on) sar. acitiered" y a. samen 5.00 pia in advance 5.00 year: mall to riral ofMoess. Rj rd United States ........53,00 three months pro rata. oe Weekly Sedition) Had eu JLOD . 1a¢ a Bald Fats " three months pro rats. the beat job EET Jo 15 Shed In." n chan 5 xo EE Shin "" ma CO civiine A UB K RESENTATIY New Tork 226 Fifth Ave, k BR "Northrup, Manager "B14, Pgs WC Wartheen Manaewr . RAM: Ad These is Thomas Shaughnessy's from the presidency of the C.P.R When he doo leave the office the work will be divided. Which does nol mean that a successor to Sir Thomas cannot be found. Ti dl not that. A swocessor can be found to any one imruny walk of life. But the C.P.R. is a growing concern, and the responsibilities . of any office, even with divided duties, are heavy enough for any man to carry. Besides this railvay has been the means of veloping talent in an extraordinary way. Since ils conception some of Canada's ablest men have been {rain- ed by it. Its departmental heads have been very successful in picking out and placing the officials who have - been rapidly developed and promoted. So that. there has been a constant supply of expertsawho have been ready for any service that has opened up, each one seeming to surpass his pre- decessor 'in the brilliancy of his ac- complishments. In a word the, (. PR. has been a great school which men have een educated a that nt qtiee Shan fot am adkoot permanency. Sir iin Shaughnessy is one of 'the greatest railway men of his time, perhaps the greatest that Canada has ever had, but it is only necessary to give some one else a chance to show what he can do to prove that he only one of his kind. Sir Thomas is 'not in any event likely to become idle. A man of his activity be occupied in some way. Br. Godfrey, M.T.P., is after minister of militia. He thinks tliat if the war in Europe is to be stopped all Canada has to do Major-General Hughes to Sarcasm, pure else, A BCHOOL. likelihood HIE of Sir retirement de- in in is must is send the fromt. and nothing | to Sarcasm, fs A VERY SORRY EXHIBIT. The - German convey ed from Belgium to. Eagland, have been LAUSD some surprises. The the quality of the men. They do not represent the brawn of Germany. The Pegudur army has been composed of sturdy fellows, many of whom have fallen. 'I'he recruiting has been going on vigourously ' under But the wew blood is not that 4 young or. able-bodied men. Many of them have been handicapped by physi eal infirmities. Says a writer for the London Chronicle: "1 who were so deforgied that one dered how they managed to carry their pack and rifle, others who were . elub-footed, and finally named Hermann Weber, prisoners, first conscription noticed won one soldier, horn at Sie. gon, in Westphalia, and' belonging to or the recruits of 1914, who had only ong oye, the Jeit." Moreover these. troops were mot 2 ~ arhied with the latest rifles, buf bid be © Meusers of 1871, and 'even "Mipiders |" with the old-fashioned breech blocks This in the secand surprise. This js Interesting to Canadians, in view of the fact that some men, to their ever Salintion have been declined the men 1 | i By 4 ; fir i , 48 one way of getting rid | » and of contributing to the | ocean, our confemporary remarks : "Yvery British Columbian would to day sleep far more easily in his bed had Canada at this moment three first-class fighting ships at sea in the company -of Australian, New Zenland and Yritish ships forming part of such au imperial flying squadron as the British admiralty" contemplated at the time of Canada's offer. As it is, Can- ada and the rest of the empire in the Pacifle must look mostly to our ally Japan for immunity from German as- sault, We accept the protection gratefully, but it is not exactly what we would have wished." And ; the Canadian Gazette Knows very well that the three ficst-class fighting ships it talks about would nof, if ordered at the time il refers fo, be in the ser vide now, not being built, and they wore not destined, in any case, for duty on the Padific ocean. My. Church l's idea was to send them to the North Sen, and station them there, to be commissioned, of course, to go else where as there was occasion for it. Every British Columbian can sleep as soundly without these ships as with thew. The fleet that will serve Cana dian interests the best will be located contiguous to the UaliRdian coasts, and this is the tieet that Canada will have if parties will only drop politics out of the issue and agree, as the Ca- nadian Courier suggests, upon a wew policy one unhampered by the memories, the controversies and the conflict of the past. and American Peace Vusociations ave: of the oginion that the Hundred Years of Peace should be celebrated, a modified form. The public mien who have been con- ulted their but the majority of them are favourable kind. and Ihe Canadian even in VAFY in views, to a celebration of some MILITARY EX \ military "ERT expert, SPEAKS. who has had op the makes a'prophecy. It is given London Mail. He divides the occupied with the war into six Two have passed. One was through Belgium into the retreat to the i8 now and to portunity to study conditions at front, in the time periods, the advance and one The third covers the efforts of the Germans reach Calais, The three that are to