* 4 ee Was Rewarded After | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. re ---- ee -- FRAY, OCTOBER 8, 19%0. ---- ee ---------- ee -- -- CANADIAN AIR FORCE NEWS Published by special arrangement with the Aeroplane News Bureau. Fifteen Years Search Halifax Woman Never Cease lac for the / stored Her Heaith. "I have been fifteen years looking for something that would relieve me of my awful sufferings, but it was only when I got Tanlac that I found Just what I'd been needing all the time," declared Mrs. Frank Walk. er, 144 Duncan street, Halifax N.S8.. "For many years I was in a ter- ribly run-down condition. and nerves were in a dreadful fix. such awful spells of that I was in bed for days at a time. At night I was so restless 1 would | lie awake for hours, and [ felt tired | P Chown and by th | gists and worn out all the time. Every -- A Sri a om co on an ROBINSON CRUSOE'S GUN. wl = wi Hes Been Rounds of Museums, is In- sured for $10,000. London museums are full of the weapons of kings, generals and mous men, but Robinson Cr gun is still in private hand Just returned to London tody of its owner, Mr. | 1 a tour of the museums of the British Isles. It is true that Robinson Crusoe & fiction character, and 1 invented him, but any in the kingdom can teil breathless phrase that i founded on fact and really was a liv- ing person. The original "Ro Crusoe was Alexander Selkirk, this is the gun with which h put ashore on the ds t Ivan Fernandez, 400 mile Chill coast. Life at sea in the days of Will of Orange and Good Queen Ann: no smoother than it now ander Selkirk behaved 18 ship's captain as he father, and was put ashore on desert island as a rew ard for wicked- ness. He was landed with a bag of bullets, a pound of powder, and flint-lock musket, Mr. Randolph Berens has musket to-day, He came by pure collector's luck, He was Oxford and the Ashmolean in 1882. The porter of the showed him around. MM; marked that there wore fow in Oxford then, and porter agreed, but mentioned tI at he had I Crusoe 8 was 18 a Museum iseum fa- | / Says She Will time 1 trigd Yo do anything it was an Praising Tan- | cf: of 1 €¢ dowR and rest. Way it Has Re- Bo awaw for my health, but when I was 80 weak I had to I was advised to rt, afid irned 1 wq worse off than be- fore My friends were all worried over my condition, and as 1 could find nothing to help*me I was al- desperate after hearing so much good Tanlac was doing most "One about the {others 1 decided to give it a trial, | My nerve {and I sleep g my | long I had | ache and have regained my strength sick headaches {and energy 'and my house " [day thi { lam |there, but died lieutenant aboard his Majesty's ship | bis fat and sing: the way four bottles of the medicine built me 4p. are as steady as a clock »d and sound all night I never have a sign of a head- it is surpr work is now a real pleasure." Tanlac is sold in Kingston by A. e leading drug- in every town. --Advt. offered an old ich was still in his Jo Mr. Berens exar and w surprised roughly name La been flintlock gun dge. the find piece, that to the A. Selkirk, and in smaller + N.B Un the other * date Anna R. 1701. Ac- rding to our h story books of to- 3 date is wrong, but according to the old calender it is correct. On the wooden heel of the butt is > legend ters, ce haile, > well and pryme me; To kill I will not fail." Mr. Berens bought the gun for 25s. {and did his best to trace its history. | { He found near Claph Alexander Se at the piece came from and it is known that k owned a tavern at sea, aged 47, Weymouth in 1723. The weapon has been exhibited » city of Bristol and other ex- itions, and is insured for no less than £2,000. The Law of Supply and Demand. The Customer---When will you be to supply those goods I ordered, ? | I'he Grocer--We expect to have a | plentiful supply, ma'am, when the prices' commission has given its con- sent to raise the prices. The Saskatchewan legislature will meet Nov. 4th. on DON PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, ---- eevee for there Children nut-like C00 be added Every Granule Full of Health and y granule is eatable, he gam waste to rape:Nuts love its sweet favor, it is ready- and no in serving. Mad Canadian Postum Cereal Co, Ltd. ade by Canadian ( Tn i sugar need Ontario chip carved on the stock was i as | : i Camp