Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1912 — WHERE OUR DEAD GO, TOO. [ARTICLE]

WHERE OUR DEAD GO, TOO.

, Maj. S. Harris, one of the Australian* who fought In the South Afrleaßf war, visited British Columbia and finally settled down in Vancouver. Now he tells of a man In his province whp* went over to see London for the flrit'., time Hat year and was being shown* throught Westminster abbey. He got* tnto conversation with a tourist agent who was shewing a party abbot and', at intervals the man who was explaining asked the British Columbian tions about Vancouver. “1 suppose? that in your country you gave no* place like the abbey?” he “No,” replied the other. “Then what, may 1 ask, do you do with your illustrious dead?” , “First,” replied the British Columbian, “we appoint a commission to seif whether the man lg really dead, ami then If the commission decided in the* affirmative, we sen<! him to the legia-i lature.”—ArgofiauC