~ axiom that Jhis particular effort in Trenton | White for 1 "PAGE BIX™ THAT MAJ. McQUARRIE SIGNED FOR THE $1,200 He Was Paid For Using His Influence With the Minister of Militia for Purchase of Gramm Trucks. Ottawa, March 26.--When the Public Aceounts Committee resumed this morning, Frank Carvell, pro duced the original of a réeceipt given by Major McQuarrie [gr $1,200 which he received from Wylie Limiit ed, for "using his luence with the Minister of Mi to an or- der for three Gramm trucks in 1912 Mr ked if the signature attached was Major MeQuarrie's. The major looked at it and answered "Yes." The re i 22nd, 1912, and vead "Reecived (roms W dated April 22n dred dollars for Cal, Sam Hoghes and Defeoce, in secur department an Gramm trucks, ecure Carve ated follows: Limited, tweive hun- influence with of Militia from the order - for - three This is in _actord- ance with an agreement made with your comipany February 19th, 1912." Otiaws viie 1912, ay Minister ing MAY BE NEXT PREMIER. Attorney-General Bowser Makes Sig. nificant Utterance, " * THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1915. FRANCE NAILS GERMAN LIE. Republic's Troops Were On German Froatier? Paris, March 26.--The ¥rench Ministry of War issued a statement designed to refuse assertions made in American newspapers by the Ger- man military author, General Fried rich Von Bernhardl to the effec: that the French plan of concentra- tion showed that the French and British governments had made care ful preparationg to violate the neu trality of Belgium The War Ministry's statement ex plains in detail that when the war was declared the French army was concentrated along the German fron tier and that the Teutonic invasion of Belgium compelled the general staff fo change completely the dis- position i had been arranged 3 delay, it says, the Ger- mans never would have been able t» cross the Meuse, The question of the British arm) taking the field was not considered the War Ministry asserts, until after the violation of Belgium on Augus. 5th Its concentration was effected behind Maubeuge from August 14th to 24th. Various orders are quoted to show that the French army was kept six miles from the frontier and ordered to leave to the Germans the responsibility of opening hostilities An order issued by the Minister of] War on August 4th is quoted as reading: "Germany will attempt by news to induce us to violate gium neutrality. [It is strictly for bidden or even single scouts to cross the line, or for aviators to fly over Belgian territory." Not until August 5th, the state- ment asserts, at he formal request of the Belgian Government made the preceding dav, did the French troops enter Belgium false Bel- British Laundry Troubles, Unless something is done, and done quickly, to meet the demand of the British industriai world for larg- er supplies of coal, many laundries | will have to dismiss their hands and ! Dally { Mr, J. J. Stark, ATTORNEY-GE + BOWSER Vancouver, B.C., Murch 206.~Attor ney-General Bowser is credited with the statement belore a meeting of the South Vancouver Conservative Asso ciation, which is taken in some quar- ters to be an indirect intimation that be (Bowser) will be the next premier. "Poseibly in tuture | shall be able to do more in fashioning the policy of the Government, and that is. why [ want the best man you can give us," he it reported to have said, the statement being greeted with cheers. Ghd rbd dR bd bbl bh bbb bbb bb + -* ANOTHER TORPEDOED. » -- 4+ London, March 206.---The % British steamer Delmira has @ been torpedoed by a German # submarine, it was announced + here this afternoon. 'She is a % 3,450-ton steamer owned by the % British and Chilean Steamship 4 company. + EPL EEEL EN i +» FTES RRMPP LL PhP bib bbb $3,000 For Mother, Sacramento, Cal., March 26.