THURSDAY «APRIL 21, 1v21, ISH WHIG. THE DAILY BR | --_-- BITS OF BY-PLAY By LUKE McLUKE | . Ne Copyright, 1920, by | ~Th%" Cincinnati Enquirer. (| |BIBBY'S Ser | . IT AILS [commercial quantities by boring; and] il in the | Drake's gave birth to the! en months { petroleum industry in the United Sta- has netted bandits approximately $7,- 8, 'which now' produces over 60, | 400,000, Since these igotings were of : 000,000 tons of oil per annum out of | | registered mail, which govern- | the total world's production of some- | ment must make good, the levy will | thing over 72,000,000 tons per an-] : fall on the taxpayers. In an endeavor | num. Prior to 1871. crude oil, except Let bo! to stop this brigandage Postmaster | if the East, was used chiefly for me- | : | We ed about two millior General Hays has taken two steps. BRITISH WHIG { .STEALING FROM THE ru Organize robber; 88TH YEAR. _ rganized robber \ United States in the 1 * success THE 5t homes, { dicinal purposes, and was considered | 4.4 they'd soon be wel] filled He has ordered=the- arming--of =all-Lan-intailible=specitic Tor al kinds Of {Lets WIUSH "fhe CODWEDS from | postoffice department employees who | ailments. Then came. Rockefeller-- | qgmes . bulid! handle valuable mail, and-te has of- | the map who made $2,500,000 000 bail, 3ud bull, and bul fered a reward of $5,000 for the cap-| out of oil. + ture of a mail robber. These facts re- i call to the Watertown Standard some i famous mall robberies of the past. | We have come, it says, to look upon | Jesse James as representing the most | lucrative in highway robbery. Jesse | was "small fry' .compared with, for instance, the gang that stole $3,500, | 0 Bis 1 1 m0 aR LT LIF Ji And I oe Where the New. Things Are Shown First--Price That Tell the Tale--Qualities Th at Make the Sale. | | ow Mi The Wisé Fool. ing is impossible," observed the oy "Is that so!" commented the Fool, "Well, just eat a raw onion and then try to lie out of i!" ~ > he 1 O80 - THE OB? PHI PEER A Little Jags, Please! Charles Waltz and William Dancer are directors of the Tri-State Co-Opera- ative Association, of Montgomery, Mi- SEE_OUR ENGLISH NEW HATS RAINCOATS New shapes, new shades at Good rain or shine. "Extra. is ipl ALL'S WELL, The storm that blows your rdof Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by THE DRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED ls G. Elliott mau A. Gallg ; 8 Alan Brm---- - : TELEIFHONES: 3 siness Office . x {torial Rooms ob Office -- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: {Dally Edition) year, delivered in city ...... year, if pald in advance . One year, by mail to rural offices year, to United States (Semi-Weekly Edition) year, by mall, cash year, if .not--paild in advance year, to United States OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES i Calder, 22 St. John St, Montreal . W. Thompson 120 King 8t. E. 5 Toronto. t only over the actual writer. { Attached is one of 'the best job (printing offices in Canada. Letters to the Editor are published name of the 1 { The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Cireulations. . When money talks at an Allied con- Jerence it doesn't need any interpre- er. !' Another thing Germany needs bad- iy is an' old-fashioned mourners' bench. nm . ' Whatever Ireland may be doing to John Bull, she isn't vamping the old boy. It might have been easier to col- lect the bill 4f they had collected the Bil! to start with. The 'next war won't Be fought in he air. It will be fought, as usnal, in the tax assessor's office. v S---------------- A writer says, holding the Rhine will checkmate a skin game. He prob- ably thinks it is spelled '"'rind." The rich nations will survive, but e need some arrangement that will 32 ee the suPvival of the flattest. ---- 4 4 ~ A considerable proportion of the var profits have gone to pay toll charges on the road back to mor- maley. Fashion can't help a man to reveal his charms except by providing a lace- work pocket to contain his cheque book. A Murdering their husbands is/be- coming quite a popular pastime for wives in"both Canada and the United ~ States. : ' There was a fear that Italy would 'let d'Annunzio off withoyt punish- ment, but it appears that le has been married. ~ die pg physician says begr is useless as # medicine. Has the Sr never been troubled wi a chronic dry * 'feeling? Cain also thought his punishment § more than he could bear; but hs , didn't have the gall to make a coun- : ter proposal. ¢ Once they :told us that drinking caused most of the disease, and now it appears that sickness causes most "of the drinking. ---------------- +" In Russia they go to the theatres Lor pay a fine. If the shows are any- 'thing like some of tHose on the road here, the fines must aggregate a res- = ctable sum. $ An obscure Buffalo man who sent # to the New York Income Tax Bureau A parcel containing his shirt and a "note explaining that it was all he had, _ Voiced the sentiment of maiy @ man in these last days for. filing returns ---------------------------- \ Twenty-five per cent. of the quali | fled electors of Ontario cast thelrdal- lots for a bone-dry province. But can 'a minority control the actions of the other seventy-five per cent? ~ That is the question. 4 y Smid : commenting upon Premier 'Lloyd George's handling of the -coal strike, the New York Times pays him this well-deserved complimeiit: seems to ali England, to all the Unit- + ed Kingdom, the one for the na- tional chiettainship against a self- 000 front a mail car in Iowa last Nov- ember. The Ford brothers, members 'of the James gang, shot their leader to win the'$10,000 reward offered by the governor of Missouti for the cap- ture of Jesses James 'dead or-alive." Another piker, compared with mo- dern road agents, was the Dalton gang. This was the last great gang of train Fobbers' of the old style that worked in the open, and, holding up a train, gambled their lives. After a 0 : memorable fight with-g Kansas posse, Emmbett Dalton was the only gang- ster left alive. After his prison days, in discussing his "big jobs," he said the gang once got '"'nearly $50,000." Arming postal employees should help, A robber, knowing that he faces an armed adversary instead of an unar- med one, will hesitate longer, because at heart crooks are cowards. The sit- uation that has obtained for the last few months calls for some drastic aé- tion, and this the government is now apparently ready to undertake. | THE FUTURE FOR OIL. The discovery of oil in larga quan- tities in Western. Canada is a matter of 'far reaching importance. The | world's supply has been rapidly be- increasing demand-occasioned by mo- tor carg and motor driven vesséls.. A great future awaits the Canadian West if the newly discovered fields can produce in sufficient quantities to help meet the world's demand. The oil era has begun. The world is now crying out for oil--and still more oil. In ths Great War no commodity became so much in evid- ence and so important as petroleum, Without oil, not a battleship or a submarine could move; not a railway car or a motor lorry covld carry a soldiér or a tin of bully-beef; not a shell could be madg or fired. Oil he- came-the very key of victory, just as now it is rapidly becoming the vital thing jin the industrial development and the progress of the world. No matter in what direction you turn, you find that the mosf evident and the most efficient source of motive power is petroleum. We have learned how invaluable and essential it is, and there is no likelihood of our re- suming normal conditions without greater dnd greater use of oil. The fact is the world is turning from coal to oil. We are witnessing the passing of King Coal. Not only the great British Navy, but- tae world's Merchant Marine, including the Cunard Line and the White Star Line, is changing over to burn coal. Railways are now considering using oil fuel. Motor tramsport is even now, in many ways, beating the rail- ways, and in many cages it has rend- ered street railways almost obsolete, Thousands of our farmers are plow- ing by oil instead of horses. These noble animals and the. vehicles they struggle to draw seem destined to go the way of the ox-carts of more' lei- surely and slumberous times. The world