' * others." AGE JLA IHE BRITISH WHIG! 87th YEAR. REE Si. Ny | ; ; i Eubianss Dally and Semi-Weekly by BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING | = CU, LIMITED . Presiden Editor and "Masaging-Diretor | RELEPHON ES: § slave of any publish Poe the willing er for life | Probably no writer had a wors | "deal from fate during life,' and { the growing craze for his manuscript | merely serves to emphasize the mis- | ery which Poe suffered from lack of | { appreciation during his 'brief career: | | Poe never whined over.ullfe's. ont- Hook. When he had been insulted by he offer-of-a miserable sum for one of his stories he returned to "his | lodgings and wrote 'X-ray a Para- | grab," in which he indulged in a} little satire at editorial expense. ' But the extent of the bitterness | | behind those few lines of satire can | | be imagined by the reader who knows | | what Poe received for his work as |somparea with the prices which so | many less worthy writers receive &o- | aay. | A COLLISION WITH PUBLIC t | WRATH. The number of automobile acci- | dents noted in the news of late has 239 | been startling even to a public some- .392 SUBSURIPTION RATES Daily Edition year, deitanred in SSL «e.036.00 year, If paid In adva year, by mail to rural ol Flows. $180) Ea 3 Year to United States Semi-Weekly Edition) 1.00 | BR 1.50 BE i by mail, cas year, if not 25a in a yerr, United States exec iil] Six and three months Wo UT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES | sider, 22 St oh St, Montreal | * M. Thompso umsden Bldg. New York | FR iorthrup, 303 iter: Ave., \R.Northrup, $16 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago | « Letters to p the Editor are Jubiisiea] Sefer over he 1 actus} "nam of the . + Atta fs one of the best Job ada. ched ting offices in Can The circulation of THE BRITISH - WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. Anyway, there are too many $9 bats on $1 heads.--Ottawa Citizen. "THe report from Tokio announcing | the overthrow of the Lenine Govern: | ment wag too good to be true. Ex-Emperor Charles of Hungary | says he is short of cash. In which | respect he comes near to being on an | equality with the rest of us. Ex-President Taft may sit on the Grand Trunk Arbitration Board. In that event the board will need to be | A solid one, with excellent founda- | tions. The labor convention at Montreal | went on record as favoring a six-hour | day. Suppose the farmer adopts this jdea, what then? Where will the city | workers obtain their food? ~ The great war may be over, but there are a score or more of other wars going on in Europe and Asia. | The need of a strong and effective League of Nations is more evident to-day than ever. "Get all you can while the getting | child by this moral form of cruglty | ditions. is good," seems to be the motto of most men and most organizations to-day. In other words, we are "do- * Ing others," instead of "doing unto only one ending. Representatives of a million trav- ¢lling salesmen have arisen to de- mand federal control of hotels and restaurants in the United States, to " the end that extortions may tease in the rates at which while on the road | they may be fed and sheltered. Britain again leads the world in| shipbuilding. Steel steamers under construction for the quarter ending | with March aggregated 7,892,000 tons gross, or 821,000 tons ahead of the United States record. The old land is showing great recuperative powers. «It pow appears that Attorney-Gen- | Such a policy can have ' | sin against childhood by depriving! girls of that com- | panionship, that understanding and i that sympathy which thousands of | what hardened to such things. As fine weather tempts everybody to stay I outdoors, all those" whd own cars or who can borrow or hire them are | taking to the road. On Saturday and Sunday afternoons many highways | ate almost hid from view by the | motor procession. There is a danger which the reck- | less automobilist apparently has not | considered at all. That is, a collision | with public wrath. Hle may sometimes escape the specific punishment of his | disregard for others' safety. But if | such disregard goes too far it will result in the erection of legal stone } walls which he cannot break through. | The pullic will demand a stern and | unrelenting" repression unless there | are signs of a change. It is better | for the automobilist to avoid such