W3 Published in the Interests of Greater; Vancouver and the Western People em* VOLUME V. VANCOUVER. British Columbia, FEBRUARY 27, 1914 5 Cents Per Copy No. 42 The Railway Policy of the McBride Government . ' ������ t w \ Resignation of Edwaro 3old, eouver Councillor-Affidavits of Corruption on Kingsway Paving GOVERNMENT RAILWAY POLICY EXTENSION OF P. O. E. R. R. TO PEAOE RIVER COUNTRY The Government at Victoria must take peculiar pleasure in the Master's words, "Blessed are ye when all near shall revile you and speak evil of you falsely." If there is no very large opposition in Parliament, platform and press outside are ringing out with ever increasing volume charges of graft and incompetency, great and small. ' The chief complaint seems now to be the Bail- road Policy, and yet if any one item in the McBride policy has been endorsed up to the hilt by the Province, it is this railroad policy. ��������� On Tuesday the Premier brought down a bill providing for the extension of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway into Peace River country, 330 smiles north and east of Port George. The bill stipulates that the company shall commence the , Peace River extension within three months after the passing of the act and that the entire line shall be open to traffic within three years. We understand that already active survey work has begun and that lively construction work will, ere long, be in progress on the P. G. E. system both north and south of Fort George.. :��������� ' , This is good news indeed. The Western Call looks and longs for the coming millenium when all wrongs will be righted���������indeed we believe that, a much better system than corporation- owned; railroads is a p1 resent ' possibility���������but British' Columbia Voters, both. Provincial and ' Municipal, have decided against public ownership, in spite of all the Western Call can say, and we are forced to choose the next best thing in ; sight���������which is undoubtedly tbe present goveru- , ment. ^,. The,JV4H.E.. R. Reruns through one of the ,r>. loveliest portions of this earth. A thousand' miles of unusrpassed country in scenic beauty, and above all, in healthy, wealth producing possi- ~ bilities. By this R. R. will be opened up the very richest mining districts in B. C, as yet almost untouched, because of lack of transportation. The great cattle ranching areas of B. C. will also be tapped together with the finest dairying and mixed farming country in "the world. There is room for a million happy, healthy and wealth producing homes on the P. G. E. line twixt Vancouver and Fort George, and we predict an amazing immigration in that direction as soon as the truth becomes known about the Lilloet district. The McBride government, like the rest of us, is not without faults; but its Railroad Policy is ���������under present -"conditions���������the* best in sight, and almost unanimously endorsed by the people. We do not doubt that public interests could be better protected than they are or have been, but as an offset to the charges of extravagance and reckless expenditures hurled against the present government we would call attention to the figures given below on the Laurier estimate and actual cost of National Transcontinental put through by the late Liberal government. There is a proverb which says: "Two blacks db not make a white," but there is also another proverb which helps us out in this age of mixed good and evil���������namely, "Of two evils, choose the least." The Western Call most emphatically prefers the ills it knows of rather than flee to those unknown with such possibilities as the National Transcontinental in view. / LAURIER ESTIMATE VS. REAL COST OF NATIONAL TRANSCONTINENTAL Preliminary Estimates of Cost When the bill for the construction of the National Transcontinental railway was being discussed in the House of Commons the Hon. Mr. Fielding, then Minister of Finance, stated that he had been advised by experienced railway men that the cost of such a railway from Quebec to Winnipeg, 1,344 miles, would be $35,000 per mile, or $47,040,000, and from Moncton to Quebec, 460 miles, at $31,250 per mile, or $14,375,000. Total, $61,415,000. Actual Cost on Which Interest Is to Be Paid by '���������.,'/__/��������� /Lessees.,- ���������'���������-.���������-���������' Contracts Were let for most of the''road,' and on September 30th, 1911, there had already been spent $109,000,000, and Mr. Gordon Grant, the chief engineer, then estimated that when completed the road will, exclusive of interest, have cost $161,300,000. . If the road is completed at this cost by the end of 1914 the/Grand Trunk Pacific will commence to pay rent at the beginning of 1912 on this amount with $18,700,000 interest added, making an annual rental of $5,400,000, or $14,- 800 a day. t Actual Cost to the Country Assuming that the Grand Trunk Pacific railway company will commence to pay interest on the cost of construction in 1912, the road will have cost the country for principal and interest $234,651,521. This amount has been arrived at by calculating the interest on the amounts expended during each year from the end of that year up to the end of 1921. s ������o /m*4��������� /f������0/S, A SAO EPISODE In Sooth Vancouver Polltloa i i ��������� * Leonard Janes, for six years a faithful and energetic servant of the municipality of South Vancouver, has passed away. Leonard Janes was South Vancouver's tax collector, ancl during his years of service he made many friends.. His death came as a Wow to the whole arirfrieipality. ������e was 25 years bf~#e', rniS'#^thoughtt������haveheeninthepiiilcof- health up to a few days before his death. ; i Jt might be said that Leonard Janes gave his lift for the welfare of the community. Jt was against the adviceof his physician that he persisted in attending to his duties at the Municipal Uall right up almost to the day before his passing. . . Few men were more familiar with the science of municipal government than the late Mr* Janes, As a boy he was articled for three years to the municipal engineer to the Eerne Bay Urban District Council, Brent, England. Later he served as surveyor to that municipality. He was appointed assistant C. M. C. in South Vancouver in 1908, and the following year was promoted to the post of assessor and collector of taxes. Jn all his duties the late Mr. Janes showed an exactness and general efficiency which made him stand out among his fellows. His department was at all times thoroughly systematized and running without the usual hitches and difficulties. There is very little doubt that the drastic overthrow of the entire municipal staff of South Vancouver contributed to, if it did not actually cause, the sudden _break down of Mr. Janes' health, ending in his sudden death. A man of peculiar sensitiveness, he undoubtedly wilted under the ruthless methods of the man responsible for these upheavals. Mr. Gold has, during the past year, publicly and privately made charges of incompetency and graft on the part of. the old council and its staff. On the strength of these charges���������boldly made and oft repeated���������the people, mad- denecTby the stoppage of all worS, caused, by the financial hold up-f-common to almost every municipality throughout Canada���������voted to place municipal affairs in the hands of a new council. Are these charges true? Humor says, yes! Why, then, are not these men called to account ? What south Vancouver most needs and, we believe, most earnestly desires, is to clean up the past and remain clean in the future. The old staff has been dismissed with the exception only of those who could riot be dispensed with, and, so far, it looks as if "spoils to the victors" was the only reason for replacement. Mr. Gold has already been guilty of what we consider to be the very grossest example of bad taste ever exhibited in our municipality. Two thousand dollars per Ward had been allotted to each councillor to be expended to the best interest of each Ward. In Ward 5, Mr. Gold has expended the $2,000 almost, if not entirely, on grading, levelling and improving the avenues of approach to his own property. If you don't believe it go and see for yourself. Notice, on the Gold property, amounting to 30 acres, there is only 1 house, and we understand only 3 more lots sold. If there has ever been a more gross abuse of representative power in South Vancouver we do not know of it. There can be no doubt now, that Mr. Gold's reason for his frenzied campaign against the paving contract was based on personal motives, because of his interest in so large a nonrrevenue producing property with double frontage on Main street. We understand also that there was an even stronger motive in his personal quarrel with the Creosoting company to which further reference may yet be made. "' ' y ; Altogether the Gold episode in South Vancouver reminds us of the old fable: The frogs desiring a king. Our readers will remember that, in answer to the frogs' petition Jove sent down a log. The frogs at first delighted in the quiet decent log, upon which they could sit with impunity. But soon they tired of their honest log and because Jove to send another king. Jove sent a crane��������� who ate up all the frogs���������with apologies to honest Jim, we recall this fable. (Stop Press News) Mr, Gold has resigned in consequence of threatened action. Before refighing he placed affidavits in hands of council containing a typewritten confession by ex-Councillor John Third and implicating two or more of last years councillors. Full details of confession and how obtained next issue. BORDEN GOVERNMENT AT WORK BON. L. P. PELLETIXB-- P08TMABTBK OINItAL i i<? - , Every important reform in the national machinery of a country's business has ite Beginnins; in the mind of one man eager and desirous for the ~ welfare of the people, and the inauguration of Parcels Post is one such striking example. Hon.!" Louis Philippe PeUetier, Postmaster-General in the Borden cabinet, has instituted parcels noafc ; not because he was forced by public opin|on,vbut7 by reason of a strong desire to assist the legislation that the Post Office Department has,organ-. used since Confederation. L. P. Pelletier, father of Panels Post, is tbe leader of the French-Canadian seetion of the Conservative party in the House of Commons, and ho is following in illustrious footsteps/ There always have been, in every cabinet since Confederation, Btrong men from Quebec, to whom the ' business of government was,i science, and the art of politics a delight. And the Borden Cabinet is no exception to the rule. Hon. Mr. Pelletier has built up a reputation in the House and out of it, which has secured for him the admiration ' alike of friend and foe. This reputation is being enhanced, not by fitful spasms of meteorio legis- Jation, but by dint of solid hard application to business. , > ��������� . -, A Picturesque Partonattsy The Postmaster-General is a picturesque personality. jHe is a Prince Rupert in debate, riding into conflict' with sword drawn and meeting his enemy with clash and clang. Pelletier never takes back water, never recedes from a position, but if fearless and fair. A Quebec day in the House of Commons is the signal for a crowded chamber, did notv;know the new Postmaster-General very .his natural foe, the es-portmafsyjtensral, fo- wordy ^warfare. Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, ex- Postmaster-General, is a much disappointed man. After years of jealousies and bickerings with his conferee from Quebec province, he became the leader of the French-Canadian race in the Laurier cabinet. Then he saw visions of a knighthood as a reward for-his diplomatic missions to Japan and South Africa. But on September 21, 19U, his upward march was rudely broken and interrupted. Premier Borden was returned to power and patronage, and he did not like it. He did not know tbe new Postmaster-Genreal yery well, and at first began to bullyj him and taunt him, until he learned of his mistake. Pelletier was his master. In effectiveness of retort, sallies of wit and stinging repartee, the new Postmaster- General outshone his predecessor. Tbe members of the House of Commons look forward to a contest between Hon. Louis Phelippe and -Hon. Rodolphe because it is more than interesting- it is strenuous. - - -��������� (Continued on Page 7) STATESMENSWP-A &BJI*AL TRJBDTB "To the manner in which premier Borden, presented the Redistribution Bill in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon no exception could be taken by the most sensitive of bis political opponents. The Premier discussed a question which is loaded to the brim with possibilities for bitter controversy from a detached and entirely unbiased point of view. He has never appeared better in the role of statesman. Any one listening to the Premier's speech without other knowledge, of his Government or the men who comprise it, could not help being impressed with the idea that the present administration was founded upon high principles."���������Ottawa Free Press (Lib.), February 11, 1914. South Vancouver :: X .5- A Skillful Dealer in Innuendoes is the ! I Y X I Man With the Sword f 2 We recommend careful I study of Affidavits i i L ���������."VI 1 -.*! ^������i^^a%/^/4 ,i^Mv^,4MU MJ1 ���������, ,;J ..^., ->,.JU -JJI'P" wemm f ��������� u j?l ..V /Y " "r* ���������*���������*. '"-������iVT' C.~ ���������������i-5 THB WESTERN QALL. F>iHay. February 27, 1914 ���������IE WESTERN CALL PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE TERMINAL CITY PRESS, LTD. HEAD OFFICE: 203 Kingsway, Vancouver Telephone Fairmont ,1140 Suboorlntlom One Dollar a Year In Advance $1.BO Outride Oaneda Subscribe for the Western Call today. Send for Advertising Rates. THE KZKUTU DIFFICULTY The building of the Uganda railway in East Africa opened up a vast field of country to the touch of missionary efforts. The Church Missionary Society of England, Scotch Presbyterians, Methodists, Friends, Lutherans, and various other sects have missions in the district, but strongest and largest of all these is the mission of the Church Missionary Society. Roman Catholics are there in force and so are Mohammedans. The Protestants found that their divisions were confusing to the natives, who felt the,strength of a religion which presented a solid front, like Roman Catholicism. A conference was, therefore; held at Kikuyu, last June, to formulate a plan for united action, or federation," of the different missionary bodies working in British East Africa; The meetings were held in the schoolroom of the Church of Scotland Mission. Bishop Willis of Uganda, presided, and Bishop Peel, of Mombasa, was in attendance. Reports from various sources of the spirit of the conference show that it was spiritual, wise and/farsighted. Its recommendations���������recommendations only, not decisions��������� v were simple and in no way subversive of church discipline and precedent at home, but suggestive of a possible working basis on the field. At the close of the conference it seemed to these Christian-gentlemen fitting and desirable-to unite in a- communion service. - This was done, the service being held in the Church of the Scotch/Mission, where ttie Bishop 6f Mombasa had just unveiled two memorial windows in honor of a missionary of the Church of Scotland. A Scotch Presbyterian minister preached the sermon md the sacraments were administered by Bishop Willis, of Uganda. The delegates went home feeling that they had received a great blessing and that the cause of Christ had been greatly strengthened. Those who had shared the uplift of the JCi- kuyu meeting spread abroad the good news and reported to their home societies the recommendations of the Kikuyu conference.