THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG CIVILIZATION'S PRICE. they could always be celebrated on) Human existence may be divided Monday; and that method ot selec- into two eras--the prestaxation age | tion, which has already been adopt- | and the taxation age. It requires no [ed for our own Thanksgiving Day, historian to remind us that this is might well be extended to other | the age of taxation, and the histor- events such as Empire Day and Do- | fans have provided us with little in- | minion Day. Until this systematic formation concerning the pre-taxa- | revision of the calendar takes place tion period. We have no record of a we shall continue to be afflicted with | civilization of which taxation was a number of holidays which are obli- | not a component part. BIBBY'S- and Semi-Weekly by WHI PUBLISHING Ho ® CO. LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. J. M. Campbell ... Leman A. Guild Taxes are burdensome and will be- come more burdensome: as civiliza- tion become more complicated and the needs of huanity become greater. | nothing but awkwardness, confusion | Our civilization manifestly has given us the choice between itself with " | of rheumatism aad stiff joints. taxation and no taxes with no civili- | committee might deal with the ques- Rheumatism was taken as a mat- zation. We won't surrender the com- forts of our civilization, so we must tolerate taxes. Our civilization is a valuable treas- ure, but is not being offered to the public at bargain prices. Our fed- oo d| eral taxes for governmental purposes ' | are considerable, but for war pur- TELEIHONE Office 1 Room SUBSCRIPTION RATEW (Dally Edition) One year, in city One yea: One year, to United States Semi-Weckly Edition) Ose year, by mail, cash One year, to United States UTS Town REPRESENTATIVES: Fe er, 22 St. Johm St, Mattacal Thompson, 100 King Ww. Toronto Letters to the Editor are published Ouly over the actual name of the 'writer. . Attached fs ome of the best job printing offices in Canads. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the Love isn't stone blind if the stone is a diamond. _ In jumping at conclusions, you seldom grab a good one. The man who sings his own praises strikes up the wrong tune. \ It isn't patriotism that urges a pedestrian across the street, but he's just as dead. rn sr amos In no other country are travellers 80 unsafe as in China, unless they are pedestrians. Health hint: This "Cross Crossing Carefully" slogan is for auto drivers instead of engineers. A provincial is any man who feeis contempt for people who don't dress and act as he does. tn sons Silence is golden, but the awards _ are given to those who have brass enough to speak up. » ---- When you read that the hero is young man of thirty-five, you know bow old the author is. i Sa------i-- \ Fortune. favors the village belle, - and In time she gets almost every- thing except a husband. And then there are some people 'who would walk a mile to bum a cigarette from a friend An easy way to make a small boy bathe is to paint a "No Swimming" 'sign on the bathroom door, * SHll, 'it all wives were permitted thelr own way, how would nerve specialists manage to live? Only twenty cents per person Is #pent for soap each year. Saturday ~ might is going to the dogs. Each nation, it appears, trusts in God. Now all that is needed is for them to trust in one another. In goed golf weather it isn't so! difficult for investigators to find au | Axecutive out as to find hin in, i I SE | As a means of hastening repen- | #Anes nothing so far has been more! ffective than a diet of husks. . Novel-writing 1s a delightful way 0 pase the time if you have some . way to make a living. A ---- You never hear a man knocking town unless somebody else has 'all the little grafts mailed down. « ------------ 'Well, the white-collar boys have red long enough; now let the wash boys wriggle a little. ---- A hick town is a place where the calls you across the street chide you about your overdraft. -------------------- Few men would stop in front of lingerie windows, however, it }¢ wasn't a nice mirror at the Newspaper men have various wor- ries, but these don't include the fact bt counterfeit $100 bills are in eir- tio a ---------------- this sentence: "I'm off 'afternoon, sald the husband; ll be glad to work with your plants it you desire." poses are oppressive. Few institu- tions of our civilization are untaxed by the federal government in the name of the world war, which was a product of our civilization. The fed- eral government, national highways, national parks and reserves, our de- fense forces, railways and canals, ete, are all quite necessary to our civilization and must be paid for with taxes. We pay provincial .taxes for good roads, school administration, agricultural extension, provinefal government and other attributes of civilization which none would will- ingly forego. Then there are county taxes for the administration of more local problems, for roads, schools and the preservation of the records of civilization and its institutions. Municipal taxes evoke much com- plaint, but without them we would | have no paved streets, fire and police protection, municipal government and sanitation. Everywhere there is discontentment with increasing school