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No. 5\nTenth Year\nTHE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912\nTenth Year\nOne Dollar Per Annum\nREDISTRIBUTION\u2014The World returns to the attack, with reference to\nthe subject of Redistribution, and\nfter quoting The Week editorial in full,\nroceeds to recapitulate its original argu-\nlent that representation should be propor-\nonate to population. Its argument is not\nite logical, as a careful perusal will show,\nie first point it seeks to make is that \"the\nlst Redistribution Bill which was passed\nEngland nearly thirty years ago, made\nstrong effort to give the borough repre-\nntation proportionate to their population.\"\nit however strong the effort, the ultimate\npresentation was not worked out on that\nsis. As a matter of fact, the Government\nt as near to this as was practicable, but\nund, as governments are always finding,\nat the principle is not worKable, and that\nere are other considerations and condi-\nins which demand a variant. It is no\nswer to the contention of The Week\nargue that there are inequalities in the\nesent method of representation, and the\nrorld is fair enough to say that they do not\nsert that \"the cities came up quite as well\nthe rural districts.\" What it does say,\nowever, and is entitled to say is that there\nprecedent for giving cities of a hundred\nlousand a representation equal to only one-\nird that enjoyed by other constituencies,\nut the World overlooks the fact that no-\nhere else do such conditions as pertain in\nritish Columbia exist today. Nowhere\nse in the British Empire is there such\nlienomenal development. Nowhere else\nas a city sprung from 25,000 to 100,000 in\ndecade. It is a very different proposition\nold settled countries like England, where\nie growth is slow and conditions steady,\nd figure out the subject of representation\nrom what it is in new, undeveloped, and\napidly expanding countries. It seems to\nhe Week that the strongest argument\ngainst giving larger representation, that is,\no much larger as would be necessitated by\nhe proposals of the World, to the cities, is\nhat the small constituencies would be\niwamped, and the control of the legislation\nind government of the whole Province\njlaced in the hands of a half a dozen cities.\ni requires no argument to show how un-\nairly this would operate. It is a simple\nnatter of record, which can be verified\nlaily by reference to the newspaper\n.olumns, that every city organizes, works,\nobbies, and pulls for its own interests.\nThis is the spirit of enterprise and emula-\n:ion, entirely commendable when applied to\nocal affairs, but highly detrimental to any\ngeneral scheme for the development of a\nivhole province if by superior voting power\nthe cities were able to ensure the carrying\n3tit of their own programme without consulting the larger interests involved. There\nis another argument against materially increasing the representation of the cities,\nassuming always, as the World concedes\nthat a total representation of forty-two is\nadequate, and that is, that since Redistribution can only take place at long intervals,\nnew districts which are settling up rapidly,\nwould, within a year or two, be left without\nanything approaching fair representation\nConditions in British Columbia are such\nthat there is every probability that within\nthe next decade there will be a dozen, or\nperhaps more districts in the northern parts\nof the Province with a population aggregating 50,000 each. Indeed, the anticipations\nof the Premier, who should be in as good\na position to judge as anyone else, runs\nbeyond this. Obviously new districts, just\ncarved out of the primeval forest require\nvery much more consideration than settled\ncommunities, and the question of linking\nthem up with transportation systems, to say\nnothing of the necessary expenditures for\npublic works of every kind, calls for the\nassiduous attention of a parliamentary representative. No doubt the Premier has\nthis in mind when he decides to go slowly\non such an important subject, and not to\ndo anything which would simply have the\neffect of placing in the hand^ of the concentrated population the interests of scattered\ncommunities, which will soon themselves become important centres. The World\ntouches on one knotty point which it would\nbe unfair to ignore, and that is the disproportion between the representation bf Victoria - and Vancouver, having regard to\npopulation. But the disproportion is not\nas great as the World suggests, if provision\nbe made to deal with one or two of the\nlarge near-by constituencies on the mainland. But if the World is as well posted\nas it ought to be it would know that the\nimmediate prospects of development on\nVancouver Island are far in advance of\nanything that may be expected on the mainland. Indeed, men of no mean status have\ngone so far as to predict that during the\nnext decade the population of Victoria will\noverlap that of Vancouver. This anticipation is based upon three main features:\nFirst, the impending construction of a large\nmileage of railway on Vancouver Island and\nthe mainland which will ultimately make\nVictoria the terminus of possibly five\ntranscontinental lines. Second, the opening\nof the Panama canal, which will revolutionize the Pacific Coast seaboard trade,\nancl inevitably make Victoria the principal\nport, in consequence of its natural and\nphysical advantages. The third reason was\nbriefly touched upon by the Premier in\nhis address to the Press Gallery when he\nstated that he had knowledge of the impending establishment of several very important industries on Vancouver Island.\nWhile he did not particularize, it may safely\nbe conjectured from collateral evidence that\nhe referred at least to enormous fisheries\nand canneries for which British capital has\nbeen secured, a large and speedy development in lumbering, and its secondary industries, and an iron and steel industry. These\nconjectures are based on reliable data, and\nfurnish the strongest possible reason why\nit would be unwise at the present juncture\nto reduce the present representation of the\nCapital City. In admitting the fair manner\nin which the argument has been conducted\nby the World, The Week once more deprecates the suggestion that any statements\nit has made on the subject of Redistribution are inspired. It does so because the\nWorld repeatedly insists that its utterances\nare official, which is not the case. The\nWeek may be as far out in its own conjectures as the World, but does not think so.\nexplanation as to why the B. C. E. R. has\nfailed to live up to its opportunity, one may\nrefer to the annual ihee.ting of the Company recently held in London, when Mr.\nR. M. Home-Payne, the Chairman, obviously felt called upon to enter Tnto a defence\nof his Company. His attitude toward the\ncomplaints was entirely satisfactory. He\nadmitted that there was room for improvement and he recognized the right of the\npublic to complain, but he claimed that his\nCompany had discharged its obligations to\nthe public for the past fifteen years \"in a\nmore liberal spirit than any other company\non the North American Continent.\" That\nthey had spent $25,000,000 on the task,\nbut that there had been difficulties, especially in Victoria and Vancouver, not due\nto any lack of foresight on the part of the\nCompany, but to the unprecedented rapidity with which those cities had grown.\nFor instance, in Vancouver, the gross earnings had nearly doubled in the two years\nending 1911, having jumped from \u00a3478,000\nto \u00a3900,000 in 1911, which made it utterly\nimpossible for the management to keep pace\nwith the work. In the next place, it could\nneither purchase nor secure delivery of sufficient rolling stock. Noting that the increase in business still continued on these\ngeneral lines, the Chairman assured the\nmeeting that \"they were now better organized to meet the strain.\" This may be\ntaken as an earnest that they are alive to\ntheir responsibilities and will do their best\nto remedy the defects complained of. At\nthe conclusion of his very interesting remarks the Chairman said that London was\nat present inundated with wide proposals\nfrom Canada, especially in connection with\nland and town property. \"Be careful,\" he\nsaid, \"but remain certain that Canada offers\nthe best opportunities for investment in the\nwhole world.\" This statement, coming\nfrom the Chairman of such an influential\ncompany, is of the most reassuring character, especially as it was the prelude to the\nannouncement of a dividend of six per cent\non the preferred ordinary stock, and eight\nper cent on the deferred.\nTHE B. C. E. R.\u2014No paper which\nprofesses to voice public opinion\nindependently can ignore the very\nwidespread complaints recently made about\nthe service of the B. C. E. R. in and around\nVictoria. It would serve no good purpose to\njoin in the common' hue and cry; no one\nis in a position to deny that the service is\ninadequate in every sense; that there is a\nscarcity of rolling stock; that much of that\nin use is obsolete; that for lack of double\ntracking there are numerous vexatious delays, and that populous sections of the city\nand environs are without a service, although\nthey have every right to demand one. There\nmust be some answer to this severe criticism, because the B. C. E. R. is an English company, officered by men of high position, some at any rate of whom are familiar\nwith conditions in B. C. Moreover, they\nare anxious to make profits and to pay\ndividends, and they must be aware that the\npresent system in Victoria handicaps them\nto the extreme, both in profit-making and\nin dividend-paying. When every allowance\nhas been made for the inconvenience inflicted on the company by the dereliction of\nthe City authorities, it still remains that the\npublic have a genuine grievance. For some\nTHE S. P. C. A.\u2014The British Columbia Society for the Prevention of\nCruelty to Animals is an excellent\ninstitution, and is well managed. It has an\ninfluential committee and an indefatigable\nsecretary and inspector. Thanks to their\nvigilance, persons who habitually ill-treat\nanimals are few and far between in Vic\ntoria, and the promptness with which any\ncase brought to their notice is investigated\nand dealt with acts as a terror to evil-doers\nand inspires the public with confidence. It\nwould be a happy thing if every city in\nthe Dominion were as free from offences\ninvolving cruelty to animals as Victoria.\nThe annual report for 1911 is just to hand,\nand should be widely read. It contains a\nvaluable chapter on educating the young\nto be kind to dumb creatures; another to\nthe public containing suggestions as to one's\nduty if cruelty is witnessed. These chap- .\nters are specially commended to our readers,\nbecause the work of the S. P. C. A. is essentially one which depends on public sympathy and a strong public opinion for its\nproper carrying out. The financial report\nis entirely satisfactory, showing that the\nbusiness of the Society has been conducted\neconomically, and it is doubtful if with so\nmodest an expenditure as $1,145.35 as much\ngood could have been done in any other\nway.\nTHE HOME RULE BILL\u2014A dispatch has been received from London, purporting to give a forecast\nof the Home Rule Bill. It is not necessary\nto recapitulate all its provisions, but they\nfurnish ground for doubting whether in the\nfirst place such a measure would ever pass,\nthe British House of Commons, and even\nif it did, whether it would be acceptable to\nthe Nationalists. Obviously a settlement\nwhich was not acceptable to the leaders of\nthe Home Rule movement would be no\nsettlement at all, and would leave a festering sore still open. The Week, however,\nis less concerned about satisfying Mr. Redmond and his followers than about maintaining the integrity of the Imperial Parliament, and needless to say, the integrity\nof the Empire. A proposal which would\ngive the Irish Parliament full control of the\ncustoms and excise and which would place\nthe Irish Constabulary under the control of\na Home Rule Parliament, after the lapse of\ntwelve years, will never be accepted by law-\nabiding British subjects. Whatever else\nhappens in Ireland, the Royal Constabulary will have to remain under the direction and control of the Imperial authorities,\nat any rate, for an indefinite period. In\nsaying this, The Week is but voicing thc\nunanimous opinion of Protestant Ireland,*\nand those who think that a measure of\nHome Rule such as that proposed is in any\ndegree comparable to the Home Rule we\nenjoy in Canada, has yet to learn the very\nalphabet of government. If the dispatch is\nin any appreciable degree reliable. Home\nRule will continue to be a football for many\nANEW CITY HALL\u2014While there\nhas been a very wide difference of\nopinion as to the best location of a\nnew City Hall, there has been none as to\nthe necessity for one. The referendum\nvote shows a small majority in favour of\nthe present site, but The Week believes\nthat a careful inquiry would result in recommending the site it has always favoured,\nviz., the Wide portion of Pandora Avenue\nfrom Cook Street t > Chambers Street.\nThere are at least throe points in favour\nof this location: It is convenient; it would\ncost nothing, because the City owns the\nland, and it occupies a commanding position. The only possible argument against\nit is that it appears to be a little bit out\nof the way, but with any regard to thc\nassured growth of Victoria, it cannot fail\nto be well within the City in the near future.\nIn support of this project, a prominent\ncitizen has written to The Week, pointing\nout that from Cook Street east to Chambers\nStreet, the land available for building is\nwider than the Douglas Street frontage of\nthe present City Hall and three times as\nlong. A modern building with a facade\nfacing the approach from Douglas Street\nup Pandora would have a fine appearance.\nThe north and south fronts of the building, both of which would be on the street,\nwould afford ample accommodation for\nall the City officers, and the sum realized\nby selling the site of the present City Mall\nwould go a long way toward defraying thc\ncost of the new building.\nmoons.\nTHE NAVY RESOLUTION-It is\ngratifying to know that thc local\nLegislature is a unit on the importance of urging the Federal Government to\n\"hurry up\" on the subject of Imperial naval\ndefense. No doubt the general urgency of\nthe question is emphasized by thc approaching completion of the Panama Canal. Indeed, this circumstance furnished Mr.\nBrewster with the raison d'etre for his resolution. The amended resolution fairly\ncovers the whole ground and should not be\nwithout its effect. Whilst endorsing Mr.\nBorden's proposal to act p.fter consultation\nwith the Imperial authorities, it draws attention to local conditions which suggest\nexpedition. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912\nOn one occasion I went out of my\nway, that is, out of my ordinary rut,\nto say a word for a new industry,\nwhich had been established in Victoria. 1 refer to thc Tesselated Tile,\nwhich has since obtained considerable\nnotoriety. I am going to follow suit\nand call attention to another industry\nwhich is not conspicuously known to\nthe majority of Victorians. I refer\nto art glass work. The popular impression is that most of such material\nis imported from the States or from\nEngland, but at Roy's Art Glass\nWorks on Pandora street, leaded\nglass windows have been made, which\nare not only in thc highest degree\ncreditable to the industry, but serve\nthe double purpose of a window and\na popular educator. One set of windows has just been completed for\nthe Grand Forks Court House and\nhas been highly praised. This set illustrates the fruit-growing prospects\nin the neighbourhood, and another the\nmineral wealth. These windows were\ndesigned by Mr. Michael Hallward,\na local designer and decorator. Mr.\nRoy himself is an expert at the business and served a long apprenticeship in the Old Country. It is a\npleasure to say a word on behalf of\nan industry which is artistic and\nwhicii is not represented in many\ncities of the size of Victoria.\n* * *\nThere seems to be a little lack of\nforesight around the City Hall in\nmore departments than one. For instance, quite a long time ago two constables were promoted to the rank\nof sergeants; indeed, one of these\npromotions dates back to May, 1911,\nyet neither man has received sergeant's uniform or sergeant's pay. I\nundersiand thc reason of this is that\nthe uniform ha**> to be imported, and\nthe Police Commissioners are unwilling to set a bad precedent in advancing the pay until the recipient is pro-\n' perly rigged out. If this is not the\ncorrect explanation, I should be glad\nto know what it is and to publish it.\n* * *\nSpeaking of the City Hall, I had\noccasion to attend a committee meeting in the Council Chamber this\nweek, of course, as a mere spectator.\nAnything more dreary, discouraging,\nand uncomfortable than the Council\nChamber of the Victoria City Hall, I\nhavc never had to do with. In the\nfirst place the acoustic properties are\nso bad that although I was seated\nless than twenty feet from the chairman and directly in front of him, I\ndid not hear half he said. Other\nspeakers wcre almost inaudible. The\neffect of addressing a meeting under\nsuch conditions is not only depressing, but absolutely ineffective, lt is\nhard labour of the severest kind, and\none feels all the time that no impression is being made, whicii is a fact.\nI now understand first of all why the\nCity Council has such an unsatisfactory record as a working machine,\nand also why the aldermen are so\ntouchy and so easily get on \"the\nragged edge\" of things. I cannot\nconceive it to be possible that any\norganization could conduct its business in such a room without becoming quarrelsome. Matters arc made\nworse by the constant rattle of traffic\non the paved streets, and I am more\nthan ever convinced that the time\nhas come when we should havc a\nnew City Hall and Council Chamber,\nand this does not involve even the\nslightest suggestion as to a suitable\nsite.\n* * *\nI wonder whose business it is to\ntake notice of a huge heap of rubbish,\ncomprised of debris from the Old\nBrunswick Hotel, whicli has been lying across the roadway on Douglas\nStreet for more than three months.\nNot only is it an unnecessary obstruction to traffic, but as it stretches\nacross the gutter, it dams up the\nwater and makes a nice puddle for\nladies to step into. I have made in\nquiries and am told that this is one\nof the privileges allowed to contractors until some long-suffering member of the public kicks. In this particular instance I do not know who\nthe contractor is. 1 hope he is not\nthe same one as 1 have involuntarily\nslated on numerous occasions, but\neven if he is, I cannot help it. The\nvery last thing I should imagine is\nthat the responsibility rests with the\nCity Engineer's Department.\n* * *\nWe all remember the old saying,\n\"Whom the gods would destroy, they\nfirst make mad,\" and I cannot help\nthinking that they have sinister designs upon the City Engineer. Since\nthe last issue of The Week he has\nliterally been running amuck among\nthe members of his staff. If I am\ncorrectly informed, he has discharged\nnine, which is almost a record for one\nweek. Now if these men were incompetent or no longer required, the\nEngineer would be strictly .within his\nrights, always assuming that he\neffected the discharge with that courtesy which characterizes City Engineers of reputation. But when a\nman learns first of all from the newspapers that he has been fired, and another man learns it from his colleagues, and when both are assured\nthat theie is no fault to be found\nwith their competency, and then when\nseven others are let out at one fell\nswoop, wiwthout explanation, people\nbegin to scratch their heads and to\nwonder how far the gods have proceeded in their preliminary canker.