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We lean-n that to make certain pay- ment: which have to he made, the di- Why people who subscribed fat-stock,withnothmhtotobtun1ng any return for their investment, but for m Season May Open April lat Prospect that navigation on the Great Lakes might be opened for the season within a month and possibly in two weeks was seen with the announce- ment on Saturday that vessels of the ImperialOilfleetwillbereadytosail in that time. There is only 14 inches of ice in Fort William harbor, accord- ing to word reaching here, and this is expected to break up within a fort- niht. Marine oflicials of the company believe the ships will leave harbor about Aprillbutaneflortwillbemadeto have them placed in service by March 15.â€"Collin¢wood Bulletin. mummy w Pay Members of Kincardine Public Util- ities Commission have been drawing‘ss each per meeting for the last two years, but now have to repay the amounts received because the council failed to pass a by-law authorizing such a remuneration. One would think that enough public spirited men could be iound in Kincardine to serve on the commission without pay.â€"-Walkerton him over the air. That it may be long before he will need a monument him- self, is the hope of his many friends.â€" Wuikerton Herald-Times. 75th birthday being broadcasted from mun-tu- ur.mdunmmmm xywammmw m.D.J.umoothMeopanednpg mmmun-hmâ€"umm PAGE 2. hOMCo-I'ties Here we are again with ,another We have made arrangeme for another Grand Display of Ladies’ Spring C ts, Dresses and Hats GRAND DISPLAY Ladies’ Coats, Disses, Hats Wednesday, March 23 Throughout the West are areas of clay lands which, on account of certain peculiarities, require special treatment during cultivation. Two extensive areas {in Saskatchewan are found in the |plains centering on Regina and what lis known as the Goose Lake country. |The soil is distinctly grey when air dry, but appears a dark brown when wet. It is very heavy and plastic when wet, but under proper treatment granulates readily to an excellent tilth. Although this type of soil is generally known among farmers as “gumbo” the term is more properly applied to the hard in- tractable clay, which is darker in color and bakes badly, which is usually found along creek and river bottoms. In the cultivation of these clay lands it is not possible to operate with the usual type of farm implements. Imple- ments which have a shearing action when passing through the soil do not scour and quickly become clogged par- ticularly if the soil be moist. Disk ploughs are preferred to the usual type of mould-board plough as these can be The soil is very fertile and: absorbs and retains water readily. It is par- particularly adapted to wheat produc- tion, although all crops adapted to the climate can be grown Succmtully. The deiented will charge the winners with cheating, will lose their tempers. Insulting speeches will be made. Public contents will be marred by the un- sportsmnnlike attitude of the onlook- ers, who will show as much pleasure babyish. Games played in this spirit instead of being a. training for life, are a positive injury. Do your best in the games you play, but do not lay too much stress on win- feat without depression or resentment, has learned one of life’s most import- ant lessons. If you can make some ad- vance along this line this year, your education will be progressmg.â€"Walk- erton Telescope. Iceman” upsmtmtodovote 'nmummmmhemthe couldbutmhhacemthhny.fie putsmtomscoochmcsphnoaophym thinkaappnestomostmmmemo prepareuwellupoadhleJodoone’s best, and then be content. “We do not lay too much was on winning," he 11113th the WWO! hadmuchtodowiththemtnnm- cm condition of the Arum. Coupled withmhuthctwtthttmcewm mymvemmmmmemum- dtrd.3utknowin¢themdoesnot lulptoaolvethem'oblemofnnancmc. theordimryshuehaldcrandm mdtbeflnkwho,byaermonthe. berequh'edtoasumeexmnnsncifl mmmmmmtyd then-ovum. This (all innumerable games will be "Husbaonm Tummchmotmu TREATING GUMBO LANDS blewmtawutherhu along his route they are all camped there, ready to receive the small an- nuity which the “Great White Father” promised them when they signed a treaty twenty-five years ago. Inspector Murison comes back from his 2,000-mi1e canoe trip through nor- thern Satkatchewan impressed most of all with the swift trend of the times, the dying-out of the old ways and the need for new. The Indian’s age-old means of making his own living from the stream and forest is failing. The fish and game will not last forever for food, nor will the pelt of the fur-bear- ing animal suffice for the other needs Despite all hazards and unforeseen weather conditions, the treaty-paying party travels on a strict schedule. Six months before Inspector Murison leaves Prince Albert on June 12 the superin- tendent at Ottawa has said that on June 15 treaty will be paid at Lake la Plonge, on June 27 at Peter Pond Lake, on July 10 at Lac 19. Range, on July 19 at Pelican Narrows, and so forth. The word goes forth to the scattered tribes of the wilderness of poplar and pine, and on