PAGE SIX ee p------ cored THE 8. 8. LUSITANIA A VICTIM SAYS NOT TO WORRY "WE ARE FIGHTING POR GOOD | CAUSE." SAYS Oulir, s MURRAY, In a Letter Received by His Mother He Has Been in the Thick of the Fighting. 2 "There bs BN of fighting go ng on around here, | cannot tell you the place, but it is one of the worst in the fighting line and | okpect that | will: have more news for you later on," writes Corporal Samuel Murray in a letter to his Mrs. J Murray, 224 Montreal Corporal Murray is a brother Driver Frederick Murray of the Fifth Field Battery, v died .of wounds. In this letter Corporal Mir ray says that he has not seen his bro thers at the front for some time "You must not worry," says the writer to his mother, *'if any of us get popped off You know it is for a good cause, and a fellow is not much of a soldier if he cannot do his bit." mother street of Pie. Fillion Writes, : A letter received in the city from Pte. Oscar Fillion, wounde® in France, was forwarded to the Whig In part it states: "Mrs. (General) Alderson visited the hospital: the other day and she took my name, number and regiment Her husband is the general in command of the Canadians, and a fine Irishman he is "by golly." Pte. Fillion's injurles have been of such a nature that it is thought hard ly likely bre will be able to return to the firing line. He has become quite n favorite in the hospital and he may receieve a position on the staff as an orderly. Pte. Fillion goes on to state that he is living in a regular mansion. Thea owner of it has had two sons killed and one taken prisoner. *I haye everything. 1 want, go canoeing, and horseback riding, and the coach- man to take me to the railway sta tion. 1 get all the tobacco 1 want and plenty of other things. I also have my shoes shined. In fact; | could live here forever. 1 will be sorry when,I have to leave this eoun- try. 1 am only twelve miles from Oxford. I have had two weeks fur lough, and one week of it lias alssost gone. I still have to use a cane be- | cause I Hmp | a little yet." t fa 15¢, Carnoviky's > Now is Your Chance to | Save Pine-apples, MEN'S SUITS Regular $25.00--Now $20.00 | Regular $20.00--Now $16.50 Regular $16.50--Now $14.00| Regular $15.00---Now $12.50, Regular $12.50--Now $ 9.00 BOYS' SUIT PRICES CUT IN TWO. | A big stoe k of Ladies' sind Men's Raincoats at a big re- duction. Also a Big Line TRUNKS & SUIT CASES. 'OF GERMAN SUBARINE ATTACK. (Continued from Page 1.) Ontario passengers an the Lusitania and many members| of the erew were Ontario wen. The Turner, Anderson as his assistant. British reservists going bac yesentatives of many deal in war materials. Lusitania was commanded by Roval Naval Reserve, and Staff-Captain J. C.|more because of the inrozds of Amer- Captain' On board were*a number of k to join the colors and rep-| American and Canadian firms who @ Flotilla After the Submarine. (Special to the Whig.) London, May 7.--The ( ierinan submarine which tor- pedoed the Cunard line steamer Lusitania is believed to the same which Centurion and. Candidate. he vesterd: the sent a wv sank two freighters, The Admiralty has flotilla of fast destroyers to search for the under-sea+boat. em. HELMETS OF WOOL, Dr, Haldane Visits Front to Consider Protection. London, May 7. ernment has sent Dr, dane, John Scott Hal- experiment with methods for teracting the by the Germans considering supplying - the with woollen helmets containing eot ton saturated with neutralizing chemicals and fitted "with talc win- dows. Dr. Haldane is the scientist who previously visited France and reported on the effects of gas poison on Canadian victims. Fob bd bbb bbb bbb bbb bb bib be * + * AUSTRALIA'S OFFER * + -- + + * J] coun + Sydney, Australia, May 7.