Ns Bh, Admiral' Dewey, Count: Zep- L Americans by James H. Poo, PAGE EIGHT THE BRITISH WHIG SATH YBAR. ve a) Ti) Een rN wl (i Published Daily and Semi-Weekiy bw» Tine BRITISH WH PUBLISHING CO. LIMITED, Guild . Eattor and Leman A, . Managing-Director. Telephones: Business Office torial Rooms ob BUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) year, ad in eity ..... year, if paid in advance . 3 year, by 'mail to rural offices to United States (Bemi-Weekly Edition) year, by mall, cask year, If not paid on advance $1.50 year, to United States . 1.60 x and three months pro rata. n DONT « REPRESE NIATIVE . Bruce Owen . 123 ter St TORING oe ot One Tt 5 Traders Ba k Bldg. A OTA: 3 REPRESENT ATIVE: 'R.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York FR Northrup, 1510 Ass' n "Hdg., Chicago Attached 8 ame of the best est job printing offices in Canada. ._The cirenintion of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ARC Audit Burean of Circulations. Just as sensible to write it N.Y, as Xmas. Tho open-faced pie conservation diet. living in a world is the latest We are to-day of rapid changes. There are big dents in the Kais- er's "iron fist" and "shining sword." new [First Sea Lord But then Nelson Britain's wears a monocle. had only one eye. Russia makes us think of circus day. You never could k eye on all three rings at once. Ruts are py as hard on men as on automobile tires. Stay in long enough and yeu'll have a blow-out, Many of the afty sidewalks are very dangerous owing to their icy condition. Is sand not available this year? > ------------- a - - Help win the war by eliminating waste of matepials, 'supplies and time, and by cutting out uselgss ex- penditures. Belshazzar's hall-at Babylon has been found by German. diggers. Wonder if they saw the handwriting on the wall? The first Important reprisal raid made by British airmen on Germany | was extremely suceessful. May the next one reach the Kaiser "himself. i tilled. +tér substitutes, the family 'of a soldier suffer for want of anything we can supply. 5. We pledge ourselves "to give preference to the soldier who went and did his duty over the man of military age and fitness who did not 20. NO NEED OF ANY FUSS, One of the ¥tilities commissioners thinks that there was not enough fuss created by the newspapers over the advent #f-Hydro-electric Commission power into Kingston. Well, the Whig remarked before the Trent power was turned on here that there was no need of any fuss, because John M, Campbell gave Kingston water power a year ahead of Sir Adam Beck's Commission. Furthermore it fas not heard of even a meeting of the Util ties Commission being held on that eventful 13th day of December to en- thuse over the turning on of the cur- rent from the Trent. Hydro-electrie Commission power will no doubt give Kingston a great boost, but the peo- ple had to wait so long for it that they lost the power of enthusing. Small towns immediately west of here had Seymour power for some time and wot until] the Beck Com- mission bought out the Seymour in- terests: was Kingston connected -up with this water power, A STUDY OF PASSENGERS, In travelling on a train have you noticed the ease with which K some passengers get seats «and the diffi- culties others (meet 'with? Some persons will enter a car mearly full of people and be seated in a jiffy, while others will pass up and down the aisle in a fruitless hunt for a sitting and finally have to seek the aid of trainmen. The wise passen- ger sizes up a car as he enters, and if it is pretty full he slips into the first "vacant sitting. The fussy passenger goes through .the car, passing aXvacant spot here and there, ! in the hope of securing a choicer lo- cation, and when this does net ap- pear a return trip is made, and the few formerly vacant seats are found The unobservant passenger follows the course of the fussy one. The timid passenger looks longing- ly at a 'double or single seat which is occupied by one person, and can- not summon up enough nerve to re- quest a portion of the upholstered chair hoggishly monopolized by the one who has paid for only one sit- ting. It Is interesting to watch people entering a car and adjusting themselves to the conditions that' confront them. The ones who get seated quickly and quietly delight the eye of the critical traveller. BUTTER SUBSTITUTES. Not only is oleomargarine priced. at 'a much higher rate in Canada than in the United States or England, but it is scarcely obtainable at all in Kings- ton. Only 'a few pounds have as yet been imported, and enquirers for it in local stores are told that there is none for sale. It would appear that the Fogd Controller's services right well be employed to remedy these two defects in a sérious food problem. Now that the use of oléomargarine is permitted in Canada it is important that the people should know some- thing ofits food talue. Prof. W, D. Haliburton, a celebrated