Daily British Whig (1850), 7 Jul 1913, p. 4

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PAGE FOUR. 1 bl {too soon learn an important lesson. The British Whig| This lesson is that they are wel- 80th YEAR: : | come to come to this fair land and engage m its development, enjoying the while all the compensation which successful service ensures. They may not become British subjects, and so share in the privileges which full | citizenship carries with it, and if they do not they will carry themselves { with the modesty that is so becom {ing to them. The American flag has been raised and is acqorded TE |on special occasions, the wespect to which it is due, | the colours, exhibited by the lericans as the token of nationality; lis one thing, and raised as a chal % * . : {longe, or species of irritation, jouniuneg Dally 354_Soml-Weckiy 2 joer, and too much care cannot be r ©0.,, LIMITED, the discrimination : clear. £5. GQ, Elliott essesssss President | eo "Leman A. Guild...Managing Director | BUNGLING ON EDUCATION. £ - ; % but Am- IESE A Ay TNE Pe yy taken to! make Depart- The announcement of the ment of Education, respecting a cer: . win: i taifi paper, on which candidates for teachers' certificates wege supposed interesting. Here it Telephones: Business Office 200 § SUBSCRIPTION RATES, (Dally Edition.) "ne year, delivered In City......$6.00 to® write, is very is' "Through an unfortunate oversight at the present examination some wuestions on the paper in English literature, for admission to the Normal school, were set on texts not prescribed for the course. The min- ister accordingly desires to announce to all concerned that in valuing the candidates' answers on the above pa- per the full one hundred marks will be assigned to the questions set in accordance with the: course of study. At the close of the work any addi tional consideration will be made which the circumstances justify." It is about the only thing that can y that the will not e year, If paid in advance ....$5,00 e Year, by mall to rural offices 2.560 ear; to United States 3.00 , Bix and Three Months, pro rata. 3 (8emi-Weekly Edition.) One Year, by mail ... esses es30.00 | e Year, to United States ...... 1.60 'Six snd Three Months, pro rata. + * Attached Is one of the best Job Pr'nting Offices in Canada. i TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE: jm BE. Bmallpeice .......32 Church Bt U., 8. REPRESENTATIVES: : New_York Office 226 Fifth Ave, Frank R. Northrup, Manager. : Oblcago .. Tribune Bldg Frank R. Northrup, Manager. i A LEADER AT FAULT. Bonar Law, a former Canadian, and jen that account followed with keen- jer interest in his political career, 8 | po said publicly, namely, pgain under party criticism, He has [standing of the been called to , the |}0 prejudiced by their failure to pass Party, and under circumstances which |, \ paper which. should not have been set. But "oversight" is {he word that should have been used There was the candidates account "within make it appear that though the lead. not ler of the party nominally, he is not yin complete comunaud. And the fault not largely, his to respond to the under the circumstances. gross stupidity on the part of whole examining board. As the Whig understands it one is appointed or selected to a paper. It is mot signed by him. No one knows who he is, until the valuators in the examination meet him later. But he is known to the other examiners, and all of them, in to pass upon is partly, if own. {He is too ready Sidividual appeals of favorites, and he imo sooner does so than he some discov- set Wers he has made a mistake. i Take a- few concrete cases. The Duke of Marlborough invites him to Rar function or political foray | n his great estate--the gift of a rateful nation to his distinguished Sp adiather for memorable military isbrvice--and he commits himself to features of tarifi reform for which {jhe is forced subsequently to with- draw. He endorses some of Sir Bdward Carson's twaddle about home i n , and resistance in Ulster, and at i advertises himself as lacking m oe essential quality for leadership. hears Lord Cecil allege. that, with !,. ol ; : , a conservative SO in ye gl - i pe i . : . that will keep them awake. on it by the Disestablishment Bill, and. gives his approval. In one case, the first referred to, be has been repudiated already. In humiliation of spirit, and a humilia- tion seeli-imposed, he has repented of what he said about tariff reform. It is not a present party issue. He may have. to hedge on the others. He is learning the lesson that should have come to him by long experience as he follower of Mr. Balfour--that