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The Clinton News Record, 1916-12-07, Page 44 watommokommarromorrosiroursommillielellosilmieneagmeer England a Nice C.oun rli, The following letter was -received last week from Pte. K aineth •Centric, by his mother; Mrs (tirrie, of Bay- field. 'it Was written after -leading in i, Engla.ud with the igiist Huron Bat- talion and will be read with interest ityl "Ken's" old friends' and others besides "nonwhiteC'amp, Nov. 10th, 1,1(8 bear ittoIher ;—'rhe battalion arrived sate anti sound in England early Sat- urrlav morning. We got to Liverpool at 2.30 a.re. Say, folks, it was souse trip, believe me.. We gut on the heat ae soon es we reached'Iilalitax and sailed two days later, so dirt not lose much time. Thorn were four Krung ships and one armed cruiser and when we got oil the coast of Ire, land nine British destroyers conveyed us the remainder of the war', At night when the destroyers were lit up you could see (hem darting all a- round us lookiig Inc submarines. They are very small but carry 30,000 lisp. engines and are all well armed. Ton can guess that I was not a little surprised when 1 stepped up to the boat and saw the name, "Lap- land," the same boat poor nerve. came across in, 1 saw 'l.lneve'n o4n. handwriting in a couple or places on the boat, It seemed funny, be occu- pied the. saran sleeping compartment, No. A. We were ,hast a day longer on the trip than when the 33rd went over. The first day was very nice and calm, but later on became stor- my and the last two days it was pretty rough, the waves dashing up on the decks so that auiytone ha;ppen- tug to be Blanding near at the time was apt Io get wringing wet. All of us boys expected to see a inhale while at sea but were disappointed, but the fourth day out the saw six porpoises. They are runup, fat Iieh. 'I'irey were only a few yards from the port side. They would weigh somewhere around forty ur lifiy pounds. I saw two fly - Arno all aauu'islp c :rt: gsgf hal sighted one boat on the trip, it was ',lust entering the Gulf of St. Law,- mice aw-rl i.e as we pulled out. With us were the I';napress of Britain, carrying three battalions, the Southland, with three. the C'ronau, twin and our boat, the Lapland, tarried three, some nine thousand troops int all. 'these con- prlsed the 1,12ud, 110th, 100111, 05th, I68th, 133 rd 181st and two French Canadian battalions. The Lapland pulled second a n reaching I tat <,n, there was nuthiug but troop trellis rushing away troops all day Long. You would laugh if you saw the trains they have here. The coaches are about half the size of the Cana- dian train coaches and look more like the London street cars than anything else, but they go at a terrific speed. It took us five or six hours to conte here. We are ,just fixing up our tents today. Vie expect to have our medi- cal examination tomorrow and then all the battalions, as soon as the Clinton News -Record December 7th, 1916 mmemiummommfameassimeamee examination is aver, go, to rine -big-- military, Camp, ,13rartsiiot, 1 am kind. of afraid of not getting.througli this exam, for chest measurement,' I got a lot thinner on the way over, though.] I was sick only two hours, but had no appetite. 11'e_had our first Meal at Shorneliiie at five this morning, a piece of breast and a ;sli e et bully. beef, and nothing since and it is get- ting, on near th supper time. But of coarse we float expect. to ,starve. '1 like the place pretty well, though it is muddy. The grass and trees here are so much greener than in L'atrada arid;' all kinds of nice birds are sing- ing all the time, The b7i'glisit towns are nice quaint, old towns- We mar- ched through Shotincliffe town.. at night. 'There are nice stores and the streets are much narrower, hilt'srirne of them are ver} nice. '(liey put me it ruind of the older l'anarlian rowers and cities but it is a real nice count try. 1t pgy-, oor Ilairve saidis. \\'e retty asefog,first a cotilnkasbi of. ]nexus' trip from the Eii;lisli C'Jtansei anti they tell us that one of these tine days we will hear tine big guns in France. 'There's a big battle at sea and We are expecting to hear the guns. There ate . a lot of troops scattered all over Shornclilie and far' as you earn see are wooden huts for the soldier's, for winter use, the bat- talions are yet limier canvas. I did- n't feel the cold last night but Caine of the boys eoinpiain badly of Pie. cold. --When you send me a box of anything send some , candy. 