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Thea stood staring at him in silence and her face was stony and her eyesg quite blank, like dark glass. "Is it Norman, Thea?" pursued Hart. "Come along dear, now‘s the chance to air your knowledge. I shan‘t be able to correct you. I haven‘t had your adâ€" vantages. Tell Mr. Foley what he wants to know. Is the church Norâ€" man?" She opened her lipsg in a mechanical manner, and Ssaid with a calm which was not achieved without effort: "It‘s Norman building, but the foundation‘s saxon. There‘s just the masonry of one pillar left of the old fabric. But you‘ll probably be bather disappionted in the glass. It‘s not bad, but not inâ€" teresting; most of it is last centuryâ€" so you‘ll know what to expect."‘ Jim could not look away from the girl She was rigid but controlled, and no longer looked nearly so young and childish as if the mature woman in her must take command now or she was lost. Probably there had been such scenes before; at least she was rigidly invincible in sustaining her pretence of normality, and hers as not a cold nature adept at preserving the facades of life. This was a calm she had learned from former bitter enâ€" counters. He couldâ€" think of, nothing â€"but to acquiesce in her fiction, to go on talkâ€" ing as,though no undercurrent flowed through his words or theirs, as she was doing, and at what an effort probably only she knew. _‘ "I‘m no expert on church architecâ€" ture myself, but I like pottering about those old places. They have a flavour you don‘t get in modernity." "Oh, but we are not altogether a silent revival from the dark ages," said Hart quickly. "We‘re modern too. ‘Tell Mr. Foley, about the painted "And the church itself?" Come along, I‘m sure you can go into more detail than that, or you‘re not the apt pupil Mtake you for." "He‘s throwing something at her," thought Jim, "something she‘s supâ€" posed to have done or be doing. Prodâ€" ding her, reminding her he knows about it. Some nonâ€"existent thing." PUBLISHED BY sPECIAL ARRAXNXGEMENT PAGE ETX Arch.Gillies,B.A.Scâ€",0 . L.S. Registered Architect Ontario Land Surveyor Building Plans Estimates, Etce. i 23 Fourth Ave. Phone 362 P. H. LAPORTE, C.C. A. Swiss Watchmaker Graduate of the Famous Horologhal Institute of Switzerland Phone 1365 Third Avenue 10 Balsam St. North, Timmins, Ont. Accounting Auditing Systems Installed Income Tax Returns FileJ Phones 270â€"228â€"286 P.O. Box 147 man. CHARLES® SIEVIER: A young, temperamental but gifted artist. JANE SIEVIER : His sister who helps him in his work. AUSTIN HART: Strange but devoted roseâ€"grower who evolves a grey bloom. THEA HMHART: His beautiful young wife of whom he is madly jealous and after whom the rose is named. JIM FOLEY: Writer and Howerâ€"lover who discovers the Harts., I)r, MAURICE WAYLAND: Austin Hart‘s doctor, a strange and dominating O. E. Kristensen CHIROPRACTOR RADIONICS ANALYSIS Xâ€"RAY _ â€"â€" SHORTWAVE CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT Consultation is Free Bank of Commerce Building PHONE 6097 Brev ‘MRoses 60 THIRD AVENXNTUE Phone 640 . BAUMAN PRO FESSIONAL CARDS by PETER BENEDICT Timmins, Ont Empire Block Jim contented himself with a perâ€" functory smile, and took his departure with all decent speed. To linger was to subject himgelt to irritation, and Thea to torment. When he was gone she could at least open her lips andâ€"scream at her husband, or burst into tears if she felt like it. "It was good of you to let me see your garden." said Jim. "Thank you!" "On the contrary, it was good of you to take so much trouble to show your appreciation. I had always heard of you," said Hart with a thin smile, "as a connoigseur of beauty, and 1 see you were not misrepresented." But when he was well out of the house, walking slowly down the lane through the deepening dusk, he was not so sure that he would leave Austin Paul next day. The difficulties of the Harts, which were no business of his, had been thrown into his hands reckâ€" lessly by Austin Hart himself. To preâ€" sent them so openly was to invite inâ€" terest, and Jim had a certain amount