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No. 1.\nTenth Year\nTHE WEEK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912\nTenth Year\nOne Dollar Per Annum\nONE REFERENDUM\u2014There are\nthree questions to be submitted to\nthe electors of the Municipality of\nVictoria on Thursday next under tlie title\nof \"The Referendum By-law.\" That relating to the abolition of the Ward system\nis a fair matter for discussion, \">d one\nupon which there can be a legitimate difference of opinion. The same may be said\nof the second, which refers to the adoption\nof a Commission form of Government. It\nis not improbable that both 'hese questions\nmay be answered in the affirmative, because\nthere is a growing, conviction that the time\nhas come for radical changes both in representation and administration. The third\nBy-law, however, is of an entirely different\ncharacter, because it attacks a principle\nvhich has been conceded wherever Constitutional Government has beer, established.\nA is directly aimed at curtailing the legi-\nimate rights and privileges of citizens in\ni matter which does not involve breaches\n}f the law and which is the outcome of\na campaign having for its object the making of men \"good\" by legislation. The\nreferendum asks whether all liquor licenses\nshall be issued on condition that sales thereunder shall be made only from 8 a.m. till\n5 p.m. on ordinary days; and that no sales\nshall be made after 12 o'clock noon Saturday, until the following Monday at 8 a.m.\nThe first consideration that suggests itself\nis that the object of such a drastic proposal\nis not to regulate but to stop the liquor\ntraffic. It is an attempt to advance a stage\non the road of Prohibition by an indirect\nroute. Morally, if not legally, it is in the\nsame category as the attempt made by the\nMa^or lo prohibit racing on the Agricultural grounds by imposing a prohibitive\n.ariff, a procedure which was denounced\nby Mr. Justice Gregory as being inequitable\nand which was characterized by him in almost the identical words, used above. The\njuestion is a very simple one. If the\ncitizens of Victoria wish to introduce Prohibition, every provision is made for it by\n\u2666he existing statutes. It is only necessary\no set the machinery provided by the law\n\u2022n motion, to give the notice, to demand a\n,joll and to register the necessary majority\nvnd Prohibition will be established as a\nlatural result. This is a right conferred\njpon the citizens by Federal legislation,\n.mown as the Scott Act. There is also the\ndoor of Local Option still standing open,\nand if that section of the community which\nis anxious to promote the cause of Temperance, is prepared to work along cpnsti-\n;utional lines, then, as soon as the citizens\nlave been convinced, there is nothing to pre-\n-ent full effect being given to their wishes.\nChat is a consistent, a logical and a British\nviethod of dealing with a big question in-\nimatcly associated with the well-being of\nhe community. The referendum, however,\n\\ neither British nor fair, even if it would\ni legal, which is doubtful. Either liquor\n_,elling is a legitimate traffic, or it is not.\nf.not, it should be abolished, and the only\n'ay to abolish it, is, not to attack the re-\nailers or wholesalers, but to stop the manu-\nacture. As long as liquor is mantifac-\nured it will be sold, and it is rather signi-\n:ant that no Temperance or Church organ-\nnation has yet had the courage to demand\n;gislation which would prohibit its manu-\nacture. If it is a legitimate trade, sanc-\ni ioned by the law, regulated by the law\n', nd contributing largely to the revenue of\nhe country, then it is entitled to the same\nirotection and the same fair dealing as any\ni ither legitimate business. There is no other\nmsiness which could survive, or which\n\u2022'ould not be regarded as the victim of persecution, if it were compelled to close its\n:loors from noon on Saturday until eight\nVclock on Monday morning. This is not\negulating, it is discriminating; unfair dis-\n\u2022rimination and an invasion, not only of\nhe rights of the traders, who pay for the\n7\nprivilege of conducting their business on\nnormal and rational lines, but an invasion\nof the rights of the citizens who, if they\nhave a right to buy liquor at all, are not\nentitled to be deprived of that right for\nsuch an unreasonable length of time and\nin such an arbitrary manner. It is on these\ngrounds that The Week claims that the\nproposed referendum should be answered in\nthe negative, and that the Temperance organisations which initiated the question\nshould continue legitimate work along legitimate and constitutional lines. Much more\nmight be said on other aspects of the question; such as the undoubted effect of the\nlegislation proposed; the known effect of\narbitrary closing, where it has been tried;\nthe stimulus which it affords to heavy, secret drinking, and the desolation which it\nhas brought to many a home by transferring indulgence from the tavern to the\nhearth. These are facts well known to\neveryone who has investigated the subject,\nand to emphasize them is not to utter one\nword against necessary and praiseworthy\nTemperance work, but only to direct attention to facts which are too commonly overlooked when zeal outruns discretion.\nSEISMOLOGY \u2014The Sub-Committee\nof the Board of Trade which, assisted by Mr. G. H. Barnard and Mr. F.\nH. Shepherd, was able to secure a grant of\n$2,000 from the Dominion Government to\nassist Mr. Napier Denison in his seismological researches, is taking steps to ensure\nthe establishment of a permanent observatory in Victoria. Mr. Denison has been\nasked by the Department to furnish a list\nof the instruments which he requires and indue course he will do so; but it must be\npatent to all who have considered the subject that the present quarters occupied by\nthe Meteorological staff at the top of the\nPost-office are entirely unsuitable for the\ninstallation of delicate instruments. If\nthere W2re no other objections the large\namount of rock blasting in the vicinity and\nthe amount of blasting contemplated in the\nInner Harbour will cause a vibration entirely inimical to successful seismological\nwork. It would be of inestimable benefit\nto the ultimate working out of a scheme\nif it were possible at this juncture to secure a permanent site. Enquiries have been\nmade and it is found that there is ample\nroom in proximity to the Government Wireless Station on Gonzales Hill. It should\nsurely be possible for tjie Committee, with\nthc co-operation of Mr. Barnard and Mr.\nShepherd, to secure a moderate additional\nappropriation which will at any rate put\nin the foundations of a permanent building. If this were done the new instruments would bc satisfactorily installed, in\na position far removed from artificial disturbances. The Week suggests that this\nmatter might well be dealt with at thc Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Trade next\nweek as there is no time to be lost in view\nof the early assembling of Parliament.\nquestions have to do with organization,\nadministration, management, financing and\nthe intelligent development of a city which\nhas just started on a prosperous career.\nAll these questions are too big for Mayor\nMorley. Not that he thinks so, but he evidences the fact by failing to grapple with\nthem. His idea of organization is \"One\nMan Government.\" His idea of administration is to boss the heads of departments and\nthrow the responsibility for his own mistakes on their shoulders. His idea of management is that subordinate officials are\nsuperfluous, except as puppets. His idea\nof financing is to borrow the largest\namount possible and get as many irons in\nthe fire as he can, apparently in order to\ncreate the impression that he is doing something; but not to bear in mind that there\nmust be a day of reckoning. His idea of\ndevelopment is to absorb the adjoining\nmunicipalities in order to be able to speak\nof a Greater Victoria as the child of his\ncreation. In his scheme of development\nthere is no well conceived, carefully digested plan; there is no provision for one\nstage leading to another and so on to\nrounded completion. His system is to start\nout on an expenditure which may lead anywhere\u2014or nowhere. This is not the kind\nof programme which Victoria wants at the\npresent time, nor the kind of haphazard,\nhappy-go-lucky method of handling the affairs of an important city; and yet Mr.\nMorley has shown that it is the only manner in which he can handle them. It matters not that his methods have alienated\nalmost every member of the Council and\nengendered a degree of friction which renders the judicious and economic conduct\nof civic affairs an impossibility. It matters\nnot that the citizens, as a whole, have\njudged the Mayor and found him wanting.\nHe is still unconvinced. It is true he knows\nthat defeats awaits him in the Mayoral contest, but he is hoping that the Referendum\nBy-law will land him in the position of\nChief Commissioner. It is for the citizens\nto say whether Mr. Morley's record as\nMayor recommends him for a more permanent and lucrative position. Meanwhile,\nMr. Beckwith is conducting his campaign\nvigorously and intelligently. His manifesto is clean-cut, logical and progressive. In\nthe first bout with Mr. Morley on Thursday night he captured the sympathy of his\naudience and already it looks as if he will\nmake not merely a successful, but a\ntriumphantly successful candidate. There\nis nothing for which Mr. Morley professes\nto stand on which Mr. Beckwith's record\nis not far more creditable, and on the bigger\nquestions with which Mr. Morley has\nshown himself unable to grapple, Mr. Beckwith has taken a firm and intelligent stand.\nIt is not unreasonable to appeal to all the\nelectors who desire to rescue the Capital\nCity from the reproach of mismanagement,\nwhich it has acquired under the Morley\nregime and who want to see it march in\nline with the progressive units of the Province, to support Mr. J. L. Beckwith.\nTHE MAYORAL CONTEST\u2014As\nmight have been expected the\nMayoral contest has no sooner begun than Mr. Morley has resorted to his\nold tactics. With a discredited record behind him and the certainty of defeat in\nfront, he has lost his temper, and allowed himself at the lirst meeting to indulge in personalities. With some men invective takes the place of argument; with\nMr. Morley, abuse. The audience on\nThursday night wcre quick to realise that\nthe Mayor had nothing substantial to offer\nand that he was anxious to draw a red\nherring across thc trail, in fact several red\nherrings, in order that sectional issues might\nbe raised, and the big questions lost sight\nof. The sectional issues havc to do with\nlocal and personal affairs, which havc little\nplace in a municipal campaign The big\nTHE POST-OFFICE-The Week\nmakes no apology for again referring to the congestion of business\nat the Victoria Post-office during the recent holidays. It is approaching the question entirely from the public standpoint.\nIt is a disgrace that the citizens of Victoria should bc kept without their Christmas mail for a fortnight, and yet this has\nhappened to scores. On New Year's day\nthere were upwards of a thousand bags of\nmail undelivered. At the time of writing\nthere are several hundred, and yet in a\nproperly arranged, properly equipped and\nproperly organized Post-office thc whole\nshould havc been cleared in a few days.\nThis condition of affairs is not thc fault of\nthe Postmaster. It is entirely the fault of-\nthe Department at Ottawa. Thc premises\nare totally inadequate and have been for\nsome time. Even by pressing the basement\ninto service there is by no means sufficient\nroom for the enormous accumulation of\nmail matter. In the next place it will probably be a surprise for the public to learn\nthat the total amount of money proposed\nto be allowed by the Department for special\ndelivery during the Christmas and New\nYear holiday amounts to the munificent sum\nof $150. This is for delivery by horse\nteams. Now any school-boy can figure out\nwhat amount of mail matter can be delivered for $150 when it costs a dollar an\nhour for a man, horse and waggon. As\na matter of fact, to ensure that prompt\nand reasonable delivery which the public\nhas a right to expect, at least $1,000 would\nhave been necessary. But, the greatest\ndrawback of all lies in a matter which has\nbeen constantly referred to in the columns\nof The Week\u2014the disgracefully inadequate\npay of the Post-office staff. The permanent\nstaff is under-paid. Indeed, when one remembers how greatly the cost of living has\nrisen in Victoria recently it must be a marvel that any self-respecting man can continue to work for such a miserable pittance. The pay offered by the Department\nfor special work during the holidays is\n$2.50 a day. The Week wishes that the\nmen responsible for this apportionment had\nto live in Victoria on that stipend. It is all\nvery well for The Times to give an occasional dig at the Conservative Government.\nAll these things are the legacy of the\nLaurier Administration. No government\ncould have built a new Post-office in three\nmonths and no government could have\nremedied all the deficiencies of the local-\nservice in that time, but from now on it\ncannot be too clearly understood that the\ndemand for better service and accommodation must be kept at high pressure until it\nhas been suitably dealt with.\nMAJOR HODGINS-A couple of\nyears ago or so Major Hodgins,\none of the engineers on G. T. P.\nconstruction, threw up his position because\ncertain friends of the Laurier Government\nmade it too hot for him to hold it. Major\nHodgins is a soldier and a gentleman. As\nsuch he has a conscience and his conscience\nwould not allow him to pass classifications-\nwhich alone would satisfy the rapacity of\nthe G. T. P. contractors and their friends.\nLike many soldiers, Major Hodgins is much\nmore a man of action than of words and\nwhen his complaints were investigated by a\npartizan committee, in which that champion of \"bulldozers,\" E. M., MacDonald,\nwas the whipper-in, he failed *,to secure a\nfavourable verdict. Later on, his chief Mr.\nLumsden, than whom there was not a more\ncapable or honourable engineer in Canada,\nhad a similar experience, and he too resigned. Major Hodgins settled in Victoria\nand has been residing in the vicinity ever\nsince. He is a man who deserves well of\nhis country, having filled a conspicuous\nposition both during and subsequent to the\nBoer War. When he left Africa he was\nthe right-hand man of Sir Percy Girouard\nand had made his mark alongside that distinguished officer. The Week ventures to\nsuggest that a man who made such a lirm\nand conscientious stand against dishonesty\nand the squandering of public money is en-,\ntitled to some consideration. It was not\nlikely that he would ever get it from a\nLiberal Government when all the circumstances arc taken into account, but there\nis no reason why he should not get it from\na Conservative Government, which claims\nto be actuated by the i'ritish principles of\njustice and fair play. Thc Week has heard\nnothing of or from Major Hodgins for two\nyears, but is sure that there are a sufficient\nnumber of fair-minded people at the Coast\nwho would bc glad to hear that hc had\nbeen remembered by \"the powers that be.\"\n1 THE WEEK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912\nI am sorry to say that there is a\nman in this city who is an uncultured\nboor, and a fool to boot. I know\nthat he is uncultured, because he does\nnot appreciate \"The Week\"; he is a\nboor because he returned his copy\nwith words on the address whicii\nvery nearly contravened the Postal\nregulations, and he is a fool because\nhe never gave any clue as to his name\nand address, although he wished the\npaper to be discontinued. Now what\nare you going to do with a man like\nthat? I know what I am going to\ndo. I have a sneaking idea that Mr.\nUncultured, Boorish Fool will continue to read \"The Week,\" if only\nbecause he so thoroughly disapproves\nof it; there are lots of people who\nread it without confessing the fact.\nIn the full belief, therefore, that Mr.\nU. B. F. will see this paragraph, I\nwill ask him to write me personally.\nIf he addresses his letter to \"The\nLounger,\" care The Week, it will find\nme. I should like him to write his\nheart out in this letter and to make\nuse of all the forms of abuse of which\nhis soul is capable. He need not be\nworried by Postal regulations, because if the letter is properly stamped\nI shall be the only person any the\nwiser. I will guarantee him all the\nsecrecy he wants. But I want to\nhave a word match with him. I have\nbeen known to leave a London cabby\nspeechless on the street. I am a\nmodest person and do not wish to\npose before the public, but, at the\nsame time, I have been given credit\nfor a sarcastic tongue, whilst I have\nalso been informed that my \"nasty\"\nlqtters are a dream. 1 should very\nmuch like to match \"blackguardly\nlanguage\" with my friend the Uncultured, Boorish Fool, and if he can\nbeat me, I'will \"give him best\" all\nright. In the meantime I would suggest to him that if the continued\npresence of \"The Week\" in his house\nreally annoys him, he should acquaint\nthe office with his name and address.\nThe paper which he returned bore no\naddress stamp, neither a vestige of\nsuch a stamp, and it was therefore\ndelivered by hand. As we are sending out some two thousand papers\nevery week by hand, Mr. U. B. F.\nmust excuse us if he still receives the\npaper: Really; we cannot be expected\nto know the hand-writing of all our\nsubscribers, in spite of the fact that\nwe run a hand-writing department.\nFor so cents U. B. F. can learn what\nTau thinks of him.\n* * *\nThat paragraph has left an unpleasant taste in my mouth. It is so seldom that we have that particularly\ndirty kind of dirt thrown at our devoted heads. I am glad that I have\na more delectable topic to which to\nturn. 1 understand that our old\nfriend, the \"St. Francis\" Hotel, has\nbeen re-opened under new management. Under the name of \"The Oriental Hotel\" the present \"St. Francis\"\nwas one of the most popular hostel-\nries in the city. It was a favourite\nhaunt of those whom we now style\nold-timers, many of whom have since\ncome back to town and regretted that\nthey have found \"A Pharaoh who\nknew not Joseph\" established in the\nhouse which knew them so well. This\nis all to be changed. Messrs. Lambert & Sedney, who have undertaken\nthe resurrection of the Yates Street\nhouse, have realised the claims which\nthe old-timers have on them, and\nhave determined that, any time one\nof the old patrons returns, he shall\nfind the most hospitable of welcomes\nawaiting him. Although the hotel has\nbeen renovated from top to bottom\nthere is still an air of \"Ye Ancient\nHostelrie\" left about it. The beds\nare big and old-fashioned in appearance; the furniture throughout is solid\nand lacks that gaudy display which\nis so characteristic of the modern\ntaste; the cuisine is calculated to suit\nthe taste of the most exacting of\nepicures, and the bar is beyond re\nproach. The proprietors, who are not\nconfining their interests to \"The St.\nFrancis\" alone, having two other\nplaces of business in town, have\nmade a specialty of restoring to this\nhouse thf.*. old-fashioned flavour\nwhich is so especially acceptable when\nit is tempered with the comforts of\nmodern civilization. The latter are\nsupplied and the former is maintained.\n* * *\nAt one time the irreverent passerby, when he came over from the\nMainland, was inclined to term Victoria \"The City of the Dead.