@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "5dc750e6-4570-4a6e-8f61-2c8d865f226e"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:issued "2016-07-26"@en, "1914-09-26"@en ; dcterms:description "The Nakusp Ledge was published in Nakusp, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, from October 1893 to December 1894. The paper was subsequently published as the Ledge both in New Denver, from December 1894 to December 1904, and in Fernie, from January to August 1905. The Ledge was published by Robert Thornton Lowery, a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919."@en, ""@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/disledfer/items/1.0309027/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ nS-^'^.J-jfe; * W7A-M:" -Cf^i.-t^M 'A \\' ■ft % *■*, - • * ___* * - - 0*»* s - «' TV. feUfit Industrial Unity Is Strength No. 4, Vol. vin. i/A^ The Official Organ of District No. 18, U. M. W. of A. Political Unity Is Victory '% ">e '*/ THE DISTRIOT LEDGER, PERNIE, B. 0, SEPTEMBER 26, 1914 **+ '**u lhatllHillcrest Relief Commission Doing? Colorado Fuel Co. Reject Peace Proposals ■Final Adjudication by Federal Board Objected To—Other Companies ' to Send Reply D-SMVBR, Colo., Sept. 22.—The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Itt a letter to (President Wilson, made public tonight, expressed unwillingness to reemploy all strikers wbo bave not been convicted! of crime, as suggested in the three-year truce proposal prepared by H-yiwel davies and William JR. -Frawley, mediators appointed by the Secretary of Labor in an effort to end the Colorado miners' strike. The corporation also objected to the final adjudication of disputes by a Federal grievance commission in the maimer suggested by the medlatora. The letter was signed 'by J. iF. Wel- horn, president of the company, who ia to discuss the strike problem with President Wilson at Washington tomorrow. Union Miners Accept Plan At a .convention held at Trinidad last week the union miners of Colorado accepted the truce plan without amendment, and notified President Wilson that they were ready to call off the strike and go to work as soon as the proposal should have been accepted by tbe -mine ownon& The letter signed -by Mr, Welborn was tbe individual reply of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company to the letter tn*m Prnatriftnt iWllmftn urging President has granted to a delegation of Colorado coal operators, headed by J. F. Welborn, president of the Colorado Fuel and lorn Company, at Washington: ''Mr, Welborn has sent me a copy of the reply which he made on behalf of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, to your letter of September 5. As this reply ls made on behalf of that company alone I feel at liberty, both as one of its directors and as representing a substantial minority interest, to take a more active part in the matter than I did when it was in the bands of a committee representing ail of the operators. "Will you permit me, therefore, to say that Mee toward our men. The Inside of a eett MM ts at boat attaadad with haiards not common to other operations, ft to, there-tore, peculiarly a place where wa should aot aaaign man neac**bly Inclined to work alongside of other arteere who have been la- eirwied to aooompJlab tbelr tad*, If aeeeaaary, by violent mesas aad wbo were mw raatialaad by at atroeuMat by tkatr liaise* to *at»t*i kaatwr«aa. "We aro wetaiei to reembtef anon wait which met la available ear sum wbo eo fbr aa we know haa aot shared la tba raoawMtMUiy tor acta ot vto> lenaa ae overt hostility, In tact, wa ara tally Uklag batik each man lato aw eervtoe. Oar com as ay aaara aa; uinm Manns Umm*. toe imu ot\\ wkaaa ettnmtm me that tbey Ml Hi. ployaa kaowa to *v*a eyitoathiss with tba United Mlna Workers. Tb* PreaMeat'e plan allows tb* at* to bar* tbelr ustoas, and tbelr meet* lag*, as wtll as a commutta to takt vp all grtevaacte with the company* Colorado haa beea kaowa far yoara aa tha itate where tha miners bav* baas rabbsd af mt to fM panada «f ooal aa every car thay mined. Tm tweatydtv* years that* has beea a law oa lb* atotot* book* gtviag tba ■aa th* right to hav* a eheekwetgfe* ssaa aad Una pmeattag this whole- tmtm -taddwrr pematdmet wm****** trntwamea *m«*a tba mm ui* n>m iMl-Mtf i tte only diaourscmant we have mad* tip to the |w*Hit t* u torm***) t%f nn„ iMte claimant whom we eoald reach, resident outside the Province of Alberta. ,f •t-'t'ttfj ibuiiA Ir, tomrdtng tbe fatorrttw which tht It tttmm edt Kl^k *g^l^^^|Aju^^u| j^f *t/___t_ Vli-Wk m_wm-^m ^^a em'mr ^mwmm^mw,^*^^mm wm w^^m -mmmM^r tomu pm ta that mtatts aii opet*■ tore ihan each pay half ef the ' ot- peases af thia commlaatoa af theest Onr w*w*» for ao doing was that ihe nlM coirnn.wion thought that a partr lirinir ont*M, xi fcerta m not require relief, and in a circular i«ucd by them t\\Z AnfZteU.«LV * ? ? M\\ to ontdot Ihtw* reatdaatt U at** vw..r,... 7 ^ ,Wy «*™n*V itate thev »n)y intend ■ ■• ■ *> -«.**■* n, m -a » ***** ,.'*., W. »* Hmly nnlMtd IM tk. hmllia of th, vinim. who lm, ,„ _«., k„ „_ ereet nr eiqr other pan of Alberta. ""ppen io rtsuie at Hill. We atm feel that tke money shook! he In one fund ent) dfvWerf rmp#r!y aaa™. m ,i i ^ , «»* and a* aatkfied ts, impartial r**ler w»M ap*, with tm fLmTwTZtd a.kntt nny ^rp^mry «0,idCraUau, uat^ da we hmtU, -(,r.y *„d \\Zw*b ttZ^nZ TZ I tee,, «kmU hav* indeed a member of the United Mine Worker, on th* eomtZm ing brief history of the Italian patriot: Guiseppe Garibaldi was an Italian patriot and guerilla leader, born of a Genoese family in 1807. at Nice. He early became associated with Maz- zlni's movement for Italian liberty, and had In consequence to flee the country (1834). Atter various • adventures he entered tbe service of , the revoked Brazilian state of Rio Grande (1836), and then of the republic of Monte Video (18424). In 1848 we find him again in Italy, leading a body ot volunteers against the Au- strains. Thence he passed to Home, then in the hands of the patriots, and beseiged by tbe French, and materially assisted in its defense. Tbe breakdown of the popular movement sent him again upon his travel*. He came to the United States and lived for a time at Staten Island, N. Y., and after another visit to South America, took command of an American trading ves- «r>l on the Pacific coast. Dm In 1854 he settled on a small farm in tbe island of Caprera, northeant of Sardinia, whence he eagerly watched tha issue of Cavour's policy In Italy. After fighting against Austria in 1859, he In I860 protested against the cession of Nice and Savoy, which Napoleon III had exacted from Cnvour. In thla aame year he aalled from Genoa with the famoue "thousand volunteers," and on May 11, 1860, landed at Marsala, In Sicily, routed at Cats- tlflml a much Isrger body of troops sent against bim, and within twenty- *ix d*)« (rom lending made himself master of Palermo. In two months he was at tbe head of 18,000 men. aad on July 28 the Neapolitans evacoated Meselna, leaving bim absolute matter of the ialand. Between August P and It, Garibaldi crossed to the mainland, and his progress toward* the capital (N'ftploa) waa a triumphal proceealon. Meanwhile Cavour. disliking the republicanism to mtilcb Garibaldi waa inclined, endeavored to p*i po***tmion ot Naple* bttor* Giribaldl reached Ui bat Garibaldi waa too quick for him. and #at#r*ti tb* etty ca Hc-p.tmbc? 1. Wtitn, however, the ttardtalaa army of Victor Kmmnnuel appeared on the Neapolitan frontier. Garibaldi rnrignetf hi* tietatortkip, nntl on Number f, isee, reltred to CNiprera. ftiit Ike dream of a salted Italy, with Rome *r,9n * .1* ii* ■ ■' . ...... *,..., .94.4. . * •*%«-* \\tlnntvtd the eout *t ttr^rfl :A*.*-yA,',• U# **,,M *'* *'*■*'»"'■• "- tU* •:, ' the track* and it l« thought that the] •"•* nm Um* h* wt» »*v^' w«u*<» contlnuoue rain haa ceased apontan- ** ,D * **,u* **»»»«« **• wal foeee* •out comhwuc*. W. R. Wilson, gen-l •* Aaproawnte tmzt'. bat oa the Ht- eral maaaaer of the Crow's Kent fo«t tri*tr*ff,ti- n-t.** ,.,r >j;h (W¥¥„;-tl w reader what advfoe and aa*lstanc« he could. 8eaM Idea ef the quantity of coal stored may he gathered from the fact as well as for alternate delegates, in duplicate, one copy of each to be filled out and forwarded by the local Union or labor body to the secretary of the Federation, Drawer 889, 'Medicine Hat, on or before the Sth day of October, 1914; and tbe delegates and alternates-elect to be furnished with one copy by their Local Union or labor body, to be presented to the secretary In Calgary before the opening of the convention. It would be superflous to enumerate the program now under consideration by the executive; this bas been covered In the secretary's quarterly reports. There ts a vast amount of work to be taken up at the convention, which requires representation from every union affiliated. It is hoped that the legislature will not meet until after the convention; It Is the intention of the executive to moot immediately preceding the convention to prepare proposed legislation affecting every wage earner In the 'Province. It is to the Interests ot every Local Union to have delegates at the convention to consider the program of the executive. See to It that your strongest representatives are selected, and that your voice la heard In the deliberation* of tbe Convention. Fraternally n>urs, ALBBRTA PKDBRATION OP LADOIt, R. W. BBLLAiMY, Sec Regarding a footnote appearing on all conv«ntlon calls which bave been seat out to the various Locals, we would call your attention to the fact that arrangementa have been made which entitles all Locals to representation In tb* above convention. We would erg* that all Locate he represented It funds permit, DISTRICT BXaCIITIVB BOARD. O. N. COAL RtttftVI ON PIRg AT RIXPORO At wt go to press, we ar* iuformvd lhat th* reeerv* stock of coal stored by fhe Or*»t Northern IUiS*aj at Resford hat caught fire »n-i li likr ly to he entirely destroyed. Th* store comprise* many thousands of tons and ha* been stored in the open. In prerlmt* year* the conl was dta-trlhated la ear* over tbe eya- . «.^-.»/ i.Vt, Vn*» a wertl itrntdpotnt, there can he no queatlon a* to the justification nf ^ ^i5 .10. We •hall fmtm W$ki of thw tetter tu Vtmmt 9*ltum ami **\\k*re with . *f„* tA „ . v «Ntet«a«!f»t which wiD he tntisfaetary to all tenetn**. "*^"*lk a *«* {» ™«*»• »« om BiiiALF or Dismicrr xo. i«, v. si. w.opa. that the compsay claim to have three months' store at Retford, which 1* their reserve ia the event td mom- •Mdea w ethet contlnsuwaclet •ORN September Utk, ia \\tr, and Mrs, George Thompeoo, a mn. OttD At Georgetown, on September lfith, Willie, Miy tea et Mr aad Sfna llm Werdrep^ let* of Naem^ aad Pfcvei*. ead attempt he met with a severe de- f*,. *.»*, rttt .,...' » r.-,.„: >m^. at Meniaaa, near Rosse, end was taken pritoaer b> the Sardiniao govem- meat i.No*., JMTi. aad ccaflaed fer tome da) a near Specie, whence he era* permitted to retire once more to Caprera. Ilia oaly other pohtte net was a rather -^^ (fill *r'»-i>iir'w,''T'■ i .","*u"XiiXvj'i***"•_,f'-rtf^"*-'}''^^"VtijH^C.yi"''jjfjj^jj,'»> iy^..Sj'"j;'-*y ■>'' ^■"■" ^g~"'~ PAGE TWO THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. C, SEPTEMBER 26, 1914 i Labor and Wages Ui lM&3I£^^"3I^5JSJ!3ISJSUMMSf@ISMSISfSf3MSMI EJiiMiMiiMSl!^'^^ Some Weid Statements Dealt With In the second number of the "Candid, Quarterly Review," coducted by -Mr. Thomas Gibosn Bowles, appears an unsigned article with the above title. The writer raises the question of industrial disputes, proclaims the necessity for close and deep investigation.' and yet throughout the article never once tackles any essentia! or goes below the surface. According to him, "the doubts and difficulties that .haunt society today are of foreign extraction, and were in danger cf destruction when crossing the Channel, but survived." That there <-vas no necessity for "labor unrest" to cross the Channel is shown in his next paragraph, the cusfonvijy reference to "England's immunity from war during the early portion of nineteeth century, and her consequent growth of manufacture," conditions which in themselves breed class struggle. "The industrial dispute threatens England's supremacy; yet perhaps a greater glory awaits her. 'Perhaps, amid a Europe weakpned by class hatred and torn by labor convlusions, ..England may again show the world a way to social peace." The writer forgets that the conditions that .breed class hatred on the continent exist here in the same degree and from the same cause. The capitalist caji only wish that a way may be discovered. His time-server, whether he be economist, labor leader, Salvationist, or or scientist, can only grope for a capitalist solution as the alchemist groped for the philosopher's stone. But while they flounder their time grows short. They may shirk the contest with the Marxian theory of value, or refer to the Socialist Party as an insignificant minority, but—and here we quote from 'Ate "Review:" "in economics there is at least this merit about the truth—that, once proclaimed, it is sure in the end to prevail." In order to prove to the workers that the "Socialist claim that they are • being exploited is false, they must be taught economics." Xo longer can this be designated the dismal science, for we are assured: "It Is a mistake to suppose that the worldngmen take no interest in economics. It would be more nearly the truth to say that at this moment they take little interest iF"*^7tTnng~O"e.,'-Tr"Tirrtratn"0ivc€" proclaimed is sure to prevail," then capitalism is indeed ou its last legs, for economic truth Is proclaimed In "capital," and it is only an interested working class we wait for. The capitalist and his journalistic hacks will consequently wish and grope in vain for a way out. It is utterly futile, also, to write of the Socialist movement as "the sedulous propagation of economic falsehood." cialist." Of whom else would he expect an answer? "Wealth, in the economic sense, has no existence until members of the working class have expended their energy on the different substances common ro the earth's crust. That these substances belong to a small class in society, does not necessarily raise the question, "what is a fair wage?" but rather, why any class or section of society should own the means of life necessary to all? The "full-blooded 'Socialist" knows the answer to this; that is why he is polti- cally organized for the establishment of a system of society where the means of wealth production will be owned and democratically controlled by those who use them. The Review, in common with all the anti-Socialist crowd, is particularly concerned that the writers, under Socialism, shall be treated with fairness—even as they are today. So thoy timorously advance certain "insoluble questions." "Is the whole product of a factory only to be shared between the workers in that factory? or is it to be shared by all workers in the land? And ls each workman to share equally, irrespective of merit, or unequally? And if the latter, on what principle and by what authority are the shares to be assessed?" A five shilling review is dear at the price if it can serve up nothing belter than this in defense of the class it caters for. Ownership being in the hands of the peoplo, there will the authority be, and the common interests of all, asserting itself, will speedily put an end to the anomalies of capitalist authority. "Fair" wages and low wages, soft jobs and speeding up, poverty iu the midst of plenty, and all the other abuses that belong to capitalism in its normal state, will end when the working class cease to be mere articles of merchandise, kicked and knocked about the labor market. The Candid journalist has also many doubts and misgivings about the terms: "The right to live" and "a living wage." He discusses these from many points of view, his perhaps, most brilliant and original remark being, "for happiness and influence in J truth, do not depend ou ^^■^'""ATtEi^tlrts^Tiid'TniiBlrTitrore-!^ relevant matter on rights and duties, he delivers himself of the following: "Wages are neither fair no unfair; they are fixed either by personal benevolence or by mercantile -bargain," As he cannot possibly claim benevolence for tbe employer who pays low wages, It follows that those who re celve wages are the recipients tion, either if they will not or cannot sell their only possession—the value- creating energy—for a mess of pottage, and that, too. adulterated. "Let us probe a little more deeply the allegation that the workman is being cheated." The reader need not fear getting out of his depth. 'Needless to say, the writer of the article merely emphasises certain inconsistencies and peculiarities of the capitalist system, without proving anything except its utter absurdity as a system" for intelligent people to live under. Like the hysterical suffragette he runs away from the question he raises and flogs something else to hide his cowardice. "A universal proportion of wages to profits." The wages bill in some industries is. he says, higher than the profits. "Moreover, inequalities exist side by side In the same industries in the amount of profit." These observations are as old as they are shallow—examples of the poverty of argument against Socialism. The depths are not probed, for the total profits of every concern are not considered; and this would have been the surest way to ascertain whether the working class is robbed. Jt is easy to see that in a competitive system differences in methods and management will produce different results. All that is proved, is the inability of the capitalist class— with the assistance of politicians, economists, and scientists—to eliminate anarchy among themsleves, ,and establish for themselves proportionate division of the spoil, by means of an even method of exploitation. Any article on labor questions would, of course, be incomplete without reference to copartnership! The "candid" writer is candid, besidefe being illuminating and instructive. He says': "Copartnership has been universally successful in achieving peace . . . and the striking tiring^ is that it has achieved this peace without any great or even noticeable Increase in the wages paid. For it must, be remembered -that, the income whioh a workman under such a scheme derives from his share in the profits is necessarily a very slight part of the whole wage, and that largely owing to the liability of that share to suffer in -yie!d-ifi-bad-ti«ies,-4iis-total-effestiv«- is no greater than that of his fellows outside. But he is content because he has been convinced that he is not being robbed. How can he be when he elects a delegate to the board and has some actual voice in the management? It is clear, therefore, that the achievement of industrial peace is 0f I less a matter of raising wages than of bidding of the master class they must work for a mere subsistence—a wage they certainly do not "approve" of. Throughout bis long article the writer in the Candid' Review has only succeeded in proving the incapacity of the capitalist class, with all their professional assistants, to run society on sane lines. Anarchy and poverty for the wealth producers, luxury and power for the idlers, are the net result of capitalism. The jjnly brilliant achievement of modern society is its marvellous productive and distributive power, developed by centuries of- experiment and in- i .