of human curiosity. Perhaps after all he would stay in the village for a few days. His time was his own, and there were things to hold him there. For one thing, he must have a look at the church. f "I‘m quite sure I shall. Perhaps in the morning, before I goâ€"â€"‘ He rose, this was a good time to take his leave, before the tormentor could think how to turn them back again and again upon this old, vexed subject of the church. "I feel T shouldn‘t presume by tiring you any more toâ€"night, Mrs. Hart. It‘s been extraordinarily kind of you to receive me like this." "Oh, but naturallyâ€"a fellow roseâ€" loverâ€"â€"""* She smiled, and her face was eased of its strain. "It was very good of you to come, just for love of a rose. Austin appreciates your kindâ€" ness, I know, ang so do I." She turned and looked straightly at her husband. He in silence accepted the hand Jim offered. Her face was shaken by a tremor of anger and despair, but she suppressed it at once, and answered quietly: "I‘m sure Mr. FPoley intends to see it for himself, and in any case I am not the person to instruct him. But it really is worth a visit, and T do hope you‘ll like it, Mr. Foley." chapel, Thea, my dear. I‘m sure there‘s nothing you don‘t know about that." "Yes""‘, said Jim to himself thoughtâ€" fully, as he paudsed to light aa cigarette, “yeé.- decidedly I must have a look at the church." â€" London Daily Telegraph: It is the first time for over a century that the Germans: have been made to learn in their own land what war means; and the taste and memory of that very bitter medicine is an indispensable conâ€" dition of really permanent peace: There can be no permanent peace until all nationsâ€"and the Germans. most of allâ€"realize that those who take the sword shall peristh by the sword. Northern News: But how‘ll we ever persuade the lady welder, after the war, that her place is in the home? Langdon Langdon Sales Scrap Book: A Floorâ€"Walker, tired of his job, gave it up and joined the police force, Several months later a friend asked him how he liked being a policeman. "Well," he replied, "the pay and the hours are good, but what I like best of all is that the customer is always wrong." MacBrien Bailey 13 Third Ave. Timmins â€"14â€"26 2% Third Avenge JAMES® R. MacBRIEN FRANK H. BAILEY, L.L.B. Dean Kester, K.C. Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. Bank of Commerce Building S. A. Caldbick Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. MASSEY BLOCK TIMMINS, ONT. and South Porcupine (To Be Continued) Timmins, Ont. While at work on the farm of Fabian Boissoneault, Mountjoy, on Saturday, Dec. Ind, 192, Charles Desormier met sudden death through an accident. A log which he was cutting got too far ahnead and while Mr. Desormier was pushing it back the saw broke. The broken edge caugh* on the edge of the log and tore the sha‘tt from the carriage. The shaft caught Mr. Dasormier‘= right arm and wound him round it three times, pracâ€" tically tearing the arm from the shoulâ€" der. He was thrown on the wood pile, receiving a serious but not fatal blow on the head from contact with the wood. The injury to the arm and the sonsequent shock, however, proved faâ€" tal .the injured man pasing away in a few minutes from loss of blood, the arâ€" teries being svéered by the terrible twisting of the arm. The late ‘Chas. Desormier was a wellâ€"known and highâ€" lyâ€"esteemed resident of the camp for many vears and his death was mournâ€" ed by all who knew him. He lived for everal vears about halfâ€"way between the limits of the town at that time and ‘the Mattagami river. He came originâ€" aly from Mattawa. He was a cousin of W. J. Fraszer, formerly of Timmins, who came up here from Barrie to look after the funeral arrangements. Jack May, a wellâ€"known resident of South Porcupine, died at the Dome hosâ€" pital on Dec. 3rd, 1922, from pneumonâ€" la, death taking place a few hours after entry into the hospital. The late Mr. May was found by friends to be very i1 with pneaumonia and was at once hurried to the hospital, but despite all the medical skill and care that could be given he