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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-08-10, Page 3is IPHURS'D''AY, AUGUST 10, 1933 THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE ..THREE; Services We Can Render In the time of needd'1ROTECTION is your best ;friend: Life Insurance —To protect your LOVED ONES, Auto Insurance— / , To protect you against LAI (ELITE to P'UB'LIC and their PROPERTY. Fire Insurance— To protect your HOME and its CONTENTS. Sickness and Accident Insurance— To protect your INCOME Any pf the above/ lines 'we can give you in strong and reliable companies, lr interested, call or write, E. C. CHAMBERLAIN INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 334 Seaforth, Ont Use Miller's Worm Powders and the battle against worms is won,. These powders, correct the morbid condition, of the ,stomach which nour- ishgthe worms, and these destructive ,parasites cannot exist after they come in contact with the medicine. The worms are digested by the powders and are speedily evacuated with other reuse front the bowers. Soundness is imparted to ,,the organs and the health of the ohild ateadily impro "es. Papular Stallions SEASON OF 1933 The Handsome, Choicely Bred Clydesdale Stallion "IIIJASIH4O'N" No. ,(25022) (20576) Imported. Approved Form 1•_'Enrolment No. 2096 Monday' noon will leave this own stable lot 23, con. 5, Logan, and pro- ceed to Peter Hignell's, lot 14, .con. 5, McKillop, for night. Tuesday To Jos. Flannigan's,- lot 6, con. 7, McKillop, for noon, thence to Rock (Bros., Brodhagen, for night. Wed e-qday—To Thos. . Bolton's, lot 19, r ie 10, tird1Gllop, for noon, then to Geo. Bennewies, lot i, con. +12, Mc- Killop, for night Thursday—To. Amos Wicke's, lot 29, ton. 24, Lo- gan, for noon, thence ' to George, Siemon's, lot 24, con. 11, Logan, /for night. Friday—To his own stable` for noon, where he will remain until the following Monday noon.. This route will be continued throughout the season, health and weather per- mitting. , Terms—VC to insure, due Feb. 1st, 1934. JACOB HIGNELL, Proprietor and Manager. +Clydesdale .Stallion 'HAIGG (2i1'563) Enrolment No, 4116 Approved. Form 1 Monday leaves his own stable, lot 22, con. l!3, Hibbert, goes north 'l% miles and west to Ed. McKay's for noon. Thence 'west and south by way of .'White- school to Walter Madge's for night. TuesdayWest to the 2nd concession of Hay, ''then south to Earl 'Campbell's for noon, then south to Leo Johns for night. Wednesday—East eto Larry Taylor's for noon, then east and north to Jack Simpson's for night. Thursday —North 'by way of the boundary . to his own stable where he will' remain until Saturday mo'rnin.g; Saturday -- North North . and • east to Donald 3fdICi'n- non's for noon, then south to the 12th concession and west to his own stable where he will remain until tfie following. (Monday morning.' This route will be continued for ,the sea - Ion, health and weather permitting. Terms—$10 to maitre. WM. COLE Prop, Enrolment No. 2614. Passed. Form 1 STARI,GHT 10026 This handsome choicely bred Per- cheren'Stallion will travel the follow- ing route' during the season of 1930;. Monday -will leave his own s'table at 'Munro and will ,go- to Ed Rose's, 5 miles north of Dublin for night,' Tuesday will go to John L. Malone's, one mile 'west of' Beec!hwood. Wed- nesday returns to . his own stable. +Thursday goes south to Bruce Coop- . er's one mile smith ' of Elimville for night; Friday to Orville k% miles north of. Kirkton for Roger's.oon, Then home' for night. Saturday goes to Carlingford and home by way of '1Fulf5rton. This ,horse is drawn •on trailer and will respond to calls off route. Terms to insure $12; two mares from the same owner, $10. Parties losing colts' will have free 'service the following year. NORMAN PARSONS, Munro Proprietor and Manager. (Ph'o'ne 20r5, Dublin. J1 EXICO9S SLANT LIFE LAND OF GREAT FLOWERS AND 11 WWJ1Y TREES. Pink Geraniums Climb Three Stories •--You Can Walls Beneath Datong While Itushias Groiv Sn Cltunps The Great Tree of Tule. Mexico is' a land'of tropical luxus- lance' and mighty trees. There are great flowers which arise marvellous and mighty at the call pf the morn- Ing sun. Black` bumblebees to match them are as big ars some of the far -voyag- ing humming birds from the north. The landscape, says an article in the New .' York . Herald -Tribune, often