BRITISH WHIG 80TH YEAR. | Memorial "PhbMahed Daily ana Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH, WHIG PUBLISIIN G CO,; LIMITED + President cs Editor aud ing-Director TEURPHONES : SUBSCRIPTION RATES; (Dally Edition) in eity 0 year, If not paid One year, 0 Uhilne, OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTA "Outen O23 St. John 'hompson p § F, W, 7 Tereato, Letters to. the only over the writer. Advise 2 1.50 tates . TIVES : St, Moatrea) King st. Ww, fre published Ramee of the T ATIMEDOd 15 one Of the best job printing offices im Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH | | WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of: Otrculations A ets se a Yes, Mabel, there is a Mr, Astor, but he is only a lord or something. | ------------ | i Tax collectors make pretty good | doctors. They keep everybody ia | Dispatches speak of "the sultan's oreign minister, Izzet Pasha." We'll ite. Is it? S-------------- The fuuniest thing about the aver- 'age joke is the fact that the teller 'thinks it's joke. --m-------- Some men think it's immoral to | #moke. And some men can smoke | ithout getting sick. ' The new demand seems to be for | "life, liberty and the pursuit of every | bot oo | fool fad that bo DS up The ex-crown prince has written his memoirs. The ex-crown prince | vidently needs a little money, | | { Mr. Edison could earn the 2ternal titude of every housewjfe by in- nting a non-spillable cigar ash, | | | " | | gan "upward trend in building" 1s tioned in a trade report. There lot of evidence that there ai- | ys was. et's see. Isn't it the same Mr. Le-| who abolished money that now Bants the loan of a paltry billion or ? an never realizes how frail and 1 he is until he comes and fings hing in the throes of spring cleaning. S-------------- ngarian royalists would like to Crown Prince Otto for king, but will not, if the boy has good -------- envey New South Wales 1s to the Unitéd States to learn 8 truth about prohibition has some ahead of him. ---- One. of the saddest sights of Na- isa Smart Aleck of eighteen try- to give the impression that he 'hard bofled egg. thet | cer? Convention. Why do men d ln a similarity that | formity? TH | repudiating all. hostile motives at- | tributed to them. country is bankrupt in every sense of the word, and is unable to restore industrial activity until her transp rtation sys- tems are properly equip Is needed, but no matter what views they hold towards capitalists, the | money will not be f rthcoming unu! | they show a disposition to meet their | existing obligations, and give guar-| antees for the future. Such guaran- | tees must be based upon production, and for this purpose the communists | will be under the necessity of moai- | fying their ideas in order to encour- | age home enterprise without which | they cannot develop the national re- | POOR OLD SHAKESPEARE. Veteran survivors of the lovers of | | the legitimate drama who have been { deploring the failure of the Bard or | Avon's plays to draw modern audt- ences have another shock in store, {The patronage of the three months' | summer Shakespearian scason at the Theatre, Stratford - on - {Avon, has diminished so much that | even the desperate expedient of using | the memorial stage, for movies dur- | ing the other nine months has failea [to provide enough funds for thas | birthplace performankes. Is the greatest dramatist of the English language to cease to be socn | on the boards and to become known | only by lovers ot literature? Did it seem too stilted, too unreal, for the | present day life? Yet the substitu- | j son of Cohanese for Sothernesque might not be the exact remedy. Per- | Money e | sources that constitute the weaith of | the country. In the meantime might be said to be in the predica- | ment of'a certain king of Spain whe | haps it is the ultra-modern dist went mad endeavoring to bring | for "old stuff" --simply that and no. | about peace among his nobles, He ! thing more, | thought he could make all men think { ---------------- | altke, but gave it up in disgust. He | RULED BY CONVENTION. | thereupon started making clocks de- | Are you ever, or were you ever, in | elaring he would make them all | revolt against the conventions of | keep the same time. Whatever fats | every-day life? Have you ever chaf- | has in stores for Lloyd George at | ed at their bonds, fretted at their in- | home following the Genoa confer- | hibitions, revolted against their unl- | ence, he will go down into history, | form regimen? . OF course you have. | not as a maker of clocks, but as the | If you are younger, rather than oia- | 8reatest man fn the world's history, | €r, you are probably in rebellion [asthe man who won the world war, | against one or two right now. It you | pacified Irelana, Egypt and India, | are older, rather than younger, you | and who staked