G| without a cub bear mascot. WN REPRESENTATIVES; 22 St. Johm St, Montreal 100 King St W, Toren Letters to the Editor are published only over the actusi mame of writer. The test of prison reform is in re- formed prsioners. Born fools seldom live long enough to outgrow fit. Trouble is easy to borrow, but hard to pay back, The head of the institution is sel- dom a swelled head, £4 Some men are so honest arms never steal around a girl. their Only way to keep the hatchet bu- zied is to put the hammer with it. The difference between hog and pork is about thirty cents a pound. Why should we think of posterity? It probably won't think much of us. Even the common hog gets fed up, but he doesn't call it sophistication. i ---------- A big man is one who is too busy to scold his wife about missing but- _ tons. : - 5 People won't respéct the laws so as they suspect the law's ma- chinery. ' THere may be merchants who don't advertise; but you never hear of them. The thing that makes capital punishment ineffectual seems to be acquittals. ; ------------ . How urgently mankind seems to néed reforming when your liver isn't working. Age has compensations. Ona doesn't mind wearing a shoe large enough. -------- Our own diagnosis is that ninety per cent. of the world's trouble is jumpy nerves. -- : Job was lucky at that. He wasn't on the stand where a lawyer could Dag at him, : S-------- An "exclusive model" at $49.50 May mean that all the others are #0ld elsewhere at $1.98. 3 RE ---------------------------------- A parrot is a good scout. He re- Peats what he hears but he doesn't vent slanderous details. ------------ , Hick: A term of derision applied to country people by thobe who re. cently were country People. ------ Comfortable, two-passenger sofas have made many a match, while onions have spoiled just as many, 'Correct this sentence; "Style or ho style," she declared; | Wear a winter hat until winter has so thoroughly conquered r that he can do anvthing up it he has luck and nothing A ---- " 'It is sald that Russia cannot re- cover until she gets a large foreign | fire engines turn out. Every married man has had this experience: Husbands meets a man with an impressive front, swallows him hook, line and sinker. He is so impressed that he in- sists on wife meeting him. Friend wife, meeting the stranger, isn't im- pressed, Why? Well, she doesn't know exactly--the stranger has a peculiar look about his eyes; he wears the wrong color necktie, or looks ag if he were mean to his wife, Time proves the wife was right in her gize-up. Instinct, the sixth sense, told her. The only accurate clairvoyant is a woman's intuition. THOSE BEAR MASOCUIS. It would appear that Queen's Uni- versity might just as well discard its Gaelic yell as to henceforth do Since Queen Boo-Hoo came to live on the Old Ontario Strand, the greatest suc- cess has attended the university rug- by team, which in two seasons won two Canadian championships. Ac- cording to the Queen's athletic trainer a bear is a lucky animal, and it certainly would seem that Queen's university struck luck when it adopted a cub as its mascot. With Queen Boo-Hoo, who got into the ! bad graces of the police, the univer- sity has had no part, but another cub has taken her place, and every- body, from the chancellor to the youngest freshman, will put great faith in this new Northern Ontario offspring of Bruin to keep Queen's good luck from passing. THE CHICAGO SENTENCE. Few intelligent people will quar- rel with Judge Caverly of Chicago for sentencing Leopold and Loeb, the young sons of millionaires, to {life imprisonment for the kidnapping and murder of the thirteen-year-old Franks lad. These self-confessed murderers are no more insane than the average young fellow. "They are merely degenerates, and had they been tried in an English or a Cana- dian court of law they would have gone to the gallows and expiated their crime at the end of a rope. Life imprisonment, however, is just as effective. The important thing is to place dangerous young crimi- nals like Leopold and Loeb in per- manent custody so that society will be protected from them. To snuff out the lives of crafty murderers is no doubt the easiest way to get rid of them, but capital punishment is not favored by all peoples. Life imprisonment is its equivalent, and putting Leopold and Loeb within prison walls for the remainder of their lives will satisfy all but those who still demand "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." A WEII OITY. Recently the principal of Queen's university, in speaking about King- ston, used that biblical phrase "mo mean city." This phrase would ap- ply on the score of street lighting alone. Visitors tell us that King- ston is one of the best