6 THE BRITISH WHIG 018T YEAR. and Semi-Week! ahmed, Pony WHIG LBL CO. LIMITED, KINGSTON, 0 by | ING | features of the programme, a steer's sesassanarares President Editor and AELEFHONE = | A CONTRAST IN TASTES. | The cowboys from Westorn Cane the stern Statgs who England, taking part | roping contests and er | west" events which are being (as part of the programme British Empire Exhibition at bley Park, are being given jin British humanitariansm, are being shown that tastes for enter- { tainment differ greatly in the | hemispheres. The Royal Soci the Prevention Cruelty | mals has from the {strongly to the holding of | events on the ground that j vere ynade possible only { which were cruel to 'the | used in them Unfortunately those behind the | ada and we parts of are in steer- itd taged Cw of Wem- a lesson and for to Ani- objected of start they by staging of these leg was broken in one of the earliest jof the events, and th Fesult Now, will only | public exhibitions. staged at all, they private, and that be held because in the ~ | exhibition authorities do not want to SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Daily Edition) Ope yearw, in city One year, by mail to rural often, One year, to United States 'ans Semi-Weekly Editio One year, by mall, cash ... year, to United States . --epe ee eee OUT-OF-TOWN REPRE L Calder, 22 St. Johm' St. Montreal " W. Thompson, 100 King St. W, Toronto Letters to the Editor are published only aver the actunl name of the writer. Attached Is one of the best job! OUT printing offices in Canada. The_circulation of THE BRITISH WHIGO is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circuiations It takes a girl with dreamy eyes to keep the men awake, -------------- In the spring a young girl's fancy | €8t skill at this work. lightly turns to fancy-work. ------| est delight | rodeos | berta. | to the cowboy who showed the great- | | steers used | disappoint the eighty | boys who have travelled from the | other side of the world to show their | | skill in this particular ine of work, It will seem rather peculiar to the should be any steer roping contests, is part that there ine ta roners ping, to them, | their daily tasks. led at it because year in and year at round up time, they have to practise it. In the west, too, steer- roping contests are amongst the | most popular forms of amusement. { When the Prince of Wales visited | Canada last year, he took the keen- staged He at his ranch in Al- even presented a trophy There was no | question then of cruelty to the There never Betore letting your conscience be [407 question of cruelty in the rop- your guide, be sure you have one, After getting the bill, you under- stand why they are callled special- ists. About all a suggestive movie title really suggests is that Barnum was right. No doubt children of 1890 haa | "individuality," thought it cussedness, It works out all right. Families with no children usually have a dog to occupy the back seat, The office cynic says man takes & chance when he marries, buf gets yery little chance after that, The proper year to trade your old car in on a new one is this year. If you doubt it, ask your dealer, Fable: One hat was priced $35, the other $4.90; she thought the cheap one looked better on her, It frequently happens that the man who has the least religion can put up the best scrap to defend it. It isn't an orthodox apartment i? you have room for two guests at once without putting out the cat. Prosperity is rather enjoyable it you don't mind cluttering up tho house with things vou don't need. First sign of spring in the Arec- tic regions is when an Eskimo's wife wants a pair of summer ear muffs. ---- | Not all the peoples of the earth j are a menace to civilization. Some | of them haven't been civilized yet. The smaller the town the less you need accomplish in order to become ! 400 proud to shine your own shoes. ------------------------ A diplomat is a man who cap use complimentary adjectives when cuss words are struggling for utterance. t Xe Every married man will tell you that this truth-compelling scopo- lamin drug should be abolished by law, A baby and an auto cost about the same, but age increases the value of one and decreases the valpe of the other. iy All a mere man knows about shop ping is that when the saleswoman calls it a simple little totug it is priced $79.50. Correct this sentence: 'This play contains nothing manghty," said the producer, "but it will be a tremen- dous success," "rhe old-fashioned youth lacked the advantage of a college educa- tion and had