a Rd in China", suggested McNair. 'The 130th Battalion, under the command of Lieut.-Col, J. BE. de- Hertel, swung into camp on Wed- nesday at noon headed by a section of four white bull dogs the oficial mascots of the battalion. As was to have been expected Col. de Hertel brought in a battalion that looks to be one of the strongest of competi- tors for the championship of the camp. The men are of the very fin- est type of hardy Canadians well built and fatelligent, They are in the game for all that it is worth and should in less than no time become one of the finest of fighting units in, Barriefield. It was a pleasure to watch the way they swung along the road from the train to the camp. Each man carried his heavy marching equip- ment and it seemed that in almost every company at least one and us- ually two or three men were lead- ing some dog mascot, The battalion is made of that type of man who takes a sincere joy in doing work under officers who under- stand the conditions they are work- ing under and a more than usual welcome should be extended that old friend of Barriefield camp Col de Hertel and his 130th Battalion, It has been said that recruiting will stop "because of the battalions form of the local ion should be taken up by even more men than are now doing it. Whether the fact that the battalion is out of the city will make any difference to the re- cruiting figures or not is not yet known. The fact that camp lite is much more pleasant than the bar- rack room life should be an attrac- tion, There is also the point that unless men come forward quickly and receive training now being given there will be no vacancies. All of these arguments weigh against the one put forward that the absence of the battalions will stop the impetus given the recruiting interests by the battalions during the winter, The 136th Battalion has been to some extent up working against ad- verse conditions since organizing but in spite of the fact thata the batta- | lion is at Barriefield, Port Hope is still expected to furnish some 200 more men. Lieut. Low has beén left in charge of the work and is carry- ing cn the work started by Lieut.- Col. Smart and his officers and N.C. O.'s through the past winter. The county of Northumberland is one of the smallest in the province and the only two places of any size are Port Hope with 4,000 people and Bow- manville of 2,700 inhabitants. Never- the less, Col. Smart has already brought together some 900 men of being gathered together and put un- der canvess at Barriefield camp. | The most desperate efforts are be-' ing made, however, to overcome this possible condition. The 146th Bat- talion is making every effort to keep up the stream of men into its ranks. Capt. G. I. Campbell and Lieut. W.! A. Mouck are working hard with a squad of picked men to keep the question of enlistment ever before the young men of the city of King- ston, Recruiting depots have been established in different places and the opportunity of getting into a uni- i Sin Wei's Gift. Richard Durwent looked gloomily around the disordered library, which id lost its accustomed air of quiet repose 'jostled each 0 , and the empty bookshelves proclaimed that their contents had been transferred, The big mahogany table in the middle of the room was littered with writing materials, for Durwent and his friend, Angus McNair, had been making an inventory of the contents of the room and had been putting in the packing cases the few books and curios that Durwent could not bear to part with, Durwent, traveler and explorer, had made an unwise investment, and he awoke to find himself penniless. Even the sale of his furniture and books would barely cover the amount of his debts. On the morrow the goods were to be carted away to the auction rooms. The apartment would be to let. "You will keep the set of Kip- ling?" asked, MaoNair, poising his fountain pen over the writing pad. "Yes, but the other first editions must £%,.Angus. That cleans up all the books." "Yes, and, man, you won't take it amiss if I buy in some of them for my own library?" ( "Pick them out now, Angus. They- 'Il boost the prices." McNair laughed. "No, no. I'll take my chance with: the others, Richard. It shan't be said 1 profited by my friend's adversity." "Hang it all, Angus, why did Itry to speculate?" fretted Durwent, "I haven't got any head for money mat- ters anyway." » "You listened to the voice of the Sarhont, . meanin| the wily Mr. Wales," smil McNair, pulling a battered pipe his pocket, "He certainly trimmed you nicely, Rich- niind, I'm so sore at htm can't speak decently when we " "I'll have to make another plunge into the unknown," went on Derwent "just when I'd made up my mind to © sit Quietly at home and enjoy my There's Laneboro's expedition in- "I've joined it," said the "You'll be writing another book and making more money---barrels of oots, mon," he went on, his acent growing pronounced as excited, "maybe you were too