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tt i Wan Presiaen: Guid ....Man rector and Bec -Treas. THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING i G. Rooms (Dally Edition) year, delivered in city ......$6.00 ff paid in advance .... 3.40 One yeas, to United States (Bem'- Weekly Edition) , if not One Year, to Uni States Attached ls f the best job printing offices Fraley . Jo : ©0, LIMITED. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: on yeaz, pal year, by mall to rural offices . 350 Une year, by mall, cash One 1 Six and three months pro Tats. in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations TT WANTED, A UNITED IRELAND. Six thousand Nationalists, says a cablegram, wants a parliament for United Ireland. Of course they do, and the feelings they express are probably shared by ninety-nine per cent. of the party to which they be- long. The desire of the National- ists is that there shall be no division of interest, no exclusion of territory in marking a new departure in Irish government and a new experience in Irish legislation. The exception of any part of Ireland, under home rule, would be like the exception of a part of Ontario from home or local rule, and the existence of such a condition would not be conducive to public peace and harmony Ulster may not be reconciled 'to the choice which marks its surrender. It was so much opposed to home rule before the war, so forcible. in its opposition, that notwithstanding the diseiplinings of the war there must be a great reluc- tance to change now. But sooner or later there will be a united Ireland in order to verify the dreams of pa- triots and statesmen. The loyalty and devotion of the Irish during the war, and the sacrifices which they have made to the cause of the Allies, tends to make one forget the trou- bles of the past, and wish for the Emerald Isle all that is great and glorious in national life. SOMETHING WRONG HERE. A western contemporary comments upon the happy release of an aged woman, over seventy, who has been transferred from a jail at Orange- ville to a Home for Aged People in Toronto through the merciful provis- fon of a sister and to the extent of $600 a year. The Whig marvels at the confinement of anyone in a jail when on offense has been committed. The legislature many years ago pro- vided by a law 'or the care in each municipality, and by it for those who were unable to earn a livelihood and who deserved a home for attention and rest in their declining years. Why did the municipality in this case neglect its duty? Why did the of- ficials of the government, who are charged with the enforcement of its laws, refrain from the exercise of their authority? : Some counties have been called to action by the inspectors of the gov- ernment when there was a manifest disposition on the part of the coun- cils to scamp or avoid the service they owed to the poor. Poverty is mot a crime. It comes to some peo- ple in spite of all their industry. These deserve the kind provision that has been made for them. The woman referred to was one of them. Why did she put eleven years in a jail when the law says she should have a place in some municipal insti- tuition, erected and maintained for charitable purposes? THE NEXT SOCIAL TEST. What is to be the substitute for the bar-room? Some people have thought of this. They have been looking ahead. They are contem- plating the time, rapidly approach- ing, when the bar-room, which to many is the social rendezvous or re- sort, will be closed. What will take its place? The hotel-men are not quite sure what they will do. They are harassed on one side by the pros- peotive loss of business, and on the other by the suggestion that if they propose what the license commission ers called a standardized hotel it it time they were making their plans. "It may be possible to manage a hotel | and make it pay without the bar- room. . The building must be mod- ernized. Into the sleeping apart- ' ments, the sitting rooms, and the dining rooms, must be put the rare virtue' of excellence in everything. Renfrew, through the capital of men who could afford the investment, put up'a hotel which is a model of its king. It Is paying. Ingersol and Col- lingwood are said to have hotels which are lacking in nothing that can be desired by the travelliers and tour- ists. Kingston must have hotels, good ones, and if the money that has been put into the bar be put into other departments it may prove most profitable. . A sensible suggestion appeared in the Toronto Globe, and in the social column. A soldier's mother writes that the want of the day will be tea- rooms or social; centres, in every town and city, ere men may con- gregate, where-they may chat, have light refreshments, smoke their pipe of peace, and be refreshed and satis- fied. In England these tea-rooms have been supplanting the bar- rooms, and if the change can be ap- preciated in England it certainly can in Canada. The tap-room was the chief resort of the middle class- es, unable or unwilling, to meet the expenses of the gaudier resorts. The tea-room in Canada should be a popular resort, and those who pre- pare for the change will be up-to- date and the friends of the people. A LIFE WORTH COPYING. The University Monthly (published in connection with Toronto Univer- sity) contains the appeal which has been made to the friends and gradu- ates on behalf of the Edward Kylie Memorial Scholarship. There are some scholarships that do not amount to much. They are the generous offerings of men, or women, who have a kindly interest in higher education, and they desire to pro- mote it in some degree. Incident- ally they help some distant branch of {t, or some student whose resources can be materially aided by his prizes. The Kylie Memorial is intended to perpetuate a life that was given up to honerable pursuits and by making his ideals the ideals of others. The appeal accompanies the per- sonal tributes of associates and friends, and from these