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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1921-10-27, Page 2Canada From Coast to Coast Chasing the shadow and missing the substance I red and fifty ought by the eing of the breed. RIAST furnaces get. UNG INTO SWING. steel works I have just re- have some half a dozen operation out of about and are what is known off the floor.” That is to pit, and strolls a few yards away casually. Then there is an explosion; the man strolls casually back; the pit is emptied and refilled. And so it goes on day and night. “Pigs” Preferred. This is the sort of material the steel­ works are using now. They would much prefer to use the neat and handy “pigs” which come from the blast fur­ naces. But the blast furnaces have been cold for months, and there are no "pigs” available except the few they have In stock. Some of the blast furnaces have been started, and there are hopes that in a few weeks supplies will begin to come in. Meanwhile, the steelmakers are using up the debris of the war and clearing their yards. So when you ride your new bicycle, or shave with your new Sheffield ra­ zor, you may reflect that it has in its time in all probability played many parts. It may have been, and very probably was, a shell case which never reached Fritz, or it might have been a bit of barbed wire behind which you shelter­ ed in your own particular trench, and on which you were possibly hung up when you participated in the delight­ ful entertainment known as a night at­ tack. parts steel- is, of Debris from Battlefield Be­ comes Every Grade of Steel in Britain’s Great Works. After many weeks of silence and Idleness, the steelmakers are starting up again, although timidly, with an eye on tiie blast furnaces, says a writer in a London newspaper. They are giving the ironmasters a lead. If the blast furnaces get into awing, as they are beginning to do, the steelmaker can go on. Otherwise, they must very soon come to a stop again. The great turned from furnaces in twenty-four, as “working Bay, they are using up all the scrap- iron which is lying about the yards, much of it consisting of debris of the war. There are small mountains of shell cases, old and new, great guns sawn into sections like cheeses; boiler­ plates; machinery castings—in fact, any eld scrap-iron. In the acres of this scrap which I inspected in. the neighborhood of Sheffield there was almost everything one eould think of ranging from locomotive axles and Crank shafts to safety bicycle and tin cans. “Any Old Iron?” They are all grist to the makers. The ordinary tin can course, a misnomer. It is not tin! it is not even iron usually, but a very soft steel. Out of this heterogeneous col­ lection the steelmakers will, within certain limits, make any sort of steel they wish, ranging from the softness and flexibility of lead to flint hard, such as they use for high-speed tools, which in working become red-hot and will go on cutting without losing their edge. It is all much the same to the steel­ maker. In practice certain ores yield better results than others, but, gener­ ally speaking, he will take any old rubbish out of the scrap-yard and make from it high-grade steel, such as Is used for razor-blades and ball-bear­ ings. It is all a matter of refinement. In non-technlcal phrase It is boiled and re-boiled, heated and cooled, and kneaded while hot like a lump of dough in the hands of the baker—only in this case the hands consist of a hydraulic press which administers a “squeeze” of 1,500 tons force. The scrap-yard in which I was per­ mitted to stumble about looked a most awesome spectacle of aisrupted human achievement, and reminded me forcibly of various “somewheres” in France. It was all mouldering with rust, and look­ ed as depressing a wilderness of rub­ bish as one could hope to see. But rust does not worry the steelmaker. Rust is iron, and is used again. Putting the Lid on It. The chief difficulty about it is all this scrap has to be broken up small enough to go through the fur­ nace doorways, and this is not so easy a job as the uninitiated may suppose. I saw little gangs of men here and there engaged in reducing these mighty stacks of iron and steel to a workable size. One gang was dealing with big cast­ ings. They make a pile of these and a crane raises a weight over the pile, and drops it from the top of the jib. Tl. weights used vary from a ton up- watds. When one of these drops plumb on to a pile of cast-iron scrap, it is well not to be standing too close. Wrought-iron has to be treated dif­ ferently. I found a blue-goggled man working quite on his own in a corner with an oxy-acetylene outfit. He was directing a flame no bigger than a match on to the boiler-plates of a bat­ tleship, and cutting them up, not quite like cheese, but with a most astonish­ ing ease and quickness. Close by was a blasting pit. This, I found, was used for masses of iron too large to be broken up by the pleas­ ant method of “dropping the weight.’’