come include the retreat of the Ger mans and battle on the Meuse, about the end of April or beginning of May in 1915; the campaign on the Rhine, lasting twice as long, and continuing unt.l February, 1916, and, finally, the march to Berlin and regotiafions for pesce in 1917. A I'he © prophecy French military The wee, France, Aisne. on, three years' war. made by a high authority was some time ago situntion may have chang: ed Mr. Asquith and General French would not predict an settleinent of the war if they some ground for it, There are three things which suggest an ear- ly surrender: (1) The serious defeats and losses at the hands of the Rus (2) the resort to greater forti- fictions in Germany and the poverty and (3) the un- iting confession of Von Baelow,who for and surely early had not Sins; of the common people; chancellor S50 many years, who is familiar with German con- But the outlook is discouraging, ill not be in in the war. an sd litivns, for his and he says for the army It is a Jong, long ry HO easy time gine Count Berndtorfl said the and that wd for government the terms of peace, vas that if this were the cage the and the earmnage should with unabated vigour. fact that wope, and of a very vicious nature; doe thie war was over, it only re mat his to deter: nie The sur- pri cond wet con tin & there is a war on in not' depreciate the knowledge that has been an hundred years of United observed + botween Canada and the I'his should be way pea Sin in S00) A LIMIT TO POLITICS. Lo New York Times is not pleased the attitude of Canada towards iermans, and especially with its we towards the we United States, German press It thinks that da can survive the cireulation of ¢ German papers and the exg *¢ ion of their opinion on the phast the war. * To be sme: Canada stand this, and a good deal But toleration: i one thing uble is et At i ins i woul | non, and port slaughter thé human material "i" rhe it, and p that can best be spared, but that tho of good men have been decima- , 4 in Britain, ° won us a dai Et peo- ple of roland can put up with + the 'disloyalty of the Sint Pein, and kin- dred bodies, and the fruculent ? : | the world need of nova prions in the Pacific oF in a Bell of conijiiest. He was not expecting . Ao tonfine | his vie-, tories 'to Burope. First in import- atoe was the formation of a great. German confederacy. Then he would look to America, and his generals had: already -worked on how it might be imvaded and subdued. Tet the Gér-' man press boom. this idea for a while and perhaps the American press and government may be inclined to take notice. The government of Quebec purposes to make the political prisomers work in the forests. Our local government should provide some work: for the prisoners in Fort Henry. It'is pretty hard on the people. who must feed these men to know that their hardest occupation is kicking foothull' A NERVY CROWN PRINCE. One does not hear much nowadays about the Crown Prince of Germany. As the darling of the war party he He wag made to feel a wonderful fellow. impetuous was spoiled. that he was His father, was not rash enough for him, several times in recent years he kicked over the traces, which' is other way of saying that he chafed under the restraint of the imperial government. Just as his father was inclined worry and annoy his father the crown prince was disposed kaiser. 'Chis trouble generally, and had an- to o irritate the was born in the blood. A hook, recently published, titled "The Real Kaiser," and ten by one who is familiar with the gives some .sidelights upon the In. 1908 cham- en- writ- facts, career. of the young upstart. he. began his rebellion. He sioned armed aggression. The press landed him, occasionally to the mor- tifiegtion of the kaiser. He trucked to the He attended 8o- cialistic plays, and applauded what He went so that he was proletariat. his father condemned. far th his eccentricity banished to India, on a hunting ex- pedition, for a season, but, return- ing, in 1911, butted into the Duke of Cumberland case, . and declared that the duke should not marry Princess Victoria Louise unless he renounced his claim to the throne of Hanover. 1914, while his father Admiral Von Tirpitz, at Kondpitz,, while on a visit "to Crown Prince of Austria, plotting mischief to Servia, the Crown Prince of Germany 'was touring the French and Belgian frontier and scouring the roads which a German army of in- vasion would follow. The Crown Prince does not say that the sword hea ONE Tato Ri TORE Tier hy the enemy. If any ome did the thrusting it is the Crown Prince of Germany and when the day of trial comes he will stand. indicted, as the book declares, "as an accomplice and fellow-conspirator." Finally, in was with EDITORIAL NOTES. The Toronto Star is collesting mon- ey for Christmas presents. temporary recites - the one mother caused by little children that not want Our con- which telling her six Sorrow santa Claus was year. She didn't them disappointed unintentionally break their hearts. coming this to see and Hon. Clifford Sifton says that - an up-to-date policy for settlement in the and 'Canagf has ab- « It hyd a policy, one, when = Sifton was in the Tnterior department. What has become Lit? Displaced by some: thing not so goed... west is necessary', solutely