STS : , : Publanee and Bemi-Weekly by RITISH WHIG PUBLISHING C0, LIMJTED, KINGSTON, ONT. M. Cam, 'eas »us BESTEL al Managing- Director TELEPHONE to U Stat cesnas nited ates $3.00 OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: x Calder, 22 St. John St. Moutreal . W. pson, 100 King St. W, to Letters Jo the Editor are published ¥ 'er the actual mame of the Writer. ome of the best job ~ Attached 1s Printing officey in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the C AB -- Audit Bureau of Circuiations et et ati eta The best way to find your missing kinfolks is to get rich. HE A dawn-to-dusk flier sees a lot of country, but he misses the bootleg- gers. Opportunity knocks but once. It would make a mighty poor political speaker, Many a face is worth a fortune because she has récelbted bills to prove it. After a day in the sordid marts it: is comforting to pray or go see Jackie Coogan. i How comforting, after being shot, to know it was a dry agen: and uot a highwayman. Many of us live expensively to Im- press our friends who live expen. sively to impress us. 3 \ But how can any Frenchman be 88 calm and neutral as they expect their president to be? . We have our ups and downs. An 'optimist looks forward to the ups; a imist to the downs. Any man can patch the leaks in is roof so they given no more trouble until it rains, . There's one good thing about poli- tical bosses. They take time to take an interest in government. ------ Out in the great open spaces you can at least get victuals thai don't need mayonnaise dressing. There may be some merchants who don't believe in advertising, but you never hear of them. ! As a rule some general sweeps the litieil field after our wars, but time it 1s general apathy. ; A democracy is a land in which you get rich and then pretend you have ancestors to be proud of. An old-timer is one who sighs for the days when the sheik instinct ade small boys pull pigtails, After all, apout the only differ once between this and earlier civi- Hzations is in the speed limi. § ---- -- Think of the agonizing suspense poor things endure while waiting see how it will look when bobbed. t---------- Our national culture seems to de- rapidly by providing more and places where you can smoke. Correct: this sentenge: "Here g the hills," said the advt., "re- ng breezes blow all the while." Fell, the Japs were given a fair n the United States, and they wouldn't enthuse about base- estimated that 89 per cent. of men who borrow books have chil- who enjoy throwing books at J ------------ doing without things you want save enough to buy finer igs when you grow old and no ger care for them. Joenerally xnown that Mr, Rocke- =. ABOUT SPORTS. Old fogies, observing the tremen- dous crowds at baseball games, often comment that the country has gone | crazy on sports, | The ancient Olympic games in| Greece were held in a stadium that seated 40,000 spectators. The Greeks, however, held their | athletic meets only once every four years, in August. They wanted time to devote to Improving their brains. Here we have baseball half the year and other sports the other half, with | thousands of people more interested | in sports than in anything else. ¥ A GENEROUS BEQUEST. Several hundred years ago, Henry Fielding, justly called "the father of the English novel," wrote: "There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a human being, replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render him- self most acceptable to his Creator, by doing most good to His crea- tures." This quotation is called to mind by the announcement, made in the Whig yesterday, that the late Charles Sandwith Campbell, K.C., of Mon- treal, had bequeathed the sum of approximately $300,000 to the Kingston General Hospital. Here, indeed, was a human being "replete with benevolence," and who made | certain that his money, after his! demise, would do "most good" to his fellow creatures. One can only hope that his generous action will-- to apply the quotation once more -- render the giver "most acceplable to his Creator." The governing board of the hospi- tal will welc6me this timely assis- tance. Just at present they are em- barked upon a programme of esten- sion which calls for the expenditure Of a considerable sum of money. New additions are being built, and extra equipment installed. The staff has been increased and plans have been made for rendering the King- ston General Hospital one of the! best institutions of its kind in the land. The generous bequest will go a long way toward enabling the gov- ernors to carry their plans to a suc- cessful fruition. The fact that a former Kingston boy has so remembered the home of his early days is another proof, if proof is necessary, of the warm spot that the old Limestone City holds in the hearts of all its sons. Few