PAGE EIGHT The British Whig BZND YEAR Daily and Semi-Weekly by WHIG PUBLISHING LIMITED, Published YHE BRITISH Co President Managing Director and Se ~Treas Telephones: Bistness Office ¥diterial Rooms dob Office i. G. Elllott Leman A. Gulla SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Fdit ellvered $6.00 $5.00 $2.50 $3.00 One One One ye Dne n) .31.00 Bes dvance $1.60 $1.60 Ona One » One yen job ) nagar Tribune Bldg Manager p-------- -- RESOLVE? WHAT DO YOU repented remedies for fault these may But ord are grow in their use so far as the r and its req concern both are ""farewelled" with the eceling that they cannot be amended recalled takes to obtrude Their with one I'he mi and indiscretions one mits seem themselves at this season importance is good that gnified, and there New for imely, that one resolves will not be a repetition of them, therefore, an occasion and everything is ex is asham car's wearing off" ted to go of which one od Nor is that the tance are inseparable from the anniversary of an character The come in mestic relations oz ne to the city for man of affairs asks himself, in a lot of hard and Has he been its inter review he eif-examination, earching questions and all of true to the city ts? The answer Ha will be a better citizen future and his success will be follows in the resolution the cartoon in to artist had an no doubt, and Does he upon assured by a I'ake a look at Whig. The experience of his own, day' has interprets it in this p:rture in any way express you mind subject? make and let your practice tally 1616 the hen his resolu- tion your your with profession during the hour is not a smaller number in the hetter men I'his is the only ment that need be made upon the by- with the reduction in the aldermen The want of but come Council, law dealing number of SUPPLICATION. the Archbighop of Canter- hnry whq suggested that the first Sunday in the new year should be se- lected and set apart for special pray- et and intercession in comnection with the war This suggestion has upn by every Anglican Canada, and the calls of special service have heen very earnest, But this prayer to Almighty God for His special guid- ance in the crises of the times, for His direction in PUBLIC It was been acted Bishop in the Church to and to the end speedily and satisfactorily is not confined to one denomi- impending, may he ended, lation. All the churcnes are interested. All the religious denominations have been summoned to special service. In! Kingston, there is to be a public meeting in the City Hall on Sunday | afternoon, and it appeais to the sym- | pathy of every citizen. In addition | the Governor-General of Canada, by and with the advice of the Privy Gouncil, calls upon the people "to make a public and solemn avowal of duty to Almighty God and" To FTend | with him for a speedy and favorable for sorrowing and bereaved ones to peace." and a peace "that will en- dure." This proclamation will have its | affect upon all the people, regardless | of creed or sex. For, however careless men may be religiously, they turn © God in their distresses and pour out their feelings in lamentation and | prayer. lies, and ihe United States, bowed in effect, | rumination and repen- | individual or do-| in the negative, | and swift as thought the repentance | the great war now | that it! The millions with the Al TE DAILY BRITISH _WHIG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, HAPPY EDITOR Ad NOTES hart public were held at this time hd It will be ar revelry offence against taste against the decency of the world's . Tt not the Government On society, an exhibition of heartless and selfishness that is doing so much Patriotic tario 50 great that one y for the ness Funds must be depraved to be guilty of it He adds forbidden this vear And in the people of the Province, as ented by Old Man Ontario talk that in Paris it has been | repres Can ada at this time, when enemy is threatening itwould be like the Alderman will to street According our national existence Bels Monday Kingston ind by a lichard=on on evening be Mayor of Zar weeping majority And feast haz p 1h op it may be too late 100k. the | inion usually expre prot; people in New of a great T to-night is impulses of midnight but some learly Year J. Tighe, of Ca customed and shadow rieton Ple n frolics iu the quoted as saying tha he Hudson Bay never tario, is geasaon at Port Nelson, that tragedy the place for one in the home or in the cloister in the solemn devotions for which the ocea- | is so short the route can one lor