VOLUME VANCOUVER; BRrrllrCb���^ The Coal Strike === A m, urn-' , i . , ^ ^^/^rw;.^..:...f.*^.^ffl��$]tt^^r:^-5;^/�� ���������������MMMSSBMMSSBWMWSMMSWBBBSMSBnSWBMSSMSaBJBiMSlSSS^ -V^T '* nosis i'v a &* ��� V-,,, A<? '- ^{ The Borden Government at Work���-Aid to Fisheries and Agriculture���Liberals and the Tariff Clash South Vancouver's Motto for the Year 1914���" In Gold We trust! ���v i- vy, . Jr.-,* IN GOLD WE TRUST PRESENT DAT TEXT FOB SOUTH VANCOUVER ' The axe is now pausing in its. swing���a few more strokes and there will be no more heads left. Gold outvies Robespierre and Marat in blood-, thirst iness. But the work of reconstruction has begun! Strange, that' the y^ry first act of this Council elected to economise���its,very first act of reconstruction should be a visit to Victoria to secure a larger remuneration for the Reeve and Council. We believe this should have been done two years ago, but still the irony of fate is there, v No matter, "we hear that the paving of Main street is to go on, and that the wages of the men employed on the roads are to come down. �� Why not, instead of harrassing the Paving - company with delays and legalities���why not make friends with them and save the municipal- ' ity something by getting a rebate on this reduction of wage account. We still believe that the worst possible policy our muncipality can pursue is to stop work on its roads and other development work. We believe the employment of 600 men on Main street would . help turn the tide. Add to that the rocking of a 20-foot way on Fraser, Victoria and Kerr streets to the River road,, and-our municipality would quickly recover from its hold-up. We also recommend, while.we are on this point, an agreement with Burnaby to seek assist- ' ance from the Provincial Government to open up Boundary road, and rock a 30-foot:'way the entiw . distance from Burrard Inlet to the Fraser. ���/ - -*'-��� * Vancouver is filling up again. Empty houses are not nearly so plentiful today as 60 days ago. South Vancouver is also filling up, and building -seems tb have begun once more. We must have roads to get around on; no community can thrive without good main roads. And we must have sewers to carry away our filth; $750,000 for sewers in South Vancouver this year, $l,000,0<Xt in Vancouver and $100,000 in Point Grey and $100,000 in Burnaby, will help. The spring time is at hand, tbe time of hope and joy, when dead ones come to life again. Wake up, South Vancouver, and go ahead. , THE POTOBOBORB Royal Commissioner William Blakemore and and the British Columbia government are to be congratulated on the report recently issued on one of the most interesting of the strange religious sects of Eastern JSurope. The report is as readable as a hovel, and far more interesting than most and for sympathetic treatment of a tribe that has given our authorities some trouble it is a most singularly lucid And fair minded document. Indeed, we believe this report will find a high place in the archived ���of British state papers,' and no one should try to form an opinion on the Doukhobours without first reading this report. * We are aware that, in some quarters Commissioner Blakemore has been severely criticised for being too, sympathetic, but we have reason to believe that these critics have been swayed by political needs, and that the report is in every way justified. In any case we are glad to see that the recommendations of the commissioner are being adopted by the government, and measures brought down to enforce them. HINDOO IMMIGRATION The question of Hindoo immigration into B. C. has been from the first most perplexing, and has deeply stirred the hearts of men on both sides. TheTYestern Call has felt that for the British Columbian there was but one safe way���exclusion; and has strenuously advocated such a policy at all times���but we gladly print a letter from Rev. Dr. Kenneth J. Grant, now of Vancouver, who for many years was a missionary to the East Indians in Trinidad, and who presents a possible "way out" of a very embarrassing situation,, writing as follows: "May I crave a little space to remark on the East Indian side of this huge, perplexing, pressing question. Indians, under the same flag as ourselves, stand in peculiarly close relations, and bald legislation of exclusion from the Dominion, notwithstanding the urgency of economic and racial arguments, would be impolitic and unjust. "If we. can justify our entrance into India as foreigners in the days of Queen Elizabeth for the purposes of gain, much more any East Indians now, ��� not as foreigners, but as subjects of His Majesty King George, claim admission to Canada "to improve their circumstances. And yet unrestricted Oriental immigration is inadmissable. This is the prevailing, if not the universal senti- iment. ' -: ,; "What can we do? On us as a British people (Centlnvsa on Page 71 THE COAL ���-xij The Coal-Strike situation in British Columbia is quite unbearable. This is becoming, more and more, the opinion of right thinking men all over the Province. Especially do the friends of the Administration feel that some solution must be reached and that the situation ought to-be at once firmly taken in hand by the Minister of Mines. The attitude of the Western Call has been sympathetic to the men, and whilst deploring violence, which necessitated military and legal action, has persistently pointed out that no serious attempt has yet been made to bring matters to a head.' In fact the public justly complain that they have been kept in the dark as to the real causes of the rupture between operators and men, and are growing steadily more impatient as they read of men for years good steady ��� citizens���being sent -to the penitentiary for two years. Men who in no real sense can be called criminals. Men who have families to sustain, and whose past characters have been good. But there is another reason why British Columbians are growing restive. The strike is seriously disturbing trade at a time when the Province can ill afford it Sixteen months of enforced idleness in one of the main industries of our Province has helped to cause a stagnation in business that almost everybody feels, and the worst of it is that day by day our coal trade, one of our greatest sources of revenue, is (being lastingly enfeebled by our coal users, unable to get coal at any reasonable figure, transmuting their furnaces into oil burners. . Coal is now being brought into the province from Australia and advertised at $8.50 per ton. Household coal is $8 per ton, and we are only 30 miles from pithead, with a water haul from the bunkers. Coal .can be put into the bunkers for $1.25 per ton at present wages. In Indiana and Illinois XOcts a ton is reckoned a fair net profit for operators. This makes $1.35 per ton at bunkers. Be- |ween that on^ir $8.50 there is surei^;aihtt^�� ^wlficfcncy to supply our coal scuttles without adding with it the sorrrow and disgrace of a nearly two years'" lockout of three or four thousand of our sturdiest workers. As a matter of fact $4 should give the operators a very splendid profit. ^ Something must be done. The public are demanding it now, mi their voice will grow louder as the days go by. -We realize the technical difficulties that lie in the way of government . forcing an issue* but the coal situation is rapidly becoming a public scandal that shoulu be abated. No one floubts for a single moment the ability of o_ur veyry capable Premier to force a settlement of this issue very quickly and altogether outside of technical legalities. Most of us wonder why this has not already been done. ' ' - _ We do not know the inside facts that have caused the present deadlock betwixt operators and miners. The men say it is because of improper conditions in the mines; because the men who report that the operators are not regarding, the laws and regulations governing the mine workings, are not protected whilst the operators are protected against the stokers, who were breaking laws merely jn their efforts to get the operators to keep the laws. On the other hand Premier McBride informed^us in his recent speech of Monday last, that the gas, etc., is not the cause of the strike, but the fact that the United Mine Workers of America failed to entrench themselves at the Island col- leries as quickly and as strongly as they had planned^ % We care not which is the truth; we hold that the government can and ought to bring both parties to reason at once. And the same remedy will suit either party. f THE REMEDY British Columbia has plenty of good coal deposits. Let the government go into the coal business if the operators and, miners���both or either of them refuse to come to an amicable settlement. _ The operators on the Island have for years been in receipt of a remuneration for their coal products amply sufficient to enable them to treat their employees with such fairness as would secure their peaceful -co-operation. This they have not done. There has been almost continual dissatisfaction. If, on the other hand, the parties to blame in the present dispute are���as the Premier strongly avers���the miners, or rather the Union^Jeaders, who desire to absolutely control the labor situation in British Columbia, m order to equalize labor conditions here so as to guard the Washington and Pennsylvania miners against that day when the Vancouver Island colleries, on the opening of the Panama canal, with its resultant rush of cheap labor and its enhancement of shipping facilities, would enter into keen competition with the American coal trade m the Coastal cities of U. S. A., both in Eastern and Western states. If this be true, and this accusation forms the important part of the Premier's speech. Still our remedy holds good against the men and their leaders. We would humbly remind the Premier that there is another party to this dispute, namely, the long suffering public of British Columbia, who are neither miners nor mine owners. And the public are sick to death of this eternal coal dispute that has raised prices upon them until���whilst only 30 miles distant from pitheads ���Australia can profitably send her coal here from 10,000 miles away. British Columbia has great coal deposits untouched and practically on tide water. The people want to see these resources developed���want to see the miners at work. Let those who want to snarl over the bone at Nanaimo continue their game and let the government add another department to its already large and daily growing establishment on James bay, viz.: The Provincial Colleries Department, and give us B. C. coal at reasonable prices, instead of Australian, coal at Diamond prices. -K; ; The time for radical action has come, and the people of British Columbia are demanding that operators and miners settle their differences at once or ���or take the consequences. i i BORDEN GOVERNMENT AT IflRi \V? FISHERIES OF CANADA ABE A GREAT ASSET "T if . ��� .V. Bon. Mr. Huen Em Grfeat Faith in TUt Indna. try���Waters of Canada Toomiag With Vast Quantities of F&h���What the Government Is Doing to Encourage the Work. y\"'/ '>�� Prosperity in the fisheries of Canada all along 'F^t the line and an optimistic outlook for the induf- ; t, try- generally were the main features of the (rtato-:; \&~" ment made to the House of Commons by Hbn^&'Yv:';",: \D. Hazen, Minister of Marine and Fisheries. .Hon;.' VJ ^ Mr. Hazen is nothing if" not progressive. rHe\li;^ ,i;^ never pessimistic about the possibilities of his 'am}}',',$-//; tive country, and while ever" ready to advance the'" ���'> interests of the Maritime-Provinces his national * '., outlook enables him to survey comprehensively \.>;,v the fishing industry'of Canada on the Pacific as > well as on the Atlantic coast. In response to^ ,t some petty criticisms from an opposition mem-v /- ber, Hon. Mr. Hazen showed how much the pres- :! erit Government was accomplishing for the fishing- i J industry in comparison with the idleness which,., , ' characterized the Laurier, administration. He - also showed how great was the development in. ' the fishing industry and how it was mereasing. , , The whole survey was one of the most cheering - ' expositions of a'government's work that haaeyer^-; been heard* in the- House. Speaking on the fish' ���}} industry, Mr. Hazen said: \ " **-'"��* ^."^ Many Bpltndid Fisheries. "Up to a few years ago Nova Scotia was3he .-: premier, fish-producing province of Canada., JPo-:'r,' day, British Columbia is enormously productive: _ -Tfce *vmMfa$mWfe^ay&sgfa ^Cptofcitfe arc - teeming with fish> and"SltEbugh up io th^ffresentV ? the industry has only been, developed in two var-* - * ieties, the halibut and the salmon, the waters of British Columbia are filled-with herring, and sole, and crabs, and other fish, the trade in which can be developed to enormous advantage. With, ��� the opening of the Grand Trunk Pacific from "^ prince Rupert to the Bast, I believe, from my own personal knowledge and "observation in northern '- British Columbia tbis year, that in a few years Rupert will not only be the greatest fish port on the continent of America, but probably the greatest fish port in the world. In addition to our fisheries on the eastern and western coasts, we have splendid fisheries in the immense inland lakes, where the industry is capable of great development, with resultant increase in the wealth of the country, and an added source of food ��� supply for the people of the prairie provinces. Owing to tbe wanton destruction of fish in the - past by the implements used to catch them, we __will have_to take measuresjo >epair_the_misehief^ _>_ that has been done, by providing for tbe artificial production of the fish. To a very considerable extent, measures in that direction are being taken today." (Continued on Page 7) 40NAH ANP THE WHAJ-P We have heard so much from arrogant, critical minds during the last quarter of a century of the "scientific" fact that a whale could never have swallowed Jonah that it is a good thing now to hear from a plain, matter of fact man "who knows." Prof. George Mackloskie, Department of Biology, Princeton, tells us that, when off the coast of Japan, he got acquainted with Roy Matthews, 'one of the greatest'living authorities on whales, for whaling has been his life's business. One day-he asked Matthews if he had any difficulty in believing the story of Jonah, and to his great surprise he replied: "None, whatever." "Why," said he, "the air chamber of a whale is large enough and convenient enough to accommodate any man. A large whale requires as much air as 80 men. Its mouth is large enough for four men to stand upright in it. As it darts through the water with wide open mouth all kinds of small fish go down into the stomach, but a large body like Jonah would have to go into the air chamber, where he would suffer no great inconvenience. The whale, however, would not be very comfortable until it went ashore and coughed him out." So much then re. the probability of the story from one who knows a thousand-fold more regarding the matter than any critic. FROM SERMON ON PAGE POUR By ��� former Vancouver man Read it. *Hi Ji* c -1 <tv^Sy-J| ���J-4'l ORANGEMEN AT NELSON (By Special Wire) Nelson, February I9��� The Western Call, Vancouver. Excellent meeting of Grand Black Chapter Tuesday. Resolutions passed condemning Bilinjrualism and Home Rule. J. W.Whiteley, new Grand Master. Grand Orange Lodge opened Wednesday with 150 delegates present. Important resolutions passed calling for total exclusion of Orientals from Canada and employment of British subjects on public works by Provincial and Federal Governments. Thomas Duke ���t .':"' '���������"T THE WESTERN CALL. THE WESTERN CALL PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE TERMINAL CITY PRESS, LTD. HEAD OFFICE: 203 Kingsway, Vancouver Telephone Fairmont 1140 Suhsorlntlon a One Dollar a Year In Advance There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. ' - . '������������������'������������������������������������''������������������'-;'Y^?S' Friday, February 20, ISM SOUTH VANCOUVER. Since the memorable election of 17th January last, when the present council went into power, there has been a never ending stream of humanity pouring up and down the stairs in the Municipal hall. Old and young���������short and tall���������lean and stout���������all are animated by the same desire, viz.: to get hold of one of the many vacancies created by the Gold two-edged sword; Qualifications seem only a minor point in the eyes Of many. "Pull," not qualifications, seem to be the open seasame thought necessary by all candidates. 