PAGE SIX HE BRITISH WHIG * 80TH YEAR NT EE a *ablished Daily and Semi-Weekly by Ide BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO. LIMITED i ------------------ rertensintue . President T Business OIce ....c.oisncanssennns Editorial Rooms .. Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATE (Daily Edition) delivered In city < year, If pald in advan . Jo by mail to rural offices 3 ear to United States y (Semi-Weekly Edithon) One year, by mail, cash One year, if not paid in advance 3 One year, to United States Six and three months pro rats litem -- OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESIINTATI 3 ; Blues Owen, 22 St. John St. Mont M, Thompson, 402 Lumsden Torito, © 5 R.Northrup, 236 Fifth Ave. New York .R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg; Chices Letters to the Editor are publi shed | jonly over the &ctual name © frites iter. "Attached is printing offices oc One One 'One One year, $ of the "pest Job! Canada, fhe circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC AudityBurean of Circulations. PAA AION PAINS NINN | Theres 1ittle prospect that there purchase in Canada of wheat food: | prill.be.any reduction irr the prices of | fegetables and garden truck npext| ear. Now igsthe time to make pre- | ia) government to Canadian 'banks! arations for the home .garden for| pext summer in order to beat the cost of living. "thief in both country The automobile the city, apd the fast becoming a decided men ace. Most (frequently he escapes | capture and punishment, because the chances are all in his favor. This is all the more reason why he should be | This week: will decide whether or not the Unionist party is to become a | permanent feature in Canadian | political life, but it will be left to the electors at the next general lection | to decide whether it 18'to be the party | in power or not. The Board of Commerce expects that its order regarding hog pro- ducts will reduce the prices by from | two to eight cents a pound. cept that with a pinch of salt, having | been fooled by previous rumours of | price reductions ip. this same com- modity. .The Board of Commerce has ord- sred that prices of pork and other | hog products must be reduced to the | price levels of last March. That | leaves a big loophole for the mer- 'chants, and the consumers will per- | haps find little advantage from this | order, sin The Board of Commerce has elicit- ,d, the fact that pears which are sell- ing at one dollar a sasket in Tor- onto could not find a market at 'thirty cents a basket in Oakville, less "than an hour's run distant by train. | in this case it does not look as if! the producer was the profiteer. The present session of Parlia- ment is costing the country approxi. mately fifty dollars an hour. Some of the long-winded members of the house can now figure out how much ithe country fs paying for the privil- ege-of allowing them to make lengthy speeches on unimportant questions. A school near Madoc has come into prominence by a demonstration of its system of providing hot lunches | for the children. This is a movement which will soon be found fn every rural school in Ontario, for ft is a great step forward in educational matters. } Sr ------ i Under the present system of pay- ing gratuities to returned soldiers, | a private who is married receives al maximum of $600, while generals receive sums ranging from $2,700 to nearly $3,000. From . this it wolrld appear that the man in great- est need of assistance towards re« establishment receives the least as- sistance, "English railways, from the open- ing of the war down to the end of 1818, showed an actual net loss of about §$119000,000. For the pres- ent year it is estimated that the charge on the public for government operation will run to about $370. 