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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-11-17, Page 7'louse of a Thousand Rooms When we read Of the giant hotels of the !;intrad Stator that have a thous - end mains or mare—the latest has tour tii:use:1e rooms --we Imagine such buildings are a product of the twentieth century, and that the men who lived hundreds of Years ago would rub their eyes with ast'ottlsh- ment 1f they could return and see these ;narvellous structures, Yet a,buiidieg of a thotrsaud rooms is by no means a prow idea, for ono has Just been unearthed In the,,sotlth of the United! States, It was/ built more Chau ten centuries ago, It Lifts been discovered near Santa Fe, the capitaeof New Mexico, by the avchatologists of the School of Ameri- can Iteeeerch. merican'iteseareh. More than' fiveyears will be needed to unveil it completely, Apart from the wander of such a building, there ie a great mystery eon nected with it. The 1}puse itselt le splendidly preserved and plenty of do- mestic iiPlenlonts have been (found Inside, Yet there aro .absolutely ne traces • of the inhabitants, Bo sharked is this absence that the scholars who have unearthed the place are nonplussed. They declare tine all the evidence points• to the belief that the pope) who Jived in the house did not make a hurried flight but left in a. leisurely fashion. They sinipiy appear to have stepped out ofhiatory leaving uo .trace why or where they wept. The sande of ihls 1istriet are much driven by tbe,win•ds, and it was their eitifWtg that .gave the !frit aloe to the toe:stenee of a building underaeuth. The thousand-roomedAimse• has a curved frontage of seven bunsired feat, and it le estimated that 11fty million pieces of storm were used 1n its censtiuetion,. Arcltasoicgists are coevin00d that the building was produced by a free people, and net by slaves, There is evidence everywhere of pahtsteeing oraftsmaeship. < ... Dr, Ibrlgar •.1. Hewitt, Director of the School Af Amariean Research,. is cou- vineed that these people belonged to a rape which developed its culture with- ,out serious leterrttption from outside, ane it le hoped that further exgavation will reveal the secret of their sudden and maeterious.disappearance. A c arefnl examination of the great building and its su.roundhtga indi- eates that the cgiammmtty that lived' In and about it must have consisted of about ten thousand people. All the doorways of the building were found closed by massive mason- ry, as if, when the people went away, eemebody had seen to the shutting up of the rooms. From a technical point of view this blinding compares. favor- ably with a modern structure. The walls are strengthened by heavy timbers arranged among the stones, as steel rods are used today to strongth- en concrete walls. INDUSTRIAL OUT- ,LOOK UT.LOOK IN FAR WEST POIN'T'S TO BETTERING OF TRADE. Review of Business Condi- tions Shows Hopeful Trend Throughout the Western Provinces. A more fasorable business outlook and indications of a general bettering of: trading exists in the West at the present time. This, it seems reason- able to believe will continue through- out the early whiter months, with a gradual strengthening in the market- ing of goods. There is noticeable a mere optimistic attitude, the feeling of depression baying passed novae as the crop outlook developed into a very. fair harvest, with in some cases better remits than were anticipated. "iirlrlle 11' general belief in a iteaty crop, which Molted likely in June, did not actually materialize, the damage from various =+lases, su MItent to create pes- sinestic ideas of crap values, stave, proved not to have been so detriment- al as at one time anticipated. • The prairies marketed a crop that netted good returus and put the Western financial situation on a more prosper ons footing. The ea stance in the way of loans to live stock fames en the' security' of their cattle and Poe-sib11f- tier of removal of the British embargo have helped to strengthen the settee tion. The question of unemployment Is being taken up ateively, with possibili- ties of little trouble In taking care of any situation that may develop..dur- ing the winter months. The prairie people are buying more lumber and as,sistdng the situation in British Columbia to some extent, and while the outlook is not altogether as sound as could be wished for .• that in- dustry in the next few months, changes for the better are •possible, The fruit and cereal crops of the Coast Provinc have given good results and mining shows some improvement. The Manitoba Power Co. has ar- ranged iinonces for the new $10,000,- 000 plant on the- Winnipeg River, which when completed will make avail- able an additional 168,000 h,p.' for in-' due -trial development. The city of Winnipeg ;Power Co.