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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-1-13, Page 3HAVE YOU FOUND A GOLD MINE? IT IS NOT SO ABSURD AS IT SOUNDS. Canada Offers Good Chances to the. Prospector if He is Pre- pared to Face Hardships. Why not discover a new gold mine? Most people think the day is past for the great discoveries of gold and silver minea. When the Snow Molts. Mines producing small quantities of gold are constantly being discovered but only a few persons Interested hear of these finds, It is only when the phenomenal discoveries are made that the news is spread around the earth, and the rush from all quo/Mira to the new-found region of fabulous wealth begins, The British Empire still provides abundant opportunities for the young gold prospector to try his luck with a fair chance of success, The soil of the northern parts of Ontario -anti. Quebec is known to contain the gold - bearing quartz in considerable quan- tities. 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Each spring, when the snows have melted, sees a number, sometimes run- ning to hundreds,mot prospectors going up country to try their luck, Every year some prospectors are successful in their quest for gold. The prospectors vary in age from lads ot'seventeen to old men of seven- ty. Rarely, if ever, docs a white wo- man figure as a prospector. Women there are in these regions, but they are squaws of the nomad Indians, who ettil hunt in these wild areas. The Peril of Hunger. They hunt, and when they have killed their moose or deer, instead of taking the dead animal back to their wigwam they send their squaws back to bring the tent up to the "kill." But the Indians are very scarce in these clays; so scarce that a prospec- tor may spend the whole season from the end of the winter snows to the be - Ginning of the autumn without meet- ing one of the natives of the Dominion. Many a lonely prospector has often wb,bed for the company even of an India to help hits to beguile the long hours of his search for gold. I1 has happened that a timely meet- ing with an Indian has bean the means of saving the life of a gold -seeker, who, haring consumed his provisions before he expected, finds himself many miles from civilization, and no prospect of another meal. A Llcense Is Required. ' The rough but kindly men in the camp instantly appreciated the eltua- tlon, They shook a small bag of flour into a large jar of water, from which tho starvingvisitors drank their fill. Afterwards they ate a meal which would have satisfied the hunger of the whole camp. The formalitlos to be gone through before one can become a gold -prospect tor are few and simple. They entail a visit to the Government olllees, and the payment of a few aollare for a Llcense "to prospect." The license permits the person to stake throe claims only, each cover- ing a few acres. It the prospector thinks he will need more than these three clalntB, he takes out more licenses In other names, probably us- ing those ot other members of lite remits-. The next step is to go up country to the gold-boaring regions. Unfor- tunately there are no railways; 1t there were the value of the mines al- ready discovered would be tar higher than now. It is not rare to find good quartz, but it Is unusual to find good quartz In a spot where there are any decent transport facilities. The country Is mostly forest, and the task of baking machinery and tools for mining purposes into wild areas without the assistance ot rail- roads Is so difficult and costly as to make the project financially impos- slble. The Financial Rewards. In England ft is easy to ralee $2,- 500,000 2;600,000 or $6,000,000 for financing a concern which has excellent prospeota of success; it is more difficult In Canada, and It has happened on more than one occasionthat all the capital raised to work n new mine has been expended on breaking blown some of the transport dtficultles before opera - thous have begun at the sew ming. The usual course for the prospector, having secured his licalse, Is to link up with another on the same quest. A oanoe has to be bought and ognlp- ped with provisions to last for about three months. The oust of this Is not much leas than $600, Tho prospectors try to keep as near the river as posslblo dneing the search, reasons. Yet frequently tor envious r a tly the Lynx -eyes of the gold seskone will miss a likely vein as the canoe is bo- ing thruet up -river. Registering a Claim. When a find 10 made the lucky pros• pootor drives a stake foto the Centra bt his claim and another stake at each Minim, Ile trate hie name olid the ditto of •hie discovery on the µtakes, and thew mainse ell possible speed back to the Govemment oftle00 to register oillolatly llja ateeeeecty. Once he has drone thee. and Wad tate ether ten dollars for the resist:next to% the claim 11 1111n Leather Made from Rabbit Skin. An Australian has discovered a pro- cess of making leathers from rabbit skins, and a company has been termed at Sydney to turn the Invention to practical use. It boa established a plant capable of handling 100,000 skins a week. The leather has already been used at Sydney In the manufacture of boot and shoe uppers, handbags, gloves and other articles. The rabbit fur Is not wasted, but, being removed from the skiffs