"surely won distinction. es SASSER 0 ----. eth THEN] L @. BIMOtt ....cec.- A Guid .... and sesrevenasensensse : SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally Béition) Hv in oity .. Fo pula baal i 0 . nd States whe, leeniation of THE BRITISH is authenticated by the ABO. Audit Bureau of Circulations CANADIANS IN ACTION. Frederick Palmer gives a graphic description of the advance of the British on the Somme, and especially of "the most dramatic and picture- sque battle" which was fought on the 15th 'of this month by the Canadians. Palmer's is a faithful pen, and he chronicles unerringly the impres- sions he receives in the presence of great danger and amid scenes and ac- tivities which would distract the av- erage Individual. It was the "tank," he saye, that completed the wonder- - ful business of the day, and in one of These "tanks" he ambled across a large section of the field after the smoke of battle had passed away. He had, therefore, a personal experience of the most exciting kind. Jt was the most cosmopolitan throng he had ever encountered, these so-called Britishers, and made up of the representatives of all the provinces of Canada, and of all the cities, and inclyded a few Ameri- cans, who had enlisted with the hope of getting into the big game, and were not disappointed. In rain, un- der the hottest of shell fire, with a nerve and steadiness that were sup- berb, and a heroism, too, that chal- lenged. admiration, the "Byng Boys" (because under the command of Gen. Byng) forced back the enemy again and again. !'More than once," says Palmer, "facing counter- attacks, the British have gone out to meet the German charges in the open with the bayonet, and the Germans have done the same. All past records in fergcity of fighting seem to have been surpassed during the latest British advance. So freely was life given, d do wonderful was the courage shown on both sides, that the whole thing seems unreal to the spectator." There you have in a few express. ive words the manner in which the Canadians excelled themselves. At "Julien and St. Eloi they had ; The late Lord Kitchener Bad looked into the future, had seen what was necessary in order to win the day, and begun the preparations, the fruits of which are being seen this day. The Col- _onials had been great fighters. They hye, setting up, the train- , that makes them soldiers, and while the world achievements. ---------------- Victoria School last year 175 re consumed. In the te only 125. tons It is for the prop- of the School Board into this matter and put| d to a very apparent waste of benefit quite as much. by the completion of the Canal, drags its improvements. here is no hurry ini advancing them By can wait until after r. Why? "The Brain of the went ma @ transshipped to the seaboard, and the sea to Britain. The de- of the west, and the de- of a larger area each year to production of grain, will neces- le greater transportation facili- and if they are not provided in the grain will follow. other than the St. Lawrence people in parliament and in the pub- lic departments. Kingston has one of the national harbors, and they are designated thus because they, have] 'been recognized as filling a plan and purpose in the development of na- tional interests. A splendid begin-| ning was made. . The decision was| reached to Jmprove the harbor and| make it; for national reasons, what it ought to be. There was to be a causeway, (now approaching ecom- pletion), new and commodious, wharves below it, an elevator cap- able of holding a million bushels of| grain, dredging which would make the approaches to the wharves and elevator safe, and a depth of water in the inner harbor in which large boats could ride at anchor. Because a war takes place nation- al enterprise in the way of improving the harbors of the country must sto Inferentially shipping and transportation must cease or con- tract and national energy fail of its purpose., Is that the government's jdea or policy generally? Or is it the government's id€a and policy to- wards Kingston only? On dit that the Germans will be more desperate or frightful in the future than in the past, and in con- nection with the war. Can'they be more fiendish or more ferocious ? NEW BRUNSWICK ELECTION. The government candidates in Carleton County, N. B.,, Hon. F. B. Smith, and W. B. Sutton, one filling the place of a member of the gov- ernment who had to resign on ac- count of "exposures, and the other filling the seat of a member who re- signed in order to accept a public office, have been elected, and the conservative party is entitled to all the comfort it can get out of this fact. The Whig has quoted what an independent paper in Chatham has said with regard to the policy of New Brunswick. ' The atmosphere is putrid. The government has been steeped in corruption. Nothing can save it. A couple of bye-elections can only stave off the inevitable for a short time, a few weeks perhaps at most. Then a crisis will preceed the fall. Four years ago the conservatives won a great triumph in the province. They carried it with a sweep. Little was left of the liberal party. It was, for the time being, wiped out. Later charges were preferred against the premier, Hon. J. K. Flemming, charges of tracking as a public man with the contractors and with receiving moneys corruptly. A ju- dicial commission investigated the facts, Some of the charges were not sustained. Enough of them were, Rowever, to drive the premfér into