THE DAILY BRIT ISH WHIG. THE BRITISH WHIG 88TH YEAR. Published Daily apd Semi-\V THE BRITISH WHi1G PUB CO,, LIMITED LISHIN J. G. Ellloty Lemau A. Gulla ,.,.. TELEPHONES; Business Office ..,....... . Editorial Rooms | .e Job Office ws SUBSCRIPTION RATES; 0 any. Edition) ne year, deliver One year, if pl - Ons year, by mail to rural offices One year, 10 United States (Semnl-Weekiy Edition) One year, by mall, Fan One year, if not pa atl One year; to United 'Stat OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES F. Calder, 22 8t, John St. Mont F. W. Thompson ..... 100 King St. W Toronto. es Letters to the Editor are only over the actual pame writer. Attached is one of the printing offices [In Canada. ot smERt cnr ien arn President «Editor and Managing-Director ...243 | Phasis e228) a 5.00 | $2.50 3.00 $1.20 | da advance $1.50 : § $1.50 | ing on its oars, and trying to live on -------- f A LESSON FROM GERMANY. | Even although the feeling in Al- towards any is Ger is lied countries not yet of the ki: are certain th | be copied from--the former enemy { country, and adopted with benefit by e there is or Wirth t natu which other nations. For instan [ the message which Chance {addressed to the members « | in Bourse the other day | an appeal to that body to'suppart the | government's programme in meeting [the reparation terms. The chancellor | briefly outlined the new tax measures | which are to be put into effect, and concluded by saying: "It is not memories of battlefields | or new wars that point out our fu ure { paths or destination; only intense in making | work and production will help us win | eekly > | back liberty for the Fatherland." | For the chancellor of a defeated nation, this is a striking appeal, and it contains in it a lesson which could be applied with even greater em- to the victorious nations, Which to-day seem to be in peril of | resting on their victories and neglect- i ing to safeguard their own future. In any victory there is liable to be a cause for slackening of effort. The goal attained, there is always the nger of the victorious nation rest- | its victories on land and sea. There reall is an aptitude to put too much stress | | on the idemnities to be collected from | : : i | Wants educated men and women, The published | the defeated country, and too little | Aucated citizens will make the his- the, stress upon the necessity for sustain- [tory of the next decades as they are | making the history of this one and | {ed effort within its own borders. | beat 195 Phere has been an indication that this | has already happened in some of the WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations, | ain and Canada There has been a , there might well | e Ber- | after a long car ride home, find your | nose all black from said door -------- No Standard Measures, (Ottawa Jourrs A "bushel" of potato {from a huckster may weigh all the | Way from 60 to 99 pounds and the | purchaser may not be any the wiser. | There is no protection for the casual buyer of fruits and vegetables in"the { absence of any regulation regarding the 'disposing of grain and orchard { produce by standard weights and i measures, . | -------- i In Ancient Athens. | (Orillia Packet) In ancient Athens girls lived in the { Strictest seclusion till their marriage, [Kept virtually under lock and key. They were seldom permitted to leave | their homes, except on some great lestal occasion. A like law in these | days would give a staggering blow { to the paint and kalsomine business | ------------ } The Priceless Boon. (Cleveland Plain Dealer) | Stay in, school. Make al es purchased arces are short, work your way | through school if the money prob- | handicaps there is a way somewhere {and the years spent in study now will | be the most valuable | | will make. Parents who en- ever | courage their sons and daughters to ! keep on in school are doing a favor | to the next generation of Americans {as well as to themselves. Let there be no mistake about it. The world making the history of Be one of the history been ones, have | past The circulation of THE BRITISH | Allied countries, even in Great Brit- makers, | slackening of effort, a decrease in | the work being done and in the pro- | [duction records These conditions When we have fewer 'Jingoes we'll ! have more to jingle. If Carpentier lands a blow on Dempsey's patriotism--good night, Business is looking up---wistfully looking up to where prices used to be. A man always remembers his enemies, but he sometimes forgets his friends, ---- ee Whatever the railway problem may be it isn't the inability to supply empties, i . nm -------- The destiny of the Franks appears to be largely in the hands of the Georges, ---- There are few black hands in Italy ROW. They don't do enough work to get 'em black. 