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nN THE © DAILY BRITISH WHIG. =. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1990. 6 THE BRITISH WHIG 87th YEAR. Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED J. G. Elliott Leman A. Guild ,.. TELEPHONES: Business Office ............ Editorial Room Job Oftice SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) = ~~ One year, delivered in city uk ne if paid in advance * o » by mall to ru to Unit~4 Seat . (Semi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mall, cash One year, If not paid In advance One year: to United States . Six dnd three monthé pro rata. REPRESENTATIVES ¥. Calder, 22 John St, Montreal FF. M. Thompson, 402 Lumsden Bldg. Torente. 1.50 OUT-OF-TOWN 22 St i Letters to the HBditor are published jonly over the actual name of the writer, Atfached is one of the best job print- ing offices In Canada. . r-- x CIGARETTE HISTORY. A test of the Kinsas anti-cigarette lax. before the supreme court will bring back to mind the peculiar his- tory of the cigarette. Though there have been waves Of prejudice against the weed in every form, and the chewing of tobacco means---for good reasons--social ostracism in the cities the only laws ever passed to re- strict the practice of smoking have applied to the most harmless and least objectionable custom---cigarette smoking. The explanation is not dif- ficult. Because cigarettes were mild, youngsters began on them, Unques- bad for the children. It i8 not good, for adults, but adults are allowed to choose their own forms of enjoyable suicide. When it was discovered thai boys could smoke . cigarettes "with pleasure, and in some cases did so, the mothers were aroused. The cig- aretie was called the coffin nail, and an unreasoning antipathy toward it | sprang up everywhere. "You may | smoke a pipe If you like," said the 339 father to his son, "and I can stand the sight of cigars, but don't come into the house with one of those paper things hanging to your lips," The re- sult of this emotion was the passage ?! of such laws as the cigarette prohibi- Oition of Kansas. But if cigars, pipe tobacco and molasses plug are to be sold it is only reasonable that cigar- ettes should be likewise on sale to ddults. Prohibition that eliminates only the mildest product would seem to have begun at the wrong end. 2 SOME IDEAS OF LIBERTY. Most people, says H. G. Wells in The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG fs authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. ~ Necessity teaches us industry, and habit makes us like it. ---- | The prohibitionists haven't yet got John Barleycornered. It seems to take the collapse of sovietism a long time to jell. -------------- Some people who mean well do evil, and some apparently love hell for its own sake. Se -------- Venizelos may not be interested, but we know of a busy corner where there is no fruit stand, ! The wet is wedded to his thirst, but he can't support it inthe style in which it was raised. It may be that all meu are not equal at birth, but they are when covered with six feet of earth. One editor expresses it : The pub- Heation that hag ng enemies usually has all the print paper it needs. They say Lloyd George is willing to give and take. That is, he takes second thought and gives ground. Mexico may yet settle down, if outside interests will refrain from pouring troubled waters on the oil, -------- ~~ When God hung the planets in Space there were none present to de- clare their opinion that it wouldn't work. a -- Patronize the home merchants. 'Prices are lower here than else- Where, and the selection of goods is very extensive. ---- Bryan is going it again, He out for a new Damocratic party. He Says the oJd gang sold out for a - #lass of beer! There is business for you. It you (80 after It you will get it. Adver- tising will help you get ti---especi- ally Whig advertising. Se------------ At this distance, the argument in Ireland seems a little too enthusi- . @stic, but perhaps the leaders figure that the end justifies the meanness. Sherry is the correct wine to go With soup and fish, says the London Times, but of course that is not in- teresting in this arid land any more. There 1s prospect of an early sei- tlement of the treaty controversy in the United States, Mr. Harding. : a disposition to get at the 7 Root of the matter. x 5 Se -------------------- The western churches are not de- barred fromi uniting even if the de- nominations are decidedly slow in 'much needed action. The Calgary says : "First thing the de- tional bodies know church union will be an accomplished fact Fegardiess of thelr sction or in. Action." People out