TWO LIBERAL VICTORIES, That the King government is popu- *|1ar in the Bast as well as in the Pg} praseeaeienacy anaging- REPRESENTATIVES; treal moon. '106 Ming Se { Montreal, and The election in Montreal was occa- West was proven by the two bye-elec- tions held on Tuesday, when Liberals were returned in St Antoine division, in Rimouski, Que. sioned by the resignation of Hon, Walter Mitchell, a Protectionist Liberal who did not agree with the Robb tariff. Ald. Hushion, the Lib- eral candidate in Tuesday's contest, won a notable victory over a strong opponent, Mr, W. M, Birks, a lead. ing merchant prince of the city. The splendid majority rolled up clearly demonstrates that the constituency did not share Mr. Mitchell's opinion regarding a reduction of the duties on the implements of production. The Conservatives counted upon winning the seat, inasmuch as it had been traditionally Tory before being captured by Hon. Mr. Mitchell a fow years ago. In Rimouski General Fiset, late deputy minister of de- fense, won by the fine majority of over 1,200. The. eastern anti-public ownership and high protection Cons servatives, who have sought to de- stroy the King government oy most unfair means, have had their ans- wer. The public has refused to be { misled by stories of an unprecedent- ed exodus to the United States, of thousands of factories forced to shut down and other similar tales. ed All the gloomy forebodings of Hon, The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the A Audit Bureau of Circulations Stal verdict of a coroner's gry: He gave a stranger a ride. fp ---------------- "Jt 1s all Tight even yet to tell mo- -2her everything if she can stand the shock. No more of our great are rail aplitters. They merely éplic hairs and infinitives. ------ You can get a riding habit in a clothing store, but more people get it In a jitney. A village is a place where there's nothing in the hip pocket except a 'headkerchief, If law is the will of the people, why such niversal use of this word world grows more and 'we keep right on im- As the plan | violin or Wwe grow older we doubt the "of working hard to let the 'have an easier time. be a chapter in history. It may #lso be'a financial depression. idea of real go-getters is the who recovered $35,000,000 of fent mén's vanity that mals drop in the collection plate a Arthur Meighen haye been for naught. The voters in Montreal and Rimouski have refused to believe that the country is going to the bow- Wows, but, on the contrary, have evi- denced their faith in the government of Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King in no uncertain manner. One result of Tuesday's elections may well be an- other demand for the head of Mr. Meighen. It is no secret that strong party followers in Montreal have long wished to decapitate him, believing that they could never regain power under his leadership. They will now be more insistent than ever. AN ALIBI FOR JAZZ. In defense of jazz, one Gt its most Prominent exponents cites his own efforts at syncopation of some classic favorites. His efforts, he believes, have popularized some of these classics and {introduced them to a larger audience. Anything which thus gives the classics a wider hear- ing, he argues, should not be con- demned by musicians. The defense has its flaws. Con- sider some of the so-called classics which have been arranged for jazz orchestras. Their appeal to the popu- lar taste les {in their original melody, beautiful whether it is played on the the saxophone, whether sung or whistled. Rinsky-Korsakov's "Song of India," as Frits Kriesler played it, was applauded long before it was arranged for a combination of trombone players end trick drum- mers. Massenet"s beautiful Medita- tion from "Thais" has been a request number on programmes for a genera- tion, and requires no help from a noisy band to "popularize" it. Greig's "Peer Gynt" was encored before fit Was re-written for saxophones and re-named "Peter Ging." Jazz may serve a purpose in pub- lic entertainment, but "popularizing the classics" is a rather weak sort of alibi. ------ IMPATIENCE. Impatience is a malady that afflicts a large proportion of us. This is manifest in many ways. Long be. fore a train reaches a station many get up and stand in the aisle as if a bit sooner. Some feel that it is necessary to be the first to alight, though they may not be pressed for time at all. If a train is a few min- v| utes late in arriving impatience fis ffensive and de- of the future la. expressed in remarks about the poor Management of the road. If these impatient people wait five minutes for a street car they declare it is a half-hour and conclude that the road has gone. bankrupt and has quit run- ning cars. If an elevator is mot available the instant they want it they push the button and fuss and fume. It is not unusual for a pedes- trian to take a chance on a crossing and then turn and wateh the trafic 80 by. It is mot the value of time which makes such, people hurry so. Instead of being as busy as they think they are they are merely im- Patient. $400,000,000; burglary, larceny and theft with $250,000,000; embessie- ment with $100,000,000; forgery, $100,000,000; piracies and custom frauds, $100,000,000; rafiroad freight thefts, $25,000,000 and home building frauds, $25,000,000. These figures are estimates, but may be reasonably accurate, since one engaged in the business of pro- viding surety bonds naturally would observe carefully any trend which would be inimical to the success of |. the business. The total is so stupen- dous that it constitutes a heavy tax for which there is no return. It may seem astonishing that the opportunities for so