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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1925-2-11, Page 71924Waer-Power pcvelopiaent in Cana4a TFli' Minister of the Interior In his :annual statoln9ftt regarding the de• velopmont, d100401on and use of hyaro•elaeIric energy in Canada, re• porta an exceptionally substantial :growth during 1924. More t►tan 300,- 000'horee-pewer of new Installations were added during the year, involving some $45,009,000 le capital expend!. ture and bringing the total installation in the Dominion to a. figure of .8,569,. 275 horse -power, This does not, how - over, give a complete picture of the .situation as many large projects were carried well toward campletion and will when. finished in 1925 bring a fur- ther addition et 600,000 horsepower to the country's total. This indicates remarkable progressand is concrete evidence that the advantages, tobe secured from the development of low- priced and lasting power are being realized and exploited throughout the Dominion in a way that .should pro - ride a decided impetus to industrial development in thenear future. During the pn4 year the First World Power Conference was held in Eng- land and the fact that, including the British Dominions, some 40 countrles participated therein Is significant of the Influence of motive power .In mod- ern life. It bas been stated that the real wealth of any country lies in the capacity of activity economically -justi- fiable and in so far as Canada Is con cetned it Is waterpower that has had possibly the greatest single influence in ' title direction. Practically the whole industrial activity of the Do- minion is based upon power. produced from water and when we consider the output of a single manufactured pro. duct, such as power, or of the produc- tion of Canedten mines which water power lakes posalble, It ie evident that water -power la qualified to share with agriculture the baste role In .our national prosperity,. The year pet ,past gave ample evidence that power .developppent is proceeding apace and that it will become an even greater eontrlbiftor to the real wealth of the Dominlou, A brief review of the prinetpal acts. vittes lndlcatee that work was carried forward to practically every prevince With the projects of largest magnitude In QUebed and Ontario. Quebec led in installations •added during the year with some 175,000 horse•power comprised chiefly in the developments of the - St. Maurice Powerom n e c pa r o m h St,Maurice aurine river, the Norther Canada Power Com. pany on the Quinze river and the Montreal Light, Heat and Power Con- solidated at Its Cedars plant on the St. Lawrence river. There were also num. erous large projects nearing comp's. Con among which may be mentioned, the Duke•Price Power Company de- velopment on the Saguenay river, the Hemming Falls development of the Southern Canada Power Company on the St. Francois river and the Ottawa River Power Company's development on the Ottawa river near Bryson. Ontario came second with some 132,- 000 horse•aower added during the year, most of which was comprised in the work being carried out by the On- tario Hydro -electric Power Commis- sion, notably at Its Queenston-Chlp- pawa development on the Niagara river, the Cameron Falls development on the Niplgon river and smaller de- velopments on the Trent, Muskoka, Beaver, and South rivers, Consider - Able aotiyIt)t also took Place in Ilia Northern (Wattle mining Aeld, the principal now devplopnleut being that of the Hollinger' Cenaolidated Gold Mines, blunted, on the Abitibi river, Other work of oonaiderabie magnitude was completed by the Canadian,Niag, era Power. Company at Niagara Falls and the Backu.. rooks Company at zS enora. In other provinees many activities of importance were also carried on. In Nova Scotia, more than 7,00A •horse- power -Vere added during the year,. chiefly in the development of the Nova Scotia Power Commiesion on the East River Sheet, Harbor. In„ New Brune. rick the New Brunswick Electric Power Commission energetically pur- sued Its studies at Grand Falls on the !. St. John river, In Manitoba the city lof Winnipeg had work in progress which will add considerably to the ca- pacity of its plant on the Winnipeg river. In Alberta, the Canadian Na- tional Parks Branch, Department of the Interior, completed and brought into operation its plant on the Cas. cads river to serve Banff, In British Columbia no new installation was add- ed during 1924 but extensive works were undea way..by the British Colum- bia Electric Railway Company In the Stave Lake region and by the West Kootenay Light and Power Company on the Kootenay river which will be effective in increasing the total instal- lation In nstal-lation'In the province during 1926, In addition to these activities num. erous projects were commenced or are in immediate prospect which should keep abreast of the demand for power and maintain the healthy growth which has existed during the past few years. The Maharajah of Indore One of India's wealthiest and most in. fluentlai princes. White still a mere boy. he was called in 1908 to the throne of the old Mato -ate state, but it was only in 1911 that he was invest- ed with full ruling powers under the name of his highness Tukajt Rao Ma- harajah Balker of Indore. He has been a frequent visitor In Europe and is an,accompllshet7 horseman and ten- nis player. 