HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-07-21, Page 3HURSDAY, JULY 21, 1932.'
THE SEAFORTH NEWS.
The Lard of Burns.
The'Defence of the Poet -The 'N'o'bel clone :Whoeved will malignleis name
or speak evil of the works of Robert
Burns, we think it i11 becomes a Scots-
man or a descendant of a Scatsman to
do so, for they owe him a debt of gra-
titude Which they can 'never repay.
• Rather led each althem ;say,' what-
ever others may do in thismatter, as
for me and my house •we, will stand
loyally by the gifted son of toil, who
has thrown a halo o'f glory aroundthe•.
reeky land of our forefathers. We now
approach the sad end of a fevered and
resltless life. We do so to draw atten-
tion to the p'oet's honor, hlonesity and
gratitude, qualities that well became
a dying anat. .Jessie Leavers, a mod-
est and beautiful young woman, had
watched' olyer .hien with all the solicit-
ude of a daughter, he knelw he could
not reward her with silver and gold,
but he did the next best thing, he
poure'd out his gratits de in song. Put-
ting hiinse!llf as usual in the position of
a lover, he sang-
lytsid f'17.1 "P ~IYI:t 1
"Altho'ithou snouts never be mine,
, IAitho' even 'hope is denied,
"Tis sweeter for thee. despairing
Than aught in 'the world beside,"
1He had been kindly treated by Dr.
'Maxwell and he felt thankful to h'i'm,
and regretted his inablility to pay re-
pay him. 'He gave him his pistols,
which he had used, against the smug-
glers f Solway, by way of a small ac-
ldiowledigment of his services—adding
with a smile as he did so, "I have
tried them and found them an honor'
to their maker, which is more than I
can say of the Bulk of inankind." As
his lustrous black eyes shone like balls
of fire in the de1iriium' of fever, he
turned to Gibson, a fellow soldier,
who stood with wet eyes at his bed-
side and said proudly with a gleam of
humor.. -no doubt remembering the
poor practice of the corps, " Jbh'n,
pray don't let the awkward squad fire
over ire." The solemn hour had now
arrived when the dust must return to
earth as it was and the spirit to God
who gave it. 'Isis 'frame trembled
with weakness and his parcehd ton-
gue refused utterance—reason forsook
its throne and was replaced by a mer-
ciful delirium which accompanied him
to the brink of the icy river. While in
this state his attendant, • James Mac
lure, 'held his medicine to his lips, he
swallowed it . eagerly, rose almost
wholly up, spread out his hands,
sprang forward nigh the whole length
of the bed, fell on his mace and ex-
pired. And now our task is drone, and
we must bid our poet a long, a last
farewell. IHe life began amidst thun-
der and lightning, his shert career
was marked by alternate clouds and
storms, with occasional glinaipess of
sunlight betwen,' and with a desper-
ate struggle he made his exit from
this vale of tears, and entered that still
country where storms can . never
come. He has crossed the icy river,
he has passed through nature into
eternity, has entered the undiscovered
land franc whose precincts no wan-
derer ahs ever yet returned; he has
passed into the Presence Chaniiber od
that All Wise Creator, whose laws he
frequently violated, and whose pard -
don through the Great Meditator he
as frequently supplicated, and ..we
hope at Last received, for we know
that—
ity' and Gentry'o'f Duur'fries�
(Prof. Wilson's, Valuable Tes
.timony-lt'hc 'Poet's Greatest
And :Best Work-1Burics As
A Religious Reformer—The
Closing Scenes O'f An Event-
ful Life-4Clharitable Views
As To I3•is 'Fiuituse—;Serious!
(Reflections Go His Mournful
End, Etc. Etc,;
Another thing that is mentioned to
the discredit oif 'Burns, is that the nob-
ility and gentry cd Dumfries gave him
the cola shoulder during the latter'
part of his life, and ;the inference is
that his life had beets disrep'utab'le.
Professor Wilson. hinvselllf shows con-
clusively that was on account of
Burns' adedanced ,views ,that the .gentry
turned their baoks upon Sim, and not
re account od his character, which
would compare favorably with theirs
any day. 'Tjhegentry have in ail ages,
as ,a rule,, turned their 'beaks ;towards
the light. They gave the cold should-
er to a ,greeatier and mighteir than
Barns, or any that ever -trod -our plan-
et, while the contemn peo:ple heard
Him gladly. 'Burns, moreover,having
been the poet of the codtt•m'on people,
We wonder not that they proved his
truest Ifriennd's in ,life and the lase' to
desert him in the trying hour of
death. Burns purified the songs of
his country ,and gave them as a legacy
to the people—a legacy of whichthey
might well feel proud—and • this per-
haps his gooiest work. The lasting
and beneficial effects of this work can
hardly be properly estimated in our
• day. He stimulated patriotism and
dignified labor, and made the sons of
old Scotia proud of their country.. He
did much to instil principels of civil
and religious liberty into'the minds of
a people who were already strongly
biased in that direction, and his "A
Man's a man for a' that," and "Scots
wha hae wi' Wallace bled," will con-
tinue to ring down through the cen-
turies and make tyrants and oppres-
rs tremble in the ages yet to be.,He
was the true poet of nature, and his
ND '8 HOLY 111111,KMAN.
