SE BRITIS : E Semi-Weekly by . THE WHIG PUBLISHING & CO., LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. J. M. Campbell Leman ne Gutld Managing-Director TELEPHONE ce SUBSCRIPTION RATKS: ; ; (Daily Edition) One year, in city 87.50 year, by mail to rural offices, $2.50 year, to 'United States $5.00 the Sell-Weekly Ed! : year, mail, cash . .! Ome year, to United States OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: " Calder, 32 St. John St, Montreal . 100 King St. W, Toronto Letters to the Editor are published Oly over the actual mame of the Writer. is ome of the best job Attached printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH * WHIG is authenticated by the 1, .A BC Audit Bureau of Gjrculations Secrets are nothing to speak of. Insomnia seems to be what the. Cats in our street have. ¢ Women forgive more often than men. They have more chances. EE So live that it never will be neces- S8ry to court the fullest investiga- tion. / etna iin A broad-minded and intelligent man Is one whose prejudices match ours. 4 SS ---------------- i A highbrow is a man who thinks nine-tenths of the people are below the average. -------------- No woman can really love the kind : of man who says her new hat is "per- feetly darling." ------------ It isn't what a woman says that is shocking, but the fact that a woman could say it. Trainéd domestic servants make 800d wives if they can find servants to do the work. + re -- WHIG! SIR ADAM BECK. Kingston extends a hearty greet- | . THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG . ed at $16,153,673, an increase over | the previous year of $6,202,796. It} to Shakespeare or Ben Johnson. ! Literary emancipation is a most ing to Sir Adam Beck, the chairman is, of course, encouraging to note | desirable thing, but there is grave | of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power | that the increase .alome in exports | danger of liberty degenerating into Commission, who is a visitor to the . city to-day. Twelve years ago Sir | Adam was the suppliant of Kingston to hitch up with the provincial] power system which needed this city to link up Eastern Ontario. The | civic utilities representatives, how-! amounted to more than the total of imports, and that the trade balance | in favor of this country is more than three to one, but the situation is an interesting one for comment. It will be recalled that during the war and in the year or two immedi- | ever, then took the view that King- | ately following it, there was a re- {ston was better off with its steam |'peated outcry | plant in producing electrical energy. | not resume trade relations with Ger- | But eventually. the local commigsion | many, that no German goods should | a], | made a splendid agreement with | Sir 'Adam Beck's commission--such | a good one that the latter intimates | it is losing money by having to sup- | ply Kingston at such a low rate. To- day Kingston is the suppliant of Sir | Adam, whom it is begging for more | hydro power .in order to meet the | demands of manufacturers. Eastern | Ontario needs a greater supply of] power and has confidence in the | sion being able to solve the existing | difficulties. Sir Adam Beck, who has rendered the province of Ontario immeasur- able service in regard to the devel- opment of its water powers, has been a good friend of Kingston. Those "on the inside" know of various fa- vors he has granted to the public utilities commission of the Lime- stone city, whose people may well have most kindly feelings for the distinguished knight. IS IT WORTH WHILE? The news despatches telling of tha disappearance of two aviators who were engaged in attempting to fiy around the world has once again raleed the question as to whether the sacrifice of life involved in hai. ardous flights of this kind is justi. -fied by the importance of the ex- periments which are being mado. The development of the aeroplane io the point. of safety and utility has been responsible for the loss of scores of lives, apart altogether from the loss of life in the air services during the war. It may be logical to say that no great thing is ever accomplished without the entailing of risks and the making of sacrifices. In the early days of aeri light, this chairman of the provincial commis- | that Canada should | be sold in Canadian stores; and from | many sources came requests to the | Canadian people that they should refuse to buy articles made in Ger- | many. The war veterans' organiza- | tions, as well as many public bodies, passed resolutions in favor of keep-| ing out German goods. Time, how- | ever, has had a mellowing influence | on the hatreds of the