a _PAGE SIX ---- A --_ A ------_L, WW MADE IN, CANADA? THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1015. THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR ~ ADDRESSES REICHSTAG Says Germany Ng Never Npired WwW &f COLLARS 1o_Kule o Eape 2 for 2 Slut, Poot A Eade, Makers, nl. . Cooked Meats We have the very best in Cooked | Hams, Jellied Tongue, Jellied Hocks, Pressed Ham and Veal, Bologna and Head Cheese. P8811 our, meats are. kept tee, cold in our modern refrigerator coun- | ter away from flies and dust. No | mussing ~~ no handling. Orders sent | to any part of city. : pak B. RAGE, rece FIGHT, HE SAYS. | Until Enemy Nations = Ask From Their Own- Guilty Govern- ments And Till Road Is Free For New Europe. Berlin, Aug. 20 (by wireless to Sayville).~Dr. von Bethmann-Holl- weg, the German imperial chancellor, in a speech vesterday at the opening of the Reichstag after a recess since May 30th, retraced the-history of the European events leading up to.the present war. He unveiled what he i said were attempts made by the ene- mies of Germany to conceal the whole truth from the nations-at-large and from their own people, "I'never have concealed anything from the representatives of the Ger- man nation," the chaneellor added, "I never had anything to conceal." Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, dis- cussing Poland's future, said: The present occupation of Poland is the beginning of an evolution which will lead the country, freed from. the Russian yoke, towards a brighter future and able to develop its industrial and national charae- The New Roule to Wester 3 Lk TORONTO-WINNIPE via -Nerth Bay, Cobalt and Cochrane B ROUTE OF INNUMERABLE MARVELS Fines Equipment., Splendid Roadbed. Lv. TORONTO 10.45 p.m. TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY Ar. WINNIPEG 3.50 p: m. THURSDAY, SATURDAY and ¥ Conneirting at Winnipee with train deaving 6.00 v.m. daily fo y Saskatoon, Edmonton and intern © puiuts. Through Tickets via the . "Canadian Rockies at their best" : To PRINCE RUPERT, ALASKA | VANCOUVER, VICTORIA, SEATTLE and SAN FRANCISCO ¢ Timetables and all inform any Grand Trunk, Can. G of T.& N.O, Railway Agents &N The speech begins with a review of the present military situation, the chanceller adding: "Sinée you as- sembled- at the last session great things have Mappenéd. Again all French attempts to shatter our west front have failed in spite of tho reck- less waste of human lives of tire Frenchy, "Italy, our new enemy, who thought she could easily take her | neighbor's coveted goods, has been i splendidly repulsed in spite of a nu- | merical superiority and has made an immense sacrifice in human lives. "Unshaken and unshakable stands the Dardanelles front. "We greet our faithful allies and extend special greetings to the exalt- "Ha, ha," sneered the lawyer in| ed ruler of the Danube, the monarch court, "you doctors are.all alike. | who yesterday entered upon his Your operations. are always success. | elghty- -sixth year. tul, but your patients die." We ourselves have taken almost Sometimes that happens," said] all Galicia and a large part of Po- the doctor calmly, "but we doetors | land, Lithuania and Courland, and have nothing on you lawyers, You |our lines everywhere, far advanced win great victories for your clients, | Into the enemy's countries, stand but you get all the mones." | ke v walls, We ourselves hava a -~ . The Retort Courteous, eee e------ MADE - IN - CANADA There in no institution in the Dominion more Canadian thah The Mutual Lif: Assurance Company of Canada. It was incorporated under the statutes of Ontario in 1869 as The Imtario Muytual Life Assurance Company. wag given a Dominjon charter by an Act passed in 1878, but was Len known as The Ontario Mutual Life Assurance Company. It received a new name by an Act of the Federal Parliament in the year 1808, and has since been known as The Mutua) Life Assur ance Company of Canada. Its investments of nearly $25,000,000 are exclusively Canadian; the lives insured are Canadian only. It is strictly a Canadian Company ssuring Made<in-Canada contracts. PHONES 610 and 561, S. ROUGHTON, Agent, 0 BROCK STR BET. THE ONLY MADL-IN-CANADA MUTUAL LIFE COMPANY, Going Out of the Lumber Business Balance of stock k guing at ban prices. A nice lot of He one inch Sheet. ing. Some job lots very Also a little of SD. oak, Elm, Birch, oh Cedar Posts, etc. ale Sale to commence on Saturday, August WALLGE LIOER Ya, Segien 3. Phone 1191 [* The Victrola keeps the