Loading...
The Lucknow Sentinel, 1931-08-13, Page 3TInfir,970ntil-r3T7.7•417;r4-14 4, 1- - • 7, .• . • 19•V •L''•• ; . , Ancient City MAY Contain SecEets Of -Civilization • Weird StOrieS. 91 Hondurao Jungle Talc' by VisItmg • .. • British Explorer • . . Buried h the Jungle ef Hoacluras, riven by earthqualced and .guarded . by ,hosts eg venomous reptiles and, in- sects,. lies a city .older • than any other • yet' found, ia, Central America. So ,old is it that F. A. Mitchell -Hodges, ex- pterei• ter the -British Mitecniai, be, heves: it to :be th'e' origin 'trona Which . •' titrter..Mayan and Aztec culturdi gl. and he believes the country round about itto be one Of the •,,.cradles of mankind. . •I ts hb cireani.citY- ••.of ". MiteleIl4tedges hasAlready,showh •• Puler, feriest year 'breught,p the, ,lyinseure:of the Ainerieen,ledian, Over ;1004 pieced': of Pottery, • fragments Of ' • teals ant weapenA:ralid, ornapiente • ' trout the reins of the aneient jity. ,--Saleetisterhava -shicijed- from. the relies of other,Indian Civili- • zatiOne discovered in ' te!. jungles 'of •."*Central. America. • • ° : • ' al '•Id," Mr. Mitchell-IIedges • m ed ardedly when questfonect put his 11 i. "It is eo old that there are not even any' date stems to be found in it, as tar as I. can. say. 'Phere •are no caryings of the. feathered ser- pent god of the Mayans . whose cities -w ha,vadated back to 600 BC. It is older than• any of these:, • '13o y�u know," he warmed 'up to the subject, '"I'M a' little. diffident about • speakitVg of .this because. it seems so extritordiparY. There is a wall abOul, • the city.' *inside there.)are two.mennds. And, thee nmunds.have stones about '• : • theft -exactly like Stonehenge! "Nothing like : it has yet been 'found , • ' in the threeAmericas." • •" • • , • Strange -HiPpeninge • • Strange things. hav,e happened:, thesite of ,this ancient city, according, • - have torn • ----------------., e maonry °rill -I -Wig" IM711*-4-5I1-4-1°41t cd1,4t is doubtful if the, rafiroatis wotild •,.• . walls.' They have opened, great cracks be filing to Spend huge samisen ' through. the Old city. They have ele- eer building. As 'it ie, they are large- . vared-e-drti-ontroflt and turned others Canada Drives )3ack The Last Frontier 'By Russell Owen, 4n the New.:1pric Times Magazine Canada's northern froatierr-the Mat frontier in Nokh America -has moved in the last two' Yeera 11600 Milee near- er the pole. It rests now on the fringe of these Arctic islands whichused tn. be 'so inaccessible, so ter from' civilisa- tion) thet the fate of •Franklin's expe- dition among them. is still a ,mystery, :The north •,•country, 'once thought a land °Eject. and snow, valveless except 'to the trapPerrhas bedizen(' the happy hunting grou»d of. preePectore; ' to parte of it, homesteaders are tureing; planes fly over it .etty,time of the, year;, its barriers are down to stay. s.„thUuig,the IlOpe 9f• mineral wealth.; eeit• UM' greaten incentive to thi northern ;movement :The rich dis •CeveriPs 'of • geld .and.coPPer • ;a few years age in conjunction, with the Att.' ventofIthe.?alrplatie as a' reaSeizablY Safe means er.trans_portatiern; gave a' -trentenciciariniPetue tp northern 'min. eralezieloretioxPlamei OW ell over the 'north country. It they were •disappoiared rii;theff-first inspections just west of Hudson Bay, but what they have found' further west they; hats kept pretty much to them- selves. It is siguifiCant, however, that a company•has been forthed to build' a railroad Hee froM Churchill on. Hud- son Bay west to :Lake Athabaska; where there are rich. mineral deposita. • :The airplane is the 'advance agent of the railroad, and Canada, always ' noted for •pushing'•her reilroada 'in .ad- vance Of deVelbPinent work, Is .gamb- ling heavily on what the airplane will find., And side .by. Side:with this fir - flung exploration for, minerals there exists the. steady advance nt -settle- ment.,. - It the advance of a' machine age, tieing all the tools at, its command to conquer swiftly a country, hitherto in - 'accessible. It itIlied not been for the dovolopmeat Of 'theair-cooled motor' these northeru'llights; would have been , whet fenten-eit_Reeges__part,wittakes,..., impossible, and without the stimulus 3!