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The Seaforth News, 1919-03-27, Page 3r 1 IEN YIi , I, 1. t. .� a ICE AGi COME. THEOP,Y THAT VOLCANOES ARE /CAUSE OF 'GLACIAL EPOCHS. Volcanic Explosions in the Past Have Been Followed by 'Prolonged - Periods of Severe; Cold. Shall we have another Ice Alae -a new Glacial Epoch -and when will it arrive? The answer is that such a shivery period inay arrive at any time, Though. most un. llcely, it is. entirely conceiv- able t! at fifty years from now the whole of. Canada might be covered by a sheet of ice many feet thick, un - melted by the hottest summer sun. There have certainly been several and perhaps .many ages of ice in the history of the planet on which we dwell, covering vast areas with glacial sheets. Such epochs extended over nobody knows how many thousands of years, and were succeeded by long periods of warmth. •• The feet has been fully established that the cold periods covered the en- tire earth; likewise the warn periods. That is to say. it was colder every- where at the same time, or warmer everywhere -snot merely over limited areas. . . Puzzling Scientific Problem. The reason why offers ane of the most puzzling problems that science has endeavored to tackler Has the sun's he• -,t waxed and waned at inter- vals, thus causing great climate changes on the earth? This is a theory Ictig ago offered, but it does not gein'aceeptance. to -day. • A theory deemed mmol more plaus- ible is that which a3tributes the ice ages to voicanoes•-a ju:;ttpositiou of things that seams very odd, but which is easily explained. Tn 1783 occurred the greatest vol - canis catastrophe of which history has record. The mountalus called As- s::nlayama, on the main island of Japan, blew up. For years afterward the atmosphere all over the earth was "foggy" with the dust it threw to a height of at least fifty miles. Beejamia Franklin, describing the phenomenon, wrote: "There was a fog all over Europe and North Ameri- ca. It was of a permanent nature and dry. Rays of the sun passing through it were so faint that when collected in the focus of a burning -glass they world scarcely kindle paper," It was a cold summer and the win - tor that followed (1783.84) was severe. The next two years were likewise volt' cold. • Why? Because the volcanic dust - clouds, floating high in the atmos- phere, interrupted the sun's rays and prevented them to some extent from reaching the earth. When, in 1815, Mount Tomboro, east of Java, exploded, the catastrophe was followed by three years of cold all over the world. Fifty-six thousand people were killed and there were three days of darkness to a distance of 300 miles. We had then the famous "year without a sununer," when there was snow in every month, The Cold Years. In 1883 Krakatoa, a a mountainous island in the strait of Sunda (between Java and Sumatra) blew itself to pieces, the disaster being one of the greatest in all volcanic history, and for three years temperatures were much below normal in Europe and America. A cold year followed the explosion of Pelee, on the island of Martinique, in 1902; and we had a twelvemonth of low temperature after the great outburst of Mount Katmai, on the Alaskan Peninsula, in 1912. It doesn't really matter where the volcano that produces the dust is lo- cated. The material is so light that it may take two or three years to settle to the earth, and very soon it is distributed by the winds through the atmosphere of the entire globe. So serious,is the interruption of the son's rays by a cause of this kind and so great the diminution of the amount of heat delivered upon the earth that any. long -continued series of volcanic outbursts of first-class importance might radically alter our climate - quite possibly, if they kept on long enough, introducing us to a new Age of Ice. Rat In An Aeroplane. A new danger to long-distance travel by aeroplane is that of the stowaway rat. One of these vermin boarded the British Military aeroplane which flew from. Egypt to. India,, It is supposed to have got on the machine at Cha - bar (Arabia),probably attracted by the food supplies, ,Soon after leaving the place it was heard. by the occu- pants of the aeroplane to be gnawing at something. At Karachi, the next' stopping place, the guard protecting the aeroplane heard it still at the nibbling. The rat could not 8e located or caught, however, After leaving Karachi its activities went on, and as it was feared it might be gnawing at, some important part of the aeroplane ,it was decided to see if cold would have any effect on its energies. The machine was accordingly taken to over` 10,000 feet. This was too much for a rat nurtured in the balmy warmth of the Persian Gulf, and, frozen or numbed with cold, it ap- parently could, hold no longer and dropped off into space. Better is an injury forgiven than. One revenged, • F Tire 'Weekly -y, "` hio :-, A box -coat for the junior bey is quite essential. This one is dey0loped in ga'bardino or serge. McCall Pat- tern' No. 8882. Little Boy's Box -Coat.. In 5 sizes. 