at a ie Ye A Resta e hee enon ae a ——Se ~ oh “ee _ River in Yukon Territory had started Extensive Mining Activities Tal The Great Bear Lake Areas Are Promised For This Season, - - Officials of the Department of the Interior are early on the ground for the resumption of mining activities in the areas adjacent to Great Bear Lake in the North West Territories, according to a statement issued by Hon. Thomas G. Murphy, Minister of the Interior. To facilitate the early starting of work the Sub-Mining Re- eorder for the district and his assis- tant were sent in to Cameron Bay by aeroplane on one of the last flights before the close of winter fly- fing. One of the leading companies has engaged a doctor for its mining camp and the Department of the In- terior is co-operating by making him medical officer of health for the area. ‘This means that a fully qualified doc- tor will be available and will also have power to take any necessary control measures in case of emerg- ency. The Department of the Interior »has also decided to lay out a settle- ‘ment at Cameron Bay so as to be able to ydeal with applications for lots, water frontages, and other privileges, and the work is already under way. As regards the Great Bear Lake area, from reports at hand it appears that there will be more actual devel- _ opment of mining properties than in the preceding three years combined. Excepting one or two companies, most of those in the district up to the present have confined their efforts to prospecting or to preliminary work but this year will see all the compan- ies on the of their promising holdings. In addi- tion to work on the properties about the east end of Great Bear Lake, there is likely to be great activity both in prospecting and development in the new silver camp on Camsell _ River. _ ‘During the past winter, approxi- mately one-hundred men wintered at Cameron Bay and in its immediate vicinity. This population has been greatly increased in the past month by those going in by aeroplane be- fore winter flying ceased, as it al- ways does early in April. It is ex- pected that Cameron Bay will be the distributing point for express, mail and freight due to its being located {n the centre of a very active mining district and to its having a well pro- > tected harbour for boats and aero- planes. At this point there are now established a post office, radio sta- tion, sub-mining recorders’ office, Royal Canadian Mounted Police post, and headquarters of a number of trading, freighting and prospecting organizations. Three water-transpor- tation companies are ready to carry heavy freight from the end of steel at Waterways to Cameron Bay, Great Bear Lake, and two well equipped aeroplane companies are carrying in passengers, mail and lighter commod- ities. Last year Imperial Oil Limited at its well at Norman produced 11,000 gallons of gasolene and 21,000 gallons of fuel oil, of which 90 per cent. was shipped to Great Bear Lake. Four _ coal leases have been staked on the northwest shore of Great Bear Lake. ‘The coal, which is lignite, is easily mined and the expectation is that it will be extensively used for heating in the area. to the attention of the Department was that the report of finds of placer ‘gold on the headwaters of the Liard a movement of miners and prospec- tors into that country. As this is a, difficult area to reach from the offi- ces of mining recorders in the Yu- kon, the Department of the Interior has arranged with the Royal Cana dian Mounted Police for the head of a patrol which will go through the district, to act as sub-mining record- er. Fine While It Lasted A gang of thieves who posed as cemen and made “raids” on opium _dens and gambling resorts have been ‘arrested in Shangtai, China. The gang’s method was to “arrest” the proprietor and ‘Yet him go” if he would pay them a large sum, The fang was captured while trying to ex- tort $50 from an old woman who was in a room with an opium pipe an some op!um. The high tax on sugar seems to| offer an opportunity for the produc- ers of honey, if they are alert to the| situation. Cakes stay moist longer if corn «By replaces some of the sugar in | N. U. 1992 ’ Another significant matter brought called in person at the phone com- pany’s office and explained the situa- tion more clearly than her husband boy, and the husband slipped it in | Winnipeg Newspaper Union PARIS IS SENDING SUCH ADOR- ABLE NEW BLOUSES THESE DAYS * You'll love this quaint pretty model of Victorian influence with its wid- ened shoulder line. 