' THE SPIRIT OF SPRING Does the spirit of spring permeate your bones ? feel like doing things ? Are the Winter Clothes becoming a burden ? The Spring Clothes question is being solved here dailyr--solved well, too, SPRING SUITS $12.00 to $22.00 SPRING TOP COATS $10.00 to $20.00 HATS, HABERDASHERY, ETC. Better Outfitting than ours is not made. Livingston's, Brock Street A little out of the way,but it will pay you to walk Do you and was then in hospital. | ForYourNew Curtains Scriras and Madras Muslins Are this season's popular materials, suit- able for any room in the house and easily laun- dered. We have a very large assortment of all the newest styles. Plain Hemstitched and Fancy Scrims--In - White, Ivory and Ecru, from 15¢ to 75¢c a yd. Plain 8crim--In White and Cream, with colored borders, in pretty designs. 15¢, 20c, 25¢ and 30c a yard. 2 Madras Muslins--All widths, in a great variet of patterns, from Sia 20e 30 60c a Art Muslins for Curtains and Draperies -- A; very large assortment of pretty patterns; 10c to 25¢ a yard. Chintzes--The very newest American Novelties, full yard wide, in a large variety of pat- terns at seeieiens..... 250, 35¢, 40c and 50c ALDRONS BY BEING STRUCK IN THE PACE WITH SHRAPNEL. Lance-Corpl. Gordon. Mucry, Son of Mrs. John Murray, 14 Colborne Street, and Member of the 21st Battalion, Lance-Corpl. Gordon Murray, son of Mrs. John Murry, 14 Colborne street, a member of the 21st Battal- fon, and also an ex-menfber of Kings- ton Fire Department, was struck in the'face with a piece of German shell and 'may lose the sight of his eyes, was the information received in the city on Monday. Mrs. William Murray, Stanley Street, received a letter from her husband, Sergt.<Major W. Murray of the 21st Battalion, stating that his brother Gordon, better known as "But," had been struck in the eyes by a pice of a shell on April 22nd Although at the time of writing he feared that he had lost the sight of his eyes for the presenti he was hoping that the sight would soon return after he received medical treatment in Eng- land. It 'was expected that he would be treated in the hospitals in France for about two weeks and then would be sent to England. Mrs. Murray's two sons served in this same battalion. » Sergt.-Major W. Murray has recently been ap- pointed armourer-sergeant-major, due to the former sergeant-major re- ceiving another appointment. Lance.-Corpl. Murray enlisted with the, 21st Battalion when it was first organized in Kingston, joining No. 1 Company. While serying at the front he has made a name for himself by his excellent work. . Be- fore enlisting he was & member of No. .7 Company, 14th Regiment P. W. O. Rifles, ---------- INCIDENTS OF THE DAY. Local Notes and Iteias Of Genera! Interest, Alexander Smith, Kaslo, B. C., in in the city with friends. Charles Anglin, Wellington street, is in the General Hospital. There were only a few wagons on the market on Tuesday morning. The diamond on the Cricket Field is being put into condition for league games, The summer cars are being reno- vated preparatory to being put in commission. There was a very small market on Tuesday morning. Only about half a dozen producers showed up. Word received in the city on Mon- day states that the 21st Battalion was in the trenches on Easter Mon- . Cunningham, piano tuner 21 King street. Leave orders at McAul- ey"s Book Store, The druggists are opening up their soda fountains in preparation for a big summer business. The water is constantly rising in the harbor. At Swift's it is a little over a foot from the top of the wharf. The county patriotic fund commit- tee met on Saturday and requisition- ed $775 for relief of sixty-one fam- ilies in the county. The prisoners of the jail were busy on Tuesday morning cutting down a tree in front of the Court House which had started to decay House cleaning time. The time ta have your piano tuned. Let our tuner call and put it in first-class condition. C. WwW. Lindsay, Limited. A high mass was said on May 4ti\ by Rev. Father Hanley in St. Mary's for Bernard W. Parson. who was killed in action on