none now a progressive ol P-------------- Kaiser is in an He bas ordered the dismissal the diplomatic corps in 'the countries at war with Germany. He has advised that they "Weay jobs or seek other careers. I'he mood. of all econontical look up Looks as if the Kaiser was giving up all hope of being the war Jord of Europe. Phere is no authority, under the for the feeding of hungry children the public school board--as pro- posed in Toronto--hut the minister of education will permitting of it. law, by introduce legislation Not a war meas. ire. England was feeding the chil dren of the long before there were hostilities in Europe. : poor "Bob" Burdette, in sincerely mourned. He was a newspaper man for years, and wrote humerous skits in order to amuse his wife, who was an invalid. | Under her 'approval he improved in his wiitings, and became in after years a lecturer, and later a preacher. It is seldom one swings from the gay to the severe, but Burdette did it. wihe death of Passedina, is Mr. Games, M.P.P., appears to have a special claim on the liquor dealers, The Globe gaves a record according to which out of 665 holders of stack in the Elizabeth mine 144 have been identified with the liquor trade. Oi the holders of lots in the Gamey sur- vey, outside of Little Current, a large number are held by the license hold- ers of the province. It is a very no- ticeable fact. * Made In Germany. the | i thing par- tioularl, appropriate im the. ment of Richard Crok . many chief, to an Indian maid. orien Now Understood. Toronto Golbe. Does the cutting off of the supply of vodka 'account. for the eagerness with which the Russian soldiers are approaching Er-Ze-rum ? -------------- Imitate Australia. Tondon Advertiser. Australia did nat send a = money contribution to the North Sea fleet. It put its money into ships such. as the liberal government of Canada proposed to build. And Australia wins glory and profit, and helps the empires i See There Be Fair Play. Montreal Daily Mail In refusing to dismiss a civic em- ployee simply bepause he was of Gere man birth, the London, Ont:, city council Had shown sound common sense. This thing, can be carried too far. What Is Culture ? Chicago Tribune Kulture is "chunks of metal of va- rious sizes packed in a shell, which is discharged from a cannon. When the shell explodes the culture seatters all over the neighborhood. The man- ufacture of kulture is the chiel indus: try of Gorman y "Wealth Counts. St. Thomas Journal Henry Clark Frink i moving his New York house that cost 000,000, which is built on ground that cost $2,400,000, and will have an art gallery containing $10,000,000 worth of. pictures. Wealth appears to have some compensations. into $2,- Firing The Haggis. Toronto World Ont., Scotchmen have de- give their St. Andrew's to the Belgians. We are sorry, though, about the haggis. If discharged from a mortar at the Germans it might easily become a anew horror of the battle front. London, cided to banquet money Kingston Events Twenty-Five Years Ago To-day four butchers together 'weighed 986 pounds. Their names are W. Harkness, W. Reid, J. Mc- Caul and. M, Walsh.' Young ladies of St. Paul's church realized "$100 at a sale, The ladies took a great interest in the work. Principal Grant has been asked to at Ottawa. ENGLAND AT WAR. By A.D. Godley. 4 1 "is past; the Tour al pasting's 5 p'er., The troopship's*h the mar, And some have TobRsa on Englands shore That ne'er shall look again; The last adieus c¢dme faint and low, Borne on the wintry wind, God's mercy on the men that gv, And those they léave behind. for them, the fears, That grow with hope's delay, The daily dread, the nightly tears, For loved ones far away; Yet, oh, though loss be hard to bear, And sense of threatening harm, Let not the thought of private care Unnerve a nation's arme« St¥ife--for ug, the For sternly must the soldier fight Whose country stakes her all: Now is the day when Englanes might Must conquer or must fall; 'Though valour unrewarded die, Nor every field be won, We'll bate no jot of courage high, Before our task be done. ry jonls of our hest! whose bodles fill Their unforgotten grave, Magersfontein's murderous hill Or dark Tugela's wave, Nobly ye strove, ye gallant dead, For England's honour slain! "Tis ours to prove the blood ye shed Has not been shed in vain! ~The. Spectator, By JUDGE R EFUSES WRIT, \ rank Must Die For Murdering Fac tory Girl, Washington, Nov. 28 Justice La- uar refused to issue a writ of error to bring to the supreme coyrt for the review of vonviction of Leo M.Frank for the murder of Mary P. Hagan, a factory girl in Atlanta, Ga., in 1913. Frank is under sentence of death His attorneys applied to Justice Lamar for, the writ on the ground that a right under the federal con- stitution had been denied mym waen the jury's verdict was returned dur- 'ng his absence from the court room. No Chance in the World. Hew York Times, The kindergarden teacher recited 10 her pupils the story of the wolt and the lamb. . As.she compierde 1t she said: . Now children, you see that the lamb would not have been eaten by the wolf if he had been good and sensible." One little boy Talsed his mana. "Well, John," asked the teacher, "what is it?" 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