a eee ee rie > THE DAILY NEWS The Daily News The Leading Newspaper and the Largest Circulation in Northern B. C. Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY AND WEEKLY TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. on application. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—To Canada, United States and Mexico—Dalty, 60c | ever) per month, or $5.00 per year, in advance. WEEKLY, Contract rates | for what is ea man to do with accomplishments he has acquire $2.00 per year, | | All| a crust the whole lergth of a banqueting hall, or suppose that in a < been baked into crusts fo! those below The flour of his youth has his middle age No doubt Mr Blackstock is quite right on the point of etiquette which he has raised A gentleman, when dining out, should not throw crusts at other guests or at his host and hostess But i! thing could be said in extenuation of the offence it would, perhaps. be where the culprit could plead that he was a graduate of Varsity, { at that any- great seat of learning? 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COMMISSION GOVERNMENT FOR PRINCE RUPERT by hitting him on his glistening chest with a be expec te | r : 1 lan accomplishment to perfecting which he devoted four of th raspberry tart, can it he graduates he will abandon forever best 1 of him that wher years of his life and which won him distinction and the tinted admiration of men of his year? It cannot be expected of him that he shall graduate and forever after conceal his proficiency Give him |time and place and a suitable crust and his training will mai | monepolize the art of applying it. may they have not the countene: ce to deny that they are Sencgambians, he graduates into a world where he can get nothing of this kind to do, as people seek shine only for their shoes, and Greeks from Athens to riot without cause, ard gets his degree ifest There is too much that a man learns in University life, which he No matter how skilful he become in polishing his fellow beings with shoe blacking unti) A student spends four years learning Ifa city needed to be looted , The fiasco which the city council have brought about over the| burnt, and the people msssacred, he stands qualified for the job, but hydro-electric by-law, and the near approach to election time, again there is nothing doing, so he enlists in a store to sell ribbon. ; ; : . turns the thoughts of many citizens to a consideration of government | Mistakes which are common to the butcher and/|will have to change in order to utilize the proficiencies which college by commission. baker and candlestick maker type of city council would not present | life develops. |capable of alteration. themselves to a small commission of experts. The troubles of Prince Rupert have arisen from the Provincial| table while Mr Blackstock is speaking is bad enough, but just what Government's policy of working through the municipalities. is why the McBride Government has set its face against any departures marked skill in tearing the from the easily manipulated mayor and alderman type of civic rule.) et That| may happen some day wher There is something wrong somewhere. It looks as if the world Or the nature of some of these proficiencies may be For a graduate to throw crusts across a banquet ] the students of this year, who show street clothes off each other in the street, into polite society, we decline to contemplate until compelled Victoria presses the button or pulls the wire, and the party alderman | to do so by the event does the rest. The brightest word on the subject this week comes to hand from | Mr. Joshua F. Elder, Mayor of Keokuk, Iowa, in a personal letter to the editor of the News, answering a request as to how commission government had worked out in Keokuk to rescue that city from the| grip of party politics. more nearly approaching our own in size. census was 14,008. The following is Mayor Elder’s reply: “The commission form of government has been established with us for about eighteen months and has proven an vnqualified success. of education. The citizens were not satisfied w ith the Keokuk was selected because it is a small city: Its population at the 1910) As with other cities, it was necessary to have a campaign results of the city government as it had been and the result of our first | : : c . { year of commission form of government proved conclusively the} inefficiency of former administrations. “With us, it has eliminated politics from city affairs; has given us a much more efficient executive body; it has given it us a municipal government that the people feel represents the | whole city, and a body of men absolutely independent of any | political influence. city debts with for the employment of our city force. forthe administration to employ whom they please; pay them | what they are worth, and discharge them when they please. “Each of the three commissioners elected by the people have | offices. It has established civ il* service We are not paying state or county political | rules It has made it possible one or more departments for which they are responsible, and the people know who is at fault. As you will notice, under our law, the citizens have the right of recall