THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG THE BRITISH WHIG 1 nn STS BOL - | | | | | {rg 11M | LG | pane a» SITiSH CO, LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. and semi- Weekly by WHIO - PURLISHING LIBERAL VICTORIES. The federal constituency of North- umberland, N.B., elected a Liberal in the bye-election held there yes- terday. Northumberland has elected more (Conservatives and Indepen- dents since Confederation than it has Liberals, so that it cannot be said to have heen a Liberal constitu- ency. The issue before the people was maritime righls; and the result of yesterday's ballot contest shows that the people down in New Bruas- wick are satisfied with what the King administration at Ottawa is do- ing for them, It is recorded that the Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen. the Conservative leader, did no: appear in the constituency during the elec- tion campaign. There may have been a good reason for keeping him out of the battle. The Montreal Tory leaders claimed that their laader year, by mail, cash year, to United States 4 F-TOWN REFRESENTA Calder, 22 » W. Thempeen, 100 King Letters to the Daly oT the actuai tached ia ting offices +The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG 1a authenticated by the A , 'Audit Bureau of Circuiations = of ome in Canadas. St. John St, Montreal St. WwW, Toronto Editor are published name the of the best job made a mess of things in the re- cent St. Antoine bye-election, They expected him to deliver tnis Mon treal seat into their hands on the protection issue, but the people turned him down. In New Bruns- wick they have also given Lhe cold shoulder to the Tory party, which is losing ground everywhere, Pre- mier King and the Liberal party have reason to be gratified, for the Liberal Government has been en- dorsed at the polls in three success- sive bye-elections--Rimouski, St. Antoine and Northumbérland. THE MARKET PLACE. The proposal of the city property committee to rent spaces on the market place to gardeners and farm- ers may be the subject of debate when it comes before the coancil, as J | the question may be raised whether Also the proof of matrimony is In the eating. * Correct this sentence: "I do as I please," sald he, Another excellent digestant 's four "hours of good hard work. Tax-dodging . and %eep us all up in the air. A man's rights to drink booze are fast becoming his funeral rites. © A hike by any 'other name would be just as tiresome as a walk. During are warned not to look-like deer. Conservative: "Give us more divi- dends." Progressive: "Give us more % laws." If youth is an excuse, very few srers of the future will be over ty. Friends are people who caneit nceal their astonishment when you The danger is that France wiil be- to think the national air includes ore It isn't possible to make the laws work by appointing more job hold- «ers who won't, © No wonder Spain keeps on losing. She doesn't claim she is acting for Morocco's good. Correct this sentence: "You can 3 "he «he's married," won't flirt at all." said she; In theory all law violators should jailed, but think how lonely the would seem. Corsets for problem. The peer things must have some way to get tight, * Bolled down, the merit of a tariff Saw ig tht it enables us to charge one another too much, / t may be cheaper to reat, but oli can't hock rent receipts when wish to buy a car. bors say she threw away, they mean shé will to do her own housework, Dempsey left the Wilis-Firpo before it was over, but this a' Firpo didn't help him out. : - ¢ any rete there is mucit happi- in places where Main street good grazing for the cow. . taxi-dodging the hunting season calves men may so.ve the a public market place can be leased in the way suggested. . Yedrs ago portions of the market house were leased to hucksters and butchers. The present generation will recall that there were old-fashioned veran- dahs on each side of the rear wing of the civic buildings and that huck- sters plied their business under their shelter on market days. Still [urther back, the former market clerk, Wil- liam McCammon, leased a poriion of the present island market for a butcher's stall. Of recent years there have been no hucksters of the former day type, although it is claimed that huckstering prevails in a less open manner.' There is no doubt that the proposal to lease gpaces on tae mar- ket place is a good ome, and those gardeners and farmers who attend the market week {in and week out, year after year, should have first con- sideration. Two of the market gar- deners, brothers by the way, have been attending the market for more than forty years, and