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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1925-3-18, Page 7NORTHERN PLAINS -OF ,TE. -DOMINION INDIAN NAME SIGNIFIES "COUNTRY WITHOUT TREES.". Investigations by Topographi- cal Survey Reveal Unsuit- ability of Name "Barren Lands,r" There bits been a growing interest in recent years in the vest little-known stretches of Northern Canada wlilch has extended to the open country be- yond the timberline, In narratives 'and reports of travellers and explorers, they have been given the nume "Bar- ren Lunds" which originated Iry the In ilia]) name meaning "a country with- out trees:," The interpretation is Un- fortunate and a misnomer 'tutees pail - ped by a sterile' soil or a climate, pro- hibiting the growth of vegetation. The word "barren" Is au uneomproinleing one. Actually there is an arca lying between the timberline'•andtide-water in the Arctic ocean and, Hutton Bay of about 600,000 spore miles,er near- ly one-seventh or -the total of the Do- minion, in addition to the -great islands of the Arctic and a portion of northern Quebec, le Name Justified? i. The extent_ of country involved makes the .question en important one worthy of serious attention. As an approach to tho subject a survey of available records might be made to, determine if tiro name "Barren Lands"; is justified. If it Is not found to be justified a more suitable. one should' be selected, i The interpretation got the Indians name "De-ehiu 11 -le" (no : trees) as! „Barren Grounds" was made by Sam -1, eel Ilearue, who conducted in 1770-71 the first exploration into the country,' FIis course to a large extent, however,' held to the edge of the forests and he' only left this to make his dash north' to the Coppernilne and also when ap-1 preaching I3udson Bay. Moreover, he t travelled the open country at unfavor- able seasons. Ills name of "Barren; Grounds," therefore, may be taken as a carelesstranslation rather than a t description. however, the name did ! carry an important idea affecting tra-I vel through the country by describing' tts lack of timber and fuel. Re•Examination Begun. A re-examination of the country has been begun by the Topographical Sur- vey of Canada. The country so far examined is not barren. Its vegetation is restricted and it has a severe -Climate with ex- aggerated extremes but its hills are well clothed in shrubs, mosses, and lichens, and in ata valleys especially proceeding towards the coastal plains there aro great stretches of pasture land . Its animal life is abundant though strongly migratory, adapting 17 - self thereby to the conditions of abun- dant food at season and a severe climate at another. The country pro- vides amply dor the essential require- meute of lite In its animals and the waters . of Ito lakes and Severs are abundantly stocked with fish. It bas also been found that the geological situatien is favorable tor the occur- rence of minerals. Nature's Hair Springs. Does one's hair really "stand on end" with fright? Each 'individual hair has a tiny mode at its root, which, in the or- dinary way, keeps the hair at and in Position. The :sensation of fright, however, transmits a message frons the broth to these muscles, with the result that they, pull tight, causing tine feeling that the hairs are standing bolt up- right. In short -haired animals, especially, these hair muscles are easily. affected. The hair stands eu end at the slight- est sign of danger, ,enabling the ani- mals to appear larger than they •really ere, and thus ---sometimes, at least— frighten their .enemies. A Laughing Plant. A naturalist recently returned Irons Arable has described to a learned so- ciety a plant called the "laughing Cac- tus." The plant gets its name from the fact that anyone eating its seed give way for some minutes afterwards to immoderate laughter, frequently ending in nervous prostration. The natives of the district in which the plant flourishes, dry the seeds and • grind them intopowder, which they keep, and on suitable Occasions admin. liter to those.against whom they have a real or fancied grievance. An overdose iney result ie tempor- ary loss of reason, following which the victim falls into a deep sleep, awakening with no memory of his curious conduct. Irritable husband (to wife driving a nail) : "However do you expect to knock a nail in the Wall with a clothes brush? For goodness' sake ,'go your head, dor!" Itilrely: memorizing facts will not help you mush. You trust analyze them, meditate on them, weigh them, Facts, like food, must