YE TN SE TATE eee ry Seman 0 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG THE BRITISH WHIG -- | WHIO 0 PU OREISHING CO., LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. g| row, 5 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: {Dally Kdition) 'One year, in city 7. ons year, by mail to rural offices, $2.50 One year, io United States $3.00 One year, by mail, cash One year, to United States UT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES; Calder, 22 St. John St, Hoatreal 100 Kiang 8t W. Letters to the Editor Se oF hiskte mp over ihe actual of the of the bist job Attached Zriatisg -- in in Canada. { The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the © AR Audit Bureau of Circmiations Some of those who toll not drink 'bootleg and spin. God made the country, but man put a mortgage on it. The poor are with us always, but often the rich are against us, Jesse James wasn't wholly rotten He didn't call it enlightened aelf interest. Successes: Those who prepare for the worst, Failures: Those who hope for the best. * A hick town is a place where a prominent citizen can reveal his sus- penders. Time is money, and the only way you can really save.time is by saving money. Only a few more weeks in which to pay the bills you ran up last Christmas. Things are' so. quiet in Mexico that you can hear ofl stock paying dividends. - sucker is just an ordinary mor- | tal with- an itch to get something oF nothing. [we would like to see a fight to a Minish between the fool killer and he joy killer. i The great China question, as seen most of our homes, is: "Who will wash the dishes?" i! Obsolete sayings: da's? Can I help you fix it? 'round is on me. Rp-------- } » All animals are useful for some. ing, if only to make the filler In salad. Got the mak- This t gome men seem rather important a you discover what insignificant People they hate. in is estimated that 76 per cent. of the phony stock is sid to people who know it all, . . No man ever forgives you after * ¥ou are forced to pay the note you . endorsed for him. . Correct this ssntence: "At your "I was Europe mubt not be vexed at us. Diving vom the back sent js Just MAKING MISTAKES, Fear of making mistakes has meade | on ---- {So long as people are careless _-- indifferent regarding cases in their has always been exposed, so can o the| 1% neck and even the chest get hardened fallures of as many men as mistakes | homes, there will be a spread of the | against the cold. However there is al. have made successes. awed Into retrogreesion by the same possibilities-of-mistakes challenged by the successes among men. A popular adage is "The man who never made a mistake never made a dollar," but a truer statement of fact «might be "The man who never made a mistake has not yet lived." Conceding that all men make mis- takes, it is manifest that only the same mistake repeated is unpardon- able, and the habit, not the indivi- dual mistake, is costly. 'Somebody pays every time somebody blunders, and the only way to correct the ha- bit of blundering is to form the habit of doing things right. Form the habit of being careful and take paing today that .you may spare yourself incalculable pain to-mor- Many are blundering on to success by making the most of thelr blunders. The haunting regret in every mis- take is the thought that it could have been averted by a little thought. The indolent find actions easier than thought, and much of humanity 1s indolent. Thinking can be made a habit 'just as most bodily movements are from force of habit. Cultivate the habit of thinking before acting, anda that bugaboo, the mistake-habit, will decamp for more salubrious forag- ing. LOWER TAXATION. Kingston's citizéns are already as sured of one good thing in 1925 -- a lower tax rate. This year one mill 'was knocked off the former rate and * | next year another mill is to go. There is no reason why this process of re- duction should not continue for some years to come. It will con- tinue if the city council is a little 'more careful in regard to its road- paving programme and paves only those streets that are most heavily travelled. Old debenture debts are maturing and . will disappear, and new paving can be undertaken with- out any tax increase for that pur- pose. OROSS-WORD PUZZLES. Though cross-word puzzles, such aa the! Whig publishes each Satur- day, are not a new form of appeal to those who revel in unravelling the more or less imscrutable, these brain teasers having been a feature of up-to-date newspapers for some time, it is but recently that the so- lution of them has taken on the cha- racter of a popular craze, On street cars, in trains, at home, even in offices and schools, one is im- plored to assist by giving the name of & country in Burope--six letters --=0r gome similar request. Even the telephone is the resort also in or- der that two stumped devotees may compare their efforts, There is a greater search for synonyms and an- tonyms and for words suggested by mystical expressions than was ever before known. The uninterested parent, who sits down to read after dinner, is the target for his offspring who want a word for this or that of so many letters, the first ¢ or something else, until one is com. pelled to give up reading in disgust and help out in order to have peace. Other pastimes, even bridge, go by the board until the cross-word puzzles are disposed of. Hverybody is doing it, and they are keeping at it. If there were a tangible reward for success in the effort it would be the more explicable, but the sense of victory Is all the devotee gets for his effort, if one excepts what may have been learned by frequent trips to the dictionary or the incidental knowledge gained in the search for a word of eight letters, the ame of a successful candidate or a fur-bear- ing animal. In a general. election, when important issues are at stake, a large proportion. of the possible woters have not enough interest {in the country's welfare to go to the polls, but when it comes to cross word puzsles these folk are right on the job along with those who did vote. It catches them all, Watch for the cross-word pussies in the Whig each Saturday. KINGSTON TOWNSHIP. The people of Kingston township are in a happier frame of mind at the close of 1924 than they were in 1928. 