\nNo doubt these things will be looked\ninto by the investigating committee,\nwhich may bc trusted to sift matters\nto the bottom. All I am concerned\nabout is that men who work hard,\nwho have families to support, and\nwho had every reasonable expectation\nof steady employment, now that\nspring weather is coming, should not\nbe incontinently fired without excuse\nor even the common politeness of an\nexplanation. The last man who can\nafford to do this is the City Engineer, even though he may at present\nbe entrenched behind the by-law,\nwhich however, is not like the laws\nof the Medes and Persians.\n* * *\nSome time ago I voiced a complaint\nfrom the apartment and boarding\nhouses of the city referring to the\ndifficulty of securing any reply to a\ntelephone call. Since then I have\nbeen inundated with requests to repeat the complaint which is obviously a most insistent one. I have also\ntaken a little trouble in investigating\nthe matter, and find that so far as\nlodging houses are concerned, there\nis only one telephone, which is invariably answered by the slavey, or\nsome member of the household. Now\nmany lodging houses have a dozen\ninhabitants, and just think of the\nwork tllis makes for one or two people at most to answer all the 'phone\ncalls, including those of ladies suffering from chronic ennui, whose sole\npurpose in ringing up is to have a\nchat. I do not wonder that the\nslavey gets tired. When one comes\nto apartment houses the conditions\nare different. In very few instances\nis there a separate telephone for each\nsuite. Most of them are on party\nlines, which occasions congestion. I\nam told that this cannot be remedied,\nbecause the telephone company cannot supply the instruments\u2014another\nargument for government ownership.\nFinally, people seem to forget that\ndwellers in flats and suites spend far\nless time in their own rooms than\nthose who live in private houses.\nThere is not the same attraction.\nThey inevitably become more dissipated. They must of necessity take\nmost of their meals out, and the consequence is that one may have a \"call\"\nhanging up for hours. Altogether\nI see nothing but trouble ahead for\nthe next generation. Whatever else\nhappens, I am satisfied that we shall\nbe civilized out of comfort, quiet, and\nrest of every kind.\n(m\ntrzou^z^^\nVictoria Amateur Dramatic Club\nPresents\n\"Lady Huntworth's\nExperiment\"\nWith a Strong Cast\nat the Victoria Theatre\nFriday & Saturday, February 9 & 10\nPrices, $1.00, 75c & 50c\nHotel Prince George\nThe Official Opening of the Hotel and Cafe\nwill take place on\nThursday, Feb. 8\nA Special Dinner will be\nserved at 9.00 P. M., Price $1.50\nTables can now be Reserved\nJason Graham\nProp.\nHerr Nagel's Orchestra will be in attendance\nand Several Favorite Singers\nTHE FOUNTAIN\nOF YOUTH\n*\nAnd vigor that is sought for so eagerly can be found\n\u2014by drinking \"Lemp's Beer\"\u2014it tastes good and is\ngood, light, healthy, bright, sparkling and invigorating. It is made from pure malt ancl hops, and is\nnot charged with carbonic acid gas as some beers\nare. It creates a hearty appetite and aids digestion.\n\"Lemp's Beer\" is a mighty good every-day drink.\nOrder a case from your dealer. Drink it at your\nclub or hotel.\nPITHER & LEISER\nVictoria\nWholesale Agents for B. C.\nVancouver\nNelson\nJAMES BUCHANAN & CO., by Royal Appointment\nPurveyors to H. M. King George the V and the Royal Household.\nDistillers of the popular\n\"Black & White\" Scotch Whisky\nUnsurpassed in Purity, Age and Flavor\nAll Dealers\nCeylon's Best\nThis adequately describes our Famous\n\"Reception\" Tea\nIt is the finest product of the finest gardens in Ceylon, blended\nscientifically by experts, to suit the water of this locality. It is most\npopular with our patrons who pronounce it as simply \"immense.\"\nHalf the quantity of this tea will be found sufficient for an ordinary\nbrew. One price, only 50 per lb., or a half lb 25c\n\"Breakfast Delight\" Coffee\u2014Always has that delicious, lingering\nafter-taste. We are sole distributors of this famous coffee. Per\npound 50c\nPure Mocha and Java Coffee, per pound 40c\nHe 0. Kirkham & Co., Ltd.\nGrocery Store\nTels. 178, 179\n741, 743, 745 Fort Street\nButcher Shop\nTel. 2678\nLiquor Store\nTel. 2677\nA SENSIBLE GIFT\nA Pair of Daniel Green & Co's\nFelt Footwear\nfor the Man,\nWoman or\nChild\nH. B. Hammond Shoe Company\nPemberton Building, 621 Fort Street, Victoria, B. C.\nHolly\nTrees\n4000 well cultivated, repeatedly transplanted Treei\nto choose from, large and small, some varigated\nleaved, many full of line, red berries.\nPlant Hollies for Ornament & Profit\nLayritz Nurseries\nCare\" Road Victoria, B. C. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912\nCOMING ATTRACTIONS AT THE\nVICTORIA THEATRE\n:he Arion Club Concert Feb. 5\nlose Melville in \"Sis Hopkins\" Feb. 6\nictoria Choral Society Jan. 31\noy Scouts in Amateur Play Feb. 7\nA. D. C. in Lady Winterton's Experiment Feb. 8, 9\nadies' Musical with Mr. McCormick. .Feb. 12\nhe Rosary Feb. 14\nThe Barrier\nLast Tuesday night I went to see\n?hc Barrier\" (by Rex Beach) treat-\ng of the eternal colour question, has\ntracted a great deal of attention, al-\nough thc plot is by no means new,\nd my opinion is that although\namatic incidents and treatment are\nit wanting, yet it depends very\n\u2022gely for its success on the talent of\n>se who are acting in it. As pre-\ndted last night it was soaked in\n:al colour, redolent with breezy\niguage. I'm sure I don't know how\niny \"hells\" and \"damns\" were\n>sed or uttered\u2014and certainly ap-\naled favourably to the audience.\n\u25a0e house was full, the applause\nnuine, and the sympathy craved by\ne distressed heroine, freely granted.\n\"The Barrier\" is not an easy play\nhandle, the subject is a very deep\nd perplexing one, and last night\nlere was a danger at times of the\nore touching moments of the play\n[lapsing into mere bathos.\nThe heavy part of Necia was most\nily sustained by Miss Grace John-\nin the Third Act she rose to\nreat heights. My sympathies, how-\n'er, were with tse quaw Alluna, well\n:ted by Miss Mattie Hyde; she was\nie most pathetic and tragic figure\n1 the stage; a rare character to meet\nreal life, a loving, self sacrificing\noman without a spark of jealousy.\nAs John Gale Norval Macgregor\n\u2022as convincing and looked the part,\nie other members of the company\nid not fail in their labours, but Geo.\nCleveland as Poleon Dorret made a\nreat impression on me, he was the\nTench \"habitant\" to the life, and his\nrork was most finished.\nI had heard a good deal about the\nmartness and dexterity of American\nrtistes, I was not disappointed; the\nreaking of Runni Runnion's wrist\nvith the bottle, and Gale's attempt\n0 shoot Stark, were both exceeding-\ny clever.\nMiss Johnson would be well ad-\ndsed to dress more to the part in\nhe first acts, her costume was the\ninly jarring note of an otherwise\n:xcellent performance.\nThe Empress Theatre\nDoubtless to baseball experts the\nrum contributed by the four Ball\nlayers, a quartette of baseball heroes\nrom the States, will have proved the\nnost fascinating, but it is probable\nhat the majority of people have more\nihoroughly enjoyed the minstrel wit\nif Harry von Fossen, a black come-\nJian of more than ordinary talent.\nHadieux, a wire-walker, who enjoys\n;he distinction of being the only man\nvho somersaults on the wire, has also\njeen a big drawing-card, and he\nJounces as merrily on the wire as a\n'ootball on the field. The two opening'turns deserve no special mention,\njut the three noted above are-more\n:han wortli the entrance fee.\nThe Crystal Theatre\n'The Troubles of a Butler\" was\nquite one of the most amusing comedies that has appeared on any mov-\nng-picture screen in town for a very\nlong time and was thoroughly appreciated. Another film whicii caught\nthe attention of the writer was one\ndealing with the salt industry in Sicily, showing every detail from the\nflooding of the marshes, through the\nevaporation processes right up to the\nshipping of the refined salt.\nThe Majestic Theatre\nOf late the Majestic management\nhave been making a specialty of \"The\nWorld's Happenings\" and it is no uncommon thing to see at the beginning\nof the week a reel from the Warwick\nfirm of England and another from the\ncelebrated Pathe Freres of Paris.\n\"Stages Struck Lizzie\" was a comedy\nwhich produced roars of laughter and\nannouncement is made that the last\ntwo evenings of the week will deal\nwith the training of officers for the\nY. M, C. A. summer camps.\nThe Romano's Theatre\nWhen it comes to seeing Ibsen's\nplays reproduced in the Moving-picture houses one is inclined to think\nthat nothing is impossible of performance in this line of entertainment. At Romano's an excellent rendering of \"The Lady from the Sea\"\nwas given with a wealth of detail. A\ngruesome picture of Tar and Feathering was presented in an interesting\npicture story entitled \"The New\nRanch Owner,\" which gave a realistic\ninsight into the Western life of which\nwe have read, but which few of us\nhave seen.\nJohn McCormack in Australia\nJohn McCormack, the famous Irish\ntenor, formerly of Hammerstein's\nManhattan and the Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Company, and now a\nmember of the Melba Grand Opera\nCompany, has been meeting with\nsplendid success during the present\ntour. In commenting upon the visit\nof this company to Melbourne, Australia, the Stage of December 6 said:\n\"It has been a week of pleasant surprises and most agreeable sensations\nat Her Majesty's Theatre, where the\nbrilliant Melba Company of vacal\nstars has shone with the luster and\nmagnitude of planets\u2014vocal and\nmusical and instrumental planets, that\neasily outshine everything that has\npreceded them in grand opera. Taking everything into consideration, the\ncompany has achieved a brilliant success. That is the general consensus\nopinion among the people who pay\u2014\nthe opinions of those who don't,\ndoesn't matter. Nothing like the\nMelba combination of voices has\never been heard in grand opera in\nAustralia before. Nothing of such\nhigh quality and completeness will be\nseen here again for a very long time\nto come, if ever, because, you do not\nusually get people like Melba and\nMcCormack to sing together at this\nend of the earth for a mere song, as\nthe prices of admission go nowadays\n\u2014you do not ordinarily get such a\nchance to hear such a combination in\ngrand opera in any city in Europe,\nwhere wealth is potent and abundant,\nand can, like Parliament, do anything\nand everything but make brilliant sopranos and tenors.\"\nOf John McCormack's characteriza-\nation of the Duke in \"Rigoletto\" this\nsame journal said:\n\"The glowing vocal color in whicii\nMelba presented 'Caro Nome' and\n'Every Festal Morning,\" was brilliant\nand incomparably great, and set the\nhall mark of completeness to her\nGilda\u2014so, too, was her duet in the\n'Cantilena' with Mr. McCormack,\nwho was at his best\u2014his very best\u2014\nand he certainly did better as the\nDuke than in any other character\nwhich he has represented since his\nadvent to Melbourne. He was head\nand shoulders above everybody in the\ncast, and achieved the highest success of his art. Melba was great,\nMcCormack was greater, and the\ngreat audience, of women mostly who\nlove Nellie Melba, worshipped the\ndelightful tenor, McCormack. Everybody expected the best from Melba\nand McCormack, and they were not\ndisappointed.\"\nSis Hopkins\nSis Hopkins, which comes to the\nVictoria Theatre on Tuesday, February 6, with Miss Rose Melville in the\ntitle role, a character which she originated and which she has been playing for the past twelve years without\na break, will not be seen after the\npresent tour, for with the end of this\nseason Miss Melville will retire from\nthe stage.\nMiss Melville's characterization of\nSis Hopkihs, the country girl, whose\n(Continued on Page 9)\nVictoria Ladies' Musical Society\nPresents\nMr. John McCormack\nat the Victoria Theatre\non\nMonday, February 12,1912\nMiss Constance Bromley\nLate of Academy of Dramatic Art, London W.\nBegs to announce her FIRST RECITAL, in the Alexandra Club,\nat 8.30 p.m. on\nMonday, February the 19th, 1912\nScenes will be given from\n\"The Taming of the Shrew\" and \"The School for Scandal''\nIn Costume\nIn addition a Miscellaneous Programme, by various popular Victoria\nArtistes\nALL SEATS ONE DOLLAR\nTickets may be obtained at Campbell's Drug Store, corner Fort\nand Douglas Streets.\nThe Crystal Theatre\nBroad Street\nThe Largest, Best Furnished and Most\nComfortable Picture Theatre\nin the City\nWatch for Constant Improvements in Appointments and Service.\nMajestic\nTheatre\nThe latest ancl best Motion\nPictures, Funny Comedies,\nWestern Plays, Thrilling\nAdventures\nSplendid Modern Dramas\nPictures changed Monday,\nWednesday, Friday\nWe Cater to Ladies and\nChildren\nContinued Performance\n1 to 11 p.m.\nThe Bijou\nTheatre\nOne of the largest Picture Theatres in Western Canada. The House\nhas been thoroughly remodelled with sitting capacity increased to 700\nseats. The Bijou is the first theatre opened with a 5c admission,\ngiving a show equal to any of the 10c shows in town. Our daily\nperformance consists of 4,000 ft. of film (4 reels), illustrated song and\na 3-pieced orchestra. We are running 24 reels weekly, almost everything that is produced. REMEMBER, we change our program\neach and every day and admission only 5c.\nWatch for our Next Sensation\nJohnson Street\nVictoria, B. C.\nVictoria Theatre\nTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6\nTHIRTEENTH SEASON\nJ. R. Sterling presents the Artistic\nComedienne\nRose Melville\nIn the Characteristic Play\n\"Sis Hopkins\"\nA Play of Purpose\nA Plot of Sense. A Happy Blending\nof Fun and Earnest\nFull of Laughs! Laughs! Laughs!\nThe Pastoral Comedy Hit. Best\nCompany Yet. New and Special\nScenery. New Music. New\nSpecialties.\nLast Time. Last Chance to scc the\nFamous\n\"SNAKENTINE DANCE\"\nPrices\u2014$1.50, $1.00, 75c, 50c, 25c.\nSeats on Sale Saturday, February 3rd.\nJEmpressi\nWEEK FEBRUARY 5\nMISS RUTH FRANCIS AND\nCOMPANY\nPresent an Elaborately Staged Playlet\n\"A Touch of High Life\"\nA Spectacular Musical Ensemble\nTHE (3) KELTONS\nVaudeville's Daintiest Musical\nOffering\nGERTRUDE HOLMES AND\nROBERT BUCHANAN\nin\n\"The Girl of 1847\"\nThe Distinguished Character\nComedians\nBRADY & MAHONEY\n\"The Fireman and the Foreman\"\nThe Silent Humorist\nALBERT DONNELLY\nExpert Hand Shadowist\nTHE EMPRESSCOPE THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912\nThe Week\nA Provincial Newspaper and Rcvbw\npublished every Saturday by\n\"The Week\" Publishing\nCompany, Limited\nPublished at 1208 Government St.,\nVictoria, B.C., Canada\nW. BLAKEMORE, Edi*.\nA Scenic\nRoad\nBy Bohemian\nMuch has been said during the last\nyear about the beauties of the Malahat Drive, otherwise the new Mill\nBay Road. The press has long ago\ngot through with unstinted praise for\nthe Government which planned and\nthe contractors who executed what is\nadmittedly the finest scenic road in\nBritish Columbia, and I venture to\nbelieve, in Canada. Suffice it to say\nin this connection that since I was\nlast over it six months ago all the\nruts have been filled and the surface\nof the road put into first class condition. It is now throughout its entire\nlength as smooth as could be wished\nfor, and an automobile ride over it is\na luxury of a very high order.\nI have been over it several times\nby day, but this week 1 took a \"joy\nride\" over it in the \" wee sma'\"\nhours, and my only regret is that the\nvocabulary whicii I can control is\naltogether inadequate to describe its\nglories. 1 am not going to attempt\nit, but I would like to leave some impression on the minds of those who\nhave not enjoyed a similar experi\nence, and I can at least tell them how\nto go about it.\nHaving secured a good car and a\ncareful chauffeur, the latter rendered\nnecessary by the numerous sharp\nturns and twistings in the road, select\na fine moonlight night, with a clear\nsky, all the stars showing, and the\nmoon nearly at the full. Under these\nconditions it is astonishing how far\none can see from the roadside. Indeed, the vista was as clear as ont:\ncould wish for miles, and from the\nlast summit an exquisite panorama,\nincluding the entrance to Saanich Inlet, the whole of Salt Spring Island,\nand the coast line stretching northwards to Duncan, was clearly outlined.\nRushing up the drive at a speed\nwhich probably exceeded the statutory rate, but which was excusable\nat such a time, thousands of little\nopenings revealed an ever-changing\nkaleidoscope of trees, still water, and\ntowering hills, and over all thc bluest\nand clearest of canopies. Here and\nthere, when passing around a sheltered rock, wc ran into a warm stratum of air. In sheltered ravines a\ncloud of mist would hang and furnish shadow to the phantasmagoria.\nEverything was seen through mystic\nspectacles, grotesque, fantastic, witching. Such an atmosphere prevailed\nas could not have been produced at\nany other time or by any other combination of light, shade, colour, and\ntemperature.\nI am not a\" expert in photography,\nbut have always understood that one\ncannot get pictures by moonlight, and\nthat the so-called romantic moonlight\nphotographs which one often sees,\nare really faked pictures, in which\nthe sun, and not the moon, actually\nfigured. Be that as it may, I could\nonly wish that the camera could tell\nthe story of our moonlight trip over\nthe Malahat Drive.\nIf I were a poet 1 could rhapsodize\non its influence, first producing\namazement, then delight, then exhilaration; and when the first surprise\nat such magnificence had passed, the\nmystic influence of time and scene\nworked a spell, and one could not\navoid the attitude of reverie and reflection. On my own mind the impression was one of detachment and\nisolation, not only from every care\nand anxiety, but even from every\nphase of mundane affairs, and I could\nhave longed for the wings which\nwould have continued our flight far\nto the land of nowhere.\nSome experiences cannot be repeat\ned, at least so I have heard, and they\nneed not be specified, but I make\nbold to say that such a glorious trip as\nwe made under the conditions described furnished a sensation and an\nexperience which can never be repeated in its entirety, and which if even\nfaintly comprehended by my readers\nwould send every one of them in\nsearch of that elusive will-o'-the-wisp,\na new sensation, _n which search they\nwould not be disappointed, at any rate\nif they happened to be blest with what\nOscar Figman calls temperament.\nSir James Douglas\nK.. C. d.\nThe Early History of Vancouver\nIsland\nWritten Specially for the Week\nhy Gilbert Malcolm Sproat\nI have mentioned, incidentally, Col\nonial Secretary Lytton's introduction\nof the British Columbia Colony Bill,\nin 1858 (myself listening in the gal\nlery), and his recommendation of\nDouglas to perform the functions of\nGovernor. He was born in 1805 and\ndied in 1873. Essentially, a versatile,\nlaborious literary man, beginning with\na poetic booklet, in his sixteenth year,\nand never laying the pen aside, as\nhis novels, dramas and critical essays\nattest, Lytton, also, had a score 0\nyears' experience as a member of thc\nCommons, beginning as a supporter\nof the Whigs in the early thirties,\nwhich party he left, later, to become\na Conservative, not, however, of the\nout and out Tory type. Without\nover-valuing wealth or pedigree, he\nbelieved that conservatism had worked out, noticeably, among the upper\nclasses in general, a standard of education, of courtesy and honourable\nfeeling, which he hoped, through social reforms, thc community might\nbe encouraged to reach, and, more or\nless, to exemplify. He could make\neffective speeches, but not without\nmuch preparation. This went against\nhis success in the Commons, and so,\nin those days, did the fact of his being, professedly, a literary man. The\nHouse, then, did not much like literary men, nor \"gentlemen of the long\nrobe,\" as the lawyers were called.