be digeCted, 'The bone frame of an Average whale weighs about forty-five tons. ONTARIO mproverent Are Your Cows Earning Their YCeep? Listen; Albert , on the 2nd Concession in Grant Township; owned a Scrub Bull in 1911. Re delivered to the cheese factory that year 44,228 pounds of milk. He bought a good Pere Bred Sire and from the first crass produced 14 of his presentcows and six of his present milking heifers. From the same number of cows as in r 1911, last year he delivered 152,605 pounds of milk, Eight years of crossing with a Pure Bred Sire made a difference of 148,337 the, of .milk in his herd, Don't keep unprofitable producers. BUY A GOOD BULL Surnames and Their Origin GRAHAM Var'iation.e—Grahame, Graeme, Mac - Grime, Source—Doubtful. i The family name et Graham is one frequently mot with, but not one easy. to trace. to Its origin. It is deservedly , classed as. Scottish because It le the name of one of the most powerful of the Highland clans, the name of which in Gaelic Is _"Na Greuntaich," Thus, it will be obeervod, the spelling et "Greame" is more nearly correct, in the sense that it le a closer approxi,. motion of the old Gaelic form. But though the vast majority of the blood in the clan may be Gaelic, the name is admitted even in the High- lands to have come originally from some Lowland source. But what? It's more or less a mystery. The clan- U•adltion has it that the name traces back to one "Gramm," who demolished the Iine of defenses built under the orders of the Roman Emperor Antoninas between the Clyde and the Forth. It is certain that such a wall did exist, and that it was known at a later date as "Graeme's Dyke," But whether the place name was de- rived from the man's name, or whether the founder of the clan merely came from that locality is a matter which.' has not been cleared up. There is a word root in the Teutonic tongues from which a given name might have been, derived that in turn may have been the source et the clan name. 'It Is "grim." But there are a,'so the forms "gram" and "gruaim" in the Cel- tic tongues. Historical records, however, indicate a Teutonic origin of the clan name, through tate Norman, tor the first au- thentic record of any bearing the name was in the reign of King David 7., . in 1123, when one "William de Graham" was a witness at the oharter- ing et Holyrood Abbey- It is only af- ter t11is date that there is any record of the Grahame holding land in the Slighlands. STANFORD. Variations—Stanley, Stanleigh, Stan. field, Stanton, Stainton, Stanlaw. Rectal Origln—Anglo-Saxon. ' Source—Localities, Isere Is another group of -Anglo- Saxon place names which have be - Come family names, The foregoing variations, however, are by no means inclusive of all the "stan" names. There are as many variations of "sten" in English names, It seems, a5 there are variations of "Smith," per. haps more, though there are not o 'many families bearing them. The "start" or "'stain" in these nares is simply the Anglo-Saxon for "stone." Thus the family name of Stanford has simply been derived from a place, which, if we were nam- ing it to -day, we'd probably call "S Loney -Ford. " Stanleigh and Stanley, when the latter isnot an Anglicized form of the Polish given name of Stanislaw•s or Stanlslaus, meant originally a stoney. meadowland. ' Stanfield is easily seen as stoney field. The "ton" in Stanton is the old Anglo-Saxon "tun;' from which aur word "town" has come. It meant' an enclosure. • .Finally,.Stanlaw Comes from "stan" and "laws." "lower' or "toe," which, to Cm Anglo-Saxon, signified a small hill. Later at the period when family names began to form, names of towns and places such as these were used to designate persons who formerly lived in them—not those who lived In them at the time, for in that case the name would lose its value as an iden- tification, for there would be no reason why it should be borne by one resi- dent any more than another, WHAT ARE THE LOW MBE LENGTHS? We see a great deal in the news- papers and radio magazines nowadays about the broadcasting that is being conducted on low wave lengths or short wave lengths. Usually the first thing that puzzles the beginner is this question of wave length. It is most unfortunate that we ever started referring to trans- mission as being done on a certain wave length; we should Pram the very start have spoken of its frequency. In the ole days wo used to think that energy was sent through space in the form of waves. The latest view of science; however, takes the view- point that it is not a series of