PRINCE 'GEORGE- Saturday,. 1914: 6-Atheficptf Peace '_- While '""Great itain is "rioiv volvcd In"the^reato.st conflict of the centuries,, ana the plans for an elah- ornte observance of the Anglo-'Amer- .. jean .peace, centenary, hsiye necessarily raids into, Canada, and Nether; minor disputes,, marred _•_ Anglo-American peace-at a later period, and in 1895 the Venezuela incident- set the \twoJ .latrojis by the ears. Yet, repeal.of the Hqrtqn law in..1900, box-ir^gsvvas-carried -oft -for several years' by"'TOgTnbership" clubs.. The l of most/pfs^these the better. l 'hFrayylpy "bcfting-^lavv ¦of- ViQ, since radopted i.n Wisconshi^and -other states, restored- the game larity. ¦-> old popu- It is safe to predict (.hat. California! ,xt".\i will .not remain long off the, pugitis-^ fncy^ map' even 'f the le*f! &£&%*{, '¦bfcen abandoned, the British people I of ¦all.HHo toast ' of John: QuincyV"' "'"l" «.-'"•--" ""> l?f3>-JP»£3g>!?\ and their American cousins" wiU -not Adams' wWealizechO'Ghent, the city the ' promoters^ ails,. and. in -the, end, ¦ permit, next Thursday to pass .without some recognition "of the tremendous (id'far-reaching importance of that ed again for a century.' 'peace 'pact signed on December 24, 1814.« The city of Ghent in war-shattered Belgium; was the scene of \the sighing of the compact -which ushered in. a century of peace between Eng- lish-speaking peoples, Ghent hadjilan-ned to observe the event with strik-' of peace;' riiayxthe gates of the temple of Janiis, here-closed,"not be-open- ANTI-BOXING CRUSADES ARE FAST DYING OUT "California's senterfce of exilexpas-ied on the boxing fratei^ity is nothing^ new in ' pugilistic history.-"Ever the agitation may Jielp the sport by putting it on a fi>rner basis than ever. In fact, ^the*e' are indications .that bki^ sh6rn of it's old brutality'and ( ing ceremonies, to which distinguish-') since the great game originatedyih y ed men from .the United Statesv;Ynd | England nenrly two centuries ago the all parts of .the British empir.o had ¦.defenders, of the' sport have faced been invited,, but the events of .thercontinual opposition. It is not to be last few months have, driven all the. denied that much of the criticism of. thoughts of peace celebrations from; the game in the era of the. "raw 'ujis" the minds, of Belgians. y, eing pna tew life as one wv^the'most popular sports,, both -amateur^tmdx professional, of' Canadians and Amej-Kfaris. ;•• • ;,"' , • >xS- CANADA'S CHIEF \ . \ JUSTICE 61 TODAY was merited, and that pugilism was Sir Charles Kitzpatrick' Hirthday Celebrates^ The lit. lion: SiK.Charles Fitzpat-rick, Chief Justice of Canada and; Envy, Jealousy, .old .antagonisms j- often? to-be, condemned both^on the i, Deputy Attor noy-General^...-was > born ; surviving froni p°ast quarrels, fierce, icqre of brutality* and hishdiiesty. Yet | i"; Quebec 01 years ago^ today. Sir disputes^which on .several occasions ; the moralists' forget that when box7 j Charles begari'his legaf career iii • 1878, threatened'...to -culminate in conflict, j ing was introduced/it' supplanted the \ after graduating from Laval Univer-¦; have irnarreti, Init ' not broken, the! duel with p'istoLor sword and the far j sity. He first ^uriLN.into international peace which has. endured for. a cen-. from tender^sport of cudgelling! Even | prominence :,!«.