WHIG PUBLISHING 00, LIMITED, . C 6 Sneaia President wees axing rector Telephones: ER ; ! 'SUBSCRIPTION RATES: yoar, Nd ten) 6.00 yeas if peta in avalos": 00 A United States ......$350 3 rr 3 mat Edition) Une . mall, cash ........31 One or not paid in advance $1.50 One , to United Stat 1.50 Six rr months pro rata. is one of the best offices In Canada. tte e---------------- ree ee on The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG Is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations Job LIBERALS IN CONSULTATION. The Liberal Advisory Committee has been discussing a number of pub- lie questions at Ottawa, to wit: Old age and mothers' pensions, finance and taxation, public expenditure and economy, care and welfare of the re- turned soldiers, technical education, rural credit, national insurance against sickness and unemployment, proportional representation, free ag- ricultural implements, free wheat and free flour. These were treated academically, of course, and passed on for the fuller consideration of thoughtful men everywhere. The lib- eral party does not want to benefit by the discontent which is so much in evidence all over this land. It wants to represent progressive and con- structive legislation, and it ean do this and win the favor of the people. Many subjects of prime importance can be examined even during the war, and later, when the way is clear for action, the Liberals will have de- cided views to express. There is to be a great convention just before the general election. It is to be preced- ed, howeyer, by an educational cam- paign so far as the liberals are con- cerned, Rural credit is a popular subject in the United States. The federal government proposes to open banks in certain districts and to give farm- ers credit on their land. These farm- ers are at last coming'to their own. They are receiving the atention of the politicians. Thus far they have been pretty largely neglected. REAL PRISON REFORM "_~When one reads in the New York Papers the long descriptions of Mr. 00 cracked up to be. _|announciments of hundreds of cases, many of them ending fatally. The Institute eet aside $50, 000 for a research and for the pur- pose of determining what course should be followed in order to re- duce the danger and eliminate the disease. Then, af the opportune mo- ment, someone, more penetrating in his study than in his fellows, perhaps more persistent in his work, discover- "| ed that infantile paralysis was a germ which lodged in the brain or spinal column, that to its presence was due all the effects which were visible out- wardly, This germ has its day. [is its ravages were limited to the fields it occupied through transmission to (others by personal contact. The Whig's cartoonist pictures the effect on local business of conditions which can be removed, This local business is likened unto a man who is very sick. His system is run down. Trade has left him, and it is the tonic without which the community cannot thrive. He calls in Dr. Home-Path, and this expert quickly discovered what is the matter. He prescribes as cure. It is Trade At Home, It is, Stand by the merchant, the manufacturer, or any other one who is doing his best to build up the community. The medicine looks good, It tastes good. It smells good. It is good, and all that it is The patient tries it believingly and feels better at once. : It takes time to recover from a bad spell, due to out-of-town trading and out-of-tgwn mail ordering, but there will be a complete recovery when the doctor's diagnosis is cor- rect and he prescribes the proper medicine, The wrong medicine has been sampled in Kingston, and the people have had about enought of it. The Toronto News suggests that possibly it would have been better to license the sale of wine and beer dur- ing the war. Is this a hint that the conservative party has been buncoed on the subject, and 1s inclined to hedge? BRITAIN'S BUSINESS POLICY About eighty American firms, made up in part or altogether of Germans and Austrians, have been affected by the British black "list. The British Trading With the Enemy Act deals only with British commercial houses and forbids them to have any busi- ness relations with the enemy, or the enemy sympathizers, over the seas. Some of the houses wnich have been banned admit that they knew they were blaek-listed. They knew the meaning or the significance of the proceeding. = TBey could not ship goods to Germany, since Britain was the mistress of the seas. British bot- toms would not accept charters, nor would neutral bottoms accept them. What were the black-listed firms to do? They appealed to the Wash- ington government, and