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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-5-22, Page 7►C1��5 0� Td�E ROC�1��. Wonders. Draw Isere Canada's Na Wherever glaciers exist they are the :objects of tee 'most intense interest snot only on the part of the 'scientist but on that of the tourist.Thosa parts of tho mountain ranges of Europe which contain glaciers are points. to ;which the feet of thousands of tourists turn each year, and„ the same is be- ,coln1n.g More, and -more true of this, continent. The glaciers in the Cana, dtan Rockies and Selkirks are among the most impressive to be found any- where, and fortuuately mauy of them !are easy of access. One has only to stop at some place like Lake Louise in Banff National 'Park, -in the sautlierRockies • Jas per 'en Jasper National Park- in 'the 'the _ nOrth or Glacier, in • Glacier ,: National Park' in the' Selkirks to' come in real,. contact • with snowflelds and gla- ciers. It. is ; not only the mountaineer who :wools theeattraetion of•these cool glean,, solitudes where glaciers' are born and d their heir wonderful work. Every -normal man and woman yields the delight of'holida in in these t o d g yg ins iris rroundin s. , o. p gu s � • ",- Timber Line at 7,500 Peet. Leaving the lower altitudes in the :grip' of m,the idsiimnrer s heat, tra.el- v " ler` climbs up to view 'the great" gia- c1al machinery at work. At an alti= ,tude; of about 7,500 feet timber -line -1s reached and then: come cliffs and rocky slopes and grassy:or sedgy up- lands, where mountain sheep and goatspasture and wildflowers' grow in millions. The edge ref' .the, snow inay now: -appear, •melting because the sum- mer's warmth makes itself• felt,'even thus far upon •the. mountains: From now` on the trip may be over a great anowfleld; the satires of a.glacier, and asin; x Numbers of Tounats: to tional Parka, the visitor le then in;a position to per -1 celve its genesis and development. On • these ,lofty'mountain tope reoistura al- ways falls in the form of snoir,, and the weight,<ot this,enowcap eomnress- es the lower layers' into ico,and•forces them down the mountain sides and ill, to the upper valleys in the form of rivers at ice, which are , iu fact the glaciers. Each glacier extends down; its; valley $o a point where the great mass' of ice brought from the colder regions above is unable longer to re- sist the eeat of the lower elepes.leer° the glacier usually ends in a cave of ice from which issues a cold stream of wafer, :the source perhaps of some i the'won- der' on- nii ht river, Which—suchs Iy g y ' fe i is i n' f eCanadian dei `and 4e z t o o, the lioekies—will • discharge these same waters into, the Pacific, or tt may be into the distant Arctic, or eveu tato Hudson B'a'. £rowIng - Fame of. Rockies.,' None of the • Canadian National Parks in the Rockies and Selkirks;, are without glaciers, great or small, the very navies of which carry one away into a. region of fairyland -and, ro- mance.. The opening up of the parks by means or motor roads and trails has made readily accessible some of the greatest glaciers; and there is al wayst the attraction that 'just behind and beyond, in the virgin and untrod- den .wilderness, there are others to be' found and explored by those who love the spirit of adventure. It is this com- bination of comparative ready access to the beauties of the Roekies•anl the possibilities of still further discoveries' that is, the ecau,se of the growing fame of this • region and the auually increase ing number of tourists who gather to study these great wonders of nature. In What Class Are You? Some menneed coaxing; other men need camma.neleng. Some men delight in flattery; other men despise it. Some men need.watching; other -men resent., it, and do better when they are not watched. Some men `need'- driving, urging; other rnen, . need holding back, r•e-. straining, Sone rnen"can't stand' the gaff; it senks•inrand wounds; other hien don't mind' it, they let it roll off like water off'a duck's back. - Some men need a lot of praise' and ,appreciation, a lot of patting -on the back; other men care nothing about it; the satisfaction they get in doing their best, the joy of work hell done ' is enough for thein. The snap ought to, be iu,the horse, but if it isn't, one tries to put it in with .the:' whip:. Seine men have, to get 'thee snap outside of . them; other men don't need whip or spur, the snap is inside of them. Some men are fair=weatber• sailors, gild get diiscourgaedin rough seas; when they meet with obstacles, when things ,go hard with them, they slump on;their oars: other men thrive under difficulties; opposition and handicaps only stimulate them; the best that' is in them conies out whe'n they are buf- feting: with the storms of i1fe; • they never get discouraged. ee Scene, men dawdle over their work, shirk., when they can, and then coin= plain of their job, of their long.hours and the lackof any chance of pr -emo- tion; other men. will •do: as good a day's York in three hours' as they do in ten hours; they put their heart in their work, never thinking, of : hones; orof promotion, and very soon they are away over theaieads at the shirk ers and grumblers., Some men are weak iu the back- bone; they depend on. others„ geld ance and advice; they can't stand alone, can't do anything without others to"iean upon; they don't want to play the game alone, and <neveret an. g 1 where: other men have a surplus of backbone; theywant to play the game alone; they are self-reliant, Independ- ent; they believe more in the power Inside of, thein than in any boosting from . the. outside; . they make their plans without, advice or help from ethers, and then go ahead and work them out; they arethe men .who. wen In tlie great game 01 1110 In which . class are you? --- "Some Men or "Other Men?"—Success. Nuf Staid, Ante Agent-"Y(ltsheltie-11'k,' la e I- 0 ' tried {:o sell $I fiat man a .� . 00 car., ,Io i d i t1 look ti "o is afford it: to do , like bo c u I nro." 5aIC5 'i nc, what was tie- ing.. o• p,•. 7.a it .:._.lh�et man'sr;'lm has1.)-en a e men- tioned, iot irec,:°'in thehe-oilscan ir.l 1 c . It is beet to•know'tee worst at. once, A iittl•a ou aL• tivisaheart-Ss A.flatlttl d iS isett f ut 1• .better -than a wildei;neas of reels shopworn.•: Getting at the Point. 'Her Suitor—"No,I haven't much money but I; have a 'good job' and Gladys isn't mercenary. Her Father -"I know she isn't mer- cenary but er-cenarybut I am. Can you support a father-in-law in the style to which he is'accustoined?' • How' to Learn Singing. � . g The art of singing is a precious pos- session which comparatively few pee- ple can claim, despite the fact that there,•are thousandesewho are .certain in their own minds, that they alone are the. sole.•possessors. of the, jewel, the talisman Which they can pass, -on` to others. it is something which es `far more .then the mere knowledge of the voice or of the organs of the throat. It is a great art which must be'trans- mitted rather than taught. Listen to the birds and note how they 'learn' : their 'Bongs from 'their ,teachers in: the nests. The songs, of ,their parents ai•e their only, models, and they just sing as they heard their parents do it, It must be obvious, therefore, that one of the first prin- ciples in studying' singing is to _rnu tate. Not to mock as a parrot ,irnI- tater, but to listen to .great singers an- derstandingly and, analytically. Hear, how they produce their tones. Feel the character, the quality of their voices., Often tilts quality is a matter of years of careful development. Very few singers of consequence slug, with the ;same voice they employed when they began their careers. Why? For the reason that we all imitate when we are children, 'We imitate the voices' that are around us. Often these voices are very bad ones indeed., but we instinctively imitate them. Then we. have .to rebuild our voices alter we,. have .destroyed- the bad habits. The education of the voice is in a large. measure the education 01 the ear com- bined with the Individual .voice: ideal of the student, ' May .Marriages. The idea' that it is• unlucky to ,.be married iu Mayes not so prevalent as> it was 'fornierly, but t1esuperstition still lingers. We got it from the itoiu.an5, whet ap- parently got it from the Greeks' fled brought 11 • with, them to Britain, 'It shows Trow: a train of surer tlt 1 �5, id11S•. thought Deme set going will persist through the ages. • The curious thing super, about this si:ition is that it should ever have er•- i inated • for the `inonth ,ever May in'an- cient times was dedicateddt s to�1 the god- dess dess Maia, the mother of Mercury wird Y, the goddess of growth and Intrease.; While nakrrg a forced landing n Toronto Bay, one of the O. nta'ela Gave nm int planes struck a submerged,' log, which wrecked the undercarriage of the machine.