That dread disease, cancer, gradu~- ally 'increases its death toll. In a year it kills about 90 in every 100,- 000 people. More cheering is the news that tuberculosis is slowly los- ing its grip, though it still kills about 93 a year in every 100,000. Sanitation is exterminating typhoid. | its toll; once mighty, has fallen to about seven out of 100,000 popula- tion a year. Diabetes snuffs out eighteen of every 100,000 yearly. But insulin--which bholds this ma- jady in "suspension," halting it not curing it--will rapidly lower its death rate, LIFE'S BRIEF SUMMER. A man reaches thd prime of life at twenty-seven years. But even then his hearing is on the down- grade, as that sense is more acute at seven or eight years. Such is the belief of Prof. Karl Pearson, a dis- tinguished scientist. A few years ago Dr. Eugens Lyman Fiske ex- pressed his opinion that our bodies 3| negin wearing' out at the age 'of twelye. So authorities disagree. Bat the average man undoubtedly reaches fhe pinnacle of His physical powers before le is thirty. Thiere- ..s1se after he slowly deteriorates. His $3.00 f REPRESENTATIVES: « 38 St. John St, Montreal. . 100 King Street, W,, Toronto £ to the Editor are published over the mnetunl mame of the pis, ne of {he best job The circulation of THE BRITISH ust becomes of infant prodigies 'After théy grow up? Cain wasn't 11 bad. He didn't 1 his envy "patriotism." \ Mercury may be turned into goly; 'snus knows the trick. y {Absence often makes the heart grow fonder pf someone else. The dogs of war seldom drag pe anything except a deficit. i, i at an Individual lacks in size abulary he makes up. in tura- ois Judging by Monday's papers, the 'safety gone on Sunday is the \ One set of streets: for walkers d another for riders may yet bs. ropists are queér. Not yet endowed a chalr of rdology. Stil, most of. the people ruined literature would go to anyway. It might be worse. Suppose the wernment made us tell the world much we owe. i The thing that keeps some men rox doing their best is the necessity making s living. Tt might be a good idea for the museum to gather a few while it ean. h no longer calls ita sport floss is affords some spevtacular to risk one's neck. &, oAn't tell. The materialist #y have an ideal and the idealist y have the material. "The ladies win, No mere man | watoh traffic and study his a rear-vision mirror. -------------- _ A pessimist is one who thinks Jost race the gcientfsts Keep for is the human race. ------------------------ not safe to measure the im- of a thing by the anxiety persons to'find out about it. this sentence: "He's twice 1," sald she, {but-it's silly 'married him for his mo- 4 health may be good, but the endur- ance of youth is on the wane. 'Ola age really begins in the eradle. That is, our care and en- vironment in infancy determine, to a considerable extent, the number of years of strength and health that will be available to us before we be- gin to go downhill physicafly. Yet, despite all we can do, the summer of lite is brief. In his early thirties a man begins to realize iupstinctively that he cannot stand exposure and strain as he could in his teens and twenties. However, man is in the late autumn or winter of physical condition before he reaches the sum- mertime of mental development. It is a rare man whose brain has any pronounced degree of wisdom and good judgment before he is thirty- five or forty, at the earliest. Im this way nature compensates us. As our physical powers weaken, our intel- lectual powers strengthen. But only up to a certain point. Ultimately comes senility, when mental facul] ties lose their powers apd brilliance. Light-heartedly man squanders the best part of life. Old age begins to overtake 'him usually before he really "gets down to business." Small wonder that so few reach the top of the hill * of success. For youth, while it may work hard, rarely exerts itself to the limits of its powers. The years that are wasted are the most important of all, | $ ---------- HUNGER. Starvation still meénaces many parts of the world. The world wheat crop in 1924 was 440 niillion bushels less than it was the year before That means only eighty-eight bughels of wheat for every one hundred in 1923. Nearly half of thg loss was in the Dominion of Canada. Higher price partly compensates the grower: "But to the consumer the loss is de- finite. It brings hunger to a world which, still weakened by the great war, needs an excess of nourishment to regain its strength. Hunger, too, is a breeder of war. THE FATE OF THE BORROWER. The case of Cincinnati is in the nature of warning to all our larger mpnicipalities. On both sides of the Nine there has been a growing dis- position to add Rot only to civic ser- vices but to civic luxuries. To carry out this liberal policy it has been necessary to do two things--+to add steadily to taxation and also to capi- tal liability. The people accept what is given to them with complac- lency. They like the luxuries; but they do not Hke high taxes. Yet the two things are inseparable. Cincinnati has now reached a state of practical bankruptcy. The other day an issue of bonds for $1.