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| The best turn we can do for you is to re- mind you of our great clearance sale .which is now going on. {| The best thing you can do for yourself is tolook over your wardrobe. ke out a memorandum of anything you can use and come here at once and stock up all around. fl We'll save you dollars. Th 20 Per Gent Ott All Men's and Boys' Clothing and Furnishings i All sales for cash. Att tt ti Ne ALN AA, Art AA A Ni LIVINGSTON"S BROCK STREET the Way, But It Will Pay You To Walk A Little Out of SALE - - - DRESSES Less Than Half Price Our stock of Dresses is larger than it should be at this time of year, and to clear them out in one day we will gell them at prices never quoted in Kingston before. A tA A A A i, MUSLIN DRESSES, GINGHAM DRESSES, Crepe Dresses, Fancy Printed Voile Dresses. Regular selling price $2.98. Saturday, 98c DRESSES of Fine French Chambray and Spot de- signs. Regular price $3.50, $3.98. Saturday, $1.48 DRESSES Fine White Organdy and Jao Crepe, nicely trimmed with satin. Regular $7.00, $9.00 $10.50. Saturday, $3.98 ny Linen Wash Suits 16 ALL LINEN SUITS, colors grey, black, navy and linen shade. Suits sold regular $12.50 and $15.00. Saturday, $2.98 A At A A AAA AP Pl Pat Ni Silk Coats and Capes 0 Black Silk Taffeta Coats and Capes, suitable for afternoon wear. 'Coats sold regular at $19.75 to $27.50. . Saturday, $3.98 ~~ Corsets 17 DOZ. SUMMER NET CORSETS, with patent hose supporter, at regular 98c Corset. Saturday, 48¢c 11 Doz. Light Weight Batiste Corsets. This corset we always sold at $1.50. # Saturday, 98c TWO WINDOWS DRON AA Pt lM SEE THEM IN OUR THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG_ FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1014. =| THE _ BIGGEST PICNIC OF THE SEASON WAS THAT OF ST. JAMES. i ; | . nan------ Held at Brophy's voiut Thursday Afl- termvon--it Was Free From Acci- dents--Hesults of the Races, { About the last picnic of the season | was held on Tnursday alternoun woen | SL. James' dunday school pupus ana! ollicers went aboard tne steamer America and proceeded to lLoug 1s- land lark, where almost GOU made merry. - Without a doubt it was the largest and most successtul picnic eld this season and was free irom Il accidents. Those in charge, vin cluding Rev. T. W. Savary, werefom- ! plimented upon its success. There were in all thirty-one races. The winaers were : : i Maces for boys: + Twenty yards dash (Miss Coniegs class)--Wiltrid kvanh dup- per. i Twenty-five yards dash (Mr. Hayes' clags)~~vames Blomley, Harold Mont gomery. > i Throwing ball (Mrs. Partridge's class)--Harvey Graves, Bert Derry. i oe logge race (Mr. Johnson's )--Benny Davy, Benny Gee. | B8ack race (dliss H, Hague's class)-- ' Howard Christmas. Arthur Sills. I! Boot and shoe race (Miss E. Hague's class)-- Jack Prettie, James Arniel. { Iifty yards dash (Mr. Lyon's class) 'Howard Scrutton, George Max om. i One hundred yards dash (Mr. Cogs well's class)--Harold Farrar. ! One hundred yards dash (W. H Dalby 's class,-- Heary 1 wigg. 1 Men teacher and oflicer, thread the needle race--Mr. Hayes. One hundred and hity Yards dash, for all men of the congregation Mr. ! Sawyer. Swinuning, school - Harold am. Races for girls : Fifteen yards dash (Miss class)--Bag of candy for eaéh testant, Twenty yards class)--Mildred Dorothy Evans. Twenty yards dash (Miss E class) Marjorie Campbell, Smith. Twenty yards | Wilson's class) bil Purvis Twenty-five vards dash (Miss hy's class)--Francis Porter, Rose Tup- er. Thirty yarde dash (Miss Arniel's i class)--FKthel Amie, Dorothea Leslie. Thirty-five vards dash (Miss Cor- bett's class)--Winnifred Guild. Thirty-five vards dash (Miss Ew- sard's class)--May Goodearle. Forty vards dash (Mrs. Coggwell's class)--Gladys Maxam Forty vards dash (Miss class)--Ida Selby. Potato race (Miss Elliott's class)~ Mary King. Potato race (Miss Muckler's clars)-- [ Lititia' Turner. Peanut race (Miss Kirkpatrick's class)--Midora