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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 138 A CAUSE TO FIGHT FOR The commanding personality of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his distinguished service to the Dominion and the Empire at large are sufficiently appreciated in all parts of Canada to insure an eager and enthusiastic reception. The magnitude of this enthusiasm and the eager interest of the vast assemblages that greet him makes a fitting tribute to Canada's foremost statesman. As a personal tribute the demonstrations are full and spontaneous, and strengthened by the evident influence of a cause to fight for. The influence of leader against leader and party against party is in the air, but deeper and stronger by far is the conviction that the issue is drawn between the cause of Liberalism and the cause of reaction, Men may grow eager and enthusiastic over personal preferences in the choice of candidates or over charges of incompetence or malfeasance against some official here or there, but to stir the blood to real enthusiasm it requires the traditional conflict between progress and retrogression, between freedom and restriction, between equality and privilege, between all that is implied by Liberalsim and all that is implied by Conser- vatism. That issue, of fundamental importance, must be fought ir this campaign. It has rallied the best elements in the Liberal party, the elements apt to fall into indifference when no vital questions are up for decision. Those who cannot grow enthusiastic over personal preference as to candidates, important as this may be, are stirred to action by the contending of-parties over the fundamental principles of governmental | development. The people of Ontario know full well that the sameness between the parties disappears when vital issues come to the front. The present issue has arisen through a great opportunity—an opopr- tunity to throw off a load of unnecessary taxation and to secure at the same time the removal of American trade taxation now highly injurious to the Dominion. It has arrayed the Dominion in hostile political camps, the forces of progress, equality, and freedom againsi the forces of ratrogression, special privilege, and suppression. The Liberals feel that they have not only a distinguished leader worthy of their fullest confidence and highest esteem, but a cause worthy of their strongest efforts. It is the cause that has aroused Liberalism throughout the Dominion, and the earnest effort that is intelligently and understandingly directed will win one more victory for Canada's advancement. THE NEED OF MARKETS Canada spends annually something like $150,000 in supporting trade commissioners in different parts of the world, working to secure more extended markets for the Canadian people. Canada spends many thousands of dollars annually in subsidies to steamship lines in order to extend the Canadian market. And Canada has only begun. Within the next ten years the three prairie provinces w Il produce many times as much grain as all Canada is producing now. We musi find a market for our products. There is a market across the line. There are 92,000,000 people in the United Statés now, and in ten years according to the present rate of development, it will be an importing nation. The people of the United States are already looking about them for a future food supply and that is the reason that the traditional protectionists across the border have consented to a reciprocity treaty with Canada. THE PRICE OF B. C. LANDS In front of the C. P. R. land department in Seattle, is the notice in large plain letters “Reciprocity will increase the price of Canadian lands 100 per cent.” The C. P. R. in this case is doubtless right. It may not lead to any such increase right away, but the time is not far distant wher the lands will be that price. British Columbia lands are at present less than half the price of similar land in Dakota and other border states. Our lands are twice as fertile as the lands in the other states. The only reason that our lands are not in greater demand, is that our market is limited. Point out to the American that not only are our lands half the price and twice as fertile, both of which facts he quite understands, but that we have the. same market and. there will be a wonderful rush to this country, greater ihan we have ever seen before. The result will be a very quick increase in the price of lands. Doubtless the C. P. R. is right in its estimate. That company is a very shrewd dealer and should know what it is talking about. The notice appearing upon the C. P. R. window in Seatile is very good reading. LINES TO A MISSING MAYOR “Here awa’, there awa’, wandering Willie! Here awa’, there awa’, haud awa’ hame, Hame to Prince Kupert, where duty awaits you, Wander no longer, fie Willie, for shame!" (With apologies to the Scottish Muse.) A copy of the above touching ballad verse in an envelope addressed “William Manson, Esq., Missing, and Much Missed Mayor of Prince Rupert, B, C., care of Alderman Clayton, care of H. S$. Clements, Comox-Atlin by Vancouver,” is troubling post office officials