, Tn ~~ we | The Daily British Whig PAGES 13-20 YEAR 54. NO. 8 KINGSTON, ONTAR 'y 10, SATURDAY, APRIL : THIRD SECTION Sy Books = MY SECOND YEAR OF THE WAL J . nd Their Authors: 0 staff, Major H. E. Pense, gev- ha i r-- st alion, received By Frederick ['almer, 104 Pages. svere wounds Price $1.50, McClelland, Good- oughout this absorbing story child & Stewart, Toronto, Publish. of conflict tells, not how men felt, but what they did. It is a book full ors, of information, of keen character Did you, friehd .re 3 umb| deseription, of wivid narrative, of to the spell of Palmer's book-On | sharp pictures Yet with all its the great struggle My. Year of the initeness in setting forth concrete Great : you happen to en nts "My Second Year of the War' Joy the , of listening to his obviously written out of that in- excellent and incomparable addrissT{imacy "that.need not put down all in Kingston a year or 50, i, knows. Palmer write quietly, . you know something of of arly, objectively of what happened e man and his mission He Was jp the second year; he has identified ie only accredited ATnerican war! himself so closely with the great correspondent with the Briti \T | events. with the hopes and fears of ries in France during 1916. He had! the men and their 'leaders, that his reedom of the tield during t hook has become a brilliant and sig- of the Somme, Lar n the nificant record of events at the pProgre of this great offensive Siri front, piling, up guns and munitions, Douglas Halg told Mr. Palmer that smashing the German lines, sending he wished him to have liberty of ob- pack prisoners by the thousand = servation, and to criticize if he chose |i, fact "all the varied activities of a and that he trusted him not to "give | syrong. determined nation at grips information to the enemy With | with a relentless enemy, are bril- these unique facilitie Palmer has | antly pictured It is a most excal- produced a book which may well bel ant hook, and the Efipire owes a of unique valie. To one » really | gent to an American correspondent wishes to master the actual life Of | oy, has seen too much and too deep- armies, the fighting, the strategy, the | 1. ayer to be anything but pro-Brit- events of the war on the Franco- and pro-Ally. British front, this book of 1916 is, ---------------------------- as was the author's earlier yolume, f PICCADILLY JIM immensejy valuable Frederick Palmer has earned an |p p, (i. Wodehouse, 363 Pages. enviable place as America's foremost Price $1.10. McClelland, Good- war correspondent I'he reading t . --- publ has learned to plac conft- child & Stewart, Toronto, Pub. dence 'upon his dispatches and his lishers. books Hence his second book, deal Here is one of the liveliest, fun- ing intimately with the great war, | niest stories we have read in many commands our instant attention, moons There is not a dull line in Before criticizing its merits or|it; it just bubbles over with inno- demerits, let ug dispassionately con- | genuine fun. There is "some- sider some of its many but appealing thing doing' every minute in "'Picca- details. As previously explained, the | dilly Jim." Jimmy Crocker, the unreadiness of the British stood out | hern, was an impecun ous newspa- in vivid contrast. with Germany's|per man in New York. where his fa forty years of preparation Britain | ther, an obscure, middle-aged actor, never anticipated such a conflict, To | was married to a very wealthy, for- quote Palmer "New army battal- midable "Tady, who dragged father ions which reached the front in Aug- | and son off to london, and did her ust, 1915, had had their rifles only | best to make them both over into for a month All winter the | English aristocrats. Jimmy gets into New Army battalions had been ar-| S50 many 'different kinds of scrapes riving in France. With them had that he earns the sobriquet of' Picea come the complicated machinery dilly Jim," and finally, after a par- which modern war requires The | tienlarly lurid episode, he gets sick staggering quantity of it was better of it all, and decides to go "back to proof than figures on the shipping America to "hunt for a job Then list of the immense tonnage which {the fun begins, A charming, red- goes (0 sea under the British flag . . haired American girl, a New York - - By Jan. 1st, 1915, a large proportion millionaire, and his would-be liter- of