1 On Monday last most of the members of the . municipal staff turned out to pay their last tribute to their fellow worker, Mr. James, assessor. The'late assessor was one of the oldest employes , of the hall. Of a quiet retiring disposition, he . was much respected by every one connected with the hall: - , . The following day the remains of Catherine Winters, wife of Detective Winters,-was laid to rest. Both Mr. Winters and his late wife are old timers, and we question if there is today a man. who is better known in South Vancouver than Tom Winters. For many years before entering the service of the Municipality of South Vancouver he followed the dairy and cattle business, and ten years ago, if there was a sale of cattle within fifty miles* of Vancouver, Tom was at it . The employes at the hall contributed a beautiful ' wreath to both funerals. The action of Councillor Thomas in the trial of Gateman and Houston causes more than ordinary comment and may yet have a serious result. That the Attorney General's attention will be drawn to the- matter is certain. Magistrate Johnston and the court stenographer find themselves in a peculiar position in regard to Mr. Thomas' evidence.. If what be says is correct, ��������� then no further reliance can be placed on the work of the lady stenographer at the hall, nor can the magistrate be relied on when furnishing ���������" the higher court with the evidence brought out in the Police Court. ' '' . The Council must also take action in the mat-. ' teras it is up to Councillor Thomas now to draw their attention to the fact that the evidence he heard given before Judge McJnnes, as the sworn . testimony of the court stenographer was not as . given _,in__the Police. Court_ in _ South ^Vancouver, and that he, Councillor Thomas, had to give the correct version. In justice to Magistrate Johnston and Miss Dench, court stenographer, a searching investigation should be instituted, and if it is found that Councillor Thomas made a mistake we are certain he will be the first to publicly apologize. The impression has gone abroad that the Council is dominated and run by one man. This impression is largely due to a certain councillor claiming the credit for all the drastic action that has taken place. The other councillors are at present entirely in the shade. When any one is looking for a situation or seeking a favor rarely do such applicants ask for the Reeve or any other councillors but the one. However, Councillors Thomas and Routledge are men who will not take a back seat for any one. So in the near future we hope to see Councillor Thomas and the others assert their individuality. The monopolization by any single individual of all credit for work done is neither good for the individual nor the community. That a reaction is now taking place throughout the municipality at the hasty action of the council in their wholesale dismissals is plainly evidenced in every day conversation. An uneasy feeling prevails that the dismissals are not due to inefficiency, as at first stated, but rather is .due, in some cases, to old standing grievances by some of the councillors who have taken advantage of their position to punish the officials because of some fancied slight in the past. Tbe dismissals must be vindicated by the appointment of a more efficient class of officials at a lower salary. If the council can prove this, their vindication is sure. However, if the offices declared vacant are filled by committee workers of the council, irrespective of competition and ability to hold the job, then the more intelligent ratepayers will take a hand in the business. The doings of the council in the dismissals may be justified by after events, but they have created a precedent which will have an ulterior effect for many years, and will have a tendency to keep away the best class of officials from South Vancouver. Had the council quietly assumed ~ office and set to work dismissing and retrenching where necessary they would have carried the confidence of the ratepayers with them. On the contrary, office was assumed with a beating of drums of the showman class���������a sword was exhibited and all were invited to'see the executioner at work. As British subjects we pride ourselves on British justice; as ye mete so shall it be meted out to you. He that lives by the sword shall perish by the sword. Therefore, we will watch the building up of the destructive work undertaken by the present council. FIELD CROPS OF CANADA, 1913 Report for the year ended December 31, 1913. Last year's season was very favorable for grain growing in the Northwest provinces, where during the ripening, harvesting, and threshing periods conditions generally speaking were ideal. In Ontario, Quebec and parts of the Maritime provinces, on the other hand, the yield of grain was adversely affected by prolonged drouth. For the whole of Canada the principal field crops occupied a total estimated area of 35,375,- 000 acres, as compared with 35,575,000 acres in 1912, and their value, computed at average local market prices, was $552,771,500, as compared with $556,344,100 in 1912. Wheat upon 11,015,000 acres produced 231,- 717,000 bushels of the value of $156,462,000, the corresponding figures in 1912 being 10,996,700 acres, 224,159,000 bushels and $139,090,000. Of the total wheat area 970,000 acres were devoted to fall wheat, the production being 22,592,000 bushels, and the value $18,185,000, as compared with 971,000 acres, 20,387,000 bushels and $17,- 157,000 in 1912. Oats yielded a total of 404,669,000 bushels from 10,434,000 acres, and the value reached $128,893,000, the,corresponding figures of 1912 being 9,966,000 acres, 391,629,000 bushels and $126,304,000. Both the spring wheat and oat crops of 1913 are the highest on record in Canada, spring wheat as regards area, yield and value and oats as regards area and yield. The value of the oat crop was exceeded in 1911, when the amount was $132,949,000. Barley upon 1,613,000 acres yielded 48,319,000 bushels of the value of $20,144,000, as against 1,- 581,000 acres, 49,398,000 bushels and $22,354,000 in 1912. Flaxseed occupied 1,552,800 acres, and the production was 17,539,000 bushels of the value' of $17,084,000, as compared with 2,021,900 acres, 26,130,000 bushels and $23,608,000 in 1912. The quality of the grain crops, as indicated by averaged weight per measured bushel, was excellent and was superior to 1912. Spring wheat ' averaged 60.37 lb. against 58.90 lb. in 1912, oats 36.48 lb. against 35.40 lb. and barley 48.41 lb. against 47.59 lb. ' In the three Northwest provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta the production in 1913 of wheat is estimated at 209,262,000 bushels, compared with 204,280,000 bushels in 1912," of oats at 242,413,000 bushels, compared with 242,- 321,000 bushels and of barley at 31,060,000 bushels, compared with 31,600,000 bushels. The wheat production of 1913 in Manitoba was 53,331,000 bushels from 2,804,000 acres, in Saskatchewan 121,559,000 bushels from 5,720,000 acres'and in Alberta 34,372,000 bushels from 1,512,000 acres. Census and Statistics Office. ARCHIBALD BLUE, Chief Officer. LIBERALS AND THE TARIFF. A Concerted Attack fi Being Planned by the Opposition Upon Canada a Fiscal Policy. . Foiled in their attempt to make political capital at the expense of the farmer by the early exposure of the false, ridiculous and dangerous policy of "free food," the Liberal leaders a*l now preparing for a general assault upon the whole fabric of the_-National Policy, in ih_e_form of a demand for a general downward revision of the tariff. What right have a few lawyers and political opportunists in the Liberal partjy to endanger the means of livelihood of thousands of honest workingmen in this country? This is the question which every man who toils in a~ workshop should ask himself today. For there is not a shadow of a doubt that the Liberals have determined to destroy the National Policy. Their demand'for a downward revision of the present tariff is the first' step in that direction. And it is just as certain that Free Trade in Canada would be followecLby the closing of the doors of hundreds of factories, by the throwing out of employment thousands of workmen, by a lowering of the wages that are now enjoyed, and by a lowering in the standard of living in every workingman's home. Free Trade in Canada under present world conditions would mean national bankruptcy. Under present conditions in Canada, its adoption would be national suicide. These are days of vast organization in business, and of masterful methods. The race is now to the active and the strong. Fiscal policies are weapons by which nations are fighting to retain their places in the fight for national and coiinuercial supremacy. To remain in that fight for supremacy is a test of the keenest intelligence. Under the aegis of the National Policy, we have prospered as few nations have prospered in the past. Our farmers have a splendid home market for nearly all they produce, our working- men are the highest paid in the world, the land is dotted with factories, and agriculture and industry are flourishing side by side. Is it the task of wisdom or statesmanship to uproot, to destroy the foundation upon which this national prosperity is builded? The Provincial Government are putting through a loan for $10,000,000 ��������� at this session. This will provide at least $7,500,000 for public works in the province during 1914, and will raise the Provincial debt to $18,000,000. The policy is a just one. It is not fair that the present generation should pay all the cost of improvements that will be enjoyed by posterity, and no other country in the world dreams of doing it. Grandview Grandview Methodist Church Pastor���������Rev. F. G. Lett. Sunday 8ervices:��������� Preaching 11 a.m. and 7.30 p.m.; Sunday School* 2.30 p.m. Epworth League���������Monday 8 p.m. Prayer Meeting���������Wednesday 8 p.m. -..The young people invite everybody ie their League meetings, and suggest regular attendance at all services' of the Chureh. ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH. (Anglican.) Corner of First Avenue East and Semlirf Drive, Grandview. Rev. Harold St. George Buttrum, B. A. B. D., Rector. ^ Residence, the Rectory, 2023 First Avenue East. SUNDAY SERVICES ���������Morning prayer and Holy Communion the first and third Sundays of the month at 11 a. m.; morning prayer every Sunday at 11 a. m.; Holy Communion 2nd and 4th Sundays at 8 a. m.; evening prayer every Sunday at 7:30 p. m. WIRELESS FOR ALL Great Powers' Treaty of the Sea- Outcome of Titanic and Volturno Delegates of all the maritime powers signed at the' Foreign office on Tuesday a convention which will be, humanely speaking, the charter of safety of every ocean going passenger in future. With the tragedies of the Titanic and the Volturno in mind, the delegates guard against the idea that their' regulations will make a liner safe or unsinkable, but the new requirements will be a great step forward. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand were specially (represented at the conference. Iceberg Patrol.���������The United States will control vessels patrolling the Atlantic for icebergs and derelicts, and will warn all liners by wireless. Captains' warned must at, night'reduce speed or alter the course. All captains must give wireless warning of icebergs. All the Powers will share the cost, Britain paying 30 per cent., Germany, France, and the United States 15 each, and the others the rest. Safety Bulkheads,���������All ships must be subdivided into watertight compartments sufficient to keep them afloat in case of casualty, and must have bulkheads to prevent the spread of fire. There must be means of escape from these compartments. Carriage of dangerous goods in passenger liners is prohibited. Captains are urged to use unceasing vigilance and never think that their vessel is unsinkable. Wireless for All.���������Eevery ocean going vessel with fifty or more on board must have wireless with a range of 100 miles, and in most cases there must be a continuous watch by qualified men for wireless distress calls. A captain in distress may select from answering vessels the one most likely to Help" him. "~ Boats for All.���������There must be life boats or equivalents (including life rafts) for all on board, with special life jackets for children. Sufficient sailors must be trained to use the boats. Fire at Sea.���������There must be organized patrols to detect fire and adequate means to put it out. Light for Night Disasters.���������It is urged that electric lighting and wireless generating machinery should be on an upper deck so as to be unaffected should the boilers' fires be put out by a leak. Further details of the convention are to be published on February 15. DETERMINED TO COLLECT $12,000,000 Cleveland, Ohio.���������County Collectors Fackler and Agnew declared today that they are determined to use the state's entire power, if necessary, to collect approximately twelve" millions assessed as personal tax against Rockfeller. They have just returned from a conference with the governor and other state officials. They said they had been assured of all needed backing in the fight. Rockfeller remained silent, but itis understood he means to resist. In Southern Niageria, on the west coast of Africa, the British Government has done much to encourage the practice of forestry, and eight hundred villages now have communal plantations of rubber trees. The natives supply the labor, the native chiefs supply the land and the Forestry Department supplies the seeds, technical knowledge and tapping appliances. 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Each member has left a large fortune through which the British exchequer has been enriched by a total of some $6,000,000. The death of James Coats in March 1912, left a fortune of nearly $10,- 000.000 without any provisions for its disposition; six months later Archf bald Coats passed away, leaving sum of nearly $7,000,000; in Januarj 1913, Sir James Coats died leavtnc nearly $9,000,000, and a few weeks' later P. M. Coats, a son of Sir Tames) died, leaving $1,000,000. The fiftl death, which was that of Peter Coats in September last, left another for-| tune of $12,000,000, making the total fortunes of the deceased over $40,- 000,000. None of the Coats left a'ny-j thing to charity, but during theirl lifetime they had been generousj givers. 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Yet ' this lake was practically unknown until a forest survey was made of this region last ��������� summer by the Dominion .Forestry branch. Unfortunately, there are no fish in this lake, owing probably to the fact that the Maligne river flows underground for several miles, after leaving the lake. FURS THAT WSA* WELL. The "Great Divide" is sometimes a 'very small affair in the Rocky mountains of Alberta and British Colum- ibia. This summer a forest survey 1 party sent put by the Dominion For- [estry branch, found that the head- (waters of the Athabaska river in Al- tberta were separated only by a narrow strip of. low lying land from the waters ot a" lake in British Columbia which drains into the Columbia river. ."Were the outlet of this lake blocked 'and a shallow trench dug for a couple , of hundred yards, its waters could be made to flow east instead of west. A'somewhat similar case: is seen where the head waters of the Smoky^ and Fraser. rivers, -though flowing in opposite directions, have their common source at the base of a great glacier on Mount Robson, which guards the boundary between Alberta and British Columbia. SAWMILL MACHINERY ��������� Six saws, 3 saw edgers, 1 planer, 1 jack works, 1 cut-off saw'and frame, saw carriage works and other machinery; cost over $2400; will go for $600 cash. 1768 Robson street. The following statements by a writer in The London Times may be of interest and perhaps some value to those of us fortunate enough in these days when even fresh eggs are a luxury, to have any spare cash for furs. The durability of furs varies enormously, and has little relation to price. For example, ermine and chinchilla, both of which fafl in the rare fur class, stand respectively at 25 and 15 in a table where skunk is 70 and beaver 90. In this table sea otter, with its water hairs, is taken at 100. Here is the list in full: Sea Otter ..���������;-...;������������������..... .;.......; Beaver .������������������.':. .;......;. Seal ......;.-;."....���������... ........ Mink ...................... Skunk ....;.......... .......... Persian Lamb1 .'......; ...... Baum Martn .......^.............. Sable .; .���������..������������������..,.���������....