i SS |: ALLwoOOL BLACK AND NAVY A AND GAVE THEM A TASTE THEIR OWN LEAD. OF Harry Sutherland, Signalling Corps, Second Battalion, Had Some Ex. | citing Experiences -- Many .Fell Dead At His Side. Mr. and" Mrs. Robert Sutherland, Princess street, have received a let- ter from their son, Harry Sutherland, ; Who is with the Signalling Corps of the Secfnd Battalion. He was all through the severe fighting, and says | that he is wondering how he managed if to escape without a scratch. On three occasions he was under very i} | heavy firing, and seen men dropping i}! all around him. ! "It seemed in fact that if 1 had moved an inch to either side I must be hit, but I guess being a Suther- land, I must be billet proof. other occasion I went out with some j other volunteers and helped to bring in the wounded. While we were lift. ing one chap out of a barn, a shrap- nel shell came through the roof and i burst right over our heads. Going |} | across the fields shells were bursting {all around us, but no person was hi. I had a good chance to collect some { German souvenirs, but did not want to have the trouble of carrying them, and they do not allow us to send them home, "1 was talking to "Ken" Mundell the other day. This is the first time I have see: him since we were in | | London last Christmas. 1 also saw H 'Al' and 'Jack' Metcalfe, 'Billy' Smith | {and Bruce Cannon Sherdb: Wilder \ | has been wounded." \ ) The writer also stated that he was probably the only Canadian to uss a | German rifle, which he found. "And | I immediately proceeded to give the | Germans he added. They say we've the Best and Hand- somest Spring Suits in town. And 'They' know. oC Come in and catch a little of the Spring 1 Clothes Fever. oe It's high time you had it. Come, see the splendid suit values we }---- offer you at $15.00 and $18.00. : See them and then Wat them if you can. Jigome in--look--try on--ask questions ~--take all the time you want. Our time is all yours. & taste of their own lead * ! In the Thick of the Fight. Postmaster James Stewart had re- |celved anoiher letter from his son, {| Capt. J. C. Stewart, who has been {in the thick of the fight, but Who has luckily escaped injury. In his letter jhe says that he did not have his | boots off for twelve days, and he ex- | pected that it would be another two | again, im ll] "As you have likely seen by thz {papers the Canadian divisiow had | its chance and made good," he added. { "I went through the whole show. It | was Hell, To try and write about { it Is impossible, The .Germans are | rot civilized. They cannoi play the | Ferme, and we will trim them sure. {J am at the present time living in a { ole dug in the side of a tre.ch, and {8s a result have been at'acked Hy | sand fleas or worse. | "The Canadian boys have certainly | covered i} | they deserve every bit of it. | indeed wonderful. They i} | themselves to be men, every them." ; le writsr refers to the sad doath ia | ® ® 9 Livingston's Brock Street. A Little Out of the Way, But It Will Pay You To Walk It was showed one of Lieut. "Chappy" Gordon, Boron. to. who was B, S. M, at the Royal Military College in 1911 Came Through Without Scratch, ' W. H. Warren, of McKelvey & Birch's, received word to-day that his | son, Eden Warren. and Stanley Small- ll | ridge, Earl street, had gone through | the battle of of Langemarcke with. out a scratch. The card was posted on May 2nd, but was detained at the military post-office until the 6th, and thus its delay. Both young men Are members of the 14th Regiment, ------------ | Later to the Edita Just A War Ruse, Kingston, May 20.-- (To the Edi- tor): "Let us Have peace at home till war ends" In the letter under | this heading in your issue of yes- | | terday,--itself 4 war ruse, its place of appearance and time of issue nice- ly calculated, its purpose manifestly to create an atmosphere before ac- tion--your correspondent, Dr. E. Scott inadvertently flings aloft a light-bomb which reveals the Presby- terlan Church busily engaged in her Synods at her normal work, but a propaganda whose funds are over- owing actively engaged in securing recruits and organizing for war. 'Does the flare Dr. Scott has thrown not also reveal a' Bernstein? By all means let us have peace at home till war ends. Let the Church hav pression and pre- vail. That will is peace, and neith- er civil war nor foreign war.