CE ------------------------------ THE BRITISH WHIG =: for the feelings of her depen- nad Semi-Weekiy by hot Bly PUBLISHING Baha ia EMO .. ..ov ou. oc President Leman A, Guild .. ,. . .Editor and Managing-Director. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Edition) One year, delivered in oity .. ..36.00 One year, If paid in advance .. 5.00 One year, by mall to rural offices "$2.60 One year to United States .. ..33.00 (Bemi- yours a diten) ¥L00 One year, cash . BF nad, paid in advance i 30 MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R. Brues Owen .123 St. Peter St, ¥.R.Northrup, ry Fifth Ave, New York ¥.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago Letters Yo the Baitor are published ba over Actual. pame of the or. Attached is one of the printing offices in Canada. best Job The circulation of THE BRITISH , WHIG is authenticated by the Oo AB Audit Bureau of Olrculations. ""Who took Vimy Ridge? Well, we know it wasn't the slimy Hun. Things are brightening up. Tha long seige of rain was very depress- ing. \ No more ships are to be christen: ed with a bottle of wine. It is tco precious these days to be sacrificed even for one's devotion to his coun- try. Steffansson thinks the Garden of Eden is to be found in the Hudson Bay country. Maybe he is right, but he must demonstrate that it can be made the food supply house of the world, And now 'they gay there are new signs of life on the planet Mars The Bolsheviki and the Spartacan: anay have broken out on that far away shore, rrr The witty Brantford Expositor finds that there ig no (k) night in heaven, and adds: This fact, how- ever, will not make some Canadian politicians we know of any-the-less anxious to get there. A joker in _ the Grand Rapids News thinks trousers are really a necessity, and therefore should not come under thé luxury tax; they cannot safely be done without, in this northern climate at least. A man rejected by the U.S. hoards for the army has just won a Marathon race in Boston. The doctors, however, declare they had no intention of choosing men to do the Marathon race in the war. They were looking over fighting men. The bald headed man' has a cinch; he hasn't to dig up 60¢ monthly for a hair cut. Oné old codger with a mere fringe objected to the high figure as he had so lt- tle te cut, but the barber told him it was worth really double, as i! was so hard for him to find it. Kingston retail merchants are ghowing their progressiveness hy voluntarily reducing the hours of labor in the stores. They realize that the clerical worker suffers more under existing conditions than almost any other class of employeo. The township councils of ¥ron- tenac still continue lo vote thon- sands of 'dollars as compensation to farmers 'whose sheep have been killed or worried by dogs. One mar- yels at the patience -of the sheep- | raisebs---or, rather, of those who attempt to raise. sheep. The new luxury taxes put on on in the United States is not for the whole price of the article. A $26 lady's hat wil pay a duty of cent. on the cost over $15. . gs and tlea will be tax- exces of $1 a pair. There n easy remedy for people who le: ie, get down to simple living and "accepting the kind of that appeal to the great run : The Anglo-Sesons have always neater of the ribet of The earth. and 'this is why, 'in the greatest treaty since the time of , there is a paragraph taken dents. RURAL POSTMASTERS. By all means let the rura masters be paid more money their services. The postmaste asking for stated: salaries, as missions from revenue are gether too inadequate to meet high cost of Hving. Last December they were given a bonus of $100, which wag a very slight relief. Now, living costs have further and whio are responsible for the ation of the rural mail are n a off than before the bonus Was voted MH is pointed out that an account- ing rural post office has the same work to perform as a city office where a clerk is supplied for each department, It is further pointed out that a civil servant should pre- sent a good appearance to the pub- lie, but a case is known where a rural postmaster is weaning patches on his clothes, as he' cannot afford to buy new garments. Furthermore, a civil servant should be remunerat- ed so that he will not become a charity when too old for efficient service. The rural postmasters are certainly wonthy of consideration, and without delay advancad THE 218T BANQU ET FUND. The latest news from England states that the 21st Battalion sailed from England on Tuesday. They should therefore reach Kingston in about ten days' ¢ime. That means that the fund for providing a ban- quet for the battalion will only be open for a day or two more Sub- scriptions 'have been -pouring in this week, and more dre still needed Time id now short, so it will be ne cessary for those who wish to con- tribute to do so without delay. The banquet is to be held in the Armouries, and it is anticipated that about twelve hundred men will be present. This will be the biggest affair of its kind ever held in Kingston. The boys certainly de- serve It, and it is to be hoped that it will not fail from lack of funds The Whig would like to point out that this banquet js being given en- tirely apart from the reception giv- en by the civic committee. One cf the local organizationk has takaa exception to the banquet on the grounds that it is showing diserimi- nation in favor of the 21st Bat- talion, That view is hardly correct, however, as it is being organized entirely by the 21st Battalion Club, a club of. returned members of this unit. The civic reception committed hie nothing whatever to do with the arrangements being made for the banquet, so that no charge of dis- crimination can be laid at their doors. The members of the club believed' that the citizens would be only too pleased of an opportunity to contribute to such an' event for their returning boys, and the sub- scription lst has shown that their belief is correct. The club deserves credit and hearty support for their courageous action in tackling so big a proposition, and they are deter- mined to make it a great success, thanks