5 l ~.~ _- -r-zrs.1- :r1~.. F rl F. l l i i l ut: / 'iii _and Charlottctdwll a_it_il?’ that she will continue on this _been really hiarvellou's,'whatevcr the future has in monsoon A ~ '_ V -. _ _ ` ° ~.7iFf:ii11Ui`taar-.¢‘iil»?~iiizr».` r 5 Iwi-,.,.s_ i.. _ 1 ' ' ~ \» . _._ _ ‘ ' ‘: 1. .T` ;,i_£~\,`,.'i',..,1§`i&__‘I,__.. :_ __ .f_..y, , . . _ . , , ,, 1. < - 1. _ _ _- L . _ _ -r '_ .. .-‘.. ~,'..`F4r-.\-°-f. 1_1- . _ ' _ ‘ " -' / -_ :_ ._ ‘»- ~~ ~.ra»..- 'f . . ___,~. I, T , . , _ nimoptieii ima “vu-tlo_|_»_ii_i |»_hon¢ Nw; me _`¢`d|¢. Phone it .4 om. in csnrlnumyii _,eration onion at sum-l mere!d°e» Alholtont Oourle grid ~ ' 94"" ’- r 1.011191) use eu. (ae- rfvere;)m|‘iiuad%:n|:e;(_-;2“-30 per ai- tlnallerlin-Iii advance to anywhere In Garuda; and (mulled) to U. 8. A. _ evening only ueunaeo 1am'»'¢1.eo. taellvma or ey mal|),lt\ ¢onnda,_all for U. - ' ' some w ki `(r 1ll7`)l.Qi.oo, pe a num by mall ligilinxiiaa ui no , ` r n sfiniiiu of ui; Anim luruu of-circulation. .-.~.-.-.=-.'-_-.-:_- _-_-_-:;».P:r -:_-::::::.-_-.‘::J.‘rf-'ff-“-1*-‘-'ff-'-'-2*-'-‘-‘-‘f-`-' ` ' ` `-‘-`-`-“- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1916. 'ro-Nlo_ilr's Miiarimi To-night in the Board of Trade Rooms, at a public _ meeting, the deputation who visited New York and other cities recently iijl,the interests of t_he_ foxmen of _-, the pro\‘incc,'will presei1t"`~tll`eir ireport. “It will be remembered that this deplitatioii was selected by the Fox ltreeders’ Association last fall to go to the United .\`tates to investigate the fox pe,lt market. The- im- a pressions formed while in the fur centres, the general V ' t outlook lil the pclt business and the market prospects in the near future will constitute the report to be sub- t ' e mitted to-night and it should be silfficlent to interest and attract a very large attendance from city and 1 coiiiitry. a The foie business has grown to very large propor tions in this province and now involves a capital approximating that invested in our greatest calling,” agriculture. The war with the consequent financial stringency has materially affected the business, ` eliminating the speculative element largely and redtic- ing it practically to a purely stock breeding proposi- tion. (lu the value of the stock and 'its prodtiets the future of the business will depend entirely. Foxes uill lienceforth be valued for the quality of their pelts, not as lieri-iofore on thefact that they were black or silver. I-`ox families of known pelt quality will be in 'li-inaiill and tlicse are unquestionably destined to con- ' _stitute one of the most profitable stock raising indus- - tries in the world. The market prospects therefore are of vital interest to all foxmen and to all who are either directly or indirectly _inter_ested~in ,the__b_usin_es_s_ These prospects and the general _inipressionsforined during a visit to the ftlr centres will be discussed at to-uiglit‘s met-ting and a fairly reliable _forecast of the future of the fox industry will he possible. In addi- _ tion to the report of the deputation the methods' adopted by the Fox Breeders’ Associatioii for safe-V guarding the liusiiiess, for distinguishing and ideilti- fying the llcsl fox families, for assistance in the marketing of pelts, etc., etc., will be explained and iliscussed. .'