The Clinton News Record, 1930-01-30, Page 2Clinton
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•iter.G. E.' HALL Ill, 3, CLARK,'
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M. D. MeTAGGART
Banker
Ag eneral Banking Beisiness
transacted. Notes Discounted.,
Drafts issued. .Interest Allow-
ed on Deposits. Sale Notes Pur-
ehased.
H. T. RANCE
Notary Public, Conveyancer
elhatreial, Real Estate arid Fire In-
surance Agent.- Represenelnig 14 Fixe
Insurance Companies.
Division Court Office. Clinton.
CAPTAIN A,E.DINCL
rBEGIN HERE TODAY
Alden Drake, formerly a sailor,
grown soft and flabby through a life
of idle ease, ships aboard lhe clipper
Orontes as "boy," under thecommand
of Jake Stevens, whose enmity he in-
curs because of a mutual love for
Mary. Manning, a passenger, At. Cape
Town, Stevens is superseded :,a cal -s-
tain by Drake, • Whose lawyers have
seep to the purchase of the Orontes
during its cruise. Stevens' is reduced
to the rank of ,chief mato.
The Orontes runs aground in the
Straits off Java. ,Mary slips away
from the ship with Ike,• the steward,
and later Jake goes to join her ashore.
Part of the crew mutinies .;and goes
ashore too
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY'
"Let's float the boat and get clean,".
he whispered. "It's our last chance,
to get the boat, 'Come, steward!"
"Leave him here?" 'cried Mary,
"You're insane? Get; the axe, Ike!"
"Comes Mary," said Drake, turning.
away from . the crowd again. He
glanced at Stevens now isa if expecte!
ing more,opposition. Tubbs and Sims'
were cautiously rising, never' taking,
their ayes oft Deeke, Some of the men
picked up rocks, Joe Bunting; and itis
craiv brougkt the other boat in dan-
gerously near.
"I'll take care of Mary, Captain
Drake," Stevens said gruffly. "Mary's
coming with me." He drew Mary's
hand inside his arm and looked.clown
at her bent head. "Aren't you, lass?"
Drake's black eyes \pldened, and his
brows lifted; but his smite was un -
W. BRYDONE "Miss Manning is my passenger,
Bataviain
She � es to
Stevens bo..my
Barrister, Sorioitor, Notary P''o lic, etc. oharge. Come,J ary.".
Office: • "Bette) get your ship afloat first,"
growled Stevens, for :Bary -.seemed in -
SLOAN BLOCK CLINTON cline' to obey the captain.
"The ship lies at anchor, •afloat,"
CHARLES B. HALE
Conveyancer, Notary Public, Corn
missioner, etc.
(Office over J. E. Honey's Drug Stere)
DR. J. C. GAMIER
Office Hours: -1.30 to 3.30 mine 6.30
to 8,00 p.m., Sundays, 12.30 to 1.30 pen.
Other hours by appoiutment only.
Office and Residence Victoria_ St.
DR. FRED G. THOMPSON
Office and Residence:
(Wavle -Street Clinton, Ont.
One door west of Anglican Church,
Phopg 172
Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted
DR. PERCIVAL HEARN
Office. and Residence:
Huron Street — Clinton, Ont
Phone 69
,(Formerly incepted by the late Dr,
C. W. Thompson),
.Eyes Examhred and Glues Fitted.
DR. H. A. MCINTYRE
DENTIST '
Office Hours: 9 to 12 a.m. and 1 to
5 p.m., except Tuesdays and Wednes-
days. Office over Canadian National
Between, Clinton, Ont. • ,
Phone 21
DR. F. A. AXON
DENTIST
Clinton, Ont.
Graduate of O.C.D.S. Chicago, and
R.C,D.S., Toronto.
Crown and Plate Work a Specialty.
:aid Drake, and moved towards the
boat again. He waved, to Joe Bunting
to came iii nearer; and as if it were
the signal expected for an entirely dif-
fere'r: reeve, a volley of rocks flew out
from the shoed and crashed in and
D. H. McINNES
CHIROPRACTOR
Electro Therapist Masseur.
