The Exeter Advocate, 1924-11-27, Page 2The ??sue "Quebec"i3 of lidiar Derivation
In tracing up the origin of .p:lace-
names in the Dominion the investiga-
tions of the Geographic Board of Can-
ada have brought to light the interest-
ing facts given below eoncerning'the
name Quebec. The first known ap-
pearance of the name Quebec is on a
map made by Guillaume Levasseur of
Dieppe in 1601, if Henri Hari^isse is
vat mistaken in the date. The spell-
ing is Quebecq, The first appearance
of the name in a book is in Lescar-
boys. History of New France publish-
ed in Paris, in 1609, a copy of which
Is in the Library of Parliament at Ot-
tawa. Lescarbot's spelling is Xebec,
without any accent, and he used it in
describing Champlain's voyage of 1608,
of which he had learned orally from
the explorer. Quebecq is the spelling
used by Champlain in his own a.oeount
of hie voyages published in 1613.
The first white man to visit the site
of the present city of Quebec was
Jacques Cartier, in 1535, and there he
found the Indian town of Stadaoone.
Cartier notes that there is a narrows
of the river here. Seventy-three years
after, in 1608, came Cbamplain. He
found no settlement of any kind. Stad
scone and the Huron -Iroquois people
dwelling there tad disappeared. Cham-
plain writes "Quebecq, which is a
strait of the river" and in the account
of his voyages, published in 1613,
states that he sought a place for a'
house and found none better than "the
point of Quebecq, so called by the In-
dians." In the 1632 edition of his voy-
ages he reaffirms that Quebecq is so
called by the Indians.
Where St. Lawrence Narrows.
The striking feature of the geogra-
phy of Quebec, noted both by Cartier
and Champlain, is that the river St.
Lawrence -is "shut in," „obstructed" or
"narro'.v" here. Indeed where the
Canadian. National Railways bridge
creases the river, five miles above the
citadel, of Quebec, is the narrowest
part of the St. Lawrence between
Montreal and 'the gulf, The breadth
of the river here between high water
lines is 2,440 feet. `From the Indian
appellation for_ this narrowing of the
river has been derived the name now
borne by the province and ,city of
Quebec Such authorities on Algon-
quin Indian languages as Fathers Al-
bert Lacombe and Georges Lenioine,
whose Cree and Montagnais Indian dic-
tionaries are well known, are agreed
that this is the meaning of the name.
The Rev. Silas T. Rand, a missionary
emong.the Mlcmacs of the Maritime
Provinces for forty years mentions
two places in Nova Scotia called Que-
bec by the Indians, the Narrows above
Halifax and a narrow place in the
Liverpool river below Milton.
Some have vaguely surmised that
Quebee is a French name because in
certain parts of France tongues of
land formed by the junction of two
rivers have names ending in "bee" as
Bolbec, Caudebec, Carbec.
In this connection the Abbe Gosse-
lin remarks that if the word were a
French, pure and simple, it would have
had a definite spelling in the early
days. This it apparently never had as 1Ce-WeeetrAtievaeleeie
some 17th Century writers followed """
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Lescarbot's spelling and others that
of Champlain, with or without the
final "q."
Futility.
' Now she who never lived is dead.
Toll, bells, toll!
The pigeons on the roof -tops saw
A email, pale -soul .
That went out aimlessly
To an unknown goal.
Hunter, in Vigil Over Corpse,
Slays Tiger.
One of the most ferocious man-eat-
ing tigers that ever has troubled Bur-
mah has been killed by Hatim Tai,
divisional forest officer of Magwe, says
a Calcutta dispatch.
Mr. Tai kept vigil in a cachan erect -
Beyond the Night. I The Firefly's Secret.
The city light are bright with flames' A number of scientists have con -
where up and down the street !ducted quite elaborate ertperiments
The city's gleam flares up the way for on lightning -bugs, attempting to' ex -
countless drifting feet; , plain the nature and action of their
Stories About Weil -Known People
Taking the Terrier's TItIe.
An amusing story concerning his
title is related by Lord Airedale. When
his father, the great' iron -master,, ap-
peared in the honors list and ,an-
nounced the title he intendeeto adopt,
he received a communication from the
Airedale Terrier Society intimating
that, as he seemed to have selected
his title from their club, they would
be glad if he could present them with
a prize cup. • ,
Great Poet's Adventures,
When he was fourteen, Mr. John
Masefield, the great poet andauthor,
whose latest novel; "Said Hasker," is
the first he has written for fourteen'
years, ran away to sea "to get the
nonsense knocked out of him."