before the latter are tanned, Is utilized for making felt for huts and other purposes. Long walks cure more illness than do most medicines. The man immersed in material things and who lives only to make money, believes he can make it; knows that he can make it. He does not say to himself every morning, "Well, I do not know whether I can make anything to -day. I will try. I may succeed and I may not." He simply and positively asserts that he can do what he desires and then starts out to put into operation plans and forces which will bring it about. Scrubbing Coal for 'fou. People demand, olein coal. What 1s to Bay, it moot ot contain too much, elate or other .refuse. At the mines, therefore,' the coal output, betoro being leaded on ears ter market, is cleaned 01 such waste material an thoroughly se practicable. This le partleularly dititoult et the bituminous mines, where the coal, be- ing "oat," tell% so roaauy to dust a, considerable quantity of fool is lost In this dust yearly. This dost, or "slack," bas a market value. But the latter is much lesson - ed if it contains much foreign matter. To separate out such refuels from coal that is to a finely divided state has seemed hitherto to be out ot the gum-. tion. A scientlst at the United States' Bureau ot Standards, howefer, seems to be on the way to solving this prob. lora- He mama coal dust with 26 per cent, of crude oil, and, after thorough stirring, the coal takes the form of lit- tle pellets, with no dirt is them. Then he gets back all the oil by dis- tillation, so that none of it is lost. The coal la pure, the ell Is recovered; and, incidentally, certain by-produots ot value, such as benzol, are obtained. Pope's Seal The seal rlhg worn by the Pope and used by him on official documents to which his signature Is attached, has on it the engraving of a Ilei, with the cipher of the wearer. Since the thir- teenth century every Popo has worn a ring of this character, and it le shattered with a hammer when the wearer dies, to prevent its use on a forged document. Mending Torn Sweaters. ^ Do your children tear large holes in their sweaterns so that It seems almost impossible to darn them? Measure the hole and knit a piece to fit in the space. It looks • better and La stronger .than darning. n Butter Qualified. Farmer—"I'll give you $6 a day to help me dig potatoes. You can start now." Dusty Rhodes—"Guess you better do it alone, mister. You planted 'em, els you know where they are." The,preper time to stop fighting in a good cause is just after your oppon- ents quit. There is nothing so kingly as kind- ness; there is no winter in the heart of him who doth a kindly deed. Mlnard'e Liniment For Dandruff. Surnames and Their Origin RICHARDS Variations — Richardson, Richeson,. Richey, Rlchle, Richert, Rickard, Rickards, Rickert, Ricker, Rickey, Rickett, Ricketts Riches, Riccardi, Ricciardi, Reichard. Racial Origin—Teutonic. Source—A given name. The Normans left their stamp not only on England but upon all Europe, tor while they colonized by no means all the latter, there was a period in medieval times wizen the Norman arms had subdued about all of the European continent, and Norman rulers held sway In Italy, Spain, France and parte of what is now Ger- many, as well as in England. Nor did the Normans have to do more than merely rule most of these sections to leave among them, as one of their legacies, the given name of Richard. Meaning "stern king," 11 was naturally a name to appeal to such a warlike and dominating race as these Teutons of the middle ages, and ono which naturally became usual among the various Norman families ruling in different sections of Europe. In turn, kings' names were generally popular among the populace In all lshds. Hence It became a widosprsad given name first, and than a family name throughout most Of Europe. Richeson, as well as Richards, is a shortened form of Richardson, and Richey, Batelle, and Richie aro short- enluge of, Rtchesou. Rickey and Rloketts and Ricket are developmeata of names formed from afcknamos of Richard through the use of the dim. Inuthve ending "ot" Rickert, Rickards, Rickert and S-cfokor show German in- finences, while Riccardi and Ricciardi are natural pronuuOiatlons of the Italian tongue. Reichard is found in Alsace and LorrninO. GRIFFITH Variation—Griffiths. Racial Origln—Welsh. Source -A given name. The family name of Griffith, or Griffiths, like that of Bethel, is one which is derived from a given name now seldom found, though why it should have fallen into disuse is one of those mysteries about which one can only conjecture, for it is a name ot the same type as John, which, in its various forms, le one of the most popular of given names in, a dozen or more different tongues, and always hes been since the beginning of the Christian era in each land. While the name of John is from the Hebrew, meaning "God's grace," the name of Griffith or '"Griffudh," to use a spelling more significant of that in the Welsh language, is derived from two Welsh words meaning "groat faith." It Is only in comparatively modern times that Welsh family names really have been stabilized. They develop- ed in much the same fashion as the English names which denote parent• age, but the duration of one of the stages through which such names de- velop was much prolonged