"10 byw corrmittee of the City Coun- 7 and Semi-Weekly by WHIG PUBLISHING LIMITED. a alba ws ee, Pregident + Mandgiig Director d Sec.-Treas. PTION RATES: (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in city One year id in advance panne $5. One" Jour, Pall to rural offices $2.50 year, to United States ....... $2.50 (Semi-Weekly Edition) year, mail, cash ......... $1.00 is year, 4f not paid in advance $1.50 ear, to United States - .. . $1.50 and three months pro 'Fata. Attached is one of the best job printing offices in Canada. The cireniation of THE BRITISH WHIG Is ey by the _ Audit Bureau of Cireulations MISUSING THE CABLES. The British government will nof stand for imposition. The Inter- national News Service has been the medium through which much of the European news has been sent to Am- erica and published in the American papers., Twice fhe manager of the London office had his attention eall- _ed to the fact that statements ap- peared in the American papers which were grossly untrue and unfair, and he declared that he knew nothing about them. They had . not. been cabled by him. This meant that cer- tain American papers, pro-German in their sympathies, had deliberately fabricated "news" to the injury of the Allies. When the offence was committed a third time the ban was applied, The International: News Agency cannot get anything sent from London through the cables, and is being properly punished for its sins. It can, to be sure, fall back upon the German wireless for its in- spiration, dnd When this fails Mr, Hearst can evolve smudgy -sensa- tions out of his inmer 'consciousness. He represents a type of newspaper 'which is, fortunately, very scarce in America. Foul smells are said to be emmat- ing from baséments of certain houses in various central localities. Am in- spection once a year by 'the Health Department, apparently, is not suffi- cient. That is quite evident, -------------------------- ; A PUBLIC SCHOOL PERIL. The report of the inspector of schools, presented at the meeting of "the Board of Education on Thursday 'evening, will accentuate a condition that has been demanding public at- tention for several months. This condition was discussed by the board Pofore the holidays, It was looked in- ¢il, and unremedied because funds were not available. The budget of the School Board was amended by 4 cutting out of the sum required or sanitary purposes, and with thé results which 'Were anticipated. The . Board of Health must now act in the interest of the children. Mr. In- Spector Stuars writes: "In view of the effect on the phy- sical Jeaith and morals of the pupils, ° disturbance occasioned to an in the school, the inade- Teton the sanitary equipment in and Central Schools can iy he be 00 ao stranaty condemned. it odors a hg avalos hn i TV: 8, Nn only any The orl corridors, but in the very 'of the School Board will, of course, send a copy of the EE 'report to the Board of and this Sody can assume all RR asleuiabie 'injury, wiih threaten to deprive the country of some of the most active and useful agencies in| the daily and weekly papers. place of reaping large gains froin the world's conflict, as some have sup- posed they did, in consequence of the | increased demand for news, they have been saddled with enormous ex- penses. In a word the revenue has not kept pace with the expenditure. | It requires no special philosophy | to make this fact apparent, and the, finance minister saw it when the press delegates laid 'the facts be-| fore him. He distinctly sympathiz- od with them. He saw, at a glance, that they were the sufferers, unduly, and the result will. probably be that, as he directs, less of Canada's pro- duets will be shipped abroad, and the famine in paper and high prices will subside together. \ The Ottawa Journal is troubled over the prespect "of a dominion elec- 'tion. It may as well 0ecome recon- ciled to the inevitable. ------ AN ELECTION AT HAND. Did the Liberal leader, in the Com- mons, oppose an election during the He did, on two occasions. He war? . o| felt the responsibility of dividing the people, or of distracting them, dur- ing the great campaign. He was not eager for office under the circum- stances. He was not anxious, as he said, 'to enter the portals of office with a bloody key." But at the same time 'he in the gen- advocated economy eral government of the country, and insisted that if it had been exercised there would have been no call to im- pose a war tax, the proceeds of which were not used for the purposes of war. "If patronage had been eliminated from the budget of this year," said he, "from the estimates of