and Semi-Weekly by Published Dail THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING LIMITED. J. G. Elliott Presi Leman A Guild . + Mandglig Director nd Sec.-Treas. Tel Business Office Bdltorial Rooms Job Office SUBSCRIPTION Daily Baition) One year, de verea in city One year, if paid advance One year, by ey to rural offices One year, to United States (Semi-Weekly Bafion) One year, by mall, One year, if not paid in United States _ Attached 1s one of the best job printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG Is authentioaiod by the Audit Bureau of Circulations ES A Rr Fe RR es B12, THE ISSUE IN BRIEF. If this war is going to continue more than another year, unless there is a considerable improvement, the same conditions will again prevail, "AND WE MUST BITHER WITH- DRAW OUR DIVISIONS FROM THE FRONT, OR WE MUST ASK GREAT BRITAIN BY CONSCRIPTION TO FILL UP OUR DIVISIONS WITH HER MEN, OR WE MUST PROVIDE THE NECESSARY REINFORCE- MENTS FOR OUR MEN . AT THE FRONT.--Mr. Rowell in Woodstock. A great deal of the talk about the high prices of food is likely to end-- in talk. THE PRESS ON. THE PRESS, There is a difference of opinion, in certain political cirgles, upon the wisdom of rooting out or evicting the Germans of every type from business in London. Lord Northcliffe has been relentless in his antagonisms up- .on aliens ot every creed and breed. He has been dissatisfied with the manner in which the ¢hancellory was performing its work. He got after Sir William Pender, as the govern- ment's controller, and intimated that he was not doing his duty to the state. My lord incidentally dispensed 'with Sir William's services as the auditor of The Times' business, and his per- sonal bitterness or persecution--and it all depends on how one looks at these matters--the Toronto Mail, conservative, approves, The Montreal Gazette, also conser vative, takes a different view. The London press, in its opinion, has been guilty of partisan proceedings. The London newspapers are not representative of the mind or temper of the people. Some of the Germans that have been driven out of office, or forced to ré- sign, have served the people in a not- able way. There was some justifica- tion for the attitude of the govern- ment towards them as it knew them better than their assailants. Thus the press of Canadalis divid- od, as the press of Britain has been, upon the great issues of the war, and it is hard for some people to properly appraise the facts and reach a sou judgment with regard to them. -------- Congress, in session, is being asked to legislate against the high prices of foods. Many bills are being prepared. "It is doubtful," says a report, "if any Sir Edward Carson's denial, that he had made any offer with regard to| Home Rule in modification of his de- mands if conscription tn Ireland were accepted, is a sad disappointment. It is the more keenly felt in view of the elaborateness with which Sir Bd-|e ~ ward's views were got Yorth in the : Chronicle. Apparently, some| {the demand that the war 'be prosecut- ed with increased vigor, and there can be no hope of this while Ireland's attitude is so unsatisfactory. True, it has sent to France some of its best troops, and they have left, in their sacrifice, a record of which the coun- try has reason to be proud. B#it the recruiting has lagged; it is practically at a standstill; something must be done to stimulate it in Ireland. No- thing can do this but comsecription, which applies to the rest of the Unit- ed Kingdom. The programme for a settlement, launched inithe name of Sir Edward Carson, and since repudiated by him, may suggest a favorable consideration later. There are some people who fear the outcome of the war without a union of all the parties and the con- tribution of men and measures to which present emergeicies point: and this remark applies as much to Canada, its governments and pro- dent | vinces, as to the Mother Country and its divided interests. The cities which front on Lake On- tario, on both the American and Can- adian sides, are deeply concerned about the water. The cure is a strong 00 [legal enactment against present sew- 0 | age systems. 1.00 States should agree upon a policy. Canada and the United POLITICAL HORIZON OVERCAST. The outlook with regard to the war is somewhat discouraging, and be- cause in some parts of the British empire there is an apparent indeci- sion on the part of the government, which is ominous to say the least of it. All the facts in respect to the pre- sent situation in Britain may got be known... There are some things which, at a time like this, cannot be revealed. There is a secrecy which is sacred when a lurking and unscrupul- ous enemy s eager to take advantage of anything it may learn. There may be surmises, however, and they must be expressed in cryp- tic, rather thas in comprehensive, terms. The circumstances must be tremendously important which .can mar the political relations of Mr. As- quith and Mr, Lloyd-George. They were the warmest of friends. Their political alliances were cemented by service and sacrifice of a most un- common order. They drifted apart because they