THE DAILY BR ITISH WHIG. ' - SATURDAY, MAY 13, 192». Folks Back Uncle Gus, As I entered the store I. brushed Bibows' with the president Farmers' Bank, His strut was even more pompous than usual, and indig- nant astonishment was writ large on { bis florid face. Over his shoulder I caught a glimpse of Uncle Gus, bent dduble with mirth. I demand an ex- planation. 4 "I done him like he done chuckled Uncle Gus. "He come in 'demandin' a can o' peaches, an' I looked solemn an' said I didn't know about it. tight just mow, an' I wasn't lettin' none go exceptin' in special cases, but I might maybe do him a favor an' let 'im have a can, He got plum riled. "That's the way he does folks, He makes his livin' a-lendin' other folks' money at eight per cent., an' he'd starve to death if none of us wouldn't borrow; but when I need a little cash, of the | "Home | The girl across the street and the butcher boy have had their first ser- | ious quarrel, Tuesday night the Mason's spread their annual banquet, and after the | feast the tables were removed and {the chairs pushed against the wall to |clear the floor for dancing. The | Woods boys, of Cedar Creek, were {there with banjo "anq fiddle; and {Uncle Billy West did the calling, | The girl dances well, and is con- | stitutionally incapable of holding her | feet still when fiddles whine; but the | boy's gemeral scheme of architecture dooms hiny to sit glumly among the | staid, gossiping matrons. She smiled upon him occasionally over her shoulder of graceful strip- me," | I said peaches was kind o' | he acts like he Was a-doin' me a big | favor, 'an' .I ought to kiss his hand | fo' the privilege of helpin' him git rich, feller to. handle othér folks" money, ain't 1?" ------------ Willle Willis. Little Willie Willis was, unac- countably absent from school on examination day. Next day he car- ried his teacher this excuse in handwriting sus- Rlciously like his own: "Please ex- fuse Willie. He had a attackt of | nervus prostra- shun." THE MAN ON WATCH Another summer church union is feported this week, between Cooke's _ Blood-Cleansing, . - - Strength-Civing "Are the Effects You Naturally + Want from Your Spring Medicine And Hood's Sdrsaparfila satisfies | these needs as nothing else cam. This marvellous restorative tonic ~. and blood purifier has been recog- . hiwed for nearly fifty years as the . best spring medicine for restoring the blood and circulation to their natural richngss LH vitality, Funny how biggity it makes a |. Very few men are wholly eraven. As a rule, the man who is slow to fight is one bred in an atmosphere i that required jittle fighting. | The normal boy is a pagan and an {adventurer. He is proud of his won- derful body and eager to give proof |of his prowess. He de belligerent and venturesome for the same reason that a puppy growls over an old shoe. in later years he will become a civil- ized creature, but for the moment he is merely an excellent animal, Pride in being a male of his species [feels secure in Sketches by J. H. Striebel ling or ancient and rheumatic cup- up; but the smiles did not lessen his bitterness, and at 10 o'clock he took her home. The girl came over to give us the details of the quarrel next morning. Hiram, it appears, had rebuked her roufdly, and voiced the opinion that dancing is but an alibi for hugging and consequently wicked; and he inti mated, further, that he had his opin- ion of both girls and men' who thus shamelessly cavort in public, Here, then, is a monalist in the making, How men delight to con- demn the pléasures they cannot en- Joy, and tp interpret'as righteousness their own inability to have a good time, : and lays the foundation of courage. For the quality men call nerve is commonly no more than the contempt born of familiarity, as cowardice is but fear of the unknown. The structural worker balancing in &ir on a beam pt steal is no braver than the prosaic creatures who walk tho street far below him, He scorns height because dt is his daily com- panion, To calLone man brave and another cowardly is to flatter the one and libel the other, There are degrees of bravery, to be sure; but each man an accustomed en- leads him to risk his neck in count- |Vironment and loses some measure less ways that horrify his parents, | of confidence amid strange surround- but he learns contempt for danger | ings. J Nn WINN Presbyterians and the Queen street Methodists. Why not get together in cold as well as hot weather? When the police made an arrest sometime ago, a man big in his sphere told them they had done a em AAA Ay - = Appetite-Making food, because it creates an appe- tite and promotes assimilation of all food taken, thus securing 100, per cent. of nourishment. Thus it contributes to make rich red blood, which carries vitality to all parts of the body and gives the strength and nerve force that nature demands day by day. Take Hood's Barsaperilia, small dose after each meal, and you will soon ote how much refreshed you are, ow Sood your food tastes, and how cheerfully you do your work, Hood's ls relleve hejdache, biliousness, constipation. Hood's Sarsaparilla PURIFIES, VITALIZES AND ENRICHES THE 8LOOD, or _ "Mother's Day" --next Sunday After 8.30 the Evening Rate on Station-te-Station calls is only about half' the day-time rate. Telephone Mother Sunday? Of course you willl ; 'At the fones of the voice she would ' memories of the past, do see as she looks she t is of a young Mother, cradling I Héthe y or girl whose eyes are fast closing, as she little bo; a low lullaby. 