% When certain ultra-conservative churchmen in England and elsewhere heard of the' communion; service which had crowned the meetings,' there rose a storm of criticism of the Anglican bishops for having admitted to the LorcTs table these unconfirmed, though doubtless estimable, missionaries of other bodies. The discusison, largely in newspapers _and religious periodicals fct first, grew hotter and hotter, till at length the'Bishop of Zanzibar charged the Bishops of Uganda and Mombasa with heresy and called upon" the Archbishop of v Canterbury, as primate of the Church of England, to render a judgment on them. Bishop Tucker- Uganda's predecessor���������and Dr. Handiey<. .Mbule, Bishop of Purham, have declared that they stand with the two accused bishops. Dr. Moule says boldly: "If the bishops of Uganda and Mombasa .are arraigned for heresy for their share of responsibility for a program which I think to be true to the mind of our Master and full of promise for His work, I for one would willingly take my place beside them," while Dr. Tucker still more decidedly writes to the London Timest "If Bishop Willis is a heretic, so am I. If he is a schismatic, so am I. If he is to.be sent to the stake, I am prepared to go with him." H.'H. Stevens, M.P., made the statement before leaving Ottawa that,the harbor improvements at Vancouver now in hand would entail an expenditure of $10,000,000 to" $11,000,000. It is high time that such improvements should be taken in hand. Coast harbor accommodation is about the poorest in the world, and Mr. Stevens is the first member of Parliament to. recognize this. The ^vigorous Bteps he has taken to remedy the defect should be\ appreciated.���������Mechanical Engineer and Electrical Record. Sir George Paish states that $2,500,000,000 of British capital is invested in Canada, of which $300,000,000 was invested last year. United States investments in Canada aggregate $500,- 000,000. In the next fifteen years the Statist estimates British investments in Canada will amount to $5,000,000,000. The wealth production of British Columbia from natural resources for 1913 is estimated as folloAvs: Mining, $31,000,000; timber, $30,000,- 000; fisheries, $14,455,488. \ More than 150,000 women, Chicago's "newest citizens," last week became legal voters of Chicago by registering. !l Hon. L. P. Pelletier Postmaster-General of Canada BORDEN GOVERNMENT AT WORK I Continued frum\PaQe 1* A Cabinet of Hard Workers The Borden Cabinet is composed of hard workers���������men who are earning the gratitude of the country by devotion to duty. The members of the present cabinet are practical men. Last summer Hon. Frank Cochrane made a special survey trip to the Hudson's bay. Hon. J. D. Hazen visited at first hand the fisheries of the Dominion, and Hon. L, P. Pelletier the post offices from east to west. The result of the Postmaster- General's work is evident everywhere. The post office system never was better organized, and never were postmasters from coast to coast in a more contented frame of mind. While the regime of Hon. L. P. Pelletier will be most intimately associated with the establishment of the parcels post system, the work of the Postmaster-General in securing a reduction in cable rates between Canada and the Mother Country wilt be remembered. Nothing tends more surely to increase business and social relations than a facilitated cable service, and the great reductions secured, by Hon. Mr. Pelleier in 1912 have fulfilled their object: When the history of the negotiations in England between Canada 's Postmaster-General and the representatives of the powerful cable companies comes to be written it will be found that the dexterity, the skill, the logical and persuasive powers of the eminent French-Canadian triumphed, as they did in his recent negotiotions /with the railway companiesover the parcels pelt.v v. An Intricate Department ^ Pelletier can well be called a watchdog" for the people. Excepting the customs department, there is no part of the machine of the country *s business where officials need to exercise. more care in seeing that all the requisite revenues are collected. The aim of the Postmaster-Generali ; an4 it runs right through to the humiblest letter carrier, is efficiency and good service. Recently, as an earnest of his desire to promote the interests of the employees, an increase of salary was madeto rural postmasters. /Pelletier takes an in- ��������� terest ia those in the departments believing that weU paid and ^contented employees v make for goodl results in work. / In the House of Commons and put of the House of Commons, Hon. Mr. pelletier has done well. As i debater, be is pointed, effective and reasonable. Io his department he is all business. No detail escapes his attention, and he quickly mastered the intricacies of the post office system; When Mr. pelletier entered the cabinet there were many prejudices against' him, worked up by the Liberal politicians of the province. These filtered through to Ontario^ and-the other English provinces, and remained there for some time. ^Suish��������� ffiis^kles^waysT^^ most politicians. But these prejudices have been conquered and Pelletier's personality has been the victorious factor .. ^ Quickly W������B^ Them Over An eloquent illustration occurred on the oc-; casion of the Massey Hall, Toronto, dinner to Premier Borden, after his famous 1911 victory. Mr. Pelletier represented Quebec province, and when he rose to speak there were a few cheers, because he was unknown, and because, perhaps, he had been libelled by newspapers. But he had not spoken for five minutes ere the huge building resounded to enthusiastic applause. The well knit frame of the fighting Frenchman faced his audience, and in excellent English the Postmaster- General lampooned his enemies with book and verse. The Toronto audience loves a warrior, and it rose to the orator and re-echoed with hearty applause his sentiments, and the7 crowd was won over. Pelletier is a young man in his fifty-seventh year. As a law students he was distinguished, and as a lawyer he is one of the most brilliant in his province. His straight figure is evidence of his military career as an officer in the 9th Vol- tigueurs of Quebec. Pelletier is the real stuff out of which statesmen are made. He has courage and daring, coupled with an almost Scotch caution, and the high place he now occupies in the councils of his native country has been the prize for merit and good service to the people. MAZZINI MINOR S Home Rule for Ireland. Canadians who are foolish enough to favor the present scheme of Irish Home Rule should read Mazzini Minor's Booklet on "Home Rule for Ireland." If any man can read this production and then favor Asquith's Bill, he must be:very obtuse, or ignorant, or a hater of the Empire and Protestantism. This booklet can be had in Thomson's Book Store and other book shops in Vancouver for the sum of twenty-five cents. The author is a British Columbian, of high scholarship, and one of the best-traveiled gentlemen in Vancouver. Grandview Orandview Methodist Church Pastor���������Rev. F. G. Lett. 8unday Services:��������� Preaching 11 a.m. and 7.30 p.m.; 8unday 8chool, 2.30 p.m. Epworth League���������Monday 8 p.m. Prayer Meeting���������Wednesday 8 p.m. ....The young people invite everybody to their League meetings, and suggest regular attendance at all services of the Church. ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH. (Anglican.) Corner of First Avenue East *pw Semlin Drive, Grandview. /? /'^Vs : Rev. Harold St. George ^Sifttrum, B. A. B. D., Rector. .! \ * < Residence, the Rectory|ft023 FiV Avenue East. / <-' ': ������ . SUNDAY SERVICE��������� -Morning prayer and Holy Comifiuiion 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 THE UNEMPLOYED ��������� New York Call says: New York has over 325,000 idle men who are walking the- streets in a vain search for work. They are^ not loafing. They are merely waiting for the capitalists to "readjust" things and to "digest securities." GIVES WORK TO 1300 MEN City Solving Unemployed Problem on Creditable Scale Says Mayor Thirteen hundred men were said by Mayor Baxter to be employed by the city at present who would riot be if times were not hard He gave it as his opinion that the Provincial Government, should take a, hand in providing employment, in the wayv-the delegation from the, Trades and tabor Council, is asking1 for at Victoria, today. / ,������������������'���������:��������� Of this 1300, said the mayor, about half of them are getting the regular wage of ,$3 a day oh sewers, water extensions and other work, while the rest are on the relief gangs getting $2 a day. The latter also, he pointed out, get work only intermittently; but all of them were employed on johs that would not be done at this time of year under other circutnstan<-������*������'. Sewer work and water mains could be more economically done at another season. ,'.' ._,,���������'.[���������. . /...'''' '::- The mayor said, that if the city could take on about 300 more "men that would take in the whole of:i!-.e unemployed in Vancouver actually in need of;.work. Of course there wire others, he said, that one heard about, but .large .numbers of them lived''in South Vancouver and Burnaby. ''Its not fair to. have the city take the whole burden," he declared. "I think the Provincial Government ought"to^take^a'hand"and put"some men on clearing or some other work.'' inal City Press, Ltd. 203=207 Kingsway COMMERCIAL HOW WORK IS PONE . . ������������������ GX> ������������������ ��������� . It is: well to remember that there is a multitude of things, and among them many that are best worth doing, that can never be accomplished save by plain, straight-ahead, every-day, persistent plodding. It is all right to start the enter-, prise with a great flourish of trumpets, but that does not get you along very iar with it. Before it is finished, if it is to be worth anything at all, someone has to get down to plain plodding. There is always a stretch of hard road in any bit of worthwhile adventure, no matter of what kind itis. Nothing is ever all brass bands and banners. Brilliancy and enthusiasm are good, but there is a homely old virtue that accomplishes very much aore than either of them. See that you do not despise it. ��������� Great Thoughts. . The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is, with what he avowed to make it.���������J. M. Barrie. "In aU your dealings and doings remember today is your opportunity, tomorrow will belong to some one else. Whenever you are angry, beyassured that it is not only a present evil, but that1^ you have increased a habit.��������� Epictetus. . Your Printing Orders will l' receive prompt and careful attentibnK 1 ' ��������� ' . 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BOX l0,VWCG\JVm, .8. c, ^.KHhImI itM| .t-.|������4.4.iT������<t<'|i4������4i<t"V<tnt'^'������C"t">"t������4ii"tii|"t..! ���������|iitM|l.|l.|..|iiii.t>if.^iiitifii|ii|il|ii|i^1i|ii|iaiiti ^4^W*4^wi>^^wi,^'^,4^*<i^,4^wi������4^wi^^>^wiwt''i'^>^wi^Miwt'*M,'t',l' '1"1' '1"I"I' 'ft'ft 't'4"l"l"l' 4"1* '1' 1 NEWS OF THE DAY * A dlFT FROM THE GERMAN EMPEROR The London Missionary Society has had a very welcome and unexpected surprise in an intimation from the President of the Upper House in Germany that the Emperor William has made a grant of 3,000 marks for work in Samoa, 2,000 marks to be applied to the work of Mr. Heider, and 1,000 marks to be handed to Miss Schultze for her work. This sum, it appears, comes from a fund known as the Emperor William's Fund for, the Encouragement of Evangelical Missions in German Colonies and Territories. It is delightful to find that the many-sided German Emperor has time to give thought to such things as evangelical misions. The great ones of the earth do not distinguish them- ���������selves in these days by much evidence of such practical interest in the progress of the Kingdom of Christ. It is pleasant, also, to feel that the, society, which is not German in its origin, its management, or the body of its supporters, but which happens to be at work in German territory, has gained the approval of the German authorities to such an extent that a grant is made for the encouragement of some portion of its work. . ��������� ��������� ��������� UNION BIBLE SCHOOL IN NANKING \ One is that Kansas people saved more than twenty-nine million dollars lastv.year through prohibition; according to figures just made pnblic. The other item Is that fifty-five building and loan' associations of Kansas showed a great increase in their assets. The citizens of prohibition countries have a better chance to save money than where the open saloon. coaxes the man to spend it on whiskey?���������Ex. KAISER A TEETOTALLER A united Bible School at Nanking has absorbed three theological seminaries of four denominations, name. ly, the- Northern Methodists'! the Northern Presbyterians, the Southern Presbyterians and the Christians (Disciples'). A Presbyterian paper says: "Some leading minds" had tlie acut'eness to see that in fields where union was possible at no other point it was feasible to unite all the missions in Bible study." , ��������� ��������� ��������� The American Bible Society sold in 1913 2,000,000 Bibles to the Chinese. ��������� ��������� ��������� ���������*- One-fifth of all the women in the world are in Ch'ina. ��������� ��������� ��������� MOHAMMEDANISM DECADENT DOMINION DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Dairy Branch ; Test 3.0 or 4.8, Which? One of the chief Tysons for testing cows not simply once in a while, but at regular intervals,; is found in the fact that they are known to vary so greatly and often so inexplicably".' Apart altogether from what are termed normal variations from milk, ing to milking, besides the variations betwen morning and evening, and the variations between the fore milk/and the stoppings, careful observers have noticed in two days a variation in the test of almost 2 per cent of fat in the milk of individual cows, for which no reason can be assigned. Obviously then it would be quite unfair to judge any cow on any one isolated test when it might be 3.0 one - day and 4.8 another day. Which could you take? A fair and just way is to take samples regularly and. test a composite sample once a month. Then there will be credit given where it is really due, not necessarily to the one that is supposed to be a high tester because she is of fancy; name or fancy price, but frequently to some tacitly despised individual which is really the queen of the dairy. It will pay to select those cows that are known, not supposed, to yield milk rich in fat. Regina, Feb.