1t is hard to get here and I know ]]other' will be sending me socks. The oth. ers were great. lie sure and write for mail ie a big lonely ramp will look good. Am writing this in the '..1, Yours etc., .Kl':N NT:'i'l ('1' Melte." News -Record means News -Leader. RAN RUN SY'saMs WIN TER TOURS Special bares now in Sleet to re- sorts in lrloriria, (ieorgia, North and South Carolina, Louiniana and. oth- er Southern. States, and to Ber- uudaand the West Indies. flEl'lnhtiA 1,1lii1 MAY 31st, 1.1)17 1.1liERA f., STOP-ot ilHS • ALLOWED. For full information write to C. E. HORNING, • Union Station, Toronto, Ont. J-RANSFORD Ri SON, Uptown Agents, Clinton, Phone 57. Dry Goods and ConchCoo ]souse Iruruishing ]Millinery and heady to- Wee n' PHONIC 78. ferments What Shall I &ive For Ohristmas' YOU MAY FiND AN ANSWER HERE You have but to walk through our store to realize the many opportunities you have for makieg easy your choice of Christmas gifts, Our stocks are larger now than ever before in our history. flake this store your buying centre_for Christmas Gifts. handkerchiefs: for ChristmasiUifts. Some beautiful designs in Irish linens, hemstitched and hand embroidered, oom put up in a neat folder, Several ditterent designs, very special 25c each, Ladies and. Gents Initial Handkerchiefs, good quality linen, every initial, 25c each. We have a full range 'of Ladies, Gentlemen's 'and Children's Handkerchiefs, pricesrange frons Sc to 1.25 See our Special Displaylof infant's goods—Robes, Coats, Veils, Booties, Mitts, Leggings, Kimonos, Bla,ikets, Bonnets and Shawls. Umbrellas for Chsistmas Gifts We have a large range of Parasols and Umbrellas for ladies and gentle- men. Prices range from 1.25 to 5.00. These make a very acceptable gilt. • Dressing Gowns & loath Robes We have a very large range of handsome Dressing Gowns and Bath Robes. They are made correct in ev- ery detail. The material is high- grade eiderdown and silks. Prices range from $1.50 to $0.00 each, MAKE THIS STORE ' 11 YOUR CHRISTMAS STORE Costly Eoonomyn "The secret of eaviug money ]s econ. omy, don't you think?':" I asked of the (rad faced littloh ultra on eretches, adja• cent to wliese home had ;lust moved, We had been making our acquatintance through a common; subject of interest,' The little pian sighed. "Perhaps," he said ranter sadly, "but one must al wale be careful In selecting thoso' things on which it is hest Qts eeolao I walled atterdi ely, knowing that he had eomethiesg on his intad which he would feel better foo' teitmg. "Idy wife," ho -resumed, "wouldn't'' let nae sprinkle ashes en the path and steps at our home Tor' fear I would, trach some of it into the house and ire jure the carpets. "I slipped, on the told step, broke my leg, :rad Jif cost we $340 for doctor's bills, besides $425 thus far in loss of salary. This would have paled for new carpets in every ice -no in the house and left enough for an extended vaeutton for ray wife." And I thought tram his tone oC voice that the last idea appealed to Bias math or strongly. -Judge,' Gasoline Once Despised, It is interesting to note how a despls ad and perhaps, for the time, a. harm- ful byproduct may develop into the chief product of an industry and a shortage seriously affect the general comfort and'ceonomy or our lives. Just now gasoline Is an everyday -ex. ample. in the time of lire early coal oil lamp many dangers lurked in the poorly refined oil, mind every effort was lade to increase the yield of high dash kerosene and remove for this reason gasoline t'roni the oil. This gasoline was then little WON than a waste prod. act, to be flisposee of when pessiblo or thrown away rand 'allowed to evaporate or even rim into the rivers with the re• silting danger of lire. Now all is changed, end the utmost effort of the chemist near] eu girtee)' is called for to devise means of increasing the yield of this despised by-prodeet al the expense of the higher belling fractious in the crude oil.—Metelloigu'al and Chemical Engineering. Did His Best. The yeulte poiltir'lnn was as obliging as possible:, but there was a limit to his possibilities. Wince the reporter :relied him what his Wife would wear at the mayor's reception be assumed a confidential air. "I'll tell you jest as much as 1 know myself," he said, "Last night she tolyl me she should wear white. This morning of •h breakfast a r s e said aril she' d decided on her rose colored gown, and when I said goodby to her silo had spread a grey one beside the rose col- ored on one elixir end her mask lace beside the white on another and was fairing something else out of the closet. It' her hair hadn't caught on a hook as she turned round I might leave been able to toll you more," The Elusive Fly. Any