THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG { = fb "le by Fubligned vaiy and Semi-Weekl ru o THE" BRITISH WHIG CU, LIMITED RN DATES year, aaa By sess $33 ear, If paid in advagoe ..35.00 ural olfices $3.60 tates ......§3.00 tion) cas in advance, Sates ..... d threes months pro re § canon REPRESENTATIVES + ®. Calder, 32 St. Johg Bt, Lr . M. Thompson, 402 } Sts Mongiset = ronto. tiers the Kditor are published sal ove: a actual name of the 1. 1.60 1.80 Whatever the Chinese revolution- fats may have been, they were not Lenine is no Pied Piper, but he San held his crowd together with the Prunes are said to be dropping in Price. Thank goodness we will begin to live again. A burglar broke into a profiteer's house, but discovered his error and apologized for digumhing one of his own profession. ie rT Discussion of the tariff has lost its taste. Do you recall how we used to stand with one foot on the rail 88d talk learnedly and sometimes disconnectedly. Breakihg into society was easy when one had only to have his appen- dix extracted. But now it is shedding aflenoids and tonsils. However, the ~ Obst is not precipitous. Pancho Villa, the Mexican bandit, 18 under severe penalties as the price of immunity from prosecution. He has been compelled to promise he will Bot go on a Chautauqua circuit. The Yacht. Club has been a splen- did social centre during the summer '&lme¢. The good people have fittingly #mstained this cool resort. May it ei The good old fashioned summer #anning, when you ¢an run into a rich poma about the kitchen door, is now another class altogether. The market that little green thing on the ~ ¥ige In the backyard garden keeps M8 worried as to when it will even Daylight until 8.30 p.m. just now 8 great ald to Kingstonians. They Baye greatly enjoyed a boon, which, 2 we think will never again be I The farmers and railroads thrown 'a monkey wrench into machine and it will stop going. 2 e---------------- oline is a quiet fluid. Its poten- however, are great when in and its value is shown when turn over a 200 per cent. divi- id to'the Standard Oil sharehold- ne, A 200 per cent. advance in effi- pcy is what consumers would like! bX he demobilization of nearly 400.- Canadians since the last shot was in'the war has béen accomplish- a smooth and satisfactory way, hievement that was only pos- throuh a Unlof government cting the dispersal, Politics had p in replacing the men in civil vitles. . Boldier settlement ofthe federal B¥ernment has been a mighty force ling and steadying the life of Nearly $100,000,000 of Ca- coin is behind the enterprise, 'country as a result will be great- ilarged and stfengthened by the jultural expansion through 20,- § to come, any selfish and thoughts of some of its a ~ CANADA HAS THE MEN. Now that English and Scotch sch- olars dre being induced by higher pay to remain and teach in the colleges at home, the Canadian college autho- rities who think that faraway fields are so green will perhaps look about them and discover good teaching ma- terial right at their doors, The war has taught that what we need in the line of teaching is good common |fense and an understanding of things practical rather than so-called cul- ture. It was this practical teaching, rather than a knowledge of Latin and Greek, that brought such success to Canadian arms In hard battles and skirmishes, and it is practical teach ing that will be more and more re- quired in these days of stress and strain. While it is good to keep in close touch with the best in old eoun- try education, surely Canada in this twentieth century can tarnish men who can teach the dead languages 4 (and the one we speak to the Cana- dian student, The theological college authorities, too, are coming to the conclusion that Canada has theolo- gues who can teach bible history, Ee ---------------------- ' COMING -- BETTER TIMES. Indications of a normal and slow decline in the price level continue to multiply. Perhaps the most signi- ficant of these is the pronounced fail- ing off in the demand for luxuries, and the subsiding of the wave of extravagance which so recently swept the country. The people are + no longer purchasing silk shirts and fur coats and diamonds;-but are saving their money for more necessary ar- ticles or perhaps for investment. It is natural and propér-that-the return to normal conditions should maidifest itself first #with the sales of luxuries, but other hopeful indica- tions are not lacking. A slight de- cline in wholesale prices is announec- ed. Although the gain for the con- sumer may be small, it marks a re- action against the steady upward trend and promises better things to come. A survey of the status of produc- tion also gives reason for optimism. From all parts of the country" some reports of bumper crops of wheat and other cereals, Meats, fish and vegetables are now stored in quan- tities far greater than a year ago. Tho vast drain upon Canadian foodstuffs occasioned by the world war has to a large extent been relieved by foreign production. With the constantly improving la- 'bor situation, with the readjustment from war to peace conditions prac- tically completed, with thrift and economy replacing extravagance and foolish spending, there is every rea- son for the people of this country to look to the future with optimism. Better times are coming. THE PRISONERS' ESCAPE. Official Ottawa, if the Journal speaks for the penitentiary author- ities, seems to regard the escape of the two prisoners in the automobile of Warden Ponsford as a vindication of the system in vogue. This is a most remarkable attitude to assume, and- it is apparent that something extraordinary Is needed to disturb the complacancy that seems to enthral the present administration. Racing automobiles and rifle firing on the highway, endangering the lives of innocent citizens, is a pretty excuse for maintaining an out-of-date sys tem. f * Inspector W, 8. Hughes ought to know that this regrettable incident Indicates laxity at the Portsmouth In- stitution, and laxity of a nature that calls for a most thorough investiga- tion. He ought to know that the escape was not made in thirty see- ands, but, like -all successful es- apes, was made only after mature deliberation; that the priseners were first tempted by the accessibility of thé car; the carelessness of the guard, and the bad judgment in se- lecting men as "trusties." of an escape in the warden's automo- bile doubtless existed in the minds of many prisoners and was an en- grossing subject of conversation among many of them. To punish a man for having a cigarette stub and then