--The California Legislature has voted §/- 000 to Mrs. C. O. McKnight for her magnidcent contribution to the state; census. She is the mother of thir- teen children, the last four of whom were born four days ago. The quadruplets, two boys and two girls, are well, as is thelr mother. She is] proad of her double twins, but! equally ro of being a grandmother, though only thirty-seven years old. The Daidanelles Attacked. New York Herald, Owing to the roundabout ways) through which the news from the Dardanelles drifts in, mueh uncer- tainty exists as to the real progress made by the Allies in forcing the passage of the Straits. Shanghai in} the Far Hast and Constantinople in| the Near struggle for supremacy as! the original mother of lies. There-| fore, every report sent out by the! wily Turk should be accepted with] wise and wary caution. It is, for example, difficult to believe that so far only the secondary defences have. 1 | On the other hand, it is probable' thatthe forts atthe Narrows are] \ still intact; it is probable also that] some of the works nearer the west-| ern entrance are supported by field | batteries and railway-mounted Ger-| man howitzers. While these resist-| ances will not affect the outcome, they will vexatiously delay the ad-| vance, and should, therefore, be reckoned with by the optimists that proclaim: the 'eapture of €onstanti- It bas always 'been an accepted afloat would have to be supplemented * 'by army corps ashore, these to be i position entirely by his own energy {| the following story:-- i ar the imitation?' | steel for | bullets. | has not been adopted by the British | roakers,-it has worked out success. close their doors. That was the burden of the story told to a London | Telegraph representative by | the secretary of the | National Federation of Laundry As-| sociations, Laundry managers, fit appears, are finding difficulties ! crowding upon them just now as a| result of the general dislocation of industry consequent on the war, | They cannot get the coal torun their | machinery, their horses and motor | vans have been commandeered by the Government for military pur-| poses, and, lastly, there is a short- | age of labor due to a variety of causes. The day may not be far dis- tant when clean linen, the average man's badge of respectability, will come to be regarded as something of a luxury. | Shs imitation, Please. As most people are aware, Sir Thomas Lipton is a self-made man, and worked himself up to his present and brains. Many years ago, when he had his tirst little shop in Glasgow, he had a rival in the next street whose goods were not always noted for their first- class quality. Fa Of his rival, Sir Thomas has told "A customer entéred the shop and asked for a pound of butter. * 'Yes, sir,' said my rival; 'the real * 'Which was it you sold me yes- terday?' asked the customer, " 'That was the real, sir.' "*Then give me the imitation! said the customer." Armor of Powdered Glass, Powdered glass forming a layer between two moderately thin plates of steel have been proved much more effective than a thick plate of the purpose of stopping Although this method of armoring motor cars for the front fully with the Belgians. The new British mojor armor plate, which is only a quarter of an inch thick, has however, withstood severe tests When the Belgian armored automo biles are badly injured by shot and shell they are sent to London for repair, / Mrs. Richard Boulton, Bayside, Sidney Township, was on Thursday, found dead in bed by her daughter. Deceased retired apparently in her cause, 5 Mrand Mre-- AH. Melnsters, Front of Sidney, left on Wednesday for an extended visit with their four sons in Elendale, North Dakota. Ne aster has rented his to W. Mrs. Forin was born near Dan- keld, Perthshire, Scotland, in 1832, ne being the eldest daughter of th. late Alexander McLaren, of Tyendin- aga. hardware business, some forty years. : You and I have a right to demand fellowship' more tie, to make man Iorget ~ goal Ia peally in sight. P. Shasnon, Thurlow Township, holds the y "sowing of oats. Few imagined the was 80 far. Firrtut wedi r- advanced 'reserve their sbeating' until the!