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L. McLeod Gould Public Stenographer Copying, Mailing, Editing, Expert Journalistic Work and Adv't Writing Accuracy, Despatch, Privacy 1208 Government Street Phone 1283 The Week A British Colombia Newspaper and Review. Published at Victoria, B. C. HALL $f WALKER Agents Wellington Colliery Company's Coal 1232 Gov't St. Telephone 83 No.3^>\V Vol. X. Tenth Year THE WEEK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912 Tenth Year One Dollar Per Annum ■NDUSTRIAL PEACE-By common consent, the recent visit of the Duke of Connaught to Victoria has been an un- lialified success from every standpoint, lhe ceremonial lias been dignified, the corn- Ion people have seen him gladly. The Taciousness of the Duke, the Duchess and pincess Patricia has greatly impressed all ho have come in contact with them. It ould have been in the highest degree im- to offer any adverse comment until Ir illustrious visitors had left; but it would equally improper to allow one regrettable :ident to pass without notice. The gen- men who assumed the responsibility of |roducing Mr. P. H. Scullin to the Duke securing the patronage of His Excel- for the Industrial Peace Association lifted an unpardonable breach of good iners, and one which calls for round con- Iination. The phrase "Industrial Peace" nds well. We are all in favour of it; it is therefore not surprising that many II our most influential public men have 'dily acceded to the request to allow their nes to be used in connection with the vement. But none of these gentlemen have been made acquainted with Mr. illin's experience with the various trades Dn organizations of the United States Canada can afford to allow their names Irem'ain there. There can be no industrial ice unless both parties, represented by >ital and labor, are agreed. Labor has pounced Mr. Scullin and all his works; bour has repudiated his organization. Week, in a recent issue, gave full history of the case, and of his mal repudiation by the chief American [anizations. It also ga»e chapter and ■se for the same repudiation by the Vic- Trades and Labor Council. Since It article appeared,, the Annual Conven- n of the Labor Congress of Canada in sion at Guelph, Ontario, reported in the ctoria Times of the 26th September, ain repudiated both Mr. Scullin and the Justrial Peace Association. Ancl yet a Imber of well-meaning gentlemen, from ptives which were probably above re- oach, but which credit them with little in- ence and no sense of fairness, take Ivantage of the presence of the Duke of pnnaught in Victoria to secure his patron- The act was indecent, ancl the gentle- pn responsible for it owe an apology to : Duke and to the public. The Week will Ive much more to say on this subject; but |_anwhile it ought to be sufficient, in point- out the foregoing facts, to secure some |iende for an unwarrantable action. 'ILITANT SUFFRAGETTES— The militant suffragettes are evidently in a quandary. In London |_y interviewed Mr. Borden, probably ex- cting to draw him out. But they were aling with a plain tsraightforward man Iio calls a spade a spade, even if he re- lins from calling a suffragette what he U might. The result was that one or two the middle-aged-to-elderly ladies who Imed the delegation had their plumes ruf- 1 and were injudicious enough to pro- d to threats, or at any rate what even English papers chose to regard as If eats. Mr, Borden must have had some ,:h idea, too, because he rertorted that the jnadian Government would be quite preyed to protect itself in the event of any _h tactics being pursued in the Dominion have disgraced the sex in England. He o took occasion to remind the delegation Lt the women of Canada neither shared ir views nor would be induced to adopt I. ir methods. Hard on this one of the st militant of the militant suffragettes, I'S. Pethick Lawrence, came to Victoria I, the benefit of her health and speedily X it for the same cause. She met with no iponse, for it is an open secret that she •lired to initiate an active military propa ganda in the capital city of British Columbia, and it is believed that ,tiere were one or two ardent spirits recently imported from the old land who, having failed in other more or less laudable schemes, were willing to turn their hand to hatchet throwing. But Mrs. Pethick Lawrence is not altogether a fool, and she promptly appraised the value of their proffered services. Now we read that one or two of these militant ladies are about to start a tour for the purpose of enthusing their sex on the principles of militant suffragetism, ancv incidentally of taking subscriptions for their press organ. The latter is a perfectly legitimate object, and if' it only proves a safety-valve for the pernicious vagaries of these mis-fire militants no will have cause to complain. It is greatly to be feared that their ambition will not be satisfied with anything so rational ancl peaceable. It is therefore the duty of every peace-loving citizen, whether man or woman, to discourage a propaganda which in England has brought the sex, or a large portion of it, into disrepute, has set back the clock of progress of a cause which many of the best men and women living are in favour of, and has notably increased the difficulties of a government which already has sufficient legitimate difficulties to grapple with. Canada is in the making; we have important problems of our own to face; it is intolerable that our public, men should be hampered by the vagaries of a small crowd of irre- sponsibles who, as The Week has taken occasion to state before, want something but do not know what. THE PEOPLE—The Week has been asked to voice an opinion, very widely held, with which it is in entire accord, and that is that the otherwise admirable arrangements made for the entertainment of the Duke of Connaught were marred by one "faux pas." The public reception in the Parliament Buildings on Monday night was restricted to those who wore evening dress. The result was that only 800 people enjoyed the privilege of being presented to the royal party. On Tuesday night the buildings were thrown open and the general public invited to view—what? The decorations and the remains of the feast. What happened ? Five thousand people availed themselves of the opportunity. If there had been the added privilege of bowing to His Excellency, the number would undoubtedly have been even larger. The Duke is a man—every inch of him—with the finest instincts of a gentleman. He is a true democrat, willing at all times to meet the people in fustian or broadcloth, as the occasion demands. He is the last man in the world who would have wished to restrict the privilege of presentation to those able to purchase a dress suit; and in the judgment of The Week the arrangement is open to criticism. Under similar circumstances in Montreal* twelve years ago, when the present King visited the city, Colonel Maude issued instructions from Ottawa that the reception would be held in the City Hall, and that full dress was "en regie." The citizens raised an outcry, and were even so impolite as to inform His Equerryship that there were thousands of folk in Montreal minus a dress suit who were just as loyal as those who had one, ancl who were equally anxious of shewing their loyalty and respect. The punctilious Colonel was adamant, but the Prince intervened ; the obnoxious regulation was withdrawn, and the common people attended in their thousands and were heartily welcomed by the Prince. Social distinctions are all very well in their way, but they may be carried too far, and in the opinion of Tlie Week there was a little too much swallowtail about some of the arrangements connected with the ducal visit. HIS TRUE COLOURS—At last Sir Wilfrid Laurier has come out in his true colours. Speaking at Peterboro' the other night he advocated a Canadian Navy, built in Canada, for Canadian protection, ancl under Canadian control. This is the view which The Week has always attributed to Sir Wilfrid, and it is a hollow pretext and a profession of sham loyalty. It will hardly bear analysis, for no one knows better than Sir Wilfrid that it will take many years to establish shipbuilding works in Canada and bring about the construction of warships. In the opinion of the best judges, this could hardly be effected in a decade. Then, Sir Wilfrid would earmark his Canadian Navy for the protection of our own shores, and would retain control. All such stipulations are alien to the principle of effective assistance to the Imperial Naval forces, and they violate the essential principle of placing tne fleet under the control of the British Admiralty if it is to be a unit in the chain of Imperial Unity. It is quite obvious that the programme thus outlined is one intended to catch the disaffected vote throughout the Dominion. It is a plausible appeal, and may serve its purpose in Quebec, and, to some extent, in the Prairie Provinces. It also indicates quite clearly the intention of Sir Wilfrid to oppose Mr. Borden's scheme, which will undoubtedly provide for the construction of warships with Canadian money in British yards. All of which goes to shew that the exigencies of party warfare and the chagrin of defeat have forced Sir Wilfrid to come out in his true colours, and demonstrates that his professions of loyalty were just as hollow as his naval proposals were visionary. THE PAINTING CONTRACT— The school trustees have been singularly unfortunate ii. their dealings with the South Park school painting contract. They could hardly have made a worse mistake than to whitewash the contractor without analyzing the paint he used. The allegation of the Painters' Union which first drew public attention to the matter was that W. J. Barclay, the contractor, used an inferior article, and one not in accordance with the specifications. An investigation was held ancl the trustees reported that the material used conformed to the specifications. Now the specifications called for pure white lead and linseed oil; it is not to be wondered at, therefore, that the delegates of the union applied the term "dope" to the paint actually used. No one will dispute the analysis of Government Analyst Carmichael, who reported that No. 1 sample contained only 4 per cent of carbonate of lead, No. 2 sample 5.2 per cent, and No. 3 sample 17.8 per cent. The daily press, in reporting the incident, naively remarks that it is understood that as a result the school board will be approached again. If the school trustees thought the Trades and Labor Council could be sidetracked so easily they obviously made a great mistake. So far as the ratepayers are concerned they will as usual have to grin and abide by it, because we are informed that the contractor is paid. But that does not .excuse the ineptitude of the school board in failing to discover even by an investigation what it was so easy to ascertain by the application of scientific methods; though possibly it would be too much to expect that a board of school trustees should know anything of scientific methods. SIR WILFRID'S LATEST—Sir Wilfrid Laurier, despite his advanced years and occasional threats to take a less active part in public affairs and seek that rest ancl retirement which would well accord with his, age, is obviously on the eve of a political campaign. There are programmes and rumours of programmes, he has commenced in the province of Quebec, he is slated to speak in Ontario, and later on even as far afield as British Columbia. Now Sir Wilfrid Laurier at his advanced age does not take trips to British Columbia for nothing, not even for his health. The last time he came was to make his calling and re-election sure.- And the result was a "debacle" which has just been celebrated gloriously if not brilliantly in Montreal. It can only be reasonably assumed that the next visit is intended as an assault upon the citadel of the Solid Seven. It will therefore be interesting to know what direction the appeal of the veteran statesman to the suffrages of the Province will take. The local organ of the party in reporting the Cobalt speech makes use of a scare headline which tells the public that he will "STAND BY THE MOTHERLAND." This would seem to be rather equivocal in view of his attitude towards the Motherland when a neighbouring republic secured his support for a pact which was intended to make Canada an adjunct to the United States. Of course Sir Wilfrid may argue that he did not see it in that light, but that only goes to show how little Sir Wilfrid understood the mind of the Canadian people and the way they would regard Mr. Taft's proposal. It is now a matter of ancient history how the flamboyant utterances of Mr. Champ Clark which were said at the time to be nothing more than the vapourings of irresponsible frivolity have been confirmed by the disclosed correspondence of President Taft and ex-President Roosevelt. Sir Wilfrid requires a very convenient memory if he is to forget and overlook these things. He must also have a more vivid imagination than even he as the silver-tongued orator has been credited with if he thinks that Canada will now forget it when he talks about "standing by the Motherland." But his organs may possibly think that the headline has some reference to his attitude on the Naval question, because in the Cobalt speech in a moment of unguarded enthusiasm he allowed himself to say: "If England ever be in danger,— nay I will not say that—if she should ever be on trial, I, a Canadian of French origin, will be the first to go to the people and call upon them to assist with all our might." Now that is but a re-hash of something Sir Wilfrid said prior to the last general election when he offered to take the stump in every city in Canada if necessary to arouse enthusiasm for Imperial Defence in the event of war. But this declaration is a very cheap one, and always has been cheap on the lips of Sir Wilfrid, because his representatives at the last Colonial Conference were handicapped by the fact that the very moderate policy outlined by the Admiralty would cost more than they were authorized to sanction. The Week has previously referred to the page and section in the report of that conference where the Admiralty's suggestions were outlined, and where the Canadian representatives had to make the humiliating confession that the cost was greater than they were authorized to support. Whereupon the Admiralty modified its plan considerably. When Sir Wilfrid came to translate his rhetorical promises into practical aid he submitted a Naval measure to the House which satisfied nobody, not even the reasonable men among his own supporters. He failed to secure the support of the Quebec contingent and despite all Sir Wilfrid may now say, stamped himself and his party as Little Englanders. Just how little an Englander Sir Wilfrid is will be seen when Mr. Borden submits his Naval policy to the House. His recent declaration leaves no room to doubt that this will be done whey Parliament assembles in November. Without knowing anything of the details of that policy The Week makes bold to say that it will be a very different .