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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-9-4, Page 2MOUNTAINS THAT SAIL THE SEAS Cedwrs.. I Of all my treasures the 'best are these' That Stand 111 m garden --two cedar; trees, Far out in the Atlantic, 011 the north- , Quiet and steadfast and straight and • tall ern shipping routes, anxious watch is being kept just naw for 'icebergs that are drifting from Newfoundland, prior to breaking up under the influence of the warm "Gulf Stream. Two factors figure conspicuously in the icebergs' history—the'freezing cur- rents that, swirl along the Labrador coast and the warm 'waters issuing. from the Gulf of 1lXexico. These two iufiueui:es control the iceberg's exist- ence, the first carrying it slowly :out to sea, after it has broken away from the parent glacier or mass of sheet ice, and the Second gradually luring it south until, after traversing. nearly 2,0,00 miles, it meets its end by molt- ing in the waste of waters surround- ing it. Floating,Fifteen Miles a Day. The loebergs that will provide a menace to shipping next year are corning into being now. , 'Until winter comes they willfloat up and down the icebound coast from which they have become detached. Then, newt March, the currents will bear then towards Newfoundland at a rate of about fif- teen miles a day, The icebergs that are watched for so carefully are those that were "born" in this fashion last year. Very few bergs last longer than a year, their fate being sealed when they drift south from Newfoundland. Those that outlast the average span do so as a result of having drifted into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A little-known fact concerning the iceberg menace is that 'fourteen na- tions now odntribute to the mainten- ance of an efficient 'patrol of the North. Atlantic, where the danger is greatest. Termed the International Ice Control, the organization that carries: on the Higher than chimney and house and, all. Darby and Joan -like; $a close they stand, One mi'''lt imagine them hand in hand. Ages and ages before I camp, They tell vire the Cedars stood just the sante. Braving; the storm and the stress of I years, ' The sunlight their laughter, the rain their tears. T. am glad that the two have so closely grown, For one night be lonely so long alone. And 'often at night when the wind's song charms Tho cedars will sway in each other's. arms. a kiss— ve Or a wandering moonbeam will lea But ov:y cnly at night do they act like this. I wonder at times what the end will be— Or will they live on through Eternity? And I almost can find in my heart to pray. That the end cometo both on the Self- ] same day. Oh, rye many treasures, but none like these That 'grow in my garden—two cedar trees. The Value of an Education. work has done much in recent times Pat was sexton of St. Bridget' not only to minimize the risks but to add to our knowledge of icebergs and their ways. Proof Against Explosive Shells. Experiments conducted recently show, for example, that the w.idely-dis cussed suggestion that torpedoes should he used to destroy bergs is not practicable, the explosion too often• having the effect of destroying Merely the visibleP art of the iceberg, leaving a great mass intact below the water-. line. Even the firing of mines is not al- ways satisfactory, although this meth- od is the one that is most favored at present. As an illustration of the, size of some icebergs, it was reported re- cently that high -explosive shells cap- able P - D able of demolishing a house, sank in- to the icy: mas: •ithout effect. What is belie ed to be the biggest iceberg ever i the S.S.,Mileo Attired in theof recently opened the biginternational BDy Scout unlfclm of a boy scout,. the Prince Walesy p jamboree at Wembley. With him is Chief Scent Sir Robert Baden-Powell. The Old House. A Great Cathedral. Church when. the officials decided. to The quaint old house waits by the road A: religi ns edifice •remarkable ;for combine the duties of a clerk with With none to dwell within, those of sexton. Since Pat could And, seems to beckon passers-by ! neither read nor rite los his'job.Andtry some heart to win. Then write het ry he got work driving a wagon and went to hauling dirt. • No feet go down its crumbling steps, Bells. Slow bells at dawn'— , . What mean ye 'by your,tolliing? sizeYand beauty has recently been con- Bells in the growing light,, secreted in Liverpool in the presence • Knolling• afar; of the King' and Queen. It stands on Loitering in leisured sequence, • an elevation, St. James's Mount and Where • the 'inging-seraplim • - hen completed will dominate the city.