Daily British Whig (1850), 30 Sep 1915, p. 3

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POSTERS SALE BILLS DODGERS CLOSEST PRICES 1" BRITISH WHIG a | Students Attention Is called to our fine assortment "Swan Pens The English made pen--noth- ing better on the market. A Dollar Pen We have had a special pen made foi us to sell at one dol- lar----good value at $2. Every one guaranteed. Repairs on all makes of pens, The Popular Drug Store. Open Sundays, EYE GLASSES The kind you want--the kind most everybody wants MODEL glasses scientifically ground. ODEL adjustment insuring perfect comfort, MODEL shapes that add dig- nity. to the face. MODEL clips that don't slide, tilt or hurt the nose. ODEL methods lowes: prices, KEELEY Jr., M. 0. D. 0 OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN 226 Princess Street 3 doors above the Opera House insuring i | Give the Man a Chance | World of truth into a word capstle. : . A man in ill-fitting 1. vardiet of not guilty, ill travelled | ory capacity." " MAKER 1S * ACQUITTED OF CHARGE OF INCITING TO COM- MIT A CRIME. Evidence Conflicting and Jury Found. | Napanee Merchant Not Guilty. --~ BE An Automobile Case Heard by Jus. tice Middleton, Napanee, Sept At yesterday's i sessions of the criminal court the {case of M. Maker, charged with in- citing to commit a trime, ocoupied the attention of the court nearly all day. A number of witnesses were examined and much conflicting evi dence was given The jury was out only a short time and brought in a Justice Mid- ldleton thereupon discharged accused! from custody A' civil case brought by C. A An-| derson & Son against R. Sproule aid others was decided in favor of plain- tiffs fOr the amount claimed, $5 and | This case arouse out of auto- mobile deal. Defendant hired a car from plaintiff to go te a certain place and when it was returned to the gar- the speedometer showed that a greater number of miles had been than agreed upon. Judg- ment was given for the difference be- tween {he amount,agreed on, and the distance actually travelled It has been officially announced | that a company of. sgldiers will be quartered in Napanee Arniouries for the winter. A good deal of work is necessary on the building before it will be ready. Herbert Asselstine had the misfor tune to fall off his brother's barn while helping to make repairs and received a bad shaking up. { A number of farmers are busy drawing in onions to ship away. Mrs. T. V. Anderson has returned home after a three months' trip to the Pacific coast and 'Western States Pte. A. Laughlin, a Napanee boy with the 39th Battalion at-Shorn- cliffe Camp, England, has been trans- ferred to the signallers of the 13th Highlanders ' 30 cosets age RIDER by SIR Appointed ment to visi Australia settling the PRINCE EDWARD _ 'PATRIOIIC FUND (Continued from Page 1.) HAGGARD. thé British Govern- ada, th Africa g NOW IS THE TIME. For the Temperance People To Act In Matter. Whig.) What is the attitude of the towards the deputation from the Dominion Alliance which recently appeared before it asking for the prohibition of the retail sale of liquor during the war? Some| "In the case of women with child- people seem to think the reply of| ren, the Committee gave the matter the Government was satisfactory. The | very careful consideration. They Premier said that the question of the took into consideration the cost of liquor traffic had been a matter of | living in Prince Edward County and absorbing attention to him and his! decided that the sum of $40 per Government for the last six months. | month would be sufficient to keep "We will earnestly strive," said the any ordinary family in Prince Ed Premier, 'to reach the wisest and | wand County in comfort. In faet best conclusion. The License Com- we know of many families who are ntission, in addition to the exercise being brought up in comfort on a of its executive function, is now en- | wage of $9 to $10 per week. Now quiring into the whole question and | this is the amount that is being paid will, no doubt, make suggestions to to the party you mention. Mrs. M the Government and act in #g advis- | H. Selley, $20 per month from the Patriotic Fund and $20 per month Those who are not satisfied with | separation allowance. In addition this statement say that not only is {to this she receives