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THE CHANGING TIMES, If the present trend of events con- tinues, there will goon be no provine- falism left in this country. Isolation is what makes people provincial, and isolation is rapidly. becoming a thing of the past. ° The telephone wag the first med- dum to connect far-lying districts with thé life of the cities. The auto- mobile next furnished a means of rapid and convenient transit. Now the city has been brought to the emall town and the rural districts by means of the radio. When Catara- qui, Ont, can listen in on concerts (as Reeve Graham does every night) las tar east as Montreal or Newark, as far south as Atlanta, and as far west as Chicago or Kansas City, then that village partakes in a measure of the characteristics of the cities. They have something in common together. The great national roads form an- other de-provincializing element. A sparcely gettled district, however far it may be from the larger centres, cannot grow self-centred and pecul- far when cars from all parts of Can- ada and the United States pass through it every day. In fact, the danger lies ia the other direction. Towns tend to grow rather too much alfke. Without - { labels, it is difficult for a stranger pa RENAE ENT, TIVES an 100 Ta Wore Toronto : attual name within a diameter of 500 miles to be able to distinguish one town from another. Town spirit is also becom- ing more difficult to foster. Com- munication and easy travel have brought this about. HOW CANADIANS DO IT. That the lumber industry in Brit- ish Columbia is experiencing a phe- 0 1 boom is good news; but still more gratifying is it that while the sawmills are working overtime cutting timber for shipment to all Parts of the world foresters are on guard to see that the woodlands of the province are mot recklessly de- vastated. For the first time in the history of lumbering in North Am- erica conservation is being practiced while there ig still time to make it effective. It is true that conserva- tion of timber resources is also being practiced in Alaska, but the situa- tion there is somewhat different from what it is in British Columbia. In the Canadian province lumbering is an important business while in Alaska the forests are in the posses- sion of the government and there has been comparatively little cutiing of the timber, THS lumbermen of British Colum- bia are treating the forests as a orop, which, after having been harvested, is to be replanted. Heretofore lum- bermen have handled the forests as if they were a mine; they :ook the position that the timber should be removed as quickly as possibie, just 4s one removes the minerals from a mine with the least delay, and that once the woodland was exhausted of its tree growth its usefulness as a producer of timber was over. The consequence of this practice has been that forest lands have been swept bare and the saw-mills depend- ent on them have gone out of busi ness, In British Columbia they are pro- ceeding with the assumption that there is always to be a timber supply and that lumbering is to be a per- manent business. Eventually all countries will have to preserve their forests in the same manner if they hope to escape a timber famine, One good way to study insect life is to picnic and watch the butter. ---- Yet all of those who look like bandits are simple-hearted tourists. Adam wasn't so bad. He ate the apple, but he didu't fall tor political plums, i : ------ Following in some one eise's foot- steps will never get you ahead of anyone. We have hundreds of big men in both parties, but most of them are policemen. Bali! We've just read a novel by a noted realist, and in it the husband was boss. A flivverité is a man who suspects 8peed cops of being partia! to eight- cylinder cars, A camper is a man who burns a forest and later wonders why lum- ber is high. The surprise is not that the big- gost fish get by, but that the biggest lars get by. ' Vacation trips would be much more pleasant if the first stop wasn't the savings bank. The fountain pen makes letter. © writing easier, but otherwise there's nothing against it. For rein-making you don't need any device more expansive than a © Bow Panama hat. Whom the gods would destroy, they. first make indifferent concern- fag drake linings, R must be awful to be a rich re- I8tive and suspect all kihsfolk of hav- ing shrewd designs. ulous possibilities of will power. It "A skiv you 'love to touch," on [lis necessary propaganda to keep us eloser examination, proves to have | from becoming discouraged too eas- Dod re-touched. © (ily. WHl power is undoubtedly a 3 ---- mighty weapon. But isn't there too | orréct this sentence: "The liquor | much Big Talk about it? Deep down Was all right," said the man; "it was 'in our hearts every one of us hag a the Beat that killed him." sneaking suspicion that the power of lig the will is exaggerated. . . Some ineficient . executive keep ggera If a new born baby could see into the future, thelr desks littered and have mo he'd disco . 3 ver that 95 . place to park their feet. wn a STAGE SET FOR US, As soon as you started to school, you began to hear about the mirac- life is cut-and-dried--staged for him by forces and' situations that are totally beyond his control, even though he had the will power of Ni. agara Falls. We do not need to consult a clair- voyant to learn most of the things that will happen to us. Take the child. In school he pours over text. books that were In the making thous ands of years before he was born. It is inevitable that he will recite "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck," play hide-and-seek and have to take Member when the first essential in an occasional dose of castor oil. The learning to swim wasn't a shape, child matures into a social and eco- : . . nomic system that changes only by "A hick town is a place where | the slow processes of evolution. He . and his will power have no more to do with the preparation of this Sys tem that grabs him in iron claws than actors have In writing the plays of long dead Shakespeare. The system changes as time rolls on, yes, But the Individual is the slave of the sys- tem, and it changes only by mass movements of humanity, without re. to the Individual and his re- .