-hsidigd7by thesgoveinnent;in destruction VAS inany-caSes----.0o-veriantent-owned and operated, • • • ' . . -.The obstacles **eh' they. have:feced :at times haire been tremendone At titones-:• 'first 'glance much orNertliern Canada - • a weird sort of pleee,". Mr. mit- _ seems an ideal country ,over which to alien - Hedges Said reminiscentit buiida railroad. Smith of the 'bay it "There' is a. three -acre patch of land, . iealmost flat, rifting slowly toward .the that,iea•lot like that 'Lost World' that height of land, and, then •slopleg gout - Conan Doyle wrote- about:. • . IY down . to the north, , Its rivers, are "On' thia" Patch here are gigantic broad and filled with smashing 'drives ..:'• . lizards 'With a spine that makes them of ice' in the •Snring,'.bi±t they'can 13e. -look as if great combs ter. the hair are bridged. The pimber gets thinner and ' growing Out. of their back'bOned. They shorter' as one trairels, niorth and fin- areseven feet long," he continued.. ally disappears in the tundra:. Fur- • "They must have been cut, oft fret! ther west; of course, there are moun-: the rest of the world for thousands of tains • and broad valleys, but where years: tor I• cannot. otherwise under- most of the railroad extension has peen taking place the country is stand how how they can have developed in • such: fashien," 's • - ' • parently Ideal;- Canada, however, is Peculiar Animals • • ,0 cursed with..a surfac'e' known as. mus - Animal life, according to the 'ex- keg. It' exists in . large' patches,, al- plorer, has , altogether 'received Pe- most everywhere in the North. - It ,is' culler stimulation.along . that part of stVainpy, • mushy rdass, of decayed the. Caribbean 0 from which he will vegetation, the -• bane of all railroad O make entrance' to his 'secret city • next buildere, 'Year afteir year the lines • january. . take oh a snake-like,Or roller -coaster "I have' caught turtles, there Which appearance and have to be reballested. were 11 feet long freni.front to back • ' and over nine feet in width," he said. "I „have found ,crabs three feet, acress, • and ,In the lagoons towards the ,in- terior there are crawfish••that are five • feet 'Wig," • And *then the explorer was once more discussing his city. He has had. • experience --in judging the age of. the old Walled town0 hurled tinder the O jungle •of Hendurak and.lt,ucatan. For .17 years he has, been collecting specie O mods , for. the ,British and other mus- „ Ili 1924 Te Witteif the co - O discoverers of•Lubaantum,. oldest Maya • city in British -Honduras, whose site O Alias been entirely taken over by. the •• British Museum -now. , • • "The only clue I have. so far found to the age of this new city is a strange. , • one," he confessed.. 'have "found statuette, about 18 inches high, buried • iii the ground when' I dug among the • ruins.'. Now do not forget that they _ • were granite. But when I touched them. I found'that parts of them had • become as, soft ,as toothpaste; that •they had turned to 'clay. 4 geologist ' could tell you, more about their. age ' • • There are other , strange- things been aided,by the jungle plants 'whose fast growing roots have torn to pieces whit .Other structures there were:built Storms also Make rallroad woric,ftela as dangerorte•ae'-exploring. • The men who are deing. this praeti- . cal exploration and ceastruCtion are as. different from the old-time pieneere -prospectors-cold: ,,traPPers-,--ag„ _could_ be iautglned, 'The -pilots are yeuag,•ar- ' dent adventurers, who