'Their financial tangle has been unravelled, the tax rate has been reduced and matters generally have been put to rights after many '|hot - disetdsions which, however, served to clear the atmosphere. Slip- shod De ne are now a thing of the authorities may do. let fever cases that have beem €o | | attend the slightly-ill patients. { Again, people who should know bet- ter have placed themselves in con- tact with cages in" their own homes, causing the danger of a spread: of the disease. The school nurses are kéeping close watch for the health department, and it is hoped that by urging upon people the necessity of taking the utmost care and report- ing all suspicious cases there will year ago. Kingston was not only place to suffer, however. Scar- let fever was prevalent in the pro- vince and the city of Toronto had & good dose of it. WHY THE WEATHER? ~n. CHARLES FF. BROOKS Secretary. American Metsorolegioal ® tety, Tells Hew. Pacific Rainy Season Begins. In the northwest corner of the United States and in British Colum- bia the autumn rainy season has be- gun early and with unusual vigor. Extraordinarily heavy rains have been falling on the Pacific slope from northern California northwards. The last few days of October southwest- erly gales deluged the coast and val- leys. just behind the coast ranges. Day after day it rained, and, at Rose- burg, Oregon, as much as 6 inches fell in two days. A flood-weakened bridge gave way, precipitating a lo- comotive and one car. into a swollen stream, drowning four men. And then it rained some more in early November, Though California's turn, for the state as a whole, generally comes later in most years, some rains have fallen over the drowth stricken center and south.' The Pacific rainy season is always looked forward to with great inter- est by California, but-rarely so much so as this fall, because last year's rainy season was so disappointing. During the past year the rainfall in California was but half to two-thiras the usual amount, and last spring the water stored in the Sierras at the end of the winter was the least in mény years. Not only has there been uncomfortable and expensive water shortage, but. also forest fires have been unusually disastrous. Even the recent pnéumonic plague epidemic in part of Los Angeles has been blamed on the drouth. May California and her juicy oranges have their full share of water this winter! Ck Ad Seis November 25. This day in 1878 was a brilitantly sunny day at Halifax, The city and harbor wore a carnival alr, for flags and bunting adorned the buildings and etreets, and in the harbor lay a fleet of warships. As the ships formed a wide sea-avenue, the ship "Sarmation" sailed through the guard of honor, to the thunder of a salute of guns, On board were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Oan- ada's new Governor-General, and the Marchioness, who was Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria. Gay and genial, full of interest in the new life to which they were coming, the Princess and her hus band set foot for the first time on Canadian soil, at rex, bound for Ottawa. During their years in Canada, they contributed very ma- terfally to development of an artis- tic element in Canadian life. Lorne was himself a literary worker, ant his wife an artist. To him is due the formation of the Royal Society, He invited a few Canudians to dis- cuss a society, to include French apd English, to be devoted to pro- moting original work and research, in literature and science, to develop &« Canadian culture, and from this sprang the Royal Soelety. light that they were never reported | becausd no doctor was called in to | { as another one cannot take this chance. Ming a big service to the organization in Failures -are | disease, despite anything the heatth | Ways this point to be remembered. There are scar- | Some bodies manufacture more heat { than others, evén where the food in-| take is equal. That means that one | person can '"'take a chance" with an uncovered neck in cold weather, where | The cold air actually chills the little | blood corpuscles and the whole system | suffers thereby. If you suffer with cold hands and feet-and feel the cold easily, | it would be wise to keep your neck | covered in severe weather Of course, a more sensible plan would be to take | a few minutes exercise daily, and your! heart muscle, the bloodvessels, and?' your blood would be able to withstand ! the cold. There isn't any other method! of acquiring this ability to withstand not be as great an epidemic as cold A REAL SNAPPY TALK BY HUGH C. NICKLE To the Kiwanians--He Does Not Belleve in Election Acclamations. The noon luncheon of the Kiwanis Club on Monday showed a big attend- | §nce and greater enthusiasm than