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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-6-5, Page 2By Rev, (Contented VL More Thar' Compensation., going :Are you thinking of g g to the city because money is made fester there? $t is not surprisingif you soiuetinree grove impatient with the very slow 'pace at .which money is aeoumulated on the farm. The return for so much labor and sutsh strict economy does, at first sight," semi very small., Some. a s ru gle to .snake ends 'lean; there is +, g meet! In the very best years, the surplus is not large. The farmer who el a lifetime of skilful management, close 'atteutioe.. to business, and hard work, can boast- of being twenty or thirty .tl onetentl dollars ahead is one of a very few in his locality. -Meanwhile he sees city residents 'of', life will be easy of attainment. This is real education,. the only true educa- tion, the educationno school or col- lege can give. No hey or girl is sup- posed to have a case against parents who have contrived to'give him or her a good education. No father apologizes to his son for not having paid him wages for the hours he worked over his books in college. No father awes his boy wages for the years he him- self spent drilling him in the work.' that made a man of hien. Would it not be well, therefore, be- fore deciding on a change, to he sure your children and your children's children would receive as valuable an words of advice to a patient than we, education in the city, that you will can allow ourselves for a whole after -have equal opportunities of being with noon of toil and, sweat in the burning sun. We spend a whole season pro- ducing a shipment which on market - day returns us a cheque considerably smaller than the profit many a mer- very little time with them; .. his , op - smaller reaps on a few days turn -over of stock." It is even calculated sometimes-- and ometimes—and from a purely commercial point of viow, correctly perhaps—that a farm does not pay at all. With the assistance of several grown-up sons and daughters, who receive no re- muneration in the form of wages, a farmer makes some progress and in- creases his property. Were he to pay them what their services would be worth in another occupation, he would have nothing left for himself, Now, this is certainly a formidable FARMER fly,C,S,B. roxu last week) Tf your boys and girls receive no wages for their wor'.ron. thefarin, have they nothing of value therefrom? Have they not received something of lullnitely greeter value than the Most lucrative 'financial returns?" `By those very occupations, they have been trained to be useful, callable men and women. There has been going on all. the tixus a, formation of character, a development of brain power, au ac- quirernent of mechanical skill, abroad- ening experience, which are the indis- pensable assets for entering up on any. future in life. If your boys and girls possess such dualities upon reaching the years of maturity, you have done, well for them, indeed. Everything else requisite for a proper start in less ability and no harder as come into the control of millions. 'Can we expect '!him to be satisfied with his lot? Inthe first plat©, there is another. side to this picture. While a few for- tunate ones make their millions, it is a fact, borne out by actual Statistics, that ninety per cent. of those who go Into mercantile business fail. There $ono consolation, after all, in a' steady, sure thing: But, you argue: "We have to do so much for a dollar or for five dollars. Ap rofessional man receives more for dictating a, letter or offering a few them and guiding them there. By way of contrast, we might note in passing, what a successful merchant does for his family in this way. He can spend. portunities" for forming their charac- ter,' drilling there in habits of industry, economy, or self- reliance, are all too limited, with the result that none of his children can take his place or do anything worth while. He can leave them large sums of money, the expec- tation of which usually stifles all am- bition and effort, the possession of which, in most cases, drives them in- to lives of dissipation. Would you say that a father has done well for his family merely becasue he left then large suns of money? Is it success of this kind you are envious of and to proposition. It seems almost unan- gain which you would leave the farm? swerablo. There is apparent injustice ! To ,sum all up, what is the funda- to those sons and daughters if the t mental mistake you make in being despondent over your slowly increas- ing bank account? Is it not being disposed to regard money -making as the essential condition of success in life? If you are a