Flour, Feed, Hay and Oats Groceries, Dry Goods Boots and Shoes -Men’s Clothes CD S. H. SENKPIEL New Hazelton, B.C. “Canadian Pacific Railway Company | BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST STEAMSHIP SERVICE 11 a. m. AGE! CY, FOR ALL OCEAN STEAMSHIP LINES ee to Ketchikan, Wrangell,. Juriedu, Skagway, April 8, 18, 29. May 9, 20, Te Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, April 1, 12, 22; May 3, 18, 24. The §. &. Princess Beatrice—For Butedale, East Bella Bella, Ocean Falls Namu, Alert Bay, Campbell iver and Vaneouver every Saturday at Il information from . Orchard, corner. Third Avenue and Fourth Street, Prince Rupert 4 General Merchant’ a - What the Red Cross j is doing for the Good of Canada For the Veteran Befriends 3,500 soldiers still in hospital . . « | relieves # Sickness and need in their families . . soldier settler . . disabled in three Ve For the Children Through Junior Red Cross, children and has has aided 5,000 crippled ledged. over 137,000 school children | to. . cates for the provides sheltered employment for the eterans’ ‘Workshops. Practice health habits and to setve others. For the Pioneer Brings nursing service to those in frontier districts through ° 39 Outpost Hospitals and Nursing Stations, vrs For the New Canadian - Welcomes and gives needed attention to immigrant mothers a and children at three Seaport Nutseties, + For the Mothers and Daughters has taught principles of nursing, In Home Nursing Classes, diet and home hygiene to over 12,000 women and girls, For the Disaster Victim fire, flood and epidemic. N ation-Wide Appeal Canadian Red Cross Society | Is o tpenized to afford prompt relief to sufferers from. o . ; Send Contributions to: British Columbia. Division, Canadian Red Cross Society, 626 Pender Street Weat, Vancouver, B B.C, + |shrewd and cautious statesman, _'|Dad no-faith in’ rash experiments. He - Hmew that the wise’ and successful pol- ‘jiticlan led the people the way they al- HAZELTON - Saturday, May 27 4 THEATRE The First Idea of. | ~ Confederation|' ! * a Issuied by the National Committee for the. celebration of the Diamond dubilee of Confederaion, 106. Wellington Sé., Ottawa, Who first, conceived the iden of link- ing together in a: strong. and perman- ent union the scattered colonies of British North America, it would be difficult to say. Probably like a good many other important movements, this idéa. of Confidereation was a gradual growth, simmering in the minds of ao few men of vision ‘until the time was tipe to make it 2 reality. Most people are inclined to associate it with the Fathers of Confederation, but the idea | is much earlier than their day. ‘Ther ‘however, took hold of it-and trimmed practicable and fashioned it into a {scheme | _ Of the thirty three Fathers of Con-| fedération . herhaps seven of them may be regarded as he governing minds. These were the actual Fathers of Con-: {federation—Macdonald,“ Cartier, Galt,. Tupper, Brown, McGee, Tilley and it jis probable that Galt, although ttle is heard of him today, should rank high even among these” Without the inter- est and enthusiasm ,.of Cartier it would have been ‘impossible to pursuade French Canada to consent to the union '|}Browhn assured the support of the in fluential Reformers of Upper Canada - Tupper and Tilley won the maritimes; McGee, by his eloquence, swung the Irish vote and Macdonald's inimitable leadership piloted Confederation thro countless, difficulties; but it remains |. trne that without. the farsightedness Jand enthusiasm and constructive mind “lof John Galt it is Very: unlikely if the _{Dominion would now. be celebrating its Diamond Jubilee, Gait saw, years before his associates that a wnion of all the provinces was {the : only solution e the problem, the -jonly: way ‘out of the ‘political tangle which every year was becoming more hopless,' He took the idea of Conted- eration and, with infinite care, built it up: into a complete and practicable scheme. The practical politicians of . his day were inclined at first to laugh at him and-to brush his plan aside as lan impossible dream, but in the end {they were forced. to admit that it was jnot. only practicable, but the only pos- sible’ rond to peace and security. Galt o dnot ohly developed the scheme of Con- o! federation, but he, more than-any oth- ler man, prepared the’ public mind to " }./aecep it. In season and ‘out of season he ‘talked Confederation, and, although oy Ano spell-binder, his’ clear, logical mind : phis complete faith in the idea, and -the at confidence the people had in his" Integ- : rity, won the support of thousands of : citizens who ' otherwise. might have re- oe garded the unlon of the provinces as ars mad and dangerous experiment, - Without questioning for a moment the’ debt. ‘that Cunado owes to Macdon- ald’s * gennis’ in steering the ship of “