will take their. Planes. anywhere you wish to go, pro- 'vided a fuel cache M in the neielihori 'heod. They are used to forced lend, lags when the thermenzeter registers :40 :below zero; ',they knew -how to warm their engines under- difftcultleg, •and' to fly by instinct • and by their knowledge of landmarks ever a, deso- late country. '• ..; Mani of the prespecters, 'new are, • !Young Onitueers-argeologistin-werkieg. „ on salary„for large .eonipanies,110,Ppflag by pe frdzn spot •-td '.pot'; where photographs, have, shown' interstiag• 'fortudiens, One of the mese importr. pioneers of this new Nerthls the ..conetruettoa, engineer; •the Man ,build, ing• the rallroa,ds and, hydroolectric• plants; a niertv;ghe 40. not knowstviien.' he .10 'deka,: tyke -FM divert ;or dam: a. vide stream •to, bedld Ms bridge or or power; • The hydro-eitietric plants are quilt • •-toLlill_la_ee'aleed,-Anitthe raiiros are Jiuil.t largely_ononeand the • fever of enzining., ' When 'one .goes out from 'The Pas to . Fan Flom- an 80, mile trip which takes mere than five houre.by train, it is possible' to. real- ize . the hire Of mining, the hope of rich reward 'Which •has made these 'thwns spring inushrOomlike in the wilderness,. •In • The, Pas, vihIch only O tWo years ago 'was a wilderness. town Coining . money and, idled Withjabor, ere,' engineers Yand Prospecters, they, now play ,Badminton' and wear dinner jackets 'to 'dences, but ,Flin Flon IS a real Mining -town; The 'main street .is built on muskeg, and is humpy. iniVin, ter. • and knee-deep in Mud.... M the Spring. The .houses and Stores' have. duzumi° front run to make thent seem larger in the tiniedionered ken-. tier manner. • • -;" • ' • , Prospectors haire' found more' than • minerals In these areas: of the 'once 'abarren," North. 'In Pence River district' and, the Lake St. /elm .cottn- 'try, areal_which for years were thought .unsuitable ai tieing. settled by ,farizers. • ., • • .• .A inatiof theresources of this north-• 'eria_conntryis. dotted With markings Of coPper-incl,-gold,Llead and 'eine, tiy, • • • What ,New York Is Wearing BY ANNARNIAJX.I'VPXr Drearmohirtg Lesson Brur- • nishqd With Every Pattern • • ,410.••••••• about this 'ancient city,according to Mr. Mitchell -Hedges. There are great limestone caves under and around the city. • Many 0 of them have, of course, been filled by earthquake subsidentes, but many are still left. And these have man-clit shafts` going down into; their bleekness• from what 'fornierly wad the great city.".' "My husband -always pats ten pouts on' the plate On Sunday," "1 shotildn't think that would do -much good " as well .as smart, kor mid-eummer - • It's an, economical choicel 14 can ' - be worn all through the fall. • slimly s•traight and becoming. -HA-flounce-that providee-attr-aetive- flare 4 the skirt is cleverly designed to keep the silhouette slender. -It Sinews a sharp doWnward curved line Physicians Slow to Recoignize 'Presence of‘('.ancer in Themselves 4Y -e• know when they hate _cancer of the,stomach,, hut' may go on tor Team neglecting Symptoms which ,shouldsend them at, Once for an X-ray : eicandhation•and ,if necessary to .4 surgeon.. So reports Dr., Welter •C, AlvareS, well-knewn stomach specialist of the Mayo Clinic :at Rochester; Minnesota,lin an account to the American Medical Atiscociation. of. 41 physicians' operatedon, In that, clinic during •thepitst seven years.' In sopie caees, th•e physicten's failure' to •Mtlize in thieltvhet was causfng148 - owe'. trouble „aPpareutly was Clue- to Icing standing symptoms indigestion ,Bo that thavictim did not at first re,. • cognize the relatively difference the ,SyMptems pr-• Cancer; , •other. cases die trouble was regarded at first as, a... toniachaleer Ifreseating relatively litt e danger. • In a -few eased -thar-e-worenOiMpertent-Symp.tanza ui til she time for a successful operation