���������The Royal North West Mounted. Police head quarters at Regina have announced that Sergt. Dempster is heading a relief party with despatches to Explorer Stef- fansson's party.- . Sergt. Dempster headed the party sent out to locate Inspector Fitzgerald,, who was lost with the Northern. Patrol of the Mounted- Police, and was successful in finding the bodies of the policemen where* they had dropped one by one as their strength gave out. Regina, Feb.���������-Some idea of the extent of the increase in valuation of western property may be gained by a citation of instances referred to by Regina's city auditor. In 1905���������the year Regina was created a city with a population of 5,000���������blocks 119 and 122 could have been purchased for $2,000 each, whereas at the present time, the valuation is computed to be $100,000 each. During this period Regina has increased to a city of 50,000 people, so that it will be seen that the increase has been justified. It is also interesting to note that the majority of Regina's wealthy men have profitted by this increase. It was during the past three years that the greatest increase in population has taken place, the city having grown in this time from 15,000 to 50,- 000. Regina, Feb.���������An effort is being made to develop the flour milling industry in Saskatchewan, as it is believed that by this means grain growing can be made even more profitable for the Saskatchewan farmer than it is at the present time. Following out this idea a' flour" mill with a capacity to mill 3,000 barrels per day will be established at Regina as soon as possible by Leitch Bros. Milling Company. It is expected that other mills will be established at Regina. Dr. Julius Richter, author of "The Missions' in the. Near East," writes with authority. He says that of the 225,000,000 of Mohammedans, but 35,- 000,000 are at presnt under Moslem rule, while 160,000,000 are under Christian rule. The Sultan, the "Commander of the Faithful," the true head of the church, rules over 18,000,000, while the Christian King of England rules '80,000,000; the French republic and the King of Holland each 29,000,000, and the Czar of Russia, 14,000,000. ' _. ���������-������������������* *��������� *. ��������� VAm <F MISSIONS "No traveller of an observant eye and .an impartial mind, who passes among those uncivilized, non-Christian; races in which misionaries are now\at_worki can fail to be struck by the immense improvementwjhjidL ���������j"H"t"I"I"H������������4-i"|">-H"|"H"M..|������H������f8"l- Temperance TWO ITEMS FROM KANSAS MORTGAGE SALE. The German Kaiser, according to reports from Berlin, has turned absolute teetotaller. He began to observe himself and discovered that he lost something of his energy and working power whenever he drank anything containing alcohol. So now he drinks nothing stronger .than lemonade. f^"H"t"I"t"M-t"l"I"l"t"t"l"l"l"l"l"M'i>'H"t' Argonauts MAKES GOOD STRIKE STRIKE AT CHISANA Gold Dust Occasionally Used in Trade and Camp Is Hopeful for Future .Chisana, Alaska.���������A strike on Big Eldorado was reported January 24 Jim Haughen, former chief of police of Fairbanks, and sheriff of Snohomish county in the early days, ij said to have struck 30-ce'nt pans and a 60-cent nugget at a depth of seven feet on bedrock. While this is not a particularly rich. strike, it is considered fairly good considering the short distance to bedrock.. | It will be a great encouragement to the camp, as 'there has been but little of an encouraging nature reported for ' some time. Gold, however, is being taken from the creeks in small quantities. ,$t������td'J dust is' also' occasionally handed across the counter in the store in, small quantities. It is claimed that strikes of some consequence have been made but that the lucky ones are guarding the secret. * ��������� * TO SEEK GOL0 IN BAFFIN LAND Of Valuable Property. , ���������_-. Under and by, virtue of the powers contained in a certain Indenture of Mortgage which4will be produced at tbe time of the-sale, there will be offered for sale by, public auction on Wednesday, February 11th, 1913, at the hour of 11 o'clock in the forenoon by Thomas- Shirley, Auctioneer, '9'. his office in the Davis Chambers, 615 Hastings Street West in the City of Vancouver, B. C., the following property, namely, Lot 16, in Block 2, in the Subdivision of District Lot 663, Municipality of South Vancouver, map 1390: The Vendor is informed that the above property is situated on9the east side of Chester Street between 47th and 49th Avcnu's East in the Municipality of South 'Vancouver, and that there is a two and a half storey frame dwelling erected thereon. TERMS OP SALE: Twenty per cent of the purchase money is to be paid hr cash at the time of sale and the balance in accordance with the conditions to be then made known. For further patticulars and conditions of sale apply to Bowser, Reid & Wallbridge,. Solicitors, Canada Life' Building, Hastings Street West, Vancouver, B. C. DATED at Vancouver. B. C, this 15th day of January, 1914. ! 1-30-14 to 2-20-14 Phrenology And Palmistry MRS. YOUNQ (Formerly of Montreal) Ohrm* Praotloal Advice On Business' Adaptation, Health and Marriage. 805 Granville Street Over Harrison's Dn������ Store * Hours: 10 a. m. to 9 p. m m mum 1m The first instalment , of ' The Sable Lorcha appeared in our issue of Jan. 9. < mm We can supply back numbers m ::--i):.-''!-x-T\m,\ they havelvrbught in the condition of the people, and which often is quite irrespective, of the number of actual converts who have been formed into Christian congregations." PRIEST AM PEOPLE Entire Romish Church Become frotesrajtt At South Bend, Ind., the Rev. Victor Von Kubinyi.and his entire Roman Catholic congregation of more than 200 marched bareheaded into St. James' Episcopal church, of South Bend, and embraced the Episcopal faith. Von Kobinyi was immediately ordained an Episcopalian rector. The Rev. Victor Von Kubinyi was a Roman Catholic priest for sixteen years. He is thirty-nine years of age, speaks seyen languages and is the son of the late Field Marshall Johann Von Kubinyi. ��������� * * A HINDOO POET London, Feb.���������Capt. Munn, who claims to be especially acquainted with the hinterland of Canada, is about to intake his fifth Arctic expedition, leaving Liverpool in June, in search of gold in Baffin Land, where he lost the ship Algerine in 1909. The expedition, which will cost a million dollars, is financed by a privately formed Arctic gold exploration syndicate. Munn proposes to-establish^his=bas^ plan of a dead whaler, who found gold there thirty years ago. ��������� * ���������' . NEARLY 45,000 MOTORS IN , CANADA, SAYS REPORT The possibility, shall we not say certainty, that the modern East will make valuable contributions to the worlds literature is indicated by the fact that the Nobel prize for literature for 1913 has been awarded to the Indian poet, Rabindranath Ta- gore. .���������-. ������������������" ;~ ���������:'���������'-,; According to a statement of the department of trade and commerce regarding the number of motor cars in certain countries, the following is the number of motor cars in use in Canada, the Ontario and Saskatchewan figures including commercial vehicles : Prince Edward Island, 25; Nova Scotia, 1442; flew. Brunswick, 830; Quebec, 4813; Ontario, 15,255; Manitoba, 4935; British Columbia, 5354. Total, 43,479. ��������� ��������� ��������� MAKES ALTITUDE FLIGHT Johannisthal, Germany. ��������� Robert Hhelen, a German aviator, made a world's altitude record today for a flight with four passengers. He attained a height of 9,350 feet. ��������� ������ ��������� $25,000,000 FOR GOOD ROADS Washington, Feb.���������The Shackle- fordJJ2������b00,000 good roads bill was passed by the House by a vote of 282 to 42. v��������� PERSONAL Mr. Wm. Stanley, of Stanley & Co., wall paperers and decorators, Mount Pleasant, has returned from his trip to- Toronto, Ottawa^ and Montreal. He visited his home in Toronto, where his father was celecbrating ,his 70th birthday. Sunshine "Something each day���������a smile; It is not much to give, And the little gifts of life Make sweet the days we live. The world has weary hearts That we can bless 'and cheer, And a smile of every day Makes sunshine all the year. "Something each day���������a word;., We cannot know its powec, ; It grows in fruitfulness As grows the gentle flower. It brings the sweetest peace Where all is dark and drear! Makes pleasant all the year. "Something each day���������a deed Of kindness and of good, To link in closer bonds All human brother hood. Oh, thus the Heavenly will We all may do while here; For a good deed every day Makes blessed all the year." Business Directory -.'���������?���������:��������� ;:rk: Haxttr * Wright (Successors to Hutching? Furniture Company), Complete House Furnishers. Phone Sey. 771. 416 Main St. ������. C. Electric Co. For Everything Electrical, - Phone Sey. 5000, Cor. Carrall and Hastings Sts. 1138 Oranvllle St. Johnson The Secret 8ervice Intelligence ������ Bureau. 319 pender St. W. . 0. C. Telephone Co. Tbe Telephone Directory Is used 240,000 time* dally. Phone Sey. 6070. gloomfitld't Cafe. Best and oldest established Cafe ln ��������� Mount Pleasant. 2517 Main St. Near Broadway Buffalo Grocery "The Home of Quality." Commercial Drive and 14th Ave. Kamloops-Vancouver Meat Co., Md. Cor. Main'ft Powell Sts. 1849 Msln St. Phone Sey. 6661 Phone Fair. 1814 Lew the Oruggltt Wants to see you. - Lee Building. Broadway ft Main Mount Pleasant livery Carriages at all hours day or night. Corner Broadway ft Main. Phone Fair. 846 Owen ft Morrison The Mount pleasant Hardware. ��������� Phone Fair. 447. 2337 Main St. South 8hore Lumber Co. Any Kind of Lumber Phone Fair. 154 1 Front St Cieland ft Dibble Engraving Co. Ltd. "Our Cuts Talk." 3rd Floor World Bldg. Stanley ft Co. Mount Pleasant Decorators I Phone Fair. 998. 2317 Main St Clubb ft Stewart, Ltd. For Best Quality Clothing, 309-315 Hastings St. W. "Davies ft Saunders General Contractors. Phone Sey. 943. 55-66 Davis Chambers, 615 Hastings Street W. Dominion Wood Yard All kinds of Mill Wood. Cor. Front and Ontario Sts. Phone Fair. 1554. Dow, Fraser ft Co., Ltd. (A TruBt Company). Head Office: 317-321 Cambie Street. 2313 Main Street. Edward Clough Real Estate, Insurance and Loans. Phone Sey. 2882. 441 Homer St. Frank Trimble Realty Co. Real Estate and Insurance Brokers. Phone Fair. 185. 2503 Westminster Rd Vancouver Cut-Rats Fruit ft Candy Co. All Fruits in Season. Phone Fairmont 638. 2452 Main, Cor. Broadway. Western Canada Power Co. Ltd. For Stave Lake Power. Phone Sey. 4770. 603-610 Carter-Cotton Bldg. Western Methodist Recorder 11.00���������One Year. Manager, Methodist Recorder, P. &> P. Co., Ltd., Victoria, B. C. Wilson's Drug Store F. A. Wilson, Prop. Cor. Main St. and 16th Ave. Phone Fair. 805. Mrs. Young Phrenology and Palmistry 805 Granville St., cor Robson, Pritrtf flO* Terminal City Press, Ltd. I 11111-111 ������^ 2408 Westminster Rd. Phose Fiirmost 1141 Wf] tm^w^mm^^^T^^m^ WWWt^^mm^^m^^^^- >i i.-M'" ��������� (*,>y m; ������OT#������v?. ������*U-"Hr' '< Wi? fffJ!^p|fsj!?. 'V i - THE WESTERN CALL Friday. February^. 1914 5 4f A S BY A FORMER VANCOUVERITE Why you should have your Prescriptions dispensed by Law-Druggist The Critics and Their Tangled Webs 1st. A graduate druggist always in charge. (Only one other store this side of the bridge doing the same thing. 2nd. The most complete equipment for dispensing. 3rd. The largest stock of drugs and pharmaceuticals of the best quality, viz., Park Davis & Co.'s and Mallinckrodt's. 4th. A quick delivery to all parts of the city. 5th. Because your doctor has. ^confidence in us, knowing that his prescriptions will be dispensed exactly as written. Let us fill your next prescription. Law- Druggist Lee Building, Broadway end Main Phone Fairmont 790 Rev. Thomas James McCrossan, B. A.-B. D.^ Pastor of Oliver Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, Minn. dence, not baseless, foolish suppositions, e'er they can shake our faith. (5) But there is other evidence in the favor- of the Mosiac authorship of the Pentateuch worth noting, viz., the i Samaritan Bible which contains th������ whole Pentateuch and the Pentateuch only. Mr. Isaacs, the son of the Samaritan High Priest of Shec- hem, visited, this country only a year (Continued from Last Week.) . and true history, until it is proven to be false by facts and not mere suppositions. Sayce. the great archaelogist of Oxford (who, by the way, knows as mush Hebrew as Driver and a good deal more regarding all the kindred languages, for he has spent months every year for about twenty-five years reading these languages from the tablets and the monuments) says, "Hebrew is a dead language, and when we ask the analyst to apply his method to our own English or to modern French and similarly divide and dissect the nove's of Besant and Rice or Erckmann and Chatrain, which we know to be composite, he is obliged to confess that he cannot do it. It is only to a dead language, imperfectly known, and of which but a fragment of its literature has been preserved, that his methods.will apply." Mark Twain once resolved to write a serious book, so, he wrote "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc," and had Harpers publish it anonymously, and for two years he kept all the greatest scholars of the world guessing, but no one ever dreamed of attributing it to Mark Twain, not even his closest friends���������it |was not Mark Twain's style. Just so it was when Spurgeon published "John Ploughman's Talks." When the -very best English scholars can detect so little from the style of an author in their own language, how absurd of these critics to claim so much for their discoveries in a or two ago and had a copy of this Bible with him. They tell us that'it was written by Abishua, a great grandson of Aaron, and is over thirty- five hundred years old. The critics try to make out that the Samaritans got his Bible about Ezra or Neh'e- miah's time. But this is absurd, for at that time the Jews and the Samaritans hated each other worse than the Catholics and the Orangemen of Ire. land hate each other today. Then before the critics can prove their theory re. the Pentateuch they must disprove the contention of these honest Samaritans; that they had their Pentateuch intact for over 3,500 years. Now, .Jesus, who was conscious of his existence from all eternity, and who knew Moses personally (for He recognized him and spoke; with him on the Mount of Transfiguration), says that Moses did write the Pentateuch. John 5:4546. "There is one who accuses you even Moses in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses ye would have believed me, for -he wrote of me." John 7:19. ''Did not Moses give you the law?" Hasting's dictionary (page 601) accounts' for Christ's false teachings dead-language,,of which the very best here,' by saying "Christ' and' the PHONE FAIRMONT 1852 (At it'here since 1900) (A Trust Company) HYon Have or so lying idle, why not let m loan or invest some for you to good advantage; whilst if you have but a few dollars handy, remember we pay 4 for Cent, on Deposits subject to your cheque, and credit the interest 12 Time* a Year. We maintain a spot cash reserve as against deposits proportionately similar to the great banking concerns. KGRaMWTS *���������^ BOUGHT am������ COULKTEP Short ijif-u'AT), CREDITED iWNTHfcY SUBJECT l- CHEQUE Uow.Fr&^er l Co 5?