THE ear, by 'ug your: to Una Stat 6 BRITISH WHIG 88TH YEAR, . { that his course is the only .reason- Fibtiuhed and I- Weekly by! BRITIS G PUBLISHING | able one. It says, in commending w) D SH WHIG CO., LIMITE & 6 Elliot .,.0.:........ . President | 3 Bn A. Gulld eras Editor and TRLEPHONES ; ness Office ... torial Rooms Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES - (Daily Edition) : ® year, delivered In city Year, If paid in advance by mall to rural offices $25 es $3.00 (Bemi-Weekiy Edition) by mall, cash .31 if not aid In advance §1.50 #ar, to United States 1.50 &nd three months pro rata. REPRESENTATIVES] }CY could obtain the Montreal. | 22 St. John St, » M. Thompson, 402 Lumsden Bldg. Toronto, A tters to the Editor are published on. over the actual name of the i Attasheq Js one of the best job print. Ang offices in Canada The circmlation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by ABC » Audit Burean of Circulations, ee --------------} The greener one {s, the greater his "Imelination to turn red. -- © Our greatest need at present is a daw requiring people to obey the laws : -- ~ Blessed, also, are the pace-maker:, for they keep the world on its toes. || S---- The average successful man thinks 3 & proper conversation ' is a mono- gue. Constantine might avoid mu _ fusion by announcing his "at home" days. h con- ¥ -- You never hear a tearful brother tolling his sad story to the soda +++-248/ come, The .el ..292| | large part of it must continue to be | : LABOR AND OUR INDUSTRIES, | The action of the Trades nnd Lab j Congress of Canada, ants 200,000 workers male male in the dominion, in supporting the principle of protection in our cal system, shows that it is entireiy in accord with the position taken by Hon, Arthur Meighen, the premie: who beli®ves that Canadian resources in raw majerials should be de elop- led by Canadian workers, in order {that we may get the full benefit of which repres- and :bdustrial development, fous and profitable ae | ali workers. €mpioyment for In 80 far as the tariff | can secure this result Premlder Mei- | | glen stands committed to the cause of labor, and he has shown the fal- {lacy of the free trade arguments. | Even the Globe which has been loud in denouncing Protection, now sees on labor's views, "No responsible { man | able to advocate jt for many years to Tevenue requirements of the government are 80 great that a | raised by costoms tariff." ! Whatever labor's ideas may be on | | the conduct bf Industrial enterprises, | 0! its welfare Is linked up with their | prosperity and it would be a calamity | [ie the advocates of the free trade po- Opportunity to wreck the Industrial and commercial drosperity ot Canada. Mr. Meighen's | warning should be seriously heeded | including the farmers | we cannot at this time | stock in | | by everyone, | and labor for | afford to permit those whose trade is "free trade," and *'class prejudice," "big interests" | Ing votes regardless of the | quences of the course pursued, | THE MEANING oF THE FIUME | SITUATION. For the past few | tention has | situation at { d'Annunzio and his band of legion- |aries for a time defied the Italian | government, but the average man in | the street no doubt wonders what it | is all about. The whole matter ig 50 complicated that it réquires much [study before jt can be straightened | out, | The beginning of the trouble goes | back much farther than the entry | of Italy into the late war. The three | Provinces on the eastern coast of the conse- | Adriatic Sea, Trentino, Kustenland [and Dalmatia, used to be Italian. | When Italy entered r treaty and continu- | in this country advocates fres | anaging Director | trade at the present time, or will be | to divide' the | | people for the Sole purpose of catch- | weeks much at- | been focussed on the | Fiume, where Gabrielle | THE DAILY torial contiguity to Italy. This Was signed by both nations on November 10th, byt d'Annunzio re. fused to recognize it, and announced | jump Is determination not to give up | Fiume, as he believed that to do so would be suicide for Italy. Jugo- | Slavia appealed to Italy to oust him | nc, from Fiume, and on December 1st | la state of war was declared by | d'Annunzie, A blockade was en- jeve forced; Itallan regular troops sur- rounded the city, and on December | 25th Fiume capitulated, and d'An- ito nunzio gave up the spectacular at- tempt to hold the city, { The fall of d"Annunzio removes | the last obstacle in the way of | i settling this vexed Adriatic question, | ene | and there is now a prospect of quiet- ! ness and agreement in this country | {which has for so long been the | centre of dispute and warfare. | who looked somet Now | what'll you have?" ving Mke y Aith Applogies to Luke. Paw What made i r the "moon? ounshine my sor = . Cheer © e Thi . ---- Our Daily Special . 