| three DANGERS, + The most dangerous hand tool is the axe, safety experts find by check- ing up. Now, an axe is a dormant object. It doesn't Jump up and cut a slice out of a man. Handled prop- erly, it is as safe as a foot of cotton thread. Demonstrating that preven- tion of accidents is largely a matter of personal caution. Another wm is in the fact that slipping ladders cause more accidents and kill more people than any other thing. Yet a ladder is 100 per cent, safe, used cautiously, This will never be a fool-proot world. s OURE FOR EVEN LEPROSY. It is said that there are in India hundred thousand lepers. These unhappy creatures are segre- gated and die slow. and horrible deaths. But at last there is hope for the leper, as there also is for those who suffer from tuberculosis and cancer. The "lepra bacillus," the 13| microbe which has baffled science . "TOWN REPRESENTATIVES, » 32 St. Johm St, Montreal Thompeon, rd King St. WwW, es to the Editor are published over the actual same of the ! is --e of the best job 'he circulation of THE BRITISH . WHIG is authenticated by the / oO Audit Bureau of Circulations : Every time taxes take a Jump they Jand on the consumer's neck. eo ---- wSeenery: What you would see if ¥ou climbed over the billboards, ---- . Popular gongs could be worse, No song is as bad as its parodies, A A ------------------------ Must be great to be a male locust, He can sing, but the female can't. -- An Ideal parent 1s one who does- n't see more than half of what takes Place. . Peace Is better. You don't hear i" 80 many people using the word "mili- taryism." It frequently happens that repen- ice Is just a conviction that the ig is up. Fewer mile parents have "nerves." 'éwer male parents listen to music lessons. -------------------- Monte Cristo thought he owned earth, He has many descen- ------------ At any rate the female of the spe- cles stands a better chance with the trafic cop. + : People are sitting on their porch- 0 see who goes riding to see who t of their porches. -------------- 'There are many complicated fritel- jence tests, but few are more effi- t than a canoe. ---- ~ Canadians will win the Olympic Jump it some patriot will toot horn at the right time, ; A ------------------------------------ Correct this sentence: "She is very ," sald the count, "but I love, t for her own sweet self." Dobbin had his faults, but you court a gal without pretending he needed cooling off, A ------------ A hick town is a place where the nding physician relates the de- Ss to loafers on Main Street. ; ------in i 'Never marry a woman who smokes elg: es and throws the ashes on the floor for you .to sweep up. ---- All of us could speed up. With ty thousand more heads to shin- the barber still has time to talk. 4 ttn, "wit. One of the strange things about is that a Jersey bull always where there is to be a pienie. Ei e-------- oplanes are becoming more po- and common. The upkeep 't worry people #0 much as "keeping up, I -------------- ts in Asia will spend five looking for a man. A lady for three thousand years, has met its , for a British doctor in that eastern land, with the help of an Indian chemist, lately found a sol- uble salt that could be injected into the leper's veins, thousands and give relief to' even the worst cases. So the lepers of the far east are reported to be re- jolcing over the great discovery. But ft will be the generations yet <¢o come who will be benefited most largely, for there is now hope that leprosy will be completely mastered and that India in a few decades will no longer have this terrible blot upon it. BABIES AND GERMS. Guarding babies against germs is \something that parents ghould con- sider more than they do. Babies, it is pointed out, do not go out and catch germs. The germs are brought to the baby--or the baby is taken by thoughtless persons to the germs. No diseased person should be per- mitted near a baby. Even people with ordinary colds should" never pick up a baby to caress. It is de- clared that the best place to raise & baby is on the second or any higher floor of a house, because there are less dust, germs and poison automo- bile exhaust than on the lower floor of @ building. "It is unsafe to wheel a baby along city streets until it is about eight months old," says a noted specialist, who adds: "Keep people with chronic coughs away from babies." All this is submitted to the fond but often thoughtless parents and to those other thought- less people who like to hug and kiss babies, when by so doing they are putting the helpless infants in grave danger, . ---------------- : GARBAGE. London, England, expects soon to be lighting its streets with power obtained from the fuel in its garbage. Were we not led to expect that the incinerator and garbage collection System, when once established here, would provide a revenue? Instead, they have added to our taxes a not inconsiderable sum each year. Here, then, is a fleld in which our city fathers might well experiment. We are entering an age in which economies like this will be the basis of the great new fortunes, Natural resources have made many million aires. They are virtually cornered in every direction, and the cream skimmed off, Economy and short cuts--these, young man, are the future roads to riches. Chemistry in particular is a wonderful field for the oncoming generation. Ancient alchemists gought to turn lead into gold. Our generation in effect turns garbage and scrap heaps into gold. It they ean do it in Lon- don and other cities, why not King- ston? 5 HOSPITAL BEQUESTS, In these days hospitals are most costly institutions to maintain and their governing boards have a aifm- cult time in squaring their accounts. Kingston's General Hospital has been conducted with the utmost economy and at the same time a high state of efficiency has been maintained. The same is true of the Hotel. Dieu, both of which