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A a a PAGES 9.12 iis The Daily British Whig YEAR 86, Co i} KINGSTON. ONTARIO. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1919 pointer Tre FAMOUS LEADERS UNKNOWN ADVISER BY WILLIAM T. RLLIS. Arron erereeeereerrerreet | Sic | Headache "My Three Years in a Gérman Prison" PA pi " By Hon. Heari §, Beland, M.D, MP. i And Constipation CURED BY Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills Be Watchful of Substitutes Especially in Baking Powder Whenever you are urged to substitute another baking powder for a high grade brand you have been using, be careful to ascertain if the other powder contains alum. And remember that alum is derived from mineral sources, and declared by many medical authorities unsqfe to use in food. To insure healthful, appetizing food of finer texture and flavor, prudent housekeepers always use ~ ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure Made from Cream of Tartar, which is derived from grapes and adds none but wholesome qualities to the food. Contains No Alum Leaves No Bitter Taste MADE IN CANADA When your liver becomes sluggish | and inactive, the bowels become con- | stipated, the tongue becomes coated, the breath bad, and the stomach all out of order. Then come , those terrible headdches. They 'take out every bit | of life and ambition, bring on depres sion, and often end in complete men- tal and physical prostration. To keep the liver active, and your | bowels moving regularly is the only way to get rid of the constipation and the distressing sick headaches. Milburn's ° Laxa-Liver Pills will do Colonel House, as you please. Both this for you by stimulating the slug-|are known only as wise counsellors gish liver into. manufacturing suffi-| of great leaders fronting an emer- cient bile to act. properly on the | gency. ~Jethro has his place among bowels, thus them active |the immortals because he and regular ' shape history's first democracy. He Mrs. Winslow McKay, Jordan|was only a shepherd from the desert Branch, N.8., writes:----"I have been |wastes of the Sinal peninsula. But sick for a number of years with sick | he was wise fu the fundamentals of headache and constipation I tried all | life; and he was courageous in speak" kinds of doctors' medicines but none | ing frankly to the friend who was did me any good. I tried [also his son-in-law. PHat is how Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills, and after he came to make his impression upon using four vials 1 ant completely | the plastic gation which pioneered cured. I would heartily recommend {the democra ie form of government them to all sufferers." He helped transform a vagrant hgrde Milburn's Laxa-Liver "Pills are of newly-freed slaves into that great small and easy to take; and do not Theocracy which has been the source gripe , weaken or sicken as so many | of all'democracies since pills do. Price 25¢ a vial at all deal | Friend Jethro comes opportunely ers, or lpailed direct on re eipt of|on the scene to-day, fof all the civili- price by The T. Milburn, Co., Limi-|zatfon 'is engrossed in 'the huge task ted, Toronto, Ont of reorganization. We have defeat- IAA ed Pharaoh, crossed the Red Sea, and occupied was, triangular in shape. |are now busy, with quite Israelitish At seven o'clock in the evening a mutterings and complainings and non-commissioned officer started to criticism, in finding ourselves for the close the doors. He would first {pew life of world society which lies close the doors on one side of the ahead of us There is considerable triangle, and after doubling the analogy between the condition of the angle he would start the operation | Jews just out of Egypt and that of on the second side. It was at this| the world to-day,freed from auto- moment that one of the prisoners, cracy and its ancient perils, and occupying a cell on the third side, |keen for the establishment of a fair- still open, would come surreptiously jer, freer form of human organization. with the famous key, open the door [What is done now. needs to be well of one of the lacked cells, and at the done, for what is plastic to-day will same time give the key to the occu-{be solidified to-morrow. This 1s pant of Uk cell. He would then re- the hour for shaping destiny. tarn hasty to his own cell. This was done, of course, very quickly and without being seen by the non- commissioned officer, who continued closing and locking the cells on the third side of the triangle, and then, under the impression that every pris- oner was locked up, he would leave the jail, » In the course of the evening, or a little later, the British prisoner hav- ing a copy of the Daily Telegraph would, with the aid of the key, enter the office at the end of the corridor and succeed in putting the