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good tea‘ 104 BEWARE OF EUROPEAN _ STARLING, FOR IT‘S BAD In the Sudbury district there is some auxiety in regard to the presence of the European Starlingâ€"a bird with a bad reputation: and apparently fully deserving of its ill name. Rev. Mr. Nicholson, of Sudbury, who is a close student of bird life, has calied attenâ€" tion to the matter. If this bird gets _ a grip in theâ€"Sudbury district, it will â€" likely also find a place in the Timâ€" _ ~mins district, and the E. S. evidently is a type of settler not to be desired, so many here will be interested in _ anything about the case. In writing en the matter The Sudbnry Star says : ‘*But the first and most important part of the work is preventing fires from starting, and this depends on the individual who travels the forests. Only a small percentage of all fires are started by natural causes, such as lightning. The great majority are started â€" by human _ carelessness. Every man who goes into the woods is a potential menace to the woods. A moment of carelessness and he can start a fire that will not only endanger the forest but his life and the lives of others. He can cause a loss of milâ€" lions of dollars to the inhabitants of the Province by throwing a cigarette out of a car window. He can imperil the .employment of hundreds. of men by failinf to make sure his camp fire is out. It takes fifty years or longer to grow a forest to pulpwood size; it take a few hours to destroy the reâ€" sults of fifty years. Only those who have seen a forest fire can compreâ€" hend its terror and the destruction «and davastatlon that follow m 1ts wake.‘ ""‘In the course of, a few years, a bird pest known as the Eunropean Btarling may beset Sudbury district in common with more southernly points in the province. The unwelâ€" _come arrival of the starling has been moticed by Rev. R. R. Nicholson, of Sudbury, who is a close follower of bird life. «Rev. Mr. Nicholson states that he discovered a nest of one of these pests built in a woodpecker‘s hele in a telegraph pole. One hunâ€" dred starlings were imported from Europe to New York in 1891, and proâ€" pogated to such an extent that in some parts of the country they beâ€" came as great a pest as the English sparrow. Since then, they have inâ€" vaded Canada, and they threaten to be a serious problem to nastures and gardens. In many respects they reâ€" se::fl:le i.la bt:lck bird, _fgnd_thqre not easily recognized, except for their yellow bill and short tail, They will build in any crevase, and, during the nesting season are insectiverous. Feedmg on the ground, the starling attacks pastures and gardens and is especially injurious to fruit. In Eurâ€" ope they have been knowr to swoop down on fruit tress in flocks of a thousand. The starling, furthermore, is pugnacious, driving out other species of native birds. Rev. Mr. Nicholson has so far come across two nests, with a young flock of 20 altoâ€" gether. ’ ~ Motor trips betwofien,IrOQuois Falls and Matheson are quite the ‘‘order of the day,‘‘ especially at weekâ€"ends. ‘*Fire protection consists of three parts; first, prevention of fire; second, detection of fires that ‘have started ; and third, suppression of fires. The first demands carefulness on the part of all who travel in the woods. The second involves large expenditures for lookâ€"out towers and telephone lines; and the third, facilities for getting a large number of men to the scene of a fire before it can gain headway. THE THREE ESSENTIALS FOR PROTECTING FORESTS The Canadian Forest and Outdoors, the Journal of the Canadian Forestry Association, editorially summarizes the matter of forest fire protection as follows:>â€"â€" Now packed only in Aluminum. wore a pair of long legged rubber boots out of which the bottles were known to emerge right : eusâ€" tomers. T called him bootlegger and the name stuck, and people al down the coast applied it to everybody mixâ€" ed up in the illegal sale of liquor.‘"‘ ~ In an interview recently, Mr. Munâ€" ro says:â€"*‘‘In the early days of conâ€" struetion on the C.P.R., an old Irishman managed to peddle whiskey up and down the line in spite of the surveillanee of a policeman on the lookout for liquor. He invariably men are more occupied in finding where the bootlegger may be, than in figuring where his name came from. It has beenl generally accepted that the term was first employed in Maine and in some of the western states of the U.S.A. _ From Vancouver, however, there comes a different story. If the story can be confirmed in any definite way, the information might beâ€"used by the National Committe for the Celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of the Confederation of Canada, to prove that Canada at least named one of the popular professions on this continent. Geo. Munro, of Vancouâ€" ver, B.C., claims that he was the man who coined the word, ‘‘bootlegger.