'We honour ourselves wh know in a million, know the pic a tha pictury close in her arms a like the Wise Mén from -- the world's beastly thing. When they put funeral autos right, they also get a dressing down, . When the police do their duty they are criticized and when people think that they omit to do it they are re- proached. And when they break up Chinese fan tan games and catch Chinks deal- ing in opium, some of us say they should let the Celestials alone, It used to be that one told his troubles t9 a policeman. Now the peelers hffive their own troubles be- cause they are trying to make the pecple obey the laws. Those who are accustomed to give from twelve to fourteen ounces to the pound will be glad to read that the Weights and Measures inspectors are after those who sell short measure in cartons They see that there are others, more foxy, in their ¢lass, Talking about scales, the Lamp- man is 'informed by a government inepector that after aj] the truest scales are the old-fashioned ones. Some Kingeton stores still retain them and they yield fun weight. So please do not laugh at thése old-fashioned merchants who still sell you sugar and tea off the old- fashioned scales, Remember you get what is coming to you, -- er The Stork - has been 80 busy in Chalmers congregation the past two years that. the people up there are forced to increase their Sunday school hall, Ayn Queen's university, having used up nearly all the colors of the rainbow, had to call a meeting to decide on the color for its commerce degree hood, and Ireland supplied the hye, Paddy green was chosen, But there must have been a woman present at the meeting, for who could imagine those professor fellows knowing any- thing about Paddy green. ¥ SOTTY to leave Kingston, as they did 80 enjoy themselves on the new Or- phans' Home swings in the moon- light, 3 \ Can, anyone dell-us it'the auto ear which brought Premier Drury and "Bill" Nickie, senior, from Toronto to Kingston on Wednesday last broke Raney's apeed law? Wouldn't it have been great if some rural cop-had caught these two legislators and sum- moned them! g -- Premier Drury thought he convert. ed "BIN" Nickle on that auto jour- the other day. But By Robert Quillen The Girl Across the Street. Vicarious Crime, There are two reasons why the ave erage mortal is keenly interested in | the wrong-deing of his fellows: first, because contemplation of another man's sins serves to emphasize his own virtue and thus ministers to his self-respect; and, second, because it enables his carnal nature to enjoy all the thrill of wrong-doing without in- viting any of the penalty. AH normal persons fret against the restrictions imposed by conscience and discretion, For the sake of de- cency and of safety they avoid sin, but they are 'conscious of a spirit of rebellion against the fixed standards that prescribe their conduct. One who will not commit a crime will be- come 'a partisan of a criminal chased by a posse, It js this innate "fondness for wrong-doing that causes respectable folks to: delight in gossip, Uncon- sciously they reason . that the next best 'thing to doing wrong is to talk about the wrong others have done. Fifty years ago, this thirst for vi- carious erime had not other source of supply than backyard gossip; but demand developed the problem play, the sex novel, suggestive movies and news services that make it their busi- ness to chronicle the sins and follies of all human kind, : It does not follow that we are more wicked than our fathers. We but parade our tastes more frankly, and discuss in public the events that set our fathers to whispering hehind closed doors. We frown upon crime still, but we feel cheated if any of the details are kept from us. Aunt Het. "When I take a basket of victuals to the poor an' af- flicted, I always put in some meat Some Queen's girl students were | an' bread scraps 80 they won't feel bliged to divide my good cookin' with their mangy dogs." "ENJOYED TOBACCO IN SCHOOL In the Seventeenth Century It Was i Common for the Children to Use the Weed. The latest diatribe against women Smokers--by "a doctor to a famous life insurance company," according to the London paper which 'publishes it-- classes the tobacco habit among Women as an evil of modern growth, But when tobacco first reached Eng. land it was enjoyed in common by both sexes. In the seventeenth cen- tury, according to John Ashton, "it Was not only usual for_the women to Join the men in smoking, but in Wor- cestershire the children were sent to school with pipes in their satchess, and the schoolmaster called a halt in their studies while they all smoked-- he teaching the neophyte." Scotch women used to enjoy a pipe the same way as they enjoyed a pinch of snuff. One of the compllers of the "Statistical Account of Scotland," pub. lished in 1791, records that "The chief luxuries in the rural districts are snuff, tobacco and whisky. Tea and Sugar are little used, but the use of whisky has become very great. The use of tobacco ma; almost be said to be excessive, especially among .the female sex. There is scarce a young woman by the time she has been taught to spin but has also learned to smoke. - 'Smoking seems to have been Introduced as an antidote to rheuma- tism and ague. The favorable altera- tion With respect to these diseases has only produced a greater avidity for tobacco." ---------------------- TO REVIVE HOME INDUSTRY Good Work- Done by Knitters During the War Has Given Impetus to New Movement, What was accomplished by the vast "Volunteer army of knitters during the war Is one of the creditable facts in the history of the wonld upheaval through 'which civilization has been Passing, says the St. Louls Globe Dem- ocrat. But for the millions of devoted Women who kept the needles flying the hogrors of the trenches would have been still more frightful and deadly.' The achievements an antique piece of furniture. Man- kind nebds weavers as well as men, and spinning at home is dest forms of industry. 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