THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG KEEP YOUR FRIENDS "RECONSTRUCTION WORK SEND A ~ Greeting Card There is:a Greeting Card for every occasion' Birthdays Weddings Showers Convalescent For the New Baby R. Uglow & Co. WONDERFUL PROGRESS IN {Capt. A. D. McConnell Speaks on Conditions In France, | Before Rotary Club. That France is making wonderful progress in her work of reconstruction | following the war, was the message] {that Capt. A. D. McConnell, of this city, who recently returned from a trip overseas, gave the members of ithe Kingston Rotary Club, in a most il- i luminating address before the members {of the club, at their noon-day luffch. | eon' on Friday, in the British-Ameri- | can hotel, at which the president, Le- | man A. Guild, presided. Capt. McConnell served Congratulations Gifts Anniversary Sympathy overseas Often the Eyes are Too Long or Too Short wor imperfectly shaped, and you ean realise at once that nothing in the Onange THE EYES, It is impossible for such eyes to focus light as they should. Placing correct glasses before such eyes restores the power to focus and all troubles at once vanish. Our duty is to equip you ac- ecurately. W. D. GRAHAM, R.0. Successor to Nr. Waugh DENTIST 106 Wellington St. Phone 256. Drs. Nash & Reaton, DENTISTS Waterman's Fountain | Pens | during the war, and for some time pre- | vious to going overseas, was a mem- ber of the British Whig staff. At the present time he is on the staff at | Portsmouth penitentiary, Capt. Mc- You cannot afford to be han- Connell was accompanied on the trip dicapped by a poor pen, when it does not cost more. 1 | the trip very much, » -y or 08s Capt. McConnell stated that he had that is easy writing and can be the pleasure of revisiting many 6f the | relied on. {in France. He paid a visit along the | front. and remarked that it-was a fine 2 50 | stand erect, and know that nothing $ : up would happen, like in the days of the war. The speaker related how machin- Kinnear & d'Esterre big plants in France by the Germans. Jewelers | by Mrs. McConnell, and both enjoyed | places where he had been located while A Point to suit every hand. | thing to go" over it and be able to ery had been destroyed in many of the PRINCESS ST., KINGSTON CAPT. A. D. McOONNELL. In many cases hammers had been us- ed to put the machinery out of busi- ness, but now an inspection showed that the work of rebuilding was going along in a wonderful 'manner. Consid- erable delay of course had been caus- ed on account of the removal of the debris, which had to be attended to before operations for rebuilding could be commenced. Capt. McConnell stated that one day while.he was in France, a building was being torn down, and that a British outpost had been located, and the bo- dies "4 several British soldiers had been found, which went to show that mato CHATEAU ns 800 Phone 183 PRINCESS ST., KINGSTON OFFICE HOURS: 9 am. to 6 p.m. Kvenings by appointment. GAS---X RAY. t the work of the war graves Commis- sion had not been completed yet. Speaking about conditions around St. Julien, Capt. McConnell remarked that many shell-shattered trunks of ats Wisdom in the man, patience la the wife, brings peace to the house. He who dares not venture must not complain of ill luck. WHEN BUYING Dinnerware We advise a pattern that is carried in open stock. THE "IRENE" PATTERN (made by Johnson Brothers, England) is an open stock pattern, from whi¢h you can make up any size set you want or get it piece by piece as required. The "IRENE" is conceded to be the best finished pattern ever made by Johnson Brothers, makers of the world's best t/ semi-porcelain dinner- ware. 97 piece set, specially priced at $38.75 SEE IT IN THE WINDOW » trees were to be found but that along- side of these old trunks, could be found young trees coming up to take their place. The cemeteries were won- derfully well kept. There was nothing to suggest any neglect on the part of those who had their care in charge, The Canadian graves are well looked after. Travelling around ne noticed large stacks of barbed wire which had been used during the war as entangle- | ments. The wire §yas being baled and sent back to factdéies, to be made into something useful. Capt. McConnell states that on all sides he heard warm words of praise for the Canadian soldiers and also for the Canadians in general, who did so much to help win the war. The people of France stated that they wanted to be brothers. "Let us be brothers in time of peace as in war," was the feel- ing expressed. "I have been asked as