PAGE FOUR - THE BRITISH WHIG Published Dally and Semi-Weekly Wy THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED, Guild Editor and Leman deri ; Managing-Director. A Telephonen: Business Office .... Editorial Rooms Job Office ....... SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) year, delivered in city year, if paid in advance .. year, by mail to rural o your, to United States (Semi-Weekly Edition) year, by mall, cash . $1.00 year, If wot paid in advance $1.50 year, to United States .¢ $1.60 Six and three months pro ratas MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Owen ..... -122 St. Peter St. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE F. C. Hoy . 1005 Traders Bank Bldg. UNITED STATES REPRE. V F.R.Nomthrup, 225 Fifth Ave; New York F.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n BMg., Chicago Attached Is one of the best job printing offices tn Canada, One One One Due One One One on of THE BRITISH enticated by the y A ; Audit Bureau of Circulations. "Castor oil is becoming scarce," says a newspaper headline. Cheers from the small boy and girl are quite in order. The Separate School Board, by electing all its trustees by acclama- tion, has set a good example for the City Council. i Two more Hun attackss against the Verdun front have been thrown back. Verdun should be a word of fearful significance to Germany af- ter the war. "Broke, but happy. Happy New Year!" is the cheerful salutation of the editor of the Belleville Intelli- gencer. We like to see a man come up smiling like that. The very fact that the Kaiser consents to negotiate with Trotzky is proof that he no longer believes he can conquer the world with the shining German sword. This is a great afternoon for the soldiers' kiddies. May God bless them, each and every one, and may they be as happy and fare as well on all the Christmas yet to be. During 1917 the C.P.R. built over 10,000 box cars at the Angus shops, Montreal, not to speak of those it ordered from outside. The company announces that even with this it could do' with more cars. The German Government has us| pended for three days the publica- tion of The . Vorwaerts, of Berlin, | for eriticizing the food admimistra- tion. The editor 0" zht to be getting pretty well used to it by this time. | The Dominion Railway Commis- slon has consented to allow the; rallways to increase their freight rates. About the only thing left in this topsy-turvy .world that hasn't advanced in price is the subscription rate of this great family journal. ! The Germans make use of every possible means to win the war for them. Even the dog is called upon to rendér war-time service. German urier dogs are in very general use | asp means of communication be- tween different battalions and regi- ments. i A Christian Science relief com- mittee has done excellent work atl Halifax. A number of Scientists, re- | pair jt presenting the First Church of coal, but wastes your money. Christ, Scientist, 'in Boston, hasten- od to Halifax in a special train plentifully supplied with cash and tons of food and clothing. Electric canoes .are becominf very popular on the Thames and other English rivers. They have many advantages over the gasoline- driven launch, as they are silent and free from vibration. A canoe equipped with a thirty cell battery has a capacity for one day's run. "Keep Ontario fish at home," ad- vises the Torento Mail and Empire. But_supposing the fish in Kingston harbor won't stay at home, but pre- fer pay a friendly visit to their fellows who. rest their fins against the Cape Vincent breakwater or gambol about the New York Central dock at Clayton, what aréeayou go- ing to do about it? ! Camouflage the newest word to be in A into the English language, is derived from the Xe % vu | shakes down a furnace: French word '"'camoufiet," measing smoke puffed in the face of a sleep- ing person. [| Camouflage means mili- tary mystification, the disguising of ships, gurs dnd military positions so that they iuay escape the enemy's observation. Thus ships are no longer painted battleship grey, but he shape of a bow painted near the stern in order to deceive .the submarine commander as to 6 the direction in which the vessel is cravelling. Rp ---- LEAVE IT TO LABOR, A vacancy at the City Council board, caused by. the resignation of Ald. G., W,. Bell, a representative of St. Lawrence ward, was never filled. If the mayor and aldermen are re- turned by acclamation, as the great majority of the people desire, who will be Ald. Bell's'successor? Would it not be a gracious and deserving tri- bute to labqr .to allow this seat to bé filled by one of its representa- tives? The Trades and Labor Council has long 'wished to have a voice in municipal affairs. The workingman is entitled to partjcipation in a coun: cil which controls the expenditure of the taxes he so largely pays. Rather than bring on a party contest, sup- pose hoth sides leave it to labor te agree upon a man to stand as their representative? have THE U<BOATS' FAILURE. . Britain is yet far from starvation. The submarine sinkings are decreas- ing while foreign trade is increas- ing. Germany's threat to starve the Mother Country into submission is now seen to be impossible. Ration- ing prevails as in most other war- ridden lands, and the inability to procure abundant supplies is per- haps due more tg lack of transporta- tion than to actual lack of food. The thoroughness characteristic of the British will carry them through this crisis. 