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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-5-21, Page 7GREAT GLACIERS OF TIIE ROCKIES, Nature's Wonders Draw Increasing Numbers of Tourists to Canada's National Parks, Wherever :glaciers exist they are the thio visitor le then M e eSeeition to per - objects of the most intense interest not only on the part of the scientist but on that of the tourist, Those parts of the mountein magas of Europe which contain glaciers aro points to which the feet of thousands of tourists turn each .year, andthe same ' is be - owning more and mere true of this continent, ' The glaciers in the Cana- dlan Rockies and Solkirks are among the most impressive to be found any- where, and fortunately many of them Are easy of acceee, One bas only to stop at some place like Lake Louise an Banff National Park, in the southern Bookies; Jasper in Jasper National Park in the north, or Glacier, in (Napier National Park in the Selkirks to come in real contact with snowflelds and gla tiers..It is not only the mountaineer who weels the attraction of these cool clean solitudes where glaciers are born and do_ their wonderful work, ,Every normal man and woman yields to the delight of holidaying in these inspiring surroundings, Timber Line, at 7.500 Feet. Leaving the lower altitudes in the grip et midsummer's heat, the travel- ler climbs up to view the great gla- cial machinery at work: At en alti- tude of about 7,500 feet timber -line is reached and then come cliffs and rocky 'slopes and grassy orsedgy up- lands, where mountain sheep, and goats pasture and wildflowers grow in mlllions. The edge of the snow may now appear, melting because the sum- mer's warmth makes itself felt even thus far up on the mountains. From •new ou the trip may be over a great snowdeld, the source of a glacier, and cave its genesis and development. On Woe lofty nlguetaiu tops moisture el - ways Palle ill. the form of snow, end tee'welght'.OR- this snowcap compress - os the lower layers Into ice and Rorees them down the mountain sides anti in, to the upper valleys in the form df rivers of ice, which are in fact the glaciers. Each glacier extends down its velley to 'a point where the great mass, of ice brought from the polder regions above is unable longerto re- sist the heat of the lower slopes. Here the glaoler usually ends In a cave of ice from whish issues a cold stream `of water, the soured perhaps of swum mighty river, 'whloh—suchl is the won- der and fascination' of the Canadian Rockies—will discharge thee° same waters into the Pacific, or it may be Into the distant Arctic, or even into Hudson Bay. Growing Fame of Rockies. None of the Canadian Nanette' Parks in the Rookies and Selkirks are without glaciers, great or small, the very names of which carry one away into a region of fairyland and ro- mance, The opening up of the parka by means of motor roads and trails has made readily- accessible some of the greatest glaciers; and there is al- ways .the attraction that just behind and beyond, in the virgin and untrod- den wilderness, there are others to be found and explored by those who love the spirit of adventure,, It is this .com- bination of comparative ready access to the beauties of the Rookies and the possibilities of still further discoveries that is the cauee of the growing fame of this region and the anualiy increas- ing number of tourists who gather to study these great wonders of nature. In What Class Are You? Some nlen need coaxing; other men need commanding. Some men delight In flattery; other men despise it. Some men need watching; other mon resent it, and do better when they are not watched. Some men need driving, urging; other men need holding back, re - •straining. Some mon can't stand the gaff; it sinks in and wounds; other men don't mind it, they lat itroll off like water off a duck's• back. Some men need a lot of, praise and appreciation, a lot of patting on the back; other men care nothing about it; the satiefactaon they get in doing their best, the joy of work well done Ls enough for tbem. The snap ought to be in the horse, •but if ft isn't, one tries to put It in with the whip. Some men have to get the snap outside of them; other men don't need whip or spur, the snap is inside of them, Some men are fair-weather sailors, and get dlscourgaed in rough seas; when they meet with obstacles, when things go hard..lvlth them, they slump on their oars; other men thrive under difficulties; opposition and handicaps only stimulate them; the best that is in them conies out when they are buf- feting with the storms of life; they never get discouraged. Some men dawdle over their work, shirk when they can, and then coin - plain of their job, of their long hours and the lack of any chance of promo- tion; other men will do as good a day's york in three hours as they do in ten hours; they put their heart in their work, never thinking of hours, or of prontotion,•and very soon they are away over the heads of the shirk- ors