\_~FAGE FIGHT , 7 had they had the opportunity, would 7 wg iN J ! | TREE | | RI ny " 4 ¥ mE Lr: Published Bally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING ©0., LIMITED, .+ President Editor ana Managing-Director. Telephones: Business Office HE SUBSORIPTION RATES (Daffy Edition) One year, delivered jn city .. year, if paid in advance Ome year by mail to rural offi Ome year, to United States (Semi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mail, céash 1.0 One year, if not paid in advance $1.5 Oto Jour, to United States 1.5 MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE > Bruce Owen ....... 123 St. Peter St. TORONTO. REPRESENTATIVE . C. Hoy ..., 1005 Traders Bank Rldg. UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE: FR rup, 225 Pifth Ave, New York F.R. Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago Editor are published the actual name of the Letters to the only over writer. Attached 1s one of the best job printing oMces In Canada. The eireniation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ALO Audit Bureau of Clirculations. a ----------, Over in the United States they call them Liberty measles, but when they break out they are the German var- ety, true to form, color and name. According to an amendment to the Municip! Act, Kingston is to have insurable interests in the county jail towards whose maintenance it" ®n- tributes. Foo If the surpluses of the Ontario Government are genuine, why keep on the war tax. The yearly surplus could take eare of the Government's patriotic votes. All classes would be helpfully benefited by observing Passion week. Abstinence . and meditation would make better citizens of us all, both for here and a happier clime. The school boys wanted for the farms should take right hold, as they will thereby attain muscular vigor that will help them play foot- ball a lot better next fall, At last the dogs have secured a real good friend in Allan Studholme, the Hamilton member, who cham- pioned their cause in thé Legislature. Hamilton should now become a great dog centre. 2 According to Deuteronomy, when a man has taken a "new wife" he shall mot go to war or be charged with any business for one year. Of course that refers only to widowers or to men with more than one wife, @8 they are the only ones who can take new ones. It has been suggested that every man In Canada stop and think for half an hour on ways and means to win the war. One editor remarks that his barber would not need ten minutes to show the Allies how to win. { { De: Chief Analyst MeGill of the Inland Revenue Department is after the re- fail druggists for lack of attention given to the quality of drugs pro- Der. and hints that the fact that the #pothecary stores have mostly been turned into candy, tobacco and nich- _mgck shops may be responsible for "the carelessness, This province will never again issue a license to sell intoxicating 'Mquors as a beverage. ' The people as a 'whole have already become adapt- 'to prohibition conditions, and it # vote were taken thousands who might have voted against prohibition for it. d' different neckties. come to uniform and vies? : 0 printers WHAT DEMURRBAGE FIGURES IN- 0 lock and Sir Allen Aylesworth, heid the office "In reply t ner who rebukes wing do: write New York World ) nearly every contains men 'who and are therefore k from personal ex- problems of farm editors for farm editorials aptly replies newspaper offi grew up on fs qualified t perience life, i 0 the of ESTABIASHED PRECEDENTS. In a report of cases decided by the central appeal judge, Justice Duff, dated February 20th, his lorship es- tablished a precedent which will ma- terially facilitate the work of offi- cials engaged in carrying out theli Military Service Act, and also lessen |! the expense. T lows: \ "A student of the Petit Seminaire of Quebec is not as such entitled to exemption. "A student who worked on his father's farm when not attend- ing college is not, for that reason, to be exempted. "An intention priesthood is not emption." he decision is as fol- C t nas € 1 u for the for ex- to a study ground DICATE. A study of demurrage figures of Canadian cars since 1913 reveals interesting things T number of "assessed" 9,666 in 1913 menth), to in August, 1917 (highest |c month. The $3 per day demurrage rate prevailed from April 1st, 191 to December 31st, 1916. 