He gave up the sailor's life and
landed in America, where' on one oc-
casion ir.e joined two tramps in an at-
tempt to earn a little money by sing-
ing at street corners. Obtaining a job
in a hotel as -"handy -man," he had to
work sixteen hours a day, cleaning bar
taps, washing the glasses, and so on,
his wage being ten shillings a week.
In his new novel the hero might
have been Mr. Masefield himself, for
he goes to sea as a boy and-has'many
adventures. abroad.
The Guardian of No. 10.
No one can have met more of the
famous people of the day than Mr.
Robert Lloyd,' who for many years has
been the porter at No 1Q Down:
Street. He has -:enedthe, door
Royalty, to the eraide. etatesinen, to"
great soldiers and sailors—not to men-
tion 'cranks of all descriptions:
One of his many amusing stories
concerns the visit of Signor Mussolini
to the home of Britain's Chief Minis-
ter. He burst into the vestibule and
shook the porter .warmly by the hand.
"I azn delighted to melt• England's
Prime Minister.;" he said. It was tact-
fully pointed out that he had made a
mistake!
No Knighthood Wanted:
- Captain Round, the research engin-
eer of the. Marconi Company, dislikes
publicity, and on that account he be: -
came known during the war as the
mysterious "Caltain X.: the wireless
'wizard:"
Somebody once said to him, "Would
you accept a knighthood it .et were
offered, Round?" And he replied
promptly, "No. I don't want people
calling me Cir-cumference!"
The Interview.
The resourceful newspaper reporter
will never admit himself beaten. If
his man won't talk, he must be made
to talk—in print at least, Punch• thus
describes the way the thing is done:
The reporter from the Daily Wire
came down the back garden between
the washing line and the gooseberry
bushes, "You were in the motor
coach that collided with another at the
foot of 'Vender Hill?"
The young man who was mending
a puncture in the back tire of a bicycle
"That's right " he said
And yet, I often turn away, where, light. What Dr. E. F. Bigelow said;, '
You were among those who es -
through a window pane several years ago is still true—there
A dim, old-fashioned candle light has not been much success to the ex- caped with bruises?"
shines
shines down a country lane. periments
That familiar flash we see in summer
The city has a thousand songs—a mul- evenings, says Dr. Bigelow, is prob-
The pigeons fluttered their blue wingsed above the eo titude to sing; ably the most efficient light known in
B
And clung with coral feet,
"She goes to Heaven in the same way
She went along the street,
Blind to any loveliness
That she may meet!"
A pigeon preened his purple throe
He said, "She's going out
Slowly, Iike a little cloud
Winds blow about."
And still the bells sereetolling
Their requiem devout.
The pigeons spread their painted
wings,
Emerald and gray,
"It was such a small soul
Went out to -day,
The first wind that it met
Melted it away."
Louise Iriscoll.
Indian Summer.
Gray sky, and hazy lake,
And shadowy land,
And quiet waves, that break,
Upon the quiet sand.
A leaf falls here and there,
A bird cries in the pines,
The goldenrod is sear,
The crimson sumach shines.
The low winds lower fall,
Smoke from a bush fire lifts,
And sadly over all,
A sad cloud drifts.
Gray sky and grayer lake,
And mist that falls, to rain,
And memories that wake,
The dreams of youth again.
—1usanna M. Smyth.!
Strange Garden Products.
Little Johnny, who was of school
age, was on his way home from the
week -night prayer meeting, where he
had fallen asleep. His father, who had
had great difficulty in waking him at
the close of the service, was walking
by his side, holding his hand. Fearing
that the boy would go to sleep again
and that he should have to carry him,
the father quickened his pace and,
twitching the little fellow's hand vig-
orously, asked him briskly where he
had been that day.
"Over to Mr. O'Neal's, " was the
drowsy reply.
'`And what were they doing at Mr.
O'Neal's ?"
"Makin' garden," Johnny replied
listlessly.
"And what did they plant?"
Johnny yawned. "Planted lett`s-an'
.
onions an'—" he stumbled, and his
tongue grew thick,—"an rad'shes an'
peas—an' . q's—an' is an' s's—"
ea. At that point the father picked him
up and carried him.'
