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ITCHING PIMPLES SPREAD OVER HEAD

Scalp in One Mass. Hair Threatened to Fail Away, Used Cuticura Soap and Ointment. In Two Weeks Head Regained Former Aspect.

B, Brambor St., Pitemoor, Shomoldi, Rng. "The trouble began by an itching in tho helt from which I could not loven my fingeren, Steadily my scalp developed into one malen of. Rcking (watory pimples and my hair :threstermi to fall away. The itching pimpios contained a watery matter witch, spevach the Lionsss all over my head when fingered I kept my head woll washed and clean but Ulla scomed to do no good.

“The disano muss hayo boss about Devin weeks old, when I came across the Cuļisura, qužvarthaumont in the papt therefore was straight away for a sampló of cach and following the directions en „cloud I 'waahid the bend with the Oufleurs Soap, thoroughly dried it and applied Curl. curi: Ointment

monk In a few days my d underwent a complete change, the pimpica -dried and fell off in scales, the hair ruuslood en and in about two way to my head pined its former expect thanks to cho Culcun soup and Ointment.". (Bigoni) Lavrenon Petfeld, Jab. 23, 1914,

Children sellekkin Chitteurs Soap baths and when asedited by Chitimura Olaitement "they mown addig health in infancy and chită- hood, bhi freedoms, in the majority of each, from akin and scalp atrecilone in after fire In purity and fragranon Culcare, Boap and Cliksems malify the most discriminatổng

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FRANCE AND THE WAR.

VERDUN AS TONIC,

AN ABIDING TRAGEDY.

FROM THE TIMES' SPECIAL

CORRESPONDENT.)

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"Verdun has done is good. We needed just such a cut from the German whip to keep us quite fit. We had been tempted to forget how much life the monster still has in him. Now we know that bough he islowly blending to death bo will still take a lot of killing.

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These ad ajar remarks have been. made to me, not once or twice, but a dozen tjues, by soldiers and civilians in various parts of France. In Paris and at the front, in Lyong and in the Franche-Comté, the same fec.ing wo, expressed. To say that the French are grateful for this reminder would be to exaggerate; but they are thankful that the warning has come in time, and that the splendid heroism of their troops has more than justified a confidence which was erasing to be seasoned with the saving salt of anxioby.

BENEATH THE SURFACE.

PARLIAMENTARY CON- FERENCE OF THE EMPIRE.

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THE EMINENT ENGLISH ACTOR, ABLY ASSISTED BY A POWERFUL ALL STAR PERFORMING CASTE.

BRITISH SPELTER.

SCHEME FOR NEW WORKS.

A USE FOR PROFITS.

We learn (says The Times) that an agree ment has now been reached between the spelter producing companie in Great Britain and the Munitions. Department on the subject of new works, with a view to perensing the production of spelter within the United Kingdom

HELLES WITHOUT THE ARMY.

A LACKEYMOSERY SHELL.

The following is an extract from a letter of a naval officer written on board one of the British warships off the Dardaneles at the beginning of this month-

WAR NEWS. GERMAN INSURANCE OF NEUTRAL SHIPS.

THE CASE OF THE TUBANIJA.”

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The Telegraaf mentions that German in- surance companies have instracted. their representatives in Holland to accept no fur ther whe risks, AK

The Telegrauf adds that there appeara be no longer much confidence in Gorica ny itself that German submarines will spare Dutch ships The Telegraaf thinks, how ever, that the Talentie carried few or na securities of the kind indiented,

RUSSIAN TRIBUTE TO THE BRITISH ARMY.

At a meeting of the executive committed of the United Kingdom Branch of the Empire Partamentary Association held at the House of Commons last month a reolu- on was passed inviting the branches of association in the Oversea Parlaments choose representatives in pay a visit to

We are back again in our old haunts, the United Kingdom for the purposes of

(a) Seing 1or themselves something of

Gallipoli is dead horse now, and we don't the efforts that are being made in the

such enjoy Blogging it. They have plenty provecation of the war; and

Though Australia is the principal conton of guns along the coast, and judging by the **** (b) Exchanging opens informally of supply of the fine ores Germany had bs- excellent practice they make, it seems like with their feaow-merabers of Parliament fore the war pratically a monopoly of the ty that they are all manned by Huns A on questions connected with the wit melting industry, and the consequent prosont we have not quite picked up the A telegram win sent to the scretary of spetter famine which occurred after the ces-old threads. Many new guns have arrived lench branch of the association in the Passation of this supply and before other and the old ones have gone since we were

