Fh | - FC, dtl BEIT { | WRN TEE | LG I bY | worthy felicitations on $7.50 Year, mail to rural offices, $2.50 Joan: 32 Indll Jo uwal. .. $3.00 Sssmi- Weekly Hdl year, to Unitep States ...... DWN REPRESENTATIVES: + 'W. Thompson, 100 King 23 St. John raham-FPowers, Ine. venue. Ine, 19 er he of The Bri Whig by the Audit u of v Bd away in Montreal in the on of John Horn, aged eighty- 'years. He was a telegraph tor who saw wide service, Dur- the civil war he handled the in the Western Union office in New York. 8, F. B. Morse, inventor the telegraph, was a personal hd of Horn and he treasured : lettors from him. Horn Lincoln speak from . the b ny of tbe old Astor House, now ®eing torn down in New York, and was fond of describing his man- ime. Lincoln crossed his hands im front of him when he spoke and 'emphasized his points by inclining 'Bis gaunt frame, as though he was BF king a bow. After the war Mr. Horn returned Montreal and becamé interested 8 ism. He joined the staff First, a weekly publica- ] 'ote' much the ory 0f Montreal and Quebec and 5 laborated with Gerald KE. Lin. writing the "Fall of New L."" During the Riel rebellion Canilian northwest he served the field telegraph, nique feature in Canadian tic history is attributed to r. Horn, this being an isswe of Janada First" printed in white ink blacks paper. This was in 1883 copies are now rare. Horn also lucted the Canadian Electrical for a short time, RTANT, BUT Not - ALL, William M. Wood, says a writer the New York Evening World, himself because he could not d it to be idle. According to this the wealthy founder of the can Woollen Company could borne the grief and disappoint- and sleeping and tolling. There are $0 many things to enjoy, to make lite happy and full; don't fail Jo find out about them while there is time. What are they? Little things-- Lut big things, nevertheless. The treasures of literature and art, the fine joys of human friendships and relationships, the feeling of har- mony with 4 world that, despite its woes, is still a good, kindly world-- these things can make up for idle- ness when one has quit the harness. If your life has no interest for 'you outside of your work---look out. You are heading toward a' very un- happy oM age. WOMEN'S FANCIES, In the course of some praise- ils hun- Credth anniversary, ome of the big metropolitan stores is philosophiz- ing instructively about the growth of merchandising in the last cen- tury, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Tbe enormous increase of buying 'aad selling which are pow institutionalized in great buildings which are more like palaces than stores, is usually regarded merely as something that has happened with- out any effort to explain why it has happened. 3 As a matter of fact, the growth of manufacturing and retailing are deserving of some more biographic or biologic notice than they have re- ceived from those scientists and philosophers whose business it is to look into grindstones. Such terms as quantity production and volume sales have acquired an immense vogue without any one taking the trouble to inquire why people want 80 much more than people wanted in the old times and how it is that they can afford, to buy things so steadily and ih such increasing quantities. - The metropolitan store attributes the great increase of buying, calling for an "ever-increasing manufacture of goods, tv "women's fancies." It further explains that where in former times the women bought what the merchant had, now they demand what they want, and it is up to the merchant to get it. In other words, this merchandising ex- pert says that the enormous mer- cantile structure is built upon the most Imponderable thing in the world, the fancy that turns up butterfly-like in a woman's head. But for the real philosopher, of course, the main task is to explain' what produces a woman's fancies 'Why does the woman of to-day want and demand so many things that her grandmother never thought of? And how is it that/she is able to af- ford such a continually expanding budget? The mere fact that pros- perity Nas increased so rapidly with- in a hindred years and that the tastes of the people have changed and their wants multiplied gives no elue to the whys and wherefores of these momentous changes. To know just why the old store has been suddenly transfigured into the merchandising palaces that are ris- ing everywhere along city thorough- fares would be to know ome of the great secrets of human progress. ep A GRANT IS A TAX. Every "grant" made by 'the pro- vineial governnient to the people in- volves a "tax" collected directly or indirectly, by that same