THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1917 . PAGE SIX -_-- 'News From Fasten Ontario | WOLFE ISLAND MARIE THE SU DDEN DISAPPEAR- | ANCE OF WINTER. AT Wolfe Islander--The, Greenwood -- Four | of the Late Mrs, Births Reported on the Island. Wolfe Island,- March 27.--Many of the old residents state that they | néver recollect a spring when the] break-up of winter was so sudden, and almost like the twinkling of an #yé the snow, which was here In such large quantities, all disappear- ed. Crossing to the city was good | up till. March 22nd. All kinds of loads were handled on that day when, as if by magic, the ice weaken- | ed and so rapidly that ice punts were nsed on Friday. The boat is expected the last of the week, Her crew went aboard on Monday morning and are composed | of the following: Captain McDonald; mate Larush; engineer, John | Gray; ser, George Rattary; deck | hands, Frank Baker, Jr. and Harry Brown; fireman, James Russell; cook, Mrs. Kergan. The fare remains the exception of Sundays, when the | tariff will be chargéd The book of coupons will be The tariff on freight has been increased on everything. Islanders were grieved to learn of the sudden demise of Mrs. Frank Greenwood. Although she had been somewhat indisposed since the death of her daughter, Mrs. J. Matthews, still her most intimate friends never dreamed that her illnes was serious. Crew same with the usual customary discontinued. She was only confined to bed for three days when death ensued De- ceased was of a quiet, unassuming nature and of a very charitable dis- position. She was of the kind that works for good in her community. She has left to mourn her loss a hus- baud, one son, Thomas, and two daughters, Mrs. R. White and Miss May at home. Her funeral was on Monday morning and was largely attended. The pall-bearers were Wil- lam Healey, James McGlynn, James McAllister, Jr., Asa Hough, Alvin Hawkins and Edward White. The remains were placed in the vault beside those of her daughter, Mrs. Matthews. A priest from the city had novel experience of crossing in an ice punt to the island on Monday on n urgent call to Nicholas Mosier, who is seriously ill. Rev. Father Fleming, who has been quite ill, is improving. Miss Eileen, the ac- complished daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Archibald Staley, left on Monday for Edmonton to take charge of a school. Islanders regret to learn of the sernous illness of the wife of our genial postmaster. She is at present in the hospital. Mrs. Allan McLaren is also ill Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Con- nolly, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Docteur, a daughter; to Mr. and 'Mrs. Bernard McKenna, a son, and to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard McDon- ald, a son. Judging from the above; Wolfe Island cannot be held up for| race suicide. | ---------- i Presentation at Westport. Westport, March 28--On the even- ing of March 19th a party of friends and neighbors gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John McGowan to present them with a Morris. chair, mission design, and Mrs. McGowan with a china berry set. The evening was spent in cards and games. There were about forty guests, and about twelve o'clock they sat down to a dainty repast. Mrs... W. Taylor and Mr. S. McNeill presented the gifts, while W. Taylor read the address, which told of the people's regret. Mr" and Mrs. McGowan are about to leave to re#ide in Bathurst. | Sydenham spent a | ville. { moved here from Chaffey's Locks. i and Aldham of | OWRD country (as will, theédshot at the Mytchott ranges, = | YARKER NEWS BU CPGET Rev, Mr. Spencer Elected Grand! Orange Chaplain. Yarke March 29 I.enten ser- vices are being held in the Anglican church this week by Rev er. The attended Grand Lodge meeting Belleville last week when Rev. in} Mr. | | Spenc er was elected Grand C haplain | The exchange is to begin at once; but {for the eastern district. F. Walker shipped a car load of | calves to Toronto recently. The price paid ranged | dollars a plece. Mrs, Peters and son, few days in the Mr. and Mrs W ay last at Centre- and family have village recently. Wilson spent Sund Mr, Fluke Gunners Skinner Kingston spent *the week-end here] with friends. Mijss Farr Ewart has returned to her school at Bucking- ham, Que,, after a two weeks vaca- { tion with her mother, John Kimmet has moved on to the farm of James Freeman, Herbert McNeely of Robh- lindale called on his parents for a short visit. Mr. Lambert of Pet- | Xoskl has started/a milk delivery in Colebrook and Yarker Burgess had a carlead of hard wood at the station which was quickly disposed of at $6.50 a cord. Messrs Benjamin and Ruttan load- ed two cars for the west and have gone to reside, Miss Sadie Peters of Sydenham is visiting among Telatives and friends here for a few days, A Red Cross rubber social is to be held in the hall here on Friday night Miss M, Edgar spent over Sunday in Kingston with her brother. S. Mr. and Mrs Oliver Shangraw have moved to their new home at Murvale, A large number of citizens and 'Orangemen attended the funeral of the late Mr. Shangraw at Cole brook Monday' last. He was buried under Orange auspices, Miss Edith Baxter of New York called on friends in the village KILLED BY A COMRADE. Cornwall Soldier Victim of Careless- ness in English Camp. Brockville, Ont.,, March 29.