institu- tions are rated by the American Col- lege of Surgeons among the stand- ardized = hospitals of the American continent. The state and the muni el; es contribute towards hospital ma ce, but as the institutions expand the more costly is their up- keep. No doubt it is because of the heavy tax demand 'on all sides that a lessening of gifts to educational and charitable institutions has taken place of late years, but there is noth- ing to prevent men of large means making bequests in their wills to universities, hospitals and refuges, bell did in the case of the Kingston General Hospital. Many wealthy men pass on without giving a thought to the good a legacy to a hospital would do. Kingston will al- ways remember men like the late John Watkins, Michael Doran, Wil- liam Nickle, John C Heary | W., Richardson, George T. Richard- son, Frederick Welch and Charles 8. | Campbell, who left a goodly: portion of their worldly goods for the public "weal. This salt will cure { isin An earthquake in Eastern Ontario is something of an innovation, at least in the memory of this or the last few preceding generations. We have read about such convulsions elsewhere throughout the world, but somehow feit that we were immune. We imagined that we were advan- tageously situated; that floods, fa- mines, drouths, earthquakes other guch dire visitations, which came as a matter of course to other nations, happily passed us by. Dur- ing the lifetime of those now living, we have been exempted from such disasters. Quite ' naturally, there- fore, we concluded that the province of Ontario was entirely outside the realm of these natural disturbances which ever brought death and de- struction in their wake. It came, then, as something of a shock to learn that on Monday eve- ning last this province was shaken by an earthquake. The seismograph at the Toronto observatory reccrded the quake; js was distinctly feit at Ottawa, while in{ Renfrew hotel guests were so alaFimed that they rushed into the streets in hight at- tire. Luckily for their peace of mind, Kingstonians neither felt nor sensed the shock. Perchance we are not as secure as we assumed we were. Many unusual things are happening these days, and we are gradually becoming accus- tomed to them. But an earthquake --that is something we never expect- ed to experience. It was only a few days ago that a noted scientist predicted that New York city might any day be destroyed by an earth- quake, due to the shifting of the [rock strata beneath the city. The weight of the numerous large build- ings, erected there during the past few years, was said to have effected the rock formation beneath the met- ropolis. Only the future can deter- mine the truth of such predictions. The forces of nature cannot be controlled or mitigated by man. They may be released to our undoing at any minute. Yet this part of the world has for so long been free from earthquake shocks that we can rea- sonably look forward to many more years of immunity, KINGSTON IN 1851 Viewed Throwth Our Files PENITENTIARY ITEMS, June 23.-- (From the Annual Re- port.) We last year reported to Jour Excellency that we had hired out 50 convicts to be employed as shoemak- ers; also that we had hired out the labor of 50 cabinet-makers; also that we had hired out the labor of 50 tailors to Mr. George Brown, of Kingston; and we have since con- cluded a contract for 50 blacksmiths to be employed in hames-making, edged tool making and general blacksmithing. The labor in all our contracts is paid for at the rate of 1s. 6d. currency for each day's labor. The system of hiring out convict labor we have found to produce its never-failing attendant under similar circumstances in other prisons,--the clandestine introduction of tobacco and other articles as bribes to the convicts for extra industry, in viola- tion of the prison rules. A very fine cut-stone building, 160 feet by 65, two stories high with basement, has been carried up to the floor of the upper story. This erec- tion forms the west wing of the main [buildings and is to contain the chapels, school-house, dining-hall, kitchen, wash-house, cellars, ete. In addition to this heavy undertaking there has been erected during the past year a costly iron foundry. The same mild system of punish- ment for prison offences which oper- ated so well In 1849 and 1850 has been pursued during the past year. The total number "uy punishments was 2,782, chiefly solitary confine- ment and the substitution of bread and water for the ordinary rations. -From the time of our assumption of office we have been impressed with & sense of the injurious and debas- Ing influence which the association of military convicts, sentenced for mere infractions of discipline, with felons convicted of the greatest of. fences is calculated to produce on the minds of the former. With much satisfaction we entered into negotia- tions with the military authorities for the remedy of this abuse. Terms were arranged by which a portion of the prison was to be exclusively get apart for the military convicts who were there to undergo their 'sentence, subject to the ordinary military dis- ¢ipline and under military control. In & pecuniary point of view the + 8s the late Charles Sandwith Camp. | *0ed and | a few minutes later! Thus without the shedding .of a single drop of blood, Canada acquired a post vastly important in the campaign to follow. The importance of the event lay not alone in the material benefit, but also In the increased respect from the im- pressionable Indians, for the British force which could achieve so amaz- ing a success without even a show of resistance fygm the enemy. It was an example the bold style of Brock's warfare) and after his death, failure to low his example proved costly at fimes to British interests. That Body of Pours By James W. Barton, M.D, The Same Fuel--Different Results, Two neighbors