_ posed of the greater enemy. Raed Lid ig Borns Telephones : SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ered ition) 0.00 i gaia fi Kirt States ..... $3.50 (Bem -Weekly Bdition) y 2, mall, cash ........91.00 jh sivas fis and three months pro rats. one of the in Canada. best job of THE BRITISH The . WHIG is a tented by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations A VERY CANDID CONFESSION. People In business deals are being nipped every day. The craze for bargains is so great that expendi- tures are frequently being made by gulleless folks, =A man picks up a catalogue, of the flashy kind--the de- partmental store is given to very fine printing--and sees the picture of a boot, just his size, and at a very low price. The impulse to buy seizes him, He cannot shake it off, and before he has recovered his senses he has posted a money order and de manded the goods. The Whig's artist has such a gam- bler in stocks, (shoe stocks), in his mind, and presents a sketch of very 'great merit. A man who has suf- fered the greatest tortures for boots that have proven misfits, has made up his mind that he will suffer no longer, and, removing his foot cov- ing, he enters a shoe shap, and feels better when he blurts: "Bought 'em by mail, They're nearly killing me. Serves me right, Ought to have come to you in the first place," Ad- dressing the merchant, who meets him in astonishment. An honest confession is good for the soul. Every one does not ad- mit the fact when the shoe pinches. But one bought wisdom with his shoes, and the investment is a good one. He will trade at home in future. He will by his co-operation help to build up the community in which he lives. OUR DISREPUTABLE STREETS. vThe despicable cogdition of Prin- cess street west, on which so much money was spent, in repairing and in resurfacing with tarvia, calls to mind the extraardinary differences of opinion which prevails among the al- leged experts on road-making. Lime- stone, rolled, and covered or bound with tarvia, does not produce a pave- ment which will wear for any con- siderable time under heavy traffic. After every experiment and every failure we get back to the place where the unprofessional men always leave us, the place where we feel that it is time the amateurs retired and let the experts alone. The Engi- neering Record scores the councils which will listen to men who have something to sell, and often allow themselves to be imposed upon. "Without a doubt,' says our con- temporary, "the best method of pro- cedure is to have the city engineer designate the type that must be used. His choice: would be predicated on -all the factors that should be con- sidered--foundation conditions, traf- fic, ability of the district to stand the assessment, characteristics,'cost, and life of various surfacings." The aldermen may not be willing to leave the issue with the engineer. Granted that his judgment is not unerring, as a rule he would manage things a great deal beter than the average layman. BALANCING UP ACCOUNTS. The Germans threatened the Ja- panese with dire calamities after the war. 'Ob, Nippon," théy piped, "woe be unto thee when we have dis- It would have been better for thee hadst thou not been born." And the more vicious of the visionaries spent their time in imagining the kind of punish- ments that would be visited upon the| little men of the Pacific empire. The 'eruelties of Caesar towards the - Christians were not to be compared with the Russians for offensive and defensive purposes, and the arsenals of Japan have been turning out the vast stores of munitions which have enabled the Grand Duke Nicholas, General Brusiloff, and all the rest of them, to'smash their way through Poland, and Galicia, and Asia Minor, without encountering formidable re- sistance anywhere. When Nippon has got through with the Germans the account of fifteen years, through which their enmity has Been con- stantly in evidence, will be complete- ly balanced. A CRISIS IN ONTARIO. The premier of Ontario, who is not too rugged in health, is going abroad on public business, and he is taking Dr. Pyne with him. The premier will be missed, and by no class so much as those who have been bom- barding his office and making it as pleasant as possible on the prohi- bition question. Over in England he will escape their importunities, and have a chance to reason out the whole question calmly. Other members of the cabinet may be disposed to change front and open the license question. It is said that some of them never liked the close-the-bar feature of the govern- ment's programme in view of the fact that they had opposed it in the last election, but Hon, Mr. Hearst, though originally a compromise can- didate for the high office, between Hon. Adam Beck and Hon. Mr. Hanna, is a man of some decision of 'mind, and, having taken a stand upon the question, he is not disposed to retire or retreat. The faction that has caused some- thing of a panic in the party cannot have now the referendum which 'they suggest. The closing of the bars and clubs and shops, so far