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The Seaforth News, 1932-08-25, Page 3L7, ![9HU1R;S1]IAY; A'ffiGUS1T' 25, 932.: THE SEAFORTE, NEWS:' PAGE THREE, D OF SDR WALTER mo Tr... ,LAN .. . • A'Ramble 'wa'th (Der. Ailiines of Toron-, to —'The 'Laird o' Coieldpen — IB'orthiwiek (Oas'tle—Gala 'Water 'Me'1'rase 'Tdw.n.and A'b'bey --'Sir (Waiter 'Slcoltt-l'The Dowg1'asses (Michael ,Scott—lHeart of • Robert the 'Bruce, :etc. .etc. k t('jif thou woulldst view fair Mel- - ro'se'.aright, 'Go visit it 'by the pale moon- light.; For the _ gay beams of . li;ghtsorne day, . Gild, but to ifls.tst,'the runes grey, ' •{Wlhen the 'broken arches are 'black in night, , And each shafted oriel' glimmers white; When the cold light's , uncertain shower . 410 Streams on the ruin'd central I tower; When buttress and 'buttress, el- ternatelry,' _•• ' Seem framed- oif bon and :ivory; When silver eedges t'he incageey, And the scrolls that teach thee to 'live 'and dile; When distant Tweed is heard to Mite, a And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, • 'Then go—but go alone the while— .hen view St. David's xuin'el pile, . (And, home returning, soo'thly Was never scene .so .sad' aiui fain —Sir 'Walter 'Scott. Well, not feeling very certain that there would be any moonlight to ,spare, for one is sure of nothing but rain in this country; and having been told, moreover, that Sir Walter never visited Melrose Abbey by moonlight himself, we resolved to visit the ven- erable ruin on a bright sunshiny day, one ,of the few (bright days we met with in this moist climate at this .seas-' on of the year, so along with Dns. Aikins and Wylie, and a young S'cots- man from "Auld Reekie," we started on. our excursion to the land which .,kC'—has been rendered immortal 'by the magic ,pea of Sir Walter Scott. Ac- cordingly we repaired to the Waverly Station .and took tickets for Melrose— return tickets—resolving to spend one day With Scott. The young Scotsman was 'intelligent and well acquainted with fire country, and pointed •ou't everything that he thought would in- terest "Yankee tourists," as he was pleased to call us,though the only real live Yankee amongst us was Dr. Wylie. Dr. Aikins and your humble servant had to swallow the hard name as best we could, seeing that our young friend did not know- the dis- tinction between the citizens of emir D.ontinion and those who .had the for- tune 40 be born farther south. There as nn use in making geegrapnical l' explanations, I simply said, "thatAilc- ' ins and I intended to annex the coun- try •Wylde hailed frotn, shortly, and then we would all' be (Canadians." Wy-, lie hoped that he nroulcl be present When, the thing -was done, The course of the railway. was through a beau- tiful country 'with the "'Gala water", flowing through it, which stream we crossed quite a number of times. 'We passed the house of the "Laird of Cockpen," which our ,Scotch friend, finding •tha't I was fond . of poetry, pointed out to me. I recited a verse or two of the ,song, beginning thus:— "The Laird o' 'Co'ekpen he's protid and he's great; His mind is ta'en up w'i' the • things o' the state; ITie wanted a wife )his brave house to keep; (But favor eve .wooin' was 'fashions ' to seek." As vee passed on, Borthwick Castle was pointed out. It is about thirteen miles from Edinburgh. : It was 'built, in 1430, and is 'a double tower on, the model of the old .border keep, the largest stcuicture of the kind in the kingdeen. It contains a room called Qucen.Mary'es, on account of that un- fortunate (Queen taking refuge in it ,shortly after .her marriage to Beth - well., It .was then, nteneeed by her enemies and she fled from it in mate attire, It is 714 feet in length, 08 feet in 'breadth and ,90 feet in height.' Its. walls( are of -hewn- s't'one, 1'3 feet thi:dk near the ground. it was so strong that it re,sisted.quite a neige by Cram'welil, and still 'retains -thee marks of his. can - nen. Rdbertyo.n, the historian, was 'born inthe ntarIse near this eastlee, 'From- this place, :; onward to Gala - Aids there. was nothing important pointed out to u5 ,with the exception of the beautiful "Gala water," and our Sleotoh 'incept smiling, asked ,;me if. I couldnt quote something in reference 'to, that stream I said I eou'ld, and gtttoted the old song of which the fol- lowigg;is •the first verse:— "There'e ibraw, 'bra'v lads on Yar- • row (braes, That wander through the bin doll rig hdather, But, Yarrow braes, nor Ettriicic e s'ha'ty s Can :match the lads o' Gala 're (Water," • swear, 1 mayentention that the "Gala" is a ,small, stream that rises in',;1v'id-4Lotle- ion, rues •.south, aril (alis ,into ./the Tlwe'ed above 'Melrose. . We s'wep't through "Galas'hie1's-, which we intend- ed visiting later ear the day, arid:Steen found ourselves in the pretty toiwn of Melrose. `]:"histown lies between .the. 