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Lorri and semi-W THE BRITIS WHIO PUBLIY, 3 CO. LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. ean eh OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES, ¥. Calder, 23 St. Johm §t., Montreal . ¥, W. Thompson, 100 King St. WwW, Terente Letters to the Editor are published oaly over the actual mame of the writes. Attached is f the best b ting offices in Canada. do The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG 1s authenticated by the BO A Audit Bureau of Circulations I at ttt a tg. One evil peculiar to hotels in the hinterland is synthetic coffee. Time it gets cool enough to sleep #8 is almost time to get up. Bf something must be hugged, let ®t be the curve, not the driver. Wild women also serve, They help & man to appreciate the one he mar- ried. We. can't all go away. Some one must remain at home to receive post cards. ! The man 'who refuses to do honest . Work usually expects to do honest workers, An optimist is a man who can make a molehill out of a mountain Of trouble, If a man wapts to marry a good Job he must learn to love, honor and Obey it, Thinking twice before you speak is better than speaking twice before Jou think, At this season the letter's "P.8."" 'usually introduce a warning to wa- ter the ferns. Some women won't be happy in . Heaven unless they get new wings avery pay day. 'The midnight oil doesn't make as Many successes as the midnight gas 'makes failures. The failure waits for business to Pick up while the success gets out 'and picks it up. 3 A ---------------- Another thing that puzzles us is when the poor flies sleep in an all- 'night restaurant, Thank God for home. You can pang up your hat withiGut paying a ; e to get it back. Se ---- No prominent citizen seems as (Awesome after you see his matroniy figure in a bathing suit. Freud may call it a superiority complex, but what really ails the boy of sixteen is swellhead. a "Correct this sentence: "My con- 'gregations," said he, "are composed almost wholly of men." ' ---------------- * The trouble with a man blowing "his own horn is that he usually blows it to beat the band. ------------------ ~ Few failures are so complete as that of a bald man with a pug nose in his effort to be a sheik. : © a------ Relatives are people who visit you after the weather gets too hot for them to do their own cooking. : + Our capitalistic system may keep ome men down, but as a cause of fallure laziness still leads the fieid. ---------------------- Spanking the old-fashioned ne boy. may have been wrong, but it kept Bim from thinking his mother a Of course we are fair. We let _Mutog carry passengers and tax the railroads to keep up the autos' road- oY +» FLYING. An aeroplane in France remained in the air thirty-eight hours without coming down to earth, Unlike mos: air stunts, this is important. It demonstrates that flying is getting safer. Popular reluctance at going up in a plane is due to the fear cf falling. As soon as a flier stays aloft a week it will be time to ad- vertise for buyers of flying flivvers. The aeroplane industry is obsessed with a craze for speed and long flights, It should, instead, conzan- trate on safety--the thing nzeded to bring aeroplanes into widespread L -- MAN'S ETERNAL FIGHT, Grasshoppers have been so thick fn Texas this summer that the people have had to fight them with arsenic by the trainload, In South Africa the government has just appropriat- sied $1,500,000 to fight a plague of locusts, the worst on record. In one district, near the Orange River, a single swarm of locusts "extending in an unbroken mass 150 miles in length" is reported to have devoured every bit of green vegetation. The peculiar weather of the last fow years has been very favorable to insects of all kinds. Army worms have been destroying crops in the middle west of the United States. Grasshopper plagues. Further pro- gress by the boll wevii.. So on, in- sect enemies, countless billions of them, driving farmers nearly frantic. | Reputable scientists frequently point out that a battle is on, between men and insects, for supremacy on earth. Some even believe that the insects will win. It wouldn't take many insect victories, on the scale of the ravages of the boll wevil which is wrecking the American cotton growing industry, to bring men close to starvation. Fortunately, man wins in the long run. Take the disease- carrying mosquito, it has not been vanquished, but it has been driven back--curbed, Everything in nature has its de- stroyer and i8 in turn a destroyer it- self. Maun kills the insect. The in- sect kills man, by conveying disease, and also destroys his crops. Falling water destroys the mountain gradu- ally by washing jt away. The moun- tain destroys the valley, slowly fill ing it. Grasshoppers eat the crops. Chickens eat grasshoppers. Man eats the chickens. Destruction equals or balances construction. The de- stroying and constructing are the manifestations of the activity known as life, Nothing is permanent in our existence of three dimensions. Life is an experience, a journey, a succes- sion of changes. It would, after all, be a dull life it we didn't have these changes--including insects to battle, We would win against the fneects easily if we were as united and ac- tive against them as when we de- stroy each other in war, -------- OUR UTILITIES. The report 'on the city's public utilities