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Daily, 50¢ per month, or $5.00 per year, in advance. Weekly How named this new type of man
$2.00 per year. All Other Countries: Daily, $8.00 per year i Phis is — arene that oe rere Pithecanthropus. The size of his For Port Simpson, a om, eee, ae tee ™m., Ja
Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance fies the scientists and seems al Evolution Is a Slow Process. brain was little more than half for Masset and Naden Harbor, 12 p. m., Jan. 10th, o4y
a most as far from solution now as If we search that of modern man March 7th, 21st
TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. Contract|;; gid over half a century ago. We Soar Eee ereeene Ware te For Skidegate, Aliford Bay and other Queen Charlotte Isiang
t j tion eel the type of man who is most rhus we have knowledge of Jan, 12th, 26th, Feb, 9th, 23rd, March oth. oa, OD. im
rates on application. when Sir Charles Lyell created a i t ‘ hividual :
; | likely to serve as a common an miy two human individuals near @. T. P. RAILWAY PASSENGER GSERVice
HEAD OFFICE eee aay caenee r hng- cestor for both negro and Euro-|the beginning of the Pleistocene No. 2 leaves Prince Rypert 10 4. m. Wednesday ang «
lish scientists by stating he was , "he . we mits : ;
; : ; i s eg e find the nearest object period. rhe one was brutal in Grand Trunk Railwa Ss
; ws Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B.C. Telephone 98.) convinced a ! sarance on|?C*" ™ y System
Daily News Bui Ts ce I phone -- on ro nop oo . . (our appeeedttn the abor iginal| ispect, the other certainly low (The Double Track Route)
BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES ih lit it fixed , b bie , ‘| Australian He has apparently |i" intelleet. It would thus seem Nine month excursion rates im effect. Choice of routes to c)
the limits ec ”y yibieal re-; = bert
b ’ ‘ at a o & ores Demet »ithat we must trace man—as a with the excursions and fast trains of the Grand Trunk | —
Newsoaver au. 219 Bast retained to @ greater degree than|'"4 MllWay Syey
New et National Newspap Bureau New} cord any other living race the char-|human being, that is—still fur Agency for all Atlantic Steamehip Lines. Fo: all information apply a
York City. ; He even went so far as to IM-/) acters of that common stock from|ther back to find his common oS Seve Senerel Agent, contre Street
Seattie—Puget Sound News Co dorse the theory given in ‘a work) which we all arose stock,
London, England—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, se bene to pees by Mr But don’t think the man of this [ for one am convinéed that es
Trafalgar Square. Charlies arwin, that man WAS livpe is a “near relation No. | We have followed him almost un-
<a int la tal _Joid enough to have existed at| vr iation ie much’ ckiwer then [ehanged back to the iniddle of the|f &€. Coast steams service |} THE [ROQUOJs
~ DAILY EDITION agGG | Thursday, Feb. 13, 1919 (nr ee eee At the none who) PiSOWweRns, Olen So Sik Bes ae, POOL
mn motn . ‘ . :
‘ Nved in Britain 4,000 vears ago} mpanied by another form of
ee ee . ; ae ae 2 ee se, ae Such heterodoxy was denoun-|were to walk down the streets of/man almost as distinet from FAMOUS ees SAFETY English and American 1
FREE LAND FOR under good conditions, by}ced at the time by the vast ma- any American city dressed in|bim as the gorilla is from the PRINCESS PL SPEED | Twelve Tables re
SETTLERS. thrifty and industrious farm-jjority of folk—even’ the mem-{modern garb, he would attract no|Chimpanzee. Still further back PACIFIC on
Ab length & would seem that] ¢rs. and it does not seem to|bers of this society But what/attention whatever, so much like|@t the beginning of the Pleisto- LINE CL La SERVICE a
the government at Victoria have learned that lesson very| 5 heterodoxy then is oxtho-|“home folks” would he be Injcene we find at least two forms . | unmannap—— 2 =
de y i » *tero-| fac : . f , : "e~Neg e ‘ ‘ SSS
has been alarmed into compli- fully yet; but any improvement nite. aes cat — 8 new heter fact, so slow is evolution, the Ne- 8 Noahs ner aa Ne oe . S. S. PRINCESS MAY . Migs
‘ ado) ius exist. ol . . vf a ce - tzer ered ere ant 1 Shit re e
ance with the popular demand| ©" laws which have prevailed) |. re gens a etc Mia rag f Jave AEE TEES Southbound—Sat., Feb. 15th, 8 ps m. Empress Bowling Alleys
im er in the past will be welcomed by This, according to Prof. Ar-|jland and Germany were not in|'@! OF Java, AND POOL RO
for some more reasonable @t-| th. oublic. The trouble is that|{hur Keith in a recent address|any wise a lower race than their! The Problem an Eternal One. a ae rg wy \) « aceeve aa
titude toward the settlement of the new legislation comes too|elivered before the British As-|successors today If » ace i i t Gatien ~o8 Se |} Best Fitted and Most | beep
é , we accept as authentic all J. @. MONAB, General Agent | the C Turlous @@