news- paper on the desk of the officer. He would. return to. his cell and his door] Would remain unlocked all night. On the following morning the non-com- missioned officer would start to un- lock the doors, invariably retracing his steps he had taken the previous evening. Thé same prisoner, coming out from his cell in the mornine would hurry across the side of the triangle still closed apd would be handed the key from the one who had performed the over-night operation: would turn the key in the lock, and return to his own cell. When the non-commissioned officer reached the Copyright 1919 sick | *The International Sunday School 'Lesson for Feb. 9th, is "Jethro's Counsel." --Exodus 18:1-27. Ahaha dha Aaah dha Ak ber that copper-headed nails were driven inte the head, copper not be- ing 80 scarce at that period as it be- came afterwards. The art reviews of Beilin never dwelt at any length on the artistic qualities of the monument, As a matter of facts it was an ugly object Une day, however, a violent contro- versy was started in the newspapers between two sculptors as to which of the two was the originator of this génial idea What an ambition! It is no exaggeration to state that the popularity which Hindenburg en- Joyed in Germany at this epoch was greater even than the veneration With which the Emperor himself was surfounded. Indeed, several non- commissioned officers often told me confidentially that Hindenburg's po- pularity was very much greater than that enjoyed by the Emperor. The ascendency Hindenburg acquired ov- er the imagination of the people ney- er, in fact, ceased to disturb the mind | of the Emperor. For this reason, at each new victory athieved under Hindenburg, Wilhelm would hasten eagerly to the battlefield and from the point where the victory was won he 'would flash a telegram to the Empress with the studied object of impressing on the minds of his sub- jects that his was readly the strategic genins responsible for the success achieved S0 much was this true that whenever a military operation the hand, Emperor William dismissed | geveloped itself in favor of Germany, Von Falkenhayn, at that} either in Galicia or in Rumania, we time chief of the general staff, and | knew how to prediet,'a day or two replaced by Hindenburg ahead, that a sensational despatch The victory of Tannenburg was fol-{ from the Kaiser to the Empress lowed several others, including] would be published in the newspap- that of Rumania, and thea it was| ars. Rarely were we mistaken. that the population of Berllx uo Among the prisoners of British na- longer able to restrain their euthus-| tionality ar the Stadtvogtei was one iasm for Hindenburg, decided to er-| ho, on several occasions, was ect in his honor a colossal monument suspected of exaggerated sympathies on one of the puBlic squares. The| ror the cause of Germany. He had ~testimony of popular admiration 100k | become very unpopular, and many the shape of a wooden statue, forty-| British prisoners refused to speak to one feet in height, built at the end of} him or have anything to do with him Victory avenue, at the foot of the | whatever. One day Mr. Williamson, immense column known as the Vie-| to whom 1 have referred in a pre- tory Column, erected after the War| ceding chapter, was called into the of 1871 to commemorate the vietory office to .receive a package of provi- of the Germans over the French, sions which had just arrived from Opportunity was given to me un| pyeland. After his package had several occasions inthe course of the| pean examined, another parcel was outings 1 was allowed to make dur. offered. to him.with the request to ing the Iadt year of 'my eaplivity. to carty it to the Englishman---the-one observe with what 'veneration the| have referred: to as being undef people surrounded this misshapen, f syspicion--whose cell was situated in-drtistic monument standing in the| gon the same floor as that occupied by centre of 'the Tiergarten. Twice Williamgon. The latter, who spoke every week, as I have previously ex-| 4 jittle German, formally refused to plained, 1 was privileged to take la take charge of the package, saying to walk around the garden, under the| no non-commissioned officer, and in escort of an non-commissioned offi the presence of others: "I will not cer, and on,no occasion did 1 neglect take the package, for I do not wish to walk towards this statue, A large to have anything to do with this number of people, particularly=old bloody German." Williamson then men and 'women, accompanied by left the office, taking with him. only young children, crowded at the foot| yc own package. of the column near this immense The incident caused some commo- CHAPTER XXIX. Other Reminiscences. Durfug the year 1916 and 1817, and for the first part of 1418, Ger- many