| puted will power. Few of the really important things of 1ife are the result of personal will power. Sickness certainly is not ac quired by 'any exercise of the will. y |LO¥® comes phantom-like, emotional }==80 will. Marriage occasionally is the result of will power, but usually it's following the line of least resist. ance toward comfort. Come, finally, size of the scandal re- make its tongues wag. An old-timer is one who can re- to make room for another even though we have a will like steel. In toiling Yor success, however, will power is mighty. This is its real domain---the acquisition of fame and weaith. Without will power, and plenty of it, failure or near-fail- ure is almost certain. But, after all, are fame and wealth the really im- portant. things of life? They are dim ghadows behind the brilliance of happiness, content and spiritual im- provement--the real purpose of life. FASTEST. O Man, to what undreamed of heights art thou not soaring! A human being has thrust himself, in a crude mechanical device, through the air-envelope that covers Mother Earth, at the rate of 288 miles an hour. This is the fastest that any living thing ever has been propelled by its own volition. Too much, perhaps, we dwell upon our kinship with the other animais. Man is, after all, the king. He has done what was not done before, and the heart gives a leap of hope at the prospect which lies before him. What are the limits of speed? In humility, answer that, you who do not know. Here is a gift, a chance, a stepping Stone to the stars. If speed can be increased to the measure of the dreams of man, the universe, not one mere world, is his oyster. In the hand of Fate we lie the fing- ers clenched tightly over us. If time and space can be conquered, may not the riddle of life itself one day be resolved ? MAN AND HIS HAIR. At the congress of hairdressers in Paris prizes of great value are of- fered for new ideas. The design of a new coiffure is worth a mint of money. The great cry is for some- thing for the men--something that will' gradually supersede the present short, straight-necked effect. Many men are using the marcel, but the big hit at the French gathering was made by the new three-fourths pom- padour, well fluffed out on the sides and with a seemingly careiess at- tempt at parting on the left. This gave a '"'distingue" impression and seemed to add tone to the "patient." Before these Frenchmen get through with us even the business man and the banker will be carrying his individual curling iron. If the bair must be fluffed, an iron is neces- sary to make a neat job of it. The husband of the future will do his hair up in curl papers after the man- ner of friend wife. Even the village barber will be marcelling his patrons and will be able to administer a per- manent wave that will last at least nine days, It is given forth that men must Pay more attention to their hair that is, those who have any. If it is the crowning glory of a woman, it should be something to a man aside from a retreat for dandruff. After a man gets bald he spends $1,000,000 for hair tonics and restosers, as leagt statistics say so. The barber will tell him to pay more attention to his hair when he is a junior. If his. mop can be dolied up to enhance his beauty, why not indulge it? A strain of Narcissus in the blood is not so bad. NB August Sist. While the maple leat has been made known among all nations as Canada's emblem, the story of its origin is not familiar to all Cana- dians, It was between 1350 and 1860 that there evolved a sentiment in favor of the use of the maple leat 4s a national emblem. This found its roots probably in an old gustom in (Quebec, where on the festival of St. John, branches of the maple tree were cut down to decorate the homes. The custom can be traced as far back as 1690. Thus the senti- ment was firmly rooted before it be- an to express itself. Something of the graceful beauty of the (ree, its youthful greenness and its flaming autumn dress, had become engrafted upon the character of the Canadian race. The occasion for decision came when the Prince of Wales, after- wards Edward VII, came to Canada in 1860. Canadian-born citizens were anxious.to wear something which would indicate the fact that they were natives, distinguishing them" from national groups from other parts of the empire. There fore, on this day in 1860, at & meet- ing called in Toronto to arrange the details of the reception, it was de- i each Canadian-born would the maple leaf emblem. This was done and none were prouder to wear their national emblems before the young prince, than the native Canadians. At a great ball given in Toronto in honor of the Prince, maple leat pins of solid sliver were worn by all who could boast dian birth, . a, Prison for Stealing Car. Lindsay, Aug. 21.--Fred local young man, appeared before Magistrate Bradford on a charge of stealing an automobile belonging to Miss Marjorie Carry, New York. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Con- siderable damage had been done to the car while in the possession of Elliott, . 