« PAGE POUR "The British Whig 82ND YEAR Published Dally and Semi-Weekly b THE HRITISH WHIG PUBLISHRN C., LIMITED, President ..Managing Director and Bec.-Treas. . th Eliott amnan A. Guild .. Telephones: Basiness OfMce . Editorial Rooms ... Job Office IBSCRIPTION RATES : (Dally Edition) One year, delivered in city . One yvemr, If pald in advance mail to rural officess. » Unjred States x three months pro reta, mi-Weakly Edition) by m sll, cas o it not pald in advance, .$1.50 to United States 156 nd three months pro cata. er ------------------------------------------------ Attached In one of the Dest printing offices in Canada. One year, Une One fix o war, job TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE $M. E. Bninllpeice 22 Church St. 1. #1. REPRESENTATIVES New York Office 225 Fifth Ave. Frank I: Northrup, Manager. CRICEED .....vi3seeeenss Tribune Blag. Frank R. Northrup. Manager. TURKEY'S sab PLIGHT. i<hh army has . shown, in at and well-nigh annihiliation, | the effect active Cperviee unfit rum- shackle of in : poor condition, poorly equipped, and badly led. Its officers have heen Ger- man of sending Wt into It has been a. at best, an army, , and, in they have The oul wa Germany's extremity, used and destroyed. thing about it to admire Enver Pasha's cleverness in been ox- money from the people that pur the army in the field. He practically demanded of certain peo- ple their money or their lives, and they paid quickly, and to the ex tent of hundreds of thousands of dol- Enver robbed ' the people and then sacrificed the army. "Phe Turks realize that are without standing in the courts of Furope, that they are helpless, that between the opposing powers they will. be grénnd, as between the upper and the nether stones, and that sooner later they will be witout a coun- try. The German influence has been Withering and blighting. toriing the lars, now they or BRITAIN AT HER BEST. © The Dean of Ontario, who was the principal speaker at the meeting in connection with the Week of Prayer, struck an optimistic note. It is the note that is heard in Britain, and the note that is affecting the people of the old land in a most remarkable way. The dean has been long enough abroad, at the very heart of the em- _ pire, and in touch with the leaders of pulfic opinion, to reflect their senti- ment and spirit; 'and if he accom- plished nothing more by his return to "Unnada, (and, of course, he has), he did a great deal in giving us the true British perspective. The old land is being - transformed through the war. The distinctions , between the classes and the masses are not being wholly wived out, but they are being so far obliterated as to be no longer descernable in the . great tasks of the hour. Men, (and the term is used in its widest and best sense), are "co-operating .in the great military centres, forgetting, for the time, the accidents of birth, and 0 hand ation cioate, and they are exhibiting, in their self-sacrifice, the evidence that they belong to the British nation. The keen ohservers of passing events, who are expressing their views in the literature of the day, unite in saying that the old land is passing through a rare experience, an experi- 'ente so refining, that in every way, morally, physically, commercially and spiritually, hers will be a better and a stronger and wmiore reliant people. The dean's word-picture of the great change that is mow going on was very much appreciated. WAR END LIFE INSURANCE. © The. insurance companies and insur | . ante associations are watching the "progress of the war very closely and for the reason that in this war they are largely interested. Canada's Firat _ sible extent because, in addition to the insurance carried by -many'rmembers, the municipalities covered the lives of {their departing heroes with polivies "of at least $1,000 each. Most of these . company, which accepted. the risks at exacted the "war rating of $50 per thousand extra. : , ~ With the' decision to raise farther ed of 'men 10 the number of 100,000, ix MajorG 1 Hashes | already, and of explains the reason. The war mor- { tality is. very high. In the United States Civil, the Franco-German, An- glo-Boer and Russo-Japanese wars, the iilled were 25.2 of the whole; the fatal wounded, 12.4; thie' deaths from dis- e, contracted in the war, 51.1; the accidents, 4.6. Mr. McKenchie, quot- ing from the most valuable informa- n, says the annual premium oh a risk should be at least ¥93, and at this rate insurance is not de manded i Canada and America has not heard from. the war in the way of