passed away. He was well known and popular having been, a resâ€" ident of the camp for many years. He was an employee of the township of Tisdale. He was a man of fine physiâ€" que and his death seemed all the more regrettable on this account. Twenty yvears ago John Jones sent a quantity of coal from his claims north of Cochrane to Toronto to be tesited. He had a letter from the mayor of Torâ€" onto that year, sayving that if coal could be secured from the north it would be gladly purcnased by Toronto people. At the timé Mr. Jones was not able to interest sufficient capital to get the new coal field going and soon his attention turned back to gold. itc itc ine... itc e ns t .20 e t ds lt c T wenty YearsAgo From the Porcupine Advance Fyies .. As an item of interest The Advance twenty years ago noted that on an orâ€" dinary band night at the skating rink there was an attendance of over 409. The manager of the rink, Jack Marâ€" shall, had everything running smoothly. A very successful lodge of installaâ€" tion under the direction of D. D. G. M. W. Bro. Frank K. Ebbit, assisted by Past D. D. G. M. W. Bro. C. G. Williams was conducted at Golden Beaver Lodge rooms, Timmins, on Nov. 29th, 1922 afâ€" ternoon and evening. There were visâ€" iting brethren from Porcupine Lodge, A. FP. A. M., South Porcupine, and Abitibi Lodge, Iroquois Falls Dinner was served at 6 pm., the catering beâ€" ing very efficiently done by the Presbyâ€" terian Ladies‘ Aid. . _ At a privaste dancing party at King‘s hall twenty years ago the young people had the fun and distinction for those days, of dancing to music heard over the air from the orchestra at Drake hoâ€" tel, Chicago. M. J. Cavaney installed a radio set and by means of an amplifier the music came through clear and strong, The officers and members of Golden Beaver Lodge, A..F. A. M. gave an at home in the Masonic hall, Timmins, on Dec. lst, 1922. It was a very pleasâ€" ing event. There was a large attendâ€" ance.© Wolno‘s orchestra supplied good mu‘c for the occasion. A very attracâ€" tive luncheon was served by the Presâ€" byterian Ladies‘ Aid. Cards, dancing and other pleasures featured the evenâ€" ing. In sarcastic fashion The Advance noted twenty years ago that among all the licenses required under the Farmâ€" ers‘ Government, there was no license required to pay taxes or to kill mice. In referring to some incidents in regard to fish and game laws, it was also menâ€" tioned that no open season for huntâ€" ing the wild blindpig had been announâ€" ced. Twenty years ago The Advance gave space to the ideas of a citizen of the town. The growth and developmenyp of the town were urged as reasons) for an improved mail service and this feature of the argument was very heartily enâ€" dorsed by all, There was some question, however, as to whether the best service would be through mail delivery. The large number of changes occurring daiâ€" ly in street addresses was against the mail delivery plan, and some of the business men felt that improved service at the post office was the chief need. The question of mail delivery in town, however, was brought before the auâ€" thorities, but after investigation it was decided that it would not be the best way to serve the town in the matter of mail service. Twenty years ago the people of Timâ€" ming were very pleased at the new train service on the T. N. O. which was in effect better than toâ€"day. iPerhaps, the traffic was better too. Numbers 46 and 47 were known as the Timminsâ€" Toronto trains, the trains coming diâ€" rectly here and leaving here. ts IP D P PP C PP o L Among the local and personal items in The Advance twenty yvears ago were the following:â€" "Her many friends in the district will regret to learn of the illness of Miss Giffen, and all will hope for her a speedy and complete recovâ€" ery." "F. M.