his all upon winning | have probably learned ere this that an enduring peace. convention, if an evil, is Weverciieioss | a necessary one, How much of our daily ving is | rooted in convention? Why, in sum- mer, do we wear shoes instead of | sandals? Convention. Why do we | drink from the cup and not the sau-¢ | | Lloyd George | | aste i. Walt Mason |! UNEDUCATED. : THE POET PHILOSOPHER ress | There's nothing more swelled up is almest uni- | with pride than yonder old gray hen; The list may [she has her chickens by her side, they indefinitely, Those | number nine or ten. But she has | Who fly in the fase of convention | Dever learned to add, subtract or May enjoy a few delirious hours of | Multiply; she cannot tel} what | Spiritual anarchy, but they succeed | Chicks she's had, how many shoul | chiefly in being conspicuous and fy 2° MEL. Now one is drowned in yog- glving themselves a remembrance of ! der pal, and je not missed, by Jing; { id ' | the old hen never went to school, and folly for later years. | cannot count her string. And silent- Convention is the cement of the {ly the cat takes one; the old a) structure of our social order, Wa | doesn't know; she's having v | cannot build, gave wildly and weira- | kinds of fun, out there ly, without it. {things grow, the stars v ---------- | Hke glowing lamps Mght up the soll- | tude, night after night the old hen | THE McMASTER FIASCO, cagnips upon her a) brood. She While the opposition press is as- {started out with ten or more bright | chicks in brave array; and now she's {only three or four, and thinks it's all |O.K. Af last some even when sha- | dows fall, the old hen comesialong; {behind her are no chicks at all--shg | feels there's something wrong. She [elucks and cusses in despair, she | takes her troubles hard; alas, there are no chickens there, no downy | things to guard. Oh, she can tell | when there is none, and feel a mother's woe; the difference 'cwixt Convention. be lengthened ---- salling the King gove its attitude toward the ed by Mr. McMaster, Liberal mem. ber for Brome, Que., making it im- possible for members of the govern= ment to occupy seajs on public or private cqrporations, there is no par- allel between the present government and the Meighen government that rejected the bill last year. In the first place the government had to reject the bill because it had the effect of a [ten and ome she mever learned to want of confidence motion, while | know. So, children, dearn your les- last year, when the Liberals support- | S08 well, and study more 334 more, ed it, and the Meighen and Borden and when you're grown Sp You my governments had shown such a rec- | tell & goose egg from a Store. --WALT MASON. ord of incompetence, inefficiency 'and subserviency to big interests thar public confidence in them was utter- ly lost. ere is no reason w should be deemed ineligible for g place in the government of the coun try because he has attained promi. nence in business affairs. The gov- ernment needs men of ability and ex- lor Quebec, with a population of 75,- perience, and ft is surely the height | 090, of absurdity to Place such men under | Q--Who is the first Woman mem- suspicion because they accept pub- | ber of the House of Commons? lic office. There probably has nev-| A._Miss Agnes McPhail, is the er been a cabinet, in Canada, Great | first Women member of the House of ted States, which | Commons, representing Bast Grey. did not inelude men of business at- | What are the two distingtive Canadian emblems? fairs, and before we stigmatise such | AT distinctive Conadiag men as being under sinister influ- Maple Leaf and the ences let us at least find some ground upon which to base the sha. | dow of suspicion. After all the cholce of representa. tives in paritament rests with the | electors, and it there are any abuses | *°*Y bad condition. made a business trip to to be redressed they have it in their Friday. B. J Perry has returned power to apply the proper remedy, |. seer spending the last week at his -- | home in Centreville. Bandy Perry THE DAWN OF LASTING PEACE, |" & el voond yall at o. Zonya | . eor, 'mon The successful conclusion of the Lon, spent Sunday at T. Perry's. J. rnment upon bill iatroduc- ------ Our Canadian Question And Answer Corner hy any man Ietrtatn Q.-- Which fs the largest Canadian city east of Quebec? A.--Halifex is the largest city east | emblems are the Beaver, ------ At Myer's Cave, Myers Cave, April 26.