The Chilliwack Progress from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada • Page 2

WESTERN CANADIAN EDITORS A Series of Articles Describing their Lives, their Aims and Their Influence. WALTER SCOTT. WALTER SCOTT, M. P. President of the Leader Times lishing Company.

rub of the Of all the newspaper men Canadian West, perhaps none is per sonally more popular, or has proved professionally more successful thun Walter Scott, M. P. for West Assim boia, and president of the company owning the Keginu Leader and the Times. This is in no sense remurkable when the characteristics of the man are known, for they are pel success and inevitably attract friends. Quiet efficiency, disciplined enthusiasm, tireless industry, calm judgment, broad outlooK, abounding charity these are the outstanding qualities impressing every one who qualities impressing every meets Mr.

SeotL. He hns firm ouin ions, opinions reached after mature thought, and which he advocates and defends reasonably and seasonably. But among thosu holding contrary views he has hosts of friends, and none ever heurd him attack 'any man on personal grounds. It is doubtful if anv one has ever heard Mr. Scott at any time say a word in dispraise or depreciation of any man whatsoever.

Envy, hatred, calumny, malice, uncharitableness these are all utterly foreign to his nature and disposition. If he cannot praise, he never blames. While Mr. Scott fearlessly criticizes what he considers wrong policies or courses of conduct, and in no sense can "he considered a mere ucquiescer he appears to have the unusual faculty of looking nt things from a detached, impersonal point of view, ami of not including the person holding views from which lie 111 HIV! gives to the opinions they hold, Both in his journalistic and political debates, he attacks and principles, rather than men. His method of public conviction is based on no appeal to any consideration of either person or seiitime.it but rests his case wholly on grounds of logic nnd reason.

He comniles. arrances. relates, and presents facts and ti derice impossible to dispute, points to the conclusions these facts have compelled he himself to reach, and leads his readers or his auditors, by the same process of reasoning, to ar rive at similar conclusions. Uut as a Lr Ai, s.r.tt indulges in no "frills." Elegance of exifression is in every case subordi nated to a businesslike, presentation i. thrniiFh the dullest reader or hearer understands Mr.

Scott's position, knows how he has reached it, and in all probability is disposed to agree with him therein. Mr. Scott is another instance of a successful professional man huiling from the farm. He was born in October, 1867, in London township, Middlesex county, nnd until the age of seventeen had little or no opportunity for education. At those infrequent intervals, when his services were not urgently required on the homestead, he attended the nearby country school, where ho learned to read and write.

But almost every minute of his early years he did the duty of chore boy or hired man at home. Ho picked tho potato bug, pulled ragweed, followed the harrow and the plow, rode tho sulky rake and the reaper, bound sheaves by hand, learned to swing both tho scythe nnd the cradle, hoed the corn. pulled turnips, chopped wood, and studied nt close range the disposi tion of the cow, tho temper of the horse, and tho life purpose of the piff. II niii77ienl tinnirvr with which Mr. Scott relates the experiences of those days, his friends infer that he.

loved not tho occupation of pioneer farming, but, despite this, he feels an honest and pardonable pride in the fact that whatever measure of success he has attained has been due, not to extraneous help or accidental advantages, but to per ho C. of in sf soral effort in overcoming personal convention wnicn naa aeiegauons disabilities. from every corner of the constituen In March, 1885, a lad of seventeen, cy, and which offered him the nomi Mr. Scott canie west, landing at nation on the first ballot with abso Portage la Prairie, and starting lute, unanimity. work as a driver in the delivery Mr.

Scott is one of the West's ris wufcim of a firm of general traders ing young men, both as a citizen, there. After five months of this, ho a journalist, a politician. His tact, joined the staff of the Manitoba his courage, his industry mark him Liberal as "devil." In a few months for future honors, and Western news received promotion to "thu case," paper men may felicitate themselves and in December, 183(1, accompanied that among their number is one .1. Atkinson, the then proprietor such promise of a career so dis the paper, to Uegina, where the tinguished. was founded.

For six years ho was working printer and HAUMLESS DENTISTKY UNDER writer with The Standard and the BLUE Leader, with a winter's interval at Arter thlvo of re years of vvinnipeg joo omces to earn Mpeiiuiiku. In lS'JO Mr. Scott returned as me foreman to the Journal, which the following year was acquired by a local company under the oresidency of the present Judge Scott of Edmonton. Two years later, partnership with J. K.