had gone b.y; these indiViduale being' victizna., of the kiwi of 'cancer whieh, gives-almodt no warning until .it kale; Dien itt phylicians,- who should be able seonerAhan other people to de- tect dangerous symptoms, ste_Mach, cancer easily may become fatel.; Alvarez concludes, before 'it is recog tiMed as dengereind. The ,only, Ohre precaution, he .sjispecte„ would-be Or. everybody over .35 to. • have,* shilled.. Xray examination every -Bax molithe- Whether or nth i feels 111,.. but this 18 recognized "as.. impoesiblY expensive fore the average individual, A ,mOre •Preetieal suggestion Is that .every. Als- thrbance of) digestion . that' 'aPPeara, suddenly in 'Ormiddlenged Or ,elderly. persets exhotikl he taken' s,eefo.nsiy and,. studied at once by an X-ray .sp.abialint. IX) 5 • • • • ;1 ' • : r ,' • , • 1 • ••.` - it • ' • „ • • . , „ • ", • • . • ' •• • - • • . • • • • . • Sunday School - Lesson August 116. Lesson V I I--4owl iind Reaping (Temperance Lesson) - Galatians 6:• 140. Golden Tcxt- B� not deceived; God is not mock- ed: „ for whatsoevzr a man soweth, I that shall' he also reap, --Galatians 6:7. ` " • • . ANALYSIS • , I. GENTLY SCAN YOUR .BROTHER MAN, Gal. 6:1-5. II. REWARDS FOR WORICF:11S, Gal, 6:: 6; 111. /sTATORAL• LAW IN THE 'sr*FruAL ' • WORLD, Gal. 6: 7-10. • IrritanucrioN-The painful news reached*Paul that his converts in the Galzitien. chnrches Weredoistiking his teaching. Judaizieg missionaries from. 'Palestine had come among then'. They Nvero.."eiridently belittling Paul' a mere -underling, Gal. • chap. j. they were also rapidly persuading the Gala - Mira* to accept" directrimisiorrand Tith: it the reghia_tious of the old •Law, 5: •2„ 4. The Galation Clinreli' was in danger ofbecoming a -Sect of .Indaisiin. of Christ"- (v. 2) and folloWinghis • own example, Matt. 17. . . attitude is self-righteons pride. The LThe greet Iiindrance te such a kind, ' man, who considers 'ainiself too good to have'anythi'ng to de with a stumbl. ieg brother or sister is deceiving Lim- • del, v. 3.. • Let no 'one take , another 'as his standard of goodness. He who takes Christ as his standard will be saved from the sin of the Pharisee' who said, ."Lord,,., I thank thee that -as not • as other men." Each one' is responsible for his, own character. Verses 2 and 5 are not contradictory. They refer todifferent kinds of "bur. dens." Some can be . shared; others cannot. 'Verse 2 refers to those troubles, sort -ewe, shames which 'our sympathy can V. 0, to a man's, own responsibility Whieh he' mist shoulder for himself. • IL •RewArtbs FOR WORKERS, 0a4 6: 6. Paul turns to one specitil*daty,that of paying the Christian teachers, V., C. The 'Galatians had evidently been fail- ing 'to remenerate •adequately ".hose who were rendering to society the most vital .and` important 'services. Those with teach the community how. to lie -the educationalists, social and religious workers, are among the most „ ' • poorly paid of all public servan IIL NATURAL LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL' . • •• • , .. • ... . . •• 4 • • from jtrat below the-light-hig.-It-eon--.- -In-the-firet-part of this -letter (Chaps. woltar,''`Ga176I77;10. ntrates-its--f-ulnese-at_ei er- ex e_m and- iron. Ore froxn the Coapermine Youthful kilted pleits. . • • va-Thituminous sanda7 and oil, coal -Lee . . us „One7-morerang-The-eons • - • r • 1, - .independenee .an apeetle,. ancriers. thaehoiee .b0fore them•Christ or the- . Another: danger corifroated thie. Galatian 'church:. The • liberty of . the gospel Was. being ftbuseci,7-Nr.nger- under.the law, somethouglit that' they. Werafree. to indizigi their lower quences 'sin cannot be avoided on 'a on the Arctic Circle is no longer an technicality. God is'not fooled. One , • ' ,,, Style 'No. No. 2633 may,be had in sizee impossibility; And 'between an these 14, '16, 18, 20 years,, 36, 38 and 40 is rewarded or punished according as points, extending almost to the mouth inches bust. - , 'Axis-deeds-a-re-good-or_evil—...