to learn his stud poker the best way he could. A college education is a fine thing. The athietic training hard- ems you and in just a little while you ean Jearn to be a: plasterer. HAPPY 1S HE THAT _CONDEMNETH Not | THAT THING WHICH 14:22. the the western ing of round-up ranches. The whole matter shows in a very | peculiar manner that the tastes for {the people of Great Britain, ently, differ greatly from the tastes steers during periods on | of the people of the western parts of North America. What the former look upon with horror as being too jcruel to be exhibited to the public, | the latter take as a matter of course. but the neighbors | | advanced in this respect in | Britain than it civilization is more Great is in Canada. The people there take their amusements | far more seriously than they do over here, and what may seem real sport | to the average Canadian might seem the very opposite to the Britisher overseas. While the incident is re- grettable, because it is liable to be misunderstood by the cowboys who are representing Canada and the United States at the exhibition, it shows the great contrast in tastes whieh exists on the two sides of the Atlantic. | It may be that PUBLIC BACKS GOVERNMENT, The Hon. Charles Stewart, the act- ing postmaster-general, has handled the postal strike in a manner which has won for him the admiration of the Canadian public. He showed the utmost fairness to. the workers in the negotiations just prior to the strike, but when the strike method wae adopted to intimidate the Uovern- ment Mr. Stewart put his foot down good and hard. The country at large then had to be considered before the individual, and Mr, Stewart made it. very plain in his statement to the House of Commons that the postal service of Canada must be carried on despite the fact that civil servants, who had taken hn oath to perform their work faithfully, had left their posts of duty because of a small wage grievance, With the Government be- hind him, the acting postmaster-gen- eral set out to squelch the strike, and he found that he had also the power- ful assistance of public feeling. For the government or Mr. Stewart to have wavered, instead of presenting a bold front, would have been fatal. While negotiations progressed there was perhaps a general hope that the the postal wage schedule of the lower classes would have been ad- justed to satisfy the workers, but the minute the postal men made good their strike threat, public feel- ing was strongly against them. They did not start with absolutely united ranks, as a small percentage of their number voted against a strike and stuck to their posts. These workers were not Al union men when they refused to follow the large majority, but they were perhaps very wise. Delays have been occasioned in the moving of the majls, But the Govern- ment is determined that the postal service of the country will be con- tinued. Normal conditions will soon prevail again. No doubt many of the strikers--those who did not re- turn sooner to their posts--will find themselves out of a job, for the aet- ing postmaster-genersal has given his ultimatum that those not back on duty at eight o'clock on Saturday morning will not be taken back in the postal service under any condi- tions, This ultimatum should be the means of giving the strike its-knock- out blow, The reagon we don't take belter care of our feet is because they are 80 far from our miads, the | London, | the | two | these | acts animals | for { was ! anaging-Director| their entire withdrawal as part of the | if they are | or more cow- | of | They become skil- | in watching one of the| has been | yearly | appar- | ! THE DAILY BRITISH | CANADA'S PRECIOUS METALS: | To the end of 1923 Canada had produced over $512 The prospect of rapid increas pre of production and there is reason to expect that Canada will goon become the largest gold producing country in the world, says the Mines Branch of the Canadian Department of Mines Gold is found in every province of Canada, with the exception of Prince Edward Island, in point of value, next to coal, is the most im- portant mineral product of the Do- minion. Present indications, indeed, point to the possibility of the values of Canada's gold output surpassing even that of her coal during the next few years. The opening up of the Porcupine land Kirkland Lake gold camps mark- ed the beginning of a new era in the history of gold mining in Ontario, which is now one of the important gold producing countries of world. Though the first productive operations at Porcupine date only