(Continued on Page 12) THE WEEK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912 It is not often that I have any pleasure in this world. Pleasure, like fleas, come to most men when they least expect them. We all do have a little pleasure, and, unfortunately, we all have a few fleas. The latter come to us as a divine dispensation; they are meant to show us that man's lot in this world is not laid in a bed of roses, but even from our fleas we can learn a little lesson which may help us to get to the end of our mortal coil with the minimum of difficulty. Mark Twain was the first person, to my knowledge, who showed the illimitable possibilities of the flea; in his book called "Tom Sawyer Abroad" he referred in glowing terms to the future of the flea, and showed, indisputably, that if the flea were a man he would certainly be the President of the United States.' * * * But we have a higher ambition in life; the Presidency of the United States conveys nothing to those people who are fortunate enough to live in Victoria. We aim at better things; we realize that if a man is paying his way, is sure of a roof above his head and can count upon three meals a day he is in a higher position than a king upon his throne or a president on his feet. But I am wandering away from my muttons, and I started out to talk about the pleasure which I have had this week. I refer to the decorations ' which have graced Victoria during the visit of our Governor-General. It is not so much the flags and the general appearance of festivity which has impressed me but the illuminations. I plead guilty to a feeling which I have never experienced before, when I walked down Government Street and saw the way in which some of our principal buildings were so brilliantly lighted. Chief arnongst them, of course, was the noble pile which rears its massive front on the south side of Belleville Street. The Government Buildings were a veritable fairyland and I take this opportunity of saying that it appealed to one citizen of Victoria at least. * * * Seven years ago, before I became the good Canadian citizen that I am, I wandered round the Mediterranean. A year before that my peregrinations took me to northern Spain and the Island of Mallorca. It was in this gem of the ocean that I first became acquainted with olives in their natural state. I got to know all about olives when in Mallorca and any news of them is, not unnaturally, of interest to me. I now learn that Mr. Bancroft, who runs the Palace of Sweets on Government Street, is also the owner of an olive farm in southern Greece. It appears that Mr. Bancroft has received results for the first time in twenty-five years and he is now in » position to let native-born Victorians know exactly what pure olive-oil and real olives are like. * * * There are about three jokes in this world. One is the mother-in-law; she is the never-failing standby of the man who has to fill up the comic column. There is the perennial small boy whose vagaries are an infinite sauce of satisfaction to the empty- handed newspaper man. The third joke is the* extravagant woman; times without number we have seen her face in the paper overshadowed by an angry husband who seems to spend his time in brandishing bills in her face. But we never hear of an extravagant man; it would seem that men are not supposed to buy clothes, but ithey have to do it all the same, pr else go naked, and there is one place in Victoria where they can buy ! them without running the risk of having their women-folk brandishing their tailor's bill in their face. The Commonwealth, who have for so long conducted a business at 608 Yates Street, have found that the men of Victoria have had sufficient taste to appreciate their wares, and in consequence have been compelled to open a new store at the New Bellevue Block, 720 Yates Street. The proprietors of the Commonwealth took over the business when it was vacated by Messrs. Finch & Finch, and their rapid rise to success is due, not only to the excellence of their goods, but to the due appreciation which Victoria's men-folk have shown for good clothes when put out by a good house. * * * I wonder if the Mayor and Council know how very funny they appear to the average rate-payer. Over in the Hollywood Estate they are spending more money in laying out side-walks and boulevards. This is presumably for the benefit of real estate men; but the public is being badly left, in'that the conditions of the roads at Ross Bay Cemetery is such that all the hackmen in town are complaining every time they have to go to a funeral. It is all very well for the City to look ahead; it is all very well to spend money on future improvements, but it is not all very well to leave the cemetery in such a state that it is almost impossible to get a corpse to its grave. I have no intention of dying young, but I do hope that when the Dread Reaper comes to mow off my little head, it will not be the Ross Bay Cemetery which receives the recumbent figure of Lounger. * * * I know what it is to be mean, and have been mean myself lots of times, especially in regard to money. In fact, when I come to talk of meanness I am inclined to think of the novel which made Marie Corelli's name. She started "The Sorrows of Satan" with a few remarks about hunger, and she pertinently queried whether the average man in the street was in a position to judge of the actions, or to recognize the temptations, of the man who was walking down the street with the worm of hunger gnawing at his vitals. Because I myself am mean by nature I may be in a better position than that of nice, fat, substantial citizens, whom we daily see parading our streets, to judge the little case of meanness which was brought to my notice on Thursday. It would appear that there is a firm in Victoria doing business under the name of the National Sales and Importing Company. Exactly what the real business of this firm is I do not know, but it would seem that they include debt collecting amongst their other occupations. I have a letter in my possession which illustrates how they go about this invidious business. There is a man, whom we will call John Smith, because that is a name which identifies nobody, and he owed a small bill, something under $20. The enterprising firm above referred to sent a letter to a prominent business house in Victoria, and in this letter they said that they were anxious to locate Mr. John Smith. They also stated that they were in a position to give him information which would be of immediate benefit to him, and insinuated that this information would lead to employment of a profitable nature. Mr. John Smith, as I prefer to call him, was in the possession of a temporary job. He lost a day's pay in attending to this, and when he reached the business house, to which I havc referred, he found a writ awaiting him. Now if this is not the height of meanness I should be glad to have Mr. J. D. Challes, Victoria manager of the National Sales and Importing Company,/rcome up to the- office of The Week and give me his point of view. 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Plain and Twilled Scotch Wool Blankets, Satin bound and whipped, sizes 54x81 to 78x94 $5 to $io per pair 739 Yates Street Telephone 1391 THE WEEK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912 Victoria Theatre On Monday last the boards of the /ictoria Theatre were occupied by a bompany which presented David Be- lascoe's latest success, "The Woman." prices were fixed to suit every purse Ind the rendition scored a well de- lerved success. Later in the week lhe same theatre gave Victorians the lpportunity of seeing real Old Coun- Try Pierrots. The Versatiles made food, special mention being due to lie light tenor whose voice won him puch merit and applause. Princess Theatre. lit is not often that I have time in le evenings to go so far afield as le Princess Theatre, which is at lesent located in the old A. O. U. W. all on Yates Street, but last Wed- Isday night I had both the time |d the inclination, and I was well baid for it. If laughter really does Ike a man fat, I am afraid that my list line will necessitate my buying 111 another pair of trousers. For I Trtainly laughed; the play was en- lied "Billy" and the Williams Com- Iny contrived to introduce more hu- lour into two hours' entertainment Ian I have had the pleasure of wit- Issing for at least five years. I am ]>t going to mention any names; (here all were good it is, to my mind, rong to mention individuals, and lace forbids that I should mention |e whole company by name. The Empress Theatre I My colleague "The Bohemian," has lade a few pregnant remarks with |spect to the rag-time played at the npress Theatre this week. For my- |lf I will say that it is the best show liich has appeared on the local |.udeville stage during the past six snths. I would like to make special |ention of Messrs. Neuss & Eldred, ho put on a really amusing act. 1 If "Kla'ss & Bernie" would confine lemselves to good music, and the be- Inning of their turn proved that they jmld play, their appearance might be fss popular, but it would certainly more appreciated by those mem- ers of the audience who have been Efficiently well educated to realize lie difference between decent music Ind rag-time. Robert Hildreth & Co. Iroduced a "playlet" which was well Ibove the average. I sat in a good leat and laughed myself hoarse while Ihis was going on. I do not think Ihat I can pay any better compliment. |)f the Bohemian Quartette I would ay that they are fine; they have good loices, every one of them, and if we lad a few more visitations like this lur vaudeville house would be all the letter for it. The star feature of this leek's performance was "the Verona Iroupe." It was not their first ap- learance in this city; they were here Ibout a year ago, and if they continue I) improve in proportion, they may Jifely reckon on being one of the star fegregations on the Considine & Sul- lvan Circuit. public for their money, put this most amusing comedy on their canvas during the early part of the week. Majestic Theatre I do not know exactly what I saw at the Majestic this week, but I do remember leaving the house with the feeling that I had enjoyed myself more than on any previous occasion that I had seen Moving Pictures. The management has contrived to assemble a series of pictures which eclipsed all their past efforts, and I, for one, would like to say how much I appreciated the result. A Coming Attraction Miss Eva Mylott, who is shortly to appear here in concert, was the recipient of the most distinguished honours on her visit to her native land, Australia, last. summer. The home coming of Australia's famous contralto was a great event, of which even the government took official notice. When the R. M. S. "Makura" steamed into the docks at Sydney, the ship was gay with flags from bow to TWO PICTURES OF JULIAN ELTINGE IN 'THE FASCINATING WIDOW" Crystal Theatre jAny time that there is a gala leek in Victoria, moving-picture fre- Itenters will find that the Crystal theatre is well ahead of the game. Jlhere is no need to dwell on the spe- (alties which the management gave the public; they fully came up to tat standard which the Crystal has Iways maintained since it possessed je idea of vaudeville-Cum-Moving- icture. I, Romano's Theatre "The Cadger Family" was the title I' one of the most amusing pictures Ihich has been flashed on the Vic- ■iria screen in any Moving-Picture louse. Romano's, who are always f-ady to give the best show to the stern. Captain Gibbs, recognizing the importance of the day, had ordered the "Makura" to be decorated in honour of Miss Mylott, and the flags remained aloft until she walked ashore. The distinguished singer was welcomed by the Minister of Education (Mr. C. A. Carmichael), the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. J. Trefle), the Governor of The Commonwealth Bank, the Lord Mayor and other officials, as well as by hundreds of old friends. In fact, Miss Mylott was besieged immediately the people from the shore were allowed on board. In an interview granted the musical critic of the Sydney "Evening News," Miss Mylott remarked that in Europe, Canada and the United States, she appeared before the most select and critical audiences and sang in nearly all the finest concert halls throughout the world. The critics everywhere had accorded her the highest tribute and she has now an established place among the world's greatest artists. Her charming personality has won for her a wide popularity and a large circle of excellent friends. She has never suffered the painful experience of many artists, namely, that of delayed recognition, for on her first appearance in the city of Philadelphia, one of the leading critics said: "We have heard nothing finer in grand opera than this unheralded singer." Miss Mylott also said, "I have always found plenty of kind friends and sincere appreciation, especially in Canada and the United States, and these audiences most responsive. There may be a great difference of opinion among artists as to the musical taste of the American people—but they have always given me such a good reception, that of course, I think their taste is excellent. "With reference to life in America, I found it decidedly strenuous, both socially and professionally. I have been especially rushed with engagements the last year, having appeared in every state in the Union, and in all the Provinces of the Dominion of Canada, appearing as the soloist with the famous Theodore Thomas Orchestra, and on an extensive tour with Jan Kubelik, a long tour as soloist with the Russian Symphony Orchestra, the Apollo Club of Chicago, and many other leading organizations in oratorio and concert." After a delightful visit to the principal cities of Australia, where she gace concerts, Miss Mylott returns to the new world for her winter season. This will include a tour of Canada and the United States, the first concert to be given on November 14th. From this date, she has engagements to the end of March next year. Miss Mylott has made a complete success of her chosen career. Blessed with a most charming presence and a glorious voice, she studied under the world's best teachers and faithfully worked to be what she is today, the most popular and most sought for contralto on the concert stage. Miss Mylott is equally at ease in concert and oratorio work, her magnificent voice carrying to the innermost parts of the largest churches and halls. Her repertoire includes all the well known oratorios as well as a rare collection of the classics in French, German and Italian as well as English. The music lovers of this city are assured a musical treat when Miss Mylott appears here in concert. "Baby Mine" William A. Brady, Ltd., will again present "Baby Mine," Margaret Mayo's laughing success, for a return engagement at the Victoria Theatre on Thursday, October ioth, with the same company and production that made a pronounced success in this city last season. As a laugh producer, "Baby Mine" is said to be the greatest success the stage has ever known. It is the radiant and glorious fun and hilarity that obtrude at every point throughout the play that holds an audience all the way, and justifies the verdict that "Baby Mine" is the most emin ent mirth-impelling comedy present generations of theatre-patrons have ever seen. Most enthusiastic admirers of the play, whose opinions are considered those of experts, emphatically assert that "Baby Mine" is the very best comedy that has been offered. It is not incredible that a tireless and continuous run of legitimate enthusiasm occasioned by an earnest and forcible demonstration of realistic possibilities, utterly human, is responsible for the world-wide approval of this immense comedy success. The human interest in it touches and concerns all mankind, and when it is of a character that invokes the close and faithful attention of a complete audience, without pause, strictly by reason of its deep fun and laugh-making qualities, its universal popularity and success are readily explained. The personality of each principal character, as elucidated in the play, reaches the "right spot" with every one in the audience, which, with the The Crystal Theatre Broad Street The Largest, Best Furnished and Most Comfortable Vaudeville and Picture Theatre in the City. Two Acts of Vaudeville, changing Mondays and Thursdays. Four Reels of First Run Pictures, changing Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The Best Music—three-piece Orchestra—in the City. The biggest Fan on the Coast, removing 37,000 cubic feet of air every five minutes, insuring you fresh and cool air. I Hours: Pictures from 1.30 to 5.30 and 6.30 to 11.00. Vaudeville, 3.00 to 4.00 and 7.00 to 11.00. Farmers'Ex- change, Ltd. 618 Johnson Street Phone j j 18 The place where you can get New Laid Eggs Specials for this week only Fine Milk Fed Chickens, per lb 40c Boiling Fowls, per lb .ajy2c What can be nicer for your Sunday's dinner than a nice Roast Chicken or Boiled Fowl. Come early and avoid disappointment. april 20 oct 26 W Cathcart & Co. to the H. B. Hammond Shoe Co. Importers of High Grade American Footwear MEN'S A. E. Nettleton's Hanan & Son Florsheiim Shoe Co. WOMEN'S Laird, Schober & Co. J. & T. Cousins Wichert & Gardiner John H. Cross Broadwalk Skuffers for Children Mail Orders Promptly Filled W. Cathcart & Co. PEMBERTON BUILDING Victoria Theatre THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 William A. Brady Ltd. Presents the Funniest Play Ever Written "BABY MINE" (By Margaret Mayo) WILL HAND YOU A GROSS OF GIGGLES A Year in New York A Year in London Prices—$1.50, $1.00, 75c, and 50c. Mail Orders now rccieved. Seat Sale opens Tuesday, October 8th Princess Theatre Formerlr A.O.U.W. H.U Cor. Yates & Blanchard Sts. WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY OCTOBER 7 TheWilliamsStockCo. Will Present Comedy Drama "Because She Loved Him So" Prices ioc, aoc and 30c Matinees Wednesday and Saturday ioc and 20c Curtain, 8.jo p.m. Matinees, i.45 Reserved Seats on sale at Dean & Hiscock'i, cor. llroad and Yalis Sts. theme of the comedy, makes it entirely fascinating and attractive at every moment. A year in New York, eight months in Chicago, and nearly two years in London, is but a brief record of the comedy's run in the larger cities. Julian Eltinge Will Display Marvellous Wardrobe When Julian Eltinge steps upon the stage at the Victoria Theatre Wednesday, October 9, in the star role of "The Fascinating Widow," the gentler sex may be prepared to be thrown into a panic of admiration, for word has gone forth that in his impersonations of beautiful women in "The Fascinating Widow," Julian Eltinge will wear and exhibit gowns which mark absolutely the last word in the modiste's art. It is estimated that his wardrobe, jewels, etc., this season represent an outlay of $10,000. BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE OCTOBER 7 Three Times Daily 3.00 p.m.—7.30 p.m.