OF THIS REFORM THROUGHOUT § THE WORLD. Idea is to Divide the Year More Conveniently ~ Prof. Marshall Also Advocates the Daylight Sav fog Scheme. Kingston, May 1.--(To the Edi- tor): Now that the daylight saving scheme proposed sometime ago by Alderman Newman for Kingston is adopted by the French and German Governments, and that Halifax and Winnipeg set the example to other Canadian ditles, surely Kingston is not. going to be behind in such an important and health-giving moral duty, If the leaders in our churches are unable to master the moral iner- tia of the community as far as bes sinning and ending our daily work one hour earlier for the next four months, by all means let us put for- ward our clocks by one hour, and in hin somewhat childlike way' effect the same moral reform. Is not the rising of the sun the call of God to duty ? With your permission, I desire to remind the community of another im- portant reform which it is hoped NiL soon be adopted throughout the world. The Pearce Calendar. It is now five years since the Swiss Government proposed to the great nations to hold a conference with a view of agreeing upon and introducing a very desirable reform in the calendar. The reform con- sists essentially in making a more rational 'division of the year into months, weeks and days. "The Gre- gorian Calendar now used by all the great nations with the exception of Russia is good for about 1,000 years, | 60 far as the calendar year syn- chronizes with the apparent annual motion of the sun The reform now required is to di- vide the year more rationally and couvenliently than it is at present. By far the best division of the year is that proposed by a member of par- lament of the United Kingdom, Robert Pearce, th the year 1908. He would divide the year into four equal quarters of 91 days, or 13 weeks, and into 12 months of 30 or 31 days as follows, along with one or two (if 8 leap year) odd days to be named New Year Day and Leap Year Day respectively, Here is Pearce's cal- endar: New Year Day. First month, or January ..20 days in the ecliptic, | : KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1916. PRINCESS PATRICIA AT MILITARY REVIEW. sation with Princess Patricia, Mrs. (Col) H. C. Bickford. ronto. 1. Facility in remembering number of day in each month, | 2. Uniformity of the quarters of {the year, each having the same num- |ber of days (91), and the same num- ber of weeks (13), an obvious ad- vantage in business, 3. Any specified day practically the same time of Sunset } and sunrise, Hence there will be {little need of printed calendars ex- | {cept to tell the phases of the moon. } 4. Holidays can always be arrang- ed to fall on the most convenient jdays of the week, and would then re- {cur always on the same days of the | | year How Calendar | | the Gregorian {should be supplemented: Reform By Julius Caesar. i The great reform made in the cam- | so-called leap year. cardinal days, i.e, the tury. However, as the tropical or solar year contains not exactly 36514 days, but very approximately 365. | 2422 days, Le, 365 days, 5 hours, 48 mins., 46 secs. it is easily calculated that the average Julian year exceeds the tropical year by about 3 days in every 400 years, thus: The Julian year is too great by the difference be- tween 365.256 days and 365.2422 military review by the Duke of Connaught in High Park Photo left to right shows Col. H. €. Bickford in conver- with recent , To- and Sir Henry Pellatl Photo was taken at a A a aati a aA thea common year need not at present engage our serious attention. When Should Calendar Year Begin? On what day of the tropical year should the calendar year begin? When Julius Caesar reformed the of the year | Roman calendar in 45 B.C., he fixed will always have the same name, and | the first day of the year as that of the new moon immediately following the December solstice of the previous the earth could not apply to the beginnings of | following years, and is therefore of | no special regory XIII. made his reform in 11582, he suppressed 10 days of that vear in order that the vernal equinox | might fall on the 21st day of March, | the same day of the year as it fell on {in 325 A.D., when at Nicaea the first In > 11793, just after the great French re- hrous Rofiah saleudur by fuliue Cae. | volution, it was attempted in France every fourth year one of 366 days; ort year. . This connection with moon's motion around the interest. 'When occumenical council was held. sun in its apparent daily apparent annual motion begins ber solstice. December present New Year day. Pope begin. the ealendar year on the day {of the vernal equinox. This attempt, o Squinoctini | tioush worthy of a great scientific nation, did not find acceptance. Just and somite] Jays to an ole | ag we begin the solar day when the ; md motion crosses our meridian at midnight, so it seems most natural that the calen- dar year should begin on the day in which the amount of daylight is least, ie, the day in which the sun in its to move northward, viz, at the Decem- This happens to be on 22nd, 10 days before our Should the this without changing the present ge- quence in the names of the days, the new calendar.should begin when the winter solstice falls on a Sat- urday of our present calendar. For- | tunately this' happens next year, and, as the whole world hopes that the terms of peace from this out- rageous war still raging will most probably be agreed upon within a year, by beginning the new calen- dar in calding the 22nd December 1917. New Year Day 1918, the new calendar might appropriately be named the Peace Calendar as well as the Pearce Calendar, or simply the Pea(r)ce Calendar. After 1917 the winter solstice will not occur on a Saturday until 1923, ; On the supposition that New Year Day 1918 of the Pea(r)ce Calendar be coincident with 22nd Dec. 1917 of our present calendar. The fol- lowing motes may be interesting: 1. The first day of January will always be a Sunday and the last day Monday; the first day of February a Tuesday and the last Wednesday; the first day of March a Thursday and the last Saturday, and corres- ponding days in each quarter will he similarly named. 