*** vention; and these are. due ip the working class. It* is they who have' done everything useful. It is'they who use energy and intelligence in the production of all social wealth. The scribbler In "the Candid Review says that the workingman should remember that the end of discontent is not the improvement of wages,' but the fall of society, and if at the end of it all, society does fall he will be instantly buried in the ruins. We know different. The intelligence and capacity displayed by the workers on the field of production can be utilized 'by them for other purposes. When they have added knowledge to their intelligence they will establish a system of society where they will consume what tbey produce. Production is difficult; to consume is easy. To establish Socialism, it is true, requires an effort, of which, however, an educated working class is 'easily capable. The fall of (capitalist) society—which cannot take place until the workers are educated—therefore, means the end of their slavery. —Socialist Standard. BE EVERYCENT! To the purchaser on Saturday of a cake Toilet Soap or box of Talcum Powder costing not less than 25c we will give 250 votes in our piano contest ' SEE OUR WINDOW FOR TOILET PREPARATIONS / / TKE GEM OF THE WEEK Your Piano ( ,:J ; charity. "Wages are neither fair no ] unfair," is where he should have for, so far, he had not blun- because a fallacy can be exploded, stopped while this braggart can only dance; rtered, round the supposed fallacy, and leave Wage ls the name for the price of n record of his utter inability to even understand the subject. "The whole Industrial system Is arraigned. Capitalism is cheating, exploitation," says he, ls the doctrine taught. "It is their business to prove It, yet this Is exactly what they never do." "They," are doubtless, th« labor leaders who either cannot or will, not expose the system that fosters them, being content to mouth beliefs, and em/ply appeals for "justlco" and "fair- ne«8," "Whnt," nskH the writer, "is the fair sharp of labor In the product of any industry? if the present rage, then there lm no grievance. .Then it must be something more. Hut how much more? N'o answer to those questions"l* ever attempted," he complains, "except by the full-blooded So- labor power. Whether the wage be high or low there can be no queatlon of fairness, because the employing class having the power, dictate the wages and conditions. They first divorce the workors from the means of life, in order to compel them to sell their energy at the cost of living. But what Is the difference between the cost of living of the working class, as represented by wages, and the total wealth produced by them? Whether wages represent one-third or one- ninth it is obvious that the employing class only pay wages In order to obtain this surplus over the cost of maintenance of the working class. How then can wages be fair or unfair? The wage system Is one where the workers are threatened with atarva- DAVIDSON'S Meat Market convincing the workman that he is not being robbed. But as the work- man (quite properly) will never consent to share In losses, Its application Is only possible to steadily successful concerns; it is nevertheless to be •heartily welcomed as a temporary expedient of the highest value." Quite a long paragraph, by the way, but reduced to simple language, it means that co-partnership workers, besides being robbed of the results of their laibor—like otlipr workers-~»are successfully bluKed as well. Assuming that he has proved conclusively that the workers are not robbed, because some of them have been persuaded to believe ao, the writer of the article next proceeds to show in what an Eldorado the worker really lives, according to his limited knowledge of actual conditions, Our author says: "It la true that the Individual workman without savings must aell his labor without undue delay; he Is not bound to sell It to the first bidder. Ills strength as n bargainer depend* partly on his reputation and skill as a (.ufUiuuii, but iiwlii!) upon Uiul clow competition among his possible employer.", which will enable him "I firmly believe that capability is a tool which all women should use with care. One of the greatest joys of womanhood is to be taken care of by somebody else. "To ibe capable means you are self- reliant, commanding and independent. And what lovable woman ever wanted to be these things-rand who wants her to be them? "As a matter of fact, most women are' fairly self-reliant. But if they have any wit they hide the fact with all the skill at their command. "I never did believe for one moment that Queen Elizabeth was the sort of woman who needed a cloak spread over a muddy crossing. Not she! 'But she was, clever enough to give the Impression that she was too Jml,*,1^raji —ii, ai.jilsj thA..lul/litlae ILtllltCC something masculine came to her aid. "1 should hatp'a man who was abfe to say: 'Oh, I'll leave that for you to do. You can do It better than I.J My husband says: 'You had better let me do that, dear.' "Be over capable and your days are instantly filled with the drab duties of other folk—the uninteresting Jobs which no one else hns energy enough to tackle. "The real root of ngalnst the capable overpowering belief Xew York Tribune. X With a Little Effort BUY A BOOK OF CHECKS FOR $5.00 & SECURE iT-HE-C0UPONS=FOR-A=3T=Am\\—THESE CHECKS s / CAN BE EXCHANGED FOR PURCHASES iny complaint woman 'Is her In herself."— They have it now. They are going to produce "harmony" between the capitalist and laborer. But suppose the workers find out how the masters rob them, who Is going to continue the harmony? Remember, it is ABSOLUTELY FREE to the Winner MCLEAN'S DRUG STORE VICTORIA AVE, FERNIE, B. C. is illil News of The Industrial World The latest report from Stockton, '"al. where nearly all employers have combined to put the la oor organisations out of business, indicates that the would-be unlon-buatera are hav- Ing difficulty in keeping their force* Intact. Two big building contractors (oilo«f breaking away from the labor-haters to' nnd signing up with Mijs unions, and laugh at one who ofrer* him too low a [ the Kmployer*' Association I* work- wage," [ ing desperately to hold some of the | A r«<-ord of the number of such * others In line who are weakening *xn j "IihibIih" would probably bo intnreat- j Hie*)" realise the probability of being Ing; but If It la trtn* that occasionally | confronted by big financial loses, ja worker "with aavlng*" ran afford j Mayor lleigensteln called twenty of I to tin** by a Job, It 1* equally trti* that * tho lending open whopper* togn ' r (the vant majority eannot, and are j and tinted tbem to agree to arbitrate i compelled io re*l.«ii thero»ehe* to the their trouble*, wliMi the nnl«n« hnl We make all our own Sausages They are the BEST first *!tiist!on th.it '.)* va-tttw, without bargaining or dlmi*»|on-~whlcli, to the fftpltallft, I* lirp'tdente. Vett, wc hnv* inmrthlng that !s» profound ami original. The real i Ue confident that an amicable aettleman* i-,t\\, bt asade. Whether or not* llie an>»y- or will mccced In establishing ymm remain* to bo »een. It appears that several prof#«»lon»l "labor adjastor*," who cleaned up fut wad* in San Fran- cIhco nnflf other pine-on, tricked tha Hlockton employer* Into an agraa* men and women. There li a fear expressed by toifie of the leading officials ot tbe trade union movement in Great iBrltaln that religion* differences may cause more or lea* strife and confusion among a number ot organlaattona, If not actual division*. Tliu tlwrgi! Uwt aeixuX movement* are being Inaplrtul by greedy employer* and religious seal- ota for pecuniary and peraonil gain, and If there ara not actual clashes at the British Trade Union Congress next month lt will be bemuse war troubles overahadow all elie and mu*- ale the faetlonallat* for tbe time being. • • • So acute ha* the Mltutttlon become In thi* country aa the result of the Kuropaan conflict, aapaelally In In- created eo** of commodltl*?" and ag grivatprl unemployment, lhat a labor conference of Ore*ter New York ia to ba organlied at onee to eonalder plan* to alleviate tlm misery, The movement hn* been Initiated by pro- grwiive trade union* and Socialist Imperial Bank of Canada HiAO OFFICE, TORONTO Capital Paid Up..$7,000,000 Reierve Fund ....$7,000,000 O. n, WIUKIi, PrtatdlM HON. HOST JAFFRAY, Vloa-Prca. BRANCHU IM BRITISH COLUMBIA Arrowhead, Cranbrook, Fernie, Qoldcn, Kamloops, Mlchal, Ntlaen,., Rsvalateke, Vansauvar and Victoria, •AVINQt DEPARTMENT Ibttratt allowed on depoalta it current rata from data pt depotH. FBBNIE BRANCH A. M. OWBN Manager THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE HAS INSTALLED SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES. LODGE YOUR Wills, Thle Deeds, Mortgages, Insurance Policies or other valuables In one of these boxes S.W I'. ( BEEF, PORK, VEAL, MUTTON, FISH, POULTRY, BUTTER AND BQQ3 A trial order will convlnco you that our prloet & moats aro tho BEST «««:■»-»'■ •#.!«.«,*. ,*J ,.4Mt*f 9Mt *ll4t ,.,,,,, . .... , , ,.,.. ,,[t r,.)Vl ,,,,, ,h| ^ t.t ■ toncb Ibcir money." What cuparjty for the detection of motive*? Then the icrlbt aaya: "In spite of! with all the itieortoa of romii'.antlnn, one ron rwmuii mr o*m atiom anit ttt .tit ,*tl4*tt, *" ,-»-.- *•* —t *.■»»••» ■'*,•• »i -,-•.,44 t«..., ... :,• ,.i ,',*-..,,>'.,.,*, , ,•--} ,.,1-iAAA, \\n-hiT:* \\XiAdXi«"t wlwre lbey|«Hh pretcnt nnd future problem*.) am mm ene arbitrate «h#K will bav* to ««Ml*JTh# nwUor* which *lll be eonil.l.'red i |S, B. FOWlOr, MSMiaffOr FOmlO BratlOh tbelr trouble-breedera, "*"* " *'" • • • at tba gathering will be tba sudden In-1 [ereaa** In th» eo*t of food ln aplte of 5H PROMPT DELIVERY M.K. Proprietor Davidson for wage* wblsh b# himself doc* not 'approve? If *o, It I* slavery." i Thl* *tatAfl!*nf f» rletr sn.f *«>e(>- * in*, it cover* nearly the «hole of tin. itTiplflnir flu*** In e-wtrv '•'>j.fMff.»f -v ru'ii-tiry on tie globe. Uittouuitu ht •inlveriat. Tb* worker* In mrery oe- nr* rmto*t*tti* tit ******* 9* t„ ., •trand.d condition, rldios frtlght car* Wdlmmmliifelmck" from charitably Incllnwl people. In *ome of the town* l-nmfcer mrrtriv xetteatatal tieaaettl. nt wnrtr *idwat workman, la lie or ta he not i that ibe military lawa b« antandixt *o that ihere i* no eapoit at tba prtaaat' "** tt ,B lM "**"**■ ,T** *zT t« be toned, by tbe miiKiitrate anil iimi troo»' cannot bt calM to tha *»'• tim* U"1 lncrea*«d unemployment,! wcatcra, wwmlllworkfr* aad wooda- the maalttrate and the aaol. to work*ora whan a atrllia la In nrograa*. It la eaptclally. In tha ahlpplbf Industry.\\mm ,n th# lu»b*r «•*>• f <*••»*• iwlied that when Anderw n«h»r waa and the nation of th« Imtnlffatlon inta b"™ wtanlaod and ara daaundlRg tha polled eteaa tbra oat na faat aa l»rime Minuter, while tha Labor Party problem whkh win fao« thi* country •■ •'tbt-hoi^day and a njnlmitm thay MrifftttM- hdtot thtlr reward W1, rn rmf„i nf n, niMw,„, tlW,rn- after the Kttttmettn boatllltiet 'taw' *•«• * »f» mt «•* »H* ««t and for volunteering to parfortn bone* la- merit, tm l»l«t* Ooremor of Q«a*«*.je»a**l all! ba n wrton* on*. Naw|«»**«Jtor omtl»e. J^^^j*"- 'ii'h to mnfff»M! Voi* nml otw t***it*rv rtiU* nrt> ■ ««'«n «Tforta of tnfW wooflatiwn wava Italian wniblngmeit td See- Vkrit, overtron-teil nliJi nnvrnployet wort-)hMW f«"f!»J*fl l*Wr to Waahlngtwi' to the mmbnr of 1-6,000, wbo ara or- to tfcg|«f* mil, with the co*t of the ne the Q»een»)and exeemlve ihe e*t»i«lentItmrton ot life being booatcd conaunt Shitohb Gun * ot "go to ——," and wnn etommd bf '■ the i»ltie oppcmllltm In I*»i1fa«s«*at b*- ' -i*■*,.tito fjr« If by gre*tl> profltflMmtaf*, a iarlona, trime, •Hnttlof* f tn mnntar UnttmP' bo tml kr tslrtnr rndbwt nnd mimrn-t lore* nnmbero ot mm who went tto tb* laeal nahMia nnd oemrnl hodlmn tn Fm- ia'a wotben aad drtneb tha atwatt altaWa a«Uo« or trooWa fe *ar* lo a^ikarrtat ttald^ a«raett4 by gfealag DL. Oil ^**** *0mm7m7.. ^* mmM wd , i»'« workera aad drtneb tha anwata «f mm acwon or irowwo m tmto xo aa>f rnOne W]J^^^r?K«^B»*?^l^ «Uh \\b* Wood of lm>o«an(Ur when the ,(«f«t w«mtfi«r comaa.--- (aecouttti df high *tt*t and pTtftty prava g*a«ral condition*.—CHTaland Cltttatt. THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. C„ SEPTEMBER 26, 1914 PAGE THREE ■*' -S* I >' - ' -V ut THE TREASON OF THE CAPITALIST CLASS By Allan L. Benson Nobody has a good word to say of Judas Iscariot Nobody says Judas Iscariot was the best friend Jesus Christ ever had. Nobody says the interests of Judas Iscariot and Jesus , Christ were identical. Nobody says these things because Judas Iscariot . has been a long time dead. When a traitors has been long enough dead, his treachery is everywhere acknowledged. But the capitalist class of the United States is not dead—therefore „it has 'both defenders and servants. The capitalist class of the United States has both defenders and servants, though it is at this very moment committing an act of treachery unparalleled in the history of that class in this couutry. It is committing an.unparalleled act of-treachery because it is using all the great forces at its disposal to strip *" this country of its abundant food supply and stare the people. The people of this country have foolishly trusted the capitalist class. The people of this country have fool- '•• ishly trusted the capitalist «lass to own and control the vast industrial machinery to which we must look, for the satisfaction of our needs. The people of this country bave foolishly entrusted the government of this country to men who believe the capitalist class should own the earth and what .is on it. * * • The working class of America looks to the capitalist class for -the means with which to sustain life. The capitalist class of America knows that with winter still months away, the condition of the working class is desperate. _ ■ In the single city of New York, a canvass made by charitable organizations shows that 45 per cent of the working class is idle through inability to obtain employment. That means that 540,000 men in tbe city of Now York are without work; and that , means that more than 2,000,000 of people in the city of New York are facing winter without a cent in their —■■—po£k©tSf-a^csust--of bread In—their- pantries, or a prospect of work. Every day, hundreds of families are evicted from the hovels In which they live because the cannot pay their rent. Every day the strain upon charitable organizations becomes greater, though winter has not yet began, than lt has been ln twenty-one years. Night wanderers in the metropolis are greeted by the unparalleled sight of a bread line in August. Little east aide grocers are falling because they -have given more credit than they could afford to give ' to penniless workingmen who cannot get work. Little east side grocers who are not failing have refused to give mor© credit to workingmen. In New York tbe situation of the working class is about as bad as it could be Ir. ev^ry way. The altuation of the working class, In every eity, Is bad and growing worse. Yet, ln this hour of aupremo emergency, the capitalist class of America, through no IH-wtll toward tha working claaa—for one and only ona reason—la betraying the working class ln manner unparalleled, For nothing else than gold, tha capitalist class of America la betraying the working class of America Into the laws of hunger. For nothing elte than gold, the capitalist elass of America ia oonalgnlng the working claites of European nations to the horrors of prolonged war by furnishing tba food without which the war could not be prolonged, • » • This la at severe an indictment as ! know haw to frame against human btlngt. It Is so true an indictment that nobody questions ihe facts. Some men call the facts •*bus{uess," but nobody questions the facts themselves. Everybody knows tbat food that we need is being shipped out of the country for private profit. Everybody knows that the condition of the 'working class In the great cities is already1 desperate. Everybody knows that If we.were to keep and consume the food we have produced, food would be abundant and cheap. But "business" men say it is "business" to exchange our food tbat we can eat for gold that we cannot eat. And the "business" men are to hold tho gold! Let us use correct terms This is net "business"—It is treason to the working class of the United Staces. It is not treason against the government of the United States—it is treason against the people of the United States. Under the constitution, unfortunately, there is no such crime as treason against the people, as distinguished from treason against the government. But In the moral law, there is such a crime, and the government of the United States is guilty of it. The government of the United States is guilty of it because it is bending its energies toward the appropriation of millions of public funds to buy ships with which to help strip the country of food. Mr, Wilson may call this '^business." Mr. Wilson may call it chess, dominoes or tlddle-de-wlnks. I call it treason, against the people of the United' States. iMr. Wilson was .placed to his high office to conserve the interests of the people of this country. He is not doing It. He is conserving the interests of the capitalist class of this country. The interests of tlie people of this country cannot be conserved by exporting from this country food that our people need. Mr. Wilson is obeying the letter of the law under which he serves while violating its spirit. The letter of the law says he shall not "give aid or comfort to the nation's enemies." Under the letter of the law , the ■fiaUcn-ka^-ne-eaemiesi — the future is becoming the present and how different the immediate future is bound to be from the immediate past. •Mr. Wilson was ruled by his instincts when he boldly went out in advance of all international law and declared that a neutral national like the United States had no right to lend money to agnation at war. When the warring, European nations sought in the United States the food without which they could not long fight, Mr. Wilson not only interposed no objection, but urged that $30,000,000 be appropriated out of the national treasury to buy ships to take our food to Europe. , He apparently did not see that if lt would be unneutral to lend money to France, it would be precisely ab unneutral to sell food to Prance. He apparently did not realize that If France had borrowed money in .America she would have left every dollar of it in America in exchange for American food. He apparently did not realize that if our food be exported to belligerents our neutrality becomes but a sham, since the nations that control the seas can get