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London (England) Observer:â€" Every country stands or falls by the characâ€" ter of its citizens, Poor Russia! felt and the flies will not be nearly so | year, furnished clear evicgence that the bad. small bird had a sense of humor. He The word from Oba says that Mr. could dodge the hawk without trouble, Shaw and his party are now travelling when the hbig bird. exhausted, at an increased speed. There was a took a rest on a bough, the kingfisher time when they were only making two|cavorted around him, getting on the or three miles a day. The party is hawk‘s nerves. Time after time the now over sixty miles from Hearst. hawk, with rests between rounds, tried They penetrated some eight miles into to catch his agile opponsnt. The batâ€" thick bush with no pathway through |tle lasted for 20 minutes, and the it but the right of way of the railway | hawk finally flew away in disgus:. and places where bush was cut down by e m sls either the Shaw party themselves or the Gus McManus party. Halifax I-Ierald _ Old Jules Verne‘s sn dn on 1 < e < s Sm _ _ W t i Word last week from Oba, Ont..ldou (which place was made more or less.!Sett famous last year by being mentioned | hig as the point at which the soâ€"called | ,,, "compromise" route should strike the‘ Transâ€"Canada highway) says that);,, . heat, flies and fever have interfered ) ,,, with the progress of the auto tour Of |;p,;, E. Wharton Shaw and his party who ) ja,, are endeavouring to make a complete ) Transâ€"Canada tour, all on Canadian 4. territory, and without leaving the auto.|;, , It would appear from the word from | by Oba that the heat has been very OPâ€" | pus pressive recently for the party and that he | this has added to the difficulties of the | sub trip. Another difficulty has been the [ ,, fliles It seems that the flies in the| ple: dense bush country through which the | ;,.. party has been travelling are as bad gus as in normal years. The flies.in other | ;op, parts of the North have not been as ) q p bad as usual. . At least they do not |;,, q seem as bad, perhaps, this is because]rea( other bugs are so numerous and anâ€" |;p, noying as to put the formerly famous | «;,, files in the shade. For the benefit and | ,1,, information of any readers in the ) p;, South who may not know the differâ€" | ;p, ence, it may be noted here that when | "flies" are mentioned in the North | he Land, it is not the sweet and innocent | »,, little housefly that is meant, nor yet i the jovial old horsefly, nor the boisterâ€" | ;p,;, ous bluebottle fly, but the big and viciâ€" ous blackfly which is believed by some to be a cross between a hawk and an asp. If the blackflies are as bad in the heavyâ€"wooded country west of Hearst as they have been in some years past,! S then Mr. Shaw and his party must be | Mr. having a trying time. On top of the | mo: heat and flies, and perhaps as a reâ€" | Por sult of these curses, Mr. Shaw has been | pip« down with fever and so laid up. The| the party had to stop at a place called Kaâ€" l tag kinakagama, which is in the neighâ€" | ban bourhood of some sixty miles from | for Hearst. That may not be the way to | ens spell it, but there are as many ways to | plar spell it as to pronounce it and as many | the pronounciations as people who have | his visited it. At Kakinakagami Mr. Shaw | will enjoyed two days in bed with the fever, [witr but made good recovery. While Mr., hon Shaw was in bed with the fever, other bee: members of the party overhauled their | He equipment and also took the opporâ€" | var tunity to enjoy some fishing. There is paw fine fishing in the district and the who scenery is also very attractive. What dev is needed is a road. With the cutting | twe through of a road the heat will be less | port felt and the filies will not be nearly so | yea: bad. | sma SUC Transâ€"Canada Car is Held up by Iliness E. Wharton Shaw and His Party are Now Sixty Miles from â€" Hearst. Heat, Flies and Fever Interfere With Trip. "When you‘re on the go all day long, the food you eat for lunch must be chosen with care. Don‘t eat heavy foods that make you warm and slow you down in mid â€" afternoon, Eat nourishing foodsâ€"of course â€" but don‘t overâ€" load. I usually order Shredded Wheat with berriecs or other fresh fruits for lunch. There are enough " Lunchâ€" a most im portant meal for salesmen" nawk‘s nerves. Time after time the hawk, with rests between rounds, tried to catch his agile opponsnt. The batâ€" tle lasted for 20 minutes, and the hawk finally flew away in disgus:. Halifax Herald:â€" Old Jules Verne‘s dream of a voyage Round the , World in Eighty Days fades into insignificance alongside the feat of those two young @airmen who have circled the globe in oneâ€"tenth of the time. will cften hammer on logs and trees with no apparent desire to dig out a home. The bear at the Soo park has been given an old tire to play with. He hangs it over his shoulders and to vary this will twirl it around with his paws. The children and grownâ€"ups who watch him say he is constantly developing his act, The battle beâ€" tween a kingfisher and a hawk, reâ€" poprted Mr. J. A. McPhail last sUGGESTS THAT BIRDS AND BEASTSs HAVE SENSE OF FUN ens expectantly for the call. The exâ€" planation, Mr. Lang suggests is that the woodnccker likes the sound of his‘bill on the stovepipe. These birds Anyone