Lal's due. r THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. BRITISH STH YEAR, ub LENE | EE VERRY ha > C0. LIMITED . President Editor and TELEPHONES: {ness Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES: {Dsily Edition) year, delivered in city yea. id in advance . 1 0 s : (Semi-Weekly Ed Ne year, by mall in 3 . ® year, If not paid in advance ' One year, to United States " OUT-OF-TOWN RBEPRESENTATIVES F wide 22 Si. Johp St, Montreal fi x Thompaoys, 100 King St. W. nto. Letters to the E only over the actua. rit 18 1.50 1.50 are published name of the Attached is one of best. job the printing offices in, Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ? ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations, ~ As a rule, discourtesy is merely the struggle of a two-by-four to feel im- portant, B Cain may not have been without 'some justification. Abel may have 'Been a reformer. The only people who scoff at ideals _ are those who have found raw eals more profitable. A model husband is one who washes up the pots and pans after ling the home brew. . The average man's idea of Justice 1s something that will make it hot for his enemies. The greater part of the bride's happiness is caused by the conviction that her girl friends envy her, Nothing so intensifies our hatred an enemy as the knowledge that he a better man than we are. When a man tells you that he 'feorns public opinion, he\ means to pnfess that his reputation is gone. Now is the time when the man ¥ho used to laugh at women's styles wishing he had the nerve to shed coat. | If nations would devote a little ore energy to building friendships jhey wouldn't need so many of the her kind. > David couldn't find a man who 'ould admit that his wife bossed flim. "Ah," he sighed, "all men are ars." It may yet be 'necessary for the ; ted States to "provide neat little Muzzles for all its officials before #8nding them abroad. * Before she Is married, she thinks each envelope contains a billet , After marriage she knows that envelope ' contains & bill . It this dry weather keeps up, the 0. government might consider 'bringing rainmaker Hatfleld east. : tario needs the moisture that he * thinks he can produce. -------- Madame Curie has been awarded another degree by an eastern coll- A If this keeps up, the disting- anes scientist will feel like a ther- mometer by the time she arrives back ance. France is reported as moving to marriage compulsory. The t way to make matrimony .at- etive is to make it possible-for a fn to be assured of being able to e for his family. ' ' Ten years elapsed between the Popping of a postcard in an Ohio 'and fits arrival In another 120 distant, Well, some small town naster do have difficulty in ng postcards. nisin. An Illinois judge flipped a coin in' fase of a man who eloped with C 's Wife, and the husband won Br. Now the guestfon is, does that or the old adage, "Unlucky in , lucky at gambling?" pol savings banks in New York last year helped, the pupils to over $500,000. Nearly all the and towds of 'Ontario have in- these Danks, except King- and the. results have been most tory. Why does this city lag WHIG ABOLISH cArTTAL PUNISHMEN e fiasco that took pla ver t execution ol the late Norman at Woodstock, his escape from cus- tody, the man-hunt that followed ar his re-capturg in time to carry the hanging on the day sentencing judge, has c or lesg comment {n which provincial officials str that Kingsttor be official as the place of execution for ince of Ontario, because pens to be 'a penitentiary at t! age of Portsmouth, a suburb of t! city. How far negotiations been carried between the province and the Minister of Justice view to carrying out the suggestion we do not know. walle the Portsmouth penitentiary is officially "Kingston'-Penitentiary, have being so described in the proclam- | of | mation, it is not located in the city Kingston. and the good citizens properly resent being advertised by the department of justice and courts in this. man- ner, and the further stigma associat- i ed with official executions and the | is something | consequent publicity, that calls for the strongest protest on the part of Kingston. Ip every judicial district Kingston is given the notoriety of being the place of 'Penal servitude and is now to he known as the place where men are to suffer the death penalty, while, as a matter of fact, not one foot of the penitentiary reserve is within tha city limits. It.is a matter for some satisfaction, however, to know that the sugges- tions cannot be carried out without amendments to the statutes for at the present time the sheriffs of the different counties are responsible for the carrying out of executions, and Kingston can insist that the notoriety proposed shall not be placed upon her, but'shall be placed where it be- | | of each year when it is little use to longs, and also, that hereafter per- sons convicted of offences shall be sentenced to 'Portsmouth Penitenti- ary." The subject of capital punishment | 5} is one upon which there is wide divi | F'8ht | oldest of us may have felt dull and sion of opinion. In Canada the law 'provides the sentences of death by hanging and when a murder has been committed the 'emotional influence of the general public demands the death penalty and protests loudly against the claimg of mercy. Even cultured men are found to encour- age this spirit of vengeance, some ad- vocaliiz on the ground of ctohomy this summary method which is less expensive for the state than the peai- tentiary, Not since Robert Bicker dike failed to carry his bill to abolish capital punishment, has the proposal been seriously put forward, and, ex- cept in cases where appeals for clei ency have been successfully made. the sentence of death has been duly carried out. But i8 this the proper method? The world has been so ¢onvulsed by violence and bloodshed that the present 'seems hardly the proped time to raise this question of abolish- ing executions, for advancing the- ories and drawing fine' arguments. But this very impatience constituies | a very good reason why executions should be rejected as the solution of capital offences. It is a fact as shown by records on file in the ar- chives of the Kingston Historical so- ciety that the first man hanged in this dgtrict was innocent of the crime %e was convicted of. He was 4 young man and the crime charged was the theft of a watch. The court sat at Bath and there the execution took place. Several months afier the hanging a pedler returned to Bath and identified the watch as one he sold to the young man on a previ. ous visit. The law at the time re. quired the culprit to prove his Inno cence but being unable to produce the pedlér he was convicted. That was long ago and legal pro- cedure has changed, but the fact re- mains that we have no right to push to this point our necessary but al- ways uncertain part of judges. The death penalty takes away all possibile ity of revision if there should be an error in judgment, and we have but t0 examine the records of appeal courts to ascertain the frequency and dlversity of views of eminent judges on the same points. Further, capital punishment does not fulfill its preventive object, the criminal, even in long, premeditated crime, acting in a passionate state of mind in which the question of thé penal- ties incurred is but rarelly thought .| of, and in a secondary manner. Whe- ther carried out fn public or in the courtyard of a prison, an execution develops the bloodthirsty instinct, the desire for cruel vengeance, in the low Datures which make up the ¢rowds. The very thought of this cold-blooded murder wafts over the mind a bréath of savagery that is much more demoralizing than the | example of a crime. We are not discussing this matter on sentimental grounds at all but solely with a view to determining what should be the proper course wm pursue. The only argument aavane- ed in favor of executions is the pre- vention of crime, but should any hu- man being be put to death to deter others? Is there any truth in the contention that the death penalty is a deterrent? No one knows that it is so, but we do know that the med Be REAL NE 5 oy murderer acts under uncontrollabl witn a | { whiclr "the determining cause seems There is no justification | for calling it Kingston Penitentiary, | | is more like a garden than a factory. | passion, either upon impulse or pre- prehend the consequences of his a It is not at the time of perpetratin the act that the criminal makes sucn | reflections. At the moment he acts meditation, and fails-utterly to com- | {on impulse and is afraid of only one thing: being found out and punish- | That thjs fear is not suf te prevent the act is evidence t the penalty ig not a deterrent. Thes persons are wild beasts; they may remain inoffensive if circumstances | do wot arise to awaken their in-| itincts. But when the contingencies | of life and absence or mora: educa- tion favor the outbreak of bad in- stincts, the human beast is let loose and we witness horrible crimes of ed to spare the normal mentality. They ought to be shut up and placed where they cannot do harm. THE LONG VACATION. Somebody is always fussing about the long summer holidays that the school children get. To those who regard a school as a sort of factory, | it seems a dreadful thing to shut up| the plant for two solid months every year. They gee a chanee to increase the net ammual production of wisdom twenty per cent. by simply adding | that much to the working hours, and | they 'wonder why the schools do not seize this opportunity. Then they write to the papers and advocate shortening the holiday season. This is a subject on which we felt very strongly in our school days, so we have spent much thought on the question. The fact is that a schoul Children are growing thngs, not manufactured articles. Just as the gardener provides water and fertil- izer for his plants, so the teacher must furnish mental food to his scholars. But too much water