PAGE FOUR ites Sento Ee " THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1915. The Bri Whig Published Daily Semi-w. »y THE BIUTISH WEG PUBLSTING C0. LIMITED. fo Reh ii Managing Director 1] Business OMICe ......ccvveevceenss 348 JBditorial Rooms Job Office N RA (Dall tion) One year, delivered in city ...... One year, if pald ad One year, by mal One Unt R. "Northrup, aa Avs. une Bldg. anager. VOICE FROM THE TRENCHES, The young Methodist, a soldier, who when at home had been a good member of the church and a worker in the Sunday school, has read the debate which occurred in the Toronto Conference respecting the use of to- bacco. Certain clergymen, it will be remembered, took exception to the sending of tobacco to the soldiers, for the reason that the smoking or chewing of it partook of a vice which the church should not couhtenance, The young man does not say whether he has forgotten his early training, his vows and Bis covenants, as the modern pledge is against the use of tobacco as well as liquor, but he does call down his associates, leaders and friends, for their apparent forgetful ness, He may be quite willing to- con- ceive that the Sunday school superin- tendent and pastor could not consist- ently ' send him tobaéoo. Others can be left to 'perform that kind of service, but he feels so lonesome and neglected, and in his gloom scores the chaplains, the sectaries and all and sundry, who fepresent religion during the war. The indictment of the church may be a trifie harsh. It can hardly be expected to follow its members into the trenches, and sup- . ply them there with the mental re- freshment which comes from timely and sympathetic counsel. It does follow them with its prayers, unc- tious prayers, which are heard so often, but it must, apparently, do more, It must send the gospel of Sweetness and light by messengers of whose piety there cannot be any Question, and whose service is not af- fected by any remuneration or sti- pend which the Government may of- fer, The Church may very well wake up to the fact that military life, with its fatigues and hardness, calls for more than a passing thought relig- ously. Chaplains are provided tard- ily, reluctantly, and ungraclously, as if they were hindrances instead of helps, and the labors of some of them must be performed prerfunctorily _ When the young Parkdale member of the Overseas' Forces reflects so caus- tically upon them. The letter of the young man will have some ef- fects. It will make the people at home more thoughtful, devoted and mindful of absent ones, willing to serve them in any wav they can. and more helpful regard. DOLLAK DAY, Several places in Canada have had a Dollar Day, a certain date annul. «ly or semi-annually when there is a "great delivery of goods at equal val. ues, or values equalizéd for the occa- sion. Vancouver has just Had an ex- perience with a day of this kind. Van. / eouver is one ,0f Candi greatest cities, but one of the % which Fane the depression. The idea 'Was to coax the money out of the vaults in the banks and put it in cir- he We are told that most of the mer- t| one of the With their affection and fing the most on ac | | the incident, says that it took con { siderable time for the community to | awaken to the fact that the depres- | {sion from which it was suffering was | home-made, not at all due to condi- [ tions in Europe or in any other part of the world, and that the remedy lay in a revival of public confidence. { The awakening, it seems, came a: last, and 'the city is going about its business with a hopeful and even a happy expression' of countenance, which seems bound to affect the en- tire Province and Dominion. Such is the general experience, Doliar Day has been a success wher- ever it hag been tried. It starts a sort of clearing house which shows that by the operations of the day there is plenty of money extant, though in seclusion, and that it is| only necessary to get the 'start in| order to make the flow of it con- tinuous. A merchant in this eity, Community Builders, states that there never was a time when the people seemed to be 30 flush in funds, despite.the hard times and the war, 'and he foiifigd it out by starting a little sale of his own with attractions to lure the people on. Dollar