‘‘ Mr. Munro is now 82 years of ageâ€"an age at which a man is naturally either very truthful or has decided leanings to the opposite side of politiecs. Acâ€" cordingly, Mr. Munro‘s elaim is worthy of interest and investigation. He says that he gave the word its first usage long before it was otherâ€" wise used. There were no dry laws in those days, he says, but there were more dry men than even toâ€"day. _ _ The history of the origin of words is nearly always interesting, and it is really remarkable how much of this sort of history is lost. Part of the reason for this, perhaps, is that with the tendency in modern days to ‘‘slang,"‘‘ so many words are coined, only to enjoy a fleeting populanty and then be dropped, that it has seemâ€" edâ€"neither worthâ€"while nor practical to preserve the history of the hosts of new words that go into circulation for a time. * : The word, ‘‘bootlegger,‘‘ however, is a word that has enjoyed great curâ€" rency for an extended time. Usually, ANOTHER ORIGIN FOR THE WORD ‘"*BOOTLEGGER*‘ A. despatch received last week from Cobalt says that a report on the drowmng accident in Mensima Lake, eight miles north of the Argonaut Mine, in which Alex Michaud lost his life, has ‘been received by inspector Moore from Provincial Constable Hartieb, who made enquiry into the tragedy. The officers and Dr. Armâ€" strong, of Kirkland Lake, investigatâ€" ed the circumstances, and the corner reached the conclusion that the drowning was purely accidental. Michaud was a trapper who had lived with the Indians of the district, and on the day he met his death was reâ€" turning by canoe across the lake from MceDonald‘s~camp. Some time after he left, two Indians found the canoe floating upside down and, while one of them went to the Argonaut for the police, others searched the body. It was located during the day in 15 feet of water. Subsequently the reâ€" mains were sent to Kirkland Lake, where they were interred, the Indians taking up a collection among themâ€" selves to help defray the funerad exâ€" penses. INDIAN FRIENDS PAY FOR THE BURIAL OF TRAPPER " ;Well, I brought you up, didn‘t 19 please.‘‘ ‘How dare you ca You‘re not my father.‘‘ ‘‘But,‘‘ she continued, ‘"‘this is not the whole of my story, a few days ago another hen came sauntering into the same lumberâ€"room as though she had been there before. I ‘‘shooâ€" ed‘‘ her out, and went away. I reâ€" turned in time to see the same hen leaving the room, and on searching I found that this second hen. had left a nest of five eggs. Do you wonder I am for the hen?"‘‘ A year rolled iby, and I had forâ€" gotten about my companionable hen ; but a few days ago she came back chattering preclsely as she had done throughout the laying season of 1926, and, as ‘before, left an egg.‘ But to come back to the suggestion of our friend, the farmer‘s wife, who said, ‘‘Now, there is the case of my Biddy: A year ago, she leisurely walked into my back kitchen, a room used mostly as a lumberâ€"room, and chatted in a friendly sort of way for a time, while investigating the surâ€" roundings. â€" Sometime after she emerged from a sheltered nook, leavâ€" ing behind her, an egg.â€" This course the hen followed daily,. throughout.the season. _ is s There has been considerable talk through the press, of having a nationâ€" al for Canada, and one writer thought the goose ought to be the bird selected. Well,; the goose, would no doubt be more utilitarian than the eagle, the picture of which is emblazâ€" oned upon the coin of our neighbours to the south. However, we know a certain farmer‘s wife who thinks the hen is entitled to the honour of being Canada‘s national bird, ‘*hands down.