PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH WHIG 80TH YEAR. 1 Bis : = = iy il and Semi-Weekly by Sh PUBLISHING nD. ott a President a A Gud vewxaawe Editor and Managing: Director. Telephones: Bao OMICS + .sssnosecranrssson 343 GEiel Rooms Wrvsissisaeivnnnes : y 2 year, if paid in advance 5.0 year, a 2.5 ot-Weskly Edition) One year, to United 8 six R Brice Ow Peter St, Hoy UNTTHD STATES REPRESEN TATIV 5: 8 8 RATES One year, PA in eit mail to rural offices year, to United States (Sem One year, by ma cash One year, if not bad oh Advance ni .50 and three ante pro rata, MONTREAL REPRESR NIANIVE FORONTO. RIP RIBSENTATIV "FC Traders Bank Bld FR Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, Néw York R. Northrup, 15.0 Ass'n Bldg, Chicago Letters to the Hditor are published aly over the act.al name of the Attached 1s one of the best job minting offices In Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABbv Audit Burean of Clrculations. \ The Toronto street railway union threaténs to go on strike if women conductors are employed. What if the women of Toronto 'were to Te- taliage by boycotting the street rail- way? { Extravagant habits must go by the board. New and heavier taxes are being imposed, and he is the wise man who [prepares to meet them, The day of plain living and clear thinking is here. : Automobile speeders are becom- ing altogether too reckless, and un- less they are curbed a fatal street accident is bound fo becur. A few speed fends should be punished as an example to others. It ds reassuring to learn) that the jast' of the German Super-guhs, which have been bombarding Paris, has been jut out of action. Are these big cannon to prove as great a failure as the Zeppelins? Patrons of the Grand Opera House last might ¢id some watchful wait- ing. The curtain did not go up un- til nine o'clock and it was not rung down until near midnight. We are fast learning that |what Sherman said about war was right. Campers and tourists dn, the Thousshd Island region will this season misy the saluting whistle of the popular passenger steamers which pited the St. Lawrence 'with Kingston as their base. The war brings many changes in its train, -- ! Food Controller Thomson de- "elares that we must eat less if our armies and our faithful Allies are to be fed. If 4,750,000 Buropeans have died of starvation since the war began, as he estimates, it 8 time we wolce up ito the seriousness of the situation, . i The Haltans wre Imitating the British in making caval mide on THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1918: WHAT ABOUT COAL? steadily rising coming on ie great strides 'we are likely to trouble ourselves much about coal. No siree, There is the war to be thought of, and coalCean wait We must put in our garden ind he no 'time to think of anything except seeds and soils and fertilizers. Why worry about coal when winter is a long way off? the mercury With and summer not war Ave as something. After the winter's worries this at- titude is not unnatural. But if Cap- ada is to avoid next winter an even worse coal shortage than last year somebody has got to think about coal, and somebody has got to do some- thing about it, not to-morrow or the next day, but now. For the situation is as bad as ever except for the relief afforded by the weather. The fuel administration has not contributed a purposeful plan of relief as yet, It issues advice to buy coal and buy early, but the coal is not to be had. Furthermore, reports from the mines tell of idleness and decreasing out- put, The trouble is that though consum- 0 {ers may realize the necessity for get- o | ling something done they cannot aet. The matter rests with the authorities, and about all consumers can do is to pray that it won't rest too long. GROWING GRACEFULLY Disraeli once said: "Youth is a blunder; manhood, a struggle; ' old age a regrat.'" That is a pessimistic and unfortunate view to take of life and of all the cipportunities it offers for development of individual cha- racter and of service to one's fellow- 'man. We had rather regard it as a priceless gift entrusted to our care for a brief period and which must, sooner later, be returned to .the Cdver. I good use has been made of the gift, old age should not be a regret, but a space of retrospective contentment for "something at- tempted, something dome." Or, ds Thomson finely expresses it: "An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, mural quiet, friendship, hooks, Ease and alternaia labor, Progressive virtue, Heaven." Growing eld gracefully and con tentedly is an accomplishment that many fail to achieve. Not so with Joseph G. Cannon, former speaker of the United States Senate. On his elghty-second birthday he declared that he did not feel lonesome. "The census repudiates," he said, Psalmist's suggestion that three Score years and ten is the span of life, for by the last census there were more than 2,000,000 people in this country who had passed that age; there were about half a million who had passed the fourscore; 40,- 000 who had passed 'the age of ninety; and neanly 4,000 who had passed the century mark. Physicians say that we are soon, through thelr dkill, to live to be 150 years old. 1 wish ta God they would hurry