Published Dally and Semi- Weakly b) G PUBLA ERR LiMiTED, GQ. WIMOLE .....cooz00--4:0. President +++. Managing Director Ay WW os Treas. Tele honss) eer M2 . 229 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Edition) delivered In city eens f d in advance . il to rural offi States .... ix and three months pr 0 Hy (Bemi-Weekly Hditlun) ! ! 8 ; - i? United States three months pro rat Attached ls one of the 'best . job printing offices In Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE H. ©. Smallpelce ... 33 Church Bt 8. REPRESENTATIVES York Office ...... ..236 Fifth Ave. Wow Frank R. Northrup, Manage r. Chicago Sheuva Tribune Bldg rank R. is Jit: 2 year, 8 Year, 204 xX an CITY MUST ACT. Lhe federal government is giving Its lions to national defence. The pro giving their millions, The cities are prepar- mi vinces the aggregate. ing to give their quota, and these will yun into thousands. - What is Kings ton prepared to do ? Tt must do some- thing without delay. Its council must assume this grave responsibility and decide, quickly, how much it°can con tribute to some local fund and for lo Many who are going are mn cal purposes, abroad, for service, may be married, Mind they leave behind them families. i + "views, and so much opposed to Shshown foe him because he was i i wi a Sasi trust of often been These should be the sacred the conmmunity. It has anid, in discussing missions, that all who are interested cannot participate in them, snd that those who remain at home should provide freely and lib- erally for the wants of those who can or must go away. Out of the civic 5 mxchequer this old military city must make a substantial grant, one in keep- ing with the. ogcasion and the object it has in view. This trust fund should be administered by the city, and it should have an'existencés now that the citizens way be induced give to it out of their bounty question "in. other places is, How the money 16 be raised ? By the is sue of debentures ? The wnswer is, "Yes, il the debentures" can be sold." Ihe Hamiiton 'Limes does not see any difficulty about this. "Surely," it re marks, "there is enough of patriotism among the Hamilton people to buy them up." At any the city ust, through the council,' bestir it- This too in order to I'he is rate, i self, and movement urgency and necessity of haste act. whole military 13 slow, seeing the The man who sat down 'beneath a tree and and, dreams, saw a aeroplane sailing about in the slumbered, in his heavens above him, not alone. Several persons have reported that they either saw or heard the 'planes. In ? Where Would these planes comes from in the night ? 18 their dreams THE MAN TOLSTOIL SAW. Tolstoi, who was so peculiar in his the military side of life, was formerly a soldier, and had a distinguished reer before him. His mental attitude became so changed that he not only Abandoned the service' of the czar but griticized it severely and. sometimes adversely. Not in all Russia' was sny one else allowed to talk as did. cu- he There was great consideration in- ""tensely carmest, and because he was recognized as entirely pure and Larm less at heart. Tolstoi had a vision. He had many visions, indeed, during his life, but this oné came to him some time before he died. Beginning with 1912 a conflagration, (war), was to break out. It was to spread over all Eur- | ope, and carry with it devastation , and death. So real did this vision | seer that he could hear the lamenta- tions rising from the great battle fields. In 1915--for this awiul con- flagration was to be prolonged--a new leader was to appear, a greater than Napoleon, and he. yould ; enter upon this bloody drama. This one would be without niilikary training. _He would be a writer, a journalist; a mighty grip of : public men and events, a grip that would remain until 1925. } , Is there anything . in this vision that is suggestive' iq these times ? Is there any ome in it who cor responds with the man that Tolstoi saw, and who will develop into the warrior or leader who shall Ariamphantly for at least ten AR ao fit HEART STRINGS TOUCHED. "A" and "B" batteries left the city Thursday evening amid scenes of ac- tivity and enthusiasm. These marked the popularity of the cause which they represent. These batteries go to Valcartier, for the spresent, and will later be a small but important part of Canada's' contribution to the de- fence of the empire, They, with the other divisions of the ' permanent force, will surely lend strength to the whole contingent, and stamina and example in the crucial periods of their campaign. Acting-Mayor Cou- per bade the troops farewell. He em- phasized the seriousness of the situa- tion and explessed the conviction that they would be sure to give a good account of themselves whatever Lhe emergency of the hour or the loca- tion of the service. The heart strings have felt the pull of these departing people are realizing They will worthies. Our war really means. this the more as the volun- teers, the bone the militia, the picked men physically, are sent off to fight for their country. The homes from which they go will have new anxieties foreed upon them, and men and worhen, in thousands, will be remdy to sympathize with those across the sea who have, as it were, placed