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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-03-23, Page 24I. D. Mt''''AGG,\RT" M. D McTAGGART McTaggart Bros. e RANKERS S GENERAL BANKING 'SUSI NESS TRANSACTED). NOTES DISCOUNTED. DRAFTS ISSUED INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE- POSITS. SALErU NOTES B. CHASED. II. T. RA'.4CE NOTARY PURLiC. CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL, REAL ESTATE AND: FIRE ENSUE- ANCE •AGENT + REPRESENT• ING 14 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES DIVISION corny CFFICE, CLINTON. W. RRYDONi9, BA RR.TSTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY PUBLIC, ETO. Office Sloan Block-CLINTON M• G. CAMERON R.C. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR. CONVEYANCER, ETC. Office on Albert Street oceuped by Mr. Hooper. In Clinton on every Thursday, and on any day for which ap- pointments are made. Office Ileum from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. A good vault in connection with the office. Office open every week -day. Mr. Hooper will make any appointments•for.Mr, Cameron. CHARLES II. 'HALE, Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, Eto. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licences HURON STREET, - CLINTON 0138. GUNN & DANDIER Dr. W. dune, L.R.C.P., L.R. C.S., Edin, Dr. 7. C. Gaudier, B.A., M.B. Office -Ontario St., Clinton. Nigh$ calls at residence, Rattenbury St., or: at Hospital. OR. 3. W. SHAW -OFFICE-. RATTENBURY ST. EAST, -CLINTON DR. C. W. 11 OI9PSON P1ISYIC-!AN. SURGEON, ETC. Special attention given to die. eases of the Eye, ,Ear, Nose and Throat. Eyes carefully examined and suit. 'able elegem; prescribed. Office and residence: 9 doors west of the Commercial Hotel, Huron St,' OR. F. A. AXON - DE'NTIST -. Specialist in Crown and Bridge Work. Graduate of C.C.D.B., Chicago, and R.O.D.B., Tn. route. Bayfiold on Mondays from May he December, GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron, Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sale: Date at Thr News -Record, Clinton, or by Balling Phone 13 on 161; Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed The tricKillop Mutual. 1 Fire insurance Coy a �.nY Head office, Sea forth, Ont. DIRECTORY Officers: D. McLean, Seaton'. President; S. Con. .oily. Goderreh, Viced?reeident; Thou E. Hays, Bealorth. Sec.-Treas. Directors. eo:Tres,.Directors. D. F. McGregor, Seaforth• 1 0. Grieve. Winthrop:. Wm. Sinn. Sea. forth; John Bennewoms, Dublin: J. Evaue, Beechwood; A Mo1wen, Brucetield: J. R. McLean, Setforth; d. Connolly. Goderioh; Robert Ferris, Uarloek. Agents: Ed. Hinobloy. Seafortht. W. Chesney. EgmondvUJe; JJ W. Teo. 32olmee title; Alex Leitch.- Cllaton; 1;. 5. Jar. mutts. Brodhagen. Any money to be paid in may be paid to Morrish Clothing Co., Clinton, or at Outt's Grocery, Godertoh, Parties desirous to effect,insurance 'or. transact. othwr busineee will be promptly attended toon application to any of -Me above officers addressed to their respect. lye post -offices. Ioenea Inspected by the director who lives nearest the. Boone. GRA El ',RUN 13A1kW,;. _ rl e -TIME TABLE,-; Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton Station as follow,: BUFFALO, AND GODERICH DSV, Going East, depart 7.33a.m. 8.03 p.m. 6.16 p,m, Going West, ar. 11.00, dp, 11.07 a,m, depart 1.86 p,m.' i' n ar 6.82, dp. 6.46 p.m. " departs - 11.18 pee. LONDON, HURON _& BRUCE DIV. Going South, ar. 7.33, dp. 8.05 p.m, ,! " departs._ 4.15 p.m. Going North, ar. 10,30, dp. 11.00 a.m. a departs 6.40 P.M. Pertil. izer. We Barry a Complete Stock of Stone's". Natural Fertilizer. No. better othe market. Hay We pay at all seasons the highest) market prices for Hay for baling, Seeds American Feed+ Corn; Red Clo- ver, Alsike, Titmiithy and Alfalfa. FORD & . cLEOD + C ,i ATiiN II_ ALL KINDS - OP ' t COAL, WOOD, TILE BRICK TO ORDER, All kinds of Coal cel hand: CHESTNUT SOFT COAL STOVE CANNir COAL FURNACE COME BLACKSMITES WOOD 2'% in., 8 in, and 4 in. Tile f the Bos tQ 7 shift . Opposite the G. T. R. Station. Phone 52. How is Your Cutlery Supply You know that Jewelry Store' Cutlery is out of the com- mon class. At least, OURS It carries a distinctiveness - an air of superiority, that comes from being made with the greatest care and ut- most skill from the highest- priced materiala. 