Published pais and Semi-Weekly by THE SRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO. LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. tion) year, by mall, cash ..........5L50 year, to United States $2.00 OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: St., Mostres! Ome Une Letters to the only over the actuai aame of the writer, Attached is ome 3 ting officey im Ca The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG 18 authenticated by the A o Audit Bureau of Circuiations of the best job nads, a en Almost any man will lie about how truthful he is. An optimist is a man who buys a summer suit now. Beem asin Feminine nature: "I love Daddy best; he buys me candy." Many a politician bent on running for office is broke after he runs, A free people is ona that is of- fended by a "Keep Out" aign, Now that hairping are obsolete, how does a woman fix her watch? No man's pride is hurt by a dun, however, if he has ihe cash tc pay. With only a few more months of Leap Year left, some are desperate. It soon will be time for the an- nual coal shortage to see its shadow, The country is safe so iung as sanity experts give the average man a pain. $ 'Even if women haven't as much sense as men they don't wear stiff 'collars, Vitle the The modern girl has her faults, but she has outgrown giggles. Still, many normal and sensible le don't understand words that n "psy." A sufficient commentary oa human nature is the hotel's name woven ja- to the towels. ~ Posterity is the collection of numbskulls that will call thess the good old times. ' It must be fine to be great enough not to feel the need of affecting a hard-boiled state. The office cynic says that the two ; Classes who don't hate the rich are + philosophers and the rich. 2 If bobbing hair makes it thicken, : Why under the sun won't a lawn | mower make grass grow? There's one advantage, A hair on a coat lapel isn't long enough to make Friend Wife hysterica), When you see two men in the front seat and two women in the back, they are either married or kin- folks. ' Canadian bankers are offering $5,- 000 for six robbers, when they ought to get at least a dozen for that amount. Man's knowledge accumulates Soir. Nobody knows when Europe as 'settled, and nobody knows when will be, ; et Autos may take the place of street cars some day. They are trying to do it now by knocking them out of Correct this sentence: "I've kept house ten years," sald she, "and never have been tempted to leave the = OUR WINTER. =< "What sort of a winter are we going to have?" the average family man is asking anxiously, myndful of shoes, clothes and other necessities. Nature is said to be the best weather prophet, and if this holds true the outlook for Mr. Average Household- er is sad indeed, for-.a long, hard winter lies before us. Note the tollowing signs and prepare accord- ingly: Fur on wild and domestic animals is unusually heavy; ants have gath- ered their winter supply of food early and stored it far below the sur- face of the ground; cockle burs fill- ed out and ripened early; corn husks are extremely thick; nuts and acorns are plentiful and gre being stored unusually early by squirrels, chipmunks, jays and woodpeckers; wild geese have big bones aad heavy feathers; woman--Ilovely but irra- tional woman--is wearing her waist lower and has discarded the heavy furs she has been wearing all sum- mer. So there is no joy in the average home for weather-wise folk all agree that the prospects are for a 'real, old-fashioned winter." SCIENTISTS AND ENERGY. A monster with feet that make tracks as big as washtubs. These tracks have been discovered in Utah coal mines by William Peterson, a geologist. He writes about them in the Natural History magazine. The monster was one of the giant dino- saurs that roamed parts of the North American continent countless mil- liong of years ago. It was a flesh eating reptile, This particular speci- men, which jeft its trail in Utah, was half-grown, compared with some of its relatives, for it was only twenty feet tall and forty-seven feet from nose to tail-tip, It walked on its hind legs. The fore legs were small, used for clutching its prey. Nature does notming without a purpose. What was the purpose of these gigantic prehistoric monsters? One scientific guess runs as follows: Nature invented ' big animals to dissipate energy back to its source, the sun. A dinosaur, clumsily mov- ing 'through the jungle, smashing huge trees, released a lot of energy. On a small scale, theoretically, you release energy similarly when, for instance, you snap your fingers. But the dinosaurs were unable to dissi- pate enough energy. Other energy was stored in coal, to be released later by man. Having experimented, nature began creating millions of smaller forms of life, to dissipate energy--and killed off the huge ones. An auto released more energy than a whole tribe of dinosaurs. The more you study nature the more you wonder if she has any de- finite ultimate goal. She seems to be experimenting. One life form after another has its cydle; then is discarded to make room for others. More re- cent cases of extinét life are pas- senger pigeons, the dodo and, almost, the buffalo. Man is having his fling now. How long until man will be- come extinct? Many scientists pre- dict that insects wil] rule the earth after us Not pleasing to our vaaity, to say the least. LESSONS OF GLOBE FLIGHT, Everyone is delighted with the suc- cess of the United States army air- men who have been flying arcund the world and who are now back on the American continent after having crossed the Pacific, Asia, Europe and the Atlantic. They have a fine per- formance to their credit, But no- thing is to be gained by closing ¢ eyes to the weak points of & plane travel, as disclosed by the fiy- ers' experiences, and it is to be tear-| © ed that Maj.