April 24th, 1915. One prominent Kingston.' whole- saler purchased twenty tickets for the 146th Battalion minstrel show on Friday night, and distributed them among his employees. Archie McKellar was the only of- fender in the police court on Tuesday morning. He pleaded guilty to be- Ing drunk, and was given a chance, as it was his first offence. On Monday evening May 22nd Ald. Newman ig going to enlighten the City Counéil on the daylight saving scheme and ask that it be adopted from June till November. The bridge leading to Barriefield should be watered as a road On Monday when there was a very strong wind the dust made walking and driving on the bridge very unplea- sant. Piano for rental, Now is the time to secure one for your summer home. C. Lindsay, Limited, 121 Princess street. A citizen has asked the Whig why a fee of $2 is charged by the Secre- tary of State for the issping of pass- ports to Canadains desiring to go to England? He holds no fee should be exacted. ev. C. R. Flanders, D:D., Firs Methodist Church, London, has ac- cepted an invitation to assume the pastorate of Broadway Methodist Church, Winnipeg, in June, 1917. He was once a Kingston pastor. George Y. Chown, registrar of Queen's University states that the plans for the new library, which is to be erected on University avenue. have arrived, and that tenders for the building would be called very shortly. Staff-Sergt. A. B. Wytock, who re- turned a short time ago from Queen's Hospital at Cairo to continue his me- dical studies at Queen's University, arrived in the city Monday from his home in Mado¢, where he has been visiting since his arrival. Ir order to retain Miss M. E, Ball, the City Olerk's secretary, the Coun- cil last wight raised her salary to $750 a year. An outside firm sought her services and offered her g still larger salary. es Ball is one of the most value officials at the City Hall. Provost, Brock street, has this year an extra fine assortment of Tweeds, Cheviots and Serges for his order clothing department. His ready-made clothing and gents' fur- nishing department are well assorp ed with new goods. (See also page 12. Leo Gleeson, son of John Gleeson, 123 King street west, has arrived in the city from Calgary to enlist in the 60th (Queen's) Battery. The carpenters on '"'C" Battery, R. C. H. A, staff are making a num- ber of model churches, houses, wind- mills, etc., for a model village for the use of the gunners in ranging the guns at Petawawa camp. The most | extensive arrangements are now be- ing made, and Petawawa promises this year to he one of the most com- pletely equipped artillery camps in the world. Major Plummer, Royal Military College, will likely go to Petawawa camp as brigade major to Lieut.-Col. G. Roy, commandant of the northern camp. - - - The Royal School of Artillery offi- cers were on a mounted parade to Barriefield commons on Tuesday morning. Examinations in battery tactics are being conducted this after- noon and Wednesday morning. Field work will complete the week when the school closes. Lieut. N. Munsie, adjutant of the School of Signalling, is still on the sick-list, suffering from a severe cold. Sergt.-Major Taylor, foreman of works, has returned from Belleville, where he made an inspection of the buildings, etc., in that city Capt. William 8. Wallace, C.0.T.C., has been appointed major ip the 136th Battalion. Capt. Harry Dunlop, A.M.C., Kings- ton, has been appointed medical offi- cer of the 4th Pioneer Battalion. BETA A The Late Mrs, izabeth Chown The funeral of Elizabeth Jackson Chown, widow of the late Lewis Chown, took place from the residence of ther som, J. E. Chown, 425 Albert street, at one o'clock Monday to the C.P.R. station. The remains was taken to Sydenham for burial. Mrs. Fhown was born in this city in 1830. She moved to Sydenham about 1860 where she resided until 1907. Since that time she resided with her son. In religion she was a Metho- dist. She leaves to mourn her loss, one son, J. E, Chown, and five grand- children, Mrs, Annie, Nettie and Thelma at home; Mrs. E. Moon, Syd- enham, 'and Dr, G. D. Chown, Dubuc, Sask. Late