comma = i ama i "CAUSE OF SUSPICION. Whenever we get a communication which begins, "Your name has been given to us as one of the prominent citizens of your community," we read just that far. There is always a coupon at the bottom. run TTT OOURTESY NEEDED. The old question. of hospitality and courtesy should enter into the présent day life more than they do, we think. It should be against good | taste to become a man's guest and | then criticize the hospitality one | received. It is such a pity that this has gone out of fashion. FAST AGE, So mueh is going on these days that children are quitting schoo! to mt em a see it.--Bd. Howe. That gounds like a paragrapher's | .. President best sentence, A. Guild ..JBditor and: whole sermon bolled down. 8 .viiTes snesperens SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Daily Edition, It is, in reality, a School children in town do not usually advance in their books as 248 rapidly as school children in. the country, and this is probably the reason. There are so many things to keep the child excited over; so many places to go; so many activities to take part in. The country boy, if he's lucky, u wy mail, a... TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: Y boy, : y } Onlder, 23 S¢, Joka St, Montreal! may go to school half the time, or a W. ns Roromte." King 8t. Wa! 1)ind of the time, and when he be- Letters to the Editor are published | comes 1 Jiblled a man he goes to town or city | and takes the place of the boy who one of the Dest i had to go to school from the time he | was six until he was grown. Hence the country boys are running the big industries, the big institutions, and holding the big political jobs. ec estes. WATER WASTE, quality of mercy isn't inher- l. You learn to sympathize with by making an ass of yoursélf, le chief objection. to the man brags about his "open mind" is his mouth gets the habit also A i a ns. ution has, been going on a time, and it isn't likely that opposition will stop it now. sentence: "I don't graph," complained ty girl; "it flatters me too wolud remember that reéagpn war endures is @ it is glorious to charge For some years the public utilities commission has been trying to 're- duce the city water waste, for the Kingston waterworks is pumping at least forty per cent. more water than The amount of water pumped daily Usually, a tip is just a little ex-|is about 4,600,000 gallons or about ture you make to preserve your | 200 gallons per capita. The average per "capita daily consumption of twenty American cities is 88 gallons. earth and goodwill | The city of Detroit daily consumes ig men was not said of the Mexi- | a little over 100 gallons per capita and Rochester's per capita consump- tion is 83 gallons. Leaky taps and By a man who thinks he is 85- | hydrants and tricky meters are not Ing to higher things is merely as- | alone responsible for Kingston's to a softer job. waste water. Where Is the waste? In many citles it has been found to g8ton 1s big enough to be con-| yg cayeed by defective mains, The and small enough to be nt place\to live in. | defects have been remedied and the consumption has been reduced by from thirty-five to forty per cent., thus effecting a blg saving to the municipality. If Kingston's daily consumption could be reduced one- third there would be a saving not only in electrical power but it would not be necessary to Jnstall so large a filtration plant to purity our drink- ing water supply. The water waste question is one that should engage the serious attention of the «mblic utilities commission of 1924. A DISTURBED OUTLOOK, With the coming of the Christmas holiday season, there is a lull in the activities of the various political a ---- ess he 'changes considerably. | parties in Great Britain, a lull, how: tle Willie will grow up to be a ever, which Is more apparent than ong Sdvopate of simplified spel-| real. The situation is too uncertain, the condition of affairs too tense, to permit of any of the political lea- tia ----_-- People would have better health | gers golng off and trying to forget the | the affairs of state. While there is 1s a 'workhouse and not &| 5 temporary feeling that the govern. ment of the -country is being car- ried on, and that the crisis has pas- bo-| ged, that feeling may be but short the | jived, for the Baldwin government, and easy to charge the bill| when tne next session of parliament opens following the Christmas and a city of. our size should cdonsume. | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG any party 'which prevents the gov- ernment from functioning while not in a position to form a government to take the place of the one im | power, will not stand in a very fa- yourahle light in the eyes of the remember that with ulcer, the food usually relieved the pain, Another very noticeable thing is the loss of appetite. , In other forms of stomach trouble the ient often feels like eating, but in this condition he doesn't want any- people. {sing He particulaly dislikes The.situation:is. s0..4ifculs. that. the outlook for the immediate fu- ture is most disturbing.' The only solution in sight seems to be the | holding of another general election, and even that prospect holds out | little hope. Were another election | to take place immediately following | | the beginning of the new year, none } of the parties would gain sufficiently | ito undertake the duty of forming a | stable government. The political situation in Britain is in such a | state that a period of minority gov- | ernment seems inevitable, the only | question which {is uncertain being that of the party which