mortality claims so far: As the Ca- 'nadians enter the engagements or the trenches, and exposed to the hazards of active service, the claims will be numerous. It | will be a long time before the resulis reach anything like the proportion of the results in | Fogland and France, where hundreds of thousands of dollars have been paid where some companies much come 92] and associations are in great danger] - failure. y 'A SCENr IN THE LORDS. One does not know why the Hotise oi Lords should! meet a month in ad- vance of the Commons, and gince it has met it is unable. to do anything. True, it heard from Lord Kitchener, the minister of war. The man took oi- fice only until the crisis had passed. Armed with a typewritten document-- for my lord is not an, orator--he gave a brief review of ' the situation, de- scribing, in his own way, the changes in it since last he had addressed the The allies were makidg pro- in Europe. They were driving the Germans back, but so slowly, and in the face or sucn a determined re sistance, that there was only one con- elusion--it would 'take time to subju- gate the foe. 'That is what Kitchener said in the first place. The statement or inference is not new. In Egypt, in South Africa, in the Caucusas, the en- emy was suffering. The war was go: ing well. That was the substance of his speech. It was enough. Public confidence, in the man and in his mis- gion, continues. > The minister of war, however, has his critics in the house and outside of it. The cable tells that Lord Cur- zon prepared a speech and meant to relieve himself of it before Ketchener He does not like the minister. He was governor-general of India and quarrelled over some matter of precedence with the great soldier, and it was a question for the government to call one or the other home. Curzon was elected, Lord Ketchener simply ignored him, in the house, and, hav- ing made hie statement, there was nothing to add. Some one points out that he did not say much about his army, its size, fitness, and movements. Well, no. That would be one way of informing the enemy and defeating the censdr. 'and my lord was quite judiei- In diplomacy as in war he is an expert. But he did laud and mag- nily the Canadians who are at the front, and i is the most comforting thing he could have done at this time. lords. gress spoke. ous. THE HUGHES CRISIS. : It is fast coming to this that. Sir { Robert Borden will have to get rid tof Hon.. Sam Hughes or the conser- | vative party will have to get rid of . Nir Robert Borden, failing which the | country will get rid of the conserva- tive party.--Toronto Telegram. | Now what ' is the matter? Some "weeks ago, when the minister of mili- '{in. visited Toronto, and forbade, as tending to cause panics, the Lessard ' methods af mobilizing the troops, the conservative papers were' very severe 'on him. They spoke so bitterly that at once it was felt there was some- thing behind the incident, and some- thing that was the cause of the out- break. THE DAILY BRITISH Public Opinion As Expected, . Hamilton Times The Turk js making a holy show of his holy war. The Great Dee London Advertiser. . The vacancies in the baitle line may be refilled, but gaps in the homes cannot be. . ------------ 4 Nor Likely To. Vancouver Sun None of, the belligerent powers' have placed Xew Year's resolutions on the contraband list. A Proper Compression. Montreal Mail The kaiser makes a speech now and then that gives the same impression. fas an escape of gas. Twenty-One. Brantforil Courier Pefore attaining. twenty-one years of age that figure seems like a peak wnich* would never be reached, and ai- ter that it's a toboggan slide all the way, by gosh! Suspicious. Ottawa Journal Suspicions rise that Kitchener and Jofire are playing the same sort of waiting game in France that Roberts and Kitchener played in South Africa before Paardeberg. Poor System. Toronto Globe The two-year term, half retiring an- nually, gives the Toronto Board of Fducation the bad features of the long term and the bad features of the short term, with the good features of neither. Sex Inequality. London Advertiser. The sons and fathers of the warring nations get an iron' cross on their breast while living and a wooden cross on their breasts when dead. The daughters and mothers get a cross of sorrow, the ceremony minus a spectaculdr presentation and a brass band. Germany's Big Bill. Brantford Expositor. In" 1871 Germany exacted from France a war indemnity of $1,000, 000,000. © Already the damage done to Belgium by the war, by the estimate of a prominent lawyer of Brussels, Henri Masson, comes to $1,059,836,- 000. And that is but one item in the bill which the allies will expect Germany to pay. Kingston Events Twenty-Five Years Ago The City Council this year is com- posed of one agent, one, retired gen: ftlernan, seven merchants, two govern: ment officials, one lumber dealer, two forwarders, one tailor, one butcher, two accountants' and four lawyers. Melzar Avery is a candidate for war- den of the county. Many 'more citizens 'became victims of la grippe to-day. ' John Laidlaw & Son are moving to the store, 170 Princess street. BRITAIN SELLS GERMAN SHIPS. Money Divided Among Men Of The Entire Navy. : London, Jan. 7.