- 100,000 could not be sold. With a debt reaching $278 per capita, and taxes &s high as the law will per- mit, the city is now in a somewhat disorghnized state. Even necessary services have had. to be curtailed, . been averted In the Iatter Instanous if the foundation of municipal credit | were generally understood. Tt does | pot consist in anything which the | civic corporation owns, It consists! entirely in the power of the muni- cipality -to levy on the earnings of the people and to mortgage their possessions as security for debt. That is a tremendous power, and should be exercised with great prud- ence; it is safe to assume that ninety-nine citizens out 'of a hundred never give the matter a thought. Municipalities are not the oaly offenders. In 1901 Sir George Foes, then premier and provincial treas- urer, apologized in his budget speech for a debt of $4,800,000 resting on the Province of Ontario. He pro- mised retrenchment. To-day the province has a debt of $335,000,000, and the fixed charges attaching thereto, are much larger than was the tGtal provincial revemue twenty years ago. Here again the caution and repugnance to debt which. are common characteristics of Sir George Ross' Scotch ancestry would find fitting exércise. Ontario is now carrying a load which might easily become acutely embarrassing; for deadly overhead has undermined many a business concern which. be- leved itself strong. We have grown accustomed ¢o talking about taxation as something whith attaches peculiarly to the Do- minfon" government, We make mo mistake in thus identifying the chief cause of our public burdens. But we fall far short of the full truth if we leave our municipal obli- gations out of the reckoning. All over Canada, and particularly in the larger cities, they have been increas- ing at a terrific pace. There are several municipalities which are fast approaching the status of Cincinnati. The remedy, would come from a pub- lic awakening, and the infusion, of business sagacity and businéss pride ence into our local governments. When in all our Canadian cities it is regarded as quite as high an honor THE DAIL That Body || of il gues There isn't any sensidle person Y BRITISH WHIGC these days, that will try to tell you |} that exereise is not only-beneficlal, | Hi but actually necessary to the body. But just what exercise you should take, atid how much is something that you confess you don't know, and | Hii perhaps have reached where you don't care. ; | Now the ideal exercise would be |} something that exercised all parts of the body, and siso something that you liked. By James V. Baten. M.D, I A Dally Need. | the point |} calla into action te bending of your [Hi body, and thé use of the légs, them you are getting the ideal exercise for | Hil that body of yours. The beading of the body to reach [Hi a base bill, & tennis ball, a lacrosse ball, a football, a golfball, or a bowl, [ji will bring into. plky those abdom- {pal muscles on the front and sides of the body, which will play directly across the intestines, and stimulate [JY digestion, and intestinal movement. The muscles on the back, whith bring you up from the bending posi- tion, are strengthened, front and back muscles receiving this development, the proper "'ear- |} riage' of your body is assured. And then the use of the lege, as I've said before, by lifting your body off the ground, calls into play all the muscles of the legs, much more in fect than you have anywhere élse. This requires stronger action of the heart to get the blood down there, and stronger action of thé lungs to purity this extra quantity of blood, that is required to" replace the used, or impure bloed in this big bulk of muscle. But you say "I can't get a chance to serve the municipality as it is to! serve the nation--as is the case in Birmingham and many other cities in Great Britain--we shall find our loose civic methods yielding to soundness. . KINGSTON IN 1855 Sidelights From Our Files-- A Backward Look. FINE FEATHERS. April 24---Mr. Domenico Chisa- chi, the prince of Kingston artists in his line (hats and furs), still oocu- ples his old quarters in Wellington street, which he has this spring am- ply filled with a choice and extens sive assortment of every known and some unknown description of hats and caps. This is evidently, a manu- factory, his facilities for business being such that travellers and others cai in ome hour have a hat: made expressely to fit them. Nothing in Mr. Chisachi's establishment being left to chance, purchasers will mot be subjected to the torture proverb- ally arising from a new hat, as by a mew and expensive instrument, the hat