© good- cogn J do. THE BRITISH WHIG! = shortage period. S5TH YEAR, "Paslinked Daly "and Semi-Weekiy » BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING LO. LIMITED, . Editor and naging-Lirector. 243 rditorial Rooms 229 fob Ofios 92 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 2p (Daily Edition) youd, delivered in city .... 3H year, i paid in advance .... $5.00 Veal, by mall to jural offices $2.50 to United State = agm- Weekly Edition) year, Dy mail, year, If not paid = Advances year, to United State: Six and three moray) pro rata. MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE RK Bru 23 St. Peter St 0 EEN TANS Troy 5 Traders Bank Bld ED ar ATES EPR ESENTATIV R.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York F.R.Northrup, 1610 Ass'n Bug. Chicago Letteds to the Fditor are published only over the actual name of the writer, Attached ds ome of the printing oMces in Canada, 0 1.50 1.60 best job The elrcunlation of THE BRITISH WHIG Is suthentieated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. ------------------ » What became . thaw? of the January We Know now what a epoch is like. { glacial The winter is moving along. Water is scarce in country sections. A thaw is greatly needed. Keeping the home fires burning is a duty mow turned over to ex-Ald. H. IC..\Niekle. pasate People who Tave. never ; saved be- fore for their own good should save now for the country's benefit. If the college girls go 16 the farms this sunymer they'll help--for the college boys will follow them. It remains to be seen whether or mot the German strike is a self-in- . flicted blow by the Government. From th. current history of the war it seems that Italian troops are specialists at fighting up-hill bat. ties. If it is true that the brewing of heer, even for the army, is to stop. Germany is indeed in desperate straits. Is Tt possible that all the unmar- ried ladies who voted on Dec. 17th will now be called upon to pay a five dollar poll tax? . Ottawa streets are well cleared of snow. « The walks are roughed by a "machine so that people can walk up- on them without nervous strain. John Masefield, 'the historian of the Somme," descri Germany as a "nation of natural bites govern- ed by a small clique of unspeakable scoundrels." These peo le - o kick on the nny cake that mother used to make, should try eating canned bull beef while dodging shells in the trenches. The municipal bond sales in Can- ada during January totalled $461, 000, compared with $894,000 in December last and $1,969,256 iu January a year ago. "It was a German boast that the submarines would bring England to her knees in three months, but a year has elapsed and the hope is far from realization. r It is said that the coal shortage will probably be even more acute next winter. We can see where Can- adian forests are due for an awful slashing. The old box stove will be tesurrected. When a magazine wants to reach . the people for possible subscribers Tit advertises in newspapers. What the magazine does ought tof be a good thing for other advertisers to The ministers at Ottawa are hard-worked. They are loaded with duties. and the council meetings are rod late into the night. One "minister told the Whig there were many overwhelming matters that had to be tought out and Arranged. Patronage is-dying hard. -------------------------- The "chutehes, schools and mov- "jes are suggested as things that could be dispensed with during the o b % * | would Have to be-sent there to take {the war should be dispensed with, should be unions could be red institutions coal by keeping! the mind act the body vigor-| ous aud ab z with red blood. Moroseness is an evil and a destrue- tive force. There | e and FRISH ( SONS 'RIPTION. Colonel pir as milit Times be *it neces: him, ca tion of Irel great . many Repington wi has as much rig scription ngland, Seotland, | Wales or Canada, the best opin- fon is that it would ba very unwise | to apply conscription to the Emer-| ald Isle just now Ulster would | stand for \it lof course, but there 'would be strenuous objection from | some other quarters. The Whig has talked with various Irishmen, | {and they say it would be the height! of folly to apply conscription to Ireland at this time. Nothing would be gained by it, itish. -- ton, who resigned | of the London | bad that newspaper found put the brakes on conserip- | there ars al the Now besides Colone! | nk that to be under can- as but as Br tronps care of disturbances that would sure to occur. It is said that thing would please Germany than to hear that the British Gov- ernment had decided to force con soription on Ireland at this time All the troops that Britain can raise dre required in Flanders and France| just now to fight the Teutons, and none can be ssared to coerce the Irish. The British Government has a big problem on hands in the Irish question, which has to hedéalt with in a circumspect and | it has no intention of inviting any | more trouble than faces it now. If] the Irish question is shortly settled, | it may be that Ireland will respond with alacrity to the call for more men to fight the enemy of mankind. be no- more its manner, THE REVOLT IN IN GERMANY. The iN rmurings of discontent, the food riots and the strikes in Ger- man cities are not likely to have far- reaching consequences. The Ger-! mans have a drastic method of deai- ing with popular mprisings of this sort; it ig the machine-gun method, and it is a very effective one. Under the liron hand of the military strikes that occurred last Berlin, Hamburg and have been suppressed. Adfibassador| Gerard long ago stated that there would be no revolution in-Germany; only women, boys and old men were left at home and these do 'not make revolutions. The man power of the nation is practically all enrolled in the army; where stern discipline pre- vents any effort at self-expression. The fact that strikes have broken out in various parts of the empire is an evidence, however, that depriva- tion and hunger are beginning to open the eyes of the masses, and that has produced a serious economic condition. It would be folly for