--The Balic Fx: change building was bright yesterday with red-ink notices announcing that four German ships captured since the outbreak of the war and now lying at various English ports would be sold at public auction at 2.30 p.m. ° This was to be the first auction sale of ships under prize court rulings, and by 2.30 this room especially prepared for the occasion 'and the adjacent cor- ridors ' were packed with top-hatted, gray-haired men representing, as the shrill calls of telegraph' ¥s con- stantly reminded -bne;~the shipping in- terests of all Great Britain. : "By order of the admiralty no bids will be' considered which nt an advance of less than Flas said the auctioneer in opening sale. The first .s ship offered after the conditions, One can't always judge a man's importance by the angle at: which he wears his hat Thege comes a time in the life of every man when he feels justified in kicking himself. Names that parents inflict upon their children are enough to cause them - to break into jail in after years. When a woman discovers a silver strand among the gold she always says It is premature----but she thinks it's a shame. Y Around The World. Mazie--Artie, where are we going on our. heneymoon? Artie--Around the world, darling. They're going to give It in several reels at the corner picture show: -- New York Globe. In Politics. Madge--How Is Dolly getting on in politics? Marjorie--Fine! A rich brother Socialist 1s going to marry her and let her spend all his money.--Judge. -------- Hardware Going Up. "I suppose the price of New Eng- land pies will 'go up, won't it?" "Yes, 1 helieve the war affects hardware in all its various forms."-- Life bone Properly. "How is it you were so long over your work to-day?" she asked. "Sure, ma'am," replied the servant "you were watching me most of the time." -~~Judge. Useless Labor. "Dinah, dig vou wash the fish be- fore you baked it?" "Law, ma'am; what's de use ob washin® er. fish what's lived all his life in de water?" Philadelphia Ledger. A Good Reason. Two neighbors had'a long litiga- tion about a small spring which they both claimed. The judge, wearied -out with the case, at last said: ~ Wat 1s the use of making so much fuss about a little water?" "Your honor will see the serious nature of thé case," replied one of the lawyers, "when I inform you that the parties are both milkmen.'-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Early Training. First Business Man--To what do you attribute your success? Second , Business Man<--To the fact that I was always first at the office. For 17 years I caught the 6.15 into town. First Business All due to your Columbia Jester. Man--Ah, I see, éarly training--- The Copy Boy On Betting, I did net bet the Braves would lose and therefore have not got the blues The world looks good the day is fine and all is well with me and mine. I did not haply have a hunch I wanted oysters for my lunch And therefore have no need tew sigh for having lost my milk and pie nor caring who would win the day there is no lien upon my pay Intact unsullied so tew speak it waits me later in the week Clark McAdams, in St. Louis Post- Dispatch. How They Get It. Jeddie Neewlyrich--Ma, I need a new little fiyabout. Perc Oldfamily's fiyabout can break the airship speed limit twice as easy as mine ean! Ma Newlyrich, loftily -- Gussie, dear, ring for the butler and tell him to tell William to tell Peter to tell the footman .te go down cellar and knock open another barrel of money and bring me up about 'a peck and a half. --New York Times. WHIG, FRIDAY, JANUARY, 1915. A Wolsey Underwear $4.50 per Suit. 