government from the people. And all these taxes in the aggregate, added to municipal and Dominion taxes, mean a levy of not less than $70 per head, on thé average, upon every man, woman and child in Ontario. That burden must be lessened if productive in- dustries, and more particularly the agricultural industry, are to survive. The Farmers' Sun hopes the para- | ® "| graph 'above will not only be read a second time, but that it will be pasted up somewhere to serve us a constant reminder of the fact, too often forgotten, that all the money 'spent by the government comes out 1 Ln fs . EDITORIAL NOTES. Vienna doctors are now vaccinat- ing for rheumatism. Wonders never When are we going to see the streets? For the first time in 500 years, Turkish actresses * have displaced Armenian actresses on the Turkish stage. Bobbed hair, * and the small featheriess hats, now being worn by women, are gradually sealing the fate of the ostrich. The Bowmanville Statesman thinks that learning should be acquired by "austere self-denial." The scholar | must "scorn delights and live labor- | ious days, We are always sorry," says the Statesman, "when we hear of complaints of parents against tea- chers for assigning homework to their children." Toronto council is negotiating to take over the Ferry company and run the boats between the city and Hanlan's Point. It is said much mon- ey is involved. & New York syndicate has offer- ed Buzapne Lenglen $20,000 to turn professional and play a half dozen games for speculative purposes, It is to the everlasting honor of the French girl that she turned the offer down flat. Twenty youfig men contraéted Smallpox after dancing with a fair young maiden in an English town. The Charleston appears to be con- tagious enough without bringing other "diseases" into the modern dance halls. Men are being hanged in Turkey for refusing to shed the fez in favor of the western hat but the women are stoutly resisting official efforts | to| reform their headwear and fn the language of the street '"'are get ting away with it." H it is true that British unemploy- ed are averse to emigrating to Can- ada because if they did they would lose their dole, then the British dole system is a good thing for Can- ada. That sort of immigrant is not the sort of immigrant this country wants,. remarks the Hamilton Herald. A despatch from London informs us that donkeys are shortly to wear silk stockings. This does mot. refer to the dumb but beautiful flappers who havs been, wearing them for some time; the donkeys in question being located to Algeria where they are said to suffer from fly bites-- hence the proposed hosiery. Our extremely favorable position in respect to trade and commerce is due to western activity and western energy, hence it may be quite prop- erly argued, suggests the Peterboro Examiner, that the west; is entitled to the added influence which it has gained and to the greater measure of attention which it now receives on the part of the legislators. 3 The question has arisen at Ot- tawa as to when a member is in- sulted. The ruling' of Speaker Lemjeux that it is unparliamentary to call a member a "rubber stamp' but that much may depend upon the tone and manner of the speaker using the expression, recalis the admonition of a western bad man to the stranger with w 'words had been exchanged: "When you calls me a lyin hoss thief, smile pleasant." $2920 %¢%000000 000 % SUNDAY THOUGHTS. $ A Nation's h. % What builds a nation's > lars high # And its foundations strong? % What makes it mighty to dety The foes that round it throng? pil- It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand Go down in battle's shock: Its gates are laid on sinki sand, d y Not on abiding rock. Is it the sword? Ask the red dust : Of empires passed away # - The blood has tarned their stones to rust, SEPP PREP ENR ER ___THE DAILY Foe. : | the | , 4k licenses on | last of the 1925 auto lice | ay tho "antBokities.r | of fashion. Sf -- ro ------ fm p-------- ---- - BRITISH WHIG Saturday, February 27, 1926. , THE TOWN WATCHMAN | Bobbed hain has seen its day. So But they will find out that they are away out in their reckoning, So far as the aver; age man ean gee, bobbed hair will | continue as the style for the women | tor Along tithe to dome. . It will re- | mai because. the women wish i | Befor> they accept any other style they will-have to be shown one. bet- ter than the bobbed. ' And there Biso appears to he as much chance of Queén's Theological College location being changed as there is of bobbed hair going out It has beefi made quite clear thidt to remove Queen's from its present location 