‘‘ Certainly the hen is the world‘s bird, and will ‘be the means of bringing together in Ottawa, on the 2ith of July next, the largest Interâ€" national Conference ever ‘held,â€"at least in this part of the World. discussion about the selection of a ‘‘National bird‘‘ for Canada. Sugâ€" gestions have been made including nearly everything from the sparrow to the owl. Jack Miner favours the Canadian Goose. Here is an article urging the claims of the good old hen. â€" The paragraphs are from the last issue of The New . Liskeard Speaker, and sayâ€" : SUGGESTS THE HEN AS CANADA‘S NATIONAL BIRD was in an address last week to the Toronto Conservative Club.: Hon. Mr. MceCrea dealt in his usual very effecâ€" tive way with the wealth and opâ€" portunities of Northern Ontario. Only the first page, he said, had been turned as yet in the North Land‘s wealthâ€" producing history. Hon. Mr. McCrea urged ‘the youth of the country to take advantige of the opportunities, which undoubtedly rest in the deâ€" velopment of New Ontario‘s natural resources. Hon. Chas.: McCrea has been at it again. He has been telling a large gathering in Toronto of the wonders and the possibilities of the North. He made it clear that the chief hope for the progress and prosperity of the North was centeréd in Ontario. This was in an address last week to the Eon. Ghas. McOreg ‘Tolls of the Vast \ Opportunities in the Great North Recently there has been a lot of in elevatorâ€"‘‘Fourth floor, ___ 66 Here you are, son,.‘‘ you call me son?‘‘ "*M‘ld RNestlé‘s Baby Food has been at it telling a‘ large of the wonders Exchange **Responding to the call of the chair for an address, Rev. Father O‘â€" Gorman said there is a song which says ‘"‘There are times which make us happy,‘‘ this was such an occasion for him. It was his great pleasure to be the ‘bearer of fraternal greetings from the Timmins Kiwanis Club, the sponsor of the Cobalt Club. The preâ€" sident and secretary of that club had gone to Memphis, but he was personâ€" ally more pleased to ‘be here than in Memphis. It was more like coming home. l l ‘‘On behalf of the club the presentâ€" ation of two malacca canes was made to the guests of the evening, Rev. Father O‘Gorman and A. D. Campâ€" bell, both of the recipients being surâ€" prised by the gifts, which they feelâ€" ingly acknowledged. In accepting the cane Father O‘Gorman remarked laughingly ""with a crook like this I feel very much like a ‘bishop.‘‘ _ It would be a constant reminder of the happy days he had spent in Cobalt. and he hoped this would not be his last visit there. Mr..Campbell greatâ€" ly appreciated the gift and especially the honour of having been coupled with Father O‘Gorman in such a mark of friendship. | Lang, M.P., was also an appreciated speaker of the evening. In its report of the meeting The Northern News last week says :â€" Rev. Fr. O‘Gorman Honoured by Coâ€" balt Club Last Week While on isit to His Former Town ~ _ the visitors last week to Coâ€" balt Kiwanis Club was Rev. Fr. 0‘â€" Gorman, a former valued member of the Cobalt club, who was duly honâ€" oured by the members on the return visit last week. It was International Night at all Kiwanis clubs, with a special programme. President A. K. berts was in the chair, and the singing of grace, the Kiwanis Song, the introduction offguests, and a brief address of welcome by Past Presiâ€" dent K. S. Taylor were features of the evening. ‘Two special guests of the evening, A. D. Campbell, formerâ€" ly of. Cobalt, but now of Gowganda, and Rev. Fr. O‘Gorman, of Timmins, were the chief speakers, while Mr. Mac THE LAND OF OGPPORTUNIT the chair, a: the Kiwanis Infurmatiuwn nut wfl“ hrere vwill be gladly sent . writtea Prrtuoent C AM PARTICULARKLY INTEREsTED I~ Check Kre Please send me ([Thereisoppommityheteformenandwomnwitbcoumgeand ambition. It will be the most enjoyable and informative vacation of your lifetime. , C Mail coupon today for detailed information. smcfmz the praises of this wonderful land; its unrivalled scenic attraction and the natural wealth in its mines, forests, fertile valleys, great fisheries and rapidly growing industrial life. . He: Ah! No wonder she draws so much interest. 1 More than‘a million tourists came to play last year, and went away P a Jn a ach an A. P O L Ne Ts 1 o ooo P He: Who is that popular girl over there? h There are delightful motorways; fishi greams; gf; gamgeh hunting; and in lakes, The reason perhaps that Kiwanis had ofigu’ ted in this continent, instead of Em':go,m the more democratic irit which prevails amongst the peoâ€" ple. | ‘*During the evening a delightful programme of music was carried out."‘ . E,,:â€"D iNX of the great trees mparnr in the British Columbia * forests were spreading mt their lofty. branches to the winds of the Pacific when Balboa first sighted these shores. Their towerâ€" infg’ tops pierce the sky at ha'gglt: of 100 to 300 feetâ€"they are frt 10 to 60 feet in circumference. To attempt to span one of these giants of the forest with extended arms, is to realize that an automobile could be driven through the butt if you will hew the way. Climate, soil and drainage conditions have created the greatest softâ€" wood forests of the world in British Columbia. 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