one who has tried with out- stretched haat to catch a. fly cumot fait to have noticed its wundorful alertness in escaping. "One reason for this," exulains a uaturalist, "is the fact that the fly was watching the move'menU of its w'onhl be captor out of nil or most of its 5,000 eyes. An- other reason for its rapid retreat 15 that, instead of seeing one hand coin- ing toward It, the fly would have seen at least 7,500 hands all looking alike and all moving down Illeon It in the Caine direetlun. A third reason of the fly's nimbleness is Its ability to vi• bride its Wings neurly 700 times in a second and to travel through the Mr at a rate of a mile in two and a half minutes or twenty-four miles rut lion'," A Mild Protest. "Breddern and sister's," said Parson Absalom jonslag as he surveyed the scant covering of the bottom of the contribution brisket, "Ali wouldn't say a wuhd to 'sinuate that any one of you was stingy, but All fins got to admit .that yob all is alight)' thrifty, trybr' to get to heaven fob about one ten -bil- lionth of a cent a mile."—Br'ooktyu Lila• gle. The Perfect Figure. "John, dear," queried the young wife, glancing up from, the physical advice magazine she was perusing, "what is your idea of a perfect figure?" "Well," replied her husband, 1100,- 000 may not be perfection. but it's seer' enough to satisfy a man of my simple tastes."-Chleago News. The Philippines. The Kettle' land area of the Philip. pine Islands is about 1:10,000 square miles, equivalent to New England, New York and New Jersey. The area of the Philippines is somewhat less than that of lapin proper, which has an newt of some 160,000 squame miles.— New York American. Pewless Churches. '.there were no pen's in the churches of Scotland before the reign of Olserlee 1., and people who wished to be seated while attending` services took stools with them. For the evening service the parishioners provided themselves with their own candles. Highly Polished. "Mr, Sienick is very polished, Isn't he?" "Very! Everything he says reflects on some one."—Boston Transcript. Tiresome. "Don't you hate to have a man tell you the starve story twice?" "Yes, especially if it's the one that I told him," --Boston 'Transcript. Discontent is .the want of self rel]- auce.—Dmerson. Waters of the Pacific. To remove the water of the Pacific, ocean it would require the filling of a tank a mile wide, a mile deep aid a mile long every day for 440 years. Reasonably Modest. "Isn't your friend Wiseun inclined to be just a little bit conceited?" "oh, not at all. He just thinks his views are bound to be tight and every- body else's nearly certain to be wrong." lidehmond'Times Dispatch. When Editors Were Doctor*. Keeate's Bath Journal was one of the oldest weekly newspaA'ers in the prove times.. Known as the Bath Journal, it was founded in 1742 by Thomas Rod deley, whose portrait in wig and ruf- fles, by Hoare, forms a picturesque re. minder' of the period. His ''daughter married John Keene, the journal from this union passing on to and through' a succession of I eence; hence its title Keene's Birth Journal. As was the custom in bygone clays patent medicines wells sold in provin- eliel newspaper offices, and the dra were in which the pals and medicines were kept at the Journal office were there until the paper suspended. It was. nothing unusual for the editor in the throes of ;writing his editorials to have to step down from his seat to serve a box of pills. The pages of the Journal were for a long period largely Laken up by ad. vertisements of various "cure lite."— London'Times. Arsenic In the Hair. New light has been thrown on the le- gal side of arsenic poisoning, It has been found that arsenic compounds are absorbed by the heir of living persons, though not absorbed after death. In the hair' of man arsenic has been knoiti'n to reach a. concentration of one to five parts in 100,000. The deposit takes place ill the hair after it has been ab - 'sorbed by the abdominal organs—liver and kidneys iia particular. Therefore, in ease ,of acute, qu)ek poisoning, a chemical analysis of tire hair would show no aiseufi'„ while it would be found in. the liver and kidneys. On the other hand, if slow arsen- ic poisoning Was suspected, analysis would show arsenic in the hair, but not in the liver and kidneys, and it could safely be assumed that the poi- soning was not recent. The legal value of such evidence is epp:u•cnt,—Selen- tide American. The Stork's Lazy House Building. The most interesting sight in the Rotterdam zoo wits the stank, whose nest is set high on a pinnacle of the buffalo house. Ile was