'The ber of cars assessed on the new of $1, $1, $5 and $5 Tell from I he cars from October, 19,735 rose (highest num= rate 2 whole sible o who & angl prefer i I e the blen bage dur FUEL FROM GARBAGE. Fuel {from'garbage is a new but if it cin be demon value 3 of plants in every city and town. Fro fimportaut es i . positions are he Canadian cities question orn il who are interest it possesses from twent) cent. more heat units and efficiency than lignite and b equal heat units and anthracite and coke. Toronto, ! writin y seen in n grates and nany eople, : icials, DuUrne ause it ary, « nkerle uel---the most ever known small amount of kindling, and can, py «draft re asily g output of 1,100 ton tafly, and at per « prices Text season same of ineration, we of the fuel, and those fi ad it for many mon ATI {been followed up by the steady sup- port of the Dominion rever call- upon io earry arms Moreover, sUppoit given by Canadians in {Cankda is not to be considered less than her faithful serviee We are junt beginning to . In the United States, how in. and necessary a 1 the work of war is the industrial and economical and financial work which is done far back of the fighting front, {The devotion and sacrifice of the Canadian people at home has been so | great as to command unqualified ad- inous coal and | miration. There devotion has re- efficiency with | Sulfeg in splendid achievement, and thas, Theldentally, brought gratifying J. R. Long, consequences to communities and in- g about the fuel says: | dividuals. In a word, 'it has paid this garbage fue! de- {them well, both in concrete result for evelbye type of stove, | war supplies of all kinds and in main- a furnace, and know |taining and bettering the general highly respon- d expert engineers ed trated t trated ti | the may expect lo 3& {ir TRICE made 16 Th the | > already by promoters upon of depends ed in the project say ty to thirty per A Lament, (By a girl in a Government office, on hearing that she is to wear a uni- form.) a pe. any other fuel Tut clean, sani odorles 1 arly smokele perfect fuel I have ignites on a very My rustling silks, my buckle shoes, My blouse with gay decolletage, That in employes doth excuse Alittle idle badinage. It will not £0 | My spreading hat of spruce velour, : applied | My hose transparent as myself, art © | And all my dainty garniture i 1s placed by D:O.R.A., on the shelf It fon, he managed as flame enough nearly My brief alluring skirt that swung present oal Light as a harebell in the breeze, coal shortage | J fally I tripped among more acute than > swarm of «departmental bees. » and since the | My gems and jewels, tinkling charms p into fuel iz a That marked my goir to and fro, desired, and at| Depending from my arms, will remove the pro- All-are to go, all are n involved by » the cost of mn the Co in dealir a price than ii the gar- My sable coat, with ample muff (Rare treasures of a recent sale.) g | My coney gloves, my owler ruff, My azure scarf and shadowy My jumper, with its f vy hem, My tasseled boots winter meant w sumptuary Jaws condemn ! me deep drawer's imprison- ment, veil, of wold take notice 1mittes the | for No 0 15,099 in December, 1916, to 11,503 in January, 1917, and 7.888 in February! Similarly, after the $1 per day rate had prevailed from MBLC OPNON | The bottom drawer is open wide, And see within its deep recess, Reluctantly [I lay aside April 1st to August 1st, 1917, the cars assessed dropped from 1 in August to 15,071 in September. 4 nox 1,735 OIVIL SERVICE REFORM. Pending pagliamentary legislation on Civil Service reform, certain rules are to be observed in all departments, time, appointment all officers, | ¢ clerks and employees in the outside. seryice, and all messengers, porters, | sorters, packers and other positions| in the lower grades of the inside ser- vice are to be made by competitive examination. of | vice Commission and the deputy] head of the department. charged are to get the preference | in all appointments, so long as they | obtain the required number of marks! to pass the competitive examinations; 'high the latter stand, CIVIC INCUBATORS. last Monday night it occupied only| haM on hour in doing business that in past years took over two hours, | could it not profitably occupy itself in/ doing something in regard to | greater production of food. It has! voted $300 to