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British Whig [= | SS The Daily KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918 - SECOND SECTION HAS ROMANTIC PAST, Africa Possesses No ture to Tell Its Story. "Of all the dominions of the Brit- ish Empire, South Afriea has had the most varied and romastic bistory," ddd Ambrose Pratt writes in "The Real South Africa." "From north to south, from east to west. the coun-| try is dotted with menuments to commemorate battles, treaties, and other eritical events, South Africa, moreover, is a land of ex- South =e THE England Speaks ay STANDARD BANK eA _ OF CANADA HEAD OFFICE « TORONTO Litera. HAVE before me a great pile of | printed matter and phoiographi i information which Britis} Pictorial Service and the new formed Department of Commercial] the BUSINESS ACCOUNTS ony Canadi =0r for who mer da tennis, teas at ¢ bridge in the paragraph be o Hav Summer aft he the aye f interest. ing spent the and fa) Banff ag tl place ij i Ix those think of sym ¥8 playin ernoon hotels, and dances ' 'nings, follow} neg may (10,453 ft.) {eribable expectancy as you reach &,ing was now in all the rich tints of traordinary scenic splendor, of fas- cination and of mystery.' In no other part of the world are there to be found vaster stretches of high table- land so weirdly broken and relieved with strange shaped: hills, deep gorges and dongas, and dark inac- cessible ravines. There are taller mountains elsewhere, but tone more bold and starkly menacing in form; none that fling out such endless sue- cessions of jagged, frowning rpurs; none that offer a more powerful ap- peal to the imagination, "The most experienced traveler meets startling surprises in South Africa at every turn. The country has been built in 'a fashion peculiar to itself, eign prototype. It resembles no- thing so much as the flat roof of a mighty battlemented Gothic castle pushed sheer upward into the blue on tier on tier of precipitous Cyeclo- pean rocks, and supported and de- fended from the lower world by a multitude of giant flying buttresses ----each rock a stralght and lofty mountain, each = buttress a naked mountain spur incomparably bleak; magnificent and stern. The air has | a quality of clarity that makes even the limpid brightness of the Aus tralian atmosphere seem like mist | In this article [ wish to deal with The veld is without a for-| Intelligence are sending to the ends of the earth in the iaterests of British Empire's side of the war. What a healthy change this policy represents from the drst cautious] months, when the authorities were] afraid to let anything out for foar of | "conyfort to the enemy!" { ihe | { All classes of business accounts receive careful attention. 237 E8T'D 1873 KINGSTON BRANCH, J. F. ROWLAND, Manager. the work of the Pictorial Service, | { Thousands upon thousands of bat- | | tle-front pictures have been taken, at] sea and on !and, and the photo-| graphers have dared anyihing and : everything to get them, | There are four pictorial booklets-- "The Sentinels of the Seas," "Carry On," "Behind the Lines," "Through Swamps and Forest." They are the first in a series," broadcast tongues. ; | There is a string of beautifully ¥ illustrated papers, periraying all phases of military activities, pub-| lished for consumption in the East, | | near and far. | Among the extensive assortment of | | maps and diagram sheets here is & | great chart showing 1 "WHAT GERMANY WANTS: | HER CLAIMS AS SET FORTH in all. ~~ Couches, Chesterfields, Furniture Tables, Chairs and Rockers All Latest Designs and Finishes. Largest and Best Selection. R. J. Reid in the mq Making m ating to be The sunsets surpass in gorgeousness | BY LEADERS OF GERMAN : . and brazen glory the sunsets of ali THOUGHT." : | Leading Undertaker. Phone 577. : ther lands; and the vivid colorin | : : grins The whole world is here laid out,| gs of the 'bush,' the dour scarlet star-| : ? For Infants and Childred. CR PN TR ITC red monotone of the veld, are facts | On Mercator's projection,'and the red| in and contrasts that strike: like shafts| Spots are tie would-be dominion of| of Mire into the fancy. Inexorably | the Hun. Genuine Castoria Ountaing my gradu climb of Cathe the. Alpine h of Hector summit cannot be understood, nor {Roman days. The mountains wore can it be even by those who climb. |blues and purples, the pine trees look- You hold your breath and wonder ined dark and dismal, and the yellows { which direction to look first; each |and