������. ...... Fox, Black, silver .... Stone marten .... Opossum ... Musquash, .. Grey lamb . Nutria ......... Ermine 1���������... Lynx .......... Squirrel .���������.���������. Chinchilla ... Broadtail ... Caracul kid . Moleskin .-*:. Rabbit .��������� ...100 ... 90 ... 75 ... 70 ... 70 ... 65 ... 65 ... 60{ ... 40 ... 40 ... 37 ... 33 ...30 .z.27 ,:. 25 ... 25 ... 25 ... 15 ... 15 :.. 10 ... 7 ..... 5 The durability of furs is reduced by artificial coloring. The-baum marten, which in a natural state stands at 65, in the, table is only 45 after tinting. The amount of fur needed for a half-length coat of average girth is sixteen square feet; for a full-length motor coat ewenty-seven square feet is required. Rt. Hon. R.L. Borden. Prime Minister of Canada. THE MEN WHO ARE GOVERNING CANADA The commencement of a Parliamentary session always focuses the attention of the country upon the leader of the government. To him the people look"for guidance and "the legislative programme for the 'year. He is the dominating figure, the big personality in whose hands the reins of power rest The opening of the third session of the twelfth Parliament of Canada finds Robert Laird Borden more firmly entrenched than ever in the leadership of the Liberal-Conservative party. During last session, when party strife ran high, and the House of. Commons witnessed scenes fortunately rare in Canadian history, Premier Borden exhibited the qualities of coolness, courage, dignity and patience,, which marked him as the ideal leader. Time and again, by his' tact, he- saved the House from awkward situations, and members of the opposition quickly recognized his resourcefulness under all circumstances. He has thus placed himself, by virtue of his gifts, high in the regard of the Commons, and in the affection of the Canadian people. In the discbarge of the duties of Prime Minister there are many difficulties. There are great- questions to settle' and' innumerable details requiring careful attention. Representatives from all parts of the Dominion, electors, deputations and visitors of all shades of opinion are continually being received by the Prime Minister of Canada, who ^ends an ear to all. Frank and Courteous. It is safe to assume that no Premier, in his relations with the people, has ever shown more courtesy or entered more fully into the desires and needs of those who meet him than Robert Laird Borden. He enhances his office by the dignity of his manner, and he inspires confidence by frankness and firmness. The example set' by Premier Borden when leader of the opposition;-in his trip to the West, has never been surpassed in quality of determination and clear exposition of principles. ��������� On that journey he told the Westerners, that he did not wish power at the expense of the Canadian people, meaning that he would not support reciprocity, even if it brought* him the position of Prime Minister. That such an attitude was appreciated by Canadians was shown in the overwhelming victory a few months later. ., As a leader of men the Conservative Prime Minister has few equals. His success has, in that respect, been gained by years of hard work and patient persistence. From the moment' when the young Halifax lawyer became a member of Parliament until the present time he never swerved f/om the ideal he had set before him. He never deviated from the path of duty, andhe always'regarded the interests of the people as a treasure to be guarded zealously. Men have thus recognized that in the Conservative leader there was ��������� a man amongst men, and they ,fell in under his leadership naturally. Predictions Were False. .Premier Borden, has made a success of his work, greatly to the chagrin of his political enemies. The doleful prophecies made after the formation of his cabinet have never been fulfilled. The talk about "unholy alliances" has now fallen flat, and his government and the members of Parliament stand united today in all matters vitally affecting the people. Nowhere was this more evident than during the discusion on Mr. Borden's naval proposals, when the Liberal party blockaded every effort of the Conservatives *to have the measure passed. Cabinet minister and back-bencher stood by their leader, and out of that troublous time there became evident the great hold which the Prime Minister had'upon ������M"frM'������������-M''M"M">������'M"M II 11 !������������������!������������������ the "loyalty and devotion of his followers. ' The reputation of Mr. Borden as a lawyer and authority on constitutional law had been very high before he became Premier, but he has ; surpassed even * that. On such ques- j rions as the famous Ne Temere bill, the relations of Canada with other countries, the rules of the House of Commons, he showed an amazing grasp of the essentials and details of constitutional law. Friend and foe alike were astonished at the comprehensive and cogent manner in which these questions were summed up by Mr. Borden, and an 'air of relief and confidence was always apparent when he rose to speak. The result is seen in the peerless position now held by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons. An International Figure. The reputation gained by Mr. Borden since his access to office is not merely national. It has become international. On the occasion of his famous visit to England in 1912, to discuss the naval proposals with the Admiralty, he established himself as a new force in Empire politics. His speeches, while in England, delighted the members of both political parties. Thoughtful, practical, frank and patriotic, they were eminently suited to the time of his visit, and Englishmen welcomed him as a true son, who was imbued with the spirit which had made for ' England's greatness. When he returned to Canada and launched his naval proposals he showed determination and dogged- ness, and his recent declaration that he will yet help England, when he gets the opportunity, shows his calibre. Robert Laird Borden has been but a few months over two years in office. He has in that time become settled in the confidence and esteem of the Canadian people. He has gained that position by consecrating his services to the Canadian people. He followed an administration which had been in office, fifteen, years, and a Prime Minister who also had the confidence of his followers to a remarkable degree. But nothing daunted,. Mr. Borden, pursued his course, and is now recognized as a foremost Empire statesman. This His Third Session. ���������-��������� He .faces his third session as Prime Minister. But he has no fear. Already he has to his credit useful and well appreciated legislation, and is contemplating reform in many directions. Premier Borden knows not only by the result of the recent by- elections, but also by the evidences of appreciation from all quarters, that he has the Canadian people behind him in his future programme. Like Bayard, he faces his enemies squarely and his friends hopefully, because he is without fear and without reproach. MORTGAGE SALE. ��������� j..." .1 ������..',������������������. - ,., ' *~mimmtmBrjdffi&&y*.?4lf& I Of Valuable Property. Under and by virtue of the powers' contained in a certain Indenture of Mortgage which will be produced at' the time of the sale, -there will be offered for sale .by public auction on Wednesday, February. 11th, 1913, ati the hour of 11 o'clock in the forenoon; by Thomas Shirley, Auctioneer, a������. his office in the Davis Chambers, 615 Hastings Street West in the City oV Vancouver, B. C, the following prop-1 erty, namely, Lot 16, in Block 2, in' the Sub-division of District Lot 663,! Municipality-of South Vancouver, map 1390: . The Vendor is informed that the above property is situated on the east side of Chester Street between 47th and 49th Avenws East in the Municipality of South Vancouver, and that < there' is a' two and a half storey frame dwelling erested thereon. 1 TERMS OP SALE: Twenty per cent of the purchase money is to be paid in cash at the time of sale and the, balance in accordance with the conditions to be' then made known. For further particulars and condi-, tions of sale apply to Bowser, Reid & Wallbridge, Solicitors, Canada Life Building, Hastings Street West, Vancouver, B. C. DATED at Vancouver. B. G, this 15th day of January, 1914. 1-30-14 to 2-20-14 Phrenology And Palmistry Mrs. you urn (Formerly of Montreal) Ohrmm Praotloal sdvloa On Business Adaptation, Health and Marriage. 805 Granville Street, Corner Robson lours: 10 a. m. to 9 p. m FOR SALE CARDS PE 52535Z5Z5Z52525Z525Z5a52525 ���������pit MSiiyiMM y,-f y-t^yy^0^sy^i{fii$w&k The f^M^m^We^^^m yym!<^wy^y^y^i0^M GOVERNMENT RESERVES WATER-POWER SITES Business *#85Sl������!i8IIIi������S������ Thel|bjg||ii^������s* We ca^si^yiSp!^^ m&m Baxter * Wright (Successors to Hutcblngs Furniture Company), Complete House Furnishers. Phone Sey. 771. 416 Main St. Survey of Vermillion Falls on Peace River ��������� Other Reservations in North-West Provinces. Consistent with the policy of the Dominion Government . to preserve the water powers for the people, the Department of the Interior is placing under reservation all vacant Dominion land that the. Superintendent of Water Powers may recommend to be valuable for the development of water power. Six whole sections of land, in township 108, range 6, west of the 5th meridian, have recently been reserved from disposition of any kind until the engineers of the Water Power Branch 'have had an opportunity to make a complete survey of the famous power site at Vermillion falls, on the Peace river in Northern Alberta. Similar reservations have been made on the various rivers in the provinces . of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and in the railway belt of British Columbia. Particular mention might be made of reservations covering land contiguous to Grand rapids on the Athabaska river, the various power sites on the Elbow and the Bow rivers, in the province of Alberta; for land required for the development of power at Grand rapids on the Saskatchewan river, and all unoccupied land along the Winnipeg river, in the province of Manitoba. MT. PLEASANT SUFFEAGE LEAGUE. The regular meeting of the Mt. Pleasant Suffrage League, to.be held in Lee Hall, 2421 Main St. on Monday night at 8 P. M. will be addressed by Mr. Morton, who has been for some years closely connected with the labor movement in England. The meeting is free and the public is cordially invited. B. c. Elsctrlc Co. For' Everything Electrical, Phone Sey. 5000, Cor.-Carrall and Hastings Sts. 1138 Granville ���������{������������������ ;vfi ;;V6hnwfi ,;*'? j; wyyiyyyyiMi:,-,-,,,^ ���������The Secret^; Service^'JptelU^^ Bureau, 319 Pender St W- m Kamloops-Vancouver Meat Co., MaV Cor. Main & Powell St*. 1849 Main 8t Phone Sey; 6561:v'^PJione JF������n\ liH" St. P. C. Telephone Co. The Telephone Directory Is 240,000 times daily. Phone Sey. 6070. used Geo. G. Bigger Jeweller and Optician, 143 Hastings St. W. "The Home of Perfect Diamonds.' Bloomfield's Cafe Best and oldest established Cafe in Mount Pleasant. 2517 Main St. Near Broadway Buffalo Grocery .'-'��������� "The Home of Quality," Commercial Drive.and 14th Ave. Cieland A Dibble Engraving Co. Ltd. "Our Cuts Talk." 3rd Floor World Bldg. Clubb A. Stewart, Ltd. For Best Quality Clothing, 309-315 Hastings St. W. , Davies A Saunders General Contractors. Phone Sey. 943. 55-66 Davis Chambers, 615 Hastings Street W. Dominion Wood Yard ���������* All hinds of Mill Wood. Cor. Front and Ontario Sts. Phone Pair. 1554. Dow, Fraser 6. Co., Ltd. J (A Trust Company).. Head Office: 317-321 Cambie Street. 2313 Main Street. Edward Clough Real Estate, Insurance and Loans. Phone Sey. 2882. 441 Homer St ;:;tay;,t^e-Prog|lft.���������^{^'.:y:���������;:'^' :..Wants':td',8e������^>bu.:;";'*;^:5:':^f:!''":: Lee Building. ;J ���������, BroadwayM;Mitri; Mpuht;rPlwf������^;:!Liwi|y^:^ Carriages at all hours day or nifht. - Corner Broadway ^ M*in^Ffe Phone Fair. 8|5 Owen ";.(���������>.' 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Law* Druggist tea Bulldlna, troadway and Main pnoqe Fftirmont 790 PHONP FAIRMONT 1852 , (At it We since 1900) (A Trust Company) TfVow Wave $100 or so lying idle, why not let us loan or invest some for you to good advantage; whilst if you ^have but a few dollars handy, remember we pay 4 Per Cent, on Deposits subject to your cheque, and credit the interest 19 Time* a Year. We maintain a spot cash reserve as against deposits proportionately similar to the great banking concerns. BOUGHT *w mucnED 'Short . l.O&T\S. M&d Rev. Thomas James McCrossan, B. A.-B. D., Pastor of Oliver Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, Minn. this, but Christ only knew what He be his poorest, an Cft������D[TED (lONTHLY SVttJtCTUl CHEQUE Oow.Fr&ser L Co I:1 31/ 7>2] C.Aml.u-. Street r deposit Specially insured against burglary and. hold-ups. NOTARY PUBLIC - Dow, Fraser & Co. LIMITED 317-321 Cambie Street 2313 Main Street Between 7th and 8th Aves. ' JVlcKay Station, Burnaby In the world today there are thousands of scholarly men, and men of reverent spirits, who tell us that Jesus Christ is not our highest and final authority on the Old Testament. Dr. Driver in his "Introduction to the Old Testament," says: "Jesus accepted as the basis of His teaching the opinions of the Old Testament current around Him. He assumed in His allusions to it ithe premises which His opponents recognized, and which could not have been questioned without raising issues for which the time was yet ripe, and which had they been raised would have interfered seriously with the paramont purpose of His life." George Jackson of Victoria University, Toronto, in his recent book, "Studies in the Old Testament," p. 50, says: "Christ assumes the Mo- siac authorship of the Pentateuch and the Davidic authorship of the 110th Psalm, modern scholarship denies both." Then p. 47. he says: "A man may not do violence to his intellectual conscience at the bidding of any authority however , august." In other words, a man is only to believe what appeals to his own intellect as true, whether his conclusions deny the straight teachings of Jesus Christ or not. -This conclusion of the critics comes from Emerson's influence, who says in his essay on Self Reliance: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for,you, in your private heart, is true for all men, that is genius. Speak your latent.conviction and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost and our first thought is rendered back to us by the .trumpets of the last judgment. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of, light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of bards and sages." (These bards and sages -include Jesus Christ.) Charles A. Briggs, perhaps the ablest of all the American destructive critics, says: (Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch, page 28.) "Jesus knew- not the day nor the hour of His second coming. He may not have known the .facts (involved,: in modern criticism." Regarding this same point Jackson says, page 51, "Christ has told us that something of the future was hidden from his knowledge (Mark: 13:22), why should we be willing to learn that something of the past as well, which had no obvious bearing on His earthly mission, should have remained unknown to His human mind." This' is the position of all the Higher Critics of today, even the most moderate of them, and their names are legion. - Now let us look at some of the suppositions of these critics to which Christ gives the lie. (1) All these critics tell us,, that Genesis 1 and 2, regarding the origin of earth and man, are not in harmony with the findings ot the best scientists.���������They are in no way authoritative records, only legends. W. R. Harper, in the Biblical World of 1894, said, "These stories are ndt history; they are not scientific records, for science is modern." President'Jordan, of iLeland Stanford University, said in a speech delivered in Chicago recently (referring to Genesis), "The Bible is a human record, full of error and-absurdity." In the "New Standard Dictionary," Prof. Nourse, one of thee hief editors, says regarding Genesis, "In the light of modern science and of recent archaelogical discovery, the historical value of Genesis 1-11 is no longer an open question. We cannot go to Genesis for our cosmogony or for our geology. We cannot go to Genesis 2 and 3 for the literal facts regarding the origin of man nor of evil."', .