Borden, Oct. 8, paralory to commencing the regular nz of Canadian Air Forces a t i of special flying has now been in progress here for several weeks f burpose of giving special gE 10 the staff of eight or ten lving Instructors. The question of the general im- provement in the layout and appear- ance of Camp Borden has been con- sidered by Air Commodore A. K. Ty- lee, Officer Commanding, Canadian Air Force, who has been in consul- tation with Mr. Thomas Adams, Town Planning Adviser to the Government, A plan hag now been formulated to 9mpioy for a period of one year, two students trained in scientific agricul- ture who are also ex-officers of the loyal Air Force, to undertake the work of supervising the growing of turf on the aerodrome and the other improvements in the general layout which .are contemplated. At the same time they will assume. the di- rection of the labar employed in keep- | ing the camp in proper order, as this has been brought to be a very econ- | omical solution of the problem. With | Proper guidance it is expected that this labor intelligently employed will, !in a few years, work a transformation in the whole appearance of the camp. Canadian Air Force Regulations, The recently drafted regulations for the Canadian Air Forces have now been approved by the Governor- in-Council, and it is expected that they will be shortly ready for issue in printed form to all parties con- cerned, These "regulations are a modification of Imperial Air Force Act (which is itself a repetition with slight alterations of the Imperial Act 1881 and Amendment) the Rules of Procedure, The King's Regulations | and Orders of the Royal Air Force, and connected statutory rules, and Orders-in-Council. The changes made are only such as are required to adapt the English provisions to a wholly non-professional force, pf which only a few of the members are on duty for more than one month in every 24 and none on duty for longer | than one year except on a special re- port to the Governor-in-Council, The officers' daily rates of pay, are [as follows: --: | Air Commodore { Group Captain 9.50 7.50 Squadron Leader .., . Flight Lieutenant Flying Officer Pilot Officer Pilot Officer on probation The daily rates of pay are: | Warrant Officer 2 | Flight Sergeant Sergeant Corporal 1st Air Mechanic 2nd Air -Mechanic .,,.. cee Service Personnel and C.A.F, The Officer Commanding has rel | cently raised the question as to! | Whether officers who hold civil ser- | vice appointments in the operations, [ certificates, equipment or other | Civil The | | 1920.--Pre- | branch FAMOUS "WITS" OF HISTORY By MARK STUYVESANT, Std | €s of the Air Board join the Ajr Force. cided that it would be every point of view if sonnel did join, if in ty the civil branches of the organiza- tion woyld largely lapse and the en- tire energies the organization purposes. It Was recognized that there might be certain inconveniences and that every care would have to be taken to en- Sure that civil personnel should not It has been de- desirable from suffer by reason of their inability to | take semi-permanent positions on the C.A.F. headquarters staff through the pressure of their d every precaution will be taken to en- sure fair treatment aj] around. The choice of the time of year for the four weeks' training period every years will rest with the individual | concerned, subject to the approval of | | the head of his branch. Alr Ministry Liaison, of the position of Canadian Liaison Officer at the Air Ministry, London, | ing., has been given careful consider. | ation recently by | MacLaren's appo | August, the Board, as Major intment expired in It is felt that in future it | would be preferable to have this posi tion filled by an officer of the Cana- dian Air Force, and it has been tentatively suggested that a scheme be put into effect, whereby an officer could be appointed for four month's duty as Liaison Officer, to be follow- ed by six months as Staff Officer at Ottawa, The Officer Commanding has intimated that he would like to despatch shortly one of his headquar- ters staff to England for a month or six weeks duty to study the present training and organization of the Royal Air Force, and to return to | Canada by January 1st, 19 any alterations in the present organi- | zation of the Canadian Air Force could be made before