and grumblers. Some men are weak in the back- bone; they depend on others for _guid- ance and advice; they can't stand alone, can't do anything without others to lean upon; they don't want to play the game alone, and never get any- where; other' men have a surplus -. of backbone; they want to play the game` alone; they are self-reliant, independ- ent; they believe more in the power inside of them than in any boosting fromthe outsider they make thele plans without advl0e or help from others, and then go ahead and work them out; they are the men who win In the great game of life In which class are you? -- "Some Men", or "Other Men?" -•-Success, NO' Said. Auto Agent—"You shouldn't have tried to sell that pian a $5,000 ear. Ile didn't lank •like he could afford it to me," Salesmen ,e1 know what I' was do- • 11tg. That man's natto has been men- tioned in the oil scandal," It Is hest to khlow the worst at once. A little group of wise hearts le, better than a wildeetless of fools, 1 1s to Getting at the Point. Her Suitor—"No, I haven't muck 'ndoriey but I have a good job and Gladys isn't mercenary." Her Father—"1 know she isn't mer- cenary but I am, Can you support a father-in-law in the style to which he is accustomed?" How to Learn Singing. The art of singing is a precious pos- session which comparatively few peo- ple can claim, despite the fact that. there are thousands who are certain in their own minds that they alone are the sole possessors of the jewel, the talisman which they can pass on to others. It 1s something which is far more than the here knowledge of the voice or of the organs of the throat. It is a grent.art which must be trans- mitted rather than taught. Listen to . the birds and note how they learn their songs ,from their teachers In the nests. The songs of their parents are their only models, and they just sing as they heard their parents do It. It must bo obvious, therefore, that one of the first prin- ciples in studying singing is to imi- tate.- Not to mock as a parrot iu e tates,`but to paten to great singers un- derstandingly and analytically. Hear how they produce their tones. Feel the character, the quality ' of their voices. Often this quality is a matter of years of careful development, Very few singers of consequence sing with the same voice they employed when they began their careers, Why? For the reason that we all imitate when we are cblldren, We Imitate the voices that are around us. Often these voices are very bad ones indeed, but we instinctively imitate-`ilient, Then we have to rebuild our voices after we have destroyed the bad habits. The edncatlou of the voice is in a large measure the education of the ear com- bined with the individual voles ideal of the student - May Marriages. The idea that it is unlucky- to be married in May is not so prevalent as it was formerly, but the superstition still lingers. We got it from the !Ionians, with ap• parenty got it from the Creeks and brought It with theta to Britain, 1t shows how n train of super.ltittcus thought once set going will 'persist through the ages. The curious thing"about -this super- stitloe 1s that it should ever have or - talented e for the month of May In an - dent. Ulnas was dedicated to the gdd- desa Male, the mother of Mercury and the goddess of growth and 1110001ele A platitude is a great truth slightly shopworn, While making a forced landing in Toronto Bay, one of the Ontario Government planes struck a submerged log, which wrecked the undercarriage of machine. The pilot managed to bring the boat into shallow water before it sank, the, Do It Now! To -day 1s the day that your tasks should be done— • The day that God's given to you; You're living Right Now, and this is the one To do what you're going to do, This second—this minute is allthat you've got; The future's a chance, anyhow; The past, with its shadows, the sooner forgot The better—so do It right now - You number ow. You-number your days from the day you were born, And count them with sighing and tears, But really, my friend, you're reborn ev'ry morn— In spite of the calendar years; Each day, you start life with a view- point that's new; The past Is a dream thathasfled; You cannot go back to the you that was you, In days that are finished and dead. Nor can you go forward one day in advance, And glimpse what the morrow may hold; You can't change the future, or one circumstance, Except as the minutes unfold; To -day is the day tbat your tasks should be done; So live that you never should fear What's 'going to happen,' with each rising sun— Next Week—or next month—or next' year, James Edward Hungerford. Spring's Unrest. •• Up in the.woodland, where Spring Comes as a laggard, the Breeze Whispers the pines that the King, Fallen, has yielded the keys To his white palace and flees , Northward o'er mountain and dale; Speed then the hour that frees: Ho, for the pack and the trail! Northward my fancy takes wing, Restless ani I, ill at ease, Pleasures the city can bring Lose now their power