[HE DAILY BRITISH PAGE SIX THE BRITISH WHIG| { come to hoar are far more ancient. |ditions prevailing in a town do much | unfortunate results. It is true that They must be the same songs that {to regulate the social and moral |Some men can do more than one i were heard by the Imhabitants of | habits of its peopl& Such being the | thing well, but this does not affect land before the Romans came, | a 3 | the fundamental soundness of the | Englan glore the + | case, and admitting (hat a uniform | principle. for the songs of birds come down power rate would be a benefit to the | To Pliny the Elder, (Roman 23-79 {unchanged through) great antiquity, | conditions in western Ontario gener- | A.D.) we owe the preservation of | and we are listening to-day, in what- | aly, it can easily be seen that its |thiS proverb, although it existed | aver part of the world we may be, | effects would be far-reaching. among both the Romans and the { to songs which must have been fa- | « Greeks long before his time. Pliny! The proposed scheme is not for the | says: | milfar to races of men of which his- | penerit of any one municipality or "It was a custom with Apelles, to _{tory has no © knowledge 'and 1 no a group of municipalities. . ts origin. | which he most tenaciously adhered, ) [ cord. 7. | ators state that they wish to abolish | No or tO let & day puss, however busy th : 1 he might be, without exercising him- e complications and technicalities |gelf by tracing some' - outline or | which now clutter the administration | other, It was also a practice with of the system. They monestry believe | him, when he had completéd a work, {that the change would be. for the | to exhibit tothe view of the passérs- ! by, in his st | greater industrial development and | concealed Phy re malts | the general good of the whole prov- | listen to the criticisms. Under these ince. Those rates which are now over | I | i | { | BIBBY'S ak THE MARKET FOR PATS A recent news cable from overseas | announced that a whole ship-load of butter, sent to Germany by the Ar- mour Company of Chicago, had been met with a refusal to buy there and | : would therefore have to be carried | | $20 would be decreased one-fitth |sured dy a shoemoker fo ngs r back to America. The shipment Was | ovr your for five years. Those | CP cented a pair of shoes fen one not offered for sale in any of the | _, are bel latchet too few. The next Jay, the | 0 2 Wi other European countries. w $20 would be in-| shoemaker, quitp proud at seling the | creased one-fifth ever: f y year for five | ormer error corracted, thanks to From this fact a number of im- | hi a years. Thus a gen s advice, began to criticize the portant conclusions may be reached. | general flat rate would - | be arrived at with the a i | leg; upon which Apelles, full of in- th | pproimate, as | 4i.n4¢4 ¢| It 1s certainly very surprising that a {1t has been puted, at $18.50 per | Sisnation, Sopred his head out and cargo of fats of any kind should be Piledoedi ed at a shoemaker should give no opinion beyond the refused by any of those countries | This | 0 4 shoes--an opi a which were only a short time ago | rganization in western on- | pinten which has passed {into a proverbial saying." ready to pay any price for just that very thing. It is vastly more sur- ttt tp CanadaEast and West prising that it should be refused by Dominion Happenings of Other Days. MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR STORES Cash and One Price System--the Best for Less Real Suits SEE BIBBY'S ALL WOOL WORSTED SUITS Plain Greys, Plain Browns, Fancy Brown and Green Checks. i; tl iztse Splendidly tailored by Experts. THE STANFORD $45.00. | circumstances, they say he wys cen- Published Daily' Semi- Weekly oy THE BRITISH Wiha PU sHING : co. Eliott fa A. Gulla | tario is of interest locally because it | | will be remembered that R. F. Elliott, | chairman of the Kingston Utilities | { Committee, was really the originator | | of the plan and the agitation for | | uniform power rates, It was the | | meeting of the Eastern -Ontario Hydro Association which tipped the | | balance and caused the government | to appoint a committee ro rake some jaoion in the matter. Since that time | Mr. Elliott has expressed satisfaction | {at the reception his plan received | | throughout the whole province. | There are now organizations all over | Ontario for the purpose of securing | | 2 uniform rate and it is satisfying to | know that a Kingstonidn ball rolling. tte PUBLIC OPINION | Between Two Fires. ' (London Free Press) Better