the expiry of | hig term of office 21, so that as satisfyin the present. tain James will carry Major MacLaren. "War in the Air" Pictures." , should | epartmental duties, | The Officer Commanding, Canadian | | Air Forces, has given assurance that | two | The question of the future status on March 1st, 1921, | This plan was tentatively agreed to | g the requirements for | In the meantime, Cap- | on liaison | duties temporarily in succession to | Approval has now .been granted | for the purchase in England of a set of the Grafton Gallery '""War in the | Air" pictures at a cost not to ex- | jceed £1,000. These pictures are con- | sidered to be a valuable record of | the part played by Canadians in aer- | lal warfare which could not be re- placed, and are therefore historically valuable. Their exhibition through- out the country wijl undoubtedly st'mulate an interest in the newly formed Canadian Air Force, of which every officer took an active part in some theatre of war, and would as- sist materially in recruiting. It is also probable that their exhibition i the larger towns of Canada, under suitable auspices, will probably pro- vide sufficient revenue to defray the cost of their purchase. i From his earliest days Samuel | Houston gave evidence of that force of character and determination | which made him a successful genera] | and statgsman. When he was still [in school he ran away. crossed the Tennessee river, and went to live with the Indians. The accounts | that reached his worried family pic- tured Sam as living a lite altogether | to his liking. Nevertheless, they | searched for him until they found { him, and asked him why he had done | dhich a thing, i | Standing as straight as any of ! | the Indians among whom he lived, { Samwhe was nearly six feet tall, | even though but partly grown--re- | | plied: | "I prefer to measure deer tracks | to tape. I like the wild liberty of | the red-men better than the tyranny | | of brothers. If I can study Latin | [in the academy, I can at least read | |& translation of Greek in the woods, | |-and read it in peace. So you can | | 80 home as soon as you like." {~ The boy lived his! wild life with the Indians until he was 18 yours old. When Houston had helped wrest | Texas from Mexico, and had become | the president of the Texas republic, | and later the first governor of the | state when it was aamitted to the. | Union, many of his old-time white ! riends sought him to ask avors for i themselves. Now one of Houston's | best assets was that he never forgot | a face nor a name, | Among those who vame to beg as- sistance was a man Houston hadn't seen for twetny years. His name was Perry, and he wanted to be made a captain of rangers. . The fact that Houston called him Dy name, re- | membering it although the twain hadn't met in twenty years, gave Perry hoped that his request would be instantly granted. S80 he immed- lately asked the favor, "Ah, Perry, I should like to oblige you, but do you remember, Perry, once upon a time your name with others appeared attached to a paper stating that Sam Houston Wag a cow- ard, a knave, etc? 80, Perry, I can't do it. I'm sorry. Perry, 1 can't. Good-by, Perry. God bless you, Perry--my boy!" A certain officer of the state de- faulted, and Houston Was so active and persistent in his prosecution that the friends of the accused raised the cry of persecution. Speaking of this charge to some of his own friends, Houston said he had no other motive than to see that the laws of the new state 'were strictly enforced. Later he observed there probably would come an opportunity to prove. that he didn't intend to: persecute the man, "He'll be convicted!" he almost shouted. "Then his sympathetic friend will appeal to me forexeeutive clemency. I shall pardon him-----for I shall never allow such an unmiti- The Roll Was Conspicuous, penitentiary of Texas!" While Texas was still a republic, some of the members of 'its Congress took exception to Houston's oral messages. They insisted that they should be written out, so as to be available or reference; besides, it would appear more respectful. Hous- ton acceded to their wishes when told of the eriticisia. The next day being set apart for his inaugural, Houston appeared with a roll of pap- er in his hand, tied with ribbon, and marked In large letters "Inaug- | ural." s