\" He\ncan no longer do that; Victoria is\nvery much alive, as her building permits and all kinds of other things can\nshow. But there is another reason\nwhy she can no longer claim this\ntitle. She most violently repudiates\nher dead, and so much does she dislike them that she makes it almost\nan impossibility for iheir number to\nbe increased. At least she takes care\nthat the road to the cemetery shall\nbe as impassible as possible. The\nother day a hearse stuck in the ruts\nright inside the cemetery gates and it\ntook six men at the wheels to clear\nit. On Tuesday the carriages had to\ndrive over the grass in order to reach\ntheir destination. One would think\nthat whatever else was left to the\nvagaries of the Paving Companies and\nthe Civic authorities, the cemetery\nwould at least be respected. But no!\nThe Council is evidently mindful of\nthe Scriptural command to \"let the\ndead bury their dead.\" It would certainly take a hearse of spiritual build\nto traverse the quagmires that beset\nthe roads to the gravesides.\n* * *\nI am always glad when I am able\nto say something which may be for\nthe benefit of the dumb creation. It\nis with pleasure therefore that I comment on an excellent number of \"Our\nDumb Animals\" which reached me\nthis week. The magazine is printed\nin Boston, Mass., on behalf of the\nAmerican Society for the Prevention\nof Cruelty to Animals. This number\nis particularly attractive and is full of\ncharming Animal stories. It is seldom that we in Victoria have to\nchronicle deeds of cruelty to those\nfriends of ours who \u2022cannot voice\ntheir own griefs, but an occasional\nparagraph on their behalf does no'\none any harm, and may possibly still\ndo them some good. Last week there\nwas an editorial comment on the doings of our own branch of the S. P.\nC. A. and it is, perhaps, unnecessary\nfor me to say anything more. At the\nsame time I should like to wish the\nSociety in general and the local officers in particular a prosperous New\nYear in their most admirable work.\n* * *\nI am nothing if not candid and\nthere is nothing in this world which I\nprefer to giving advice to others. I\nwill therefore take this opportunity\nof passing on to the Messrs. Patrick of the Victoria Skating Arena\na criticism which was given to me\ntoday. My vis-a-vis was a man more\nfortunate than myself, because he had\nbeen up to the Arena, whereas, so\nfar, I have been unable to avail myself of the opportunity. He told me\nthat everything was excellent bar one\nthing. Have you ever noticed that\nthere is always \"one thing?\" It appears that his musical susceptibilities\nwere wounded because the music contributed at the Arena introduced a\nfunereal element into the otherwise\ngay proceedings. This may be so.\nN'ot having heard the said music I\ncannot lend a critical ear. I insert\nthis paragraph so that the proprietors\nof the Arena may consider the music\nthat is being supplied, and if, ill their\nopinion, it is funereal, they may give\norders to have it changed. For myself I would say that funereal music\nat a skating rink would suit me excellently; the last time 1 had a pair\nof skates on was at a skating rink in\nLondon and they suited the back of\nmy hfad js'o ill\" that \"The Dead\n'Marcft' Would have been the most\nAppropriate thing that the band coiild\nhave played. If,I remember rightly,\nhowever, the piece which they liad\nchosen was something after the style\nof \"Johnny comes marching home,\"\nor it might have been \"Tommy make\nroom for your uncle.\" The latter\nwould have been the more befitting\nto the occasion.\n* * *\nI noticed in the paper this morning\nthat tenders are out for a caretaker\nfor the public convenience on Government Street just below the Post-\noffice. The tenders called for men\nwho would satisfy the Council of\ntheir general fitness for the position\nand specified that every applicant\nshould show how he intended to run\nthe place \"free of cost to the city.\"\nMerciful Heavens, can't the City afford to put a white man in the place\nand pay him a salary to look after it,\nor is it absolutely necessary that they\nshould have a gang of dagoes down\nthere selling fruit, peddling papers\nand blacking boots? It would seem\nto me that a position of this nature\nis eminently suited to some elderly\nman, too old for hard work, but who\nhas deserved well of his country and\nwho would be glad to have an easy\nplace where he could make a little\nmoney shining brass-work and generally keeping an eye on things, without having to\" go into business himself under rather embarrassing surroundings. People do not go to a\npublic convenience in order to buy\nfruit or papers, neither do they look\nupon it as the natural place in whicii\nto get a shoe-shine. I did a good deal\nof agitating to get the place built and\nI don't want to see it made the abiding-place of lazy dagoes. Any respectable man who has served the\ncity during the best years of his life\nand who cannot afford to retire into\nobscurity, and who is anxious to secure such a position will have the\nhearty endorsation of the .\n'oA\ntrzon-pisr.\nAN OVER-SIGHT\nIn the Christmas Number of Thp\nWeek some very excellent photographs were published. One in\nparticular showed a pano.amic view of\nthe Parliament Buildings and the\nJames' Bay Causeway. It is only due\nto Mr. Leonard Frank of Alberni to\ncredit him with the splendid photographic work whicii made their publication possible. It was an omission\nnot to have done so at the time. Mr.\nFrank is always so generous with his\nphotographs and is such a thorough\nartist that they possess special merit.\nThe panoramic view referred to is\nwithout doubt the best photograph of\nthe water-front of the Inner Harbour\nwhich has ever been published.\nB. C. S. P. C. A.\nThe annual meeting of the parent\nSociety for Prevention of Cruelty to\nAnimals, will be held by the kind permission of the Mayor, in the' Council\nChamber, City Hall,' on Saturday\nnext at 2.30 p.m. Delegates from thc\nvarious branches will be present, and\nthe work of the society fully discussed. All members and the public\ngenerally who are interested in the\nmovement are earnestly invited to\nattend.\nThe Time for\nsending in replies for the\n$40.00 Prize\nLimerick has\nbeen extended\nto January 13\n1 You. Have a\nFeeling\nOf security every time you drink \"Kilmarnock,\"\nExtra Special Scotch, because for exceptional\nquality and flavor it surpasses all other brands. It\nhas that delightful maturity and digestibility which\nare only found in the best and purest whiskies.\nTry it today at any first-class hotel, bar, cafe or\nclub. Handled by all the leading dealers who\ncan supply you for your home use.\nPITHER & LEISER\nVictoria\nWholesale Agents for B. 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Kirkham & Co., Ltd.\n741, 743, 745 Fort Street\nGrocery Store Butcher Shop Liquor Store\nTels. 178, 179 Tel. 2678 Tel. 2677\nThe SONGHEES GRILL\nHotel Westholme\n!\n1\nHear Miss Thurston, Mrs. Hina Martin Thatcher and Miss Harris in the Latest, Up-\nto-Date Vocal Selections.\n\"Get the Habit=Everybody Goes There\"\nHolly\nTrees\n4000 well cultivated, repeatedly transplanted Trees\nto choose from, large and small, some varigated \u25a0\nleaved, many full of fine, red berries.\nPlant Ht Hies for Ornament Sf Profit \\\nLayritz Nurseries\nCarey Road Victoria, B. C.1\ni THE WEEK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912\nTHEATRE BOOKINGS FROM DATE\nTO JANUARY 31 ST\nKinemacolor Pictures Jan. 4, 5, 6\nUniversity of California Glee Club Jan. 8\nRobert Hilliard in \"A Fool There Was\"\n Jan. 11\nKinemacolor Pictures Jan. ia, 13\nAnna Held Jan. 19\nThe Private Secretary Jan. 20\nForbes Robertson Jan. 22, 23\nThe Girl of the Golden West Jan. 26\nThe Barrier Jan. 29\nDe Pachmann\nAs a matter of record I am going\nto print the complete programme\nexecuted in brilliant and inimitable\nstyle in the Victoria Theatre last\nWednesday night by Vladimir de\nPachmann. The only regret one\ncould possibly have in respect to the\nprogramme is that it was not confined exclusively to Chopin's works,\nof which de Pachmann is easily the\nmost capable interpreter of any\nI1, pianist of my time. There are experts who claim that de Pachmann\nshould confine himself exclusively to\nthe productions of this great composer, and yet it would seem a sin\nto bar him out from such other items\nas he contributed to Wednesday\nnight's programme, notably Mendels-\ntriumph. It cannot be that we have\nheard the last of de Pachmann. His\navowed intention to retire may surely\nbe reconsidered; he is still in his\nprime ancl none of his brilliant powers\nshow the slightest abatement. If he\ncan be induced to pay a return visit\nit is safe to say that the Ladies' Committee, which deserves such hearty\nthanks for having brought him here,\ncan guarantee a bumper house.\nPROGRAMME\nI\nSoi ata No. 9, A Major Mozart\n(a) Emle von I,ied Op. 12, No. 8, F. Major\n Schumann\nII\n(b) Spinning Song, Op. 67, No. 4\t\n Mendelssohn\n(c) Menuet Op. 17, G Major Moskowski\n(d) Rondo Brilliant, Op. 62, E I'V\t\n Weber-Henselt\n. in\n(a) Nocturne, Op. -27, No. 2, D Flat Major\n Chopin\n(b) Prelude, Op. 27, Xo. 16, B Flat Major\n ' Chopin\n(c) Impromptu Op. 36, F Sharp Major...\n Chopin\n(d) Etude, Op. 10, No. 3, E Major.. .Chopin\nfe) Mazurka Op. 67, No. 4, A Minor. .Chopin\n(f) Mazurka Op. 56, No. 2, C. Major. .Chopin\n(g) Valse Urilliante, Op. 34, A Flat. .Chopin\nsohn's \"Spinning Song\" and Weber's\n\"Rondo Brilliant.\" De Pachmann is\nso perfect an artist and so thorough\na musician that his work is beyond\ncriticism. I have heard all thc great\npianists of the last forty-five years\nand not one of them has appealed to\nme as has de Pachmann. In making\nthis statement I recall delirious moments under the influence of Rubinstein, but Franz Lizst is the only\nplayer whom I would place in the\nsame class as de Pachmann. In delicacy of expression, in lightness of\ntouch, in soulful interpretation, in\ncomplete rapport I know of no playing comparable to de Pachmann's.\nOne might go further and say that\nnever has an instrumentalist aroused\na Victoria audience to such a pitch\nof enthusiasm as on Wednesday\nnight. It was a revelation; the audience rose en masse, ladies and gentlemen waved their hands and shouted \"Bravo, bravo,\" for about fifteen\nminutes, and half the time de Pachmann was bowing and smiling in the\nmost gracious manner; indeed, his\npersonality had a charm which was\nquite irresistible. Patti at the height\nof her popularity never had a more\nsincere and enthusiastic ovation. The\nreception must be all' the more grati-\nying to the master because he was\nlaying before an extremely critical\naudience and one whicii did not thaw\nout during the first few items of the\nprogramme. The Mozart Sonata\nwhich opened was received with critical appreciation; thc Schumann\n\"Lied,\" brief and dainty, carried the\naudience a little further in appreciation, but the third item, Mendelssohn's \"Spinning Song,\" captured\ntheir hearts, and from that moment\nto the end of the programme it was\na continual march from triumph to\nMadame Sherry\nOu Tuesday night \"Madame Sherry\" paid a return visit to the Victoria Theatre and played to capacity;\nin fact,\" owing to the large number\nof mail orders, the house sold out\nwithin two hours of the box office being opened. The Company, taken all\nround, was better than the one which\nwas here last year, the only weak spot\nbeing the young man who tried to\nsing tenor and couldn't. I refer to\nFranklin Farnum. The leading characters were perfectly taken, the\nhonours being divided between Marie\nFlynn and Oscar Figman. neither of\nwhom could be improved upon. Figman's work was far better than upon\na previous occasion when he was suffering from mal-de-mer, Miss Flynn\nis one of the daintiest and cleverest\nof comediennes; she can act, sing and\ndance; a very rare combination. Figman's rendering of \"We are only\nPoor, Weak Mortals After All,\" was\nthe artistic gem of the performance.\nWilliam Cameron as \"Philippe,\" Flo\nIrwin as \"Katherine\" and Virginia\nFoltz as \"Pepita\" were all admirable.\nThe performance as a whole was entirely satisfactory and reached a very\nhigh standard.\nSeven Days\n\"Seven Days,\" which was played at\nthe Victoria Theatre on January ist,\nproved to be a most acceptable New\nYear's offering and delighted a crowded house. The play itself is distinctly amusing and the parts were all\nmost capably taken. The story of the\nquarantined household cooped up for\nseven days with their domestic difficulties will long continue to act as a\ndrawing card wherever people want\ngenuine humour and an opportunity\nfor good, clean laughter.\nThe Empress Theatre\nThe big hit this week has been\nmade by Lew Hawkins, a black monologuist with a fund of good stories\nand comic songs. Another excellent\nturn has been provided by the Malvern Troupe of acrobats who do some\nwonderful feats of strength and agility. Paul Stephens, the one-legged\nequilibrist, presents a novel and\nthrilling act and well deserves the\napplause which he has been receiving.\nThe Majestic Theatre\nThe Majestic has been to the fore\nwith an excellent New Year's bill of\npictures. Gaumont Graphic, which is\na feature of this house, has been\nkeeping the patrons well up to date\nwith views of the world's happenings.\nRomano's Theatre\nThere has been a fine selection of\npictures showing at Romano's this\nweek and the posters which are displayed outside the doors give a fair\nidea of the attractions which have\nbeen showing within. Comedy and\ndrama have been well featured.\nThe Crystal Theatre\nIt is astonishing to see how quickly the Crystal, almost the latest Moving Picture house to start operations\nin Victoria, has caught the pulic fancy. During holiday week the house\nhas been packed with most appreciative audiences who have seen a good\ndeal more than their money's worth.\nGlee Club Sings German Songs\nWhen \"Brick\" Morse returned from\nEurope two years ago and brought\nback with him some of the liveliest\nofHeidelberg student songs to teach\nthe University of California Glee\nClub, he little dreamed that beside\nreturning to his position of musical\ndirector, he would also have to assume the role of professor of German to his fifty old charges However, when the musical squad with\nits cosmopolitan membership was for\nthe first time confronted with the imported Teutonic slogans, even Amos\nElliott, captain of California's 1911\nvictorious football team, began to\nquail, and thc initial rendition brought\ntears to the eyes of the worthy Brick.\nBrick then saw the need of giving\nhis boys some practical German, ancl\nso last summer, he took eighteen of\nthe bunch on thc longest trip ever\nundertaken by a college Glee Club,\nviz., to Europe. Not only were thc\nboys drilled in the mysteries of the\nGerman language, but they visited\nParis as well, ancl picked up not a\nlittle of that branch of the Latin\ntongue, and then just to show them\nhow we do it in America, they journeyed across the channel and gave\nthe Britishers a shock as strains of\n\"Yankee Doodle\" ancl \"Dixie\" burst\nupon their ears.\nPractically the same bunch of college men who made this famous trip\nare now journeying toward us and\nare booked to appear at the Victoria\nTheatre Monday, January 8, and will\nno doubt turn loose in enough languages to warrant the installation of\na modem language course in our\ntown.\n\"A Fool There Was\"\nRobert Hilliard, who is making a\ncoast-to-coast tour under the direction of Klaw & Erlanger in \"'A Fool\nThere Was,\" will be seen at the Victoria Theatre on Thursday, January\n11.\n\"A Fool There Was\" is an intensely\ndramatic portrayal of a phase of life\nset forth in the thought and philo-\n(Continued on Page 11)\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 and 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 ioc 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\nMONDAY, JANUARY 8\nJEjttpress\nWEEK JANUARY 8\nOne Performance Only\n30\u2014SINGING MEMBERS\u201430\nJust returned from European Tour\nUniversity of California\n\"Glee Club\"\nNew Glees New Solos New Stunts\nNew Quartettes New Monologues\nPrices\u2014$1.00, 75c, 50c, 25c\nSeats now on sale\nVictoria Theatre\nTHURSDAY, JANUARY 11\nKlaw & Erlanger present\nRobert Hilliard\nIn the Vivid Play Like No Other\n\"A Fool There Was\"\nSeats on sale Tuesday, January 9th.\nPrices\u2014$2.00, $1,50, $1.00, 75c, 50c.\nThe Matchless Musical Laugh\nMakers\nF\"d Anna\nECKHOFF & GORDON\nDirect from the New York\nWintergardcn\nBert Grace\nVON KLEIN & GIBSON\nInterpolating Musical Hits\nEurope's Newest Novelty\nMLLE. CECILE & COMPANY\nArtistic Posing, Singing and\nAcrobatic Dancing\nTED LENORE\nSinging Comedian\nInitial American Tour qf\nMARIN & LONA\nJuggling and Equilibristic Feats\nTHE EMPRESSCOPE THE WEEK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912\nI\nThe Week\nA Provincial Newspaper and Revi?w\npublished every Saturday by\n\"The Week\" Publishing\nCompany, Limited\nPublished at 1208 Government St.,\nVictoria, B.C., Canada\nW. BLAKEMORE, Edit\nThe New\nYear\nBy Bohemian\nNewness is attractive as well as\nsuggestive. It is hardly possible to\nspeak of anything as being new without creating a pleasurable sensation.\nNewness speaks of freshness, expectancy, hopefulness. By a natural conjunction of ideas the mind is at once\nled to contrast it with Oldness, so\nthat the New and the Old form a\nperpetual antithesis. A new thing\nmust of necessity present features of\nperfection, unsullied, unspotted, un-\nmarred. We cast aside old clothes,\nsometimes regretfully, but of necessity, because they have begun to look\nshabby, or we have tired of them.\nSome people are weak enough to\nthrow over old friends, because even\nfriends may become tiresome. There\nis an old proverb that says that\n\"faithful are the wounds of a friend,\"\nbut there are many people who resent\nplain truths even from their greatest\nintimates. At the bottom we all\nknow what is best for ourselves, or\nthink we do, and if the most faithful\nand tried friend crosses our fancy for\nthe moment we are apt to forget all\nhis fidelity and to turn to the new\none wdio will pander to us.\nThere is some such ingratitude in\nthe thoughts with which wc so deliberately fling aside from us the recollections and incidents of the Old\nYear. We say it is past and done\nfor, whicii is true, but we are not so\n'willing to take with us into the future\nthe lesson which it taught. We are\nimpatient of control, impatient of restraint. There is in most of us too\nmuch of the \"don't care\" spirit; of\nthe \"what I have done I have done,\nlet it go at that\" and we open the\nbook at a new page, delighted with\nits fresh cleanliness, and instead of\nsaying \"1 will write on that page\nwhat I ought.\" we say, \"1 will write\non it what 1 will. It is mine, all my\nown. Mine to make or to mar.\nNever mind the caution which the\npast would instil. I am sufficient for\nmyself,\" and so, all too soon we begin\nto tread in slippery places.\nThe sane mind, whilst looking eagerly to the unwritten page, aud fervently craving lhe opportunity to\nmake a new record, balances the lessons of the past with thc possibilities\nof the future; and the sane mind never\nforgets that one's greatest enemy is\noneself, and that the only thing whicii\nis likely to blot the new page is\nthe gratification of uncontrolled impulse.\nFrom time immemorial thc dawn\nof the New Year has been the period\nfor making new resolutions. The\ndanger of this is that one may get\ninto the habit of thinking that good\nresolutions arc ouly seasonable once\na year. I take it that a good resolution is due every time a mistake is\nrealized. Fir this reason New Year's\nday is not more suitable than any\nother for resolving to correct the\nerrors of life. Every day of the\nyear may be made a stepping-stone\nfrom which to mount from \"our dead\nselves to higher things.\" The New\nYear is full of hope. It is bound to\nbring us the long deferred happiness.\nWe are bound to catch up with that\ndazzling will o' the 'wisp which has\neluded us so long. We are bound to\nreach the turning of a lane which\nhas been so far ahead. We,arc bound\nto pass the crest of the Kill, to surmount, which has been so laborious.