Office: 'Huron St. (Few doors west of
- Royal Bank) '
Hours—Tues., Thurs. and Sat, all day.
Other hours by appointment.
Musa Office—Mon., Wed. and. Fri.
-forenoons.
beatortla Office—Mon., wed, and Fre.
afteruoous, Phone 207
• GEORGE ELLIOTT
• Licensed Auctioneer for the County
of Huron.
Correspondence promptly answered.
Immediate arrangements eau be made Ince a rose. The .boat ivas going ori, fn a• deep breath, and thrust paid with models of what these institutions
for Sales Date at The News Record, 1 under the frahtic urge of Ilse with a her boathook. shonl•w:be. Indeed, the claim is made,
Clinton, or by calling Phone 203. , , told with some show of reason, we
Char es Mole tand Satisfactionfourteen foot steering oar. The driftwood club nee 1lealed nee advised, that Iceland's Althiug is,
1 1 li f )1 tl
up under his powerful strides, Sake
Stevens pleuged into the melee, strik-
ing with hands and feet; snortingwith
every;punch and kids. -
"Orontes! Orontes!"
It was Green Point all aver again.
The cry shrilled out from Mary, stand-
ing erect MAIM barely floating boat,
beating Ike on the back,,furiously bid-
ding him to let her get 'to land. Ike
kept her:•out of ,danger with all the
desperation centeinel within his puny
flame. She wrestled for the oar, and
frightened.Ike with her strength.
On the beach, there seemed to be a,
human -ant hill rumbling 'with immi-
nenteruption. Drake went clown under
a blow from a rock Slung' in a ripped
off shirt sleeve. Then it was Stevens
who stood over him until he struggled
to ,his feet again. Jake's big body and
fighting blond :head towered over the
snarling. gang like a beacon above
hideous racks, Then Drakes darts
head bobbed•up beside him, bloody bait
buoyant.. Marx was in a fever of ex-
citement. They fought, side, by side in
her defence. Every blow diet. fell,
upon blond head or black seht•exqui-
site pain ,through her body. It was
real, • She saw•Drake go down, and
couldhave screamed. She sawn Ste-
vens stride over him, and battle like a
fury until he rose again: and she
wanted to shriek a'paean. She beat
upon 'Ike until he became afraid of
her and started to turn the boat.
Clumsily squattering in to shore came
the other boat, with poor battered
Bunting cursing his reluctant mates
rye.
shocking language.
on with g
"Orontes! Orontes!" screamed
Mary. "Hurry, Joe! Oh, get a move
on, you wooden men!"
Joe grinned cruelly behind his
bloody mask. But he was doing his
best. The fight on the beachsuddenly
took on a different aspect. Three of
the ,ieseetersliad gotten all they want-
ed, and were crawling away shaking
aching heads. Tubbs cowered at
Drake's feet, hands gripping tightly
about his bruised jaws, blind and
k
-MARY TOOK JAKE 5 ARM A ND DA13BEn AT HIS BLEEDING
FACE..
alma the boat. Little Joe's red face weeping with defeated fury. Stevens
swiftly turned redder. Blood poured gripped Sins by the •neck with both
Froin his eyebrows. Another oarsman hands, and Was swaying hint to and
dropped his oar, flipping smashed fin- fro; and the look upon Jake's battered
gees. It was all clear as clay. Drake face was horrible because it was out -
never hesitated. • He xheut.'d an order weedier a laugh. Another of the gang
to the boat to pull orf out of reach. looked seared and crept further away,
The rocks were still flying. Next, but for Sims' feet woe leaving the ground.
se swiftly that ft: seemed all one action,
he picked up 'Ike Saintly and heaved
him into the grounded boat. Then he
seized Mary, and Almost threw her in.
