Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1912-01-26 | Page 2 | Where our Dead go, Too

WHERE OUR DEAD GO. TOO. MaJ. S. Harris, one of the Australians Austral-ians who fought Id the South African war, visited British Columbia and finally fin-ally settled down In Vancouver. Now he tells of a man in his province who went over to see London for the first time last year and was being shown throught Westminster abbey. He got Into conversation with a tourlBt agent who was showing a party about and at Intervals the man who was explaining explain-ing asked the British Columbian questions ques-tions about Vancouver. "I suppose that In your country you have no place like the abbey?" he suggested. "No," replied the other. "Then what, may I ask, do you do with your Illustrious dead?" "First." replied the British Columbian, Colum-bian, "we appoint a commission to see whether the man Is really dead, and then If the commission decided in the affirmative, we send him to the legislature." legis-lature." Argonaut