father, what is your real duty? To, make money or bring up your family properly? If the mil- lionaire has forgotten this, why should you? business can build up some capital only through their unpaid toil. Mer- chants, banger, financiers, generally attain real success entirely independ- ent of their children's efforts and co- operation. Surely, then, you will con- clude farming puts you and your child- ren at the greatest disadvantage. Is there an answer to all this? Yes, as- suredly so, (To be continued). From one end of the world to the other Britain has gathered representa- tives of her people to be present at the British Empire Exposition. The laude bejeweled figures shown are from Ceylon. Atmosphere Extends 540 Miles From Earth. :macdevotes a lot of attention to the air these days. Now that radio con- certs are drifting through the air for twenty-four hours a day and. modern Mageilans are using the,air to eircunr- navigate the globe in flying machines he, air has achieved an importance never accorded it in the days when it was employed almost exclusively for breathing purposes. And in view of ,the new fame it has acliieved, it is a coinr'idence that science has discover- ed that apparently more 'air surrounds 4 the earth than ever Before was ,sus peeted- A few weeks ago the Abbe Moreaux, , toted French astronomer, announced sleet srientiflc tests seemed to indicate that the atmosphere extended shout y Flanders fieldss recent! resumed a martial appearance when Albert, kingof the Belgians, unveiled a' memorial to the fallen men of the London Scottish; Pictured with himis Sir Douglas Haig. Little Tow A. `free Wish. 1 want to live in a treel---- A golden glitter all around Of b1'il1laut Xmves, 1,,v ant,to;,eee.- Tlre'twitchlug growth above, below, And Severywliere, I" want to know The sway of wind waves, I would feels The cool,: sweet drip from. leaf to leaf" Of xuornirig rain, ,1 long to lean • ,g A ainet., the "bank and ;hear it moan As moon, and Wind, and alouds go by, Anathegr the civ of glassing night, And then to wake! A jewelled morn Of thinnest blue of silver dew, Of spiders weaving early shreds. Of slender webs from, here to there; A shining cup of morning air To fill my throat. Then I, would try To join the psalm of Melody If I might',live in a tree, —D. A. Lovell. I love a little to-vn whose streets run up and down Beneath an arch of spreading -maple trees, leaves, and the weeping willow : 'elm tree' waves.. her 1 s, p Where the grieves, And the ivory cones of chestnuts draw the bees. Where the houses nestle back from the dusty beaten track, With roomfor children in theirsunny spaces, With theirdandelions and clover and green grass running over, And swings beneath the trees in shady -'places. I love. the "folksy" ways of the peaceful happy days, With "Annie, take this jar of apple jelly Across to Mary Brown ; she's a little bit run down, And don't forget to ask for Cousin Nelly." . When Sand is "Quick." At low tide one can walk ore the Goodwin Sands with safety, says an English writes. Cricket matches have been played on their smooth surface. Yet when the tide is coming in the sand softens so that it engulfs every- thing upon its surface. If you want to understand about quicksand, take two 'Jam -pots and 1111 both with dry sand. It takes a good deal of force to push an uncut pencil to the bottom of either jar.'"' Dampen the sand in one jar, and it is still dif- ficult to if-ficult:to penetrate, but soak it -mix it with a quantity of water, and keep the mixture stirred — and the pencil pierces to the bottom with ease. This shows the secret of quicksand. If the grains are separated •by water which is constantly coming in from below, the sand is "quick- But the separating agent need not be water; it t maybe gas. Small. patches of quicksand found upon a beach are of- ten the result of decaying matter, such. as dead shell -fish buried' beneath the surface and giving off gas. Quicksands found, inland, in river beds ' or on moorlands, are usually caused by 'underground springs. But quicksand is not a special sort of sand. Any fine-grained sand becomes quick in the circumstances described. I love the starlit night with the quiet, clean delight_ Of a lilac twilight, drenched with perfumed dew ; When the flickering, darting gleam loam of the" firefly lanterns beam, In the trees and meadows all the evening through. I love the rambling lane, twixt the fields of golden grain, And the river that goes rippling on its way, Where with rod and friendly book, one may fish and read and look At the farmer with his load of fragrant hay. Oh, I yearn for gardens sweet, with the violets at my feet, And the scented apple,blossoms drifting- down For there's nothing half so dear at all -seasons of the year As the God -made beauties of a little town. —Helen. Thompson Woolley. 