AND COLDS Quickly yield to Dr. Hickey's FOR SALE stable and garage, double lot. Five duplex cement block 6 rooms each, B. and T., electric light, deep lot, Reat turn- ing 10% investment, ------ peBrick, 8 rooms, B. and T,, electric light, h.w. floors, veran- dah, right of way. S-- i B500---Brick, central, all modern. 6 buflding lots in Portsmouth, Houses to rent~--$20 and $22. Insurance and money to loan. 3 temah's Real Estate 311% BROCK ST., KINGSLON Telephone 19206F. In order to make room for new stock, we are sorting out quite a number of pieces of High Grade Silver Plated Holloware And remarking them at Less Than Cost This is an exceptional opportunity to procure a COMPOTE FRUIT BOWL CAKE BASKET - BAKE DISH, etc. at a very reasonable A new outlet costs less than a good pair of shoes. Its convenience lasts for years." Whether you own your home | or not, the comfort and convenience of an outlet repays you many times over for its cost. Wire Now ELECTRIC LAMPS-- » 25-40-60 watt . cere etarere 20c. ea. Every lamp guaranteed. - | McKelvey & Birch Dont Textile Company (Limited) MANUFACTURERS "PRUE COTTON" + MONTREAL---TORONTO--WINNIPEG In times long past they marched about the narrow streets of the city armed with halberd, dagger and lan- thorn, protecting the comfortable burghers from the assaults of knav- es and villains. Rough and ready were those shaggy watchmen of old, but they were suited to their times. To-day there are still-city watchmen; who carry responsibilities far more difficult than could ever have been dreamed of by those brawny defend- ers of the peace, who risked their lives for a shilling and a pot of beer. Not only have we the police, whom everybody 'knows, but we have an- other band of men who keep secret watch over the public enemies. Their watch tower is in the sec- ond storey of the new medical bulld- ing and if one of the old guardians of public safety. could see his suc- cessors at work he would very prob- ably want to burn them all for witch- craft, sorcery and trafficking with the Devil. The modern man knows it as a pathological laboratory --and doesn't bother his head further. But in that laboratory the director, Dr. James Miller, and his assistant, Dr. W. D. Hay, are continually bothering their heads about the welfare of the common man. One of the great ememies of man used to be the tiny creature that swims in water and gives him ty- phoid. Have people noticed that ty- phoid is now a quite uncommon di- sease? A few years ago every doctor expected to haye a number of ty- phoid cases practically (throughout the year with occasional "outbreaks" that taxed the capacity of the hos- pitals. And now typhoid is rare in Kingston. Why? The Watchmen can account for a good deal of the change. Every day of the year they take. a sample of water as it comes out of the tap and examine it for the presence of intestinal bacteria, which are the danger of signal for ty- phoid. ~During the winter there is great variation in the number of these bacteria because the water is cold and still and protected with an armor of ice. But when the ice melts and deposits its load of dirt in the water and the spring storms churn up the sediment from the bot- tom, then the indications of danger are present. All through the year there are ups and downs as a result of storms, heat and cold; but since the much more delicate system of examination introduced by Dr. J. R. a year or two ago, it has been eo to Teducé these variations almost. to a stationary figure. For when the Watchmen find the enemy creeping into the water mains they warn the gatekeepers at the pumping station who introduce a little chlo- rine 'gas into the incoming water. The typhoid bacilli are extremely sen- sitive to chlorine and the invading armies fade away to nothing, while thel city goes calmly about its busi- ness not even aware that it ha been in danger, . fon" Some of man's enefhles attack him through water. Others come at him through another essential, milk. Dur- ing the cold weather these enemies do not get much chance to breed and multiply in milk, but in the warm- er seasons they increase enormous- ly. During the danger period a representative of the Board of Health, takes samples of milk from "Ice is found in an n coal-pit in summer, but none is found in win- ter because the atmosphere is too dry. Morality, when vigorously alive, gees farther than intellect, and pro- vides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.--James Anthony Froude, the vendors and farmers at odd times and sends them to the Watchmen for examination. The enemies may come into the milk in two ways. They may have attacked the cow herself and so enter the milk before it leav- es her udder. Or they may enter with the dirt and muck that falls | off the cow's skin or comes off the milker"s hands, or is injected by his coughing and sneezing or which have been left on the utensils after they were last used. Even though only a few have, entered 'they multiply so that the milk soon swarms with them and their action changes the nature of the milk and makes it sour and curdled. Milk which contains many of these bacilli is very hard indeed on the delicate intestinal canal of a young child, which is extraordinarily sensitive to their presence. So common is this poisoning of child- ren by bad milk in summer that it used to be looked on as a regular summer disease. The chief enemy which comes from within the cow is the tuberculosis bacilli, There are two recognized branches of this army, which works such havoc among men. One corps attacks him directly in the lungs and is spread from man to man, or perhaps more correctly from man to child. The other corps we call the bovine tuber- culosis because it is found commonly in cows and does not attack the adult human being. But according to the authorities with whom Dr. Miller is in agreement, the bovine bacillus does attack infants, and for example from twenty to sixty per cent of the cases where the disease at- tacks the bones, joints, brain and glands are due to milk infection. This does not at all suggest that milk should not be drunk, any more than that water should not be drunk be- cause enemfes use it as a means of invading man. The wise plan is to get pure water and pure milk, and of the latter Kingston is fortunate in being able to command one source of supply as pure as any in the world. The entire milk supply' of Kingston, judging by the samples sent to the laboratory is fairly sat- {sfactory. Another great enemy, scarlet fever, is at last being grappled with. These very days the children are parading to the hospitals to be innoculated against the attack of this disease with a remedy issued from, though not made in the pathological labora- tory at Queen's. Insulin, which saves the diabetic, is also issued from this watchtower, and its use is still fn- creasing steadily. Through other physicians the Watchmen extend the field of their operations into private homes and surrounding towns. A child develops a sore throat and fever. Is it diphtheria? A swab is taken and sent to the laboratory for a decision. Is a pa- tient suffering from typhoid? A drop of his blood is enough to tell the Watchmen that he is or is not. A number of other diseases are sim- on) x mm x W : : larly dragged out of their camou-|} flage. When cases of special in- terest are discovered a report of them is published, in order that the give and take from tower to tower all over the world may be maintain- ed and that all may have the op- portunity of sharing in any widen- ing there is in the field of knowi- edge. END OF THE MONTH - SALE! This Evening at Steacy's To-night sees the close of the first of a series of E. O. M. Sales. Many thrifty people have taken advantage of the many economies of - fered which will be on sale for the last time to-night. Peter Pan Collar and Cuff Sets, 65¢ We have secured 50 dozen Nov- elty Collar and Cuff sets of this new Laundered Neckwear idea --in a full range of colors in plain Chambray, Colored Checks and Plaids. These are regularly pric- ed at $1.00 a set. Novelty Pullover Sweaters; $3.95 60 smart, new styled Pullover Sweaters in a broad range of col- ors. Made in Silk and Wool and all Wool. All sizes from 36 to 42. Regularly priced from $5.00 to $6.50 each. Curtain Scrim, 8 yds. for $1.00 y00 yds only, of imported Cream and White Curtain Scrim with finished borders. This is a very special value at 18¢. a yard. | limit of 8 yards to a customer. ~ White Cotton, 4 yds. for 98¢ : 1,000 yds. of soft, needle finish and extra heavy Snow White Cottons. Full yard wide and special values at 30c. a yard. Bleached Sheeting, 225 yds. for 98¢ : 500 yds. of heavy, round thread, value in the trade at 50c. a yard.