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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-09-21, Page 20. n. McTAGGART 12. D. McTAGOART McTaggart Bros. -= BANKERS -- A OEN'ERAL BANKING BUSI- NESS < TRANSACTED. NOTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED. INTEREST ALLOWED ON. DE- POSITS. SALE NOTES FUR- CIiA BED. "-. II. T. RANCE -- NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL, REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSU'Et- ANCE AGENT. REPRESENT- ING 14 FIRE INS'URANCII COMPANIES. DIVISION COURT CFIPICLI, CLINTON. W. BETIMES, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR;. . NOTARY PUBLIC,. ETC. Office— Sloan Block—CLINTON U. G. CAMERON K.C. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, CONVEYANCER, IITC. Ofilco on Albert Street occuped by Mr. Hooper. In Clinton on every Thursday, and on any day for which 'ap- pointments are made. Office hours from 0 a.m. to 8 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 B. HALE, Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, Etc. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licenses HURON- STREET, CLINTON ORS. GUNN & CANDLER Dr. W. Gunn, L.E.C.P., L.R. C.B., Edin. Dr. J. C. Gandier, i4 A., M.S. Dice --Ontario St., Clinton. Night calls at residence, Rattenbury St,, or at Hospital. OB. C. W. THOMPSON PHSYICIAN, SURGEON, ETC. Special attention given to die• eases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Eyes carefully examined and suit- able glasses prescribed. Office and residence: 3 doors west of the Commercial Hotel, Huron St, DB. F. A, ANON — DENTIST -- Specialist in Crown and Bridge Work. Graduate of C.O.D.S„ Chicago, and R-O.D.S., Tie mato. Bayfield on Mondays from May to December, CEORGFi ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Tiuren. Correspondence promptly answered, Immediate arrangements can be made for Saler Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by dealing Phone 13 on 115'7, Charges moderate and satisfaction ruaranteed The 1 Y 'Fire n�tt� } I alnce Company Head o Office,. Seaforth, Ont, DIRECTORY President, James Connolly, Goderich ; Vice., James Evans, Beechwood ; Sec. -Treasurer, Thos, D. FIays, Sea- forth. Directors : George McCartney, Sea - forth D. F. McGregor, Seaforth ; J. G. Grieve, Winthrop ; Wm, Rinn, Seaforth ; A, McEwen, Brucefteld ; Robert Ferris, Hai -lock, Agents : Alex. Leitch, Clinton ; J. W. Leo; Goderich ; Ed, I3inchiey, Sea - forth ; W. Chesney, Egmondv.ille ; R. S. Jarntuth, Brodhagen, An • money n to 5 be paid pad in tray be paid to Moorish Clothing Co., Clinton, or at Cutt's Grocery, 'Goderich. • Parties desiring to effect insurance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on application to any of the above officers addressed to their respective post officer. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene, - ' �6t �f:9i,V,: R ► SRU �R �• —TIME TABLE.— Trains • will arrive at and depart from Clinton Station as follows: BUFFALO AND GOD,ERI CI3 DIV, Going East, depart N 1, St I, N IS 7.93 a.m. 8.03 pen, 5.15 p•m, Going West, ar. 11.00, dp. 11.07 a.m. " "depart 1.35 p.m. " ar 6.32, dp. 6.45 p.m. " " departs 11.18 p.m. LONDON, HURON '& BRUCE DIV. Going South, ar. 7.33,, dp. 8.05 p,m. " departs 4.15 p.m, Going North, Sr. 10.30, dp. 11.00 a.m. " departs 8.40 pan. DELAWARE, LAONAW'ANA AND WESTERN COAL COMPANY'S SCRANtON COAL In all sizes CHESN U1' PEA STOVE • FURNACE Also SOFT COAL CANNEL COAL SMITHING COKE Standard Weight, Standard Quality, its the good Coal. Do you need hard wood or slabs 3 We have lots on hand at the right prices.. We always keep a good stock of Port- land Cement, and 3, 4, and 5 -inch Tiles. TRY US. & Pie FORBE ' Opposite the G. T. R. Station. Phone 62. Fertilizer mm �d H�E eYt+ We carry - a Complete•of 1 Stock Stone's Natural Fertilizer. No better on the market. Hay ay We pay at all seasons the highest market prices for Bay for baling. Seeds American Feed Corn, Red Clo- ver, Alsike, Timothy and Alfalfa FORD ,& McLEOD CLINTON. is Yew Cutlery Supply ? Yon know that Jewelry Store Cutlery is out of the com- mon class. At least, OURS is.. 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 materials. If 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 doz, up. Knives and Forks, steel, white handles, $SMO doz, up. Let us show you our Cutlery line. het us tell you more about why it is the most desirable that you can put Four money into. W. Rs COUNTER JEWELER and ISSUER of tl:AIIRIAGE LICENSES. 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Nowa-Record and advertiser tit NewsRecord and Morning Free• Preee. 3.31 Sewa•Irceord and Evening Free Press. ass Pewe•Record. and Toronto Star .....