its greater production: and take for granted that its duty js| done. Here is one project that is suggested to the Whig: Let the; Council purchase ten incubators, | hatch 5,000 chickens and sell them | to the people for say fifteen cents! each. There is enough food waste | these chickens which in due time would produce a goodly supply of eggs and thus help in solving the, high pride difficulty. It would be! easy to get some capable person to look after the incubators. The King- ston Poultry Association would no doubt assist. Down in New Bruns- wick, schemes of this kind are ecar- ried out and last year the chicks sold at five cents apiece, DAYLIGHT SAVING BENEFITS. After daylight saving had been tried in [England for a season, the report of a committee appointed by the Home Secretary shorved that from almost every point of view the change was a decided benefit. The extra hour in the open air proved beneticial to the health of those who enjoyed it; there was a definite im- provement on public morals and Lasder; street accidents showed a de- grease; the employees who took ad- vantage of the extra hour of day- light = showed increased vitality; larger mumbers of people cultivated gardens dn the interest of greater food production, and there had been a substantial saving in the consump- tion of artificial light. The report also showed 1 overwhelmingly in favor of this sum- ponderance of opinfon in Great Bri- the renewal of the daylight saving schedule, not only asa war measure, but us a permanent the remark ed easily enough by getting up earl-| factory however, lives according to the whis-! tle and clock, and until there is some| rangement fer. As far as practicable, in the mean-| } | ment Their names are to be placed ahead! must of Other competitors no matter how|Now for a Government decree that { all shoats must put on 200 pounds of in 'six months, {and As the City Council has lots of time | twenty-five on its hands, judging by the fact that | ing. Needs to Be General. o Mail {1 There n tha The general 10Urs, sntirely The Be (H The Ru ar | Brest-Litovsk, haste agreement, because, Promotions in the ser-|( vice are to be made upon merit upon{and more di the recommendation of the Civil Ser-| delayed signing. weaklings { a little while t. ' Returned| forced thé German Empire to ratity | soldiers with an honorable record|their policy of peace without annex-| or who have heen honorably dis- | ations or .indemnities! to sign ierman dema infatuated - reg Ishevik Boobs. rifiton My preity panoply of dress. And yet T know not why dism Should raise within my breast this storm. sav-} When every single girl to-day Is mad about a uniform, Lloyd's Weekly News, London, They Had It. The fus old gentleman the chemist's shop the same time every afternoon, and fired off 'a ind Empire) 16 homely sense about) t daylight can be ¢ shop-worker, | or the | not { alter to rH does Her entered ~---- BIBBYS + » Men and Boys Kingston's One Price Clothing THE WILTON . . . . NEW SPRI SUITS Masterpieces of Tailors Art THE BRUNSWICK, $16.50 $27.50 THE HAIG . . .. .. $25.00 THE ACTON .. THE BILTMORE . $22.50 .. $18.50 THE WINDSOR . . $27.50 THE ALLENBY .. $25.00 THE POOLE .. $30.00 THE REGAL .. .. $20.00 THE LINCOLN . .. $30.00 A A st ° soni sri mon BIBBYS----Style Headquarters i { string of questions regarding the | atment of various ailments. But Herald) 1 1 peace-delegates at panic-stricken, made] the German peace! they explain, the kept growing more the longer they, And these are the who bragged | ago that they had | left without buying anything, At last the assistant got tired giving advice free, and waited an op- portunity to choke the old gentleman off., At last it came. . "My hair keeps falling out," said the old man one day. * me something to keep it in?" "Certainly!" said the assistant, smiling, "I haye here a beautiful cardboard box!" No. Barr (New The Canadian {a new vista in agricultural manage- ruling welgh a pound by flesh must give eigh that all ---------- Canada in Wartime, pounds by One on Bryan, Many stories are told regarding the former United States Secretary of State, who spoke last: evening in Massey Hall. 