it $ to preserve, a dis rent ~ sik until the party has a con- sulted. Nothing but the preserva- tion of the party has saved Mr. Law from the wrath of the Charfiber- lnins, and his way in this will Jan indication of what may follow le he Stic dorauy: presidency of the Duke of Rute Welsh church become ie Ls or laud. ie dike Jo ey ye Great HEA ® oak a ai session, are expected his work. Now what sort of men musi they be to hand out questions on texts "not prescribed for the course' ? Can anything be. said in mitigation ,of that bungle? The department has fot given any sign of what it | thinks of the business, but surely there is one artist who has heen re- examin: NEW LAND SCHEMES. Simultaneously with the announce | meat that Lloyd -George--the | the people-~had_been commissioned by the British government to proceed with his land scheme, comes the re port that the. landowners will project a scheme of their own, and they ex- pect--they really do--to dish the lib- They want to anticipate the man--of myth man of erals, government, 'and that will-power, making up in tenacity of he lacks in brilliancy, Lansdowne, has been sil purpose what the Marquis of chosen to elaborate it, For this purpose a mecting was held recently by the West Derbysnire League, Maltlack Bath, under the pon- be : be 'say wothing of his mineral rights in settled in caugus,. the council of the | several counties, - The meeting - was party, and the wise leader - will not! attended by several: other men of commit his party to anything which | great territorial wealth, and they he has not talked over carefully with alternately applauded and cheered the his associates. noble marquis. as he unfolded his TT -------- ve) It was 'not a mere dream. INSULT OF A FLAG. | He wanted that to be distinctly un- Several ; reflections follow the fing | derstood at the outset. He had been incidents in the west. The | delving into the blue or pink or yd- llow who waived the Stars and | low books which had eminated (trom ies _ 8s the local regiment passed Franee, Germany, Belgium: und, Dow: in Winnipeg, on July 1st,' and shout. | "2k: where the population was densa Young , | considering the land at their disposal, and he found that 88 per cent. of ii | was cultivated by the men who owned i p + . 1it, while in Ei . s 12 po of the flag, which is taught fo hile in Bagless thoes wa Bn pe 1) e® national schools, but he in not |, « of ownership and ? pur cent. « enancy. to be o i i it i ommended for displaying it in: The marguis proposed that as far a an offensive way. | possible the land should pas« on to the people who would: till it, and "wherever there was some one willing to sell, and a tenant ready to buy, provided all necessary conditions were fullilled, the government should advance the money at the lowest rat { they could afford." Under the present 8" law the tenant had to find one-fifth of while he money. Out of over 1,000 land dor- | {ransactions in 1912 there were only to. brook 70 for complete ownership. The Lane thoughtless per- jdowne idea was to buy the land for : | the people, the government providing the money, and arranging for repay- ment on the anpuity plan, part prin- ciple and part interest, the annual contributions going into a sinking : 8. oii fund and yo replacing. the capital. man in Winnipeg, and invite at-! The newest Ji iki hs ck hy, his flag waiving, Canada, as thas this'-co-operative production by British depemdency, and reck-| groups of farms, and. more cottages, hed 'as a young "nation in its am-|and no fixed wage minimum. The tions and impulses, is attracting to. main thought was that the land own- B_ many Americans, and: they cannot ers had suddenly developed into a od. "Hurrah for the American eagle,' Was a young fool. He is to . be $ommemdal for his patriotism, or for Canada is having poured into iy anndally thousands of Americans, ' Young and old, and it js hardly to! be expected that when they eross the frontier they will forget all they have | rned or ever knew about the free- dom which the eagle typifies. They Wiust realize, however, that the pa- triotic mstinet of Canada, hot usually so showy, is not pRant, and it is not likely ult even from the ns. ii It is unfortunate, and emphasizes © imprudemce of it in the west, | on the same day--the anmiver. 