19 you can use some of this Cutlery in your 'home, you will be proud of it every time you see it on the table. Carvers, cased, $3.00 up. Knives, Forks and Spoons, $1.00 doe: up. Knives and Forks, steel, white handles, $3.00 doz. up. Let us show you our Cutlery line. Let us tell you more about why it is the most desirable that you can put your money into. W. R. COUNTER JEWELER and ISSUER of MARRIAGE LICENSES. NEWS-REGOROiS NEW G RATES CLOOBINFOR 1916 WEEKLIES News -Record end Mall 3 Empire .,31.61 Netre.Record and Globe ,,,. i.63 liew,•Re,sord and Family Herald and Weekly Star . LSI News -Record and Canadian Countryman 100 New,.Record and Weekly Bon,1.31 Newe•ltecord and Farmer's Advocate2.33 Isewe•Record and Farm & Dalry 1.31 ltewe•Record. and Canadian Farm 1.O& News -Record and Weekly Wltneee 1.91 Newe•Record and Northern Meseenger 1.60 Newa'Record and Free Prose .1.35 Newa•ltecord and Advertteer , , 1.91 Newn.Record and Saturday Nl ht9,6e Newe•Record and Youth's Compaalm' 3.20 Newe•Record and Fruit Grower and MONTHLIES. Newe•Reeord and Canadian Sports. roan 53.21 Newe-Record"and Llpplueort's Maga slue 3,21 DAILIES. Newe•Reoord rand World.....,, $1.31 Neave -Record and Globe 1,63 News -Record and Mall h Empire 2.63 Nege•Reecrd. and Advertiser .. .,,3,33 Newe.Record and Morning Free Dress:3.11 N,• ewRecord and Evening Free Press2,13 New,•Record and Toronto, 'Star2,31 Newe•Record and `Toronto Newe 2.31 11 what you want Is not In this net let tar know about It. We can supply yona1 less than it would cost you to send dlreet In remitting please do no by poat,.oyee Order Postal Note, Express Order sr deg.. tittered letter and. address.' W. MITCHELL, 1 publisher News --Record CLINTON, ONTARIQ Clinton News -Record CLINTON, ONTARIO Terms of subscription -$1 per year, io advance; $1.60 may be charged if not so pa -id, No paper discon• Boiled until all arrears are paid, unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to whiicb every subscription is paid is denoted or,, the label, Advertising Rates --- Transient act, vertisements, 10 dente per non- pareil line for first insertion and 4 cents per line for each subse- quent'insertion. Small advertise, menta not to exceed one inch, such as "Lost," • "Strayed," • or "Stolen," etc,, inserted once for 15 cents, and each subsequent in. sertion W cents, Communications intended for pub-' ligation must,fig a .guarantee of good faith, , be accompanied by the Same of the 'writer. W. J. MITCHEL I1.. Rditgr and P✓'oprletore sop Don't complain about pains in your' hack when the remedy lies right to hand. 'Gin Pills stop backaches, and they do it in, on envy natural way by going right to the rout of the trouble • FOR THE ,` KIDNEYS 0111 Pills act on 111e kidneys and the bladder. They soothe and heal the inflamed organa; which ere cmising the s,i0'e,ang. Neglect your kidueys.and swollen hands and feet, wrists and Ankles, are likely to fenOW A dose of Gin Pitts in time saves -a world of pain. You will realize their value when yea rend what Mrs. J. P. T. wedge, of Summersidc, . 1 •x33. writes : "Gin Pills are the greatest of nit Bill Hey remedies and n medicine which is at present doinggme n world of good. They. are worth their wetkht in gold to any suffered." Oct CIN PIZ,dS today at your dealer's. 60c, a box, or 6 Itoxcs,for 62,50, Trial treat- ment P1003 -if you write If National Drug & Chemical Co. • of Canada, Limited, Toronto BOYCOTT GERMAN RESORTS. Russians Already Planning to Give Preference to French. The Russians are already planning to boycott German watering places after the war, says the Paris Figaro, and as a means to this end are even now sending out information concern- ing French •resorts. An information bureau has been established in Paris, and soon a party of Russian physi- cians will visit all the French water- ing places outside the war zone. The propaganda just issued states that one of its reasons for existence is the harsh manner in which Russian tsitors at 'German watering. places" Si,ere treated when war was declared. ;St, says that confirmed invalids were Heated with a severity that was quite ultnecessary. , •Ithough this movement appears to f)e,independent, it belongs in a•general, 'aft se to theo ro d n t P P se ntr=Tau on ttiade alliance under which the En- tente Allies intend to give