i 88TH YEAR. Ss HE BRITISH WHIG | HA, EDISON EXPOSED! SERN lanl ally amd Semi-Weekly by ISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED h G. Billet ............ "seman A. Guild naging-Director TELEPHONES: 5 Jatinesn Office rene g am, .e Us Oflice .. se. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally Edition) year, delivered in city .. | ne year, if paid in advance nm Yoar, by mail to rural offi ® year, to United States ... ( i~-Weekly Edition) year, by mall, cash year, if not paid In adva Year, to United States PUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATITES « Calder, 22 St. John St, Montreal W. T 100 King St. W, ronto. : ters to the Kditor-are published : over the actual name of the 8 ¥ r. sso... President ' Attached is one of the best job Cxinting offices in Canada. i . ve | The circulation of THE BRITISH | WHIG is authenticated by the ABQ Audit Bureau of Circulations, 4 Russia's last read lise, ---- | Remorse: The ashes left wiien the burns out, }ine of resistance Is a i - . | Law abiding citizen: One who 'pesn't like hootch. The only ration tha: can lower es is indignation. - § General Depravity hasn't joined army of unemployed, ------------ On the highway, 8. O, 8. stands Same Old Speed maniac. -------------- Very likely Obregon's political ma- ine woud run smoother without W-- pn f-- ---- History is merely a record of 0's unsusceséful efforts to boss his hibor, ' ------eiin | Ah, gentlemen, disarmament, like he Kingdom of Heaven, must be fithin you. ¥ A -------- am. Civilized nations: Those that have : methods for the Quantity i duction of corpses, 1 ---- i When the cow bell rings in the | podern jazz dance orches'ra, it's a [fonder the caives don't bawi. ------------ y "Winter ds at hand," remarks the (Finnipeg Free Press. "The women laying away their furs.' | Another remarkable movie stunt IB that of providing the cash for a | fly of tive to attend every night. i -------- i You can say one thing for the ef- to care for the disabled Yelerans, |® has provided a nice lot of political i a ------------ Under Attorney-general Raney, In this province is just one blam- Somamnission or investigation aftor nother. -------------- If Poetic justice is done when a wo. Ban who thinks she knows it all | AY @ man who thinks he is ratty. -------- In a small town you can get a tele connection promiptly if central t happen to be entertaining M------ ---------- I Some day this country will rogret it didn't support its forests in generous style in which they razed. : ¢ Conditions of employment in King- are better than those in most . That is something to bs ful for. i Some of the effects obtained by nt dames who paint make ue re. that these old masters can't be od for posterity. p See, coal Is high becausa of | Lrolght rates. And the freioht es are high because locomotives burn high-priced coal. Years there are not enough cars to move the crops, and years there are not enough to move the freight cars. < ---------- ingston has a resident who ie 8 years old. - One hundred ang ® years must seem a very long °- y in Kingstom" -- oro Examiner. On the 'cou- MEY, the old gentleman found life agree 'here that he nly hes he could live another 103 amid such pleasant surround- 5 The camera carries r i It reveals relentlie g8 which the human obj which it is focused might pre leave unrevealed. The writer tion gelects his material a { the purpose he has emphasises the details whic purpose The brush of may often soften features softening, or it may slight fedtures that are mot what the artist wishes to repre But the camera is inetora When Oliver Cromwall told his | trait painter: "Paint me as I am, warts and all," he anticipated function and nature of the camer There is no deception about this littls instrument; it tells what through its glass eye, and it tell nothing more or less, Therefore it {s often a destroyer of ideals. Take the case of Thomas A. Edi- son. No one knows exactly how the stories about this man's capacity for work originated; no one knows how much of this is fact and how much fiction. Who bas not carried about desi mental picture of Mr. Edison always at work, always devising, always in- venting? From sun-up and before to sun-down and after he is busily work, winter and summer and sea- sons In between--thus we have pic- tured Mr. Edison. Wizard of Menlo Park believes neither in food nor drink nor sleep-- only in work. This is the Edison of our ideals, Rude awakening follows, then, when the camera registers an omi- nous click and the developed nega- tive reveals Mr. Edison asleep and in the daytime. The snapshot taken recently during his outing in Mary- , | land shows him asleep in a forest, as peacefully as the Babes in the Wood. No sign of restlessness here; he looks as if "he enjoyed every