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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-03-15, Page 3Strange Island in Indian Ocean Ruled by Fierce, Barkless Dogs Wtree //atfe CAonce to Domtnate New Juan 3e Nova, Situated Between East African Coagt andi Madagascar, Populated Entirely by Wild Packs Which Attack All Island Visitors Capo Town—A French schooner which has arrived at T&ble Bay visit­ ed a strange island of dogs during her voyage, “We were steaming northward be­ tween the East African coast and Madagascar,” jsaid the captain, “Dark against a pink skyline at dawn I saw through by binoculars the outline of a ship, “No smoke came from her funnel, no white wave broke about her bows. She did not lift to the long Indian Ocean swell, When full daylight came Realized that she was a wreck, fast on the coral reefs of little Juan de Nova Island, “Juab de Nova is the island of dogs; There have been others—one In the Bosporus where all the hungry, scav­ enging dogs of Constantinople were marooned -and left to starve. But on lonely, tropical Juan de Nova the dogs feed royally and rule the island. “In the days of sail, bluff-bowed East Indiamen, Portuguese barques and pirates of all nations used to call at Juan de Nova for frsshi water, fruit and turtles-. Dogs of every breed, some from Europe', others from China, escaped -on-shore and were left be- liindo To-day their -descendants form the strangest, wildest mongrel horde in the world, “The dogs' have therisland to them­ selves. When a French- steamer sent buccaneers of last century. & boat’s crew ashore for water a few years ago the men were attacked^ with such ferocity that the^Jiad to re­ turn for. firearm? before they couldl fill their casks.” I Naturalists have noted two queer facte about the dogs of Juan de Nova —'.they droop their tails like wolves and they have lost their bark. On moonlight nights they may be heard calling wildly to eadli other; but when they returned to savagery they lost the baric of the ordinary dog. Hunting in packs the dogs seem to have divided the island to .their own satisfaction. One pack r nevei' in­ vades the territory of another. They scratch in the sandy beaches for turtles’ eggs, eat the turtles that crawl out of tho sea occasionally and stalk sea-birds with the skill of jungle beasts. No one who has seen the dogs of Juan de Nova doubts that our household pets had their origin in the wild. These dogs are as fierce as any Siberian wolf. , For years they have remained un-. molested in their island kingdom, among the cocoanut palms and bana­ nas and mangoes. The island is a horseshoe of coral and there was a time when the pirates used to careen their ‘wooden ships within its shelter. The canine inhabitants of Juan de Nova are almost as dangerous ^s the< A Thought Admiral Was a Seal, And so a Meal Too Many Teeth Pulled Too many teeth are extracted with­ out clinical or pathologic justification, asserts an editorial writer in The Journal of the American Medical As­ sociation (Chicago). Two opposing conditions, he says, are constantly present: First, all infection in the mouth must be eradicated; .second, teeth should not be -extracted if the can be otherwise elimin- He goes on: “Discussion of the relationship of he relates the following inci-4 tooth infection to .certain systemic disease sis, of course, no longer neces- I sary. It is self-evident that all sepsis in the mouth Success in this frequent consul­ dentist and the __ _ The physician hair seals hauled up on the beach and, The physician should not peremptor- in observing their actions, noticed ny order one or more teeth extracted, •that they made a hollow booming nor should ” the dentist extract the poupd by striking the hard sand with_ teeth of a person who is found by their flippers. Whether or not it was ' questioning to be under the. care of a the breeding season I do not know; 'physician or in need of medical care, but the noise seemed to attract The without consulting with the physician. __ __ _______ . .. „ ___ . Too many instances arc now on record (and probably the reported cases re­ present only a small Minority of seri­ ous conditions following the extrac­ tion of teeth) of dental and medical thoughtlessness in the extraction of teeth in more 'or less serious coiidi- . Three instances of death fol- Many a naval man has been mis­ taken for a sea lion and quite a few lor social lions and others of the four- footed bretliern, but Admiral Hugh Rodman can claim the distinction of being the only man—naval or other­ wise—to have been mistaken for a ’female seal—and by a gray wolf too. jinfeettion In his yarns of a Kentucky Admiral a ted. appearin in “Field and Stream Maga-j zine,” III l;UTxb t”: - dent which occurred on a cruise in Alaskan