is moving and moving fast.' Although petroleum has been known from time immemorial, it is interesting to note that 'the petrol- eum industry really had its .birth-in England, in spite of the fact that for generations crude oils have been .us- ed for illumination purposes in the East. Herodotus, for example, des- cribes the oil pits in the Be Babylon, thus indicating the value and importance attaching to-day to the great potential oilfields in Meso- potamia. The ancient records of hina and Japan, where petroleum was known as "burning water," are said to contain many allusions to the use of natural gas for lighting and heating. Sir Walter Raleigh, fur- nislies the earliest accounts of Ame- rican petroleum in his description of the Trinidad Pitch Lake .in 1595, 'while in the 17th Century the natural gas of Lancashire and the oil of Shropshire, was brought by Thomas Shirley to. the attention of the Royal Society; and Peter Kalm, a Russian traveller, in his book on America pub- ljshed in 1748, showed on a mdp the oil springs of Pennsylvania. But it was In 1847 that natural petroleum was Tirst discovered and worked at the Riddings Colllery in the Mid- lands, not far from the. present zone in which test drilling is now being conducted by the government, under | the direction of Lord Cowdray, and it was from this oil that illuminating oil was rst distilled. Here Young commenced his labours, which ulti- coming exhausted owing to the evar | |away, and winds your cow around a tree, may cause you to rear up and say such' caustic things as "Hully chee!" And you may rave until [you're hoarse and on your, gods de- | voutly call; but Nature, in her fran- |tic course, is 'looking for the good of all. She cares no hoot for private { woes, nor marks the briny on your | tace; ulong her age-old groove she | goes, and strives to benefit the race. | The storm: that killed your setting | hens and. from your watchdog tore | the hair, removed the fever from the {feus, and purified the noxious air. The flood comes raging down the greek, and drowns some seven head of swine. ard you, declaring life is bleak, are ready to take in your sign. The css" of seven Chester Whitds will put you badly in the hole, and you will walk the floor o'nights, but Nature stops not to eondole. The rain that made the rushing flood will make the prunes and nutmegs; grow, and hundreds bless the whole- sume mud, where one puts up his wail of woe. Each fellow thinks his own concerns are all that count] the ore big bet; but Mother Nature never turns to see whose beehives she up- set. She sl'ngs some clouds across the sun. she starts a tempest on the sea; 'rhe.hes a universe to run, and | cannct fool with you or me. --WALT MASON. v Plenty. of Us, | : J (Buffalo Courier) | This is the census month of the | British Empire. It is expected that | the count will show 440,000,000 peo- ple under the British flag, making the largest gathering under the rule of any government known in history. The Victoria B.C. Chamber of Com merce is gathering the names of the men from British Columbia who gave their lives in the great war, to be used in connection with the Plan for laying out an Empire avenue as a war memorial. Five grammes of radium, about a heaped tablespoonful, and worth about $600,000, were obtained from old guns used in the war, it is said. Spring Medicine Hood's Sara parilla | Purifies the Blood Ticket! chigan. Pollee! The bride 'and groom, to our Are pale as pale can be, disgust, The reason is that they have just Been made wan, don't you see! Well, It Is! The Hadés and was regard robndings with disgust. "Well," aned one gt Rounder had ju st ling of arrived the in his' sur- Assis- tant Devils, "how do you like it?' "This is a hell of a place!" the Rounder. Goby of Gloom: The Memphis, Tenn. Branch of the Names Is Names Club has rfominated the following officers President--Dr. Vice For For Toombs. on Blue President -- Dr. the replied Blue Percy , For Secretary--Ralph Graves. For Treasurer--G. L. Coffin : Strange. The flea"s a .busy little cuss, He never loafs, he never grogs; We know he is industrious, And yet he goes straight to the dogs. What's the Matter With the Moon? (Leslie's Weekly.) ! Dr. the duty of each hum an Frank Crane insists that it is atom to make his or her own 'sunshine. \ Oh! The know Chaffin tells us that wild-erness is what makes the cat wild. Hving Mopps-Messmenr. Iva "May Mopps and Messmear Ohio, last week. were married Cc in cat other day someone wanted' to what makes a wild wild in the wild Thomas Dayton, What's the Fare to Cygnet? A farmer has this advertisement in a North Baltimore, Ohio, paper: GANDER for sale, or will exchange for a goose.