\nLytton's chance of office was improved, when the old conjoined war\nand colonial secretaryships were divided in 1854. A comparatively untried man might do for the colonies,\nthough not perhaps for the supposed,\nmore responsible war office. So it\ncame about, in the second Derby\nadministration (1858-9), in June, 1858,\nthat Lytton succeeded him as Colonial Secretary, and was in office for\nabout 12 months, until the Government resigned June 11, 1859, and he\nnever, afterwards, held cabinet rank.\n(His own successor (in the Palm-\nerston-Russell administration) was\nthe Duke of Newcastle, who was Colonial Secretary during the remainder\nof Douglas' service here as Governor). I mention the above, as some\nassume that Lytton was Colonial\nSecretary, during the whole period of\nthe second Derby administration, and,\nalso, to give some information to\nyoung readers, respecting the official\nrelationship, to the new mainland col-\nlony, of an otherwise very distinguished man. Under-Secretaries,\nseldom criticise their chiefs, but, ten\nyears later, 1 was assured that Lytton did extremely well, from the\nstart, and never \"let up\" during the\nwhole of his short term. (The San\nJuan, \"Harney,\" affair occurred after\nhis retirement, and was a Foreign\noffice, more than a Colonial oflice,\nmatter). His chief work related to\nthe new Mainland Colony, described,\nby him, as the \"promising and noble\n\"territory destined to be the wealthiest of all that now speak our\nlanguage.\" Please, reader, bear in\nmind, that people here knew nothing\nof Ottawa in these days, nor Ottawa\nanything of them, and I am describing a time, when almost everything,\nto people here, depended on the head\nof the Colonial office in London.\nThe arrival of 400 or 500 miners at\nVictoria, from California, towards the\nend of April, 1858, followed by ships,\nwith many thousands more, of course,\ncould not, in those \"slow post,\" pre-\ntelegraphic, days, be known, fully, to\nLytton on taking office, but Donald\nFraser's letters from California to the\nLondon \"Times,\" had warned the\nColonial office of a growing excitement there, as to the new northern\nmines, and, upon that, Lytton acted\nimmediately, in organising part of the\nmainland territory, the possibility of\nwhich had been recognized by the\nParliamentary Committee of 1857, already referred to. This showed the\nadministrative mettle of the man, in\nhis new sphere of action. In a few\nweeks, 8 July, 1858, he introduced his\nBill to provide for the new Colony.\nA few days later he announced his\nintention of sending out a detachment of Royal Engineers, and, on 16\nJuly, 1858, he wrote to Douglas, with\ninformal authority, to perform the\nduties of Governor. Lytton did not\nthen know much about Douglas, but\nthe circumstances, including thc presence of many Indians in the territory, required, he thought, immediate\naction on his part. To provide for\ncontingencies, he gave a dormant\ncommission of Lieutenant-Governor,\nto the officer in command of the Engineers. Nor did he lose any time\nin furnishing the new Colony with the\nnecessary judicial and administrative\naffairs, who came under his direct\nappointment, and formed, for the\nmost part an excellent Crown Colony staff. I have said, elsewhere,\nthat Lytton, before his own short\nperiod of 12 months in office ended,\nhad learned to appreciate the remarkable qualities of Douglas, and had\nrecommended him for the decoration\nof C. B.\nThe officer selected by Lytton to\ncommand the detachment of the\nRoyal Engineers, and to provide, (as,\nat first, was imagined), the \"old Hudson's Bay man,\" Douglas, with an accomplished, if not co-adjutor, was\nBrevet Colonel (afterwards Major-\nGeneral) Richard Clement Moody,\nR.E., who arrived in the colony via\nPanama on Christmas, 1858. He and\nI became close friends here and afterwards, in the Old Country, and a\nmore accomplished man I never met.\nLieutenant-Governor of the Falkland\nIslands, in 1841, and Governor of the\nsame from 1843 to 1847, he, afterwards, had commanded the Royal\nEngineers in Scotland, where he disturbed the \"Scotties\" by attempts to\n\"improve\" the architecture of the old\nCastle of Edinburgh, as I think I, already, have said. Moody, in the new\nColony here, was appointed, by Lytton, Chief Commissioner of Lands\nand Works, and, as said above, also\nhad a dormant commission as Lieutenant-Governor. He, of course, commanded the land forces here at the\ntime of the San Juan difficulty, 1859,\nbut these were too few to cut any\nfigure, the controlling power being\nnaval. He described to me, however,\nvery interestingly, his taking a message from Douglas to the American\nofficer in charge of the American detachment on San Juan, Captain G. E.\nPickett, afterwards \"Gettysburg Pic-\nkeft,\" how the two dined together\nand chatted, Pickett, afterwards, coming lovingly to the beach with him,\nso that he could make no sketches\nfor the service of a landing party.\nAfter returning to England in De-j\ncember, 1863, Moody held on army I\ncommand at Chatham, and I, often,\ndined with him at his club in London.\nI did not like to ask him whether\nLytton, really, had sent him to British\nColumbia to \"drynurse\" Governor\nDouglas, but what he once said in\nconnection, seemed to establish that\nallegation as a fact, \"I much liked\nthe Colony, Mr. Sproat,\" said he, \"but\n\"Lytton's idea, you know, as to Doug-\n\"las, wouldn't work at all. My .position was merely that of Chief Com-\n\"missioner of Lands and Works.\"\nDefence of Canada\n(By Charles F. Moore)\nThe thoughts and aspirations of loyal\nmen, who have left behind them many\nof their footprints on the sands of\nnewspaper essays; dreams many of\nthem; yet are they worthy of some\nconsideration and respect from the\nleaders of the countries they did so\nmuch to build into greatness. There\nare' three of such men, deeply imprinted on the memory of the writer,\nwhose aim will be to keep remembrance of these worthy statesmen and\nwarriors, green in the hearts of their\ncountrymen. General Charles George\nGordon, Sir Robert Hart, and Sir\nMatthew Baillie Begbie, a trinity of\nglorious and great characters, who,\neven at this distance of time, thrill\nthe souls of Victorians, lawyers and\nstatesmen of not only their own people, but men of divers nations. I\npropose to dwell on some of the doings of the second name, Sir Robert\nHart, G.C.M.G., honoured by decorations from several kings and emperors for valuable service rendered.\nWorld-wide is his reputation as the\nde facto Emperor of China. The\nChinese Emperor, the de facto sovereign, was but a name, the real\nbuilder of China's future was begun\nby this man of wisdom, and it would\nbe wise and reflect credit on our\npremiers and men of power to give\nattention to the foresight and aims of\nthis splendid fellow. The customs\nservice during the reign of Mr. Lay,\nwas in much confusion, due to its in\ncipient state; out of this chaos Sir\nRobert brought it into order, stopped\npeculation, organized a service of integrity, winning the admiration of\nnations of merchants, eliciting praise\neven from rival services. It was Sir\nRobert who laid down the keel of the\nMosquito Fleet as a coast defence\nIt was in my province as harbour\nmaster at Taku, to inspect the \"Alpha\" and \"Beta,\" the first-born of the\nfleet; and I still continue in my first\nopinion, that as a weapon of coast\ndefence, they were invaluable. Carrying 6.8-in. gun, which in our days\ncould be replaced by the 5^-in., with\nthe speed of a torpedo boat\u2014coming\nout from behind fort, creek or river\nat an opportune moment, firing its\nsingle weapon, at any enemy, looming large in the distance, perhaps\ncrippling it at first or third round\u2014\nherself lying low, presenting a much\nsmaller mark to the return fire. The\ncost, too, of these vessels is in the\nreach of a growing country. An\nalphabet of these perambulating weapons from Victoria to Port Rupert,\nbuilt in the course of years, supplied\nwith wireless arrangement would indeed form an armament not to be\neasily ignored even by a power of importance.\nWhen I left China the late Li Hung\nChang, or rather, I should respectfully call him Li Chung Tang, did us\nthe honour, so I think, of escorting\nour boat down the Peiho, with a\nnumerous cortege of Chinese gunboats, 15 or 20, all carrying guns,\nand on the banks of the river were\nsome twelve or more thousands of\nsoldiers being drilled in foreign tactics. These were gone through in a very\nable manner. If the idea of twenty\nmillions, drilled and disciplined and\nanimated by patriotic, if mistaken\nmotives, be carried out, it may\nturn out, if not somewhat prepared,\nfor such a contingency, that residence\nin China would be impossible for foreigners; and though we may consider\nit absurd, it may suit them to take\nback everything foreigners have\ntaken from them, pay off old scores\nand grudges with interest, and carry\ntheir flag into many places, whicii at\npresent even fancy will not suggest.\nTt is on this point that I am at\nissue with many. The bugbear ol\ntwenty millions is without doubt\ngreat idea, but, and I am glad ther\nis a but, the Napoleon of China i\nstill in a misty future. The jealous;\nof viceroys not only with each othei\nbut with the capital, is a strong ba\nto amalgamation of a policy of Ir\nperial interests. The Court and hi\nimperial suit are enclosed in a cit|\nof temple walls. The outer city\nChinese\u2014the second Manchu\u2014thfl\nthird or Forbidden City, is the resi\ndence of sovereignty. Not only thai\nbut the Eunuchs, a very powerful bod|\nof men, some of very high rank, e_i\nercise and surround the court with al\nespionage that far surpasses Pinkei|\nton or Scotland yard services. And\nis thus that so much ignorance of oui\nside foreign matters exists in the pr<[\ncincts of the court. Patriotism, eve,\namong the Bannermen, is weak, wea|\nened by the unscrupulousness of ofl\ncials who from one hand to anothl\ndeplete the soldiers' pay and allo\\j\nances to a scanty sum, sufficient il\ndeed to keep them alive, but insuff\ncient to hearten them into inten|\nloyalty.\nLimerick Competitio\\\nPrize Award\nThe prizes for the Limerick CoJ\npetition announced in ourjssue of ]\ncember 23rd, have been awarded\nfollows:\u2014\nFirst Prize, $20.00\u2014A Prevost, Du|\ncan, B.C.:\nWe hail Father Christmas today,]\nWho has always a glorious way\nOf distributing toys\nTo good little boys,\nBut someone the \"Piper\" must pal\nSecond Prize, $15.00\u2014Frank Hal)\nGeneral Delivery, Victoria, B.C.:\nWe hail Father Christmas today,\nWho has always a glorious way\nOf distributing toys\nTo good little boys,\nHe's as welcome as flowers in Ma;\nThird Prize, $5.00\u2014James L. Foi\nrester, 1304 Douglas St., Victori;\nB.C.:\nWe hail Father Christmas today,\nWho has always a glorious way\nOf distributing toys\nTo goocl little boys,\nWho believe Santa Claus is O. K.i\nCheques for the above amount!\nhave been forwarded to the addressei\ngiven.\nCanadian Western Lumber Co. t<_H\nOpen Office in Coquitlam\nCoquitlam is receiving considerable!\nattention these days from business!\nfirms and the latest to locate here isl\nthe Canadian Western Lumber Com-1\npany, Ltd., of Fraser Mills whichl\noperates the largest lumber mill in|\nthe world. Mr. C. M. Ccoke, who\nestablishing the local ortice and wl:\nwill represent the company here.1\nstated that the importance of Coquit-I\nlam could no longer be ignoted byfl\nhis company, who decided that inT\nview of the large amount of buildiigl\nwhich will take place here this year!\nit was necessary for them to open anl\noffice here and establish hemselves.|\nBOOK NOTES\nAt the Standard Stationery\nCo., Ltd., 1220 Government St.,\nVictoria, B. Ci\n\"Initials Only,\" by A. K.\nGreen. $1.50.\n\"The Man in the Shadow,\"\nby R. W. Child. $1.50.\n\"A Maid of Old New York,\"\nby A. E. Barr. $1.50.\n\"A Woman Alone,\" by Anon.\n$1.50.\nAt the Victoria Book &\nStationery Co., 1004 Government St., Victoria, B.C.:\n\"The Claw,\" by Cynthia\nStockley. $1.50.\n\"A Likely Story,\" by De Morgan. $1.50.\n\"The Silent Barrier,\" by Louis\nTracy. $1.50. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912\nBUILDING PERMITS\ninuary 25\u2014\nG. Oliver\u2014Edward St.\u2014Store $ 950\nJas. Gardner\u2014Cecilia St.\u2014Dwelling 1,200\nnuary 26\u2014\nA. Fraser\u20144th and Richmond Sts.\u2014Store 800\nWm. Dunford & Son\u2014Oxford St.\u2014Dwelling 3,000\nWm. Dunford & Son\u2014Oxford St.\u2014Dwelling 2,600\nMoncrieff & Thompson\u2014Quadra & Finlayson\u2014Dwelling 3,000\nFrank Smith\u2014Cambridge St.\u2014Temp. Dwelling 200\nWm. Meed\u2014Dallas and Olympia\u2014Alt. and Add 300\nuiary 27\u2014\nJohnson Es*--Yates Street\u2014Alt. and Add 2,000\nuiary 29\u2014\nH. M. Parker\u2014Clara St.\u2014Dwelling 2,500\nJalland Bros.\u2014Belmont Ave.\u2014Dwelling 2,400\nJalland Bros.\u2014Belmont Ave.\u20143 Dwellings, each 1,800\nC. W. Peltman\u2014Avebury St.\u2014Dwelling 1,950\nAli Mon\u2014Government St.\u2014Store 350\nCapt. Parsons\u2014Vining St.\u2014Garage 100\nuiary 30\u2014\nChas. E. King\u2014Finlayson St.\u2014Dwelling 900\nmary 31\u2014\nWard Investment Co.\u2014Cambridge St.\u2014Dwelling 2,500\nMrs. O'Brien\u2014Wellington St.\u2014Dwelling 3,350\nL. Finch\u2014Yates St.\u2014Alterations 1,500\nMrs. M. M. Arthur\u2014Work St.\u2014Dwelling 1,950\nJ. L. Jenks\u2014Menzies and Niagara\u2014Flats 16,000\nWm. Duck\u2014Broad St.\u2014Alterations 200\n.tal for January, 1912 319,885\nCANADIAN MUNICIPALS\nMuch has been said ancl written concerning the diversion into other\nvestment channels of current funds which previously went into Canaan municipal debentures. But the municipalities of Canada must\nive funds wherewith to execute the improvements and public works\nhich precede, accompany, and follow municipal expansion under\nodern conditions. Obviously, therefore, if Canadian municipal bonds\nust adapt themselves to changing market conditions, the change must\nlanifest itself in their interest rate, not in the aggregate of their\nolume. In the light of this, too great significance should not be\nttached to the mere volume of municipal bond sales as an index of\nie state of the municipal bond market for any given period.\nThe West's Borrowings\nDuring the year 1911, Canadian municipalities sold debentures to\nne amount of $30,295,838, compared with $29,043,325 in 1910, and the\necord aggregate of $31,532,960 in 1909. The borrowings of Ontario\nuinicipalities were approximately of equal volume in 1910 and 1911.\n'he province of Quebec showed a very large falling off last year;\nhis is accounted for mainly by the fact that Montreal and her suburbs\norrowed very sparingly in 1911. The decrease of five millions in\n)uebec municipal borrowings, however, is more than offset by the\nncrease in the loans of the great West, where villages and towns\nome into being over night, where cities are enjoying a phenomenally\napid but wholesome growth, which fully warrants their larger bor-\nowings. Municipal bond sales by provinces for 1910 and 1911 wcre:\nProvince 1910 1911\nOntario $ 6,169,435 $ 6018,678\nQuebec 7,613,500 2,591,500\nNew Brunswick 30,000 600,500\nNova Scotia 144,100 338,600\nManitoba 1,152,707 1,335,098\nSaskatchewan 3,111,545 4,314,389\nAlberta 3,832,210 5,650,759\nBritish Columbia 6,989,828 9,446,314\n$29,043,325 $30,295,838\nBy far the greater number of the largest individual issues came\nrom Western cities. Vancouver, B. C, assumed the lead with her\nsstie last March of $2,800,000 4's clue 1961. Then comes Vancouver's\nleighbour, Victoria, B. C, with her recent issue of $2,009,887 and her\npring issue of $560,000, with various periods to run. Third place is\niccupied by Soutii Vancouver, with $1,660,000 4^'s, due 1961, Cal-\njary put out two issues of $1,000,000 and $462,000 respectively, the\nlistrict of Burnaby, B. C, borrowed $958,000, Regina $629,200, Ham-\nlton $533,800, St. Boniface, Man., $421,669, and Ottawa $400,000.\n}f course, a considerable part of this year's output is still in the hands\n)f the bond houses ancl banks. Similarly, many of the larger issues of\n1910 were held until the early part of last year before being floated in\nLondon. The Canadian municipal flotations in London during 1911\n,vere: Winnipeg, \u00a3900,000; Maissoneuve, P.Q., \u00a3879,000; West-\nnount, P.Q., \u00a3500,000; Vancouver, \u00a3579,000; Calgary, \u00a3414,700;\nResidence Phone F1693\nBusiness Phone 1804\nW.D'0.Rochiorl\nArchitect\nPlans and Specifications on\nApplication\nSuite 407 Pemberton Block\nTaylor Mill Co.\nUntiled\nAll kinds of Building Material\nLumber .' Sash .' Doot\nTelephone 564\nNortli Government Street, Vietoria\nTELEPHONES\n248 AND 249\nA. E. KENT\nPROPRIETOR\nPacific Transfer\nCo.\nTrucking and Expressing\nBattagt Chithd and Furniturt\nRtmtvtd n any par$$f City\n504 fir 506 FORT STREET\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nGive Your\nTypist Good\nStationery\nand She'll Give\nYou Bettr\nWork\nBaxter & Johnson Co.\nUmlttd\n721 Yates St. Phone 730\nRoyal Bank Chambers\nVictoria, B. C.\nThomas Hooper\nArchitect\n522 Winch Building\nVancouver, B. C.\nList Your Properties with Us\nStuart & Reeves\nMembers Victoria Real Estate Exchange\nCor. Fort& Douglas Sts., Victoria\nTelephone 2612 P. O. Box 1519\nClover Hill\nAll Good High Lots-The\nbest buy in the City for a\nHome. Prices, $500 to $900\nTerms: io per cent Cash and io per cent Quarterly\nGreen & Burdick Bros.\nPhone 1518\nCor. Broughton & Langley St.\nHalf Acres\nin the Fairfield Estate, suitable for\nsubdivision, $2100 to\n$2500\nQ\nuarter Acres\nin Alexandra\nPark\n$1050 to $1250\nPemberton & Son\nCORNER PORT AND BROAD STREETS\nJ?XL\u00a3-\ni-tm+JC\nLIPTON S TEA\nPhone F 209\nP. O. Box 417\nMorris &\nEdwards\nGeneral Contractors\nHomes built by Contract or\non Easy Payments\nColville Rd. Victoria, B. C.\nBlue Printing\nMaps\nDraughting\nSurveyors' Instruments and\nDrawing Office Supplies\nElectric Blue Print & Map\nCompany\n1218 Langley Street, Victoria, B. C. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912\nSouth Vancouver, \u00a3310,239; Edmonton, \u00a3302,000; Point Grey, B. C,\n\u00a3241,470; Quebec, \u00a3215,700; Hamilton, \u00a3204,100; North Vancouver,\n\u00a3130,500; Burnaby, B. C, \u00a3118,300; New Westminster, B. C,\n\u00a3120,600; Victoria, B. C, \u00a3117,500; Port Arthur, Ont., \u00a3110,700;\nLethbridge, \u00a390,740; Moose Jaw, \u00a389,200.\nCanadian municipal borrowings in London last year totalled\n\u00a35,323,749; in 1910 the total was \u00a33,079,400; and in 1909, \u00a3,109,500.\nWhen, bearing in mind these figures, one reflects that the three yearly\naggregates of Canadian municipal borrowings for 1909, 1910 and 1911\nwere within \u00a3300,000 of one another, one cannot but be impressed with\nthe fact that the Canadian municipality is becoming more and more\ndependent upon London, that the market for Canada municipal bonds\nis tending very rapidly away from Canada toward Great Britain.\nBANK OF VANCOUVER\nMr. A. L. Dewar, the general manager of the Bank of Vancouver,\nin his address to the shareholders at the second annual meeting said\nthat the bank was in a position to advance rapidly in its general business and earning power, and if they all determined to continue to\nsustain and support the bank in the first few years of its struggle,\nsuccess was assured. The profits for the year ended November 30th,\n1911, after making the necessary allowances were $20,360, which with\n$5,943 carried forward from last year leaves a credit balance at profit\nand loss of $26,304.\nAlthough no dividend was declared, the bank has had a satisfactory year. The bank has passed through the formative period, and\nwith conservative management, progress should again be made during\nthe present year.