is to assume the responsibility of governing. If the opposition parties live up to their post-election declarations, the Bald- win administration will speedily be defeated in the house. It would then fall to Ramsay McDonald to form a government, with no assur- ance that the same fate would not befall his government as soon as the house assembled. Altogether, the situation is a complex and dis- turbing one, for, while Britain's do- mestic quarrels are being fought out, Europe waits for British in- fluence to play its part in settling the troubles there. A minority gov- ernment cannot hope to be the force in European diplomacy that the gov- ernment of Great Britain ought to be, so that it would seem as if the political strife there will have a disastrous effect upon the future of the world situation. ROYALTY ON THE MOVE. Mercurial Greece is headed, mo- mentanily at least, toward a repub- lican form of government. That seems logical after the overthrow of the monarchy, but it is by no means certain that royalty has been forever banished from Greece. Al- ready there is talk of refaining the mionarchical form, but with new blood on the throne. The king habit is fixed in most of the Old World, and the Greeks may find it less easy to get along without a crowned head nominally ruling over them than some of them now think. The republican form has found favor in other lands, notably in some of the countries constituted through the action pf the Versailles treaty. Yet; in spite of a popular belief that kings had '"'gone out" as a result of the war, there are signs that royalty is almost indispensable to millions of people. It may prove so in Greece after the present political upheaval has been quieted in a degree. The healthy sign about the elim- ination of moyal dynasties that is till taking place is the breaking of ties between governments that be- fore the world war were potential of poiftical evil. Through politically arranged marriages of royal princes and princesses monarchs effecfed al- lfapces that extended their influence beyond the borders of their legitt- mate domain. The Hohenzoilerns were adepts in this species of po- litical manipulation, and the woes flowing from their operations will be felt throughout Europe for gepera- tions. Surviving royalties have hop- ed to perpetuate the system, some dynastic heads regarding the pres- ent situation as favorable to the making of new alliances that would increase their power. With new blood on a number of thrones there will be an end, for a time at least, Then there is vomiting whicn is nearly always present. The vome ited matter resembles coffee grounds often. There seems to be an oozing of blood alwaye. because the stools show dark blood also, Then despite the food he eats, he begins to lose weight rapidly. Of- {ten this is hard to understand 'be- cause notwithstanding the vomiting he seems to retain 'a fair portion of the food taken, This loss of weight is quite mark- ed and the loss of strength seems to go hand in hand with it, About this time also his friends will begin to tell him that he looks "bad." That he has a "bad col or." : This pale almost yellow color is quite charactenistic of cancer. Now what about it? Well, you can see that this growth or overgrowth as you may call it is inside the body, and is on a mucous lining, If he decides to wait until he gets all the above symptoms, losing strength and "weight all the time, he is simply taking an awful chance with his life, The best plan is for him to watch himself, closely, keep intestine clear and eat small meals frequently. If there be no improvement then see the family doctor, tell him the com- plete history and symptoms and leave the case with him. He will likely have an X-Ray mal taken. It he thinks surgical interference will save the patient he will lose no time about jt. At present it is the only known cure for early cancer. PINKERTON Clarence Inti Brownell, M.A. Fellow Royal Geographical Soclety, London, England The thousands of detective stories that have appeared in penny dread- fuls, dime novels, nickle libraries and in book form, telling of Old Sleuth, Henshaw, Le Coq, Sherlock Holmes, and a host of other ficti- tious magicians in the art and sei- ence of solving criminal mysteries, have interested the young of three generations, and the older folk as well, and have, at the same time, created a myth---a myth that is a sort of god to the small boy and a superstition of much satisfaction to his elders. The movies have carried on along the lines that the development , of this myth followed, and have mis- educated millions as to ideas of what a detective really is, This misedu- cation made an already credu- lous public more credulous, and has developed a field for correspondence schools in sleuthing. The literature these schools sent out promised to develop anyone who would send one hundred dollars, more or less, into a high class "sleuth" whom great corporations would call upon con- tinuously at exorbitant fees. -- ~ School Courses, There were courses in shadowing that showed the student, who had sald good-bye to his hundred, how to hang round the most suspicious crook, noting his every move without being seen. Courses in winning the confidence of petermen (safe blow- ers) just as they were ready to pete, which would enable a youth just from the "corn belt" to foil the des- peradoes and draw down $10,000 a year from the bank people as spe. | cial guardian of the properties. BIBBY'S Holiday Sale TWENTY-FIVE OVERCOATS Chesterfields, Ulsters, Ulsterettes--to go at $19.50 200 KNITTED TIES All new designs and colors--to goat ... 