and semi-Weekly by BRITISH WHIO PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. M. Campbell .............. President A. Guild ..... «. Editor and 3 Managing-Director TELErH Huesiness Sajey HONE ue Edttorial SOME .... Ste usaa wean Job Department ......... SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally Kdition) in el by Uae year, to United States . Semi 13 Fe13 2014 year, year, . 93.00 SL $2.00 OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES, ¥. Onider, 22 St. Johan St. Momtreal ¥. W. Thompaon, 100 Kiag St W. o it Letters to the Editor are published Oaly over the sciual mame of the writer. - Attached is ome of the best job printing officey in Canads. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations Dog days make people growl. Money talks in all languages. 1taly called it a lire. Iced tea seems to be the mos: popular summer resort. They call them quack doctors be- cause they are all bill. Another special privilege envied greatly is special ability. A household can endure, how- ever, half slave and half free. Charity begins at home, but little outdoor exercise helps 'it, A man who stands on his own feet isn't told where to get off. Columbus discovered America for $7,200, but he got his name in the paper. ---------------------- . Politiclans must feel sorry umpires. Umpires must make cisions. Practicing on a saxophone is dangerous. You are liable to learn to play it, for Discretion is what makes people : with a'paunch decide against a sea- side resort. : : "If she doesn't rouge, it is because . she thinks discretion Js the bet- ter part of pallor. Pity the poor. In escaping from prison it is much harder to use a file than a lawyer. Hurry with your vacation. Soon as it is over you will have to start sav- ing up for Christmas. Sid-------- ) * The grasshopper may be less re- #spectable than the ant, but he bats higher a8 a pedestrian, The number of inalienable rights, Bowever, is in exact proportion to man's ability as a scrapper. . Foch ordered the defenders of France to offer elastic resistance. If only our fenders would do that. The queer part is that Tolstoy in- vented "passive resistance" ana 'mever tried to crank a used car. © There must be something especial- + fy attractive about the great open ~_ 8paces, Snakes and insects prefer them. : ~The greatest men in the world : ve not been without reverses. But {they have come up again, strepgthen- ed by the struggle. ' Russians are permitted to take [mew names at wil, a news item States. Who would censure a Rus- 'sian for changing his name? If those Chicago murderers a: they grew up had been given the training which every boy needs we Y their glands would have A lttle trouble, & Application of the slipper or the switch on the spot where it wili do most good is recommended to ieevens ne development of 'ua- "childish phantasies." BIBLE THOUGHT THUS SAITH THE LORD _ treated - thee, O he that formed thee, O called thee by THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG COMMON SENSE NEEDED, To eliminate all of the grade crossings in this country would coat millions of dollars. Obviously, the expense is too great to be considered. | Admittedly it is desirable to get rid | of grade crossings. Doing so would | save thousands of lives. Hut we will make no progress in that direc-| tion by misrepresenting either ro- sponsibility for the grave situation or | the respective rights of railroads and users of the highways, There is not here any conflict between privilege and public rights. The raliroads are agencies of public service, Not a train is run, either to transport goods or to carry passengers, except to serve the public, There is slight in- convenience to automobilists in stop- ping at the relatively few railroad crossings they encounter in a day's journey. There would be enoruous loss and jnconvenience to patrons of | the railroads were trains required to | stop at every highway crossing their | lines The grade crossing problem | is a grave one. It will not be solved | without respect for common sense. HEROISM. One might pick up a newspaper { which did not record a single case of | murder, but 1t would be difficult in- i deed to find one in which not a single | instance of heroism is made public. | baseball crowd and eighteen sirang- | erg volunteer their blood to save his | dying daughter, A taxi driver sees a youth struggling in the river and rescues