our ; food, while the other nations cannot. .Mr. Wilson can buy grain ships, but he cannot put' an ounce of grain into Austria until he first sinks the French and English ships, that are patrolling the Mediterranean. Jlr. Wilson, apparently, realized that the United States had a legal right to sell certain foodstuffs to belligerents—and that American capitalists owed Europeans $130,000,000 which they must pay in commodities or in gold. * * * American capitalists wanted no more gold exported, because they believed their welfare demanded the keeping of our gold supply. American capitalists wanted foodstuffs exported because there was profit in such exportation. And *Mr. Wilson, perceiving that both the facts and the precedents justified the capitalist contention, yielded to it—and forget the people. yours, and if you prefer to sell it to a king with a.billion dollars for $1.50 a bushel rather than to a working- man's wife for $1, you have the legal right to do so. ■But, iu another sense, your wheat is not entirely yours and you have no moral right to take your full legal rights. We are all living here together—we citizens and residents of America— and we are mutually dependent upon each other. Each has his appointed task. AVe should have no civilization if oa the whole each of us did not perform his task. No one hasva right to be unproductive. No one has a right to get more than his fair share of whatever prosperity there may be. Certainly no one has a right to starve others for his own benefit, or to defend conditions that bring about such monstrous injustice. If grafters are to strip the country of food and ship lt abroad, by all means get all you can for what you have to sell, because the wrong will be done whether you will or not— but in the name of all that you may consider your welfare, do not stand In the way of any department of Uie may try to prevent such an -outrage. a a i a Great hunger for the 'working classes in the great cities will inevitably mean great disorder and- perhaps actual revolution in this country. Don't mention this statement by the judgment of ordinary years—this is not an ordinary year. It is both our misfortune and our privilege to live at a time w*bgn the earth is being convulsed by one of the colossal upheavals that destroy the old and make way for the new. Whoever believes this great Ayorld war will leave the world as,it found it knows little of war or of the .world, Men make wars, but the gods end them and write the peace treaties. . It is for us to propitiate the gods of justice by deserving justice. Else we shall be swept into the whirlpool of revolution that will engulf all Europe within twenty years. War, like fire, can be easily started, but not so easily put out. Two or three greedy crowned heads started this war, but millions of empty stomachs will carry the series of wars, of which this is the first, far and away beyond the dreams of the monarchs who unloosed the guns this summer. When Europe has finished fighting for its kings it will begin fighting for itself. Europe will be disillusioned, starved, and maddened. The whole world will feel the convlusion as hundreds of millions of desperate men smit the earth with their ire and wrest from fate the justice that they could not get from their capitalist masters. Tliis will not all come about in a j day, but it will come about before prolonged peace ever again conies to tliis earth. The war is on and each lull will be but a truce between battles. * * * Gentle farmers, and good $olks all- let us keep out of this welter of blood. If the lamp of civilization should go out in Europe, let us keep its light shining here. Let us make its light here even brighter than it is. But this lamp cannot be kept burning with fat fried from the bodies of the working class. Try it, long enough and they will see this country on fire—as they should. Any government that will not permit its working class t£j live should be destroyed. We shall best serve ourselves, when a year or so hence, revolution gets in the air the world over, not to give the American working class any reason to appeal to the cannon and the swordi—Appeal to Reason. phere—in the case of Bear and others —in reference to a kindred law: " 'The difficulty of dealing with the matter is not lessened by the fact that the question involved comes for consideration surrounded by all the prejudices with which centuries of ignorance and thoughtlessness have invested it. . . . The teachers who first publicly proclaimed the brotherhood of man, his equality in the next world, his right to worship as he chose, were persecuted as the enemies of society. . .' . A certain number of prosecutions under the law, a certain number of victims to the ig- porance or superstition of those who frame it, a certain number of refusals to convict under a growing sense of its unwisdom, injustice and barbarity, seem to be in all societies the stages passed through by laws established for the purpose of coercing the opin- | Ions of mankind before they become, j obFolete, if judge-made laws or if But within the spirit of the law the nation has many enemies. Within the spirit of tbe facts, the) President against the exportation of —wram-1 ~nfgo"TBV*ery~i,eader of--Hie Appeal, whether man or woman, to fbrward at once his protest to the people have still more—many of whom are right here in Amercia. Every warring emperor and king who. with his war chest at his back, is- ln American food markets bidding against American workingmen's wives for food—every such man is au enemy of the American people. Every such man Ib doing to us with .his hundreds of millions of gold what he could not do to us with his battleships or hit soldiers—he Is taking the food out of our country and leaving our people to suffer. Every American "business man" who, for private profit, exports food that we need aids and abets the crime of moral treason—aids and abets tho selfish forces that are slaughtering Europe and trying to starve America. ♦ * * No mon in hia sense* would accuse Mr, WlUon of consciously and maliciously betraying the people of the United States, for the benefit of anybody or any claaa, I have said again and again tn my published writing that"! believe lir. Wilson to be devoted to the public welfare as no president since Lincoln hat heen. But Mr. Wilson, at a president of the people, labors uuder a staggering handicap. He represents a political economy tbat harts back to tht day of Jefferson, tallow candles and stage coaches. Mr. Wilson doaa not realise how rapidly tha present is becoming tha past and how dead tha past is. Mr. Wilton doaa not realise how rapidly amseseesssssasssssesaassKB Jailed For Savings Lives of Defenseless Innocents Editor of Maoriland Worker Thrills New Zealand Court With Impassioned Speech Before Being Sentenced to Spend One Year in Jaii —Pop—pleading-for—Uves"wf™¥*/omen- and Children of Wharf Strikers. / ///// I ■ , ii i I V The Point of Contact The merchant who It alive to Us opportunities will Map in constant touch witn mt Ottoman, and with others whom ha hopat will btcoma his cuttomera. He will keep them Informed of the arrivals of ntw goods, tht prevailing tastes or tashlons, tha Utaatlmprovamanu In things to aat or to wear, or to make houeework eatitr. And tht point of contact Is advertising. Toad- Ytrtist Intelligently, is lit evidence of profreaa- iveness. It h mh to conclude tivat you will re ceive the beet service ami bett value from tht merchant who aeekt your patronage be modem methods. food at this time. If the President has forgotten you, let him know that you have not forgotten him. Let him know that you read, with profound disapproval, tbat more than 9,000,000 bushels of wheat were shipped out of the United States during the week ended August 27, and that more than ' 55,000,000 bushels were exported during the first twenty- seven days of the month. Let the President know that you are indignant tha^t exportations of sugar during the month reached the colossal amount of 71,009,577 pounds, when the ordinary monthly exportation amounts only to 2,000,000 pounds. * • * And, while he are on the subject, hero Is something for farmers to think about. This sort of a famine for the rest of the country means a feaBt for tbo farmers. Tbey will not get very fat, but they will fatten up a little. They are already gotting more than a dollars a bushel for- tbelr wheat, and they may get $1.80. In other words, In tbls unlawful game of loot, the chief lootera are passing « little along to the farmers, tailoring that tbe little will keep j thom quiet while working men In the j cities are starring, The New York agent ot the Pllsbury Flour flompany hinted at, something et the sort at a hearing concerning prices. The Pllsbury agent was quoted In the newspapers as saying that while an embargo would put prices down In this country, "the admlniatratlon, If It should enact such a law, would be turned out of office hy the protesting farmers." This to tht ftrmtrt: "Like everybody else, you have to look out for yourselves, finder the capitalist system, you bave never hsd much prosperity, nor under this system •will you orer hare much, The agricultural tool trusts, the railroads, the banks and the other Institutions for fleecing you will always keep you properly poor. If you can get 11.50 a bushel for your wheat, yew bad batter take It, unless von think rm run net tt V«w I have not much to tar about the price oi wheal, ao yea eannot be much blamed. Jhrt If yoa want to look oat for yourttlm, la tht truest sense, you will met defead th* «widHI«nt thnt make year emps abnormally high In price. Ton will welcome any law tbat will prohibit European rulers trom bidding fer yoar crops In competition with fhe wives ef American wag* worker*. Yoa wlH not stick for ron- dftteaa that auk*, perhaps, tlM wheat for yoa while making b«iig*»r, of tke dlre-rt sort for millions of work- era la the neat cttli*. Of coarse, yea still have a 1***1 right to nabt for the condition, that will give yea the moat for what yon ifca** to •**»!, tmaparttv* of wbst if the order were given they were to 'shoot to kill.' I made c!«ir reference to the fact that they ou-^ht not to kill iho men, women and cliildre-i nf tee 'working class. Why was that r??-. aiiMyaM I statutes are repealed as inconsistent ; with advancing knowledge.' J "Might I add to that great utterance I that 'ideas or right and wroiiR ire J uot absolute but relative: not fixed, 'but fluid, changing with the changes. iin our modes of producing and dis- I tributliig life's essentials—food, clothing and shelter." "I may be wrong. But why were charges of sedition leveled against others aud then withdrawn? Was'the pursuit of myself because 1 occupied an editorial chair as well as figured on a platform? Was it because ■ of my authorship of the 'Story of Waihi"? "I, urge that this court should not sentence me for the utterance of a few words; because, in such a ca.-e this court will turn all the working class eyes of Xew Zealand toward Ulster, and will set all the working class minds of the world thinking that there are two laws within the British Empire—one for the rich agitator and one for the poor. "Sir Edward Carson and^iis drilling regiments; Lord Roberts urging the British Workers to arm to save themselves frpm an imminent German invasion, and figuring at the same time as president of the Ulster Covenanters —an avowedly seditious organization; the British officers tendering their resignations and declaring that when they accepted their commissions thev never anticipated having to turn their weapons against their fellow subjects —and the Jmperial government—the supreme head of tlie Empire—acquiescing In or Iterating every incident—all seems to me to furnish nn- MY DYSPEPTIC UH GET WELL By Taking HFruIt-a-tives" Says Gapt, Swan Life is very miserable to those who suffer with Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Sour Stomach and Biliousness. This letter from Captain Swan (one of tbe best known skippers on the Great Lakes) tells bow to get quick relief from Stomach Trouble. Port Burwei.1,, Ont., May 8th, 1913. "A man has a poor chance of living and enjoying life when be cannot eat. That was what was wrong with me. Los9 of appetite and indigestion was brought on by Constipation. I bave had trouble with these diseases for years. I lost a great (leal of. flesh and suffered constantly. For the last couple of years, I have taken "Hruil- a-tives" and have been so pleased with tbe results tliat I have recommended them on many occasions to friends and acquaintances. I am sure that "Fruit- a-tives" have helped mc greatly. By following the diet rules and taking "I;niii-a-tives"according to directions, any person with Dyspepsia will get benefit';. H. SWAN "l:'ruit-a-tives"are sokl by all dealers at 50c. a box 6 for $2.50, or trial size 35c. or sent postpaid on receipt of price by Fniit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. The Hussiah' Cz&rj made himself a monopolist of* the liquor business and then for the sake of profits so debauched the Russian people that he now fears his army is unable to protect him in his loot. The masters have overreached themselves-. .Members of the Life Underwriters Association of Canada are attending tlie congress at Halifax, where a high old time will be indulged in- Insurance fiends draw down millions from the people, build immense office structures, dress In the best, live on the best and have a whale of a time generally, while the poor worker has to dig by day and night to pay his premiums, and often is compelled to throw-ihe whole job over, losing the good money he has already paid to the bounders, wife 'chuckle with glee .as they take the easy stuff,— Appeal to Reason. Twelve months' imprisonment for trying to save the lives of men. women and children. One year in prison for begging soldiers not to shoot up- defenseless human beings wbo had gone on strike. This was J-he sentence Imposed upon Harry E. Holland, editor of the Maoriland Worker by the Appeal Court of Xew, Zealand on April 2G. ' The militant editor was charged with "sedition," In that he had pleaded with soldiers and sailors of an Imperial warship, the Psyche, not to fire upon men, women and children during tho recent strike on the waterfronts of Xew Zealand. Beforo being sentenced, Holland addressed the court. "Thou shalt not kill," was hts pica. Clearly, vigorously, he pointed out that he had done a greater service ln urging tho sailors not to shoot than if he had adopted any other attitude. "My whole being revolted at the Idea of one set of workers shooting down another set of workers with whom thoy, bad no quarrel—and doing It In the Interests of a handful of wicked exploiters by whom the whole unfortunate trouble was made," he declared. Ills speech thrilled the court. It wat the voice of enlightenment In the halls of dusty law books and ancient codes of morality and life. It waa the clarion of the newer and noble philosophy, the philosophy ot life Instead ot property. And, therefore, he waa condemned, "One of the strongest reasons why there should be no sentence," began Holland, "la that the very Bible on which those eitraordlnary newspaper reporters and detectives were sworn, tays, 'Thon ahalt not kill.' It really jlots not say: Thou shalt not kill- unless the government orders yon to do otherwise,* The Illblo command U aa titer at ik Russell Lowell, when l& his immortal 'fllgkow Papers, eh •sys: " 'If you uke a sword snd dror it, And go ran a feller thru, Ouvment ain't no answer for It— nodi! send th* bf!! to yon!* I want to further urge as a reason ■fea-BOWv-wlii y -your-~iren*gr erence to the men, women and ch''.d- should not pronounce sentence, ren left out of the indictment? j "For the rest, I have said once be- "It is urged against me that I com-, fore—I say again—through all the mitted a crime wheu I made that ap- j ages of that blood-red tragedy that peal to the Psyche's men. They are mc„ can history, the milestones tiv,r now asking your honor to send me to jail for that alleged crime. Their position is that If the sailors are ordered to shoot down men, women and children they must do so. It is, Indeed, a hard position to justify. "To me the'* possibility of such a tragedy was a fearful thing to contemplate. As a member of tbe working class, as a platform propagandist and a publicist of the working class, I feel the position'as keenly as any man could feel It," continued Holland, his frame shaking with Indignation and suppressed emotion. "I positively could not refrain from urging tbe sailors not to shoot the men— and especially not to shoot the women and children." Looking squarely at thc court, he declared: "I urgo that in doing so I performed 0 greater service than If I had adopted any other attitude. My whole being revolted at the idea of one set of workers cold bloodedly shooting down another set ot workers with whom they hsd no quarrel!— and doing It In the Interests of a handful of wicked exploiters by whom the whole unfortunate trouble was made. "I love my, home life, my children, my books, my studies: but If by ro-j tractlnn nu words to tb« tailors I could walk out ot the court a free! man I would not do so, "If the law aays that It Is right for soldiers or bluejackets to shoot down men, women and children In an Industrial conflict, then the law Is immoral and wrong, and In the Interests of law Itself, In the Interests of order, In Iho Interests of morality, the court should not impose a sentence upon mc for sdrlilng that such a law should not be obeyed. "There la something so positively horrlfylna and revolting in ihe thwat to poor rifle volleys into a parked crowd of men, woman and children —something ao awfully tragical in the posulblllUy of women and children be- lag shot down that a taw tbat sanctioned It ought aot to remain a n**f ttt*if.n-9 *■..«• »»•« »»«■»„■>•* ■»*».*■<. have marked the highway of human progression have been tbe Jails and tbe gibbets of the ruling class. "If It should be that I have not convinced your honor, and that you feel It your duty to proceed to sentence, then once again I repeat that 1 have no apology to utter, no plea for mercy to make. "I bow *to the inevitable, conclusions of the righteousness and tho strength of my own position; and " 'Out of the night that covers m^, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever Gods there be For my unconquerable soul.* "I thank your honor."