as the public sale of liquor is concerned, is precipitated by the war. Nothing must interferp with the recruiting for the army, and the preparation of the troops for the ordeal that lies be- fore them; and the bar-room is pro- nounced a menace tg the soldiers everywhere. J ! The Committee of One Hundred were not thinking of the soldiers only, and were not moved in their ac- tion by the influence of the bars on the troops. They had in mind the general well-being of the community, and they were eager to profit by the temperance wave hich was pass- ing over the countrys This wave impressed the premier, and he may have acted precipitately. He acted, however, deliberately and in good faith, and he must be true to his pro- fessions. The legislature has fixed the time when the Prohibition Act shall take effect, and when the people, by a ref- erendum, shall say whether it shall be continued indefinitely. Only the legislature can change all this, and Hon. Mr. Hearst is not inclined to summen it for a special session. CANADA'S SHAMEFUL WASTE. The prodigality of parliament, in passing millions of dollars unques- tionly and for the purposes of war has been applauded. The idea was not to scamp the government or the Militia Department, in any way, that it had assumed the responsibility of meeting the fihgencies of the hour, and that it should be allowed to meet and carry the load regardless of expense. But neither Parliament nor the people which it represents, have meant that any considerable sum of money should be wasted in profligate business deals, and the Toronto Star, whose information, it is presumed, is trustworthy, makes an exposure which will arouse great public dis- pleasure. The record is astonishing. Here it is, summarized: (a) Transport waggons unsuitable for the roads of Belgium and France, purchased in hundreds, and four of them crossed the Channel. The rest abandoned somewhere in England. (b) Machine guns, purchased for the Eaton Machine Gun Battery. A generous and costly gift, piled up at Fulford, England, and unused. '(e) Bicycles, thousands of them, not standardized, unsuitable, and piled up in thousands in England, fit material for the scrap heap. (d) Boots, millions of them, and costing millions of dollars, regarded as useless and unfit for the cobbled roads of France. One 'consignment sent to France as an experiment and not yet reported upon, (e) Leather Oliver equipments, 200,000 of them, stored in England, of no value to the forces, and with 250,000 other leather equipments, which have been 'ought at large ex- pense only to go into discard. (b) Ross rifles, thousands of them, and representing millions of dollars. kept in use long after they were re- garded as a failure, and now wholly replaced at the front by the Lee- Enfield. A prodigious and incalcul- able loss. The patent spade "invented by a young lady in Sir Sam Hughes de- partment at Ottawa," says the Star, --""the wonderful spade, which was not only to dig trenches but to offer tion with all the scandals that have been anred in' Parliament, in com- mittee, and in commissions, and it must have very irritating public ef- fects. The Star says that most of these great losses have been incut- red because the Minister of Militia knew better than any one else, or beter than all others, what was needed, and everything had to go re- gardless of consequences. The war does not prevent the members of the Imperial Parliament from discussing financial budgets, and it locks as if' thé Canadian members of Parlia- ment must, in the interest of the economy that should be practised, enter a vigorous protest against all further investigation. EDITORIAL NOTES. \ Dr. Helen MacMurchy pays a high compliment to the Home for the Aged People, to the management, (under a commission),and to the im: provements it has secured. The acting inspector is certainly a com- petent critic. Arthur Hawkes, in a letter to the Windsor Record, says lie has always been an independent liberal. He certainly declined to vote for reci- procity with the United States. But he was not the only liberal who bolt- canididatcs who are seeking election to the legislature in British Colum- bia. Socialism is evidently thriving at the Pacific and contributing to it has been the selfishness and cor- ruption of the governments under McBride and Bowser. Fhe conservative candidate in the south west division of Toronto will support the government generally, but on the prohibition question he will be free to do as he likes, A notide, as it were, to the Hearst gov- ernment, to quit prohibition or the party will be tempted to quit it. About 400,000 of the railway em- ployees of the United States have improved. The outlook is serious for the railway companies and men It may cost something to se- cure peace, and it will cost a good deal more not to secure it, The defence of the ex-ministers in Manitoba is developing. The idea now is that if there was a conspir- acy to defraud it existed Between Kelly, the contractor, and Horwood, the architect. But the politicians got the money. They were the