\ number of well known and well informed foxnlen and proiniileiit citizens will address the meet- ` ing. There should he a large attendance as the meeting is open to ladies as well as to gentlemen. OUR WlN'l`E)Rx(S'l"EAMER$ ‘ The work done by the winter steamersthis year has surpassed the iu_ost_sangui_li¢ hope_s_of even those whose faith in the car ferry steamer, Prince Edward lslaiid, was almost unbounded. That the new ice- breaker could maintain uninterrupted communication with Charlottetown through the greater part of Feb- ruary had not been hoped, notwithstanding her well- known ice-breaking power and her excellent manage- ment, yet she has accomplished it and she is still on llie job. True, the winter has not been a particularly severe one, but it has been sufficiently severe to practic- ally fill the Strait with ice and to make conditions \\'hich a gale of wind might at any moment transform" into difticiilt if not impossible barriers. There have been gales of wind and many barriers .have been piled. up along the route, but, so far at least, the Prince l-Zdward Island has been able to negotiate them all. Those who crossed from Pietou to Charlottetownj_ Saturday and noted the conditions then prevailing' expected that the gale of Saturday night and Sunday would make trouble at the entrance to Charlottetown harbour. And their anticipations were realized, Milos of the sheet ice covering the Strait drifted and rafted, forming barriers which to any other ship ever pre- viously tried iii these waters would have been impos- sible, biit ivhicll the Prince Edward Island ploughed throligll, delayed somewhat it is true, but she made it and delivered her mails :uid passengers at Picton early in the afternoon. That there is more of this trouble still in store before the niiddlc of March must not be lost sight of, btit we may safely conclude now, from the experieiiccs of the winter, tli:i_t__if_not absolutely insur-. liioiilitablc llic Prince Edward Island will overcome ‘ -With over a hwidlwi.-tgbusand of our Canadian boys in Europe. Some' ngland, some in’ France, Belgium, Greece`ah8' sonieiihnfortddafely in Germany, and all these mixed in'~_.\vith other' hundreds of ‘thous- 'ands of our Allied brethren, one can realize something of the difficulty that ml.ist'b'e` experienced in delivering 'the letters, ”ne`wspapers and.-packifeszthat are being of me system followed isfglven hr-laters weiiuy received by Post Office Inspector \\'heai'_"'fropi"Mr A. V. Saunders and Mr H. Pickard, both formerly of this city and now attached to the ‘Military Postal Service. When a Canadian mail is received in London it is sorted out into all the different units, battalions. batteries, hospitals, ,field ambulances, etc. Each unit papers These bags are despatched at I0 oclock, the number of bags being entered on a waybill as is being done in Canadian post offices The bags are not opened until they reach the unit to u hich they belong \\ hen the mail arrives at the base in France, it is loaded on a tram Each division has its own train lt is then taken up to the railhead ’ or as far as the railnay goes. There is a Divisional Army Post Office t the railhead with a staff of five. The mail is then ecked out of the cars into motortrucks and hauled o the “ rc-lilling_point," which is as far as the motor ransport goes. It is then taken by lio__i-se transport to ach brigade post oliice, where it is handed ,over to he mail orderlies of each unit. From the time the has its own mail bags, one for letters, the other for . i I ` i at ° i I ch m ail leaves the General Post Office,” London, until it is given to the orderlies at the front' there isalways _ postal ofhcer with it. There is a field post office with each brigade hea_dqu;irt_crs,_ which harldles/the mail for that brigade just as is doneat a civil office, and where stamps and- postal notes are sold and letters registered. i Both writers emphasize the need of carefully ad- dressing letters and both give amazing examples of the want of it. “/\ few days ago," says Mr New- some, “ I ran across a letter from Sydney addressed to every iiliit that has left I-Ialifax since the war began, ‘ 25th Ilatt., 2 Can. Heavy Battery, C.A.S.C., etc,” with no iiuinber. As it happened there were two letters for the same fellow right together, and the second had 3 "Umbfff 01! if. which did not belong to aliy of the “nits f0fmi!_ig.P3f!