} | OF QUALITY Made to Special Order {long weeks, and transferred to some | : other place He did not state in his letter where he had gone, but Limited, 149-157 Brock St, Kingston. ~-------- a MARBLE HALL Ice Cream In Bulk or Bricks. Packed and delivered to any part of the city. l GEORGE MASOUD, # | Phone 980. 238 Princess Bt. { | HOT AIR For heating is always good, | but for purpose of speech, "alas," it's just like trying] to digest food, other than 'cooked by gas." Drop a eard to the Office of the Works, Queen Street, or 'phone 197, and have the Gas installed in your home. Light; Heat, Power and Water Depts. C. C. Folger, General Mgr. Sm "TRUTH" EEE To advertise goods that lack the merit which makes the purchaser wish fo repeat his purchase is suicide. Our busi- ness is built on honest goods at honest prices. Crossley's Velvet Rugs Firth's Tapestry Car- | 1 pets Tempelton's Axminsters Narvin's Linoleums over and are sold on the basis of "Satisfaction guaran- Soed or money refund- Ontario. | | There is one mighiy sure thing, that | Pure | which were sent from Kingston. | against a man who gave the name of Are household words the world JJ}'Bay, the Clodagh II. and THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, AUGUS? 2. 1915. -- ---- - THEY ARE HARVESTING CANADIAN PRISONERS OF WAR ARE GATHERING GRAIN They Are Mighty Glad of the Change As the Confinement and Idleness Was Telling Upon Them--Treat- ing Prisoners Fairly Well. An evidence that Germany és hard pressed for men 0 do the work on thre: farms in Germany is shown In the fact that many of the Cwhadian Prisoners-ol-war have been put to work in bringing in the harvest Bryce Davidson, -a*brother of Wil- liam Davidson, Pine street, who went overseas with Capt. George T, lichardson, has written home' stat- ing that he has been taken from the prison where he had spent many letters received in the city . from some of the other Kingston boys | state that they are all working on the farms The. boys are mighty glad of the change and the close confinement | and nothing to do for so long a pe- | riod was commencing to tel] them { From the letters received = the! Germans are evidently treating the | men as well as gan be expected the Canadian prisoners are not re: | ceiving as -good treatment as the Germans are getting at Fort Henry. The Kingston prisoners-of-war state they had received the parcels AT THE POLICE COURT. Mayor Sutherland Was On the Bench On Monday Morning, Magistrate Farrell is 'holidaying, | and Mayor Sutherland presided at the session of the Police Court on! Monday morning Claiming that they had paid for oil paintings, but that crayon work was given them, four very angry wo- men were on hand, to press a charge FEPIPPI IFILL FPP E PIPE PEEP EOD J. Collins. The latter was charged with securing money under false pre- | tences, but pleaded "not guilty" through his counsel, A. B. Cunning ham, and the hearing of the case was fixed for a week from next Saturday, when the magistrate will be on the bench. Daniel McDonald, who claimed To- ronto as his home, was up for being drunk. He was given till noon to head for the Queen City. | William Quinn, although admitt- ing that he was drunk, said he want-| ed to fight for his King and country, | and the acting magistrate told him to "hike® over to Barriefield and | get on a uniform. | UNFIT FOR SERVICE. Private Sherbourne Wilder Pronoun- ced Unfit For Active Service, | Private Sherbourne Wilder, son of | Mr, and Mrs. H. 8. Wilder, Fronten- | ac street who lost an eye in the bat- | tle of Langmarcke, has been nounced unfit for active service, A letter received by his parents on Mon- | day morning states that he appeared | before the Medical Board and was | pronounced unfit for active service! but will be held for home service. It is not known whether he will be! held in England or sent home to Can- | ada, where