from 1909, and at Kirkland Lake from 1913, these two camps had at the end of 1923 paid out in dividends over $34,000,000. With every producing mine increasing both itg proved ore reserves and its milling capacity, and with a number of new mines rapidly approaching the productive stage, the gold output of Ontario, sent rate is ooh 1 ge and, [ed increase within the next | years, | Canada's total gold production in 1923 was a little under $25,000,000, {of which about 90 per cent. was pro- duced as bullion. among the 'metals produced in | Dominion, in point of value of an- nual production, and among the sil- | na ver producing countries of the world | m | J cihg | your family had better do without a | Canada ranks third. To the end of 1923 Canada has silver. tion is about 17,000,000 ounces. | this about 75 per cent. {marketed chiefly and Japan, The enormous territory over which metalliferous ores have been found; the comparatively recent develop- ment of many metallurgical indus- tries for the recovery of metals, and the abundance of hydro-electrié® power for electro-metallurgical oper- ations, bid fair to show a vast in- crease in the production of these two | important metals. The Mines De- | partment of Canada is keenly inter- {ested im the developments that are taking place in gold and silver min- ing in Canada, and looks for much progress in this direction. A dr bo LORDS VERSUS COMMONS. Indications point to the Labor gov- ernment of Great Britain facing in the near future one of the strongest battles of its brief and yet stormy career, a battle with the House of Lords. To those who have foliowed the course of British 'politics for the past two decades, such a conflict has seemed Inevitable ever since Ramsay MacDonald became premier of Great Britain, and it only awaited an issue of sufficient magnitude to bring it to a head. That issue, apparently, has been found in the government's bill providing for the prevention of evic- tion of tenants who have failed to pay their rent under certain condi- tions. This bill passed through the House of Commons after a stiff de- bate, and it was passed only because the Liberal party supported it. This support was given, not so much be- cause the Liberals were whole-Leart- edly in favor of the bill, but because a sufficient number of them had no desire to see the government defeat- ed on a major issue and a general election forced upon the country. The House of Lords, however, has no fear of general elections, and the bill has been so amended by the upper chamber as to render it prac- tically valueless The measure has been returned to the House of Com- mons with these amendments attach- ed to it, and the government's inten- tion is to move the' rejection of all these amendments and insist that the bill be allowed to stand as passed by the lower chamber. In this move tite Labor government will have the assistance of a large body of Liberals of radical tendencies, and will be placed in a position to practically laugl®at the efforts of the Lords to defeat this important and far-reach- ing legislation. It was the Liberal party which placed a curb on the House of Lords in 1911 after two general elections had followed each other within a year/on that very sub- ject. By these elections, the Liberals. were given a mandate to "mend" the House of Lords, and the mending machinery put into force then stili exists. A e law stands now, the House of Jommons has two courses open in dealing with the House of Lords. It can pass a measure and reject all the amendments inserted by the House of Lords, and, if the Lords still insist on the amendments, the third passing of the bill by the Com- mons makes it automatically become law. The other course is fot the gov- ernment to appoint a sufficient pum- ber of new peers sympathetic to its legislation to give it a majority in both houses. This was the course in the | which, in 1923, amounted | to $20,000,000, should show a mark- | few | | erally accepted that produced over 450,000,000 ounces of | The present rate of produc- | Of | is exported | {in the form of bullion and has been | in Great Britain, | | the United States, Hong Kong, China | in the order mentioned. | | threatened by Premier Asquith. 