wm PAGE FOUE_ T-- a a : . oné was exempt from military ser- Ee The British Whig vice when the honour: of the ®ation : BE . SOUTH YEAS. . was at stake. There was another i = meee | Gg une--the line - that divided the 3 A masses and that sometimes created 5 # serious divisions among thie people. Tt a She Ro CEE NEAR 4 HI A WR Ee % ch ss 'f° @pirit of the kaiser who, atthe. out- "Wn recruiting the army, for the active Seok a8 it were, alar off, ang. cheer Cr i was made of a kind. FStill the an in th an of Fublished Dally and Semi.-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING f CO, LIMITED, ------------------ mn th lit nnn President anaging Director and Bec.-Treas. J. CG. Elllott ..... Leman A. Guild ... Telephones: Buainess Office .. takes a war to remove these country there are no that prince and peasant must march now 80 many members divis- ions It does not level society--it is mot necessary to do that--but it shows 'that in, the defence of the choice places and d fight side by side, One of % the sights of the times is the présence a British regiment of infantry of o..Prince of Wales, carrying his gun, d parading" with the yding men London, forgetting for the time being that he was of the House of George. That is the spirit which should an- ate our boya. should at fit is their duty to join the mi- to fill up the -local battalion that it has been decimated hy They see 1a, who are on active o Room " Taisorial Sams 11 duty. The duty of the hour must' in some way be brought home to SUBSCRIPTION RATES . tpl i (Daily Edition) them, even if the political leaders 'of Cine year, delivered in city ...... $6.00 One year, If paid in advance . 5.00 One year, by mail to rural offi 2:60 One vear, to United States ........ 3.00 Six and three months pro rata. » (Semi- Weekly Bdition) One year, by mail, cash .......... 00 One year, If not paid in advanc 1.50 One year, to United States .... 1.50 Bix and three months pro r Attached Is one of the best joo we printing offices In Canada,. "TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE Canada must leaders of Britain, go out and make On Tuesday night a audienee), (not such an one as there preparation do, like the political personal -appeals to them. ORGANIZING FOR ACTION. considerable uld have been with nore time for and mote publeity), H. E. mR ERAN AR Chron 8t. ! heard Mr. Warburton, ' of Toronto, ex- New York Office ......., 225 Fifth Ave. | plain the Canadian Patriotic Fund < hlcago- +. R. Northrup, ger. dx. with which it is proposed to estab- rank thrup, Manager. lish a bganch here. Mr. Warburtow ui i¥ an old campaigner. He organized MOST COMPREHENSIVE TERM. Britain; th In hy order of the post- ||, master of all woldiers #ogaged in clive servige are ¢ being carried free of postage. The postmaster-general of Canada has in this splendid example something wor general, the letters ta tic ment, appeal, the Hamilton, and Brantford e¢ Toronto yndon, Berlin ap wals, and frose here he /goes to Ot I g wa to perfect its local and patrio : plans.' Every one is interested in the move and every /ome who can--and thy of imitation. By the way, the|the barefooted nefshoy who put a juestion of the hour is, Who are quarter in the hox, all his own sav- the soldiers in active service ? The|ings, shows how far-reaching is the men across the sea, ok going across | circle should esteem it a privilege to the #ea, to join the British army | contriblite to the fund. ' Certain and engage in "battle with the Ger things are essential to success--in- wanes ? These, and more. The ac- fluence, organization, enérgy, (well- tive service which the government re- directed), and publicity. The ht- cognizes, and which will cover the de- { mosphere must be right. It is nat pendants in the Canadian Patriotic Fund, includes the men in training in Canada for home and foreign ser- en fa benefit of the country. The term, active service, is, therefore, most comprebposive. lie What 18 making the Germans fight with a mew vim, dash and .fierceness? A document found on the: person of "one of them cites that any sign of be gr Ome of Canada's best men--Dr. Wil- 'liana Saunders, the founder and for many years the director of the first _lederal experimental farm--has passed so movement ough that the vourably. public pulse beats It is necessary that in many ways the issue be so much talk- yice, the men on guard everywhere in|ed about that the very air becomes Canada--all men who have been call-| vibrant with the activities of the «4 out from their usual occupations people. to do duty in the name and for the| The fact being admitted that the is one of univérsal inter est, that ite needs appeal fo the pub- support