him after they have been swept half a mile down stream. An- other driver wrecks his machine and injures himself in avoiding an ob- livious pedestrian. During the course of a year thousands of such cases in which strangers affirm at their lives' risk that they are their brothers' | things going till milking time. | ers would BROADCASTING THE COMMONS Among the most subversive of our semli-revolutionary institutions fs the political plenic. And for var- igus reasons. The day is generally hot, meat and other heatiag foods are largely consumed and then the spell-binders are turned on to keep Is it | any wonder that oratory waxes per- fervid and unrest stalks abroad in {our land? It was such an afternoon of indls- cretions which gave birth to the sug- gestion that Hansard be abolished and all parliamentary speeches be broadcasted instead. Worse still, it was an M.P. who hatched the plot before an audience too far gouo in somnolence to appreciate its enorm- ity. Otherwise the embattled farm- surely again have been heard round the worid--and with ro adventitious ald from newfangled radio either. Parliament has always been coc- ducted behind a kindly veil of cere- mony and secrecy, so that the aver age man knows little enough of how unevenly the mill grinds. Then why disrupt such an Eden? To be sure there is Hansard, but who reads him --and even the verbatim report is often doctored grammatically, But radio would familiarize our homes with experiences of parliament strip- | A desperate father appeals to a small | ped of its ceremony, its trappings, its justifiable concealments. Who could respect a parliament reduced to the interminable scratching of tired, angry or blatant volces engaged in the endless Jiggs-and-Maggie of party-strife? Certain base fellows have been known to whisper that talk for talk's sake is not entirely unknown at Ot- tawa. Though the situation can hardly be as bad as that, yet radio would certainly exert a tendency in the direction of verbosity. Even par- keepers are published and forgotten. And it is certain that ohly a smail | proportion of the day's brave debds | are ever reported in the newspapers. Courage of no mean quality must | be far more common than we usually | suppose. Even such ordinarily timid | persons as ourselves can rise with the occasion to heights of self-sacri- fice and heroism sufficient to win the attention of mewspapers. It is the opportunity rather than the courage which is often lacking. A carefully fostered standard places moral courage above physical. But {s this true? Is the man who, at the risk of his life, rescues an- other more or less to be admired than another who, at tne risk of a laugh, guards his conscience? It seems like attempting to compare, say, algebra with carpentry. Both are necessary, both difficult, both are effective in their own sphere, but are not to be measured one against the other. Happy indeed is that man who possesses or can cultivate both, ROOSEVELT AND CANADA. The late Theodore Roosevelt loved a fight. The letters to his sister now appearing in the "Saturday Evening Post' show him in a constant melee, and delighting in it like a war horse. S80 when the Venezuela difficulty at the end of 1895 raised a small war clond between Britain and the Unit- ed States Roosevelt was fired with hopes of seeing active service, "We are much interested in the outcome of the Venezuelan matter," ke writes. 'I earnestly hope our government don't back down, Ir there is a muss I shall try to have a hand in it myself! They':l have to employ a lot of men just as green as I am even for the conquest of Can- ada; our regular army isn't big enough, "le seems to me that if England were wise she would fight now; we couldn't get at Canada until May, and meanwhile she could play havoe with our coast cities and shipping." For a time he could not bear any- one pro-British or pacifist: "Wolcott has just made a very foolish pro-English and anti-Ameri- can speech, delighting the fashion- able world of New York and Boston, who are savage in their Tory spirit and servile in their dread of war. But the mass of the people are sound. "I am disgusted with the greed and timidity shown by our men of means, and the utter colonialism of the educated class. I earnestly hope England will agree to some form of arbitration." It makes curious reading to-day. Undoubtedly the young police com- missioner of New York had succumb- ed