yr Bu, "presentative citizens. The Canadian | PAGE SIX Hn THE BRITISH WHIG the Saskatoon Daily Mail, has some B6TH YEAR | Yery apt and amusing things to say | regarding the many trials and tribu- lations that afflict the average mar- | ried man during the winter season. | After recounting the cussedness of | storm windows, furnaces, ash sifters, frozen water pipes, etc., he says: "Perhaps the most pestilential foe jot & married man's comfort is the { husband who knows how to make | will | means.) | | things. (Every married man | understand just what = he There is one in every neighborhood. | Nothing can stop his activity. {can do things with {saws. Seems to have a gift that way, { Normal sorts of husbarids ean't gn- | derstand it. Cold weather bl J | bring it on bad. In the long winter | evenings he goes to the basement and PRI " [makes thingattor his wife. Fablished Daily asd Semi-Weekiy by| 'If these mazing performances TRE BRI nial UBLISINING | oo) 10 Le Rept secret tn his own house ~ But in her pride his wife tells the other me 1'8 wives, and then the trouble begins. Home comes {the talented whittler some cold even- . ing with a discarded telephone pole SUBSCHIPTION RATES wl his shoulder. His gloating wife One year, delivered in city '00 | Meets him at the front steps. He Bos a Ea A Ane ot i turns sideways so as not to poke her "Nin the face with the pole, and greets One Joa A a wuvnce J1.9¢ Ber With an affectionate kiss. Such Ope year, to United States $1.89 | husbands are always greeting théir ix and three monthe pro rata. siness Office Editorial Rooms Job Office ...... 343 .329 .292 One year, b ~OF-TOWN SSIENTATIVES : 1 KX Brac Owen 22 SC Jobn Br. Montrea:| he lays the pole dowfl. *. a "That night he starts in to M. Thompson, 402 Lumsden Bldg. ¥.R Northrup, 256 Fifth Ave. New York | whittle, and four months later he F.R.Nerthrup, 1810 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago}, 0 0 ih a wonderful = six-foot Letters to the Editor are published lamp, all fluted and polished. His Sa the wetual hame delighted spouse telephoned all the TAfached 1s one of the best Job|neighboring wives, and they go to printing offices in Canada. | see it, | '""And they come home and sit The circulation of THE BRITISH | wondering why it was not their joy- WHIG is authénticated by the {ous fate to marry a man who can v | make things like that. They com- > Audit Bureau of Circulation. pare their husbands with the gifted ' hammer-slinger until the luckless man who can't do anything in wood- work, except pull a splinter out of his finger, feels that nothing in this life matters but an ability Yo' make Henoo | seven dollars' worth of furniture out nce | Very few people who want more | free speech have shown any desire to do more work and relieve the scar- ¢eity of anything. Half-dressed women will of a dollar a ineteen ! forth be debarred from some of the | I and nineteen conts Worth | fal : j of railroad ties, French churches. They will have the, "Sometimes one of the goaded freedom of the streets and the dance { husbands tries to emulate the home- halls. | improver, but instead of converting an abapdoned plano-box into a ma- hogany chiffonier, he flattens out his thumb with the Nammer, and the language he uses is something his wife never thought she would have to listen to. "Winter time brings one to the conclusion that there Is something wrong with our educational system. It either produces wives who egpect too much of their husbands or it pro- duces husbands who lack the techni- cal training that modern conditions of housekeeping demand. If the latter is the case, there should be a change in the school curriculum. There should be a special course in handling a home in the winter. Poli- tical economy should be replaced by fuel economy. Schools should teach the use of furnace draughts instead of bank drafts. As we are using wood instead of coal, the care of the teeth of a saw should be included in the hygiene lesson, and the botany professors should impress upon their classes that it is more necessary to "Toronto is soon to be isolated from the rest.of the province," says a contemporary. Why lament the fact? Won't the rest of Ontario be better off? : Judges in Kingston, St. Catharines and elsewhere deplore the low pay granted to jurors and witnesses. The rate at present is absurd, and a change cannot be made too sdon. The