. The pit is filled with great frag­ ments. A lonely man comes along with an extremely handy and portable electric drill, and drills a hole in one of the larger fragments. He puts in a charge of dynamite puts the lid on the ------—---------- Reforestation on Dominion Forest Reserves. Each year a certain amount of tree­ planting is done on Dominion forest reserves in the West The species planted are mostly white spruce, jack pine and Scotch pine. Most of these are set out in the forest reserves lo­ cated among open prairie and agricul­ tural lands and form part of a general scheme of reforestation. Some of them, especially on the Pines and the Riding Mountain forest reserves, are set out in small sample plots from which it is expected in time to derive valuable information as to the most economical and efficient means of es­ tablishing plantations. -----------------<8,------------------ Stock-Taking of Forests Needed. Many tens of thousands of pounds are spent every year in calculating the world’s cereal crops. Yet in the case of cereals by the natural laws of sup­ ply and demand a few seasons’ effort can meet the world’s requirements. I would ask you to consider how much money is spent in the whole Empire in calculating what will be the timber position in ten or twenty or fifty years’ time. Yet to plan, establsh, mature and harvest a timber crop will rarely take less than a century.— Lord Lovat at Empire Timber Con­ ference. co­ I took a day to search for God,I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods tamed, Just where one scarlet maple flamed, saw His footprint in the sod. And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods tamed, un- Just where one scarlet maple flamed, saw His footprint in the sod. that Then suddenly, all unaware, Far off in the deep shadows where A solitary hermit thrush Sank through the holy twilight hush— heard His voice upon the air.I And even as I marvelled how God gives us Heaven here and now, In a stir of wind that hardly shook The poplar leaves beside the brook, His hand was light upon ?. j Fit as a Fiddle at Forty. Too often the man of forty tells him­ self that he is growing old. “Not so young as I used to be” is a phrase against which I would earnestly warn all middle-aged people. Don’t say it —don’t even think it. That is my first practical hint, and the most important of all, says a health specialist. Fix your allotted span at seventy years or more, cling to the thoughts, ideas, and actions of youth, and you will find that old age will pass you by. Hundreds of cases have been brought to my notice where the great mistake has been made of selecting exercises of a too strenuous nature. Some people put far too much vigor into them, and then, on account of en-. suing stiffness . and lassitude, throw up the whole thing in disgust. Exercise need be of a very mild and pleasant character only, such as could be performed in five or ten minutes at the outside without the least strain. A few bending movements to keep the digestion in working order are all that is required, and when there is an ob­ jection to exercise, you can arrange a splendid substitute by following the morning bath with a brisk rub down with a rough towel or a pair of flesh gloves. A plain nourishing diet, a careful mastication, plenty of sleep and fresh air, and moderation in all things are the golden rules for those who would live to a ripe old age and maintain their health. ‘All work and no play makes Jack boy,” and for that reason a of some description should be up. If your hobby takes you a dull hobby taken into the open air so much the better. You will have succeeded in obtaining relaxation for the mind and exercise for the body at one and the same time. Don’t worry over things which can­ not possibly be avoided or Worry kills, and nothing health so quickly or ages rapidly. altered; destroys one so --------------------- A new device develops, fixes, washes and dries photographic films within a single space-saving cabinet. The Mounted. Between the silence' and the stars He takes his lonely way O’er barren tundras where the wolves And foxes scorn to stray. The igloos of the Esquimaux, The missions here and there-, The tepees and the trading posts. Are in his loyal care. With horse or husky in the cold i Unflinchingly he goes: I Death like a shadow paces him Across the northern snows, Beside his puny campfire sits, And in his blanket creeps, With silver daggers of the frost To slay him while he sleeps. His beat is bounded by the ice That rims the Arctic Sea, The wilderness acknowledges His grim authority, i He tracks the evildoer down Through famine, freeze and thaw, For in the country God forgot Behold! he is the law. -*- Clouds Two Miles Long. We speak of “heavy” thunderclouds, but it is difficult to realize that any­ thing floating in the air is in actual fact heavy even when it is about to percipitate many tons of rain upon