'Theatres, halls and other public buildings in both England and Scotland are packed to the very roof with reserve stores of wheat. Meanwhile her foreign trade shows great activity, despite the utmost ef- forts of the enemy to destroy it. The official figures for the three months ending Nov. 30th have just been made public. British imports for. September, 1917, amounted -to £86,299,668; October, £94,260,963; November, £109,789,023. For the corresponding months of 1916 the import figures were: September, £77,440,188; October, £81,159,873; November, £88,934,806. Compari- son of export figures for the same three months shows a satisfactory jncrease in the total. The future will probably show still greater in- creases, due to the fact that the sub- marine menace is now being better counteracted and that England has her shipbuilding situation well in hand. The German U-boat cam- paign has failed to put Great Bri- tain out of business, as von Tirpite boastfully declared it would. CONSERVING THE COAL. Governments of Allied © countries are to-day insistently calling upon their peoples to save. thrift and 'economy js very appitent and very great: "We are conserving our food supplies to a fertain extent, but what of our coal supplies? The shortage in fuel, for which we in Ontario are dependent on the United States, is very marked. The duty of every citizen, therefore, lies in mak- ing a ton of coal go as far as possible. The following editorial from the Saturday Evening Post should be read with care by every man who "We need in the next twelve months a hundred million tons more coal than we produced during the last tweve months Production may be increased by fifty million tons. The other fifty million tons must be saved. "This is a war of industrial pro- duction, and that means coal, It is worth fabulous prices in France and Italy now. For: winning the war a shoveful of coal counts for as much as a loaf of wheat bread, * "We have always burned coal ex- travagantly. In factories and houses defective appliances and careless stoking waste millions of tons. "A furpace or stove. without pro- per dampers will consume twice the coal in a strong wind, with no more Dampers cost little. Look to If your furnace is out of re- not only wastes the nation's them "In office buildings, apartments and houses our custom is to keep up a roaring fire, and then moderate the temperature by opening the win- dows. Reasonably careful stoking alone will save millions of tons. Look at the ashes. Through worn grates or defective combustion you ma throwing away a lot of slightly burn- ed fuel, "We have got to save coal and many other things. There simply is not enough to go round for the old free-and-easy peace programme and the new war programme. The peo- ple we know, are more than ready to do all the situation demands.' "They require only inteliigent, au- Shetitative direction as to just what "The Government asked them, with specific directions, to save food; and to save coal. They They will meet every the = war lays upon now will do that. requirement them." in the theory that God helps those who help themselves. Ni the young man mixes old _ rye th the wild oats he sows he is The neéd' for}. y be} they are doing it. The Government : asks Lazy men evidently don't believe | A Think Tank. (Ottawa Cltizen) Still, remember that the tank that had most to do with the British ad- vance was the think tank on Byng's shoulders Smt A Remarkable Man. (Woodstock: Sentinel-Review ) The late Joseph Hobson, civil en- gineer, who died in Hamilton - the other day, iffust have been a remark- able man. Not only did he design the St. Clair Tunnel and several not- able bridges, but he refuséd a knight- hood. Support the Government. (Belleville . Intelligencer) Let us not forget that merely el- ecting a. Union" Government does not solve all the troubles of the war--- that Government to properly repre- sent the people must have fair and honest support from the people, and it will be a blessiiig instead of a! 'hardship te send our political clothes | to the cleaners until after the war. What We Are Fighting For. (Galt Reporter) John R. Rathom, editor of the Pro- vidence Journal, in an address before the Canadian Club of-New York, said: "What is Great. Britain fighting for? Because she.realizes that she is fac-| ing the probable loss of everything! she loves, her spiritual, religious and | material storehousés, her liberty, her lgw, and her language." Yes; this| is what Britain and the Empire are fighting for and what Canada has | pledged herself anew to preserve. Pro and Con . Puck { In these days of soaring prices only the price of liberty had not changed. It is the same to-day as it was in '61. Many a girl who enjoys fooling with a soldier's rifle couldn't score 16 in the kitchen range. In a small town it is harder for a grass widow to live above suspicion than under a.bowling alley. . It is much better to think proudly of what -we are going to do to-mor- row---than to dwell fondly on what we have done to-day. Selling the truth in these days is Just as essential as telling the truth. A war garden is a place where people cultivate some thought and a whole lot of blisters. Only a Wesleyan. Here is one out of The Echo: The Swedish drill instructor was putting the men through it, and while the younger ones seemed to get on all right, one or two -of the older men tookéd- a bit puffed. At last one man, who had been younger in his day, told the. ipgtructor that he was too old for that sort of practice. 