HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1924-09-18, Page 6AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME
I•‘Daddy’s Cathedral
The other day the writer had the
pleasure of making the acquaintance
of a workman -who has supervised the
laying cf every stone of Liverpool
.Cathedral. He Is a master-craftsman,
Mr. Robert Cooper, of Ronald Street,
Liverpool, and he has been at work on
the cathedral during the twenty years
since it was begun.
“I laid the first .stone, and I can say
without hesitation that every stone is
in its proper position,” Mr. Cooper
said. “1 have taken a great personal
pride in my work, and I feel that I
have become a part of this wonderful
building. I have been here on every
working day at 7 a.m., and done a full
day’s work, and never been off ill.”
Mr. Cooper’s wife and children have
often gone to the cathedral to see him
at work, and his youngest child re
gards the building as “Daddy’s cathe
dral.”
The Wrong Subject.
Here is a really delightful story con
cerning Queen Mary and a courageous
small boy.
The King, the Queen, and Princess
Mary were visiting a vinery recently,
and were conducted over the place by
the proprietor and his young son. No
ticing that the boy had a camera, the
Queen intimated, at the end of the tour
of inspection, that he might take her
photograph.
The boy blushed and hesitated, and
when the Queen encouraged him, he
blurted out that he only had one film
•left and he had meant that for Prin
cess Mary. The Queen promptly and
gracefully stood aside, and the Prin
cess stepped smilingly into the
breach!
The Duchess and the Rose.
The Duchess of York has an unusual
ly remarkable memory for faces, a
fact which was evident at
garden party given to one thousand
wounded men from hospital. Among
the guests was. Sergeant O’Leary, late
Dorset Regiment, and as she shook
a recent
hands with him H.R.LI. asked, smiling
ly, “Have you still the rose?”
She was referring to the occasion
when at a Christmas party at Buck
ingham Palace she had given Sergeant
O’Leary a flower from her bouquet. ,
Sergeant O’Leary, who wa3 sur-.
prised at being remembered, replied:
“Yes, and I’m going to keep it.”
Countess Becomes Gold-Miner.
A miner’s license has been taken
cut by the Countess of Stradbroke, '
wife of the Governor of Victoria, and
she has gone to the gold-mines in Cen
tral Australia to prospect.
Lady Stradbroke once accompanied
her husband upon a big-game shoot
in Africa.
The Countess tells a good story of
a traveller who entered a hotel in the
Australian bush and inquired: “Can
I have something to eat?”
“Yes; what would you lik
the proprietor.
“What have you got?”
“Oh, we’ve got everything.’
“All right. I’ll Lave a bit of every
thing.”
The proprietor shouted downstairs:
“One stoo!”
Long-Eared.
A retort made by Mr. Tom Shaw,
British Minister of Labor, shows that
he has a readier wit than many of his
colleagues realized. “Rabbits!” cried
an M.P. recently when Mr. Shaw re
plied to a question on unemployment.
“There are other long-eared animals
besides rabbits!” was the Labor Minis
ter’s prompt reply.
A Musical Dog.
“This is Mr. Shmee.” When Dame
Clara Butt made this remark a day or
two ago I expected to be introduced to '
a Chinese or Japanese visitor. Great;
was my astonishment when I found,
that Mr. Shmee was a Pekingese dog! !
Mr. Shmee, I discovered, has a wonder
ful ear for music. He actually follows
his mistress vocally when she prac
tises her scales! The little dog’s
notes are as pure in tone as many,
human voices.
Publicity.
“When I was but a tiny tad
My mother called ‘Come here, my lad,’
Then led me to the garden plot
Where, in a fertile, sun-drenched spot,
She had prepared a lettuce bed;
And pointing to the soft mold, said:
‘Just cast your eyes on this, my son.
When four more days their course
have run.’
Natural Resources Bulletin.
Unpolished Gems From
Child Essays on Forestry
by fire it
the
fire
the
Jack Pine is used mostly for news
Papers
tough.
Fires
I
coun-
there
“Believe.”
I believe in friendship, and I believe
in trees,
I believe in hollyhocks a-swaying
in the breeze,
I belive in robins and roses white
and red,
rippling brooks and rivers and
blue skies overhead,
I believe in laughter, and I be
lieve in love,
I believe the daffodils believe in
God above.
