and Semi-Weekiy by WHIG PUBLISHING LIMITED he Published Dail THE BRIS ..,. President .. Managing Director | J. G. Elliott Le _ and Sec.-Treas. man A. Guild . . » : Business Office 'SUBSCRIPTION RATES: : (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in city One year, If pald in advance 3 m. to rural offices 5 5. 2.50 2.60 1% not paid in advance $1.50 One Lor: to United States oriedlB x and. three months pro Attached is one of the best printing offices in Canada. Job The cireniation of THE BRITISH WHIG Is suthenticared by the Audit Bureau of Circulations A DEFINITE POWER OFFER, The' Hydro-Electric Commission has at last undertaken to give Kings- ton hydro power, and at a rate which calla for favorable consideration. This rate ds higher than the rate at which power was offered to the city by the Seymour Company, but the Commission's engineer explains that it is really as cheap, if not cheaper, since it covers all the expenses of transmitting the power and reducing it to the desired voltage, and ie quires only the quantity that it used to be paid for by the city. ' There is an advantage in continu- ing the : Campbell contract under which the Utilities Commission gets a lot of power at certain seasons, and at a very low rate, and with the éf- fect of keeping down the peak load. This load has hesetofore counted for very much in the cost of hydro power, according to all the calculations which have been made respecting it. The Whig has not been impatient with regard to this power question. It has, of late, Missouri-like, called for a ShOWgud: and because suffi- clent time elapsed to give the Commission every opportunity to in- timate what it could do. One' of "the city commissioners . was quite peeved with the Hydro-Electric Com- mission's proposition at the outset, and talked of appealing to the Hon. Ms. Ferguson. Why? The minister of mines rushed the province into the acquirement of the Seymour plants, and into the pur- chase of many specialties of which the , in its negotiations, was unwilling to load up. But the head of the Commission Is Hon. Adam Beek, ahd Hou. Mr. Ferguson is not likely to interfere in any dis- cussion of his plans with the City Commission. He had better avoid atl unnecessary complications. The owners of motor cars are now numerous enough to demand from the provincial government better roads. The main thoroughfares in this province must be improved. WATERPROOFS. The let 'by the late Capt. - Mowat, and y describing conditions at-théfoont, calls for nore _ than a passing notice. It is not that he tells anything that was not known i+ before, but his as & voice from the dead, as it were, and it impresses upon the living, and especially upon those who are conducting the war, a "of the conflict, but it is only ankle a wet season, which in when served. out as part of the amy |z cater thay the party. Has he been | equipment, but the life and health of | seeing visions, too? - ' > | the men represents to the empire an incalculable asset, and ome in com- parison with which the cost of the waterproof shoe is a trifling circum- stance. Two thousand men onthe firing | line, and seasoned for active service must be of immense value to Empire at the present time, Later, eminent Fremeh will. visit] Ontario. They will be welcome. No one dare insult them, . Mr. Scott, ex-premier of) Saskatche- wan, began life as a printer and pub- | lisher, and carried the industry of his, profession into public life, the Mr.. Murray, who was not accep- The bon entente troubles some ghle to the Borden government' as| people. Who brought it about? This | secretary' of the National Service| question is asked again 'and again. | Commission, will come to his own by | What's the difference so long as the|and bye. The country needs men of| purpose of it is good? FORCED TO RESIGN, To ill-health, and _to ill-health alone, is dye the retirement of Hon, Walter Scott from the premiership of Saskatchewan. Two atfacks of pneu- monia weakened him phygically, and during the last five years he has been in precarious life. Now he must give up the service of the people and seek the repose his medical advisor tells him he must have if he would recover his health. His resignation has been accepted. He is now in the southern states. His has been 'referred to by the conservative papers as a stormy car- eer. Yes, but it has been one of which he has reason to be proud. He was a member of the Commons when the call to higher office came in 1900. He accepted the premiership of Sas- katchewan, furmed his government, and during three legislative terms, in all amounting to sixteen years, has rendered a stewardship of which the people have approved. True, in the last session of the house there was much talk of scan- dal, and while he was still present. He met it by a challenge. He knew of no irregularity, no waste or mis- use of public money, and he wanted any one who had a charge to prefer it. He would see that it was investi- gated by an impartial tribunal. These charges were preferred after he had left the province. Several judicial commissions have enquired into them, sheafs of them, Many were abandon- ed. Others 'were dismissed. Some 'were proven against individual mem- bers of the legislature and minor of- ficials. Proper punishment followed the convictions. But Hon. Mr. Scott's personal record gassed without a stain. 