—9.00 p.m. First Vaudeville Appearance of BARNEY GILMORE Presenting "A Jolly Ramble Thru' Ireland" The Sensational Dramatic Triumph WALTER H. BROWN Presents "His Father's Son" The Globe-Trotting Mimic ALF. HOLT Cecile-WESTON & LEON-Louise Two Winsome and Magnetic Maids Tommy—LONG & LING—Mamie Present "Fun in a Gymnasium" TWILIGHT MOTION PICTURES THE WEEK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912 The Week A Provincial Newspaper and Review published every Saturday by "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited Published at 1208 Government St., Victoria, B.C., Canada WILLIAM BLAKEMORE, Editor Life's Little Worries By Bohemian I hope that I may be forgiven for borrowing a title which originally came from a London Magazine. I make this journalistic "break" with the greatest pleasure, because I realize that life, as we grow older, is still more full of "Little Wories." Take such a thing as our amusements. How often do we leave the theatre discontented with the show which we have seen, and how often is this discontentment due to some little item, which is not worth mentioning in a theatrical criticism, but which has the effect of leaving a spectator, vaguely annoyed at a show which he has otherwise enjoyed. Let me give an instance: • this week the local vaudeville house has been running the best show they have put out during the last five years. But there was one fault, and that fault does not lie in the performers; it lies right in the heart of the audience. We have reached such a depth of depravity that it seems impossible for the people who occupy the front seats in our leading theatre to appreciate what is best in musical art. The Empress Theatre seats, roughly speaking, five hundred people. Out ot those five hundred at least seventy- five per cent, gave Victoria a bad name by vociferously applauding a turn, which, though good, presented those worst features which have done so much to disfigure the music of the present day. I may be wrong in saying this; I may, possibly, not be the ideal critic; but I did have an education; I did learn to appreciate what was best in art; I did learn that lesson which taught me to hate and despise ragtime, and so long as rag-time wends its wicked way, through this sinful world, just so long will I continue to hurl blasphemy at it. So much for my specific grievance. We now come down to those "Little Worries" which occur to each one of us, and which each one of us cannot avoid. Consider the little matter of "keys." We all of us carry keys, but how many of us ever put our hand on the right key when the occasion calls for it? I myself carry a bundle of keys In my pocket; I call in at the post office every morning at eight o'clock; how often does the right key slip out of my pocket into my eager fingers? Not once in a hundred times; every key which has been produced in Victoria seems to fall into my clutch. But the key I want eludes it. Have you ever noticed the worry and trouble which the modern electric light causes the private individual? The latter goes home, probably late at night; he wanders up to his room, his land-lady being safely in bed. He wants to find a light, and he puts forth a tentative finger in the direction of the place where the light ought to be; his finger misses the spot and for five minutes he claws the air, and at the end of this period he finds his nose bumping against the bulb. This is just another example of those "Little Worries" which make us think that life is a farce, and existence a mere bubble. The collar stud is an old subject, usually reserved for thc cub reporter. I do not plead guilty to belonging to the cub reporter class; I am nothing if I am not egotistical and inevitably believe that I have a few more observations to make public, with respect to that same collar stud. I have found a new place for it to hide; it used to have a knack of falling underneath the dressing table; it has now found a new place, one which occasions intense annoyance to the unfortunate bachelor who has to try and find it in his soap-box. There is one more thing which makes life so hard and that is the action of the street car. The B. C. E. R. gives excellent service and have done much to make Victoria what she is. But we have all noticed a difficulty which exists in every town of getting to the given spot in a hurry. Cars never seem to run just at the time when you want them; they have a horrible habit of always stopping at the corner when you want to cross the road. Cars, like other modern conveniences, are very apt to prove nuisances. But, for all my "grouching," I am a very happy member of a Society and if it were not for "Life's Little Worries," there would be no living for The Mystery of Life Written Specially for The Week by J. Arthur Hill The annual meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held this year at Dundee, have just come to an end. Scientific men from all parts of the world have congregated in the busy Scottish town, and, instead of jute and jam (the city's chief products) the conversational air has been full of electrons, ether, protoplasm, and the differential calculus. On the financial side*—a side not overlooked in Scotland—a sensation was made by the generous gift of £10,000 by a Dundee jute manufacturer—Dr. Caird—to the funds of the Association. Scientifically speaking, the centre of interest has been the Address of the President, Professor Schaefer. This is always a great event. The custom is for the President to deal exhaustively, yet in a popular manner, with some interesting problem in his own particular branch of science, or —alternatively—to give a kind of summarized description of recent scientific advance in other departments—in short, a scientific stocktaking, showing where we are. Professor Schaefer, being a biologist, took as his subject "The Nature, Origin, and Maintenance of Life," and practically confined himself to it. Beginning with the claim—which surely must be allowed—that the phenomena of life, like all other phenomena, are the legitimate objects of scientific investigation, he proceeded to show that these phenomena are of a chemical or physical nature. Hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, with minute quantities of a few phosphates and chlorides, combine in various complicated ways to make up a complex molecule; these molecules have the various properties which we sum up in the term "vitality," as the molecules of water, composed of hydrogen and oxygen, manifest the properties of "aquosity." There is no need t*) assume any metaphysical or mysterious "vital force" or "vital principle." Given the molecule, its properties appear. Voila tout. Where Did Life Come From? Consequently, such a question as this should not be asked, any more than "where does aquosity come from?" Many absurd.answers have, nevertheless, been given. Lord Kelvin surmised that life-germs might perhaps have landed on our planet from other parts of space, brought by a meteorite. But this is a wild and improbable guess. It would take about sixty million years for a meteorite to travel from the nearest stellar system to our earth, and it is inconceivable that any form of life could be maintained during such a period. Even from the nearest planet, 150 years would be required; and the heating of the meteorite in passing through our atmosphere, and its impact with the earth, would in all probability destroy any life which it might have contained. Moreover, such a guess does not solve the pro blem of life's origin; it merely pushes it a stage further back. Even if life arrived here in a meteorite, we should still want to know where it came from, and how it arose. How did it start in the first instance?-—that is what we want to know. Spontaneous Generation The most scientific theory is that life arose on our own planet, when the chemical and physical conditions were suitable. This is an hypothesis, not a dogma; but it is a truly reasonable and scientific hypothesis, and the objections that have been urged against it are mostly baseless. E. </., it has been said: "Why, if life arose from non-living matter, do we not find it so arising now?" There are two answers. First, the temperature and general conditions of the earth's crust and atmosphere are now different and perhaps less favorable. Second, are we so very sure that life is not so arising, even now? Quite probably we have not been looking for it in the right place. It would be absurd to expect to find stones changing into animals, and it is only a little less absurd to expect to find dead matter changing suddenly into a substance so comparatively highly organized as a cell. Life, at its first appearance, whether in remote times or now, probably begins in pieces of unorganized matter, much lower in the scale than a cell; mere colloidal watery slime which, if we could examine it, would seem on the borderline between living and non-living, difficult to classify in either category. It is quite likely, now that we realise what to look for, that we may find this substance—may find life, in very low forms, emerging from the nonliving. The Misty Boundary Line The hypothesis is supported by recent researches which have caused the dividing line between living and nonliving to become vague and indistinct. Formerly it was believed that a sharp line separated the two. We now know that it is not so. Take, for instance, the most obvious manifestation of life, viz., movement. We watch a small mass of low living matter—amoeba Umax—and see it changing its shape, throwing out projections of its structureless substance, creeping from one part of the field of the microscope to another; and we say it is living, and give it a name. But physicists now show us movements of precisely similar character in substances which no one can regard as living; movements of oil drops, of organic and inorganic mixtures, even of mercury globules, which are indistinguishable in their character from those of living organisms, yet obviously produced as the result of purely physical and chemical reactions causing changes in surface tension of the fluids under examination. And as to the supposedly characteristic phenomena of assimilation and disassim- ilation—the taking in of food and its elaboration—we now find the same process in the osmotic phenomena presented by solutions separated from one another by semi-permeable membranes. In fact it is becoming every day more apparent that the chemistry and physics of the living organism are essentially the chemistry and physics of nitrogenous colloids. There is no sharp boundary between living and non-living; we may find the latter turning into the former—perhaps in deep-sea dredgings—or may even be able to do it artificially in the laboratory. But in either case the life-form will be low—will be on the boundary line. We need not expect to be able to manufacture dogs or cats or even cells. The first appearance will be in colloidal slime. But, of course, given plenty of colloidal slime at a distant period, the other and higher forms of life follow, according to the inevitable laws of evolution. As the French proverb has it, "it is only the first step that costs" (ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute). Religious Aspect It was formerly thought that any such scientific advance as this would undermine Religion. We now know that nothing is farther from the truth. Philosophy and Religion can never be undermined by Science. They deal with things from different sides. Science enquires into the "how" of things; finds out what happens in the phenomenal world, and links those happenings together by laws; but Science has nothing to say about why they happen, nothing to say about the ultimate explanation of the whole universe, which is inconceivably greater than the tiny part of it at which the various sciences scratch and dig with their tiny implements. As Carlyle said, we are like minnows in a creek; they know their immediate surroundings, but what do they know of the vast ocean-currents, and tides, and' Moon's Eclipses, by all of which their little creek is affected? Such a minnow is Man; his creek this planet Earth. Science will never explain everything. Philosophy—the rational explanation of the Universe—and Religion—the emotional attitude of the soul towards the whole of cosmic law —will still hold their place. And indeed Science, from an apparent enemy, is turning into a friend; for, the more we learn of this wonderful universe, the more there is for Philosophy to explain, and the more there is for Religion to contemplate with wonder and awe. We are lifting the veils of Nature one by one; and with each removal her face becomes more grandly beautiful, more awe-inspiring. Man-made dogmas may crumble and vanish, being only temporary vessels for the holding of Truth; but the Truth remains, and as we learn more of it we shall learn to make more fitting vessels for it, shall learn to worship it more worthily, by lives of service to the common good, and by humility and adoration towards the inconceivable Source of All. Canon Barnett and\ Toynbee Hall "By Charles Gribble Some Reminiscences of Victoria An Appreciation of Mr. Edgar Fawcett's Latest Work One of the most delightful surprises I have enjoyed for a long time was furnished when my good old friend, Mr. Edgar Fawcett, handed me a copy of his book, just published by William Briggs of Toronto and entitled "Some Reminiscences of Old Victoria," It is just the work for which I have been looking—the production of a man who has lived in Victoria for more than half a century, and ha9 been able to watch the Capital City of British Columbia making history. During this time, Mr. Fawcett has not only been a keen observer of men and affairs, and an intelligent student of contemporary history, but has been able to prepare a volume with high literary quality and interesting illustrations. In his book will be found authentic portraits of most of the great men who have been associated with the public life of the Province, from Sir James Douglas to the present brilliant native son, Sir Richard McBride, who has directed its destinies along the path of success. In addition to many interesting reminiscences of tlle roll of great men who have handled our affairs, Mr. Fawcett presents a number of exceedingly interesting views of Old Victoria, starting with the Hudson's Bay stockade, the old bastion and fort. As a compendium of old-timers, many of whose descendents are today leading citizens, the book is invaluable; indeed, in every walk of life there are some of our citizens who will find a branch or a root of their genealogical tree in Mr. Fawcett's compendium. His work is well and carefully done, as might have been expected of one who is a lover of literature and a master of English. Wherever historic documents are referred to, the proper references are given, and, as far as I am able to judge, the book is likely to become a classic. Not the least interesting feature will be found on page 236, where Mr. Fawcett gives a complete list of the survivors of the 20,000 people who arrived in Victoria from San Francisco in 1858, the first year of the gold excitement. The book is so full of valuable matter that it is impossible in the brief space of this reveiew to do'more than to indicate its general excellence and reliability, and to advise every reader of The Week to purchase a copy. W. B. (Reprinted from T. P.'s Weekly) All the world knows Canon Bar-I nett, of Bristol, and remembers thatl he was the first Warden of Toynbeel Hall, itself the first of those so-f called "Settlements," instituted in thel eighties; to brighten and diversify life| in the East End of London. The present writer is old enough to re-l member the day and the hour whenl the Canon, then Vicar of Saint Jude'sl Whitechapel, and already known t( the few as a man of parts, ideas, am energy, swam, like a new planet, int( the ken of the community at large. The Oxonian Conscience The place was Oxford, and the timl was the time when Oxford was gettl ing tired of the Esthetic Movement There had been, it was then felt, tol much posing and posturing beforl blue china, and sunflowers, and pe^ cocks' feathers; too much writing languorous, sensuous poetry in in tation of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; td affected a profession of "intensity and "utterness"; too great a reacj ness to "exist beautifully," instead standing up to life in the warri| spirit. So, in due course, all of a su den, and almost without warning, t Philistines rose in revolt against t ./Esthetes. They forced their oal and ragged their rooms, and made h of their precious possessions, a tried to improve the characters of t .Esthetes themselves by means of cold-water cure under the colled pumps. The hint was taken. Til .Esthetes had their hair cut, and p| on high collars, and did their best behave like other people. But thel disappearance left a gap. Oxford fe the need of a new cult—a new e thusiasm—to take the place of th which had been lost; and so, som how or other—for the precise proce might be difficult to trace—Oxfoi began to interest itself, in the tn missionary spirit, in questions rela ing to the condition of the peopl It might be hard to say who set tl ball rolling; but one may name thr< books, none of them by Oxford me which appeared to prick the OxonijT .conscience. The first was "How th] Poor Live," by Mr. G. R. Sims; til second was "The Bitter Cry of Oui cast London," by an excellent Coil gregational divine; the third waT Walter Besant's novel, "All Sort) and Conditions of Men." The tw| former works pictured the misery the destitute; the last-named dwell rather on the monotony of life il the mean streets east of Aldgat| Pump. The Guide All three of them inspired eloquen sermons, and the sermons moved tin hearts of undergraduates. The vagu feeling that something ought to b done gradually took shape as a feel ing that something ought to be don by Oxford men, and that Oxford mei ought to go to the East End to do ii Exactly what they ought to do wal not, at first, so clear as it might hav been. An inspired and experience guide was needed to point out th precise path of usefulness; and th hour brought forth man in the perf son of the Reverend Samuel Bameti of Saint Jude's, Whitechapel, who ha been watching this outburst of hu mauitarian enthusiasm, and thinkin out a way of turning it into a profif able channel. Imagination and Action A memorable debate at the Oxforl ■Union furnished him with his oppoif tunity. It was hardly a debate in th proper sense of the word, for ther was no oppos'Jon, all the speaker being on the same side. Perhaps on should call it a demonstration rathe than a debate; and it was a demon stration of which Canon Barnett, him self a Wadham man, was the outi standing figure. He confronted hi audience with a gravely friendly fac —a man of imagination who was als a man of action—and told them, wit! a pleasing sympathetic voice, of th plan which he had thought out fo them. It was very hard, he pointei out, for the East-Enders to civilise eacl (Continued on Page 7) THE WEEK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912 BUILDING PERMITS September 24 to October 1 [September 24— J. Carr—Joseph St.