EE 6 : BRITISH WHIG 87th YEAR. ' , an a and Semi.Weekly Eales, Baty an WHIG PUBLISHING : CO, LIMITE Elliott ... n A. Guild .. ditor and * Managing Director SELEFRONES ness Office UBC RIPTION RATES ly Edition) year, uy In ety Luce. 3.90 year, uo pad in advance ,. 5.0 year, b; il to rural 1 oticen' 3.00 oo Fo Ey year, by Tat) he Sash 5 d in a vance year. to "ailed st and three a 1.00 1,50 1.50 oo r od TOWN REPRES TATIVES der, 22 St. John Se Montreal. #. Thowpon, i Lymsden Bldg. o. ie Teter to the Editor sre published 4 over the actual name of the ar. hed is one of the best job print- ng Aiysnse in Canxd zdn. dob p The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG ©» auilieliticated by the Audit 'Bureau of Circulations, n--- A La Variety is the spice of life and the all of lars, Jerr Btill, a fireless cooker is of mo SSpvice to a fireless cook, *'Do unto othef§ as they have done pt, tuto you," is the more popular motto. ts never have red hair, though may be addicted to Red theo- 'The burnt Cork in Ireland is going 40 blacken the names of the gullty Secs. Why, O why, does not an unknown le die somewhere and leave us the million? err is human, and the British ald be very patient with their brothers. jonas rly aud adenoma erybody is aorking his neighbor ork. It sure is a corking town the undertakers, r order for tof ¢ bootleggels the push. { great, many pious folk overlook first part of the command, *'Six shalt thou labor." ; -------------- w many of the applications for 'would stand if the right to Ty were withdrawn? t is easier to understand what el ot Babel after one lHstens "éohosrt pt nations, onstintine sees, that he can take s Greer throne but ny 1s wonder- who will pay expenses, fhe United 'States wouldn't ac- a mandatory; but is sufficiently sted to be an observatory, PE ------------ French selentist has discovered ¥ to find the weight of a kiss. at is immaterial, It fs the cost that @ days of bad colds are at hand. Have you a Hlttle life-saver in your of do you weually get a six. utting nore In tha you TRS out I eventually fill your purse," So fs the wise man, but ss usual he siy how. Be Ne {8 trying to land a branch pi 8 manufacturing . concern which 300,000 on advertising alone We should still be thankful for "i patrons of the street cars, who smiles going to work in and the man who ldughs "home in --a eveliing. ------ ¥ Dr, Cody a Toronto that he there was 1 of government better than 'form of two-party government. may be true in the abstract, when the people refuse to line ind the two old parties, what ? Ha the doctor any solution problem ? wire entirely ditferent ert eet) 3S 1 * | the counties of Le [made was that he was not there to o| that the U.F.0. political party NEEDED, AN INFIRMARY. The directors of the Home for the Aged have a new probiem on their Owing to the igion of General Hospit Te Tor no mork of ifs bed- ridden inmates, au infirmary must be provided. The home "accommodates fifty-two _per- sons, and takes care of the aged poor of Kingston, Fror ac county and' )x and Adding- {ton. By notifying Lennox and Ad- dington council that its poor cin ne longer be accommodated in the King- ston home, infirmary arrangements could be made in the present bulld- ing, but probably it would be better if the three municipalities each con- tributed one-third towards the erec- tion of an extension to the building. This would be the most economical solution for all concerned. The King- 'ston Home for the Aged is most effi ciently conducted, It has a splendid superintendent in Dr. Baldwin, and the old folks are very kindly cared for and entertained. There is many a man and woman who would like to end their days in this Kingston home, Work that the hospital formerly did must now be done at the Montreal street institution, and the infirmary will no doubt be provided for, as the city council board of directors have provided other good things for the place in which the old and infirm, with no relatives to look after them in: their declining years, are cared | for. © HOW NOT TO DO IT. A correspondent in Tokto says that silk reelers and spinners have decid- ed to "suspend production and reel- | ing of silk at that place from Nov. 30th to the middle of February, in| order to maintain prices." This ac-| tion by the silk interests of Japan | tollows a general depression in the | industry for several months. Whole- sale dealers and exporters of Yoko- hama have agreed not to handle the silk of any reeler who violates this non-production agreement, Not even the "Circumlocution Of- fice" which Dickens satirized in '"Lit- tle Dorritt" had a bett®F right to a guiding principle of "How mot to do it", than this Japanese organization, which is.trying to lift itself by its own boot-straps, After a period of wild excess in any activity, from such a readjustment of economic condi- tions as Japan had been attempting to the simpler operation of drinking too much to celebrate a successful effort ~-=th® result is wholly-analogous, in the cold, gray dawn which comes to depress the spirits. The wise men of Japan----when they can make them- selves heard above the clamor of ig- norance--maust employ the