'Marking Time. It does not do 'in any, calling, indus- trial -or artistic, -merely to=go `through the motions. To singer or player in lumber into lengths, perfunctorily, as Edison's Pet Dog. !:!even man • emulirised the " entire Staff ofthe Edison lanai works in 1B.19 when, hlr L�panols tJ'ohi, now of the Edison •Museeupt iii New York Citi', event.. to 'Che` p1anC n white,two-glory With an agricultural ' Impel 1 s' frame 0l pr2 amountingtU x 1 FAQ INSTRUCTION' IN CANADA, i t se�-wto a ly .for Work. You raeticaliy: one-half of can i'maglna, ho says in t1lQ T>apailax' the total fe ,the .faonxinioti, fare iw !t)t /• '1 o hthl how mit heart was ' constitutes one 'oil the �' z t Science z4 l y, struot,on U thumping, hew I was besleged by fear inipoltaut. Il asos of the. vyarlc of•";'ttip azid itlisgtvin,gs. as to the sort of itis' 1'roviriellal and ll'eder`al Governments' ti I xx lhllt°make�on" iLf�.T iUsoli• .� xxable n 'of ederani noting intoe pl 1. F,: the l As' 1 e rpxoaalred the Yrnxil pores! I'ination on this vital subject, is more l caught sight of se great'shaggy mass or less comptex, owing to the invmen- lyingunder a:'giant hickory tree beside met., sits of the country sand the number the house. ''Ah!" 1 thought, lofwidely scatsexed 'fsrx'ms• 1±!disco^s pat deer/ Probably the best distributors of It 'ohcurred, to me that I' alight win agricultural knowledge are the demon- sone'sliglit 'favor with Mr, rEdison 1T' st •atlon :farms operated" by the Fed- I could milia friends with 1 dog, so arab Government and located 1n all T thrust out my Band to, pat the aniinai• provinces of the Dominion. Theca The next instant 1 was rushing up the farms are operated along practical stairs of tlre_laboi nary, the worst -•farming lines. A large amount of ex - stared young man who ever had, eir- i perirnontal work is carried on and efe tereid the place, For the animal un- l forts are: made to ascertain the best, ; der the tree. was a brown: bear! It ryas crops most ,suitable for the district in chained there, but I didn't take tulle i which the feral is• located. By carry to ascertain that fact; I just ran, ing out these ' evpei irnents, millions I forgot all my carefully rehearsed !of doll -ars- are annually saved to farm - speeches, forgot everything I had ! ers. planned to impress Mr. Edison,. I Intensive agricultural training is dashed .into" his laboratory, Y,anting p to eons ly behind me for thio beast, which I felt .iuust be at my heels. I had in- tended to be dignified. Instead I was o i rn fusing, and T,fear ridiculous. ls. Mr, Edison laughed heartily \viten I burst in on him, but it was a laugh that endeared him to roe' forever—a sudden swift revelation of leis- char a soulless machine cities its work. The actor who plays' brief part, year after year, is in similar, danger of: losing the capacity to do anything•else—like contact with an audience personality the holy man of Tibet who has sat is an .invaluable asset. That person - cross -legged in one place so long that ality may become manifest by a de- he cannot rise." Merely to mark time or to go finite and calculated exertion, however artfully the effort may be concealed beneath the guise of casual, unpre- mediated naturalness. It always looks easy to do the hard things when a real artist does them. who attach much consequence to their If a man is in business, he must put "standing" in the community. But merelyto stand isnothing—it is iigh time they his mind on it and make sacrifices of ' ease and leisure for it, or he will bewent' ahead. outstripped by a competitor who does not spare himself and keeps long hours of strenuous labor. He roust Naturfal Resources Bulletin. not let himself be, satisfied to satisfy the time -clock or to establish the fact, The Natural Resources Intelligence in the eye of a supervisor, that he is ,Service of the` Department of the In not a slacker. When he has earned terior' at Ottawa says: the right , to present himself at . the Getting bait is one of the first es - cashier's window and claim his pay sentials to a successful fishing trip. he has merely lived up to the nega-Those whose ;fishing experiences are through the motions without the ac- tive participation of the whole' of one's being falls far short of realizing the purpose for which we were put here. There are pompous individuals Tough Luck. I have got to have a job, ani man 32 years old, intelligent but married. = Classified. ad. in San Antonia Express. Pend disheveled, laolcing appre 1 ive- cultural colleges located in the vari- ous provinces,. Canada has some of the finest agricultural