S-T-R-A-N-D NOW SHO MARY PHILBIN "The Rose of Paris" "WAY OF A MAN" Chapter Two , | "Argentine Love" stands alone AMUSEMENTS _ What the Agents Say About Attractions "ARGEN LOVE" AT CAPITOL 'Bebe Daniels end Ricardo Oontes ame featured in the principal roles of {the Paramount picture, "Argentine Love," which opened at the Capitol Theatre. yestenday. It -is en Alam Dwan production, written especially for the streen by Vicente Blasco Thanez. Miss Daniels has the cole of a beautiful Spanish senorita who flouts al the old traditions of her race 0 marry & young American while her Spanish dover fights desperately to win ber. : | Ricando Cortez, as the wealthy Ar- gentiniam, Juan Martin, gives the finest poftreyal of his yet young woreen oafeer. James Rennie, head- dng the cast playing dn suppont, is Philip Sears, the American engineer wihcee work brings bém to the Ar- gentine. For vromance in a colorful setting. on the screen, It was written by the author of "The Four Horsemen." There #3 lovedimterest for the flapper, gepuine appeal for the cider folks and rapid-fire action for the young- asters, "Argentine Love," adapted for the screen by Joha Russell, is a truly modern atory of an old-world civilize- tion with a happy ending. Marlo Majerond, Aurelio Cocca, Mark Gom- sales and others just as well known appear in support. It will be elfown to-night and Saturdey. Starting Monday, Norma Talmadge will be seen in her latest pipture, "ROSE OF PARIS" AT STRAND. Mary Philbin, star of "The Rose " To all patts of the city Outer Station included. ALL LARGE CARS RSs RD 2 JR Yet twp SaitinfiD a LUM, nd 1 || Ramsay, at a time when Ramsay of Paris," Univetsal-Jewel coming to tbe Strand Theatre to-day and to- morrow, will be supported by an ub- usually etrong cast. Johm Salmpolis, "The Great Lover" of the film bear ing that t/44é and portrayer of many fine roles for the screen, has ome of the leading male parts. This story was adapted fro the celebrated French novel, ") * Ofthhefs in the cast are Rose Dione, Robert. Owain, Dorothy Revier, Gino Corrado, Dor- een Tumer, Edwin J. Brady, Charles H. Puffy. PROF. GOODWIN'S LECTURE. At_Quéen's On "The Discovery of New Elements. Something of the ecstacy exper- fenced by the research chemist, who has just made a discovery which may immortalize him, was revealed to the large audience which heard Dr. L. F. Goodwin, head of the Chemical Engineering Department, #peak on 'The Discovery of New Blements," at the meeting of the Queen's CIC. in Gordon Hall; Thursday afternoon. Dr. Goodwin has had the privilege of acting as assistant to perhaps the greatest of modern _ scientists, Sir Willlam was engaged in some of his most im- portant work, and the story the speaker told had the spell-binding appeal of the most idealistic ro- mance, coupled with the very y shegiad- ed advantages of fact. The most interesting t of the address was that in which the story i RP df the first transmulation of an ele- mefit was recounted. The sclentist to first observe the phenomenon was Soddy, an assistant of Ramsdy. He had been: investigating radium emanations and had left a tube of the rare element for some hours. When he returned to it, it had changed to helium. For several days the workers at the laboratory work. Finally it was established thas the old dream of the alchemists, the transmutation of elements, was achieved, | spent night and day in frenzied |; SPORT DON BROPHY NOW WITH PITTSBURGH HORNETS Makes His First Appearance Against Boston A.A. in Smoky Oity To-night. Pittsburgh, Jan. Canada, which appeared here during the holidays in a4 match with the Yale team, has signed with Pitts- burgh Hornets of the Eastdrn group of the United States Hockey League and he will make his first appear- ance to-night in a Pittsburgh uni- form when the local team meets the Boston A. A. in'their first of a ser fes of two games. Brophy, it will be remembered, was to have played with Kingston last Monday night against Belle- ville here but missed his train in To- ronto. During the football season, Brophy starred with the intérmed- iate football team and was counted on to star with Queen's this season in the Intercollegiate series. He did not meet with success in his Christ- mas examinations and thé