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doubt thet there is a growing feeling throughout the Empire of trading with~ in the Empire on the basis of mutual preferences. Free trade within the Empire ts an impossible dream. but it should be possible to frame treatiu and preferences along the line of the recent Australian-Canadian pact whiCh will make for development of Empire trade. It will benefit the Motherland and the dominians. One of five girls all of whom took Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills (tonic). of live girls." write‘. Mrs. A. C. Richard- son, 202 Lancaster St. West. Kitchener, Ontario, “and my mother gave Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills to us all. My younz- est sister was very delicate. She was nearly thirteen when mother took her to the doctor and he said ‘Give her Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills like you gave the other girls’. Mother did so. and today she is married, and is a tine healthy woman.” The iron and other elements in Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills (tonic) increase the amount of haemoglobin or oxygen- carrying agent in the blood. The in- creased supply of oxygen kindles life in all your tissues. The result is a better appetite, a feeling of wellâ€"being. and restful sleep. " Begin now to take Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills. 50 cents a package at any drug- rist's. Be sure to say “Dr. William” m that the druggist will know exactly what you want. '3' London Free Pramâ€"There is no Delicate Child I. K. Pierce Furniture Co. 42 Third Avenue Phone 302 'I‘immins,0nt. 31 First A venue .oil the ‘Rhapsody" Raymond Knight, the author of the Cuckoo Hour and the chief an- nouncer of its station KUKUâ€"beard on the NB C network. Make the Announcer Iesf Before you buy a new radio be sure and make the An- nouncer Test on the “Rhapsody”. This simple test will con- vince you that this n e w D e F o r e s t Crosley is 1931’s Greatest Radio. Everything you want in Radio Eight Tube Super-Heterodyne Chassis Autodyne First Detector Multi-Mu Tubes Striking Cabinet Beauty Full Size Electro Dynamic Speaker Complete Range Tone Control , Ease of Tuning Hetrotonal Response Complete Shielding of Integral Parts “'88 the eldest ls." writc‘. . Richard- .ancaster Phone 712 DE FOREST ,1 6 CROSLEY / How Bush Monotony Gets in Its Fine Work Often the‘monotony, the loneliness, the hardship of life in the bush ser- iously aflects those on the trail. Men so affected become slightly peculiar and are obsessed with odd notions. When this condition reaches an extreme form the victim has to be restrained, but a few days in a town or a his camp will usually and speedily effect a complete cure. When men on the trail or in distant camps become oppressed with the monotony, loneliness and hard- ship of the life as to become “peculiar" they are said to be “bushed.” When men are “hushed" the trouble is liable to take one of many forms. For in- stance the gentleman who writes "Grab Samples" in The Northern Miner sug- gests that the supposed ghostly music in a cabin in Matachewan is likely no more than one of the symptoms of a man suffering from being “bushed.” more than one or the sympwms 01 a man suffering from being “hushed." Grab Samples further suggests that many of the stories coming from Sault Ste. Marie are no more than the wild imaginings of men who are “hushed.” It may be noted that Sault Ste. Marie has more men “hushed" than any other section of the North Land. The man who first suggested that the Trans- Canada highway should be built along the rocky shore of Lake Superior had probably the worst case of being hushed on record. It is worthy of note Ghostly Music" Sure-ted as Due to fifteen: of Being “Brushed." Sault Ste. Marie People Often “Rushed." “Rhapsody' Schumacher “This ghostly music is a new one for; Northern Ontario and should be in-i quired into carefully. It seems to stick? in the memory that the Klondyke pros-i pectors used to hear such things and, that “electricity” was one of the forces; that came out of the long dark nights; to disturb the boys. Some queer tales! drifted from the Yukon, of partners" who went sour on one another in the! enforced idleness and proximity of menI denned up for the winter. There was the pair who swore to divide everything they had and break partnershiy. They carried this out to the bitter end, even dividing the canoe in two and leaving themselves stranded in the spring. Cases closer to home are known where men have, after a season's work to- gether, sworn off each other for life. One such party struck North Bay some years ago and the first general reaction was a free-for-all fight on the street. This seemed to clear the air and sub- sequently the men were very much friends, to judge by the way they hungl around each other's