taxes, but the demands for education are becoming greater and greater 'under our civilization. Many are the blessings of civiliza- tion, but they must be paid for--in taxes. ' ---- PUBLIC HOLIDAYS. The whole question of public holi- days well deserves to be taken up by Parliament, and investigated by a small committee, For a holiday to be successful, and to be generally ob- served and bendficial, certain condi- tions are necéssary; and these condi- tions are more numerous and urgent in these industrial days than they were fifty years ago. The mere ac- cident of being the anniversary ef the birth of a reigning monarch is not the slightest reason for a parti- cular day being selected as a public holiday; 'such a day may have over- whelming arguments against its usc for any such purpose, and indeed the day now celebrated as King's Birth- day is not generally observed in Can- ada on account of ome very serious argument, namely, that it is much too close to one of the most popular of the fixed festivals of the Canadian year. There is no question of patriot- ism involved. The King's Birthday has never been popularly celebrated in England; there is no particular reason why it should be celebrated here; and it may be argued With some for¢e that the celebration of such a birthday tends to suggest that loyalty 'is due to an individual, the person who was born on such a date, rather than to the institution of the Crown or the Royal Family. A sensibly devised programme of public holldays--which of = course ! would become public holidays merely by being imposed on the banks and the public offices, and any other in- stitutions under direct government regulation---would have regard to a proper interval between two celebra- tions, to the probability of good weather, to the historic associations of the, day, and to any other pertin- ent matters. ' The Twenty-fourth of i May is indidpensable to any Cana- dian calendar, not LY any means sole- ly on accouny of the memory of the late Queen Victoria (people who think that the popularity of this holi- day is due to nothing but the Vie- torian tradition should ask thems selves what soft of observance the birthday would get, or would ever have got, if it haa chanced to be on the twenty-fourth of March), but be- cause of the fact that in almost all the more populous parts of Canada the Twenty-fourth of May is the date on which, whether spring began early or late, the "country" is for the first time fit to be enjoyed in all its exquisite youthfulness and the weather is for the first time fairly sure to be warm and sunny. It is a deepseated instinct which tells Cana- dians to take a'holiday just at that time, and Queen Victoria merely pro- vided the mechanism for selecting | | the exact day. - Most of the old-established holls days are religious; but not all, by any means, of the old religious days of feast or fast have survived as popularly observed holidays, and the solection has been carried out um- consciously through many genera- tions, always with due reference to considerations. of weather, proper spacing, and other points of conveni- ence.» Many of the religious anniver. of Being attached to a Sunday rather than a particular day | of the month, with the result that | fices-but are mot accorded the slight- attention by anybody else--a | est affairs which makes for | state of and disappointment. . While we think of it, the same | tion of Daylight Saving Time, make | it statutory and appoint a fixed and | uniform date for its commencement and conclusion, | | | FOR THE FULLER LIFE. growing. Everywhere physical cul- ture colleges and so-called life ex- tension institutes are springing up. All will agree that this attention to hygiene and physical training is an excellent thing. But it seems odd that so many should lay stress on physical culture merely as a means of prolonging life. The value of physical education in extending life is, after all, only incidental. Its real merit is in mak- ing life worth living. A general extension of the period of life is of interest mainly to the actuary. More appealing to the average man or woman is the new zest in life that comes from physical tralning and health culture. It is less the desire to live longer than to live more fully that is increasing the ranks of the physical culturists. | A hearty appetite, a perfect diges- tion, a 100 per cent. efficient liver, a clear brain and a general physical exhilaration--given these as the re- ward of physical culture, no one wor- ries much about the problém of life extension. ---- RISING STREETCAR FARES. The city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, announces the raising of its trolley- car fares to the rather portentous figure of ten cents each, six for fifty cents. Twenty years ago the work- ingmen of the majority of the cities of this continent, most of them much larger than Halifax, could get from their home at one end of the city to their work at another end for ap- proximately three cents, during the hours specially consecrated to their movement; and the ordinary citizen could cover thé same distance at any hour for approximately four cents. Not only so, but in those spacious and optimistic days there was a gen- eral belief that, thanks to the vast strides of science, the cost of this transportation would steadily be cote lower and lower, and the com- munity would more and more tend to become one in spirit. and interest through the abolition of its geogra- Phical distinctions. Ten years ago the three cent and four cent fares were still generally prevalent, but the optimism had gone, and the transportation companies wer: com- plaining that they were compelled to carry on this process of cheap uni- fication of the city at a loss to them- selves 'and their shareholders, and that they therefore could not obtain capital for the proper expansion of thelr services. Such optimism as 'was then left took the form of elaim- ing that the transportation compa- nies were geifish monopolies, and that if transportation could only be carried on by the municipality itself the process of cheapening and im- Proving could be continued ad infi- nitum. To-day we know better, and have ceased to hope that urban transportation will ever be cheapen- ed by anybody, ! The automobile 1s intensely hos- tils to the street car system. The widespread diffusion of the cheap car favors that extensive spreading out of the urban area which necéssi- tates street car lines of much greater length than in 'the old and compact eity of the pre-automoblle days_At the same time these miles and miles of suburban residents, of the pros- perous artisan class and the small professional classes, while démand- ing street cars for their transporta- tion in bad weather, provide scarcely any patfonage for them in good wea- ther. And in the congested parts of the city the operating costs of the street railway are immensely enhanc- ed by the slowing down of speed caused by the vast fleets of automo- biles which invade the central dis- trifts from the outlying areas. Po is an interesting question whe- t existence on this continent in the , If a new city should come into next ten years, its designers woulda increasing we watch for the time when weighs benefit. What will happen in Halifax, for instance, if the in. Crease of fares reduces travel so much that the net return is no great- er than before? \ Lo -------- i 3 The love of money is also the root of all family trees. out- | gatory on banks and government of- | Interest in physical education is { 1 | By lames W. Barton, M.D, | The Human Barometer, It must be interesting to some of | our older folks when they read about | what 1s now thought to be the cause | ter of course in their time. In fact [ the old lady's idea that rheumatism was sent from Heaven, so that she | could 'forecast the weather, was not | considered entirely as a joke. | And so when we read in the papers Big Sale of Men's Suits + STARTS TO-DAY lately that another place in the body {is now considered a source from | whence rheumatism may come, we, are not surpriséd. { | i A physician specializing in X-Ray | work claims to have perfected a method whereby he can see right into some small cells of bone on the | floor of the skull, just above the | nose, and behind the eye sockets. | It was found that even after clgaring | up the matter of teeth, tongils, and | | the little sinuses or caverns adjoin- | | Ing the nose, and likewise the intes- | tine, that rheumatism still persisted. | These people would have a sort of | chronic "catarrh for which all forms | of treatment seemed of no avail. | By.means of this new method this physician claims that the actual in- | fected cells can be seen. | This enables a surgeon to enter | in and clean out the infection. Some persistent catarrhal condi- tions which are so annoying by their very persistence have often baffled our cleverest specialists. After tra- versing every area about the nose and the different caverns or sinuses adjoining it, they have failed to re- lieve the condition. I'm not in a position to verify the claims of this X-Ray specialist, nor of the surgeon who has been follow- ing up the findings and operating thereby, because it is reported from | a distant city. Time will tell. My object is speaking about it is | to show that one should not calmly sit down and accept rheumatism as something that cannot be helped, That one must just sit or lie down and bear it, Rheumatism, as it is called, is simply a condition due to some in- fection. If the cause is looked for persistently, it can usually be found. If these cells spoken of above are found to be really another source from whence rheumatism may come, then one more step has been gained on this foe of mankind. -- | WHY THE WEATHER? | DR CHARLES r. BROOKS. Secretary, A Moet Wocioty, Tolls How 'o%! Why High Clouds Go East. Why are the upper winds, prevail- ingly from the west in middle lati- tudes carrying the high clouds from west* to east? First we may ask, what determines the direction of a wind, anyway? A wind tends to flow in accordance with the "pres- Sure gradient," that is from a region of higher pressure, more or less slantwise, towards a région of lower pressure. Pressure gradients aloft, particularly at the level of the eir- rus clouds 4 miles or more up, are controlled mainly by the tempera- ture distribution. Where the air is cold and dense it settles closer to the earth than where it is warm and expanded. Hence, where the air is cold the air column to a height of 4 miles contains more air, and there is less left above that height than where the air is warm. The result is a lower pressure at 4 miles over a cold region than overs warm. So, in general, the pressure at such heights is lower in the colder lati- tudés and higher in the warmer. The resilts in a pressure gradient gener- ally northward over North America. But it is a paradox that air pushed northward, as down stich a pressure slope, moves eastward. This is ow- ing to the deflective effect of the earth's rotation, the earth turning to the left, in the Northern Hemi- sphere, under the moving air. So with a northward gradient the wind aloft is west: The changes in tem- perature with thé passing weather changes usually bring about & slight modification of the direction of the general pressure gradient, and ia j donsequence a variation of the mo- tion of the high clouds usually from northwest to southwest, but ooeas- ionally as far as Worth and north- east, or even south and southeast, when contrasts between latitudes are fot great. ~ KINGSTON IN 1850 Viewed Through Our Files Extra Special Values at Headquarters for Leather Goods, Trunks, Suit most pleasant and interesting tales in our language. The author, whoever he may be, is 4 young mam, a very young man, who has published his work under every possible disadvantage. He has had no friend to look over his MsSS., and evidently no proof reader to cor- rect the sheets. The book is so vile- ly printed and abounds in such my- riads of typographical errors as to render it almost impossible to be de- ciphered. But could it reach a second edition, with the judicious use of the pruning knife, "The Last of the Eries," under a different title might readily be made a standard work on Indian life and customs. eps ' ---- May 27. 'When plain began his great explorations Jato the interior of Canpda, he adopted the policy of exchanging young Frenchmen into the Indian tribes to learn their language and ways. One of these youths was Nicholas Vignau, who returned to Quebec, after his so- journ with the Ottawa, with a mar- vellous tale of a journey he' had taken over to the great sea of the morth, ich to-day is Hudson's Bay. All France was stirred by the extraordinary story, and Champlain was ordered to dnvestigate. This was a development Vignau had not calou- lated upon. The expedition started up the Ottawa on this day in 1611, Champlain taking Vignau amd two other Frenchmen, Vignau probably hoping against hope for an accident to turn the party back. Near Alu- mette Island they joined the Ottawa tribe with whom Vignau had lived, and there his fairy tale was exposed and the youth forced to confess the imposition. Champlain turned back, his expedition a failure. The Ottawa river proved to be in year to come, however, a great highway to the rich fur fields of the North-west. SOME FARMERS TRENCHED, ---- To Get the Water off the Land at Wilton. Wiiton, May 24.--8till very cold, heavy frosts for three nights in suc- cession. The farmers are getting anxious, now since the rain has ceas- ed, they are very busy. Some were more fortunate than others, a num- ber had a nice lot of seeding done, others hardly any, but now they are not losing amy time. Some have had to trench to let the water off. The pfospects for hay very pleasing to everyone. The meadows certainly look fine. Fréemont Mills has a fine new Cases and Club Bags BIBBY'S We have some attractive bar. gains in city property. A good list of farms ang garden lands, Fire Insurance, first class company. Money to loan on mortgages. T.J. * Real Estate and Insurance 68 BROCK 8T., KINGSTON Phones 322J and 17977. ¢ ny ing her home for the summer. Mrs. George Conway, Odessa, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Frederick Cole. Messrs. Eldridge Babcock, Stuart Simmons, J. BE. Miller, Earl Burt and Bunker Storms attended the Masonic banquet held at New- burgh on Monday evening, Mrs. Walter Compton's friends will be de- lighted to know, she has so far re- covered from her operation in the General Hospital for appendicitis, as | to be in her home now, feeling fine. Mrs. Harriet Parott is spending a short time with her sister, Mrs. Gal- lagher, in the city. Stuart Snider lost a valuable horse, last week. Rev. Mr. Wilson, Napagee, Moder- ator of the Presbyterian church, gave a fine sermon on Sunday evening, in the Presbyterian church here. Rev. Mr. McKenzie arrived on Wednesday. Mrs. J. BE. tMiller entertained shower, in honor of the bride, Mrs. Kenneth Babcock on Friday after- noon. The Wilton people are giving a variety shower to Mr. and Mrs, Clinton Hough on Friday evening. MEMORIALS OF MERIT Designed and Executed by Craftsmen "of Training Estimates on All Classes of Work Carefully Given " The McCallum Granite Co., the | young ladies in the form of a variety 1 The Creative Machine Shop 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. Bi p Machine Shop QUEEN STREET» In bulk or package. Special varieties of - Sweet Pea, named Spencers. 'Queer. City' Lawn Grass 'Shady Nook' Grass Seed. <=for under the trees dark corners of the ns Or. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess Street. Phone 848 (Chet to Late King Edward) Mixed Pickles, Chow Chow, Onions, Gherkins, Walnnts, Picalilli~--all fn Malt Vinegar. 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