3 * Moonlight to Clayton ¥Fri- Rotary day, 7.30. Steamer Wauble, dane. "Nerves." It is interesting to watch the dif- ferent attitude of the profession to- wards "nervousness," "nerves," and "nervous exhaustion," than that held Just a few years ago. It a patient exhibited any of above signs, it was simply said to be due to the brain or nervous system and a rest was advised. This was good treatment of course but wasn't getting at the cause. In S0mé way the nerves or brain were thodght to be responsible for any '""queerness" or unusual behavior. If an individual became hysterical or melancholy, then the brain was blamed for it, It is now becoming more apparent that various glands of the body are responsible for these conditions. The thyroid, and other ductless glands, which, while not originating action or life as we might say, never- theless seem to "regulate" the ac- tions of the body. A watch may have all its compon- ent parts; you wind it up, and away it goes. But it may run fast or slow, and the regulator is adjusted so as to make the watch keep perfect time. These glands seem to have the power of making certain processes, nervous and others, adjust them- selves properly to the whole body as it functions. However, these glands themeelves can be affected by the blood, which as it passes through them, to nour- ish them, leaves with them certain harmful materials. These harmful materials actually cause a change in the structure of the gland, with the result that ity action on the system--the nervous system--is quite marked, and the affected person may laugh, cry, be full of activity, unable to sieep, or may on the other hand be dull, heavy, disinclined to do anything of a mental or physical nature, Just a case of too much speed or not enough, to put it plainly, Now all these conditions are not of course always due to harmful ma- terials fro mthe teeth, throat, intes- tine, or other part of the body. It might be possible for one to inherit an abnormal condition of one or more of these glands. The treatment of these conditions, by means of portions of the glands themselves, is still in its early stages, but certainly has shown striking re- sults in some cases. Tenth Anniversary Of the Great War August 21st, 1914. To-day's despatches tell of a crush- ing defeat of the Austrian army by the Serbs. They are now in full re- treat after losing 26,000 men. The Germans are very close to Brussels and thé Royal family has fled. The whereabouts of the British army is unknown The escape of a prisoner, Victor Ssymondski, from the penitentiary, after knocking two guards uncon- sclous, has added to the general ex- citement resulting from the war. Bt. Mary's cathedral is draped in black inside as mourning for the late Pope Pius X,, who died on Wednes- day. Lieut.-Col. H: R. Duff, Kingston, chief medical officer of Valcartier camp, is in a Quebec hospital suffer- ing from injuries received whem he was thrown from his horse, Lt.<Col. George Hunter has started a Ust of men whe are willing to serve on a home guard. KINGSTON IN 1852 Viewed Through Our Files 2 Kingston in 1852 A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK. Feb, 24.--The apprehensions of a general war in Europe, and a par- ticular war between France and Great Britain, do not stem to be well founded, although many of the Eng- lish papers are croaking. Louis Na- poleon, whatever may be his faults, seems to understand the temper of the French people; and to employ his army and excite the military ardor of his pew subjects, may possibly quarrel with some potentats or other; but it is unlikely that he will attack England with whom he has no quarrel at all. "It is an ill wind that blows no- body good." A war in Europe would be the making of America, and more particularly of Cenada. It would fearfully raise the price of bread- Blot, a | od. : J FADQUART "RS Bibby's Building, 78-80-82 Princess Street At Headquarters you will always find the real goods at satisfactory prices. BIBBY'S Limited Kingston's One Price Clothing House Year in and year out you will find us with 'just the goods you want and prices that will meet any out-of-town or local competition. We especially ask you to look over all Discount and Bankrupt Sales that are going on. Then drop in and see what we can do for you in the way" of Clothing and Furnishings for Men and Boys. A store run on the One Price System is always the store to trade with. aged. Men who have money to spare ought to take stock in it, and look for the return in various other ways besides the direot one. The stock book of the proposed undertaking lles at Mr. E. W. Palmer's book store, and stock is being daily taken in it; but some few monied men still hang back who should come for- ward; and this scrap is written to jog their memories gently. { | WHY THE WEATHER? | Secretaly, American Meteorologioal oty, Tells Hew. Early Frosts. f "Considerable damage is occas- ionally dome to unmatured crops by early frosts, especially in years when vegetation is backward," sald a gov- ernment bulletin. "Consequently, the time of occurrence of the first killing frost in fall is of much im- portance to agricultural interests in practically all parts of the country, especially so in the principal corn and cotton growing states." Frost maps show that along most of the northern border of the coun- try, killing frost may be expected to- occur in half the years by Septem- ber 20th or earlier. In the higher re- glons of the west, and even in the higher parts of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, the first killing frost occurs belore Sep- tember lst, in fact is likely to oceur at any time during the summer. On the other hand, along the coast and the shores of the Great Lakes, frost occurs later than inland in the same latitudes, because the air is kept warm by these large bodies of water, which are slow to cool. To the southward, dates become progressive- ly later until in the immediate Gulf coast region killing frost does not occur as a rule before November, and at some points not until after the first of December, Educational Frills. When education as we know it be- gan, it was the privilege of the few, and it was organised for the few, for the leisured and wealthy or those who intend to enter the learned pro- fessions, It has broadefied enorm- ously, during the centuries. It is now the privilege of everybody, in some degrde at least. Yet still, even in a young country like this, the old tradition clings, and the organisation iz In the interest of the few. The only straight, carefully marked path from the public school upward leads to the university and the professions. And few there be find it. 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