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The Seaforth News, 1932-11-24, Page 3THURSDAY, NOVEIVIIBER 24, 1932 THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE THREE. ttow aEnJ RHEUMATISM New Medicine Drives Out Poisons, That Cause ''Torturing Stiffness, Swelling and Lameness EASES PAIN FIRST DAY You cannot get rid of rheu'ma'tic aches and, pains,' N ea ei Iti s , lane knotted muscles and stiff swollen Fonts till you drive from your system the irritating poisons that cause rhea mattsnt. External, tr'eatmen'ts only .give temporary relief. What you need is RU -3,0A, the new internal medicine that acts on ,the liver, kidneys and blood and expels tlirou,gh thea natural channel's of elim- ination, these dangerous poison's. No long waiting for your suffering to stop-RIU-IiyIIA eases pain first day —and so quickly and safely ends stif- fening, cni'pphing lameness and 'totter. ing pain that Oleas, Aberhart urges every reh ilmabic sufferer to gest a bot- tle today. They guarantee it. VIIEW PROM 'MOUNT ROYAL. 'The following •ex'tr''adt from 'a lec- ture .on ecture.,on. Canada, which the author ;(Dn. Campbell), deliv'ered' in 'different parts of the country. `rY'ou'have read olf'th'e inspired poet; who, while :gazing on his own be- loved city, burst 'forth 'in poetic rap- ture, saying "Beautiful for situation; the joy 'Of .the 'whiole ',earth is Mount Zion." A kindred 'feelinlg must have anlineated the breast all The 'sun'burn't sailer las he climbed the ,beautiful mountain (behind IHoc'h'elaga ,three hundred years ago, and as the mag- uiffscen't lands'ca'pe; ,rich with forest, lake and river, burst myon view, he exclaimed .with ent'husutasmt "Ohl the SRoyal M'ount!"'hen}ce the name of our. 'commercial 'me'troplalis, 'whic'h in. our ,day. has degenerated into 'Montreal. Upon a lovely 'evening ,'in `the anon'bh of rosy beauty," we (have stood with 'a friend out the :summit of 'that royal mountain. 1Th'e 'prospect was indeed lone of the grandest w'hich this .earth 'affords. The sun 'was sinking slowly behind my own native Ontario, dis- pensing its favors a few seconds long- er to the 'brightest and 'best of all the 'Provinces. The St. Lawrence and Ot- tawa rivers ane seen to westward like reads of •gold i:nterwovere in . cloth ,af .silver. We 'follow them with . our eyes until like bride an':d (bridegroom Who meet 'and embrace at' the hymen - dal altar, they become one and flow on in sweet tranquility 'bollards ;that im'agnilfioent 'gulf — fit entrance to a country so vast — 'where they mingle ,with and are ,forever lost in old ocean, as our lives merge into and are lost forever lin the vast ocean. of ,etern'i'ty. 'Turiiing to the south-east we .behold bheblue mountains of Vermont and New lI-gampshire in bhe'distan:ce, their lofty peaks tinged with .purple and gold by the 'parting rays ,of the set- ting sun. At our 'feet is'the 'busy oolm'- enerc'iai metropolis of our young Do- minion, the smoke of its'ntanufactur ris'in'g sio'w3y and calmly to heav- en ,like i:n'cense from an .evening sac-. rifiice. The fall towers of the French +Cathedral are rising majestically above the rest f the city, indicating to my ininvd the nationality and the religion 'that are still in the ascendant. The ihiaatbor .i -s cro'wded with vessels of all nations and of revery description, loading and un:lo'adim:g ,their cargoes, tailingu:. theft this is indeed 'the rich eneporitirnv o'f,• 'the west, while further down to the ,centre of that noble +ri'vor we observe ISt. Helen's island wttb its guns, its soldiers, and its ,fortress, with bhe ,glorious flag of ofd lEngland still +floal4tcg proudly lila, the 'breeze. Further up ;our eyes rest up'o'n the 'Victoria bridge, the longest and 1peillealpe the nins't 'Wonderful: 'in the world, We ,watch a train.approadh .th'at long dark tube; it enters -it is lest from view as a w'illd animal that enters his oav- enrn, ,thio rocks—now it : makes its exit—it passes on in triumph to ,its des'tin'ation, bdaring bhe rich pro'd'u•oe of the west to' the .seaboard, "We bole 'dawn, -Ibut not lin the contempt ulpouc the modest unpretending .,edifice of 'McGill Un'ivers'ity, with its ,pleasant walks and verdant meads. Surround- ing