Te : THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1915. PAGE FIVE. | ~==={ TROOPS AT THE CAMP ! grr - ----) KINGSTON'S NEW STORE. ' ; _-- Br : A --eir-- i training as a meniber of the battery Ladies' Exclusive, Instruction is to Commence =: - i Out of the High Rent District. This Week. W. H. Wallace and R. B. Sykes, ------ who have conducted religious meet ings'in the lines for some time past, condueted the services in the Y: M p 59TH FIELD SPORT C. A. tent on Sunday evening. F 2 "ai W. Lillie led in the singing which preceeded the addresses, tillery, as he has had three years' Now in Full Swing Hundreds of Pleased Patrons Saturday. WERE HELD AT THE CAMP ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON The National Council of the Y. M ,C. A. is securing a speaker to give a MC The Veieran Civil Engineer Charles! S°ri€s of addresses in the Y. . | AL tent. Macdonald, Gananoque, Was a Vi: + 1 sitor At the Camp Saturday-- The field kitchen of the 8th C. M. More Recruits Arrive, | R. has proved of great value on its . : y it not with the regi- Every afternoon Lieut.-Col, H. J.| trek and were Davee his the 59th Battalion en! Ment, the men would undoubtedly the parade ground for battalion drill, | Bave had to 50 With seme Sold meals, this sometimes taking up all the af-| It was in Ize a i Hime the regi: ternoon to the exclusion of company | Ment was in Belleville. work To say™~that the battalion | looks and acts splendidly is to put it] Si ~ : mildly. The officers, are pleasantly ville wiles Capt, Jer guson, Day maa. surprised. The companies line keep ter of Lhe 8th C. M. R., appeared on perfect allignment which would do | Saturday afternoon. credit to seasoned troops. Second Week of the Great. "Black Arrow" Shoe Sale ; Starts with a still larger number of Price Thrillers--so it's safe New Arrivals Every day brings something new.--Come and see the new Fall Models.--Get our prices. There was much rejoicing in Belle- to say that A pleasure to show you. practically every shoe wearer in Kingston will get to our store this week. . - Nn \ Major G. H. Gillespie, Major G. L. - pn " . a H. Irwin, 14th. Regiment, has| Starr, Lieut. Ross, Lieut. Stewart Such a Sale offers the cream of our carefully selected summer stocks , ' tegi ) . : ' va . been accepted as a member of the|22d Lieut. Farthing, Army Seryice | 59th Battalion. i Corps, Lieut. H. A. L. Conn, aide to! _- joa, T. D. R. Hemming, accompanied The list of officers for the 32nd; | the 8th Regiment, C .M.-R:; to Betle-| 33rd and 34th overseas batteries js| Ville. being complied by Col. T. D. R. " a 5 Hemming, O.C., 3rd Division, ang| On Friday while at Shannonville | will be submitted to Ottawa immedi-| one of the troopers of the &th C. M. ately for formal approval. R. went in bathing and got into al | ta :;| Water hole some fifteen feet deep. | | Commodore Charles MacDonald. | He was nnable to swim and had gone | | Gananoque, made his annual visit to | 90Wn for the second time, when two Barriefield camp on Saturday renew | Officers ofthe regiment jumped in {Ing his old friends among the offi-|#&nd brought him to the surface. cers. He was escorted around the! ' ets i [ camp by Major P. E. Prideaux, 0.C.,{ A checker tournament will be held | No. 3 Detachment C.0.C. in the Y. M. C. A. tent this evening. | w-- prizes will be given. 1 Pte. J. D. Obereux, 38th Battal- | a bees | ion, has been transferred to the 69th | Prof. Buchanan, Queen's Univer- Battalion. sity, will give a lecture on astron- ee {omy in the Y. M. C. A. tent. Major Williams, 59th Battalion, . =< i i left on Saturday on recruiting duty, Capt. the Rev. W. F. FitzGerald | 5 8 = ve Canadian; Ihe for Lindsay. conducted the services for the sol-| 8 st C y « " : : ~ ssuring Made-in-Canada contracts. ! y a anadian AHpany, ---- diers at Barriefield Camp on Sunday | PHONFS 610 ana 561, Capt. Sauva, 59th Battalion, was | morning, choosing as his text, St.| 8. ROUGHTON, gent, 60 BROCK STREET, Field Officer on Sunday. } Mark XIV 38: "The spirit truly is THE ONLY MADE-IN-CANADA MUTUAL LIFE COMPANY, --- | willing but the flesh is weak." Two recruits arrived on Monday | from Pembroke, for the 59th Battal- At Tete De Pont Barracks. | fon. | Eighteen recruits were breught| 260 PRINCESS ST. -- Opposite Sydenham St. | T. J. O'Connor, Phone 800 Proprietor. --styles that have been the delight of fastidious dressers all season -- at prices that vou'd never believe possible. . But they've gotto gi--and vou reap the benefit--if you act promptly. 