"You'd better get in and shove her
clear, Stevens," he snapped. There
was nothing more saki; but Jake Ste- ing stroke at the bowed head of Drake.
vent.' red face was almost purple with "Orontes! Orontes!" wheezed Joe
shame. Hunting at that moment, stumbling
All happened in the spars of :t few through the small surf followed by
breaths. Men ,till picked up tucks two of his crew,
and some hurled them after the re- • "'Renter, an' -give 'ens hell!" squeal -
ceding beat. Joe Bunting's wheezing ed Ike Saintly. Be sprang ashore, too,
voice could be heard abusing his mates grabbing for . his axe, bold with the
for running away. But the ttvo wlto advent of fresh men. Mary was ruli-
co+ald still handle their Oars Were "not ping up the beach, ,hampered by wet
of the • Stuff 1)}e was made of. They skirts, leer ;blue eyes blazing; and her.
were Kindly (Reposed towards Drake, long hair flying, holding a sharp point -
but had no relish for flying voleau!O ed boathook before her like a • spear.
debris. It was Sims and Tubbs svho She .wee transfigured. She reached the
stetted the' acceleration ofFthe crisis fighting peep when two blows seemed
Blood trickled from the cauliflower eat certain to fall at the same instant, and
and made the crushed nose blossom one only alight be warded. She drew
Sines ehoked desperately. One man
with more nerve or less intelligence
than his fellows, picked up a stone
and raised it Ower Jake's head. The
only other ruffian remaining lifted a
club of driftwood and aimed a finish-
Santo?,
nish-
Blouse Plays Big I Frorn Sea to Se y,
Part in Fashion impressions of My Canadian
Tour as Told in
England
Srii n t Women Tfclataipg Ai(iey e'iit
Types That'Thoy{ Cavi Wear,
° \ for Spying
13y Sir' Barry Jackson
By A:NNETTE After a few days of the dreary
• �� 165;'.
'The blouse'is' a big 'factor in 'mi-
lady's wardrobe this season, for the
jacket: dress seems to be gaining ,more
and' more popularity every clay for
spouts, street and semi -sports.
The femininity of the one I'rn show-
ing will especially appeal to sophisti
cated taste because of its utter chic
and newness in shirred cape'collar,
that is so smartly flattering.
Another interesting feature is that
it: may be worn as • over -blouse or as
tuck -in. It also can be made sleeveless
to' wear with the jacket dress.
Eggshell silk crepe is medium used
for original model, It probably is. one
of the most economical ideas that one
1 perfect-
lypossibly find. It blends li`
ly with any color,:: and is strikingly
fashionable with black..
Style N. 105 .is designed in sizes
16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40 sand 42
inches bust. `In the niediunl size, it
takes 2% yards of 39 -inch material
With Ws- yard 1 -inch ribbon.
Crepe satin, chiffon, linen, lace,
crepe de chine, rayon printed crepe
and georgette appropriate.
1IOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size of such
patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it' carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adel; ide St., Toronto.
A Small Country
But a Big Buyer
No country is the world buys more
per head of population, in foreign
countries, than Iceland.
So people who think that Iceland
is nothing more than a skating -rink
by nature, we learn from the London
Daily Telegraph, will be surprised to
know that it is the best customer ex-
porters have in other countries. What
is more, says Howard Little, in tilis
London newspaper, although Iceland
is compelled to make relatively enor-
mous purchases, the annual credit
balance stands high, and shows a
tendency to increase, idi'. Little con-
tinues:
"Iceland., has modernized herself
rapidly, in splte of difficulties, na-
tural and imposed. Neither iron, tim-
ber, building stone, cement, coal, nor
salt are produced within her own
borders. Ali these essentials must be
brought oversea, and possibly hauled
many miles into the interior over
hard ground, where there is at pre-
sent no road.
"rn 1889, .when I first visited Ice-
1and, the capital, Reykjavik„ was a
town of some three thousand inhabit-
ants, and boasted neither harbor nor
roads. Nothing went on wheels. To-
day Reykjavik has a fine harbor, the
consh'uctien of which was actually
commenced in 1913, inter'r'upted by
the war, end; because of the necessity
of continued enlargement, is in part
not yet completed. The inhabitants
of the town number 26,000, and there
are some 600 motor-vehlcles,. all of
which are Rept particularly busy. The
main roads have a good surface, and
other roads within and leading from
the capital are also being improved."
Iceland's Parliament House, Uni-
versity and Museum, it is theft re-
lated; are in many important respects
c to a "wetter :nec, , read felt et a upon ie coon, •
- Guaranteed. set growled1Steeens get
B. R. HIGGINS
Clinton, Ont.
