_THE DATLY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1915. _ A We've Clothes for | the young men who want snappy styles. "Live wires" that show style and go in both fabric and tai- loring. The young man who '"'knows" can find his suit "affin- ity'! here. $18 00. Classy colorings and patterns in New Suitings, Every detail of smart suit-iadking worked out. The new shorter fcrm fitting coat, with its narrow shoul- der and soft roll, two or three button style, the high cut vest and snug fitting trousers, ete, ete, $15.00 ard Come in for a look, Mr. Swagger Young Dresser, you'll not find a "has been" in our entire line, Livingston's, Brock St A Little Out of the Way, But It Will Pay You To Walk : - ® ll | PRESS GALLERY GLIMPSES Special Whig Correspondence From the House of Commons. {Copyrighted.) Well, whatever else happens in this dreary wadte of words, we had one lively day. . It occurred last week but it dwells in thg memory vet like an attack of acute indigestion. This parliament is sufiering from large emotions, sternly suppressed. Although it talks some, it says lit- tle, because the good stufi will keep until. a general election, and also because the public isn't listening any- way, both its ears being in kurope. Consequently, when a genuine old blood-and-fire debate, in which pia: | speaking and hard hitting are the order of the day, takes place it dets as a mustard plaster and greatly cases the pains awd aches of the body politic. Looking back over the disturbance one sees now that the trouble was due in almost equal parts to the freedom and independ- ence of Professor Adam Shortt, the ingrowing nature of the party true. Tom White's. sense of humor, and George Graham's gift of repartee. incidentally, George Graham had {the last word and it was a scorcher, Professor Adam Shortt is chair- man of the Civil Service Commis- sion and his duty is to place the civil service on a& high a . plane as the abstract principles of efficiency struggling with the time-honored patronage system will allow Ad- mitting the professor had a, hard job and he is often 'between the devil and the deep sea, that is to say, between the pressure of the lo- cal member backed up by the cabinet minister and his own conscience. The professor finds it necessary to suni- mon all his philosophy against the slings. and arrows of outrageous poli- ticians but he carries it off well and is seldom tempted to make a hot answer. Being removable, like the auditor-general, only on a two- thirds vote of both Houses of Par- liament, he understands that his _of- fice fis otit of polities as much as any office can be and that it is his fate to fret the government and be de fended hy the opposition of the day to the end 6i the chapter. At least if the professor doesn't understand it, he doesn't know his job, and 1 have no reason to believe that he lacks intelligence. The moral so far as Prof. Shortt is | concerned is to beware of statistics. It was almost a month ago that h. ! strayed into figures at The People s of area i 4 4 | | i | | | | A Waldron's SATURDAY. MORNING. Special Sale Spring Suits $15.$18 and | $20 Values for $9.98 Ee E-------------- - Black. These 48 LADIES' SPRING SUITS All this season's newest SKIrts: atertaig™ a and a full assortment of colors, including AN N ¥ g garments are all well made and { ished. Regular values, $15, $18 and $20. Special Saturday 'Morning for styles, short coats and f NEeviots, oats and full avy and fin- $9.98 I 120 pais a spring's new models in every size. Regular A i} from. Bf °vgeodered at the idea that it took ~ 4 five Tories io Sunday, he told as much of the truth a8 was revealed to him. In other werd, hs stat d that siaee 1911 there | had been 2,000 dismissals and 10,000 appcistmires in the civil serviee. Hi werds were : "Iwo thousand were dis- missed and how many {0k th ir plaice ~just tin thousanl. = Tlatural y thes. figures and the exact inflection the prof ss. r gate them, recived a wids circulation at the hands of the Lib eral fr ss, Tecause they proved that the Government wos "going some." Jest as naturally the Goverament re sented a text with so much edge on ity They put wp a holler that the if professor didn't know his multiplica | tion tables. * BH .As a matter of fact the professor i didn't. He was under, rather thap {over in wack, for, when Sinclair, of Guysboro, who is the best little dig ger not actively engaged