And
And
And
And
And
I am no unbeliever. I know that men
are true,
p know there’s joy in summertime
U'hnn alrirxa ahnvn a r»o hlno
i1
when skies above are blue,
know there is no earthly power can
shape a budding rose,
Or bring a daisy into bloom; with all
that wisdom knows.
It could not fashion, if it would,
humblest blade of grass
Or stretch a living carpet where
weary travelers pass.
Hungry.
Ain’t nature grand. This wide
aexpanse makes me feel like
worm.
She—“Makes me feel like
‘grub.’ ”
mere
the
the
l
a little
have
for I
I believe in fidendship, for I
found it good,
And I believe in kindly words,
have understood:
My faith is founded on the years and
all that I have seen,
Something of God I’ve looked upon no
matter where I’ve been—
Within a swamp but yesterday a liiy
smiled at me
And only God could set it there to
bloom for me to see.
—Edgar Guest.
His Worldly Goods.
At a wedding the bridegroom had no
means of support except
who was rich.
When the bridegroom
peat the words," With all
goods I thee endow,” his
heard to say, “Heavens!
his bicycle!”
his father,
had to re
lay worldly
father was
there goes
birds
and
be-
and
It
when
was one tree
a man
that
stood
was as
up he
j
of trees such
What 1900 Has Done for
Northern Ontario.
Glancing back to the commencement
of the present century and surveying
Northern Ontario as it was then, in
dustrially, agriculturallly and in den
sity of population, one can hardly ap
preciate the advancement that has
taken place. Only those who constant
ly have their hand on what might be
termed the provincial pulse can realize
; the great growth of Northern Ontario’s
many outstanding natural resources
says the Natural Resources Intelli
gence Service of the Department ol
the Interior.
In 1900 Northern Ontario was hut a
portion of the map. The province’s
boundary reached only to the Albany
river, which latter, so far as the aver
age citizen of the province was con
cerned, -was in the wilderness. In
1912 the boundary was extended tc
Fort Nelson on the Hudson Bay, and
many thousands of square miles of
territory were added to the province.
North Bay in 1900 lay on the margin
Of settlement, while to-day settlers are
raising crops along the Canadian Na
tional railway, 250 miles further north
and the T. & N. O. railway has pushed
its line 58 miles beyond to open up
the country.
In Northern Ontario are some ol
our largest pulp and paper mills, using
water powers which had for ages re
mained unharnessed awaiting the com
ing of the engineer for their develop
ment. What was in 1900 considered
an almost impenetrable forest is now
supplying the pulpwood which keeps
the large mills of that portion of On
tario busy, as well as providing enor
mous quantities of freight traffic to
the railways that have followed indus
try.
It was not until 1904 that the Cobalt
silver camp was discovered, following
the construction of the Timiskaming
and Northern Ontario railway from
North Bay to Lake Temiskaming. This
discovery brought in prospectors and
mining men with a rush, and soon a
number of towns and villages were
established. Since its discovery in
Northern Ontario 343,895,780 ounces
of silver have been produced, valued
at $212,668,434. Prospecting in the
district did not stop with the discovery
of silver, however. Soon the wider
field towards Cochrane, on the Trans
continental railway, was being inten
sively prospected, leading to the dis
covery of the Porcupine and Kirkland
Lakes gold-bearing areas-. From 1909
to last December gold to the value of
$128,383,395 lias bee taken out, or a
total for these two metals of $341,-
051,829 from what was unknown terri
tory at the commencement of the cen
tury.
This widespread development in
Northern Ontario is but an indication
of that to come. But a small portion
has yet been surveyed, while much
less has been closely prospected. The
enormous amount of water-power al
ready developed and awaiting its ap
plication w'ill eventually induce indus
tries requiring cheap power to enter
the district, and these industries will
attract labor, which in turn will pro
vide markets for a large farming in
terest. Northern Ontario, with its
great and varied natural resources, is
making such rapid advances as will
in a compartively short time demand
the attention of older Ontario and of
Canada as a whole.
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Britain Has Tilted Half Inch
in 50 Years.
Great Britain is tiltling, becoming
higher in the north and lower in the
south, if a delicate instrument which
records such happenings £in be re
lied upon.