| pe v place | FINE SOLDIER GONE. Major George Higinbotham Was » Noted Fighter and Athlete. | Major Higinbotham, of Toronto, | who died recently in hospital in France, was one of the best known athletes and sportsmen in Canada, as well as being a soldier of rare ability. About the age of 18 Major Higin- botham entered the Queen's Owa as a private. He served as a sergeant in the Northwest Rebellion, and sub- sequently took out a commission, fin- ally reaching the rank of major and second in command. At the time Sir Henry Pellatt took his regiment over to England, Major Higinbotham was decorated by the" King at Balmoral Castle in Edinburgh with the distine- tion of M.V.O.--~Member of the Vie- toria Order. As a curling enthusiast he was one of the rink which won the original Walker Gold Cup. Badenach, Joe Irving and Jack Drynan wére the other members of the winning quar- tette, He also helped to win the On- tario Tankard. He was one of the Granite hockey players, and also a prominent member of the Amateur Athletic Association. When Bob Fitzsimmons visited the city some years ago, and visited the Argonaut Rowing Club, Major Higin- botham is said to have been the only man who was able to give him any kind of a tussle with the gloves. He used to fow in the Argonaut junior fours of which Claude Mae- doheil, M.P.P., was the stroke. He was one of the crew of the Pa-' tricia, which was victorious over the Michicago in 1912. He was to have been one of the crew'of the Ahmeek to race the Chicago Yacht Club chal- lenger at Toronto if the war had not intervened. Higinbotbam's character is vividly described in a dream which a young Torontonian had early in the war and which he told as follows: "Well, 1 was off to the war again last night," but this time it didn't worry me. I dreamed we were being bundled" into big automobiles and drawn off across country and up the back of a long limestone ridge. Most of us were so green at the game that we hardly knew what to do with the rifles they put into our hands. I thought to myself, 'What'll become of this mob when the first shot is fired?' Then I looked at the man who was sitting in front of our auto, be- side the chauffeur. He half turned round. 'Why, thought I, 'there's George Higinbotham. We're all right now. We may be a lot of dubs, but he'll pull us through'. It Made Him Sick, Writing to a friend in Toronto, a member of the Canadian Royal Gren- adiers at the front says: "I took my own gun with me tuned to per- fection, as you know that shooting is my hobby. On the occasion of my first visit to the' trenches, which were only 80 yards from the Ger- mans, I spent the best part of a fore- noon in the company of a Bisley | chum, getting the range on a point fairly high up, from which spot one of their observers had frequently been geen. I got the elevation beau- | tifully, and on my second visit to the | same trench I saw my man to advan- | tage. I was fortunate emough in | getting him through the head with my first shot, but the effect of the | incident on me was very a brought on a most violent fit of sick- | ness which continued all that night. | No doubt the sudden change of en- | vironment was too much for the sensitive "timmy" of a naturally timid man. I went back to my billet the next day in the ambulance. Af- ter this preliminary canter around | the course I don't expect to have any more such qualms. | "Going into a trench with a con- stant fusilade of fire in the immedi- ate neighborhood is a very novel and almost fascinating experience, As the communicating trenches are flooded the entrance and exit is made above ground under cover of dark- | ness, and under a continued indirect fire of rifles, It is under these dan- | gerous conditions that rations are conveyed to the trenches." } Pleasant For the Landlord. The neighborhood of Toxeth Park, Liverpool, has decided drawbacks, | from the point of view at least of | some of the landlords of the cheaper | property. It is said that an agent | on making the usual Monday morn- | ing call for rent at one house was of- | fered 1c. 6d. The rent was already | in arrears. He showed his discons | tent. "Look 'ere, mister, you ought | to be jolly thankful you've got this. i If my old man hado't sold the back | rdoor-you'd-have got nothing Have ready one cupful of flaked or | shredded fish, two cupfuls of mashed | Her seeds, by x ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES. | She stands, a