among the Welsb, As "John Rfchardeon" In Eng- lish meant "John, the eon of Richard," so "Evan ap Grlfludh" in Welsh meant "Evan (or John), the son of Griffith-" But whereas among the English such a name Patna to ba given not only to a man's sons, but also to his grand- sons and groat -grandsons, thus losing its purely descriptive character and boomning a family name, the initial stage of the family name was greatly prolonged among the Welsb. Thus the son of "Evan ap Grimrdh" would bo known as "Owen ap Evan," and hie son in turn as "Grifludh ap Owen," and so on for several centuries instead Of a few generations. Look into it I �a or coffee drinking dis- turbsh� or comfort, switch to INSTANT Posztrri There's a bigOn toward h�ttil,with convenience,mom oxll$, and. no Kiss in satisfaction GROCERS MERMEN SELL Q"OSL(/ilZ Worry is merely a mild form of insanity ,thllt we invite to park awhile in our brain pans and give off clouds of blue smoke. When a man worries he is not at his greatest efficiency; he is least efficient. Foresight is a form of thought, keen pointed and vitalized, ready to push forward and split the difficulties ahead; worry is also a form of thought; but it is blunt at both ends, dormant and dead as a piece of punk wood, and it lies heavy in the brain and oozes mias- ma, FREQUENT IEADAClES A Sure Sign That the Blood is Watery and Impure. People with thin blood aro muck more subject to headaches than full- blooded persons and the form of anaemia that afflicts growing girls is almost always accompanied by head- aches, together with disturbance of the digestive organs. Whenever you hays constant or re- curring headaches and pallor of the face, they show that the blood 1s thin and your efforts should be directed toward building up your blood. A fair treatmeut with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills wall do this effectively, and the rich red blood made by these pills will remove the headache. More disturbances to the health are caused by their blood than most people have any idea M. When your blood is impoverished, the nerves suffer from lack of nourlsbment, and you may be troubled with insomnia, neuritis, neur- algia, or sciatica. Muscles subject to strain are undernourished and you maty have muscular rheumatism or lumbago. It your blood is thin and you begin to show symptoms of any of these disorders, try building up the blood with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and as the blood is restored to its nor- mal condition every symptom of the trouble will disappear. There are more people who owe their present state of good health to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills than to any other medicine, and moat of 'them do not hesitate to say so. You can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills through any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co„ Brockville, Ont. Winnowing in India. Among our early settlers it was customary to winnow beans, wheat, oats and other small grain by tossing the flailed grain in a blanket and al- lowing the chaff to blow away. In India, says a correspondent to an English weekly, the universal method of winnowing is primitive, but won- derfully effective. It probably dates back many thousands of years. The grain is first of all littered round a central pole on a flat piece of hard, beaten ground- Two or "more oxen are tethered to the pole by a short rope and driven slowly round and round it, thus "treading out the corn," ns we read of it in the Bible. The straw is then removed, leaving behind a mixture of grain.and chaff, which is collected into a heap for winnowing. On days when there Is a moderate breeze, a man mounts a primitive wooden stool and shakes the mixture slowly from a grass tray or basket. The grain falls fairly straight down into a heap near the stool, but the chaff is carried by the wind and col- lects in a sepr rate heap farther away. AUTO SPARE; PARTS for most makes and maga el eerie Your old, broken .or worn-out parts mewed. 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As an organization, the Scout Move- ment le neither rnllitarlstla in thought, form nor spirit, although It doss instill in boys the military virtues suck as honor, loyalty, ohedleuce and patriot- ism, The purpose et the Boy Scout Move- ment is to develop character, initia- tive and resourcefulness in boys by culttyattag their interest in the fas- cinating outdoor activities of the Scout program, It 1s in the wearing of the uniform and doing of things together, as Scouts, that they absorb the force and truth of the Scout law, which states; "A Scout !a a friend to all and a brother to every other Scout" The Movement aims to supplement the various existing educational agencies, and to promote the ability fa boys to do things for themselves and others. It is not the aim to get up a new organization to parallel in its purposes others already establish- ed. The opportunity Is afforded other organizations, however, to introduce into their own programs unique fea- tures appealing to interests which aro universal among boys. The method 1e summed up iii the term Scoutcratt, and is a combination of observation, deduction and handiness, 0r the ability to do things. 