\nOh, yes! This New Year cannot fail\nto bring the realisation of many\nhopes, but who is wise enough to\nknow that it calls for the abandonment of other hopes, some of which,\nperhaps, have been cherished for\nyears; some of which have at times\nlooked as if they were approaching\nfruition; or some, perhaps, which\nhave burst on our vision in a moment, fascinated, enthralled, hut yet,\nwhich are impossible of realisation,\nand which to carry on would but\nmean to add to life's handicap.\nMost of us have weight enough to\ncarry; many of us add to our burden\nanxieties, expectations which are as\n'unsubstantial as the fabric of a vision.'\nThe wisest suggestion of the New\nYear is to pray that the scales may\nfall from our eyes; that we may be able\nto abandon the dross, the chimaera,\nthe mirage, and hold fast to that\nwhich has been proved and which we\nknow can be trusted. The New Year\nwill be strenuous and exacting; we\nshall need all our strength; we shall\ndraw strength from sources which\nwill add to it, and we should seek\never to keep our ideal as unsullied\nas the unwritten page of the New\nYear book.\nSir. James Douglas\nK..C. B.\nThe Early History of Vancouver\nIsland\nWritten Specially for the Week\nby Gilbert Malcolm Sproat\nThe sudden retreat of nine-tenths\nof over 30,000 incomers, with lessened purses, many of whom had not\nreached the objective points of their\ninroad, gave the country what, in\ncommon parlance, is termed a \"black\neye,\" for several years, along the\nwhole North Pacific Coast. It\naffected also, remarkably, for a time,\nthe judgment of many of those who\nremained after the exodus, with more\nor less belief in the country's future,\nsome of whom won deserved success, later, in changed circumstances.\nAmong these was Mr. Amor De Cosmos, of Nova Scotia, one of the\nearliest arrivals here with the mining\nimmigrants from California, in 1858.\nImmediately after the exodus, he\nstarted a weekly newspaper, \"The\nBritish Colonist,\" first issued, December 11, 1858. Single copies, 25 cents.\nThe general programme showed considerable prescience, including the\nunion of all the British North American Colonies, a railway, waggon\nroad and telegraph, to the Pacific,\nand, also, representation of die said\ncolonies in the Imperial Parliament.\nThe latter item hc did not, then, explain, nor, afterwards, when, as myself the author of a pamphlet on that\nparticular subject, I asked him how\nhe proposed to work out such representation.\nThe influence of these large views\ndominated the whole future career of\nDe Cosmos, as a journalist and politician. It accounts for his readiness,\nin the middle \"sixties,\" to sacrifice\nsuch representative government as wc\nhad here, and to join, unconditionally, the .Mainland Crown Colony in\nt\u00a366, which, though seemingly a step\nbackward, was, in his view, the sure\nprelude to federation, as indeed, the\nHome Government also believed,\nthough De Cosmos did not know that.\nHis personal ambition and hope were\nto get to Ottawa, and to work in\nthc making of the Canada of his\ndreams. That destination he reached,\nand was, for many years, a hardworking member of the Commons,\nbut he was not found to possess the\nqualities of tact and patience so helpful to success in the practice of party\ngovernment.\nAs to local affairs, Mr De Cosmos'\nprogramme was to solace the many\ndisappointed persons of that time,\nand to help the sale of his newspaper, by attacking the administration of Governor Douglas on the\nmainland. Four well written columns\nof the above first issue of the \"British Colonist\" are filled with adverse\ncriticism of that administration. This\nshows thc effect upon a generally\nhonest-minded man, of the immigration disappointment, making him ig\nnore the commonest facts of the case.\nHe harped upon the Governor's supposed desire \"to preserve the grasping interests of the Hudson's Bay\nCompany, inviolate.\" The facts were:\n(1) that Alexander Grant Dallas, the\nPresident of the Hudson's Bay Co.'s\nCouncil in North America, had succeeded Douglas in the Company's\nservice in May, 1857, and (2) that\nDouglas, in 1858, as a condition of\ncontinued service under the Crown,\nwas not allowed to be even a shareholder in the Company (?). The\nCrown, thenceforward, had, in him, a\nfaithful servant who scrutinized the\nclaims and pretensions of the Company in his own difficult position, as\nthe following extracts from correspondence show. A. G. Dallas complained to Sir Edward Watkin, a Director on the London Board, that\n\"the Governor tried to saddle all expenses on the Company\"; whereupon,\nthe Company in London, wrote to\nthe Colonial Secretary, that \"it is\nquite obvious that the Governor's\n''communications to the Colonial\n\"oflice are conceived 111 a spirit of\n\"hostility to the Company, and to its\n\"representatives in the Island.\"\nMoved by these letters, and, possibly,\nby the Parliamentary influence of the\nCompany, the Secretary of State proceeded to impress on the Governor,\nthe importance of showing a \"liberal\nand conciliatory spirit\" in dealing\nwith the Company. Douglas had, on\nthis occasion, only been objecting to\nan attempt of the Company to get a\nparcel of land, in the colony, that\nwas actually occupied for public purposes\u2014land which the Company had\nno legal, or equitable, right to. This\nis a sample of the answers that might\nbe given to many of the allegations\nin the newspaper indictment. It is\nsufficiently illuminative, yet I may\nmention another charge, namely, that\nimproperly, to help Victoria, it was\nmade the port of entry for mainland\nimports. Not so, it was, that duties\nmight be collected, where, alone, the\nGovernor had jurisdiction, until receipt of his commission for the new\nColony, and, so on. These were the\ndays of slow posts and no telegrams,\nand the hard-worked Governor, without any real official status on the\nmainland, during a considerable\nperiod of the mining \"excitement,\"\nmade himself personally responsible\nin the King's Bench, and, officially,\nto the Crown and Parliament, for\nevery act that he performed, or suffered to be done. Honest mistakes\nof course he made, but the Home\nGovernment, in recognising that few\nColonial-Office men would have even\nundertaken what Douglas achieved, in\nthe emergency, made him a C. B. before he had been a year in oflice, in\nthe new Colony\u2014a most unusual, but\nwell merited distinction.\nI mention the above for historical\nreasons, and not from any unkindness\nto De Cosmos. He and I, in fact,\ngot on very well together at that\ntime, and also later. Abusive articles\nof me in his newspaper, did not prevent our emptying, the same day, a\nbottle of old Burgundy in Driard's\nColonial restaurant. De Cosmos, a\nsemi-recluse by habit, had more fun\nin him than people imagined. London he did not like, \"it was so big\none could not easily get out of it.\"\nWe called, together, on Gladstone in\nDowning Street, and De Cosmos, who\ncould not get a word in, admired the\nstatesman's handsome feet. The only\ntown worth seeing in the Old Country was Edinburgh; it was so picturesque. Glasgow, without charm\nfor the eye, yielded some amusement.\nAn Irish cabman there directed by\nDe Cosmos to drive to the office of\n\"Bailie Nicol Jarvie\" (which the cabman said he knew), had to draw up\nto the sidewalk half a dozen times, to\nseek information from bygoers, wdio\nall seemed annoyed at the request. A\npoliceman only grinned. \"Uncivil\nthey are, see,\" said the cabman, \"they\nwould not treat us so in Dublin.\" A\nvery interesting and historically, valuable booklet, entitled \"The Fraser\nMines Vindicated,\" or \"The History\nof Four Months,\" was written, here,\nbefore the starting of the \"British\nColonist.\" The author, Mr. Alfred\nWaddington, became one of our hest\nknown worthies, and, as I have shown\nelsewhere, was the real pioneer of\nthe Canadian Pacific Railway, if that\nmay be said of any individual. I ap\npend an extract from the booklet,\nshowing how Victoria progressed, in\nthe period referred to, and the\nwriter's optimism in the face of the\nmining disappointment.\n\"Where, in so short a time, have\n\"there been so many streets laid out,\n\"built iqi, ancl some of them graded,\n\"macadamized .planked, and even\n\"lighted up, as in . Victoria? Eight\n\"substantial wharves carried out into\n\"the harbour, two brick hotels, and\n\"other brick buildings, numerous\n\"frame houses and stores, besides\n\"those going up; twenty or thirty\n\"restaurants and coffee houses;\n\"steamboats built and launched,\u2014in\n\"short, all the beginnings of a large\n\"city. Where a more orderly population, or more law-abiding? Where,\n\"in the United States, a city without\n\"taxes, lawyers, or public debt?\n\"Where, in the United States, the\n\"town, or city, where there is more\n\"money to be made, even now, by\n\"the industrious trader, or crafts-\n\"man, who is at all decently started\n\"in his business, than in Victoria?\n\"And as a proof, rents are higher, at\n\"this moment, than in San Francisco\n\"* * * and, scarcely six business\n\"stores empty. Could San Francisco\n\"boast of as much at the end of four\n\"months? * * * We have, then, rea-\n\"son to be thankful, and, if our\n\"short-sighted disappointments have\n\"been a severe trial to all, we have\n\"still, a good aftergrowth of hope be-\n\"fore us. * * * Those who are gone\n\"will soon be replaced by another\n\"population as active, more hardy,\n\"and less ambitious.\"\nMr. Waddington did not, then, foresee, that, during the ensuing decade,\nthe insistent policy of the Home Government, for ends of its own already\ndescribed, and the wrangling of\nshort-sighted, local politicians, would\nbe far more adverse to progress, than\nthe common incident of the outrush\nof miners,\u2014in this case, of miners\nwho found that Nature had made\nworking conditions, here, largely different from those to which they had\nbeen accustomed. The country of\ncourse was as good as ever, hut\ncapital was quietly withdrawn, its\npossessors seeking other fields. The\nCariboo mines, when discovered,\nwere worked, entirely, by the\nminers themselves. No outside capital was obtained. As Dr. G. M. Dawson said, in his address to the Royal\nColonial Institute, London, in 1893,\n\"Money made in one venture was\n\"freely and at once embarked in another, ancl the investors were to be\n\"found working with pick and shovel\n\"in the shafts or drift.\"\nBook Notes\n\"THE HEALER\". By Robert Herrick, author of \"Together.\" New\nYork. The McMillan Co., 1911.\nOn sale at The Standard Stationery Co., iz2o Government Street,\nVictoria. Price, $1.50.\nAs far as I know this is the second\nbook which has come from the pen of\nRobert Herrick. The first one, \"Together,\" attained an ephemeral reputation, because it was slightly sensational and not a little \"risque.\" It\nhad no literary merit, and its sole interest depended on a few smartly\nwritten paragraphs, and a few suggestive situations. Like most books\nof its vogue \"Together\" professed to\nbe written in support of a propaganda, but as Lord Chief Justice Cock-\nburn remarked, when sentencing Mr.\nBradlaugh and Mrs. Besmit for publishing \"The Fruits of Philosophy,\"\nin the interests of morality, \"I have\nme doubts.\"\nHaving written \"The Healer\" 1\nshould imagine that Robert Herrick\nis already wishing that he had never\nwritten \"Together,\" and one can only\nhope that future publications of his\nwill cease to tell us that he ever did\nwrite it.\n\"The Healer\" is a book of another\ncolour. It is well written; it has a\ndefinite purpose, which is not too obtrusive; it tells an enthralling story\nand it paints a unique and strong personality in the hero, Dr. Holden.\nHolden is a hig, strong, aggressive\npersonality; every inch a man; one\nwho with his temperament could not\nbut inevitably plunge into the ex\ncesses of youth; one who has emerged\nto bury himself far from the busy\ncity in the isolation of a mitr.ng camp,\nin order that he may there administer the \"healing art\" and work out\nhis own salvation. Finally, he does\nboth. In pursuit of his profession he ,\nbecomes the avowed enemy of mercenary doctors and mercenary insti- [_'\ntutions; he exposes the insincerity of '\nmuch of the work that is done under |\nthe name of healing. He will have *'\nnone of it. If hc cannot heal he i\nwill not practise, and his great sue- ,\ncess, which secured him the title of\nthe \"The Healer'' was due as much\nto his personality and will-power as'*\nto his skill, and that was by no means\ninconsiderable.\nSuch a man must necessarily fall\nin love and he loses his heart to his\nlirst aristocratic patient, a young lady\nfrom New York, who was injured by\nbathing and on whom he successfully\nperformed the delicate operation of[\ntrepanning. She very correctly describes him as \"her wild man of the\nwoods.\" She marries him in spite of\nthe strongest protests of her friends.\nThey have a few months of idyllic\nhappiness in their little shack in the,\nmountains and then the bubble bursts.\nThey can live in castles in the air,\nbut they are not adapted for houses\nmade with hands. The dream is over;\nthey disagree; they separate and for !\nsome time she goes her way and he ,\ngoes his. ?j\nOnce again he gives away to his |\nweakness, morosity overtakes him; he i\nloses his grip and his nerve, and is on\nthe border of collapse when another, 1\nwoman walks into his life; and here \"'J\nthe author makes a fine contrast. ;\nWhile the woman of beauty and\ncharm, of butterfly existence and so- '\ncial qualities could attract but not j\nhold him, the woman of sorrow,]\nwhose garments had been trailed in\nthe mire, who had been buffeted by\nthe rude winds of life and who had\nlearned thc value of comfort and\nsolace, could take him for one brief\nmoment from his delirium and restore\nhis sanity. This is one of the most\ncharming and exquisitely written\nchapters in thc book.\nAfter that the Doctor becomes thc\nvictim of the system which he has so\nvigorously assailed. Returning to his\nwife he allows himself to he cajoled\ninto establishing a fashionable sanatorium; he makes money, not because\nhe loves it or wants it, but because h^\nmust make it for those dependent o1**\nhim, and finally he leaves the problem hich he has attacked still unsolved.\nThe book has a serious purpose and\nwill not fail to stimulate thought oil\na subject of vital interest to the\ncommunity. It is a work of promise\nand leaves no doubt that Robert Herrick will yet have to be reckoned witli\namong the recruits of a uew school. \u2022\nAs usual, I propose to allow my\nreaders to sample a few of the most\nstriking paragraphs of the book.\n_\n1\nThe following deals with The\nHealer's attitude towards his worl?\nand the impossibility of an aristo'\ncratic wife sympathising with him.\n\"She could not comprehend that\n(Continued on Page 12) ,\nBOOK NOTES\n1\nAt the Standard Stationery\nCo., Ltd., 1220 Government St.,\nVictoria, B. C:\n\"Pollyooly,\" by Edgar Jep-\nson. Bell & Cockburn. $1.50.\n\"Mother Carey's Chickens,\"\nby the Author of \"Sowing\nSeeds in Danny.\" Briggs & Co.,\nToronto. $1.50.\n\"The Jesuit,\" by Joseph\nHocking. Cassell & Co. $1.50.\nAt the Victoria Book & Stationery Co., 1004 Government\nSt., Victoria, B.C.:\n\"The Long Roll,\" by Mary\nJohnston. $1.50.\n\"South Sea Tales,\" by Jack\nLondon. $1.50.\n\"The Ship of Coral,\" by H.\nde Vere Stackpoole. $1.25.\n\"The Sick-a-Bed Lady,\" by\nEleanor Howell Abbott. $1.50. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912\nBUILDING PERMITS\nDec. 27, 1911 to Jan. 2, 1912\nDecember 27\u2014\nMrs. Minnie Herd\u2014Princes St.\u2014Dwelling $2,500\nHinton & Hewett\u2014Richardson and Toronto Sts.\u2014Dwelling 2,850\nJ. L. Punderson\u2014Haywood Crescent\u2014Dwelling 3,000\nMrs. Fanny Moore\u2014Roseberry St.\u2014Dwelling 2,275\nJohn A. Scott\u2014Russell St.\u2014Dwelling 2,500\nJohn A. Scott\u2014Russell St.\u2014Dwelling 2,500\nDecember 28\u2014\nR. H. Green\u2014Bay and Prior\u2014Dwelling 1,800\nJas. Loggie\u2014Albert and Charles\u2014Alt 50\nB. C. L. & I. Co.\u2014Yates St.\u2014Alt 400\nH. M. Cowper\u2014Cambridge St.\u2014Dwelling \u2022 1,800\nDecember 29\u2014\nH. Macklin\u2014Southgate St.\u2014Dwelling 2,100\nMoore & Whittington\u2014Moss St.\u2014Dwelling 3,000\nMoore & Whittington\u2014Moss St.\u2014Dwelling 2,500\nE. W. Whittington\u2014Linden Ave.\u2014Dwelling 4,500\nD. H. Bale\u2014Linden and May St.\u2014Stores and Apts 5,000\nD. H. Bale\u2014Faithful St.\u2014Dwelling 6,000\nH. H. Rasmussen\u2014Oswego St.\u2014Dwelling 1,800\nW. Gaskill\u2014Front St.\u2014Dwelling 1,800\nJas. Torrance\u2014Frances Ave.\u2014Dwelling 1,500\nBreeze & Houghton\u2014Grahame Ave.\u2014Dwelling 2,000\nParbery\u2014Denman St.\u2014Dwelling 2,000\nParbery\u2014Denman St.\u2014Dwelling 2,000\nM. H. Dobie\u2014South Turner St.\u2014Garage ...'. 170\nDecember 30\u2014\nP. R. Brown, et al\u2014Fort and Douglas Sts.\u2014Alt 1,000\nT. Faticett\u2014South Turner St.\u2014Dwelling and Store 900\nA. Dawson\u2014Johnson St.\u2014Dwelling 3,500\nOliver Johnson\u2014Denman and Lydia\u2014Stable 2,500\nJanuary 2\u2014\nC. W. Hawkins\u2014Glasgow St.\u2014Dwelling 1.900\nAlex. Stewart\u2014Belcher Ave.\u2014Dwelling 4,900\nThos. Pudding\u2014McPherson & Fullerton\u2014Dwelling 5,850\nThos. Pudding\u2014McPherson & Fullerton\u2014Dwelling 5,850\nThos. Pudding\u2014McPherson & Fullerton\u2014Dwelling 5,850\nW. J. Drysdale\u2014Fernwood St.\u2014Dwelling 2,100\nMessrs. Stevens Bros.\u2014Princess St.\u2014Dwelling 3,500\nHAVE HAD A SUCCESSFUL YEAR\nThe profits of the Eastern Townships Bank for the year ended\nNovember 15th were $459,570, which with $145,038 carried forward\nfrom last year showed $604,608 at the credit of profit and loss account.\nThe amount was distributed as follows: Dividends $270,000, reserve\nfund $150,000, strengthening assets $100,000, bonus to officers $17,000,\nofficers guaranteed fund $2,000, leaving a balance carried forward of\n$65,608.\nThe net profits were nearly $50,000 in excess of those for the\n!ast year, and over 15 per cent, of the bank's capital. The assets\nimount to $28,471,056, while current loans and discounts totalled\n$19,385,447. The bearing interest deposits totalled $14,553,536, and\nthe non-bearing interest deposits $4,956,461. The paid-up capital is\n\u00a33,000,000, ancl the reserve fund $2,400,000.\nCommenting on the pulpwood and lumber industry the report says\nthat the wise action of the provincial govevrnment in increasing the\nstumpage dues on wood cut on government land, together with the\nprohibition of the export of pulpwood and manufactured lumber from\n>own lands has had a tendency, temporarily, to check that branch of\njusiness, but has resulted in the establishment of pulp mills, which will\n.indoubtedly be followed, in time, by that of new paper mills ancl the\n.nlargement of those already operating, thereby giving increased employment to our own people and converting our forests into their most\n\/aluable product.\nThe annual statement indicates that very satisfactory progress has\njeen made by the Eastern Townships Bank, and reflects credit upon\nthe management.\nBANK OF COMMERCE STATEMENT\nThe annual statement of the Canadian Bank of Commerce for\ndie fiscal year ended November 30th shows earnings of $2,305,409\nis compared with $1,838,065 earned in 1910, the best record in the\n,iistory of the bank. Earnings on the paid-up capital with 18.38 per\ncent, last year, 15.10 per cent, in 1909, 16.27 per cent, in 1908, and\n.17.52 per cent, in 1907. The bank has taken into its assets $250,000\nfrom over-appropriations in connection with assets since realized,\nwhich is in addition to a sum of $350,000 from the same source appearing in the statement of May 31st last. The bank within the last year\nhas thus been able to add to its resources a sum ot half a million\nrecovered from its reserve for bad or doubtful accounts.