/ '5A\ Co.fnL.ic St". r DEPOSIT , rOHREMTl 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. McKay Station, Burnaby of them know little! Now, to show clearly the foolish suppositions of the critics, take their explanation re the origin of Deuteronomy (the book of law). They quote 2 Kings- 22nd chapter, where we are told that in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign (about 622 B. C), Hilkiah, the high priest, found -a book called by him the "Book of the Law," in the Temple Swhen they were repairing it. The king and the people were so stirred by the reading of this long lost book, that it led to a great reformation. The critic's theory is that Deutron- omy was composed about this time by some unknown Priest or Prophet and then hidden away in the Temple with the express design of bringing about a reformation when it should be found. The critics admit that the people never dreamed that it was composed by men of their own time, but accepted it as the genuine law of Moses. They say, too, it was this fact gave it its authority. Is this credible or even likely? No. A new book does not look ��������� like an ancient one, and especially is this true regarding a new and an ancient parchment. Why, the ink on this parchment could scarcely have. been dry, and to say that men as intelligent as Jeremiah and King Josiah could have been so easily deceived is to brand them as a pack of simpletons. (2) But they say_ perhaps^ the book was disfigured to make it look old. Then, according -to these critics, the Book of Deutronomy is a pious fraud, the result of a deliberate intention to deceive. But as Weiner says in his "Origin of the Pentaeuch," "What is the position of the* man who alleges that God spake certain words at Sinai, if he in fact, knows that he has himself composed these alleged utterances?" Why such a man is a base liar and deceiver.' Then think of the psychological improbability of such a liar being capable of producing the Decalogue. (3) Again Josiah speaks of the disobedience of then- fathers to the commands of this "Book of the Law." Would he have thus spoken if he had not known .for an absolute certainty that their fathers had had this very book of the law? No. (4) Then recall the demands of "the Book of the Law" upon the people. It demanded (a) that they should all pay tithes of their corn, oil and cattle to support the Lev- itical"order ot which they havenever before heard, (b) That they also hand over to these same Levites (of whom they had never heard before) for their own use forty-eight of their best cities. Yet the "critics want us to believe that there was nov one there to rise up and express astonishment, and demand to be shown the positive proof that "the Book of Law" really was written by Moses, as it claimed to be. Though it had never been in existence before, and they had riever even heard of it, they all fell right in line and meekly obeyed its precepts. Is there anything in the whole range of conservative beliefs quite so hard to accept as this fool theory? Deutronomy claims for itself to have been written by Moses (Deutronomy 31:9-26), and the critics must produce real evi- Apostles held the current Jewish notions respecting the Old Testament." What blasphemy, in the light ,of 2 Cor. 3:14, where Paul says regarding all the Jews of his day (including rabbis and people,) "Their minds were blinded for until this day re- maineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is done away in Christ." Then if Christ tore away the veil which hid from the minds of the Jews the true meaning 'of the Old Testament, what nonsense and what blasphemy to tell us that "he held the'current Jewish notions regarding the Old Testament." V ' s But supposing Christ was thus deceived during His life, he surely knew differently after His death and resurrection,���������at all events it falls upon the critics to prove that He did not, ���������and they cannot do it in the fact of Rom. 8:34. Listen! "Who is he that condemeth. It is Christ that died, yea rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God." The risen Christ is now -at but I must hasten on to the story of Jonah which all the critics, without a single exception, say is a mere parable or allegory. George Adam Smith, in his book, "Modern Criticism and the Preaching of the Old Testament," p. 89, says: "The only view of the story of Jonah that does justice to its teaching and explains its place in a bok of prophetic discourses, is that which treats it not as real history but as a sermon in the form of a parable upon the great evangelical truth that God has granted to'the Gentiles also repentance unto life." Now the rationalist denies, the story of Jonah because he holds miracles to be impossible, but why should a Christian reject it? Even John S. Mill admits that miracles "must be given credence if one believes in an omnipotent God who created this world and man. ' Regarding this story question Sir Robert Anderson says: "To say God could not deliver Jonah is Atheism; to say He would not is nonsense; to say He did not is to pour contempt upon the words of our Divine Lord and repudiate His; authority as a teacher." '';.';"; Yes, Jesus .Christ.believed the story of Jonah "to be true, for He says r in Matt. 12:40-41, "For as Jonah was three days and three, nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three; nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it,; because they repented at the teaching of Jonah and behold a greater than Jonah is here." Here then is a clear.-'"cut statement regarding the-future. In John 14:2 Christ says, regarding His statement that there are many mansions in heaven, "If ~it were not so I would have told you." If it were not true that these Ninevites converted \ under Jonah would; rise in judgment, would not Christ have .told thern so? Nowthei. word ; translated; whale- here is "Ketos" and means any sea monster-r-whale Or shark. We' know that sharks have been found in the Mediterranean with whole deer inside of them, so they could easily swallow a man. But this great fish, was in all probability a whale. Prof. George Macloskie. (Dept. of Biology, Princeton), tells us that when off the coast of Japan he got acquainted with Roy Mathews, one of the greatest living authorities on whales, for whaling has been his life's business. One day he asked him if he had any difficulty believing the story of Jonah, and to his great surprise he replied, "None vhatever." to the king, and at once word would go out that this Man was Daggan's own messenger. Then all repented from the least even to the greatest. But, says someone, is this in harmony with God's method of dealing with the heathen? Would He thus meet their expectation? I think He would for our Heavenly Father honors a sincere faith wherever He finds it. Read Rom. 2:14, "When the Gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, they are a law unto themselves. Which simply means that when heathen peoples live up to the teachings of their best and purest men, God will honor their faith and save them. Now, their best and purest men have taught them to expect a Heavenly Messenger to come up out of the sea, and God sent Jonah to honor this sincere faith. NORTH COAST Montreal, Feb.���������Reports received at !C. P. R. headquarters indicate that there will be a tremendous influx of immigrants from the, central and southern part of Europe this year. From Great Britain comes word that many thousands will be coming out, particularly people with some means, to take up fruit farming in British Columbia. Applications are so numerous that it would be,impossible to respond to half of them. A large number of ready->made farms are in process of preparation in the West, but the supply can not meet the demand. More than a hundred first-class passengers went north last night on the G. T. P. steamer Prince George. The sailing list was the heaviest since last summer's rush. The fact that the transcontinental line is rapidly approaching completion is attracting a great many settlers to the tracts of new country being opened for settlement. The travellers are destined for Smithers, Hazelton, Wads- worth and other points lately placed on the railway map by extension of service, instituted recently. << ENDERBY NEWS The ladies of the Methodist church held a successful social and sale of work on Tuesday last. A program was furnished by the orchestra,-and everyone spent an enjoyable evening. The Knights of Pythias invited the public to an interesting and impressive service in honor of their fiftieth, anniversary on last Thursday evening, and on Sunday attended service in the Anglican church. The Enderby suffragettes held, their meeting this month at the home of Mrs. Hatchet. Miss Simpson, spoke. SCOTCH OIL FOR NAVY The Admiralty have just concluded an extensive contract with certain of the Scotch oil companies for a large quantity of liquid fuel. The Scotch companies, adds the Press Association, have been extending their plant to meet naval requirements. Scotland produced about 65,000,000 gallons of oil from shale last year. #*���������#.���������������.������.������..���������������������������������..���������������..������..���������������..������..,������ i. ...������.������..������������,������.������.������.���������������������.��������� .��������������������������������������������������������� God's right hand. Again read Epjj. "Why," said he, "the air chamber of 1:20 and 2J, where we are ^tpld r'God a whale is large enough and conven raised Christ from the dead and set Him at, his own right hand in the heavenly .places far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world, but in that which is to come, and hath put all things under His -feetv'-^Then- in Acts 1:11 we read the words of angels regarding'the resurrected Christ. "This'same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in -like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven." Yes, the critics will have a hard time to prove that the resurrected Christ, who is now at the right hand of God, exalted above every name and power, and who is to come again in glory to judge the world, did not know the whole truth regarding the Old Testament; yet in Luke 24:27 (after His resurrection) we read "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." This proves that He had the very same idea of the Old Testament after His resurrection as before His death, so wherever He has declared Himself regarding the Old Testament we had better accept Him as our highest authority. Christ's own words in Matt. 26:24, 64 ought to make this fact very clear to us. (Matthew 26:24). "The Son of Man goeth as it is written of Him;" Then (in Matthew 26:64) He says, "Hereafter we sail see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of Heaven." Let any Greek scholar successfully prove (if he can) that the expression "The Son of Man" (O Uios tou anthropou) in, both these verses, does not refer to the very same identical person. Then if the Christ who walked this earth is the very same Christ (without any change) as now sits at the right hand of God, surely He ought to be our supreme authority regarding the Old Testament. (3) I wish I had time to contrast the opinions of the critics regarding Isaiah, the Psalms and Daniel with Christ's teaching regarding the same, Nc������Eggs for Breakfast? . This will not be your cry if you feed our Special Chop and Ego; Producer Others get good results in this way. Why not you ? Our Btock of Poultry Supplies is complete and oar prices are right. Ask for price list. " F.T,VEMQH ���������haul FitriMit He Hay, Grain and Feed 888 IrtMwij (lit ������.������.+.������i������i���������������*.������.������.������.������������������������.������, ������������������������t>������*������������������������������.������.���������.������������������������������������������ ��������� ��������� ��������� i f ient enough to accommodate, , any Shan. A large whale requires as much air as eighty 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 hot be very comfortable until it went ashore and coughed "him out." So much then re. the probability of; this miracle from , one who knows a thousand, fold-more regarding the matter than any-critics. ; Now, when Hilprecht uncovered Nineveh he found, what I consider to be, the true reason why God saved Jonah by means of a fish; In the palace of the king He found the history of Berosus. This history tells what the Ninevites believed concerning their great god Daggan (half fish and half man). It tells how ���������Daggan came to earth and taught the Ninevites all they knew; how to build their houses, till the soil and sow their grain. He taught them, too, the principles of mathematics; in fact everything. At night He would sleep in the sea, for He was amphibious. Then, before He went away for good, He told the people that ages after He would send messengers from heaven to teach them further, and that th?se messengers would all come out of the sea. Hilprecht also found a tablet to one of these mes-? sengers who -actually did come up but of the sea, and ��������� his name is "Ioannes," which he says can only be interpreted in that language as Jonah. Now, God could have saved Jonah in 10,000 different ways, but He knew the people were looking for amessen- ger from Daggan, to come out of the sea, so He saved him in this peculiar but convenient method. God would have witnesses near by to see him coughed up. When he first entered Nineveh, no one seems to have paid much attention to Him, but soon these witnesses tell their story $kOQMFiEM>'S CAFE 2517 MAIN STI$0T NEAB 3R0APWAY KNOWN AS THE BEST ANP OLPEST ~ ESTABLISHED CAFB IN MT. 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Special e - attention given to beginners. ���������'���������- 181 Eighteenth Avenue, West 13-3-U &^4.,i..i..i,i..i,,i..t..i..i..i,.i.w 5 / * ������ 1.I_J$ * : a "*! ���������('<V t .