one an- other the preference in all dealings alter the war. Taking no Chances. Squee-Can you tell nee where Codger hangs out? I haven't seen him for several days. Gee -Who on earth wants to see Cadger? Sgtve-Not me. I just wanted to know*hat places to dodge, You,should always keep a,,, bottio' of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets on Otto shelf, The little folk so Often need a. mild and ear's cathartic and they do appreciate Chamberlain's instead of nauseous oils and mixtures. For stomach troubles and constipation, give ono lust before going to led, All druggists, 25e, or send to CHAMBERLAIN MEDICINE CO., TORONTO 10 There is a Cold DayComing g Who' not prepare for it by ordering your winter supply of Lehigh Valley Coal. None better in the world. House Phone 12. Office Pbono 40. A. J. HOLLOWAY er mx.mmmtamr.e,a.,musa iftermh,x, THE CHILDREN OF TO-D ,AY just as they are -in thole In- door play, or at their :outdoor play-theyi are constantly of - tering temptations for the• KODAK Let it keep thorn for you a. they are now. Let it keep many other hap. peningd that are a source of pleasure to you. BROWNIIiS, $2 TO $12; EODAKS, $7 TO $25; 'Also full stock ofF ]FiI m9 and Supplies. We do Developing and Printing,, Remember the plate ; EXI►LL STD; NOTES AND C.On'Mm iNTs The • colossal 42 -centimetre (PVA - inch) howitzer, used: by the Germans in the .effollt to batter down the de. lenses of Verdun, is one of the most formidable machine, -; of demolition ever devised. The gut weighs nearly 100 tons. From a barrel ,more than 16 feet long it throws a shell weighing nearly half a ton a distance of 14' miles and mote. It requires the ser -1 1 vices of 200 men' to handle thewea- pon,* and it is discharged from a die. tance of 900 •feet, Tite members . of the gun crew. wear protectors, and throw themselves flat to avoid injury from a shock which breaks all win- dows within ra radius of two and a. half miles. The foundations, 26 feet in-' depth; are minecd�`thvoughout,• so that the engineer in charge, when there' is 'risk of •capture, may fulfill. his, solemn oath and blow up the mon- ster. That a creature of men'shands should have 'such diabolic power' for the destruction of human life is a mournful commentary on the misap- piicatioie of modern + science to the ends of warfare. When the average fort can endure but one shot, and a town is a 'rubbish heap lifter the gun. is fired twice, what hope has mere flesh and blood against uch.e,'annon- ading? Yet the ,spirit of France, against which this German gun is directed is undaunted, and no terror can drive her soldiers from their posts until they die., Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale University, from the 'coldly detached viewpoint If an economist, says that a. baby is worth $90. On the same rating by the potential earning ca- pacity, an able jiodied adult is worth $4,000. But who can translate into terms of the dollar the valuation at- tached by ar mother to her child? To the rank dietsider, the blinking ire fent is only`. an infant, "with no lan- guage but a cry," He is too young. and too inarticulate to be interest- ing, and he requires a dot of care. But to the mother he is ae insepar- able part of her being. She lives and breathes with hien. There is a• bond the world cannot know, and a kind of speech between them that is incom- municable. No mother is poor while she has her baby in her arms, and no riches mean anything in her esti- mation that, would deprive her of the- treasure of her joy. Let him who thinks the market quotation of a baby is $90 or $90,00,000 go to any mother he knows and lay down the price and see what happens., He will find 'hat the light "of. life, and a fove that ne ver'diet, are not for sale. •1' ' LIFE IN THE IRON;LAND. German Police Are Continually Raid- ing Dwelling Houses. Day by day the Berne "Tagwacht," the organ of Swiss Social Democracy, tells what is really happening in Germany. In the latest issue that has reached this country, it describes the political activity ,of the police. "First of 6.1l,.everybody suspected of graving revolutionary tendencies is spied upon day and might, A num- ber of papers which are under pre- ventive censure are no longer 'allowed to leave blank spaces, where passages or an article have been suppressed. "Wurtemburg