General Pore and Life Insurance Agent
for Hartford. Windstorm, Live Stock
Automobile and Si0knese and Accident
wasnohead of Tubbs, far Drake had turned In reality, the "Mother of Parlia-
teaser( for anybody staying there to to see whence came tke's fierce squen,: 'mems." fibs thousandth anniversary
fees that gang of toughs. Jake Steve' of encouragement. The battle was of the first meeting 02 the Althing
will be celebrated next June, and this
interment adds:
"Fifty-four years ago Iceland was
left in 'a condition of poverty and
Insurance. %Iuron and Erie and Cana- ftiey when he saw it, and .hey had it hard front then: efforts, wiling enough without business, experience. Fier
ala Trust Bonds. Appointments made now: A•fiying rock :struck Drake on but too late, . There 'mere appearance people, by their owe unaided efforts,
to meet parties at l3rucef]cltd, Varna 010 breast and he staggered. He reach-�frlghtened lli fight out. of the' 0017_ have broughta1301tt many.reinUrkable
and Bayfield, Phone 57:,,
ens had been the . first to tell these over. Ike glared aroy,nd for foes with
same toughs that they were worth- fine ferocity. There were none. Isis
less, yellow, ns -account dogs, awhile'axe drank no red bleed that day. Joe
age; but he recognized murderous Bunting and his two mates panted
waste o' water'e `which is the Atlantic
Ocean, the Canada bound traviiller
meets; mere often than not, a••eurtaiu
of mist or fog. Detested by the sail-
or, this curtain is, to the expectant
visitok, what :the curtain in the
theatre Is to, -the expectant audience.
What' wonders are to .be- unfolded?
What lies , beyond? : What kind of
country? What.ltind of ,people? • Will
romantic dreams "of 'boyhood be a'eal-
ized? Cowboys- Redskins- Prairies? -
Mountains? Surely some of these
moat still exist; and if Hollywood' has
rneeked the. cowboys and redskins
for its own, new interests wilt most
probably have taken 'their place.
The ship cautiously takes its' way
through the tog, and gradually :out, of
the west rises the laud. .A. barren
coastline, so flat that it suggests the
pressure, ages ago, of a gigantic
steamroller .moving slowly back-
wards. and forwards, flatoning out
all but the hardest rock, and throw-
ing up here and- there great mounds
of the earth It has ground 'down.,
The coast is, treeless and "-bare,
with .some isolated, villages of white
houses. An opening in this bleak and
inhospitable shore leads to another.
tea—or what seems a sea—the Gulf
of the St. Lawrence, the mouth of the
mighty St, Lawrence. River, .which,
with its . lakes, rapids and famous
Niagara Falls, connected by ingeni-
ous artificial - waterways, offers a
route for shipping right to the very
heart of the. Continent.
Por two days and -nights the ship
passes between the narrowing shores'
of the river, whose banks become
more and more thickly strewn with
villages. Each has a -church with
high slender steepilo; and there are
vast marshes alive with Ouch, and is-
lands with queer little liaystaeks.
There are ,forests too, now that we
are away from the seaboard, In the
evening of the second day a fountain'I
of. lights announces Quebec—an old
grey stone city more self•eontained,
more rich in memories and steeped in,
tradition than any other on.. the
North American Continent.
After Quebec, another day of the
river, with the landscape more mark-
edly flat: to the north lies a chain of
high ground, and elsewhere two, or
perhaps three, hits rising from the
Plains, arresting and conspicuous in
their loneliness. Beneath one of the
hills stands lliontreal, a city as large'
and populous as Birmingham.
Montreal has some AR the antiquity'
of Quebec; combined with the mo-
dernity of Toronto. It has the sedate
stability Of the one, the youthful
vigor and enterprise sof the other. It
has thrown two linesman bridges
over the St. Lawrence, and is proud
also in the possession of two tower -
like skyscrappers, one of them pos-
sessing within its wall every amenity,
even to a perfectly equiped hospital,
that is desirable in a small English
town.
