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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT.. THUR SDAY. DEC. 13, 1923 FOUNTAIN PEN FREE Three sets of " Poker Hands" will bring you a highgrade oversize self-filling Fountain Pen. This Pen has 14kt. gold nib--and comes in four attractive colours -- red, black, mottled or jade. This is one of many presents procurable in exchange for " Poker Hands," one of which is attached to every plug of Big Ben Chewing Tobacco. Big Ben is rich, satisfying and flavourful. Try it to-day. BIG BEN Plug Chewing Tobacco Floods Cause a Venice Like Aspect Many New Flying Clubs Are Formed Eight Applications Now Be ing Considered by Defence Department Ottawa.---Eight applications for now flying clubs are being considered by the Department of National Defence. Sixteen clubs have been formed throughout the Dominion since Way 1. The first club was formed in Toronto early that month, and the last license was granted to tho Calgary club Thei i the EYES! Smiling BLUI Flashing BLACK €% Steady GRAY © Emotional BROWN What Color arc YOUR Eyes? The color and shape of the eyes tell your disposition--thev also tell of the condition of your health. You may be marring the beauty and sparkle of your eyes by improper diet. Impoverished condition of your blood, sluggish liver, constipn-sooii show their effects PROPERTY LOSS OF $10,000,000 CAUSED BY FLOOD A street intersection at Neodesha. Kansas. Seventeen are reported from the flood-stricken area in the mid-western sta hundreds of people were forced out of their homes. South Pole Flight I British Engineer by Wilkins's Party Crosses Danakil Told by Wireless in Abyssinia NEGLECTED ANAEMIA Message to Pilot's Father Reports Success in the | Antarctic New York-- Radio messages sent from the antarctic by Capt. Sir I Hubert Wilkins told of the fir-t air- ! flight mad _> over that region. One message, addressed to Ole j Eielson of Hatton, N.D., father of Liout Hen Eielson, pilot of the oxpe- j "Ben made first antarctic flight to-day. Regards. Wilkins." A second message was received by j the Wright Aeronautical Corporation. Tho Wiikins expedition, the object of which is to study weather conditions and locate suitable places in the antarctie for meteorological stations, left New York, Sept. 22. They were bound for Deception Island, a deserted bit of land 60 miles off the coast of Graham land, due south of Cape Horn, the southern extremity of South America. From a base either on Graham Land or Deception Island they hoped to mak<? eights of exploration east .-long Graham Land and west to the Ross i Sea, The latter flights would carry expedition. The messages from Wil- j kins were sent via Port Stanley in the , Falkland Islands. *in addition to Wilkins and Eie' .on, I other members of the expedition are Joe Croeson, assistant pilot, William , Gaston and Orval Porter, mechanics. Self-Expression Nationalist in the Glasgow Herald (Cons.): Tho mere machinery of local government will mean nothing without a revival of national culture. A city that throngs to see barbarous and crude American concoctions which would not be allowed to disgrace the opera house of a third-rate Continental town, but form the habitual diet of London, is yet a long way removed in civilization from normal European cities. We have nothing to lose but everything to gain by severing our connection with England, and a collapse of the Condon theatres in Glasgow, as in Dundee, would give our municipality an opportunity of extending its present, laudable T^ork in music, etc. Mr. Facing-Both-Ways Ottawa Citizen (Lib.): Plain sense insjstrf that if you formally agree to renounce war and settle disputes by pacific means, there is no reason for the existence of a navy, let alone for the increase of a navy. But plain Benae does not always carry the day In the discussion of navies and peace. Statesmen and political leaders live in a world wkich is full of awkward obstacles in the way >' accepting words to mean what they say. So, as in President Collidge's case, we are sometimes presented with tho ironic spectacle of a leader asking his followers to ratify a treaty outlawing war on the one hand, and to vote vast sums for the increase of the navy on thc other. Passage of Upper and Lower Regions Said to be First Done by Europeans London--An account of what is claimed to be the-first crossing by Europeans of the Upper and Lower Danakil of Abyssinia is published in The Times. The journey was accomplished by L. M. Nesbitt, a British mining engineer, accompanied by two Italian traders. T. Pastori and G. Rosina, with a caravan of 15 natives, 26 camels and 4 mules. Tho party started from Hawash Bridge station on the Jibuti-Addis Abeba Railway, on March 13, zigzagged along the course of the Hawash River to the Sultanate of Aussa, where they were met by an escort from the Sultan, who, after a period of mistrust, gave the travelers safe conduct to the borders of his dominions. Thence they marched north to the Bfru Sultanate, where water holes are four or even six days apart and the heat is extreme owing to the greater part of the land being several hundred feet below sea level. Ultimately they arrived at Assale-Dolol, on the borders of the Italian colony of Eritrea, reaching the coast village of Mersa Fatima a few days later on