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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-11-02, Page 3,'THURSD'AY, NOVE BER 2, 1930' THE SEAFORTH 'NEWS. again: At -1,30, one bei1 is snug agairi """""°'snErsa °AA40'"'"e "' and an on mid( eight o'clock when there are eight bells, Mention might also he Made of the varying weights of anchors, these de- pending on the Size of the eteainee Anchor chains are in h5 fathoms lengths ur shots. Theeshots are fastened together by shackles which are always put on with the round end downward, so that in dropping the anchor there is ,not danger of the shackle' catching. The "pfn through the; shackle is fastened with a wooden key driven through the end, so that if it i$ necessary to e ip anchor and chain that might have become foul on the bottom, the pin can be drawn out, and if necessary broken, whereas bo iron key might be hard to release. ,rant to i(4)^tatatt`yi',t,t:i.i ar„r4!z+ ,r,, sassassessaseseassea tON We Are llq- Quality ooks 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. he Seaf 010.17.11•1:0,.. essageaeigtes ,i . a "'''s:rs4,g rth SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. WONDERING IFA DI'TCIH t the 'thing trained on a Church ,steeple WILL PAY FOR ITSELF over in another township. After the (tl3y •Rustices) Ift''houg the legion of acts, laws, and bylaws that have 'been passed to govern the actions of 'farmers and to keep hits at peace with his neighbors is t'he "Ditches and ;Watercourses Act.” We don't know very much about ditches but .we take it for grant- ed that a water course is bound to 'be the 'lowest part of a tract of land where the water can gather and run down to 00 .outlet in a large stream. 'Naturally then they would dig the ditch in that watercourse, though we have seen ditches dug that were not in the regular water course. IWell many years ago there was a ditch running at the extreme end of th .farm, but as the years ,vent by '' iWiittie trampled in 'the banks and as a ditch the thing was an absolute ;failure. lin fact in many places ,there just wasn't any ditch 'left. Then someone upstream found that he had a piece of land that wasn't growing any thing but bulrushes, and ,there wasn't any place to drain the water off, so that the land could he put 'to better use, he decided the ditch would have to ;be cleaned out, There isn't a better place to raise green frogs than down among the bulrushes, and frogs' 'legs aro consid- ered a very superior dish by some ,people. This farmer might have 'hail a very profitable sideline had be just gone down tthere and caught the big green bull 'frogs and marketed their nice juicy legs.' 'Then too, wasn't triose found in a ,basket among the bulrushes, and haven't we for months been longing for some one to 'lead Canada out 'of .the wilderness? Who can tell but Oat an'o'ther Moses might have one day 'beep 'found in this very patch of builrushes. tart this ,Farmer wasn't in- terested in frogs' legs or 'future 'lead- ers of a 'people. He wanted that piece 'of land drained so 'that St might grow wheat and oats ,andthus add further to the gigantic pile now in storage. Tract is we all ,waisted ,that ditch clean- ed out, but we all just kept putting .the job off from year io year. If some !farmer had not taken ,he initiative to start the thing the water would have had to find its way to the 'nearest 'creek as ,be'st it could. Anyway the civil engineer• was asked to stake out the ditch and prepare a profile as Well as to ,tell each farther how much he had to dig and maintain, !Engineers are very clever chaps. They can tell you lhow deep you will have to dig at'a given stake so as to have a nice fall for the w'a'ter and no hu',ips in the bottom of ,the ditch, ,Wihat they ,clo when they are not stak- ing out ditches ,anis bridges we do not know. tWe are certain,'though, ttva.'t they do not read the daily papers. They never heard of this :thing they call -n depression: Their bills remind one of the good old days ,when a gonad of pork on the 'hoof was worth twenty cents, Engineers measure • things up very 'exactly, We.'saw. one on the road one; slay this s.emlmer about 'hs.lf'' a stile. Ifrom 'the ,place weha•e he was going 'to huild a ,bridge. ile was looking through one of those three-legged in- struments engineers. use, and rine had it,,, bridge was built, we were surprised to see that the thing wasn't in the centre of.the road. Maybe that church steeple over in ,the next township was doing ;some .moving aroatnd while the engineer was doing :his sighting, We have been busy constructing our ,portion of the surveyed ditch. The job is done. 