The Exeter Times, 1924-11-20, Page 2°des
Well -Ki on eop e
"Doing", Kipling. squeak --so I guess ye eau call ltirn a
C}nM day when Kipling was busy in man,
his study at Itottingdeen, near Bright- Real Llfe Heroines.
man r
r •re 1 rs inupon him a urs. principal c.rtarzC.toi's 1
pn. t14 2rt t p "'Many of S
obviot Maj," an American,followed by took frons life," Mr, Thomea Hardy,
two lads. ,.Without tendering a word who recentlycelebrated his 'eighty -
of apology pr explanation, the .elder; i'oetrth birthday, admitted.: `"Gabriel
laal said:` "Are 'you Rudyard hip. , Oak wase farmer 'I knew as a boy;
Eng?" while ,ane'of nay aunts was Bathsheba
Receiving an answer in the affrnil- Everdone, 1
tit"e, has turned to the lads and said: "Tess:] only saw once, 1 was walk-
"l3ay s, this is Rudyard Kipling." lag in e lane one evening, and a girl
Then to Mr, Kipling; "This is Where seated in a cart drove by. I fell i,nlove
you write?" with her as a character for a novel,
"Boys, this is where he writes," and Portrayed her as `fess, t
"And," concluded D'Ir, Kipling, "be- Peeress. as Shopkeeper,
ore I could as much as ask his name
they were gone," There has been a distinguished addi-t
Quite Good Enough.. tion to the ranks of Scottish shop
Quite one of the best War stories, if keepers in the person of Viscountess
ono at the rinunest, is told by the Esher, who has opened a shop at Cal-,
well-known American newel t, eats lander, in Perthshire,' where she sells
riitir Wharton. curios. Lady Esher is to be found.'
It d cls' with the Seward Battle of every day presiding over her wares,
e w which she .has advertised in the local
the Marne, when the American wound-
ed were ;being brought in. A fussy_ Paper i}i these words:
looking American woman, resplendent "Viscountess Esher has all her new l
in khaki teniform, Sana Browne belt, goods in: for Christmas: presents at the
Pedlar's Pack, Stirling Road, Callan -
and all the rest -of ie, knelt .over a
stb,etcher and asked; der."
"is this an officer. or ;only a man?" " I have had 'a very successful sea-
, ze '"Lad Esher told zne "for tourists London lain wreath from Canada at the foot of Nelson's Column. on
A, brawny corporal standing by the n, , y D o placing g a � e
haveshopvery well.� ' sea 'cadets are shown 'saluting.
sin as -,be ans- patronized my � y �v Trafalgar Day.Some of the Dominion's g
stretcher laughed. grimly,ig
The..
To ,d
Auto-Taphs.
river tried his almost best
lss John Smith, you know the
rept.
This dance paid dearly for her blunder;
The ear wont on and she went under.
if honks and signals loudly given
Could save the deaf, John H. were
•
Can Decay in Wood Be
Pref; ented.
Some of the oldest building in Can-
ada now standing were built of Wood.
Flour and grist mills of wood con,
struetion thatliave served generation
after generation are still turning out
'their product and will no doubt do so.
for marry years, yet. This is, however,
not always 'rhe case. Wood, unfor-
tunately, like ,practically everything
A kindly mite met Sally Blewitt else, has its enemies, and probe,h1y the
Hit so quick else never knew 'it. most d.estrnotive' oP the are fungi;
To seoure exact lnformetiou as to the
Confused by sundry raucous toots; conditions which facilitate t'heaction
Lein Sykes lies here without his boots,' of various wood -destroying fungi ou
woods used for interior canstrectlon
Andrew altioT•avlsh" crossed tho bar— in mills, factories, etc., and to work due
McNally's youngster drove the car, procedure and methods .by means of
which file
decay may be prevented,
Last of all went Thomas Henty;• the Forest Products Laboratories of
Got his sunimons,'good°arid plenty. the Department of the Interior have
----see—e..... . been carrying on investigations for
Rings on Trees Tell'of .t e sozile'years. Experttechnical'kngw-
Weather C Cies. ledge on';the prevention of decay has
.