British "wri« ter on foods, has made a study of but- His 'testimony is that all margarines made from beef fat, mutton fat and lard ofl and mixed For the second time Australia has voted against couscription. But Australia has furnished a' large quota of wolunteers 'who have writ-' ten their name large on the battle fields ot Europe. | A plot to poison Red Cross band- ages and spread wholesale death among the United States soldiers has been discovered and frustrated at Cleveland, Ohio. There is no lHmit to the deviltry of the Hun. Says Israel "Zangwill, the great Jewish author dnd Zionish leader: "Thirteen million Jews throughout 8 world look to-day to Jerusalem: | e Moly City restored. What | oul be more fitting than a Jewish | nation reborn after centuries of Jewish "travail?" {The year 1917 has witnessed the passing away of some hoted people. | with milk are as mutritious as genu~ ine butter." "When there is an addi- tionof genuine butter to give the de- sired taste it is diflicuit for «i but ex- perts to distinguish between mar garine and butter; but the important thing to réemcmber is that the best margarine is equal "in food value to the best butter. 'Cheaper grades of margarine, in which vegetable oils take the place of animal fats, may be perfectly wholesome, but they lack an important element which the animal fats supply, and to give them the food value of butter it is necessary to add beef drippings, cheese or bacon. THE HOTEL QUESTION, Hotel talk is always permissible no matter what to season may be. Any old time will do to make reflections upon Kingston's misfortune of net having a modern hostelry. The Can 'adian Courfer of Toronto has revived Among the celebrated dead might [the discussion by saying that Kings- be Mentiongd Col. Cody (Buffalo, velin, Sir Herbert Tree, Earl. Gray, Capt. George Guynemer, Auguste Rodin, Queen Liluokalani and bri Jameson. irancigfrmiviionst MULES OF CONDUCT: The following admirable pledges were prepared us a war creed for of North Carolina: 1. We pledge ourselves not te say oor do anything during this war which will weaken the hands of the Government, or which could give aid, comfort or SuteRragament to the enemy. 2. We pledge aefetives during |! this war to do promptly and cheer. 'fully all which our Government shall t "ask us within 'our power. '3. 'We pledge ourselves not to support any candidate for office whe does not whole-heartedly support our country's cause in this war. 'ton lias everything she needs but.a 'good hotel, and the Courier is just about right. But it is hardly right in. laying the blame upon the aldermen of this city. In the first place if.a grand hotel would be such a paying proposition in Kingston as is claim. ed it would be, how Js it that enough capital could never be raised without autee of a mortgage of $100,000 or more? There has been proposition after proposition submitted by pro- moters, but nothing ever resulted. as to the best site, practically been settled. What Kings practically "planted" modern hotels 4. We pledge ourselves not to let in those places. There's loads of | position in Bast Africa. seeking either a bonus or civic gaar- % For some time tifere was an argument | This matter has} wealthy and publicspirited men who THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1917. money in Kingston but the people do' not ew to invest in a proposition 'MUST MAKE ANOTHER ONE that they know little or nothing about, However with the continual! | CANADIAN closing up-ef hotels owing. to the tem. perance wave, Kingston may have tof get busy on the hotel proposition The Railway Commissioners by Their pretty, soon. When the war is over-- Recent "Action Have But Partially and that may be sooner than some Met the Situation, } people are figuring upon--there is Montreal, Dec. 28.--J. E. Dal- oing to be greater demand tha v rymple, viee-president of the Grand going & : id than ever, i unk Railway System, Interviewed for hotel accommodation everywhere, in regard to the decision of the Rail- irene way Commissioners in respect to in- HUNS DREAMED OF DIVIDING AFRICA || creasgéd freight and passenger fares, said:, "Copy of the decision of the | Board of Railway Commissioners in Aimed at Great Es Empire Across; Continent--Must Win War ta Realize Wish. RAILROADS NEED FURTHER RATE INCREASES, { the so-called fifteen per cent. ad- vanced rate cases was not received by | me until late, consequently I have not heen able to thoroughly study or ana- | lvze it. From a hasty perusal there, aided by the newspaper reports, it ap- In an apticle en- | pears that the board have, in the Political tmpor: | Eastern territory, given the railways tance of Cerman East Africa" the! substantial part of what they ap- Cologne Gazette. frankly confesses| plied for. The aplication of the that Germany has for years aimed at | principles of the Crow's Nest Pass the creation of a German wedge di-| agreement, will