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THE DAILY BRIT! BECK'S LATEST. Doughty Sir Adam, for whom Kingston cheers sometimes loudly and sometimes a trine faintly, has lately returned from Europe enthusi- astic with large pew ideas. The coming power shortage in older On- tario is to be moderated by erecting huge steam electric-generating plants located at strategic points and fed with Nova Scotia coal. To use his own words, "One, thing certain is that we will have to rely on steam Plants in Ontario to supplant the present supply until we can get on the St. Lawrence site--that is, unless the present rate of increase in the consumption of electricity decreases." How times change. When King- ston entered into an agreement with the Hydro to take a block of power, &n apparentiy useless steam generat- ing plant wag left on the hands of the Public Utilities Commission. nd | "Scrap it," commanded the Hydro engineers who are all for eflictency and never haggle over a few thous- {and dollars of other People's money, | But the Utilities Commission were an unprogressive lot and decided to re- tain their steam plant for emergency on S00 | U€--to the great disgust of the .83.00 | efclency experts. ..SL30 It may have been an expensive de-| -$2.00, cision, but not many of us would OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES, | Guarrel with it. There have been oc- ¥. Calder, 22 8¢, J 8 Moutreal " W. CR hn King at We casions when we have basked in our oremnte T Let 10 the Raior are publianea | OVD steam-generateq light whila ly nv the actual Btme of the neighboring hydro towns were plung- 4 {ed in blackness. And now, if auxil- finches nea 3b liary steam plants come into style Sein Tee the sooty old generator on Queen : Fublished Daily and semi-Weekly by HE BRITISH WHO PUBLISHING CO. LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally di Attached 1a ome of the best it is a minor detail whether he con- {sume his own wealth or that of his creditors or that of the community (given to him in the shape of doles); | the great thing is to see to it that he | has the opportunity to produce some- thing that the community wants, or i that it can export to foreigners. Then | whatever he produces is the payment | for what he consumes, and he 1s liv- { ing, not at the expense of himself or { his creditors or the community, but on the proceeds of his own toil. RARE BOOKS IN KINGSTON. Old Kingstonians who have the good fortune to possess old libraries should run their eye over thelr col- lections to see whether by any chance { they include some of the excessively rare volumes published in this city In the 'twenties and thirties of the last century. A copy of the first real Canadfan novel, "St. Ursula's Convent," is said to have been pick- ed up in a Toronto second-hand store recently for a small fraction of its real value; ahd as it wae published in Kingston (in 1824, exactly one hundred years ago;--why not include & centennial reference to it in the forthcoming pageant?) and was the work of a lady who had come here from Fredericton to become the wife of a Kingston bookbinder, it seems possible that one or two more copies of it may be still lurking in this city. The author was Julia Catharine Beckwith, wife of George Henry Hart. The critics were just as severe in those days as they are now, and it is surmised that the poor iady, depressed at the reception accorded The circulation of THE BRITISH | | street may look forward to another WHIG is authenticated bythe .|lperiod of steady service, BC Kingston has been plainly told In detouring, one good turn de: | Serves another, | A Audit Bureau of Circuiations | that she is now receiving all the electricity she can possibly be grant. ed until the St. Lawrence develop- ment is completed some years hence. ---- No man really loves a town, but Just the fact that he is doing well dn it. The way of the expresser is hard =-when vacation trunks are being shipped. -- You are getting down into the hick-town class when a drink of ice water is free. ---------- A jitney is a handy little trick if the neighbors know that you can afford a big car, * -------- . The best thing you can say for increase of population is that cur- 10sity grows less. ---- "So long, ol' top," will be the proper way to address your straw hat very shortly. tel en A philosopher is one who can be proud of his tummy instead of his . vanished waistline, At any rate, the old-fashioned bathing suits looked a lot wetter than the modern ones. -------------- We have reached the in fife where a walk is no less tire- Some If you call it a hike, L. is $n ------ Onions are vegetables people try 10 eat without breathing it to a soul--but never succeed. Ee ---------------- Just at present, however, we can't remember Canada's champion "fancy handler of the hoe. --d The honeymoon is expensive, of 'eourse, but think of the hotel towels you can accumulate, ? Ome reason why people don't go 130 church"is because they no long- 8F Dellevé that hell is that hot. tS -- "A metropolis Is a place where must find something to do un- bedtime after the party lets out, -- @ys be careful about calling 1 a liar, because you are liable find that you missed your call- -- modern thinks he is practic- Bg reaunciation when he cuts down is cigarettes from twenty to eigh- | You €an convert savages, but yon b't teach them anything about ' their hair stick out that ---------- one has a cabin in the woods makes a better mouse trap, in Jo 