political exile. Protesting his inno- cense, he has latterly assumed to force his way into public life, and he has accepted the nomination for the Commons in Carleton County in opposition td F. B. Carvell, who now ropresents the county. He has been campaigning in it in connection with the local elections, and feeling his way, as it were, for an election on his own account later on. While. the bye-elections were pro- ceeding new scandals were exploit ed. H. M. Blair, formerly the dep- uty minister of public/ works, "ap- peared in thb constituency and charged that railway contractors had to gpy blood monéy before they éould collect from the province the amount that was owing to them for work in connection with the Valley railway. This charge was support- ed by affidavits from the contractors, who say that the prenfier knew about the transaction. Mr. Blair, gave "the names of the persons to whom they paid - the blood money and the amount of it. There was also pro- duced a photographic copy of the cheque which was given to the pub- lisher of the Fredericton Gleaner, and for services as a go-between. The revelation does not seem to have created vey much of a sensa- tion. No charge, however serious, can shock the people of New Bruns- wick under the circumstances. The Chatham World's indictment stands. It is that the air stinks from the scandals of the government. It is only a question of time until this government goes down in disgrace. EDITORIAL NOTES. The School Board has sixty-policies covering an insurance of $100,000} or mdre on its tem schools. One would think the Board 'was running an insurance office, and that its sec- pour day. Mr. Hughes is the champ- | jon of that independence of mind which "deplores the abdication of moral authority," in the action of Congress. - The Engineer, a British technical | paper, depreciates the use of the] £ word disasfer in connection with the bridge accident.. The first mishap was the result of a defect in the | the government. The second mishap was the! high, hi colonel design. result of a defective casting, "whic was no part of the bridge structure." | oe THE DAILY BRTMSH WHIG, implement |'Wo Pe eee British Columbia has pledged him- self to the utter abolition of the patronage system in that province and it is to be hoped that he will his pledge to the letter. The Millionaire Grafter. (Guelph Mercury) 1t has been found that a United States colonel who has an - estate ing a pension of $25 a month from He didn't come as though; as a certain honorary who was cavorting around Ottawa a few moons ago. Perhaps the political croakers will| gee now give the question a rest. A professor told the Whig that for a week before the Columbia College opens in New York, every year, mem- | 5 bers of the staff are in daily attend- | Toron PRICES OF FOOD ARE STILL SOARING ed to Mail (Con.). o high prices for the necessaries ance, and for hours each day, coun-|o¢ life the government can never be selling with the students, "the; treshies," with regard to their classés| and books. Would that Queen's in- augurated a similar procedure for the sake of the studénts who come to college for the first time, { PUBLIC OPINION | Not Much Else Left. (Toronto Mail and Empire) About fhe most valuable surviv- ing right of Americans in. Mexico is the right to leave it. Fitting Answer. | (Ottawa Free Press) "After the bar, what?' asks preacher, and some answers will be to the effect that there's a bottle in the cellar. s Pertinent Question. (Toronto Globe) Death Valley is a more honorable | path for the manhood of Canada | than Shirker"s Alley. If you are of military age think it over. | Britain. Well, Why Not? (Toronto Star) Ottawa city is all flushed happiness because the municipality | finds that it can invest in a million | dollars worth of the new Govern- ment war loan Cost of Bread. (Hamilton ' Herald) It's unfortunate that a rise in the price of bread should come simultan- eously with the closing of the bars. However, there will now money to spare for bread. / Money and Fear. (London Advertiser) It is misery to be poor, but it must be worse to have $130,000 lying in safety deposit boxes and be afraid to touch it for fear detectives are on hand. That's what the New West- minster bank thieves suffer. A Good Move. (Brantford Expositor) Mr. Brewster, the new Premier of indifferent, Rat the public are suspicious. {long ago They are now so high Not Hon. Mr. Crothers, Minister of Labor, threatened action under the War Measures Act agaipst Windsor milkmen, who were holding milk prices two or three ~ cents a quart Higher than those prevailing in Lon- don, Stratford, and other Western Ontario towns. That was before the summer drought took full effect up- on pastures, and the milk yield. The War Measures Act gives the Ottawa Government plenty of power to in- tervene for the regulation of prices if {they can be proved to be artificially Proof of that is exceedingly raised : to obtain, however. For in- hard | stance, during the calendar year of | a | be more |W! 1915 retail food prices in Canada advanced about" 3 per cent. in Bri- tain 20 per cent., in the United States 4 per cent., in Australia 22 per cent, and Italy 22 per cent. That was not a bad showing. In 1916 prices stead- ily moved higher, and with the poor summer weather apd crop failures the advances lately have been rapid. There is no reason to believe that these have been more oppressive in Canada than in thé United States or Of