sleeping socond of it, as if he never wanted to do anything else in the world but take noonday naps and slumber the long night through. The camera has revealed something which this man's biographers have Xspt from us, Let all who are weary and tired ro- Joice--evon Thomas A. Edison sleeps sometimes, STIRRED, BUT FOR HOW LONG? An aftermath of the Arbuckle- Rappe scandal in San Francisco is the airing of a lot of stories about doings in the film colony near Los Angeles which seem to have been common property there for long. times. Yet nobody, either private citizens or officers of the law, felt calledupon to take any aefion against those who all at once are denounc- ed as violators of the statutes. Some- times it takes a blaze' of lightning to bring into full relief the signifi- cance of conditions which had been observed many times. This appears to be one of them, At all events there is manifested a purpose to go to thé bottom of the booze parties and enforce the prohibition law as it has not been enforced before. In San Francisco an attempt has been made to extract from the cen- tral figure of the Arbuckle party a statement as to whence came the liquor that led to the tragedy. Noth- ing came of it. A curious public spread all over the country will watch eagerly for the next move. The ille- gal liquor traffic is business of such # character that there can be very Httle secrecy about it. It would not be profitable were not a great many people cognizant of all its details. A determined public officer should have no difficulty in getting all the in- formation requisite to bringing the orincipal offenders to the bar of Justice. It is not to be expected that the sending of a dozen or a hundred viglators of the prohibition law to prison will put a stop to illegal prac- tices. But it unquestionably would make the business so risky that the numbers engaging in it would be ap- preciably reduced and the traffic would be minimized. Making liquor harder to get will not, of course, im- prove the morals of any people, but it will prove a check on vicious prac- tices, of which the Arbuckle party was a glaring example. CANADA'S GREAT OROP. In a year when business is in a condition of depression, and when the wheels of industry are turning but slowly, it is a matter of encour- agement and congratulation that Canada's basic industry, that of agriculture, is having a record year. The figures of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, which have just been compiled and made public, indicate that the great record harvest of 1915 will In all probability be exceeded by the harvest of this year. The wheat crop of the Dominion is away in ad- vance of last year's. The figures is- sued by the official statistician place the total crop at 294,837,300 bushels, an increase of over 30,000 bushels over last year's crop of 263,189,300 bushels, What this great Crop means to Canada in dollars and cents, and in business possibilities, cannot be over. estimated. President Beatty, of the C.P.R., speaking at Lethbridge the west this year will be a debt-paying cron. It will be more than that. It with him from his childhood days a | This restless | Booze was in unfailing supply at all | other day, said that the crop of the | will be a business producing erop, it represents in cold cash a su of at least half a billion dollars is only wheat, without taking considefation alt the ther Ain crops of the country. With this sum of money placed in circula- » as it will be within the next few nths, there wil] be, 'or should be, al awakening in industry, ' into trial revival, and the grain: crops "have provided the money which will, | put the whole country on its feet. In spite of the ¢laims of the manu- | facturers, it is once again apparent that Canada is at backbone an agri- | cultural nation. Time and again, fol- lowing a spell of depression, have huge crops saved the situation, and brought back an era of prosperity. It is no fallacy to say that Canada will only fail when her agricultural industry fails, for it has been proven in past experience that lean indus- trial years follow lean -agricultural years, and that conditions are re- vived by years of large crops. There is hope, therefore, for the industrial outlook in the success of the agricul- tural year, and it can confidently be said that the period of depression and slackness has not much longer to survive, Wheat, the golden grain of the western prairies, is again the sav- ious of Canada, and it is a matter for real thanksgiving that the wheat fields of the west have this year been s0 bountiful in their yields, BY SAM HILL | ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR | Raliread Fare Never Worries "Em. The birds will soon be flying South; Where winter's moaning winds are never