THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG BRITISH WHIG soND YEAR. and Semi-weekly by THE "Ba Daily BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING €0,, LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. W. RUPERT DAVIES y SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 5 (Daily Edition) One year, in city y $7.50 year, by mail to rural offices, $3.50 year, to United States ' (Semi-Weekly Edition) year, by mail, cash year; to United States OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: TORONTO--F. W. Thompson, 100 King Street West, Toronto. + Calder, 22 St. John Street, Montre YORK -- Ingraham-Powers, Ine., OAGO i we In § 'owers, Cy 19 to the Editor are published over the actual name of the of The British Whig The eircnlation rea ancnted by the Audit Bureau of PREMIER'S PATRIOTIC UTTER. ANCES. - The Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzio King, prime minister of Canada, | went back to his native city, Kitch-| sner, this week, appreciative of 1%s| "birth on Canadian soil, and hallow- od by the memories of his ancestors, one of whom was largely instru- mental in giving this land respoan- 'sible government. These sobering happy recollections put the prime minister in a mellow mood he bared his heart, in remark- 'able fashion, before his fellow citi- 'gens and before his fellow Canadians. | address on Citizenship, with all fascinating influences was heard . unwonted enthusiasm. He touched the core of Canadian life, those supreme spiritual forces that make for righteousness and for the - well-being of any country. It is just a little over fifty years Since I arrived in town," he joeularly : kpd, and 'then the minds of Bis hearers harked back over the and the great benediction his life has been to this country. At a "luncheon, which the premier attend- od, he spoke in dreamy metaphor f Home with its tender, impelling and controlling powers, and to really ] his love and esteem for the exiled author of that ever pathetic , "Home, Sweet Home," he ex- ited a leaf which he had plucked spring in East Hampton, Long d, from a, rose bush which by the door of the cottage bad cradled John Howard d 80 after sweetly discussing love and friendship associated t the homes of the people, the that made a country great, he into the wider fleld of citi- hip, the lovers of real standards 'the country's weal. It was citi- who were responsible for the IRErY's prosperity; they, too, had ® a large part-in the Empire's "Since the war an even citizenship," he remarked, come into being. It ig a sort citizenship. It is responsibil- We owe not to our country only the British empire but to other It has found concrete ex- in the League of Nations of our country is a member, not as a part of the British em- but of ard in her own right, a which was admitted and which . " 'Then he pressed a corollary to this unqualified ic® to British ideals and Brit- 'the in a few gheir enemies are idea of annexation with all the power at my command. Both the United States and Canada were better off as we are. We would lose our position as interpreter between the British Empire, and the American republic. As a member of the community of nations which was the British. Em- pire we had far greater advantages than we would have either alone or with the United States." " In conclusion, he said: 'Our op- portunity beiag what ft is, should we shirk. the responsibilities of that | largest citizenship of all the world, citizenship of which our membership in the League of Nations is an ex- pression? I believe that as a coun- try, as a nation, we have arrived at man's estate; that it is for us to do our part in world affairs. From national citizenship, empire citizen- ship, world citizenship there would evolve the highest ideals of Canadian democracy." What thiilling vivid, patriotic words these are! The premier reach- ed a high mark in Canadian sen?i- ment and feeling and we earnestly hope his words will be echoed and repeated on every platform as the solemn duty of every citizen to seek to fulfil the call for service for his country's and his nation's advancg- ment. PRAISING THE DEAD. The cynic who reads the eulogies which have appeared in the Ameri- can press in praise of the late Wil- liam Jennings Bryan might well say that a man must die to get his due. Certainly while the Great Commoner was alive those who differed from him in polities or religion said and wrote bitter things about him. Even the sincerity of his avowed motives were the subject of invective and re- proach. Now that he has ceased to be a factor in the controversies and! competitions of men he is being painted 3s a saint. We need not marvel at this. The mysterious shadow of death hides | men's faults from view, and even | apt to see only their virtues; which does not neces- | sarily dispose of Shakéspeare's pos- tulate: "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oftiinterred with their bones." Evil done is not forgotten. But the efforts of politicians to elect can- didates of their own stripe and faith | is only spoken of as a reproach while | the rivalry is on. When such men | dle. their opponents are disposed to| give them credit for a sound pur- pose. And that is well. To speak kindly of the dead shows implacabil- ity to be a savage instinct. History, however, judges men {ii a colder temper. Whether or not the statesmen who has just died will stand that searching test remains to be seen. He will at least be remem- bered as a link with rigid orthodoxy? and that will give him high place in the esteem of many. Of his un- qualified sincerity in that regard there will be no question. His last great fight at. Dayton, Tennessee, raised him to a peculiar pedestal among the fundamentalists. The fact that we are all ready té soften our dislikes and bury our pre- judices in the presence of death rather suggests that we should per- mit our better nature to assert it- self before the shadows fall. We rise in our own esteem when we d% | 50. We utter the Lord's prayer-te no purpose while we nurse grudges and feed our animosities. An that is really the supreme lesson which the death of Mr. Bryan, and the out- pouring of panegyrics which follow- ed it, teaches us. USING NATURAL GAS. Getting back to natural gas. Eh! The United States is preaching a plan to outlaw smoke, soot and ashes by using gas fuel instead of solid fuel for heating processes. Society in its endeavors for comfort and efficiency demands the cleanly gas, as it feels human life and efficiency are sufferers of incalculable damage from the smoke evils, especially in crowded city centres. Fuel conser- vation depends on gas utilization. more college men in the legislatures | would raise the standard of legls- | lation. | The Toronto Telegram avers that | the 4.4 beer is not a patent medicine. | We agree. But from the howl of some of our legislators it has not | even proven a com-patent panacea to | catch votes. | minister A Portland, Oregon, preached a sermon on the subject, | agricultural districts "Can a girl roll her stockings and | still be a Christian?" and the Chi- | their houses cago Tribune suggests she might be a Holy Roller. Statisticians and investigators have combined to determine the strain and wear on shoes used by a man during the day, and their in. vestigations brought out the fact that a man of 150 pounds, in ordi- nary activities, puts a weight each day on his shoes amounting to 815 tons. The shoes must withstand that terrible pounding -and strain and give service for many months to be satisfactory. The growing effeminancy of men, if a Chicago story is true, miakes us sick of our kind. And money is, surely the root of the evil that makes 8 man make a monkey of himself and reduces him to a lower level than éven the dolls of vanity and fashion have 'ever reached. Man painting, lip-sticking; idol worship- ping of flesh and form, would we think, even make a dog sick. The dog will pardon us for the reference! A lot of people are disturbed oyer the suggestion that man has evolved from the animal kingdom. One divine put it thus: "I am not con- cerned if I did come up from an ape, it the divine was in the development, I would rather have developed thus upward than as the Scrptures put it, 'created in His own image,' in perfectness, and yet fallen below the standard of origin." This idea is worth pondering over. The Cincifinati Times-Star reports that "every week has become garter week." Life has become one grand calf display, and some of them are not so grand at that. It was Sir John Macdonald, at a Kingston fair, in speaking from the grand stand, who remarked: "I am given to under- Sanu that you have fine stock on thé rounds, but to me nothing is so ap- pealing as the fine calves I see about me!" And that was in the days when dresses never crept above the boot tops. | News and Views. After Fleeting Fortunes. Ottawa Journal: The Coney Island husband of the legless woman who ran away pleads through the news- papers with her to come back. She was, it appears, his sole support. Bad News. Woodstock Sentinel-Review: It is said that the prairie provinces will require 50,000 peoplé to handle the harvest this year. This will be bad news for people who are looking for ork and hoping they may not find t. . \{~ Profit From Tourists. St. Catharines Standard: The value of the tourist trade to Canada can best be understood when trans- lated into dollars and cents. Cer- tainly it will surprise many people to learn that last year Canada de- rived from this tourist trade no less a sum than $143,000,000, which, as the Brantford Expositor points out, represents half the value of the wheat profit. -- Support Home Industry. Les Bulletin des Agriculteurs: It is easy enough to understand what a reduction in our imports of $300,- 000,000 to $400,000,000 would mean to the Canadian people. It would mean in fact the extension of our industries and the creation of new ones, thereby furnishing work for a greater number of artisans, more consumers for our agricultural products, and more merchandise for our railways to carry. » One of the amazing things about | Ontario's publicly owned hydro-elec- | tric power system is the large num-! ber of rurdl consumers receiving | electrical service. Anyone who knows anything about the conditions governing the distribution of power in rural dis- tricts, where farmhouses may be a third or even half a mile apart, must realize what an expensive un- dertaking this must be. Yet today no fewer than 20,615 farmers in the of southern electricity to light and barns, to pump | their water, turn their fanning | mills, milk their cows, run the cream separator, churn the butter, bake the bread and do many another piece of work. : The overhead is necessarily high, and it has been necessary for the On- tario government to extend grants to the rural communities served. In the first place ft provided half the | cost of all primary lines constructed in rural districts: Last year it ex- tended this policy to cover a 50 per cent. grant to rural secondary lines, A shortsighted economic view of the situation might condemn this subsidy, since the power commission can find a market for all the power it produces without going into the rural district. But the broader view, which appears to be the view of thoughtful officials and citizens of Ontario, is that electricity is as es- sential to agricultural progress as agricultural schools and colleges, experimental farms and good roads. And they believe that the best good of the whole province demands the good of its various parts. Hence rural electric service. Ontario have 8t. George's Centenary Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. The Christian Science Monitor, which has always a warm spot in its heart for Canada, and, for that rea- son, no doubt, is generally well-in- formed as to things Canadian, de- votes an editorial note to the cen- tenaty oof St. George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ont., observing that it would be difficult to find a more fit- ting mode of observing the anniver- sary than that of clearing off the balance of the debt incurred when it was rebuilt in 1900. As the Monitor reminds us, this fine edifice, a small replica of St. Paul's in London, was the outcome of the zeal and devotion of a little company of United Empfre Loyal- ists whose devotion to the British Throne impelled them to abandon homes and property in the United States after the War of Independ- ence, and to settle in the vicinity of the ancient Fort Frontenac, on Lake Ontario. They built a little church in 1784, and in 1825 the foundation stone of the present building was laid. When Kingston was the capi- tal of Upper Canada the church was the scene of several historic events. Incidentally King George IV. con- tributed £500 toward the building fund in 1825, on condition, it is un- derstood, that it should always serve as the garrison church, a condition which has been fulfilled from that day to this. oN LOOKING | AROUND | The Weather Man early this morn- ing was just giving the town a cleanup for the last day of the Old Home Week celebration. He also gave the most sustained thunder bombardment heard in many years. Well, to-night there promises to be revelry in Kingston, the like of which has never been known in this old town. When the Kingston folks take it into their heads to cele- brate they can go to the very limit. We may be historical, but we are also up-to-date. S-- Nobody has any sympathy with the intoxicated motor car driver who is "pinched" by the police and dealt with according to the O.T.A. Jail sentence without a fine is the pro- per punishment for drunken auto drivers. Even if stronger beer is some day permitted, that part of the O.T.A. should not be changed. The attorney-general regrets that Kingstonians do not take more in- terest in their city from the historic point of view. That is not the only trouble. Too many Kingston peo- ple take too little interest in thefr gife i £ i 'BIBBY'S Clearance Sale English Sweater Coats --, appear in the Mardi Gras event to- night. The Oddfellows prefer to stick downtown instead of up, and have purchased the magnificent stone building at the corner of King and William streets which once housell the old Commercial and Merchants' Banks. They will be in good com- pany, having the Frontenac Club just opposite and the Masonic Tem- ple two blocks away. The new quar- ters will also be convenient to trains and boats. -- You cannot keep Portsmouth. out of the limelight. Reeve Halliday's village possesses a skunk that killed no less than- 120 chickens and hens out there last week. This little ani- mal should be captured and exhi- bited at '"Bob" Bushell's big fair in September---in a stuffed condition of course. : That veteran baseball umpire, P. J. Nolan, surely has a grievance when a sporting writer recently re- corded that he umpired with an um- brella ovér his head in the palmy ball days in Kingston during the seventies and eighties. Mr. Nolan never used an. umbrella. : The cricket umpires here did use sun shades for cricket field. Though now well up in years, Mr. Nolan is still able to move arofjid.._A-mumber of his Old BdY friends in town have called upon 5 him during the past few days. As youths we learned about evolu= tion, but regarded it merely as a fantastic Darwinian theory, We did not take it seriously as we did not agree that we were descended from apes. The evolution theory will not impress the normally-minded, who cling to what they are taught by Holy Writ. The poor nags in last night's parade drew the sympathy of many of the fair sex, who mourned over the fact that the dear old horses had been taken from their stables and that their night's rest been broken. The animals drawing the heavy old fire engines came in for (Ji special sympathy. ----. A Quebec newspaper remarks with the games in the oi%| of Men's and Young Men's Summer Suits Our final and most forcible stroke in dis« posing of all remaining Summer Suits. We have taken every remaining Sum- mer Suit in stock--Suits that were formerly ranging in price from $30.00 to $45.00 -- these we have assembled into three lots and graded them down so that every Suit is a tremendous bargain--the average savings being in excess of 25%. LOT 1. Suits that were $25.00 to $27.50 7 $18.50 LOT 2 Suits that were $32.50 to $35.00 $25.00 LOT 3 Suits that were $87.50 to $45.00 $29.50 \English Golf Hose and Suits BIBBY'S--for Trusses , And Abdominal Supporters Riding Belts Arch Supports A perfect fit guaranteed, give ing comfort and security, Private Office for fitting. Experienced lady attendant, DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE 185 PRINCESS STREET 'PHONE 343. August 6th. Few figures in Canadian national lite stand out with the piquancy and color of that of Lord Strathcona who was born on this day in 1820 and grew to manhood as simple Donald Stuart Smith. At eighteen he came | ji to Canada in the service of the Hud- son's Bay company and lived for |} thirteen years along the coast of La- |} brador. Thereafter he went into the |} northwest and worked himself ji through all the posts of the ancient |i company until he became chief faec- tor and egéntually resident governor || and chief commissioner of the com- pany in Canada. The chief honor |i Canada could afford him was to |} make him Chief Commissioner to |} London and in the Imperial capital he stood for all that was sturdy and || virile in Canadian nationhood. He Ji had a taste for the finest things in t lite and collected an amazingly fine |}i art gallery and at the same time dis- |{§ penséd enough of his fortune in the cause of education to ransom several kings. He was a good man as well as a great one, and won his place by sheer pluck and industry. Canadian women have reason to remember him with affection as the founder of the first university annex for women in the Dominion at Montreal. FLOWERS for every occasion. Member F.T.D. Kingston's Leading Our idea of a bad insurance risk Florist is a small man with a big temper. TOR SAIF LLIN Queen's University; eight rooms; hardwood oors; Foca cellar; furnace; electric lights and gas; a bargain at $4,300.00. BRICK DWELLING « new, near Queen's University; , suitable for boarding or rooming house; six good bedrooms; new- ly decorated; hardwood floors; hot water furnace; electric lights and &a8. Thig house will sold cheap, as the owner is leaving town. 'We have at present consider- able funds to loan on city pro- $ y. nearly Old Boys the heartiest of wel- comes,