waters:' • “In order to select a camp site and and pathogenic foci have it ready," he writes, “I went' .alone ahead of the party a distance of field demands more ■four or five miles. Stations between the “I had noted a number .of female • family physician. should he removed. Scotch Villages Lose Identity in March of Progress The popu- Everybody few malcont- trifling, sym- They rejoiced Battle Drums Used! As Early as 1333; No Longer in Favor bull seals, who would assemble in the wbo has examined the patient, water near the females, from threerio. five strong, and give vent to their feelings by barking oi> bellowing. “I arrived at my destination and was tired. I had on clothes which slightly simulated the color of the "hair seals as I lay at full length on _______ the sand. Without any real expecta-! tiong ' Cl xWi- tion of decoying the bull, I struck the jowjng soon after the extraction of hollowed palms of my hands to- ; were recently reported by Buck- gether in an attempt to imitate the , •sound made by the females. “To my surprise, several bulls took __...... notice and came abreast of me in the cieannness, skilled technique and, if ; ley. The removal of teeth is a surgi- i cal procedure, though generally a minor one, that requires preoperative MONTREAL COULD ' TAP HUDSON BAY TREASURES BY BUILDING TASCHEREAU-RUPERT The three provinces of Manitoba, Ontario and. Quebec have an oppor­ tunity to win 'lordship over the vast empire tributary to Hudson and James Bay. Some time next summer the Hudson Bay Railway will reach salt water at Churchill and give Manitoba and the other western .provinces ac­ cess to the short sea-route to and from Europe. Ontario’s provincially-owned Temislcaming and Northern Ontario Railway need only build about 125 miles more of railway to reach James Bay near Moose Factory. With this short span of steel it could bind to itself the vast and enormously rich empire in the new .north, which has been exploited for centuries but whose true value is only now being realized. At present there is a rail traffic to Island Falls Junction, 43 miles north of Cochrane, although steel is laid for thirty miles farther north to Oil" Can Rapids. The grade is construct­ ed to Coral Rapids, about thirty miles farther north, aud from there it is proposed to extend the work another twelve miles along the Abitibi river this summer. If Ontario should de­ cide to push on to the bay, Montreal big business might conceivably count­ er by getting Quebec to build the 200 or 250 miles of road from Tachereau on the Canadian National Transcon­ tinental to Rupert House, on James Bay, Somewhat similar action was taken when the T. and N. O. tried to penetrate the Rouyn field with a branch from Swastika, but was tem­ porarily blocked by Quebec, which succeeded in getting the Canadian Na­ tional to build from Tachereau into Rouyn in the endeavor to hold’ the copper-gold camp tributary to Que­ bec. After extended litigation, On­ tario won the right to push its rail­ ways into the Quebec field. The Canadian Pacific also has a line run­ ning Cp the east side of the Ottawa river to Angliers. At one time there were rumors that this also might be driven into Rouyn. Thp above map shows the territory discussed in the accompanying article. Also inset is a key-map showing the relation of the southerly ports to Churchill, terminus for the Hudson Bay Railway, now un­ der construction, which will link the western provinces with the old world' by a direct sea route. Younger Generation Caused Change in Rural Settle­ ments, Once Noted for Picturesque Features Modernity |ba« given’ us nanny things; it has stolen the village, says I “The Weekly Scotsman.” A genera­ tion ago, in most districts, you found a network of rural communities, each, an individual unit, self-contained'’pad practically selfisupportlng. lacs were a doune folk. worked. There were ents. Jealousies were pathy a general trait. together and sorrowed in common. A normal reverence prevailed with an acute sense of local patriotism. Within the” confines of each village there were ample trading facilities. Besides a general emporium provid­ ing groceries, drapry, -ironmongery and the hundred and one household requisites, there were usually butch­ er’s and baker's shops and a variorum of smaller “shoppies,” kept by a tidy spinster or “genteel craltur,” who had seen better days, who often lived lives of diligent usefulness without much tangible reward. Certainly they were never unduly mercenary, and not Infrequently “lika buddie’s buddie” in varied emergencies. And the old-time rural craftsmen were artists. This village blacksmith and the cartwright put soul into their work, whether in the shoeing of a I’.orse or the bevel of a cart wheel. I “•have seen a pair of cart wheels, made by a village expert, retaining the in­ dividual touch in shape ’ and finish after serving thirty years on a farm. The village is no more a village. The younger natives, beholden with the unrest of industrial strife, the glamour of white lights and hectic liv­ ing, the lure of pictures and sport, have supplanted the solid virtues with the effervescence of life. As the old­ er residents pass hence, names long familiar disappear and incomers, alien to long tradition, arrive. To them the de&iched charm of rural simplicity means nothing.