~~ "pace vouR _ | § The Brituh Whig _ ago, has not lost its power. Fa i vagne One i (Semi: Weekly Edition) a matl co voi ose 4s "One year, tadinited States .. ..s $5 . . Bix and t months, pro rata. ) Attach the best job; § t { A 3 if a : je { .* : Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING 'C0, LIMITED, LG, ElMlott .. .. .. .. .. .. President A. Guild .. Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. ee ove 243 « «0 229 «eo 202 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition.) year, delivered in city .. .. year, if paid in advance .... year, by mail to rural offices, One year, to United States . Bix and three months pro rata. 6.00 5.0 2.60 3.0 "One year, by 1.00 s one of printing offices in Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE 2 Church 8t. y HB Pmalipjece 3 i U. 8, REPRESENTATIVES: New York Office 225 Fifth Ave. Frank R. Northrup, Manager. Tribune Bldg. anager. CHLORINE IN THE WATER. The letter of Mr. Weese, some days How long are the people of the city to be "forced to drink chlorinated water ? It may be a satisfaction to know that appliances have been 'provided by which the chlorine will be more sys- tematically or scientifically interjec- ted into the water, but the presence of it is none the less objectionable. i A member of the council asks, quite it ' innocently, what can be done? The { water in the harbour is sontemina- + be, the provincial board should { ted, It reaches the harbour from the upper lakes in this impure condition. Well, there is a partial cure--filira- tion--and if the local Doard of Health is helpless, as it appears to act, rders - to go ahead and do something, and the council at the capital | hesitatas, though it has spent many thousands in expert dtlvice. It has given St. Catharines orders, and that city will put in a mechanical filtration plant, the gravity type, using storage pemiods of two hours after the ad- ministration of chemicals. Kingston eannot much longer escape the atten- tion thatiis ita due, and it may ex- pect to hear any day from the pro- {2 vincial medical health officer. _ &The labour clement are all con cerned with regard to the compensa- ~+ttion for injury bill. This named, as **it is expected to do, at thé next ses sion of the legislature, and old age pensions will be dealt with. Canada is hardly in a position for this yet. By the way, what has the select com- . mittee of the commons done with the € question ? mission, was very indifferently regard ed, in the test on Wednesday, and the result is apparent in the smallness of the vote which was recorded. Two conclusions are inevitable, namely, that the majority of the voters for the hy- law were business men, and the major- A CRISIS IN BUSINESS. : ? The, friends and supporters of the ness 'conditions of the United States, antl they have been sending out calm- ing assuramce. They include what is termed "hope and a warning." The crop roturns have been heard from and they "show the soundness of the basis of the country's material wel fare," While '"'boom'S, conditions are only reported from South Atlantic, Gull and Southwest groups of states where cotton is king, the "fair" re- ports from practically all other sec- tions are construed as proof that {in the wheat-producing states there is no reason for pessimism over the crop outlook, and that business con- ditions generally are normal. That this should be the situation in the oarly months following the enact. ment of the new. tarifi law is taken as the best possible indication of a comparatively easy adjustment by husiife to fhe conditions -- newly created. But there is a warning note. The railways are in a bad way, despite the enormous profits they are said to be making, this exhibit being made by the employees when they demanded |and, after long negotiation, were given an increase of wages. Then the managers declared that there had be an inorease of rates. Business is said to have fallen off from twenty ito forty per cent. in the last twelve {months. There is mot a gilt-edged 'stock listed on the market, either railroad or industrial, that has not shrunk in value. Twelve of the salest industrial stocks listed averaged 75.77 the first day of December, 1913. Twelve of the best railroad stocks averaged 120.45 November 1st, 1912 and the same stocks averaged 102.84 December 1st this year. This repre- sents a great shrinkage in values but it is no greater than the average shrinkage in all business. The government does not worry, though it feels 'anxious, and because, says the New York Herald, its mem- bers are confident . the Interstate Commerce Commission will come to the relief of the 'railroads by grant- ing to them the right to make such increases in their freight rates as wi'l 'save them from the possibility of bankruptoy, dragging with them hun- dreds of thousands of persons whose hard earned savings are invested, {and the manufacturing establishments {whose life is dependent upon the rail- "roads. The gross earnings of fhe official classifieation territory roads, duting the' last "fiscal 'year, = werd $186,775,000 greater than in the fiscal year ended June 30th, 1910, but the operating expenses and taxes during the last fiscal year were $203,087,000 greater than they were in 1910, that the net return, after paying ope- rating expenses and taxes, was ac- tually $16,311,000 less in 1913 than it was in 1910. And this notwith- standing ' the important fact that during this three-year period these rajlroads increased their property in- vestment by a total of $659,562.,000. In other words, they spent this sum for additions, betterments and equip- ment. : So that, to quote Mr, Willard, of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, "these companies not only failed so earn any return whatsoever upon the new pi but. saved even less from gross earnings, as return upon the original property invest ment, than they were able to show before their large additional expen- diture was made." The argument fol- Jows that the refusal of the Inter- state Commission to let the rail way companies increase their tarifis will previpitate a crisis that would be detrimental, ¥ not fatal, to the democsstic government. Mr. Borden and President Wilson have reason for as to what constituted business pros- to 80 tal in 4 t, s |pority, and they are having their ex- There may be some excuse for ihe petit jury, but even it will go = even- tually. Two light house keepers in their lonely stations, cut of by many miles irom the nearest habitation; prefer this to facing the bigh cost of living ashore, The government sympathizes with them, and has been reluctantly obliged to let them' have their way. Good Fellows' Clubs are being or ganized all over the country, What are they? Unions of men 'whose plan is to see that the needy among