all over the Province this week. Alderman Douglas declares he knows who sent it, and that there were more than one or two citizens and voiers in the business, but he won't say who they were. That's a secret, a citizens’ Star Chamber secret not to be divulged. The story that the Mayor and his heaven‘born colleague had gone up to Woodworth WARK’S CLOSING JEWELRY i In the past four days we have sold many hundreds of dollars worth of wedding and Christmas gifts. Our friends who have looked over the splendid stock have every of one availed themselves this great opportunity. Buying To-Day Means a savirg of many dollars. Christmas is rearer than you think. You will be needirg: DIAMONDS NECKLACES GOLD CHAINS LOCKETS WATCHES BRACELETS RINGS PINS, ETC. Get them Now at About Half Reg. Cost AND We have still a good assortment of: CUT GLASS STERLING SILVER AND SILVERPLATE GOODS CUTLERY UMBRELLAS CLOCKS SOUVENIR GOODS BRASS GOODS, ETC. This sale will last days longer. not many DON'T WAIT ! Special Today Ladies’ Handbags One Second-hand Hot Air Furnace for sale at a bargain. _Lake to see about the proper starting of the big works there turns out to be a cruel canard. The truth is that the Mayor is out stumping it with H.S. Clements, and the earpet bag bearing the initials ‘‘H.S. C., Vancouver.” They will do a whole lot between them for Prince Rupert, won't they? C.B. Wark & Co. THE DAILY NEWS (AUTHOR OF GOLD, a ae A TENDERFOOTS WOOING By Clive Phillips Wolley GOLD IN CARIBOO, ETC.) ee te es He et CHAPTER III, Cattle Thieves “Are you men up?” The mist wreathes of early morning, the very last of them, were slowly trailing away like dainty long-Sa.rted dames from the hollow below the ca- bin, and the top half of the sun was showing through the timber which crowned the rise to the east of the camp, when Mrs. Rolt's head was pro- truded from the cabin door to ask the above question. But no one answered her. The fire had been made up and the men’s blan- kets were hung on the bars of the corral, but there was no other sign of life if you except a grey bird like a jay, who was making a careful inspec- tion of relics. “No one here, ..itty,” Mrs. Rolt call- ed back into the cehin. “ivow is our chance to make our toilet, and of course that dear old Jim has every- thing fixed for us, basin and water and towels. Makes me fee! quite ‘to home’ as he'd say.” “How do you know that it “How do I know, you ungrateful girl? Hasn't Jim done these things ever since we came .o the country. You don’t suppose that your new chum would ever have thought of it?” “I think that you are very hard on my new chum,” said the girl, showing a de:ightfully rosy face in a mict of disordered hair. “And I think that you are hard on your old—friend,” retorted Mrs. Rolt. She had almost said more than she had intended to, but caught herself up in time and buried her face healthily in the basin to hide her confusion. “Polly.” “Well?” blowing the soapsuds out of her eyes and shaking the water from her wet ha.r. “What an object you do look, dear. It’s lacky your fringe is natural.” “Is that all you wanted to say, Miss? I am all natural and so were you be- fore you went back to England. Now you must needs wear that thing!” and she pointed indignantly to a portion of Kitty’s looke which that charming maiden carried in her hand.” “You must wear a toupee in Eng- land. How would you keep your head smart without cone.” Mrs. Rolt held up her hands with a little gesture of horror. “Spare me that word, Kitty, before vas Jin?” breakfast at any rate. Smart! That is your gospel nowadays. Who said that you must be smart. 1 loathe smart people.” “You prefer—Jims.” “Yes, infinitely. Jim is a man.” “And Mr. Anstruther is not?” tin Tridians. Why do you fhink Dick?” “Me see old camp. See plenty little |gticks go this way,” pointing south. '“You come along, Jim, I show you. | The two went away together, ard after a short absence returned. When | they did so, even Kitty could see that |something had gone wrong. | “What is it, Jim?” asked Mrs. Rolt. “Chilcotins, Khelowna’s band, | think.” “That doesn’t matter, does it? Old Khelowna is all right. They won't bother us?” “I suppose not. No, of course, thoy won't. Old Khelowna is as tame as a wet hen, but I don’t like that,” and he held out for inspection a small piece of fawn-colored hide, Anstruther took it and turned it over in his hand. “A buck’s ear,” he said, In the tone of a squire who had found a rabbit wire. “The beggars have been shooting our deer, but you can’t prevent them, can you? There's no game law in this free country.” “No, we can’t stop them shooting deer and don't want to. There's plenty for all, but that’s not a buck’s ear. The Risky Ranch don't inark deer.” Anstruther saw then that the ear had been cut in a peculiar fashion, so as to make it swallow-tailed. “Why, that is our mark, Jim,” cri the Boss's wife. “That's what I'm thinking, Mrs. Rolt. That's our mark sure. The Bess will have to keep an eye on (hose fellows. There’s been a lot of stock missing lately.” “The Boss won't like that.’ “No, nor I'm afraid you won't like what I'm goi:.; to say, but there’s no help for it. We've got to give up our shoot and go back. We'll have to round up those cattle thieves right away.” Kitty’s face fell. She had looked forward to her shooting picnic and hated to give it up. “What should you do if we were not with you, Jim?” she asked. “Follow them right awny.” “But you couldn't take single-handed.” “No, nor don't want to, but I could see who they were for sure, and maybe | get proofs against them.” “Why could we not go with you, Jim?” suggested Kitty. “It would be better fun than hunting. I'm a born detective.” The giric bright face was all alive with excitement. The thought of tear) had never yet entered her head. a} tell the truth there are in British | | Columbia no terrible legends of Indian | warfare to shake any one’s ne.ve-. | There, the ordinary Siwash is a peace- jable creature unless he is drunk, and {then it is the white man’s fault 80, them all “I did not say so. I don’t know, He | making him so. may be one in embryo, but he'll take a| “Yes, it would be better fun, Miss lot of making.” [oes but not so safe. 1 think we had “Wonld you not rather that Jim had | better all of us go back to tue ranche | some of your pet aversion’s ‘making’ | and get the boys out, unless you think, | in the English language for instance. | Mrs. Rolt, that you could find the way i } | | for | | i | Or is it necessary to talk like a broncho buster to be a man?” Polly Rolt hesitated. She did not want to lie. Indeed downright truth- fulness was one of her occasionally painful characteristics, but she did not like to admit any blemishes ‘in her favorite. “Oh, well, fine English is as easy to put on, for a man like Jim, as your toupee is for you. A man must speak the language of a country if he wants to be understood in it. You used to understand Jim well enough before you went home.” “And now I don't. He seems to me to have changed. In some way he does not seem to be natural any more.” “I thought your complaint was that he was not eufficiently artificial— smart I mean.” “He isn’t that, either. But hurry up. Here they come,” and the two ladies whisked round the corner and into the seclusion of their cabin, to put on the last finishing touches. A minute later they were congratu- lating Combe and Anstruther upon a fine buck which the two slung in. the wagon. “Who shot it, Jim? You, of course,” asked Kitty, her dainty head as trim as if she had just'parted from her maid, though Mrs. Rolt’s fringe was still a trifle damp and straight. “No, Mr. Anstruther killed him.” “And that is all I had to do with it,” added Anstruther. “Combe found his tracks; | went right away from them, walked all over the country until I was beginning to grow tired. He told me to get my rifle ready at the foot of a hog’s back, and as we peeped over, said ‘shoot!’ That is all 1 knew of our hunt.” “Jim had him pieketted for you,” said the girl. ; Jim laughed. “Picketted to his feed, Miss Kitty, T’aint much of a trick to know where a buck would be this time in the morning.” “It is a trick you will owe your steak to, more than to my rifle,” retorted Anstruther generously, and then be- tween them they set about prepara- tions for breakfast. Before that meal was over, the In- dian, Pretty Dick, came up with the horses. “Plenty man track in the swamp,” he said. “Fairclough's boys been hunting, I expect,” said Jim, “though it’s a long way for them to come for deer meat. I saw their tracks. Didn't you notice them going up that first rise to our right, Anstruther?” “No, I saw nothing. I was looking Milka in Pretty for a deer.” “Not Fairclaw crowd, Jim. tum tum Chilcotins,” put Dick, “What does he say?” asked Anstru- ther, “Says he thinks they were Chilco- 50c PER {THIRD AVENUE Read The Daily News back without me.” : “I could try. Where is the ranche from here?” “Come to the top of the rise tnd I'll show you.” } Together they rode to the edge of | the plateau, from which they could) see bench upon bench of grey cattle land, bounded by low hills in the far distance, near which a depression rug gested the bed of an unseen river. | “That's the Fraser and those are! the Ground Hog mountains,” Jim said, pointing to the hills beyond. “It) will take you eight hours’ riding to get) to the river where those big red bluffs crop up. You know them. You can see the ranche from there. It’s nine o'clock now.” ' “Then we could be in sight of the ranche by five.” “Yes, but there's no place where you could camp.” j “Once we sats the ranche we} shouldn't want to camp.” i “There's no telling. It looks fine} enough now, but so it did this time) yesterday.” | Certainly the day looked fine} enough. The storm of the day before | had cleared the air so that it was} more brilliantly lucid than usual, and} the long sloping lands, radiant in the} morning sunshine and sweet with the) strong scent of the sage brush, were eminently provocative of a gallop. Kitty’s horse, not entirely innocent perhaps of his rider's heel, began to! dance about and pull at his bridle as) if he would drag the swaying girlish figure from the saddle, Jim's eyes dwelt on her hungrily. | That was how he loved to see her, | Had he not taught her to ride when | she was but the ten-year-old