_`Qt_the address,_but to the ‘ Reserve Park,’ which was what-he really belonged to. The correct regimental number covers a multitude of sins. All correspondence with insuflicient addresses are sent to the Canadian Records Locating Office at the hge.-_ which has records of all units. All parcels that call- not be delivered on account of poor address, rriarked ‘ flospital,’ ‘W0unded,' ‘Killed' or ‘Missing,’ etc., are ‘ X ' listed and returned to the Canadian Records Locating Ofiice at Rouen. In cases of ‘Hospital’ they are forwarded to the correct hospital f roin the Records Locating Office," _Mention is also made of the many parcels rc- ceived in damaged condition through having been Cafclessly packed. _Thesmlare re-wrapped, when enough of the address remains, and forwarded to destination. Letters, papers or pggkages properly a<_idressed`a`re _as sure of safe delivery to anyone in the maelstrom in Europe to-day as to any one of the millions in our peaceful' cities. X( SAI!-,0R____S STILL been a decline in the seafaring spirit. Once our pro- vince was far famed forboth. ln the days of woodcli ships we contributed our quota of large and maunch vessels ‘to the mercantile marine. Shipyards filled with workmen were to be found in every convenient river or harbour _around the coast and the hundreds of ships launched from these were manned and officer- because we have exhausted _our raw material; we no longer have employment in ships fopmany of our men, bC<`2\lS_¢ we no longer have the ships. But that the “ ancient spirit is not dead" is being abundantly_. proven every day. That we havemaster mariners and sailors who are able tottake their places among the W0rl|=it\f _‘S th=t_il\.¢ l»f¢l=t¢_ said for the sequence 'of €ardinril.fla¢` 3 .4 1_-tml. _ __ Gennany has ordered the arrest of Cardinal M¢|’¢\¢f. Archbishop of Malines, whoa year 'ago .all the* territory prayers be fprces." In con-‘ Belgian churches indhe the of arrest. mlihfy Kaiser s» ours," but the~Geraian§ _ . _ .,. . 1 ~»..¢ ~ V' .- .. ' =» '- fm. v . ¢= forwarded to them. A moat interesting description It has been frequently remarked that with the., decline in shipbuilding in our province there has also, ed l.3f€_e|}' byvlll' own men. .We no longer build ship's,` ml . Btr.-G!ve'\tt»Mber_ty'to sell booze which we'know__'pg[e_pp| soldiers and thin helps thedermeiie. That is the ci-yo! the advertisements of the Per- _l0llll'Llbo|‘I¥.IA§alue_f§tt many news~ papers at the Df.8eent` t me. They doii't soemto are for theillberty tor which ou; fathers pold up dearly and which our eoldlbra`lre'de!eudlng with theli' llvee ln1£i£,tteuch%pe.r,"Tlioy aroi wtllll- liig-YD. tilt: _ y-toretan e ;ll"°"’ .‘2.‘°<§.... ..“"h§“’.'."‘ '":"‘ _ _ I., f e y 0|' .thgiiibvelvee bell slug that makes Glflmlnals and lu- |n'l;`e.jTtl;:hlzh\g1`e'» )_l_\_‘>‘9&y-» may want. _ qu , -B}l_ y stoop t0_&JlY .Ir _ ` we lite? been reading one or ' hetr ‘ verttseineiits which te a base attempt' by; _cleverly worded falseh_oods,_t.o defeat' rohtbltlon. to ,lnalto tllom.the_ _slaves of the bar rooms. They want to take away our liberty to be free from drunkenness, to have our sons sober, to have fewer liisane, to have lower taxes. to -have prosperity ' instead ot' _pov- erty, to have as ltttle crime as they have ln Prince Eward Island luld other prohlbiUon states, to share ln the peace and prosperity that has coma already tb Alberta and Saskat- §chewan. - _ ’ They say that prohlbltlonlsts want to dictate whet.you.shell drlnk. That ls-simply-untrue. Brohlbitlon does not lily you shall not di-lnli,,hiit it does say you shell not _sell drink. Every family 'lirallowed it rellsoiialzle quantity f0l' ithelrown use. That s true of every prolilbltlon state inthe union. Probl- bttlon puts in end to the treatlng_,sys- tern and ma es lt more difficult to get drink. but those who want it for their own ule have liberty to get lt. .But that does notllult the Personal Llb- erty League., for, lt gives people the liberty to drink or to leave it alone. 