h we < ---------------------- . shorthand and can do what it was|t supposed would take years to accon:-|t plish. The young man is a clerk with (TN Ee I Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by THE Bl WHIG PUBLISHIN IMITED, RITISH C0. L J. G. Elliott ... Leman A. Guild . . Pregident andging Director and Sec.-Treas. Business Editorial Rooms Job Office .. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: sDally Edition) One year, vered in city One year, if paid in advance $5. One year, by mall to rural] offices $2.50 One year, to United States $2.50 (Semi-Weekly Edition) by mail, cash $1.00 One year, it not paid in advance $1.50 One year, to United States _ .. ...$1.60 and three months pro rata. Attached is "one of the best printing offices in Canada. job The elreulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is suhenticated y the Audit Bureau of Circalations APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN. #1 tell you young men that there is a Jong career of usefulness for your native land ahead of you. Already there are many problems, there will be more problems for you to solve, problems of national aspirations, pro~ blems of economics, problems of creed divisions, and you must find a solution for them. After forty years of publig life in €anada, I must give you a safe guide, and unfailing light for your guidance. Faith is better than doubt, and love better than hate. Banish doubt. Banish hate. Let your souls ever be fixed upon high impulses, strengthened by gens erous thoughts. Be adamant against the haughty, be kind and gentle tv the weak. In good report and ill, in victory and defeat let your souls be guided by strong. faith and inspir- "ation, that you may rise to still great- er and greater helghts."--Sir Wilfrid Laurier, : -------- Rumania -suffers from Bulgaria's sroken promises, and from hér own in.prudence. She could have hided her time for the conquest of the Transylvania. That could have come later, i A WASTE OF MONEY, The Montreal Gazette does not think that this is an appropriate time in whi¢h to ask the government to build a highway for automobiling across the continent. The reason is that millions are going into the war and that at the end of it "between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 a year" will have to be provided order to meet sinking fund cnargod in- terest. *"The taxes,' says our con- temporary, "are high, and may be higher before peace comes." Which is quite an impressive statement, as it was intended to be. Sir Thothas Wihite's admonition, given about the me time, at Halifax, and while he " was en roe. to England, is that every one in any position of life, must economize. A main road, tak- ing the place in the far west of the trafls which motorists follow in their long 'trips across the prairie, would be a valuable asset. It would mean millions in the travel which it culti- vates, but it must be postponed until after the war, and perhaps for ever if the public debt and interest keep pil- up as they are doing at the present | time. f # The school master is getting the best of the lawyer in the presidential campaign. A week ago the betting--- the thermometer in the case-- was 'two to one on Hughes. Now it Is even, With pullic opinion runing 'fast in favor of the democratic can ». didate. "lenough to lose its odors. "| afford to pay .a fine of the United Yeast Company at Man- chester, and has proven ome of the best typists of the firm, and proudly intimates that he has "proven gsoure worth to the firm, and not a war curjosity." ~ RUMANIA CHASTENED. The Rumanians committed a tact cal error in seeking, alone, to captu: the Transylvania. It may 'have beer of could have been gratified later, and at a lighter cost in prestige and in 'power. It was not expected, says a report, that the Bulgarians would at- tack them, 'and through the Do- brudja, but they did. These are tools of the German: war {6fds and are used without hesitation in any sort of service whieh suggests itzelf, A study of the map shows how do- ficient the Rumanians have been in tact and how they have been menaced by Von Folkenhayn on the north and von: Mackensen on the south, and by the great bodies of troops that have been withdrawn from the western front for this purpose. The plan was to strike a disastrous blow be- fore relief could be afforded by the Allies. Allied relief is now at hand, but from what source is not appar- ent. The thrust at the. Rumanians! keeping with the experiences of the French, British, Serbians, Italians and Russians. It is savage and re- lentless, It is, in these latter days of the war, attended with only- spas- modic success. Rumania will pro- bably recover from the rude shock she has received, as did the French and British at the outset of the war, and she may yet earn the rewards of her heroic service. The success of the Germans on the Dobrudja has been more than off- get by the loss in the Verdun district. The extent of this last disaster is clearly summed up by a contempor- ary ip the adjoining column. +} the fs in MODEL CITY CHARTER. A committee of the Stratford coun- cil has spent some months in medi- tating upon forms of civic govern- ment, and as a result it has proposed something which. is said to be really unique, though after the British ex- perience, It involves a smaller body, (twelve men), who shall be elected by the whole people without war di- versions, and hold office for four years each. A certain number to re- tire annually. The mayor to be ap- pointed by the council. There is nothing new. in all this. Kingston tried the election of alder- men for three-year terms and aban- doned, it. The idea was that good men, not having to seek election of- ten, would agree to serve the people. The experiment was a sad disappoint- ment. It did not tend to either bet- ter representations or better service. Kingston, too, has tried the election of mayors by the council. They were generally good men, but not an im- provement upon those who were elect- ed by the people. } N The proposal that the committees be larger and manage all the public business, including that now entrust- ed to commissions, will not strike the average legislator as desirable. Muni- cipal committees, changeable annu- ally, are not conducive to good gov- ernment, and they would not tolerate. very long, if Kingston's experience counts for anything, the advice of the officials who would be members of the committees without votes. The Associated Boards of Trade appealed to the Bureau of Municipal Research, in Toronto, over a year ago for a model charter, and it has been prepared. The model will be discuss- ed af the meeting of the Associated Boards next month in Hamilton, and it appears to be better than the chait- er which has been ggested by a committee of the Gue City, Coun- cil. Why not submit both to the scrutiny of a committee of experts? + EDITORIAL NOTES, Kingston will have reason to be ashamed of her Red Cross