'fiver- Tweed and the Elildlot •Hill. It has a fine railefray sst'ation, a ehydroe pathic; estalblishmefut, a lunatic asylum which co'slt £'4'5;000 slte'rliing, three hd- tells 'and• three churches. With the -ex- ception o'f the cross, the Abbey is the only' o',bije'ct Of archaeologi'ca'l •interes't. The crass stands in the: market plate, tie sdh'aft riseing,tce the 'height of twen- ty feet, with'a unicorn on the torp, star twining - the Royal Arms df Slcoltlaud. After, examining this ancient relic and taking a good. drink , of" the water wiheich flowed from its blase, we fol- lotwed the crowd down • a narrow s'tree't, and. soon hound ourselves at the. Ablbey .gate, and, strange to say. were allowed to enter without a fee be- ing deniandeed. "This is different from the rules of Arttemu,s Ward's shrove," I remarked,: to', our American friend, which was, "You may spay . without going in, but ye can't go in without paying." However, They made us pay here before they let us out. The Ab- bey, like all 'the churches of the old- en time, lies east and west. We 'en- tered on the west and examined it carefully, first the nave, then the aisle, then in. order (the south tran- sept, the tower baee, the choir, -'the chaucel, the. Borth transept, the .sacris- ty, and -the "cloisters, ''alter which we examined. the interior of the fine `old edifice and the cemetery. We will not attempt, to dees'crfbe what has been de- scribed •so -well by Grose and by Bill- ings, and 'by Sir Walter Scott in his Monastery, and also in his Lay of the La;t Minstrel. T will merely men- tion some things which impressed' Inc forcibly and put me into a serious moocl. One thing was that we were treading an t'he ashes of the mighty dead of centuries long gone by, for under these flagstones we are t told their bones have ntinigle'd with the earth. Indeed, in the choir and 'the chancel the graves of many, illustrious dead were pointed out to us, a print- ed label showing us the exact Spot. Amongst these were Alexander I'I, Kiirg of Scotland, whose ashes lie under the lisgh altar, James, Earl Douglass, 'who was slain by Earl Per- cy at the battle. of Otterburn in 1386,' Wm. Douglass, the dark Knight of Liddcsdale, who was slain by a-kens= man nvhile hunting in Ettrick Sorest, Michael 'Scott, the Wizard, and the heart of - Robert the Bruce. As we stood on the Etat mossy stone; broken across the middle, which is reported to be the grave of the famous wizard or natural philosopher, we thought of the superstitious times in which lie lived, when his knowledge was so mis-, understood that ignorance had trans- formed him into a wizard. If he had had the misfortune to be an old WO - man he would undoubtedly have been burned for a witch: It is said that the wizard's magic - books' were 'buried with hint: The 'following is the de- seription in "'The lay of the Last Min- strel":— "I buried him on St. Michael's night, When the bell tolled one and the moon was bright, And IT dug his chamber among the 'dead, When 'the flow .of 'the Chancel. was stained red That his patron's cross might over lain wave And scare the (fiends from the w'izard's grave." Michael Scott, the wizard of Bal- wearie,flourished during the thir- teenth century, and was -one of the. Ambassadors sent to bring the fair maid of Norway to Scotland 11Q011 the death of Alexander PDI, 1290. •He wrote several works upon the ab- struse sciences, and passed among his contemlporiaries for a skillful magic- ian. His memory survives in many 'e legend, and in the souibh of Scd'tland any work Of great labor and antiquity is ascribed either to the agency of °(Lull Mi'ch'ael;" "Sir'' William Wal- lace," ar the( '"devil" these being the three cleverest men of whom they had any knowledge.: Boit we now' -passed on eatd'.stood- .oil the heart of Scot- land's greatest King. We had stood '•on the spot in Dunfermline, where the Brucets 'Wady wets interred and -had given expression to the solemn thoughts, wh'ioh crowded our brain eh- that altspucious oc=casion, \but now we stand an the very spot wheere the Li- berator s heart, which beat for Scot- land, and':Scotland alone, mingled with the kindred dust of the land he loved so well.'