3n India he is seventh on the list of ruling princes, being en- titled to a salute of nineteen -guns, having 1,150,000 subjects, mostly Hindu, and an annual revenue of $2,000,000. Winter Trees. The trees are not afraid to lay Their lovely sheltering leaves away. 'Tis only little folk who fear TO let their naked souls appear-- Small ppear—Small foik who cannot be at ease Without their small amenities. Before the crisis of the frost, By elemental tempests tossed, The timid spirit meanly cleaves To the dry remnant of its loaves, Nor reads the beauty of the trees' Olean aplritual traceries. Amid the murmur and the stir • Where gossip messengers confer, The fluttering leaves provide a shade And a convenient masquerade So perfect in its shimmering ,sheath It scarcely shows the form beneath, And birds, like thoughts, may harbor there And all the world be unaware. But when the crystal crisis comet, And all but naked truth succumbs; When crookedness 10 not. concealed, And nested secrets are revealed; When, branches bare against the sky Stand out in eimple,dignity— Then let the,ehrinking human heart, That with its sheltering leaves must part, •Renewits ;courage as it sees The hesittite naltedness of trees. • .—Marion Brown Siselton. DYed Silk. It Is reported that, by Injecting byes into silkworm cocoons aFrench man of science has caused the silkworma. to spin colored threads, All alludes, It is said, can taus be obtained, and moreover, the colors will not fade, The experiment, is inter,eating, but whether the Method can be used for commercial purposes is another mat. ter. Injecting dyes into thousands of silkworms one at a time would be a good deal like inoculating all the fleas on a dog with the germs of sleeping sickness, • Speed of Racehorses. Running home with jockeys in the eaddto travel at a rate et almost forty miles ars Boer. How Animals Take Their Night's Rest. Why does a dog usually curl round several times before lying down to. sleep? A scientist states that in all probability the habit is a survival of a time when dogs were jungle animals, and that the proceeding was useful in forming the grass into comfortable resting place. The ways in which animals spend their nights rest are a study that has. been somewhat neglected. Until re. cantly It was thought that the orang- outang aleepe -on its sides, like the champanzee and other apes. The orang-outang,, however, shares with man the distinction of being the only creature to sleep on Its hack. The smaller monkeys sleep on their perch- es, with their fingers tightly closed„ as If they were gripping a branch*. Giraffes sieep with their long necks laid along heir backs. Horned ani- mals, such as dear, sleep with their heads held in the normal position, as when awake. Horses often sleep standing, and many are never known to 11e down at night. Animals wlth short, sturdy legs, such as the pig, the rhinoceros, and the hippopotamus, sleep on their sides, as they cannot bend their legs under them. Bears have no favorite mode of sleeping; you may see them dozing at the Zoo .in all sorts of queer postures, including sitting in a ,corner on their hind legs. The sloth, a species of monkey, Bleeps suspended by all fours from a branch, while the great ant -eater coy; era Its body with its busby tail, so that only its toes are visible. An Aus- tralian'batsleeps hanging by one claw, folding its wings into a kind of tent that is bothlightproofand waterproot. Opium Needs, Medicine requires only 500 tons of opium per 1,000,000,000 people annual- ly. nnually. Rolled stockings been used g by the women of Zagreb in the Croatian hills for centuries. The peasants of this country are dressed in a style which makes them appear like folks in a picture -book lnhd. The waists and skirts of the women areyall white with much red embroidery up and down the front, around the waist and across the apron. Stout white hose with rolled lops and ribbon garters fill in the space between the skirts and moccasin -like slippers of soft leather. Around the head is worn the Slavic Would Like to be Shown, Mr. Justwed—"I love you so much I'd die for yon," His Wlfe-"So you've said before, but you're such a procrastinator I'm afraid you'll never make good." Finding Fish From the Sky. Three flying boats were lent by the Air Ministry to the Department of Scottish Fisheries for five weeks dur- ing last summer. Their task was to see if shoals of herring could be identified from the air, and they surveyed the :fisheries of I the east coast of Scotland from Peter- head eterhead. to Stronaay. Although the experiment was inter- esting, it was not successful. The United States and the French Gevern-• menta had carried out trials of the l• same kind with great success, and the, reports of their pilots were of value: to the trawlers; but in Scotland, owing to bad weather, It was impossible to' obtain useful results. The cause of the failure Is simple enough. During the day the berrings lie deep down, sometimes as much as sixty fathoms, only rising in the even- ing, when the light is bad. Even with n a cloudless sky and a calm 'sea the g ocean bed oft the Scottish coast does not reflect much light:; ANQ, THE 2V,, QR$T IS TET TO CQ14+. it ,41. • f Ili AliorNN** -�� �r Now That I Am