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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-10-27, Page 6to-07041v Neectie,s of Ora.nite Once, the slender needles of granite and ice congealed above the world where men lived, were no more than the cry of earth towards the iky. In the evenings, after supper, the peasants told each other legends. "There are in this region mountains of Pro, di$iotis height, particularly around the Vala and the Val d' Aottate, There is found what are called Glaciers, and what the na- tives call AccursedMountain, be- cause it is always covered with snow and, ice." Peter the Third of Aragon went to the summit of Canigou in 1280, and Petrareh ascended the Ventoux in 13313. Mont Aiguille was climbed at the oe- der, or rather the whim, of a king in 1492, and Leonardo da Vinci conquered, so it is said, a certain. Mount. Boso (in 1511?), But these ascents remained isol- ated instances. The mountains climbed were relatively low and Were only OD the edge of the great ranges and the eternal. snows, Were men afraid of the high peaks, whether in the Alps or the Himalaya? A few peasants ventured among them — crystal-gatherers and chamois-hunters.... Some foreigners, too, the great travel- lers approached little by little the terrifying beauty of the high hills, In 1741 an Englishman called William Wyndham, who lived at Geneva, organized with some of his countrymen "un voyage aux Glacieres de Savoie, dans la vat- lee de Chamougny." In spite of the local prior, a good Old man "who showed them a thousand courtesies and advised them strongly against proceeding higher," and in spite of the local inhabitants who told them "that even the crystal-gatherers and the hunters of bouquetins and chamois, not to mention all the strangers who came to Cham- ougny, had been content to see what they saw at present," they ventured as far as Montenvers. "From there we had a full view of the glacier the reader must imagine a lake whipped by a strong wind, then suddenly frozen." Wyndham and his companions were more intrigued by the gla- ciers, hedged aboot with legends of which they took small ac- count, than by Mont Blanc, which they do not so much as mention. None the less they were the first visitors to the. Mer de Glace: the English had opened the high Faucigny road to tour- ist traffic. Twenty years later the ascent of the Giant of the Alps itself was to be the order of the day, — From "Mont Blanc to Eeverest," by Gaston Rebuffat, Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sutton. Q. How can I cope with some wallpaper in one of my rooms, which has lest its grip and formed an unsightly bulge on the wall? A, Here's one good way of "battling the bulge"; slit the bulge with a razor blade and, using a knile, insert library paste thinned to a creamy con- sistency. Smooth the whole thing out with a stiff brush, and the appearance of your wall should be much improved. BOMBER'S VICTIM — A policeman rushes to the side of re dazed and bloodied man after a bomb exploded in Duffy Square, New York City. Six persons were injured. show busine,s, lie bought Da Theatre ifi Leicester Square and p4 04 musical comedies. Ife Might have been a success but he refused all professional as, Siatanee and even Insisted .on producing his. OWn shows, lie lost thousands of pounds.. Now the rumours began to fly; bankers who had been his close friends cold- shouldered him. What was )1e to: do? White made lap his mind to snake .a..corner in petrolehm but he could not obtain .any cial backing. In 192,7 he had to face demands for cash payments of 92,000,000, He had, no moneyl- his, Lancashire cotton '41.?0041" had burst, and thousands of small investors were ruined, On Toesday, June 28th, 1927, jimmy White left London for his country house called Vothill. Tie said to Williams, his butler: "Pon't worry about me; every- thing will be all right," He then told all the other servants to take the evening off and go to the theatre at Swin- don, and he gave instructions that he was not to be called un- til noon the next day. Next day at noon, one of the servants went to call White; there was no .answer, Climbing through a window into the room, the butler found White lying on his side with a sponge soaked in chloroform pressed closely to his mouth. There was a note say- ing: "Go easy with me, old man; I'm dead from prussic acid." The truth, however, was that the tycoon had taken too little prussic acid to kill him, so. he had fetched some chloroform front a medicine chest and had killed himself with that. After the suicide a Receiver was appointed on behalf of the Beecham Trust and it was re- vealed that White owed his bank 91,500,000, Six years before his death, Jimmy White was divorced from his wife by whom he had two. daughters. While he was in the money he set aside $180,000 to provide his wife with an annuity of $9,000 for life. etting a. little practice, pal?" Skin Divers Make