Australian government offered @ prize of $50,000 to the first air man to fly from England to that commonwealth. It is fitting that the prize should be won by.an Australian, Capt. Ross Smith. Sleeping sickness 18 spreading, and @ warning is. being sent out to the doctors of Ontario to guard against 'the disease. A number of deaths have already oeeurred as a result of this strange malady. a Three years in the penitentiary He | hammers and | President | 811 Would be well. There would be | wives with an affectionate kiss. Then | was a light sentence for a man who seduced a motherless young girl. The fact that the man had a wife and large family of small children evi- dently weighed . heavily with the Judge. : -------- The Unionists have lost another] seat to the United Farmers. The election of President Halbert, of the * United Farmers of Ontario is an in- dication of what is likely to happen When the next federal election takes place. ---------------- W. PF. O'Connor, of the Board of , Commerce, states that 75 per cent. Jnore sugar was received hy Manitoba | # in 1919 than in 1918, yet this year there is a lamentable shortage. The only explanation is tiat dealers must be hoarding sugar against a rise in priges. ' A -------------------- A Dutch minister expresses alarm ut the danger of the ex-kaiser's con- tinued sojourn in that country, . The next step may be an invitation to get out, Wilhelm, lke that other des pot, Napoleon, will probably yet throw himself on the protection of |' England. But his reception is likely to be quite different, The C.D.R. officers have visited Kingston this week, looked over the field, formed their own conclusions and listened to the words of welcome #5 voiced by the, mayor and other re- National Railway---the people's own line---has entirely ignored this city. Public ownership has yet something | to learn from private control. : Litre : . _A Rideau ward citizen writes to the 'Whig that he has waited seven years have a curbing put down to keep cellar from tiooding, but that L Know what to do with a leak in the sink than a leek in the garden. The classé of future husbands should be taught how to get storm windows on without breaking the glass or into profanity. And when our schools teach busbands all these things the wives of that day will rise up and call them 'blessed--the schools, that is, not the husbands. Never that. One must not expect too much." PUBLIC OPINION | At Regular Rates. (Washington Star) "Does your cook give you any ime pertinence?" ' "No. She charges me ten dol- lars a week for it.", t. (Amsterdam Recorder) It is suggested that we keep our coal this winter in the empty sugar bowl. Now Bremiee a Slicer. \ itoba Fre. 88) Premios niiobs | of Ontario, had better wateh his step. Some folks down there are already charging him with talking too much. - In (Ottawa J. 3 + Tenants may be brig enough but they cannot always tell early in the negotiations whether the land- lord is offering his house fox sale or | merely quoting the rent wanted. That woman always comes here just before dinner. Ls 3 Hub--Then it's evident that she comes here after dinner. = 2 - 3 " JAM. Graham can secure the use of | 13 the city's plant without notice and vithout authority. The people who lect such. aldermen are more to le than the aldermen who take of the people's indiffer- DENIKINE PUSHED BACK : -------- . { By the Bolsheviki--Latter Repulsed In Caucasus. Canadian Press Despatch) London, Dee. 12.--Bolsheviki for- j ces have again heavily attacked the left flank of General Denikine's ariny and driven the latter's volunteers | back to a depth of thirty or forty miles along a front from' three to { four hundred miles long. The Reds are within fifty miles from Kharhov and. Doltava, and are swinging around to the southeast of Kieve, which is also threatened from the | northwest, according to news from south Russia. The situation gives | rise to anxiety. | On the Caucasus front, however, the | Bolsheviki have been repulsed before | Tsaritzan with heavy losses. Don | Cossacks have also been successful { In pushing back the Reds. i { | MANY MINES STILL AFLOAT i | Germans Have Been Backward in { Clearing Seas of These, { Berlin, Dec. 12.