--Let- ters received here tell how Pte. Mon- roe, a member of the Leeds and Grenville Battalion, was accidentally near Whitley Camp, England. About 100 members of the battalion, including several Brockville boys, were at the ranges taking a course of instruction in musketry, and after the days' work were in a hut waiting for supper. Pte. Saunders had been cleaning his rifle and took, as he thought, a dummy cartridge from his pocket and placing it in the weapon, pointed it at several of his comrades. As the rifle was levelled at Pte. Monroe the unexpected happened. The bul- let entered Monroe's left cheek, eame out behind the right ear, grazed an- other soldier's shoulder and entered the wall just above a third soldier's head. In falling, Monroe came in contact with a stove and was badly burned. He lived only fifteen min- utes. Saunders was arrested and | tried next morning and, on the evi- dence of the eye-witnesses of the ac- cident, was acquitted. Monroe, who hailed from Cornwall, Ont, was 17 years of age. He was buried with full military honors near Whitley Camp, in the Milford Canadian Ceme- tery, A pension of $600 a year has been awarded to Mrs, E. G. McNaughton, Peterboro, wife of the late Private MeNaughton, of the 93rd Battalion, killed in action. This sum of $50 a month is granted by the pension board to the wife and three children and dates from Feb. 13th, 1917. Edward Corrigan, Peterboro, Is among the latest casualties. He is reported to have died. REMARKS BY DANCEY BEING INVESTIGATED By the Militia Department-- The Captain Displeased a Cornwall Audence. (Special to the Whie Ottawa, March 30. do ig is now stated that an inquiry is being made | by the Militia Department as to the nature of the remarks made by Capt. 8. H. Dancey, recruiting officer, which did not please a Cornwall au- dience. Recruiting officers have al- ways been advised by the Depart- ment to avoid harsh criticism of those who 'ave not enlisted. | RUSSIANS MAKE ATTACKS -- Northern Front and in Goldovetch Region. (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, March 30.----Russian atta with asphyxiating gas and bomphrdment of enemy trenches with\fhemical shells was reported in to-da¥"s official statement as the principal activity on the northern front in the region of Goldovetchi. I No Word at wae (Special to the Whig. Ottagva, March 30.--No ord has been ived here of the action in which the German s.atement says a Canadian battalion was en and JLusucorsstyl after all night fight- BE. ing the last few days are normal, and do not indicate very activity, Pulled Down Old Glory. (Special Whig New York. March 30 The Am. erican flag which Capt. Norberg, of by the crew of the submarine be- fore they sank the vessel. No Buficrtant Activities. Paris March '30 activities on the esr front were detailed in 's official French The casualty lists received dur- special . the American steamer Algonquin, -i+*t--fiving when with his crew hel abandoned the ship, was pulled down ne Surtabt Tah GUARDSMEN FIRED UPON, While fluarding Hydraulic Plant at Niagara Falls, N.Y. (Special go the Whig.) Niagara lls, N.Y., March 30.-- National Guardmen guarding the plant of the hydraulic Power Com- pany, below the river bank, were fir- ed upon apparently from the Can- adian side last night. One bullet whistled close to Pte, Hessing's head while operating a searchlight. Whittling on Heavy Subscriptions. (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, March 30.--It was of- ficially announced this morning that { all subseriptions to the recent vie- tory loan up to twenty-five thousand will be allotted in full, and the whittling. down as a result of the tremendous subscriptions will be made on heavier subscriptions. Wholesale and Retail. An enormous stock of hats--by far the biggest in these parts. Hats for men--Hats for ladies--Hats for children. George Mills & Co. N° SEND INTERNED HUNS HOME. Mr. Spenc- | Orangemen of this district | mostly from from $9 to $12| will be sent home in batches, accord- | ing to transport arrangements, Kenneth of! | Government, | th hose with British wives) he will re- ] the young Americans IN WILD s poses A Lonely Land That Has Never Been | 8,000 Germans will be Traded for | 700 British. Civilized. i 700 British subjects will be | Now we are in the ---- a_i for more than 6,000 Ger-| (which means 'good pasture'), the| | mans, according to authoritative in- | hame given te the wild, rolling, | | tormation given to a Daily Mail re-! God-forsaken plain which Ss on| presentative in reference to the final ;the right of the river opposite the | agreemer to the exchange of in-| equally lonely and deserted Bara- terned civilians over forty-five years | Ean steppe. Between these two vast oid stretches of open country the Danube The British civilians will come | Winds and curves, sometimes shal- Hubleben, the Germans | low, sometimes, deep, around spraw- from Knockaloe, Alexandra Palace, | ling, marshy islands, the two largest ! and other latge internment camps, | of which measure respectively fifty and forty miles in length and about ten miles in breadth. 