- Shake'you out`cf Heaven, when completed will dominate the city From the morning star. Pretty soon he bought the wagon Its hearth Is bare of spark; and the horses that he drove. At the No hands pull down the curtain where .� usual beauty of proportion. Echoes are in my soul. end of a year lie owned several wag- The' windows all are dark. The Liverpool cathedral is priginal Consonances and broken melodies— ons,, purchased with his profits. After inits-inspirationSurvivalsa remembrances - ! .. _ design. It draws p frayed and remem e fS !another year or so he had a large and'Time was, when to its threshold lie both from the pointed or Gothic—and 'Vanished and irretrievable. prosperous transportation business Would grief or gladness bring, . . Yrom the classical style. It is annus- i What know, ye of ,lifer with many:lvagons and trucks. About that time he was making a contract, and when he admitted he' couldn't read the lawyer said, "You can't read,., and yet you have built up this great business! - My, my, what wouldn't only if ou be y you'dy learned to read and write!” "Oi would be sexton of St. Bridget's Church,' replied Pat. - s; 0rgl illu- stating which ex- in the vicinity while an easterly Noris it a, fact cn of birds on or, over sea denotes _ an iceberg's i n which, however, ya notion e , is ati'i]widelyb sailors. ' held y , !stake. declare, some one exit!" And hearts beat' higher just to feel Its cosy Welcoming. But now it hides sone lone dame, Who, with a wistful smile, Sees Love and Joy unheeding pass, Though both were hers erstwhile. •-Charlotte Becker. i the older ,.English •cathedrals. It has been • a great , ,wliany,. years takably Gothic'. in structural character Or of•perished hours or years? and in detail, but its proportions, are 'Ye toles that are boris In air so "far accordant with the cla's'sical And throb ,in air and die, A i"E di'i , EipenseAccount. av08.Stturiay night, and thy two "cirri eimers" were alone "lit' the .otlice, cf. th.0 only hotel • in town. One, a Natural Resources• Bulletin. The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of.the - Dept. of the I axi gi•1-zi d man fifty years o'd, ,sat ',quiet says: lye 'chin• the ot,+e. `u.hey of tvventy T °' a Canadlan fisheries are remarkable, i eaao ro as making 1t hiswe lcly for the' aiun her a id.variety of the` •, t- l n asi . 1cr, lint. v si tie past six species, Many o -V these have -been de- i �t c 1 ail bee r visiting the. same velored commereiallyb t there:are -also, .;ii is .nil e hvC.d heth fries e t many species that are riot bens used: "1 rnrt t:no aver an t7ie house this , ve,,l ', roniarire�t the young .fellow, oleic ar•e a ff:w varieties which; un_ fortunately have to bear the brunt tripring' lies p, n. is e first ;of the' demand, and this has been 'the: wsl1 v'ou' foi'ev, and :Ite''1111'1'16s one, :othercause, in thepastofsucintensiv&w.ela B.efo.re:tar_out m.nother 5 fishing that it has led to the depletion saleunlan' told dire about a eche no bY. . which I can increase my income a And, in "some cases, almost extinction of the favored, variety; ittle." = 1 ' An under standiaig look appez,,ec1 in It as but a•coniparatively few years the eller man's eyes. ' "You've padded l since the sturgeon was abundant in you r2pense account?" Canadian. lakes and streams: To -day 7 t e young fe1tow grinned and nod -%t is the most valuable fish found in ded. Canadian waters, due to overfishing. Pilo next morning the :two salesmen The one-time famous• sturgeon fisher - were sitting broad verandah en- , joyirg th© bright sunshine, 'They had been talking inconsequentially, but now a silence ,had fallen. Suddenly the elder turned to•his eo•nrpanian. "Son,— I'rn uid enough to call you that, -your reraerks iiia' night about,your expense account set •me to thinking of, an ex- ,per, ice' of n'i'irie when I was; about your t,ge,... I'd like' to tell you about it ifI "Wray," '.`I m listening,'' • replied 'the `other, •smiling ,risky ;ligase," :began',the older::• man, '"was .the firm• QftCraimpton •t4 Stanley, now .the famous Cruzupton Company, :'I,:started::out„and.did ,Well for a,'year; My'father; whe had spent•his business.. life with the sante concern, had always' taken pride• in paring his,iexpense ac- count to the linii , and i began to fol- low his example: - "_Atfthe: beginning of mysecond year I married. Then 1 'felt the `'need of - more money and- asked>tor a raise, but. old -man Stanley toldryriie that 'condi- tions did' not justify, an increase„ of salaries•' just then: PIe promised me, however, ,that my- request would be the first one granted. ` Another •yeababy r massed( and our y, was born,- leaving \my wife's, -health: sorfouply, impaired-i'or several months. Wes 'needing more money, and about that •tlnie an older salesnian••s'uggested that I pad my' expense account. Ire fused at- first for. I remenlbered my, father's"exam plc• but ni urgent desire p Y .g I for .more money; finally overcame. my seruples, and I yielded, ' "At first I padded sparingly, but when I 'saw -how easy it was I grew bolder.