did not see pertain poli- tical contingencies eye fo eye. Mr. Asquith's judgment is based on a de- liberate examination of every fact and feature, and when he speaks, usually, it is as a logician whose scrutiny penetrates far berond the vision of his fellows. Mr. Lloyd-George is the man of tireless energy. He works with dynamic speed and force. He is feverishly anxious to accomplish great things and has no patience with anyone or anything which intervenes between them, The separation of these men now may, be fraught with the greatest consequences. & 1 the retirement of Earl Grey, the foreign secretary, with Mr. Asquith, one can see the elimax of that dis- satisfaction with his conduct of the department which has been growing for some time. ' The Balkan en- tanglements were attributed to some misunderstandings in his department. He trusted in certain compacts or treaties which have been broken or ignored by the enemy. It is said that the British mavy has been held in check through the influence of the toreign office, and because it feared that aggressive action on its part might widen the boundaries of the war. 'The restraints on the progres- sive party are now off, and it will be unhampered in its tasks, Let us hope that all will be for the best, for as- suredly the political horizon at pre- sent is seriously overcast. EDITORIAL NOTES. . An Italian ship was sunk by a Ger- 'man submarine, and there were on forty-seven Americans. Will the United States protest? What's the use? 'The farmers of the west suffered on account of a short crop this yeaf. Now they are suffering because they cannot get cars with which to move this short crop to the market. Recruiting ean be helped very much by a more efficient method of receiv- ing and caring for the returned sof banners from the galleries with 'this tion upon it: What is the presi- i going to do about women suf- trage? Did he promise the women votes? gr Sam Hughes 'was practically dismissed from the government be- cause he was running his department like a little government of his own. gir George Perley is doing the same thing in London. He has appointed men to the war council without the sanction and endorsement of the Can-| adian government. Will he be repri- manded ? | PUBLIC. OPINION | Should Stay in Canada, (Montreal Mail) Lady friends of the Canadian sol- diers are going to Great Britain at the rate of 500 a month. Which is magnificent, but not war. Wealth in Eggs. (London Advertiser) The gent who stored up those 72,- 000,000 eggs must be trying to outdo Cecil Rhodes and other @&iamond kings never heard of such wealth. Absence of English. (Toronto Mall) It looks as though the duty of sav- ing England would have to be im- posed on a Welshman, a couple of Scotchmen; and two or three Irish- men. ¢ 'Money in Law. (Oswego Times) Mr. Hughes will resume law prac- tice, and make more money arguing cases than he did sitting on the bench deciding them. And that's what's the matter with Hughes. Ending the War. (Everyman) The end of the war will not come to an end beffre the end of next summer, and that 1917 will see a series of big German" defeats. Beyond that it is impossible to foresee. Early in 1918 we may hope to see the end, * Half of Canaila for Bulgaria. (Telegraph, Kitchener, Ont.) Do not our friends'know that Bul- garian leaders have boasted that they have an agreement with the Governy ment of Berlin that Bulgaria is to re- ceive half of Canada when the Bri- tish Empire is carved by the butchers and slavesdrivers of Belgium and of Serbia. KINGSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS ACO The water tank aj Wabamevine was emptied to-day. A subseription fund has been open- ed to reduce the debt on Sydenham street chugch. Major Drennan and Robert Meek went tp Guelph to-day to attend a meeting ofthe Agricultural and Arts Association. The business in which they are interested is the proposal to hold a provincial fair in Kingston. Fall Caused Death, Peterboro, Dec. 6.~<Through fall~ ing down a flight of steps to the cel- lar at the home of her brother, Harry Zealand, yesterday afternoon, Mrs. G. Firth, of Garden Hill, sustained a fracture of the skull, which Mater caused her death. Mrs. Firth came here for a visit and had been at her brother's home only a few hours HAD A BY CLOSE LE ARTHUR BUTLER IN SHELL HOLE IN NO MAN'S 'LAND. Opened Up a Fierce Fire--Suffer- ing From Small Blister on His Cheek. Arthur' Butler, son of Mrs, Mary Butler, of Portsmouth, France about six weeks. He went over with the C.MR. and was after- cona Horse. Word of his wounding and a letter from him came to Mrs. Butler on the same day. ter was written on November 14th. He was admitted to hospital on No- vember 13th. "No doubt you will be surprised said the writer, "but # you could see the cause you would laugh. I have a small blister on my right caused by a piece of spent shrapnel. I was in a shell-hole in No Man's Land when Fritz ® spied me. blew in the trench and just as I though he had quit he put in an eighteen pound shell (shrapnel) in the back jof the hole. who was [in there with me did not get a scratch. All 1 got was a splinter, and