Published Dally asd Semi-Weekly by Co. LIITED, [Ryo eM xing Director and Sec. Teas, Telephones: Sesscrnsinne cases . SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Edition) Joar, delivered In city ,.....$8.00 Year, it pald in advance Year, vy mall to rural offices 8 year, to United States ..... (Sem!-Weekly Edition) year, by mail, cash .. 4 paid in ar, to Unifed States .. and three months pro Attached Is one of the best srinting offices In Canada, io» TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE PR jmaliplece - RE 8 Ss» York Office .....,.. 225 Fifth Ave. frank R N rthrup, Manager. . «+s... Tribune Bldg. Wrank R Northrup, Manager ug ME. WHEATLEY'S REMOVAL, Kingston will be sorry to lose Mr. Wheatley. His departure from the city takes place at an early date, His splendid service in connection ! with the Locomotive Works, as Gen- eral Manager, is shown by the many, fine buildings which have been erected, the efficient plant which has been installed, and the order and Systera which have been inaugurated. The call to a new sphere of useful- ness, and in recognition of his high attainments is a Compliment which bis many friends very greatly appre- «Ciate. The Whig congratulates Mr. Wheatley upon his new appointment, though it joins with the citizens gen. erally in regretting his removal from Yingston, THE BY-LAW 18 DEYEATED, The City Council voted on the By- Zaw which, if given a third reading, would "have authorized, beginning with next year, a reduction in the membership of the Council from three members to two members for odach ward. There was. a referen- dum on the question 'in connection With the municipal elections, and the vote was very light and close. The yeas numbered, 1,256, and the hays 1,175, so that the maj only 81. The only speech ade at the City Council upon the subject, "when the thira reading of the By- Law was called, was that of Alder- man Newman, the father of the als leged "bantling," for whose life 'he earnestly pleaded, The Council proceeded to smother it with a vote of 11 to' 5. ot The only inference is that most of the Aldermen have learned a good deal from public opinion since the By-Law came before them, and that public opinion was mot in favor of the By-Law. The Council is, of course, anxious to keep abreast of the times in municipal reforms. They should read up the experiences of the Councils which have tried the City Managers. , EXPEDITION IS DEMANDED. Kingston is deeply interested in the power question, and will await the outcome of the conference of mu- nicipal representatives in Toronto, The eastern part of Ontario has not been served by the Hydro-Electric Commission, and because of difficul- ties which, it is said, the Commission has so far been unable to surmount, The city has apparently waited ihe development of events, and now it will be éxcused when some disposi- tion is shown not to wait longer. 'The Hydro-Eleetric Commission may have a scheme which will be at- tractive and acceptable. If it has there should be no delay/in present. Ing it, but it should not ask the Ut'l- ities Commission to defer action up- Qn a contract which it can make at present with the Seymonr Company, and. upon advantageous terms, - There was no response at the request "of 16eal Commission, at ifs first meét- ing this year, from the Hydro-Elec. tric Commission, and with any propo- sition it had to make upon the power question. The Seymour Company replied at once and practically re- - hewed the offer it made some two or three weeks ago. That offer should not' be set aside a second time with- Out the very strongest reasons, - Let us repeat that it the Hydro- Electric Commission has any 'offer it should be made without delay, and should not be of an indefinite kind. last couple of months, OPity was | should drift any longer. The motto of the hour with the Utilities Com- { mission, with regard to a power con- | tract, should he "expedgiion." * The j city dethands It. : 1 ---------------- COST OF STREET LIGHTING. { "The Council had, another chapter {in street lighting at a session | Monday evening, but not one of an| | iluminating character. The alder- | {men some time ago wére given to un- derstand that they were paying too! {much for the street service, and the | Utilities Commission was asked to | report upon the subject. This re-! {port the Commission has approved land sent to the Council. It shows | that there 'are in use 319 arc lamps land 21 Tunjgstens. The cost of the | ornamental lamp is $75, of