% THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. THURSDAY, PECEUBER 14, 1911. of Art! Free! 'Write for it today it makes choosing You run 3ale delivery, 20d chicerlully 'money are Ryrie Bros., Limited Canada's | Largest Jewelry House das, Ryrie, Pres, : Harry Ryrie, Sec.~Treas. 134-186-138 Yonge St. TORONTO WOOD FUEL For a good Fuel at a low cost try our Hardwood Slabs They are sound and dry; in fine burning § condition. Prices $2.75 the half cord delivered 3. Anglin & Co. Cor. Bay & Wellington. "Phone 66. " ® USEFUL THINGS FOR CHRISTMAS. We have them--a big variety and at all prices. Read this lst: Men's and Boys' Sults. Men's nud Hoys' Overconts. Gent's, Furnishings, Underwear, Sweater Contin. Sox, Hats and Capw Handkerchiefs, Suspenders. Collnrs, Ties, « Boots, Shoes sind Rubbers, ISAAC ZACKS 271 PRINCESS STREET, CLEANING MEN'S CLOTHES, : . Let us clean and press your suit, overcoat or dress clothes. They will last twice as long | with the kind of attention we can give them. / R. PARKER & 00, Dyers and Cleaners, $9 Princess St. Kingston, Ont. | FONG SING jit ke mar tq 383 pcr MENS ETE ) {Great Waterways ton, Ontario, at $6 per year. Editio WEEKLY BRITISH WHIG, 16 day and Thursday morning at §1 a postage had to be added, making p per year. Attached is one of the best Job stylish, and cheap work; nine impro TORONTO Suite 19 and 20 Queen City Ch THE WHIG, SEVENTYEIGHTH YEAR DAILY BRITISH WHIG, published at 306-310 King Street Kings- 8 at 2.30 and 4 o'clock p.m. ages, published in parts on Mon- ear. To United States charge for ce of Daily $3 and of Weekly $1.50 Printing Offices in Canada; rapid, ed presses. THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO. UNITED J. G. Elliott, President. * Leman A. Guild, Sec.-Treas. OFFICE: : mbers, 32 Church Street, Toronto. H. E. Smallpiece, J.P., representative. Fone Some remarkable statements are be- ing made at the annusl convention of insurance men in New, York. ,These men discuss a wide range of subjects. For instance our own Dr. Macdonald, of the Globe, thinks it the function if not the duty of the imsurance men "to use their influence towards . ihe enactment of the proposed Anglo-Am- erican Arbitration treaty." At the first glance it would not appear that the insurance men had any special con earn with the treaty. But the doctor s:e8 the point, "Of all men," he ro- marks, "you 'are responsible for the earnings and savings of millions of the people's money, and you and must be, unfalteripg advocates of international peace." At Wednesday's session are, President said a DOING ADVANCE WORK. hundred millions were annually wasted Wa, the business « of life insurance?" How ? The polieyholders were not stayers. They were content to in- sure for a time. They were not con- cerned with the maintenance of their rolicies, reserves, unnecessary sonable taxes, and excessive postponable causes." Here is a truth, simply stated. insurance men in their generation are' 'ery progressive, 'They are doing a great service in educating people upon the value of human life. They are enlarging upon their usefulndss and in the mattér of hygiene, and practical experiment, are leading in the world's | work, ~ Day, of the Bquitable Life, news comes from Alberta, liberals in the legislature, and dissension, Good where the after some dispute have become united in a railway po- licy, and the government of Judge the most cordial support of all the party. The trouble originated in the differ which followed the the Alberta and Railway. Init cer- were interested and Sifton rejoices in ences of opinion abandonment of tain Americans the bonds in conmection with it the Morgan banking house floated in Eng- land. The scheme was launched #hur- redly.* The sale of the bonds was cer. tainly hasfy. » and = the money was forthcoming before there was really any use for it, The liberal party-- even the liberal government--divided upon, the merits of the scheme. It led to the retirement of Hon. Mr. Ruther- ford, Alberta's first premier. The Sifton government faced two difficulties. One was to receive posses- PROGRESS IN ALBERTA. claimed, as it has to pay the bonds when they mature. The railway com- pany has claimed the money and de- manded that the work proceed. Next it has been hampered in developing a new policy, and its plan of railways and trunk roads, designed to de velop the natural resources of the province, meets with general approval, When it was announced, and the legis- lature fairly undertook its meaning, there was an end of the insurgency and the liberal party again became a happy family. One thing more stamps the quality of the legislation to which Alberta is committed. The province is being di- vided into townships for the purposes of municipal government, and the basis of taxation in land values. Here is one of the newest governments in Canada with the newest 'ideas respect: ling taxdtion, and Ontario, under the antique Whitney, fights tax reform as is vicious in, both something that sion of the $7,000,000 