children' at home--and happy Besides entertaining them it develops their musi- cal tastes. It not only makes home more attractive for them, but provides music and *wettalnment for the entire family, 'The Victrola is a source of pleasure w home can sajoy. There are Victors and Victrolas in great variety from $2110 $285. = "Come in and we'll gladly demon- strate them, and tell you Hout our | system of easy terms. Bs FINDS BRITAIN GUILTY | GERMANY WILL CONTINUE 70 | Peace | i comfort. | strong army free at our disposal for | new enterprises. Look Proudly Into Future, "Proudly and without fear we look {into the future.' The chancellor imsisted that the | nations at war with Germany were attempting te deceive their people | regarding the present real situation, | thus, as he declared, incurring "heavy blood guilt,"] and denounced | what he declared to be a "campaign {of calumnies," conducted against, | Germany. I. "Our enemies," declared the chan-| celjar, "pretend that Germany was| prepared for this wary since during its first year she was victorious,! while her enemies, innoeent and] peaceful, were unprepared." _ « The chancellor recalled - newspa- per articles published in the spring of 1914 at what he said was the in- stigation of Russian war ministers, in which it was declared that Rus- sia was completely prepared for war. He recalled also the words of Sir Edward. Grey in the British Porlia- ment stating that in the event of war Great Britain's war prepara- tions would enable her to protect commerce to and from her shores. Reference To England. The chanceidor in a sensational statement quoted the words which he t declared Sir Edward Grey spoke to the German ambassador to London, when the latter took leave of the British foreign minister after the beginning of the war in August ia 1914. "Sir. Edward Grey," said the chan- cellor, empKasizing his words, "said that war ween the two countries would make it possible that at the conclusion of peace he could render us more valuable services than had England remained neutral." The chancellor explained that he interpreted these words to mean that England desired the friendship of a beaten weakened Germany as a counter influence against powerful Russia, England would be ready to use such a Germany---a weak coun- try without industry and without a navy. The chancellor's report of this sceme in London caused a profound sensation in the Reichstag. In conclusion the chancellor said: "Germany has never aspired to a European hegemony. Hér ambition was. to excel others in the works of civilization amidst the peaceful competition of large and small na< tions. We do not hate the natfons driven into war by their govern- ments; 'but we have forgotten our former sentimentality; We shall continue to fight until those nations ask peace from theif own guilty gov- ernments and until the road is free for a new Europe, delivered from F#nch intrigues, Muscovite lust of conquest and British tutelage," Accident To An Auto. An' automobile used as a taxi met with an accident near Elgin on Wednesday and 'is now undergoing repairs. 'It is reported that the driv- er was indulging in too much speed 'jand his steering gear broke, throw- ing the car into a ditch and against a tree." THE WHIG'S JUMBLE, 4'General Review of Country District and Local News. "Tread Easy Powder" means foot Sold at Gibson's. 100 eleven quart baskets, large duchess apples, 30c each at Gilbert's store. | H. Cunningham; piano tuner, 21 King street, Leave orders at McAul- y's Book Store. Mrs. H. Fisher, Portsmouth, leaves on Friday for England to "join her husband, who went overseas with the Queen's. dressers, Special sale of cancelled library books for 25¢, at Gibson's Red Cross Drug Store. 'The death of Miss Jane Frost, '| Belleville, occurred at the family re- sidence. Deceased was darn in To- Read all the news in the Whig's nd section. There is local, so- and telegraph % The death took place at Soperton, on Wednesday, of Richard Cronkite, Athens. He away suddenly {at the fesidence of his daughter, Mrs. Ira' Juad Lage. bs ose baby coun syrup" 136, | Gib- He was Suventy years of re & Shaw Bon Pons," Gib- ic news In abun f A "BURNIL.G SHAME." Canndn's Fire Loss Is the Heaviest At a recent meeting of the Berlin (Ontario) Board of Trade the follow- | ing facts were: brought out in a re- | solution placed op record: {The fire loss per capita in Canada | is greatly in excess of that of any | other civilized .country in the world, | and our national