suspen- | sion type $60, of the Tungsten $20] {per year. On what are these figures | based? | { In March last there was a valua- | tion of the plant by experts of the! Hydro-Electric Commission, and it | was estimated then that the value of the materials and machinery used in| the production of street light was, $39,231. The percentage used in the calculation varied from 23 to 100. Of the output of the Power Depart- ment, measured at the station metre, the percentage used by the street lights was 23. The amount paid | for the service in 1904, the last full | year for which there were accounts, | {| When the report was made up, was $14,637.59, and the expenditure was $14,642.73. There was an apparent then, of less than $100, with no al- lowance for depreciation, which should be at least five per cent., and no allowance for the increase of bor, which must follow the in the number of lamps. | of a meter at the City Hal | be without any point. Is the meter | at the power house a good one? If | it i8 the registration by it is correct. | The account for street lighting may | be getting unduly large. Who is to | blame? Who demands and orders { the lights? {it asks for it must pay for. on | { i surplus, la- | increase The talk seems to { AN HONEST APPEAL. | Mr. Lapointe, M.P., a French-Ca- { nadian, made the most patriotic ad- { dress which has been delivered in the | Commons on the war question. Mr. Lapointe is one of the men who fol. | lowed his leader in Quebec in 1911, | and argued that Canada was dging | her duty, and poly her duty, when | she sent her quota of fighting men to South Africa. He braved the cam- pain which was then conducted by | the Nationalists of Quebec with the concurrence of the Conservatives, and { he survived it apd gloried in the | fact. . | Mr, Lapointe does not believe in wasting any time or words on Bour- | @8sa and Layergne. Nothing can be | gained by it, but everythidg is to be | gained by concentrating the thoughts {of the nation on the members of the | Government who had been N | ists could not be expected to win fa- { vor, and recruits at the same time, | untii they repented of the heresies | which they preached in 1911, This | was the heresy of non-participation | by Canada in the wars of the Em- { pire. Bourassa and Lavergne the { people could forget by leaving them | alone, but the members of the Gov- | ernment they could not forget, nor | forgive, until they had ropeated of J their Tailings. . » | Again there could not be a patrio- | tie service with wrong doing. "The { interests of Canada and the Empire," { he declared, "must be placed over | and above the tranqaility of the Gov- | ernment." Wrong doing. at this | time was doubly criminal and should be fearlessly exposed and dealt with. | If patriotism and financial cupidity | | haa been amalgamated in consider | | able doses a remedy had to be found. | The Investigation called for should | be held for Canada's sake. "There is danger," he concluded, "of the Gov- ernment assuming the part of the ac- cused instead of the accuser." , | It was a correct, an honest, an ef- ! | fective appeal to the serious-minded | members of the House. An appeal to duty, an appeal to honor, and an | | appeal to common sense. There was i not a jarring note in it throughout. | EDITORIAL NOTES. | School elections are not exciting | events, The contest in Cataraqui| Ward on Monday was so quiet that few people were aware it wa place, A -------- -- | It is time some ane was thinking of | { puttinz in a plant for the production | of artificial ice for public use. An b | geveral | thing the grafters have to fear is The! Liberal who reveals the iniquities of | 1 The Council, and what | ational- | { introduced to his | moved from the owner, dered ail this, and at the time it] Seemed to be willing to undertake] any expense no matter how excessive! 1t was. . Judging from the experienge of | Conservative papers not punishment, but exposure, the contract system is a bad bad man, In going against a reduced Coun-| { ¢ll were the Alderman defying pub- | | Or did they wake up | to the fact that they shoulds have) | given the electors a little more in-| lie' opinion? formation and so enable them to vote more [ntelligently? "MontreR\ did better {han it expect- | ed with the second Patriotic Fund. It set out to raise $1,500,000, and! collected, or got assurances for, $2. 