of them are privileged by fortune to bequeath large sums for its better- ment, but all of them cherish fond and loving memories of the city that gave them birth. - The late Charles Sandwith Campbell should be cher- ished in grateful memory for his magnificent gift. It is seldom that this city is held in such kindly re- meémbrance. ABOLISH THESE TAXES. The Monetary Times points out that the next. taxation reform to which Canadians should direct their efforts is the elimination of several taxes, which, it argues,'is more bur- densome than productive. These are the federal taxes on cheques, re- ceipts, etc. The Times believes it would also be desirable to restore the two-cent postage rate as soon as pos- sible. s Dealing with the same matter, the London Free Press says: "More than five years having elapsed since the close of the war, it-is time the Dominion government considered the advisability of re- moving tRe tax on first-class mail matter. It is by no means a luxury impost, any more than the collection of four cenfs on a fifteen-cent box of matches; and a number of these vexatious, if hitherto unnecessary, charges under which the Canadian public labors at the present time. It not only concerns directly the whole poulation of the Dominion, but constitutes a heavy burden on business of all kinds, adding to the overhead which must in the end be passed on to the buying public." The stamp taxes on receipts and: cheques add to the nuisance of busi- ness, and there are enough without them. Another two per cent, on the income tax would be better than the multiplication of imposts. Govern- ments used to try to hide their tax levies, so that the citizen would not realize when he was paying them, but that is a relic of the absolute monarch who in some ways had more reason to fear popular sentiment than has a responsible government. In any case, modern taxation me- thods lean more toward direct me thods, so that we may know just what we pay and when we pay it. | It should not be necessary for a country to have fifteen or twenty dif- ferent taxes. There are about that many in Canada, counting nearly ten Dominion taxes and about five each for the provinces and municipalities. A more simple system of half a do- zen which would, of course, require high rates, would be preferable, and 4 good step in this direction would be the abolishing of these stamp taxes: LIVING RIGHT MEANS LIVING LONG. A Cleveland physician who is a personal friend and golf companion of John D. Rockefeller predicts that Mr. Rockefeller will live to be 100 years old. Many of us can remember the day mot so far back when it wa: | required THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG feller was a sufférer from indigestion. A remark frequently heard was "what good is all his money if he has to live on crackers and milk?" Many shook their heads gloomily and pre- dicted that he would not even en- compass the traditional three-score- and-ten years allotted to man, but he has 'exceeded that limit 'by 15 years and is so vigorous that his Cleveland physician does not hesitate to say that he will reach the century mark. The reason for Mr. Rockefeller re- maining on 'earth so lowg after the time croakers set for his demise more than likely is his sane and or- derly way of living. He once suffer- ed from indigestion but does so no more. He may have at one time been to restrict his diet to "crackers and milk" but he now can | eat anything that is edible, according to the physician who says he will live many years longer. We have no knowledge of what Mr. Rockefeller's diet. may have been at any-time in his life but we are certain -that if conservation of his health required any limitation he adhered to it strict- ly. In other words he did not try to eat bologna sausage if his stomach sald "ofily crackers and milk, please." Even now, the medical man says, the capitalist eats sparingly But that is not all--his daily life is orderly and sane, run on a sche- dule with a time for everything. He { has time for work and has time for play and it probably is proper ar- rangement of his labor, feeding and recreation that makes him hale and vigorous at an age when most men have passed out of this life. KINGSTON IN 1851 Viewed Throwth Our Files THE JUNE BALL. June 20.