outcome was that he left Queen's and went to Pittsburgh to play hockey. Intermediate Practice. The Kingston Intérmediates prec- tised last night at the ,R.M.C. rink with the R.M.C. Intermediates with the result that the players. went through their work better than they have at any time this season, The boys were quite confident of a vie- tory today when they boarded the train for Brockville. WITH THE CURLERS. Four games in the club ¢hampion- ship series and two in the afternoon series were played at the curling rink on Thursday. The results were: Club Championship F. Copeland H. N Robertson W. H. Smith W. J. Sowards T. Frizzell J. L. McMillan A. W. McMahon, Dr. A. E. Ross, Skip--11 Skip--18. W. C. Cannon F. W. Harold W. J. B. White J. A. M¢Crae, Skip--9 J. W. Fraser W. M. Nickle D. B. Murray E. O. Sliter, Skip--18 R. Scott H. Harris A. E. Treadgold J. A. McFarlane Skip--8 H. N. Linton D. W. Taylor W. Chapman , | H. Newman Skip--8 J. C. Reynolds H. Hunt RD. M. Thompson Ls A. Zufelt J. Lemmon W. McCarthey L. Sleeth Skip--10 Skip--9 - Afternoon Series: R. H. Fair - . Cadenhead A. W. McLean , Macdonald T. Carnovsky i * Skip--T7 : 16.--Bernard Brophy, dashing young centre" of Queen's Hockey Club of Kingston, THE DA PERENNIAL CONFLICT OF EAST AND WEST Crow's Nest Pass Pact and Wheat Pool. Consul, Sask., Jan. 5.--(To the Bditor): The perennial conflict be- tween the east and west of Canada has agein come to the front over the setting aside of a solemn act of parliament by the board of rallway commissioners. Just as we in the west had felt secure in the restors- tion of the "Crow's Nest Paet," along comes the decision of the Railroad board, by a vote of four to two, to the effect that as a matter of law, the Crow's Nest agreement never had any validity, and therefore, is null and void. This, agreement, as every ofie knows, was entered into some twenty- ix or twenty-seven years since be- tween the Canadian Pacific railway and the western provinces. About that time the C.P.R. was asking an- other loan from the government of some twenty-five million dollars. In order to placate the west the parlia- ment passed which was known as the "Crow's Nest Pass Agreement." By this instrument it was stipulat- ed that the freight rates on a recited schedule should not be advanced be- yond a certain figure inserted in the agreement. During the great war this agreement was suspended, but was restored a couple of years since. It is a matter of the most vital interest to the west, as she is now over-burdened with rail rates and if this thing is to be kept up through the force of thig outrag- eous decision, the west may®well des- pair of keeping her head above wa- ter. Certainly, the matter will go to the privy council, that last hope of down-trodden Canadians. It is quite true there are a good many parties"in the Dominion who would do away with all appeals to this most eminent of all appellate tribunals, but, in my opinion, the privy council is the balance-wheel of the Canadian state. ; And just here, a very pregnant and pertinent inquiry might be madé, to wit, why is it that so many of our statutes are so drawn that we are compelNed to go to the council to find out what they mean? Is the Eng- lish language so poverty-stricken that it cannot be made the vehicle of intelligible expression? By no man- ner of means! The plain fact is that thege statutes are "purposely so drawn, not only in this, but in other countries. There is a certain ele- ment in the legislatures, and we will not name the same for fear that we might be treading on our own corns, who make big money by having these m, and they look : star it means. The bank act that goy- erfied the trial of the Home Bank of- ficials is a conspicuous example point. It took three or four courts, and finally the court over the sea, to fix the mode of trial of these of- fielals. Having said this much that might possibly prick up the ears of our professional brethren, we pass to the wheat question. Wisdom of When the famed Aaron Sapiro, of California, t us to abandon all turther efforts to obtain a government wheat board, and concentrate our efforts on the erdction of a wheat and controlled by out selves, we, more than surpris- ed because we thought his scheme