.Tlhns grand old ruin, wilbb jits cxlqutilsti'te carving, may well be can-' sidered a fitting and appr'o'priate mon- ument for a' heart such as,hvs, lin the Bruce's lash better to his son, written about a month belfore his death, he comlm5111Cied 'that his .theart should be buried in Melrose Alb'bey:; But strb$e- quent to that he wished rather that it inigiilt be sent to Palestine and bur- ied- ur- ied in 'the holy sepulchre. Sir James Douglas,' entrusted With the - Sacred deposit, set sail wile a numerous, and splendid' retin,iie. In 'Slpai h he encoune tered 'the Searaceu's, and being sorely pressed., he threw the silver caslquet contaieing Bruce's heart, amongst: the thickest of the enemy, saying, "Now pass t'h'oti onward befere us,, as thou were wont, and I wilt fo'l'low thee or die.' Ilia this battle, which ,was fought in 13311, ''?the good Sir Jantmes" as he was called, met his' death, !tieing too brave to retreat, hence he did fol- low the heart o'f' the Bruce= followed it to the shadowy regions Of the dead. The 'body o'f Douglass was.recovered, and brought back for burial,' and the. heart of the master he lo;ved and senv- ed• so well was interred, agreeably ,with -the former wish of the King, ;un- der the high altar of Melrose A'b.bey. After all Scotland, and in particular the: A'blbey which he had rebuilt; was a more sulitable resting 'place for the heart df "King Robert the Bruce," than the land of the (Saracen, where' few, of his grateful countrymen could elver •visit the Silent heart wh'ic'h had so long beat for them and thein alone. His Ibctdy' lies under the pulpit o'f the Memorial Church in Dunfermline, his heart vender the high altar of Mel- rose Ablbey, and his liberty lovin}g spirit has gone, we hope, to a bright- er and bel er world than this; where oppression is unknown and where tyr- ants can .never enter. DRIVERS OF COM'MERCIAL, VEHICLE'S FIGURE LARGELY PN 'AUTO ACCIeDENT'S It is difficult to understand how drivers, expert euou'gh to be in charge of conn'nercial motor 've'hicles, could. be 8unvol'ved in over •1,900 accidents, in one province in one year—yet that is Ontario's record' for 1931. (Last year, 110 commercial vehicles were involved in fatal accidents. 1,088 were involved in accidents in which 'personal inijnry was sustained.' These are official ,figures, furnislte,d by tlae Motor Vehicles (Branch of the Ontario Department of eHighways. 3t is to be expected that the use of commercial vehicles in the province will continue to increase. It is there - „fore: of the utmost importance that drivers take warning from lank year's appaTliig experience, (And it is' equally inip'erative that drivers of pleasure cars and pedestri- ans co-operate in an,, effort to put a stop to.the senseless, ne'e'dless killing and (mai:Ling.of humans on Ontario's streets and high -way's. Persian Balm creates and, preserves lovely and youthful complexions. Tones and stimulates the skin. ,Frag- rant as a flower. 'Cool as morning dew. 'Swiftly absorbed by the tissues, making the skin, wonderfully soft - textured. Unrivalled as an aid to fem- inine elegance. Delightful to use. Ieni- • DWEN'TY•FIVE YEARS Ol+;,'ON - TkRIOrS 'MINNINiG'IdISTORX. A Review of(' Ou'tsandtng Develop- ments in the. Least Quarter 'af a '(Century • The history of Ontario'smining le- dustry for the past twenty -fire years striking as it'.is .wi'bh reference to nonL meballres; hs' dominated almost: to the exclusion olf other considerations by the dramatic' metai,tninin'g` 'devellep mel't'of Northern Ontario. Sudbury 1 b. Y produces 85 to, 90( per cenit. of the world's nickel, (Cobalt,' in ad'd'ition to produc'in'g 80 per cent. `•o(f the world's supply of that metal has been. exceed- ed: in tetall'sneer 'preelection by only throe other caenlpls, (Porcupine and Ki•rkl-and Lake heave raised Canaidia'ato second place in annualProduction a- mongst gool'd-1producin'g countries. !The story- of, this development' is the sltory of bhe- vast pre-Cantbria-n shield -that . stretches in a LT -Shaped !belt around Hiudso'n Bay froth Labra- dor to the Arctic Ocean. That sihield, Scarcely 20 per ce-nt. of which has been geologically explored, has al- ready given the province its distinct- ive position in metal -mining. Inc'lu'd- ing the nickel and -copper of 'Sudbury, the silver of Cobalt, Gowgand'e and South Lorrain, the gold of Porcupine and .Kirkland Lake, the:' region has pnovided wealth amounting to over a billion dollars. (Much has been 'writ- ten albout.this immense area in recent years. More and more it has attracted the attention, of the mining world, not only for its proved' but for its poten- tial riches. 