there regard it @ good thing. : Right Rev. Charles | Fiske, co- itor bishop of the diocese of cen- I New York, talks semsibly in d to Sunday observance. an . advocate of crusading; he' seeks to emphasize the of worship on Sunday. "it a bn has given part of the day for p," he says, "I think we may ¥e it to his own comsclence what | will do the rest of the day, pro- his recreation does mot inter- is his latest book, "The Outline of His- | tory," like telling other people not | to. Herein lies ohe of the most | fundamental causes of the world un- rest of to-day. If we could but mind | our own business, and let the other | man mind his, this world would be a much happier place in which to live. But Wells asserts that when man first began to develop speech he im- mediately started td regujhte tle lives of other men; or, to quote his exact words: The pedagogic spirit | overflowed in the human mind. The | Neolithic man, concerning who this versatile author writes, is no: very ulfferent from the average man of te day. The latter wants--nay, insists -- that the world shoald "ne nade over to the pattern thet most pleases kim; that his ideas and idea's should be accepted as the only ones worth while considerins. In the esriy dwn of history he enforced this narrow cpinion by m2ans «f a club; now he accomplishes the same purpuse by means of 'legislaticr:: The Ten Cona- mandments, - laid down by our Sav- tour, comprise oniy tem '"Thou Shall Nots,"" but to-day man is not content unless he can increase the number at least a hundred-fold. An Ali-wise Providence made man a free-will creature, imparting to him the know- ledge that if he sins he must suffer thereby. Thus only cam he gain ex- perience and develop character. The tendency now is to change this plan, to rob man of his right of self-deter- mination--to adopt a present popu- lar phrase--and to hedge him about with all kinds of restrictive mea- sures. How far this can be carried on without digaster is a problem. "We are rapidly legislating ourselves out of existence," declares the principle of Queen's University, There is more meanjng in his words than appears on the surface. CONCERNING MOODS. Qace in a while you meet with per- sons who do not want anyone to articulate their religious faith. They will frankly tell you, in one of their moods, that they want some great word--some word greater than Isaiah's, or than any you find in the Gospel of Jesus. Possibly they do not know what they want. Perhaps the reason that such great epics of life take no hold on them in their dark hour is that they are physically and mentally unfit to appreciate any- thing greater than a boudoir cap and a bit of sentimentalism, Are they neurasthenie¢ or verging on hysteria? Is it a doctor they need or perhaps a crushing sorrow to lift them out of their life's disillusionment? Or is it some darker malady of the soul that afflicts them and separates them from all their kind. It is the very core of the gospel of Christ, says a distinguished author, that the redeemed man is he who in trustful self-abandonment responds to the Impression of Jesus, finding and taking in Him the gracious love of God. This is the true escape from self, the true realization of self. We commune with God when we are like God, we commune with Christ when we are like Christ, we commune with the great, the good, the heroic, the noble, the patfent and the faithful souls of every age when we aspire to be like them. When we can find ne response' in burselves to the great, the noble and the holy of the past, fr may be the part of humility, at least, to silently wait either till the mood passes or, better still, to seek such communion by obedience to the great fundamentals of our faith, which we know, and to which, in our best mo- ments, our liearts respond. And perhaps the most direct path lies in the way of common worship in which we lose bur sense of loneli- ness and isolation and become one with our fellows in the expression of common need and a common aspira- tionably the practice of smoking is | IRISH TERRORISM. The extension of the Sinn Fein po- licy of terrorism to. the cities of Gredt Britain shows, if that were ne- the movement are men who, above all else, are reckless of human life and property, and are determined to stick at nothing in order to gain their own ends. While it is net at ail likely that thé policy they have adop- ted will benefit them in the slightest degree, it is quite evident thag the British government must do' some- thing, and do. it quickly, to bring about some kind of a settlement of this vexed question of Ireland. Bri- tain cannot be turned into an armed camp just because a minority of the