position in this re- gard is constantly becoming worse | fastead of better, until at the present { time our Canadian fire losses, in | proportion to population, are approx- {mately six times greater than those of Great Britain, France, or Ger- many, with a correspondingly high | rate of insurance premium; and in { the past ten ygars the average an- { nual loss in tem British cities has 1 been but 50 cents per head as against | an average apnual loss of $3.55 per { head in ten Canadian cities from Halifax to Vancouver, with an aver- ta age rate of premium in the. British | cities of but 22 cents per $100 of in- sured value as against an average of $1.46 in Canadian cities. The fire losses of $14,000,000 paid by Canadian companies in' 1913 would at the British rate of premium- be reduced to $2,300,000, thus bring- Ing about an annual saving of nearly $12,000,000, which, in every decade, would amount, with compound in- terest, to more than the Dominion Government's contribution thus far tor war purposes; it being equally true that this huge sum represents pe; ps less than half of the annual 8 directly or indirectly resulting from fire, thus justly representing us in the eyes of European countries, on the one hand, as = nation of incen- diaries, and, on the other, as abso- lute incompetents, and fully authoriz- ing the verdict that the result is not only a national eriminal wiite, but also a "burning shame! In the United States, though their rate of loss' is considerably lower than Canada's, the National Fire Pro- tection Assogjation of that country, in a] recept report, referred to their "'regklesq and unceasing waste" as an hs | vefishment of the nation." 'wn losses are continually de- plored and lamented, not only by dur insurance companies, but by the public generally, and remedial action is continually urged along Provincial lines, as yet without avail. The Canadian Commission of Con- servation has achieved excellent re- sults in the conservation of our na- tional waterpowers in the great re- duction of forest fires. along our railways, has initiated a rhovement for conservation on broad national lines for city planning, ' and' has sought out and applied meang to conserve our national resources in other directions, thus making it in- dispensable that they have the organ- ization to take up this most import- ant and directly beneficial feature of dational conservation with every prospect of success, The Berlin Board of Trade request- ed the Canadian Commission of Con- servation to take up this matter as a special department of its work with expert assistance for formulating re- commendations to the different Pro- virces, and directing an effort in +1 Canada to approximate gradually to the European standard; and concert- ed action in a movement of this kind is more Hikely to bring results. Te Got a Car. The latest Ford story is a trie story and touches Toronto. It con- cerns the new Ford 'car now driven by Dr. J. A. Macdonald, Editor of The Globe, Toronto. This car, a five- passenger touring car met Dr. Mac donald on his arrival from Detroit at the Union Station some days age, and carried with it instructions to remain Macdonald addressed a meeting at Mr. Henry Ford was present, and r visited at the home of Mr. Ford. So greatly impressed was Mr. Ford with the eloguent message of Dr. Macdon- 's address that to express his ap- Arectation, he said to Dr. Macdonald: "On your arrival in Toronto there will be a car to meet you at the sta- tion. Kindly consider it yours (Or words to that effect.) Dr. Macdonald returned to Toron- | ve! to, and sure enough the shiny new touring car was pawing impatiently at the entrance in prin, a chauf- feur from the Ford i ; i LT iG HARVESTS IN ONTARIO! A REV IEW FOR THE PAST von] TY YEARS. | Recent Rains Have Sprouted Large! Percentage of Ontario's Greatest | Wheat Crop--How Other Crop Stand. Four weeks ago the farmers bad the brightest prospects of any year! in the memory of the gkiest inhabi-| tant.. To-day, with 30 per cent. of} the wheat sprouted, the barley and! oats in the balance, conditions have! changed very much for the worse, | Good cultivation, clean seed, pro-| per rotation and fertilization, are all| important, but {favorable weather counts for more than all combined. We give a summary of adverse weather conditions during the Inst | forty years. 