1 find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his Shoes. -- Emerson. ------ "Water, water everywhére, and fot a drop to drink," has an entirely - Dew significance, -- Lower wholesale prices bring re- lief to all Canadians who are engaged in the retail business. 4 - ------ A lot of fellows who, loafed on the Job this time last year dre now doing their loafing on the curb, "Cash and carry" may be a good Plan, but what the banks object to is | the habit of carrying easn, -- When Gabriel toots his horn, the _ Chances are that nobody will pay any | attention except pedestrians, --, Russia is establishing more and more schools. Perhaps the plan is . to teach the young idea how to loot. -- In Brantford strawberries were selling at 12¢ a basket, while in King. | _ Ston 35c was the price. What is the answer? The m ity would have purchased a roomy and comfortable place in the sun, ---------------- ---------- ~ You can't blame Dad for acting Nke a bear when he observes that dapghter is when she leaves home for the party. \ ---------- . Emprisoning and abusing travellers © ¥a Russia Tomi that universal brotherhood w \ udless everybody stays at home, --. 'With the present styles and ing, this promises to be a season unusual social activity for those are annoyed by mosquitoes. ------ that a serum to vanquish foot id mouth disease has been discover- all our public speakers should up and get vaccinated. --To- Star, --e prevailing theory of the right for automobiles is that it be- to the car that's going the fast- it can knock the other ow into the ditch, This is & very sad moment," do. | the Duke of Devonshire, the governor-general, at a fare- at Ottawa. And now unrest and the chaos which exists to- day in 'the industrial and business world, and the. message of the Ger- yman chancellor points a de towards its solution. Surely if Germany can put forward a policy of this kind. it is. not too | much to expect the people of the vic- | torious nations to do the same. It is true that there are glorious mem- |ories of battlefields of honour, but | no country can exist on these. The | vame energy which was displayed in | time. of war must be shown in time | of peace. The war-time shirker was | despised » the same treatment should be 'meted out to the peaoe-time | shirker. It may be true that the {employment situation precludes many | willing workers from devoting their | energies to production, but this is "| have been partly responsible for the | | | finite way | | i | i | DR. E M. McFADDEN, divine, secretary | Pittsburg International Protestant League sacrifices | Je necessary, forego pleasures if fin- | ! {le sses, whatever the apparent | ing now. A fom presses. w DE old place, its teeth are loose, it's lost inves'ment you | of the | Mrs, oney required for the in- | on't function properly every- president of the Ulster Soc ed States and Canada, visit to Canada. He says force is the ! ys ' alva f Ire . | does the lesson of Chancellor Wirth's Salvation for Ireland | message might well be borne in mind. i { At Collin's Bay. igs Collin's Pay, June 13. Rev. E. R. | THE WAYS OF A JURY. | Kelly has returned from conference | An Ottawa jury was severely con- | and will preach his farewell sermon | demned by a Judge the other week | here June 26th. All are sorry to | tor bringing in a verdict of not | part with him and his family. Mr. guilty in the case of an officer, wher} 80d Mrs. G. F. Clark and son, Harold, | the evidence, in the judge's opinion, | MOtOred to Toronto for the week-end. ae A i ' | Mrs. A. M. Rankin attended the clos- Was overwhelmingly against the ac- ing of