Old. Now that•I am old S will sit and rest me In say chair before the hills, I will sit and warm me. At the greening of the Mala; For they have known the first of lite, They will know the last— Still will rest a blessing On the hills when man is past. So I will sit and warm me At the greening of the hills, I will alt and rest me In my chair before the hills, Now that I am old. —Elizabeth Thomas. The Human Finish. If the prophecies of scientists are fulfilled, then in a thousand and eighty years sthe human race will have :changed into a type of animal much inferior to the highest order of alas, and jusea trifle superior to the lowest type of savage. The process of degeneration has been steadily proceeding for the last thousand years. gash generation has had less hair than the generation pre- ceding it, and to -day, as Is evident, baldness among men is the rule. Once it was a phenomenal exception. Within the next hree hundred years the hu- man race may be hairless! Teeth are going rapidly. The exact proportion of those with artificial mo - tars Is unknown, but it must be very high. Wisdom teeth now 5011 to come at all in many cases, and when they do appear they are very late. Our jaws are much Smaller, and even if, as is the case, our skulls are arger, that holds no comfort. Large leads do not Indicate better brains. Our eyes are going, goin; and In time will be gone. Seventy per cent. of the population, so it has been esti- mated, wear glasses. Our ears, however, are all right, and hearing: is one of the senses which has ot deteriorated. But that is not a ood sign. All animals have a very tighly developed hearing power! Stature has noticeably decreased. If there should be another war, there would have to be another revision, downwards, of the minimum height for The -Unknown. Color. I've often heard my mother" say, Wheu great winds blew across the bay, And, cuddled close and out ofsight, The young pigs squealed• with sudden. 0 fright Like something speared or javellned, "Poor little pigs, they see the wind." Countee Cullen. a Well, But Did He? t Sweet Young Thing (coming in with k attentive partner from room where a hard bridge match has been in pro- gress)—"Oh, mother, I've just cap- tured the booby!' Mother -"Well, well! come here So the end of the human race, as mans, is assured unless—well, the my salvation for the race, so the dentists say, 1s to cease eating cook - foods! So, even if the matter Is not person- lly urgent, all who wish to provide heir quota to the saving of humanity now now what to do! Industry Employs Many. shawl. and kiss me, both of you." Roman 'Britain. There are in Britain many splendld monuments to the genius of another people, versed in the art of empire, building, and who at one time held away over the whole of the known world. This year, however, has been an eventful one for the students of Ro- man remains in Britain, and the re- cent discoveries have awakened wide- spread Interest in the relics of the Roman occupation. Several valuable ands have been made at Folkestone, where two Ro- man villas are being. excavated. Traces of the Romans.. have been found at Yeovil and Margidunum, a fort midway between Leiceeter and Lincoln, has been explored. But perhaps the most significant elgn of reawakened interest is the de - clean by which the Wall of Hadrian has been scheduled as a national monument and taken under the care of the Board of Works. Long centuries have passed since the Emperor Hadrian spent a year in Britain, arranging for the wall from the Solway to the mouth et the Tyne which was to keep the Northern bar- barians from the fertile lands under Roman rule. But the great wall still defies wind and weather on the lonely moorlands, and, but for the temptation it has always offered to builders in the more populous districts, it might have been practically intact throughout its whole length to -day. Nature's Night -Club. People often wonder whether plants and flowers really sleep. They do; some a night, others during the day - me, When a flower sleeps it closes its petals; when a plant sleeps the leaves droop and IN closer together for warmth. Flowers that sleep by day are wide awake during the hours from dusk to early dawn, when the moths sip their` honey, and in return carry pollen from; one blossom to another. I ,There are some ewers that. although' they aleep during the night, seem able io doze when a storm threatens din, -1 Ing the day. If they do not close their petals and slip off into a, light sleep when a shower came the honey would be washed away, the pollen would be ren -1 dared useless. and the velvety petals,! whleh attract the bee in the first, place, would be drenched and drag:: gled- Leaves of evergreens do not droop when they sleep because they have a' tougher skin, and in many cases a shiny one, and do not require extra warmth when asleep. There are some Owers---t:he Crocus, or instance, that sleep not only at night, but all the ~-inter under the ground, in the form of a bulb. Ail early spring 'flowers. too, are ape. dally hardy, and most of them are protected.by a tough sheath round the bud, which only Musts when the sun la strong enough to kiss the sleeping beauty into lite, 0 The building industry employs near- f ly one fourth of all the skilled and un- skilled labor in the United States. One