'At times the task was a hard one, but w'h'ile a ditch is never a thing of beauty we feel now that the labor has been ,worth while. IBut it will be a long time' till that ditch pays us as handsomely as it did :the en- giaeers in charge. THE LANGUAGE OF SHIPS !The following information on Dead ;Reckoning, Eight and other bells, the log, the compass .and anchors is con - tallied in a recent issue of the C.;SJL. "Chart." The slags that float on Great Lakes vessels by day and the lights that gleans b'y night are not placed there !for decorative purposes. Before the introduction of wireless telegraphy, all communication between ships and HOW BEES SPEND THE WINTER. (IExperitnental Farms (Note) !Honey bees do not hibernate in the true sense of word for they stove about within the 'hive ,and are continu- ally taking food during the winter months, As the winter approaches and the temperature within the hive hovers between 69 and 57 degrees Fahrenheit, the bees remain quietly on their combs hat as soon as it drops to :57 degrees or lower the bees gather together into one compact cluster. The bees in the centre of this cluster ,produce heat by muscular tivity while those on. the outside act as an insulating ring. The 'temperature of the ,cluster is maintained at ap- proximately 57 degrees throughout the winter. The colder the hive the harder must the laces wort: to keep up the accessary temperature, but as ,work shortens a bee's 'life and because It is necessary that they live tluough the long winter and well into the follow- ing spring, it is imperative that the beekeeper have his colonies strong in young ,bees when wui.ntea• arrives, and that sufficient protection is provided to maintain 'the proper temperature of the hive with the least expenditure of energy on the part of the 'bees, It stent for determining the direction of has already been said that the 'bees for gate mile •lit all directions. -It is en - the ship with reference to the north salsa food continually, but as it may by meats of this combination or and south magnetic poles. It is en - prove disastrous to feed them during lights that the direction of approach closed in a brass rase and suspended the cold weather,- sufficient food 'to !ng vessels is determined. in such a manner that the surface is carry them. safelythrough the .winter LSteannshtp whistles also sand nes- c nstantl r nrai•ntained in a horizontal should beigiven 'before theyw' form sages across the wvater'that are intel position. yThe face is divided into 32 their, winter 'cluster, During 'the wvin- ligible to the Great Lakes navigator• equal parts by radial lines and the ter months the :cluster sof 'bees One boast fironi a ship approac'hilig spaces between these major divisions changes position ie order to keep in another ship means that the former; are again divided into ha'Ives and contact with the food supply. Healthy will steer to the right while the latter quarters so that all 3'6(1 degrees of the. bees discharge their waste m<ttenial will steer to the left, Two blasts of circumference are represented. The when iu Ifl,iglst, ,but during the the whistle meansthat the vesselcardinal-poiints are manifestly north, winter when di ot ht 'is often im, si'ble sending the m1assage intends to steer and awest and the outer g p s south, east t for several weeks at a time, this to the belt and expects the approach points are roamed as compounds of waste material collects within the ing vessel to go to the right. 'the'se. Nanning of these points in or- der is known as "boxing the com- pass." The number of degrees bet- ween the north pole o'f the needle and the direction of the ship 15 indicated by a line t'hrottgh the steering post and the centre of the bow, (narked at night by a small light on the staff), indicate the course at any given time, lin dealing with "the language of ships," mention shoslct' also he Made of the ship's watch system..On board many lake steamers there is ocean- steamer practice of -.designating time, by ringing a bell in front of the pilot house. Beginning ateight o'elook in. the morning or at in'ight, eight hells are ?ung Thirty minutes