war years. | These resolutions are now things of | | Richard P license, if every teacher is to select | the subjects of study or, worse still, | if every pupil, as appears to be ad- | Vocated, is to be allowed to decide what books to read. It seems on the | whole better pedagogy to stand by , the authors who have been tried and | not found wanting than to pin one's | faith to books which, however popu- | lar at the moment, may prove, after | to be but an ephemeral success. PRESS COMMENT The Dumb to Speak. Edinburgh Scotsman. How® to make a scientific instru- ment speak by means of an*artificial tongue has been demonstrated by Sir aget before the Institute of Electrical Engineers. a forgotten past, and 'German goods k Sir Richard, taking a small dummy are coming into Canada at an ever | Increasing rate. The passing of the | few years has seen a great change | in world conditions, particularly in relation to trade with Germany. | Every nation now realizes that only by a rehabilifation of her trade can | Germany ever become stabilized, | and that only when she is stabilized can the Allies hope to secure any- thing in the way of reparations pay- ments. There is nothing dangerous for | Canada in again building up trade | with Germany. So far, the balance | is all on this country's side, for Ger- | many spent ten million dollars more in Canada than the people of Canada spent in buying German goods. It is not lkely, either, that there will | be any protest against these impor- tations from Germany. Business conditions are not so good that any- one will question the destination or | origin of goods so long as they are | being handled profitably to them- selves and to the country. No coun- try can live to itself alome. It can be said with equal force that no country under present conditions can { afford to reject a market for its pro- | ducts. Germany, under a stabilized | regime, presents possibilities as a market for Canadian goods, and sta- | might have been applied with some Justice, for in those days the intre- pid inventors who took the air in their crude machines never knew what was going to happen before thdy again reached solid ground. In the course of years, however, the aeroplane became 80 perfactei that men could go up and down as they pleased, descend when ana where they wished, and accidents became less and less frequent. The machine was brought to a state in which it was eafe to uss it for com- mercial purposes within ~ certais limits of distance. If has even been brought to the point of being used tistics 'as quoted above, show that | that market is growing. It would be | folly to revive the old cry of days | { when the war was just over and | when prosperity was to be found on | every side, for the conditions of to-| day justify actions which would hardly have been considered in 1919 and 1920. ° HOW DO YOU READ? "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," has cried a publicist so often that he has coined a household axiom. Well might an- other say: "Tell me what you read and I will tell you what you are!" voice box and blowing air through it by a rubber tube, so manipulated his fingers that he was able to make the box produce vowels and words. The magical box also called on Sir Oliver Lodge and Professor Vernon Boys by name, A model was used containing arn | organ reed as a substitute for the! vocal chords. Pairs of pot-shaped resonators gave the effect of the mouth cavity and spoke the vowels like a human being." Another instru- ment, recently invented by Dr. Ec- cles, was operated. In this the re- sonators were merely tuned electric circuits after the manner of a wire- less set. The vowel sounds were produced by a "loud speaker," ap- parently by depressing a row of keys. These experiments suggest the possibility of the dumb being able to speaks by regulating the air in an artificial box with their fingers. That Body |i By lames W. Barton, M.D, False Pleurisy. As a student I remember distinctly a case wliere the patient thought she had pleurisy. ; There was a severe burning pain on the left side of her chest near the heart, which seemed to get much worse if she took a long breath. One physician came in and after listening carefully with his stethoscope and taking the temperature, declared that it was not pleurisy. The patiept was so annoyed that she dismissed. him and called.another. He likewise diagnosed it as not being pleu risy. He was also dismissed. The third physician was called and after the pat- ient recited her symptoms and how it had been necessary to dismiss the two \ | . SUIT CASES BIBBY'S SUIT CASES Something Very Special | In Men's Suits One