have missed only one market day in all that time, Gardeners like them ghould be given their pick of a place on the square. . TE KINGSTON'S ASSESSMENT. The report of the city assessor fof 1925 will be read with Interest, The total taxable asséssment is shown to be. $17,184,300, or $353,771 more than last year. Our exempted pro- perty is on the increase, $593.712 having been added this year. The bulk of the building done here dur- ing the past few years has been of the non-taxable kind at Queen's Uni- versity and the General Hospital, but there has been a fair amount of building done in the residence line. It is to be noted that when Assessor Mooers took over hig duties seven years ago, the total assessable in- comes amounted to $487,040. Now the incomes on which taxes are paid amount to $1,232,861, The city's population has remained about sta- tionary, and 'while it is regrettable that an increase is mot shown, the drop in population fs recorded as only thirty-eight. As population is of a variable nature, it may be as sumed that the city has in reality suffered no loss at all, as assessors will admit that their tally is liable to be somewhat low owing to the re- luctance of some people to give them the desired information lest it might mean that more taxes would be 'ed to a household should the number of inmates be large. On this basis {it may be assumed that Kingston's it was a year ago. No one will be sorry to hear that the dog population of the city is forty-eight less than last year; perhaps it is not, but there have been that number less canines assessed than in 1923. It wili be of 4,656 school children. Tne city's interest to know that the city has| ; pe = parties. "T¥Whe ola system of im- portation were allowed, the govern- ment 'would not be in control Hence all this latest explanation of Premier Ferguson is as necessary as offering proof to people of intel- ligence that two and two make four. But the joke in the premiers state- ment is this sentence: "'Tnere will be no return to the bar or sale by glass in any form." What must the former attorney-general think of this? Under the O.T.A. it has been proven that there is sale of spiritu- ous liquor in Toronto bars by the glass, so that under what Premier Ferguson terms 'government con- trol," conditions could not be any worse, so far as the sale of over- strength beer in bars is concerned. The premier might have put it an- other way and said that under the proposed system of government con- tro}. there will be no more extensive sale of beer by the glass than there is under the O.T.A. FOOTBALL AND SPORT CIRCLE. Now that a world's series is emd- ing, sporting interests automatically swings to football. The season is already under way, but psychologi- cally the game becomes predomin- ant only with this week. Its prominence is a reminder of a rather astonishing development in modern sport. Football will keep young men in exercise and engage the wits of sporting editors for a month only. And it will have suc- cessors, Basket ball, wrestling, box- ing, hockey, skiing, indoor track and indoor tennis will press upon its heels, elbowing for a place with those who wish to exercise or to thrill at a contest. Sport, once a thing ot spring and summer, has gradually takew over the entire year. We play our games now in deflance of weather. Su The change has had its penalties. A few sporting events have ceased to cast thelr glory over the year., Big- ger crowds see the spectacles than ever before saw them, but there are more spectacles and they are sooner forgotten. Dempsey, for all his might and money, is not the monarch John Sullivan was. The world's series {is more dally bread and less miracle. The great Thanksgiving . football game is only a ghost of its old self. But there are also compensations. The world sees more and exercises more than it did, Increasing urban, it reacts to being cooped up in towns by making its prisons the scenes of action and excitement. ils blood and its imagination run more briskly day by day it they do not leap so high on' single occasions. On the whole, it is a fuller and healthier world than jt was. Its loss is chiefly in illusion. 