the officers and men of the orig-| ary wife, one or two international inal Expeditionary Force hdd perish- | Spies concerned with * secret of a ed Reservists had come to take the new explosive, seer! vice agents, vacant places, An offensiv( was out ex-pugilists; housen ..us and bogus of the question. All that the force English lords, enter the scene in mad in the trenches could do was to hold When the world wondered why it could not do more, those who knew the true state of zffairs wondered how it could do so much With flesh and blood infantry held against double its own numbers supported by guns firing five times the number of British shells," Palmer refers to the Somme offen sive of last summer the greatest battle of all tar That there was then a shortage of shells is illus trated by this incident "There a story of how one day a German battery, to vapy the monotony, began shelling British trench somewhat heavily Phe, British, in reply, put | up a sign, "you don't stop we will fire our only rifle grenade at you!' to whizh the Germans replied in the same vein, 'Sorry! We will stop'- and they did." Trench raids, of which we now so frequently read, were initiated by the Canadians, Palmer tells us "Credit for the trench raid," he writes, "which was developed through the winter of 1915, belongs' td the Canadians." The immortal heroism of the Brit-| ish battalions on the Somme calls forth the unstinted admiration of this correspondent. "How the Bride ish even took Mametz Wood | do not understand," he asserts; "or how thoy took Trones Wood later, for that matter, A visit to the woods only heightened perplexity. 1 have seen men walk "over broken bottles with bare feet, swallow swords and eat fire and knew that there was some trick about it, as there was about the taking of Mametz.' "he author pays a high tribute to the Canadians who withstood such violent attacks in the Ypres salient. When a Canadian officer was asked if he had organized some trenches that his battalion had taken his re- ply, "Howyean you organize pea soup?" fiféd a long-feit want in ex- pressiorf to characterize the nature of trengh fighting in that kind of terrain. Palmer then passes to a dis- cussion of the part played Ly the tanks, and gives them considerable eredit. He describes how they as- sisted the Canadian troops at the cap- ture of Courcelette, where one of AA A A AA Public Library Bulletin List of Twenty Popular Novel for April 3 as I in 80 Middle Pasture---Bithro, M Dark Tower--iBottome, P "Twixt Land and Sea--Canrad, Jos Hegiment of Womea-- Dane, © Mardin Valhant---Deeping, W Npare Room-<Fedden, Mrs I ot fieandon of the Engincers--Bindlos) Fur<-Bringers--Footner, H Bathing Man---0wynue, A Wilderness --Iitchens ols Passion for Life---Hocking: Jos Cursain of Fire--Hocking. Jos Richard Richard---Mearns. Hughes Peliv ile Congueror. Daybreak -- Nexo, , a / A Corner lsland--Oxenham, John Teuis. Fells, ~W Hisle, H. AW Ladin of the Pines dening confusion. Jim's thrilling love affair, like the rest of the threads in this lively story, comes to a suc ful" conclusion The hero possesses an unusual genius for creating trou- ble. but has the happy faculty of getting out of his scrapes with crédit, if not with glory It is #" book to chase away the blues; .a book to lay aside to read again-when yok feel a f good laughs are in order Ww DAMARIS By hatcas Malet. 316 Pages. Me- Clelland, Goodchild & Stewart, To- ronto, Publishers. An Anglo-Indian novel like "Da- marig" takes one back in thought to the palmy days of Kipling, when such things were much more common. Lu- cas Malet is the pen-name of the daughter of the late Charles Kings- ley, and. as some of her early novels have indicated, she possesses consid- erable individuality as a writer. "Damaris," like many of her other books, is untisual. It contains a (study of one of the strangest little girls ever pictured in fiction The pulse of the East passion- ate. mysterious, fascinating throbs hotly in t story of love and pas- sion It is? a picture, etched with splendid detail and clear insight into the worki~gs of human nature, of a strong man his domineering and not over-scrupulous nature hardened hy authority in India, with reins of government, and even powers of life and death in his hands--at grips with Fate. Amidst the horrors and hero- jsm of the Indian Mutiny, Charles Verity ---- who is madly in love with Henrietta, the wife of a wealthy banker rescues a young English- woman from a terrible fate. In pity for her grief and loneliness he mar- ries her. Resolutely shutting his eyes to the past, he devotes himself to her happiness. Damaris is born Henrietta becomes a widow, but be- fore the death of Verity's wife sets him free she marries again and re- turns to "India. Henrietta and Verity meet again at the Sultan-i-bagh, a majestic, but mysterious haunted native palace where Verity lives. OM fires flame afresh-- Fate plays strange cards-- the station is in an uproar, and in the battle and clash of wills that fol- low, .Damaris and her fanatical Puri- tan maid play unexpected parts. "Damaris" ds an interesting novel by a writer -who is too practiced ever to fail completely, but it will hardly be ranked as her best work. 'As a picture of Anglo-Indian life. however, it serves a valuable purpodii ds KNOWN MR. KENT THE U By Roy Norton, 278 Pages. Price £1.35, The Musson Book Co. To ronto, Publishers, After reading this book one can- not but regret that Mr. Kent had not remained "unknown." This bumptions young American is a lame i TTT els, reminds us of the young country- man who, after buying a bag of pea- nuts and a pink lemonade, imagines he.owns the circus which he has come in pc to town ro see "I have made and unmade kings," boasts our hero, and here is the keynote of the hook To speak ON frankly, it makes one tired to read such a book, it is so disgustingly egotistical and ridiculous Unf "For tunately, there have been many akin | Mem to it, but this is the limit. THE GREAT POETS OF ITALY ind painstaking labor. presses into one handy vplume that SHOCKED AT EXPENDITURES "ATRIUM" eral Had To Say. . i Toronto, April} 5.--William Donald (North Bruce), acknowledg- WHAT WILL EDISON DO? RRR === France Looking For Some = New Invention. Fo : Paris, April 5.--The attention =| France s fixed intently on Washing jo, wa for a vote by Congress |l==!on President Wilson's recommenda- n [{I=Z] tion that Congress declare that a » = state of ar. with Germany exists = Among the aracteristic newspaper = comment is that of the Temps, which iE says "It is a grea} date in the his- Ie tory of America, a great date in the type of American novelist who pro history of humanity. The decision voke a smile abroad but who must]NOt 10 mix in the quarrel: of Tope arouse chagrin and anger at: home had dotninate« American policy for We refer to the provincial but bom- more than & century. German vio- bastic writer who transports 4 smaft lence has been stronger than this Averican youth to Europe, where he will, and a new ally joins us. De- straightway confounds and dominates Spite the Monroe Doctrine; gespite} all the kings, emperors and states- immigralion, and despite all sorts of men who cross his path Herein we 188 binding two nations, the aggres- see spread-eagleism triumphantly five Dolley of ie Hohehzollerns has and nauseayngly pre-eminent. Buro-| gem), died . ane ea as ipean warriors, statesmén and patri- "What will Edison ut ots are pigmies and puppets beside |, naxnected discover will t fr at this square jawed and clean-ghaven | hi country?" are TY =o young American the is always being 'asked by the French 2 a, square-jawed and clean shaven, if|in view of the prospect of the Saited | you recollect!). This type of bom-|gtates joining the Entent. o bast, so prevalent in American nov-| sreatest curiosity is being manifes dl "i pssible new war inventions. #e | TANGO, BUNNY HUGS AND FOX TROTS, | the Love of Mike," Says Labor | ber When He Heard What Lib- | Me- | : . : 9 \N. ed jokesmith of the Liberal party ani] By Tuomas D. J. Farmer, D.C 1, 283 | SS a tor. House ROBOTS pa 3 an draughts to the patients already ages, $1.50. Tustrated. William | ponovan (Brockville), who holds a fie curs ye c3fy ou ve Briggs, Toronto, Publisher. similar position in the Conservative | y ravi - a) ca 3 o the rector 2 ie eT rge 4 i. It is perhaps appropriate that to- benches, turned the vein of his gen-| Tor ovatited, members. of Can: Bal plSns SUN ed 0 Ee Ir ral of the words \ day we should give some attention to tle irony on the Government House ada's expedith v forces origi- | with, however, certain innovations 14.