ent ovis HE bb A . Em ---- ' ) / THE DAILY BRITISH a -------- THREE NOBLE LEADERS GOVERNORS-GENERAL WHO DE- SERVE GRATITUDE, WHIG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1917. Bot understand why you did not | WOMEN SAVED BERRY CROP. | shoot them down'; and lsc "in "the | : Canadian yho 'would have reduced | Montreal /to ashes hefore enduring | half that/the Governor endured.' But | ward in British Columbia. Elgin acted not as the natural man, | Saving the tremendous berry crop, but as the Christian and the states- | two-thirds of which otherwise would map, He refused to meet lelence | nave been lost through shortage of with violence! an e refus 0 | > . nullify the principle: of ' popular | labor caused by the war, 2,000 wo government by bowing before' the | men, clad in trousers and workmen's hlast of popular clamor. But a more | Smocks, are laboring in the berry unpopular Governor-General never fields of British Columbia, held office in Canada." | The army is drawn from all walks The author also says of Lord | of life, the most recent addition Elgin: . being in the form of hundreds of "No Governor of Canada was worse {reated by thé Canadian peo- girls from the schools and colleges. | Early in tle season, the small ple; and yet no prodonsul is entitled 1 to a more grateful remembrance in | fruit growers of the Province were . faced with a serious situation, Canada." p | While they could muster sufficient | workers to handle the crops up to the time of ripening, they were faced with (he p.ssibility of a full two-thirds loss of crop, through Two Thousand Volunteers Came For- The three words that - tell the whole story of a perfect cup of coffee, from plantation to breakfast table------ - "SEAL BRAND" COFFEE. ia %, 1and 2 pound tine. Whale--ground--pulverized--also fine ground for Percolators, Never sold ia bulk. So Wisdom of Durham, Sydeabam, and Edgin Saved Our Country From Anarchy During the Most Trou. bled Epoch of Our Struggle for Responsible Government and Self Control, " This Week Only "N the days of the early Victorian Statesmen Canada might well have been- termed a graveyard of political careers. - While this declaration may sound somewhat | melodramatic, it' is undoubtedly in | keeping with the unsavory reéputa- { tion Which the North American col- escent WOMEN IN THE ARMY. Seven Tommiettes Will Go Overseas 29% Reductio | Not Many Left. Inspection Invited. 4 : | Cra Tailors. Princess and Bagot Streets. viord & Walsh | Le FRESH LAKE ON- TARIO WHITE FISH AND TROUT All Kinds of Fresh Fish. . Tobin's Peerless Boxes for Overseas And Choice Stock of Groceries. Thompson's Grocery 204 PliNepss. ST, BOYD'S Garage! We have. just received our new goods for your Christmas Cake and Pudding. New Peel, New Currants, New Almonds, Choice Oranges and Grapes, . Mixed Candies and Chocolates and Nuts. E. H. BAKER Cor Montreal and Charles Sts. Phone 1268. 3 f New Raisins, New Walnuts. pi zed and discouraged. 'memory of onles Street. had aequired in Downing It must also be remembered Nthat our forefathers' conception of | the science of governmert was rude and elementary; that there was no system of parliamentary representa- tion by the peaple; and that for months at a time the business of the colonies was suspended while the legislative balls resounded with the | echoes of petty party Squabbles. In fact, things came to such a pass that the governing powers fajled com- pletély to cope with the situation, and the country was tottering on the verge of anarchy and ruin. save the .struggling colonies and to bring order out of chaos was the first concern of tle early Vietor- ian statesmen, and in an effort to conciliate the warring party factions one governor after another was sent out to the Canadas; and one after another the 'short-lived pro-consuls relinquished their posts, disillusion- So persisteiif- ly did fajlure dog their steps that within a comparatively shdrt- space of time one of the highest posts within the gift of the Sovereign went abegging. That peace was fin- ally restored to the stricken country was due alone to the \ wisdom and geniis of a triumvirats unique in the history of our nation--to Du ham, Sydenham, and Elgin, but chiefly to Elgin, Durham, it bas been said. diagnosed the malidy and Sydenham applied the remedy. It might be added that to Elgin fell the hardest task of all, that of nursing the shat: tered nation back to health, for with. out higNskill and tact and his firm- ness and finesse the'political develop- ment of the colonies would have been thrown back many decades. Yet he proved to bé the most unpopular gov- ernor in Canadian history, and his unfailing determination to adhere to constitutional methods of govern- ment was rewarded by calumny and abuse. Canida to-day owes the Lord Elgin a debt of gratitude, and It is to be regretted that historians in the past have not IRIN SN 4 Save Your 'Coal James Soward's Coal 0. Phone 155. Have opened an office and store corner of Brock and Bagot Sts., Savage's old stand, carrying a full stock of TIRES Automobile Acces- sories, Gasoline Don't forget we are doing busi. ness as usual in the above lines, Agents for REO CARS. Geo. Boyd, Prop. Phone 201, BUY A VICTORY BOND ---- TAOS LUT '" Security First" EXCELSIOR insurance | || F E COMPANY v Announces that 1917 was in every department Its Record Year. A Prosper= ous New Year to You and Yours. Head Office: Toronto, Can. I 00 = 5 % ------------, AS KYOUR GROCER FOR Charm Tea \ IN PACKAGES. Black, Green and Mixed. Packed in Kingston, by ~ : GEO, ROBERTSON & SON, Limited. | A Piano of Merit & | [olten-egged and his family insulted appreciated to its fullest extent the great work he accomplished for the nation during bis tenure of office, In "The Winning of Popular Gov- ernment," a volume of the "Chron. Icles of Canada" series, Archibald MacMechan has written excellent historical sketch of the political transition through v hich the ;olon- les passed in the early Victorian period. To the energy and far- sightedness of Durham in preparing his notable document, "The .Report on the "Affairs of British North Am- erica," Mr, MacMechan rightly says that the nation owes much. Durbam welt directly to the heart of the trouble and found it in one word, politics. In Upper Canada he found an cligarchy; in Lower Canada he "found two nations warring in the bosom of one State." Continuing, Mr. MacMechan writes: "The time had gone by for a Federal Union, A door must be either open or shut; the Frénch province must become de- Onitely a British province and find its. place in the Empire. To end the eating deadlock between the governor . -Fepresentatives of {he BOOple the exécutive should be made responsible to the assembly." When * Durbam fel) before: political assaults of his opponents, was su ceeeded Poulette Thom: son, Lord Syd py > mand Toronto, enba; | He is dubbed by the author variously as the "peacemaker" and the '"'per- In any event, his tactics Though Muarancs Rr hate had been uered an nt was being carried on undes modern conditions there was still much to be Non a Aas Shadas sould fairly ! ora, = 5 g ie Ad #5, Montreal wers burned ifi & riot was in of the same city, the streets : § : riotous times In hes "json, the present. ' Tinling, From Winnipeg. . Seven Winnipeg Tommiettes are going to. France to help beat the Germans! In the next division. of Canadian Women to go overseas will be Dr. M. Ellen Douglass, lieutenant-colone! and commanding officer of: the Winnipeg Women's | Volunteer Re- serve, and six other' members of the organization, Lieutenants Dorothy M. W. R. McQuade and Rose Shackleton, Adjutant Margaret Barratt, and Privates A. Gray and Lillian James. ' The call has come from the Brit- ish War Office for them to be ready for active service. The Tommiettes await now only the order to sail. It is the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, who have mobilised 4,000 British women for work behind the lines, to which the Winnipeg Tom- miettes will be attached, In France they will take the places of men and release them for fight- ing. Short of actual fighting, there are few kindg of work that this special corps is not now doing. .They are drivers in the motor transport service, orderlies, military telegraph shortage .of labor. Finally, the as- sociation made application to the CHASE & SANBORN, MONTREAL. 4 elem, "Governmenty to be allowed special permission to import several thou- sand Chinese cool\eés for the season. The Government Received the plea and were in a seridus position. From the' Federal™~«Tlfed Governments came repeated urgings to produce, a cry that was being repeated by those near at hand. . On the other band, the bringing in of alien labor made more mouths to feed, while at the same time the money was sure to go largely out of the country with the Chipese coolies. While the Government was. still pondering, the women vf the "Prov- ince took a hand. , Here for some time the movement. for equal rights has been making great headway. Before the Government could make a decision in the fruit-growing situ- ation, several women leaders got busy, and after some quick work made a decision. "Don't import any foreign labor," was the message they delivered to the Government, "We will supply an army of women to do (this work." The result of their efforts is that to-day an army of 2,000 women«--a and telephone workers, airplane re- Pairers, mechanics, cooks, carpenters, shoemakers, tailors; and messengers, Since August 13,1916, the date of the organization of the Winnipeg Reserve, these seven Tommiettes have been preparing for .overseas service. They have studied and be- come proficient in first aid, nursing, drilling, driving motors, camp cook- ing and invalid cooking, signalling, | telegraphy, and a dozen other kinds of war work, Camp life in France will have no terrors for them, They had ten days of it, as strenuous as any military camp life, at Gimli a year ago. The Tommiettes are eager to go. "The only thing we regret is that We were not called long ago," said Dr. Douglass recently. Coal in Alberta. Some inleresting figures are given in the quarterly report of the Da- minion mines branch for the quarter ending June 30 last as to the month- Iy production of the varios mining districts in Alberta and the total sales of the different' kind of coal mined. "The total number nite, bituminous, coal mined in Alberta during the months of April, May,' and June was 416,745 tons, and the total number of men employed in the various mines is given at 11,856. The total number of tons of lignite coal sold during the second quarter is given as 113,125 tons for the pro- vince of Alberta, and the total num- ber of tons sold for consumption in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the United States 's 197,948, ' The number of tons of bituminous