The Brussels Post, 1921-10-13, Page 7r-"
The Young Ohl Laud
New Gninen, second !argent Island
on the globe,simples lite penult:x Wal
position of being at once the oldest
and youegest spot o0 the earth, There
eve found animals that roamed sen -
boles ago, when ferns grey" to the
size of giant trees and glaelere were
making valleys, and there too is one
of the few unexplored portions of the
world.
Thirty-six years ago Great Britain,
Holland and tiorneeny divided the is-
land ou paper, and with the exception
of a Paw trading posts .on the coast
little change has been made. The por-
tion formerly held by Gerinany has
been placed under tate control of Aua-
tralia, . The interior is stili held by
wild trines width bear a .strange re
semblance to the Negroes of Africa
and their origin is a Mystery. The
Papuans, as the natives are called,.
are Eteespinin almost every pbarae-
terletie—wootly hair, fiat noses and
thick lips, Wilde the natives of the ad-
jacent inlands are Malayan,
The Papuans seem to have a weak-
ness for elevated homes.. In the north-
ern and eastern portions of the laland
they build their •houaes on piles and
in'the south-eastern part they jive in
tido ltuts•in the trees. While une'eni-
ably savage, head hunting and mine
e_
balite are still practiced there, The
natives have the virtue of eloanlinelie
to a masted degree. Bathing with
them it. Minuet a part of their religion,
Rita they believe the spirits or the de-
parted are as much Mdlciod to water
its the living. 'Thos belief aacowttn-tar
the carefully ;nide paths winch lend
front every grave in a tribal cemetery
to the water, The living have inlde
smooth the way ora Dee; dead to the
bath, ,
The area of the island is eloto to
g0Q,000 square miles and support] a
population estimated at 1,000,0Qi1.
Virtually the only portion ot••the, is-
land known ie the coastal reginit' and
is, of course, tropical in cbnrecter, as
the equator is only aboat twenty miles
Orr 111 northernmost point,
The animal life in New Guinea is
etranee to western eyes and, retire -
lents a fauna of bygone ages, An of
the native anlmale are marsupials,
having pockets, Iike the opossum of
North America,- and many of them lay
eggs, like birds. In the number and
beauty 0f "its birds the !eland Is with-
out a rival. One of the most beautiful
members of the feathered family na-
tive to the island is the gorgeous bird
of paradise. Bird skius form one of
the chief items of export from the is-
land.
When to Decide.
Don't decide anything when
you are feeling down; at such a
time your one tbought ie to get
the thing settled; you are ready
to yield everything. What you
want to do when you'aro feeling
like that is to wait a bit; stave
the thing off for a while until
you are feeling better; as you
surely will. There never was a
storm yet but it cleared off. bring-
ing bright skies and cheery
weather. It will be just the
same with your little period of
depression; It will pass, too, and
restore to you a sense' of confi-
dence and courage.
This Is the frame of mind in
which yon want to attack the
problem: don't decide anything
-wh n you are feeling down.
The Powero � tion.
Vise began our trip with a day at
Niagara Valls. As we stood siatchin
Why the Sea is Blue.
Tho blue of the sea is not, as Ia
'generally supposed, due to reflection
from the sky, but to the saltness of the
water;
Nowhere is the seer more keeps than
in the Mediterranean-, where era water
is particularly salty; ; far en reason
that. It is not only expo t, ciiniost
tropical heat, but because mpara-
Lively few rivers pour fresh water in-
to it.
The North Sea is green, partly a8' a
result of its clearness and partly be-
cause of the sandy nature of the bot-
tom. The Atlantic Is'almost uniform-
ly green, for the same reason as the
North Sen.
But blue and green are by no means
the only hues observable at sea. The
Red Sea gets its name from a tiny
weed -like growth, dull red in color,
which covers its surface. The Yellow
Sea of China is popularly auppoeed to
be so called becaree or its muddiness,
but scientists ]mea proved that it de-
rives its car from a multitude of
minute Bring organisms. In the Bay
oP Loarao the water is blood res
, ane 1,,
to reflection of the red bottom soil.