\nResidence Phone F1693\nBusiness Phone 1804\nW.D'O.Rochlort\nArchitect\nPlans and Specifications on\nApplication\nSuite 407 Pemberton Block\nThe\nTaylor Mill Co.\nLimited\nAll kinds of Building Material\nLumber .' Sash .' Dooi\nTelephone 364\nNorth Government Street, Victoria\nTELEPHONES A. E. KENT\n248 AND 249 pkopribtoe\nPacific Transfer\nCo.\nTrucking and Expressing\nBaggage Checked and Furnituri\nRemtvid to any fart if City\n504 y 506 FORT STREET\nVICTORIA, B. 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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 FORT AND BROAD STREETS\nWe desire to announce that we have opened offices in Rooms\n304 and 305 Bailey Building, Handling, Seattle, Wash., handling\nStocks, Bonds, Grain and Cotton, strictly on a Commission Basis,\nin the various markets of the world. Mr. Carl L. Miller, who has\nlong been connected with important brokerage f.rms in the west,\nwill be in charge.\nWe are members of the Chicago Board of Trade. Our\nEastern correspondents are S. B. Chapin & Co.. and Logan &\nBryan, of Chicago and New York, members of all Exchanges.\nPrivate leased wire connections enable quick dispatch in handling\nall business intrusted to us for execution.\nHaving carried on a successful brokerage business in Victoria,\nB.C., for the past io years, we refer you to any bank, firm or\nindividual of that city as to our standing and integrity.\nRespectfully,\nF. W. STEVENSON & CO.\nFrank W. Stevenson\nWalter H. Murphey\nSeattle, March 6, 1911.\nWork Guaranteed Estimate! Free\nPhone Faog\nJohn P. Morris\nGeneral Contractor\nFoundations, Floors, Walks, all\nkinds of Plain and Ornamental\nCement Work\nPhoenix Street, Victoria W.\nP. O. Box 417\nBlue Printing\nMaps\nDraughting\nSurveyors' Instruments and\nDrawing Office Supplies\nElectric Blue Print & Map\nCompany\n1218 Langley Street, Victoria, B. C. \u25a0tbe'week; Saturday; january-6, 1912\nSOME THINGS INVESTORS SHQUL& KNOW\n; ; Here is some advice from James B. Clews, of Henry Clews &\nCompany:\u2014\nThe first thing to bc considered is safeguarding one's principal.\nRemember that principal comes first and that everything else is\nof a secondary nature.\nIt is said that when nothing is risked nothing is gained; nevertheless.\nA doubtful bond for investment is a source of worry ancl annoyance and often begets loss.\nNever leave a bad bond to your heirs lest they question your\njudgment;. \u2022 ' .\nDo'not expect to find an absolute safe bond paying an excessive\nrate of interest, for the two do not go hand in hand'.\nIn making investments high grade means low rate, and low grade\n'means high rate, but the terms are not synonymous.\nI It is better to be satisfied with a moderate income than to jeopardize your principal.\nA company is only as strong as its weakest mortgage.\nA junior mortgage of a strong company is often better than a first\nimortgage of a weak company.\n; It is a bad proposition to be tied up with a security which cannot\nbe readily marketed: therefore\nA bond tliat is listed on a representative exchange possesses\nmarket advantages over one that is not listed: besides\nA listed bond is a ready collateral in making loans; whereas\nAn unlisted security is not always accepted by banks.\nAttempting to average on a bad bond is usually throwing good\nmoney after bad.\n\u25a0 On the principle that putting all one's eggs in one basket is\nconsidered risky.\nIt is a good rule for an investor to scatter his risks.\nFour per cent, is the recognized ideal standard of income the\nworld over.\nRemember that the further one gets away from 4 per cent, the\ngreater the proportionate risk.\nA good railroad bond is more desirable than a real estate mortgage\nowing to its marketability and its ready use as a collateral.\nTlie market offers as good opportunities for the small investor\nas for the large one.\nA company that earns double its fixed charges is a strong company\nBritish Columbia Agricultural Association\nFINANCIAL STATEMENT\nYear 1911\n. . RECEIPTS\nJanuary I, 1911, Cash on hand $ 6 40\nSubscriptions\u2014\nB. C. Elec. Ry. Co., Ltd., 1910...$ 250 00\nCity of Victoria, 1910 80643\nProvincial Gov't Grant, 1911 5000 00\nCity of Victoria Grant, 1911 5000 00\nB. C. Breeders' Association 246 00\nB. C. Dairymen's Association... 192 50 .\n\u2022.Saskatchewan'Flour Mills 1000\nOgilvie Floor Mills Co:, Ltd.... 25 00\nLake of*the Woods Milling Co.. 25 00\nVancouver Milling Co 1500\n $11569 93\nPrivileges\u2014\nConcessions and Rent $424700\n $ 4247 00\nAdvertising $ 722 25\n $ n* 25\nGates, Etc.\u2014\nGate Receipts $7501 35\nMembers' Tickets 578 00\nAttendants' Tickets 142 00\nGrand Stand 923 75\nHorse Show 1632 50\nEntry Fees ; 1047 95\nRace Entries 1370 50\n $13196\" 05\nSundries 171 35\nVictoria Country Club (Repairs) 952 28\nDr. Balance 784 92\n$31650 19\nExamined and found correct,\n(Signed) J.' G. ELLIOTT,\nAuditor.\nDISBURSEMENTS\n1911\nAccounts outstanding for 1910 paid as follows:\u2014\nMichigan Puget Sound Lbr. Co..$$ 246 12\nO. Johnson 2 00\nJ. Wilkerson 1 00\nC. Law 56 00\nColonist Printing & Pub. Co 318 90\nHinton Electric Co 432 58\nB. C. Electric Ry. Co 699 45\n $ 1756 OS\n1911:\u2014\nPrizes $ 9972 30\nSports and Attractions-\nRaces $6435 15 *.'\nRough Riding 479 15\nMusic 900 00\n $ 7814 30\nAdvertising-\nPrinting Prize Lists, Catalogues, etc $ 1160 80\nOffice Expenses, Salaries, Rent, Phone.. 2439 40\nLighting 137565\nMaintenance and Repairs\u2014\nLabor $1053 37\nMaterial 2262 01\n $ 3315 38\nGates and Attendants, Labor... 508 00\nDecorating 591 80\nInsurance 33 70\nFiremen and Fuel 108 00\nSundries\u2014\nJudges' Salaries, Postage, Hauling, etc...$ 1287 43\nNew Tents, etc 684 10\n$31650 19\nGEORGE SANGSTER,\nSecretary.\n\\\\\nGood Illumination\nMeans Efficiency\nScientific Management consists in cutting out waste \u2014 waste\ntime and waste effort. It isn't a scheme to make men work\nharder: it is designed to make hard work easier. Scientific\nillumination enables your operatives to produce more with less\neffort. Waste time, inaccuracy, lost motion, nervous strain are\nreduced in the shop, mill or factory that is lighted scientifically\nBy Electricity\nLet us advise you. Our services are free in looking\ninto your requirements\nB, G. Electric Railway Co., Limited\nP. O. Box 1580 r Light and Pftwfcr Department Telephone\nI*!\n-^y. m\n8\"\nTHE WEEK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912\n**\u2022;\nForbes Robertson Shows\nj Acme of Art\nGives Passing of Third Floor Back\"--Wonderful Interpretat-\n' ion is Presented of the English Play written\n\\ by Jerome K. Jerome\n,\nI Christmas day found Forbes-Rob-\ncjrtson telling a simple and impressive\nlittle story of Christ to tense audiences in the Cort Theatre. Nothing\ncould have been more appropriate to\nthe spirit and sentiment of the day\nthan \"The Passing of the Third Floor\nBack,\" Jerome K. Jerome's symbolic\nplay.\nIt is a full quarter of a century\nsince last Forbes-Robertson confronted a San Francisco audience. Then\nit was with Mary Anderson that he\ncame here, a young actor whose mark\nalready had been made and who gave\npromise of a brilliant future. That\npromise has been fulfilled, for now\nForbes-Robertson is recognized as\nthe foremost actor on the English\nstage. On him has fallen the mantle\nleft by Irving.\nThe audience that welcomed\nForbes-Robertson back to San Francisco last night was surprisingly large\nin view of the holiday, and it was\ngenuinely enthusiastic in its approval\nof the play and of the performers.\nNot only Forbes-Robertson, but every\nmember of the company seemed to\nexert an extra effort to make the\nevening performance striking, and\nthey succeeded. Altogether it was a\nperformance even more perfect and\nmore appealing than that given a few\nnights ago in Oakland, when the play\nwas reviewed in \"The Examiner.\"\nIt was curious to find in the Cort\nTheatre an audience so tense and attentive to the inspiring little drama.\n\"The Passing of the Third Floor\nBack\" is not an exciting play. It\ncannot even be called a great play.\nOccasionally the symbolism by which\nMr. Jerome expresses himself is an-\nnoyingly obvious. But underlying thc\ncrisp dialogue\u2014dialogue, by the way,\nwhich has a crispness and sparkle as\nbrilliant as the chatter of a Chambers novel\u2014and the theatric use of\ncoloured lights, there is the powerful\nappeal of an intensely'sincere human\nnote.\nThe play itself exploits the spiritual\nsentiment that above all days is attached to Christmas day. It is deeply\nand movingly religious, but religious\nin a most human and simple way.\nThe humanity and simplicity of it\nmakes its appeal almost elemental.\nThe sincerity of it is inescapable, and\nthe lesson or moral is calculated to\npenetrate the most callous cuticle.\n* * *\nThe greater part of the charm of\nthe play emanates directly from the\nalluring personality of Forbes-Robertson. This actor, in his own person, constitutes an invocation to admiration. In these days, when the\nstage is cluttered with primped and\npainted and posing stars, it is a joy\nand a grateful relief to encounter an\nactor armoured in simplicity. Forbes-\nRobertson scorns the froth and (lash\nof fustian. His art is unpainted and\nimposed, and his voice is a veritable\nsolace. You have never heard over\nthe footlights a voice that gives more\nsatisfaction. To hear it lend a mellow sweetness to the lines is alone\nworth a journey to thc Cort.\nAfter four years of almost continuous appearance in \"The Passing\nof the Third Floor Back,\" it would\nbe natural to expect that Forbes-\nRobertson had become afflicted with\n\"long run\" mechanicalism. Such,\nhowever, is far from being the case.\nHe is not stereotyped. There cannot have been more freshness and\nvigour in his first performances of\nJerome's play than there was in his\nardent interpretation of it last night.\n* * *\nAn all-English company is associated with Forbes-Robertson in \"The\nPassing of the Third Floor Back.\"\nIndividually its members are unusually well adapted to their roles; collec-\n' tively they give a performance as cohesive and coherent as could be desired. The result is that every\nthread in the web of the illusion is\nperfect. There is no jarring or discordant note.\nPlays such as \"The Passing of the\nThird Floor Back,\" when conceived\nand interpreted in sincerity, are powerfully impressive. This particular\nplay is one of an entirely new type\nthat has made its way onto the stage\nin the last few years. This type of\ndrama, exploiting earnestly the spiritual element in life, recalls the ancient\nmorality play. Recently they have\nbecome increasingly numerous and\nthe success which has attended them\nindicates a certain definite tendency\ntoward a divorce from the exploitation of opposite themes in the\ntheatre.\nThe theatre caters ir. many forms\nto the imagined needs and cravings\nof the tired business man, but the\nplays which bring Christ to his elbow\nin the theatre in an understandable\nand sympathetic way are rare. \"The\nPassing of the Third Floor Back\" is\none of these. That it has been a fortune-making success to Forbes-Robertson through four seasons surely indicates that the tired buisness man is\nnot such an unmitigated chorusgirl-\nvvorshipping drug upon the dramatic\nmarket as he is painted.\u2014San Francisco Examiner, Dec. 26.\nCharacter by Handwriting\nThe Editor of The Week wishes\nto call special attention to this Department, which is conducted by an\nEnglish gentleman, a 'Varsity man of\nhigh attainments. Character reading\nfrom hand-writing is a scientific\nstudy, entirely devoid of charlatanism\nand is possibly the most reliable index of all, because hand-writing records the development of character,\nand its index is not confined to natural traits. It is an interesting\nstudy, not merely in enabling us to\nsee ourselves as others see us, but\nmay be turned to important account\nin submitting the hand-writing of persons with whom we have business relations. Indeed, viewed in this aspect,\nit is only a reasonable precaution to\nlearn all that the chirographist can\ntell us. Before deciding to institute\nthis Department the Editor of The\nWeek imposed the severest tests, submitting the hand-writing of well-\nknown persons entirely unknown to\nthe gentleman conducting this Department, who is a stranger to Victoria and a recent arrival. He is prepared to guarantee absolute accuracy\nand hopes that the readers of The\nWeek will avail themselves of what\nis a genuine privilege.\nRULES\n1. All persons wishing to consult\n\"Tau\" must enclose a specimen of\nhand-writing, consisting of about four\nlines, written on unruled paper. It\nmay be signed vvith their own name\nor not, but there must be an initial\nor nom-de-plume to identify the\nanswer, which will appear in the next\nissue of The Week.\n2. Each specimen of hand-writing\nmust be accompanied by a P. 0. for\n50 cents. Stamps will not be accepted, and the outside of the envelope should be indited \"Hand-writing.\" Absolute privacy is guaranteed.\nREPLIES\nLEONARD\u2014-You are capable, businesslike, with a fair amount of energy, Cautious\nrather titan impulsive. You have a nice and\ndiscriminating taste in dress and design. You\narc neither ardent nor enthusiastic, nor are\nyou deeply affectionate by nature. You are\ncandid, truthful and straightforward, yet with\nplenty of tact aud a good deal of finesse.\nScientific sense and feeling is indicated, and\nalso a strong sense of order and method.\nJealousy is not a strong point, hut you arc\njust in your decisions and charitable to others.\nA high sense of honour and a diffidence about\nyour own powers is very perceptible. Willpower is not very strong, you havc a high\nmoral sense and you are fond of flowers anil\nnature.\nKNOW THYSELF\u2014So you ask me for \"a\nperfectly candid verdict.\" I observe the following traits in your character: \"Complex\"\nwill best describe you, I think. You arc\ndiffident and retiring yet energetic and en\nthusiastic. Very careful in what you do,\nstriving towards perfection and accuracy.\n.Your temper is erratic and you are apt to\nlie jealous. You are not always absolutely\nstraightforward, you plan and scheme, and\nyou will probably be successful as a business\nman. You have common sense and a head\nlor figures. Artistic feeling is rather poor,\nyet you can appreciate thc work of others.\nCareful with money you dislike waste of any\nsort. You readily make allowances for others\nand you are capable of self-sacrifice. Moral\nsense is fairly good. Rather credulous, at\ntimes you may he inclined to speculate unwisely.\nL. A.\u2014Artistic by nature you should draw\nor paint well; this gift you should cultivate\nmore assiduously. Energy is fair but you\nhave but little ambition. Neatness is not\nyour strong point, you are inclined to bc untidy. Moral sense is fair but you must beware of insincerity. Capable of deep affection\nto one or two, you are rather reserved otherwise. A slight tendency to jealousy is shown,\nhut you are bright and cheerful and have a\nkeen sense of humour with plenty of imagination. You are not very sanguine and your\ntemper is more morose than violent, I should\ndescribe it on the whole as good. Justice\nis weak, so too are your mathematical powers.\nVou possess common sense, and your taste\nin dress is good, you are fond of country\nlife, and you prefer the country to the town.\nB. W.\u2014As you gave me no nom-de-plume\nthese are your initials. Thank you for your\nsuggestion; the words \"Sibyl\" and \"Sphinx\"\narc, however, distinctly feminine and I am a\nmere male*; how would \"Merlin\" suit you?\nand do you not sarcastically under-rate your\nabilities? Now as to your character; a strong\nartistic taste is shown but not much executive ability, what you have being musical.\nRefined literary taste and good mathematical\nabilities. Y'ou have a good deal of energy,\nambition, and a keen and refined sense of\nHumour. You value the approbation of other\npeople and you are inclined to be too self-\nconscious. Straightforward and candid, you\nare sometimes a little tactless. Pond of social\nlife and having many friends you are bright,\ncheerful, and gay. You have both imagination and originality, you can organise and\nyou arc methodical. Capable of violent affection you are charitable and do a good deal\nfor others. Temper is strong aud passionate\nbut you control it well. Y'ou havc a strong\nwill but you are amenable to reason. A fair\nsense of justice.\nKAPPA\u2014As to Reliability, Conscientiousness, and Fidelity iu this character, I have\nthe following to note:\u2014Distinctly a reliable\nperson; loyal to bis friends, party, nation, or\nemployer, and therefor can be considered\nfaithful. Moral sense being good, leads me\nto deduce the presence of conscientiousness.\nTAU.\nMusic Firm's Centenary\nTo commemorate the centenary of\nthe foundation of Novello's, the well-\nknown music publishing linn, a banquet was given to the partners al\nDe Keyser's Hotel during- the lirst\nweek of thc current month, under the\nchairmanship of Alderman Sir T.\nVezcy Strong. Many of the leading\nEnglish composers and musicians\nwere present.\nAn interesting letter, written tu Mr.\nNovello hy Mendelssohn from Leipzig on Nov. 18, 1837, was read. In it\nMendelssohn referred to the su.cess\nof Mr. Novello's sister in that city,\nand asked:\u2014\n\"How is music going on in England? Or have you no time now to\nthink of anything else but the Guildhall puddings and pies and the two\nhundred pineapples which the Queen\nate there\u2014as the French paper has\nit?\"\nM. P.'s Protest\nOne hundred M. P.'s of all parties\nalready have signed thc following declaration of protest:\u2014\n\"We, who have voted for women's\nsuffrage in the House of Commons,\nrecord our protest against thc campaign of organised rowdyism which\nis being carried on by certain advocates of women's suffrage. We condemn this conduct as a degradation\nof public life.\n\"If persisted iu it must make the\norganisation of an effective platform\ncampaign in favour of women's suffrage difficult, if not impossible; and\nit gravely imperils the Parliamentary\nprospects of women's suffrage in the\ncoming Session.\"\nFor Alderman\nTo the Electors of Ward 3:\nLadies and Gentlemen,\u20141 beg to\nannounce that I am a candidate for\nre-election. Trusting my efforts in the\npast havc met with your approval,\nand that I may havc your support at\nthc polls,\nYours respectfully,\nW. A. GLEASON.\nFor Mayor\nMR. J. L. BECKWITH\nasks for the support of the\nCitizens of Victoria in his\ncandidature for the Mayoralty. If elected, he will use\nevery endeavour to secure a\npeaceful administration of\ncivic affairs, and to institute\nsuch practical measures as\nwill insure sound, economical\nand progressive development\nFor Alderman\nTo the Electors of Ward No. 2::\nLadies and Gentlemen,\u2014In offering\n'myself for election as your representative in the approaching civic election, I beg to give my every assurance that thc interests of Ward No. 2\nwill receive my best attention. If\nelected, I will use every endeavour\nIto further such interests, having due\nregard to the betterment both of the\nWard and of the city at large.\nGEORGE W. ANDERSON.\nFor Alderman\nTo the Electors of Ward No. 5:\nLadies and Gentlemen,\u2014I beg to\nannounce myself as a candidate for\nre-election at the forthcoming Municipal Elections and respectfully solicit\nyour votes and influence. If I am\nsuccessful I will endeavour to do my\nduty both by the Ward and by the\nALEX. PEDEN.\nFor Alderman\nTo the Electors of Ward No. 2:\nI beg to announce myself as a candidate for re-election as representative of Ward No. 2 at the forthcoming election. 1 wish to assure the\nElectors of this Ward that 1 will\nspare no effort to further their interests in the event of my re-election.\nW. H. RUSSELL HUMBER.