4 A new government must be formed at once, Hon. J. A. Calder, who has been acting as premier, and who, next to Mr. Scott, is the ablest man in the public life of the province, will no doubt become the premier. He will carry on the government until a general appeal is made to the people, during the next year, and with every assurance of success. The Kingston motorists contribut- ed $11,000 to the provincial govern- ment's money chest last season, in license fees. What did they get for this? Not good roads at any rate, BELGIANS' AWFUL PLIGHT. The disposition of the Canadian], people is to help the Belgians, but the information as to their condition has not been sent generally in a condensed and incisive form. W. L. Honnold, who is a member of the London Relief Commission, and is now acting as a director of the American Commission, sends out the latest statement through the Pro Belgia. He 'is of the opinion that the war will go on for another year, and if it does the poor in Belgium ano Northern France must be sent over a million and a quarter tons of food. This means an expenditure of. $150,000,000, and it must be made on behalf of abput five million people who are sadly impoverished. For the relief of destitution at least $60,000,000 must be spent, or $5,000,000 a month. Of this sum the United States has given less than $600,000 a month, which, Mr. Hon- nold says, is a very small sum "in view of the fact that the ecom- mission's purchases in the United States have averaged over $5,000, 000 a month, and in some monthg the wspenditure has risen to $10,000, oer: Mr. Honnold says the agtigultural classes of Belgium have been able to take care of themselves. Their fer- tile flelds have not been wholly culti- vated by them. Some of the' terri- tory has been cultivated by the Ger- mans, and they have harvested the crops therefrom. THe well-to-do classes are not suffering much, But { his executive ability and independ-| ence-of mind. @ What 'is Kingston doing to do in| order to cultivate and keep the trade] which must be at its disposal, after| the war? The Welland Canal en-| largement will not amount to much if | the city is not ready for a larger har- bor trade, | The harshest thing that can be said about Hon. Mr. Scott, who is retiring from the premiership of Saskatche- wan, is that he had a stormy time of | it. He certainly had, but he left al stainless record. No one ever breath-| ed the suspicion. of wrong-doing| against him. The state roads in New York are| as smooth and pleasant to travel up-1 on as the paved strets of Kingston. It is not remarkable that autoists pass over the border line for summer excursions on these American roads. Phere is big money in this kind of travel. Why should Canada lose it? Kingston laments over the fact that it. has not a eity wharf. It hasbthe site for one in the water lot which is opposite_the City Hall. But council after council leaves unsettled the agreement which was entered into between the C.P.R. and the city some years ago. Why should this matter drag alonf indefinitely? gress to pass a daylight saving aw, | effective next summer. { ~ Putting Us to Shame. (Hamilton Herald) i Spirited young men who give up!'} good positions in the United States to come over to Canada and enlist put to shame the large resident army of Canadian slackers. . Trophies for Museums. : (Ottawa Citizen) Sir Sam Hughes has sent a cap- tured German rifie to a local war trophy exhibit. But the Germans have probably placed the Ross rifle in their museums by this time. The Contrast' (Montreal News) parliamentarians The British par- German peace ,unceasingly. liaméntarians vote another huge wari credit and cheer lustily while they do so. = The contrast is instructive. , The Ross Rifle. : (Toronto Globe) } . When did Sir Douglas Haig first | report--'on his own initiative"-- against the Ross rifie as an active service weapon? How long after that report was the rifie served out to Canada's soldiers? | jaucsTON EVENTS| 26 YEARS AGO A big collection of books has ar- rived in the city for the starting of a citizens' library. : Firemen Fanning