» ago . Trib: § Frank R. Northrup, _ 8go the Canadian THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING 1 to rural offices . ted Stat 2.60 (Bem'-Weekly Edition) One year, by mall, cash jean if not pala in advane to Uni States ......J1. three months pro rats. Attached is one of the best b printing offices in Canada. » TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE H. E. Smallplece 32 Church St U. 8. REPRESENTA New York Office 225 Fifth Ave. Frank R. Northrup, Manager. une Bldg. Manager. LAURIER ON EDUCATION, 1 want every child in the Province of Ontario to receive the benefit of an English education. Wherever he may go on this continent, I want him to be able to speak the language of the great majority of the people on this continent. I want it, I say, not only because it is the law of the pro- vince, but because of merely utilitar- fan considerations. No man on this continent is equipped for the battle of life unless he has an English edu- cation. I want every child to have an English education--Sir Wilfrid in the Commons during the bilingual discussion. Aviation is the attractive branch of the Allies' war service, To be a member of the Royal Squadron of [Aviators is to be one of the King's prize men. CHEERING THE TROOPS. A citizen has expressed himself as very much disappointed when on Sat- urday there was a march out of the largest body of troops, and the finest, that has been seen in this city. Nine thousand men were in line, and they certainly constituted a spectacle that should have raised the enthusiasm of the people to the cheering point. © Those who knew about the parade should have resorted to the publicity which would have made the event one of the greatest importance. A little judicious advertising will al- ways have its effect. It was simply announced in this case that would be a march out of the troops, Just as it used to be announced when the camp was of smaller dimensions, that the soldiers would | march through the city. The idea was to let the citizens see how great a transfor- mation would take place through a few days' drill in the appearance of the men, The troops that marched out on Saturday were distinguished in that they were composed of the flower, of the land, the physically fit and the patriotically select, who are going overseas ere long to defend the hon- or, the good name, and the prestige of the empire. When some months troops, and the Australians and New Zealanders, marched through the city of London the people, in countless numbers, lined the thoroughfares and cheered them and showered all manner of at- tentions upon them. That is what the citizen critic missed on Saturday -- the cheering that stimulates, that energizes, that inspires, that carries with it an ex- pression of 'the gratitude which all who stay at home should feel for those who g0 to the war. Let it be understood that on Saturday the citizens contemplated the passing pa- geant in silent admiration. It was good, and fully appreciated, but the cheering does more to electrify the troops than the silent admiration. The career of Gen, Mercer.has been sealed, and a career it has been. History will record to his valour in arms, and young Canadians, | contemplating his feats, will be héard | to say, "Oh, let me like a soldier fan." FIRST IMPULSE IS WRONG. Blunders occur when anything is done in a hurry in connection with the war. When the Allies entered ey incurred a lot of expenses, while influenced by a generous apirit, which had to be restrained later. In Canada the same improvidence ovc- curred. Thinking that the war would not list long---some talked of three mouths, some 'of six months Guardsman there and some of a year or more--the favors shown in certain of the early enlistments were remarkable. Officials, civie and provincial, were given their salaries in full, and for an indefinite period, while they re- ceived their usual pay and allowance from the Militia Department. Their families became the wards of the Government and the beneficiaries of the patriotic funds. As time went by it became apparent that the public generosity had to be limited, and the revision followed of public and pri- vate agreements, The United States is passing through the experience of Britain and Canada and in connec- tion with their war with Mexico, The regular soldier gets $14 a month, and nothing for any family dependent upon him. The National Guardsman will get the same pay, and in most cases, whether he has a family or not, liberal employers will give him his full salary as long as the war lasts. In addition the will have his $50 a month, which goes to his family, if he has been supporting one. "Now," says the New York Herald, "it is true that the regular never en- listed with any idea that he would get