LIVING UP TO WISTER. Spring house-cleaning seems have been the order of the day at Jackson, Wyoming A new despatch a few days ago re- ported that the' spring elections in Jackson resulted in a-two-to-one vic- tory for the all-woman ticket over the opposing all-man ticket rr Jackson's population is estimated at 300. It is seventy-five miles from "the railroad. The despatches are in- definite as to the issues, but the fig- ures would seem to indicate that the .voting-was not restricted to lines, or there would have been no two-to-one vote for women. The census shows a small percent- age of feminine population in the state--only six women to every ten | men. Yet Mrs. Henry Crabtree de- feated her husband. Jackson was the town which Owen Wister immortalized in "The Vir- | President | ginian." Readers will recall that | " MapagingeBiretor | it Was a wild, rough, frontier town, | | with gambling = halls, bad men, | ..243| glamblers, pow men and bar rooms. | Vir- | i I WHIG/ to sex | and Semi- Weekly by WMIG PUBLISHING | LIMIED Pablisucu baily THE BulTisM Co, o TELEPHONES: Business Office .. Fdhosisl Room . lies Wister's hero, Steve ('The SUBSCRIPTION RATES | ginian ), will be recalled as a type | ! (Dally Edition) sn 00 | representing the finest idéals of the One Year: 1 pai in haveR y '©.$5.00 | chivalry that grows where good vo- | One year, by mall to rural o One 'year to United States fen are scarce. | (Semi-Weekly Edition) > Perhaps the most" plausible =) oe year, dT advance. 1.50 | planation of Jackson's election is | A rs Tapdee that the present oitizens are trying | ---- --at Es | to live up to the ideal which Owen : naToWN, REPRESENTATIVES | Wister set. Every man wants to im- LEM Thompson, jez oamaden Bldg | personate the admirable Steve. The F.R.Northrup, 303 Fifth Ave. New York negative votes were cast by the wo- | FLR Northrup, 316 Assn BMS. Olea | _ L, aid not get on the feminine | 1 Letters to the Editor ate published] only over the actusl name of the ticket. | writer. sti THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIME. | 1 ob | Printing otis Sa J { Time works wondrous changes, | ---- == | jeclares the Toronto Telegram in | refering to the canonization of Joan | {of Are. A popular novelist summed 250 3.00 : The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG 1s authenticated by the ABQ Audit Bureau of Circulations. exclaimed: "Oh, instability of human | | compassion. To-day at the tumultu- | | ous flood, we weep for Caesar slain; | | to-morrow in the ebb, we vote a| More oil is one of the worlds | monument to Brutus." On May 30th, needs. 'The greatest need, however, | 1430, Joan of Arc was burned at the | stake in Francé as a sorceress and a | heretic. 'She hypnotized the French It is proposed to establish two [army and performed a great service | senates in Ireland. If it would help for her country by driving back the any, Canada will gladly contribute | English ferces, which were then in- vading France. She won a crown for | the Dauphin Charles, and tried to se- The prices of many lines of goods | cure Burgundy to add to his king- are falling in the United States. Is dom. But it was a case of the pitch- . supply at last catching up with de- | er going once too often to the well. mand ? | She was captured by the Burgundians om rte | and seld to the English. After a The farm help problem may be | mockery of a trial engineered by serious, but it does not affect the |pjerre Couchon, bishop of Beauvais, farmer who has several pretty | he was condemned and burned to daughters. | death "in Rouen's cruel market place." | On April 18th, 1909, Joan of Arc | was beatified at Rome din the pre- sence of 40,000 pilgrims from France. In 1920 she is canomized. Joan of Arc's martyrdom is an | eternal disgrace to the English peo- | ple. It is an equally lasting disgrace Ito the French, who delivered her up If the sugar shortage and the new | tO the enemies of her country as a sales tax make it impossible to live [reward for singularly pure and on the canned stuff all next winter, patriovie services. Well may the the public will be a lot healthier, | ®aliant French revere Joan as a | safnt. Toronto woman was fined $5 for | : prodding a man with a hay fork. In | | these rural communities the "female | CHEAPER. LIVING 'of the species is more deadly than| At last the hope for change in the male." | the cost of living that every family | has earnestly looked for is gradually | coming and two things are mainly responsible for it. These two things are wheat and wool, although few ------ ee --------~-- Whatever crops may fail this year, the tax crop will not be one of them. is elbow grease. hers as a starter, The Bolshevik slogan in Russia is | "Anything for victuals." Lucky dogs! | Bt théy lived over here it 'would be "Everything for victuals." The president