•' TheP ilot managed to bring the boat into shallow water before it sank. Do It Now! To -clay is the day that your tasks should be done The day that Gods given to you; You're living Right Now, and this is. • the one To de what you'reoin •'to do, g t; Ther second—this minute is all that you've got; • The future's.a chance, anyhow; Theast •i i shadows, p , with is s adows, the rooves•. forgot ' Thesotto er_ so do it right now:. g. You nu m be your days from the daY: you-were born, And count them with 'sighing and g g •tears, But really, myfriend, y You're reborn ev'ry morn— In'spite' of the calendarY ears; Each day, you start life with a view- point that's new; The past is a dream that has fled; You cannot go back to the you that was you, In, days that are finished and dead. Nor can you go ,forward one day in advance, And glimpse what the morrow `may hold; You can't change the future, or one circumstance, Except -as the minutes unfold; To -day Is . the day thatyour tasks should be done; .> So live that you never,should.fear What's ='going to happen;' -•'with each, rising sun ' Next, Week—or next month—or next year. —James Edward Hungerford. Spring's Unrest: Up in. the .woodland, where Spring Comes as a -laggard, the breeze. Whispers thepines that°the King, Feelen has yielded ther,keyr To his •white' palace and :flees ' '< No"rthward o'er mountain and dale; Queer Villages. - Tucked away in odd corners of Great Britain are some villages with pe- culiar names, In Kent we. find Painter's Forstal Dripping Gore, and.Old; Wives Lees. Pl g The last place derived :its strange name from the fact" that old women of the'district.used-to run au annual race there for prizes offered by the local lord of'theenanor. Dripping Gore was so' called because the Danes and Sax- ons are believed to have fought a bat- tle at this spot. Essex has g village with the itic- turesque`name `of Tolleshunt-Knights, while near Huntingdon, in the Fen dis- trict, is is-trict,'is a place'with the fierce title of Warboys. Lincalnshiro seems to be particularly rich ,in queerly named vil- lages and hamlets—Cowpit, : Twenty, Inch, and Inches. Near Middlesbrough, in Yorkshire, is a little place named Cargo Fleet, while other northern villages' with pic- turesque navies are Monkinkoles, in Yorkshire, Parsley Hay, in Derby- shire, and Boot, in the Lake District. Crossing the border into Wales, we find the still more peculiar name of Legacy. Other queer village names in Wales include Upper Boat and Black Pill. In Scotland we,flnd places bearing the navies of Kittybrewster, Kings- kettle, and King Edward. Near Edin- burgh, Is the little. tows of Joppa. Heads of Ayr and Georgemas are both in the Highlands, • Progressive. It was the custom of the congrega- tion to repeat the twenty-third! psalm in concert, and Mrs: Armstrong's habit to keep about a dozen words ahead all the way, through. A stranger was asking ane day, &bout' Mrs. Armstrong. "Who, he inquired, "was the lady who was already by, the still waters. while the rest of us;'wei-e lying down in green pastures?" Speed' then the hour that :trees; Ho, for the pack and the traili Northward my fancy takes wing, Restless am I, ill at ease, Pleasures the city can bring Lose. . nowtheir power to pleas e, Barren; all barren, are'theee,^1 .: Tewn 11fe's ,atedious tale; That cup is "drained to- the lees -e. Ho, for the pa'ck and the trail! Brushing, a thoroughfare; fling Into the green mysteries; One with the birds and the ,bees,. One with tho squirrel and quail, Night, and thestream's melodies— Ho, for the pack and' -the trail! B. L,`'I'. Ho, for the morning I sling Pack at my back, and with knees To Motorists: Mayhap, 'twill save ybu ,life, or limb, And 'tisn't-much expense, Whene'er you are out driving To, just use common sense. An unlawful 'oath isbetter broke than kept. Older Than the Law. A salesmanlike - looking • inspector was -surprised to flnd-,.a dirty roller towel in the washroom. Indignantly he said to the landlord:` "Don't' you know that it has been against the law for years - to put up a roller towel in this " State?" "Sure, "Sure, I know it," replied, the pro• prietor, "but no ex -post facto law goes in Kansas, and that there towel was put up before the law was passed." Give mo five minutes talk with a man about politics or weather or neighbors or finances, and I'll tell you whether he's going to reach ninety- five in good shape or not. If he says he has the finest neighbors an "the world and adds that tines never have been better or politics cleaner, or the weather finer, then you may be pretty sure that he'll be a winner at ninety- five or any other age. No matter how long you live, there isn't timeto wor- ry.