their sons upon the altars of their countries. Ome can under- stand, in some measure, what this means as he reads the daily record of happenings along the boundaries be- tween Germany and Belgium and France and between Austria-Hungary It is a pitiable re what realize of and sinew and Russia. cord. Ihe map of Europe is being stud- ied, most carefully, and by the masses. When the war is over, as it is hoped it will be before long, the average man' will be eble pass any ex- amination in the geography of ope Most newspaper men will qualified for professorships to Eur- be GREAT HUMAN SACRIFICE. Ihe late Emile Zola, wrote vividly, luridly, and vigorously of the terrible effects of war He visited one of the resorts of the surgeons, at or close to a battlefield, and saw the the wounded, the dying, soldiers dragged in for hurried treatmeht. The immense many beds, filled I'he floor straw, and the "mutilated for the torn, building contained and all strewed with these were was maimed and wretched mou- were laid side by side glory of kings until not room for nurses to pass among them... The stood at an improvised operating ta- ble, and hastily performed their part. there was surgeons I'he sufferers were quickly passed on, {o a resting place near at hand, there to receive further attention, or be car: But the even the burial that finite vo the ried off, dead, for so shocking Zola scribe it And of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71 with that of Such a | was the scene pen ot great ae accurately carnage is not to be compared the butchery attended the siege of Liege is without a parallel, and it will dwindle into in armies War new in progress of men as that which has significance when the greater that confronting each other meet are now terrific un I'hat in one mighty and Burying 13 pact the dead! impossible, and it I'he quicker dispatch ol sac not being at is tempted rificed humanity has been resorted to I'he collected into huge pyres n prayer and the usual volley of arms, Pourued, Lord, an offering the vanity, the caprice, the wickedness bodies are being and then, after brief what of nations !| How long must this con tinue ? idle at I'he Niobe, Halifax, and only now lving being fitted out for service, is a larger boat and a bet ter equipped one than the Lssex which is doing such splendid service.in the Once the in Niobe 1s put will tor hex Atlantic. commission it is hoped she There's be kept in it a work to do. | AFTER GERMAN TRADE. the commercial papers are summing up the immense loss that Writers for will be Germany's as a result of the Germany, in its industrial pur- Her and war was the world lugding technical suits, devotion to education, her achievements in the arts and sci showing themselves in ways. lhere was not only a great variety in her productions, bul a cheapness that gave her wares ev- \ all parts of the hat market is be ences, were many erywhere, and in world, a market ing now lost to ber, and it may Dever he recovered. American enterprise and capital Have already been used to invade and take -possession of the South American trade. Later a sun- ilar combination of capital and la- bour may force Germany out of South Africa, and she may lose her territory as well as her trade there. Out of Canada | even German goods will be barred, ahd it was wonderful how they were displacing afl other productions because of - 'their virtue and value. Germany, indeed, had the faculty .of cultivating business. The visit of Mr. Roosavelt to South Amerion a couple of years ago, had the effect of congen- trating atlention upon America und its productions, 'and immediately Geor- many sent Prince Henry to bowitch the pecple by the graciousness of his competition that was sure to win out. Yes, Germany is sufiering in many ways, and sufiering sorely, because of the war. She is being impoverished because of the kaiser"s audacity, and she is losing a trade it has taken the empire many years to build ip. But America, and ('anada, apd England can only get and hold what Germany has lost, for the time being, by sur- passing Germany in her industrial suc- cesses, and in this laudable ambition they will have enough to firey the the genius olf man to the utmost ex tent. EDITORIAL NOTES The scarcity, of counts expensive. 7 per cent. if it has not that high mark already. money makes dis Interest will touch touched isigoing to be a law unto himseli. He has infimated that anys English paper publishing news which is not passed out by his censors will be suspended. And my lord is not to be trifled with. Kitchener war When we are making mention of the big things that little men accomplish at the Country Club the other day we must not overlook what happened are not ive) Jellico "and ' Roberts all the glory that is» going™ - the the man, The Orange Sentinel regards great war, now in progress, as result of one man's crime. One reckless, insistent, the alleged Twen- tieth Century Overlord, has immersed Europe = in strife, glg@m and death. He'll "have his reward. curfew bell has been ricging for some time. What is the re sult ? Is the by-law being enforced? The ringing of the bell will amount to anything unless it is The now not fol- lowed by the police surveillance and duty for which provision