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Date 1912-10-25

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SOLD AND * RAMED any pretty plotures. them framed before torn or soiled, if and see the biggest - Offered in pletures. from 5c each 0 to 10 Marshall mperlal Bank Bldg. t for the Snider amps, All work . 90-6 SPECIAL st Sleepers- Cua CG eked Suess y FHPRESSE ber-Decentber i Berths Now, for MAS SHIPS igent for Details, or Write TER, Gen'l Agent. ge Ave., Winnipeg BIN, Ticket Agent, dicine Hat. A HOUSE Night Only, I. 28th rell Visit of stance wley English Actress, in RCOUS ING COMEDY BY ARDON. 1.00 and Ze, ber your friends at. are no more approp- n a PHOTOGRAPH, appreciated. . There's. in your town. OPEN + DAY. - Arrange for udlo, 218 Fourth Ave. LANGE nd Landscape Archi- Spur Railways, and Gas. Supplics. ling, Irrigation. ivisions. of Parks, nstructions. Lotto: onsible Service for- able Prices. EDCLIFF, ALTA, 86-6 wa delivered in the, EAUNCHING NEW. YORK. THE STATES BIG BATTLESHIP Authorized by Congress in 3910 Big Boat is 2,000 Tons Heayier Than Any Other. Washington, D. C., Oct, 256 The United States battleship New York is fo be launched at the Brooklyn navy yar next week, and President Taft, eoretary of the Navy Meyer, Gov- ernor Dix, Mayor Gaynor and: many other notables are expected to be on aud to watch the most powerful vessel im the United States navy take her first plunge into the water, The New York and her sister ship, the Texas, aro each 2,000 tons heav- jer than any other warship that bas ever been launched in this country.) The New York is 6,175 tons heavier 7 Jbroadulde, or forward, or aft, at the same time. The arrangement of, three. turrets aft and two forward of the bridge ig the work of the Naval Construc- tion Corps of the United States Navy. Great Britain has followed: this de sign in her new dreadnoughts and this is considered one of the highost compliments ever paid American de- signers and constructors. The New York's engines will be of 28,000 horse-power, 8,000 more than those of the Florida. If the expect- ations of her designers are fulfilled she will be able to maintain speed of 21 knots an hour.or better. The engines are triple expansion, four cylinder reciprocating engines. The armor of the new battleship will be of sufficient thickness for defense against torpedo boat attacks, and there will be strong bulkheads as an additional protection against mines and torpedo explosions. The New York and the Texas will be of the same type as the dread- noughts. Oklahomia and Nevada, which have been authorized by Congress. than the battleship Florida, the last Warship constructed at the Brooklyn avy yard and which was the biggest. ship of its class afloat at the time of her completion only two years ago. The battleship New York was auth- orized by Congress in 1910. At first Vids Wore Asked for, but tater these wero rejected and it was decided to build the vessel in the Government yard at Brooklyn. The keel was laid on September 11, I911, and a board hoisted near the Bite where the ship grow says: U. 8. SB. New York, Battleship No. 34, Tength 578 feet; breadth 95 ft. 2 5-8 Inches; displacement 27,000 . tons; + Miean draught, 28 feet, 6 inches. Since then the huge vesel has grown steadily and when she takes the wat- ef she will be nearly 70 per cent. completed. Karly next fall she is to be completed and ready to take cher place as one of the five units in the first division of the. Atlantic fleet, of which she will probably be the flagship. Not only in size but in the calfbre of the guns of their main batteries were the New York and Texas de- signed to be the most. formidable Dattleships ever built. Up to the present time the 13-inch gun, which. has not been used on avy of the newer ships of the navy, has been the limit in calibre of navy guns, The New York and Texas, however, will each carry t i 4-inch: guns, mount- ed two to a turret, and so arranged that all of them can be fired In a The two last-named, however, will be About ten feet longer and of 600 tons greater displacement than the New York and the Texas. The launching of a big battleship fs an importapt event in itself, but im the case of the New York the ceremony will be more notable be- cause the Navy Department will have demonstrated that t s fully equipped and competent enough to construct the largest battleships in its own shipyards without assistance from private concerns. True, the pro- jgres in the construction of the New York has not been so rapid as that on her sister ship Texas, now, near- ing completion at Newport News, but the fault has not been with the of- Ticials or workmen at the Brooklyn navy yard. After the keel of the New York was laid down the work on the ship was stopped for a while by Secretary Meyer until it could be surely ascertained that the 6,000,- 000 provided by Congress would be Sufficient to cover the expense. Fruit im its season is not only good, but medicine, and it is mis- taken economy to do without it. The acids of the fraits are used to clean the mouth, stomach and intestines, They kill the germs that have found their way to the living canals; they cool the blood; they aid the liver cells to do their work, lor this rea- son they should be used freely in some form or other during their sea- son. Because Fashion-Craft used are not ona pal Sreater assortment and Shops of BARKER A Mistaken idea wear that the clothes and other materials found at a first class custom tailer's. We positively state and can prove that the highest grad woolens made can be bought in any Fashion-Craft Shops in Canada only in any custom tailor could possibly attempt. We have the great advantage of buying direct from the best factories in the world in quantities from 50 to SOO yards instead of purchasing. 