© _ PAGE EIGHT THE DATLY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1915. The coming out time for Spring---a day when everyone, be Tie saint or sinner, likes to be fogged out' in the best he can afford. Ulusual values such as are now here offer many men a chance to be better dressed this Easter than ever before-- and at less cost. Let Us' Help You There is a certain dash, gnap, stvle about the elothes for men at 'this store that is hard to describe--harder- yet to get away from after you see them. Artistic touches plus sat- isfaction, quality: that makes you smile évery time you think about your new suit. p » Special styles for stout men--extra long sleeves : and legs for tall men. ('ome and get acquainted. ~ Livingston's Brock Street. i ie A Little Out of the Way, But It Will Pay You To ; Walk . aldron's * 3 Makes Of Black Silks Special Prices. 7 Rs La ge, ies SC re a pure silk, guaranteed no cut or gloss. ~Regular-$1.35.quality, special-for-- ont esa 9c Yard 3 a A | the 21st Battalion. DOING PRACTICAL WORK RANGES AND IN FIPLD. Officers Taking R. S. A: Course Had a Busy Time Wednesday After noon--5t. Patrick's' 'Night Was Celebrated. The sixty officers taking the R. S.A, course were on™ Wednesday given a day of practical work, of qf the kind that they will meet with at.the front. The programme took from moon until after six o'clock. Capt. T. D. J. Ringwood, Sergt.-Major Inst. Jordan and Sergt.-Inst. Temple were in- struetors. Major E. C. Barrett® acted as brigadier and controlled the fire of she guns from a point over a thous- and yards away by use of field teie- phones. Major Barrett transmit- ted the orders"to the commander of the battery, which formed part ofl the advance goard trying to take a position between the wireless and the Gananoque road and engage .the supposed enemy near the smelter works across. the Rideau river on the city side. QM.S. Smith had cordite pull and quick match to represent flush- es from the enemy's guns, and pow der puffs to represent vhe bursting of the shelly. THe battery command- er obtained his lines of fire by means of a director. By reason of bis position, he had to_use the mag- Metic porth as an- aiming point. " The work was very instructive, as the conditfons were very similar to { those which would be met with on active service. used for: range-finding and a able SD telephone was transmitting the orders part used fo Sergt. Rodgers has been appgint- ed caterer of the geants mess at I'ete de Pont barracks, The officers celebrated Si Pai rick's night in a patriotic manner. The R.C.H.A. band furnished Irish music for the occasion. Two Kingstonians, 1. C. Ennis and R. Watson, both of Divisior street, left at noon on Thursds; for a a "Quebec'where they wiil take instruc- : A tion in the Training Depot and go | overseas with the transport section {of the Apmy Service Corps. They the front in the first or second week ] # | Will likely be used as chauffeurs. | of March, and* that fresh levies had Major J. Hamilton, A.D. of 8. ana T., was quickly able to secure ail the artificers he necded for oversea: | work. The eight accepted 'were ex- amined by him before being given { transportation to Ottawa. One maa ! was rejected as medically unfit, { © Cel. L. Lessard and Col. T.-D. R. Hemming are in Ottawa making an { inspection of the Engineers. Owing to a misunderstanding by i the officers of the Governor-General's Foot-Guards, Ottawa, the report has | been circulated without any founda- | tien that a fourth contingent battal- pl would be mobilized in this divis- (fon. No such order has yet been is- { sued, and the reervits" Being taken jon now st a great chance of go-| | ing overseas with the third edntin- gent. Both the 38th and 39th Bat- | tallons are over strength, but re- | érufts are still being accepted. The:e ¢ i} extra men may be foruied into a bat- I talion, but it is thought more likely {they will be attached only until such | time as they are needed at the front. Lieut.-Col. G. S. Maunsel}; R.C.E., D.G.E.8., on Wednesday inspected the cadets at the Royal Military Col-| lege and the quarters occupied by! | the 21st Battalion, as well as other | government works. | | An order has been issued that the cap-badges must not be polished. The 21st Battalion left at 8.30 ! | o'clock on Thursday morning for a ! day's work on the ranges and in the i field. On Wednesday, field move- | | ments were gone throuzh in the vi-| | einity of Glenburnie. Dinner was | taken on the R. H. Fait property. 