of France was found with pajamas on, but bareheaded and barefooted. There is nothing to show ~ that he had had a nightcap ! The sultan of Turkey threatens to | resign his throne as a protest against | the severity of the peace treaty. Well, | . let him ; all the world will be re- | people are aware of their influence. | signed with him. | Just as these things are involved in ------------------ '| the smash that is taking place will Though the Globe preaches against | the effect be felt in the cost of living, the evils of the racetrack, the people | and it can be predicted with a fair i Saturday Tor | with silent contempt to see if they || re | liv THE DAILY BRITISH and broke the back of The report says "Fever to | holdings appeared to be | due to widespread belief that | prices. unioad largely the end of the railroad traffic jam was in sight, and that distributing! centres might soon be staggering under inordinate supplies." | With regard to articles of food there is no likelihood of any scarcity, | but in view of the strong demand | foods in Europe, 'especially | wheat, the prices are not likely to! drop appreciably for some little time | yet. Outside of. food stuffs there is | a downward trend in prices that is | effecting all lines, but particularly | cotton and 'woolen goods. This is due in no small measure to the pub- lic demand for deflation and a practi- cal attempt to bring it about by with | holding the purchasing power. There | | Is no doubt about the spread of the | | idea that it was better to go without | an article than pay war prices and | the knowledge that such an idea | carried out would inevitably fesult | in deflation, precipitated the move- | ment. . i Sabourin A. | | PUBLIC OPINION |, Poor, Neglected Dad. | 2 (Kitchener Telegraph) "Mother"s Day" has become a re- | sognized annual event. Father has | still his day coming. Try It. | (Bay City Times Tribune) When prices seem inclined to hang around the. peak treat them | won't come down. Easily. (Brockville Recorder) | It takes twenty years for a mother {to make a man .of her son, but a | small arms and cannon. ~ But Cham- up this truth very aptly when she pretty vamp can make a monkey of | plain was worn out physically by his him in twenty minutes. | Worth Trying. | ; (Chicago Tribune) If organized labor will turn its at- tention to increasing production -in- stead of increasing wages, it will find that eventually the old wages "will buy things which the new wages can never buy if the things are not| being produced. | . Justice to President Wilson. (St. Louis Post-Despat/h) We recognize Mr. Wilson's faults and mistakes, which have hampered | his work and stood in his light and | his path. But let us be just to him. | The worst that can be said against | his administration has happened | since the hand of affliction was laid on him. We think he stumbled in his path when he rejected the best he could get from the senate, and thus endangered all of his, great work for peace. But his ideas and the fruits of his labor will not he wholly lost. That | he is entitled to respect and gratitude for what he has done and for what he has 'attempted cannot pe gainsaid by any man. History will recognize the value of his work when the howls of the hungry pack that snap at his heels have died away. CanadaEast and West The Imposter Vignau On the 27th of May, 1613, Cham- plain, the great French explorer, set out from St. Helen's Island--opposite Montreal--an island he had named af- ter his wife, to whom he was devoutly attached, on a quest that had been set for him by the wild. stories told. in Paris by one Nicholas de Vignau. He told a wonderful story of having sail- ed up the Ottawa river to its source; then he had crossed a great lake and | ed the shores of the sea where he | found the wreck of an English ship whose crew had escaped to land only to be slain by the Indians. This sea was only seventeen days distant from Montréal. It was a wonderful tale and Champlain was ordered to make! the trip and verify it. i So he sailed from' St. Helens Is- | land with four Frenchmen, one of | whom was Vignau and one Indian, in two 'small canoes. They passed the swift current of St. Anne de Bellvue, | crossed: the Lake of Two Mountains | and continued up the Ottawa river. i Champlain was suspicious of the story from the beginning, and soon | he was confirmed that fis decision | was accurate. The way was hard and | difficult and there was no evidence | that a white man had been that way | before. They toiled on, however, day | by day along the river and through | the woods, camping wherever night | overtook them. Champlain question- | ed every Indian he met with regard | to the seas farther ahead but could | secure no information tRat seemed | to confirm Vignau's story told 'in| Paris. Conditions grew rapidly worse | until Champlain reached an Indian | settlement from which there seemed no progress farther into the land. He urged the chief to provide him with a | guide the brave was unwilling to do | so. The great Frenchman was con- | vinced that this was merelv a way | he had adopted to avoid telling the | explorer that his task was a vain one. So after a long pow-wow with the | Chief he charged Vignau with being | an impostor. He threatened to hang | him without mercy on the nearest | tree. Vignau then broke down and | confessed that the wonderful tale, with which he had thrilled Paris was'| without any foundation in fact and | that he had told it for the love of | notoriety and in the hope of rich. re- ward. The Chief begged Champlain | to permit him to deal with the in- | famous Frenchman, but Champlain | forgave the man and allowed him to On the 17th of June the party re- turned to Montreal where thev were greeted in great style by the Indians of the village, with discharges of | ruitless mission. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS AND THEIR ORIGIN | ment in regard to some one at some passed on to the north until he reach- 1 Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell, The Reason Why I Cannot Tell. Most of us have felt this senti- time. Without being able to give a definite reason, we sometimes take an instinctive dislike to a certain in- dividual. Sometimes reason later confirms instinct and sometimes not, but such a feeling is invariably Na- ture's warning to proceed with cau- tion. : The well known lines quoted above are from the works of Tom Brown (English 1663-1704). The complete stanza reads: "I do riot love thee; Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this alone I know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Kell." But Tom Brown, although he has made the sentiment immortal for the |: English-speaking world, was not the originator. He merely put into a striking English form a thought that was expressed in literature by Martial, (Roman 40-102 A.D.) who | was the inventor of the modern form | of epigram. It is by no means cer- | tain, of course, that Martial origi- nated the thought. In the works.of this Roman writ- er, we find it expressed as follows: "I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor | can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee." | PILES Chase's Ointment will relieve you at inly you. 3 = Bina ete Oo Leia ¥ not sufte: enother day with > Protruding | Piles. ' No sur i i Rippling Rhymes - . WHIG wo ---------- a --__. A erm acy WEDNESDAY, MAY, 28, 1920, -- x pr _|BIBBY"S 2 £ E E = E £ E E = £ i = i E = E The UTILITY , $45.00. -- es Se -- = = = = E E = = E THE BERKLEY, E] ES 2 $35.00. See our $25.00 Men's |, and Young Men's Suits Bibby Building » = -- = = SL i Fo) -- = ---- = S == = = BE a Z * MEN'S AND BOYS" WEAR STORES Cash and One Price System--the Best for Less 'Real Suits SEE BIBBY'S ALL WO OL WORSTED SUITS Plain Greys, Plain Browns, Fancy Brown and Green Checks. Splendidly tailored by Experts.. THE RITZ ; $45.00. (No Tax 'on these) SEE BIBBY'S FANCY CHEVIOT SUITS New colorings, smart designs, splendid tailoring, extra special / val ues, THE CLINTON $35.00. (No Tax on these) SEE. BIBBY'S NOBBY $37.50 HOMESPUN SUITS Real summer beauties --no tax on these. Try Bibby's for Men's Underwear and Hosiery New CAPS--New HATS--New PANAMAS--new SAILORS SEE BIBBY'S BIG BOYS' SUITS Sizes 31 to 30 .............$15.00, $18.50, $20.00, $22.50 78,-80,-82,-84- Princess Street THE STANFORD $45.00. ° 0000 O00 Hil HH " wa THE BUD $35.00. See our $25.00 Men's and Young Men's Suits ERO --Hand Cultivators. oi A ------------ x GARDEN IMPLEMENTS ~=Wheel Cultivator and Seeders. Field, Garden| and Ladies' w=Sets of Gardea Tools. --Ladies' Spading Forks. Hoes. ~--BASIC SLAG FERTILIZER. Steele Briggs Seeds. HARDWARE Good assortment at lowest prices --Deliveries to any part of city, BUNT'S King St. Phone 388 Ee ------------------------------ PURE MAPLE SYRUP PURE MAPLE SUGAR With the real old- fashioned maple flavor. Jas. REDDEN & Co. i --- Gi J over increasing nuggbars. Over 30,- 000 of them attended the King's ' Plate races on Saturday. jot Toronto patronize the races in i Republics in America treat their | Presidents about as roughly as Eur- | | ope treats its kings. The assassina- tion of Carranza in Mexico is merely | the last of a number of such crimes | that have been committed in that country and in the United States. During the war France lost 1,400,- | 000 men, and in addition. 800,000 | maimed and 300,000 wounded. Little | wonder she feels anxious over the | German menace and disappointed at the failure of the United States to | join the League of Nations. | No one welcomes additional taxa- | tion, but when the future of the country demands a greatly increased revenue we as well pay and smile. It! 