to what the people in France are doing and what| they are thinkingr-about," said the speaker. "The courage shown by the people is wonderful. It is stated, that out of 748,000 homes destroyed during the war, 554,000 have been rebuilt, and in each case with much improvement. And all this five years after the worst Lam (Continued from CANADIAN MILLIONAIRES. In one of our Canadian cities I saw a palatial residence, the property war the world has ever had. It shows | ow the people of that country like their home and country. They are won! derful people; they rise with the sun, till the soil and work in reconstruc- tion. They think of nothing else but] this, and all they ask is to be left in Ppingi | peace. They leave all the discussion on public questions to the politicians." What is France asking for and what does she want? What France had suf- | fered was well-known. France had call- ed Germany's bluff. The speaker be- | lieved that Canadians owed their sym- | | pathy to France. ! Capt. McConnell stated that he was | given a great welcome by the people | in France and remarked that the Can. ! adian soldiers were still very popular with the French people. A vote of thanks, in appreciation of the splendid address given by 'Capt. McConnell was moved by Claude Gor- don. Help For the Japanese. On motion of Roy Ward, seconded by Bert Abernethy, the club voted $25 to the International Rotary fund to help the suffering Japanese. All the clubs are making a donation to the fund. The club received letters from Mrs. Leman A. Guild and Mrs. R. H, Ward, expressing their thanks for the pre- sentation by the club of Rotary pins, for their work at the Chautauqua. The president announced that next Friday the club would have District Governor "Ed." Weeks as their guest and speaker. This will be the first vi- sit of the newly-elected district gover- nor to Kingston, and it is being looked forward to with great interest. "Ed." who is an entertainer by profession, will be given a warm welcome. The singing by the club members was exceptionally good. Every day in every way, the Rotarians appear to be getting better on the "sing song". "Jack" Elder had something new that went over big. ht GUARD THE BABY AGAINST COLDS To guard the baby against colds nothing can equal Baby's Own Tab- lets. The Tablets are a mild laxative that will keep, the little one's stomach and bowels working regularly. It is a recognized fact that where the stom- ach and bowels are in good order that colds will not exist; that the health of the little one will be good and that he will thrive and be happy. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. From Whig Fyles OF TEN AND TWENTY YEARS AGO. " ------ September 22nd, 1018. Fire does $4,000 damage to out- building at Davis drydoock. Rev. Thomas Leech inducted as rector of Wolfe Island by Bishop Bidwell. The first Queen's practise is held under Capt. "Jack" Hazlett and Coach E. O. Sliter. Kingston horses make a splendid showing at races of Lansdowne fair. September 22nd, 1903. The Bagot street stables occupled by "B" Battery, R.C.A., are almost totally. destroyed by fire. Kingston bakers decide to ralsa price of bread from 6 to 8 cents per loaf. Ottawa and Limestones are only two teams entered in this section of the O.R.F.U. A proposed union for sailors In this city has been abandoned for this year. Highest Tax Rate. The tax rate for Carleton Place has been fixed at fifty-one mills on the doltar, the highest in the history of the municipality. Maintenance of high and public schools require over twenty mills. Page 1.) (COMPLAINTS OF PARENTS 'books originate with parents who have ROBERTSON'S Limited . 73 Princess St. THIS IS SHOE WEEK THE TIME TO BUY GOOD SHOES Choose your footwear carefully--re- member that it either makes or mars your Select Sh Shoes that are correct 1 perfect in fit and EE uh style and We carry a complete well-chosen stock ° ready to meet your requirements. We Invite Your Inspection. Allan n M. I. Reid Sho Wed, Spano 7020 of a man who has literally made the desert blossom as the rose. He has enriched both his country and himself. It pays to give a man a million to make a hundred millions. By virtue of services rendered, the builder of" business has a right to a large stake in the national wealth. But speaking of rewards, the creat- or of the Marquis Wheat has surely a mighty credit still due him from this Dominion. 'Let us. hope that the day may come in Canada when the enlarger of our wealth will be rewarded as fairly for service in a laboratory as for service in a bank. Before the war, not "just happen." 