to please. Barren, all barren, are these, Teavn life's a tedious tale; That cup isdrained to the lees -- Ho, for the pack and the trail! Flo, for the morning I sling Pack at my back, and with knees Brushing a thoroughfare, fling Into the green mysteries; • One with the birds and the bees, One with the, squirrel and quail, Night, and the stream's melodies— , Ho, for the pack and the trail! —B, L. T. To Motorists itlayhap 'twill save you life or limb, Aad 'tisn't much expense Whene'er you are out driving To just use common sense. An unlawful oath is better broke than kept. Queer Villages. Stories About Well -Known People Tucked away In odd corners of Great Britain are some villages with pe- culiar names. In Kent we find Painter's Porstal, Dripping Gore, and Old Wivee Lees. The last place derived its strange mine from the fact that old women of the district used to run an annual race there for prizes offered by the local lord of the manor. Dripping Gore was so called because the Danes and Sax- ons are believed to have fought a bat- tle at this spot. Essex has a village with the -et c- turesque- name of Tolleehunt Knights while near Huntingdon, in the Fen dis- trict, is s. place with the fierce title of Warboys. Lincolnshire seems t0 be particularly rich in queerly named vil- lages and hamlets-Cowpit, Twenty, Inch, and Inches. Near Middlesbrough, in Yorkshire, is a little place named Cargo Fleet, while other.northern villages with pic- turesque names are Monktnkoles, in Yorkshire, Parsley Hay, in Derby- shire, and Boot, in the Lake District. Crossing the border into Wales, wo find the still more peculiar name of Legacy. Other queer village names in Wales include Upper Boat and Black Pill. Ll Scotland we find places bearing the names of Kittybrewater, Kings - kettle, and Icing Edward. Near Edin- burgh is the little town of Joppa. Heads of Ayr and Georgamas are both in the Highlands. Progressive. It was the custom of the congrega- tion to repeat the twenty-third psalm in concert, and Mrs. Armstrong's habit to keep about a dozen -words ahead all the way through. A stranger was asking one day about Mrs. Armstrong, "Who," he inquired, "was the lady who was already by tine still waters while the rest of us were lying down In green pastures?" Older Than the Law. A salesmanlike looking inspector was surprised to find a dirty roller towel in the washroom. Indignantly he said to the landlord: "Don't you know that it has been against the law for years to put up a roller towel in this State?" "Sure, I know it," replied the pro- prietor, "but no ex -post facto law goes In Kansas, and that there towel was put up before the law was passed." Give mo five minutes talk with a man about politics or weather or neighbors or finances, and I'll tell you whether he's going to reach ninety- five in good shape or not. If he says he has the finest neighbors in the world and adds that times never have been better or politics cleaner, or the. weather finer, then you may be pretty sure that he'll be a winner at ninety- five or any other age. No matter how long you live, there isn't time to wor- ry.—Chauncey M. Depew, 89 -year-old ex -Senator, lawyer and after-dinner speaker. From the Canon's Mouth. One ambition of Canon Hay Aitken, vice -dean of Norwich Cathedral, is to beat John Wesley's record of preach ,Ing 27,000 sermons, But Father Time may intervene. The canon is eighty- two; and, starting when he was seven- teen, he has now delivered 22,000 ser- mons. ermons. Ile has never preached from a writ- ten one, and as It Is stated that Wes- ley made one sermon serve many times it is possible that the Canon has already delivered more original dis- courses than the great Nonconform- ist, Solved the Problem. At literary banquets the art is to talk of the guest of honor as if you read all his books, On one occasion Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, the Ameri- can, had to introduce Sir Hall Caine at a certain function. Just before the toasts began a guest passed his menu card with the request that Sir Hall Caine would sign It. "That's a great idea," Bald Mr. Page. '1 must do that, too, I have to' intro- duce him in a few minutes, and I want to be able to say I have read some- thing he has written," Her Property. Lady Warwick can tell many good electioneering stories. As everybody knows, her sympathies are with the Labor cause, and in the past she bee often canvassed for Labor candidates, Once, when thus engaged, she knocked at the door of a house in a mean street. Her knock was answer- ed by a severe -looking matron, who stood with arms akimbo regarding her in no friendly spirit, "May I see Mr. Blank?" she asked. "You can't," replied the matron. "But I want to see what party he belongs to," pleaded Lady Warwick, "Well, take a good look at me," re- torted the matron. "I'm the party what he belonge to." Booth Explains Son's Generosity With Tips. Mr, J. R. Booth, the veteran Ottawa lumber king, whose granddaughter re- cently became Prince Erik's