\n' The paid-up capital stock which last year amounted to $334,950,\nincreased during the past twelve months to $749,608, or more than\ndoubled, while' the assets show a total of $2,543,192.75, against\nagainst $1,165,177.27 for the year previous. The deposit with the\nDominion Government, which amounted to $5,000 a year ago, has\nsince been increased to $30,272.73, and balance due from other banks\nin Canada and elsewhere, amounting a year ago to $19 783.27, has\ngrown to $219,518.86.\nIn his address the president said in part: \"The indications for the\nyear throughout the whole province of British Columbia appear to\nbespeak continued prosperity. A steady development is gradually\ntaking place, and indusHes are all above normal. A very large amount\nof money is being spent in railway construction, and the municipalities\nand cities are making large expenditures. Taken all together, this\nactivity is attracting money for investment, and many people are making their homes here.\"\nNATIONAL TRUST COMPANY\nThe net profits of the National Trust Company, Limited, one of\nour strongest financial institutions, after providing for all cost of management, salaries, advertising, auditors' fees and other expenses,\namount to $218,602. To this must be added the sum of $500,000,\nthe premium on $500,000 of new stock issued during the year, and the\nsum of $44,577 brought forward from 1910, making the total at credit\nof profit and loss account $763,180, which has been appropriated as\nfollows;\u2014Dividends at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, $141,356;\nincrease of reserve fund, $600,000; carried forward to profit and loss\naccount, $21,823. The reserve fund now stands at $1,300,000. An\nanalysis of the financial statement for the past year reveals a satisfac*-\ntory condition.\nThe investments in first mortgages on capital and guaranteed trust\naccounts amount to $6,743,654, or 83 per cent, of the total assets held\non these accounts, exclusive of the cash on hand and the amount\ninvested in office premises. In making mortgage loans the company\nstill adhere to their rule that a property be inspected by one of their\nown staff inspectors before any advance is made thereon. This policy\nmight be thought one of extreme conservatism, but it is believed it has\nbeen fully justified by the results. In some localities there is a\ntendency to place the value of lands beyond what is warranted, and,\ntherefore, too great care cannot be exercised at this time in ascertaining true values.\nThe company now has branch offices at Montreal, Winnipeg,\nSaskatoon, Edmonton, and Regina. The assets have increased\n$4,187,501, and now amount to $28,244,611. The company received\nfrom the shareholders during the year $1,000,000 in respect of the new\nstock issue, and has already invested over 85 per cent, of the amount in\nfirst mortgages.\nCANADIAN FLOTATIONS IN LONDON\nThe following flotations, of interest to Canadians, were made in\nLondon, during December:\u2014\nCanadian Northern Railway\u2014\u00a37,000,000 _]_ per cent, guaranteed debenture* stock at 93.\nAnglo-Canadian Mortgage Corporation, Limited\u2014\u00a3308,250 in\n15,000 shares at par.\nWestern Canada Trust, Limited\u2014\u00a32000,000 5 per cent, cumulative participating preference shares at par.\nBritish Columbian Fisheries, Limited\u2014\u00a3125,000 7 per cent, cumulative participating preference shares at par.\nFort\nGeorge\nis the Strategic Commercial & Distributing\nCentre of British\nColumbia\nWe are joint owners of Fort'\nGeorge townsite.\nWe also handle agricultural,\ncoal, timber and mineral]\nlands and water powers.\nWrite to us for the \"B. C. Bulletin of Information,\" containing the latest news of|\ndevelopment.\nNatural Resources\nSecurity Co., Lte\nBower Bldg., Vancouver, B. Cl\nMrs. D. B. McLarenl\nTeacher of Singing and\nVoice Production\nTerms on Application Phone X_>_to8\nP. O. Box 449\nF. KROEGER\nARTISTIC UPHOLSTER1\n\"Windowphanie\"\nMa..es Stained Glass out of Plain Glas\nHas Removed to 721 Courtney Stree'\nOpposite Alexandra Clnb Telephone 114\nCooking by Electricity\nHINK of a stove that will emancipate the housewife from the stifling\nI ^\\ heat of the kitchen, eliminate the servant problem, cut the doctor\n^^\u25a0^ bills in half, add fifty per cent, to the leisure hours of its operator,\nor afford that much time for other duties, automatically prepare all kinds of\nfood at any hour of the day or night, without supervision or control other\nthan its own, cook the food in a more thorough, digestible manner than is\npossible by any other process, and do all these things at a cost that compares\nfavorably with present methods-THEN COOK THE ELECTRIC WAY\nAny Electrical Store in Victoria can supply Electric Ranges\nOur Rates are Low for this class of Business\nFull Particulars cheerfully Given\nB. C. Electric Railway Company, Ltd.\nLight and Power Dept. Telephone 1609 THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912\nDominion and Provincial\nNews\n'Vancouver Building Permits Exceed\nMontreal\n' \"Figures cannot lie\" is an axiom\nwhich can very well be quoted to pessimistically inclineDd persons who\ndoubt the really substantial nature\nof the progress which this city is\nmaking in all lines of development.\nAn unfailing criterion in this regard\nis the record of building operations.\nDuring the year just passed,.Van-\nouver passed in the race for build-\nng permit honours, from the fourth\ndace she had held the year before to\nhe second for the whole of Canada,\nclipsing Montreal, the largest city\nn the Dominion, by over $3,000,000,\nnd outdistancing Winnipeg, her\nearest rival, by a small margin.\nThe first on the comparative list\nhown below, is Toronto, which has\neen having quite a boom for an\nastern city. But the fact must be\niken into consideration that Toronto\nkludes within the city limits a very\ntrge area, and has more than twice\nie population.\nAnother striking feature about the\nuilding permit total for Vancouver\nthe remarkable increase over last\near. This city issued over $4,500,-\n00 worth more permits during 1911\nian 1910, while Winnipeg had only\nlittle over $2,000,000 increase and\noronto $3,000,000 for the same\neriod.\n1910 1911\n\/ancouver $13,106,000 $17,652,000\nvlontreal 15,713,000 14,580,000\nToronto 21,127,000 24,374,000\nWinnipeg 15,106,000 17,652,000\nHoldup Men Miss Large Booty\nThrough a mistake in identity three\nloldup men on the Capilano road,\n\/ancouver, recently, missed a large\nimount of booty and through the mistake came near being landed by street\n__x men. Mr. James Turner, evident-\n,y the intended victim, was return-\nng to his home in West Capilano\nwith the proceeds of a land clearing\ncontract, about $200 in his pocket.\nWhether the robbers mistook the\ntime or an Indian happened along\nat the time Turner was expected is\nnot known. However, the Indian was\ncommanded at the point of the gun\nto hold up his hands, which he\npromptly did. In frightened tones he\ntold them he had no money and, believing him, he was let go. The victim ran back to the terminus of the\ncar line to come in to town to report\nthe matter. When he climbed into\nthe car he recognized the three men\ngetting on also. He hurried to Device's to telephone, but the holdup\nmen suspected something and before\nthe car men were aware who their\npassengers were they had taken to the\nbush and disappeared. Since then no\ntrace has been heard of them. While\nthe district police are working on the\ncase, they have as yet no prospects'\nto gather in as suspects. \u25a0\nBusiness Men of Ashcroft Stung by\nSmooth Forger\nOn Tuesday last a good looking\ntall young fellow named Walter\nSprague registered at the Grand Central Hotel. Walter evidently was here\non business as he appeared to get to\nget to work immediately after lunch\nvisiting the local stores for a variety\nof goods he required. Calling on one\nof the business houses he ordered an\narticle valued at fifty-five dollars for\nwhich he tendered an eighty-dollar\npay cheque duly signed by Messrs.\nCunningham, railroad contractors of\nNorth Bend, and was accepted by the\ndealer without the least suspicion and\nwas handed his change, twe.ity-five\ndollars, in cold cash. Business seemed good that afternoon to th? dealer\nas Walter also left an order ior another article which was not at that\nmoment in stock, but was ordered\nthere and then by mail. Next we\nsee Mr. Sprague making for another\n[store which carried a different line of\njgoods from the one mentioned. Here\n[he ordered two sets of harness, a suit\nof clothes and a few other articles\nand tendered another pay cheque in\npayment and which was likewise accepted with the same grace as the\nprevious dealer and the change proffered to the customer with that smiling admiration which goes a long way\nto get at the bottom of a customer's\npockets.\nThe next day when the pay cheques\nwere handed into the banks there was\nmore or less consternation among the\nvictims of Walter's high financing\nas they were found to be forgeries.\nThe wires were at once made use\nof for information regarding Mr.\nSprague's antecedents with the result\nthat it was ascertained that his real\nname was Henry Martin, who had\nbeen employed by the Messrs. Cunningham, at North Bend. Henry, or\nWalter, pulled out of Ashcroft with\nabout $230.00 and is no doubt enjoying a quiet holiday somewhere across\nthe border.\nWork for the Unemployed at\nVancouver\nFollowing a conference held recently in the Mayor's office, Vancouver,\nit was decided by the special committee appointed at the meeting of\nthe council to devise ways and means\nfor giving employment to the out-of-\nworks, Alderman Crowe, and City\nEngineer Fellowes should make a\ntour of Hastings Townsite to decide\nupon a scheme of work to be proceeded with right away. In connection with the \"unemployed question\"\nit has been decided by the Board\nof Park Commissioners to make a\nstart on the season's operations within the next day or so, and arrangements will be made to place 200 men\nat work without an*y delay.\nAmong other .suggestions which\nhave been made .to* relieve the situation which is said to exist owing to\nthe over supply of labour in town\nat the present time, is one to place\nsmall gangs at work cutting up the\nlumber washed in by every tide on\nthe beaches around Stanley Park and\nother accessible parts of the coast in\nthe vicinity of Vancouver. It is\nmentioned that fire wood of this nature could be used to great advantage by the school board, by other\npublic bodies and by private individuals.\nCivic Telephones\nFollowing upon the purchase of the\nlocal telephone system by the Okanagan Telephone company the local\nmanager has made a statement that\nthe rate on business phones will be\nraised to $5 per month, with a rebate\nof $1 if paid before the end of the\nmonth. All subscribers are making a\nvigorous protest, as it is understood\nthat even with the present rate of\n$2.50 per month the Lakeshore Tele\nphone company, the former owners of\nthe local system, have been able to\ndeclare annual dividends of 15 per\ncent. There is a legal aspect to the\nsituation and the prospect is that the\nnew company will not be able to\nbring about the raise. They hold a\nfranchise for the Okanagan Valley,\nbut do not hold .any franchise for\nPenticton. They hold, however, that\ntheir general franchise covers this,\nwhile the local council holds otherwise. The present franchise to the\nLakeshore people, and which the new\ncompany has taken over, has only\ntwo years to run, provides that rates\ncannot be raised above $3. It has\nbeen suggested by Councillor P. H.\nF.raut that if the new company persists in its demands that the town put\nin a municipal system, and the idea\nseems to meet with general approval.\nThe government long distance line\nwhich circles from here to Kamloops\nby way of Vernon and Salmon and\nthen through the Nicola back to tllis\npoint, would furnish an admirable\nlong distance connection.\nJail Overflowing With Prisoners\nConstables in this vicinity state that\nthey are now facing the difficulty of\nnot having room enough for the prisoners at New Westminster, where\nthey are taken at present and that\nthe demand for another jail is urgent.\nRecently Constable Moore of Port\nMoody took a prisoner to New Westminster and found the jail so crowded\nthat they were averse to receiving\nhim. At present crime is rampant\nthroughout the Vancouver district\nand an increasing number of arrests\nwill still further complicate matters.\nAlready Port Moody has taken the\nsituation in hand and has asked the\nProvince to establish a jail there immediately, which, if done, will give\nthis locality relief. A Port Moody\nrepresentative is now in Victoria, and\nthe announcement of his securing the\nappropriation is expected late this\nweek.\nNot only is there an apparent danger of there being a lack of quarters\nfor the prisoners at New Westminster, but the cost of taking them to\nthat city and the time lost amounts\nto a great deal at present, and will\nbe increased.\nMaple Ridge, Coquitlam and other\nmunicipalities will no,doubt lend assistance to the effort to secure increased jail accommodation and have\nit established in this vicinity.\nBlanketting Claims\nReports have reached Whitehorse\nthat a number of claims have been\nblanketted on the Sixty-mile in the\npresent big stampede. Much feeling\nhas developed over the fact. The report has come to the attention of the\nauthorities. Administrator Horrigan,\nGold Commissioner Gosselin and\nothers have been discussing the matter. Blanketting is construed as pure\nfraud, and Legal* Adviser Chas. iMac-\nonald says there is *no question it is\nan indictible offense\/ Administrator\nHorrigan also agrees in this. In fact,\na number of prosecutions have been\nmade in the territory in the past for\nblanketting. Two or three years ago\n\"Crooked\" Wright was convicted of\nblanketting in the Klttane stampede\nand was sentenced at Whitehorse to\ntwo and a half years in jail.\nCorrespondence\nThe Week accepts no responsibility for\nthe views expressed by its correspondents.\nCommunications will be inserted whether\nsigned by the real name of the writer\nor a nom de plume, but the writer's\nname and address must be given to the\nEditor as an evidence of bona fides. In no\ncase will it be divulged without consent.\nVITAL STATISTICS\nTo the Editor of The Week:\nSir,\u2014With the lapse of another decade may I trespass on your courtesy\nto publish for the consideration of\nyour readers the following statement\nshowing the mortality per thousand\nin this city per annum, since the extension of the city limits in 1891.\nIt is of course necessary to assume\nthat the ratio of increase in population is uniform in each decade; and it\nappears that the average increase was\nfrom 1891 to 1910, at the rate of\n2 i-77o and from 1902 to ign at 4l4%\nper annum.\nMortality Table\nMortality\nYear Population Deaths per 1,000\n1891 16,841 346 20.545\n1892 17,202 354 20*579\n1893 17.570 362 20.603\n1894 17,947 299 16.660\n1895 18,331 256 13-965\n1896 18,723 287 15-329\n1897 19,124 287 15.007\n1898 19.534 275 14.078\n1899 19.952 270 13-532\n1900 :o,38o 301 14-769\n1901 20,816 303 I4*556\nMortality\nYear Population Deaths per 1,000\n1902 21,705 232 10.689\n1903 22,631 301 13.300\n1904 23,598 270 11.442\n1905 24,605 238 9-673\n1906 25.655 247 9.628\n1907 26,751 339 12.702\n1908 27,893 331 11.867\n1909 29,084 305 10.487\n1910 30,325 342 11.278\n1911 31,620 37> n.733\nThe foregoing figures have been obtained from official sources, from\nwhich, however, as not affecting the\npublic health, the deaths due to the\nlamentable accident at Point Ellice\nBridge in 1896, have been deducted.\nThere is one statement, in the\notherwise admirable report of the\nMedical Health Officer which is open\nto criticism. He assumes the death-\nrate for 1911 at eight and one-sixth\nper thousand. To arrive at this conclusion he has also to assume that\n13,380 people have been omitted from\nthe census. With all respect for the\ndoctor, I hold that his assumptions\nare hardly warranted.\nIt is difficult to understand on what\nbasis the population can be assumed\nat between 40 and 50 per cent, more\nthan the official count. Are we to\nbelieve that 13,380 people have been\nomitted by the census takers.\nAccording to the official figures the\ndeath rate in 1911 was. 11,733 per\nthousand, not 8.167.\nNo one can feel certain of the absolute accuracy of the census, but, for\nthe sake of argument alone, assuming\nomissions equal to 5%, which does not\nappear an illiberal allowance ior\nerrors, the death rate per thousand\nwould be 11.174.\nWhile it is disagreeable to criticise\none does not wish to live in a Fool's\nParadise, better far to face the difficulties and do our best to render\nVictoria, that whicii it should be, the\nhealthiest city on the continent.\nWhen we examine the details of\nthe report we find certain figures\nwhich are by no means subjects for\ncongratulation. There are 53 deaths\ntabulated as due to zymotic diseases\nand tuberculosis, all of whicli are recognized by sanitarians as preventable diseases. Not to trespass too\nmuch on your courtesy, and dealing\nonly with adults between 20 and 65\nyears of age, (see my letter to the\nColonist, dated 14th October, 1901),\nas being of any value to the community, the cash loss to the commonwealth has been in the past year\n$38,340, arising from preventable diseases alone.\nWe cannot estimate the grief and\nsuffering caused by 53 deaths and\n1484 cases of sickness which did not\nterminate fatally.\nIn the ten years, 1902 to 1911 inclusive, there were 356 deaths from\nthese diseases which, dealing only\nwith adults as before, represents a\ncash loss to the commonwealth in\nten years of over $259,000.\nIn only two years of this period,\n1905 and 1906, has the death rate\nfallen' below 10 per thousand and it\nwas in these two years that the deaths\nfrom zymotic disease and tuberculosis\nwere fewest, being 36. In the previous two years they amounted to\n72, and in the succeeding two years\nto 91. In the last two years they\nhave amounted to 106.\nYour obedient servant,\nEDWARD MOHUN,\nSanitary Engineer.\nVictoria, B.C., Jan. 29, 1912.\nCAR SERVICE\nVictoria, Jan. 19th, 1912.\nEditor The Week:\nDear Sir,\u2014Mr. Goward's letter of\nexplanation to the causes of the delay in the car service, is no excuse\nfor the absolutely disgraceful state\nof affairs that exists at the present\nmoment. The real reason is that the\ncompany has not attempted to keep\npace with the increasing population,\nand it is obvious to all outside the\ncompany that in addition to the absolute inadequack of thc service and\nthe number and size of cars required\nthere is a total absence of common-\nsense in the company's methods of\ncarrying on their business. One of\nthe causes of thc longest delay stated\nin Mr. Goward's letter was at the\nbreaking down of a dray across the\nrails carrying three tons of coal, by\nwhich the traffic was held up for five\nhours. Now it appears to me that\nin cases of this kind, two or three\nmen should have at once been sent\nto the spot and the sacks of coal\ntaken off the wagon and piled on\nthe side of the road, when the wagon\ncould have been bodily levered off the\ntrack, and a delay of at most half an\nhour would have been caused. One\ngreat cause of delay is the small\nnumber of crossing places. I know\nno other tramway system (I am\nspeaking of the Old Country) where\nevery crossing is not in full view of\nthe next so that there is no waiting\nof cars at any one of them and in\nthe case of a breakdown, it would bc\na simple matter for the oncoming\ncars to run up to that one stalled and\nthe passengers would transfer and\ncontinue their journey with little delay and inconvenience. Even with\nthe present inadequate crossing ar-\nft up Horn\nTHEBESTOrEYEWTHIHG\nINTHEBIARTOrTHEOlTT\n1135RO0HSWlTHBATH-50SAMPttRom3\nJust Arrived\nA fine line of Ladies' Silk\nWaist Patterns, Fancy Silk\nScarfs, Shaws, etc., which\nwe have marked at\nbargain prices.