000. This record, with its parallel in the United States, does not augur 'well for government ownership of railways in, Canada. EDUCATIONAL CHANGES. Under the regime of the Hon. Dr. Cody many important changes are being made in the educational policy of the province of Ouaterio. The newest change is contained in an order issued to school principals and : {ple are anxious to know 1} {and which should make it clear that Chicago | is | old maxim that makes Jack and ise to thome studies to the their hours of play eral other changes in ti ien have been made, all the purpose of making {educating the children hard welcome { cate to i at a time change e sive {education movements has to be made ir and easily assimilated. | a8 - WITH LOAN. when we a i -------- | WHAT WAS DONE LAST VICTORY At the present time, { almost on the eve of the launching {of the 1819 Victory Loan, many peo- THE re what {done with the six hundred million {dollars which was raised in the] same manner about a year ago. They | are certainly entitled to this infor- | mation, very enlightening WAS | which is {the success of the coming loan | necessary to .enable the country i carry on its fianancing as efficient] {a8 it has done in the past | 7 Of the amount raised | 368, 000,000 was spent in advances! ib purchase, 'wholly in Canada, wheat {foodstuffs and other supplies Great Britain, | bilization expenses in Canada prior To the signing of the armistice. A {further sum of $190,000,000 advanced to Great Britain last ves for | stuffs and other supplies, including interest payments due by the Imper- for ond hundred million dollars ad | vanced by them for ipenditure 188,200,000 {| Allied munitions A advanced ex- in Canada sum of to other| countries for the purchase ir i Canada of raw foodstuffs | land manufactured products. A grant! of nine million dollars was made to { the Halifax Relief. Fund Wa vice gratuities ate up $6 {and the remaining $276,0080000 was | | spent in war and demobolization ex- penditure in Canada. It will be noticed that every cent {of this loan was spent in Canada, | and provided the means whereby | Canada was kept busy during a very | eritical period. The same assistance | {is even more necessary now than it} | was a year ago, for it is predicted! | that there is a serious winter ahead | of the country. was materials, Ser- 0.000, people "come across," | Vietory Loan Campaign They can be assured of a safe investment, at {a rate of interest which makes it very attractive, and in addition they {will be doing their share to keep | Canada on the right track towards { prosperity and efficient reconstruc tion, which is much needed at the | present' time. | \ | MEASURING THE STUDENT'S THINKING POWER. { The fact that college students are| antering universities this autumn on basis of psychological tests does not seem to have upset the academic {world so greatly as some people (feared, The list of institutions | which have already adopted these | tests, first officially endorsed by Col- | ready an imposing one, and it will! undoubtedly grow. {askance at the idea of {student "catch questions," basing his college entrance--in large part, at Jeast--on his ability! to find his way out 'of. these verbal) = traps, the educational world long ag0 accustomed itself to the use of] these methods. The sclence of intel- | ligence measuring has made great! strides during the war, aided by the; pryotical experience which numbers! of 'college psychologists had in the! army camps; and to-day the grade | of intelligence of any child above! the 'age of three or four years can be! determined with a high degree of! exactness. Every one has been walting for the {war to do great things to our com-| munal life. "The reconstruction per- fod" has been a magic phrase to de note a charmed period wherein every reformer has fondly hoped that his asking and then! over. In no field have such reform. ers been more enthusiastic in thei prognostications than in' education.) Old methods were to be swept away. | The taint of Teutonic scholasticism | in the colleges was th be annihilated | The schools of the "reconstruction. period" were to train better citi- | zens for more usefulness in the new-| er, finer community. These gms have so far found little fulfilment. | The curricula of mest institutions remain about as they were. The in-- troduction of psychological tests ia, | therefore, ome of tne féw concrete raforms which may be said to have grown out of the War. Since these | tests will unquestionably