institutions in the world, and graduates from those are in demand from many foreign countries. Operation of "Better Farming" Trains. In the past few years the railways, in conjunction with the Provincial and Federal Governments-, have organized and operated "better farming trains" in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec These trains, -which are really miniature demonstration schools, have proven very popular. ' Other media of farm instruction, which have an important influence on Canada's framing community, -are the annual exhibitions. It is here that the farrier has an opportunity of see- ing all the latest developments along farming lines, as well as viewing the fin a cap able Mad efficient' ken care o manner by the large number of eget acter. There was no ridicule in; the laugh, no trace of enjoyment of a boy's embarrassment. It was just a wholesome, Hearty, spontaneous burst of nierrinient such as any comical hap- pening might cause. In an -instant :[ was at my ease, and within a very few m<nuies arrange- ments had been made tor me to join Mr. Edison—all association that has continued without interruption to the present day. X -rays -Detect Smuggling. English customs inspectors are us exhibits of prize grains, to -deters, and ing X -raw Machines to lccxate contra- cattle. band goods in heavy bales and boxes. where the farmer is unable to, at- tend the anual fair in his district or He .who goes to law for a sheep visit the better farming trains, the loses his cow. Governments aid him by the distribu- tion of bulletins onevery conceivable agricultural subject. These bulletins, which are distributed free of charge, are written byqualified experts and have been of -material aid to the farm- er in solving his. agricultural. prob- 1ems Fa.rm instruction, as carried out by the different Governments, has en- abled the farmer to cultivate his land on a more scientific basis, raise .the crops ,best suited to his particular lo- cality, and thus increase his crop yield and secure for him greater returns his -labor and capital investment. The results of this work are becoming more and more apparent each year, and the splendid agricultural -showing made by Canada in recent years' is at- tributable, in a large measure, to the farm instruction programme .of the Governments. Your ,Fountain Pen. Many fountain -pen irregularities re. � J� •';.: tom >v: t r� � f ass > s _ �<w';'M a �. u suit from apparently happen- ings, apply, trivial .....:.�+,�'�i'�.x.�.��s�,:c�c��Y..��,—,, For example, the person wlio lends a friend his pen must not be sur- prised if it never works quite as well } i afterwards. No amount -of fair wear and tear will cause a nib to deterior- ate so much as a sudden change of hands. - Th.is is because very few people pos- sess precisely the spine tench, be it light, medium, or heavy. Again, the angle at which the pen is held varies with -almost every individual. But for one pen spoiled in this way, three will', go wrong through" being clogged with • th dust dirt, and unsuitable ink, while I saw some martins wheel at And, with swift silent joy, Soar and circle And plunge' into the bosom Of the lake. Flapping a rhythmic flight, Their fleet wet wings Lapped up the cool sweet•evening air. They, winged ectasy And. joy of, life incarnate, whii•roil and whirled Wet pinioned over 'are Arid circling Wigle, Dipped again With silent happiness Into. the lake's clear joys Comrades many they; O'er and o'er, with deft" sure :flight Tbey skixnrned the crystal waves' And played the game together— Until out the- deep blue east Until f The tender night stole • forth And trailed her healing robes Across a vveary world.. Mabel F. Blakeslee 540 miles beyond the earth's surface; This is more than five times as far as science. previously had estimated the atmosphere's Height. The apparent existence of this'un- known atmospheric layer was deter- mined by ingenious observations of the aurora borealis. Simultaneous ex- posure x posure of more than. six. hundred photographs from different points and subsequent inathematieal calculation indicated that the aurora extended its. electrical manifestations 54.0 miles above the earth. It was assumed that these phenomena could not display themselves in empty space, and it was concluded in consequence that there must be some sort of. atmosphere 340 miles. or more away Good citizens are made . or' marred in the nursery. ---Dr. James Glover. tine requirement. limited to the interior lakes and rivers he most successful men on can hardly appreciate the importance One ',f t Y this continent has said`~that' the man of a sufficient quantity o£ bait to the who wins is the man who does more fishermen on the sea