as nothing else can, the aim of the Finance Committes should high. eat things, Tt should undertake to do In Toronto the ob Jeet was to raise half a million dol- . lars, imi : : vowardice or faint-heartedness will be a So She Howl was raised to hree- punishable by death. ee-quarters of a million, and p ree ins ended with a million. Tn Tendon A USEFUL LIFE CLOSED. £100,000 was expected; £130,000 was redched, and the money is still pour- ing in. In Hamilton £150,000 ught and £190,000 attained. was In St. Thomas $100,000 is desired. And all away. He died on Sunday. He has | this mod® and mokgy, Will be re not been heard much of lately, be-| quired in order that Canada may éause of his ill-health and retirement | discharge her debt of gratitude to perhaps, but among agriculturists his "name has been a household word. He was trained theoretically and technically in England, carried Canada some of the honours to the to the men who have volunteered for her defence, It 'will take the Balance of the week develop the machinery, whose op- eration, in the local canvass, will be people of the old land conferred upon | made next week, in a campaign of bins, and earned here fresh honours, [three or four days, Kingston is a and regard of many friends. He was | Fittle late in starting, but it is pro- 4 talented man, and, like so many | iting hy the experience of other nhers; found a joy and a satisfac: | places, and this experience will be tion 'in developing ' new species from f very helpful . to it. s the grains and plants. His discovery f-- of a kind of wheat, the . Marquis, EDITORIAL NOTES. woishioh "ripened a week or ten day¥| po. por for Ireland and Welsh i Gurlier, than the Red. Fyfe, brought Church Disestablishment became law o him. the thanks of the people of the automatically. That is' the bills, 5 orth-West. The aim of every man long delayed, go on the Statute Book lould be to leave the world better by consent. The enforcement of them ban he found it. Dr. Saunders was | flows by special legislation a year tireless in his work. Every season aw him extending his knowledge, his his service. The soils, Should speedily pass from the land of fu promise into the land of production. 75 This command: of the Landsturm to 6 or die," is in accote with the Hw of the war said that Germans would spill the last drop of their blood ir defence of their country. « The life stream has been flowing ewer nce. hence. constant change of scene, plenty amuse nd healthy work." navy, -in mes of peace, in other words, life. I The war will then be over. usefulness, In vertisi i J . . advertising for eecruits | for the {Minder his touch, rendered » 'hele United States' navy "life jobs" are iitiches, and if his pick were ho it announced, "with a humane ems if of the average farmer Canada ployer; withonit "strikes or lay-offs, a of The offers one the time of his ' I Gen. Vion Blum, German comman- der, cheers his following by 'declaring } that they are only beginning to feel the pinchings and the sacrifices of : RECRUITING THE Mi war. No sign of surrender there. "In 'England there was a slowness| A Japenese viee-admiral, accused iid important work that lay before &%; though a war was ot, and the # Wost urgent aud insistent appeals gore made to the people. Men heard (the news of battle, heard the # unds and; convicted of grafting in con- neofion with the naval service, Sent to jail Tor four years hali. Grafting in Japan is a serious. mattier--for the present. become commnon enough to lose ugliness : \ was and a It has not its : How much can you afford to give ruiting hung fire. Sei + jo | to the Patriotic Fund * What is it X the wmbian vmod 15 1, he Mende worth to you to have some one else they were expected 10, do. Still | Tepreseat 'at the front? I you future of the empire seamed to | C2000 you 'can. help to sup S)ein doubt. fi. |port the family or dependants of the THE now to do something worthy of the individual and the land in connection without a paralle [PUBLIC OPINION He May Indeed. Hamiltofi Herald The 'bear that walks' like a man" is striking such a gait in Galicia that he may soon Bb in the road race class, > Somewhat Deceptive. Toronto Mail The German war loan is for a hil- lion marks, but the German war- cry has sounded . like a million barks. What Has It Done ? Lon¥on Advertiser Let's always look on the side. 1f the Germans invade Canada perhaps the Grand Trunk station will get in the way of a shell. brightest - Russians In Training. Toronto Telegram Russian arty in Scotland ! Pro- bably the idea is to get them used to the bagpipes first, then the other terrors of war will follow gradually. An Heroic Act. Toronto Globe A heroic Frenchman was kissed by kis colonel in the presence of his regi- ment after he had plit a number of (iermans to flight No Briton is brave enough to stand such re ward. ---------------- Just Like War, Chicago Tribune Sacking a city and then levying a its inhabitants re war indémmnity on minds us of a Connecticut plumber that we once called in. He broke $30 worth of sound pipe and then $12 . sent in a bill for A Grave Suspi Toronto § the kaiser has started Now that writing letters it may mean that he begins to suspect that after all the pen may be mightier than the sword and a "scrap of paper" more im- portant than any other kind of a "serap." Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, SEP promises redeemed at an immense | cost. | 4 ---- "4 There never was, in the language of Mr. Warburton, the chance there is | Belgians sgainst three German army ¥ith the Patriotic Fund. It has sug- gested, and brought about, a unity | of action and sentiment ahsohitely A SIEGES OF FORMER WARS Recalled by Gallant Defence of Liege Against Germans. The defence of Liege by 20,000 'corps mumbering © 125,000 will go {down to history as one of the most j brilliant feats of arms in the annals lof war. The Franco-Prussian war of-1870- 71 was remarkable for its sieges. | Bazaine héld out at Metz against { Germans, and no fewer than 40,000 fand finally surrendered with 6,000 officers and 173,000 mer: Fér this he had to submit to court-martial and was senténced to twenty-years' imprisonment. Afterwards came the |slege of Paris, which lasted six {'months. Thousands of shells were | rained on the city every day by the | Germans, and no fewer thon 40,000 lof the inhabitants succumbed to | disease and hunger. | "That lengthy sieges are quite pos- {sible even iu these days of, huge | guns is illustrated by Chukri Pasha's gallant defence of Adrianople last | year for 1556 days. Then there was | the comparatively recent great siege {of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japan- jese war in 1904-5, which finally cap- itulated after being blockaded by | Admiral Toga for 210 days. The {name of General Stoessel will rank with those of the greatest soldiers of modern times. In Ottoman and Russian military history there has never been a siege like that of Plevna in 1877, when Os- man Pasha defied the Russians for 140 days and finally surrendered on December 10th, with 30,000 men and 100 guns, owing to provisions and ammunition running short. In.the same year Kars, long the bulwark of the Ottoman empire in Asia, was stormed by the Russians after a siege of five months. Twenty-two years earlier the for- tress 'had been brilliantly defended for eight mouths against the Rus signs by the Turks under General Williams, who had but 15,000 men against 50,000. Even these sieges, however, are somewhat incighificant when com- pared with some others. The long- est siege occurred in the American Civil war, whan the Confederates de- fended the town of Richmond for 1,485 days, or just over four years. Sebastopol, in the Crimean war, held out for eleven months, while General Gordon defended Khartoum | against the Soudanese for 300 days, The sieges of Lardsmith, Kimberley, and Mafeking, in the South African war, lasted 120, 123. and 261 days respectively. There is orobably, however, no siege which Britishers like to read about so much as that carried out by France and Spain in their endea- vors to carry the Rock of Gibraltar, 1779-83. Altogether the siege lasted nearly four years, and, as the world knows, resulted in a complete tri- umph of British arms, in spite of the fact that the jenemy numbered 30- 000 to 40,000 men, while the defend ers could only muster 7,000. IB. W. Folger purchased $4,500 worth of six per cent. bonds from the township Kingston. They will yield him 1-2 per cent. Rev. Mr. Cooke has started a sub- scription list for the purpose of rais- ing funds to be applied in the pur- chase of a site and the building of a handsome Anglican church in Willi- amsville. Mayor Thompson is strongly of the opinion that the eity is not pro- perly represented at the cduncil board, and has a scheme to subdi- vide the board. He -proposes to di- vide Rideau, Cataraqui and Fronten- ac wards into small areas and to en- large St. Lawrence ward. WAR'S EFFECT ON SUGAR. Price Fairly Reasonable So Far, But Jump Anticipated. Ottawa, Sept. 16--Retail sugar prices in Canada, as shown by data collected by the department of labor up to the early part of last week, are in most cities not very high con- sidering the war situation and the tax placed on the commodity, There has been considerable difference of opinfon in this regard, but the de- partment's figures