Houston held this roll in his hand, gracefully waving it that all might see it, punctuating his spoken speech, indeed, with the written speech. On the conceusion of his re- marks, Houston handed it to the eagerly waiting clerk and stalked out of the chamber. Affairs were conducted informally then, so the members felt it quite permissible to rush up to the-clerk and catch a glimpse of the manuscript as he un- rolled it, Houston had footed them--it was nothing but fine paper. Must be a La , "Yes" said the man who was proud of his library, "whenever I find one of my books with a torn leat, I put it through a legal process." "What legal process?" his visitor . asked. "I have it bound over to keep the piece." gated scroundrel to contaminate the EERE ENNENENNENES NEENRNDENEAER a blank sheet of very | | Fleeced-lined UNDERWEAR Men's and Boys' first quality fleece-lined Vests and Drawers. Men's Vests, Drawers $1 each. Boys' Vests, Drawers 75c. each. | VELVETEEN SPECIAL 10 boxes of fine grade Velveteen --in black, navy, grey, brown, wine, grenat, pink and green -- at sesvein.... $1.25 yard. Flannelette BLANKETS 72 pairs of White and Grey Flan- nelette Blankets; all first quality; pink and blue bordered: 10-4, 11-4 and 12-4 sizes at $2.75, $3.50 and $4.50 a pair. BED COMFORTERS 6 only, large size, Wadded Bed Comforters; covered with good quality Turkey Chintz; regular price $6.50; for .... $4.98 | er the Following:-- SILK POPLIN 5 pieces of fine quality Silk Pop- lin. Colors are Navy, Pekin, Grey, Green and Wine: regular price $2 yd. Saturday $1.39 yd. GIRLS' VESTS & DRAWERS 50 doz., Girls' heavy, plain and fleece-lined Vests and Drawers; sizes 6 years to 12 years. Special cin. Oc. each. FEATHER PILLOWS 50 Feather Pillows; covered with: strong Art Ticking; all guaran- teed sanitary, Special $1.25 ea. FLANNELETTE GOWNS 10 doz., fine White Flannelette Night Gowns; ladies' sizes; heavy weight goods. Special value . $1.98 Penman's CASHMERE HOSE 8 boxes only, Penman's fine black, fully fashioned, Cashmere Hose; sizes 84 and 9: extra value "oe «7s CE eae, -------------------------- cintosh Bros, Pp ------ ~---- NNN A en IRRNEENNNEEEDANREE The Home of Genuine Mdse. Real values. This will be offer the Suits and Ov. an and if you don't just see what ---- Se Fr ERRINERRNRROEENOE CET LOW PRICES That Put the Dollar Up To Its Old-Time Value. your experience when best values in Men's Sui J -------- Make Abram. son's Your Shopping Centre E---- you shop at Abramson's. ts, Fall and Winter Coats, B a complete range of ildren's Footwear at Prices to suit all you want, "Ask For It." cys' Men's, Boys', pocket-books, MEN'S FALL AND WINTER -] OVERCOATS in good, heavy Tweeds, Irish Frieze and all Wool Meltons -- made up in Ulsters, Chester- fields and Form-F itting models. Prices from , .$18.00 to $35.00 OVERCOATS FOR BOYS at reduced prices; heavy Winter Coats in brown and grey Tweeds with belt all round; in all sizes, PAices from . . $12.00 to $17.50 GENTS' FURNISHINGS Shirts reduced --$1.65 to $2.95 Socks-- wool Cashmere; regular $1.00; for Arm Bands--good web . . . 20c. Neckwear. . . .65c., 95¢., $1.25 Be prepared for stormy weather! FALL TWEED RAINCOATS Single breasted; guaranteed to be waterproof; may be used as fall coat on fine days; to be ob- tained in all sizes. "Prices from $8.50 up to $20.00 CHILDREN'S REEFERS All Wool Top Coats in Blue eviot, wit ornament on sleeve; well lined; sizes from 21 to25:for........... ..'$6.95 ~ CHILDREN'S WINTER OVERCOATS in heavy Tweeds; buttoned right up to neck; double breasted, with flannelette lining; * sizes 4 to 8 years. Prices from $4.95 to $10.00 LADIES' FOOTWEAR in Black and Tan Kid; with or without Neolin Sole; also in color combination. Prices $5.45 to $8.75 OXFORDS in Black and Tan; to $4.95 to $5.45 clear MEN'S BOOTS . in Gunmetal, dark Tan, with leather or Neolin soles: in bluch- er and long lasts, Prices from: $5.95 to $7.85 Coats, Suits, 26to 31 for ....$7.95 to $8.45 LADIES' READY-TO-WEAR All our Ladies' Ready-to-Wear greatly reduced, as we are going out of this line, Therefore, you are offered a splendid buying op- portunity. This line consists of Dresses, Skirts and louses, : Great Clearing of Ladies' Winter Coats A Louis Abramson, The Up-to-the-Minute Clothier and F urnisher, Next to the Royal Hotel. --- 336 Princess Street