___,..,.. , „ • .;.........•.___,..„, -._,,, , • of the Mackenzie River on the Arctic Linen, shantung, silk pique an6 silk Rewards and .punishments are of,' ."- • ,.. Sea, Hee:, the limitless tarest: year shirting are smartly appropriate. , • two kinds, arbitrary and natural 'A: ' • • • - after year. -the paper :mills- have -been growing in number and size, and re- forestation; is being done te conserve their AuPPIY.. In the' Lake Si: John country there are enormous ,paper Mills.; and there also• a little town, Ar - vide, has beep built, around,' a mill which • will turn bauxite ore froni South America into altimlnum; a mill made peseible by water power. A „little further west 'in Ontario the town of Kapuskasing has .been „ structed as a 'unit,' a modern', comfert- able town, with all•the househefd com- forts and many of the •entertainments of mach larger cities in the south. It has Its moving Pictures, its community house, Badminton courts, hockey and Carling rinks. This town was erected in it region- to -neat -1Y so deso'la'te that during the war it was used as an in- ternment camp hecaase the 'pridoners could not possibly make their way out. A paper mid wad built and the care- fully Planned town grew 'around it; a railread was constructed ' over the muskeg. to Smoky Falls and' a hydro- electric ,power house bhilt to supply the. mill. • • There are hundreds of such centers of activity in regions which used 'to be beyond the' reach of all but. the traPpei, all along • the southern fringe Of the new- : frontier from British Co- lumbia to Labrador. They explain why the Hudson's Bay Company has been forced to pnah its posts „further and further to the north, even to the Arctic islands. Men dig for , coal a ifltort. distance. from the place where Hudson died, and drill for oil :almost it the Arctic Circle: • The trappers are turning from the trap line to the fur farm, and there is talk of a fishing industry in Hudson Bay , as large as that of, the North Sea. It may , be years before some of the dreams are 'realizdd;• but the skeptic is shouted down 'Lby the optimist of the north, . qize 16:requires 3 yards 39-inchnla- palses: • Inthe second part of 'the let - tonal!! with % yard of. 39 -inch con- ter (5. 13 tc. ,6: 10) Paul. warns trasting. • • • liOW TO ORDER PATTERNS, ' -Write your name and address plain: ly, giving number' and .size.' of such .aga.inet. this .danger, -nzid.. gives ..prac- , tical guidance for avaiding 'it, - :ID. -Mentions four safeguards. The first is love,5: .1,3e.2... They -are, indeed,, patterns as yen Want.; . Enelo8e:20c in • • free.from the Law, but if amen loves his 'nei'ghbor as himscili. freedom frenz • stamps or coin' (cola Preferred; wrap a legal code will not tempt him to it ..carefullY) for each number, and :steal from him, • The. man who "oVei address yonr-order-to---Wileon. Pattern' will :observe, 'ailc*vs: The .aicend Service, 73 West Adelaide St:, Toronto, safeguard is being filled With the _ . Spirit, 5:i 16-24, The in who fellows •-------e-'-'---7-7- • the .premptings of the new. seiirit . voit"Herd ma, • , , .. within him is in m.'danger of break - A 'cl Inst. " " - • . ingany law. The last.two safeguards Says Chief Scout Compromise our lesson today. Adelaide, S. Aust. -"Reading, writ- ing and arithmetic are important, but they .do not -matter .so much es character," declared Lord Baden: Powell, -Chief gcmit, at a 'luncheon- tendered- him here by the Common- wealth, Club recently writes a corres- pondent of the Christian. Science Monitor.' Character building, he said, is'iithe keynote of `the ,Seout • 411°Mvaenmy, Oti the boys; he, went on, were leareing too • much of the "herd instinct" and were having every thing done " for them They did *fiat was fashionable. and therefore -began• to lase .thitiative; re:sourcefut- ness and courage. '0 0 • Generous in Love: A man • may be a miser , of his wealthr he may tie, up his talent' in a napkin; he may hug himself in his reputation: but is always gen- erous in his love. ,Lpve cannot stay • at home; a man 0 cannot' keep to himself. Like light,* it is toestently travelling. A man must spend' it, must give it ad•ay.