seems to be a scene imagined by Jos- eph Urban for the opera "Oberon," wherein soprani and tenori must be diminished tothe size of fairies by. the vast, flowers which droop from the proscenium and grow beside the paths upon the stage. I have been walking underneath the dahlias. ,This region was the dahlia's first home, and at the slightest provo- cation tt here becomes a tree, bear- ing mauve flowers, usually double, more rarely single, shading garden walks' and thatched Indian homes, taller than the lilacs of New England, I remember how a white rose, in a patio at Uruapan, suddenly leaped from a little shoot to one strong stem ten feet, high, perfect in foliage and crowned by a solitary flower of car- ron pearl which two hands could not encircle. Up in the capital the pink geran hums climb three stories and creep over the roof=tops, out o'f sight, and along with them goes the fair blue pltlmbago. The heliotrope there at no longer our little window plant; it makes a bower. Magnolias! At Patzcuaro they are cream -colored moons in the glossy. dark leafage overhead. Grisp,.heavy, opaque petals spread out ten inches broad pouring forth the, keen fresh odor of newly -cut limes. The fuchsias of Coyoacan grow 15 clumps and hedges, the pendent flow ers of some showing all clear scarlet, while others wear the familiar Tyrian colors that used to be so much ad• mired in grandmother's conservatory: These monstrous cactus forms, nopales and organon—one would not talk of them without a camera tot support, nor of the soaring marigolds. the Madonna lilies which at our door- way in Uruapan lift their white glare in an arcade, nor of the royal scarlet canopy that here, is made by the poin. settle, the Christmas 'shepherd's Sower." The Palma Christi, which after al! is just the castor bean, is in the barro of Santa Magdelena a luxus• lent jungle, tree, bearing its prickle red harvest in the company of coffee bushes and bananas, while certalc yucas or ixtles—one remembers thosi clusters of creamy bells which swig, at a • mere flower's height in Centra Park are used in Oaxaca as ornamen• tal backgrounds for statues and beat deep panniers of ivory bloom. The oleanders and hibiscus shrubs at Cuautla are bouquets of the earth Titans, and the melange or taro, that lily of the cool darks leaves, there shadows rustic teats. But it can nr longer be postponed -I must speak of the Great Tree of Tule—the won- der of the Valley of Holy Mary of the Bulrush in Oaxaca! It seems a forest when you see it first, appearing .above the tangled roses, the pomegranate blossoms and laden orange branches of the Zapote- can village. It is perhaps the oldest living thing upon our continent, per- haps the largest tree. (For no one knows, of course, just ' what trees there may be, nor what their ages,) Figures so often given leave ono no faint idea of the air of dreaming anti- quity which weighs upon the Tree of Tule's drooping boughs, of its regal peace, the insignificance of years and peoples' perceived within its shade. There is serenity in the gift of the Great Tree of Tule. It seems to bee kind tree. In every conflict it has been respected — respected when cathedrals were assailed and churches shattered. But one would not dare to dwell near it. Thero is something overwhelming in the shade of it and in the thoughts it calls up from the depths of time. You have read some time about this ,tree—haw its trunk, four feel above the 'ground, measures 160 feet around, and how it stands as high as that, while its leathery foliage spreads 140 feet but over the little churchyard where it grows. It Is a Mexican cypress, one of those same ahuehuetes which shaded Montezu- ma's pleasaunce at Chapultepee and which with the Tree of the Sad Night at Popotla are probably the only iiv- ingmonuments of his time and of, the Conquest. Perhaps it is fifteen centuries old. One would like it to live forever, and indeed there is hope that the memory of it'wll' be ling✓ for near by in the churchyard grows its "son," another united forest slow- ly aspiring to its father's fame and might. These enormous trees dwarf fan- tastically between them the Chorea of Tule, which seems' the more a try for being white and painted in de- signs of bright red and blue. Th parent tree is venerated like an ole living god by the Indians. and feet! vats are regularly held in its lame:. at