Fublisncd Dotty aud Semi. Weekiz, by "00, LIMITED, sve vs President ++. Editor and Managing- Director, GTiR) ROOMS 2 vnsrores Office dessdnasisrrerhurnraries 392 paid in advance 31.50 to United States 1.50 and three months pro rata. NTREAL REPRESENTATIVE 0 'Wiseonsin, should 225 New York orthrup, 1510 Anes Bide, Chita ee to the Editor are published only over the actual name of the writer, Attached Is one of the best gob printing o offices in Canada, mime The circulation of THE BRITISH Whig. is authenticated by the ABCKk Audit Bureau of Clreulations, Russia is slowly but surely "com- ing back." Any man inclined to strike should be advised to aim his blow at the Hun and at the Hun alone. Again it is declared that there are too many clerks in the lqeal military offices. They might east lots to de- termine which ones should be re- tired Is it customary, for landlords to raise the rent and also require their tenants to pay the provincial war tax on the property? Lo, the poor tenant! Henry Ford announces that he will feturn to the United States goy- ernment all profits"on war contract work. How like our own. Baron Flavell, whose provision company made 80 per cent. profits! =Absentees under the Military Ser- vice Act, who failed to report during the period of amnesty which expired yesterday, will henceforth be shown no merey. Their friends should ad- vise them of the situation. : Well, the City Council has not ex- erted itself over the fuel situation. It refused to appoint a fuel con- Adroller and shied at sawing wood, However, we may stumble through the winter on our allotment. Foch's unceasing blows, now here, now there, are staggering the foe. The Hun és fast wearing out his re- serves in rushing them from one threatened point to another. Foch strikes with lightning rapidity in un- expocted sectors and . his successes are taking the heart out of the Hun the biggest surprise J packet the Canadian forces ever put over," declared General (Currie, In disehssing last week's offensive. "We have got the boche to-day where we want him and intend keeping him there." 'That is, the Canadians have got him on the run-and argJetermin- ed to seep him going. S --------iaaar---- President Hurley, of the United States Shipping Board, has Issued a letter of appreciation to he publishers of newspapers in his untry and in Canada for the work "they have done in stimulating interest 'in this branch of en- v Public men all too seldom owledge the value of such ser- Newspaper men are more to erititlsm or abuse than to ¥ The commanding Issues due to wat hate sidetracked politics ir And to AM 1a the utmost of fn breaking down the , N. W. Rowall's | Spec He expre: ed the opinion that munch of the money saved from the till of the saloon keeper went into the buy- ing of war bonds and the maintain- ing of a higher and healtbler stand- ard of Hving. All physicians and many laymen know how natural is the turn to sugar in the absence, temporary oor otherwise, of alcohol. Sugar is far Letter fuel for the body, and, though the combustion may not be register- ed quite so quickly by the thermo- meter of the brain, the stimulation \] is certain and atfords the little pick- up which the flagging body craves. Thus it is probable that investiga- tion would show a present tendency to increased consumption of candy, the most convenient supstitute for liquor, as is usually the case when the sonsymption of alcohol falls off. A GREA Tr NATIONAL LOSS. So serious has become - the fire menace in this country that the pro- vineial government has given atten- tion to public opinion which démand. ed that some preventative measures be adopted. A convention has been called to diseuss the hest means of preventing fires and thus conserving millions of dollars of property that is now annually lost through care- lessness, inadvertance or pure cus- sedness. In this connection, the fol- lowing ways of starting fires, given by the Fire Marshal of the state of prove interesting and profitable reading: He looked for a gas leak with a match, and found it He lighted a match to see if his gasoline tank was empty. It was not. He gmoked while Lilling his anto tank, but wilf do 80 no more He smoked In bed, so did his bed clothes. He threw the matches waste' paper basket. He now. He threw a cigarette some rubbish. He saved his oily waste and rags and they burned his shop. He washed his hands in gasoline near the stove. The doctor washes them now. He did not worry about fires, as he had 'plenty of insurance," and for- got the safety of his wife and child- ren upstairs. He stuffed up the chimney with paper and rags. She cleaned her gloves with gaso- kine and saved 15 