—Chauncey"M. Depew, 89 -year-old ex -Senator, lawyer and after-dinner speaker. Stories dot ell��o�n Peo e ' From the Canon's Mouth. One ambition of Canon Hay, Aitken, vice -dean of Norwich Cathedral, is to beat John Wesley's record of preach- ing 27,000 sermons: But Father Time may Intervene. The canon is -eighty- two; and, starting when he was seven- teen, he has now delivered 22,000 ser- mons. • He has never preached from a writ- ten one, and as it le stated that Wes- ley made one sermon serve many times it is possible that the Canon has already delivered more original dis- courses than the great Nonconform- ist. onconformist. Solved the Problem. At literary banquets the art is to ,talk of the guest of honor as if you read all his books. On one occasion Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, the Ameri- can, had to introduce Sir Hall Caine; at a certain function. Just before the toasts began a guest passed his menu card with the request that Sir Hall Caine would sign it. "That's a great idea," said Mr. Page. "I must do that, too. I have to intro- duce him in a few minutes, and I want to be able to say 'I have read some- thing he has written?' Her Property. Lady Warwick can tell many good electioneering stories. As everybody knows, her sympathies are with the Labor cause, and in the past she has often canvassed for Labor candidates. Once, when thus engaged, she knocked at the door of a house in a mean street. Her knock, was answer- ed by a'severe-looking matron, who e a r stood ith arms akinibo regarding g. her in no friendly spirit. 'a ked. `May I see Mr. Blank? she s "You can't," replied the matron. . "But I ant to see what a p art y he leaded Lady to," pleaded Warwick. "Well, take a good look at mo,"• re- torted the naatron. "I'm the party what he belongs to." Booth Explains. Son's Generosity W lth-'Tips. . Mr. J. R. Booth, the veteran Ottawa lumber king, whose •granddaughter re- cently became Prince Erik's bride, was in the habit of leaving his horse and buggy in charge of the stable boy at one -of Ottawa's hostelries.: Twenty- five wentyfive cents was the stable boy's regu- lar tip. Mr. Booth's son, .,Mr. J. Fred Booth, on the other hand, usually gave the boy.fltty cents: The boy decided that a gentle hint to J. R. might be profit- able. So on receipt of his next quar- ter he said, "Your son usually gives me fifty, sir!" "Ah," said Mr. Booth, smiling, " but ' he has a wealthy father." Spring Market. It's foolish to bring money To any spring wood, Jewels won't help you, Gold's no good. Silver won't buy you One small leaf, You may bring joy here, You may bring :• grief. .. You should look for Tufted moss, Marked where a light foot Ran across. Where the old rose hips Shrivel brown And dried clematis Bloom hangs down,. There you'll flnd.,•what Everyman needs, Wild religion Without any creeds, Green that lifts its Blossoming head, New life springing Amongthe t e dead. You needn't bring money To this market, place, Or think you can bargain for Wild flower grace. -Louise Driscoll. Werth o r is by worth in every rank admired. When musing on companions gone, we doubly feel ourselves alone. LONGEST: TEAM OF i-iORSES;EVgR HA-RNESSED Thi s• wheat train of eine wagons hauledfortyteams of her -res. transported 1.142 taitsheh f wheat from g • by.,� � 1 a p Valenti ; . . 70 lcar to Gal ary 6 �, a distance of -tulles, to Dile load, and actually event onto the elevator platform and unloaded without 'unhitchi g. I is fettleprobably the longest eer harnessed, tcConpaii ed,ay 100 finicking, saddle and pack hersee teem the Vtilcandistrict, will trek to Galga:ry again duYrng tTe .first, week of :idly, 19L4, to t;ah,e part in the A iival Calgaryl . ;. u Stampede to be held 7u1y 7-12 in th�tit etty.: 'Phe trop from. 