of the fishing boats on the estate with ice as she lay in her tomo port. A Pecpliarfish, Lying lhpp and dry pa a dshnton' ;er's'slab; the hurbot is perhaps the least interesting of fish. Wheu swim- ming in an artificial Mea, 9r, Wing on the sandy buttons, lt•la the moat at' t... ,x tractjye ot all mock ocean, and,iwbethsr at rest oens of r A tbpuaand miles westward. treat in motion, has an air of vigilance, vi- the coast of China the Yaligtzo River, vacitY and intelligence greater ,than which In Chinese means "The Child that of any normally shaped lash. Phis of the Ocean," in Its passage through N in part due to his habits and in part the outer rim of Central .Asia's moue. to the expression of the at fish's eye. tain system has carved, In surpassing This, which is Munk and invisible in beauty and majestie grandeur, the Ave the dead fish, is raised on a triad of gorgea of the upper Yangtze, rightly turret in the living turbot, or sole, andcalled the gateways to West China, set there in a half revolving appar• I They stretch from Ichang, until re, atua, working almost as independently I contly the head of steam navigation, as the "ball and socket" eyes of the to Kwelchow, a distance of 126 miles, chameleon. There 19 dile difference,! The traveler is prompted to call however, in the eye of the lizard and ! "Hats off i'' as he sails between these of the fish --their la of the chameleon massive walls, crowned with cathedral is a mere pinhole at the top of the eye. domes that companion with tate clouds, ball, which is thus absolutely without and hie admiration lamingled with expression. I awe of the river, with its succession The turbot's eyes are bleak and of rapids and treacherous whirlpools geld, and intensely bright, with none that take heavy toll of life and mer - 05 the fixed, staring, stupid appear- chandlse from those who enter, thus anco of ordinary fishes' eyes; 'It ilea creating the tradition that only the upon the sand and jerks its eyes in,, hardy and the favored of the gods peas dependently into position to surveythrough, says the National Geographic any part of the grouud surface and Magazine. the water above or that on either side Such is the entrance to the country at any angle. which the first Western traveler, Mar - It ft had light rays to project from 00 Polo, who visited that country in Its eyes instead of to receive, the et- the thirteenth century, described as fact would be precisely that made by a cultivated garden with great cities, the sudden shifting of, the pointed ap- and a recent visitor calls "Sze•chuan uaratus which casts the electric light the Beautiful, the richest and most from a warship at any angle on the populous and altogether the moat pie sea, sky or horizon, turesque part of China," The turbots, though ready, graceful 600 Mlles Par Month. swimmers, moving in wavelike undu- For many centuries and until yester- lations ac1•es13 the water, or dashing day, the journey from Ichang to off like a flash when so disposed, us- Chungking, a distance of 600 miles, ually lie perfectly still upon the bot required fully a month and sometimes tom. They do not, like the flounders, two. cover themselves with sand, for they It was made by native junk, pulled mimic the color of the ground with along after the manner of the old-tas- such absolute fidelity that, except for hioned canal boat, but instead of the the shining eye, it le almost impossible towpath mule, by a crew of twenty to to distinguish them. sixty men tugging at the shore end of It would appear that volition plays a bamboo hawser sometimes fully one. some part in this subtle conformity to hall mile in length. environment, for one turbot, which le The task of these trackers is most blind, has changed a tint too light, arduous and beset with constant dam not at all in harmony with that of ger• the sand. Sometimes they are seen scramb- ling over rocks and boulders upon —"" which It would seem impossible for Can Chlorine Cure Colds? men to travel; next we see them cling- Can colds and influenza be cured by int to the aides of precipitous califs, the simple process of inhaling chlor- where a slip coats a limb or a life; Ina? America's new treatment for and again set on all fours, gripping colds is said to be as easy as, but fast to rock or shore, while the crew much more pleasant than, having a aboard the boat plies it obliquely Into tooth extracted or one's hair out. and up the stream by the bow -,sweep You simply enter a "gaschamber" set against the onrushing current; (comfortable 'lounge) into which is then plunging forward under the lash pumped chlorine, and. while you read of the fu-teo to gain headway as the an illustrated magazine the sneezing boat is released and swings shore- ward. To -day, dynamite is blasting a safer course, and fourteen -knot steamers make the journey In forty steaming hours. The devils of the waters, as these rivermen will believe, have won their victories also, for a large German com- mercial steamer lies buried in 120 feet of water at the entrance to one of the gorges. East Disappearing Ohl Chinese bogs ceases from troubling and the cure is I complete. Five cents worth of chlorine 11s said to be sufficient to cure seven or 1 eight people. - President Coolidge le reported to have been cured in this way and in the course of a test at Washington it is claimed that 75 per cent. were cured immediately - British medical men are unmoved by :his "sensational discovery" Dr, Cox, secretary of the British Medical —!'