Prom Montreal the two great rail-
way organizations stretch out their'.
main lines Inc west to the Pacific,,
sending out" short branches to north
and south, at either side, on their
way For the Canada of towns and
cities—the Canada of life and habita-
tion—is a comparatively narrow strip
sandwiched in, fie it were, between
the grim and largely undeveloped
northwest, and the United States ly-
ing parallel to the south. The people
are phlegmatic, as we in England are
supposed to ,.o phlegmatic; perhaps
it is the coldness of the climate. Any-
how,
ny
'tow, the departure of the transcon-
tinental train evokes no thyit, no ex-
citement or general interest.
The first night is a trying experi-
ence to Ole novice. The siren of the
monster locomotive has been likened
to the roar of an angry bull, whilst
there is also a bell that jangles with
regular and tiresome rhythm. One
purpose 0f the bell is to warn motor-
ists with suicidal tendencies of level
crossings, but Judging from the num-
ber of fataltities it would "appear to
be, wasted effort, A glaring search-
light illumines the path ahead. Every-
thing betokens a relentless insist-
ence on the part of' the pioneers to
challenge the mightiness of Nature.
with the power of human kiln; hies-
ing, groaning, protesting almost, the
engine draws its load throughout the
night along the first stage of what
is mostly a single track three thous-
and miles in length. I say- the first
stage because the Dominion of Can-
ada divides itself into thre markedly
different seotions—front the Atlantic
to Winnipeg, from Winnipeg to the
Reales, from the Roelties to the Pa-
cifis. On this first stage there are
forests of conifers -not mighty giants
but timber usually .about twenty feet
high. .There is grey rock and innum-
orable twietiug lakes. One has no
sense of high or low level, but there
is always the,feeling of being on the
edge • of 'some •lofty mountain: an i!-
lusion.due to the extraordinary clear -
noes of the atmosphere plea the ap-
parently, near. horizon. The traveller
gazes through the window the 7vhete
day long, but rile landscape that
meets his eye,when night falls is
identical with that which' he saw at
dawn—forest, grey rock, water.
The lakes are gradually left behind,
and then the cocky groand, only the
forest- still goes on, and that has
cleanings obviously the work of man:
These clearings grow larger and
larger; the forest is now mere strips
ofwoodland which soon disappear)
completely; • it is the edge o4 the
prairie -the great 'wheat belt. In a
short tune we are' in Winnipeg
The .capital of the prairie • has no
trace of old tradition. It has 'builc!-
Inge- which: would grace any great
city, •but hero things are in the mak-
ing. There are no cowboys, but there
is a suggestion that they might pore
cibly appear at any moment. And
the Red India.n in. modern dress 'pass-
es unrecoguieed, Tno pit Oiterelly a
led inside the boat. Stevens belieeed scions mutineers. changeee lloteover; this etas been
lie w" shout to shove oil':
THE 1VI I£ILLOF MUTUAL -
Those cues ale going hack ¢o the tae P,
''Round up the gang, Bunting, and done - in spite of- natural disadvant-
t
C k them .bni;Icl the sht "ordered ages, and ie face of oinetbing worse
Fire insurance. company
he gritted. "They have .prob-:Drake. "Mary, VCR take the boat tban mere bulifferencM.from the out
Head Office sea- rtn Ont. t. ` chin tailed Punting" now." He tinned to :Jake Stevens, side iworltl nkat world which. Elie pee-
... ..
r6uo7�t)7t'y:• .'I.hate you Iike 0,01, Stereos shout With. hand held out.. "Thanks for your' Pte of reeked 11550• actually ledin the
Yee -admit. -Lt:iiet, meths reechweed• ed "but you are a'man! So cin Ii help, Stevens... Do- I unclantand.,you a ecow.rl et 313W
'antis :and in the
irii en st e]ei,rev; ii � 'r seer Searni tw S m and s ti tin the sand \tarn took .Jake's' awn, 'and dabbed . •
, boy Gib- bead lain ---'-`•':
James Sho,1(1.1,. tkauon: lnrraY Gib- P g
at Ids bleeding f. ice with" her hand. CHARM
view .'Inure genrtelh • deidei gel feline
:11e � ,� � � � �'�`Is"' tanddear -ourats!°' - . are returning to the t;:r.;;t+.f- rc!i•stipporting colonies."
x
Rob ttierield; Wm.
tans, ennewth? kerchief. She s:nswered,.wvith bhang
Robert Berrie, J, . gone/inn s erich.veir, • Phe' beautiful women is .not al-
78codbagen; .les. Connnllw. Goderdch
" �'�DIAId (TION L
TIME TABLE
Trains will arive at and depart, from
Clinton as follows:
Buffalo and Goderich Div.