Walker. Thread the needle race (Miss son's class)--Pearl Arniel. Driving nails race (lady teachern)-- { Mra. Cogswell. Saventv-five vards dash, for all mar ried ladies--Mrs. Ashton Saventv-five vards dash. single ladies--Miss Homer Forster, all Fleet, the Max- boys of Frank Evans' coun dash (Miss Comers Burtch, Behnie Vince, Selby's Dons dash (Miss Florence Lorraine Irwin, Sy- Sel Wright's Wil- for all Wilson HALF INCH SHORT IN HEIGHT, Result Penitentiary Guard Was Not Accepted. Evidently the authorities at the Portsmouth , penitentiary intend to pay (Very strict attention to the rules and regulations regarding the tak-, ing on of men , to serve ss guards, owing to the fuss made over the guards who were found to be over age at the recent investigation there is a regulation which states that all men taken on as ° guards shall be hve feet nine inches in height A few days ago a young man was taken on the staff but | when he was lined up 'for hs urement it was found that he shy one inch and as a result he could | not hold the position. He just made five feet eight and a half, and as he has passed his growing time he will not *have a chance to fill the position: of guard. ) {And as | { | i i | meas- | was | -------------- \ Played Part of Chauffeur. f Geneva, July 17.--The king of the | Belgians, one of the most democratic of turopean monarchs. who has been spending the last three weess wu Switzerland, tells the following story: | " At Territet the king and queen were : motoring. His majesty was driving ! and there were no attendants. The | queen went into a shop to make some | purchases. © The king was standing near the car, reading a newspaper, when an American woman came out of the shop, jumped into the con- veyance aml bade the driver to drive her to her hotel. "Certainly, madam." replied the king, complying with the! lady's instructions. In the mean- | time the queen came out of the store and was surprised to find her hus- band and the car had disappeared. | Both guickly reappeared, howeves, and | their majesties laughed heartily ove the occurrence. SE rrquiries as to the identity of the American woman . were fruitless. 1000 Islands-Rochester. S. Caspian and North King leave at 10.15 a. m. daily except Monday for Thousand Islands, and at § p.m. for Rochester. ' The stage drivers who traverse Mont. real Road are up in arms over the state of condition of that thorouh- fare. The dust is almgst eight inches deep in some places and the result of this is due to the heavy sand vehicles that travel over it from the sand pit to the city. A good rain would be welcomed. ' Flv and mosquito killers at Gib- son's. "Double {14th | pravity of the people." {panied by the Duchess and and will reach Victoria 20th back in Ottawa on Sept. 6th. A King's Cousin Weds London Girl. | dunte" of F. B. McOurdy & Co., 86 and 88 Brock St.--H. W. Nelles, Manager. | 2.45 p.m., July 17th. Montreal. Cement eo. ii... iis iviiiinins Steamships l'oronto Railw Brazilipn .. iar | Gaqearpaniiniiae Shawinigan . . 32 | Dominion Steel Iram Power .., Coppers .. Smelters | Union Pacific . . United States Steel Irie ie Soo... a Northern Pacific , irooklyn Rapid Transit . American Can. ........ . New Haven Railway . ie Southern Pacifie marsenne ie SAR i | July . 1 Wheat-- Sept. Corn-- Sept... Oats -- Sept. MONTREAL OLD BQYS. Arranging For An Excursion For Reunion. The Kingston old/boys at Montreal are arranging for 'an excursion to Kidgston for the Old Boys' reumdion. | The secreary, Hugh C. Walkem, is send out letters to all the members of the association to ascertain just how many will take in the trip. If a sufficient number can be secured, a special rate will be seeured over the Grand Trunk railway and the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation company line, The graduates of Queen's univer- sity in Montreal have formed an assqciation and are contemplating taking in the 'trip to Kingston on July 27th, { Here Ld TO REDUCE THE STRENGTH Of the Army Service and the Engi- neering Corps. Ottawa, July 17.