-f' yjv V' ' 1 * J i ' ��������� **m V - f/| -j 1 ,r ,������rj H -, ii * lW 1 {,1 ~4 , * 1 "f\ / < 'SH K ['���������H������H������������K'*������H>������H"H'*'H''H'^^ Among the industries that have grown up in Vancouver which are catering to the needs of the growing cities and municipalities of British Columbia is one which illustrates the best results of the application of highest trained skill to the production of sewer pipe. The Dominion Glazed, Cement Pipe Company has won for itself a high place in the opinion of experienced engineers, and a large place among costruction materials used in the most important branch of city building, which is denominated the sewerage system. This Company started business in Vancouver over three years ago. At the start one pipe-making machine was in use; at the present time $150,- 000.00 is invested in the works, and employs more than forty men, and the capacity has been more than doubled. ������t 11| i 11������ ������11111i114111 MuH. Each machine is capable of turning out over a mile of pipe in six work days, and makes pipe from four to thirty inches in diameter. The civic authorities of Vancouver have been using this pipe for three years. The pipe is in good favor in New Westminster, South Vancouver, and is also being used in Victoria. s * This is a home industry that bids fair to grow to a large capacity as the city grows in the future. ' V Thirty miles of concrete sewer pipe has been made by this Company and laid in the sewerage system of this city and is giving complete satisfaction, as concrete sewer pipe gets harder and better with age. ? ��������� ��������� IX-PBESIDENT TAFT'S SPLENDID TRIBUTE TO GREAT BRITAIN'S WORK P Col. Taft said that his experience in the Philippines forced him to study the British Colonial lystem and the marvellous accomplishments of [he Imperial Government in spreading civiliza- ion over the world and promoting the happiness " 400,000,000 people. But for British enterprise - British courage, British sense of responsibility in >verning other races, human civilization would faVe been greatly retarded. World's Debt to Britain "When I think of what Britain has done in adia for the happiness of those people; how she >und those many millions torn.by intenfecine Irife, disrupted with constant wars, unable, to Tmttnue agriculture or the arts of peace, with in- mor roads, tyranny, and oppression; and when (think what the Government of Great Britain is >w doing for these alien races, the debt the world owes Britain ought to be acknowledged in no grudging manner." Col. Taft emphasised also the marvellous development of Egypt under Lord Cromer, Lord Milner, and Lord Kitchener. "Today, he said, the Imperial historian must look at the British Empire from the standpoint of benevolent, useful, elevating government. It must be regarded from the point of view of benefit to the human race. No one can encircle the globe, no one live in the Orient, no one go into the tropics, without seeing the Standard of Britain floating over the soil of her Empire and without having it brought home to him what a factor in the progress of mankind she has been. v Federated Unions "But not only has your Imperial function had to do with the government of other races and with helping them on to peace and arts and comforts of civilisation, but the enterprise of the English, Scots and Irish has carried them into far distant lands, there to establish settlements of white subjects of the Empire, and in the last generation we have seen flower into federated unions great governments���������in one case called ������ Dominion,, in another case a Commonwealth, and in a third a Union���������with every reasonable prospect that in this century their wealth and population will approximate those of the Motherland." No nation except Great Britain, he said, had such self-governing Dominions of people tied to her Empire with bonds of loyalty and affection which seemed to grow as the actual control of the Mother eountry diminished and lightened. ?A#AU4 OAHAL [New York, Feb.���������Some of the most f-ominent Jews of America gathered pre to celebrate the completion of a iglish version of the Bible written [cord breaking literary work���������an iglish version of the Bible written Jews for Jews. There are two literary parallels of le work���������the King James version, fepared by Protestants for the lurch of England, and the Douai |ible, which is the accepted Catholic prsion. \ There is a Jewish-English Bible, it its use' is limited to some of the fnagogues, and the work of transition was limited to one man, Isaac [.esser of Philadelphia, who labored In it fifty years ago. What the Jews pf today seek is a Bible that shall be Representative of the spirit and teach- jigs of all shades of Judaism in this nintry and Great Britain. To this end a committee of emin- it- Jewish scholars has labored, and le result of their work was com- Lemorated at a banquet given at the Iwish Theological Seminary, No. [1 West One Hundred and Thirty, [ird street. Started Many Years Ago lit was twenty-two years ago that Jewish Publication Society of lerica decided that the Jews' needs |re entitled to a Bible which should II in simple English the ancient )ry of the Jews, and tell it without pn the unconscious Christian color- of the early translators. English- ^vish and American-Jewish schol- were enlisted for the puropse, Jt the work progressed but slowly account of the widely scattered kidences of the translators. six years ago the society saw that psent committee was appointed, (was arriving, nowhere, and the members adopting the plan of feting for three ten-day sessions ������a far and circulating the work in the jterim. The plan has proved a suc- Iss and the Jewish Bible is an ac- Implished fact. |The splendid diction and phrase- >gy of,, the King James version are (���������gely retained, with the addition whatever improvemetns in accur- ty are to be found,, in the revised Irsion of 1885. Washington, P. C.���������President Wilson expects ships to .be passing through the Panama canal tbis coining fall and much before the formal opening opening in January. He let it be known to be confident that congress would repeal the exemption clause of the Panama Canal Act. The president said that it seemed to be the universal view of European countries that the* United States was breaking the Hay-Pauncefote treaty by the exemption in the present Panama Canal act, though, no official views to that effect had' been presented to the administration. Ho reiterated that the United States waa in honor bound to obey the spirit of the treaty and denied that his insistance for a repeal waa in any way aimed to placate Great Britain. Tbe president remarked. ;that there was no necessity of placating Great Britain* aa Great Britain was not in a mood to require it, being on the friendliest terms with the United States. The president stated that he would not tend a message to congress on the question- He expressed the view that there would be no serious ,^������KMH"H^H"H'fr'M"l'*<H^'i^H"H,^''H^^ NEWS OF THE DAY r<}wHwH������H><HHHwH'<H>*������H������,fr^'K^<^ >$M$H$M$M!N3"i' Construction work has been started False creek is completed. / The new on the dock to be built by Messrs, McNeill, Welsh & Wilson, Limited, a newly formed company, capitalized at $500,000, on the south side of False creek, on the property adjoining the Great Northern Railway bridge. The preliminary work in connection with the enterprise will consist of" the" erection" of a wharf 308 feet long, 176 feet wide and approached by a roadway from Front and Ontario streets, and the reclamation of a tract between the proposed dock arid the railway bridge. Tenders for the erection of sheds and warehouse buildings ��������� will ������������������(���������be called when the main portion of the new dock is built. The plans which have been prepared; by Messrs. J. R. Matheson & Sons, provide for two large buildings 204 feet long and 75 feet wide, which will flank a cen- tral roadway, and- "girdiron" landing slip for scows. Additional loading facilities for barges will be provided on the western side of the wharf, and the re-claimed area , between the eastern edge of the dock and "the railway bridge will be utilized for trackage purposes. A strip 50 feet wide will be filled in to connect the dock with the bridge. The warehouses will be of substantial construction and covered with galvanized iron. The roadway and the scow landings will also be enclosed. The dock will be approached by a driveway 200 feet long. A feature of the sheds will be the absence of pillars, massive trusses being used to support the roof. The dock at first will be usdd in connection with the business activities of the Great Northern Express and Transfer Co., and its subsidiary concern, the Vancouver Coal Co./ of which the new corporation is an amalgamation. "Mr. McNeill is president and managing director of the. former, Mr. Nelson Welsh is manager of the allied companies and Mr. W. H. Wilson is secretary- treasurer. The company plans to enter the ocean shipping business at a later date when the harbor improvement work, now being carried on by the Dominion Government in dock will extend put to deep water. , Santa Barbara, Cal., Feb.���������Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, widow of the famous novelist and writer, died of apoplexy at her home in Montecito yesterday. Mrs. Stevenson was stricken late yesterday afternoon and did not regain consciousness. PITTSBURG, REDUCING W- MORAL HOUSES New York, Feb.���������Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson's maiden name was Fanny /Van deGrif. She was born in the United States. Her first husband was Samuel A. Osborne, from whom she obtained a divorce in 1879. Very little is known of the early years of her life. It was in 1876 that she met Stevenson while she was sojourning with her son and daughter jn France. Her domestic life Was not happy even at this date, and she arid Stevenson seem to have been drawn together from the start. ,. ��������� ' ��������� In 1878 she was obliged to return to her home in California, and in August of the following year, alarmed at news of her health, Stevenson hurriedly crossed the Atlantic, traveling as a steerage passenger, partly due to lack of means and partly for the experience. . At San Francisco he was stricken with a desperate illness, from the effects of which he never fuly recovered. The woman who was to be his wife nursed him through the worst of his illness, and in May they were married and went to live in a deserted mining town in the Sierra-s. Subsequently they went to Scotland, where Stevenson a joined his family. After her husband's death in. Samoa in 1894, Mrs. Stevenson withdrew herself from the world to a considerable extent. Until recently��������� she made her home in San Francisco. In 1908 she sold her home there and went to Santa Barbara. Mrs. Stevenson wrote many inter- terestirig articles on life in the South The Pittsburg Vice Commission advocates legislation "by all states to make the giving or receiving of money, or other valuable consideration, for participation in any act of immorality, a - felony - punishable ^by" imprisonment and fine." This recommendation observes that the success of the federal white slave act proves such legislation is prac-* ticable. and. that it alone will wipe out commercialized vice. S . In the report, the church and the, school, as well as the press, are arraigned for "neglect of duty" in not dealing ���������" plainly enough with the source of immorality. "Economic pressure, lust of profit, false educational ideals, the spread of luxury and spiritual apathy have brought this generation face to face with a grave moral crisis," the report reads. "The growth of the social evil, of divorce, and of race suicide are among its symptoms; it is at the back of a startling increase in disease, insanity, graft and crime." As a result of the investigation the commission found that Pittsburg had 247 improper houses. They held 1,- 288 inmates. One hundred and eighty-two houses have been' closed and only 342 inmates remain. It was found that/vice in Pittsburg costs every member of the community $50 a. year. The total cost per year of medical treatment of diseases is estimated at $20,000,000. The lAmerican representatives of the Shell Petroleum company, one of the largest oil opening companies in the world, and which is a formidable rival of the big Standard, Oil company itself, will send its geologist into the Calgary field for the purpose of making a thorough examination of the formation and oil indications as soon as the weather clears sufficiently to make an examination of seas in which she extolled the com-[the ground possible. This means as fortable luxury of the native cos-j soon as the snow goes off the tume, which she often wore. 'ground. Jwst receive^ a iarge shipment of O'CEPAR Polishing Mop and O'Cedar Furniture Polish Makes Hard Work Easy! TVUSTJNG. cleanina end polishing hardwood floor* it hard, tmcM>r������������k- IJ ing work. A* almost never ending task and teldora eatitfactocy to* IT . old way.. 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Haney of San Francisco, says that the average citizen is perfectly content to permit the five profit-payings utilities���������the gas, electricity, water, teleph<#ne and street railroads���������to be operated by private en terprises, while he, a citizen, assumes the eight non-paying expensive public ut:lities���������the public schools, the parks; and playgrounds, fire, police, and street departments, sewer system, hospitals and the jails. V,-* ������*--}^ "~yy*\x~-"--'y���������i -��������� ** H -" \������' i%S A1 .'J- -V 6 THIS WESTERN CALL. Friday. February 27,1914 a Bight of my own position. Now I asked purpose was pra'reworthy. But Dr. myself, on what ground was I to make Addison had not finished. To tell tnis1' "Teirme!" he, was demanding, ea- HORfKt Hazeltine Lorcha eo*rM**r. tat*. ������*. e tfvtuGQ- c* eo. Ai%������ withdrew we fell avidly trpott the. eontentB of the box, yet with small bops of finding what wo sought; for the* tetters It contained were all, apparently, of distant date; fetters, for tbe most part, of a private, personal nature, carefully assorted, and arranged ln red-taped or elastic-banded bundle*. It was no mere Idle curiosity wbich Impelled us to read many of them. We were In a position which may best be described as anomalous. Though Cameron was my dearest friend I knew little of his life prior to our meeting, and Evelyn, his niece and ward, was scarcely less uninformed' than myself. In the letters Just brought to light there might, we decided, be found some clue of Incalculable service in tbe task now before ub. , And so we untied tbe tapes and stripped off tbe bands and set ourselves to careful painstaking examination. Seldom have I engaged4n a labor so deadly uninteresting at one moment and so keenly engrossing at the next. There was correspondence hero wbich meant nothing to ns whatever, and there was correspondence which threw a search-light upon portions of Cameron's career, baring good deeds and follies alike, without discrimination. It was only natural, I suppose, that we should dig up a romance���������a gem of luster shining amidst dun, sordid surroundings. Evelyn and I came up* on two of its fjacets, simultaneously, and paused ln our work to question Its disposal. It seemed to us a holy thing, too sacred for a stranger touch, and, seven at the risk of passing over what night prove our one agent of revelation, wet folded It away again with a jsense of guilt at having dared to lift ieven tbe corner of tbe veil. For a full hour I had scanned: one letter, after another in absorbed In- tentness, but with small profit. Evelyn, across the table, bad been quite as busy. Barely bad we Interrupted our employment with exchange of words. But now. the writing which I bold provoked .exclamation. . "Addison!" I cried, so sharply cut*, Jng fbe silence that the girl started. "Addison! Did you ever hear of blm?" She gestured a negative. Not that I remember, she qualified. Why?" "Because we must find him," I declared, a little excitedly, I imagine; for the letter seemed wonderfully important Instantly she was all alert". *< "What is it?" she asked, springing up and coming to my side. "What have you found?" "Look!" I commanded, the sheet of paper In one upraised band, a finger of my other hand pointing {to a passage. "Look! In 3903, your uncle Robert was in Peking; and yet he gave me bis word tbat he had never visited China." Besting an arm on my shoulder and bending forward she read (or herself: "Just to think! We were In Peking Jogeflier^ and neither of ns was aware of It until too late! What ft foregathering we missed! Even five minutes' chat would have been something; but I no sooner saw you. than the crowd on Legation street swallowed yon up." "Have you read it alir "Not to tbe end," I told hor, "lust the beginning and the signature nlte. Too indefinite. Suppose we have blm in here and find but exactly. Possibly he knows Mr. Addl- ;soh." . When Louis came, however, he iknew nothing. He had never heard of ja Mr. Addison or of a Mr. Addison :Something, in all the three years and lelght months of bis service with Mr. [Cameron. -So Evelyn thanked him ���������once more in her own gracious way [and we continued our work, directing ,'our efforts especially now to unearth- ling further Addison-slgned letters ���������which might prove enlightening. "Why should Uncle Robert tell yon he had never been ln China?" Evelyn asked me, looking up suddenly and dropping to her lap the letter she was |at that moment examining. "I can't [understand that." Nor I," I admitted. "If I had asked Shim, out of idle curiosity he would (have- been Justified perhaps in misleading me; but he must have known that it was in his^lnterest I made the Inquiry." For Just a moment she sat in silence, her narrowed gaze on the glowing embers in the fireplace. Then she turned to ine again. , "Do you think, Philip, it was because he had something to hide?" she asked, seriously, ''Something he was ashamed of and feared might become known?"'