Going East, depart' 6.44 a.m.
Going Vest, ar.
ay 6.63
eyes and high cetera • wage -tee one who creates the great
Agents: Alex Leitch,' Clinton; ,7, W
"If Jake doesn't, I won't()
(To' be continued.),
LIFE EVERMORE
Oiu•:past life is not past; it Tives in
at least two ways: in the character'
ive have formed and the influence we
have exerted. All lite is a springtime
o dp. 6.43 p,m, of sowing; "in due season we shall
si . 10.31 p.m, reap.' Heaven lies hidden in. our
London, Huron '& Betio; daily deed, even as the oak with all
.Che' graduate thought he would de -
Going its eeniii:ies of: growth and alt; its
South, an 7.40 sip. 7,40 a.m.
Vote himself • to literature. "You' „ y 4,0s p,m, summer glory sleeps in the acorn oup•
know," he said, "1 am convinced that Gofng North, depart 0.42 pin. 1
I have a literary bent." "Keep et.ti,"I " ar, 11,40 'dp. 11.53 a,ni. Funds for prohlbidon c,nforce.nleet
said hie presatr, ,c "ane.vet:'1 bol are the Intake for the wipiceep of elle, To do 000'5 duty is character's large room on the s,ven h floor) 16 a
literally
.$en, Goderich; Ldp 7:iinehiey 5eafortll 'sit f - t i t•
3331 nth, Brodhagen.
Any. money- to. be paid may be paid
;Yo Moorish Clothing linton, or of
¢"elvin Cutt's Grocery, Co,:Goderich.
Parties desieleg to effect insurance or
transact other business Will be promptly
.. A' Muita.Y,- 7�gmondvlile;. Si,. G. Jar-
ttenttsd to on application to any of the
el'man - ane eino ton 1 a. man s
life.- It is Indeed' sufficient in her les.
ser dowered sister that she has some
moments of appealing beauty,which
arrest, the memory, and the :return
'02 Which quickens the interest•
hove officers: addressed'to their respec- 2 60 p m
ve poet offices.' Losses inspected by' the
\ 11.60 a.m.•
!rector who lives nearest the scene...
ACTIONS.
There are lies told by actions as
welgas lies told by words, and ethice
give no more countenance to the one
than the other.
ore
Our a crease In sales in 1929
over 1928 shows that there
were over seven hundred
and ten thousand additional
SALADA users last
"tr'. y
91
T
°Fresh from the gardens'
,where grain 1s bought and sold. It is are beside the Frazer" River,forcing
a little reminiscent of'the niost hectic its woy by narrow gorges to the Pa
corner of Epson', Downson -a bygone
Derby day. The network of -overhead
wires and reeling telegrapb posts
'which are such eyesores, every
Canadian city seem to be in greater
profusion than elsewhere. The
str'eete are a babel of every Etm'opean
language, and shops appear to . sell
everything, and nothing in particular.
The smaller prairie cities, and "there
are many, have the same characteris-
tics: Calgary, Regina, Edmonton, Sat -
:lateen. Edmonton is seventyflve
years, old, Saskatoon twenty-five.
Both have universities, trams, large
stores, hotels, and so forth. In see.
eral,of them a river with banks sixty
or seventy feet high offers a more
varied .landscape. The fork or !lend
of a rived determined the site of a
city in the dominion as elsewhere. A
strange feature of those prairie towus
le the very marked and abrupt fas-
hion in_ which city and prairie meet.
It is scarcely an exaggeration to say
that it possible to step from front
door to Inutile.
Mile upon 'mile the wheat stretches.