more than army pay. But here will be discrimination in favor of the militia man, which, in a short time, will put an end to the recruiting for the regular army. There never was 1.00 150 a greater blunder in army legislation than that which the war has made, and it is for the Senate to fix it as nsual." The United States chould have profited by the experience of other countries that have been in the war, There was no occasion to rush into an imprudent arrangement, and there is no justification for the continuance of it. . Hon. Joseph Martin has returned to England to give the people his ad- vice in political matters. We thought his old constituency of St. Pancras had repudiated him. JAPAN SEEKING WAR. Mun Hey Weekly, a Chinese paper, edited by H. P. Hsieh, the President of the Chinese Nationalist League, and the former Lieutenant-Governor of Kwang-Tung, has a remarkable ar- ticle, and one which cannot be read by Canadians without the deepest concern. It embraces the statement of one Brown, a wealthy tea-planter of Dargiling, India, who has been on a tour around the world. Visiting Japan he realized that she contem- plated war with the United States. Japan, said Brown, is making every preparation for this. Japan is ambitious. She has al- ready dictated to the Government of China, dod has made that great Em- pire, under its changing and unstablt government, agree to international propositions of the most objection- able kind. The late President of the Chinese republic was too ambitious officially, and discovered too late that he had made mistakes . from which there was no recovery, While he was battling with serious Chinese troubles Japan resorted to coercive measures, and the representatives of the Chinese Government had no al- ternative, apparefitly, but to sur render. Now this world's tourist, Brown, represents Japan as eager for a monopoly of the trade of the Pacific ocean, and with this object in view she is building ships as fast as poss- ible. She hopes to make a seizure of Phillippines, which the United States may not be able to defend and hold. Following this will be the seizure of the islands of Java and Sumatra, which belong to Holland and which Holland cannot hold. The United States will be taken at a disadvantage if the war with Mexico develops. The Allies have appealed to Carranza to abstain from a war that would be unwelcome to them, though not so serious a matter now as it would have been a year ago, an@ewhen munitions were 80 ne- .cessary to the success of the Entente. Failing to keep out of the Mexican trouble, the Japanese will make the great strike for the mastery of the Pacific, and she hopes that her navy and her merchantmen will be equal to the emergency. Of course, all this comes from a Chinese source, and it is unfriendly to Japan, But it comes at an un- propitious time. If accepted as re- liable it must have its ominous les- sons for the Wilson administration EDITORIAL NOTES, The soldier boys are going to the war to fight for us. They are en- titled to our cheers, our affections, and our God speeds. a The war fever has reached the New York pupils, and some of the best preachers and pastors of the day have become chaplains of regiments which the Unittd States is mobilizing for the Mexican war. ---------- Judging the Ontario Government by the later speeches of Messrs. Lucas and Ferguson, it is degenerat- ing very fast. The serious mind and firm hand of the late Sir James Whitney are being spriously missed. Six months have nearly passed since the Seymour power plant pass- ed into the control of the Ontario Government, and the cheap power which was promised to Kingston it RO nearer at hand. The Ontario Government and its Hydro Commis sion are equally disappointing. . 'Sixteen carloads of munitions, in- tended for the Allies, were seized by the United States Government on Saturday at Shamokin, Pa., and sent to Fort Worth, Texas, for United States use. This will please the Ger- mans. It is what their interference jn the Mexican war was intended to bring about, The German ape behind Carranza and his troops in their treacherous attack upon the American: troops. German agents have not been busy for months without purpose. The campaign is expensive, but Germany must think it pays or they would not pour her treasure into Mexico as she has been doing. It has now become apparent that the German navy will not make a se- cond appearance during this war, AN of the ships that did not go down at sea, as the result of their meeting with the British fleet off Denmark, have been battered out of use and commission. The game was to en trap and destroy a part of the Bri- tish fleet, and it failed. It was a costly collision. | PUBLIC OPINION | A Warning, (Ottawa Free Press) Unless sone members of the