—Dwelling $ 2,800 W. B. Young—Hilda St.—Dwelling 2,550 J. T. MacLaglan—Olive St.—Dwelling 4,000 W. J. Maher—Menzie and Niagara—Apts. and Stores 15,000 September 25— Mrs. Allen—Niagara St.—Dwelling '......,'...... 2,000 Beaumont & Drummond—Chamberlain St.—Dwelling. ..'■.. 5,600 September 27— Misses Brown—Fairfield St.—Dwelling 5,500 Jas. Atkins—Simcoe St.—Dwelling 3,800 C. Caplen—Fifth St.—Dwelling 1,000 Seventh Day Adventists—Grahame St.—Church 3,000 W. C. VanMunster—Howe St.—Dwelling 2,500 J. L. Wilson—Howe St.—Dwelling 4,000 feptember 30— H. M. Parker—Clare St.—Dwelling 2,500 Harry Mann—Victor St.—Dwelling 1,200 C. E. Pearsons—Fifth St.—Dwelling 2,200 Chee Kang Gong—Fisguard St.—Add. to Dwelling 5,200 Jas. Purdy—Robertson St.—Dwelling 2,450 W. Robertson—Pembroke St.—Dwelling 3,000 P. Criddle—Dallas Rd.—Add. to Hotel 1,000 W. S. Maher—Niagara St.—Store 1,000 Jalland Bros—Wellington St.—Dwelling 2,600 P. E. George—Mars and Highwood—Dwelling 1,000 A. McCrimmon—Linden Ave.—Dwelling 3,500 :tober 1— T. Kirkpatrick—Lee Ave.—Dwelling 2,400 Lee Woy—St. Charles St.—Greenhousees 3,750 Wm. Rochert—Davie St.—Dwelling 2,400 CANADA AND THE PANAMA CANAL (By Fred. W. Field) Canada's Pacific Ports, Their Facilities and Shipping Supposing that the necessary harbor facilities are provided by Ir Pacific ports, we may reasonably expect expansion in the shipping Jtronizing those harbors. The railroads may be expected not only provide a certain amount of terminal elevator ancl dockage facili- b, but also further steamship lines. It was feared at one time lat legislation proposed at Washington would prevent Canadian leamships owned by Canadian railroads from using the Canal. This is denied by Judge Adamson, the author of the legislation. The |)ubtful section of his bill applied only to the coastwise commerce the United States and to railroads which are common carriers fider the Interstate Commerce Act. The section in question provides that after July lst, 1913, it lall be unlawful for any railroad or other common carrier subject I the Act to regulate commerce, to own, lease, operate, control, or have any interest whatever in any common carrier by water with Ihich said railroad or other carrier aforesaid does or may compete Ir traffic. It would vest the Interstate Commerce Commission with nrisdiction to determine questions of fact, as whether there is com- etition between rail and water carriers as contemplated in this Iction. The Canadian Pacific Railway already has steamship services the Orient and to Europe. The Canadian Northern Railway also [s an Atlantic steamship line. When the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways have completed their roads from |ast to coast, we may reasonably expect the establishment by them Atlantic and Pacific services, as the case may be. Both the linadian Pacific and Grand Trunk Pacific have services along the last of British Columbia. Shipping at Vancouver—Even without the Panama Canal, Van- ■Jiiver shipping has grown rapidly. The following figures, showing total number of vessels and tonnage inwards and outwards, |:luding coasting, illustrate this fact:— Year Vessels Tonnage 1896 4,871 1,496,827 1906 10,763 3,563,342 1911 16,775 8,038,913 Activity in regard to the Canal is noticeable in all important lipping centres. The Compania Trasatlantica, of Cadiz and Bar- lona, principal of the Spanish steamship concerns, will establish a Ivice via the Canal to the North Pacific Coast ports. This com- Iny operates a fleet of modern passenger and freight steamers .from Idiz and Barcelona to New York, South American ports and in the Jaditerranean. The company expects to handle large emigrant jiffic to the Pacific coast ports by way of the Canal. Establish at Vancouver or Victoria—The special representative the Royal Mail Steam Packet Line, who has already visited our Lcific Coast and the Panama zone, may recommend that the head- Give Your Typist Good Stationery and She'll Give You Better Work Baxter Gf Johnson Co Limited 618 Fort St. Phone 730 Vhe Taylor Mill Co. Limited All kinds of Building Material Lumber .' Sash .' Dooi Telephone 564 North Government Street, Victoria Royal Bank Chambers Vuftoria, B. C. Thomas Hooper Jlrchitect 522 Winch Building Vancouver, B. C. BRITISH COLUMBIA Contains 252,800,000 acres of rich farm and fruit lands, timter, mineral and coal lands. Railroads now building will open up to settlers and investors. 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When he was in Victoria, he stated that if proper railroad connections were provided and cargoes could be assembled and distributed there at the same expense as at other coast ports he would favour that port being made the terminus of the line. Construction has been commenced in Germany of the first passenger and cargo steamer specially designed for the trade to the North Pacific ports via Panama Canal. This steamer, a vessel of about 8,000 tons register, is being built at the Weser shipyards for the Hamburg-Amerika line. The Holland-Amerika line has announced that it will shortly order two steamers for this business, and the Swedish-Johnston line of Christiana is preparing to construct vessels. Many Lines Interested—The Blue Funnel Line, which is now operating a fleet of the largest freighters in the Pacific trade from Liverpool and the Orient, will add two new steamers to the line. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha have announced the construction of two new steamers, to be known as the Yokohama Maru and the Shict- zouka Maru. Another Japanese line has been investigating ports on the Gulf of Mexico with a view toward inaugurating a line from Japan through the Panama Canal. The Kosmos line has announced four new steamers for the Pacific trade, each to be of about 12,000 tons. This company has already a large fleet of freighters in the service, and is planning on making use of the Panama Canal with an extended service. The Harrison line, which inaugurated a service to Puget Sound a few months ago to be early in the field to secure traffic which will develop via the Panama Canal, is building three large steamers. London to Vancouver—From the Tyne comes the interesting news that not a few of the steamships now building on the north-east coast are designed for the navigation of the Panama Canal. The orders for these vessels have been placed quietly, and in many cases it is not yet known for which particular branch of the Pacific trade they are intended. A leading English shipping concern controlling two hundred steamers is said to be making preliminary arrangements for a regular cargo service between London or Liverpool and Vancouver. Grain from Alberta and timber and fruit from British Columbia will constitute the chief home-bound cargo at low freight rates. Investigating Pacific Ports—In New York maritime circles, representatives of important British shipping interests are reported to be investigating Pacific ports to discover where the best terminals for steamship lines between Great Britain and the ports upon the North American Pacific coast can be located. —Monetary Times. For Sale 497 feet of waterfrontage on main channel of Fraser River, with 369 feet on Annacis Avenue, and near the proposed bridge shown on official map of Westminster Harbor. An Ideal Industrial Site $24,000 One-fifth cash, balance 6, 12, 18, 24 months Apply to Pearce, Carlin & Co. 509 Sayward Building, Victoria TENDERS TENDERS addressed to the undersigned at Ottawa and marked on \he envelope 'Tender for the purchase of the 'C. G. S. Georgia'," will be received up until noon of the TWENTY-FIFTH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1912, fori the purchase of the Canadian Government | Steamer "Georgia" now moored at the Government wharf at Sapperton, B. C. The leading dimensions of the steamer are| as follows: Length of keel 60 ft. Breadth outside 11 ft. Depth moulded 6 ft. Each tender must be accompanied by ; accepted cheque on a chartered Canadian Bat equal to ten per cent of the total amount the tender, which cheque will be forfeited should the successful tenderer decline to purl chase the steamer at his tender price. Cheque! accompanying unsuccessful tender will be re| turned. All tenders must be made with the distincl understanding that the successful tenderer wif pay for the steamer in cash when he notified that his tender has been accepted. All tenders must be for the steamer as shJ now stands and no apparel or equipment wil be furnished by the Department with the e?f ception of what is now on board. The highest or any tender not necessarij accepted. Deputy Minister Marine and Fisherie| A. JOHNSTON, Department of Marine and Fisheries, —28529. Ottawa, September 19, 1912. oct. 5 oct. I WATER NOTICE For a Licence to Take and Use Water! NOTICE is hereby given that The Portll Cement Construction Co., Ltd., of Victol B.C., will apply for a licence to take and F 0.2 cub. feet per sec. of water out of Ca Creek, which flows in an easterly directl through Lots 73, 118, 143 and 144 and el ties into Saanich Inlet near opposite *■ Creek. The water will be diverted at 100 ' west of bridge over China Creek and will] used for Industrial purposes on the land scribed as Lots 118, 73, 74, 75, 95, 127. This notice was posted on the ground 1 the 18th day of September, 1912. The apl cation will be filed in the office of the Wa| Recorder at Victoria. Objections may be filed with the said Wal Recorder or with the Comptroller of Wa| Rights, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B. THE PORTLAND CEMENT CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD., AppHcal By F. A. Devereux, Agd sept. 21 oct.| All that fails to glitter is not mud. When you would put off till to-morrow m tell yourself that your rival is doing it todl In the arch of success, tact is the keystd TIME IS MONEY Cook with The VICTORIA GAS COMPANY, LTD. 652 Yates Street THE WEEK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912 ICANON BARNETT (Continued on Page 4) Iher. They must be civilised from litside. It was specially desirable that |ey should be civilised from Oxford, tford, possessing the secret of llture, must communicate it; but lOxford men were to do their work [ectively they must live at the scene their labours. A hostel—a Set- |ment—something of the nature of Oxford College, must be estab- Ihed in the midst of the mean reets. A steady succession of Ox- rd men must spend a few years pre, on leaving the University, learn I know the people whom they probed to help, enter into their lives, make personal friends among Im. They might go forth every Irning to their labours in Fleet leet or the City, but they would lum every evening to Whitechapel, |tead of Earl's Court or Wimble- and take part in the social and licational activities of the place, phing, lecturing, attending public ^tings, helping the clergy, organis- and directing rational kinds of ^rtainment. Such was the scheme; men cheered it as they might cheered a call to arms. Left to If, no doubt, the enthusiasm would li have died away like all under- Juate enthusiasms; but Canon liett knew human nature too well live it a chance of doing that. He ected his money, and started his [lenient, and found men to settle It was called Toynbee Hall, af- Amold Toynbee, the brilliant lng Oxford economist, who died so ■maturely; and it was the first of Ily Settlements of the same kind, lere the Broad Churchman had led way the High Churchman foiled, founding the Settlement at Ihnal Green, over the destinies of ich the present Bishop of London ■long presided. Then the Congre- lionalists took a leaf out of the |ik of the Church, and established Settlement which had Mr. W. T. lad's brother for its Principal; and Isently the mean streets were fur- Ir studded with Settlements direct- |from Cambridge, and from sundry ne public schools. Some of them te more specifically devoted to soli, and others to religious work, but of them have, in their several Iys, done work which needed doing, mon Barnett, in short, had, on that (morable evening at the Oxford (lion Debating Society, inaugurated Movement, sometimes spoken of as last, or latest, of the Oxford lavements—a Movement which still Intinues, though he himself is a vet eran who has well earned his right to retire to a less laborious office. The Amende Honorable The present writer (if he may refer to himself again) has pleasant memories of a visit which he paid to Toynbee Hall in its comparatively early days. It was his privilege to attend a reception there, and afterwards to write an article about that reception for the "Sun," in the days when that journal was edited by the present Editor of this paper, with Mr. Louis Tracy—the Mr. Louis Tracy who now writes the sensational stories of crime and mystery—---for his second-in-command. He afterwards heard that his article had given more satisfaction in the newspaper office than at the Settlement. Perhaps there was some reason why it was likely to do so. Perhaps he did devote too large a proportion of his space to the complimenting of a charming daughter of culture whose acquaintance he then made, and whom he has never seen since, but whose frank friendliness and affable conversation caused him to pass an - extremely agreeable evening. Perhaps he ought not to have mentioned the fact that he was privileged to escort the lady as far as her doorstep. Or, perhaps, someone in the "Sun" office ought to have struck that passage out. His excuse is that he and the editor and the assistant editor of the "Sun" were all a great deal younger then than tkey are now, and that youth, with a pen in its hand, is rather apt to rejoice in this sort of audacious impertinence. Now that he is married and middle-aged—of a sober habit and a grave demeanour—he not only admits that his earlier levity was unbecoming, but grasps at the chance offered to him of making the amende honorable. For the work which he could even then perceive to have been done at Toynbee Hall was a very fine piece of work indeed. In the midst of a very horrible part of London a new atmosphere had been, as it were, created. Just round the corner was the Whitechapel Road—a foul and blatant thoroughfare in which the struggle for life proceeded with disgusting coarseness. Within, albeit the guests were mostly the sons and daughters of the people, there was culture, and good manners, and an intelligent appreciation of what is best in art, and music, and literature. The transformation, truly, was a marvellous achievement, exalting one's belief in the possibilities of human nature, and filling one with the desire to sing Canon Barnett's praises, and to adorn the walls with a tablet in his honour bearing the inscription: "Si Monu- mentum Requiris, Circumspice." THREE ROYAL DENTAL PLEASURES FOR YOUR CHOOSING ToothPaste Truly "a Dainty Paste for Dainty People"—for it embodies not only perfect cleansing and antiseptic qualities but conveniences in use that make it unique amongst dentifrices. The winding key at the base of the tube enables you to use every atom of paste—and keep the tube neat and plump at all times. Then too, the Paste itself comes from its tube in a ribbon of special shape that clings closely to the brush-avoiding waste, saving time and temper. Owing to the antiseptic qualities of Royal Vinolia Tooth Paste, the teeth are not only made white and lustrous, but are preserved from decay. Price 25 cents. 