—N. V. Call, Because the masers own tbe tools with which the workers must toil, they also own tho workers, Tho title is just aa strong in flesh and blood as it ever wae in the past. The power of the masters appears great, but It rests entlrly in the work era themselves. Why do you support tbat which ruins you and your family? We Are Ready to Scratch off you' bill any item of lumber not found Just as we represented. There Is no hocus pocus In This Lumber Business When you c'i»t spruce we do not tend you hemlock. When you buy first-class lumber we don't slip In a lot of culls. Thoso who buy once from us always come again. Those wbo have not yet made our acquaintance are taking chances they wouldn't encounter if tbey bought their lumber here. KENNEDY & MANGAN — Dealere In — Lumber, Lath. Shingles, Sash and Doors. SPECIALTIES-Mouldlnge, Turnings. Bracksts, and Datall Work OFFICE AND YARD-MePharton avt. Oppesltt O. N. Oepot. P.O. tax tt, Phone S3. Steam Heated Throughout Electrir Lighted THE KING EDWARD HOTEL J. L. GATES, Proprietor Fernie, B. C. The Leading Commercial Hotel of the City Rates $2.50 per day Fire Proof Sample With Private Bath $3.00 Rooms in Connection the WALDORF Mrs. S. Jennings, Prop. L. A. Mills, Manager [ f^.^t,nm-f9*,-, tata ^^ __________mm, _____ _ tmm eoaifttoee*teej' *« »o eWwrt The Dfttrftt Lttptr rtnchtt mere ronton tkte ony ether pteer In the Pass, fn a legal sense, your wheat u -«/ tttt **y***1*-* tmittltit 1.V..I tu; **('V|uij T-mj-ch i';u'Cfi'. ,V. J.' reference to the sailors, rtstod oa a pnrelr hywxheth'al hasK Ihe rrewat cor tent'on It thtt f tdrised the so!***** 10 dls«**y law'nl order*. It tt ixeeedlagly donbtfel that It would have been a lawfal order. It f«rtala!y would have beea enatrary to the poller t«d wishes of the Admir ilty. Bat the aet reamias thai the tailor* had mtdrtut tnatrnetbm* 'bit *»<;»***«» I H^ Uw nf ,„,<(„„,, rmt fti*i*tlt tniti/ti".. fit triti-tt.-h ^t"l*t. a wholly eduoW : piopto tbere wool! le no need to ,i»rr»w the ilmlu of speech. With 1 i^ople efonomlolly freed, there wo.ihJ u*- 30 danger Irom revolt. "Change, exer r^cur-ring ehante, makes up tb* turn ul \\bv world's pro- I greet se mxttb in »r>d»T evotntlon ss in ftrfsntf etolntloti, nrd my lew th«! makes te block th* rhantts that are lae-tlta-Me ertct* bsrrk-i'» on tb* mnt- wny ef fcuman prrt*r*»*«ioa. "It wnn * wognltlor of thl* fact i that ltd 8!r Wllllsm Windcvcr-or* of S Aastrtli&'i mm' eminent Jadges, toi ear fn eft*> of tb* nr*9j.t*t indfwnf*? ever d«-l.v*r.-J .t. iUc'*«Mith«ra html*-) Excellent Cuisine - American and Fiirnjwwn fH»« - P1t*+r.p !JjjM Hot Bt Co3d Water SajnpJc Ttooms Phones—Special Rates by the month European ff an mm Rata memm mmmt tpnmw America* flu Bates W.wperDaj amm. -WBBM THI Bellevue Hotel COMMIRCIAL HOU8I VM*«ete - tvtry Cstetfewt CwlsNie. SUtTAtktt FPU lA&iaa 4. A. OALLAN, Prop. in m tmmtetmm* -tefcHlt*.*-****** USVUt, Alia. -•< 5 y*. 0***/., -,-*' --..?■ f* - .<,^i' y\\ ovc^'st; s'~ ■^^Vr-'^v-^^jt^v'r.rljjy^?- -c-', f•>"■ PAGE FOUR THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. C, SEPTEMBER 26, 1914 Published every Thursday evening at its office, Pellatt Avenue, Fernie, B. C. Subscription $1.00 per year in advance. An excellent advertising medium. Largest circulation in the District. Advertising rates on application. Up-to-date facilities for the execution of all kinds of book, job and color work. Mail orders receive special attention. Address all communications to the District Ledger. F, H. NEWNHAM, Editor-Manager. Telephone No. 48 Post Office Box No. 380 'CIVILIZED" WARFARE The expression '"War is hell," although brief, conveys a most vividly horrible picture to those who listened to the old style pulpiteer of three decades ago. If "hell' is the culmination of that which is awful and war is its visualized parallel, then the present scenes of carnage can be termed a multiplicity of ''hells." Granted that war equals hell, i e., that it is the opus magnus of diabolism, why cavil about some of the incidentals connected therewith ? The sacking of Loiivain. the damage done to the cathedral at Rheims, cannot be condoned, but in point of comparison they are insignificantly minor matters to the wholesale slaughter of thousands of the finest specimens of physical manhood,with the consequent bereavement of many women to -whom these victims of insatiate greed are related by the closest of blood ties. , What is the cathedral at Rheims when weighed against the miseries inflicted upon hordes of little tots whose natural protectors have been imm< lated on the altar of mammon ? The Germans are complaining that the British used dum-dum bullets; the Belgians present their plaint to the United States government tliat the German soldiers committed atrocious deeds; the press reports cite instances of the use of saw-toothed bayonets, and we are told to become righteously indignant. "War breeds such conditions, they are products of tho blood-spilling mania engendered by the military spirit. Instead of finding fault with the branches of the upas tree of capitalism, let us show that we should study how to hasten the complete eradication of the parent tree. It is an outrage to perforate a man's um'bilicus and sever his intestines With a sawtoothed bayonet, but it is strictly according to rule to throw "sln^pneiTmongst a gronp^trf"Wen und'Tnrve-the' flying pieces of metal scatter brains, burst his eardrums, destroy sight, chip off lower jaws, or by poisonous fnmes annihilate every living creature within a raduis of sixty yards, as was graphically related by one of the British gunners when the Main/,, a German warship, was sunk. It is indeed a puzzle hy whnt mental process the w«e" of dum-dum bullets is condemned as inhuman and the dropping of bombs from JJeppelins be regarded with more or less equinainity. "It's against the rules of civilized warfare." says the apologist. Such reasoning is on a par with that of the German surgeon at a postmortem who very learnedly remarked upon the examination of a body that had had five bullet wounds inflicted upon it, " Three of the wounds were not necessarily fatal, but the other two were." WHO SHALL IT BE, WILSON OR ROCKEFELLER? During I hew turbulent times a writer finda mt>- siderable difficulty in I'seaping from tliu influeucea of the conflict in Europe. The mnvapaper ol today is full of atfcounts, more or less garbled, of bat- Ilea lost ami won; battles that Imve never been lost and never been won, nnd never fought; thrilling deeds done, and no forth. About ime-iwentieth of the news is facts, the other nineteeiutwentletht is fiction or reiteration. The public read aceounts from London of victories, and they read a re-hashed account from I'artH, Antwerp, Herlin, Washington, etc, but it is nil new* In them, mi whntM Uii* wills. American piiperx are possibly the most unbiased, but they nau*e»te one with their continuous prating about th«* neutrality <»f "the Ktatea." a neutrality thit is tlie greatest farce ever foisted u|n>ii an Intel- ligent public. A coiitHiirporary, publUhcd a few utiles from the border, «*«im» out Hie other day with m cartoon thnt om- might cull clever, were it n»*t «<• monstrously absurd. The liib- of the cartoon wa* "I'mlcr Two Flag*." Tw.» paiteU were given, the 1up one nhoVHng ji youth MirMUinb-.il by the pfaci- fill aylvan beaut!*.* of village lift1 g»itig In school; the lower jia»ci dnd of I he Hinten In tlw other tell lars, and the loss of over thirty lives, and ydt it would seem that it is likely* the cost will increase. The President's good advice and suggestions have been rejected by the operators, or to be correct, tlie principal operators—the Colorado Fuel and Ii'ou'a Company. Their conception of morals and fairness it appears is greater than President Wilson's. Their interest in their employes becomes almost sublime in its pathetic generosity when they state that "our paramount and immediate responsibility must be to the men still at work, men who for nearly a year have labored under most trying difficulties." With punctilious piety the continue: "Fqr thirty years past this company has assured every employe that its mines were 'open shops,' where any good workman might obtain employment, irrespective of whether he was a union or non-union man." AVo do not wish to insult the average worker's intelligence with explanations of what this venerable body of apologists call an "open shop," and will merely state that the U. M. W. of A. has waiveki its claim to recognition in the interests of a settlement. This should be sufficient answer, and would bo, were it not that the real ruler of America (J. D. Rockefeller) is at the back of the operators. The citizens of America may delude themselves that their President has avoided war with Europe, but they cannot delude themselves that he is master of the coal barons. He is not. J. D. Rockefeller and his cohorts are the masters of the President,'•humiliating.as this may seem, it is the truth. The International President and his colleagues, when they accepted President Wilson's suggestions siicrif iced practically every vestige of power "inthe interests of,peace and settlement. All they wished for was an honorable peace. The operators do not want peace, and, the President of the greatest republic cannot make them accept his terms. Thus neutral, peace-loving America is not at the mercy of militarism— No, Siree! But she is hide-bound to tihe interests of the gigantic, monopolies that she has permitted to thrive in her midst. To paint the States as a land of peace and plenty is the veriest bunk. There is no more peace for the worker in America today than there is in the trenches of the Allies fighting in Prance. In Colorado they have killed women and children for less cause than the Germans in Belgium (if the latter have been guilty of all that has been said of them). In Colorado it has been a question of dollars and cents, while the (ierm-ans claim that the exigencies of warfare called for harsh methods. Let the reader discover the finely drawn line, we have failed to, ourselves. THE HILLOREST RELIEF FUND Very shortly the people of this town will be -enllod-Aipou-to-eupport-tt-'fund-that-is-beiiTg-inaugU'' rated for the benefit of the dependants of those fighting at the front, and let it be distinctly understood, we hope they will give to that fund every cent they can spare, for the object is to relieve those who are in no way responsible for the war, but are suffering as the result of same. Having in view this fact, we cannot forget that the people of this district recently contributed most liberally to a fund raised to relieve the .widows and orphans of those killed in the Hillcrest disaster. When this money was donated, it was thought that these dependants would be given immediate relief. A letter from the District Officers (printed on front page) will show that the relief so far granted from the fund has been $25 to every dependant resident in Alberta. This sum has been granted by the commission in charge of the fund. The District has also granted each dependant, living outside the Province, who can he reached, $25 from monies they have'collected (all of which has been acknowledged through the columns of the District Ledger). Thc officers of the executive board refused to reeog. lib* any provincial boundary and realize that many of the dependants have been compelled to remove to other provinces and seek assistance from friends iuul relative*. Further, there were a number of dependants in foreign countries or on holiday trip* when the explosion occurred, and if flic commission persist in their attitude towards these unfortunates, they will be denied nil support or cmnpen- sat ion from thia source. This in a state of affairs that should receive im- medlittp attention nnd one that we hope will not lw repeated in the pstriotie fund. We refrain from further iiiiiiuiciit. trusting that Premier Sifton will •>n persuaded to use his good office and ace that the wiilowa ami orpliHiis of Hillcrest twelve the mnuuw niven for their relief. ♦ BEAVER MINES NOTES ♦ ♦' ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦mfr♦♦♦♦ (Continued trom Face Five) Tom Lowery was appointed escre- tary-treasurer for the church at Beaver in the place of N. iMorrison. Tom Lowery was appointed secretary-treasurer for thevillage school district, -Beaver Mines, in place of N. •Morrison, while Dave Muir takes the place of W. O. Sherwood as one of tbe school trustees. Thursday, Octo: ber 8th, is the time fixed hy the board of trustees to sit as a court of revision at tbe school at Beaver .Mines, to consider -statements from property owners who believe they have Ibeen wrongly assessed. (As the school district ha9 only been formed recently and the village school at Beaver Mines opened ln the early part of August, this will be the first tax levied for the support of the new school. Previous to this, property in and around Beaver 'Mines was assessed for school purposes -by the trustees of the "Coalfields school district, of which It* formed a part, and lots In Beaver township were valued, for assessment purposes at their market value, or the price for which' they could be purchased, hence lots which cost $100 were assessed at 30 cents >per lot, equal to a rate of 3,,-mllls. Under the new board lota which are in the market at $100 are assessed at $300, which at a rate of 10 mills equals $3 assessment per lot Now, so far as we are aware, all are agreed that the new school is a great boon to the district, and no one objects to pay ing their fair share of the taxes towards its support, but owners of lots consider they are assessed upon a false valuation, especially as the value of other property has not been5 increased, whilst stores and other business premises are allowed to go scot free, so far as assessment is concerns ed. Louis Angelo, who had his finger crushed in the mine a fortnight ago, returned from Pincher Creek hospital last week end. Dr. Connor found It necessary to amputate part of the finger. *■-..- Frank B. Palmer met with an accident by falling upon a rail in the mine, thereby crushing his arm. At first he treated the matter lightly, liut septic poisoning set in and he was forced to visit Pincher Creek hospital. We are pleased to report that his arm is improving as fast as could be expected. ___ HILLOREST RELIEF FUND Amount previously rewired ('.irlMiridub* l^wal I'oion Coleman Utrn\\ 1'nion |ir,tmut Miin -. Tnioii ,.,., , . m.w . 2*1.110 . 272.40 FERNIE ITENS There has been considerable criticism lately with reference to the payment of theEast Kootenay contingent, and the recruiting officer (Col. Jos. Mackay) has come in for no small portion of same. We are in a position, however, to state most positively that the Colonel is in no *way to blame for the men not receiving their pay, and further that he, personally has paid out of his own pocket a considerable sum in the shape of hotel expenses incurred by the men while concentrating in Fernie. When the men left Pernie Col. Mackay had a proper pay sheet, with al) deducatlou ior board, made ont, and Capt. Deed (in command of the contingent), the paymaster at Valcartier, and the authorities at Ottawa and Victoria were supplied with duplicate copies. So far, as was stated by >Mr. George O'Brien, at the meeting last Friday ln the council chamber, the authorities and Captain Deed have taken no heed of the Colonel's repeated inquiries and applications for deductions, amd as a result he has been compelled to -meet these accounts out of his own pocket. While there is no doubt that the Canadian authorities will come through with the money, considerable dissatisfaction has been expressed in some quarters, and some indiscreet persons have gone so far as to state that Col. (Mackay -is responsible for the delay. For the benefit of those making such statements, we must assert -that this is positively untrue, and so far as was humanly possible the Colonel has done everything in his power to collect. The Captain in charge of the troops .when they left here should haive handed In Immediately to the authorities at Valcartier 'the copy, of the pay sheet with which he was provided and have seen that all accounts were paid to Colonel .Mackay. I hardly know anything iiuiiv Mt range than thai ymi r.'engiiizt' honesty in play, and you do not iu work, Iii your Ugliest' gain-en. you Unvtt always*nmhi* tni«> tn ere what von cell f»ir-i.l«v In box me von hwns ttmnd there to th# bsrrsek* •»f tbi'tn.-tful manner in wliii-li IVwiid-Mit Wilaon bn*\\ must hit fair; in nicin.fr ntnrt tn\\r Yonr watchword * Cn-mi-ni-wMi-mM tin*** bt** Born—To IMr. and Mrs. Alex White, a fine baby boy. "Mother and baby do ing well. The number of attractions offered to the sports of Beaver are very Iim ited so far, and might he said to con' slst of Occasional visits to the saloon or pool room by member of the mas cullne gender, while the .picture show and dance on Saturday evening and ehureh on Sundays art the only forms ot amusement which offer inducements to the gentler sex. But the ladies, bless 'em, put their beads together last week and in future a whist drive and entertainment will be held in the Lyric 'Hall fortnightly, on Wednesday evenings, commencing at 8 o'clock prompt Suitable prizes will be given and refreshments served-at the conclusion of the whist drive. The ladies hsve agreed to provide the dainty morsels for the Inner man, aad In our opinion, some very enjoyable evenings will be -spent. The admission will be: Oents, SOe; ladies, free. The first entertainment will be held on Wednesday; the 23d inst., and the next on October 7th. All are welcome. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ (.ITHIRI0OE NOTES ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ The mines are still on short time, only ranlag three dsys last week, hut the prospects for this week look brighter, ss th#y hav* worked two days this week and working tomorrow (Wedntsdayt. Dominie Comassattl. eager In No. 3 mine, met with a serious Injury to his bead, by beta* caught In the guard, tearing away two fingers, snd he mar possibly lose another. Thursday of laat week the city po* Jive went around the village of Stat- fordvtiie and commandeered all the weaiwim found In Jioumi of d-Wfurnit nationalities. Some of (hem were well supplied, la a faw of (he housas tkey men la paesssston of a revolver, j thotipin sad r|Oa, stso a food quantity or ammunition. The mounted police n« ih# Mme tlm* went around Hard!* ville, so. a, and It was found necessary to bavt a wngQU to< c-mvey tb* wsa- Classified Ads.-Cent a Word POR RBNiT—iTwo furnished rooms. Apply Box 324, or 114 McPherson avenue. 