lighted and paved of the smaller cities they have seen, Mention has been made be- fore of the fact that it has a larger proportion of its roadways perman- ently paved than any other place of its size in Canada. It is not too much to say that Kingston's street lighting is the best of all the smal- ler Canadian cities. On the "white way" a still more modern electric lamp is being installed, and an ex- tension of the area is soon to be made. The outlying sections are very well lighted, and more lamps are yearly being added. Kingston also enjoys 'The distinction of having the third lowest per capita tax of Ontario cities and our bonds com- mand the highest price paid \in the province. Is it any wonder that the head of Queen's university, who is a world-travelled man, should sce fit to pick a bible phrase to describe the Limestone City? FALSE FIRE ALARMS. Some time ago an Ottawa magi- strate levied a fine of five dollars and costs upon a young man of the Capi- tal who pleaded guilty, "in absentia," to a charge of sounding a false fire alarm. The magistrate was severely criticized by a writer who declared that the punishment was ludicrous for such a serious offense. Through the act of the guilty young man the livés of he firemen were endangered in responding to the call, and prob- ably $100,000 worth of fire appar- atus was needlessly called out and also endangered. It would have been better had the magistrate made an example of the guilty party by send-| ing him to jail for a month at least. Intoxicated auto drivers lave to spend seven days in jail, without the option of a fine, and their offence is Zo more gerious than the sounding of a false fire alarm. Kingston has had a number of false fire alarms sounded during the past few years. Two of the culprits proved to be little boys who wanted to see the Had they been of more mature years the magi- strate would no doubt have given them a jail term, and citizens would approve such punishment being met- od out. t In opposing the reparations plan . | the German Nationalist party appears Bot to care if a bad situation becomes worse, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG THE RUSH TO COLLEGE. + The extent to which the young people of this country have acquired faith in the value of higher educa- tion may be gathered from college enrollments which are now being made public. Smaller colleges as well as universities which have so far been heard from report almost in- credible increases. Despite some remarkable records in the past, it is certain that the rush to college this year will be greater than ever before. Even increased tuition and living costs in college towns as a result of this crowding are no bar to the great crowd clamor- ing for a college education. In the schools in which it was decided to re- sort to stiffer entrance examinations to keep .down the enrolment even this has failed. The desire for higher education seems to overcome all ob- stacles, For obvious reasons many educa- tors had expected, if not a decreas- ed, at least no greatly increased en- rolment; so that they are now at a loss to explain this unexpected phe- nomenon. Others see in it nothing more than the fact that public in- terest in education is being taken up at the point where it stopped when we went to war, The demand for higher education, however strong it may seem now, is no greater than it would have been normally had there been no war. A good share of the increased col- lege enrolment is due to the fact that the value of a college education is boning more widely known. No doubt the raising of the standards of education even in the high schools has much to do with this rush to college. Many parents who a decade ago were satisfied with a high school diploma for their children are no longer satisfied with this minimum. They are applying to education the slogan so familiar in the field of business, "The best is the cheapest in the long run." 'Certainly our pre- sent rush to college admits of no other interpretation. KINGSTON IN 1852 Viewed Through Our Files THE CITY BUILDERS, June 23.--It will be observed that the subterranean cells on the west side of the Market Buildings have been entirely decked over. It is to be hoped that the corporation will not disfigure the building by a con- tinuation of the unsightly sheds erected last year. If such stoops are absolutely necessary, they ought to be constructed with some refer- ence to taste and ornament. The im- provement in the appearance of the Market Square by closing up fhe cel- lars is apparent to all; but the con- tinuation of such abominable ap- pendages entirely destroys the ap~ pearance of the building. : (From the Police Court Reporter.) The attention of the corporation might with propriety be directed to the situation of the pem in which sheep and calves are confined in the market. With a pen containing from ten to twenty of those animals within a dozen feet of the police of- fice windows, it is often utterly im- possible to hear a single word, and the magistrate seems as much an- noyed as others. nee OFF TO THE GOLDFIELDS. June 28.