PAGE SIX x HE BRITISH WHIG| 87th YFAR. THEN LER Ablisgea Dail ang 'Sem!i-Weeki by HE BRITISH WHIG PUBLIS G CO, LIMITED ¢ + «dh and Managing-Diretor TELEPHONES: OMIOB sus sarrrsnsnpussrvsltd ROOMS sovrnvnsnr -330 chee 'SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) delivered in City ...¢ ne year, by mail, cas ne year, if not paid ne year, to United "Six and three months pro rata. | UT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES % Calder, 22 Bt. John . Montital. + M Thompson, 404 umsden Bldg. y oron' LR.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York (R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago iar ------------ : eS ---------- Letters to the Hditur are published A the actual name of the 3 tached is one of the da. At best job rinting offices in Cana The circulstion of THE BRITISH IG is authenticated by the : ABC 'Audit Bureau of Circnlations. "Why not give the custody of Tur- @y to the United States? See how 'plendidly they have managed fexico! ---------------------- Enlistment in the newt Canadian Air gree at the rate of sixty a day proves he popularity of the service among 2e young Canadian fiyers. A ------------_ An Austrian prince has just mar- {ed on a salary of twenty dollars per sar. There is yet hope for Ontarly theol teachers. It was a propheb¥!Bl Carlyle that 26 press would supplant the church, a Kingston, however, the gardge _sems to have fulfilled this function, ------------ The newspapers will soon have to vert to the stone age and put the itest news on tablets of stone. It { an ill wind that blows nobody any 'pod. Stonecutters, attention. St. Catharine's firemen walked out ®ecsuse the city council refused to papt their wage demands. Alder- "jen and volunteers are manning the re stations, and are kept busy fight- 3g incendiary fires, . : i The speaker of the Dutario house Beognizes two official opposition saders, H. H. Dewart and Hon. G. f. Ferguson. If Hartley doesn't pepive that $5,000 salary as opposi- lon leader there's going to be a big ow, that's all. In the Dominion Parliament; Mr, 'emers, member for St. John's and 'berville, introduced a bill fixing the ~ ilnimum rate of interest to be paid 1% banks on deposits at four per cent. it does nothing else this bill may courage saving somewhat. 5 The minister of agriculture says some of the district representa- * Ives, have been sleeping on their © pbs and that he is going to replace m with live men, It is only fair | point out that his criticism does © Ot apply to the Frontenac represen- at] whose work has been most i ry and helpful. New England states are much 'over the great increase of aids and bachelors. As a news- ir writer there expresses it: "The Cost of Living for one makes High Cost of Loving for two com- lively out of the question." The theory that "two can live as ply as one" does not hold good days. [ig] trade relations between and the West Indies are like- result from the conference of esentatives to be held at Ottawa month. An effort will also be SIR SAM ONCE MORE. An advertisemgnt jin the English Speaking World, of New York, sets forth the merits of the Society for American and British Friendship with the following address: "Box 168, the House of Commons, Ottawa. Canadian Commissioner, K. H Palmer." Investigation showed that the K. H. Palmer in question had not received an official permission to use the box and that No. 168 is the pri- vate box of the ex-Minister of Militia and Defence, Bir Sam Hughes. No rest for the weary. THE CASE OF THE TEACHERS. The Literary Digest has for some weeks been offering prizes for the best reasons why teachers should have more pay. In a late issue it an- nounces that the first week's prize in the supplementary contest for Can- adian teachers has been awarded to Miss Greta T. Bidlake, teacher in the rural school at Upper Coverdale, N.B., who contributed this: "The teacher--My mission is holy. 1 prescribe for the mind and body; battle against heredity and environ- ment; build statesmen, patriots, thinkers, artists. .In return I receive a pittance; I am forced to struggle against discouragement, live in in- terior boarding-houses, and exist on bare necessities. Miss Helena V. Booker, teacher in the Wentworth street school, Hamil- ton, Ont, wins the second week's prize with this original paragraph: "The teacher? A preacher And mother combined, She nurtures the body, The soul, and the mind. Her station? Blation, Her status is high, She gives to