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For generations common garden Sage has been used for re storing and preserving ' the color of the hair; and Sulphur is recognized by Scalp Specialists as being excel: i for treatment of hair and scalp trubles. you are troubled with dandruff or itching sealp, or if your hair is loging its color or coming out, get a bottle of. Wysth's Sage and Sulphur from your druggist, and no- tice the improvement in the appear- ance of your hair after a few days! treatment. Agent, G. W. Mahood: AND OAK. AND ARTICLES AND DINING the SO many t more suitable Gift than a of Antique and see our ds and learn 'What could be for a Christmas beautiful piece Furniture? oll big range 'of how i rR TR re our prices Also Furniture of all kinds Bough: and sold. Highest Bice L. LESSES a TT i \ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, YEIG, SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR BRITISH WHIG, published at 306-310 King Street, Kingston, DAILY ! Ontario, at $8 Ser year. Editions at 2.30 sad 4 p.m. morning at $1 a i { Thursda making price of | be add WEEKLY BRI¥ISH WHIG, 1 pases. published In parts on Monday and By 5" oy States charge for postage to eekly $1.50 per yea Attached is one of the best Job Printing Offices in arin rapid, styl- | ish, and cheap work; nine improved presses THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED TORONTO OFFICE. ~Sulte 19 and | Street, Toronto. J. G. Elliott, President, Leman A. Guild, See~Treas. 20 Queen City Chambers, 33 Church H. E. Smaliplece, J.P. regresentative. MUNICIPAL MUDDLE IN MONTREAL. -------- ® The city vears--been efficiently' of guided in many Under the management {not in {governed ia council, which was not iall things by high prindiples, there swas much deterioration and distrust. { Eventually a crisis occurred, {judicial enquiry was demanded. There {was foundation for the scandal that had shamed the people, and before =» storm of indignation the men who |were responsible were driven from of- and a ! : i Jexile until this day. + Following this there was to the extent of permitting, | generally flict. two, formulating progressive 'and aiming generally at | vancement of the public i { | | | bark in a commission ition of its municipal affairs, and } 5 | jof the power and light plants an a- and the lehief organ of government, a board jof control, which made reforms, and [ave to the people the first evidences 'in a long period of excellent rule. But the board of control, composed of superior men, asd the council have been frequently in con- The hoard is the better of the policies the ad- interests. Yhe council is its handicap and it is surprising that a movement is afoot mendment in the city's charter, as not A CALL FOR The council cannot change the form of government the city must have, for the present. The law of Ontario does not permit any town or city to em- for .the direc s0 that phase of the question need not be discussed. The law a council, to remit the management of does permit however, its utilities to a commission, and this commission might have been in charge since they were taken over by the city had the council desired it. The Whig favoured this course. But certain members of the douncil thought they were equal to the strain and respon sibility of directing a rapidly ire and if they were ns honest and outspoken 'as Aldermon Bailey and Rigney they would confess that the city would have heen the better without the experiment. Tt looks as if the change, creasing business, far at least as the power plant is concerned, would have to be made at once It is in a sense being forced upon the eouncil. Tt contemplates a develep- ment of the and atten- tion is called to the fact that the ormmission must be called in. The Hydro-Eleetric Commission is influen ood by certain well-established 20 power policy, rales ENGLAND CANNOT MANN SHIPS. The missive sent another author Whig has by L. the of pamphlets on the naval question. been Graham Horton- Smith, joint many be deals im this aceount 'with the pro- mise of many millions by the Indian princes, the splendid contributica to Le used in the construction of greater super-Dreadnoughts. ~ Nir Horton Smith, who must be recognized as an authority, Lord Beresford en: dorses his latest publidations, is very anxious that all the contributions of Vessels by the overseas dominions, and the Indian princes, shall be in ad- dition to the estimates of the mother country, and incidettally one gets a revelation which is quite timely in view of the erisie at Ottawa. The liberal argument--which is grow- ing in power every davis that it is not a kindness to hand out a loan for which Canada will become respon= ible, for battleships which are to be maintained and reanned by Great Bri tain. The money may be promised or provided, but what is Britain going to do*with it ? India's aid, (which is a doubt acrording to latest adviecs), cannot be of any advantage, because the national and private shipyards are replete with orders, and it may be impossible to place others. As suming, says Mr. Horton-Smith, that this difficulty can be overcomne, the proposals of help can only materialize "i some 10,000 or 12,000 men are en- rolled now." Listen to this : "It takes, as Lord Charles Beresford has often said, five years to train a seaman snd make since of Montreal has Dever--or A CHANGE. Chim ! manned for years, 'priciated, and least so by those who which presumes = eventually t to dis- the house. reassembles the Borden policy may have passed bevond identi- fication. The fourth estate was highly hon- oured in the appointment of Whitelaw Reid to the Court of St He was one of America's most eminent editors: and diplomats. The man must have filled his place with rare distine- tion to win the eulogy of the king. James not want any of The | Saskatchewan does Borden's doles to legislature wants of federal grants, good roads. on a8 per eapita basis, or not at all. Well, the pro- pense with the council. The same feeling prevails in Toronto. much provocation for this divorce of council from control, Hut the time for it has not yet arrived. The proceeding that challenges tention in Montreal is the appeal the council to the legislature charter amendments. These the * Committee opposes. at- of Ci- | tizeny This committee is a survival of the Can- non enquiry, which was projected by elounsing of the public life of Mon- -| treal. The Montreal council is an noyed becduse the legislature listens, | and impressively, to the Topregenta-; tions of the committee. The alder- | men are moved to proceed to Quebec and shake the ancient capital with their thunder. They nay succeed with their demonstration, and they not. | Civie government by commission | may not be the ideal form, in