SIRE. pm "The British Whig 82ND YEAR 0 Nd Published Datty snd Semi- Weekly by! PUBLISHING | THE HRITISH WHIG Cu, LIMITED, J. G. Elliott Leman A. Guild. nd Sec.-Treas. President | 'Managing Direc tor | that the 'chief development of Telephones: Basine OMce ...cvovnvassnninne » 343 Editorial Rooms .. Job Office sesneee B20 29 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Datly Edition) One year, delivered-in city . One year, If pald In advance One year, by mail to rural officess. Ope year, to United States ........ Bix and three months pro rata. semi- Weekly Edition) One year, by mail, cash One vear, If not paid in advanc Ons year, to United States ... ix and three months pro rata. Attac hed one of printing - offices in Canada. TORONTO , REPRESENTATIVE , KB Smallpetee ,......; 4 32 Church St, I. B. REPRESENTATIVES Naw York OMce ¥rank 1B Northru 8 Chicago « Tribune 'Bug. ¥ rani BR. Ne erthrup. Manages wo COUNCIL BEGLYS CAUTIOUSLY. Ihe n be termed The political and under what mdy vourable circumstances. conspicu sufficient rea- politicians demanded aspect "of things was not ous, and for good and Had the the seats sons of preference, and of hon- of them could » have assumed the attitgde that they burdened with responsibil ity They could not be expected to our, the men deprived were not worry about results, In setting record the position that until 4 new Vear's should take the the budget has and until it reveals the and probable expenditure, no should be out for council been struck, revenue serious contracts under- taken. as indicated by the advance in the assessment; was fully pledged council took office. The old council had Toaded up its successor with heavy liabilities. They did not terrify the council of 1914, however, and because they did not "huowgendertakings in the way of in creases to the fire department und the police department, were accepted with- out any regard, apparently, sequences, The ideal position for the. new coun- cil~the only sale position indeed--is to avoid every financial obligation until the finance committee hans re- ported upon the financial position of the city. To do otherwise is to in cur liabilities 'which must be followed by an increase in taxation, and the taxpayers will have a right to pro- test against such a proposal. revenue, before the new for eon- KINGSTON'S POWER OFFER. The Hydro-Eleetric Commission should have been impressed with the action of the people in approving of the conveyance of power by Mr. Campbell to his flour mills. The Com- «mission has communicated with Mr. Campbell and shown new interest in his proposition. It will be remem- bored that he said he would sell the city what power it desired at three: fuarters of a. cent per kilo-watt. Or ho would sell it a supoified quantity of power, even if he had to cut off his own plant in order to serve the city. ly Sgr, between the city and { Mr. Campbell wa; revised bv 5 FTocirio C. Ci therefore, Protected, Then it ~ vecurred to some oue that it would * be beller' to negotiate for power through the Hydro-Electric Commis- sion. Of this the Council approved, 4 vxpocting thst progress would be + made at 'once. The Hydto-Electrie ~ Commission's only movement was to suggest that he sell his power 'at siy- tenths of a cent a kilowatt. Mr. Campbell demurred. He had a right ¢ 10 do so when the power is worth more than that to him. Moreover the manager of the city's plant has intimated that by acting on Mr. ~ Campbells offer - » Kingston will J tun $3,000 and $4,000 per" "year in uel There is no possibility of any other . cheap power being placed at the city's "disposal--in the near future. Their . Why should the Campbell offer not _ be accepted ? Why should the city Commission and the Council not co operate in order to bring things to a conclusion ? 