4. make a beaten path to his ------------------ TY Woman who hasn't the knows she wouldn't employ atrocious taste as Mrs. Blank § had. The man who has no acquaint. _8Boe with the great open spaces has idea how wonderful natare is or OW many insects there are. BIBLE THOUGHT REMEMBER NOW thy Creator in the day of thy » While the evil days come not, the years draw nigh, when thou It say, 1 have no pleasure in "Let us hear the conclusion whole matter: Fear God and a But the demand for power continues to grow and the pinch will soon begin to make itselp felt. that the despised boilers will then be fired again to relieve the short- age. Of course the plant is oid fash- foned ang inefficient, not at all a suitable rump for that new-rich office where 'we indignantly pay our bills, but it wil perhaps suffice, and We are extremely fortunate to pos- Sess it. Sir Adam's latest innovation has, in fact, just caught up with Kingston's patriarchal conservatism. An exchange of cougratulations would be in order, -- UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE The Conference on Unemployment to be held at Ottawa early in Sep- tember seems likely to result in some beneficial developments, There is far more accurate knowledge as to the causes of unemployment avail- able now than there has ever been before, and it ig probable that fewer foolish ideas Will be. presented be- fore the conference than would have been the case in the past. At any rate the government is to be con- gratulated on having expressly ex- cluded, by the terms of the summons, the most foolish of all the ideas that can possibly be Suggested as ga remedy for unemployment, namely the payment of 5 dole to the unem- ployed. Canada has admittedly a difficult climate from ithe point of view of re- gularity of employment, but there is much truth in the idea that we have too placidly accepted the supposed necessity of curtailing activity in the winter, After all, the mere effort to contend with the disabilities of our winter does in itself offer an open- ing for a good deal of labor." Qur cities are still dealing with the prob- lem of snow in the streets in much the same manner as they did before the invention of the automobile, when the summer vehicle itself could be adapted for winter use by the simple Process of putting it upon Tunpers, It would pe worth while in! these days to engage in a much more complete and effective snow removal On most of the streets of cities and even on the highways in the coun- try. In manufacturing industry, it Would be advantageous it employers would undertake, awd empioyees would consent to, a policy by which the youngest among the workers, if Of an age and intelligence to profit | - by further education, off during the school terms (except In cases where there are dependent relatives) and their places given to older men among the unemployed. There can be nc doubt that many young workers who do not need the money, and who would be greatly benefitted for the future by further education, are holding jobs which in should be lald mand there will be for the goods pro- duced by any section of it. ' A poten- tial worker who could produce $500 worth of goods during the winter It may well be | | Of the case, There i to her maiden literary effort, tried to suppress the volume Anyhow it completely disappeared from sight | before the end of the nineteenth cen- tury, and its existence was 'only known by a review in the Canadian | Magazine of 1824, until a copy turn- | ed up at the sale of the library of the [late Senator Masson in Montreal in 1904. There is no indication that the senator knew of its rarity; he | may even have been scarcely aware {of its existence, and have kept it | merely as a volume which happened {io have been in the library of one of his ancestors. The risks which such books incur so long as they remain in 'private collections are very great, and it is because of the high mortal. ity among them that 80 many vol- umes of more recent date than Mrs. Hart's are quoted at fabulous prices. Fire, damp, insects, vandals and the spring-cleaner are all responsibie for the annual destruction of thousands of volumes for which collectors and libraries would pay large sums. The safest policy is to donate them to a public institution before anything happens to them. One's name on a library bookplate as the donor of a volume of priceless rarity 'W not a bad bid for immortality, ------------------ KINGSTON IN 1852 Viewed Through Our Files NAUGHTY NAPANEE, Feb. 13.--Napanee,--Since this rising town attained the distinguish- ed honor of having a newspaper pub- lished there, it has sunk in general estimation very undeservedly, This arises from the narrow-minded puri- tanical prejudices of the editor of the new paper; and when the public are made acquainted with the fact of the learned pundits being a Mathodist preacher, the milk of the cocoanut is at once accounted for. In his laud- able attempts to improve the morals of the community under his charge, he has painted these morals in- finitely worse than théy rzally are. Other local newspapers hive taken up the silly cry of vice and profli- gacy; their remarks have been cop- fed into distant Journals, until at length Napanee stands out promin. ently as the very den of wickedness. Now the very reverse is the real state 8 no crime, no drunkenness, no riots in Napariee; the people are religious and sober- minded; and yet since the "Bee" strove to refine imaginary abuses, and the other papers followed in its wake, the town has nearly lost its character! * THY NEIGHBOR'S MAIDSERVANT. Feb, 13.