\nSo Kee & Co.\n1029 Cook St. Cor. Cook & Fort\nrangements, the installation of electric\nsignals at those crossings which are\nso far apart, would enable this delay\nto the cars to be obviated. In addition to this system of signals the'\ncompany should have boxed-in telephones at various places en route so\nthat the conductor could notify any\nbreakdown or accident to the company without the delay which now\noccurs. There is, as has been said,\nno excuse for the present disgraceful\nstate of affairs, which must cause serious loss to the company, in addition to serious inconvenience and annoyance to the public, and the company deserves the possible cancellation of its charter, by its neglect to\nprovide an adequate service, which\nsurely forms part of its obligations\nunder whicii this charter was granted.\nIs there no way of compelling the\ncompany to give us the reasonable\nservice to which we are entitled for\nhaving given the company the very\nvaluable monopoly which it has? !\nYours truly,\nSUFFERER.\nA NEWCOMER ON SOCIAL\nCONDITIONS\nTo the Editor of The Week:\nSir,\u2014I read vvith a great deal of\ninterest your strictures in last week's\nissue on the lax administration of\nthe law in regard to social vice, but\nit appears to me that the blame does\nnot lie altogether with the police.\nEarly last summer in an adjoining\nmunicipality the officers with commendable beal raided the resort of a\nnotorious woman and the inmates\nwcre cast into prison. The poor\ndupes of this woman had to remain\nin jail, pay a fine or leave the country.\nThe woman was sentenced by the Police Magistrate to five months' imprisonment, but was allowed at large\non very inadequate bail and though\nshe made no defense she was allowed\nto appeal, and after innumerable postponements, she was finally allowed at\nlarge by the flimsiest kind of a fluke,\nand had her bail money refunded.\nNow this same woman has heen lined\nthree or four times for selling liquor\nbut has always appealed, and there\nare several appeals which have been\npending for months, and I am informed that this woman has boasted\nthat she need not go to prison so long\nas she has plenty of money, and it\nlooks like it, and the ordinary layman is liable to draw some nasty inferences. Now, Mr. Editor, is this\nnot a case that might come within\nthe purview of the Hon. Attorney-\nGeneral, and to which his attention\nmight properly be directed, as it appears to mc a most flagrant miscarriage of justice. In a similar case in\nWinnipeg a few weeks ago where the\noffense was only the sale of a pint of\nchampagne the Police Magistrate\nsentenced the woman to pay $1,000\nor to two years in jail. Now, sir, you\nare entitled to the thanks of the community, especially of parents, for the\nstand you are taking in this matter.\nThanking you for the space, I am,\nYours sincerely,\nA NEWCOMER. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912\nCity of Victoria\nPrivate Bill\nPublic Library\nPublic notice is hereby given that\nthe undersigned will on behalf of the\nCorporation of the City of Victoria\nmake an application before the Pri\nvate Bills Committee of the Legisla\nture, in the Committee Room in the\nLegislative Building, Victoria, on\nTuesday, the sixth day of February,\n1912, at the hour of io o'clock in the\nforenoon or so soon thereafter as the\nundersigned can be heard for insertion in the Bill now being promoted\nby the Corporation of the City of Victoria in the Legislative Assembly, of\nthe following clause referring to the\nPublic Library:\n\"Notwithstanding anything contained in the Municipal Clauses Act or in\nany by-law of the Corporation, it shall\nbe lawful for the Municipal Council to\nexpend for the maintenance and upkeep of the Public Library, such sum\nas the Municipal Council may direct,\nnot exceeding in any one year, one-\nquarter of one mill on the dollar of\nthe assessed value of real property in\nthe Corporation.\"\nAnd further take notice that any\nperson or persons or body corporate\nwishing to oppose the passage of the\nsaid clause or wishing to be heard in\nfavor of the passing of the said clause\nwill be heard at the said time and\nplace.\nDated the 31st day of January, 1912.\nF. A. McDIARMID,\nCity Solicitor.\nDEPARTMENT OF LANDS\nWater Branch.\nIn thc matter of the Board of Investigation\ncreated by Part III. of the \"Water Act\" for\nthe determination of water rights existing on\nthe 12th day of March, 1909; and in the\nmatter of the following creeks in the New\nWestminster Water District:\u2014\nAlta or Summit Lake. '\nAlpha Lake.\nAllan Creek.\nBritannia Creek.\nBoulder Creek.\nClementine C-eek.\nCapilano River.\nEast Branch of Capilano River.\nChee-kee Creek.\nCheakamus River.\nCheakumus River, North Branch.\nCheakamus River, South-east Fork.\nCold Creek.\nCaldwell Creek.\nCathedral Canyon.\nCrocker Creek.\nCypress Creek.\nDatsy Lake.\nDeer Creek.\nEight-mile Creek or Soo River.\nElaha or Squamish River.\nFurry Creek.\nFitzsimmons Creek.\nGreen Lake.\nfioulgatc Creek.\nHolmdcn Creek.\nHigh Falls Creek.\nLynn Creek.\nLewis Creek.\nMineral Creek.\nMamquam River.\nLittle Mamquam River.\nMcCartney Creek.\nMosquito Creek.\nMislilooct River.\nMackay Creek.\nMud Creek.\nMartin Creek.\nMcDonald Creek.\nNita Lake.\nNelson Creek.\nOlsen Creek.\nRice Lake.\nShone Creek.\nSeymour Creek.\nStoney Creek.\nUpper Stoney Creek.\nSoutii Valley Creek.\nSkookum River.\nSummit or Alta Lake.\nSoo River or Eight-mile Creek.\nSunshine Creek.\nSilver Falls.\nSisters Creek.\nSquamish or Elaha River.\nSoutli Squamish River. ,\nSwift Creek.\nShovclnosc Creek.\nShannon Creek.\nStraamus or Stroamus River.\nTrafalgar Creek.\nTenderfoot Creek.\nThames Stream.\nUnnamed creek flowing into Lynn Creek.\nNnnamed creek flowing into Nelson Creek.\nUnnamed creek flowing into Seymour\nCreek.\nUnnamed creek flowing into Squamish\nRiver through District Lot 977.\nUnnamed stream in District Lot 549.\nStream running through District Lot Ooo,\nGroup 1.\nStream on Block 43 of Subdivision of District Lots 771 and 547, Group I.\nUnnamed stream running in on north\nboundary of District Lot 626.\nStream on Diitrict Lot 271.\nSmall creek running through Lot 775 in\nsoutherly direction.\nSmall stream running into North Arm,\nBurrard Inlet, opposite works of thc\nVancouver Power Company.\nUnnamed mountain stream coming in on\nthe north boundary-line of Lot 25, in\nMunicipality of North Vancouver.\nSmall stream running in a southerly direction into Burrard Inlet, about one\nmile and a half east of Seymour Creek.\nUnnamed stream flowing through E* V2\nof District Lot 1240, Group 1.\nUnnamed stream running east and west\nthrough Lot 950, southern portion.\nCreek running through District Lots 979\nand 812, Group 1.\nUnnamed stream flowing through eastern\nportion of District Lot 2028.\nUnnamed stream close to eastern boundary of same.\nUnnamed stream rising in Lot 1494,\nNorth Vancouver District.\nUnnamed stream on west shore of Mainland emptying into Howe Sound opposite east shore Bowen Island.\nUnnamed stream having its source north\nof District Lot 559, and running in a\nsoutherly direction through the said lot\ninto Burrard Inlet,\nUnnamed stream whicii runs through Lot\n2049 and Lot 2048.\nUnnamed stream which runs southerly\n\u00bb through subdivision of north-easterly\npart of District Lot 871.\nUnnamed creek on Lot 230, about 12\nchains from south-west corner.\nUnnamed stream running from Lot 1406\nthrough Lots 1360 and 2048 into Burrard Inlet.\nUnnamed stream which passes through\nDistrict Lot 881, flowing south-westwards into District Lot 785, and\nthrough District Lot 880.\nUnnamed stream passing through District\nLot 785 westwards.\nUnnamed creek flowing through District\nLots 1301, 869, 803, and 862.\nUnnamed stream on north boundary of\nDistrict Lot 882.\nUnnamed stream flowing south-easterly\nthrough District Lots 2003 and 2004.\nUnnamed creek entering North Arm of\nBurrard Inlet on west side, between\nBrighton Beach and Point Beautiful.\nFirst gulch south of Schooner Harbour,\nand running through Lot 2076, Group\n1.\nUnnamed creek running through easterly\npart of District Lot 801, North Vancouver.\nUnnamed creek running westerly from\nSnow Flat, on Lots 1001, 1002, 1003,\n1004, Group 1, and all unnamed springs,\nstreams, creeks, ponds, gulchest and\nlakes tributary to or in the vicinity\nof the above-named streams.\nTake notice that each and every person,\npartnership, company, or municipality who,\non the said 12th day of March, 1909, had\nwater rights on any of the above-mentioned\ncreeks, is directed to forward on or before\nthe 29th day of February, 1912, to the Chief\nWater Commissioner at the Parliament Buildings at Victoria, a memorandum of claim in\nwriting as required by section 27 of the laid\nAct as amended. Printed forms for such\nmemorandum (Form No. 19) can be obtained\nfrom any of the Water Commissioners in the\nProvince j\nAnd take notice that the said Board of\nInvestigation intends to proceed to tabulate\nsuch claims on or about the 30th day of\nMarch, 1912.\nAfter the claims have been tabulated by the\nBoard, notice will be given of the places and\ndays on which evidence and argument will\nbe heard at local points.\nDated at Victoria this 13th day of January,\n1912.\nJ. F. ARMSTRONG,'\nChairman.\njan. 20\nmar. 30\nNOTICE\nIn the Matter of the Victoria Canning Company of British Columbia, Limited Liability.\nTAKE NOTICE that a Meeting of the\nCreditors of the above Company will be\nheld on Friday, the 9th day of February,\n1912, at the registered office of the company,\nNo. 1117 Wharf Street, in the City of Victoria,\nat the hour of eleven o'clock in the forenoon.\nAND TAKE NOTICE that the Creditors\nof the above Company are required on or\nbefore the 9th day of February, 1912, to\nsend their names and addresses and the\nparticulars of their debts or claims to the\nLiquidator of the said Company, or in default thereof they will be excluded from the\nbenefit of any distribution made before such\ndebts are proved.\nDated this 25th day of January, A.D. 1912.\nJ. H. LAWSON,\njan. 27 Liquidator.\nNOTICE VO CONTRACTORS\nSteel Fittings, Vaults\u2014Government Offices,\nNew Westminster.\nSEALED TENDERS, superscribed \"Steel\nFittings, Vaults, Government Offices, New\nWestminster,\" will hc received by the Honourable the Minister of Public Works up to\n12 o'clock noon of Friday, the 16th day\nof February, 1912, for furnishing and fitting\nin place steel shelving, etc., required for the\nvaults of thc Government Offices at New\nWestminster.\nPlans and forms of tender may bc seen on\nand after the 1st of February, at tbe offices\nof the Government Agent, New Westminster;\nthe Provincial Timber Inspertor, Court-house,\nVancouver, and the Department of Public\nWorks, Victoria.\nEach proposal must be accompanied by an\naccepted bank cheque or certificate of de'posit\non a chartered bank of Canada, made payable\nto the Honourable the Minister of Public\nWorks, for a sum equivalent to 10 per cent,\nof the amount of the tender, which shall be\nforfeited if the party tendering decline to\nenter into contract when called upon to do\nso, or if he fail to complete thc work contracted for. The cheques or certificates of\ndeposit of unsuccessful tenderers will be returned to them upon the execution of the\ncontract.\nTenders will not bc considered unless made\nout on the forms supplied, signed with the\nactual signature of the tenderer, and enclosed\nin the envelopes furnished.\nThe lowest or any tender not necessarily\naccepted.\nJ. E. GRIFFITH,\nPublic Works Engineer.\nDepartment of Public Works,\nVictoria, B.C., 30th January, 1912.\nfeb. 3 feb. 16\nCANCELLATION OF RESERVE\nNOTICE is hereby given that the reserve\nexisting over the lands described as Lot No.\n2130, Group One, New Westminster District,\nby reason of a notice bearing date of the 26th\nday of June, 1907, and published in the\nBritish Columbia Gazette on August 29th,\n1907, is cancelled so as to permit of a lease\nof the lands being given to Albert Scott.\nROBT. A. RENWICK,\nDeputy Minister of Lands.\nLands Department,\nVictoria, B. C,\nJanuary 5th, 1912.\njan 13 apl 13\nCANCELLATION OF RESERVE\nNOTICE is hereby given that the reserve\nexisting over the lands described as Lot No.\n2130, Group One, New Westminster District,\nby reason of a notice bearing date of the 26th\nof June, 1907, and published in the British\nColumbia Gazette on August 29th, 1907, is\ncancelled so to permit of a lease of the fands\nbeing given to Albert Scott.\nROBT. A. RENWICK,\nDeputy Minister of Lands.\nLands Department,\nVictoria, B. C,\nJanuary 5th, 1912.\nian 13 apl 13\nNOTICE TO CONTRACTORS\nQuathiaski Cove Lock-up.\nSEALED TENDERS, superscribed \"Tender for Lock-up and Constable's Quarters,\nSuathiaski Cove,\" will be received by. the\non. the Minister of Public Works up to\n12 o'clock noon of Wednesday, the 7th day\nof February, 1912, for the erection and completion of a five-room two-cell Lock-up and\nConstable's Quarters at Quathiaski Cove,\nValdes Island! in the Comox Electoral District, B.C.\nPlans, specifications, contract, and forms of\ntender may be seen on and after the 18th\ndav of January, 1912, at the offices of the\nGovernment Agents, Cumberland and Nanaimo; the Constable in charge, Quathiaski\nCove; and the Department of Pubfic Works,\nParliament Buildings, Victoria.\nEach proposal must be accompanied by an\naccepted bank cheque or certificate of deposit\non a chartered bank of Canada, made payable\nto the Hon. the Minister of Public Works,\nfor the sum of $350, which shall be forfeited if\nthe party tendering decline to enter into\ncontract when called upon to do so, or if he\nfail to complete the work contracted for. The\ncheques or certificates of deposit of unsuccessful tenderers will be returned to them upon the execution of the contract.\nTenders will not be considered unless made\nout on the forms supplied, signed with thc\nactual signature of the tenderer, and enclosed\nin the envelopes furnished.\nThe lowest or any tender not necessarily\naccepted.\nJ. E. GRIFFITH,\nPublic Works Engineer.\nDepartment of Public Works,\nVictoria, B.C., January 16th, 1912.\njan. 20 feb. 3\n\"LAND REGISTRY ACT\"\nIn the matter of an Application for a fresh\nCertificate of Title to Lot 5 of Lots 27\nand 28, of part of Section 5, Map 759,\nVictoria City.\nNOTICE is hereby given of my intention\nat the expiration of one calendar month from\nthe first publication hereof, to issue a fresh\nCertificate of Title in lieu of the Certificate\nof Title issued to Albeit G. Sargison on the\n27th'of February, 1908, and numbered 17277C,\nwhich has been lost.\nDated at the Land Registry Office, Victoria,\nBritish Columbia, this 29th day of January,\n1912.\nS. Y. WOOTTON,\nRegistrar-General of Titles.\nfeb. 3 mch. 9\nVICTORIA LAND Dl TRICT\nDistrict of Coast, Range 3\nTAKE notice that Herbert Sutherland, of\nBella Coola, occupation Engineer, intends to\napply for permission to purchase the following described lands:\u2014Commencing at a post\nplanted 20 chains cast from the north-west\ncorner of Section 23, Township 6, Bella Coola,\nthence soutli 20 chains; thence east 40 chains;\nthence north 20 chains; thence west 40 chains\nto point of commencement.\nDated January 8th, 1912.\nHERBERT SUTHERLAND,\njan. 27 mar. 23\n\"LAND REGISTRY ACT\"\nIn the Matter of an Application for a Fresh\nCertificate of Title to Lot 1727, Victoria\nCity, British Columbia.\nNOTICE is hereby given of my intention,\nat thc expiration of one calendar month\nfrom the first publication hereof, to issue\na fresh Certificate of Title in lieu of the\nCertificate of Title issued to Charles Cameron on the 12th of November, 1882, and\nnumbered 4165A, which has been lost or\ndestroyed.\nDated at Land Registry Office, Victoria,\nB.C., this nth day of January, A.D., 1912.\nS. Y. WOOTTON,\nRegistrar-General of Titles.\njtn. 1} feb. 10\n\"WATER ACT, 1909.'\nTHIS Ib TO CERTIFY that the Wellington Colliery Company, Limited, holder of\nWater Licences Nos. 1919 and 1920, granted\nby the Water Commissioner for the Victoria\nWater District, for the diversion of 1,000\ncubic feet per second of water from the\nPuntledge River, a tributary of Courtenay\nRiver, has submitted to the Lieutenant-\nGovernor in Council a map or plan of the\nworks by whicii it intends to divert the said\nwater and conduct it to the place where it\nshall be used for generating electric power as\ndescribed in the said Licences.\nThat the undertaking of the said Wellington Colliery Company, Limited, as set out\nin the said plans is hereby approved, and\nthe said Company is hereby authorized to\nconstruct and execute the following works in\naccordance with the plans and specifications\nsubmitted and filed in the office of the Chief\nWater Commissioner at Victoria, viz.:\u2014\nA. An impounding dam near the outlet of\nComox Lake.\nB. Lowering the bed of Puntledge River\nand the hereinafter described diversion\ndam to an increased depth of five feet\nor less.\nC. A diversion dam on Puntledge River\nabout 2,800 feet below the impounding\ndam above described.\nD. The works necessary for the transmis\nsion of the power generated under the\nabove Licences on and in the vicinity\nof lands belonging to the said Company.\nThat the Company may exercise its powers\nwithin the Comox and Nelson Land Districts.\nThat no capital be required beyond that\nalready subscribed and paid up.\nThat the works shall be begun on \u00abr\nbefore the first day of May next, and shall\nbe completed and in actuaf operation on or\nbefore the 31st December, 1913.\nWith the proviso that during the construction of the said works any engineer\nappointed by the Minister of Lands for that\npurpose shall have free access to all parts\nof the works for the purpose of inspecting\nthe same and of ascertaining tnat the construction thereof is in accordance with the\nplans and specifications herein referred to,\nand that the cost of such inspection shall be\npaid by the Company.'\nDated this 27th day of November. 1911.\nA. CAMPBELL REDDIE,\nDeputy Clerk of the Executive Council.\nNOTICE TO CONTRACTORS\nPort Alberni School\nSEALED TENDERS, superscribed \"Tender for School-house, Port Alberni,\" will be\nreceived by the Hon. the Minister of Public\nWorks up to 12 o'clock noon of Wednesday,\nthe 14th day of February, 1912, for the erection and completion of a two-room frame\nschool-house at Port Alberni, in the Alberni\nElectoral District, B. C.\nPlans, specifications, contract, and forms of\ntender may be seen on and after the 22nd\nday of January, 1912, at the offices of A. D.\nCooper, Esq., Secretary of the School Board,\nPort Alberni, B.C.; the Government Agents,\nAlberni and Nanaimo, and the Department of\nPublic Works, Parliament Buildings, Victoria.\nEach proposal must bc accompanied by an\naccepted bank cheque or certificate of deposit\non a chartered bank of Canada, made payable\nto the Hon. the Minister of Public Works,\nfor the sum of $500, which shall be forfeited\nif the party tendering decline to enter into\ncontract when called upon to do so, or if he\nfail to complete the work contracted for. The\ncheques or certificates of deposit of unsuccessful tenderers will be returned to them upon the execution of the contract.\nTenders will not be considered unless made\nout on the forms supplied, signed with the\nactual signature of the tenderer, and enclosed\nin the envelopes furnished.\nThe lowest or any tender not necessarily\naccepted.\nJ. E. GRIFFITH,\nPublic Works Engineer.\nDepartment of Public Works,\nVictoria, B.C., January 19th, 1912.\njan. 20 feb. 10\nMAIL CONTRACT\nRural Mail Delivery\nSealed Tenders, addressed to the Postmaster\nGeneral, will be received at Ottawa until noon,\non Friday, the 23rd February next, for the\nconveyance of His Majesty's mails, on a proposed contract for four years, six times per\nweek, for Rural Mail Delivery on a circular\nroute starting at and ending at Victoria via\nthe Cadboro Bay and Mount Tolmie Roads,\ncommencing from the Postmaster General's\npleasure.