I think it was a great piece of luck, because one shell has a radius of two hundred and fifty square miles." The writer had a jocular remark to make about the rates, stating that the French people had started to train rats for dump carts owing to the fact that they were so large. "One big fellow took a puttie from a fellow's bedside and took it down the hnle," he Mdagd "UNWARRANTED VICIOUSNESS." Said American Victim of Marina ore pedoing Incident, James Spence, Randolph Hotel, has given the Whig a copy of the Commercial of Wilminton, which contains a graphic story of the torpedoing of the British steamship Marina. Survivors just reached interview said that it was due to ap- parently unwarranted viciousnesg of the attack made by a submarine on the Marina off- the Irish coast, that several logt their lives. No effort tims, forty-nine of whom were Am- ericans, CAPT. G. G. ANGLIN WOU NDED, Is Nephew of Tiowtgol. . W. G. An- glin, Kingston. Capt. G. G. Anglin has arrived in London from. the front suffering from "shot. in. legs and left hand, slight," according te theofficial an- nouncement, Capt. Anglin is a nep- hew of Lieut-Col. Wi G. Anglin of this city and a son of Dr. J. D, An- glin; syperintendent of the @t: John's N.B., agylum. Thé wounded. captain' went oyerseas withoithe 64th Bat- talion. 84v bia dnd VE George Eades, student pastor, has beer transferred from, the Calabegie 'mission to Beachburg, circuit. 8s as- sistant to Rev..J. B. Robeson, who has been a sufferer from, typhoid-pneu- monia. » E. E. Sykes, Cobden, lay Calabogie eirenit. ye. George »B. Cough, as fermer rdsi- dent of Cape Vincent, N.Y., died at Watertown, Saturday, following a short {liness of pneumonia, Mr. Cough was fifty-one years of age. He was born in Cape Vincent, his parents being the late Benjamin and when she met with the accident. Clotilda Chase Cough. Random Reels "Ot Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax, of Oabbages and Kings." ak WATER RENT Water Rent is a form of tributc which people pay rather than bely deprived of the Saturday night bath There was once a time when wa, ter was as free in.this country a political piffle, but that was lon ago. Our forefathers never had t pay for any water, r were the called upon 'to look the 'crue and threatening countenance of th ball-bearing water meter every tim: they went down cellar to put coa in the furnace. Every home hac a cistern full of rain water and aut AT leaves or 4 drive well whict froze as far down as the knee joints every morning in winter. If anybody howd tote our forefathers that we of the esent buying plain drinking eg he at about the price of linseed oil, and forget- to turn off the faucet, he would have been labeled as a 14-carat idiot. {Water Rent occurs on the first of each month and if not paid by the louth fie' water 1s turned of With. eration would be aged a a sickening diminuendo. 'It is a mel- ancholy experience to enter pon a feeling hand of the city clerk. | 8 nothing more discouraging to a man who can get trasted at every grocery store in town than to be A ieft stranded high and dry in a semi- fporcelain bath-tub, just because he ailed to sweeten the city council. : There are two ways of paying the : /Water Rent--by meter or the flat rate. People who have tried both say that one hurts about as much as the other. The modern, high-speed wa- ter meter has done a great deal to re- duce man's propensity to water the lawn all night, and has also discour- thousands of frugal citizens from filling the bathtub 2 ps its chin. The most simple and Slots, Iotiod of ACUTE quen thing on the part of weary husbands would be to restore the flat rate and make it as flat as pos- diers. | 'The remarks of the Brantford | Expositor, quoted in an adjoining] When Fritz Discovered Him And reported |} las wounded on Tuesday, had been in|} wards transferred to the Lord Strath- |i} The let- ||} to see my name on the casualty list," |} cheek | Hill Hel} An Engineer |} Del. |} their home in Wilmington, and in an; was made to'sticeor the innocent vie- ||] Suits for Young Fellows "The Regent" Price $15, $18, $20, $22 These suits must be seen to be appreciated, and we are always delighted to show the new style kinks. y =) Bibby s (Overcoats : Young Fellows "The Somme," Price $18, $20, $22.50, $25 Knee length winter coat. Heavy Scotch Kersey, plaided back cloth. Beautiful colorings. Expert tailoring. 75c¢. KHAKI GLOVES KHAKI SUSPENDERS 50c KHAKI SWEATERS $2.00 to $6.50 KHAKI TIES, -~ x ~ 3) KNITTED BALACLAVA CAPS, $1.00, $1.25 to $2.00 KHAKI KNITTED SCARFS, $1, $1.25, $1.50 KHAKI PURE WOOL SOCKS, 50c pair KHAKI SHIRTS, $1.25, $1.50, $1.76 , Eo | THE $HOP of evar RAR ers: : EVERYEHING ELECTRICAL SEE our new ¥ Mahogany Parlor lamps. preacher, has arrived to officiate on There | | Sunkist Raisins At all Grocers. DALY GARAGE 335 King Street. Phone 363. ' We furnish auto supplies of ali. Kinds; gasoline, motor ofl, etc. Cars washed and stored at rea- epee mor ork pty Setended wi prom JP. Daly, Prop. Downeys Barage Opes Day and N The read olate, Add ot water - from the and milk. 25 and 50c Tins. to use choc . nor de net chocolate |