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A perfect tooth and mouth cleanser though it is—its action goes much further, for germs of disease as well as tooth-decay are daily eliminated from the mouth. Children delight in Royal Vinolia Fluid Dentifrice; there is no trouble in teaching them the habit of tooth clean* liness with its use. Price 25 cents. VINOLIA COMPANY LIMITED, London, Paris, Toronto By appointment Soapmakart to H.M. THE KING. TAX SALES ISALE OF LANDS FOR DELINQUENT TAXES IN THE VICTORIA ASSESSMENT DISTRICT, PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that, on Saturday, the 12th day of October, 1912, at the |hour of 10 o'clock a.m., in the Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B. C., I shall sell at public Tiuction the lands in the list hereinafter set out, of the persons in said list hereinafter set out, for delinquent taxes unpaid by said persons on the 31st day of December, 1911, and for nterest, costs, and expenses, including the cost of advertising said sale, if the total amount lis not sooner paid. Name of Person Assessed litchell Innes, E. G lutch, John, Estate ■shop, Geo §an, T. J Jiylor, J. H Iiwers, Mrs. Lizzie IcCurdy, H. B lamilton, R. J • •••' lirrington, M. J. L. and G.. landas, F. A IcDonald, Jas lale, A. W. 1 C. Junk & Hardware Co, ■irton, Geo. S ■ bb, Thos. Alex ■ewart, Alex loth, W. H [jbson, A. H Iileman, Mr locker, Florence Agnes ... lanigan, J. W lalton, G. M Iirard, Lamerta I alton, G. M Iiild, E. Constance l-een, Mrs. Dora Irbes, Fredk. H l-ooks, Mrs. Mary ■osse, Capt. J. T busins, W Short Description of Property «t/_ _ ESQUIMALT DISTRICT Lots 5 to 25, 29 to 34, of Suburban Lot 24, and that part of Suburban Lot 24, known as Lot 46, Reg. Map 316A Part Suburban Lot 40, that portion south of Albert Ave., as per Reg. Map 1056 Lot 5, Suburban Lot 43, Reg. Map 446 Lot 13 and W. _. Lot 14,, Subdiv. of Suburban Lots 37 and 45, as per Deed Plan 54.. Lot 11, Reg. Map 822 of Suburban Lot 48... Lot 9, Reg. Map 822, of Suburban Lot 48.... Lot 13, Reg. Map 822 of Suburban Lot 48.... Lot, Bk. B, Reg. Map 772 Lot 6, Bk. B, Reg. Map 772. Lots 23, 24, Bk. C, Reg. Map 772 I Lots 12, 13, Bk. D, Reg. Map ;*72 Lots 13 and 14, Reg. Map 1050, 10.49 ac... Lot 24, Reg. Map 326 j Lots 7 and 8, Reg. Map 276 East SS ft. of Lot 19, Bk. E, Reg. Map 19s., Lot 11, Reg. Map 946 Lot 18, Reg. Map 946 Lots 16 and 17, Bk. B, Reg. Map 292 Lots 22 and 23, Bk. C, Reg. Map 292 Lot 24, Reg. Map 265 Lot s, Bk. A, Reg. Map 1071 Lot 6, Bk. A, Reg. Map 1071 Lot is, Bk. A, Reg. Map 1071 Lots 4 and 5, Bk. B, Reg. Map 1071 Lots 1 to 4, Reg. Map 424 Lots 39, 40, 43, Reg. Map 424 Lot 44, Reg. Map 424 Lot 49, Reg. Map 424 Part Sec. 35, as described in Indenture No. 11911 at L. R. O., 14.9 ac Part Sec. 69, as per Deed No. 14591 at L. R. 0., Yi ac 15 00 6 2 50 3 2 00 2 00 1 50 1 SO 2 25 8 50 3 50 5 25 7 14 00 6 25 20 00 3 SO $ 4 90 I 95 80 50 50 75 2 80 30 4 60 2 05 2 15 ■ 05 2 05 1 60 * 45 i'ljj 60 ■ 95 1 '5 1 30 65 1 20 25 $ 95 35 15 1 00 15 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 I 00 1 00 I 00 I 00 1 00 1 00' I 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 I 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 I 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 2 00 1 00 $21 85 9 30 4 45 4 15 3 10 3 10 3 10 3 10 4 15 8 30 20 45 9 70 10 05 5 50 9 80 7 65 11 40 3 85 fi 15 3 45 4 90 9 .'.0 5 85 6 55 3 75 24 20 4 90 Name of Person Assessed Short Description of Property win _ So Allen, Edward Holt, Thomas G. ... Grant, Alexander F. Weiler, Geo Sims, J. R Burrowes, G. J Ferguson, R. N Scott, W.__M. Appleby, Wm Mann, Mrs. Isabella Ashton, Mr McTntyre, D. N Williams, J. Edw Taylor, W. A Thomas, Ben Davies, Tom C Young, J. J., & Cooper, F. H.. Glading. C. J Cameron. Alex., Estate Braine, Frank Gerard, W. Burdette Wilkinson, John S Malahat Sand & Gravel Co. Henshell, Anna L Butler, John Christiansen, Walter T. Tite, Julia Roberts, Mrs. Clara Carter, Arthur Holforcl, Cen Green, Frank ,*, Harry W. Gallagher. S. I'., & Ellis, I,. H. Wilson, A. E Dale, Bonnycastle White, A. D l'utler, Audrey Sargent, H. I* Stewart. G, and J Part Sec. 69, as per Deed No. 15298 at L. R. 0., io.8t ac Section 75, 100 ac , Part Section 117, Esquimalt, and part Sections 1 and 2, R. O. W., Highland, as per Deed No. 1750, L. R. 0., 35 ac Lot 23 of Suburban Lots 19 ana 20 Lots 19, 22, and 23, Reg. Map 446 Lot 3, Bk. C, Reg. Map 772 Lots 7 and 8, 10 to 12, 14 and 16, Ilk. C, Reg. Map 772 Lots 9, 10, 17, and 18, Reg. Map 32fi Lot 5, Reg. Map 267 Lot 23, Bk. E, Reg. Map 195 L,ot 74, Reg. Map 265 Lot 85, Reg. Map 265 Lot 27, Reg. Map 424 Lot 8, Reg. Map 1071 Lots 9 and 10, Keg. Map 885 Lots 7 and 8, Reg. Map 1050 Lot is, Reg. Map 1050 Lot II, pt. Sec. 70, Reg. Map m Lots 6 and 35, l't. Section 98 Section 107, 106 ac 3 ac. GOLDSTREAM DISTRICT Section 118, 640 ac MALAHAT DISTRICT Lot 18, 98 ac Part Lot 79, 34.6 ac, as per Deed 1470, L. R. O Lots 1 and 4, Bk. 35, Map 218R Lots 8 and 9, Bk. 15, Reg, Map 218A... Lots 11 and 12, Bk. 15, Reg. Map 218A. Lot 45, Reg. Map 728 No. METCHOSIN DISTRICT Section 25, 100 ac Lot 9, Reg. Map 846, 11-82 ac Section 17, 100 ac Section 113, 100 ac SOOKE DISTRICT Sections 30 and 31, 271 ac Section 107, 150 ac. Section 130, 212 ac Lots 31 to 34, Reg. Map 217 East 10 ac. of Scc. 20, as per No. 1639.1, L. R. 0 Indenture RENFREW DISTRICT Section 84, 135 ac S.W. part of S.E. <A of Sec. 12, Tp. 1 per Deed No. 6114, L. R. 0., 12 ac. N. ■/_ of Sec. 7, Tp. 14, 286 ac 22 50 17 50 % S 00 6 00 1 75 2 25 2 50 1 00 6 00 7 50 4 52 16 00 6 00 75 50 00 1 80 1 50 80 6'5 2 00 2 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 2 00 05 2 60 26 95 20 30 3 70 1 C5 6 10 fi 95 2 OD 4 10 ■ 85 6 65 1 50 • 65 1 20 1 60 1 40 1 10 1 30 4 20 87 65 $ 7 25 8 30 2 85 3 35 3 60 2 05 8 50 11 40 7 00 57 70 18 75 8 30 1 fis 2 30 00; 22 95 2 00 2 80 2 ool lio 60 $ 2 00 2 00 I 00 I 00 I 00 1 00 2 00 1 00 2 00 2 00 Victoria, B, C, September 17th, 1912. E. E. LEASON, Assessor and Collector for the Victoria Assessment District. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912 CANADA Her Rights to be Mindful of Her own safety--An Outline Written for The Week by C. B. S. "The French Revolution annihilated, at a single blow, the scrupulous, hesitation to make war feed war, to annul civil rights when the cannons roar, and to live from the country in which the campaign takes place."— ("Nation in Arms," Vonder Goltz.) Whatever scruples may influence the non-militarism conscience of a large proportion of the people of Canada, they must surely be awake to the fact that the Dominion must be safe-guarded against aggression from powers holding republican principles based on the lines here quoted, Successful naval wars have always fed war; this may be a vanishing principle, but it has hitherto been an invariable fact which all past history can support. If command of the sea has ever been of any value to Britain it is vital to the very existence of the British Empire of the future and it can only be upheld by:—(a) Good policy; (b) Preparation for war; (c) Wealth. In the world's struggle for (c) we already have it and fortunately more than our share perhaps, so why not employ a proper proportion of it towards its increase by means of (a) and (b)? Where there is no necessity for war-like disagreements there is none for peace compacts and agreements, and since the latter seem to be coming more fashionable every day between the civilized great powers, it would seem that the state of peace stability is tottering prior to a fall. The sooner Canada realizes that the more efficient the forward policy towards her prosperous development the earlier will the wolf appear at her door, unless she safeguards herself, the better. The conquest of the air as a means of transport in these days of such rapid improvements in machinery render cut and dried defence schemes out of the question, we must look to something different from the stationary forts and armaments of the past and work even our heaviest land, both coast and interior defences, on our railways, tramway systems and roads. In all future projects the laying out of communications must be considered to some extent with a view to their protection; happily these can be so easily reconciled that even now very little modification would render the position of the existing and projected railway systems almost perfect for the efficient mobilization of the necessary military at any threatened point along the enormous length of the Dominion from the Atlantic to the Pacific. i We must realize the fact that it is of the utmost importance to keep open complete overland communication in Imperial interests and that the more serious the war-like disturbances on the Atlantic and Pacific may become the less will be the chances of our utilizing the two canals; they could be so easily closed or blocked at any time. One very important point in connection with a mobile system of defence is that enormous scope is given for the holding of camps of exercise on fresh ground and opportunity given to personnel to familiarize themselves with artillery armaments and the up-to-date equipments, instead of wasting time playing about with the old fashioned weapons now only fit for the scrap-heap. K Canada has given the other Dominions a lead and convinced the Mother Country of her loyalty on the road of peace and progress, she can far more easily continue and complete the role by securing what she has already accomplished in arranging for her defence on the lines suggested. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT District of Renfrew TAKE notice that Twossie Robertson, of Chicago, 111., occupation Spinster, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post ?ilanted 80 chains north and 80 chains west rom the south-west corner of T. L. 42601; thence north 80 chains; thence east 40 cnains; thence south 40 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence 40 chains; thence west 80 chains fo point of commencing, containing 480 acres, more or less. Dated July 8th, 1012. TWOSSIE ROBERTSON. Stanley Wood, Agent, aug. 10 oct. 5 "LAND REGISTRY ACT" In the matter of an application for a fresh Certificate of Title to part 10 acres of Section 35, Esquimalt District. NOTICE is hereby given of my intention at the expiration of one calendar month from the first publication hereof to issue a fresh Certificate of Title in lieu of the Certificate of Title issued to Kate Jenkins on the 28th day of October, 1908, and numbered 18932C, which has been lost. , , , Dated at Land Registry Office, Victoria, British Columbia, this 23rd day of September, I9'2' S. Y. WOOTTON, Registrar General of Titles. sept. 28 <"**■«• '6 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT District of Renfrew TAKE notice that Nellie Robertson, of Chicago, 111., occupation Married Woman, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted about 40 chains east and 20 chains south from the north-east corner of Lot 49; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement, containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated July 8th, 1012. NELLIE "' aug. 10 ROBERTSON, Stanley Wood, Agent, oct. s VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT District of Renfrew TAKE notice that Lily Heisterman, of Victoria, B. C, occupation Married Woman, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands;—Commencing at a post planted about 40 chains east from the north-east corner of Lot 49; thence north 60 chains; thence west 80 cnains; thence south 60 chains; thence east 80 chains to point of commencement, containing 480 acres, more or less. Dated July 8th, 1912. LILY HEISTERMAN, Stanley Wood, Agent, aug. 10 oct. 5 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT District of Renfrew TAKE notice that Olive I. Heisterman, of Victoria, B. C, occupation Spinster, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted on the south boundary of Lot 580; 80 chains west from the north-west corner of T. L. 1746; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement, containing 640 acres. Dated July ioth, 1912. OLIVE I. HEISTERMAN, Stanley Wood, Agent, aug. 10 oct. 5 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT District of Renfrew TAKE notice that Elize Ely, of Victoria, B. C, occupation Married Woman, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted at the south-west corner of Lot 580, being T. L. 1727; thence north 80 chains; thence west about 60 chains to the south-east corner of Lot 56; thence south 80 chains; thence east 60 chains to point of commencement, containing 480 acres, more or less. Dated July ioth, 1012. ELIZE ELY, aug. 10 Stanley Wood, Agent, oct. s CANCELLATION OF RESERVE NOTICE is hereby given that the Reserve existing by reason of the notice published in the British Columbia Gazette of the 27th of December, 1907, over a parcel of land situated on Proincess Louisa Iniet, New Westminster District, formerly covered by Timber License 30564, which has lapsed, is cancelled; and that such lands will be thrown open to preemption, under the provisions of the Land Act, at midnight on Tuesday, October 15th, 1912. ROBT. A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands. Lands Department, Victoria, B. C, 16 July, 1912. july ao oct. 19 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT District of South Saanich TAKE notice that Victor Alexander George Eliot, of Victoria, B. C, occupation Stock Broker, intends to apply for permission to lease the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted on the foreshore at the north-west corner of Lot 9 of the Subdivision of part of Section 12, Range II West, South Saanich, thence following the shore line of Lots 8 and p in an easterly direction about three chains; tnence north-westerly 20 chains; thence westerly 3 chains; thence south-easterly 20 chains to the point of commencement. Dated August p, 1912. VICTOR ALEXANDER GEORGE ELIOT By his Agent, Francis Joseph O'Reilly, aug 17 oct. 12 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT District of Sooke TAKE notice that Henry Reece Ella, of Victoria, B.C., occupation Broker, intends to apply for permission to lease the following described lands:—-Commencing at a post planted at or near the south-west corner of Section (19) nineteen, Sooke District; tnence south five chains; thence east sixty chains, more or less, to the south-west corner of Section (18) eighteen; thence following high water mark in a northerly and westerly direction eighty chains, more or less, to place of commencement. Dated 5th August, 1012. HENP" aug. 10 RY REECE ELLA, oct. 5 NOTICE OF CANCELLATION NOTICE is hereby given that the Reserve existing over the lands included within Special Timber Licences Nos. 39318 and 39319, situated on the North Thompson River in the Kamloops Division of Yale District, by reason of a notice published in the British Columbia Gazette on December 27th, 1907, is cancelled and that the said lands will be open for entry by pre-emption on Thursday, December 19th, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon. ROBT. A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands. Lands Department, Victoria, B. C, ioth September, 1912. sept. 14 dec. 14 CANCELLATION OF RESERVE NOTICE is hereby given that the reserve, notice of which appeared in the British Columbia Gazette of the 25th February, 1909, being dated the 23rd February, 1909, relating to a parcel of land situated on the Eastern shore of Masset Inlet, Graham Island, is cancelled and that the vacant lands included therein will be throwi. open to pre-emption at midnight on Friday, October 4th, 1912. R. A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands. Lands Department, Victoria, B. C, -n? July, 19:2. July 6 oct. 5 CANCELLATION OF RESERVE NOTICE is hereby given that the Reserve existing over Crown Lands on Lasqueti Island, formerly covered by expired Timber Licence No. 40779.1 by reason of the notice which appeared in the British Columbia Gazette of the 27th of December, 1907, is cancelled, and the said lands will be thrown open to pre-emption only, on Friday, November first, at 9 o'clock a.m. ROBT. A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands. Department of Lands, Victoria, B. C, 19th July, 19:2. July 27 oct. 26 CANCELLATION OF RESERVE NOTICE is hereby given that the Reserve existing by reason of the notice published in the British Columbia Gazette of the 27th of December, 1907, over a parcel of land situated on Texada Island, formerly covered by Timber License 22841, which has lapsed, is cancelled; and the said lands will be thrown open to pre-emption under the provisions of the Land Act, at midnight on Tuesday, October 15th, 1912. ROBT. A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands. Lands Department, Victoria, B. C, 16 July, 1912. July 20 oct. 19 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT District of Cowichan TAKE notice that Washington Grimmer of Port Washington, B. C, occupation Farmer, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted at the south-east end of the larger of three small Islets situated in Port Washington Bay, and lying to the west of Section 23, the said small Islets containing one acre more or less. Dated August 6th, 1912. WASHINGTON GRIMMER, aug. 17 1 oct. 12 RENFREW LAND DISTRICT District of Jordan River TAKE notice that