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You don't have to know a gitl to see lots of her, The home stretch these days is in the pocketbook, The worst habit is the habit of forming bad habits. : A small bank balance is a true sign of a hard winter, Most all of us think we were born a few years too soon, Lots of soclety buds blooming wall flowers. become Distance doesn't lend much en- ' chantment to prosperity. Some girls think they have got to De fast to catch a husband. The line of least resistance is Sometimes the waist line, The modern girl's hope chest con- ~ tains an alimony recipe. , It all our wishes were who would build the autos? granted, The height of ignorance is think- ing you know everything. ER Skinny girls are good swimmers because the stay in the water. Thinking you know is never as im- 'portant as knowing you think. See things as you travel along, be- CRuse life is a one-way street, They are discovering ways to do (everything fast except sleep. Nearly everybody who is glad to meet you is selling something. Looks like the women with the most clothes wear the tewest. * Only thing worse thar a man who 't cuss is a woman who can, Cheer up! Four months from 'Bow we will wish we had some heat. Many fish would starve if it wasn't for the man wifo tries to catch them. _ Bome fellows are glad to get back 20 school; others can't make the team, When a girl tells a man to save Bis money it's a sign he is going to it. A man on a vacation spends more . money accidentally than he does on There is some doubt about who won the war; but not about who is 3 plenty, but the horn of too much 8 the saxophone. Most of these men who long for "the gvod old days would hate to go to bed at 6 o'clock. $ SS ---------------------- Many divorces are caused by two persons who are in love with them- selves getting married, These men who always want to start something are never around 'when you want something started. % Ever since fashion men said night- shirts were back we have been look- for a hotel fire to sed if it Is true. BIBLE THOUGHT HEAR, O ISRAEL: THB QUEEN'S MEDICAL COLLEGE. The year 1924 appears to be un- lucky for Queen's university, which has lost two of its buildings by fire in six months, The desffuction of the old medical building will cause keen regret wherever there is a medical graduate of Queen's. It was in this building that all the older graduates still in practice sat at the feet of Aesculapius and re- ceived their whole medical educa- tion; and in later years all grad- uates received part of their training in this same building, which was erected in 1858 and handed over to the medical faculty in 1880 when the oM arts building was completed. For forty-four years it has. been the central part of Queen's medi- cal college and from its classrooms and dissecting department and lab- oratories have gone forth doctors who now occupy leading places in their profession throughout the world. Some of the: founder of Queen's medical college taught in this building, the last being the late Dr. Fite Fowler, who was dean for many years. Then Hon. Dr. Michael Sullivan, one of the first graduates, was also for a long time on the surgery teaching staff. Besides Dr. Fowler, the original medical staff of Queen's consisted of Dr. Sampson, Dr» John Stewart, Dr. Horatio Yates, Dr. J. R. Dickson and Dr. Willlam Hayward. It is just seventy years since Queen's m®dical college was estab- lished. The records show that cer- tain students attending the To- ronto medical college, having been informed that they could not obtain the degree of doctor of medicine un- less they conformed to certain re- ligious tests which were distastful to them, petitioned the leading physi- cians of Kingston to establish a col- lege in the Limestone City, which was dame, and the first session was opened in a building near the corn- er of Princess and King streets in the autumn of 1854. The Queen's Medical college passed through many trying times, but to-day it ranks with the best on the contin- ent. The misfortune which has now overtaken it will be surmounted just as all other misfortunes were over- come, and the destruction of the old building of many happy memories will assuredly prove a blessing in disguise, RAINMAKING A FAKE. Rainmaking on a commercial scale is an unadulterated fake. This is the opinion of 'W. J. Humphreys, professor of metrological physics at the United States weather bureau. Dr. Humphreys, who. reported his re- searches, to, physicists at the British Association in Toronto, has investi- gated the more persistently urged schemes for producing rain from the point of view of the underlying scien- tific principles they involve, and they have also been subjected to Quantita- tive experiments in order to try them out practically, The outcome of the study is the conclusion that artificial rain is a magazine-cover myth, Among the methods gpeedily dis- patched were the production of loud noises, the use of chemicals, me- chanical or forced convection, and the use of fog collecting screens. Later dusting the sky with the idea of providing nucle! for the forma- tion of drops of water in unwilling clouds talled; spraying liquid aid on cloudbanks did not chill them suf- ficlently to cause percipitation; fin- ally, sprinkling the clouds with elec- trified sand with the hope that there might be some electrical phenomenon involved, did not produce the desired result, "None of these rainmaking methods are practicable in the com- mercial sense of the term," conclud- ed Dr. Humphreys. The research, however, did have the result of un- covering data valuable from the metrological point of view, ONCE 