bride, was in the habit of leaving his horse and buggy in charge of the stable boy at one of Ottawa's hostelries. Twenty- five cents was the stable boy's regu- lar tip. Mr. Booth's son, Mr. J. Fred Booth, on the other hand, usually gave the boy fifty cents. The boy decided that a gentle hint to J. R. might be profit- able. So on receipt of his next quar- ter he said, "Your son usually gives me fifty, sir!" "Ah," said Mr. Booth, smiling, " but he has a wealthy father." Spring Market. It's foolish to bring money To any spring wood, Jewels won't help you, Gold's no good. Silver won't buy you One small leaf, You may bring joy here, You may bring grief, You should look for Tufted moss, Marked where a light foot Ran across. Where the old rose hips Shrivel brown And dried clematis • Bloom hangs down. There you'll find what Everyman needs, Wild religion Without any creeds, Green that lifts its Blossoming head, New life springing Among the dead. You needn't bring money To this market place, Or think you can bargain for Wild flower grape. —Louise Driscoll, Worth is by worth in every rank admired. When musing on companions gone, we doubly feel ourselves alone. LONGEST TEAM OF HORSES EVER HARNESSED This wheat train of urine wagons'hauled by forty teams of horses, transported 1,142 httsbels of wheat from Vulcan to Calgary, n.dtstanee.ot 70 miles, in oho feud, awl eetnally'went onto the elevator platforiit and unloaded without unhitching, This team, probably the longest ever harnessed, accompanied by 100 bucking, saddio And peck horses frnnh the Nadeau dlstrict, will trek' to t:atger'y again during the first weeic of July, 1924, lo take part in the Annual Calgary Strunpedo to be held July 7,12 in that city, The trip:Irom Vulcan to Calgary is expected to lake 11boet 'four days. At Calgary the ivbole ntll111 will enceinte south of the love and will parade 'threnge the business streets or the city each morning. The outfit is owned', by Glen Moues of Gleicien, Alta., tine le to be driven by Slim .11um'ehense of Vulcan, a planeer driver at:fro!ght tragus. The lead lcmhi1 will fnllew a straight course atter beteg elarit'd by their driver. Insert--Silm Moorhouse, who drives the forty -horse team. No Time for Fooling. Bird hunting is a serious business with a thoroughbred bird dog --so seri- ous that he will recuse to hunt if the sport is turned to play. 1Ir, Samuel A. Dcrieux, in Animal Personalities, tells a story to the point: I remember once when I was a boy going out with several other boys and taking with us an old LIewellyn setter named Thad. Ties dog started out in. his sturdy lope and soon found us a covey of quell. We all shot on the rise, and we all missed. Then, see- ing that we could not hit quail, we be- gan to shoot at easier game, birds that sat still in trees—laughing and shouting as boys will. Thad stayed with us awhile; then we missed him. Unostentatiously he had withdrawn. from the frivolous party and gone home. An old dog that knows he can do well himself demands that the man who hunts with him shall do well also. An Engllsman tells this story on him- self, and I have no doubt that.similar incidents have occurred frequently. He went out with a pointer that he hall borrowed from a friend who was a crack shot. He himself was a poor shot and missed again and again, and each time the pointer looked at him in bewilderment. Finally the dog set a pheasant right out in an open field and then glanced back at the ap- proaching man as much as to say, "Now, here's a perfectly good open shot, For pity's sake, see it you can do anything this time!" The pheasant rose and flew ori, au easy mark; the man missed twice. Thereupon the pointer sat down on his haunches, raised his nose to high heaven and howled long and dolorous- ly. Then with never another look at the amateur huntsman he turned and trotted home. A Business Man's Ideal. To have endured early (hardships with fortitude, and overcome difficul- ties by perseverance; to have rounded or oleveloped a large business, useful its itself and given employment to many; to have achieved fortune, inde- pendence, position and iuiluence; to have established a character above re- proach; to have accumulated the es- tl•eni, the confidence and the friend- ship of his fellows; to have given largely of money to charity, and of time to citizenship; and to brave gain- ed at ibis of the world, without losing the soul by avarice, or by starving the 110011 late hardnesa-t eay, he wbo than so lived has nobly lived and he should find peace with honor when the shadows begin to lengthen and the evenlegof life draws on. Privilege of the Condemned. Paha—"1 •deer that Charlie Green la going to be marr!04 next. ween." Litre Robert (whose ideas on the subject are 'somewhat conflated -. "The last three days they give him everything to eat he asks for, don't they. Popo?" Cruelty is our meanest crime. No person 10 so '!unpopular as the person who is generally right, Wireless Service for N.W.T, and Yukon, The Dominion