Havergal college, Toronto, and His Honor expressed the returned home on Tuesday, bringing Marion with her, About seventy friends of Miss | merely 4 temporary condition which ill soon pass away, and when it | |W | | only | cused, | opinion that the action of the jury Was a gross misearriage of justice, | | There is one thing, perhaps, that Roxie Frink (the bride of this week) { might be said in extenuation of the | Bathered at her home and gave her a action of this jury, which no doubt | shower of many beautiful and useful | } | | Was composed of intelligent men of | Presents. Refreshments were served | . + after which all joined hands and | all classes--that it wished to give | sang "Auld Lang Syne.' [ the accused a chance, and it took Its | Norton Asselstine returned home Own way of doing' it, perhaps 2 | from Toronto on Wednesday. Dr. | risky way, but the way tempered | and Mrs. E. Finley spent the week- | with mercy. | end at his motler's en route to their Too often the requests of juries | home in Elgin, Man. Mr. Caden- { that find men guilty of misdeeds and | head, Kingston, is Visiting at T. D. | crimes, and make strong recommen- i Fairfield's. Miss Marion Clark is at | . | H. Fairfied's. Miss Lola Saunder- | dations for mercy in sentence, are | i cook is home from collegiate, having {18nored, and the full penalty of the | finished a successful year's work. |law is meted out, One Judge will | Migs Anna MacFarlane ar I Miss Me- | be lenient, while another judge will | Broom spent the week-end at D. | dispense stern justice, seeing only a i Baker's. : fav violated and insisting upon giv- | TE u---- . ing the full penalty. When a jury | When crab meets crab they side- brings in a verdict that disappoints a | Step. fade there is always the suspicion | that it has an inkling that 'the qual | ity of mercy" is not going to be dis- | pensed from the bench. Where one | | Judge will sentence a man to prison for five years, another judge, on the | very same charge, will allow a man his liberty on suspended sentence, When a jury brings in a verdict of i not guilty, after a strong case has been made against the accused, it would appear that this is merely the jurymen's way of declaring that the accused shall have another chance to make good. If juries' recommenda- tions to mercy were more carefully | regarded, there might be fewer of such strange verdicts of the kind saiq | to have been rendered in Ottawa re. | cently, - -t RY | PUBLIC OPINION | vrnd a em Tr mr "You ce, This Getting Inquisitive, (Buffalo Express) What possible concern has the Am- erican Federation of Labor with' the government of Ireland, anyway? -- It's Human Nature. + (ONlo State Journal) N a man is tickled to death with one editorial and strongly dis- approves another in the same paper he writes the editor about the lat- ter, for ---- : A Dignity Chase. (Detroit News) i To grab a last goodby kiss from her through tle screen door-- and y ales ee ' instantly in "Theres a Reason' Postum At all grocers ] Walt Mason | I THE POET PHILOSOPHER {| A DECADE. | Ten years ago the world was fat; | { and basking amply in its grease; we| | laughed until we sprained a slat | | when seers foretold the end of peace. | And Wilhelm changed his uniforms, | was photographed twelve times a | day, and courtiers, in idle swarms, ! admired the war lord on Ags way, | | The weary poet scratched his head to | think up topics for his rhymes, and | then the foolish books we read had | faked-up wars in Zenda climes. The | voters bought their hand-me-downs, and knew the dyes would never fade, | and women wore their ample gowns, { and kept their ankles in the shade. | | The railway barons walked in state, like princes of the royal blood, and now the row they raise is great, and they confess their name is Mudd. | Ten years ago I hired Jim Jones, and paid him thirty cents an hour; and now each day he draws six bones, and such a stipend makes him sour. And Russia's czar, ten years ago, still wore his crown upon his | | brow; somewhere beneath the north- ern snow his battered bones are ly- The world is not the same its hair, it has been shaken to its base, and nothing's right i with care. i return more, alas! when we