3 WHS, | WHAT KUSSIA WANTS. i. Hamilton Pyle, of the stall the Loudon Chronicle, writing from | Petrograd; © (54 the best job council took office to-day, fa- : : { Last year the increase in the The eity | {men in office did not forget ! ceivion, and that. is why," says Mr. | Fyfe, "the world is at war to-day." 10 Russia will belong the twenty-first backward in many re- Bus*™igainst the drawback} bate. Fyle wets the comforts of strong nerve, few cities, no™wsh from the land, no industrial weakening of the greater part of the population. The balance will searcely go against' these, whether we consider general or take into account Russia is" { speets. happi the | health of generations to come." "Every {1 says - the staff | "wants to free Constantinople from | the Turk. Some want this because | Russia weeds. an outlet into the Me- diterranean and cannot any longer | submit to the Dardanelles being treat- ed as private property. Some see Rus- | { gin's. natural wealth must be in the | and believe that destiny is fgreing her towards the Golden Horn. Most want it. because they have been { taught that Christ is dishonoured by the wosship of Tslam in the cathedral of St. Sophia." Britain is warned that it will not do to perpetuate her old policy of Russia cannot longer be in her plans. . If Britain, ness only i assian, a writer, south, suspicion, thwarted | bier dlly; stands aside, well and good. 1f she, does 'not there will be trou- ble ahead for -everybody. "I should pot," Mr. Fyfe adds *be doing my duty if I did not say that Russia is watching very closely for signs of England's temper in the matter of 1 Constantinople and. the Dardanelles." It is a situation that will test the wisdom of the men in whose hands the destinies of the British empire Lave been committed. EDITORIAL NOTES. I'he balance of trade is turning is favour of the United States, and its finances are very good. They have not to raise the $200,000,000 which they owed Britain and a whi ago could not pay her. The revenue of the dominion for the last year went behind over $44,000, 000. The national debt was swelled by $73,000,000. New sources of taxa- tion mrust be found, and once found will never be forgotten, The shooting of the American by Canadian soldiers, at Fort Erie, was doubtless "accidental." But the fam- ilv of the man who lost his life-are entitled to compensation, and the Canadian -government should hasten to pay it. Britain has answered the protest of the United States against the search for contraband goods. The cuves of serious ,delay appear to -be viry few, and in the interest of Ger- many and her need of cotton, oil and copper, Britain is not .going to stop ber vigilance. "'gunmen" we read about are simply the youths who are neglected in their houre training and school: ing, and drift into vagabondism and crime. The ¢ure for this is the en- forcement of law against truemcy and the sale of firearms to incom: petent persons. The I'he Windsor Record is against in- dustrial bonuses... Most municipali- tis are. Ontario, legislated against this once but a fire burned a mill in the premier's constituency and he found a way of circumventing the law. ts repeal or disregard became very general after that. Mr. Mg¢Nichol, the vice-president of the C.P.R., is not worn out, but he hay retired. He knew better than to wait until failing health or vision forced action. So many fail to dis cover their own defects, and have to be reminded of them in an unpleasant es Sc amy : An alderman in Guelph, who was dufeated in the election, rejoiced that the loss of time and money was 'at an end. He claimed that his busi ness had fallen off $10,000 or 312, dU while he was attending to the people's business. And the people failed to appreciaté it. The in- grates ! Some one has been reviviig the ol ind things that were said of . H. Ferguson, M.P.P., when he act: - as chairman of the Public Ac | covats Comarittee. \They will keep in pickel until thoy are wanted. Meas: while they will leave, as one conser: vative paper puts it, "a bad taste in the mouth." Judge Middleton, in an appeal from the Ottawa Journgl, has elaborated the rights of a reporter to accommo- dation and public information atthe City Hall. An appéal should not he necessary, and would mot be, if some them- selves. Ottawa's new mayor will hav: no trouble with the press. Canadian Wins Apple Prize, Rochester, N.Y., Jan. 11.-- For the second consecutive time, a Ca- nadian captured the Grand Sweep- stake prize of $50, offered by the New York Rate. Fruit Grover As Public Opinion Quite Sure Of It. Windsor Regord Elbert Hubbard writing in the re cent Philistine says : "Hell was made in Germany." Forget It. London Advertiser. The crown prince of Germany has dropped out - of the fight as com- pletely as some of the defeated can- didates in the recent municipal elec- tions. They Surely Ought. Montreal Mail An Ontario woman went to sleep with her pipe alight, und was burned to death. The ladies ought to be wore careful. So it Seems. Montreal News New Zealand has more recruits com- ing forward | than are needed. Fvi- dently the holding of a general elec- tion didn't disturb that country. Peace In Danger. Tor 0 World A despatch says _ that the artist who painted the 'Peace' picture, which is in The Hague, is defid. Peace itself is somewhat buried these days. 