darling of | the ranche, and was not the hand-| s0me beast who carried her now the colt on which he had expended such endless trouble whilst she was away in England’ It was hard to give up this holiday, and harder to leave her to spend it with that haw-haw young fool] from the Old Country. “I don’t half like letting you go back by yourself, Mrs. Rolt,” he said, “nor I don’t like spoiling your pleasure, but those fellows will be out of the country before we can get on to their trail if 1 don’t get a move on.” “Don't worry about up, Jim, we can get home all right, oniy we must not stand here talking any longer, What are you going to do with Pretty Dick?” “Send him along with you with your ictas, I don’t want him too near me, He is a Chilcotin himself, if he is halt elvilized. But hold on a minute.” He stood shading his eyes and look- ing far away to the west. “You haven't got that pair of glasses with you, have you, Anstruther?” “Yes, here they are.” Jim fumbled with them for some time. Like many outdoor men in the | MONTH —— - West he was not very familfar WIth fe use of binoculars. “They ain't no good tc me. Guess I don't savvy them properly. You take a look through them for me. Ain that smoke there to the west?” Anstruther looked and Jim watched him. “No, not there,” he said. irritably.” “Lord! a man could count the rings on a rattler that far. Away beyond on the next big bench towards the river, near those clumps of pine.” Anstruther could not see the pines. He saw a dark line, but that it meant pines was not obvious to him as it seemed to Jim's naked eye, ’ Mrs. Rolt took the glasses from him. “Let me try,” che said. “I know what to look for. That is half the battle,” and then, after a short scrutiny, she said:— “Yes, | believe that there is a column of smoke or mist just to the right of the pines.” “It ain't mist. There’s no swamp up there. I'll bet my socks that’s th« camp. Tell you what, Mrs. Rolt, if you've a mind to come along, I've al most a mind to take you. They might not suspicion anything if they saw ladies along and 80 give me a show to see more’n | would if I went by my lonely.” Kitty clasped her hands and let her horse go. “Hold on,” cried Jim. “You'll want some blankets, won't you? We shan’t make it back to the ranche to-night. I mean to camp alongside those fel- lows." He turned, calling Anstruther to fol- low him, and rode after Pretty Dick's wagon, from which they returned with all the blankets they could carry. “You and me will have to rough it to-night, but it won’t hurt us any, if we keep up a good fire.” The other made no objection. In the warm sunlight the prospect of a cold, sleepless night does not seem very ter- rible. you time to think of your discomfort that the pinch comes. Then you vow that you will for the future leave your grub, rather than your blankets, behind. (TO BE CONTINUED) It is wher the slow hours give | COAL Nonce == Skeena Land District District Islands Take notice that I Aust { Rupert, _ occupation saddle _ to the Chie! Commissio ( for a licence to of on and under th eat Const of ¢ Commen ns Of Queen Charets prospect for oe ne following ¢ sraham Islar cing at & post plante of the northeast ex Porner of ( 80 chains south, thence oy © © 4474 the chains north, thence #0 yf. lt West, thense 80 commencement, une ast to point of AUSTIN m ‘ Located Ay i * ™. BROW gust let. 14 ‘UWN, Pub, Aug.17.00” 19!) om Skeena Land Distr ct—District of “ m Queen ( harlotte - alands R Take notice that A int M upert, oceupa ddler. ‘trnev" of Pr to the ‘Chief b re on pends to poy for a licence to p { “ands and Works on «nd under the fo est Coast of and p um Toad lands on the planted t } b . Graham Is Commencing at 4 post of the northeast cor; er of ( ies east 50 chains east, thence 80 ehair "71, thence chains west, thence 80 chain. » thence 89 commencement, "NATED to point gf AUSTIN M 2 » Located August ist, 1911. P OWN, Locator, Pub, Aug. 19 Skeena Land District —p { ; Tals Queen Charlotte Take notice that Aust \ Rupert, saddier by occunat t Prince to the Chief Co Spply for a licence tc on and under th est Const of petroleum 1 lands on the Commencing of the northeast ex vt ree miles cag south 80 chaina, thence o 4471 thenes north 80 chains, thence east & e ains, thenes of commencement. Chains to point AUSTIN M. Brow Located August ist, 1911 ‘OWN, Locator Pub. Aug. 19 Skeona Land District —Distri¢ . Islar Take notice that Aust Rupert, occupation the Chief Commisaic { licence to prospect for coa and under the follownig dese West Coast of Graham Island Commencing at a post of the southeast cc north 80 chains, ther south 80 chains, thence w commencement AUSTIN Located August lst, 1911 Pub. Aug. 19. of Queen ( harlotte ‘cleum og on th planted three miles eat ». 4470 thence ast 50 chains, thenes ” chains to point of ver M. BROWN, Locator TRY THE “NEWS” WANT AD. WAY OF FINDING New Knox Hotel BESNER & BESNER, Proprietors The New Knox Hotel is runon the plan, First-class service Improvements. +o FIRST AVENUE, PRINCE RUPERT European BEDS We UP All the Latest Modern | | err srtemnsrnarmncemeeeney | Royal Hotel | { Cor. 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