is under a specially close surveillance. The local police officials were sent from the famous police school at Halle. But even these men were not found sufficient to safeguard public order. Stuttgart is flooded with detectives, who are pre- sent in numbers ab every meeting. These are dissolved on the slightest pretext, and all the nimes of persons taking part in the meeting taken down. "One of the latest 'heroic' deeds of the police in Stuttgart was the arrest of four Social Democrats. The police handled them in a most brutal way. Two boys who witnessed the arrest were detained from two o'clock in the afternoon until late in the even- ing lest they should tell what they knew of the affair and denounce the police. It often happens that school children are suddenly arrested on their way home, detained without food or chink until late at night, and then liberated without any explana- tion. Their anxious parents are never warned and no excuse is ever given to them. The . children are being terrorized in thousands of ways. "Frequent also are domiciliary searches. A whole row of houses was examined because a rumor had spread that a leaflet was being distributed protesting against a winter campaign. "Nob less severe is the censorship in Rhineland. There is serious unrest amongst the miners in consequence of the prohibition by'the Government of all discussions concerning the pre- sent state of affairs in Germany. In this way the authorities hope to pre- vent an' outburst of discontent. In Socialist papers the word 'capitalism' is invariably cut out by the censor. "In all big stations and tramway termini there are many police and detectives. "Often trains are stopped and the passengers searched, but not from .fear of spies. It is even probable that the police keep a descriptive list of all Socialists suspected of peace propaganda, as meet, members of the Socialist party have noticed them- selves being photographed in the streets. "I•t is known that all the corre- spondence orespondence of suspected Socialists is. opened by the authorities. Lately the police areeven overhearing all con- versations on the telephone and us- ing this means to asceirtain the opin- ions of different members of the So- cial Democratic party." Discreet. Mrs. Exe-Your new maid scenes very discreet. Mrs, Wye -Indeed ahs is. She even knocks on the closet doors before opening them, Tommy -"Pa what is a Free- thinker ?" Pa -"A 'Freethinker, my son, Is any moan who isn't married!" Mrs. S. Barton French, ' An energetic worker:for the cause of the allies, les been compelled . bo move from one of the New York hotels, where there were. many Ger man sympathizer's on account of hav- ing her Mail tampered with; and from having received threatening let- ters, one written in German and one in English, both conversant on the private life and also on Mrs. French's activities in the cause of the allies. One letter cautions "Have a care." She has been contemplating a lecture tour for the relief of the Serbians, Belgians, and the Lafayette fend. <E 1 WILTHE BOYS .view, and the Antwerp heroes again emerge from captivity. The British Navy" will :never have :known- such •a day, in its four long certeriere of wondrous triumph) Heroes Prole Over the Sce. And then that day is also Carlin When „VW gallant cousins from Aus- tralia, Canada, New 'Zealand, "South Africa the Welt Inde „»;he Bahamas, Hong the l.+`iji islands, and ITeaven=knows where else ell over this earth, shall asem7310 here to ride in ono nlagnmftcent'procession through .the Wcst, of Lonilon-ands 'I hope, tthrotlgh the streets Of Manch :te'l'l Leeds, Birmingham; Edinbutgh, and Dublin, too! so that we may tall thank thetp, and entertain .Lucia and cheer theta to our beasts' content for what they have done. And we meet have the day of India tool , Why should not the tens o thousands of the Indian troops, tl'h have fought for us, so bravely, wh should not the splendid India princes, maharajahs, and rulers, nvll should not their fine horses, elephant and camels have a day all their ow in London, to the delight of the Bide End there, whilst parading e throngl2. shouting millions from the Mansio House to Stratford? Let every par of London have its share in the joy g 0 y. n y s ml t L Y :, EDATNC Hood's Sadsaparilla, as Spring Macllelno, is the