'they know well that tho treiitlng sys- t~m_ destroys the liberty of it v8I'Y_ l. rgo number _and makes them the = 'aves of drink. They would give our sons the llh- us-ty of~ the Jail, the asylum alid the |.otter's_fleld. They would glve our daughters the liberty ot the brothel, our children the liberty of the poor house, and our women the ltberty to no out washing. They have been glv- ing us that ltlnil ot' liberty long enough lt ls time for a change. V _ r I inn Str, etc. _ H. ARNOTT. M.B.. M.C.P,S- 56,449 PATRIOTIC WOMEN IN FRANCE VOLUNTEER NURSES PARIS, Feb. 18.-There are now .G6,4_49 women in - 'the French Red Cross volunteer army. equipping 1.500 hospitals with ilu aggregate of 118,000 beds. The Red Croiui flag now flies above 288 buildings lu Paris alone. The Society for Aid to "Wounded Soldiers. the largest ot’ the three Red Cross orguiilzatlonii and the orlgln- ator 'of the work ln Franco lu 1864, expended 32,000,000 francs ($6,400,- 000)-durlng the first seventeen months ot the war. The socloty has operated 796 hospitals wlth'07.0Bl hedsfaud given a total of 21,000,000 days' 'care to wounded solillors.' Besides those hospltulg the Society maliitalns ii. hospital ol' 500 beds at Sulonlkl, iilnety-three refugees ‘established ln the illxtli .aud twentletli mllltary r_e- glous iii France, seventy lnllrlnarles lii railroad stations and forty-five railroad earlteens. The cost and maintenance ot’ hos- pitals varles sd much that lt. ls dit- lleult to establish average cost per capita per diem, but as ,near as can be calculated tbls society has brought ltle cost down to ii. llttlemore than three francs (slxty cents) n day. Tl_i'e Unlou _:los Femmes de Franco. the second in importance of the Red Cross socletles, has 28,446 niu‘ses, equipping 355 hospitals. with 29,000 beds w_hlle the Assoclatlou des Dames ,Franchises has 16,000 nurses, lii 350 hospitals, with 22.000 beds.. ` The' mortality among` the Red Cross. nurse has been remarkably heavy considering the character of their wol°k_aitd tho immunity they are sup- posed to enjoy under the interna- tional regulations. Twenty-two' mein- llors of the Society for Aldto' the Wounded Soldiers have given their 'llves to the cause, some of them klll- ed under shell flre, others carried off by contagious diseases. The nurses of tlils society have received sixty-three opldemlc medals. sixty war crosses and one cross of the Legion of Hou- or. Tom Louoao/lr Pngvss mmnooo v sntlsrino BRANTFORD. Out., Feb. 18.-- Tom Longbout. the famous ludlaii runner. came to Brantford today and enllsted with the scout section of 'the 125th Battalion. l-le returned to his homeat Caledonia and wlll report for duty in it 'few days; ' ‘ Longboht said he realized the time had come for married men to enlist as well ae single -men. ' ` ‘ ~ _ _- ._,, DllLY_$ELE¢TI0l§- 'FUI _ llllllbllll IEIDBISA ` Purim' \ _ V. -~ __l.»;. ill] ` rn: snow = ,fs The shloln ' ny wait Muon' Y' 1MlJll|i lllill|.fii‘S_ f ' l|_|El3E1llllIlli$ 0 u ' Fllllll Slllilll -` _ __ ,_ But '-_slit calls ii- sulgurlp il.- _ cum. $lilm_tll¢_ Drpdrture ,of the; Sertiltlil_s";-gghlilfurlii hge #1-i»¢1‘¢'l_l.;‘§r-.\tlii_~=fI\\_t» _¢'¢°~m_try.. = urlillwsipglmeo- _initio _ #hr Giant Ditlinbsror Ghll' tous lhus_o|i_s,- Q t_`alte_away tho"llb'ert.y of our sons andq ~ . ____ . _ \ Dr. Ca.therlii`e H. Travis, niece of iltfajor A. A. Bartlett, ln it letter to her ‘slstei-, M_lss Mlniile E. Travis, from Nlsh. "Bulgaria," dated Jan. 2, says: _ “You must have been notltled by the Red Cross at Washington ot the receipt ot' my cable, sent: by me No- vember 13. but which did not get away from Solln until the 23rd. I've had an answer. so I know lt wont through. First of all we are safe and well. =We've had