* lS8f>0ii{5 chief counsel! tury. Within the last decade, how-'1 the art ofxithe early bruiser marked! for Louis- Kiel, "the ihs\mcent- leader,; ever, practically all- (differences have , an advance ¦ in civilization. . As 'for -whofought to found a half-breed re-been amicably settled, and the "hands' modern boxing as conducted" in CalU i P^Wic in Western Canadih^The'case "across the seas" movement has ibeen 'Tfpfiiia—well, doubtless the stricturesj^vas bitterly.contested and divided the- strengthened thabit now seems irn^of the iiev. Dr. C. F. Aked, the hu- i people of the Dominion into wowing " pbi§sibie that'England and' the Unj-feds 'manitarian Mr. Heartland other/erit- ¦ .'amps,. the^Catholics 'and FreiicluCa-Sta&s could ever again engK^e ill^ics, had some._ba,sis of fact./lt is a nadians demancllhg that the rebel>be~ war. \^'- • y^ -. ,¦ human instttution, conducted by two-. freect. Sir Charles—although he was In -the Negotiations at. Ghent a cen- legged animals called^rnerf, just like; not^"Sir" then—-waged a.brilliant le- j turn ago G><icr, GouUlburn -and there are'%uvs- even in the hitter in- . insurgent chief was convicted and exe-AVilliam Adams,Nwhile' the United' stitutions. -. "K"— cuted. Sir Charles was knighted in States commissioner^, were .Bayard, Boxers themselves cannot escape a lt?07, soon after his elevation to the Clay, Johff'Quincy Adjvnis, Kussell and large1 shirre of trie,blame for the dis- ^supreme bench. He had previously Galjatin. Their, deliberations contin- repujxonto-which the. sport haS/O'ften served xthe Dominion Government as iytf- through several mpivtlis, and it. fallen. It was so in the vesry begin- Minister'of Justice and Solicitor Gen-was not untili Washington ojVicialdom/rning of the game, -when the sporting eral. Thcv^Canadian jurjst was the-. was frightened \>y the -'threatening ji'U public, as %v.ell as the opponents of vhief «teakei- at the AnTgrica-ri Bar ^ ti.tude of'New England, and .^?reat pugilism, were . distrusted with the Asspemt ion's convention iir WashingJ Britain was facing the' possibility^ o'fv brutality of "a battle between George U«i last October. In- his address/he .another European -war. that they Haylor and Prince Boswell, a gyp.sy^'declared that Canada was proud of ' i f th BitihEi y reached an agreein'Giit.' The original. Bo>\vell kicked and. pounded Tai'lor being fa - part ;.of the British-^Empire; N down, but/Taylor which, he said, "keeps/ sacred its d ii i lihd g. > p instructions of President Adanw^\\'ereJ,,whenN;he latter was down to insist upon the abolition of. fore- recovered and gave the gyps^ an un- covenants and maintains its: plighted ¦iWejnipuesriment of Ajncrican shilors, merciful ^»Wing. TMiOburned the word.'.He criticised'the German Co- ybut' with' the Northea's'tern ^..States public "stoma^}i, but'the Great Jack lonia-I system,^deeiaring that the colo^ threatenin^^c^sjpi^the^r^residein/BrouVhtonsavc^^t sport by formu- nists in German Africa are "checked' 'and his^ccretaryCjjf... State became>lating7the%finsyjOtte of pugilistic rules' at every/Uirn by official limitation." willing and „eager, "to^rnak'e conces- olijectiohable^eatui^s. In clesc'ribing Canada's relation tp^the 'sions. The^ .Br'flisn cbrqmissiouers After ble period 'of\Broughton arid empire, ho said, J^re recognize no " structed to meet the Americans his co,n^uerbr, Jack Slack, the pugi^/inferiority i "were instructed to meet the Americans his co,n^uerbr, Jack Slack, the pugi ity in ^ourselves, nor' in our halfway, and sosa treaty was signed TisJ ^ p^ of the peYjpd from 17G0 to >7S0 political position, to^ the Englishman and what- little check upon the glor- a?'ii Christmas gift to the warrinR^^tniost"" succeeded>iTi giving the'game- or Scotchman; and what- little <^peoples. , Practically speaking, th^aXknockoutX 1'he pnHod /\va"s char^ the colonial relationship- puts treaty-.settled.nothing, and" alKthe ac^jzed by niimerousfake fights^y.us is offset by our pride- in the aJJ; bloodshed and'waste of treasure had foul and brutal fighti?ig,.aita^tlie'title jous history of Britain." been for nothing. ^r was almost "It is a blanked bad^treatyi and I Tom Johnson; DanieKMendoza.