1875-6 were both ordinary years, | g00d weather and big crops. { 1878. Seeding started on April] 1st, was well advanced by April 28th. It started to rain on a Sunday and rained for three weeks. Early sown grain was a good crop; that sown after rain was worthless. Burn ing, dry weather followed the long wet spell, and the ground cracked open. Haying was progressing well when on July 3rd a terrific storm came, and acres of hay were flooded down to Lake Ontario. Thes a wet spell came in wheat harvest, sprouting most of the wheat. The general electidn was on September The Port of Profit Lincoln used to tell a story of a Missis- sippi river steamboat that had a four-foot boiler and a "seven-foot" whistle. Every time the boat blew its whistle it stopped. His steamboat was great on ""attention getting' but peor on progress. The advertising steamboat has lost in- terest in .the mere noise of whistles. Its owners have ceased to measure results by sound. They are insisting that quick tran- sit to the Port of Profit is to be their tect of efficiency, And so advertisers are turning to news- papers for their voyage to the desired har- bor. » LE al ee Sth that fall, when Sir John A. Macs donald came to the country with the National Policy. A terrible storm came on September 5th, clearing all the dams and bridges from the Credit River from Cheltenham to Port Credit. Oldtimers speak of this as the flood that swept away the Mc Kenzie Government. Wheat Too Soft to Sell. Wheat that fall was too soft for sale. One day is stil} spoken of in Oakville when the grain buyers-- McDougal, Johnston, and Wales, re- fused to buy a single load of wheat, advising the farmers to go to War cup's mill. He also refused, and up the seventh line there drove a pro- cession of discomsolate farmers with loads of wheat mo one would buy. This wheat was sold in the winter for 65 cents per bushel. In 1879--80 there were good crops and favorable weather. 1881 crops, wheat $1.50, barley 98; finest fall on record. Seri- ous fires occurred = along = railway : ~N Two Bonds of unquestioned merit at unusuall 'mttractive prices " : © Government of Province of Ontario Due 1gt May, 1985. Interest 1st May and November. gt May, on cramt lt May City of Toronto Due 1st July, 1945. Interest 1st inry and July Denom ination, $1000. Full particulars on request. » \F % E. AMES & CO. "Bankers Union Bank Building; Toronty ~~ Fetablished 83 King St. West : tracks. 1882--A wet spell at end of har- vest, did not do any serious dam- age. 1885--Very wet in wheat harvest; slight damage from sprouting. 1886--A very wet spring. 1887---88---89--All saw good har- vest 'weather. A Prophecy That Failed, In 1890 a general provincial elec- tion took place on June 6th. Thera was a terrific rain on the night of June 5th, and there were prophec- ies that Mowat would be drowned like McKenzie. These did not come true, however. Hot, dry weather Hedintely after made a poor har wi 1891---2---3 were ordinary years. In 1894 there was a wet spring. One week in May the farmers claim- ed they did not see the sun, for a week. There was a poo! harvest, In 1895 there as on +g early warm spring, and consequent wonderful growth. A frost on May 12th ruin- ed the grass, making the worst year in the memory of the oldest inhabi- tants. . A dry summer followed, with very little grass. Hundreds of cat- tle in Ontario died the following win- ter from starvation. 1896 saw ordinary weather; good crops. Rain Spoiled Fine In 1897 there were the best crops for; years. - Wheat and alsike were especially good. A hot spell oo har- vest ruined most of the alsike, and wheat was badly sprouted. Some was not cut, as it was uted so hadly that green blades could be seen all over the fields in Fol ar 1898 and 1899 were Tn Sooo there were splendid crops, but it was very wet in oat harvest, and Considerable damage was done. i saw a wet spring, but good harvest weather. ! In 1902 there was a very ear End of Season Cut-Price Sale spring; plowing began on M 17th, and most of the seeding was done by March 28th. "In 1903 thére were good Srops, but it was. very wet at the end of har- vest. There was a very wet spring in | 1904, and little seeding was done 'until May. There were heavy rains i 1905 and 1506 ood crops an saw g and favorable weather . Now is the time to prepare the boys for school, land ours. is the stbek to.select from. - We have our new fall lines in and a better showing will be hard to find, with prices that must please even the closest 'buyers. dhe a Jendid tor iit in Norfolk sivle, Fe ado in neat shades of grey and 0 cut bloomers, and 5, fo soda lt $420.85, 66 ad vu ca dre Ou boy in art