- has a second transmission line under operation and is In a position to sell an additlani 30,- I 000 h.p. The power situation in Mani- toba, is one of the Province's greatest assets and deserves more attention than has hitherto been given to it. Tranymission lines aro being built to many of the smaller towns and vie bees throughout the Province for lighting and power purposes, and oveutuelJy emetically every point in the province cau be served with this utility, With possibilities • of develop- ment of aver 400,000 h.p. on the Win. nipeg River alone, the province: has bright industrial prospects. Activity In 011, Coal, Mica, etc. Deposits- of mica, near Lan du Bon- net have been under investigation and a corporation registered to operate; reports speak well of the deposit, which should be satisfactorily market- ed, At Bienfait, Sask., the coal briquet - ting plant is, now nearing completion and should be in operation in a few weeks, Oil drilling in Alberta and the north is being continued and much explora- tion stud investigation work is being carried on. Parties coming in from the north appear satisfied with pros- pects, but It is early yet to state whether any field of cosnmerciul value will actually be developed. Enquiries from intending settlers and investors onthtne to be received In good volume, while much informa- tion is asked for 1st connection with Possibilities for brunch factories, and wholesale distributing houses. Though active development along these lines has been to some extent: halted during the present year, promise le of .good prospects for 1922 and" following years. There is little doubt that the industrial development in the West is going to build up, and it is not unlike- ly that a very considerable volunio of now business will make itself evident. next year„ Indications are pointing decently in that direction. It also ap- pears possible that some of the tee - tars that are at present a disturbing element in the world's business at- fairs are likely to be on a inter,. con- servative basis before the ye;;s's end and that there will be less perturba- tion et likelihood of unforeseen con - aeons after the neat six months has passed away. What Ambition Means. Ambition nieaansthe desire for some- thing better and finer in your life. It means that you are always trying your best. :ambition means aspiration; that you are visioning the heights and intend to climb them. Ambition "means that you have fore- thought; that you are tent afraid of planting a tree, although You know you may never eat its fruit al* sit in its shade. ' It means that you are not lazy; tbat you will push on when you are inclined to lie down or stop work. - Ambition finds time for self-im- provoment in the spare hours'. It'h'rakes you leave your comfortable bed in the miming when you would like to turn over and take another nap. Ambition encourages you to choose good friends and cempaationes . Ambition knows 'no discouragement. Choose not the book that thinks for you but the one that ;makes you think. Thebooks wheel help you most are those which 'nuke you think the most. --Theodore Parker. BOTH: "HE'S TALKING TO YOU." The Provincial University. Speaking at the University College Alumni dinner on Friday evening last Hon. Dr. H. J. Cody told of finding, on the tour of inspection last year by the Royal Commission, students pack- ed into what had been an old dining- hall but is now a poorly ventilated classroom, of discovering a professor teaching a class in mathematics in an abandoned kitchen in the basement where there was np possible ventila- tion at all, and of seeing another pro- fessor teaching Greek to a group of students in a little basement room that was once a pantry. "If," .said the speaker, "the regulations of the Department of Education regarding classroom space and ventilation which are enforced in the Public end High Schools were made to apply to the provincial university, a large part of University College would be closed as unfit for educational purposes." This lamentable state of affairs cannot bo remedied until more money is avail- able for the support of the University of Toronto. It was hoped that the Report of the Royal Commission on University Finances would have been adopted by the Government of On- tario last year but, because of lack of time for its consideration, this Re- pgrt was laid over until the session of 1922. Brevity. Edward was being sent to a board- ing -school. "Now. said his father, "when you write do not send me pages and pages, describing all the pupils, where they coino from, Hind what class' trey are in. because I won't