50c. $25.00 OUR $29.50 SUITS BIBBY'S TWENTY-FIVE OVERCOATS Smart Ulsters and Nobby Slip-ons--all new shades and colors --regular $33.50 to $37.50 values--to go at . 150 MEN'S FINE SHIRTS Sizes 14to 17--togoat ...... ... i nnienens will make you look like a million dollars -- new Herringbone Blues and Browns, Fancy Scotch Tweeds, etc.--all hand-tailored. worked to end it, but in the end how he loved the sinner and to what ends he was willing to go to help the unfortunate come up into the sun- light." Not much in those words sug- gests the "hero" of the dime novel, or of the movies, but every word ap- plies to a hero in reality, a man true td the great ideals, a man whose acts on behalf of his fellowman are an inspiration. No false whiskers, no Hawkshaw there but rather of the sort of Abu Ben Adam who loved his fellowman and whose name "led all the rest." Among those who listened to Dr. Stone were some who wept audibly. These Were saying good-bye to the man. responsibld for their being in prison,--men for whom he had found honest jobs. The church was thronged with others, bearing the You have saved it long enough! there instead of serving sentences' Marron LACKIE'S 302 KING STREET - city's best known names, glad though sorrowing, to give their per. sonal testimony as to the regard in which they held a great citizen: William A. Pinkerton, Detective. By careful studying the *sxpression and facial contour of each patron, we furnish glasses that are attractive as well as optically correct. Modern- ness is a hobby with us and to this we attribute our constantly growing business. R. ARTHEY, RO. VISION SPECIALIST 148 PRINCESS STREET | CHRISTMAS CAKES and PUDDINGS Special home-made quality. Special Ice Cream, Frozen Puddings and Pudding. BAKERY Money to Loan We have private funds to loan' on mortgages. T. J. Real Kstate and Instance 58 BROCK S8T., KINGSTON Phones 8227 and 17974. One-balf block from Railway, Stations and Stearnboat Landings. 4. A. HUGHES, ol vb cod. + PHONE A Fhose St08. Open evenings by appointment. en wm------ New Year vacation, will be sitting on to this sort of thing. We get better acquainted with oppressed' of other lands, to understand why they were we ---------- are not ballt in a day. t save the nickels and dimes oyine ism is the gratitude you your section of al the {sn't ag Wicked and low brow | T8t session of & parHament with- | the top of a volcano which may go into eruption at any time and blow the government into space. For the present, all is quiet on the sur- face, but the subterranean rumblings are going on, and will burst into bitter activity as soon a the holi- days are over. Premier Baldwin is adiitiotly in a serious position. He is the first British premier who ever faced the out a majority in the house, He is the first premier to attempt to carry prepared for a republean form of government, they will do best for themselves and the common welfare by choosing new blood to ornament their thrones and go through the motions of governing. This will give each government opportunity to es- tablish itseif without reference to tha political wishes of any other. It should make for a greater degree of peace. able to pass himself off as a pluto- crat or professor; an invalid or an athlete; a peddler, a blacksmith, a combination locksmith, a counter- feiter, a cowboy, a politjcian, a far- mer; cadaverous, portly, whitebair- | ed, or black and curly. These dis- guises were guaranteed to be impe- netrable, and in no case to attract suspicion on the part of the most wary erookf. How to wear false beards and mustaches without de- tection, (both feats entirely Impos- sible) was a specialty with these schools. There were courses in disguising It countries like Greece are mot| py which the youth could soon be WAN ! AD Js RRR, MEANS CHRISTMAS COMFORT ~which means fire. Don't forget that open fire-place Christmas morning, and don't forget some CANNEL COAL We wish all our friends A MBRRY CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS GIFTS ( BUY A WATCH OR CLOCK FOR CHRISTMAS. Watches and Clocks Repaired. GRAPE JUICE, LIME JUICE. ~-LEMON S8QUASH. ~-ORANGE SQUASH, ~UNFERMENTED WINES. ~--8T. MICHELS WINE. Jas. REDDEN & CO. PHONES 20 and 990. "Ihe Houye of Satisfaction" IF part in tar W. A Mitchell & Co. funny part is that the parent! On the government of Great Britain . HEMSLEY & SON ks himself faultless still | With a smaller number of members Tel. 07 109 the old-fashioned methods | than the combined opposition forces. BROCK STREET children. Sal ih He is entirely at the mercy of the AMARA opposing factions, and his only hope r is the quality that en-| Is that he may guide his course so to keep your mouth shut | that they will be unable to unite to 'hear twp Pedple:aschang. bring about the wreck of his ship So much for the myth in the pub- lic"s mind. The sort of detective-the small boy adores, and the same in- |S dividual when he grows up knows never existed and never will, even if the aspirant for such achievement gives a hundred perfectly good dol- lars to every correspondence school for detcetives on either side of the it GREATEST F of state. His hope of Liberal co- Operation has been shattered by the outspoken declarations of Asquith and Lloyd George. He can expect no sympathy from that quarter, In fact, the Liberals seam to be glory- ing in the fact that they hold. the balance of power, that they are the middle party, and stand 'between wilehi Atlantic. Detectives are not instances of "jt takes a thief to catch a thief." They are not clarvoyants, mediums, mind readers; they have no gift of