the risen of mighty water the tremew I A tow years ago the sea oil the
dous power of it fascinated us and and. of California turned black, the
made us rolget ourselves. There is' inure of Santa Cruz Bay assuming au
enough, power in the falls to turn all Ink! blue. The phenomenon was t
the wheelie of that part 01 the country: mimed by countless animalcuim, s
Wi,ere does Niagara Falls get its.; teeenvn as whale's: food. •�
power? And how is it that such vast! t steamer plying between Kong -
power le stored up ie the wat'r 0f 'tong and Yokohama tau into a snow- £
Niagara; whereas water of many tines tvdsite see, which was se dazzling that le
that volume, such as the Dead See, Is '' It ie bewildered everyone on board. An- e
powerless? Of course the power is not 01`iter ship sailing off the coast of L
inherent in .the water itself; if the r fninea found itseif In what looked like iL
Dead. Sea could be raised to the top of; a 'sen of milk, caused by vast. numbers
a cliff and peered over the edge, it et small white animals, which. for some i
e/so would have vast power: but there ur 01050 manic reason had risen to the ,
It lies thirteen hundred feet below the srgfaee from the great depth in which es
level of the sea, lacking the power tb )y usually lived,
ra
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1 PVT til°
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ON 1717,4,-(7)
GOT HIM PULLING AWAY FROM THE PLATE ANYHOW.
Life's Common Things
A common thing, you say?
Why, dear heart, life is made of common things ;
The violet that blooms beside the way,
The wee nests born of love and summer -time,
The shadow and the sunshine of each day.
I love God's common things,
Sunrise and sunset, moon and evening stars—
Oh, common stars, lighted so long ago—
The sunshine flashing back from soft, brown wings,
The full, strong sweep of tides that ebb and flow.
A common thing, dear heart?
The grandest song is made of common chords,
The fair white statue formed of common clay
The noblest life is rounded out at last
By common deeds that make the common day.
—Florence Jones Hadley.
Oxford Secures Radium. Study Men.
Same men have within them that
til ho. enormously helped by the ae- which always spurs them on, while
nuisltion of two grammes of radium, some need artificial Initiative, outside
the largest quantity ever accumulated, encouragement.
which Prof. Frederick Soddy, of the Some men exert themselves under
University of Oxford, has just brought stern discipline; some respond only to
o England from the Czecho-Slovaklan a gentle tela
tate mines at Joachimstai, says a Some men need driving; some coax-
ondon despatch. Inn Some need the spur; some the
The precious mineral is valued at sugar lump.
70,000, and was specially packed In Some men do their best with' work
ad three inches thick. The radium piled shoulder high; some men must
es been rented for 15 years by a
oudou company W.hich will sub -rent
British scientific medical research
The output of the mines at Joach-
mstalis only four grammes, annually.
Phe present hiring cost of the small -
1 quantity is six guineas dally,
even to lift a tiny stream out of its
own depths to serve the world. No,
the power is not inherent in the water,
itself; it Is the power of position1
And as 1 looked at the rushing
water, 2 thought of another power, not
of water, but of souls—the power of
an endless life. What was it that
made Paul able to say, "I can do all
things through Christ which strength-
eneth, pro"? It was not the power in-
herent. in Paul, Himself, for not many
Years before his spiritual power was
low like the water of the Dead Sea.
IIe had sunk into the depths of sethteh-
miss and sin.
The power of Panl and the power of
every soul mighty in Christ ig the
power of position. ,, is the power of
the life lived above the sordid world.
Christ said, "And I, if I bo lifted up,
, , . will draw all men unto me."
le eros "lifted no," and lie has shone
sown with, his inilnito light and
warmth into the sea of sin and raised
cauls to himself. • There in that posi-
tion of power beside Christ we are no
longer holpiese like the dead Sen, but
"., have infinite power so that we an say,
"1 can do all things."
Coal in Japan.
Japanese experts have estimated the
coal deposits of their country to con-
lain nearly 0,000,000,000 tons, of which
almost 8,000,000,000 tons aro available
by modern mining methods.
'Laugh White You May.
L.<tarn to laugh; a good laugh isbet-
ter titan medlclne,
Lr warn how to tell a story; a good
stor• ', well told, le as welcome as a
sunbs'am in a sink -room.
Lea. It to keep your own troubles to
yourset •11 the world is too busy to care
for your ills and sorrows.
Learn ,"•p stop croaking; if you can-
not sec a "}F good In the world, keep
the bad to yourself.
Learn to h:xe your aches and pains
ander pldsesant smiles; no one cares
to hear wltether you have headaches,
earaeh',s, ter rheumatism,
Learn to meet your friends with a
smile: a goo d -humored man or woman
is always we,'ceme, but the dyspeptic
is not wanted t,'aywhere
Above all, gi qe. Pleaeure; lose no
chance of giving eineasure.