shows that the people are paying nearly $400,000 a year for their electricity, gas and water, The total value of the three plants Is in the neighborhood of a million and a half dollars, and the plants are in excellent condition--even the elegant collection office recently established down on Queen street against the expressed wishes of the citizens. The electrical and water departments are getting along well indeed, with their low rates. It is the gas de- partment to which attention is chiefly directed, because even the reduced rate of $1.65 a thousand cubic faet for gas is too high. It the commis- sion could have seen its way clear to reduce this to $1.50, the consumers would have been gatisfied. When additional electric stoves are not now allowed, owing to power shortage, the people will have to use more gas, and the difference in price for cook- ing purposes is very marked. Gas at $1.50 should be the aim of the utilities commission at the beginning of 1925. ---- WHERE ABORIGINES LINGER. A popular writer, who has been visiting certain of the islands of the South Seas and other parts of the world favored by novelists as scenes for stories of romance and adventure, assures us that he found civilization well advanced in all of these places. His disillusionment apparently is complete, and the effect that it has On us is to convey the idea that there are really no wild places left in the earth where the aborigines reign supreme and thrilling happenings are of common occurrence, It is inter- esting to learn that this is a mistake ----that there still exists one region on which the white man's civilization has as yet made little impression. The existence of the place is direct- ed to our attention in a cable dis- patch from Melbourne, Australia, It has just come to light that the crew and passengers of a steamer which sank near an island off the north coast of Australia about a year ago did not go down with her, as had been supposed, but were speared t= {death by the watives--that is; all who were killed but two women, w were carried off inio captivity by the Shorigines. A relief. expedition is Row being organized in Australia th '80 to the rescue of the women. In its details the story, as yet fn- complete, is. as striking as the most exciting narratives of Beatrice Grim- {shaw and the other writers of Bouth Sea fiction. The loss of the steamer, the gaining of the island by the sur- vivors of the shipwreck, the fight with the natives, the carrying off of the women, the suspense of awaiting word of what has happened to them during their year of captivity, the or- ganization of the relief expedition, whose part in the history is yet to be enacted--all of the incidents com- bine to establish that truth still is stranger than fiction. BOYHOOD SCENES. It is the unwritten law of every Hindu that he shall revisit the place of his birth at least once every twelve years, Dhan Gopal Mukerji writes in the Atlantic Monthly. He advances the novel theory that a wave of homesickness comes to peo- ple in cycles or periods twelve years apart. How does this match your own experience? A trip to the old home town after an absence of twelve years is nearly always disappointing, even dismal, The thrill of anticipation increases as your train or touring auto nears the destination where your childhood was passed. You find many new buildings, though a lot of the old landmarks remain. The big change !is in the people. Friends of long ago | have scattered to the far points of | the compass. Many have passed on into eternity, Of those who have re- mained in the old home town, only a few are 'the same as ever." Others have changed so much that you hard- ly recognize them, It is interesting to observe how Bill has improved and Tom deterior- ated. The brightest boy in school, like as not, will be found holding down an unimportant job at low pay. The supposed dunce may startle you by again showing no more attention to him than would be shown in courtesy to any other English gentle- man travelling in Canada.--Calgary That Body of Pours When you think of the great num- ber of people crowded on the little island called England, you are apt to think that they would push one an- other off into the sea. . -BiBBY'S 29.50 Suit Sale We're taking no half-way steps toward mak- And yet it is really only in London | with its teeming millions, and a| couple of other cities, that there is | really much congestion, A few miles out of London and; you are in the quiet green fields, and | the fine country roads and lanes, And what about the health of | these people? Why the death rate for 1923 was | the lowest in the entire history of | England, "better even than when the population was only haif the present figure." Two reasons are assigned for this. First, the health officers take their work very seriously, and from the baby in the cradle, to the industrial worker in the factory, there is super- vision, with the sanitary education for the individual that goes with this supervision, - The late hours in the retail stores, and the overtime work in the fac- tories, are now becoming the excep- tion instead of the rule. Everywhere throughout the land by his great success. The net result 18 a conclusion that very few people turn out as others expect they will. Time is the acid test, It destroys the weak, It unearths and elevates the strong. On your visit to the old home town you meet