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How To Order Patterns Address: Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg Pattern No. NBME cere eee eeeer ests r eee eeenecees Orders Strictly Obeyed Operator Would Not Give Private ’Phone Owner His Number A gentleman who recently moved into a new apartment had a private, unlisted telephone installed, but dis- ‘covered after the ‘phone man left | that the little card on the phone \which should bear the subscriber's j number was blank. Feeling that his {phone number, however private, ,should be known to himself, he phoned Information. She told him the | number he sought was a private line \and could not be given out. “Can't I find my own number?” he shouted. “I'm sorry,” she said, “but we are not allowed to give out that information.” He finally went to pieces, screaming at a supervisor, and his wife took the apparatus away from him. She then had. Several hours later, a tiny num- ber was sent around by a messenger the little slot. He's still mad, though. —The New Yorker. Motion picture records of a per- son's movements while reading are made with an apparatus at the Uni- versity of Minnesota, which is in- tended to detect faulty reading hab- its. How Lloyd George Started Court Case First Brought Him Into National Prominence The recent death of Rev. T. B. Roberts of Wales, at the age of 76 recalls how Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George sprang into national prom- inence for the first time. In 1888, when Mr. Lloyd George was just 25, Mr. Roberts was a Cal- vinistic Methodist minister. One of his congregation, a North Wales quarryman, died, He had expressed a wish to be buried beside his daughter in the parish churchyard. The rector of the parish declared that if Mr. Roberts wanted to conduct the sery- ice, then the burial could not be per- mitted in the appointed spot. Instead, a spot was permitted, which is des- cribed today by Mr. Lloyd George as “bleak and sinister, in which were buried the bodies of the unknown drowned that were washed up from the sea, or of suicides, who died in the district.” There was an argument and Mr. Roberts sought the advice of the young solicitor of Portmadoe—Mr. Lloyd George, He advised the minis- ter to go ahead with the burial be- side the daughter, and, if necessary break down the churchyard gates. That is just what was done. Quarry men with bars and files broke down the gates so their comrade could be interred as he wished. The rector sued Mr. trespass and won in the local court. Mr. Lloyd George appealed and won the decision when Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and other justices agreed with his arguments. Winning that case brought Mr. Lloyd George the nomination for Carnarvon. He was elected in 1890 as a Radical and has held the seat ever since. Always an opportunist in politics, Mr. Lloyd George was pre- sented with a chance to gain national prominence when just a young and struggling lawyer. He seized it, made good on the case, and he was em- barked on a career of brilliance. Roberts for Mixed Metaphors Reputation For Figu Is Held By Irish The reputation of the Irish for committing “bulls” in*the use of fig- urative language vies with that of the Scots as heroes for thrift stories. One of these gems still quoted occasional- ly in New York dates from the hear- ings involving Mayor Walker at Al- bany, where so many people of Irish descent foregathered, ‘There the Mayor's attorney declaimed: “I can hear him in my mind's eye—" The strain of this effort could not be compared, however, with the shat- tering exploit imagined by an Irish member of the British House of Com- | mons of former years, Mr. Boyle Roche, During a stormy debate Mr. Roche suddenly smelled a rat. But, carried away with the exuberance of his own verbosity, as Mr. Winston Churchill would say, he not only smelled it, “but saw it floating in the air and hoped to nip it in the bud.” An acrobatic feat, indeed! Other peoples are not so adept at throwing off bulls in conversation or oratory as the Irish because in gener- al they lack that rich and decorative imagination characteristic of the Em- erald islanders. One expects every Irishman at one time or other ver- bally to fly through the roof of liter- alness. But other people are equally flighty, and, though the examples are rare, they are nevertheless as humor- ous as the best Irish specimens. It was a Scot who announced that “the pale face of the British soldier is the backbone of our Indian army,’ ‘and an Englishman, descanting upon the same subject, who declared that “pat- riotism is the backbone of the British Empire, and we must train it and bring it to the front.” But the bull which is so much the delight of connoisseurs as to have become a chestnut or classic, accord- ing to the perceptions of one’s funny bone (is that a bull or a metaphor?) hails from the Antipodes, An Austra- lian one day addressed his fellow- A Long Chess Game - Played By Mail It Took Seven Years To Complete The chess game Walter J. Dodge, of Portland, Ore., has been playing ith his brother, George §. Dodge, of Montebello, California, is finally over, Played by mail, it took seven years to complete it. Their first game started in 1922, took only four years. They have one more game to go to decide the series, each haying won a game. Dodge predicts the championship will be decided by 1940. Scotland Yard's finger-print library is becoming overcrowded, there being | 515,000 prints recorded. Peter the Great's signet ring was sold in four minutes for $1,850 at an auction in London recently. par jans at Canberra on a point of order. His protest began: “Gentlemen, a member of this House has taken advantage of my absence to tweak my nose behind my back. I hope that the next time he abuses me behind my back like a coward he will do it to my face like a man,| - and not go skulking into the thicket to assail a gentleman who is not pres- ent to defend himself.” Glad You Came They were scarcely seated before one of them nudged his shipmate, and asked: “What does that word mean across the curtain?” “Pipe down,” said his companion, “and don't show your ignorance. That's Latin for ‘welcome’.” ‘asbestos’ Midnight matinees are being intro- duced in London. Pgesive T MacHapo Midwinter production of rhubarb has become a considerable activity for some British Columbia gardeners who grow the crop under cover from fresh field roots transplanted in No- vember. Diner: “Hi, waiter! You've got your sleeve in my soup.” only an old coat; it won't burt it.’ New automatic machines for ven- v Mennez Penare | supporters of the President, and Gomez, former Mayor of Havana GEN Mario Menccay While Cuban exiles in New York are making plans for the overthrow of President Gerado Machado's dictatorship of Cuba, a sinister underground warfare is being prosecuted in the island paradise between the Machadistas, MACHADO'S DICTATORSHIP OF CUBA MENACED Dr DE taTORRE Dr it group of societies, opposed to the govern- | lodging |ment, which have combined with the common air of acquiring control of the | Waiter: “It's quite all right sir. It's country. In New York, Dr. Carlos de la Torre, former Professor at the | University of Havana, has been elected president of a new Cuban revolution- ‘ary junta, composed of prominent ex'les, among whom are Dr. Miguel M Colonel Mendez Penate, leader ding season tickets in London sub- | Nationalist Party; General Mario G. Menocal former President of Cuba. ways reject bad coins, By a process just perfected in New deerskins. ive Language Dairy Conference Requests Federal Government To Establish Farm Produce Marketing Board Transport In Olden Days Horses In England In the early days of transport in were called pack-horses, modern times. Roads were bad, wheeled yehicles were to all intents and purposes impossible. Long trains of pack-horses might have been seen gentlemen went from Glasgow to London, and wrote an account of their journey. From Glasgow to Grantham they met from time to time strings of pack-horses from thirty to forty to a gang, the mode by which goods part of the country to another. The bell to give warning to travellers coming in the opposite direction, and Everything Was Carried By Pack- England horses were used to carry rather than to draw. As such they | and this | @dvantages have been secured in the practice continued down to almost | wending thelr way along the roads of the time, carrying their loads in various receptacles. Even coal had to be carried by this means. In the first | half of the eighteenth century two} A resolution asking the Dominion Bovernment to establish a farm pro- duce marketing board was passed by the Dominion Conference of Dairy Farming at Ottawa. As a result of the Imperial Con- ference, the resolution said, certaim British market for Canadian farm P , dairy p , and the opportunity for marketing Canadian excess in the British mar- ket has been greatly enhanced. While expressing appreciation of the valuable services already render- ed by the various departments of the government to promote the market- ing of farm products and more partic- |ularly dairy products, the resolution voices the opinion “a larger degree of co-operation between government agencies would bring better results.” The reduction submits that meas~ ures should immediately be taken de— seemed to be transported from ong bring about an improve- ment in the marketing of Canadian leading horse of the gang carried a| Products, and a closer and more ac- tive co-operation between the various. government agencies through the es- the not room to for them, and plunge into the side of the road, usually of soft mud, out of which they often found it hard to get back again upon the causeway. pack-horses met the record does not say, it must be left to imagination. Until 1760 there was no road for coaches left the town, even the mer- chandise intended for Manchester had long lines of them travelled regularly with bales of wool and cotton over the hills to and from Yorkshire. Some of the track-ways are still in exist- ence, they are usually referred to to- day as pony tracks. Threw Away Small Fortune Gift Pictures Spurned By Lad Now Worth $500 Each When Charles D. Houston, mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, recently visit- ed the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, he asked if some paint- ings of Indians on the walls were worth anything. Of course, he was told, those paint- ings by George Catlin were worth money, the least price for his can- vasses would be $500 apiece. Mayor Houston