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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-01-09, Page 3} Excavations at Kish Reveal Traces of Prehistoric Deluge A history of the work of the Field Museum -Oxford University Joint 'Ex- pedition to Kish, Mespotamia, which has been in operation since 1923, had unearthed traces of what Is believed to be, the world's earliest eivilzation and has found •evidence to support some of the Biblical stories of evente. in ancient Babylonia, was published in leaflet form recently by Field Mu - seem of Natural history. Henry ,Field, assistant curator of physical anthropology at th museum,' who was one of the principal members of the expedition during two seasons' of excavations, is the author. The pamphlet contains fourteen'photogra- vure illustrations .of scenes on sites of excavations and of some of the ' 'principal objects of archeological In- terest brought to light,and also a map of the British mandate of Iraq, in which fish is located, and a map of the buried 'city which is slowly be- ing uncovered by the excavators' picks and. shovels.' The historical sketch by Mr. Field shows that to date the expedition, which is still in operation, has reveal- ed the culture and the artistic attain- ments of the inhabitants of Kish and IS neighbouring city, Semdet Nasrl from the earliest occupation, about 8,000 years ago, down to the Arabs of yester-year. Temples, palaces and other buildings in which Sargon,, Ne- The Present Past and Almost the Future in Motor Cars buchadnezzar, Hammurabi and other, famous ancients once enacted part of their' 'hour upon the stage" have been bared by the expedition. While excavating one of the great, palaces the members of the expedi- tion were. rewarded, Mr. Field relates, aAs ' oecg esdm•ue elumlml au tent boudoir of a woman of Tush, finding copper mirrors and hairpins tipped with lapis -lazuli knobs, copper toilet casae containing manictn'e sets of pin- cers, tongs and nail files, and paint dishes and brushes, once used for col- oring lips, "cheeks and eyebrows. Thousands of museum objects have been unearthed, including the oldest wheeled vehicle in .the world, many important tablets containing records how being deciphered, unique ex- amples of painted ware, remarkable art objects of various kinds, jewelry, intimate. personal :belongings of the ancients and numerous other antiqui- ties. Ancient cemeteries of Kish have yielded to, the excavators' spades hu- man skeletons and various objects buried with the dead. In the lower stats of the excavations have been found traces of the flood which en- gulfed Babylonia hi Noah's time and indications of a similar delugeet an earlier period. Many data has been obtained concerning the history of the Sumerians, the principal settlers of Kish. Farm Notes more and more a specialized line in which' a knowledge of the details. con- cerning the production of a high SKIM MILK AND BEEF SCRAP grade product is a necessity. No FOR POULTRY article of food, they claim, has such While skim milk has again and a direct relation to the nation's again been proved an excellent food health, and the public are quite within for poultry during the winter season their rights indemanding that the old- it can be dispensed with without ser - and dairyman with his careless habits ionsloss, provided beef scrap is fed in and limited knowledge of sanitation itplace. To test these two feeds give way to the better trained, more with winter layers they were fed to careful producer. flocks side by sideat. the Northern-- Ontario Experimental Station. The FLAVORS AND ODORS IN MILK Superintendent, Mr. Smith Bailin- Flavors and odors in milk have a tyne, in his report, published by the very direct bearing on the consump- Dept. of Agriculture at Ottawa, states tion of this product. Substances res - that one hundred pullets were used for ponsible for undesirable taints in milk the test which was carried on for four. are usually present in quantities too successive years, beginning at the first of November, and continuing until April of each year. The birds were divided into two pens of fifty each. .The ration given was the same in both cases with the exception of the skint mills and the beef scrap. The scratch grain consisted of two parts each of Wholewheat and cracked corn and one part each of whole oats and barley. The dry mash was made up of equal parts' of bran, middlings, corn meal, ground oats and barley. The beef scrap wasfed from a hopper and the eldm milk from a drinking vessel. It was found that the average cost of the food per year was almost the same, amounting to $74.22 when the eldm milk was used and $73.52 for the beef scrap ration. The number of eggs laid amounted to an average per year of 4,648 for the skim milk fed lot and 4,994 for the others. The cost per dozen of eggs and the profits were practically equal. This test, Mr. Ballantyne points out, Department.