in the Al Hes' tramehes, got busy with the dis Jointed volun sabtitted by their: ious departments, he figured out that there had ben eleven thofsand dia | missals and twenty-one. thousand ap- pointments which makes the spread between dismissals and appointments ¥ { two thousand more" than the profes. | there | | sor's @éstimate., And at, that ! are several cabinet piinisters to hear Subsequently, Dr. Pugsley eal Penlnted that eleven thousand = ci. il | servants at an average of one thow | | sand dollars each meant eleven mil-| lion additional dollars a year at a | time when OC Although the Covernment hasn't {put all the facts on the record yet, Gots and heroes once fough | because truth i aot be partied Caliset mipisters answered Shertt in varons ways. another hands is precious and mnst with «wholesals, | thy | Prof. | they Bed got up and sail these | are clean. Mi heat was supply the place of one Grit. he increases kept pace with the of the country ." he general « Also 'question eof gpoils versus merit [the Federal Press | drawing the Senate, Forum in Ottawa, and th: day being | {burn {io land the government, with a set of | | Seotia, ogether, Shorty th i od margin to come 8 way throu Agee the Allies. serious. had merely than | CAUSES FOR TROUBLE | + Codlin's, our friend, not Shortt. From that it wandered to the broad in civil service appointments and that sere and yellow field was harrowed by shot and shell. Sir George Mur- ray's dusty report, being trotted out and unlimbered, did good work. One way and another the engage- ment lasted nine hours. The Pro- fessor's name may be Shortt, but he made a deuced long day of it. However, he was only a peg to hang bigger matters on. Galloping around the war zone without the aid of a horse, several members touched on the subject of loyalty and its silent side-partner, the party truce, which, : like charity, is being used to cover a multitude of sins. The biggest sin of all, some think, was boosting the tariff seven and a half per cent. and giving the British Preference a pill while the Opposition was holding its breath, but naturally this was not mentioned by the Government supporters. They did, however, dig up an item in the Liberal Monthly which asked Sir George Foster why he didn't get busy and land some of the British Gov: ernment's war orders for Canada: They claimed that this was'a dastard- ly deal, not unlike that of the An- cien Mariner, who shot the albatross. It. was one poor little item in seven months absolute fidélity to treaty obligations, a piece of friendly ad- vice in the true spirit of harmony, a , Hip on which Sir George Foster acted promptly, but they certainly did make a great holler over it. It was capped with a dozen quotations from Bulletin, which | showed that the enemy was using | the truce, not to bury its dead, but, to bring up big guns and build con- crete emplacements, but that made no difference to the snipers. They took their cue from the tariff, which like the German Zeppelins, was brought out under pressure of in- terested opinion to drop something somewhere, and they kept on plot- ting. Fowler, of King's, who has a tongue like a sharp sword, was for several of whose latest appoiblees were hanging over the gallery railing, but . he was checked up by the Speaker, who didn't want any moré trouble than he had on his hands already. Even Arthur De Witt Foster did not for- bear to smile, and that was pretty nearly the limit. Acthur De Witt Foster, B.A., is the briskest rah-rah boy in the House, but tod to yel. Not too green, SR oweven | old erocks as war horses which he bought, with the assistance of two veterinaries, in his native Nova Broadly speaking, the trou ble with Arthur was that he didn't know the difference between a war horse and a saw horse, and he made his purchases on that basis. One charger he picked up had seen thirty summers and as many winters and died of old age three days aftér reaching Valcartior camp. joi Genoral Sam, being asked in the House what was its «disposition, re- | plied the' glue factory. This is a sad fate for a horse which should bave spent its declining years in: peaceful contemplation instead -of prancing along those paths of glory which lead but to the grave. But it's all up to | Arthur De Witt Foster, whe might | have counselled the horse to shun | ambition and avoid the sin by which the angels fell, - However, Arthur is due to