*Burke returned on Sunâ€" day from a visit to the South." ‘"Born â€" In Timmins, on Monday, Dec. 4th, 1922, to Mr. and Mrs. Neil O‘Connor â€" a son." "At the annual meeting of the Iroquois: Falls board of trade F. K. Ebitt was unanimously reâ€"elected as presiâ€" dent, and Alex Dewar as secretary." "Miss; Kathryn Delaney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, W. Delaney, of Massey, THE PORCUPINE AI Story of Whiskey Jack that Became a Rum Hound Geologist and Prospector Collaborate‘ on Y atr n About a Bird of a Bird. This is the sort of a story that will bring joy to the hearts of any good pair of prcespectors. It. has nearly everything. Chiefly it gives all sorts of grounds for argument. There is the natural history angle and the mining angle, and everything else. Would a bird like the Whiskey Jack, actually imbibe enough rum to get spiflicated? Is there any rum as) potent as that? Still further, would any two or more mining men agree to the sacrifice of so much gcod rum, or any kind of rum? For the benefit of the uninitiated, Chris explains, a whiskey jack is a bird, also known as a Canada jay and one of the black sheep of the jay famâ€" ily, none of which have thus far been noted as being too respectable. Anothâ€" er member is the Blue Jay, common to all Canada and another the mountain jay which lives only in British Columâ€" bia. This one sports a beautiful indigo coat. A family of magpies, whose behavyâ€" iour has not helped the Jay reputation any. The Jays really first became well known when Mark Twain told of one trying to fill an old cabin with pine cones by dropping great numbers of them through a knot hole in the roof. Most members of the family are forâ€" tunate in being able to move south for the winter where they frolic in the warm sunthine. The dissolute whiskey jack, however, wastes his substance and has to remain the year round in the frigid north. He may be found even beâ€" yond the Arctic Circle in the dead of winter. How he lives through the inâ€" tense cold and darkness of the Great Bear region is his own secret. One big help is his food caches in tree branches. If you are walking through the woods =ome fine summer‘s day and see a mushroom or other fungus set up to dry in a tree, you can be pretty sure â€"a whiskey jack or a red squirrel put it there. The answer to the conundrum "Why that both will where wheneve the bush to c lunch. ‘The particul to herg as nc Yellowknife d be issued here fused with W Ont.. and Mr. Harry J. Murray, of Montreal, were married at South Porâ€" cupine by Rev. Fr. Felardeau. ‘The young couple are taking up residence in Timmins." there later Whis The turkey, with its "fixings" is perhaps the centre of interest at the Christmas dinner table, at least for the younger members of the party. Other decorations this year should be simple and inexpensive as extra money should go into war savings. The centrepiece and place cards in this picture were made at home for a trifling outlay. Red candles of varving lengths (some of them left over from last year) were grouped in the centre of the table, and the low candleâ€" sticks were concealed in a base of cedar twigs with a few silvered pine cones.. The candle place cards were the result of an evening‘s work with creve paper, scissors, a pot of paste, cardboard and yellow paper. The latter tightly rolled to a pencil thickness, with a twist represâ€" enting the flame, shaped the candle which was then covered with red crepe paper and set on a covered cardboard base. Tiny sprays of ceâ€" dar and name cards added the finishing touch, and the efâ€" fect of the completed table was festive indeed. iswer to the conundrum * ickey jack like a blow fly h will materialize out of ts dow indwich SIY 9 must be cony th who red the 1OIT Returning to Vic Stevens, Ed and he were camped on their claims on Gorâ€" don Lake, doing some intensive prosâ€" pecting. Hence they ‘were in the one camp for some time. Thus it was that several whiskey jacks, or Canada Jays, or camp robbers, or meat birds, attachâ€" ed themselves to the camp with the obâ€" ject of keeping things by scrap gathering. Vic soon tamed the boldest of these chaps so that he would hop around the tableat meal times. Ed was nct much on animals, especially whisâ€" key jacks, and it annoy him when this one would suddenly snatch the tastiest morsel from his plate when he was) not on guard. Ed was really