\nFor Alderman\nWARDl\nR. BEARD, the Progressive Citizen's\nCandidate for\nWard 1\nFor Alderman\nTo the Electors of Ward No. 5:\nHaving been requested by a large\nnumber of the Electors of Ward No.\n5 to stand for Alderman at the ensuing Civic Election, 1 beg to announce that 1 am a candidate. I beg\nto solicit the votes and influence of\nthe Electors of this Ward and to\nassure them that the needs and requirements of the Wa.d will meet\nwith every attention on my part if\nI am elected.\nJOHN DILWORTH.\nFor Alderman\nTo the Electors of Ward No. 3:\nLadies and Gentlemen,\u2014A large\nnumber of the Electors of Ward No.\n3 have asked me to stand for re-election. I therefore offer myself as a\ncandidate at the forthcoming election\nand beg to solicit your votes and influence on my behalf.\nW. F. FULLERTON.\nFor Alderman\nTo the Electors of Ward 4:\nLadies and Gentlemen,\u2014Having\nbeen requested by a number of electees to allow my name to bc put in\nnomination as a candidate for Alderman in Ward 4, 1 beg to announce\nthat I have decided to stand for election and respectfully solicit your support and influence,\nSincerely yours,\nJ. H. BAKER,\nDEATH\nNAPIER\u2014At St. Joseph's Hospital, Victoria,\non the 3rd inst., Margaret Paxton Young,\naged (.'. late of Edinboro, Scotland, widow\nof the late John Mutter Napier. Funeral\nprivate. No flowers.\nGood, Rich\nBlood Keeps the\nBody Warm\n\u2014and means \"good health.\" All\nthose who feel at all \"run down\"\nor lack energy, should at once\nstrengthen their systems by a\nreliable tonic. Bowes' Beef,\nIron and Wine will quickly invigorate and give you renewed\nstrength.\nIT MAKES BLOOD\nFor depression, weakness, brain\nfag, it has no equal. Perfectly\npalatable and causes no stomach\ndisturbances. At this store\nonly. Price $t.oo per bottle.\nCyrus H. Bowes\nChemist\n1228 Government Street\nTels. 425 and 450\nft UP floTEl\nSEATTLE\nChas. Pemy, Mm\nTHE BEST OrEVEOTHING\niNTflEBiAwormcnr\n135R00HSVflTH^TH-5QSAMPiERoOMS\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\nSave Money on\nYour Xmas Gifts\nTwo Minatures made Free with\nevery locket. Full line of Watches,\nChains, Diamonds, etc. Gold Nugget Jewelry a specialty.\nH. Greensfelder, Jeweler\n547 Johnson Street\nMrs. D. B. McLaren\nTeacher of Singing and\nVoice Production\nTerms on Application Phone X2308\nP. 0. Box 44Q\nF. KROEGER\nARTISTIC UPHOLSTERY\n\" Windowphanie\"\nMa..cs Stained Glass out of Plain Glass\nHas Removed to 721 Courtney Street\nOpposite Alexandra Clnb Telephone 1148\nVICTORIA l.ANl) DISTRICT\nDistrict of Sayward\n[AKE notice that Prank II. Sagor of Victoria, occupation Labourer, intends to applv\nfur permission to purchase the following described lands!\u2014Commencing at a post planted\nat the north-cast corner of Section 23, on\nCorne Harbour, Cortes [sland, Sayward District, H. C., _ thence 40 chains soutii;\nthence 40 ehains west; thence 40 chains\nnorth; Ihence 40 ehains cast to point of\ncommencement, containing 160 acres, more\not less.\nDated 61I1 December, ion.\nFRANK H. SAGER.\ndec. 30 mch 3 THE WEEK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912\n7^\nDominion and Provincial\nNews\nBringing Potatoes From the\nOld Land\nOn account of unprccdcnt?d shortage in Canadian potato crop several\nOttawa wholesalers of Irish stuff are\nmaking arrangements to import. potatoes from England and the Emerald Isle. In Ottawa potatoes range\nin price from $1.40 to $1.60 for a\nbag of 90 pounds' weight. At this\nseason last year prices ranged from\n$1 to $1.10. Ottawa wholesale\nmerchants report that there is little\nprobability of drop in the prices at\nany rate before spring. Although\nNew Brunswick crop is said to be\nlighter than usual that province and\nlittle Prince Edward Island are now\nsupplying all demands of Eastern Canadian market with the exception of\nSimcoe district of Ontario, where the\ncrop does not fall so far below normal as in other parts of the province.\nRailway is Now at Fort Steele\nSaturday, Dec. 23, was a red letter\nday for the town of Fort Steele, the\nrails of the Kootenay Central having\nreached and passed nortli of the\ntown on that day. The engine was\nNo. 1403 in charge of Engineer William Neill.\nThe operation of the track laying\nmachine brought down to the grade\nor to the banks of the river almost\nthe whole town\u2014men, women and\nchildren\u2014to most of whom the\nworking of such a machine was not\nonly something new but a source of\ngreatest wonder. The track laying\ngang had passed the bridge end by\n11 o'clock and the grade being clear\nahead they were soon out of sight.\nThey will complete about two miles\n1 north of the town at present so that\nas soon as thc weather will permil\nthe steam shovels may be able to get\nto work.\nPenitentiary Report\nThe annual report of the Inspector\nof Penitentiaries for the last fiscal\nyear, which has just been issued,\nshows that the average daily population of the Canadian penitentiaries\nfor the year was 1P34, an increase of\nten over the previous year and of\n401 as compared with Jialf a decade\nago. Canadian born inma.tes of the\npenitentiaries numbered 1,004, while\n198 were born in England. 54 in Ireland, 45 in Scotland, 12 in Newfoundland and 13 in other British countries,\nmaking a total of 1,326 British born\ncriminals. Thc United States heads\nthe list of foreign born inmates with\n229, other countries coming in the\nfollowing order: Italy 94. Austria\nHungary 61, Russia 41, France 20,\nGermany 18, China 13, other foreign\ncountries 63.\nDeer Doing Well\nReports from Queen Charlotte\nIslands show that the experiment\nmade by the Provincial Government\nof stocking the islands with deer\npromises to meet with success. Of\nthe lirst consignment of fifteen taken\nover under the superintendence of\nMr. Bryan Williams last year, one\njumped overboard from the boat and\none died after landing, but the remaining 13 arc alive and doing well.\nA further consignment of six has'recently been sent from Prince Rupert\nand this is all the government intends sending over for the present,\nthe provincial game warden being of\nthe opinion that this will be sufficient.\nA Garnet Deposit\nA garnet deposit of exceptional\npossibilities has been discovered on\nan island situated in St. Michael's\nBay, Southern Labrador, about thirty-\nfive miles north of Belle Isle in the\nstraits. This garnet has been tested\nsuperior for that purpose to any\nfound elsewhere. It is also thought\nthat slabs of any size and thickness\ncan be cut and polished. If so, it\nwill be interesting to building trades,\nas they would be exceedingly handsome, durable, attractive and new for\nboth inside and outside ornamental\nwork. Shipping facilities are excellent, the water being deep, and there\nis perfect security for the largest\nships.\nNew Vancouver Theatre\nAs soon as a site can he secured a\ntheatre with a seating capacity of\n2,500, to cost a quarter of a million\ndollars, will be built in Vancouver,\naccording to Mr. L. Richmond, Jr.,\nwho is in Vancouver representing\nNew York capitalists. Mr. Richards\nis looking for such a site, preferably\none near Granville Street, though not\non the main thoroughfare. The\nbuilding will be fireproof and construction will he begun immediately\non the acquisition of the site. The\nproposed theatre will bc opened at\nIhe beginning of next season. Mr.\nRichards describes Vancouver as being one cf the best show towns in\nthe West.\nKettle Valley Railway\nOf considerable interest to British\nColumbians is the announcement that\nthe Kettle Valley Railway is being\nconstructed at a great rate, as by thc\noperation of freight into the Okanagan country will be greatly facilitated and the fame of that gloriously\nfertile region of British Columbia immeasurably quickened. Thirty miles\nof the road at Merritt end have now\nbeen completed and it is expected\nthat the entire road will be an operation by the middle of 1913*\u2014Vancouver Province.\nA New Line of Steamers\nA new line of steamers from Vancouver across thc Pacific to Australia\nand China, independent of another\nline of steamers to carry all Saskatchewan and Alberta grain along its\nlines through Vancouver and then in\nits vessels through the Panama Canal,\ntogether with the positive announcement that within the next 18 mouths\ntranscontinental trains will he running from Montreal to Vancouver\u2014\nsuch is the news that comes from no\nless an authority than Sir Donald\nMann, of the Canadian Northern\nRailway.\nPenticton-Carmi Road\nAt its last meeting the Penticton\nBoard of Trade passed strong resolutions requesting the provincial government to undertake the early construction of the Penticton-Carmi\nwagon road. A similar resolution\nwill be submitted to the meeting of\nthe Associated Boards of Trade of\nthe Okanagan Valley, which will meet\nin Penticton early in January. It is\npointed out that aside from its being an advantage to the immediate\ndistrict it could be utilized as a part\nof tiie trans-provincial highway.\n\"The Vernon News\"\nOf all the Christmas Exchanges\nwhich have reached Thc Week's reviewing desk this festive season, not\none can compare with \"The Vernon\nXews.\" In addition to the regular\npaper, which is full of live news, as\nit always is, there is a special coloured supplement containing Christmas stories and articles of real interest. \"The Vernon News\" is to be\ncongratulated on its success.\nKelowna Customs Port\nOn order iu council has been passed\nestablishing new customs ports from\nJan. 1 at Minnedosa, Man., under thc\nsurvey of the port of Portage la\nPrairie; Kelowna, B.C., under thc\nsurvey of the port of Revelstoke, aifd\n40-Mile, Y.T,, under the survey of the\nport of Dawson.\nMongolian Pheasants\nMr. A. Bryan Williams, provincial\ngame warden, states that the Mongolian pheasants introduced in British\nColumbia a year ago have bred well,\nand a number wcre shot by sportsmen this fall. This pheasant is considered the most beautiful of the\nspecies.\nMilitary Uniforms\nThe minister of militia is putting\ninto effect the new rule with regard\nto the selection of uniforms for thc\nmilitia. Under thc old system, the\neloth for uniforms was purchased\nwithout any stipulation as to colour\nstandards, the result being that different regiments wore varied hues of\nred or of green and this has caused\ncomment on review days. Hereafter\nthe cloth will be manufactured in\nCanada specially for the militia, under supervision of a textile expert.\nThe Government Telegraph\nThe annual report of the government telegraph service states that\nthere are now in operation in various\nparts of the Dominion 8,150^1 miles\nof government-owned and operated\nwires and .2561\/ miles of cables.\nThese wires, some of whicii are\ndouble lines cover 7,700 miles of\nground. The expenditure for the\nsystem during thc year has been\n$432,970.40 while the revenue has been\n$16-0,585.15.\nA Great Rush to Canada in 1912\nA. D. McRae, of thc Canadian Northern railway says that from advices\nreceived by his company's land department he believes that four hundred thousand new people will settle\nin Canada in 1912. Mr. Rae declares\nthat wheat crop and excellent lumber trade and general conditions convince leading Canadian bankers that\nthe country is 011 the threshold of\nbanner year of prosperity and expansion.\nStampede lo Head Of 60-Mile River\nThere is a stampede to the head\nof Sixty-Mile River, as thc result of\na rich gold strike there. Many old\nprospectors have started over the 130-\nMile trail to thc new strike, which\nis twenty miles from the Alaskan\nboundary.\nCorrespondence\nThe Week accepts no responsibility for\ntlie views expressed by its correspondents.\nCommunication! 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.\nTIMELY GENEROSITY\nKoksilah, B.C.,\nJan. .3. 1912.\nEditor The Week:\nAs you may remember I published\na Coronation liymp in June of last\nyear with a promise that any profits\narising therefrom, should be devoted\nto local hospitals. A very large\nnumber of copies were circulated as\nyou know (in the Government Souvenir and the Kamloops Souvenir,\netc., but tiie majority of these were\nnot paid copies.\nI have at last managed to get together most of the moneys due and\nfind that after paying Mr. Cusack's\nprinting bill of $119.30, I havc nearly\n$40 in hand. I am sending $15 to the\nJubilee Hospital, $15 to the Anti-\nTuberculosis Hospital, ancl $10 to the\nDuncans Convalescent Home.\nI am very much ashamed of the\npaltry sums and would gladly nol\nmention them had 1 not promised to\naccount for my profits.\nYours truly,\nCLIVE PHILLI PI'S WOLLEY.\nTo the Electors of Ward 1:\nIn response to a requisition numerously\nsigned liy the Hectors of Ward 1, I have\ndecided to offer myself for the position of\nAlderman for Ward 1. If elected, my policy\nwill he. one of progress, and at the same\nlime safeguard the interests of the city iu\nevery regard. I am in favour of the Snoke\nWater Scheme, and will work to have the\nSooke water delivered in Vietoria at the\nearliest possible date. I am also in favour\nof municipal ownership of all public utilities.\nI am in favour of thc Greater Victoria\nScheme, if properly worked out, so that every\ninterest will lie considered. I am of lhe\nopinion tbat Ihe Public Works Department\nof our City stands in need of reorganization,\nas wc are not gelling value for thc money\nspent. I am in favour of the day labour\nsystem ou city works as far as possible. If\nelected my endeavour will be to promote tbe\nInterests of Victoria, and will work to build\nup and clean up the'city, as wc have in\nVictoria the best residential and commercial\ncentre in Canada.\nRespectfully yours,\nR. BEARD.\nThe British Columbia Old Country\nPublic School Boys' Association\nPresident\u201415. E. Pooley (Bedford Grammar School)\nHon. Secretary\u2014A. R. Sherwood (Dulwich Coll.), Northern Crown Bank lildg.\nP. O. Pox 812, Victoria,\nDec. 29th, 1911.\nThe Annual Dinner will be held in Victoria on Saturday, 13th\nJanuary, 1912, at the Empress Hotel at 7.30 p.m.\nTickets, $2.50, can be had from any member of the Council or\nfrom the Secretary.\nAn adjourned General Meeting will be held at the Board of\nTrade Rooms, Bastion Street, on January ISth, 1912. at 5 p.m.\nEXECUTIVE, 1911\nPresident\nC. E. Pooley (Bedford Grammar School)\nVice-Presidents\nE. G. Prior (Leeds Grammar School)\nClive Phillips-Wolley (Rossall School)\nCouncil\nW. K. Scott (Gigglcswick School)\nII. A. Bromley (Eton College)\nB. II. Tyrwhitt Drake (Charterhouse)\nM. Cane (Eton College)\nR. H. Pooley (Bradficld College)\nW. Blakemore (Wolverhampton School)\nA. W. Jones (The Edinburgh Academy)\nG. A. Kirk (H.M.S. Britannia)\nDr. E. Hasell (Harrow School)\nT, J. Shallcross (Reading School)\nG. Sheldon-Williams (St. Paul's School)\nII. Sheridan Bickers I (Malvern College)\nI.indley Crease (Haileybury College)\nC. St. Barbe (Sherborne School)\nCol. J. Eardley-Wilmot (Wellington College)\nIntending members are requested to communicate with A. R.\nSherwood, Northern Crown Bank Building, Victoria, B.C.\nEvery Woman Will Eventually\nVote for GOLD DUST\nEvery woman in this broad land 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, \u00ab* _IiSMU^J >\nand learn why every wKFfM\"=:=::^m^____W'^\\^\nwoman will eventually \/^B ^ -~^^\\l_~__Ww\\ )\na 1 a V&hW****-, ~_ ^} ^.SlWtry '.\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\nPocket Diaries\nIn all shapes and sizes, from 20 cents\nto $3.50 each, at\nVictoria Book & Stationer)\/\nCompany. Limited\n1004 Government St., late Waitt's Music Store\n1216 Douglas Street, opposite\nSayward Blk.\nRailway Wages Raised\nAt a meeting in Shrewsbury, on\nTuesday, December 5th, of the Conciliation Board of the Great Western\nand London ancl Nortb-Western Joint\nRailways, concessions wcre agreed\nupon by which some 1,500 men will\nget either reduced hours or higher\nwages, or both. The staffs affected\ninclude those at Birkenhead, Chester, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Ludlow,\nWellington, and many other stations.\nIt is estimated that wdien the scheme\nconies into full operation it will cost\nthe joint companies a further \u00a34,000\na year. THE WEiSkV SATURDAY, JANUARYS,' 1912\nUi,\nm\nADVANCED\nNorthern Anthracite Collieries\nLIMITED\nWILSON ROBERTSON\nCOAL FIELDS\nGRAHAM \/SLAND\nw^ft^'\nSkcctch Map\nSHOWING\nCoal Licenses\nIN\nBearskin Bay. Q.C.I.\n^__r-\nALFRED BAY COAL FIELDS\nCapital \u25a0 \u25a0 $1,500,000\nDivided into $1,500,000 Shares, $1.00 each\nPresident T. S. Gore, Capitalist\nVice-President J. C. Keith\nDirectors A. Scot Innis, A. E. Hepburn, Christian F. J. Galloway\nSolicitors Burns & Walkem\nConsulting Engineers A. E. Hepburn, Christian F. J. Galloway\nChartered Accountants Kenah & Nesbit, Vancouver and London, Eng.\nSecretary F. H. Hepburn, 317 Winch Building\nD. R. Young has contracted for purchase of\ntwo blocks of shares of 100,000 each, and\nare being sold by A. E. Kealy for purchaser\nThe entire proceeds of which are to be\nused for development purposes jonly\nLatest Information from Queen Charlotte by wireless is to the\neffect that the diamond drill is already down over '500 feet\na|nd making fifteen feet each day, in coal formation,\nand is expected to cut through seam of coal at any hour\nStock Now Advanced to 25 cents per share and will surely advance\nto 50 cents per share as soon as the COAL SEAM is cut by the drill\nGet In Now, Don't Wait until Too Late-Opportunity Only Knocks Onee\nAPPLICATION FOR SHARES\nH. J. HEAL, Victoria, Agent for Arnold E. Kealy, Vancouver, B. C.\nI hereby request you to obtain for me shares in the NORTHERN ANTHRACITE COLLIERIES, LIMITED, of par value of $i.oo\neach at the net price to me of 15c per share, and I now hand you the sum of $ , being the first payment of five cents per share now applied\nfor; the balance I agree to pay as follows: Five cents on each share in thirty days from date hereof; five cents on each share in sixty dayS from date hereof;\nbeing payment in full, and I hereby agree to accept the said shares or any less number of shares that may be allotted to me, and also pay for same; and I\nhereby authorize you to obtain registration of me as the holder of the shares so obtained for me.\nThis application is made by me subject to (50,000) shares being subscribed for and purchased.\nA. E. KEALY, Office: 506fPacific^Bldg^744 Hastings St. W., Vancouver\nH. X BEE, 125 Pembe^\n=a\n*\n=a 10\nTHE WEEK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912\nRules for Limerick Competitors\ni. In order to win a Limerick Prize it is only necessary to cut\nout Coupon below, and to add a line to the verse which accompanies\nthe Coupon. This last line must rhyme with the first two lines, but\nneither of the last two words terminating the first two lines may be\nused. ;\n2. All who desire to compete for the prizes offered by \"The\nWeek\" for Limericks must enclose the Coupon below, together with\nP. O. for 50c (no stamps, and forward same not later than January\n6th, addressed Limerick Editor, The Week, Victoria, B.C. All letters\nsent after that date will be disqualified.\n3. Competitors may submit two or more Limericks if desired\u2014\nbut each attempt must be accompanied by separate coupon, and\nadditional entrance fee. Competitors sending more than one Limerick\nmay enclose one money order or cheque for the full amount covering\nthe number of their coupons. The Editor undertakes that every\nLimerick shall receive careful consideration, but he will not hold himself responsible for coupons lost or mislaid.\n4. The decision of the Editor on all matters relating to this\ncompetition must be accepted as final, and acceptance of this rule is\nan express condition of entry.\n5. The result of each competition will be duly announced in the\nnext issue of \"The Week,\" following the closing date for entries.\nThe names of the prize-winners, together with their addresses, will\nbe published with the winning lines.