cents, but paid the doctor and druggist fifteen dollars. She poured kerosene into the lamp while the wick was burning. She put gasoline into the wash bofler in the stove to make washing easier. She dried clothes near the stove. She used the wrong oil can. She burned sulpher all over the house to fumigate. | She used the wood-box back of the range as a waste paper receptacle She gave matches to her children to go out to burn leaves in the yard, The cotten dresses burned easier than the leaves. She was "coming right left the electric current fron. She swung the gas close to the curtains. She fixed up a fine shade for the lamp, She filled the tank on her gasoline stove while one burner was on. It can thus be seqn that careless- ness is at the hottom of most of the losses by fire. Fires not only en- tail a heavy property loss, but quile Bok cally are the cause of many fatalities. A campaign of educa tional publicity would awaken the publie to the geriousness of the situ- ation and no doubt tend to reduce its' evil consequences. Each indi- vidual can do his or her share bY carefully reading the above Fst of the causes of fires and taking to heart the lesson it teaches. the wiser into is stub into oil hojes 80 her back," on in bracket too tissue paper | mc opmon_| Their Real Victim. (New York Sun) The Bolsheviki may issue a dozen deglarations of war, but they make war only on Russia. High and Dry. ffalo News) Secretary" "Lansing says: "The American people are well-nigh drowned in the rising ood of wealth." We ain't even got our hair wet yet! = . Good Reasoning. (Toronto Star) The purpose of arbitration ;is to prevent strikes and no strikes more require prevention than those in the public service. Why should not Gov- ernment and municipalities, which preach arbitration to others, prac- tice it and set an example? (Galt Ref 403 it 'ormer) And since it is true that allied alikns have no right to profit at the a {expense of loyal Canadian manhood, what shall be said of alien enemies who are allowed to live on the fat of the land while our own boys fight to keep them free? If Mions Must must be id vo % ey ah. 'should be e Wily taved: in order that they may contribute something in money towards the cause to which their pro- tectors are so freely Santributing their blood. in battalions cor regi~ pitched field. a wall than ments on a Their Own Salvation. wdstock Sentinel-Review) Our winning the war must not mean the thrusting of one particular brand of democracy down the throat of German Austria. When we have put thsee nations where their power no longer imperils the world's safety we must let them work out their own salvation. If this magna- nimous course is followed future his- torians will write this war down as the last of the world sees. Fo son Seten Semon. or Strength of mind is exercise, not rést-- Pope better true is a and the Stevenson. To travel hopefully thing than to arrive, uccess is to labor.-- Sail on, O ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! --Longfellow. is not the creature circumstances are af men of eircum- the Man stance tures crea- Boast not thyself of to-morrow; thou knowest not what a day bring forth--~Prov. 27: VA may I thank Thee that I learn Not toil to spirn; With all beneath the It makes me one; For tears, whereby | gain Kinship with human pain; For Lo my comrade by the Ways, I give Thee praise -~Emily Reed Jones sun dusty I. beg you whatever be your suffer- ing, to learn first of all that God does not mean to take your sorrow off, but to put strength. into you, that you may be able. to carry it le sure your sorrow is not yielding you its best, unless. it makes you a more thoughtful person than you have ever been before.-- Phillips Brooks REPORTED MISSING. A Cablegram Received by Mrs. G. Claxton, Toronto. Mrs. George Claxton, Toronto, has been notified that her son, Flight- Lieut. William Claxton, is reported missing in France, He was a fine young man about nineteen years of age, He has been in France for a year and the bringing down of twen- ty-two aeroplanes stands® to his credit. Recently he wus awarded the Military Cross for his daring work in the clouds. The young man's mothe: was formerly Miss Terrie Franklin, daughter of the late William Frahk- lin, of Pittsburg township, and sister of ex-Warden W. J. Franklin, of this city, The aviator, it is understood, was one of the squadrdn at one time commanded by Major Bishop and which has been doing brilliant ser- Replacing the Horse, Mrs. Overwate had a deadly gleam in her eyes as she enteréd hier buteh: er's and said in a withering voice: "Mr. Aichboan, how do you account for the fact that there was a piece af rubber