THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Dally and Semi-Weekly by TISH' WHIG PUBLISHING ©0., LIMITED 'Joha St, Montreal 's Thompson ....100 King St. W. fi 'Toronto. ' Letters to the Editor are published actual -- the name of the | Attached 1s ome of the best job . printing offices in Canada. "The circulation of THE BRITISH 1 WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations A .OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: i 22 St The Golden Rule is something that bverybody @s (willing others should "nse, As a last resort, France might pacity her alarmed Allies by offering to divide the Ruhr, A million marks may be bought for twelve cents, provided one has twelve cents to waste,' Because they continue to say, Spay, pay," Germans think that the - French lack versatility, ------ ns Lr ---- A man can regain his self-respect two days after a drunk, but it takes two weeks after a hair-cut, It's a funny world, and the people . you would enjoy taking to ride all have better cars than yours to ride in. The close of the mosquito season Won't bring much relief to the family - that permite little Billie to keep a pup. Se Correct this sentence: 'His con- . stituents were angry and distressed, ~ but he remained calmly conserva- tive." The second "a" in Lausanné is thus comparing favorabiy the new privileges gramted wi One can imagine the shade of Na- poleon (whispering excitedly to France: "Now try another shot at Moscow." - What did a great man do in the ©ld days when he feit himself slip- ping end there was no Chautauqua $0 ftalll back on? Men with sense enough to provide Substitutes for anthracite m case of Strikes should be able to provide sub- ~ plitutes for strikes. The telegraph beats radio in one « You are under no obligation ) write the company and. tell how you enjoyed it, MYSTERY MAKERS. Of the making of mysteries there seems to be no end. Hardly a crime report gets on the front page of the daily press that does not carry some mystery item--a mystery man seen in the vicinity of the crime, or a mystery woman, generally veiled, or a mystery car, generally gray. There are mysterious lights, myster- ious telephone calls and mys'erious letters. But the greatest mystery of all is the baffled local sleuth. He is MMe soul of the occult. His whispers are eibylline, his eyes wink volumes, bis shoulders shrug a world of sug- gestion. He could, if he would--but he will burst rather than reveal what he knows. All he can do to oblige the spellbound reporter is tq hint, indicate, suggest, outline and refer. About him hover speculation, introspection, allusion and dubiety. He scoffs at all possible explana- tions of the mystery, while keeping his ears open for suggestion from others. In the end he clouds the crime with all the mystery at his command and ends the dncident in fog. THE FREE STATE ELECTION. Yesterday's despatches announc- ed the final result of the Irish Free State elections, held a week berore Owing to the adoption of propor- itional> representation considerable delay was occasioned in arriving at the final result. It is now made clear that the government has capt- ured 63 of the 153 that constitute the Dail Eireann, but that it will necessarily have to depend on the Farmer and Independent groups, each of which numbers 15, to carry out its policies. The probability 1s, in the opinion of the Montreal Gazette, that the support will be given. The fact that quite 41 per cent, of the vote cast was given to candidates who accepted the estab lished order and supported the government programme, and that 70 per cent. thought more of other things than of De Valera and his cause, suggests much as to how the quieter people have been thinking. Business connections in Southern Ireland have been badly disrupted by the disturbances that occurrea during the latter years of the war and that did not cease even after 1920, when the Government of Ire- land Act became law and the Free State was established. All whose interests depended on the mainten- ance of law and order and the reg- ular processes of commerce and in- dustry must have wished for peace, and probably voted for what gave promise of securing it. The govern- ment at Dublin has a heavy work ahead of it. There is much to be done yet in repairing the damage caused during the years of distur- bance, and heavy taxes must be lev- fed to establish and maintain the needed services of the state. A start was made in 1921 under some- what discouraging circumstances; end the general result has won a measure of approval that is a promise of still better things. De Valera, even with the advantage of being a prisoner for his cause, has failed to weaken the established rule, - -------- AN EXCEPTION TO THE RULE. How often have men set out in search of sunken or 'hidden treas- ure and as oftep.feturned from a fruitless quest. duch an enter prise