379,854. Ottawa, Toronto over $7,000,000 If the rest Canada does relatively as well the Patriotic Fund will be well sustained in 1916. A. I PUBLIC OPINION | bree Unbelievers. (Toronto Star.) Some e conscription do not seem to believe in volunteering either 3 tvs eesse dean Mrs. Speaker Some Day. faronto Globe.) (T Some day Mrs, Speaker will be giving her rulings in the Manitoba | i i | whether 8 e---and in most of the oth-| pi Legislatur and i 0 | positions er Legislature of the Dominion, Afraid of Enquiry. (London Advertiser.) F. B. Carvell offers to prove every allegation he had made regarding Ox~{ War lorbitant war profiis. If the Conser- | vatives doubt his word, why not take! { this opportunity to investigate Too Much Scolding. (Toronto News.) We doubt if Canadians scolded into enlistment The {form speakers who gibe and , ounce do not get results. Appeal is better than attack and sympa- | thetic persuasion better than satiri- cal denunciation. -- Hymn and Prayer. (Hamilton Times.) Bishop Farthing, of Montreal, says that the playing or singing of "God Save the King" is not a signal for beople to put on their coats. It i a hymn and a prayer, treated as such, to forget that, can re ------ A Good Sign. (Ottawa Jburnal.) The voluntary gift by this city of arly a million dollars to the wives and children of Canadian soldiers is ne. a great thing. {upon the hearts of for the Empire and the right. It is a shining light For the first time the Gananoque Rive week from ifs mouth making a record January in many years r was open this to Marble Rock, for the month of the | i gines and ahd | Montreal, between them, have raised | of | a men who do uot believe ii! | cord with the _ i expenditures, | excuse | aware of the e | sin | Ubon; possibly, no more than us, {time is unprintable. and should bef endeavor to cover Most people seem | | points as would further t | sible with our national | that is now be earnestness with which the | jepende most of us are in the war DAY, FEBRUARY 1 26 YEARS ACO ports and exports at the Customs | KINGSTON EVENTS ttre ettotegettit Statement slowing value of im- House in January: Imports, $79,965; SIDCTIS, $36,846; collections, $12. 1.38, The separate night largely attended. twenty-six years of not do addition schools are One young man . read or write can now do these things, and is very thankful a night school was opened, This morning two freight trains collided on the Grand Trunk Rail- Two en- twenty-one cars were smashed to pieces, y ---- BUSINESS PRESS. -------- After All, is Sip Robert the Leader? Eleciriecal Journal 0 we unders ert Borden's att that he refuses t tion into the cha made in connect tand from Sir Rob- itude in the House rges that have heen ion with the letting of Canadian munition contracts? If he knows that the charges are false, would one not expect he would jump at the chance of clearing the reputation of his friends? . What is the inference if he refuses? I. If he persists in sidestepping the issue we bheliey ed the chance of a lifetime to show himself a really big man. Will he prove to be what men are saying of him to-day, or will he measure up to the standard of his opportunities? The Attorney-General seeks to draw a herring across ihe trail in placing responsibility on the British Government. That's not the issue, The Canadian People want to know * men holding executive lave conducted. themselves 8 appointees of a party great public as hecome holding, a honor of citizens of our and in the best inter- efficient conduct of our great Empire ests of the original Shell Committee un- ily deserves credit for the de- The douhtec spatch with which they placed orders | among | urally manufacturers, who were nat- shy of accepting the responsi- bilities of big and uncertain capital But what conceivable is there same manufacturers further orders- fier to furnish at cost? Before the public press xisting conditions, ru- mors of what was transpiring reach- his paper. Under the caption, the Public Eye" we touched ten per reached present cent. of the information that much of which at the only cause, and interfere as little as ations. ' Even in this we | path of the pioneer paved. We have the sati however, of hav sfaction nt press eve vative party, and that i coast to coast among | influence 'and power land efficiency | party. We h hundreds of friendly as our course has heen ight, and lieve we 5 are hacked by AAA mm RANDOM REELS "Ot Shoes and Ships, and Sealln , Ww 3x. of Cabbages and Kings" I THE MULE, The mule is a meek and lowly beast of burden with long, vibrating ears ana a smouldering temper, A great many