Utopian, The sequel proved how much wiser was he. As we look out on the face of society to-day we dis- cover a vast unrest, if not a great upheaval in matters social and eco- nomic. What agency so apt to al- lay all this as the agency of co-opera- tion? And go we farmers should seek to extend this principle and elds. We should gE3is: 7 i F7et a is i i SEiE{1 5g AILY BRITISH WHIG fn the jaws of the exchange in the shape of an opposition company and 80 has converted this raging and des- tructive monster into a quiet and tractable animal. Wheat Selligg at $1.55 Wheat is still selling at Consul, Sask., at $1.56 a bushel, which is mere than double the price 'on the average here a year go. This price is for first grade, as there are other 'grades as numbers 2, 3, 4, etc. But the "spread" or difference in the price of the several grades is much less under the than it was un- der the exchange ore the pool was erected. Under the exchange the practice was to bonus the elevator men 80 as to induce them to take all off the farmer that they possibly could in the way of grading, dockage, weight, ete. ~ But any sketch of western condi- tions without: allusion to the branch lines, would be incomplete. In the autumn of 1912 I was in southern part of Alberta. Wheat at that time was selling at fifty-two cents a bush- el, and some of the growers had to haul thirty-five miles to reach the elevators. . A man would have a four- horse team and a tank that would hold 135 bushels. It took him three days to make the trip, and the hotel fare was fifty cents a meal, and lodg- ing $1.00 a night. His horses - were worth $600.00, the waggon $200.00, and the harness $100.00. When he got home if he had $5.00 to the good he would consider himself Jucky. This was and is the case with hun- dreds and hundreds of grain growers in this far-flung empire of the west. When these facts shall have filtered down through the minds of the east we shall hear of no more opposition to the branch lines. But this eternal conflict between the Canadian east and west is nothing new on the fields of economics. It has raged for one hundred and fifty years, more or less, between the eastern and southern sections of the republic. to the south. As far back as 1832, the state of South Carolina passed what was known as the "Nullification Acts." These acts said that the tar- iff bill enacted by the congress should not be enforced im South Carolina. General Jackson was presi- dent, and told John C. Calhoun that if he did not repeal these acts. he would hang him him for treason. This divergence of views respecting financial interests between these two great sections was one of the causes that eventually led to the civil war between the states from 1861 to 1865. But nature also helped tp bring this 'conflict on. The southern states were too sultry for white men to toil in the cotton, tobacce and rice flelds, and thereby the institution of slavery was promoted, which was the main reason for that fratricidal strife. And why do I write all this? Simply to show that the Canadian do- main is more fortunate than her sis- ter to the south in that her geo- graphical" divisions do mot lead to blood-shedding or.any other serious difficulty that may not be easily com- posed. If 1 were called upon to write a motté to be inseribed upon the Canadian escutcheon it would be this, "Economic Unity." When the east shall take into consideration our great distanée from the markets of the world, and give us the lowest possible rail rates that can be afford- ed, then; and not till then, shall these two great sections march hand in hand_to a homogeneous national- ity. First Requisite of State. The first regaisite of a civil state is, I take it, that it be symmetrical. it is agreed, I think, by the consensus of opinion among publicists that the greatest problem that confronts so- ¢lety 1s to prevent the accumulation of property in mounds., This cer- tainly was the view of the ancient Jewish commonwealth, which pro- vided so carefully against this ac-| cumulation by the establishment of the year of jubilee, when, once in every fifty years, all property re- verted to the original owners or to the state. History tells us that when ancient Egypt went down, that ten per cent. of