it is the hope of finding wealth at slight cost that is the lure. No pessimist ever embarked on such an adventure. Only those buoyed by optimism seek to locate the "lost mines' or raise the sunken ship loaded with gold. With all that story tells of such matters the re- cord as « whole has been one of 'failure. The few guccesses have not been sufficiently numerous to alter the generalyresult. Success 4) salvaging the gold dul- lion from Ahe Lauremtic, sunk off the coast of Ireland by a German U-boat, is a rare exception in such ventures. It carried treasure to the amount of $30,000,000 in gold and $5,000,000 in silver. The work which has been going en for five | years is well migh completed practically all the precious metal "has been 'lifted. Science has aided our teeth, it forms an ingredient of PRESS COMMENT Crime and the Ain The burgling aviator has not yet appeared; out he ds sure to come, and when he does he will add some- thing to the spice of life found for us a new school of detective fiction. To read of Sherlock Holmes sitting on Moriarity's tail and talking him to death will be a sheer delight.-- Westminster Gazette. The Negro Exodus. The Southern States are under- Boing a period of considerable em- barrassment. It is frequently the case that only by being deprived of an article will we be induced to ap- praise it at its proper value. The negro, goaded to the limit, ridiculed, bullled, despised, has now become a precious asset, which must be con- sidered, Who knows but this lesson may be a salutary one to those cruei masters, who have not had the fore- sight to teach their servants patience ~---Quebec Le Soleil. Volcanic Gifts. All the accounts of Etna's eruption ha' e dealt faithfully with tke Java's destructive power, but there is an- other side to vo'caizc activity which must be put to its credit. When time and wipd and rain have turned the lava info mould you have some of the richest and most fertile soils. The sal ammoniac which you feed to your electric bell battery 'possibly came from Etna or its neighbor Stromboli. Sulphur, one of the fun- damental materials of commerce, whose uses are many, is a volcanic gift, and so is boracic acid; which preserves food and cleanses wounds. Fumice stone is uscd by the painter to smooth woodwork before paluting, by the dentist to cleanse tartar frd™ most metal-polishes, and is used to smooth oil-cloth, and pumice is a most typical volcanic gift. It is the froth on the sunface of the lava.-- London Chronicle. Canadian Questions and Answers Q.--What are tuna fish, and where are they caught in Canada? A.--The tuna fish4s a very large member of the mackeral family, often having a weight of 500 or 600 Ibs. Bometimes they appear in the English Channel or the German Ocean but most of the time they are in the Mediterranean, where the Phoenecians = caught them. Now they are appearing along the Atlan- tic shores was far morth as Nova 'Beotia. Q.--What is the extent of Can- ada's iron and steel industry? A.~--There is invested in the iron and steel industry in Canada nearly $650,000,000, and the annual value of the products nearly $640,000,00¢ according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. From 1870 to .1320¢, without a great increase in the num- ber of establishments in Canada, there was an increase from $9,000,- 000 to $642,000,000 in the invesled capital; and from $28,000,000 to $640,000,000 in the production. That Body of Pours By James W, Barton. M.D, Boils. These are of such frequent occur- rence, found in almost every house- hold at one time or another that a point or two regarding them might be in order. . A boil is simply 'the inflammation of the skin which ocours about the oil gland of a hair root. You know what it looks like, just a hard conical red lump which may pass away in three or four days, or may turn yellow at the top, break down, and pour out pus about seven Fei iz & Br SER H f Ja BE boil to go on to pus formation and then ir the opening. appears too | natural opening is enlarged by incision. mation often relieves the tension and Pain. In every case the intestine is cleansed thoroughly by calomei and epsom salts, | LETTERS - To The Editor Kingston, Sept. 3.--(To the Edi- tor): A certain Mr. Brownell, M.A. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, England, had an article in last Wednesday's Whig ou | the "Fall of Nineveh." He there takes an unwarranted fling at our Bible that he is pleased to call the "Hebrew Scriptures, which of couise | they are and which, notwithstanding | Mr. Brownell's disparaging remarks is the oldest ahd most authentic his- tory extant. He is there euligozing "a bit of clay 2,500 years old" and the Jewish historian Josephus, who he says, "had inside information and a historical correctness that is lack- ing in the writer of the twenty-ninth verse of, the twenty-third chapter of Second Kings." Then he turns to wnveigh against the translation of the King James' version, "who met in Hanipton Court and muddled their pronouns three centuries ago." However, it may console those who love our dear old King James' ver- sion to know that all English scholars (except Mr. Brownell) have regard- that version as classic English and an accurate knowledge of its con- tents as a liberal education; but Mr. Brownell appears not to have either an extensive or accurate knowledge of the same, nor does he seem to be over familiar with Josephus and his histories. This may be pardonable in the "man on the street," but in a man who writes to instruct the ignor- ant and correct error (?), accuracy is demanded. Quoting again from his article: "The bits of clay of two and a haif millenniums ago have demonstgated that Josephus 'had the dope." Nine- veh fell 612 years before the birth of Christ." It may be assumed that tive date of Nineveh's fall is substan- tially correct. Historians admit it was between 612 and 606 B.C. But let us. enquire where did Josephus get his "dope" that entitles hij to the claim of such "historical cor- reatness." Josephus was born in the first year of Caligula "as emperor, which was 37 A.D. and wrote his his- tories between the years 60 and 100 A.D. He could therefore know noth- ing personally of events that took place 600 or 700 years before. I will now quote from his, antLiquities of the Jews--Freface page 1 para- graph 2: "Now I have undertaken the pre- sent work thinking it will appear to all the Greeks worthy of their study. for fit will contain all our antiquities and the constitution of our govern- ment, as interpreted out of the He- brew Scriptures." Here Josephus himself confesses the despised Ie- brew Scriptures as the source of his reliable "dope," and indeed any one acquainted with these historical b soriptures who reads the "Antiquities of the Jews' will scarcely need this confession as these "antiquities" are so manifestly replete with historical "d ly to be found in the He- brew Scriptures. We would like to tell Mr. Brownell something that he doesn't know or seem to know, for "none are so blind as those who don't want to see." He had his master to serve, and "burn- ed before his monarch's eye to do some deed of chivalry." He bravely errects a "straw man" and then wih one of his tremendous punches lovels him with the dust. He says, "lI readers depended on the grammar of those who wrote the famous version of King James they would remain in ignorance of a great event, to wit; the end of the far famed and feared Assyrian empire." FEut now we would like to remind our author that the historical books of the Hebrew Scriptures, viz.: the books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles, contain the history of Israel and Judah only, and that Assyria and other nations are only mentioned incidentally as they cross the path of this remarkable people, the Jews. Nor does he com- | Criticizing Mr. Brownell. | i fully given in 2 Chron. 33:20-27. Then he follows with sarcastic refer- ence to the prophets Jonah, Zepha- inah and Nahum, intimating that the former was mistalten as to the num- of iif S aim | fee RY 33 iff r {small and there #8 much 'pain, the | an An incision even before pis for | TH NEW ENGLISH -1ATS Overcoat set aside for time | it. Get your pick while the picking is good. Bee our ENGLISH GABERDINE TOP newest models -- a COATS--pure wool, beauty for---- $22.50 Our New Fall apd Winter Suits, Overcoats and Top Coats HAVE ARRIVED! 4 Now is the time to make your selection make a small payment and have your Suit or BIBBY'S when you need We right. season--for BIBBY'S show something speciall good Boys' Suits at this price. Sizes 27 to $3. See our Special Tailored High School Suits, very swagger style, New English and Scotch Tweeds, Bloomer Suits. 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Phone 848 We deliver the goods. lonian and other empires to go to the major and minor Hebrew prophets-- in fact afl Scripture -- let King James' - version be your text book with whatever other Bible helps has been provided, we do not despise any, with those "bits" of Assyrian and Babylonian ejay," that in recent years have been dug up from the ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, etc., and are coming with their messages to confirm and substantiate Scripture, In bidding edieu to this, 'Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society," we should say stick to your geography, as history requires accuracy and ocan- dor. ; +R. W. WALLACE. mt in, CHANCELLOR CHAMBERLAIN. Toronto Globe. Nev! Chamberlain, who has 'taken the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Baldwin Cabinet. used to have the distinction .that he could keep his cigar alight while delivering an after-dinner speech. 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