one gets an insight into the charecter of Edward Kylie. He belonged to Lindsay, and studied in and graduated from To- ronto University. Because of his high scholastic attainments, and af- ter a two years' study in Oxford as the result of scholarship which he earned, he became a member of the university staff, and the teacher of history. He conceived the Idea, which was very hegorable, of making history rather thanof teaching it. In other words he a ed to trans- mute his ideas of public|life into pub- lic service some day. | He had not ihe least doubt that when qualified for it he would find a constituency somewhere and, as its representative in parliament, help to shape the leg- jslature that had the public weal for its object. A second thought obscessed him-- that in order to give all his time to politics he must have a permanent living, and so he bent all his ener- gies to earn and save and invest so that at the end of a certain time he would be able to enter upon his life's work. He had about attained his object, when as a soldier, and from wounds received in battle, he died. The governors of the university thought that such a life should be honored and perpetuated by a schol- arship, open to all students, and at an initial cost of $25,000. "Such a life!" There is something about it for every young man to copy, A life of usefulness, of thrift, of ambi- tion, of noble aims and "purpose. There is something about it for the public men «to think over. If every one had set out with Mr. Kylje's plan of making a competency and then only serving the people there would be less talk of graft in the land. EDITORIAL NOTES. Mr. Meighen, on his responsibility as a public servant, says that "not one pound of Canadian nickel has reached Germany since the outbreak of the war." We remember what happened to another statement which Mr. Meighen made on his respoisibil- ity as a public servant, in parliament. and with regard to the manufacture of shells. The tax reformers will have an in- teresting seance when they meet at Niagara on Aug. 19-20, and insist that the war taxes shall be so levied that they will not affect industry. Is it possible to raise any more money from a bi-taxation without touching labor which should be free? Is it possible to tax the land for all pur- poses in Canada at the present time? The Belgians have refused to serve the Germans, the usurpers of much of their land at any price. The needs of the invading army are such, how- ever, that they must have food, and the talk is of appropriating the crops of the Belgian peasantry as the spoils of conquest. And two millions of these people are depending upon the charity of Britain and the United States for their daily needs. The great Von Hindenberg is in danger. His lines have been pierced by the Russians, and part of his army is likely to be cut off from the * rest of it. When this man fails, as fail he must, it is time the Germans sued for peace. And his wooden statues filled with nails, each nail re- presenting tribute to the national cause, may be used as the fuel for 8 benfire some of these days. The Germans worshipped power. The Russians are giving a new meaning to their religion. | PUBLIC OPINION | Hun Accomplishment. (Montreal Star) After all, though, the hardest thing to stomach about the Kaiser is the blasphemy. Why Should It? (Toronto Aall) The level of Lake Ontario is much lower, but the thirst of the citizens does not abate. Stretch of Imagination. ATPoronto News) Think of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the high priest of Toryism in Canada, as the official mouthpiece of a Radical platform. Liberalism is Thriving. (Toronto Globe) Liberalism is on the move, but it is on the move because Liberals believe the welfare of the country is more important than any merely partisan victory. After the Minister. (Montreal Mail) Those who have applauded his de- fence of the Ross rifle and his slan- ders of Kitchener are past being in- fluenced against him by his praise of Col. J. W. Allison, now so strik- ingly exposed as the rankest sort of "piffle." Couldn't Go Overseas. ' (Toronto Mail) The case of the member of the Welland canal defence force who wanted to go overseas and was threatened with arrest as a deserter if he remained with an overseas bat- talion in which he had enlisted, is worth official . investigation. The Welland force can do without men able and willing to enlist for over- seas. Where Government is Inefficient. {Winnipeg Tribune) One thing that all thoughtful agri- culturists are agreed upon--and they are backed up by the vast thinking class in the big centres--is the gen- eral inefficiency of government, tak- ing Canada as a whole, in matters pertaining to the development of the in the richest of all northern lands in the world. « -------- NGSTON EVENTS] 26 YEARS ACO soil and the general resources thereof | g Peterboro Review. The men who support the educa- tional system of our city cannot pro- outlay. in Alle young men and women who, oif graduating from the Collegiate, life. That these graduates are turn- business man who has taken them on his force knows. Under circumstances. nothing else is to be expected. The teachers themselves lack actual business experience. In instructing their pupils they can deal With theories alone. z Whence the Idea? Toronto Telegram. Whence did Sir Robert Borden ac- quire the idea of appointing an un- der-secretary to the Minister of Hili- tia? Was the happy thought sug- gested by the results of Sir Robert Borden's own experience as under- secretary to Sir Sam Hughes in the premiership of Canada? Undesirable Relations. Ottawa Citizen, But Mr. McCurdy has not denied that the published report of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company de- seribed him as "a large stockholder was erroneous; and the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company has bene- fited very largely by shell orders in this country. Mr. McCurdy, in his capacity of