is as Lad as none; just so with this mental fecod Moreover, there is a season water and cultivate the goil, We refer to the period from December to Feb- ruary. There is a corresponding season in the school year, and it is now. Even the biggest and lazy during the warm weather: how fuch more a boy who hasn't had our twenty, forty, or sixty summers in which to get used to the effect of heat on the human mind. But the case for the long vacation | smiling and no joking; | dees not rest merely on the heat. We believe that this vacation is as ne- cessary as milk for a child's proper development. For ten months of the year the boy or girl is under the di- rection of his teacher. He does what she tells him to. All day long his ac- tions are controlled by another's will. Now this is good to produce dis- cipline, but it is dangerous also. If Robinson Crusoe had been trained to wait for the teacher to tell him what to do, how long would he have sur- vived on his island? When is your child to learn self- reliance? When can he develop the initiative. which decides upon a course of action and follows it out to the end? Mainly in the long vaca- tion, when for two glorious months he is free to carry out his own ideas --10 poke about in fields and wools as he pleases. That, combined with book-learning, is the training that made Abraham Lincoln, Hugh Mill- er, and many another 800d man, That is the training which makes | real Canadians. ---------- | PUBLIC OPINION | Puzzle. Find the Reason, (Guelph Record) Since April 18th the public is curious not how to remove dande- lions but as to what to do with them next." Prohibition has done more to clear the landscape of its yellow de- corations than all the agricultural chemists on earth, ------------nn New Brunswick Hears a Moan. (Fredericton Gleaner) What we gather from the low moaning sound which issued from the prairie west is that she will accept her natural resources if the Dominion government will pay back rent, ---------------- ™ Your Luxuries. Vancouver Sun) During the single year 1919 the people of Canada spent $300,000,000 more for luxuries than was spent in the country for education since eon- federation, according to a statistician employed by the government at Ot- tawa, Startling figures! (M For the whole dominion the sum | of over $150,000,000 was paid last year on account of United States ex- change. This was twice as much as our big railway deficit, or as much as the entire amount of the customs 1' Some days the luck is all against | 18; misfortune with barbed wire has | fenced us. At early morn we leave | THE POET PHILOSUI'HEN Walt Mason Lan UNLUCKY DAYS. | | our couches, and feel possessed of | | grievous grouches; we step upon a | tack on rising, and hand out lan- guage most surprising, such adjec- tives as start pink blistergpupon the eardrums of our sisters. We do no the break= fast's late, the stove is smoking; the soft "boiled eggs are hard as thun- der, the biscuits are an asphalt won- der, And when we leave our homes, proceding to daily tasks, our bosoms bleeding, our bald and beastly luck continues; we fall a block and sprain some sinews; an auto hits us with its fender and leaves us bruised and sore and tender; and all the bores we have been shunning come round us now, and come a-running; and soon we note with ire and loathing that rain has spoiled our new spring clothing; and bill collectors sternly trail us, and threaten they will sue and jail us. We meet all accidents that bore most, and everything is hind end foremost. You've known | such days, and did you weaken and let the briny tears start leakin'? Or { did you rear on end serenely, with | grace and dignity mast queehly, and | say, "Though fate be raw and clam- my, I'll show that I am Sunny Sammy'? --WALT MASON. CAPTAIN ALBAN JONES, R.N. Who won £69,000 ($269,100) on a $2.75 ticket of the Calcutta Sweepstakes on this year's English Derby. Captain Jones. who Is assistant marine supers intendent of the Union Castle Line, ha never before placed a penny horse. He is a retired sea captain, ang declared he will not give up hi £8. ent post in spite of his winni the large fortune. Humorist is rn ha brought the fortune to Captain ones. - Pumkin pie is the pie for me, Good for breafkast, dinner an' tea, Golden brown in its circling crust, Eat and eat until I almost bust !, n an Pumkin Pie. After Ma biles the pumkin down She molds the crust like a fat king's crown, Crimped an' edge, Then cuts each piece like a sized wedge. crinkled around _ the big Creamy an' sweet, it fits the taste; Not one crumb ever goes to waste. Mince an' apple are good, maybe, But pumkin pie"s the pie for me! --Don C, Seitz in New Yark World. PA BAYS: "A woman oftentimes is old Before her fifty years-- Too soon upon the:brow of go'd The silver thread appears. A man ain't mueh to look upon, And that's the honest truth; And yet, when her good looks are be gone, He often keeps his youth. "It ain't because the woman's work Is harder of the