the Allies to count too much upon internal disturbances .in Ger- many és evidence of a coming peace. Peace will "probably come only -as the result of a decisive victory over German arms. week other cities + A CFTY OF PEACE. Men prominent in all the faiths and sects for wohm Jerusalem is a venerated shrine agree that, what- ever else may happen, the Turk has gone from the Holy City for good. It is regarded as unthinkable that his iniquitous misrule will ever de- solate the ancient land again; and it is argued, and with confidence as- sumed, that the city of David will henceforward be truly a city of peace to which Protestants and Catholics, Jew and Mohammedan alike will look as a source of uplift and a seat of moral authority. Monsignor: Barnes of Oxford = de- scribes the rejoicing at the Vatican and the joy Europe when General Allenby by masterly strategy made the reten- tion of the city by the Turks im- possible and captured it with its holy places absolutely . unharmed. He praises also the admirable, tact- ful steps taken to put the sacred shrines under the protection of the several faiths which consider them holy spots. Sir Mark Sykes, a lead- tain and authority on Near-Eastern affairs, is convinced -that there will be an enduring, civilized regime in Palestine, and that an era of pil- grimages to Jerusalem wil begin sich as the city has never seen be- fore. Hundreds of thousands . of Jews will journey there, he says, as visitors to see where the seed of Zionism is being plan Hosts of 'Russians will make the Pgrimage. The Pope may call his children to a Pligrimage of Repentance fo which untold numbers will 'respond; and there is reason, to anticipate a spiritual revival in Islam in which the intellectual and devout Arab and Indian Mohammendans will go, as badjis to the city thinking more of the Word than of the sword. ' There is, continues this thoughtful states- man, a deep rooted desire throughout the world that this war shall be the last; but if the hope is to bo real. ized seomthing more will be requir ed than Hague conferences where But none! hyproeritical diplomats a sg" thay '. service | must in' alf the' above! posal | even Irel and | Ie | | and city | tions as a the | ; in | i= throughout Catholic|' ing Catholic statesman of Great Bri-| prepare for fresh host a physics whatever a be pions set up to shield t war. But behind i hope? ly an i Post war | enquire: | Express worn nations for a 1 be di and ye the ie seeming has dawned i for the ancient pre reality ch until a ye midet of it 1 be called » holy moun of his ways ar 5 paths, for the Lord He will will 1 shall go forth of word of Lord And he tions and 's and the) to plow pruning lift up er shall from Jerusal:m judge among the na all rebuke many peop! ares and their hooks sword against the spears int nation, neith n war any more." a {unded words of living interes: now Zioxy and and the ill beat their swords in- | } Nation shall no' Iyss brings 3 the comiroe § Douglas H real Kuoight two other Irish and Lord French ily, now holding -Tces, are Scoteh, : our army cor peace mdy be | 1 Fcreman--Y is all of one un £ ~~Everybo ti rell in the | a yantain of tha "Have vou and Jack long enough to get me "Too Tong. He Judge. -~ A little winter mow and then Is relished by the wises * But Nature doesn't be so r 8 Ww e know when we have ough. -- Louisville had en Courier-Journal ) "How do you kr | dictated to a stenog "Look at the {Commercial { PUBLIC OPINION It was a heat ! God whitfial, and people And yet, It made the Not? Why (Var We couver pr Opos He asks Jritist ent comment on the world league ations, "Why not a L 1e of preparatory indeed? step? not, Getting Loeky Already. (Montreal Star) The degree of Montre al's sel gpect is raised. by the city's attain ment of a business standing. is good reason for belief that real no longer will be throughout the country, a to the citizens. Telephone Operators Brave. (London A ser) Some telephone operators have been decorated in England for brav The average hone oper- i 1 few and for and rom ge nt fussy Playing to the Gallery v (Ottawa Evening ne Playing to the gallery tation that all too many federal, provincial and ---fall into and K more of ciency and wastefulness municipa the ineffi of than is nice The Rulers of the F E nglish. a (London Daily Chron dency to Sontemplate. The promotion of Wem- i Ad n | your There Mont- byword | reproach demo- cratic government is due to this ten- Ci od piano.'" morning 'Piano? It went™o sts - That women James J. Montague vertiser 3 : Are All ry one of Why We Afraid. ® lin dread. FOMO are ¢ there are a | Phases. hundred Bruce, Jazair If a man ag | thinks he is a fo che considers him stubbo When some women bread upon the 'waters it comes in the form of a bread pudding. Rippling Rhymes' A WINTER DAY It is a"bitter, roaring day, ing down the h the wind comes whoop- ill; the skies are of a leaden gr 1 would give ten cents for May, with azure : babbling rill. The winds each moment coldler Brow x that through my whiskers blow apace; and there are symptoms now low; such wea see the furnace of snow; my cordwood pile is getting ther is a rank disgrace. It's sad: to eat the costly coal, and call for more, then shed around some sickly heat, not strong enough to melt the sleet that's drifted underneath It's sad to shovel in the coal, and-know pensive lump, diminishes your hard-earned role, puts you farther in the hole, - to the dump. bors flerce, tha money burned, ashes, which one caunot sell. to show for long weeks in the clanging mart; the door that each ex- and and brings you nearer My scanty wages | have earned by la- t made me yell; it's hard to see such to see one's savings hourly turned to An ashpile's all I. havo for end less journeys to and fro, for weary trips in rain and snow, and things that rend the huma each minute brings an added jar; I girls waltz round and sing, "Brighte n heart. The day wears on to evening, sit as gloomy as a king, the while the n the corner where you are." '--WALT MASON. THINGS THAT MAMMA | FOUND THIS CAT AND NINE A. 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