--JOHN MACDOUGALL. Special Sale Saturday, 830 O'clock We have procured from a high class dress manufae- turer, 175 dresses which range .in price from #3 to $5. Made from good quality French Per- caline and Chambray. All sizes and $1 a colors in the lot. Saturday's price ..... dk SERGE DRESSES, nicely made and trimmed with lace collar and euffs; a regular #8 dress. y.. : 84 RAIN COATS English proofed, seams stitched and ecmented, guaranteed to keep out water for six months or money refunded; made in the lat-. est style. This is the balance of a shipment of Coats that sold $9.00 to $14.00, Saturday'sprice........... 00... 0 17 HIGH-CLASS TWEED AUTO COATS, rain proof; eats sold regular $12 to $15. iki | v f LC. A. Boye are | weeks before he would have them ff 'a mselves with glory and ® unbiassed will of | ed otine--suunas, Huns Poisoned o Ji uf THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1915. FOUND GERMAN RIFLE ATTENDING A MEETING Of Grand Lodge Of the 1. O, O. F. At i Sherbrooke, Que, { R. Meek, Secretary-Treasurer of | | the Oddfellows Relief Association re-| {turned to the city on Thursday from ! | Sherbrooke, Que., where he attended {& meeting of the Grand Encampment | of the I. 0. O. F,, which met on Tuesday, and the Grand Lodge which (met on Wednesday. This jurisdie- | tion was represented by Col. Cooper, Deputy Grand Master, Belleville, and alse William Brooks, Grand Secre- | tary of Toronto. Grand Master b. | | M. McIntyre was unable to be pres- | ent owing to urgent business in Otta- | Wa in connection with a specia: meei- {ing of the Railway and Municipal | Board. The visit of the Ontario representa- tives was fraternal, the Relief Asso- ciation being interested particularly { in tire question of providing for Odd- | fellows who have gone or are going | to the front. The Grand Lodge have | Tewksbury, Mass.; John, Marmora, | been | and Henry, Lonsdale. | i | i The Late Mrs. E. Donohue. i On Wednesday Mrs. Edward Dono- | { hue, Read; was brought to the Hotel | { Dieu for treatment, but died goon af. | ter treatment. She was twenty- | three years of age, and born at Lons- | dale. Her maiden name was Anna | { McCullough. A husband and two | | small children survive. he re. | mains were taken to Lonsdale by her | | brather Charles and Undertaker Mc. | | Aulay." The funeral occurs on Fri- | {day from the home of her brother, | Henry McCullough. She is survived | by six brothers: Rev. Fr. W. F., Fort | | William; Rev. Fr. D. P, Nebraska; | {James V., Richtown, Ont.; Charles J., | the Ry ation for the protee-! ------ | tion u soldier members. Sudden Death In Hotel Dieu | tario lodge members have | | tributing voluntarily to a fund a4 1igte)" Pian on mebgoccurred at the | the membership fees are being Paid | ahout 6.30 o'clock when Anna Mel by this means while the members are | Cullough wit f Ed d:. Do Gn jon active service. ih on ar me | | In commenting on' his trip, Mr. lous or Sway after only being | Meek remarked that Sherbrooke is) hg urs on she Institution. The |a mobilization point for large num- | ate Ta, 1 noghue was a resident | | bers of mounted riflemen. These|°! Marysville, Tyendinaga, and was | { saen have offered to go to the fron! | [Moving from that place on Wednes- | | as infantrymen if necessary. | day morning, arriving at the hos-| pital about three o'clock the same | |afternoon. Her ailment was a quite | | critical one but everything possible | War Revenue | was done to save her life. The de- | { {ceased was born at Lonsdale, a few | : 4 { miles from Marysville, twenty-three! 0 ominion | years ago. She was married a couple | * . . {a Roman CathoMc and also a memn- | appointing of the League of the Sacred | art. been con-4 |of years ago. In religion she was He: | To mourn her loss there are a hue- | (Spec'al to the Whig.) | band, one son and one daughter, be. | Ottawa, May 20.--The first returns | ao six brothers, two of the latter | from the new war taxes imposed bY | pein 1 { Hon. W. T. White at last sesston are| Pi"8 Driests. as disappointing. Despite the fact] , oa Thursday morning - at 9.15 {the tariffs had been increased i i o'clock 'the remains were transfer-| per cent. on general and 5 per cent.| [0 to Marysville by Undertaker) on preferential, there is a decrease 7°00 McAuley. A solemn requiem of upwards of half a million in the | Mass will be celebrated at that place! | customs revenue for the month as|DY Rev. Father Mergher on Friday compared with the corresponding| Morice. : month-last-year: Hon. Mr. White} ~~ -- - -- 1 for thé greater part of the RON CAC CHER amount necessary to make up tn. FRONTENAC CHEESE BOARD. | deficit of the thirty millions for the {coming year. This feature of the new taxation is, to say the least, dis- | appointing. From present indica- tions new sources of revenue will have to be resorted to, if the Gov- | ernment intends to continue its pres- ent scale of ordinary expenditures. ---------- * : ' i ITALIAN MIRACLE. * Paris, May 20.