3 An illusion is least to be mourn- ed when it diminishes proportionate- ly- as a sounder and richer life de- - That Body of Pours By James W. Barton, M.D, The Big Meal Before Retiring. I have frequently suggested, that where you find it hard to get to sleep; that a little warm soup or milk might help, by bringing the blood away from the brain to the digestive apparatus, oF Of course the other suggestions must be tried first. You remember there were a num- ber of them, from the counting of sheep to the reading of a dry book. The idea behind all these was that your attention, your though®, should be dulled by monotomy of somé kind, The monotomy of doing something uninteresting for some time. However, there, is a point about the eating before retiring that is worth thinking about. You will remember that if at noon time you eat a heavy meal, you feel h "and sleepy for the first small quantity of blood trom "fhe. prain. » a A heavy meal, especially if you are tired, is a mistake . ea Tenth Anniversary Of the Great War October Sth, 1914. for the British at the Alsne. past few days considerable areas. have been deserted, many guas being left behind, and wedges of Allied forces have been thrown in. The Russians are now 260 miles from Berlin, President Wilson has given the kaiser a firm refusal to intsrfere at the present stage. Zeppelin 'bombs have partly de- stroyed the Antwerp palace of jus- tice. : : The northern Pacific has been cleared of German shipping and sailings to Vancouver have been re- sumed. : oir i The Kingston Board of Trade has adopted the slogan, "Boost Cana- dian-made goods." . | WHY THE WEATHER? DR. CHARLES F. BROOKS Secretary. American Meteorolegioal tety, Tells Hew, Thunderstorms Decreasing. From 'September to October there is a marked falling off in the usual number of thunderstorms. For in- stance, a September average of 10 in northern Florida drops to 2 In October, Farther north, the Atlan- tic coast has about one Jay with. thunderstorms in October, instead of 2 or 3 in September, while in New England the average drops from about 2 to less than 1. Similarly, on the central plains, the number is about halved, the September 2 1-2 in the north and b farther south chang- ing to 1 and 2 in October. On the Pacific coast, also, the decrease is ap- parent, though thunderstorms are infrequent there in either month. In Canada the decrease is, in general, as striking as in the United States. The Maritime Provinces and New- foundland decrease from an average of about 1-2 to 1-4 of a thunder- storm day; southern Quebec and On- tario come down from 3 or 2 gen- erally to 1 or 1-2; and th~ prairie provinces fall from 2 or 1 to 1-2 or 0. In October, convection is weaken- ing. As thé lower levels of the atmo- sphere are cooling more rapidly than those above, there is no loager the strong unstable contrast belween a hot surface and cooler air aloft. Nights are longer and the suns heat has a shorter period in which to work, Then, too, the tower air is less humid than in September, and hence cannot so frequently furnish the large amount of moisture needed to build up thunderstorms. Oshawa, which was recently In- corporated as a city, the 'twenty- fifth city in the Province of Ontario, was founded in 1804 by two brothers ing the country, and chose the seat where 'Oshawa now stands as a site for a camp. Unfortunately, the origin of Oshawa is steeped in y. While the two brothers were [off on a short expedition fromthe camp, they placed in charge of it a subordinate named Sharp, to guard their: property. While on duty, Sharp was attacked and killed by an Indian. Not long afterwards the 'murderer was discovered and ar- rested on Toronto Island. When the Indian: was placed on trial, he was represented by a lawyer, who, in order to make the administratioh of justice as difficult as possible, insisted that the trial must take place near.where the crime had been put comply with the demand. Ac- ; *"The Speedy,* was secured to convey the from Toronto to Oshawa. 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BiBBY'S See our oS ure wool TER COATS 75c., 95¢., $1.35 Kingston's One Price Clothing Store - Mrs. K. Weese and children and Mr. and Mrs. J. McFarline at C. Amn- old's; Mr. and Mrs, Jenkins and son at H. Abbott's, RECEPTION T0 COUPL Entire Murvale Community Murvale, Ogt. 4 --A pleasant event took place on Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Ir- |' win, when a delightful reception was tendered the bride and groom, MT. and Mrs, Lorne Irwin, Friends and committed. There was nothing to do 'neighbors congregated and enjoyed a soclal evening. The young couple received numerous: éongratulations and many handsome gifts, together with the best wishes of the entire community. * . Friday evening a large gathered at the home of Mr. named Farewell. They were explor-|mon at A. B. Timmon's; Mr. andy [= For Fall Planting Bulbs for indoor blossoms in the spring. beautiful sound Bulbs. . Special Tulips . 20c. doz. $1.50 per 100. re 186 P! 1881 DR. A. P. CHOWN Now is the time to plant your blossoming during the winter or for garden We have a great. variety of. ¥ oe +