pres- ent Borden Cabinet do something pretty scon, the public will forge! who is in the cabinet, An Opposition Demand. (Toronto News) It is urged that writs should be iscued for the fourteen vacant seats in the House of Commons, but we might as well hove a general elec- tion. Why He Doesn't Know, (Ottawa Citizen) Sir Sam Hughes declared on the witness stand that he never read his own speeches in the newspapers, He should. Then he'd krow just how they appesr to the public. German Activity. (Toronto Mail) The activities of the Germans who wore congaged in destroying Ameri- can munition plants and putting bombs on merchant ships have 1, and it is safe to assume that worvhies are now south of the Rio Grande inciting the Mexicans. Farmers And Autos. (Hamilton Spectator) About one-third of the 'icensed automobiles of New York State are now 'owned by farmers, Yet it is but a compartively brief time since both they and their horses were "raring up on their hind legs" against the innovation of tho pesky contraptions, Allison In Luck, (Montreal News) Allison getting in American gouds free of duty ia violation of the customs regulations; Allison taking a rake-off from the Colts; Allison (piofitesting in shell and fuse feale; Allison in on the. damaged ammunition episcde --- a regular pa- triot is Allison! KINGSTON EVENTS 26 YEARS ACO pany will light the eity all night for sents per light. The offer was made ast year and refused, but it is now likely to be accepted. for 15 cents per pound, and eggs ries were purchased at three boxes for 25 cents, wcepted the challenge of H. Boyle, beaten Hanlan's time in a skiff, for a for a purse of money. The former ilso offers to back M. Quinn or V. H'Toole against Boyle on even terms. CONSERVATIVE PRESS. Meaning of Nova Scotia Election. St. John, N.B., Times-Star This was more than a Liberal vie- tory. It was a notice to the Conser- vative leaders that they must mend their ways or take the consequences. It was another evidence that the people of Canada are shocked by the revelations of graft in provinces un- der Conservative rule, and also at Ottawa. Sir Robert Borden will find a certain significance in the results of yesterday. The Government at Fredericton will not fail to see an- other indication of what will happen when it appeals to the people of this province. For a time people had grown despondent and almost tempt- ed to believe that the whole nation was tainted with political corruption. Recent events in all parts of the country have dispelled that feeling, and there is now universal confid- ence that healthier conditions are'in sight from coast to coast. The wrong- doers are not to save themselves by wholesale abuse of those who expose the wrong. The people are not blind. They can read the evidence and form a correct judgment, and they are to- day pronouncing the doom of graft and the grafters in the public life of Canada. : LIBERAL PRESS. Preachers in the War. Stratford Beacon The Christian Guardian stated last week that the Alberta Conference had contributed no less than fifty- three of her ministers and probation- ers for the ministry to the Canadian overseas forces, and that of these three had already been killed in ac- tion. It now finds that the record of the Saskatchewan Conference is even more remarkable. Nine ordain- ed ministers and forty-nine proba- tiners for the ministry have already Joined the colors, making a total of fifty-eight and exceeding the Alberta Conference record by five, As is the case in the Alberta Conference list, | nearly all these men are in the ranks of privates, and many are now in the | actual work of fighting. There has, | it understands, been several casual- | ties in the Saskatchewan Conference group, but information available is not sufficient to give names or fig- ures. It believes that this record of ministerial enlistment is absolutely unprecedented in Canada. ~--mn, Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." CHANGING TIRES, Changing tires is a popular Ameri- can pastime which engages the thought, soul and leg muscles of thouands of apoplectic citizens ev- ery day during the touring season. It"is one of the first things the new automobile owner learns to do alone, and the second is to sit down by the side of the road and. hurl pent-up profanity into the nearest cornfield. It is not necessary to change the tires on-an automobile so long as they are able to stand on one leg. There is nothing more deceptive than the average pneumatic tire, however, unless it is a lonesome married man who is 'thirsting for platonic friend- ship. A fire may present a smooth and unblemished exterior and look godd for a long and useful life, but the germ of a six-inch blow-out lurk within 'dnd poke 4s head out six blocks from a shade