have time to'read it all." A few weeps later the father re- ceived the following letterfront his obedient son: Forest Tree Seeds for Creat Britain. The British Forestry Commission bas arranged with the Dominion For• entry Branch of the Department of the Interior to collect tree seeds for ship- ment to the United Bengdom on a greater scale than in the past few years. In the past about one thousand Pomade bee been the maximum as Bunt of seed shipped in any one season, but it is hoped to increase this to a mini- mum of three thousand pounds per annum and a maximum running to double that. Tee Forestry Commis- sion, which has "purchased, tree seeds in both the United States and Canada, is increasing the quantity from Jiri- 'tish Columbia, because the coast cli- mate- of that province resembles the climate of Great Britain more than does that of any ether part of North America. To secure this seed the Do- minion Forestry Branch officers are now at work in British Columbia forests securing the cones of Douglas fir, Sttka spruce (the airplane timber) and some other species. .A. plant is being built in New Westminster in which the cones will be dried and the seed extracted and cleaned before be- ing sent overseas. The plans for this pleat, which are op the most modern lines, :were prepared in Canada , by Canadian forest engineers Power to Spell. "011, mamma!" exclaimed .little Gertrude. "I can spell 'nothing' and that's a big ward isn't it?" "A pretty big one for a Iittle maid of your age" replied her mother. "How do you epee 'nothing'?" "Z -X-111!"1 "Why, darling, that isn't right!" "Yes, it is," said Gertrude, emphati- cally "I said to grandma, 'What does g -x -M spell,' ane she said 'Nothing.' " u .— "Dear Father,--S.O.S, $ ct. R.S. .Doubt is the most potent p^-alyzer V,P.—Edward." -... of officio:' •-. Flowers a the Month, 'Here is the list: January --- Snevidssops. 1?'tdelity, hope, purity. February — Primrose Sineorlty, youth, ' Marcel ---Violet. Ieellh.fulneeet love, Modesty, April—Daisy. Irrnoceateo, patience, p0a0e. May -•--Hawthorn. 23ope haPPy do• mastic life. rano--eloneynucltie. Fidelity, thee, devotion; July --Water lily. Purity of heart, faith, August Poppy, Coneolatton, September—Morning glory; Agee, tion, Octgber-Hop, Hope. November — Chrysanthemum. Fe. dellty, love. December Holly, Domestic heppl- nesD, foresight. Check Up. Just be boss for a few minutes— then olseck up your regard for the last month as employee. Remember, naw, it's your money meeting the pay -roll. If you applied to yourself for a Job would you get it? Have you produced enough . in the month to make you a profitable in- vestment? Have you asked questions and im• proved_^• -or hove you been too wise to learn? Have you, as'empleyee, filled your hours with productive, conscientious labor—or hive you been too busy watching the clock? Have you been heart and soul In the worst- on the Job every minute with a breadth of vision that made of the desert of work an oasis of opportuni- ty? Check up, Be truthful. Would you give yourself a Job? - Paying the Penalty. The penalty for murder varies is meet countries. In Great Britain you will be hanged; in Russia you will be sent to work in the sant miner.; in the United States you may be lynched or dlectancuted; while is Spain you will be garrotted in private. In Franpe, Belgium, and Bavaria the guillotine will be your fate; in Oldenburg and Ecuador you will be shot: in Corea tortured to death; in China suffocated ar walled up so that You cannot move, and then tortured to death by having all the salt extracted from your food. In Prussia you will be beheaded by sword privately, but if you wish for this kind of death with. an audience you may secure it by going to Switzer- land. To -Day is Thine. The greediest heart eau claim but pre- sent pleasure, The future is thy God'st The past Is spent. Today is thine; deep close the pre- cious treasure. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The eucnmber was originally a tropical vegetable. SURPRISE VISITORS When I decide to visit friends I write and tell them so; and if from them a roar ascends, I wilt, and do not go. "We have the flu to beat the band," my cousin wrote me back, when I in- formed ,him that I planned to visit at his shack. "The smallpox has us in its grip," replied my loving niece, "so do not make your threatened trip, but let us dye in peace." Anal thee I give them every chance to dodge impending woe, when I, in pomp and cir• cumstance, to their abodes would go. If they desire to have me there, they'll let me know I wat,'and if they don't it isn't fair to camp upon their lot. For I detest the giddy guys, who visit un- awares, who think it cunning to surprise