'We must blame somebody for the new | burden let us place the blame where it belongs--ox the Hun. American farmers and settlers ate, flocking into the Camacian west in large numbers. So far mus year it is Meported that 45,000 of them have crossed the border, bringing' with them at least $50,000,000. This is degree of accuracy to what extent | the cost of living will decline and | | how rapidly it will take place. For | the present it is possible to see a great reduction in all artigles of clothing and woolen fabrics, but the downward trend in the cost of food stuffs will be much slower and for |. a time will be hardly perceptible, | Taking wool as a basis, we find the| | Commercial Bulletin saying: "Prices | are difficult to quote because of lack of business amd uncertainty. Prices have already declined from ten to! twenty per cent. on fine wools offered | at auction, while buying in the west | is practically at a standstill. The! reports from the goods markets are | anything but encouraging, with can- | cellations more or léss general. The | worsted mills have not felt these cancellations so much as the woolen iplants."" In cotton a violent fall of uotations carried the May option down nearly $200 a bale, while other contracts were severely depressed. Despatches from New York state: "The evidence that Mgquidation was reaching out in widening circles from textile and allied linés was vividly presented in these markets, and news of the day denoted that correspond- ing processes were becoming increas- ingly 'active in other countries. In England for instance the cables told of declines of articles which figure THE DISMAL DAY. The day is dark and chilly, and nasty showers de- seend; the winds are sad and silly, their wailing has no end. The men have quit their hoing until the wea- ther's dry; the women drop their sewing, and gaze out- doors and sigh. On such a day a fellow is willing to him for a spell. SALT MACON believe that all the world is yellow, this lite designed to e. The cheerful words of Browning that all the Yond is well, can't stop his heavy frowning, or sodthe He feels that all the sages and bards who sing of hopé can never earn their springing sunshine dope. The weary winds are blow- ing, it is a beastly day; no cheerful cows are crowing, no blithesome roosters neigh. critters are wet and cold and blue; no wren or robin twitters and makes a howdydo. are joyous, the he ducks and their wives! storms that annoy us bring joy to their young lives! So let's resume our grinnings and caper round again; - «sust have their innings, as well as hens and men. wages by But all the out-door But hold, the ducks The rain- --WALT MASON. the kind of immigration (nat Cana- | dians are glad to see. most prominently in the cost of llv- hg SN TS | ing and the break in cotton quota The bringing of Viennese children | tions seemed to find much of its in- Britain, says the Toronto World, | sistence from an early decline at Will be of immense benefit to those | Liverpool, the market there being | effected by falling prices for the | stality. When He was Egyptian staple on the Alexandria who should Be greatest in the | maryet. Clearly the world is mov- y He tdek a little child and | ing toward a new basis for doing &im in the midst. According to | business." attitude to the children of our| Ag Chicago grain fell rapidly, corn enemies we may justly be judged | futures receding heavily and pro- our worthiness to sit in the high | visions were unsettied. Wild selling of earthly dominion. | overwhelmed the grain markets on | WHOLESALE Retail Store ....117 W. P. PETERS AND RETAIL Special For Saturday 200 ibs. Choice Stewin 1 Choice Headcheese, Sausage 20e Quantity of Choice Corned Beef, etc. QUICK'S YESTERN MARKET 112 CLERGY Phone Beef Se. to . per Ib, Pork, Lamb and . per Ib, MEAT STREET 2011. Colorite Colors Old and New Straw Hats ~Easily applied. Dries quickly. peas . A --Gives a permanent color. ------ Military Sadees, Bridles, Lines, Straps, Boots, che. Highest prices id for all kinds ae noid Feta Call or . 43 Princess Street. MH phone 1237. A SHAPIRO --Spring Lamb, --Spare Ribs. --Tenderloins. weAll 'colors. 30c Bottle DR. CHOWNS DRUG STORE "HONE 843 185 PRINCESS STRENE Phones 20 and 990 EE ----------] Rs -------------- Flour, Feed and Seeds Wholesale Warehouse. foot of Princess St. 1 : - Phone 51. --Pork Sausages. Choice Western Beef Daniel Hogan ---- Whenever a woman says she thinks another woman is prettier than she is, it is a sign she thinks Brock St. Phone 217 FOR SALE Two houses, bara and large lot. $1,500 for quick sale. .W. H. GODWIN & SON Real Estate and Insurance 80 Brock St. Phone 424 Sold only by :-- | Crawford The Ideal Fuel for KITCHEN RANGES and SMALL HEATERS uick heat; clean; no clinkers; economical] Foot of Queen St. Phone 9, i "she is lying. 1