all went our routine ways, and cut the Old accus- tomed grass, -- WALT MASON. ------ HAVE ISLAND LAWN SOCIAL, The Steamer Missisquoi Calls Thres | Times a Week, Howe Island, June 18. The lawn {social held on Thursday evening | under the auspices.of C. Gallery was a success. There were about four hundred present. Motor boats came | with numbers from Kingston, Pit] burg, Wolfe Island, Ganapoque and Clayton. One of the Clayton boats | brought twenty from Watertown, [N.Y. Salisbury's orchestra, King-} ston, supplied the music. The steamer Missisquoi has start- ed 'her trips, and is calling here Tues- day, Thursday and Saturday, making | it very convenient for the islanders. Mrs. F. Browne and Mrs. L. Red- mond and baby daughter, Watertown, N.Y., are spending a few days with Mrs. J. Prior. ; Marion Marshall, seven-year-nld daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mar- shall, met with a serious accident when she sprained mer ankle in get- ting out of a buggy. She is now in the Hotel Dieu Hospital, but is said to. be improving as well as can be expected. John McDonald las commenced preparations for the erection of a new residence. . A little boy has come [to take up his abode with Mr. and Fred Vincent. fetr of om The baseball team is still holding who is on a {its reputation, by defeating a team | from Gananoque by a score of 13 to -------------------------- Fell Off a Barn, Bongard's, June 17.--A painful accident occurred or Wednesday When D. T. McCormack fell from the roof of a barn which he was erecting for Mr. Lucas. The extent of his | injuries are not yet known, but the attending physicians held out small | hopes of recovery. The funeral of the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vangesen took place on Wednesday, Mr. and Mrs. C. W! Wright, Napanee, were recent | guests at J. D. Bongard's. Miss Stella Dulmage, Picton, spent the week-end with her parents. Mr, and Mrs. C. Cooper, Picton, were guests at Allan Harrison's on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. I. B, Lucas motored to Bel- leville on Mond ¥ and spent the day. Mrs. G. Eaton, Picton, is visiting her son, and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. F. Eaton. Mrs. Thurston is visiting re- latives in Picton. Ww. H Kingsley and wife, Picton, were recent guests at Thomas Bongard's. Mr, and Mrs, | Blackburn are entertaining friends | from Bancroft. Strawberries plentiful in this locality. Mrs, Eaton spent severa] days in Picton last week. A. Smith is confined 1 his home through illness. w, I. Hawker is improving his home by j building a verandah, nn - BAA A semi ms Neda" Will Like *- INSTANT PoSTuM And It Will Like You People who say, "7 like | me, in tant Postum more consid: erate of their health. . is made the cu BIBBY"S "Every da S The Store That Keeps the Prices Down. * Price Cut Good and Plenty. DOLLAR DAY y is Dollar Day at Bi bby's. uit, Shoes, Hats, Raincoats here. You save dollars on your ° All new' shapes. NOBBY STRAW HATS Usual price $4.50. Our Special at $3.00 See Real Panama Hats $5.00 and $6.00 qual- ities. Our Price $2.75 See Men's Fine Shoes The celebrated E. T. Wright Co. shoes, sold at $10, $12.50, $14.50. New patterns, new qualities. MEN'S FINE SHIRTS fabrics, Our Special $6.75 Our $3.00 Men's Suits The $25.00 varieties, For $18.00 -- and Young Men's The $35.00 varieties. Our Young Our Men's Suits Special $25 Our Special, $1.98 BIBBY'S == McCLARY'S FLORENCE OIL STOVE Oil Stove Safety The Florence is the clean, safe, sim economical oil stove ready to give as much cooking heat as ple, reliable, you wish, when you wish it. You can keep one--or four--burners merely To change the heat you turn a simple, little (patented) lever er the at an intensely hot flame, or simmering. device. Burners close up cooking; no heat wasted . Success! Each Capsule f bears name #1 Beware of counterfeits a Jas. Sn THOMAS COPLEY Telephone 987. Wanting anything done in the carpes. tery line. Estimates given all kinds ew work: also hard. o Il kinds. All orders receive prompt attention, Shop Queen Street. ro bs DR. MARTEL'S FEMALE PILLS FOR WOMEN'S AILMENTS 25 years Standard for Delayed and Painful Menstruation. Sealed Tin package only, all Druggists or direct by Mail. Price $2.00. Knickerbocker Remedy Co, 71 E. Front St, To- Tonto, Canada. BARGAINS? In Real Estate for Quick Sale: Brick House on Bagot St., 7 rooms, W.C. Brick House on Earl St., 7 all improvements. Double Frame on Johnson St., all im- provements, with big deep lot. A bargain on many of ties for quick sale. Tooms, 'IN. B. Trumpouyr| 11135 Brock s'reet Phone 704 FIRE AT GLENVALE, Presbyterian Church Shed Burned-- Sunday School Convention, Glenvale, June 20.