great pecula- tion are afforded. The surety head suggests that much of the loss is due to increased chances for dis- honesty made possible by the aug- mented complexity of business. There is lack of moral and ethical principle to restrain when the op- portunity is offered for quick gain through devious methods. Probably leniency in dealing with offenders of the classes Included in the crimes involved has much to do with encouraging others to take a chance. If detected there is hope that the punishment will be made light and be soon ended. If the situation is as grave as portrayed one may be justified in re- flecting whether many are honest because they want to be or because they have not had a good op- portunity to be otherwise, We like to think of the masses as possess- ing correct principles, but such ah that 'would cause the train to arrive | enormous loss in one year tends to prove that there are numerous ex- ceptions. PRESS COMMENT Down to Bedrock. For the individual, for the family, for the municipality, for tha prov- ince and for the Dominion, we re- quire the foundational mental gifts or talents. The "life is more than meat, and the body than raiment," said the Great Teacher. The soul is more important than either the body or the mind, and the fact that we are always forgetting these things makes it highly desirable for teach- ers and preachers of every class to be constantly harping on them. A good deal of oratorical breath. is wasted, because these things are ne- glected. That they are neglected is evident by results. Municipalities and governments are apparently suf- fering from a lack of what are called the common virtues.--Vancouver Prove, Omitting the King. Why are the new Russian treaties styled treaties between "Great Brit- ain and Northern Ireland" and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics? And why in their text is it simply "Great Britain and Northern Ire- land," thet is said to make the terms and appoint the plenipotentiaries on our glide? Changes of this kind are not made accidentally. What was the motive here? Was it to please Moscow? Or is it that Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Ponsonby, after casually omitting to invite the Dominions to the Russian negotiations, and subsequently being badly shaken up by Canada over Lau- sanne and the London Conference, have ben seized with panic and are uncertain whom they may claim to epeéak for. Whatever the answer may be, it ought to be known; and our ministers, in everyone's interest, ought not to keep it locked in their bosoms till Parliament reassembles. "~Loadon Chronicle. -------------- SBPTEMBER 8. On this day in 1803, the news- paper in Upper Canada, carried a quaintly worded advertisement warning anyone against harboring "my black servant, Peggy," who SH That Bob of Pours By James W. Barton, M.D, Brains and ' Some one has said that the only people who sleep well are the ones without brains, because not having brains, they don't think, and as they don't think, they haven't anything to keep them awake. He points out that people of low mentality, who are not keen in thought, or stupid people, all go to sleep easily and remain asleep a long time, WHIG Children require a lot of sleap, brainy children at that, but it is pointed out that in their case their brains are not fully grown, and so tire easily. Now what about this? Well, it is certainly true that men- tal defectives do go to sleep easily. Another peculiar thing is that very fat people, and thin or anaemic peo- ple, also sleep a great deal. In the case of fat people the argu- ment works both ways. They are fat because they sleep so much, do not move around enough, or they sleep or are lazy, because they are fat, However, where there is a large bulk like this, blood is needed in the fat parts of the body. This may mean that there will be less for the brain: Anaemic or thin people are so weak that they need more rest or sleep than others. Now what about people who are not stupid, nor fat, nor anaemic, and yet are good sleepers? Do brainy people sleep well? Yes, a healthy brainy man or wo- man will gleep soundly, and for the seven or eight hours necessary for their particular bodies, A mechanic working at his regular job, a busi- ness man at his daily office work, a teacher or professional man doing the same routine work daily, have usually no difficulty in sleeping. When they do not sleep well, it is not because they are so brainy, but because they may be carrying on their minds too many interests out- side their regular work. Gladstone, Britain's famous states- man, when not "interested" in the speech or debate going on in the House of Commons, could gO off to sleep for five to twenty minutes, Why? Simply because he was not inter- ested. It you can let everything go for awhile, and not be interested in any- thing at all for the time being, you'll 80 off to sleep all right. That's why the person of low men- tality goes to sleep easily, as I said above, because he is not interested. | WHY THE WEATHER? | DR. CHARLES F. BROOKS Secretary, American Meteorologionl] Soctety, Tells How. bul Southwestern Cloudbursts. One would not naturally turn to our driest desent for example of cloudbursts. Yet, the attention is arrested when one eees in the re- cords that the rainfall for July, 1922, at Campo in southeastern California was 7.10 inches and that the number of days om which fit rained was only one! The storm bringing that one down-pour is lo- cally known as a Sonora stosm. These storms were named when i was thought they originated in Sonora, Mexico. Now, however, it is known that they develop in Cali- fornia, near where they run their