full at the next general elec: | tion himself, so we need mot follow his remarks uny further. Somewhere in the dead waist and middle of the debate, Finance Minis ter White, intending to slap his old friends, the Liberals, on the 'wrist, expressed surprise that the honorable gentlemen opposite did not seem to | be aware that there was a war. Thev vig i ination. While i was smashing the Dardanelles and | i § Were in con | flict on the plains of Tro, where . the hon- | orable members were discussing fet. | tilizers and squid. It was a iant | flash, and 1 remember jt well, because it stuck out like a wv great Ir. Blind as attesiing the loyalty of that son of French Canada. Dr. Clark had a son at. the front, so had Mr Gauvrcau, but they were not using brass bands to tell about it. He re- peated that never in his hie had he seen a dsloyal Liberal or a disloyal Conservative. "We are prepared," he said, "4 | vote all the money that is necessary to carry the war to a successful is sue, but we do not give up Gur right to criticise the administration of the alfairs of this éountry. We are not going to abrogate our fumctions sim- ply because somebody wants to dodge behind the fact that "there is war." And so the specch Hamed on, a fur. nae: blest iu. every s»utence. The pity is that it is too biz for this* story. Howevir, R's a safe Bet that the jok- ers on the Government side won't sick pins in the truce any longer Ge rye Graham's speech will hold them fir a while. --H. F. COBALT WAS. SAVED | BY BLUNDER OR GERMAN WHO CUT WRONG FUSE, GADSBY. In Attempting To Explode 129 Cases | "Of Dynamite In Nipissing Powder "Magazine -- Plot Is Charged. Cobalt, March 11.--A piece of fuse about two inches long, to which was attached a cap for exploding. and which was cut off in the dark by a Gérman Pole conspirator in error, has saved Cobalt from a terri- fic dynamite explosion which would have carried with it death and great destruction to property. This has beeu 'revealed through the efforts of Provincial Police In- spector Rowell who followed up in- formation laid by the Nipissing Min- ing Company that their powder ma- gazine had been tyoken into some- time during the last week in Febru- ary and an att>mpt made to blow it up by a stick of powder, fuse and cap. Thomas Szyszkoe was arrested a week ago and.this story was that at the instigation, and after much pres- sure on the part of the twa other men, he broke into the powder house, laid a stick of powder on one of the one hundred and twenty-nine cases of dynamite and lit a fuse. In the dark he had cut off two in- ches of the fuse, but did not appar. ently know it included the cap, with the result that the explosion did not take place. Had this happened at the time the fuse was lit, 8.30 in the evening, all the mills at the south end of Cobalt would have been put out of commission, the street railway destroyed, and much loss of life re- sulted, as the powder house is on solid rock, and three tons would haye ! exploded. { Tremendous excitement reigns throughout the town at the narrow escape, especially among experienced | mining men, who know what could have happened. The two men will come before the magistrate to-day. They were farmers in their own country. ~All three had been em- .ployees of the Nipissing Mining com- pany, but were laid off recently. Good News For Kingston Gibson's Red Cross Drug Store will | have Neilson's ice cream bricks on ! sale Friday and Saturday, March 12th and 13th. We have had so | many calls for this famous ice cream in bricks these last few weeks Mr, Gibson decided to begin the season earlier than previous years ame ox- |! pects to be able to supply all de- | mands on and after March 12th, The quality of this famous icé cream is so well known in Kingston and all over Ontario it needs no more intro- duction. A Parlor Social. The Kingston (Oider of Canadian Home Cirelg held a successful parlor social. Wedeeaday night at Mrs, | Charla Smeaton's, Raglan Road. An) en'oxalle evin'ng was spent in'games and' musics Those taking part were Mv. and Mrs. Tisdale, J. Smeaton, Pre. Comego with the violin, and | Mis. G. Prager as accompanist. Palm reading was done by Pte. Johnston | Paudash, 2lst Battalion. C20e. Fags, Fggs, Eggs, 20c. Fresh-egys, only 8c. per dozen. J. | Crawford: = spring. works wonders feeling right. Cross Dru; ia Harry K. 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