and Semi-Weekly by WHIG PUBLISHING 00, LIMITED, : 3. BAMOBE .. .r.i0 ous s.sPresident Guha . .Eaitor ana Aa 5 Manaming- Director. Rovme .. oan hig A a Joan delivered in city .. ..38.00 year, If paid in . by mah eT omosa 13.40 00 not paid fn advance 'he 50 do United States .. . 50 and three onthe o pro mis MONTREAL HEPRESENTAT F 1 Northrop, ni rir ae paler F.R.Nortarup, 1 n Bldg. Chicago By aes % ae = ke Sunhancd lite Smee - The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the BO Audit Bureau of Cireulations. ona of the Dest job a Canada, i The thoughtful Yankee is wonder- ing if paying $60 for a ticket to the fight is a sane way of celebrating the glorious Fourth. The St. Catharines Journal chinks the best national policy is that in which capital and labor seek to in- crease production and keep men em- ployed... Mrs. Bela Kun, wife of the Bol- shevist dictator of Buda Pest, has Just Invested $25,000 in Vienna in fats, gowns, ete. To be sure Bol- shevism is not alone for the masses, De Valera, the suif-made Irish "president," Is to raise a Sinn Fein "Victory" loan n 'the United States. We. would advise all Canadians to save their money for the next Cana-| dian Victory Loan. 4 ie LL Before the people of Canada begin to talk of 'peace reigning over the earth once more, they should remem- ber that a state of 'war still exists Between this country and Turkey, Bulgaria and Austria. "Over sixty-six. million dollars has been advaneed by the Dominion gov- ernment €or harbor improvements in Montreal. What could Kingston not do with a fraction of that sam for the same purpose? ' Now that aviation is likely to play # large part in commerce, it Is time that some "rules of the air' were drawn up for the safety of the peo- ple. There are go far*no restrictions of any kind in Canada. By thé way, we did not hear any- thing of the meeting to discuss King- . ston's war memorial which was an- nounced for April 25th, was post- poned, and which the Mayor promis. 4d to call "somegime in June" In Alberta the doctors Have beep limited to issuing one hundred liquor prescriptions weekly. This ~ means 5,200 every year, which, at the present charges, would make a nice little cyncome for any medical od 'himself to be tried in place of the 1 . He 18 Just a |that no veteran of this war will be helover, the spirit of forgetiuiness a . indifference iat and their salespeople by reading the Merchants' Column in the Whig evs ery Mondty, Wednesday and Satur- day, The International Steel and Copper Printers' Union of North America has taken a decided stand Bol- shevism or any other "ism" which tends to bring labor into disrepute. Thus the press, in its mechanical as well as its editorial departments, is united against the greatest menace the country has ever known. against One pushing advertiseing merchant does more to bring thrift into a com- munity than fitty who huddle by their stoves and wait for business to be brought to them by the energy of| some one else, ' A dozen live men reaching out in the by-ways and) hedges for business can make any town hum with prosperity, and the fown owes them much for the hustle and bustle within its borders, THE GROCERS HALF-HOLIDAY. Within the last few days letters have appeared in the Whig regarding the half-holiday for grocery clerks. It is certainly gratifying to those merchants who have adopted the Wednesday afternoon closing to know that their efforts to provide leasure time for their clerks are meet ing with the public approval. The present spell of hot weather has made the afternoon off a godsend to the harassed clerks behind the counters, Who on other days work ten and eleven hours'a day. While the natur- al trend of all employment is to pro- vide for an eight-hour day; it is only tight that those who work two or three hours more than that daily should have at least one afternoon a week free. The merchants do not suffer any loss of trade by closing for this afternoon, but they gain a great deal in service. It is to be regretted, therefore, that all the grocers have not seen fit to Tall in line with the majority who are giving a weekly half-holiday, and that some who started off well by closing for two successive - Wednesday afternoons have decided to keep open in the future, It was hoped, and it is still hoped, that every Brocery store in of early closing and 'a weekly half- holiday. "Phose who remain open will lose more in respect of the. citizens than. they galn In transient trade, and the Whig hopes that they win soon fall in line witih the others and close up one afternoon a week. et imi THE, EMPIRE'S DEBT + SOLDIERS. : In last Monday's issue of the Whig a very Interesting item appeared re- garding the récord of an old soldier named William Kirby, who served the Empire faithfully for twenty-six and a half years in almost every part of the globe, and who was one of the battery which fired the peace salute at London when the Crimean War came to an end. This old soldier, with a splendid record of service to the Empire, is now eighty-five years old, and-yet he is forced to earn his living by working as a street cleaner in this eity. 1s this not a striking axample of the glaring ingratitude of the Empire to the men who have car- ried her colors to all parts of the world. and have fought to keep the name of Britain at the head of the world's scroll of honor? After serv~ ing for/6o long a term, and giving the best of his life to the Empire, this sol- dier, at an age when he should be resting at home in quietness and &mfort provided for