a childhood chum. After a little coaching, he remembers your identity. You talk over the old days] and exchange ideas and philosophies of life. Gradually, as you study the chum of long ago, you sense that you are talking to a 95 per cent. different person - than the one you formerly knew.. Time has changed his body, his thinking, his character. And you, to him, have undergone as great a change. Personality is not a fixed and permanent thing. It changes so much as time passes that it is doubt- ful if we'd recognize present asso- clates at all if we met them 500 years from now in some other world. Or even fifty years from now, on earth. PRESS COMMENT Are Very Welcome. Why do U.S. tourists come to Can- ada in such numbers? One reason Is that to travel northward in hot weather is inviting. Another is that cur improved highways afford an inviting opportunity which in years past has been lacking, and a third is because they hear so much about this country that they seek a per- sonal acquaintance, Whatever the motive that prompts them they. are very welcome, and it is to be hoped they will come in ever-increasing numbers.--Brantford Expositor. -- Not So Simple, Premier MacDonald of Great Bris tain is a frank and honest man. He admits some things that he and his party would not have admitted be- fore they came into power, Speaking 'of his government's scheme for cre- ating new employment for those who needed it, he said in the House of Commons the other night: "When we were without experience, things seemed very simple to carry out; but when we became members of the cabinet resppmsible for them, thdy became very complicated and difficult." 'That is the whole truth of all gov- ernment. On the outside the men who are shortly coming into power believe that they can bring about re- forms in a jiffy. Once in, however, they realize the difficulty of doing things as they would have them. It Is the same the world over. Respon- sibility brings a new sense of per- formance.--Boston Post, 5 ------ The Prince in Alberta, The announcement that the Prince ef Wales will visit his ranch this summer has caused pleasure but no excitement here. As he is again coming as a private gentleman people of Calgary and of his Alberta home district = will as a matter of course respect his desire to be so 1} f | WHY THE WEATHER? | the | cOme the thought of health looms larger in the minds of the people, than does the thought or idea of wealth. A hike in the country means more to an English child than a visit to the movies. In other words the outdoors is the first love of the English people. The second reason for better health and lower death rate is said to be due to improvement in the food of the British people. England is an island, and depends upon her foreign trade for much of her raw and manufactured materials. And she has learned to eat the foods from all parts of the world brought on her ships. : - Meat, eaten once a week in former years, is now eaten at least once a day by almost everybody. This is possible on account of the outdoor life of The people. English people have always been fond of vegetables, and their market places are just hives of industry on market days. But the big thing about the Eng- lish people ig that they live health, and everything is done that will give them a chance to get outdoors, DR CHARLES #.BROOXS Secretary, Ameri Metearologionl}' Tells Mow. The Color of A Lightning flashes sometimes ap- pear white, sometimes pink or rosy, and in rare instances, red. The red or pink flashes are supposed to be csused by the presence of hydrogen. It is thought that the lightning dis- charge may dissociate some of the water in its path into its elements, oxygen and hydrogen. . The pink light is that of luminous hydrogen which has many red hues in its spec- trum. Sometimes the pink or red hue is due, not to hydrogen, but merely to atmospheric absorption. Distant lightning may appear red, just as the sun or moon look red when near the horizon. For smoke or dust particles in the air will absorb! light of short wave lengths, and allow that of long wave lengths, orange or red, t§ pass through. The white lightning is owing to the light from the oxygem and nitro- gen of the atmosphere. Together these substances cover rather evenly all colors of the spectrum and there- fore produce white light. FISHING FOR BASS. A Number of Americans Come Into This ! tory, Wolfe Island, Aug. 4.--The usual quota of summer tourists to the land has not been so large as in form- er years ow no doubt, to the re- markably weather. The water has not pleasantly warm for bathers nor fishing : 80 good as usual. Many American motor 'to_our shores to fish A 1 "about ompl quite green. i » Ef 1g 3 é ing this sale a real money-saving event for you. And we're making no pretences about dur rea- son for cutting prices as we have. It's simply that we've got to clear our stock be- fore the Fall goods come in. And there's only one way of doing that--mak- ing them at a price. You'll see the Suits and agree that we've done that. Your sense of values will stir you into an immediate purchase. Regu- lar $35.00 and $37.50 values for... ...........0.... $29.50 Regular $45 $35.00] $14.75 | $18.00 | SUITS SUITS BIBBY'S KINGSTON IN 1851 Viewed Throgh Our Files Agricultural Progress. Oct. 6.