246 A gale of wind struck Fernie on Friday evening, tearing off about twenty feet of cornice from the Crow's Nest Trading Company's store Police Sergeant Hughes was passing at the time and narrowly escaped being struck 'by, the falling imass. .Notwithstanding the bad weather, many volunteers turned out to sign their names for the. new regiment, and Captains Moffatt and Stalker had a husy evening. The committees appointed to arrange for the patriotic fund also met in the council chamber and made definite plans for augmenting what is already in hand. Fifty Hindus have volunteered for active service and have requested) the recruiting officer to forward_thg|r_ani plications to the Minister of Militia iP. B. .Moore, until recently employed as C. P. R. operator at Caith ness, near Elko, was arrested Sunday for the theft of seven blank Dominion Express monoy orders from the C. P. R. station at Waldo, where he was given suiter toy a hrother operator, He came to Fernie, made out one of the orders for $S0, cashing the same at P. -Burns & Co.'s store and departed shortly after by a westbound train. The theft being discovered, immediate steps were taken, resulting In the apprehension ot Moore at Gateway, near the boundary line, and the unused six blanks found upon htm, This man baa borne an excellent character up to the present time O. Welrfby, who has been Acting Chief Provincial Constable here for the passed six months, has been appointed Chief ot Provincial Police for the district of Southeast Kootenay., with headquarters, at Fernie, vice Chief Mlnty. who was transferred to the Haselton district. The work of organuing the Bast Kootenay Infantry Regiment is proceeding rapidly. A very enthusiastic meeting was held at Cranbrook on Sunday, at which Lt. Col. Mackay and Capt Moftett or thia eity attended. At the meeting Judge Thompson and many prominent Cranbrook ctUtens addresaed a large gathering and arrangements were made for (he (onn* lag of two companies at that place. U. V, Tisdaie and U. David were appointed captains ot ths respective companies, Tbe meeting closed with a song by Capt. Davis, "It's a Long Way to Tlpperary," all Joining In the chorus, followed by the national anthem. .Ilia cltlsens of Cranbrook are to be congratulated for the snthue- lastie manner with which they have entered Into this work and their contributions to the new regiment, which will be known ss tbe IMth Rsgimsnt, have been large and numerous, among than being the offer of a site for aa armory. In * vtry central locality, gretl*, by Mr. HydtHBaker. over bkiuWod thc affairs of Mexico siml how he m-nidM hlrxMlshwt r. hnw «*»rii|»i»l«ti'*t he h aHmit American* obscrvinjf neutrality atnl tin- wimloin which h<* ha* «lw|>l«v*i'«'v-i»iitintf lh*- I'lt'lt*! Mui.»* from W. (•utiiinir ••iiilir hi* nt mont to prevent tli« KtnU'% Iwfoiiilriii ini*«l up in the Kurop-ean tlebaelc. The ijiicsjhui thai nr* In *lic oln*cr*M-r *<*' ••<»n- ♦litifoi-* Hcrttss tlw line i** • Whv. if TVenMcrrt Wit- .nil has hi'i'ii vi sii-r^fiil ai imx'iuHl mu J hi- -affair* of hi** country ami avoiding strife with Eum?>c • atmrtt the imtti«friM\\ «lUpute* of hi* country he liaii.llc.1 with like mice*? The tl'ufpule in the V**\\. ftrmto (.ml fiHil* lm* cmtJhK Htate and the Kc«l»n«l tfovrrmN*) nl* tUoiiMiii«I.^^^Ll> Million*, "f ►,*,.- b«»nw in him vH ; ■ and m have the men in Ihe ring around hi in: they Unt» nt* to have th* * preference will judge him tn W the match by font hitting, j of the work, The ayetam la prac- lint your prixc merchant iraina hia mat eh hy foiil»l,e*',y i*1*** *<**• ** *M*h ville a *ellin«r. and nu one «-ri*a mil ngainat that. You ilriw j "■•b**' w disj»«lsfi#d .lihejigh tha ., . ... ... -a i i i. «en who aawUly follow thiselasa ol a Ifamhlcr out of the gamhlmg room who l.m.U die ! wor)t -r# Mif mtienm aa It pirno '..ul yn.- - John Busliin. j vir». U. Slaew. After hsvtng b«en «nrces»fal In the lower house, the Georgia Statu Bw ste has sgnln defeated n bill to .'inhibit child labor In that State. A Mifti *t*»tt*i9m* V* *.9ti.ut-ru «(« fu,|>wK* t* tttL.it t*.Mtii*t>iBu *«• mii, mm- ployed, aad tbey are active lobbytstu against measures i#ndlag to deprive thsss ef their privllegea TM neaaare showed a little more strength this tlm* than formerly, when Stfch 1*«1tdatlon wn* attempted Ttm mill ewaen rallied la force and aaed ih*fr i*tin*Pf> *o tf/tftitf an u-tverae vo*« la the St-utt**. utter the measure had passed thc ilea**. The op*r»Ua*n ara now bw owing natentM*^ bow- meet, aad will option* the smptayawnt ©f rMMrm, m x%*,t jj %tft be !a- i*r*-jat*nlT if'fffen'f for *h*"?cry nn-rcr9 te emtlaa* th# praetlea.—Kis, Sunday; School Teacher—''What do you understand by suffering . for righteousness' sake?" A Little Girl—"Please, mlss/it 'means having;to come to Sunday school."— Tit--Bits. N6TICE Bank of Montreal HOSMER, - B.C. The Bank of Montreal, Hosmer. announce that they will be closing their branch at that point on October 1 st, 1914. Deposits not previously withdrawn will be transferred to Bank of Montreal, Nelson, B. C. August 24th. N. F. Kendall, Mgr. Fire Sale! Goes merrily on and will be continued until goods are all sold. Take advantage of the big reductions. A SPLENDID DISPLAY FOR PAY-DAY Note: The sale and discounts apply only to goods in stock at time ofjire and not to new goods bought since A. W. BLEASDELL'S DRUG STORE FERNIE Grand Union Hotel COLEMAN, Alta. HERE IS A SQUARE DEAL and peaceful security aa wtU. With a policy In our oM Una company, you can go off on your vacation or vleit tbe ends ot tha earth and you know you're secure. The beet In FIRS INSURANCE la alwaya cheapen), aod especially so -when it doesn't coat hither. Dont delay aliout that renewal or about that antra Insurance you want but eome right In at once and hare it attended to. M. A. KASTNER •OLE AOINT FOR FIRNIf n FBRHIK, M, A RIAL tATIIFYINQ IMOKI Is contained In every ona of our clltara. Satisfying In flavor, la aroma. In free burning qualities. In length. Onr cigars are nade with tha bait et long Havana filler tobacco, aad It yon dtd not know their price yon would Judge then to be much mere costly than tbey are. fry a few today, W.A. Ingram, Fernie OUR COFFIi It OOOD ISIS THEATRE Fernie's Leading Picture Theatre mm^mmmmmmmmmmwtmmmmmmmwmmmmmtmmmmmmmwmmmmwmmmm Every Vrlday LUCILLE LOVE, Tli* Girl ei Mjr*tery In this adapter wa have tha aniens alt-nation of Laellle being res- coed by kar partner. There la alao a terrlfWi battle oa board af a amnggMr. between Macule a prelector* ant .saentie*. A very aaetuac Saturday Matinee and Evening S-ititiiii, T-i.itU*,!. At*-***! C i, to*. » >'.i 4,1 »*.'*i, MtdtMb dCWLw* ZsXJHlC Xiv1 MMMMt CKA-XM Three parts. A drama ef crime and psychology of a fanwna •rlentlst, who ts a confirmed kleptomaniac. The sltnstlona are atrlli- laajy orig*n*l an« griMNb and It is eraaeiead Ml of action. tPtCIAI. ^tOMttOAV AND THURtOAV, tKFT. », and OCT. I PROTEA Io. 2, Or Ttt Infuml JUhnMi Fear reela. A grsat many of tm petfoae aaw Protea Xe. I, aad we caa sasare them Uwt tils one Is area morn. tbrilHag. IF ITS At THt Wit IT MUt T ■! OOOD Wetan fee Tno ALU RIO WttXLV. devatad etatas-t—ly ta tw a^k ^flu^^^^ugig ^_^m t_f_\\_m*_t_^__^_^_tA Best of Accommodation We cater to the workingman's trade G.A. CLAIR ;.: froptpetor v t y I ;. THE DISTRIOT LEDGER, FEENIE, B. C, SEPTEMBER 26, 1914 PAGE FIVE :f\\ News of Tlie District Camps tl ♦ COAL CREEK NOTES ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ The state of trade in our sister camp Michel, is causing some of its residents to migrate to other places. Among the arrivals here from that camp we were pleased to welcome Bill Branch and Dan Fowler, old timers, who. arrived here on Saturday. 'Another old timer to this camp ls Ike Hale,, who came here from the •coast. fThe Rugby football benefit match, which had to ba postponed owing to bad weather, is billed to take place on. Thursday, September 24th. The quarterly general meeting of the Coal Creek Literary and Athletic association was held on .Monday evening. Two new board1 members were elected, W. S. Greenhill and Thomae Prance. Satuiv y last was pay-day up here. The train carried the usual crowd to Fernie in the evening. The Italian fraternity of this camp celebrated Garibaldi Day in their usual way. The stork waa seen in Coyote street oh .Tuesday evening, eventually depositing ite burden at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robinson Welsh. Mother and baby doing well. •Mr. and iMrs. John Evans, returned to camp after their vacation, spent on the coast. They report having had a good time. Owing to something unforseen happening to the apparatus, the lantern lecture advertised to take place at the Presbyterian church on Monday evening, had to be abandoned. •Mrs. Townsend is home again' from hospital, where she has been undergoing treatment. She reports feeling much better. •Will local Moose please note that commencing Monday, September 28th, the lodge meetings will be held weekly, commencing at 7:30 p. m„ to enable Coal Creek members to participate in the session. ■> 'Methodist Church, Sunday, Sept. 27th 2:30 p. m., Sunday schoolt and Bible class; 7:30, Gospel service, subject, IS THIS TRUE ? A recent manifesto issued by the Socialist Party of Canada says— "The only Barrier standing* in our way is ignorance in the ranks of our own class'' Working men of Coleman do not let this be said to apply to you. Spend you dollars at the Co-oper- mtiTelStoTer^dthu^ gent understanding of those movements which are for your benefits. Be True to yourselves and Loyal to your Institutions Western Can. Co-Operative TRADINQ 00. LIMITID COLEMAN ALBERTA INVICTUS The Beat Good Shoe If you want the latest atvlen and the most serviceable root- wear—buy THE INVICTUS We sell the fmnouR Paneting Shoepacks Come In em Pee the , FROST KIKO GOAT It le me* from M ovneo All W»el Maeklnaw, apeelally felted fer tne mrpoen. The eeat meaturet full M InehH len§, not ell Uie little earn- forte have Seen otodlod In every detail. Comfortable eellar, eeey etmbotne, tarte. roomy eieevee not In addition, fiae • tee-elite ameitneee Mat will five pteeawre tt the wearer*. TN eetere arei frown not Waakt ttroy nnd Blacks Orale nm monk. Prtoo fl*M eeeb. X*AJ>IS*S GOATS Vpdedbemtmtte etytee te WM -mete fm bemeo, Miaeee nm CbiMren. Ceme and ate them; you'll he deiifHud *dtk the nbewdn§, WS OIVI AWAY A DRISSfft A STAND OM OOTOMft, fri 1t14 *->■*■.» *«# ill \\i T. W. DAVIE8 I Funaral Director and Kmbalmar ■#w^ir«iiu-iiil«».~.iil.ii -*tmii**iis>.amiaaammnatm^ Nsftttstonss Supplied and Sst up OOU1MAN ■"-•«{&~8~»*» ALBERTA "The Love of God," pastor. lYiday evening, 7 o'clock, sharp, choir practice. On September 29th and 30th the Rev. Dr. Wesbman, of Calgary, field secretary of the Methodist Sunday School Union, will give a lecture, illustrated) toy lantern slides, entitled, ''An Educationl Campaign for the Study of Local and World Problems." Lectures to commence at 8 o'clock. The reverend gentleman is a capable lecturer and an educational treat is promised for aU who avail themselves of the opportunity. . ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ BELLEVUE NOTES ♦ •tnm *e*ty m**t* Wetta* mmt 1***0 *t*« "»*;* is »,,:.i W. L OUIMETTE Cotoman - Alberta Herman Varley was the fortunate holder of the ticket bearing the number destined to win a useful article, a rifle, for these (}ull times, wWch was put up for lottery at the Bellevue shooting gallery. "A bully, shot, Harry." °, A party of four enthusiastic sports left here this afternoon, with a sure drenching in store, !n a search of meat. A most enjoyable evening was spent by the whole of the Methodist choir at Mr. and Jlrs. W. Scott's residence. After the inner man had 'been successfully, catered to, games, etc., were Indulged In until a late hour. -Mr. Watts Goodwin proved the most finished sculptor in gum, for which he was awarded a box of chocolates. Jarrett Evans informs us that home- steading is far the pleasantest way of getting an existence which he has found yet. Mr. J, Burke and Mrs. W. H. Chap- pell, Jr., the chairman and secretary- treasurer, respectively, of the Bellevue school board, are making strenuous efforts to keep our school open. They are making a house to house canvass in an endeavor to collect the taxes due Uie school district. We understand their mission was fairly successful, but there are still many delinquents, who have failed up to present We would add our supplications to those ot the school board that all those who still owe taxesk would £onsldeiLi£eJv4iXare-o£-th®-©&Hd ren of thia town. Imagine what a calamity It would be if tbe school had to close and our children deprived of their main eourpe of education. iMr. Reed was holding forth on the parable of the "Prodigal Son" In the Methodist church on*Sunday last, Mrs. R. Cummins presented Bobby with a robust daughter. Mother and child doing fine; father treading tbe air. Mr. Harry Stubbs has Just returned from the old country, and Is on a visit to his brother end sitter'* ranoh here. We understand that he Is an old-timer here, having migrated to Mexico some four years ago. On the outbreak of hostilities he deelded tbere were far pleasanter places. We understand he Intends to return to Mexico shortly. Air, A. Downs, the stable boss*, had. unfortunately, to shoot one of his ehargee last week, owing to the bonee of It* feet becomtng diseased. Frank SplroikJ, wlio had the mis' fortune some fifteen months om to get hia leg brefon tn two places, has not made sny too good progress, and another operation was thought neeee* sary, so Prank haa decided to visit the Mayo Brothers' hospital In Rochester, iMInn. Mr, Tom Phillips has returned from his land seeking around the Arrow Labee. Paddy Bgan haa winded hia war beek to this ellne*. in aeareh of a Job, deorge Noble baa left for paaturea unknown. If oor information Is correct, the cellar which haa been dug out for * boarding bouse between T. M. Bar- netfs storo and tbt Bellevue Hotel, Is to be left In its present auto antll spring. We wooM suggest to tbo owner that on dark nights it Is a sooree of danger to the people of this town and that It should be fenced. Tke depraaelon wbkb bas b-ssn prevalent In the Paao for aomo time bas found Its wax here with a vengeance. Tbat monster of modoro Umno, tbe siren, le continually giving off lu despondent mm**. o« oo ainody be- ■pendant peopb». We have only • oiled two dare sine* tbe sending ot tbe last note* A now rod* of wblattai has been drawn up, which is as follows: One long whisUo—Work tm all the mmmtm ene itppm trom*. .The I. O. 0. F. will organize a lodge In Bellevue .on October lst. After the initiation ceremony a supper will be served .by the ladies of the 'Methodist •church.- Initiation fee, $15. Captain McLean of the Salvation Army, corp of Fernie was in town soliciting aid for their harvest thanksgiving service. Her mission was very successful. Mr. J. Burke, iMr. Clem Stubbs and the Misses Cawthorne were mountain climbing on Sunday last. Born—To .Mr. and Mrs. E. Litherland, a daughter. Mr. Wm. Cole of pool room fame, is runlng a billiard tournament this week, for which will be given two beautiful cases of pipes; a case con- taing. four for the winner and two for second. ♦ COLEMAN NOTES ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+- ■Mrs, Thomas 'Muir, with her son and daughter, arrived back in Coleman, after spending a six months' holiday yith her parents in West Hartlepool, England. On Wednesday night about half past nine o'clock, Joe W. Bateman, a coal miner in the employ of the McGillivray Coal and Coke Company's mine at Coleman, in room ill, met with a severe accident, wihich terminated fatally at 4 o'clock on Thursday morning. Mr. Bateman was 20 years ot age and a native of Thurnscoe, near iRotheram, England. The deceased leaves a widow, but no children. Much sympathy is felt for Mrs. Bateman In her bereavement. IMrs. Jimmy, Muir has left Coleman for a six months' holiday in West Hartlepool, England}. The mines of the International and McGillivray Companies were idle on Friday and* Saturday, the 18th and 19th.' The funeral of our late brother, J. W. iBateraan, took place on Sunday, the 20th, from the "Union Hail of the Carbondale Local. The Coleman band played the Dead March. The remains were followed to the cemetery by a large crowd of sympathetic friends, aad-also—Goleman—Local—2633:—A- number of beautiful wreathes were placed on the casket. The Coleman Football Club provided a beautiful wreath. Rev. Mr. Sblrea of tbe Anglican church preached a very touching sermon at the grave. On Saturday night about a dozen of our foreign-speaking compatriots got mixed up in a mimic war ln the main street of Coleman, with the result that they were taken in tow and toed the line on Monday before the .1. P. and fined for their bit of sport. in for Company E, of the 107th East Kootenay Rifles: George Gregory, Harry Phillips, Thomas Bailey, Lyde Morris, Martin Lyons, J. Barazini, Andrew iMoGovern, Leonard Gregory, Edgar Davis, T. G. Armstrong. The captain appointed is J. S. Gladwin of Corbin. Several more names will be attached to the company list next week. All Austrians and Germans in Michel have to report themselves to the provincial police every week. We regret to report that the boy, Hunger, who met with an accident at Frank Harmer's ranch, died last week. The report that the accident occurred on Frank Swlck's ranch was Incorrect. The Cassandra Lodge of Rebekahs held their social dance in Craban's Hall on Monday night. The music was rendered by .Matt Littler, Frank Newman and Miss D. Newman. The hall was packed. When the clock struck 12 fruit was distributed, and at 1:30 a. m. the Home, Sweet Home waltz brought a most enjoyable evening to a close. Everyone congratulated the Rebekahs upon the aible manner in which the*}' handled their social. At the Local union meeting everyone regretted hearing of the illness of Bro. D. Rees, International Board Member, and all wish him speedy recovery. "Miles and Albert • Esterbrook brought in two fine deer from their hunting trip. Bill Savage has captured a fine, big black bear. Mr. Stonerow, from Pittsburg, came in last week on a hunting trip. Frank Swick took him from 'Michel thirty miles up the Elk River. Mr. W. R. Wilson was down here on Friday, visiting the various mines. ♦ COALHURST NOTES ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦<►<►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Times are looking up in this camp —three days a week instead of two. Quite a number of men bave quit during the last two weeks and their place -were quickly filled 'by men who are constantly watching a chance, every morning on the top. BEAVEf-t MINES NOTES The mines worked two days last week and were idle from 11 p. m. Friday until 11 p. m. Tuesday. IWllism Caufield. William Branch and Dan Fowler pulled their time here end have secured Jobs at Coal Creek. The Local union meeting on Sunday last was certainly a record meeting since the strike. Tbe business was well conducted by Bro. R. Jones, presiding. District President 1* IW. Phillips gave a very able address to the audience concerning No. 1 North mine; also the position of tbo camps throughout the district. Several lm* portent questions were asked, wbleb be ably responded to. It was the opinion of somo of our regular at* lenders tbat If wo eould only get such meetings every Sunday we eould certainly do without Minting any of our grievances before the commissioners, and would most certainly get better results. An employes' meeting followed the Local union meeting, for tbe purpose of making a little alteration In the rules concerning tbe inspection com mittees for the various mines during tbe slack time. We hope to see these grievances responded to by the local reel company, ae tbey will help the people to a very greet extent during tbe alaek time. The following Is a petition sent to the government agent concerning the pollution of tk* rreek. tbe *'*!