-- (From an indignant let. ter.) The 'new law at Present in force as regards masters and ser- vants is very defective; the latter can be punished only for leaving their service before the termifiation of their agreement, but the parties who seduce them away, under promise of higher wages, and harbor them es- cape with impunity. A cass in point occurred here recently. My female servant left my house, whereabouts could not be discovered until yesterday morning, when I ac- cidentally saw her getting into a sleigh from the house adjoining my own, accompanied by her new mis- tress, on her return home. } stepped out and demanded her back, but all my remonstrances were in vain as the law could not injure her, 'she would not give her up! -------- When Lights Lifted. Tonsils and Expqsure. I can remember quite distinctly talking to an old physician nearly twenty years ago, when he stated that he had been noticing the num- | ter of cases of rheumatism and heart disease, that followed simple | cases of tonsilitis, ' These tonsil cases scemed to fol- low prolonged periods of overeating and under exercising, so that he was at a loss to know whethef the ton- sils caused a poisoning of the sys- tem, or the tonsils just reflected the congeted condition of the digestive tract. Further, one might be going along all right, feeling fine, eating well, | and get his system partly Clogged | up, when along comes a speli of wet or cold weather, to which he inad- | vertently becomes exposed. Immediately he is on his back with a high temperature, bounding pulse, | coated tongue, foul breath, and bad- ly swollen, painful tonsils. Natu- rally the cold weather, or the damp- ness, is blamed for the tonsilitis, and for the rheumatism or heart disease that might follow it. It would appear that this matter of the rheumatism and heart disease following tonsilitis, was being notic- | ed by physicians everywhere for | many years. These rheumatic cases have been cleared up by the removal of badly | infected tonsils. You may have beer surprised of- ten that you have had repeated at- tacks of tonsilitis, and never have had a touch of rheumatism. It may be that your resistive fore- es are such that they can attack the invader with such power, that he leaves no after effects. But there is just this point to re- member. Some time you will be working bard mentally and physically, t- ting little rest and irregular medls, be in fact just a bit below par phy- sically. You will then get well soaked in a rainstorm, perhaps have to sit or stand around in your wet garments, and in a day or two you have a ton- silitis that not only puts you down hard; but is followed by rheumatism or even heart trouble, My only suggestion -is, that with bad tonsils you can't take the same chances with exposure and over- work, as the other feilow. ------ Anniversary ] Of the Great War, August 26th, 1914. The British cruiser Highflier sank the converted German cruiser, the Wilhelm der Groose, which has been doing serious damage to British ship- ping, off the west coast of Africa yes- terday, The Russian army, which now has eight million men in arms, plans an attack on Berlin within three weeks. A special session of the city coun- cil' this evening granted $5,000 to the Patriotic Fund and appointed the following Patriotic Fund Committee for the city and county: Mayor Shaw, Ald. Harrison, Robert Meek, T. J. Rigney, James A. Minnes, W. R. Givens, C. A. Macpherson, the war- den of the county and Lt.-Col. F. Ferguson, Inverary, The city council also decided to Pay permanent city employees who volunteered the same salary as they are receiving, and to guarantee them their positions on their return, At the meeting of the Kingston Methodist District in Brock street church to-day a resolution was pass- ed declaring the Allies cause to be righteous and praying for the success of their arms. Lt.-Col. G. H. Hunter has the names of seventy veterans who are ready for home service. August 26th. In these days the whole fabric of industrial lite in great cities depends upon the street rallway transporta- tion system. Any accident which in- terferes with that system demoralizes the industries of the city because em- ployées are unable to reach the fac- tories. Electric street railways mean that men are no longer compelled to live in the sordid atmosphere of the factory districts but may have their homes miles away on the outskirts of the cities. Canada's first street rafl- 'Way was opened on this day in 1861, It was the pioneer of several rail- ways, in Canadian cities, in which the motive power was the horse. While horse-rallways have entirely disappeared in Canada, they still sur- vive in remote parts of the British Isles. The cars hold about twenty- five people, and are mounted on rails. One horse draws the vehicle with ease. It is harnessed first at ome end of the car, and when the return SH WHIG Added Attractions! 100 SILK TIES Regular 95¢, values, 50c. each Unusual Values In Suits! This week we are offering unusual val- ues in Men's and Young Men's high grade Suits. All smart mod steds, expert tailoring. Young Men's, Men Slims and Regulars, One Hundred and Suits, ranging in price $40.00. els, all fine quality Wor- 's models -- Stouts, Twenty-five Mode regularly $35.00 Some Real Dandies Your choice for 529. Added Attractions! 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