which itis adorned with rr:'t`r made of lollipops and other off ^ - In the ground beneath it crowd ea,' mortal inscriptions, set in burr gray teeth, whereby, the dead see.a immortality which the Great Tree 1. come nearer to attaining that c-vl 'they, now that they have been take] under by the giants in the earth t Mexico. • Make Money, from Frogs. Such big catches have been a:' by bullfrog hunters in the marsh< Louisiana, that there are more pow than there are people who +r - the delicacy of their fried I e, ',quarters. Louisiana supplies the rest of 11, world with same two million frogs .' IN THE !GARDEN Good Late Summer and 'Autumn Flowers For the 'Perennial Border. (Experimental 'Parms Nota)' at It is easy to have bloom in the IPeren.nial Border in spring and early summer, but after the delphiniums are over there seems` to be a lack of +flowers in most gardens. At the' Cen- tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa, we try to nave 'something in bloom' all: season. Yellow coreopsis and brown. and yellow gasllardia will bloom all season if the seedheads are cut off. Dracocephalum has a purple flower and blooms in August. Sedum spec- tabile and its varieties are pin'loish bloom late. The foliage is bluish green 'and qu'i'te attractive all sum- mer. These are all 'sotitable for the front of the border. A useful pints flower, is Lavatera .kasdrmerdana. (•'L.' thuringia'ca !Siberian form is similar). It grows 5 to 6 feet and blooms all July, .S'id•alcea also has pink flowers' and a long season of !bloom. There are several varieties and all +arc• useful, 'Monarda didym•a, "Oswego Tea," is fregwenItly seen, Its variety Cam- bridge Scarlet ans-brid'ge.Slcarlle't is also worth growing, The Monkshoods (A'conitum) are all useful late summer 'blooming '.plants. 'The flowers are blue and shaped like a hood. The foliage is dark glossy green. Boccomia, Plume poppy and 'Oi'micif•uga are tall, handsome plants suitable for the back of large borders. They have creamy, white flowers. Perennial phlox is one of 'the most 'useful fall tblooming flowers and it can be 'obtalined" in a .great .number of colours ranging . from white to deep red and purple. To grow well .they need good soil and plenty of moist- ure during the growing season. They soon exhaust the soil and shouldbe dug and divided every few years. This rule also applies to perennial asters or Michaelmas daisies as they are sometimes called. There are three different sections of these which should be in every border. Aster amellus, such as King George and Queen• Mary, grow about 2 feet and bloom in July and August, Aster .No- vae angliae, the New England Aster, is very hardy and showy and blooms in September. Good varieties are Lit 'Fardell, deep rose, and Ryecroft Pttr- ple. In the Novibelgi section there are a great number of beautiful varieties in shades of mauve, pink and wh'ute. In district's where the season is mild (Anemone japonica both the white and pink varieties are very attractive. • Miller's Woccni Powders prove •their. value, They do net cause any violent disturbances in 'the stomach, any pain or griping, but do their work quietly and • painless'ly, so that the destruc- tion of the worm's is imperceptible. Yet they are thorough, and from the first dose there is improvement in the condition of the sufferer and an entire cessation of manifestations of inter- nal trouble, ,Attorney: "Now, sir, did you, •or did you ,not, on the date in question, or at any time, previously or su''bse- gttett'tly, say or even intimate to the a stranger, that the statement imputed ;o you, whether just or unjust and denied by the plaintiff, was a matter or no moment or otherwise? Answer, did you or lid you :not?" Defendant: "Did 1 or did I not what? WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HEREDITY? So obvious are the broadoutlines di heredity as to be universally ac cepted. It is when the refinements of the theory of heredity are reached that puzzles spring up `and scien'ce' finds itself busy -too often in vain• Thus everybody , admits that cab- bages are descended from cabbages and not frolic water•-rnelons; negroes from n•egroes, and not from :'Chinese;. nor does the descent of a 'maggot from a fly disturb the general prin- ciple Of heredity' in time least."'Science however, has little to say about the inheritance of .mental and moral characters;' and "dais is so "practical a question that many people are dis- appointed with science. !Some of them indeed, are fond rof saying that there is no science of 'heredity at all; that about heredity we know nothing. A beginning has definitely .been made, and there is 'every reason to believe that the science of heredity will'. in time make the same prodigious strides, and bring to 'human thought as revolutionary notions as have been recorded in the history of physics or chemistry. ' 'The Darwin of .heredity was the AbbeMendel, and, in tribute to his. life -work, the science of heredity is Often . known as Mendelism, He was the abb'o't of Brunn, a little Austrian town seventy miles north-west of Vi- enna. r-enna, He was in lays sixty-second. year when he died in !158((4. It was not, however, until d90.0 that his name and 'work became generally known; had for the broadcasting of Mendel's theories we are indebted to Professor de Vries, Since 11+900 those theories have suffered modification, and •yet their essential validity holds good. iMendel's experiments were con- cerned, in the main, with garden. .peas. To add to the interest of the subject we will not, !however, discuss peas, but one or two heritable human c'haracteris'tics—to Twit, the color of the eye and the texture of the hair Olbserveifirst, then, that eye color and hair texture (by which iI mean whe- ther hair be straight or curly) are in- herited in accordance with laws that are now familiar, 'Eye colors 'are'c1'as- sifted as blue or thrown. Greys, greens., dark blues, light blues and so •onare 'for our purpose, known compendious- ly as blues. Now, a pair of brown - eyed parents can have a blue-eyed child, 'but 'a pair of blue-eyed parents cannot have a brown -eyed •child. If one parent is brown -eyed and one 'blue-eyed, the child May be 'brown - eyed ar blue-eyed, .Science has elim- inated chance from these happenings, and has introduced 'law and order into seeming disorder and 'mystery; more precisely, it vt'as Mendel who did j'his♦ (Let us begin by considering a man (or 'woman) who has inheritedbrown we will call such a person 'BB. No matter Whom IBIS ,Marries, .lie_ (or she) will 'transmit to his children the brown eye characteristic,' ILet es say he transmits B". NOW suppose BB to- marry a IB113. Then both husband and wife transmit "B." The child, die' heriting 13" from 'both parents; is obviously to be described, +('llke'eacli parent) as of •B113 tape. ,So far, so, simple. But suppose that a (BIB type 'marries one who 'has inherited blue eyes from both parents? We will call such a person bb. The child inherits brown eyes from one parents and blue from the other. There is - no doubt )about that; both characteris- tics are definitely 'transmitted; neith- er is, :inarty case,lost. Using our ab- breviations, we must describe the child as 'B'b—i:e., as having inherited brown eyes and blue eyes! What do. we find, from simple observation? Do we !find that Bb has one bro'wr eye and one blue? We. -do not, Cr that the eyes areof a ,color midway between brown .and :blue? Again no. We in- variably /find that the Bib type has 'brown eyes -never blue. We encoun- ter, ''therefore, • this arresting truth 'about 'he'redity—that of certain. pairs of inherited alternative 'characteristics there is one that invariably and nec- essarily takes precedence . over the other—as : brown eyes always take precedence lover blue and curly hair over straight. Thus we say that brown is "dominant" an'd' blue "re- cessive"; that curly hair is dominant and straight recessive. And now we .can carry our argu- ment a step further. 'What will be the ,eye colors of the children result- inging 'from the marriage of a Bib with a B+b—that is to say, of two brown eyed parents who •'themselves have inherited latent, non -apparent, "re- cessive" :blueness of eye? Each .par- ent transmits, in equal shares brown- ness and blueness. The one transmits (using our shorthand) B and +b, and the other also transmits IB and 'b. Any child of the marriage .inherits .a char- acteristic made up of the union of any two of the elements IB and b, Four combinations are possible :BIB, ,Rb, IBb, and bb. Now that is the fu'l'l ans- wer to the mating of Bb and 113b. IWe have already seen that Bb (do- minant •brown, recessive blue) is brown -eyed, as also is 'BIB obviously. ;The result therefore is --three