--The recent rain and enow has left the roads in a Oscar Meeks 'Oheer up, all you prohibitionists. Be country is bound to 80 dry -- feally--as soon as the boot- i all the money, agricultu statistics, The lod States and Canada' both pro- lee more "Don'ts" to the aers than Ry other country in the world, \ ------ ---- @ the rest of us are hunting truths in the b of life the are busy looki: for littie In the punctuation. Genoa economic conference will be | the crowning triumph of Lioyq bat i 8». a Stay George, the British premier. He has [jg visiting her brother, Archiée, in aimed by ome stroke to secure a Coyne. William lasting peace and put sn end to ag. | to Cloyhe Saturday evening. gressive aspirations on the part of = ------ European nations, by concluding eco- | Massachusetts' 22,000 saleswomen omic agreements that are condition. | DAVE been granted a minimum pay al upon the abandonment of militar. |°f $14 & week. The privilege of practicin law in ism. Indeed, so successful has Lloyd | ype ul 4h ope has EC ex- George been in bringing the repre. | tended to Women since 1802, sentatives of the nations together for the discussion of their troubles, in drawing the teeth of fanatics, ang checking the impetuous, that we find "flvver" every six and & half is the production programme » That is about the rate at they pass along the street. y ---------------- e to young men. If the color eyes and the number on her license tag start sticking in memory it's time to watch your &n earnest endeavor is being put forth to reach the bases of agree- ments satisfactory to all/ The Soviet-German treaty is the great obstacle, and - France feels that it was a compact entered into to enable Russia to evade payment of her obligations. It was grasped by! Germany with the hope of securing more favorable treatment at the hands of her late enemies, and at the same time to restore commercial in- would simplify matters for the ori-term-marriags-and-divorce ag- ts If marriage licenses could be al- ved to lapse and expire like other i | i | | that quartettes F (Rre to be placed on Pullman trains to pssist to . 9rowning out the noise of Brs, we suppose. { sleep--ny | the snor- oy tercourse with Russia. Whatever" military alliance may be contained in the treaty, it Is safe to predict that, for the present, at least, there will be no opportunity given to Germany and Russia to put jit into effect; and before the conference Russia, and Germany will be forced to meet the demands of the other powers, Already the Soviets are seen to be REV, E H. BREWIN Former rector of St. Bartholomew's, Ottawa, who has succeeded the late Dr. Sarley 8s rector of St. Simon's church, 'Gromta. ve wi 4 puE THouenl FOR NY [3 REASONING: -- two bug eaters Of The Holiness of the Hoklimess and district, Rev. general superinten, rict, was in chacg which will be concly 'evening. The meetin t day, and a Special p, angelistic work has the remainder of t Tompkins assisteq ing the services, will include dele outside places. Crow Lake, near Mr. York's. misfortune to los stock. Mise M. Allan cle, J. M. Allan, at Miss Lillian Black, at lows. Frank Wagar is 0. R. Clow and Miss to @elleville, holidays at th, here. T. A. Wagar Wagar and family, Mr. and Mrs. M. Mrs. Geo. Cronk, Wagarville; the village on Sunday. Tichborne. w E DAILY BRITI RIGHT Let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sims be as scarlet, they shall be as whte as snow.--Isa. 1: 18. * ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR || BY SAM HILL Sn A Joe Miller. My oonscience is the meanest thing, And never will give me a 'rest, When wicked things I would enjoy It's always there with a protest. Observations of Oldest Imhabitant, I kin remember when silly young men | thought it smart to wear sideburns in- | stead of eyebrow mustaches. But Suppose She Was a Widow? "Pa," said Clarence. "Non man," warned la. "Well I just wanted to ask you if a young man always asked his sweet. | ice before he.did anything if | misguided | heart's adv you could youth?" call him a They Are Here. The melancholy days have come, The saddest of the year, Of mop and slop and rattled "pop" And rearrangement queer. -- Just How Old--4s a Middle- (Liner in P MIDDLE-AGED Japaneses boy position as generel housewor®e Columbia 133. Aged Boy? Fool Questions. . B.E.T. asks: "If it is right for lambs | to gambol, why Is it wrong for men to do that? Don't forget, old top, the lambs even- tually get it in the neck, toe. -- Stork Leaves One With the Storks. (From birth column in Toledo Blade) | Girls Mrs. August Stork, 1327 Michigan. n't That Freeze You! Say." "I dunno, but I know she me the icy stare." -- Just gave The Kind of Matches They Make in | Memphis, (Marriage not phis Paper) Wilde- Rush--Paul Rush ana Doro- thy Wilde. J. F. Carver ana Urcle Ice, Beggs-Rice, ~~ Ode to the Flapper, She may be a flapper, Her dress it may be short, A Princess in her own right, She doesn't hold a court. Buy boys and gallants hover To bask within her smiles; She will not pick a "steady," For her no wedding aisles, Her little head is cram full or tennis, jazz ana dress; She'd never Pass a policeman If she wore any less ~--Ball Crank. ---- Not From Ours They Won't (Sign in an Omaha Fur Store) "Furs Made From