'Good times will not return until we have accumulated those wealth wes: so: abundAt that maiy wget: Sat: it did The war brought destruction of our accumulations. vi reserves again. trustees for the benefit of all. The ten-talent man never hides his talent in a napkin, it is only the one talent man that does that. ' But fhe faithful steward of ten talents is too often the one against whom the public fumes. As Colonel John Bayne MacLean expressed it, "We give our prise cattle a blue ribbon, and on our prize men we bestow abuse." "What's that oid money grub wast to keep everlastingly , pegging away for?" jeers the idle cynic. He forgets that for a great captain of in- dustry to knock off, would be & calamity for thousands who look to him for livelihood. When 1 mest Lord Shaughiemy, walking down to the Windsor Station in the early morning, he is not going there merely to work for Himself; he is going there to help to creat the dally toll of thousands. To afford permanent work and good wages to multitudes is surely one of the finest contributions that apy man can make to his country. In the further building up of this new nation, our hope is not in sys- | tems, but in men. Not in governments, but in the creative force of in- dividuals. If the frontiers of this Dominion are to sdvance, Canada must OVER SCHOOL BOOKS pal Sliter a and Inspector Stuart Explain About the Changes Made. There have been 'loud complaints | from parents regarding the cost of | text books to be 'used by their child- {ren eptering the Collegiate Institute. | | It has been stated that there are new editions issued every year and that the | prices charged constitute a byrden. The Whig has made inquiry into | the situation respecting the text books | about which there is considerable com- plaint, but instead of there being any real hardship it would appear that the | pockets of parents are protected as | never before. E. O. Sliter, principal / of the Kingston Collegiate, stated that | there are but two new editions in use | this year, the Ontario high school phy- sical geography, and the revised phy- sics. | "In the first place I might point out," said Mr. Sliter, "that the action of the Department of Education inj entering into contracts for the print- | ing of text books has effected an en- ormous saving in the cost of books to parents. This is best appreciated when it is stated that books that are not un- | der contract cost about one hundred per cent, more. The next thing is that | we have no discretion respecting the | choice of books. The regulations pre-| scribe the books, and while we are ob- | liged to carry out the regulations im- | plicity we do exercise a little latitude in| working off the old books that happen | to be in use when the revised lists are first received. There are changes {rom time to time in the text books, but not to the extent imagined. For instance, | the only new books this year are the! physical geography and the physics. I| might say, however, that the changes made represent, in practically every case, some improvement. All teachers are not of the same opinion on this| subject of revision, and it would be impossible to get unanimity of opin-| ion." i) NATIONAL SHOE WEEK Sept. 17th to 22nd To be well dressed you must be well shod, See that the family are properly shod, Leaky Shoes are. a menace to health--keep your feet warm and dry at all times and save dogtors' bills and keep down t th of our cemeteries; Abernethy's Shoe Store \ opulation YOUNG COUPLES will find Reid's a PHONE 147 For Repairing and Uphoistering The complaints" about the cost of | had several children attending school, and expected the younger ones now entering the collegiate to use books that their older brothers and sisters used several years ago. During a per- iod of five or ten years some books undoubtedly became obsolete but, as Principal Sliter points out, the new books are better and 'cost much less than the old books did. School Inspector J. Russell Stuart was questioned by a Whig representa- tive about the complaints received from citizens about having to pay out money for new books, but he could not see any reason for complaint, so far as the public schools are concerned. He said that two of the readers had been changed, but. that the readers were provided by the department and the parents did not have to buy these books. He pointed out further that it was absolutely necessary to have the pupils in a class study irom the { type of book. It would not do to e different