course and end. A western position of the sum- mer desert low pressure area favor. able to a large inflow and super- heating of moist air from the Gulf of California, occurs, on the aver- age, but one day a year, usually in July or August. On such a day 2 to 7, even over 11 inches of rain, may fall in one sudden downpour on the valleys and slopes over 2,000 feet above sea-level. Where rain may not reach the ground mumerous fires may be set by lightning. The wat- ers roar down the dry gullies and wash away highways, raflroads, or any other obstructions fin their path. The extraordinarily violent character of these thunderstorm rains is owing to a great abundance of moist air heated to desert temp- eratures on a generally quiet day. On rare occasfons, similar cloud- bursts occur on some western slopes of the Appalachians. ~ « KINGSTON IN 1852 Viewed Through Our Files Along the Waterfront. April 20.--The Marine Railway. This establishment snd the ship | it (Portsmouth ) OUR NEW TOPCOATS ARE VERY SWANKEY MODELS. See our Slipon Made from fine quality English Covert Cloth Price $27.50 Good Clothes Pay Dividends "DRESS WELL AND SUCCEED" smo Young Men's Suits THE ETON Neat two button model, slightly fitting, with back, loose belt--fabric, pure Wool Tweed in rich, plain, Oxford Grey or Herringbone design. Sizes 35 to 40. price °24.50 i ~ BIBB'YS For Real Classy Siyles in Hats SEE OUR 'Moore's English Hat The Dobb's Hat $4.50 . Headquarters for Boys' School Clothes be Letter A, No. 1, First Chop and no mistake. Meanwhile we'll say a few words touching her engine and boilers, as they happen to be of Kingston manufacture. The Kingston Foundry. --It is here that the engine and boflers of the new Bay of Quinte steamer are be- ing made under the immediate s@p- erintendence of Messrs, Masson and Davison. A visit to the foundry just at this time will amply repay anyone simply to look at the boring of the cylinder and the finishing of the bollers ere they go aboard. It is highly creditable to a young country like Canada, and especially to a small city like Kingston, to know that a powerful steam engine can be manufactured and made well with |: the resources of its own people. The cost of this engine with its boilers will probably amount to £3,000, a large sum saved to Kingston mecha- nies. April 27:--The launch of the Bay of Quinte steamboat went off famously on Saturday last. Just as three o'clock tolled, the builder gave the word to knock away, and in less than one minute the vessel on the ways glided into her destined ele- ment. Miss Gildersleeve christened her the "Bay of Quinte." ret ---------- Tenth Anniversary . Of the Great War, Sept. rd, 1914. A late dispatch to-day says the German advance on Paris has been stopped and that the Allies, heavily reinforced, are successfully repuls- ing the attackers, One hundred thousand men are working on the outer entrenchments of Paris. Amiens and the . valley of the Somme have been surrendered by the French. Great Britain's casualties to date are 10,355. The Victorias and Athletics are to give an exhibition baseball game to- morrow in aid of the Patriotic Fund. James K. Hackett, the noted actor, fed to assist George Sullivan in hand- ling the game, and James d has promised to provide a chhir for every lady. A Hamilton reports says there are 7,000 armed Germans in Buffalo ready to march on Canada, The Queen's Engineers were the first militia unit tof reach Valcartier, Major Alexander Macphail and twenty-one of his men, mostly * (From the Historical Baaner.) "Keep ft out of the paper" is the ory which the local newspaper pub- lisher frequently hears. To oblige often costs considerable, though the you." thing in the public eye. The news- gatherer is stormed because he gets an ftem and is abused because he does not get another. Young men and young women, as well as older and beg the editor not to notice their escapades. The very next wewk they coridemn the same paper for not hav- ing written up another party doing the same thing and many are the stories upon which he tums his back, because of a good wife or mother, who would be grieviously hurt to see the thing in print. Don't blame the editor for keeping somethidg out of the paper but be thankful that he has a heart and ds not indifferent to your feelings as the cold and caleu- lating chap who sits at the desk on the big city papers, SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS. Quick obedience to the highest one knows is the easiest gateway to the highest good one is capable of receiv- ing~Anon. Of nothing may we be more sure than this, that, if we cannot sanctify our present lot, we could sanctify no "other~--Martineau. Rest is not quitting The busy career, Rest is the fitting : Of self to its sphere. J. S. Dwight. God will put up with a good many things in the human heart, but there is ore thing he will not put up with in it--a second plaé¢e.--Ruskin. : Be yé doers of the Word and not hearers only, Jas. 1: 22. Those friends thon hast, and their jon tried, adoption trie : Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dul) thy palm with en- tertainment Of each new-hatched unfledged Comrade. ; --William Shakespeare. Peter the bold man, fell by coward- ice; Moses, the meek man, fell by an- ger; Solomon, the wise man, fell by folly; and there is no telling by what Queen's students, will embark With the first contingent. : . we may fall.--The Lutheran. party who makes the request thinks || the granting scarcely worth a "thank |} wonderful | fill out your set gifts. opportunity to or for dainty Splendid values in Puff Boxes, ets. For One Week Only. | DR. A. P. CHOWN 185 PRINCESS STREET TITLES IRIRSRT