- The “site” is good for a housing scheme of jerry-built contraptions— “h. and c., with oriel windows and modern appurtenances.” And the environs form a convenient stopping place for the legion of motor buses in­ festing the highways and byways. The smith and weight have gone away; the smiddy, reconstructed, than become a petrol'store, with a standard pump coated in vermilion usurping the anpient mile-stone.., The”shoppies are defunct. A “soda fountain bar,” alleged to be Ameri­ can, dominates the chief stance; an attendant, who knows “none Engleesh or ze Scotteesh” dispenses fish and peas and vinegar, to a more or less riotous clientele on seven days—and nighta—a week. Drugging- Plants water, but showed suspicion and did not attempt to land. T •and to give them a surprise and there is infection and suppuration, I realized this, care£ui an(i untiring post-operative care. A tooth should generally not be•scare I suddenly jumped up and yell- removed until a roentgengram has Paper Gowns For Visiting Nurses been taken and commented on by a■ed at the top of my voice. _____-____ “If they were surprised, far more gained roentgenologist. .The gums of •so was I, for a gray wolf had been a patient wlth pyorrhea should rarely, stalking me and was within ten to , oyer, be punctured for the injection fifteen yards of me when I jumped, I procajne hydrochlorid or any other apparently at the phychologisal mo-1 subatancej as these punctures, offer ment. Under the conditions, he had: abgorbjng surfaces for the bacteria possibly mistaken me for a seal, on: already ln the moutli. The surgical which the wolves feed, and it might; treatment of a septic mouth after Jiave been serious had he attacked ■ operati0n should be the same as that while I was lying down. The inter-1 Qther part o£ tllQ body tbat is septic. .. The, necessary extraction of septic teeth will not cause death, but the neglect of medica. land surgical care of the patient associated with any surgical operation may do so.” X so was I, for a gray wolf had been while I was lying down. ' vening open space between the sea and the timber was, say, a couple of hundred yards. I estimated that in spite of his excessive speed he must’ have touched the sand at least a couple of times in his wild flight for cover when he realized the true state of ■‘affairs.” --------—------- - “Come over Jhere and meet Mr. Theophilus Harrington, the great Rus­ sian expert,” said -Mrs. Johnston. 'What is a Russian expert?” asked Mrs. Grownlow. “You know, he went to Russia, and came back alive,” ex­ plained her friend. A young man entered an inn with a dog and attracted a great deal of in- terest«from an Irishman, who inquired what kind of a dog it was. The own­ er looked the questioner insolently up and down and’then replied: “It’s a cross ^between an ape and an Irish­ man.” “Faith then we’re both related to it,” Was the ready retort. Just Scrapes Through AIRPLANE! CARRIER FILLS “BIG DITCH” The huge U.S.S, Saratoga scraped the sides of the locks lit the Panama canal, pacing through, on the way to participate in fleet maneuvers. Crepe paper ’ is the dress-material now used by the visiting nurses of Milwaukee’ for their working uni forms,. This new idea, we are told by P. W. Koeppen in The American City- (New York), was worked out by Dr. E. V, Brumbaugh, Deputy Health Com­ missioner. The manufacture of the gowns requires the services of a seamstress to supply the seventy visiting nurses of tho Milwaukee Health Department with enough paper gowns. We read: “Until a year and a half ago, the nurses wore the usual cloth gowns at homes in which there was a com­ municable disease. Dr. Brumbaugh had long felt that those gowns, which were left to others to sterilize and were washed by laundries, were un­ satisfactory. A carefql inquiry re­ vealed that there were no ready-made paper gowns which exactly suited the purpose. He confided his paper-gown idea to one of the nurses, and sho sug­ gested that the gowns be made with­ in the Department. “She bought a pattern ’for a nurse’s gown from a" local department store, and a roll of crepe tissue paper, A sample gown was-made. Tests proved that it would stand up under eighteen or twenty tryings-on. The nurses who tried tho gowns out