War On Starfish Skin divers armed with knives and other weapons have been attacking the great numbers of starfish which prey on oyster beds in the North Atlantic, caus- ing serious losses to fishermen. This is the newest way of fighting the starfish menace which has increased since the end of the last world war. The starfish is a highwayman, not of the open roads, but along the world's seaways where it ruth- lessly attacks mussels as well as oysters. "Devil's fingers," "crossfish," "cramps" — these are some of the names the oyster dredgers give this strange, voracious crea- ture, After a rough autumn tide you can generally find some of these five-fingered creatures ly- ing on the beach. Starfish are often found hunting oysters in the mouths of creeks on British south and east coasts. ' The underside of a starfish is mostly covered with little points of tubes and when these are filled with water it is able by their aid to crawl about. There ti are sucking discs on the ends of these tubes which can cling to any solid surface 'and thus, the creature is able to pull itself along. If a starfish loses an arm or finger it begins at once to grow another, When fieherrnen, en- raged because of starfish attacks on oysters, tried to destroy the pests by tearing them in half, they were amazed to see many of tile fragments growing fresh parts, When a mass of starfish ing vaded the coast of real, Xent, some years ago, thousands were stranded as the tide went down along a stretch of ten miles, Many of the starfish were taken to allotments and helped to man- ure the land. A pre-war Scientist Profes- sor .1. Arthur Thomson, ed the starfish as a creature Which represents efficiency with- out brains, Its stomach is elastic arid it can, without the slightest trouble, eject the whole of it through its mouth, he said, The starfish encloses an oyster hi its stomach then draws stomach and oyster back into itself so that it can digest its prey at leisure,, ArrENTIQIN greeting card, cosmetic and other sales people. NEW presonal- ized picture lamp, Made from any size negative, Ideal gift' for Christmas, Birthday, Wedding, Mother's Day, any Occasion. Tasteful design, band rubbed wooden base, For booroom, living room, TV, etc. Eesy to sell, 40% corn. mission. Free details, Write Skyline, 4630, St. Catharine We Montreal, Qua, WE have a few territories still open for agents to sell our Premium Qual- ity Farm Seeds. Complete line of all Farm Seeds, liberal Commissions. Write to Martin Weber Limited, 330 PhilliP Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Phone Stier, wood 5.6103. BUSINESS PROPERTIES FOR SALE SUMMER resort on Hay Bay, known as eisitewooe Lodge, accommodates 40 guests (dining hall); 2-acre site with 300' waterfrontage. 111 health forces sale of this popular resort, Bruce .L Wagar Realtor Napanee. MOTEL, 9 units plus 3-bedroom Living quarters, well located on No. 2 High- way near Napanee; nicely furnished, broadloom, TV. Grossing m000410,000, year round business. Bruce ,1, Wager, Realtor, Napanee. DRY cleaning plant, with cold storage unit, in Napanee; 2 apartments- and store for extra revenue; thriving bust- ness. Bruce J Wager, Realtor Napa- nee. BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR RENT GROUND floor offices. Corner loca- tion; business block; suitable for' den- tal clinic or other professional offices. Reasonable rent. Alterations to suit. Most progressive town in Western On- tario. Write P,O. Box 500, Petrone, Ont. • COINS WE pay $3 for 1925 Canadian nickel; complete buying list 10 cents. 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Day- olds, dual purpose, specialty egg pro- ducers, to order. February-March broil- ers should be ordered now. Contact local agent, or write Bray Hatchery, 120 John North, Hamilton, Ont. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES $7,000 CASH, small balance, owner forced to sell. Consisting of building, snack bar, 2 billiard tables, 2 bedroom apt. All-year-round business, in small town. George Bailey Realtor, R.R. 1, Wasaga Beach, TAXI BUSINESS OAKVILLE 6 CAll taxi service. Excellent turnover. Circle Text, 4 Cowan Aye., Oakville- VI, 4-3241. —"eer—re MERRY MENAGERIE • CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Bet He Could Eat Peas Off.A Knife His name was James White, Jimmy to his friends and hang- ers-on, of whom there were many. He was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, in 1878, of extreme- ly poor parents. As soon as Jimmy left school he got a job as an errand boy and later became a bricklayer's labourer. Then he got ideas, ideas that were later to shoot him to the top like a rocket. With no capital at all he set himself up as a speculative builder; it was the heyday of the jerry builder and Jimmy did not do badly. He was not yet twenty but he began promoting local prizefights. Then came his first piece of sharp practice. A circus came to town and. Jimmy chummed up