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THIS LITTLE GIRL SHOULD SEND HER NAME AT ONCE Wrots to Santa Claus but Did Not Sign Letter, So Old Santa Does Not Know What to Do. A little girl has written to ‘‘Santa Claus, Timmins, Ont.,"‘ as follows :â€"â€" ‘"©Dear Santa Claus: Pleas bring me a sleeping doll. (Please bring me a bag of eandy."‘ Now, good old Santa Claus is not the least bit put out because the little girl left an ‘‘e‘‘ off her first ‘‘ please.""‘ A little thing like that doesn‘t worry Santa any. But what does bother him is that the little girl left her name off the letter. Santa has no way of knowâ€" ing just which particular little girl is anxious for those two thingsâ€"a sleepâ€" ing doll and a bag of candy. Santa has asked The Advance to help him out by finding the little girl who wrote the let ter 5 ce n narre ns n es rerm ces rems m aap ce camy en on amrar se mc amr on e en e m ar un . "arvap If the little girl will just write to Santa Claus, care of The Poreupine Advance, giving her name and address Santa ‘Claus will see what can be done about it. If this little girl sends her name at once, it is likely that her faith in Santa Claus will be justified. Mr. and Mrs. Irvie Dunn, of Proâ€" vost, Alberta, formerly of Schumaeâ€" her, are visiting friends in the North Land during the Christmas season. The Temiskaming Telephone (Co., with headquarters at New Liskeard, has been given permission by the Onâ€" tario Railway and Municipal Board to raige its rates all over the system with the exception of Cobalt and Kirkland Lake. Application for authority to take this step was made by the eomâ€" pany following the heavy loss sustainâ€" ed in the fires of Oct. 4th. The comâ€" pany has also asked a loan from the Government, but no definite answer has been made to this request. The new telepho®e rages are to be $35.00 a year for business and $20.00 a year for residence phonres in the territory served by the Temiskaming Telephone DRURY DISCLAIMS ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR FIRE According to a despatch in the Toâ€" ronto Star, one of Premier Drury‘s personal organs, the Premier disâ€" claims all responsibility for the reâ€" cent Temiskaming fire that devastated Haileybury and other settlements. As The Advance has pointed out before, the big problem of toâ€"day‘ is not so much to disecover responsibility for the recent fire as to take measures to prevent any further catastrophies of this kind. In attéempting to provide means and measures for future proâ€" tection the Drury Government is evidâ€" ently doing its level best at the preâ€" sent time, so the Premier and his colâ€" leagues may be allowed a little more latitude than otherwise. If the Preâ€" mier will provide adequate protection for the future, The Advance, for one, will not waste much time in â€"arguâ€" ments about the past. The North Land does not live in the past. There are many, however, who would quesâ€" tton the Premier‘s attitaude as given in the following despatch in The iStar THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE last week :â€"â€" ‘‘Georgetown, Dec. 8.â€"When reâ€" viewing the record of his gov ernment and giving an account of hla stewardâ€" ship as member for Halton county at a largt meeting here last night, iPreâ€" mier Drury disclaimed all governâ€" mental responsibility for the recent fire in Northern Ontario. That caâ€" tastrophe was not a fire in governâ€" ment forests, he said. Searcely a foot of government forest was affected. It was a settlers‘ fire through a country almost as cleared as Halton county. It had nothing to do with the governâ€" ment administration of the fire protecâ€" tion service."‘‘ If Premier Drury and his colleagues follow their present attitude and give the fullest possible measure of proâ€" tection to the communities of the North, they will apparently have the better side of the argument in the future. ® Mr.~ J. J. ‘MceGarry, Travelling Freight and Passenger Agent for this district for the C.P.R., was a visitor last week on business to Timmins. 9464666