course, in the last de- cade or two Canada had the unenvi- | able distinction of heading the list of {all countries with | creases in the cost of living. in the matter of in- ee i" NCSTON EVENTS] 26 YEARS ACO 11 not undertake to audit the books of the city next year unless he gets more pay. To-day was as beautiful a day as anyone could desire. A new lodge of the A.O.U.W. has been organized in the city. The King has authorized Surgeon- General Guy Carleten Jones, director of Canadian medical services, to wear the insignia of an officer of the le- gion of Honor, conferred by French President in recognition of valuable services. : Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Seall ng Wax ,of Cabbages and Kings." THE TOURIST The tourist is a hopeful biped whose sole mission in life is to feed currency to the wayside garage. A few years ago tourists few and far between, being con- fined largely to the expert but widely-busted tramp printer, who re- mained in town long enough to be- comé& thoroughly pickled, and then toured to the next stop on the brake rod of a poultry car. With the up- springing of the automobile, how- ever, our roads are deeply lined with a new kind of tourist, who travel am- ong strangers and pay the list price for red inner tubes. Since it has been discovered that the modern automobile can be run several thousand miles without any more expense than operating a short- line railroad, the practice of skip- ping from coast to coast in a wab- ble legged touring car has become a fixed habit. Most people would ra- ther ride in a new automobile carry- ing a pennant and a weak-lunged storage battery than jump on'a trans- continental flyer and inhale free cin- ders in a rapid and noiseless manner. Statistics prove that a man can drive his own automobile to either coast for less than it costs to buy a pri- vate car rigged up with a shower bath and brunette porter, unless a spark plug gives out. , One nice thing about a long auto- mobile tour is that the tourist gets a chance to meet a great many nice people and learns how the "govern- ment regulates the price of gasoline. We have one of the freest forms of government in the world, and when gasoline gets too high in one place, all a man has to do is to drive on to were 3 some point where it is a few cents higher. This tends to keep the tour- ist in a contented and amiable frame of mind, and also encourages the building of stone-front garages which are often mistaken for the hotel, oD You GET _ THE LINIMENT a2 AL. MATCHES awd (oul -- RASTER aud Corp CREAM - 2nd NEP Now | GaTin ET The practice 'of skipping from coast to coast in a wabble-le papi car has become a fixed habit. : The tourist does not need to take much of anything with him except a fev extra tubes of money. It is as- tonishing how fast money will ooze away from a tourist-who has never done anything to his own car except tile the wind-shield. But no man begrudges the money when he comes back with both lungs full of fresh air, an appetite like a wheat eleva- tor and a coat of tan thicker than a deep sea diver's. Best of all, every tourist is a good roads booster, and he is already pulling a lot of states out of the mud. ugh VACATIONERS I've been where countless people went for creation and repose, Few | at ! taught if anyone triculation. It ever, as one Board meeting, ture." nver where forty kinds of scads are rides and thinks Hke those. There rth $4,150,000, had been draw-|} E. Clark, city auditor, says he {JV the| = FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,1916. Bibbys Bibbys ve Selling | Agents in Kingston for the celebrated Limited Men of Today-- King Hat, prize $2.50 . The Great Borsalino, Young Men Want ade in Italy, price - $4.00 : - Swagger Hats in smart shapes, for young fellows who want dash in a hat. entirely new. _ " Bibbys Young Men's Suits. The Bud, 15.00 Classy Clothes | We call the attention of smart dressers to our new fall suits'and overcoats. ; The styles may He called extreme, be- cause they are extreme. Every idea or kink that's new is shown here, while the fabrics and colorings are ---- Bibbys Young Men's Overcoats The Belmont, $15 The Acton, $18.00 Made in Italy. ~ ) The Bryson $22.50 Y The Kenmore, $20 The Joffre, $15.00 The Broadway $18 The Piccadily, $20 SEAL Dainty Fall . Footwear "for Women es Never before have we been better pre- pared to serve you with stylish footwear than this present season. If we have the pleasure of showing you our new Fall Footwear, we know you will agree with us that our shoes are all we re- present them to bg both in Quality and Style. Luther. OLD MAIDS Are made to look like June brides by Batte the v er, 28 Ontario street, "On the Way te Barriefield." OPEN DAY AND NIGHT, FRUIT JARS Ss We Have the Best. Spices and Vinegar Pure and Fresh. Jar Rings, Corks and Parawax, at PICKERING'S 490 and 492 Princess St. Phone 530, Have You Tried GYPSUM WALL PLASTER It Saves Time JOHN M. PATRICK Sewing Machines, Um- brellas, Suit Cases, Trunks, repaired and refitted, Baws filed, Knives and Betssors Sharpened, Razors hohed. Al makes of fire- arms repairdd promptly, Locks repaired; Keys fitted. All makes of Lawn Mowers sharpened and repaired. 149 Sydenham Street A Al A Nl EW CLOVER HONEY ~ McLeod's REDDEN & CO. Phonon 20 ¥ ' Weight? Yes! Wait? No! LOOK INTO THE COAL MATTER BEFORE YOU BUY Just ask your, neighbors about o | | | They will teilou that our coal | is satistying -- our methods } | square == our service perfect.