transportation keeper on f course h popular Tighe was he a purpose atime THE VI* Government work, and THE YEAR 1015 y ' knows. Two Governments went into There 1 » the sound nay he e soun his question exhaustively before night, and in noisy pot demonstrations } y i the enterprises oned advent of the now on ti But appropri glad the Year houghts of the ome ie ipse will be heralded should be year that is pa apt. Burnham, M.P my how SSing away | hese tled gentlemen are increasing ith all impressive lessons It n number 8s going y sees whether eems such a brief time since it was can meet and plo anada! A I.iberals ushered in with boisterous acelaim, gainst the wellbeing of ( them though it brought with it the melan hid " few had the nerve to meet holy message of the war. For five n Ottawa and discuss questions of months F had been disturbed ' ind urope yublic interest and yublie policy directly the whole world, by | ' ! The official! pa the of this a thout sa 2 a word about the ene onflict of arms without sayin ord my, and they must be suppressed as dangerous to . Burnham's talk shows how silly pers of several nations give the story the ountry! Capt of the cause, genesis and after all, picture, the staggered in the effort to hend its meaning some ful carnage, BH end of the and at the public men can be at times mind was compre The most that, the and aggrandizement that was done which the the wickedest, the most dreadful slaughter of which there is The a record, And this holo the beqtieathment of. 1914 one could realize was of greed through | spirit KINGSTON EVENTS | 1" 25 YEARS AGO | the Snow Shoe as a result ol arrang led to bloodiest, members of happy to-day, fall They are tramp nominated for for Kingston township Knapp epidemic of Club are a heavy suow : : ing tor a big as joyously J. Draper, reeve caust was The year 1915 hegan as clrcumstances permitted cloud, dark and lowering, i lieved to have a silver lining, and it was hoped this would appear long. The mad furies of contend second The war | deputy resigned in favor of J There is a severe grippe in the city was be ere | for oN t 0 ova George PR ttt PUBLIC OP A Great Trut Wi obhably M fame as You ca an' army mmber all the Feder our years of the If the the Old opinion that the eight mn present The denounce drafts to them foree t } yrihe WON h Bribe Them in ox the men re Government war, and that tem or boun A Hope ful Sign. re 1s to be Country, we in Parliamenta will be from no w War onthe term Give the tHami { i Ottawa Citizen savagely th take it the ent ar election in that the ry circles is within I of the over Names continues to 1e Canadian manufacturers of war munitions who stand o general diatribes grow a introduce a nous variety The res 8 Premier of British that he iride a bia more { tive pa have found a too mu Hen Claus t« childre recalls n who ut for abnormal Why not hy mentioning some Men i 1 e« ignation of W antec the one o fact han ry Sir Riche provincia h for him A Real Santa ( Ha » I Clay Frick 40,000 Pit thei } Over ccasion leader of the Dominion Conserva played profits Its hit monoto little names Sir Richard M« Colum was on mentioned ard to I premiership seems Santa tshurg school r pennies in vested in a bank that closed its doors This cos has got his the satis t Mr. Frick $16 money's w youngsters happy I'hese are the old still some men are who speaks MMi Me soon is that ou as a other o megaphone Can't Forge the days troubles are f ighen not r Col the same for r for some illust builders or other Lxpeet Clay he pre tel which tony N.Y., WORK TO BE Fo Start the Dec ne ol the most ject of the new wondering if Bennet once something or Clayton 9.000 orth but he hack in faction that he made so many 1 and but the in Calgary Mr, Meighen refarred to of truce orgotten, Kid binding at wrist and dome fasteners value Bibbys $12.50 Overcoat Sale STARTS TO-DAY About seventy-five Coats in the lot. The last one of a kind. Some Travellers' Sample Coats, etc All new 1915 styles; sizes 33 to 42. Young Men's Styles; Conservative Storm Ulsters, etc Reg. $18 & $20 Values for $12.50 Dent's Knitted Gloves Models: Specia 50c¢ Bibbys 78, 80, 82 PRINCESS STREET, rious railway | GIN, Hotel In Spring. 