coal 89ld from each of the mining districts: in the province for the se- tond quarter is Crow's Nest Pass, 47,662; Canmore, 8,838; Brazeau, 22,676; Jasper Park, 34,882; Yel- lowhead Pass, 26,763; Mountain Park, 27,127. The total output of anthracite coal from the Ban®t district for the second quarter is given at 3,114 tons, which was practically ali gold within the province. P The total output of for the first six months of the pre- lent year exceeds 'that of the first dx months of last year by 40,802 tons, The output for the firét quar- ler _ was considerably in excess of that of last year, but it will be re- mémbered that the recent miners' striké occurred during "the sécond quarter of the present Year so that the output was greatly reduced dur- ing that period. of tons of lig- and anthracite lignite coal A Canadian Lord Mayor, Charles A, Hanson, alderman of London and member of Parliament tor the south-east division of Corn- wall, was elected Lord Mayor of London recently. He will succeed Sir William Henry Dunn, Charles Augustine Hanson is the founder of the firm of Hanson Brothers, stock brokers, of Montreal, and brother of Edwin Hanson ' and William Han- members © of the 'Montreal firm. He removed to Eng- land about twenty-five years ago. Mr. .C. A, Hanson, who al one time was in business in London, Ont, is married to the daughter of James Applebe, J.P., of Trafalgar, Halton County, Ont., and, in addition to be- Ing a member of several of the lead- ing London clubs, is also a mémber of the Mount Royal Club, Montreal. __ The.new Lady Mayoress is the first Sanadian lady to occupy that posi- n. J Grow More Grapes, Declaring that the "dry" {_Outario Government bad created an pe juice, Dr Crotian or grape juice, Dr. 'reelman of the Ontario Agricultural Collage i ers of Essex Essex county, , on kr said, ele well adapted for cultivation of grapes, Dr. Creelman act | number 'that will be increased before the raspberry season closes--has been marshaled 'from the principal cities. ? The work is not hard, it begins on most ranches at 8 and goes on till 6, with an hour off for lunch. Each picker carries a tray containing eight boxes. In some of the boxes 80 the still green berries; in others the firm ripe ones and the 'over-ripe fruit is tossed into a' pail. At the sorting sheds the green boxes are all gath- ered together and sent away by fast express from the nearest railway, to feed the populations 'of the prairie Provinces, the fruit ripening on or after arrival. The Principal shipping points are Calgary, Edmonton, Sas- katoon, Regina, and Winnipeg. The girls receive thirty cents a tray for strawberries and forty for raspber- ries, with.an added ten cents a crate nus for staying the séason. In addition they are {furnished with comfortable bunk houses and oil stoves to cook on. Some of the ex- perts can pick nine crates a day. Though begun purely as a patrio- tic work, the services of the women have been so satisfactory that it has now Government attention, and these women in the future are bound to be a valuable aid to the industry. Federal Expense of War, Canada's expenditures on account of the war now exceed $623,000,000. An announcement to this effect was made in the House of Commons by | Sir Thomas White, Minister of Fin- ance, in response to an inquiry made by Mr. E. M. Macdonald, Liberal member for Pictou, as to the daily expenditure of the country on ac- count of the'war. The figure includes -only Dominion expenditure of cash, no mention being made of money spent by the provinces. "Our war expenditure is very heavy, and is growing from day to day," said the Finance Minister. * 'I have had a statement - prepared by the Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance, showing the outlay since April 1 of the present year. The Statement I have received as to the period from April 1, 1917, to July 20, "1917, shows that our total rev- enue was $78,276,000 and our total expenditure (ordinary, capital, and special), $40,800,000, leaving a bal- i ance of $37,000,000 for war expendi- ture. In other words, since April 1 of the nt fiscal year we have 'paid or way in respect to ordinary, capital, and special expenditures, and we have thirty-seven mi'lion dol- lars to the good. The figures may Bot be mathematically accurate, but they represent a close estimate, "The total war "expenditure of Canada to July 20 this year in Can- 'ada was $388,627,000] and the total war expenditure elsewhere tham in ada, including maintenance of troops in France, from A His to July 20, 1917, on 117,000 troops, was $234,000,000, or & grand total on account of war ex~ penditure of $623,000,000." The Finance Minister added that War expendtiture in from April 1 to July 20, 1917, That was the ex- to $39,702,000, beginning of the a re since the 'Choice Northern Spy =) Economizes Space Saves Housework Simple wa Sanitary As a Table The TABLE conceals a completely made BED ready to sleepin. 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Gage, 254 Montreal St. Phone 549 --_-- J) Bris tol For particulars of sail rates apply e Loeat Agents, of The Rober Reford ®, 50 King Street East, Torente, Aswaa, Save feed by providing warm quirtérs for stock, but don't neglect ventjlation. . 3 : . "VIA CANADIAN PACIFIC ROCKIES." i W. B. HOWARD, District re pier Agent, Toronto. Full Rarticulars from ¥. Conway, C.P.A., Princess ellington Streets, Kingston, Ont. Phone 1187. ne