waves but is really a series of pulsations' much like the pulsations going through our blood vessels; in fact, the most advanced scientists claim that the energy we receive does not go even in the form of pulses but in the form of actual infinitesimal particles of matter, Let ns suppose that a long line of men Is passing a given point, We are standing on a street corner as they go by single file. Men walking at a good smart. face will cover about 330 feet In one min- ute. Let its assume that these man are spaced about threw feet apart. It they are walking at the rate of 330 feet a minute and about three feet apart, we can easily calculate that there will be 110 men pass us in each minute. That 110.16 the "frequency" of this parade. The space between' themen to analogous to wave length. -. In the french system of measure• rnent, they have at standard -vhiclt they call the meter and all of their mea- surements are made In meters o1' in decimal divisions 01 lnultipIlCatlpn of the meter. The meter is just a trifle over three feet, Now let us hurry' our parade along. We start wlih the parade going •330 feet n minute with a frequency of 110. Let us keep on epeeding lip and speeding up until we reach the tre. standees speed at which radio waves travel. This is too groat to be talked about in minutes tied has to be out. down to seconds because in ono single second a radio ray will travel 186,000 1111)08. - Tide 18 an amazing speed but it has been definitely proved that radio waves go that fast. One hundred and olghty-elx thous- and miles per second is 300,000,000 meters, Assuming that the then are also travelling -at title tlentendone spend of 800,000,000 meters a second, wo will find 'that 300,000,000 lnon will pees us every seeoed, This is what would happen if a broadcasting station were transmit- ting ona wave length of ono meter. There would be 300,000,000 separate pulses of- energy strike our receiving antenna every second. Broadcasting has not yet been done on such a very low wave length. But science will some day do it: The shortwave broadcasting that is on at the present time is mostly some- where in the neighborhood of 100 meters. That means that there are 3,000,000 pulses of energy shot out from the transmitting aerial every second Writing Sisorthaud on Wax. Protecting Others to Help ])loot peop)e imagine thatsbol'than4 Oneself, .° fa ea eutoaele eif ntadern 00mmercial life, yet it la really at least 2,0QQ years ald. War correspondents with Cueser'a arIpien practlaed the .art. whhcit wee' developed about fifty yeare. before the Christian era under the patronage of Cicero, the great Roman lawyer and orator. One of Cicero's freed men, Tellies Tiro, evolved an ezcelleut sys- tem whielt wee taught' In the Bonlan seboont-in addition to ordinary long- hand. Going t0 the law courts, a magnifi- cent building ie. the .centre of ancient Rome,, a noble was eccolupanied by a number of slaves or "notaries," who recorded the evidence of witrteeses and the speeches of great mien, New shorthand characters were added, and the philosopher Seneca coll8`eted them and found they were over 6,000 in num. her. The famous Stole lectures were taken down verbatim, and altos' the collapse of the Roman Empire the early Christians employed shorthand extensively. Able to keep pace with the fastest' epeaJlers, these early reporter's have left examples of their skill in the arc- hives of the first Churclt Councils, and so important was their work consider. ed that St. Cyprlan devoted numb thee to perfection of the system in use. Further development took place in the sixteenth century under the Protest- ant teachers, and many crude at- tempts were made before Pitman. in- troduced his famous system in 1837. Still to be seen In the National Library is a series of wax-eoverod stone tablets which are probably the oldest record, of the stenographer's art. The porlod between the time when one impulsestrikesour antenna and the time wben the next one strikes it is what is known as a cycle. 