a certain pro- | to rt 'kiers in th terminat'on of the (Special to the Toronto, Sept. 30 significance of the Government § | is very indefinite, whereas the depu- portion of her husband's pay, but {tation asked for a specific object; this is an amount which concerns the but the effect of the Government's man himself and is not considered | | reply may bé in the nature of a se- | by the Patriotic Committee in mak- dative to allow the Government still | ing their allotment." further delay in the matter and | Some of the Funds are administer- which will help to keep the people { their "bit" | Allies. | for Canada. more arrive. | sober and very e '| old country, | in the morning. | served at Valcartier. | tal in the dull throbbing strains; and contented in the meantime even with { out action. The view which seems to be most reasonable for temperance peaple is | that while they are pleased that the Government's reply is fo yabio as far as it goes, in that it affifms their concern for the question, the real les- son from the incident 18 that now is the time for public opinion against the liquor traffic to be alert, to or- ganize - and to present its strongly to the Government while they are in a mood perhaps to listen ta it. INDIANS FACE STARVATION Thousands Of Miles Of Forest Being In Fiames. Prince Albert, Sask., ffept. 30.- That starvation is confronting pretty | $20 is the most they will give to any| ing them 6 Lhe owners, {| well the whole of the Indians in the | one family. This was the point which | declared himself a civil servant, » "1 north, and that thousands of square miles of forest are in flames, is the report brought into the city yester: | ed under the auspices of the Cand- | dian Patriotic: Fund. This 'is the] {plan Kingston has followed. Other | Funds again are totally independent, | such as that in Lennox and Adding | ton. When, therefore, Col. Adams | wrote that "the matter of allowances from the Patriotic Fund is some thing over which the Government! have no control, it being left entire-| | ly to the local committee,' the Whig | naturahy infegred that this .Fund claim | mugt be an independent one, or oth-| Of appeal. erwise Col. Adams would not write] | as he did, It appears, however, | that the Prince Edward Fund ise part of the National Organization. | Now, under.the rules laid down by | | the Natiofial Committee, what should | | Mrs. Selley and her seven children, | { all under fourteen years of age, re-| | eéive per month? Col: Adams says| | the Whig eriticized and which it | maintains it was justified in criticiz ing. | and the special constabulary | day by William McKay, Dr, Stuart | Mrs. Selley should be in receipt Reid and Habry' Holroyde, three of [of $66 a month, which sum would | MONTENEGRINS IN CAMP, | ; Two Thousand at Three Rivers Form an Interesting Corps. Seme two thousand Montenegrins are now gathered at the militia camp at Three Rivers, the camp that in other and less turbulent years was the training ground for the militia regiments of the district. From every part of Canada and the United | States they have come to be organ- ized here before being transported to the Balkans. where they will do for the cause of the Few of them are in uniform. The majority wear the clothes of the lab- orer, the clothes in which they built | the grades, bored the tunnels, laid One day their Prince sent | It rang half-way round | the world. Tools were laid aside and | in small parties they boarded trains Each day, almost, sees Thousands are expect- ed to be mobilized. { Major Piche, who is'in charge of | | the sidewalks, dug the sewers or till- | Ji | ed the soil in every part of the con- | tinent. | out a call. the camp, has nothing but praise for |}! the men. He sta Ss that they dre nest work. - There are exceptions, as there are in every large crowd of | men, but for the most part they re- | | cognize that they are under disclp- line, and as they have all had train- ing under the military system of the they ' understand what this means. The camp, however, is not run on the lines of a Montenegrin training . ground. The British system has been put into force, and, in a general way, it is the same, Reveille sounds at five For breakfast the men receive the same food that is Only two hours are spent in drilling each day. regulations in