aily Dritish Whig - i - Sr YEAR 82 NO, 39 | PRESS GALLERY GLIMPSES | Special Whig Correspone lence From the House of Commons. | MAJGEN. SAM HUG HES ee (Copyrighted.) A sturdy figure, khaki-clad, boot and spurred, evidently an officer of high rank, elatiers across the marble floor of the Chateau Laurier rotunda "And who might that be?" asks the American tourist: | "It might be Alexander the Great," is the reply, "but it's Major-Genera Sam Hughes." "Ah! vemarks the visitor interest edly, "the Kitchener of Canada. "You understate the case." Ou M.P. is bound to put the stranger right on these guestions of high poli tics. "Major-General 'Sum,' in own miad, has 'Race' Kitchener 'Jack' French backed off the Jofire, Hindenberg, Duke Kiser Wilhelm tand the rest of the outfit are iere apprentices Major General Sam is Juloug Caesar, Marl borough, the Duke of Wellington, Na- poleon Bonaparte, Georhe Washing. ton, Andrew Jackson, General ( Theodore Roosevelt, and Superman rolled into one. certificate of character frm Tord Roberts produced after that hero's death as the greatest Driving Force-- the greatest D.F. for short--in his tory. One way and another he's Canada's prize exhibit in this strug gle. It needed a Pan-European wat as a' backgsound for Gegeral Sam's lurid virtues and we got it. The con- flict traces right back ro Sam Hughes. © He's an expensive luxury, costs up fifteen millon a year in times of peace, and ten times that much at present, bit we've just na- turally got to keep him. We can't let go. Premier Borden objects to swapping Kitchenerd while crossing a stream. "He must be' some general, stranger remarks thoughitinlly "Some general | Now you're shout ing ! He discovered the German menace as fur back as 1870, discov- ervd it belore Kaiser Wilhelm had had his attention called to it, knows that the blamed, thing had never been kiil- ed, studied 'it on the spot only two years ago, went over the grodind when there were no trenches to stim ble into' and ean tell vou right nol + just where the lenders on both sides make their mistakes. Did it all off his own bat, tao. * Took a bunch of sunshine colonels over to help him bug; and map Nicholas, Nietsche'y "the his | campaign; that rang, | | He has a | ls 1 h a large statesmen, number or our makes Hansard what it is, a into raised letters for the little light reading is to he leading | Talking too wuch is what 1 work | far too voluminous ever to be turned } blind, | found | KINGSTON - ONTARIO, TUESDAY, FRBRUARY 16, 1915 fiat---------------- I -------- OVER [HE PRECIPICE which explains, in a manner w hy so | its pages. It is no secret that tune major-general has always been a hair trigger talker and that owing to the ! way he is rifled and his high muzzle velocity his words are liable to dum- dum before reaching the mark. 7 may be true that Major-General Sam told | the Win- Lord Kitchenesehow "to 'manage he instructed ston Charehill just where to look for submarines in the English Channel: that he put the kibosh on ' General Lessard with his tight hand and pro- moted him with his left; that he ad- {vised Toronto to put ice on her head {that he offered a million nen England, including eighty thousand Kentucky colomels; that he was brus- with royalty 'and curt with the patriots who had things to sell ranted. What then? Who is to ay that Major-General Sam's mis takes have not heen due to a burn. ing dislike to see things bungled when there is u great military genius un der his hat who can dg the job without help from anvhody to | que thé major-general has been almost silent, an® it speaks greatly for his discretion, in these days when avery little stztésman has a lecture all his own, that he trusts to the inspira- tien of the moment for his invidious remarks. He just blurts it out anu lets it go at that, showing no malice aferethought. Once 1n a while, be- ing quick to anger, he goes off at half cock but it) is notorious that min Jor-generals are highly explosive #0 nobody can blame him for that. [ have known colonels, let alcne major-generals, who their temper any longer safety-razor blade. As for not hat- ing himself that is' a family weak- ness--HBrother Jim has it, too. Major- General Sam is not like the Afrfean lady with a ring in her nosé-- he can blow his own horn. What's more he blows it =o often that he winds up by beliexing it. Although he has' tian a decided to Jeave thom in Loudon and for 4 a Fa Fron which Spaginary cinversation, | a Tair sample of hundbeds that = are: buzzing around Otewa, you are at t liberty ta infer that Major-General Sam is about as popular with some of his colleagues as & German \band might be at an Orange Lodge meet ing n Toronto. ; The truth seems to be that Gene. | ral Sam, has got in wrong with ev. erybody, with. the militia department, | weaanent forde, the spending | tte, Bob Rogers, the high-ball | bfendiers, the army contractors, and large section' of the general pub. | lic. German diplémaey couldn't challenge more trouble than the wma- jor-general has done without half tyy- ing. Everybody has a fault to find but nobody can flud just what