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i Fire Wood in any iengt0s to suit, Â¥rom 14 inches to wood in log. â€"Dry l(and green Jackpine. Prices very reaâ€" ;onable. Order your wood now. beâ€" fore the rugh. H. CHARLEBOIS, FPOR SALEâ€"Double bed, tess and coil springs. and skates, new. Apply Avenue. WOOD FOR SALE, birch, pine and fimarack; any length to suit} all good wood; delivered anywhere in lown or suburbs at reasonable rates. T. Hardy, 48 Elm street, Timâ€" minsg. Phone 317. 41â€" Fourth Avenue and Cedar Streets. Public Worship, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday School, 2.30 p.m. A corial invitation is extended to all to attnd these services. Revy. J D. Parks, B.D., Minister. | Anglican) Tamara street and Fifth Avenue 7.00 p.n| § Sundy School, 3.00 p.m. Rer. R. i. Cushing, B.A., L.Th., Rector j Phone 131. Residace, No. 1 Hemlock Street. Holy Communion:â€"1st. Sunday of month,gl.OO a.m.; 3rd. Sunday of month,[.30 p.m.; Festivals, 8.30 a.m. ~â€"Baptims, 4.15 p.m. OR SALEâ€"Five wellâ€"located lots, with good buildings on them. Good revenue producers. Will sell all to. gether, or singly. Small cash payâ€" ment accepted, with terms for balâ€" ance. Come and see me for a geâ€" nuine bargain in real estate. D. St. Onge, Box 15, Timmins, Ont., or call at store at foot of Third Ave. 41p Now open for business. Firstâ€"elass rooms, and steam heated All upâ€"toâ€"date conveniences. Reading and Sitting Rooms. Sample Rooin for Travellers. Best dining room in town. Meals at all hours. Pays highst prices for secondâ€"hand fnrniture.fSells new and secondâ€"hand Furiture at cheap prices. W. DARLING MINING ENGINEER Exminations, Reports, Developâ€" ment ?rograms. Reed Block, Timmins, P¢cupine District, Ontario. Sund:" Services, 11.00 a.m., and Miss Kthieen MacXabh PUBL] STENOGRAPHER Corresponbnce, Copying, Etc., promptly smne at reasonable rates. 8St. KATTHEW‘S CHURCH BYRNES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 3% Sruce St. â€" â€"â€" Timmins Phone 154 I)r. Mire Block, â€" H. CHARLEBOIS, 30 Cedar street, Timming. IROQUOIS FPALLS. PARIS HOTEL MONETA P). Box 3, Timmins. FOR SALE. bed, with matâ€" igs. Also, boots Apply 30 Borden 52p One of the Reasons for the Talk of a Separate Province for the North. In a recent issue The Toronto Star has a a lengtHy editorial on *‘ The Partnershlp Between New and Old Ontario.‘‘ To the thoughtful reader in the North Land a perusal of this editorial will give a striking suggesâ€" tion as to one reason at least for the tion of the North from the South. The everâ€"recurring agitation for separaâ€" average man can not be blamed for feeling that if The Star in any way represents the older parts of t‘~ Proâ€" vince then the people down t .. / are so smug and selfâ€"complacent as to be most objectionable as partners in any combination. The attitude of The Star may well be summed up in the old nursery rhyme that no doubt has a special cireulation at this season of the year:â€" Little Jack Horner sat in a corner "LITTLE JAGK HORNER" ATTITUDE IRRITATES Eating his Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And he pulled out a plum, And he said, ‘‘What a good boy am I.‘‘ That is the sort of a goodlittle boy The ‘Star is, so far as the North Land is concerned. With all thought centerâ€" ed on the ‘‘plums‘‘ and personal right eousness, there is no consideration for those who gather the plums or for those who make the pies, nor is there any evidence of care as to whether anyone else desires a little of the pie as a slight reward for the labour of making. In its editorial The Star says :â€"‘‘There is a great deal of talk about ‘‘milking‘‘ new parts of the province for the benefit of the old. And yet the partnership that exists between the old and the new parts of Ontario ought to be the ‘best possible arrangement for both. We are all alike in the habit, no matter where we live, of talking awbout the vast undeâ€" veloped resoureess of the province, and anything any one of us can do to encourage a new industry, like a paâ€" per or pulp milH, to open up any where, we do eagerly and in the belief that by so doing we are helping the pro« vince along. Are we but ‘‘milking"‘ the region in which we induce the new industry to locate?" when vince when fuller quills when it is a matter of getting, and fuller of exeuses than a poreupine is quills when it comes to being asked to give anything, then people are justifiâ€" ed in suggesting that improper ‘‘milkâ€" ing‘‘ is being done. The word ‘‘ milkâ€" ing‘‘ was used because it was thought to be a word that the Farmers might understand. When there is unlimited money to spend to chase blind pigs in the north, and very limited money for roads fit for a horse to run away ; when there seems to be a lavish surâ€" plus of cash ever ready to invest in the enforcement of every petty unâ€" British law on the statute book, and not enough to give decent burial to any indigent person who may pass away in the Province‘s own especial territory,â€"the unorganized. districts; when red tape entangles at every step and ready help is hard indeed to find ; when wonderful roadways are oeing built at wondrous cost all through the southern part of the Province, and up North it does not seem possible to get even a small strip of indifferent roadâ€" way put through m any reasonable time; when these things are so, is it any wonder that North Land people lose patience and talk secession. Ireâ€" land talk assassination for much less cause. The fuzzy limit is reached when some smug public man or editor of some outside newspaper sits ‘back, licks his thumbs and says, ‘"What a good boy am I.