• e.91 Rewe'P-ecord and Toronto News '.55 If what you want le not In Mile lies les or snow shout it, We can supp17 Funis leen than It would cost you to send direct In remitting please do to by. Poet:otgoe Order Foetal Note, Empress Order •r 4;+,p iet.ered letter and eddrees. W. J. MITCHELL, Publisher New3-R3p3Tj CI.INTON, ONTARIQ 'Clinton News -Record CLINTON, ONTARIO Terms of subscription—$1 per year, in advance; $1,50 may be charged it not to paid. No paper diseon• tinued until all arrears Are paid, enless at the option of the pub. tither. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted of the label. Advertistrig itctcs -- Transient ad- vertisements, 10 cents par 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 35 cents, and each subsequent io- sertien 10 cents, Communications intended for pub. lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the came of the writer. W. 3. MITCHELL, Editor and Proprietor,, THIRD GERMAN LINE IS SMASHED BY THE BRITISH Haig's Troops Pierce, Shatter and Occupy the Enormous Thiep- val-Combles Barrier. London, Sept. 1L—The British tore wide open the enormous Thiepval- Combles salient. In a twelve-hour. battle on the eight -mile front from ThiepvaI to Gincliy, in the face of twelve hundred of the Kaiser's most powerful guns -16'0- to a mile—they stormed, pierced, shattered and then occupied that stretch of the German front north of the Somme which hitherto had acted as a block to their advance on Combles and Bapaume, The barrier broken down, Sir Douglas Haig's troops pushed considerably be- yond it to the north-east, carrying the menace of the Somme drive almost as ominously close to Bapaume as it is to Combles and Peronne. The end of the fighting' saw the British in possession of practically all the high ground between Combles and the Albert-Pozieres-Bapaume Iiighway. Three villages-Flers, Mar- tinpuich' and Coureellette—and High Wood, were completely captured, as was the greater part of Bouleaux Wood. The powerful German redoubt called "Wunderwerk" (Wonder work), because of its supposed impregnabil- ity, was taken by storm in the turning of the salient's tip near Thiepval. More than 2,800 prisoners were tak- en, including 65 officers. The day was the most successful for the British since the initial phase of the Somme battle. For three days their infantry load enjoyed compara- tive rest, while the artillery paved the. way forthe new crush. French Co-operated. The French, though not launching an attack on a large front, worked hand-in-hand with the British in drawing the ring around Combles still closer. The French War Office an- nounces that General Foch's troops took a system of German trenches 500 metres deep north of Le Frieze farm, which fell into their hands yes- terday. The British took by storm a group of German trenches south of Rancourt, two miles from Peronne. South of the Somme they captured three Teuton trenches near the vil- lage of Bei•ny-on-$antero-e, taking 200 prisoners. Apart from the results scored, the resumption. of the British part in the Somme drive was remarkable for two features. Neverbefore has' an attack been marked by such 'close and successful cooperation by the "eyes of the army," the aviators. The clash of the infantry,legions on, the blood- soaked ground was accompanied' by a battle royal in the, air. The British fliers were met by a cordon of Teuton aviators, and two air fleets vieing with one another in daring, tenacity and skill. The British, according to the night report . from headquarters, proved their superiority. Thirteen German machines were destroyed; nine others were brought down in a damaged condition. The British lost four. Cheered as They Charged. The second spectacular feature of the battle was the introduction by the British for the first time of a new type of armored motor car, whose powerful traction enables it to cross trenches and shell craters as if going over smooth ground, A number of these new "wonder machines" whir- red into the battle with the infantry and in the midst of the hail of shell the men cheered as they charged. OPEN DOOR IN THE I D MIMO S SIR RiDER HAGGARD REPORTS ON EMPIRE TOUR. Free. Land and Warm Welcome Await British Soldiers After the War. Sir Rider Haggard's report on his tour of the Overseas Dominions, for the purpose of ascertaining what faci- lities these were prepared to give as regards land settlement and employ ment to ex -sailors and soldiers domi- ciled in the United Kingdom, has been issued by the Colonial Institute, an Iwhose behalf the mission was under - I taken, says the London Times, It con- tains a full account of his discussions 1 and the text of his correspondence with responsible Ministers- in the various self-governing States of the Empire, and the mass of information thus collected at fleet hand as to the prospects overseas should do much to facilitate the solution of a difficult problem. Summing up the results of his in- vestigations, Sir Rider Haggard states that, although for various reasons nothing can be expected from the Union of South Africa, and the letter from the Government of New Zealand is less