Alvin W. Steinmetz, of Oakland, California, occupation Stationer, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted at the north-west corner of Lot 77, Renfrew District, being A. W. Steinmetz' south-west corner post, north 40 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 40 chains; thence west 80 chains to place of commencement, and containing in all 320 acres more or less. Dated August 26, 1912. ALVIN WOOLVERTON STEINMETZ. By W. W. Steinmetz, Attorney, sept. 14 nov. 9 CANCELLATlbN OF RESERVE NOTICE is hereby given that the Reserve existing, by reason of the notice published in the British Columbia Gazette of the 27th December, 1907, over a parcel of land situated on Stuart Island, Range One, Coast District, formerly covered by Timber Licence No. 17652, is cancelled and that such lands will be open to entry by pre-emption under the Provisions of the Land Act, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon on Friday, November 29th, 1912. ROBT. A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands. Department of Lands, Victoria, B. C, August 27th, 1912. aug. 31 nov. 30 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT District of Renfrew TAKE notice that I, James Horace Wilson Salmon, of Victoria, B.C., occupation Clerk, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at or near the S. E. corner Post of T. L. 39fi; thence south 44 chains; thence west 80 chains, more or less, to Cheewhat Lake; thence north 4' chains, more or less, along Lake Front; thence east 80 chains, more or less, to point of commencement. Dated 12th August, 1012. JAMES HORACE WILSON SALMON. Louis C. Y. Doerr, Agent, aug. 24 oct. 19 SYNOPSIS OF COAL MINING REGULATIONS. Coal mining rights of the Dominion, in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories and in a portion of the Province of British Columbia, may be leased for a term of twenty-one years at an annual rental of $1 an acre. Not more than 2,560 acres will be leased to one applicant. Applications for a lease must be made by the applicant in person to the Agent or Suo Agent of the district in which the rights applied for are situated. In. surveyed territory the land must be described by sections, or legal sub-divisions of sections, and in unsurveyed territory the tract applied for shall be staked out by the applicant himself. Each application must be accompanied by a. fee of $5 which will be refunded if the rights applied for are not available, but not. otherwise. A royalty shall be paid on the merchantable output of the mine at the rate of five cents per ton. The person operating the mine shall furnish the Agent with sworn returns accounting for the full quantity of merchantable coal mined and pay the royalty thereon. If the coal mining rights are not being operated, such returns should be furnished at least once a year. The lease will include the coal mining rights only, but the lessee may be permitted to purchase whatever available surface rights may be considered necessary for the working* of the mine at the rate of $10.00 an acre. For full information application should be made to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, or to any Agent or Sub-Agent of Dominion Lands. W..W. CORY, Depuey Minister of the Interior. N. B.—Unauthorized publication of this advertisement will not be paid for. sept. 21 "LAND REGISTRY ACT" In the matter of an application for a fresh Certificate of Title to Lot 10, Block "P," Oak Harbour, Victoria District, (Map 848). NOTICE is hereby given of my intention, at the expiration of one calendar month from the first publication hereof, to issue a fresh Certificate of Title in lieu of the Certificate of Title issued to Simon Prins on the 24th day of March, 1910, and numbered 22812C, which has been lost. Dated at the Land Registry Office, Victoria, British Columbia, this 17th day of September, 1912. S. Y. WOOTTON, Registrar-General of Titles, sept. 21 oct. 19 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT District of Metchosin TAKE notice that I, Amy Travers, of Chateauguay, Que., occupation Married Woman, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted at the north-east corner of Section number one, Metchosin District, thence along the boundary of said Section N. 73 deg. 15 in. W. (Ast.) eighteen chains and fifty links to the shore of Lagoon, thence following the shore line of the Lagoon and Parry Bay to the place of be- f-inning;, containing ten (10) acres, more or ess. Dated September 16th, 1912. AMY FLORENCE TRAVERS. Charles Herbert Ellacott, Agent, sept. 21 nov. 16 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT District of Metchosin TAKE notice that I, Amy F. Travers, of Chateauguay, Province of Quebec, occupation Married Woman, intends to apply for permission to lease the following described lands: —Commencing at a post planted at the north-east corner of Section number one, Metchosin District, thence S. 61 deg. E. Ast., 9 chains, thence N. 57 deg. E. Ast., 12 chains; thence N. 61 deg. W. Ast., p chains, to high water mark, thence following high water mark to the place of beginning, containing 11.0 acres, more or less. Dated September 16th, 1912. AMY FLORENCE TRAVERS. Charles Herbert Ellacott, Agent, sept. 21 nov. 16 "LAND REGISTRY ACT" In the matter of an application for a fresh Certificate of Title to Section 15 North, Range 3 East, and part of Sections 16 North, Range 2 East, District of North Saanich. NOTICE is hereby given of my intention at the expiration of one calendar month from the first publication hereof to issue a fresh Certificate of Title in lieu of the Certificate of Title issued to Wilson Joseph Armstrong on the 13th day of July, 1875, ana numbered 1393 A, which has been lost or destroyed. Dated at Land Registry Office, Victoria, B.C., this 26th day of August, 1912. S. Y. WOOTTON, Registrar-General of Titles, sept. 14 oct. 12 CANCELLATION OF RESERVE NOTICE is hereby given that the Reserve existing on Crown Lands in the Peace River Land District, notice of which bearing date April 3rd, 1911, was published in the British Columbia Gazette of the 6th of April, 1911, is cancelled in so far as the same relates to Townships in, 113 and 115, Peace River Land District. ROBT. A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands. Department of Lands, Victoria, B. C, 22nd July, 1912. july 27 "it. 26 "LAND REGISTRY ACT" In the matter of an application for a fresh Certificate of Title to part 24 acres, 2 roods and 9 perches of Section 16, Range 2 East, North Saanich District, and Section 92, Victoria District. NOTICE is hereby given of my intention at the expiration of one calendar month from the first publication hereof to issue a fresh Certificate of Title in lieu of the Certificate of Title issued to Caroline Elizabeth White Birch on the 25th day of July, 1910, and numbered 23643C, which has been lost or destroyed. Dated at Land Registry Office, Victoria, British Columbia, this 25th day of September, ""',' S. Y. WOOTTON, Registrar General of Titles, oct. 5 oct. 26 VANCOUVER LAND DISTRICT , District of Coast, Range 3 TAKE notice that I, Susan Conkey, Vancouver, B.C., occupation Married Woms-I intends to apply for permission to purchaf the following described lands:—Commencil at a post planted near the mouth of tl Nossasock River, marked South West Corrl Post, thence east 40 chains, thence north I chains, more or less to South East Corner r Indian Reservation,. thence West 40 chaii thence South 10 chains to point of commen| ment. Dated August 28th, 1912. SUSAN CONKEYl oct. 5 nov.f RENFREW LAND DISTRICT District of Jordan River TAKE notice that Elmer E. Crane, Berkeley, California, occupation book-keepL intends to apply for permission to purchl the following described, lands:—Commencl at a post planted at the north-west cor| of Lot 77, Renfrew District, being E. Crane's south-east corner post, north chains, thence west 40 chains; thence sol 40 chains; thence east 40 chains to place! commencement, and containing in all 160 acf more or less. Dated August 26, 1912. ELMER EVERETT CRANE, By W. W. Steinmetz, Attornei| sept. 14 "LAND REGISTRY ACT" In the matter of an application for a fl Certificate of Title to Lot 9, Block 2I Sub-Lot 71, Fernwood Estate, Victl City, (Map 420). I NOTICE is hereby given of my intenl at the expiration of one calendar month fl the first publication hereof to issue a fl Certificate of Title in lieu of the Certificatl Title issued to Lilian Goward on the 7th f of February, 1895, and numbered 97C, has been lost. Dated at Land Registry Office, Vict| British Columbia, this 23rd day of Septen I9*2' S. Y. WOOTTON, Registrar General of Tttl| sept. 28 WATER NOTICE For a Licence to Store or Pen Back NOTICE is hereby given that The P01L Cement Construction Co., Ltd., of Vici B.C., will apply for a licence to store oj back 31 acre-feet of water from China (J a stream flowing in an easterly direction emptying into Saanich Inlet, near opd Tod Creek. The water will be stored in I small reservoirs, of 8,500,000 gals, cap! built or to be built on Lot 144 on China c and will be used for Industrial and Don purposes under application for a licencl take and use water mentioned in permit Nf posted herewith, on the land describee] Lots 118, 73, 74, 75 and 127, 95. This notice was posted on the ground the 18th day of September, 1912. The appf tion will be filed in the office of the Recorder at Victoria. Objections may be filed with the said Recorder or with the Comptroller of Rights, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, The above reservoir sites are situated] follows: No. 1—Half a mile N. W. of bridge China Creek. No. 2—Three-quarters of a mile N. bridge over China Creek. No. 3—Five-eights of a mile N. W| bridge over China Creek. And all on China Creek. THE PORTLAND CEMENT CONSTRUCTION CO.. LTl Applid By F. A. Devereux, Aq sept. 21 CANCELLATION OF RESERVE NOTICE is hereby given that the resej covering the parcel of land formerly fl under Timber Licence No. 40026, situated! the Columbia River in the vicinity of Aril Park, by reason of the notice published in I British Columbia Gazette on the 27th Decl ber, 1907, is cancelled; and that the vacl lands formerly covered by the before ml tioned licence will be open to pre-emptl only on and after the 28th day of Decemtf 1912. R. A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands] Lands Department, Victoria, B. C, 24th September, 1912. sept. 28 decl "LAND REGISTRY ACT" ln the matter 01 an application for a Frl Certificate of Title to Lot 23, of Sulf vision 76 to 81, both inclusive, of Seel] 10 (Yates Estate, Map 88), as dclineal on M^p 389, Victoria City, Bril Columbia. L NOTICE is hereby given of my intent!! at the expiration of one calender month frl the first publication hereof, to issue a frl Certificate of Title in lieu of the Certifier of Title issued to James Leslie McVicar I the ith day of April, 1909, and numbered ia which has been destroyed. I Dated at the Land Registry Office, Victol British Columbia, this 12th day of Septeml| A.D. 1912. S. Y. WOOTTON, Registrar-General of Titles] sept. 14 oct| CANCELLATION OF RESERVE NOTICE is hereby given that the reseL existing over the lands included in Spel Timber Licence No. 14830, situated on Upl Rendezvous Island, Sayward District, by if son of a notice published in the British Colli bia Gazetter on the 27th of December, tj is cancelled, and that the said lands willl open for entry by pre-emption on Janu| 15th, 1913, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon. ROBT. A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands] Lands Department, Victoria, B. C, 25th September, 1912. oct. 5 ja THE WEEK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER S, 1912 FULLBROOK-SAYERS STATIONERY COMPANY Successors to Standard Stationery Company FIVE CASES OF NEW BOOKS JUST RECEIVED Disposing of Old Stock of Books at Half Price 1220 GOVERNMENT STREET Phone 276 VICTORIA, B. C. Little Tin Gods by Junius Very Much Junior lolomon in all his glory never wed better how close his hand was the pulse of human nature than _n he wrote a chapter in "Eccle- ticus" starting with the words "Let now talk of famous men." Too people at the present day are liainted with this book which Iht well have been included in the linical book of the Bible. There |n old time superstition, which, still survives, that the books of ■Vpochrypha spell eternal damna- I to the souls of those unwary lie who dip into their pages. This It true of the Apochrypha; some Is there are which should not be labout on drawing-room tables, T'Ecclesiasticus" contains within pages the finest summing up the wisest man of his day, and tps of all days, has ever given of Irirtues, the vices and -the frailties jman nature. Ihave chosen to start this little lie with a reference to King |mon, because it seems to me that, liis chapter referred to, he has hed on that one weak spot which often observable in public men, Jthe love of notoriety. Wheta. I |"public men" I do not refer to men who are most in the public II refer to the men who are well Im in their city and whose great Ition it is to figure in the public Inore prominently than they do. Ihave headed this article "Little iGods" because the longer I live lthe older I grow I realise more Ily that there is a seotion of the Inunity which wishes to pose in |desirable capacity. To be a little ritate is the height of some men's Ition. To strut down the street a proud stomach and a lofty eanour conveys to them all the ture which life can afford. But entirely fail to realise that they Imerely little puppets; that they Ibut tin gods on wheels making It to the men who stand on street lers. at if their ambition lapsed at this; liey were really content to strut 1 streets and display their proud |_achs and to afford the populace I opportunity of observing their demeanour, there would be no for an editor to call in the ■ices of a carping critic and a pal observer to expose their little |es. Unfortunately, my little tin are not so easily contented; lare so filled with the self-conceit lh too often accompanies success lisiness that they aspire to a little |lom in their own territory and (conduct themselves that their Is, secretaries and help generally rd them with all the deep depre- |)ii which is their due. |d the very mention of the word reminds me of another griev- Iwhich I must lay at the door of |n gods. Work is noble and dig- no man or woman who is liy of his or her salt can get }gh this world without working. i there are, who have, to their misfortune, succeeded to the ly which their fathers have made; lhe history of the world tells us "I if the grandfather makes the ly the third generation dissipates lid the great-grandchildren are |;ht up in want. But my little lods have prostituted the word Ik"; they call it "Help." There J smack about this latter word I is enough to make any decent lor woman disinclined to go out l.ork in an office or a home, fry day that we read our papers le the cry going up that men are scarce and that women cannot be found to take up positions in the home. At the same time, we see men walking the streets with their boots out at heel and their clothes in rags; we see women who have thrown decency to the winds, and yet our little tin gods with their smug little noses turned up in the air tell us that labour is a drug in the market and that indiscriminate charity is the curse of the present generation. Well, Mr. Tin God, may you prosper in your insincerity. Junius Junior does not wish you very much harm; you provide the money for which he draws a scanty pittance; you hurt few people, and feelings don't count these days, so go on in your content; continue to strut the streets, displaying that proud stomach; play about with that lofty demeanour, but re*- member that there is a hell, Presbyterian Convocations dissenting as much as they like; it may come in this world or it may come in the next, but wherever it is you will find a resting-place there. So, good-bye, Mr. Tin God, good-bye. WORK FOR THE EDITOR It is said that anyone can be an editor. All an editor has to do is to sit at his desk six days in the week, four weeks of the month, and twelve months of the year, and "edit" such stuff as this: "Mrs. Jones, of Lost Creek, let a can opener slip last week and cut herself in the pantry." "A mischievous lad of Matherton, threw a stone and struck a companion in the alley last Tuesday." "John Doe climbed on the roof of his house last week looking for a leak, and fell, striking himself on the back porch." "While Harold Green was escorting Miss Violet Wise home from a church social Saturday night a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Green on the public square." Isaac Trimmer was playing with a cat Friday when it scratched him on the verandah." "Mr. White, while harnessing a broncho last Saturday was kicked just south of the corncrib." THE MODERN WOMAN What Is She? She is a thing to love, and she is a thing to lose. She is the most illusive member of society that can be found. She is playful, and she is cat-like. She may resemble the tigress in her lair, or she may recall the kitten in her playfulness. She may be fair. She may be dark. But, whatever she looks, and even if she has suffragette tendencies, we love her all the same. We wouldn't be men if we didn't. Truly has it been said that the world is full of willing people. Some are willing to work, and the rest are quite willing to let them. The man who looks ahead keeps going ahead. Anybody can give advice, but only a wise man knows when to take it. Some women tell fortunes—all help spend them. The Cat—"I wish that Marconi had given his time to inventing a wireless birdcage I" A company is known by the men it keeps. CORSETS are designed in many models, each closely (ollowing the lines of some particular type of figure. Each model is made in a complete range of sizes. Rarely indeed do we find a woman who cannot be fitted "just as if the corset were made for her alone." The important thing is to get the model that suits your figure. If your dealer hasn't the right one he will get it for you. If you are interested in the new models, write for our free style book. Crompton Coriet Co., Limited Toronto BOOK NOTES At the Victoria Book and Stationery Co., 1004 Government St., Victoria, B.C.: "Sign of the Six," Stewart Edward White. $1.50. "Over the Pass," by Frederick Palmer. $1.50. "The Lighted Way," by E. Phillips Oppenheim. $1.50. At Fullbrook-Sayers Stationery Co., 1220 Government St.: Five cases New Books just received. Ot course a mail must lake himself seriously or no one else will—but don't take yourself too seriously or you will be a joke. It is not how much you make for yourself, but how much you make of yourself Ihal counts. We Offer A first class stock of Apples, Pears, Cherries, Prunes, Plums, Peaches, Apricots and small fruits. 