6 months to 6 years. Price, 20 'Pete This grateful wrap is developed in covert cloth and trimmed with black satin. McCall Pattern No. 8777, La- dies' Coatee or Dolman. In one size, suitable for any size from 34 to 42 bust. Price, 20 cents. These patterns may 'be obtained from your local McOal'1 dealer, or from The McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept. W. A Calvary in Flanders. Surely no shrine is higher Or worthier Canada'sson, Than this grave 'mid the thorn and briar On the hill -top we had won. But common and mean and shabby' Beside these living walls, Were thecrypt of England's Abbey Or the dome of great Saint Paul's. For he lies in God's own chapel Under a tangled screen Of boughs where the sunbeams dapple Aisles of untrodden green. And naught but this great Command- er's ' Victory -cross adorns His Calvary out in Flanders On a hill -top crowned with thorns. Delicious Mixture of Wheat C Barley Erhealthvalue, sound nourish- ment, ourishment and a sweet nut -like flavor impos- sible ilk a pro - duel made of wheat alone, eat , Y Gr a ee.i� ev...PA .coo 11o00 t.tnega CO -U15 . .k2• �,.: u, x rte. rr V,' -',rt, �� „ AD`EITDES i;• r kA OA'S DESCRIBED. BY THE BRITISH NA- VAL WRITER, "TARPAULIN.".• Stories, Grave and Gay, of What Hap- pened on Britain's Mighty Ships in Harbor and at Sea. The navy was flooded by !uitials. during the war, and the mania spread. to: the ships. There were P -boats and Q -ships. Submarines in the early days were 'cased 8-boate, but as our inventors -progressed other letters of the alphabet came into use, and in the last few days one of the closely- guarded loselyguarded secretsof the trade, the K - boats, have been publicly described? I happen :to number among my per- sonal friends in the Service several young submarine officers,. and from them I have heard many good stories of the adventures of these large steam -driven, heavily -armed submer- sible cruisers, more remarkable ex- amples of naval arehitecture than ever the much -boomed Hun shipbuilders thought of. The le -boats are high -sea craft, and operated with the Grand Fleet, so their base, naturally, was Scapa Flow in the Orkneys. In the long eyenings, particularly in the summer, there was much opportunity for skylarking. The young bloods of the battleship ward- rooms invented a great sport. They formed "K --boat raiding parties." In the falling dusk they crept up in a dinghy to the anchored submarine, where everybody was probably peace- fully below, with hatches open. The raiders stormed down theconning- tower and the available hatches, and proceeded to play "rough house" with their unwilling hosts. Tho K -boat men held a council of war. The thing was getting beyond a joke. They arranged a game of their own which they called "raiding sta- tions." Now for the sequel. A Bath For the "Big Noise." On the first evening after they had rehearsed their parts the look -out on the conning tower reported a rowing - boat approaching. It was quite early in the evening, but apparently the raiders meant to make a,night of it. So the crews of the K -boats went to their stations. All hatches were closed. They waited. The senior of- ficer of the flotilla heard someone scramble from the rowing -boat on to the iron plates of the submarine's deck. Ile gave the order "Dive!" Down went the submarine about six feet, stopped there a minute or two, and came up. The hatches wore open- ed, and the delighted K -boat men tumbled up, roaring with laughter as they fished their ducked yisitors out of "the ditch." And then they discovered that it was a four -stripe captain, a very senior and important officer, who had come to pay them an official visit. More grim was the adventure of an- other of the tribe which also tried a stunt that was not provided for in the Regulations. The skipper. while on patrol in a certain area, intercepted a signal that an enemy submarine was operating not far away, but In waters that were outside the K -boat's beat. The chance was too good to be missed, and the, captain pushed off in the direction of the enemy, only to be mistaken by our surface craft for the enemy when he got there. He promptly dived to avoid the gun- fire that concentrated on him, and found himself in a worse plight still, for our surface ships put down a heavy barrage of depth -charges, the under- water bombs that carried 500 pounds of explosive, and were destructive if they exploded 75 feet away from the target, Taking Notes About Death. Fortunately for the K -boat, the skipper had followed a zigzag course as he dived, and the depth -charges ex- ploded some distance away. Our sur- face craft, however, stuck[ to their prey. At the depth -charges seemed to produce no result, they put down sweeps, long hawsers that trailed along the bed of the ocean until they caught, the obstruction being the sub- marine. And they found hien, Thou, down the sweep they let small charges slide, but, by the mercy of Providence, they all went off some time before they actually reached the hull of the K -boat. It was an awful