Grain elevators tower up, store-
houses of the harvest, by wayside
stations. Such trees as exist are
small and stunted;. the whiter is too
bard and hitter and long for then to
flourish. There is no haze on the dis-
tant
istant landscape; the sky is crystal
clear. If the for -d, lake and rock
country seemed .monotonous, the
prairie seen from the trail is of un-
utterable, deadly sameness. How-
ever, the travelers say that tomor-
row we shall see the Rockies. And,
indeed their first appearance is start-
ling. The prairie begins to take on a
new character—that of undulating
dawns, uncultivated but with some
solitary fir trees. The train follows
a river bed, and the line, hitherto so
straight across the prairie, begins
to curve, till suddenly in the west,
through the moving mist as though
floating in air, towers peak after
peak, a mighty Wal which stretches
alorth and south as tar as the eye can
see. Into the heart of this wall, fol-
lowing the water, the train strikes,
until the vast ridges of the spine of
the continent rear up on either side.
The rock forms are fantastic, and the
firs which grow in the valleyclimb
up until there Is no earth left. At in-
tervals the stream broadens out into
little lakes, eo stili that they mirror.
the peaks as clearly as any glass.
The valley narrows, and a Balt marks
the Great Divide. The water now
falls west to the Pacific, and there is
a sharp drop by means 02 spiral tun-
nels. From now onwards the train
follows fleet one valley 0111 then an-
other. The curves are so violent and
make such hairpin bends that the
engine driver and guard could almost
shake hands as the long train turns
and loops ,about itself.
The line climbs again over the Sel-
kirk Range, and it is with regret that
the traveller finis himself debarred
by nightfall from enjoying some of
the most magnificent mountain scen-
t i the world Next morning we
I ISSUE No. 5—'3d Idowaim t of the output. beauty. .
picture of frenzied cosr,alerdialism
cific. The 'valleys lie between mould
tains whose slopes Have much riches
vegetation than that which clothes
the slopes of the Rockies; and now,
for 'the first time, the trees attain con-
siderabie size and are much more
varied.. The. air Is .softer:- The grass
is green (the last green grass eve saw
was two thousandmiles away oil
some golf links) and beside a wooden
farmhouse is a herd of Alderney
cows, The river widens and flows
more sluggishly: it is strewn with
the myriad logs which encumber
every Canadian waterway. The val-
ley broadens, too, and in an hour or
so the line, after passing along the
shore of what appears to be a Swiss
lake, runs between the .ramshackle
habitations which betray the vicinity
of a city. .- We are in Vancouver.
Above the platform tower the masts
of great ships boundfor the islands
of the Pacific—for China and Japan
and for Australia—and above them
again tower tate cloudy mountain tops
of British Columbia.
There is a magnificently situated
unive.'iity, a remarkably equipiled
technical school, which daring my
visit was busy preparing in its own
charming theatre a performance of
Shakespeare's 'Henry V.', the custom-
ary
ustomary patatial hotels and vast stores
and factories. It has a park situated
on a prornoutory, the road around it
is nine miles long, whose centre is
to all intents and purposes virgin for-
est with a few giants 150 to 208
feet Irigh. At its uttermost point,
where the rock rises from the sea, it
is possible to look clown on the decks
of passing strips almost as from the
air, white there are sandy bays where
the happy citizens can enjoy sea anti
sun to their hearts' desire.
"Wiry do you wear that costume?
It looks like half mourning."
"Well, every evening when you
come home from the office you coin-
plain of being halt dead."
The less you can enjoy, the poorer,
the scantier yourself; the more you
can enjoy, the richer, the more v!gor-
ous.—Lavater,.
Nee 1
a�
People are often too patient with pain.
Suffering when there is no need to suf-
fer. Shopping with a head that throbs.
Working though they ache all over.
And Aspirinwould bring them im-
mediate
mmediate relief!
The best time to take Aspirin is the
very moment you first feel the joain.
Why postpone relief until the pain has
reached its height? 'Why hesitate to
take anything so harmless?
Read the proven directions for check-
ing colds, easing a sore throat; relieving
headaches and the pains of neuralgia;
neuritis, rheumatism, etc.
You can always count on its quick
comfort. But if pain is of frequent
recurrence See a doctor as to its cause.