resuit in! weeding out many hopelessly bad! thinkers, and thoreby enable attems teachers that they must ease up on toy, "to 'be concentrated Yon the | 3 -i was strong for | brought by the Government at great | € Xpense } [4 for | and In war and demo-| was | the . | ing while I'm skidding in my wagon large and swift, Canada cannot pos-| We ac- | sibly carry on fianaclally unless the! il in the 1919 | ll fh Lambia University, New York, is- al [ii While the public looks somewhat! { a ill i TL A THE DAILY BRITISH " material, they are by so much im i *t gain. ot Bu hief vi the edu 5 not Very Axeiting: STRONG © J. W. EDWARDS OF FRONTE- NAC FAVORS IT Le 'Iaims That the Commission Has All It Can Attend To In Connection | With the Inside Servicé. Dr. J. W, LONGEVITY INCREASED Aflinents Under Preventable, New York, Oct. 4.--F per cent the ailments from which persons under 70 years o age suffer are pre yontable and sho uld be AVE d, clared Sir Arthur Newshelme for meny principal medical officer of the Local Government Board of England, in addressing the Academy of Medi- cine here tonigh Sir Arthur said that as a result of governmental ef- fort in connection fraternity, the average longevity of men and women in England has been increased between eleven and twelve years in the last decdde. Wilson street, A. R. Walsh 'purchased by Hall of Seventy of Frontenac in discuss- in the op- in so Civil been g the civil service reform bill | Co ymmons. He was unalterably posed to the principle of the bill far as it applied to the outside rvice. He contended it h amply demenstrated that Com- nission had more than it could at to in connection with the inside vice. He thought the principle of e-bill. was "illogical, unfair and ab. lutely unreasonable,' Dr E@wards characterized the ChicaRo men of pr Se ad $0 as 'so-called experts," and said a committee of Canadians could have been chosen by the Deputy Mi- nisters who would have given a more reasonable and just classification. He complained that the C ustoms Depart- The residence on Perth, owned by Dr. Winnipeg, has been Mrs, Thes. Buchanan A A Pr PAA Et PA A Ala a Rippling Rhymes GIVE A LIFT. When I'm chugging in my motor, up and down the countryside, and behold a weary voter, I remark, "Get fn and ride."" And he always looks so grateful that, in sooth, 1 wonder why any to pass a walker hy All up and down the dusty viting weary Pete or { : day long the cars so skiting pike, and few drivers are in- footsore Mike; and these weary men are heaping curses on the idle rich, from danger 'they go leaping to the bottom of a ditch 1 repeat this siniple motto, as along the road I drift: "When you're riding in your auto, give the weary jay a lift." Oh, my car is large and roomy, seven dele- gates 'twill s , and I call the pilgrims to me, saying, "Ride and rest your feet." And it fills my 'heart with gladness, and it makes my blo som glow, when | rescue from their sadness seven deleghtes or so. In my car I'm grand and stately, like a monarch on his throne, but I'd loathe and hate me greatly, if I rode in there while a lot of we ary fellows labored in the dust and heat, breathing through their leaking bellows, weeping o'er their aching feet. I as a lone, keep say- "Selfishness is most --WALT MASON. forbldding---give the. other chap a lift nnn, At ps Pig I A WHIG with the medical. man should be so hateful as | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1910. 1 a BIBBY'S The Store That Keeps The Prices Down 2 ... Extra Special Values InYoung Men's Clothes The assortment is the largest--most complete and most at- tractive it has ever been our good fortune to show. HATS HATS 4 nn A He Young Men's Suit Carnival Raverhill See our Bud Suits at $35. Suits at See our Regent Suits at $22.50 See our Haig Suits at $32.50. $30. 35.00. See our Saxon Suits at $35.00. See our Ritz Carlton Suits $35.00. See our Kenmore Suits at $25. Young Men's Overcoat Showing at at See our Berkley Suits at $ See our Blue Suits at $ - See our Beverley Overcoat « $25.00. > See our Conway Overcoat at $25.00. See our Chesty $25.00. See our Grant Overcoat, $35. See our Belgrade Overcoat at $35.00. See our Humber Overcoat at $35.00. ENGLISH RAINCOATS Overcoat at A. GREY Photographer wishes to announce that he has taken over the Photographing Business of W,. L, Richardson, 151° Wellington street, and is now prepared to do first class work in this line. Workmanship guaranteed. PHONE 1788. 