'But how old are you?" Forty-one next month," was the reply. "Why!" exclaimed the instructor, "the Ro- mans used to do this sort of exer- vice at the age of sixty." "Perhaps they did," said the perspiring pri- vate; "but I'm not a Roman; I'm a Wesleyan." SPREAD DEATH BY WHOLESALE Plot to Poison Red Cross Bandages is Un- earthed. Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 28.--A plot to poison Red Cross bandages and spread wholesale death anmiong the soldiers of America and 'her Allies has been exposed and frustrated here. / Revelations of "the conspiracy were made to-day when it became known the Department of Justice agents were hunting the perpetrat- ors of the deed. Three thousand four hundred surgical dressings, rolled by patrio- tic, women in Toledo, were infected with a mysterious greenish poison while in transit between Toledo and Cleveland. Immediately every one of the 3,400 bandages was burned. They were destroyed secretly in the rear of the Red Cross warehouse here. Every effort was made to keep the matter secret, and it was success- ful until today. Officials of the lake division of the Red Cross refused to | discuss the poisoned bandages, but the anthoritative vinformation was obtained that the bandages . 'had been destroyed, and that, Govern- ment agents, aided by 'only slender clews, were trying to solve the my- stery. The poisoned bandages were. part of the periodical shipments receiv- ed at the local headquarters of the lake division from Red Cross head- quarters. in other cities in the divi- gion, which comprises Ohio, Indiana | and Kentucky. The box of bandages arrived here from the Toledo chapter last week and were taken to the warehouse. While women were examining the huge quantity of surgical dressings as to specifications, a dark greenish substance was noticed on one of them. Investigation showed' that all of the bandages in«he box had been treated with poison. MONEY TO SUPPORT FOREIGN MISSIONS Over Twenty Million Dellars Subscribed to Carry on Work. New York, Dec. 28.--Foreign Mis- | sions" in the United States and Can- ada received - total subscriptions of $20,407,861 in 1917, of which $189,- 166,864 was from the United States and $1,240,997 from Canada, according to a report by the Foreign Missions Conference of North Am- erica, made public here. Nineteen organizations in Canada and 178 jn the United States are represented in the figures. While the combined total is almost exactly that of a year ago, the figures shew that Canada, regardless of the burdens of war, subscribed approximately $100,000 more than a year ago, while the United States contributed the same amount less. There are at work in the mission lands of Asia, Africa and Oceanica," the report continues, "8,576 mis- sionaries from the United States, and 782 from Canada. The native Rippling Rhymes Jay walkers a thing unholy, toot my horn at mob are bossing. lands right i rushes o'er they would like ST WAH, wander, and When th gin', the people cry, ers suffer!" come up and pinch me. erring; the motorist all blame is bearing. The walkers zigzag here and yonder, and break all bylaws as they ey get beneath a wagon because of ziggin' and of zag- "Let' shang the chuffer, who thils makes worthy walk- JAY WALKERS add. to our vexations; they violate all regulations; in eity streets and country byways they laugh to scorn the rules of highways. ging in my motor, voter, some chuckle-headed human being being, who goes around with eyes unseeing. As | go chug- - oft run down and squash some I know that speed's 80 I drive carefully and slowly, and every crossing, where traffic cops the But little profit is there in it, for in - a sad and fateful minute the square-head rushes, in a hurry, from back of yonder standing surrey, and the path before me; a dizzy sickness e, as my big car climbs up his person, and people gather round me, cursin'. They tell how to lynch me, while brassbound cops The man on foot is never --WALT MASON. a THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN By GENE BYRNES No! T pretty sure to raise a disturb aX USE GARLIC , . BECALSE OFFENSIVE 3 \ cusomiRs' NEVER ) TS | candy shop to spend anywhere from THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1917. Bibbys We. 7s The Weather for Woollens ave the Goods PURE WOOL SWEATERS and PURE WOOL GLOVES PURE WOOL FLANNEL SHIRTS SEE BIBBYS ENGLISH STORM ULSTERS rn Bibbys SWEATER COATS | PURE WOOL SOCKS PURE WOOL NECKSCARFS SOLDIERS' © WOOLLEN KHAKI SHIRTS PENMAN"S PURE WOOL UNDERWEAR Limited WOOL AVIATION CAPS. BRITANNIA PURE WOOL UNDERWEAR SEE BIBBYS WORKING MEN'S FUR LINED JACKETS, at $6.75 to $10.00. ni staff working with these North American missionaries number 40,- 502. In addition, there are 1,559 American and 104 Canadian mis- sionaries at work in Latin America and 250 in certain European coup- tries. There are 498 physicians, in- cluding 167 women, at work in '68 hospitals, and 537 dispensaries in areas where medical need is the greatest. More than 1,100,000 com- municants are related to the grow- ing churches in the various lands which - these missionaries from North America are helping to or-| ganize and develop." | CIVIL WAR ECONOMIES. Present Generation Has No. Concep- tion of Self-denial.' Let any persons who think wheat- less and meatless days aré a hard- ship