--Wednesdav last being the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, the Royal Artillery cele- brated the event by giving a ball in the evening on a scale surpassing anything of the kind ever held in Kingston. There not being a room sufficiently large in the barrack at the Artillery Park to accommodate the great number of guests who had been invited, the gunshed was made choice of and very elegantly fitted up for the occasion. Several distin- guished veterans who were present pronounced the decorations far superior to any they had ever seen during their military experience, in some cases embracing a pdriod of more than & quarter of a century. At the extreme end of the room were two very tastefully executed paint- ings of Her Majesty and Prince Al- bert, designed by a gunner of the corps. Below these sat the orchestra, composed of several members of the charming little band attached to the artillery brigade in garrison. At the opposite end was a representa- tion of a battery, very neatly done. On the left hand side, over the en- trance was Ireland's patron saint, and about the centre on the same side Saint Andrew showed his com- ly proportions, Opposite to the lat- ter on the right was placed the Hero of the Boyne on his white charger. The chandeliers and side lights were most ingeniously devised out of military equipments; the chains which ornamented, the former being part of the head gear belonging to the different batteries. Major-Gen- eral and Mrs. Gore, with théir family and several officers of the garrison arrived about ten o'clock and par- ticipated without restraint in the general amusements of the evening. The singing was very much admired, particularly that of the Sable gentle- man, who, with his enormous quis- zing glass, (lorgnette) created not merely a sensation but a positive furore. The refreshments were equal to the arrangements, and that is saying a great deal. Besides those to be had at the bar adjoining the room, tents were placed in the square, where any who were so dis- posed could be provided at a mo- ment's notice with whatever luxury théy pleased. ---------- nt ea July 16th. When Canada became British tér- ritory in 1759, a loyal butcher in Quebec concelved a plan to honor the British victor, Gen. Wolfe. Over his door in a niche was an image of St. Jean Baptiste. This he re- placed with a wooden figure of Wolfe, made by a French wood-carv- er, from directions given by a British soldier. There the quaint figure be- came familiar to all the city, and was frequently carried off by gay revellers, to head processions about town,' Sometimes the jokers left poor Wolfe in unseemly places, but he always found his way back to his niche. His longest journey started on this day in a summer late in the 18th century. Gay yoang officers of the British warship "Inconstant,"™ carried him off in a caleche to the ship, where they put him aboard by way of a porihole, a sentry mistaking the inanimate figure for someone who had dined, not wisely, but too well. He travelled to Halifax, Ber- muda, and Portsmouth, then shipped back to Halifax in a wooden box, where he was restored and repainted. In his new : was finally re-instated in iar niche, where, it is i to this day, but safely elevated the hands of irrevelant youths. That Body of Pours By Jams. W. Barton. M.D, The Native "Medicine Man." A physician and lawyer were watching a picture one day depicting the rites of the medicine man in South Africa. The lawyer said, "Well your pro- : fession has travelled a long way for- ward from such treatment as that given by these savages." "Yes," answered the physician, "I'm pleased to say that it has, but sometimes I'm afraid that we've travelled too far." "What do you mean?" "Well in our efforts to get away from superstition, and from the prac- tices similar to what we've seen just now, we are placing the practice of medicine on the basis that some de- finite cause gives some definite effect. Now this is all right of course where the trouble is something on which we can place our hands. When a tooth aches we have an X-Ray taken and the tooth is re- moved. If the trouble is pain in the joints, the tonsils, or perhaps some teeth are removed. An ulcer or cancer of the stomach give definite symptoms and the X- Ray helps to clear up the diagnosis. 'A definite cause and a definite effect. However this "solid" basis is quite all right for many ailments, but how terribly it falls down in obscure | conditions, in conditions' where the mind enters largely into the mat- ter. You have heard of the young phy- sician attending the theatre with his fiancee. The young lady had a sud- den attack of hiccough. The physic- ian took out a small white object, and told her to place the tablet under her tongue. - The attack subsided in two or three minutes. Removing the tablet a few minutes later she was surprised to find that it was a small shirt button. Drugs that were practically use- less have made marvellous cures at times, because the patient thought he was getting a stronger or even a different drug entirely. And so my idea is that the phy- sician must put his personality into every case of this kind. The good old family doctor. How often his very presence at the criti- cal moment has given the despairing patient a fresh hold on life. Why, take the simple matter of food. If it be