr day. 'Wor about a year," she continu- ed, "I suffered from a stomach troyble and nervous breakdown, brought on largely by my worrying about my husband, who was with the army in France. My appetite failed and I couldn't . eat even a piece of toast without having trouble 'afterwards. My stomach felt like it was burning up inside, and I was constantly bleching up gas and pieces of undigested food mixed with nasty 'bitter water. The gas would press against My heart and my left side hurt so I could hardly bend over or do any work. I was so nervous' that I would lay awake sometimes all nfght without sleeping a wink, and though I took all kinds of medicines I couldn't get rid of my misery. "I have taken four bottles of Tan- lac now and can eat anything I want and never have a touch of indiges- tion or gas aftérwards. That nervousness is all gone. I slee like a baby, don't have that tired, miserable feeling and have picked up some in weight. I am entirely relieved of that burning in my stomach and paing in my side and am feeling better than I have in a long time. Tanlac is sold # Kingston by A. P. Chown, in Plevia by Gilbert Ost- ler, in Battersea By €. S. Clark, in Fernleigh by Ervin Martin, in Ar- dock by M. J. Scullion, in Sharbot Lake by W. Y. Cannon. ~--Advt. ------ SOLDIER MASOCOT'S TRAVELS. Frank Jenkins Has Been With C.EF, and. American Army. Not yet fifteen years of age, but tall and strong, Frank Jenkins has travelled some,.and on his own hook, 100. He is now back in Toronto, sat- isfled that he's seen all he wants to see of the world for some time to come, and ready to settle down. Selling newspapers since eight age, when war broke out ed xiihition Samp sud Borden, pursuit o % years of age, with- out 'acquainting 'his parents of his intention, he departed for England as official mascot of the 180th (Sportsmen's) Battalion, His home folks got their first clue to his where- abouts when they spotted him in a moving picture shown in a local theatre, showing the battalion sailing from St. John. Because of his tender age, Frank was sent back from Eng- land, arriving Febuary 28, 1917, and he has the regular C.E.F. discharge paper, showing. that his conduct while with the corps was good. Less than a week after his return home, he disappeared again on March 8, and was not heard of again until recently, when he returned to his home. From Toronto he had gone to a farm for six months, then to Winnipeg, where he got a job, and from that city he went to the States with a travelling show, winding up | at a U. 8. army camp in Texas, where he was adopted as mascot by a Ma- chine Gun Battalion. He hoped to go with them to France, where he thought he might meet his father, but the officers said the army regula tions would not permit of taking him on the transport, so he dropped off at Buffalo and returned home. His father, Thomas Jenkins, serv- ed with the 12th Battalion Overseas, but was invalided home and dis- charzed six months ao. The spinners in the Yorkshire and Lancashire cotton mills quit work at noon Saturday, in accord- ance with the decision reached a week ago by the Amalgamated As- soclation of Cotton Spinners to strike for the abolition of the rate system. | while controlling LAND FOR SOLDIERS. Important Order-In-Council Affecting Returned Men. By the order-in-council making Teservations of Dominion lands for returned soldiers under the soldier Settlement act it is provided that all Yacant and available Dominion lands within approximately fifteen miles on either side of railways in the districts Where there are sufficient available lands to warrant reservation shall be reserved for dier settlement act. A line is drawn along the township lines approxi. mately fifteen miles from the railway on each side, making a belt of thirty miles in width within which all re maining vacant lands are held for returned soldiers. The reservation is effective against all applications for entries on Dom- inion lands, except raturned soldiers who have their ordinary homestead right and except as to existing rights prior to the reservation. A returned soldier who has not exhausted his homestead right may make ordinary homestead entry in the reserved areas as if the reservation had not been made. Soldier entries under the soldier settlement act will be allowed as soon as the regulations under that act have been completed and passed by council, All entries throughout the Western Provinces which in the past few months have been cancelled or aban- doned as homesteads or cancelled grazing leases or lands coming out of reserve, except where rights had been previously aequired, have been re- served for selection by the Soldier Settlement Board, and this process will be continued. tl is further Provided that along any of the railway lines throughout Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alber- ta and the railwa belt of British Columbia, where la ds are held un- der entry and the duties are not be- ing subject to cancellation proceed- ings for the benefit of the soldier settlement act, Any returned sol a the act to entry is given lege of applying for the cancellation of any existing entry in default, with a view, is cancelled, to re-entry by himself under soldier entry. Any returned soldier having his right under the Soldier Settlement Act will have the privilege of apply- ing for a quarter Section of any va- cant and available Dominion lands, Nether it be in a reserved area or no ---- i Butch In Church. It was one big surprise for every- one in the gun company when the chaplain at got Butch into the church for A B teh is rated as pretty hard hombre onest, efficient, and faithfal as they make but not very care- ful about his language and more than willing to scrap time. The chaplai as Butch was spli for one of the m about like this: going to ask you Sunday morning. 1 know you don't want to, but J want you to some as a favor to me, If you were out sell- ing lightning rods you'd at least ex- pect a farmer to let you put one on his house for a trial, If it wash"t going to cost him anything. Now, we've good friends ever since I came to the regiment, haven't we?" Butch admitted they had been, Good," he said. "Now, I'm deal- ing in an article which I claim will cure a lot of troubles, I'm only ask- ing you to try one sample--just one." Well, Butch was in church Stinday, The chaplain had been called away Just before Services, and a visiting chaplain occupied the pulpit. The Jeet of the fellows, Buteh up n front, were glad to ve th them, » um wv, The a ifing chaplain looked out over © congregation of freshly- shaved, i-clad gunners for some one | to dead in prayer, mehow his eyes fastened on red- haired Butch sitting only a féw feet away. v The little congregation of stidiers grew tense as they waited for the chaplain to speak. You could just Jeol he fas going to call on Butch, eo 3 "Will this young man kindly lead us in prayer?" he asked. : Butch got up, . Every eye was on him. Everyone wondered how he'd make out, being called on like that the first time he had been to church in years. , But Butch was equal to the emer- gency. "Let us have five minutes of silent meditation," said Butch, -------- i Graft In Army. Capt. Harold Erie Thomas, Cana- lan Army Service Corps, was court. matrialled in on Juhe 17. The charges alleged that he had a w Shorncliffe, pairing the purpose of the sol- ! SPECIAL Opportunity of getting acquainted with SEAL BRAND COFFEE is offered you in our booklet, -- Perfectly Made". "Perfect Coffee Your request will bring it by return mail, CHASE & SANBORN f NE em, J ET Wm MO 190 ---- Re a OY OO MH Ask For St. Lawrence Ale & Porter A Pleasant Smile With Every Glass Ring Phone 645 for a Case. A. TYO, 473 Princess St. al . x 3 Here are nine good reasons Kingston. why you should buy Semi-ready Clothes And not a reason why you shouldn't The price-in-the-pocket guarantees you a fair-worth price. he physique type system guar- antees you a perfect fitting garment. The cloth is bought direct from the woollen mills that weave it. 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