'What Doctors fr Use for Eczema) A soothing combination of oil of | | Wintergreen, Thymol} and other | healing 'ingredients called D.D. D. | | Prescription is now a favorite rem-| | edy of skin specialists for all skin; {'diseases. ® It penetrates the pores, gives instant relief from the most irons skin diseases... Mahood's|" Drug Store, Kingston. Ihe Liquid Wash |f KasinCape Vincent Yerry BY S, 8, MISSISQU®I-- DAILY (Railroad SUNDAYS EXCEPTED, Time) leave Kingston 6.30 am Returning leaves Cpe 11.40 am m. Hound trip tickets 3 ing a lovely outing for 75 c and 1 p.m Vincent at 9.40 am reaching Kingston Leave Cape Vincent 4.30 p.m, tedching Kingston at . witn a 50c. repate on return trip, hav. nts. Tickets good to return on date of issue only. Bug conneotions at Cape Vincent from morning boat, giving nearly 4 hours in 'Watertown and returning to connect with steamer leaving for Kingston. For information, phone 2185, Rockport. Nav. Co. Ltd. Automoblies carried: small $2.00, large $4.00. Space reserved. The Value Of The Home The man who can afford to own # home--and the average man of reasonable earning capacity cfn---should make if his firnt concern to solve the problem. He will be aided in that task by studylug the real estate offerings closely snd investigating those which impress him favorably. He will thus be serving himself, his family and his city, : To every anech man, we would say "Get an home to rally around. For the choicest lots, houses and loeations, apply te: Telephone 703 J. 0. HUTTON 67 Clarence Street, Kingston A: | SHORTER HOURS & Our Store Will Close Every Monday At | p.m. hous Wm. Davies Co. Lid. Princess St New stylish Waterproofed Tweeds--$18, $20, $22.50. NEW HATS The York at The Dork at The Brock at NEW CAPS The Golf at . . The Polo at ain $25. | The Bowler at .$3.75 . $4.75 $5.75 NEW SHIRTS The Converter The Gordon The Arrow . Fancy P. K's AAA $1.50 . $2.00 dieier:a$2.50 . $2.75 to $4.50 Headquarters For Men's Fine Underwear, Hosiery and Pajamas BIBBY'S . $2.00 $2.50 «Ps none SHOES SHOES ToT REEMA NER EEN EMEA EER ERREE tht SIMPLEX COMBINATION RANGE MADE BY McCLARY'S Latest and simplest Range out. We goods The are from to again the old arrive receiving country, is: One turn of a damper changes oven for gas or coal first BUNT'S HARDWARE On sale at-- parse A pen KIELLER'S 4 Ib. tins 7 Ib. MARMALADE $1.10 per tin tins $1.85 per tin i : | Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 and 090, DAVID SCOTT Plumber Plumbing and Gas Work a speefal. ty. All work guaranteed. Address 145 Froutesac street. Phone 1377, FARMS FOR SALE: 200 ac Price $20,000 P 16,000 15,000 11,000 19.000 9.500 9.000 8,500 5,000 §,000 8.000 6.500 6.500 6,000 6,000 5.000 4.500 4,200 4,000 4.200 4.000 2308 DELAWARE LACKAWANNA ~and WESTERN RAILROADS CELEBRATED SCRANTON COAL The "Standard Anthracite. Chief Distributor for Kingston Crawford Foot of Queen St. Phone 9. ¥ WR y if OUR HOT WATER BAGS are called "Leak-Proof™ because they are kind--some with our Foun- tain Syringes--and you'll find] all our Rubber Goods first class in every de- Wwe atm to carry everything in Habbo that is needed in the sick OR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE BUT TER TR WPF PAPER Dairy Butter," 3 19,000, $23.00, with your owit-copy, $15,007 19 19,000, $23.00 60 acrex T.J. Lockhart, Ileal Estate and Insurance CLARENCE STREET Phone 1033W. or 1707). Cod. | DOMINION FISH CO. Landda Feu. Board Li - nr See Ren a, ee Lillian and Lola Madden re. ed to Napanee Saturday, after spends og three months through the A fan is recovering fram 1a serious operation for appendicitis "dn the Lacombe hospital, 13.00 On Monday evening, Sept. 22nd the many friends and nei! hors of Mr. and Ms. Eric W. Jackson gath - erest at the hame of Mr. and Mrs. W, T. Jackson, Enterprise, and present ed with a great variety of gifts. ¢