There is little alarm however, that
inhabitants of England, Scotland
Wales will slide off into the Eng-
Channel, for recent readings of
land levels indicated that since
years ago,
The Natural Resources Intelligence
Service of the Dept, of the Interior
at Ottawa says:
One of Canada’s most important
economic mineral resources, from the-
standpoint of utility, is that of sand
and gravel. While not of large mone
tary value, compared with other min
eral production, it is one of the classes
of non-metallic minerals that it would
be exceedingly difficult to get along;
without.
It is not necessary here to detail
the great number of purposes for
which sand and gravel are used. The
movement for the provision of better;
roads is based entirely upon supplies:
of sand and gravel, while the use of i
cement would be very materially re-1
stricted were it not that when mixed I
with sand and gravel concrete can be :
made at reasonable cost.
The railways are largely dependent;
upon sand and gravel for ballasting
their tracks, while no railway loco
motive would be allowed to have a
station without a supply of sand for
friction purposes.
In some portions of Canada gravel !
is not readily procurable, and conse-j
quently is more greatly appreciated ‘
than in those portions more generous- i
ly supplied. This is particularly true:
<in some sections of the Prairie Pro
vinces, where both sand and gravel
for construction purposes have to be
brought considerable distances.
There are several varieties of sand
in Canada, varying in fineness and in
composition. In certain portions of
Canada a sand suitable for glass-
j making is found, while in others a
' sand useful for moulding purposes is
found. The larger portion of the out-;
put of sand and gravel, however, is
used for construction work, and it is
'in this form that the public is most
familiar with this necessary material.
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“She did not tell me what I’d .sec
When four days- older I should be—
She only smiled when I would ask,
And kept on at whatever task
Employed her tireless hands and feet;
hinted to me what might meet
wondering gaze when should ar
rive
day that kept my faith alive.
Then one sweet morn all warm and
s wet—
Childlike, I’d managed to forget! —
She called me out to where she’d sown
The seed bed that to me she’d shown,
And pointed. There, before my eyes,
I got life’s greatest-yet surprise—
No lovelier thing I’ve ever seen!
My name, in dainty lettuce-green!”
The man who-told that tale to me
Craved personal publicity.
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as its fibres are so long and
often sweep out many cities.——-----<•--------
In the Silence.
A Rhyme to Remember.
“Real action is in silent moments.” i
—Emerson.;
Come, soul of mine, withdraw a little
space
From all the busy turmoil of the
street,
The nervous hurry and the frenzied
heat
Of mad ambition in its headstrong race.
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Seek thou, in silence and in solitude,
To read the message of the Cosmic
scroll,
And chart the pathway to the final
goal
full achievement and of self sub
dued.
Of
Of
He made folks wish he’d never seen
His “name in dalntj’- lettuce-green.”
That kindly mother, unbeknown,
More than mere lettuce seeds had
sown;
Since then he’s labored without stint
To keep that name of his in print!
—Stickland Glllilan.
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The Kingfisher’s Ruse.
In the kingfisher we have one of the
most wonderful examples which Na
ture affords of “camouflage.”
At first it might be thought that the
brilliance of its color—the azure blue
and green back and the rusty red
derneath—would render it one of
easiest birds to detect.
This is, however, far from being
case.
un-
the
the
If one is fortunate enough to
spot a kingfisher ^without being detect
ed by the bird, its blue color makes it
quite easily discernible, but as it is
being watched it suddenly
without apparently moving.
What happens is simple,
turns round and faces him,
| senting in place of its brilliant blue
back
matches the brown bank or blends
i exquisitely with the herbage
make it practically invisible.
vanishes
When it
thus pre-
that russet red front which
so
Last Days Out.
night the fog-horn was choked by
the dripping mist,
Square, mufflled figures stared into
the dark.
Three bells clanged, answered; the
down from
All
old watch clambered
the Crow’s Nest,
| The prow bit the deep sea
like a
. And to-day
shark
light creeps
with teeth
over the
water and smooths it down,
i Five seagulls dip when the ship lifts,
rise when it falls,
Close by our side the water is veined
like green ice,
Sharp light splinters the foam when it
crawls.
Twelve hours, ten hours, Inishtrahull
will bend before us,
In a little whille only, Irish earth un
der our feet.
No engines now throb as loud or trem
ble as strangely
As our hearts beat.
—Kathleen Foster.
from life’s Babel and the jang
ling cries
charlatan and mountebank, who
urge
« Each his own theory as a potent
purge
ev’ry ill beneath unheeding skies.another big fire, causing mil
deaths and millions of dol-
If the forest is destroyed
makes the place dissolute.