the unoecupied areas of the late to be of great immediate|S0¢iation at Dundee, Scotland, At the close of the Pleistocene|ihe evidence brought forth by a Wn © Ro _
province. However reluctantly, service. Little government|!@s as its “advance man,” M.| period, whieh even the orthodox theese whet snouts mask tanh . oo ve ord Ave,
the ministry is preparing to land of real. fertility within|®utot of the Royal Natural His- and conservative geologists ad- ee ee a ne sa tae SSS
offer free holdings to settlers| reasonable distance of trans-|tory Museum of Brussels. The|mit have come to end some 15,-]“@Pd by means of flints whieh
o instead of making the home- portation § facilities remains. “conservative element amongt!}000 years ago, the men of Kurope|have the appearance of man’s
t steader pay for his land, as he| As a result of the past seven the scientists has as its stalwart]in stature and in size of brain}work on them. then we must ad UNION $s. COMPANY OF B.C Ltd LINDSAY’S CARTAGE and
; has done in the past. The bill, years of alienation to specu- apreneet wee. Boyd Dawkins, Of}were at least our equals Injmit that the Pleistocene man is : i ait STORAGE
a which was brought in on Fri- jators, the great areas in the| Manchester, England. tooth, limb and bone they were/possible, for stones apparently ’ G. T. P. Transfer A
& day, will probably not be found| hands of private corporations is Man 1,500,000 Years Old | '"°"* robust. It is only when we] artificially fashioned have been The Twin Gevew Grenmer ——
Ht to be too generous; the gov- include all that can tempt any pass into the Pleistocene to the|/found in strata as old as the | Orders promptly filled Prices reasonable
v ernment, it would seem from homesteaders except those whe ; In = recs ne bd and/epoch marked by the last or the} Kocene. OFFICE—H. B. Rochester. Centre st. Phong
; r : a repare . the orthodox opinion today four , » Co evcles : a
j t the despatches, is desirous of are prepared to go far from “se ins a oe aa Gee ane S ’ fourth of the cold cycle which If, on the other hand. we ex- 6 99
oP gt retaining certain powers which any market and wait for the|™ ’ e} ¢ vat the) subdivided that period that man]amine the evidence relatiea to en re —$<<$<$—$_— — |
i may or may not be used to the advent of railways and the dawn of the earliest form of hu-/as we know him disappears; his} ipat group of animals to which |
M disadvantage of the homstead- opening up of the districts manity ties sO0 008 yeare before place is taken by a human being}y,an pbelongs—the higher pri. | C O A L
: ers. Imperfect as the bill may The legislation now before the} U5: i'M that space of time man, as/of an altogether, different kind ates—the facts so far as we SOD. SNS ere Lae
Hi a be, however, it will no doubt House is therefore valuable} ¥® know him now, was evolved), human race denominated bYl know them render the existence MONDAY NIGHT
i create an improvement in the merely from the standpoint of from a ae almost prehuman} .cjentists as the Neanderthal ef man in the Eocene and Oligo- | cnnteetystniangp New Wellington Coal. Best on th
conditions under which land the future; of four or five are en to the an Phe remains of four individuals | -ene periods impossible, improb- | Salle for Port Simpson, Naas River Pointe Coast
is taken up for genuine oceu- years from this time. ' won’ of this race have been unearthed.| apie in the Miogene period, but| and Granby Bay Tuesdays, 8 a. m. Phone 116 Rogers & Bad
pation in this province. The It is a hopeful sign, how- In the opinions of the conser-| The strata in which the remains], ite probable jn the Pliocene |
presence of such a measure on ever, that public opinion should| vatives, the history of man does|were found contain stone imple- ft all depends upon the w “ a ee rs 7"
the statute book, too, will exercise the influence it seems|not extend beyond the Pleistoc-|ments and bones of animals be- 1u reason whether through the Salle for Vancouver
probably enable those who to have in this instance upon|ene period—the phase of the|longing to a cold climate primates or the flints. One way | WEDNESDAYS, 2 P. mM. SMITH & MALLETT
have been pressing for a wise the McBride government. ft} earth's history immediately pre- Neanderihal man,” says Prof.| .oy° wil) place the birthday of VEERD AVE
a oliev by the government, is a sign, perhaps, that the| ceding the one in which we live./Keith, “appears sudtlenly in this|,,, rag a ant : Plumbing, Heating, Steamfitting and
land p 5 ’ Z ‘ I * t th ‘ ; man 1,500,000 years agwo and the & & é
as the Board of Trade of Van- go ernment and its friends ley accep e amous fossil|iatter part of the Pleistocene,| jtyep onty 400.000 years past | St mshi Ag | —
couver has, to urge for still have satisfied themselves with|man of Java-——a being with ajand as suddenly disappears, to be After all aed. saiinin Se ' Rogers ea! Ip ency | Clipe: Sed Ave. i Workahe