thrilling experiences. but :have been ' ln "filo ginger nor have we suffered any prlva lon.'l wlll not glveyou _any detalls of mllltary doings 'as they would surely. be* deleted by the censors' _ When' I reach home you ‘will have .to give me ten days’ clear for talking purposes."In the packet of letters. I had one from'Mrs.H. 0. Mc- Keown, 105 Mt.»Pleasnnt Avenue, St. John, sending £5 on the part of the Daughters of the Empire. Will' you please tell her this? that I have disposed of lt. already. There is a Swiss governess in Nlsh, who ls golng home land she ls, Ibelleve, destitute. She ls comlng to see me tomorrow. Another letter from Madam Grovltch who had reached Athens alter great hardships on her journey. She gave me permis- slou to,clo'se the baby hospital if I judged,_lt well to do so. Another letter canie from the head of a new com- mission, “American Red Cross Relief Committee," appointed to do relief and distribution work. He asks me to stay and assist lu that work. l have pritctlcnlly decided to do so. I’i:n num its a good thing. lt): impossible for inc to re-open the hospital for various reasons. _ I am anxious to bo home, audi with all my dear ones, but I am lzlafl to stay, nevertheless, and do something to help tn this emergency, so I shall probably be in this part or tue v.o..a for some months yet. You have not had any news from me, I believe. since we went to the trout on October 14. We were away ten days and had a. most lnterostlng time, except the days that we spent sitting on sldliigs lu the ralu. I‘ll tell you about it some day. We were ln'tlle baby hospital waltlng llke Mleuwber, uiitll October 30. dur- ing which Mme. Grovltch and every- body else departed. Then we camo as it body, with the exception of two members of our staff, to this blg bos- pltal, where we have been ever slnco. 'nlilo weeks yesterday, working liiirdat ‘mllltary nurgery.dr`esslngli. etc. lwlrml the Red Cross that we were safe and were coming homo immediately. Five or slit weeks litter I received u retul-ii cable telling' us to repalr‘to Sofla and walt instructions. l,sent myhead nurse thither. thel rest of us remalnlng *ut the work here. She came back yell- terday for the New Year and returns to Sofia tomorrow. She is substituting for the American head ot' a tralulng school there who ln lll hurl who ls an intimate trlend. They were together ,for ulue months lil Russia li-int your. Il could not send my personal cables. oven mlne to the Red Cross had to be quoted in one to the secretary of state from the consul general at Sofia, ellie I should have wired you. I have heard nothing further- from the Red Cross but ln any case there ls the new pro- ject afoot its I told you. ,Wh'en‘ Miss Medcalf, my bead nurse. went to Sofia another member of our group went, re- turning In two days. She brought a packet of mall sent to the consul al. Sofia by the consul at Salonlkl. Maybe they were not welcome after my long fast.. The best way to selid ls via Sa- loulku. There must be sl barrel ot’ mall for us Americans somewhere ln Serbia; fully heautlful it is here? The sunsets round us. have the most remarkable coloring that can be fancied. They change ln hue constantly. I have had ii feast of sunrlses recently. Bulgarian time ls an hour oitrller than Serbian and ls very early I assure you, so we are up hetlmes. There is a high and noble ,rocky peak behind which tho sun rlses. Its name ts ‘Bobbin-Zub’ or 'Grandmother's 'I`ooth.‘ There ls al- ways a veil about the old lady ln the mornlngmld often she .disappears for days. wreathed lili clouds, Afaln after. we have had an evenlng or n gbt. ‘show er she wll_l_ appear ln ,the inornl_iig\ ~`i`_ A PERCECTLV BALANCED FOOD Jackiion‘a ls a per-i bolllllc9d_ to make Meal 1 l‘8*l\ 'becoming t . _ grain tablets of ordinary uuxated fron ..