aments of Canada, Australia, South arrangements could be made, has coat this

Bit here, so our work is chiefly recons Africa, New Zealand and Newfoundland country a great many millions Spelter is naissance, placing the new pieces and asking the respective brauches to choos, in the cus 5 of Canada and Australia, 10 memargely used in munitions and is a constitu- gauging their capabilities. The weather is ent of base, present agrement com very pleasant which is always something. bers of Parliament each, and in the case of Under the present agreement the com- Last year's weather must have been excep Routh Africa 6, New Zealand 4; and New, palies will be allowed, first to deduct from tienn ly bad judging by our present foundland 2, to visit London for the month

their excess profits the difference between of July. A reply has already been revive the cost of new constraction during the war perience. There have been very few days

inco we returned when we could not have In admiration of the great crely of thu from the branch of the association in the

and before the war, and secondly, they are lauded men and stores on the peninsula,

heroic British Army, strong as iron, and Parliament of Canade gratefully accling to receive “ranrd" from the Maniti as Gallipo i now seems a country of ghosts, the matobless skill of its laden, the Con he invitation, and replies are expofed Department for extending their works in the musste the ubiquitous shrapnel over grees of the representatives of mobilizot the form of being allowed to deduct from Fusiker Bluff, and the monotonous boom-industry assembled from all parts of Rus shor:ly from a the other Dominions,

their excess profits, before taxation 50 per hom of the guns. One misses, ton, the life su warmly greet you, and through you and movement that always went on at the the yalians British Army We firmly he cent of the prewar cost of construction.

Thus, if the cost of new works were pit beaches interrupted periodenlly as it used live that brotherhood in arm will unito at £100,000, as compared with £75,000 beta be by the bursy of on Asiatic ahell: Ons still more closely the great British ant fore the war the companies would bisses so the tents and the smoke of the Russian nations. We are sum hay the common efforts of the Allies will be crowned alowed to dedues $25,000, frun their excess camp fires in the gulleys, and on the south with success for the welfare of civilization. profits. They would further be able to de-

ern slopes of the cliffs Everything is all lust £37,500 from the extus profits, leave so hopelessly stiil and stagnant now. It ng e zimi ar amount to be found out of a depressing place, haunted by the spee pishits not liable to taxation ur in new rea of great Army, capital. It is known that since the whe spelter producing companies have earned very large profits. As the works are cua

The second general Congress of the repre gentatives of mobilized industry, working for national defence at Petrograd sant she tollowing telegram to the Commander-in- Chief of the British Army

AREA OF CONQUERED GERMAN COLONIES.

How it possible, it may be asked, that a country with ten Departments still in vaded, with every able-bodied un mobil zed in one capacity or another, with overy industry more or less crippled, should "get used to the war? The chief reason must be sought in the heroic temps of the whole first stroke of luck. Hal they tried to French-people-women and men alike who carry in off I should have been sufforated hays their hands to the business of How long afterwards Tidono know crushing Prussian miktorism, and ar came to myself in temniterbo quietly dermined to carry it through, benital. The surgeon was decent fillow the work short or long. They pray that it let me in ose three finer to my wife may be short, but they are resolved to finish She sent the message on through Bultzer it and they rely upon us to help them to had. My wife gas it by the same patas Snish it and to take henceforth our full the official announcement of ingenti, share of the spoiler revi

though, es my mossare was dated 10 days lator then the official announceracat, sh

After It is a trite saying, bat profoundly concluded 1 must have mrvived. trae, that only by going to the way can one nine weeks in hospitalore I was quite understand; the wor Casual visitors to cured. I e caped. Some Belgian persant's rolled establishments 80.per cent, of small" strafo," and were just moving out, †quations, states that she estimated areas France my notice the exoras profits would but for the range presence of wounded and crippled soldiers on the straits, and the mourning that seems to have become a feminine national uni- form, But look for a moment beneath the surface and you become aware of an im

asurable tragedy. We set one night at upper, in the chief hotel of a once wealthy hown in the Champagne district.

"How long were the Germans here in 1914?" asked one member of our party

No one knew exactly, so we referred the question to the head waiter, an elderly man of demar appearanco,

"I do not know," he said, An expres gion of surprise escaped the first questioner

and the waiter added gravely :----

rost în a feld. Then I became a carter, Fingly I found work in a shop. I was arrested again and again, but was never forced to undress. That was Boother stroke of luck. Otherwise my wound would have betrayed me, I pretended to be a Belgian whose hous, had been destroyed, and who was looking for hy wil. At last when near the Dutch frontier, I was again ar rested and taken before a German colonel, who bears a name well known in iplo mary

"Aller oxwaining ins, he said: **you are french 1

“Quito true, colonel," I answered, inen what are you doing here 2" "The French unitary doctors "rejected

1 repied

I have been here only two months. I qua from Lille. My wife was killed by theme, German, Where my children are I do not know, I have lost everything. I had in the world.