books in use. GANANOOUE Sept. 21. -- Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Pelow announce the engagement of their daughter, Jeanne Edith, to Mel- ville J. Walsh, Peoria, Ill., only son of Dr. and Mrs. M. P. Walsh, Young- stown, N.Y. Miss Margaret Heaslip has return. ed after a short visit with friends in Ottawa. W. Sherby left last night for Pon |i tiac where he will apend the winter. Mrs. J. B. Mooney and Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips were among those who attended the fair in Kingston yesterday. Misses Minnie and Sarah Beatty, Victoria, B. C., who have been visit- ing friends in Gananoque vicinity, are in town the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Beatty. Mr. and Mrs. Samsel, Syracuse, N Y., who have been honeymooning at the Wing cottage on Cut Island, for the past two weeks, returned home yesterday. Mieses Uretta Sinclair, Rhea Haynes and Eva Glover were among those who went up to see Irene Castle at the Grand on Thursday ev- ening. W. OC. McCarney and Miss Kate McCarney, went out to Ottawa yes- terday. : Mrs. Warwick, Mre. Alexander Chapman and Miss Audrey Warwick sttended Kingston fair on Thurs. day. Miss Mary Jeroy of the Hotel Dieu staff, Kingston, was in town (Yestor- Rs Sn is os spirit of the times. We _. some el values 'in assorted Mohair," Velours and plain Taupe shades; The Leading Undertaker HUPMOBILE to be the best car of its class in the world. _ BLUE GARAGES, Limited Phone 567. Cor. Bagota and Quigen Sts. Sib JOHN 1. MACDONALD BECAME AN ORANCEMAN The Speech He Made In King- ston Some Sixty Years Ago. worth--and I resolved that if the among whom were many of my best friends, were to be proscribed and hounded down merely because they. were Orangemen, I would go in with them and submit to the same obli- quy, the same prescription. Then, sir, I bécamé an Orangeman, and it was for the purpose of showing my sympa. thy with men whom I believed to be outraged by the conduct of the legisla« ture.' ih The Canadian Magazine carries a story of Sir John A. Macdonald who in a speech at Kingston, in 1861, des- . i cribed the circumstances under which| Magistrate Patterson, Toronto, made further remand in the ; he became an Orangeman. He said: "The first thing that strikes me, on reading the speech delivered in this hall a few evening since, is the exceed- ing anxiety displayed by George Brown that the Orange body should not be insulted, or, having been in- sulted, should obtain redress. Why, it seems to me that he has taken the In this light, rich men who invest their money to grow richer, are really - continue to be a land where ten talents may still add unto itself ten talents more, 2 \ whole Orange body under his especial charge. He comes down here and tells the Orangemen how they were in- sulted, as if they did not understand their own rights, and how deeply and strongly he feels for them. It is most surprising how that gentleman should have the hardihood--the reckless au- dacity--to come here and set himself up as the champion of Orangemen. "Why, sir, how did I become an Orangemen? I was not an Irishman by birth, and had little to do with politics in those days. It was in 1841, in times when Orangemen were on the descent, when the provincial legislature had proscribed them, forbidding them to wear their regalia, and declaring their illegal, and at a time when they were about to pass a law prevent- ing an Orangeman from becoming a juror. or a constable, or holding any official position under the crown, thus branding him as an outlaw and a trai- tor to his country, I, sir, and many others like myself, felt deeply indign- a0 at tis wholesls proseription of a respectable and loyal body of men. I was not an Orangeman, but I knew many of the best men in Kingston | were--men of intelligence and sterling day for the afternoom. Ted Chapman, Leonard Little john and Archibald Copeland, Brock- ville, were in town Thursday even- motor trip to Thornloe end other points. ¥ There will be a dance in the Cahoe Club house next Monday ev- ening. The Dixie Five orchestra matrimonial tangle in which Wille iam Everingham is charged with bigamy, as the result of his first wife Puruing up after he marvied New novels in the library: Clue of the new pin, BE. Wallace Wolf trial, R. 8. Pocock. Dr. Nye. J. C. Lincoln. Fires of ambition, G. Gibba Timber, J. Gregory. 'Without * justification, Mrs. Old brandy, L. Valmer. Winding stair, A. E. W\. Mason. Singing wells, R. Pertwee. Bungalow mystery, A. Haynes Midwinter, J. Buchan. Blindfold, Mrs. Rickard.