.;.' Instantly I sprang to my friendV defense..-. "No," I assured her, with emphasis. "No, Evelyn. Whatever his motive was, I am satisfied it had no dishonorable basis. If he-told me a deliberate falsehood it waB not to spare himself. Possibly���������yes, probably, it was to shield others." I. was perfectly sincere in this, but even bad I believed otherwise I should have been tempted to prevarication could -I have foreseen my reward. Before I quite realized her purpose Bvelyn was out of her chair, had slipped over behind me, and encircling my neck with her arms, bad pressed her lips softly to my cheek. "Ob, bow glad I am to bear you say that! You believe in bis bigness���������in his nobility, Just as I do, don't yon, Philip, dear?" "I'm sure he could never have been guilty of anything dishonorable," I de* dared again, imprisoning her hands. But tbe next moment, hearing steps -again crossing the ball, I reluctantly [released them. ! For a third time Louis stood tn the (doorway. Now he upheld a small red- ;bound book, and bis face was beam- ling. j "Voila, mademoiselle!" ho exclaimed, delightedly. "Je viens de trou- Ivant ce llvre." v It was a hook of addresses, and the valet, nervously turning toe, pages, put bis finger upon the name of Ho-, ratio Addison, M. D-, with the air of one who bad discovered hurled treasure. I am inclined to think that wo were ourselves almost as demonstratively elated as^he, for though wo. [could cot be sure that this was Cameron's correspondent; the odds, certainly favored' that conclusion; and unless the . physician bad died or moved away since the entry was made, we were now in possession of his address, which chancedx to be an apartment bouse on Madison avenue, that my plea for information? Dr. Addison the whole story would certainly be Inexpedient. To hint even at alarm concerning Cameron might Involve the precipitation of that financial disaster he had feared and regarding which he had warned me. Indeed, would not any .effort to obtain the facts I desired be likely to arouse suspicion, no matter how delicately made? The more I pondered the situation, sitting there thoughtfully while one after another the patients who bad 'preceded me passed Into the physician's consultation room, the more beg- ,garly, it seemed to me, became my chances of success., And when, at length, my turn came to enter* the presence of my friend'B friend, I was about persuaded that I should very soon be making an Ignominious exit, branded as an impertinently''meddling busybody. I have always contended that;it- was Dr. Addison's .severely professional air Which was responsible for my inspiration, for no thought of such-a course occurredt tosme, until standing dumbly hesitant before him, I became conscious that he was .making mental inventory of me with a view to a diagnosis. .'. The penetration of his gase impressed me at once./ His steel gray ���������yes were .like a pair of converging probes; and they were his dominant feature. Aside from them his ' face was commonplace. "Doctor," I said, and the sound of my voice was a relief to the strained [tension of the moment, "I learned of jyou through Mr. Cameron���������Mr. Bob- !ert Cameron, a mutual friend." I hoped to see his expression brighten at the name, but it did not. If Come," I added, "well read It from I knew to be given over entirely to- first to last, together." And I turned hack tbe page. It was written from Cairo, and bore date of December 7,1808. "My dear Cameron,'* it began, "I am wondering whether yon are back tn New York again. However, you will probably be there for Christmas and therefore this letter will not long await you. We have been making a rather leisurely tour of tbe east. Arrived here two days ago and snail remain until some time' In January." Tbe writer'then gave a general outline of bis travels. "Yon will prob- ' ably be surprised to learn that once yon and I passed each other as ships In the night, save only tbat we did not even speak each otber tn passing," be went on. "It was my last day���������Indeed my last hour���������in northern China. Otherwise I should have made search (tor yon. Just to think! We were In! (Peking together, and neither of u������ jwas aware of It until too late. What! :a foregathering we missed I Even five* [minutes' chat would" have been some-i 'thing; but I no sooner saw you, than] *the crowd on Legation street swallowed you up. Half an hour later I jwas on tbe train for Tien-tain." j The rest of the letter was rather' loonfuslngly personal In its references ito,mutual friends and interests. It was signed: "Always with warm re- enrd, Addison." ! ; "Do you suppose that is his first name or bis last?" Evelyn asked.me as we came to It" j "I refuse to suppose," I returned, 'emlling. "It's an even chance. What ila more to the point is, how long baa Louis been your uncle's valet?" II ; "Several years." ; J'Several Js injeiUjitoa. ��������� Too lndefl- doctors' offices. This time Bvelyn assured Louis that he was not merely a "good boy" but an incomparable assistant, and the richness of the reward came ntgh to totally wrecking bis composure, for, as be started to back from the room. I detected unmistakable tears gllsten- Vlng on bis lashes. "Louie," I checked him, with sadden inspiration, "apportes-nous le dl-; rectoire telephonic, s/U vous plait" And when the book was brought the fact that Dr. Addison's address had' not been changed was promptly es-: tablished. I was for calling him up, then and there, but Evelyn pointed to) the. clock and advised patience. Xt| was already after midnight ���������Tomorrow," she said, in her wisej fashion, "you shall call on blm, and; learn, if possible, how Uncle Robert' replied to that: letter. There is a difference, you know, Philip, between be-; ing In a place and having some one see you there. No one's eyes are in- fanible." f there was any change whatever It was |ln the reverse direction."After a,sec- iondVdeliberation he asked: . "Yon wish to consult me regarding yourself?" On a sudden impulse I answered, "Yes," though I bad neither ache nor ipain, and, so far as I could judge, was perfectly normal. "I see'," he replied. "Am I right In .assuming that your trouble ls~ of .a nervous character?" Heaven knows that in spite of my fancied'normality there had been sufficient reason In the past few weeks for my' nerves to go - awry.' I confessed that I had been under considerable mental strain. Thereupon, having bade me be seated, he began to ply me with questions with a view to sympathetic revelation. I fear, however, that I gave him meager material upon which to base a conclusion. I slept well, my appetite was excellent. I^bad observed neither a numbness nor a supersensitiveness in my finger tips, nor a sensation of fulness at tbe base of the brain. I could not recall any twitching, of my muscles, nor any diminution 6r muscular power. At length, after a brief pause, be Inquired: "Will you be good enough to tell me, Hr. Clyde, why you think you require professional attention?" _' And my Inability to answer him, offhand, paradoxical as It may seem, eventually supplied me with an an- ewer at once truthful and convincing. "Because," I explained gravely, "I find tbat of late I am losing my power of mental co-ordination." The ardor with which he seised upon this index of my supposed malady was amusing. Instantly be.grew obviously and deeply interested- I have since learned tbat wbat Is known as confusions,! insanity, a rare condition, usually has its inception In this wise, "without essential emotional disturbance," if I may quote an authority. At tbe time, I believe he was auspicious of a developing paresis. What be thought, however,_pr what Ike did not, is aside from the story. I know only that his manner changed abruptly, hip object evidently being to fain my full confidence. Whereupon, Ithe bars of reserve lowered between <us, I ventured to revert to our s������called ("mutual friend-" - ^ ��������� "This Isn't anything like berl-bert, jls it, doctor?". I began. My ideas of the disease I mentioned were of the Easiest character. I knew, however, jthat it was common in the Orient* and itbttber I would lead him. ; ,^ "Ob, no, Mr. Clyde," he answered, jsuayely enough, now. "Berl-bert is merely the eastern name for multiple ineuritls. You haven't a neuritis or 'you would know it I saw a great deal jof beri-beri In China and on the Malay {peninsula." ��������� I "Do I remember to have heard Cam- ieron say be contracted it In the east?" |l asked, plunging for a connection. "I don't recall that Cameron ever ihad it," was bis response. And then }hls;brow grew thoughtful. "Are you gerly. "Tell me! I have excuse for asking. Has he ever admitted to you that he was there?" "Now I come to think of it," I returned, "he hasn't. But I had the information from some one, I am pretty sure." ' ' With an effort, the physician commanded himself. When he spoke again, he was comparatively composed. "Mr. Clyde," he said apologetically, "I am not given to discussing personal matters with my patients, but the fact that you and Cameron are friends, and,, the fact that this subject has come up, make it almost Imperative, I suppose, that I should explain briefly the feeling I have Just exhibited. Five years ago Rob Cameron and I were about as near counterparts of Damon and Pythias as ever existed. While Cameron was in Europe, I had an opportunity to go around the world with a patient. We dawdled a good deal, and, you understand howj*uncer- tain correspondence is under those circumstances. I never knew just where I should be at any given time. Consequently, a number of letters were missed by both of us. I was still thinking of Cameron as in England or on the European continent, when lo and behold, I saw him one morning, hurrying along the principal street of the inner city of Peking. I don't know whether you have ever been there or not, but if you have, you know what that thoroughfare is. It was all bustle and activity that day, and about as crowded as Broadway-at the noon hour, but with much more picturesque and contrasting currents of individuals and Vehicles. I was in a Carriage, myself, and Cameron was afoot, walking In the opposite direction. As we passed each other, he did not Beem to see me, though I called to him loudly. This, however, I did not surprise me, for there was an j ungodly: racket in progress. Instantly, I had the carriage turned about, but before I could overtake him, he was lost in the crowd. I was leaving Peking that afternoon, and so had ho chance to look him up. I wrote him afterwards and told him of the incident, and how I regretted - having to go away without exchanging at least a word with him. To my amazement he not only .denied having been in Peking, but In tbe Chinese empire at all. When we met ln London, the following spring,: and I recalled tbe matter, asking why he had refused to admit wbat I knew to. be tbe truth, be became idly, indignant; and that was the beginning of the end. If I had conceded the possibility of mistake on my part, all might have been well, I suppose; but there was no such possibility. I had known Cameron tor twenty-odd years, and I could not have made an error. I had seen him distinctly, clearly, at midday tn the open. It was he beyond all peradventure, and from that time to this I have been unable to conceive why be lied to me, and why be chose to end our, friendship rather than admit wbat was indubitable fact." His explanation finished, he reached for a pen, and, as be dipped it in the ink, be added: "I trust, you will pardon me, Mr. Clyde. I have detained you." "You have Interested me," I assured him. "And tbat more than I can tell you." Which was quite true; yet I was even more perplexed than interested^ To the maze of circumstances there was now added another baffling feature. Dr. Addison handed me the presorjp. tion he bad written. ��������� "After meals, and at bedtime," be ���������directed, with a return-to his professional manner. "If you do not find yourself much better at tbe end of a week, come in again." __ _ _ On tbe sidewalk I tore the little square of paper into bits wbich the wind carried in a tiny Hurry across Madison avenue. As for my interview with "Pythias"' [ a quick lunch restaurant, with white (Addison, we discussed It ln all its painted bulk window, beneath which', jphases, without reaching anything a pair of cellar doors spread invitingly, 'like a definite conclusion. Taking ev- one of them resting against a conven-, erythlng into consideration the evi- tional American milk can. On 'the; jdence certainly seemed convincing theater's right was a laundry, dim and1 tbat Cameron, ln spite of-hjs denials,/ evil-looking, two pipe-smoking celes-j bad been ln China in 1903. * And "yet tials decorating its low step. And be-1 we could not reconcile this with that almost fanatical love of truth which We knew to be hlB. ^"Couldn't' Dr. Addison have been mistaken?" Evelyn asked. / "It Is possible, of course," I answered. "Yet Cameron's face and figure are not of a common type. Besides, I don't believe in doubles. I have heard of so-called wonderful likenesses, but I have never seen any that, would deceive a friend of twenty jyea������' standing." A little later she inquired whether ithe detective engaged- to shadow Phfo ietus Murphy bad furnished a report, ;"Yes," I told her, "It came in my morning's mall. Murphy Is still at Cos Cob; He didn't leave his bunga<i (low all day yesterday, and he- had) *io callers." , 'I'm crazy to know what you learn tonight from Yup Sing," she went on, jsagerly. ������"Oh, how I do hope it will give us Some hint! It seems terrible to think of Uncle Robert in the hands pf those unconscionable Chinamen. And, Philip, don't you think you had better take some one with you? 1 {Suppose Mr. Ynp is to be trusted, but 1st the same time, yon must remember jyou are going into the enemy's camp, end you should be careful." ; But I laughed at the notion of taking a body-guard CHAPTER XIV. The Park of Qoyore *treet At one o'clock that day, Evelyn Grayson joined me at luncheon at Sherry's. She bad been In no mood to wait any longer than was absolutely' ���������necessary tor tidings of my visit to Dr. Addison; and, moreover, she had news of her own which she was anxious to convey to me. J have often wondered why it is that the rtold-you-so paislon is inherent in all women. There are those who manage to control it with admirable success under average circumstances, but soooner or later, even the most courageous battlers against this {maternal heritage succumb, and in- idulge in a sort of disguised orgy of .reproach. ���������sure he told you that he had; and that) \ \ Evelyn might have told me, for in- ibe was attacked while in���������in AsU?