Capt. Thomes Collins. The death occurred on Tuesday morning of Captain Thomas Collins at the advanced age of eighty-eight years at the home of his son-in-law, William J. MeNeill, 148 Rideau street. The late Captain ' McNeil was born in Kingston, and for ever fifty years had been a sailor on the Great Lakes. About five years ago he retired from active service on the lakes but always kept up a keen in- terest in anything connected with mariners, The deceased man had been 111 for about six weeks. He is survived by four sons: Captain Wal- ter, Henry and Frank, who reside in the city, and John, who resides in Springfield, Mass; and by one daugh- ter, Mrs. W. J. McNeil. "THE BATTLE CRY OF PEACE" PRODUCTION. A Call to Arms Against War To Be Seen At the Griffin Theatre. If you have a drop of red blood in your veins, you will experience in witnessing this production a thrill such as you have never known be- fore, You will see the enemy ap- proaching, the' powerlessness of New York, the weakness of its forts and defences; you .will see the havoc wrought by the enemy's howitzers, submarines, air craft, shells, shrap- nels and bombs. You will see New York in flames and the destruction that follows, exactly as it happened in Belgium, at. Griffin's theatre, Wednesday and Thursday. A Wonderful Band Leader. Sig.Giuseppe Oreatore and his band, which appears here May 17th, is one of the most remarkable organizations before the musical world to-day. The Boston Transcript says: "No conduc- tor who has yet appeared in Sym- phony Hall has ever secured such sounds of thunder, such amazing va- riations of rhythm, as has Creatore. He has set Boston music-mad, as it is stated he did in New York. He is not only the most picturesque of con- ductors, but he is besides a masterly leader of men, who has his musicians under perfect control, inasmuch that everything is played with wonderful effectiveness, with force, sympathy and nice discrimination. It leans to climaxes of the most abrupt, fearful sort. After you get used to them you learn to anticipate them with a sort of joyousness. Tt would be hard to imagine a band playing 'William |- Tell' and 'Tannhauser' overtures in a more inspiring fashion. = In these and the operatic excerpts, Creatore and his band 'are in their element, and fairly lift one off his feet. He certainly does wonders." 3 On Tuesday afternoon Police Con- stable Samuel Arniel ordered a driv- er of one of the gravel waggons to take one of the horses off the street as it is suffering with a very sore foot. : ! ---- Prince von Buelow, former (Ger | : At The Grand, | As owas expected hundreds were! turned away at the Grand last even- | Ing on the occasion of the first of | three nights of the Chaplin-Sweet| programme. Both films are above | par, Chaplin's burlesque of "Car-| men" being as laughable as "The | Blacklist" with Blanche Sweet in the leading role, was pathetic. "Car-| men" burlesquea, offers Chaplin! one of the finest vehicles yef shown | on the screen and 'is sure to draw! capacity houses." The big scenes, Such as death at the close, are clever- ly travestied but at the same time not overdone, while the duel is one of the most ludicrous of the many Chaplin efforts. "The Blacklist" contains numerous thrilling scenes and sufficient romance trickles through it ta make it pleasing. | Kathrine Carlton-Hart, quite a fa-| vorite locally, scored another tri-| umph. She was in excellent voice and sang without effort. She pos- sesses a pleasing voice with a wealth of tone. She sang "Franz Lehar's "Gypsy Love" and "The Sunshine of Your Smile.' "Nobody Home." "Nobody Home," that magical, zippy, musical comedy success which bears the reputation of having kept New York, Boston and Chicago laugh- ing, singing and dancing for more than a year, will be presented at the Grand on Thursday. evening, May 11th, with the original all-star cast under the direction of Elizabeth Mar- bury and F. Ray Comstock. "Nobody Home" is the American | was Americanized by Guy Bolton, and | has a syncopating, fox-trotty musical score by Jerome' Kern, one