2 f *hed Gentleman Is One Who Tries TO Cast Reflections. i know hing town T YOu grow gider you wil} y the &ime you are told an "confidentially" everybody in knows it { - Evea when the Weather is perfect for going to church a map Gn always dig nother excuse for slaying away n't it funny how a girl can learn mobile engine | a when she can't learn how to peel pota- BITS OF BY-PLAY | .% A man doesn'y really appreciate the girl who jiits him until some other By LUKE McLUKE Copyright, 1920, by | Biri gets busy and marries him The Cincinnati Enquirer. He may not believe it. Bug the Live ne in the Dead Town might be a Dead One in a Live Town. It is mighty hard to have a Full 3 ull Stomach It may that Wealth does not But that isn't the rea- son why so many of us remain poor You may think that there are only four letters in Love But ¥ poor boob Who has been sueq for breath of prome- {se knows better. Opportunity ang Dame Fortune are the only knockers Who boost ev ery time "A doctor in this paper tells people | they knock. how to lle when they are asleep," said | re ------ the Oid Fogy. - 1 x --o--teg At get-rich schemes he joked; 'Huh," gruuted the Grouch. He | | knows they need no instruction When | N » But he fell for some watered stock, No Honor for D'Annunzio, And that's how he got soaked | New York Times) The Idle Farmer. Why should the farmer man be sore, When he has time for play; d he does not have to work, more Than eighteen hours per day ---- Ouch! Ar Ho, Hum! { He'd laugh at rubes, would Oswald | lock, they are awake { : me Honor was lost some time ago in Mean Brute! Mrs. Gabb had dragged Mr. Gabb into the millinefy store with her and had | tried on a hat that was marked down | to $69.99 "I think the lady ought to have that hat," emiled the Milliner. "It is so be. coming to her." 5 1 "1s that so!" gneered Mr. Gabb, as he | looked at the price. "Well, it may be | becoming to her, but you" can bet it | won't be coming to her" chance to save the innocent inhabi- tants of Fiume, s---- Not Getting Excited. (Victoria Times) Gr.at Britain does not mean to be | Stampeded into a new naval policy because the United States and Japan Propose to add a number of capital ships to their respective navies. Nor | Béed there be any cause for alarm. | Apart from the possibility of a gen- eral understanding between the great nations which may result in a sub- Stantial curtailment on naval and mili Ville? asked the Thin Man. % ic tary armament it would be useless for | og walt RE Qo RR, Sent | Britain to area Md gigantic fn | 8 replied the Fat Man. | ancial burden by indulging in a spec- Ss | tacular building programme before | | That faces differ, 1 well know, | her naval architects have complete- | That is the reason for this pun; | ly absorbed the lessons of the war. | Her mouth's & perfect Cupid's bow, | Should it devolop that the Mother- { But hiss not an arrow one. [land will need a larger fleet than Atta Boy! | ever she will build it in the light of will oad ly Braverman oo cit Tot | the most modern experience. And if I AB 3 Ling [she does find it necessary to con- He rans a pawn sing, [ struct her craft on the famous "two | keels to one" policy nowhere in the world could it be required under those special circumstances except And They Get 'Em. We hate to have the Doot r call, And. leave word what to 4 y; When one kia Bots the measles, all The others want 'em too Dencribed. | "What kind of a town is Horsey- | @ haircut," you Things Te Worry About There me only 53 pay days in 1921. | this transaction, but there is stil] a | IHIAHAI Imi BRITISH WHIG. A FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, io2f. BIBBY"S | Kingston One Price Men's and Boys' Wear Stores I -------------------------------------------- --when you see it advertised we have it for less. . TT i . --It is part of our business to indifferent to undersel] us. --Quality for quality, Price for price, valu say: Compare! Compare! Compare! Tm meet and beat all competition in this city. --What you see in our windo WS, you see in for your careful inspection. TTT --Our revised prices make this discount st lous. Wt REMEMBER! elsewhere, remember that allow no firm, good, bad or --At a glance you will see that we do as we advertise, and city or any other e for value, we = £ = £ 3 gE = our store ready uff look ridicu- ; = |BIBBY"S me 3 TANK HEATERS To keef water troughs for « attle frbm freezing No ice will form on them and the cattle Will drink more of warmed water. Will pay for itself in One & eason. . Made in one solid piece of ca st iron. No seams to rust out. BUNT'S the A -- CCMA ttn E i £ . Table Waters White Rock. --Radn®r. Poland. ----Adanac. =--Caledonia, Vichy Celestins, Soda Water. RR a chee ------ -- Ain't This Crasy! Though many suitors would persist