cver. t was further enlivened by one of those speeches one should hear more often. Kiwanian H. C. Nickle, a past president of the club, had -been asked to talk, and he jarred the members loose from their anchors and started them on the road to livelier participa-, tion in club and municipal affairs. Mr. Nickle made. an appeal for greater interest in elections of all kinds He deplored acelamations, or, what is sometimes worse, elections which are merely a matter of form and in which the element of competition is sadly! lacking. Nothing is worse for any or- ganization or bddy than this apathy, he declared, and for his part he con- sidered that the man who jumped, into the field, fought hard and lost, was do- which he was contesting for office. This man made a fight, he aroused in- terest and forced the electors to take notice of the situation and consider the proposition. Both the coming Kiwanis Club elec- tion of officers and the municipal elec- tions were pointed out by the speaker, and he urged every Kiwanian to get' out and vote and work for a candidate in both cases. Mr. Nickle also referred to the abi- lity to get up and express opinions in | public. He thought that every man] with any ambition should force him- | self to it--and afiter the first time it is | not so bad, Men who are convincing and clever salesmen over the counter | shy at facing a few dozen people and] voicing their opinions. It is not a lack of ability but more a little lack of gumption, perhaps too much modesty and sometimes laziness of mind. Mr. Nickle's short and snappy telk was warmly applauded. A vote of congratulation was moved by B. N. Stescy; seconded by W. R. Givens and unanimously passed, that the club secretary will forward to Mr. J. G. Elliott, of the British Whig, on | his election as president of the Assoc- iated Boards of Trade of Ontario. President W. Y. Mills called for names for the nominating committee of three, The executive appointed Jack McGall. A. H. Fair, E. B. Sparks and H. W. Newman were named by the club and a mail vote will be taken when the club's member is selected the president will appoint the third. Considerable discussion took place on the "Mikado" Whose success is al-, ready well kriown. Kiwanian Frank Hoag presented an! extensive and interesting report on the Boys' Home at Bowmanville, It was referred to the executive. } The singing was excellent under the leadership of Garnet Lockett and Prof.' Andre, Both Prof. Andre and Charles Gates delivered seasonable remarks re- lative to the production of "The Mik- § ado." THE ANNUAL BAZAAR. And Tea Held at the Methodist Church at Bath, Bath, Nov. 24.--Mfs, (Dr.) H. 8. Northmore loft last wéék to visit friends in Missouri. Mrs. William MoGujn, who 'has been recelving treatment {in Kingston General Hos- pital, has returnéd home. Mrs. Caton, Napanee, has been visiting at Wwilllam Rose's. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Hdrry Haselton, on Saturday! Nov. 22nd, & daughter, The sale of horses, buggies, ste..| held at the residence of the late Charles Burley, on Sathrday, was well atténded. The annual bazaar and tea of the Ladies' Ald of the Methodist church was held in the town hall on Wednesddy, Nov. 19th, and the financial results were grati- fylng. Mrs. William Brown has re- tuffied home after spending soma timé on Amherst island, during the | + of hér mother, the! late Mrs, Mes. John Forester fetirnéd home on Saturday from Wihdéor, whers she has been viliting her daughter, Géorge "The many T wi of the, " | pre a 108. 3 BIBBY'S A WONDERFUL DISPLAY 'Nobby Suits and Choice Overcoats * ALWAYS WELCOME ¢ Looking or buying you're always welcome at this store. Though you come here each day you will always find something new and interesting snd what's more we can save you quite a few dollars on ' SPECIAL! 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Penman's--a Oriental effects. 35c¢., 3 for $1.00 regular $8.50 value for $2.50 'Boys' Suits $9.50, $12.50 BE PREPARED FOR CHRISTMAS Come in and choose your gifts now and have them laid aside until required. FRENCH IVORY still reigns the favorite in Toilet Articles and our stock is larger and more beautiful than ever. We are daily receiving shipments of this beautiful ware. Also French Perfumes, Toilet Waters, Com- pacts and Soaps--all attractively boxed. DR. A. P. -- CHOWN, years 0. were shocked and grieved to hear of her death at Belleville, on Saturday, after an illness of some duration. The sympathy of the com- munity is extended to Mr. Seymour and the bereaved relatives. ~ ---------------- PR ty Aad In Nov. 24 hy v. 24.-- Another aged resident has passed away in the person of Setle Laft, aged Alnoty. sis years, who was found in bed on Saturday morning. * HiH is retursing to his scbompanied home in Buffalo, N.Y. Winifred Winnifred Clauss. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Crawford, Deseronto, spent Sunday at the home of W. J. Smith, A number of young people spemt Friday evening with Herman and Mrs. Clauss. The stork called on Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Lewis on: Monday, it's a boy. Mr. and Mrs. W. W, Bell mot- | ored to Bellevilie on Saturday. Cain Hudgins, Belleville, called on James |. 'Hudgins on Saturday. * Sweaters $1.00, $1.45, $1.95 \ Genuine Scraaton a1 Chestant, $10.50 wae ase us eee. 811,00 srsevs vue senses BID00 Vane & Morris oma A Xe JUST RAISINS NEW SEEDED RAISINS, NEW SEEDLESS RAISING. NEW SULTANA RAISINS. NEW VALENCIA RAISINS, NEW MUSCATED RAISINS. NEW TABLE RAISINS,