WHIG | 6 ine BRITISH COLLECTING HER DUE. The widedw of Hart B. Danks has {| been in the courts of Brooklyn ue- ARN Io hor = Pobilebes Daily and Semi-Weekly by EB BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING VCO. LIMITED G. Elllott President an A. Guild ,,......... Editor asd Managing -Director TELEPHONE Private Eschauge, connecting all partments » SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Daily Edition) 86.00 .98.00 me year, by mall to rural offices $2.50 One year, to Laited States .... 3.00 (demi-Werkly kditiom) One year, 4 cash One yearn if mot paid in ® Jean, to United Niates . $1.00 advance $1.50 $1.5 QUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES, ¥. Calder, 22 St, John 5, Mostrea! ¥. W. Thompson ....100 hing St. W. 'Toronto. Letters to the kditor are publishes eNiy over ihe Scivai mame of th writer. Atiached is ome of the best jon Printing oltices in Canada, | | The circuinuon of This BiaNiod WHIG is auwnenticated by the | ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations Hint to conservatives: When in bad, do as the Romans do. Early to shop and early to mall speeds old Santa Claus on his trau. It is impossible to remain Mistress of the Seas without remaining in hot water. He who doesn't hesitate in cross- 'ing a street is in danger of being lost. The most conspicuous thing about the Near East is that it isn't near eased. "The artistic appeal of the nude" doesn't appeal to the same people who enjoy a sunset. Some of the idiots are behind tall fron fences, and some are behind "steering wheels. The corn in the shock means pros- perity, but the shock in the corn {makes man feel richer. i All the filling station map knows about Sunday is that it's the day he sells the most gasoline. There are times when it would help the rising generation to come down a peg or two. a ------ The blopm of youth is 'charming, 'unless it blooms a little higher in [ome cheek than in the other, Kicking Turkey out of Europe is ,8 noble business; kickidg Europe out of Turkey is wicked, ¥ Peace hath her victories. One of 'thom appears to consist in dodging ithe taxes imposed by war. it, e-- © It a woman has no children, how {oes che relieve her feelings when {asother woman snubs her? "1 he bachelor has one advtantago. He can throw them away instead of tormenting his feet with the darned 'socks. There's nothing so pathetic about Jacob serving fourteen years for hile wife. Many men put in a life-time at it. Well, eating really Is rather vul- gar, and perhaps that's what thoy mean when they speak of Europe's superior culture. - And et that kind of college bey will feel a twinge of nausea thirty years from now when his own boy aets that way. Correct this sentence: "I hope," sald the little boy, "that Santa Claus won't bring me anything that I ean make a noise with." That eastern man who gqt a dog Meense instead of a marriage licenso probably felt that he was going t lead a dog's life, anyway. : An executive really hasn't any: thing to do except wonder where siness is coming from and where be pay roll is coming from. Bom you can save a drown- Bg man by knocking him uncon- ¢ and that may be what tue "RR is usually the man who isn't to lame who begs pardon. It is usual. ® bes-posted man who says the 1d does ihe most. It is usual his song still lives. gests the Utica Observer-Dispatch, it you couid come back to earth in the year still under a différent name, stolen by a plagiarist. country, cient Greece. shown how our day. manding royalties on the song "'Sil- ver Threads Among the Gold," which her husband wrote forty-eight years ago. the song have tween 1915 and 1920 the royalties amounted to some $50,000. More than 2,000,000 copies ot been sold, and be- The composer died in 1903, but, Maybe, sug- 2,000 you would find peoplh singing it--though possibl} When Danks wrote 'Silver Threads Among the Gold," in 1874, he had no idea of what he was start. ing. He did not dream that, nine teen years after his death, his widow would be in court fighting over the royalties. A NEW CHAPTER. In 1896, after the accession of the Libera} party to power at Ottawa, ond of the first signs of the return of business confidence throughout the following the depression that had existed under Conservative rule, was a marked increase in the revenue of the post office depart- ment. Subsequently, says the Mon- treal Herald, thers came Canada's great era of prosperity] History has already repeated itself now in thia respect that already there has been | a decided Improvement in the posi tion of the post office departmen' | since the Liberals came again inte office a year ago. A period of unrest and bpsiness instability in Canada is gradually giving way to more settled condi- tions and the iniprovement in gen- eral bus'ness is reflected in the busi- ness of the post office. While the operations of the department during the last fiscal year produced a de- fiieit of $1,652,000, the operations during the present fiscal year will show a surplus of a million dollars. This improvement of two and a hal« millions belongs significantly to tha buoyant confidence inspired by Lhe Liberal regime, and {is still another tribute to "King and Prosperity." ALL A MATTER OF TASTE. And pow it is bran! If any one were to suggest that taste matters most in matters of taste, he would be charged with trifling with the English language. Yet he would be right. Our stand- ards in art and letters are funda- mentally the same as those of an- It is among