� Association, mulled somewhat scepti- s of the Fan. caizy- 4. story of the origin of the lantern "There is'a certain amount of truth and the fan, as told In Japan, con - In it" he said, "but it is grossly ex- corns a Public official who had two aggerated. The eauacity of the pub- beautiful daughters. As the story Ile to be taken In by this sort of thing goes, the girls, who were the treas- Is simply amazing. ures of the father's heart, longed to "There is no universal cure for pay a visit to a friend in another city. these germ diseases, and anyone who The father, however, was unwilling has the idea that chlorine can do all for them to go, as he feared some that these people claim for it is under young man of high degree would win a delusion. their love and thus take them from "The treatment of inhaling gases is him. In reply to their entreaties the very old, and has been tried by medi- father told them they could go pro. cal men for. different purposes. I do riding they promised to bring back to not know that chlorine has been used hien fire wrapped in paper and wind particularly until recently, but it Is' wrapped in air. no more certain to kill the germs than The girls did not know what to do. a great many other things. They were in despair until one o: their maids told them not to worry, but go and consult a certain wise wo- man who lived near the home of the the profession by storm, either here friend whom they were to visit. Af- or in other parts of the world." ter promising their father they would fulfil his wishes they set out for the "This treatment has been known to. medical men here for some months, but it does not appear to have tak Forbidden Word Game. A little party of young persons can have a lot ot fun playing a little game friend's home. The father was great- ly surprised when, upon their return. the daughters presented him with fire inclosed In a beautifully designed known sa "Forbidden Words." It is paper lantern and wind In a quaint better used as a forfeit game, brit shaped paper fan. Thus, it is said, ac - works equally ii ell as an "It" game, cording to a story printed in the Path - older one word, 1t you are finder, the lantern and fan Dame into older make 1t two words, and this use. word, or these two words, unci hot — be used by anyoue for a Certain length Black Wins. of time. He was a very cautious, middle-aged Suppose you select the word "You," wooer, and, with certain reservations, The first person to use the word "You" he had bestowed his affections on the must pay a forfeit or he "It," and then minister's cook. ry to catch some other member of the , He had satisfied himself as to her arty. I suitability in all respects with the ex - "You" is a very good word for the caption et 000 important point. He purpose, because it is slsed so 1'et•y,of-i felt that the questions of "Miler" must en. I be definitely fixed up before he went One very funny way to play thin' further. game is to make all players who bed bluntly asking her how well off oma "55" go and stand in a corner or she was, his prospective fiancee oast it oe n Settee to be known as the It Seat," Among a group of jolly persons this ams is very funny - A Plain Talk, Robert Browning said:. "I count Life jute a staff to try the soul's strength on." What did he mean :13e meant C tllatufe is not just something to play s with, something to juggle with, It's " a much bigger business than that. Life is a training ground, where a man g makea hlmnelf alt to run Life's hig tare nal conte in a winner•. And what. constitutes a winner 15 Llfe',s race. Money? Fante? Honor? IN Pleasure?, . These have a place, but if they cone in flret, any one of theta; T Life's rare Is lost --for you. If the man himself hoes not pass' the win- FI Ing post that, with leis head up, his krait light, his eye steer, Life's rare hes gone to a rank Oulsitler. Many a man who has made money and polt lion is only en Also Ran In the eyes of el the Jhdge. The men who is not Cap. t NM of his Soul fa only a emelt in Life'a handicap, That 1s what the 'h poet meant, and lie was right!. ft a chill over his expeetatiens by ad- mitting that she had little of title world's goods. But alfa told hint that , she had a rich uncle, from whom she had expectations. Epitaph for Joseph Conrad. "Aweal, Jean,' remarked the gentle. ot of the dust, but of the wave His final couch should be; hey Ile not away in a grave Who once have known the sea. man, who, by the way, Came from Scotland, "we'll just say nae malt- about alrabout It the neo. Bet ye ,sten me feelin'e if a black -edged letter comes," ow shall eartb'e meagre bed enthrall' Brush for Engine The hardiest aeatnan of thein all? i paint. Countee P, Cullen, A thick and soft paainter's brush Is Camphorated oil applied on a soft oth will !'amore inarka on a polished able caused by hot dishes' and plates. When choosing apples take the eavieat a10s. Thq will be the beet preferable to waste for Ilse in remov Ing dust front the einglne. 0- A. record catch of codfish in Nor- wegian waters his Suet been made by a Fian dsh trawler. One cast of the purse -net resulted! in n haul of seventy-seven tons.