the garth. /Clouds, indeed, have weight, for all of them contain water in suspension. A big thundercloud may be two miles long and broad and three mile® high. If 4t is a continuous mass composed of water'vapor to the point of saturation, ii represents 200,000 tons of suspended in the air. Nature’s pumping engines raised that great quantity" of from the sea and the earth, and the cloud itself contains in “energy of position” exactly the power expended in raising this water. The cloud is, in fact, a reservoir of great capacity, per­ haps 5,000 feet above the ground level. One of the largest sales of pure bred live stock in Northern Alberta took place recently when Hon, V. W. Smith, Minister of Railways1, disposed of his herd at Camrose to Kleakum Ranch Company, of S°xsmith, Alberta, 5Sr $35’000- Or# head of Ranch Company. “Fairfax” Heref cL u Canada’s aid to returned soldiers is universally known and the latest statistics issued show that the Sol­ diers’ Settlement Board have placed 26,000. returned men on the land with monetary advances exceeding $84,000,- 000- 108,000 disabled soldiers were treated by the Department of Soldiers1’ Civil Re-EJstabllshment and 50,000 of them fitted by vocational training for new positions in life; 73,000 are in re­ ceipt of pensions on a scale more liberal than any other country in the world; $164,000,000 was paid in gra­ tuities; and an insurance scheme has been developed by which men may protect their families from want, ir­ respective of their present condition of health. Quebec’s population has reached 2,- 550,000, according to estimates made by G. Marquis, chief statistician of the province. The last provincial census, which wras held in 1918, gave a popu­ lation of 2,486,000, compared with 2,- 002,232 in 1911. The increase, Mr- Marquis stated, will affect the number of representatives in other provinces, which have not kept up with Quebec’s growth, in the House of Commons. Exports of fish and fish products from Canada for the year ending December 31st, 1920, were as follows: dry codfish, 1,788,015 quintals: pickled codfish, 99,109 quintals; lobsters1, 14,- 498 cases; cod-liver oil, 291,351 gal­ lons; cod oil, 4,797 tuns; seal oil, 1,003 tuns; whale oil, 154 tuns; S. R. her­ ring, 42,582 barrels1: pickled salmon, 1,957 tierces. Women all over the Dominion will be particularly Interested in the com­ ing general election, in view of the recent amendment to the Dominion Election Act, which gives' to women a wider share in the government of Canada than they have ever had pre­ viously. Under the present Act any woman who is a British subject of the full age of 21 has equal rights with men in holding offices, being a candi­ date for the House of Commons and in voting. Forty new Silos have been erected by farmers in the country surround­ ing. Lethbridge, Alta,,- this year, which are all now filled with sun-flowers and folio-wing announced Statistics: Fernie, corn. Sunflowers in yield have avel^ aged more than twelve tons to the acre and the corn crop has been the best ever harvested in Southern Al­ berta. An average of thirty-five bushels of wheat per acre for the seven days* operations in which his outfit has been engaged is the report of Grant Be­ langer, who has been operating a large threshing machine in the vielni- ty of Lake Saskatoon. One field of Marquis' wheat threshed sixty bushels to the acre, a field of oats one hun­ dred and seven bushels and a field of barley seventy-one. Ex-Canadian soldiers at the rate of more than two hundred per week are making application for life insurance policies under the Returned Soldiers’ Insurance Act, which eliminates pre­ liminary medical examination. The . number of returned soldiers holding policies now totals more than 5,000, involving some $13,500,000. Census returns for the towns and cities have been by the Dominion Bureau of Vernon, 3,649, 1911, 2,671; 4,343, 3,146; Brandon, 15,359, 13,839; Port Arthur, 16,134, 11,220: Kitchener, 21,605, 15,196; Guelph, 18,019, 15,175; Valleyfield, 9,180, 9,449; St. Johns, Que., 9,859, 5,903; New Glasgow, 8,959, 6,383; Magog, 5,145, 3,978; Joliette, 9,036, 6,^46. The utilization of potatoes for the manufacture of potato flour, potato starch, dextrine and other products from potatoes, is the purpose of a company which has been organized with headquarters at New Westmin­ ster, B.C. H. V. Jansen, a Danish ex­ pert, is to be in charge of the plant. Carried out successfully, the new en­ terprise is planned to afford a per­ manent market for the potatoes grown in the Lower Fraser Valley, relieving the situation when there is a surplus. Henry Robertson, one of the pion­ eers of the distrit some twelve miles west of Grande Prairie, Alta., expects to thresh from fifteen to eighteen thousand bushels of wheat this sea­ son, making his twelfth consecutive bumper crop here. His yield per acre during this period has never dropped below twenty-five bushels, and has run as high as