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exanes TNE PORCUPINE AOVARCE Published every Wednesday by Geo, Lake, Publisher WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, ‘18 Professional and Business Cards.â€" 25 cents per insertion or $12 per year. Advertisements® cinserted â€" without written instructions will appear until written orders for their discontinuâ€" ance shall have been received AN EXAMPLE THAT MIGHT BE COPIED WITH BENEFIT. At least two. of the States of.tie Union have â€" adopted _ **Compulsory Work" laws for this time of war, and the question arises as to the benefit thrt might accerue in many ways to the Poreupine through similar enactâ€" ments in Ontaric. Maryland and West Virginia are the two States claiming the distinction of passing compulsory work laws as war. measures. West Condensed Advertisements.â€" Lost and Found, Wanted, For Sale, To etc., one inch or less, 20 cents ner insertion. Â¥irginiAa WAaS Dbabe iL passage of legislation compelling all able bodied citizens between the ages £5416 and 60 years to habitually and regulall} enzage in some **lawtul, useâ€" ful and recognized business, professâ€" ion, occupation or employment whereâ€" by they might earn sufficient to supâ€" port themselves and their legal deâ€" pendents.‘‘ . Maryland‘s law is not so stringent, but it does much to roundâ€" up the idlers. Similar laws appiying to this district would be all to the good. â€" Practically ‘allt of ithe piggers, tin horn gamblers and other grafters are idlers, and, what makes the matter more offensive at present, they are now chiefly aliens, many of theimn slien enemies at that. A daw similar to thait of West Virginia would .’:filfi%â€"EfififififififiifiEfifl’i%fi%fi%ififi%fifiifififififlfififihfi%fifi%fififi%%fiikfi%%bfifififlfififififikfififikfifi’%fi%’%fiEfilfi%fi%fikfibfifl%fifimfifi‘fifimmfi Canada = United States Subseription Rates : A â€" $2.00 a year | States _â€" $3.00 a year L. ONTARIO TELEPHONXES : Residence 112 l1 to the hbe blindâ€" ind other at makes foree them out of the Camp.â€". It might, indeed, foree some" of hem at: least to honest work. _ Even if the country had to keep ithem in jail, it would be better than keeping them in their present corrupting idleness. Inâ€" directiy. the country has to keep them now without any service or return in good, and under a Compulsory Work law the tountry at any event would not be foreed to the trowble or cost of catching them breaking the ordinâ€" ary laws. Idleness itself would be all the reason necessary for dealing with ‘hese hangersâ€"on. At any time a man »muight to have manhood enoughi to support himself honestly. In a time of war and stress the eall is even more |imperative. â€" Idlers are a useless menâ€" ace to the world toâ€"day. So are erafters, whether the gratft be in foodâ€" stufis, war munitions, or in blindâ€"pig booze. sCOPE FOR ENLISTING IN RF.C. NARROWED. e a useless menâ€" )â€"day. So are eraft hbe in foodâ€" , or in blindâ€"pig CP.R. SLEEPER TAKEN OFF FROM NORTH BAY. ~Following a conference ~with the Committee of Defence, a decision was reached last week to eurtail further the passenger service on the railw avs. As consequence, C.P.R. trains Nos. 17 and 18, between Montreal and Norâ€" th Bay have been discontinued makâ€" ing it impossible for the CP.K. to operate the sleepâ€" er.â€" The last C.P.R. sleeping car thus left North Bay for Timmins on Monâ€" day night, and â€"the last sleeper for Montreal was scheduled to leave Timâ€" mins on Tuesday morning, but of course was later on account of the storms. It is also likely that the passenger service on the T. N. 0. may be further curtailed, unless strong proâ€" test is registered by this young and strueczline new land. Anyone and everyone in the North Land knows that the present service is not too much for the pressing needs of the country, and while the vast majority are willing and ready to suffer hardâ€" ship for the better equipment of the country for war purposes, there will undoubtedly be much if the North Land is made the goat without corresponding advantage to somebody or something. â€"If it is desired to curâ€" tail the number of passenger traims, more effective work could be done by reâ€"arranging the service, for instanvc east from Toronto, where the G.T and C.P.R. practically dupheate vm’h other, running trains about the same time over the same territory each day. The contracted service at present on the T. N.0O. can searcely be reduced without serious injury to a new land that has been only enjoying two or three mails a week for some time past as it is. Meets every first and fourth Monday evenings of each month, Oddfellows Hall, Third avenue. Visiting brethren alâ€" ways welcome. J. W. Faithful, J. W. TIMMINS LO.L Ko. 2552 In the matter of the Estate of John ~James McEachern late of Mattagaâ€" mi Heights in the District of Tem- iskammg, Deceased. ‘ Notice is hereby given that all pcr sons having claims or demands against the late Jolhn James MeKachern, who ‘dled on or about the 9th day of Novâ€" ember, 1917, at Mattagami Heights aâ€" foresaid, are required to send by post prepaid or to deliver to the undersignâ€" ed solicitor herein for Charles M. Auer, Administrator of the estate of the said John James their nimes and addresses and full particuâ€" ‘lm‘s in writing of their claims, and of their accounts, and the nature of the securities if any them. §60009000900000008800080800® Timmins, Ont. Solicitor for the said Admimistrator. Sleighs and Harness PIERCEâ€"JACOBS LUMBER COMPANY TIMMINS HORSEFS NOTICE TO CREDIT ORS D. W, QO‘SULLIV AN, FOR SALEF held by In the Matter of Oscar Assad, of the Village of Schumacher in the District of Temiskaming, General Merchants, Insolvent. And Notice is further given that after the Ist. day of March, 1918, the Assignee will proceed to distribute the assets of the estate amongst the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims of which ncotice shall then have been given, and that he will not be liable for the assets or any part thereof so distributed, to any person or persons of whose claim he shall not then have had notice. Dated at Schumacher this 7th day of February, 1918. J. W. Mahon BARRISTER, SsSOLICITOR, NOTARY PUBLIC. 9â€"10 Royal Exchange Bldg., Cobalt. Phone 58. Moore Bldg., Timmins. KOoTICE TO CREDITORS IRVEN E. DUNN, : ‘C0,. gnC l( NOTICE 10 WATER CONSUMERS During the ex«â€" treme cold weaâ€" ther, consumers of town water are advised to allow their taps to keep running slightly to pre«â€" vent freezing in the pipes. H. E. MONTGOMERY clerk By order