necks. . “When the Federal Government de- cided that it had spent enough money at Fort Nelson and withdrawn its gangs ‘of men from that inhospitable shore it was the dead of winter. Many of these Hen were just labourers, with little ex- perience of winter travel in sub-arctic regions. They were despatched in gangs of fifty, with experienced men in charge. so that they would not freeze to death. The long trip out on the "right of way” proved to be a little too much for many of these men, who be- gan to straggle, getting five and six hours behind their leaders. The old- timers seemed to take a sort of wolfish delight iin leaving the greenhorns be- hind in. that God-forsaken country where it was easy to lose heart, particu- larly when physical condition was not up to the task. One group had a lot of trouble with frozen feet, the main cause of the difficulty being that the experienced leader and his pal decided to make one of those last lap dashes ,south in to camp. Actually, it is re- [corded that the two travelled continu- .ously for eighteen hours and as they lhad the rations and the spare clothing for the crowd who could not keep any- where near them the upshot was ser- ious trouble, which developed when the whole crew had assembled frost bitten and furious at rail head where they had to wait three days for a train." “An amusing manifestation of bush pressure is the evident eagerness to cover the last lap away from it. A party or gang may have been in the woods for months. quite contented. when presently the word comes through that they are going in. The day before everyone was happy in his work but once it has been decided to come out a. feverish excitement strikes the camp and everyone from the chief down to the cookee can’t see the last of it too soon. The writer has known cases where the last few laps. if by trail were covered at a dog trot and, in canoe, by a spurt which used up all the available breath in the party. Just what is gained by arriving a few hours or minâ€" utes ahead of the other fellow is not quite clear but it is a genuine urge and oftentimes has developed soreness in those left behind. I that the men of this part of the North Land hove suffered less from this be- ing "hushed” than any other section of country. There have been few cases of it in the Porcupine. “One foggy morning a party of sur- veyors heard a most unearthly noise on a lake in the north. It appeared to be somebody in distress and as the fog was really thick the would-be rescuers had a hard time locating the source of the racket. After poking around the lake in canoes for an hour they came on an old gentleman seated in the bot- tom of a canoe. with his luggage piled around him, yelling his head off. He was simply having a good time. said he wasn't asking for any help but just re- lieving his mind. Fog, said the old rascal, had that effect on him. He liked to get out on a lake when such conditions prevailed and howl for the benefit of the echoes. Sorry, he said. to disturb a crowd of working men whose intentions were good but whose judgment was at fault. In Grab Samples last week the mat- ter of being “hushed” was rather ex- haustively dealt with. The case of the Cobalt and New Llskeard men who had heard “ghostly music" in Matachewan was first referred to. and then the ar- ticle continued:â€" “On the same lake there was one moonlit night a bit of real excitement. Just about retiring time one of the boys said he heard somebody yelling for help away up the 'lake. The others came out of the tents and listened. There was a call. at regular intervals, as of someone determined to attract attention and the voice appeared to be a long distance away. This perfor- mance seemed genuine so all hands piled into the canoes and set off. The lake was a long and narrow one and some miles up a halt was made to re- locate the call. It was found quite quickly and its source proved to be a hoot owl sitting on a limb looking very eerie in the moonlight. After that a drowning man would not have got any action out of that crowd. Fergus News-Recordzâ€"Toronto now has a very swell hockey arena, and it will be deemed quite proper to wear evening dress and high hats in the more expensive seats. What’s the good old game of hockey coming to when it has developed into a mere society event? Hamilton Spectatorzâ€"The great come-back staged by the British people at a time when so many were deplor- ing their decadence and predicting the collapse of the Empire. is proving an almost incredible phenomenon to An- gIOphobes. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS The Advance has had a number of articles recently pointing out that the railways seemed to be using the wrong tactics in facing the competition of the buses and trucks. Many other news- papers are taking a similar attitude. There was an excellent editorial in The North Bay Nugget recently on this question and other newspapers in the North and the South have dealt with the question along the same lines. Re- cently The Burks Falls Arrow touched on the question, suggesting that the railways seemed to be lying down on the job. The Burks Falls Arrow says:-â€"“Ar3 the railways admitting defeat or are they lying down on the job? We have a report of a decrease in railways ser- vice to this district which is general practically all over Canada. We can readily understand the advisability of the two great railways coming to an agreement for the reduction of operat- ing expenses where they are putting on a duplicate service, but to reduce the number of trains to towns and cities which are none too well served at pres- ent looks to us like business suicide. It is generally conceded that the passeng- er bus service and the freight trucks have cut into the revenues of the rail- ways to such an extent that their pro- fits have been enormously reduced, but it does not seem to us like a character- istic of greatness on the part of Sir Henry Thornton, of the C.N.R., or Pre- sident E. W. Beatty of the C.P.R., to meekly fold their arms and admit they are beaten. So far as we can recall neither of the great railways have put forth an honest effort to beat their competitors at their own game. For years past we have been calling at- tention to the difference between the running time of the trains and an au- tomobile between here and Toronto. which has always favoured the automo- bile, and some slight effort has been made during the past year to speed up the trains, but a lot could yet be done along this line. We recognize that we have no inside knowledge of the work- ings of a great railway system, but for the life of us we can‘t see why the rail- ways can’t beat the buses at their own game. If it does not pay to run a train of four or five coaches with its staff of engineer, fireman, conductor and brakeman, why not cut it down to a single, one-man controlled car and give the public the service. One man on a railway would not have nearly as much to attend to as one man Operating a bus on the roads. A gas buggy on the iron rails would not require nearly the fuel that a similar buggy on the road would take and with all the grades and curves reduced to a minimum the rail bus should be able to beat the road bus to its destination every time. There is a general outcry against the reduc- tion of rail service all over Canada, and it will be hard to convince us that the heads of the railways have done all in their power to meet their competitors until such scheme as the gas or elec- trically driven railway car on all lines has been tried. We" rather expect the dyed-in-the-wool railway man is so wedded to the enormous steam engine and immense trains that nothing will pry him loose from his ideas and only by a complete change of policy and staf! will Canadians get the railway service that they have the right to ex- pect." Railways Should Give Service Not Give Up Hope North Bay Nuggetzâ€"An armistice has been declared in the war in Man- churla and the ofllcc flapper wants to know how there can be an armlstlce when there isn’t any war. Personally we think the point is well taken but then wars in China have always been rather peculiar. Detroit Newszâ€"The fellow who was worrying about. the heat last July is now probably worrying about whalt time winter is going to start. . ONTARIO “The growth of Nipissing to the ex- tent of 30,000 in the last decade is not surprising. Observers fully expected that the polyulation of the district wmild record a marked gain, and repre- sentations have already been made for splitting the district in the next re- distribution. Nipissing covers too large an area. and now contains too many people, for one representative in the federal house. It is not possible fora member of the house to serve efficiently the number of constituents now within the confines of the district. "There are now 245 seats in the House of Commons, and with the popu- lation of Canada at 10,000,000, each member represents an average of 40,000 people. It is manifestly unfair, there- fore, to shoulder the burden of an extra 30.000 upon the member of Nipisslng. ‘Temiskamin‘g‘ North is second to Nipissing with a pOpulation of 59,934; Temiskaming South has 43,920; Algoma West, 38.633; Algoma East, 36,814; Port Arthur-Thunder Bay, 35,890; Fort Wil- liam, 35.864: Kenora-Rainy River. 33,- 930, and Parry Sound, 25,959, the lat- ter district being the only one to show a decrease from the 1921 census. North Land Should Have Further Representation on several recent occasions The Ad- vance has called attention to the (act that the North Land should have fur- ther representation in the Dominion pari North Temisltaming has more han doubled in population since the census of 1921. In 1921 the popu- lation of North Temiskamlng was 26.