up." Figures like these, the Syracuse Post Standard reminds us, are cheerful reading to persons for whom the shadows lengthen, unless they 'are like the thoughtful cen- tenarian. who remarked reflectively that If he had his life to live over he would some way of exchang- ing the ontous closing decades of it for more of pleasure as he pass- ed along. But Mr. Cannon has not sacrificed a reasonable degree of ra- tional . pleasure to longevity. He has never been credited with ascetic- ism. On the contrary he seems to have taken life and its pleasures cheerfully as things to be enjoyed with a thankful heart. Yet it is given to few men to go tripping by an 82nd milestone so jauntily, so alert of/ mind and light of heart. The most that can be said is that vari ous paths lead various persons to their ninth decade. Some are priock- on. or useful life, and approving ly with augterities, while others are flowery to fhe end; but neither one of them nor any other can be follow- ed with assurance that it will lead another man to length of days. CONSCRIPTION IN IRELAND, Irish opposition to conscription finds little or rot tavor among Irish- men in the United States and' none whatever in the American press." The attitude of the Sinn Feiners is vigor- ously condemned everywhere except in certain sections of Ireland. In _|this connection the New York publishes a typical letter [thing nmiore base. And we might just as well relax} a little after the last siege and laugh; 'whet d particular moment the British are baring their bosoms to the bayonets of the Huns, and with their backs against the wall are holding the Prussian hordes in their last desperate attempt to reach a coast from. which it would be an easy matter to invade this country and place us all under the domination of the Kaiser, Instead of leaving this question of Irish conscription to the professienal Irish agitator, if the question were submitted to the thou- sands of brave young Irishmygn who saring a British of Irish extractioy who are fighting side By side wit} e British Army under our own American flag, there would be no question as to the sentiment. If conseription was good enough for the sons of Irishmen in Ameriea, it is good enough for the sons of Irishmen in Ireland." At this PUBLIC OPINION 4 The 2 { eon bres Ade nt Poincare is not Alsace-Lorraine, but militar. ism. [But Alsace-Lorraine must de- termine whether militarism wins or loses 2 Acid Test, Press) Pré says the issue Oh © Chriss pher! (New York Herald) i What a queer lack of sense and taste was displayed by the telephone company official w ho tried to take the significant call of "Columbus 1492" away from the Junior Naval Reserves --and to give it to a delicatessen Gompers Was Wise, (Hiamilton Herald) Seeing is beligving. Some ago Mr. Bakér, U.S. Secretary War, was trying te soothe the Am- erican people with the reminder that the war was "three thousand miles away," and there was therefore no need for hurry. Mr. Baker has just got back from a visit to the western front, and he has lost ne tine in re- commending that the American army be doubled without delay. Obeying Food Laws, (Vancouver Province) It would be a relief to the hewild- ered public if the food regulators would establish schools of instruction in the various centres when the intri- cate wordings and condused phrase- ology of their numerous orders and regulations could be made clear to the ordinary lay mind. Consulting a clock, 'calendar, chemists' scale and an interpreter ought not to be a ne- cessary preliminary to rating a meal. months The Scarlet Riders, (Regina Post) Within a short time the R.N.W. M.P, draft will be proceeding over- seas. The regiment has been recruit- ed to more than full strength, and nothing Mow remains to be done by connection with having the draft in readings# to take its place with the Canadian cavalry in France. The ate of their departure rests with the military authorities in the east. The draft is ready to leave dt any time. Officered by their own inspectors and with many of their former officers accompanying them in the non-com- AI A AN of Eh tah pling Rhymes missionéd ranks, the Scarlet Riders are as fine a body of men as ever left any part of the Empire. GIVES POPE CREDIT FOR BELAND'S RELEASE Carried On Much Diplomatic Correspondence With Huns, Says L'Action Chatolique. Montreal, May 18.---1'Action Ca- tholigue says that Pope Benedict and Cardinal Begin was instrumental in Dania the release of Dr. [Beland, former Canadian Postmaster-General who was a prisoner of the Germans sinee the early weeks of the war. "We don't know exactly," says 1' Action Catholique, "what were the influences ultimately called into re- quisition to secure Dr. Beland's re- lease, but we are in a position to say that for almost a year the Pope has heen doing his best to have him lib- erated. On representations of Car- dinal Begin, the Holy Father, through his Secretary of State, did his utmost. There was a'lengthy exchange of diplomatic correspondence through the intermediary of the Papal Nuncio at Munich, We know from an unim- peachable source that the Pope asked Cardinal Hartmann to use his influ- ence with high authorities in Ger- many. -- Nn WATERTOWN SALOONS TO QUIT BEFORE OCTOBER Large Decrease in Business Reported Since Election in April. Watertown, N. yr May 18.