Day is the fulcrunt with Which | the start in business aclivity is made in other places. Why not try it in Kingston? EDITORIAL - NOTES, Alberta by a popular vote to-day will settle whether the Province js to be wet or dry hereafter, so far as | the bar is concerned. The women of Montreal are dciil- ing. The day may come when a battalion of them will be accepted by the War Department. The Toronto News refers to Mr. Thomson's excessive adulation of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in the Boston Transcript. Does it exceed the adu- lation which is contained in Willi- son's left of Laurier? The Financial Post suggests that some of the Federal Ministers who are incompetent should resign. Now that is rich. Who ever heard of a Minister resigning voluntarily any position which he occupied? 'The overpayments to Kelly, the Winnipeg contractor, on account of eaissons alone, amounts to $544,000. It has been suggested that he make a rebtitution of this. sum. Who ever heard of a contractor in a poli- tical deal making a restitution of anything. University Avenue 1s not to be paved, even with tarvia, for which the gods be praised. The more some of the University people hear about 'tarvia the less they are reconciled to a prolonged and vexafious experi- ment with it. ? Hon. Dr. Montague, one of the newest colonels, and a political war- rior of rare distinction, is not go- ing to the front. He is going to stay at home and fight the process ser- vers when the Crown prosecutes the Winnipeg grafters. This is real nice on the part of the doctor. There will be no mere saw-offs in Manitoba. The new Government is amending the law by which there will be an igmediate prosecution of the bribers and corruptors. There is not much muse in election trials se long after the election when the ne- cessary witnesses have disappeared. J Mr. Lougheed, the, acting Minis- ter of Militia, has<given orders that the troops now in training in Can- ada shall hold themselves in readi- ness to ald the farmers In harvest- ing their crops. It is fortunate that the Council has one Minister at Ot- tawa who is equal to the emer- gency. . Machine guns are in great de- mand, and they have risen in price. Montreal wanted several of them for the 60th Battalion and found that the Colt pattern were hot available at any price, and the Lewis pattern has risen .in value t0,$1,000 each. This is due to tHe extraordinary de- wand for machine guns. The $20,000 ia $20 bilis which DE. Simpson had in a strong box in Win- nipeg, proved to have been a pack- age which was delivered to Kelly, the contractor, by the Imperial Bank. The identification was made com- plete by the paying teller of the bank. The money disappeared 'trom the strong box in the Trust Com- gi Kelly can tell, bot he won't. PERSP PPPPEP RIP Freee pany's vault. Where aid it go bo?| sion was not paid to political agents, either for their own pockets or for the party funds." An Explanation. (Hamliton Spedtator.) That extra reef in the trouser legs of the gilded youth +f to-day must be to assure other «8 that they actually do wear socks. ¢ Early Calculations (Ottawa Journal.) A statistician has discovered that there are 62,000 blind people in the United States. His figures were com- piled before the outbredk of the pre- sent war, Good Resolutions. (Toronto Star.) = The Manitoba Conservatives have constructed a platform with some good plagks in it. So did the On- tario Liberals, just before they met defeat in 1905, Time They Left. (Hamilton Times.) It is reported that the U. S. army officers, acting as observers with the German forces have been withdrawn. Relations were becom- ing too strained. God strafs the Sta- tes. | onesTON EVENTS | 26 YEARS AGO Police rounded up a gang of boys on a charge of robbing a number of stores. A large quantity of tobacco was taken. B. W. Robertson has arranged for a picnic for the General Hospital pa- tients and inmates of the House of Industry. Z. Provost, camping with his fam- ily at Tremont Park, caught forty- eight perch. Rev. M. Macgillivray is spending his vacation at Metis. WAR BULLETINS. The British have taken an- other line of trenches from the Germans at Ooge Chateau. The Russians have destroyed a fleet of Turkish supply boats in the Black