the State Department is once more plunged in- to a study of profound and perplex- ing problems. The State Department says that Britain admits the right of persons of any nationality in the United States to engage in legitimate commercial transactions with any other persons. But it is added: "We cannot admit that this right can in any way limit the right of other gov- ernments to restrict the commercial activities of their nationals, in any manner which may seem desirable to them, by the imposition of prohibi- life was complete and distinct, and} vince the power it wants at $12 per. horse power. He and the share- holders are in favor of giving the people cheap power. Posing as pub- lic benefactors, and yet believed to be a soulless corporation. : . The chairman of the Hydro-Blec- tric Commission will not regard the power question as settled until the Niagara Power Company has put its proposition into writing, and this pro- position has béen accepted by the Commission. = Sir Adam is cautious. He must have had an experience. Hon, Joseph Martin, our Joe, is back in England and in parliament as the representative of St. Pancras. He has been asking questions and receiving answers or a provoking kind. Rumor had it some time ago that he was through with parliamen- tary representation in England, that he was disappointed with it. The people of St. Pancras certainly | and his reappearance in parliament] has been a surprise. Like Banquo's ghost, he will not down. Entire Faculty Fights. Saskatoon, Sask., July 22.--Owing of Engineering of the University of Sasketchewan here will not re-open this year. Most of the engineering students also enlisted. NE thought they were through with him, | to the fact that the entire faculty has! enlisted for active service the School! i proclaim July 26th Napanee's Civic | holiday for 1916. 26 YEARS AGO It has been finally decided to start the foundation of the new Y.M.C.A. hall in the fall. The city officials, including the city engineer, treasurer, tax collector, messenger and chief of police ple- nicked at Kingston Mills. The Tomkins property at the corn- er of Earl and Division streets was|} offered for sale. The reserved bid, |} $2,200, was not reached and no sale was made, CONSERVATIVE PRESS. The Recruiting Situation. Ottawa Journal, 8 Canada still needs 150,000 men to |i} make good her pledge to the Empire} and her allies. il At the present rate of enlistment |i} these men cannot be secured inside of | Jill a year and a half. tH For very obvious reasons they are not going to be secured by conscrip- tion. If they are necessary--and who can say that they are not--it is time that the country started in to keep its pledge by the only alternative left --an organized, vigorous recruiting campaign in districts that have: not done as well as they should. Mayor Ruttan was instructed to 'Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax; of Cabbages and Kings," FERDINAND DE SOTO. The reader is invited to take a brief look at the life and public ser- vices of Ferdinand de Soto, who dis- covered the Mississippi River when it was just as long as it is now and had not had any pork expended upon it. This was in 1548. De Soto was born in Spain, but was unable to prevent it, and soon after realizing the fact he started out to look for some other country where sleep was not so highly prized by the inhabitants, He had heard a good deal about Florida and its seedless orange groves, and decided to discov- er the Mississippi before somebody beat him to it, as the historian Ban- croft says. After biting the head off of a clove he kissed his wife good- bye and set sail, in company with a crew inflamed with zeal and Spanish red-eye, When de Soto struck Florida he was met by a number of unconverted Indians, who were corefully dressed in a goose feather and tomahawk and acted as if they had eaten something which distressed them. De Soto tried to be friendly with the Indians and offered to teach thems how to booze and not show it, but they re- sponded to his kindness by letting their out of some of the best. and Rippling most bibulous members of his crew. Incensed by this act of treachery, de Soto surrounded several thousand of the red brother and applied coal oil to their persons, creating one of the largest bonfires in the history of the state. After numerous trials, chief among which was the scurrielous theft of a pony keg by one of the crew, de Soto reached the Mississippi and recog- nized it at ormee by its photograph in the Spansh geopraphies, He prompt- ly named it the Father of Waters, but after drinking freely of its con- tents complained of the behavior of