^fci^; don't know -whether/T will sign it or Jew, and other gfeat boxers then not," said Henry^CJ]ay on the day came to. the fronts and boxing entered before^ the .radfipiion |of the dbcur upon its mosl glorious era, when it ment, but fitter av night- of reflection; had'-the^patronage" of-kingspprinces, .he wasj5rq.ught to aj^eemei-ft with, his nobility and the aristocracy of letters colUirfgue3.v- - •".'.':'..¦:' and learning. Many of the foremost Hiile the treaty itself was indef- literary... men, artists and actors of jnite-, some vitally important prpvis- the era, including- Lord B.yron, were ions grew out of it. In 1817 .th^ton- patrons\6f the game, and often num-don and Washington 'governments bered pugilists amopg their personal «<;reed that all armed vessels on the friends.- ¦_- . ' .cC'ireat Lakes shb'uld^be dismantled The women—-God bless''em in'spite and no more built?.'' This agreement of their prejudices--administered the , was to .he binding until six' niontfis' ¦ knockout punch -to.:--b.oxiriK—iti_jQa-lifor-notice was given-.|>y either power, oudi.niaj and it was one of the greatest although ^tfre und'e-rstnnding effected' wosKen. of the last century, Queen by the,. British. Minister, to the United^ Victoria, who led the opposition to-Stale's and the-American Secretary, baxing- during her jo,ng resign. The of 'State; \vn.s never'formally ratified game was again on its-1 last legs in either-by'-. Congress, or Parliament, it England'when the Marquis of Queens-has, come to- have all the binding berry forumlated the code of rules', .power of a permanent treaty. When which now govern fistic contests, .and ...'¦"- the agreement was'entered into both which* haye. niade'it a science rather Canada and the United States- had than a mere contest ' of physical large vessels under construction, on strength. Jem j\face, 'that clever old the lakes,, but these---were "consigned ' maste'F of ring tactics, also introduc-t'o- purpifees, of pen*'.&'."and-'commerce, ad a new^'style. of boxing which was \and the fnla'nd spy's Miav'e ever since lot; .soT'open to.criticism as the bruis-been free of Vessejs of war. , l^-^S tactics previously in vogue. Vic-. . From 1814 until 180$ there „,was Gloria's son, the late King Edwaijd ^xsVarcely a decade -w.it.hout some' quar- VIII, did not share his mother's prej-1 r'el 'between Cr.cat Hritain and thev idicejS-against pugilism, and his pat-i.United States, and during that period i'onage- also helped to save boxing . war between the powers was always from utter extinction in the.land of possible, arthrough Veldoni at all prob- ts origin. Mor many years .during-able. , Strangely^ enough, Anglo-Am- Uie-Victorian era boxing was not-only -erican' fj'jeridshjp^Ws cemented by prohibitea, but the railroads wefe re-/'war, for it^was .