THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1917 The Omineca Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY av HagBLTON, THE CENTER OF THE GREAT OmINECA DISTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. A. R, Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada and British Poseessions, Two Dollars a year: Foreign, Three Dollars a year. ADVERTISING RATES: Notices, 20 cents per line for each insertion, Gazette rates, Display, $2.50 per ‘inch per month: Reading Legal notices inyerted at B. C, VOL. VI. SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1917 No, 35 THE DISABLED SOLDIERS’ “RESURRECTION” Canada should be as proud of her wounded soldiers’ vietory over their wounds as she is of the glorious fights in which they fell. Their struggle up from the depths of disablement is often as hard and even as heroic as their desperate defence of Ypres or their dashing capture of Vimy ridge. : We hear little, altogether too little, of these hard-won victories won by disabled men, because they are fought out in the seclusion of a hospital,not in the theater of war with the whole world looking on. But such victories equally deserve public recognition, They show the same spirit,the same pluck and indomitable perseverance. A preacher on Easter morning was thanked for the inspiring sermon he had just preached, on the resurrection. He said: ‘I had -my text sitting in front of me—a man in khaki with an empty sleeve, He has had two resurrections already. - He was buried by a shell explosion, and was dug out only just m time to save his life. That was the first. He spent months in hospital, fighting hig way back to health. That was the second. “Doctoring and nursing of course did much for him: so did the exercises and occupations that they provide nowadays—perhaps the best part of the treatment, But the man himself was working out his own resurrection, by resolutely putting hisown will power to the task. Now.he is almost ready to go out into the world,a better and abler man, he says,than he was before,in spite of his lost arm. “While the rest of us are thinking of a resurrection beyond the grave, he has won a resurrection this side of it, to a new life of activity and independence among his fellow-countrymen.”’ Authentic cases resembling that are not rare in the records of the Military Hospitals Commission. been communicated to us:-- A mechanic who enlisted in the Princess Patricia’s Regiment was wounded, returned to Canada, spent three months in a conval- escent hospital, and now earns double his former pay, having taken full advantage of the mechanical drawing and arithmetic classes carried on there, Writing to the hospital instructer, he says:— “When I enlisted I was earning about $3.a day at my trade. At present. and. since my discharge from military service, I am, technically, a better man all round; I am able.now to hold a job as foreman ina machine shop, with more than twice the salary I was getting before. This banefit to me is greatly due to your practical information, My only regret is that { was unable, after my discharge, to continue instruction with you as you had advised.” Another letter received is from an ex-private in the lath Battalion. ona city milk round, says, in mechanical drawing.”’ Commisgion’s convalescent hospitals, Before enlistment he was getting $12 a week-as driver ‘YT always hada liking for drawing,’’ he “and felt that if ever I had the chance I would take a course This opportunity came to him at one of After six weeks’ application]. to the work there he was able to secure an appointment with a salary at $76 a month, with good prospects of advancement, A locomotive fireman enlisted, was severely wounded, and had}: to have his left arm amputated, Under the Commission’s scheme} of re-education, which is offered to all men incapacitated for their former work by service, he received special training in telegraphy -and railway routine, As aresult, he secured an- appointment as station agent and despatcher, at $110 a month. Still another patient, formerly a mechanic, passed the civil service qualifying examination after instruction-in hospital and has got a Custom House position at $900 a year, rising to $1,500 A man who had been a guide and a trapper, and had never handled tools, returned from the front with one eye destroyed by a ~ wound - these old and new disabilities, by putting his mind to it, he became |- and the sight of the other’eye impaired. In spite of all a first-class