-..'' . - /'/. And George Adam Smith, says (Yale Lectures), "In the pre-Ab- rahamic accounts we are riot dealing with history. The first nine chapters of Genesis to a large extent were taken from the raw material of Babylonian myths and legends." ' , "J^eorge Jackson expresses the universal opinion of the critics when he says (page 128) regarding the great debate betwen Huxley and Gladstone on this very question in 1885, "Gladstone's defenceless position left him at the mercy of his wily foe." But Jesus believed the records of creation in Genesis to be true, for in Matthew 19:4, He says,' "Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning, made 'Ahem male and female." Where else could they have read this but in Genesis; so Christ here puts the stamp "of His approval on the creation records of had been taught by the Jewish rabbis,-like any other Jewish youth. But the greatest of our scientists say Christ was right and the critics are wrong. Sir William Dawson says: "The order of creation, as stated in Genesis is faultless in the light of modern science, and many of its details present the most remarkable agreement with the results of sciences born only in our own day." Prof. A. H. Guyot says: . "To a sincere and unsophisticaed mind it must be evident that the grand outlines sketched by Moses are the same which those of modern science enables us to trace." ������ Hugh Miller (that Prince of geologists), says: "It is only as the. fulness of the time comes, in the brighter light of increasing scientific knowledge that these grand old oracles of the Bible, so apparently simple, but so marvelously pregnant with meaning, stand forth at once, cleared of all erroneous human glosses and vindicated as the inspired testimonies of Jehovah." And Dana, by the way, was the referee in the great debate between Huxley and Gladstone. That debate took place in 1885. When both men had put in their findings, they concluded, since neither of them was a great geologist, to leave the matter to. the greatest of all living geologists to decide, and they therefore left it to Dana, whose decision can be original ��������� Mono theism in this people is decisively rejected." Now all the leading German critics are evolutionists and our English and American critics have simply accepted their conclusions based upon this false theory.. Dr. J. P. Peters (himself a higher critic) in his book, "The Old Testament and the New Scholarship," page 94, says: "Viewing history then as an evolutionist, we have a working hypothesis which helps to fit events, institutions, laws, thoughts, beliefs, customs, rites and ceremonies into their place < in a great progressive series." Then he adds: "This is done on the theory that each rite, each opinion, each belief is developed out of something which preceded it." Here then we have the secret of their whole pernicious system. Believing that man came from the lower forms of life,* of course Adam would know but little more than the brutes, and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob must all be myths, for they knew far more regarding God in that early'day than men ,who lived one thousand years later. This, of course, according to their theory, would be impossible, so they get rid of this difficulty "by calling them myths, the cremation of some mind from 800 to 600 B. C, when evolution had done its work and given men the knowledge of God which Abraham possessed. Sir William Dawson (Earth and Man, 317), says: ' "The evolution Magazine for August, 1886. Here it is: "I agree in all essential-points with Mr. Gladstone and I believe that the first chapter of Genesis and science are in accord." (For full particulars regarding this debate read Sir Robert Anderson's Book, "A Doubter's Doubts re. Science and Religion.") People tell me that George Jackson, George Adam Smith, Dr. Driver and all these critics are nobie Chrst- ian men. Then why. in the name of common sense, when they tell us that Genesis 1 and 2 are only myths and legends, do they not add "This is merely our opinion, but Dana, Sir William Dawson, Hugh Miller, Lord Kelvin, George Fred Wright, De Cyon, W. H. Dallinger, and the majority of great scientists of the world think the very opposite." This would show them to be honest. With such mighty authorities on the side of the Bible they would.continue to believe in these records until they had been proven false. Listen to Dana's own testimony regarding Genesis:. He says "The first thought that strikes the scientific reader is the evidence of divinity. There is so much that the most recent readings of science, have for the first time"1 explained, that - the idea of man as the author becomes utterly incomprehensible. _By_prov- ing the record true (Driver, Briggs, George A. Smith, Jackson, etc., say it is only myth and legend), science pronounces it divine, for who could correctly have narrated the, secrets of eternity, but God himself." How true this is. The sacred writers of China tell .us that their God, Pwangu, carved the heavens out of granite. If we found a fool theory like this in Genesis we would know it was a man made book. The Hindus tell us that the world was flat. That it stood upon the backs of six elephants, and the elephants on a great tortoise shell, and the tortoise shell upon the back of a great snake; and every time the elephants shook themselves it caused the earth to quake. Now every nation has some foolish theory to account for the creation of the earth and man, except the Jews. Anr remember that when Genesis was written the Jews knew no more about science than the Chinese and.Hindus, and yet here we have a record that agrees with the findings of the greatest scientists of the past fifty .years. No wonder Dana, Hugh Miller, Dawson, Kelvin and all the great scientists give their approval to Genesis, and so to the teaching of Jesus Christ, who put the ��������� seal of His approval on these records. ..But says some one, "Why do these critics oppose tha^records of Genesis?" Because it paralyzes their suppositions. Erdmans (until recently one of the greatest leaders of the critics on -tbe continent), says, in the July Expbsi- tor of 1900, regarding^ higher critir cism, "A good deal of belief in evolution is involved in it." And James Orr (in Problem of Old Testament, page 26), says: "The guiding idea of the critical school is ho longer revelation, but evolution. ^ Man's old- Genesis. All the critics freely, admit est ideas of God being supposed to found in the Nineteenth Century dJctrine is ������n* of *he "W vra������o,:���������- t~ a ���������.. iooa ������__ ������ phenonmena of humanity. It existed most naturally in the oldest philosophy and poetry, in connection with the crudest and most uncritical attempts of the human mind to grasp the system of nature; .but that in our day a system destitute of any shadow of proof and supported by vague analogies and figures of speech and by arbitrary and artificial coherence of its own parts, should find able adherents to string upon its thread of hypothesis our" vast and weighty stores of knowledge, is-surpassingly strange." Then he adds: "But for. the vigor that one sees everywhere, it might be taken as an indication that the human mind Has fallen into a state of senility and in its dotage mistakes for science the imaginations which are the dreams of youth." De Cyon (the greatest of Russian scientists, in Ws recent book "God and Science''), says: "Evolution is pure assumption." He quotes Fraas (who devoted his whole life to the study of fossil animals) as saying, "The idea that mankind has descended from any Simian species whatsoever, is certainly the most folish idea ever put forth by a man writing on the history of man. It should be handed down to posterity in a new edition of "The memorials on human follies." Then he adds, "No proof' of this theory,can ever be-given from- dis- overed fossils." In this same book De Cyon shows Haeckel (the chief exponent of evolution in Germany) in his proper light. He quotes Prof. Chowlson (the eminent physicist of St. Petersburg), who says: "All that Haeckel explains and affirms concerning questions of physics is false and shows an ignorance of the most elementary problems, which is hardly believable." Here too, will be found a record of the falsification of plates by Haeckel, recently discovered by Dr. Arnold Brass. It has been conclusively proven that Haeckel has pictured the fetuses of a dog, a chicken and a mole with a single plate, labeled in three,different ways; and this is only one of many such falsifications. Yet this same Haeckel is held before thousands of American students today as perhaps the greatest of living scientists.. Again listen to iJana regarding evr olutiori (Geological Story, page 290). He says: "The present teaching, of geology jris that man is not of nature's making. Independently of such evidences, man's high reason, his unsatisfied longings and aspirations, his free will, all afford the fullest assurance that he owes his ex- istance to the special act of the Infinite Being whose image he bears." , Then when Jesus Christ set the seal of His approval upon the creation narratives of-Genesis, He did not do so because it was God's own truth. Now, if Christ and the great scientists are correct; if Adam really did come straight from the hand of God, pure, holy and fully developed in mind, why should it be thought a thing incredible that these patriarchs should know so much regarding God? .But to believe as the critics believe forces us to one of two conclusions'. "Either man came, by evolution or else God created him a man, but a mighty poor specimen of man, just a" little higher than the brute creation. * i (2) Again all these critics deny that Moses wrote the Pentateuch. Why? For the same reason; because it does not fit into their theory of an evolutionary development. No one in Moses' day knew enough regarding God and His laws to write as Moses is supposed to have written. To develop such a person, by a process of evolution would have taken several hundreds of years more, at the very earliest not' before^ Josiah's time, about 650 B. C. (a) For years it was ''said Moses could not have written the Pentateuch because writing was unknown in his day. But in 1887 the Tel-el-Amana tablets were discovered in Northern Egypt. There are more than three hundred of these tablets from different lands, including Babylon and Palestine, and so it was proven that the Jews could write even before Moses' day. (b) Then these critics said that Moses could, not have written these books because a code of laws so elaborate as that of Moses could not have originated at that early date. They offered no proof, only made this assertion. Now, as it is one of their fundamental principles never to believe any statement of the Old Testament (which they don't want to believe) unless it is corroborated by Pagan history, there was nothing to do but to await evidence. That evidence came a few years ago when the code of Hammurabi, king^of Babylon in the days of Abraham, was discovered This code is just as elaborate as the code of xMoses, and reveals an advanced idea of law such as the critics never dreamed of. "(c) Then in desperation the critics turned to the theory of the French infidel, Astruc, that,Moses could not have been the author of the Pentateuch because they find indisputable evidence of several different authors. The one who uses Jehovah for God they call the "J" writer. The one who uses Elohim, they call the "E" writer, and" the one who speaks of the altar and the sacrifices they call the "P"���������the priestly writer. Then anything they cannot thus classify .they refer to "R"���������the Redactor. Wellhausen was the great German advocate of this-theory for many years, and he was followed by Erdmans of Leiden. Lately, however, Erdmans (perhaps the greatest Hebrew scholar on the continent) has given up the theory as untenable and says -in the Expositor of July, 1909, "Personally, I am convinced'that the critics are on the wrong track, and that we shall never be able to explain the composite -character, of the Hexateuch, if we do not do away with the Javistio, Elohistic and Priestly writers." And Dr. Weinel (once a leader maong the liberals of Germany) in his recent article, "Is the Liberal Jesus Christ." "He evidently grew but little after his school days; and regarding Wellhausen and other liberal leaders, he says, 'They are blind' leaders of the blind, mert possessed of a fixed idea,' and the public is warned against them as 'men who move in a circle.'" The greatest of the archaelogists have turned against the critics such .as Winckler, Halevey, Ditlif, Nielson, Naville, Flinders, Petrie, Pinches, Hilprecht, Hommel, Rawlinson and Sayce. These men have proved so many of the critics' suppositions to be false, that they have now concluded to accept the whole Old Testament as the inspired word of God (To be continued.) Last Friday evening Miss Violet Bowes gave a gay and informal party at her home on William street, Grandview. The house was seasonably decorated with hearts and ivy. The entertainment of the evening was carried out in entire harmony with St. Valentine. Progressive whist was followed by several contests and an auction sale which caused a great deal of merriment. The winners at. cards and the contests received very pretty and useful prizes. Supper was served at midnight. Those present- were: Misses Virginia Odium, Mary. Vallans, Effie" Vallans, HughenaUr- quhart, Jessie Hamilton, Grace Cham- \ j bers, Reta Wood, Grace Wood, Hilda Gray, Dora Spencer, Elsie Knight, ^ Mary Ehlers, Belle Smith; Messrs. C. Anders, V. Anders, J. Pochin, J. Blair, H. Ashley, B. Matchett, L. Solloway, B. .Gibson, H. 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Here's - Dr. Mike Clark, a rank free trader, travelling around with Ned Macdonald, of- Pictou, one of the warmest advocates of protection in Parliament. ������ Free food, for the benefit of the Canadian consumer, has been repriced in the iberal programme by free wheat for the benefit of the American miller. ���������-x��������� The new'parcel post will go along way toward bringing the producer and the consumer closer together, which, was never attempted during the fifteen years of Liberal rule, when the cost of living was going up. ���������ix��������� Sir Wilfred Laurier should have a man with a good memory to protect him against the snares laid for him, into which he falls so joyously, and from which he emerges so igno- miniously. ���������*��������� The reference to financial stringency in the spech from the Throne induced Sir Wilfred to boast that there was' no such situation during his regime, that hard times ceased in 1896, and came back in 1913. Mr. Borden then showed that the paragraph was quoted almost word for word from a paragraph in the speech from the Throne written by Sir Wilfred in 1908, when a similar stringency existed. ������H*M"M>'M'������'H^"H,*,MK''^M'fr'*'H^^ NEWS OF THE DAY < > ���������> ��������� ���������<{*SM^.{..{nfr.$^������frlfr<{<.^l.|llfr.|ll}.l3M^l.fr.fr������{M;M$M^^ > REGINA BOARD OP TRADE SPECIAL NEWS SERVICE Regina, Feb.���������It is announced that the Provincial'Government will bring to Saskatchewan at least 1,000 farm laborers during the present year; the first party is expected to arrive during the latter part of March. Arrangements are being made to bring to the Province a large number of domestics. Regina, Feb.���������C. A. Dunning, manager of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company, with head quarters at Regina, has advocated the consideration of an inland waterway from ocean to prairie as the most practical way of making the raising of grain a profitable undertaking for the farmer. Mr. Dunning is a member of the Saskatchewan Grain Commission which recently visited foreign countries with a view to considering conditions and the means by which marketing arrangements could be improved. The numerous transfers of the wheat, such as from cars to large boats, then to smaller boats, and again_to the ocean going-boats, is, according to Mr. Dunning*s statement, "an expensive combination." DISPOSAL .OF BRUSH IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Good News for All! The Land of Pronto in Sight! Crystal Springs, Florida A no-acre farm, the beat land, with the best people, the beat conditions and the best climate ln the world, 10 acres for $160; no liquor, with Its damnable blighting Influence destroying men, women and children, and filling' our prisons with criminals m&de by its insidious use, allowed to be sold ln the neighborhood; all public utilities owned by the people (and. you can be one of them); the water supply Is perfect, -35,000 gallons bubbling up from the spring every minute, giving a supply of the purest water, with 365 days of sunshine, with sufficient rein, enabling you to grow three crops a year and make a profit of $600 per acre. Railway ln city. You are 2000 miles nearer the best market than California. You have the best shipping facilities. This sounds like the land of promise. It is. Some people call it the Garden of Eden. You will want to learn more of this lovely place, so call at my house any evening, 1768 Robson St., and I will show you some of the produce and photos of this lovely place. C. T. W. * Piper. This is our Motto for J.914. We are enlarging premises and our stock of Wall Papers will be equal to any in the city. You have our experience of thirty (30) years in the work of Painting, Oecorating and Papering ^-14 years in Vancouver. 2317 Main Street Pltome fair* 099 BIRDS AND INSECTS ������!8K* ENGRAVING--' ETCHINGS AND HALFTONES ARE NOW BEING MADE IN WESTERN CANADA BY THE MOST SATISFACTORY PRO- CESS KNOWN TO WE WORLD THE "ACID BLAST" PROCESS i MAKES YOUR ILLUSTRATIONS V: -rr��������� LITERALLY TALK ���������������������������." ' MANUFACTURED IN WESTERN. CANADA: Bv thlCL{LAND Dl&Blt EhcC������1 t"? FLOOR WOdlD HlDC 3 Provincial Forest Branch Pursue* Progressive Policy to Reduce Fire Menace. During the past year, jnuch progress has been made in the province of British Columbia in connection with minimizing fire risks 'through the disposal of slash resulting from lumbering operations. In 1913, according to the Provincial Forest Branch, about 20,000 acres of lumbering slash were burned in that province, and a much larger area would have been burned had it not been for an extremely wet autumn. On the Coast and in the "interior, several experimental areas were burned by 'the Forest Branch, which, also, in cooperation with the Department of Public Works, burned ��������� a great many miles of slash along public roads. Such inflammable debris constitutes a serious fire menace as long as it is allowed to remain undisposed of. The Forest Branch, in co-operation with private land owners, secured the burning of quantities of slash created by- road and railroad construction through private lands. It was a condition of the charter of the railways now building through the province, aggregating 1,800 miles in length through ' timbered territory, that where timber is taken from Crown lands for construction purposes, the slash shall be piled and burned, scattered and burned, or lopped, according to the direction of the forest officers. This was done over an area of nearly a quarter of a million acres. About one hundred and twenty timber sales are completed or under negotiation with private companies, both lumber and pulp companies, and brush disposal is an important provision of each timber sale contract. Specific information is being collected by the Forest Branch as to the cost of brush disposal, but it is too early as_ yet to make definite -announcement of the results.���������C. L. . ������ . B. C. MAGAZINE. f If the February number of the British-Columbia Magazine is a promise of the future under the new management, it bids fair to meet with the success a local monthly of this kind deserves. The new size of the magazine is in line with the lead given by some of the monthly magazines of the United States which have adopted the customary weekly magazine measurement as a standard. The British Columbia Magazine is rather smaller, but it is of a very convenient size and well got up. It is under entirely new ownership and guidance, and Mr. W. J. Wilson,, the proprietor, in announcing the change states that the intention of the new company is to make the magazine the most readable, best illustrated and printed monthly in Western Canada. ; The stories in the magazine are written with a keen appreciation for the possibilities of British" Columbia. The editorials deal with subjects of special interest to British Columbians, and stage,, finance and fashions all figure in the production. The Western Call wishes the British Columbia magazine a happy and prosperous career. ���������; The birds destroy enormous quantities of insects. A conservative estimate of the number consumed by each individual insectivorous bird is one hundred a day. The figures for Massachusetts alone illustrate what birds can do: A careful estimate gives five insect-eating birds to the acre, making a total of at least 25,600,000 'for the .state. These birds consume daily, between the first of May and the end of-September, 2,560,000,000 insects, or 21,- 000 bushels of them. The total for the season is about 360,000,000,000 insects, or 3,000,000 bushels. If this bird population could be increased one bird to the acre, it would mean the destruction of 600,000 more bushels of insects during the five months. Can we therefore afford to sacrifice the life of even one of these indus* trious servants?���������Our Dumb Animals. ��������� ��������� ��������� ' BIRD PROTECTION All bird lovers will rejoice that a bill has been reported favorably to Congress by the committee having it in charge, providing for Federal protection of migratory birds. This bill, if it passes, and its friends are very hopeful, will do much to end the destruction of thousands of game and song birds that are yearly, the victims of pot hunters and the brutal men and boys in states where they are not now protected. When our robins and other feathered friends of the air go South in the autumn we shall be able to see them take their long flight with the comfort of knowing that, until their return, the strong hand of- the national government is reached out in their defense.���������Our Dumb Animals. ��������� ��������� ��������� PHYSICAL EXAMINATION FOR WORKING CHILDREN Upon the recommendation of a special commisison in New York state, the legislation has enacted that, before a' working certificate is issued, a thorough physical examination of every child shall be made by a medical health officer of the Department of Health, and that a duplicate record of the results of such physical examination shall be transmitted to the Department of Labor. During six months tbis law, in New York city alone, prevented 324 physically unfit children from going to work in factories. It would be. well also that the definition of labor be amplified, as brain work is more exacting upon the physical strength thaw muscular work, and under present conditions the environment during working hours of the average skilled mechanic is infinitely more sanitary than are most of our offices and stores. -> That the per capita consumption of water in most cities of North America is inordinately high, can be shown by a comparison with centers j of population in Europe. The tables below give figures taken from representative cities on both sides of the Atlantic, and furnish ~a good Ijasis for such a comparison: Imp. gals. Per head ��������������� Per day. St. John, N. B 200 Vancouver 160 Montreal 120 Ottawa 190 Toronto 95 Hamilton 98 New York 100 Buffalo 270 Chicago : 190 LYTTON NEWS. During the summer and autumn many applications have been .made, some of which still await hearing, for water rights on the innumerable creels that flow into the Fraser north of here. Nearly all of these are for the use of water for irrigation, indicating a great amount of land cultivation begun or projected, in spite of the uninviting appearance of the Fraser, looking north from here, the benches are wide and can be made fertile by irrigation, and every creek is the center of a valley, some of considerable width. The occupied land is now nearly continuous for about a distance of about 20.miles. The Lytton-Lilloet road still engages a number of men to keep it available for the traffic between the two towns, which is still heavy. Watchmen are" stationed on the bridges to enforce the rule that only one team with a loaded wagon may cross at once. ��������� ��������� ��������� TO ALLOW WOMEN TO VOTE. Important Change in Constitution of Bohemia. Vienna, Feb.���������Women are to, be enfranchised in Bohemia. The Austrian prime minister* Count Sturgkh, announced to the leaders of the German and Czech parties in the Bohemian diet that the Austrian government proposes to alter the'Bohemian constitution in such a way as to enfranchises women. ~*%:>yk > ka :^' .ax,. 3 >te\*?sir$ ������ Mount Pleasant Livery TRANSFER Furniture and Piano Moving; Baggage, Express and Dray. Hacks and Oarriajraa ." '- at all hoars. Phone Fairmont 040 : Corner Broadway and Main A. F. McTaviih, Prop, S; ���������* Miat4������������0������< ���������������>���������>������������������<+������������������ l|IHIIIIII|*IMM<MMI������ - I,'it - it ���������?P' ���������> :&, f,h ������">i"HI !-H H :-".��������� IIHIIHIIIHMlMintUII VANCOUVER CUT-HATE FRUIT and CANDY CO. i J N. Ellis. Mgr. ' 2452 Main St. (*. BrMfrlf ; London, Feb. ��������� From Punch: "Speaking at Toronto ex-President Taft said the world would have been much worse off without England. We believe this is so. Without Eng- ladn there might .have no American nation to speak." OUR COSTLIEST PRODUCT 4������jMH^^^4^H-^-W-W^4^^N!i*'M-H' ������4^������������;������<"H',1,'M"M'������<"H"1"1"I"I"1"1'"'������������ <r. ��������� ���������-; Mrs. J. S. Almond/ Teacher of VIOLIN , :��������� Is prepared to accept a .limited number of attention given to beginners. pupils; Special 181 Eighteenth Avenue, West 1W-14 Philadelphia .175 Average .. ......��������� ..��������� 159.8 Vienna, Austria .;..... 14 Ascher, Germany ......... 24 Basel, Switzerland 40 Copenhagen, Denmark 26 Hamburg, Germany 40 London, England 36 - Liverpool, England ...: .36 There are many costly productions in this country of ours today, such as food, fuel, clothing, luxuries, gold and silver. But the costliest product that we are making today as a nation is the Drunkard. He costs more than the Panama ,,canal, more than our navy, wars, floods or fires. In��������� a������|ual numbers the saloons of our country graduate/ and turn out upon our streets 600,000 drunkards every year. Of this number 100,000 are boys between 16 and 20 years old Today there are 1,000,000 drunkards boys. Fifty per cent of the men wounded in the U. S., of whom '166,666 are in battle die. The other 50 per cent have their lives shortened from 10 to 20 years. There are 5,000,000 heavy drinkers in the United States today, mortally wounded. There are 20,- 000,000 tipplers, seriously wounded. {More than have been wounded in jail the battles of the world since the dawn of'history. They are wounded in such a way as to be unfit for.the responsibilities of fathers, teachers, doctors or lawyers. " The "drunkard is the costliest product from a financial standpoint, that our country produces today. It costs $1,250,000 for liquor to produce this great 'annual crop ~ of 600,000 drunkards, to say nothing of the indirect cost, through sickness, lost earning capacity of 300,000 who die a premature death, and the 600,000 drunkards who, by being made drunkards become a liability instead of an asset. Indirectly the drunkard making business produces 70 per cent of the poverty,, including the making of 1,250,000 orphans each year. It ruins thousands of homes by causing 75 per cent of the 130 divorces that are granted in our courts every day. It causes 50 per cent of the epilepsy, 50 per .cent of the insanity, and 85 per cent of the crime. Glasgow, Scotland Newcastle - on - Tyne, land ......; :.. ���������......-. Hull, England ....!... Nuneaton, England ........ Stirling, Scotland ............ Riga, Russia , Manchester, England Devonport/ England ...... Eng- 72 33 38 18 53 21 42 40 Average ....:.:. 35.5 WOMEN TO WORK RANCH ENDERBY. * fl-t-M-M'-B"!"!' l"l"l"l"������-t"H"H"l"fcg"l''I'4' 'tHHt-l-.-i-Ht-I-l-.'t-l-t-M-l-I'.-l-l-I-a-I-H-I-lH^ From Our Own Corespondent.' On Thursday evening of last week the Presbyterian. choir visited the home of Mr. Fortune. The orchestra entertained-the company. Mr. Watson performed the Highland fling and sang Gaelic songs. .The company droye home to the music of "Coming Thro' the Rye." Mr. Ruttah, ex-mayor, is expected home any day from Fort Fraser. He is coming down to take his family back with him. Enderby is now enjoying beautiful spring weather. Colonial Intelligence Bureau Builds College Near Vernon for Educating Women to Work Independently Vernon, B. C;���������For the purpose of educating young English women to local conditions and to give them an idea of colonial life so they will be in condition to start for themselves, a new college, which will cost $7000, has been erected on the "Princess Patricia Ranch" on the Coldstream, abou$;four miles from Vernon. The ranch is owned'by an' English institution and is run by the Colonial In telligence League, some of its members being Princess Christian, Princess of Pless and Princess Patricia. The new. structure ������������������ is.-built on the same principle as a large home and accommodates eight young ladies and the superintendent, who is^lrs. Snel- us. The ranch consists of fifteen acres, all of which is under cultivation, and is worked by the pupils who learn practical forming. All Fruits?! 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HUM TFtJr+ttptt&s^ftejte JrV-\\ ��������� *���������$( ���������{ Friday. February 20,1914 yDy Horace HAZEumt LORTM ai>rK<m*r. ***, *. ���������. h*C4.u*& *v Co. "Till supposition that the words art a paraphrase of Meaclus," ha ex- Kilned, "would not be tenable, per* pa���������tbe idea Is not anomalous��������� were it not that we And running through the series, other Quotations that are unquestionably of Chinese origin. Tbe first letter, for example, concludes with: 'The ways of our God ana many. On tbe righteous he showers blessings; on tbe evil he pours forth misery.' Tbis la from tbe Book of History, or 'Sou King,' in which are the documents edited by Confucius ��������� himself. It usually baa been rendered In this way: "The ways of God are not Invariable. On tbe good doer he sends down all blessings, and on the aril doer he sends down all miser- las.' That is tbe more exact rendering. And again, ln the second letter we find���������" He paused a moment, taking up tbe second sheet, and focusing his dim eyes upon the* lines. "We find," he went on, '"Fine words and a smiling countenance make not virtue,' which is from tbe Lunhu, or 'Analects' of Confucius, in which tbe ' views and maxims of the aage are retailed by his disciples. 'Smiling countenance' is hardly the bast translation. 'Insinuating appearance' la more nearly the English equivalent, Jand I should prefer "are rarely connected,9 or associated, with virtue' to *make not virtue.'" Those* of course, are unmistakably: translations," I agreed. "And so are the concluding ten* teafoes of tho third, the autograph, 'latter," he assured me. "'Bay, not Haavan la high above! Heaven f Uaoeada and descends about our deeds, '' dally inspecting us, wheresoever we ate.* t And it tn one of the sacrificial odea of 'Kan, and it la the beat ran* ' dared of all tbe excerpts.'* - "Bo your conclusion aa to the authorship Is���������1" I queried. , "Chinese, undoubtedly,** be a* ���������Wired. "These were written, X ebould ear, by a Chinaman, educated, prob* ;��������� aWr, in this country. Bla Sngliab W ' the English of tbe educated Oriental, hut tbe quotations from Confucius au4 bis commentators are characteristic. , With tbe average Chinaman, to know Confucius la to know all; what he ���������aid la alHrofflclent; what he did not nay If not worth faying. Another , Identifying feature la tbe effort to ' make afraid. Their religion la fear.", Having concluded bla exposition, professor GrUBn waa disposed to enter upon a more or less lengthy die- , course on Chinese character and literature in general. However Illuminative this might have been under ordinary conditions,. I wnsv assuredly; In no mood to listen to It at this time.! The Information, he bad given me,i While it merely verified suspicions! , which I bad held from tbe first, aet> ' me to speculating' on the Individual, source of the letters; and with so modern an Instance at band I waa naturally disinclined to consider tbe authorship of writings dating back often a .thousand years and more beyond - tfie Christian era. With wbat grace I could, therefore, | discouraged a continuance of the , theme, and having thanked him moat heartily, pocketed tbe notes with Which be was good enough to furnish me, and prepared to depart. Hut at I etood at bis study door, bis lean, and driven by the phlegmatic Chink, clattered away in tbe direction of Mott Btreet," the account concluded. After all, it was a very commonplace, everyday occurrence. Probably the aug������r holes were only knot holes, transformed by the reporter's imagination. ��������� Nevertheless, I thrust the paper into my pocket. Mow Chee might throw some light on. the matter. He would know, in all likelihood, what sort of good3 w������re shipped by way of the Fall River Line to his countrymen In New York. We secured a corner table in the inner room at the. Savarln. It was not so crowded there and it was less bustling and noisy. My companion attracted some little attention, of course, but not sufficient to prove annoying. New York, as a rule, pays small heed simply to the unusual, and Chinamen are common enough not to be absolute curiosities even In the big downtown restaurants. '��������� ' A very dapper little fellow was Mr. Mow; neatly and Inconspicuously clad, and well brushed and combed. He was for recalling old, college days, when he was coxswain of tbe class crew and I pulled the stroke oar, but my time was too precious for euch reminiscence, and as speedily as possible I broached tbe subject I had at Chinese business house. There was ]et you know what I think. /You must no display of goods in the big win- give the names and the places and tbe dowB, which were screened half way dates." I did give him the names and the ^CHAPTER XI. The Chinese Merchant. it was while Professor Griffin waa talking of Chinese characteristics tbat tbe thought of little Mow Chee first occurred to me. The professor said something about the average Chinaman's disinclination to speak of death, directly, and how be Invariably employed some euphemism. The pbraae "pass from sight of men Into torment" tbe professor pointed out as an illustration. And then I remembered little Mow Chee, who waa in my class at heart .