the people owned 90 per cent. of the wealth of the country. The sta- Ysties of the United States now show, so it is reported, that 20 per cent. of the population own 85 per cent. of the wealth of the republic. Some of the labor journals have as. serted that at the time of the recent : i EF | i & 5 if § | induce the east to pond the fact that it is her duty to tribute some of her su to this sunset land, inion" may be symm: and prosperous. ~-M. 8. BURNETTE. ANGROVE'S BICYCLE SHOP 1S DESTROYED over dls- is dome cal, powertul {Aaa Torch EA9iodes while Mr. Was at Work ~--8moke Was Intense. " Sinn A very serious fire broke out Thursday night about 11.25 in James Angrove's bicycle shop at the corner of Princess and Clergy streets, with the result that the lit- tle shop is a mass of ruins and the equipment and tools, together with a stock of bicycles were totally de- stroyed, making a loss "of about $3,600, only one-third of which is covered by insurance. The firemen had a very difficult time fighting the fire owing to the intense smoke. James Angrove, the well-known 'bicycle repairer, was in his shop working overtime on a job and he was using a gasoline torch and had not proceeded very long with his work before the torch exploded and immediately flames shot forth. Mrs Angrove's legs were burned quite severely and in trying to get out of the building, he fell apd wrenched his back, with the result that he was quite crippled up this morning. The fire started in. the twinkling of an eye and a minute after the torch exploded dense volumes of smoke issued forth from .the place and Clergy street looked as though a pall had been thrown over it. It was impossible to see clearly in the block befween Princess and Brock streets, and when the firemen were answering the call to the shop, they could not see the intersection, dense was the smoke and the mo- tor pump was nearly run up on the sidewalk. The smoke prevented the firemen from making any rapid headway with the fire and it liter- ally poured out of the littfe_puild- ing. Smoke went through the stone wall on the inner side of the build- ing through to Thompson's cigar store and McGall's ghoe repair shop and over Thompson's shop to Prit- tie's. All three places suffered somewhat from the heavy smoke. The firemen had used two lines of | | Hose, one from the corner of Clergy and Princess streets, and thé other from Brock and Clergy streets, and a third was laid in around back of Thompson's, but it was not requir- ed . . - During the course of the fire sharp reports, somewhat like the reports of cartridges, were heard, these explosions evidently coming from the acetylene tank in the building. The shop was easy prey for the fire and in less time than it takes to tell, it was done for. The building is owned by the Bank of Commerce and the loss is covered by insurance. HAMILTON NORDER TRIAL IS DROPPED Hamilton, Jan. 16.--Justick Mowat ot tle assizes to-day reles. od Mrs. Boytoizae, "Panko end Yakim Sha- were Great Slaughter of on Men's Pants and ------------ _ Men's Sootch Matoh up that cost a pair of Paints. Men's Overooats, belt, Raglan sleeve, back, only $14.78. -. Men's and Young Sults--all kinds, quality, $18.00, Don't let your bey We have an Overcoat him at $4.98. Good Wool Socks, All four are to Tepont Hoe once a {st on a tive fact. 3 1 (Reported by Jobpston & §6 Princess street, members of Stock Moatreal and Toronto obasges). : New York. Jan. 16.--(1.30 p.m.) Amer. Loco.. Amer. Can.. .. Baldwin Loco... as me as "0s CP Riuihes Chandler Motors Cora Products .. Cosden Oil... .. . Cruefble Steel. . General Asphalt. . International Nickle. . Kelly Springtield.. . Mack Motors... .. ... Marland Ofi.. .. New Haven.. .. Ne Xe Cue cus sansa Northern Pacific... .. .. . Pacitic ON. . . Pan. Amer, Pete "B" .. . Producers & Refiners. .. Plerce etroleum.... Sou. Pac... .. sees see Bow: RIWY.. vo so. snes » [Sinclair Ofl.. .. .. .:s0 Standard Ofl of Calif.. .. ae mew For Saturday & Monday, Jan. 17 & we will give the following bargaios:-- - For every §8 : order, we shall . . 5 lbs. Sugar for 10 1be Sugar for orders will receive prompt attention. " Bu eee A ee . ws papular trom $15.00, 10 $4500. wilath to goat ....... Thu. es ant oolors, to go at .......