us' on all sides is -the rich foliage of the trees that ,over'to!p the nnoun fain, •wi'th the 'feath'ered songsters of the ,grove .siingin'g, the requiem of de- parting day 'amongst ,their 'branches, ,while away 'behind us lies .the ,Necno- ipolis, the 'city elf the'd.ea'd, :where the rich and great of Montreal are'nnoul'd- ering in the silent dust 'of the earth, 'where they shall lie In silence and in gloom until •tike 'first shrill 'blast .Of the Archangel's' trumpet call's (them from 'behind the ,mountain. But the dark (curtain ,of the s'ab'le goddess is being drawer, •closely 'around nus, the sun 'h'as now sunk :beneath the western 'h'ori- zon, the .gas lights are !glimmering in the city, it is time to return. We re- trace our step's slowly .down the m'ow'n, Min side, saying to oar 'companion, as we go, "W!ell might. the hardy mari- ner of 'St. Maio 'call this the 'Royal mountain,' but this meant shall be moved, (this city :shall pass away, but they filet 'trust in the 'Lord sh'al'l be like Mount Tian, which can never be moved." - 1NP11O PERPETUAL DARK , The story of the bathysphere dive of '1932 begins at 7 o'clock -'on the morning of (August 31. At that time several craft converged toward an ugly:: little shed of .corrugated iron on a wharf to .the west of ,St. (George's, Bermuda. Little bun- boats brought' engineers and canpe•nters toward the wharf •steamed a huge; open -decked tug, the 'Freedom, 'whic'h . was, this year, to be the another 'control boat. At this poiah an adventurer in speed or height or dleg'th usually tells 'how this wonderful 'mechanical friend -- , , plane or dirigible, 'speed 'beat or rac- ing auto -'glistens: in 'the sunlight, every part polished or newly painted, ,every joint ,oiled, poised in, the hang- er or 'garage .ready for its supreme !effort. But tour poor old bathysphere aippeared lake some ancient Galapagos tontoise, or the !'hell of a sea :turtle, scarred and dull, 'barnacled and scam - ed. She had no name painted in bright letters and her ,side's were smeared and dimmed with oil andri�nt'e, S' I crept around to the front of the. bathysphere and gently rubbed th, surface of its •slurootih eyes with my handkerchief. The great quartz. win- dows 'gave me sitars for stare, only my face being visible e,oev that the interior was hermetically 'sealed, as it, had beenfor a year and more. Where seemed no change in, the glass — the right-hand one slightly s'uilolley as it had always been, 'but the' centre one, through which I had first 'seen the ,creatures of the deeip, cea,r. as -only fused quartz can be. I •psuelted ,at the 'slide of the sphere, but its twe tons ci weight stirred not a h'air'Is breadth, (Then I stepped bade and a ,sthackl,e was s'lipp'ed into one Of the sus- pending hetes, a hand 'waved, and the m'az'e of pulley wires moved and s'traighten'ed, ,became taut, and :the Mighty ,gio'b:e of steel rose tge ttly from its bed, swinging slowly 'bac'k and forth in the aie. !It curved high over- head and descended without a jar on to the deck ,o'f ,the ;Freedom. And .so, after I'haid seen 'the 'bathy- sphere (safely on board the Freedom. it seemed a iplpro'piniade and natural that an; eciilpsle o1 the sun s'hlauld Ibe- gin—a cosmic .event which dwarfed my pulpy human efforts into nothiang- nes's- IOne 'week later—Wednesday, Sept. 7 - every ,d,etaidl.of peepar'ation had been completed. 'A new quartz window had beep in'stalle'd' and the sphere painted. Even the solid rubber hose holdi'n'g the telephone and light wires was ;uncoiled .and stretched ' in great loops on :the ,deck. As the last length was arranged :a gentle breeze ruffled th,e waiter. For a time .this fluttered, then died down, then ro's'e again. Be- fore long the sinister, ,!scarlet hurri- cane warning wren up at the Signal St'a'tion. . Go again, the renascence of the bathy's'phere was greeted with a cos- mic'happening—'this time the great- est 'danger 'which ,e'ould possibly at- tend any attempt at traversing, to say nothing of ,penetrating, old ocean. Little 'by little' the surge died down, the surf settled, and on 'Tuesday morning, (Sept. '11.3, we !ga'the'red our luggage and rput to sea. Six miles off s'hor'e we turned u,p wind and got the