800utcraft includes in- struction In first aid, life saving, track- ing, signalling, cycling, nature study, camperaft, seamanship, woodcraft, chivalry, patriotism and many other subjects. This is acoomplls'hed in games and team play, and is pleasure, not work, for the boy. All that is needed is the out-of-doors, a group of boys and a competent leader. "Something to d0. something to think about, and something to enjoy, with a view always to character build- ing; for manhood, not scholarship, is the first aim of education." The Boy Scout Movement is develop- ed In practically every country of the world, as well as in all the overseas dominions and colonies of. Great Bri- tain and the United States. Accord- ing to a pamphlet just issued by the Provincial Headquarters of the Boy Scouts Association, Bloor and Sher - bourne Streets, Toronto, there are in Canada alone some 22,692 registered Scouts, 4,288 Wolf Cuba (junior mem- bers), and 1,648 unpaid Scoutmasters and Assistant Scoutmasters who give at least 62 nights a year, and 24 half days or days to the personal leader- sbip of their boys. Quite a citizen- ship contribution. "Pape's Diapepsin" Corrects King George Changes U.S. Trooper's Rations. Sergeant Guyon of Troop B, Ameri- can Forces in Germany:, has the dis- tinction of having nod his ration changed by dlreet orders from Ring George, says a C'oblonz despatch, When the American Army polo team from Coblenz was in bngtand, recent- ly, Guyon had charge of the pontes at Aldershot. The Icing visited the field and was attracted by the ponies' blan- kets bearing the letters "A,F.G." He approached to inspect them and ad- dressed 011700: "Well, how aro you gutting along in England?" 1 near bytand- The British Tommi os a ing at attention were petrified by Guyon's reply; "Oh, pretty well, Icing, but say, this tea wo have for break- fast is Reree-Can't you fix it up so we' can have coltee?" The King laughed, and addressing one of his melee, said:. "Soo to it that these mon have cot• fee hereafter." And the Auterie,ans bad coffee. Stomach. "Pap0's Dlapepsin" is the quickest, surest relief for Indigestion, Gases, Flatulence, Heartburn, Sourness, Fer- mentation or Stomach Distress caused by acidity. A few tablets give almost Immediate stomach relief and shortly the stomach is corrected so you can eat favorite foods without fear. Large case costs only 60 cents at drug store. Absolutely harmless and pleasant. Millions helped annually. Largest selling stomach corrector in world.— Adv. There Are Five Ways to Heaven. There aro five ways to Heaven, The low road, the high, The broad and the narrow And the one we travel by; And the five roads are one road Where Love and Duty lies There are two ways of winning A kingdom and a crown' To mail the fist with iron And beat the other down; Or to walk in the garden When Gethsemane is brown. There aro three ways of loving And they are proven well— Tho high love from Heaven The black love from Heil And the love that makes us neighbors Wherever people dwell, 0, there are chortle of music Our fingers never reach, And living wells of laughter, Far deeper than our speech. Aud these things be of Heaven And tether each to each, A short time for loving, And strength of heart to throw One's arm about one's fellow And to fight the Beast below— Heaven is not far away When ono is living so. 4 Glass will stop more drafts than a bunch of straw. BITS OF, HUMOR FROM HERE:&MERE Bright .Boy! Teacher—"Dy accurate experiments we he.vo'come 'to the conolus4on that heat, expands a substance, while cold Contracts it, in other words, heat makes it ellortcr, Now, who will give me a definite example of this?" Student—"Here is one, In summer it is hot, and the days are longer, In winter when it 1s• cold, the days are shorter," Answered. A Scottish farmer, being elected a schoolenennger, visited the village echool and tested the Intelligence of the class by hie questions, His first inquiry was: "Now, boys, can any oao of you tell me what naetbtng is?" After a momenta silence, a small boy rose and replied, "it's what ye gi'ed me t'otber day for haudta' yer horse!" Classified Advertiror nts. P. Glen t r� The Wicked Ones, A minister was reading the Sunday evenleg lesson from tha Book of Job. "Yea, the light of the wicked shell be put out," he said, waen suddenly the church was plunged into total darkness. "Brethren," said the minister, with- out pausing for a moment, "in view of the sudden and startling fulfilment of this prophecy, we will spend a few minutes in silent prayer for the elect ric light company," Life and Death. A minister, who guarded hie morn - lug study hour very carefully, told the new maid that in no circumstances were callers to bo admitted—except. of course, he added, in a case of life and death. Halt an hour later the maid knock- ed at his door. "A gentleman to see you, sir." "Why, I thought I torn you—" "Yes, I told him," she replied, "but he ease it's a question of life and death," So he went downstairs—and found an insurance agent. Nearly every Ohinose silk produc- ing centre maintains a school of seri- culture nr an agricultural school with that science as h department. Caught in draught —stiff neck or back won't last long if BAUIVIE BENGUE is applied. Immediate acct. BEWARE OF SUBSTITUTES tf.00 a tube, THE LEEMINO 1111Et t0„ LTD. 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