odns Lay Iso\amt Stu lc;t fiules. for
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Chief illan
ssn.'
The Todas' a tribe living in South-
ern India,' regard their .mills vendors
as holyren. The chief of these is the
Holy Milkman•, who has an otecial
residence; the Sacred Dairy, which ho
Is net allowed to leave during Liss
term 'of office, Toe Holy Milkman,:
moreover, is usually a baehelor; if
he married before being'appointed to
bis high office he must leave his wife
and devote himself entirely ,to observ-
ing the stringent .rites of the Sacred
Dairy.
No ordinary person may touch 'a
Holy Milkman, for to do so would
decile his exalted office and he would'
be compelled to reign. Another re_,
s rection is that Holy. Milkmen must
net be spoken to except on Mondays
'and Thursdays. On other days, any
meseage mus: be shouted from a con-
`siderabls diatance.
The dairy -temples are usually built
in conical foam, and the mti'lrman
priest must always sleep in the cow-
house, a draughty structure with a
small fireplace. There is no door to
the dairy, and a Holy Milkman is
allowed to wear only one coarse robe.
When he is'eating, his hand must not
touch his lips, and to prevent this he
throws his food into his mouth. When
drinking, he must hold the vessel
aloft and pour the• liquid down his
throat as from a tap.
targe sympathy extended not only to
the brute Creation, but even to inani-
mate nature itself; while he mourned
the fate of the "wee slee'kit, covering,
tinr'rous beastte," he did not forget to
scing of the "wee modest, crimson'
tipped flower," whose' existence he
had terminated with his ruthless
ploughshare. He has been even
blamed for 'being too humane, cen-
sured for showing sympathy for the
sad and unalterable fate of Satan him-
self rl'his is what we might expect
from a man of his .exlquisite sensibilit-
ies. IHis unapproachslbzle ridicule and
withering sarcasm in reference to cer-
tain religious gatherings and so-called
pilus teachers in his day, which has
*;tr*en gusted to leis hurt, we 'are assur-
ed did much to bring about a reform
of abuses, which had 'be'come the
scandal of the time. In this respect at
any gate he may be claimed as a relig-
, us re'former. We do not wish it to
be understood that we'hold Burns up
to our youth as an example' for them
, to follow, any more than we would
ask them to follow Ring David in all
his ways; we would not ask them to
follow a'brilliant meteor or an erratic
comet while theglorious sun is shin-
ing in the f•is•mament—the sun that
has arisen with healing in his wings.
Christ is the only perfect man, the
only one worthy of imitation from
the cradle to the grave. The super-
naturalist may even blame us• for
tuentio•ning the peot in thesame
breath with the son o'f Jesse—for they
May say that inspired' men 'should
not be compared with thoes, who
vete not so higlhly favored—that the
A'lmigh'ty may have had a purpose in
the one and. not in the other. We be-
lieve he had 'a purpose in both. We
are told that a sparrow falleth not to
the ground without His knowledge,
and that the very hairs of our head'
are numbered; ie it reasonable then to
suppose that while' He controls and
guides the Hebrew monarch on his
'thgone, He entirely ignores the hum-
ble Scotsman at his plough? We
thine not, for we are assured that His
goodness, is over all. His works'. We
like to take the bright side of every-
thing—we love • he suriahine and the
flowers -eve desire to cultivate the
benevolent instincts of our nature—
fr by all these 'things the heart is
matle better. These feelings have per-
haps induced ns to gaze on the sunny
• side, of the Scottish poet—while not
entirely 'ignoring the shady spots of
his character. 'We h'a've/ folle'wed the
promptings of our hearts and the dic-
tates of our own conscience, We
think the reader of Burns' works
should pass over what is worthless or
hergful, and accept the good and the,
true, reject the chaff and. appropriate
the wheat, ;prove all things and honed
fast that which ,is good.. We even go
so ,par as to say that we ought to for-
give Hiatt .for whatever is evil, on ac-
count of the imperishable good he has
GRASSHOPPERS AID I•I'UNGRY.