to a bad attack of war fever and such talk was nature's antidote. His cool assumption of the conquest of Canada or the ravaging of American coasts by English fleets belong rather to the geventeen-nineties than to this generation, | ' It would be difficult to believe that we have not progressed during the intervening years, the last ten especi- ally, War between Canada and (he United States is no longer possible except as a sort of civil war. Ag In Roosevelt's day the mass of both peoples is sound, but the soundness no longer consists in a to fly at each other's throats but in be- ing willing to cut off their right hand rather than go to war with each other, We are pacifists, thank God! It probably didn't take Eve long to liamentarians are human in their failings and could hardly resist the | temptation to speak for the radio. It might even come to be quite usual for over-long speeches to rind utter- ance in that most businesslike as- sembly, Or a member, cayried away by the thought of his unseen audi- ence, might address the Chair with, "Well, boys and girls, tonight we are going to hear how Freddie the bold free-trader nearly threw a scare into the naughty tariff tiger." It is even conceivable that the pre- sent day limitations of radio might make parliament appear more ludi- crous than is the case, Fancy the state of mind of a man who is not sure whether he has picked up a negro minstrel or the Honorable Member for Tete-Rouge. Or, with interference what it now is, imagine the three-ring circus effect of trying to listen to the speech from . the throne while Prof. Clodd of station BUNK nagally outlining the Larger Lunacy and the Kiwanian Kolored Kwartet insist on making themselves audible. Above all consider the mis- leading impression created among an ignorant electorate were a burst of static to be mistaken for applause at the conclusion of a speech by the Opposition. Fifteen minutes of vio- lent and inopportune static might alter an election. Aside from these slight drawbacks the suggestion would seem to be well worth considering, To BB August 25. On this day in 1748, the famous In- tendant, Bigot, arrived in Quebec. He was a synonym for all that was cor- rupt in that age of easy morals and his illegal grafting netted him, it is said, over two million dollars, out of the public pockets. He had been res- ponsible for the conditions in Louis- burg, which made the conquest of that fort by the British possible. When he arrived at Quebec, he immediately be- gan to collect about him another vam- pire brood which sucked the lifeblood from the colony and so left it weak- ened against the British, campaign of 1759. Not content with the town dwellings, Bigot built himself chateaus in the beautiful country around Que- bec, where he entertained in all the lavishness and voluptuousness of Ver- sailles. He had an intricate system whereby every department of the gov- ernment paid tribute to him. He ev- acted money and produce from the people, far beyond what they could afford to pay and hundreds were brought actually to starvation. While the oppressed settlers were sinking to the streets of Quebec from hunger and exhaustion, 'Bigot was throwing precious grain to his flocks of chic- kens to fatten them for his feasts. Not far from the city of Quebec are the ruins of a chateau built by Bigot as a hunting lodge, about which clings the tragic story of the murder of a beauti. ful Indian girl, put to death, it is be- lieved, through the wiles of a jealous beauty of the old city. "KINGSTON IN 1852 Viewed Through Our Files CIVIC SALARY LIST. Feb. 13.--The committee on offic- er's brought in their report and recommended the following, which was unanimously adopted: |. Police Makistrates--£100 and fees. Clerk--£150 and fees. Chamberlain (treasurer)--3 per &-| cent. on all monies under £5,000, sum, guardnteeing that his salary must amount to £230. High Bailiff--£100 and fees. Chief Constable--£75 and crier's fees and recorders' court. City Surveyor--£100. Clerk Market--£75, also perform duties of harbor master and inspec- tor of weights and measures, Assessors--three in number, Messrs, James Baker, Dean and Ran- ken, all three to go together, to re- ceive £35 each. Messenger and Collector--£60 and one per cent. on a!l monies collected. Inspectors' Licenses--£7 10s each. Architect--£20. Engine Keepers--£7 divided between them. Caretaker of clock--£10. Fire