tree. It is a simple process to change the tires on a modern automobile, as they are hung in a handy position on the rim, which can be removed with no more effort than is required in opening a vinegar barrel with a pocket knife. The first step is to jack up the car by crawling under the radius rod and balancing freely on the handle of the jack, after which a stout guest with a good supply of breath should attack the bolts in the rim. By the time he has removed the bolts he will need a substitute and a pulmotor, but the rim- will come off in one piece after being hit in the back of the meck a few times with a sledge. Another rim and tire can then be taken from the rear of the car by three men who are fa- miliar with heavy draying and put on the wheel without losing over half a day and the top coating of a few knuckles, After the new rim has been fitted on with both feet, it will usually be found 'that the tire is short about sixty-two pounds of air, which has to be inserted by hand at the rate of one pound every fifteen minutes. This is one of the most bitter and heart. rending experiences that can come into a man's life, and will convert the mildest-mannered taxpayer into a human hyena. After a lean, long- waisted citizen has wabbled back and forth for thirty minutes at the helm of a catalogue house hand pump, he will be taken with so many kinds of cross-fire vertigo that his wife will begin to figure on her second choice, The only time and place to change tires is inthe garage, at eighty cents per kilowatt hour. Rippling Rhymes his marble bust Milton or a t words, I think, them with ink. slowly rising sun, haue frst rays landscape, green and dun; the nev that in the dawning lies; eng Wonde: losing gleaming skies, I view the sing, 1 spoil a good suspendev, and Sem. EARLY MORNING The early morning's glory has baffled all poets; no one can chant in glory in comprehensi notes." I'd fain describe its splendor, but on take my pen, I ruin a suspender, and give it up @gain. For gen a bard of Avon might punch his grew a spavin and felt his muscles tire--he not do it justice; no bard can do that same, aed the golden lyre, until is perched in the Hall of Fame. and no one but a sof And when T se ty will spatter the morning, the are adorning the Shen nights veil torn scene of splendor, but when cannot chant 2 thing. . a The Light, Heat and Power Com- ||] three hundred nights yearly at 30 |} Butter sold on the market to-day from 12¢ to 15¢ per dozen. Strawber-{}| >f the Frontenac, who claims to have [Hi race any distance and in any weather|}| | vacation, be sure to see us E. Halliday, of the Hub Hotel, has ||! Men's ~~ Summer black and whites. Plai whites and tans. Straw Hats $1.50, $2.00. $1.00 per suit. piece suits; Balbriggan, Porou Knit. Size 34 to 46. Special $1.00 each Sizes 14 to 171-2 Ne lars. Vests $1.00 Sizes 34 to 44. Neat Ne ---- oo frm eee Splendid values, $1.00, A AP Al Mens Under- wear Special (Bmbination or two- nainsook, Outing Shirts Sport Shirt two-way col- | Kingston's One Price Store Men's and Boys' Wear n Young CHARACTERISTICALLY YOUNG-MANNISH Bud Suits Young Men's Suits, $10.00 Young Men's Suits, $12.00 Young Men's Suits, $15.00 Young Men's Suits, $18.00 Young Men's Suits, $20.00 Young Men's Suits, $22.00 - 8 $15.00 and $18.50, $20.00, $22.50 SEE BIBBYS ENGLISH SERGE SUITS Men's Suits For voung men who like smart, neat fits ting and distinefive appearing garments, nothing could be found more suitable than Ww Properly Cut Duck Trousers $1.25 and $1.50, $2.00. Summer Outing Trousers Rl ELECTRIC FIXTURE SALE SEVEN ROOM SPECIAL Complete with two Halls and Bath Room Fixtures. $20.00 Do not miss this opportunity of securing one of these sets at such a si rifice price. All TUNGSTEN lamps included. MOORE'S ELECTRIC SHOP 206 WELLINGTON STREET. Takami ERE 'McLeod's Drug Store If you are going to take a about a Kodak. way and enjoy the trip the rest of your life. 'A large assortment of all Eastman Goods -- All new stock. your pi McLEOD'S DRUG STORE Radnor (pints) | Caledonia Take pictures along the|= Let us develop and print! itTes, . TABLE WATERS Poland (qts. and 1-2 gals.) Perrier (splits and pints). Weight? Yes! HT (pints) Tally-Ho (gallons) Vichy Celestins, Imported Ginger Ale Gurd's Ginger Ale Gurd's Soda Water. Jas. Redden & Co. Phone 20 and 990. GARAGE MCLAUGHLIN CARS FOR HIRE Careful, courteous drivers, Smith ence between 8 McLaughlin car in Al condition ROBT. J. FURSEY, the asking. Phones 1609-981. -- _Prop, 8 85-87 Montreal St., nr. Princess - / A Adstralia has purchased fifteen large ships to move ts harvest, Yh Walt? DISCUSSION! insisted pat 1] *'Coal is Coal." ora coal and our coal THE PROOF OUR COAL IS and that Jones wis argument, is yourfor T T f CRAWFORI Foot of Queen Phone 9 Spt