-- The details of the operations of the Allies against the Darda- 4 nelles have been received with + | enthusiasm. Recruiting shows 4 no sign of diminution. Premier Fisher, replying to the question whether in view of | the fighting the Commonwealth % | number of men to the fromt, 4 said to-day: "Our offer is un- 4 limited, * We shall train and + equip men to the best of our & ability and provide means for & getting them Hpeeiily to the # front." EEE PERRET + . + FRPP F PPP R ebb PRR ob EPO NR EI British Commons Defers Action On Liquor Taxes London, May 7.--The determindd | opposition of the Irish Nationalists and the Independent Irish National: ists, who joined the forces yesterday to eppose the new liquor taxes ol David Lloyd-George, chancellor of the exchequer, forced. the Govern- ment to postpone until next week the second reading of the bill embodying the chancellor's plan. Mr. Lloyd-George announced that | his negotiations with the lhiguor in- terests were making good progress {and that he hoped an arrangement satisfactory to all parties would be reachied within twenty-four hours. Cheese Markets, Alexandria, May .6---At the open- ing meeting to-night of the Alexan { dria €heese Board, 116 white cheese were boarded and sold at 17 7-8c. Brockville, May 6---At to-day's | cheese board, the offerings totalled 3,092 boxes, of which 1,740 were col ored and 1,352 white. The sales were $02 colored 'and 580 white at 17 5-8e¢ Hill 6.--There V ankleek May i Barnet LIPMAN, :+: 113 boxes colored and 420 box- 107 Princess Street. The UU _a-Date Clothing and Gents Furnishing Store. | day, all selling at 17 qd. es white cheesé boarded and sold on da white Hill € Board here to- Five buyers were present, Choose Your Sut To Morrow | From These in Our Store At $6.90 you can seleet from 75 exeeptional Business Suits for Men, cut from English Tweeds, in small striped pattern& 'of gray or brown, and lined. with mohair. for #10, $10.50 and $12. Sizes 34 to 44 and regularly selling Saturday for .......$6.90 'Boys' Heed Suits, regularly $5, $5. 50 and $6. Saturday TEA eee ee Er as ts ssa rar ane Nor pl and donble-breasted: 'styles, with full cut bloomers, made from English Tweeds, in grays and browns, twilled linings; sizes 27 to 34. Saturday, $3.76 ARAMA 100 P, A double texture faw TTA RAINCOATS FOR N $5. n_paramatta cloth, full length, Ere and Raglan shoulders; sizes 34 to uM "ese AND $5.50 50 TROUSERS AT $15 Made from good quality English warsteds and $1.50 Tweed trousering; sizes 32 to 44. BOYS' AND MEN'S FINE to 14. SN Ys. Men' Cambric Shirts, Boys' Cambric Shirts, laundered cuffs; eg hE saa coat fronts, assorted colors and stripes; voke and laundered cuffs; sizes 14 and 16 1-2. Saturda BOOTS BE a Ladies' 'patent and gun inetal Boots, Tage 4 or but- ton, colored or black cloth tops; reg: $5. guetal, cloth top Boots, Men's t., $3.75 cut: The British Gov- the expert on gases in mines and similar subjects; to the front to asphyxiating gases used The Government is troops "dered to chise! intended sending an increased *| FIRST ONE CENT PAPER, (A. H. St. Germain Made Experiment In Toronto In the 'Seventies, When Architect E. J. Lennox ¢un- ningly incorporated in the earved consuls supporting the eaves of the Toronto City Hall building the letters spelling out his own name, for an aeroplanic-citizen futurity te admire, he was only following an old-established local precedent, says The Toronto Star Weekly. The one day's furore which knowledge 'of that fact caused, some years ago, was but the taxpayers' remonstrance against , any possible idea on the architect's part that he owned this flourishing | burg and its costly municipal build- {ings in fee simple. Indignation died away before it came to a pass where the - architect was peremptorily or- out the offending alphabetical memorial in stone. In the earlier days of the éity it was a general. practice for an individual when he erected a building or a ter- race of houses, duly to set up in a | 3 | fouspiediue position a tablet record- | the owners' name and very often + the date of construction. It was a | harmless sort of self-glorifying whim | that offended no one, duse every builder did it. There is a most interesting exam- ple of the crstom