were talking about their coal. They had received their supply from the same dealer, off the same truck, and as it developed from the same car. One was speaking of how satisfae- tory the coal was. His house was very comfortable, and had been dur- ing all the cold weather. He thought it must be coal. The other chap complained bitter- ly of the coal. His house was never pretty good comfortable. Forcing his furnace to the utmost he could never get the temperature up to 70 degrees F. Now as his furnace was the same style and model as the other, it seemed a bit puzzling. factory heating went over and look- ed over the other furnace. He dis- covered that the furnace' had not been cleaned out after the previous winter's use, that the pipes were heavy with soot, and that the smoke pipe had been pushed too far into the brick chimney. After these things were corrected the man got real satisfaction from bis furnace and coal. I often think that when diets are laid out for sick and well people that it is taken for granted tha as they all have the same kind of "bodies-- and under every condition of health. And yet even in health, two men, one thin and the other fat, can eat exadtly the same food for one whole month, and the thin one will be ex- actly the same weight, perhaps even less, and the stout one has put on five pounds. f This shows that even in health that the food is handled differently ferent, & . And then take an individual whose body is not being cleansed properly, whose lungs do not ventilate his blood, whose skin is not very active, whose heart muscle blood along very powerfully, He is sound, he would be called well, and yet think of the different way his body, his tissues, his blood, and so forth would handle the food he takes in, if he were Just in a little better shape physically, Go further and think Be people actually sick. Their tissues would not of course handle it even as well. My thought is that rules cannot be laid down as to quantity, at any rate, that will suit everybody. Each body is a law unto itself, © MRS. CYRIL MAUDE DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Was Well Known in Canada as 'Winifred Emery," the Actress. London, July 17.--Winifred Em- ery, the actress, who in private life was Mrs. Cyril Maude, died Tuesday evening at Bexhill, Sussex. She had been ill for a long time and last De- cember her husband, who was star- ring at the Gaiety Theatre in New York, was called to St- Moritz, v \ A \ \ | \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ A & later, | However the one with the satis- | human in shape--that food acts ex-! actly the same in every kind of body, | { | | in different people, because thelr tis- | [i sues, their juices, their blood are dit- | [i doesn't send the i Melle do Pe AC AC I tl rl i HEADQUARTERS FOR QUEEN AND PURE WOOL BIBBY'S 'S. SWEATER COATS BATHING SUITS MUST BE SOLD | Regular $2.50, $2./5 Straws-- all this-season' favorite weaves *1.45 STRAW HATS All our better English Straws --regular $3.00, $3.30, $4.00 Straws--your choice 1.95 -------- TRUNKS, SUIT CASES AT PLEASING PRICES! OUR JULY SALE OF SUITS a pts wy ur least of 10% to 25%. PALM BEACH SUITS Regular $20.00 and $22.50 "" For$14.75 MEN'S, YOUNG MEN'S SUITS Regular $25.00 value. For $18.50 MEN'S, YOUNG MEN'S SUITS Regular $30.00, $32.50 For $22.50 MEN'S, YOUNG MEN'S SUITS Regular $35.00, $87.50 For $29.50 = ALL OUR HIGH GRADE English Cheviots and Fancy Worsteds Beautifully tailored garments, Worth regularly $45.00, $48.50, and $52.50 CLUB BAGS AT WHOLESALE PRICES! MEMORI OF MERIT Hi Designed and Executed by Craftsmen of Training | Estimates on Afl Classes Ji I of Work Carefully Given " The McCallum Granite Co., Limited | 807 Princess Bt., Kingston, || Telephone 1981. 3 Switzerland, on account of her seri- ous condition. Sir William 8. Gilbert, England's most renowned librettist and col- laborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in the famous operas, sacrificed his life on May 20th, 1911, in an at tempt to save Winifred Emery from drowning in a lage on his estate at Harrow, Sir William, who was sev- enty-five years of age and a num- ber of others were bathing at the time and Miss Emery got beyond her depth. Sir Wiliam went to her aid and the violent effort he put forth brought on syncope and heart in Maan- chester in 1862 and was married to Cyril Maude in 1888. She began her stage career at the age of eight and made two trips to Canada and the United States with Henry Irving and his company. She had played at all the principal theatres in London. AE a a ll al i THE WEATHER MAY SEEM FAIR AND WARN. BEFORE TN ATT Nw OAL QUARTET TE HEN ry weather seems balmy at this a, of. the 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, LEMON SQUASH ORANGE SQUASH LIME JUICE GINGER ALE SYRUP Jas. REDDEN & CO. People who don't look before they leap land in disguest. Sharp eyes will not scratch a key- hole. - For all cases requiring sup- port and protection we have the proper belt -- for after-opera- tion, obesity, pregnancy or any of the conditions shown by X Rays as needing support. In our Surgical Department we have the newest styles, light and comfortable, improvements over the old cumbersome m . USSES for M 'omen WL -. W : Pertect fit gnaranteed. ' Expert lady t.tter for wo and children. en | Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess Stet. Phone 843 80 ACRES, close to Shaiving village with High School; bulldings;" 40 acres tillable; Some excellent garden land; well watered and fenced. - A real bargain at ...... $8,000. Fire Insurance in reliable companies. Money to loan on mortgages. T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance 68 BROCK ST., KINGSTON - Phones 332J and 1797J. Ee leon 2 2 4 A little higher. in price, but -- what a wonderful difference a few. cents make. A A ee a a tC Cl De Ee itt he Be He - MEL lll A eo a ee -- -~