1 i §! The following men have been tak- if "en on the strength of the 21st Bat- i talion: | i. Baker, W. Cole, ©. A.| { Girous, O. Henderson, F. Maunders,. { T. R: Poffley, R. J. Tuck, J. Wilkin- | ison, J. G. Wiggins, A. Brownlee, A. | { Carman, J. Hay, F. Maxam, W. J.| , Paver, F. Stinson, R. H. Willis and | } Guild has trans... wvallage... Pre. ferred from the Mounted Rifles to The 26th Battery is mow In fine| shape for taking in recruits to bring | the battery up to strength. In the | rooms in the Richardson : building] are now over 150 bunks of the lat-| est steel frame type, The office of | nd The mekometer was recruits are attested here by the bat-| tery commander. the battery is in the front room at OVERSEAS ' UNITS BU ¥one north end of the building, and AT The twenty-nine recruits have all been issued with uniform and are be- ing drilled every day on the cricket field. Other recruits are expected, and in the near future the full num- ber will be obtained The R. C. H. A. guns will be used for instruction purposes, Rev. John J. Dunlop addressed the soldiers in the militia Y. M. C. A. Hall on Wednesday evening on' '"Ja- pan," of which country he is a preki- dent missionary. The talk was very instructive, Lance-Corpl. P. C. Chad, "AMC, left on Thursday for a visit "with friends. in Lakefield. The many friends of F. (. Roberts ard congratulating him on his ap. pointment to lance corporal in the M.C. Lance.-Corpl. T. E. Prestige, 2lst Battalion, left on Thursday for Lind- say to visit friends. PRP PR be RPbPtb tbh bib bb * ' ? > * THE KAISER ALARMED, + w \ --- » * (Special to the Whig.) +» 3 Copenhagen, March 18,--- # 4% Alarmed at the British advance # #+ in Flanders, Kaiser Wilhelm # | * +* * + * + + has gone to Lille with his chief % of staff and will meet the 4 Crown Prince and the King of + Wurtemburg there f6r a coun- % cil of war, » FEPPPPEP PEPE SEES SEF BR © PROF. LANO SISTER Writes From France That "We Sim- ply Fight." Prof. J. M. Lanos has received a! letter from his sister, Mme." Bodin, who is a French army nurse. Th letter was dated February 14th, but was held up for three weeks. Mme. Bodin says that her brother was at Havre at the time of the landing of British troops in August. He 'was detailed to. meet then as he English. Arras. The writer further says that 1,- He is now fghting wear 400,000 new men were to leave for already been made including youths of eighteen and older men who had been excused before. This means | another army of over 1,000,000 who | will fill the gaps in August or Sep-! tember. Sixty men from the bor- ough of 2,500 souls' where Mme. Bodin lives at presemt have been killed in the war. here is hardly {Queen's University Fpgineers, knew {. Toronto, GERMANS WLL BURN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS | I Russian Proviocial Capitals in Retaliation, Says the Ger- man War Office. (Bpecial to the Whig.) Berlin (via wireless March 18. The Russian Cover buildings in Suwalki, Poland, 'and other = Pro- vincial capitals in the hands of the {Germans will be burned to the ground, the German war office an- nounced this afternoon, in rétabiation for ruthless acts of destruction by the Russians in Fast Prussia. B SAPPER BRISTOLIN STRUCK ot-- oy By Shell and Has Tetanus--Nay Not Recover. Sapper ' Franklin Thomas Bristolin was. admitted to No. 1 Eastern 3los- pital, Cambridge, suffering from te- tanus. Nis next of kin, Mrs. Jen- | nie Bristolin (wife), 44 Main street, Kingston. Sapper Hristolin is with under | Major Macphail. "od Sappers Bristolin and Percy Boul, | the latter another Kingstonifin, slept together, and it seems a shell i truck the apartments in which beth were lying. Sapper Bould was re- ported a few days ago to have been wounded in the forearm, but it is thotight Sapper Bristelin must have | been struck by a fragment of the shell in a more vital portion. Te- tanus set in, and from the telegram received by Mrs. Bristolin on Wed- nesday afternoon the doctors think 1 there are small chgnees of recovery: + Sapper Bristolin left Kingston on August 18th with No: § Company, Canadian Field Engineers. SIX HUSBANDS KILLED. Woman So Overcome At Latest Lass She May Die. Shamokin, Pa., March 18.- When an ambulance arrived at the home of Mrs. Joseph Sobel, bearing the bady of her husband, who had been burned to death in an explosion of ges at the Reading Coal & fron company's Henry Clay colliery, the widow ~ was so overcome that she is in a eritieal condition. * Sobel was her sixth hushand, all {having been killed hy mine accidents. She iis of middle age. . REDUCTION BY-LAW VOID Because Petition Lacked Omne-Tenth Of One Signature, (Special te the Whig.) March 18.