Natives of China Make Appetizbng
Dishes of Them. '
Shortage of food in the Tientsin
Peking sections of China,, during the
past year has been augumented by.
the -vast olouds of grasshoppers which
devastated fields and growing crops.
The insects have been so numerous,
indeed, that in spite of the higher
prices for most foodstuffs, grass-
hoppers have been cheaper in the.
market than for ming years.
At times they have actually been
procurable for six coppers a catty, so
that in the grasshopper sections of
China the R.C.L. would not have
been so bad. Pur hermore, these
Were the shy and elusive' vaaiety-
Lather more flyers than hoppers--
for tie move about they depend upon
wings rather than lege.•
As they are differen,ly prepared
Par the table in different parts of the
county, the tourist may have them to
suit any taste or ,preference, An-
ciently, according to the Apostle
Hark, John the Baptist took hie.with
wild honey. In the south of China,
the natives usually eat them boiled
whole.
In Tientsin, the bodies are stripped
cd legs and wings and aro then fried,
and when,placed upon a platter, look
for all the world litre and taste better'
than a heaped and inviting portion
of hot potato chips.
"To err is human,—but to forgive,
divine."
r'Ve will not attempt to disturb the.
sublime silence of that calm country,
whose secrets are kept 'so well, but
will no•'5v leave him in the hands of
that Mysterious Person who came
"not to call the righteous, but sinners
to repentance," that Being who, when
en earth, told his hearers to "Judge
not that they might not he judged,"
that Divine Man who, when asked by
an unfeeling Pharisaical mob to pass
sentence of condemnation on a great,
lonely and friendless sinter, lifted his.
scornful eyes towards the self -right-
esus ones and said with a knowledge
which belonged to the Great Searcher
of Hearts, and with a laity s'arcasm
which banished the canting hypocrites
in question from His holy presence,
Ile that is without 'sin .among you
let him cast the first stone."
Guilty Conscience.
Frank J, L'oesc'h of the Chicago
crime comrnislsion said at a dinner:.
"A guilty conscience gives itself
away. A man went 'fishing onee, and
lost his lunch on the way. He started
!hack to lock for it, and presently he
met a tramp who was smiling to
himself.
"The man said, pretty sharply,
`Did you find anything in the road
as you 'came along?'
'No,' said the tramp, `I didn't
find anything special. Couldn't a .dog
have conte across it and et it up.?"
•
Want and For Sale ads, 1 week 25c
DUTCH BRICKS AS BALLAST.
Many Old Houses Around New York
Built of These Bricks.
Many an anciene house in and
about New York is said to have been
built with imported Dutch brigks.
The little American vessels that trad-
ed with the West found it cheaper to.
ballast with Dutch bricks and sell
them in New York for a trifle than
to ballast with stones, a scarce arti-
cle in. Holland anyhow, and dump
them in the harbor. So good Rotter-
dam bricks might get into a New
York chimney; as for similar reasons
bricks leaded in London might help
rear a Virginia planter's stately man-
sion on the Janes, with local brick -
kilns near.
Nothing ever changes. In 1928,
lust as in 1660, westward cargoes are
lighter than eastward and the Amer-
ican Wage Earners' Protective Con-
ference complains that bricks—duty
free by the 1922 tariff — are still
brought over as ballast, depriving
many a stout felow of a day's, work
here, and it demands the reimposition
of a tariff. Whatever may be thought
of animport relatively trivial in
amount, it is at any rate nothing new
in Amerean industral history.
RIGHT KIND OE ANGER-
Not Only Inevitable, But at Times
Necessary.
There is such a thing as righteous
auger. Anger is not only inevitable,
it is at times necessary, says Arthur
Ponsonby, M.P. Its absence means'
indifference, the mostdisastrous of
all human failings. Indignation :ras
been the motive power behind the
great forward movements in tete his-
tory of humanity. Indignation at so -
social iniirstice, indignation at ts-
raany and persecution, indignation
at 'cruelty have been the mainspring
of vest corporate efforts.
The "sweet -tempered" man may be
a man who is incapable of being an-
gry., This far from being a virtue,
is it grave detect. It denotes easy
cce nc
eoquiesoenoo, placid a Pta e f o
things as they are, and insensitive
toleration of all that life offer's. Ai
any r&t he is a rare bird, ill-equip-
ped for the business of living and is
deserving of no ptatee. Whereas he
has a temper" is. really a compliment,
although we must watch the exhilaie
tion of the temper' in order to know
if the compliment is deserved, '
Too Many Laws.