reds of other trees looked deeper A of the moun: | step means so much, like steps taken iand richer than they had an hour fnorning train slowly and deliberately in some great (ago. here I had a crisis in life. They are of such im The dusk was falling guickly, and leaving at port. The first snow-capped peak ap- [the path was barely discernible pears--a few ps are taken | when nearing the end of the trail. when a glaci hung summit comes |The lights of Field now began twinks into view: then more peaks with ling through the trees like so many their snow fields, even the crevasses stars. There were fifty minutes be- {were dis £ s, another few steps|fore my train left, though one had and the sumr ge: sd; never as just passed and I wondered if I had long as 1 | Il that moment be {mistaken the time on account of the walk forgomeen; | ahead for the sum- {mbuntain and Pacific time. so why - and being fond ig to the Yoho mit tt it of the view be-|leave! I sat down on the trail, the dy but gradual hind mountains in allinight had come, the day was passed he timber was tion ar as the eye could and my wonderful walk a thing of the autumnal [reach I my left the past, but what memories, and ind fruit bushes [with Eme¢ g at its base what a Thanksgiving Day. One touch of « r.| (more than .any {never to be forgotten. "Alone!" / of the foliage emerald) atiful valley.|No, one is not alone when with Na moss in varied President and nt ahead [ture for many voices are heard: such bronze. and the lof me, Mount Wapta to my right, |were my thoughts at this moment e pigeon berries {with its pony trail leading to theiwhen I heard a sound--what was b trail: a stream |Yoko on its side, Cathedral and moving on the trail? 'A figure y down the moun-| Mount Stephen southeast and {emerged from the gloom, and he too retard one's pro-ite the south of | was "alone." [| spoke first and asked "stepping stones" | smew capped mountains the thought arises in the traveler's| All South American is red, and | mind: 'Here is a country to compel | MOst ot Africa. The bloody trail is into existence an original and peer-| Over Scandiavia and the whole of less literature, to breed a race of | Central Burope, Turkey, Syria, | poets, with a brand new message for| China, the Dutch West Indices. One| mankind." He, merely prepares for | Wonders at the moderation of the] himself another astonishment. | cartographer in leaving out the "This wonderful land is practical-, United States. do ly destitute of an indigenous litera- In the border of the chart there are| ture: it has almost absolutely failed' thirty-six quotations riving the swol-| to inspire its ewn children. Olive len vaticinations of Prussian imper-| Schreiner has written 'The Story of ialists. | a South African Farm. Sir Percy | "Hollat, together with her royal Fitzgerald has written 'Jack of the family, her European possessions and] Bushveld." The prose achievements her colonies in South America, the] of South Africa that are worthy of Indian Islands and Australagia, must { note very nearly begin and end with become the all of Germany," writes : those two books. The country is Tannenberg in "Gross Deutschland." = Fan, equally tongue-tied in poetry. One' Werner Sombart claims Dover, | ROY: The Provrietary or Tatent Medic t hears of a few Fmglish versifiers and Malta, and Suez as stations for fhe] : Ads Hic Frovatation or. | reads their songs only to be sharp- German fleet. ? AVegela thefood ty Regula ly disappointed. The Dutch Afrikan- similating es J General von Bernhardi lays stress] ders have no prose literature deserv-' upon the value of Denmark as com-| more st the. t time was the J. Be so many de ge AAvots, Burgess er, M#very beautiful Babee! walking i to Field, hours per, PORTERS EE night. y Where t 3 22 10 80 in tha an 88 there {ha Ul und charmingfth h 6 pm. The . er +0 p.m i Pasg Was sald to he a pMieen used by hacen! all the Soavy and beautify} ints on poplar gave just the. Added 1g the beau were high banks shades of green an bright scarlet of 6 Va8 seen along ¢ time tre Vit range upon range me rushing ma ady felt repaid by ally dumb and numb of soul I was liter: {if the train that had just passed was 2 side, ay 4 8, but the gee seven hy irae § ed up w! \ Sunday my goal ome ut over 0 save thy 4 » par ha or se tb ery. Woy spendd, No {the regular, and to my joy it was not. Mh. Mount Stephen [thought or words could exppress This "Lonely Figure"!! had walked gid, be seen to ad isneh a 'moment, it was several min{foffriesn