initiative and referendum. | “When we tuok office, there was a floating debt of $22,000; | no money in the treasury, in fact, a shortage of the former city clerk, which we collected; We paid off the floating debt; no taxes were due for five months. | have reduced our bonded debt} $43,000, with the aid of a sinking fund of $27,000; have improved | the efficiency of all departments, and have done more work on | our streets than has been done before in the same length of time. | All of this has resulted simply from the fact that the comimission form of government readily furnishes an executive body that | can apply business principles, if they see fit. “The number of cities using this form of government has more than doubled since we adopted it, and I ha ol a single city that has made a failure of it.” TWIGS AND TREES (Toronto Star) ve yet to hear In an address to Varsity studeats Mr George Tate Blackstock | told, in terms of regret, how he had seen a graduate of the Toronto | University at a recent public banquet throwing bread crusts across the hall while a speech was being delivered If it be true that as the twig is bent so will the tree incline, we | have no doubt that if we traced this bread throwing graduate back | to his Varsity days we should find that he was one of the students| who used to pour flour from the gallery of a theatre on the heads of WE Les CBT ee = Says — MAY ROBER SECURE YOUR SEAT PRICES—50c., Tic. and $ LAST NIGHT OF _ THE - EMPRESS - THEATRE TS AND HER COMPANY By universal request Theatre office SARDOU’S GREAT COMEDY “ DIVORCONS ” S EARLY 1.00. 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Now he would re tire, and when the commercial ar rangements for the auriscop completed, he would take his daugh- ters on a long-promised Continental tour, unless, indeed, matters pro- gressed between Stanhope and Wnid to the point of an early marriage He had would probably were foreseen that Stanhope ask Enid to be his wife. He knew the youngster well, and liked him. For the opposition that Lady Margaret might offer he cared not a jot. He smiled inwardly as the convenient phrase has it-—-when he reviewed the certain outcome of any dispute between himself and her ladyship. He would surprise her. Brand, the lighthouse-ceeper, and Brand urging the claims of his adopted daughter, would be two very different persons Of course, a!l Penzance knew that he was a gentleman, a scientist in a small way, 2nd a man of means; other wise Constance and Enid would not have occupied the positiion they held in local society Those unacquainted with English ways ofttimes make thé mistake of rating a man’s social status by the means he possesses or the manner of his life in London No | greater error could be committed, | The small, exclusive county town, the community which registers the family connections of many generations, is ; the only reliable index Here, to be | of gentle birth and breeding-—not bad credentials «ven in the court of King Demos—confers Brahminical rank, na matter what the personal fortunes of | the individual did not belong to a but there were Brand it is true Cornish county family | those who conned him shrewdly. They regarded him as a well-meaning crank, yet the edict went forth that his daughters were to be “received,” and received they were, with pleasure and |} admiration by all save such startled | elders mammas as Lady Margaret | Stanhope, who expected her good looking son to contract a marriage which would restore the failing for- tunes of the house. All unconscious of the thoughts flit- ting through his brain, for Brand was busy trimming a spare lamp, the two girls amused themselves by learning the semaphore alphabet from a little hand-book which he found for them. When the night fell, dark and low ering, the lamp was lighted. They had never before seen an eight-wicked concentric burner in use. The shore lighthouses with which they were bet- ter acquainted were illuminated by electricity or on the catoptric princti- ple, wherein a large number of small Argand lamps, with reflectors, are frouped together. To interest them, to keep their eyes and ears away from the low-water) orgy of the reef, he explained to them) the capillary action of the oll Al | though they had learnt these things) in schoo] they had not realized the/ exactness of the statement that oil does not burn, but must first be oon- verted into gas by the application of} heat. On the Gulf Rock there were| nearly 3,000 gallons of colza ofl stored | in the tanks beneath, colza being used in preference to paraffin because it) wus safer, and there was no storage accommodation apart from the light house Requiring much greater heat than mineral oil to produce inflammable)! gas, the colza had to be forced by/} heavy pressure in the cistern right up to the edge of the wicks, and made to flow evenly over the rims of the burn- er, else the flerce flame would eat the metal discs as well He read them a little lecture on the} rival claims of gas and electricity, and | demonstrated how dazzlingly brilliant | the latter could be on a dark, clear night by showing them the fine light the Lizard “But in hazy weather the of] wins,” he said, with the proper