poor victims in their fairs. I have a grist of ancient aunts who play this ghastly trick, and 'when they came my spirit pants to do things iveh a brick. Oh, one must rail at spiteful Pate, and wring itis kande and rant, who sees a taxi at the gate discharge a withered aunt. Site has a birdcage in her !rand, and earmuffs on her ears, and well he knows that see has planned to stay for seven yearn. If site had only written him that she was• beataktug loose, he might have had a broken limb, or other good excuse. If you invade another's home uncalled, unadvertised, there Is a puncture in Your donne that should be vulcanized, free —TO is L Lovely Doll With Real Hair This lovely little doll bee real emir and eyes that open and eltut,. She wears a lovely drew) and hat, shoes and stockings•. She 1s• Just 12 inches tall and has jointed legs and arms. Just send us your name and address and we will send you Three Dollars worth of our lovely embossed Xmas Postcards to sell at ten cents a Dock- age. When they are sold, send us our money and we will tend you the lovely Doll, witiu all charges prepaid. If you prefer it we will send you a School Set, or P!lashligltt, or Flonutain Pen, or Pen Knife, or Mouth Organ, instead of the Doll. Address HOMER -WARREN COMPANY Taranto dept. 203 PROBING 41 A '"LV N4 I menta Goad for Second. ,Aristocratic Women of Am, WDp WORLD PROBLEM Hand Clothing, 11 1kU A. recently refere�egd woriter on to Relief Committee in7rrenla tells the ROMANCE BEHIND 'MEM CAL DISCOVERIES. Research by Patient Expert- meniters Reaps Rich Harvest for Mankind. The digocvery, made after nine years of patient waiting, by M. Alex. Clement, a Fronolt ' Canadian, and which prevail that garlic provides an antiseptic for the cure of tuberculosis, illustrates admirably the little-known romances that lie bellied' great solen- tine "Muds." Although Clement discovered inter nal disinfection of the human body could be seenred hedid so only atter exhaustive and dangerous research— he has been battling with death all the time --many n.edieel' wanders have i been found purely by accident. Yet few can compare with the French- man's discovery, which. 1s hailed as the most valuable made in medicine for three thousand years. It was the accidental inhalation of nitrous oxide gas that revealed to Sir Humphrey Davy the effects of that valuable antesthetio, .which has been such a•boon to millions in the dentist's chair. And it was siMilltrly .the ac- cidental sniffing at a sample bottle of a new liquid by Dr. James Simpson that gave the world of sufferers the blessings of chloroform. Young Professor's Luck. One day Joseph Lister, a young pro- fessor of surgery at Glasgow, chanced to read in a newspaper that a sub- stance known as "carbolic acid" bad been applied to the sewage of Carlisle, with the result that there had been a great diminutionof the amount of putre- faction. If, he argued, catholic acid could reduce the putrefaction in sew- age, why not that in the wounds 181 - lowing operations? He began to experiment with the new fluid; and within two years found, to his delight, that the mortality in his wards was reduced by two-thirds. Fur- ther improvements on his methods followed, with still better results. The horrors of gangrene had become a nightmare of the past, and millions have owed their- lives to he accident which revealed to Joseph Lister the secrets of a septic treatment of wounds. The discovery of preventive mea- sures against malaria was the reward of industry. Twenty years of patient search enable,' a band of investigatory, to discover tbat the microbe of ma- larial fen-,• was introduced into the leanly by a particular class of mosquito. The cause of the "plague" which at intervals for hundreds of years had ravaged Europe undr various names -- such a,s the "Great Plague," which destroyed sixty theusand people in the. autumn of 1665, au1 the still more ter- rible "Black Death" of three centuries earlier --had defied all attempts to d:s cover it until It was at last proved+, by Major Liston of the Indian Army to be a flea which infested rats and carried the poisonaus germs from them to liumanos Army of Fly Collectors Sleeping sickness had destroyed hundreds of thau_needs of lives before Sir David Bruce set to work to track the insect wbieb. he felt sure was re sponsible for it. Ile employed a small' army of West African natives' to col- lett fifes through a district of one hun- dred square miles of country. From the thousands of flies 'thus collected he selected one as the probable cause; i and found that this insect was com- mon in all •infected districts and ab- sent from all otbers. Sir William Crooks and his son . mad an important discovery ill "col - laid" prepara.tione, wbich medical authorities state is one of the biggest ! adyanoes in modern drug -making. It! is claimed that by using colloid pre -1 paratfons, drugs are at once assimi- f lated by tee human system, and, it is believed, it is only a question of time: before all chemists will be using them. Coming to the mast recent discovery; there is just as much romance in the {' finding of "Chaulmoogra oil,' whlcb, 1 it is believed, will cure leprosy. This 1 oil, which was one of the wonders of the last London !!Medical Exhibition, was found after protracted and disin-' terested research. 