however, materially viding Africa from sea to sea {affect the result otherwise obtainable. Although Germany in 1911 [Tt is satisfactory that the advance in treaty. with .Frasuge abParentiy | passenger fares has been approved. made final renunciation of the idea| "The curtailment of the railways' of a great colonial empire she really| application in Western Canada, is aimediat the creation of.a Germano-| however, a great disappointment as, Belgian® economic area in the Congo | notwithstanding the general higher, Basin from the IndigfhOcean to the| hasis of passenger fares in British Atlantic, | Columbia and freight rates west of Then when the war commenced hftort Willjam, the expenses in that. Germany. was -*'deliberdbely exploits Ppartientar territory, have Inereased in Ing her incomparable _geoftaphical about the same proportion 'as else- | where and in my opinion it is unfor- tunate that the full measure of the railway - companies @applicatiop has not heen granted, particularly in re- London, Dec, titled "The Warld 29, The Cologne Gazette proceeds to! say this position constituted "a wedge | between the English claims to sole! domination in East:Africa and South! spect to class rates and rates on Africa--a dividing and immovable | grain, the latter being, of course, the wedge. As long as England did not. heaviest tonnage involved. This does let it come to a trial of strength not appear to me to be the time to the newspaper 'confesses great diffi-| attempt to adjust the 'existing dispar- qulties dbstruct Germany's colonial, jiv in rates between territories when war aims but "all our wishes will be! jv doing so, the revenues of the rail- tealized only if by our battles in] wars are restricted. Burope "we can compel England to! 'The railways admitted, when they recognize us as an equal colonjall grt made their application, many power apd to draw the necessary. con- ; months ago, that the suggested in- sequences in The future re-arrange-| crease in rates and fares would fall 'meut of Africa far.short of the then known abnor- "dopamine | mal increase in expenses, since which | time, syelj expenses have. further in- ° { creased iff leaps and bounds way be- y , vond what I, and 1 believe any other German Sought to Deceive French! lroad whan had any conception of. Peasants in Ingenious Way. * | "It remains to be seen whether the ESCAPED IN PRIEST'S GARB, Parls, Dec.. 15.--(By Mail.)--A | additional 'oxygen' furnished by. the young German newspaper man who | Railway Commissioners will enable made his escape from a prison camp the railways to Keep going in the] in the south of France has been cap-| existing efficient ~ manner, between: tured after two weeks' liberty. He now and the time when it will be nec-| was wearing a long black beard and | es sary to make a further application a long cloak like that worn by some for additional assistance. While it! of the French religious orders. He is of some satisfaction, yet it does not carried in hig hand a French prayer-i furnish much comfort to realize that book, on the flyleaf of which he had | in adwitting the fact of the railway written in perfect Frenci that he was, companies' contention with respect a priest on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, | to increased expeuvses, the hoard -as- and that hp had vowed to make the! sumes the responsibility of giving the Journey on foot and without speaking | railways less than they have asked a word. He then asked that he be| for. | given hread to eat and water to drink "As previously stated, the increases yand a lodging at night time. Thelin the expenses of operation have not German had shown this soiled pray-|been spasmodic. They are contin- perbook everywhere along his way,| uous, and of a multiplying character, and the simple-minded peasants, be-|so that the situation to-day, even af- leving him to be a priest, had fed|ter crediting the estimated additional and sheltered him without suspicion: revenue produced: by the decision of -- - the board, is probably even. worse Thirty Jewish men Bnd women than at the time: when we first made were executed by the Turkish army {our application, .last April, and it that surrendered Jerusalem to Gene- | logically follows, we, shall have to, ral Allenby. make another one without delay." Rippling Rhymes MADE AT HOME This year, oh, little girls and boys, there'll be no German Christmas toys. - The Germans- have so much to do, so many errands to pursue, they really haven't time to pause and carve out toys for Santa Claus. But there'll be teys, I have no doubt, for ev- egy little maid and scout, for all the children of this redlm, made from eur native slippery elm. ~ Why bought we toys across the seas? We have the draw- i knives and trees, and we can hew. from pine or bosch an elephant that is a peach, and we can shape a polar bear, ah. anaconda or a hare, a camel with an , upright back, a duck that ean