bene- ficiaries, and reecivers of stolen goods are as sulpable generally as the men who do the stealing. A Naval Suspect. (Monitreal Herald) Some are beginning to think the Bremen is a sort of marine "Mrs. Arris,"" Sarah Gamp"s invisible ___"THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, ES voted to go on strike unless their}. wages and terms of service have been ee ---------- (London Advertiser) a More Manitoba documents have dis appeared like the famous telegrams Therefore some other skin is saved. Clocks All Out. {Bart Arthur Chronicle) The clocks in Greece have vanced 25 minutes, but in its atti- tude to the war the country is 20 minutes laté. = * mscription Abroad. {Montreal Mail) tion, and the report that Colonel Ar- land is a fake. ) Useless Kissing. 8 (Farmer's 'Advocate) Th aiser will have to do a great routes to the German commercial fleet. ' 4 Nobody Knows. (Ottawa Citizen) Sir Sam Hughes tells a British in- terviewer that he does not know why outcome of the fuse enquiry; an most Canadians will agree with hint, An Alternative. (Hamilton Herald ties Sir Henry Dalziel would sejze all property owned by Germans in Britain. Anyhow that would be ers, as some Prussianized Britons Suggest. ---- KINGSTON EVENTS 26 YEARS AGO The police are very busy collect- ing fines which should have been collected some time ago. E. O. Sliter and A. W. McMahon rode to Belleville and back on their bicycles. They were four hours and a4 quarter going and four hours and forty minutes coming down. RSS Serene GERMANY OF TO- MORROW ON WAR: New York Herald. The interview with Dr. Roese- yeier, of the Berlin Morgen Post, ich the Herald printed re- veale the main thought which is tak- ing hold of the world. What is to be the fate of the German military System and what escape is there from its dominating the world if Ger- many is to win' the war? On this the eyes of all the belligerent'and all the neutral nations are focussed. To the present system of govern- ment in Germany the war is due, To that is due the prolongation of the war. To that is due the belief that if Germany succeeds world dominfon on militaristic lines will follow. To that is due the fact that every neutral nation in Europe is consequently on a war footing, , To that is due the great appropriations being made in Washington for the friend, of whom Betsy Prig finally said: "I don't believe there is any sich person." : Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of OCabbages and Kings." army and the navy, K-/is not strange, therefore, the Germans themselves -- that Ger- GUTENBERG. Johann Guttenberg, who invented the art of printing, included the single-column half tone cpt which leaves wo much to the imagination of the reader, was a native of Ger- many. While yet a child he learned to speak the German language with machine-gun precision, seldom get- ting a verb in the wrong pew or mis- pronouncing any of the words. Like all inventors, Gutenberg was constantly beset by grief and flint- hearted creditors, and for several years did not venture qut except af- ter dark. While thus engaged he was sued for breach of promise by an agrieved young lady who gave his love letters to the newspapers, which printed them from type furnished by Gutenberg, the smallest letters be- ing of the size generally used in a sale bill. When the jury read the love lettérs.and took an unbiased look at the plaintiff, they "decided that Gutenberg had been punished enough and refused to criple his proud spirit with the matrimonial yoke. And yet there are people who would abolish the jury system! . 'When Gutenberg began to discov- er printing he. had no working mod- els to go by. He was not-even.able to steal somebody's patent and tie up the owner in the courts for nine- ty-nine years, which is one of the most soothing forms of modern litigation. But Gutenberg was a good speller and could repeat the al- phabet lying down or standing up, and before long he came out with a font of wood type which could be mand Lavergne is going to New Zea- fH deal ofi kissing of admirals of his bat- HH tle fleet before he can open the seal he should be congratulated on thel} ) \ As retaliation for German atroci-|Ji} better than shooting German prison-| HH! New Zealand has adopted conscrip- 1 * for $1.00. ( Any Straw Hat in the Store Sailors, soft rims, etc. ( : 3 3 The Best Panama Hat in the Store for $5.00. per pair. Palm Beach Trousers Sizes 31 to 38 waist, $4.00 White Shoes for Street Wear Oxfords or Bals, rubber soles and heels.. English |, models, special value, $3.00 per pair. Sport Shirts A beafity for $1.00 New Two Way Collar Wash Ties, 2 for 25c. Two Piece Outing Suits Grey mixed cheviot, Norfolk style, $12.00 Underwear Combination style, all styles, special value $1.00 per suit. Genuine Homespuns Rich greys, splendidly tail- ored. for $15.00. mans that have become American citizens, who remain at home, who have gone into exile -- should be discussing the need for complete emancipation for Germany itself from the system of government now prevailing. Dr, Roesemier thinks it will