in their work found tljem far more satisfaettory than the oloth gowns. The* tests re­ sulted in the employment of a seam­ stress, Sho uses a pattern which was cut With a jig-saw out of compo board, This heavy pattern allows her to cut with scissors a dozen layers of crepe tisue paper ^t once, which en­ ables her to turn out sixty-six gowns a week—all oi them complete with tape to fasten, “ ‘The gOWns cost us approximately fifty cents apiece/ baugh. higher gojvns, inofO nurse, there fife contagious diseases, such as scarlot-fever, diphtheria^ smallpox, in­ fantile paralysis, etc. The nurses carry the paper gowns in sterile bags •—the ordinary grocery-store variety Of bag. A different gown is used in every home having a communicable disease. The gown is saved for each successive visit to the home. After it has been worn, it is folded up and placed in the bag. When the nurse no longer calls at that home, it burned.’" Paints Baboons Blue is Gumchew Carol I’m very fond of scrapple and I’m par­ tial to the apple, And I like to suck an orange and I love to chaw a plum, I Aud I tell you I’m a good 'un at eat­ ing chocolate pudd’n, But, if you want to please me, me gum, gum, gum. Gum! —Gum! —Gum,! Yum—Yum—Yum! If you want to please me give me gum gum, gum. And a most delicious pickin’ is a little bit of chicken, Especially if you're hungry and your appetite ha^’ come, But, when you’ve had enough to eat and really want a dandy treat, The only thing that can’t be beat Is gum, gum, 'gum. Yfiin—Yum—Yum! , choose to chew and, choosing, chew Gum, Gum, Gum! So, when you've had enough to eat, The happy hour has come When you may chew and chew and chew Gum, Gum, Gum. Heigh ho hum! Give me some I yearn to yaw my jaw and chaw Gum! Gum! Gunl! •—Frederick W. Pangborn, give So said Dr, Brunl- ‘Thls will mean a slightly cost pax* year than for cloth , .but the paper gown is .far satisfactory for the visiting who jtnust call at homos where * , On ‘ -my - - A sudden sound of Whistling dis­ turbed the slumberous air of the class­ room, and the strains of “Annie Laurie” floated over forty small heads bent over small slates. ‘Who’s that whistling?” screeched the teacher, as soon as she had recovered from her surprise, “It’s just masel,” answered Sandy Macpherson, with true Scottish imperturbllity. could whistle?' 'Did ye no ken ah Kenya’s Warden Stops Raids Thus But Dislikes Practice In a recent report of the Governor of the British Crown Colony of Kenya is included a report by the game war­ den telling how the settlers of the colony have been annoyed by ele­ phants, hippopotami, bushpigs and baboons. He describes a process which has been very effective in deal­ ing with baboons: i “A baboon is caught, a cage-trap or gin with muffled jaws being used, and a thick sack or rug is thrown over its head. Several persons then hold the animal, which is shaved as far as possible all over. This opera­ tion completed, the baboon is painted with a thick coat of Cambridge blue and liberated,- No member of his troop will again approach the scene of the indignity for an indefinite period.”' The game warden admits that he does not approvo of the treatment, saying "considering the highly or­ ganized intelligence of the baboons, I cannot but feel that the proceedings savor of cruelty, more specially on account of the color used.” A new method of testing old drugs and discovering new ones is suggest­ ed,. says the- foreign correspondent of The Journal of the American Medical Association (Chicago-),, through, a- dis­ covery made b>y the Hindu, scientist, Sir Ja-gadi's Bose, already noted the world over. In a lecture at the- Bose Institute, Calcutta, .he declaredi that the effect of drags on plants- and ani­ mals had been found to be- astonish­ ingly similar. Says the correspond­ ent: “An extensive field of investigation has been opened by the discovery of numerous Indian plants, the medicinal property of which had never been sus­ pected, pud by the use of which the heart machine can be regulated and rendered efficient. The action of a drug was first discovered from its ef­ fects on the pulsating tissue of the plant. An identical drug was then applied on the animal heart, A large number of Indian plants had been dis­ covered having characteristic medic­ inal properties which had not hither­ to been suspected. The efficacy of some of these ‘was far greater than any drugs in use. Investigations would no doubt lead to a new phar- macopoea for the relief of humanity and the establishment of a vast indus­ try in the utilization of indigenous plants for medicinal purposes.” “Wliat’s wrong now?” asked the as­ sistant manager. “Wrong!” replied the manager, “The fools have placed Madam Soprano’s testimonial for a cold cure on the same page with the announcement