thousand-wintered tree, | By countless morns impearled, Her broad roots coil beneath the pea, Her branches sweep the world; careless winds com veyed, | ¢ { Clothe the remotest strand With forest from ber scatterings | J made, i New nations fostered in her shade, [Ji And linking land with land. O ye by wandering tempest sown i} 'Neath every alien star, 1 Forget not where blown That wafted you afar! For ye are still her ancient seed On younger soil let fall-- Children of Britain's island-breed, To whom the Mother in her need Perchance may one day call. --William Watson, BELGIAN CHICORY ARRIVES. War Brings New Vegetable for Pal. | ates of British People, the breath was THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO CALL AND INSPECT OUR NEW STOCK OF CARPETS, RUGS, LINOLEUMS AND HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS -:- -:- Saturday, March 27th Until recently the national vége Hi table of Belgium, chicory or witloof, | has been little known Since the arrival of the Belgian refugees, however, large supplies of chicory, grown by Belgigh cultiva- tors, have been reaching Covent Gar. den, London, and are being retailed in the principal stores and fruit] shops. i This vegetable is largely grown In the environs of Brussels, and Malines, and the producers have been badly hit by the German oeceu- | pation. About 20 villages situated between Brussels and Malines are to a great extent dependent om the sale of chicory, In ordinary times a large trade is done with Germany and France, but at present very little is being for- warded to Germany, and with France no commercial trading is pessible. In addition to these two markets large quantities, sometimes amount- ing to 20 or 30 tons per week, were sent to New York. These were car- ried from Antwerp in cold storage on the Red Star Line, but as these steamers have long since ceased to run another important market is practically lost, although small quan. tities are being sent via Rotterdam. The popularity of this vegetable in Belgium is so great that it is no exaggeration to say that in the capi- | tal during the season there are as many street vendors selling chicory as there are selling bananas in Lon- don, Very little Belgian chicory is con- sumed in England, English cooks scarcely know it. It is hoped that its high culinary qualities may become known in order that after the war a | part of the production may be sold | there. With this object some of the Belgian growers are issuing small | booklets of recipes for English cooks. ! Escorting Ammunition. ] A private in the 7th Manchesters, | who is stationed at Khartoum, gives | an interesting account of his journey with a special escort, from Khartoum | to Cairo, with ammunition for the "I formed one of the escort and it | took us seven days and nights to reach Cairo. , We had some wonder- ful experiences, We were on the Nile | from Wadi-Halfa to El Shallal, and | at the latter place we visited the ruins .of Philae. The best part of the journey was from Luxor to Cairo by train. the Nile, and here surely is the land of milk and honey. "Amongst the country people here contentment holds sway. Very small girls act as goatherds, just starting to toddle, leading a big camel along | { | as though it were a Pomeranian: i "We met with great hospitality | from various high officidls at differ- | ent stations along the journey, My | impression of Cairo is one of delight. | At one part of the journey 1 slept twenty yards from the Citadel Mos- que, one of the sights of Egypt. We | visited thi ancient place and the | sight was grand. The floors are of | marble, and are covered in parts with | ' laxurious rugs. At this temple the! Khedive of Egypt worships. It is | thousands of years old, and there are many legends connected with it, "Jt comes within the battlements from which all Calro. can be seen, | with the Pyramids in the distance.' The health of the men in camp at Khartoum is very good, but 4¢ Cairo, | 1 believe, the hospitals are fairly full." Two of Them? ing 'Drake, came to mein great perturbation," said Sir Herbert Tree. " 'I think,' he remarked, 'you ough to reconsider your bills outside th theatre.' 