__ PAGE SIX EA THE BRITISH WHIG The xem tian 86TH YEAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 1919. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG invitin .n al 'ah - are « - : ate wt tho atirective, tatetiee| | EN NNENEEEEREENEENESENEENRENEEEESEEENS EERENERENEEE (Canada-Fast and West 5 The of the ractive, inte « $ ---------- Dominion Happenings of Other Shooting the Rapids. BIBB Y S » tual dnd defenceless people of Per | 1 'Days. Thousands each summer now en- Kingston's One Price Clothing House sia, if such a movement joy the thrill of shooting ti St. Law- o. + sate were to d be a re HATS HATS all posted in Mesopo- overrun the country, wc proach to elvilization. Moreover war has brought Persia closer to Britain her long<ime friend and protector than ever she was before She Sow Sade Briain rence rapids: it is one of the many along her western flank delightful experiences of the Domin- tamia, securing {ion of Canada. But until October Kurds and 19, 1840, no large steamer had ever have attempted to run the leaping waters ¢ between Kingston and Montreal. The | Indians in their little canoes Ww | undaunted by the foaming waters | and made frequent trips through the most violent. Timbermen were ac- customed to bring their rafts through | the Lachine rapids in the days when | such rafts were common on the river, But with the advent of steam navi- gation and the disappearance largely | of the rafts the rapids were left un- | navigated. from troops north- frontier Turks. British marched through the west to the Caspian and where they have afipeared Persians have discov- ered that the arson' and pillage with which the name of soldier has longi been associated in their minds longer stands good. They find sol- !diers who pay for all they take and treat the inhabitants with humanity and kindness. her 3 Pro- perties enjoy and ser- which called upon to pay in some part at least HN LE 5. A vices PERSIA TAKES ON A FOSTER MOTHER. few weeks ago without , of trumpets Great Cablished Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED no A flourish quietly the gov- Britain wunced that it had taker - Er ---- J. Gh. Elliott Leman A. Guild SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) year, delivered In city year, if pald in advance . year, by mail to rural offices year to United States (Semi-Weekly Edition) year, by mail, cash year, if not paid in advance year, to United States Six and thr ynths pro rata, "OUT-OF-TC "PRESIINTATIVES MH. Bruce Ower ¥. M. Thomp One One Une One One One 5 3! $ J t 402 Lumsden Bldg Toronto 2.50 5.00 1,00 50 1.50 t.. Montreal ernment of Persia under its protect- | President | ing wing. , » Editor and ging-Director The words were hardly uttered before there was an outery, especially in the United States, and } ges were wildly made that Great ritain had gone behind the back of >» Powers with whom she was as- yeinted and had quietly concluded a which tage of Brits the Ame mild lamb ferocious was all to the in. ican being guarded British advan- Persia was pictured by cartoonists as a he and the and the by Lion charges of land-grabbing partition of territory without refer ence to the will of the people in di-| With the disappearance of Russian power all the avenues trade have passed into British hands. There will building up trade that be an and has never The development yet had a chance, improvement of com- munication by the building of rail-| ways and highways will be the first Prosperity will not come a rush. The population in the step with north-west has been sadly depleted Eastern des- by famine and pestilence frreclaimable large Persia is largely ert, but there are of tracts opening for the! of al | gers good land and splendid opportunities | the | of | of 80 attractions became that date the Thousand Islands cott. From that town the Longue Sault Rapids. reached Montreal the night. by stage to Cornwall, {the At Coteau du Lac they took Lachine. {miles completed the trip to Up to 1837 the lake steamers did | not venture farther down from To- | ronto than Kingston, but soon after| the well known that little steamers plied to] that part of the river and to Pres- "Dolphin" sailed every morning to the head of Passen- same thence throuwh Lake St. Francis by steamer. the | stage to the Cascades where a small vessel, the Chieftain, brought them to A stage coach ride of six Mont- 'Dress Up' As usual, we are more than adequately equipped with a resplendent "DRESS UP SHOW' for service clothing, featuring particular- ly the season's finer "breezy" ones with "crackle" to them that all young "Up-to- the-minute" dressers look for, faultlessly ' of the finest ready creations -- those that indefinable -~ {real. It was not ugtil 1848 when the | enlarged Lachine Canal was opened that the Upper Canada steamers be- {gan to run all the St. Lawrence rR Nortnrp Se ih correct in every detail. F¥.R.Northrup, 15610 A ve., New York | pact opposition t OXDIeRRO( . 