tire in the sausage I bought here yesterday?" "Ah, my dear madam." responded the butcher, rising to the occasion, "that just serves as an illustration of how the motor car is replacing the liorseé everywhere nowadays:™ Kindness is often coupled with rigid firmness. - ps for | i MANY INVENTIONS. Queer Things Offered to Help Winning the War. The Inventions Departs Ministry of Munitions every' day ideas of kind All. are carefully Some are useful, but almost nine- tenth "are wholly impracticable, in an Xrticle on the subject published in the current umber of the Ministry of Munitions 'Journal, it is said that the following extraordinary suggestions tor dealing with hostile aircraft have been received: The clouds are to he frozen arti ficially and guns mounted on them; heavy guns are to be suspended from captive balloons; the moon is to he covered with a big black balloon; ae- roplanes are to be armed with scissors or seythes, like Boadicea's chariot, or to trail bombs behind them on a long cord; heat rays are to be projected for the purpose of setting Zeppelins on fire; electric wives to paralyze the magnetos. One of the most popular siggestions of all is 10 attach a searchlight to an anti-aircraft gun, get the light on the object and shoot along the heam; but, unfortunately, the path of a shell 4s quite different from that of a ray of light. Most elaborate "decoy" schemes are some- times worked out for the confusion of the enemy, comprising in at least one case sham factories with chim neys and hooters complete. ~ To pre- vent the polished lines of a railway showing at might, the last carriage of the last train, according to anothef correspondent, was to camouflage them by dribbling blacking as it went along. | novel considered. Other proposals were A balloon carrying magnets hung on strings to attract the rifles out of | men's hands A shell to contain vermin inoculated with A shell with a man fleas or other disease inside it to steer it at the target, squirting of cement over sol The diers so as to petrify them. The sending of snakes into enemy trenches by pnenmatic propulsion. The throwing of live wire cables carrying a high voltage among ad- vancing bodies of infantry by means of rockets Gepmany should be attacked in one case by making a "tube" all the way, and in another by employing tained cormorants to fly to Essen and 'pick out the mortar from Krupo's chim neys One correspondent sent quite a numl ber of original methods of repelly ing- attacks, including large calliper- | shaped devices which could be closed | on anyone intruding between the legs; | a series of nets spread in front of our lines which could be drawn so as to enmesh the Germans, and a machine of the nature of a lawn mower as large as a tank to make mincemeat of them. ; : The purpose of the article in Journal is to warn off inventors. the A Missing Engine. Two girls were knitting for the sol- diers, when one of them turned the conversation to an auto. ride she had enjoyed the evening before, "Mr. Jones", ability in running an automo- bile is simply. wonderful," she de- clared, "I never dreamed that it was possible to go quite so far with- out machinery." "Go withont machinery!" was 'the wondering sejoider of the other. "Do you mean to say that such a thing happened "Yes" answered the first. "We must have gone at least twelve miles before Mr. Jones told me that the en- giné was missing." em es Some men haven"t troubles enough of their own, so they want lo gel married, Some men would die young if they were compelled to mke a living. Ll = -- Rippling Rhymes hall deserted; The railfngs of bition. jail worth whate'er it cost us. GONE TO WORK The village pool hall looks as bare as banquetd washed and flannel-shirted. "Work or Fight," broke up their long vacation, and now the pool hall is a sight, a scene all the slouches, who used there, and air their woes and grouches. there in the long ago, content with their condition; to sit and let their whiskers grow was all of their am- For living they had no excuse, their faces showed dejection; they merely threw. tobacco juice in But now they're working by| the day, they're plowing and they're hoeing; they're rearing up two bales of hay where only one was growing. To cultivate the fertile soil I see them daily faring; their bones are creaking as they toil, and they are hoarsely swearing. The dungeons of the village are empty now and dreary; no Richard Roes within 'the wail, no Willies who are weary. The skates who used to beat their wives and steal their neighbors' chickens are driven now to useful lives; they're sweating like the dickens. 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