--P. O. Box 300; Cyget, 0. Well, Well! ™-- No, dear reader, Ima Smallboy isn't anything of 'the kind. She is and lives in Clarkson, Wash. pt Yum, Yum! Sign on a store in Algood, Tenn: Rogers Grocery Company, Faney Groceries and Poland China Hogs, J a gjrl In bulk, per pound . . CORN--"Aylmer Brand' large size can 5.8 8 00 400 a Maa aie ap TOMATOES Best brand ....14c. can f - SPECIAL - Finest Whey Butter 55¢ PICKLED PORK--26c., All lean, KEIFFER PEARS -- ve ' teas ua 4, Ses Sans ein abe esr ss nn nee Md Ee TY TTT IT Rie 'TheBiggest Values In The City are being featured at Davies Store Phone 597 this week-end. Bargains you cannot afford to miss. 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YOUNG MEN'S SUITS 'Sizes 33 to 39: Form-fit 'ments. Extra special value rtly tailored gat- Ciera i 322,00 value YOUNG MEN'S. SUITS New all wool Cheviots and Tweeds; new browns, greys, green and pencil stripes. hand-tailored; extra special ve ors $35.00 IBIBBY'S REE Weighs 180 lbs. per square, No 3 / / Phone 1609. g INTRODUCING | Everlastic Slate Surfaced | * Multi-Shingles Made by the Barrett Co. 'whe have been making Roofings for over 75 years. Comes in natural shades of Red or Green, and BUNT'S HARDWARE Fordson Tractors are in great demand. Make your * - Farm Pay Greater Profits 'We are prepared to demonstrate to you on your own farm how it can be done with a FORDSON. VanLuvenBros. 34.38 Princess Street. em ---- D New Maple Syrup the true maple flavor, New Maple Sugar |] The old fashioned kind with Pure and good. Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phone 20 and 990, T. J. Lockhart FOR SALE ~ 1--Friine dwelling; south side of Albert street} 5 bed- rooms; furnace; good con- crete cellar; verandah; electricity and gas, $3,400. Will rent if not sold before May 1st. : 2--Brick dwelling, Montreal © street; ¥ rooms; first class masonry and woodwork-- $3,000. 3--Brick dwelling; 12 rooms and double rough-cast with 7 rooms each; Ontario St. Rental $720--8%7,250. Clarence Street, Kingston Phones 1035w. or 1797), a G.Hunter Ogilvie . INSURANCE AND GENERAL BROKER In daily communication with Mont. real and Toronto Stock Exchanges. Dominion, Provincial and Muniecj- pal Bonds for sale. 281 KING STREET Phones + 568) & 1087 " FOR SALE Good second - hand Lumber, Corrugated Keep The Moths Away MANAHAN MOTH BAGS g Different sizes. For Furs and Woollens. A sure protection against Moths and Dast. MOTH BALLS, -- _ MOTH FLAKES MOTH FLAKES and LAVEN- DER, 30c. LB. Dr. Chown's Drug Store phe Coal That Suits \ ® Lake Ontario Trout and Whitefish, Fresh Sea Salmon, Had- dock, . Halibut and : Cod. BOOTH FISHEIERS Canadian Go fs The Delaware, Lackawanna an} Western Kailroad's Celebrated Scranton Coal The Standard Anthracite The only Coal handled by ~ ®an, tasty meat, made under government in- SPEGHON ...... 00 viuuiieieesoisnies 208MD: Wm. Davies Co., Limited Sheet Steel and other 185 Princess St. Phone 343. building materials. : -' L Cohen & Co. Hounsloy, England, aerdrome has 275 Ontario St. Phone 837, an experimental lighthouse to assist : night-fifers, whith has a beam equal to 70,000 candlepower. mately established the Scottish shale industry. » In 1859, some twelve years after the working of oil at the Riddings Colliery, the famous Drake Well at Titusville, fn. y fa, establish- ed the nossibility of obtaining oil in F . Crawford r Phone 9. Foot of Queen St. "It's 'a black business, but we '. ,.treat you white." i willed minority which would pull the whole structure to serve its m, It is statesmanship; it us, and it is masterful leader- A. y+ I