-Gen, 'Mason M. Patrick is doing this very thing in his rhap- sodical statement concerning the achievement. / He declares that the flight has demonstrated that there are now no parts of the world which cannot be reached by air. The north and south poles are accessible, he says, as well as the world's highest mountains and remote seas and deserts. But it is not to be overlooked that only two of the four United States aeroplanes that set out to circumnavigate the globe have got through and that all of the fiyers of other countries who embarked on the undertaking have been forced by one mishap or ak- other to desist. It is not to be over- looked that the United States' two surviving planes encountered diffi- culties of the most formidable sort in Greenland and for a time it was thought they might have to aban- don the trip. Had it not been for the many naval vessels that assisted them in all parts of the world, they could scarcely have won through. It has been demonstrated, in short, that circumnavigation of the globe by aeroplane is a slow, doubtful and hazardous undertaking. Long delays are inevitable. Com- paratively short flights must be made from island to island. Even though aeroplanes travel at terrific speed, it} is possible because of the inevitable delays of air travel to go around the world more quickly by steamship carrying 100 passengers in shiplike cabins fitted to the wings. He sees the average school child, once with- out hope of getting a trip around the world, soon making such a trip by air at a reasonable cost, flying at the rate of 200 miles an hour, and jearn- ing the sciences in air schools. These things probably will come, but not so quickly, perhaps, as Gen- eral - Patrick expects. Moreover, there seems to be greater likelihood of their being accomplished by diri- gible airships like the Zeppelin which is soon to fly to the United States from Germany than by heavier-than- air machines. The dirigiole has greater carrying capacity and greater cruising radius than the aeroplane. It is not so speedy; yet the British dirigible R-34 flew from New York to England several years ago in 75 hours. It would be gratifying if a test could be made of dirigibles compar- able to that which has been made of the aeroplanes of several coun- tries in the attempted trips around the world this summer, It may be that we shall have to rely on the navigable gas bags for the develop- ments in air travel that are now pre- dicted. BELITTLING THE GREAT. -- Belittling criticism seems to be the lot of the great dead. It was more than 400 years ago that Christopher Columbus ventured forth on the quest perilous and re- turned from beyond the Olid World's horizon to report the discovery of unchartered lands inhabited by strange peoples and teeming with vast resources. Now delvers into the past claim that his discovery was an accident; that his theory was a subsequent product of his mind and not the motivating con- viction that spurred him on. Why raise quibbles at this late day? No matter whether Columbus visioned his enterprise before he put it through or not, he none the less ser- ved the world by his venture--and opened up a new world to civiliza- tion. He possessed the courage that did not balk at traversing unknown seas peopled by imaginations of that day with monsters and horrors. He had the seamanship that enabled him to set a new record for naviga- tion. His achievement was great erough in itself to be above belittle- ment at this late day. SEPTEMBER 8. There is material for =a good deal of thought in the effects which the very common, human emotions of like or dislike, jealousy or resent- ment, have had upon the course of history. Even so great and admir- able a character as that of Cham- plain, wag not without its flaws, ver as the characters of lesser be- ings, and he allowed a personal dislike to damage the reputation of Etienne Brule, an explorer, who ia only now coming into something of the credit which is due to him. Brule was a careless, carefree youth who offended the moral and reli- sensés of Champlain by his mode of life, though Champlain was indirectly the cause of his outlook upon life. Brule had been ex- changed into a Huron tribe, while still & youth, by Champlain, who sought by this means to secure an interpreter for his journeys. Brule was set to learn the language and customs of his hosts, and so well did he succeed that in a few years he came half Indian. Because he ' acquired so many of the traits of the Indians, he earned Champlain's Brule himself Lake Simcoe where they were to join the Hurons and Algonquins in a war on the Iroquois. Brule Indian troops have arrived at the western front. J. McDonald Mowat, of Vancou- ver, a former officer of the 14th Re- giment, has volunteered. Prof. W. G. Hale, of Chicago Uni- versity, urges United States to de- clare war on Germany at once for violation of the Hague Convention, particularly in the use of floating mines and the destruction of Lou- vain. . -------- That Body of Pours By James W. Barton. M.D, A Practice. A Los Angeles physician gives a history of three cases that should interest you. i A patient had a pimple on his lip. He picked it open with a needle, and squeezed it. He died thirty six hours later. The second patient did the same thing, and died on the sixth day. The third patient also did exactly the same thing, and died on the tenth day. Now what is the significant thing about all these three cases? That they opened the pimple with a needle? No! You've done that often your- self perhaps. The significant thing, the dang- erous thing, was that they "squeez- ed" it. . Now Nature has heen so wonder- fully good to you, that the blood supply around your lips is most abundant. The slightest cut, the slightest rubbing, and there is bleeding. 