. . ‘ . « t Su, i ™ ve od th and &
further reforms. the spoils of the province ‘and| brain little more than _half the|yeplaced by modern man It i8]:-we must confess that the an-| Phone 116
it has taken, the McBride can now afford to be reason-|size of a modern man’s—as, re-|impossible ‘9 conceive that just tiquity of the modern form of — - . ~
government almost ten years ably honest. That, of course,| presentative of mankind before/at the close of the Pleistocene.) man is still an open problem
to realize that the welfare of is something, and if it is really the end of the Pleistocene; be-| Neanderthal man was suddenly Thus science puzzles over the Ce eee '\*Valhalla”’ of S.H. & EF,
the province lies in the settle- so there may be some hope for| fore the end of the period men of}/converted into modern man, We age of man And it would seem
ment of the agricultural areas, the future.—Vancouver Sun. the modern type appeared. can only infer that at the close]as if the problem were an eternal —THE - | a es
aaa ic riaeeialenlieey So you see from the geologists|0f this period there were two 8 ms : | Meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday att
- you 8€ i le geologists one, | p.m. in the kali at 319 Srd Ave
point of view—he measures time distinet races of mankind—Ne- 0 |
by periods and not by years anderthal and modern, Nobody loves ae grouch, but —LIMITED— pee ee a
man is a recent addition to the| Lower Jaw Find Near Heidelberg. | that fact doesn’t cure him. | D. C. STUART
“FROM HOME TO HOME.” earth, Going back to near Pleistocene ae
From this conservative esti-|period all we know of man in i | Sesounten =
iat . . > re sal ae ie bee se ale = 308 2nd Ave. - Phone
HO I EL EL SIUM oe it .s oman ee ; op ee ca J ul "" dott es 2067, Lumber and Mouldings [Auditor for the Oly of Prince tae
Y Pr t 2 2 0 oO lee eideiberg in VO7 ee — . e . | PRINCE RUPERT. 6B. ©
man’s origin dates back at least} This jaw w th a full complement All Kinds of Building Supplies |
Sid. Sykes, Manager a million and a half years ago,.jof teeth told a fairly complete PRINCE RUPERT INN Saree ss E
Fi ' M to-d tel Phat is bis age—1,500,000 years|story of the man to whom it be- ¢ | Alex. @. Maneon, B. A.
Tee . a as b Ue. on — —and the scientists who uphold}|longed—tha' is, the story was j tan Phena 186 w. Williams, B.A, LLB
this theory give as proofs the/complete to the scientists. aND | | WILLIAMS & MANSON
1142 Pender Street West = Vancouver, B.C. records of bones and stone im- “There is not the shadow of a eee Barristers, Solicitors, Et.
Pt 8500. plements dug up from the earth.|doubt,” says one seientist, “that ANNEX Bex 286
Of course new discoveries at any|(he Heidelberg man belonged ( t Hel oe
‘ eereon Block Prince Rupert,
time may add a hundred thou-|the Neanderthal type; perhaps he eorge own J
= — sand or so years to “our” age,/may best be deseribed as pre-Ne- Te e c
but this is man’s age as based/anderthal, for in strength and Sawmill Co Ltd. P.O. BOX a PRINCE RUPERE
upon present discoveries, accord-|massiveness of jaw he foreshad- Owned and operated by the ° > :
» ing to the radicals’ theory ows the Neanderthal men whose Grand Trunk Pacific Railway on | JOHN E. DAVEY
But whatever be the period|remains are found in Europe to- the American and European plan. Lumber TEACHER OF SINGING
: which man made his appearance| ward the end of the Pleistocene. Exeeilently furnished, with §) PUPIL. OF WM. FOXON, BG. A.B.A.M. [0% 0H
on earth— the Pleistocene, the|Although in many features this steam heat, electric light, and all | and el Li —
Pliocene, the Miocene, or the}man shows resemblances to the modern conveniences, being abso- §) °
Oligocene-—the time must be long}/antrophoids, in others he is lutely first-class in every respect. ff) Mouldings i
enough to allow mankind to be|highly specialized. The teeth of The appointments and service HAYNER BROS.
oe distributed and differentiated as|an Australian native make a are equal to any hotel on the A; UNDERTAKERS ano EMHALMERS
; we now see it in the world of|nearer approach to anthropoid coast. i Pe aap anaes Soy a oad ord A oe os No #
today. condition than those of a Nean- + lumber a specialty. Delivery dara :
“Let us look at the problem inj|derthal map get Ae nly | made at short notice,
@ a concrete form,” says Prof. =n oe - »
Wieth. “I will take opposite and or Rates: $1 to $3.50 per day. Our prices are as low as any.
contrasted types of humanity, | §*% > Ee } Call on us before ordering.
The Be Z the fair haired, white skinned, $ ency wet E. L. FISHER
Ss round headed European and the ti Funeral Director and Embalmer
Z wolly haired, black skinned ne] Ma@asines :: Periodicals :: Newspaper |] G. A. Sweet, Manager. OFFICE: CHARGES REASONABLE
gro of Central Africa, and set}CIGARS :: TOBACCOS =: FRUITS 2nd Bt., cor. and Ave. Phone HF
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