* i btance,' that Captain MacLeod, after I noted his hesitation over fixing thai 'place, and Wondered. At all events I had arrested his Interest Purposely; I adopted a tone of 'uncertainty. "N-n-no.. I can't say definitely. But [I had an impression that���������" And there I paused. When. I continued it was with the direct question: "Do you happen to know, doctor, whether Cameron was ever in Peking? It seems to me it was���������" ., "I do know that he was in Peking," be interrupted,- almost savagely. "He was in Peking, in September, 1908. To be exact, he was there on the four-; teenth day of that month. I have reason to know it���������a particular reason1 > to know It." ;. ;- ��������� After all, bow easily the Information' I craved had come to me! And yet I would have been glad to hear the contrary; for Cameron had assured me, in all solemnity, that he had never CHAPTER XIII. When Damon Doubted Pythias. Not until I had been passed into an elevator by a dainty young woman in the white habit of a trained nurse; shot up four floors into the hands of another who might have been' the' first's twin sister, and ushered by her, :in turn, into a severely professional- appearing waiting room, did it .occur', to me that'I was upon an.errand involving th������ employment of an ex-. traordinary degree of tact. So im������ bued.had I been with the importance j: m CnJ and ,t jarrefl of learning whether Cameron^bad.or;^,,^ of tt man>B chara^ter ������ had not been in Peking in 1903, thatM aiBCOver that hc had trled t0 dece,T��������� up to this moment I had quite lost 'me. I could only conclude that his 1 icareful investigation, bad been unable ito discover either hair or hide of Per iter Johnson in Gloucester or else-1 [Where, and stopped there. ; That is :what a man would have done. But altogether admirable though she was, the eternal feminine was strong- with- lin her. Therefore it was incumbent ���������upon her to add: v ' "It doesn't surprise me, Philip. When you told me how you picked that man up, I was confident that he was floating out there In your path 'just for that very purpose." ^ ��������� I had no inclination to dispute the Ipoint with her. That was the most painful part of it.' I knew that she was right���������that in putting Peter Johnson ashore, instead of in irons, I had committed an error that might prove irremediable. But why couldn't she {see that I realized it, and was smarting under my own condemnation, and so have spared me this added torture pf hers?\ Why?-' Because she was her mother's daughter. That Is the only answer. "I'm to meet him at nine o'clock," I told her, "In a public restaurant Be? sides, there'll be'a crowd of those 'Seeing New York' people down there about that time, and Chinatown will be on its best behavior. So never fear, little girl. Do you want me to telephone you when I get uptown? You know I'm going to stop tonight at my rooms in the Loyalton." "Of course I want you to telephone me," she returned, emphatically. "It shouldn't take you very long to hear what Mr. Yup has to tell, should it? jl shall be expecting you to call me up :between "ten and half-past, or by elev- 'en at the latest; so don't dare to go ifor supper first" V > "As if I could think of supper," I .said, looking at her ln a way I bad, "when I might be hearing your voice!" Could I have foreseen what the night was to bring forth' I' certainly ���������should have discouraged her waiting ���������for my message. BuTthe power of pre- Ivlslon is given to few of us, and of ithose few I am not one. Assuredly I had no misgivings as, after dining at the University club that evening, I stepped into an electric hansom and gave tbe driver the address of tbe Doyers street restaurant Whatever It may have-been in the past, I believed the Chinatown of the present to be, outwardly at least, a reasonably law-abiding section of the borough of Manhattan. And was not l that night -the guest of one of its most honored citisens? What, therefore, had I to fear? ; On the contrary, as we turned from Itha Bowery Into-that little semiclrcu- Har thoroughfare which Is perhaps tbe most characteristic-of Chinatown's three principal streets, I. was pleas* ���������antly interested. This was quite a different place from that which I had visited the afternoon before. Then, a fort of brooding quiet reigned over what was so ordinary as to be scarcely distinctive; for that part of Mott ���������treat on which the Yup Sing establishment Is located, I nave since learned. Is merely one of the gates of tbe real Chinatown, of which Doyers street is the heart and center���������and (which awakens only after nightfall. Now tbe place was alive and alight Narrow roadway and still .narrower istdewalks were thronged with a corn* hinstlon of denizens and sightseers. Shop fronts and upper windows glowed with varying degrees of brightness. From the Chinese theater on the left came a bedlam of inharmonious Sounds: the brazen crash of cymbals, Ithe squeaking of raucous stringed Instruments, the resounding clangor of a gong- Voices high-pitched and voices guttural, mingled:,with hoarse and ptrident laughter, echoed from wall to [wall of tbe street's encroaching squalid buildings. ; Before the least unpretentious of all these structures, my hansom stopped, land as I stepped to the curb I got a {glimpse of Its banner and lantern! (strung balcony, giving to the street; ������ touch of color that helped to lift it| (Into an atmosphere which, if not lOrlental, was at least vividly un-Amer- ! Finding now that I had anticipated y appointment by something like ten; tubes t chose to watch further the kaleidoscopic scene without, rather than pass the time waiting at a table thin; and to this end took np a poidW ion of vantage t on the / restaurant'si step; .". ������������������ '; ''���������.. V . Whether I am more or less keenly {observant than the average man I doj mot know. Probably any one as faa-i idnated by the general scene as was L; would have noted as closely its indl4 viduaV elements^ lam not sure. But' ithe; truth is that in a very few mo-, xnents I had acquired a mental photo-* graph of the opposite side of th������| street, in so far as it came within myi direct vision. In otber words every; detail of the background of the mov-j ing picture before me was indelibly, printed upon my mind's retina. There] was the playhouse, with its plain, rectangular doorway, unadorned,' save by' a quartette of rude signs; two above,, slanting outward, and one on either! -side, all announcing "Chinese Thea-! ter," and one giving the current atr! traction in Chinese, characters, withi the added notice, "Seats reserved fori Americans." To the left of this was' yond this was the wide opening to a; basement, above which, in white! Roman lettering on a black ground, p I read the legend: "Hip Sing Tong." , ��������� Again and again my gaze persisted) in returning to this sign and tbe dim-'. ly lighted cavern beneath it. The place held for me the inexpressible,, unfathomable charm of the .mysterious, beside which the heathenishi racket of the theater across the way, the sinister aspect of the dismal laun-, dry and its pair of pipe-smoking guar-i dlans, even the constantly changing1 procession of varied types in roadway and on sidewalks, exerted but meager, allure; ;:/:-'''-/-. ��������� " -v'";. From time to time dark, silent flg-i ures glided vaguely into view only tqj disappear within this maw of mystery.! Once, while I watched, I had seen a figure issue forth to be lost again in-' itantly in the distant gloom of the] curving street Now, reverting once] more 40 this magnet, after a moment's] truancy, my eyes 'were rewarded by sight of another slowly emergini form, silhouetted nebulously agains the dusk.- At the head of tbe steps it paused) tmcertalnly, and then, instead of gild; ling swiftly away in the direction oi IPell street as did the other, it turn in my direction, passing almost ai once into the comparatively glowln radius of the Btreetlamp opposite.. (Cwntinu! Next / ' - ���������' - Week.) TAKE NOTICE that thirty days afte the first appearance of this' notlc The Grand Trunk B. C. Coal Company Limited, intends to apply under Sectio Eighteen of the Companies' Act t| change ��������� the; present name of the: Cor pany to "The Seaton Coal Companj Limited." ' , ; Dated at Vancouver this Eleventh ,daa of December, A.D. 1913. THE GRAND TRUNK B. C. CO^ COMPANY. LIMITED. ! srononi -/;-; A;;.:-.c; NOTICE is hereby given that ah appll 1 cation will be made to the LeglslativJ Assembly of the Province of- BrltisK Columbia, at its next Session for ������t\ Act amending the Chartered, Account] ants Act, 1906, by providing: (a) No person shall be entitled to takl or use the designation "Chartered Ac| countant," or the initials "P.C.A., "A.< A.." "C.A.A.," or "Ca.," either alorl or in combination with any other word! or any name, title or description impli ing that he is a Chartered Accountaif or any name, title, initials or descriJ tion implying that he is a .Certified A| countant or an Incorporated Acco.untan unless he is a member- of the Instltul in good standing and registered as sue] (b^A"penaUy for' the contraventlJ of the above and the manner in'whlj such penalty shall be dealt with. (c) That the Institute shall1 keep Register of Members and providing < copy of such Register shall be evident ln all Courts. (d) That Section 6 of the said Act amended by striking out all the worl therein after the word "expedient" the 13th line thereof and by sub3titutlij tlie following: "(a) Every member of the Institul shall have the right to use the deslf nation 'Chartered .Accountant' or initials 'CA/ and may use after name, if the Institute shall hai granted him a Certificate of Felloi ship, the Initials 'F.C.A.' signify!! 'Fellow of the Chartered Accountant] and If the Institute shall have grant] hlrti a Certificate of Membership t| initials 'A.C.A.' signifying 'AssocU of the Chartered Accountants."' Dated at Vanvouver, 'B.C., this 21| day of November, 1913. ��������� COWAN. RITCHIE & GRANT. | Solicitors for the Applicant X.AJTX) ACT- Taneouvtr land pistriot-���������XHstrlot Coast 9>������nge 8. TAKE NOTICE that Antonio Belail ger, of Brettauy Creek, occupatiol Miner, intends to apply for permissio| to purchase the following describe lands:��������� Commencing at a post planted at tt northwest corner of Lot 922; ^thena west 40 chains; thence north 40 chainl thence east 40 chains; thence south chains, for grazing. ANTONIO BELANGEl Dated December 17th, 1913. .1^23-14 to 3-20-14.J T.AKV ACT. Vaaoouver %ua ntstriofc���������nutrlet Coast Haage 8. TAKE NOTICE that Frank Rial Ar ers, of Brittany Creek, - occupatl| Rancher, intends to apply for pern sion to purchase the following descriU lands:��������� ������' \ ' 0 Commencing at a post planted at southwest corner of Lot 923; thel west 20 chains; thence north 20 chail thence east 20 chains; thence southI chains, and containing 40 acres m\ or less, to be used as a pasture. - FRANK RIAL ANGEj Dated 17th of December, 1913. i-23-14 to 3-20? 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Largest Stock of Confectionery Fruit & Tobacco on Hill; PHONE Fairmont 638 Free delivery to any part of the city. , W4.4..f .M.������.1..|..!..|.ft 1iili.li in.*.,...* e������|i4������l"l"l'il"i"I"i"i"l"*"l"l"l"l"l"l'������'l'1"t'������'>- PREPARE DOCK TARIFFS ��������� MORE ROLLING STOCK Great Northern Railway Will Start Thousands of New Cars of All Classes Operating Wharf at Early Date Added to Grand Trunk During 1913 Tariffs covering the freight charges at the new dock on Burrard* Inlet have been prepared by local officials of the Great Northern Railway, the lists now being in the hands of ..the printer. Tracks for handling the cargoes at the wharf have been installed and the' sheds and other facilities are now practically ready for service. Half of the dock is being operated on lease by the, Balfour, Guthrie Company, but no definite announcement regarding trie company's intentions with regard to the shipping tbat will use* the other portion <has yet been made. President Carl Grey and other executive officials have from time to time intimated that negotiations for the use of the Great Northern Railway's dock system have been proceeding and have entered denials to reports that the railway company intended to enter in competition with' steamship lines now operating lines out of this port. It is understood that the dock will be used by a number of steamship companies which at present do not make Vancouver a port of call. The fact that the dockWs one of the most expensive and substantial of its kind on the Pacific coast is accepted as an indication that the Great Northern railway is anticipating a big shipping business coincident with the growth and development of the province. ��������� ��������� ��������� P. G. E. PROGRESS According to a statement recently issued by-the Grand Trunk Pacific railway 10,000 box cars, 1227 passenger sleeping, dining and other cars, and 156 locomotives of different types were adHed to the rolling stock of the G. T. P. and its parent company, the Grand Trunk railway system during the year 1913. The equipment delivered during the past year included 41 superheater Pacific.type of engines; 100 c ..her large locomotives and fifteen switching engines; 10 dining cars, 15 sleeping cars, 11 parlor cars, 67, first-class coaches. 