Qavernnient, with the objeet of promoting bots Miileienay gad acononly,bo establieleing a eysteut of wireless stations ficin the Yukon and the Arotie coast southward to con' sect with other wireless fir telegraphs io ,syete= at Edmonton. lly that means the heavy cost of maintaining the wird-line M Brltialh Columbia, north of Iiazelton, will be saved and the Dackenzie River valley from Fort Smith earthward, for the tlrst time, will have the benefit of wireless two- way communication with the rest of the world. Last season the first two stations in the aeries, those at Dawson and Mayo, were erected and have eines Runction- ed most satisfactorily. Thie year it is expected that stations at Ed/non- • ton, Simpson, and genteel Island will be completed and operating. This spring, work will be started on the station at Edmonton, which will be the southerly base of the system, and upon thees at Simpson and Herchel Is- land as soon as navigation conditions permit the transportation of material, The Herschel Island station will be the most northerly 1n the system, be- ing situated on the Arctic coast west of the Mackenzie River delta in "lath tude 69 degrees, 85 minutes, longitude 139 degrees west, and material for its erection will be assembled at Van- couver and taken by ship by of Bering sea and the Arctic ocean. The Canadian Corps of Signals, which in- stalled the Dawson and Mayo stations, will also ereot the three new, stations. This work is being carried on under the direction of the North West Ter- ritories and Yukon Branch of the De- partment of the Interior. The approximate distances between the various stations are as follows: Herchel to Dawson, ,385 miles; Daw- son to Mayo, 113 miles Mayo to Simp- son, 468 miles; Simpson. to Edmonton, 655 miles; a total of 1,621 miles. In addition to nerving the needs of the Government authorities and com- mercial interests in the districts indi- cated, the system will also be of great value to those engaged in fur trading and development work in the whole of the western part of the North West Territories and in the Yukon, and it will also assist police supervision and add to the efficiency of the Dominion eleteorotogical Service. The Tiger's Servant. Tigers of the jungle are sometimes accompanied by a jackal that acts as a sort of chela, or servant, to them. It is a common story, says Mr. A. A. Dunbar Brander, in Wild Animals in Central India, that a jackal utters a peculiar cry called "pheal" when in the company of a tiger. The call is probably one of alarm or suspicion. I ono° saw three full-grown tigers walk out abreast into a beat. They Were separated by only a few feet, and a jackal was scampering in and out between the tigers, quite obvious- ly sure of his ground. The jackal is a cheeky, intelligent, • adaptable and insignificant animal; he is useful to the tiger and therefore is in no danger from him. The only jackal I ever heard calling in the presence of a tiger called on becoming aware of my presence, of which the tiger was ignorant. The jackal i5 much alive to his own interests, and one attached to a tiger would have an easy time. The jackal is the only animal that has friendly relations with the tiger, All other ani- mals fear and hate and shun hint, His progress through the jungle tether by night or by day is advertised by the screams of alarm of peafowl and mon- keys and by the cries of all the deer, Ancient Grandeur May Return to Greece. Modern Greece bas a fair chance of regaining some of her ancient grand- eur, according to Henry Morgenthau, who is here en route to the United States, after live months spent in the recently re -born Republic as League of Nations envoy in charge of finding horses for the million and a quarter Greeks who were suddenly repatriated when the Turks routed the Greek army in Anatolia and drove civilians as well as soldiers out of Asia. The new Republic lo firmly estab- lished, according to Mr. 1lforgenthau, and it will never be possible for form- er King George to return to Athens, Likewise, he said, the partisan politi- cal tumult, has quieted down and the four Premiere who held office during the five mouths Ile was in Greece have burled the hatchet for the common good. A Little Error. Patrick had a bad :Meek of that very anoylug ailment, toothahehe, At last he decided he could stand the gnawing pain no longer, and made up Itis mini to have the offending molar. extracted. He walked down the main street of the town, and at last he ranee to a dentist's establishment, outside which hung a sign 'with the words: "Painless extractions." He stopped a passer-by and innuired the meaning of the expression. "Why, it means just what it hays," wan the answer. "That deatist takes teeth out without pain, He went inside, and the tooth was soon out, "Thank you, sir!" said 1'0, as be made for the door: "Thal will be fifty rents." aald the demist, following 11101. "Fifty cents?" eniti Pat, surprised. "Why, it. say's outside the Acer that you tette teeth out Iva -our paylu'l"