position for the friendly crew of the submarine; but the captain, with extraordinary pre- sence of mind, made a careful log of all the effects of the explosions in or- der that the experience might be of use to our anti-submarine experts if ever he came out of the adventure alive. He did. The pursuers exhausted their stock of charges. and by skilful navigation the K -boat was at last dis- entangled from the sweeps, but she had to make her way home by guess work, for every one of the delicate in- struments on board had been shat- tered to fragments by the force of the explosions. p Imprisoned 57 Hours. Another grim story is that of K 13, the submarine that sank in the Firth of Clyde while on her trials with.'a large complement of civilian experts on board, as well as her regular crew. One of the ventilating cowls failed to close before she dived, with the result that the engine -room was flooded, and all the people there were drowned. ship were saved c4jecauso the water- tight bullkheail,,.dn the gentee of the ship, held andr only a thin trickle 0f ivator- came througJl whie!i, was kept lender by an fg i rio plunk. It was after K 13 had been down twenty-four hours that Conilnaiider Goodhart made leis attempt to escape, in order to guide rescuers to the spot, •and wap killed. Fifty-seven hoe's .from the time of the accidefit, the first of, the survivors crawled; out throegh a hole 10 the bows, which had been hoisted up above the surface by the salvage <\ diver has es sblished communiea tion with' the ipiterion proyiously' ;by unscrewing a slnali ,bias8 ramie. the outer hull, and Owe" sing.a flexible, pipe inside, and down that pipe soup and chocolate were passed to the impris- oned men. Then they ,were asked 1f there was anything else they wanted. The Need of the Moment. "Well; you might Bend down a pack of cards," was the unexpected reply. A story in lighter vein concerns a young lieutenant who had done many months in Etpoatti, which are driven by internal ponibuetion engines, and not by steam. He was appointed to a K -boat, He joined her, and spent the first twenty-four hours getting to know his way about the navigation of the ship, and had little time to devote to the rest of her topography. The next day was a "stand off." Most of the crew went ashore, and the skipper took the opportunity of landing for a round of golf, leaving the newcomer in command. At about 2,30 a boat cane alongside, with an engineering expert from the Ad- miralty, who happened to be visiting the Grand Fleet, and thought it a good chance to look over a K -boat. i The young lieutenant . did the honors quite effectively as far as his own department was concerned, and then the visitor said: "And what about your boiler room?" The officer had no idea where the boiler -room was, but he paused for only a second before replying: "Well, sir, you see, the boiler -room is so confidential that I couldn't take you in there unless you have a special permit from the First -Lord." And the visitor believed him, and went away satisfied! 1 Coughed for 13 Years A ND ONE BOTTLE OF BUCKLEY'B li White Bronchitis Mixture cured me. W. K. Buckley: Dear. Slr,-Klndiy ac- cent my sincere thankfulness .for. the benefit my wife derived by the use of one bottle of your White Bronchitis Mixture. For over thirteen years she bas suffered acutely wl h a bronchla1 cough. After-epending dollar after dol- lar on various ramedtee '13°.•.:•110411,2; talne(t until aha .. tried u remedy. and I am- glad to etate that one bottle entirely cured her. You are at liberty to nee my name, and I should be only too Pleased to answer any in - males. - Slncerly yours, Tohn Holmes,' Ng. 1 Torkville Avenue, Toronto. The above is only one of the many hundred testimonials I. receive each week, telling. me of its wonderful healing power. It is sold under a money -back guarantee to cure bronchitis, coughs. colds, bron- chial asthma. No cure -no, pay. Ten times more powerful than any known cough cure. Price 60 cents, 15 cents ex- tra for mailing; s bottles mailed free for 01.50. Sold only by BUCKLEY, the Druggist, 97 Dundee Street East, Toron- to. CURBING, GERMAN MILITARISM France Determined Enemy Shall Have No Chance to Drill Men. The decision of the' Council of Ten. to limit the German army to approx- imately 100,000 men probably sounds the death knell of German turnve- reins and schuetzenfests, says a Paris despatch. The French are in- sisting that for a term of years, at least until Germany is admitted to the League of Nations, her military establishment must be subject to the closest inspection by allied officers to make. sure obeddence-'to the Peace Conference decree, not only ,in letter, but in spirit. French experts i n German af- fairs, seconded by much 13ritish opin- ion, insist that not only must the German army be watched, but that all associations of German men for semi -military and athletic pur- poses shall be forbidden, particular- ly rifle clubs. Such organizations readily could be employed as a means of covertly' establishing miitarisen and as a- means