people of Ireland have lost their heads, and, because of a lack of sane leadership, are pursuing a policy of murder and destruction. The drastic measures which have been applied in Ireland seem to have had the ef- fect of aggravating the situation, and the public mind, once so susceptible to acts of violence in that country, is becoming hardened and callous. Such a state of affairs cannot last much longer, for even the Sinn Fein- ers must surely realize that there is a limit to all things. The great pity is that the majority of Irish people, who Zre anxious to be law-abiding and peacefid, have to suffer because of the misguided tac- tics of a few hotheads. Sinn Fein has entirely departed from the early prin~ ciple its founders. In the early days the organization was harmless in itself, and fits leaders were vision- aries rather than revolutionaries. It was only in recent years, when Ger- man gold made its presence felt and anti-British sentiment in the United States swung behind the Irish -"re- public" idea, that the movement as- sumed {ts present character. That it expresses the sentiment of even the Catholic Irishmen as a whole very few people believe. Even the Irish people know that a policy of lawless- ness and disorder can never suéceed, but can only result in a worse state of affairs than that which previously existed. When the full import of this dawns upon the Sinn Fein moderates, who are at present being over-ruled by the extremists, then there will be hope of peace and a settlement of Ireland's troubles. Ireland can work out her own salvation only when con- stitutional methods take the place of terrorism. Turning the country into a shambles will not settle the question; committing outrages in England will not bring about an Irish republic; but a sane and logical consideration of the needs of all parts of the coun- try, coupled with a desire on the part of the Irish themselves to restore law and order and happiness, will do more to bring a settlement than any other method. 1 Ignotus sed non tgnobitis | of With arms reversed and muffled drum And the pibroch"s wailing sound They carried him in martial pomp To England's holiest ground-- A warrior nameless and unknown, With highest honor crowned. Swathed in the Flag he died to save They bore him on his way: Behind him walked the gracious King-- Chief mourner on that day, While countless thousands awestruck stood To reverence or to pray. They did him in the chosen grave In England's stately fane; The requiem rose and died away, Again and yet again; It told of triumph after strife, Of victory after pain. And thus an Empire's grateful heart The message would proclaim That though her Unknown Soldiers le Unchronicled by fame The roll-call of the Lord of Hosts Bears every deathless name. Sleep, Soldier, till the tocsin sound Reveille to the Morn When from the treasury of God A fair new world is born, And darkness and despair and death Can leave no heart forlorn. --Emmeline Stuart Godfrey, Ottawa. & 2 Little Miss Muffet. : I was trying to wean thécolt. I bad him in the big box stall and he took it very, very hard. He didn't sulk, Here | wish to say that many horses and men are denounced as sulky when they are hieart-broken. Many and many a woman is reviled as sulky when, as a matter of"fact, her soul is crushed. mme can't be gay ~--she can't smile, she shrinks away into a corner anywhere to be alone, and a volee bellows through the m: "'Sulkin'! Hub! Sulkin!" My coltie wasn't sulking, he want- ed his mother, but a colt must be weaned. Ah! there is an end to everything. I stroked his neck and went back to the house and got him | some apples, and was telling him that 1 was w myself and it never fizzed on me when-- "Sir, the sleigh |" * Outside the stable a string of rein- deer that stretched away out to the stars, stood waiting. I reached for a horse blanket: "Never mind, sir, we have furs," said a voice, in another moment I was tucked into a sleigh and enveloped in blue fox and ermine. ; cessary, that those who are behind | one end of the square. A superb | library erected in memory of the first | boy who could wiggle his ears block- | EE = ed my visicu to the souty. BE b = "Bir, Santa Claus!" | I turned from gazing at those won- als ders to leok in the kindly eyes of the dear little familiar face.' "Excuse my mitts," 1 said, for I shook hands with him with my mitts on. BIBBY'S "Don't mention it," said Santa Claus, "you have the old-time man- ners. It is not you, however, who should make excuses, but me. "There are some people here who, when they heard that the Khan had visited the ¥ city were hurt that they had not had | an opportunity of meeting you." He