2 te 10 yards from a wholesale woolen house as an avera lar has tn:lo. See the saving in cost of Suit or Overcoat ? MEDICINE HAT, . is sold as ready-to- + with these to be at lower prices than custom + ou get it, PATTEN table sermon DEVELOP PLATINUM *NDUSTRY AT NELSON Two Companies Offer to Erect Plants of Commer- cial Scale to Encourage Project. ie Seas ORE OUTPUT FOR WEEK Smelting 25,285 Tons Gran- by Company Passes Mil- lion Mark for Year. Nelson, Oct. 24 Smelting 25.285 tons last week the Granby Company at Grand Forks passed. the- million ton mark for the year to date, bring- ing. its output for the period to 1,1102,802 tons, compared with 590 413 toms for the same part of Inst year. Blister copper shipments from this. smelter last week were 485,000 pounds, making a total for the year of 17,879,500 tons. s A new shipper on the list this week is the Richmond mine in the south belt at Rossland, which is belng op- erated by a Vancouver company un- der the management of J. L. Warner. Platinum Discovery. Interest in the platinum. discovery in the Nelson district is growing fast. Mr. W Fleet Robertson, provincial mineralogist, was recently present at. demonstration at which he is aid to have been convinced of the pre- sence of the much- sought for metals in the ores in question and now Mr, R. J. Elliott has returned from a two months visit to the east, during which time he conferred with the leading platinum authorities In the United States and Canada, and de- clares that the treatment problem is not so difficult as believed in this province, that it has heen solved by several processes and that two com- pantes have offered to erect plants of commercial scale here with the proviso that no money shall be paid over until their success 1s proved. Mr. Elliott and. his associates are proposing to have a plant built by one of these companies and to de- monstrate the commercial value of the platinum discovery before taking: any further steps toward the devel- opment of the discovery. Among Gold Mines. Among the gold mines the best news-of the past week was.the dis- covery that the big ore body in the No. 4 level of the Queen mine at Shesp creek extends to the No. 5 level, 125 feet below, and that the continuance of the drifts in the No. 4 levels proves that) the ore runs westward, instead of only to the east, as has always been the belfef. Ore Production. Ore production and smelter receipts in the varleus districts. were: Consolidated company s receipts; Trail Week, 6,658; year, 250,262 tons. Granby smelter receipts, Grand Forks Week, 25,285 tons; year, 1,012,802 tons. 5 British Columbia Copper com- pany s receipts, Greenwood Week, 18,487 tons; year 531,564 tons. Boundary production Week, tons; year, 193,973 tons. East Kootenay production Week, 965 tons; year, 35,654 tons. Slocan and Ainsworth production Week, 2,346; year, 97,909. Nelson production Week, tons; year, 50,592 tons. bb ee be bh eek bo ee eee + ob + COMMUNICATIONS + EEE EEL EEE EES NOTE While we welcome all com- munications from our readers, we wish it to be thoroughly understood that we do not necessarily sub- scribe to or endorse the opinions expressed by our correspondents, 5,487 1.604 AN letters: must. be signed by the - writer for publication as we publish no communication signed with anomymous names, even though the name of the writer accompan- tes it Ba. Medicine Hat, Oct. 24th, 1912. Editor Ths News: Sir In reply to Mr. Reilly's let- ter which appeared in your vahrajble publication on the 2ist. inst. re the Home Rule question. I am of the opinion that the threshing of - the question in this eontroversial manner in the cor- respondence columns of the public. press, will do no good, as, speaking for myself, I.think that Irishmen who have made their homes in Can- ada andate prospering under her benefiecnt Jaws should strive to for- whichwere in force in those unhap- py days. the Roman Cath Hest. I -mnuresifbe told the true story of mayentres of Drogheda and We eg nape ick, the Penal La pillag- ing, burning and piteb-cappling of 198 it would do nish to enlighten a good many who make public boast of their loyalty. Te about the famine af '4T and the .splendid(?) re- liet meagures of the English Govern- ment, and awhile he was shout it he might have given us more of Mr, Sydney S article, which T take the likerty/of quoting as fol- lows: On old. policy of ousting the the ownership of the soil, of ving and pen- alizing their and of planting the country with and English colonists, has the ghast- ly failure of rule in - Ireland a failure that om the whole seems tome as ap. the biggest, blackets and stupid blot on our natinnal, meee Also, on the contrary, where the judges on their oireuite are repeated ly congratulating the grand juries on the absence of any serious crimes in the country, there is in existence a Police force twits as large as in Scottand