'Vulcan to Giaigary is expected to tele' about four days, �1Calgaryzy the whole uutfzt wli] encamp south of the town and well palade through the, business streets of the city each' The. , t owned by Jmorning. outft 10 -�i loci (Gen blouse of (llelc:htz, Ali'a.; 'and is Id be: driven by Sinn Moorehou e or ultalla.. pioneer rYivcr of Cr::g ht traifis', The lead tc.ani - will follow a straigti;t ' t y at,ter being stat'taNle by tben, driver. insert—Slim Moerhouse, who drives, the :forty -horse team. No Time for Fooling, Bird hunting is a serious business with a thoroughbred bird dog—so seri- ous that he will refuse to hunt if the sport is turned to play. Mr. Samuel A. Derieux, in Animal 'Personalities, tells a story to the point: I remember once when I was a boy going out with several other boys and taking with us -an -sold LIewellyn setter named Thad., The dog,;started out in his sturdy Iope and 'soon' found us a covey of quail. We all shot on the rise, and we all "missed. Then, see- ing that we, could~not hit quail; we be- gan to shoot at easier -game, birds that sat still in trees—laughing and shouting as boys will. Thad stayed with us awhile; then we missed him. Unostentatiously he had withdrawn from the frivolous party and gone home. An old dog that knows he can do well himself demands that the man who hunts with hire shall do well also. An Englisman tells this story on him- self, and I have no doubt that similar incidents have occurred. frequently. He went out with a pointer that he had borrowed from a friend who was a erack shot. Hehimself was a poor shot and missed again and again, and each time the pointer looked at him in bewilderment. Finally the dog set a pheasant right out,. in an- open field and,.. then glanced back at the ap- proaching man as much as to say, 'Now, here's a perfectly good open shot. For pity's sake, see of you can do anything this,tinre!" The,.pheasant rose and flew off, an easy mark; the ` man missed twice. Thereupon the pointer sat down on his haunches, raised his nose to high heaven and howled long and dolonons- ly. Then with never another look at the amateur huntsman he turned and trotted home: A Business Man's Ideal. To have endured early .hardships: with fortitude, and overcome. :defiled - ties by perseverande; to have founded or developed a large business, useful in itself,. and given' employment to many; to have achieved' fortune, Inde- peudence,, position endinfluence; to have established a character' above re- proach; to have accumulated the es- teem, the:. confidence and the friend- ship of his fellows; to have given largely of money to charity, and of time 'to citizenship; and to have gain- ed all this of the world, without losing the soul by Avarice, .or by starving the heart into hardness ---I say, be wile has so lived has 'nobly lived and be sliould find peace with honor when. the shadows begin to lengthen " and the evening of Life draws on'. Privilege of the'Condemned. I':a:pa, -'`I heal' ilrea t 1larfie Cleeen is going to bo nnns'ied nexf week?' Little Robert t e toe ort. i(whose ideas on t:ie. Subject are somewhat eonfusedf- 1 "The last three days they give him: everything to eat he asko for, don't they, Papa?" r (, 1rclLl is otrr meanest crime. + No persee is 00 urpoptil zteas -_ the' pers rvh 4is generally right. exvice' Torr. aril Y ukox : 9'l.o T)ontiriion Governzri;,ent, with £hey ob,ject of ltrozno�ting both e#iclenc ' and economy, is establishing a ;tystent of wireless stations froze. -the 'Yukon and the Arctic cease eouthwar'd to con- siect with ether vrireleee or:telegraph'- io systems • at I+ dnxonto„r: Ily this mean the lzesvy rest'a>' maizli{lining ir© rine , in;, I3riteizlz ColtfmbiaA ntheorthwof Hazelton, will be saved asci Mlle Dackenzie iciver valley from Fort Smith northward,,;' for the fleet'- time, will eiave the benefit of :;wireless two- way communication with the rest of the world. Ln fi.tw.o stations is the'seriesastseaso, those:.the at Dawsrston and Mayo,' were erected and have since funetion- ed., most satisfactorily. This year it is ;expected that: stations at Edmon- ton, Simpson, and Ilerchel Island will operating. ' be completed and pe . ' This g spring, work will be started on the station at Edmonton; which will be the southerly baso of the system, anti upon thoseat Simpson and impson S'n HerchelIs- lend as soon gas :navigation conditions permit the transportation 61 material. Th e Herschel Island station will be the most northerly in the system, *stem; b..ing.situated on the Arctic £oast west of the Mackenzie River; delta in lati tilde 69 degrees, 35 minutes, longitudql 139 degrees west, and material for its willassembledVan- couver be ' , at '4 couver and.taken ship wayof by I by, Bering sea and the Arctic ocean. The Ca.