the year, it would have made an appreciable reduction, The patronage was there. Patronage is a ubiquitous, omnipres- ent, omnivorous rover, devouring anything, everything in which there is any public money. cious, insatiable appetite. Patron- age is a plague, and if ever there was a time to be done with it, it is this calamitous time in which we.are now Mying, in which everybody should determined to have the biggest ble economy, the great- est possible reduction in the burden of the people." The scandals of the last couple. of years need mot be recalled. "They have been rank," as the late Mr. Cauchon would say in his very pic- turesque language, 'and smell to Heaven." The government has not dealt with some of them. The judge's report has mot 'been present- ed. The Allison inquiry has left a bad taste in the mouth. As a result public opinion is running strongly | against the ministry. The premier may suggest an extension of the par- Hamentary term 'at the mext session, and the ooposition may not support the proposal, in which case, as the Ottawa Journal has remarked, "an election would seem to bé inevi- table." ! The liberals have no particular desire to take over the government of Canada at this time, seeing that théy would be confronted with grave difficulties with regard to the war, and yet the people will insist upon it as the only way of ending the mal- administration which now prevails. Premier Norris, of Manitoba, speak- ing at. the London Liberal Federa- tion meeting, charged that the Bor- den government had been "playing politics with the whole recruiting policy at Ottawa," and that a change of plan was absolutely necessary in order that the country's full place in the war might be attained. This puts a new meaning upon the ques- tion. * EDITORIAL NOTES, Sir Robert Borden has not yet re- pudiated Mr. Bourassa, though he has announced himself as in favor of Canadian independence. What is he afraid of? Why should American papers that grossly misrepresent the Allies, and fie about them, be given the free- dom of the Canadian mails? tah anyone enswer? £ American shippers lament the faii- It has a vora-|. says the License Board's solici- 'appears to permit of this." So traditional coach and four is | being driven through the latest pro- vincial law, law, f tor, * pre PuBLIG_opiNion | | Our Fancy Wines. (Toronto Mail) Medicated wines may contain a | number of . ingredients, but the real || | question ie, do they contain delirium | | tremens? Bourassa. Hissed. (Montreal News) At a recent French- Canadian meet- ing, the name of Bourassa was greeted with hisses. The prophet is coming into his own at last, Their Precious Hell. (Toronto Star) One cannot help feeling, however, | that many good Christians cling to the hope of hell for other people with a desperation worthy "of a better cause. Néw American Slogan. (Ottawa Free Press) When the U-53 calmly American slogan seems to have been "Forget the Lusitania." 'Twas not always thus' He Wants Separation. (Hamilton Herald) Bourassa having come-out flatly in| favor of Canada's separation from | the empire, one knows now just] count for his treasonable utterances. The Air Is Free. (Stratford Beacon) contemporary finds cause for A has yet found a way of getting a cor- ner on the air we breathe, thus ad- ding materially to the cost of living. Borden's Blunder. (London Advertiser) Two thousand Canadians wanted to man new British battleship! But Sir Robert Borden has assured Canada that it would be impossible to get men as crews of Canadian warships. Is he right? IKINGSTON EVENTS] 26 YEARS ACO The Josiq Mills Dramatic Company is attracting big houses at the Grand. A large number of Kingstonians will exhibit. at the World's Fair, Chi- Rev. D. Laing. and H. A. Calvin, are attending the Baptist convention in Toronto. MORE TROUBLES BREWING IN IRELAND Toronto Telegram (Con.) where to place him and how to ae-| , | adians ought to fight in it. thankfulness in the fact that nobody | in Duplin and Montreal during the war 'differ from' the forces of dis- order in Belfast? There is no ana- logy between ,the drilling and. the arming and the agitation in Belfast and the north of Ireland in a time of { profound peace and the drilling, the {arming and the agitation of Dublin land the South 'of Ireland in a time, {of war, Unionists armed ~-themselves to bring defeat to the Nationalists in | the hour of Britain's safety, Sinn Feiners armed themselves tol | bring victory to Germany in the hour of Britain's peril. ¢ Asquith was unwilling to proceed {against the Ulster rebels, because [|i {such proceedings would have given {these