hundred Model Suits-- -real masterpieces of tail- ors' art--made from choice, All-Wool English Worst- ed, in the season's newest and approved models -- all newest colorings and designs. Regular $40.00, Sizes 34 to 42. AV See dur YOUNG MEN'S SUITS at $14.75 TRUNKS BRITISH AMERICAN HOTEL ) In Public Servite Since 1784. M. BOHAN, PROPRIETOR, KINGSTON. "WEEK-END SPECIALS Sausage----regular 18e,....3 Ibs. 35e. Raspberry and Apple Ja lar 68e. . Rolled Oats Tollet Paper, regular Se. .. Red Salmon, regular 30c. 100 STEPHEN STREEY PHONE 1750. a direct line from the one he fonm- $42.50, $45.00, $47.50 values, BIBBY'S BIG SPECIAL *35.00 See our | | | | { J 'BiBBY'S YOUNG MEN'S SUITS with 2 pair Trousers ; $22.50 This machine shop is not alto- gether merchanical. Our equipment ' represents the most modern mechan- ism, yes--but we employ men who are capable of suggesting and exe- cuting shop work of distinctive qual- FRESH - GARDEN SEEDS # The mind is the house in which we live more truly than is the body. If we furnish the mind garishly we must live in a garish house. If we furnish the mind carelessly, we must We have some attractive bar. gains in city property. A good list of farms and garden lands. Fire Insurance, first company. A man often tells a girl he would ait a million years to marry her, but he never does it. erly worked. His foundry is not so large as some of the others but his excellent knowledge of his business compensates for some deficiencies. Four foundries in Kingston instead of one are a proof that Kingston has for passenger services over dis- tances of a few hundred miles, and flights in these services are made daily with very few accidents. Poa- sibly ordinary aerial travel of that previous physicians, he proceeded 10 examine her. Asking her to take a long breath and inquiring whether that increased the pain, the patient said that it did. "That From Best Seed Houses ---------- Hell has lost its high place as a San It we take theological argument, but the people keep on raising it. ---------- Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--because the same place is never there. ---- Wild ifs is disappearing and home lite is disappearing. About all that Is left is wotta life. ---------- Since, as astrénomers say, the kind became too safe and too mono- tonous for those adventurers who are always looking for fresh thrills, and who turned to flying as an out- let for their zeal for hazardous oe. cupations. Thus came the develop- ment of the stunt flyer, that fool- hardy person who took his life in his hands every time he went up in the alr for the edification of a sensation- loving public. In due time there came live in a slovenly houde. our mental furniture only from the past, we shall live in the past alone. It we take only from the faddish no- tigns of the present we shall live amid fads and foibles, which vanish e'er we know them. But if, on the other hand, our mental diet is balanced, comprised of the foods tested by time and sauced and spiced by the piquapcy of the present, we may live a balanced, is certainly like pleurisy," he said. He then asked her to cough and as she stated that coughing increased the pain he again said. "That also is like pleurisy." . He said no more, applied the old fashioned mustard plaster, the patient was well in two or three days. And he was considered a clever phy- sician. In recounting the case to a class of students later he said. "Now this wo- man did not have pleurisy, and I didn't not retrograded in the manufacture of articles indispensable to a sea port. large manufactory had no existence seven years ago. It is Bagot Whig office and a very great num- by light articles are daily made there- at. This foundry is managed solely by Mr. Edwin Chown, Mr. Hamilton, Chown's Stove Factory--This very located on street, opposite the British er of stoves, ploughs and other Money to loan on mortgages. T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance §8 BROCK ST,, KINGSTON Phones 322J and 1797J. could complete his tower. Such evengs give aid and comfort to the skeptics and swell their ranks, In bulk or package. Special varieties of Sweet Pea, named Spencers. "| 'Queen * La n City wn Grass 'Shady Nook' Grass Seed. ~for under the trees and dark corners of the lawn. Dr. Chown's Drug Store say she did have it. She has what is known as Pleurodynia or false ipleu- risy. This is simply a painful affection of the muscles of the chest. It might be anywhere else in the body where there is muscle, and that is practically ev- erywhere, ; It was useless to argue with her. She was'in pain, and knowing a little about pleurisy, she had her mind made up that pleurisy was her trouble. 