contribu- tion unless the means of supplement- ing it are immediately found. Toronto is closing its city jail. The few offenders the city has to take care of are being transferred to the farm in York township. Who, two years ago, would have predicted this? ---------- The man who goes to Ogdenshurg for liquor had better drink it there and remain away from Kingston long He can't $200 every month. ' ; * ---------- -- 4 The United States must be con- founded with the evidence of her as- sistance to the German submarines There will hardly be any more ob- [jection to the patrol by the British cruisers of the ocean outside of the |three-mile imi : the amibition of the Crown, but it| ¢ Teutonic forces, for they have pressed. | PUBLIC _ OPINION | The End in Sight. "(Ottawa Citizen) Manitoba trial may end The by for life. w Galt to penitenti Calling Him Names (Ottawa Free ayontreal Witness describes Hon. Rdbert Rogers as "a rather brainless DV '" y | pojtician. We had thought a real criminal required to have consider- lable cleverness. A Timely Warning. (Toranto, Globe) The warning "of the ' Providenc Journal that threesGerman submar ines are still on this side of the At- lantic should be taken seriously. The Journal in the past has shown an al- most uncanny knowledge of German plans and projects. What Became of Them? (Montreal Gauze «Prince von Bulow quoted as say- ing that Germany thas constructed no fewer than 225 submarines since the war began. That is interesting enough information, 'What would be more interesting, though, would be a state- duty. The wastage of war must have cut deepl? into the total. » Some Election Language. _ (Vancouver Province) : We hada warm campaign in Bri tish Colunibia, but things must be warmer still in Montana. Witness the following from the : Anaconda Standard: '"No subtle art can invent a speciousness that will blind the depravities, the desperate deviltries, and the deep damnation of the roar- ing Republican rascals." jo ---- NGSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS ACO ~~ The Kingston "drydock is about completed. The cost of constructing it will be $450,000, ) Police Constable James Bateson to- day received two Plymouth rock hens from Staten Island, N. Y. The all-night electric light service will be commenced in.a month's time. 3 ay WHAT THE GERMANS ARE AIMING AT Rak, ~& Montreal Star, It cannot be too often said that Peace under present conditions would constitute a great German victory, If Wwe may take a parallel from the golf links, it would be as if a man hav- ing his opponent "four down and six to go," should propose that they stop the game without playing the remain- ing six holes, finishing on the score as it stood. The position is that the Allies are now winning, and are con- fident that they will get the next "six holes." Naturally they will not stop. Just as naturally, the Germans want to stop. If they conld get into Bu- charest and then stop, their prestige would be enormous. They would be what the peace treaty said. We must remember that, however evident it may be today that the Germans are seeking peace because they (UAB, - ~~ | tney are in course of being beaten some respects, very hard|taey will tell the world in ten years Justice Rogers sending this fel-! ment as to the number lost while on| voters of Montana to the deplorable] masters of the Balkans, no matter, kriow have not lost a gun. that they made peace, while their { unbeatable armies held largé tracts of Entente territory, because their humane instincts were sickened by (the awful slaughter--because, as | apostles of "kultur," they could not bear the further crucifixiod of civill- zation, ees peo THE FRENCH ARMY'S LAST CHARGE ------b | Syracuse Post-Standard. s !"" For fiive-months the Germans bat- tled for Verdun. It took them four days, and thousands of men to take a portion, of the, Douaumorif fort ! aloe. It took mearly thred months | mora to capture the remainder of the | fort. It took them from the first of March until the first of July to es- ablish themselves firmly in the Hau- | dromont quarries and Thiaumont farm. The great offensive came to an end in July, with Verdun still un- conquered, J In twenty-four hours, with slight | losses to their own men, the French sweep the German troops out of every position they have gained at tremen- dous cost, beating them back to their original lines, smashing the strongly "fortified quarries and nullifying. five | months' work by the €rown Prince's | army. s It was strategy with imagination, strategy one would not expect to | find in" any army other than the | French. The attack was unexpected. | The Germans were unprepared, fig- | uring that the Somme offensive was | using every--ounce of France's driv- ing power. They did not look for at- tack in another direction, least of all at Verdun, where the usual bom- bardment -had appeared to be no more severe during the last few days than in the four months since the' | German attack slackened. But this { bombardment suddenly increased in | intensity, and before they had oppor- | tunity to bring up reserves, the infan- | try had swept forward in a single im- | petuous charge that carried every- thing before it, It was a magnificent piece of work. [1¢ will be admired even by those whose sympathies are against the Allies, { | THE CANADIAN SOLDIER IN ACTION Fredevick Palmer, in New York Times. Before the grand offensive the British staff and 'commanders;-those few professionals who were trained { to' direct the small regular army, { realized fully their immense respon- i in theory against the experienced Geerman organization, "At that time one commander recalled to the correspondent a saying of Von Moltke that although the German as a sol- dier might notibe better than his enemy the German army: always would win because of a superior staff system." We have met that staff," said the man recently, "and I assure you none of us is suffering from stage fright these days, We thank the staff for what they taught us in the days of our unpreparedness, and of late they have been learning a few things from us." In the way of conerete achivements the British have {aken 30,000 prison- ers, or a little less than 1,500 for each of the twenty-one villages cap- turned, with an average population of about 300, They have taken 12 i guns, 109 trench mortgrs and trenc | guns and 429 machine guns.. They "Ot Shoes and Ships, and Seall uy THE ELECTRIC BELT. The Electric Belt is a substitute for the mustard plaster which can be removed without taking any of the patient with it. From the earliest days of this re- public the mustard plaster has been relied upon to extract shooting pains from the interior of man's anatomy. It was @lways applied by some faith- 1 wife who mixed the plaster with own hands, in order that there t be plenty of mustard therein, allow the plaster. te sit down on his stomach and draw the pain to the surface. 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