conformateur, expressly made for him and imported from Paris-- the only one in Kingston-----the most -eccentric shaped head can be fitted as accurately as if it had been used on the workman's hlock. The pro- prietor will demonstate to a cer tainty that the most erratic arrange ment of bumps will have no effect in preventing a perfect fit. The shops of Greene & Son, Clark Chief, Shingwakouce the Second, are fully replenished with evefy desir- able description of tile for the com- have thémselvés to blame should their wits go wool-gathering during the coming dog-days, A HARMLESS CHRISTIAN JEW. _ A harmiess, little old man, who Is #n Englishmen but calls himself a Christian Jew, and who for many years past has been perambula the country, preaching the gospel and striving to do all the little goed he can, was cruelly assaulted in the Market Square on Sunday last, while exercising what he thinks is his vo- cation. The assailant was brought before the police magistrate for this assault, It Wright, and the well known Indian || dng season, so that the lieges will} 3 at any of these games." Perhaps you fell that you are too old"for these games. : But you can still bend your body. and you can stil walk or run slowly, Three to four minutes twice a day will keep you pliable, and your heart and lungs strong. January '6. ie ¢ The oldest city in North America, quaint old Qusbec, is full of charm , each one finds spots say, ninth Harl of Dalhousie, Who came -to Canada as Commanderin- "Chief of the British army and Gov- ernor. He was a man of tion and high intellectual culture, and spent nine years in Canada. On this date in 1824 he organized the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. He was' also responsible for the erection of the famous monumehit to Wolfe and Montoalm in the litle "Governor's Garden," Quebec, with its notsble inscription, "Pale Gave Them g Common Death, History a Common Fame, and Pos- terity a Comhon Monument." WHY THE WEATHER ? DR. CHARLES F. BROOKS Secrtieg ADI Hower ven! Our Anntial Rainfall. As our newspapers begin for 1926 a new set of accumulated departures of precipitation it is interes to note the basis used. Precipl n or "rainfall," includes all forms of water falling from the clouds, --#sin, snow, sleet and hail. In 1 total Precipitation the frosen forme | must be changed to an equivalent For instance, an ae snd with |} is on. $7.50, $9.50, $12.50 BIG JANUARY CLEAN UP SALE IS ON 'OVERCOATS ~.~ These Sale Overcoats are in our windows now. The fine _ .qualities and the fine styles attached to the greatly lowered prices certainly do coax the value seekers in, and the judgment of such seekers does coax these Overcoats out. Average savings of more than 25% at these new" prices. *14.75, *25, *30 BOYS' SUITS AND OVERCOAT SALE value OUR MEN'S SUIT SALE IS ON! Wonderful ranges of Suiits. BiBBY'S $14.75; $25.00, $29.50 KINGSTON'S ONE: PRICE STORE 1 0DD FACTS ABOUT | YOURSELF By YALE 8. NATHANSON, B, Sc, M.A. DO Taas: Torturéd by Dreams. Countless éouls have --- -- bundreds burned at ® oi Br made miserable "by the dreaded beMet in demons and evil opivits. It te this same demon, many ,whoss mighty ns are responsible for the fearful "nightmare" wherein mountains crush you, monsters attack you or you are. tossed into space. Every one of us has dreamed. Sometimes our dreams are not so un- pléasant, but always there is a peculiar feeling of unreainess which léavés us, when Wé aswaken, a trifle upset, tired and not just "our- stlves." / Have you ever had any tears like these described bY neighbore? "7 had a bed nightmare, and for dionths feared it would recur. I de- sled myself food and did agything guy ous told me to prevent it" "I have the most vivid dream tears. 1 have been eaten by animals, durted alive, my bones broken by @ fall, mangléd by Mymolng, ete." "Wa going back of the barn, digging grave, making & coffin, getting in, dying, being buried and coming to Iie ih the grave. This gave me a permanent horror of being buried alive." | "FT remember-a dréam of some- thing coming at me, a peculiar rush- {ng whirl; a roaring in the ears. : an MONEY TO LOAN We have considerable funds to loan on Farm, Village and City Properties, at lowest cur- rept rates, We have some good farms for sale at present. also some bargains in city property. (To be continued) its entoldment, in resiity all happens ing as to cause us to feel these hor- rible experiences thers i4 some un- natural disturbance in our brein. Abdominal Support- ers; Shoulder Braces, Elastic Hosiery. Private office for dis- play and fitting. Ex- perienced fitters. DR. A. P. CHOWN 188 PRINCESS STREET was proved that he 1 knocked the'chair from under thei. : Tomerrow---- Your Dreams | little old man, who fell and was au .| What They Mean. Copyright, 1924, by Public Led: alize that alogether too M ple suspect a municipality is not {answerable to the economic. laws