1t is dificult to describe emptiness, utter loneliness. All the objects and scenes and life with and | which one has become familiar on each | the voyage now vanish, The float- | ing mills, the white villages, the | bright costumes, the sounds and | sights of buman activity are no more te be seen or heard. The East | practical questions of ship facilities will cause unavoidable delays. The civilians (both British and German) utter the expense will be borue by "debits" and "credits" to be made when peace is declared. No man will be repatriated from | either country against his wish. If he does not wish to return to his | and the atmosphere of the East it is believed, | holds this land in thrall. The poli- be the case with many Germans now | tical and military power of Islam | i in custody 'n England, particularly | may have retreated, but its ideals | and doctrines remain, and the very air of the Dobrudja brings supine- | ness, fatalism, a belief in the use- | lessness of combating anything, es | pecially the silent, irresistible forces i | main in internment. In addition to | the 6,000 Germans whom we are to release, there will probably be a good many who are interned in the dominions, notably Canada. The exchange arrangement applies to] them as well "People should not draw rash con of Nature, the will of a passionless, remorseless Deity. | Along the muddy, sunken river | banks, the rushes and stunted wil- | lows are a brilliant green, and on clusions," an official said, "from the . 0 great discrepancy between the num- | the islands, glowing in great vivid ber of Germans we are to release in | patches behind the rushes, low scrub and tamarisk, there are wonderful flowers---melilot, the sweet-scented clover, convolvulus, wild roses, blue veronica, chicory, snap-dragon. Up exchange for our own men. The proportion corresponds fairly accur- ately to the much larger number of | German civilians of all agys in our hands than Britons interned in Ger- and down stream go tow-boats and many. We shall, of course, have a lighters and sailing vessels, manned correspondingly larger number left | by brightly-clad Turks, Koumanians, on our hands. Besides the purely {or Greeks. Here and there ong of humanitarian' aspect of the release | these ships may be seen stuck high of men just emerging from middie | and dry on a muddy reef, a derelict, | life, there is the doubly practical | driven to destruction by one of the | advantage to us of having to feed | sudden violent squalls so common 6,000 fewer Gérmans and imposing (on the lower Danube. But it is not | on the enemy at a moment least de- | the things near at hand which at- sirable to him, the burden of nour- | tract and rivet the attention; it oy ishing that extra number." | the vast, limitless solitudes beyond | | which seem to cast a spell upon the | traveler. look there to the left | | across the rising grassy desert of the | | Artists in Wartime, One of the most talented and best- known women portrait artists - in | Baragan. Parched under the burn-) Great Britain -- Mrs. Florence | ing suinmer sun the steppe drifts | hrey--i ite of the wan | and rolls away, away far as eye can Humphry: yn 30 y | reach. The soil is yellow, and the tempting commissions that are con- | pri 2 being offered her, is letting | whole landscape is touched by the | her art practically go hang at pre- [Same dead, dull hue. Out there is a | sent. She has converted her studio desert, a desert whose monotony is : broken only by a few yellow roads, ly for soldiers im- a0 ore camps. or tracks, where the saffron dust lies To the prison camp at Geissen, |3 foot deep, to rise in blinding, where her nephew is confined, Mrs, | choking clouds with the passing of every wandering bullock caravan, or sheep and swine-herd. Sometimes the grass gives place to maize, but both grass and maize are yellow-- yellow grass covering a boundless, undulating, melancholy desert. Here and there, at rare intervals, are vil- lages, or rather clusters of rude, | clay, wattle-roofed huts surrounded by tall, decrepit, wattle fences. Summer may be terrible here, but winter is still more awful when the snow covers the face of the earth, when