-Col Walter Maughan, repre { the literature + and therefore the last night Both leaders were | rated with the Canadian Pacific Rall found valuahle by the French and senting the Canadian Pacific Railway life of one of our Latin Allies, the | Preaching thrift at Massey Hall. i way over two vears ago, when floor British railways in transporting men Company, received Col. Dr. Alfred ] Italians. This, however, was not the He came armed with a huge dic- | plans and interior arrangements for from the front There are three Thompson, Chief Medical Officer of £ object of the author; he had orig- tionary from which to enlighten the | ospital cars were submijted to the units of two cars each making six the Military Hospitals Commission; : inally conceived the ambitious idea house with regard to the meaning nf ] rector:General + of Supplies and cars in all, and the direction of the (ol. J. J. Sharples, Officer Command- i of writing 'The .Lives of the Poets," the word "atrium." ip <:mmon or | Transport. = At that time it con- cars rests with the Hospitals Com- ing the Military Hospitals Comn and ; i a truly cosmopolitan work; embrac.}Sarden language that mesus front, sidered that the time Was pe for mission. Each unit comprises what and Col" Emmott'E. Clark, Assistant i ing many nameg, memoirs and coun- hall," he informed the house. When them. However, it was later found is known as a-etinposite car and a Director General of Supplies and { tries As such & massive task was he read from the public accounts that | advisable to provide the greatest ward car.' The former contains six Transport, and conducted the party 5 beyond the power of any man, the $19,872.30 had been expended on the! comfort pos e in the transporia- cots, in addition to the quarters for on a tour of thorough Inspection i author decided to issue a separate marble work of the "front hall" at tion of returned invalided soldiers medical officers and nurses while the (through the composite cars and the Q work. treating of Italian posts and the Government House. Allan Stud- The Military Hospitals Commission latter car has accon rodation for ward car. The party came from : poetry. The result is highly satis- holme was moved to exclaim, "For therefore agreed to the Canadian Pa- fourteen patients « Everything has Ottawa expressly to make the inspec | factory. We Gursory readers. who the love of Mike.' ! vific Railway building six new hos- been provi ted, not only for the com- tion, and subsequently expressed f may wish to Tesrn something more ofl * For the floor of the "dancing. pital cars, fitted up on the most up fort of the returned {pvalida, but, for themselves delighted with the accom : h . stry of the land of Dante, Pet- house" $1184 had been spent 'for to-date lines from the point of view those in charge of the patie nis ae modation, which they Sald was, 30 A the poetry of 16 land ¢ ante, rol your tan nd bunny hugs and ! of hygienic apd medical efficiency.|accommodation for the nurses Is perfect in every detail that they could A rarch and Boccgeeio, are here pres. tr ar Whos . a 4 a o% {| All the necessary points for comfort equiv: 1t to that of a drawing-room offer no suggestions for any altera- 3 ented with a splendid opportunity. role. t i re ay: 2 the and easy transport have been consid- on a standard sleeper, with a toilet Later Captain Symonds, Archi i To Italy and to [Italian verse our cabinet: mi Bifvs. re attorney. ered. as well as the facilities for ren- room annex upholstered in leather, | of the Military Hospitals Coms- J own pdetry owes much. She it was hid A r going dering, every medical assistance to and all possible train comforts. Fa- | misgion, and Mr. 8 A. Armstrong who had been the foremost to draw of other expenditures, the men while travelling. ® The cilities have been provided for'the DireNtor of the Military Hospitals the attention of mankind from the © claimed were 'wastefully cars. which were inspected by the storage of baggage, and there is also ComnNssion, made a sinillar tour of dark and cloistéred pursuits of the | extravagant, Mr. "McDonald = con- Hospitals Commission, were turned |a kitchen attached, such as is con: inspecdion. The cars go futo opera- middle ages and by the installatio ed that it was the.dance hall with out or lines very similar to the origi- tained ina tourist sleeper, to enable tion immediately. of a more human literature to |i ts $1365 for decorating walls and AA A A RA A A