him by a grates ful government, is found with his shovel, rake and hoe, working day after day on the Kingston streets. This case' is no doubf one of many, but it deserves to be given wide pub TO HER 'which seems to have been done in the past to soldiers of the Empire, and as a warning 'to our legislators of the present so that they will make sure forced to work hard whe his declining years. point of honor to SfThe Zulus, "| broke Kingston. would adopt the principles [icity because of the great injustice = | AE Clot * Battle of Ulundi, July 4, 1879, There were "heroes before Aga- | memnon, and there were wars before the present great conflict of nations, but the earlier heroes were forgotten as soon as Homer had written the 1lliad, and th is a danger that when the record of the great strug- bd for the minor wars--bloody though some of them are--in whieh the British Empire was engaged during the last century, Nevertheless, | thirty-nine years ago British soldiers won a brilliant victory over Cete wayo, chief of the Zulus, about cne mile from the royal 'kraal at Ulundi, This place has been the royal resi-| dence of 'the Zulu kligs ever since | the time of the great chieftain Cha- ka, and a garrison of at least 3,000 | warriors was always kept there. On the day of the battle, the British force consisted of about 4,200 Eu- ropean and about 1,000 native troops under the supreme command o Lord Chelmsford In the morning | they formed a solid square, the 300 | mounted men being in the middle. who numbered over 20, 000, were armed with obsolete hunt- ing guns and with assegals, but they attacked with the greatest gallantry. Time and time again these naked | warriors advanced right up to the square, only to be met wilii the most deadly fire: that decimated their ranks At last 'the Zulus and fled, and were pursued by the mounted men: The total gle in which we are engaged to be | {set down there will be small space | £1 have returned to Jones' Falls. j and a very interesting sermon THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1919. * {10s of the British did not exceed [100 men of all ranks, but the Zulus {10st over 2,000 'of the best fighters. {After the battle, the royal kraal was Iburned, and Cetewayo was taken {irisoner A few years later he was restored to some of his old power, { ut in 1883 was attacked by a rival f¢hief, and the mative township of { Ulunat was again burned to the grounds, never to be built up again. Jones' Falls, July 2.--The farm- ers are jovial over the much needed i rain that fell last week, which will | be a great help to the grain and po- { tatoes. Haying will soon be the or {| der of the day. Some have already | started and report a heavy crop. James White is repairing. the roads which are in bad. condition. Miss Hazel Fenton, who has 'been | engaged as school teacher here has | returned to her home in Brockville. | Michael Kenny has purchased a new | Chevrolet car. Miss Mae Timlin and | Miss Mary Glover 'who have been { apending a few days in Kingston { writing on Musical examinations Tidings From Jones' Falls, | Sergt. "John Patterson of Delta [who has just returned from over-f seas is spending a few days with My. land Mrs. A. Hutchings. Miss Eva Baxter spent Sunday at L. Burche's: Miss Kertha Kennedy of Portland spent Sunday at A. Gambla's. Or- rin Burtch spent a few days at New- | boo last week. Elijah and Charles | Hutchings at Charles Hutching's. i The patriotic service held in the Union church was largely atiended, was ! given by the Rev, Mr. Adair. Er ------------------ Cornwalk soldier. THE PRINCE OF WALES IN DEVONSHIRE.. | Recently the Prince has been paying a visit to Devon and The picture showy him chatting with a demobilized Rippling Rhymes ing and I'd give no picayune for the days of June, him up to smile, everything's a sight to see, and the mansion and the soddy should alike be full of gles; and the scho should be beaming as along the road he swings; d the grandsire should be dreaming of a lot of pleasant things; and the farmer with his horses should explain how good he feels; the mortician® with his should be kicking up his heels. of kilter with the sad desponding loon who will let his sorrow filter through his countenance in Ju man is grim and sober, shy of happiness and vim, on a bleak day in October, I can sympathize with him. If a , man is far-from merry, if he mutters a 'Ges Whiz,' J in the blast of January, T can mix my tears with his the Raa he'd dismember, seeking words that sear like sin, in the middle of December; i can hail him as a twin. HARD TO PLEASE Ifa man is not contented with this 'gold old world in June, if his aching grief is vented in a pessimistic tune, he is hopeless, he is chronic, he 18 full of prunes and bile, and therq is no earthly tonic that will brace For in June the world is gaudy, boy corses There ig something out Ha But the rosy month is wan- man who is complaining in the happy WALT. MASON. never be said that on Cana defenders, and we mean the men who did the actual fighting in Frince and Flanders; was forced to work on the| streets at the age of eighty-five: years,|3 Even now, when the war is barely x a ts, Sf iz Wie sim iow the future jure of neglect of the re li L BIBBYS ~ "WHERE THE GOOD CLOTHES COME FROM" Desir July and August store will close' at 5 p.m. Saturday evening, 10 o'clock. Sale of Men's Straw ahd Panama Regular $3.75, $4.75 values. Sizes 3 to 73. Special MEN'S OUTING AND:SPORTS SHIRTS Pure white Linen Lawn. 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