bathysphere into barnes's for a 'test. We 'stripped her 'interior df all instru- ments, fastened. on .the 4110 -pound door, attached the shackle of the big wire cable and slowly lifted her into the air and over the side. (She settled' with a splash of alabas- ter foam which did not, cattle even a q'ui'ver in her great frame, and slowly sank tdawnnvard, her ,fine new coat o'f deep regent 'blue changing to pale turquoise : before She disappeared. •Layer after layer of cable was paid .out until the drum was almost bare and the gauge marked 3,000 feet, al- most three-fifths ,of. a .mi11e, There she swung for a while. and then the win_h braced itself, creaked and began. to turn in the opposite dir'e'ction. ' One 'hour and forty min- utes after she had vanished, we again caught eight o f a 'flash h of pale blue, and a few seconds Eater she was half out of water. St was apparent that something was very,wrong, • and as tine 'bathysphere swung clear 7 ,saw a needle of waiter ah'ootinng across the 'face of .the new quartz window. 1Vjeighing' much more than she sh'ould have, she carne oyer the side an'd' was lowered .to the ele'ck Looking throng]) one of the good windows I could 'see :that she was ale+os' full of water. IThere wore curious ripa fes on the top of the water, anci T knew that the space above was fll'sd with air, but such air as Ino human lung could tolerate for a moment Unceasingly the thin stream of water and .air drove obliquely across the outer face ofthe quartz. 5 began` to unscrew- the giant wing - bolt in ,tlne centre of the door, and, after the first (flew turn's, a strange 'high, • singing came forth; then a fine mist, steam-like.in consistency,- shot out; them, another and another. Csre- fully, little by little, I ,turned the brass handles, soaked with the spray, and 'I listened as the high musical tone of impatient, confined ' elnnents gradu'al'ly d'es'cended the scale, 'a quar- ter-tolae' or less at each slight. turn. Realizing' w'ha't might happen, I c'lea'red the entire 'deck in .front of the bathysp'h'ere. 'Suddenly; • without the slightest warning, the 'bolt was torn from my hand :and shot across the deck like a bullet from a gun, Ifallio'wed by a solid sheet of water, .which slackened at ince to a cata'rac't, pe.uning out the hole in the door. IT ,I had been in the way I should have :been, decapitated. All my 'life I had read of ,the terrific pressure of 'great depths, acid had seem bottles and c'ana come up .drushed, but never un't'il now had ,I 'had first -h'a'nd visual ;pro'o'f of this ',phenomenon.. We tested the temperature of the water and found it 16 degrees, which show- ed that the primary break had occur- red 2,000 feet down. 1Wben I 'boiled out the rest of the water, we pushed eut'Ithe new :quartz window and found it to be in perfect condition, The whole trouble. 'had been in the pack- ing around the window. More days of excitement 'followed. On 'Friday, we went to sea, but were driven in by a 'heavy 'Swell. The next day was still rough, but we managed to get the bathysphere overboard -arid sent her down It!o full 3,000 fleet. The new ,glass window had been replaced 'by the ofd steel 'plate. The 'outs. on .this 'had 'been tightened only with a hand monkey wrench, and when the sphere again appeared at the 'surface the packing ,around the plate was spouting water. 'It l'an'ded heavily, and clearing the entire ,deck I began as before to unscrew the wing -bolt. With the last few threads ,there canine a per- fect .s'cneam df spouting 'water and steam, ,and the bolt was thrown clear across' the deck, thirty feet, s'tni,king the (big :operating winch in a flat tra- jeotory and making dents in 'the brass handles a (half inch in depth. Again the steel 'plate window was repacked, and this time the 'heaviest t Ch ck • We Tire Sellinq Y Qualit Books y - Books are. Well Made, Ca on is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Blacks, Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation t on Your Next Orier. The Seaf�rth News SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. members ,of ther ,d cwus'hed m uni I P sour and swung full weight upon the nuts, Afterthat the abIthysph'ere was hors't- e da uP