definite than those received from the various Governments In the other parts of the Empire, on the Whole the institute's efforts have met with considerable success. Depends on the Man, "Indeed, I imagine I shall scarcely. be going too far if I' say of.the self- governing parts of the Empire at large that everywhere there is now an open There is - a CiIk Da Comer Rhe not prepare for it by ordering your winter simply of Lehigh Valley Coal, None tetter in the world. House Thune,]:. Oiflee Phone 48, A. J. HOLLOWAY on-. THECH1H!! L OF TO -DAY just as they are—in their io• door play, or at their outdoor play -they arc constantly ..R tering tpulittaddoue Inc the KODAK Let it keep Ihem L,ryou a.0 they are now. Let it keep many other hap- penings that are a source of pleasure to you. BROWNIES, $2 TO $i2; KOUATiS, $7 7'0 $28. Also full stock of Films and Sni plies. We do Developing and Printing.Remember the place; THE EXALL$ 0 CH E door for the British ex -service -man, who for the most part will be admit- ted on terms practically of equal a:d- vantage to these which they deter- mine to accord to their own citizens. Wherever he may choose to settle he will, I am convinced, receive the warm- est of welcomes and much the same assistance that each State or Domin- ion ultimately decides to give to its own returned soldiers. "The rest is in his own ]lands. If he Justifies the hospitality extended to him as a fellow -subject of the Crown who has fought for the Gam- mon cause, lie and his family can do well, and possibly rise to affluence, Whether he selects Rhodesia, Austra- lia, New Zealand, or the vast and wealthy Dominion of Canada as his future barn. If, however, lie lacks character or shrinks from effort, suc- cess cannot be promised to him. In the end everything depends upon the man himself, and, I may add, upon the man's wife. Group Settlement. "I have not, either, In this report or elsewhere, attempted so much as to adumbrate any scheme of oversea land settlement for soldiers. It has seemed to me that to do so would be foolish and even impertinent. The agricultural conditions in Africa, Aus- tralasia and Canada differ widely ; of- ten, too, they vary very match in the different States and provinces of those huge dominions. This means, of course that no one plan can be made to serve for all the parts of the Em- pire that I have visited ; it is prob- able, indeed, that the same plan could not be utilized without variation in any two places throughout all that mea- sureless area. Each country must de- sign and use its own. "Moreover, In every instance this should be formulated, not in England by an individual or committee, but by the local experts of that country who are familiar with Its peculiarities, needs, and systems. It is true that, so far as I am aware, this has not as yet been done anywhere, at any rate in detail, except perhaps in the in. stance of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way. Steps are, however, being taken in that direction. Equal Terms. "Perhaps, however, I may be al- lowed to express a hope that the au- thorities in them will give considera- tion to the group system of settlement. I am convinced that it would not be wise to take men from home and put them down by themselves in strange and unpeopled neighborhoods, where loneliness would produce its natural effect both on the then themselves and on their wives and families, and ,probably, in the end, drive them into the cities. It will be noted that in sundry in- stances the Governments throughout the Dominions also promise equal terms to the British ex -service man as regards empioytnent. This point is more important than may at first appear. Not all immigrants will de- sire to settle on the land, and many would, In the end, benefit greatly if 1 they could have the advantage of c working for a while under the direr- s p b f ATrue and Pretty Story ofSympathetica Queen. WHIP other day, Queen Amelia of Portugal was visiting, one of the hospitals ea for French soldiers. After having spoken with practically every man in thedifferent wards,.. she was taken to a room in which a little "polio" hay ying. The doctors and musses were greatly worried, because the poor man. Was to have been decorated that day, arid the officer who should perform the perernony had not yet arrived, hould Thethey 'poiho? u" might lapse into unconsciousness at any moment—whae. d The Queen, on being informed on the cause of their anxiety, asked pimply: "shall I decorate hini, before it is too late, though it is not correct under the circumstances?" e ' The doctors decided in the affirmative and Queen Amelia speaking lov- ingly to the brave little "point" pinned on the much coveted military cross. Then turning to the .doctors asked if she might not also give , him the "accolade?" And gathering the dyingman in her arms, she kiesed him tenderly and lovingly on each cheek—and he? - Well, he died