Your Own Hides" -- Flipfiappancy. It is not by her garments And neatly dapper, NN But by her flippancy that you Can tell a flapper. y! ~Washington Star. new It is not by her garments ola Or morning wrapper, But by her finery that You Can tell a flapper. ---- Dally Sentence Sermon, An inflated tire may get you some- where, but an inflated head never will ---- News of the Names Club, A Memphis reader weighs in with of that city: Mary Etta Wasp and Bitter Miller, Carrie Bills, of the Same oity, may be popular, but her name doesn't Sound much like it. "We don't knew what drink, but anyway Omah at Greenville, Misa. ---- EVANGELISTIC CONVENTION Movement Church Opened Wednesday af oon, The special evangeligtic convention Movement church nce from the eity A, T. Warren, the dent of this dfst- e of the services, ded next Sunday g takes place in evening of each rogramme of ev- been planned tor he week. Ww, J. Mr. Warren dur- and the speakers gates from many he afternoon and ---------------- Notes From Parham. Parham, April 25.--Mr, Hagen, has started his saw-mill C. York had the @ several head of visiting her un- the parsonage. J. A. Goodfel- on the sick lst Mr. and Mrs. Haddock at 8; Miss Mildred Bertrim Smith, have returned fter spending their respective homes and family and D. at A. C. Wagar'; Cronk and Mr. and at Fred Kirkham's, The road is quite dry In and several cars were out David Goodfellow, at Visitors: -- Seeding is general throughout the | © of your foolishness now, young --sShortfellow. ortland (Ore.) Oregonian) | Weldite | Call | Wagnla: "Tha s6rrel-topped Mrs Squelchem | makes hot for her husband, they ~~ lees clipped from Mem- | THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1922. SH WHIG, BIBBY'S KINGSTON'S ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE WE CLAIM TO HAVE THE BEST FOR LESS i Fine Quality, Ready-to-Wear and Made-to-Measure Clothes MEN'S and YOUNG MEN'S SUITS Extra Special Values $20.00, $25.00, $30.00, $35.00 DON'T MISS SEEING OUR NOBBY $37.50 SUITS Hand-tailored from pure wool English Blue and Grey Serges and Worsteds, new Herringbone Cheviots, new Over. paids, English Tweeds. All new fnod- els and newest kinks in tailoring. These same quality Suits sold last season for $55.00 and $62.50. NEW HATS $3.00 NEW GLOVES Special $1.50 Rupture Expert Permanently located. No Periodical Visits, For forty years we have been fitting Trusses in Kingston. No need for you to go from your own home town for expert ad- ice about your individual case. rant here. We have the best appliances that are made, and we guaran- tee to secure your rupture and make you comfortable, Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess Street. Phone 343 Crutches, Elastic Hosiery, ete. OUR BASEBALL GOODS are the best in the market, and are used by all the best players We have every- thing in the Base- ball line, from ju- venile to profes- sional. THOMAS COPLEY Telephone 987. Wanting anything done in the tery line. Estimates given on all leas of repairs and mew work: hard. wood Booms of all kinds, AN orders Prompt attention. Shop reed. . PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES MOORES | FARMS FOR SALE 1--Farm of 478 a from church, cheese factor good frame Cres, one mile schoo thirty cattle; Kood horse stable and other liecessary outbuildings; about 10) acres of good land under cultivation; maple bush with over 4,000 large trees; well Vilsred; well fenced. ' Price 2--Farm of 96 acres Road, elght miles from Kin ston; dwelling ang outbullg co ings nearly new; about scores under cultivation. Pry $3,600. If not sold within ten days will rent. on York 29a Vi 1 ANDAR Colony Brooder BUNT'S HARDWARE CANADIAN PACIFIC. Alterations in Train Service, Effec- tive April 30th, 1023, Effective above date, trains will arrive at and depart from Kingston as follows: Train No. 618 from Sharbot Lake will arrive at 8.00 a.m. > Train No. 611 for Sharbot Lake will leave at 10.20 a.m. Train No. 613 for Tichborne, Sharbot Lake and Renfrew, will leave at 11.45 a.m. Train No. 612 from Renfrew, Shar- bot Lake and Tichbotne will arrive at 3.56 p.m. A Train No. 615<for Tichborne will leave at 4.15 pm. Train No. 614 from Shar will arrive at 5.05 p.m. Train No. 616 from Tichborne will arrive at 7.50 p.m. Train No. 617 for Sharbot Lake will leave at 10.30 p.m." All trains operate on standard time. -- Dr. J, W. Robertson, Ottawa, was re-elected chief conintissioner of the ~¢ PRING is a rather un- S tertain sort of season. Tho violets make an ef. fort.'to bloom 'neath the hurrying wheels of the soal wagon while that villian, Jack Frost, sneaks into the home that let's the fire 82 out. Phone your order, i Crawford Scranton Coal Phone 9. Foot of Queen 8. bot Lake Acting commandant Michael O'Neill, thitd battalion Irish Repub- lean was shot and killed near Ban- est. ; | Canadian Boy Scouts. don.