marry, it costs too much to | remain unmarried in Canada now-a- | Germany, above all other countries, | Germany, which is now supposed to be suffering from a famine for food, money, and raw materials. This would show that Germany cannot be | in very pressing need of fats, in fact cannot be in any need at all. Either | the country is producing enough for its meeds, or the countries of Den- mark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland | and perhaps Great Britain can sup-| ply Germany's needs in that line at | a better price than the American | producers. The fact that the ship- | ment was not offered for sale in any other country points out that the | supply of fats in the other countries | | must be large. "It will be noted that Nature is| It is rather ironical for one who &indly with her bumper crop of | dwells in North America to read in | dandelions. his daily paper that one of the most stricken of the countries of poor "war-stricken Europe' has refused a large cargo of that precious fat, which he himself, living in the land cannot afford THE RITZ $45.00. (No Tax on these) The UTILITY $45.00. One year, by mall, One year, {f not paid in advance, One year, to United Sta Six and three ay pro rata. OUT-OF-TOWN R. RESENTATIVES F. Calder, 32 St. John Bt, Montreal . ¥. M. Thompson, i Braden Bldg. | oro. | F.R. Northrup, 303 Freon Ave., New York | F.R. Northrup, 916 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago Letters to the Editor are published only ver the actual name of the The Fall of Fort George. On the 27th of May, 1813, during | the course of the war between the United States and the British, Fort George was captured by the Ameri- can armies. Following the capture of York late in the previous month | the army under General Dearborn and the fleet under Commodore Chauncey | had left New York and concentrated started the at Niagara. The force consisted of about 7,000 men in all for land work { with the navy in addition. To face | these Major-General Vincent had about 2,300 soldiers of whom about one thousand were' stationed in Fort George. The Americans wasted lit- tle time in getting Jeady for an at- | tack on the place, flushed as they | were with the victory at York such a short time before. At four o'clock on | the morning of May 27th they start- ed to move their troops across the | river. The fighting lasted until about | midday when' the British found it im- | possible to resist longer. They aban- | doned Fort George and began a re- | treat to Beaver Dams, dbout twenty miles south, where a store of muni- {tions and provisions of all kind had | been prepared. It was impossible for | Vincent with his little force to cope | with the strong army of the invader, | so his action in retreating was the SEE BIBBY'S FANCY CHEVIOT SUITS New colorings, smart designs, splendid tailoring, extra special \ ; Attached is one of the best job ' printing offices in Can val ues. wo THE BUD $35.00. TE | The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. THE CLINTON $35.00. (No Tax on these) THE BERKLEY $35.00. Privately owned wireless installa- tions in the city put the Barriefield station out of business. Cannot the | government station on the hill com- from whence it came, | days. pete 'with small private plants ? { to buy at the present prices. It is | | also rather strange that in this coun- | with the supposed shortage of SEE BIBBY'S NOBBY $37.50 HOMESPUN SUITS Real summer beauties--no tax on these. : Try Bibby's for Men's Underwear ---------- If Germany Had Won. tLondcn Free Press) We wouldn't have got off so well if the tax collector had had a dach- shund at his heels, - See our $25.00 Men's and Young _ Mrs. Eleanor H. Porter, author of | try, "Pollyanna," the "glad book," has | every thinkable commodity driving passed to her reward. She produced the poor to desperation, such a 2 book that gladdened many a heart | quantity should be transported to a ahd that showed the way to haopi- | country which is, in a way, respon- See our $25.00 Men's and Young More and More "Raw." (Buffalo Courier) ness. | --r----------r-- | A British subject applied for ue | listment at the Syracuse, N.Y. recruiting station last week. "So you | were in the British army?" question- | ed the recruiting officer. "Well, did you distinguish yourself in any way?" "Oh, yes, I came back," was the ready reply. The officer must have turned away thoughirul, The report presented to the city council on Tuesday night.re the re- sults of collegiate institute examina- tions'calls Tor