` There carne a week when A _ I ,,plunged. The 'following, week I' ire% t a drummer who -was making the same ; 5.• .: apt to be a danger unless there Was a 1i it -Ss. as. . : - towns,.. but I,didn t ,pay( much attention.: .• <. " , that. the building, altr bug Leaving no traces anywhere, wise Control and guidance of all these has a oto hien, and after .Saturday h.e, disap_ lofty as ally Gothic church,ave tremens in the. quickened pool beneficial activities. Too much Da - breadth that make thepeered," : The ensuing Tuesday I re- and.solidity of tears ies of the Lake of the Woods and Niagara River are, things of the past, and to -day the taking of a sturgeon of what was at one time a normal size is the Voccasion for a press report. The July issue of the Canadian Fishermtin records tWo of these fish taken.. One was 'taken oh the Miramichi River . in New' Brunswick- which weighed 300. pounds:'.and contained 72 pounds of caviar, valued ,at $2 per pound. •,The. comment of the correspondent on this catch tells its own story when he - 'says': "A .sturgeon in a very rare sight on the - Miramichi, none having, been. sen for_ • some • years."' The other fish was taken near Sarnia, Ontario, 'and weighed:150 .pounds, valued at $G0. The annual catch., of sturgeon, as shown by the reports of the Depart ment . of Marine and Fisheries, am- ounted ,to 1,036,400 pounds in 1910, The 1922 figures tell the story of the rapidextinction of the' sturgeon, with 'a total of 335,100 pounds taken, not- withstanding the inducement of a market: price of over thirty cents per pound. Over -fishing;;, has had its .in- evitable' result, and the 'sturgeon is rapidly becoming a luxury species. ;r' The Highest Joy. "There is such a wonderful interest taken in child` welfare and -;so many Organizations eager to promote the '. welfare•and happiness of children, that out of it' all should come great and per manent results in construe ti: va social " service, ..said ,J. J. Kelso in an ad- dress `on "Recent De el p s Child-Protectien'Work." He added, however, that thisvery popularity ryas height far ;less striking. than that of Within the'windlesis deeps of memory? Duncan Campbell Scott. Organ Rec,atal Movement Spreading. since so Ia:rge•.aiIa .beautiful a church was built in England—almost three centuries in fact, Tor 'the Liverpool r The installation of a; new pipe organ r church is larger than St. Paul's, larger in a western' Canadian church not long than York Minster, larger indeed than.` :. ago brought a number of *prominent i any other Christian church except St. i men together in the hope that some Peter's at Rome and the cathedral at I : ' arrangement might be affected where- Seville. In design it follows the early- 1 by the organ would be used other than rather`than the late Gothic. It is almost ;•., at regular church services. 1 Norman in the p.r art of n` between 7 The result 'was that the organist stone„...ia0,14f--gril window space in the was asked if he oouli7 r,at,,p)-,.,a ,AgF,?2g walls and ,in the massive, almost ccs - of rggk,•ia-cftlfing •the year. He agreed, tellated, roof lines; but theinterior is and the result 'was that every two extremely rich, andthe architect has weeks since, a popular organ recital : made use of vaulting and carving that The' Pouter Pigeon.' wife's"sake, .but mostly, because, you he lumber and mining industries of, has been conducted for the benefit of"Loose Bill that °fellow must have are the son of your father. How long tg swallo•we�d a toy has this-b,een gin on and h w much ceived a wire ;summoning me to the office.'' ,When I entered the next'inorn ing I: saw :the drummer who hadM1been ' with me the previous. week: I' "Mr. Stanley bade me be seated and; then handed me a slip, my expense ac- count for'the'past week: _Hi -s Pace was' grave as.he asked whether. it was cor- rect. I .said it was, and then he pass- ed' me another slip • on it was the im- print ora detective •agency. I 11-e'a;i zed that I was caught,. I --broke down, cried like 'a baby and confessed,. ternallhm hair the tendency always to weaken the moral fibre and make peo- ple depend- on' :organization and gov- ernment instead 'of working adcreat- ing ideal conditions'fortheinselves. The highest joy came from self -effort and achievement. He^ oom• meiided the great work of the Fresh Air Funds and advocated that attention be given to fruit-pleking and' vegetable -growing, thus combining the pleasurable outing g ;with ,personal .;and community? profit. It, was demonstrated during the war begging him. fora m sick wife's sake that boys could have a geed time and Y also earn considerable money by as - not to dlsgraae nae. He dismissed the detective; and then he said: 'Jack, Tin: sisting in agricultural work, C during going ,to len: you off, partly for your the busy season.'He favored .ending the older and stronger boys to study re en are. of the most highly 'developed ,,r the north as that had a special appeal \ music lovers generally throughout the period. going ofor a: certain type of youth. district: The architect is an interesting man. have you stolen?' In_addition a twenty-five minute or -1 He is Mt'. Giles Gilbert.Scctt.`a them' F.gh+;;,g it-.raef Fina 1 "I' told him, and he continued: `I • gan prelude to each Sunday evening her of the Royal Acad;e ny and agrand- ' tatin sorest fires ,think you'll go straight henceforth, Style Threatens to � I Cly !€sh In fighting devas . , g _,' a service is given f that Gilbert `Scott vvha was fa but some punishment is due you If A.. s of 'the air Is playing an irnportanf'part. son o' la el It would bea roes exa geration of lig i i•er of air et business g g mous ar a cte.,r„ner and este •• in Northern Ontario, man's conquest : the truth t'o, say that the church is English churches seventy-five years padding your expenses..I'll recommend To -da ei ht aeroplanes are engaged The growing popularity of bobbed hairin.:Euro e and Orth America ;`r p N threatens with extinction ' one of China's ;important nianufacturing'pur suits. Ever since the, 1911. revolution ` in • China decreed the cutting off of queues young. woman to buy a song: which she Saturolay morning recitals for the and drawings. The edges were urian- eyesman g y ern Ontario. you will give me your word to give up e .and a Song. screed' at either the fortnigaIly organ - - ' thingis that: , .. y you as a good salesman, which you are. • packed ago. : T.lre e d raardlnai.y in daily aerial patrols over more<bhati .tive., Sol, Bloom of New recital or at, the evening service, but Mr. Scott drew : the lans for this Dirt -I cannot keep you -here any<long- P 80 000. square miles-. of .virgin •timber, wit the country over as "the the fact remains.that enough music great' cathedral when. he was' only er. an,"more-than justify The aeroplanes > 'working with the .: .old sale,sman bought his wife with a lavers attend sloth to more t j y twenty --one years old. . One hundred Government • in conjunetion , wit2i i e sa ;esman paused and looked their, existence. ; and three architects sr:Unutted sldetch-, iservice,are up at ,the blue sky. hen in the music-publishingu i r t' the1 t i ` privately " opera -et- air e busi-• he was a considering . comrnencin a series of A y young man, with 'an odd' look in his Sent time d rgan S S eS in comp etL on; and five' or them bol ed b.. the first wireless station de "Well, ,what followed?", inquired, the ess continually pesteredby gwere invited to submit complete plans and fl the t • with hu ,voted to : fire".patrol service In North- • boded marl.; thought was "taking." Bloom didn't benefit of "local school children. inious in selecting,,the- designs of this• think so, and said so. The composer Should be cbo so, he will immediately lad of twentyone,- and for more than persisted, and to get rid of her and her have endeared himself to the hearts twenty years he has been the super - song Bloom married her. of many fond parents who : feel that vising; architect of the great building. r Mrs. Bloom bided her time, and one no healthier atmosphere for their The cathedral -is nosy loss than Half day when there had been an unusually children could be obtained than at an finished, but the plan is' to coni?iiete good dinner and her husband was in a organ recital. it within forty years from the. hying softened mood, coyly suggested: • Numerous other - church -organists, in of :the corner stone and lIi•. 'Scott .,, .k• "Just for fun ..it's publish the' along.the . well - to ' e•�•, P ssong. other centres are • vvoraang t . r.ia,, v,�.,ll loot: farvv �ird ,,hie i.,_a.,�.�-1 Bloom did. It made a hit and a same pines, and in this way giving the experience of seeing in his old age the small fortune. lie to those who take delight in'poin•t- dream of his youth comliatoiyrea.iaed. z iib out that organs after all are niero . .._ ly a Sunday utility. l Thc Chase. Let's try and make this king of all A near-sighted olcl gentleman ,lost musical instruments not a contrivance his derby hat in a sudden gale. He for Sunday worship only, but an every- started in pursuit of the feat-disap- day instrument capable of disseminat-: l;earing headgear, and fi 3ti.11y con- ing happiness and joy to thousands of eluded he had, traced it*tb a yard 'be - music lovers. Let's give greater sup hind a high fence. port to the. organ recital Scrambling cover ''with, difficulty; he 1 eta,i'ted to chase the hat, bat each time Black Flour. its capture seethed sure, rtCseemecl to "Flack- flour,"'or pnlverizad coal, is move a,v'ay. 