the British Infantry | Manual are followed, and the drill is | more to keep the men in condition than to teach them. They know their own drill in all its details. A few of them are in, wearicg grey tunies, grey trousers, a | tasselled red cap, and a red shirt. | The tunic can be fastened over , one | | shoulder with a tape of braid, and | { when the men parade in this fashion | the effect is picturesque. It might be a scene from 'The Merry Widow." | Cleanliness is emphasized, and the men are continually washing their | clothing. Then they have games, na- | tive games, some of them not unlike quoits. The religious side is not ne- glected. The Rev. Agapios Golam, of the St. Nicholas Syrian Greek Ortho- i dox Cathedral of Canada, which is in | Montreal, is the chaplain. Mass is | said every Sunday. A detachment of the Canadian Army Service Corps looks after the | supplies, but all other duties, suéh as guards and fatigues are done by the | Montenegrins. The force is divided into detachments of about 100 men, | who 'were commanded by non-com- | missioned officers with the army in | Montenegro. Night falls and throuhgout the camp the men gather in smail groups. Then from these groups there comes the sound of song. . It is strange music, the old folk songs of the mountains, songs that have been handed down from generation to gen- eration, that have never been printed on paper. Thefe is something Orien- at times the voices rise to what is al- The final number is al- ways the same. It is short. It is weird. It is the war chant of the race, most a wail, A Canadian's Appeal. A recruiting meeting for a London battalion in 'Trafalgar Square this morning was addressed by a Cana- dian sergeant, who adopt. a direct personal rather than a general style. "What's that chap doing over there?" demanded the speaker, in- dicating a man in the crowd. The individual thus singled out produced a certificate of rejection. A 'good dozen of similar certificates were handed up in the ¢ourse of the next quarter of an hour, the sergeant close scanning them before reiurn One man | tell you, there's a whole lot of young men have joined the civil service since the war started," was the sérgeant's comment. This style of recruiting about their | d The | {i niforms, | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 1915. PAGE THREE Probs.: Fine anda little wrmer most of Friday. Our Great Fare-Refunding and Mail Crder Comparison Closes Saturday ! Just two days left of this wonderful value- giving event. Unexcelled values in the highest 'quality merchandise throughout the store. See our windows and watch for to-morrow's "Adv." Tomorrow--Bargains in nens, Sheetings, Cottons, Hosiery, Un- derwear, Corsets, Blankets, Com- forters, Silks, Coating, Wool "Sweaters Suits and Coats STEACY'S "The Woman's Store of Kingston." DAVIES Dainty Pork Sausage, "Home Made. KINGSTON THE CITY OF NOW" - J vale (aradian (ty est University avd Ochools, est ilitary Aeademy: * J Lbs. for 25¢ (SPECIAL) NEW ENGLAND, 15c Little Pig, 18c The Wm. 'Davies' Co. Limited. Phone 597. i Sind are Daily, 45 Flcres of, orcest Summer nest Kishin « Or the St fawrence Kjver ntario, Xearsions through 1000 Solaris, => SB Wiles of Kesort-- g Grounds, Io ter Front: eaatifal Sark, oolest- Place in (4 nada, cellent-Sites for C Factories, n the members of the which left here on June 11th. The party, visited Isle A. la Crosse, Lac la Lioche, Stanley, Lac du Brochet. treaty party | be made up as follows: From Patriotic Fund, ........ $31} Sepdration Allowance 20] | Assigned Pay 15} \ mize | otal. ary ek $66. { - It is compulsory that an amount | of $15 be assigned from the sol- dier's pay for the support of his wife fgmily, and if the Govern-| ment has-not yet distributed this afforded considerable diversion, espe- cially to those obviously unfit for military service, who consequently were not called upon publicly to give an account of themselves in the mid- dle of Trafalgar Square at noon day, Returned Via the Trenches. | Here is a mystery for Sherlock | Holmes. A pumber of snaphhots | G. E. MARRISON, Photographer, Heal all round Gityr © (Successor to Mrs. M. Henderson) AAA A A A Ay HIGH CLASS POR- TRAITS AT NIGHT Our powerful new 8.000 c p. Nitrogen Magda Lighting Sys- tem enables us to give you first class service at night or dark