Mclnnis, bought the llegina Standard, tnd. two years later still, disposed his interest to Mr. McTnnis, and bought the Moosejaw Times. He zonductcd the paper personally for a rear, and in 1895 purchased the Re hnm TW in AT and' again returned to the Terri torial Capital. Shortly afterwards the Leader Times Company was or ganized, with Mr.

Scott as president, and both papers entered on an enlarged sphere of usefulness. The Lender, of which Mr. Scott, prior to the engrossing attention necessitated by public affairs, was more closely in control, has an viahle reDUtation among western newspapers. In the Territories its position corresponds somewhat with that occupied by the Toronto (jlobe in Eastern Canada. It is able, pro gressive, sound and sane.

It gives the news when it is news, and on matters of Territorial interest has had the enterprise to instKute and I conduct personal investigation The campaign of information it hns with in recent years carried on in connec tion with railway blockades, ana general inefficiency and inadequacy of transportation' fa'cilities through out the region in which it circulates is one that has attracted attention throughout the length and breadth of the Dominion, and that has earnefl for itself tho enthusiastic support of the farmers whoso trrievanecs it ex Posed. Its irtitonal opinions are weighty and well considered, always rKard public questions from the nvtom nt nf viowv niwi are free partisan rancor or hystcrm. while typographically the Leader is one of the handsomest papers in the West. Mr Scott's reputation has been founded on his journalistic and par liamentary career, and hence it onorolK Vnnwn that he is of the. best amateur ball players in tho Wnst.

He was a playing member of Rcgina's first nine for eight years, and can play any position. For several seasons he was pitcher, and for two was behind the bat. In the year of the Territorial Exhibition, when he was living at Moose Jaw, he played second base with tho local nine that won the chaniDionshin of tho Territories against several clubs with imported batteries. Mr. Scott has also won several curnng t.w,,....

a jiner, uuu n.n 1 tions in au'ua. IMIIln UI rsrouana. Js iiukiii iiuu vu pected from, his Scotch ancestry, he is a i resuj i. Perhaps among the editors of the West Mr. Scott's chief title to popu larlty v.as the highly cflicient man nor in 1899.

he acted as president the Western Canada Press Association. Dunns the term of his presidency the first and haps tho most enjoyable and success is a Tresbyterian. lUi, OI inc iai.uii.iuu3 Ki't. sions which nave marnca me nut ccssful career of the W. C.

wns inaugurated. The editors, with "their sisters and their cousins ana their aunts," went through to the Loast ana aown to State points, bem tendered many nnnquets, rev.eiL.u..s tertninments en route, at all of which. Mr. Scott was the Associa tinn's nrotatronist. ho and his um hrclln which no one ever, saw him without well and worthily mam taining the honor and dignity of Western Canadian journalism.

In Four years ago Mr. Scott was the gun threw the man nominated for the Commons in West tj.e He was unmarried. Assiniboia. and after an exciting election, defeated his opponent, the j. ro Coleman, a fitter, encaged brilliant Irishman.

Nicholas F. Pa m.w rj. p. elevator nt vin, by hundreds of votes. At Ot yovt William, fell from the construc tawa Mr.

Scott has made for himself ti()tl v.rk ori Tuesdav, breaking his an enviable record for so young a rijrht. nrnl leg. and seii man. He has paid great attention his back. He v.iil pro to the subjects of grain trade and uhiy jjV(? inspection, has resolutely stood for discontinuance of land grants to The Sovrei Crand Lorlrr? of Odd railway companies, and on the PTn fellows, which met at Snn Francisco, oral questions of railways and trans portation has cnspinyea Krcat.

has tivity. Among me many iuuii nts ne nas suceevueu in m.i.u..iiK his constituency was the inducing of the Dominion Government to deed to those towns blocks of lots which had held for years in a Town Site Pool, so escaping taxation. i Of all the young men in the Otta wa House, there are none whose tit terances command more respectful attention, botn lrom nis icaacrsana. his opponents. As quiet of voice as he is of manner, Mr.