Inspector--to be found out. Market Scavenger--3s a day. A That x Body of Pourg Your Mortar-- Vitamins. Within the past few months you have perhaps read about a United Sta- tes, and also a Canadian physician, having isolated vitamins. You will remeniber that there was Vitamin Fat Soluble A. which was found in milk, egg yolk, butter fat, | whole cereals, and the leaves of let- tuce, spinach, celery, etc. There was also Water Seluble B. found in milk and whole cereals. Now the strange thing about these vitamins is that they are not foods at all, and yet if they are left out of the diet, you will waste away and may die from star. vation. It would seem that their effect upon certain foods is to render them more fit for absorption into the blood. They also' change what might be harmful combinations into real body builders. Some one has well said "You can have your bricks and your building stones, but without the mortar you cannot erect anything." The idea then was to liken the vitamins to the mor- tar which helped to hold the bricks to the bricks, or the stones to the stones, or the bricks to the stones. You will remembers that most of the diet tables in hospitals, institutions and even in some of our restaurants have the food stuffs listed with their food value in calories, so that you can thus eat'a balanced meal. The general idea of a balanced meal being that you should eat in the pro- portion of 1 to 2, 2 to 3. That is with one ounce of butter or fat, eat two ounces of meat or, eggs, and three ounces of bread and vegetables. This is all right if you take a little exercise daily, otherwise the meat and eggs should be cut down. But there is something else to re- members. The mere fact that you put these foods into you doesn't mean that they build you up accordingly. Why your particular body may not want much more than half the food you take in. It may perhaps use up or even store up the starches and allow the other foods to pass through and use up only a portion of them. It is here that the vitamins enter in- to consideration. 3 To what extent is not really known at present. The thing for you to remerber is that the: foods mentioned above, as containing these vitamins, should be eaten to some extent every day, You will thus have the satisfaction of know- ing that your mortar, your "mixing" combination is doing its work for you with the other foods eaten. Tenth Anniversary Of the Great War August 25th, 1914. A long war with great losses, that would strain the forces of the Em- pire, was foretold by Lord Kitchener in his first speech delivered as min- ister of war in the British House of Lords. The fate of France hangs on the big battle now in progress about Namur, says to-day's bulletins. "There is only one end to it all, and that is victory for Great Brit- ain," sald Principal 'Gordon, of Queen's, who, with Miss Gordon, re- turned from England to-day. Dr. R. J. Gardiner, president of the Kingston Medical and Burgical Society, annofinces on behalf of the society that its members, who com- prise nearly all the medical men in Kingston, will look after the depend- ents of volunteers free of charge. The 6th Field Battery, ' under Major E. C. Barrett, will go to Val- cartier this week. There are now seventeen war pris- oners in Fort Henry. Twelve Ger- mans arrived from Sarnia to-day. 10s to be Bp | WHY THE WEATHER? | Where Will a Hurrican Strike? When a hurricane enters the Gulf of Mexico, the gulf coast cities become 1 ive, for it is difficult to tell just BIBBY'S Limited ~ Kingston's One Price Clothing Store HEADQUARTERS In military circles headquarters is the home of the staff who control the military situation. . The very best men are always to be found there. So it is in the clothing business. Bibby's Limited are Headquarters for Men's and Boys' Clothing and Furnishings. Here you will finda very efficient staff of salesmen ready and pleased to give you information about the quality of Clothing and Fur- nishings. There are three things we would like to impress about the way we carry on business. (1)--The One Price System insures you against any chance of being overcharged. (2)--We have always made a point of meeting local and out-of-town competition. (3)--We are cash buyers and cash sellefs, emai BIBBY'S i Bibby's Building, 78-8 0-82 Princess Street EE -------------- r when the storm is near at hand, but also from the storm waves and storm tides which