'My stethoscope revealed no "rubb- ing" as in pleurisy, and my thermome- ter showed no temperature. Without being called upon to give a diagnosis, I preceeded to treat the case as you would treat a muscular pain ywhere, that is by the application of eat. And so if you have a pain over the heart or in the chest that acts as did the pain mentioned above, simply apply heat. In true pleurisy absolute rest of the part is indicated and the patient warned not to cough if at all possible." . the former partner having retired. i \ -- | WHY THE WEA DR. CHARLES F. BROOKS oul Secretary, American Meteorolo, Soctaty, Tells How. moon has no air or water, it is no place tor an auto trip. -------- The difference between a spring golfer and a spring gardener is that One uses the holes he digs. the attempts at trans-Atlantic flight, almost ending in tragedy, and now has come a tragedy in an attempt ax a flight around the world. Is it worth while? Are the bene- fits to be secured and the advantages to be gained by flying around the world sufficient to make up for the | loss of a single lite? This is a ques- tion which is perturbing the minds of many people at the present timo. The world already knows what the aeroplane can do. It has been tesi- ed and tried and has proved a'suc- cessful 'means of rapid and sate travel. within the limitations of its capacity for Supplies. Nothing of a worth-while nature would be gained even if an ainman did succeed in fiy- 'ing around the world by making long jumps from place to place, The man who is the first to succeed in, this effort, of course, will earn much glory, and will be hailed as a hers in the realm of aerial exploits. But he will not have added one iota 'o human kiowledge. He will not have proven anything: that is not now known, Unfortunately it dves not seem possible to curb those ad- venturous spirits who embark oa such exploits, so the world must go on losing some of the best dnd brav- est) of its people through sheer fool- hi ness and the desire to be the first man to do something which has never been done before. -------- TRADE WITH GERMANY. It wift probably come as a surprise to. many to know - that the trade of Canada with Germany is growing at a rate which is greater than the growth of Canada's imports and with any other country. During the last fiscal year, Canada's imports from Germany amounted to $5,379,737, an increase over the previous year of $3,811,328, or a figure nearly double that of the yéar before, Canada's exports to Ger- many, in the same period, were valu- ordered life. id We can with impunity pour poi- sons and dark, wild, disordered thoughts into our minds no more than we can day after day find strength and health from spurious foods, hastily prepared, indigestible. To read well, read discriminating- ly, widely, thoroughly. What we read becomes part and parcel of us. ------ TYRANNY OF THE CLASSIC. Under the above heading there appears in one of the reviews for Ji ponta a plea for the rejection f standard English classics from the schoolroom and the introduction in their stead of the glassics of tosday. The deviser of this revolutionary educational plan would put away Scott, Dickens, Thackeray and George Eliot in favor of Edna Fer- ber, Booth Tarkington, Fannie Hurst and others on the ground that it is more practical to read hooks dealing with present-day manners, interests|' and ptroblems than those Which de- 'scribe conditions prevalent ia bygone generations. R There would be more force in the argument it there were any authbrity competent to decide which of the many volumes pouring from the presses in the present age are the veritable, genuine, simon - pure "élassics." But what individual, or what learned body, will have the temerity to venture even to hazard An opinion on so vexed & question? 185 Priucess Street. Phone 343 i Eee . Nothing Just Takes the Place of HUNTLEY & PALMER'S Biscuits Digestives, Tea Rusks, Pastry Flakes, Breakfast, Dinner, Bath Oliver -- a shipment received Jas. REDDEN & CO. PHONES 20 and 9%0, 'May 9th, De Levis with his beseiging army which had journeyed down from Montreal in April, lay outside of Quebec, watching with aching eyes for the white flag of France to ap- pear around the bend of the Island of Orleans with help for them. With- in Quebec, a meagre army of British soldiers turned their eyes anxiously, too, toward the bend in the river. | Which would come first? On that hung the fate of Canada. On this day in 1760, between nine and ten at. night, the silvery waters of the St. Lawrence, shimmering beneath | the moon, were ruffled by the prow, of a frigate, and a