listen to the venerable men and women whose memory takes them baek to the Civil War. One of them, who 'was -a resident of a town in Central New York, re- calls that even in well-to-do families genuine coffee was unknown for a long time. Roasted barley, parched corn, chicory roots and even dande- lion roots, dried and roasted, were used as coffee substitutes. White or granulated sugar were also a rarity, and only on the table [for company. Brown sugar and even oldfashioned black molasses, were used for sweetening. Honey, apple butter, fruit jams and even lard were used as substitutes for butter. Butter was scarce and dear, for those times, and bread and molass- es, bread and honey, and even bread and ham fat were considered plenty good enough for all but the very old people. In those days nearly every family -in-town kept a cow. Those who didn't, as a rule, went without milk. The papers of that day emphasized the fact that coffee and tea were more nutritious when used without milk. In those days theré were no mov- ies or cheap amusements of any kind, picture postal cards were un- known and children didn't stop in a a nickle to a quarter a day. A cnild thought himself lucky if he had con- triveds to get possession of a penny. The fact is, the present generation has no conception of the hard times brought on by the Civil War in the North--to say nothing of the abject misery and want that prevailed in the South. A Distinguished Doubles. Winston Churchill has a double, who, when last heard of, was a waiter in. a Plymouth hotel, while Lord Charles Beresford also possess- es a double in a waiter who is his exact counterpart. As a matter of fact, 'we probably all have doubles somewhere or other. King Edward had quite a number, and it has been said that the resemblance was en- couraged, and that the occasional cheering and playing of the Nationa) Anthem were enjoyed immensely. King George and the ex-Czar of Russia are much alike, and there is a gentleman in Massachusetts who is exactly like Col. Roosevelt, eyen to the teeth and the smile. So clase was the resemblance and the smile, Mr. Gerald Du Maurier, the popular actor, and the late Sir Lawrence Al- ma-Tadema, that at a dinner party one night a lady addressed Du Maur- fer as "Sir Alma." assured him that he was "really a bit like that Mr. Du Maurier, as people make out.""--Tit-Bits.. Coal is being delivered to Brant- ford citizens in quarter-ton lots, 100 tons having beem received yesterday for the civic fuel centre, which had more than 100 applications . since and captured The Chinese defeated the Bgishe-| Harbin. BISURAT GNESIA FOR DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION Heartburn, 1 ng, - Sour MStom- ach, Gas in Stomach, etc, take a tea- spoonful of Bisurated Magnesia in a half glass of hot water after eating. 1g safe, pleasant and farmless to use and gives almost instant relief from all forms of stomach disorder Sold by druggists everywhere Fruit for the Soldiers. Interesting, figures as to amount of fruit to be sent to ada's convalescent soldiers in the Jospitals overseas, by the Ontario overnment, are given in the 7latest issue of The Fruit Branch Circular. Despite the great shortage of all fruits in Ontario, the Government has decided to send this year, about 2,000,008 pounds, of which 800.000 pounds will consist of canned fruits and jams. The consignment is being put up at the Vineland Experiment Station, Peaches will form the heav- iest pack, with a considerable quan- tity of plums and pears as well. , This shipment wil be about 26 per cent, in excess of last year's and is due to the increased needs in Great Britain and France, The remainder of the shipment, some 1,200,000 pounds, or boxes, will be of apples and will be largely put up by tle Fruit Branch in Eastern Ontario. Owlog to the embargo on all fresh fruit, these shipments will very likely constitute the only Canadian fruit to be sent overseas, the Can- Canadian Editor Tries Again, "I"learn that the National News is about to be revived," says the Liver- pool Post correspondent. "It pre- sents an example of audacity, for the running of a Sunday paper in war time is no light task. When it ended in June, possibly those who had ap- preciated its rather brilliant stand- ard of writing hardly believed in its promised resurrection. The Cana- dian' editor, Mr. De Beck, has plenty of persistent enterprise behind his gold pincenez and under his high forehead." This enterprising Cana- dian is endeavoring to give a Sunday paper to London. Mother Knew Papa. Little Tommy, who is of rather an enquiring turn of mind, and who had been gazing at his father's somewhat rosy countenance for some time at last said: "Papa, what makes your face and nose so dre'fly red?" "The east wind, of course," an- swered papa, rather hastily. "Do not talk so much, Thomas, and pass me the beer." It was then that a voice came from the other end of. the table in' dulcet tones, saying: "Tommy, dear, pass your papa the east wind, and be careful not to spill it on the. clean cloth." NS Dutch Bulbs Hyacinths-- Narcissus-- Daffodils-- Tulips-- DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE 185 Princess Street. Phone 343. ED 7) | NAA Am ang ' 27,000 KIDNEY #| PILLS IN | TABLE WATERS White Rock Poland Tally-Ho Vichy Celestine Imported Dry Ginger Ale Imported Ginger Beer Gurd's Ginger Ale Gurd's Soda Water. Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 and 000,