AEN AB A x i A A PANN ANIA press on them the wealth of t ceilings that "got his goat. i own mings and the importance Meanwhile the minister of.educa- {ment House from sliding down the city and provincial di : 3 brief fight, sent the U-boat human lite outside and beyond jhe [tion was sending out circulars telling | bill. fact that the money hs » bottom with all the crew. The teachings of the ecclesiastics he | the teachers to be careful -lo save Altogether the both sides of the | the sale of the old gove | ship bears the marks of a shell fired was the first to proclaim of a ow | waste paper, and the minister of ag-| house, including Mr. McDonald, en - - buy the submarine, but escaped ser tort liberty to the rest of Europelpy | riculture was instructing people. to | Joved themselves hugely for halt an SENT SUB TO BOTTOM | ious damage. The engagement took the creation of a fresh spiritual at- till their back gardens and boii their | hour. That is all but Hon, Finlay in a : | place about 90 miles out of Queens mosphere of culture and intellectual potatoes with the skins on. *Would- | Macdiarmid, minister of public pio Freighter on Trip Over Had | town, nee freedom, which was destined in fu- n't that skin you?' guoth the editor | works, who had to reply . : wl ioe ~ ' ture ages to form the very life- from North Bruce. He was "thor- He attempted something of the Successful Fight, Miss Katie Conley left for Ottawa breath of European civilization. oughly disgusted" with this extre-| previous speaker's style, but finding St. John, N.B., April A Br hy o-day to resume her position in the Dr. Farmer's book bears many |Ya8ance Le himself unadapted to the vein, con- | freight steamer, 'which rrived in, House of Commons after spending evidences of eruditicn, deep research And then there were itéms for re-| fined himself to brevity, and defend-} port yesterday encounted a Ger-| ten da wi her parents on Wolfe He com- taining walls "to keep the Govern-|ing the building on the grouna of | man submarine on the ip over, wd | 1k v A AAA A AAA A AAA AR A A NAA A AANA ANA (Comforts for Returning' Heroes A a & ne : » ---- rp TRC MA special foods to be provided for the wounded soldiers when occasion arises The medical officers' quar- ters are fitted in thé form of & com- partment with upper and lower berths. and a small <dspensary OFFICIAL INSPECTION MADE * The ward car consists of one la ge room the length of a standard sleep- er, and lavatories at either end. Stan dard hospital cots are installed in both cars: the floors are covered with linoleum and the aisles carpeted. A special f@ature is the introduction of a "bad weather entrance." The com posite cars have two side entrances in addition to the usual ones at each epd. The side entrances, where the patients will be received, have been fitted with very heavy curtains which can be drawn closely in bad weather thus affording ample protection from which would take long and diligent research of encyclopedias to supply. The contents of this volume may be summarized under the following titles: Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, Mi- chel Angelo, Tasse, Alert, © Leo- pardi, and the Vision of Dante. That a Canadian, outside of university cir- cles, has not only devoted an enor- mous amount of time, but has also made a thoroughly serious study of languages and literature for the love of the thing and in the hope that his work may be of value to posterity, is a surprising dnd also a gratifying fact. 7 CANADA'S WAR. LOAN. Final Announcement Made by Sir Thomas White. , Ottawa,, April 5.--That the Eub- scriptions to Canada's Victory War Loan totalled 266,748,300, of which $60,000,000 was received from the chartered hanks, and $18,- 121,000 represented conversions from the 1915 war loan issue, was the statement made by Sir Thomas White, Minister of Finance. The number of subscriptions to the loan exceeds 40,800, which is over three thousand more than in the case of the loan of last year. Subscriptions of 'less than $25,000 represent a total of $82,880,000. Sir Thomas confirmed the announce- ment that the subseriptions of sixty milion dollars made by the charter- ed banks w not be accepted, this being unnecessary in view of the fact that the subscriptions exceed the $150,000,000 asked for by more than one hundred million dollars. DEAD FROM EXPOSURE. Mrs. Baker's Body Found. in . Tree. . Brackville, April 5.