--Several young King- stonians left this city for New York on Saturday, with the intention of proceeding thence to the gold fields of Australia. May their wildest day- dreams be realized, and may they re- turn from thé field of their labors to their homes enriched both in health and pocket, A Deserving Case. July 5.--Another inquest was held by Mr. Benson in the city jail on the body of Sarah W. Deceased was committed on Thursday last with six other prostitutes for thirty days imprisonment, It appears that de- ceased at the time was in the en- Joyment ot health. Verdict, "Died by the visitation of God." September 11th, The first vessel to cross the 'At- lantic entirely under steam power, owed its existence to Canadian en- terprise. It was the "Royal Wil- liam," which was built at Wolfe's Cove, Quebec. When the ship was complete it was towed to Montreal where the engines were installed. It was launched April 27th, 1931, amid great rejoicings, for it was a trim little craft, 146 feet in length, and built at a cost of £16,000. Among the promoters were three brothers, from Nova Scotia, Samuel, Henry and James Cunard; who by their enterprise established the Cun-. ard line, which to-day is one of the best known of all ocean transporta- 'tion companies. The "Royal Wil- liam" was built for the purpose of producing trade bet Nova Scotia and Quebec, and her route was be- tween Halifax and Quebec City. H owners, however, soon afterwa decided® to try her on the &reater adventure, for she was-too costly a vessel for the trade which then exist- ed in Canada. She was loaded with Nova Scotia coal, and started off. On this day in 1833 she arrived at Gravesend, London, having sacceed- ed in Ig a record in steam navigation. She was sold in Gondon for £10,000 and chartered to carry Portugese troope to Brazil. Later | she was converted into a warship tor | Spain, the first steam warship to! fire a shot. Previous ta the exploits | of the "Royal William," =z sailing ship with steam engines had crossed | the Atlantic, but the engines were | merely auxilary to the sails. As! early as 1861, a Cunard dteamer | crossed in nine days. \ Body of Pourg By James W. Barton. M.D, Be Proud of It. } I often think of how iterally true | are the words in Genesis, that we | are made from dust, from the earth | itself. i The same elements that are found | in the earth, are found in that body | of yours. The only difference between you | and the dust is that you have lite. | The breath of life was breathed into | your nostrils. And as I think further | about that wonderful body of yours, | I remember that these simple ele- ments that are in the earth, are so combined with one another, tnat they | form a heart for a pump, tne lungs | and skin for a ventilation, fhe kid- | neys to remove waste, and so forth. | And the food to nourish that body | is likewise supplied by these same | elements, | These foods are all obtained from the ground direct, the vegetables and fruits, or indirectly from the flesh | of animals, which likewise have eat-| en the foods supplied by the earth. | And then just think what your | body does with this food. It takes any and every kind of food, separates the good from the useless or harmful, manufactures blood which carries nourishment to every cell in your body, and to every | organ that is doing special work | for you. | It then throws off by skin, intes- tine, lungs, and kidneys, ail the waste that is of no further use to the body. With that food you are enabled .to grow in height and weight ii you are | young, or in strength if you are an adult. You are enabled to do your daily work or engage in play. To plan, to reason, to use your brain. Everything made possible by the transforming power of your body on these simple elements in the food, in the dust of the ground If a machine manufactured hy man make an envelope, a cigar, we think it remarkable. So try and get a real idea of your body. Think just for a few min- utes about all it does for you, and how little it asks of you. Think further of the beauty and strength of body that may be yours, that should be yours, if yoy really appre- ciated the wonderful gift your body really is, A We are all prone to take the good things of life as a matter of course. They come to us in such a bountiful measure that we are apt to fcel that we are entitled to them. And thén