east. awing ickitoSS eemeS 'in SOme de„ ee to every mall, woman and eh!Icl in our climate. It is' that run- down condition of the system that re;nlle from femme, impoverished, devitalized blood: .It is marked by loos of appetite and that tired feel- ing, ' alnl in Wally eased by Scene Sorin of eruption.. The best way to !emitsprrngdiel:= take IIna Hess is to ; 1 > Sri rsupatillar Ask your druggist for this old veli- able family medicine. It purifies, enriches and revitglees ,:!:he blood. It is an all -lite -year-round alter- ative 1, tinct tonic, anti is absolutely, the hest Spring inedir•ine, Get year blood lit >good conditiou et once --nos'. :Deily may be den-. gerous. Be sure to get Ilood'.1 Sar- separilla, nothing also can lake its pio.00. ful imes Which are coming; let every AD 19 A. lTlW4 Pert of our Dominion share their,well: �y9, y won'an'd'due honors' when the war is FO U td"A�L And, lastly, there is the inimitable Thomas Atkins himself! How can we do too flinch for hint who saved us at Mons, at Ypres, at Loos, and in a hundred tight corners by gallantry, courage, self-sacrifice such as the world has never surpassed before, by cheerfulness and humor such as no other army ever knew, by the sub- limest heroism and most marvellous fighting the earth has ever had knowledge of? Oh, of course, w0 shall have Tommy's day in all its full- est glory and triumph "when the boys come home." - All Over the Empire. London -and, I trust, many other English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh cities -will each have their own Thomas Atkins in parade and pro- rate ' � ®L E rate day for bhe special greeting of • cession on a scale the Empire has never known before! For the brave PEN PICTUTRE OF TIIE GLAD fellow is worth it, and every county TIME COMING. is justly proud of its own regiments, of its Kitchener's men, of Regulars and Territorials, of every soldier -lad S;o'me Hints as to What 117ay Happen it has sent forth to fight the murder- - ers and fiends who let hell loose on '.Before the End of August 4th, 1914! " Now, don't you tell nit there won't be all these days, or that I rim asking too much when the war is over. Not a bit of it! There must be these days! We must-thiis publicly wel- come and thank all these magnificent fellows fpr what they have done. Heaven knows, we are only too sorry that there will be so many tens of thousands of heroes lying under the red soil of Belgium, under the rich grass of France, beneath the sandy shores of Gallipoli, at the bottom of the deep sea, whom we cannot cheer and greet in the flesh on those clays. ,But don't 'feel too depressed even about that. For they -these heroic 'deadlwill march along smilingly with the living hosts, you may be sure! They'll know; they'll hear; they'll feel; they'll .look lovingly on you and me, though unseen them- selves, on those great days! In the Wake of Peace. Yes, the dawn is coming -coming fast.. There are great days in store, Britain's glory is glowing brighter than ever. The wings of Peace begin to rustle in the far distance. And these wonderful days I have just de- scribed must conte in the .wake of Peace. We must have those days! And you and I must be present ab oVme of them to see what shall be memorable sights -sights that generations to conte will recount and marvel at, long after we now living have passed away. .s' - the Year. When this terrible waris over, and tha 'Allies have dictated terms of pence to the savage Euns, as they inevitably will do, there will come certain days that will be memorable for ever, days that all the civilized world will be eager to see, to take part in, to shout for, and remember! In this article are mentioned a few of these; and most of us will sincere- ly hope that it may 'be our good for- tune to see someof them this year, says a writer in London Answers. Perhaps greatest, grandest, most heart -throbbing of all -will be the dawn of that clay which is now corn- ing fast to the Place de la Concorde, in Purist In my mind's eye I can foresee that marvellous scene, when France, from Dunkirk right to Mar- seiIles, will go absolutely crazy with excitement, joy, and delirium at that fateful moment when the President of the Republic pulls the tricolor - cord which shall again unveil the fine memorial of Alsace and Lorraine, which leas remained