--German naval | authorities have been backward in | removing mines from German wat- i OI8, according to a Hamburg de- | spatch to the Vossische Zeitung, At | & meeting of the Nautical Assocla- j tion in that city the despatch says | maps were shown indicating that 9,- i 700 square miles of the North Sea {are as yet not cleared, while Great Britain and the U. S. have almost | finished clearing fields, laid by their | navies during the war. It is claimed | here that the delay has been due to | lack of coal. cen snes | KEEP SKELETON STAFF | Imperial Munitions Board Spent One | Billion on This Continent. { Ottawa, Dec. 12.--S8ir Joseph ¥la- { velle, head of the I'mneriat ++ | Board, was in Ottawa yesterday--his first visit since the board we. its business. He states that the ex- penditures made by the board on be- half of the Imperial Government ex- ceeded a billion dollars. Nearly all of them have been liquiditated now, but the skeleton of the organization 'will be maintained for a month or so yet. } The Reason Why ! Btn 2 Why Does Salt Make Me Thirsty ? The blood in our body contains about the same proportion of salt as the 'water in the ocean normally. When the supply is normal we do not feel that we have too much salt in our systems, but when you take salt into your mouth the percentare of salt in the body is increased, and the being thirsty, of the desire to drink water afterwards is' caused by the demand of the human systém that the salt be diluted. ' The syster cails for water or something to drink in ordsr that it may counteract tha too great percentage of salt in the sye- 'tem. Other things algo, when taken into the body in-too great a propac- tion, cause us to become iahirgty, Totrst is merely nature's demand for more water on account of the neces- sity of reducing the percentages of Some substance like salt, or marely 8 hacugsity for having mors water in the Body. --From the Book of Wonders. Pub- THE DAILY BRITISH CanadaEast and West Dominion Happeniugs of Other Days. Mackenzie in Exile. a wild scene was enacted. The days were troubled omes politically, and the arrival of the former revolt lead- er was the match required to start the outbreak. The house which he was living was mobbed and as- sanited with sticks and stones: He Was burned in effigy and for several days it was unsafe for the erstwhile exile to venture out of doors. But the excitement soon abated and he moved freely around the city, shun- ned, however, by many of his form- er associates. He sought to be res imbursed for his losses after the re- volt, alleging that he was owed $12,- {000 by the government, In 1851 he presented himself for a seat in Par- in liament for Haldimand, with the Hon. | Geo. Brown as an opponent. He was elected, as 'was also Dr. Rolph, a hot time afterwards. Mackenzie heM his seat for Haidimand until August, 1858, when he resigned: His influence in Upper Canada politics was at an end : Two - years later some of his friends, having learned that the form- er rebel leader was in straightened circumstances, raised a fund with whica to guarantee his old age and also provide for the future of his family, Mackenzie sought to have « portion of this money given to him at once so that he could take a trip ito Europe. It was refused, and at once Mackenzie inserted a notice in the papers telling his friends not. to subscribe. The work ceased at once naturally, and what had been secur- ed already was invested. Part of it was used to buy the family a house on Bond street, where he resided un- til 'his. death, which took place on August 28th, 1861, when hé had reached the age of 61 years. Four days later he was buried in the Nec- ropolis, Toronto, in the north east corner of the cemetery in which rest- ed the bodies of his two hanged as- sociates, Samuel Lount and Thomas Matthews. NEW OFFICERS WELCOMED By the Salvation Army Corps on Thursday Evening. Adjutant and Mrs. Goodhue, the new Salvation Army officers, were of- fically welcomed by the local corps on Thursday evening at the citadel. The superintendent of the Sunday school in greeting the new officers, stated that he hoped they would take an interest in the school. Dur- ing the term of office of Mrs, Smith, she had been teacher of the Bible class. Mrs, Goodhue assured 'the gathering that she would continue the work where Mrs. Smith left off. of the work, in greeting the officers, assured them that they would give them every assistance. In thanking the members of the local corps, for the welcome they bad received, Adjutant and Mrs. Goodhue stated that