18 ENOUGH. ! Lieut. Arnold, one 'of the Ameri- can globe flyers, remarked while in Paris that he would not part with the experience of the flight for a million nor would he undertake it again for a million. Since the aviators had endured the storm and cold of Alaska, the heat of South China and India, the sandstorms of the Persian Gulf re- glon, and having come safely through it all, it is comprehensible that there should be elation that all this had been endured and survived in a record-breaking feat, but at the same time there would be no desire to repeat the experience. Once is enough. If every obstacle could be foreseen when men set out to do something which has never been done before, if there were not a gla- mor over that which lies in the fu- ture, perhaps many notable feats would not be performed under the conditions which surround the doing. The day may come when flying over the route taken by the avia- tors will not impose the hardships encountered by the pioneers, but the change will 'be due to Improved craft and the presence of human habitations where storm-tossed air- men may find a haven when needed. The trall-breakers in any difficult enterprise midy make the way easier for those who follow. If the around- the-world flight is successfully com- pleted we may expect next an effort to better the time made. There will be others wilijng to try without a million being offered. Because man has this spirit of seeking to excel, the world moves forward. Were mankind of the dead level sought by the social dreamer, were none permitted to rise above the herd, there wduld be no globe flights. Such strenuous ef- fort would not be worth while, for it would get one nothing. THE IRISH BLOCKADE, J. H, Thomas, the colonial sec- retary in the British government, is having a taste of -what former Bri- tish cabinet ministers have had to endure in endeavaring to pacify the diverse elements in Ireland. or months he has been trying to have the question of a boundary commis- sion to define the limits between the Irish Free State and Ulster brought to a satisfactory conclusion, but so far all his efforts have failed. This failure has not been due to any slackness on his part, but due to the absolute refusal of the Uister gov- ernment to consider appointing com- missioners on the boundary ques-| He takes the stand that the | tion. boundary commission is fully pro- vided for by law, and is endeavor- ing to accede to the demands of the Irish Free State that action be taken | in accordance with the law. In| spite of this, Ulster seeks to inter-| pret the law differently, and is block- | ing the final settlement of the mat- ter. Mr. Thomas has announced that] he intends to take the matter to parliament, and to pass legislation | compelling a settlement of the boun-| dary dispute. It is very likely that | such legislation, if it is found neces- sary, will be passed. The boundary | commission is provided, for in legisla- | tion which was passed by the for- mer Conservative regime, Conservatives cannot very weii, this stage, oppbse a measure putting | into effect the provisions of its own legislation. Strange things some- times happen, however, and it may be that the Conserva- tives will find some pretext for op- posing Mr. Thomas' bill, The important point, however, is not whether or not the degislation will pass the House of Commons, but what the result of the legisla- tion will be. The history of Ire- land's troubles for the past twenty years shows that if an Irishman does not want to submit to any particu- lar legislation regarding his own country, then he fights it to the bit- ter end. He has no respect for any s0 the | at | in politics, | By James W, The Brook and You. I watched a little brook one day as | it tumbled down over a small preci-| pice, The water churned itself into a! mass of foam, seemed to cizcle first | in one direction and then into af- other, as if undecided as to its pro-| per destination, then moved along again on its way, I couldn't help but think of how | much it resembled the individual who has been under a severe strain, has had a serious illness, a shock of | some kind. He flounders about in his life's affairs, knowing not which | way to turn. His whole mechanism, nervous aa muscular, is in such a turmoil that it | is incapable of functioning properly. | | The result'is that he says and does | | things that are not like him, because | | of this shock, and the after turmoil. | His ordinary habits of life are | likewise in such a muddle that his | | eating, sleeping, his ordinary exer-| | cise,- just walking only, are all askew. As I watched the brook I noticed | that some sticks, branches, and pieces | of debris were helping to dam back | the water, and kept it in small whirl- | pools, instead of letting it get along {on its way. | I removed these obstructions, and | immediately the waters burst away | into the general stream. You can thus see that after you | { have had a shock or illness. and are | floundering around, that often there | are little obstructions, physical and | mental, that keep "you for days, | weeks, perhaps even months, from | getting back to your normal self again, These obstructions may be due to some physical cause. For instance | when you are well and strong an in-| fected tooth or tomsil may not affect you, because your resistive forges overcome the effects. When you have been ill or have suffered a shock Barton, M.D, | | BIBBY'S Big Clearance Sale Is On Are you getting your share of the many bargains we are offering? 'NOBBY ' STRAW HATS Regular $2.50 to $3.50 Hats. 