the fault is. 1¢ all depends on where you sit. Wherever there was a pot corn Nsioriennrg] Sum sedis to have slop, on it, ~ I met a man the gther night who said that the «bulked too much--he ca the Audible Genernl--but that ia a failing shared 1 wough mist syrups do not tutich the tangs, 0 direct to your stomach, which is ailing. Peps, on 0 ? Land ov oe { France chases absinthe | over there. i Jor-General Sam for the «evasta should not overlook Jaen simply be- caure it happens to be one's fam- ily any more than one should over- yoints hat na have been rai 'or Charles gh and 1 t % 3 tke to Buglars chest nobody ¢ ol deliberate exaggeration, = listen to. say 'soniegne, Well, what of it? Where's the man. that wouldn't sooner tak its than take good advice ? Just tick 'that grievance off. We | nust look for some other peg to] ang a grouch on. The Scotch-and- | oda fellows find it in his champion- ship of the dry canteen. They i.ave no case. England cuts off the Srog 'except as. a medical supply; out of the 'ountry; Russia swears off Vodka. Due no doubt, to their own good jensé and Major-General Sam's in- fuenee, but it all goes to show what a pull our minister of militia has! _ But he i Another set of critics blaine Ma-| ting' increase in honorary colonels, as if the other members of the Borden! cabinet weren't equally responsible. | What do the real colonels who have 'earned their spurs think! about it ? I know what they think but I am not going to tell. There are some: things no respectable wewe- paper dares to print.. The major- general 'may be tender fowards hon- orary colonels but he doesn't stand for:all of them. He has four colonels in his own family, four, count 'em, ur. Np other family in Canada fom within two of the Hughes out- it of colonels, bit what's the'use of: being minister of militia if you can't] take care of your relations? One look one's family binfply because there happens to be - merit in it. There's nothing in that colonel stuff ~ the major-general wins goitig and oming. 1 hope the major-general sees this wgument T am ting up for him. [ have always ---- that counsel 1 od Los 3 1 several g id the « headed in the same way. Besides it 'will hearten him to feel that he has friend or two left. Just now he's about as lonesome as an ovster at a' thurch | social. He gets the cold shoulder from sbout Serius five. pox wat. of his party. Bob Rogers trai aim with his secret police and Major- "General Sam teniks bis, and here's Shots The ca v of public ion jor-G on aK : : although go "granddaughter og % ghia we eg say that { Bave 'they. trimmed his hair, | army "stonal head Sam keeps sol of the Ew. | Outside the facts mentioned above' couldn't" keep | at Niet le em fk Sid ds Aim to Jie on, Like the gentleman cho. av ; "wut ig | i paired. In | 8 preroga--; , and so short ! that he ! Is known now at the Rideau Club | and othef ventres of advanced thought | as Major-Uipneral Samson. Lhe first thing they away ftom hin was the power (0 award contracts, which now appetrtains to a Spending" Cominittee of the cabinet, | four. seasoned veterans, Cochrane, { Rogers; Kengp and Reid: old cam- 1 paigners accustomed handling | cotpk of money, so to speak, | wise heads who will post every dol. | lar that is not warching at the stra. getic spot where it will = do most who believe that the chief incidental | good; four experienced commanders object of © war in Earope is the accumulation of a war chest in Can- adh. I don't know on what prineiple tins war chest is worked hut t should Suppose on the principle of succes- ston duties--=that is to say the re- moter the chance the higher tax; in other words five per cent. more i grit comtractors with = liberty, of tourse, to fack it on to the price or take it out of the quality. The Spending Commitice goes around with its ears cocked like a robin lis- tening for wormg after a warm rain. Major-General Sam's good word to | the Spending Committee is about as. much use to the candidate as a kick | from a mule--in fact it's rather a set back' th mn has nm mach in fact so much shearing of hi tives has taken place took to Y explains wh returns peevisl answers to persons asking him to do something. He can't do it, he 'doesn't like to own! Up, 50 he takes refuge in a haughty contempt for gll and sundry. The next feliction of which Major- General Sam was deprived was his power of mobjlizing. The militia de- partment jockeyed for a while by the minister, he struck its gait again and Js now doing what the law Intended It tn do. There will bg L 5 { Gen. | Do. mote era nn after that sort of thing. will be done through the divi- riers' and no one man to hog the limelight. ieral's brief. day of 8nd now the knockers that Valcartier wasn t Teat after all and didn't much good expeetl the will be The ma glory is Soci orn such a do anyboshy CNRS a well-informed | hot | y the major-general& | jommon stock, after made for preferred stock. THE PRUSSIAN GRAND, REVIEW OF 1915. a i his cigar. 