We suked so more questions that night. ⠀⠀ Next evening we returned, caked in mud, to an hude in another town after a bad

For what reason 9."

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Do you wear glasses" produced a pair which I had bought against such an urgency this The colonel exunimed thes, and said:

day in the trenches, We had won sojected for innil à defect **

** Them are vory weak; a man 23 not ré- thing of the impregnable barrier thei

** On,” I answered, “inenty years ago I blocks the Hus read to Paris. A famous inter general awaited me at dinner, and we were. Was inuich more short-sighted than now. anxious to be relatively tiny. A brik **Impossible, replied the colonel "other. clinzaberunid volunteered her "help, and wise ou per cent of the recruits in the

would have to be rejected

worked with so, geod a will as to earn our North of any and a Spill

gratitude

These gentlemen come from the front ?"

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we answered; “we have been in

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"No, colonel," I said "1' with my Deputy, and with a pontical pull one can do anything in France:"

Get away with you, you are a coward !" said the coach angrily, and I was Tree once more.

I crossed the Dutch frontier Next dey and found my way back to Frano. See how lucky I was. It's wonderin with what cheekoro.can lie when one's life at take offer is now one of the mod

most

the direction of

My Home was there," she returned quietly. "Io way she led and burned by the Germans. My brothers were in the Army two are dead. What Hai become of my sisters I do not know. But these gen cleman's overcoute will need brushing again in the morning; they are very muddy.

There was no attempt to arouse our seopathy, no indication that the tragedy liant makers of General staff. He of her life was exceptional. It seemed, uas-

is young-hardly 40. The most riking Less to afer condolences. One could only fact about French Stall officers to lay is reflect, this indeed is war.

their youth and energy. There is to room For a whole day a tall, elegant stuff for dug-outs and valetudinarians. officer

served us as guide. He seemed to Even the generals are workable for their have no thought beyond making the mill youthfulness and vigour, tary situation plain to us. Few.adjectives and no superlatives ever crept into his convert stion. Only once in front of the rusted cathedral of

did he show emotion

As for the men, de pite, or because of. their absterious habits and their 20 months of campaigning in the open air, they looks as though each of them could fel an ox with his fist and eat it sfterwards. Broad- Ah Les brutes Les brutes! Fallait i shouldered, rosy faced stalwart, and être cochon pour faire ce's! 1 hare seen Vigorous, than carry themselves with an it 20 times he added,bal every time itse of woral superiority that becomes the more striking when one has seen and angers ne more.

it one A charge renart from another officer led examined German prisoners. me to inquire into this officer's history. He leaves the frost with a pang at the thought seemed top spick and span, too smart and that the wretched, degenerats ooking self-contained to bave had much to do with bangs when the Germans now put into the practical side of war. He had never their first line can with artillery and spoken of himself. When I asked what his machine-guns, takes her tell of hile from | experience had been he said quietly ----

aplendid Frenchmen; and the feeling becomes irresistible that any man, be be PARA LUCKY "- OFFICKE "Oh, I have been very lucky. At the private ciuzen or Minster, with power to batt's of .......... I was left for dead. A. Gort haston, even by a day, the successful end man bullet caught me in the chest and west of this necessary but ayful cong, and out wear the backbone, M- men, thinking who does not bend his every thought and I was cote for, took my papers and pocket: effort to that end, is worthy of birth book and reported me killed. That was the right as a civilized being

ent be taken by the State,

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Tortunately, we get a little fun now again. There was an amusing scene en board the other day. We had been doing

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Mr. Bonar Law, in a written answer

miles, are as follows: South-West Africa

Emicroor

Togoland Samos.... Upolu

LAFRICA,

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300.000

33,700

430

310

70,000

2,640

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Istands Daroline, Palew,

Marshall Iɛ..

Kino Chow ...

been making excel eut practice at us 1 The Munitions Department guarantees went down to see what damage had been the companies against the effect of any posdono and on the way was told that the sible objections to the scheme that might hell had burst in the paymaster's cabin. be taken by the Chanceler of the Ex-When I arrived I found the fire brigade chaquer, and it also undertakes to play trying to get in to see what had happened the game in atowing de companies to bus to gain continue earning exc se profts. Otherwise, Fairy stokers of the fire brigada were all if the Munitions Departmens managed to coughing and crying, "Don't go in, ss

someone said: It's one of these bent down the price of spelter to a very

o level the excess profits might prove a ackeynosory shell. You wants a respira disappointing fund for meeting the cost of or. The lira brigade were all struggling new construction.