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C. Albert F. Roy Over thirty years' experience in Art Glass LEADED LIGHTS Sole manufacturer of Steel-Cored Lead for Churdies, Schools, Public Buildings and private Dwellings. Plain and Fancy Glass Sold. Sashes Glazed by Contract. Estimates free. Phone 59*4 The Courtenay Ladies' Courtenay, Vancouver Island Term Begins MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD Full Curriculum and Games Principals: Mrs. Hardy and Miss Glenny (from Cheltenham Ladies' College, England) 10 THE WEEK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912 Society Mrs. Stephen Phipps of Cowichan is the guest of Mrs. Tilton, Foul Bay. *.*.*' •'* Mrs. C. S. Coulson of Douglas Street spent the week end in Seattle. * * * Mr. T. C. Bolton of Cowichan Station spent a few days in town during the week. * * * Mrs. F. G. Walker of Fairfield Road is leaving shortly on an extended visit to friends and relatives in the Old Country. * * * Mrs. A. S. Gore of 910 Cook Street have now taken up their residence at 930 Maclure Street. * * * Mrs. John Nicholas has returned to town after spending, the summer months in Seattle. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Ian Mair of Hill Island came down to Victoria during the week in their motor launch. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones and Mrs. Rome were among the recent Victorians holidaying in Seattle. * * * Mrs. and the Misses Archibald of North Vancouver have been guests in this city at "Glenshiel Inn." * * * Miss-Monica Hunt, who recently arrived from the Old Country, is the guest of her brother on Merzies Street. * * * The Victoria Musical Club have issued invitations for an opening concert to be held in the Alexandra Ball Room on Tuesday, October ioth. * * * Mrs. McCallum, Sampson Street, motored up to Cowichan Bay on a visit to her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Campbell McCallum. * * * Mrs. Dodie Leighton of Vancouver spent a few days in this city last week, the guest of Mrs. Philip Brooks at the Empress Hotel. * * * Mrs. George Johnson has returned to the city after a very enjoyable holiday spent in Vernon, the guest of Mrs. Edward Dewdney. * * * Dr. and Mrs. Rutherford of Duncan spent a few days in town early in the week and were guests at the "Glenshiel Inn." * * * Commander W. B. Macdonald of H.M.C.S. Niobe, Halifax, who has been visiting his parents in this city, has returned to the East again. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd left by the afternoon boat for Vancouver and thence to Banff, the bride travelling in a Scotch tweed suit and felt hat. * * * Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Simpson and Mr. Donald D. Simpson and Mrs. Simpson's mother, Mrs. W. E. Phelps, have recently arrived here from Kamloops and have taken up their residence at 1626 North Monterey Avenue. * * * A recent wedding of interest was that of Miss Florence Jennie Forin, eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Forin, to Mr. William Henry Hunt, son of the Colonel and Mrs. Hunt, Preston, Lancashire, England, which took place at the Presbyterian Church at Edmonton, Alberta. * * * On Wednesday, September 26th, a very pretty wedding was performed by the Rev. Mr. Green at the Centennial Methodist Church, Gorge Road, when Miss Foyel Thomas became the bride of Mr. Allen B. John, both of this city. Miss Lillian Winslow of Vancouver acted as bridesmaid, while the groom was supported by Mr. Harold P. John. After the honeymoon, which is being spent in the Sound, Mr. and Mrs. John will take up their residence on Lillian Road, Foul Bay. * * * The marriage of Miss Dorothea Catherine Mummery, daughter of Mr. J. Howard Mummery of Islip's Manor, Northolt, Middlesex, England, to Mr. Thomas Jones Lloyd of Silver- ton, Slocan Lake, B.C., was solemnized September 26th at Christ Church Cathedral by the Dean of Columbia. The bride was given away by Mr. A. H. Lawder and wore a very dainty dress of white crepe de chine trimmed with old rose point lace, and instead of the conventional wedding veil she wore a smart white hat with a white osprey. The bridegroom was supported by Mr. D. P. Lockhart, a cousin of the bride. After the cere mony the wedding party repaired to the Empress Hotel, where they sat down to a delightful wedding breakfast. Those present were: Mrs. P. Digby Roberts, Seattle; Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Lawder, Miss Lawder, Mr. Lay, Mr. and Mrs. James Ellis, Mrs. B. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. St. Clair Brin- dle, Mrs. Collis, Miss Collis, Miss Hauthmaker, Miss Schmitz, Miss Walbrau, Mr. D. P. Lockhart and Mr. E. Jacobs. * * * * Last Tuesday a very pretty wedding was performed at St. Paul's Church, Esquimalt, when Mary Hendry, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Crocker, became the wife of Mr. Harry Oscar Austin, late of Hawk- shurst, Kent, England. The Rev. W. Bangle Allen officiated. The bride was tastefully gowned in a handsome dress of brocaded silk with a train of ninon caught up with sprays of orange blossoms and roses, the bodice being draped with handsome Carrick Macross lace (the gift of the groom). She wore a very dainty bridal veil (lent to her by Mrs. J. B. Sewell) with a pearl chaplet and orange blossoms, and instead of a bouquet she carried a white prayer book. Miss Sophie Lars was maid of honour and wore a very pretty white embroidered Marquisette dress and a pearl Juliet cap. Miss Vera Kenoitt acted as bridesmaid and was gowned in pale blue satin and ninon trimmed with gold lace and a gold filet lace cap. Both bridesmaids wore pearl necklaces, the gift of the bridegroom. The groom was supported by Mr. Arthur Crocker. After the reception, which was held at the home of the bride's mother in Victoria West, Mr. and Mrs. Austin left on a honeymoon trip to the Sound cities, the bride travelling in a navy blue tailored suit and black picture hat faced with yellow with plumes of the same tone. Upon their return Mr. and Mrs. H. 0. Austin will make their home at "Maidavale," Old Esquimalt Road. * * * A very pretty wedding was solemnized last Wednesday at the residence of Alderman and Mrs. Dilworth, when their daughter May Pearl became the wife of Mr. Charles Leslie Thompson. The house had been tastefully decorated for the occasion with ferns and chrysanthemums. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a very handsome gown of cream satin Nuide draperies and touches of lace held with handsome pearl ornaments. Her maid of honour, Miss Effa Maw- hinney (cousin of the bride), wore a dainty pink dress, and the bridesmaid, Miss Feme Dilworth, wore white mull. Little Eva Dilworth made a very pretty flower girl. Mr. Lewis Thompson of Vancouver supported his brother. The happy young couple left in the afternoon for California, the bride's travelling costume being a bionze serge suit with mink hat and furs. The groom piesented the bride with a very handsome diamond and emerald ring and pearl brooches to the bridesmaids. The wedding ceremony was performed by the Rev. John Robson. * * * Mrs. I. W. Powell was hostess on September 26th at a most delightful garden party given at her beautiful home on Vancouver Street. Her two daughters, Mrs. L. Cuppage and Mrs. Bridgewater, assisted her in receiving the following guests: Sir Richard and Lady McBride, Mrs. McCallum, Mrs. Devereaux, the Misses Devereaux, Mrs. Eberts, Mrs. Tom Poole, Miss M. Eberts, Mrs. Rant, Miss Hickey, Mrs. Butchart, Miss Butchart, Mrs. Hugo Bevan, Mrs. Robert Bevan, Mrs. W. Roper, Mrs. Maclure, Mrs. W. S. Gore, Mrs. Solmer, Mrs. H. Robertson, Mr. Loenberg, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Foote, Miss Solmer, Mrs. A. W. Jones, Mrs. McGuire, Mrs. Griffiths, Mrs. Raymur, Miss Raymur, Judge Lampman and Mrs. Lampman, Mrs. R. Jones, Mrs. A. S. Gore, Mrs. C. Roberts, Mrs. King, Mrs. A. W. Harvey, Mrs. Spratt, Mrs. Good, Mrs. Blaiklock, Mrs. Gaudier, Mr. Foulkes, Major and Mrs. Dupont, Mrs. Shallcross, Mrs. J. Stevenson, Miss Mason, Mrs. McPhillips, Mrs. McMicking, the Misses McMicking, Mrs. R. P. Rithtt, Mrs. Gavin Burns, Mrs. Berkeley, Mrs. Rykert, Mrs. W. Holmes, Mrs. Dennis Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Cookson, Mr. Earl, Mrs. Peters, Mr. S. Wootton, Mrs. Heyland, Miss Mesher, Mrs. Walter Langley, Mrs. Victor Eliot, Miss Tilton, Mrs. Hasell, Miss Jessup, Mr. Jessup, Mrs. Church, Miss Williams, Mrs. R. S. Day and many others. Government House Ball Society was well represented at the small dance given at Government House on Wednesday evening by Mrs. Paterson in honour of H. R. H. Princess Patricia. Among those present was noticed Mr. and Mrs. Weston, the latter wearing white satin, relieved with lovely lace; Mr. and Mrs. Victor Eliot, the latter in green, figured in gold; Captain and Mrs. Foulkes, the latter looking well in white satin with crystal embroidery; Mrs. Pascal de Noe Walker looked charming in an exquisite gown of pale blue satin; Miss Phyllis Eberts, looking well in pink satin with a lace overdress; Miss Mabel Eberts, a very pretty debutante in white ninon over satin, trimmed with tiny wreaths of rosebuds; Miss Howell (Winnipeg), in white satin; Miss Madge Holden, in a very becoming dress of grey-plaited chiffon; Miss Butchart, in white satin; Miss Tina Mowbray, very handsome in pink satin with a sequinned net overdress; Miss Lugrin, in yellow satin; Miss Nora Lugrin, in pale blue satin with a ninon overdress, and Miss Louise Lugrin, in yellow with a crystal overdress; Miss Evelyn Tilton in leaf green satin; Miss O'Reilly, in black ninon; Mrs. Walter Spaulding, in her wedding dress of soft white ninon over satin; Mrs. Chator Payne, in white satin with overdress of silk embroidery; Mrs. Brooker, in Copenhagen blue satin with bodice of lace; Mrs. Morgan, very becomingly gowned in pale pink chiffon over satin with draped skirt; Mrs. Hose, in white with crystal embroidery; Miss Cross, very pretty in white ninon; Miss Marion Dunsmuir, in a pink Dresden gown, veiled in white; Miss Muriel Dunsmuir, in white with touches of black velvet; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Crease, the latter in white satin; Miss Mara, in copper-coloured satin; Miss Eunice Bowser, in pink; Miss Maude Bowser (Vancouver), in white taffeta; Mrs. Roger Monteith, in pale blue chiffon; Miss Vera Mason, in white satin; Mrs. Walters, in cream, edged with brown fur; Miss Jessop, in Royal blue with black chiffon overdress; Miss Tthel Bruce, in black chiffon over white satin; Mrs. Sayward, very handsomely gowned in white satin with a black lace overdress; Miss Elsie Dodwell, in a graceful gown of cerise chiffon over white satin; Miss Dupont, in apricot ninon over white; Mrs. Hebden Gillespie, in pale green satin; Miss Rowley in cerise over white, edged with ermine; Miss Jessie Prior, a charming debutante, in a pompadour gown of pink chiffon over pale blue satin; Miss Little, another debutante, in pale blue; Miss Phyllis Mason, in white satin; Mrs. G. C. Johnson, very pretty in a picturesque gown of flame- coloured satin with a green chiffon oveidress made in pannier fashion; Miss Pitts, in white satin with a black and silver overdress; Miss Marion Pitts, in pale yellow satin, trimmed with pearls; Miss Gladys Pitts, in white satin with crystal embroidery; Miss Macdowall, in white satin with a pale pink ninon overdress; Miss Daisy Macdowall, in white satin, and Miss Annie Macdowall, another of the evening's debutantes, also in white satin with the bodice draped with ninon; Miss Cecilia Green, in mauve with ninon; Miss Cecilia Green, in mauve brocaded silk, trimmed with pearls; Miss Wickey (Kaslo), in pink ninon over satin; Miss Battle, in blue. Among the men present were: Commander Brooker, Commander Hose, Commander Walters, Lieut. Bury, Lieut. Milne, Capt. Harker, Messrs. Byng Hall, Jessop, Bromley, Hills, Trewartha-james, Monteith, Johnston, Garrett, Jayne, Arbuckle, Dunsmuir, Sayward, Jenkins, Spaulding and others. 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CAMOSUN for Prince Rupert and Granby Bay every Tuesday. S. S. CHELOHSIN {or Skeena River, Prince Rupert, Naas, Port Simpson, and Stewart, every Saturday. THE BOSCOWITZ STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LTD. S. S. VENTURE for Campbell River, Hardy Bay, Rivers Inlet, Namu, Ocean FallJ Bella Coola, Bella Bella, every Wednesday. S. S. VADSO for Skeena River, Prince Rupert, Naas, every two weeks. JOHN BARNSLEY, Agent, Phone 1925 1003 Government Str«j may 8 (S) oct i| The Royal Cash Registei $50.00, $60.00 and $75.00-Less 10% for Cash Not in the Trust For Sale at Victoria Book & Stationery Co., Ltd.| 1004 Government Street Telephone 63 Chas. Hayward Presid 'resident Reginald Hayward Sec'y-Treas. F. Caselton Manage| The B. C. Funeral Co. (Successors to Charles Hayward) Date of 1016 Government Street, have removed to their new building| 734 Broughton Street, above Douglas. Phones 3335, 2136> "31. 3338, Established i86j| JAMES BUCHANAN & CO., by Royal Appointment Purveyors to H. M. King George the V. and the Royal Household] Distillers of the popular "Black & White" Scotch Whiskj| Unsurpassed in Purity, Age and Flavor Ml Dealers) What you want, the way you want it Afternoon Tea, Dainty Luncheons, Special Teas for parties by arrangement. Do not forget—We always keep on hand guaranteed New Laid Eggs. The TEA KETTLE 1119 douglas st| MISS M. WOOLDRIDGE, Proprietress Opposite the Victoria Theatr\ Safeguard your gowns I by insisting that your dressmaker use Kleinert's Dress Shields, which guarantee perfect protection against the ruinous effects of perspiration. Look for the name "Kleinert" on every shield you buy. None genuine without it. Kleinert's Dress Shields can be washed inhot water (necessary to remove germs and odor) and restored to perfect freshness by ironing. Made in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Write lor our Dress Shield Book ' O " B. KLEINERT RUUBEK COMPANY | 84-86 West Wellington St., Toronto the name "Kleiner!" is not on thc shield. Isn't a Kleinerl—Tht I'-aitrantced Shield J THE WEEK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912 11 tt f> Sotto Voce The Week's Rumours and Humours (By The Hornet) That Punctuality is the soul of business. That if more people in Victoria were punctual, there might be less jusiness done. * * * That a good many business men in >ur beautiful Capital City have about is much regard for punctuality as |hey have for punctuation. * * * That a stop at the end of a sentence nay mean a dot; but a stop in the business day does not mean a "Dot" ar the business man's daughter. * * * j That the Duke has come and gone, lid if he has enjoyed his trip to Vic- Iria as much as Victoria has enjoyed Is visit, he is going away more than |oderately well pleased. * * * IThat "Better late than never" is an Icellent motto and Victoria just ne through in time with her delations. * * * That as long as we continue to put tngs off to the last moment we shall fnain the clear old city which we all ve. * * * IThat Yankee haste has not yet lund favour in Victoria, and praise \t gods for it. * * * I That the editor of The Week has Iceived a letter from the writer of a |tter which appeared in the last issue this paper; but his second com- Junication is so unintelligible that (he Week has to refrain from print- lg it until it can find out exactly |hat the writer means. * * * (That correspondents are a great "tip to any paper, but their corres- Imdence is apt to become a nuisance Ihen it cannot be read. * * * J That the letter in question was