5 on , Chicago Pposition xpressed for an enormous trade Britain is ---- oh tention of permi self-determina- elled at Bri Y 3 ¢ y y § rested tl are published unquestionably more interested than Letters to the Editor ' name of the tion, were only over the wuctual one jffices in ES -------------------------------------------- The circulation or THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC (udit Bureau of Circulations. Canada. ---------------- A -------- A ---------------- A The Germans have not improved any since the, great war; they again uging poison gas, this time against Riga. ---------------- Guelph will permit its citizens to read and report the record of their gas meters. The CGuelphites must be unusually honest inspire people to such trust. One wonders if the future ; will justify the confidence Next spring Canadian airmen state they will be prepared to take part in international events. At Toronto én Tuesday Canadian pilots and observ- ers took preliminary steps to make Canada the greatest flying centre in the "world. { -------------------- The latest national figure to break down under nervous strain in Sam- uel Gompers, the veteran labor lead- er. The people of the United Btates, no less than organized labor itself, can ill afford to be deprived of his wise and conservative leadership. Another smashing blow has been "dealt the Red army f the Russian soviet government 33,000 prisoners and much booty having just heen captured in the Siberian region. A few more such defeats and the Bol- shevik rule will be at an end. A decrease of over $32,000,000 in Canada's volume of trade for the six months ending Sept. 30th, reveals an undesirable state of affairs. It i{llus- trates, for one thing, the very unset- tied condition of our industries and points to the need of greater produce tion. The Anglican church Congress in | England is much perturbed over the | question of Spirituhlism. Several prominent churchmen have made a partial defence of the though others strongly ' oppose it, The war has brought many changes of opinion, though none quite as ra- dical as this, THE ASSES: The report of Ex sessment Commissicuer, aa heen made publie, and will be found in another column of to-day"s Whig. It is a most interesting and satis- factory document, with the single oxeeption of the item relating to population. During the past year the city, instead of increasing in popu- fation, shows a decrease of 476 due to the closing of several industries and the removal of officers and sol- diers and their families. The popu- lation now stands at 23,261. In 1917, when Assessor Mooers took office, the total civic income amounted to $485,840. had increased this to $044,600, or a bejterment of $458,760. This is a' splendid record and shows the thér- oughness with which Mr. Mooers has done his work. The record is all the more remarkable when one temem- bers that the valuation on land and buildings has not been increased, The total valuation of the buildings of the city has gone up about $80,- 000, but this is due almost solely '16 new construction. The increase in business tax, income tax, statute to the Council and to the city at large, amply showing that 'the city commissioner is a man well qualified for the duties of the office, The exemptions now total the Jarge sum of $3,715,540, this being an inérease of $98,100 over last year. The increase is largely due lo the new Sydenham Hospital, a gov- | of the best Job T belief, i In 1920 he! Then the : m passed over, that died be- , when the thinking men of the country came of the treaty that had been drawn up, they could find no flaws in the arrangement per was down was ca to examine the terms and one great newsph that "it {would be difficult to find an instance of an engagement power and unexceptionable forced to confess between a great power more thor the Anglo-Persian-agreement,"-and Lord Curzon cut the ground from the feet are | weak oughly than of the obposition when he declared that Great Britain ready anxious bmit the agreement t the Nations for its ar stand by its acceptan was and to s League of proval and to or rejection. Persia, a Asia, of the north Russia, the Cas Russia Central Asia Afghanistan and Bel south by the Persian Gul and west by Asiatic Turkey. It ex kingdom bounded Traans-Caucasian pian east Wester is on b Sea and of chistan; " | tends for 700 miles north and sout {and 900 miles east and west, with au {area of about 636,000 square miles {and an estimated population of 10,-] 000,000. go. back to the earliest dawn of his- | tory and it has long been a country noted for its cultivation of the dra- { ma, poetry and philosophy. | been swept by wars since the days {when the Assyrians laid it waste. {© Until the timé of the great. war Persia came under the sphere of in- | fluence of Great Britain and Russia {| Russia controlling. a section of the { northern part, Great Britain a sec- | tion in the south, leaving a central | belt controlled by neither govern- | ment The infamous peace pact | signed dat Brest-Litovsk in 1918 in- | cluded a provision for the recogni- { tion of the political and economic in- | dependence and territorial integrity of both Persia and Afghanistan, {and this would have sulted Germany, { who knew the weakness of Persia | | and that she could not walk alone | seized the | { opportunity for peaceful penetration. | {to-day and would have Its language and literature | It has | { | The very fact that Germany worked | for an independent Persia should | {have put on their guard those cri- | | ties 'who to-day object to the Anglo- | { Persian agreement. The fact, how- | {ever, remains that Persia has been {too weak to walk alone for half a {century back and the government {and the people have gradually grown | | weaker. Had it not been for the { conquest of Turkestan by the Rus | | sians it is probable that the north- | eastern part of the country would have gradually been made uninhab- {table by the Turcomans, whose | raids were being carried further and further afleld every year. The