of the most popular composers of the pres- ent day. The story tells of Freddy Popple, of Ippleton, a small town. in the north woods of England, who makes his first trip to New York to visit his brother, Vernon, a profes- sional dancer. neni Laugh .On the End-man. End men in a minstrel show are usually good "jokers," and always anxious to spring a good one. It is not often they leave the way open to have the joke turned on themselves. But occasionally this does happen, as | was proven last week when the end- | men of the 146th Frontenac's min- | strel show met for rehearsal. It ap- | pears that C. Q. M. Sergt. McFedridge had arranged to have a rehearsal in the big room in the east end of the Armouries. Through a misunder- standing some of the men went up to the paymaster's office and some went to the right room. After a while the two different parties became uns easy as & what was keeping the oth-| ers. For nearly one hour they sat, | and finally it was decided to go home and call a practice on another night. Singularly enough the same thought occurred to both parties at the same time, To the surprise of all con- cerned they met in the centre of the Armouries all bent on going home, and only then learned that they had been sitting within 50 yards of each other all night. The practice was held all right, but the members of the show are very particular to get the right meeting place well fixed in their heads when more practices are being arranged. { C. Q. M. Sergt. McFedridge reports] that the coming Minstrel Show will be a distinct surprise to those who attend. In the big first part there will be some very catchy solos from the following ladies and gentlemen: Misses Valleau, Laidley, Sutherland, Hoag, Devlin and Timmerman and Messrs. Mack, Saunders, Eva, Allen. Vickers, Shaw, Smith, 'Graves, Hack- | ott and others. The 146th hope to! have a large turn out of the citizens for that night, Friday next. At the Strand, Capacity business greeted the screening of the various photo-plays which are on the bill for the first three days of the week the master- piece is a five-act Triangle Play, "The Conqueror," a story of a lab- orer rising to be one of the most powerful men of the day and how he makes g swell society girl bow down to him Ws much as she dislikes to. The pofnciple parts are carefully handled by "Willard Mack" and "Enid Markey." 'A two-reel Keystone, "A Movie Star," featuring "Mack Swain," provides the comedy while a scerfic "To Alaska Via the Great Rivers," and three other good sub- jects complete a bill that provides variety and quaMty. This pro- gramme will be shown again to- night and at the Wednesday shows. ------------ To Appoint a Sergeant As soon as Judge H. A. Lavell re- turns to the city the Police Commis- sioners will have a meeting for the version of Paul Rubens' English mu- | sical comedy called "Mr. Popple." It CURTAINMATERIALS NEW CURTAIN NETS in White or Ivory. These are new patterns and very pretty .......18¢c to bc NEW CURTAIN SCRIMS White or Ivory ground, with neat floral border, also PLAIN WHITE or Ivory Scrims. WHITE MARQUISETTE, ya. 25¢, CREAM MARQUISETTE, 25¢ to 40c yd. For CURTAINS A FULL ASSORTMENT OF English Art Cretonnes And Shadow Cloths in the colors to match your wall papers and rugs; At 20¢, 25¢, 35¢, 49¢ ART CRETONNES For Box Coverings For Curtains Shade Blinds In Dark Green, Light Green, Cream or White, in stock or made to order. Algo Shade Blinds to fit any size window in combination colors, white on one side and green on the other. 10 different combinations. Made To Order Lace Curtains A number of new makes In Nottingham Curtains In Marquisette Curtains In Novelty Nett Curtains These you will find extra good value, as we secured these before the price advanced and are now giving vou the benefit of this. Sash Curtain Poles John Laidlaw & Son purpose of appoint a suecessor to the late Sergt. Alexander Snodden. nnn IL Ra Special lace, which we will offer to 2. 2 : in Girl's Sh We have several pairs of Misses' Dongola Kid Shoes, in button and for two days only, Tuesday and Wednesday; sizes 11