carpenter after three months in the hospital workshop. Equally remarkable is the case of a Polish laborer. to Canada six years ago, and worked in a coal mine til! he enlisted. ‘ At the front he was both gassed’ and buried. Though he knew absolutely: nothing about: ‘carpentry to begin with, after two months ‘of instruction in hospital he wae able to hold. his own with any] ordinary carpenter. LON ‘Not every man can “double hig pay... ‘But. one of: thd. most cheering facts ‘proved by experience ducing the war.has’ been this —thiat almost. all, the ‘disabled men, including the very. seriously wounded, can. ‘be equipped ance, more witli: power: 'to earn cs ood living. wo ey : ‘And often; ag Lord: Shaughnessy. said: ‘the other’ ‘doy: 'the| aceupations and training provided: by the Military. Hospitals. aystent, vs hitngel? “reveal: astonishing: t know he: i Here are a few that have just} He came|.. : | How Hicks-Bracn, whieh Certificate Jof. Title: was issued. on-the 18th dar of An Industrial Census The government has decided to} . take an industrial census of Can-|| ,ada this fall. A postal census of mandfacturers for the 1915 was {taken last year,forms being mail- |[f ed to over 50,000 fiames. This census showed that the “total | product of manufacturers in 1915)j was $1,392,516,953, compared with $718, 353,608 in 1905. The* industrial census that will be taken.will, of course be much more thorough and elaborate. At present an industrial census is taken at the game. time as _the/[f is | if census of population, ete, tabulated. This has proved in the past unsatisfactory and in- complete. The chief reason is that the census enumerators have too much work and too many |i forms to fill out and are not specially trained for taking - an! if industrial census. ‘The regular census of population, of the peaple, ete., the agricultural census, will take place as in the past, every ten years, the next census being due in 1921, The industrial censys will be taken by special enumer- ators midway of the ordinary census, but also every ten years. This will have the advantage of if not throwing all the work of a decade on the branchat one time, In addition to the decennial in-||f} © ! iy so as to keep the figures: teason- iE dustrial census there will likely also be an annua! postal census ably up-to-date. G4 A, Valuable Booklet The C.P.R.. maintains its place {if as ‘one of the great colonizing | ff agencies of the British Empire. In connection with itscampaign TE to attract desirable settlers to Western Canada, the tos of has just issued an informative |i booklet entitled “Alberta, Sas- | katchewan and Manitoba”, which jf deserves a wide circulation. Al- though desiened primarily to at- 1M the publication | contains a vast amount of infor- |; tract settlers, mation of general interest and should: have a wide cireulation. Any person interested may ob-|j tain a copy without charge by writing to the Publicity Branch, C.P.R., Calgary, Alberta, , For. the first time in many years strontium ore has been marketed from deposits in the! United States, chiefly i in Avizona and California, te _Asthe result of a ecave-in at . ; in civil life when they rebirn. raidnight on Saturday, three mines of the Treadwell group, on Doug: | las Island, were flooded, It is believed they will have to be abandoned. No lives were lost, but ten million dollars worth. of if machinery was destroyed. Thou- |i sands of. men are'thrown out af . employment, Sk wes Miner i is two dollars a year, NOTICE\ IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLIC. ATION for the issue of a.duplicate . Certificate of Title to Part of Lot Fifty-three (68), Lown of Hazelton, |. |/M:.j known as Lots Three (3) .and’¥ Four (4); according to Map 643... oe «> : NOTICE IS “HEREBY GIVEN that itis my intention to issue at tho explra- | tion of one month after. ‘the: first: pub- lication hereafter, a duplicate ‘of the. Certificate: of Title for the abovo jis nextionéd lands inthe nanie of Epwarp June; 1906,' aa number. 12581:C. 4.5.5! “Dated this Fifth day ‘of “April,” at the g' Land, thepiaty OM files ‘MACLEOD origins fj along with|§ | I | iatrlet: Register iF You CANT FIC HT . YOU CAN AT LEAST | STAND BEHIND THE MAN WHO FIGHTS - FOR YOU! — THE CANADIAN. PATRIOTIC FU FUND Which assists the wives and families of Canada’ s gallant: soldiers, requires millions of dollars ‘to keep the soldiers” : home fires burning. . . District Treasurer: Stephen, H. Hoskins, Government Agent. i Hazelton Committee: