Ud BEN TE Li Buty gus gemicueeny v7 LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. r diseases, that its cause is an infec- tion that can be traced to damaged blood-forming organs chief of which is bone marrow. Removal by a sur- gical operation of the focus of -in- fection and a diet to produce red blood corpuscles will give marked improvement. Fréguently, too, the teeth are the source of infection. The new method of treating per- nicious anemia eliminates blood transfusions and all drugs. In a] large number of cases treated Dr. Allen reports that a majority have shown improvement. His experi- ments lead to the belief that ulti- mately a cure will be found for the disease. LIKELY BLOWN UP. The Chicago Journal of Commerce believes that the Australian voting law, imposing a fine of $10 for non- voting at elections, without a valid reason, has blown up at its first try. And the cause for this conviction is that in the November election 244,- 000 failed to voté. As a result Aus- tralia Is supposed to be able to write $2,240,000 on its books in black ink. Will the money ever be collected? Will Australian electors actually be 200 | shown that if they fall to vote they must pay the prescribed fine? If so, King | how long will it take to convict them L to the Bditer are published "over the actual mame of the elreuistion of The Mritish Whig ant) by the Asdit Bureau of THE REASON. Did you read, the other day, of a criminal trial in England? Jasted less than an hour, and the irderer was sentenced to be hang- 'That's one good reason why Eng- murders t is sweeping Am- adds a New York writer. Im- a criminal trial on this side of y pond being disposed of inside of hour! pA -- FINANCING OWN CROPS. I ---- Jowa has a bumper crop of corn but the people did not wish to sacri- how anti-tobacco cam- used to blow a puff of to- e deadly nicotine? writer in the current American | isn't Shar by the epidemic | 'from the census bu all? DECREASE IN MARRIAGES, The United States is alarmed over the fact that there were 45,718 fewer marriages in 1926 than in 1924. The thinkers, the editors, the philoso- phers and the scientists are worrying in doleful fashion. But the optim- ists of the land are not disturbed. They insist that their country has better people than ever before in its history and the census figures have | really a bright side. The decrease in marriages is not due to any increase in free love or sudden selfishness or any other suggestions that the grey- beards are putting forward. The fact is the average couples are waiting just a little longer before rushing off to the marriage license bureau. The aforesaid optimist reaches this cou clusion that this falling off in mar- riages is a good sign. Aad he thus philosophises: "For most of the people who are agitated over what they term our 'divorce evil' have tackled the mat- ter wrong end to. They have for- gotten that the time to apply cor. réctive measures is before the mar- decisions. "And it's more than possible that to realise that mar- riage isn't to be entered into light- It's a matter for much consider- ation." The reason we have so many divorces is chiefly the fact that too few people have taken times to think more mi If you will; but re- member that we'll have more di- vorces, too. "That's why one can draw hope u's figures. "People are beginning to realize that the time to @ fore marriage, inste: of after." THE POLITICIANS, Speaking in Torento the other day, Mr. Justice Riddell paid his re- spects to the people who look down, | or profess to look down, upon poli= £f Bed themselves , comments the Ottawa Journal, Mellon's. He has all the wealth that he desires. He would like to turn his attention to performing public services, to do something worth while. What a change in the last twenty years, or even the last tan years. For a man fo have any big business connections would have been considered an unsur- mountable barrier to public office, especially the secretaryshiy of the treasury. Now we are anxious to get such men in public office. We Eh An Advantage. Wilmington News-Journal: Insane s¢ylum patients don't have to cele- brate some sort of week every other éay. No Way Around. Memphis Cemmercial-Appeal: We have such a multiplicity of laws that are not so much afraid of efficient | even crooks inadvertently observe men as we once were. We find that they are immeasurably better than politicians." EDITORIAL NOTES. The day-time frock has long sleeves. So ought the night gowns! Christmas story: "Mamma, can I hang up one of sister's and let Santa Claus think it is mine?" Another Christmas story: "Who the dickens left that dern train right in the middle of the floor?" frothy talks of scrapping - the Boviet system Walch Russia for something vivid is likely to happen. ; the Toronto Globe to pen an editorial {gem combining human sentiment Chamberlain and Briand are to some of them. A Fair Question. Cleveland Times-Commercial: Why do philanthropists endow colleges when it would be so much cheaper to hire a few football players? Rather Neat. Stratford Beacon Herald: A Brit- ish visitor to the United States un- dertook to explain to an American audience recently one of the differ. ences between that country and Great Britain. Both countries he said believed in freedom, but, while the Americans sang about it the British people practised it, I ---- All Hall King Baby! Washington Post: A lost baby that set a whole Canadian city searching and speculating prompted share the Nobel Peace prize. TREY i ng jiterary art, the text of which 'will be able to divide fairly at least. Western farmers will spend Christ- mas in Burope. No. 1 hard filled "the | Santa Claus stocking to overflow- ing. _ The westerner who crawled through a fence with his gun cocked, had to crawl back two miles to get relief. Not only does the discreet Christ- mas shopper shop early; he or she also reads the ads carefully before starting out. Interest in the drama is reviving. Soon, it may be hoped. each city will have its own company presenting] "home grown" offerings. France is agitating against the foreigner. Years ago she surely was fed up on unwelcome foreigners, and possibly has not yet recovered from the dislike. Dean Inge declares: "The large majority of Christians still live in a Ptolemaic or geocentric uni- verse." All roads lead to the earth as it were. Prof. Hartmann thinks he knows when he says there is no such thing a8 sex. It is merely a relative phrase. Max has nothing to war rant his conclusion. > ; Stage coach and passengers were buried on a mountain pass during a blizzard. This recalls Deadeye Dick's days. But soon the air coaches will | be flying above the blizzards. Bir Conan Doyle says he knows there is such a place as Heaven, be- cause he has talked with spirits that have been there. But that is only hearsay evidence, as the lawyers, say. ~~ In Bagland the world and its brother are on skates. The recent cold blasts has made every lake and pond available for skating fans. And novelty. The world is not trying +o exploit the farmer, daid a recent speaker. At least big business has found that good times are impossible without the farmers to tide them along. Not until the purchasing power of the we reproduce herewith. It ought to be reproduced on an appropriate eard and distributed, perhaps through the schools, to American as well as Canadian homes. It Must Have Been Cold. St. Marys Journal-Argus: A farm- er engaged a young lad from a large town. One cold winter's morning the farmer told the boy to harness the mule to the cart. The lad for some reason took no light with him, and he was unable to see that there was a cow in the stable with the mule. After a long delay the farm- er grow impatient, and shouted: "Billy, what are you doing?" "I can't get the collar over the mule's head," yelled back the boy. "His ears are frosen." World Court. Hamilton Spectator: Senator Borah is getting guite a raking over the coals in the American press for his illogical attitude towards the World Court, which is the issue of most interést to Canadians in the programme of congress, which has just assembled. 'The Philadsliphia Public Ledger, a newspaper of in- dependent views, declares that what | tne senator is suffering from is "a lack of ruins." No perfect thing '| can be built, according to Mr. Borah, which fs not founded upon ruins. He would accept the World Court, says the Ledger, oily If it were wrecked, for then a "perfect tribunal" could be erected on the site. Masti, Mr. Meighen's Position. St. John, N.B., Globe: Hon. Ar- thur Meighen, the Conservative Leader, is repeating In Quebec his recent Hamilton declaration that there should be a general Canadian election before troops are sent from this country to participate in an Em- pire war, It may be a vote-cateh- ing promise, but it is & far from statesman-like statement of Canada's attitude. If war ever comes again as a menace to the British Empire, the course of this country will be decided by the exigencies of the moment. Whether troops are en- rolled to fight at home or overseas will depend on how the issue devel: ops, and not on any vote-seeking promises of politicians. That is the divorce is be- | here our English folks revel in the fact our political leaders should trankly and honestly declare in every section of the country. When Canada is menaced Canada's sons and daughters will fly to arms, and our political leaders will act as cir- cumstances demand. farmers in the nation is restored will ot ner. proves ructuous, "at a proper time will slowly bestir itself and quiet many 4 firebrand." out for the goblins! Mr. Dawes, lgok COUD- | put surely tame him, as it has tamed : BIG VALUE SUIT AND OVERCOAT SALE Is truly the Overcoat and Suit event of the season. Men'sSuitSale ................... $14.75 Men's Overcoat Sale . . . . Big Boys' Suit and Overcoat Sale st . . . . $12.50 BIBBY'S °25. (Suits have 2 pairs Bloomers) Everything Ready for Christmas Here is where you can select Dad's and Dad's Boy, their' Christmas gift with perfect ease and comfort. BIBBY"S WHEN HOMES ARE CHRISTIAN | bea eater o By Charles Wood. The home is the oldest of divine institutions on earth. it long an- tedates the church. The home was a part of God's or- iginal plan for humanity. Adam came from God's heart, and Eve from Adam's side close to the heart, and there in Eden the first marriage was made and the first home built by God himself. The earliest history is the story of homes--of what happened in Abra- fHam's home in Ur of the Chaldees, and in Isaac's home in the land of promise; and in Jacob's home in Bethel; and in the homes of Joseph and Moses in Egypt: and of David's father, Jesse, at Bethlehem. Homer's "Iliad," the most fam- out of all the ancient poems litera- ture and history in one, Is the story ot a national uprising to preserve the purity of the home and to avenge its dishonor. Troy fell and disappeared till un- erthed by the spade and pick of Schliemann in our own time, be- cause her walls were made to pro- tect the iafamous Paris and the heartledsly beautiful Helen, Though the warning was on & gigantic scale, it passed unheeded. As virtue was ¢rowded out of the home, vigor died out of the nation. 'Where once there had been homes, now there were only houses, or palaces, in which fathers, mothers and children dwelt without love or confidence. the child, as it is the last for the man. In the home children learn how to talk and eat and think and act. It they do not learn these things there, the probability is that they will not learn them anywhere. In the home, too, they learn obedience to law. "If they do not respect" their par- ents' wishes, and trust their judg- ment, they will have no respect or trust for God's." In the home they learn about laws as-fixed as the law by which stars, suns and worlds are governed--- truth, justice, self-control, right- sousness and love. There fundamental conceptions about success and happiness are formed. There they learn that "man's chief end is a glority God and to en- joy him forever," and they believe it when they see their fathers and mothers, who are to them most God- like, living for God's glory. Both character and career are de cided in the home, } 'Waterloo was won on the play grounds of Eton, sald Wellington, but the world's greatest battles are won, not on the playgrounds, ner in the schoolrooms, but in the nursery and the living room of a Christaln home, Plenty Others. Suitor (who has crashed): You were just the last girl in the world I thought would reject me! Eva: Don't talk so foolishly, Gil- pert, you'll find there are thousands of other girls.----Judge. ; Waa vnie seve 31478 \ r-------------------------------- -- Requiring Anthracite "or Bita- minous Coal or Coke. WHY-- Not place your order ? WHERE-- You can get prompt service and best quality at lowest prices, and HOW -- A Can you do better than coms municate with Crawford | PHONE 9. THE HOME OF GOOD COAL ': 3