well cooked and daint- ily served stimulates mouth and stomach juices. There is really no need to give an appetizing drug when you can appeal to the patient's ap- petite through his imagination. Thus when a patient is excited and worried what happens? His heart beats faster, he breathes niore quickly, and any waste matter in Intestine must be thrown out at once. If then his physician talks to him, calmly pointing out that there is no need for fear nor worry, then the heart and lungs calm down also. Now if in the old days or in savage tribes the patient believed that all these superstitious rites were really helping him, you can readily see that he would become calmer and have a better chance of getting better." | WHY THE WEATHER? | Secretary. American Meteorologioal} : Boctety, ow, Tells Mi The Whirlwind Tornado. The tornado, or twister, is by far the smallest, briefest, and severest of all storms. From a dense mass of swirling clouds overhead, a long swaying cloud funnel descends, some- times to the earth. The winds whirl around this funnel counter clockwise at the highest known velocities, probably 100 to 500 miles an hour, creating a cone of extremely low. pressure within, The diameter of the tornado is generally only a 1000 feet, and the rate of advance about 25 miles per hour, consequently the funnel takes only a half minute. to pass a given place. But in this halt minute of transit an , appalling amount of damage may be dome. In, and to the right of, the direct path of the tornado great trees are leveled, substantial buildings moved many feet, or exploded into small fragments by the sudden low pres- sure outside. Like a vast vacuum cleaner, the tornado sometimes sucks furniture out through the windows of a house, or plucks all the feathers off chickens. Small objécts may be carried many miles, and straws or sticks driven into posts. This spectacular type of storm rarely occurs save in the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains. It is always associated with thunder- storm conditions in an area of low pressure. The two essent™l factors in tornado production are a violent convectional updraft and strongly opposing winds of different tem - tures to give the whirl its initia twist. The heated interior of the plains states in spring and early sum- mer and their openness to opposing winds, cold or warm, afford the con- ditions necessary for tornade occur- rence. Edwin Gledhill, Campbeliford; a boy of twelve years was engaged in chopping wood when a fair sized chip flew up and hit him in the eye. Sev- 2 Trouser Suits $2250 You can save quite a few dollars trading here. You will have to travel some to: get better clothing value than we SEE OUR $145 Outing Shi Sizes 10 to 17%. Plain white or neat stripe. are offering. + at *18.50/ at *29.50 We show a nice range of Fancy Tweed Suits--made in the new Sport model--the Also a smart, Young Men's model --2 button style, slightly form fitting, neat pencil stripes. 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Edward Murphy, of the Montreal Club, using a large motor truck as a platform, was a whole evening's fun in himself. His efforts did not re- ceive anywhere near the response they deserved, but if he were to re- turn to Kingston on two or three oc- casions community singing would be put over easily and completely. Stanting with -anly himself, Mr. Murphy gradually worked on his crowd until he had several hundred in his chorus. The men, with their usual reticence in such matters, hung back considerably and the volume was therefore not as great as it might have been but the re- sults obtained by the dynamic lead- er were wonderful. Kiwanian Murphy gets crowds of from five to ten thousand for his community singing at Fletcher's Field, Montreal, every week. He had to work them up to that and the result can be understood when one sees him in action. He Is a combination of "pep" and optimism and radiates both those qualities, Seeing that the crowd was going to be hard to handle, he'started' on a group oflittle boys and girls clust- ered at his feet around the truck t t t t most the come--joined in "God King." attempt. upon as a decided victory for the Ki- wanis club and, should be a big march towards the community singing objective. Cver Burning at Cape Vincent, Dec. 1st, 1922, fur- nishes the foundation for a $5,000 supreine court action filed by Mi- chael J. Griffin and Alexander Mec- Donald, Oswego, against the Contin- ental Insurance Co., New York. pudiated the claim om the Arizona out on a trip without noti- fying the company of The policy stated that one of the conditions upon which it was issued was that the Arizona should engage in commerce from November 30th to, April 15th of each year while the policy was in force. 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