\n6. The total amount of the money received will be distributed\namongst the winners who will be graded in order of merit, less 10\nper cent, for various objects of general public interest, and 10 per\ncent, for expenses. The 10 per cent, this month will be paid to the\nPublic Library for the purpose of adding new books to the Library.\n(We should be happy to receive any suggestions as regards the books\nmost in request by readers). Next month the amount set aside for\npublic purposes will be given to the Jubilee Hospital.\n\"THE WEEK\" LIMERICK COMPETITION\nCoupon No. 4\nWe hail Father Christmas today,\nWho has always a glorious way,\nOf distributing toys,\nTo good little boys\nName \t\nAddress \t\nNo. of M. Order\t\nMotherland\nMishap to the Mauretania\nOwing to the strong tide-and wind\nthe anchor chain of the Cunard liner\nMauretania, berthed in the Mersey,\nbroke late on Wednesday night, December 6th, and the huge vessel drifted up river for a mile or so, narrowly\nmissing several vessels in her erratic\ncourse.\nThere was considerable excitement,\nand a tug hastened to assist, but\nfound that the weight of the liner was\ntoo much for her, and there was every\ndanger of the towing-rope snapping.\nA number of other tugs quickly arrived, and, attaching hawsers, steadied\nthe Mauretania, which, however, went\nashore near the Dingle, on a bottom\nconsisting of mud and sand. As the\ntide was then falling, it was found\nimpossible to get her away.\nSir W. Grantham\nRarely has so representative a gathering paid a last tribute to the memory of a judge as that which assembled on Monday, December 4th,\nin the Temple Church at the memorial service to the late Sir William\nGrantham.\nFourteen judges were present, and\nfor over half an hour there was a\nconstant stream of benchers and barristers, solicitors and law students.\nThe brief service was conducted\nby the Master of the Temple (Dr.\nWoods). The anthem \"Blest are the\ndeparted\" and the hymn \"Now the\nlabourer's task is o'er\" were sung,\nand at the close the funeral march\nwas played.\nThe service synchronised with the\nfuneral at Barcombe, Sussex. The\ncoffin was conveyed on an open hearse\nfrom the house in Eaton-square to\nVictoria Station early in the afternoon, and wreaths had been sent in\nsuch numbers that these were taken\nto the station in a coach, which made\na number of special journeys for the\npurpose.\nAt the head of the coffin was placed\na wreath of laurels, tied with the\nUnion Jack, from the Westminster\nDivision of the National Reserve, inscribed: \"To our comrade of fifty-\ntwo years' service.\"\nDeath of Sir George Lewis\nSir George Lewis, the famous solicitor, died on Thursday morning, December 7th, at Portlandplace, at the\nage of seventy-eight.\nNo man of his time was the repository of so many secrets connected with distinguished families. But\nhe was the personification of discreetness, and was never known to\nbetray a confidence.\nAll documents connected with confidential cases he kept in a special\nroom, and some time ago he burnt\nmany of them.\nHe was practically the only solicitor who never kept a dairy. Secrets\nwhich were entrusted to him were\nlocked up in his mind, and now that\nhe is dead those who trusted him\nmay rest assured that those secrets\nhave died with him.\nMr. Bottomley\nThe Central News says an application in tlie Bankruptey Court for a\nreceiving order was granted against\nMr. Bottomley on his own petition.\nIn making the application, Mr. Bottomley said he had been harassed\nby litigation arising out of affairs of\ncertain companies with which he was\nconnected several years ago. He\nwished to protect his assets and put\nan end to all pending litigation by\nmeans of a receiving order with a\nview to submitting a scheme for\npayment of all just debts.\nNew Bishop\nCanon James Denton Thompson\nhas been appointed Bishop of Sodor\nand Man. The canon has been rector\nof Birmingham since 1005, and is the\nsecond clergyman in succession holding that position who has been elevated to the Episcopal Bench, Dr.\nDiggle, his predecessor, having been\nmade Bishop of Carlisle in 1905.\nCanon Thompson was born in 1856\nat Liverpool. He obtained his first\ncuracy at Didsbury, Manchester, at\nthe age of twenty-six. From there\nhe went to St. Saviour's, Liverpool,\nand became Vicar of St. Leonard's,\nBootle, in 1889. Prior to his appointment to the rectory of Birmingham he was rector of North Meols,\nSouthport.\nMr. Fred Terry's Illness\nMr. Fred Terry, who has been in\nbad health since September, suffering\nfrom nervous breakdown and slight\nheart trouble, has had a relapse, and\nis again confined to his room under\nthe care of a nurse.\nA few weeks ago arrangement**,\nwere made for him to spend a few\nweeks at Crowborough, but as he was\nnot strong enough to undertake the\njourney these had to be cancelled.\nLincoln Headmaster\nThe Rev. Reginald Stewart Moxon,\nof King's School, Canterbury, has\nbeen appointed headmaster of Lincoln Grammar School.\nThe Value of the Sea\nThe value of sea-fish caught and\nlanded in Canada during the six\nmonths ended September 30th last\nwas over $11,500,000.\nSEALED TENDERS addressed to the undersigned, and endorsed \"Tender for Armoury, Fernie, B.C.,\" will be received at this\noffice until 4.00 p.m., on Wednesday, January\n24, 1912, for the work mentioned.\nPlans, specification and form of contract\ncan be seen and forms of tender obtained\nat this Department on application to the Caretaker of Dominion Public Building, Fernie,\nB.C., and at the office of Mr. Wm. Henderson, Resident Architect, Victoria, B.C.\nPersons tendering are notified that tenders\nwill not be considered unless made on the\nprinted forms supplied, and signed with their\nactual signatures, stating their occupations and\nplaces of residence. In the case of firms, thc\nactual signature, the nature of the occupation, and place of residence of each member\nof the firm must be given.'\nEach tender must be accompanied by an\naccepted cheque on a chartered bank, payable\nto the order of the Honourable the Minister\nof Public Works, equal to ten. per cent.\n(10 p.c.) of the amount of the tender, which\nwill be forfeited, if the person tendering decline to enter into a contract when called\nupon to do so, or fail to complete the work\ncontracted for. If the tender be not accepted\nthe cheque will be returned.\nThe Department does not bind itself to\naccept the lowest or any tender.\nBy order,\nR. C. DESROCHERS,\nSecretary,\nDepartment of Public Works,\nOttawa, December 26, 1911.\nNewspapers will not be paid for this advertisement if they insert it without authority\nfrom the Department.\nVICTORIA LAND DISTRICT\nDistrict of Renfrew\nTAKE notice that I. R. Carmichael Bamford, of Vancouver, B.C., occupation, dentist,\nintend to apply for permission to prospect\nfor coal and petroleum on the following described lands:\u2014Commencing at a post planted at the south-east corner and marked R.\nC. B. S.E. Cor., located about 20 chains\nwest .and 6 chains south of the south-east\ncorner of Lot 650, Renfrew District, and\nalso about one and three-fourths miles south\nand two and a quarter miles west of mile\npost 43 on the boundary line of the E. &\nN. R.R. grant; thence north 80 chains; thence\nwest 80 chains; thence south 80 chains;\nthence east 80 chains to point of commencement.\nLocated December oth, ion.\nR. CARMICHAEL BAMFORD,\nPer D. J. O'Brien, Agent,\ndec. 23 ' Jan. 20\nVICTORIA LAND DISTRICT\nDistrict of Renfrew\nTAKE notice that I, D. J. O'Brien, of Vancouver, B.C., occupation cruiser, intend to\napply for permission to prospect for coal\nand petroleum on the following described\nlands:\u2014Commencing at a post planted at the\nnorth-west corner and marked D. J. O'B.\nN.W. Cot., located about 20 chains west\nand 6 chains south of the south-east corner\nof Lot 650, Renfrew District, and also about\none and three-fourths miles south and two\nand a quarter miles west of mile post 43 on\nthe boundary line of the E- & N. R. R.\ngrant; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80\nchains; thence north 80 chains; thence west\n80 chains to point of commencement.\nLocated December 9th, 1911.\nD. J. O'BRIEN,\ndec. 23 Jan. 20\nVICTORIA LAND DISTRICT\nDistrict of Renfrew\nTAKE notice that I, J. M. Linton, of Vancouver, B.C., occupation cruiser, intend to\napply for permission to prospect for coal\nand petroleum on the following described\nlands:\u2014Commencing at a post planted at\nthe north-east corner and marked J. M. L.\nN. E. Cor., located about 20 chains west\nand 6 chains south of the south-east corner\nof Lot 650. Renfrew District, and also about\none and three-fourths miles south and two\nand a quarter miles west of mile post 43 on\nthc boundary line of the E. & N. R.R. grant;\nthence south 80 chains; thence west 80\nchains; thence north 80 chains; thence east\n80 chains to point of commencement.\nLocated December 9th, 1911.\nJ. M. LINTON,\ndcc. 23 jan. 20\nCANCELLATION OF RESERVE\nNOTICE is hereby given that the reserve\nestablished by notice bearing date June 30th,\n\u25a0 908, and published in the British Columbia\nGazette on July 2nd, 1908, over certain lands\nin the Districts of Cariboo and Lillooet in\nthe vicinity of the 52nd parallel of North\nlatitude, is cancelled in so far as the same\nrelates to the lands surveyed as Sections 12,\n13, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 34, 35, and 36, Township 46, Lillooet District; Sections 4, 5, 6, 7,\n8, ana g, Township 52, Liilooet District; Sections 1, 2, 4, 9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, 26,\n35, and 36, Township 54, Lillooet Districtc;\nSections 28, 20, 30, 31, 32, and 33, Township\n84, Lillooet District; Sections 25, 26, 27, 28,\n_,, l,...a_a,a.a __.._,..._., \u00bb...\u2122..j, ..u, .\u2022\/, *D,\n\u25a0\"J, 30, 31, 32, 33., 34, 35, and 36, Township\n86, Lillooet District; Sections 34, 3; and 36,\nTownship 88, Lillooet District; Sections 1, 2,\n3, 4, a, 10, 11, is, and 16, Township 47, Cariboo District; Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,\n15, 16, 17, 18, 21 and 22, Townsnip 49, Cariboo District; and Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,\n7, 8, 0, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. is, 16, 17, 18, 19.\n20 and 21, Township 51, Cariboo District, and\nSections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, n, 12, 13,\n14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 18 and 20, Township 53,\nCariboo District.\nR. A. RENWICK,\nDeputy Minister of Lands.\nLands Department,\nVictoria, B. C.\nnth October, 1911.\noct. 14 jan. 13\nVICTORIA LAND DISTRICT\nDistrict of Coast, Range III\nTAKE notice that Albert Edward Christie\nof Victoria, B.C., occupation Banker, intends\nto apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:\u2014Commencing at a\npost planted at the' north-west corner of Lot\n140, Dean Channel, thence east twenty chains;\nthence north ten chains more or less to the\nsouth bank of the Salmon River; thence following the south bank of the Salmon River\nin a south-westerly direction twenty chains\nmore or less, thence south to point of commencement, and containing ten acres more\nor less.\nDated October 21st, 1911.\nALBERT EDWARD CHRISTIE.\nA. K. Stuart, Agent.\nYoung lady would like place as\nlady help on lanch or farm, well\ndomesticated, musical, age 22;\nalso similar place for lady\nftiend. Write Miss C. Jessop,\nWhite Hart Hotel, Margate,\nKent, England.\nNOTICE\nPRIVATE BILLS\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Petitions for Private Bills must be presented to\nthe Legislative Assembly not later than Monday, the 22nd day of January, 1912.\nPrivate Bills must be presented and introduced to the House not later than the ist\nday of February, 1912.\nPrivate Bills must be reported to the House\nby the Committee considering same not later\nthan the 8th day of February, 1912.\nDated this 8th day of December, 1911.\nTHORNTON FELL,\nClerk Legislative Assembly,\ndec. 9 feb. 3\n\"WATER ACT, 1909.'\nTHIS Ib TO CERTIFY that the Wellington Colliery Company, Limited, holder of\nWater Licences Nos. 1019 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 which 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 \u00a3xecute 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\u25a0\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 tho 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 or\nbefore the first day of May next, and shall\nbe completed and in actual 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 that the construction thereof it 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.\nCANCELLATION OF RESERVE\nNOTICE is hereby given that the reserves\nestablished over vacant Crown Lands in\nRanges 4 and 5, Coast District, by notice\nbearing dates respectively of December 17th,\n1908, May 5th, 1910, and May 25th, 1910,\nwhich were published in the British Columbia\nGazette in the issues of December 17th, 1908,\nMay 12th, 1910, and May 26th, 1910, are cancelled in so far as the same relates to the\nlands surveyed as Lots 387, 388, 533, 533, 534.\n535, S3-S, 537. 538, 539, 540, 541, \"\u25a0\". \">;,\n1113, 1114, 11 is, 1116, i'i7, K18,\n1119, 1120, 1131, and 1122, all in Range 4,\nCoast District; and Lots 4028, 4029, 4030,\n4031, 3022A, 303O1 303,'A, 3043, 3\u00bb44> 359-fA,\n4933, and 4934, all in Range 5, Coast District.\nR. A. RENWICK,\nDeputy Minister of Lands.\nLands Department,\nVictoria, B. C.\nnth October, 1911.\noct. 14 ian. 13\nNOTICE\n. NOTICE is hereby given that an application will be made to the Legislative Assembly\nof the Province of British Columbia at its\nnext session for an Act granting to The Victoria Harbour Railway Company an extension\nof time within -.which to commence and continuously and effectually proceed with the\nconstruction of its railway, and also an extension of time within which to spend fifteen\nper cent, of its authorised capital upon the\nconstruction of its railway.\nDated at Victoria, B. C, this 4th day of\nDecember, 1911.\nROBERTSON & HEISTERMAN,\nSolicitors for the Applicants.\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\npost planted sixty chains distant in a westerly\ndirection from the north-east corner of Lot 3,\nRenfrew District, being Netta B. Moore, S. E.\nCorner: thence north 40 chains: thence west\n34 cnains; thence south 18.6 chains; thence\neast 10 chains; thence south 21.4 chains;\nthence east 24 chains to place of Commencement, and containing one hundred and fourteen and six-tenths acres, more or less.\nDated November 28th, toil\ndec. 3\nNETTA B. MO'0$E.'\nBy William W. Steinmetz, Agent,\nfeb. 3\n\"LAND REGISTRY ACT\"\nIn the matter of an application for a fresh\nCertificate of Title to Lots 1769 and 1799\nand parts of Lots 1768 and 1800, Victoria\nCity, British Columbia.\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 William Brooke Naylor on\nthe 17th of July, 1890 and numbered 10180A\nwhich has been destroyed.\nDated at Land Registry Office, Victoria,\nB.C., this 1st day of December, A.D. 1911.\nS. Y. WOOTTON\nRegistrar-General of Titles,\ndec. 9 Jan. 6\nVICTORIA LAND DISTRICT\nDistrict of Malahat\nTAKE NOTICE that I, Frederick Ado!-\nphus Futcher, of Victoria, B.C., occupation\nMerchant, intends to apply for nermission to\npurchase the following described lands:\u2014\nCommencing at a post planted at high water\nmark on the north bank of Arbutus Creek at\nits mouth, Saanich Arm, on Lot 120, Malahat\nDistrict; thence east ten chains; thence north\nto low water mark; thence following low\nwater mark in a westerly and northerly direction to a point due east of the north-east\ncorner of Lot 120, Malahat District; thence\nwest to high water mark; thence in a southerly direction following high water mark to\npoint of commencement.\nDated November 2nd, ion.\nFREDERICK ADOLPHUS FUTCHER,\nPer William Meyerstein, Agent,\nnov. 11 jan. 6\nCOAST LAND DISTRICT\nRange I\nTAKE notice that Archibald Dunbar Taylor, of Vancouver, B.C., occupation Barrister,\nintends to apply for permission to purchase\nthe following described lands:\u2014Commencing\nat a post planted on the east shore of Cardero Channel and about thirty chains north\nof Henry Point; thence east 45 chains; thence\nnorth 30 chains to the south-west corner of\nLot 91; thence north 40 chains along the line\nof Limit 91 and thence west 45 chains more\nor less to the shore of Cardero Channel;\nthence south' along the shore of Cardero\nChannel to point of commencement.\nDated November 17th, 1911.\nARCHIBALD DUNBAR TAYLOR.\nGeo. Y. Hibberd, Agent,\ndec. 2 jan. 27\nEXTENSION OF TIME\nThe time for receiving tenders for the construction of a Jetty at mouth of the Fraser\nRiver at Steveston, B.C., is hereby extended\nto Friday, January ig, igi2.\nBy order,\nR. C. DESROCHERS,\nSecretary.\nDepartment of Public Works,\nOttawa, December 20, 1911.\ndec. 30 jan. 6\nVICTORIA LAND DISTRICT\nDistrict of Renfrew\nTAKE notice that I, H. L. Bunnell, of\nVancouver, B.C., occupation Cruiser, intend\nto apply for permission to prospect for coal\nand petroleum on the folfowing described\nlands:\u2014Commencing at a post planted at the\nsouth-west corner and marked H. L. B. S.W.\nCor., located about 20 chains west and 6\nchains south of the south-east corner of Lot\n650, Renfrew District, and also about one\nand three-fourths miles south and two and\na quarter miles west of mile post 43 on the\nboundary line of the E. & N. R.R. grant;\nthence north 80 chains; thence east 80 cnains;\nthence south 80 chains; thence west 80\nchains to point of commencement.\nLocated December 9tht 1911,\ndec. 23\nn, 191\nH. L. BUNNELL.\n\t THE WEEK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912\n11\nAthletic Notes\nBy Umpire\nRugby\nThree cheers for Capt. Newcombe,\nthe pluckiest skipper in Coast Rugby, and three more for his bonnie\nmen, who romped over the visiting\nBerkeley team and won a decisive\nvictory on New Year's Day. For\ntheir success they have received so\nmuch praise that they may be in danger of getting \"swelled heads.\" Still,\nthe fruits of victory are sweet and\nto a true sport nothing is sweeter\nthan genuine praise. The odds were\nall against the Victoria team; it was\nshort of practice; it was practically\na scratch team, and it was experimenting with at least two new men.\nThe local boys had their hardest\ntussle in the opening match on\nChristmas Day, when they managed\nto hold down the game to a pointless draw. After that it was all one\nway. The practice of the first match\nhelped them wonderfully. The weak\nplayers were weeded out; the\nstrength of the opposing team had\nbeen tested and a score of 6\u20143 in\nthe second match and 8\u20140 in the\nthird fairly reflects the play.\nThe outstanding feature of the contest was the brilliant play of Ronald\nGillespie, who was easily the star of\nthe series. It is impossible to speak-\ntoo highly of his magnificent kick hi\nthe last match, which gave his side\nthe only converted try of the game.\nThe angle could not have been more\ndifficult; the distance was considerable, and the ball was as accurately\nplaced as if it had been a round\n'Soccer bay and not an elliptical Rugby. Both tbe Gillespie boys wcre conspicuous in all the games; indeed,\nlhey were the life and soul of th*\"\nforward pack. This is not to depre \u25a0\nciate the splendid work of the pack\nas a whole, and especially of Carstairs\nand lleineke, for when all is said and\ndone, it was a forward game. The\nnext credit goes to Williams, who, at\nfull-back, proved himself to be a\nplayer of very high class. He was\nsure, steady, cool and clever, taking\nkicks whicii a less experienced player\nwould undoubtedly have missed, and\nfinding \"touch\" time and again from\ndifficult positions. In the final game\nthe three-quarter line showed what\nthey might accomplish with more\npractice. There were several good\n\"passing\" runs which compared not\nunfavourably with the work of the\nBerkeley men.