'Good News. Guelph Mercury \ Rembrandt painting has been sold in New York for $250,000. This is encouraging, as it looked for a" time as though America hs nd gone Mutt and Jeff crazy: Kingston Events Twenty-five Years Ago The work of constructing the sec- ond track at Kingston Mills "was commenced 'to-day. The roads were never in better shape for wheeling than at pre- serit. ; Rev. 'Ww. B. Carey, addressed missionary services In Ottawa. TURNS HUNDREDS OUT. Highway and Canal Engineers Lose Their Jobs. Albany,N.Y.,Jan.11---Plans for dis- pensing with the services of more than 400 employees in the offices of the state engineer and the secretary of state are announced. Fourteen employees of the secre- tary of state office, including Paul Delaney, a nephew of former Gover- nor Glynn, already have been sus- pended, State Engineer Williams' ay roll soon will be materially de- Froasea in size. Under Williams' plan the depart- ments of barge canal dnd terminals will bewonsolidated and the posi- tions of division engineers of termi- nals abolished. - Their work will be handled by engineers under the dir- ection-of three engineers on the barge canal. The lay-off of employees in the secretary of state's office, it' was ex- plained was occasioned by Mr. Hugo's investigation of his office records during which he found that of the $3,000 appropriated last October for temporary: emp:oyees for the fiscal year, only $283 remained. FIVE VICARS ARRESTED.. Printer of Pastoral Having . His Choice of Jail or Fine. Amsterdam, Holland, Jan. 11--In a despatch from Rosendaal the cor- respondent of the Amsterdam Tijd says that M. Dessain, who printed Cardinal Mercier's pastoral letter, bas been fined 500 marks ($125) with an alternate threat of fifty days" imprisonment. Continuing, the correspondent de- clares that the Viear of was kept a prisoner in the fort at Hoboken from Saturday noon until Sunday morning. . The vicars of Duffel, Contich, Brasschaet and Se- hooten also were imprisoned. All of these priests are prepared, the correspondent of the Tijd declares, to contradict on oath the Bern semi official Joie ram denyin een arrested Ey read- ing the toe] letter of Cardinal | Mercier, EAT MORE BREAD. American, Chemistry Authority Says It Is Best Food. Washington, Jan. 11.--"Eat more bread, even if wheat and bread costs more, it will be cheaper than other food, even though dearer." This was the advice gives to-day by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, former chiel of the bureau of chemistry "There. is a popular Tollacy in favor of meat," said the doctor. "Meat contains sixty per cent. water and costs twenty-five cents & pound. Bread is only y per cent. water and costs five cents a pound. There's more in a pound of bread than in @ pound of meat. Hard workers bread more. than meat. There's p in a pound of bread pound of meat. If the cost of four makes bread rise, cut down on the meat. Bread is the cheapest food known." Mrs. John Beanington died in P tt on January Sth. She was bogn near Kingston and is survived by "her Ausband and fe children. ohn H. Johnson and Mrs. ver and an *| Lions 'existing 'to-day necessitate a ag ) Hemixen INAUGURAL. ADDRESS f= OF MAYOR SU THERL! AND BEFORE CITY COUNCIL. His. Worship Made Some Good Sug- gestions--He Advocates Economy During This Year. la his inaugural address to the i on Menday morning, Sutherland said thal condi- programme based on econowy, and economy, -eonsistent with elliciency; must be our watchword this year. It is encouraging to note the feel- ing of 'optimism which prevails, aad while we have no fear of the out- come of the issues involved, yet ' we Lave to govern ourselves consistently with good business principles. The demands to upon us will be many, and it iS only by an economi- cal policy that these dilierent' -issues can be met when they present them- selves, We have mot only to pro- vide for to-day, but we must look further ahead, and be inia good sound