Everybody knows McLaughlin builds ry x ’ 2 six-cylinder Valve-in-Head automobiles —that McLaughlin sold its entire 1920 output long before the end of the season. —that McLaughlin has sold a large pereentage of its 1921 schedule. , —that McLaughlin users are McLaughlin salesmen. —that McLaughlin car values are 100 per cent.- Added to their recognized high service value, the ughlin models possess a distinctive beauty. Their graceful lines and handsome ap-. new Mc pointments merit expressed. the pride which early buyers have Nineteen Twenty Gane McLaughlin automobiles - ~ z > ink > have more improvements than any Mclaughlin models in the past five years and 1921 models represent 25 per cent. greater used car values. Orders for spring deliveries are already being placed and to those who desire one of Canada’s Standard - Cars, it is advisable to place your order early. T he matter of present purchasing should receive the immediate consideration of motor car buyers. Frank C. Kelly McLaughlin and Chevrolet Dealer oe PHONE 175 4 WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, McLAUGHLIN WILL BUILD THEM * 4 Newspaper in Ireland Tried by Court-martial The First Case on Record “a NOTHER record has to go to Ireland; not one, maybe, that Ireland would be so proud of as though she produced a champion pugilist, but one which the law courts wil more greatly respect. In Ireland for thé first time in the history of the Empire a newspaper . was tried by cotrt-martial. The mewspaper was convicted and its proprietors sentenced to fine and imprisonment. The directors are Hamilton Edwards, and Martin Fitz- gerald. The editor, Mr. P. J. Hop- per, was exonerated because he jhappened to be in Canada when the offence was committed, Mr. Hopper, We are sure, would not like to be disassociated with the crime, but Ihe ig likely to get his chance later may join his directors. Mr. Fitzgerald is not known to the orld at large, but Mr. Edwards is mo inconspicuous figure. He is not am Irishman. He is an Englishman and betame a millionaire through his association with Lord Northcliffe in the days when the Harmsworth papers were establishing themselves. Be made so much money that before he had reached even middle age he was able to retire and start a racing #table in Ireland. Mr. Fitzgerald, we believe, was a brewer. They formed @ partnership and bought the Free- man’s Journal. They have run it for quite a short time, but have followed sensationalism. paper, which is the oldest @aily newspaper in Ireland which ealls itself Nationalist, has not. sup- Sinn Feinism.. It was for Home Rule in the old days, and now that Home Rule has been granted it is for Domihion Home Rule. With respect to hostility to the British Empire the difference between Home Rulers, Dominion Home Rulers and Sinn Feiners is unim- portant. The Freeman’s Journal has denounced British reprisals in Ire- land, and as for Sinn Fein outrages it has spoken in muffied tones. The paper fell under the eye of the law when it published statements likely to cause disaffettion. It had been doing this ever since it bevan but a short time ago the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act was passed, and things that the Journal had said with impunity for many years contravened the law. We do not suppose that the proprietors were ignorant of this fact. They did not put in any such de fence. The paper said what it felt like saying as it had always dene and ran counter not to the ordinary. courts but to a _ military court- martial. It published a report that two con- stables near Dublin were not shot by gunmen as had been officially alleg- ed, but murdered by the Black and , a8 the auxiliary police force of Ireland is called. It also published the story of a young Sinn Feiner named Quirke to the effect that while hé was a prisoner he had been flog- ged by the Black ahd Tans. Further- more it displayed an alleged chart of Quirke’s back showing the stripes running like isobars and isotherms. These publications were held to be likely to cause disaffection, and that thig’ was their probable tendency was not denied by Tim Healy who was the chief counsel for the defence. Mr. Healy protested against the case be- ing iried by a military tribunal, {n- stead of an ordinary court of justice in England. His admiration for Eng- land and her laws and procedure burst forth in this crisis, having been successfully concealed for fifty years. He made other objections which were overruled or noted; but which did not get his clients anywhere and finally rested his defence on tk> Your grocer will tell. you frankly that he makes less ‘profit on Red Rose Tea than on other teas. The only object he has in recommend- ing it is to see that you get the best quality possible. N lished had been set forth ‘im rood faith and without malice. He devoted some time to showing that the storics were probably true, but this did not alter the case, since if they happened to be of a character to cause dis- affection, their truth was no justifi- cation. As an eminent authority has said: ‘‘the greater the truth, the greater the libel.’ The crown, how- evr, denied the truth” of tHe stories, and had witnesses to substantiate its contention. It was admitted that elsewhere the crown forces had been guilty of excesses and had committed mistakes, but that in the cases cited by the Journal it had not been guilty. Mr. y sought to reason by anal- ogy that if the Black and Tans had stepped outside the law once it was reasonable for a newspaper to sup- pose they might have done so in oth- er instances, — ‘ His™ pleading owas ineffective though at the end of the trial the court-martial officers complimented him upon the able manner in which the defence had en conducted. Quirke-was-calied to the witness box and swore that he had been flogged. The court rejected his story but con- | eeded that in this case the newspaper might have published the story in good faith. It was absolved, there- fore, on this count. The defence could put in no evidence with regard to the murder of the constables and the defendants were found guilty. It ig curious to note that the newspapers were not permitted to publish the names of the officers who conducted the trial. Sinn Feiners had threaten- to assassinate them. Yet how could their identity be kept a secret? |Sinn Fein is surely not depending upon the daily press to provide the Bames ofthe men whom it regards as its enemies. So far none of them has been murdered. and the directors of the paper are in jail. So all’s well that ends well, ° a . No Pork-Pies. By a clause in a special treaty con- eluded soon after the first Punjab war the maharajah of Kashmir has the right — which he «xercises -— of prohibiting the importation into’ his territories of pork pies A Sudden Escape, There is still shown in the shop- windows of Lisbon the photograph of the bedroom of King Manuel of Por- tugal, taken on the morning of his ) sudden departure from the Necessi- | dades e, when he fied to Eng- jland, after the assassination of Car- los. On a chair by the side of the bed lie the sword and the. uniform | | which he dared not carry with him. ground that whatever the paper pib- Oysters Do Grow on Trees. Within an hour and a half from Port of Spain, Trinidad, the Nittle island of Gasparee lies, bathed\ in Mtropic sunlight. It is not only the coolest and most central of the islands but contains a good hotel and is the home of the most experienced boatmen and guides to the fishing banks. : When you are tired of fishing in Gasparee, you may visit the caves which are very interesting and in severa! of which you can take under- ground baths in the lakes and big pools which they contain. Then on your way back to Port of Spain, you can go through the cut which is guarded on one side by mangrove trees, on which you will see iguanas sleeping in the sun, and on the roots, if the tide be low, thousands of oys- ters, which caused Columbus and Sir Walter Ratefgh’® véracity to be doubted when they wrote in their journals that oysters grew on trees in Trinidad.—Harper's Magazine. Prehistoric -Drawings. Drawings of 20,000 years ago have been discovered in caves near Pon- cin, on the Ain (near Swiss frontier ot France). The relics include many carved fragments of bone. These pic tures were scratcied with sharpened fiints, and show some of the earliest representations of human beings that have been found up to the present. Dr. Lucien Mayer, lecturing on these discoveries at Lyons University, said that although one figure of a man showed him as being covered with hair, another figure, that of a kneel- ing woman, pointed to a high state of development. The head and arms were missing, but the torgo, except for somephat large hips, was slender, and even ceful to such an extent that Dr. Meyer did not hesitate to compare the drawing with the earli- I est Greek art. Pecks of Diamonds, During the year 1919, South Africa exported 1,124 pounds of diamonds. This quantity represented just about 126 quarts. This vast quantity of precious stones reduced to terms of bushels would equal a trifle less than four, or what would be two ordinary grain bags fall of them. Naturally the stones -included a great number of very large ones as well as many me- dium sized and small ones. Persistency. “Miss Somervain, will you be mine?” ‘Never!’ The young man was disappointed, but not wholly dis- ‘ourage”, ““Wel' will you let me be yours?” he asked, . The Law as amended Nov. 10, 1919 ‘TRIS Referendum on April 18 is to ratify a new federal law, namely, the Canada Temperance Act, as recently _amended by Dominion Parliament. If a majority-of the people of Ontario vote in favor of the Canada Temperance Act as amended, then, in the exact words of the law, it follows: 2 -“No person shall, either directly or indirectly, manu- * facture or sell, or contract or agree to manufacture or sell, any intoxicating liquor to be unlawfully imported, sent, taken or transported into such province. “No person shall import, send, take or transport * into such province any intoxicating liquor. 3 “The carriage or importation of intoxicating liquor * through such province shall only be by means of a ‘common carrier by water or by ra@way and not other- wise, and during the time any intoxicating ged is be- ing so transported or carried no person shall open or break or allow to be opened or broken, any package or vessel containing such intoxicating liquor, or drink, or use or allow to be drunk or used any intoxicating liquor & therefrom.” \ NOTE.—This law does not prohibit importation of liquors to be used for sacramental, medicinal, manufacturing or com- mercial rposes, or the importation of such liquors as are pcentiel be sold by the laws of the Province. “Shall the importation and the bringing of intoxicating liquors into the Province be forbidden?” Vote—and Vote, “Yes” Close the door to imported “booze” Ontario Referendum Committee Ban Cigarettes After the Cigarette Boise Idaho, Feb. 26.—The sale or Salt Lake City, Utah, March 8.—/ gift of cigarettes in the State of Idaho An anti-cigarette bill forbidding the/ = sa Pe violation of brit if the — , cigarette measure, which passed the sale of cigarettes in Utah was signed) 57a. of Representatives of the Idaho by Governor Charlgs R. my to-| Legislature yesterday, is signed by day. The bill also jprohibits ; other the governor. The Senate has already smoking in public places. passed It.