when illness comes. IIl- ness from our carelessness or actual wrong living, we are surprised if not really indignant. Be proud of your body, when you think of just how wonderful it is. If you can't be proud of it, at least be fair to it. Tenth Amniversary - Of the Great War SHPT. 11th, 1914. The German retreat on the French left is assuming the condi- tions of a rout. They have almost exhausted their' ammunition and their food supply is running low. They have been unable to resume the offensive anywhere, though heavily reinforced. All danger t Paris is declared over and the GoV- ernment can safely return to the Capital. The city council decides to présent sweaters to gll Kingston soldiers who have volunteered The C. P. R. runs round trips to Valcartier camp for $7. Dean Star is at present on the warship Indomitable, returning to London within a month, \ By the middle of the month one million men will have enlisted in Gfeat Britain. 3 i Keep the Strain Pure. In the past we have been siriving for two things mainly in our immi- gration policies. One for as many British ag possible, and the other for all the bonafide farmers possible, whether English or of other nation- alities, with the single exception of the yellow races. We have in West- | ern Canada now communities of al- most every nationality under the sun and we have had opportunity to ob- serve what influence these have ex- erted upon our own people living in proximity to them. The result is by £0 means - generally satisfactory. Where alien races mix in large com- munities those with lower culture} outlive the higher. The moral stand- ard of the Anglo-Saxon race in Can- ada is vastly different to that of most European races, communities of which are resident in Canada. Can We say with assurance that in prox- imity to these foreign communities our moral standard has not lowered? ~~Calgary Herald. * | WHY THE WEATHER? | | See Our New HATS BIBBY'S See Our New HATS FALL SPECIALS 'Don't Miss Seeing Our New Top Coats Positively the newest and best values. The Whitby at $27.50 The Preston $27.50 The Kelsey $22.50 The Regent $27.50 The Chester $22.50 English Raincoats © Tweed, Rainproof, for $8.75 See Our English Broadcloth Sl ® t With separate Collar--Mauve, Blue, Cream, Grey or White for $2.95 ~ See Our Extra Trouser Suits Genuine Pure Wool Worsteds. Grey Blue or Brown $35.00 is See Our $24.50 Suits Men's and Young Men's models ----nobby, good honest, all wool Tweeds. Sizes 34 to 46. Our Display of New Winter Ulsters and Overcoats worth coming miles to see { BIBBY'S r DR. CHARLES Fr. BROOKS Secretary, American Meteorological Society, Tells HoeW. Air Density and High Flying. Much confusion is caused im the public mind by the conflicling re- ports issued as to the altitude reach- ed in record flights or in flights in which attempts are made to establish new records. These barometric "heights" are subject to considerable error, An altimeter does not really measure altitude, but only air pres- sure, Two variables, pressure and temperature, enter largely into the determination of altitude; and cor- rections for temperature are gemer- ally based on an inadequate formula. Every aeroplane has a definite density '""coiling;" it cannot fiy in air of less than a certain density, The level at which this density will be reached will depend upon both pres- sure and temperature. The limiting density will be actually highest over hot regions in summer where the air is vertically expanded. In such places aeroplanes can rise to the greatest altitude, In winter, para- doxically the altimeter may indicate a greater height, though the plane is actually lower. For in winter the air is contracted and nearer the sur- face, and a low pressure is sooner attained. Since the air is cooler the aeroplane can fly in a lower pres- sure than in summer, because the colder the air at a given pressure, the denser it will be. Hence the altimeter shows a very low pressure, at- times corresponding to that usually found at several thousand feet higher than the greatest height ever attained, yet without establish- ing a new record. Don't forget Hotel Dieu Hospital Tag Day on Saturday. poo Romo, : Q j Lif § i i | { i i 1 i i ¥ i W 50 ACRES, close to thriving village with High School; good buildings; 40 acres tillable; some excellent garden land; well watered and fenced. A real bargain at ...... $38,000. Fire Insurance in reliable companies. Money to loan on mortgages. T. J. 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If you keep warm the chances are you'll keep health. - Tolmie said. "Had I been : ful at the last provincial elections I intended returning to Windsor & live, but my pisns are made and I' will reside at Southampton in fa ture."