that same night—happy and smiling peacefully,. for had not a Queen and above all, a mother, lightened his last hours of darkness? And the Queen? Well, on leaving the hospital she met the officer whom she had misplaced officially for a few moments,and told him in frenk and simple wordswhat she ha done... Re,: though at first surprised, was so charmed byher kind and aweeWy( manner that he could only say "she had done the right thing, and that hq was glad she had been there to do it." TIM ROMANCE OF AUSTRALIA IT WAS ONCE CONNECTED WITH OTHER LANDS. Island Continent Has Strangest Men and Animals in the World. One of the oldest of all lands, Aus- tralia, is the youngest of ail nations. She is the reality of two thousand years of wise men's dreams, the vast southern continent which they thought must be there to balance the land in the northern hemisphere. No one dared seek for her,• for they thought that sloe was separated from the rest of the world by an equator of fire and demons and all -slaying mist. She must be there, they said, and they drew fancy outlines of her on all their maps and globes, and showed her linked up to Africa and to Am- erica, and stretching unbroken to the South Pole, But when Diaz stag- gered around the southern foot of Africa, the Magellan found his way through open water round the south- ern -most point of South America, and Drake, following., got blown away into the boundless Southern Seas be- yond, and none found southern land —then they gave it up, and struck Australia from the map. There could not be a southern continent after all, they said. But Australia was there all the time, with the strangest men and the strangest animals in the world, lying, as under a spell of en- chantment, asleep within her borders of pearl and coral and her girdle of salt sea foam. For long, long years Australia had lain preparing for the coming of man. Her history is written on—her wide bosom. Once she was part of greater land masses, connected, perhaps, by land bridges with Asia. Beneath the surface this vast continent was boil- ing. Burning mountains were heaved up and blew their heads off, and thou- sands of miles of lava and ash re- main to tell the tale of her great volcanoes - Where Were the Men? But her fires died out, and more enduring mountains were formed, which, age upon age, epoch after epoch, have been attacked by heat and wind and rain, have been worn down lower and lower; their summits ground by the agencies of time into dust and powder. Their chemical properties, contained in the boiling lava from Which they first solidified were released with the slowly gather- ing debris, and this highly charged rubble of shattered rock and wind - lashed sand forms to -day, the barren deserts of Australia. But smiling verdure clad the greater part of these, and greatforests grew. They sank beneath the sea, and more changed 11 coal. Gold and silver, tin and opper, diamonds and other valuable tones, formed in the rocks, and the remotas metals tumbled from their ode as the mountains crumbled, orming the great nuggets that have ince been found in the soil. But where were the men? The men were not ready. They had not emerged. But the animals had. Warm-blooded animals which suckled heir young load appeared upon the arth, and, roaming far, had reached Australia from other parts of the world. Then came the breakdown of the land bridges from Australia to ,ria.. The animals were shut up in a ontinent which had become an island. Tlie kangaroos and the wallabies, the ear -like koala, the egg -laying mam- mals, and many kinds of 'reptiles were mprisored on the continent. These, rid great birds which forgot how to y, were the lords of this vast area of the earth. The animals remained the very lowest type—animals which carry their young in pouches, which have the smallest of brains. There was no competition, no hard struggle for life, as in the busier world with- out, no need to improve. They de- veloped on the old lines Some grew to be giants, ars big as any elephant, and then died out. The smaller types survived, though, of these smaller ones, the great kangaroo is bigger than the tallest man, The story of the Australian animals is one of the wonders of the world. The huge continent experiences in its different ranges three climates-tio- pical, sub -tropical and temperate, so tion of others acquainted with local conditions, especially at the high wage obtainable everywhere in the self-governing portions of the Em- pire, cut of which they can save money." MILLIONS OF SHOES FOR WAR. British Manufacturers Make 26,000,000 t e • Orders for 26,000 000 pairs of t hoes for the British, Serbian, French Ruts - sten, halon and Belgian myrtles have A been received by British morulae- c truers sures the outbreak of the war. One -fee th of the fetal, or mere than b ' 100,000 pairs a week, have been alone supplied by the workmen of'Northamp- ton, the chief seat of the English shoe i ' manufacturers, an hotu"s train ride a northwest of London, The manufae- fl tuners of this place are turning out a second installment of 3,000,000 pairs of footwear for the Jluseians, this time boots Iteowrr as "Cossacks.