later, one. bell is re ng and a'n additional bell a. thirty-m'intibe' innter vils sirtil four o'clock when there are eight bells which are flown at or near the stern, The owners are indicated by the house•flag which is found an the main mast head, Courtesy to the country to which a vessel is bound is usually displayed by the carrying of its national em- blem on the foremast, The flying of a blue square flag with a white square under it indicates that the vessel is about to tail, whereas a white square flag with a blue square under it shows that it requires a pilot. shore stations was carried on by bunt- These are but a few examples of ing and, even to -day, flags still play a the meanings of flags, but they serve large part in the governing of naviga- to illustrate the important part they tion as do the lights and whistles. play and how necessary they are as Thus it is .that sailors who have part of a vessel's equipment. spent their lives on ,the Great Lakes 'Closely linked with the 'language have abbreviated and rhymed ships' of navigation' is the method of det- re ulatio.ns ie the following verse: eranining the position of a ship at any g � "Green to green, red to red, time. Along shore, in and out of riv- Perfectly safe, go ahead, ers, canals, and harbors, the course is df on your starboard red appear, maintained by bearings on charted It is your duty to keep clear, objects such as light -ships, light - To act as judgment says is proper, houses, buoys, bearing -lights ashore, Ease her, back her, stop her,' together with the use of the mariner's IBM if upon your port is seen compass. On the Great Lakes, the A steamer's starboard light of green, method of dead reckoning is almost There is not much for you to do, exelnsively enployed. By this is As green to port keeps clear of you. meant the plotting on a chart of the ,In danger with no room to turn, course and the distance the ship must Stop her, back her, go asterisk' travel on each course. • would be a delicate kind of a thing To 1of this, "language of ships" ht Th.e distance travelled and the rate to do, and I'll give yott seven, 'Now. of the speed of the ship is obtained Mr. Lyons, you're next," more prosaic fora, it shou'ld be rem- by means of the log,an instrummn "I'd ax the young lady for to get usp • and run me a race," said the plump little 'second mate. "Go oil" said the skipper. "I-Iow could you expect a lady with 'oom you were but slightly acquainted to start runnln' races with a pot-hellied little bloke like you " 'Then after we had all offered our solutions to the hard case the skipper consulted the key at the end of the hook and announced what the canons of refined society had ordained as the duty of the .male escort if a lady of high degree decided suddenly to sit down on the grass. "'Che 'gentle- man,'" ,read the skippor. "'must re- main standing till the lady axes him for to sit down.' "Of course, of course," said the mate; "fools we were not to have seen it," PAGE THREE ON BEINGCORRECT The old sea' captain and his mates were sticklers for form. In fact "et ikay," as they bailed it, had become a mania with them. After dinner when the cloth was cleared; writes. Sir Henry :Robinson in 'Memories, Wise and Otherwise, the captain of- ten would send for the mates and the engineer and as we sat 'around the table propound hard cases on points of etiquette. He used far his guide and mentor an ,amazing old tattered book .that I sometimes think must have been in- tended to be comic, because it pre- supposed such utterly absurd situa- tions. For example, if you were on top af'an omnibus and saw a duchess in the street you could not with,pro- priety wave your umbrella at her, no natter how well you knew her. An- other thing: when dining with stran- gers you must not ask the butler for a toothpick at soup. There were many such "hard cases". The captain used to rule a sheet of paper and put all our names down and award marks in accordance with our replies to the queries put. There was one that made such an impression on me that I made a pencil note of it, and T remember it to this day. We were all sitting round the table; the paper was ruled, and the captain be- gan; "Now, Mather, we'll take you first. If you .was walking in a field with a yoting lady with 'corn you was but slightly acquainted, and she was to set down on the grass, what should you do?" ,Marber paused