i RR BN NEE : CORBETT' 2 3 = 3 : Oo $ -- FELT 'ROOFINGS Carey Asphalt © © Sparkloid Mica > vy Surety ply. Prices accor the quality. bd S. lin & Ang k Co. * Mellington _Stroet "Phone 66. to f THE DAILY BRITISH tario, at $6 per year. ed, making price of pruitia; Sorning wt § Lg us: ut A and cheap work; nine . "Ontario 'has not had aireal hearty, intelligent and: aggressive commis- of agricultige since the late Mr. Dryden went out of.office. It had, under Dryden, asd he con- tinued under other farmers-general, (a better name or title}, Mr. James, the deputy commissioner *who was a stu- dent and an administrator, bug he was careful not to shine, or appear to shine, to the disadvantages of his al- leged superior. { When Hon. Mr. Monteith was de feated the government of which he was a member should have provided him with a seat. Failing te do that --and by it to show their appreciation of Mr. Monteith, who was a Sery man, one of the best alg the disposal of the premier--My. James should have been promoted. Instead of that he the aide of Mr, Dufi, who is an awful failure, and Mr. Maclean, of the Toronte World, gives him a proper trimming. Mr. Maclean is a farmer as well as editor and publish: and he knows how hadly the a agri- cultural interests of the pwovince have sioner was made or, '* THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, EE SATURDAY. JUNE 20, 1912. FC ma FA WH1G, SEVENTYNINTH YEAR ass at at 3os-a1e King Street, Kingston, On- bisnea ini parts on Monday an ] os as for Dostage ad Re en, F he bot a Fraiag Ofc 1a Cosa rth, SSR, THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED J. ©, Eliett, President. Leman A. Guild, Ses~Tress. | ------------ De---- romoNTO) OFFICE. Adults 15 and 30 Queen City Chambers, $1 Church Street, Toronte. H. BR _Saafiviscnd. Pa representative. | LOST-HON. MR. DUFF. rp cms] "ERR been looked after. He as not hesi- tated to call attention to the manifest 4ailures of the government, and to the responsibilities which rest upon the premier in continuing an incompetent in office. Mr. James accepted a call to the fad- eral service. His ability was well known, and a new government realized the imporiance of delegating to him a work for which he has special quali- fication; Meanwhile the agricultural interests of Ontario are suffering. The department of which Mr. Duff is "the headgdoes not lead in the dispussion of live and 'pertinent subjects. It does not send out, as it ought to do, bul- Jetins. with regard to issues in which the farmers need advice, It does not 611 the place in public life for which it was designed. Mr. Maclean is right. The agricultural department has for- feited the respect and support of the farmers. The World intimates * that the commissioner of agriculture lost himself, and so far as Ontario is will not grieve if he has concerned it re mains Jost. * The date, London Chronicle, of a recent contained this reference to a municipal experience that is not with- out some interest in hingston : "Wirong criticism was forthcoming al a meeting ot the Nottingham cor- poration, as to the extent to which the profits on municipal trading eon- cerns are utilized in relief of rates, it being contended the practice constitu- tes a grave injustice, particularly to rs LADIES' SUMMER CLOTHES, We are experts in cleaning fine summer ciothe:. By ou r French Dry Cleaning we clean thoroughly without ripping apart. No damage to delicate material, R. PARKER & CO, Dyers and Cleaners, 0 Princess St. Kingston, Ont. FURNITURE WANTED, Anyone 'having Furnitu othes, Boots to Bell drop a i. SUGARS ng of on oO posite Craigs Whoterale Stoves, d be- Ontarip Street, - Dr. Martel's Female Pills Nineteen Years the Standard. Prescribed and recommiended for paws Slimants a Melentifivatly remedy » worth. Peautt trom ele Thee' in yok wo. pre- The and permanent. For sale at all drag stores. FONG BING gt fomeved 32. to $3, Princess 'ork guaranteed. ANTIQUE FUR new, for Sale. FURNITURE. Mitr line in the city. ayy. sell or exchange. GOODS mousEHoLn and Sold. If you are giving up house, I will an goods. your buy _{triotic oC of eleetricity and gas. From Nottingham "gas undertaking £39,000 had been taken this year, and several members 'of the finance com mitlee resigned in protest, but some had since rejoined the committee. The opinion was expressed by one speaker that the time had arrived when, ip the interest of the consumers general ly in the