\nA map showing in detail the route to be\ntravelled can be seen at the office of the\nundersigned.\nPrinted notices containing further information as to conditions of proposed contract\nmay be seen, and blank forms of tender\nmay be obtained from the Post Offices of\nVictoria, Willow Park, Mount Tolmie and at\nthe office of the undersigned.\nE. H. FLETCHER,\nP. 0. Inspector.\nPoBt Office Inspector's Office,\nVictoria, B.C., sth January, 1912.\nJan. 20 feb. 3\nNOTICE\nPRIVATE BILLS\n, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Peti-J\ntions for Private Bills must be presented tol\nthe Legislative Assembly not later than Mon-J\nday, the 22nd day of January, 1912.\nPrivate Bills must be presented and intro-l\nduccd to the House not later than the isq\nday of February, 1912.\nPrivate Bills must be reported to the House!\nby the Committee considering same not lateJ\nthan the 8th day of February, 1912.\nDated this 8th day of December, 1911.\nTHORNTON FELL,\nClerk Legislative Assembly,\ndec. 9 feb.,'\nCANCELLATION OF RESERVE\nNOTICE is hereby given that the reserJ\nestablished by notice published in the Briti*\nColumbia Gazette of the 14th August, 188I\nand dated the 13th August, 1884, is cancellJ\nin so far as the same relates to Fraction!\nSections 2 and 11, Township 12, and thi\nportion of Section 35, Township 10, KootenJ\nDistrict, lying North of the C. P. R. rigl\nof way and West of the E. & N. Railwf\nright of way in order that a sale of the saf\nlands may be made to Henry L. Simons.\nROBT. A. RENWICK,\nDeputy Minister of Lands. |\nLands Department,\nVictoria, B. C,\nJanuary 5th, 1912.\njan 13 apl 1\nVICTORIA LAND DISTRICT\nDistrict of Sayward\nTAKE notice tMt Frank H. Sager of Vii\ntoria, occupation Labourer, intends to appll\nfor permission to purchase the following dJ\nscribed lands:\u2014Commencing at a post plantei\nat the north-east corner of Section 23, ol\nGorge Harbour, Cortes Island, Sayward Dia\ntrict, B. C, thence 40 chains south!\nthence 40 chains west; thence 40 chainl\nnorth; thence 40 chains east to point ol\ncommencement, containing 160 acres, morl\nor less.\nDated 6th December, 1911.\nFRANK H. SAGER. ,\ndec. 30 mch |\nNOTICE\nNOTICE is hereby given that an applies!\ntion will be made to the Legislative AssemblJ\nof the Province of Britisli Columbia at itl\nnext session for an Act granting to thi\nRight Reverend the Lord Bishop of Columl\nbia, the Venerable the Archdeacon of Van!\ncouver, the Honourable Paulus Emilius Irvl\ning, Alfred Cornelius Flumerfelt, George Alail\nKirk and Cuyler Armstrong Holland, cornl\nmonly known as thc Trustees of the Chrisl\nChurch Trust Estate more ample and definite\npowers of dealing with the lands and property\nvested in or held by them as such trustees\nand in particular power to sell, exchange!\nlease and mortgage and otherwise dispose on\nall the said lands and property and to apply\nand use all monies produced thereby and all\nlands received by exchange to and for any\nof the purposes of the trusts without respect)\nto the source from which the same may havo\nbeen obtained or tp the particular trust uponl\nwhich lands given in exchange may have beenl\nheld but that such powers shall only be ex-r\nerciscd respectively upon the written con-1\nsents of parties interested therein and uponl\nthe conditions to be more particularly set!\nforth in the petition to be presented to thel\nsaid Legislative Assembly upon the said appli-1\ncation and in particular that none of thel\npowers of the Trustees shall be exercisable!\nby less than three Trustees acting together,\nand further that the Trustees may be at liberty\nto invest the trust funds upon first mortgages\nof realty situate in British Columbia, and\nthat all lands of which the Trustees shall\nbe registered as owners or entitled to be registered as such at the time vested.\nDated the 28th day of December, 1911.\nCREASE & CREASE,\nSolicitors for the Applicants,\njan. 20 feb. 24\nNAVAL SERVICE OF CANADA\nSchooner for Pacific Coast Survey\nSEALED TENDERS, for the design and\nconstruction of the above Schooner delivered\nas early as practicable free of all charges\nat Esquimalt Dockyard, B.C., will be received\nby the undersigned up to noon on 15th\nFebruary.\nGeneral particulars and outline prints for\nguidance in tendering may be obtained from\nthe Officer in Charge, ri.M.C. Dockyard, Esquimalt.\nTenders should be accompanied by a certified cheque for $500 payable to the Department of the Naval Service as a guarantee\nthat work wiwll be undertaken if the contract\nis awarded.\nG. J. DESBARATS,\nDeputy Minister the Naval Service.\nDepartment of Naval Service, Ottawa,\njan. 27 feb. 3\nRENFREW LAND DISTRICT\nDistrict of'Jordan River\nTAKE notice that I, Netta B. Moore, of\nVictoria, occupation Married Woman, intends\nto apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:\u2014Commencing at a\n\u00a7ost planted sixty chains distant in a westerly\nirection from the north-east corner of Lot 3,\nRenfrew District, being Netta B. Moore, S. E.\nCorner j thence north 40 chains: thence west\n34 chains; thence south 18.6 chains; thence\neast 10 chains; thence south 21.4 chatns;\nthence east 24 chains to place of commencement, and containing one hundred and fourteen and six-tenths acres, more or less.\nDated November 28th, iqii.\nNETTA B. MOORE.\ndec. 3\nBy William W. Steinmetz, Agent,\nftb. 3 THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912\nCharacter by Handwriting\nThe Editor of The Week wishes\ncall special attention to this Detriment, which is conducted by an\nnglish gentleman, a 'Varsity man of\nigh attainments. Character reading\nom hand-writing is a scientific\nudy, entirely devoid of charlatanism\nid is possibly the most reliable in-\nx of all, because hand-writing re-\nirds the development of character,\nid its index is not confined to na-\nral traits. It is an interesting\nudy, not merely in enabling us to\ne ourselves as others see us, but\nty be turned to important account\nsubmitting the hand-writing of peris with whom we have business re-\nions. Indeed, viewed in this aspect,\nis only a reasonable precaution to\nrn all that the chirographist can\nus. Before deciding to institute\ns Department the Editor of The\n:ek imposed the severest tests, sub-\n:ting the hand-writing of well-\n>wn persons entirely unknown to\ngentleman conducting this De-\ntment, who is a stranger to Vic-\nia and a recent arrival. He is pre-\ned to guarantee absolute accuracy\nhopes that the readers of The\nek will avail themselves of what\ngenuine privilege.\nRULES\nAll persons wishing to consult\niu\" must enclose a specimen of\nid-writing, consisting of not less\n*n six lines written in ink on lined paper. A portion of a letter is\nch better than copied matter. It\ny be signed with their own name\nnot, but there must be an initial\nnom-de-plume to identify the\nwer, which will appear in the next\nue of The Week.\nEach specimen of hand-writing\nist be accompanied by a P. 0. for\ncents. Stamps will not be ac-\nited, and the outside of the en-\nope should be indited \"Hand-writ-\nAbsolute privacy is guaranteed.\nREPLIES\nV. P.\u2014Fond of literature and the arts;\nare cultured, can talk well, and make\nir points clearly. Your's is an artistic\nlire, you have gifts, and you should bc\nto paint or draw. Though methodical\nJ fairly neat, I would not term you\ncise; you are sensitive, retiring and in-\nrdly timid, being influenced a good deal\nthe ideas and actions of others. Energy\npronounced though not lazy. Vou pre-\na social town life to one in the country.\nongly attracted to the opposite sex, you\naffectionate and fond of your friends,\nking much ambition you are just, hon-\nrable and kind-hearted; you have tact,\nution and diplomacy. Discretion is weak,\noral sense is present.\nH. E. R.\u2014I am glad that my character\nyour friend was correct, here is yours:\n>u arc very affectionate, bright, and \u00bbcheer-\nand fond of home life, moral and reli-\n\u25a0us feeling is extremely high. You are\nstent, havc a strong will and you do\nt hesitate to express your views. Refined\nthout much artistic feeling, yet your taste\nnerally is good. You are jealous, apt to\nsuspicious and unjust, but these traits,\nlanced as they arc by better ones, you\n)uld overcome. Your tact is weak, you are\nmt, you are fond of outdoor games, coun-\nlife, riding, dancing, etc., you arc en-\nisiastic and you arc not averse to the\nnpanionship of the opposite sex.\nPAUL FERROL\u2014The specimen you sent\nntains two entirely different writings, do\nu wish mc to treat your letter as a whole\notherwise? Please reply, do not send -*.n-\nler fee.\nE. H.\u2014I much regret the delay. Here is\nar character: Your taste in design and\n:ss is good, you give a good deal of time\nthe latter, studying the slightest details,\nlittle conceited, rather impulsive, you have\ngood business head and lots of energy\n1 ambition. You like the best of every-\nng and endeavour to get it, and you are\nlined to extravagance and also selfishness.\nu can organise and plan, you are fitted\nlead, you have an eye for detail. On the\nole you arc truthful; you have courage\n_ you do not shirk a fight. Warm-hearted\nI kind, you are a good friend, and your\nerful spirits make you good company.\nral sense is good, you are not jealous; on\ns whole you are just. You are enthusiastic\nyour ideas are all big.\niNASTASIA\u2014Yes, you sent me quite\nugh. You have not much sense of art\nt your taste is good. You are neat,\ntliodical and precise. Your energy is fair\ni you have both acquisitiveness and eau-\nYour will is good, your head clear and\nu should make money. You are careful\nd tactful, you dislike waste of any sort.\n)ur moral and religious sense is fair. You\n; not impulsive nor are you very cnthu-\nStic. On the whole you are consistent,\nstice is poor.\nW. W. A.\u2014You are a steady, conscientious\nirkcr, with not much ambition. You should\nwell in commerce. You are methodical\nand accurate and you have abundance of\nsound common sense. Your artistic sense is\nweak, your imagination and powers of observation are distinctly poor. You are straightforward and kind-hearted, usually just, but\nyou are also selfish and inclined to severely\ncriticise the mistakes of others. Affection\nis poor, charity very weak.\nN. E. P.*\u2014Thank you, you sent me a fair\nspecimen. You are orderly, methodical and\nneat; you have mathematical ability and a\nclear logical head. Your will-power is\nstrong, imagination and observation are both\nweak. You are neither sanguine nor pessimistic. Cautious, careful and saving, you are\nnot extravagant, you arc fairly affectionate,\nbut somewhat selfish and inclined to be critical ; your sense of humour is good and your\nmoral feeling is well developed. You are\ninclined to fits of depression and given to\nworry over trifles. Your sense of justice is\nweak and you are unforgiving.\nCROPPY JUNIOR, \" HAZELTON.\u2014You\nare inclined to be erratic and unbalanced.\nWill power is good but I note a lack of\nindependence, and neither energy nor ambition\nare pronounced. You are fond of music\nand singing, fond of cards and sport in\ngeneral. You are affectionate, observant,\nwith good moral sense and fair will-power.\nI do not term you a tidy person, neither are\nyou always truthful; you have a tendency\nto be unscrupulous, but as your hand is as\nyet undeveloped I may be mistaken. You\nare attracted to the opposite sex and you\nare fond of society.\nDICKUMS, HAZELTON \u2014 Enthusiastic,\nbright and cheerful, you should be a charming companion. Observant and with imagination your clear head enables you to express\nyour thoughts freely. Affectionate and fond\nof home life, you are also unselfish and\nthoughtful for others. Jealousy is marked,\nsense of justice is weak, nor is your moral\nsense very strong. You are, however, distinctly religious, straightforward and just.\nFond of outdoor sports and recreations, you\ndo not care to study. You can organise\nand have method though you are not neat.\nI note obstinacy.\nRUBE\u2014I am glad to hear that I succeeded with your friend's character, here is yours\nas I see it: You have a good stable will,\nyou are moderate in all things, orderly in\nyour thoughts and acts if a trifle impulsive-\nSomewhat self-conscious, a little opinionated,\nyou are very straightforward, candid and\nhonourable. You abhor meanness and hypocrisy. Affectionate and fond of children,\nyou arc just in your judgments. Jealousy\nis one of your faults, inaccuracy another.\nEnergy is fair, artistic sense is present but\nundeveloped, your taste is good and you are\nclever with your hands.\nJOHN\u2014A well balanced, moderate charac:\nter. Rather sanguine than pessimistic you\nnevertheless have a very clear head, and you\narc business-like. Reserved and diffident, you\nhave a low opinion of your powers. You\nare observant, cautious and tactful, Truthful\nand honourable, your moral and religious\nsense is high; affectionate to others, you\nobtain the love and respect of your friends.\nFond of games and sports you are fairly good\nat them. In some matters your will is weak,\nbut in regard to higher things you are adamant. Inclined to be crochety and irritable\nat times, yet very just, and not at all jealous.\nAmbition is poor,\nELIHU, VICTORIA\u2014I do not tell fortunes. I tell you your character, your good\npoints, your bad ones. Yes, I get letters\nfrom all over B. C. Here is your character:\nTo begin with, your writing is very unformed,\nyou are musical and fond of games and hunting, you dislike an indoor life, you are rather\nself-conceited and selfish. Affectionate and\nwarm-hearted you are bright and cheerful,\nyou like a joke even against yourself. Your\ntemper is hasty but not bad, you soon forgive and forget. Observation is poor, imagination is weak, and you are. more clever with\nyour hands than head. You are straightforward and truthful.\nT. B. E.\u2014With regard to the points you\nraise, your nature is distinctly sensitive, you\nhave probably suffered owing to this trait,\nbusiness ability is fair, I should not term\nyou a speculator but I should expect you to\ndo well in legitimate business. Religious\ntone is marked, I think you would be guided\nby the precept to do unto others as you\nwould wish them to do unto you; this entails\nboth thoughtfulncss and consideration for\nothers, hut also leads to the possibility that\nyou may adopt a patronising attitude. Forgive me if I have been frank.\nTOPAZ\u2014I regret your letter was mislaid.\nHere is your character: You should bc able\nto design and draw well, your sense of form\nand proportion is good, and I judge you also\nto be musical. Egotistical yet not conceited,\nyou pre energetic and fairly ambitious. Intellectual and well-read, you arc a student, you\nreason closely and clearly. Mathematical abilities are good. You are emphatic, apt to be\nharsh and should be more charitable. Straightforward, truthful and honourable, you have no\njealousy, and you are just. A staunch friend,\nyou are a loyal partizan. Ambition is fair\nand your energy is high. Tact is poor, critical faculty well developed, and you have\ngood business instincts.\nDEWDNEY\u2014Your letter admirably suffices. Your will is not strong, you hesitate\nas to which course to pursue, you seek the\nadvice of others. Affectionate, kindly and\ncharitable, you are at times depressed and\napt to worry over trifles. You value the\ngood opinion of your friends, you are self-\nconscious. Plenty of tact, good judgment,\nfine moral sense but you are timid. You are\nno schemer, you are truthful and honourable.\nYour taste is refined, you are methodical and\nprecise. Business ability is good, but ambition is poor. Energy is fair, observation and\njustice are both marked. You prefer an outdoor life. Temper is hasty but not great;\nyou are apt to cherish a wrong and brood\nover it. On the whole you are a sensitive\ncharacter.\nTAU.\nPacific Highway\nAssociation\nAnyone who has ever tried to force\nhis way through a rose-hedge for any\nconsiderable distance will appreciate\nthe peculiar emptiness of the phrase,\n\"a path of roses.\" His progress may\nseem pleasant to the bystander; but\u2014!\nIn the same vein, the way of two\nintrepid automobilists pioneering a\nnew route through unknown lands\nmay appear a course of enjoyable excitement to those who stay at home\nand read about it. But one seldom\nfinds the same men volunteering a\nsecond time for such service. It is\nsafe to state that when Chester Lawrence and Telesphore Beaudet, who\nare now trying to drive a thirty-\nhorsepower car from Los Angeles to\nMexico City over untried roads, return home, a considerable sum would\nbe necessary to tempt them to a repetition of the trip. P. E. Sands of\nSeattle, who last autumn succeeded in\ndriving more than 2,000 miles from\nhis home city to Hazelton, B.C.,\nthrough forests untouched except by\ntrails, has declared that he would not\nmake the trip again for $10,000.\nDispatches received the other day\nat the headquarters of the Pacific\nHighway Association from Lawrence\nand Beaudet tell of their latest mishap, which happened in the Mayo\nRiver. Reaching this stream, whicii\nis in the soutii of Sonora Province\non the West Coast, a few hundred\nmiles toward the capital from Her-\nmosillo, they found it badly swollen.\nThere was nothing for it but to dash\nin as far as possible. Wading the\nriver, they found it up to their chins;\nbut started the car at full speed and\nsplashed into the water. About halfway across the river rose over the\ntop. of the machine and of course\ndrowned the engine. It was necessary for Lawrence to return to the\nMayo telegraph station, round up\nsome peons, and with their aid,\nblock-and-tackle the faithful car out\non the other side. This done, the\npioneers of Pacific Highway continued on as if nothing had happened.\nThey are now beginning the ascent\nof the great mountain which divides\nMexico north-and-south. Whether\nthey will be able to conquer the\nheights remains to be seen; engineers\nfamiliar with the climb say not. But\nstranger things have happened, and\nBeaudet and Lawrence are not the\nkind of men to be turned back by\nsay-so.\nBut it is not likely that on their\nreturn they will feel an immediate interest in country touring.\nGossip from the Stalls\n(Continued from Page 3)\nsole idea of the world and the life of\nit has been obtained from the simple\npeople with whom she has lived, has\nbecome one of the classics of the American stage and everywhere she has\nappeared since the play was first\ngiven production, has been greeted\nby crowded theatres. So popular has\nthe play and the actress become that\nmanagers have repeatedly asked for\nreturn engagements. Miss Melville's\ndetermination to retire is definite and\nshe has refused to entertain some\nvery flattering offers to remain within the glare of the footlights for another season at least. An offer of an\nentire season engagement in Europe\neven was not considered. The forthcoming engagement then, will be her\nfarewell appearance in the Victoria\nTheatre,\nThe Pierrit Troupe\nThe Victoria Pierrit Troupe held a\nmeeting last night to discuss an entertainment which will take place\nshortly. It will be remembered by\nthe Victcoria citizens that the entertainment given January 4th at the\nA. 0. U. W. Hall under the auspices\nof the A. O. O. F., proved a great\nsuccess, and considering the short\npractice the troupe had a great deal\nof credit is due to them. Since thc\nlast concert several new members\nhave joined the troupe, among which\nare some of Victoria's most talented\nentertainers. Victorians can look for-\nEvery Woman Will Eventually\nVote for GOLD DUST\nEvery woman in this broad laid should have her rights\n\u2014should do less work\u2014should use more GOLD DUST.