2. The first of January being sep- arated by only 3 days from the Christmas of our present calendar, Christmas might most appropriately be celebrated on the first day of January. 3. The 15th day of AprHl would always he a Sunday and would 'he most appropriately chosen as Easter Sunday, thus getting rid of tive pres- ent very cumberous way of finding Easter Sunday. Indeed the errasic way in which Easter Sunday jumps around in our present calendar is an annual reminder that the rea) days of the year on which the birth and death of our Liord Jesus Christ took place are only approximately known. 4. As iMustrations that every day of the year will always have the same name we may take the follow- Img: University day at Queen's (16, X) will always be a Monday, Victoria Day (24, V) will always be a Thursday, Dominion Day (1, VII) will always be a Sunday, Labour day (the first Monday. of Septem- her) will always be 5, IX, etc, For a full description of ecelesias- tical and other calendars see article Calendar in the Encyclopaedia Brit- tanica, --D. A. MARSHALL, -------------- WATERTOWN, N.Y.,, GROWS. -- A- Large Increase in The Population Reported Watertown, N.Y., May 3.--The porulation of the city at the present time is greater than at any time in the history in the opinion of local of- ficials and business men. The popu- lation according to the last census was between 26,000 and 27,000, but it is estimated that at present it is considerably more than 30,000. The increase is attributed to the influx of men who came here to work in the manufacturing plants, which have increased their forces as a re- sult of munition contracts. At least 500 men, it was estimated to-day, have come to this city from Ogdens- burg alone, while hundreds have come here from other villages THE REBELLION IN IRELAND. JSILARNEY + Quesns-§ KENMARE ye This map of Ireland shows the location of all the centres which have been the scene of uprisings recently. All the places underlined have been connected with rebel activity. PAIN IN THE BACK [av Usually Comes From Muscular Rheumatism. Do not worry about Pain in the back. The worry will do yoy more harm than the pains, most backaches is muscular rheuma- tism, which is painful enough, but not fatal. Lumbago is a form of muscular rheumatism, so is a stiff neck. Sufferers from any form of rheumatism should keep their general health up to the highest standard by the use of of a blood building tonic like Dr, Williams' Pink Pills, while taking good, nourishing food, without too much meat. Proper nutrition and pure blood are the means of fight- tog rheumatism. Rheumntisin comes from an acid in the blood, build it up, strengthen the system, and drive out the poisonous acid that causes rheumatism, In this way sufferers have found complete recovery as is shown by the following case: Mrs. Samuel Childerhouse, Orillia, Ont., says:----- "About three years ago I was greatly afflicted with a severe pain in the back, which I thought at first was due to kidney trouble. 1 tried a number of remedies but they did not help me any, in fact the pain The cause of | {small arms ammunition, for which | LTY AMMUNITION SOLD TO ADMIRALTY? Col. Wesley Allison Appears In This Transaction Too. ' Ottawa, May 3.--The long desired return 'with regard to the sale of E. M. Macdonald moved in the Com- mons a couple of months ago, was finally tabled in the House this after- noon by Sir Robert Borden. Though incomplete in its present form, and with a number of missing links ob- viously to be supplied, the story which the return tells promises some interesting and sensational develop- ments. The transaction will in all probability demand investigation either by the Meredith-Duff Com- mission or by some other specially constituted Board of Inquiry. In brief, the transaction concerns the sale ' of more than 3,000,000 rounds of "defective" ammunition, manufactured for the Ross rifle at the Dominion Arsenal prior to the outbreak of the war. This ammu- nition was sold last autumn at $20 per thousand rounds, through Col. J. Wesley Allison, ostensibly to Viek- ers, Limited, for machine gun testing purposes. It was sold without the autbority of an Order-in-Counell, and it is charged that it was resold Off British Ship in the White { - ONLY THREE. SURVIWE SOME OF THE CREW PERISHED OF COLD. While Others Killed Themselves -- Survivors' Boat Was Frozen In And Food And Fuel Gave Out. Halifax, N.S., May 2.