31 C F interested iu summer ho it is expected will be con t structed on the site of the present Walton House in Clayton, stated this afternoon that those interested in the plan high I'he stork a way happens, we thiz spr noon ly satisfactory active work of regarded the financial situation raising the nd bond issue is now unde; Unless somethin may star ing, g unforseen t operations said Mr: Hall this after- ing armies, it was thought, woul " end speedily, and with the dawn i | peace would come the a] compensates in some measure tor the awful loss of have passed, how and the out- life Twelve months ever, RANDOM REELS "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." | | look is not assuring. The optimists' pictures of Allied successes have had their inspiration. The pessimists' re- cital of impending evil has been very LODGES The lodge is an organization of married men who are looking for rest It was gotten up in the first place for the benefit of husbands who felt the need of retreating to some quiet spot and shaking off an attack of dark red melancholy, sur- rounded by sympathetic friends and the blithe, bird-like notes of the in- ner guard Until the cruel. Between these extremes there is a vision of better wanifesting itself at the close of one days, and it is year and at the beginning of another The midnight tended with the vices. The war whose work All years are roseate in their watches will be at usual thoughtful ser- is typical of the indi lodge was invented the husband of a bright and talkative wife was nol able to get away from birth. The disappointments and the 0¢iue long enough to think two long, despairing thinks. This is one rea- dizarrangement of plans and pur. ach why our forefathers wore such poses come later, as a result of mis- 3 hopeless yet resigned look, as understandings. If time could only shown by their photographs. When turn back in its flight and repeat it- t'e lodge sprang up, however, hod . i : sprung into by thousands of subdued a ants be self, would these disappeintule nts b husbands who otherwise would never less numerous and hurtful? No one! yn w how Main street looks at night can tell. The year is full of sur- Some men are better springers than prises. They cannot be anticipated, others and leap into the 33rd degree, aud they cannot be met. dual is over It began well leaving in their wake the ashes of a once happy home and a mournful string of semi-annual dues, So the year 1915 leaves us, but not | The lodge has one of tlie noblest { to fade into oblivion or forgetfulness. | | History will keep alive its memories, | 111857005 on earth, Future generations will contemplate Rovitiate Dot. 0 brother when he them, and multitudes will revert to! guiior dnection. them with conflicting emotions. Some cindlbii 'ee how to things @an be restored after the war --cathedrals, castles, battleships, | public places, and even public eredit --but not life. It cannot be restor-! skin a is looking in an- "present arms' lesson Is that of secrecy. lodge has ever re- | important No member of a vei ed hai ing ng aer lodg same ii hed. wh Land ing business the sign of distress ppYy ile sound password or the grand without giv- "4 jronounced impetus to the un The only way a » secret ever leaks out is through brother who rises up in asleep and chants the obligasion into the ears of a hor- rified w ife The lodgé is presided over by some dignitary terms obliged on the spur of the moment SUCCess have populat wore offices as shown by the last cen who is with the te make not up on tul Jodges are than on, sus, which does not m sary to with an bal i by whie drum out the 1 oyster dinner pernicious h one Sa ritual, on speaking and is his own The most which entire e of those the ake it neces- membership! The lodge "black device tart and irritated mem- ber can blast a candidate's hopes and drive th family one of istence. The lodge does a great accompaniment, as it teaches the and will often sally out under trustful of night and chop wood for good w unfortu teaches to the for im back diggraced the deadliest hand ithout nate brother w It also teaches the punctured by a corn shredder. § we should all join with a ong, blue spear, but its most some lodge and make the acyuaint- ugs that bosom of his life It is weapons in ex deal of cover been This ho has ance of a brand of charity that does not operate on the four corners. ed, and it the most precious of all] things. The death-rol! of the year re- | presents a wastage that can never be replaced. One cannot turn, therefore, | from the contemplatign of this sorry | Rippling Rhymes exhibit with hig face to the future in | felicitious mood. The Old Year dies amid funereal| | surroundings, with the prayers of | | the Church for her fallen heroes. The | { New Year inherits a legacy of gre th | anxietids. Tt is hard to- be cheerv! | when $0 many are concerned about | | their sons and fathers at the trent.) | in the tremches, in the hospitals, in| the field of battle. It is harder still prehistoric joke. L sing the old songs and to make merry {in the gloaming. 