soon. Your @ in the world; wish I could adventure forth of béing tied down to a medi. " with me as physician to pn," urged Ric other . poor people," plaughed, for Dr. McNair's charity pa- the very highest type. The 156th Battalion of Brockville and district is now comfortably set- tied in a splendid corner of Barrie- field camp near the old artillery grounds. The ground was muddy when 'the battalion arrived on Mon- day but is now drying up fast and every persofl Beerfis to be in the best of spirits. This is certainly a splen- did looking lot of men in this bat- talion with 1,000 big fine looking clean cut fellows who show remark- able "pep" in their field work and) tients represented a hobby. He went over to the mantlepiece and groped among the litter of ivor- ies and bronzes. \ "Have you any tobacco, Richard? Where's your old jar?" "In thie bottom of my trunk," con- fessed Durwent. "it's an old I d of mine, and I was afraid it" get mixed up with some of this sal- able stuff. I wasn't taking any chances with it. Have a cigarette?" extending his case. "No thanks. What's in this jar-- not a, pinch of 'baccy'? lifting the cover of a large bronze jar with an ivory dragon twisted arcund it. The cover handle was of ivory in the form of a raven. "Why, it's full!" Durwent laughed. "I've never even tried a whiff of it. It was given to me under suspic- lous circumstances, and I've neglect- ed to empty it. What, that tobacco must be fifteen years old. I got it when I made that trip up the Yang- tzekiang, you remember?' "I've réad your hook. I ought to remember," said MeNair dryly. He dipped his pipe into the jar and crammed the brown powdery flakes into the bowl. "I'll try it anyway while you spin me a yarn about it." He scratched a match and puffed slowly. Blue spirals ascended. from the bowl, "That's not bad, Richard," declar- the Séotchman, throwing himself nto a chair. "You better take it, then. You can use it for emergencies, when, like the present, you can't get anything bet- ter, Take jar and all." "No, thank you. 'I can't bear creepy, crawly things around," said the other, drawing or his pipe. "I'll take the 'baccy', but the jar you can keep. Tell me the story." "It's not much of a story." return- ed Durwent, lighting a cigarette and sitting down on a corner of the ta- ble. "It was when I was in the upper reaches of the Yanktze, among the rocky gorges, where our boat slid and bobbed and floundered through the rapids. I had gone ashore to ex- amine the remains of an ancient shrine, and I became separated from my servants. . "Suddenly through the underbrush there crept the pitiful apology of a man, a Chinese. He was gaunt and famished. His clothes were in tatters, and his straw shoes were worn out. He was a scarecrow, and as he came toward me on hands and knees he moaned. "Of course I recognized the signs of starvation and thirst and a great fear. He was undoubtedly a fugitive from justice. He may have been a murderer or & bandit, but he was a human being, S61 gave him to drink from my pocket botile and dressed a gash in his head from the contents of my. pocket medicine case, and later he told me his story, but that was not until under cover of the an't len Nair, and then thoy boi approaching darkness I had hurried kim on board the boat. KINGSTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1916, HH 1 | 1 } | HHH Hi HE Hi drilling. The battalion is using field in front of the camp lies fdr this work. The field is flanked on the opposite side by a row of trees and a brook and the ground is high and dry. The muddy section of the site seems to be confined to the line of officer's tents at the north side of the lines. It is sald that Col. Wik- inson found water lillies floating but this statement did not have much visual means of support. there is little dampness left. men are making wood floors and the first nights in camp will be remem- bered as being those which '*'might have been," if a little work on drains, etc., had not been done, Machine Gun sections require thirty-five of the very best men that can be chosen from the battalion and great care must be taken if this im- portant branch is to be satisfactory. With due respect to every other battalion, the 109th's Machine Gun Section seems to be a mighty fine one, It is under the command of Lieut. F. Ingledew of Kingston who has a select bunch of men under him and every one of them knows the work thoroughly. If the other battalions are able to show sections as good, there will be little need for further courses at the School of Ma- chine Gunnery. Lieut, J. Bews, chief physical di- rector at Barriefield, is arranging for three hours instruétion every day for the men who att¢nded the bayonet fighting and physical drill course at Montreal. This work will be. con- tinued at Barriefield camp. CaptisSwaine and Capt. Kirkcon- nell are making arrangements for 'very important branch will i of all concerned that around his bed