foods-- things we really taste--that we find notions changing with every age and generation. We admire the sculpture that was popular in Rome, and design our monumental buildings in classic styles." Yet no one would eat thd nightingales' tongues that were con- sidered such a delicacy by Lucullus. We concede that Chaucer knew how to tell a story, but we would never put a fork to the roast boar's head of his time. Even today we copy French fashions, but not to the ex- tremity of dining on snails. When th® famous Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary of the English language he dismissed the cereal 'oats' with the explanation that in "civilized" countries in was a food for animals, but that in Scot- land it was also an article of human consumption. Aside from the gra- tuitous insult by which the choleric lexicographer vented his spleen on the Scotch, his definition was accur- ate. Yet in the century and a hall that has elapsed since Johnson was literary dictator oatmeal has become known to mankind everywhere. Now that our scientists have white flour loses much of its'vital, health-giving qua- lity in the milling of the wheat, we must revise our estimate of bran. Al- though it contains the very virtues \acking in white flour, there was little market for it a generation.age, except as feed for horses and cattle. With the discovery of ways for pro- cessing it into a delicious food of exceptional nutritive value, and with doctors recommending it for chronic ailments, it appears that we are to appropriate another item from tha animal dietary and after thousands of years give it the full recognition nature intended for it among the foods of man. THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. "It's only seven days, the shortest days in the year, till Obhristmas." In a practical way It is well to remember that the ohdef festival of the Christ. jan world 'is only a little way down the road. almost visible over the ohimneyed 'horizon, the sound of the tinkle of his sleigh-bells is nearly audible, I* is a time for doing what there is to be done in, preparation for the holi- Shopping early is a good piece |, of business; early in this last week, early in the morning of esch shopping day. I will be to the advantage of the buyer, to the pleasure of the sel- ler and for the relief of She over- worked store fortes. Santa Claus' outline is AH the systematic work done in advance of the rush to avoid the con- fuston that sometimes makes the Christmas Eve a horror and the Ohristmes day one in which there is! no rest and delight because one is a ---------------- mn {all in and 'ired out--will not be its { best unless there is a flavor of the |Ohristmas spirit through it all. In the rush and confusion, if there must | be such, in the erowds that surge through the stores, in the jam and push of the s'reet throngs, take the | Ohristmas lesson to heart for use in the advance days--and be pleasant. { Be patient with the clerks and the | deliv men; be courteous to the { folks You buy from; be pleasant to the jostlers who almost knock the parcels from your arms as they stumble, themselves package-laden, on the street; use the smile that helps averybody over every stressful time and some distregsful times. Indesd, there are opportunities "his weak for more effective and beneficlent use of the Christmas spirit in its fine, unselfish expression, than there will be next week--alter the day's climax is over. It will not be regarded by Santa Claus as in any way violative of his rules of "don't peep" to use before Christmas the same cheer, the same unselfishness, the same courtesy, the same thought- fulness, the same spirit of giving hap- piness that you will use on Christmas day. Perhaps the good saint will allow a Mberal discount for the real and genuine Christmas manner if it Is put into circulation, '"'before" Christmas day, when {if is needed most, Our Canaaian Question And Answer Corner Q--What and where is the Davia Thompson Memorial? A.--The David Thompson Memor- ial, recently unveiled on the shores or Lake Windermere, British Col- umbia, is the largest log buikling in Canada, erected by the Canadian Pacific Rallway and the Hudson Bay Company in memory of Davia Thompson, Canada's greatest geo- grapher and surveyer, on t site of a small trading fort ' he It in 1807. -- Q.---What is described as Canda's greatest feat of engineering? A.--The late Lord Northcliffe de- scribed the Canadian Pacific Rallway as Canada's greatest feat of engin- eering--"\lisregarding mountains and rivers and hundred-mile-long chaing of "lakes and every conceiy- able -engineering obstacle." Seven Sentence Sermon. i Golden conduct does mot come out of leaden instinots.--Herbert Spenc- er. . The effective Mfe and the receptive life are cpe.--Phillips Brooks. Men mey rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things. --Tennyson. Only what thou art in thyself de- termines thy value; not what thou hast.--Auerbach, Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.--The Apostle Paul, 'Tis the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth atain.--- Anon. Between the great things we can- not do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.