'An American Senator, meeting another member of the Up- per Chamber one morning, casually ard Slackers, York Post) Food Board opens up that a dozen eggs and a half. that all cows t gallons of milk daily turkeys must weigh Thanksgiv- Bryan had joined the Baptists?" "Why, no," was the reply. Bryan is a Methodist, and to become a Bap- tist he would have to submit to being ? completely submersed in water, and W. J. would not consent to disappear after the assistant had done his best | to gnswer all the queries he always, | 'Can you give remarked: "Did you know that W, J. | j the Western fighting front is pretty (New York Evening Sun) The magnificent quality of the sacrifice made by the Canadians on well fixed in the minds of all who have followed the record of the war. The offering of 10,000 lives at Yres from public view for so long a time! as that." The one who makes a practice of accepting favors will also take of- fense as speedily. of | | Brin ha PETERLORO THE TEMPERANCE ACT | - 18 A GREAT SUCCESS A Big Reduction is Shown in the Commitments For Drunkenness. Toronto, March § was needed to prove the" ( ario Temperance Act has be ¥ cess it. is supplied by the |, anytivng 1917, The report shows a reduction of over two thousand in the number (F. W, Cooke, Loeal Agent) in the households of Kingston to teed | a that employers were! mer tiole; in fact the vast pre-| tain was enthusiastically in favor of | committee, but it should not sit down | alone was a glorious deed, but it has Health rules are not always producers, heal dn ey Rippling Rhymes raised a lot of tirely strange grange, a-pushing plows and seeders. So if we mess our wires and wonder? THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN. TAKE: THIS TEN DOLLARS | NEW cnt and tam DON'T GET EXCITED | We're building up a mighty force, to do heavy scrappin'; and now and then our work is coarse some ~--mistakes are bound to happen. We haven't made of war a trade; like some bloodthirsty nations:' so we get sidetracked and delayed in handling guns and rations. If, while we grm two million mien, that Wil- helm may be blighted, we pull a bonehead now and then, oh, friends, don't get excited! Consider that for fifty years we've speni our summers farming; we've slopped our hogs and fed our steers, while war struck kings were arthing. We've strung 'along on peaceful jobs, our barns and silos filling, while Europe's mobilized her mobs, and set the fall guys drilling. Core is a thing we all abhor; we thought we'd never shed it; s0 we are green at making war--- perhaps it's to our credit. Oh, we have sandburs in our feet, and hayseed in our tresses, and we have ed the wildernesses. And war's a graft en- 1 oar leaders, who spent our lifetime at the around a bit, 'ahd cross hile you crit, is it so great a --WALT MASON. to us and al blunder, tell me, O critic, w By GENE BYRNES ~ AND BUY A RAT of commitments for drunker The reduction was, with a few exc tions, general over the province ronto, however; was a serious offen- der. The first oity of the Province shared with Cobalt and Welland the unenviable distinction of being the only places of any size, ; fro the border towns, where I any increase in druukenness. Hamil- ton and London "drunks" were com- paratively few in number. Ottawa, by reason of its proximity to Hull, was second to Toronto, withuits in- crease in commitments, Under the Act there ware convictions for infractions of and of these, { licenses, The total expenditure in enforcing the Act was $112.00™-and the reven- ue $192,000. Fines paid to munici palities amounted to $305,000. PARISH PRIEST TELLS OF VICE IN MONTREAL Girls Went to Doors of Lavalle University to Corrupt' Students. Act, 30 were Standard hotel Montreal, March 9.---At the invest. igation by the Board of Control Of 'the charges made by Controller BE. W. Vileneuve that Police Captain Savard 'was fr ly intoxicated and pro- tected houses of prostitution, Rev. Father Gauthier, parish priest of St. James, said that there were a great number of houses of prostitu- {Tablets are sold b ------------------ YOU'LL MAKE NO MISTAKE By placing your order early for store or house awnings and curtains. Supplies and help are scarce and prices will be higher, J. J. Turner & Sons, Limited. Tent, Awning, Flag and Waterproof Goods Manufacturers, ONTARIO. A i ir vice that e were sol he knew | savard's district,) and flaunted so boldly there children going to sch ted by women. He s Ve one woman in his parish who owned | of his 3 of ill-fame. 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