You will pass farougb this world
but once,
Any good thing, thee'afore, that you
can do, orany kindness that you can
show to any human been, you had
better do it now; do not defer or ne-
glect 11.
For you will not pass this way
again.
Large deposits of phosphorus Nee
been discovered on en uninhalii.ed
island south of and owned by Japari.
cAt-1 ANY.
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have it given them a. piece at a time.
Some men thrive on discourage-
ment; some cannot work without
cheerfulness.
Study men—the men over you, un-
der you, around you,
Study them and learn hew to get
from each the best that is in him.
•
Rapp1in 1 h nes , ►it`:
Walt Mason , "
MOTOR MADNESS
My shining car no more you see around my stately residence;
the windshield's banging from a tree, the axles are astride a
fence, and wearily my weird I dree, and wonder why I have no
sense, "Don't go so feet," I have been told by many wise and
prudent guys, "or soon a wooden box will hold a delegate about
your size:" their counsel was as good as gold, but prudent ooun-
aeI I•despiso. And so I stepped upon the gas and made my gilded
wagon fly, and I would let no auto pass; however fiercely it might
try; and sage advice like sounding brass, appeared to me, as I
whizzed by, "I've warned you once, I've warned you twice," the
friendly speed cop to me said, "and` if I have to warn you thrice,
a prison cot will be your bed; or maybe you'll be laid on ice,
with tapers at your feet and head," My pastor urged me to re-
form, end use my entail supply of brains; "all day," he said, "the
sapheads storm along the pike In noisy wales, and soon the
coroners will swarm, and sit on your and their remains," And
so I went my dippy way, and laughed at maxims and at saws, at
frantic speed I pushed my dray, and busted all the, traffics laws;
and now you see me here to -day, the worst old wreck that ever
was. Learned surgeons try to make me straight, but they aro
worried and perplext; apothecaries near me wait, and pastors,
with their timely text: and staid morticians, at the gate, are
saying that their turn is next.
REGLAR FELLERS— By Gene Byrnes
Stories of Famous People
Some people can naves mho up Illustrates his aversion, The incident
their minds, while ethers often defer
their decision because they love argu-
ment for Its owe sake. Perhaps the
reputation Mr. Battier has In some
gnarteras for indecision is explained by
the fact that he relishes a discusdicn,
whether it is on the subject of Bre
Wien foreign relations or theadvisee
bility of holding 025 to a mad bull's
tail,
One day, during an important de-
bate, Mr, Balfour rattled off a string
of logic, while M. Clauseneeau listened
to him with deferential resiguation,
At bet, after about twenty iiuutea,
the speaker sat down,
"C'eet llui?" quarried M. Clemen-
tO.an.
Mr. Balfour intimated that lie had
finished.
"tali Rte," said M. Clemenceau
blandly, "are you for or against?"
a ► a*
Thera have been many rumors of the
return of Mr. Bonar Law to the Bri-
tish Rouse of Commons, but apparent-
ly he has no present intention of
emerging from his retirement. 130
does not ,seem anxious to "face the
music again," perhaps because he has
an lnberent dislike of music of any
kind.
There is an amusing story which
oedurred .dur'ing the Peace .Conference,
when he wee taken 10 bear the Oamic
op0111 "I.a Mlle tie Madame *ngot," in
Paris, "Afterwards Ile was asked noir
lie had enioyed it.
"Well, it wouldn't be ao bail," lie re,.
plied, "if 1t wasn't ter the singing,"
It is pleasant to re0al.l, in the midst
of uncomfortable ,thought about India,
that Hindus possess their souse of
humor and can enjoy the lighter side
of life,
An Indian maharajah's car ring re-
cently held up before Buckingham
Palace, He scintillated with eineraldei
pearls, and diamonds, and an Ameri-
can woman stopped t0 admire his daz-
zling brilliante. At twit ,she could not
contain her curiosity, and addressed
hint,
'Do you speak' English?" she asked,
The maharajah rewarded her with
a beautiful smile, and shook his head
as though regretting that conversation
between then, was impoaelble,
"Now I wonder," said the American
lady to her companion, "1 wonder how
much those jewels are worth? That
is," she added, "If they are real?"
Ate the maharajah's motor moved an
the noble occupant bent forward and
murmured In her ear:
"Paste."
Workingmen's Classes.