parliamentary secretary of the militia department, acts as ad- ministrator of the department. It brings the department of militia very close to the munition contractors. LIBERAL PRESS. Not Beck's Kite-Tail. London Advertiser. Some newspapers seem to think that Liberalism in Ontario js a tail for the kite of Sir Adam Beck. Liberalism in Ontario cannot af- ford to be a kite-tail for Sir Adam Beck, a man whose record is built on the sole idea of making Sir Adam Beck the supreme ruler of Ontario by the use of a club which he wields upon all his opponents. Liberalism in Ontario is not per- sonally conducted by Toronto news- papers. Liberalism in Ontario cannot af- ford to put a ring in its nose and be led to the slaughter by a man whose fast and loose methods of playing with the people's money were con- demned by the provincial auditor ap- pointed by Sir James Whitney to guard the Ontario treasury dedrdeodedebdedededededodid deirdddded died GREATER PART OF POLAND WILL SOON BE FREED. Petrograd, July 25.--General Sakharoff"s brilliant stroke in forcing the enemy back from the Lipa and the Styr has plac- ed the Austrians in the most dangerous . predicament of the War. Unless the Russians can ing willingly to the orders of Dr. Fee, to close them up. at 60 cents per bushel. Abraham Shaw has been elected Grand Principal Sojourner of the Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. The bodies of Samuel Sniderman and Rose Erzin, victims, of a drown- ing accident on Monday afternoon at Hanlon's Point, Toronto, have been recovered, People owning wells are respond- | Potatoes sold in the market to-day be held off from Lemberg and Kovel, either by way of Vladi- mir-Volynski or the Stokhod line, the Austrian armies, worn out and depleted, and looking in vain for help from the Ger- mans, are doomed to an igno- minious retreat over the whole face of Galicia and into the sha dow of the great Carpathian wall, and the greater part of Po- land will once more be freed of German troops. PbS rer bbb berber bp eh apd +* + -* + + * * + + * * + + * +* + + + * * +* 3 * + * ddedededebdde ddd d dobbdbid THE ONION. The onion is a small but powerful object which springs from the bosom of Mether Earth in a perfumed state, after which itis eaten in a greedy and voluptuous manner by people who do not expect to go out into so- ciety for two weeks. When a talk- ative male guest who has just eaten a plate of red onions ambles into a select social gathering and begins to disperse rapid-fire conversation on the evening air, he creates almost as profound a sensation as the man in a full dress suit who has everything in place except his shirt studs. The onion is recommended by all first-class doctors as a spring tonic and Nature intended that it should be eaten sparingly, owing to the penetrating character of its contents. But on all sides of us we see tall, raw-boned men sitting down to break- fast and destroying at one fell blow the product of two acres of early gar- den. If people would treat the on- ion as a delicacy, like the cream puff, instead of seeking to demolish the world's output at one sitting,it would take higher rank in the vegetable kingdom. The boiled onion is a popular va- riety from which the stinger has Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." scl 15 been removed by the undaunted hand of woman. When we look about us and see the thousands of perly be charged with 'selfishness if|} they expect some return for their| ii} This return they look for |i are equipped for the active duties of |} ed out without such equipment every i self-sacrificing wives and mothers who daily sit down in front of a peck. of strong, self-assertive. onions and carefully remove the hide from| the same, while, tears roll languidiy)| down both her cheeks, we wonder why it is that men are so neglectful of their wives and remain out late at night, trying to fill to two small pair. | While the boiled onion is not as fra-| grant as the boiled cabbage, its 1, es-| ence in the home can be readilf de-| tected by anybody who is not color blind in both nostrils. The onion poultice is a remarkable invention which is far superior to the] relentless mustard plaster, as the] latter removes the inflammation and | the cuticle at one and the same time, | The onion poultice, however, takes| old in a firm, resolute manner and can be unhooked from time to time,| to allow the patient to come to. it people would rely more upon the] onion poultice and less upon the dis-| appointing pink pill the death rate] would be greatly reduced. i The onion is a good substitute for| medicine, but it would be more uni-| versally respected if it were used in| small doses. | { | respect for him. appeared before road: "Begone, jeered his little ~ Rippling Rhymes SAM AND JIM : When old Sam Johnson sat in state, that man of | learning, wise and great, with Burke and Goldsmith | and the rest, Jim Boswell was the butt and jest. They | all must have their flings at Jim, and none had much names. And it may be men now on earth, work we think has little worth, will leave a daathless | fame behind when thoy have quit their humble grind, while pompous pro-| digies lie down, and, dying, kill off their renown. i | | 4 Me thinks, had some prophetic dub | them at their club, "This man who is your goat, at whom you laugh, with scornful note, | will by the multitudes be read, when all your junk is! stale and dead," old Sam would then have raised a| false prophet---there's the door!" | And yet great Johnson, mighty sage, the shining mar- | vel of his age, lives only in the hook that Jim so rev-| erently wrote of him. down to the Judgment 'twill enduge, while those who | Jim's immortality is sure; | games, have left but half for-gotten| whose | present | Hil BIBBYS $1.00 SHIRTS Look the town all over, Sir, and we're right sure that you'll find no one dollar shirts to com- pare with ours. mined to have th || shirts on the market. 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