- 028. while in the census this summer it reached 59,934. In urging an in- crease cf representation 'in the Do- minion parliament. ,not only is the population to be considered but also the size of the ridings in the North. North Temiskaming is so large that no man could adequately represent it with justice to himself and to the riding. There should be at least two more rid- ings in this part of the North. It should not be difficult to re-organize the present constituencies so as to make the new ridings without injury to any interests and still with regard to population requirements. In discussing the'question of further representation for the North in the Dominion House the press of the coun- try seems to agree with the public men who have voiced opinion on the matter to the effect that further representa- tion is necessary. The North Bay Nugget in dealing with the question has the following editorial reference: “According to the latest census fig- ures issued by instruction of Hon. H. H. Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce. showing population of the province 'of Ontario by electoral dis- tricts Nipising contains by a consider- able margin the greatest number of people of any district in Northern On- tario. While 10 years ago. Nipissing's population was 49,969. today it has 70,- 059 peOple within its borders. “Figures just made public indicate Pembroke'Observer :â€"For years when Governments have wanted more re- venue they have placed additional taxes on tc-baccos and liquors and they did» the trick, now there is another commodity which will prove a milch cow and it is gasoline. .In a recent report. of the Ontario Department of Mines there is incident- al reference to the gem work being done at present by the prospectors of the province. During the past year there have been a number of promising discoveries reported by prospectors. and in the matter of gold finds the showing is particularly wood. In the depart- mental report referred to, the pros- pector is given deserved praise as fol- lows :â€" that Northern Ontario has Just claim toatieasttwomoremembersinthe Commons. one from the northern and the other from the central section. The districts are wide in area. and for this reason. apart from the substantial growth in population. greater repre- sentation in the legxsiative halls at 0t- . .- tawa is warranted.“ "History has repeated itself inasmuch as the search for gold became more in- tense in Ontario during the past year. just as every major recession in the world’s financial and economic condi- tion has been followed by greater in- terest in the standard of value. Men- tion is made of new gold discoveries in Ontario in the paragraph on gold min- ing. The prospectors in this province are to be congratulated on the results of their season‘s work. While the ac- tual need for the replacement of work- ed-out gold mines is not acute in On- tario it is imperative that new discover- ies should be made in order that the splendid record of gold production be maintained. Gold has been found at widely separated points in Northern Ontario from the Quebec boundary on the east to the Manitoba boundary on the west. In this area, roughly 700 miles from east to west, gold finds have been reported regularly and it would seem, that prospecting with intensity and intelligence should receive its re- ward for many years to come." PROSPECTORS DOING THEIR PART IN EXCELLENT WAY 0.. O. O. O. .0 .0 .0 O. O. O. O. O. O. 00 O. .0 O. O. O. O. O. .0 .0 .0 O. O. O. O. O. O. .0 0-. O. N O. O. O. O. O. O. O. O. .0 O. .0 O. .0 O. .0 O. .0 .0 .0 O. O. 06 O O .0 O. O. .0 O. O. .0 .0 0. O. O. “0-. .0 O... .0 0.00 O. .0 O. 0'. 0. N O. 0'. .0 O. .0 0. O. O. O. O. O. O. O. N .0 O. O. 0-.” O. O. .0” O. O. H O. O. O. .0 O. O. 00 O. O. 0-. O. O. O. O. O. O. O. .0 O. O. O. .0” O. O. O. O. O. O. O. O. O. O. .0 O. O. O. 00 .0 O. I. Alfred Prevost, who gives Montreal as his home town. was sentenced to thirty months in Kingston penitentiary by Magistrate Weegar at North Bay last week on the charge of assaulting a lady living on Victoria street. North Bay. Prevost. who had been engaged on one of the trans-Canada highway camp gangs. pleaded guilty. and said he had been drinking. He said he knew the woman. having stayed at her place one time. The woman stated in her evidence that the accused had followed her into the house as she re- turned from downtown and had at- tacked her. He had struck her several. times. leaving a number of brubes. as well as biting her hand. When neigh- bours came to her assistance the accus- ed had attempted to get away by break- ing through the front door which was nailed shut. "I‘m going to give you thirty months in Kingston.“ the ma- gistrate told Prevost. adding. “you'll learn a lesson down there." 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