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: > VERY one of the million and a half subscribers to 'Canada's Victory Bonds knows that he can sell ~~ them today for more than he paid for them. RT 7 v ~ = Se » ~~ received 514 per cent. interest per annum--paid twice a a i erin pl k- : 3 i F Over half a million Canadians who bought Canada's Victory Bonds on the instalment plan saved money that + they would not otherwise have saved. vt be i E) : The guarantee back of Canada's Victory Bonds is = the same as the guarantee back of a One Dollar or a Two Eo : . get interest on the Victory Bonds a One or Two Dollar bill. =~ d you don't on the - Canada's Victory Bonds will always be acce p security for a loan. has : : - ~~ Banks are ready to loan money on Canada's Victory ~ Bonds. Toy Canada's Victory Bonds may be turned into cash at - © anytime. Sl a gm ae ~~ There is no other way in which you can invest your money: with such absolute security--paying such-a good rate of interest. ; ; J 2 i 3 ; Canada will soon give her citizens an opportunity to buy Victory Bonds 1919. It will probably be the last chance to buy Canada's Victory Bonds on such favorable terms.: SEE : i. Eh 1 ak ; Hi as 5 a i : i B= wi Ec) I £5 Hes Prepare fo buy as. many. Victory Bonds this x 3 a ; Vi al ey ' = x x ¢ #ime as you now wish you had been able to buy the last time ry i fssued by Canada's Victory Loan Committee, [4 © In co-operation with the Minister of Finance L 5 of the Dominion of Canada, : § : : 5 i wis : i CET 3 2 i " ih i x ithe i it tT > i ! Ya . : 2 : ; Fite Bh he «A ER Si ae Sam Le Dollar bill. There is this difference, however, that you 'E ery one who bought Canada's Vv ictory Bonds has Si fn . | consider the welfare of the birds of .| and' the other a district in Essex "| world. Perce Rock, which forms one ! sands of birds nest without fear of molestation. This rock, it is believ- edi: Jlook in various localities, J the tree itself rises from the centre, '| recalling the a) of the magt. - Our feet are caugh . o. webspun; :No dawn shall Thus runs Cadma Wes } pitifully true of thos 'the aboriginal Am still'. linger upon' the . | board. Atlantic. sea- Fate seems' to have been '| against the red man from the start; '| a curse inevitable and awe-inspiring has lain upon his people, has blight- ed"their hopes, decimated their num- bers, Their moon has almost set {and no new dawn will line their {horizon with flaming golds or crim- feons,. wna aan i _ Historians dwell 'much upon the Indian massacres; out there are two sides to every question. If a strang race came to us to-day. robbed us of 4 lands we had held since time im- memorial, even .with our. pseudo- jleaven of Christianity we would | scarcely regard ihem with charitable forbearance. Why blame the Mie- "mac then for one last endeavor to preserve his. more: can one expect of savages? 'There was a certain tenacious hero- ism in his barbarity. = ) The, struggle was a losing, less'one.: Great world changes reck little of individuals 'or races. What was written was written and nothing eould stem the westward rushing Caucasian tide. The Micmac did not have the vast hinterland to retreat to which was in the possession of | laxed his resistance in despair and: with his loss of sovereignty came | days of desuetude and degeneration. Civilization brought 'him little in re- turn for what it had taken away; it [was a deadly draught of death, not mercifully speedy, but heart-break- {ingly slow. i ; oh hy | The finis to the relation of the Mic- mac lo the town of Dartmouth was fraught with a sudden, terrible drama, perhaps a fitting and awful hope. It came on the morning of December 6, 1917, when all Halifax, whatever 'its complexion might be, passed through the lowest circles of the Inferno. The small collection of ramshackle huts along Tufts Cove which formed the Indian reservation bore the brunt of the explosion. In a few brief seconds the hovels had been levelled, the pine trees flattened against the earth. There was no more complete devastation in" the 'entire city. Many of the Indians were killed, many more horribly maimed; those few who survived left Dartmouth | | never to return. 'For the Indians of : tmouth th t in the: death 'be ours and no! folk song of the Indians of the far tern prairies and it holds true, irth-right? His meth-| ods may have been cruel, but what hope- | the American. The Micmac soon re-| finale to the epic of 4 nation without | | ry ; | : ie : ; 7 5 : i { ! | Is i © J ; 5 Hoosier Kitchen Cabinets Mazéa Lamps, all Sizes Canadian Beauty Irons, Grills and Toasters Northern Electric Sewing Machines Hamilton-Beach Sew-E-Z Motors Benjamin Two-Way Plugs ~ Daylo Flash-Lighis + * G-E Whiz Electric Fans : © os Comfort Chemical Closets a Pictorial Review, M=Clure's, Ameri- - 2 can and Women's {ome Companion | Magazines : £ Bruuswick Phonographs : Okeh and Brunswiclt Records r THE SPECIALTY SHOP ; the air. The latest move on behalf -.| of these neighbors, was the passing} of an act by the Legislature of Que- | bird ledges of Bonaventurs Island, and; Bird Rocks, in the Gulf of 8 Point Pelee as a pational park bird sanctuary, and in 1917 ntario Government set apart two. crown game preserves or bird tuaries, one located near Colling- wood, known as Peasemarsh farm, 'County, surrounding the farm of | | Jack' Miner, who has, perhaps, the largest private sanctuary In the of ithe scenic features of the Bay of Chaleur, contains about six square miles and vises to a height of over 300. feet; and upon its ledges thou- , 18 the sole refuge of the herring gull :and the erested cormogant,. The | Bird 'Rocks, a group of three, belong | to the Magdalene Islands, and lie 100. | miles. off the coast of Gaspe.. On {| Great Bird, which contains about i #eyen acres, is situated the light- i house, and here the auks, the Solan : in great num- , 8008e, and kittiwakes , bers have their nests.! | Heavy Lumber Shipments. { For the first six months of this year shipments to the United States . and eastern markets by the lumber manufacturers of the mountain dis- i i tricts of British Columbia ytotalled. nearly 40,000,000 fect, as against 6,000,000 feet during the correspond- ing period of last year, states I. 'R. Poole, secretary of 'the Mountain Lumber Manufacturers' Association. 'During the earlier portion of the year large orders had been received from the prairie markets; and prospeets for a time pointed to an excellent year on that market also, but later, owing to the disappointing crop out- | orders on hundreds of cars of lumber were can- | | eelled. Despite this falling off in the | - prairie markets and owing to the ex- | cellent shipments to the United States and eastern markets,' the operating mills are pretty well supplied with business for the next two months at least. C Boat Tree. PR What has been called Japan's most peculiartreeistheso-called hpat tree at Kyoto, It .is a very ancient pine tree, which 8rows in the garden of a' temple. For more than eight in a most remarkable shape, lower branches extending along the ground, then curving up in such a way as to suggest the shape of a boat; while Needless to say the Japanese, have! legends which they connect with this ih eld tree, 2 > Fo an bec, establishing Perce Rock, the | owl that abount in that region. In| 19 8 the Federal Government set | I Life ries it has been trained to graw.| - Mrs L, A. 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