Announcement is made of It mass
meeting of members and prospective
members of the Workers' Educational
Association in the Socia: Service
Building of the University of Toronto
on Tuesday evening', October 4th. The
object is to arrange for classes dur-
ing the winter season, to continue
those formerly conducted, and to in-
itiate new ones. Public speaking,
trade union law, and Meriden econ-
omics are proposed in addition to
economics, international finance, psy-
chology and logic, political phil-
osophy, British hisotory, English liter-
ature and composition.
Through these classes, for which
the provincial university suplies most
of the tutors and nearly all the funds,
workers in any occupation have an
opportunity to secure the advantages
of higher education. Similar classes
LITTLE SPARKS.
Little sparks from bonfires,
Caused by careless hands,
Make our giant forests
Devastated lands.
A little care and forethought,
Given now and then,
Will save our mighty forests
For the good of men.
FORESTS AND HOMES
Canada's forests every year
furnish lumber enough to build
homes, for a million people.
Don't let forests burn up. Be
careful with fire in the wends.
Shackleton Goes Back.
I "The Folly of Fr
as
In that doleful, delightful bodkl
"The Iducatlotl of Henry ,A4aalbi"
occurs a phrase, "The foliy of fret,"
which is latter than filo usual Of.
premien, "Tho uselessness of worry,"
hfany serrnone have been preached,
many loottsea delivered, many medi-
cal opinions pronounced, many house»
hold homilies uttered, on that theme,
Tisa trend of applied :science in our
oerttury is toward the reduction of
friction and the elimination of waste,
,And a big part of friction and of
Waste is worry,
We worry about the human ma-
chine, We imagine that all sorts of
dreadful things are&bout to happen
to us. Our titougltte ought to be on
our work—sand they are diverted by
our worries.
We worry about toeing a position
in business or our standing in.saciety.
There Would be less excuse for .isms
iety if we would spend the energy
consumed• in trying to .• do our
work still better, trying to serve more
satisfactorily the ooinmunity we live
in, striving to discharge the various
and delicate offices of friendship with
in.creaaed tact and perception and
sympathetic selflessness.
Worry is quite another matter from
a proper carefulness, that weighs a
preposition and looks alt round its
object ere acceptance.
A ntan who investigates before he
buys, who eonee'eae alternatives and
who asks que. tions before deciding,
who makes noleap in the dark, is
not open to the reproach of one whose
"folly of fret" merely leads him in
frantic circles, like a tethered donkey.
All his fuss and clamor issue is no-
thing but an eostacy of motion and
emotion.
Man -power is too precious to be
thrown away in these gyrations that
are the pantonine of futility.
Give us more of the calm, big men
who plan and then proceed.
They seen to have time. They do
not operate in: a flutter and a fever
resembling the heveyard or the stock -
pen. They make lip their minds and
preserve their equanimity. Seeing
them so cool.and so controlled, those
who do everything in a panic or a
paroxysm try their best to excite
are conducted by the University of The call of the East, or the call of them by telling then: the house is
Toronto in Hamilton and in Ottawa, the wild from anyburning down or the world is coming
The Workers' Educational Association quarter, does not an end.
had last year its most successful sea- sere to evenbmore potent than the polar But these quiet and capable ones.
son in. Canada and hopes are enter- .lurn atter both of the bltimate are not deceived, They know that it
points of Ultima Thule have been
rained that thec � at -
owing season will be, tanned. is not for man to say when his own
even better. The arrangement is 1 Shackleton is now starting off in a 11fe or
1nhis own work shall end. In
based on the one which has been so peace they continue on their
beneficial in Great Britain and fur-
nishes steamship, another example of the varied; he wants to find a petrified victimizes and woskens other men.
forest, or see strange islands out of
type of work done for the community g ._...-0_______.
at large by the provineial university.. h
Secret of "Adam's Apple."
PPIe.