--Adolphe Monod. ---------------- The Bible As a Code. > Speaking at the festival dinner of the British Empire Shakespeare So- ciety at the Florence Restaurant, Rupert stret, W., London, England, General Sir Nevil Macready said two books which he had found Very use- ful in official communications were the Bible and Shakespeare. "If you put into a reply 'a reference to a certain chapter and verse in St. Mat- thew and the official turns it up and finds the words, "Pilat sald, what I have written I have written,' you generally score." If the quotations from Shakespeare, "Time and the hour run through the rowghest day," could be rubbed into the youth of to- day, he was sure they would find it most useful in school and after life. Harbor Not Yet Frozen. On Monday morning there was no sign of the harbor freezing over for the winter. A couple of times last week there was a slight coating of ice, but the wind soon broke it up. Over on the Wolfe Island shore there was some ice but it did not prevent the steamer Wolfe Islander reaching her destination. The eity Fine Musical Service. The musical service given by the choir of Sydenham street Methodist church, unde THE DAILY BRIT v0 ISH | BIBLE TEQUGHT FOR. TO-BAY RIGHTEOUSNESS BRINGS | REJOICING:--When the i righteous are 'in authority, the peo- | ple rejoice: but when thes wicked i peareth rule, the Proverps 29: 2 It's Strange. Their sorrow must be very great, fear, And yet, though weeping, Have never seen one shed a single tear. ar they are always Observations of Oldest Imbabitant. The old-fashioned man who content to get $2 a day for a because they expect him to give any kind of service at §4 an hour. May Be Right, at That. _*"Pa, what is a cynic?" asked Cla ence. i "He is 8 man who thinks that éven if a woman lost her voice, both hands, her feet and her eyes in a wreck she still would find a way to talk," replied his dad. \ r- Presents Not To Buy. A gun for your wife, A saxaphone for the boy. A talking machine for daughter. A case of bootleg whisky for chauffeur. the emer He's Cu 5 His bride's black eS thought, Were brilliant ag the sun; He raved of them a lot--until One day she gave him one. Fool Questions. "Disgusted" asks: "Why on earth do they ever release these terrible comedy films? They ought to be kept in for life without a chance of par- don--most of 'em being unpardon- able May be Governor Len. Small hag charge of that part of the busi. ness. er That Was Different, "The cook has taken her leave cried Mrs. Smart. A "Well, If it was hers right to take it didn't she?" facetious husband. "Yes, but she took our silver, my rings, your dlamond pin and the hot- tle of brandy you were saving up for Christmas," retorted his wife. The mention of the brandy was why he engaged every detective agency in town to get busy on the job, she had a asked her -- Appropriate, The speaker's subject was: "Why you, for health, should walk," And that is why, no doubt, It was a rambling talk. --Cincinnat! Enquirer: The speaker's subject was: "The athlete's destination That's why it was, no doubt, A rumbling conversation. --Columbus Dispatch. -- Evidently Colors Were Not Fast--or Were They t (From Divorce Notes in Dallas News) Green French vs. Mary H. French, divorce; dismissed by plaintiff. Pink Irvan vs. Lydia Irvan, divorce; dismissed for want of prosecution. Gems From Guide Book To Success. The bud becomes a wondrous flower only by absorbing the elements which contribute to its progress. In like manner does the boy or youth become a man of worth.--J. EB. F . A Pertinent Subject. (Church Notice Lamped in Manchester Guardian) Services at 10.30 am. Subject: "The Three Great Failures." Cholr. Sermon, Pipe Organ Offertory. -- Dafly Sentence Sermon. You've got to be a $10,000 man to got that kind of a job, -- News of the Names Olub. U. R. Selph Is reported from Dal- las. You say it yourself. A. Hogg, of Memphis, not being of the road hog variety, has be:n admit- ted to the 'club. We have notified G. M. that Dina Mitte, who, he says, lives in Macon, Is too expensive to have around, so we have turned her down. * -- The German Reichetag adjourned Saturday until the middle of Janu- ary. \ Two Cars BITUMINOUS Egg and | Stove Size Particularly adapted for Hot Alr Furnaces and Quebec Heaters. Price 15.00 Crawford COAL Phone 0, Foot of Queen St peoplé mourn.-- | ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR || BY SAM HILL 1 The weeping willows I have often seen, | 1 lfor greenfiies. MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, fous.' WHIG. -- 0] BIBBY'S { | was | real | day's work now has a son who growls | Buv A Man's Gift In A Man's Store BUYING MADE EASY AT BIBBY'S Kingston's One Price Clothing Store. oN Moores Toyland WIDE OPEN STOCKED WITH A WONDERFUL LINE OF TOYS AND CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS. DON'T FORGET WE HAVE SLEIGHS AND HOCKEY STICKS AND SKATES, SPACE WILL NOT PERMIT MENTIONING ALL THE DIFFERENT ARTICLES, THE STORE YOU WILL LOVE TO SHOP IN MOORES TOYLAND WHERE SANTA HAS LEFT ALL HIS TOYS " r McCLARY'S "TECUMSEH RANGE" The Finest Range McClary's Ever Made, Come and see it. : You can save time and be sure of finding something ap- propriate if you shop here. Freanch Ivory---beautiful sets or in separate pleces, Perfumes--{rom 20¢c. up. Manicure Rolls. Shaving Sets. BUNT'S HARDWARE King t Dr. J. O. Macdonald 327 BARRIE ST, (Near Princess) OFFICE HOURS: 3-4, 7-8.30 p.m. PHONE 1710. & chime of 60 porcelain bells, It Is said that the tone of the bells is very rleaging, and that she bells are very strong. Ladybirds, which are really good friends of the gardener, are often de- stroyed in the lavra stage in mistake BE ot ry The first sun-dial was erected in Rome and the day was first divided into hours in 293 B.C. »