-theS;rie^clly attitude luired by law not to carry passengers • of the British GovemmehtJ.oward the bound" for the Kcene-of a prospective" United States/during the^wiar with prize- fight. sjmin that practically ended thVAni- From .the time of its introduction erican hostility to Britain. The ^tti-. into America prize-fighting (was tude of Germany in tlie same war^frowned upon by the authorities. The was doubtless also responsible, to no fighters- were ^ehas«*d from pillar to small extent, for the widespread Am- post, iintT most'£,.of the" battles were erican. hqs'tiiity tovard the Kaiser's secretly" staged in remote cpmmuni-- government in the present -crisis. It ties.7 Gangs of toughs were usually is perhaps too. much' to say,, in the in evidence at the -ringside, and "pis-, "light of recent events, that \var";be- tols and knives \yere\often flourished, tween Great.Britain and the UnitedI r.o intimidate referee or fighters. New ...States, has buc'oniejiiipossibla-,.- but it York,' Maryland, Pennsylvania, .aiid, is assuredly t«.i be "Tmmbe'f'dd- among :f& a .little' later» periodi Canada and ¦; those things, which'-are highly and California, witnessed most of the big. . wildly—improbable.-, .". ... ' bouts. New OrlqaTis—and St. Louis • The Maine and Oregon boundary ; became great pugilistic centers whenj —¦questions-Were--the*-.>-iirs.l disputes- the authorities df^the'Eastern States-J. which threatened the peace after'the and Canada drove out the bruisers. | conclusion of the Ghent treaty. The-^ A quartervof a century.ago prize-quarrel- over the'- fvIaine-N'ew Bruns: fighting was on its last legs, but bpx-i _WicJ^ boundary ,i reached'--1 thtH-.fJoint ing!¦ was coming into its own. The ¦whe^re' armed "forces faced each other Sullivan-Kilrain fight, pulled off. in. territory"'". The con- Mississippin in 1889, practically mark- The T^oitieei^Jtfercli^ Qeo/ge Takes T/«s« - Opportunity of Wishing His r Matty Friends A Merry G^ Meg to.thank ouf"vonstomers f6rtlici^est'o«mo(l5patr'6iiage in the past, and to solicit a, continuance* of their^valued business.. As heretofore, we shall endeavor to do business on a low margin^ profit in" tlie^vohime of business attracted by our low prices and tlie quality of the^goods supplied. \ , f\ . r J / Here Are Some ChHstm-Xinas at theso; ]nm vsX^ • -' ley,' MiBtletoe iand^Wreathing for l'.ii.flilin(l i'r I'Miuitellas, box -•")'• .....$1.65 / Christ mas Decoi liting at Reasonable I'atTitind v.y I'l-rt't^to, box li ') . . .....$2.00 \ y ¦ *- J?^ ( Hyuipia xAi4^|(u'rat, box : lit',:. : $2.25 • <: priceSv--^; • < )lyni]iia I'diicluH, box 50 ....$2.75" Jf'ww .luir-v Ora ngosj,'por do/en... .40c \\'oljstor '.s lip.-vas, bo.\ 25, ..$2.25^ ' Jitfiuk'se Oan-'c S per box . ...:.. Sl.OO Wc.bsU.'r "s I'.'-rf.rfo, box 50 . $3.25 1 I Wcl'istcr 's 1 '.'Uiatcllas, box (irap.X^ixT Ih. 40c SimoM'V Cpiicliiis, box tjQK :. .$r£.75 1 lomy. jK'r con b. ...X 35c fell Buy ,' liuX 2") ^-^....':.:. ,$1,5.0 ; (iiiho I1'i"iiit, V;h b 10c lri'iic, box 1!.;^ \a\ Picnita^liox '2') J- S1.25 Sweet l.Y>tato<'S, v! fb.-fur ;.;' 25c M aiu-r"U ¦in),.,bnx::")() .......'.' * ^$4:50 I^'uic Katin.i;' A(. pl& 'A lb. loi: ..'». 25c IB. LAMBERT George Street PROMPT, DELIVER Y' Phone No. 9 troversy over' the Oregon boundary, ed the "end ol bare-knuckle fightinjj nr ¦which produced the American battle-! America: "-.i .-•, cfy of "Fifty-friilr, forty'or fight," Since then the bpxing game was'not."settled until bp^h sides seem-" to contend \yith a multitude to.b^ on the 'p_oint of an appeal tics, rhpst.prwhorh jfiave ' force. \•"-—i t and prejudiced in their criticisms Alabama claims, the Fenian! the sport. In-New York ^ ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ • I i.' > "-- ¦ » ., ¦¦:: -? ¦¦' CSCENKS AL(>N;(.! THE J t