they had come to Kingston for thé purpose of trying to fill a big job, and with the assist- ance of every member of the corps they hoped to accomplish it. lished and copyrighted by the Bure eau of Industrial Education, Inc., -- Sh -------- Heaven is not won by success, but Washington, D. C. would; in a bag." with naught to idle hands, and hay. s out, and gone to seed, ing means an evening no substitutes would do. We have For LA FRONTS POT ROAST RIBROAST ...... STEWING BEEF . | =k SHOULDERS tres eme | 1 you want said 'twas just as good. g he sald, "a strike made them suspend; but here's a loat of graham bread will do as well, You've not enough of picayunes to buy a single mag; but we have codfish, cheese and prunes, and onions Alas, there are no substitutes for maga- zines, indeed; I would not give a dozen hoots for life, The Wm. Davies PHONE 597 ality and Value our Money Rr IAL TIE sna ane va ps eee tas... on SAUSAGE = | HOMEMADE A : NEW Nase LITTLE PIG ~ - A - Seve .. 5, . a treat try Davies' Wiltshire Bacon. os by effort. Rhymes p THE MAGAZINES. I went to buy some magazines, as any sane man the merchant showed a can of beans, and "There are no magazines," my friend. read. When magazines are on the stands, appealing to my purse, I paw them o'er with say they're getting worse. But when there are no magazines my nights are flat and gray; I yawn and think of soup tureens until I seek the I miss the gripping, vital tide' that used to freeze my blood; and checkers are or no avail, and life's one ghastly thud. screed, which tells how one and gain a gorgeous prize. grim and blue; 1 miss the high, uplifting may rige; though down and An evening without read- and so I've missed the magazines-- --WALT MASON. Co, Lid MB sels Teialainie'vidia'e wad lst wine a 100, Ib. BEEF . "remseceesu. a. .20c. and 22¢. Ib. slew a i yw a . 25¢. Ib. «+ svn. .18c. and 20c. Ib. - PORK a Same sew ee wintmiuen sia. "ee wn 23c. 1b. ++ .30c. Th. | wae ae ye .22¢. 1b. Simei 4 A 32¢. Ib. ews ms 3 * vd * The heads of the different branches | WHIG When Mackenzie reached Toronto! | | i See Bibbys $2.00 Wool Scarfs] MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S WEAR Unusual Values In Suits And Overcoats v See Bibbys : $25.00 Overcoats Men and Young Men alike can come here r - with a feeling of assurance that the Suit or Overcoat they buy will be absolutely correct in every detail -- not only in style, but in workmanship, durability and fit. gi WE CLAIM TOHAVE THE BEST $37.50 ; § IS ; OVERCOATS IN CANADA but you will say so when you see the Coats, The fabrics are Obrien's Irish' Cheviots -- the style, new form-fit, three quarter length, storm collar; rich shades, grey, green and heather ; sizes 35 to 42. A A ---------- A SN Sh oo . See our PRIMROSE. Over: See our HEATH Overcoat, coat, $28.50 | $25.00, $30.00, $32.50 Artest re See Bibbys New Suits--The "RITZ"--at $35.00. Something particularly good. May sound a little braggy like, Pure Wool Sweaters and Underwear Bath Robes and if Dressing Gowns. g Nr it BIBBY'S | Men's Wear Shop: 78, 80, 82, Princess St. Boys' Wear Shop: 84 Princess St. See Bibbys $25.00 Overcoats | See Bibbys $25.00 Overcoats - = £ I | | | | | pavibscorT TANK HEATERS Grain Growers' Guide says: --* Every farmer should Heater," Buy yours early at--- CHRISTMAS CRACKERS Tee | use a Tank ¥ TOM SMITH'S CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS CADBURY'S FAMOUS CHOCOLATES Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 and 990, Te, ERC ry. DELAWARY LACKAY ANNA ~and--- WESTERN RAILROADS CELEBRATED ~~ SCRANTON (COAL » _ Chief Distributor for Kingston Crawford aR acres .. acreg acres acres acres .. acres acres Plumber Plumbing Gas Work a speciale ty. All i a rarks Addrons 148 Froutensc street, Phone «Price $20,000 Fri M 00 15,000 11,000 10.000 00 EemNaoaLE. sviens Price T.J. | ical kstate and Insurance CLARENCE STREST Phone 1UL5W. or 17977. PERFUMES and WATERS and STATIONERY. Lady Bedverbrook's roason for ro- th - : j fusing to stand" in her busband's ) A prominent man of the Niagara | former Commons' sant at Ashton « {dlntrict, and a former member of the ander-Lyme, Lancashire, {a that gh [House of Commons, passed away at [has & young. family pad many publ : Falls, Wednesday svening, | calla on her tims already, ~~ a the person of Arthur Boy! 1m Bia | A man Is never sure he knows un CI8th year. 4 til he makes good. <e 4