• In an,article i'n tete American. M' '•-
aline, William til. Dutton' takes up the
question of 'the immense nem'
taws in the tatted States, and states
that an investigator countnu Sv out
city; State and Federal laws, lialviug
county ones out of the enumeration
One State law, he says, has never
peen' obeyed—and it never will.
It reads:
"When two trattra approach each
other at a ]crossing, they shall both.
some to a 'nit stop, and neither shall
start until the other is gone:"
Strely, in this case "the law is art
fees!" remarks the Municipal Review.
Moth Sc. reales.
The Deathts 'Head moth emit"
squeaks almest As loud .ae those' o{
a mouse,
I ACF THREE
chain is mad "
— French Proverb.
S the Ancient Romans used to say -- "Step
11- by step, one goes to Rome." Everything
can be achieved by degrees if you set your face .
clearly towards your objective and advance in a
straight line.
"Dollar by dollar, your security is made more
certain." Apply this new proverb to your per-
sonal financing. Start a Savings Reserve set
an objective and see how quickly, you will achieve
it, if you but add to deposits every week. Vitally
important is the beginning -• start NOW:
Seventeen. Branches in Ontario
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TOWARD pEitPE1iUAL, MOTIO'N
(Perpetual motion has long been an
aspiration of visionary inventors.. It
has been practically eliminated as a
possibility in the thought of most
serious workers. Yet a new clock has
just been developed in :France which
comes as near to being perpetual, mo-
tion es anyt'h'ing yet devised. This
clock employs a source of energy
which seems to have been neglected
hitherto—the temperature, Tempera-
ture is everywhere and it varies ev-
erywhere. There is no normal loca-
tion where the temperature will not
change at least one degree a day, It
usually varies over' a much wider mar-
gin. Yet this new French clock will
operate 120 hours on the amount of
energy it gets front a single degree's
variation.
The method by .which this timepiece
operates utilizes a U-shaped glass
tube, one end of which is ins'ul'ated,
against temperature changes. In this
tube is mercury. • A's the exposed end
of the U conies in contact with tic
slightest variations in ,tennperature the
differences between it and the insulat-
ed end cause the mercury to move ov-
er to one side or the other. This
change in the weight of the mercury
tends to make the U swing like apen-
dulnm, and this swinging store's up
energy in, the clock. It is said to be
absolutely silent and, getting all,'the
power it needs from the temperature
changes around it, it is good for au in-
definite -period.
Power to ruts a clock is one thing,
and power for commercial purposes is
another, but it is not beyond possibil-
ity that some means of taking advai-'
Cage of the air temperature variations
may ultimately be developed which
will form a free and .continuous source
of power for all purposes, At least
this French clock does seem; to bring
something like perpetual motion: much
nearer.
.Tice inechanisrn is absolutely silent
and extremely simple. There are only
10 wheels in the clock, and their move-
ment is so slow that it is estianated
several centuries would be required to
wear them out. The manufacturers
claim that the clock iu is continuouely
without being wound or otherwise
looked after, iii all weathers compris-
ing temperature's ranging between
four•, degrees below and 122 •degrees'
above zero ;Fahrenheit. It is' not de-
pendent on electric current for its olp-
eratien but the movement with each
slight change' of temperature winds
the clock by means of a ratchet .Wheel.
WRAT $ECOMES OF` OLD
FILM 'S'TARS
What becomes .of the many film
stars who, having occupied a promin-
ent place in the industry for many
years. are not given important roles
and are s.onetimee ,completely forgot-
ten? This question 'has been asked an
many occasions but seldom has an an-
swer been given.
What. has become of some of these
old favorites was made public recently
by Mary .Picleford during a visit to
the New York City Workhouse. Af-
ter being shawl' around the building
the dainty Tuttle wife of Douglas Fair-
banks Spoke to the inmates and at
the close invited questions relating to,
past and present stars. At first the in-
mates were rather reluctant to speak
up, but once a start had been made a
steady volley of questions were fired
at Miss Pickford.
The first' question related to the fa-
vorite heroine of the "silent" screen
Pearl White. bliss White, the inmates
teamed. now lived at Cairo, and was,
according tp rumour, engaged *to a
very rich man. She was still as ,beauti-
ful as she was in the."Perils of Paul-
inc".,
"Is Dolores 'Costello corning back
to the screen again?" was another
question. Miss Pickford regretted that
Miss Gegella would .not be back to
the screen again, 'because her husband
johp Barrymore, adored .her too mach
for that.