July 1. Mr. Nesbitt is expected to lecture before the Royal Geographical Society Sauce for the Goose Calgary Herald (Ind. Cons.): (The Argentine is showing pardonable irritation at the United States' prohibitive tariff wall policy.) Canada is in a position to sympathize with the South American Republic. This country tas endured the American conception of friendly commercial relations for many years. Canadians have had to grin and bear it, although they buy more from the United States than from any other nation. The moment any Canadian commodity finds a ready market across the border, the tariff is raised against it. The remedy for unequal treatment lies within the power of Canada as it does in that of the South American republics. It consists of retaliation in kind. A LAUGHIJOABY ! IS A GREAT JOY What can give more joy in the' home than a laughing, happy baby. | Tho well child makes everyone happy I with his tuneful gurgle and bright; laughing eyes. It is on-y the sickly I baby who is not a laughing baby, for ' it is the little one's nature to be happy when well. Mothers, if < Often Leads to a Decline--Enrich the Blaod by Taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Norway Wins Fight i to Get Blue Whales; $2,500,000 Research Expedi-j tion Financed by British Goes for Naught--But Sad Part is Extermination of Sea Monsters London.--Norway has apparently PARENTS HAPPY WHEN BABY SLEEPS SOUNDLY langour gro- thles I palp tation follow., with low spirits. At the first symptom of anaei.ila mothers should act at once. Neglected anaemia often leads to decline, but if you see that your daughter's blood is enriched there need„be no cause for anxiety. Tho finest blood enricher ever discovered is Dr. Williams' Fink Pills. 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I gained in strength and weight, and the color :e-turned to my cheeks, and at the end of the term I graduated. I never fall to recommend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to my friends and acquaintance when a tonic is needed." You can get these pills from your druggist, or by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. will probably be raised in ' baby is cross, if was about the power let me do wrong." I "Why. sir, neither will r a poor conscience that v lialf-way." "Weii." eaid the purveyor of plati-tudaa, "there are always just as good •jspo-jded the di*- j Wizard's Liniment for Chapped Hands. happy, give him a dose of Baby's Own Tablets and he will soon be well and ready to radiate thai through the home again. Baby's Own Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative. They regulate the bowels and sweeten the stomach and thus banish constipation and indigestion; break up colds and simple fovers and correct those troubles which accompany the cutting of teeth and in doing those things--and doing them well--they make baby happy and keep him happy. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams-Medicine Co., Brockville, Cnt. The public knows and cares little about a business rivalry so far from home, but the business interests involved are resentful. Their disappointment is all the sharper because :>L',50i',o0u has been spent in trying to establish a profitable industry for England in the Antarctic. An elaborately equipped research expedition, for example, was sent to the south aboard the ship Discovery to investigate the whale and its habits. The Discovery returned with a mass of scientific information, yet the expedition must be called a failure from the British business point of view. Only two British companies are now operating in the Antarctic, as compared with thirteen energetic Norwegian companies there. More than 10,000 whales are killed each year and the value of whale oil produced annually has risen to more than S30.00o.O00. The Norwegians, using floating whale-oil "factories" built in England, have pushed ahead until they have almost a monopoly of the indus- v.ytching the situation here is the gradual extermination of the great blue whale which American whalers once killed in small numbers hilt which the Norwegians are now killing by thousands. Licenses for whaling were once issued for small British stations cm the shores of the Falkland Islands: but thc Norwegians have made licenses unnecessary by their floating whaling stations, which are utterly unregulated. The great Ant- fret in lcugth, multipli slowly, and 'if the British oil interest had their way they would acquire the Norwegian whaling stations with encouage-ment from the Colonial Ofllcc h and would then press for international regulations to govern the whaling trade. Only in this way, It is argued here, will It be possible for British interests to reap the benefits of expeditions like the Discovery's and make England once more a factor in the only industry of importance in tho Classified Advi stocking -ass Go W ,91:15 « FARM M0 STOCK ACCOUNT BOOKS dollars for his book. Write for yours to-day: Hamilton Carhartt Cotton Mills Ltd., Toronto Over Twenty Thousand Agcncie* effect, however, ti which the industria selling to the sou But there is no reas mobile or piano ma should allow GANGER FREE BOOK Sent on Request • the :and;c. The reme He now tablish h cturer of On-self to suffer r very long, own hands. 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