and Sands were injured when the hook and ladder truck collided with a pile of stones. Eggs sold at 21 cents on the mar- ket to-day. pare BILLY SUNDAY AND HIS COLLECTIONS 3 Toronto News. After his announcements, Sunday says dramatically (one can never get away from that side of it), and at the close of a visit in Detroit. "Now then ushers go to it!" Up from all parts of the tabernacle rise the ush- ers with largs tins ! | PUBLIC OPINION || i Taken for Granted. (London Adventiser) | Notice that Hon. Rupert Guinness | takes it for granted Canada willl have "her own navy." He does not| talk of contributions. - N | The Glad Eye. | (Port Arthur Chronicle) i It is reported from Paris that a girl has offered an éye to a blind soldier. Well, even before the war we have had more than one girl give us the "glad eye." { The Daylight Law. (Ottawa. Free Press) In the United States an organized movement has been started by vgri- ous municipal chambers of commefce to bring pressure to bear upon Con- one through section al- lotted to him. At the end of each section stands a man with a large tin pail. Each usher empties his tin into the pail, and each pail-bearer empties the contents -of his recept- acle into a large hopper which is in front of the pltform. On Sunday night last the collection was taken up from 10,000 men in less than five minutes. The whole thing was a re- markable example of the business efficiency of the organization. In Detroit- the collections will be euf- ficient to meet the guaranteed 'ex- penses of the campaign the end of the present week. Then more money will be until the last day of the am N bs gOS Te0 weeks hence, when Mr. Sun md his free-will personal hard<hitting revivalist totalled pringely sum of $43,000, SUPPLY AND DEMAND The law of Supply and Demand is a form of soothing syrup which is administered to the ultimate consum- er whenever the price of gasoline or hard coal begins to climb out on the roof. . 'When the law of Supply and De- mand was put upon the statute books of our country, people did not use gasoline to push anything with. It was impossible to drive up to a fiill- ing station with a chattering clutch and get stood: off for ten gallons of low-test gasoline until the cows me~ turned homeward. There was almost no demand for it and nobody had thgught of making any, and the price did not raise any welts on the body politic. But finally somebody discovered it while diggling a drive well and the law of Supply and De- mand began to operate in a noise- less, highly lubricated manner and has been operating ever since at a blood-curdling crescendo. The smooth, velvet, multiple-disc action of the law of Supply and De- mand with respect to the price of hard coal teaches us that man in reality descended from the goat. This law begins to operate in May of each year, the visible supply running short every month until November, when the price is standing tip-toe on the mountain top. When we stand aside in a meditative, mood and watch the law of Supply and De- mand boost the price of hard' coal during" the heated term, we are in- clined to believe that Congress would be more popular if it ed the said law and then adjou ve There have. been. several earnest attempts in recent years to put kick- Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax of Cabbages and Kings" ing straps on the law of Supply and Demand, so that it would not regr up every now and then and compel the frugal householder to burn cobs in the furnace. Several good and pure trusts have been broken up into small chunks, but this law has taik rapidly each | 9 Sale of Boys' Reefers sizes 23 to 30. Navy serges, fawns, Irish Frieze, Etc. $5.00 and $5.50 values, Gale $9 5 Price Bibbys Sale of Boys' Suits Regular $6.50 and $5.00. Sizes 28 to 34. Style -- Double and single breasted coat; Straight knickers. Fabrics are good quality tweeds and worsteds. 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'When the law of Supply and Demand was put upon the statute books ple - did not use gasoline to push anything with. stepped in and prevented them from losing any money to speak of. In spite of these facts, there are those in our midst who have no confidence in the law of Supply and Demand and would be pleased to swat the sathe . just below~the jugglar vein wiht a dull axe. - This teaches 'us that man is an unreasonable and cantankerous crea-| ture and should not be allowed to vote at anything except <a school election. ig, ia , bt TTT Women's High- Cut Street Shoes Fashion calls for HIGH CUT FOOTWEAR and every woman wants to be up-to-date in her foot- wear. We are showing a big range of KID and PATENT HIGH CUT SHOES at - $5.00, $6.00 and $7.00. J.H Sutherland &Bro. The Home of Good Shoes ps