In chasing sweet Miss Mills, ~ fountain clerk. the war, the =Dry Ginger Ale, in Great Britain, HARDWARE. KING ST. PHONE 388. Allies, in th | e Pact of London, agreed -- { that . overlook the fact nome their their beat and © And nations shall Swords into plowshares - Btelns Into bootlegs, ---------- c------ 'There is a general disposition to thit God has a mandate for the world. advance of prohibition in 8 have a hip pocket. i -- This plea to resume buying is pro- bably a subtle effort to discover whe- ther the people have anything lef: i ------ "The Allies are no longer jealous of in being jealous of one ; -------- * The funny part of it is that the id cop has to commit the same . dens, St If men can be made perfect by | part of the Balkans was undertaken ive action, money for hers ? why spend so -------- is getting so-that they can't ad- Pig iron in a magazine with- using a pair of silk-clad legs as 't it time that Mexico interven- Dut down the crime wave in the d States? Surely, one good turn r'ves another. ---- of the people hate a reformer he threatens their pleasures, the other half because he threa- ~~ idea of a scientific nut is the ¥- who tried. to graft a siraw- plant to a milkweed to get es and cream--Pathfinder. a -------- man who invented sticky fly- dead, but untold millions of ll infect food and tickle the 's head. Verily, the way of is hard. llway, but also a Canadian Telegraph system. The lat- from the Atlantic to the ind controls 1,500 offices 000 miles of wire, Why not th telegraph system with fice, as is done in England, It.mare effective still? ------------------ not pleasant to learn that exists in Catada. Yet 'story brought out of Un- Dr. Wi , & missionary labored in that inhospitabla for over thirty years. The owing to the dispersion herds upon which gh for exist- | chiding | To all territorial claims, « All of their energy is con- | a10th-~{ ang Croatia, |a part, | three-fourths Jugo-Slav, Italy's his- | toric ! | graphical claim was strong. before He can catch an offen- |. ro | moderately strong claims, churches ana | ®Y the peace Italy should' have these pro- vinces returned. the Jugo-Slavs, they did not then Protest, were not willing to admit the right of the Al- lies to award to Italy territory which has been tacitly awarded to them. Therein lay the ferment of discon- | tent that buzzed between the Jugo- ---- eee. The : Stans leads us to wonder whether | Slavs and Italy throughout the {and which broke out aftsr the sign- war, | ing of the armistice, four rea- | 8Ons may be advanced 3 {toric unity, that of geographical [ entity, that of population, anq that | of culture and language. So far as Population was concerned Dalmatia of which Fiume forms Was one-fourth Italian and claim was weak, but her geo- In cul- and had language, she When the apportionment of this treaty, it at once be- came a storm centre, The treaty assigned a section of the Dalmatian coast line to Italy, but gave Fiume, the seaport of Hungary, to Croatia, On January 5th, 1919, the United Serblan-Croatian-Slovene kingdom was formed at Belgrade, and Jugo- Slavia 'came into being. It was ja this stage that Fiume became the oc- casion of strife. Fiume is the na- tural port for the Croatian hinter- land, but Flume has always been considered an essentia] factor in the Italian demands, and the city jg mainly Italian in Population ang character. . President Wilson took the side of Jugo-Slavia, Great Britain ang France wished to make Fiume and & small section of the hinterland a {& picturesque condition free state. Italy demanded both the he port. During July, 1919, Jugo-Slavia showed signs of breaking up, and this enhanceq Italy's claims to control Fiume. Ip 'September of the Same year d'An- nunzio sprung his coup d'etat, and, with a few -thousand troops, took Possession of the city. Then ensued in which Italy was officially compelled to op- Pose an Italian soldier, leading an Italian army, holding a city which Italy desired to keep. THe Allies agreed to a plan whereby the city ftselt was to be Italian, and the hin. terland = Jugo-Slav, but this was blocked bx President Wilson. In"January, 1920, when the sup- reme allied council disbanded, the question was still unsolved. Both Italy and Jugo-Slavia conducted hostilities against d'Annpnzio, but he held Fiume, ang even occupied other places in the disputed area. Later diplomatic efforts between Jugo-Slavia and Italy led to a meet- ing at' Rapallo early in November, and to a settlement of 'the whole question on the basis that Fiume was to be independent, with terri- The Serbiafis, jp that of his- | She married a Chiropodist, Ang let him foot her bills. % --Luke McLuke. A manicurist named Miss Dales Smith wed the other day; When single she Would trim his nails, ut now she trims his pay. ~=Canton (Ohio) News. S-- ----] r f Walt Mason | THE POET PHILOSOPHER | | THE KNOCKER. You buy a car you think is great, a bus that's strictly up to date. Your breast is filled with wholesome pride go forth to take a ride, a long, long while | to buy a boat that's quite in style. | You feel, while gliding down the | street, that life is sumptuous and | Sweet; you're bubbling o'er with gen- | fal mirth, good will to men and peace | on earth. And when you park your | car downtown, up comes J. Pumper- | nickel-Brown. "Great Scott!" he | cries; "Jesosophat! I wouldn't own | a van like that! Oh, why in blitzen i did you blow for such a cheese the | hard-earned dough? Of all the lem- | ons that's the worst; among the gold | bricks it is first. Its working parts will break like glass, it is a swine for oil and gas." And so. this omni- | present jay has knocked the pleasure | from your day, and pulled a cloud 8Cross your sun, and spoiled your little slice of fun. In every street of every town there is a Pumpernickel- Brown, who can't be satisfied or glad unless he makes another sad. His cheap remarks should not destroy the cheerful neighbor's honest joy, but | Joy's a thing that soon looks sick | when some one hits it with a brick. | And so this Pumpernickel-Brown dis- | A Wise Judge. divorces action in VS. Clark, §2 South, Court decides that a at a wedding might In a (Clark Louisiana 875) the b Spectator no abl A > when you for you have saved ---- Any Other Nominations? Arch Bishop, Rural -Route No. 2, Nashville, Tenn. has been nominated ior pC haplaln of the Names Is Names Club. -- dining room town, A pretty his table and he at her, "Nice aay, little one!" he began. "Yes, it is" interrupted the pretty Waltress. "And so Was yesterday. And my name is Ella, and I know I'm a 1it- tle peach, and know | have pretty blue eves, 've been here Quite a the place, and | don't a girl to be working id, ra quit my job. satisfactory, and I ere is a show or ga -night, and ir there is I'm not going with you. Yes, I'm from the country, and I'm a respectable glri, and I wouldn't lke to see the sights in the big cities, and I don't want a | present, and Jou can't. see me In front of the hote] a ter supper, and my broth- er is cook in this hotel, and he weighs 20% 2ounds and can Lick his weight in Wildcats. and the other day he wiped up the floor of this dining room with a tributes sorrow up and down. fresh fifty. oliar-a-manth drummer --WALT MASON. NIN | RRR NRNRRNERNNANARNAAERAERRE ~ PHONE 597 ANOTHER BIG SPECIAL IN PORK 800 Ibs. Roast of Pork . . ,. iii a. O8e 600 lbs. Pork Chops . BEEF Shoulder Roasts . . . . RibRoasts . ... Oven Roasts . . . _, Stewing Beef x ' BUTTER 700 Ibe. choice Whey Butter . .50¢. Ib. | -= BACON | | Sweet Pickled Bacon, sliced ..38¢. Ib. | Wiltshire Bacon... .. ...\ 40c. aud 45c. Ib. '-iiiiaiei.i....25c per lb, | Prime Cheese . . . "way . .20¢. Ib, .. 28c. Ib. ..22¢.1b. . .18¢. Ib. ra ninen "re sa aa - . --/|| Jas. REDLEN & Lo. White Fox Stole - No. 1 Quality $68.50 Gourdier's BROCK STREET -------- fC ------ Phones 20 and 990, I ---------------------- | A ANd a a FARMS FOR SALE 119 acres, » miles from Kingston, on a leading roaq, Lew barn, with stuoles 3v by 40 feet--smaii dwediiug, ueariy new; about 45 acres Row undar culuvauon; about 30 acres of valuable wood, chiefly maple. Price $4,000. 85 acres on the Bath pleasant location on Of Quinte; over 80 acres arst class soil under Cultivation; &ood buildings. Price $600, @ have also a large list of farms of ail sizes and prices, T. J. Lockhart Real kstate and Ansurance KINGSTON, Ong, Phone 1036w or 17974, TT rrwnnn----.--. Road; the Bay EGG COAL-........ -..$16.50 per ton STOVE COAL .........$16.50 per ton NUTCOAL... ....... - $16.50 per ton PeaCoal .......... 5. . $15.00 per ton Carrying 50c. extra. . PHONE 185. ALL SALES FOR CASH. Phone orders 0.0/p. SOWARDS COAL CO. Crescent 'Wire Works Fencing, Guards, Baskets, Flower rders, Wire Work of all kinds, man- ufactured by :-- { PARTRIDGE & soy | ---- ot le 376 Bagot Street Robinson Brew' Old Stand 6. Hunter Ogilvie INSURANCE AND GENERAL BROKER In daily communication with Mont- real and Toronto Stock Exchanges. Dominion, Provincial and Muniei- pal Bonds for sale. 62 King Street Went Phone 380. Residence 915w, Pro-phy-lac-tic Pen-e-tractor Hair Brush -- Pure aluminum face. Choice, extra stiff, bristles. An extraordinary Brush for t ce of an ordinary one. Up pric yg Dr. Chown's Drug Store - Phoies «= 568) & 1087 DAVID SCOTT Flumbiag and Gas Work a upeejas. iende Direct. Phone mn pure Lake Ontario Trout | and Whitefish, Fresh Sea Salmon, Had. dock, Halibut and Cod. The Delaware, Lackawanna ani Western Raflroad's Celebrated Scranton Coal The Standard Anthracite The only Coal kandied by Crawford Phone 9. Foot of "een St. "It's a black busine... oul we treat you white." f