- In the handling of milk goes to show that where the farmer for the trade provision should be made has a supply of skim milk there is for the daily samplingfor quality and practically no advantage in using beef for the detection of flavors. Not only scrap, but where skim milk is not is it necessary, according to these available beef scrap may be used with authorities, for the man inspecting in. profit in the feeding of winter layers. coping milk to be in a position to re- — jest unsuitable supplies, but provision BIENNIAL AND ANNUAL SWEET should be made for the periodical test - CLOVER small to he detected by chemical analyses, Indeed, according to the views of the Agricultural Bacteriolo- gist of the Dept. of Agriculture at Ottawa, there are no tests available for the dejection of these substances other than the senses of taste and smell. The consumer is quick to ob- serve objectionable flavors and to change his dairyman on slight provo- cation from this cause. Fortunately the pasteurization process removes slight flavors from certain foods that have been given the cows. Such strong flavored substances as garlic, gasoline and rancid disinfecting material are not so easily improved. Milk handlers should promptly reject milk possess- ing these flavors es being unsuitable for human consumption. Messrs. Johns and Lochhead, Bac- teriolagists of the Dept. of Agricul- ture, make this recommendation in their. bulletin "Testinethe Producers' Milk for Quality" published by the In the growing of sweet clover for hay the biennial' varieties have pro- duced higher yields than .he annual variety Ruben in Northern Ontario. The biennial sweet elover both white blossom and yellow blossom varieties were sown side by side with the an- nual variety on clay loam soil which bad been in potatoes the previous year.. Tho rate of seeding was twenty pounds per acre both for the biennial and the annual varieties. The .biennial var- ieties wore harvested toward the end of July of the second year of their growth, and the annual variety early in September of the year it was sown. The biennial varieties grew much tall- er and yielded correspondingly higher: White blossom sort readied' a height of sixty-one inches and the yellow blossom forty-eight as compared with forty inches reached by the annual variety. Both varieties of the bien- nial gave yields of eured hay above two tons to the acre, the white bion some yielding 1,707 pounds in excess of the two tons, the yellow blossom gave about two tons and one-half. The i'oturn from the annual variety was a little better than one mid one-half tons to the acre, GRADING MILIBIION QUALITY' Producers, dealers and consumers Sf milk for the most .part realize the Justice of the principal of valuing thie product aecerdnng to its quality. While payment on a grade basis is regarded as the quickest' method to obtain im- provement, and the easiest means of obtaining quality at a high level, yet even where no difference in prices ex- ists the producer of the high grade niflk benefits through the gradual elimination of the careless shipper who constantly fails to meet the sten- dard set., This .question of grading milk for city trade is discussed at length in Bulletin No. 123 of the Dept. of Agri- culture at Ottawa, by the Bactriolo- gists: Hissers. Johns and Locbhcad, PASTORAL SCENE FROM GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE who held the view that the production Rustic "tranquillity hems in this ancient vehicle and its driver along quaintshores of SL George's Cove on the taupe coast. of milk _for slay trade is becoming ing for sediment, and also for the keeping quality. Such a system, it is stated in bulletin, would entail little extra work at the receiving plant, and would provide sufficient inforniation for the ranking of the shippers in order of merit.—Issued by the Direc- tor of Publicity, Dom. Dept. of Agri- culture, Ottawa, Ont, The best way to take leave of the stock market is with a good buy. OLD TIMERS AND THE BLUE BIRD iN POSSESSION Captain Campbell's famous racing car, followed by old-time cars, in procession at recent Lord Mayor's Show British Rhineland Troops `Horne' 1 Kingly Courage After Occupation of 11 Years!A Tale of King Edward VII That Adds to the Honor of His Genial Memory The "Dorset Year Book" is always good reading, and one of the most interesting features is that contribut- ed bb Mr. Newman Flower, who re- lates how Sir Frederick Treves had sent hint a manuscript of his reminis- cences. Commander Thanks Wiesbaden Officials and People for Courtesies Extended Under Trying Conditions-- Difficult onditions—Difficult Duty Fulfilled Diplomatically London. --The second battalion of conspicuous. I can tell you it has been the Royal Fusiliers who returned to a•pleasure to work with them in keep - London recently from Wiesbaden were ing public order in this area. among the first units of the British "We are naturally pleased to be army of occupation to reach the Rhine going back to old England and to Dec. 13, 1918, and the last British know we shall be taking up our nor contingent to leave after almost'exaet- mal duties once more. The memory ly 11 years. of our long sojourn in your wander- "Happy to be hone again," 'declared ful Rhineland will always remain with the troopers although many admitted us. Our life here has helped us to understand the German people better. You on year part have learned to understand the sterling qualities of the British soldier. "It is with expression of my most sincere wish for peace and good will for all time that I say to you fare- well," Wiesaden will not be completely evacuated by the withdrawal of Brit- ish, as the Interallied Rhineland High Commission will remain, presumably until June 30, 1980. until June 30, 1930. -- Christian Science Monitor. regret at parting from German towns- people, among whom they established a reputation for justice, fair dealing and courtesy. Lieut. -Gen. Sir Wlliant Thwaites, at the ceremony of hauling down the Union Jack, delivered an address in German following a friendly call upon the municipal authorities of Wies- baden. Speaking from the steps of the Rathaus, the Britsh commander said: "I come with guy staff he the naive of the British army, which I have had the honor to eonunand in your beau- tiful Rhineland. I have come to take leave of you. With my departure the evacuation so far as it affects our army will be completed. "Since we cane into this