** ot ubl'b wes filthy for moral daya lii*( meek: tl, K, atoibcr. Ben- Government Anittt. tnmAm. tk. €/. "We. tbe eude-refcrned ettlfeti* td I Michel end Natal, Bl C. hereby i J am -W** ,-m.Ww**- -U uv** mi nii ite mlettn mt other emptoyes. The** wl-nfc***—?!* meet' tor my body. four whittle* Work for Xo I k*ui- tnnt* wm i*pf*» -utrnmn «•*>. ** No whittles—Wet* tor everybody. We would *og«»« to these Inter- eeted to eHp out thle ond piece it in a conspicuous piece, aa la all Mltty It will be found mtml. The K division of the R. N. W. IM. P. have been busy around here lately looking up firearms and making arrests of suspicious looking parties. Fred Seminotto, an outside workers here for the past two years, was found dead in his shack on Friday of last week. The doctor was sent for, but his services were not required. He reported death from natural causes. The undertaker was more in demand, so Fetterly of Lethbridge took charge of the remains and the funeral was held on Sunday, fleralnot. to had a brother working in tbe mines at Coal Creek and a wife and family in his own country, Galicla. Robert Tood and Jamea Wylle quit tbe mine this week and went over to Chinook to try for steadier work. Harry Thomas has moved from the house In Wlgan to a company house more suitable to his taste. Balnbrldge rounded up bis poultry last week and put black rings of Ur around tbelr legs, to save any dispute as to ownership. Bob Lothian, who waa hurt on tbe 19th of August, started work again on Tuesday of this week. John T. Stirling was a visitor to the eamp on Priday of laat week, accompanied by Bam Jones; tbe latter was lo again on Monday and examined tbe mine. John Dingman started to work in the (an houso last woek, ruling tbo vaeancy caused by Howard Hurt being called to defend his couutry against Kaiser Bill. Billy Hopkins, the Coalhurst biitrta- er, Invested In « ne* Ford tour'ng car on Saturday. Billy Clapham placed his order for one of the same make, to be ou tunc for nest pay-«> hurst looking for work m Mondn He *mx* motk I* sleek ail over. One ef our ttorekeepers evldeni intif k big dlffappolnfm-ffit last pa> daj He sweers vengwitir* next tmy-dnj In -b* way of garalsbeei. Th© regular meeting of this Local tf-Hs convened at 3 p. m. on Sunday, the 2oth inst, Bro. Hughes, president, iJi th© chair. After the minutes of last i&eeting Were adopted, the secretary read a letter from District President phiilips, explaining that pressure ot work prevented him from visiting tUis Local. Some discussion ensued, but it was eventually decided that we accept the explanation as satisfactory. •A«» appeal was also read from the Cumberland, B. C„ Local, District 2S, asking for financial aid for the miners a«,.iU>v, woe brteb te tnnnto pfeee* to Tb* cttiteeoeC tMe ptntw ««*• notm* *bM obmnei oo Setoriar to tm »b# meowfow poffeo of toft pttee barry to Vototem tn nepewo* to « ntfier onin •i+'i'iitsvit mmmm. tfcit. * mbkkmt*l W ft. Sllaun. mrblnlM at tb* mift*-*. i*ix -..**tt* tttt *%*t*ty tro Vmmt' 4»r nlgbt. m# all vltli Mm pre*tmr. fftr mf0t*r#r fc# f»**, mm Aiaca McOavffm !* n v tailor do* n tore for * ton Any*, fk* mw TttttrndAom mm* le m*k* "'ir ruT tirutca uut LiUm-m* few* I**.-;*»«.*# t**M aMM** ln»*t* mmpimmm It .p-etoi NtMiS iwo tboaJTWy hat* tie roof' eeww*l tbl* wmik. mem atooc Wt «or >r bow tbe noot too** will ao« «• wftboot u»«- leeiito. ttnll* n lot ->»' i«wol boitK ■elors bad prawla*! * •!..'«. to i»i*j • but eogflfettwRa »(fbt '* offee*! a* ti twttlne- m.irrft«»f Hraoebo mily gat M* mtA** m Monday. BUI} *».*) k# -tint m-.td li aaacfc, omly kit- *"*<***$.*"■« **♦ «atthln* tl* exhtbitkt-u Tb*r» in o rnmor *d ** -*•* t»vh-*tl mueb and mmwr tt* i*** h»!«t ■>*.*> •eoftty to WIM np tbt- tf-xmn, bnt «be nWtWwut tt IWr# war n««jr* -w«*-ir- tb* nana! pay-day attrmlab. Tie* folloirJnf iwmi ban* bwi *oorn ^-tttemi. r Just to hand 200 cases of PRESERVING FRUIT •f Intra Ch*to« Quality i'jiluin from* \\wt Ini* ivf.Ill IW'Iuh. jv-r lm* *! }tt l»t*r* pr »m *tl.M, ViMnz Aftik.* |iw l**x $i:A> Vhok* Eitins Ap|>It** |*r Ui% $IM DRY GOODS Ifc'fiirtf Iniying a Ktr-Mite-r I 'mt p*"** mir f«t*f* «»f Mn»>. I^'Kca'and CtbilaltvnVall um,t Mmutnli Knit. 1'riw* t« *nit nil jnn*e». •hut to IihihI n iln|»inint t*i >J«nlHl«U |mrt- Wi,o11*r,il#.H«*\\ir rn Mxts .uul Juwv»K „.,.! ituimt MttitM. Aim a liill mttfst* «»t I^ilten ami ChiMrtV* VmUftomtr We pay S p.c. discount in cash on all purchatt* Mon«y i 4 s •* ••■Wl* Tha %tora mat SAVtS You r?f*'Af"^ PAGE SIX THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FEENIE, B. C, SEPTEMBER 26, 1914 Local Union Directory, Distf 18,U.M.W.A \\*$>?u)mm*,!::)fimiw,m^ ■t. GLADSTONE LOCAL No. 2314 Meet first and third Fridajs, Mirers' Hall, Fernie; seoonrt and fourth Fridays, Club HaU, Coal C;eek. Sick Benefit attached.—T. Uphill, Sec. Fernie. B. C. MICHEL LOCAL No. 2334 Meet every Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Crahan's Hall. Sick Benefit Society attached.— H. Elmer, Sec. COLEMAN LOCAL No, 2633 Meet every alternate Sunday at 2,30 p.m. In the Opera House, Colftman.—S. Johnstone, Sec. PASSBURG LOCAL No. 2352 Meet every second and fourth Sunday of each month at 2 p.m. In Slovak Hall. Sick Benefit Society attached.—Thos. G. Harries, Sec, Passhurg, Alta. PARK LOCAL No. 1387 Meet every Sunday. Sick and Accident Benefit Society attached.—Michael Warren, Sec, Can- noru. AHa. HILLCREST LOCAL No. 198 Meet second and fourth Sunday in month. Sick and Benefit Society attached.—Tlios. Thompson. CARBONDALE LOCAL No. 2227 Meet evory alternate Sunday at 2.SO p.m. in the Opera House, Coleman.—J. Mitchell, Sec, Box 105, Coleman. 1 BANKHEAD LOCAL No. 29 Meet every Tuesday evening.at 7 o'clock in the Bankhead Hall. Sick and Accident Benefit Fund attached.—Frank Wheatley, Fin. Sec, Bankhead, Alta. COALHURST LOCAL No. 1189 Meet every Friday evening at 7.30 in Miners' Hall. Sick and Accident Benefit Society attached.—Frank Barrlngham, Sec, Box 112, Coalhurst 1\\ 0. BEAVER CREEK LOCAL No. 481 Meet every first and third Sunday at Lyric Hall, 3 p.m.—John Loughran, Sec BURMIS LOCAL No. 949 Meet every second and fourth Sunday of each month at 10 a.m. In School House, Burrnis. No Sick Society.—Thos.~G. Harries, Sec, Tassburg, Alta. Report on Coal Dust Explosion Test By George S. Rice and L, M. Jones MAPLE LEAF LOCAL No. 2829 Meet every first and third Sunday of each month at 10 a.m. In Union Hall. Maple Leaf. No Sick Society.—Tims. G. Harries, Sec. Passburg, Altn. LETHBRIDGE LOCAL No. 574 Meet every Wednesday evening at 7.30 In Miners' Hall. 12th Avenue Norlh.-1-L. iloore. Sec.-Treas. BELLEVUE LOCAL No. 431 Meet every Sunday at 2.30 p.m. in the Socialist Hail. —James Burke, Sec, Box 36, Bellevue, Alta. CORBIN LOCAL No. 2877 Meet every second Sunday at 2 o'clock in the Club Hall. Sick Benefit Society attached.—Geo. Elms, Sec, Corbin, B. C. GEORGETOWN LOCAL No. 3026 Meet every Sunday afternoon, 2.30, at Boarding House. Sick and Accident Fund attached.— Max Hutter, Sec. FRANK LOCAL No. 1263 ■Meet Sundays, after each pay day, at Miners Hall. Sick and •Benefit Society attached.—B Morgan, Secretary. 'OTttt/SttftttrMft^^ Ejgjijijiiygfijll^^ Cash Meat Market ALWAYS THE BEST QUALITY AT THE LOWEST PRICES We breed and feed our own cattle. Now is the time to get some nice young veal. Pork sausages, bologna, we I ners, pork sausages, liver sausages, creamery butter, fresh eggs, fresh fish, tripe, hams, bacon, always on hand. A RIAL SOLICITED. Opposite the Post Office Phone 52, H. Northwood Mgr. A few weeks' rest from Business at Glacier Park or the Coast will give you a new l9*se of life, or to those whose ilme ls llm* ited, take quickest route east or west, vU the Oro.it Northern Railway Co. 23 Hours Fernie to Seattle 26 Hours to Victoria 29 Hours to Vancouver Direct connections at Rexford for East & West I You will enjoy all the comfort ot most modem railroad equipment Courteous tnd efficient employes will mtke your trip pleasant Before purchasing steamship tickets, 1st us talk It ever. Fer further Information apply te 4. A. MANN, AQINT P.O. Bex 4*1 FERNIE. B.C. Phone tie, UI KING'S HOTEL Bet stifled with the twst Wines, Uk|uoi* end liners OtN'l!*a ROOM IN i'OS'NKlTlfIN Test No. 120 was made al the Bruceton Experimental mine in the presence of many members of the Mine Inspectors' Institute of America, June 11, last, from various parts of the United States and Canadafas well as some operators and miners. The purposes of the experiment were several. The most important was to determine the efficiency of various forms of rock dust barriers in stopping the propagation of a dust explo- { sion; another feature of great in- j terest to many of the members, was the employment of a strong ventilating current .prior to and at the time the explosiop was started. .The main entry was the intake and the air- course the return. Thc loading of coal dust in the two entries was made as nearly alike as possible; and since the igniting shot was fired in an offset at the middle of the inmost breakthrough, the conditions in t the two entries were identical, except for the air current intaking on one and returning on the other entry. Igniting Shot The explosion was caused by a blow-out shot of four pounds of FFP black powder, tamped with three pounds of clay stemming, discharged from a cannon at the face of a1 twenty- foot offset, on the north side of the 1,250 cut-through, equidistant from entry and aircourse. Dust Loading The offset and 1,250 cut-through were loaded with pure coal dust; that is, coal dust not mixed with other dust. The distance from the cannon through the cut-through to the centre of either entry was about fifty feet. From' the opposite the 1,250 cut- through, the entry and aircourse were each loaded on sides and cross shelves with a mixture of 60 per cent coal dust and 40 per cent shale dust at a rate of 3 1-3 pounds per foot. Tlie amount of coal dust per foot of entry was two pounds, which is equivalent' to about one-half ounce per cubic foot of entry space. This loading extended for 550 feet out by the cut- through. The mixture had an ash percentage of about 38 to 40 per cent. Gonc8Htr*ated=H©ck=*=D4Jst=Sarr-ief At the snd of this zone on the entry there was Installed a (Rice) concentrated barrier loaded with two and one-half tons of rock dust. Th-d principal feature of the -barrier are as follows: It has two-hinged platform, seven feet by seven feet by one foot, near tlie roof of the entry. The floor plank of the platforms are not attached to the side boards, which are fastened to timber cross-bars, but at one end to the cross bar of a timber set between Uie platforms. The other ends of the planks of each platform aro supported by an angle iron, which in turn, ls held up -by one of a system of levers. There are vanes hung from the roof 100 feet distant, inby and putby the barrier, so arranged that when an explosion wave causes one to swing, the movement ls reversed by pulley and chain and a pull transmitted by wire to a trigger which trips a system of levers, causing tho "dropping of the angle irons supporting one end of each platform. Alternate planks then fall about nine or eighteen Inches, depending on tbe length of chains fastened to them and an overhead tlmbe|or to the roof, the side frame of each platform, how* ever, being still held up iu position. On release, the dust, whlrh hsd been placed on the platforms, falls from the planks In a shower In the entry, blanketing the flame of the explosion when lt reaches the barrier. should th* advance veil* operating arrangement fall, another vane near the barrier, by means of a hinged bumping block attached to It, poshes the trigger, causing the operation of the barrier. ■en Reek Oust Barriers At the end of the mixed dust tone on the aircourse were Installed a set cullies in the possibilities or success for tbe union coopers. The ladies of the Women's Trade '^ ^ "immi'b^ Wrrier^ "spaced ten feet renter, each containing ejbout Union League and Union l^bel League and the Label Section of the #00 to 700 pounds of crushed shale Chicago Federation of Lnbor and the «,„. Th«* resting on hooks, projecting from tbe roof. Whets tb* e&ptoefoa wave labor ee» neither Indite* ner oeenonA* t^^t-hr.* ****-, ■**■*•* t» ■»««««•» itm tn-m-.* 200-feet zones of pure or unmixed coal dust to furnish fuel, for continued propagation, should it get through the stopping devices; in other words,1 to determine if the latter were efficient At the end of these coal dust zones were placed Taffanel barriers to •check the explosion should the coal doist become ignited. First Right Butt Across the mouth of this entry was built a rock dust stopping which consisted of board sides with a compart ment between them, fifteen inches wide, filled with two and one-half tons of shale dust. The sides were braced just sufficiently ,t6 withstand the pressure of the filling, but not enough to give much additional strength. Coal dust was placed for 100 feet in by the stopping to test, its efficiency. First and Second Left Butts In these entries, fifteen feet in from the air course, were built rock dust protected ventilating doors. These boards had compartments- at each side and above them' containing rock dust. The door frame held the boards of the compartments in place. When an explosion wave struck,the door, the frame not being strongly braced would tend to become displaced and' the rock dust * would be launched into the entry. .The door in No. 2 butt opened outward, while that one in No. 1 opened inward: Unmixed coal dust ■ was distributed in both butts to determine the efficiency of the stopping device.' To obtain symmetrical conditions iu the air- course and entry, no door or curtain was placed across the aircourse between the butts. Ventilation An air current with a velocity of about 800 feet per minute was intaking on the3 main entry and returning on the aircourse. It was was through that the syimrnterlcal loading on entry and aircourse would permit a good comparison of the effect of the high velocity, air current travelipg with and against the explosion. This velocity gave a volume of 46,000 cubic feet per minute. Humidity The mine was very wet throughout. The bottom was muddy in places, while the packed clay floor through- j}»t-wns-sliD'ht!*B-stick-v-r—--SEhe-roQMjsd- beeds of moisture on it. Instruments ' Recording, pressure manometers were placed in stations E11150, 750, 550, A-1150, 750 and 550. Flame circuit breakers were placed at all stations in mixed dust zone and others at intervals outby. Wire* were connected to the stopping devices, terminating the mixed dust, to determine the relation between the time of their operation and the passage of the flame. Matches and guncotton tufts were installed every -twenty-five feet throughout the mine. * - Results of Explosion When the Igniting shot was fired by the pressing of a button lu the observatory, slight puffs of dust were noticed at the main entry and air- course, accompanied by a very muffled report. Shortly afterword more dust came from entrances, particularly the aircourse entrance, and Issued for some moments, -Externally the explosion was very mild. When the ventilating current waa turned on after a cloud of rock dust had been expelled, the Afterdamp accompanied by an extensive cloud of black smoke attested to a considerable explosion In the Interior of the mine. Extant of the Explosion The flame of the explosion extended In the main entry and In the air- course to the respective rock dust barriers, which were placed at points 550 feet from the outside of the mine or 7IW feirt from the origin. !n etxtdi case, The barriers in both cases operated and flame wae not eommunt* cated to the pure coal dust tones beyond or outby the barriers. The ventilating door In the second butt wae evidently thrown down by the shock wave from tbe canno at In* dlcnted by the elapsed time aa recorded on the chronograph. When the flame reached it, about four seconds later, there bad been sufficient time to permit the rock dust to ■Mtl*. •o that tht flame pane* over head and Ignited the coal dust beyond, with th* remit that then waa quit* t strong Inflammation at the head of tb* butt entries, sufficient to break tbe track and throw down shelving. Thii Indicated that the door frame bad not beea put ap anffMiently .t*ti***r alt*!** *** tttt* nttinae Oft***1lM1 shelves depends upon the air current. In a weak explosion, the amount blown off might be too small to effectively quench the flame.—Coke and Coal Operator and Fuel Magazine. PAPER BAG COOKING hap.s also due to the very .wet condition of the mine. The maximum pressures at, E-1150 was 2.4 pounds, at E-750 5 pounds and at. -E-550 0 pounds. The pressure at JE-7,50 and 550 show the effect of the concentrated barrier in extinguishing the flame. In the aircoursp the pressure at A-1150 was 1.4 pounds and at A-750 J pound. This latter pressure in view of the considerable development of force at the head of the butt entries is rather surprising- and indicates the ventilating door 'barriers in the butt entries if they did not stop the explosion on entering, did so on the return wave. At a 550 outby the box Ibarrier the was zero. Velocity of Explosion The velocity of the explosion was very shlow; one of the slowest that has been recorded. It required 3.2 seconds to traverse a distance from the origin to the station at E-1150 in the entry, a distance of 150 feet and 2.9 seconds to station A-1150 feet in the aircourse, also 150 feet from the origin. The explosion required1 6.5 seconds to reach station 750 in the entry: and 5.1 seconds to reach the corresponding station in the air- course. The average velocity of flame between stations on the return air- course, 182 feet per second, -was greater than the average of flame between stations on the intake entry, 131 feet per second. " • Effect of Ventilating Current It would not appear frcrn the pressure and velocity records that the high velocity of the air current ha4- much influence on the development of the explosion. About the only, variation in the development of the explosion in the two entries was that the velocity of flame on the return side was somewhat greater than that on the intake side. While this may have been an effect of the ventilating conditions, it was probably more a matter of air current, since the explosion was such a slow one. , Concentrated Barrier As the explosion was very light, the concentrated barrier in the entry was not broken up or injured. The shelves had dropped until the supporting chains were taut and about a fhir-rl nf tha iliiRt. hnd fallen frrim. Mrs. Christine Frederick, whose I ook on practical housekeeping is a recognized standard work, is an earnest advocate of the new method of paper hag cooking. This is what she says: ; "Aibout two years ago we -heard a great deal of the wonders of paper bag cooking. Some of us believed!, but, unfortunately, all of us did- too much talking and overrating at the first. Instead of welcoming paper bag cooking asi another method of cooking for certain things, we .were told that it would cook anything from soup to nuts—which, of ■course, was a gross overstatement "And just -because of this overstating, many of us refused to see any good in the 'idea, and refusod to accept it at all. But paper bag cookery is a success, as I said, for certain food, and particularly In summer, should offer the housewife an easier method of preparation—not the housewife with a large coal range, hut the housewife with a gas stove, -with an oil stove and small portable oven 'who wishes to economize fuel and dishwashing. "It was ridiculous to assert that all meats, fruits and vegetables could be secured in a paper bag and removed, presto! in perfect condition. Those foods that cook best are the smaller pieces of meat, like, kidneys, pork chops, tenderlion and fish, which is undoubtedly the one food which the paper bag does to perfection. Also vegetables, like sliced carrot, peas, string Ibeans and cauliflower all cook well. Chicken, veal and sweetbreads are meats which the paper bags renders succulant and declicious and luce- retaining. But, naturally,. one must use common sense and realize that ham, large roasts, chuck, etc., require too long a time to cook to be successful. "Tho paper bag forces any, food to retain all it§ juices and salts, But Its one point most worthy of consideration by tlie housewife is that it saves pan washing. Think of the unpleasantness of washing a pan after a baked fish! And then you may wish to try a paper bag for a change. "There are now on the market cooking 'baskets of various sizes which hold tlie bag while cooking and which Told in a Simple Way No Apparatus, Inhalers, Salves, Lotions, Harmful Drugs, Smoke or Electricity HEALS DAY AND NIGHT It is the new. way. It is something absolutely different. No lotions,, sprays or sicklyi smelling salvesi . or creams. No atomizer, ,or any apparatus of any kind. Nothing to smoke or inhale. No steaming or rubbing or injections. -No electricity or vibration or massage; no plaster; no keep- . M ing in the house. Nothin', that Irfth-U kind at all. Something new and different, something delightful and healthful. You do not have to wait-, and linger and pay out a lot of money. You can stop it over night—and 1 will gladly tell you how—FREE.. I am not a doctor, and this is- not a so- called doctor's prescription.