country, parliamentary aet ion should be taken to stop undue raiding of municipal profits." In England the public. utilities have been managed with greater care than in the United States and Canada. The people in the old land have had a pro- the busi- larger experience and they have fited by it. They public husiness, like the private successful, must be gov the same rule. A plant of must be maintained effi: cost 'must not and the interest on have seen that ness, to be erued by any kind ciently, Its original only be provided, the sinking fund, but wear and tear PLUNDERING CIVIC FUNDS. For mt bmn also. Acadents hava to he anticipated, for they will sometimes happen. Hence the need of a mainienance and depréciatipn actount which should be as sacredly guarded as the sinking fund, which no municipality nowadays thinks 'of attacking. In Nottingham the existence of a good fund, in con: nection with - the light department, seems to have been a temptation which soine men could not resist. They stole from it, with the result that some members of 'thé city's finance committee resigned. They did this in order to emphasize the that had been done. The act may have the desired effect and it may not. The protest of W, G. Craig, while member of the Kingston against the raiding of the water ° de- partment, did not seem to have the desired effect, 'The ™swuncil condoned the offence, but that did not make it right. The fact remained thai the money of the water department. was wrong council, grossly misapplied, and with the re- sult that later expenses had to be in- curred, in conrieckjon with the water which could not be met out restoration; and depreciation service, the fund. The London Chronicle is correct, in that nothing can save the municipality from the \bnglers and plunderers but a and sundry who trespass of assuming law that severely penalizes all it. The imperial government Bas many advisors, and some of them are self- appointed. Chief of them is the" Im- perial Maritime League, whose mission is to save the empire for those whose vietory "would spell the ruin of our It is composed of many pa- people, including retired ad- mirals and generals, who have been accustomed to carry out the orders of others and are dictating the condi- tions under which governments may now exist. The League is free to at- tack any government, but so far its assaults have been upon the liberal government. A pamphlet has been issued by the League. It is the production of H. F. Wyatt, whose deep concern is how to avoid starvation during a lohg war. Wyatt has dug up the report of a roy- al commission which, in 1903, report- ed that in the event of conflict the food supply of Great Britain would not last longer than two months. Two race." ll things followed. The British shipping Sof commercial cruisers--~thirty-six ¥ [two years was recommended by a com- had to be protected by a whole fleet m mittee of admirdfs--and if the British merchant ships were manned and equipped there would be a hundred 'of . ~~ -- SOME UNOFFICIAL ADVICE. I sn them. The larger the number the less panic in England. An attack from Germany It may occur the sooner, in order to carry out the plans of the German government before Lhe social get in control with thelr restric- and non-military policy. The after providing the com- and equipping the is to pags an act put- food supply at the government, be distributed as it directed, and sold at such prices as it might determine. All is now ex- pected. ists tive next move, mercial cruisers merchantmen, ting the entire command of the to this indicates the extent to which theja League is busying itself with great and pational events. The league is, of course, patriotic. Why does it not confine its advice to the admiralty, which has to do with the care and direction of the navy, and which must be impressed if the advice is sound ? One does not want to judge it harshly, but the conclusion he gets from a reading of the pamphlet is that the League is given to trou ble rather. than to good works. Only the admirality gan pass upon the mer- its of the League's plan, and my lord Winston =~ Charchill's opinion of it would be very interesting. The Poterbore Review says Parker toined a mew word, "effect unfe,' in referring to reciprocity. § | Whaat 4s there 'neve-about it ? Our city engineer oer. wanlad a. i mew steam voller. = Couldn't he buy, cheap, the machine that did the work sq well for Taft in the Chicago