of instilling a spirit of revenge -in German youth, which spirit will be heightened by the terms of the treaty when they are announc- ed. Already some alarming signs are seen, as, coincident with the decision of the allies to ldniit the size of the German army and the announcement of the Assembly at Weisner that the hew military force would be negli- gible, comes the news from highly authenticated sources that new "ath- letic clubs are springing up all over Germany," For instance, the Koen- igsberger Gymnastic Society has started recruiting a volunteer corps "to protect the fatherland against Polish impudence." This has the old- time Teutonic ring. Scheidemann has bought training grounds in many parts of Berlin for various "athletic clubs, and another suspicious fact is that discharged German aviators are organizing "avi- ation sport clubs." There is a notab- ly large one at Tilsitt, where young men are being taught to fly. It is eiignifican't that along with flying in- structions theyare introduced s strodu ed to elle mysteries of handling airplane ma- chine guns and in . dropping bombs. The French are insistently asking why these practices should ,have any part in the program of a "sport" club. The French do not propose to be caught napping again. They intend to insist that the German fangs be drawn once and for all. Those in the forward' part of the ... - sunardei Linhaeat Relieves Mettrateia . � e ei10 ; CALMkrei �s I woULa Sed A xateisl a B,r,CE (tinsel $I'&°.EZ,SrSAxe spleen: Nei We Pay Ea -preen and Postage WE WILL PAY You' T5571 r �_YYt�natt9T rizzon1 Aecto1Ra (} 9..0 Sinn AND Oliver Spanner & Co. Dont. A. 20 35185 OT., TO1tONTO, cneT. Astronomers Busy. Astronomers are busy making pre- parations, for their trip` to the Tropics to observe the big total eclipse of the sun which is scheduled to take place i on May Both, The eclipse will involve a big area of the earth's surface, but the total phase will be confined to a narrow zone, across the centro of South America, through the Atlantic, and, then acres(' Africa below the Equator to the Indian Ocean. A num- ber of stations along part of this zone on land will be occupied by astrono- mers from various parte of the world. British expeditions haying chosen the island of Principle, near the coast of Africa, and an elevated station in Brazil, about 50 miles inland from Atia. e Marion Bridge, C,B., May 30, '02. I have handled MINARD'S LINI- MENT during the pant year. It is al- ways the first Liniment asked for here, and unquestionably the best seller of all the different kinds of Liniment I handle. NEIL FERGUSON. Ciemenceeu's Ancestors. A writer remarks that heredity must have played a part in building up the marvellous constitution which leads M. Clemenceau to be described as the "greatest young man in France." For the past 300 yeareand more every one of his direct ances- tors in the male line has belonged to the medical profession, and so pre- sumably learned to look after his own health as well as that of other people. This unique record of continuity was broken for the first time when the French Premier's only son, M. Michel Clemenceau, elected,to becomeanen- gineer rather than study medicine. The Premier's father, who died only 12 years ago, and continued to practice long after his 80th year, made hie famous son conform to the family tra- dition. MONEY ORDERS. Dominion. Express Money Orders are on sale in five thousand offices throughout Canada. War Closes Estates. There are, or were before the war, nearly 1,000 great country estates scattered over Great Britain, many of which have now been closed be- cause of the huge taxation. Of these sixty may be classed as private pal- aces, for each required a staff of from 200 to 600 servants and atten- dants. Outside of the household ser- vants there were many men employ- ed as caretakers for the grounds, gardens, park coverts, outbuildings and stables. leinardh Liniment for male everywhere, Accepts His Advice. 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A delightful surprise a- waits those whose hair has been neglected or is scraggy, faded, dry, brittle or ethin. Besides beautifying the hair, Danderine dissolves everyr Y particle of dandruff: cleanses, puri- fies and invigorates the scalp. forever stopping itching and falling hate', but what will please yon most will be after a few weeks' use, when you see, new hair -fine and downy at first -yes - but really new hair growing all over the scalp. If you, care for pretty, soft hair, and lots of it, surely get a small bottle of Knowlton's Danderine from any drug store or toilet counter for a few cents. ED. 7. it' a: CI; S Ma FROM HERE &1IIERE So It Seems. People ask who the'Czocho-Slovaks are: They aro the mon who put the "trot" in Trotsky. Matrimonlal Alterations. "Agnes married a self-made " man, didn't she?" "Yes, but she has compelled him to make extensive alteratlone." Fixing Up the House. "Have you no potted geraniums?" "No. We have some very nice' chrysanthemums. 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