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« POWER. A scientist says that one pound of matter, or material, has 600,000 million horse-power locked np in its | atoms, He doubts if man will ever learn bow to unlock that power. Unlock- ing it would be easier than handling it once it were released. Man is not yet ready for the discovery. Giving him coatrol of atomic power would be like handing a loaded shotgun te a strong, inquisitive baby, The first and prompt result of the harnessing of atomic power would be another world war. THE BRITISH WHIG 918T YEAR. THE ABEJABIES, No, it is not the name of an Af. rican tribe or an American breakfast food. It is a new word, newer than poor "scofflaw," so new indeed that there is considerable doubt as to how it should be spelled. We make our readers a present of it, with both a's as In "fare" and the accent on the third syllable, Its meanings are many, but all un- pleasant. Girls who used to shud- der and may, 'He gives me the wool- (Daily Kas les!" now say with a shudder, "He One year, ia eit $7.80| yives me the abejables!" Youths ue on ~ Ta an who were heard to sigh, "I'm getting fed up to the teeth with this job," on Tear. w Sd States ..... eee! now ts that this job wiil soon OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES, | 8ve them the abejables. The most or- ¥. Calder, 3: St. John St. Moatreal| dinary person san invent new uses ¥. W. Thom toa) Kiag BL. W.|.,. 50 adaptable 4 word. It would be ony ior to the Editor are published as well to use it often, for it will writer. soon lose its savor and be cast aside Attached ls for something fresher. About a year ago the sight of a bare banana stalk in the window of | a music store would cause half the | passers-by to smile; today the same { thing would merely irritate, The , | famous banana phrase may therefore bs considered dead. Buch expres- sions. do not last long. Among the oddest of these rigmaroles was the ore, popular some years ago, which took the form of an answer to a conundrum, "The one rode a horse and the other rhododendron." Bat what the conundrum was no one ever discovered. . The fault with most slang is that it is used in different and almost contradictory senses until it depre- clates to the level of the rouble. But not always. Some plang expres- sions attach themselves firmly to an idea as its best expression and after use has made them respectable they are canonized in the Oxford Diction- ary. Who invents our slang? Public speakers and writers sometimes strike off a ringing phrase which catches the popular fancy. But most slang expressions spring from the fertile mind of the people, which some poet has likened to bright, black mud, unattractive, perhaps, yet charged with life snd unceasing fertility. Published De and semi-Werkly by THE BRITIS WHIO PURLISHING CO. LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. J. M. Campbell .... Leman A. Guild . ome of the best job priatiag officeg in Craandes, | The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ARO Audit Bureau of Circulations Another thing run on the self-ser- vice plan {s success. ""Knickerbockers" is They look that way. singular. This is the age of specialists, especially nerve specialists. | Christian nations: The nations that manufacture the most padlocks. Famous 'imaginary lines: ° The equator and old dad's waist line, So live that you need never go 'through the annoyance of a mistrial. It isn't common sense our legis- lators need so much as a common cause, : Still, traffic laws are useful as an argument for the plaintiff after the accident, Crisis: Any general mess brought to the boiling point by man's stu- plaity. Doubtless every man thinks pro- 'hibition a success if it makes him "stop drinking. WHO INVENTED THE TELE. PHONE? Brantford had better look well to her laurels A tablet has lately been erected on the Post and Telegram Office of Florence, Italy, to the mem- ory of Antonio Meucci of that city, 'the inventor of the telephone--poor and defrauded of his rights." Meucel, it appears, was a humble scene shifter in Florence who de- veloped advanced political notions which made a personal change of scene urgently necessary. Later, when Garibaldi became an exile after the 1849 affair he spent a year or more with the Meucci's at thelr home on Staten Island, earning a living in their candle factory. But tallow was not their chief interest. Meuccl was working on an apparatus of the greatest value to anarchists by which he could transmit sounds electro-magnetically to a distance. Garibaldi in the bedroom and Meuccl in the cellar would spend hours talk- ing through this original, primitive telephone, fifteen years before Alex- ander Graham Bell came on the scene. Meuccl continued to improve his appliance to the best of his ability and limited means, and after some years submitted it to the president of the New York District Telegraph Company. Nothing was made of it there and finally, in 1871, he took out a patent for his invention. Most unfortunately he neglected to pro- tect himself fully by patenling the component parts as well. Someone at the Patent Office was indiscreet, the detalls were discussed outside, and five years later, in 1876, Graham Bell took out patents for a device differing in no important respect from that of Meuccl, and was award- ed the honor of having invented the telephone. Meucel brought lawsuits which his poverty never permitted him to win and died, bitterly disap- pointed, in 1889. 80 runs the story Comedy: Flat tire seven miles out. Tragedy: Flat cigarette package seven miles; out. ------------ 'The housing situation is still des- perate. but the garage situation is Bow well in hand. ' Our flaws are checked by a num- ber of laws, and our laws are check- ed by a number of flaws. ~The old-time boy who wished 'to be a terror learped to chew; the modern one buys a pistol. Sreoai-------- Mars must understand that those who tried to pry into her affairs were unofficial observers. ---------- Woman will get equality when she quits demanding it on the . ground that she is a woman. Poverty has its compensations. There's a lot of fun in listening to the walls of heavy taxpayers. a---------------- Correct this sentence: "I am for Rim," sald the voter; "his hear: beats only for the noor man." Doctor Paton says that women ruled fn 2500 B.C. This makes 4424 _ years that they have held office. -------------------- No one will take Oonrad's place until some author is willing to wait nineteen Years for. sales, as he did. -- nina The things that move resistlessly forward without taking account of man are ny and five-ton trucks. ------------ Broadway chorus girls have start- ed making thelr own tights. It seems they were almost out of them. European royal bloods get $7 a day as supers, It they had been con- tent with that, they might have held thelr old jobe. . Ome reason why a husband hates %o shop with his wife Is because he ¢an't stand the strain when the _Baleswoman talks about "slender THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG troll, to make it look like the tail of a ghiner. Pronto.