days. eg Office Hourn: 8.00 a.m-¢ we CALI each Saturday. UP KINGSTON Keep in mind the "Community Build: * er" cartoons and articles which Pr ppear clothes is like a badly pom; 7.00 Sat hound hymn book, be- 3 Pm~9.00 pm. Wed. and " amount it will soon begin to dv seo. Were lost on a King street car late A oD me Wed, snd Sat. | The $20 separation allowance is sent last fall, and yesterday they were re- g. Bing. PY | direct from the General Fund. The turned to the owner, bearing the in- 0) tween the covers, the very best, no doubt, but you don't feel like pick- ing him ap. Then you have the whole philosophy of cor- rect dress. Again we say, give the man a chance. Buy the best. What liné equals 20th Century and Fashion Craft 3 We know of none. Prices as reasonable as good clothes sold for. EP. Joins | ~~ CLOTHING Co. can be | men literature." balance of $31 would be distributed! under the auspices of the Iqcal or-| ganization : In the present instance, Mrs.' Sel-| ley should receive $10 per month herself, and $3 a month for each of] _ her seven children, which gives the| total of $31 a nionth, as mentioned above. i i Undeniably, there are small towns and rural localities in which the cost ofuiving is much lower than in Tor- onto, Montreal or Kingston, and it| would be reasonable to suppose that] the rate of pay would be ower in| proportion, However, it does not! feem right to the Whig to expect that! woman and seven small children can live comfortably on $20 a month, | | provided this is all she receives. i As the secretary of the Prince Ed-| ward County Fund ints: out, the, county has done well toward the; Fun The County Coungil voted! to grant $500 per month for twenty! | four months, and the council of the! village of Wellington gave a grand, {of $1,900. In addition to these amounts, there 'has been raised by! private subscription throughout the county upwards of $7,000." In the Canadian friotic Fuad Report for] the period ending March 31st last,! this complimentary reference is] e: . "Counties desiring to perfect mo-| dern organizations are 'advised Ao write to the secretary of the Prince All officers of the British army now tht pos 4a Edward County Branch for speci- | in-Chief of the Italian navy, will un- scription: "Found in a dugout some- where in Franee on July 26." There were absolutely no markings on the pictures whereby the finder of them in Toronto could identify them. Some soldier, perhaps, without many friends 'ih Canada, not knowifig the owner of the pictures, took them with him, so that he would not forget To- ronto, and could show to other sol- diers pictures of some of Toronto's pretty girls. . Waile investigating this. vacated dugout, Private Charles Marshall, who was employed previous to enlist- ing with Mr. Thos. Dale, 21 Alham- bra avenue, found the little group of pictures and recognized the phboto- graph of his former employer's daughter on them. He immediately mailed them to Mr. Dale. Advertising New Ontario, , Northern Ontario is being adver: tised as a home for settlers, offering desirable advantages. The Ontario Lands, Forests, and Mines Depart- ment, under. Hop. Howard | fuson, has in circulation a vast quantity of leaflets, presenting the inducements for settlement, dnd these wil! be dis- tributed all over throudh suitable by is, ificluding the immig offices in London. . vd -- The Duke of the Abrusel, Admiral . personally Sir Charles Cheers Wakefield was Phone 1318. #8 PRINCESS ST, a WAR BULLETINS. ---- : Fighting ' is. being continued with the greatest fury by the British and French. German lines broken through in some sectors, but are holding strong in others. 2 ~ Official reports confirmed the fact that no position won by the Allies has heen retaken by the Germans. > The Italians are again active. The Austrians have been forced back towards Tolmino. Riots in Moscow have heen suppressed, with five persdns killed. ; i 'Germans are pounding at Russian defences from Riga to Galicia, but are being held back at every point. PIPER PRBEP PPP POPE II RP RIP PID PPPPLPENGISE LPP Pe Bb dtp | See Our | CHARM CEYLO) pe N TEAS 40c, 50c,' 60c, Lb. ~ Charnt Coffee, 40c Lb. For Sale at All Grocers. i a tt AAA AS Boys' Solid = / Leather School Boots In Box Calf,:a $3.00, Shoe, for

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