--Macleod. •"The World, today is smany times more interesting than •when I be, >I-who:already has 'deeds -tor proof.. .....gazt."-Lincole Steffens. PMOTT AND JEFF—Some People lay the. Piano the Same Way. • 'I. GENTLY SCAN YOUR BROTHER MAN, cat 6: 1-5. Therc are two Ways, other than ignoring them altogether, of dealing With cither peoplis sins. They ean be dealt with critically or kindly. One ,can "kick the dog that's down" or help, him to his feet again. 'Paul says, help him, to, his feet again, "restore" him, 6: 1. A kindly attitude hag redeeming Power. It will resift in a kindly, and therefore hel ful Atitude toward our- selves if v.7 also should fall. Whether sailed on. , is down or not; dependa 'on how we Manchester Holds ' dipldnut is 'an *arbitrary reward for Wprkweli. done, The' enriched _person- _. alitf, the increased capacity for work, service, enjoyment; are the natural rewards. A jail sentence .is an arbi- trary punishment for drunkenness. Trembling, nerves, lowered resistance, lessened efficiencY, weakened will, are the natural punishments. Gid' s rewards and punishments are natural. As the ripened grain rows from the sown 4eed,,40so rewards and punishments grow f m the attitudes 'and activities 'of man. After attiring -his "wild...oats" a young .man may re 'form,' but the'disease which he has contracted will some •day„ s7low itself •in his children. ' Potentialities nude- veloped, die. On the other hand, "sowing to the spirit" .produces values which are eternal.. • -After the' sowing comes the period of waiting until the harvest is ripe. O So, too, in the spiritual realm. There- fore we are not to grow "weary in .well -doing," v. 9. Columbus, with, each day revealing ,nothing but inter- minable wastes of sea, with-. nothing to indicate that, he waft! ever see land aghin, wrote in his log, "This day e we shall be able to help the man who . • '•' look at him and hid sin. 1 We are to • look igen him, Paul says, as orie . Clean -Up Campaign • Whonythe sin has-"eVertakenAtripped• , • Maachester,- ,Eng,„ --„,.... gently., ..600 • -, up, as if circumstances had, som,ehow, more receptacles for junk have "been, • been too much forh. Who knows placed in the streets of Manchester • • i • what burden of bitterness, shame, dis- daring the last 12 months in a big couragement he may be carrying be- Wert tee make citizens more tidy, cause of, that sin? , Robert )3 urns, out I and the fetalautnher is now .nearly' of the bite of his c4na burdened 1 The iniprovement in the streets, Unco' Guid: ' I of which this is evidence, is regard - Then gently scan your brother, man, , ed as satisfactory, but little iinproVe Still gentler. sister •tvoinan; .1.ment- iii noticeable in the parks. The Though I they may: gang a kennin 1 1 authorities, are holding le reserve as wrang, • ! a last researce against ',untidy citi- I To step aside is human. zens .the power • of prosecuting of - Cue point must 'still be greatly dark, fenders Who leave litter in the Parks. 'The moving why they clo•it; 1 4. ••,4! 44 • .• A • •••••••.II.'' 'heart, wrote in his • Address to the i°°°- And just as lamely call ye mark Ho* far perhaps. they rue it. douldn't see a Man starve, Sharing sympathetically our brother's could yer, "Net very well. I've load, we are fulfilling, the new "law come out without my, &sees." 14CLLO., is. be oHe Do YO • PLAY - • II BY BUD FISHER • t1 #14.1‘.14. • ,e Ie." • 45414.4410).•,4m,...-4)0elee).));..mme• • • • .) ..e)444.4, i • • - • , • •