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Show tie PUct Llkt Home. "There's no place like home.' Aside from the sentiment of the words of that I deathless song, there is a whole lot of truth in them. ' The colonists who have recently been lured into the wilds of British Columbia have found it out. One of the great railroad systems not long ago undertook to colonize a large part of British Columbia. Colum-bia. It issued a grea deal of literature which painted I the wonderful advantages of the country in glowing terms, and it offered low rates to home-seekers. The bait attracted, and thousands of people left the ! States to try a hazard of new fortunes in Canada. Most of them now wish they had not. There is some productive country up there, but there is little pleas-tire pleas-tire or. profit in a .country where most of the time it is cold enough to give a brass monkey chilblains. Now, the home-seekers are remaining in the United States. They are looking for new opportunities, opportu-nities, it is true, but they are looking for them in the West and sWth. The little old United States is good enough for them, and they have ceased following fol-lowing after strange gods. The lesson is not new, but it-must be repeated so cften. for it is all too soon forgotten. It was the tame thing when the Klondike was discovered. Thousands joined in the mad rush for wealth, and - mighty few were successful. They endured the greatest hardships, risking health and life, and not many of them found .the game worth the candle. Cuba and the Philippines attracted more of the moths, and most of them regretted it. The best opportunity is at home. It may be in one's own community or it may be elsewhere, but if it is in the United States it is the best: There's no place, like home. |