'Where there are little vessels sup- plying blood, there must be also little vessels taking blood back to the heart and lungs to be purified again. Thus with an ordinary little sore or pimple about the lip, if you can leave it alone, or prevent anything from irritating or rubbing against it, it dries up and disappears with- in a day or two. Had the "clean" needle simply Jet the material out of the pimple, it would have healed up in even less time. But affer the needle was 'Gised, the squeezing of the tissues around it caused all the trouble. Why? Because the little bloodvessels-- the veins--which should carry wastes and poisons back to the heart, are squeezed so badly that their walls get broken, and they can't carry this meterial away pro- perly. They actually get plugged up as it were, because the squeezing brings their walls together. With the walls thus together and no drainage, the walls themselves become inflamed, and this inflam- matory matter not draing off either, a regular clot of hard material. is formed. Some of this clot gets carried to various part of the body, and sets up serious trouble, You can see that it is not far from the brain, the face, and also is often- carried to the lungs. a In these places it actually shuts off blood supply to important parts of the organ, with the results that bad abscesses or even death may re- sult. So in a pimple on the lip, face, or other part. If you must remove con- tents, be satisfied with simply opening same. Don't squeeze the part after- wards. KINGSTON IN 1852 Viewed Through Our Files . Settling Popular Delusions. May 12:-- (Written for the Whig) Many erroneous and absurd ideas are entertained regarding the mo- dus operandi of this remarkable in- vention (the magnetic telegraph). Some imagine that the written mes- sage itself is by some sort of leger- demain transmitted along the wires, the speed with which it flies unt- ing for its invisibility; othe ma gine that the words are | transmitted to the operator at the other end, who has merely to sit with his ear to the machine and write what he hears. Hundreds will attest that they have heard messages whizzing along the wires when they strings of an Eolian harp. These and a thousand other equally ri culous notions prevail among peo who are comparatively intelligent BIBBY'S For Honest To Goodness Clothing Values See Our Our $20.00 Chesterfield Overcoat IS SPLENDID VALUE. Our $27.50 English Covert Cloth Topcoat IS A REAL BEAUTY. Our $32.50 Worsted Topcoats in the new Slipon model, is ly tailored garment. Fit for prince. See our $8.75 English Raincoats es NEW TOPCOATS English Cravanettes beautifully styled and splendid. Double texture--good rain or shin See Our NEW SUITS The Harvard at $24.50 Young Men's model. 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Tells How, . Two Summer Northeasters. Two unexpected northeast rain- storms were August's gift to the middle and north Atlantic coasts. Coming to relieve severe draught conditions which had developed lo- cally in southern New England, and being a type of weather that has been notably absent before, they were somewhat unexpected. The first on Aug. 11th and 12th resulted from the combination of a "low" moving eastwards in middle latitudes with a weak tropical low that had been in the southeastern states for a few days. When the northern "low" came along the two joined forces and quickly comverted expected fair weather into an all day rain. In New England the far- mers benefited, but the G.A.R, vet- erans had a very wet parade in Bos- ton. Just a fortnight later nearly the same thing happened again, but on a larger scale. A tropical cyclone that had been practically stuck for three days over and north of the Bahamas, sprang northward and north-east- ward at the beck of a Canadian "low." In but 24 hours from the morning of the 265th the tropical storm traveled about 660 miles from jthe latitude of Jacksonville to that of 'Atlantic City, a most extraordin- ary speed, nearly double that usual for a tropical cyclone, We can hard- ly blame the weather forecaster for not ng it. The coast deluged" with rain and the spra; the sea, while coastwise ship: |trees, trains and buildings on I suffered trom North Carolira to the Maritime Provinces. 1 8 The one who listens to repeat should have a just regard for accu- BIBBY'S HELD A CHICKEN SUPPER. Under the Auspives of Zion Metho- dist Church at Cushendall. Cushendall, Sept. 6.--The chicken ple supper held in Zion Methodist church, under the auspices of the Helping Hand Society was a decided success. The net proceeds amounted to $68. After the sumptuous supper served by the ladies all enjoyed an unusually interesting programme, which consisted of several Scotch songs by Mr. John Marshal, solos by Mrs. R. O. Patterson and Rev. Mr. Ware. Addresses were given by Rev. Mr. Lancaster, St. John's church, Rev. Mr. Doggett, Harrowsmith, and Rev. Mr. Ware, St. James' church. Rev. Mr, Servage acted as chairman. School has re-opened with Miss Lenna Berry, Seeley's Bay, as teach- er. Miss Emma Gordon has resum- ed her duties as teacher in Ottawa. The many friends of Mr. William Gordon are glad to know he is able to be out again after being confinéd to his home for the past two months with a broken leg. Mr. Herbert Peck hag returned home after spending the summer at Windsor. Mr. and Mrs. T. Hyland visited at Watertown recently, Mrs. Flossy McCarey spent Sunday with friends at Delta. It is rumored that wedding bells will be ringing in this vicinity in the near future. Douglas Miles, Napanee, is visit- ing his sister, Mrs. Gordon Keeler. Miss Susie Sleeth and Miss Norma Dixon, Battersea, are at Samuel Woods. Miss Elsie Woods Is visit- ing friends in Belleville. 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