covered with black during all those years since the provinces were lost. France Will Rejoice. What would we not give to be overlooking the grand and beautiful Place de la Concorde on that marvel- lous day! And, again, wouldn't you and I just love to stand in the Unter den Linden, at Berlin, on that morning when King Albert, .Lord . Kitchener, and General Joffre ride, side by side, as conquerors through Germany's most celebrated street? It would do our hearts good indeed to see the mighty fallen, the ravagers of Bel- gium humbled to the dust, the mur- derers of the Lusitania passengers brought thus to book, the abettors of the Armenian massacres punished as they deserve. Oft enough have the boasting and supercilious duns ridden in moment- tiry triumph through : the capitals and captured towns of the brave little nations. What will it be like -when their boasted Berlin -itself "feels the ,proud foot of thehh conqueror, crouches under the avenging heel of a Kitchener, under the hero -tread of Albert,in the iron • an -grasp of a Joffre? Wouldn't you like to be pre. ter having brilliantly commanded sent at the paying off of so many old the 7th Corps at Muenster he was, in scores? I know 7 should. November,• 1907, suddenly asked to seek retii•eincnt, Ile protested, and caused a. scandal in consequence, and as punishment the Kaiser with- held the usual coveted decoration, "General Von Falkenhaescn, com- manding in North Alsaec, had been ' on the retired list thirteen years when war broke out. "General Gaede, commanding in South Alsace, was also placed on the retired list for incapacity in 1909, when in command of a division at Metz. "The Bavarian General Von Both - mer, commanding an army on the Russian front, was in the past judg- ed incapable of commanding an army corps. Finally, Von der Goltz retired from the active list in 1913 on the ground of fatigue." - - Different. Jennie just got his finger jammed in the door. Gracious, what door? The pantry door. Ah -ha l Ile didn't get the 'kind of. jam he was looking for that time. "When is a partnership like a pen? When there is not a split in it." •Blink -"The trouble with a bore is that one never knows what' to do with him," Wink --"Not at 'till! The trouble is Otte IS always afraid to do RECALLED OLI) GENERALS. Kaiser Brings Out Old Men Pre- viously Placed in Discard, The "Cri de Paris" publishes an interesting article on the Kaiser's generals, showing that most of those now occupying high positions had, before the war,- been placed on the retired list by their Imperial master for incompetence or similar reasons. "Hindenburg," says the .article, "commanding the 4th Army Corps at Madgeburg,. was placed on the re- tired list, after holding a command for eight years, for having -given proof of character. H` was then sixty-three years ,old. "Von Biasing had been in retire- ment eight years when appointed Military Governor of Belgium. Af- "When the Boys Come Home." But, if we can't be there, a few thousands of our gallant soldiers and sailors, in khaki ov blue, with a few thousands of the brave French troops, and at 'few thousands of gallant Rus- sians, with a thousand or two un- daunted Belgian soldiers, and another thousand or two courageous Serb fighters, will all be there to assist in the job,. and to represent yon and me even if we oitl selves cannot attend at Berlin on that immortal day! But both yes and I hope to be there when the grand men in navy blue front. H.M.S. Iron Duke, Queen Elizabeth, Lion, Tiger, New Zealand, Sydney, Tient, Glasgow, and •a host of other famous ships, together with thousands of North Sea fishers, Deal and London. pilots, 'Scottish -herring- men, and Cornish trawlers, all naval men to -day, march in splendid pro. cession through the City of London to be cheered, sung at, greeted with the long -pent-up enthusiasm which will that day break all bounds, not only by London's mighty hordes, but by millions of other lovars of Jack in every guise, who will coma from the utmost parts of Britain for weeks be- forehandl What a sight for sore eyes it will bo as John Jellicoe rides along the Strand; as David Beatty paseee down Whitehall; t10 the "Jollies" come into 11. QN BRITAIN'S ROUTE TO THE FAR EAST Description of the Fortress Which the Turks Threaten to Attack Aden, the gete,say into happy .tt'a' bia, is one of the foremost sirategro points on England's trade routs through the Red Sea to facile ;and the 11"ar last. It was the first strong- hold on the London-india route to withstand a severe attack by tete Turks. One Arabian author says of the country behind Aden; that country known as Arabia Felix, Its inhabitants are MI hale and strong, sickness is unknown, nor are there poisonous plants r,r animals; no fool nor blhid people, and tete 11-0. men are ever young; the climate 10 like paradise and one wears the same garments Stmlllaner and whiter, Aden, however, where the Ashish and Turkish forces met enjoys none of these advantages catalogued as inherent in Arabia Felix, Spread over its ragged hills of Suit made ash and cinder, sweltering, gloomy and me relieved by vegetation, Aden invites little attention iu peace tines- "Aden is a valley surrounded by the era its Climate is so bad that it turns nine into vinegar in the space of -ten drys,". complained one disappointed Arab traveller In the middle ages. Is Healthful Place And 11t the centuries since his visit the climate has not improved. In spite of the terrible heat that gath- ers over Aden's valley and clings to its low hills, and Its lack of a good water supply, the place maintains a reputation of being tt liealthlfut plane. Rock cisterns cut in a deep gorge hold the town's water imply. The. town is built on desolate vel• conic rocks that constitute a penins subs sear the entrance to the Red Sea. The Strait of Babel -Mandeb lies one hundred miles away, and Aden is the Tiritish Gibraltar toward the Indian Ocean that keeps an eter- nal vigilance over the safety et the rich English commerce that, goes this way The, British raptured and 111111e1ed the place on .Ta.nutu'y 16. 1839, since which time they bate made the place a most emphatic Peru rose, one of the et.rougest anywhere in Southern Asia. A Great Fortress Money and; labor without stint have been expended there' to make the city absolutely impregnable from land and sea. Massive lines of defense, strengthened by a bt'oacl shoal, guard the neck of the istlinnms, and these defenses conceal powerful batteries. Turrets, hidden forts, mined ap- proaches, bastions, towers, batteries, magazines, mole batteries toward the sea, mined harbors, great naval gums, obstruction piers; barracks, re- doubts in solid rock -all are elements in the 13ritlslt plan to guard this southern end of their iulpertani:trade routs beyond all possible, eh:ince of failure against superior and sustallt- edlbtttttck, Aden may be last 110 meat• tors of climate, but it is alnanfi the first in matters of fortification. The narrow peninsula on which this queen of southern fortresses rears itself Is only about fifteen utiles in eireumference. It is the bowl of an extinct volcano, The lofty hi1(5 a1'011116 are the remains Of the crater Bides, and these, Sherr Sham leas an altitude et nearly 1,800 feet. All food and water for use itt the penin- sula has to be brought in trout the outside.. Much of the water is supplied Nein the Goverunrent condensers, w111o11 were designed to snake the fortress independent in case Of war' necessi- ties, The ,population. of 44,00a is a Mixture of all the elements of the Orlon, with an interepriekling of Western drummers, 13ritish adminis- trators and military men. Arabs, Chinese, Persians, Turks, Ilindus, Parsees, Egyptians, Sedaueso and Jews compose the stolid, stable popu- lation that endures the climate year in and out, and carries on the labors of the great fortress camp. , d' PHOTOS Or, KIN FOR TROOPS. French Admire the Britisil Pian. The system of the British Young Men's Christian Association, by which' photographs of, relatives are supplied whenever possible to any British soldier asking for them, is de- scribed with admiration by the Paris Figaro, which urges that something" similar be undertaken for the Frenrlr troops. Under the British plan it does not matter if a soldier in the trenches is too poor to buy such photographs ori if the relatives themselves are too poor to have them taken. The asso- ciation has a staff of photographers for the purpose and the aid of the British clergy as well. Little Marjory -"Mamma, what is a spinster?" Nlothor--A 591105 er, may dear, is n woman to be envied, but don't tell your 'father I said so.