possessed one god and one idol. The god was Emperor William, and the idol was Hindenburg, It will be remembered that at the outbreak of the war Hindenburg was a retired general leading a peaceful life. at Hanover. Thence the Kmper r re cutled him from retirement and. re- lative odscurity and gave him the command of the German forces oper- ating in Eastern Prussia At that time ihe Russians occupied part of the Baltic Provinces. The Kmperer, in examining these made by the dif ferent German genegals, discovered that Hindenburg, a quarter of a cen tury Rrevigusly, had treated in his thesis 'the sabject of an invasion of Eastern Prussia. He then sent for Hindenburg and committed 10 lim | the task of liberating the eastern (er ritory from the occupation tne Russians, . We aff know that Hind burg ac complished this task victoriously and acquired for himself, partic.la'y as the result of the famous battle of Fannenbbryg, a ame which pa sed b that ef any gftier Prussian Pressare was then brough! to bear on the Emperor by his entourage with the object of placing Hindenburg at the head of the general =taff, and, as a matter of fact, by a movement of " J + Colonel House is a modern Jethro; or father-in-law Jethro is ap ancient making helped of general, who was } NIT INN tt St Snare Wn by A Pt tt a NR tm ot Democracy in the Making. That was a great period for a then an advance step when he heeded the, men who shall be, in Jethro's quaint sagacious counsel of Jethrg. phrase, "for the people to Godward." - 2 The call that sounds above every other call is for spiritual interpre- ters and intercessors; for men and women who will help our questing generation to find God; and who can ténderly reveal the will of God to all the heart-hungry of earth. a pastor and Sunday. school superin- . : ». | tendent who comes within the scope Jui samed of Noli hen he lie of. Jethro's indictment. Real suc- ing consolidated into a nation. They |C®5S: it has been said, consists in mak- wate safely across the Red Sea. Pha. ing one's self unnecessary. Moses, raoh and his hosts had been engulfed. though the centre of all interest and Victory had been achieved over new- | ®XPectancy, was on the highroad to found local enemies. Moses had failure. come to be accepted--and criticised --as leader, law-giver and' priest. Things were taking shape for the ex- iles. One day there came upon the scene the wife and two sons and fa- ther-in-law of Moses. That was a -theJonely man who had sacrificed home ties for the sake of 'his people. We seldom give thought to the price that men pay for public service: their long absences from dear ones, their deprivation of home joys, their overtaxing engross- ment ip.the-eanse to which they have dedicated themselves. At the spec- tacle of his joy, let us pause for a moment to be sorry for Moses the leader, that he missed the quiet de- lights of family life, which he had known when a meditative shepherd amid the hills of Sina The Best for the Highest. Every city dweller knows preach- ers who are busy and noisy as fliv- vers; who seem always within sight and sound; who have all the bustle (and go of the commercial traveller; whose. ambition js to 'get thefe:" who adopt every latest notion, card indexes and follow-up methods and | dictating machines and telephones (and window signs and publicity de- partments; and who, nevertheless, are not worth hearing four Sundays in- succession... They have no time ! {for great books, or for quiet hours of sellors, especially in his own home | devotion, alone and open-souled to cirele. Most men have their wives God. : Meditation is an unknown or to thank for the corrective and stim-,a lost art to them. They are "too ulating candor of spoken 'opinions. busy" to succeed in their first office The world little knows what it owes! por the world is in no such sore to those unknown Jethros, with their, straits for lack of efliclent executives restraining and inspiring influence. |and energetic managers and sales- "I had a friedd," was one man's men, as it is for prophets, who will explanation of his success. The ob- | interpret the Godward side of men scure helpers of the eminent, faith-|and the manward sidé of God. ful and fearless in criticism and en- Incisively, Jethro penetrated tc couragement, able to see both sides, the core of Moses' cumbered situation loving their friends too sincerely toi when he counselled, "Be thou for "Oh Lord, I pray That for this day I may not swerve By foot or hand From Thy command, Not to be served, but to serve The Use of the Critics. If writers and speakers and publie | men were required to be wholly can- did, they would confess that they owe more than they can tell to the frank, interested, helpful criticisms of their families and friends. = Pity the man who has no critics or couns "This too, I pray, That for this day No love of ease Nor pride prevent My goed intent ¢ Not to be pleased, but to please. "And, if T may, I'd have this day Strength from above To set my heart In heavenly art Not to be loved, but to love." wooden image. They would look at it, examine it with the air of people admiring its proportions and artistic qualities." 