'There- fore we would say that this broadcast - Ing is 3,000,000 cycles. And, as long as we' are talking in terms of French measuring units, we use one of their terms which is kilocycle and this merely means 1000 cycles. Therefore, 3,000.000 cycles would be 3000 kilocycles. Divide thls number into the speed -300,000,000 meters --1 'and the result will be the wave length on which the broadcasting is being done. You can see from this explanation that the wave length has nothing 'what- ever to do with the distance over which the ray travels. The wave length is purely a matter of the speed at which the ray's travel and the num- ber of separate Impulses sent out every second. It is not worth while to build a re- ceiving set to get these low wave lengths. Sucit receivers are extremely diflibult to build and extremely ,dint - milt to operate and, after you learn to build and operate them you and that the quality of transmission below 100 meters is not nearly so good se the Gudlity on the 'normal wave lengths of the broadcasting stations, • Injunction.Against Imitator of Salada Label The filechequer Court of Canada ren- dered judgment on February 18th lust In favor at the Salada Tea Company by !seeing an injunction against an- other tea fires restraining them from using 'a label which reeembiod closely that used on packages of Salada Tea, The defendant company was else or- dered to destroyali copies and designs. bate Palm i48 Years' Old, The oldest date paha In the United States \vas planted near San Diego by the Spanish missionary, Junipere Ser- ra in 1770, GOOD NEWS FOR RHEUMATIC PEOPLE Now Known That This Trouble Must be Treated Through the Blood. The most a rheumatic sufferer, ean hope for 111 rubbing something on the tender, aching joint is a little relief. No lotion or liniment ever did or ever can do more than this. The rheumatic poison la rooted In the blood. To,get rid of it you must' treat it through the blood, Any doctor will tell you that this is true. If you want something that will go right to the root of the trouble in the blood, take Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills. The whole mission of this medicine is to purify and -en- rich the blood, and when they do this all blood troubles, including rheuma- tism, disappear. Among those who bave proved the value of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills is Mrs. Annie Wright, Woolchester, Alta., who says: "I was a sufferer from rheumatism for six years, and during most of that tiine my, life was one of misery. I tried several doctors, and many remedies recommended, but never got more than temporary relief- The trouble seemed to affect my whole system and I was badly 'rundown and suffered from headaches as well. Finally I was advised to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and through these I found corn- piete reiie1 and to -day I feel like a new person. I'can therefore strongly recommend' Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to anyone suffering as I did from this trouble." You can get these pills from ally medicine dealer, or by mail nt 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine CO., Brockville, Ont. Where Most Seen- "America is characterized by big- ness." "Yes --very noticeable in the swelled heads." Broadcasting a Pin -fall. A pin was dropped on a desk by Dr. Gana Dunn 01 tbe course of his address at the dedication of the new buildings of the National Academy of 'Sctenoes and the National Research Council in Waslitegton, That pin -fail was perhaps the most significant nud widely heard of any in history, Without being warned to silence, every person in the high - domed, wide -winged hall beard the pin as it struck the woodwork. Thousands of wireless listeners, hundreds 01 miles away, else heard. Specially designed artificial stone walls made tbe sound clear, distinct, and without those hollow echoaa which characterize old high -vaulted builds dugs, That pin -fall sounded an en- gineering triumph In the long -neglect- ed science of acoustics,. Disocries eaaaot'be ciu'bea unions every one of ua le deeoat en0ngh to do 1116 part to safeguard others. Andthe egmmon. cold Ia saslly the, wont mai- Ads' we have. The averse° 1fezeon has aeveritl aoldd a year. Ile feels wretched. His work augers. }'rob. ably be'a eoud10( to the house a few dwys. Rationally the thing 1n0unte up 1nt0 0 tremendous economic. lose. We are conrtanty being altaellod by germs. Whether wo are able to bold them in check depends largely on 0111 powers of bodily reslstanee. Plenty of sleep; moderation in eating; regu- lar exercise and lots of.freslt ail; all Swim help. BABY'S OWN TABLETS if you'd like a little better tea than you are using, please try °Red Rose" DROSS EA @� goodtea 80 The same good tea for 30 years. Try it! How Indians Compute Time. The Menem bave months in their year very much the mune as white men do, only they eall their months sMoons. The word "we" In In means "moon." Thus they have: 1. January • - We -ter -i - "The hard FREE CATALOGUE. WAYS S IS TEE Y1E dian Classified Advertisements REMNANTS, ARGAI,N PARCEL, 02; 6 LBS. -A." Patches, a2. 