\nThe woman who now uses GOLD DUST perhaps\nlimits its use to one or two things\u2014washing dishes or\ncleaning floors. She should extend its aid to every form\nof household cleaning. (See package for the hundred and\none things it's good for.)\nThe woman who doesn't use GOLD DUST is in a sad\nway. She is doing more work, and making it harder far,\nthan is necessary. GOLD DUST will relieve her of all\nthe hard part of rubbing and scrubbing because it will do\nthat part of the task itself, and leave her time for other of\nher manifold duties.\nBuy a package of\nGOLD DUST today,\nand learn why every\nwoman will eventually\nvote for it.\nGOLD DUST is sold in\nWo size and large packages. The large package\noffers greater economy.\n\"Let the GOLD DUST TWINS\ndo sour work\"\nMade by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, - -\nMakers of FAIRY SOAP, the oval cake.\nMontreal\nWhat you want, the way you want it\nAfternoon Tea, Dainty Luncheons,\nSpecial Teas for parties by arrangement. Do not forget\u2014We always\nkeep on hand guaranteed\nNew Laid Eggs.\nThe TEA KETTLE 1119 douglas st.\nMISS M, W00LDRIDGE, Proprietress Opposite tlie Victoria Theatre\nward to a rare treat in the musical\nline at the next concert, the date of\nwhicii will be announced later.\nBy the enterprise of the Victoria\nTowel Supply Company another much\nneeded step has been taken to b.ing\nthe Capital City into line with mode.n\nrequirements. The promoters of the\nnew Company which includes some\nwell known city names announces\nthat they already have contracts\nsigned with most of the Officecs and\nmany of the Stores in the city by\nwhich they undertake to supply a neat\nMirror Cabinet with two clean towels\nand soap tablet each week, a brush,\ncomb, glass, and clothes whisk, all for\nthe modest sum of one dollar a\nmonth. Other useful branches of the\nbusiness are preparing. Under a time\nlimit contract the King Manufacturing Co., Bride Street, are delivering\ndaily large quantities of thc Cabinets\nand much satisfaction is being given\nby the promptness of the supply.\nOrders, we hear, can be taken by\nPhone 1250 or P. O. Box 1387.\nTeachers' Salaries\nJanuary 30 a meeting of the Vancouver school trustees took place in\nthe board room. The report of the\nmanagement committee was read,\nwhich included the new schedule of\nsalaries to be adopted and dealt with\nmatters pertaining to resignations, additional and substitute teachers, janitors' service, etc. After some slight\ndiscussion this report was passed as\nread.\nThen followed a report on salaries\nin detail. Amendments wcre made\nand increases given in several cases.\nThe report was adopted.\nThe new schedule goes into effect\nfrom Jan. I, and salaries will be paid\non Wednesday, if the payroll is completed. Mr. Flumerfelt remar'.ed that\nVancouver now has about the highest\nschedule of paid teachers in Canada.\nGood Rich Blood\nKeeps the Body\nWarm\nand means \"good health.\" All\nthose who feel at all \"run down\"\nor lack energy, should at once\nstrengthen their systems by a\nreliable tonic.\nBOWES' BEEF AND IRON\nWINE\nwill quickly invigorate, and give\nyou renewed strength.\nIT MAKES BLOOD\nFor depression, weakness, brainfag, it has no equal. Perfectly\npalatable, and causes no stomach\ndisturbances. At this store only.\nPrice $1.00 per bottle.\nCyrus H. Bowes\nChemist\n1228 Government Street\nTels. 425 and 450\nRoy'i Art Gla\u00bb Works and Store\n915 Pandora St., Victoria, B. C.\nAlbert F. Roy\nOver thirty yeari' experience in\nArt GUis\nLEADED LIGHTS\nSole manufacturer of Steel-Cored Lead\nfor Churches, Schools, Public Building! and private Dwellings. Plain and\nFancy Glass Sold. Sashes Glased by\nContract. Estimates free. Phone 994\nSchool Destroyed\nThe public school at Holland Landing was destroyed by fire, causing a\nloss of $3,000, 10\nTHE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912\nSociety\nMiss Vera Mason, Burdette Ave.,\nis the guest of friends in Vancouver.\n* * *\nMrs. F. S. Hussey is the guest of\nMrs. Thomas Corsan of Seattle.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. J. Baillie, of Kelowna,\nare in the city on a brief visit.\n* * *\nMrs. D. Kerr was hostess recently\nof a skating party at The Arena.\n* * *\nMrs. Alfred Green from Cowichan\nLake, is in town visiting her relatives.\nMr. W. Irving from Quebec, is the\nguest of his mother, Mrs. John Irving.\n* * *\nMr. E. G. Williams has returned\nfrom a week's visit to Port Alberni.\n* * *\nMr. N. B. Gresley has returned\nfrom a six month's visit to the Old\nCountry.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. Finch Page, Burdette Avenue, are on a visit in Southern California.\n* * *\nMrs. A. W. Bridgman, Esquimalt\nRoad, was hostess last Wednesday\nevening of a most enjoyable dance.\n* * *\nMr. W. D. Thompson paid a brief\nvisit to Victoria during the week from\nValdez, Alaska,\n* * *\nMrs. Arthur Weston arrived from\nEngland last week and is the guest\nof her mother, Mrs. John Irving.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. A. Gamwell were\nguests in the city during the week\nfrom Seattle.\n* * *\nMr. Randolph Stuart has left for\nSan Francisco, where he will spend\nsome time on business.\n* * *\nMrs. Janies Harvey, from Pier\nIsland is staying with her relatives in\nthe city for a few weeks.\nMr. John Ridington, Vancouver,\nwas a guest in towiv for a few days\nthis week.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. Geo. Makins, of San\nFrancisco, are staying at the Empress\nHotel.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. J. M. Dier, of Winnipeg, are visitors from the East and\nare staying at the Empress Hotel.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. A. D. McRae have\ngone to California where they intend\nspending the remainder of the winter.\n* * *\nMiss Wakeman, who has been the\nguest of friends in Victcoria, during\nthe past week, has returned to her\nhome in Vancouver.\n* * *\nThe engagement is announced of\nMiss Daisy Stevenson, 1135 Yates\nStreet (late of Glasgow), and Mr.\nJohn Robertson, of this city.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. E..A. Lucas of Vancouver, accompanied by Miss Shaw,\nwere registered at the Empress during the week.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. Ross Sutherland, of\nVictoria, spent several days of last\nweek as the guests of Dr. Robert and\nMrs. Mackenzie, and left on Monday\nfor home. Mrs. F. J. Ewing gave a\ndinner on Sunday night in honour of\nMr. and Mrs. Sutherland.\n* * *\nMr. William Simpson was host on\nFriday, 19th, of a smart dinner party\ngiven at the Clayoquot Hotel. The\nguests present were: Mr. and Mrs.\nWalter T. Dawley, Mr. and Mrs.\nEwen MacLeod, Mr. and Mrs. F. C.\nGarrard, the Misses Garrard, Miss Ar-\nnet, Miss Brown, Miss Wingen, Miss\nPorritt and the Messrs. Drader, Gordon, Smith, Brennan, and Garrard.\n* * *\nA wedding of interest to Victorians\nwas celebrated last Wednesday afternoon at the Bishop's Palace by\nFather Laterme when Mr. James\nArnold Raymur, eldest son of Mr.\nand Mr. Jas. T. Raymur, of Stanley\nAvenue, and Miss Katherine Ellen\nMcCabe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.\nM. H. McCabe, of 1661 Fell Street,\nwere united in marriage. The bride's\ncousin, Miss Norma Cavin, made a\ncharming bridesmaid, while Mr. Wm.\nMunsie undertook the duties of best\nman. After a wedding luncheon, at\nwhich only intimate friends and relatives were present, the happy couple\nleft for the mainland, where the\nhoneymoon will be spent. They will\nmake their home at Keating, B. C.\nThe marriage was celebrated recently at Smith's Falls, of Mr. R. F.\nFitzpatrick, of the firm of Fitzpatrick\n& O'Connell of Victoria, B.C., and\nMiss Marie Meagher, of Smith's Falls,\nsecond daughter of the late John\nMeagher and Mrs. Meagher. The\nwedding took place at St. Francis de\nSales Church at 9 o'clock in the morning, the Rev. Father Kelley officiating at the ceremony. Miss Clara\nConnoly presided at the organ. The\nbride was supported by her sister,\nMiss Margaret Meagher and the\ngroom's brother, Mr. D. Fitzpatrick\nwas groomsman. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzpatrick are spending their honeymoon\nin New York and California. They\nwill later take up their residence in\nVictoria. The bride was the recipient of a number of costly and handsome gifts, among them being a\nbeautiful seal leather handbag containing $75 in gold, a gift from the\nemployees of the C. P. R. as a slight\ntoken of their appreciation of her\nservices in the C. P. R. office where\nshe has been employed for some time\npast.\n* * *\n.Mrs. David Kerr, Yates Street, entertained a number of her friends on\nThursday afternoon, January 25th, at\na most enjoyable bridge and five\nhundred party. Among the guests\npresent were: Mrs. Crowe Baker,\nMrs. Bodwell, Mrs. E. E. Blackwood,\nMrs. Brett, Mrs. Arthur Coles, Mrs.\nCross, Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Flummerfelt, Mrs. W. S. Gore, Mrs. T. S.\nGore, Mrs. Alexander Gillespie, Mrs.\nA. Griffiths, Mrs. A. E. Griffiths, Mrs.\nGriffin, Mrs. Lawrence Genge, Mrs.\nJames Gaudin, Mrs. Bowser, Mrs. J.\nHunter, Mrs. Heisterman, Mrs. Little,\nMrs. Lindsay, Mrs. Malson, Mrs.\nArcher Martin, Mrs. McCallum, Mrs.\nPhipps, Mrs. E. G. Prior, Mrs. C. E.\nPooley, Mrs. Fleet Robertson, Mrs.\nRissmuller, Mrs. Jack Rithet, Mrs.\nRithet, Mrs. Charles Rhodes, Mrs. J.\nSavage, Mrs. J. H. Todd, Mrs. Charles\nTodd, Mrs. William Todd, Mrs. Tye,\nMrs. Watt, Mrs. Lawson, Mrs. P.\nIrving, Miss Pooley, Miss Smith,\nMiss Blackwood, Miss Mason and\nothers. The following ladies were\nsuccessful in winning prizes: Mrs.\nJack Rithet ist prize for bridge. Mrs.\nCharles Todd, second prize for\nbridge, and Mrs. Griffiths third prize.\nFor auction bridge the first prize was\nawarded to Mrs. Heisterman, while\nMrs. Arthur Coles won the second.\nMrs. E. G. Prior was the successful\nwinner of the five hundred prize.\nMotherland\nMusic Hall Plays\u2014Conditions of the\nDual Licences\nThe demand of the music-halls for\nthe right to perform stage plays has\nnow been granted by the Lord Chamberlain, and all such places will, in\nconsequence of the new regulations,\ncome indirectly within the control of\nthe Lord Chamberlain's office.\nThe following conditions to be observed are:\u2014That no performance\nshall contain fewer than six distinct\nnumbers. The act drop to be lowered\nbetween each number. No excise licence to be asked for if not already\ngranted by the London County Council. All sketches to be licensed by\nLord Chamberlain.. Smoking to be\nlicensed by Lord Chamberlain.\nThe conditions laid down by the\nLord Chamberlain are a compromise\nbetween the demands of the music-\nhall managers and those of the\ntheatre-managers.\nSaxon Cemetery Discovered\nWhile quarrying in a field near Pur-\nton a workman unearthed a skeleton,\nby tlie side of which was an iron\nsword eighteen inches long, with a\nhandle of six inches. Further investigation was made by Mr. Howard\nCunningham, Curator of the Wilts\nArchaeological Museum, who found\nfurther human remains, by the side\nof which was an excellent specimen\nof an iron-socketed spearhead. A\nglass bead was also found. All three\narticles appear to be Saxon. Other\nskeletons have been found hero in former years, and the inference is that\nit was a Saxon cemetery. It is the\nfirst found in Wiltshire, which has\nvery few Saxon remains.\nManchester's Great Future\nProfessor Haverfield, in an address\non \"Roman London\" to the members\nof the Classical Association at King's\nCollege, London, said at the present\nday the geographical conditions of\nLondon were ceasing to count.\nThe opening of the Atlantic to\ntrade and traffic, and the opening of\nmineral resources in the north, had\nchanged the incidence of geographical conditions, and he found himself\nwondering whether\u2014certainly not in\nhis time, but at some future day\u2014the\ncapital of England would be transferred from London to the north, and\nwhether the Government would follow the papers which had already began to move to Manchester.\nMaster Humphreys 'Clock\nA London firm (Messrs. Trollope\nand Colls, of West Halkin street, S.\nW.)i is offering to collectors of mementoes of Charles Dickens no less\nan article than \"Master Humphreys'\nClock.\"\nThis was originally fixed at the entrance of William Humphreys' shop\nat Barnard Castle, Yorkshire, and led\nto Charles Dickens' obtaining Master\nHumphreys' assistance when collecting information for \"Nicholas Nickle-\nby.\"\nGrowing Post Office\nTo meet the needs of the evergrowing business of the General\nPost Office, negotiations have been\ncompleted for the sale to the Department of the Vicarage, in King\nEdward street\u2014immediately in the\nrear of the original building\u2014of\nChrist Church, Newgate street. The\neventual idea is believed to be the\nincorporation of the entire area up\nto Newgate street.\nDuke's Son Engaged\nA marriage has been arranged between the Marquis of Stafford and\nLady Eileen Butler, daughter of the\nEarl and Countess of Lanesborough.\nLord Stafford, who is 22, is the son\nof the Duke of Sutherland and the\nheir to the dukedom, the estates of\nwhich are the largest in the country, totalling 1,358,600 acres, mostly in\nSutherland.\nFamous Estate to be Sold\nMr. Alexander C. Hall has decided\nto sell the Six-Mile Bottom estate,\nNewmarket. The property extends to\n6,641 acres, and it is one of the most\nnoted partridge shoots in the country. For many years the late Duke\nof Cambridge rented the shooting,\nand at the present time Mr. J. Pier-\npont Morgan is the shooting tenant.\nRelic of the Sea\nAn anchor over 14ft. long brought\ninto Lowestoft by a trawler has been\npronounced by a local authority to\ndate from pre-Armeda times. It is\nthickly encrusted with oyster shells\nand barnacles, and is to be purchased\nfor the town.\nLoose Covers and Boat\nCushions\nLeather Work and Special Designs\nMade-to-order\nE. S. STILES\nAUCTIONEER (J VALUATOR\nUPHOLSTERING, PACKING\n& REMOVING\nFrench Polishing\n1109 Fort Street Phone 2149\nChas. Hayward\nPresident\nReginald Hayward\nSec'y-Treas.\nF. Caselton\nManager\nPhones 2235, 2236, 2237, 2238, 2239\nThe W. C. Funeral Furnishing Co.\n(Successors to Charles Hayward)\nFuneral Directors and Embalmers\n1016 Govt. St. Established 1867 Victoria, B. C.\nWestholme Grilll\nFormerly Songhees\nCompletely rehabilitated, under new management.\nMusic from 6.30 to 8.30 and 10 to 1 a.m. L. Turner, Leader.\nA Merchants' Club Luncheon served in a jiffy from noon until 2 at |\n40 cents. Reserve your tables in advance.\n$1.00 Table d'Hote Dinner\nEvery Sunday\nCarl Sword\nManager j\nFOR SALE\nSIXTY-THREE ACRES WATERFRONT on beautiful Salt Spring\nIsland, 14 acres cleared facing Pier Island; ordinary buildings; small\norchard; fine spring; road right to gate; most magnificent view, and\nvegetation two to three weeks earlier than elsewhere on Island;\nlot can be subdivided into 6 lots or more, all with water front;\nsplendid sport on this island with both rod and gun. For full\nparticulars apply to\nJOHN C. MOLLET\nSouth Salt Spring\nShakespeare's birth, and the occasion\nwill serve for the unveiling of the\nmonument to the poet, which is to\nbe placed beneath the Shakespeare\nwindow in the south aisle.\nLondon Fires in 1911\nDuring 1911 .there were 4,455 fires\nin London, an increase of 1,250 compared with the previous year, and the\nlargest number known to the London Fire Brigade.\nOne hundred and twenty persons\nlost their lives at the fires and over\n100 were rescued from burning buildings.\nShakespeare's Birthday\nA great commemoration service is\nto be held in Southwark Cathedral\non April 23, the anniversary of\nModern Apprenticeship\nTo resuscitate the apprenticeship\nsystem the English Ruskin Society,\nof Brimingham, has formulated a\nnew scheme of apprenticeship which\nthe Birmingham Education Committee has promised to consider.\nThe scheme aims at the establishment, preferably by the Education\nCommittee, of an apprenticeship\nboard which would keep in touch with\nemployers willing to take apprentices\nand would also maintain a register\nof boys suitable for apprenticeship.\nDestiny of Huth Bibles\nIt is stated on trustworthy authority that Mr. Bernard Quaritch took\nwith him to New York two of the\nmost valuable books sold at the recent Huth sale in London, which he\npurchased for Mr. Pierpont Morgan.\nOne of the books is a copy or paper\nof the famous Gutenberg Bible, the\nother is also a Bible on vellum print-\nThe New Seed Store\nDon't Delay. If you have not yet planted\nyour bulbs, do so now. See us for Seeds\nof All Kinds, Hardy Perennials, Rose Trees\nShrubs, Etc. TELEPHONE 2278\n854 Yates St., Near Carnegie Library\nWATER NOTICE\nI, VANCOUVER ISLAND POWE\nCOMPANY, LIMITED, of 1016 Langh\nStreet, in the City of Victoria, Province\nBritish Columbia, give notice that, on tl\n26th day of February, 1912, I intend to app\nto the Water Commissioner at his office\nthe said City of Victoria, B.C., for a licen\nto take and use four cubic feet of water p\nsecond from a chain of three small lakes\nHighland District, known as Durant's Lab\nHead Lake and Fourth Lake, distant about\nmiles from thc head of Tod Inlet. The wat\nis to be taken at the East side of Durant\nLake and is to be used at a point on the ea\nside of Tod Inlet about one mile from tl\nhead of Tod Inlet for an industrial and man\nfacturing purpose.\nVANCOUVER ISLAND POWER\nCOMPANY, LIMITED.\nN.B.\u2014It is proposed to store water by rai\ning the level of the water in the said lak\n10 feet, by the erection of all required dat\nand thc conservation of the waters fallii\nupon the surrounding watershed and damm\nback,\nfeb. 3 feb.\ned at Mainz in 1462. It is understoc\nthat Mr. Pierpont Morgan paid r\nspectively \u00a36,380 and \u00a33,355, inclui\ning commissions'.\nCross-Channel Passengers\nPassengers crossing by the Bol\nlogne-Folkestone route have moi\nthan doubled in number in nit\nyears, last year's total being 466,56\nagainst 218,556 in 1902. Last year\ntraffic was also an increase of 41,2:\nover the record established in 1910.\nKingfisher Killed by a Cat\nA kingfisher has been killed by\ncat a Nunn Mills, Northampto\nConsidering the shyness and quid\nness of this beautiful bird such a\noccurrence is remarkable. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912\n11\nExit Pomm\nBy Arthur Henry Gooden\nPomm took his watch from his\nlocket, wound it, held it to his ear,\nhen reverently hung it on a little\nirass hook screwed in the wall. It\nvas a large gold watch, for thirty\nears the pride of his heart, and its\nlightly winding had become a sacred\npffice.\nIt was past midnight, yet Pomm\nnade no further preparation for bed,\nut stood irresolute, annoyance deep-\nning the lines of his stern old face,\n'rescntly his wandering gaze fell up-\nn the mirror and he stared at his\niiage half angrily.\n\"Pish,\" he muttered; \"it's an old\nOman I'm gettin' to be.\"\nSelecting a key from his chain, hc\nllocked a small drawer and took\nlerefrom a box of cigars. Anyone\nho had enjoyed Major Dene's hos-\ntality would have recognized the\njdlow band, for their Havana frag-\n;nce was not easily to be forgotten,\nid\u2014they were unusually expensive\njr a butler. But Pomm, in his forty\nars of service in the Dene house-\ndd, cultivated quite as exquisite a\nite in Havanas as had the major\nhiself.\n[Selecting a cigar, the butler lighted\nand sat down; the severity of his\n:e relaxed, and for a few moments\nremained motionless, enjoying the\ndicate aroma. Presently he reached\nfr a little volume lying on the table\nid opening it, began to read:\n\"All the world's a stage\u2014\"\nHe paused; annoyance again crept\nito his eyes and tightened the lines\n|_out his mouth.\n\"Dash those emeralds!\" he grum-\nlled. \"I'm as nervous as an old hen\npout 'em.