Scott depends for the effect of what he says rather on the matter than tho manner of his remarks, but few spcches delivered in the Commons ore more persuasive than his closely reasoned, fact full addresses. Last January Mr, Scott was re noniinated bj a Kl.urci, two o1 lleneva professors ol Switzerland, have discovered a new anaesthetic, which promises to revolutionize tho practice of dentistry. reporting this to the State Department, United States Consul Lie lield, at Erie berg, Germany, states that, finding thut the nervous system was influenced by colored lights, the professors soon perceived, after experimenting with each hue, that blue had an extraordinary effect on the nerves. The consul says that a tooth may bo painlessly extracted with none of the after effects on the ytem. hy shutting the patient in a durk room and exposmg his eyes to blue light of Ki cnndlo power lor three minutes, causing him to lose all sense of pain, although at the same time retaining his senses.

A MF.PICIXE KOU THE MIXER'S PACK. Prospectors an.l others ge.iK into the minim; regions where doctors are few an iru stores not at all, should provide themselves with a supply of l'r. Thomas' Kclectric Oil. It will oll set the ejects of exivosure. reduce spriuns hen taken internally will prevent and cure eoHls sore Ihront.

und as i lubricunt ill keep the muscles In com VERDICT AGAIN: C.r.lt. At the assizes in Toronto a few 'days ago the jury awarded R. Blain, Brampton. against the Cn Pacific Railway, Blain was twice attacked and beaten by a lel jow passenger while travelling on a (j, j. train 'lrctween Brampton cll(i Toronto, lie appealed to the conductor for assistance, but that of nc jnt declined to aid him.

At a pre vious trial Blain secured an indictment for hut the court of appeal cut this 'down and granted him the option of a new trial, which resulted in increasing tho verdict against the company. 1' ST BE FREE OF DEBT, A despatch ironi Washington says: That no army officer be permitted to marry until he has first secured the permission of the Secretary of War tii nil'iend that nts in is sufficient to support himsell and family, and that he is entirely Uvru from debt, is the resolution matld by Ma.ior Ocmral lienry ioi hin. adiutnnt gvncral cominanamg the V. S. Atlantic division ana cie i ment ol" the east, whicn was is sued at the war department week.

last The late A. R. Lee. of Toronto, left, an estate of Among the legacies are if.V'O each to the. hospital for sick children: infants noT11c, ann uo v.

le i ne uuii u' 4 tti nt lir teen sev.n "i nn. 111 i nen aw ou.ie. employed the Ene Ka.l md Company's locomotive works at Susquehanna, reported lor vork on Tuesday, they were notified that sm iceS were no longer requiml. Vo carloads ot non ur. on men have been set to work the works.

Tresklent Ioubet, in the course of a spevch to the provincial mayors in P.tris the oth. day said he looked forward with satisfaction to the serenity of private life alter the close of his present term. His stnteim nt is taken as a definite announcement of th" I'p sklent's intention seek a second term. not to Whil.i ihivotir.i rineks one dr.V last week near Fort William. Vittorio Milanrl, an Itr.lian, from a boat and was drowned.

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Smith, dairyman, of Grimsby, writes: "My limns were almost useless from sciatica and rheumatism, and. rnln llhcl.n.linrr mv estPPni lor DnVSl mU8t "pive the credit where it belongs. I fn a cured man to aay, ana soutn American itneumanc mu.v have all the credit. It's a marvel. a A capita, display or prairie chickens passed down Main street yesterday afternoon, says a Winnipeg exchange.

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Tho doctors say he probably will not live longer than a month. Government inspection has shown thut this yetitt's crop of wheat grades hiirh nncf the quantity is far greater than expected. Guv C. Punn. C.

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Cotton was Miss Helen Watson, a daughter of Rev. W. II. Watson, of Cowansville. She was married only a month ago.

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36 The American line has announced an increase from to iSlii.oii in the case of steerage rates to Philadelphia and the Pominion line announced a rate of Slo to tJuebec. The White Star line has set its steerage rates to America at Minard's Liniment Cures DandroH. Flour made from Manitoba wheat has been advanced "5 a barrel in western Ontario. Eire destroyed five story buildings inside the stale prison walls at Michigan City, Jnd. causing a loss of SllKl.tMiu, The authorities deny that convicts started the blaze.

While v.orkinr in his yard on East Main street. Hamilton, a few days ago, Thomas IV ake. ex of the Canadian ('miners' Coirpan' was siTed with heart failure, and diifl before medical aid could be siiMii'iofierl. T'e years of age. and leaves a widow.

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