1911, and it brought the House Lords to see reason so promptly that it was never put ) effect, A sim- ilar threat at the present time would have a similar result. The House of Lords is not likely pointment of a few hundred Labor peers to outvote the Conservative majority which at present exists. Rather than that it will submit to the insistence of the gavernment in to court the ap- | that the nom-eviction bill be passed | without amendments which will alter its- vital principles. Nevertheless, the situation is an | interesting one, | in that it marks the first open con- | flict between the Labor party and the | aristocracy since the present govern- | ment came into power. ---- ee the | nearly | By James W, Barton, M.D, Why A Vacation, In this enlightened age I should really head my article "Why Not a Vacation?" In other words the actual wisdom or need of a vacation is now so gen. it seems hardly necessary to talk about it. And yet perhaps you'll think to | yourself that you are in pretty good '| shape, business isn't any too brisk, Silver comes second only to gold | the | your work. So if you have an idea in your | and perhaps also | and perhaps a little time away might not bé good'for the business or for that you, vacation this year, then I'd like to tell you a few things. You are working pretty steadily and so are the other members of the family. There is the housework, the school work, and the regular routine that goes with the domestic life of every family. It you are the man of the home you have been carrying the burden of your business with its worry. This means a '"tenseness" that is present with you perhaps all day long, day in and day out. With the wife or mother, thera is the domestic cares. It is not that they are so difficult always, nor s. perplexing mentally, but there is the daily, daily routine. I was going to say daily deadly routine. Similarly the boy or girl at school has the regular daily routine with which to contend. True, it is good disclipline for them to have regular class work and some regular time for their home work, but it is routine just the same. And so then that is my point. A vacation is an absolutely essen- tial thing because it takes you and yours away from routine, Further, I have sald nothing about the other things that come into your life. As I said above there is that constant tenseness with which you find it necessary to conduct your af- fairs. There is perhaps almost a daily, if not hourly anxiety about it also. The feeling that if you do not watch every single detail that some- thing serious may happen. By carrying this burden of tense- ness, of fear, and anxiety, you are ac- tually utilizing two or three times the nervous energy necessary to con- duct your affairs. Perhaps you feel that you would be in a worse state it you were on a vacation, and were not where you could watch things closely. You'll have to take a chance be- cause you will 'get rid of the big thing of which I spoke above--rou- tine. June 21, Samuel Hearne was on his way to prove for himself if the elusive North-West Passage lay at the end of the "Far-off Metal River" de- scribed the Indians. He had been travelling west and north for six months, and now, June 21, 1771, had come a day when the sun did not set! He had crossed the Arctic Circle. From this day on he travelled without count of day or night, for the sun shone on through day and night. Three weeks later ke reached the Coppermine River, which; to Hearne's disappointment, led neither to the coveted Passage, nor to China, It did, however, bring him to the Arctic Ocean, the first white man to set his feet there. It had gradually dawned upon Hearne that the ardor displayed by the Indians in this mission of his was not inspired by devotion to himself. It was explained when a party of simple Eskimos, on their way south, were wiylaid on the Coppermine, a week before Hearne reached the Arctic and slaughtered with such flendigh delight by Hearne's Indians, that he sobbed with horror, ang poured out his entreaties on thpir heedless ears. The Indians were| rewarded by rich loot of furs. arne's joy im his discoveries was thus dimmed by his horrible memori Ju There was » Burnside Manor this day in 1829 Lome, which & 22, h ado in the old at Montreal on The spacious old kX its name from Sale of Men's Straw Hats $1.95 BIBBY'S s SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 192s, » of Men's Straw Hats $1.95 SHIRT SALE Shirts--14 to 17%. $2.50, $2.75 values. For $1.95 TOOKE OUTING SHIRTS Made with Reversible Col- lars--plain Blue, Mauve, White Sizes 14 to ~----neat stripes, etc. 17. Regular $2.50 values. For $1.45 each ENGLISH. BROAD- CLOTH SHIRTS Pipin, Poplins--White, Tan, Regular $4.00 val. Blue, Grey. ues. For $2.95 Lang Regular INVISIBLE SUSPENDERS Non-rust buckle. Regular 75¢ values. For 45c¢. ATHLETIC UNDERWEAR All sizes, 84 to 44. For $1.25 Suit MEN'S HOSE Bilk Lisle--all colors. 