--The present strength of two units of the perman- ent force, the engineer corps and the army service corps is to be reduced by the minister of militia, it is announ- ced. The numbers of both units as at present. constituted are considered too | great, and Col. Sam Hughes intends | to reduce ,both of them to a work able size. The Canadian army - ser vicg corps is now one-third as great uatherically as that for the whole British army, in spite of the great disparity in the size of the Canadian and British foress. These units were constituted in heir present strength {en years ago. ry wr LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. | ---- I T. C. Carey Suggested as Bandmaster | For 14th. | Kingston, July 17.--(To the Edi-| tor): In view of there being a va cancy! in the bandmastership of the regiment, why, do the officers not try to secure the services of T.| C. Carey, a former bandmaster of | both the R. C. H. A. and the 14th.| Mr. Carey is again residing in Kings-! fon He is the son of one of the best British bandmasters ever sent to Canada, and did splendid work himself as instructor in years past --CITIZEN. Tenderloin Films Denounced. Erie, Pa., July 17.--Plays having their scenes laid in the Tenderloin re- gions of large cities and indulging in muck-raking were handed a solar plexus at the session of the State Catholic Federation. A resolution was adopted in' part as follows : "We insist . that Catholics shall not sup port by their attendance at such | theatricals as would expose crime, | oven though the aim is well mean ing We believe that fuch plays have a tendency to arouse the hidden de DUKE WILL START WEST | After Stav at Banff, Goes to Victoria, British Columbia. | Ottawa, July 17.--The Duke, | Connaught will leave Ottawa on his | 2rd, accom- | Princess i Banfi 16th, | August | be | western trip on July Patricia. from July They will 20th to stay at August on Their, royal highnesses will London, July 17.--A romantic cours ship culminated yesterday in the mar riage of Prince Louis of Bourbon, cou sin.of the king of Spain, and Miss | Beatrice Harrington, vy pretty Lom- don girl. The wedding was celebrated quietly in a London church without the knowledge of - the royal family oi Spain. " Insitt on White Rose flour. | "Double strength Jy poison pads.' Gibson's. ' Ezra ller. for thirty-gne years; turnkey at the county jail, Sand- | wich, has tendered his resignation. | Ingersoll Preshyterians have ex-| tended a call to Rev. Donald Me- | Leod, of North Vancouver. The salary: is $2,000, ' i Use White Rose flour to get best results. ' The congregations of Rirkfield and Bolsover, lindsay presbytery, have extended 'a hearty and unanimous call to Rev. Malcolm A. Lindsay, B.D. of Colborne, at a stipend of $1,100 and mansé. 5 The quality of White Rose never varies. Matthew H } ' i flour a recent. era- rricuitural Colleow, and '& son Winter, Wick- low, has been ap | banking houses of | Gibson's ! Gibson's. | -- INFORMED A POLICEMAN THAT HE THOUGHT HE HAD KILLED A MAN. But Investigation Showed That Man Did Not Suffer Much From Blow He Received From Baseball Bat-- Cases. in Police Court Friday. "Lowe over to the house here on Untarie street. 1 struck a fellow wiih 4 basevall vat, and 1 tank that I weust have Killed him." this was the starting statement William Chatfield, a young man, made to Constable Samuel Arniel, when he met the latter on i Street near Johnson about o'clock on Thursday night. field was minus his coat, collar, tie and boots. He was under, the in- fluence of liquor, and vety much excited. He was taken in charge and Constables Arniel and Mullin- ger then made a visit to his home on Ontario street, and Here the constables placed under arrest woman named Matilda Cuklin who was also under the influence of liquor. A man was lying on foor in a dated condition, and he was the person who evidently had