andover and. d'o'wer again to 3,00G feet. It carne easily and quickly up, and a glance 'through the :door showed that the sphere !was bone dry, lOne more test with the telephone and light cable 'attached , and we Would be ,saltislfied, But not until the next Thaursday,'Sept. 22, were w -e able to ma'ice lit. Filially we wcatcready for the des- cent: The stair orf .the (New York ,Zoo- logical Society's tropical research de- partment had gone through, the rout- ine so often ;two years ago and during the last two weeks' ,that ,preparation was almost instinctive, John (Tee -Van was in charge :o+f closing th:e b'athy- sphere'and 'of ,the three deck winches and the activities of the crew in low - !ening and raising it; Gloria Hollister had. the upper .earphones and was res- ponsible for: the recording of all my observations; Jbcelyn Crane 's'at by her with charts for recording time, depths, ,templeratu'res; IOitis'Blarton and myself were, as before, to make +the drive in company. 'The ,National 'Broad- casting men were eager for action. The ba'thysp'here was on deck at 12.50 pdm, We had only ab'ottt ,a half hour to .prepare for ou'r descent in or- der to emerge before ;dark But some- how or other this was done. We made a final survey of all in- stru'mente and aplparatus and crawled into :the bathysphere at .1•.115 'p.m, The door was swung into .place and then came the ber'rific hamrnering'ho'm'e of the filen great nuts, a ,process w'hi'ch alndost stunned us. The ,spectrosoope for analyzing the dight, and the illunr- dn'omete'r for measueimg it, were pees - ed into the central four -finch hole. ;Then, ,with a 'last word, the wing -'bolt was slowly revolved toward us over the 'fine 'thread's, until it came flu's'h and we' ware aeaied as tightly as white lead sad rape p'acki'ng and .the force o'f nuts and"bolts upon steel could make us. IImnned'iately (Barton 'unscrewed' the oxygen valve and 'I put on the ear- phones and established connection with :Liss Hollister. 'I gave the order to send us over and we felt rthe first tremble and then the stvlay of the !phone in mid-air, and the never for- gotten .swish and flow of bubbles and foam over ,the glass and. ` then the splendid pale brilliance of the green upper layer of ocean. After two weeks' of vain attempts we were at last start- ed' en the ,deep, downward pat'h of our first 'dive this year, (For the first 200 feet me shifted and settled, ,and arranged :our legs and in- struments for the long ,period Of in- carceration in 'our' cramped enclosure '(the d•iame'tler of the bathysphere is 4 feet 9 inches). Seldom have I been .so cons'ci'ous of 'the force of gravity, for Iwe were in a perfect sphere and every loose, inanimate thing sought constantly to rest at the .bottom. I had my notebook, •small instruments and. flas'h'light in. an open pouch slung around my neck. 'Everything ,else pos- sible Was in breast pockets, and all other .things had to be held up or searched' for when needed among the saws, hammer, wr'ench'es, .safety nuts, drying 'clatks, spare oxygen tank and :keys which_ da'y in, a mase at the bot- tom. ,At 200 feet we 'b'eca'me aware ofthe stuffiness of the atntnspjaere and by a vigorous Tanning 'filled ithe sphere with a cool, .refres'hin'g breeze, the heavy carbon dioxide being 'blown up to the trey of absorbent soda lime and the oxygen .distributed 'evenly through - At 376 feet: a quick (photometer reading indicalted that with the small- est d'iap'hragm, opening an .exposure of Thirty seconds .would be required' for making a 'photograph. At '300 and' 400 feet ,green changed .to blue to the eye and several ',surface jellylfish passed, an Atingle and two ctenophores, At 500 'feet we had an elatbarate and careful rehearsal of light signals. These ,vera of Ihhe greatest import- ance For ,b1 anything should 'happen to our sole .line Of ,00mniuntc'at'ion—tile telep'hone'vrires—a single :flickering of the light on d'e'ck would indic'alte at Iebst that we were still alive, and a triple signal Would 'cause us to be drawn ',up as raplidly-'as 'possible. Still at '500 feet we were informed that the sky was be'c'ome 'partly over- cast and the 'Freedom was rolling more, a motion. 