A Brave Man.
"Jack is a brave fellow."
"How so?".
'Admits he knows nothing about
Mali Jong."
•
The Beat Fie .Could Do.
Father O'Flynn—"But why did you
pick a quarrel and fight with this man
—a total stranger.?"
Barney—"Sure, per reverence, all
ire friends wor av'sy.e
rpse f o a young a -
mese thousand voices sweep the night nature. The flash of an able-bodied
mese woman who had just been killed where dim cathedrals ring; firefly is just 1-400 as bright as a
by the tiger. At night the tiger re- And yet I often turn away, where, all candle, while the glow is much weak -
turned for the corpse. When torches the morning through er, or about 1,50000 of a candle power.
were Rasped the animal became be- A mocking bird calls back to me across eche strength of the light is very de -
It
and was shat dead. the silver dew. I ceptive; most of us would judge it to
It was established that the beast had • I be much stronger. Considering the
killed thirteen men and women in the The city has a mighty voice–a siren apparatus the firefly has for produc- i
lelagwe district, besides mauling five. voice that calls c ins its light, however, it is really mar -
In the Yametliin district there have Where fame is pleading night and day velour power. To supply an equal
been almost as many tiger casualties within her star -crowned walls; 1 amount of light in the laboratory
reported, all believed due to the same And yet I often turn away, where, in would require a temperature of 2,000
animal. Cattle and dogs killed num- the fading light I degrees Fahrenheit, while the firefly
ber hundreds, •cA waiting mother used to call her boy generates no heat that can be mea: I
Three villages had been abandoned, in from the night: sured,
as the tiger had begun to tarry off
men at work in daylight, in one case
dragging a Burman away, with the
whole village pelling behind.
The government reward of 100 ru- Pavlova, the famous dancer, is said probably moisture, oxygen and some
pees far killing the beast has been di- to have insured her arms ande.egs for unknown substance, possibly some
vided among Mr. Tai, the relatives of upwards of $150;000. The loss of a kind of fat. The firefly continues to
the dead girl and these who aided in' single toe would in her case cost the keep its secret, although it has been
Grantland Rice. In spite of all experiments, no one
has discovered just how the firefly
Priceless Limbs. turns its peculiar illumination on and
off. The materials it works with are
the kill.
The Power of Expression.
The power of artistic expression in great pianist, paid $4000 a year in pre -1
uric also lodges in lar
insurance company $25,000, while the watched beneath the most
_ pay powerful
loss of an arm would involve a microscopes as it operates its tiny
tient of $60,000. 1 batery. All the scientists • can tell us
For several years Paderewski, the -•, ,, , ,, . +., „
_ _ght rs some f_ --
m of oxidation, and it is hoped 'that by
large parts in miums against hand injuries, each of
variousieronal powers quite.outside his hands being insured for .$60,000. In
music,
sstudying the firefly we ,may discover
each
as equable temperament, addition, he had separate policies for some new method of producing Iight
healthy mindedness, comeliness of •
physical health. _ 'Great is toes, eyes, anq ears. A damaged
bodyand Iworks and electric power plants.
achievements on the intellectual side finger nail, which on one occasion pre- i One point on which the investigators
vented hdm fro an en a e-
whichmay revolutionize our great gas
m fuIlillfn
tend to balance a man, whereas greattient, cost the insurance company I have puzzled particularly is the inter -
achievement within narrow emotional $5,000. i mittence of the glow—why does the
performance tends to distort perspec- , light "come on" and "go off," like an
tine, an emotion being relatively a Kubelik, the violinist, insures his ;
right hand and arm for $10,000 against •electric bulb that is being played with
severe drain en the nervous energy injury, and for $50,000 against per- "' " Whilt
e this has not been altogether
manent disablement- I answered it has been discovered that
weakens the power of self control and
produces abnormal sensitiveness.
Many successful artists have been
notorious for the violation of these
homely virtues. But we may well
meditate on how much greater their
charm would have been if they had not
been sick souled sufferers from aber-
rations- The princinie remains
a
musician .who is well phyically, moral-
ly and mentally, who has a good dis-
position and who is .socially attractive
reasonable and well balanced, este the
advantage, over the warped personality
and should represent our goal.
A Poem You Ought to Know.