zone you Germans and we English have work- ed together in delicate circumstances. It hasn't been pleasant to you and it hasn't been easy for us, but I feel we can congratulate each other upon our behavior to each other. "Un our part we have been ful- filling a duty. I have always endeav- ored to make the situation as easy as possible for you. It is not for me to say whether we have been successful or not. The ordinance of the Inter - Allied Rhineland army command have had to be complied with. "In our official relations with you there always has been the greatest courtesy shown by the Prussian and Hessian governments. We have been very much aware of this courtesy. It has considerably helped to ease many difficult situations. The readiness of the German police to co-operate with the British military police has been recognized by us. "Your police are a well -disciplined force whose courtesy always has been "To a tailor any enulosu•e is a pressing engagement." Maritimes Wait I When the ice Sang �!Cble Ship's Return Harold and Lucy~ were sitting on the stairs fn the midst of a pile of Serious Changes May Have story books. 'Jail it a shame. Harold," said Taken Place in Fishing Lucy earnestly, "that magic things Banks and Eastern Pro. don't happen any more?" winces Await Return Uncle Warren put down his paper and came'from the next room. of Cable Ships "Oh, don't they?" he said. "1 want` Halifax, N,S.—As poen as the fleet you children to know that once, foy of cable ships operating out of Bali- nearly a year, I traveled daily past fax return to this port with repbrte an Enchanted Marsh!" as to the condition and present posi- "An Enchanted Marsh!" echoed the tions of the trans-Atlantic -cables, a children, conference of the engineers and ex- Uncle Warren sat down en - the parts, of ale the cable companies will lower stair. be held in Halifax to study the re- "Oh, the things that marsh told me ports .and to prepare for further steps and showed mei" he said. "I think 1 in remapping the ocean -bed which has must have had the key; for-, during been disturbed by themarine' earth- the whole time, other people were quake which snapped cables and did a going up and down the road that led great deal of harm to submarine by the side of the Enchanted Marsh, mountains and valleys• and not once did I hear anything un - Ships' soundings show that there usual mentioned." has been a serious change in the Bob looked down at, his uncle with strata and underseas conditions and that expression boys usually assume it will be some tine) before the full when magic things are mentioned. extent of the change 19 known. "Would you like to hear about the That there may be further changes time when the ice sang?" Uncle War - was indicated by a quake which shook ren asked. Lucy was eager and Bob Guysboeo county on Thursday night curious, and which was followed by a second "That was several years ago," he tremor on Friday morning last. went on. "I left college for one year Neither shock was serious but ac- and taught a little rural school back cording to experts it would indicate in the hills. It was the brightest, that the earth is not settled down yet crispest March morning when 1 dis- fronrthe recent yawn which disturbed covered for the first time that the the submarine depths and shook the marsh' was enchanted. Ug to that coast of Nova Scotia and Newfound- time I had merely thought of it as a land. reedy waste of alders sad hummocks, Beyond cryptic messages to the ef- And 1 had felt rather cross at it the est that all are well on board, none night before when, coming home in of the four cable ships operating out the rain, my horse had had to go of Halifax have made " any of their splashing through the muddy water progress public. that had come pouring over the road Working for over two weeks it is from that marsh. not believed that any of them have„During the night, however, the yet secured the broken ends of cable. weather had changed; and this par - Terrific storms have lashed the seas. titular morning was delicious, with Ships coming into Halifax bear a March sunrise, red, and happy,. and tales of tragedy to small craft and of fol of important things to do. You tremendous storms and these have should have seen that marsh as we swept with full force on the Edward came down the hill that led to it. :Y * u * 0 "Before long,” says Mr. Flower, "I was award that I was reading the finest book of reminiscences I had read for many years, The material ab•nit Ring Edward's operation alone show- ed him a greet figure .of courage, a man who fought his doctors to go to his Casonation, and so keep faith with the British people. If ever the hero- ism of a British King was revealed, it was revealed in that manuscript. "King Edward had hidden his mal- ady in order that the public should not be alarmed. The doctors, the nurses, went to Windsor numbered and not by name, so that the arrival of these medical people should not be known. Treves was 'Number Six,' and he used to go to Windsor in a tweed cap and a tweed suit, and get off at a station before Windsor and walk the rest of the way. These were the instructions of a king to spare his people an iota of anxiety regard- ing the Coronation. "When I read the manuscript I realized the pluck of the king who, against the advice of his doctors, eame to London bowing in agony to the crowds that applauded him. I knew that these words of Treves would show what a figure of courage the king had been. "Then one morning my telephone rang violently. Answering it, I heard Treves' voice at the other end. He said, 'Bring the manuscript at once' (tae certain bank). I met him there. He snatched the manuscript out of my hands greedily. 