—-but I am cured and my friends are cured, and you can be cured. Your sufferings will stop at once like magic. I Am Free - You can be Free them, the remainder 'being still retained on the planks. The 'barrier operated 5.44 seconds after the shot was fired, while the flame reached it aibout seven Becond after the shot; the rock dust that sifted down apparently made a sufficient dust curtain to extinguish the -flame. Box Barrier The box frames were found lying on the floor of entry, only one being damaged to any extent. The bottom boards were all suspended from the chains and only one had been broken. All of the dust had fallen from the boards which wore supported in a tilting position. The boxes operated at 4.9 seconds, while the flame reached the boxes about period 5.5 The rock'duat showed good distribution along the air course. Rock Oust Stopping The, records Indicated that thia stopping had been blown down at least partically toy the shock wave from the Igniting about at a period 0.473 after the shot The stopping was probably built unnecessarily light. It had operated effectively since flame did not penetrate inby the stopping. Rock Dust Protected Ventilating Doer* The door In No. 2 butt had been thrown down by tbe shock wave at period 0.429, while flame reached this point It is estimated after a period of about four seconds. The dust com* pertinent of No, 1 left door feel, ao* cording to th« time of rupture of the wires, after a period of 4.0 seconds, tbe flame reselling thle point possibly a little before, It Is probable that tb* flame passed into No, 2 butt over tbe dust pile which had fallen possibly enough in advance so tbat much of the duet in tb* air bad lettled. The flame may or may not hit* paoaed through No. I butt barrier, The woodwork of both doom had been broken to fragments by tb* re- torn wav* tnm tb* butle and tb* fragments thrown out to the air- course and both outby end a abort distance Inby on it. ■Tlie tailors of No. 1 butt lo ua* doubtedly du* to tb* from* being braced too lightly. It should not bav* gone out witt th* chock wav*. Also it n-««M It* ttmtt.* -M bttaitt***** t*t tt**. My catarrh was filthy and- loathsome, it made me 111. It dulled mv mind, it undermined my health and was weakening my will. The hawking- coughing, spitting made me obnoxious to all, and my foul breath and disgusting habits made even' mv loved ones avoid me secretly. My delight in life wns dulled and my faculties impaired. I know that in time it would bring me to an untimely grave, because overy moment of the-day and night it was slowly yet surely sapping my vitality. But' I found n cure a .id I am ready to tell you about it FRHR. Write nie promptly. RISK JUST 1 CENT Send no money. 'Just your name and address on a postal card. Say, "Dear Sam Kalis: Please tell me how you cured your catarrh, and how I can cure mine." That's all you need to say. 1 will understand, and I will write to you with complete information. FREE, at once. Do not delay. Send postal c;ard or write me a letter today. Don't think of turning this page until you have asked for this1 wonderful treatment, that can do for you what lt has done for me. are removed directly to the table from 1 _ SAM KATZ, Room A2754^ ____ the"oven. "This does away with muchH"« Mutual St., ' Toronto, Ont. of the former unpleasantness of taking the food from the bag to another plater. Then be sure that you gebthe right kind of food you wish to cook. "Then be sure the food is put In properly; that the bag Is well greased and fastened tlghtlly before you leave It to Its somewhat perilous journey In the oven. Just like any other labor- -saver, the paper bag needs Intelligent handling to he a success, but a success It Is ami can be for certain cooking, and in hot weather when every extra dish means extra perspiratlpn it would pay the woman who does her own work to sensibly and sanely study pa^er bag cookery and use what she can of lt ln her summer housekeeping."—N. V. Call. Smilom quickly run** crush!, cure* colds, -and heal* the thtbtt a-..' !■!•'*. C3 cent* V*\\loat Workere—Brothei*. fltsier* and Friends: Tb* Coopers' Union of Chicago ha* tried many avennee to reach tbe heart .»•■», r*niit*tmr,i n-i-%*«■><* Wtttm-Hm* tfnttt* i toy id Chicago*, bat without tort*** Briefly stated, oor complaint la tbls; Tb* Coonero' Union eaoallsed Ita aege •cal* aad It was agr*id to by all bet one firm, and as a eonseauene* organ- feed labor tmoeoomt la having all of should have been thrown down until ranched by the mala explontoo. Thl* wss Ue ess* wiib the ftnt left butt ventilating door, probably b*o*o*e **»■** «***■*.** tr**rxpiwttxA 1**ni***W T"hii tlttTlPI1 surrraadlag this first left IMl *»r was throwm dowa appareatly by th* mala *xp»o*k» si though Jt Is not per* feetly clear trom tb* tlsse records whether ll but not bav* been thrown down by the exploeloa wbleb any of its customers to oppose Its't-e nwter tn »b« dlwwHw-t tke eaplo-^td lh« ro*b deet titwltm, tb* frame hmrde trtm lb* toof bt ehetee «* tn i»iH>. kee*-* to ascertain whether j^on wnro ts traveling until the tbt* Is a feet, we urge you to appoint fai*, of ibe box mocks two banglM a domailtt*. ynlenbl, ot ladle*, j ban off tbo books, whereupon tb* and Interview your grocers with ajfrsiD* (alia, gfontag about tbe tap- m» *ta,. >-t *%■> bow far they indorse tb* stand of tb**fe«w, t0 «b!eb tbe other two «y« bare Clim* Baking Powder Compaay et\\ne Mill attache* Tbe bottom board* Chicago. Weaee write tbem a 1tm\\m not fall wilh th* bog frame, but lines, urging tbem to oa« union med* inp m fcv imdm. wbea tber sre tettntn. i caught by awpertfag < bains. More fraternally, or ]#•* of tba Asst oa thee* thrive* Its cli|• tonumnrn withdraw their pat ]TKAM33 t'NION LAUKL MUUL'K, j either fait* *« they «»lag or Is, around frons tb* second butt. In roast*, and the fim. »o doubt, would If" «. How, Hmetary. *** W. Ws*h.«Wf»ini «ff by the eipkwloti wnr* J *Mktr rase, tbere wes apparent!* «* huxe ylelditd, but th# <*ii»isw**t Bik-j Ingtott «»., Chtasgo. !li I With a Hgbt ymnmlmn %i,\\*t («*>• j ftdMK roc* dust launched tot* *** Ing Powder Compear. **** *•**»! P, S.—We ar* Informed tbat tbettMeraM* dwt amy remain on the fair to oaeneh tba strong exploatoo tales tbe poeitJo* that an *tnpto)*T Calewet nuking Foader Company l*i*b*imo. able* la* mewiw td tM«c-1 ccnaiag oat of tb* batts. finding out ctrcniars tajf&g tb«,uaa agaitMt a fatlewifta vipknaimlPtomm ■Ptoenmt bf * nbnre trouble in aettted*. Tkte t* aot; w»w I Tb* piwswars* ae rseorde4 bf tba unto lbs dbattnat* rongmrir firm *!*>'"" They alw re«a*tt yan to aanty C*al Owet L—iai •eywwd Atrrlert \\ttHhtmt tmwmnlern tbowed tbat tl* *d Un patronage, thus putllaf new l.fe j to F. O. Hop? for reference. This it] Outby both the eoaceafrattd ber-jeifloelen wm a very light one, partljr Sn»o the wncew and severe **ffft- fhe answer rf#t and tte hot barrfert wm- placed'due to the dutt being mixed, att-f pac has a right u> i-*tt*a**r. r*vtM4 gfv« m to tb* tfttle na h* aad tha ease of the boa barriers tn order to retain somi or tha duat for d*lay*d flass*, Taffanel terriers in vi» nm* *%*ir n* it** rirttt-nttt barrier waa thrown down by tb* ea- ptoeloa. All rtelvea of th* fflaffhoel terrier In air cours* were still up and ■till en tha shelve*. Owing to KM coneentraWd barrier nad bos barrier baring etoppd tha flam*, tha Tbf* fanal barrien were aot brought Into action. Ceneluslan* The results ire vnloabl* it showing Vm ettottitopnm et the eoaeeairstwf barrier end th« hoi harrier in a wank nspifleiott* Tattr nastwaa of operation permits a surer and aware tttcetiv* •eatteriag of dual tbm doaa the open ibelf type of birrier to wbleb tbe Who is Your Printer? DO you ever consider the importance of oo the use of stationery that is in harmony with the nature of your business? In many cases your letterhead is considered as an index of your business character, hence the necessity of a good printer. 00 If you want really high class prtnting-the kind we always produce-try us with ;$iir .next order I*f District Ledger HQUAUTY*PMNftitte Phone 48a :•: Pernie, B.C. i '£: THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. C, SEPTEMBER 26, 1914 PAGE SEVEN Beware of Imitations Sold on the Merits of Minard s Liniment Hotel Wre always welcome here T = Clean Rooms, Best of Food and every attention THOS. DUNCAN Passburg COLEMAN Liquor Co. \\ Wholesale Dealers in Wines Liquors Cigars Mail Orders receive prompt attention Fernle-Fort Steele. Brewing Go., Ltd. *» ^___ Beer and Porter Bottled Goods a Specialty Central Hotel Large Airy Rooms & Good Board Ross Brothers ?™B. THE FERNIE LUMBER CO. A. McDougall, Mgi Manufacturers of and Deal- ers in all kinds of Rough and Dressed Lumber Send us your orders Full supply of following for an appetizing meal to choose from. Beef, Pork, Mutton Poultry, Butter and Eggs Try our Cambridge Sausages for tomorrow's break' faat, s- C»I.L OR PHONE Calgary Cattle Go. Phone 68 Wood Strsst FERNIE, B, C. ■i. P. Carosella Wholesale Liquor Dealer Dt-y Goods, Grocorles, Boots and Shoes, Gents* Furnishings etmammsBmBimimwmmm^^m^m^m. baker Avenue BRANCH AT HOSMER, B.C. Escaping The War Clouds Py Harry VA Laidler Harry W. Laidler, Ph.D., organizing secretary of the Intercol'.e-gUue Socialist Society and author of "Boycotts an.l the Labor Struggle," has just returned to this city, after spending an eventful summer in Europe. He has written the following short sketch foi the Sunday Call, giving a lirief account of the efforts of the European Socialists to prevent the catastrophe and the turmoil which resulted when tourists tried to cash their checks and get out of the war zone: . The rapidity with which tha war clouds gathered was a cause of astonishment even to those who felt that they had their fingers on the pulsa of international politics. To the ordinary traveler it was indeed amazing. When, after spending a month ln Great Britain, I visited Holland on July 25th, the ultimatum to Servia had just been Issued, Holland mildly discussed possibilities, The proprietors of a well-known Amsterdam hotel confided that he was thankful that he lived In Holland, for no matter what befell, Holland 'would never be dragged into a war. And when, on (Monday afternoon, a day before Austria declared war, I arrived at the quiet city of The Hague and visited the Palace of Peace, with its beautiful marble columns, its exquisite mural paintings, its stained glass windows telling of peace and brotherhood, donated by various civilized nations of the globe, it was indeed difficult to give credence to the rumors of war which began to be heard on all sides. On Tuesday I left for Antwerp and Ghent, and it was jvhile eating dinner near the Gare du Midi in the latter city that the cry "La guerre est declaree" was heard on all sides. A half hour after the extras told the story of the declaration of war Ibetween Austria and Servia.thousand of genarmes composing the 'Belgium regiments were seen pouring into the streets and on toward the armories. The next day I left for Brussels to attend the great anti-war demonstration at the Royal Circle, the largest of the theatres in ..that city, under the auspices of the International Socialist _Riirgfln,__.ShnriJy—after-7_nMnflk_5,, made the journey a terrible one. The passengers on one of the succeeding cars reported that they weTe shot at by French soldiers, wlio( suspected, a spy being on -hoard." •By dint of the merest luck I man- aged to obtain a good passage to fMon- BADLY WOUNDED For severe wounds, cuts, skin diseases, eczema and all skin troubles—for adults or for children, there is nothing to equal the great herbal healer Directory of Fraternal Societies A .f*8MSS^a^**-'•'. ■X, V. Call. Sure—why not. The World knows why not. The crowd at Washington are still afraid of the word "social- Ism," especially when it is hissed vindictively by Big Business—the same Big Biz that lt voted a billion dollars with which to "steady the market," that Is now loudly clamoring that dear old Uncle Sam Insure cargoes of wfleat, flour, meat and other products that are to be transported to Europe, and that ls always and everlastingly hollering for haijdouts of one kind or, another from the government. These plutocratic rascals, and their myrulds of llttlo pimps, never hesitate to sneer arid ridicule "socialism" when some common sense proposition Is suggested to relieve the distress of the people upon whom thoy parasite. , They and tliolr Hk are an Inhuman, barbarous, greedy and envious class of traitors, who deserve no better fate than to he .marooned on back- woods fnrnis nnd he compelled io hoc potators, husk corn nnd tnught to earn an honest living for the first uui*..• In their lives. J Out of all this imitation will conu*. | we hope,nnd bellovo, an era of toi-1 eriincc and sanity fn which all views advanced to remdy social conditions! will bo fairly examined by the Amcr- J Icnn people, who are beginning to ap. I preclute tho fact that they have been j swindled out of their heritage by a system that iI*.»k|>oI!.<.1 the mnssen for the honeflt of tho few.—-Uloveland Clt-' Izen. ; ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS Meet at Alello's Hull second and third Mondays in each month. John Si. Woods, Secretary. Fernie, Box 657. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Meet every Tuesday at 7.30 p.m. in their own Hall, Victoria Avenue. C. C, T. Ratcllffe. K. of S., D. J. Black. M. of F„ Jas. Madison. LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE Meets every Monday at 7:30 p. m., in K. of P. Hall. Dictator, F. H. Newnham. Secretary, G. Moses. 140 Howland Ave. LOYAL TRUE BLUE ASSOCIATION Lady Terrace Lodge, No. 2^4, meets in the K. P. Hall -*>■ (ond ami fourth Friday of each month at S p. m. iMHS. J. BROOKS, W. M. VS. OUR, Secretary. LOYAL ORANGEMEN Terrace Lodge 1713. Meet at the K. P, Hall first and third Friday evening ot each month at 7:30. Visiting brethren cordially invited. R. CRIOHTON, W. *M. J. SKILLING, Rec. Sec. W'-MMJ-ftfritttfoTwtftXt^^ A. Macnell S. Banwell MACNEIL & BANWELL Bar«sieret-So!icii©rs,—N©tSf5esr-Ete- Offices: Ground Floor, Bank of Hamilton Building Fernie,, B. C. ** C. Lswe Alex. !. Flshar LAWE dt FISHER ATTORNEYS Fernie, B. C 7 SHOOTING SEASON Commenced Sept. 1 Call and see us before setting out for your fall hunting trip It costs more to keep the workers In j subjection to their maulers than It • would. If tlmy wtttn he**, to k-vep them j In evttry comfort, ! PRACTICAL WAV TO THE TRUST*" •BUST iittiits .V lUHh utm: o*vl tt-ttt *,.*..,l,i „ ,. Hindu what was iiid.kui> rcgardfd li> , the poatar* tbat bt* ?i* *n absmrd or unique suggestion, vl*.i that, Itmtwidj of wasting million!* of dollars lu the KIUIIMII UtlVenlUrK Ml HMllg tu im»i trusts thnt won't b* busted, thej t'nltert flfaie* govcriitncul utotk the) lands In the west which I' still po**: senses witb breeding <,i.t!<», employ j membera of the r»'«ul;i. »rmy who) '>••<•• 'illltvs, away ttt* fr ";■ • ,f vnrM-i* ' forts nt the useful iwcuimtlon of) *'..»! i lil UK this Ut.l.U, u* **w..ilo». -. | and storage plant* itt ronvenlent j points snd b!vc th«- •,<■<■! tr-ntt th**: anvne dose of medlflr,-" tlint irif\\ bunded to th« exprm*« '» i*« | Of coitrst,', tli tt ( ii's i,i:)»iiiun H.i*'j uvi-tli a ."•ucUlUv'.i «».»*-*...' u.**; ..!. *k , eel-red "no con»ld«r«tion at th#» fcaad*j of our eminently pmi'M-<«i and ffmirt ROYAL HOTEL nCRMIV Bar Unexcelled 1! Everything Up-to-date Gat) in and see us once mn P0DS1EUNCIK. Prtp. We have the largest As- sortment of Rifles, Shot, jtuu *, /tituiiuiuuon tt camp- i.ii, --tiiititi.it iu iUc p-non J. D. QUAIL Phone .17 FERNIE . B.C. trow* Tina We off-cr One Hundred ttoilsrs He. .. -.,.'. :,,, .„./ i.i... ui i',ii,inu titHt (■»»!• not be tineil Uy Hull'* Catarrh Core, I" I r'M»'V!-r ,t (..-*. •»• > .*., ,, XV t>. ine «(..1. r.ttM .*•■). l,-*..<- iM.-vnti'P, f''t 1 <♦•> Ht* ti -*«"•»!'»■. »«!«» NMI**** 'him |>»-ff.»,*iiy iii-Ointnht** In *il 1-niMnftMi ■ tl.VtlV.".. II..H* .*,*'.} tU.M,-, U'iv lit.*.. %t* .iio nm mil -tiMlffatfnii* fund,- l.v hit flu. > N.vrinXM, tns'K fit* ndHMKrtrR, Ttttetlt* rt, l|.*u* t. f*t*i*}, t'ltre* It. '..Iter, mtrinal*. * fr tti'titsf tllrn'Hr <>,..... rt.,* t > , „» -,p,f ,.,«,*.,,*,»**« v,,rtmf*^m ttt trutt wv.tfftt *T*** iim«.,»»»-si* pMit fi**, t'tlt* IS .rents Pet iboittt.. nt*tn hr nil rtrettttt.il* ^ Tnkt* ir.i*JV r.ifhl • f•llf* »,.r i until. r>»tlurt. ,ym HwMpgyw..jyyiv,1SJi^.,.***",y.-'^ »..".>ia..*i.%w.jvi... ■^■^w'*i;i'wy^rti/^.;'.e"*">■'* P^pr^-IPip!^ PAGE EIGHT THE DISTRIOT LEDGER, PEBNS3, B. 0., SEPTEMBER 26,1814 V UNDERWEAR & FOOTWEAR BARGAINS Specials in Footwear BOYS' AND YOUTHS' FOOTWEAR High out boots, with buek'les and straps in boys', youths' and child's sizes. Made in heavy and light leathers, suitable for all kinds of weather. Heavy c-rome and elk leather for wet days, and box calf and vici kid for fine davs. Child's sizes, 5 to 7V2, prices $1.75 to $2.25 Little gents' sizes, 8 to lOi/o, prices. .