Love's Philosophy.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a con-
temporary of Byron and Keats, three
poets who all died young. His, lyrics
are one of the glories of English litera-
ture:
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Noticing in the world is single;
All things by, a law ..divine
In one spirit meet and mingle;
Why not I with thine? •-
See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister -flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the monheams kiss the sea;
What is an this sweet work wortn,
If thou kiss not me? •
Clock in aSidewalk.
Thousands walk over_. the northeast
corner of Maiden Lane :and Broadway
in New York and never know that they
are stepping 'On the face of a clock,
This clock, measuring about two feet
across; •esu imbedded in the sidewalk
and is:covered with glass an inch thick:
The hour and tninute hands are paint-
ed a jet black: Because of the dust;
and dirt the clock iso scarcely discern-
ible during the daylight hours, but at
night it is illuminated and is a useful
teller of time.
The first man to insure his eyesight i the shutting off apparatus must be in
was the late Professor Huxley, who the third thoracic ganglion (a verde
would have received $25,000 in the -r eentre between the third pair of legs.).
event of his going blind. It is said When through some accident a firefly
receives an injury in which this gang -
the manipulative surgeon, are insured lion is punctured, its light glows con -
for a very large sum.` , tinuously till the creature dies•. These
hat the hands 'of Sir Herbert B
"That's right."
You actually saw the other coach
burst into flames before it fell over
the bridge into the river?"
"That's right-"
The reporter, who was young and
hopeful, produced a notebook. "Could
you give me your impressions of wbat
occurred?"
•Silence.
The reporter tried another leading
question. "You assisted in rescuing
the survivors?"
"That's right."
"It was towards five o'clock, wasn't
•- "That's right," replied the other and
added eirith a sudden burst of elo-
quence, "Getting on for tea time."
The reporter closed his notebook.
"Thank you very much," he said.
Extract from the Dairy Wire of the
following day:
THE VENDER HILL TRAGEDY
Vivid Description of the Scene by One
of the Passengers on the Green Coach.
"It was a. glorious evening," Mr.
William Blow, an engine fitter, of 32
Laburnum Vissas, Bailhom, told • our
correspondent, "and I was just admir-
ing the glow of the setting sun across
the peaceful valley of the Vender when
the ill-fated blue coach appeared round
the curve. I realized instantly that
the driver had lost control. My heart
seemed to miss a beat, buil kept cool;
and so, I believe, did my fellow passen-
gers. It was a tenselydramatic mo-
ment, as you may suppose, and 1 sin-
cerely hope I shall never experience
such another. With the crash I
thought my last moment had come,
but as a matter of fact I got off with
a few bruises. I shall never forget
seeing a pillar of fire going"up from
the other coach. It was a magnificent
and awe-inspiring spectacle. Then a
crash Of falling masonry as the wall
of the bridge gave way underthe ter-
rific impact, and the doomed vehicle
fell down, down, down .into the sullen
waters beneath."
"— Or 99 94-100% Pure." nerves control the flaps which cover The next-door neighbor left his rab-
A little girl who is just learning to i the entrance to the breathing tubes, bits and came to speak to Mrs. Blow
read short words takes great interest ; and when they are injured the tubes over the wall. "I see your 'usband's'
in the big letters she sees in the news -1 (viruaily, the insect's lungs) remain given the. Daily Wire a flrst'and ac -
paper. The other evening after she had y open.,to the air. With the •air cut off, count."
kept her -mother awake half, the night the light goes out—showing that its 'E told 'em what 'e caouid," laid
reading advertisements to her she composition is partly oxygen. Mrs, Blow, "but 'e says they've left
knelt
Ddown to say her prayers: Submerged Ancient City, out. a good bit" She raised her voice,
"ear Lord," she. lisped, "make, me
They didn't put in all you.said, did
French divers have discovered the they,. Bili?"
Puree' ' Then she hesitated and went ruins of an ancient city, submerged 30 "That's right," said NIr. Blow.
lutely pure like baking powdei . terranean Sea, off the coast of Tunis.
on with added fervor; "Make me abso- feet beneath the waters of the Medi- w.
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T`e latest on the continent is ostrich races. ;lee ' 1 oto _ra ih , taken
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,Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, shows "Great Sport," one of the birds, after
The World's Oldest Statue.
The world's most ,ancient statue is
to .be found outside, not' inside, the
British Museum. .