a reaction by his own more reasonable, more public spirited attitude. If he keeps on saying "After us the | deluge," the deluge may him. There are some forces even more swift and powerful than explod- | ing gasoline. | THE CRIME AGAINST CHILDHOOD Recent news despatches tell of a man who, having been convicted of | cruelly beating and otherwise mal- { treating his daughter, was sentenced to serve an indeterminate term of three months to two years in the penitentiary. | 'Those who have followed the pro- | ceedings in the case, and who have read the descriptions of the welts and scars that were inflicted by parental hands upon the body of 'the young girl, will be exceedingly glad that there is a law to lay its heavy hand upon the offending father. But there is a wide range of | cruelty inflicted upom children In | every community in the world that cannot be punished by law. Some- times this cruelty is physical; but | more frequently it is moral. And the scars that are left upon the soul of a are, in many instances, deeper and more lagting than those traced by | blows. There are too many fathers and] mothers who commit an unforgivable | their boys and children crave in vain. "There are too many fathers and | | mothers who consider the full mea- | | sure of their duty to their children | done when they have provided them, | to the best of their ability, with food, | elothing and shelter ; too many | parents who are strangers to the hearts and minds or thelr offspring. A WONDER OF WONDERS. The appointment of a Canadian-- and a former Kingstonian at that-- | to the chair of Latin in Queen's Uni- | versity is regarded as one of the overtake | TT -- "PUBLIC GPINION Hi If Conditions Were: Reversed. © Br ES t Te and Wesi Dominion Hay ing of Other LE wo a ( to imagine what the United States i gation, enjoying ity; were to pass a ing the improvement of the cond of the Jeste, and the lyanchings re- lating theret¢ They would be mob- HON. ADAM CROOKS In the Oxfords a name that is held resolution regar d-. in great respect even after the lapse | Adam Crooks who died on December 27, 1885, after a long and honored bed, and ro of them would escape; career in the service of his province. | | with their lives. | He was born near Hamilton, Ont., in | | mri -- 1827 and was educated at the Uni-| Is Thi is the Double? | versity of King's College "and at | (Woodstock Sentinel-Review) | Upper Canada College, where he Can it be that the church is too covered himself with glory as a stu-! busy with other matters to do its! dent. In 1864 he became Vice- | most effective work in winning the! Chancellor of the Colle and re- | world for Christianity too busy in tained the position until re resigned winning the world for the church, {%pon his 'appointment as Attorney | for instance, and in the carrying out! General of the Province of Ontario jo! social and economic propanganda | From that time he was a prominent | that may or may not be related to jeader in the litical arena of the { Christianity, but which certainly day although he was defeated in| [cannot be always doscribed as Christ- rw est Toronto in 1867 by John Mac- | lanity? | donald. Four years later he turned | the tables on the same opponent in ! "The Evil That Men Do." | the same riding by a substantial | (Kansas City Star) majority. The other day a man in Philadel- in December of that year he ac- phia, who would not let even his cepted office under the Hon. Edward {name be known, contributed to a! Blake, as 1 the Bh General with church fund the sum of one million | charge also of the Educational depart-'| | dollars. The incident was given the | ment, barest mention, doubtless is unknown Then his attention was turned to | to most of the people, and will be South Oxford and after a defeat in straightway forgotten. If the man | East Toronto, he entered the Legis- | had stolen a million outright, or | lature from the Oxford constituency. | gained it by illegal means that had | In 1879 he carried the same seat by | been exposed, it would have lived | almost one thousand of a majority. in history. Mr. Crooks was a busy man in the . | House. He was chairman of the | Private Bills and Railway Committee. For five years he was Provincial | Treasurer 'and for a number of years the Minister of Education. He found | the school systegpn in need of many | ally the poorer people who are sick. Sige Wo bring 2 jo a More | The