brown - eyed children and one blue-eyed. Let me warn the reader against undue haste in drawing inferences from such a result, which represents an average .and not a stereotyped pattern for ev- ery four -child family from B'b par- ents. It means this—that if, let us say we examined .1!;000 children all of whom had 'Bb parents, the proportion of brown -eyed 'to blue-eyed would be .approximately three to one. If we ex - 1 ambled .1,000,000 such children the proportion would be much more near- ' ly true; if only 100, less so. The same is true for curly and straight hair, '0Remember that curly is dominant and stright recessive.) Thus if we examine a group of child- ren all of whose parents were curly haired, bat with latent or recessive straight-haired 'tendencies '(1.e., all parents Cc, C 'meaning curly and c straight), we 'find that the proportion of curly-haired children to straight- defendant or .anyone else, whether eyes 'fro'm both parents. To ecoeom uaintance or in ize space and to effect greater clarity haired is also three to one. Some further developments will be as easily fo'llowea, Suppose now we, mix l(as 'Nature does) hair curly., or straight with eyes 'brown or blue. Can we still predict inheritance? We can:: Where eyes or hair lack any element. that is latent; where dominant and recessive no longer co-e:vist, the prob- lem is simple. Complexity only arises with the intrusion of mixed elements,. dominant end recessive. 'Let us eon- sider a typical case, viz:, the mating; of two parents who are 'brawii•:eyedl and curly-haired, but harbor latent' blue eyed and straight-haired "ten- dencies." 11 we examined 11600 children all of whose= iparents were brown -eyed and: curly-haired, but all, of whom had. latent or recessive straight-haired and. blue-eyed characters, .approximately 9.00 would be brown -eyed and early - haired, 300 would be brown and straight; '300 'blue and curly, and 1TAll would be blue-eyed and straight- haired. ,And so we might continue to combine •characteristics. We could take three pairs of alternatives—say,. eyes, hair ,noses, and work out in the - same sin'tple way •all 'the possible combinations and• all the nuntericaT pro b'a'bilities, 'The )problem resolev's itself into an exercise in elementary mathematics. Mental heredity is stillto a large - - extent a closed boos:. We see undis- tinguished persons having sons whose fame becomes world-wide — Eke Shakespeare, Beethoven, (Napoleon or. (if I' map mention a living- celebrity)) Lloyd IGeorge. We observe faesri'he� that have produced'Ifamnus 'men for centuries, like the Cecils and the: Chur•chille. And science does little -ore nothing to help us out of the maze_•.. Dean 1Lnge is a typical example of the -- thinker Who, darkly brooding ; upon heredity, bursts into tears in contem- plating the future of the race. Like:• Mantalini, he sees the race going/ ma the "demnition 'bo'w-wow's." TT The salt Dean's argument is this: There is a: differential birth-rate. The "best"' people have few children, the "worst' have many.lThrough the action of the laws of heredity, the race will there- fore degenerate progressively!i 'W'hile admitting that there is mucliz. to he said for breeding from/' goods material and ,for the prohibition of propagation of heritable disease,,. it does not follow that •the "worst" - classes are any worse than any other- class except in being "worse of." The Dean and his friends are guilty of an "ar.gumentum in circulando." Their. argument runs: These classes are poor because they are mentally inef-• ficieut, and the proof of their menta: inefficiency is their povertyl Ability or incapacity, physical health' or dis- ease, sanity or insanity, ,genius or. connnonplacess, are in 'truth the char acteristics of no one class. The die- , tribution Is approximately uniform, as those who have an opportunity of: observing all classes so readily. see; Physical •or mental inefficiency a-• mong the poor IS traceable more to. poverty, and its consequences in lade: of nourishment, leisure ,and pleasure, - 'than to inherited taint; just as the • same defects in the rich are traceable' to the mischief which ISatan'•'finds for idle hands rather than to an inherent, heritable degeneracy. O • 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 Orier, The • Seaforth' News SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. •