to try , and imagine what his feelings and intentions Would be in such a case and then replied, "I'd offer to git her a chair." "IJnn, ah!" said the skipper. "Not 'bad, but you might 'ace to walk a couple of Wiles to get one, and it wouldn't look shipshape for an offi- cer of one of ;Her Majesty's finest cruisers to be walking about the countryside leggin' a chair after him. However, it's a thoughtful -like thing, and I'll give you five marks. Now, ver, Trelawney, what do you say?" "'Weld," said Trelawney, "I'd argi- fy with her agin it, and if words wouldn't move her I'd take off nay coat and give it to her to sit on." The captain thought deeply, '`Well, I don't think that's the answer, but it When You : Ig`ve A HORSE or COW YOU WANT REMOVED, Phone promptly to WILLIAM STONE SONS, LIMIT!♦lD. Phone 22 — Ingersoll Phone 215 'W Stratford of ideas; stirullieg companies_ of .play - ere; blind men capping out their way; soldiers marching sick 'Wren and wo- men hobbling everywhere. In saine ways that ancient won l.1 wan not very different from .'mw,.. Under the dust of Pompeii, splurged in red paint upon the walls, are the election nottices, . "Vote for I'aquis Prucnlus,. the titan for the bakers." "'We crave your votes for Pronto, who will look after ttte public funds." Where the- atre queues waited, people have -scrib- bled their names on the pillars: ,In otic -of -the -way corners lovers have written their messages. It is strange to draw up the curtain and to try to see some of the faces of that ancient world. Here, for example, is a slave. Everyone, save the very poorest, had a slave, whilst a wealthy man might, have as many as eight hundred on his estate. You bought theta in the market. An ordinary slave might cost twenty pounds; a skilled baker fifty pounds; a coachman too deaf to bear conversation in the carriage be- hind num, a hundred and fifty- pounds. An amusing dwarf, or a beautiful wo- man of marriageable age, might cost a tltousand,poueds. You bought theta and you set your brand on their forehead or back. Some were cared for; some were not. A girl drops a dish at a banquet, and her mistress sends her with a note to the flog, - ging shop, and the note says thirty lashes. Augustus finds a slave in the larder eating a quail left over from supper, and as an example has him crucified. It is dark to think what would shave happened to the World's. chains and chained, if 'Christ had never 'been born. And here is a wo- man, Amongst the Romans they were given a fairly high position; in other races they were often treated as cat- tle, Ovid the poet goes abroad on State business, and writes to his wife, "1 address thee absent. Never night and never day conies to the without the thought of thee." But taken on the 'whole, women were of secondary or third-rate value, Women were looked down upon' and looked down upon themselves, until Christ cause. And here is a ohild. Some of the very tenderest letters in history are letter written about little children. In many homes they were loved avast tenderly, and often'when the angel of death touched a child, hearts were broken. But usually, chil- dren were looked upon in rather a utilitarian way. 'They were necessary in order to carry on a family, or to provide farm hands, slaves and sol- diers. But, if they were not wanted, they were destroyed dike ,puppies or put out to die: Hilarion, a corn mer- chant, goes to l3,gypt and writes to his wife, who is expecting a child, a very homely letter telling of the con- dition of the corn market, and of the sights of Egypt. Ile ends with hopeful inquiries as tem his wife's hearth, and :then adds that, if it be anothergirl which is .born, it will best to throwheraway. You heard the cries of these discarded children in the night and rain, and old 'hags from baby farms prowled the streets, feeling their limbs. If they were strong, they night do for slaves, If they were fair little limbs, they could be reared otherwise. if they were frail, they left them ori. the damp flag stones to die, That was the world into which Christ come. And. here is an ordinary man, You would tiers sea him in thousands on the tor, of a'mpithcatre. The show Wright begin with a hull chained to a tiger fighting in frenzy and terror. Then came the. gladiators, an little lads syringed the hot air under the red and blue awnings to drown the reek of blood. Thew they watched the