--eighteen salon trout took the bait in a day. The man commented: "Well, the Indian ought to be able to catch fish. He can't do anything else." Specialization is what gets results, , A man who holds the worid's re- dord in rumning or any other form of athletics usually can't do anything else. He hasn't time to do anything else. Keeping trained in his spec- falty busies his body and brain to the limit of action. So it goes in near- ly every pureult of life. There's an old saying, that we're all fools out- side our own businesses. A few generations ago, when On- tario was sparcely populated and settlers were scattered through the wilderness, every man had to be more or'less of a handy-man of Jack- of-all-trades except in cities. where he could specialize. Specialization is an outgrowth of community lite. It was discovered, for instance, that one man made better shoes than anyone else in town, and made them faster. Obviously, it was foolish for him to devote his time to anything except shoe making. Another man could saw boards and drive nails faster, He specializ- ed at building. And so on, until nearly every man became a special- ist, trading the products of his tol: for things he needed that others could make faster and better than he could. The tendency towara specializa- tion has increased with the passing of time. We talk about ours being an '"'age of specialists." And yet, in our Increasingly complex civiliza- tion, specialization has hardiy start- ed. When the lads of to-day mature to manhood, life will be many times more specialized than now. The boy who is allowed to drift along without any definite idea of what he wants to specialize on later will strike out into the world for him- self under a great handicap. But a greater handicap lurks in the danger of parents op! line of work his instinct him to--trying to make born lawyer, for instance become a doctor. anne 84B odwenDavies Sepyember 16. The present British sovereigns, King George and Queen Mary, are widely travelled people, having visited many parts of the Empire. While still Duke and Duchess of York, before the death of Queen Victoria and the accession of King Edward to the throme, they made a six months' tour in 1901, visiting Australia, where they opened. the first parliament of the Common: wealth, They travelled in the "Or- phir," and were accompanied by four British warships, the little fleet making an imposing sight as it journeyed around the world. It was on this day in 1901 that the "Orphir," with its royal passengers, called at Quebec, en route back to England. The harbor was en fete, the ships gay with flags, while the buildings in the old city were be- decked with colors. Thousands watched the approach of the vessel, its escort now augmented by a French warship which had arrived at Quebec to add its welcome, It was the Duke of York's third visit to Quebec, the previous ones being in the capacity of naval officer. Three days were spent in Lhe an- cient capital. The departure was mede in four trains, for In addition to the members of the suite and the servants the party carried its own horses and carriages. The royal train was the first to be equipped with telephones. The Duke and Duchess went west to the Pacific coast, visited Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg. Regina, Moose Jaw, Cal- gary, Vancouver and Victoria. They sailed for home from Halifax on Oct. 21. i v casion to open a draln from that part of the prison occupied by the female prisoners, a quantity of skulls and a leg bone were distovered. The 'worthy governer of the goal, Mr. Richard Corbett, was inexpressibly shocked at such a fearful discovery, and lost no time in calling for the opinion of a young medical man on the subject, who at once decided that the remains were those of certain de- funct sheep and oxen that had form- ed the dally food of the prisoners That Body of Pours By James W. Barton, M.D, Your Responsibility to Life Itself. A speaker expounding tne bible one day, stated that a Christian man or woman started on his actual "in- heritance" here on earth. Taat this inheritance was incorruptible, and would never fade away. I could not help but realize that you and I, whether Christian, Jew, Mohammedan or other, had some- thing else that should make us do some serious thinking. You are what ybur folks handed on to you, plus, or perhaps minus, what you have done, or what has been done, to your body. That gomething, that life, that was handed on to you, had been handed on Hkewise to your parents. I refer to life itself--to the body into which life was breathed. I wonder if you and I take this matter seriously enough. It we take it seriously, isn't it likely to dampen our spirits, make us melancholy? Will we feel "bowed down" with the weight of our responsibility? Will our efforts to maintain life, a full and buoyant life, with real strength of body and mind, be a task beyond our capabilities? Ycu know the answer to such questions. You don't need a conscience to tell you, because your oem common sense bas taught you for many years, that careful correct living is no hardship insofar as actual work is concerned, or actual deprivation of the good things of life. All the good things of life were made for you, were meant for your use. The sky, the ocean, lake or river, the fo.est, the wonderful flowers were meant for your enjoyment. You were given the capacity to enjoy them with that wonderful mechanism--the brain. And likewise the fruit and vege- tables, and other foods of land and sea, were meant for your enjoyment and use. And what is asked or required la return? Simply that as these things ace enjoyed or used by your body, that your body im turn should use them wisely. Your body sholud work or exer- cise with the food taken in. Your thoughts shotld be right, and ac- tions therefore also right, as you contemplate Nature in its wonder and beauty. . Your body should work or exer- therefore it should use and not abuse these gifts. Remember you owe it to life itself to pass along as guvod a body as you have received, That's a fair proposition, isn't {t? Tenth Anniversary Of the Great War September 106th, 1014. In the last two weeks the German right wing, which at one time was southeast of Paris, has retreated ov- er seventy miles. The Allies have oocupled Rheims. Rain is increas- ing the difficulties of the German Army (n {ts retirement. The turn in the tide of the war has raised London's spirits and nd KINGSTON IN 1852" th es and hotels are doing an ex- pensive trade. Soldiers were called out in Rome For Sale 50 ACRES, close to thriving Slag ith ah Soul, good ' acres : excellent 3 Yo watered and fenced A real bargain at ...... $8,000. .-. Fire Insurance in reliable Money to loan on mortgages. 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