be a long struggle after the war before the Hohenzollerns can be over- thrown and before the arrogant class system which dominates the nation can be destroyed. He be- lieves that Germany may be beaten in the war, but gives no hope for im- mediate reform within, This means that all the world after the war will have to be on guard. WHAT HUGHES WOULD DO. New York Herald, Mr. Hughes was not reluctant to say what he would do as president in other matters in which he eriti- cised Mr. Wilson. He would have recognized Huerta; he would have had American ships rescue Ameri- cans at Tampico Who were in peril, without leaving it to German and British ships to do; he would have had no such man as Josephus Dan- jels in the cabinet, but he did not read with thé naked eye at a dis- tance of one mile. His invention, however, did not take. He lived in a superstitious age, and was at once accused of being & witch, which he denied in letters 'one. foot and six inches in height. About this time | he sank into debt up to the double! cowlick which he was accustomed to wear looped over his left eye, and became co despondent that he was about ready to give up newspaper | work entirely. Gutenberg's wood type did not stand up under the sledge which he used in place of a cylinder press, and | he then invented metal type. In the | spring of 1450 he printed the Bible, | including the unpremenitated swal- | lowing of the prophet Jonah, after | which he was sued by his partner | and left without enough ready mon-| ey to buy 2 haircut. His life at] this period was very sad. | Johann Gutenberg was a patient, | persevering man, much . given to| thought and heavy woolen under- wear, and he would have accom- plished more it he had not been so fully occupied in dodging promis- SOry notes, Gutenberg had all of the. ¢roubles of the printer except the dilinquent subscriber sand if that had been added to his lot he would probably have died earlier and with much more satisfaction. ] Rippling Rhymes If calm and foot afd old red ter. Discourse, bricks will get y patient wife, and baw, . make the dishes soft drink fountains d's mountains. KEEPING COOL mer heat is blister'n, you'll patronize the brook, the village pump and cistern, For tangle- there's nothing better, this mighty nation, but not of perspiration. by you be never treated, for i.» there will be strife, and forty kind kean't be cool when angry dames "battle; you can't be cool white while sum- babbling cool you'd feel and look, ink and bugjuice make vou hotter; t light and pleasant things, discuss talk much of cabbages and kings, Let such a theme as politics arguing. and throwing ou overheated. Be gentle with your say she is a darling; if you get cross - rattle. Be urn on the FAS .| close " |Sheik's Island and was only saved by 88 a drink, than undiluted wa- say whom he would have; he would have made Germany understand that she would be held to striot ac- countability in the Lusitania matter in advance and he would have so held her; he would have a large standing army, instead of calling na- tional guardsmen away {rom their homes to da patrol duty against ban- dits; he would as president sup- port the policy of protection; he would build up the merchant marine | without putting the government into competition with private capital." DROWNING BOY SAVED. Cornwall Man Pluckily Pulls Lad Out of Canal. Cornwall, Ont., Aug. 5--W. V. Boyd, manager of the Canadian Cot- tons, Limited, made a brave rescue. Two young lads were going along the bank when one of them, the ten- year-old son of Maurice Lavigne, East Cornwall, returning home after delivering his father's dinner, fell in- to the canal. Seeing the danger the lad was in, Mr. Boyd rushed to the coping and jumped in just in the nick of time to rescue him from drowning. After the boy was safe Mr. Boyd was assisted out by some men. Lorenzo McDonald, son of W. J. McDonald, Mille Roches, aldo had a call from drowning: near a number of boys shoving out a log to him. He was taken out in an ex- hausted condition. . - At Cochrane, Ont, the official death list of the fire was announced on Friday night as 425. ---- THE JINGLE OF the IC a glass of Sex siitindy good tose Our Own Spegial Blend makes perfect Iced Tea and the price the same as always. Pa New Prices August 1, 1916 The following prices for Ford cars will be effective on and after August 1st, 1916. Chassis .. .. .. $450.00 Runabout. . .. .. 475.00 Touring Car .. .. 495.00 Coupelet .. .. . .. 695.00 Town Car ... =. . .. 780.00 Sedan .. ... ... 890.00 f.o.b. Ford, Ontario These prices are positively guaranteed against any reduction before August 1st, 1947, but there is no guarantee against an advance in price at any time. ANGROV Ford Kingston a BROS. lers Weight? Yes! Wait? No! ean AAA A ~ Pepsin For full information call or write. to heat the homes and cook the food of the people of this com- munity. Our Coal has won its place on its merit alone. L We know it will please its - CRAWFORD Foot of Queen strect > Phone 9, In contemplating What he has done for others, the average man is 5;