who has neard some comâ€" mercial men or travellers talk in Pullman smoker know that these good fellows can solve almost any question of business, religion, philosophy, finâ€" ance or what have you. Even the most cynical, however, would be inclined to doubt as to whether or not they could settle the route of the Transâ€"Canada highway. This, however, is just what one traveller has done. He has apparâ€" ently stopped the controversy raging in this North by telling what he says he knows. The matter is all settled by this paragraph published in the press last week:â€""Believe it or not, but Chapleau is to be on the route of the Transâ€"Canada highway. At least, that is the statement made here this week by a Winnipeg traveller in town on business for his firm, and who insisted he had the correct ‘"dope" on the vexed subject. _ According to this man, the road will run from Sudbury to Chaâ€" pleau and Oba, link up west of the latâ€", ter place with the extension of the Ferâ€" guson highway from Hearst, and then follow approximately, the route of the C.P.R. to Fort William and Port Arthur to join up with the highway system alâ€" ready located west of the twin cities at the lakehead. All other roads will be "feeders," this man from Winnipeg deâ€" clared. He would not reveal the source of his information, but told the press here that time would bear out the correctâ€" ness of his statement. The governâ€" ment had declared on the route he mentioned, he said, on practical. grounds, as it provided the most feasâ€" ible road to the West." Sault Starâ€"A wondpecker wakes Mr. John L. Lang‘s family every morning at his summer camp near Port Findlay by tapping on the stove pipe at 7 o‘clock. Daily at this hour the bird hops on the rocf of the cotâ€" tage and begins banging with his banger,. The performance has lasted for five days, and now the family listâ€" Commercial Traveller Says He Knows the Route Hundreds here will remember Morley B. Plunkett who was in the "Dumbells" company visiting here on two occasions to present their orâ€" iginal entertainments. Scores here knew him personally, either in Canâ€" ada or overseas. Accordingly, there will be general interest in the anâ€" nouncement made at Orillia last week that Morley B. Plunkett has been apâ€" pointed district manager there for the Canada Life Assurance Co. For about eleven years Mr. Plunkeit was in the "Dumbells," overseas and in this country, previously serving in the army across the pond. He is a native of Orillia and recently has been conâ€" ducting men‘s wear store in that town, having dropped out of the "Dumbells" company. MORLEY B. PLUNKETT NOW TAKES ON ANOTHER ROLE It is planned to hold the official opening of the camp, on Monday, Auâ€" gust 3rd, and to keep the camp in operâ€" ation until just before the final schoolâ€" boy championships meet on August 28th. This meet will be held this year at the Canadian National Exhibition track on the opening day of the Exâ€"~ hibition and will bring together the best schoolboy athletes in the province. There is also accommodation for scme thirty boys, who wish to attend the camp at their own expense. Boys who are interested in taking advantâ€" age of this offer, and who wish to imâ€" prove themselves in athletiecs should make application immediately, to the Ontario Athletic Commission, at its office, 15 Queens Park, Toronto. An cpportunity such as this has never been offered before in Canada. are as follows: A. Basowsky, Fort Wilâ€" liam; P. D. Bowlen, Toronto; D. Caldâ€" well, QOttawa; Harocld Colmer, Bowâ€" manville: R. Cooper, Cobourg; W. Pritz, Tecumseh; J. Hamilton, Hamilâ€" ton; R. Isbister, Hamilton; T. Jackâ€" son, Cobalt; G. Knox, Hamilton; A. Laidlaw, Hanover; W. Lillie, Fort Wilâ€" liam; H. Lingham, Kingston; W. Midâ€" dliebro, Owen Sound; K. Milne, North Bay; J. Morgan, Belleville; F. Myers, Toronto; B. Fearson, Hamilton; C. Portland, Collingwood; F. Shaver, RR. No. 1, Alberton; J. Smith, Windsor; A. Weston, OQOverbrooke. The Ontario Athletic Commission has taken another forward step in its work of training schoolboys of Ontario in track and field athletics. On Monâ€" day, August 3rd, it will open an athleâ€" tic training camp for boys, the only one of its kind in the world. Here the boys will be instructed by the most competent coaches procurable, in the proper methods in the various branches of track and field sports. In addition to this, the boys will enjoy all the usual advantages and an.usements of camp life, such as swimming, boatâ€" ing, etc. A number of boys who have shown promise in the various district eliminaâ€" ticon meets held during the past spring, will attend this camp as guests. Theso boys, who have shown all round proâ€" ficiency in studies, as well as in sports Ontario Athletice Commission Takes Another Forward Step in its Work of Training Schoolboys in Track and Field Athletics. New Boys‘ Athletic Training Camp Now EFORE you invest in any motor car, consider carefully the advantages of obtaining a General Motors value. You know in adâ€" vance that your car is specifically designed and constructed for Canadian climatic and road conâ€" ditions. You can be confident that its Canadian materials and craftsmanship are of the finest. Gratifying, too, is the fact that wherever you may travel throughout North America, the compreâ€" hensive terms of the Owner Service Policy relieve