with the boss, persuading hint to sell a three-quarter share in it. He had not got the money to pay for his share but he touted around and sold it at a profit, This gave him a liking for show business so he started to run a theatre at Matlock in Der- byshire. Now he saw himself in the big money; he decided to launch himself in London. To London he went, in 1899, only to find that the Boer War was just starting in South Africa. He joined up, went overseas where he served as a mounted policeman. When the war was over, Jim- my White returned to Britain, where he met one of the greatest financial rogues of the time: Ernest Terah Hooley, who later served a term of imprisonment. Together with Hooley, White went into the flotation of corn- panies whose shares were "push- ed" unscrupulously; options on MOON SUIT — Little haute with. Tees was designed for the theort. Republic Aviation designed the suit to provide the moon itXplarer with a livable atmosphere, Dernetistrator puts down 'tripod withdrciws legS end sl,i1 On a smolt shelf to rest, While *he Model is experinietifcii, designers believe the some fendo- thentol concept will be orottitol for the first moon men. Tools thot toutd he token tire laid but on file' sorid, this and that, concessions of all kinds were bought and sold. But when Hooley went to jail, White was in the clear. Prizefighting was always Jim- my White's ideal and now he saw his big chance.-. Jack John- son, the giant Negro, had just won the world heavyweight championship from Tommy Burns over in Australia and had come to London looking for a fight, Why not promote a scrap between him and Bombardier Wells the heavyweight champion of Britain? The match was arranged to take place at Earls Court, Lon- don, but then he found he hadn't sufficient money for the guar- antee, writes Harry J. Greenwall in "Tit-Bits". White decided to extract the last ounce of publicity out of his failure. He began secretly to ar- range opposition to the fight on the ground of the undesirability of a white man fighting a Negro in London, He managed to get questions asked in the House of Commons and, as a result, the Home Sec- retary forbade the fight. Jimmy White was by , now front-page news all over Britain. He pre- tended to be disgusted with the Home Secretary's action. But he was a hero in sporting circles and was made a member of the National Sporting Club! It was at the club that Jimmy met the late Sir Joseph Beech- am; the two men went into part- nership to deal in real estate. One et their schemes was to buy Covent Garden Market from the Duke of Bedford who was to be paid $5,000,000. It was White's idea to pull down the Market and replace it with colossal warehouses to be linked by subterranean roads to London's main line stations, but the Market tenants opposed the scheme so vigorously that it fell through. In 1918 there was talk of con- ferring a knighthood on Jimmy White, but he let it be known at a high level that he would be willing to forgo that if the war- time restrictions . oil company promotions were lifted, and, strange to relate, they were lifted! Now White went full steam ahead, forming company after company, Ile was always the chairman and his ,"share-push= ers" went out east and west and south and north, How the money flowed into his eoffersl He bought a large country house, a $150,000 yacht; he started horse-racing arid at one time owned seventy race- horses, Jimmy had a sumptuous suite of offices in the Strand, London, where his desk had solid gold fittings. The office led to a din- ing room which was decorated livith famous sporting prints. One of London's most famous chefs was engaged to provide a magnificent lunch every day for Jfmmy and his guests; if White was not there and if there were no guests, the lunch Was pro- vided just the same," At this period his fortune was estimated at $9,000,000. t{e used to make the most. fantastic bets. One day he was lunching with Holey when he made a bet of $75 that he would put thirty peas on the blade of his knife and swallow them without spill- ing one. Ihrany -won his bet! He also gave immense sums to Roman Catholic charities-; nuns who called at his strand ()Meet often went away with theoutS for $1,1300. ' Once again White went into NigOicA), IT'S- IMPORTANT '-f IVfrRY $UF,FFRCR 9F .fttigi4MATIC PAINS OR 10:T17AI:A 1011R9'A. DRUG STORE. 3 WANTED: 5,000 MEN AND WOMEN suffering frown all muscular pains, ar• thrills, nervous tension. GET QUICK RELIEF3 Write for Free Satonpas Sample today-, NATIONAI, PRODUCTS 340 Sabisten Street Norolmo, B,C, POST'S ECZEMA SALVE BANISH the torment of airy eczema rashes and weeping skin troubles, Post's Eczema Salve will not disappoint you, Itching scalding, and burning ecze- ma, acne, ringworm, pimples and Not eczema will reepond readily to the stainless odorless ointment; regardieee of how stubborn or hopeless they seem. 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