that sho had a sore throat and could not sing.” Origin of Instrument Lost in the Mists of Antiquity; Shown in Monuments - of Egypt, India Persia The dram Is a muaipal of great antiquity, in “The Pathfinder,” it fa of ent o-rigin known. man god of wine and of the vintage, promoter of civilization, lawgiver and lover of .peace, is said to have been the inventor of the old instrument. It is known that drams of all kinds were popular in tire most ancient civ­ ilizations. Representatons of various types of ths instrument have been found on monuments and' paintings in Egypt, Assyria, India and ’Persia, Perhaps the first soldiers to march to the beat of the drams were the janiz­ aries, the renegade Christians in the service of the Turks. At any rate, drums were used in the battle of Hali- don Hill in 1333, Originally drummers were gorge, ously bedizened Negroes. The last of these is said to ibwve been John Baptist, of the Scots Guards, who did not disappear until about the time of the Crimean War, Even to-day we find traces of the Negroes, in the leopard skin and the flourishes of the bandmaster's staff and the sticks of the man pounding the big drum. Tympanums, or kettledrums, were in use among tbte Greeks and Romans and were introduced into western Europe through the Roman civiliza­ tion. Some writers calim that drums were introduced by the Crusaders, but the instrument was known in England long before the crusades. Drums were not used in the British army, however, until the sixteenth century. Until the reign of Elizabeth the instrument was much larger than it is now and was held horizontally and beaten on one head only. Like­ wise it is not known at what date the snaredrum made its appearance. An instrument of this type belonging to the aucient Egyptians was found in the excavations at Thebes in 1823, The Spanish, Conqueror is said to have found drams in South American temples. Besides being ancient, the history of ’"the drum is honorable. We are ■told that the snakes of Ireland' fled from the Emerald Isle befora the drum-beats of St. Patrick. The? Puri­ tans of New England used’ the drum as a church bell. The- drum also fig­ ured prominently and' romantically all through our Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Now, however, the dram has fallen into bad graces in a number of places and Rs doom is threatened. Although it is hard for us to imagine a miliary band wthout a single drum, its days in such bands are likely numbered. A few years ago, the French govern­ ment acting unpon the recammenda- tion embodied in a report made by a committee cdecT that report, it dram was inarching, that rain impaired its useful­ ness, that its calle were Indistinguish­ able In battle, that it consumed a per­ iod of -two years to turn out an effici- . ent drummer and -that by abandoning , the use of tho drum many thousands ‘ of youths and men would be released for active service. Since then a num- ■ ber of European powers that maintain­ ed drum corps have followed the ex­ ample of the French. It is interesting to note that the famous drum of the great sea-fighter, Sir Francis Drake, was this consant companion throughout his career. On it he beat the signals on his flagship when he scattered the Spanish Arma­ da. It went with him on the first British ship that ever went around the world, and it sounded taps when, after hie death in the West Indies, his body was committed to the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. ----------$-------- - ‘Prince’s Chauffeur’ Finds it Easy To Obtain Money and instrument fact, say# such anci- that its inventor is up- However, Bacchus, the Ro- of generals In its army de- the drum must go. The is said, asserted that he a serious incumbrance in 4 MADE’EM SAY “MY WORD!” This Canadian farmer, photographed in Trafalgar Square, set a new hat style for the Londoners, Who marveled somewhat. Imposter “Borrows” From Girl and Father, Taxi Driver, Cashes His cheque I London — Employment by the Prince of Wales is regarded as an “open sesame” in certain social and financial circles. Ralph Thornton, twenty-nine, a me­ chanic, needed a little pocket money. He inade himself acquainted with a young woman. He poJMd as the ohauf- feur of the Prince of- Wales. When he suggested that the Kiri marry him she agreed and lent him a couple of pounds. Together they visited the girl’s parents and the masquerading suitor borrowed $50 from tho “old man.” Thornton introduced himself to tv taxi driver as the Prince's chauffeur and persuaded tho man to cash a cheque for $25. “He said he was blue Prince’s chant* four and I thought 'that was gllt-odgeq security,” said the taxi driver at thd trial. “I supposed yott expected to ho invlt* ed to court,” replied the judge, be- [fore sending Thornton to prison.