the nation The things we can't buy. Remittance? A pittance That labor can beat, The teacher is puzzled To make both ends meet." ------------------ ATR TRANSPORTATION. When the United States govern- ment undertakes any commercial or industrial enterprise, declares the Syracuse Post-Standard, it often does it 111. It has not the adaptitude of the European governments for social- istic undertakings. In more or less measure the same condition prevails in this country. After a long period of delay, Ottawa has at last decided upon the establishment of an air militia, which will afford training for only a few weeks each year. It is a start in the right direction, but it compares very unfavorably with what European hations are doing. Late despatches tell of the immense airships and aeroplanes that the Ger- mans are constructing in order to secure commercial supremacy in the air. The performance of these craft 'over Lake Constance last week Is said to have been entirely satisfac tory, though the details are carefully suppressed. In Great Britain the Handley-Page aeroplanes have carried 4,154 passen- gers in the past eight months and 25 tons of express. Upon the continent the aeroplane, with government aid, penger and express transportation. In Poland there are five aeroplane fleets giving regular service over es- tablished lines. In the United States the government, after spending a billion or two to get a war aeroplane caravan, which 'wasn't ready 'when war ended, has quit aeroplane manu- facture and promotion. The army and navy are not getting the aero- planes they want, and the post office has a few short lines only. The old world can still show the new world some lessons in progressiveness. ------------ |" PUBLIC OPINION The Cure is Obvious. (Buffalo Courier) To say that high prices are due to inflated currency is merely another way of saying that currency has in- creased and products decreased. The cure is obvious. He'll be Seasoned. (Brantford Expositor) Hamar Greenwood has been ap- pointed chief secretary for Ireland. He will be pretty well seasoned by the time he gets through with the job. 4 me Rec! (Indianapolis News) There is said to be no chance for the Anglo-French-American treaty, no chance--it things continue to go have been 8 to induce pleasure-seekers to | men their winters in the islands of, as now, in Florida or Cali- fa. There is much to be ad- d in favor of the mpvement. transportation lines find much and the United States. This piled up a deficit last year ,000,000, while our neighbor i a loss of $900,478,756 in has become: familiar object of pas- | CanadaEast and West oo Dominion Happenings of Other Days. A Record Voyage. The spring of 1891 saw the Cana- into another sphere of | it was that three great ocean liners-- | big for the day---were set upon their initial voyages. They were the Em- press of India, the Empréss of China apd the Empress of Japan, They cost about one million dollars each with a promenade deck about 250 feet in length. : The first boat, the Empress of In- dia, with 141 saloon passengers, left Hong Kong on April 17th and al» though she 'encountered very heavy winds, she reached Victoria, B.C., on the 28th of the month, at an average speed of seventeen knots per hour. A special train carried the mails and passengers from Victoria to Mont real, arriving there in three days, seventeen hotrs and thirty-five min- utes. But on the Augus trip of the Empress of Japan she made such at sea that with careful ar- rangement of railway schedule mail was landed in London in twenty days and nine hours from Yohahama, thus establishing a new record for the offi- cial time via the Suez Canal then was forty-three days. The British papers gave the event great space and lauded the achievement as indicating a new era in trade and travel, Since that time the C.P.R. has added many ships to its fleet in the Atlantic and the Pa- cific and some of the finest vessels flying the British flag now fly the house flag of the company. During the war its vessels were at the dis- posal of the Government and sailed thousands of miles with troops or as merchant cruisers protecting the commerce of the Allies from enemy raiders. The Reason Why Why Does My Heart Beat Faster When I Am Scared? The natural tendency of a scared creature is to run or fly. The effect of being scared has the same effect on the brain that your starting to run has. The brain is always as quick as you are, and knowing that when you