place an automobile within his reach seems hardly a reasonable way to conduct a prison. The prison "'up- lifters" are in no wise disconcerted by the escape of the prisoners, but are the more engouraged to insist upon sane methods. WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES. Katherine Fullerton Gerould, writ- ing in the Atlantic, under the title "Reflections of a Grundy Cousin," says a number of straight-forward things about {he youngsters of 1920 with which all middle-aged folk will be prone TG egree--though few of them have the hardihood to say so. She has observed that fathers and mothers hold their daughters with of doubtful morals are sometimes present om the same dance with maidens of undoubted virtue; that girls no longer object strenu- ously to the ure of intoxicants by the men with whom {hey associate, nor to late hours unchaperoned; girls are going to dances uncorseted because men like them better so. She believes that a kiss is nolonger regarded as an affront and followed | inevitably by the stinging siap it merited In her youth, She finds it impossible to these\days because she cannot tell what ds in good taste from what is a looser rein than of old; that girls i floor | | {bad form, what fs mild from what {18 extreme. It all looks alike to her. {She who has not danced since the jold "walts and two-step days' fipds {herself a stranger to the modern-con- | ventions. | And she refuses to blame the war {for more than a small portion of the |change. The .trouble, in her esti- {mation, 1s the lack of religion, of the {""Thou shalt not" of our fathers. } . | | MUSINGS OF THE KHAN | $ Who Is My Neighbor? A handsome fox slipped out of the {big rock near the water hole and {watched me putting up hay. Not that |and except the enterprise of raising {chickens, ducks and other foolish {one knows about this fox family but {me and my Basket Baby. Why should | They would,lust after them for their beautiful coats when the hoarfrost is into my quiet fields with their accurs- ed mongrels, half hound, half alli- terrier, bulldog, wild cat, rat trap, hen hawk, skunk, weasel, rattlesnake You think that I am exaggerating? You hold that it is impossible for and breed, but you come to the Wig- wam any old afternoon and ask for that can't be accounted for in any other way. Here is a shéep killer, his correct pedigree we would learn that he is a cross between f cutting Don't this here handsome dog-fox that you are blowing about carry off suppose he does. I can replace the chickens but I could never replace turesque creature sitting yonder on the rock in the gathering dusk. I bor as myself . This fine fox is my neighbor. He hath a wise wife and if my friend slips up to the barn occasionglly and, takes home a fat the little folks. I took a leading part in Sunday cost me more than ten dollars before I got home and stored the old Ford can have a picnic, too and it costs less. "I can picture them under the the door of their home in the Per- pendicular Pasture. I can emvision batting them back and forth like tennis, But, you say this here fox t famous Perpendicular Pasture, does not live on your, poultry alone--he is that loving your meighbor as your- Sure thing! Who are they any- or.a chicken now and then that some thing divine should dwell in the you tell me how many field mice this 'n'ellizent Thing hath destroy- keep, In the olden times everyone had to sacrifice a pair of doves. I 'whole grub or a grasshopper on the i v8 |dogwoods and sat himself down on a {he was interested in agriculture save |teathered and profitable things. No {they know? They would kill them! {on the pumpkin. They would come gator, part wolf and the rest collie, and jabberwock. these different animals to intermarry me and I will show you lage dogs an alleged dog, that if we only knew box and a bob cat. a chicken every now and then? Well, that beautiful, raceful, alert and pic- have been taught to- love my neigh- four delightful children. What of it pullet to feast his proud missus and school picnic the other day and it {and crawled into bed. These foxes moon sucking the chicken bones at them playing with the feathers and hat you are harboring in your in- robs your neighbors' coops as well-- how that they can't afford a duck "acklields and the sugar Bush? Can ed this summer? He is worth his belong to the.old religion. I am a P pagan and my God dwelleth in tHe woods and fields and amid the eter- nal hills, And every now and then 1 bring a pair of hens--I admit that they are sometimes what might be called old hens--and I lay them on His altar and I walk away. Are those | hens wasted? Nay! Listen! The little foxes are playing under the moon, safe in a circle of briers and choke-cherry treés and poison ivy. Suddenly they quit their play and cock their ears and sit rigid. Up | through the dogwoods and across the | great oat field 'sorbed in dew comes | their handsome dada with a nice fat | hen and mama follows after with yet another. Where did you get | them? From an altar. All the al-| tars are not in cathedrals and | shrines built with - men's hands. There is an altar on every farm, and what of it {f the raccoons come in the night and nibble at the shew-| bread? A couple of years ago I befriended a crippled crow and carried scraps out to her in the bush all semmer. The result is that I am well and favorably known to every crow nofth of the Great Lakes. Rushdale Farm 18 a sanctuary, You can't find a place, and when I was away a week as a delegate to the Bone Dry Con- vention at Bulloch's Corners, blest if they didn't turn in and-eat all my potato bugs, and now, comparatively speaking,'I am living on Easy street. When I stand before the judgment seat on the Last Gredt Day I will Lear a kindly voice chip in and say: "He didn't feed the hungry or clothe the naked--not what you'd notice--because it took him all his time to feed and clothe himself; but he was mighty good to the crows, ver Honor!" RR . THE KHAN. The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rock- ton, Ont, ---------------- | PUBLIC OPINION That Don't Need Props. (Woodstock Sentinel-Review) A news despatch says that the limbs of the peach trees in the Nia- i ------ TTT bl SUITS $25.00 |BIBBY'S] MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR STORES Best for Less Better Clothing We have correct styles for the man of twenty and for the man of fifty--from the liveliest to the most conservative models. You're pretty sure to find just what you want hee. \ OUR IDEAS OF SERVICE Our idea is to satisfy you. 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