Kurds land the Baktaris on the west and the | Baluchists on the east would soon | have completed the ruin of the un- | fortunate country. In return for | freeing the country from the menace {of these robber bands Russia de- | manded commercial - trade | 1eges and just before the war with {in Persia was a most serions one. | Alter their collapse in Manchuria | Russia was ready to oofe to terms { with England and to surrender some | of the former ambitions. These pro- jects included invasion of India and ft was not until the Peace of Ports- mouth had been concluded that Britain was frée from this menace. Then the war came and Persia, al- {though nominally a mnentral, was invaded by Turks, Kurds and Rus- jj § } helplessness of | | labor, etc, must be very gratifying | Persia was seen when the German | ii iiang, The nutter { legation at Teheran organized a non- {§ | descript body of soldiery which for {a time held the country in constant | tear and nearly secured the person of the young Shah. If thers was {nothing else to prove Persia's weak- {ness this shonld show that she Is provi- 4 China the position of Great Britain | i any other nation in. the future of Persia, and the futupe prosperity of the country could hardly have been | founded on more hopeful lines than | are contained in the An- glo-Persian agreement. E those that 31,000 Came To Canada. London, Oct, 18, Government passengers returns to the end of June in and out of Great Britain show Canada, outward, 31,000; stralia, outward, 6,000; South Africa, out inward, 5,000; United nward, 24, 1.5 50; States, outward, 1 000 inward, | rapids as they do now. the late ' Hon. John Hamilton run all the rapids. Failing to new owners. attempt for several years. & 'the Dolphin, when she v by twenty yoke of oxen in 1838, Ww a Ar A A Ee '""Pape's Diapepsin"' is the a a] Stomach acidity tion! ofuses der 'what upset your stomach? Well, | don't bothet! 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Rhymes re black, the thunder roars, there are a thing of chance, my name fs Eben- every time I plan a jaunt. or picnic d haunt, inviting friends to go along | lives one grand sweet song, the ele- | ments remark, "Nay, nay!" and bring along a beastly ! are dark, the winds are bleak; this least a week. the well known sun will shine, the stars will not take in their sign; the winds will whisper, soft and low, and | not like merry blitzen blow; the skies, an airy blue, | will seem to them as good as new. vacation schemes to sally to the burbling streams, and spend a day, or maybe four, far from the bug-| house city's roar, the elements remark, "The toff! where he gets off!" ezer Pance We'll show them now And then the stredks of lightning fly; the sable clouds | obscure the sky, with awful pomp and circumstance; my name is Eben- | ~WALT MASON. oS es A A ri. 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ALL SIZES QUEBEC HEATERS MUST BE SOLD AT ONCE Do Not Delay CAN BE SEEN AND BOUGHT AT | hardly vet abt to walk alone, The break-up of the Turkish and : ernment institution which is placed | Russian empires bag loft » vacuum | woe Be SEEIZM N'S Alsq Plumbing Supplies. But in 1840 had built a powerful ship, the "Ontarie" with the expectation that she Would do | $0 she was sod to a Quebec firm for luse between Montreal and that city, but she had tg be delivered bv the On Oct. 19 of that year the ship made a safe trip through every descent of the river, the first {large ship to do se. record of any other vessel making the | Only one ship ever ascended the rapids; that as towed But there is no Oh, other men abrgad | may ride, and tour the smiling countryside; for them | But when I make| $45.00. Chesty, $25.00. See our Raverhall Suits in All-Wool Worsted Cheviots at $45.00. See our Claude Suits in fancy Worsteds at $35.00. 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BUNT'S HARDWARE | eee ee DAVID SCOTT Plumber Plumblug and Gas Work a special. ty. All work guaranteed. Address 145 Froutenac street. Phone 1277, OUR HOT WATER BAGS are called "Leak-Prool" hecause they are that kind----some with our Fonn- tain Syringes--and you'll find all our Rubber Goods first class in every de t We alm to earry everything in Rubber that is needed in the sick 185 PRINCESS STREHT PHONE 343 [BUTTER Were PAPER Printing, "Choice Dairy Butter" 1,000, $2.85; 5,000, $13.00; 10,000, $23.00, Specially printed with your own 1,000, $3.50; 5,000, $15.05; 19,000, ial copy, $235.00 a een pgp 2 ---- | | rns Sn, FARMS FOR SALE: 0 ....Price $20,000 vevin Price 16,0 Price Price «+ Price .. Price Price Price -Price Price Price Price Prioe Price Sk kd ht ft Bk BD GD OU 59 BO 90-1 0 Dre He Real Estate and Insurance CLARENCE STREET Phone 1035W, or 1797J. I i He Never Did, (Philadelphia inquirer LAZENBY'S- or Mixed Pickles, Chow Chow, - Walnuts, Gherkins, Browning for Gravies, Parisian Essence, Mushroom Catsup, Essence of Anchovies, Malt Vinegar, Tar ragon Vinegar, Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 and 990. DELAWARE LACKAWANNA ~----and-- WESTERN RAILROADS "CELEBRATED SCRANTON COAL The Standard Anthracite. Chief Distributor for Kingston Crawford Oriental Eoterprise, sit i i (Brookive Bagie) f { HM Singapore is to bridga Johore {Btrait at an expense of about $8.4 090,000, the Occidental world mus Btill, we observe that the farmer look to its engineering laurels, Whay has ne objection to putting dy a lot of daylighi savings, trade demands, trade will wave, in the Orient as well aw elsewhere, a ~-