a country with a less Population than Erelaind and it costs five million dolldte a year more to maintain than the Scottish police force, The total cost of Irish Gov- imerry jibe atthe ladk of edu ati in some parts of Ireland, Today, ad- mittedly, Ireland lags behind every nation in Western Wurope in trade, commerce, agriculture, in technical skill, in sefence and in arf. Why It is because the Irish rage are tess talenten than the people of any oth er race in the world? Anyone who knows anything of the history of the world, and especially anyone who knows anything of the history of the British Empire, will make no such assertion. No Ireland lags bebrind in the race of nations Yroause there is no mation in which education has been 80 denied, neglected and starved. There is not any test of a government better than this test of education, and the government why for century has denied, neglect t, and starved education, is a govern- ment which cannot justify its exist ence before the public opinion of the world. First of all education was denied altogether and mado a penal offence. Then a system of education was established which has no par- allel in the whole history of the work. Primary edueation is controlled by the Board of National Education, which consists of twenty nominated members, of whom there are two High Court Judges, two Bishops, two Lords, a Baronet, 2 Knight, two Deputy-Lieutenants, one Privy Coun- cillor, a County Council Chairman, ermment is nearly tarice that of Scot- Jand and she supports five times as many officials. T seeing in Ireland the annual departure of the police for Belfast apd Derby to keep the loyalists ( )Ahere from throw- ing their Catholic neighbors into the sople of the south of to their neighbors who differed from them in religion they sure had a good chance every Jilly as the coun- try was nearly denuded of police. Perhaps this will help a little to'en- lighten you as to why Ireland is in debt and who she cannot keep cut of the hole, Believe me, when Ireland gets Home Rule a good many parasites who are mow drawing fat salaries will then be looking for a job. If Irish-American Nationalists have contributed to. the Injsh parliament ary fund, they have also contributed heavily to support Unionist land- lords as if it were not for the money they sent to their wretched kin in Treland a good many of them would not be able to pay the excessive rent demanded, for, their miserable aa ings. To read Mr. ( Peilly's letter one would think that. Ulster had a mo- nopoly of brains, thrift, iodustries. and) gold. True, she has her share of industries, largely. due to the pattenizing influence of an ascend- aney government, but 6 not believe that Ulster contains all the wealth and intelligence of Ireland) as Mr. Reilly says. Figures talk; and it is worthy of note that thie average as- sessment per head for income tax i higher for Leinster than for Ulster, and the south is quite as able to pay its way in a free Ireland as the north would to. This is clear from a comparison of the rateable valuations of Ulster, Leinster and Munster. The rateable valuation of the whole of Ulster in 1908 (Iam too long uti of Ireland for later figures) was 5,510,202. Excluding Belfast with its valuation of 1,506,138, we get the figures 4,004,064, The figures for Leinster exclusive of Dublin is 4,192,603, or 188,439 above Mr. Reilly's much- boasted Ulster, while Munster ex- elusive of Cork City has a rateable value of 3,301,231. If we leave ont the rateable values of Dublin, Belfast and Cork we find that the rateable valuation per head of th population of the provinces of Lein- ster, Ulster and Munster is: Ulster justifiaple conclusions from these figures, but I insist that they prove one thing. hey prove that the South of Ireland has quite as. big an interest in thrifty and business- like government as the North has. And they prove that the Unionist picture of Ulster as portrayed by Mr. Reilly of U:ster as a province flowing with milk and honey, com- pared with the rest of Ireland, is, the sheerest bunkum. As for the superiority of the North to the South in intelligence, the re- sults of the universityand intermed- fate examinations have repeatedly shown how unjustifiable supposi- tion this is. I admit the splendid in- telligence of the Northerners, put the facts prove that. the Catholes of the South are, in lt;tis respect, at a Provost, and a Fellow of Trinity College, 2 Professor and one ox- Teacher. They lspense the public money, but nobody not even the government has the slightest con- trol or authority over them in mat ters of administration. Intermed- iate and technical education is at- tended in the same pantominic fash- ion and the university education sys- tom 'is such that no Catholic or Ire- Jand can accept it. Reform is at work here and we hope soon to see 2 Catholic University. I could write for a week on this subject but space is limited. T wish Mr. Reilly would stick to facts and not quote Michael J. F. MeCarthy as a Catholic, and an i lustrious lawyer: MeCarthy-is no Catholic and if Mr. Reilly is ac- quainted with his book Priests and People in Ireland * he ought to know that. McCarthy is an author of no- torious repute and is not ailawyer as agreement. Then again, will Mr. Reilly please leave Quebes out of the argument and stick to the subject