he would be placed on| one of the home guards. While in| the hospitals in England, Wilder has been given the best treatment. on | pro- | © | Richardson's elevator with { to load oats for Montreal. WAS A FINE TRIP. Saturday's Excursion On the Thous- and Islander. _ The hundreds who attended Sat- urday's excursion on the steamer! Thousand Islander were indeed for-| tunate. The stifling heat of the city | was lost immediately the steamer! left the dock and encountered the | cool breeze from Lake Ontario. Pass- ing down the inside of Howe. Is-| land, through the Admiralty Group of the islands, past Gananoque and thence through the Canadian chan- nel passed Rockport and. returning via the American channel, touching at all the important Thousand Is-| land points one had the satisfaction of feeling that he or she had seen the islands ard seen them right. An ex- cellent musical programme was fur-| nished by the Salemstown Command-| ery Knight Templar Band. Edgar | Glynn, tenor sdloist of the Primrose | & Dockstader's Minstrels, rendered | a number of choice vocal selections) including 'John McCormack and] Chauncey Olcott's big success | "There's a Little Bit Of Heaven, | Shure They Call It Ireland," Moth-| er Macree," 'I Hear You Calling Me," "Somewhere a Voice Is Call-! ing," being encored again and again. | Home was reached sharp at the | stroke of eight. | are AA a) CHEER UP SOLDIER BOYS, i § E. E.' Horsey, local manager #| of the Canada-8teamship Lines, *| received to-day a card from #/| Charles Smith, attached to: Col. +| A. E. Ross' Ambulance Corps in | France This was In response + to a contribution Mr. Horsey # made to the Montreal Gazette | Tobacco Fund some two months + Ago. The WHig is now con- # ducting a similar campaign, and + if the people of Kingston re- % spond with their usual liberal- ity Canadian 'soldiers at the front--ineluding our own King stonians--will be cheered by the receipt of gifts of tobacco and cigarettes, "In each pack- age sent is included a postcard, giving the name of the doner and enabling the soldier who receives it to write his own card of thanks. Thus every con- tributor will have the pleasure of receiving a card from a Can- adian soldier at the front -- something to be treasured as a memento when this war is over. + The cost of packages of to- #+ bacco, ete, is 25¢ for the small- + er size and $1.00 for the larger, + Which are you' going to send? 4 The Whig will acknowledge and # forward free of any charge, ail 4 contributions. * ebb ide IN MARINE OIRCLES. Movements of Vessels Reported Along the Harbor. The steamers Algonquin and Rhodes are at Richardson's elevator discharging oats, from the Welland n + + + + + + L J +| | + +| + + +» + + tree b tee The steamer H. N, Jex arrived at the waterworks wharf from Char. lotte, with coal, The schooner Juliar B. Merrill is loading feldspar at - Richardsons wharf. The schooner Ford River is dis- charging a cargo of feldspar at Charlotte. * The tug Florence has arrived at barges Steamer Mapleton, down 2.30 p.m. | Sunday; steamer Iroquois is expect- Off On an Outing, On Monday 'morning Cornelias Bermingham and a party of sixteen left Kingston for a cruise up the Rideau Canal to Smiths Falls in two handsome yachts from Alexandria Choice. | One yacht carried the ladies and the other the gentlemen. Among the latter were William Mulloy, Pifts- burgh, Pa.; Dr. Frank Bermingham, New York; L. A. Lyman, St Louis, | Missouri, and A. B. Cunningham, Kingston. ---------- First in Four Centuries. In connection with the order for the 38th Battalion to go to Bermu. da, it is declared that this 'will be the first occasion since Bermuda has been a British colony--nearly four centuries ago--that any but a regi- ment of regulars has been detailed for duty on this isiand. During this lengthy period many of the fin- est Imperial regiments of the Brit- ish army