•" Owing partly to the preoccupation with army contracts, partly to deple- tion of their staffs of male operatives and partly to rezebtdctlons imposed by the Government on the disposal by tanners and merchants of leather suit- able for army purposes, boot and shoe tatanufenettlrers are finding consider- able difficulty an supplying the de - mantle of the civilian market. Beauty Is said to be only skin deep, but many s,• woman's beauty depends upon the also of her balance in the book, that we might expect to find then animals resembling those of Africa a well as of Europe. But there is noth ing of the sort. There are no Iion or tigers, or wolves, bears, cats, wea cels—indeed, not a single flesh- muchwhispered except a little:so-called cat. There is that, and there is the wild dog, or dingo, but he is a mysterious new- comer, not a native. There are neith er apes nor monkeys; neither oxen deer, nor antelopes; no elephants, rhinoceroses, pigs, camels, horses hares or rabbits; no true mice, squir- rels or porcupines; no hedge hogs or shrews. And yet, lacking all these creatures, Australian wild life is amazing. A multitude of forms follow the kangaroo line of development; there are evltat are called kangaroo hares kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, simply because they suggest the forms of these originals in other lands. There were no flesh -eaters, other than the so-called cats, in Australia, before white man, and the domesticated ani- mals arrived. PUKE 'BLOOD MAKES HEALTHY PEOPLE Hood's Sarsaparilla removes scrofula sores, boils and other et'up� tions, -because it drives out a the blood the humors that cause them, Eruptions cannot be successfully, treated with external applications, because these cannot, purify the blood, Hood's Sarsaparilla makes rick, red blood, perfects the digestion, and builds up the 'whole system. In- sist on having Hood's. Get it now. BRITISH 66 WILLIES 99 CALLED WONDERS New Type of Armored Car in Use on the Sofisnse Front. A despatch from Lendo u says The reference in the official Statement issued by the War Office on Friday to a new -type of armored car, is the firs official mention of a developme Which, Inas been t whin creel about . recently in army circles, -Those wile/ have seen the new vehicles refer to them as "taroks," while the soldiers who have been banning 'them have given them the nick -name of "Witless.","Witless.",The object which the designers sought to obtain was to render a heavily armored motor car capable of beteg operated in the fhcll'torn and roadless wfliderlress of trenches, where it is evi- dent a vehicle mounted on ordinary 'wheels could not be used. Although no details of the car's construction have been published, the Times gays riven ors have not hesitated e boldly to tread unbeaten paths, We s tray imagihe the feelings of German infantry in shell battered trenches a when iu .the uncertain light of dawn - they saw advancing upon them an ar- ray of unearthly monsters cased in steel, spitting fire and crawling labor- iously, but ceaselessly over' trendies, barbed wire and shell craters. - HONORS ARE AWARDED TO NAVAL HEROES. ' Recognition of Service Performed In Battle of Jutland. A despatch from London says : Honors awarded as a result orf the Jutland battle are enumerated by the Official Gazette on Friday as follows Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Order of Merit ; Vice -Admiral Sir David Beat ' ty, Knight of the Grand Cross of the Bath ; . Rear Admiral Sir T. C. D. Sturdee, Companion of St. Michael and St. George. The boy, John Travers, of Cornwall, who remained on his poet during the action, although mortally wounded, was awarded the Victoria Grose, Sub -Lieut. Prince Albert, RN., has been recommended for service, BRITISH NAVAL AIR RAID WITH- IN BULGARIAN LINES, Damage Done to Railways, Depots and Troop Concentrations. A despatch from London says : British naval aircraft raided railways andtroop concentrations within the Bulgarian lines of communication be- yond Kavala between August 20 and August 31, according to a report issued by tine Admiralty on Friday night. Considerable damage, the report states, was done to the railways, rolling stock, petrol and other depots and troop , concentrations at Mame, Ckjiltar, Berk, gavels, Perna and Augisia, DICKENS' GRANDSON IS KILLED IN ACTION. 