of debate Home Rule ? Quebes is getting along nicely and I hear no talk of a covenant there, and ttey have no' particular wish to fight in last ditches. The Protestants down there are too busy making a good living to notice the fact that they are in the minority. The French- Canadian seems on the whole, de- spite Mr. Reilly's assertion to. the contrary, to be a pretty good fel- low. Before conelading Mr. Reilly's - statement that Con- naught is the most illiterate pro- ince by giving-him actual figures in 1901 of the percentage of persons over five years of age in Ineland un- able to read and write. . Leinster, 17 per cent. Munster, 19 per cent. Ulster, 21 per cent. Connaught, 26 per cent. You will thus note that Ulster is not the province of education and in- telligence Mr. Reilly would have us believe, and further jn the election of 1910, there were 12,095 illiterate Voters in-Ulster and only 9,610 im all the rest of Ireland, I am surprised at Mr. Reilly mak- ing the statement that bo Protest - ant except Parnell was ever an Irish Jeader. Why, all our leaders with two solitary exceptions for the past century. have been Protestants. Please keep-to fact, Mr. Reilly. At the present , time one of the Irish whips isa Protestant. How do you account for Swift McNeill, Step- hen Gwyn and others I could name representing purely Irish Catholic constituencies. Have you ever stud- ied the operation of the local gov - ernment in Ireland? Is there any bigotry displayed there? Did you ever hear of a man being roasted over a furnace in Cork because of his political faith? Have they ever dipped men in tar in Limerick be- cause they were Protestants? Do throw men into the Liffey in in. because they are Unionists? Do they deprive thousands of work- men in the South of Ireland of the means. of earning their daily bread? No But all this and more has been I must answer done within the past few months in enlightened Belfast) Deny it if you can, Mr. Reilly. An Trish-Catholio workman at the present time in Bel- fast is in constant danger of dis- ablement and- ven death at the hands of the Orange terrorists. get the amamosities which have un- fortunately caused such nrisery in the past. Blowever, when. a man comes for- ward and makes statements against race and creed, which are, for the most part, unfounded, I think it is only fair that the other side should be brought to light. T number amongst my closest per- sonal friends quite a few north of Treland men and Orangemen, who agree with me in saying that this question is best left alone by Irish Canadians. I would refer Mr. Rielly to a very by the Rev. Mr. Mor- row, advising all of us would-be Cagr adians to forget and bury deep our racial and religious prejudices. H Mr. Reilly will insist on gui back to 1641, 1690 and 1708, why does he not write about the laws soing of four million - Teast fully their equals, Mr. Reilly is most ingonsistent. He wants the union to remain in force and yet he kicks egainst one of the main provisions of the act, viz: that Ireland should have 103 repre sentatives at Westminster. Of course I kmow there were about nine, amil- lions of people in Ireland. at the passing of the union and 103. mem- bers were little enotgh f tion then in all conseic glorious union has been of tense benefit to Irelaud as to starv. abbut four millions of her people and. to drive four millions more out of the country. Had Ireland received past 100 years her population today would be about 20 millions instead This one anytiring like fair government in the : badly, I anxioysly wish to see the day whon every Irishman shall be a citizen in his own land, when Catholics and Protestants, equally interested in their country s welfare, possessing equal freedom and equal privilages shall be cordially united and hall learn to look upon each othet as brothers and when the only sttife amongst them shall be who z Jact is sufficient to comlema- English tule in Irelan EEE EER hh be ee eee ee and men. Turkey on the other hand basa navy larger than the Greek navy numerically, a: ped ships. It consists of twenty-four: - essels-na Five battleships of the old type, one first class cruiser, two second class cruisers, two third class cruisers, sneg SOR four torpedo des- royers, and eight torpedo boats, manned by + aoe bie he + es + . - Tox LAND. t + Shy) Available for + + 2 Total War Duty + + Altes, . Reserves, Strength Unorganized. Total ob Bulgaria 297,000 300,000, 100,000 149,000. oh Servia 140,000 175,000 90,000 440,000 im Greece 20,000 60,000 200,000 800,000 +f Montenegro 10,000. 25,000 20,000 80,000 Se Nia oe ch Totals ....... 187,500 472,000 650,000 410,000 3,569,500 fe t Turkey +++ 375,000 350,000. 725,000 2,000,000 8,450,000 Pas + + oN a + + *b Of the allies Greece is the navy. It com i +h sists of three battleships of the eight gunboats twelve + torpedo boats, a total of twe: see officers fe + + + ob. * * + For e of 5,000 officers and men. bbb beet COME WITH THE CROWD AND GET ig ee ee eee MePUR GOATS MRD. ae GEO. CAMPBELL 831 NORTH RAILWAY. OPE. C.F. R DEPOT. the latest improve Leaf Systems at Prices. Keep the money at home. Get our prices before sending out of the city for these goods. ; We earry a full stock of Binders , Indexes, Ledger Sheets, Account Forms, etc. for this work... 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