is made. What is the city going to do about men employment ? Many of them are foreigners. They cannot be deported I'hey cannot be left to starve. The best way to help them is to give them at the usual I'be labour should not be paupers. giving its 'idle g 8g work, wages. men who Mr. Gamey has been heard: from. His defence--the lamest of the lame-- is that he could not affect 'the fisher- men or the hotel men who had their These licenses are annual. Does "Mr. Gamey mean to sav that a gold stock incur his licenses refusal to subscribe to. his or gold brick = might not displeasure and political animus? of invasion from the United But the thought silly Germans of the United States neutral Canadians are being warned a possible States. I'he cannoli organize in territory ( a British colony But precaution for an attack on Canadians had for I'hat is certain. better take every de trouble. fence against an) [PUBLIC OPINION Not A Parlor Man. Lonflm Adverds a Kitchener is well named. He is not a drawing-room officer, but an engi neer who puts commissariat first Their Real Purpose. Oswego Times Country Clubs are being established everywhere to promote rural pursuits and show ofi people's best clothes Why The Option ? Montreal News I'he sentencing of a reckless chaufieur to three months in jail or a fine ,ot $148 is all right so far as it But why the option of a line in these cases 7 gue ose Their Rights. HamikMon Times It may not be generally that, according fo international law, the subjects of Germany now resident in Canada, when declaration of was made, lost whatever rights tained to them under civil law known, war pes What Can Germany Gain 7 New York World I'ne plight of peace-loving, pr ous, cultured German people calls for the world's pity Whether the kaiser wins or nol they lose--unless out ot famine and bloodshed they grasp the political control of their, own land ~< Record "Peace year' advertised bv the Canadian national Sexhibition in ronto, This would suit for almost any other year excepting 1914 The international peace tattoo is liable to brea up in « fight. -- Never Any Good. Toronto Mail The triple alliance has collapsed with the first strain placed upon it. I'he alliance was purely a political ar- rangement, and never had the sup- port of the Italian people, who saw that the only beneficiaries under the agreement would* be Austria and Ger many. Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. Pit shipment of season uf apples from Kingst --- Spies Irom on to Montreal Dr. 8. W. de acce| § ship in as Ps grolessan. . Waterworks Committee decides to ask the City Councii for more extend the water system 8 ways sad pave the way for a business A Battery returned : "pan at Baker's Pomme AN had at that time burg to Bel THE TRIPLE ENTENTE WAS SAVED BY RUSSIA. Her Population Brings Total to 253,- 000,000, While Dreibund Has 152,000,000. The tremendous increase of Rus- ¢ia saves the triple entente from be- ing overwhelmed in numbers by the triple alliance. Germany alone has three-fourths as many inhabitants as Great Britain and .France together, and Austria and Ifaly add roundly 86,000,000 to thi¥ number. The great population of Russia, however, brings the total strength of the triple entente to 253,000,000, against 152,000,000 for the triple alliance. Fears that the time is rapidly ap- proaching when the population of Germany, like that of France, will become stationary, or even go back, have been dissipated for the present by an estimate in the latest year book of the imperial German statis- tical office putting the population of the empire at the end of the first halt-of 1914 at 67,812,000. This compares with 66,981,000 in the pre- vious year, and shows an increase practically the same size as was re- corded from 1912 to 19 and ex- ceeding the gain from ITI1 to 1912 by 44,000. ly Comparisons with the growth of the population in France give strik- ing figures. In 1912 following the Franco-German war, France had a population of about 36,000,000, on- ly 5,000,000 less than Germany. lu 1911 she had less than 49,000,000, and the number has declined since then. Thus her increase in 42 years has been less than 3,000,000, against an increase for Germany of 26,000,- 000, SACRIFICES IN OLD MEXICO TERRIBLE TO CONTEMPLATE Even Cortes Could Not Endure Daily Horrors Which Took Lives of Human Beings. With all his diplomacy, and his great need of powerful allies, Cortes could net endure the daiiv horrors of that idolatry which at Zempolla, as in nearly alk the cities of Mexico, devoted human beings to the hor: rible living torments of the Stone of Sacrifice." Stretched naked upon a sacrificial stone, which appears in most cases to have been somewhat convex upon its surface, a yoke ac- ross the neck held the victim utter- ly helpless; while the attendants confined his arms and leg® straining the spine over the central ridge of the alter, and the chief priest, with a sharp flake of obsidian, laid open the heaving chest and tore out the heart of the sufférer. Curiously en- ought, a gimilar method of human sacrifice was practised by the early Norsemen, as late as the tenth cen- tury, except that the victim's back was broken across the ridge of the sacrificial stone. before the knife of the