\nSpeaking of the visitors. if is pleasing to be able to note tint they\nlearnt their lesson last year and did\nnot attempt to resort to the foul practices which brought down noon them\nsuch severe condemnation. Two men\nonly transgressed and Capt. Stroud\nhad the manliness to inform thc referee that he himself wmld send\nthem off the field if they did not desist. The Berkeley boys are a clever,\nplucky lot; their three-quarter line being particularly good, but they have\nmuch to learn about the rules of the\ngame and they would be well advised\nto get an old Rugby player from\nEngland as a coach. They will never\nlearn the line points of the game from\nAmerican coaches who arc only theoretical players.\nIf Victoria can repeat the game\nthey played on New Year's day they\nmay safely count on securing possession of the Cooper-Keith and the\nKechnie Cup during the ensuing year.\nIce Hockey\nI think the readers of The Week\nwho helped that two thousand audience at the Arena on Tuesday night\nwill admit that I did not say one\nword too much about the fascination\nof Ice Hockey. I think it is a fair\ncomputation that two-thirds of the\naudience had never seen a championship match before. I gathered this\nfrom remarks heard on every hand;\nmost of them ejaculations of admiration and surprise. The swiftness,\nskill and accuracy of the play baffled\ndescription. The puck travelled from\none end of the vast Arena to the\nother and back again in a few seconds, and the flyers on skates kept\npace with the puck. It was a marvel\nto the onlookers who were novices\nthat the men did not bang into each\nother at every stride. They had to\nwind their way through the intricacies\nof a maze at lightning speed, and yet\nthere were no collision except intentional checks. Most people sympathise with the goal-keeper in a football match, but what about the goalkeeper in an Ice Hockey match, with\na rubber puck flying for his head like\na bullet from a rifle? Before the game\nbegan it looked as if the net space\nwas so small that the puck could\nnever find its way in past the goalkeeper; after the first goal had been\nscored the onlookers realised that\nErnie Johnson, or Lester Patrick\ncould place that puck through an\nopening about four inches square with\nthe accuracy of a rifle shot, and therein lies the fascination of Ice Hockey.\nAbsolute accuracy of aim and the\npossibility of scoring if there is an\nopening as large as a pocket-handkerchief.\nI am filled with admiration for the\nsplendid building and its appointments; it will be a success, not only\nbecause the plucky promoters deserve\nsuccess, but chiefly because the fascination of Ice Rinking and Ice\nHockey will transcend every other\nsporting attraction and ensure a\nsteady stream of pleasure-seekers\nfrom the cit-y to the Arena.\nUMPIRE.\nGossip from the Stalls\n(Continued from Page 3)\nsophy of Kipling's poem, \"The Vampire.\" This had its inspiration in Sir\nPhilip Burne-Jones' painting which\nstartled all London when first publicly displayed. A modem American play has been built upon the\ntheme of painter and poet. The story\nreverses the familiar triangle of two\nmen and a woman and gathers its\nforce from the struggle of two women and a man. The latter is a polished typical New Yorker, who stands\nvery high in the financial, social and\ndiplomatic worlds. His charming\nhome life at his villa in Larchmont\nupon the eve of his departure for\nEurope, where he goes to undertake\nan important mission for the government, is pictured. The action quickly\nchanges to the deck of a big ocean\nliner about to sail. Here the strong\ndramatic interest begins when he\nmeets the vampire woman, a seductive and fascinating creature of alluring charms for whom a distracted\nlad has killed himself live minutes\nbefore. Although the big man of the\nstory is a well-seasoned citizen of\nthe world, he instantly falls under\nthe woman's spell. His mission in\nLondon is neglected for wild days and\nnights in Venice and Paris. The\nclimax comes in the library of the\nhouse where he is living in wretched\nsolitude. Me has abandoned wife and\nchild and in dull self-reproach has\ntaken to brandy. His friends have\nforsaken him and he has fallen very\nlow from high estate. The surroundings are dust-covered and neglected;\nfurniture, mirror and bric-a-brac\nhave been smashed in his drunken\nfury; even bis one faithful servant\nhas left him. Then comes the supreme struggle between the opposing forces of good and evil, the final\nresult of which cannot be foretold\nuntil thc instant the final curtain\nfalls. It is a play of symbolism and\nstriking contrasts.\nThe Girl of the Golden West\n\"What do you think of an entire\ntrain load of grand opera?\" said W.\nH. Wright, general representative of\nHenry W. Savage, the New York producer, who paid a flying visit to the\ncity this week in the interest of the\nproduction of \"The Girl of the\nGolden West,\" which will be seen at\nVictoria Theatre, on Friday, January\n26th. \"You are to have this train\nload of grand opera here, for the last\nand greatest work of the world's most\nfamous living composer will be\nbrought here by Mr. Savage. Yes,\nthis organization consists of an entire\ntrain load of singers, musicians,\nchorus-people, scenery, electrical effects and the paraphernalia necessary\nfor the production on a huge scale\nof a grand opera. This is the colossal undertaking upon which Mr. Savage has expended a year and more of\ntime and enough capital to launch a\nscore of ordinary sized productions.\nThis grand opera train, which con\nsists of ten cars, left New York on\nOctober 27th on a transcontinental\ntrip of over ten thousand miles, during which each and every large city\nwill be visited and a performance\ngiven. The most of the big cities\nwill get but one or two performancts,\nand the interest in the enterprise is\nastonishing. Never before has anything been attempted upon such an\nenormous scale.\"\n\"An idea of the size of the production can be gained from the fact\nthat tllis grand opera train carries\nfive prima donnas, six tenors and five\nbaritones. There are, you see, five\ncomplete casts of principals. The\nperformance can be given five successive nights in the week without\nit being necessary for one of the\nleading principals to appear twice.\nTheir names? I would give you the\nlist if you would print it, but it would\nrequire half a column of your paper\nThey are of all nationalities\u2014Americans, English, French, Italians, German, and Scandinavian, but of course\nall sing in the English language.\nThese singers were collected by Mr.\nSavage and his agents after critically\ninspecting the performances in the\nleading opera houses of continental\nEurope. He raked the whole field\nwhere available talent could be secured with a fine-tooth comb and the\npublic are the gainers by his conscientious efforts.\n\"Mr. Savage, as is well known to\nmusic-lovers, has been absent from\nthe ranks of the producers of grand\nopera for several seasons. Himself\nthe pioneer in the field of grand opera\nrepresentations in English\u2014of which\nthe public retain such delightful memories, as witness his production of\nParsifal, Madam Butterfly and Die\nWalkeure he felt that after the sensational success of \"The Girl of the\nGolden West' in New York last winter that it would be even a greater\ntriumph if rendered in the English\ntongue. The story, the characters,\nthe atmosphere, is American, and to\ntruly interpret the wonderful score\nand preserve its dramatic values, the\nEnglish text must be used.\n\"The production is made upon an\nenormous scale. Nothing as massive\nhas ever before been taken on tour.\nThere is a grand opera orchestra of\nfifty pieces under the direction of\nGiorgio Folacco, of Venice and Milan, a friend and co-worker of the\ngreat Puccini. Polacco is known to\nthe musical cult in all parts of the\nworld. It was he who discovered\nTctrazzini when she was singing in\nan obscure opera company, trained\nher, became her conductor, travelled\nwith her for two seasons in that capacity, and made her known to the\nmusical world. Polacco is the master\nspirit of the entire production. He\nhas two assistants, Dimboni and So*\ndero.\"\n\"Not the least attractive feature\nof this train load of grand opera is\nthe chorus\u2014a chorus which can really sing, selected with great care from\nmusical colleges and conservatories in\nall parts of America? The gold-\nmincrs are represented by sixty big,\nbroad-shouldered, deep-chested men\nwhose full rich voices blended together lend a peculiar charm to the\natmosphere of thc golden state so\nfaithfully portrayed.\n\"Every detail of this wonderful production has been wrought out with\nthe same faithfulness and disregard\nof expense which has characterized\nMr. Savage's other productions of a\nmusical nature. He has really reproduced the atmosphere of the days of\n'49 in California in grand opera just as\nDavid Belasco succeeded in doing in\ndrama. The expense of the organization is so great that if every seat is\nsold for every performance he is\nlittle more than cleared. Grand opera\nat best is rarely a paying speculation\nfor an investor, but the public appreciate good things and Mr. Savage is\na manager in whom they have faith.\nHe has never fostered a spurious\narticle, and those who enjoyed Madam\nButterfly will be charmed by this production. Only through some manager of large resources such as Mr.\nSavage possesses would it be possible\nto present 'The Girl of the Golden\nWest' on tour. On account of the\nenormous expense involved this is the\nonly production ever likely to be\ntoured.\nWatch this Space for Our\n1912 Announcement\nWestern Motor & Supply Co., Ltd.\n1410 Broad Street Telephone 695 Victoria, B. C.\nVintageChampagnes\nMoet & Chandon, Dry Imperial, 1898 - Qts.\nMoet&Chandon,Dry Imperial,1900- Pts.& Qts.\nMoet & Chandon, Dry Imperial, 1906 - Qts.\nCan Be Obtained from\nTurner, Beeton & Co., Ld.\nWholesale Liquor Merchants\nor any Retail Liquor Store\n1232 WHARF STREET, VICTORIA -\nPHONE 116\nPhone 1366\n550 Yates Street\nST. FRANCIS HOTEL\nVictoria, B.C.\nFormerly Oriental Hotel\nLAMBERT & SEDNEY, Props.\nSpecial Inducements to Transients. Kates Reasonable.\nFirst Class Bar in collection. 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Roy\nOver thirty years' experience in\nArt Glass\nLEADED LIGHTS\nSole manufacturer of Steel-Cored Lead\nfor Churches, Schools, Public Buildings and private Dwellings. Plain and\nFancy Glass Sold. Sashes Glazed by\nContract. Estimates free. I Phone 594 12\nTHE WEEK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912\nMr. H. Godfrey, Victoria spent the\nholidays visiting friends in Vancouver.\n* * *\nMr. A. Bland is the guest of friends\nin Vancouver, B. C. .\n* * *\nMr. E. R. Moore from Winnipeg\nis stopping at the Westholme Hotel.\n* -i* #\nMr. and Mrs. R. S. Gourlay, Toronto, are visiting friends in this\ncity.\n* * *\nMiss Violet Hickey, Vancouver, is\nthe guest of Mrs. A. S. Gore, Cook\nstreet.\n* * *\nThe Misses Duke from Vancouver\nwere guests in Victoria during the\nweek.\n* * *\nCapt. and Mrs. W. S. Weeks of\nEdmonton, are registered at the Empress Hotel.\n* * *\nJ. E. Merryfield from Prince Rupert, spent a few days in the city\nduring the week.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. Carew Gibson of Vancouver, were registered at the Empress during thc week.\n* * *\nMiss McAllister from Nelson, B.C.,\nhas arrived in this city to take up\nher residence for the future.\n* * *\nMrs. G. Lloyd Hall of 437 Simcoe\nstreet, is visiting Mrs. Reid of Vancouver for a few days.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. Geo. N. Shaw, Nanaimo, B.C., are guests at the Empress Hotel.\n* * *\nMrs. Price Ellison will receive\nevery Wednesday at \"West Bay,\"\nDunsmuir Road.\n\u00bb * * I\nCapt. and Mrs. Davidson are leaving today on the Sadu Maru for Hong\nKong where they will pay an extended visit.\n* * *\nMr. G. K. Gillespie, who has been\nspending the holidays in the city, returned on Tuesday last to his home\nal Cowichan Lake.\n* * *\nMrs. Tate Robertson of Vancouver\n.is spending a few days in the capital\nas the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Herman\n\u25a0Robertson.\n* * *\nMr. Richard McCallum, on the staff\nof the Bank of Montreal, left during\nthe week for Alberni, B.C., where he\nwill join the bank there.\n* * *\n\u25a0 Miss Margaret Ley, who has been\nvisiting at \"Wulfruna,\" Rockland\nAve., has returned to her home in\nNew Westminster.\n* # *\nMiss K. Palmer, Victoria, was the\nguest of Mrs. R. H. Rourke, Trafalgar Road, Vancouver, during the\nholidays.\n* * *\nMr. Koop, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon\nand Mrs. Richardson of Vancouver\nspent a few days in Victoria in the\nearly part of the week.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. Jas. Linton entertained a few of their friends at their\nhome, \"Dorothea,\" Fell Street, at a\n\u2022New Year's dinner on Tuesday, after\nwhich the evening was spent in games\nand music.\n1 * * *\n\u2022 The home of Mrs. K. M. Sanbum,\n\"Shirlea,\" Fell Street, was the scene\n'of a merry gathering on Thursday\nevening, when her sister, Miss Olive\nHays, entertained a number of friends\nat live hundred and dancing. Those\npresent were: Misses Sheldon, Rolfe,\nJackson, M. Middleton, J. Middleton,\nNoble, Inches, Fulton and Lillian\nHayes (Regina); Messrs. Walker,\nFulton, Warnicker, Spragge, F. Middleton, A. Middleton, R. Beckwith,\nL. Beckwith and C. Tuohy.\n* * \u2666\nOne of the smartest New Year teas\nwas given by Mrs. P. de Noe Walker\nat her charming residence \"Phoenix,\"\nDallas Road, on Tuesday, in honour\nof her guest, Miss Margery Clayton\nof Bella Coola. The decorations in\nasparagus fern and red and pink carnations were very effective. Mrs.\nWalker was assisted by Mrs. T. W.\nPatterson and Mrs. D. B. McLaren.\nAmong those present wcre Miss Mildred Gibson of Bella Coola, Miss Violet Goodwin, Miss Long, L.A.R.M.,\nMiss Dickson, Miss Eva Ross, Miss\nCarlin, Miss Burrell, Miss Baugh-\nAllen, the Misses Monteith, Miss\nScott, Miss Collins, Miss Brown and\nMiss Russell.\nThe marriage of Miss Marjory\nClouston, daughter of Sir Edward\nSeaborne Clouston, to Dr. John Todd\nof McGill University, was celebrated\nvery quietly in Paris a few days ago.\nThe civil ceremony was performed at\nnoon at the British consulate by Mr.\nPercy Inglis, Consul-General, and a\nfew minutes later Bishop Ormsby officiated at the religious ceremony in\nthe presence of members of the family\nand some intimate friends, no invitations having been issued. The\nbride wore her travelling costume,\nand there were no attendants. A\nwedding breakfast was served at the\nHotel Bristol, and Dr. and Mrs. Todd\nstarted almost immediately on their\nhoneymoon in an automobile, for the\nSouth of France, and later on they\nwill return to Montreal. Dr. Todd has\na great many friends in this city, being very well known here.\n* * *\nA pretty house wedding was solemnized on New Year's day at 2547\nBlanchard avenue, the residence of\nMr. and Mrs. Alexander Robertson\nwhen their only daughter. Miss Clifford. Pearl Robertson, was united in\nmarriage to Mr. Henry Marr, of\nAberdeen, Scotland. The Rev. Dr.\nCampbell officiated at the ceremony\nwhich was held in the drawing-room\n\u2014being prettily decorated for the\noccasion. The bride, who was given\naway by her father, wore a dress of\nheavy white satin with a tunic and\ncorsage trimming of embroidered net.\nThe bridesmaid, Miss A. John, of\nSidney, B.C., wore a smart costume.\nMr. Alex. Robertson of Esquimalt\nacted as best man. At the conclusion of the ceremony a collation was\nserved. Later the happy couple left\nfor Vancouver and the Sound cities,\nthe bride travelling in a sm_,rt costume of blue serge with hat to match.\n* * *\nAmong those who were present at\nthe Empress ball on New Year's night\nwere Captain and Mrs. Troupe, Miss\nTroupe, Mr. and Mrs. John Arbuthnot, Mr. and Mrs. Carew Gibson, Mr.\nand Mrs. P. de Noe Walker, Mr. and\nMrs. Cecil Roberts, Mr. J. Gray, Miss\nGray, Mr. and Mrs. D. Spencer, Mr.\nancl Mrs. Leeming, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gore, Mr. W. Blakemore, Mr.\nancl Mrs. A. W. Harvey, Mrs. H. Pooley, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Johnson, Mr.\nand Mrs. Mattison, Mr. ancl Mrs. Norman Rant, Mr. Fall, Miss Mason, Miss\nMonteith, Miss Rome, Mr. Morton\nMason, Mr. Darcy Martin, Mrs. Archer Martin, Mr. J. Bridgman, Miss\nFinlayson, Mr. Holt, Mrs. Roper, Mr.\nand Airs. Holmes, Mrs. E. Austin, Mr.\nA. T. Goward, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell\nInnes, Mr. Hughes, Mr. B. J. Prior,\nMr. D. Bullen, Mr. and Mrs. R.\nTroupe, Miss Haggerty, Miss Leary,\nMr. and Mrs. S. Child, Mr. O'Grady,\nMiss Battle, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Goddard, Mr. L. V. Cuppage, Mr. Marshal,\nMr. Bromley, Misses Blackwood, Mr.\nPayne, Mr. Jephson, Mr. Mason, Mr.\nWeston and many others.\n* * *\nAmong the New Year's dsy weddings solemnized in Victoria was that\nof Mr. D. S. Tait, of the firm of\nBrandon & Tait, barristers, who was\nmarried to Emily Margaret, daughter\nof the late William ancl Mrs. Johnston. The marriage took place at St.\nMary's Church, Oak Bay, the Rev.\nRobert Connell officiating at the ceremony. Mr. Robert G. Johnston, brother of the bride, gave her away, ancl\nthe Misses Sarah and Effie. Johnston\nacted as bridesmaids. Mr. Frank Tait\nundertook the duties of best man.\nMiss O. Baillie made a charming\nHower girl. The ceremony took place\nin the prettily decorated church, directly beneath a bridal bell of white\ncarnations. After the ceremony the\nbridal party drove to the future home\nof the bride and groom, Foul Bay\nRoad, where a reception was held.\nLater thc young couple left for Vancouver en route for the South, where\nthey will spend the honeymoon. A\ngreat many very handsome ancl costly\ngifts were received. The bridegroom\nis the second son of Mr. Leonard Tait\nof this city. Mrs. Morris played the\nwedding march and later sang a solo\nat the reception.\n* * *\nThe marriage took place on January 2nd, at the home of Mr. W. A.\nDier, Dallas Avenue, of his daughter,\nMiss Agnes Etoile Dier and Dr.\nStanley Cameron McEwen of Fort\nHammond, son of the Rev. P. H. McEwen, of New Westminster, who assisted at the marriage ceremony,\nwhich was performed by the Rev. VV.\nE. Stevenson. The bride wore a\nbeautiful Empire gown of white char-\nmeuse satin with overdress of white\nninon trimmed with point d'ltalien\nlace with crystal and pearl trimmings.\nA dainty drapery of lace was held in\nplace on the bodice with knots of\norange blossoms. She carried a\nshower bouquet of bridal roses, and\nlilies of the valley with asparagus\nfern, fastened with white tulle. Miss\nPope, who made a charming bridesmaid, wore a smart dress of soft\ncream satin with a tunic of chiffon in\nthe same colour effectively trimmed\nwith heavy cream silk fringe and\nflemish lace. Mr. Leon Ladner of\nVancouver acted as groomsman. The\nbride travelled in a smart tailored\ndress with hat en suite. The honeymoon will be spent in visiting the\nSound cities.\nThe Cinderella dance given under\nthe auspices of the Daughters of Pity\nin aid of the children's ward of the\nRoyal Jubilee Hospital, was held last\nFriday week, December 29th, at the\nAlexandra Club, and proved to be a\nmost successful and brilliant affair.\nDancing commenced for the younger\nchildren at 4 o'clock in the afternoon\nancl a great many little people were\npresent, some very pretty and quaint\ncostumes being worn. In the evening the floor was given over to the\nlarger children and adults. The supper-room was tatesfully adorned with\nporrsetias and greenery, tinsel and\nscarlet tissue paper forming a centrepiece. Among the many guests present were: The Misses Lugrin, the\nMisses Bagshawe, Mrs. Cowley, Miss\nRochfort, Miss E. Gibson, Mrs. Musgrave, Miss Haggerty, the Misses\nCreig, Miss Kerr, Miss Bannister,\nMiss Mary Boggs, Miss Maud Scott,\nMiss Norma Jones, the Misses Rant,\nMiss Duncalf, Miss Olive Duncalf,\nMiss Eileen Taylor, the Misses Rick-\n;*by, Miss McB. Smith, Miss Blanche\nSmith, Miss Baby Rhodes, Miss Ethel\nRhodes, Miss Dorothy Edwards, Miss\nErmine Bass, Miss Holden, Miss Lillian Holden, Miss Kirk, Miss Hasel\nKirk, Miss Hasel Shakespeare, Miss\nBurrell, Miss E. Floyd, Miss Morton,\nand the Messrs. Eric Bolton, Gerald\nBolton, Fuller, Duncan, T. W. Buss,\nB. Buss, Wm. Barton, Waller Barton, Tom Brown, C. Brown, Picken,\nW. B. Monteith, Cox, R. Taylor, Gerald Clute, Bob Scott, Jack and Turner Matson, J. Bridgman, E. P. Colley, A. White, Wheatley, Spencer and\nmany others.