further investigation. If some of the teachers are ineffici- | ent, or if the work of the students is | interfered with by the presence ot | teachers-in-training, the board ot | 'education should be aware of the fact. 0 ---------- Good roads radiating in every dir, ection for a distance of thirty miles _ from the city are advecared by A. M. Rankin, M.P.P., as means of increas. ing the city's trade. The tdoa is an | excellent one and should have every | support. Hundreds of other cities | have found the plan very advantage- | ~ ous both for themselves and for the | People in the adjacent territory, | GREY'S "RECREATION." A modest little volume of forty ~ @dd pages has proved to be one of the most interesting books of the year in the Mterary world. "Recreation" delivered by Viscount Grey of Falladon at the Harvard | Union last December. As an essay . nothing better has been done in a decade, says one critic. Two brief notations will reveal the character of the book:, Let it be admitted that recreation 48 only one of the things that makes _ for 'happiness in lite. I do not even wecommend it as the most import- sat. There are at least four other things which are more or less under our own control, and which are es- sential to happiness. , The first 1s gome moral standard by which to glide our actions. The second is Some satisfactory home life in the rm of good relations with family OF friends. The third is some form of work which justifies our existence 10 our own country and makes us 800d. citizens. The fourth thing is some degree of leisyre and the use it in soms way that makes us py. ' « eo In the village of Titchborne there also the family of Titchborne, in the old village church there 15 a tomY with recumbent figures of oli of the Titchbornes and his wife, who lived in the time of James the gt; on it is inscribed the state- that he chose to be buried with wile in this , which was by his 18 the time of the First, 'shows a con- 8 record of one family In one for some eight hundred t whelher wo had time to go 0 the church and look at It, but | successive shipments will meet with sible for the suffering here, and to have that country very calmly refuse it. The logical conclusion from this happening is, that if one load of pro- duce is turned down in Europe, then | the same fate. Consequently, it is reasonable to believe that the supply in this part of the world should show a marked increase and the prices of fats in general come down proportionately. Fats, and particu- larly butter, may be kept in cold storage, but they may not be kept indefinitely. Also, cold storage costs money, and it is doubtful whether it would be worth while to hold back the supply. The result which | should come about, and which may be hoped for, but not prophesied with any safety, is a general in. crease in the supply of fats and a simultaneous decrease in the prices, FLAT HYDRO RATE. There has been considerable agita- tion and restlessness in some of the cities of Western Ontario becaupe of prevailing rates being paid for the Hydro power from Niagara. As the direct result of the discontent there | has been formed the Ontario Hydro | Power Uniform Rate Association. Its | The one thing about sugar that is | not refined is the price and that be- comes more and more "raw," | only one he could take to save his | troops from death or capture. But | the losses, in spite of his retreat, | wer heavy, the British losing 443 men {in killed, wounded and missing, | while the-United States had less than | 150 men put out of action. Following | the retreat every British post on the | Nisgara frontier had to be abandon- |ed, the American army being left in full p gion for the time incent, too, 'not safe at Beaven Dams, con- tinued his retirement to Burlington Heights. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS AND THEIR ORIGIN A SHOEMAKER SHOULD STICK TO HIS LAST. That a man should refrain from dabbling in matters of which he has no exact knowledge, is a self-evident truth. Yet we see all about us, every day, instances of the disregard of Yes, Next ? (St. Joseph Gazette) Doesn't the average family worry it does about the price of bread ? more about the price of gasoline than Men's Suits ¥ Bibby Building and Hosiery New CAPS--New HATS--New PANAMAS-néw SAILORS SEE BIBBY'S BIG BOYS' SUITS Sizes 31 to 36 .............