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Everything Reduced. - ' =¢}| I. W. Ripton, a second year medi-| on Saturday by B. S. M. Peppiatt. | J { cal student of -Toronto Varsity, is| They are a splendid lot of men who | ' CHARM CEYI ON TE A S | looking after the health of the Sth{ were formerly employed in the post | 1 . | - - [---- Membery in Belleville with the regi-| men. B.S. M. Peppiatt returned on . ie y ment, | Monday evening to Toronto. Letters to the Editor i S k II' 35¢, 40c, 50c, 60c, Lb. W. 8. Featherston, has received | Sergt. Inst. Bramah commenced | . a € 8 | geant of the 59th Battalion, vice, O.{ Biattety on Monday morning. He| . el i Charm Coffee, 40c Lb. R.S. Atkinson who is going over-| has evidently not forgotten anything] rariagions Xe Fobacen, th / | seas with the*draft. of his knowledge of militiary life and |', ? : B. {To the ky | why the Methodist Church objects to I . | Sending troops tebaceco, myself being | efield on Saturday with the 59th | ---- |an old soldier and having sérved Battalion. | --_-- | great amount of it abroad in India, | | Major. A. A. Cameron, Glengarry, fx at Cairo--Where Letters Are To | 48 Well as serving through the South | { senior major df the 59th Battalion, Be Addressed. | African war, also being shut up in 4 reported for duty on Saturday after- | Er : TEE EET City Buildings, | ought to know a 1 e about what very best class of recruits. A num-| 0 Monday morning received a cable soldier requires. 3 ® {ber of band instruments were notic- rom his son, Capt. W. H. Ballan-| | think the thing moetly missed in th 1 5 Mid - ummer | 18 their UgERge | Hospital had arrived at Cairo. Let-|tobacco. He appreciates the oth. | i ters to reach members of the hos- | er comforts sent him, but he feels Regiment, have been seconded to the | Pital corps are 0 be Addressed asilhe heed of tobacco as. much us === -- = EEE 59th Battalion for overseas service. Oxfords, t Trooper Parrington, A AAA A A A A. maar n C.M.R.,, in the absence of Capt. G. E. | office and other offices or as police- the appointment of orderly room ser- | the instruction of recruits for "C"| > F S ] n G | oo ; is proving of great value to. the bat- | Editor): Having read in your paper or a e at A rocers. | James A. Badoun enlisted at Bar- He [QUEEN'S STATIONARY HOSPITAL | twenty-one years in the artillery, a { Ladysmith for four nths, I think | | noon bringing with him forty of the John Ballantyne, ith tyn>, saying that Queen's Stationary and sought after by a soldier is his | F. Abbott and W. Austin, 14th mae g Eso follows: No. 5 Canadian Hospital,| clothing. It is up to the people to | ® i Mediterranean Force, British War Send it to him, -- A SOLDIER Women's Pumps and " IEND. 8th C.M.R., Office, London, England. < Patent, Gun Metal, White Canvas | Regular $4.00, $3.75, $3.50, Now $ 1. ap Reid, > Allan M. 111 Princess Street ~~ '.: | { | | The results of. the sports of the DINING ROOM, PARLOR, DEN AND LIVING ROOM FURNITURE RUGS, CARPETS, LINOLEUMS Your Opportunity to .. Save Money. lock. | | Ter | was admitted to the Field Hospital | on Saturday. 123% Gases in Warfare. S81 | That the Germans were determin- wrt: Sool), Fh Batsalion, Mug ed to break the agreement of the dent at Cataraqui Bridge some time | Hague Codvantion by whish the pow. ago has been discharged from the! General Hospital and is recuperating in the Field Hospital. of all asphyxiating gases is evident records show that Krupps patented Capt. Ferguson, paymaster, Sth bombs some years before the war. C.M.R., paid the men in camp on! The specifications show that it Saturday and left in the afternoon | would throw a 150-pound bomb a for Bellevi i e of 400 yards, causing the ---- | death of everybody within a radius Pte. Noble, 59th Battalion, is in| of 400 feet. in the Field Hospital with an infect-| The use of asphyxiating gases in ed hand . | the form of bombs and other contriv- : | ances 'is really a revival of the an- | cient methods of warfare applied to modern conditions. The . gas | bomb is a modernized Toi pot, -- : which the Chinese have employed The rifle ranges at the camp are, from time immemorial; but whereas in use even on Saturday afternoons. | (pa old Chinese "stink-pot" merely On Saturday a number of staff ser- rendered. men unconscious, poisen- geants took this opportunity to prac- ous gases employed to-day are the tice. . most virulent and irritant of poisons, (and few men recover from the ef- tects after they have inhaled the gas 59th Battalion held on Saturday af-| to any extent. ; ternoon were: ! Boot Race.