Trees are pre -historic almanacs, glv- s;.
ing, weather reports for• ages when tudies 'in' •
some hundreds of large
buildings,
been secured as a result' df • decay
theme was no Reacher bureau to record What Is alri ost of equal importance
them, are described by Prof, A. H. Canadian industry, is the series 'Of
mechanical and `physical tests which
in the annual report of the Smithson -
to
Douglass of the University"of Arizona;
•• �•:x 6; i
the Labbratories is conductor„ on the
Sam Harris, resident of the Navy League of Canada, is shown in
Ian Institution just issued.
Mr.
I r is, p Pxof D studies are based on
minute examination of annual rings of
trees. Beginning with the common
no led e that s these'rin are ormed-
k w g � f
wore$r;• All ney profits; are to be devoted to
'buildin , houses for disabled ex-Ser-
tti b g
he's been hit twice in the innards, ,vice inert."
both legs busted, he's . fit two bullets
Lord and
d Lady Esher's enterprising
in;boiharms, and we dropped-himgen eroty
hasealreadY enabled twelve
three -tines without his lettin' out asuch housee to he built.
England has invented a balloon tire that seems to have gone the Ameri-
can kind:oile better. t The tire is the full: size of the wheel, right to the hub,
the steel discs being damped'over them to the rim bolts.
The Pool. Ivory is Drug on Market.
I know adeep and lonely pool—that's, Nobody in London seems to want
where, mammoth ivory, although it has the
The great kingfisher makes his sud- • distinction of being 50,000 years old,
den: splash; 1 for at the quarterly ivory sale, which
He hese so many jewels in his plumes l took place recently -thirty-nine tusks
That all we see is one blue lightning from mammoths -the ivory weighing
flash! in all a:'ton—was withdrawn from the
t sale- because the minimum price could
But whether that fine bird comes there not be obtained.
or no, There is some mystery as to the or -
There, I'll be foand before the• com- ;igin, of these tusks. Seven tons ar-
ing night— rived, only a portion of the total being
Beside that dark, deep pool, on whose put up for sale in Mincing Lane. The
calm ,breast iivory came from the Baltic, via the
Sleep a young family of pools of Kara Sea, having been consigned to a
light. Russian firm•of traders. It is report-
ed that the ,Soviet overnment-ha 's i -
g id
AAnd near my pool an
ancient t abbey covered theta in the frozen fastnesses
stands', of Siberia.
-`Where, I, when lying in the longest i : Scientists believe the ivory tusks to
grass, be at least 500 'centuries old. ` Unlike
Cane'
s e the moonlight, ht
tender, soft elephants' tusks, the
mammoth's tusks
d; fair,
are nearly all of them
solid, and the
Claspcztto the rugged breast of that majority' are externally of
a dark -
'
ark' black nurse. grayish
color, although though_it is possible
-W. H. Davies. theyare white inside.
Some of them
look fossilized enough to be dated be -
New ErialelSt�anless Needlefore the flood, , while others are of a
brightyellow, and are`
well
preserved. by British Dentists.
Most of them, howeverlook Irk
Greater comfort for people who have r e old
branches of dead trees:
to
wear false teeth is promised by a
The bids did not go above £41 for
British dentists recent invention, re- hese rep'
G prehistoric tusks... Some east.
ported to the International Dental Ex-
African ivory, which sold
at the same
hibition at the University of, London. time, brought a toprice of = 2
It is a h
new type of -enamel, which is p 19 the
undredweigh t.
expected to replace the pink rubber
now used in dental plates, It can be Colors From Rubbish.
prepared in any shade to match the
patient's gums, resists the acid of the Even such an ordinary thing as coal
mouth and retains a,permanently poi.• tar has a romantic history.
jelled surface. 1 For along time tar was looked upon
Another development is a hypoderm as almost valueless refuse, the ,clis-
mic needle of Stainless steel. Thus p'osal et which caused manufacturers'
far it has been difficult to keep a cut- much trouble and expene. Then ex -1
ting edge on this metal, but recent ef- periments were made to see if any use
forts have succeeded. The inanufac-- could be found for;it, but at first noth-
tuirers state that they have booked an ing ninth was done- -
order for.,:,; a minion and a quarter, Later it was found that (mal tar
syringes, to' be delivered in the United could be split up into about` ten prfm-,
States. - j_ary products. From these iii turn, 1
}:roughly - three lrlindrod - other., sub-
stances
could be obtained. . The most
important of iliese coal : tar, sub-
stancee ere benzine, -:xylene; naphtha-
lene, phenol, cresol, and so pn.