miles. We went back to the sramd needless to utes before | could think, and then I{hote] together. Kindred spirits and the latter inter: | found my spul breathing a prayer of lone with nature. He told me of his no! forgotten my | joy--utter joy in the fact that 1 was travels in the Alps and the Sierras, reach it alive and could enjoy such a view-- but nothing touched this for ast the peak loom- {it aan even the Grand Canyon jgrandeur. He asked if there was ight must surely be {of Arizona. To be under the canopy much to see at Banff, and | said no. jlately took a short of heaven with no living thing in|thing that compares with this. "I k and shale, think [sight as far as the eye could reach, should," he said, "imagine it were bh Jead to my won- | where only silence is heard, for a|rather.the edge of things," and my alas' nothing but|silence such as 'hat is not silence, answer said, that expressed it per- 1,4 Bhead After sev | for the "Infinite" speaks It sur- feetly. We both agreed that to see a Jtray was found and [passed any service ever attended on (the real nature of the mountains the hi ob til another | Thanksgiving Day. 1 was not only beaten trails and high roads should or 4 As Mount Burgess jon the summit, but further away Ilbe left and the pony trails and high 7: BotMand | was walk [knew not whers, on another plane: [roads should be taken, either on foot dlnger, Mr. Jag Cellers. has reached a repuliftion. no grammars; guages jumbled together, That Mr. dium, 48 remarkable; warmest admirers admit that narrow," "Crudely stated, sulted in 200,000 persons in | ing of the hame at all, and but one ever The Taal has It is a wretched patois, merely the slang of half a dozen lan- Jan Cellers is acclaimed a poet at all, confining himself to such a me- vet even his hig voice is 'still and soft,' and his range the war has re- the United Kingdom being married be- manding the approaches to the Bal-| tie. ¢ i Ernest 'Hasse intends to absorh the | Scandinavian countries, { The bold editor, Maximilian Har-| den, whose independence of thought] has been admired even by his fops,| talks of "German cannon on the routes to Egypt and India" as] "worthy of great sacrifices." | Another portrays "The British Em- | pire at War," giving the homes of the fighting men and the routés they have traveled to come to Britain's { aid, and the part of the far-flung battle-line that they hold, now. | The territory occupied by the Cen- tral powers outside their own borders Bears the Signature of oting Digester Gheerfutnessand Rest Goria Lh neither Opium, Morphine Li it Mineral, Not KARCOTIY er a £ vi Use De edy oF (Remedy Anelpt ee Diarrhoe Mg base of the summit, |another world--at least in the world ler riding. then the grandeur: the Wg Rhe sky line between of thought | magnificence, and awe inspirin Ing" roes (they were now | The sun was now dipping' behind canadian Rockies can be seen to od 85g fher between) | knew Mount Burgess and how quickly theip.o advantage A fet days should Sop, tance to my summit. icol@i changed, the Emerald Lake ly, cpent at Field, or if time will not Toy, f hours haa' npw gone | became - the calor of olivines, the |... ow at least miss one thaln to RG waghe day was periect and imountains began tq grow hazy. It) " Jdless so that one a time td leave ae would through Burgess Pass, for the whole tween August, 1914, and June, 1917, who in the ordinary course would not have married," says Sir Bernard Mal- | Ist. president of the Statistical So- ciety. The loss of potential lives to the bélligerent countries by the decrease in the number of children born was | perhapé the most important effect | upon vital statistics produced by the : 4 | war, he said. In births the United nimi | Kingdom had suffered far less than | Germany and Hungary, the United Kingdom having lost 10,000 to a million of the population, Germany 1 40,000, énd Hungary 70,000. The infant mortality in the sum- mer of 1917 appeared to have been very high in several German cities, and the German rate remained some 50 per cent. higher than in England. An alteration in the sex ratio of birth appeared to be: established by the figures of the United Kingdom, » the proportion of males having not- iceably increased. Contrary to ex- pectations, the war had produced no effect on illegitimate births. jshness and ¥ SLEEP TT of TacSimile hr a ema-- Centatn COMPAR § MONTREAL 8 NEW yoRK. 3 At oh adds up to'109,500 square miles. The territory held by the Allies outside their own