5 Soli-estoemr is wasted steams. poNlr AsK Fol TN's. secori Vitt.?it44 or UNpERSTAN bC GLAR I" ELLLRS-- By Gene Byrnes A1,1Pr `(ov.cgEr cNe Spo'r alit Tt It �Cf1i}L>= CLOTH `-(oc.l'Li.- No-r 1,ET our raR- A WEEKS CLoTl4 Is NNETy Anis oLta 0 1 following pathetic story of the need of clouting in that stricken country.' rI sat oil at pile of packing area. Pe/ow use on the floor of the damp, cold roost were hundreds of old ,floes. Men's shoes, babies' slices, high heel. ed affairs of white kid, bedroom slip- pers. They had been picked over so often•teeat there was hardly a chance of finding (nates, "In the middle of the floor. Dat Mrs. Ter Stepbanian. That isn't her name, but it's near enough. She was a Rus- sian girl from Moscow; well bot'ry brought up in a home with every lux- ury and comfort, Now she was mar- riesi to an Armenian General --ono of the big meta of the country,' She was bare -headed, her 'lovely golden hair braided and wound around her head !:here were no hairpins in Armenia; she wore a dilapidated red .sweater that I had given her from the old clothes, a patched and faded skirt, knitted stockings made from the barsli, native wool, and a pair of very old A fainiue denim in .Armenia shoes, with the soles worn through. "Outside it was Latterly cold and a snow -drift reached 'half way up the window, I knew that in Met:. Ter Stephenian's eontfottless room at the other end of the village, her three lit- tle chicken wee" waiting impatiently for mother and, the longei for shoes. "Fcr an hour, its: went over the evil -smelling foots±• sr petiretly look- ing for the right sizes, At last she was satisfied; six little them an tiif- ferent, me a pair or holm •ir her- self. Her deli • l t and eratitude brought tears 10 m, eyes. "She shivered as she me eta out into the .old. and the sharp wind bit through the thin sweater. 'I wish,' she said to rte, `there was same way I could thank the women who seat these shoes, some way I could tell them what it means to me—a mother—to have then( to give to my babies. I•t took me mouths to get up my courage to ask you for then(, but there are so many things money cannot buy in my poor country. If you ever have the opportunity, please thank your 'coun- trywomen for me.' " Send contributions of stoney to the Treasurer, Mr. D. A. Cameron, To- ronto Manager, The Canadian Bank of Commerce. Kiang Street West, Toronto. 'Send contributions of clothing in care of Mr. Leven Babayan, 34 King Street East, Toronto, Trees and Business. It has been many a year since the forests were robed in more leautiful colors than they have possesred this autumn, yet the glory of golds and yellows is fast passing away and no- thing but the lame trunks and branch- es remain. The dark, ugly, gnarled sentinels of the forests will then stand in the piece of the autumn beauty. Unattractive, indeed, will these bar- ren trunks be in comparison, yet there is entodied in the roots and trunks and branches of these soldiers of the woodland the same potential power that produced the unspeakable beauty of the foliage that is now frilling, Suclt changes often go on in the businesses which men follow---eo-op- erative institutions are no exception. In these organizations men become enthused during the springtime of de- velepment and the foliage of hope grows rapidly and beautiful and the undertaking is full of promise. This growth oentinues through the sinister with every encouragement until the arrival of the fall frosts of )empati- tion, which suddenly arrests further development. When these lemma ort hope take oat for moment their hall- ifant hues and then fall, the co -opera - Ilan backslider. too frequently, begin to multiply. But the cold business institution has more then likely grown in strength and power to serve. So don't forsake it siiuply be- cause It hae finished standing on dress parade. If it is to bo of any perman- ent valun to those', who aro associated in the ot'gatidzation then the bine must come if it is not here, for the insti- tutioui to get its working clothes on to buffet the . storms gad stand the tern of Is rigors•'•! winter,