$2.25 to $3.65 Youths' sizes, 11 to 13, prices $3.00 to $3.75 Boys' sizes, 1 -to 5, prices $4.25 to $4.75 MEN'S HEAVY FLANNEL AND WOOL SHIKTS The season is rapidly advancing when you will need a heavier working shirt. Our fall and whiter stock of this line is complete in all wool, heavy flannel, in different colors and long and short inackinaws in combinations colors. SPECIAL SHIRT SALE Travelers' samples at cost prices. Here is an opportunity to procure a good shirt at a genuine bargain. Any shirt will be sold at the stamped wholesale price. See Window Display Specials in Fall and Winter Goods For Ladies & Children BLANKET CLOTH, 54 IN. WIDE, $1.25 PER YD. All wool and extra heavy. Specially suited for ladies' and children's coats. Comes in cardinal, scarlet, royal blue, navy and white. Per yard, $1.25 EIDERDOWN WRAPPERETTES A soft, fleecy finish, just the thing for a dressing gown or kimono. These come in plain and reversible designs and are fast washing colors. CHILDREN'S COATS Our display of children's coats is very extensive and contains the very newest designs'and materials. You will be very agreeably suprised at the ■ - .-V.—sK—«*'' *«?fe5Mfe^ r_X j.' . 'JH "v. .r * ,j.^. I * price; they come in mackinaw plaid, reversible coating and plaip blanket cloth. Arranging in sizes 6.14. Prices from $4.50 to $12.50 LADIES' PETTICOATS Made of satin, cotton back; the best value offered. Narrow pleated flounce; comes in shades of paddy green, Copenhagen, cerise, navy and tango. Special price $1.96 KIMONO VELOURS, 25c Extra heavy weight and fast colors. A big range of pretty and exclusive designs to select from. NEW COATINGS FOR FALL AND WINTER WEAR 58 inches wide and extra heavy..,' A splendid assortment of exclusive colorings to choose from. Prices from $2.25 to $3.25 per yard. FALL SHOWING OF CHILDREN'S FELT AND CLOTH HATS The largest assortment we have ever shown, very neat and attractive styles and colors. Boys and girls alike can easily be suited to any of these hats. Prices ranging from .65c to $2.75 See Widow Display Grocery Specials For Saturday Liquid Ammonia, pts, 2 for $ ,25 Liquid Blue, 2 for 25 Gold Standard Baking Powder*^ 16 oz 20 Mixed Biscuits, 2 lb .25 Laurentia Milk, 20 oz, 3 for 25 Quaker Oats, 5 lb. pkg 25 Robin Hood Oats, 5 lb. pkg 25 Lowney's Cocoa, 1-2 lb. tin 20 Peaches,.2 lb. tin, 2 for 35 Pineapple, 2 lb. tins, 2 for... 35 Little Herring, in sauce, 2 for .25 Red Seal Jam, 5 lb. pails 45 Lemonade Powder, large tin.... 20 Lemonade Powder, small tin 10 Campbell's Assorted Soups, 2 for .21) Clarke's Assorted Soups, 2 for 25 Lyle's English Syrup, 2 tins 35 Silver Sheaf Maple Syrup, qts.............!. .40 Imperial Maple Syrup,* 1-2 gallon........... .55 Cabbage, per lb..; 02 Onions, 101b , 25 '*ii House Cleaning Time f 25. per cent discount \\ on all wall papers j Money Sav- Hng-Priees— V BRANCHES AT FERNIE, MICHEL, NATAL AND COAL CREEK ■4 FERNIE JOTTINGS Con Reece, Weat Fernie, taxidermist Write Box 9. Fernie, B. C. The Orpheum,.the house of big features and good comedy. The capitalist gets the glory, the worker, the gory. There's only a little "—'1" of a difference. The Orpheum, tbe home of tbe Keystone comedy, Mrs. H. Hlndllne and daughter left tbls week on a visit to ber parents, Mr. and Mrs. R, Gordon of Revelstoke. Judging by the glowworm lights visible on the higher ranges ot tbe mountain slope* on either side of the valley, n number of our local NImroda are practising the "Excelsior" stunt. B. R. de iMouilpled, formerly manager for A. Macdonald * Co. here, but now of Saskatoon, spent Tuesday saying "Howdy" to hts many frlenda, leaving on Wednesday's taatbouod. A little boy once asked bis father, "What colored m'.lk dots a bhf.k con give?" To Judge by some of the lac fesl fluid ield in Pernie, there might bt tome "blue" bovlnea In the neighborhood. Meet "Our .Mutual Olrl." at tht Or- phoum, Friday and Saturday, and we tht great, fashion display on living models. Tht many friends of Deaconess Sutherland will be glad to learn that ab* ts under appointment to serve to connection witb Knox church for tke coming witter. She wu) bogle work here Mil week. L08T On Wednesday morning, September 23rd, from Phillips' ranch, a milch cow, 5 years old; red and white; brand horseshoe, on left hip; horn tips cut; four feet of rope tied to horns. Any person, finding and reporting same to D. E. Phillips, box 504, or Provincial police, will be rewarded. CITY OF FERNIE TENDERS WANTKD Sealed tenders will be received by tbe undersigned for running the City Ambulance for one year from October 1st, A. D. 1914. Said tenders to be delivered oa or before September 31st, 1&14. A copy of the agreement wblch the party whose tender is accepted, win bt required to enter Into, nay be seen at the City Office,, Pernio, B. C. Tht lowest or any tender not neces- sarily accepted. Dated at tbe City Office Pernio, B. C, September Ittb, 1914. ARTHUR J. MOFPAW. City Clerk. KNOX CHURCH, SBRfIMlfR 27TH 11 a. m„ Children's Rally p»y. ftkn program ii so arranged that tht child- ren can Uke part In tht aerviee, IM u* til become children for thle atrvi-ft, and let every child be out. Ale* In tbt basement at 10:45. At 7:So p. ex., "Tbe Labor Class, Who Compost It." A cordial invitation to all. W. Jf. Mac. Qoarrle, tl. A„ Minister. Mr. J. I*. Westman of Calgary, * specialist in tbo work of .Sunday schools and young people'* »tocl«U##. It to spend five daya la Pernio, froas octoorr 1st to Ma, in conducting wfeat ku mite *m ani-jniau-jik** -.aiu^m.ku tor Um atedy of local and related world problems Tbtrt «11t bt onmtm oaeh -evening during that tint In tbt Methodist church nod all are eonUally Mtvttee to eilted. "Htr Fighting Chaw*." the big aa- elety drama, at tht Orphean, Friday Md Saturday. A story with domettic mobility It tbt balance. NOTICE My wife, Margtrtrt EagJJsh, having Mt my bed and board. I wiil at* ht lYtpHkaitite for any debts contracted hy htr trom date tf thtt ae-tlet tV,p%*d\\ XitUEtl Af.PTOT ILNUUAll. dU**AAiMlkAt tthaa-£ AimttM •epecenar im, tela. "NICK" THACHUK lURNT OUT AT CANMORf The many friends of jf. Thachuk wilt learn with regret ihat be hat had the misfortune to bt burotd out «*-»»• pltttly at Canmore. Sou* two months at* Mr. Thacbak went to Canwfwe sM otr***nA «» **o*tt there, aad wat dolnt a ewnaMtrehta traatataa, being well-heown *t thtt camp. Tht store was wtu stocked •ith ta up-to-date stack «t laecetaa- dist. hat ht will be tht later by to*t tbtniMnds. s* ***** boob n-ntl term* wat consumed by tht fire. Tkt tttf. mated damage is IS.***, peitly term ed by insurance. At tht Umo ot tno tin, ht was battd. Ing an addition to the store, which waa kaowa as tht -Mia'rs' pr-ovidta! Company, Tit fire e-eeamd em tht monrfag of tbe llib, wb»« Mr T>Mck«*k «** la Calgary .aad ht received tne naw* <*%** be mnn la bel at «a box-tl«« llit same day. Hit nsaay frteadt estead bias thtlr sympathy tad MM that tit loefl will not k* en nerttrn* tt 1* at present tbrteteta COMMUNICATED Haydock. St. Helens, Lane, Eng., Sopt. 7tb, 1914. Editor Ledger, Fernie: *» Dear Sir:—Perispa the people of Pernio would like to hear of thote glo- rloua liberties and the freedom which we are supposed to enjoy in "dear Old England." Every Britisher It being worked up by the capitalist press and believes that th© present war waa caused through the Kaiser, also bt la ltd to Relieve certain murderous atrocities have been committed by the German soldiers. Big firms here are discharging young men of army age, 19 to tt, and they art forced to starve or Join tbe army. This, means, air. Editor, that tbe monled claaa who havo aomethlng to fight for. art getting out of It, whereat, if wt had conscription they would have to go, along with tbe poor classes, who are now forced to go. All the Labor Party and their "leaders" are recruiting and also making It compulsory to hava a certain amount deducted from thtlr mtmbtrs' "wages", therabf playing right into tht real enemies' hands. Most of Utt recruits are captured" after closing tlmt, whan thty art sprung. Ona of the manegera of a mine here addressed a meeting of patriots and pointed out that suoh a sturdy ttt ef mtn aa tbt miners were nttdtd at tht front. Ntxt day a depoUttoa or tht taut miners went to tta him, and ht called thaw a set of "lasy malign- tra." so yoa must agree with me, Mr. Bditor that tome good mast «om# oat of thtt war. It seems tbat Blatchford has beeo tough! over, for ha ia call- lag' "Totm*"' That* art many rumors regarding Conrad* Lelbneebt, hat I aai afraid tha worst haa happeatd; tat ht was trn# to bf* class. Tht cltrgy are praying tor final victory over Christ- laaa who believe la tba aame Ood at it, * *« - • • • - »«.A*.*4..ij„ . ~9,,9 tt**., ***** *v«.m»w< ftpT^np Vttbkbb uortj.p, v\\,ji,\\i j tUw'J credit, At the lattnutkoal Coagiwt* bald la Europe it wta decided tbat CMnwaa aad Bagllsh ailatrs shoald "down tools* In eaaa of war. We »..-.i n/*.i* *.**** ».***• 9.*.**.*-.}, n+i mppem tht Otnata aMntr baa hit tools do«n. whilst tba Bullish leaders ana recruiting aid lavylng oa thtlr members. Wbat a »«* It Is! I reataia yaar eoairad*. ■IAMIBB ASttpmyt danger to hunters and pleasure seekers which I complain of. If a person got Into one of these bear traps lt would either mean the loss ot a limb or his life, through blood- poisoning. If Ihis practice is not discontinued I shall be in the painful position of having to lay information with the game warden, not for other people's aaftty alone, but tor my;own protection. Trusting thia wJH bb tufficient warning to tbe offenders, I am, respectfully yours, PATHFINDBR. GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS GIFT FROM NEIL80N Sixty-five Thousand Chocolate Oolng tt Valcartier Bars TORONTO, Sept 28.—William Mall- son. Limited, Toronto, offered to tup- ply tht government with 65,000 bars of cboclatt for use In whatever manner tht government ahould choose. Thia offer bat beta gratefully accepted by tba Minister of Mllltla, Col. Sam Hughet. aad tha chocolatt la to ba ahlpptd to Valcartlar, and from thtrt will ba transhipped with tba Canadian commissariat to Burope. Tht several hundred members of Ott ataff ol Wlllitm «N'tilton, limited, bart also donated ont full day't pay to the Canadian Rod Croat Fund. Realities of War ILUIOAL tIAR TRAPPING To tba BdNtr Oh«rt*t l*dgt«r; IMar Mr. VMtor: It baa com* to my kaaa-kdge tbat cailala »*rsoas mtiktn tht vtctatty td thmto art ascag btoi ttoon aad datr soar as. I da nm kmonr tt thtta perseaa ara aaare that tr*rv i mt t* prohtbited soaU of tb* r p.l It or wot, aor dof eara, bat ft is the' COALWAOE INCRBAIE IN BNC- LANO Judge Amtfilett In hit capscltr at chairman of tba Joint Dittrict Board for West Yorkshire, acting undor the provisions of tha coal Matt (mini, mum wagt) ael, 1913, baa given bla award upon tha application to vary tbt dittrict rultt and mlalmum rattt of wages, wMeh wtrt dttoraiatd a^ oa two yaara aft. OsaertTly ipeakltg. tba amended rattt give aa advaaca af id it canto) par day ta all workmen em tt yaara of agt, atetptrn* those engaged In gnlnsttr mlnen, and Id (1 ctnta) a day to boye, again nclodlag tba galaattr ■mut.*,*. li, tm. *t tm* i vtmmotte ntnttru Hu'Ti- li iui3/ mh* #i)jwtii_ wiw, «to*«M9: the nam n*_r4 melt* no ebnnm le tbt eoadlttaa ot tbt mm aad haye aaa-1 ploj-ad tbara. tn tbt eastern aoMWIslon auaMfltd 4nm«»» **«*»* «Mt * mmuomot wmi * tw- etiva ti.W par day: tiammtrs aai fllltra Il.d4: laadlag by-vrortaWM (It mkatHaa mtf m_M_% %\\\\aOAm mh —-^- - mt* , ^__,,_)\\_*im momrt* ov ptt doi torn or tsaarwrna latrastad with saptrtataadtoea), IIJM; all other workmeo atar tl, •f.»r »wy« ft fn fH% ynnn, TOc te 91.11 Rattt (a tbe '.vcite-ru subltvlaiuu Iu tha aaam daaaaa win ha. laaaattltatr. tut, tun. ti.it, tilt. Mi tar bayt, tte te tl»7.-Cot»iml Rylngtoa. Load* ■tA /I^aI ^^m^JO -tPba*^^****, ^att.,... .... 9-^. i9 -^- ->. ^^mtJt tll^^uklft ta oeai aaa cawa Optra tar ana fm Mi Itt, 144 NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The American publishes the following from its torrespondent: "Behind the Allies' Lines, France, Sept 21.—I climb from the hollow In in which Barcy rests and reach the edge of the plain, critt-croiatd by German trenches. A terrible yet su*b- lime spectacle ls presented. The vast plain la Uttered with corpses. Hundreds and hundredt of bodlea He on the ground at far as tha eye can reach. Hundreds of them all fell In one direction, like grass cut by a scythe. Death haa overtaken them In tbe furous ruth of an assault All lit with limbs extended aad facta forward. "Thtrt Is potent, moving significance in this position of tht dead. It rtlttts, reveals, describes. "It It htrt that an Impetuous, unyielding battle bat taken place. In tht Immobility of dtath thtrt It a terrible eloquence. The bodies ara alt pointing toward tha enemy, beede foremost. A single thought, a single impulse, a slngls desire united thttt mtn In the last momtntt of lift. There it still an txprtstloa of rloltact and impetuous dssh la this fallen throng. Taken singly tbey ara horrible. Taken all together these bodies aaam to have Indescribable and fabulous life aad If at lba sight of tbla sleagbtar one (tela a ware of emotion It la set caused by pity, but hy enthutlatm. Htrtte Who Never Dla "1 think of tbe Japanese ltgtn£ of berate who never tit; whan their bedtot fail tht araltUadt af Ibeir aoatt eeatlaat tbt atattdt. Semttklag of eaeb dtath, toamthlng iavWhle aad prodigfoet amtt bave happened here. FWtilWy they were fresh troops. Tbt uniform* seen new. Blue coats with tba skirts taraod beck dieetoee tbt Charge Ended Oerman Fire •IThe assault began at a distance of 700 and 800 yards from the flrtt lineof German trenches. It Is possible to follow its oourse and reconstruct It. Insensible to losses, yelling masses of Frenchmen advanced at tbe double under an Infernal fire. "German shrapnel had kindled piles of straw, the remains ot which ware still smoking, but tbe German artillery fire mutt have been reduced to silence almost Immediately. At S00 yards from tht trenches there are no more corpses, tbe enemy had fled. "One crosses this empty space and meets tbe dead again, but there they ara all Oerman, Along tbe edgea of Charobray road tht whole episode of a hand to hand ttruggle It ntrrattd by corpses. An isolated group of Otr- mam bad made a rampart on tha toad* aide and remained there fighting. They held out at long aa tbey could. The laat of the dead Frenchmen la three yards from tbla spot Then tbt assault pasttd on. Pitrctd by bay- fatta every Germaa fell witb faU back against the Improvised parapats. Combat Oeeeerate, Swift "Twitted bavoneta and broken riflee tbat remain bare apeak of a twin, fltree, dttptrate combat Tbe Germane foil in email tqoada, "A group of eorpttt lie aroand tbt body of aa officer. "The retreat wat protected by the successive sacrifices of little rom- panies. "Hew tha dead reembled eaeb other! Thty eta only bt ditUagwltbtd by their eat/anas. Oa tba grated Frtocb aad Ceramet ara tba aeatt. Racial characteristics vaaiab btaaath tha cruel mask of death. Tbt txprt» tion of tba ttet la tba aame. 'Tn the tttrnai truce of death then It a tpteita of flaterally httwaea Cal- corps to look after them. The French made prisoners of the wounded and of their nurses, doctors and dispensers, who maintain their ranks and authority, and all these form a little German organization which continues to act automatically in the midst of the French army, isolated and Imperturbable with Ita rigid ealutea and imperious commands, just as if nothing bad happened. Clott Pursuit Impossible "The retrtat contlnutt undtr the protection ot heavy artillery placed In the rear guard, and eo It Is still proceeding. Close pursuit Is impoe- tible. Action of pursuing cavalry ia out of the oueetlon. Maneuvering la necessary. Batteries must bt turned. The German infantry it out of reach. Gaps are made In the German ranks and small bodlea of troops are captured, but at a whole (be army keopi Intact Defeat ia aot yet "The Anglo-French victory might ba compared with tht Japaaase victory at Uao-yaung, where tbt RuttUat rt> Urti without losing ettactlventt*. Thtrt are euccetefol battle whicb do aot finish. Tht victory tt gnat but it eannot ht mort than a mafatfbrtnt preface to tbt aad. "Uter. All reads lead to the frost aad all roads are Jammed wWt aa la* terminable array of eoovoya aad eav. airy escorts. tot tend, dry tlfawee* or write Uveas, Cedar Valley. .a*. ** „9,t, 9,m9u.9*99-Mt ttvmmai* **ntm Ir. vpn tifar ty U«i' uiwigi Qm iim- cloua color aad lapredtat aai fay bee. "Tba asttoaal aymbel af red amtt have tamed a flaming, trembling line -u* *.*» mm n**** ** xwo siDi»ai -en wo* men. Xttrty all tba ilil Ha wltt their facet oa er la tba croeed. hav. lag beea hit la tbt keadef araaat All bare thote strange, taheaua. gtatattaaa, tteltttr tttKadet to wbleb tbef won rm^emnod bf fimtk on tbo bettltfltta. "**•» ** ttin wtmSti UA tlm td eetOe tbeaw^lrw aai aaietly await tbe ead. Tb»y appear ta tm aleialag. ts^gaa mbmmitbJt ^^m jada -j_m_t__tt_^_*_, _^_^^^j^ ^^^^.^^^^ *m ■!■■« tm, or wwetr aaew oarpee la * tfOe wkleb escaped front tba gr»* af th* fsMag nut ra t/bitrtim fn tif* bmin Wleo Jcath. fiat aaaaddeely et ta maeete rigid. "Hook iiantut*. *iotpm km a nooe- tick oa «t hack It it irrepteeebaMe •««gb tor tmteette*. Cbrtrtdgt battfatti toalpmtat of an mtb, rolltd la test caavaa, evarytblac It W^^P» MM'-Mf flvil-Mt tmm to farm aa mtegral put af lit body. Kvea tba tpUied MmI re- malts oa tbt head. -Nottlag eraatee ttt ftrttslia at a nxsttd tnay. tt tbt Teootb mmm rnvtnMd tke trreattktlkte toy of U» •MMI tbt Otrmta dtad «aalay te- Jer wl iltulplim. Tbt Oaiama arasy it baa«m 'bat tat famed, ft tettrod ftMnF bat asetbvlfcafly. oat taatat- fng etttfrkt. K withdraw wftb harry bet not with eeafartoii. ft "TTist'lti was males ttt ti ■ ■ seals t. bat w«b tbem H mt beblad wbolt eectloat of ftt botpfrnt ReenllUng and drilliag la ceaaee- Uoa with tba ittth Infsntry Retfrneat la being carried ot aigbUy at tbt drill ball aad ao difficulty is betaf rn* perteneed (a cbUialng an? WaaUty ofvolonteera A cUaa of lattraotloe far tbe ofTlcers Is being csmmmieid la tbt atar future. Tba police commlssleaen held a mutt ta Meaday aad dedeei to doae ap all pool reome at 11 oVdoek oa Seterdey night* aad rtaala eloaad attii un, Monday morning- Tht my pouca wtrt tlso tattractod tt thtt^a*., , i* ■--..- - ■ ..'* ,„ *. , ........ ,_,t ttqiieut, tan,,min imp**" tntite/n* ttnil tutte ilrnntlr -aipHMn'i- shoold tbr btm PS gsmbUa* bt breagbt to tbelr aaUea. U. Oat Mttbay Jeamyod ti Mlchtl •a Mewday evening os bAaJf af tit ■a.*.*..*.***, ■»* mm ittia totaawr Jiaa> imeat Oee eomyaay has btaa anettod tt Ofiebet aai Dr. Oiadwia tr tSemb me eppotettd catuta tt oommaad tkt Mkbel compaay. Wity-flve awe Mllstedea Meaday evaalacwbaa tbe eentfo- rntk wtw optued for aaHat- ■eat. aad emagemeau arw betag ttxit^o tot coBtpaoy b ^^m^n wftttw*weee ct, rtacouitr prtcaa."""@en, "Preceding Title: The Fernie Ledger

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