'But what was more cur- ious and interesting was the means adopted to collect: charity , funds through this new Trojan hofse. A scaffolding surrounding the statue furnished means for all to climb to the level of the head and contemplate tion, as the non-commissioned offi- cers reported the unsympathetic re- mark made by one prisoner towards another. On the following 'day all the prisoners of British . nationality were requested to go down to a cell on the ground floor, and there the officer in charge of the prison ad- dressed to us a very severs remon- strance regarding the incident. I re- last side of the triangle he would find all the doors locked. This stratagem was repeated about ten days and amused all the prisofi€rs in the Stadivogtei more/ than I can describe: The officer took every means imaginable to catch the culprit, but, happily, he never sue- ceeded. Finally, when he-decided to place a sentry at the door of his offi- for which organi ple. Wise old Jethro, a ripe with the maturity of understanding once perceived, as he watghed the weary throngs waiting to take counsel with Moses. that his son-in-law had not He was attempting to do too much alone, to the hurt of both himself and the peo- This desert philosopher knew books cannot give, at zed his task well. sheikh, whose place heaven alone can reveal. his father-in-law's outspoken He might have reminded hi trained statesman. become flatterers, and open-eyed to the people to Godward." their highest possibilities, have even of settling heen among the assets of progress, | Moses might' have got huffy over office of priest and prophet. advice. 148 now, the people needed most lead m that, ers who were specialists on the God- after all, he was only a desert shep- rward side. herd, whereas Moses was a palace- | important That is how a|God's chosen should be strong at the Instead petty disagreements and answering trivial questions, take up your real work, the high and holy Then, Power-plants are more than mere machinery. Wanted a Home.* The Toronto Telegram in its Pol- ice Court report on Tuesday, has the following: "I'm but a stranger here." "Kingston is my home." Thus warbled 'William Kyle, when charged with vagraney. The police had found Willie endeavoring to get blanket warmth out of Toronto side- from this close view the severe fea- tyres of tie great general At the foot of the scaffolding there was installed a species of ticket-of- fice where ong could purchase nails at a cost of one mark each (twenty- five cents). The purchaser of a nail was handed a hammer and accorded that it is better to set ten men at work than to do ten meén's work. The new nation was beginning wrong; the hour was one for co-operation in the common tasks hy distributing them widely 'among all the efficient. Jeth- ro was for the democratic method; Moses, all unconsciously, was setting ce throughout the night, the owner of the key was forced to abandon his practical joking. (To be continued.) call one remark in particular, It was to the effect that "he did not venture to hope that we would open- ly renounce our sympathies towards Great Britain, but he would nat tol- erate for an instant any unkindly, disrespectful remark against Ger- walks, ' While. the town c¢rier is clanging his bell around Kingston, Kyle will go on singing his song. betty spirit would have replied to the source of things. Whatever keeps counsel that he 'organize his work us from intimacy with the Divine, better. Moses, however, was big. and from the exercise of our most He knew the value of the fresh view. I sacred possibilities, is wrong for us; Jethro had clear vision, used to sees | however good it may be in itself. ing straight and far, and able to dis-| Weighing my words, I do not hesi- To Estimate Belgium's Damage . tinguish between a mirage and a tate te declare, as I look around Sir Robert Borden nas had a con- Brussels, Feb, 6.