mad one mornâ€" ing when the bird nabbed an entire slice of bacon which he had just cookâ€" ed with loving care, for he was fussy about his bacon. Ed â€"grabbed at him then and later but never couldâ€"catch him so decided on guile. Smith‘s. In pacsing, it is interesting to note that at the same time there was a plethora of McLeod‘s in the disitrict much to the confusion of Tom Asbury, the boy in the post office. The boys always carried c<a small bottle of rum with them, just in case. So one Sunday morning Ed â€" soaked some hard tack in rum and set it out on ‘he table. Jack was in a neéarby tree squawking as usual. He very soon smaw the tidâ€"bits and hopped ‘from one limb to another, ever closer, cocking his head from one side to another as jays do. Then down he went onto the takle with the intention of carrying off the food but, it being soit and incomâ€" petent, he had to eat it right there, as Ed had foresegen. ' The first notable effect of the alcoâ€" hol was that in making an energetic peck he fell forward or overbalanced and landed on his chin in the soft bisâ€" cuit. Finding it increasingly difficult to peck, and still keep balanced, he lost his temper and sprang up into the air and came straight down hard with his beak just to show the biscuit who was master. This failing, he decided to go up into a tree to size up the whole sitâ€" uation but misjudged the height of a limb and made all the motions of landing three inches above. On floppâ€" ing down on the branch, he took hold alright but again losing his balance pivâ€" oted around like a spring clothes peg on a line. On this he decided that the tree was; too risky so flew to the ground where he staggered about solemnly tor a while. Suddenly feeling elated, he took off and executed a series of aerial acrobatics of which Vic, a flyer himself, said he had never seen the like before or since. Just then Jack spotted a raven about 20 times his own size flying by peaceâ€" ably headed out on some Sunday raven enterprise. Jack let out a squawk of deâ€" fiance, took off and speedily over haulâ€" ed the raven, tearing into him beak and claw. The raven, enormously surprised at this unusual event, stepped on the gas!. The last Vic and Ed saw of the jJay that day was one of two specks disâ€" appearing into the blue. Next day Jack was back but not lookâ€" ing very perky. Every now and then he scratched his head with his foot as though he could thus remove the agony within. About every five minutes he dropped over to the lake for a drink. He gladly took another feed. of â€" rum soaked biscuit prepared for him by Ed, which only postponed the hangover till the next day. To make a long story short, Ed corrupted the poor bird until he became a confirmed and blearyâ€" eyved drunkard, and became so â€"tame that he would ride about on Ed‘s shoulder, especially if he thought that there was a bit of rum in prosipect. At the end of the season the boys took him to Yellowknife and gave him to Whisâ€" key Jack Smith. a Cambridge man has been fined. No doubt he did it for a lark. North Bay Nugget: Because he "wastâ€" ed" bread by throwing it to the birds, OR iz (By Flight Lieut T. C. McCali RCAF. Public Relations Officer "Lefty" Dons the Blue Pour years ago. off Canadian sandâ€" lots came one of the finest pitching prospects toenter the professional baseâ€" ball field. He was Phil. Marchildon .a lad who had been standing amateur teains on the heads in the vicinity of Penetanguishene, Ontario . After two years with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Marchildon was sold to the Philadelâ€" phia Athletics and was rated by the veteran Conniece Mack as one of the most promising southpaws he had ever seen â€" This season Marchildon fully lived up to Mack‘s hopes for him and with a decidedly weak team won more games than ha lost . The other day Marchildon turned up at an R.CAPF. recruiting centre was whisked through the preliminaries and applied for enâ€" listment as aircrew. He hopes to be fighter pilot, firing plenty of stuff in the direction of the Axis Bush Pilots Helping Out Long before the present war started, Canadians had hung up a remarkable recordlin aviation by using aeroplanes to traverse the vast unsettled distances of the far north and west, taking men and supplies to remote lumbering and mining settlements. When the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan came into being, most of the men who had been piling up thousands of hours of filying time flocked to the colours. A number of them will be found today at the huge Trenton Air Station, where as‘ instructors at Central Flying School, they pass on their extensive knowâ€" ledge to the RCAF.