Purified 1,1er:olis kriowll to the public
as carbonic acid. The importance of
the other materials is that they ?ire the,
beefs of many anili,ile ayes and other
products of much value , in medicine,
and • commerce,
The process'of extracting these pro-
ducts from coal tar is technically
Where ElseDo They Have Such Hides known as "fraetional distillation," The
"That fellow has the hide of a. chin -`s' arati g of ono substance from the
othCr depends on the fact that each.
oce'rosi l
"And he's not a c artme t official lids a erentloiling point: A
special
r„ boiler Is z ciuired for heating the t.ar.
` you F�tL .
Tri Washi.n Tion other, y>t 5 .,
g
:F _ -Bhzs las eu \ieliaborate
thermometer
mo
ietei
ort sei.-lam seen throti- connected rilit wvhirh is extremely
,any of a ,,fee ate', sensitive to, high" 0fliperatures.
"Ar�
Country oad."
t d!
What's nicerthan a country road
When Autumn:Autumn:,fills
the air,'i
Brown -ribbon in September's sun
A winding God knows where.
Past houses old and tumble-down,
Past modest hones and grand,
Past acres rolling to the hills,
And little,plots of land,
Across a crazy little bridge,
Above a gurgling stream,
Where fishes darting to and fro,
Like bits of silver gleam.
Then slowly up a moss-bank'd hill
It views a shining lake;.
Then thro' a lane of gold -leafed trees,
That only God can "make -
Then it becomes a village street,
'Where little children play,
And lowing herds of cattle seek
Their homes at close of 'day,.
And on and on it twists and turns
Into the dimming light
A lonesome weary little road
Lost in the dark of night.
—Cliff Bastin.
The End of a Whale.
About a mile from where I' was sit-
ting on the sandy beach, a correspond-
ent writes to us from Alaska, a whale
blew. Idly I watched him. For perhaps
half an hour he slowly fed nearer, oc-
casionally ' letting his back remain
above the water for a few minutes.
Behind me among the low -growing
hemlocks a bluejay sang in perfect
imitation of a white -crowned sparrow.
Gulls were wheeling lazily overhead.
Suddenly the whale blew with a re-
sounding noise and dived with a hur-
ried rush of water.' Glancing round,
I saw the peculiar splashing of water
that a thrasher shark makes as he
comes to the surface. Having heard
that thrasher sharks kill whales,—and
not altogether believing it, for a
thrasher shark is only six feet long,'
and a whale is thirty or forty, -I
climbed •to a large boulder to geta
better view. The whale was nowhere
in sight, but three sharks were clos-
ing in 'toward a certain place. They •
dived, and all was, quiet.
Presently there was a tremendous
roiling and churning of water, and the
whale flung pini"self above the surface,
attacked from beneath. In ;an instant
first one shark and then another leap-
ed above the water,, striking ` the big
fellow with terrific force and lashing
the water to foam. Immediately the
whale dived again, but the thrashers
striking beneath him forced him up. j
The constant lashing of the sharks be-'
neath, above and against his sides"
drove the whale into a frenzy, and; he
rushed and' pounded round in a vain
effort to strrike one of his a ite for
mentors. For, minutes clouds of spout -1
ing steam and splashing water ob-:
scured the combatants, i
f
At Iast the air cleared momentarily.
A leaping shark, with' his dripping
body gleaming richly, struck' the whale
a terrible blow. I, could hear the thud
where I was. standing. The whale
dived, and the shark followed. Again
he threw himself above the water to
escape being tarn 'to pieces.: But al -
ways the thrashers were upon him; al-
ways' they harried him,. one:above and
two beneath. Soon';they had the bat-
tle almost entirely '6n the surface. The
whale was charging less' frequently;
the constant' pounding"'of the murder-
ous sharks was wearing hien down.