most strenuous efforts-to restore polse in a top-heavy crisis, and rehabilitate sane economic conditions by recogni« ty of the laws: which 8 vern immut- bly. A U. F, O, PRINCIPLE, The evidence of the farmers' re- presentatives before the tariff com- mission while it was sitting in Tor- onto, especially 'that A. A. Powers, Pyesident of the U.F.0. Co-operative Association, brought to light 2ue of the most surprising stories --cver heard in regard to the marketing of Marm produce. The first statement he Nalk tariff matters, but simply to éhdepvour to overcome the fe:ling that the farmer was a moneyed man, But nevertheless he shed tome Inter- esting light on the egg situstion, and Save some facts which may have something to do with the continued high price of eggs. It came"as something of a shock to the commissioners, as it will ta the general public, to learn that the farmers of Ontario are shipping their eggs overseas 'nm carload lots at the eame time us iho people of the pro- vince have to buy eggs imported from the United States. It is even more surprising to learn that the vulk of the egxg sold in Ontario dur- ing the past summer have been im- ported. A concrete example was given of a recent transaction. While the Ontario farmers were either shipping the eggs overseas or Holding them in cold storage, the U. &. O. Co-opera= tive Society brought in five carloads of eggs from Minneapolis at a cheap- er price than that received for ex- port business; and. they were sold at once, presumably as hone eggs. _ Naturally, this révelation raises a question of whether or not it is right to withhold foodstuffs from the public for the purpose of securing a higher price. The princi ple enunciated by Mr. Powers was to buy up all the eggs, put them in cold storage and hold them to be sold in the market offering greatest in- ducements. Sir Henry n, chairs man of the commission, said that he was curious to know what the atti- tude of the United Farmers was to wards the public sentimept against the holding dack of foodstuffs for the purpose of enhancing prices. Mr. Powers ha not seem at all concerned, hiv Dt #4 nis shoulders and re< ent the Ontario farmer was ros out for number one." "It has 'been stated on various oe- cured the reins of power in Ontarle that the party had no desire for class rule, that were just as conce ed in terests of the othe er classes in the province. Mr. Pow- ers' evidence seems to explode that theory. Of course it will be argued and | tality; casions,since the U. F. O. party se-| the U.F.0. Sn Association organizations; FN -- ee ------ but the bond 'between them is too close to convince the public that they, gre entirely indépendent of each oth- gr...Both draw thelr entire sUpDoTS.. from the same source, from the hun- | dreds.of U.F.O. clubs throughout the | province. The leaders of.one are the men who created the other. While | perhaps Mr. Drury cannot be held | responsible for the methods of the U.F.O. Co-operative Assoeiation, his followers are the men who laid down the principles of the association, and we have never yet heard of him find- ing fault with their principles, Vv, AA IEE MUSINGS OF THE KHAN Her Heart and Her Henhouse. Most of us have our.hopes, our as- pirations, our ambitions, our dreams. Onee in a dog's age we make good, but nevertheless 'tis nice to hope, to aspire, perchance to dream. What a drab world this would be if we could not dream our dreams. Where a man has the advantage over a woman is that he can set to work to make his dreams come true. This is the whole secret of the Fe- male Spffrage movement. For ages women dreamed beautiful dreams, but they had to depend on men to make them come true and the men-- fell down! Hold on, though, not all of them, Some of them sat down, a few lay down and a few went up in the air and when they came down they went slap out of sight, that is, | if there was any depth of soil in that | If man had sympathized | | with woman's aspirations and tried | vicinity, to get her what she wanted she would never have asked for the vote, Now she's got the vote and it serves us right! Had she she | been born a boy | would have been christened "Law- | rence' was the ogly man.by the name of | after her grandfather, who Belden who ever amounted to a hill of beans. That's one way great men | are unconsciously awarded immor- | folks call their young ones after them. She wasn't born a boy ~--but her paw, Jim pelden, was a re- | sourceful cuss and he contrived the | splendiferous name "Lawrence' for ber--and that's how she come to be called Larry. Jim Belden "kep' store" at Gumbo? hints about his broken heart; but if cross roads and Larry clerked for her paw and she hadn't a terrible' lot to do. A country store is not what it used to be, Almost every- body has got an auto more or less. If anybody in Gumbo has ten dol- lars, which is not likely after his gasoline bill has been paid and he has got a new tire, and a spring, etc,, for the benzine buggy, I say if any- one in Gumbo has a ten dollar bill left, do you think he is going down tc Belden's store at the cross roads to blow it in? It is to laugh! Nay, | he will get out his car, hia