---~An "American ference with Sir George Riddell, the privilege of driving a nail info the statue. The children particularly 'showed a great love for this sport They could be seen crowding noisily round the ticket-office awaiting their turn, grasping in their little hands the silver-coin with which to buy the nail. The ceremony of driving in the many." He cited the case in particu- lar of Mr. Williamson and tlso that of Mr. Keith who, he said, was born in Germany, who had profited from Germany's hospitality, who had re- ceived his education in the Public schools of the empire and who, nev- ertheless, every time an occasion of- who Is head of the British press sec- tion in Paris, about the proposed Imperial press conference in Can- ada next September. A decree has been issued by the Central Russian Soviet of Moscow, calling to the colors all men We- tween the ages of 29 and 45 years. out in Th ses bl us. the autocratic way. e Strong Maw's Weakness, Every man who has confidence in himself is likely to fall into the Mo- We see it all about Recently I was in the office of under. landscape. = The leader of Israel was impatiént with petty eriticism, but grateful for helpful suggestion. "My friends tell me what I may be; my enemies tell me what I ought to be." Sins i § surpassing all.others, is the need for shortly. upon the new era calling for organi- zation and team work and public spirit, that the one need of our time, | commission charged with the adr of estimating the war damage in ! Belgium is expected to arrive here Ay ae SA fered itself, manifested his antipathy towards the country of his adoption. The officer finally menaced us with the remark that whoever was guilty in the future of disrespectful re- marks would be severely punished. This attitude of Officer Block ere- ated further prejudice amongst the British prisoners, and two of them, whose names | will not mention, organized a huge joke at his expense. Through a very clever stratagem, one of the pass-keys was juggled from one of the non-commissioned officers. This key would open every one of the doors inside the prison, but it would not open the outer door. With the aid of this key the two prisoners in i question ; conceived the idea of un- mercifully teasing the officer. 'With much difficulty we managed | to smuggle into the jail a copy of the | London Daily Telegraph twice a | | week, in spite of an interdiction of all} English and French newspapers. EL to say, the Telegraph was on, .| circilated amongst all the British} * eh 7 prisoners, and after each and every RK A ed, one of us had read it, the operation} 2 Ll Big Talents for Little Tasks. Somebody has said that the true genius of success is the ability not to waste five dollar talents on a two- [€6nt job. Moses was giving states- man qualities to village magistrate's | tasks, It was as if the Supreme: Court were to try police cases. Aj famous king is pilloried in history because he was busy about watch- making when he should have been ruling his realm. True, everybody needs a measure of drudgery, especially in his appren- time. "It is good for a man to bear the yoke im his youth," said Solomon. We may well be sorry for the person who has never learned the discipline of exacting labor. Mo- ses had been through that mill. For forty years he had toiled as a shep- herd; burned by the sum at midday, = ervey flockn oa Et ho as he t. h and thirst the head of a national business or- ganization. His position and au- thority are such that ¥-expected him to be secluded In high state in an in- ner office. Instead, even the office boys, and every casual caler, could distract him, and two stenograph- ers-and an assistant sat writing be- side his overcrowded desk while he answered telephone calls about ques- tions large and small. The man is doing work that belongs to his clerks. He is not big enough to let go. No- body can be greatly efficient whose mind and time and desk are so elut- tered up as his. As I came home on the train that day, the, incident was recalled by the words of a friend, now himself a successful business man, who said, "When 1 was first given an éxecutive positon my em- ployer said to me, 'If you allow your- self to get too busy. to have time for _ {thinking things over, you are not the man for this place." " That same Jethro-t of message had come to me two days before, from a famous publicist, uo declar- concerning a nationai religious organization with which he was con- jnected, "Frankly, I don't know 41s going to nail assumed a special character of patriotism, Henee it was quite a Sight to See with what pride-a child would return from performing the operation amidst the plaudits of the old men and the mothers. In this way Jarge sums of money were levied and 3H is pertinent to say that Hinden- burg was literally riddled with nails. One could choose the particular spot wherein to drive the nail--the. feet, legs, body, arms, or head. 1 remem- AAA A A AA AA ett SOE LETC ET - [WAR PUZZLES| Von MACKENSEN the wise words of who bade him reserve his talents for their By #01 the aforesaid key; then, the door of the office would be opened during the breakfast While the officer was away, or dur- ing the dosing hours of the day after | he had left the jail, and the forbid- den Daily Telegraph placsd on} ; nian. ERDAY'S ANSWER