'It; is the firm opinion' of. most mining anew that the wealth it, has produced to datte is ,but an indica- tion and a suggestio-n of the niches that future exploration and discovery may reveal. (Prior to 1.900, little was knohn of this nontehern country. (Occasional survey and exploration parties traver- sed the region, but travel was confin- ed to' the canoe roates -by way - of streams, takes and portages, while the wide, trackless spruce and jackpine forest areas back from the water routes were seldom visited by any one able to appreciate their mineral possi- bilities. As the building of the Canadi- an Pacific railway led to thhhe 'discovery of the world's greatest nickel deposits in the (Sudbury area in 1833, so did the construction of the Teneiskaming and Northern Ontario rail'weay lead to the discovery of the fatuous silver depos- its at Cobalt in 1903 and, indirectly, to the great gold deposits ,at Porcupine iu 1909, as well as those at Kirkland Lake in 1912 The only estelblis'hed centre of min- ing•. in Northern Ontario 25 years ago was at Sudbury, which at that time was a small town; Co'balt in the year 1905 was hardly more than a name: The rich gold campsat,1orcup•ine and Kirlcl'and Lake were undreamed of. As a direct result of prospecting and min- ing development, industrial comn10111 tics - have been, established, railways have been extended, water powers parts additional charm to the daintiest have been harnessed arid large areas of women. Persian Balm is the one have been opened up for settlement, toilet -requisite for the exacting woln- Now Sudbury is an incorporated city; an...Peerless as abeautifier,- Cobalt is a considerable community: Thhe town 01 Timnaina st Porcnpins bas a population of 1(4,000 and can be. reached by • ptlllnran car in 20 hours froth. Toronto. eKlirkland Lake is a thriving centre, and smaller towns and il1lageS throughout the area octane the progressive adlvaics o'f the prospector the pioneer of the mining ;industry. Not only has he :been the •forera'nner of development in Northern 'Ontario, but the .Provin'ce's experienced pros- pectors have gone farther afield and have pioateere,d in Northern Manitoba, findinfg the Flin Pion' copper deposits and also in Northwestern Quebec, where they located'. ' rich auriferous. coplper occurrences, of which Noranda is the most famous. • It is the'nosh ec'tor who is the true. P P pioneer as lie is the backbone of the mining industry: To Beim, Ontario owes: its place in the metal -,mining world and the Provincial De.p(arkmeint of Miners has been .keenly conscious of his value. At best his life is an ard- uous one, but the past 25 'years have seen a great intlprolvement .in his gen- eral circumstances. (The, day when prospectors travelled in ,pa'i'rs by can- oes to dista'nit, places has almost pas- sed. lThe paddle has been d'tlslplaced largely by the "kicker” or outbound motor. Remote and alm'ost,in'accesiblle areas are now readily reached by aer- oplane in a fraction of the time form- erly required. All these aids have speeded rip exiplorat'i'on work, and the Go'vernmen't has been cons'tan'tly act- ive on the prospector's behalf, as on behalf of the industry. Follotwing the report and recant- menciafion .of the Royal Commision instigating the mineral resources of Ontario, a Bureau of Mites was es- taehlishee,d in '1691 "to aid in promoting the mining interests of t'he Province" At first the Bureau wasunder the. Crown Lands Department, and later it became a (branch of the Department of Landes, Forests, and times. In the year 11920, realizing the industry's growth and importance, the Provin- cial Government established, a, separ- ate Department o'f Mines witch a Min- ister of eines in charge, and the title of Bureau was changed to that of De- partment. It assists the industry in many ways. A Provincial Assay Of- fice is located in 'Toronto, at which prospectors are entitled to have a cer- tain number of free assays made, and there is a testing laboratory and samp- ling works at Cobalt.' At the latter, ore is sampled and provision is made for the purchase of shipments of gold ore from .prospectors and small oper- ators. (Where required, tests are made and advice given as to the best method of - treatment of particular ores. !Blue prints showing the claims in good standing are supplied at nom - heal cost. 