--Reecently Lon. | any mide population--postmen, rail-| don, Ont., carried a tavern reduction way men, bankers, teachers, priests, --all have moved. to the Belgian frontier. ~ Women do the work, | where and beet they can. "We are neither disheartened nor | hopeful; we simply fight; we seem to be no longer able to care," concludes | the letter. ,. i Sf 5 Ph hh doh bt ii ol MUST INTERN OR SAIL. i -- . | vi pecial to the Whig.) + ashington, March 18. 4 Commander Thiemichens, of the + | German converted cruiser | Prince Eitel Friedrich, will have + | to "fish or cut bait" soon, it was + # learned on high authority to- 4 # day. The Treasury Depart- + # ment, which has charge of neu- % trality 'enforcement, will send 4 # him a note shortly giving him | + twenty-four hours to state how # # much more time he wants at #| % Newport News to put to sea, or # % to ifitern immediately. + + x * FPP EPEP LPR IRPLIIV SHIN PPS | CARED FOR BY POLICE, Sere teen *» Youngster Lost on Down-Town Street 1 On Tharsday Afternoon. { Crying as if his little heart would | break, a "kiddie" about Tour years | of age, was found 'by a lady near the corner of Wellington and , Brock streets, early Th ay afternoon, and | taken to the police station. The-| youngster had evidently been tramp- ing the streets: for some time. _ ! At the police station everything was | strange to the little fellow and f cried all the harder. Sergpant Snod. | den and Constable Lesslie Clark tried | Be Tally "With a few cakes and an» the officers New war risks Fenccsedel a BrPie After par- eq by the A.O.U. ¢ taking of his' Tench he foil samepy ChAT. the Wi Dut el on a couch and at two o'clock was in dreamland. © Up till this time no inquiries had been niade" about the stray-away. #4 "Buy spring tonics," at Gibson's. emo _. teed to wear. Regular value $1.50 and $1.60, a by law, but it will not go into effet. | Justice Middleton decided to-day that' because the petition on which the by- law was submitted to the peopie | lacked one-tenth of one signature, the fire was, therefore null and void, Fell ¥rom His Ladder i While at work-cleaning one of the! white-way lights, opposite the Salva-| tion Army Citadel. on Thursday morning, Frederick Nancarrow hau the misfortune to haye. his Jadde:! slip, causing hini to fail heavily to, the pavement. Mr. Nancarrow was | later removed to.his home on Elm! street. It was stated that nothing, serious would result from the fall. : To Cure A Yo In One Day. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets, Druggists refund money | if it fails to eure. E. W. Grove's | signature is on each box. a i Two women in the police cells made | things lively with their singing ox | Thursday. After rendering = several hymns, they wound up their: concert with the famous "Tipperary." "Puy spring tonics," at Gibson's. Frances Patterson, | charged with vasrincy, was gived a pass to Camp Felliord, and was escorted to the 'train on Thursday afternoon by ton syable Jenkins. Woks than 10,000 inhabitanis in| Balearic Islands are on the verge of starvation. Famine conditions prevail throughout the -islands. i Mrs. Funnell, wife of Ex-Mayor Jesse Fununell of Trenton died on Wednesday after a week's illness. Two Germans were arrested at Seattle in connection with the Pana dian submarine deai. : The women of Great Britain are 10..becalled--out--Lfor-paia-- ment. gi i soldier members will be nT i The Showing Of | Ladies' and Misses us A collection of very dressy and at- tractive models at these popular prices y - $15.00, $12.50, $17.00, $20.00, $25.00. It. is"impossible to here deseribe the NUMErous models--speaking - gener- ally and with acetraéy, these suits embrace many of the best ideas in style 'that have been brought out for this spring. 'Women's New Spring Coats That are éonspicuous for their smart- ness The materials are the most de- sirable for this season. 5 A special showing of the newest spring model. of CORSETS A wide price range of the best makes for spring' $1.00 to $10.00. A Silk Special To-Mortow, All _ Day, from 9.30 to 6. ' "An important purchase the other day enables us to offer this special silk, bargdin to-morrow. - ; \ 300' Yards Wide Black Duchess Silk ; 36 inches wide, soft and of good weight, will not pull or slip when worn, and a perfeet black in color; this is con- sidered exceptional value at $1.00 yard. , 8 oe, 40 Ait evry fodt and fit it properly and nd Travelling Goods. = aT 3 EEE "