on Tuesday morning, | | detail of one subaltern and one N. Drains are being dug now and | The | the the musketry training that every man at Barriefield camp wil] under- | 80. before going overseas. "Squatting at my feet in the bow of the boat, he told me that he had been wrongfully accused of stealing treasure from his master, a rich man- darin. He had managed to escape, but his pursuers had relentlessly tracked. him until after two days and night of flight he had come upon me at the river's edge. name was SI"Wel; and he wad from the pro: vince of Szechuan, "I promi$ed to take him into my service, and I called upon my 'boy to bring fresh blue cotton garments and to give the stranger a mat to sleep upon and plenty of rice. It was In thé middle of the night that I awoke and Sat up in my bunk. The windows of my cabin were wide open, and the fresh breeze from the river was very grateful, At dawn we would resume our journey down the river, Now it was 2 o'clock, as I learned by glanc- ing at my watch by the light of my electric torch. I had gone to bed very early, so felt sure I was in for a long wakeful period. some time' in the night. "I lay there awhile staring at the white square of the window where the moonlight shone, Suddenly across that square came a shadow. It passed and then blotted out the light. "My hand slipped under my pillow and tightened around the butt of my automatic pistol, I watched the win- dow curiously, for a man was ¢limb- ing in, and I felt no fear because of the weapon in my hand. I leveled the pistol at the intruder, but I was sil- ent. I suspected it was Sin Wel, the Stranger. "I wondered what his er- rand was, Was he trying to murder and rob me? "My question was soon answered. From a filthy bundle which he had strapped to his shoulders and which he had refused to be parted from he brought out this bronze jar, which he placed beneath my window. He stoop- ed over it a long time, pouring some- thing inside; the cover clinked and he was gone, "Later I heard a splash in the ri- ver, and I suspected that my protege had become fear stricken and was making his escape. When daylight invaled the room I made out the shape of this bronze jar, and I notic- ed a strip of red paper hanging from the cover. Curiosity would be denied no longer, So I got up and éxamined the paper. On it were scrawled some Chinese characters expressing the gratitude of Sin Wei for his deliver- ance, wishing me a long life, good luck and much felicity and saying that the river gods called him: "I lifted the cover of the jar and found it full of tobacco of an inferior quality. I've never touched it, but I've kept the jar for sentimental rea- sons. Very likely Sin Mei stole it from the mandarin, 1 dressed and gathered forward jabbering excited- Jy. It Spots | they had Seen Sis Wel eap from in an insane foen-| zy of fear, and the river had carried him swiftly on h broad yellow breast, That's all, except that there hn one disturbance after ano- ir ig China, and I haven't been there for several years. South Africa has been my stamping ground of lats years. Now, will you accept. the jar and it contents?" smiled Durwent at his friend. "I'll take the tobacco," said Mec- Nair, soing 10 the mantlepiece for the jar a » a This the influence of liquor at any time. NE Mer AM re neon a AAA ot A Aaa wiidered and a another, after the fact. surely it comes in opportunely, eh, mon?" i went on deck, but my collies were" ®ent, has died of the wounds which | HHH receive particular attention this year and the ranges will be busy at all times, according to vresent plans, It is published for the information the Khaki Club at the corner of Ontario and Princess streets, is open for the use of all N.C.O.'s and men in uniform. The committee will be assisted by a C.0. frem the duty unit. Pte. Schwartz, 156th Battalion band, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant drummer. Sergt. Clax- ton has been promoted to be com- pany sergeant major of "CC" Com- pany. Lieut. W. E. Logue and ien men are carrying on recruiting work for the 156th Battalion under Major Williams, chief recruiting officer. These men will work in the district around Brockville lately vacated by the battalion. Officers will not absent themselves from duty without first obtaining permission from the commanding of- ficer and making necessary arrange- ments for substitutes, All subsistence tor men billeted in the various stations throughout the distriét is cancelled. Lieut. F. Howell, C.0.T.C., has been appointed a Supernumery lieu- tenant in the 139th Battalion. Congratulations are in order for Lieut.