which users of the Belt Line will have probably noticed on the north side of Bloor street, a short distance westerly from Yonge, There stands the long brick row built in the late sixties by Alfred H. St. Germain and known to the neigh- borhood as the St. Germain terrace, fsem the stone inscription in the centre of the row. It is prominent enough to be easily-discernablc even at night time from across the street, It reads: 'The A. H. St, Germain Buildings. Erected 1865." The fact is that A. H. St. Germain erected both of the strikingly similar rows. He builded well. As any of the oe- cupants, either on Bloor or Victoria strdots, will tell you, there is not a tremble or a shake to any floor in the house, But Alfred H. St. Germain has another--a totally different but what should be an outstandirg---claim on Toronto's memory than these twin terraces, upstanding and comfortable as the day completed, practically half a century back. Toronto was indebted to him for being the first to publish & one-cent daily newspaper, nct only in the city, put in Canada. A. H. St. Germain was born at King- ston, Ont., in 1827. He was the son of Hyacinthe Le Mcre St. The latter waa a lineal descendant of Rudolph St. Germain, companion of Jacques Cartier in the discovery and exploration. eof the Canadas. All of Mr. St. Germain's tenae. Before leaving there, in 1849, having embraced journalism, he was one of the proprietors of the King- | ston Herald, one of the oldest papers in the colony. The California gold | fev.*, which was raging at the (ime, attracted him from the editorial vhair; but, after tempting fortune returned to Canada in the seventies, and taking up his residence in To- the Toronto Evening Journal -- the first one-cent daily. A. H. S'. Ger main's - connection with th&® news- paper publishing business came to a close in 1882, when he retired to a | city limits--where he restfully lived out thé balance of his busy, useful allotted span. At property, as St. Germain Park, pass- 4 ea into the hands of the subdivider. Robbed Canadians. ols, restaurants, and boarding houses ean practically command any price | el like for the requirements of the | boys in kliaki, says London Tit-Bits. Readers will doubtless remember | the scandals which arose when the Canadians first came to England; and | | who were shamefully fleeced as a re- | ward for their patriotic services by tage of the colonials' 'ignorance of money values here to charge them | all sorts of prices for food and drink. A few grocers, tobacconists, and fruiterers, to their shame be it said, bave made Canadian troepers pay 50 and 100 per cent over usual prices for their purchases. It was not long, however, before the Canadians learnt | the correct prices, and the real value | of our money, an' it is some satisfac- ! tion to know that in a number of cases shopkeepers who have since en- to fleece them bave had J ; the Mayor Wallace, Hamilton, charged the Ontario Government with' un- patriotic evasion of the "war stamp." Mrs. George Andrews, Aylmer, Ont., died shortly after eating of pat- snips that had sprouted. 'The two-year-old son of George S. Morris, Fulton avenue, Toronto, was drowned in a cesspool. Four supernumerary officers are to ga 1a England with Canadian In: ry battalions. pore aie proclamation 'prohibits eatry into reat Britain of Bel- WwW. T.; Germain. | who was a | early life was spent under the sha- | dow of the guns of old Fort Fron-' on the Pacific coast for a period, he | ronto, commenced the publication of | his death the " So many soldiers are ir training in | tain at the present time that ho- | | wmscrupulous people' who took advan- | WHY R.N.W.M.P. WAS FORMED. | Government W ished to Resist Inroads | of Traders From U. 8S, Maj.