heard, And snow and ice can find no resting place, Oh gee! bird! It must be great to be a Observations of Oldest Inhabitant. I kin remember when most every woman owned a red flannel petticoat. at Everybody There But Cora Cob. (Wilhelmina Cor. Todd County (Ky.) Standard) Mrs. Pinkle Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. Vie- tor Cobb and Mr. Perlos Cobb, of Illi- nois, are visiting relatives here, en route to Greenville. eee Horrors of the Drought. "What makes a dog go mad?' asked Bolt. "The same thing that is making a lot of people mad," answersd Mutt, "the lack of something to drink." Door's Wide Open' For Her, George. (George Bailey in Houston Post) Sam Hill, the successor of Luke | McLuuke, must not overlook the Names Lis Names Club, for Miss Olive Apple, who is a Bt. Louis society peach, is entitled to immediate membership. -- The Human Tool Chest, Hatchet face. Hammer toe. Level head, Square chin, Gimlet eyes, Finger nalls, Feminine rule and The chest, Fool Questions. "Chilly asks. "Wouldn't a sheet of flame make a good bed covering in cold weather?" -- Its Own Reward. He worked and toiled both day and night, No salary he drew, He labored not for worldly gain, He simply made home brew. --E. 8 It Does Soumd Crazy, "Do you believe Marg is trying to signal the earth, as some of these sclentists claim?" "No, but I believe the booby hatch is signaling for some of the birds who think it is." Why Don't They Give Gas? Sign on a dentist's office in Balti- more: PAYN DENTISTRY -- Daily Sentence Sermon. Keep your own counsel---let your friends have it. and they will treat it like a stepohild. News of thé Names Club. Mrs. Ether Hurt lives at Collier's Springs, Ky. We thought ether pre- vented a hurt? Jolly Lyon, of Elkton, Ky. make a good one for the. Zoo. would Peounitively Cutting, Oh, it's sad to hear Friend wife's retort When you say, "My dear, Your skirt's too short" --Birmingham Age-Herald. Oh, it's sad to hear ' Your dear wife scold, When you say, "My dear, This coffee's cold." --Cincinnati Enquirer. But it's sweet to hear Friend hub rejoin, When his wife says, "Dear, I'm out of coin." --Newark (Ohio) Advocate a CANADIAN PACIFIC R.R. To Be A Change of Time on October First, Commencing with the fall change of time, October 2nd, the following changes will be in effect: -- Train No. 617 for Sharbot Lake, daily except Saturday, will leave 11.15 p.m. instead of 10.15 p.m, Train Neo. 615 for Tichborae, {daily except Sunday, will leave 4.50 { p.m. ins'ead of 4.10 pm. | Train No. 614 will leave Tichborne | daily except Sunday, 3.55 p.m. in- | Stead . 3.30, arriving Kingston 5.30 | p.m. Train No. 616 will leave Tich- | borne, daily except Sunday, 7.00 jp. instead 6.15, arriving Kingston 8.40 pm. - Only | active buying can produce an in- | i} -THE- POET PHILOSOPHER i f gay THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. | A BME THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY TRUTH MAKES FREE: -- Then said Jesus, If ye con- tinue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and w the truth, and the you free.--John 8 Walt Mason |! baa i OLD FRIENDS, Old friends drop in from time 'to time, and to stale histories give ton- | ue, 2nd talk about the far-off clime | Wherein we .dwelled when we were {meet some friend I knew in days | gone by, who used to walk on buoy- | ant feet, and who was eager, strong | and spry. For we remember old time | friends as we last saw them, years | ago, forgetting how time's passage { lends to ruddy locks the sheen of snow, bear, And he excelled in many games, untired he roamed the Ways; and thus 1 always thought of | James, the hero of my younger days. { And now he's bent and weak and in, | his voice a cackle, shril] and drear, and when he bs to climb a hill he | always shifts to second gear. I show- ed amazement as I stood and watch- ed him creaking to my door; was greensward champion of "Great Scott," he cried, "can this be a sight." We waked old memories that slept, and dragged them forth other such a frost. ---WALT MASON. MORTGAGEE ENTERS SUIT. Mortgage. unique position, which is perhaps without paralle] in Ottawa civil court Charette took action in the supremo court of Ontario against Michael O'- Connor, sier, "former 'Ottawa barrister, and tiary, conveyed to Mr. O'Connor. Mrs, Charette, in the event hundred dollars. charge of mortgage but did not pay the $600 of principal to Mrs. Char- etto. You don't have to believe all you read or anything that you read. We had rather that you follow up the ad- vertisements and convince : yourself of their truth. Hon, Robert gar, Manitoba, in the coming federal campaign, but ke declined to state which party he would support or on which ticket he would. run. Farm For Sale We sold the Farm we adver- tised last week. How. would