fifty. Several heavy yields of wheat are reported by farmers in the district of Magrath, Alberta, who have finished threshing. On one form forty bushels to the acre were obtained on a field of 150 acres, and on another thirty- two bushels to the acre on a field of similar size. Yields of thirty bushels to the acre are fairly common. water have water “Broadening Out” the University. choir, no priest, no church aisle vast and dim, organ grandly rolling hymn on hymn. in the West the altarcloth is bright, For woven there with threads of sun­ set light SanctuaryDuring the past week the provincial University has undertaken to provide study classes in accordance with re­ quests received from Junior Farmers’ Institutes and Junior Women’s Insti­ tutes in Cheltenham, Streetsville, and Brampton respectively. In each case the personnel of the classes will con­ sist of young men and young women from the farms in the vicinity and in each case also the request is for in­ struction in English literature. Be­ lieving that such a movement towards higher education is one of the most encouraging signs of this new era, the University of Toronto is endeav­ oring to provide instruction in all cases of this land so far as the size of its staff will permit. In this “broadening out” policy the university has the cordial support of the general public because it is everywhere recog­ nized that the provincial university is in this way serving the interests of the province. Are rare designs in purple, rose and gold, Beneath bright opal tints in beauty scrolled. And high o’er all, star-candles faintly glow, j While flowers offer Incense from be­ low.THE HOPEFUL VIEW Things are looking pretty black, trouble everywhere we see, and we’re prone to cry, “Alack,” and to murmur “Hully Chee!” But there’s comfort in the thought that they’ve looked that way before, and the passing seasons (brought all things right side up once more. Now we weep and ring our hands, and denounce the doggone luck, for the people of all lands seemingly have run amucjc Statesmen do their little stunt in a rattled, locoed way, . but the problems they confront |vill be solved some' pleasant day. Crime and license seem to rule, seem to thrive in every town; let us keep our foreheads cool—everything -will settle down. But there’s nothing new in sight, nothing new in any clime: every­ thing comes out all right if we only give it time. ' After every three-ring war, every routine tiling expires, and the evils we ab­ hor were confronted by our s|res. And our fathers doubtless said, as their sons remark to-day,, that all righteousness was dead, and the furies were atSplay. But they lived to see„ the dawn of a good and wholesome time, when the bogies all were gone, with the seething wave of crime. And our troubles too will cease as the seasons run their course, and we’ll boost the dove of peace till our larynxe^are hoarse. with quickeningworld I I longed saving for any part beauty be . . walk briskly, will find that it medicine, and it turned what I had Good trade usually means fewer criminals, according to official figures. Low winds an anthem breathe through dark’ning trees, Earth, sky, cloud, star; a temple fair is these. 20,000 Oranges on Tree. A single orange tree of average size will bear 20,000 oranges. for In 1912 my brow. esg REGLAR FELLER -THtL££- rr At last with evening as I Homeward, and thought learned, And all that there was still to probe— I caught the glory of His robe Where the last fires of sunset burned. Back to the start looked and In making And from that kindling ecstasy knew God dwelt within my heart. -----Bliss Carman.--------- ---------- For the New Dictionary. An Optimist—“An Irishman buying goods of a Scotchman, which he hopes to sell at a profit to a Jew.” ----------*---------- ■Skulls found during excavations prove that mankind existed at least 1,500,000 years ago. rr is. V\N>E__ 1 b ----------*---------- China’s New Alphabet. The new phonetic alphabet China has proved a success, the National Educational Conference recommended a Chinese alphabet of thirty-nine characters, of which there were twenty-four so-called initials, three medials and twelve finals. By 1915 schools to teach the phonetic symbols had been established as an experiment; lately all the normal schools have given special courses in the subject, and this year all the pro­ vinces are learning the new system and putting it into use. Get Out—And Walk. There is no better tonic in the wide, wide world that a good walk in the * open air. If your work keeps you in­ side most of the day, get up a little earlier and walk to work. It will make you feel better, make you better able to do your work. As an old hunter once said, “The good Lord must have wanted every­ body to get lots of fresh air and sun­ shine, that’s why He made so much of it.” When you walk, breathe deeply. ,You beats any amount of doesn’t cost a cent. When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.