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Look around, take hold of your- self, mentally and physically, and Tenth Anniversary Of the Great War get the obstruction removed. August 11th, 1914, The 14th Regiment now has 120 men doing guard duty about the city. law which he thinks is infringing on his national rights, so the question naturally arises as to whether the North of Ireland government will be KINGSTON IN 1851 Viewed Thromgh Our Files In the Sons of England Hall, on the night of the 10th inst. enthus- iastic endorsation was given a re- solution that the flag floating over the building remain there till the any more willitg to submit to a new bill than they are to submit to the laws which are already in effect. Truly the lot of Mr. Thomas is not an enviable one, and he will be a fortunate man if he can solve the question without blood being shed once again in Ireland. a 8 Vive Davies On this day in 1791, the Duke of Kent, the father of Queen Victoria, arrived in Quebec, where he had been assigned to military duties. He had travelled by warship, from Gibraltar, the two ships which had made the journey together, the "Ulysses" and the "Resistance," taking seven weeks on the way. The young Duke was fond of life at Quebec, and Kent House, at Mont- morency Falls, now a hotel, was 'his country residence. He was pop- ular with the people during his three years in Quebec and more than once he lent a helping hand in fighting fires in the city. He spent four years in Halifax and that city has several momentos of .the gay young officer. He was hurriedly call- ed from the free life of Canada which he laved to, the West Indies, on the outbreak- of fresh wars. He made -a hasty dash by sleigh in win- ter across Lal Champlain, on his way to embark. The ice gave way and all his belongings were lost, though he happily escaped with his lite. Arriving at last at Boston he embarked on a tiny ship of six guns, ran the gauntlet of French warships, and was fired on bat es- caped egain. In Canada he formed warm friendships with Alexander MacKensie, the explorer, and with Col. de Salaberry and his brothers, distinguished death, is mow available in the Ca- nadian archives. -------------- ECHO. In al Jthe sobbing of the seas I hear faint voices calling low Across the centuries that are dead, From ellent lands where no winds Ww, They epesk uo tongue, (hat I call Torn th anguae of the ides, But from the stars their come And in my heart their song abides. - They are the bards of other years, And from the world beyond ' the night, Their chanting echoes for all time From lkods beyond the sunset Tight. --R. R. Greenwood in the Boston Nov. 10.--To His Worship, Mayor of Kingston: Sir,--The under- signed citizens of Kingston respect- fully request that you will be pleased Wolfe Island Canal. The Germans are defeated, or it is worn out. The GJerman's control \of the world's beet sugar market is-partly blamed for a rise this week of 50 cents per cwt, in the price of sugar. French-Canadians. His long correspondence with Col. de Salaberry, continued almost tiM his to call a public meeting of the in- The new rate is $5.15 a hundred- weight. St. John's Ambulance is to start making bandages in the Queen's bio- logical building on the 12th inst. A large meeting of the I.0.D.E. was held in the city councit chamber on the night of the 10th to arrange for the tag day for the hospital ship. Addresses were given by W. F. Nickle, M.P., and by Dr. A. E. Ross, M.P.P, John Dawson, Athletic Association, the war will affect the registration at the college this fall. Capt. Greer, Lieut. Atchison and five members of the A.S.C., have left for Cartigr Plains, Que., to help pre- pare for the contingent"s mobiliza- tion. Four Royal Naval Reserve men, Messrs. Ireland, Adams, Cudling and two Dunn brothers, have left for England. secretary of the Queen's says habitants thereof on Monday next, at one o'clock p.m. to take into con- sideration the necessity of adopting immediate measures to construct the Wolfe Island Canal, so that it may be ready for use at the same time with the Rome and Cape Vincent railroad now rapidly drawing to completion. No. 11.--The meeting took place in the City Hall and was well at- tended. The speakers were Messrs. John A. McDonald, A. Campbell. Rev. J. Allen, W. Ford, J. Counter, J.. Forsythe and some other and all their arguments were in favor of a canal acrosé Long Island, from Cape Vincent to Kingston. So it was de- termined to appoint a committee at Cape Vincent to take measures to dig the canal during the coming winter. . | WHY THE WEATHER DR. CHARLES f. BROOKS | Secretary. A American Jet Metspratagionl The Insides of a Thunderstorm. We, who remain on the ground generally have little idea of what goes on within the great towering mass of thunder cloud above us. The few aviators who have flown through a thunderstorm and come oyt alive, 'are better acquainted with its vio- lent air currents. They agree that the turbulence within a thunderstorm is awful to experience. The heavy fall of rain and the coolness of the air under the cloud produce a down- flow of air which spreads laterally in the form of a squall. The air which goes down in a thunderstorm is supplied by 'a return flow 'above the squall. Many aviators have been caught'in this great-up-current which occurs on the front of the squall wind issuing from the base of a thunder- storm. In one such case the aero- plane was lifted trom an elevation of 2,000 to 7,000 feet in almost no time. means of investigating the pheno- mena of the air. With heavy cloud masses like the thundérstorm, little of what on within can be obsery- ed from the ground. 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