If the forest is burned up
try looks as if there was a
for about two months.
It destroys the homes of
and scon they get full of insects
caterpillars.
We should protect our forests
cause it is the assay of the land.
The ccmpers would light a fire
would go away and leave it going,
would go forth and forth until the
whole of the forest would be a flamed.
It destroys the soil because it is
made of dead leaves. This is called
leaf moled.
Tourists come from all over the
world to shoot grizzle bear, deer, etc.,
this keeps our railroads going.
The value of our forest costs a lot,
it is not like other forests.
If there was no trees why
the people light their fires, why the
wind wcu’.d blow all over the places,
starting
lions of
lars.
There
wide as when
couldn’t reach the top.
There are many kinds
as the Jack pine, Bull pine, Douglas
fir, poplar, birch, hemlock, cedar,
maple, cottonwood, pulpwood, etc.
Beautiful scenery is afforded by
tourists.
The maple you use for sugar and
without sugar you would die.
China is the horrible example of
treeless hills.
The trees keep the soil from rush- r
ing down the water.
The value of our forest is worth 1
more than are assets. Now the for- '
ests make the beauty of the country
more nicer. -
It destroys the hou.se3 of men and
women if the homes that are sur
rounded by trees when the forest burn
and .kill the birds, the birds are not
able to kill the worms so the hov.ses
that are surrounded by trees are des
troyed by worms and caterpillars.
The total some of our forest
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Cat and Queen.
The Royal Society for the Preven-'
tion cf Cruelty to Animals, which has |
been very much in the limelight lately, I
was always very warmly supported by j
Queen Victoria.
When the society decided to give j
medals in recognition of special acts
of bravery in saving the lives of ani
mals, the design for the medal was
submitted to the Queen.
A little later the society received a 1
letter from her secretary, saying that, ■
as no cat was included in the design, I
Queen Victoria had drawn one herself ■
in the position in which she wished it:
to appear.
The cat still appears upon medals ■
issued by the society.
In a case of drowning, asphyxiation
or electric shock one of the best ways ada in nineteen hundred and twenty-
to establish artificial respiration is three was twenty-nine million
the prone-pressure method, in which
the rescuer lays the victim face down/
straddles his thighs and with fingers
spread over his lowest ribs presses
them in unison with his own breath-
the small whisper of the inner
voice
Speak of realities, search thee and
reveal
Thy hidden motives. Hear its high
appeal
For nobler living and; unselfish joys.
Thus is the silence
thee
Impulse and wisdom for the fuller
life,
And quickened thd>
to the strife
To win at last the soil’s high liberty!
will be born to
[u shalt go back
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Not Found Yet.
Neighboring Bungalist “Hey,
Brown, where’s, that portable bunga
low you just put on your lot disap
peared to?”
Brown—“Tied the dog to it when I
went to town this morning and the
brute must have seen a rabbit run by.”
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Where Soft Winds Blow.
Strange Flower.
No faint hot smelll of honey, drench
ing
The giddy bees like velvet light;
No mellow tang of apples, quenching
The cry for color in the night;
No earthly smell of roots; no dusky
Aroma sprung from wood fresh-cut;
No black, bloom-covered grape grown
musky;
No breath from petalsl blilndly shut;
No sea-wind blown around the sunken
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„T, . . , , , , , I Green piles that knock against theWhere soft winds blow and shadows I .__
lie
On sunflecked grass 'neath beeches '
high,
The warm earth breathes forth
odors rare,
rhythmic humming fills the air— ■
voice of summer passing by.
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, pier—
I Though on such perfumes men grow
drunken
As upon danger, love or
Not these I crave, who
gaping
At gardens, where I want but one
Dear odor, clinging and escaping;
The soft, small scent of my small son.
—Babette Deutsch.-------*-------
Vacuum cleaners are being used 1 y
the French police to extract dust from
prisoners’ clothing, so that it can be
examined under the microscope.-------C-------
What is believed to be the largest1
speckled trout ever caught in Alberta;
was brought to Edmonton by the ■
Manderson Fish Co. of Cold Lake. Itj
was 45 inches long, ten inches across i
the back, and weighed 50 pounds,
was caught in a net.
fear;
stand hereHOW SO?
be-
A f’Gck of white sheep in the sky
Strays northward, grazing dreamily
Through heavenly meadows rich
and fair,
Where soft winds blow.