'What are you going to do with it?' I asked. 'It shall never be published,' he answered, and locked up the manuscript in his pri- vate safe. "It has never been published, and it never will be. Indeed, I believe it has been destroyed long since." Girls will be girls, and so will be grandmothers, A Delight to the Eye and Baini to the City Dwellers Nerves "im Jeremac, the John W. Mackay, the The water had all gone Bohn during Cyrus Field, the Lard Kelvin, the the night; but Jack Frost, very busy 1atc, Gambia, and the All-American. The in the meanwhile, had covered the tatter, which was rushed here from rviecle expanse with a coating of shell the south to aid the situation. lee. Mr. Sun, rising early, had done Five launched miles of new cable, tiro rest. :Too never could have • rushed from England is being hastily ima`-iired the beauty of those scrolls set in condition for northern waters. and flourishes and lacy fringes, all Lunenberg fishermen returning to tinted with the magic colorings port state that although earlier ru- mors had the Grand Banks shifted they have found no change in condi- tions and find fishing about the same as in other years. It is also possible there may be found a shift in the course of the Gulf Stream. It will be some time, however, be- fore the experts can gather here to study plans and to make arrange- ments for a scientific observation of the sftuaitem. Reason For Row Over Text Books The West is l ;sing Troubles With Textbooks Printed C . er the Line Van aver, B.C.—Following a chal- lenge recently issued by members of Vancouver School Board regarding his policy of scrapping school text books not printed within the Empire, Hon. Joshua Hinchliffe, Provincial Minister of Education, bearded the lions in their den and in an address here cited several reasons. He stirred his audience by quoting passages from one school book des- tined for use in schools where Men- nonite children are being educated. It holds up the British Navy to ridi- cule and depicts United States villag- ers singing "Yankee Doodle" to fife and drum, while the British ships ap- proach. A British naval officer on a warship is quoted as saying: "Quick, then back—there is a regiment of Yankee soldiers there." The Minister was heartily applaud- ed when he remarked that this sort of reading is excellent, no doubt, for young people in the great Republic to the south, but is not calculated to create young Canadians of the type this country desires. Another book, printed in the United States, as quoted, wherein the Glory of the Stars and Stripes is printed at length with emphasis regarding the necessity to love and honor it. Ho intimated that the Department will not be satisfied until all such books are purged from British Colum. - i la schools. brought by the sunbeams. The alders too must bare been out all night at: a fancy ball, for they still wore their party dresses of hoar frost and were blazing with scores of jewels of alt kinds, "My pony, Betty, seemed unwilling to venture upon the place where the ice lay across the road. Perhaps she did not want to spoil those dainty pa- tens. Anyhow we waited, both of sus willing. Then, all of a sudden, the. sweetest, strangest music came to ni,j ears. I can't describe it—like laugih- ter from lots of tiny throats,, or per- haps as harps might have sounded. when they used to make them ofi gold, or even like little bugles blowing from ever so far away. No use trying, to tell you what it sounded like, bad Betty heard it too and lifted her head It seemed to have been made just fag_ us, for all had been still when we firs& came, "Then in an instant, f knew. White we watched, the wind had come; and the alders, moving in the wind, shle eyed the shell ice which clung to their stems, thus making those tinkkc Iittle showers of music which the frosty air was just right to catch. OC. course, it did not last long; but we listened as longus we could, and theu went crashing on our way to school." "Oh!" cried the children, "can't we go to the marsh and hear the ice sing?" Uncle Warren shook his head. "11. couldn't happen often, he said. "That day everything was fust right—wind; frost, and water. Though the En- chanted Marsh showed me all setts of wonderful things, never since that time have I heard the ice sing." First Things The first of the new year is a geed time to think about first things. They are to be found in the New Testa- ment as nowhere else. For guidance in the relationships of life, a matter of increasing importance in this crowded age, are these. First be reconciled to thy brother. First oast out the beam out of Mile own eye.'. If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of a11, and servant' of all. And into whatever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. He that is with sin among you, let hiiu first cast a stone. The husband man that laboreth lnnst be first partaker of the fruits. Aud for one's own direction, that life may be brought into its richst fulfilment are: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all the" soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. But seek ye first the kingdom of Goll, and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. EARLY MORNING Heroine—"Tee, and there by the In the morning, when then West un - gates of the mansion -I began to sob, willingly, let -this thought be present 'HHe•here I stand ii -barefooted in Who —I am rising to the work of m human s•s-snow':' been e. --Marcus Aurelius. Comedian—"How realistic! Itow '-' was it received?" Ii Khat the style makers ea/ IS trudr Heroine—"Why, the gallery began : those who ` are selling pktrt00 to throw old boots." tshould hurry to cover..