\"\nHe tossed the volume onto the table\njid puffed moodily at his cigar, his\nliind dwelling on the little scene at\n[ie dinner table earlier in the even's-\nThe talk had turned to the latest\ninsation\u2014a daring robbery commit-\n\u2022d in the neighbourhood the night\nlefore. One of the guests had ex-\njressed some alarm, but her host had\nmghed at her fears.\n\"My dear Mrs. Van Alyn,\" Major\n)ene had expostulated, \"your uneasi-\niess is entirely unnecessary, but if it\n\u25a0\/ill relieve your anxiety you may\nave the security of my safe for your\newels tonight. My safe,\" he added,\nis considered a triumph; it would\naffle the cleverest expert.\"\nAnd so it happened that Mrs. Van.\nMyn's famous emeralds now lay in\nihe Denes' big safe.\n\"I'm as nervous as an old hen about\nem,\" Pomm mused. \"I don't know\nvhy\u2014that safe's all the Major says\nt is.\" He put out his hand and car-\nissed the little volume lying on the\nable. \"But when old Shakespeare\nan't make me forget, something must\nie wrong.\"\nHe was still musing when the big\ndock in the hall chimed the hour of\nme. Rising from his chair, Pomm\nlesitated a moment, then, again open-\nng the little drawer, took out a re-\nolver. Thus armed, he slipped noise-\nessly from the room and padded\niown the long hall to the library.\nThe door was slightly ajar, a chink\nif yellow light marking the opening,\n'omm paused, then he pushed open\nhe door and quietly entered the\noom. Again he paused, this time\nghast.\nA young woman, in negligee attire,\n:nelt before the safe; her dark hair\ntreamed about her shoulders and hid\nier face, but Pomm knew only too\nrell who she was and his face\ndanched. As he stood there, be-\ndldered and staring helplessly, she\nrew from a small leather case Mrs.\n\/an Alyn's great emeralds.\n\"Madame!\"\nThe shock of his voice seemingly\nurned her to stone; she did not\ncream nor even look around.\nI beg your pardon,\" whispered\nhe old man.\nA fit of trembling seized her and\nhe coronet, slipping from her fingers,\nell on the rug with a soft thud and\nay there, a circle of restless, green\nires. She began to sob, her face\nmried in her hands.\nPomm moved to her side and\npicked up the gems.\nShe clutched his sleeve with imploring fingers. \"Pomm\u2014what are\nyou going\u2014to do?\"\nThe butler looked at her, his face\nworking painfully. When he spoke,\nhis voice was hoarse. \"Oh, Madame,\nthe Major!\"\nFor a moment she looked defiant and\nspringing to her feet, she faced him\nwith an attempt at haughtiness.\n\"Leave the room,\" she commanded5,'\n\"this is my own affair\u2014I only wanted\nto\u2014to look at them.\"\nPomm regarded her steadily and\nher little bravado vanished.\n\"No\u2014don't\u2014you mustn't tell him\u2014\nplease,\" she gurgled frantically. Then,\nas Pomm still maintained his silence,\nshe said brokenly: \"I\u2014I'm in such\ntrouble, Pomm\u2014and\u2014this seemed\nmy only way\u2014out.\"\n\"Bridge? Is it much? I've got a\nlittle saved up, Madame.\"\n\"Oh, but I'm in deep\u2014deep; I've\nbeen crazy, and\u2014\" Mrs. Dene moistened her lips, \"I'm afraid to tell my\nhusband.\"\n\"The Major 'd rather you told him,\nMadame.\"\n\"No\u2014he mustn't know,\" she gasped; \"promise.\"\n\"I couldn't tell if I would,\" answered the butler in a voice so low\nthat she hardly heard. \"I've served\nthe Major too many years to hurt\nhim so.\" Pomm's voice shook. \"No,\nMadame, you need have no fear; I\nwill not tell Major Dene that his wife\nis-\"\n\"Oh\u2014Oh!\" she cried, \"not a thief,\nPomm, don't say that!\" and weeping\nbitterly she turned swiftly to the\ndoor, but Pomm's voice stayed her.\n\"Madame\u2014you must promise\u2014\"\n\"Yes!\u2014yes, I do promise,\" she panted. \"I'll never play for stakes again.\nI'm through\u2014and I'll tell Major Dene\n\u2014everything.\"\nShe vanished into the dark hall, and\nwith a shake of the head, the butler\nturned to the safe. As his hand\ntouched the big steel door, a noise\nbrought him to his feet with a start.\nHe swung around, his revolver leveled. For a second time that night he\nlowered it. Before him, pale and accusing, stood Major Dene.\nAs Pomm faced his master, his\nmind worked rapidly. In his single-\nhearted devotion there was hut one\ncourse to follow. Major Dene must\nnever know the truth. He hung his\nhead guiltily. \"I'm caught, sir.\"\nThe other started and his stiff military mustache lifted strangely. \"It's\nnot conceivable,\" he rasped.\nThe ghost of a smile, fleeting and\ninscrutable, hovered on Pomm's compressed lips. \"The temptation was\ntoo much, sir,\" he said dryly.\nMajor Dene strode up to him and\ntook the jewels from his hand.\n\"Pomm,\" he groaned.\nA fleck of blood appeared on\nPomm's lip, where his teeth had bitten into the flesh. \"Yes, sir,\" he\nmuttered.\nFor a moment his master dangled\nthe blazing gems at arm's length, his\nface cold and expressionless, save for\nthe curious lift of his gray mustache;\nthen, with an angry gesture, hethrust\nth em into the safe and slammed the\ndoor.\nPomm stood straight and stiff, and\noutwardly as calm as when behind\nhis master's chair at dinner. Only\nthe red blotch on his lip gave proof\nof his agitation.\nMajor Dene moved to the window\nand flung aside the curtain. Outside,\nthe night was gray and cold. Behind\nthe thin veiling of clouds, the moon\nshone fitfully, making the tall, naked\ntrees in the garden stand out in\nghostly lights. For several minutes\nhe stared with unseeing eyes, and\nPomm rigidly waited.\nFinally the major wheeled about\nsharply. \"Give me your keys,\" he demanded, \"and that gun.\"\nWithout a word, the old butler\nobeyed.\nDene's mustache lifted again. Placing the revolver and the keys on his\ndesk, he turned to the door. \"Come,\"\nsaid he. He led the way down the\nhall to an unoccupied storeroom, adjoining the kitchen quarters. The\ndoor was locked.\n\"Go back to the library and get\nyour keys,\" ordered the major.\n\"Yes, sir.\" Pomm glided off. He\nquickly returned and selecting the\nright key, opened the door. Then he\nlooked at his master. The latter\nwaved his hand meaningly. Pomm\nbowed and stepped inside. \"Very\ngood, sir,\" he observed.\nThe other glared at him and half\nchoked. \"I'll see you in the morning,\" he mumbled. But he did not\nlock the door.\nMajor Dene returned to the library\nand sank heavily into a chair. Alone\nand unobserved, his mask of calmness fell away, revealing a man mortally stricken. He had witnessed the\nbreaking of his idol. Unnoticed by\nthe other two, he had stood behind\nthe half-opened door, had watched the\nwhole miserable affair, had heard his\nwife's confession.\n\"Janice,\" he groaned.\nA dull anger against her began to\nburn within him. She could not have\nloved him, else she would have had\ntrust in his love; she would have\ncome to him frankly in her difficulty.\nCould it be his beautiful Janice\u2014the\none -woman above all others, whom\nhe had heard crying out her guilt to\nhis butler? Gradually his confused\nthoughts centered on Pomm. The old\nman's extraordinary conduct in posing as a thief had at first amazed\nhim; then his pride had quickly taken\nthe cue and he had acted his own\npart. It had hurt him\u2014to let Pomm\nbelieve that he thought him guilty\n\u2014yet he knew that his old servitor\nwould rather have it so. Major\nDene's heart warmed at the thought\nand the grave-faced, silent butler assumed heroic proportions.\nThe major's chin sank on his breast\nand he fumbled nervously at his mustache. Pomm was showing the\ngreater manhood; he had not stood\naloof and condemned.\nThe husband of Jance suddenly felt\nweary and ill, filled with a disgust at\nhimself. Could not he rise to the\nheight reached by his butler? Could\nnot he too forgive? Surely he had\nfar greater reason to forgive. Janice\nwas his wife\u2014and she was so young\n\u2014he had sworn to cherish and protect her, and\u2014he loved her still. Yes,\nafter all, he loved Janice, and surely\nto love was to forgive.\nThere came a faint rustle from behind him, and the next moment his\nwife was on her knees at his side, a\nflurry of white lace, salt tears and\ndishevelled hair. Her wet cheeks\npressed against his knee and her arms,\nsoft and round and white, stole about\nhis neck appealingly.\n\"I've been wicked\u2014oh, so wicked,\"\nshe sobbed.\n\"I know all about it, dear,\" he whispered, \"all that you can tell me\u2014but\nI'm glad you have come to me.\"\nShe shuddered. \"How\u2014did you\u2014\nknow? Did Pomm\u2014?\"\nBut Major Dene gathered his wife\ninto his arms. \"No dear,\" he answered huskily, \"dear old Pomm\ndidnn't\u2014Come, we must go to him.\"\nLeft alone in the storeroom, Pomm\nstood for several thoughtful minutes.\nHe was aware that the major had not\nlocked the door, but he considered\nhimself a prisoner none the less.\n\"Dash those emeralds,\" he muttered. He stumbled across the room\nthrough the darkness to a window\nand pushed up the shade, but the\nheavy shutters held back the moonlight. He grumbled at this and\ngroped about blindly for a chair; but\nfinding none, he sat on the floor and\nruefully thought of his unfinished\ncigar. He was tired and before he\nknew it, had dozed off into a troubled\nsleep.\nHe saw himself back in the library;\nMrs. Dene kneeling in front of the\nsafe, the great emeralds in her hand.\nShe turned at his approach. \"Leave\nthe room\u2014this is my affair,\" she\nscreamed derisively. He rushed forward to seize the jewels but the angry\nblaze of the gems blinded him and\nshe slipped past his frantic clutch\u2014\nshe was gone\u2014he had not saved her\n\u2014the family of Dene was disgraced.\nThe door opened; Pomm awoke\nwith a start and sprang to his feet.\n\"Yes, sir, I'm afraid I went to sleep,\nsir,\" he began apologetically, but got\nno further, for Major Dene had\ngripped both his hands, and Mrs.\nDene had flung her arms about'his\ngrizzled neck.\nAnd the old butler understood.\n\"Yes, sir, yes, madame; thank you,\nmadame,\" he quavered.\nThe Cheapest and the Best\nThe Empire Typewriter\nPrice $60.00 Cash\nDoes\" just as good work as the $125.00\nmachines. Visible writing, quick\nand reliable.\nVictoria Book & Stationery\nCompany, Limited\n1004 Government St., late Waitt's Music Store\n1216 Douglas Street, opposite\nSayward Blk.\nMcLaughlin Automobiles\nfor 1912\nModel 2Q--The Car for the Man of\nModerate Means\nSpecifications:\u2014Five-seated Torpedo body; semi-floating rear axle;\nArtillery wheels; demountable rims; 35x4 tires; 108 wheel base;\nfour-cylinder engine, 30-horse power; Remy magneto; Prest-O-Lite\ntank; cut out; accelerator; five lamps; concealed horn; complete tool\nkit, etc., complete with top and screen $1,875.00\nOption:\u2014Colour can be either Blue and Black throughout or\ncombination Battleship Grey and Black,\nLet us demonstrate to you. Call or phone us, making appointment.\nWestern Motor & Supply Co., Ltd.\n1410 Broad Street\nTelephone 695\nVictoria, B. C.\nPhone 1366\n550 Yates Street\nST. FRANCIS HOTEL\nVictoria, B.C.\nFormerly Oriental Hotel\nLAMBERT & SEDNEY, Props.\nSpecial Inducements to Transients. Rates Reasonable.\nFirst Class Bar in conection. Newly Renovated.\nThey led him into the dining-room.\nMajor Dene poured a glass of wine\nand handed it to Pomm. \"God bless\nyou,\" he said. He poured another\nfor his wife and one for himself.\n\"We'll forget it all from this moment,\nPomm,\" he added gravely.\nThe butler drained his glass. \"Yes,\nsir, very good, sir,\" he acquiesced.\nThey left him, and Pomm returned\nthoughtfully to his bedroom. He\nwas pondering over the major's last\nwords. Forget? Yes, he could forget\u2014but could they while he was\nthere daily reminder? He sat down\ngloomily and relighted his cigar. His\nsimple reasoning made it plain that\nhe could not remain at Dene Hill\u2014a\nscourge to his mistress's conscience.\nPomm sighed and shook his head.\nIt was a hard, thing to do, to leave\nDene Hill He had entered its threshold when he was a ruddy-cheeked\nyouth of twenty, and he was proudly\nconscious that his years of service\nhad been honoruable. He flicked the\nlong ash from his cigar, and picking\nup the little volume of Shakespeare,\nendeavoured to forget his trouble.\nBut even the inspired lines failed to\nsoothe. He laid the book down gently and looked about his comfortable\nroom where he had spent so many\npeaceful years. His lips tightened in\ndecision, and drawing a chair to the\ntable he wrote in his painstaking\nhand:\n\"Do not think me ungrateful, sir,\nfor your many kindnesses. It is better for me to go away. It is not\ningratitude that makes me. I leave\nmy keys with this note. If you will\npardon my doing so, I should like to\nrecommend Jordan; hc is capable and\nwill make you a faithful butler.\nObediently,\nWILLIAM POMM.\"\nThe old man placed the missive in\nan envelope and sealed and addressed\nit. He then went to his closet and\nbrought out two bags and packed his\nbelongings. This done, he crept noiselessly from the house into the gray\ndawn.\nAt the great gates at the foot of\nthe garden, he paused and sorrowfully gazed back in a long, last look.\n\" 'They have their exits and their\nentrances, and one man in his time\nplays many parts,'\" he murmured.\n\"Old Shakespeare knew, he did.\" . . .\nAnd Pomm picked up his bags and\nwalked slowly away through the cold\ndawn.\nA NEW HOTEL\nIt is a matter of common knowledge\nthat Victoria is lamentably short of\nhotel accommodation. Every addition to the ranks means added comfort and prosperity to the city. The\nnewest comer is the Prince George,\nwhich will he officially opened on\nThursday next. This is a fine modem\nbuilding, replete with every convenience, and with the catering of' Mr.\nKostenbader, the popular president of\nthe Deutscher Verein, the public may\nsafely count on the best of attention.\nNaas Valley Lands a Mecca\nEven at this early season of the\nyear a number of hardy land stakers\nhave gone into thc valley of the Naas\nriver to locate. Dog teams will for\nthe next two months play a prominent part, and one outfit is authorized\nto stake 50 sections. Vancouver and\nVictoria capital is behind the stakers.\nVICTORIA LAND DISTRICT\nDistrict of Coast, Range 3\nTAKE notice that Elizabeth C. Clayton, of\nBella Coola,, occupation Widow, intends to\napply for permission to purchase the following\ndescribed lands:\u2014Commencing at a post plant*\ncd on island in Rclla Coola River and about\nopposite the North-cast corner of Lot 2;\nthence westerly 7 chains So links, more or\nless: thence north-westerly 19 chains, more\nor less; thence northerly 4 chains, more or\nless; thence north-easterly 10 chains, more or\nless; thence easterly 16 chains more or less;\nthence south-easterly 4 chains, more or less;\nthence southerly 9 chains, more or less, to\npoint of commencement,\nDated Tanuary 19th, 1912.\nELIZABETH C. CLAYTON,\nfeb. 3 mch 30 12\nTHE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912\n\"Sotto Voce\"\nThe Week's Rumours and\nHumours\n(By The Hornet)\nThat the Japanese Current is the\nstrongest tie between Canada and the\nOrient, and there is no objection to\nits shifting as long as it doesn't get\nus into hot water.\n* * *\nThat one swallow may not make\na summer, but one week like this\nmakes a very good spring.\n* * *\nThat the papers do not report similar weather in the Interior, which is\nanother point in favour of the Coast.\n* * *\nThat things are moving in Victoria\nand the City Engineer's Department\nis trying to keep pace.\n* * *\nThat most of the staff appear to\nbe moving out.\n* * *\nThat the incidents of the last week\nor two would seem to illustrate\nAesop's fable of \"The stork and the\nfrogs\"; at the present rate of consumption there will be no frogs left\nto rule over in a little while.\n* * *\nThat sometimes it is as foolish to\npass a by-law as to create a king.\n* v * *\nThat certain Victoria ministers are\nagitating for an amendment in the\nMarriage Service.\n* * *\nThat it is not the little word \"obey\"\nwhich is troubling them this time,\nbut \"those whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.\"\n* * \u25a0'\u25a0\nThat the change is desired to enable them to consistently refuse to\nthe Hindu women the right to live\nwith their husbands.\n* * *\nThat Tom Hood once sang a song,\n\"Oh for the rarity of Christian Charity under the sun.\"\nThat it was a song of a \"shirt,\" but\nthis is a song of a \"skirt.\"\n* * *\nThat it is easier for a camel to\ngo through the eye of a needle than\nfor a Hindu woman to enter the land\nof promise.\n* * *\nThat the annual dinner of the Press\nGallery, whilst an instructive function, might easily have been made\nmore entertaining.\n* * *\nThat this has no reference to the\nquality of the fare, which could not\nhave been improved upon.\n* * *\nThat what Jimmie Robertson undertakes to do, he always does well.\n* * *\nThat the mental pabulum provided\nsavoured too much of the heavy joint\nand too little of the souffle.\nThat at times\ndeathly.\nthe silence was\nThat if the members of the Press\nGallery had attended the German banquet in a body, there would have\nbeen more sparkle about their own\nmnction. * * *\nThat Herr Carl Lowenberg presided over a splendid gathering and\nan entertaining programme.\n* * *\nThat what the Deutcher Verein\ndoes hot know about entertaining is\nnot worth knowing.\n* * *\nThat the success of last year was\nrepeated, and the committee \"went\none better.\"\n* * *\nThat war will never be declared\nbetween Victoria and the Deutscher\nVerein.\nThat some of the guests are still\nwondering how so many good Germans got to Victoria, if, as was\nclaimed by the Chairman, Germany\nexports Merchandise only.\n* * *\nThat the solution of the Navy Resolution problem in the local Legislature was creditable to both parties,\nand fairly fills the bill.\n* * *\nThat the strongest evidence of a\ngoming election is the extreme \"mud-\ndiness\" of the Times editorials recently.\n* * *\nThat if the forecast of the Irish\nHome Rule Bill is correct, it will become law about the time of the\nmilennium.\n* * *\nThat Mayor Beckwith is considerably surprised and he will probably\nbe still more surprised before he un\nravels the tangle left by Mayor Mor\nley.\n* * *\nThat at the present rate of pro\ngress the only men left on the Cit;\nEngineer's staff will be the unquali.\ntied and juniors.\n* * *.\nThat for a breathless alliterativ\nsentence Mr. Stutchbury's letter\nresignation will take a lot of beat\ning.\n* * *\nThat several hundred books at th\nCarnegie Library are stowed away t\nbe rebound, but there is no mone\nto pay for this very necessary worl\n* * *\nThat in tht meantime there are fe'\nbooks and many empty shelves.\ni&&)fm_W-_\ni*w\nTHIS Is The LAST DAY\nof our Great Clearance Furniture Sale\nThis Sale must have Magnetic Attractions for You. The Values are Simply Astonishing\nIndeed they are, and everyone who has any needed furniture and house-furnishings to buy surely ought to heed our message and come to this store. It's the\nsort of a sale you can't help telling your friends about, and they'll want to come, for you'll realize when you've been here, and they'll realize through your telling\nthem, what an extraordinary event it is\u2014and remember this is your last chance. The sale reductions are immense, for they are genuine reductions down to the very\nlast dollar. The splendid selection to choose from, the greatly reduced prices, the very highest quality, all say Come. The invitation is extended to you. It's your\nsale. Are you coming? Follow the crowd to our Third Floor.\nElectric Table Lamps at Enormous\nReductions\nVisit the First Floor Today and Investigate these Bargains at $4.75, $6.50, $10.00 $12.50 and $15.00\nSee The Two Bargain Tables at\n15c and 25c\nUseful Pieces for your Home\u2014Vases, Ornaments ,etc.\nin Great Variety, Choose Yours Early\nWrite or phone for our 1912 Catalogue, post free. It is handy\nfor you if you wish to furnish by post, and a splendid guide for\nthose anticipating matrimony. 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