--The effect of Watertown's decision in the recent excise election to go "dry" is already being felt, although the sa- loons will not close until October. When Watertown voters determined that liquor should no longer be sold in this eity many who used liquor excessively voluntarily gave it up. G. F. Babcock, custodian of the city hall, reported to-day that the number of men confined for "drunk- enness" since the election was nearly cut in. half and the duties of the po- lice department picking up the ins ebrities no longer represents the ma- jor portion of its work. Saloon men in this city report large decreases in their sales, and this week one of the best saloons in this community announced that it will re- linquish its license because the busi- ness was no longer such as to merit its continuance until October, Eleven New Elevators Regina, Sask, May 18. --Eleven new country elevators are being erec- ted by the Saskatchewan Co-opera- tive Elevator Company this season. Combined storage capacity is three hundred and eighty-five thousand bushels. The approximate cost Js $140,000, To Recruit 500,000 Men. Simila, India, May 18.--The Gov- ernment of India has decided to re- cruit at once wore than 500,000 men. The provineial gevernments have ve-affirmed the resolution of loyalty, passed at the Delhi confer- ence, promising all possible aid. on Large oaks after mile; and hopelessness and woe; ~ SMALL BEGINNINGS said long, long ago. learned, and ere he to the dust returned, he summed | up all the things he knew---and he had learned a fact or two--and sprung them in the form you know: "Large oaks from little acorns grow." news from France, was vile; it seemed that they would win the serap and back the Allies off the map. And scores of men with Arctic feet, were standing on the village street; their whole appearance was a frost; everything was lost. "The Teuts have won," to me; "they'll march right onward to the sea, and ere, they stop their sinful games they'll bombard Windsor and St. James. We might as well take in our sign, and spend our future shedding brine." NAT MTR, y "Oh, morbid owls, cease putting up such doleful howls! T i nothing lost till Pershing wires that he has busted all his tires." A few brisk words I threw around, their pessimism to confound; they needed, and they rose and bet ten bones we'd whip the foes. bright words in season sprung will oft relieve the withers wrung by fear large oaks from little acarns grow. THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN from little acorns grow, the wise man Oh, he had lived and loved and One day the the Teuts advanced, mile they said that: they said | 1 said to them, 'twas all! A few! ~WALT MASON. NY AAA Arnprior $1,573,258; increase of KINGSTON'S ONE PRICE MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR STORE: -- BIBBYS See the Budd Suit, $22.50°°$25 See the Lincoln Suit . See the Ritz Carlton Suit. : . $28.50, $30, $32. 50 The Hudder, dark green, slip on . . The Chesterfield, grey and black . _ $15, . $30 GENTEEL OVERCOAT See the Guardsman Belter, special value . . See the Carlton Suit . . See the Whinton Suit See the Woodbine Suit $20.00 $20.00 $25.00 . $18.00 . $28.50 $18, $20, $22. 50, $25.00 TRY BIBBYS FOR BOYS' CLOTHING Now is the Time to Start Spraying with a ymotor Used by Sp It will pay you to do so. Stations. We pe a book on Spraying free for asking. BUNT?'S Hardware . Phone 388 ra Government Experimental King St. line. Get a Bottle of For cleaning your cleanse and impart white polish. p Adhd dh dia Ladies' Oxfords Goodyear Welt Make Tan Calf, Dull Kid Calf, Dongola Kid, reg. $3. 50, $5 and $6 $1.98 POLAR WHITE POLISH boots ---- This preparation will smooth white leathers a dainty The Model Shoe Store - HK. ROTGAUZE, Prop. | 184 Princess Street. price Our daihuiudaiudeduiditiadit hah slhadhadhdaidl dod dh 2h dah ah RA AC AA A Aad A aaa white kid to all desk ak he hdhhah oa a aa Adhd ddd a 0 assessment . this year is ssa uation, 4,261, an Farms For Sale 50 meres, ® miles from Kingston, on good road; fair bulldingu; about 30 acres of geod land under eultiva. tion. $2200, 100 acres, 11 miles from Kingston; tale buildings: weil watered nnd feneed; wood enough for fuel: aboug SO ae- res first class plow land. Price $4,000, 135 meres, well Jocated; 75 meres good plow lang; plenty of weed; bulld- ings slome worth the money, Frice £2,000, on eany termw. Possession of any of these farms ean, be had at once. T.J. LOCKHART Real Estate and Insurance, - Kingston, Ont. "Ranks with the Strongest" HUDSON BAY Insurance Company B INSURANCE et FERCY 3 INN, conte W. H. GODWIN & SONS Fresh Garden e From reliable seed houses, in package and bulk. Also a few Dutch bulbs, for . spring blossoming. © DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE 18F Princess St, Phone 348 added Ad aan a 0 hdhadhghah hh A Aa 4a 4 4 ah aang ddd a NT YY Ah Add hh A Aa ah hah a Ah A 4 PURE Maple Syrup per Gallon. Now is the time to put it up . for next winter's use. » . REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 and 090. A Peterboro woman was arrested with a bottle of whiskey in a pares] and fined $200 and costs.