building In the leisurely style of the British working- man. He would negligently descend from the heavens'with a stick. This he w'ouicd lay on the fabric and then carefully perforin his toilet, looking around and down all the time to see that every one else was busy, When- ever his' eye lighted en a todtllingcht!d or a perambulator it visibly brighten- ed. "My true world" he seemed to say. "This nest building is mere by. paths of industry." Afterdrinking and him- self and congratulating - h m self thus for a fete minutes he would stroll off over the housetops for anoth- er stick, Isle wens unquestionably a king or the garden. ---Lacus fa "A Wan. deter In Holland." Her Only Criticism. Little Dorothy not only liked her tea and coffee to have the appearance of being "real and truly," but she also liked to taste the flavor of each. One afternoon, her mother took her to a friend's home, where tea was served at 5 o'clock, Ties hostess gave to Dorothy what sine usually gave to her own children, of Dorothy's age—viz, hot water; sugar and milk. Dorothy tasted hers politely and ate her little cakes. "Why, Dorothy, you aren't drinking your tea, dean. Isn't It sweet enough?" asked the hostess, "Yes, Mrs. C„ it's sweet enough," re• plied the child, "Then wiry aren't you taking It?" "It's too dull," she replied. — New York Times. its Vocabulary. "That parrot of theirs! why. It rat' ties off all of the gossip of the neigh- borhoodl" "Yes. When It was learning to talk they forgot to take it out of the room the day the sewing society met"—; li..: eing's Magazine. TENDERS FOR PULPWOOD AND PINE LIMIT Tenders will be received by the un- dersigned imp to and including tire 1st day of February, 1517, for the right to cut pulpwood and pine thit- her on a certain area situated on the Black Sturgeon River and other ter- ritory adjacent thereto, in the Dis- trict of Thunder Bay. Tenderers shall state the amount per cord on pulpwood, and. per thou - Sand feet board measure, on pine, that they, are .prepared to pay as a bonus in addition to clues of 40 coats pet cord for spruce, and 20 cents per cord for other pulpwoods, and 1,2,00 per thousand feet, hoard meas- ure, for pine, or such other rates as mays from time to Untie he fixed by. the Lieutenant-aovm:nor-in-Connell, for the right to operate a pulp mill and a paper mill oft On near the area j referred to. Such tenderers shall be required to erect a mill or mills on or near the territory and to manufacture the wood into pulp and paper in the Province of Ontario. Parties 'raking tender will be re, quired to deposit with their tender a marked cheque, payable to the Honourable the Treasurer: of the Province of Ontario, for ten thousand dollars ($.10,000), which amount will be forfeited in the event of their not entering into agreement to- carry out conditions, etc. The said $10,000 will be applied on account of bonus dues as they accrue, but the regulation dues, as mentioned above, will re- quire to be paid in the usual man- ner as returns of cutting of wood and timber are received, The highest or any tender not n.ec- essarily accepted. For particulars as to description of territory, capital to be invested, etc., apply to the undersigned, • f3, N, FERGUSON, Minister of Lands, Forests' and ifIines, Toronto, ltOitil. N. 13.—No unauthorized publiication of this notice will be \paid for, ' c Our Christ as Clint6 Offers you a sPlendld variety of Suitable gifts for Christmas - . S Come and See h e the Latest It isaprivilege tosho our beautiful holiday goods, selected from the best markets of the world, GOLD FiSH AND SUPPLIES NOW IN STOCK ORDER YOUR PRIVATE GREETING CARDS NOW Books For Christmas All the latest such as "Rhimes of the Red Cross Man" byService, $1. "Josie Alexander Platson Sketches,"$1. "When a Man's a an" byHarold B. Wright, $1,25. "World for Sale," by Parker, $1.5'0. "Just David" by Porter $11.35, and others, THE NEW THE NEW BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER CANADIAN HYMNAL Toyland on the Second Floor Filled with the latest toys from England, Japan, United States and Canada 11ERIT QUALITY FAIR PRICES ---- COME AND SEE - eaassssizsnwmosm A. T. CHOP ` R TELEGRAPH7'AND TICKET AGENT. CLINTON .d` The Clinton .6 6 News R'- cord A Leader for Local and County News 9 9 To new Subscribers in Canada from00. now until January 1st, 1918, for • OUR JOB WORK DEPARTMENT Turns out daily High-class Job Work at Prices as Low as is consistent with Good Workmanship. NO JOB TOO SMALL, NONE TOO LARGE ALL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION Tfe NEWS -RECORD CLINTON, ONTARIO _1a).