4 Yet the New Year is at hand. Tt is! | symbolized by the youth with ruddy | and smiling countenance, who bing} ad a h Je a sorry wreck, | the promise of better things, and un-| jo EOF and there was work for der the influence of his spell one is j lou impelled to revive. ,and express the | | sentiment of the deason, most cor- | woodshed floor. They would n The The wintry winds blow down the village street, and chills men's whiskers as it fiercely spins. happy they who have the goods to eat, and bright, warm fires by which to toast their shins ! homes where camfort reigns supreme, ihe windows glow, the chimneys cough up smoke; indoors the kids with merry laughter seream, when Dad: men who work How I see the turns loose a in summer, spring and fail, may view the winter with unworried | brows, rest in their chairs, their feet against the wall, and hear the singing of their cheerfud fraus. store of onions by the ceilar stair, there's bacon hang- | tng by the kitchen door; the kids have shoes and other things to wear, there's lots of 'Rindling oh the There's | And as I look some delegates go past, the hungry men, who hunt a hole in which to dodge the blast, all down and 4 work when su 1 hand; they loafed and throughout a busy Daa MNase every Copyright, 1915 we | §fsems Newepsver Rervies willin ounged zlong the open road, they played and dre always are on deck; they mmer smiled some LE WATERS RADNOR PERRIER POLAND TALLY-HO VICHY GURD'S CALEDONIA IMPOR' IMPORTED CHAMPAG™ GURD'S GINGER ALE GURIFVS SODA WATER Jas. Redden & Co. Phones 20 and 990. | Art ran v, Jook's Cotton Root Compound, a e, reliable Tequias --e Bold in three i" ses ok Srapbole 1, on 2, 83; No. per box. Bold all and, or sent pre] on 'meeipt of Foe, prow pamphlet. Address: THE COOK MEDICINE CG. TORONTO. OR" (Yermerte Windeor INDEPENDENT PRESS. Fraternizing and War. Mo al Star There was none of that glad-hand truce between the Flanders trenches this Christmas. Tommy Atkins is becoming more practicat This is not a sporting contest with a chival- rous foe, but a desperate war against organized murder and brutality There can be no compromise nor slackening Between Prussianism and British liberty there is a gulf fixed too great for iv hastily senti- mental bridging That all Germans are not of the Potsdam breed is to be admitted, bu! arms are cogs in the Potsdam ma- chine, which must be smashed. The omy way to settle this great issue is to kill German soldiers. It's bad, but that is the only way, and, as old Sir John Fisher has said, when you have to wring a chicken's neck vou don't want to stop between twists and stroke his feathers LIBERAL PRESS. The Big Time Coming. Montreal Herald » 'This is a war of attrition."" = That (statement has been made so often that many persons are coming to the belief that there can be no such thing as a 'battle' in the old sense of the word. Mischievous impres- sions might be received through such a belief, for while it is a partial! truth, it. is not the whole truth. Young men might say: "There are en- ough soldiers now to hold the enemy helpless, and that is all the Allies need to do." It may be all, for the moment, bat it it be thoroughly un- derstood that Joffre"s "'nikbling away' cannot win the war. CONSERVATIVE PRESS. } CIDER The Cheaper Way. Ottawa Citizen. It would Be cheaper for the coun- try to keep the men employed at home, or to pay them five or tea dol- lars'a week for doing nothing, rath- er than have them at work building (another useless railway, the most | useless and absurd; a railway to a point where navigation does not apen before the end of July and where it closes before the middle sf Qctober-- before the western grain harvesi can be thrashed and ready for shipment---even if ocean tramp steamers could be induced to trade into the Hudson Bay. | The belle in the choir may bring; more young men to church than 1 Ne | bell in the steeple, | all Germans under Limited KINGSTON. Men's Hurd Hockey Boots : Men's French Calf Hockey Boots winner at . Men's Calf Hockey 'Boots Hurd Pattern Men's Muleskin Hockey Boo Women's Hockey Boots, Fleece Lined Boys' Hockey Boots Youths' Hockey Boots This Skates Put On Free The Home of Good Shoes. $5.00 $4.00 $3.00 $2.50 $2.50 $2.00 WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN HOCKEY BOOTS. 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