reach the shore long be- fore the storm. "The largest and longest waves are produced in the rear right quadrant of the cyclone, for here the rotary wind motion is reinforced by the general for ward motion of the storm, andthe wind is not only the strongest, but persists the longest in the same direction. Long waves will move forward with a velo- city only slightly less than that of the wind producing them. As hurricane winds commonly reach a velocity of 60 miles an hour, while the storm cen- ter itself travels only 12 to 15 miles an hour, it is not surprising that high waves reach the coast and the water be gins to rise while the storm is still 300 to 500 miles off shore. Mr. I. M. Cline, district forecaster at New Orleans, has shown that these waves, originating mainly on the right side of the cyclone, cause a rise in the water in front of and on the right of the path over which the cyclone is advancing. In a rough way, then, it may be said that when the water begins to rise between Galves- ton and New Orleans, the storm cen- ter is likely to reach shore near Gal- veston, or farther east if the recurve begins in the Gulf. A Halt in Threshing. Adolphustown, Aug. 23.--The vic- inity wag visited by a very heavy rain yesterday evening which will cause a halt' in the threshing. The Metho- dist 8.8. picnic held at the Sand- banks yesterday was .well attended and a pleasant day's outing enjoyed by those present, A. Baldwin, An- derson's, conducted service on the circuit on Sunday in the absence of the pastor. Among the mer visitors are Gerald Hamilton, Toronto, at James Bird's; Mrs, Clark, Toronto, at" W, Dorland's; A. Davis, Rochester, N.Y., with his sister, Miss A. Davis; Miss Helen Davy, Napanee, at W. D. Roblin's, Hugh Allison left on Friday for a trip to the western harvest fields. Wednesday the barn of Peter Beaubiah, Ivy Lea, was destroyed by fire, being struck by lightning. In the building were grain, hay, a wagon and some farming machinery, all of which were destroyed. The loss will be heavy and is but partial- ly covered by insurance. where the storm is going to hit the shore. Naturally.ships, leave the Burricane strictly alone, as pos- sible, and therais no ong no, to send in a of just what orecaster Shore, y Mrs. Frances but who maintains ter: ous murder of hibition officer. Mulli Mullin is shown pointing to flicted on her arm. » any sum- Hi : Stewart McMullin, former A 's c m, BF pro- ro grb pg i ll bruises she says her husband lu- | DANCES WERE ENJOYED. They Took Place Recently at Lee Valley. Lee Valley, Aug. 19.--Miss Flor- ence Molleson is visiting her parents for her two weeks holidays. Visi- tors at J. Root's, Sunday, were Mr. and Mrs. Leon McKnight and chil- |i dren, Mr. Bernard Andress and Miss Florence Larachelles, Mr. and Mrs. Hampton, Mrs. Holman, Mr. and Mrs. Busby were visiting at M. Spencer's on Sunday, Mr. and Mrs, Harold Wiliams were guests at D. MeMil- lan's, Sunday. Clifford and Fred Root played the violin and guitar for the wedding dance in Massey, Miss Bertha Ritchie and Mr. Leon- ard Gravelle, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Molleson and children are visiting at W. Molleson's, Sr. A farewell dance is to be held at the hall for Mrs. Holman who leaves for her home on Wednesday, also for Robert Sexsmith and Harold Hunt who leave for the west on Thursday, Misseg Florence Molleson and Della Capes were at Espanola Tuesday. Anthony Lachance has purchased a 1925 model Chevrolet car. Gordon Andress, who has been working at Ardbegg depot is home for a few days. Clifford Jackson and Harold Hunt motored to Massey on Tuesday. A soft, upholstered chair makes a useful addition to any bedroom furftishing. At Deseronto the junior baseball team of that town was defeated by Havelock by 6-2. The Havelocks are a husky team. Hon. J. A. Robb sails for Conada. He predicts revival of British trade. 0 is held by New York police in connection with the mys- » HEADQUARTERS FOR | TRUSS | FITTING We carry in stock a line of Trusses from the best makers in the world. \ We give you a perfect fit and assurance of 'satisfaction, : | DR. A. P. CHOWN Specialist in the mechanical treatment of Rupture. Private office for fitting, 185 PRINCESS STREET Hot Wea KIA-ORA LEMON SQUASH ORANGE SQUASH LIME JUICRE GINGER ALE SYRUP Jas. REDDEN & CO. PHONES 20 and 990, '"RAWFORD'S| AN ITRAT Crawford | rh rs James MacMillan, ed away on Aug. 15th; aged