pride of every man in his own engine. “Fishermen sailing into Penzance along a course equidistant from the two points tell me that if they can see anything at all on @ fogsy night they invariably catch a dull yellow radiance from the rock, whilst the Lizard is invisible. The oll has more penetrative power. Its chemical combination is nearer the mean of nature's resources.” | At the proper time he banished them to the kitchen te prepare din. | her, a feast diverted from the hour of | naon by the chances of the day. He adopted every expedient to keep ihem busy, to tire them physically and mentally, to render them so exhausted that they would sleep in blissful calm | through the ordeal to come. | As he could not leave the lamp, and | they refused to eat apart from him, the dinner, in three courses, was a | breathless affair. Going up and down five flights of stairs with soup, joint | and pudding, whilst one carried the tray and the other swung a hand lan- tern in front, required time and exer or | tlon, They were cheerful as grigs over it. Bnid, whose turn it was to bring up | the plates of tapioca, pleaded guilty to a slight sensation of nervousness, | “I could not help remembering,” she said, “what an awful lot of dark | fron ste there were beneath me. | | felt as if something were creeping up | quickly behind to grab me by the | ankles.” | “You should go up and down three | times in the dark,” was Brand's re | clpe. “When you quitted the door level for the third ascent you would | cease to worry about impossible | grabs.” Constange looked at her watch. “Only eight o'clock! What a long day jt has been,” she commented, "You must go to bed early Sleep in my room. You will soor forzet where you are; each of the bunks ig comfortable. Now I will leave you in charge of the lamp whilst I go and lock up.” They laughed. like. “Any fear of burglars?" cried Dnid “Yes, most expert cracksmen, wind and rain, and—sleet,” he added, quict “1 must fasten all the storm-shut It sounded s0 home ly. ters and make everything snug Don't stir until I wake you in the morning.” “Poor old dad!” sighed Constance, What a vigil!” He was making new entries in the weather report when she remarked, thoughtfully: “It is high-water about half past one, I think.” He nodded, pretending to treat question as of no special import “From all appearances there will be a heavy sea,’ she went on “Just an ordinary bad night,” he said coolly “Do the waves reach far up the lighthouse in a gale”’’ she persisted. Then Brand grasped the siituation firmly. “So that your slumbers may be peaceful,” he said, “I will call your kind attention to the fact that the Gulf Rock light has appeared every night during the past twenty-five years, or since a date some four years before you were born, Constance. It contains 4,000 tons of granite and is practically monolithic, as if it were carved out of a quarry. Indeed, I think its builder went one better than nature. Here are no cracks or fis sures or undetected flaws. The lowest course is bolted to the rock with wrought-iron clamps. Every stone is dove-talled to its neighbors, clasped to them with iron, above, be- low and at the sides. If you under. stood conic sections I could make clearer the scientific aspect of the structure, but you can take it from me you are far safer here than on @ nat ural rock many times the dimensions of this column.” “That sounds very satisfactory,” | murmured Enid, sleepily. “I am overwhelmed,” said Con- stance, who grasped the essential fact that he had not answered her ques tion Soon after nine o'clock he kissed them good-night. They promised not to sit up talking. As a guarantee of their good behavior, BPnid said she would ring the electric bell just be fore she climbed into ber bunk. The signal came soon, and he was glad He trusted to the fatigue, the fresh air, the confidence of the know- ledge that he was on guard, to lull them into the security of unconscious- ness The behavior of the mercury puz- zled him in the barometer it fell, in the th meter it rose Increasing temperature combined with low pres sure Was ! a healthy combination in Jan 5 Looking back through the records of veral years, he discov- ered a ft ilar set of conditions one day in Ma 1891 He was stationed then on the rtheast coast and failed to remember any remarkable circum- nected with the date, so he lighthouse diary for ! Here was a possible stances Cor consulted that year Al explanation The chief-keeper, a stranger to him, was something of a meteorolo He had written “At 4.15 p.m. the barometer stood at 27.16 degrees, and There wes a heavy sea and a No, 7 gale blowing from the 8. 8.