8: of America's independence --a | uth in Moose Jaw should imitate or could Sa é 18 an- . THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, was willing to give his individual and labour for the He was out time and good of his fellow man. for anv reform 'without bursting up institution." aristocratic any existing system or Wonderful, wonderful. Finally this stupendous undertaking was altogether beyond the ken and ability of the ministers of the day. They had been doing things, for the social conditions of the people and had incidentally subdued the lords and put them out of reform prodigious busi- couldnt the land laws--on the Lansdowne plan. Probably not, but when Lloyd-George started, as he will when the Home Rule and Welsh Church bills have become law, Lansdowne and Rut- land, and all the rest of them, will be lost sight of or silenced, EDITORIAL NOTES, The Medical Council has, thanks to Dr. Spakie, decided to give Young Naw Bones a chance.' If he. fails in his examinations in the spring he can try again in the fall and succeed, if in the meantime his ideas do not go to seed. ness, but they gets The Bulgarian is again accused of atrocities--this time towards the as they practiced who were of their his Greeks. long upon the Turks, kind and a trifle more brutal, no one was excited. But when the Bulgars carve up the Greeks, of classic eulture, the world is shocked, , So I'he doctor who has a dominion li- cense, which should be one of the best, and based on a recognized standard of education, will hereafter be allowed to practice undisturbed in Ontaria. A tardy' concession, and one that should the Medical have been granted by Council long ago. Ontario's chief health officials are off to Europe to study the sewage posal system., Eventually the waters, dis which the people use for domestic pur- poses," will be protected from the poi sons that are now dumped into them all that between disease and death. The chlorine is stands at present What is the good censor if his judgment is not to be de of a theatrical pended upon. The manager of a place of public entertainment is better than any police official. "He ought to know what constitutes a proper bill of fare, and he can have just what he wants. And the average thanked for what he does in the name of decency. manager is not Senator Stilwell, of New York, was acquitted by a committee of the senate, of gralting, = but by a jury he has been convicted and must go to Sing Sing. Before he disappears for years, and perhaps in order to se cure a lighter sentence, he is going to tell all he knows. = Scandal flows like a river in New: York. The code affecting public life needs revising. . The i the business world, propose to take a day off, and proceed to enjoy themselves. They should preceed this act by deciding upon a half holiday once a week--on Wednesday---for the sake of the em- ployees. thinks about his employees and their comforts sure of 4 welcome from St. Peter when later he finds himself without the gates of heaven. . employers, The man who is as a The Wilson government at Washing- ton approves of a national budget. Every scheme to which public money is voted, must stand the censorship of the budget committee. lsn't that a sane proceeding ? And yet Canada's central government wants parliament to ahdicate its functions and turn over the spending of ite money to the cab- inct, and it has some members the people are not willing to trust very much: ' 4 The Whig heartily approves of the verdict of a coroner's jury, touching a case of accidental drowning, that the city should have at the two three wharves ~ where passenger steam- ers call, 'such bélts, and pikes, which may be used in' acci- The police asad to be supplied equipment. for recovering the bodies of drowned persons. It is more important that the city should have the apmsiances for life saving, amd have them right away. or and ropes dents. with Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. H. Youlden resigned as chief engi neer of the cotton mill. . Ald. C. F. Gildersleeve, having found the electric light undersirabie as a park illuminant, wants the city to use gas there. Salvation. Army barracks, burned by hirchugs, was re-opened. Weather turns cool to-night. Belleville defeated Kingston at base ball, 6 to 3, in Eastern League game. No. | company, 14th Regiment, had targot practice at Barriefield. Chief of police reports that forty- seven drunks were arrested in the city in June. Macdonmld suffering of tooth; he was Sir John A. from extraction scarcely able to speak, his jaw being swollen. Open the Money Bags. Lethbridge Herald. \ The crops are sufficiently assured to Jurmit of the loan companies and banks opening the mouths 'of the ot {money bags a wee hit. few shekels loose kind of agricultural Santa Claud, who | MONDAY, JULY 7, 1018. Wise and .