people have approached the mule in a spirit of friendship and good will, and after deaning carelessly on his right hip have heen temper with so much success that they had to be carried home in a bed blanket. The mule is constructed in a very compaci and substantial manner out of durable material, and is harder to kill than a piece of scandal with a tenfoot start. Science tells us that nobody, knows the real age or longevity of the mule, "aw Wom of them die hurriedly as soon as the plaster of paris cast is able to be re- There is Something pathetic about an aged, careworn mule, with thin, gray whis- kers which has been invited to his last resting place by an irritated ow- ner whois carrying a grudge and a drain pipe in his left lung. The mule is not as good looking as the horse, but, is far more useful to man, hay and corn every once in.a while, ! while the mule lives on straw and the hope of revenge. The mule is Rippling s taking | open season like this one nrhkes the | dro ¢ natural ice men worry, | The White Way at $75 per lamp | Is certainly a luxury, but the invest- | { ment has been made and the annual ! cost cannot be materially reduced | DOW. The time to think seriously | is before a great debt is contracted. | ---------- i | Germany's answer to the United | | States cn the L Said to be nal. --¥&s? Then Presi- ust, in his own way, at the American na-| ton will hot stand fof otitrage and insult. ~ 3 To ------ 3 The White Way ig very expensive, It cost $61,0 00 for. conduits, posts usitania question is|§ * may insist that will wear; and the woes we say, "To- to-day, have of The horse has to be fed! dark green grief morrow is a frost, so | and weep, and blame the co! ten said, in dirges fierce but o look.ahead for further sto; vain to rend our beards and 4 not as bright mentally as the horse, either, and is given to deep fits of despondency, during which he should not be disturbed. Nobody ever at. tempted to arouse a mule from a fit of despondency without hearing the low, ingratiating report of a fractur- ed rib immediately afterward, he' mule. has four feet, which are used to steer with also has a cold, o which he measur two of . He alculating eye, with es the distance fron where he is standing to the jugular vein of hig victim, . The mule is Surer-footed than any other animal, unless it is the prudent elder wuo contributes to the church with one hand andveollects saloon rental with the other, bis The mule is ona of the singers now vocalizing before the public. Some people go so far as to say that they would rather hear a male alto or a solo on the mouth organ. There ig something about the singing voice of ype uncultivated mule which ¢ ness to creep ove this soon gives w Tetaliate with a The mule would spected if he did n ple for poorest r-the listener, hut ay to a desire to coarse, red brick be more highly re- ot set a bad exam- S0 many men, Rhymes Srey THE VEILED We know not what a day of weal or woe; trip fantastic toe. will hide, the whole d are said and done, ou 50 let us smi We may feel sure to-morrow's s ay long; and when ajl things T guesses will he wrong. We to-morrow's brow un shall: wail around SL." * And 80, as I brief, it's foolish It" ed with fate;" far better t Pulls its freight. all sweet 1 our ha age, who could] e Sir Robert has miss- | J trust, in ac-| for refusing these| > : i {even to the extent of turning down. an | § 0 It has been such he common | POs- military oper- have found. the proverbially un- ing started a protest ing taken up by the in- n of the Conser- 8 ringing from our citizens of who love honor more than money or ave the satisfaction of surances that be- thousands auses a feeling of sad- | 8: Pianos, Ame , 1916, | a 0 hold an investiga- | | | I} You can't limp up to the bre demand what's coming if you belonged. A volunteer but the regular must be re time; hip ! hip ! _ Forward march. See Our Mili H A ) Military Shoes, $4 Military Shoes, Military Rubber Boots bh' We are Sole Agents in Kin céc Shoes," the Best English Models Tan, Black and © -- Button to you--yvon've got to m finds excuses for shabby Shoes, dy to stand inspection. gston for the Celebratéy $5.00 Shoe in the Market. , Blucher and Bals; Patents. able "to shoot or fn as. the occa- sion demands. astworks of big business and arch up boldly as Don't mark tary Shoes at $3.00. $5 -- Military Shoes, Military Raincoats $5.50. : "Just Wright | , See Bibbys Special $4.00 Street Shoe. became | Clover Honey In the Comb, 25¢ per large section. Extracted: In glasses ........17¢c & 20¢ 'Quart sealers . va 21-2 1b. tins .. Slo. tins... 10 Ib. tins . Limited The Military Shoe Store Can Supply You OAc cst, Jas. Redden & Co. ones 20 and 990. Tan Rubber Boots | more who have | prove our stand And now, share in th placed ou read and silently ap- let us get along with our is big war. We have rselves on record, and for the present will let matters rest | there. No matter how badly we are led, Canada is in it to our last man, our last dollar, ang to our last shirt, LIBERAL PRESS. ---- tion Workers Enlist? Strathcona Boots Money Belts, Pol Should Muni Toronto Star. In Toronto, at Kingston | Where the work of recruiting is be- | ing as busily prosecuted in muni- | tions factories as in any other kind| of factories, 1 Is this desirable? Has the Government this matter? be adopted 1 ,» and else- | any policy in Or if any policy is to ater on, why wait until a lot of expert mechanics have been withdrawn from the industries for| weeks or months, and have received | military training at much expense, only in the end to be drafted back | into the workshops they were re-| rere, y cruited from? ! 5" we is w The country needs soldiers and the | Donnas' Jorth res. this was fa, soldiers need munitions. Is the oi is nt zo ah us y On| work of making munitions to go on| GOVernment for rat in Canada? = { dustrieg necessary? If so there ought | of Xiong £525,000.000 of goods to he diserimination in reerutting; [(° io -- seni. only intmense i=) and this is not possible unless _a . ' ot wv, | registration and a classification of Ports. In Other words, we last year workers be made by the Govern- imported £2 worth of E0uds for each } : ? ? $ £1 that we exported. We produced | ment. i : Ae The men engaged in the making |lés® and. we, consumed more. We | of munitions are constantly. thinking | Draducdll Teay of war; their very work keeps it con- { RE munitions. stantly in their minds, and they are {more inclined to enlist than possibly | "UP" TO GREEKS : any other class of workers. i TO KEEP MOBILIZED. It is for the Government to decide | whether they are more use maKing ued | bullets or firing them. The men do} Entente Statement Iss not know. The recruiting sergeants King Ferdinand Is to Meet | are unable to judge. The press can-| 3 5 nce Rot decide the point. Nobody knows, Pri Geo ge. If the Government dees not, and iy, a * | the Government does not. know' it] tothe, Jan, 31.--~1n re ought to find out, and decide fhe | question one way or the other. # of King Constantine re- | zation of the Greek army in his re- tent interview with the Associated Press, the following communication | Was issued here Saturday at the lega- { tions of the Entente Powers: Yi : | "To avoid misunderstanding, the { The big wages earned have been | Entente legations are authorized to ! lavishly spent. According to CGener-| tate that in the opinion of their {al Hickman, 30,000 sovereigns a | Governments it depends upon Greece | eek are being melted down to make | '0 Judge, in conformance with its in- | Jewellery at'a time when 'the Ger. | terosts and the evolution of future lan women are surrendering their! ®Venis, whether it is desirable io re- jewellery in order that it may be | tain the Greek army mobilized. melted down into coiis for the State, ' To } rican obgans, furs, cost- | King To: Mect Prince. x i 'ly confectionery, the deareit comes- PetrogradmJan, 21.--Information | 8 been received in political circles , selling as never before. | ha seeking Tange a meeting bet "f ome consumption have risen from ween King £659,000,000, in 1913, 'the last year! Perdinang of Byigari George of Grokes. Na ------ Allfes have been 'advancing ENGLISH PRESS. i The People's ExtraVagance. { Lon on Mail, before the war; to £755,000,000 in 1815, Instead of buying and English Calf and Ho ish, Viscol Oil things which are necessary | beétduse we wore mak- | 1 i | ply to the] Tspecting continuation of the mobili! Prince | cessation .of such Military Boots (Slater and other makes) ggings, Spurs, and many other to the Military Man. gskin Le J.H.Sutherland & Bro, THE HOME OF GOOD SHOES. Is the help of our in.| the other side of the larger, instead} The difference between good 'coal and poor coal is the difference be- tween comfort ang dis- comfort. ' Our Coal is SOLID COMFORT COAL It is screened carefully, delivered promptly, apd makes warm friends, ~ CRAWFORD, | | | | lized, the foregoing may indicate a advances unless Greece is 10 the Allfes.