������������������...��������� Yale, and bow, once, in speaking of -"Now," I began, perhaps less dell- tbe demise of a fellow classman, he ������tely than I should, "there'e a saying, had used the odd expression, "he luu^ you know, that the only good Indian is saluted old age," which I afterwarda *> dead Indian. That wouldn't apply learned was quite a common form ln China. It was now a year or more since I had seen Mow Chee, but I recalled that at our last meeting I bad made a note of his address; and so on reaching my desk the next morning I looked it up. Curiously enough a private detective agency which I bad to the Chinese, would it? And yet, while there are some very excellent Chinamen, there are some pretty bad ���������ones, aren't there?" He grinned, exposing his fine teeth. "Oh, yes,','he"answered, "there ore good and bad. but tbe percentage of bad la less in my country than ln some others." I caught the slgnift ;up by light blue shades, giving tbe | Ifront an appearance similar to that of the average American wholesale house. I Having passed Inside, however, J there was no such illusion. All about' me were the characteristic products of the Orient, from brilliant silken t embroideries, and exquisite gold and i 'silver and bronze work, to cheap cot- ton and linen fabrlcB, lacquer furniture, and straw slippers. And the atmosphere waa further enhanced by the half-dozen or more Chinamen wbo were lounging in the middle and far distance, each with shaven crown and coiled queue and each ln the more or less brilliantly colored native dress. One of these^ a comparatively darkly-attired young man with full, round visage, came forward as I entered. "Is Mr. Tup in?" I asked. He was.inclined, I saw, to hesitation and so I produced Mow's card. "Oh, yes," he said, after studying it jfor a moment. "Ob, yes. Mlsta' Yupl He in." With which he left me, and taking the card with him disappeared behind some draperies at the back of the big crowded store. Between the others, who regarded me for a moment only with idle Interest, there was, while I stood there, a rapid exchange of observations In their natlye tongue, mingled with ��������� sort of high-pitched cackling which I assumed to be laughter. I had turned my back towards -them, but presently a shuffling of feet along the floor informed me of the approach of what I imagined was my returning emissary. On whirling about, 'however, it was to face an elderly man 'In purple silk garments and a black skull cap���������a man of thin, almost ca- places and the dates. Mow Cbee had told me I could rely upon him, implicitly, and I told him all, without reservation. I gave him even the letter, the only one of the three that remained to us���������the last letter in which the final threat was made. As I look hack on it, now, I cannot understand why I did this. It was the only piece of proof, the only clue left. And yet, when he asked to keep it for a little, I consented without so much aB a demur. SI argued, I suppose, that he was a reputable merchant, with an established business,, and that, therefore, treachery on hta part was not to be considered. "And your friend," he said, aa bet folded the paper, "waa never In. China?" \ . "Never." I affirmed. "How do''you'knowf. "He has told me so." It was neither a smile nor a sneer which floated for just a moment across those sphinx-like features. It was a look of pitying tolerance, a patronising gleam, merely, from the small, deep- set, almond eyes. One of England's greatest actresses, In speaking of the' Chinese, has said: "They look as If they are always thinking, 1 have lived, before you; I shall live after you.*" That was how' Yup "sing* looked then.! But he merely said: "Very well. I will learn what I can.", "Soon?" I begged. "Very soon?" "But the whole community would know If one of their number bad such an experience as he just passed through." i And for this argument I had no answer ready. Fortunately, however, none was "required of me, for at that moment steps were audible crossing the hall, and when our eyes turned downward they encountered the dapper figure of Louis, Cameron's French valet, hailing respectfully on the threshold. "Mademoiselle," he said, howing, "mais void des lettres qui jal trouve." And we saw, then, that he carried a tin despatch' box. Evelyn directed him to place It upon tbe table by which she sat. It seemed that she had not given over the Idea that the letters for which we had searched so diligently on Sunday were somewhere in the bouse, and; had directed Louis to bring to her anything in the way of writing that he could lay his faandB upon: He had found the despatch box, he told us, hidden away behind some seldom employed volumes in the library, and thinking It might contain that of which Miss Grayson was in quest, had foced tbe lock, to discover several carefully-tted packets of letters. I wish I could give even a half adequate idea of the way she thanked Louis. It would add so much to a realizing sense of her sweetness without detracting at all from the envls- agement of her dignity. No one could ,have heard her "bon garcon" and not have felt impelled to consecrate his He stood up. an Imposing figure ln:j ������"aeayorshenceforthand forevermOre JhlTnurrnVsIlk to her service. As for Louis bis w "Come to me tomorrow evening.! ���������Dectful homage and fidelity were al- Not here, but at the Chinese restau- ������������* .Pfe������n. I verily believe he would rant on Doyers street. Come at nine willingly have suffered, martyrdom to serve her. o'clock." From my pocket I drew out tbe copy arranged to consult chanced to have cance of his remark, and realized tbat idaveroua yellow visage, whose upper ! ^ the afternoon paper, and pointed to I deserved the rebuke. MP and chin were adorned with a th art|cie {(bout the CeleBtlal and the VAnd amongst theeducated Chinese, laparse growth of silky bine-black heir, mysterlouB oox here in New York?" I went on, with- and upon the bridge of whose nose ;(JX) u BUpp0Be that could have rested a pair of gold-rimmed spec- krtyr ^rta* on the matter?" I taclee. i "You would see me. sir?" he asked, Its office ln the same building on low er Broadway as the Pacific Transport company, by which Mow Chee was employed; and thus the plan which had been shaping mentally the previous afternoon, as I hurried away from Professor Griffin's, was readily set in motion before noon of the day following. In the evening I had discussed it with Evelyn; and though tbe detective feature did not at first meet with her approval, she eventually conceded that It was a necessary part of the project. It was agreed, however, that tbe real purpose for which that aid waa Invoked, should not be divulged. Philetus Murphy waa to be ahadowed epd dally reports were to be made to me. That he had been under suspicion of brutally murdering bis Chinese servant waa sufficient reason for the proceeding, and to the detective agency I gave no bint of any further consideration. As for my Celestial classmate, I waa not by any means sure that I should find blm at the Pacific Transport offices. I knew that for some time China bad been calling upon her sons of western education to return to their mother country for service, and I .feared that little Mow Cbee might already be customs taokal of Shantung, or some other imperial province. But my misgivings were very promptly allayed; for no sooner had I stepped within the outer office than, he saw me. and came hastily forward, with a smile of greeting on his square, flattened, yellow face. Hia desk was just back of the long counter which ran the length of tbe room, and a glance at its piled contents showed me that be waB very busy.. Moreover, there was no opportunity here for the privacy which I desired; so after an exchange of greetings, and a few conventional Inquiries, I invited Mow to lunch with me at the Savarin, at_wbatever hour would best suit bis convenience. Somewhat to mjr dismay, be fixed upon one' o'clock. As it still wanted ten minutes of noon I now bad over an hour of leisure, which, as may be imagined, promised to hang rather heavy, the more so, as I waa impatient to make Borne real progress in "There ���������eholarly hand resting in mine, he de>|? my quMt. talned me for a final word. _ , Wall street being at band; I condud "The symbol!" he exclaimed, bisr pale eyes lighting at the recollection.! "We forget the symbo^J,'- "Oh, yes," I returned, my Interest revived, "that silhouette at the boV torn." "It la unmistakably Cblneae," he fold. ',1 am not very familiar with* the symbolism of the Bast, not aa familiar as I should he, possibly; hut Chinese writing, you know, la Ita or-, out stopping for comment are a few bad?" He was still smiling. "Bad?" he queried. "What do you mean by bad? There are some who have vices, yes. Some gamble, some smoke opium; some get the best of a bargain." "Are there some who would kill?" I asked, bluntly. "Ob, no, no!",he protested, without raising his voice. "I certainly should hope there are none such among the educated.? - , And then I told blm about the three letters, and what had happened, omitting1 only Cameron's name and place of residence. Imperturbable little cbap that he "was, he listened without emotion. When I concluded be said: "You are sure they were Chinamen wbo did this?" "Would men of any other nationality quote Confucius and Mencius?" I asked. "No, I think not," was bit reply, "and yet it might be done by crafty persons to mislead." But I could not agree with blm. "We are not revengeful as a nation," he said, "we aref rather long-suffering. If Chinamen .did wbat, you tell me, It was in return for-aome very great Injury; some crime, - I should .against their parents or near 'men." ������ "But my friend waa never in China," any bearing naked. He adjusted his spectacles and read and I noted that there waa scarcely ^ half^olumni sltmly> trom first to the slightest Indication of tbe foreign' er In either pronunciation or accent. "If you are Mr. Yup," I smiled, !"you can, I fancy, from what Mr. Mow tells me, give me the information I am lBi search of." . He did not smile ln return, but bla Lthln face assumed an expression of be- Inlgnlty tbat was as much of an Invite* [tion to lay my problem before blm aa iwere his words. ; "Anyway I can serve a friend of Mr. Mow," be said, "win be a pleas- lure." , But, as he apoke, the benign expression passed. Once again tbat thin saf- fron-hued face, with Ita hollow cheeks, and email deep-set ayes, had become (unfathomable. At least two of hia partners or salesmen were within ear-shot, and I turned a significant glance towards them, as I said: "The subject is a confidential one, Mr. Yup. If I could speak to you���������'* "Jn private?" be finished. "Certainly, sir. Will you kindly step this way?" He led me to the reatf of bis store, holding aside a curtain of heavy em- last. Then he smiled. "I/have that box in my cellar," he said. "It contains woolen underwear shipped to me from Lowell, Massachusetts." But I scarcely heard him, for my attention was on the swiftly moving brush of tbe little Chinese maid, as, deftly handled. It now blocked out" with bold black strokes a silhouette upon the piece of rice paper before her���������a familiar silhouette of a short, clumsy curved boat with broad lug- sail. < CHAPTER XH. *We Were In Peking Together." At my evening conference with Evelyn Grayson, reviewing the day's events, I dwelt with acme Insistence upon the singularity of that episode at Yup Sing's. "it was Impressively significant," I maintained, "even, if It waa only a coincidence. Incidentally It convinced me tbat nothing esoaped Mr. Yup's ob- eervatlon. I bad no intention of referring to my discovery. I chose rath- (Continued Next Weak.) TAKE NOTICE that thirty, days after the first appearance of this notice The Grand Trunk B. C. Coal Company, Limited, intends to apply under Section Eighteen of tha Companies' Act to change the present name of the Company to "The Beaton Coal Company, Limited." Dated at Vancouver this Eleventh day of December, A.D. 1913. THE GRAND TRUNK B. C. COAX, COMPANY, LIMITED. iF7' broiderVthroughwhich I naased toto tv to have him tbin* J had not noticed *������* ^SL^SS? ZKtL'TiS *��������� ������ture the child waa painting. But, a smaller room, furnished In carved my choice waa not to be gratified. He. . ��������� - ���������- , ** ���������>* ������* ornamented .with mag- g^^at I had ae^ and no������ced I". J declared.. "And be waa tbelaat man j ���������cent specimen.>o���������**������������������ ,XaT* relieve^e^Stnatlon: he: In the world to ham anyone." , J^jf^^JSf^Ji-JffiT SET52LJE ***** directed my attention to tha ?m22 ������SfUS?!Sh!L*������f7������2 ������*������** explaining that what I bad ra>, iSSSJSir 2L?2H *JX? *wded ��������������� mysterloue was most com. SS^L^J^LSr^ .������������5. Jonplnce. ������ft la one of tbe first thlngti 'f^^L^^S^JTmV^'^0^^ babteMeem to draw,'( ;^teeslgn5 in waSSat " "* * ���������* -"* * *������ * "*** "* i Ignoring tbe child, he Indicated a 1 ehair near the only window, screened, I will give you acard to him; you like the windows in front, with a blue canape^ to him ia confidence, and if f^tMytoml*^^ u f0 he can help you, ha will, not only be- drew up a chair for himself opposite* ^ <And wnen $, ^ ^ % }^v; cause I sent you, but because be jae. Queried, 'what does your ship stand stands for all that la best, and de-!^Hla ^waer,Jn ���������?���������������_<*��������������� Jwjj foTVlf ^ drugged Ma lean shoulder* sires tbat my countrymen In "���������"���������-'���������������- ������.������������������������������������ v-������������~ ������. ������������*,*������j . ��������������� - ��������� For a little while Mow Chee ate In thoughtful silence. Presently be looked up. "Clyde, my friend, I know so little of my own people here in New York. But one man I know, a merchant, who Is very prominent' and very upright. He Is a big man In, the Six Companies, - ' ��������� ��������� - - - -' i jwe we . can apeak to him iu confidence, and If aliade. And when I had sat down, he hanger of tbe American primary schools. First they draw houses, then ���������hips, then men; and the houses, the ships and the .men. are all alike, just your xoncai NOTICE Is hereby given that an appM* > cation will be made to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British, Columbia, at' its next Session for an' Act .amending the Chartered Accountants Act, 1906. by providing: (a) No person shall be entitled to take or use, the designation "Chartered Accountant," or the initials "F.C.A., "A.C. A.," "C.A.A.," or -Ca.," either alone or ln combination with any other words or. any name, title or description implying that he is a Chartered' Accountant or any name, title. Initials or description implying that he Is a Certified Ac-' countant or an Incorporated Accountant,/] unless he is a member of the institute in good standing and registered as such. (b) A penalty for the contravention,J of the above and the manner In which" such penalty shall be dealt with. (c) That the Institute shall- keep a Register of Members and providing a copy of such Register shall be evidence in all Courts. (d) That Section 6 of the said Act be* amended by striking out all the words therein after the word "expedient" lathe ltth line thereof and by substituting1 j the following: "(a) Every member of the Institute shall have the right to use the designation 'Chartered Accountant", or the J initials 'CA.' and may-use after his1 name, if the Institute shall havei granted him a Certificate of Fellow" ship, the initials 'P.C.A.' signifying I 'Fellow of the Chartered Accountants.'