beautiful vessel swept gracefully into view of Quebec. The flag of England fluttered in the spring dreeze. Finis had been writ- ten to the rule of France in the New World, Hearts rose high in joy and relief within the walls, and the hearts without the walls fell into. the' depths of despair. nce had, fail- ed "them and there was nothing to do but retire, fighting . doggedly against the might of Britain. By the end of the suminer, the end had come, and de Levis quit Canada after baving secured from Britain the terms under which French men and women were assured justice and liberty. ----et pm e-- Accldents are almost unavoidable, with cars as thick as they are and heads as thick as they are. vr ing' As a Profession Although there is no practical known method of producing rainfall on an adequate scale, "rainmaking" is still a profitable profession. Usually, the "rainmaker" contracts to produce a certain minimum amount of rain with- in a specified time, perhaps at the rate of $1,0000 to $5,000 per inch. "No rain: no pay," is the attractive slogan that appeals to the helpless farmers, who will not sit idly by waiting for rain to come. When anything is wrong even if it is the weather, something must be done about it. And the "rain- maker" is ready. While a few decades ago the "rainmaker" sent up bombs or made heavy concussions, now he préfers the less ostentatious, cheaper and more '"'scientific" method of liber- ating secret, rain persuading chemicals from the top of a special tower. The old "rainmaker" had to still, with his apparatus "out of order," till large cumulus clouds appeared. The new one bides his time, awaiting the inevitable rain. Why does a "rainmaker" succeed? We can be sure 'that a modern com- munity would not hire one until drought conditions became alarming. Such a state is the final product of sev- eral months of similar weather. It is about time for the weather to change-- and the "rainmaker" usually gets the money. But it is not alway so easy. Thus, in January, 1916, after San Dicgo had hired a "rainmaker" it was soon afflicted with such a deluge that the city council sued him for overdoing the matter! On some occasions during recent years the rain has ar- rived just too late or too soon. In one case, there was a of rain two days after the close of the appoint- 'ed period, during which the "rain- maker" had failed; in another it pour- the "rainmaker's contract and in a third before he The reason the art ot conversation languishes is because it is hard to Practice without listeners. ---------- Discretion isn't an inborn quality, Iv generally . appears at about the time of the second blister. ------------ There are few European nations that would reject any proposition that included a cash loan. -------- Women didn't need to make up in the old days; they all looked good 10 the chap who was half-shot. Za I ---------------- " The world is getting normal, and BOW there is littlé for the Good Sa- maritan to feed except the kitty. ------ A man brags to his wife for the réason that he once whistled passing a cemetery at night. KINGSTON IN 1850 Viewed Through Our Files Kingston's Industries, (Continued) May 31.---~Waddingham's Planting Factory and Quiggin's Saw Mil. -- These are smaller manufactories of a similar kind t othat of Mr. Lester: but the articles are manufacture) for home consumption. Ford's Tannéry--The * tannery needs no t is Poi A ------------------------ You can't hurt a politician's teel- ings by cussing politicians, He x You refer to the other party. x ee ----------------------. Correct this sentence: "1 am afraid led you roughly," said the man in rags, "and I beg your Are At Loggerheads. The Almonte counetl and the Elec- trie Light Commission are at log- gerheads. The counei] ts to take over the commission's duties but that | body demurs and holds that the coupeil has no authority to remove the commission as it operates under a provincial statute. The commis- sion om the advice of a 18gal light has asked the council to rescind its Taotution abolishing the commis on. . year it may be bluffing. Re- member that there is a cloud behind every silver. ~ lining and remember our / 'phone number when you make up your mind to order , coal. ® Crawford PHONE 9. QUEEN 9. alone can give it seems impossible to make a final evaluation of Iiter- ary worth. . Who, for example, will claim that Shakespeare's works! seémed as great to his comtempor-| aries as they now segm to us? Fifty. years after the great dramatist had Passed awdy we find even so coin- petent a judge as Dryden having aif. fculty whatexer to award the palm | a £0 g was signed "Mothers" Day" Huyler's. Gibson's.