-_-_-- ordinary Nuxated gon Wlll Make Dell- eate, Nervoul. tmdown People- 200 Per (rent. _Stronger ln Two Week_'| Time, ln _. Many Lfaeee. NEW' YORK. N. -Y.-Most people foolishly seem to think. they.-'ure going to get renewed health and-strength from some stlmulntlng medicine. 'secret nostrum onnarootlc drug. said 1)|~‘_ Sauer. a specialist of this city, when, he lt matter oi tact, real and true strength can only come from the food you ent. But peoplooften fall to get the strength out otllaelr food be- cause they ha.veii’t l enough lroii in their blood to enable lg to change food into llvlng matter. l-‘rom_-thel`r"weali- eueil. nervous condition 'they _know something, is wrong. but. they eiili t tell what, so they generally commence doctorlng for stomach, liver or kidney u.0ub|e 0,-_ Symptoms of some other ailment caused by the lack of iron lu the blood. This thing may go on for years, while the patient suffers untold agony. lf you are not stronger well, you 'owe lt to yourself to make the following test. See how long _youeau worlt or how far you can walk wlthout lred Next take two five three -times per day after meals for twoweeks. Thou test your strength again and see for yourself how much you have gained. I have seeuuozens or nervous, rundown people vv_ho were alllng all the while. double and even triple their strength and endurance and entirely get rlil of all symptoms of dyspepsla, liver and other troubles'ln from ten to fourteen days’ time slin- ply by taking lron ln the proper form, Také Iron. Says ¢D°¢¢¢r. _ W `¢Plj cy? f“8¢a anS¢fet¢ili¢h ` ` _- V. ____ wi th1.=_s£@f tl=_°v.hil1rtii-.value can been des fills: 1°# - :1;n°mh», wltiioii obtaining .npy heuellt; . But' _‘llti;|,_'t,‘t,¢§o the old, forms of redueeiiflrou. troll aoetate of’ tincture' 6! lroiualmply' pg' save a few cents. You must. take fron in it form that can be eoally absorbed and assimilated like nuxa " ` iron '-_lf you want lt. to doyou any” , othafi 'wliie lt may prove worse than uselesh. _Many t1n~athlete_, tlghher hip; won the 'day slmpg- eoaiiseflre knew the secret of greatstrenzth and on. durance and filled his loud tw many another has gone down to lil- glorloiia defeat .stmply~.toli.the.lsck of iron. ` , . _,T1 ' NOTE-_-Nuxuted Iron recommended above by-Dr Sauer. feline otitlio newer orsnnle' iron ' compounds. Unlike the older inorganic iron products, lt‘ tg easilyalsqlmllated. does noetnjure tm, teeth, make them black, nor -upset the stomach; on the contrarypltels a. most. potent remedy, ln nearly all forms',q'§ indlgestion. as well _as for nervous, rundown conditions. .The Manufac- turers have 'such great _confidence iii Nuxated Iron that they offer to rot-felt $100.00 to any charitable lnstltutlou lt they caunot take any man or woman under 60 who lacks iron and lncrease tlielr strength 200 per cent. or over in four weeks time, provided they have no serious organic trouble. _ They 5190 ‘offer to refund your money lf lt does not at least- double your strength and endurance ln ten days’ tline. It ls dls- pensed in this city by E. A. Foster, the Central Drug- Stm‘6,.itl1li all other drugglsts. ' ' sparkllng white clad in it snowy dress. _-:_-,-_-a-_-,-_-_-_-_-,-_-,-_-_-_-:_-_~;;_-_-_-_-_-.-v-_-_-ra'-rf: w~ ~ ~: "The McCall Patterns are' the Sofia is dead flat, I learn." 5 ’1‘lie remaining portion ol' tho letter has been censored. -As Niall, eiipltal ot‘ Montenegro has been conqlieretl, it in Vlennn that Dr. (lzftllerinri Travis was still hi Nll\h.Serhla, and was well. “Standard of the World." Perfect lu flt. ease 0|’ coqntructioll null saving ot` material. March Patterns now in stock; also Style Iloolts. -Fashion ls now , described us in Bulgaria. Sheets, etc. (full in gin- pmtéru De. This letter is the first i>eeeivell pnrtnient and learn how you fran get from Miss Travis since Oct.. 10. Oil o. l’itt.tern free. (`Alt'l`ER & CO., the 16th February, Mr. H. S. Cluve. LTD., /\(ll