--Canada has this year shown to the world that it is not the bleak and barren wildernéss which Father Hennepin and some of his contemporary. explorers found it. We have competed, and with honor, with the world, not only in the bpatural products of our soil, but in arts and manufactures (London Exhibition, 1851). We have also competed suc- cessfully with our neighbor at the state fair at Rochester, unquestion- ably the' most important meeting of the kind ever held on this continent; and those who have been in the ha- bit of attending our provincial exhi- titions, and have seen the ome just over, heed not be told how much we have improved. Much of all this may be attributed to the self-reli- ance and enterprise derived from our Township and District Agricultural Societies. Formerly we looked on, and gazed with admiration and awe at such exhibitions, just as an en- lightened mind would upon the map of the universe, viewing each exocel- lency as worthy of all praise but un- approachable by us. Now matters are changed,~--we have Imagined ourselves able to cope and grapple with those wonders; the imagina- tion hag lead us to endeavor, and success has been thé result But there is yet another and very impor- tant view to be taken of the case. Federal union between the British North American provinces has long been talked of theoretically; it has now been practically effected by bonds of wire which will ere long change into heavier bars. When the iron horses shall be daily traversing the entire length of the British Ame- rican continent, which wili be the case ere long, in spite of the paltry opposition of row-minded politi- claus, it will be found that a commu- nity. of interests will 'bind us mot only closer to each other but to the Empire of which we shall yet be th proudest boast. ; August 6th. The history of fairs in Canada goes back almost two centuries, when, on this day in 1737, the first of them was held. Gilles Hocquart the intendgnt at the time, was a man of vision, who in promoting the in- tefests of agriculture and trade, was developing in the settlers a love of their new home and contentment of spirit. At the same 'time the pro- ducts of the farms went toward sup- plying the needs of all the settlers. Hocquart was the man who discover- ed the red pines which he selected personally and shipped ; home to France for masts for the French ships of war. His obiact in establish ing the fairs was fo attract the In- dians to the towns to trade. The fair held at Montreal soon attracted hosts of savages who swept down the river annually in fleets of canoes. 'And Satan trembles when he sees Of the Great War August 6th, 1914. The second day of the war foupd many men in Kingston offering them- selves at the armouries and at the R.C.H.A. headquarters for service. Several ex-service men applied to Postmaster Stewart. The R.C.H.A. has received orders to bring the unit up to strength and be ready to move before the end of the week. It is thought the destina- tion is Esquimalt, Capt. E. B. Sparks, adjutant of the 14th, has asked for recruits to bring the unit up to strength. Much en- thusiasm was shown by "A" and "B" companies of the 14th when they paraded to the armouries on the night of the fifth to get in uniform 80 as to be in readiness in case of a call. Feeling runs high in the city. A resident who made & slighting re- mark on the street about the British Navy was attacked and badly bruised before he escaped. Local public opinion thinks the war will be brief, For the first time In its history there were no sales at the Frontenac cheese board this week, the buyers | having received instructions from Montreal not to buy for a week, ow- ing to the war. / Mayor Shaw, once a sergeant in the 14th, a Fenian Raid veteran, and holding captain's papers, is anxious to go to the war, if necessary. ------------ istence met, the courtiers of Paris and the savages from the woods. On the third day trading began. French- men from all over the colony brought their goods here to trade for furs. 'There was a similar fair held annu- ally at Three Rivers also, and in both places the fairs ended in drunken orgies. Canada's first fair was held over sixty years before the first fairs in Europe. SEVEN SEX NTENCE SERMONS, To be able to have the things we want, that is riches; but to be able to do without, that is power.-- George Macdonald. a: - -. * . He who persists in genuineness will increase in 'adequacy --T. T. Lynch. Lb} * . * Days change so many things--yes, hours, We see so differently, in sun and showers; Mistaken words to-might May be cherished by light; : We will be patient--for we know to-morrow's There's such a little way to go. --Anon, + . . Our grand business in life is not fo see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. le. What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee.--Psa. 56:3. % . The weakest saint upon his knees. --Willam Cowper. SUITS $22.50 HEADQUARTERS FOR | TRUSS | FITTING We carry in stock a line of || Trises from the best makers in the world. We give y: assurance & perfect fit and ction, DR. A. P. CHOWN Specialist in the mechanical treatment of Rupture. Private office for fitting, . ' 185 PRINCESS STREET ORANGE SQUASH LIME JUICE GINGER ALE SYRUP Jas. REDDEN & CO, "RAWFORD'S & ITER A. F. Forest, Renirew, passed away in hospifRl there, He was seventy years of age. One daughter survives, : Tweed, Rev. AE. marriage h 'both of the township On July 25th ot Smart united in Noah Kimmerly and Hattie Curtis, of Kaladar, 4