the fierce Russian wind sweeps Humphrey sends at régular intervals, besides food and comforts, an ample supply of art and sketching mater- jals, oil paints, crayons, brushes, and other essentials, as well as frequent consignments of English and other art journals. This because, at Geis- sen, an unusual number of artists and designers, some of them men of exceptional gifts, are prisoners. Be- fore Mrs. Humphrey's enterprise came into being they were practical- ly without any materials whatever to enable them te beguile the tedium ivi ticing their | bY with hurricane force, leaving ol Lhele captivity by prastieing men and beasts frozen stark in These artists number twenty in death; when the wolves muster to satisfy their hunger and the ravens croak over the icy fields. Civiliza- tion cannot tame the Dobrudja; civilization may bring railways and all, of various talents and qualities, from theatrical scene painters to Beaux Arts masters of color and line. Four of them are British. One of these, A. Nantel, 'was formerly on |bridges, but the homes and The Montreal Standard; another, thoughts and customs of the inhabi- tants are not more civilized to-day than they were in the days of the Roman conquest. England's Awakening. "This war has wakened England. It has made the working-man work at full-tilt for the first time in his life. He has been willing to do it, because the product served a national purpose instead of the profit of an-. other person. He bas been physical- ly able to do it, because an increased wage gave him better food. He has discovered how to do it, because the pressure of necessity bas unlocked brain cells which in ordinary times would have required a term of edu- cation to co-ordirate. The war has turned the middle-class home inside out, and freed the respectable un- employed into usefulness. It has given new and more active forms of empleyment to women caught in domestic service and the parasitic trades of 'refined' dressmaking, mil- linery, and candy manufacture. Fin- | ally, the war has given a career to upper-class Englishmen, For the frst time in their lives they feel they have found something active to do through noble sacrifice. The sigh of relief that went up at the discovery that life was at last worth living, if only because of its brevity, was | echoed in the poetry of officers as it | drifted back from the trenches '-- Arthur Gleason, in the February Century. Alan Beddoe, formerly an art stu- dent, comes from Ottawa; the third is Mrs. Humphrey's nephew, Lewis Fenateau, and the fourth, by profes- sion a decorator, belongs to an Eng- lish regiment. The rest are French- men and Belgians, one of the former, Raphael Drouart, being well known in the Parisian art world. Now that they do not lack fof ma- terials the whole lot devote practi- cally all their spare time to their art and never lack commissions, albeit the fees that their fellow prisoners are able to pay are not exactly princely, Cleopatra's Feasts. We read a great deal about the luxury and extravagance of Cleo- patra, the Queen of the Nile, and of the gorgeous feasts she and Mark Antoay had together, says Pearson's Weekly, yet these little dinners and suppers for two only cost Cleopatra about 4c¢., with wine and attendance. If Cleopatra had lived in these times she could not possibly get a supper at 2s. a head, with waiter and wine included. In those days a large jar of wine cost only 4s., and this prob- ably lasted a good time. A pigeon was dear at 2%d., and a great quan- tity of vegetables which lasted for months could be bought for about 8s. Slaves were easy enough to get, and thelr dress was so scanty that liveries could not have been expen- sive. Cleopatra once went in for a very costly drink. She melted a priceless pearl in a glass of wine, and pre-. sented it to Mark Anthony; but the Queen of Egypt did not gb in for such extravagance every night. Nero, the tyrannical Emperor of the Romans, famed for his extrava- gant, luxurious living, who gave twenty-two course dinners, where the guests reclined on ivery and silver couches, and dipped their fingers into finger-bowls :- which contained costly wines, did not spend nearly so much on f as many modern millionaires. Alan Seeger's Verse. . »Alan Seeger, one of the finest of who volun- Sdered to. Bent tar Frans, while at | British "Tanks." | "Germans surrendered" to a tank in bodies after they saw the hope- lessness of turning their "own ma- chine gun and rifle fire upon: that steel hide. Why not? Nothing takes the fight out of anyome like | finding that his blows go into the air and the other fellow's go home. There seemed a strange loss of dig- i nity when a Prussian colonel deliv- | ered himself to a tank, which took him on board and eventually hand- ed him over to an infantry guard; but the skipper of the tank enjoyed it if the colonel did not.""