sub- [itted to the "Hornet," the "Lounger" lid "Bohemian," and not one of them Duld make head or tail of it. BRITISH WOOLENS Real Tailored by Real Tailors in Real Tailor Shops a Hobberlin Tailoring al The Commonwealth TWO STORES ' 606408 Yates 720 Yates That the Federal Government is instituting much needed alterations at the Court House. * * * That it is not the first time that enlargements have been made in a building which badly needs them. * * * That the citizens sincerely hope that this time sufficient room has been made in a building which badly needs them. * * * That if they find they have been "fooled" again it is probable that even Victoria can find sufficient representative citizens big enough to make a row. * * * That the Exhibition has been a success. * * * That, so far there have been fewer "kicks" than usual. * * * That Victoria business men hope to see future exhibitions devoting more space to local products. * * * That stock is all right, but we want to see something which our own city can produce. * * * That congratulations are in order to the Victoria Country Club. * * * That in spite of what the losers may say, the general public thoroughly appreciated the races. That pleasures which we have are nothing until we lose them. * * # That if we lost our climate we should then begin to appreciate it. * * * That there is not one man in a hundred living in the city today who realises the full value of the breezes which blow on to the Dallas Road. * * * That if this were not true there would not be so many vacant lots, and "rooms to let" signs displayed on the water-frontage. * * * That "Hornet" does not hold a contract for the Dallas Road property— he wishes he did. * * * That the Suffragettes have invaded Canada. *. * * . That they have invaded worse places, but it is very doubtful whether they will ever receive a warmer reception. * * * That when they are through with Canada, if they are still alive, there will still be a place left for them—but we don't talk about it in polite society. * * * That sometime the British Government will take a lady at her word; she won't like the compliment, because it will mean starvation. * * * That no woman worthy of her name has yet had the slightest difficulty in managing mere man. * * * That it is only when they get up in public and talk about it that "Mere Man" objects. * * * That it is a pity that one cannot be buried in peace. * * * That it is better to be buried in peace than in pieces. * * * * That our City Fathers don't seem to think so. * * * That they are willing to consign the helpless corpse to a voyage which is calculated to cause some disintegration, * * * That even the live man objects to being disintegrated when he does not feel like it. * * * That in all probability a corpse objects still more. i * * * That if the Municipal Authorities are not more careful with regard to the "Dear Departed" they are liable to reach their Council Board and find it surrounded with hoary headed ghosts. That the gentleman who so ably represents the United States in our town is entitled to the name of "Consul." * * * That it is a pity that our leading morning paper should refer to him as "Counsel." * * * ' That there is likely to be an investigation with regard to a Dominion Government Official and his dealings with Sims, Levy and Co. * * * That the investigation might also take into consideration the connection between "Shanghai Jack" and the local branch of the Seaman's Institute. * * * That the Attorney-General's dictum to the effect that all automobiles were to. have a similar kind of horn is still being neglected, and the police are doing nothing. * * * That the modern marvel is—not how many men are killed, but how many men escape destruction. * * * That the average man hears a noise which goes any way between a foghorn and a penny whistle; it may be an automobile or it may be a boy riding on a tin bicycle; in any case his chances of life are small. * * * That Victoria still has salvation in sight. * * * That there is one small boy who doesn't know what "chicken-feed" means. i * * * That he was so averse from the idea of making money, that, when he was told to get chicken-feed for a bill, he asked which poulterer he should visit. * * * That as long as there are such boys in the city Victoria need not despair of her future. The Countenance It is a question whether the modern girl or the modern man acquires popularity from the countenance alone; it is becoming more and more a question of whether personality and general acceptance of other peoples' feel ings are not more calculative to find appreciation in the average citizen than a handsome face or a cultivated manner. The public is growing shy of the painted face, of the smooth upper lip, and of the general characteristics of those people who do not contribute to its general good. The public is gradually becoming wise and is realising that Satan is still walking up and down the earth seeking whom he may devour. Unless the public really "gets wise" to this fact, Satan is apt to have his own way. We are easy-going in these days of much money and little work for it. We do not fully realise the temptations which we are putting forward in front of our young girls and our young boys; we are too apt to send them out to help to fill the exchequer and we are too little apt to remind them of the temptations that await them in the world. Thus it is that'tragedies occur in families; thus it is that daughters grow up to their fathers' shame, and thus it is that boys grow up in the present day inured to those vices which wreck every young constitution. The Dearth of Help In another column of The Week a contributor has spoken about the dearth of help, which at present exists in the labour market. We have to face this contingency, and, when all is said and done, we cannot do it better than by facing the matter square in the face. We know that there are places open in our offices and in our homes for men and women. We also know that men and women are tramping our streets, wearing out'the soles of their shoes and eating out the hearts of their souls, in the effort to find that work which a divine Providence has placed in their sight, but denied to their need. ORCHESTRA EVERY EVENING, FROM 6.50 TO 15.30, MR. M. NAGEL MUSICAL DIRECTOR Balmoral Cafe «l The Management Begs to Announce the Opening of the Balmoral Cafe. Your Patronage ts Solicited Opposite Opera House -:- Douglas Street A. PETCH Tlie Douglas Street Watchmaker Begs to notify his customers that he will be located at 707 Pandora Avenue, just around the corner from Douglas Street, on and after the 4th October next, where he will be pleased to meet his numerous customers. You'll Need One You'll need a new Fall Hat. We have them in all the latest shapes. Prices $3.00 to $6.00. Drop in and see them at F. A. 60WEN, Managing Director 1114 Government Street "For Tea You Can't Beat Upton's" The Tea that discriminating housewives always want an encore of is UPTON'S TEA Goes farthest for the money tfct tWOMML THI BCSTOTEYmTHIlW iNfflEraAworimcmr 135toMtsllTntoi-505wjIlo(ie There is no need for us to think that Providence is at fault. Providence is never at fault, and it is only human incapacity whose ill working makes the fault appear that of Providence. Providence has decreed that every man and every woman shall obtain their fair share of this world's goods. When they fall short of obtaining their share, the fault is either due to their own incapacity or to the shortcomings of the society under which they have the misfortune of dwelling. BUST AND HIPS Kvery woman who attempts to moke a dress or shirtwaist immediately discovers how difficult it is to obtain ' a good fit by the usual "try- Ing-on-method," with herself for the model and a looking- glass with which to see how it fits at thc back. "HALL-BORCHERT PER. FECTION Adjustable Dress Forms'' do away with all discomforts and disappointments in fitting, and render the work of dressmaking at once easy and satisfactory. This form can bc adjusted to 50 different shapes and I sizes: bust raised or lowered, also made longer and shorter at the waist line and form raised or lowered to suit any desired skirt length. Very easily adjusted, cannot get out of order, and will last a lifetime. Write for Illustrated Booklet containing complete line of Dress Forms with prices. Hall-Borchert Dress Form Co., of Canada, Limited. 158Q Bay Street, - Toronto, Can. Husband—What arc you going tq give me for Christmas? Wife--Well. I thought of a bronze figure for the mantelpiece and a lVrsi.in rug. What are you going to give mc? Husband—I think I'll get you a smoking jacket ami a new shaving brush. 12 THE WEEK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912 EDITORIAL (Continued from Page i) proposition in scope and extent from that submitted by Sir Wilfrid Laurier. It will be vastly greater in cost, because Mr. Borden had an opportunity to ascertain exactly what the position of affairs is in the Mother Country and because he has more correctly gauged the strength of public opinion in Canada. He knows that the halting, hesitating, picayune policy to which Sir Wilfrid was reluctantly forced by the best men in his own party smacks too much of parochialism to satisfy the judgment of a self-respecting nation, and that what Mr. Borden will have to propose will be something more commensurate with the importance of the Dominion and the needs of the Empire. In two months or thereabouts the world will know whether or not Sir Wilfrid really means to "stand by the Motherland" or whether he intends to seek a party advantage by attacking the details' of the scheme against which he may be able to rally some sectional opposition. TECHNICAL EDUCATION —The address of the Hon. Dr. Young at Aberdeen school last week will have awakened a responsive echo in many a heart. Dr. Young, who is himself a brilliant scholar, and who has made his work in the Education Department a labour of love, correctly sensed public opinion when he pointed out the growing necessity for more technical education, and when he praised the invaluable work of the night schools, he might have gone a little further, and doubtless would if he had said all that was in his heart, and criticised the unpractical character of Canadian education generally. This subject is being forced to the front, The Week has had a great deal to say about it, and has been blamed for saying it. But things are coming our way, and when the Minister of Education takes the stand he did The Week cannot but feel encouraged to persevere in its course. Not that it has a right to claim by any means that the Minister approves of the advanced stand it has taken in roundly condemning the absurd curriculum which has been adopted in this Province; but it is quite obvious that if more time is to be given to technical training less time will be given to abstruse and useless studies. The demand for night schools is largely due to the fact that education is so unpractical. Those who have passed through the day schools still feel that they need something supplementary, of a more practical nature. Dr. Young is going to establish a high-water mark in University education, this will redound to his personal credit as well as the immense benefit of the Province, but he might well go a step further and do what in the opinion of The Week would be even more beneficial, and would increase the chances in life of a far greater number; that is, improve education at the other end. Universities will only provide directly for the education of about five per cent, of the population; the common school touches the other ninety-five per cenj., and it is far more susceptible of improvement today than is higher education. A judicious revision of the curriculum, a scientific excision of purely pedagogic ideas, the infusion of a little sanctified common sense are all sadly needed, and if Dr. Young has the courage, as The Week is certain he has the intelligence and good judgment, to tackle reforms such as these, he would not only deserve but would receive the heartfelt thanks of the present generation and the blessings of many generations yet to come. Shall We Be Strong? (By One Who Has Been in the Ring) It was a surprise to me when a representative of The Week, came and caught me at home; I had been interviewed before, but I did not expect that when I came to Victoria for rest and recreation that I should be surprised by a member of the press. However, The Week found me out, and, though they are not going to give away my name, they are welcome to some of those feelings which I have experienced during a long course in the sporting riifg- I well remember my first experience behind the ropes; I was matched with Billy . He was then in the pink of condition. I was merely a Tyro. I had been well coached, and I was in fairly good condition to meet a man whose name was in the lips of the sporting public, but I must say that a feeling of nervousness reached my heart when I met the aforesaid champion in front of five thousand vociferous people. I well remember the night; I had reached the hall with the wind howling in my tracks; that was the night when the "Hilda" went down in the Channel, and there was a magnetic feeling pervading the hall when I stood in the ring with Billy . How did I feel? It is hard to say, but there is a feeling which is, I believe, known to every man who has done boating. It is a feeling which they describe as "having the needle," and that is exactly the feeling which I had when I faced my opponent in the ring. Of the fight I say nothing; I may have got the better or I may have got the worse; I have a recollection of sweating seconds standing by with steaming towels; I seem to recall the faces of an enthusiastic throng, but of the actual fight I remember nothing. There was a time when I came to, in the corner, and my seconds told me that I had won, but I was hardly conscious of the fact. Victory had lost its sting for me,* as it had for my opponent, and I was only conscious of the fact that I had pulled off a victory which gave a great deal of satisfaction to the spectators. This is an imaginary account of a purely imaginary combat which is contributed to the paper by a purely irresponsible individual.—Ed. Week. BETTING (By a Plunger) Is betting wrong? Whether it is or not, the public is going to stand by it. I, myself, regret that we have reached the day when the pari-mutuel has superseded the day of the book-maker who, with his loud check clothes, his extravagant waistcoat and his flaring umbrella delighted the crowds whicri were only too glad to come and leave their money with him and learn exactly what the-odds were. But we have grown too respectable for the book-maker and he has been banished to the limbo of those things unrecognisable ,to which we have consigned so many of our friends—or enemies—of the past. No longer does the race-course shine with the check clothes; no longer does the flowered waistcoat flaunt its gaudy front in the eyes of the expectant throng, and no longer does the big umbrella shade the eyes of an expectant book-maker. No, we have grown respectable, and if we have t.o bet, we have to do it by machinery. Gone is the good old time, when we went to the racecourse and called a man Dick, Tom or Harry, as the case might be; gone is the time when we could see for ourselves what the odds were on a given race, and we have reached an epoch when we have to depend upon a mechanical.contrivance to get that little pleasure which the race-course affords the man who regards not the lilies when they toil nor appreciates them when they spin not. And yet, with this new mechanical system of betting, the papers remain full of accounts of young lads employed in banks who go wrong. It may be the fault of the banks, who do not pay a living wage; it may be the fault of the boys, who exceed their salary, but the Plunger will be inclined to say that the odds are in favour of the bank clerk, and that it is unfair to expect any young lad t( work fourteen hours a day with nc extra pay and with a very smal salary, and to handle all kinds o money, and then to expect him t( keep straight. Human nature has it limits, and when the bank clerk show that he has reached that limit he i the last person in the world wh ought to be blamed. A COLOUR SCHEME Madge—"Why are you going to change yol shirt waist?" Marjorie—"This one is too light coloure I'm going to sit in the hammock with Charf this evening." UNGRATEFUL GUEST Brown—"So you spent Sunday with Sububs, eh? How far is their house frj the station?" Towne—"About two miles, as the d| flies." NOT HER FAULT Mr. Newlywed—"Doesn't this omelet —er—rather tough, my dear?" Mrs. Newlywed—"I don't see why I should, darling. I'm sure I ordered the best egg coal the dealer had to cook it wil BUSINESS "Mirandy, Mirandyl Git upl They's automobiles gone hy a'ready this mornin', th' chickens ain't been turned out into road yitl" SAME THING BOTH WAYS New—"It's tough to think a man can't a job unless he's got a new suit." Ted—"No, and he can't get a new suit less he's got a job." Shortleigh—My Uncle Frank is a vcrita| Klondike. 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