two, It ain't because a man'll shirk The job he has to do. It's just as plain as Nature's law That show us what is best A woman ages first because She don't know how to rest. "If all the wasted energy Of women's rockin' chairs, And things like thesé of thoire, Could just be harnessed for an hour, To where some motor whirled, The women folks would furnish power Enough to run the world. \ : "A man knows how to loaf---to gait And do his Jofin' right; A woman thinks it means to knit, Embroider day and night. A man knows how to work and play And do em both with zest: A woman labors either way-- , She don't know how to rest." ee -------------- rg Our idea of a hopeless self-kidder is a poor man who likes to think eaters A 1 i i | ond | BIBBY'S and $37.50. SUITS at $25.00 Plain Grey Worsteds ---rich Blue Serges, fancy Cheviots, Suits that were made to sell for $32.50, $35 Now ...... $25.00 BIG SUMMER SUIT SALE IS ON If we can't give you a regular "made-to-order" fit and a regular made to order" tailoring s tyle, we won't take your money. Real beauties, made to sell for $45.00, $47.50 and $50.00-- Blues, Greys and Browns, stripes, new checks and plaids. Now ...... $35.00 SUITS at $35.00 fancy "Now Suits at $30.00 Suits that were made to sell at $37.50 and $40.00-- all new models--all new goods, . $30.00 Suits at $18.00 Suits that were made to sell for $25.00 and $27.50 -- all new goods. Now........... . $1800 MEN'S BATHING SUITS One-piece style with Skirt--regular $2.50. Now ....... $1.50 MEN'S KH AKI PANTS Extra sizes 30'to 42. Special . . Men's White Duck Trousers cee eve.... $1.75, $2.00 and $2.50 New Palm Beach S uits have arrived. . . $1.50 per pair thelr protection." McClary's 'Gas Ranges The finest finished Gas Ranges made in Canada. 7 different styles carried in stock to choose from. HOT PLATES--1, 2, 8, 4 Burners. BUNT'S HARDWARE AUTHORITIES SAY "BUY BONDS NOW" They are at mos. favor. able terms. The drop in wages and. commodity prices will almost surely be followed by an increase in Bond values and a de- cline - in Bond interest rates. . This, then, is the time to buy. Write for our Idst of Offerings. W. A. Mackenzie & Co. LIMITED Gevernment and Munieipal Bonds. 42 KING STREET WEST, TORONTO - CANADA, Manitoba was the first province of Canada to extend the right of suf- frage to women on the same basis as that accorded men. Epitaphs were inscribed on tombs by the Egyptians, Jews, Greeks and Romans, 28¥ BAGOT STREET. EE City of Edmonton 7%-20 Year Bonds Interest June and December Price 99, to yield 7.10 ; Bongard, Ryerson & Co. "Zhe Home of Good Investments." 5 Bay Street, Toronte FARMS FOR SALE 100 ACRES, 7 miles from Kingston-- price $3850. Only takes $500.00 cash to handle. Possession any time and own- er will give share of crop to have it harvested. Will also sell stock and mi- plements at a low figuré, as he is re- tiring. Plenty of others; all sizes and easy terms of payments. One good two-story cottage with gar- den. 'Wo miles out. 5-passenger Chevrolet car, nearly TRUMPOUR & LOYST 111% Broek Street. Phone 704 or 146w / . on A Shipment of CROSSE & BLACKWELL'S GOODS HAS JUST ARRIVED --Mixed Pickles. ~Chow Chow. ~--White Onions. ~=Girkins, --Walnuts, ~--Marmalade in 1 glass and 4 1b. tins. Jas. REDDEN& Co. Puss. 0 a ane. n PHONE 1728. Coal That Suits 1 Ui 1 Reo Touring. 3 Briscoe Touring. FOR SALE 1 Studebaker Touring. 1 Ford Truck. I Chevrolet Truck. See our new 1921 Briscoe Touring Car. ANGLIN BROS., Bay St. MR. ROBERT W. ANGLIN, MANAGER Cats and Dogs Now that the warm wea- ther is here, these pcs =~ quire extra care. . We have a complete line of the famous-- ' DR. DANIEL'S ANIMAL REMEDIES for home treatment. their DOG and CAT SOAP Also Dr. Chown's Drug Store Rupture Spécialist 185 Princess St. Phone 348. Farm (With Crop) For Sale A choice fmm of 120 acres including crop about 11 miles from Kingston. burderinig on lead ug road: first clase bricle gweiling, guod stone foundation, cistern, § hediooms; good outbuildings; wood fences; well wa ered; good drain- age; about 40 acres in grain with prog- pects of a good crep; also about $0 &cres In meadow (also looking well). It is excellent land for hay or grain, Have had 75 tons of hay and 1400 busheis of grain In.one season on this farm, besides pasturing 17 to 19 cows, 4 horses and young cattle. This farm is a mortgage lifter. Price farm and crop, $7500; wiikout crop $6500. This is one of the many farms we kave for sale. T. J. Lockhart REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Phone 322J or 1797J. N.B.---We have removed our office to 58 Brock Streat. Kingston farm a] ~ The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Celebrated Scranton The Standard Anthracite The only Coal handled by Crawford Phone 0. * Foot of Queen St. "It's a black business,'but we treat you white." Ns ct iiss) A gold wire one-eighteenth of an inch thick will bear a weight of 500 pounds, ; The Hindus observe Decembey 25th as a holiday, but not for relige ops reasons.