'Bibbys ~ Men's and Boys' Clothing House Wolsey Underwear $4.50 per Suit. Shoes $2.75 Sizes 6 to 11 A A A Bibbys - NN OL 0 AE Bibbys Workingmen's Heavy elk, tan or black, storm tongue, sewn and pegged soles, special A PE Pl PtP Al AAA lA Bibbys 69c Shirt Sale Starts To-day These shirts are made by Canada's best shirt makers. Every shirt guaranteed first qual- ity. Regular $1.00 and $1.25 shirts for 69c Each { Sizes 14 to 171.2 } SEE WINDOW DISPLAY of THESE SHIRTS NPP PANN NN at, - Ee Bibbys Workingmen's ~ Mitts, Special 50c. Horsehide face, pure wool lining AlN MPAA PN NN NNN NANNY Sale of. English Raincoats 'enuine English Parametta cloth, doub e texture, military collar, storm cuff, etc. A regular $12.00 value, for \ For Sale | A first class up to date it bas since transpired that there has been friction between the minister lof militia and his colleagues. They are not willing that he should direct the work of his department. At Val- 'eartier the most of his 'colleagues butted in, and some members of par- lianient. and the direction of affairs | was largely taken out of his hands. | During the madjor-general's absence , in Ingland it is said that a couple yof the ministers 'were partigularly ac- Hive in managing the department in the interest of the party. On the i minister's return from ud he had occasion,' it'is said, to differ with the usurpers in his department, 'and it required the personal interven- ition of the premier to restore peace. It is rumoured . arose | {its jwith him. The minister of militia "has been very silent for the last few ! weeks, i sel. { Kitchener, he is asserting his right {to administer his' department as ho foe St, according fo his a Telegram that this will not 1% | Eventually all the facts. out, and, if rumour be Garrect, H SE iad . ; th! 7 ii colleagues have differed x jum, £500 or £1,000 at a time until £22,500: had been . Then it was raised £50 at a bid to £23150, (about (%115- Soa). at which price it was knocked Own. The bidding for the other ships fol- Sid ton he Die ce Hehe | ing 3 The total sum realized the auction was £130,735, (about $650,000). This sum will be divided by the vermment among the men of the w navy. In wars before the present one prize money of this di was divided only among the crews making the cap- tures. ----- MODEL FARM AT NOTTAWAY. 1 Different. | "I'd ask you to dance only you told me you were tired." . "But I'm not too tired to dance." Judge. At Last. Factory The little agricultural village had been billed with "Leeture on Keats" | for over a fortnight. The evening' arrived at length, bringing the lec- | turer ready to discourse on 'he poet. The advertised chairman, taken ill' at the last moment was replaced by a local farmer. This worthy intro- duced the lecturer and terminated his remarks by saying. "And now, my friends. we shall soon all know what I persona:ly have often wondered--what are keats?" ~--~Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegram. CL -- The Last Word. A little girl travelling in a sleeping car with her parents greatly objeci- dh being put in an upper berth. . She was assured that papa, mamma 'and God would watch over her. She was settled in the berth at last and the passengers were quiet for the right, when a small voice piped: "Mammal" "Yes, dear." : "You there?" ' "Yes, I'm here, Now go to sleep." "Yes, I'm here. Go to sleep like a good. girl." This continued at ifitervals for lost patience and called: .- 4 "We're all bere! Your father and mother and brothers uncles aunts and first cousins, All here. Now go to " - There was a. after this voice piped + German and sisters and [ing _to thirty cheese per day. and one-eighth cents per pound is paid for making cheese and -- drawing milk. Will sell at a low figure and on easy terms to an experienced man. For particulars consult T. J. Lockhart es Confident Of the Navy. ntford Expositor. » Af the time, ever comes wher fhe darés to venture into open wat and take the risks the British fleet must necessarily take: ta heap tien he trade routes of the i's ex on of those leading to the ports belligerent nations, then will the sink British boats, whether by € or submarine, be Tully avenged. Noth- has bd as yet to shake our faith in Jellicoe, or in the skill and daring of the officers and men under him. = So far; when the conditions have been anywhete near equal they have shown r sympathy over their German rivals. ~~ Are rime r a & of the. come time, until a fellow passenger Formidable, Audacious and ahr BIBBYS : 78-80-82 Princess St. Announcement 7 As 1 have decided to vacate my presen premises In thé early spring of 1915, | am now prepared to make reductions on any monument that I have in stock. If it is your in- tention of purchasing it would be to "your advantage to buy now. Boos a . Cor. 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