--News of the fate which befell the captain and crew of the 'British steamer Suffolk in the White Sea, bias reached Hall- fax. Only three of a crew of 27 survived to tell of the hardships they endured. Those of the crew who did not kill themselves while in a state of despondency caused by great suffering, were frozen to death in an effort to reach land 80 miles from the vessel. The story of the fate of the cap tain and 24 members of the crew who perished was told by the mem- bers of the Newfoundland stemmer Bellaventure, who returned to Hall- fax yesterday. They left Newfound- land a year ago for Archangel. The Inembers of the crew talked with one survivor of the Suffolk. He is a Russian Finn, and is the only one who is physically able to talk, The other two who were rescued by Brit- ish satlors were not expected to ve- cover, The Suffolk, a cargo steamer, while on a trip to Archangel, got frozen In the White Sea before Christ- mas. Other steamers had been caught in the same way, but had been rescued by the ice-breakers, The food supply was running low and the fuel was about exhausted. Finally, faced with starvation and suffering from the cold, several of the crew went insane and died. Mad- dened by hunger and cold the ocap- tain Shot himself. Some ten or more menrbers of the orew decided to try to reach land on foot. The distance was eighty miles. Only three of the number were later found alive. A day after leaving the ill-fated steamer ga biis- zard set in and the men were Jost, only three keeping together being those picked up. The bodies of the others were never found. SWEDISH ATRCRAFT BILL. Aims to Check Hun Activity Over + Territorial Waters. London, May 3.--A Central News despatch from Copenhagen gq the Dagens Nyheter, of Stockholm, to the effect that the Swedish Govern- ment has decided to introduce a bill prohibiting passage of foreign air. craft over Swedish territorial waters, It is believed this measure is design- days; fe, by .0078 days. Therefore in 400 years the difference amounts to 44 x .0078, or 3.12 days. - Hence the reform made by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 consisted in keeping only the centurial years which are multiples of 400 as leap years, and making the other centurial years ; throughout Northern New York. Second; month, or Februiry ~30 days IAA AA A Third month, or March ....31 days Fourth month, or April ....31 days Fifth month, or May ...... 30 days Sixth month, or June 31 days Leap Year Day (If a Leap Year). Seventh month, or July ....30 days Eighth month, or August ..30 days Ninth month, or September 31 days Tenth month, or October ..31 days Eleventh month, or Nov'ber 30 days Twelfth month, or December 31 days . The odd days, New Year Day and Leap Year Day, would most appro- priately be national holidays. The following are obvious advan- tages of this division of the year: CASTORIA For Infants and Children InUse ForOver30 Years Always beans the Signature of at an advance of about 25 per cent. was growin or; vd e § Worse and gat so bad to the British Admiralty. that 1 was quite unable to do my housework. I could not even sweep a floor. I was advised to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and I am glad I acted upon the advice, for * before I had been taking the Pillg long the pain began to subside, and under the continued use disappeared entirely, and I have not since been 'hethered with: it in any way. My husband was also cured of a severe attack of ii- digestion by this same medicine so that we both have much reason to be grateful for it." You can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills from any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. ---------------- ed to check reconnoitring excursions of German aircraft to the north over Swedish waters, which have been of frequent occurrence recently, great nations adopt thre Pearce calen- dar, would it not be well, after the example of Pope Gregory XIII, to suppress the last 10 days of the Gre- gorian calendar, and make the first new year day of the Pearce calendar | coincident with the winter solstice > & " {shortest day in the northern hemis- TouOn Years oR ore days a lees | phere, and of necessity the summer year, but 1700, 1800, 1900 were com- | 0I5ticé or longest day in the south- ya ern hemisphere? The Julian calen- aE above we see that in the dar was retained in the United King. : ' 2 Gregorian calendar there is still a dom a De Cou 1752, when it wa growing error from the tropical year ra) ne d 0 adop a a Nat of an excess of 0.12 day in 400 years. |"® enny i npress a days o tha In 4000 years this will amount to 1.2 Joar ¥ cei Eo Septem) - he day. Hence if the Gregorian calen- y t nati hich pire etaine dar be supplemented (as doubtless it on Y Eien a on He 1 re b will be) so far as to make millenial | '1¢ Julian calendar, and most prob- years which are multiples of 4000 ably it willbnow join its great allies, (viz. 4000, 8000, etc.) years only 365 and 'by the suppression of 23 days days, then the average calendar year adopt the Pearce calendar. will differ from thg tropical by only mm-- .2, or 1-6th day in every 4000 years. With this supplement it will require 5 times 4000, or 20000 years (more or less) to make a difference of 1 day between the tropical or solar year and the average calendar year. To make in every 20000 years, more or less, one nominal leap year into ALL'S WELL IN INDIA. North-West © Frontier Quiestest in Years, London, May 3.--1It is interesting to record, says a special despatch from Simla, that the recent winter has been the quietest on record for the past five years on the north-west frontier of India. Doubtless the strict neutrality maintained by the Amir of Afghanistan has contributed to this result. "India continues to make munifi- cent war gifts, and the manufacture of munitions is proceeding briskly, many shipments having been made! already. The development of exist- ing factories is receiving the diligent attention of the Government. The trade of India continues satisfac- tory." 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