! and If the Institute shall have granted him a Certificate, of Membership thej initials 'A.C.A.' signifying 'Associate' of the Chartered Accountants."' _ .Patted, at JVanvouver,, B.C.,_ jthis. SlstJ day of November, 1918. COWAN. RITCHIE ft ORANT, * Solicitors for the Applicants. United States shall have the respect: .eouruging, and for a little I waa ���������������w|1J���������t������ he returned" ed to call on a friend there who usually bandies my Investments, and make a convenience of bis office. On- tbe way, I bought an afternoon paper, and aa my broker happened to be at the Stock Exchange, I bad ample opportunity to read it from first column! to last. It proved about aa tbrUllngly* Interesting as the early afternoon re-i prints of what one has already read at breakfast usually are, and I was igin, Is picture writing with the addk aD0Ut to drop It to tbe floor, when tion of a limited number of symbolical mj fye cugnt * group of headlines ���������nd conventional deslgng. This figure, oa ^9 lagt page> Which, up to that! J should say, representsii lorcha, or moment, had escaped me, but which! amatt Chinese coasting Junk, and you my* suddenly riveted my attention: , can rest assured that the threats con- CELESTIAL CLAIMS MYSTERIOUS) falned in the letters were with a view Bqx ON FALL RTTEK PIER, to reparation for some crime or Injury Anything concerning Celestials, I| eonnected in some way with snob a vessel. Tbat Is aa near as I can Interpret It. But If you would like to know more���������If you would like to get something more; nearly definite���������I oaa suppose, would have attracted me.i just then, but the burden of this waa! so peculiarly pertinent, that it seemed] aa if it must have intimate connection! with the tangle I had undertaken tol they deserve from your citizens. I would send you to the Chinese Consul, but my friend, Mr. Yup Sing, is better." My hand was on the newspaper in, my pocket, but I did not show it .to Mow Cbee. I would reserve It for tbe encyclopaedic. Yup Sing, whose , address, as written on the card which my classmate furnlBhed me, was on' Mott street, a few doors from Pelt New York's Chinatown Is a much, more.familiar locality to the transient' visitor than to the average citizen. In all the years of my residence in the metropolis, of which I am a native, Ij had never before had cither the occasion or the desire to dip Into this most; foreign of all the city's foreign sections. To me, Chinatown was as a far country. Vaguely I had an idea, of its location. It lay, I knew, east of | Broadway - and west of the Bowery;; hut Its latitude waa not clearly de-; fined, harrassed as to just where to begin.; At length, however, I said; -" _~.-| "I fear, Mr. Yup, that some of your countrymen have recently made a tar* Wbie mistake." "A mistake?" he echoed, gravely. , "A mistake tbat I trust It if not too , "And dp vou believe .the pothook and hanger explanation f* Evelyn, asked, pointedly. It was her way to probe at once to tbe heart of a matter. "I cant say tbat I am altogether convinced," I answered, non-commlt- tally. "In spite of Mow's entbuslastloj lata to rephlr. Briefly, they have kid-1 , ,. napped a gentlemwrof fortune endJn- encomium I was not very favorably finance, one of my dearest friends, in- Impressed by Tup Sing. His wall oj a manner most mysterious, after first reserve Is too high and too tblck.^Iti ���������ubjectlng him to the annoyance of a���������>; *��������� j*e,*er BCB������]>'6 W- penetrable.; eerles 'of anonymous letters and a sue- [And yet be standa well, I believe, to; x>awo act. Vancouver- of refer you to one who can, I think, give . unravel, you tbe information." "By all means," I implored, "I shall appreciate it greatly.'.' "An authority on this subject Is living not very far from here. He spent many years In China, is something of an artist himself, and made, I understand, a study of Oriental symbolism. He lives at Cos Cob, and his name is���������" "Murphy!" I interrupted, as a flood of illumination swept over me. "Philetus Murphy. Yes. Do you know him?" With the paper gripped tightly ln; both hands, and my head bent intently] forward, I raced through the frivolously-written article which followed; and from a superabundance of cheap, wit and East side slang managed to extract the somewhat meager facts. A truck, driven by a Chinaman, it seemed, bad that morning taken from the pier of the Fall River Line a square box, measuring about five feet each way, and perforated with a number of auger holes. The brilliant epace-writer had given his Imagination free rein as to the contents, spec- eesslon of singular, nerve-torturing acta of trespass." Mr. Yup glanced at Mow Oboe's card, which he still held. "Mr. Clyde." he said, with no more emotion than he might.have exhibited had I told him I wished him to sell for me a Chinese bronse on commission, "Mr. Clyde, I do not see, exactly, why you come to me." 1 came at Mr. Mow's suggestion,*' I. the community." We sat in the music room, where aj fixe of drift wood wove a woof of; green and violet strands through 'thai ted warp of the blase, for the weather' had turned chill. Evelyn wore a cling- Ing gown of black panne velvet, with) i purple orchids at her waist It had ai j wonderfully mature effect for one so) j roung as she, but it was not unbecom-j . fng. Indeed It effectively accentuatedj explained. "He tells me you know the the deep raw gold tints of her balrt My impulse was to bail a cab, give! Chinese of New York aa no one else , and added to the transparency of.beri the driver the number of the Mott j does." .-unwonted pallor. I was marvelllngj street establishment, and so, without; "The police, I should say," he to- tonee again over her outwardly brave] further Individual effort, be whirled;: turned, "know the class you seek bet- j tap-bearing In spite of the constant! away to my destination. But there are; tertbanL Why not go to the police" ; anxiety of which pallid cheeks werej "I have met blm,'* I returned short- ".y. ' lUlating as to the possibilities, from ed- And thanking the professor once ible Chinese dogs to smuggled opium, more, I hurried away, with a course ot [but be had omitted to furnish the jaetlon already shaping in my mind. name and address of either the consignor or consignee. "The truck. no ; cab stands on.' lower Broadway; j and to walk to Broad street- where' the cabman lies all day in wait for the prosperous stock broker .and his affluent customer, required more, time than in my Impatience I was willing .to grant. Therefore t boarded a Broadway car and was drawn haltingly northward, until, on reaching Canal street, I alighted in sheer desperation: and turned eastward. Here a letter carrier, of whom I Inquired, sped me straight to my goal��������� a couple of blocks as I was going, a turn to the right, a few blocks more, and the bulk windows of the Yup Sing Company would come Into view. I found the establishment easily enough. But had it-not been for the 'drawn by tbe alent-eyed white horse, name printed in big Roman lettering, it:should never have Imagined it a It was not easy to explain to htm why I had not gone to the police, for I did not care to reveal all that we feared, and how we . dreaded that, which police pursuit might precipitate. /'Because." I began, after & moment's hesitation, '1 believe the whole. thing Is.a mistake. I . believe that those involved In the plot must soon- er or later find out it Is a mistake.. If the aid of the police Is enlisted, the fact that s mistake has been made will not be any extenuation. My object is to find the plotters, prove to them that they are in error, promise them Immunity, and recover my frlendV "What you nave told me," said Yup Sing, speaking slowly, <*!s not enough. If you will tell me everything, I wiH j ' the only visible sign, when she said:' "I was sure we should hear fromi Captain MacLeod today. "He has probably met with rough; weather," I consoled. "It lsnt child's, (tlay rounding Point Judith at this sea-] ton, you know." "Rough weather or not," she Insist-: ed, "he must have reached Gloucester; py now. And If be found Peter John.-: son, or if he dldnt, he waa to tele- |>hone, you remember." "Gloucester is something of ai place," I explained, adopting the ver-j macular. "It includes no.' less than' eight villages and five thousand meni ���������re engaged there In the fishing Indus-' jtry. MacLeod can't be expected toj learn In five minutes whether a man, named Peter Johnson Is one of the ���������dve thousand.** !��������������������������� Wstriot^-nistrtot Coast n)aage 9. TAKE NOTICE that Antonio Belan- ger, of Brettany Creek, occupation Miner, Intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:��������� Commencing at a post planted at the ���������' northwest corner of Lot 922; thence west 40 chains; thence north 40 chains: thence east 40 chains; thence south 40 chains, for grazing. ANTONIO BELANQER,'] Dated December 17th, 1913. l-23rl4 to 3-20-141 X,AJTJ> ACT. Vancouver X.and JMstr!efc-~3������sttc������ Coast Jtaage a. TAKE NOTICE that Frank Rial Anp-j ers, of Brittany Creek, occupatloii Rancher, intends to apply for permls-J sion to purchase the following described! ���������lands:���������;- Commencing'at a post planted at the southwest corner of Lot' 923; thence west 20 chains; thence north 20 chalnsj thence east 20 chains; thence south M chains, and containing 40 acres hiortl or less, to be used as a pasture. V FRANK ^RIAL ANGERS Dated 17th! of December, 1913. ��������� "-;. ���������l-23^Ujto 3-20V14J A DETECTIVE'S ADVICI Before employing a 1 vat* Detective, if you c" know your man,' ask : legal adviser. j ���������JOHNSTON. t*������ Service Intelligence fhH reau. Suite 103-4 319 Pender St., Wi Vancouver. B.C. Every Wi L Is latereatedand rhooldkaew ���������boat the wonderful M*���������el "oSfoiSr1 uruisis* It IT he eanaet sappb/ ttie HARVXL, sesepT ae other, bat aeaa ateinpibr _ tratot book-aealed. It ftvee fall psrttealaM aad tfraettoBsVaT&laable ii toUdl^VriwrjeOBSCFIXTCO^WlDdaec.Oss . a ���������aval AaenU for Canada- V* 1 r< ,. . .,. 4 i ' - 4 ������ Friday, February 20, 1914 rilK WKMTRRN CALL H 't������< HINDOO IMMIGRATION (Continued from Page 1) rests a heavy responsibility. We have created present conditions. When we entered India there was no disposition to emigrate. Caste regulations forbade, on pain of forfeiture of all privilege, embarking on the high seas. But we have I taught India" the folly of caste limitations. We f found India a congealed mass, but we have in- I troduced the chemicals that have liquified it, I and obedient to law, it flows, and it flows with greater volume and increasing momentum. We can't check the flow. If we can't dam the stream is it possible to guide it? An attempt, we think, should be made even though it requires effort, |f perseverance and sacrifice. "l.*Let an imperial selection be made of suitable territory under the flag, having due regard to favorable conditions, such as climate, fertility, r water supply, trade facilities, etc., etc. The climate of northern Australia, unsuited to the white man, would in many respects resemble that of India; the Soudan has already been named; a limitless area awaits occupancy in British Guiana; Trinidad and Jamaica have tens of thousands of I East Indians now and could accommodate many more, and Honduras, with millions of acres un- ! broken by the plough or the hoe, might of <*er an [inviting field for the hard working, thrifty East [Indian. .. "2. Land now unalienated by the Crown, and I'untilled, supplies no revenue. True it is an asset, put for the present, an unremunerative asset. (Why not designate such territories as way* be ���������available, and invite occupancy. To encourage [those who would emigrate but are without any [considerable means, let the government provide temporary shelter for the new-comers, open up roads as required, and so apportion the lands that Ithe frontage on the road might be so narrow that the families might dwell near eaeh other. The initial expenditure, prudently made, could be fairly levied on the land, and paid in instalments [tavering, say, five years, and thus the advances Bould be fully reimbursed. We would advocate a (generous policy, which after all, wonld simply [be a loan to be returned with interest through (the sale of Crown lands, now unremunerative. "3. The question may be asked, how much ! action on the part of the government would af- ifect East Indians now domiciled abroad! I nthink the East Indian in British Columbia would 'probably remain where he is. His prospects of 'accumulating here are too bright for him to as- l<sume the risks involved in a removal. But his r experience here might be utilized to the advantage kof a new colony. Progressive, influential men of I character and with a vision, and acquainted with English might be selected and placed on a liberal .salary from the outset, to assist in the formation, 'development and government of the new scttle- tment. A fruitful source of disquiet in India is [the filling of positions by white men, which the ?natives claim is rightfully theirs. Now, if the [course suggested were adopted, confidence would W>e inspired, complaints reduced to a minimum [and possibjy problems solved, that still wait' a [solution in the homeland." A"'K - - atsf BORDEN GOVERNMENT AT WORK (Continued from page 1) Knowledge at First Hand. Hon. Mr. Hazen learned by practical experience last summer in a trip through the Dominion of the conditions! under which the fishermen ply their occupation, and he keeps constantly in touch with the fishermen themselves. He spoke most enthusiastically of the measures being taken to protect the industry dealing particularly with the fish hatcheries, which, under his administration, have been so successful. He said: "The Superintendent of Fisheries informs me that for the first time since we have established fish hatcheries in Canada, the hatcheries are today filled, with eggs and are being more successfully operated now than at any time in the past. It has been demonstrated that the salmon hatcheries have done most useful work. The fishermen along the coast of St. John county, who drift out almost across to the Nova Scotia shore night after night in the prosecution of their calling, tell me that there now is no such thing as a year when they are not getting a good supply of salmon. These salmon come up the bay of Fundy, and along the coast, making for the spawning grounds on the St. John and Tobique rivers, and they are being caught at points along that river that they were not caught at���������15 or 20 years ago, and they are being caught in great numbers." To What This Is Due. i Hon. Mr. Hazen proceeded: "That is a very desirable state of affairs, and it is due to the more efficient enforcement of the fishery laws, and due most of all to the work of the salmon hatcheries.'' The Minister of Marine and Fisheries was able to tell the same story about the white fish hatcheries in the Great Lakes, and he expressed, the hope that the lobster hatcheries would become successful also and that they would in time to come make up for the past depletion of the lobster fisheries. The whole record well deserved ���������the concluding period of the Minister's speech, when he said: "The officials of the department today are doing their very utmost to promote and develop the fishing industry, and for my part I am giving them the very best assistance and support that it is within my power to give. I trust that in years to come good results will follow from the efforts now being made by the Department of Marine and Fisheries." The country applauds the attitude of a public man like Mr. Hazen, who knows his subject, talks of it in an encouraging fashion, and gives an outline of success and prosperity. And the country is glad to know that the direction of the fishing industry is in such capable hands. Fish is a great staple food product of the Dominion, and the interests of such an industry cannot be neglected. "������������������ ' FOSTERING AOBIOULTTJBE. ' One of