con vention? x i i ---- atsaet. aud King street EDITORIAL NOTES Judge A New Yerséy woman followed a neighbor to New York and horsewhip- a] lot of God-forss rails sod fered _ the chairmanship of the way yommission. - Cau bé mak The Killama and Mabee standard before him. Ts he equal to them fo the demands of the hour?' position is very "The New Sin" 5 are or The trying is the name 'of a Fogland. It is odd, and it out a lesson and a moral word it'is a defence with- in = is of suicide, and suicide may want a justification im some places, ------ Champ Clark could not be elected if he were the democratic candidate morrow. -would dislike to see him elevated to an office which to- Canadigns requires more wisdom apd diplomacy on the part of the occupant than he seems 10 possess. Artin Hawkes thinks the cure the patronage evil is publidty. publicity will not put an 'end to grosser partizanship which and which Mr. Foster delgmates damnsble. What is a little more spibe, and they want that litile Jong. for But the prevails as the ministers want will Belleville will not Awording fo the Mr. Northrup, M.P., tenance. the dismissal of any public official in his district whom charges cannot be laid and sustained, Mr. Northup is not likely to politically on that account. The pity is that he did not get a place in the government... He surely univ it. Ontario coun- against suffer CAUSTIC CRITICISM THE TORONTO THE HON. WORLD AFTER Mit. DUFF. Does Not Know His Duty--Shame- fully Neglects It--=Some God-Fore saken Farming-Government is Ree sponsible. Toronto World (Conser The World would fike the Hon. James Duff, riculture, is at undertaken the the interests of proving farming tario. * What has he ive) to know where minister of ag- this moment, He has 1ob of looking after the farmers and in- conditibns in Om fact that to sav to the +] thousands and thousands of calves are being unnecéssarily tario this very slaughtered in On- year, when they should be kept and fed for 'beef 7 A heel famine threatens the whole country, and nothing pavs so well raising theef cattle if intelligently followed Does Mr. Dufi know that there's a en ¥arming heing done in this province under his supervision, and that he ought to get busy on the job of reforming ita? So far as we can see, half the cause ofbad farming in "Ontario 'is made up by bad roads, by lack of drainage and by neglecting to "raise suflicient feed. Many 'of our farmers are muddling through as best they can and as casy as they can, for some reason or other. If the are bad, they won't buy feed, and if the ground is can't raise feed, and they as easy as they may. They want to be wakened Mr. Dull has uadertaken the ing it. Is he wakening he getting them teaching them as roads and haul not dry they get through up, and job of do- them up? 1s good roads? ls he how drain their land ? Is he showing them how much more money they can make by selling a steer at 370 than they cam by sell ing a calf for $4? -ii-Ms: Dufi has not something better to suggest he ought to let someone else try, Sir James Whitney is equally responsible with Dr. Duff. This is a very: busy world these days, and men who un- dertake public responsibilities must discharge them or let someone else try. Also, the sale as well as the slaugh- ter of brood stock to-day of the erimes in Ontario, and Ontario pill 'be a poor farming province as long as this is allowed to continue. As we said, Mr. Duff must waken ap the farmers and show them how to do their duty to their land and to their country, and to their herds. But has anybody seen the farmer general for some days past ? Perhaps he is at home on his own place get- ting a new tooth put in his horserake against the emergencies of the hay harvest, which ought to be og next week !| Bul Ontario is falling away as provinee of good farming. § z - Historical Papers. The Napanee Peaver says: Matthewson, Napanee, Toronto, has loaned the Historical Society some copies! of the British Whig, printed in Kingston in 1537 and 1843. An igferesting. item in one of the papers is a record of the death of Mr. Matthewson's grandfather, James Mattfiewson, formerly M.P.P., for the esunty of Frontemac. He was for many years: one ofthe principal lum- her merchants in Canada West. rn to 18 one Niel BD. moving te play which has had a run in London, BIBB Kingston's One Price Clothing Store hey 2 - Y'® 'S, Limited 2 JULY and AUGUST EARLY CLOSING 5 ocock During these