Torn and exhausted, he gathered Isis
remaining strength and made a'tre-
inendous rush; then, rolling complete-
ly over,,he.dived.
Not once had he touched tate sharks:
The water was dark with his bleed.
Now the struggle` was over; the whale
was dead. The 'mad spouting and
churning stopped.
Choppy waves had arisen; the wind
was blowing briskly; clouds darkened
the sun. The surf beat against the
rocks with' a `rhythmic roar, and the
gulls • were screaming wildly. The
biuejay was silent._ Out against the
whitecaps I saw the regular rise and
fall of seven great black fins shaped
like scimitars, cutting the water—
thrasher sharks on their way to -the
feast.
Autumn Stuff.
Friend -"The air is like wine!
Prohibitionist—"I shall have to re-
port that fact to the enforcement of-
ficials at once!
The Blood Orange.
The blood : orange is obtained by
grafting the sweet orange on to -the
stens of the pomegranate.
This blending of fruits gives the
peculiar tint of pomegranate juice to
the juice of -the blood orange, : and
some tastes- are so sensitive as' to;de
tect the somewhat astringent flavor
to the pomegranate in the more lus-
cious juice
us-cious`juice of the orange.
The juice of the -orange, whether.
the 'ordinary variety or the "blood,",
consists of citric and malic'acids, 'with
fruit Sugar, citrate of: lime, and water.
It is antiseptic in its action, .end we
have the statement of the diarist li
,Jo n
Evelyn, that "the orange sharpens pens ap-•
petite, exceedingly refreshes and re-
sists'putrefaction' Hence It is -a de-
sirable fruit to inc'lride in one's dietary.
To Assist Fogbound Ships. ,
To assist fogbounid Channel ships
a -wireless directional station is to be
placed at Niton, Isle of Wighta
at the rate of one 'a year, the' light,
porous, section growing in the spring
strengths of Canadian timbers. 'Data
have now been obtained for practical-
ly - all .Canadian timbers of any come-
menial value, and these are available
,to architects, engineers, •builders' and•
others interested in construction' work.
When' there, is plenty of water and the -----'°
denserpart" when the summer deou ht Warns Europe of Danger.
`ponies, .lee went on to study the effect
of years of drought as compared with, Solemn warning •to the European
years' of plenty, of accidents- to the governments has been issued at Hum-
roots, of fires. and of attacks of dis- burg by the Abbe Moreux that great
'ease. Every event in the'11ife of a tree danger confronts them`in 1925, 1926,
left' its record in the rin'gs;` 1527 "and 1928, with its culmination
I in the latter year.
tween l�.nown historical conditions l The' Abbe Moreax, who is well -
and ,comparatively recent tree. ring -eel known as an astronomer, is the direct -
Prof. Douglass began.' to carry his're- or of the. Bourges• Observatory. He
searches back into earlier denturies, I holds ,that sunspots are responsible
using' trees of the age-old forests of for periodical ua`dness `of nienkind.
the southwest as his "titre -sticks:" ; The.abbe. predicted' the ellsastor which
Weather records'' of the 'time of the ' visited the 'world frons 1914 to• 1918,
discovery of America of the Crusades ' so that Europeans seem inclined to'
of the- Norman invasion of England, ' listen to the aged" scientist. He has
and of even more remote -periods, can studied tris sunpot since 1860 and says,
be read on many stumps -iii 'California. he has confirmed his 'opinion that
i One of the interesting piecces of in- I every tine the magnetic forms, -popu-
, formation' shared by the 'trees' is a ! 1arly referred to as sunspots,, are rag -
confirmation of the theory of •an -11-
After learning ., the coiaeelation be-
ing on the surface of 'the sun; wars
1 year sunspot cycle held by astrono- It and inad!ness pr-Qvall ,ten earth, -
mers and 'weather students, Every + The abbe says he.has predicted every
eleven years there is a band of re important earthquake 'during' the last
latively narrow rings, indicating a time twenty-two years. Ile contends that
., of heat and drought, with wider rings ' tisane influences clearly have their'
th1at tell of easier times in between: effect, on the •subconscious minds of
Secondary' sunspot cycles of longer' men and' are responsible for "brain-
I'duration are'also suggested 'by the storms of nations•'," as well, as earth
tree records. - j quakes and climatic irregularities.