rebels exactly what they | wanted--a straight fight in the Eng- | lish, Scottish and Welsh constituen- | cies on the Home Rule issue. The | Asquith government placed the Home Rule Bill on the statute books with [the help of a majority largely | secured [by the agitations that had | nothing to do with Home Rule. Sinn Fein agitators in Ireland and |} | racialist agitators inQuebec attempt |to weaken Britain in a time of war. ! The tactics of these forces of disorder | [IH .cannot be justified by the precedents |} jof Sir Edward Carson's attempt to | strengthen Unionist Ulster in time of |} | peace. ' dropped | anchor in a United States port the} '| BOURASSA'S HAND STRONG AT OTTAWA | & {Toronto Star (Lib. ). Oliver Asselin, a well- Knows jour- Hl and Nationalist of Quebec, |i} nalist split with Bourassa on the war is- sue. in this war and that French-Can- He took the public platform and said so. notified the Government of his will- and his offer was accepted. raised the battalion. A question that calls for an answer yet be found, is this: How is it that and the Militia Department enough influence to cause Oliver Asselin and his battalion to be banished to the ous garrison duty there instead of LBritain, Belgium and France, where they ardently aspired to go? How was this worked? ment played in -this way into Bou- rassa's hands, banishing and disap- pointing Oliver Asselin and his vol- unteers, who ought to have gone finely to England and from there to Belgium and France, but were, in- stead, side-tracked to an out-of-the- way corner, where they would be un- seen and forgotten and where Sip content would naturally grow up the ranks. Was this merely a bone-head play on the part of the Government or was it something worse? Coffee is a bad thing for a man's temper--especially if his wife does- n't know how to make it. 'When the star boarder marries his Wherein do, the forces of disorder landlady he becomes a fixed star. me + Random Reels "Ot Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax ,of Cabbages and Kings." CURIOSITY Curiosity is an effort to séecure in- formation which belongs to Some- body else. There is 'a great deal of informa tion lying around loese which would not look well if printed on the front page, and if it were not for curi- osity it would kick around on the four corners for weeks at a time without being picked up and woven into a lawsuit., There is consider- able complaint about the activity of curiosity, but- 'it probably keeps more people from helping build good roads for the state than the prick: ings of conscierice. Curiosity'is ca coming elongat and prying into other people's business. Many a man has begun life with a nose of normal dimensions, and after becoming ad- dicted to the curiosity habit has sprouted a proboscis longer than the ant-eater. There have been instances where this roving tendency has been resented by its victim, who pushes the nose back to its proper location with an irate fist. guarded Curiosity should: be against, especially in the case of hus- bands who were formerly in the prize-ring. It is a dangerous matter to pry into the personal transactions of a citizen who carries a left upper- cut and enough ready money to pay his fine, Scores of happy homes have been broken up by the gossip whose has run over the --jdam and convinces a credulous wile * that she has married a gay Lothario sauped by the nose be- instead of a master bricklayer. ] Curiosity which is not fenc can be secured by reading the le about the mote and the beam¥and training the nose to keep on the sidewalk. 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This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com- bined with Iithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate the acids in the urine, so jt no longer irritates, thus ending bladder yeak- ness, Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot injure, and makes a delightful effer- vescent lithia-water drink. \ a A AANA A gist © Capt. Macdonald Alive and Well. London, Oct. 13.--Miss Macd ald, chief matron of the Canadian Medical Services, has received inii- mation that her brother, Capt. D. D, Macdongld, who was reported killed at the end of September last, is alive] and yall. qapt. soa came over a Nova tia 11 unit last year. aki - J CLOGS THE (ives n| Take a Glass of Salts if Your Back day, eat it, but flush your kidneys |== sluggish kidoeys, also to neutralize | == Bisa "Footwear This is the season when you must have your feet well shod, your shoes must be setviceable and still be stylish and up-to- te. 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