his stomach and died in a quiet and unpretentious manner. While he is said to have died of a fever, the real facts are that he was the first man who attempted to mix Mississippi River water with a Spanish highball, the only deadly weapon the Spanish Government was ever known to in- vent. It is sad to think that this great explorer was deprived of the benefits of a first-class funeral. He was buried in the Mississippi and has] been followed ever since by the mu- tilated rémaing of rivers and har- bors bills. He was 2 good man, but if he had .discoyered a Mississippi without any sandbars in it he would be more highly prized by posterity. Rhymes | ty Arise and ing. clanging reaper Alas, HARVEST TIME farmers call for men to labor. wheat is standing, the strength of harvesters demand- The farmers shriek for husky fellows, who're sound in wind and limb and bellows, to toil behind the you will not lift a finger! pump you linger; to honest toil you are not partial; you'd rather roast the statesman Marshall, that Woodrow Wilson's record in politics is gravely checkered, or show that Hughes is misbehaving by his|" antipathy to shaving, than go forth where the harvest work, spellbinding neighbor! The A thousand miles of ---- get busy, then, O dreamer, sleeper! Around the village See Bibbys $1.00 and | -- $1.20 Outing Shirts Plain, white, creams and tans; neat pencil stripes, etc. Large "two-way collar. Sep- arate colar style. Sizes 14 to 173. d Summer Hosiery Lisle thread. Plain white, grey, black or tan, 25¢ per pair. Bibbys Special Silk Lisle Hosiery, all shades, spliced heel and toes, 2 pairs for 75c¢. See Bibhys Athletic Underwear At $1.00 per suit. Bal- briggan, Nainsook and Por- ous Knit. J x Sailor. Rim Straws. Sailors. straw. ' See Bibkys Great Fedora style and the regu- lars. See Bibbys $1.00 Straw See Bibbys $1.50 Soft See Bibbys $1.50 London Medium crown, ouble weave or Sennet mh $3-00 Geuuine Panama Hats New roll rim; flat crown, Young Men's Clothing See our Bub Suits, $15.00. See our Alton Suits, 18-80-82 Princess Street $20. 00. ( N Newest cut, newest patterns. Bibbys See our Kensington Suits, J : Kingston, Ontario Le ------------ i or prove INDEPENDENT PRESS. Brusiloff Uses Canadian Shells. To Reduce Your Easily and Quickly If you are overstout the cause of Weight] DEMONSTRATION OF rages, and gather in a prince's wages. The wheat! Venconver News-Advertiser. is spoiling, say the grangers; exposed to multiplying To the storm of Russian shells dangers, because there are not mren to reap it, and in Which has surprised and in more than the shocks and windrows heap it. = It surely seems a | ©ne way shocked the Teutons, Can- crime and pity, that every village, town and city, must | da has contributed her share. A have its string of idle talkers, when fields of wheat are needing shockers. | Writer at Petawawa states that one Go forth and drill along the stubble, and ease the farmer's mind of trou- | Of the duties performed there is thel ble! testing of shells made for Russia. gn ms Oisn > | The Russian flag flies over a part of ooo MTN i = 00 that artillery camp, and there an offi- - A02 | cer of the Russian ordnance with a | staff of assistants is making the tests, | The Canadian Car and Foundry Com | pany has an $86,000,000 - contract | from Russia for shells, and was said j Some time ago to have forwarded 1$12,000,000, for 1,600,000 , shells. MANANCOURT ¢ | Tey may have passed through Van- : couver, which would be the natural | port of shipment. We fear that tions and penalties which are opera- tive solely upon persons under their Jurisdiction." The hyphenates allege that they cannot get accommodation, even by neutral vessels, for trading since the owners of these vessels are afraid that they wil be called to account by the British government. The pro- test against the British decision to enforce this special Act will not av- ail. In Britain the government has been fiercely attacked by a critical press because it has been slow to exercise its power 36 the disadvant- age of the enemy; and what has been : ILLEMONT done is the result of the most delib- ebv RON BLES Lani Poin TLR LIL Seale setion Shia aetion i Wen | may have been Shipped Lsom Mont no ence to the strongest public MONTAUBA real to Archangel. e Russian of- opinion which the public men and MOISLANS ® | ficors at wih have their own press of Britain have been 'able to |guns imported from home for the express. vo | purpose of these tests. The Cana- | dian order, large as it seems to be, | is 'small compared with the quantities | produced for Russia in United Staies | works. your over-stoutness Is lack of oxygen- carrying power in the blood and faul- ty assimilation of food. Too little is being made into the harder tissue of musele and too muth into little glo- bules of fat. Therefore you should correct the malassimilation and in- crease the oxygen-carrying power of the blood. To do this, go to any good druggist and get oil of worilene, only sol 'in original packages and in cap- sule form, and take one capsule after each meal and one at bedtime till your welght is reduced to what it should be on all parts of the body. The effect bf oil of orilene in capsule form is re- markable as a weight reducer and it is perfectly safe--E, J. T. 