64 mail, baggage and express cars, 500 flat cars, 500 stock cars and a large number of combination cars. The box cars make the largest addition numerically to the rolling stock of the Grand Trnnk, a notable tendency being shown towards car's with a ��������� capacity of 80,000 pounds. While' the passenger cars are considerably less in number a much larger expenditure is involved in their construction. It is mentioned in this connection that the prices range from $10,000 for a first-class car' to ,$25,- 000, for a sleeper equipped for service. ��������� ��������� ��������� , V C. N. R. PROGRESS WILL BE BEST DOCK ON NORTH PACIFIC COAST The contractors Great for the Pacific Eastern railway ,-have completed 168.5 miles of main line track between Newport and Clinton. From Newport to . the . Cheakamus, 13.5 miles of track have been laid. ������ ��������� ��������� PUSHING STEEL WEST In the attempt to complete the Grand Trunk Pacific by.May 10, according to official.1 announcements the contractors who have' laid the .rails into Prince George are now pushing the steel west. The line is being shoved ahead' on the western section as well. The weather is favorable to the making of rapid progress. The new C. P. R. dock at present under construction will be the most up-to-date on the Northern Pacific coast- At the present time work on the same is progressing1 quite favorably and it is expected th^t it will be ready for occupation some time early in the fall ' ��������� e This dock will be used exclusively for the C' P. R. coastwise passenger steamers on runs to Victoria, Seattle, and Nanaimo., A feature of the new dock sheds is the introduction of all steel girders and spans^over the portion that will be two stories in height. ���������The second storey will be devptccL^p offices for the company's 'officials, also the general waiting room, as well as the new home 'of the Canadian customs officials. ������ Floating pontoon approaches be used entirely. These will do'away with the necessity of the traveling public having to reach the steamers by the dock level at all, as they cross over the viaduct from the new depot they will instead approach by this means. ,Patent slips will also be used and nothing is being left undone in the plans to provide for the' most modern equipment. IN SIX HUNDRED FEET The Canadian Northern Pacific construction work on the North Thompson is well advanced. Steel is now laid to Mile-130 north of Kamloops. The weather |s very good and small slides which prevented as much speed being made as*in'the summer are now a thing of1 the past. ' *- * STEEL NEARLY COMPLETED The steel work on the new C. P. R. station is nearly completed. Practi^1 cally the entire west end of ,the building is now in place. The eastern end and the center was completed' some time- ago. Most of the brick and stonework was done on that part of the station before the New Year. . Over India's 35,000 miles of railway, 350,000,000 passengers traveled last year. Twelve million', telegrams were sent ovea the 72,000 miles of wire and 58,000 miles^'of Irrigating canals took water.' to .48,000,000^ acres of otherwise waste land. - The pioneer tunnel, which is being bored at Rogers' pass, preparatory to drilling the main* shaft, is now 600 feet in from the eastern end. Much of the approach work on the western end of the main tunnel is completed. The pioneer tunnel will be used for ventilation and other purposes by the C. P. R., for whom the whole.scheme is being worked out.' It will first be used to give the contractors access to the main tunnel at several points. The London Times recently stated that leading British engineers recognise the Pacific Coast as the best new field for their enterprise and calculated that ������350,000,000"' is being expended in railway lines to the coast, terminal and harbor facilities, the greater part of which will be expended on the coist "of British Columbia. < A BKf COLONY LOCATED NEAR Tampa. Ten acres o{ the best land in tbe world for $160. . Go-operative homestead. Lovely home in the sun-' ny south at ��������� fraction of the usual cost. A fortune for you. C. W. T. PIPES, , 'J " 223 Winch Bldg: <r *��������� Pi '-', ���������^ >. ���������B Alert Atolt Bible Clest of Moun tain View Metbodtst Ororcfc meets ������t tJIO every Bunday. Visitors will be made welcome. ��������� 8. Johnston, president STANLEY'S Stanley's Walk Paper Store has been improved and enlarged. They have some of the best Canadian, English and American ���������Wall Papers that are shown in Vancouver. Come in and see, or Phone Fairmont 998 for estimates and suggestions. / sum sat Mount Plessant Painters- 2317 Main Street PmonoFalr.eee M< ��������� i- < I V ��������� 1 "1 V ' f nupqji- ufALk ENGRAVING- ETCHINGS AND HAUTONB ARE NOW BEING MADE IN WESTERN CANADA BY THE MOST SATISFACTORY PRO- CESS KNOWN TO TOE WORLD THE "ACID BLAST" HIOCESf MAKES VOW ILLUSTRATIONS LITERALLY TALK ' MANUFACTURED m WUTtftN CMMS* " ttv mm C\ tt AMD Dlti&U f McOm t \ t.t % >*i ^ OMI U I. ; -j , Ejei|ri|fli|ifN������+������ee^f0#<i������|M|M "l������ ���������>>������������ ������������l ������������> ������������t' ������������!��������� *��������� ������!���������������������l> ��������������� ���������!��������� ������i' ������������������������ ������!��������� >���������������������������!��������� >inii ������������������������<������������������������ e������ ���������> | 111 11 illlllHIMin |4 H % '��������������� 13500 Horse Power Turbine 13500 Horsfr Power Turbine The Spirit of the Time Demands -1 V. Stave Lake'Power is'Dependable and Economical - By harnessing the Great, Stave River we have made it possible togenerate 100,000 horse powerof electrical energy at our Stave Falls Plant, the Biggest Electrical Feat in Western Canada. ; --������������������'.��������� 100,000 HORSE POWER Or hairas'much again as the combined connected load in stearrf and electricity in Vancouver today^ afact of great significance to local industries Offices: 603-610 Carter-Cotton Bldg. Phone: Seymour4770 R. F. HAYWARD, General Manager WESTERN CANADA POWER TO., Ltd. _..... JOHN MONTGOMERY, Contract Agent P.O. Drawer 1415 Vancouver, B.C UlrtlMllliniHlllllliMIII M-4 1 1 M .t"I"H"M"l"M Ml 1II+������������������������������������ Ml M 1 M I M������*������������������ MM MMe-M l-i i i i-H ******* I 1 11*1 I I** M������M.|"H������- ���������������-I'M .;���������*+.!��������� i^s+**+*t ���������������H������4HII l������������l I IHHMU|������ ^i^fEi^-EM -\o THE WESTERN CALL. Wilson's Drug Store Friday, February 27,1914 4 Main and Sixteenth Phone Fairmont 505 I TRANS-ATLANTIC NEWS IS FINED $6S,G0O FOR ��������� VOTING IN PARLIAMENT :: Read below a partial list. These pricey are not for Friday and Saturday, but are good seven days a week and delivered to your door. Send us your Prescription Work and save money. These are cash 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 Pood, regular $3.75, $1.00, 50c J3.50, 85c, 45c Nestle's Food, regular 50c for. .". -45c Benger's Food, regular $1.00, 50c for 90c, 45c Reindeer Brand Milk, regular 20c .15c Minard's Liniment* regular 25c t .\ 20c Elliman's Embrocation, regular 35c 25c Scott's Emulsion, regular $1.00, 50c _ 75c, 40c 75c 75c 15c 15c , '��������� 76c 50c 25c 26c 3 DC $1.00 ;..................76c ,���������....j.....................���������'..OvC , :.65c I........................ vOC 35c Peruna, regular $1.00 Burdock Blood Bitters, regular $1.00 Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, $1.00.................. Mennen'a Talcum, regular 35c ��������� .Carter's Pills, regular 25c ,Herppicide, regular $1.00 ' Formamint Tablets, regular 75c Castoria, regular 35c .._ Cuticura Soap, regular 35c..... .... Hospital Absorbent Cotton, regular 50. Lavonna de Composa Hair Tonic, regular $1.25. Ferrol Emulsion, regular $1.00 Ayer's Sarsaparilla, regular $1.00 ��������� Eno's Salts, regular $1.00 .....'. Gin Pills, regular 50c ..��������� /...........;..... Dodd's Pills, regular 50c :: f. A. Wilson, Prop. ���������. formerly at Main and Broadway < i^4M|������fri|Mt������iMfr������fcft^i4i4������i;flii|ifliifrifrifr4MfritM|ii|> ������SM>"t"i"S"i"i"t"t'fi" Kamloeps-Vaneauver Meat Co., Ltd. Oar. Main and Powell Sta. 1849 Main Street Phone Seymour 6561 Phone Fair. 1814 t * For Choice Meats of large variety and reasonable prices, this house cannot be excelled. It stands to the very front. N ������.'M|l"l"l"l"I"H"l"l"H'4"l"l"l"l"l"l"l"H"i'* *+M-,.*.W~}"M">**.���������, ���������>.���������>- -"!" W T. S. Baxter ; Peter Wright ��������� ��������� f. ��������� ��������� Complete House Furnishers Agents for. Ostermoor smt Restmore n������ttre������ses Pavenport Bed : ������ave you triad our E^sy Payment? Ckime lo and lollt It over wltt������ us. 3AXTRR & WRIQHT (Successors to Hutchings Furniture Co.) ��������� Phone Seymour 771 416 lyUMn Street ^n|..jw>.i..t~;^iwiwi.ii..|Mi������������..-..;w>.}��������� A..*. .l������i���������������-4-.k.������^-*M|..fe.t..4 ������,|, .|.,;������ i|i 1^ ,;��������� ,|nii ,|i ���������������. .j������ ������i< ������i������ i|i ijt.1 ������}i it< ^������ ������$������������!������������}���������������!������ ������|������ ������t������������|������������;������������{������������{������������{��������� ������i������ ���������}������ ������{��������� >jnti������ii i}i������t������ .1' .|i ������j. >j������ ������y. i|i it"!* '|"I* 't' '1' *1' 'I* 'I* 5 NAP J f 50x100, corner 29th Ave. and St. Catharines Street, modem ,. * 7-room house. ' YOUR OWN PRICE FOR CASH APPLY WESTERN CALl ���������J. I^MJMJWJW^MJ^M.^.*! ������{��������� if. I^MJM{������4>������i^^������^^WJM|l^^wj^^M}^^HSw{t^w{w{.^^M{,^w}M{t^^������^W.}^w}^^^^H Col. Samuel's Firm Had Contract With Government Causing Breach of Act. ' London, Feb.���������Col. Stuart Montague Samuel, radical member of Parliament for Whitechapel, was ordered today by Justice Sir * Sydney Roylatt, of the King's bench division to pay penalties and costs amounting to $65,000 because he voted in the House of Commons while his firm had a contract with the British government. The money will be paid to Dr. William Bird as informer. Notice of appeal was given. RHODESIA The British South Africa" Company has issued a statement of its proposals for the encouragement of land settlement and immigration in Rhodesia. The area of territory jis approximately 95,000,000 acres; of this 25,000,000 acres is absorbed by. native reserves, leaving 70,000,000 acres to be considered. Assuming that only jand 3,500 feet above sea level is adapted to European occupation, there is in the hands of the company, aside, from native reserves and privately owned land, about' 23,000,000 acres suitable for occupation. The company proposes to sell first farms of manageable dimensions, especially within twenty-five miles of railroads. The Board of the company would, if necessary, itself buy this land and resell to settlers on easy terms as to time, and wouJ4 endeavor to secure expert service r'from the agricultural department* in the way of advice, construction, etc' The company seems eager to do everything possible to attract the right sort of citizens; and South Africa is developing as rapidly as did our own Western country fifty years ago. Grip and Password | Resolution Passed at Meeting of Orange Grand Lodge at Nelson t~i-v-i������v������4"i������t-> ���������! I"l' l"������'i|"l '1"1 l"| <i '|"������ r i"t ���������!������������������?'VI1 r l"l"l ������ South Shore Lumber Go. \i ��������� t * '������ * * 4. LIMITED Lumber Man ufactu rers 1 Front St., Foot of Ontario St. ��������� ���������-'..- '.-���������'��������� PHONE Fairmont 154 VANCOUVER, B.C. ���������fr.t il"3-I"l"W' f..l..|.I..l'.I..;.������-V4~>4-<������������?"V?-<--������- *-+**<~5������^-5~?~!������+<" PrinfIflO* Terminal City Press, Ltd. II Hi LI 11^ 2408 Westminster Rd. Phone Fairmont 1149 Nelson, Feb.���������TotaL <, exclusion of Orientals from Canada was urged in a resolution^ passed by the Grand Orange Lodge of British 1 Columbia, which brought its annual convention to a conclusion yesterday. Another resolution asks the Dominion and Provincial Governments to employ British subjects only \ on all public works, and to insert a clause in all contracts let by either government to the effect that British subjects shall be given the preference. The Grand Lodge also passed resolutions condemning the extension of French as an official language, and the Home Rule Bill. The report of the finance committee making allocations for the work of the year, was passed and a number, of amendments to the constitution and laws were passed. Mr. J. W. Whiteley was unanimously reelected provincial organizer. The election of oficers , resulted as follows: Grand Master, J. H. Armstrong, Revelstoke; deputy, grand master,- W. G. Gamble, Mtasqui; junior deputy grand master', H. Birmingham, Vancouver; grand chaplain, Rev. C. W. Corey, Nelson; grand secretary, William H. B.rett, Collingwood^ East; grand treasurer, W. T. Jago, Coquitlam; grand lecturer, R. N. Hopkins, Vancouver; grand director of ceremonies, D. M. Tattrie, Sandon; auditors; Geo. Schofteld, Vancouver, and H. T. Thrift, White Rock;, deputy grand secretary, L. G. Ray'nor, Port Hammond; deputy grand lecturer to the Grand Lodge of British America, J. C. Scott, Victoria; deputy grand chaplains, Rev. C. W. Whittaker, Ladner, Rev. T. A. Osbqurne, Princeton, Rev. R. J. Mclntyre, Nelson, Adjt. G. H. Dowcll, Victoria, Rev. William Govier, Port Hammond. -' Chilliwack was chosen for Jthe next Grand .Lodge meeting. A MONSTER INITIATION A monster initiation" will* be held in Ebenezer Lodge on March ; .23rd, when the, officers' chairs will be filled by all the Past Masters/^bf the Lodge and when/the Lodge expects to,iriiti- ate 150 new;members. / The lodge-shows continued ftrqsT perity in all its branches, and despite, the fact that this year it lost the title of the Banner lodge of the province, next year it is the intention of all the members of the lodge to see that we again hold that proud titled Among the visiting Brethren were Bro. Birmingham, County Master; Bro. Faull, from Australia, on whom at the' request of the Supreme Grand Master, Col. J: H. Scott, the lodge confe^ed the Purple and Blue degrees, and Bro. Kentish-Rankin, who gave the lodge a very interesting address on the Home Rule question and who brought with him a book on the question which could be obtained for 25 cents. ������������������..'"'..'��������� If we do riot already supply your i, r%y ������������������*��������������������������� * ���������*��������������������������� l> f ��������� f requirements for / etc. You should send for our samples and prices. It will pay you to buy your supplies from us i WE ALSO CARRY J)rug Papers Fruit Papers Toilet Papers % .Paper Pie Plates Wooden Pie Plates IceCream Pails - Oyster Pails ���������7 Prompt delivery to any part of the city* \ :: i: :; :: :: i :: & Wright ? Corner Homer and Davie Streets Telephone Seymour 9565 Vancouver, RC. ���������^^^l^^^^^^^^H^^^H^H'^X'^:^^^ m
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Title | The Western Call |
Publisher | Vancouver, B.C. : Terminal City Press |
Date Issued | 1914-02-27 |
Description | Published in the Interests of Greater Vancouver and the Western People. |
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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. |
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Date Available | 2012-09-14 |
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DOI | 10.14288/1.0188347 |
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