sighed, and told a story: Fifty years ago Catlin, a poor, sick and discouraged man, lived and paint- ed in the old brick tower of the Smithsonian. Joseph Henry, secre- tary of the institution, harbored him there while trying to persuade con- gress to buy those pictures. A litte boy carried Catlin’s meals up the winding stair. Occasionally penniless, Catlin presented him with a picture in payment. The boy had no use for them, he stuck them all in @ corner under the stair, The boy grew up to be mayor of Cedar Rapids. The paintings from under the stair adorn the Smithso- nian's walls. A Marvellous Product Manchuria Has Supplied All World With Soya Bean pass, they were obliged to make way What happened when two trains of wheeled carriages into Liverpool; no} to be carried on pack-horses, and} of a farm produce mar- keting board or such other board as. will accomplish the purposes aimed at. = The conference registered a vigor- ous protest against the present scale: of salt prices in Canada. A resolu- tion pased said the price, $4.35 per ton f.o.b,, wells to manufacturers: and $7.87 per ton f.0,b. wells to all’ other users constituted a gross dis— crimination against and places a seri- ous handicap on the whole agricul- tural industry which is the largest. consumer in the country. Another resolution was passed re- questing provincial governments not to issue any further licenses for the operation of new creameries until a proven economic need has arisen, and. that no licenses be issued to reopen. a closel creamery until the need for its reopening is definitely shown. A resolution dealing with dairy herd improvement and management through cow testing, recommended the training of inspectors, and butter and cheese-makers as missionaries of improved herd management among the dairy farmers, with whom they come in contact and continuation of the educational campaign for the elimination of the scrub bulls. Words In English Language Two Hundred Thousand In Use and | Fifty Thousand Obselete | It seems there are 250,000 words: lin the English language, approxi- | mately three times as many as in any | other tongue, according to a survey In American Speech, issued by the | Columbia University Press. | ‘Totals recently advanced by Dr- Frank H. Vizetelly, dictionary editor, and Harold Wentworth, former asso— ciate editor of a dictionary, are chal- lenged by Prof. Robert L. Ramsay of | the University of Missouri, who con~ ducted the study. Dr, Vizetelly's esti- mate was * 1,000,000 words; Went- | worth’s was two to three million. | “After adding in all the obsolete and alien words, we reach a total of | something like 250,000; and 250,000, | it seems to me, is the only legitimate and authoritative total to cite as the | number of words in the English lan- farmer how wards, of the, watch in Perhaps the greatest gift of Man-| guage. Over 50,000 of these are obso- food Glass curtains, process in which silk or cotton may much for the this intense made secret by « Homeless Londoners, who sleep in of houses, shelters and casual now number less than 25,000. Leicester presented abeth with the first wrist During the week before Easter no less than 56 deaths by violence are re-| South Africa has removed its sur- |ported to have occurred in Havana, It is charged that the government jg | tax on imports. —| Zealand leather can be made from|But the Cuban administration denies everything—even the revolutionary movement, lusing the dreaded “le de fuga” (law of flight) to murder political opponents. of al {'s increasing. in Germany marvellous | It} man and beast) onions and shallots, radishes and spin- throughout Northern Asia, and the! ach, from May 1 to November 30, export trade is yearly expanding.| wij) be assessed for duty on an ad- Men isolated from centres of food | vanced valuation, due to the exchange supply for long periods find full nour-| situation, it was announced by the de~ Ishment for their arduous work, and| partment of national revenue. struggle with the chewing these beans. cold in churia to the world so far is the won-| lete,” declared Prof. Ramsay. derful soya bean. Ask any English | Mee es sikh poy ame nena Duty On Vegetables means to the development of good | s stock, and then think that all the/T9 Be Assessed For Duty On Am world's supply of product comes from Manchuria. yields Advanced Valuation Imports into ada of green Value for duty purposes of these vegetables has been fixed at the fol- lowing advances on the true invoice value in Canadian funds: Green onions and shallots, four cents a be enclosed between two sheets of! pound; radishes, five cents a pound; glass, have been introduced in Eu-! spinach, 114 cents a pound. rope ae A modern stabilized steamship must be somewhat like the rest of us. It has lost its roll. Princ!pal industrial Britain now assurance s0- cieties of have a total membership of 7,800,000. 800 employees of as More than English railway passed examinations in ambulance work last year, London's only woman tea tastet samples as high as 300 cups a day.