- . Otherwise people try to like a Every time some think they make a noise boiler shop. Many a spinster realizes that girls are wise who marry while yet in their teens. the world smiles with you are in a prohibition Smile and you, unless district. The pen is mightieg than the sword when it comes to getting a fool man into real trouble. We know a persistent salesman who wonders i it would be worth wrile to show St. Peter the atest card in dex system. ---- This is the scason for young men who clip all the poisoned ice cream paragraphs from the daily papers. and show them to the dear girls. Caught. "May it please, your honor," said a lawyer addressing one of the judges, "I brought the prisoner from Jail on a haleas corpus." "Well," said a man, in an under- tone, who was standing in the rear of the court, "these lawvers will say anything. I saw the man get out of a cab at the court door." re, Entively Original. "Do you consider Well's humor origi nal 7' "Sure it is. Absolutely. I don't be lieve there is any humor ip existence that antedates Well's jokes. Naturally, Mrs. Peck-- "What party husband belong to?" Mrs. Peck--"I'm the Transcript. does yowr party." --Boston Their Bad End. "Young man, do you know becomes of boys who use bad guage while playing marbles ?" "Yessir; they grow up and learn to play golf." what lan Not Thronged, The straight and narrow never go crowded that a in any danger of being it. path man jostled out of is Lack of Appreciation. "Everybody likes to see his name in print." "Yes," replied Miss Tottie Twinx. "But, do you kmow, some of dukes and earfr=a8n't seem a bit grateful = for the way we show girls rescue them from obscurity." Washington Star those Unpopular. "Is he popular 1" "Popular ! Why, he couldn't be more unpopular if'he were a Jap try-] ing. te buy-land in California." Sure Nuff, "My young man's a real gent," sai Sadie, the saleslady, shifting her cud of chewing gum. "He never bl his soup like a common person; always fans it with his hat." --Pun Bowl. S------ Her Grounds. . "On what grounds did she base her suit for divorce?" "Cruelty. Her husband forced her to use a 1910 model auto." You Said Something There, Bo. Recently the papers printed a story that, out of respect io the late Mr.) Flagler, 'every railroad train in Flor- ida would stand still for ten minutes] beginning at three o'clock, on a cér- tain afternoon. If it only had been agreed that, beginning at that hour, every train in Florida would run for ten minutes--that, Mawruss, would 'a' been real respect, y'understand.-- New York Mail, Progress. "Daughter, 1 asked the young man who was just talking with you whe- ther he knew how to dance." { "Yes? : "He said he knew the holds, not all the steps." but No Crossness. "Did the attorney for the defense cross-examine you?" "Oh, dear, no!" replied Mrs. Piffle- gilder, "he was just as pleasant about it as he could be!"--\Waoman's Home Companion. Get a Move on. Cheer up! Old Might-Have-Been has fled, So be a good forgetter; Count Yesterday among the dead. And make To-morrow better, Proof Enough. Young Wife--How do I know you still love me? + Young Hub--1 stayed home from a ball game to take you to a basket i pienic--proof enough. ' ~ BIBBYS STORE CLOSES EVENINGS AT FIVE O'CLOCK. SATURDAY EVENING TEN O'CLOCK SHARP, TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY DOINGS Men's Straw Hat Sale All our new, 1913 straws, sailors, turbans, ete., in all new stings; ne * Regular $2, $2, w shapes. 20 and $3 hats. Your choice for $1.50 Sce our window display of thése hats. Underwear. Sale - $0c. French Balbriggan for 25c. per garment. Fine balbriggan, in flesh, tan and cream colors, shirts and drawers, sizes 32 to 44. Bibby's price ole. per garment. Sold at 25¢c We are going to clear out our stock men's fine « Our $3.50 O £4.00 {0¢, 45¢ and x fords. xtords for... ofl .....$2.50 $4.50, $5 and $5.50 Oxfords for .... $3.50 HARTT SHOE JUST WRIGHT SHOE America's Best Shoe Makers Sp RR BIBBYS | 78, 80, 82 PRINCESS STREET. NH Window Boxes, Hang- ing Baskets, Geraniums, Asters, and everything ' for the garden at F. J. JOHNSON The Leading Florist, 824 King 84. - Phones: de, i Store 239. Residence 1212. Greenhouses 235. Tr RAR FOR SALE . 1, Frame dwelling, stable, and acre and one-half of geod garden land $1600, . A first class brick house, fully modern, nearly new, Frontenac street. . Good stone dwelling on -water front, with stable, boat house, wharf and small orchard, $2,500. . Solid brick, 4 bedrooms, B. and C., furnace, gas, electric lights, lot 43 x 132 $3,400. A large list of farms for sale, - WANTED To buy or rent a good grocery store T. 1. LOCKHART, Clarence and King Sts. , "Phone 1035 0. 1030. _ ADVERTISE IN THE Wma. 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