have been stationed in Ber. mudd. At the outbreak of the war the Lincoln Regiment was doing duty there. This corps was reliev- ed in September of last year by the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infan- try, the only corps of regular sol. diers in Canada. -------------- Tuesday Afternoon Special' A complete tour of 1000 Islands by Thousind Islander, leaving 2 15 p.m. Fare 50e. | barges Hamilt -andria Bay on |ed up at 10 a.m. Monday, M. T. Co.'s barges: Tugs Hall and Bronson arrived at Lachine with the steamer Oawego in two sections; tug Emerson arrived light, from Port Dalhousie, and.cleared with the and Burma to load coal at Port CoMorne; steamer In- dia is due to pass down to-night from Fort Colborne, with lumber for Que- ec, ROBERT CARR DROWNED, Hit On the Abdomen as He Jumped For Window, A sad drowning occurred at Alex. Sunday morning When the steamer St. Lawrence was leaving the wharf fbf Her ramble among the islands. Robert Carr, deck-hand, aged twenty-six years, bad been up street, and the boat | having moved oat from the whart | Some few feet, he made a jump for one of the open windows, In do- ing so he struck his abdomen forci. bly against the sill and feM back into' the river. He sank and never Prose. The body was recovered at 11.30 p.m. by N. Benson with the aid of grappling hooks. Carr was well known at Alexandria Bay, where he liveq. He is survived by ome sis- er. 1,000,0 to reveal SPIT BALL PITCHERS DID NOT HAVE MUCH EFFECT ON | PONIES The Athletics Were Defeated By Se- | ven To One.--The Scoring Done in | The First Six Innings. The Athletics baseball aggregation staked everything on its new spit-| ball twirler, Blackenbury for meet- ing the Ponies téam in the senior) contest at the Cricket Field on Sat urday afternoon. but many of the | opposing team and spectortors asser;| ted 'he did not have enough fluid,} thereby bringing his team to defeat by the score of 7 to 1. There was not a time during any portion of the game that any exeit- ing plays werd pulled off, All scor- ing was done in the first six innings, the remainder of the game passing over without any further tally being made. Ponies went to the bat first but Athletics obtained the first and only} run in the second innings. Nelson was the successful tallier; he got his base on balls and scored on Crow's hit. The fourth innings started the ball rolling for Ponies. J. Stewart got his bag on a hit and J. Walsh, his on balls, "Teddy" Saunders and Cher- ry went out on fly, to centre and left fielders respectively, but Gallagher came to bat and landed out a two bagger scoring both Stewart and Walsh, The fifth innings was entirely Pon- ies dnd C. Toland, H. Saunders and Walsh seored for them The same tactics were carried to the sixth in- nings when Sleeman and McKay brought Ponies' score up to seven at which it remained for the rest of the contest. Several times Athletics players were caught trying to steal bases, Cotman going to the axe in the fourth and sixth innings. while Spoor was nabbed in the eighth. The line ups: Ponies--Gallagher, p; Sleeman, c; J. Walsh, 1b; T. Saunders, 2b; H. Saunders, 3b; C. Toland, ss; J. Ste- wart, LI; McKay, c.f; Cherry, r.f; Paul took Stewart's position after the third. innings. Athletics--Blackenbury, man, c¢; Kelly, 1b; 8S. Toland, 2b; Horn, 8b; Spoor, s.s.; Nelson, Lf; McDermott, c.f; Crow, r.f, Ponies --000232000----773 Athleties--0.1 000000 0-----136 Umpire--E. Hartriek. There was no junior baseball game Park Nine and Regiopolis -aggrega~ tions were to have put up the bill but the latter defaulted to Park Nine which has won the junior champion- ship having won seven games and lost one. The champions are expected to play exhibition matches at Deseronto and Nepanee in two weeks time, On Sept. 22nd Park Nine baseball aggre gation is to play at the Picton fair. Won Lost The standing of the