priest finished the horrible cere- mony. Not only captives taken in war, but criminals and slaves, and in times of great public calamity, the children of great nobles, and even princes and kings, were sacrificed thus to Ther and Freya, by the Norse and Icelandic peoples, as late as A. D. 1000; and even some cen- turies later among the Wends, Est- honians and other half-savages of Western Russia, Many a 'doom-ring" and 'doom-stone' are still shown by Norse antiquarians, where in not re- mote centuries, the sacrificial knife finished the torture of fractured spine and deeply-cut runes, of dedi- cation to the gods, in the presence of silent and worshipping idolators. Little Portugal, ew York Times The declaraton of the government of Portugal that it was ready to meet the obligations imposed by {its 'ancient alliance" with' Great Bri- tain is accepted generally with amused surprise In comparison with the strength of the main com- batants, that of the little country wedged in between Spain and the «ea seems indeed negligible an her proffer of support of slight value. But the action of Portugal may have serious importance in a part of the 'globe not yet involved in war. but which may figure largely in the final settlement. On the west coast of Africa she has a province just north of the German possessions there. On the east ¢oast she has an- other just south of German terri- tory. Between them lie the British union of South Africa and Rhodesia. The north-easterm frontier of Portu- guese Angola runs two-thirds of the way across the continent along the southern 'boundary of the Belgiah Congo. If Germany wins in the European contest she will unques- tionably try to take the Belgian con- go, both previnces of Portugal, and at least Rhodesia, if nat South Af- rica, thus gaining control from coast to coast of all, or nearly all, Africa south of the equator. If Great Britain wins, Portuguese possessions will be safe. That is probably the inducement which has moved the Portuguese government to range itself on the 'side of Great Britain. In Europe her aid would be confined to some slight co-opera- tion with the British Navy and to the supply of friendly harbor on her coast. New Luxemburg In the War of 1871 ° "I have never confessed it public- ly but IT can say it here: After the dissolution of the confederation the Grand Duke had become the saver- eign of Luxemburg and could have dong what he liked with the ecoun- try. It would have been mean of him to part with it for money but it was open to him to cede it to France. Our right of occupation was also not well founded. Proper- ly speaking after the dissolution-of the confederation we ought no long- er to have occured even Rastatt an1 Mayance. I said that in the ccunci! i t another hand over Luxem- m. In that case we should have united it to a country on behalf of whose neutiriaiy as idea namely Badile then thought Englan: would ervene. That would also have strengthened the German ols nent there against the French-speaking inhabitants and at the same time secured a good frontier. o! posal was nit received yor and it is just ax wel SR : of His Histor 1 Kingston, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 1914. friday and Saturday hs Sale ti ---- Men's Fine Negligee Shirts at 69c. 50 dozen of men's brand new shirts in all sizes from 14 to 18, very newest and neatest patterns from one of the best makers in Canada. Every shirt guaranteed just the same as if you paid the regular price of $1.00, $1.25 or $1.50. You can buy as many as you like, but dealers in shirts we will not supply. Also at the same time and place 100 Men's & Young Men's Summer and Early Fall Suits at $10.00 Samples in our window and we will leave it to you to say how much you think the actual value should be. this sale is Our price for il our ¥RESH GROUND COF- dl FEE AT 40c. CAN'T BE BEAT. Try a sample order and be convinced. NOLAN'S GROCERY Princess Ht. Phope 720. Prompt Delivery AUTOMOBILE FOR HIRE Jack Stansbury HOUSE PHONE 759 OR BRITISH AMERICAN HOTEL 734 Special rates to aftermoon or evening driving parties Answered--Inquiries Rates Solicited. ee ------------------------ FARMS OR SALE A choice farm of 75 acres, 4 1-2.aniles from Kingston, good build- ings, large orchard, about 3 1-2 acres in ber- ries; soil well adapted for fruit and early gar- den stuff. I. J. Lockhart Bank of Montréal Bldg: Ont. Train Calls for Thomas Copley Telephone 987 Drop a card to 13 Pine street when wanting anything done in the carpen- tery line. Estimates given on all kinds of repairs and new work; also hard. wood floors of all kinds. All orders will receive prompt attention. Shop 40 Queen Street. : It Is Not Necessary Tol Have a Large Amount of Money To make a profitable Real Es- tate Investment. A very mod erate sum will start you, Easy monthly installments never missed from an income. Six roomed frame house on Redan street, improvements, $1800.00, Solid brick house on Syden- ham street, $3400.00. Solid brick house on John street, improvements, $2850.00 Cheap Auto Tires Ford size 30 x 31.» > guaranteed 3500, Gasoline 20¢ per gal. Bibby's Garage Phone 201 Garage, 917 FLOUR Our Robin Hood Brand of flour bas a guaranlee in every bag for good quality. ANDREW MACLEAN, Ontario Street,