DO YOU KNOW
A CANDLE HAKES
THELSAME KIND
OF NOISE
ASA WATCH?
Color cf Red Sea.
The color of the Red Sea is due- to
hosts cf minute warm-water plant
animals that live in it.
in Can-
dollars.
Canada
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Beunu for a homestead in Alberta, James Mullen, with his wife and
family of eight children, have just arrived. out from the Hebrides.
If it were not for her forests
would be full of poor unhappy fami
lies and tourists would be menaced
by men desperately in need of
and clothing.
If there’s a fire on the train
you burn a piece of land on each
of the lines and then you can prevent
them.
Hunters would not have much to do
and would have to do something else
for a living.
They would be no animals
fire would kill them all. If it
kill them they would die of
nd thirst.
Very long ago the lumber
prairies was so thick that they
thought they could never use it up
nd now they let the fire roam all over.
Where there has been a fire there
won’t be any gardens. There wouldn’t
be any railroad.".
When a man is smoking a cigarette
or a cigar he should always look to
ee if it is out.
Certain kinds of wood have pulp.
Anyone living in the forest often
lose their lives.
A forest fire might easily start and
never be noticed and many lives
would be lost that way.
The timber is watersheds.
The fire destroies grasshoppers and
the pretty tall green trees.
We should never leave half-burnt
securets around because they start a
fire easy.
Broken bottles mite set a fire
cause the sun will .shine on
broken glass and magnetic the light , s
and it will start to burn the grass. ; (
And last, but not least, is tins: ■
DID NT YOU
EVER HEAR THE
CANDLESTICK!
In greenwood glades the tree-tops
sigh
For .sorrow that the year must die,
But summer days are still to spare,
And nature bids us banish care,
Unreckoned let the sweet hours fly—
Where soft wind.s blow.
—Julia Morgan Harding.
for the
did not
hunger
on the
A Sheaf of Sags Sente
The man who rides in a car with
, ambition for motorjhas a gcod engine,
but to avoid catastrophe he needs a
road map and strong controls.
Many a fellow w’ho has been guided
by appearances has later been counted
among the disappearances'.
It is something to have discovered
the shadow of reality if one has wit
enough to seek the substance which
casts it.
The wish may be father to the
thought, but- the child will die in in
fancy if it is not art mothered by the
will.
Progress undoubtedly requires mo
tion, but a lot of folks make the mis
take of thinking that commotion is an
effective substitute.
I It is a good thing to go forward,
but sometimes a retreat is better and
, braver.
; The ideal hospital would be one
i which could be destroyed as soon as
the ' it was out of date, in thirty or forty,
the
and
lish
the
the last readings,about fin;
the north of Scotland had only lifted
half an inch and the .south of England
had sunk slightly less than that. The
levels at intermediate places have
risen or fallen proportionately as they
are north or south of the dividing line.
Experts explain that in another fifty
years they will again take the read
ings, but until then the exact inten
tions of this slight wandering of the
island cannot be accurately ascertain
ed. They say that in past ages Eng
land was joined to the Continent, and
it i.s probable that the change in the
earth’s crust which made Britain in
dependent by creating the English
Channel may still be going on. They
point out that it is an established fact
that erosion along the north coasts of
Norway and Holland lately ha.s caused
the former to rise about a half inch
annually, and the latter to descend hv
a similar amount.
Milton’s Reply.
Probably no one has ever called John
Milton a wit, yet the great poet could
on occasion make a stinging retort, as
an old lette:
show
Milton, and when he did l.e remarked
bitterly:
“God hath punished you for your
malice toward my fathe-t by taking
away your eyesight.”
“Aye,” said Milton, “but before I
lost my eyes he lost h:.s head.”
recently
Charles II. de:
discovered,
el to meet
Boss at Last.
years, said Sir Berkeley Moynihan,| Persistent rain has had an odd effect on the cabbage cron of eastern
chairman of tae nny ledical Ad- d Failing to head up, the one shown climbed to a height of four feet.
i visory Board, recently. |
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She—“I would be inclined to accept
your proposal, but I understand your
late wife forbade you to marry again
when she died?”
He—“So she did! but now I am go
ing to let her see Liat I am deter
mined to be master at ’ast in my own
• house.”