this one €uit you? 120 acres, about 8 miles from Kingston on a leading road; large frame dwelling; g0gd cel- lar; bank barn 48 by 60 feet on a nine foot stone wall with stabling for 14 cows and 4 horses; drive house and hog pen; about 60 acres under cul- tivation; clay loam; plenty of fire wood; well watered. Price $4,250. T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance We have removed our office to 58 Brock Street, Kingston young: It always shocks me when I | ust yesterday James Foster | Prigg came feebly, hobbling to my | lair; once he was strong and bold | and.big, and fit to whip a grizzly | woodland | this the hero who withstood the | yore? | you, who once was pleasing to the | sight? And now your girth obstructs | the view, your piebald whiskers are | at bitter cost; and as we talked we | sighed and wept, each found" the | Over the Wrongful Discharge of a The Ottawa Citizen says that a | annals, that of one apparently inno- | cent party, bringing suit against an- | other apparently innocent party, with | the likely cause of tho litigation now | safely confined in Portsmouth peni- | tentiary, was brought to light at the | court house, when Mrs. 'Alphonsine | Mrs, Charetto asks for 'the | sotting aside of an apparently dis-'| charged mortgage which A. E. Lue- | more latterly of Portsmouth peniten- | of the dQis- | charge of the mortgage not being set aside, asks that she be paid back six | Lussier gave 2 dis- | Rogers announced | Thursday that he would contest Lis- | "THOMAS COPLEY Telephone 987. Wanting anything done in the earpen< tery line. Estimates given on all kinds of repairs and mew work: ; om wood floors of all kisds." A isms FRIDAY, SKIT. 30, 1vasn. Come Here For Better Clothes! YOUNG MEN'S YOUNG MEN'S SUITS SUITS FIRST LONGS Sizes 34 to 40. * Hand-tailored garments -- Smart style; splendid tailor. made from fine quality Eng- ing; neat patterns. Sizes 33 lish and Domestic Tweeds, to 87. Our Big Special-- $18.50 od ZE new models. Suits that, formerly sold for $45.00. Our |, Big Special-- $30.00 J YOUNG MEN'S "FALL OVERCOATS A big showing of smartest models--made of choice English Woollen -- newest shades at very pleasing prices. --The Student at ...$20.00 ~The Kenmore ....$25.00 ~The Belmont . .... $27.50 --The Princely ....$15.00 SHIRT SALE To-morrow we place on sale 50 dozen more Men's Fino Quality Shirts that sold formerly for $3.00. Sizes 14 to 18. Our Big Special-- $1.98 MEN'S FALL 'OVERCOATS Chesterfield Model Medium dark shades of grey in good quality Cheviots. Sizes 35 to 44. Our Big Special-- SEE OUR ENGLISH GABERDINE TOP COATS Pure Wool; Trench model; good rain or shine. Our Big Speciale $25.00 Others at ...$15.00, $18.00 $25.00 . .$15.00, $18.00, $22.50 Others at OUR BOYS' CLOTHING IS REAL CLASSY Nothing better to be had anywhere in Canada at prices that will please you. --Boys' Overcoats --Boys' Knickers. --Boys' Sweaters. --Boys' Hosiery. --Boys' Underwear. --Boys' Caps. --Boys' Suite --Boys' Reefers. --Girls' Reefers. QUR SPECIAL ORDER DEPARTMENT For Men and Young Men May Interest You ! Sample of new Suitings and Overcoats. We take your special measurements and have Suits or Over- coats delivered to your home ina week or ten days' time, BIBBY'S will recelvc prompt att t. 28 Queen Stree AUTUNN CHILL 1S IN THE ATR: FOR THE WINTERTIME PREPARE | | utumn is the natural coal buying time of the year, It is the time when ser- ious minded men and wo- men begin planning for the wintertime "comfort of their families. Consult us by phone and we'll promptly attend tf' your coal wants. : Crawford Phone 8. Foot of Queen St. BARRETT'S Everlastic Roofing AND "MULTI-SHINGLES" Four-in-one--The best Roofings on the market and the lowest BUNT'S Hardware, King St. Rupture Expert Permanently Located--No Periodical Visits We are always here. For forty years we have been fit- ting Trusses in Kingston, Ne need for you to go from your home town for expert advise about your individual case. | We have the best appliances that are made, and we guar- antee to secure your Rupture aud make you comfortable, Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess St. Phone 848. Crutches, Elastic Hoslery, etc. Dr. H. A. Stewart Dental Surgeon Wishes to announce that he has resumed his practice, cor. Wel- lington and Princess Streets. Phone 2092. Dr. H. A. Stewart The old-fashioned man who 'used to deposit all his spare cash in the bank now has a son who deposits all of his in the automobile repair shop. NEW CLOVER | HONEY IN THE COMB AND Jas. REDDEN & Co, Phone 20 and 990, The House of Satintaction J EE ------ Pluck loses no time on account of hard luck. Lose no time in getting aequainted with the advertisements. They are wonderworkers. Only. a lizy man lets his wife do all 'the worrying for the whole family. 2