'would not be In the interests of education; and you can depend upon it that the theologi- cal college will remain here. - The women bless the twenty-five cent taxi fare on stormy days when it is essential for them to get to thelr bridge clubs and to afternoon teas Thursday was'a day for the taxi, above all other days. One does not blame, the good folks at Queen's for taking offence at an weekly paper, written by a former | professor. Satire is all right in its way, but in this case those ridiculed do not deserve the raw things said of them by one who was regarded as one of themselves. Again the Watchman hears _about Sunday afternoon dances. Some hostesses do mot mind dancing in their homes on the Sabbath after-| noon or evening, while others strenu- ously object. They do not mind San- day afternoon teas, but draw the line at fox trots, twossteps and waltzes, Those who keep the Sab- bath religiously' will have no enter- taining, preferring to keep the day in the striét way in which they were brought up in their youth. "Is it more wrongful to have a dance on Sunday night thaa to g0 | for an automobile pleasure jaunt on | that day?" asks one who says she | has no objection to young folks hav- ing a dance zt her Suniay afternoon teas, under har eye. She thinks not, and remarks that some of the dance objectors will break the Sabbath by pleasure jaunts. The Watchman was taught to leave dancing and card playing for other days than the Sab- bath, and he thinks it well to follow out that teaching. Others are at Hberty to their opinions, however, but if social affairs keep on the in- crease, the Sunday evening church services will continue to suffer. Hospital may be judged from the fact that there are 110 nurses on the training staff and next autumn this number will have to be increased to 120, . The hospital is getting to be a big institution to maintain, and one can readily see that it requires every «dollar its management board can lay hands on to make enys meet, It: must be admitted that pasteur- ized milk does not appeal to a large number of people. While half the population . of Kingston uses this kind of milk, there are many who declare they will never drink it. One lady intimates that she will keep her own cow In order to supply herself with the real article should eompul- sory pasteurizatisa come in her day, But. similar conditions existed long ago when the Board of Health de- ¢ided that 'wells must be closed in Kingston: The ' drinkers of well water thought they could never use! the water from thé harbor, and claimed that the water from their well was purer than the city's waterworks', supply. And perhaps they were right, considering the fact that our sewage to-day is dumped into the harbor and we are drinking from a'"contaminated source of sup- oly 5 There have been nine false alarms of fire during the past eight weeks. It is claimed that the alarms were deliberately rung, and suspicion rests upon several parties. The punish ment for the offence is a term in penitentiary, and when an offender is caught it is hardly likely that there will be any sympathy for him or that a petition will be passed around ask-: ing for leniency. - : Le Soleil welcomes the advent of * article that appeared in a "Toronto | BIBBY'S 1 BIG BARGAIN DAY ON SATURDAY! |i. Thursday being such a disagreeable day we have decided to offer the many bar- gains on Saturday and Monday. GENUINE VELOUR HATS Regular $5.00 and $6.00 values for $2.75 'MEN'S WORK SHIRTS Full sizes 14} to 17. Regular $1.25 and $1.50. 95¢. EACH i Men's F ine Quality SHIRTS Genuine English Broadcloth -- woven Zephyrs. Regular $2.50 to $3.00. All sizes. 50 dozen to choose from, at $1.95 EACH Don't Miss SUIT SPECIAL ! $25.00 . Genuine, pure Indigo Blue All-wool Serge value. ; Suits, in the single or - 2 pairs for $1.00 [double-breasted style BIBBY'S : Men's and Boys' Bargain Centre Pen's Pure Wool MEN'S RIBBED / FINE HOSE UNDERWEAR [Pure Cashmeres, in Shirts and Drawers--| popular shades. Art all sizes. Regular|Silk, Wool, etc. Reg- $1.50 and $2.00 val-|ular 75¢. and 95c. ues, $1.00 per garment The size: of Kingivon's General | 3 eer Ei ER I A Valet SIR IE 5 3 EUR 7 ane on A | THERMOMETERS For inside the house and out- side. * Clear reading and accurate, with 'mercury or spirit column. Bath Thermometers in wood- en protectors--something that ought to be 'in every house where there is a baby. tha heal Thetmomaters -- <I 686 gre not m use unjess {iis ly guaranteed lines. | Dairy Thermometers for butter and cheese maker; Veterinary Thermometers in metal protectors. DR. 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