emit a quack. We have the tools; we have the skill; why bought we toys "from Kaiser Bill? Now, watch me make a Noah's ark, and fit it out with hen. and shark, rhinocerous and kangaroo and every beast vou wish to view. This war, with all its woes and stings, has.taught us lots of nseful. things. We find that we can fashion traps we br 4 used to buy from foreign chaps; and that's a lesson, ttle ki u which: should be pasted in our lids. So watch me take my saw and ax, sad fashion toys as slick as wax; I'll carve you beasts of gorgeous «hapes, I'll hew out warthogs, bees and apes, and give yon, dea: ones, ample cause, to whoop with me for Santa Saws, 7 WALT THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN .By GENE BYRNES ~ Co NVERSATION PETWEEN MAN AND wire AFTER PiPTREN NEARS oF MARRIED 4 AND HE HAS DEEN ouT word for a MONTHS Ic Bibbys 4 The Weather for Woollens We Have the Goods PURE WOOL SWEATERS and SWEATER COATS PURE WOOL GLOVES PURE WOOL FLANNEL SHIRTS SEE BIBBYS ENGLISH STORM ULSTERS PURE WOOL SOCKS - PURE WOOL NECKSCARFS SOLDIERS' WOOLLEN KHAKI SHIRTS PENMAN"S PURE, WOOL UNDERWEAR WOOL AVIATION CAPS. BRITANNIA PURE WOOL UNDERWEAR SEE BIBBYS WORKING MEN'S FUR LINED JACKETS, at $6.75 to $10.00. "Donald for Limited The "Wilhelmina," 242 Mountnin St, Moutreal, Warm, comfortable rooms, rea- sonable rates. A home for tran. nicntn. Tel. Uptown 3346, Logical Dyspep- | sia Treatment Importance of Eliminating Acidity ond | Food Fermentation. During the past two or three«years| roports have frequently appéared in the | press concerning the remarkable value | of bisurated magnesia as an antacid: and jts ability to promote normal, heal- thy digestiin by preventing food fers mentation, and neutralizing dangerous stomach acid ha often been demon- strated, Until recently druggistg could | supply bisurated magnesia in powders ed form omly, trom one to two tea- spoonfuls of which, taken in a little water after meals, almost instantly stops all fermentation and neutral zes acid but sufferers from stomach trou ble will be glad to learn that, after a mg series of experiments, a jaa ng firm of manufacturing drugg g has now sucéeeded in producing a § ie a tablet which combines all the valuable antacid properties of the ordinary bis- | wrated magnesia iA a very form. This new/ tablet of bisurated magnesia can" ndw be obtained of; druggists everywhere and many physic. fans are already prescribing them in- stead of the powder form. CANADIAN ROADS ON WAY TO SCRAP HEAP Sir Donald Mann Anticipates Government Control--C. P. R. Has Money. Toronto, Dec, 29.---"It is natur- ally to be expected that the Union Government wil follow the example of the United States and place all the rallways under government control for the period of the war," said Sir Mann, vice-president of 'the Canadian Northern railway. { "It is the natural assumption. As conditions are at present, the rail- 'vay companies, other than the C,6 P, R., have no moneys to-provide for keeping up their lines to a high standard 0 efficiency. No moneys received by the C. N. R. from the government in recent years ' had been for utilization in such wbrk. "The G. T. lines ar similarly situ-! ated, though to a leds extent. The lump sum they received from the government dast session was all for past expenditures, not for better- ment anywhere. And without con- stant care of the lines by effective maintenance the roads cannot care the heavy business they now] should be handling. i ~~ *"Deterioration, too, is so rapid that. if the government does Mot come to; their rescue by one course or the other, the scrap heap is their inevi table destindtion." ------------------------------ Fame at the cost of dearly bought. convenient boner is Hyacinths-- Narcissus-- Daffodils-- Tulips-- DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE 185 Princess Street. Phone 343. AA i Stop, Look, Listen! AND BUY Our Christmas Goods Are Here. Come and buy carly and often : at . The Bon Marche Phone 1844. Cor. King & Earl Carpenter and Builder W. R. BILLENNESS Specienzing he Remodelimn huiidings s of » ESTIMATES tide EX PERIENCE) Address University Ave, Have Your Car Over- hauled and Stored for the Winter AT THE Central Garage, Bo, wars Heresrioter. TABLE WATERS White Rock Poland ATTENTION ! United Grocery 138 Princess St. First shipment of government fish to ive this week, 'Uall nnd get partieniacs. isa . Jarge shipme t of the hinese Vill Te TAL THIN WEEK: in's Pointe Fleur, reguine . price e, sale price. ... ", 23¢ Corn Starch, regular price Ow See our. window for Chrintman eandics, slockings and choe- lates. United Grocery. BEN LEE & CU, a | COAL CUSTOMERS Please Notice ! On and after frst . May Coal Seis willl or i | | BOOTH & co. Phone 133. JN W._PATRCK Knives and Sci Shatpuned; Razors honed; All m of firearms vropaired promptly, is repaired; Keys fitted: © All makes of Jaw mowers sharpened and repaire 149 Sydenham Street Ant