'Wi that?) 1 4 Tong Irish railway contractors te hand. it better. It'd be all in the day'. work and they weuldn't have to pu. on feathers to do it at that. Val cartier---pshaw!"" Which seems to ig Ae : prove that Major General Sam's reputation is writ in Water. And, as Epictetus--oy was it Billy Sunday--+says, what hot. ter thaw hot water? Why Hote: water and the wnajor-general can look for that later on in the sey sion." --H. E. GADSBY. PAYS BACK DIVIDENDS, | Stansfields Limited Declares Full Ar. rears On Common, Halifax, Feb. 15.--The of Stansfield Limited will arrears of dividends on the common stock, This will amount to $10,000 for the two quarters and will be pay- able to shareholders of record De- cember 31st The quarterly dividends due on April 10th, 1915; will not be paid on time at least, for the directors will Wait to zee how business turng gut, In other words the dividen I= now de- clared by the directors will be paid but ie 1) take some time after ine April div whether' the earnings will warrant the payment. The dividends now earned will be paid, and the future directors pay the - er . 5 Shredded Wheat Earnings. Toronto, Feb, 15.-=A satisfariory financial report was presented 'to he shareholders at the annual meeting of the Shredded Wheat company. held 'at Niagara Falls, N.Y., The net 2arnings for the year ending Decem: Jer 31st were $1,016,248, after de reciationg against $939,557 for the ame period last year. This was a the rate of 10% per cent, on the It was ntimated at the meeting that whea' 'equirements of the company wer Jrovided at a saticfactory cost to the 'ompany until well into 1916. Big Railway Chicago, Feb, 15.---Orders tor nearly $30,000,000 worth of locomo idend is due to determine "lof $160,660. | pas ola, total issue of $50; [000,000 of which there 1s tow. out: standing $16,615,000. i St. Lawrence Flour Dividena, Montreal, Feb. 15.---St. Lawrenee Flour Mills ¢ompany has declared a cash dividend of 31%" per cent, for the half year ended January 31st. With the stock payments already made, this makes up for all the de- ferred dividends on the preferred} stock. It is said the company starts « its. fiscal year this month with a sub- { stantial cash surplus, Commercial Notes, Aba meeting of the Board of Di reciors of the Nova Scotia Steel and | Coul company, it was decided to res-' tore to the men the 25 per eent. wage | cut which they received in July last at the outbreak of the war. It has been estimatéd by an eco- nomist of the United States tha: co:u- trol of the South American trade by the United States would necessitate a supply of about $100,000,000 per year for five years. : The total value of fish caught in «New Brunswick waters during the fiscal year 1913-14 reached the to- tul of $4,308,707, against $4,264, 054 the previous year. Herring show- i ed an increase, Guggenheim Exploration pany's net income in 1914 was $3,- 1 883,622, equal to 16.27 per cent i com- i * PAGES 9 TO 12 Established Over Forty Years: THE STANDARD BANK OF CANADA . Btatement of Affairs on 315t January, 1915. : Condensed from Government Report. RESOURCES $ 8,386,360.20 1,97. 2,415,635.78 150,000.00 3015884 16,016,168.10 31,426,115.42 "1,134,429.65 80.220.32 S05 = $ 3,000,000.00 | Cash . ndi- . Due by Banks 4,053,140.63 | Gowt. and other Bonds 2,697,203.00 | | Govt. Deposit for Gite. 38,136428.72 | lation Fund rit ty 770,161.34 | Call and short date Loans 25,306.66 Aes immediately avail. Bank Premises (Freehold) Acceptances per contra ; Other Assets A GOOD RECORD The Year 1014 has been n banner year for the Mutual Lite of Cane «Mdina, having written the largest business in its history, is suceens is due very largely to the ecelle way of profits a relieved of paying any of its earnings to Stock holders. Toronto Saturday Night, in its financial review, anys life is probably the finest Life Insurance Pompany in The fact that this year's business secured um er "Quancianl depression speaks volumes for the merits of . | Those contemplating insurance will save money by viding thelr ap. plication with this excellent company. S.RO! 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Do'your washing at home. : of the company afier payment of di vidends was $24,97 } The Silver Lake Fur Farms, Ltd., i Coverdale, N.B., has been incorpora-|~ i ted, capital $200,000. {| The big Freach and Halian subsi- diaries of the Westinghouse Blectric | and Mfg. Co., are to be sold out- | right to the British Westinghouse Ei- setric an* Mamufacturing Co., of Manchester. © Dividends and. the Wall Stregt Journal at $113.- 732,089, compared with $98,000,000 » 4 ment Co., is one of the few compan- les to show increased net earnings yesterday reflecting a growth of $10, . Relics of a Lost Have, "Ob yos," said Mrs, Smith, "my "wusband fs an enthusiastic archaeo- 'ogist. Aud I never knew it till yes- erday. 1 found in his desk some Tueor-looking tickets with the , 'Madhorse 2,000, an increase a Interest disburse-|, Was fwients for February are estimated by| OVEr 4 year ago, the annual state: ment presented to the' shareholders fms} reription. 'Mu 81a 1 'when '1 asked him what they he to me t thes i -- TE ---------- % Prince BEdwaxd County Patriotic] now amounts to $19,791.68. ¥ x