Sea. The British made attacks on the German lines near Ypres on Tuesday and gained several yards of trenches. Teuton armies are surging ahead towards Warsaw but the Russians still hold the prineipal railways. fee ea a EE EASE KTR RRR IN MARINE CIRCLES. Movements of Vessels Reported Along the Harbor. Steam-harge John Randall is. in gor from the Rideau Canal on the ay to Oswego, to load coal. Steamer H. N, Jex: arrived - from Charlotte with coal, and is discharg- Ing at Crawford's wharf. Tig Hackett -and barge with bagged oats, cleared Richardson's elevator for real. Steamer Compton arrived at Rich. ardson's elevator from Port Colborne With a cargo of oats, Steamer City of Hamilton, which went into the Kingston Shipbuilding drydock on Tuesday morning to have & new propeller placed on its shaft, is expected to leave the dock Wednesday night. Steamer St. Joseph arrived from Sodus ois Tuesday fight with coal for James Swift & Co, Steamers Toronto, Alexandria and Caspian down Wednesday .morn- ng. Steamer for Portlag loaded from Mont- Rideau Queen cleared Wednesday morning. BUFFER STATE'S PLAINT. Switzerland's Mail to Neutrals Oon- tinues to Be Hindered. Berne, Switzerland, July 21-- Switzerland has complained repeat- y to the belligerent nations that the postal traffic between this coun- try and other neutrals, and especial- ly with the United States, has been greafly hindered by the censors of the belligerents. Numerous letters, even those that haye been register. ed, mailed from or to neutral coum. tries, are ily retained or delay. ed, according to the Swiss authori ties. Public and official complaints heretofoié have beem without result. How He Knew. "Does Wilkins, own or reat house?" "Rents it." "How do you know?" "I know, because he strikes his 'matches on the paint." It's all right to rise in the world, but don't go.up, by the skyrocket route, It's an easy matter to nail a I'e, but you can't always keep it down. on | 'practicable under which cotton grow- DERNBURG'S VOYAGE German Agent Treated With Court-| esy By British Officers, New York, July 21.--Thé Norweg- ian-American liner Bergeasfjord, | which conveyed Dr. and Mrs. Bern-| hard Dernburg, with passports," to] Copenhagen on her last trip, arrived | back here yesterday. ] Capt. K. 8. Irgens, of the Bergensf-| jord, says Dr. Dernburg : proved a! good mixer,;-- He had. some very}: good cigars, which he shared with] the captain. 'He was officially known | as the German Red Cross agent. So many rumors regarding Ger: man reservists and war supplies for | Germany the steamer was supposed | to be carrying had reached England, ! that off Kirkwail, the British con-| verted cruiser Otagua held up. the| Bergensfjord for two days, taking! her for one day into Kirkwall. The Otagua held up the Bergensf- jord off the Orkneys and a lieuten- ant-commander and a sub-lieutenant of the British navy, with nine blue- jackets and marines, boarded her, Capt. Irgens had Dr. Dernburg, who in the German reservists is Lieut.-Gen. Derwburg, and Mrs. Dernburg in his cabin. The British officers, as a courtesy due to either a civilian of high civil station or an army officer of super- ior rank, saluted. The salute was re- turned. They were presented to Mrs. Dernburg. They shoek hands all around and removed their caps in- the presence of Mrs. Dernburg. The inspection of the German Red Cross Commissioner's safe conduct papers was brief but the British officers took no chances on the ship's manifest and 'cargo and nationality of passéngers. All inspections were gone through with great thorbugh- ness. Dr. Dernburg told the English of- ficers he was bound home on an im- portant civil mission. He and Mrs. Dernburg told Capt. Irgens they had a fine trip and hoped to sail with him again. y t Coming west, the Bergensfjord met much fog, and took ten days for the trip from Christiania, Christian- sand, Stanvanger and Bergen. . She brought three Russians engineers, material and construction exports. They are here after comstruciton ma- terials. They were Vladimir Levin, Count Sergei Schulenburg and Al- fons Lipetz, who are going to buy from us $40,000,000 contractors' railroad supplies. KEEP COTTON FROM FOE Times Makes Another Plea For Mak- ing It Contraband. London July 21.