-Col Smart and 136th Bat- talion for the record that they brought down from Port Hope. In spite of the fact that the battalion was mobilized in the only licensed town, Port Hope, in the county there was not one man found to be under "An emerald!" Durwent stared, with unbelieving eyes, as he took the brilliant green stone in his hand. "Do you suppose it's real?" "Aye, mon; glass never looked like that!" went on Angus in excite ment as he unwrapped lump after lump and laid them before his be- . "Rubles, diamonds another .omeraid and | Wil! All! Enough to e mdently rich for dre!" "What in thunder does it mean?" questioned Durwent, i "Mean, you idiot? It means that your protege, Sin Wei, must have looted the old mandarin for fair. And you, Richard are an accessory Deciding to end his miserable life. Sin Wei unloaded his loot upon you, his benefactor, and s only a 'place of 4,000 inhabitants and the battalion caused favorable comment by its splendid appearance, The 139th Battalion is the proud possessor of a large eight passenger car which was recently presented to the battalion by Reeve Greer of Co- bourg. The car was brought to the city through very bad roads on Wed- nesday and is now at the camp. It will certainly be of great value In carrying on the work during the summer, The Infantry School of Instruction is located on the old site at Barrie- field camp and is carrying on the usual routine of work with splendid results without any interruption through moving the quarters under canvas, The training at Barriefield camp will be carried on as before in such a way that the entire sylabus as laid down by headquarters will be gone through by every drilling man in each battalion, The training will, of course, be directed from the of- fice of the General Staff Officer at Headquarters and each battalion commander will be held responsible that the work is well covered. All are on an equal footing in this re- gard and the competition should bring good results, R. McCormick and D. J. Drum- mond have enlisted in the 146th Battalion, Pte. A. Walker, 146th Battalion has been promoted to be a provision- al sergeant, C. Turner of the 146th Battalion transferred to "C" Battery, R.C.H.A., and is now in Petawawa. Sergt. G. Hewitt has been. trans- GERMANY SIMPRESSED WITH SUGGESTION OF "FREE- DOM OF THE SEAS" This is the Only Part of Wilson's Berlin, June 1.--The tenor of Pre- sident Wilson's speech on' Saturday became known here yesterday, but aroused no more than mild; academ- ic interest, although the President's peace ideas on the whole aré not un- pleasing to the Germans, and his championship of the freedom of the seas meets with particular approval. The Vossische Zeitung says: "But théy don't belong to me," ob- | jected Durwent, even while he knew | that he could never find the owner | after fifteen years of revolution and | riot in China. in the meantime I don't believe.he would care if you used one little em- | erald to save your precious effects. Eh, mon?. "I'll do it," said Derwent cheer- | fully, He racked the tobacco back in- | to the jar and locked the jewels away | in his safe, A | "Then I don't get the tobacco?" asked McNair ruefully. "Not this tobacco, hut I'll buy you | any quantity of your favorite brand, | and if the owner of the stones does | not come to light you may have the choice of the stones. Now I have a pleasant errand to perform, thanks to you and Sin Wei's gift". And arm in arm the two friends went out to notify the auction rooms that the sale of Mr, Durwent's be- longings had been cancelled. { Peterboro Girl Was Fortunate Peterboro, May 31.--A former local girl, whose name before her marriage was Irene Perks, daughter of Mrs, Perks, Gilmour street, with her husband Carl Baldwin, has been living in Southern California. Word has been received here that Mr, and Mrs. Baldwin were to have left by the Southern Pacific Railway a week | ago Saturday, for New York City. where Mr. Baldwin has been given a lucrative position. Some mistake was made in their tickets, and they left on Sunday instead of Satur- day, for their destination. The train they missed was dyna- mitad by Mexican badits and nearly every passenger on board was killed. Pte. Tom Barrell's Death, 'Cobourg, May 30.--Pte. Tom Bar- rell, who enlisted here and went to the front with the first contin- he received on April 26 last, being hit in the arm and shoulder by a piece of shell. He was in the battles of St. Julien, Ypres, and Festubert last year. Previous to enlisting he had resided for uwbout four years. in Canada. His wife and child are at Shoreham, Ként, England. He had a 'brother, Pte. George Barrell, at the front. ' sn * Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stanley, anapleirurs " Matcalte, Out. an- nounce oir only ter, Lillian Constance May, to Bima McRostle, Kemptville. The marriage will take place in June. 5 » has of the "In the President's reference to the sovereignty of small nations our enemies will undoubtedly see a hint at Belgium. He might just as well have meant Greece. His train of thought, however, comes notably | close to the actuality when he open- | the South German states, and partic- : ate { ly turns against those who scornfully | ularly his conferences with the King " ti our conscience | '7 by i gr pr