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This remarkable night photograph shows 'Niagara Falls as it appearsby
electric light, Its grandeur is- even more impressive under the arc lamps
than by daylight.
Contrasts.
The 'people whom I love. the best
Are never here, but East or West
And those from `whom led run away,
I always .see theirs, every day.
The things I love to talk about,
My heart will seldom let them out;
Fee: -folk I see prefer to hear
About the weathers of the year
But oh, the places I would find!'
The people: that I'd leave behind, '
While just the,,few that went with me
-Related to my heart should be.
—Edith Ives Woodworth.
Beating' Around the Bush.
•
It ought to be possible to get a plain
answerto •a plainquestion, but seine -
times it seems that it is hard to make
the`.ifuesteeti plain enough. There had
been complaints' of .over -crowding, et
Mudcombe,';and sa. an official of the
local council was sent to snake inquir-
ies, Approaching one 'dwelling, he
knocked sharply. A. youtag:girl 'opened'
the door.
' How'. many People live here?" he -
asked.
"Nobody lives here," answered the
girl: "We'r'e ante:,etaying' for he -short
time."
'"13u1, how many"are Here?" persist-
ed the mast:
"I'm here. Father's gone for a walk,
arid'niother is—'.'
'"Etop! Stop!" exclaimed the official
impatiently. "I want to know the in-
mates of this house. Ilow many ,slept
here last night?
""Well, you see,", was the reply, "1
had toothache dreadful; my little
broti_ler, had an earache; and we both•
cried
so much that'nobody slept a7r{s `s he latest portrait of Miss Ishbel MacDonald,c.cesl; datig tet ofwinlee
1ansay MacDonald, Britis Labor premier, although his party was,
The iu act r said b ould
defeated, retains his seat Tri the house. ci
a 1
d again,
Colonial Georgia.
In English Colonial days Georgia,
the thirteenth colony, was formed to
make an asylum for the poor. The
laws of England permitted imprison-
ment for debt.. Thousands of English:
laborers who through misfortune and.
thoughtless contracts had become in-
debted to the .rich were annually ar-.
rested, and thrown into prisons. Whole
families• were rendered destitute .by
the law and to provide refuge for the
down -trodden poor of England, and
Me distressed .Protestants of other
-countries, . James Oglethorpe, the
philanthropist, a member of.Parlia-
ment, • appealed to George II.- for the
privilege: of planting a colony in
America: The' petition was favorably
heard, and' on June 9;.1732, .a royal
charter was issued by which the terri-
tory between the Savannah and Ala -
'Imola Rivers and westward from the
upper fountains of those rivers 10 the
Pacific was organized and granted''.to
a 'carporation for. twenty-one years to
be 'held in trust ter the ,poor. In hon-
or of the king the provin,oe'received
the name Georgia.
Aid to Clear Thought;
13e .';Clear thinking depends abso-
lutely, they say, 'on good food."
'. h —,,,Y
e les• o
,5' doubtless., a inner
, ., dv�,t
the Astorbilt would prove a great he p
in ,the consideration of your proposal,
iJr, Rich."
1
Natural Resources Bulletin.
Tho Natural Resources Intelligence _
Service of the. Dept, of the Interior
at Ottawa says:
In a review of the annual report of
'the Explosives' Division of the Dept;"
of Mines one . cannot but be struck by
the number of accidents caused to
boys: by the finding of explosives.
This has ,been especially true of ,de-
tonators, the larger: portion of the';
accidents being c.'ihsed through` tura '
' osity as to what the effeat would be
when exploded .by contact with fire
or from the force of , a blow. The ef-
fect in almost, all cases was the lose
of portions of the hand et: 'snore seri
ous injuries:
Detonators,• or caps, are necessary
when using dynamite: and guncotton',
explosives. ,Decomposition' must be
must be started by the application of
sudden high temperature and pres-
sure. This is effected by firing a
small charge of fulminate ofineecury,
which explodes with 'great violence.
and sets off the explosive with which`
it conies in contact. The fulminate of ..
mercury is compressed 'in small cop-
per tubes wbieh are : fired by a fuse.