two months we- are going to close store at Five o'clock every afternoon ex- cept Saturday. Saturday Evening We Close 10 p.m Real Panama Hats At Wholesale. Prices. $8.00 and £7.00 Real Panamas. Bibbys' Price a AAAS, $5.00 Fass $4.00 $6.00 and $5.00 Real Bibby's Price - . "4 " iy whi. Men's Suits Two piece Flannel Suits, | made with cuff bottoms, belt 196.50 straps, ete. Bibby's Spec ial] Two piece Suits, Home-| - spuns, neat pin dot. Plain $10 00 Greys, ete, Bibby's Special " Scotch in mixtures, $15 Do (ireens, ete. Garments, Cheviots, neat Fawns, Greys, Hand 1 Tailored Bibby's Spegi: ul West of England Worsteds, - New Browns, Genteel Greys, Handsome Blues, Expert Tail- wh oring. New Gordon Models, | #3 Vs Bibby's Special Sale of . Children's Straw Hats Hib by.s Prige 50¢ and 75¢ qualities. 25c. BIBBY"S Limited Men's and 78, 80, IN MARINE CIRCLES. Movements of Vessels in and Out of the Harbor. Ford River, loading Richardson's wharf, will > to-night, for Charlotte fhe steambarge Westport was in port, with a cargo of lumber from Ottawa, and cleared for Ogdensbur The schooner Julia B. Merrill ar rived from Oswego, with conly ior Anglin's. Tho schooner Katie Focles arrived in port, this morning, from Oswego, with coal for R. Crawford. The schooner Major Ferry for Oswego The steamer Missisquoi was in port froth Gananoque, on Saturday. M.T. Co's elevator: The tug son arrived from Montreal, with three light barges, and cleared, with the barge Hilda; to [Gad coal at Oswego: the steamer Turret Chief, grain laden, from Fort William, is on the way discharge at this elevator. The steamer Geronia, of Picton, which makes the trips between Char- lotte and Quebec, arrived at Folger's wharf, on Friday, at 430 p.m., and left ot 5.30. : The steamer Toiler, which has been in the Kingston Shipbuilding com- pany's dock for repairs for the past few weeks, haz been, finished, and will pe floated out of the dock, likely, Sat- urday mi The er Wahcondnh called at the dock for a pilot, on her down trip Saturday morning. Swift's whari : The schooner feldspar at clear, cleared Faner to Steamer Kingston, down and up; steamer Aletha; down and up; steamer Rideau King, down, from Ottawa; steamer Buena Vista, wn, from Smith's Falls: steamer Rideau Queen cleared for Ottawa. The steamer Britannic was down, Friday afiernoon. i The steamer North King cleared, ap) the Iske, on her first trip of the eas son, Friday night. . At Davis® Drydock. The barge Hinwatha, which went aground at Preseott and was serious ly damaged, will be ont of the Davis dry-dock on Saturday, and wil leave for Montregl with a load of pram, The accident to the Hiawatha broke five planks in her port bilge and she had to have a steam pump going un her was ib boat or Royal built at Boys' Departmental Store 82 PRINCESS STREET. dock, is now well under way, the frame being up and the planking start SmaESARASAAAAESAIaAaaa J ed The tug eleven foot Lake, fifty feet long with beam', which was built 1904 by the Davis dry-dock, for the Trent Valley Navigation company, has been sold to Randolph Mebonald, of Cardinal. She arrived at Davis dack on Friday G.T.R., and will be launched early next week and start Cardinal where she will he by her: new owners in dredging construction work. The schooner Charley Marshall was docked at Davis' dry-dock on. Satm day afternoon for overhauling and re jrairs, The steamer. Lamonde, formerly of the Gananogue-KRingaton route, which was sunk at Wolle lsland all winter, has been raised and repaired, and is now lying at Davis' wharf. She is owned by the Union Bank, of Smith's Falls and will probably be used hy that firm among the Hideau lakes. It has been rumored that the hoat is for sale, but no ahnouncement has been made as to this. mn a pL by for used and When In Doubt About Your PLUMBING: WORK Phone 335 This fe oun course We, will and talk Ht over with you, give you an estimate as to probable « and then number of Come ------ Ogdensburg, July 4. Monster eelebration, Str. America, 7 am, calling at Gananoque and Brockville both .way#; returning loaves Ogdensburg 8 p.m; meals on board; 50¢. return. ------ For the Holiday. Panama hats, straw ahd light felt hats, all kinds, all prices, at Camp bell Bros', Kingston's hat store. oF! If you entrust us with the job you'll have son to shake 'hands yourself, rea with Phone 856 | David Hall 66 Brock 'Street. ' Residenre Barefoot sandals and running shoes, cheap, at Dutton's.