It is said that it tooktwo hundred
men .from the crew of H.M.S. Topaz,'
and three ` hundred natives, to drag
the statue from its original site,; a1-
though it weighs only four tons- It' is
the work of a race. •of huge: builders
and was . one of many similar colossal
statues-, some of ~them weighing as
'Much as a hundred tons, • scattered
over Easter Island,, in the Pacific.
These hideous, images were ,original-
ly supplied .witb hats; in some cases -
weighing another five or six tons, which
were red because they were made of
tufa or volcanic rock, All the hats
have :fallen off now and are found le-
ing around the huge statues as though
there had been a high wind.
This race of ancient' buiidei`s left
traces in the shape, of immense stone
monuments right across the Pacific,
and many archaeologists think, that the
islands an which these monuments; are
found are the last remnants left above
the surface of avast submergedcon-
tinent. There is;'nothing which fixes
the exact period of :his achievement,
at hut it is pos"ible"that the statues are
it at least as old as. the Pyramids of
Romance of Silver Fox.
At all times in the fur business, a
silver -fox pelt was worth a :hundred
times as much ate a red -fox pelt, . There
was an old trapper -saying in Canada
during the days when a dollar was as
big as a oartwheei, "A red -fox pelt
will buy a whip, a cross -fox pelt will
buy a cutter, but a silver fox will buy
horse and cutter and ,aid." •
The pelt of a prime silver fox is ad-
mittedly the warmest, deepest, Mc
and lightest in .the world's output, to
one fault is lack of durability,
It was the established imperial fu
of the Russian court. Every noble-
woman was supposed to wear a silver+
fox robe when she appeared at winter
receptions.
The wild supply was limited and
lessening; 'the demand ever increas-
ing;
ncreasing; for these two laws underlie all
fur prices. Black is a becoming fur; it
makes the plain woman interesting
and the pretty woman .beautiful,
Therefore, it is always in fashion. Sec-
ond, the general trend of fur prices,
without exception,- has. always been.
upward.
The silverfox pelt went the way of
the rest. One hundred dollars was a
fair price a hundred years ago, The
same pelt today brings $1,000, while
pelts' of exceptional beauty ge
$1,500 and $2,000.
The inevitable result was the "fox
ranch, There certainly were • hun-
dreds of attempts made—made only
to end in failure—until the problem
was finally solved by two enterprising
Canadians on Prince Edward Island.
Other ranches sprang up. Foe some
unknown •reason,• the climate or soil of
Prince Edward Island has proved or
appears to have proved more conduc-
ive to suocess• than that of any other
region.
Fur prices continued to climb and
about the time of the war they went
through a crazy boom, '$10,0.00 and $12,-
000 a pair were paid for choice ranch
raised silver foxes as breeders. The
record price is. said to 'have been $34e-
000 for one pair. -
Since the boom, things have become
normal again. Prices of other furs
have dropped a little in the last two
years, but they are still near the peak,
Sockeye Salmon Runs Heavy.
The prospects for a bumper collec-
tion of Sockeye salmon eggs for the
hatcheries operated in British Colum-
bia by the Department of Marine and
Fisheries are unusually good. Most
encouraging reports have been re-
ceived at Ottawa indicating that the
runs of sockeye are considerably in
excess of other years. In the Fraser
river alI precious collections of sock-
eye eggs have been exceeded` with a
take of'5,000,000 in the Pitt Lake area,
and the run of sockeye to the Birken-
head river in the Harrison-Lillooet
Lakes area is greater than any pre
vious run in the memory of the hatch -
wet. employees. The collection of eggs
amounting to. 31200,000 is the largest
that has been -made to date in this per
tion of the Fraser:
1.,!'yli
Often Followed by the Wolf.
Tourist—The stork would seem to
be the only animal that ever visits
this community."
Native—"Wrong, stranger, it's fre
quently followed' by the wolf when -it...
makes its calls
it Made a Difference. e
A truant officer made a call at the
home of a pupil whose absence had
extended for over a week.
"Mikey is now past` his thirteenth
year•," said the boy's mother, "an' me
and his father think he's after hayin'
schoolin' ti ne enough
"Schooling enough, repeated the
officer, ''Why, I did not finish my eche
catton until I was 23."
"'Be that so?" said the woman in
atnazeniene. Then, reassuringly, after
a thoughtful pause: "Well, so ;:e see
had won the main race of the card. L. Egypt, _ that boy of ours' has b -r -rains`'
`r.