THE PORCL’PIN E ADVANCE Do we appreciate our police? Some times one is in doubt. George Caldbick. inspector of the Provincial Police of this North Country. to- gether with his assistants. comes in for a share of giory in an artlcio in the Toronto Mail and Empire. “No one ever wrote a poem about. the Provincial Police. ‘The Riders of the Plains' seem to haVe a mono- poly of poem inspiration in police circlem and monopolies are het‘omimr unfashionable. 'I‘he monopolist can so seldom justify monopoly. Who ever heard of one of the Royal Mounted climbing a tall pine tree. or earryimt a heavv t‘anoe owr profan- ity provoking portages. or guiding a canoe through a small sized Niagara mm. or leading and bringing a priso mm in lovkup through miles and miles of dense mosquito and black ily infeeted hush. or razinsr torrents or rovky portacoa on the plains may have somethiuc to do with an ab- sence of such exploits from their re- cords. but the. fact remains that the Provincial Police of Northern Ontario are doing eavh hand all and with the regularitx and matter-oi- factuess of ev'en-dav work. The Provincial l‘olire have in their re-oruanized eapueity been at work now for th years and the man on the street knowe as much about, the work they are «loinz and the tent- tory they are em'erim: as he does about the present whereaboutu (if llalley's (‘ontet lie mentally ‘slams' them as he reads about a hold-up or aafe sunshine in some. country town, quite obliVimH to the. tart. that the Provim'ial Police have practically nothing to do with law eitt'm'eem.-m in the tuunieipalitim of older I..- tario. that they only take a hand when the lm'al oilit'el's. rear-hint: the end of their rope. appeal for help. He hears of the blind pics of tho North and ‘slams' acain. never con- sidering that the two score of men stations in the North are faced with the task of keeping liquor out of a streteh of territory as great as that; of older Ontario, or stopping to think that some “cops' have trouble in keeping the ï¬ery fluid out of halfwown towns. 'I‘he cigarette is poisonous in the extreme and a million of them will kill a strong man if he lives long enough to smoke them. It has as few friends in this country as the rattle- snake and is much more violently de- nounced. Very few boys have been bitten by rattlesnakes, but millions of boys have smoked cigarettes be- hind the barn just once and have been unable to walk with comfort for a week afterward. “In the period correspondimr to the provincial year 1910-11 620 men had 9,419 cases to deal with, secur- ing 7,876 comictions, a peicentage of 93.6. Each man we? airing it. handled ï¬fteen cases. The 45 pro- vincial polive ofï¬cers handled,1.657 cases. or 36 per man. and secured 1.051 convictions. a percentage of 79. The ‘Riders of the Plains' may. as has been remarked. monopolize poem inspiration. hut. the bringing: of crim- inals to hook is something in which competition is strenuous. A cigarette, says George Fitch, is all that he has picked up in college a small paper cylinder which is wed ‘ on the ends of his fingers. by some people as a mhatitu'e ior; When a young,r man smokes cigar- tohacco and by othgrs as a :.u").vtlt- ' ettes to excess, he becomes so perme- ate for brains. ated with poison that microbes can- The cigarette is poisonous in the not live in him and he has to linger extreme and a million of them willlalong for years with a kiln dried kill a strong man if he lives longflirain that rattles in his head like a enough to smoke them. It has as few ldried pea in a washâ€"boiler. TRACKING ELUSIVE WHISKY BOTTLE THE CIGARETTE [8 MORE DANGEROUS Than the Rattlesnake and the Small Boy and Two Kind of Women Smoke Them Cigarettes are very cheap and if a man will roll them himself he can smoke 100 at a cost of 5 cents for material ’and $20.00 in time. Spain has stood stiil for hundreds of years because its people have not learned how to work and roll cigarettes at the same time. Does Not Constitute All the Duties of Pmincial Police in the North Rolling cigarettes is a difficult art and many of the college students lab- or years to perfect it. When a college boy comes home able to roll a cigar- ette with one hand,you can see about Tracking the elusive whiskey bottle ‘ â€"ï¬llulâ€"-to its lair is of course one of gthe chiel pastimes oi the provincial i'oop.’ In that he. has become a past master. His ï¬lth sense lo de- ;te.ctimr strong drink. not only upon ' tlu‘ Wrath! of the mum; inhabitants of the North Country. but under tons of hay. ears of coal. up in the trees. land lvelow ground. in Tart. anywhere‘ [it can be hidden. is the one great. ,surrnw of the whim“ amlgu'tr's 'pons in force in any part. of the world. Under the code police ofï¬cers could only prnsecute when a} permn arrested for some nther offence was 'fmmd with :1 wezumn in his posses- Sinn.'\'nw an nflicer may sear'dh any person suspected of having: a revolver '0" other weapon. The new law pro- hibits a dealer frum 90mm: :1 revolv- er. except to a persnn presenting: an order from the chief of police. and requires him 'to keep a complete re- ‘cord of the sale and description of the Buyer." -â€" â€"_â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"--._. life “The pmvinvial nfliu-m‘a are â€may at. tim‘e etnppim‘: illecal fur-huntinc. They put an end to the. wolf hmmtv fraud: that met the Government from $9.000 to $10.000. The imes- titration intn the unusuallv large number at Walt skins turned in for the tmnntv hm yeah: are revealed the iaet that (‘nvpte skin: were brim: impnrted frnm Alberta and $15 a head heinc Polim‘ted on them. Quite a inuines: wan earried on. a cer‘ tain tirm in the Wm‘t renting the skin»: fm' $2 eaeh. Each akin turned in was summed tn he given hank to the nwner with the ear Out nï¬. tut this method of preventing fraud did not work wonders. Often the man vnllm‘tim! the hmmty m‘nemnstv ot- t‘erml tn eat the ear nt'f himmlf and time =ave the (‘rmvn nflieiai that trmlhln. The akin wnuld he promptly taken to another nmeial and the rt" :ier fur navment <N‘ured. Sometimes 'nterm'isimr individnah tnnk auroral ears tn nt'ï¬eialq. explaining that they did not want the’hnther ni hare-inkP the skin in and enlleeted the hounty. The mund-np landed a number of the principals in the lock-up and fines warez-mine over $1.000 were im- prised. “Since the renrqanizatinn oi the Prnvincial Force. the Ontario Gov- ernment has nlaeed on the. statute books the most advanced legislation against the (-arrvim: of offensive wra- Murh of tho warfare acainat whis- key. contraband whiskey. id: carried on in the winter. At Codirane last. winter. twn cnnstahloa waited in tho snow for 48 hours in the hopes of ratrhimr the individuals to whom a hog-us: varlnad of hay was shipped. liut tho ‘hlintl pinto!" was wary. and the whiskey was left in the car until the pnlit‘o tnnk charge at it. Cigarettes are used mostly by boys, loafers, college students, artists and literary men. However, the loafer cannot become a literary man by smoking cigarettes. Literary men smoke cigarettes to show of! the strength of their brains just as pugi- lists beat. up street car conductors to exhibit their muscles. 'There is a behef that any" young 'man who spends all his time smok- ing cigarettes will eventually be- come a fool. 'I‘his is not truef The cigarette in this case are a result, not a cause. Some women smoke cigarettes. They are of two kinds. When you see a woman smoking cigarettes you can be quite sure that either she is too good. to associate with you or you are too good to associate with her.