good ole car, and go clattering off to Bul- lock's Corners with them ten iron' men filling the Interior to suffoca- tion. Yes, Larry, a pretty little thing she was and is, Larry, poor girl, hadn't a terrible lot to do and she had plenty of time to sit by the Black Giant gtoye leaning back in her chair with her hands clasped behind her wise little head and dream dréams. And what do you suppose she dream- ed? She did not dream of pirate yachts and special trains. She did not dream of handsome mansions, beautiful bungalows or cozy cottages. She did not dream of sun parlors, luxurious dens, superb drawing- rooms, not at all, she did not build a castle, she built a henhousé in the air. I-said Hen House! She didn't want to be a doctor's wife, or-a lawyer's wife, or even a preacher's wife, and she didn't want to be a farmer's wife either, exactly. She had a host of admirers but none of them got anywhere becausa not one of them had a.henhouse on him, You see, though the women have the Yoie they are in slavery yet. They can't get anywhere without us fel- ows, \ The whole community was amazed wien it got out that Matt Teeple was sparking Larry, He had thirty acres of land up the concession from the crossroads, the remnant of the once vast Teeple estate. ' The sparking started this a-way. Mass he come in- to the store one afternoon and she was alone and be bought tem cents worth of mixed candy and sat down at the stove to eat it and Larry shé asked him what he was going to do with that thirty acre uv his'n up the line and Matt he sald that ne'd sell it if he could and go out west and The Win. Davies Co. lad PHONE 597 start a Tanch bat 2obuddy seemed | to want it--it was too big fer a 1118 | man and too small fer a big man an' | | there you was! mse.op it!" snapped "an' make a fortune. Thers | millions in fit. Yop're workin" up | {here with the stone orusher when | you might be yer own bosg, There's | money in hens, Matt. The hen is | the machine gun of agriculture. The {pig is a rapid firer and a cow is a | whole cannon, but if you want quick! | results there's nothin' like a ma- | chine gun. You want to build the | | right kind uv a henhouse, Matt. . All! the alleged henhouses I ever see was built by a rooster or a man with a rooster"s intellect. You want to | build a henhouse, Do you get me, Matt?" ' "Oh, Larry, I'd like to get you," he sald. There was silence deep as death and the two of them held their breath for a tie. Then says she: "Do I get the henhouse?" The wedding took place in the i little stone church, Matt was in a { highly nervous state, which is not an | unusual condition with bridegrooms. When they stood up: together he should have sald: "With all my worldly goods I thee endow." But instead of that, he savs: "With seventy-five t'orobrea pullets, and im- ported rooster worth fifty dollars an' a henhouse I thee endow!" And she kissed him right there and then! A RT The Khan, The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rockton, Ont, Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER ame. a THE SECRET SORROW. I have a sorrow in my breast, a == | brother to despair: and I've conclud- | ed it is best to keep the blamed thing |= there. You ask, "What is this or ES ing woe, that has your soul sapsiz- ed?" But you will never, never know | ~--it won't be advertised. I've found | @ martyr never fails men's sympathy | to sharé, so long as he omits details! about his Secret Care, 'Tis best to | merely shed a sigh, and sadly wag | | one's cars, and carry in one's star- | | board eye a pair of unshed tears; {and one may spring some. cautious om A he hands out large blue prints, the listeners depart. A mystic sorrow, undefined, its. boundaries in doit, appeals quite strongly to the mind 'every human scout. Men Hg what has wrecked vour past, destroy- | ed your fondest goal, and frozen, as with winter biast, the current of your soul. And there is pity in their glanee when you they contemplate; you are a figure of romance, a Man- fred up to date. But if you tell them you have corns, they mutter, "Shoo!" or "Scat!" For every honest voter scorns a sordid woe like that. And 80 I heave a soulful sigh, as one who'd fain be dead; but if you ask the reason why, I merely shake my ; head. ~~WALT MASON. Fooey! They were chatting in the crowded street car, "'Do'/ you know that every soul has i & distinctive color?" said the Theos- ophist. "No, I didn't," replied the Round- er, as he gasped for air. "But I do know that everg soul has a distinec- tive odor." Ooof! 'Prohibition' mught have saved the Roman Empire," said the man in the Frock Coat, "How do you make that out?" asked the man with the Red Nose: "Wasn't Caesar's death due to too many Roman punches?" demanded the man in the Frock Coat. Some Lusiness Men Are old and feel old; others keep young by systematic exercises and "peppy" games in the Y.M.C.A Gym. Keep the old "zip" in y step. Join the Y.M.C.A. Phone i. an application blank today. + Limited Range. ife--"'Oh, doctor, Cuthbert seems to be wandering in his mind |" Doctor (who knows him)--"Don't trouble about that; he can't go far." 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