$15.00, $18.50, $20.00, $22.50 78, 80, 82, 84 Princess Street Men's Suits this principle, many of which have Rippling Rhymes DER TAG. When a panic the court where bankrupts go, then we'll wonder, oh, the trees were growing plunder, we refused to save some dimes. idle raving, and we'll kick ourselves a verst, for we didn't do our saving when the boom was at its worst. numbers are already great and are | being increased continuowsly by Hy- dro enthusiasts from all over Western | Ontario. The object of the organiza- | tion is to secure a uniform rate for all the cities using the Hydro power. | J. P. Hume, of Goderich, 1H, F. Bris- | coe, of Chatham, and W. 8. Bowden, of Goderich, are the principal of- ticers, As stated in the - association's declaration of policy, they look on the Hydro-Electric Power Commis. sion and all the systems under their control as a provincial Institution, developed by the various municipal- ities, and therefore obliged to be administered for the benefit of the people as 2 whole and the province as a unit. The particular plan of the soclety is to secure a flat rate of approximately $18.3v per horse. power, to apply to all cities, no mat- ter how far they may be from Niagara nor how large or small the population of the citiés may be. It would seem that the claims of the organization are just, and that in some cases the difference in rates amounts to rank injustice. The city of Toronto pays $14.50 tor its power, while Guelph and Galt, wnich are at about an equal distance from the generating plant, each pay $20. This is doubly unjust as it is recognized that at the present time the large cities aro already over-erowded, and the discrimination 'in this direction does much to increase the distress. The city of Sarnia pays $38, as com- pared to $11.50 paid by Niagara Falls. it is believed that a uniform de- velopment of the Hydro throughout thd province would help to relieve the conditons now existing in the larger cites and in denbely populated |. districts. It would tead to lower the cost of living because of a shirtef | Gaul for provisions. The general con- | | JALTMATON Now that everything seems sunny, and our chances are the best, it's the time to put some money, with some mothballs, in a chest; put it down with cedar shavings, so the insects won't annoy; for the man who has his savings is the wisest kind of boy. Soon this crazy boom may trundle to the tomb, in ghostly robe; then the man who has a bundle is the man who'll ride The Sion WALT MASON. ga The Wm. Davies Co., Lid, PHONE 597 SAVE COOKING We have a first class selection for the warm weather COOKED MEATS --ROAST LEG PORK. --COOKED PORK HAM. --BAKED MEAT LOAF. --MEAT LOAF with Macaroni and Cheese --COMPRESSED PORK. --COMPRESSED HAM. --JELLIED BEEF TONGUE. --JELLIED PORK TONGUE. ELLIED PRESSED BEEF. ELLIED PRESSED VEAL. ELLIED PRESSED HOCK. ELLIED HEAD CHEESE. BOLONGA. « comes and swats us, bringing forty | kinds of woe, and the sheriff comes and trots us to | we'll wonder, why, in booming, bulging times, when | When the panic that's predicted by the | wise men everywhere, comes along, aml we're afflict- | ed.with a poor-house bill of fare, then we'll do some | GARDEN IM Hand Cultivators. Field, Garden and Ladies' ~--Sets of Gardem Tools. --Ladles' Spading Forks. -~BASIC Steele Briggs Seeds. HARDWARE Wheel Cultivator and schger, SLAG FERTILIZE R. Good assortment at lowest prices --Deliveries te any part of city, BUNT'S King St. Phone 388 PLEMENTS Hoey i ~r Special For Saturday 200 ibs. Choice Btewing Beef 18e. to 20e. per Ib, Chgjee Steak, Pork, Lamb and Cheice Headcheese, Sausage 0c. per Ib. Quantity of Choice Corned Beef, etc. QUICK'S WESTERN MEAT MARKET 113 CLERGY STREET Phone 2011. Highest prices paid for all kinds of. rg Futalture. Call or A SHAPIRO --Spring Lamb. --Spare Ribs. ~ --Tenderloins. T t --Pdrk Sausages. Choice Western Beet Dasiel Hogan 832 KING STREET - report shows | PURE MAPLE SYRUP. . PURE MAPLE SUGAR With the real old- fashioned maple flavor. ' Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 and 990 Jolorite Colors Old and New en --------------------------------_ | DAVID SCOTT resid lumber Flombiag and Gas Werk a spestale Al ek Suacan mre, Ye 7 Straw Hats Easily applied. ~=Dries quickly. Gives a permanent color. ==All colors. 30c Bottle DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE PHONE 847 183 PRINCESS STREWE "FOR SALE Two houses, barn and large lot. $1,500 for quick sale. h i Wo H. 'The latest lunacy that ther are 23,763 fewer lunatics than in 1915, whilst out of every thousand 572 are women. 'Real Estate and Insurance 80 Brock St. Phone 434 -- Chestnut Coke The Ideal Fuel for KITCHEN RANGES and . SMALL HEATERS heat; 'no cas Cleans uf Sold only by:-- Crawford