the 'women and children are pro vided in the Christmas distribution. The assurance follows that the mon- ey contributed is wisely and judi iously expended. ! "Fducation is something quite dii- ferent and apart from the arts of war," says the Ottawa Citizen. "The latter may be learned if desired when the general education of the young student has been completed. To incorpcrate the military idea in regular university work would surely be a reactionary step." This is an- other view of the introduction of militarism into the colleges. It can- not ite made compulsory, and with- out compulsion it is not likely to succeed. Dr. W. D. Cowan, addressing the Canadian Public Health Association meeting, at Regina, said, "It is amaz- ing the indifference shown to dental defects; this particularly on the part of the mother toward her children, between the ages of two and six. Dentally speaking easily ninety per cent. of the children have no mother at all at that age. These children don't need dentists' half as much as they do mothers. The great bulk of parents think (and say), 'Ah, well, these are just Mary's first teeth, she will lose them in a little while, so what is the use spending money upon them 7" A thought that better be dissipated. Kingston is being aroused on this subject. The Board of Educa- tion does well to deal practically with it as soon as possible. PUBLIC OPINION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1013. » = Wise-and .. ". Otherwise Why Net? Toronto Star. Will the prisoners at Kingston who | ave evidence against their keepers ave as merry a Christmas as usual this year ? Some Consolation, Montreal Herald. ' The, Suly sequsolation the "Canada First" party can get out of South Lanark is to be found 'in that pro- photic text: "The first shall be last and the last first." ; anata os An Ardent Wish. London Advertiser. "Mona Lisa" has turned up after a long search, and if Mary Eliza, our long-lost, house-cat, will come back, all will be forgiven. A Terrible Truth. Guelph Mercury. An ex-convict from Kingston peni- tentiary says he went forty-two days without a bath. That's not in it with some of the records thas are estab- lished' out of prison. : A New Idea. Otrvawa Free Press. Hon. Mr. White observes that mong would be done for the human race by Subuidising golf Sours than railways. n other words, if everybody played golf they would walk and ro id would starve. Option in the West. Toronto Mail and Empire. Local option .is spreading in Sas katchewan, and probably ® while the hotel-keepers follow the custom of the west by shaking their- customers for the drinks, they are doing some shak- ing in their shoes. > Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. It isn't necessary for a man to have money to burn in 'order to keep the pot boiling. Some men try to console themselves with the thought that they could be better if they tried. At some period in a man's life there is one woman he is trying to get and another he is trying to get away from. If you don't believe a woman can keep a secret, just ask her age of one on the shady side of thirty. Lucky Adam When Adam got home from a party, One speech ne'er his pleasure could dock; For dear Mother Eve never shouted at him, "You villain! clock!" Just look at the --Frgm Judge, One Woman's Wisdom. Her Mother--Do you think his in- tentions are serious? Young Widow--I'm sure they His attentions are so ridiculous. are. The Mean Brute. 'I've got a letter from Harry," sob- bed Ellen Estelle. "He is the meanest brute that ever lived! He is in Flori- da, and he has written me that he shot an alligator seven feet long." "Well, what of that, swetheart wonderingly required the friend. tt don't see why that should grieve 'you so terribly." 'Oh, don't you?" returned Ellen Es- telle, with more tears. "He says when he shoots another one he will have a pair of slippers made for me "+Phila- delphia Telegraph. an Nothing on Her, Margery and Helen lived quite near each other and acacsionally played to- gether. One day, when they met, Helen said boastfully: . "We keep a butler." Margery remained thoughtful for a moment, then suddenly cried, exult- ingly: "That's nothing! ery!" We keep board- Said by Wine Men. Temperance is a bridle of gold, -- Burton. Vanity is thecpoison of agreeable- ness. --Greville, The enemy of art is the enemy uf nature.--Lavater. Best men are often melded out ol faults. --Shakespeare, There ig nothing that wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card tabie and those cutting passions which attend them.--Steele. There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good breeding --Stanislaus. The art of using moderate abilities to advantage yins praise, and often acquires more" reputation than real brilllancy.--Rochefoucauld. He who feels contempt for any liv ;ing thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.--Wordsworth. Health, beanty, vigor, riches, and all the other things called good, operate equally as evils to the vicious and un- just, as they do as benefits to the just ~ Plato. What profits us that we from heas ven derive a soul immortal, and with looks erect, survey the stars, if, like the brutal hind, we follow where our J. A, B. Smith decided to contest Ontario ward for a seat on the school board. The earnings of the Kingston and Pembroke railway for the first week in December showed an increse of $110 over the same week of the previous year, on A Christmas gate was very fash. fonable. The players hunted throug! their pocketbooks to aseertain how much money they had left. The one who bas the most had to buy a Nev Year's present. ; 'The school 'will present Prin cipal Grant th an address on hi: |arrival from Australia. Selling Turkeys. Dec. 16.--~The weather Desem fons lead the way? -- Dryden. There is an active principle in the human soul that will ever be exert- ing 'ts facilities to the utmost ' by the accidents of time and place, the general plan of education, or the cus- tom and manners of the age and ountry it may happen to'find itself mgaged ~--Blackstone. o TO THE VIFAUINS ~ Cather ye roscbuoids fay Old time Is sti a fAving And this sitae Bower (hal smi today 3 Temorrow wii! pe dy ine The glorious Bony Bf ballon sul The bisher t's ow setting The sooner will ins race be mn Aud vearer he's to setiing While A» he Ph ] pa : That age is best which is ihe first, When youth snug WATT But, being spent, the worse umd worst Times still guceecd the former Then be uot coy. hat use your time : And while ye mir go marry. For baviug lost but once your ¢ forever tarry . =-Robert Herrick. lod sre > prime Tou may oy IBBYS =. 3 Rs Full Dress STORE OPEN EVENINGS | | | lothes, Toggery nt The season for full dress suits and other outfitting is now on. 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