\nBOOK NOTES\n(Continued from Page 4)\nthese sick waifs he tarried to heal, for\nwhose sake he put off love itself, like\nthe stones of his little house, were\nbut offerings of love to her,\u2014the\nritual of his worship to that Divine\nOne he had made and set up, idol-\nwise, in his heart. For the man is\nthe poet, dreamer ever, half god, half\nbeast,\u2014ready to worship or wallow,\ntransfiguring the human woman, like\nthis girl, into the divinity of his\ndream. While he cured the sick woman and adored the image he had\nmade for himself, the girl was putting on a new gown of dazzling\nfashion,\"\nOf love he says, \"If he loves her\n'tis the love we women dream of and\nnever find,\u2014worship, adoration, reverence,\u2014not desire! Love of that\ntemper makes us women feel our\npower over the brute in you man.\"\nAgain he says: \"It was given to the\nhuman heart, the woman heart, to desire an experience and then to sigh\nfor what had been. At least, she comforted herself, the life they now led\nwas more normal. Strange paradox\nof the woman nature\u2014to seek the\nnormal and sigh for the supernal, to\nlap herself in comfort and dream of\nthe stars.\"\nHere is another striking paragraph:\n\"Change, always change in the restless dance of will and desire,\u2014it is\nthe abiding condition of being.\nChange, endless, eternal, superficial,\nyet cataclysmically rending of souls.\nChange from the budding tree to the\nfading leaf, from the freezing water\nto the rotten ice , from the fluid\ncharm of youth with its dream to the\nfixed habit of maturity with its real-\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.\nC. H. SMITH k CO.\nKodaks from $2 Framed Pictures from 50c\nCalendars Photo Albums\nMottos Pictures Framed; bring them early\nOther Things too\nPHONE 2309 : 611 FORT ST.\nLoose Covers and Boat\nCushions\nLeather Work and Special Designs\nMade-to-order\nE. S. STILES\nAUCTIONEER 6f 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 B. C. Funeral Furnishing Co.\n(Successors to Charles Hayward)\nFuneral Directors and Embalmers\n1016 Govt. St. Established 1867 Victoria, B. C.\nity, life itself is but the flux of\nchange.\"\nHis attitude towards conventional\nmarriage is illustrated in the following: \"For some minutes she knelt\nthere staring into the flames, as if\nfascinated by their fiery fervour. Then\ndrawn by his shining eyes she looked\nup at him, and with a little cry of\njoy slipped into his arms. Their\ntrembling lips met. This she knew\nwas the sacrament he had willed for\nthem, on the altar of their new hearth,\nnot that other affair of mumbled\nwords in the minister's parlour.\"\nThis is, alas, only too true in many\na life. \"And that is fate for one woman! An accident throws her up\nagainst a certain man. Something\nhappens between them\u2014we call it love\nfor short, or nature\u2014or fate! And\nthen the world is turned upside clown,\nfor the woman at least.\"\nProbably the traditional viewpoint\nof man on a woman's life must not\nbe taken too seriously; we must remember that in this book at any rate'\nit is the opinion of a mad doctor who\nsays: \"We men, I fancy, rarely ever\nunderstand women's lives. They are\nmade up of trivial things that seem\nunimportant to us\u2014ancl are unimportant. What counts for them is mostly\nexternals,\u2014clothes, position, appearance,\u2014all that. For the girl's sake\ncouldn't you try to give them a little\nmore of what all women want.\"\nPerhaps his closing benediction will\nappeal to all my readers. \"Wild\ndreams are beautiful, and lovers'\nsongs, ancl worship; but a good fireside, a secure place in the world for\nthemselves and their children, that is\nthe highest wisdom of women.\"\nI am sure all wise women will\nagree with the following:\n\"Men really don't know what they\nwant. They think they do when they\nmarry us, but it is our business to\nshow them. I don't mean by lecturing, or managing, but by making\nthem live as we know they should\nlive. We know what is best for ourselves and for our children, ancl in the\nend men come to want that too no\nmatter how wild they may be at first.\nThey know that we are right. Women are the force that keeps society\ntogether, and makes civilised living\npossible.\"\nHis final verdict on life is: \"'And\nI will teach you the great secret,' he\nsaid to the young man, 'the secret of\nthe Healer, the secret of all humanity, the secret,' he whispered with a\nwistful smile, 'we often miss upon the\nway\u2014Courage! The will to give all!\n\u2014that is the secret'.\"\n$40 PRIZE LIMERICK COMPETITION EXTENDED TO\nJANUARY 13\nIn response to numerous requests\nThe Week has decided to extend ;he\nForty-Dollar Prize Limerick Competition one week longer. Answers will\ntherefore be received up to Saturday\nJanuary 13th. After this date the\nLimerick Competitions will cease.\n\" THE WEEK, SATURDAY, JANUARY.6, 1912\n13\n\"Sotto Voce\nThe Week's Rumours and\nHumours\n(By The Hornet)\nff\nThat everything has seemed\nbrighter since Christmas, which\nproves that the Dickens Christmas\nhas \"caught on\"\n* * *\nThat Robert Herrick may create\none \"Healer,\" but after all Time is\nstill the Great Healer.\n* * *\nThat the New Year means new\nhopes\u2014which all may cherish.\n* * *\nThat many hearts are waiting\u2014\nwaiting to see what share of happiness 1912 may bring them.\n* * *\nThat the Christmas and New\nYear's festivities were more pronounced than usual ancl that in consequence a great many celebrators\nare still \"resting up.\"\n* * *\nThat there have been many abuses\nat the Westholme Hotel, which the\nnew proprietors would do well to\nremedy.\n* * *\nThat licenses have been taken away\nfor far less serious infractions of the\nlaw than occurred at this hotel in\nthe early part of December.\nThat if it is to be the resort of respectable people it will have to be\nkept respectable.\n* * *\nThat there is no reason to doubt\nthat the new proprietors will be fully\nalive to the importance of such a\npolicy.\n* * *\nThat there are so-called hotels in\nVictoria which are nothing better\nthan houses of assignation, and if the\npolice do not know it. they ought to.\nThat a hotel into which a stranger\ncan walk and hire a room for an hour\nwithout registering is a fit subject for\ninvestigation.\n*)(.*#\nThat when Victoria undertook to\nbreak up the red-light district it expected to scatter, but not to house\nthe denizens.\n* * *\nThat under the system which has\nnow developed, the breakers of one\nlaw are being protected by another\nlaw.\n* * *\nThat there must be a lot of easy\nmoney in Victoria when an impecunious clerk can pass worthless cheques\nfor more than $1,000.\n* * *\nThat people who recklessly cash\nsuch cheques deserve to lose their\nmoney, and are at least half as blameworthy as the man who signs them.\n* * *\nThat the system is a sure one for\nhelping a young fellow on the downward path.\n* * *\nThat most of the money obtained in\nthis way gravitates into the same\nchannel\u2014or cess-pool.\nThat the municipal campaign has\nbegun in earnest ancl Mayor Morley\nis showing up in his true colors.\n* * #\nThat it was his native modesty\nwhich led him to monopolise the\ntime for which he did not pay at Mr.\nBeckwith's meeting in the George Jay\nSchool.\n* * *\nThat the Mayor has a long record\nof similar meannesses. \u2022\nThat a Victoria audience has a\nnasty habit of seeing through shams.\nThat they may be a little slow at\nfirst, but in the end they are bound\nto get there.\nThat in his time Mayor Morley has\nposed as the* Friend of Labour, the\nFriend of Reform, the Friend of Women and the Friend of Grass-\nWidows.\nThat all haye now deserted him except the last.\n* * *\nThat as he has abandoned their proposed Pension Bill, even they may\nturn and rend him.\n* * *\nThat after four years' public service\nit is the record which counts, ancl it\nis on his record that the Mayor will\nbe downed.\n* * *\nThat opportunity may flourish for\na season, but exposure cometh in the\nmorning.\n* * *\nThat it is a little bit unreasonable\nto criticise the Victoria Times for a\nbreach of the canons of goocl taste in\nArt\u2014or anything else.\n* * *\nThat any misfortune\u2014except the\nmisfortunes of the Liberal Party is\na good peg to hang a joke on, but in\nthe latter case the Times has never\nyet been able to see the joke.\n* * *\nThat the attack of the Times or.\nMr. Beckwith is in its best and mos:\ncharacteristic literary style, and recalls memories of the good old days\nwhen it secured the title of \"The\nMuckraker.\"\n* * *\nThat one would think it rather\n\"infra dig.\" for an ex-Cabinet Minister\nto spend his time in supervising the\nmanufacture of mud-pies.\nThat not for the world would the\nTimes support Mayor Morley, but it\nis doing its best to knife Mr. Beckwith\u2014and there are only two candidates.\n* * *\nThat as a mere matter of accident\nthere did not happen to be a single\nConservative on the Committee which\nbrought out Mr. Beckwith.\nThat the Times seems to think that\nMr. Beckwith can be \"Handled,\" but\nMayor Morley made a poor first of\nhandling him at the meeting on\nThursday night.\n* * *\nThat it strikes an onlooker that he\nis about as easy a customer to\n\"Handle\" as is a porcupine.\n* * *\nThat de Pachmann not only conquered his audience, but made a\nconquest of many susceptible hearts.\n* * *\nThat the little reception in the\nwings will long be remembered by\nthose who were privileged to participate.\n* * *\nThat cle Pachmann at any rate will\nnever deny that Victoria ladies can\nbe gracious when they like.\n* * *\nThat few men of sixty-three have\never been the recipients of so many\n\"touching\" tributes.\n* * *\nThat Paderewski and Hoffman have\nno alternative but to \"take to the\nwoods.\"\n* * *\nThat none are so blind as those who\nwill not see.\n* * *\nThat if a man will bump his head\ninto a stone wall he must expect a\n\"cracked skull.\n* * *\nThat Victoria may be shy on milk\nbut after all, it has an abundant' supply of the milk of human kindness.\n* * *\nThat people who are looking for interested motives and an \"arriere pen-\nsee\" in every act of their acquaintances should live somewhere else.\n* * *\nThat the V. A. D. C. starts the New\nYear with a clean slate\n* * *\nThat it is gratifying to learn that\nthe performance of \"A Pantomime\nRehearsal\" cleared all expenses and\nleft a substantial credit balance.\nThat the next offering of the Vi\nA. D. C, \"Lady Winterton's Experi*\nment,\" will be played for three nights\nat popular prices. * \u2022'\n* # * A\nThat many things in Victoria are\nmoving slowly, including the elevators. . * * *\nThat the elevator boy, like the parcel delivery boy, likes to wait till he\ngets a full load.\n* * *\nThat this is disconcerting to people\nwhose time is worth money.\n* * * .;\nThat those people who resent the\nstings of the Hornet must have very\nthin skins. ,\n* * *\nThat instead of ringing up the\neditor in order to insult him, they\nwould be better advised to remedy\nthe faults complained of.\n* * *\nThat any statement made in these\ncolumns is verified before insertion,*\nand the Hornet has no axe to grind.\n* * *\nThat people who waste their time\nin speculating as to the identity of\nthe Hornet might be better employed. After they have finished guessing they will still have another guess\ncoming.\n* * i\nThat the Empress Ball on New';\nYear's night surpassed all its prede*\ncessors in comfort, convenience and\nluxury.\n* * *\nThat Manager Jackson is to be\ncongratulated ou excellent arrangements in every department.\n* * *\nThat limiting the tickets to 325 was\na wise thought and ensured the success of the function.\n* * *\nThat Victoria athletics are conspicuously represented in thc new Ser-\ngeant-at-Arms and his Deputy.\n* * *\nThat Ronald Gillespie was the hero\nof the Rugby matches and bids fair\nto sustain, if not enhance, the reputation of his older brothers.\nYour Own Home and All its Comforts\nThis Store is Waiting to Furnish them\nWaiting to make your home just the home that you want it\u2014comfy, cosy and up-to-date.\nNo one need forego the advantages of their own home. This store is ready to supply\nevery needed thing. Goods new and modern, prices right, quality best.\nCome and let us furnish your home, won't you ?\nThe Most Important Showing of Hearth Rugs ever Offered\nVictoria House Furnishers\nBy a visit to our second floor you have the opportunity to see for yourself tlie most extensive showing of QUALITY HEARTH RUGS in the finest ancl latest\ndesigns. There is no doubt that this is where the broadest range of selections are to be obtained. Recent additions of new Winter stocks on our second floor\nrender the department especially attractive at this time. We herewith list a few of the offerings:\nSmyrna Hearth Rugs\u2014Reversible\nThese Rugs being reversible give them a double\nwearing life. In floral and conventional designs,\nfawns, greens and reds:\nSize 1ft. 6in. x 2ft. 6in $1.75\nSize 3ft. 6in. x 4ft. 6in $3.75\nSize 3ft. 6in. $5.00\nHeavy Wilton Hearth Rugs\nMade of a heavy pile, the rich, soft colorings are\nextremely beautiful:\nSize 1ft. 6in. x 2ft. 9in $2.75\nSize 2ft. 3in. x 4ft. 6in $5.00\nSize 3ft. x 5ft. 3in $7.50\nShirley Hearth Rugs\nIn Oriental effects, in a large variety of designs. A\nsplendid Hearth Rug at these prices:\nSize 2ft. 6in. x 4ft $6.00\nSize 3ft. 6in $9.00\nMohair Hearth Rugs\nIn plain colors, reds, blues, greens, creams, old\ngold, etc. Splendid value:\nSize 2ft. x 1ft $1.25\nSize 1ft. 6in. x 2ft. 6in $2.25\nSize 2ft. x 4ft. 6in $4.50\nSize 3ft. x 6ft $8.00\nDagdag Hearth Rugs\nFinest quality Rugs on the market, and these reasonable prices make them interesting:\nSize 1ft. x 2ft $2.00\nSize 2ft. 3in. x 4ft. 6in $7.00\nSize 3ft. x 6ft $10.00\nAxminster Hearth Rugs\nExtra heavy pile, floral and Oriental designs. The\nAxminster is famous for its splendid wearing\nqualities:\nSize 2ft. x 4ft. 6in $4.50\nSize 3ft. x 5ft. 3in $6.50\nOrdering by Mail\nMade Easy\nOur New 1912 Catalogue of\nHome Furnishings all priced\nand described, besides a\nworld of other information\nis yours free for the asking.\nWrite for it today\u2014save\nyou time and money.\nw__v&:_;-izv.>._m_\u00a58.\nVictoria\nPopular\nflOME\nCompare Our\nStock with what\nYou See Elsewhere 14\nTHE WEEK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912\nEsquimalt Waterworks Company\nAdvertisement Paid for at Current Rates\nThe Esquimalt Waterworks Company has\ncompleted its steel main from Goldstream Lakes\nto Victoria.\nThis main is today capable of delivering, for\nuse in Victoria, seventeen million gallons of\nwater every twenty-four hours.\nDuring the period between January 1 and\nNovevtnber 1 of this year, the Esquimalt Waterworks Company has actually delivered to the B.\nC. Electric Railway Company fourteen million\ngallons of water per day.\nThe Esquimalt Waterworks Company will sell this water to the City of Victoria, in such quantities as the city may desire, and at prices far below the cost at which\nthe city can bring water from any other source.\nTo construct the Sooke Lake system\nthe addition to the indebtedness of\nthe city will be TWO MILLION\nDOLLARS, at the very least.\nWe want every Taxpayer to consider and analyze figures truly\nand honestly representing actual conditions and showing in the\nnext seventeen years a saving of almost TWO MILLION\nDOLLARS to be made by buying water from this company, as\nagainst installing the Sooke Lake system.\nTo construct the Sooke Lake system\nthe addition to the annual tax levy of\nVictoria City will be $119,000, at the\nvery least.\nIn this statement no provision is\nmade for payment of a Sinking\nFund which will cost the ratepayers\nabout $50,000 per annum more\u2014an\nexaction from present ratepayers\nfor the benefit of posterity\nCOST PER YEAR TO THE TAXPAYERS\nFor the Water Supply from Sooke Lake:\n(a) Interest and Discount on $1,700,000 installation cost at S per\ncent per annum $ 85,000\n(b) Interest and Discount on $200,000 land purchase cost at 5 per\ncent per annum 10,000\n(c) Cost of maintenance of system from Sooke Lake to City\nLimits 24,000\nAnnual cost $ 119,000\nIn this statement no provision is\nmade for any work costing more\nthan the Engineer's Estimates. In\nnearly every case the. actual cost\nexceeds the estimate.\n17-YEAR BASIS\nThe fair method of testing a public utility\nsystem from the basis of cost to taxpayers is to\nprovide for time of construction and fifteen\nyears' operation.\nThe Engineer fixes 2 years for construction,\nand adding the first 15 years' operation, we have\na period of 17 years affecting present ratepayers.\nOn this 17-Year Basis, multiplying the yearly\ncost of $119,000 by 17, we have $2,023,000 as\nthe amount in taxes which the present ratepayers\nwill have to pay for the use of Sooke Lake water.\nDuring this 17-year term the city's use of\nwater will raise from the minimum of 3,500,000\ngallons per day to a maximum of 10,500,000\ngallons per day; giving an average of 7,000,000\ngallons per day for the 17-year period\nUnder the Sooke Lake project the present\nratepayers will have to pay for double the quantity of water which can by any possibility be\nused, meaning increased taxes and a dead loss.\nThe estimate of cost prepared by the City's\nEngineer is $1,700,000 to complete the Sooke\nLake system. This is probably an underestimate, and any figures published to show a\ncontract at a lower figure are false. The contract\nis being made on a piece-work basis, and not for\na lump sum.\nThe Engineer has definitely decided that no\nrevenue from power can be earned vvith the\nSooke Lake system.\nEsquimalt Waterworks Company guarantees the city a saving\nof $100,000 per year for 10 years.\nAs Against the Sooke Lake cost of not less than $119,000 per year, and\na Sinking Fund cost of $40,000 per year, the Esquimalt Waterworks Company will sell to the City ten million gallons of water per day for a ten-year\nterm for $50,000 per year, delivered in the City. This will effect a saving\nof $100,000 per year to the Taxpayer when the Sinking Fund is taken into\naccount.\nIt will effect a saving of $80,000 per year over the lowest figures claimed\non behalf of the Sooke Lake system.\nEsquimalt Waterworks Company guarantees to. reduce taxes\n$100,000 per year for 10 years.\nIn buying water from the Esquimalt\nWaterworks Company, the taxpayers\nhave three direct advantages:\n(a) There is no loss of interest on\nmoney during years of construction;\n(b) The water supply is within the\ncity limits now;\nBelieving that the taxpayers have never yet understood the\nenormous increase of taxation into which they are being railroaded by accepting the Sooke Lake scheme, the Esquimalt\nWaterworks Company is publishing this advertisement.\nThe figures are correct.\nWe invite answer, analysis and criticism, for we are sure that\nthe more publicity is given, the more we will be proved to be\nabsolutely right.\nTo bring water from Sooke Lake\nwill subject the taxpayers to the following losses:\n(a) Loss of interest during construction;\n(b) Cost of operating Elk Lake system during construction;\n(c) Annual tax loss of $100,000, at\nthe least;\n(d) Cost of difficulties of construction discoverable only by actual work.\nWe ask the Taxpayers of Victoria to give fair and impartial\nconsideration to the facts above set forth.\nEsquimalt Waterworks Company\nJohn R. 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