14feCreery, Chatham. Ontario. Once a mother has used Baby's Own , moon: ' Tablets for tier little ones she will use 2. tubers' We•ca-ta-we - "Tire nothing else and as long ns there are rnccooa moan." babies in the lime you will always 3. March .M i9es.tu•wo•ea•ya•za•wo - find a box of Baby's Own' Tablets 011 •'Sore• It' moan:" band, - Thousands of mothers have be- 4. April'- M1ia-gu•o•ku•do•we "Tia eonle convinced through the actual use moon In which le weld geese lay 1 of the Tablets that there is nothing to eggs.' Also saile"d Wo -ca da -we, and equal them in banieblpg constipation 11100 tineas 1i'etreaa•po•we --- "Tho and, indigestion; breaking up colds moon when the streams are navigable and simple fevers; expelling worms again. and promoting that healthful refresh -1 mo• ay-0'a-ju-pe•we-=The hating Ing sleep so' necessary to the welfare • of little •ones. Among :he tbousands I 0. June - Wa-jus-te-ca-ea-we - "The of mothers who praise. Baby's Own moon wben the -strawberries are ripe."; Tablets is Mrs. Alex. T. Perry, Atlan-1 7, July--Ce-pa.ea-we, or Wasu-pa ti•e— Own Tablets in the house as I "The moon when the cbokecber. i tic, N.S., who says: -'-"I ,always keep j ries are ripe,". 01' "Tia moon when the Babya " know of no other:medicine that can geese shed their feathers.1 equal them for the minor ills that I nsoon. August---A•su-to-"The-"Tbeharvest come to young children." The Tab- lets are sold by medicine dealers or i 0. September -- Psinh-na-ke-tu-we - i by mail at 26o a. box from The Dr. j The moon when the rice is laid up Williams' - Medicine Co., Brockville, t0 thy." Ont. 10. O tober---We-we-in-pe.or \az u- 1 pe -we -"The rice drying moon." Over Sixt Waysto Serve 11. November Ta-ke-u ra-we-- ^The Sixtyi deer -killing moon." Cheese. . 12. December — Ts-he-ca-psu•we That Canada will soon take its place "The deer moos." with the nations that are the largest Most Indians add one moon to every consumers of cheese seems assured'tw'elve, which they call the "lost considering the steady increase in its 111100])." A day in Indian time, you consumption in the past few years j know', is a "sleep," and a half a day, since the Kraft•MacLaren Cheese Com- mid -noon, which is told by pointing to pang, of Montreal, introduced the five t the sky over one's head, pound box. The Kraft Company were Indians say when the moon is full the originators of the popular tinfoil- that bad spirits begin nibbling at it to wrapped cheese, without rind or waste, fput,out the light, and eat a portion in :the five pound wooden box, and: eac whlle the original product has had d, anti] it is ll enTh the Great aySpirit, whoawillgnote. allow many' imitators none bave been able 10 1118 bad spirits to go about the earth produce a cheese of the same uniform i in the dark, doing mischief, makes a quality and flavor because the Kraftl naw moon, and works on it every night process is protected by patents. The t until it is full, when he goes away Company does not make cheese, there -i tired, and leaves it to sleep. Yore, it is not competing with the No sooner is be gone to sleep than cheese factories. But 1t purchases the ball spirits Como back and begin Canadian cheese In enormous quanta- t eating It up again. ties, thus keeping the cheese factories; The bad spirits, the Indians say, do busy and adding to their prosperity all their evil deeds in the dark of the moon, and they think that Is a good and that of the farmers. Kraft Cheese time to go upon prowling and stealing Is simply a scientific blending of these manufactured cheeses by means of the I expeditions. patented Kraft process which abate will not start generally on the lately controls the Savor. ; war -path in the dark of a moon, but The Company has just issued a; wait so as to arrive in the hostile beautiful recipe book showing over 60: country wben the moon be full. different ways in which cheese may! Many Indiana think the moon is a be served. Many of the dishes are female, and the sun a male, and that illustrated in natural colors. A copy : they are married. The moon helps may be obtained, free, on writing to her husband, the sun, to light the the company in Montreal, mentionlug ! world and, when the moon is dark, or! this paper. •does not shine she has gone to stay with her husband. wil:iam, aged six, was very fond of Remit by Dominion Express looney attending the movies, while Robert,; Order- If lost or stolen you get your aged four, thought this form of enter -I money back. tainment a great bore. One