are scared. your actual or natural in- clination is to run, it is merely get- ting you in shape so that you can move or run fast. From the Book of Wonders. Pub- lished and copyrighted by the Bureau of Industrial Education, Inc., Wash- ington, D.C. Even, After All. 4 A suspicious-looking customer was boasting to a grocer of the cheapness of ten pounds of sugar he had bought at a rival shop. "Let me weigh the package," said the grocer. The other assented, and found two pounds short. The man looked perplexed for a moment and then said: "I don't think he cheated me much, for while he was getting the sugar I pocketed two tins of condenséd milk." it was The Moses in most families is the HE DAILY BR er Tr er ---------- dian Pacific Railway Corppany launch | fvity. Then | A PLOUGH BONG. | A grand thing is a plough-team on | the long, straight course, With a clear brain ruling the strength of man and home, A fine sight is the plough-team on the hill-top together; | A good time 1s the plough-time in the | clear, cold weather! | | McKie worked the best team the country-side could show When be put in his own crop, two Years ago As straight a back, as strong a hand as ever steered a plough Had McKie, that's a cripple and a Sick man now A long day is the ploughman's day, «from winter's morn till aight, A warm glow in the evening mists are homestead lamps alight 1 looked in the hollow as the sun left the hill, And saw the plough lying and the team standing still; And always in the twilight I can see young McKie Lying In the furrow with his face to the sky! ~McEnsay. SPLURGING. Grantland Rice, in New York Tribune: Mrs. J. Augustus Vance Saw a certain dress by chance; It was just like billowed foam, Yet she had eight more at home, So she brought it from the store For two hundred-----nothing more. Five brief years ago fo-day She'd have fainted dead away For she muttered, "'Sakes alive!" When they asked her eighty-five. Henry Smithson has a job, Though he doesn't hit like Cobb. Still his pay is quitg enough To help carry out the bluff, Once he found in deep content Walking helped to pay the rent. Now, of course, it's much too far; He must have a touring-car. Mr. William. Henry Jones Bought a shirt for twenty bones, Did he need it? Not a bit, Yet he stopt and paid for it. Back in days that now seem dim, Cheaper fabric suited him, But in these times, free from care, He must have his silk to wear. Early Settlement, New York Judge. "It we quarrel like this now, what will we do after marriage?" "Well, if you think I'm going to rush blind- ly into marriage without finding out who's boss, you're mistaken. ------------------ Men have been known to greatly benefit the town of their birth by moving out of it. Minding your own business can be reduced to a science, but watchful. ness is necessary. The man who 'hangs out his shingle as reformer may need more or less watching. 1f the under dog was on top he would probably be just as vicious as the other one, Do pot suff .day with Itching. ot PILESE: Progruding Piles. No sure oo] Dr, Otntment will palieve you xt and us certainly cure you. 60e & nd or Edmanson, Bates & Co. Limited. Toronte. Rippling Rhymes Excuse me twenty-five per spring, or run every time my must buy; and windswept hill when | sing these cost-of-scorching hymns. of gas is risipg, too, the gas that runs our boats; and COST OF MOTORING. while I shed a tear and raise a loud -sfpywentsthe prices of tires has climbed, I hear, some cent. I have to buy four tires this her on the rims, and I am saddest The cost car goes 'choo!' it burns up seven groats. And oil is going up with gas, the oil we all so 1 pause to say "Alas!" and say it with a sigh. And sparkplugs cost a bone a throw, that once were fifty cents; and motorists, submerged in woe, are sulking in their tents. They gaze upon the they can't afford to mount, for every mile runs up a bill that breaks their bank account. They view the long inviting road where they would like to speed, but they are chained to their abode by cost of things they need. They cannot tour the moor- land, or jolirney anywhere, unless they're willing to get back to Shanks and his old mare. --WALT MASON. In cooking or baking to know before, that you are using the best Flour obtainable -- saves much worry about the results that come after, We are able to supply any of the leading patents and would be pleased to handle your order, W. EF. 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