'Prospectors' classes are held in the mining centres during the winter months. At these instruction is given in "mineral spotting," ele- mentary chemistry, and geology; and popular 'lectures are delivered, illus- trated with slid -es, on mining and geo- logical to -pies. Assistance is given by the Government in trail -cutting and road -building in /new mining areas and where possible, branches of the Government railway (T, and N.O.) are built to provide important and per- tlanent eamps'wltla transportation fa= cilfties. Devclopmeti'ts Ill• he 'Geolo'gicai Brandt ha=ve lceipit-paset w^fth the other pi-oigressivve activitie's of the Depnart- inert. 1Previous to 1.902, all geological work for wi-ia't w'as' then) tile Bierman of Mines was performed by Univers- ity Profes,sor..s who were engagedfor the summer season, Geological, maps. covering Ontario areas were publish- ed by the oui ton Geological Sur- vey. u -vey. Itwas not untie Dr, W. G, Mil:' ler was attached to the Bureau in 1902 as provin'cial geologist Cleat the per-' manent character of the branch was established. No'w it has a permanent staff of four geologis'ts and employs each year a number of teenporary men for fiend work. IVVhen new discover- ies of importance are reported, the Department, where possible, sends' a ' geologist into the field at once to make a preliminary report, Where aeroplanes are available they are used to reach : remote areas, and this ser- vice has ,greatly extea'ifed the length' of the field season. The geologist no longer prepares his own ,neap for the printers as he did in the early days of the survey. ;The Department to -day has a regular ,neap -making Ibranch, and mapping is done by a staff of expert cartographers for ,ph'o'to -lithe repro- duction, The discovery of Cobalt and the mapping Of the silver areas was the beginning of a year-to-year campaign( of exploration of mineralizatian areas of Northern On'tario. This work has steadily inlcreased until in 19311 eleven geologi'ca'l parties were sent out, and reports, with maps of most of the areas, will be pu'blis'hed. Practicelly the -whole of the pre -Cambrian geol-- ogy of northeastern Ontario has now been mapped as well as many sections of northwestern Ontario. This works has been invaluable to the prospector and the m'in'ing industry generally. •iia addition to the 'mapping of metallifer- ous areas, the Department has one geologist who has specialized in rock formations later than the preaC'ambri- an, so that the geological possibilities of Paleozoic and more recent depos- its, as those near James Bay, can be properly studied. Among mining risen Ontario's min- ing law is considered one of the best in the world. '(ands and minerals be- long to the Province and are granted in fee simple, or leased for a term of years in the case of Provincial For- ests; consequently title is unassailable. D'isputes acisiug between individu- als, or between an individual and the Crown, are adjudicated first, by the local \lining Recorder, or on appeal, by the Judge of the Mining Court of Ontario. The 'procedure leading to trial is simple and expeditious. This arrangement avoids the cumbersome delays and heavy expenses of the or- dinary law courts. Another provision of The Mining Act clothes the Judge of the 'Mining Court, with power to grant rights and easements over other lands required 111 mining operatlons, such as the right to construct ditches and flumes, to discharge, drain or di- vert water and to store and take water to establish rights of way for roads, (Continued on page 2) • We Are _Selling Quality Books Books are ' Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get ,Anywhere, Get our Quotation on Your. Next Order. Seafor-th SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, News