--Wednesday morning a searching party looking for Mrs. W. H. Baker, who disap- peared from her home at Bellamys on Sunday, found her body high up in a spruce tree near Mud Creek Bridge. The body was in a position where one would think it would he imposs- ible for her to reach, It is thought death was due to exposure. EE : Indan Brave Falls. Kedne, April 3.--Pte. Austin Henry Beaver, whose relatives live iat Chemung Indian Village, is anoth- er gallant Indian hero who has died for his country. With a number of other Indians from the same re- serve he went overseas with a Peter. oad to USiterstanding --Porter E H excuse for. any story. |) There is a v i ¥ 7 boro County battalion. "> Brockville in amassing testimony to the cures e few weeks everybody seems to be talking abo ut this great food cure. weak, nervous or anaemic have found in this well-known restorative the very assistance they needed to regain health, strength and vigor. This is the way they tell their experiences: . Dizziness oid wtayin Mrs. 15. O'Neill, Anne Street commended Dr * : grea imp pA NI Ae Food to many of Nervous Indigestion , Jmpreved_t Sor, roubled with nervousness, heart 'have ised it ow : { ling 1 ness and a general sult 3 he N I oe M I bow ' trouble, dizzi run-down eo ition tem, and it was only with aiffi- culty thac | conlll do my work I had doctored for some time with. ¢it much result, until a friend in of the sys- Ottawa advised me to try Dr. . Chases Nerve Food 1 did so, Mrs. I. Robinsen, 10 Havelock " and after taking a .reatmgnt St, Brockville, Ont, write 1 je. Ont found A great imrovement 1 wiffered from nervousness, epa sours 1 can now get a good night's vest lessness, headaches a ness plesenens ad and am able to du my work much Dr. Chase's Nerve F sre 1 neural more easily When I am not commended to me by a friend, so ve feeling just up to the mark I take I commenced using #t, and found back a few of the Nerve Food Pills, it of so much benefit that 1 con. ti t1 1 ' me thing and find great benefit from them. tinued the treatment until 1 was fully rec ore ar 3 1 woul ard 1 am glad to recommend the use completely relidved | was also Fe COM Men Ed of i i i at of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food to trouvled with constipation, and Chase's Nerve | ' y BOVE rt an weak anyone suffering from nerve find that ix freatment fas . wuffering from oer digos latio € stror. and 3 trouble of any kind" Heved m that too I have n . Hits inet) 20 Dit recommended Dr. Chase's Nerve to Seetthe doctor, but he told n Food to many of my friends, who Ee cure for me i 3 have alse obtained good resifitg Si k H h th fore tried Dr Chase's Nerve 4 Could Not Sleep ick Headaches [icisfore ried In Chines i . . 3 s hey vo helped me we > ) Easil Fatigued FL Hate, 262 Broek St 1 can no, eat mach be ol Mrs. T. Hutt, A7 Church street, y ' Trt, writes 1 can take solid food without ar Brockvilie, Onty jwrites: "My # w diffieiib i have taken four 3 nerves were in a very serfous ® and during that ye condition--1 could not sleep at Mr. Wim. H. Moore, Buell §t visness and 1 night, had frequent headach "Brockville, Ont, writes: 11 was sed 7 rom bile and would not stay alone in the tr ubled with dizziness and sick ed to Ke 2 house. Anx little noise would set stomach for some HNtile time: my sometimes there gr my nerves all going. Seeing your heart ad. in the newspapers, I sent for culation poor. a trial box of Dr. Chases Nerve and easily tired. [I commenced & that. Food, tried. ft, and before finish- treatment of Dr. Chase's Nerve "me [/ ing could see such an Improve- Food, and found almost mie. § ment that | continued the tread- diate reflef. 1 have taken about '¥ ment until 1 was completely cur- gix boxes of this splendid rom. vier 8 ¥ '- ed of all nervous troublé. { have edy, and Intend te #411 continue cided to try ud while taking as 1 f " Dr. Chases full treatment of 6 boxes for $2.50, at all dealers 6r Edmanson, Bates & Co. 50 cents a box, a good night's Nerves Exhausted J O01] ffected by Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. During 'the last Peisons who were 0] x TSN yw 1 rest, and de 18 #lone at Be sn iMculty at all in Ihe kn action was weak and oir- 1 became restless wishes Nerve Food P be talked into accepting a substitute. Imitations only disappoint. x