--Frow "The Tanks Make War," by Freder- ick Palmer, in January 6th Collier's. Bread a Lnxury. the front wrote verse now, In the 8 Sie of King Charles the given post! Second bread was so lit- 80 col iE See: No ond of England bread Sas oo er articles of food, that it was really a luxury. The of wheat was then $0 high that the average consump- tion of bread for each member of the Samily 1s said to have heen about our a half ounces eac clines a' commission as translator, comes ag the 6 3rd, presenting "In will curtail imports from outside of the province. 1 HBR day; that means only one slice of bread, and not i6o thick a slice a stead of wheaten bread, bousewives orovided oat cake in great quantity. ------------------ Tae will of the late Denis Murphy, filed for probate at Ottawa, disposes oe an estate of ly $2,- Britain has arranged to voli pro-| Bibition of E Ampant of of Canadian can- Balsa woud. 1s. the Hebiest of ol lumber, The Ontario Government proposes Temperance Act amendments which King Gustave calls his former min- ister of finance to form a new Swed-| Cabinet, | to\ give six lcussion, Killed in action--S. C. Elliott, Om-| i pah; W. W. Jose, Newcastle; F. C.| Barnett, Ottawa. | Wounded--Levi Kring, Plevna; A.l Andrews, Bannockburn. | Now presumed to have died--O. sale, Friday and Saturday, jmiralty loath of allegiance to the prov BILINGU AL AGITATORS. ---- Must Obey the Law--Vote in Legis- lature Overwhelming. Toronto, March By a vote of fifty ' to five the Legislature at 12.40 this morning defeated a motion by Zotigue Magean (Sturgeon Falls), seconded 'by J. A. Pinard (Ottawa), months' hoist 'to the bil of the Minister of Education, whi provides for the appointment of a Commission to take the place of the Ottawa Separate School Board if that board neglects or refuses to obey the school laws of the Government. The only members who veted for the motion were Pinard, Mageau, Racine, Ducharme and Evanturel, all the other Liberals voting Government 30.~ TO TAX THE ALIENS, But Canadians Do Not Come Under the Ban, (Speclal to the Whig.) Washington, March aliens, excepting £ *anadians, Mexi- cans and Cubans, who have resided in their respective countries nrore than a year, must pay a tax of $8 on en- tering the United States after May 1st Funebal of Late Joseph Franklin. The funeral of the late Joseph Franklin, Winnipeg, a former well- known and highly-esteemed citizen of Kingston, seeurred on F afternoon to the family plot in Cata- raqui ars Rev. Alfred Brown | conducted the service in the mor tuary chapel in R. J. Reid's under- taking establishment, where many friends had gathered to pay their re-, pects. 'The bearers were: Senator | Richardson, Ald. R.' E. Kent, Messrs, C. Livingston, J. Redden, T. Hewitt] and W. M. Bailie. |B | To Collect Licenses. | At a meeting of -the Board of | Police Commissioners held in the| { mayor's office on (Thursday after- noon the members confirmed their offer to allow Constable Samuel Ar- Iniel to serve the city in the collec-| tion of license fees. Constable Ar-| iniel will, of course, still be the chief of police. The carters' by-law was under dis- and some changes were in it, under Saini Lut made Canadian Casualties Ww. Ira Brad- ley, Pringle, Bowmanville; Peterboro, 1,000 Novels, Saturday. Be sure to attend the great book! of 1,000] reprint $1.25 and $1.50 novels by all the leading authors, to be sold at a special clearing price of 39%c copy. All handsomely bound and illustrat-| ed. First come fjrst served. Your] choice for 39¢ at R. Uglow Co. Grand Duchess Arrested. {Special tothe W hig ) Petrograd, March 30.--The Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna was . ar- rested at Kislividsk, following the seizure of a letter which she had written to the Grand Duke Boris, Takes "Oath of Allegistee. (Special to the w hig Petrograd, March "The Ad- = Council has Se Jormal government, it is announced i onal | We Hat Everybody. Men, Ladies' and children. George Mills & Co., "the Hat Store' The School, a Toronto publication, offered prizes in an art competition. | The design was a curtain. border. ! The second prize was won by Thos. | Couling, of Frontenac school, teach-| er, Miss K. Elliott. Herbert Saund- ers, Matilda Wart, Maud Sinclair, Bessie Coulter, Pearl Peters, all of Frontenac school, were given honor- able mention for merit, Navigation opened in Toronto har- | bor on Friday morning when the steamer Macassa, Capt. James Hen- | derson, arrived from Hamilton, -- res Automobiles of ; Quality. Reo and Cadillac Call and See Them. George Boyd Distributor. J a Mm Brock St. Phone 201 FOR TAXI SER- VICE, RING 960 Open and Closed ~ Cars. Kingston Taxi-Cab Co with the! Carpenter and Builder W. R. BILLENNESS Specializing Store Fronts and Fit- tings. ESTIMATES HIGHEST PRICES Paid For SCRAP PAPERS Of All Kinds. Remodelling Buildings of all Kinds. Drop a Card Te A. 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