---In an editorial EARLY CLOSING DURING Bibbys * S---- A A JULY AND . AUGUST aaa. We aim to have the best for less. A store than keeps faith with its patrons. Outing Trousers Special $3.50 Cream Flannel, Str Flannels, Grey Homespuns, Chev- lots; cuff bottom, belt loops, ete.; all ~ Our $4.50 Shoe Special $0 and $6 values for $4.50. Tan, blacks, ete; Blucher' or London Bals, ; rubber heels and sole Oxfords: all sizes. iped Cream Outing Shirts Special Special, $1.00, $1.25 New soft, rolling collaf: and creams; sizes 13 1-2 Bathing all sizes. $ to-day the Times makes another strong plea for the making of cotton contraband. The newspaper refers to its Washington correspondent's re- ports that the American Government refuses to admit the legality of the British blockade and that the Brit- ish Government's explanations had not had the slightest effect in chang- ing American opinion regarding the the right of exports to neutral coun- tries. Arguing at considérable length that Great Britain acquiesced in the American Government's exten- sion of the blockade during 'the Civil War, the Times says: * "Surely the Americans will not dispute that we have the right of ex- tension which they have so widely asserted and exercised themselves. If. cotton could be regarded as con- traband in the sixties merely because it enabled the belligerent to buy am- munition, now much more certainly can it be so regarded now that it has become a necessary ingredient in the manufacture of explosives? "It cannot be doubted that cotton is finding its way into Germany in large quantities. The plain fact stares Britishers in the face that their nearest and dearest are being daily shattered, by German shells whi h cannot be produced without cotton, which might have been made contraband. We are confident that this consideration will not be with: out its weight in the minds of the American people, "The dastardly attempt on the Or- duna is another reminder to them of the sort of foes with whom we are For Sale T. 1. LOCKHART, FARMS The following are some of our farm bargains: 114 100 120 150 150 200 200 ; 400 Bank of Montreal Building, Kingston. Phones 1035 or 1020. striving. Arrangements bught to be ers would suffer no loss. We cannot for any consideration refrain from keeping back indispensable material for the deadliest of all weapons with which the Germans are slaughtering our sons." 4th Battery Resting. Cobourg, July 21.--A ecablegram received by friends from Sergt. Hee- tor H. Hamilton, who went to the front from near Bethany. with Co- bourg Artillery detachment of the First Canadian Contingent, indicates that the members of the 4th Battery, 1st Artillery Brigade, are enjoying a FY BUILDERS ! ! 'Have You Tried GYPSUM WALL PLASTER? It Saves Time rest in London, England. There are a number of Cobourg boys in this battery, who went to the front with Mater Georgé H., Ralston of Port ope. well doing well feeling. ] - You at least get as reward for --~ THIN MEN AND WOMEN 30 1 of nd, Healthy to "Phin, nervous, undeveloped women everywhere are heard to "1 can't understand why I do not get at. I eat plenty food." The reason men and say, of good, nourishing is just this: You Suits, Special 50¢ One piece, with skirt; plajn navy; us! year or last, and $1.50. plain white to 16 1-2, ~ Combination Special Value $1 A Knee length and short sleeze, an- kle length and short sleeve and regu- lar. Porous Knit, Nainsook, Bal- briggan and Indian Lawn; sizes 34 to 44. Boston Garter Paris Garter Invisible Suspender Silk Lisle Hosiery sees ene | ii i |i Poo Ao sm % : g Shoes for Va- y af cati Tri - cation Trips Videations are now in full swing and you need Outing Shoes, We have all kinds of cool, comfortable Shoes for TRIER RE . Men, Women and > Children # RUBBER SOLE OXFORDS HIGH AND LOW CUT TENNIS SHOES BATHING SLIPPERS AND SANDALS J. H. SUTHERLAND & BRO. The Home of Good Shoes. Amma ~-- - Cheaper to Ride A Good Bicycle Than a Cheap One How. many people will tell you from experience that their Massey Bieyele has run for ten, twelve and sixtesn Years, giving no trouble outside of Tires, Ow many people who just bought their wheel {lis are running into the repaimshop every few in and we will tell you why. some bargains in Wheels, days. ~ We have " "ad Goods Co i Treadgod. I