-Gen. S. B. Steele, in his re- | cently issued Remipiscences, outlines | the reasons for the formation of the | Northwest Mounted Police as being not-only fear of Indian uprisings, but Noriawest {ican fur traders from the Western States, who were debauching the Canadian Indians with whiskey. In fact, the first "mavch" of the | N.W:M.P. in 1874-5, a march that | extended from Fort Garry to the Rockies, was designed to clean up | by raids the palisaded comps of these traders. "Between Buffalo Lake and Hand Hills vast numbers of buffalo covered the country, Whéh a white man went out for a supply of fresh meat he usvally killed enough to pro- vision a whole settlement or a regi- ment of soldiers. The most success- ful "of the hali-breed hunters was | Abraham Salois, who killed 600 buf- falo in one year. In one run, thirty- seven fell to his rifle." Gen. Steele, as head of a batracks in the NNW.M.P., had the jurisdiction of a magistrate, and dealings with the Indians, in allctting them lgnd reserves, paying pensions, and givihg | tBem messages from the Queen Moth- er, Queen Victoria, bad their humor- ous side. For instange,- -in signing | treaties with the Indians, official gar- ments were presented to them. The uniform of the chiefs was a scarlet frock coat traided with gold lace, and a top hat of felt with a | gold band. The head men were giv- en blue frock coats with gold lace, | | with hats similar to the chiefs. medals were very large, with the | Queen's head and suitable inscrip- | tion thereon. | The following is interesting as the { origin of Moose Jaw: "We were at.Moose Jaw Creek, or as they called it, Moose Jaw Bone, the Cree name being 'The place where the white man mended the cart with the moose jawbone.' The reason was that the Earl of Mulgrave, then an officer in the Guards, who was on a buffalo hunting trip, spliced the bro- Ken felloe of ono of his carts with a moose jawbone." "In 1882, on a trip east, Gen. Steele, passed through Winnipeg dur- ing the land boom of that year. "In Winnipeg, lots were selling at, for that time, fabulous prices, and any quarter-sectioa im Manitoba, if subdivided into town lots would rea- lize a handsome fortune for the own- er. People were ready to buy any- thing. The hotels did a roaring trade, and the bars made profits of . hundreds of dollars a day." Gen. Steele headed a -party of N.W.M.P. and scouts in pursuit of the Indians who perpetrated the Frog Lake 'massacre. His story of the -Riel Rebellion of 1885, of the Klondyke rush and of kis adventures in Africa are interesting doeuments. Scots Interested In 48th. | Under the caption "Highland Mili- | tary News," the Obar Times of} March 20th publishes the following: | "The people of Islay have a particufar | interest in the 48th Canadian High-| | landers, since its popular comman- | | der, Col. J. A. Currie, M.P., claims | | a close ancestral connection with the 'green, grassy isle." This gallant regi- ment was organized in 1891, when Col. Currie, as a thorough going Gaelic Highlander, proved a tower of strength in the then somewhat diffi- cult task of procuring from the Gov- ernment the extra grant required to | equip the corps. Since those days Highland sentiment bas extended | much further west than Toronto. ! "In a letter to Mr. Neil Muckin- non; a native of Colonsay, and a former color-sergeant, now in Wales, Col. Currio states that when the war | broke out there were 900 men on the | strength and they all wanted to go | to the front. 'Further recruiting was | easy, and, leaving a large contingent at home, over 1,000 rank and file {and officers were brought to this | country. [ "The fine physique of the regiment may be judged from the fact that no fewer than 800 men measure five feet eight inches in height. In 1913 the 48th carried off the King's Prize for shooting at Bisley and had four men in the twenty from Canasaa i "The service uniform and equip- ment of the first battalion cost $35;- { 000 and this was provided voluatar- | ily, without drawing from the Cana- | dian Government. Plant To Treat Molybdenite. A plant for treating melybdenite ores has beeu established at Sydney, C.B.,, and a first shipment of 100 . tons of metal is to be sent to