--Gabriel + d'Annunszio telegraphs to Paris + friends from Rome: * "This battle is won. I have { 3 | & Just harangued a feverish crowd #| At 18% cents Mr. Thompson se | from the capital. The tocsin ¢ cured the offering of Gilt-Edge, On- + has sounded; cries are risings ¢ | tario, St. Lawrence, Silver Springs | ® towards the world's most beau- | and Thousand Islands. | ® tiful sky. 1 am drunk with ¢ At the same figure Mr. Gibson | Joy. You are going to see an ¢| bought the offering of Arigan, Elm- | ¢ Italian miracle after the French + Grove, Glenvale, Eiginburg, and Col- & miracle." #| lin's Bay. The buyers present were le ' # | Messrs. Murphy, Smith, Gibson, | SP00000404004000000000008 | Thompson and Cleall, | ------------ =. Cheese Sold at 183 Cents at Thurs. | day's Meeting, Cheese went up another notch at the meeting of the Frontenac Cheese Board on Thursday afternoon. There were boarded 205 boxes of white cheese and 146 boxes of colored, and all sold at 18% cents. These fac- tories boarded: + White--Arigan, 36; Ontario, 26; +| Silver Springs, 30; Thousand Is. «| lands, 40; Elginburg, 35; Collins + Bay, 38. + Colored--Elm-Grove, 36; Glen- #| vale, 60; St. Lawrence, 25; Gilt «| Edge, 25. | PHOTOGRAPHS ON ALL PASS. i "PORTS, Government Issues New Order Regu. lating Traveling in Britain. ' London, May 20.--The British! NOT FROM PORTSMOUTH. | No Prisoner Escaped From There Be- tween 1807 and 1914. A Detroit despatch tells of Fred- erick Chipman, a convict, being cap- { tured near there on Wednesday after | Government has decided that the | photograph of every person mention- | suley Ing hres Yan ot frssdom, it Hh 2 Passport Ahugt, abpear on. hey penitentiary and will be taken back regulation when a man is traveling | there 3 Sve out his sentence for {in hin 'name, "with adtlends stating |. PRUIrY at the Portsmouth prison ii | reveals the fact that Chipman dia that, ie fs secompanied | hy t Rite and} escape from there. There were ily. Hereafter, however, under the | 3 Sucesulul 150T0 hol: that in- new British order a Phatagtaph of | y lak each member of a family traveling in | Nurse to ils Sountry must be attathed to Whe, Sas Helen Glasgow, Montreal, Last Saturday several Americans! who has many Kingston friends, with their families had considerable P€iDg a graduate nurse of the Gen- { difficulty owing to the fact that the eral Hospital here, has been appoint. { passport did not have the photo-|©d for overseas military work and graphs of all members of the party | ®*Pects to sail about June 1st. attached to them, Big Boxes ly | CERTAIN TO FIGHT AND WIN. Twenty-two cents. Small, boxes | ----e-- . fifteen cents at Carnovsky's. | Italy's ex-Minister of Marine Has No me | Misgivings, { J. G. Elliott went to Toronto to- { | day to attend a meeting of the direg- p a sia op aamird Beuolo, | Ol, of the Canadian Press Associa- ition. A new manager is to appoint- concerning his impression as to the od, H. B. Donly, Simeoe, Is acting Politics) Situation, yo TA we. shail | president during the illness of Presi undoubtedly fight, and that we are | 'JL WN. }. O'Blerue, Strattord. bsolutely certain to win." | 8 Jury a {of Christian Shoup, Walsingham, placed the blame upon Emerson Shel. ley. : Arnprior's assessment for 1915 is |33400,318, with a population of 4,- Special To-Morrow Morning 53 Pairs LACE CURTAINS Mostly one pair of a kind with a few designs of two pairs. These are all new this spring and among the best selling makes we have had--but where it ccmes to one or two pairs of a pattern we close them out at a tempting price. $1.00 Curtains, for 1.26 Curtains for 1.50 Curtains for 2.00 Curtains for 2.50 Curtains for Just 53 pairs in-all and these we wilt offer to-morrow from 9 to 12 only, ~ NEW CURTAIN SCRIMS Many entirely new things shown for the first time; these are plain grounds and fancy borders and floral borders. NEW CURTAIN NETS. Cream or white, different widths, ranging iu price from 25¢, 35¢, 49¢ and ap. CREAM MADRAS MUSLINS. see Suitable for both long and short curtains, A A terrence ent CRETONNES for Furniture Coverings CRETONNES for Slip Covers CRETONNES for Curtains : CRETONNES for Cushion Covers. Many of these new designs, shown for the first time in Kingston. TABLE OILCLOTHS, in White or Colors; different widths. SHELF OILCLOTHS, a number of new patterns, SHADE BLINDS to fit any window. either with lace or plain. WHITE CURTAIN POLES, small or large. "ee wen | A cA ii, IF A SUBSCRIBER, PLEASE CALL FOR YOUR JUNE DELINEATOR | JohnLaidlaw&Son its 858k : i i! Black Velvet t Pumps; nice for house or strest wear Last we sold these at $3. i '