borders adds up lo 676,010 square miles. There are also four-page pictorial! sheets, such as "Bagdad in British Hands," "Haig's Smashing Blow in the West," and "The United States at War." The latter presents qn the front page the president's portrait. Above it in French, German, and English are his words: "We are now about to accept gage of battle with this national foe to] liberty, and shall, if necessary, spend the whole force of the nation to check and 'nullify iis pretensions and its power." There is also a war atlas, bound appropriately in rad cartridge paper, the maps made at Stanford's classic establishment. Poor Stanford died last spring, heart-broken over the loss of his son. The foreword to plains: "THis atlas has been désigned to illustrate for the student not only the actual battle fromts but also some of the general aspects of th world war. | : "The first five maps show without comment the theatérs of war in the West, in the East, om the Italian front, in the Balkans, #hd in the Asiatic possessions in Turkey. The! sixth map illustrates in greater de- tail the British front in the West, while the seventh shows the various theatres of war im which British troops are engaged and the vast dis- For Over Thirty Years GASTORIA THE SUNTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, {trip is certainl y ob. Wat" gp fect of views, I wonder vertaks me, so I started, loath to go I 00s Yiew pif aroun that one {ne he worth the climb fter an hour ahd a quarter walking | ¥ e ly has climbad the indes (steadily | sat down to rest: the cclor.! A AN NP AL ; ki En : 3 5 Doses ih ol A A A AA AHN Att ENN. rt Exact Copy ol Wrapper. on the requirements of the men in the Army will natur- the atlas ex- ally be of interest to those who have relations or friends in the service. The clipping, given herewith, is an ex- tract from this paper and shows that Zam-Buk is ard- ed by those in authority as indispensable. So much so, in fact, that large orders for Zam-Buk have been received from the Government for the British Army in France. Zam-Buk is put up in boxes of convenient size for carrying 'a the pocket, so that a man may have it read to apply at the right moment. Many a case of blood. isoning has been avoided by the timely use of Zam. uk. There is nothing can take its place for cuts, burns, barbed wire scratches, blisters, bruises, sprains, rheumat- ism, chapped hands, cold cracks and sores of all kinds. Don't let your soldier go without his box of Zam-Buk. In the home, also, Zam-Buk is just as necessary for the many little accidents which are of almost daily occurrence, as well as for more serious troubles such as eczema, chronic sores, blodd-poisoning and piles. All dealers or Zam-Buk Co., Toronto. 50c box, 3 for $1.25, EXTRACT FROM' "WAR OFFICE TIMES" Sa #° "Came From Newfoundland. The Daily Mail says it is feared that the'Antarctic relief ship Aurora, which took part in the Shackleton expedition, has been lost with all hands while returning to England. It is understood the vessel sailed from Wellington, N.Z,, iz June with a crew of about 22, and nothing has been heard from it since. Vessels sent out to search for it found only a life-buoy marked Aurora and some wreckage. Lloyds recently posted the Aurora as being considerably overdue. 'The Aurora, formerly a Newfound- Amongst the troubles with which Army has to cope is the quea- tion of sore feet amongst the men. This may sound trivial, but in reality is a matter of the gravest ce. Obviously, to be of Ase, an army must be in good ing condition, but it is a 1 impossibility for even the a man to go om if he is suf- fering from sore feet. Prom information which reaches us from the front, however, this Sides to a Story! Don't take the other fellow's word for tances which they have safely tra- it. Find out for yourself. veled under the protection of the British navy, "ew. "0 We are only asking for the opportun- land sealing steamer, carried the| "The eighth map demonstrates the ity to quote on your printing needs. . . | Mawson colla of Germany's ambition | Adelie Land in 1913 and resins tne the 'East, and the "ain" utrates The first decision does not prove that 'While going to tho assistance of the . we are, or the other fellow is, the highest tenderer on other decisions. There is such a thing as 'doing some Shackleton expedition early in 1916 the Aurore was damaged and return- work without profit just to "get on the in- side track." 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