the day set for them to gather the country does not supply. The In- dian must be slowly converted from a hunter and trapper into a. farmer, else he will soon be unable to support him- his voyages by canoe and “put-put" into the pine and poplar solitudes hun- dreds of miles northoithewhcat .prairies rests among the files of the Indian aflairs department at Ottawa. It is a business man's document, and concentrates on the economic life of the Indian, his food supplies, his re- quests for exchanging a barren rocky reservation for another one on which potatoes might be grown, the legal size of fish nets, and the protection of the Indian from the bootlegger. Only between the lines do you see the hundreds of miles of adventure and romance, in company with a scar- let and gold policeman and a medical officer, his slender craft laden with over $12,000 in legalsâ€"crisp new one dollar billsâ€"his four dusky canoemen from The Pas. He never speaks of the dangerous rapids, hardly ever of the treacherous winds and storms. Once, at a critical moment, their engine fails, and they have to take it all to pieces and put in new gaskets. Flies and mos- quitoes are not once mentioned in his report, though for day after day they must have been the highlight of the trip. “Five quite helpless people came to mynotlbewhfleviaitlngthlsmm- cludlngAugmtlnethblmdman unable to walk, who crawlsonhls hundsandkneeanaddltlantoregul-r ntlonshereceivesgoodstothem «$11.25 from the Hudson’s Bey 00.. whichtnkesareothlsule. By mammal-new Far North Farming The Indians on the western part of the area are already making strides to- ward an agricultural life. At Canoe A week later, having travelled an- other hundred mfles north-west the in- spector comes to the Clear Lake band at Buffalo River, with more garden- ing. “They have some open land here. and have about 10 acres outfitted. principally potatoes. They stored 1.484 found several families had a supply of them left. Their live stock includes 2'1 geldings and mares. 19 cows, 10 steers and 10 young cattle.” This was the most ambitious settlement encounter- Lake, which the inspector reached one week after leaving Prince Albert, “el- even of the Indians have gardens in which they grow potatoes, turnips, car- rots, onionsâ€"even rhubarb.” They raised 653 bags of potatoes last year, “and I found several famflhs still us- ing potatoes at the time of my visi .” Canoe Lake sounds like a stock farm rather than a wild Indian outpost. “They have 12 horses, five colts, and four milk cows.” handedthe“,CIOOrtlscommgto them as “treaty payment" did he meet adnglepaganlndnn. summer. “Dam treaty" tint he came toambewhichhutopayadollara pound for flourâ€"$100 per sack! Yet, in three months' travel along those distant waterways he did not en- Inspector Manson of the Indian at- fair: deputment, went so it: into the Indian Money Goes That is the text of the inspector's Inspector Murison’s 061cm report of smdmmmt A Long Way , THE DURHAM CHRONICLE ttoncompelllncthelndhntocttchhb :nhfordogteeddulybeancefledJo mmwumm. “Wall-vanadium Indian in the “truncation: withhisreportmthatsuchlmple- mentsotproducuonasplows.m hoeaetc, besuppnedtothocebmds. withmfiablelnndforwdenmc Anotherwuthattbemeofthem At Du Brochet, flour was $32 a hun- dred; had recently been 340. and the Barren Lands natives reported that at Windy Lake, their regular trading place, it was $100 a sack. The inspec- tor remarks that the Indian didn’t of- ten get flour in his diet at that price. Returning along Reindeer Lake, and again taking up the course of the Chur- chill river, the party reached Pukata- wagan on August 11, the last point at whch treaty was paid. Here again the Indians were all hunters and trappers, no gardens being cultivated. this band are a fine appearing lot. They are cleanly in appearance, and hitherto have been leading very credit- able lives, and I feel that, before the drink habit gets too strong a hold on them, stringent methods should be in- stituted to put down the traflic in in- tox'cants. It should be a very easy mat- ter for an enforcement oflicer to get information which would lead to the conviction of the bootlegxers. as they have to travel for practically a day and ahalfbycanoeinordertoreachPuk- atawagan. and their activitiea are lim- itedtoalargeextenttothetrapping -â€"' uwâ€"wâ€"u- v-vwâ€"â€" vâ€"vâ€" â€" “While at this point,” writes ’inspec- tor Murison, “I received reliable in- formation to the effect that these In- dians have been indulging very freely in ' the use of intoxicating liquors. The liquor is brought in by unprincipled, independent traders from the town of Cold Lake. These men are well known. “While ostensibly they pose as trad- ers, in reality their stock of useful articles is very limited. and is only used to camouflage their real occupation as bootleggers of liquor. The Indians of season, when the Indians have valu- able furs to exchange, which these Flour $100 a Sack Leaving the Churchill river, close to the site of the famous Island Falls hy- draulic plant, which supplies light, heat and power for Flin-Flon, Inspec- tor Murison travelled a couple of hun- dred miles north to Du Brochet, the “farthest north” of his trip. He paid off the “Barren Lands” Indians, who come south to that point twice a year, once in late July for their treaty money, and again at Christmas for church ser- “The church is in splendid state of preservation, considering its age, but I noted that a considerable number of the windows are broken and need re- placing. This, the clergyman informed me, could be done at a cost of approx- imately $100, but the people are not in a position to put up the money.” At Pelican Narrows InspectOr Muri- son “paid of!” Peter Ballentine's band. He writes: “I also attended the trial of Albert Rat, who was charged with stealing a trap.