he estimation of some people, but seems to be much better than inn cities ave getting from government by | ! council, and it is not Vie that there is a demand for it. in conmection with its accounts. When | it assumes a contract with a cdipality a rate is fixed, and it is such | as guarantees the payment of prina- pal and interest and meets the de ! for maintenance and Nor will there be any | may | muni- mands depre- | ciation funds. trifling by the council with its serves. They will be kept intact for the purpose for which they were au- thorized, and sacredly guarded attack on every side. It is this skillful and 'anle financing that the city wants in connection with its plants. The Whig has ways contended that their should not be influenced or affected by re- | from | al- revenues anv ordinary municipal emergency. The plants should be managed upon ther merits. There should be a pro- vision for their wants and necessities, and not a dollar should be their for general hecause for the time it deflected from treasury ex- penses, oan There have been They should be not he spared. sur: pluses, on paper. mn the bank, and to the various accounts in proper proporeions. The ver tion of the Hydro, Electrie w.sdion, or any other and to the features of the utilities inter- CUom- is wel- the may haphazard meth- fi- power, coved and end that Wis inoss be rescued from the they have nanced up to the present yds by which been We have been under for the simple rea- son that seamen represent a huge item | of expenditure in the British navy es- cimates--a fact never adequately ap- effective. merely look at the grand total of an- pual expenditure--and any and every excuse has heen always adopted from the time the liberals eame into office to keep down the numbers of the per- 1 scnael. We are short now for our cwn ships. We are not enrolling encagh m:n even for these. The princes of la- dia will hardly be satisfied -much less gratified--if their ships, when built, have no men to man them. Men are | the prime requisite, for j vithout the men the proposed ships wonld, for all practical purposes, be uscliss. A goodly show on paper, but of no avail for the empire in the day of its trial. We need more ships. If the liberal party refuse to do thei | duty in this regard, we gladly wel | come new ships from any source. But fir t and foremost, let us oot the ad- ditional men we already need and a t em for the ships already built nd bui'dipg. Large numbers "Sre re- quired for this purpose." There is the situation, clearly and concisely stated. The ships for which the Borden naval or emergent policy would make provision may be built in the mother couniry--even that is doubtful--but in any event they can- not, in the next five years, be manned by British tars. This reveals a fatal weakness in the Borden policy. The Laurier programme is the better, and must sooner or later be adopted. " immediate tro' ' EDITORIAL The government must somersault on the naval question, and the sooner the Getter. . Westmount wants a municipal man- ager, a man who will direct all the ai- fairs of the city under the council. Is this not a serious reflection upon the 'eity's officials ¥ More is spent on the cure of the in- sane in New York state than upon NOTES. education. The alims in the asylums number 5.000, The state is paying for its careless immigration inspection. The mayoralty candidates are get- ting ready for the race which begins next week. will be an exiting cou: Test. Who will win ? The numbers "of the commons will, during the Christmas holidays, cam- paigh_ om the naval gyestioh. When There is | for i | and y desks with jack-knives. {clared she only cast the i bolically. vinte may not get anything. The pre- mier must learn not to look a giit borse in the mouth. After fifty-six ballots hivd to be cast for a #easurer in Wellington County | Cauneil, ! Miss Reynolds, resulting each time in a tie, daughter of the late appointed--until the that time the vote She is in the of- treasurer, was end of 1913. By may be unanimous i# to stay. {fice, and most of them have been iu the people, and which led to such al the It is proposed at Washington that senate shall have plate put upon each desk with a record of the names of those who have occupied it. This is one way of perpetuating the memory of some men. The pity is that the*senators did not follow the example of the average school boy their names upon their a silver carve SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Rununing Us Down, Times listen to the tory that Canada couldn't and couldn't man it. Hamilton ow swearing 'a navy try; jingoes build Nice Profit on Boats. Toronto Globe They never have a bargain day Dreadnoughts. The profit Can ada's quarter doen will be, accord ing to the London Daily £3,500,000, mn on I'imes, Her Aim Was Bad. Montreal Gazette Mrs. Mary Leigh, who struck Redmond with a hatchet she threw at Premier Asquith, ih court, de weapon sym As it wounded Mr. Red- mond jt is likely he will labor under the delusion that it was thrown dia bolically. John Hard on » Whitney. Hamilton Spectator Premier Whitney ernment car sent all the way York to convéy him home. Wouldn't a seat in a Pullman be more in consonance with the democratic sim plicity of this great province ? He 1s inviting a howl, on the cost of expense, from the "'rural districks." has had a gov- to New Not in Manhood. Halifax Chronicle Mr. Borden says that Canadians are not wqual to the task of organ iting a navy, and besides it is easier to hire Englishmen to fight for us than to undertake the protection of our own shores. Hence the proposal to send over cash, first borrowed from Fngland. What do Canadians think of this slur upon their man- hood ? USES TEETH AS WEAPON. Woman Bites Charity Worker, as Well as Policeman, Selingsgrove, Pa., Dec. To hold possession of her four-year-old grand- ison, Mrs. Ella Pursell made a ferocious attack on Mrs. Mary McDonald, As- sociated Charities worker, who was about to take charge of the waif Failing to wrench the child from Mrs. McDonald's grip, Mrs. Pursell sank her teeth into the cheek of her victim, causing a painful wound. Of ficer Kerstetter, of Sunbury, in his struggle with the woman, had one of his fingers almost bitten off. Mrs Pursell is now in the county jail and Mrs. McDonald, although a nervous wrock, has possession of the child, |who will be given a good home. I= Sale women's. wide, comfortable boots, 82. Duttomn's store. Almost every marited man a lot of valuable time in explaining to his wie just how it happened What's become of the old-fashioned girl who always used to hang dance programme on the gas jet ? Christmas present. Year subac rip- tion to the "Etude." Dutton's Music Store. 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