your mind of possible service problems. For THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Last December the same question was voted on at the time of the muniâ€" cipal elections and with the added inâ€" terest, there were 325 voters. The vote then gave the majority against the new Fire Hall of seventyâ€"three. Since then many of the citizens have learnâ€" ed of the pressing need of a new building and it was expected that the byâ€"law would carry more readily than it did. Just where the opposition came from is hard to say though it is reported that the present Council is not in good standing with the citizens who have been forced to comply with the recent sanitary orders. The effect of an adâ€" visory letter, written on the stationery of the municirlality, signed by the Council and mailed to voters the day before was a detrimental one with some. On the other hand many ciâ€" tizens knew of the need and of the financial arrangements which will mean scarcely any additional revenue from the tax payers. It is well the byâ€"law carried, as it was the Council‘s intention to again submilt it, had it not been successful. Sudbury Star:â€" Added to the fellow who honks his horn to let his best girl know that he is waiting at the curb is the pest that turns his radio on full force and spreads noise disâ€" guised as music over the entire neighâ€" borhood, and far into the night. (From The Northern News) Very little public interest was shown in the vote cn the byâ€"law to build a new Fire Hall in Kirkiland Lake, which took place Tuesday. Out of a total of apm:cximately six hundred voters eligible to vote on monsy laws conly 189 tock the effort to exercise their franâ€" chise. A majority of three was regisâ€" tered in favor on the byâ€"law, the count showing ninetyâ€"six for and ninetyâ€"three against. FIRE BYâ€"LAW HAS ONLY A MARGIN OF THREE AT K. I example, this policy entitles you, within the limits of the new car warranty, to have any defective parts replaced without charge for parts or labor. Such provisions of the Owner Service Policy are the responsibility of General Motors dealers everywhere. Choose from General Motors cars in any price class and you are assured of value that is unexâ€" celled. To facilitate your purchase you can buy out of income on the GMAC, General Motors‘ own economical, time payment plan. u:740 Renfrew Mercury:â€"A Montreal man who not long ago entered a bank in Hull and at the point of a revolver secured booty to the extent of $1,750 and who in the same city perpetrated a holdâ€"up in a mercantile establishâ€" ment, there getting lesser sum, will spend the next fifteen years of his life in St. Vincent de Paul penitenâ€" tiary. Magistrate Achim informed him that under the law he could draw a life sentence for an offence of the kind. I; is ‘well to put men of that stamp out of the way for a long period. Of no good to themselves and only harmful to others, it is a danger to have them at liberty. "Premier Henry last night expressed interest in Rene‘s success." "‘There are eight boys and one girl in Rene‘s family and of these seven are attending the school car. "Rene was one of the first 12 boys and girls who enrolled when the schoo}’ car on the C.P.R. in Northern Ontario began to function in September, 1926,, and over which Walter McNally was placed as director. Moreover, he has been able to teach his mother and aunt English to such an extent that a visitor at the home was not able to notice that their native language was French. "The school car visits Ramsay only eight weeks during the year. "He is a perfect gentleman," Mrs Skuce stated. ‘"Yesterday Mrs. Skuce, wife of Inâ€" spector L. L. Skuce of Sudbury, who visits the travelling school officially and who had heard the news from her husband, broke it to The Mail and| Empire. Myris. Skuce is doing postâ€"graâ€" l duate work at the university here. C.P.H . CaY. "His full name is Joseph Napoleon Rene Thibault; his home is a log hut and his playground the largess of the forest. He lives far away in the north country; to be precise, 110 miles west of Sudbury and where a collection of eight oneâ€"storey log cottages is known as Ramsay. ‘"Yesterday Mrs. Skuce, wife of Inâ€" "In Ontario there are five school cars, and Roene is the first pupil who has attended the travelling schoolâ€" house to have passed the entrance. "Five years ago he could not speak a word of English Eleven years of age, he had never seen inside a classroom. Toâ€"day his total sum of schooling has been a little more than 40 weeks in a of the fact that these two forms of education supply school facilitiees to large numbers of children who would otherwise receive no education at all, both these modern plans are receiving very special notice. In this connection the following quoted from The Mail and Empire should be of special interâ€" est. The Mail and Empire referring to the travelling school cars says:â€" "Rene has passed his entrance with honours. That may sound commonâ€" place to most boys and girls in the province. But for Rene, brightâ€"eyed Frenchâ€"Canadian lad, it is no mean achievement. the North recently. One of these is the correspondence school, under the auspices of Dept. of Education, and the travelling schools or school cars, conâ€" ducted by the Government with the coâ€"operation of the railways. 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