'Then a woman's angry a fuel that has lately been the subject v,cloe broke on his eara. of interesting experiments. The fuel r.,ltr is iircund from coal screenings, whThe Teol l rgentleman o yo/1 ir e3 plainad that heretofore have hail little commercial he was merely tryingg,to rdl:rieve his value. In cement kiilns and electric- laat. power p'.alnte where °'black fi,oirr„ has "I- (Lena L-riow where yottr hat is,... been tried it has burned witha much' sec 'shouted, ` but what you are Glias- higher efficiency than 'lump, 'agar, lit is , Ing is lily little black hen! fed to the fire box by a blower and burns numb like gas, To pulverize- it costs 'only fieri thirty to fifty cents a Ungrateful ton. An old lady Was stro 11 ai, leisurely across a field when sulderily she Very Dry. ` ire ise l that a bull, v.rith head lowered, Farmer --"You had - a fire at the 11 has,.clial*glag straight at 1ler, Picking. manse this morning: Any serious up her skirts, site nlanag, .i to teach loss?" the other aide• of the gate in safety. Diinister—"'Fes; wo. years' sermona Then she turned round, i dignation ��,i�•'.`.+��•��',`'���"��,r•���`;.,'.3��ar'•��ti'•�x�.�n°�'t},�i?�,�u"3,��r„��; iW'�•?^��h€`�+'`�i�' �k'•�# i tiverecoruplEtely btrriieci." 1 on lief• fare. "Yon ung.ratefui creature!" she ex- 1+armei with a Inabiory of mac'a g ( ' o the r bard of the Lister Institute , . Sir David Brace, chairman f e Bove nlrig b clair_,ed, 'Titre la.,.ve I, been a yege- t� ears Sunday morning) Mon, the • cf Preventive Medicine who had a lot to do with the successful fight against : t:trrait all my life and this is what 1 *made a gran plate, they were so dry, + al�eeping-sieieness,. to how touring Canada with the ifritrsh scientists. 1 ye ken." I f c, i r,i .; The Back -Street Invalid. A wall of. dirty bricks;, ix Six� tvvistedehimn-e `s • sr y , k 'blood Fissures 'on a sky U_ood red • 'r msmall bed. I s•e•e. tonight from . thy `,'The sky! that tiny -patch of sky, My plot of heaver;'safe and high; I smile ah ,it.while there i5 light, g And piant it out with starsat night," Trap LionsWith Catnip. Traps baited 'with catnip are „being used. with much ,success) in catching mountain lions in Colorado. I tank 1VIr. Stanley's letter," hair ;the manufacture of hair nets the other, '.`got .ajob on` thehas been an industry re of easing int- strength •of it and for nearly thirty f years have. portance in China. The industry had en o 'ed th " developed so rapidly during the last j y� e sane sent of reputation my enjoyed." " y e �cy..d. As the of er• man's d. n ` s voice, died a church bell began to ring.. Ile rose replied, few years that it aggregated,$10,000, 000 in annual exports. But, now,ac- cording to the report of the United slowlyStates Dept. of Commerce ofiiee. fl to his feat. "I usually go to church on Sunday, son. Wart to come anPeking, this trade has. along?" been seousiy affected by the „llanget • "Not 'just now," repiie'd: the youngcustoms of the girls and biller. abroad. Wan. -"I'll. join ,you later --after I've finished making out another expense fobbed heads do not i salve ' aria. account" Better sit in the back row and be discovered than sit in the front row and be found out. nets in nearly as many capes :as coif. fures for long hair and' the makers of hair nets are in despair lest the "Greenwich Village" style become uni- versal. London Garden Stat_: s Yael� Quantity of Vatl',o..h?e L end' Owing to the fortunate disco -cry o•f a workman in the IIn„'o r v persons owning old statue- have ly.sn examining them tare:ully lh., Iasi f,,,,v days, says a London dcsp In .the, garden of an old Georgian house were eight ag,'- , t ` i s, i :i,•: ently made of stone or 1d ester, w{i ick so annoyed the' owner that ho told, i workman he could have any one ha wanted if he would only t i ry it it'', The man found it 1-711S $o heavy' a i 1R': could not move it t -:„r lunation re- vealed that all the figures were made of solid_ lead, covered with several coats of paint, and that each of them weighed .many tons. Lead hare costs about £30 a ton. Their owner sold them for more than .E2,000, the Cape _ Work- man coming in for £200After being rammed b an Iialiaship olf Race the S.S. Yata,amt , limped into St, John's 'harbor and settled in shaIlaw water, Where she: was , We are not'wha+ cv -e. think we are, repaired, and is now bac,:, en the job. but what we thin +.wP -are':•