'which was only too evident tows. II took a careful s-oec- troscape reading and .could see about 80 per cent purple and ,violet, 20 per beret green, byt ,no other colors. P'hlot ometer 'reading wars the ;sante as at 2715.feet, probably due to the ;florets - ed gamer of the sun during the mo- ment of o!lseser'atilan, • At 535' feet Many salpa passed, and three 1p,ng, sie cliex worms, with elon- gated tentacle's, others being just vis- ible in the distance: At one time a maze of what looked like targe ostra- cods carte Clbse to the ,glass. Alt 675 feet I s,aw my first school of argyro- peieeus or silver hatchet fish,'. which at once showed 'the im'.per!fection, of our. ,traw'lin'g .apparatus, las..adults of this species have never 'been taken in these waters at a :lesser depth than 1,500 feet. Services We Gan Rendes In thetime ofneedPROTECTION isur o best friend. Life Insurance —To ",protect your LOVED ONES. Auto .Insurance— To protect you against LIABILITY to P'UIBL3C and their PROPERTY. Fire Insurance— T'o protect your HOME and its CONTENTS. Sickness and Accident Insurance- To prqtectyour-INCOME; Any of the abode lines we can give you in strong and reliable companies. If, interested, call or write, E. C. CHAMBERLAIN INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 334 Seaforth, Ont. One thousand feet was reached at 2,37 p.m., .with the light becoming ever more and more :dian, ,Here we ]lung fo'r a time and (took 'stook o'f the oonditionis. su our little World. The door and oxygen 'valve were in perfect shape and the hose from the stuffing box .showed mot a drop o'f Moisture. I flashed the 'l'ight toward the win- dows and saw .trickles of water com- ing from under ehe electric light screen. For a moment we had .that pieculiar feeling ' with 'which every honest explorer must admit familiar- ity, and then I saw ,that all the wall's showed meandering trickles Of mois- ture, and we .knew ,that it was .the norma' cond'ensa'tion on the cold steel from the heat ;of our bodies. Violent fanning every few minutes kept the air cool 'and fresh, and 'we regulated the oxygen valve to lexaictly Imo litres a minute. 1The oxygen was being used up more rapidly than we licked; so Barton began, giving his r,eports on the i'ns'truntenits .in as few- 'words as poss'i'ble and my o'bse'rvations began to lack 'unnecessary adjectives and ad- verbs. Alt' 2.56 p.m. our ears were deafened by sudden, blasts and we learned that two tugs were celebrat- ing :otfr arrival at our 'former record. of 1,426 feet. At .1,00 feet When the. searchlight was turned' on, the beam of light re- vealed two (large eels which at once swam isp out cf the light. 'These showed nib lights on their 'bodies and were considerably slenderer than those seen higher up. iThey were undoubt- edly serrivonner. About this time word came down the wire ,th'at we 'were ;being broad- cast, but a moment later this was for- gotten and not again remembered un- til we were reminded of its ending half an (hour later. :Sealed up as we were, the human mind utterly recus- ed to conceive of any one (except my assistant, whose voice I constantly heard being able to hear what 1I was Saying. At 1,650 feet 'I recorded it as bei'n'g as black as 'Hades! I was run- ning out of neasonable similes. IA school Of brilliantly illuminated jelly- fish with pale green lighrts throbbed past 'within .three feet of my windows, their lights exceedingly bright. Six minutes after 3 found us at 1,700 feet, where we remained for three minutes. I made very careful o'b'servations with th:e spectroscope ,and photometer and could get no' results whatever. The human eye at .this depth could dietect no glimmer of light through either instrument. I had now attained the object of this whole dive, namely,' to get below the" level of humanly visu'a'l light. The teneperature'in the bathysphere was 72 degrees. At 1750 'feet six fis'h,. each with a double line of lights down the side of the body, were 'in sight. At 31211 I 'gave the order to lower us 'fudther, and three minutes later word cam'e down :'that we were swinging a't a depth of 2,200 feet. 'The temper'-ature as 70 degrees, but the steel felt 'clammy cold. 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