come in contact with the baseball bat. He had a wound on the side of his head and appeared to be unconsci- ous but when Constable Arniel told him to get up he did so and appear- ed none the worse for his experi- ence. He was not drunk so the po- bce did not take him in charge. In the police court on Friday morning, Chatfield and the woman were charged with being drunk and disorderly Both pleaded guilty and a fine of $3 and costs, with the optidn of fifteen days, was impos- ed upon each The scene at the Ontario street house showed every evidence of a lively row having occurred there Several windews were smashed and when the constables arried | they found a woman sweeping up the broken glass. It is stated that the woman and two men also had a live- lv fight out on the road in front of the house. "Your worship, I will do thing this morning to get my dom." This any- free- statement came from Cor- nelious McMahon, who has heen coming ro before the court from time to time during the last fifteen vears "How about the 'prohibited magistrate . "I'll do it," replied McMahon. "And I'll trust; vou to nut your- self on the list." replied the court The hot weather of Thursdav was too much for Cornelius and he took more than his share of liouor A nalice constable found him stretf. oched out in a vacant lot on King straat Dougall Camnhell arrested for he ine drunk sald he wonld leave the cite if miven his liberty. He drop- red in here on a hoat and was not puxions--to-stav.--He-was-given-- tit ta mack h.s hasgage and «pv ca0d-bye to his 'riends. yourself on asked the putting Hat *"? vy arn Hogan-Kemp Wedding. A quiet wedding was solemnized at the residence of Rev. A. P. Mer- shop, University avenue on Thurs day evening, when that minister united William Henry Hogan, son of George Hogan, and Ada May Kemp, daughter 0° Monty James Kemp, a'l cf this -erily The bridesmaid was Miss Raby Vartin, and the grooms man wag John Howard. The groow's gift to the bride was a necklace; to the bridesmaid a pendant and to the groomsman a scarf pin. Mr. aad Mrs. Hogan will take up their res! dence at the home of the groom's father, 218 Sydenham street. Prisoner is Dying. On Friday morning, Dr. I. G. Be- gart, jail physician, ordered a pris- oner named Northmore to be tak- én to the General hospital as he was in a very bad condition. The man is serving time on the charge of va- grancy.. It is thought that he will not live. : » Historic London Banks Combine. July 17.--Tweo historic here have decided to London, combine, namély Coutts and company and Roberts, Lubbock and company Both are private concerns. \ids to health in hot weather af "Jee cream bricks." "Cooling health salt.' "Citrate of magnesia.' "Fluid magnesia." Fnos salt "Cerebos Health salt." "Double strength fly the | Dresses To-morrow morning at 9 o'clock we will place on sale 34 women's summer dresses in allover em- . broidered flouncing "with single or double flounce, some trimmed with French and German Valiencien- nes lace and insertion, low neck, short sleeves; oth- ers trimmed with wide fillet insertion and lace, sizes 94 to 40. w v FINE WHITE SWISS EMBROIDERED DRESS- ES FINE WHITE MULL EMBROIDERED DRESS- ES SKY BLUE MULL DRESSES : ' These will be offered to-morrow at less than half- price. $18.00 for $8. $24.50 for $11.95 A A Pe tA A Pi tA 6 Only Women's Linen Dresses 4 White Linen and 2 Blue, ranging in value from $17.50 to $28.50 Your Choice To-Morow $7.50 25 Only Fancy Parasols { The very newest in plain silk, no two alike and fancy Wash Parasols Your Choice at One-Third Off ' You May Want Some of These | WIDE BLACK VELVET RIBBON | ROMAN STRIPE RIBBON FOR GIRDLES | SILK CREPE DE CHENE WINDSOR TIES NEW SUNSHINE COLLARS | LONG WHITE SILK GLOVES | LONG BLACK SILK GLOVES John Laidlaw & Son | poison pads." . Some One Dollar Shoes ~ Saturday A Table Full of Ladies' Patent Tie Shoes, Good $2.50 Quality, Only in Size oe 4'5, 5 and 6. ~~ $1.00 a Pair The Lockett Shoe Store