taxes are 'styled luxury ored to make. Text books were in- | | but it is surely not a luxury to be | ferior, teachers far from having the | aio adic Sick. a Rion hii nes aie 4d | qualifications they should possess and | professional medical! attention, and The Normal Schools Vere jneficicht very often, too, an effective substi-| --- maintained: He Made many eaang- | | y ' es in the Mechanics' Lien Act and tute. Undoubtedly they do a lot of also in the Liquor Liscense Laws be- | good. Patent medicines of proved fore he a rears before his worth are rightly termed the '"'poor| death. y man's doctor." joe The Patent Medicine Tax. (Ottawa Journal) In the opinion of the Journal the tax is still too high, for, it is the sick who are be taxed, and especi- ra KIRBY MAKES $100,000 SR Ro ' GIFT TOL TO LAFAYETTE Contributes Thousand Shares of Woolworth Stock to Establish Professorship. Watertown, N.Y., June 16.--Fred | M. Kirby, vice-president of the F. W. Woolworth Syndicate of ve and | ten cent stores, a native of Brown- | ville'and former resident of Water- | town, has given $100,000 to Lafey-| ette College at Easton, Pa. The gift was made in the form of | 1,000 shares of common stock of | the F. W. Woolworth Company and | is to be used to establish a per- | petual endowment for a professor- ship to be known as the "Fred Mor- | zan Kirby Professorship of Civil Rights." JOHN T. VICK Labor representative on the Board of Conciliation, which brought in an | award against the demands of the To- | nopne Street Railway employees for gealers; or Sample Box er wages and better work - &' &! ng con 1 | Rippling Rhymes ALL IN VAIN. 1 was weighing, on the quiet, more than any gent should weigh; so I tried a rigid diet, and I ate but | once a day. All the things I like were banished, so my systém might grow thin; all the pies and doughnuts vanished from the larder "and the bin. 'I was thicker, I was broader, than a mortal man should be; so I fed on bran and fodder and fresh pumpkins from the tree. Oh, I lived on slaw and gherkins, till my form grew thin and spare, till I lost some seven firkins of the lard I used to wear. But I'm once again devouring grub that pleases every sense, and the horse's feed is sour- ing, with the garbage, by the fence. For I'll sleep be- neath a hummock in the boneyard"s solemn hush, ere I'll torture my old stomach with the fat-reducing mush. So I beckon to the waiter and I tell him he may bring ribs of beef and brown potater, ple and cake and everything. For the life we live is worthless if we're eating shredded straw, and the days are dark | and mirthless, and there ought to be a law. You may feel yourself grow fatter as you face the groaning board; what the dickens does it matter? Eat the best {tion oF many" years 18 that of "the "Hom ES WEDNESDAY, JUNE, 16, mo. RAR |BIBBY'S investments of any sort. proves profitable. There's economy in Quality See Bibby's Pure Wool Worsted Suits In rich shades of grey, blue or brown at .......$45.00 ie -- SHOE SALE The season's newest Ox- fords. Sizes 5} to 9. Regular $12.50 and $14.50 values for $8.75 | BIBBY'S Kingston's Cash and One-Price Clothing House. Buy Clothes of Known Worth Avoid "Wild Cat" Clothes as you would avoid "wild cat" To buy anything ply belaui it's low priced seldom See Bibby's Young Men's Grey Homespun Suits at $35.00. PANAMA HATS Something very special at (4 7 \ $3.75 All sizes) S00 GARDEN IMPLEMENTS Hand Cultivators. ~=Wheel Cultivator and Seeders. | --=kield, Garden and Ladies' Hoea. Sets of Garden Tools. Ladies' Spading Forks. ~-BASIC SLAG FERTILIZER. Steele Briggs Seeds. Good assortmceet at lowest prices --Deliveries to any part of city. BUNT'S | King St. Phone 338 Moving You will find us at: CORNER BAGOT AND BROCK. + Come and see us. CRAWFORD & WALSH Tailors --LIME JICE GRAPE JUICE ~LOGANBERRY JUICE --ORANGEADE ~--LEMONADE ~--RASPBERRIADE ~--GURD'S GINGER ALE =GURD'S SODA WATER =~--GURD'S DRY GINGER ALB ==ADANAC DRY GINGER ALE Jas. REDDEN & vo. Phones 20 and 990 Store closes at 1 pum. Wednesday AR ---------- DAVID SCOTT Plumber Plumbiag and Gas Wera a spestale . All werk Suarantesd. sateen 145 Froutense street. Fhene 1377, ---- FOR SALE Two houses, barn and large lot. $1,500 for quick sale. w. 2 GODWIN & SON Real Estate and Insurance 89 Brock St. Phone an STOP A. Chadwick & Son eral Raney's action against the gro- | | wonders of the third decade of this cers will not be heard