which Alberta principle and practice. IMPERILLING The dismissals of public servants be that the not so eager for continue. It may fede- ral government is 'this as it is alleged to.be. The party, in opposition for so many years is simply desperate and it is being driv- en to the last resorts. Mr. Borden's experience may be Sir James Whit: ney's over again. Sir James, in op- position, did not believe in the spoils system, but he had hardly settled himself in office until the clamours of the party made him first mad and then merciless. He resisted his party for a while, and then--the heads of the grits rolled into the basket. The federal government is tommit- ted to reform in connéction with both- inside and outside branches of the civil service. It is. this fact that is making the demand of the office-seek- ers so fierce and persistent. What it is outside of parliament and away from the capital has the re- motest idea. Some changes cannot be objected to. They are inevitable with all changes of government and should make employment under any govern no one Drinking disinfected water, . eh? What does that mean? The deeper one goes fiito' this subject the less he likes it. Hon. Mr. Pelletier, the postmaster general, announces thai the govern ment has abaddoned the idea of a Canadian navy. Yes? Will Hom, Mr. Borden make an announcement to this effect ? The editors of the Toronto World and Telegram have resumed their kind offices as advisers of Sir James Whitney. They are posing" just now as his mentdrs and he may not like it. Listen ! He's feeling for his: club. Hott. Dr. Reaums has been elected by six votes, thiy may disappear in a recoynt. And he represents the electoral divisions which itute Fallon's diocese. What is the THE SERVICE. et -- Some changes and ment less in demand. are not in the public interest, they must be protested against. It was a great mistake to change the head of the Ifternational Water- ways Commission. Mr. McGrath, the new chairman, may be a clever man, but it will be long before he can be as conversant with many details as Sir George Gibbons. So the Mist nam- ed should at least have been retained on the commission. The-Montreal Har- bour Commission may be changed, but ite head has, at .great personal sacri fice, and expense, fortified himself for the public service, and his removal will be a distinct public loss. Finally the deputy. ministers "are threatened; pot bechusé . they are in- competent, but becanse their places are wanted for others, These men are the experts on whom the government depends for efficient service. They should be non-political experts, the men who will continue to serve the pedple no matter how elections go. Failure to recognize this fact must operate disastrously to the publie service. : or " EDITORIAL NOTES. ~ r-- fulsome in his praise. Perhaps he will revise his tribute now that Mr. Mac Kay goes back to the legislature to advocate progressive Mr. Rowell 'was a fine man--a man of scholarship, of high character, of worthy and admirable ideals--until he What does the heavy falling = away in the total vote polled in tHe local Their indifference led to the | enormous 1 Iready it| - ug: 088 A endy stated, and "lring, but if fault there is in his pre- comes from the needless borrowing of | VERY GREAT PROBLEM AT WILL NOT BE SETTLED BY THE ELECTION. : - The Boy Question a Big One--The Dull One to be Studied, Not the Must be Seriously Considered. Montreal Herald, _ The election controversy in Ontario is helping to restore education in a front rank. among subjects of popular study. Oatario has a pretty good sys- tem of education, but good as it. 1s, there is much complaint over a part- ial breakdown in the supply of good teachers in the rural parts. Iu the cities the criticism tends to go somewhat deeper. Indeed, in all cities, there is some complaint that no boy or girl who goes to school wants to do the kind of work that tsomeblody has 10 do when school days wre over. Possibly the extent of the 4 is overestimated. Mankind is everywhere as.jazy as it dare be, but the need to live does to produce the habit of work, and, fike other hab- its, few who acquire it ever quite break. from it. The judgment of a boy is not uner- ferring the life of 'a bank clerk or lapsing, unrea- {bbok-keeper, to that of moulder, mach- loss of inist or drayman, a perfectly truthful life due to reasonably preventable and Person will admit that it takes a good deal of imagination, where one has 4p BO previous experience, to make these \ The | pitisuits look mviting to the healthy- minded boy. There may be ways of turning the boy's mind in the direc tion of bricklaying and plumbing, of making the girl © #6¢ how her future happiness "way" be'bound up in a knowledge of the arts"of house-keep- ing, but there is not verg/much in- genuity "exercised in bringing them wo see these things this way'! Another unavoidable , difficulty" is that arising from the presence in the same class of the bright and the dull, particularly in the