junior league And when tiey had it Phone 919. p: Cat- is: Park Nine ... Regiopolis .. Sapolios .. .. .. Searchlight Excursion Tuesday, August 3rd, per the fast SS. Thousand Islander. A fifty mile tour of the Admiralty group of the so far away; finished, shure taey called it Ireland, OPEN NIGHTS. New York's Biggest Success "A Little Bit of Heaven ; Shure They Call It Ireland" Sung By Mr. Chauncey Olcott Have you. éver heard the story of how Ireland got its nde? I'll tell you so youll under stand from whence old Ireland came: No wonder that we're proud of that dear. land across the sea, For here's the way me dear-old mother told the tale to me: Shure, a little bit of Heaven fell out the sky one day, And nestled on the ocean in a | * And when the angels found it, shure it looked so sweet and fair, They said, "Suppose we leave it, for It looks so peaceful there;" So they sprinkled it with star dust just to make the shamrocks grow, "Tis the only place you'll find them, no matter where you go: Then they dotled it with silver, to make its lakes so grand, "Fis a dear old land of fairies and of wWénd rons wishing wells, And nowhere else on God's green earth have they such lakes and dells. No wonder that the angels loved its Shamrock-bordered shore, "Tis a little bit of Heaven, dnd I love it more and more. . The College Book Store, Pa TT ee 160 Princess Street. Being Closed Out At Greatly Reduced Prices Wash Dress Goods, Summer Dresses, White Waists, White Skirts, Middy Blouses. ? Thousand Islands, leaving at 7.45 p.m. sharp. ome at 10.30 p.m. Music on beard. Special:. Mr. Ed- gar Glynn, tenor soloist of the Primrose & Dockstader Min- strels will render. a selected pro- gramme of the latest standard and popular songs, accompanied by the Islander's special orchestra, (harp- ist and two violinists.) Fare 35ec. Safe And Well. Mr. and 'Mrs, Robert Sutherland, Princess street, received a seryice card from their som, Pte, "Harry" Sutherland,who is serving in France, stating that he is in the best of health and spirits. Newman Prices to Fit All Purses ey & Shaw 'The Always Busy Store 1000 Islands--Rochester SS. Caspian leaves on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 10.40 a.m. for 1000 Islands (50c), and at 5 p.m. for Rochester, via Bay of Quinte. § Miss Pearl Blythe, Division street, has returned from spending a week's at Loughboro Lake. British mail closes irregular- ly. Information posted at P. O. Lobby from time to time. United States, dally .. 1.00 p.m. Grand Trunk, going ORBLE isseinnininniens 11.50 gen. Do. (includ'ng Eastern States) ceeseeJdL50 am. Grand Trunk, going sesnanncseense. TLIO Sm. | A te Headwear Por Outing or "The Hat Store" ; i west «f olty ........ AM pm. C.P.R. 10.15 am. and 4.30 p.m. GC. N. My wecesnsecvine 220 pm. PTOMAINE POISONING On Sunday afternoon' the boy, here on a visit with his moth- er from Toronto, took fll, and grew unconscious. A hurried a Was ape-1 SEAL YOUR WELL Enjoy pure water--cover it with a concrete top.-- Prevents surface drainage, vermin, dust and dirt reaching the water, and the cost is low. Pree your Concrete from Dglin's properly kept stock---- no hard or eaked sacks; Factory ont IIR: Gemermt Grass Hodks ... .......080 to 50 Savin { i Watche With Expanding Brace- lets. We have withoit 'ex ception the smallest, thinnest, best Wrist Wateh in expanding bracelet for $18.00 that we ever had, a Both wateh and wear- ing qualities of bracelet are fully. guaranteed. Smith Bros., TEWELERS AND OPTICIANS Issuers of Marriage Licenses. REMODELLED Gourdier's Phone 700. Real Estate ! Going At a Sacrifice -- Owner Leaving the City. A solid brick, well bullt dwelling, centrally located, with hot water heating, electric light, gas, B. and C., good cellar and yard. Sacrifice price for ten days to be $3,400 This property is worth $4,000. EW. Malfin and Son HOUSES TO RENT NetRam FIRE cB he.