--The Sunday school convention held on Wednes- day last was well attended. Splendid addresses were given by Miss Grenell, Toronto, Rev, Mr. Calvert, Inverary, and Dr. Lake, Kingston. Delegates were p nt from Westbrook, Kap- ler, Myfvale, Glenburnie and Cat ira- ay. What might have been a serious fire, but for the timely aid of naarby farmers who were summoned by tele- phone, occurred at the Presbyteriaa church shed shortly after dinner on Sunday. As numbers quickly re- sponded to the call the flames were got under control so that no other buildings were damaged, Rev. Mr. Parsons and Rev. Mr. Charlesworth both preach their fare- well sermons on Sunday next. Visi- tors: Mrs. Fred Knight, Kingston, at Mrs. Annie Gordon's; Miss Ola But- terill, Kingston, at J. Ellerbeck's; Mrs. Spurr and daughter, Saskatohe- wan, at George Clark's, On Friday evening the Young Peo- ple"s Society presented Mr. Parsons With a handsomé club hag to show their appreciation of his untiring efforts in making their society a sue- cess during the past winter, and to wish him greater success in his new field of 1abor. Mrs, Edward Grant is ill, suffering with paralysis of the nerves. Miss Deloraine Jeftrey, To- ronto, is tpending a few days with her parents here, ci SR Come On. Is Kinsgton going to fall down sn the campaign for the Blind Soldiers' Most certainly not. Get YOUR con- tribution in to the Whig office. these proper- ] W. H. STEVENSON HORSE SHOER and BLACKSMITH, Waggons and Trucks Repaired. Prices moderate. 381 KING STRERT EAST hoeets of farm 4 'horses Lave for TAXI FOR HIRE Special prices for out. | * of-town trips, G. C. MILLARD G. 30 Main Street | Phone 2351 w. [ = FARMS FOR SALE 100 ACRES, 7 miles from Kingston-- price $3950. Only takes $500.00 cash to handle. Possession any time and own- e: will give share of crop to have it harvested. Will also sell stock and mi- plements at a low figure, as he is re- tiring Plenty of others: easy terms of payme, real and all sizes and on nts. cottage with gar- Phozes Farm (With A choice trim of 1 sLout 200i Tenpes: well age; ahout 49 aor ecres in meadow (also lo It is excellent land for Have had 75 busheis of g besideg pasturing 1 3 & niortgage lift Price fa wiikout er | Thix is one 1 28 N A Shipment of CROSSE & | BLACKWELL'S GOODS HAS JUST Mixed Pickles. =----Chow Chow. ~~White Onions, ~--Girkins. ~----Walnuts. =--~Marmalade in 1 glass and 4 Ib. tins. ARRWED REDDEN & Co. Phone 20 and 990, The House of Satisfaction | ---- Crop, e 20 meres including from Kingstor i: first clam vundatiopn vod outbuildin va cred; good dra on €s in grain with prog- Crop; also about # oking well), hay or graim For Sal 11 niileg vn lead, bey ams: g a good 7 to 19 cows & cattle. Thig fary er e v rm and crop, $7500; farfy of the many farms ws and youn op $6500. sale. | T. J. Lockhart REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Phone 322J or 31797J. N.B.-~We have remove 58 Brock Streat, d our office ge Kingston Hunter Ogilvie INSURANCE AND GENERAL BROKER In daily communication with Mong Toronto Stock Exe Dominion, Provincial and Munigl pal Bonds for sale, - * » t KING STRERT | One good two-story den. Wo miles out. 5-passenger Chevrolet car, nearly ew. TRUMPOUR & LOYST Y% Street. Phone 704 or 146w ---- and Dogs Now that the warm wea- ther is here, these pets re- quire extra care. We bave a complete line of the famous-- DR. DANIEL'S ANIMAL REMEDIES for home treatment. Also thelr DOG and CAT SOAP Dr. Chown's Drug Store Rupture Specialist 185 Princess Bt. 4 Phone 848. Coal That Suits: Celebrated: Scranton Tha only Coal handled by Crawford Phone 0. "It's a black business, bus we treat you white." i = 568 & 108] 3 Western Kallroad's AELIE ENS Coal Foot.of Queen St.