dwarfs, the women, and the deformed fight, and trailed, home debauched in mind, That tvas the world into which Christ Was born. If IIIe had never come,. What thew? embered that the headlight of any vessel must be forty-five feet high, white and visible for ,five miles, show- ing from right ah'ead t0 two points abaft of the beam oil each side. On the starboard, or right side, is a green light, so arranged that it s'how's only from straight ahead, to two points abaft of the beam on the starboard. On the port, or left side, is a red light showing in the same manner, Anoth- er white light, known as the range Eight, is fifteen' feet 'higher than the headlight and must be at least seventy. ,five feet away frons it. This is visible heaved overboard at the stern of the vessel. The principle of the log is not unlike that of a small propeller rotat- ed by the force of the water and re- corded upon the instrument at the sterna rail of the ship in the manner .of a mileage speedometer. The small hand of the instrument .records dis- tance in tenths of a knot (a knot be- ing slightly longer than a mile), and the large hand records the distance in knots. By timing a knot, the actual rate of speed is obtained. The mariner's compass is an instru- bees and unless the .food 'consists of high grade honey ar sugar syrup, •a bad attack of dysentery _resuiting. in the loss of the ,colonies may follow. Sheuld the weather •during 'winter turn evamns enough to tease the tem- wean passing. vessels. In this case, -eel-attire of the 'have to around 70 tic-' the vessel le'a'ving the hone. port in - grecs 'Fahrenheit the cluster Of 'bees itiates the .salute ..and .Ihe vessel going will expand and if the outside temper- to the home port returns the salute- attire be 'high enough, a flight will tion. The salute is also given in res - take place. For the best wintering, however, a steady low 'temsperatere which causes the bees to `remain at Steamship whistles not only in di - rate instructions but also signify ex- changes of courtesy. Por instance, three long whistles and two short 1s the signal of salute exchanged bet ponce to various forms of greeting from shore such as the clipping of the flag at a yacht club or in passing the Best for the greater pant of .tate winter- captain's home. is desirable. }Ae was pointed out, flags flown on lake steamers served more varied pm - :Young 'wife: 00Oih, Blear. I don't^pasts in the days preceding thelpres- know what to use to raise nth bread: ant extensive use of wireless, ` but I've tried everytlhang." Iflags continue to Mold'' significance. iilusba,nel (in undertone):""r\ der- The nakiadati6y of a Wessel may be rick and a e,ottple of jacks ght to do ascertained by the isationlal colors IF— It is interesting to :wander aiuongs- st the "ifs" air possible history, says a writer in the Christian World of London. If a microbe in Babylon had not killed Alexander the Great, all Europe night have been completely changed' trader au Oriental culture. If George ILI, had been a wiser matt than he was, America and Britain might a'l'ways have been one. If 'the car of the •,Grand Doke of Austria had not' stopped in a side street in Serajevo, a frenzied lad on the curb tnig!tt never have shot shim, and perhaps there night have been no Great'War. But the most startling 'speculation of all is to try to imagine What life would have .been in Jesus Christ had Ise'ver been born. Just over the .hill from Nazareth the Ro- man road. ran from .)last. to West, and as a boy the little Jesus must have sat 'tliere often and seen the world go by—merc'harets 'from the East perched on their •hates of car- nets and fee silks; tired pilgrims tint'ping atter ttubh; philosophers and teac'he'rs full,' of the oddest eollections Persian Balm promotes daintiness; charm and beauty, It is unrivalled in its magical effect on the skin: Swiftly absorbed by the tissues, it leaves eevcr a vestige of stickiness Delight- fully cool to the skin. Stimulating and invigorating. Softens and snakes the hands flawlessly w'llile. 'Sub,fly frag- ran t, Imparts youth and loveliness the inevitable choice of the woman• who cares. "Tomtits," said his mother, reprov- ingly, "what chid I say I'd do to you if you remained out too: late?" Tommy tlr,uyhtfully scratched his heed and said. "\\shy., that's 'funny, nna, that.you should forget it, too.'I can't reufieinher either,"