show that sugar is selling in most of the large cities for 63% and 63; cents per pound,or at the rate of 16 pounds for a dollar. In Prince Albert," Saskatchewan sugar sold for 9 1-11 cents in the early part of last week. This is high-water-mark in Canada, not be- ing equalled in any other Canadian city. The price in Montreal in retail stores is given as seven cents, which means that thirteen pounds can be purchased for a dollar. In Toronto the quotation is 614 to 6 2-3 cents, or at the rate of sixteen pounds for a dollar. Ottawa people pay 6% cents per pound. Halifax 7 9-13 cents. Quebec cents and Hamilton 7 cents, While sugar is still selling at a fairly seasonable_ price, however, it is expected that it may yet reach 11, or 12 cents per pound in Canada. Raw sugar is reported to be selling at 8 cents per pound in New York, from which the inference is drawn that when the local supply has been used up and Canadian refiners have to buy the raw product," the price will go up two or three cents more. MOORS ARE TROUBLESOME French and Spanish Warships Go to 3 Morocco. are becoming troublesome aff along the coast," says an Exchange Tele- graph company's despatch from Gib- raltar. "French and Spanish war- ships are proceeding to Merocco. "For six days fighting has been in progress in the neighborhood of Tetuan. The Spanish troops have taken Kudia and Bupayl]l after stub- born resistance. Thousands of per- sons from Tangiers are continually arriving at Algeciras, fearing Moor- ish aggression." 4 Class No. 27 of Queen street Me- thodist church Sunday 3chool sent a consignment of bandages to Col, the Hon. Som Hughes to be used in the war: The class received a letter from the minister, in which he thanked the members for their donation. | The Canadian General Electric company, Toronto. has sent twenty five electrical to Canadian London, Sapt. 16--""The Moors | wesk-- The Kaiser And God. Harry Pain. "I rejoice with 'you in Withelm's first victory. How magnificently God has supported him!"-- Telegram from the Kaiser to the Crown Prin- cess. . - By Led by Wilheim, as you tell, God has done extremely well; You with patrionizing nod Show that you approve of God, Kaiser---face a question new--- This. --does Cod approve of you? Broken pledges, treaties torn, Your first page of war adorn: We no fouler things must look Who read further in that book, Where you did in time of war All that you in peace forswore, Whete you, barbarously wise, Bade your soldiers terrorize, Where you made---the deed was fine Women screen your firing line. Villages burned down to dust, Torture, murder, bestial iust, Filth tole foul for printer's ink, Crimes from which the apes would shrink -- . Strange the offerings. that you press On the God of Righteousness! Kaiser, when you'd decorate Sons or friends who serve State, Not that Iron,Cross besiow ula Cros ot Wood, and So remind the world that you Have 1:ude Cel-ary anaw. your "Kaiser, when you'd kneel in prayer Look upon your hands, and there Let that deep and awful stain . From the blood of children slain Burn your very sou' with share, Till you dare aot breathe thut Name That now you glibly advertise -- God as one of your allies. Implous braggart, you forget; God is not your conseript yet; You shall learn in' dumb amaze. That His ways are not your ways That the mire through which you trod Is not the high white road to God To Whom, whichever way the com- bat rolls, fighting to the end, command our souls, We, --- London Times. New Towns in British Columbia. New station buildings are being compldted on the Grand Trunk Pa- cific railway at the rate of one each Twenty - stifions have been erected recently on the main line of the Transcontinental in British Columbia. Development has 'been | very rapid in this territory, settlers coming in as soon as the steel was laid. These new station buildings, which are modern in every respect include Longworth, Dewey; Lind- up, Aleza Lake, Hansard, Urling, Hutton, Newlands, Guildford; Fore- man, Crescent Island LeGrand, Gi:- come, Bond. Rooney, Rainbow, wil- low River, Knole and Shelley. Hotel accommodation is als) he- ing provided by private enterprise at the more important poinis alone There has just bas open-| ed in Prince Rupert a six stor~ he. with eighty bedrooms and good cafe. At Skoena Crossing, ©. C., Mile 164, on the Grand Trank Pa- TEMBER 16, Men's Shoes Men's Hats "| Bibbys | We Will Meet Or Beat All Catalogue Prices Ladies & Men's Sweater Coats The best and largest display of all wool sweater jackets ever shown in Kingston. New shades and weaves, cardinal, garnet, kharki, white, pearl grey, dark grey. 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