into their respiratora. Mine, of course, was in my cabin, along with my lifeving waistcoat and the other luxuries of that sort we make war with nowadays. However, I orrowed one and got into the cabin to open the gette and deadlight, when down came the paymaster to view the wreckage. He smiffed the air and was just going to HOW THIN PEOPLE CAN PUT follow into the cabin when he was to pd hy the shel expert. "Don't you The present prics of speler is £64 a ton 801, air, without a rep rator. These ere as compared with £22 before the war and cymo ery the le gives yer fits" "Lackey-

mosery be damned," shouted the Pa. "It 130 a few months ago. This my new botte of Scrubbe Ammonis." And It is understood that Mr. Hughes, he was even no Australian Premier, is in full sympathy with this scheme for establishing the British spelter industry on a sound inanç a baci,

* On the strength of the agreement at least ing company is arranging to double its smelting capacity with all possible speed. | Others will probab'y føleg ent. While the plan will enable the British spelting ndustry to be stab ished an a much more satisfactory footing than hitherto, there remains for dismesson in future the que tion of such measures as may be necessary to encourage its development

CLUB.

THE FIGHT FOR A

GERMAN ATHENÆUM TO BE WOUND UP.

34 MILLION RIFLES A YEAR-

GERMANY'S OUTPUT NEARLY TREBLED.

Before the war Germany's capacity in tifle manubicture was only about third of what it is to-day. In pence time, she con'd turn out under pressure a maximum of 2.700 rifles a day, namely, 1,000 from the State graens) and the remaining 1,700 from

as Oberndorff.

The total area of the conquero territory. is 750,000 square miles,

ON FLESH..

A NEW DISCOVERY.

Thin men and women that big, hearty, filling dinner you ate last night. What became of all the fat-producing nourish. ment it contained You haven't gained in weight one ounce, That food passed from your body like unburned coal through an open grate. The material was there,, but your food doesn't work and stick. and the plain truth is you hity get enough noariament from your cal ta pay for the cost of cooking. This in tros of thin folks the world over. Your cutritive organs, your functions of assimilation, are sadly out of gear and need reconstruction

The dispute between the German theum (Limited) and the Services Club is Stratford-place, Oxford street, has end od is a victory for the British institution

Cut out the foolish food and funny Board of Trade to appois a controller to thirds (1,200 rifles) would have come from ODS. Cut out everything but the meals wind up the Corman company was made the Deutsche Waffengess lschaft at Mar- you are eating row and eat with every aan open-air meeting in Stratford-place tinckenfeld and 500 from the Manser works one of these two Sargel tablete In two weeks note the difference. Five to eight 65 March 23rd, and great enthusiasm,

From the moment of mobilisation orders good solid pounds of healthy, stay The club premises had been prepared for a siege. Barbed wire barricades had been were given to other firms, eg, the firm of there fat should be the net result erected across the areas, and the fire-hose Simgen, at Zubl. The great Belgian works Sargol charges your weak, stagnant blood WAS in readiness for invaders, while at the at Herstal have also been supplying Ger- with millions of fresh new red blood for- entrance stood a formidable-looking barrel man needs. But the Simsen factory campuscles - gives the blood the carrying abelled star and peer by there was a not turn out more than 250 rifles a day; power to deliver every cance of fat- pillow containing feathers and of the fer cal factories about 606 or 650 making material in your food to every But these figures are based on a normal part of your body Sargal, too, mixes, decision of the Board of Truda was announced to the crowd from 10 hour day. If we pumo both that the with your food and prepares it for the

and pro-

blood in easily assimilated form. Thin one of the club windows by Mr. T. Mac facta-ion are going night and day

enzie, of the Anti-German Union. He daction but been speeded up, the output people sain all the way from 10 to 25 added "The fight is over. Let us give cannot now ba less than 7,000 to 7,200 rifles pounds a month while taking free cheers for the King, and his auggve a day, or hotiveer end of million demons argol leh tion was really responded to free a year, we are a scientific combination of six of the Probably the total figure is higher will beat flesh-producing elements known to fight, however, occurred along a section of the crowd, due, it was slated to the re- Plants must have been extended or new chemistry. They come 40 tablets to a pack- fuss of a man to rate h's hat when the plante laid down. Certainly the Mauser age, are pleasant, harmless and inexpen-

KOA. 6. Watson & Co. cheery ware given for the King. It was company has recently added largely to its sive, and are obtainable from with some dificnity that he was got to a capital and this would suggest considerable

VICTORIA DISPENSARY, place of safely

THE PHARMACY, QUERS'S DISPENSARY, THE EDWIRD DISPENSASY One of the French machineguns at and all other Brat clsas Cheminta vf Hong- Yerdua is stated to have fired 76,000 shota kom from February 25th to March 4th.

Mr. McCandlish secretary to the Ser. vice Clab, stated that the act on taken by the Board of Trade put un cad to the order to secure possesion of the prem es which German had been obtained by the Atheneum (Limited).

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