Ro vir and | daily violate his demand for the free- of Bavaria. Btock Exchanges, it is abmost entire- long-distance possible | ferred to the staff of the 146th Bat- talion with the rank of * transport sergeant. There are nine bands at Barrie- field and every one is quite capable of giving a splendid concert. Each has given special attention during organization. and _some excellent music is looked forward to by Barrie- field 'camp residents. When the Whig representative was in the lines of the 146th Battalion on Wednesday he saw a particularly fine looking body of men drilling un- der Liéut. Martin, Inquiries brought out the fact that these men were re- cruited from the counties of Lennox and Addington for the 146th and are members of "C" Company under Capt. Hannah and Capt. Crothers. H these two counties can supply any more men they will indeed be wel- come for the work is very satisfac- tory and only compMmentary re- marks can be made of the men who have been recruited from ihat dis- trict, Owing to the rush of work on the organization of the quartermaster stores Lieut. J. H. Patton is tempori- ly assisting in the office. Lieut. Emery is carrying on the duties of machine gun officer and the squad has attained a high degree of effi- ciency, Despite the fact there is much work to be done in the way of put- ting 'in drains and furnishing men for guard duties and the like the work of training the overseas sol- diers is not being neglected. The local battalion has been particularly busy in supply men for outside work but all branches of training are re- celving due consideration even under these inconvenient, but fortunately only temporary, conditions. talion. » the first to be made under the system recently brought into i the qualifying of infantry Before becoming an officer in ttalion now one must enlist as private and work up through fhe ranks until given permission to take the qualifying course, old way of taking a provisional Heutenancy before qualifying. It will be remembered that Sergt, Strachan returned from the front a short while and hag since been in the ranks of the 146th, The weather man is not to be successful in dampening the #Pir- its or the bodies of the soldiers at the camp. Tu every unit wood floors are being put in the tents, There are some 200 tents in each battalion and the cost of flooring them all reaches $500. This expense comes from the battalion funds or is sub- scribed directly by the officers and men of the battalion. In cases where a collection is made from the men it only amounts to fifty cents each and is money well expended. It means comfort and health for the soldiers every night in the camp in spite of all the rain that the weather man wishes to hand out. "I'm a-thinking I shall go 'list, and go and help fight the Germans, Widow Kelly," said young Regan, who was. a bashful suitor for the wid- ow's: hand, "Faith, then, it's a poor you'll make." "What do you mean?" "Oh, nothing. Only a man who keeps on calling on a widdy for years without pluck enough to spake his mind hasn't the makin' of a soger in him." soger AAA eA ti dom of the seas. For the present this demand proceeds from the justi- fied commercial egoism of America, but there will soon be a demand | under | | the conferences, When war aims "Only | from all nations that suffer Britain's greedy egoism." The Berlin Gazette says: one Wilson idea will be received al contradiction in the whole non: Tish world and that is the freedom of the seas. But this is no article for a peace treaty. It is rather a realization of a universal, valid, and vital right of all nations, great and small." The small amount of aroused by President Wilson's speech thus far indicates the praetical im- portance which is attached to it here. While there is still much peace talk, notably on the Berlin and Frankfort ly of the natute of speculation regarding basis of peace. taches to a Greater interest at- the Chancellor's visit to a a ra Pr aa Ae rg Sn ar a BAK eo vz derived from grapes Made from Cream of Tartar, comment | | Belleville on Monday. {in {ll health for some time. NG POW regarding the Chancellor's visit and the probable subjects of his convers sations with that monarch says: "Naturally foreign politics will finish the theme of a large part of and peace possibilities are being dis- {cussed everywhere, it is quite obvi- ous that it is to the Interest of the | empire as 'Well as of the great Bund of states that complete clarity should exist between them on these subjects, The Chancellor has always been pre- pared to provide clarity fn abund- ance, and heretofore he always found in the rulers sure support for his policies,. and will, it is to be hoped, also find it in the future." Mrs. Julia Trotter, wife of Wile liam Trotter, Cooper, Ont., died in She had been She was born in 1888 in Madoe township. and was the daughter of the Ia William Blakley. John B. 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