+17_ adian'Cors of Signals, which in- stalled g , stalled the,'Dawson and Mayo stations,, .,.i s_ will also creat the three new station . This work is being carried 011 ,ander thed irection. of the North West Ter- ritories and Yukon Branch of the De- partment of the Interior. The approximate distances, between the various stations are as follows.. Herehel to Dawson, 385 miles; ;`Daw- son to Mayo, 113 miles; Mayo to'Simp- son, 468 miles; Simpson to Edmonton, 655 miles; a total of 1,621 miles. In addition to serving the needs of the Government authorities and com- mercial interests •in the districts indi- cated, the ndi-cated,`the system will also be of great value to those engaged in fur trading and development work in the whole of the western part of -the North West Territories and in the Yukon, and it will also assist police supervision and add to the efficiency of the Dominion Meteorological Service., The 'Tiger's Servant. Tigers of, the jungle are sometimes accompanied by a jackal that acts as a sort of chela, or servant, to them. It is a common story, says Mr. A. A. Dunbar Brander, in Wild Animals in. Central India, that a jackal utters a peculiar cry called, "pineal when- in the company of a tiger. The call is .probably one of alarm or suspicion. I once saw three full-grown ,tigers; walk out abreast into• a beat. They ,were .separated, by. only Na. few feet;. and a jackal was scampering in and out between the tigers, quiteobvious- ly sure of his ground. - ,ss The jackal is a cheeky, in'telIigent, adaptable and,insignlflcant animal; he Is useful to the tiger and therefore is in 110 .danger from- him. The only jackal I ever heard calling in the presence of a tiger called on becoming aware of my presence, of which the tiger was ignorant. The jackal is .much alive to his own interests, and one attached 'to a tiger would have an easy time. The jackal is the only animal, that has friendly relations with the tiger. All other ani- mals fear and hate and shun him. I-Iis progress through the jungle tether by night or by day is advertised by the screams of alarm of peafowl and mon- keys and by the cries of all the deer. Ancient Grandeur May Return to Greece. Modern Greece has a fair chance of regaining some 'of her ancient grand- eur, according to Henry Me).rgenthau, who is here en route to the United States, after five months spent inthe recently re -born Republic as League of Nations envoy in charge of finding homes for the million and a quarter. Greeks who were suddenly repatriated when the Turks routed the Greek army in Anatolia and drove civilians as well as soldiers out of Asia. The new Republic is firmly estab- lished, according , to. Mr, .1'3orgenthau, and it will never be possible for form- er King': George to return to Athens'. Likewise, he said, the partisan -polite, cal tumult has quleted down. and the four Premiers who held office during the five months -Lie :we's. in Greece have buried the hatchet for the, coninion good, - A Little Error, Patrick had a bed attack ot that very anoyilig ailment, toothache, Al ;last he decided' lie could stand the gnaevinepaen no longer,,and made up,, his mind to bale) the offending molar extracted, Ile walked down the main street of the 10W11, and, at "last lie-cameto a dentist`s est,ablisiurient, .outside which hung a sign with the words: "Painless extractions.” Tee stopped e passer-by and inquired: tire meaning ee the expression, ` "Wliy, a't means just wwliat 'et sayer" was theestiever. "That dentis(: 1akei, teeth oat without pain, .°Isle 1 t 1i. He -wgrit inside, ,arae the Dot was seen out .t r: y e ' e P', '11 an.lr you, brl site' i1 d Pet i;; .S s pi, a, as 3 made ler the I t o door,- "That will be flity cents' " saki the defost, renewing hire, 'Fifty cent> ?" said Pat, enr liar l. "Why, it bays outside t.110 door ihat you take teeth out v+itiioiii 1iit feel" 4