coast, when its than he is paid to do. The young man with his foot on the lowest rung of the ladder that mounts successward cannot afford to give to his 'job less than everything he has to give, re- gardless.gf the pay. If he has estab- lished himself as a valuable perforin- er, his price will rise. Even a writer cannot afford to give his readers the impression that he • inds out his lines in the spirit of a >;r hireling, wlio drudges along in the same routine` day after clay, content to be safe, glorying In all that is stand -pat, without searching his mind p now and then to. see if he is adding to his stock of new ideas. does liis work without enthus- iasm, the fact shows itself in the° de- terioration of quality. The reader that he does not came, that lie feels is merely sawing off his intellectual eeSEL_L pp'RA , L.ErJ-c" is `-- tet` NEA.RL`? OJc'r2.:.1-i/-AVE ''iFeS l 'IOU B i' pn'teiC'Traire(' P ON C G. a'� l_ F � � N I A L -,,c 1 AHI'. 1NNOV) Lyes! WI LI_ i lU LONGER t-IAJE. To 7 �J Ai .! f it Y N r, lack means no fish. The Canadian Fisheries Dept. operates on the At- lantic coast a bait reporting service, whereby captains and owners of fish- ing vessels are provicled'with informa- tion regarding the catch `at various g points along, the coasts of the Mari- time Provinces • and the Magdalen Is- lands. This information is tele- graphed to the principal fishing ports, veryvaluable. and xs of the amount of bait Some idea used maybe gained from the fact year 142 888 barrels of:•her- that last , used forthat purpose in rilig were eastern Canada. - - Obviously, ussia, I see, is going to educate , • its peasants." l in. the little: Red school- house." y house." reterwacctommasanosamigionremarar INR.ABBI`T.BORO all , 1 ;ikey. . N'T. ,MIC' -4)E0 IT Set srr I't? L1`<.E To 60" RIGHT OW. wfih'T EXTRAORDlNAR.Y CHPsRSeCTER INA C TLt lie/Hiss-I' LUXO I-lfea/E '`d00 GIVEN iii? DL)cZiNCa. l..E.NT 2 On his arrival at Melbourne,\ Australia, General Bramwell Booth, world leader of the` Salvation Army, was `welcomed by Commissioner Whatmore, who has charge of the New South -Wales branch of• the army. Joy of Water. Containing 24,111 ounces of silver, e most valuable piece of silver ore eventide ever taken frim a mine in the British twice as many more need more "dock Empire will be exhibited by the Gov- ing" through rough usage and acct - eminent of Ontario at the British dent. Empire Exhibition, When in regular use a pen should Two in South be cleaned at least once a month. Be - eggs recently foundgin by flushing. the ink reservoir, and Dakkotaota and believed to be millions of after this leave the pen ina bowl of years old have been placed in a mu- water until every, trace of ink seum. Theyare stated to be cold it - among sediment Is removed. r' Frequently a good nib :,o iniuzed be - cause its owner has substituted a new for one accidentally Test, Out - 'a rare cap The Viola D Amore is now � ht but in- wardly the spare fits all right, instrument --so rare:. that a Dutch ., sufficient ��iert clear- wardly there is not sufc musician who recently discovered:one „nca for the nib. 'a in Paris_' said that he believed it to use works . T Many a pec in consiant only one in existence. rhe ixi- he the o y all the better for a rest slaw and again. rument has seven gut" steins and This �° ace st g g is because the roa^uei sur C even or more wire strin strings that passe r nt: under g , papers must, tue.trib' to beat el gl •Y the finger board and vibrate' in' , gat 'tiures, with the gut strings. Its harmony - , c, r ^ 1 ha.. yg g The wisdom of using auk , pe..ia1 y sono is m it peculiarly soft ando: pleasing. recommended by"fountain �peu';makera xecontm Some ambitious maker of violins cannel -ba empli�ed, LU,) stron,;ly. might try this instrument on a new c —_as„ltie ._..-w_ • Assyrian Horticulture, Many common plants, and fiew'rt the oldest signs of animal life yet found generation. xsarrnacsama�+., wa..cssaz�rasc�r- 50AP '7')9,v, are referred te, in the aucient cunei- form 'tablets dug up in site ruins of Babylon and other Assyrian. cities. Fifty more, many of them drug elan's, have been identified quite recently through a study of the relative ,fiet- quency in Which the .names occur, their therapeutic use, and, the colo- parison of the wore ;r i1h tib mime of the flower or plant in atlier Semitic ' languages, Among the il^it' plants. be r !.laved to have been identified are Hide rose, the daisy, nntsi,rd, asafoetida, sumach; hemp, cha:iuriinihe; apricot, clier:i'y and mulberry'. 110110CE1 Ser' vice. A Letter` Froth Home. eloth.er—"To whoei,are yoti writing your letter,'deerfi" Dorothy—"To Bobbie." " "But ho's right in 4 Steel room," "Yes, that's why 1 sent Bina there!