condition to take advantage w- dustrially of the opportunities which will' present themselves when the present cloud; under which the world vests to-day, has cleared away. These recommendations and sug- gestions were made by the mayor : That all utilities be installed at the one time and samé be charged again- st the properties so benefited as a local improvement. N Ihat a special rate be made for window lighting and that porch light- ing in the residential section be fur- nished at a special, if not a fixed, rate. That the question of dividing the city into zones be considered, location to deterine the assessment value. That the finance committee look well into the question of a tax commis- sion and see where we can improve matters. The narrowing of the roadways by the widening of the boulevards in the residential sections. That no permanent paving dertaken this year. That the city, be laid out in sec- tions, and one man be given charge of each section, That in view of the scarcity of be um work the city continue as at present' removing snow by hand labor; that; the enforcement of the present bLy- law be carried out. That all future extensions of tele- phone or other wiring be done un- der ground. That the Board of Works hold its meetings in the evenings, when the business demands of its are not so imperativ, and thereby enabling the members to give more time and thought to this important members | = Bibbys | Men's and Boys Clothing House ers. Sale Of Men's Shirts, 69c Regular $1.00 and $1.25 Shirts, made ko Canada's best, Sin mak- Sale Of Men's Suis, $12.50 Regular $15, $16.50, $18.00. Suits, "Semi- Ready and Society Brand". - Ready to try on, finished to your or- der in two hours' time. "$ 1 2. 50 Sizes, 33 to 40 .... . Leather Suit Cases sizes 22, 24, 26; black or tan; Leather Cases; 2 30.0 00, 35 50, $6.00 values straps, "$3.95 committee. That some scheme 'be devised whereby modified. milk: for infants | could be dispensed at cost. ! That greater interest in erecting suitable historical tabléts the city. If the city cannot have a police | patrol this year, see that its offend- | the! ers are not ot al through streets. The sale of the present grounds and the purchase of anoth- aroynd | Yair i $1.00, $1.25 values. 14% to 17, for, each, er property for. exhibition purposes. | That in the opening of new sec- tions, previsions be made for a lane way up the center of each and in this lane all drains, mains, block, | Night i Big Boy's. Overcoats || Sizes 29 to 33. $7.50 and $8.00 $5 Military Reefers, English Pilot Oloth; regular $6.0¢ & 86.50 garments or. 94.50 garments for A ns Boys' ---- + Sizes 69 C telephone and other wires, ete., be, installed. The extension of the city boun-! daries, with the possible view of securing from the federal govern- ment that part of the water fromt immediately opposite - the eastern sectiono of the city, known as Barriefield common. That steps be taken to relieve garbage conditions, and provide for its proper collection and disposal. PEFEEPEF FEES Ebb ibd WAR BULLETINS, POPE I ERIE It brsostttated 'he allied forces have re- gained the outskirts of Lille, and the Germans are evacuat- ing. The Germans dropped bombs on Dunkirk and Paris on Sun. day, but no serious damage was done. Captain Denziol Newton, of the Princess Pats regiment, was Kitieg in France, but it is not own ora British regiment. The allies' artillery is gain ing over the Germans at all points now. Two Turkish cruisers were disabled in a fight with the Rus. slans in the Black Sea. yt supe Irv IIIa IeeN 3 3 $ Pde GOOD TO BE BRITON NOW. Sir John Jellicoe Speaks of Splendid | Patience of Men. London, Jan. 11.--An interesti ter from Admiral Sir John toe a of Yat} er but _thest are ganis is good to see how well Shep sith: to the rather 'monotonous work "We don't get much comfort out of the wenldicr, either. . The nights are. , the sky is very A first class up to date Cheese & Butter 'Factory | eq woul, Joseph MeGrath, Mount Che: ney. Treasurer-- Jas. R. Anderson ' Mountain View. ry-- T. A. Almonte, Executive Announcement ? As-1 have decided to vacate ny presetn premises in the early spring of 1915; 1 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, Ke. AVAL IL 3 E1N Cor. Princess and Clergy Streets. Phone 1417, SKATING TO- NIGHT ARE YOU READ Yt IF NOT, SEE US. ommitee Henry i \ehdinning w} es - mE hh