2 Pairs for $1.00 SUIT SALE 58 Men's and Young Men's Suits at $14.75 47 YOUNG MEN'S SUITS Sport models -- regular $25, and $27.50 values. For $18.50 BIBBY'S r~ the little "burn" town of Montreal,' at the foot Mount Royal. of James McGill, chant, who at his death sity. The Royal Institution, of struggle and the home faced with years litigation before in 1829. manor classrooms, doors were thrown open a great assembly The rooms of the house were converted and on June 24, the cational institution ada. James McGill had stipulated that one college bear his name, but as the university grew the name was applied to the whole institu- tion, whihe is now one of the great- est universities"in existence, KINGSTON IR 1851 Viewed Through Our Files A PUBLIC SPIRITED GENTLEMAN March 4:--The provisional com- mittee appointed at the late Rail- road Convention held in this City met in Cobourg on Wednesday last. The mayor of Cobourg, Wm. Weller, Esq. availed himself of the meeting of the Railroad Convention to give a dinner to which the committee were invited. The mayor of King- ston and the warden of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington sat on the right of the host, and the warden or Hastings and mayor of Belleville on his left. It would be well that the public spirit shown by Mr. Weller were imi- tated. He is the principal stage proprietor in Canada, and if the :zil- road is made, his business will be ruined and his very large stock of horses, carriages, etc., will be sacri- ficed; yet he is found foremost in the railroad enterprise because he believes it will promote the prosper- ity of his country. How differen: this cohduet from that of the ante- diluvians among ourselves who go croaking about that "the railroad will never pay," and not content with. doing nothing themselves, try to prevail upon others to imitate their anti-gas, anti-water, and anti- fire-insurance, and anti-Perth-road, MEMORIALS OF MERIT 4 3 Designed and Executed by Craftsmen of Training Estimates on All Classes of Work Carefully ' Given The McCallum Granite Co., Limited 897 Princess St, Kingston. Telephone 1031. which flowed near- by, was a good walk out from the of It had heen the home a wealthy fur mer- in 1813 had bequeathed his home and £10,- 000 for the foundation of a univer- to which the work was entrusted, was and money finally came into its hands old into to admit of men and wo- men who rejoiced In the establish- ment of the first great English edu- in Lower Can- For Sale We have some attractive bar- gains in city property. A good list of farms and garden lands. Fire Insurance, first class company. 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March 10:--The fair authors of | "Julia | long | home, there to give account of all] writings, | but what man ever rose from a per- | usal of these celebrated novels with-| out feeling disgusted at the mascu-| "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," and Howard" have gone to: their their doings as well as line boldness of one, and the course, horse-jockey, camp-following uage of the other? Cut Clover High. Second year sweet clover should be cut high for hay, if a second growth is expected. It should be cut for hay before any of the. flower buds appear. Sweet clover differs from alfalfa and red clover in that the second growth does not come from the crown but from the buds siong the stems, ' ' Elm Leaf Beetle. Get after the elm leaf beetle to keep those stately trées alive and healthy. Spray the tree with a so- lution of three to five pounds of lead arsenate paste to 50 gallons of wat- er. Spray the under side of the leaves well, as it is here the grubs feed. How To Kill Weeds. The main object in cultivating row erops is to kill weeds. But cultiva- tion should not be too deep. It should be just deep enough to suffi- ciently etir the soil to kill the small weeds. Arguing with a policeman is about as foolish as a Vightning bug working in the day time. By 1980, all 2 man will have to do tg disguise himself as a woman will be to get a shave, ex- | lang- | | | PHONE 9. Ginger Ale, Dry Ginger Ale, Apple Nectar, Champagne Kola, Soda Water. The season is here and we are all ready for it. .REDDEN & CO. PHONES 20 and 990, "Ihe House of Satisfaction THRE WEATHER MAY SEEM JuRA AND A SLroRe ITN A ES OAL QUARTETTE HEN the weather 'seems mild and balmy at this time of the year it may be bluffing. Re- member that there is a cloud behind avery silver liming and remember our 'phone number when you make up your mind to order coal. Crawford QUEEN 8ST,