1 A despatch from 'i.ondou says : lilajor Cedric Charles .Diel<ene, greed - son of Charles Dickens, was killed in 'action in France, Monday, ; BLUBBER AND PENGUIN. Chief Diet of Men Rescued From I - Elephant Island, Life on Elephant Island, in the Ant- arctic, as it Was experienced by the marooned men of Lieut, Sir Ernest Shacl<letores South Polar expedition, 'who were recently rescued and taken to Chili, Is described in a message re- ceived from Punta Arenas and pub- lished in the London Daily Chronicle, "Tire day began," says the descrip- tion, "with breakfast which consisted merely of penguin, fried in blubber, with a drink of water. The morning's duties consisted in clearing away snowdrifts and catching penguin, Lunch was served at one o'clock, con- sisting of bsauit with raw blubber The ai'ternoon was occupied with re. ingular exercises oveovera track 100 yards .length. "At five o'clock, when darkness fell, came dinner, consisting of penguin breast and beef tea, Lacking tobacco the men smoked grass from the pad- ding In their boots, while the pipes wore carved . from birds' bones and wood. The members of the party took turns in reading aloud from the only available books, namely, the Bible, an encyclopedia, Browning, Bacon's Es- says, and Carlisle's French Revolution, Saturday evening was ,always un a rked bya concert the feature was banjo alaYing. A banjo o ryas the only musical instrument in camp. "On one occasion there was a wed- come addition to the diet when several undigested fish were found in the stomach of a sealand greatly enjoyed. "' When was the war' over ?' was the first question we asked." I. Stuffed the Germans. Liest, Jacks, an Australian V,C,, is now in hospital in London. During the Pozieres offensive he Ied a charge, and when tti�e reached an enemy trench he met a .>ktrty coming a out cC dug- out, $ orrt, and bluffed them into surrender with an empty revolver, Later he saw some Gerinans with a party of Austra- Ian prisoners, and led a furious bayo- net charge, overpowering the Bans, vlro, in their turn, were captured, Wonderful Plant Life. The plant life of the sleeping land was wonderful, too. The great feature here is the eucalyptus tree, of which there are 150 species, many of them unknown elsewhere, Like the ani- mals, they took to being giants, and are often the tallest trees in the world, reaching from 400 to 500 feet. Their leaves stand upright, so that the sunlight passes between them and the trees yield no shade, but their properties are indispensable, and their wood is invaluable. They yield pre- cious oils and gums, wood the white ant cannot destroy, wood that water will not rot and the deadly ship - m will wornot bore. Tlnen there are the wonderful aceacias, with their glorious blooms and perfume; and there is the famous bush or scrub which covers hundreds of square miles at a stretch. There are trees whose blossoms are so brilliant that they seem to set hills. on fire and can be seen miles out at sea. There are trees that have no leaves, and trees that are really giant grasses. There is a mahogany that makes railway sleepers and paves roads; there are palms and figs; there is a mistletoe which is not a parasite, with [dke ours, but a true tree blos- soms of fiery scarlet. All these trea- sures of plant and animal life remain- ed locked up in tile enchanted land, waiting., Then from somewhere, we know' not from where, noen appeared at last, naked, and cannibals, The lowest in the human scale, they lived, and still live, when away from white settle- ments, much the same sort of life as our old cave men lived in Britain hundreds of thousands of years ago. They had rough dint implements and tools, and their successors have them still; they do not possess houses, tui -1 less it be a rude, temporary shanty made of bark or twigs. • And yet these ancient savages made one of the most wonderful of all na- tural weapons, the boomerang—the curved piece of wood which, when cleverly tha'own, circles strangely through the air, strikes dead a bird or an animal or, if it misses, returns to the thrower. And these boomer ang men with their tools and flint and their fires made by friction, sham 1 ed with the animals this continent of nearly three million square miles, stretching 2,400 miles from east to west and nearly 2,000 from north to south. With this primitive living host for her keepers, the great land slept on; she slept, like 'Sleeping Beauty, until the prince should come. —"My Magazine." Selling Enemy Goods. Air. Hughes states that enemy goods imported into Australia before the war are still being sold, The Government has decided that wholesale houses trust not sellsuch goods after Septem: 1 ber 30, nor:, retail houses after Nevem- her 30, ' Mee a- •.er:, aa5S5+YJ —if you feel bilious,"headachy" and irritable— for that's a sign your liver is out of order. Your food is not digesting—it stays in the stomach a sour, fermented mass, poisoning the system. Just take a dose of Chamberlain's Stomach and. Liver Tablets— a they make the liver do its work.—they cleanse and ewocten the stomach and tone the whole digestiwo velem. You'll feel fine in the morning. At all druggists, Sic., or by mail from Chamberlain Medicine Company, Toronto 141