-W, About five o'clock the wind increased to a hurricane and the sea became more violent than | have seen it during five years’ experience of this station Judging solely by the clouds and thé flight of birds, I should imagine that the cycloni centre passed over thé Scilly Isles and the Land’s End.” Then, next day “A steady northeast wind stilled th¢ fea most effectually Within twenty: four hours of the first signs of the hurricane the Channel was practicable for smal) creft A fisherman reports that the coast is strewn with wreck age.” Brand mused over the entries for a while With his night glasses he peered long into the teeth of the growing storm to see if he could find the double flash of the magnificent light on the Bishop Rock, one of the Atlantic breakwaters of the Scilly Isles It was fully thirty-five miles distant, but it flung its radiance over the waters from a height of 148 feet, and the Gulf Rock lamp stood 130 feet above high-water mark. A landsman would not have distinguished even the nearer revolutions of the St. Agnes light, especially in the prevalent gloom, and wisps of spindrift were already striking the lantern and blur ring the glass Nevertheless, he caught the quick flashes reflected from clouds low, but unbroken. As yet, there was a chance of the incoming tide bringing better weather, and he bent again over the record of the equinoctial gale in 1891 The Soon he abandoned this hope growing thunder of the reef as the tide advanced gave the first unmis takable warning of what was to come, As a mere matter of noise the reef roared its loudest at half-tide. He understood now that a gale had swept across the Atlantic in an tirregular track Howsoever the winds may rage the tides remain steadfast, and the great waves now rushing up from the west were actually harbingers of the fierce blast which had created them, Of course, the threatened turmot! in no wise disconcerted him. It might be that the rock would remain inaccessible during many days. In that event the girls would take the watch after the lamp was extinguish: ed and they must learn to endure the monotony and discomforts of exis tence in a storm-bound lighthouse, They would be nervous unquestion: ably—perhaps he had forgotten how nervous—but Brand was a philo sopher, and at present he was most taken up with wonderment at the curious blend of circumstances which resulted in their presence on the rock that night. Ha! A tremor shook the great pth lar. He heard without the frenzied shriek of the first repulsed roller which flung itself on the sleek ane rounded walk Would the girle sleep through the next few hours? Pos sibly, if awake, they would attribute the vibration of the column to the wind. He trusted it might be 80, Shut in as they were, they could not distinguish sounds. Everything te them would be a confused hum, with an occasional shiver as the granite braced its mighty heart to resist the enemy. But what new note was this in the outer chaos? An ordinary gale shud dered and whistled and chanted ita way past the lantern in varying tones, It sang, it piped, it bellowed, it played on «giant reeds and crashed with cym and. eee bals. Now—te loo) —< after midnig} 1} i Boreech in the vol which he did yn e heard bef t Ig dawned on } 7 there, a few f¢ © wa him by ' f lighthouse thr this mer " steadfast conto |} earthly me buree was fi the outer The wir eighty, ma hour Not in earlier lands, had of such fur something ach aloft, but a next day di wind-vane ha wrought-iror thick havir worsted pest had f He tried t of the gale ing foam, If the ¢ to fling a the whol in wel the surface Some by the reef greater for fired in | tory Tir structure \ ‘ If Stepher " ed to know fe cael the ugly | column wo b re quite withir tty that the e1 " ried away " He thought h ¢ atching breath, of Ez room benea For flee stant his mortal eyes gaze unseen But t ty restored him. The ¢ ‘ affected the lamp ' ‘ ked. With a ste: g ’ little brag re ¢ . “> perbly indiffer monium. J ing thelr . » beside Su r the triur pure white ing its path thr ant witho a as it lit uy Bummer hig! zephyrs “Thank Go ed aloud. “H an t é than at his pos | The ring of tro: aught his) ears. He turns stance appe eyes he { hind her ers ee! crying she ¢t k her tears “Is this sort of r 4 special pert benefit?” sa € a fine attemy; “Oh, dad t ried Enid. “Wt CHAP \ THE MIDDLE WATCH It says a ¢ Stepheq Brand's court t t laugh just the fine thing for a man mest danger, to b f fort & weeping wo! The next n I eir last -of that he Even before the i ¢ felt a curious the whole frame and ginas alike § durance Some nat bi lief in pra and Ey and besoug to spare Brand, be was imm) to save ther alarm "7 sary instar a To dense - possible per eas warning, he 7 fron rail the the stairs take his char cee go with the i a alternative e | ore at once 4 The laugh wit - wy 9 their appeara! scheme “I ought he cried os descend to the | - nice cups of oh eak Just think wh if in this bante oe tla words, thoug! ble might meat affect he His reques 2 calculated. For deceived, and 1g Enid, more volatii e as bed her tears 3; elf as they imagine father cou fact in the face them Cocoa I his thoughts expecting the lg into tie Enyglit He turne brass screws “Now, do no he said, “but ha go. Use the 0! is ready “Shivering ide poe Constance 0 ne ad 0 would let him see Au monoply of thé deo.” She “Down “He shal) hay aga too oe mt »ried: ree or ma He looked ove! ere caught his daugt é from the well o! uae “Bad night ! ) ee eents and he cheated i a second time ; a They we 7 his last sight of Three times the Burr" ered creaked Once ! ngled: tibly that the eure a Then he remem) Isaiah “Por thou the poor, @ his distress, ® a shadow from hast be strel oe sto ble one ter! blast of the e ptorm against the wa (TO BI CONTINI nD)