case of boys. It is the bright boy who sets the pace, but it is the dull boy who determines how far the class can go. Here in Mont- real one of the grave defects is that when the dull boy stops school the bright boy stops too. It is mot uni- versally so, but there are a good many schools where it works that way. The dull Boy knows enough of books to scorn bricks; the bright boy has to turn to, driving a coal cart when he ought tb be on his way io a. uni- versity. No rule can quite cover such cases, but, especially in the case of the boy whose parents are poor, there ought to be special attention given to see that he "in not stop going be- fore being brought to sight of what is for him the Promised land. The boy, as boy, and the bright boy, are as Cecil Rhodes has emphasized in terms of startling magnificence, two essentially different propositions. FIRST CHRISTMAS RUSH. The People Flocked to the Stores on Wednesday Afternoon, Wednesday "afternoon was the first fine 'day this week and as a result the streets in the down-town section were crowded from early in the afternoon until the shops closed. Most of the people, have done very little buying as yet and will have to crowd jt mto a few days now. Next week most of the stores will. be open evenings and this will mean that there will be a lot of listless, tired clerks for the next two weeks, December Rod and Gun. Full of winter flavor and reminis- cent of the time of year is the Ve cember (Christmas) number of Jtod add Gun in Canada. '*Lost in a Ma« nitoba Blizzard," 'Animal Sanctuar- ies in Labeador," and the "Literature of Angling" show the wide interest created by this number and illustrate the manner in which sportsmen of the most varied tastes are catered to. There are plenty of sporting articles from 'seal hunting to bear hunting, igcluding that most strenuous. sport of all-mountain climbing. A fine Christmas present 'is a subscription to Canada's leading sportsman's ma- gazine, Ra , Buy Christmas "kodaks apd cameras at Best's. A full course on picture taking and picture making free with every camora during December. By all means buy where you can have the work thoroughly taught. A photographie man who knows how teaches you in the simplest way. "Ihe sweetest story ever told," Liggett's chocolates, $1 Ib. Mahood's drug store. Ald. C. H. Hartman will be the con- servative candidate for Brantford mayoralty on a Hydro-electric policy. James Young, an aged bachelor, of C , was found dead in a gully from e the legislature for greater power to enforce underground i The place for real ley Bros.' store, secret of financial success Sout every cent and make every cent count. : : * wiring. bargains. Cruphe Smart One--Some Reflections That Xposure. peo) Hamilton board of control will ask BIBBYS™ ONE-PRICE MEN'S AND "%{ BOYS' WEAR STORE. See Our Handsome > Overcoats, $15. (0 Overcoats See our New Protector, $10.00 See our nobby Speedway, $15.00. 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Neal, the chairman, George Mills, in a few apt remarks, introduc- edrthe speaker. Mr. McPherson took for his subject, "Ihe Past And Present In China." He spoke from four standpoints, politieal- ly, commercially, educationally and religiously. China has been changing for rs back and will continue to do so De better. The people in the past had great confidence .in their rul- ers andl showed great loyalty to the state. But at the present time 'the of- ficials are hated by the people. The 'speaker said he believed the present revolution was for the benefit of the Chinaman realizes that there unre many things he can learn from the people of the west, and is imitating them: The young meu are doing the 'great things, commercially and scien- tifically. The (Chinese women are com- ing more and more to the front and are seen "in the stréews and places of 'ia with the men. Etvacational matters are gradually growing better. In 1905 the old scheme of education was done away with. The government scoools, as' wet, are not satisfactory, as disciplive is very loose. Science is making great strides and a technical school will soon be established in Hong Kong. Religiously, the country is experienc- ing a new eral! The outlook for mis sions is very bright," as the Chinese, all , are thirsting for the gos pel. There is no commtry where a mere complete education is retjuired in a man, Now is the chmch's opportun- ity to save one' of the most hard: working and cleverest people in the world. 1 Want Colin A. . Many residents of Victoria ward are anxious that Colin A. MN LIST YOUR;PR For Sale Bales Negotiated Fire Insurance OPERTIES NOW or to Rent. Rents Collected Conveyancing and Real Estate ~ E. Blake Thompson, OVER NORTHERN CROWN BANK. | 'Phone 286. MARKET SQUARR KINGSTON, ONT. at ies John Tate, Canadian Pacific peg; and formerly of Ontario, has been appointed tendent of the western lines. Fifty men are in the burning mine Even fresh nuts what they are cracked up to be. 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