- The case was dis- missed." hand-carved, were brought from m- land by sailing vessel to Hudson Bay. and from thence up the river several hundred miles to this point by York Here he came into the gardening country again. There were 36 plots, and the crOp the year before had consisted of 696 bushels of potatoes, 45 bushels of turnips, and 23 bushels of carrots. 1y situated on a point facing the Chur- chm r1ver.I counted 29 stained glass Trevelllngenrlynndlntetomnkeup but gel-dens ere non-existent up there. The Indians live entirely on meat end nah. On JulletheyrenchLecln Rance.“'lhese1ndhnadonotpou~eu any horses or cattle. Their mode of tnnsportetlonlnthesummerlsbyce- me and in the winter by dog-train" Stanleywsdon is cloeebynlcla Range, and Inspector-Marleen lenves reportsotlndlan welfaretonote: “We campednearthelndunvmuelncloae trodenceAlha-t.buthestineomes “Mummdoneueermownedw AlbertPeehe,uGu'aon1nke.undane cowbyJuqueLemflgneutmh “I am informed that these windows, Attend to Small Debt: The nations are concerned with the cancellation of war debts as a means of a solution of the present economic stress. Little attention is paid, however, to the small debts, and this, we main- tain, is of vital importance to the re- turn of better times. stems, jewelry Show, flower shops. etc. Themerchanthedtuestopmstorthe bmJeu-mgtooflendagoodcustomer. the necktie he wants on display in the window. He goes in and buys it. It onsts$l.50butbeceuse8misagood friend he says ‘Chame it.’ He needs the ready cash in his pocket to carry him through the red of the dey. Tomorrow he will run in own and pay Bun. 'roâ€" mon'owheforgetsandsoforslong stretch of tomorrows. diningcersmrestnunntsunderthe meaningottheactltwillhepteter- .abletodineinNewBrunswickorOn- tario.JusthowtheQuebecgovernment isgoingtogulrdlgunstevasionot itsnewnuisencetexisnotclenr.tt would be necessary to have an nudlmr in every hotel dining room and every restwrmttomnkecertainsfewor many people are not paying their bills without also paying their tax. But all this is Quebec's business; not ours. Our concern is that Ontario will not become so hard pressed for revenue that this province will go into the ent- in houses to impose a tax; the muse- ment tax is nuisance enoughâ€"Allis- ton Herald. A movement urging the payment of small debts throughout the country, if supported, would have a marked eifect. Small debts appear negligible to the individual who owes them, but added up, they would total to an immense sum. Fifty cents, a dollar, two dollars or ten dollars in themselves are small sums, but if a merchant has many suchdebtsonhisbooksheisoften embarrassed for ready cash Pay your small debts promptly and the fellow who owes you will be able to pay you â€"-everyone will benefit and Old Man Depression will be given a severe jolt. Here’s how the Kitchener Record a- gures it out: Sam Smith’s haberdashery, sees just “Hundreds of thousamb of and! debts are contracted in this way at WWW-amen. mzsceutsmdcmnthetuwmbot weigh heavilyon mammal: «mmnutwmmcm mum and the comma traveller? Amflnncetusuchuthuwinnotbe conducivetoml humoron the put otthepleuure teeterwhououttar nhofldsy.1thnsnotboenmndeclecr max-runny: mustcollectthe taxonttwtrdminccarcwhnetheym OTHER PAPERS’ OPINIONS ‘6‘ WNW!“ that“ spells success. Exact estimates of costs are offer- ed on each job regardless of size. Our business is to create printing that makes sales. Typography, choice of stock â€"every element that makes for more attractive mailing- pieces and handhills is pro- duced here with the care The Chronicle Printing House steumordermect. Hemm. nuns. (handing the hat to the court amour). go through the court room and collect theaefinesandgivethemtothede- fendnnt."â€"Arthur Enterprise. ”not... Inmuthetlctthuum mmwmw up quite ; mum-ana- mm‘mmmjm mmamammhu. ten-dollnr bm into it. “Wt-mom I mgomgtonneeverypenonmthh room fifty cents, or as much there!!! as he happens to have with him for 11v- mmymtumedandfmmachur tookupthebigwhlteaomhmrothnt mtohkpocketuheuddedmdol- In: and hemtsthemoneytopty “Pvetottopunllhyou."aldun Mayor. ‘Thelawmaheonoem. You stole. notfromtheoomnmnlty which isruponstble fortune condi- tions, but from an individual. I can do nothmgbutaentenoeywtoanneot Vhich Itppema m the “W DI- my. Inn 17. m: CA RBON L‘EA‘F CA RBON BACK 5TVL‘E5