When our forefathers read the Bible terrible voyage of 800 miles in an
they were fond of pursuing the stories open boat to obtain aid for his eon- country life is necessary to the per -
and incidents contained tberein ever rades on the last trip has not sur- petuity of the nation, Ti, other words,
farther than the Scriptural explana- feinted him with danger and derring. if country Life fails the nation's days
tions. do, are numbered, Rural life, they insist,
Where the Book of Genesis, for ex- But the expedition will bring back is the fountain -spring from which the
ample, merely relates the episode of something more than travel -tales and present civilization received its fresh
Eve and the apple in the briefest and material for popular lectures. It is blood. Strong, vigorous, capable men
most concise language, legends go sure to result in subetantia1 contnibu- and women are being constantly re -
much farther — connecting various tions to our knowledge of the phystio- cruited from the farms to lead the
kinds of animals and birds with the graph'', the mineralogy, the plant and industrial world. Their rugged bed -
Fall of Man and introducing scores of animal life of regions whose place or. lea, active minds and sound ideals
trimmings which do not appear in the the charts is marked chiefly in thr seem necessary in the economy of
original version, interrogatory terms of dotted lines great commeroial enterprises to lead
One of these legends is responsible There is still a dead to do to satisfy the decadent urban hosts whose lives
for the Hams "Adam's apple," as ap- man's lawful curiosity as to the world "r being burned out in the great
plied to the thyroid cartilago of the he lives in; and whereas in the Arctic maelstrom of activities centring in
larynx, a projection whioh usually is regions there are Eskimos cheerfully the cities.
much more apparent in men their In ready to help venturesome voyagers But these studious persons are get-
wOn1eII, from the South,in bleak Antarctica ting anxious about the future..They
This legend states that Adam, when mankind may expect no native corn- feat' that rural life has been drawn
he attempted to swallow his bite of pang but the penguin, and must de- upon so heavily that the blue blood is '
the apple from the Tree oe Life, pend entirely on resources of his own about exhausted and that sooner or
choked, and the fruit stuck In dais importation. later national decay will start. It is
throat. All males since Adam have well, of course, that every precaution
had thla protuberance as silent eve "— - t be taken to peeserve to the nation
deuce of the indiscretion of their an Rothchiid's Dodge. this great cradle of leadership. •To'
castor. Upon a moneylender complaining to this end it is of the highest: signifi-
'n Baron Rothchild that canes that neral life be made not only
hail of all the trade routes or meas-
ure the depth of the ocean and the
rate of flow of currents. He goes be -
A Promising Outlook.
Careful students of eco cony and
cause he cannot stay away. Even the sociology are persistent in their de-
claration that the maintenance of
he had lent tad
The Empire Supply of thousand francs t0 a person who lied I attractive but really worth while, thatthe farm boy and the farm girl may
Timber. gone off to Constantinople without! have the opportunity to put every
Even if we do not accept the idea of leaving any acknowledgment of the i
a world timber famine, we must admit debt, the baron said; "Well, write to talent they possess out to usury in -
that never was there a time hefo' in nim acid eels him to send yon the fifty in the ground.
stead of being obliged to linty them
which the Empire depended more 00 j thousand francs be OW88 you," "But
he only owes me ten," said the money-
lender. "Precisely," rejoined the
baron, "and he will write and tell you
BO, said thus yolt will get the acknow-
ledgment of It."
Although the area of Holland is
less than that of either Denmark ea
ite own efforts for its supply of tim-
ber, nor has there ever been a time
more favorable than the present for
urging the examination of our Empire
resources and, if thought advisable,
the definition . of an Empire forest
policy.—Lord /Levet, at Empire For-
estry Conference.
However, if our learned economists
and sociologists' would take a few
days off to visit some of the big, as
well as the small fairs, and witness
the industry, the spirit of co -opera -
lean and the accomplishments of our
farm boys and girls they would cease
being concerned about the present and
the near future. From every fir,
Switzerland its population of 7,004,000 almost, comes reports of what these
Trial by jury is said to have existed exceedb the combined population, 0f our• tens are doing, and it is evi-
in 2000 B.O. i y gs g,
those two conntttios. dant butt unless the older generation
gets out and hustles, in but a short
While these lade and lassies will be
doing the inajos.'ity of the outstanding'
things in agriculture,
The development of this spirit and
leadership ability is due to Is com-
bination of influences. Perhaps the
most direct institution for their pro-
Motion is the boys' and girls' club'
Work. Then there are the better rural
schools, more capable teacherrs, live•
country cimrchee, eetive farmers'
clubs and Women's Institutes, ail'co-
operating to lead the lender fainters:
to enjoy the blessings and the ad.' e ,
vantages of a full life, Thertare,
if the national outlook is depenalent
upon our rural youth the future is
certainly most peomising.
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Cooking Heaters.
Four electric room heaters of the
rltcliaut type have been mounted by
an Bngliah inventor oil At•nie exteed-
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lineable as 10 angle, it beteg passible
to .ruin two so ro0king Dau be done tut
them, y,