led me into the vast salon, and | I was confronted by an exquisite lit- tle lady, the daintiest thing I had ever dreamed or read or heard of. ! "Shake hands with Miss Muffet." "Surely," said I, kissing her hand. "Have I not the pleasure of meeting the Miss Muffett of imperishable-- | of immortal memory?" "It is most kind of you to say so," quoth the lady, "but, nevertheless, I | am Miss Muffett." "But the Spider," I said, hesitat- ingly, "the spider--who sat down be- side her--" She pressed my hand, and reaching | up she drew my head down close to hers, "I have to do it every night," she whispered. : "Darling," I breathed, "what?" "I have to eat my curds and whey. Generation after generation demand it, and it is my fate." -*"But darling, you are famous." "It is kind of you to say so, but fame has its penalty. Oh, how I would love to live in the Wigwam with you and the Basket Baby and | Sar' Ann, oh--h--."" A gong sounded. She flung her arms around my neck and hugged me, and I hugged her, and then she struggled free and fled. A man with a Hallowe'en punkin for a head called: '"'8ir, you can see from here." I looked through the portiere and saw Miss Muffett, and she sat on a Ulsterettes NECKWEAR Special Large flowing ends; good silk; newest designs and colorings. --$1.50-- MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR Young Men's Ulsters and All new Coats this season. Extra special values $27.50 Se= window display of these Coats. YOUNG MEN'S SUITS Real nobby ones; masterpieces of tailor's art. The BUD.......... $33.00 The SAVOY .......$45.00 buffet eating her curds and whey. Suddenly, out of the shadows came a hideous spider and frightened Miss Miffet away. She fled shrieking into the grand salon. . A young gentleman who was play- ing solitaire at a table in the corner reached for a sword on the wall, dart- ed to the arcade, and pinned the IBIBBY'S uit | Ris in il . i i i --, spider to the gramophone. "Who is the gentleman?" I whis- | pered to my host, 000000 A "That's Jack the Giant Killer," UR = said Banta Claus, ! "A stranger here, I perceive," said | a volce at my elbow, and I turned to | meet Sinbad the Sailor. The Khan, The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rockton, Ont. ¥ Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER McCLARY'S FAMOUS PANDORA RANGE The cheapest, high-class Range on the market to-day. BUNT'S KING ST. -- ALL MEN ARE LIARS. ' HARDWARE. PHONE 388, We sit around at eventime, and | tranquilly we lie, and tell of how our cars can climb stupendous hills on high. We used to be a truthful lot before the auto came; we used to ween and wist and wot that false- hood was a shame. And when from New Jordan Almonds New Table Raisins New Table Figs Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 and 990, fishing trips returned we stretched the truth a yard, our conscience like a bon-fire burned, and scorched us pretty hard. But that was in a time gone by, a time that's vague, remote: and now we sit around and lie, each of his old tin boat. And when we to our beds repair, some alto snores to spring, does conscience, while we're lying there, make night a sol- emn thing? Does she point out that falsehood"s wrong? She tries that stunt no more; we've lied 10 much, we've lied so long, that conscience is a bore. Our old tin' cars are red with rust, they're long since out of style, and something's always sure to bust before they go a mile. We're ee | | The Man Who Knows and Sells Furs tinkering with tools," o'er motors broken down, and hiring farmers with their mules, to haul us back to town. But when we smoke our even- ing pipes the fiction graft prevails, and Ananias has the gripes if he can hear our tales. And so we sit beside the sea, and tranquilly we lie of how Gourdier's BROCK STREET our autos climbed a tree, and did FARMS FOR SALE 119 acres, 8 miles from Kingston, on 'a leading road, new barn, with stables 30 by 40 feet---small dwelling, nearly new; about 45 acres now under cultivation; about 30 acres of valuable wood, chiefly maple. Price $4,000. | 85 acres on the Bath Road; pleasant location on the Bay of Quinte; over 80 acres first class soil under cultivation; &900d buildings. Price $6800. We have also a large list of farms of all sizes and prices, T. 3 Lockh Rea hstzte and Insurance KINGSTON, Ont. ? Phone 1036w or 17973. the trick on high. --WALT MASON, Pi A PHANTASY. But yesterday I strayed me down An old familiar way That led me from the noisy town To where the woodlands lay, There in the quiet solitude To languish and adore, And breathe the spirit of the wood And learn the wood-nymphs' lore. 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