--Turdel, Collins, Tul-| Part of the 8th C.M.R. had an ex- ercise ride on Saturday morning. Rooster Disturbs Alfred Street Tilting the Bucket--McDougall vicinity of the Collegiate say and Sauve; O'Brien and MacKenzie; the "Michigan" rooster that used to Waddell and Baker. ' | wake me at four am. had nothing Wheel Barrow Race--Ford and OR in that' yicinity. He not only Kemnedy; Mune and Serst. Larney,| ARGH (hem What fons o'clock, but Egg race--Dash Baker, Alley, variety. that will crow Cullock. nary. 3 th it, but is Spring Bayonet--Ford, Wadden, 2 4 ties a or oa od Baker. | 3 a bo Pillow fighting--Knapp, Larney,| mans. Fhe residents pias 8 Geor- Sauve, uted a purse to buy it, { ro ate Race--De Souza, Baker, alive or ead. praterabiy dead. Sack Race--Collins, Sauve, Spoon: | Took. the River Trip. : { Newman Erb, busiress manager i of the Twin City Lire, Minneapolis Tpr. Emerson, 8th C.M.R.; Who and St. Louis, and his secretary, ar- has been in the Field Hospita) for rived im the city in their private car the last week with a sprained ankle, over e Grand rank, Railway Svs. > day. | tem nig r. Brb wen Was duchangey - Saturday | down ihe $ Jawielee on the carly ~ F. Compton, Ottawa, formefly on Morning boat to view scenic wa- a local daily, was at the camp on Sar- - The Pullman urday : tra ers promised to abstain from the use | frcm the fact that their patent office | a gun for throwing poisonous gas | Residents of Alfred street in the | that" BOOKS ON BATTLEFIELD-- | THE BIBLE THE FAVORITE. | Tommy Atkins Prefers Solid Read- ing Matter When He's in the Trenches--Joffre Likes Dickens. | "An army in which every soldier | | reads his Bible and every officer | | reads his Field Service Pocket-Book i | daily, would be the finest army ever | seen," said Sir John French, on one | occasion, and although our brave i lads do not confine temselves en- | tirely to these two books, it is a sig- nificant fact that in the British | | army almost every officer's kit con- | {tains the Field Service Pocket-Book | =a potted resume of military text- | books issued by the. War Office--and | | the Bible is easily the first favorite | | a8 a book for the battlefield. | | It has beeh noticed, too, that! | "Tommy" prefers solid reading rath- | er than the lighter kind. A com- | | mittee of ladies who organiged the | | supply of literature to our soldiers | i have recorded that requests for *'tra- | vels and history, and requests for | some books of a more solid charac- | ter," are being constantly made. Marcus Aurelius is a favorite with {a great many officers; Horace, too, | is fairly common; and, strangely en- | ough collections of English poetry, {such as Palgrave's "Golden Treas. ury" and Quiller-Couch's "Oxford -"" The more exciting type of no- vel and war stories sre taboo, but the more domestic types of story--Ben- net's "Old Wives' Tale," or Jane usten's "Emma," are popular. espeare is not very widely read | ~--perhaps because the Huns seem to have a penchant for him. Admiral Jellicoe is sald to favor the amusing light type of novel, 1 while "General Joffre's Tavorite au. thor is Dickens. Funnily enough, Joffre is not the first famous soldier Who has loved our great novelist: Forster tells a story of how, when Bismarck and Jules side Paris to discuss render, Moltke sat THE BENEFIT OF OUR $1.00 Hat Sale In addition to our big Straw Hat Sale, we of- fer scores of fine $2.50 Soft Felt Hats, broken lines from our Spring and Summer stock, for SEE OUR WINDOWS 300 Odd Window Shades; reg. 30¢ to Se; reduced to 20¢, 30¢ & Phone 90. Yours 3 Cross; give her Rexall Orderlies, as Don't scold the child if she is Save Ine Red Ball from or top end of of RL ae: eS, ae Ste : Oe., ie gar , Mo - = 10e,, 25e, and 'they will send you free a book | of 50 assorted Fruit Jar Labels print- {ed and gummed ready to use. Lan- is put up in 2-1b. and 5-1b. and a graduate ' tie Sugar Qelleg, In 1347, | tastes and 10-1b, and 20 Ib. bags. 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