day they - were overheard discussing their fav-• Nothing, in truth, has such a tend - mite pastimes. William bad advanced' envy to weaken not only the powers many telling arguments, and while he' of invention, but the intellectual pow - was trying to think of one more to ers in general, as a habit of extensive cotnp:ete his triumph, Robert remark and various reading without reflec-' ed disdainfully; "I don't care) Sunday tion. Dugald Stewart. school's a lot more fun, and it only costs a penny." i For Sore Throat Use Mlnard'sLiniment' Of the total area of Canada, 050,000 square miles (approximately ene-I quarter of the whose) is forest land.' Leas than half of this carries timber' of merchantable size (0 inches in die-! meter) at the present title, and only , about one-quarter carries saw sea- 'lcrial (10 inches in diameter). Minard's 1.).Mt lent for Canis, Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for anana Headache Pain Toothache Neuritis Colds Neuralgia Lumbago Rheumatism Accept coney "Bayer" package which contains proven directions. handy " RR}er" Nixes of 12 tablets. Also bottles of 14 and 7110--Beeesists, IV-clrin in the trade ])tart: fro(1lelorerl in 1;1n0,la1 of )layer ifnnntverpro r,t ytnnnsenite• t.r nter of e1eneld a9ie Add,the •A. a. wmta II Is well hst Asp[rinm109ns n10m00(0,o rbl' Imitations, tee ,1151 5 nnyer Oowpttn, Y011 be gi81edwith their general trade mirk, "hnSM' Oros." p ASPBERRY IIUSIIES, GLAD- lolas, Iris, Peony, Fancy Dahlias and 'iarred Rock Egge. The Wright harm, Brockville, Ont, WANTED. caTONE INDIAN RELICS. H. A. VanWhnekel, 1899 Lansdowne Doing Without the Sun. Recent experiments for the purpose of curing hay that is green, wet,. or both, have ,shown that the farmer is not necessarily dependent upon the whims of -the weather for the success of his haying operations. The wet hay is stacked around a tune -shaped wooden framework. Then hot air from a furnace is driven through It by means of a fan or blow- er from a farm tractor, With the air heated to atempera- ture ela m e - P ture of from thirty to sixty degrees above that of the outside atmosphere, a twenty -five -ton stack of wet, green hay can bo cured to eight hours, BOILS oils will spread if unchecked. 1611 Minaret's disinfects, relieves the pain and heals. Always keep Mlnard's handy. ECLEM DN FACE 2 YEARS itched and Burned, Scaled Off, Cuticura Healed, I was affected with eczema which broke out on my face in a rash and itched and burned and then scaled off. It caused much discomfort. I had the trouble two or three years. I began using Cuticura Soap andOint- ment and they gave re- lief, and after using three cakes of Cuticura Soap and ane box of Cu. ticura Ointment I was healed, in about four months." (Signed) Mrs. Fred Salisbury, Norton, New Brunswick, August 23, 1023. Wee Cuticura for every -day toilet purposes. Bathe with Soap, soothe with Ointment, dust with Talcum. sample Ecol Free by 2,14.0. Addree, Canndl,aa u e:toor.,tmener5dauid106,]nn, P' oTrLycour new Sbvtag. Stick: . FOR JOY OF GOOD HEALTH Manitoba Woman Thanks L Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege• - table Compound t , Crandall, Manitoba.—" When 3 was a young girl atbome and working I had terrible pains, almost more than I could - bear, and I was not tegular. These troubles kept me so tired all the time that I had no strength and no ambition to join in with my friends and have a good time. I was just tired and miser- able always and life just seemed as if it wasn't worth living. I saw so much in the papers about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and then I had a friend who had taken it and told me about it, so I got some. Every month after taking it I got stronger aed I soon did not suffer every month. It stopped the pains and helped me other ways -I Then when my babies were coming I was tired and worn out the first three months and ached badly. I took the Vegetable. Compound right along and must say it made a new woman of me and able to do my work, and it helped me through: confinement. You see I ant a farmer's)' wife with a big house to look after, and: three babies now, I' have told ever se ' ntanywomen about your medicine. Just last week I got a letter from my old' chum in the East, Her baby was born fifteen days before mine and she told me she Was not feeling very well her back aches so muds, and that site is going to take the same medicine i took, Yon tan use my letter and I hope 008 one will be helped by it, -lube, JOS. R4 limn, Box fib, Ctandall, 117anitelm. ' ISSUE No. 11°---25,