England | soon, t The principal supplies of molybde- | num have heretofore come from German sources and the cutting off! of these supplies has caused consid- erable embarrassment ir England. i The metal is used in the manufacture | of special steels, having the quality | | of increasing greatly the tensile | strength of steel when added to it. The mining of molybdenite is be- coming an im ortant industry. Molyb- | | denite is used for a variety of puk-| poses, but its principal value is in the manufacture of shafts, guns, and} boilers, Yonge street farm of 185 acres-- | then three and a half miles from the | Labor Men at Front. f Returns to the Dominion Labor Department show that up to the first: of the year 3,498 men belonging to. local trade unions throughout Canada | had enlisted for war service, and, in| addition, 417 British army reserv-| ists, making 4 total of 3,915 Cana-! dian trade unionists. "The iidine trades were first with 1,249 men; railway brotherhoods next with 49. | Toronto headed the list with 579, couver 222. © Cost of Moving Rises. The cost of living in Canada con- | tinues to rise. The Labor Department | Index. number of rose nearly two points during March as compared with February. The in- | dex number in March was eight points' higher than in March, 1914, Among new names of wounded i are: Lance-Corpl B. G, Slater, Ren- | frew: John A. Rogers, Wolfe Is<| Biwi. uli: 20 Senor A gs; A. ndfo ile, ",} ---- the The Ji ns - YOU , PAY LESS HERE {3% MENDELS | Hou MONEY SAVING SPECIALS FOR Saturday and Monday 1-3 0ff Spring Suits and Coats 1-3 Off Take your choice of any Suit or Coat in the store Saturday and Monday and save one-third of the price. nig st 1s garments--no two alike -- ~ all sizes. 353% Discount 250 Ladies' & Misses' Ser © Dresses 250 at $4.49 Eac Fine all-wool French Serges-- latest one-piece spri shades, Tan, Navy, Wine, Green, Belgian Blue, Cope from 16 years to 46 bust measure--good valjie regu Your choice to clear 98¢c 15 Pairs New Model Corsets 75 98c American Model and P. C. makes--balance of odd lines. clear i in a hurry -- regular values $1.50 to $3.50. One price, $1.98 Agothar Big $1.98 inne va | Millinery Bargain | rome We have just secured another small lot of 50 Nr Cy Hats, new blocks--all the late shades in Tagles, Milans, Chips, etc. Shapes 1 98 alone in this lot worth up to $5--while they last, your choice to clear $ . Children's Hats in endless variety priced from -~ The Suit |. House [The Coat Coat| House all the Al sizes styles; en and Black. We wish to NEW ARRIVALS THIS WEEK: Boys' New York Wash Suits, Chil- dren's New York Dresses, Girls', Misses' and Ladies' Summer Dresses -all kinds. New Neckwear, New Whitewear, New Hosiery FOR THE VERY LATEST IDEAS IN LADIES' READY-TO-WEAR -- TRY US. == MEND To Windows. Windows KINGSTON'S ONLY EXCLUSIVE LADIES' READY-TO-WEAR STORE 132-134 Pyimncess St. Phone 682. T. J. O'Connor, Manager. Union Securities . FARM, 500 ACRES, Good Buildings, $1,000. W. h. Godwin & Son. Real Estate and Insurance. Phone 434 - « 39 Brock St, Manager Wanted Financial house reqdifes Manager for Kingston, to agents, and supervise selling of securities. proposition for a qualified man, district, , Apply to: appoing, We have an excellent who must be well known in his and have good connections--must be responsible party. Limited 136 8t. Janies Street, Montreal. | Winnipeg 402, Montreal 289, Yan: wholesale prices) Saturday and Monday WE OFFER YOU THREE BIG BARGAINS WHICH WE HAVE JUST SECURED FROM A WELL KNOWN MANUFACTURER. wit 30 Men's Blue Serge Suits ; Regular $12.00 values -- on sale rir' and Monday or ........~ PAS EI L tars Acres Essen 25 Men's Dirk Brown Tweed Suits Regular $10.00, and good value at that--Qn Sale here Satur- day and Monday at .................... aha 35 "30 Boys' Tweed and Worsted Suits Plain D.B. Coats, bloomer pants--regular $9.00 and $10.00-- Ou Sale here Saturday at RONEY & C0, 12 hh 4 fess esses anne $5 S St sh aE an "esen an YvYYYYYY