Questions then fell thick and fast,
and the following are but a few of the
queries and answers:—,I's that true,
Mary, that Richard 'Talmadge took
"acro'baticai". lessons from Doug --I
don't know. He certainly had a chance
if 'he :wanted to. 'Who is the next Lon
Chaney of the screen -I don't thin:
that there will ever be another. Why
did that heartbreaker, Theda Bara,
leave the stage.—She had lived her
cycle. We depend on you people, the
public, you know. Is Pole Negri still
sicir?—Oh, no, she's right here Inc New
York. S'he'•s a peach? Are those dogs
in dog_pictu.res trained?—Yee, it takes
infinite pains, And it's donne with love
and not whipping.
The children's dinner was in prog-
ress. They had been provided with a-
niee fat chicken.
"What part did you have ?" asked
one' little 'b'oy of his neighbor.
"The wishibone," was the reply.
"I' had' a leg," pint inc another' child.
One alter another they explained'
the 'various parts.
Presently little Jackie, who so far
had nat- spoken a word, held up a
skewer and exclaimed:
"Look, I've govt the perclil"
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Among .the many volumes of inter-
esting reports at the Damittion Ar-
chives is One of 1792 which records
the formation' of an executive council
for Upper Canada. At that time John
,Graves Simcoe was Lieutenant Gov-
ernor of .the Province of Upper. .Can
ad!a and in that first volume the meet-
ing and work of the executive differ-
ent books were kepit for the State and
Land matters. The writing is very
legible and the volumes ..were well
:bound and bre in excellent condition.:
It is noted at once that in 117P2 the.
executive were obliged .to take three
oaths, alllegiance, supeeinacy and ad-
' juratian. Only .the first oath. is in use
at the present time. The 'hese record
in the •book is dated in Kingston, July
8, 117912, and says that His Excellency
Joint Graves Sitn'coe, Esq., .Lieutenant"
Governor of the Province of Upper
Canada, Colonel c•omenanding the
forcers in the said ipiotv'ince, having ap-
pointed a suitable place for the reed-
ing, and puslisheng of his Majes'tys
commissions (spelled then comifions)
he accordingly nepai•red to the said
place accompanied by different aim of`
the household and , His Excellency
An officaceous household remedy-
Douglas' Egyptian Litsinren. Brings'
immediate -relief to lance back and
inuscutar rheumatism• Also relieves
inflammation, burns, sores, corns and
warts.
took the oaths. The next •meeting,
the follldwing day, the names of those
present are reoorded and an execn-
tive •oounci'l .of five members was form-
ed who were said to be ailo'ived to,
have 'and ,enjoy freedom of debate add
vote in all affairs of public content,
which • might be debuted in the said:
executive council. Ins'truotions to the•
executive occupied, four pages of small
writing in the large minute book .and
were mostly regarding money. They
were warned "not to suspend any of
the members of the council, executive
council, judges, sheriffs or other of-
ficers without ,good ani- sufficient
souse and if this was done they were
to transmit reasons to "one of our
princi'p'al secretaries of State." - A sur-
vey of land was ordered and "as noth-
ing can effectively tend to the speedy'
settling o;f the said province .if Upper
Canada, they were urged to sell lamdl
to the settlers, A pu'blicaticn was or-,
dered of all Saws regarding the buying;
of lands and it was to be issuel as a
proclamation. On Judy 10th the. pro- --
vitece was divided into -counties. in °
order to establish as equal' a repres-
entation as possible and as the •naturee
of circumstances would permit. Vol-
umes of these books from the earliest
are to be found at the Library anfl
visitors avlilll find Dr. Kenny not only
kind in showing all visitors through,
the Library but also with the -history?•
of all the articles' on display erecting:
-
1y at his finger tips.
"I say, old roan, won'•t you ever take
a, holiday?"
"I can't get away."
"Why? Can't the firm do wit'houft'
you '
"Quite easily. That's what I don't'
wank 'them to find otrt.
"Do you guarantee results in your
nerre treatnreet?" asked.. the enquirer,
S'pec'ialist: "I do, RWnty, a man came
to me fcr-nerve treatment, and when
had finished wi.tit 'h:im 'he tried to
borrow fifty pounds."
Asthma Can be Cured. Its stifFer.-
hng inc as ateedleas as it is terrible toe
endure. Atter its many years of re-,• -
lief of the • most stu-bborn casts 'n,o
sulfferer can doubt the perfect :effeic-
tivene•ss of Dr. 3. 'D. Kellogg's
jAsthma Retnedy. Comfort of •body -
land peace cif mined return with- its tree •
and nights of sound sleep• come bask'.
for ,ironic: Ask your druggist; he cam
supply you. U