‘"‘ w The Star‘s contention that there are several ‘‘New Ontarios,""‘ each with conflicting interests is rather far feteh ed. ‘The North Land‘s interests are bound up in three main industries,â€" Mining, Lumbering and its allied inâ€" dustries, and Agriculture: The imwâ€" terests of these three in the different sections of the North Land do not clash. There is less clashing of interâ€" ests here than in the older parts ‘of Ontario. There would tbe riots if the same attitude were adopted to the vaâ€" rious sections of Old Ontario that 10 T patience with the stupidity shown by so many piublic men and newspapers regarding the needs of the North and the unfair methods sometimes used to bolster up this unreasonable attitude. When Premier Drury misused figures in an attempt to prove ‘that the Proâ€" vince spent more in the North Land than it received from this territory in revenue, the (Md Ontario newspaâ€" pers could give the twisted figures much space and prominence, with the text suggested, ‘‘What a good boy am I.‘‘ ‘But when Mr. Mac Lang comâ€" pletely refuted these figures of the Premier and showed that the North is being ‘‘milked‘‘ all right enough, it was left practically to the North Land‘s own papers to give publicity to Mr. Lang‘s facts. The case so well preserted by the Member for Cochâ€" rane stands uncontradicted and unasâ€" sailable toâ€"day. Recently the Governâ€" ment has been showing a more intelâ€" ligent and helpful interest in the "\*orth, but there is a long way to go yet. One of the first things to do is lto drop the Little Jack Hornervattiâ€" tude. Men are annoyed at the pious little fellow who has that ‘*‘Whatâ€"aâ€" goodâ€"boyâ€"amâ€"I‘‘ attitude. They much prefer a lad who will help in picking the fruit, carry wood and water for the baking, and have a heart in regard to others getting their share of tne pie. And, also, they prefer one who is not above helping wash up the plates when the feast is over. LAKE SHORE AVERAGED $17.14 PER TON LAST MONTH REPORTED FROM DRESSING ROOM AFTER FRIDAY‘S GAME anyway, boys."" Scullyâ€"‘‘Yes, and it‘s going to be a Happy New Year, too!‘‘ For the month of November the Lake Shore Mine at Kirkland Lake had a production of $32,764. The mill handled 1912 tons of ore, the average grade being $17.14 per ton. Of the 1912 tons milled, 1087 tons were from surface suspension dump. DON‘T KNOCK THE OFFICIALS TILL THE GAME IS OVER During Friday night‘s hockey match one good Timmins fan was particularâ€" ly outspoken in criticism of those handling the game. At the end of the first period he said quite emphatically that the judge of play was no just judge, and at the end of the second period he was quite enthusiastic in declaring the referee as ‘‘rotten."‘ When the game was over, the same good fan said the refergee was O.K. Which goes to suggest that oftenâ€" times it is results that please more than decisions at one time or another. FORMER COBALT MINER LOSES EIFE IN ALBERTA The Northern News last week says: ‘*Hiram Davis, who left the O ‘Brien Mine a few years ago towork at a coal mine in Alberta owned by the same inâ€" terests was, along with thé mine i=anâ€" ager and a mining inspector, killed by gas last week. The coal mine took fire some time ago and efforts=to put it out seemed to be successful until last week when matters became worse. The three men went into one of the tunnels to inv estigate, and upon opening a door were almost immediately overâ€" come by gas. The late Mr. Davis deft two brothers in Cobalt one of whom is working at the O and the other at the Townsite. While working in Cobalt he lived at North Cobalt."‘ THIS FALLS MAN GOT QUITE EXCITED, BUT KEPT CANNY When the ‘Falls team scored the third goal in the game Friday evening and the score thus stood 3 to 1 in their favour, on Troquois Falls man got quite excited. ‘*Hurrah for the F’d“s, ‘ he yelled. n l1 bet a hundred to one xn the For a minute the Falls man hesitatâ€" ed, then he replied, **"of course you know I didn‘t exactly mean that hunâ€" dred to one stuff. I‘m strong for the Falls, but you know that hundred to one stuff is too atron,, oug of all reaâ€" son, xou know."‘‘ ‘*How much money have you got on that figure?"" qwietly asked a Timâ€" % l # mins man nearby. a ‘‘What odds will you give then?" persisted the Timmins fan. Receiving no satisfaction, the Timâ€" mins man then suggested even money, and this failing to draw the 100â€"toâ€"1 enthusiast, oddsâ€"against the Falls was proposed. At last the Falls fan leaned over and spoke confidentially to the Timâ€" mins man. *‘*‘Friend,"‘ he said, "‘to Boucherâ€"‘‘*Well, Merry Christmas, M UI °_ may toda 1 miy wiil Y e in store f TRE PORCUPINE ADPVANCE _he s: vellin