‘s instructional personnel. "CRPS." as it is commonly called, is in reality the university of the air where experienced instructors go for advanced training to qualify for the coveted "Aâ€"â€"1" rating which indiâ€" cates their fitness to instruct on all types of training craft. On the staff at CFPS. are three former bush pilotsâ€" Squadron Leaders Pat Twist, Herm. Langford and Lou Ingram. All of them key men in the instructorâ€"training sysâ€" tem, this trio represents a pool of diâ€" versified flying experience such as proâ€" bably no other country in the world ‘could duplicate. Another Canadian Ace Canada‘s prairies have produced anâ€" other outstanding avaitor in the person of Flight Lieutenant H .W. McLeod of Regina who recently received a bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross which he won a short time ago. Flight Lieutâ€" enant McLeod is the top scorer among pilots serving with the R.C.A.F. overâ€" seas, being officially credited with the destruction of 13 enemy aircraft. Like Pilot Officer George Beurling of Verâ€" dun, ‘Quebec, who is Canada‘s Number One ace, although serving with the R. A. F., MaLeod has been operating recâ€" ently from Malta, the happy hunting ground of fighter pilots. In one week alone he shot down three Junkersâ€"88 bombers, two Messerschmidtâ€"109 fightâ€" INSURANCE IN ALL BRANCHES â€" REAL ESTATE _ TELEPHONES: 112 TIMMINS sSOUTH PORCUPINE 30 20 Pine Street North, MclInnis Block Timmins IN CASE OF FIRE Streamline Your Fire Insurance Let Us Check Your Policies Simmsâ€"Hooker Pickering Roval Canadian Air Force precision drill squads have achieved for them= selves an enviable reputation in the fiei«l of military smartness and drilhk Determined to show that the lads in blue are in\no way superior, of the Women‘s Division have formed a precision squad which, on its limited appearanced in the East, has won wideâ€" spread acclaim. The squad is short on a tour of Western Canada whereé demonstrations will be presented in a number of cities and towns Among other things, the W.D. precision squad performs 140 manoeuvres without a word of command. They were trained by Squadron Leader J. E. Dyte, who has been in charge of the training of the men‘s drill squadrons. That equivalent ranks for the three services include â€" Lieutenant (Army), Subâ€"Lieutenant (Navy); Flying Officer (RCAF) and Section Officer (R.C.A. F. Women‘s Division)? That the first Distinguished Flying Cross awarded in the present war was won by a Canadian â€" Flight Lieutenâ€" ant Alan C. Brown, of Winnipeg? THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10oTH That training planes of the RC.A.F, fivy more than two million miles a day? Over Half of Recent Mining Graduates Have Enlisted In the sixâ€"year period, 1937 to 1942 inclusive, there were 157 graduated from the Dept. of Miniag g.ugineerinx at Toronto University. Up to August of this year 79 of these men had enlisted for war services. Since August there have been still others enlisting. Nearly all the graduates of 1941 and 1942 have joined the armed forces for actlve ser- vice. Reader‘s Digest: The epitome of Lm- coln heroâ€"worship is reportéd by Profâ€" essor Helen White of .the..University of Wisconsin. "Abraham Lincoin," wroté one of her fresmen, "was bom in log cabin which he built Wlth his own hands." as well as inflicting severe damage a number of other fighters and Clean Rooms Cor. Spruce St. and Third Ave. HONE 324 TLMMINS The King Edward Hotel Day or Week A New Precision Squad Very Reasonable Rates Quiet Atmosphere Do You Know Je