2 "Why? I asked. i ? " 'Well, it leads to confusion," he | | 1 of the proceeded. after seeing "Drake" last night, and sald: "I want to buy more seats for Louvain | i The route is by the side of | Reed | {0 4 id yeh | my box-office Keeper | |i ¢ in England. | I [ 168 Princess Street | AND FOLLOWING DAYS. M. 6. HIGGINS, Limited "THE WHIG'S JUMBLE. | A General Review of Country District | . and Local News. i "Buy Spring Topics" at Gibson's. | Sale! This week! Music, from Se. Dutton's. The Deseronto Match Factory wi. resume operations on Monday. "Blaud's Iron Pills" at Gibson's. Jacob Morris has disposed of his hotel property in Carleton Place, and left for Cabri, Bask. i "Blaud's Iron Pills" at Gibson's. | W. J. Burchill has disposed of his} hotel, the Russel House, Smith's Falls, to A. Slater. "Sarsaparilla Tonic" at Gibson's. Grant nilborn, charged with caus- ing the death of Mrs, James White by shooting her, was remanded for one week, "Your Spring Tonic" at Gibson's. Men are employed at the Mapa tauk Hotel, Clayton, N.Y., prepa: | ing the grounds and buildings for! the new manager. i "Blaud's Iron Pills" mmommanmm Vincent McDonald, a young man of Mallorytown, charged with the sedue- | Ji tion of Chloe Smith, a girl under six- | ® teen Years of age, was acquitted. "U you are sick" go to Gibson's. C. J. Anderson, manager of the! Deseronto. Match Factory has been | Mi ordered by the doctors to take a | rest. He has overwrought his! strength. i "A vest pocket kodak' at Gibson's. Rev. W: Kupper, the pastor of the | §i Evangelical Lutheran congregation at Arnprior for tem years, will be- come pastor of the church in Pem- broke. "Buy Spring Tonics" at Gibson's. F. L. Hutchinson has been ap- | § Big. Discount Off Electric Fixtures Get your electric repairs done by us. Satisfaction guaranteed, Halliday's Electric Shop Phone 94 - . -- 845 King Bt. EASTER SALE OF BOYS' CLOTHE MARVELOUS VALUES AND ECONOMY T MOTHERS OF BOYS. Norfolk Suits To fit ages 7 to 16 vears. Bloomer pants, in faney English Tweed, light and dark shades; reg. $6.00, Saturday i $3.50 'Satarday vere. $8.90 + Buster Suits Reg. #5 To fit ages 2 to 8'vrs., urday in pretty Tweeds, new- est spring shades. Reg. $5 and $5.50. Saturday for . $2.95 Blue Serge Suits Made Norfolk or D.B. style. | urday for ..... | Reg. $7.50. Sat- ..$3.95 Boys' Rain Coats Made Reg. "$7.50, same as men's. and $5.50. Sat- pointed to the position of gor- in-chief of hotels of the Canadian Pa- cific railway. He will enter upon his | duties on April lst, succeeding Hayter Gib- "Sarsaparilla Compuund,"" at on's. i The death of Mrs. Emma Del-| phine Linnell, aged -eighty-seven | years, occurred at Clayton, N.Y., on | § illness of She was Sunday, following an about a year's duration. born in Clayton. "A vest ot kodak" at Gibson's. Capt. E. Delaney, Mrs. Delaney, and five children, North Augusta, have removed to Erie, Pa. Uapt. Delaney steamer Wissihacon, of vania railway fleet. i "Ahrond Cream" at Gibeon's. Pte. John A. gun section of the 5th Royal Migh- | landers, Montreal, met death on the battle fields of France. He was a} brother-in-law of C. R. Deacon, Brock: | "Ice cream bricks" at Gibson's. i. will be in command of the | i the Pennsyl- | Hi McConachie, of the |} SUITS FOR MEN. Navy Blue Suits for Men, sizes 35 to 44. Just bought. As special as they are new. Each $12.00 Men's Work Suits, sizes 34 and 44. Blue ef- fects, hairline stripes, Tweeds and mixtures. x- ceptional value. Saturday for ... 87.00 Large assortment of Easter Furnishings, EASTE ) Growing girls' boots, lace or button; sizes for adult women also, who like low heels $3.00 Ladies' cloth top shoes, patent-and gun inetal. Saturday at ; .$3.45 ladies' patent shoes, colored tops, new heel, § button or Jace. Saturday at .... | LOUIS ABRAMSON, { ville, and a gallant young Canadian. ' Ji ~~ Bloomer are sold all at over at FAR asses se Rta Era. $16.50 and $18. On sale Saturday at..... pants--worsteds and Tweeds--same ys' Suits wma 7.50 | Palas es rhe s sis Anand sass gaa ee TEEPE Er AEE EAR s Mr RENEE The latest in Hats on sale here at $2.00 = ¥ TT: Ee » SRL