the most striking features of the main estimates; which were brought down in the House of Commons this session, was substantial increase in the votes for agriculture. ~" " The agricultural industry under the Liberal regime was starved. While militia expenditures increased yearly at a startling rate, and millions were squandered on the National Transcontinental railway, the amounts to be spent in the Department of Agriculture was pared down to the smallest possible figure.. The result was neglect of the industry and a regular dry rot in the department. Initiative was discouraged amongst the officers, while the Experimental Farms in many cases had actually fallen into disrepair. The increase in this year's estimates tells partially the change in policy which has taken place since Premier Borden has taken office and since Hon. Martin Burrell has applied his energy to the department. Much More Available. In the last year of the Laurier regime the total vote for agriculture was $1,646,234. The first year of the Borden administration this was increased by over' a million���������to $2,703,400. Last year the vote jumped to $3,381,725, and this year's estimates show an increase of $600,000 more, making the total $3,987,087. This is a record of achievement of which the Borden Qovernment has good reason to be proud. Mr. Borden's Promise. The Conservative platform, which Premier Borden enunciated during the last campaign, contained the following plank: "The granting of liberal assistance to the provinces for the purpose of supplementing and extending the work of agricultural education and the improvement of agriculture." . Hon. Martin Burrell lost no time in carrying out this policy. In 1912 he passed the Agricultural Aid Act, appropriating half a million dollars to assist provincial departments of agriculture to improve and extend their work. SEATTLE Hy Gill is still the ladies' favorite in Seattle. Heading the primaries on Tuesday with a vote larger than the combined vote given to the three candidates that came next in favor. Hy Gill has professed conversion from the idea of a wide open town with such evidence of sincere repentance that even Dr. Matthews has been convinced, and says: - "Hy Gill never lied to me. He said what he was going to do and did it. I will believe him now until he proves his conversion false." And evidently many have folowed Dr. Matthews. The next in popularcesteem is James D- Trenholme, "Business men's" candidate. These two wUl be finally voted on March 3rd. f Hy. Gill's election seems assured. BIHTER CASES-400MUCH UW H ������)& ���������J V.i. %y%\ " *** T The Vancouver,. Creamery Company and F6������*dri,i;\ and Tatman of the Almond Creamery ' appeareq K X ?, --<>,-?,, in the Vancouver Police Court before Magfatritet ?$<V$$& Shaw today charged, with, violation of Sectiol f li w ' ^ 300, Inspection and Sales Act, Part VIU.; contain 'ing over 16 per cent/ water.' The < information^ was laid by Inspector Clarke. C. W.,Sawye1r, appeared for the prosecution. Both parties pleaded V^'tHj guilty, and.the magistrate in imposing the pen- '**\Vtol alty, remarked: "This is the second case against the Vancouver Creamery Company, and as these butter cases were fought out at length nearly a year ago and great publicity given them throgh the papers, I do not think there is a butter dealer in the province that does not know all about the requirements of the Act .and the limit must not be exceeded. I impose the *"aTirnum penalty in each case-���������$50 and ������osts." i > * i ' i / <. yy y%>- "CATHOLIC PAPER RECOGNIZES VALTJR OF BILLY SUNDAY'S REVIVAL. EFFORT .U AT* ��������� "The Pittsburg Catholic, organ of the Roman' \' Catholic diocese of western Pennsylvania, has the. ' following comment this week under the caption, i' 'The Revival': "Pittsburg is in*the throes of a great revival, -; and daily in the tens of thousands men and worn- /J en assemble in the 'tabernacle' to. listen to the torrid speech of the Rev. William "Sunday. His', sermons are quoted in extenso in the daily press, ' and whatever he preaches is, most assuredly,; c straight out talk that not even the least intelli- .' gent can misunderstand. In his opening address , he gave it to be understood that he had no con-, tention with the Catholics, and that they were / * able to take care of themselves, with their priests, 7 who, he said, preached Christ and his works. He had yet to meet one Catholic who did not believe ' - in the divinity of Christ, and this he could not' ;' say of Protestants and of many of-their ministers. ^\. On the question of divorce, .he proclaimed himself -}, ��������� a Catholic from the top of his head to the sole V-' of his foot. Whatever, may be thought of this ' modern evangelist, it may be truthfully said' of ' him that he is no hypocrite, and according to his !' light, /he does not hesitate or micce words in his fiery denunciation of many* modern evils that ' are rampant in this day of free thought. The evils������ of intemperance are, described in withering invective and fierce scorn; men who neglect their families are scorched in an electric glow; women, slaves of fashion, immodest in their dressi forgetful of shame in the forward dance, unmindful of home and its precious duties, see themselves re- ', K fleeted in a light that should arouse them to a i ,!, new born- sense of womanly nobility and purity, j. The home is shown up as the one sacred place , where the child is developed into the upright'/ man. We believe this revival will have a good '' effect on the community that attends these meet-,- ,' ings. Removed as we are, far as the antipodes , ^ from the creeds interested in this evangelist, it would be unjust if we did not see tbe good, as - much as wejnightjte inclined to criticize the ways and means.'.' * ~_^__ -. \ r-$$ .11 '<- ��������� -\ >' ��������� lv -' , if |i.|i|n|n|4if i|n|if ifc| ( |tl I < rH"l"H 1 M't1"!"' ������~)^.^jua....v.w..w.j.... .-,. .^.(^^/^w^^":-**^"!"^-:-:-;'-'.-.-"-'���������^"'.-- -.���������.>+*.>-M.^.*-M..K-^-<", ^.^j.^������<I.il,������|n|i������|>��������� ���������!��������� ���������!��������� i>h|i<��������� i|������iliit'ij'<nf������<l������4������<i4������������1i���������!��������� i^iti>������������������ if ^iBji^ia| eji^"!1 'I''f1 ��������� 'l"f"S������41 ���������������'<������'���������<'��������� ^iif>a>a|iiS������<Sia|nS������a>������>i 1������������ 1 13500 Horse Power Turbine } ���������> *���������>���������)" vS*'KK -:'-.j'. ^!':V'J\Vi';^V^,.,if^'.<':*^| :a&^f ���������'���������:JV;i"AiC| I 13500 Horse Power Turbine The Spirit of the Time Demands ������ . '"��������� i Stave Lake Power is Dependable and Economical By harnessing the Great Stave River we have made it possible to generate 100,000 horse power of electrical energy at our Stave Falls Plant, the Biggest Electrical Feat in Western Canada. ��������� .'��������� . 100,000 HORSE POWER -���������".'-- .',L'' ,-.������������������������������������ ���������-'.' *' - U" ' ��������� ��������� ��������� Or half as much again as the combined connected load in steam and electricity in Vancouver today, a fact of great significance to local industries Offices: 603-610 Career-Cott<>n Bldg. Phone: Seymour 4770 WESTERN CANADA POWER CO., Ltd. R. F. HAYWARD, General Manager JOHN MONTGOMERY. Contract Agent P.O. Drawer 1415 Vancouver, B.C 'Y:';-?-i': eii* 1 'i-i iii"t"i-t'<" ������W~l ������Sm$m$*.>-* "-' - , -<J-' ���������. ' ' ���������������������������"������������������������������������������������������ .-V ���������. . ::' ' ���������: ��������� . ....���������.��������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������>.. 11 nil nil fees i iiiiiimim a* mm i i m i m 111) 8 i 111 m 1 ������< 111 m ��������� ��������� n 1������ >-%h-;%'t^2 -.",~ A"- 8 THE WESTERN CALL. ����i''1'����'l"t"t'li"t"I"I"!"I"l"!"t'"l"t"H'����H' ��^.^i..t..M'��H^HiMH"i"l'4"t"I"t"l"t"��'t"l'* Wilson's Drug Store * :; Main and Sixteenth ' Friday, February 20.1914 TRANSATLANTIC NEWS ���|a��5**j��4w5MJM5M5**5*^*^*5M5N,5M5^*^ Phone Fairmont 505 t Read below a partial list. The.se prices are not tor Friday and ����� X Saturday, but aire good seven days a week and delivered to your door. *| < * Send us your Prescription Work and save money. These are cash 4. % prices: Abbey's Salts, regular 60c and 25c for. 50c and 20c. $ Allenbury's Foods, regular $1, 65c, 50c, 35c 80c, 50c, 40, 25c Horlick's Food, regular |3.75, 11.00, 60c, .S8.50, 85c, 46c Nestle's Food, regular 50c tor. _ .46c Benger's Food, regular S1.00, 50c for 90c, 46c Reindeer grand Milk, regular 20c .16e Minard's Liniment, regular 25c 20c EUlman's Embrocation, regular 35c _ 25c Scott's Emulsion, regular |1.00��� 50c .��� .....76c, 40c Peruna, regular $1.00 ���'��� 76c Burdock Blood Bitters, regular $1.00 ���...75c Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, $1.00 76e Mermen's Talcum, regular 35c _ 16c Carter's Pills, regular 25c -.��� 16c Herpplclde, regular $1.00 ��� ��� > ��� 76c Formamint Tablets, regular 75c... 60s ^j^uBwOria, regular ooc ................. .......................................................................*���b * Cuticura Soap, Tegular 35c - ���������- 25c Hospital Absorbent Cotton, regular 50 35c Lavonna de Composa Hair Tonic, regular $1.25 .$1.00 Ferrol Emulsion, regular $1.00 - 76c Ayer's Sarsaparilla, regular $1.00 86c Eno'a Salts, regular $1.00 65c Gin Pills, regular 50c 35c Dodd's Pills, regular 50c ~ 35c * i p. A. Wilson, Prop, formerly at Main and Broadway j; ���� ����� ��H..H*��*'M'M|��*|H'M"t^^ Kamloona-Vanoouvor Meet Go,9 Ltd. Oor. Main and Powell Sta. 1849 Main Street . Phone Seymour 6561 Phone Fair. 1814 For Choice Meats of large variety and reasonable prices, this house cannot be excelled.. It stands to the very front. ��i|n|.i| 11.1.f�����!��� 1-'!������������� ���!''!��� ���!��� ���!���'!��� I-���!��� ���!��� '$*����� ���ll-l-i" T. S. Baxter Peter Wright FURNITURE Complete House * Furnishers Agents for Oatermoor soil Restmore mattresses Pavenporfc Bed 3AXTER & WRIdrlT | (Successors to Hutching* Furniture Co.) * Phone Seymour 771 416 JVMMn Street I. ,f, J. iS����^i ��j^1/i iTaaSaaBaataia*laafaaffa>*a >��'-��..HH*' sl baron Accepts offer Austrian Baron to Buy Liverpool Estates of Earl of Derby Offered During Political Speech. London.���As a result of a political controversy, Baron Maurice Arnold de Forest, who is an hereditary baron of the Austrian Empire, has accepted an offer recently/ made in a public speech by the' Earl of Derby to sell to him his estates in Bootle, a suburb of Liverpool, for $7,500,000. The property was purchased in 1724 for $35,000, and in a contribution to the Land Enquiry Committee's report, Baron de Forest cited this as a striking example of unearned increment. He estimated the annual income from this property was $500,- 000, and, the value of the property as between $15,000,000 and $20,000,- 000. In his speech proffering the land for sale, the Earl of Derby said that the estimates were grossly excessive and referred contemptuously to Baron de Forest as "an alien gentleman for whom I have no love, who has come here to tell U9 landlords what ought to do." we The Bible Society of Belgium has raised a monument in the Square of Chateau Vilvorde, on which, in French, Flamand and English, this inscription appears: "Near here, the Englishman, William Tyndale, suffered martyrdom, October 6,- 1566. He was first strangled and then burnt. His only crime consisted in having, given to his fellow countrymen the first English version of the New Testament; His last "words were: 'Lord, open the eyes of the King of England.' Less than a year afterward his prayer was answered. The entire Bible was published by order of the king. ' "This 'monument has been raised by the friends of the Belgian Bible Society, and of the Bible Society of London. October 6, 1913. "The word of the Lord endureth forever.'" ��' 't"!1 if"!' '1' 'I' ���!' '|i 'I' ���!��� ���!��� if�� ���(�� '1' ��t'��!' '1' 't' 'I''{' '1' 'I' '1' '1' 't' 'I' 't' 'I* 'I' 't"l' 'I' 'I* 'I' *!' '1' 't' *1*'?' ���*" *t^I' ���*' 'l"!' 'I' 'I' '1* '|"|' 'I' 'f* 5 N A P ! 50x100, comer 29th Ave. and St. Catharines Street, modern 7-room house. YOUR OWN PRICE FOR CASH 4PPLY WESTERN CALL ������������������<^��'��H��frW��fl<"����M*��M'*^ X EXCHANGE OR CASH I have four lots at White Rock, B. C. What have you ? APPLY TO OWNER, WESTFRN CALL A *\^M'^\'l\"\>\A''l'l\'\A'il\ H"!"H limin ;l.M..li.l..H"l"M"l"!"t-t'-I"H"t.i*l. Grip and Password! htT,..,,.,i rvrvrT Vancouver, B. C, Feb. 10, 1914. To the Shareholders of the Vancouver Orange Hall Company, Ltd.: Sirs and Brethren:��� I take pleasure in submitting my seventh annual report as president of the Company, and trust that it may meet with your approval. Including the balance from last year, the total receipts for the year were $25,356.44, an increase over last year's receipts of $6,203.41. Included in this amount, however, is the loan of $3,300 from the Vancouver County Orange Lodge, and one from the Royal bank for $5,750, and if these amounts are deducted, it leaves the actual receipts $2,846.59 less than during 1912. This falling off in the receipts is due to the fact that we had to make a substantial, reduction in the rent to the tenants of _our four -stores, and that owing to the financial depression which has occurred during the year, bur large hall has not been rented as frequently as usual. . However, when you consider the fact that we have paid out the sum of $9t000 on our Fairview property, and after deducing'the sum of $24,367.85 for disbursements, have still a balance of $988.59 carsh on hand, it must be acknowledged that an excellent showing has been made. We also ��� paid out the sum. of $1,200 for alterations to the Fairview hall, and the building is now in first-class shape, and a good advertisement for the associa- tionw in that part of the city. Now that the Fairview hall has been placed in shape, I am strongly of the opinion that the Grandview hall should be built during the present year, providing that a suitable loan can be .obtained. I trust that the directors whom you elect will give this matter early and earnest consideration. As far as alterations to the main hall is concerned, we thought it advisable, owing to the financial stringency, to do anything along this line during 1913. The gains for the year amounted $14,467.97, while the losses were $9,807.05, leaving a net gain of $4," 660.92. In view of this fact I would recommend that a dividend of 8 per cent on the capital stock of the company be declared. In conclusion, I wish to acknowledge the valuable assistance rendered by the directors during the year in carying on the affairs of the company. They have at ali times given their hearty co-opera- tino to "any movement which tended to improve the standing of the company, and have been eager to improve the standing of the Order by placing halls in different parts of the city as soon as financial circumstances will permit. All of which is respectfully submitted. THOMAS DUKE, President. j��'H���,M���'H,���HMHMH���#,HMMMH���,^^ :: :: ;: :: ,. . ^ -:: 4> 3; If we do not already supply your requirements for y Twine etc. You should send for our samples and prices. It will pay you to buy your supplies from us WE ALSO CARRY , ��� - - ' ' . prug, papers Fruit Papers Toilet Papers Paper Pie Plates Wooclen Pie Plates Ice Cream Pails . Oyster Pails a v Prompt delivery to any part of the city, f r)\ & Wright, Ltd. 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Title | The Western Call |
Publisher | Vancouver, B.C. : Terminal City Press |
Date Issued | 1914-02-20 |
Description | Published in the Interests of Greater Vancouver and the Western People. |
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Vancouver (B.C.) |
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Newspapers |
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FileFormat | application/pdf |
Language | English |
Notes | Print Run: 1910-1916 Frequency: Weekly Published by Dean and Goard from 1910-01-07 to 1910-04-01, Terminal City Press from 1910-04-08 to 1915-12-24, and then McConnells from 1915-12-31 to 1916-06-30. |
Identifier | The_Western_Call_1914_02_20 |
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Source | Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives. |
Date Available | 2012-09-14 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
Rights | Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/ |
AIPUUID | 156f0105-2400-4f7d-b5ab-4b1cc23a94e1 |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0188342 |
Latitude | 49.2500000 |
Longitude | -123.1167000 |
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