The Explosives' Division suggests
that detonators should not be convoy.
ed or kept with dynamite or other .ex-
plosives .on account of the danger of
accidents.
The point of this appeal is that
greater care ;should be. taken.. in the
care of • explosives, that ; ,detonators
should be :kept. away from -children,
who are naturally curious; that the
danger ehould-he explained,' and the
need for care impressed upon all
workmen who are intrusted with the
use of explosives, and that both ex-
plosives -and detonators shsuld be se
cured, against theft by both 'adulth and II,children: Of the 61 persone injeired
last year through playing with deton-
ators and explosives, more than forty
were boys, These .latt.latterwill, as the
result -of carelessness on the part of
users of explosi res, be handicapped
for life. The greatest of all the na-
tural resources of Canada is her chil-
dren; let us therefore 'exercise every
precaution in the care and use of
explosives that they may be,protected
from accidents by this -cause.
Deepest Spot in Ocean,
The deepest place in any ocean,so
far discovered, is located, about fifty
miles off the coast of Japan, in the
Pacific Ocean, 'according to informa-
tion made public by , the U.S. Depart-
ment of
epartment.of the interior through the Geo-
logical Survey.
The Japanese man-of-war, the Man
chu, found the spot recently whileon
a chart:snaking cruise for the Japanese
Naval Department. Its depth was ,se,
great that it could not be measured,
for the 'reason "that the sounding wire
carried by the vessel: reached Only 32
644 feet, or nearly 6.,•K miles,
How 'much 'deeper - than the length
of thewireused the ocean may be at
this "place .. cannot even be guessted..
The,greatest ocean depth previously
knownwas discovered by a German
surveying, ship in. 1912, at a place off
'the coast of Mindanao, Philippine Is-
lands, where bottom was reached at a
depth of 32,113 feet. These great
depths have lately become interesting
In-connectionwith the study of earth-
quakes that appear to be produced by
the slipping of strata along the planes
deep in the crust of the earth.
The deepest place in the Atlantic
Ocean thus farfound lies just east of
the Island of Hatti, where, the depth
is 27,922 feet.
Heart and'One Lung Dis-
placed.
laced.
An interesting operation. was re--
cently`perforrued on a boy at the Lon-
don Hospital, a castirou spike, nine
inches ` long and three 'pounds in
weight; havingelieen'removetl success-
fully from his body. Although fixe
heart and one lung bad to be displaced
'forur oses:of the operation, neither
P P
organ was injured. in any idly, nor
were any of the main arteries'hocken.
The boy, Edgar Heath, fifteen peeve
old, fell from the upper porch of lis
n
h�ouse and betaine impaled on the rail=
Ings below, one -of the spikes, which,
was barbed Iike a spear head, piercing
his :eft breast ane passing almost ,
through the body. -
'His 'father heard the boy • scream,'
ran out and lifted 'off the ranings,
but as he did so the Spike snapped off.
The boy was rushed to tli'ee;'liospital:
It w<as found the spike had broken`
through a rib in its paseage • into Iris
body, and carried With it a portimi of
the boy's shirt—about` the size of a.
handkerchief --which acted as pen'.
blunting the head of {tae spike and pre-
venting its piercing the heart. '
The'surgeons experienced' gre it dit'-
faculty . in removing. -,the herb;. four
incites in breadth sizice, it was locked
in between the ribs, •butby ,levering, -
the sibs it was eventually- removed;
The displaced heart and lung adjusted, .
themselves theri ofthr own accord.
Mastersia.ger e.
The i-Iastersiagere. iminereilizcrt `by
Wagner 'in his grata opera- • of that
name, were a guild of luusieiafS Fi'--
Defiedinthe 'fourteenth, . center
Mayence. Their object iivas ,ii) cuiti-,
vate the art of, song and to that end
they-franted strlct rule auil..h, ii 1 eon
tests of song, Those. cori e i; were
held in eliurches, and 'rhe people ivere,.
invited to bear then. The ,title, of,
e1 `,
•
t to
Mae tors 11 as a�i5'Zl1'tlr,d 7n
th�050 who invented both wards sand
�r�r
inu..ic of their songs, ,in .tu �•lace
with the znai`ip deeera
5-