to the generosity of the! people of Kingston. STAMPING OUT BOLSHEVISM. The news of anti-Bolshevist mili- tary successes ix Bavaria and Hun- gary Is highly significant as well as interesting. In Munich, after a! period of extreme turmoil and vio- lent street fighting between Herr! Noske's forces and the Reds, Com- munism has been completely crush- ed. The Bolshevik government in the Bavarian capital is already a thing of the past. ' Budapest, the seat of Bela Kun's Hungarian Red republic, is close pressed by Rumanian, Jugo-Slav and Czech-Slovak forces, and its en- | circlement was practically assured when the Allies, for political 'pur-, An Empue Calendar. Florence Nightingale, Born May 15, 1820---Next year the nursing profession throughout the world will celebrate the centenary of the woman who by devotion to duty, capacity for organization and ungques- tioned ability, revolutionized nurs- ing, making of it a calling which wo- men of birth and education are 'to- day very proud to take up rather an. offshoot of domestic drudgery, which it. was before her day Miss Nightingale was born at Florence, Italy, of English parents, From a very early age she manifested the keenest interest in all kinds of suf- fering, and had searcely attained the age of womanhood before she had made a complete study of the chief nursing systems of Europe. In 1854, during the Crimean war, Miss Night- ingale came to the fore. The hos- pital accommodations at the front were very defective, few nurses vol- THE PLEBISCITE AREAS SOUTH OF DENMARK. Kou Do { ! « ANGEL Ye biscit ST MnoERN Plebt = cr < Gromnit NG wm -r H eligola a Denmark is said to be, nol territory south of her borders her to annex commission of five, ine luding way, and another by Sweden, js to take control and arrange for a vofe in three districts, as ind farthest north votes first, withi It votes asa unit. The communes, there being more 1 tavorable to Denmark. the second vole and the sout communes, ii li rom Area So APENRADE Are 2 ragged Area No.3 LL a Z H:ticoms Husum ot Some / i ite AR 4 ~JF RIE Eri Va =v providing favorable plebiscites are secured. A second area votes five weeks later by The third vote comes a fortnight after for service, and hundreds of men were dying from wounds which dirt infected. Miss Nightin- gale volunteéred to organize a body of nurses at a hospital at Secutari. The offer was accepted by the war of- fice, and within a few days Miss Nightingale was on her way to the East, where she performed splendid services to the sick and wounded hy her incessant labors in nursing and hospital reform. She earned the name among 'the soldiers of "The Lady with the Lamp," as it was her custom to go around the wards per- sonally at night with a small lantern to comfort the sick and wounded and to relieve their sufferings if possible. After the war was over she returned on a British battleship, and thereaf- ter devoted the rest of her life to hos- pital reform. In this capacity she was consulted' during the American civil war and the Franco-German war. She PMyed to a great age, dy- ing in London on August 12, 1910. She was the author of several books dealing with her experiences and on scientific nursing, dg i D nl N pe oF Holstein LUBECK eager to obtain all the German that the Peace Treaty permits a representative named by Nor- icated on the map. The district in three weeks after evacuation. incertainty as to the result being hernmost area then decides by rms Rhymes: GOOD WORKMEN When I am sick, lame and blind sician, then if sieians charge they draw a breath, der; they show old auto's in a loose, village can produce. charges, or so, fix our boats and barges when they 'are strictly on Some other gents might do it cheaper, but when we count the final running deeper; the blink. tinhorn workm to his care; he and bungles when he cuts our hair. aL A to paint my stable, grand old master, amply able to make all his rivals seem a jest. ize the ablest baker that in this country hamlet dwells, and when I die my undertaker must be the one who' A 0 PP NN East Bound, Leave poses, called a halt to the advance. I hire the very best Str. Britannic FIRST TRIP OF THE SEASON West Bound, Leave Montreal Wednesday, April 30th Kingston Friday, Order your freight by this reliable route. ROCKPORT NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD., Telephone 2105. in punk condition, when I am and halt, I hire the city's best phy- I die it's not my fault. The big phy- like thunder, they charge each time but they give value for the pfun- us how to sidestep death. When my panic, with many ' doodads breaking mechande 'that our small He has no consience when he odsfish, I sometimes think; but he can cost, we find expenses the tinhorn workman js a frost. The an .badly botches all things entrusted spoils our pants and hats and watches, When 1 decide I'd hire a Titian at his best, some 8 wearing bells, --WALT MASON. May 2nd As In Bavaria, so in Hungary, the extreme radicals have demonstrated their inability to build up a defen- sive organization strong enough to cope with the forces aligned against it. The defeat of Bolshevism in the! first phase of its march from Rus- sia toward the west is an' important event in the history of the move- ment that has menaced the founda- tion of orderly society from Viadi- vostok to the Rhine. It reveals the failing power of the army of dis- order and disruption, and demon- strates the capacity of the sane part of the world to protect itself from Tow. 1 patron-|, The Early Bird BIBBYS 78, 80, 82 Princess Street Bibbys Headquarters For Men's and Boys' Wear. The Publishers Paper Say you are as much interested in the ad- vertising columns as in the reading notices. That being so, and publishers never lie, we expect to see you and a bunch of other men at our hat department. Here's the reason: -- We are going to offer soft hats '"T'ravellers' Samples," make. Colors are: greens, tans, browns and earls. Regular $3.00 and $3.50 and $4.00 values &es 63 to' 1. Your chgice for each . .. 10 dozen men's all English $5.75. 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