'Any druggist .can supply you or 'a large size box will be sent on receipt of $1.00 postal note or money order. Address D. J. Little Drug Co, Box 1240, Montreal, Can. Osborne's triumphant entry upon the wardenship of Sing Sing, he wonders whether the Canadian ideas of bars and stripes and close confinement are ' expressive of real reform. Fancy half the population of Sing sing go- ing out in a party, in Mardi Gras fashion, to meet the returning war- den -- the man who had been forced to retire for a season because of the serious charges which had been made egainst him, and charges that had not been proven -- and welcoming him as a hero and a man among men! Fancy the worship of him be- cause he has been humane in his prison management, encouraging manliness and honesty and honor among the convicts, letting them, to some extent, determine the punish- ments that should be imposed for in- fractions of discipline! Fancy the criminals, the outcasts, the down- and-outs, showing their appreciation - of kindness in ways that were never dreamt of before. Then recall that a prison commission, in Canada, . te Clark's Specialties ALL THIS WEEK SPARHETTI (with Tomato Sauce and Cheese) PEANUT BUTTER TOMATO KETCHUP SOUPS Their BEANS are already so well known they need no demonstrating. Jas. Redden & Co. PHONES 20 and 990. ® MARTINDUICH «+. Fourcawx Wood British Sain Delville Wood * @G@INCHY Three Sizes No-mo-odo Mum Ruvia Pompeian Night Cream All the new Toilet requisites, MARICOURT® § --- ol curry $ EDITORIAL NOTES. ® = The minister of militia is going aboard for a long time, probably for months. If he had only thought of doing this before going to London and Camp Borden what a lot of soreness would have been avoided. LIBERAL PRESS. Toryism in Rebellion. Troonto Star. In this Conseéravtive city of Toron- to, where a Conservative party nomi- nation is almost equivalent to elec- tion, there is profound dissastisfac- tion, deep discontent,°with the Gov- ernment at Ottawa. It would be foolish to say that this is the result of any Grit design. It is not work- ed up artificially. It is spontaneous. It is. not the result of any breach of the party truce. It may even be {that the party truce has brought this | trouble to the front, because it has freed the minds of men and induced them to speak their minds freely. Men are thinking, not of partisap aims, but of the grave duties and respohsi- bilities of the Government. They are not satisfied with the Government. No kind of truce would make them satisfied with the Government. The causes of discontent are apart from the springs of partyism. They can- not be removed by any sort of parti- ' san defence. Af ANCES | FRONT, Map shows the British and French gains on July 20th. The German salient argund Chaulnes and Roye is beginning to crumble. : So As . improper, that it recommended a new order of discipline, a new meth- od of treatment, and to very little purpose. The few changes that have been made are hardly worth talking about. Is Canada so far be- hind the times? ' DISEASE AND THE CURE. "Infantile paralysis ua for a long v -- The grain in the west is coming on fast. About eighty per cent. of the crop in Saskatchewan has already headed out. Though the acreage sown 4s very much less than in 1915, the railway magnates who have been out on a tour of inspection say the crop will be quite as good. Progressive Age Weight? Yes! Wait? No! and we have progressive ideas about our coal business. _. TERPIGNY SRRIE We create and hold trade be- There is a greater Hughes than the This ¥s have man of many titles and airs from Canada. He represents the Com- medical monwealth of Australia. Such was attention. The Academy of Medicine, | his power in the political circles of ~ represented by some of the leading|England that he has been recalled to Jeale of Miles D of New York, : -- Only Good Coal | Modern Equipment Courteous Employees Efficient Service. EL EL L. That's why we progress. CRAWFORD Foot of Queen St. Phone 9. - K When a wise a) he goes away and sits down. \