until next|SeBtury. The trustee board of the fall. By that time public {interest | university for years past clung tena- may subside In which event the de-| Cl0uSly to the policy of going to Eng- | man deader than the one who starved to death. partment will likely follow the pre- | land or Seolfjnd for. professors to | cedent established by its predeces- | fill the chairs of English, classics, | --WALT MASON. oe reno The Serbian Relief Committee, you can afford. Through the victuals take a header, : eat while you are drawing lireath; for there is no dead New lomstion: Corner Ontario and West Sts. Phone 67. | CHOICE MEATS --Spring Lamb --Spare Ribs. --Tenderloins. Theve were one or two exceptions, Many clergymen are leaving © the | notably Dr. 8. W. Dyde, who occupied ministry in order to make a living | the chair of mental philosophy and for their families, as they say they | 'was regarded as one of the very best cannot subsist upon present salaries. | teachers and thinkers on this cone We have had a long and success- ful sérvice in fitting trusses. No matter how bad the hernia or Coal That Suits But We are being made good so rap- | idly by legislation that we probably won't need any ministers in the sweet by-and-bye. The Ottawa government is praotis- ing what it preaches when it saves - the country over $500,000 a year by Introducing economical metheds in the printing bureau. It promises to effect similar savings in other de- partments. For these reductions in expenditure let us be thankful. Poor Caruso! Thieves not only him of $500,000 worth of , but they have now stolen his choles wines and liquors. He will have to give a few more concerts to 'make up the losses. At Havana the tigent. Then there was the late Dr. Fletcher, a Canadian, who taught Latin in Queen's, but he was an Oxford product, as aso was W. L. Grant who filled the chair of colonial history. But the trustee board of Queen's seems to have held to the idea that Canada does not produce the culture necessary to fill a univer. sity chair in literature, languages or philosophy. This is not regarded as the fault of the universities but is laid at the door of the common achool system. Probably this system is improving, for it has produced a professor of Latin for Queen's University, which is decidedly hard to please, although it has not the biggest salaries to offer. Probably, however, the trustee board cannot other night seats at his concert were selling at $35 each, 80 he won't be long in recouping himself. ; POE MANUSCRIPTS. Edgar Allan Poe's manuscripts bring high prices at New York auc- tions. More than $8,000 was paid for a Poe sketoh the other day. One- lay hold upon an Englishman or a Scotchman from overseas. The chair of English literature, vacant for a year, is still unfilled. Queen's may not be able to secure another Pro- fessor Cappon, who was an éxception- ally brilliant scholar and teacher, but is there no Canadian scholar fit to Appeals To You To Pay Your Tribute To-Day To the memory of the many tho usands of heroic Serbian men wae died that Liberty Might Live. They have left behind them 600,000 HELPLESS, STARVING" LITTLE ONES For humaaify's sake will you not answer Ihe call from these desti- denth of that sum would have made fill the English chair at Queen's ? tute Orphans ang give what you can today 2 u --Pork Sausages. Choice Western Beef Daniel Hogan Phone 285 G. Hunter Ogilvie Agent for Excelsior Life ns Representing: Ryan, Grier, , & Panet "Members of the Montreal Stock Ex- change--Insurance and General . Broker. Am offering Riordon Company Ltd's 8% Cumulative First Preferred Shares at 983%. Come and see me. 281 King Street Phones oS e107] }| of how long standing, we have a truss to fit. Our instock includes the || well-known HOOD'S HARD RUBBER TRUSS the most comfortable and aseptic ap- pliance made--they conform to the shape of the body, do not chafe, and are almost everlasting, as they do not absorb moisture or perspiration. Private office for fitting. - DR. CHOWN'S wid STORE Car Owners | fet us drive that knock from your moter, burning ihe carbon from the BE Rete You will get more mile- "oe ant pave on less gas. 50 CENTS PER CYLINDER a WELDING SHOP 48 PRINCESS STREET. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Celebrated Scranton The Standard Anthracite The only Coal handled by Crawford Phone 9. . dys . "it's black busine... oul we treat you white."