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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-10-11, Page 7termini!' ; Our Place -Names Before the creation of the Geo- graphic Board o2 Canada in 1897, no central authority existed over the place-names of the Dominica Every explorer and map -maker adopted au h names on Spellings as appealed to him, and often traveldere caused end- less confusion by changing all pre- vtous'uames in the accounts of their travels. Foreign explorers, also, visit- ing unknown parts of the Dom•Inlon would bestow names more or less un- desired by Canadians. One map..ap. piled the name., "Grand" or "Elk" perhaps to the river styled "Ottawa" or "Athabaska" on another. Uni- formity of nomenclature was one rea- son for the creation of the Board. A second reason was to avoid the confusing duplication of naves es- pecially within the same province. In the clays when the Indian, who did not go far afield, roamed the woods and plains, if two lakes in a region were called "Trout Lake" or two streams "Red River," little confusion was like- ly, but it le different in these days of wider travel: Moreover, few people reflect on the inconvenience occasion- ed by repetition, even to the twentieth or thirtieth time, of such names as Deer, Eagle, Fish, Maple, Red, White, A third reason was that the gem >.•aphic nomenclatu' n of Canada w''`ar should not be left in the hands of :a foreign body, as for example a board in another country deciding -through its publications by what names rivers and mountains o2 Canada should be • known. The Geographic Board was lnlorm ed to regulate the publications of the )Dominion Government only, but It was soon recognized that the provinces had a right to be consulted respecting names within their own Iimits. Ai:- Glass i: cordingly in 1899�pr0y1810n was 'made for :the appointment of representatives of the several pravinoes, which at the same time bound themselves to abide by the board's decisions. The function of the board is not the naming of features, blit the regulation of. those ' sought to he bestowed by otb•ers. At the same time, it has striven to see that Canada's history is iacor- poeeted, ie her'pdacenanres, , as 'hae been done, for instance, in the case of the Thousand Islands in the St, Law- r••ence, which bear• the names of many gunboats which sailed these Waters in the war of 1812-14 and in that of the mountain peaks et the Realties, which have been given the names of eminent Canadian fighting men and et battles in which Canadians fought in the World War. Information about names is very easily lost if not noted. For instance, the town of Weyburn, Saskatchewan,' was named. by the late Sir William Whyte of the Canadian.;S'aciflo Rail- way in 1891 or 1892, bat the meaning o2 the name is unknown. The rules of the board include'the following three which will give an idea of its workings: (1) Whenever possible the local name to be given preference.(2) When the priority of a name has been established by publi- cation particularly in an authoritative work, that name if possible to be re- tained.. (8) A name which has been corrupted or changed if not too firmly established, to be restored to its or- iginal form. During the twenty-five years of its existence considerable informationhbs been recorded by the board relative to geographic names. A start has been made with the publication of this in Um shape of pamphlets giving the meaning of Canadian city names and a certain number of place-names in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Glass Houses. When last I went a -walking I. came on. Glasshouse Street, And thereh stood. rows of ons es all built of glass so neat; Though every door was open I fancied number nine, This one, thinks I,, was builded for your delight and mine. The walls were made of Waterford, sharp diamond -cut they ;were;. 'Twas floored with yellow Corkglehe, a spiral was the stair; • The hall was all of Bristol; the doors were bottle -green, With architraves of crystal—the pret- tiest ever seen. )91ach canopy and curtain in fairy glaze was emus; And •many -hued Venetians' were drawn agin' the sun; The pillars they were silvered; of moulded glass the beame; The house was blown of bubbles; my dear a house of dreams. —Westminster Gazette. Hearing Singers. n le often of the greatest use to WtetWIMIIIIIIIIIIM.., ;trimmers AMMW...�.. c ,.A. ••• t� w 'What kind of a story did you tell your wife when you get In so late?" "Why a fish story of course!" ••AND THE WORST AS YET TO COME eese ease. Petain Cultivating Roses. "Marshal Petain, rose farmer," reads the latest citation, of France's illustrious figure, who has just re- ceived a gold medal from a French ag- ricultural society for cultivating a new species• of rose. Visitors to the little farm on the French Riviera, who expected to find the military leader ;directing a squad of trained gardeners, were surprised to learn that Marshal Petain himself does all the work. Early in the morn- ing in till late evening—whenever he is not assigned to military inspections of garrisons in the South of France—he labors in his shirt sleeves•, a broad - rimmed Panama supplanting bis army cap. : When he bought the property just after the war it was tangled with weeds and vines and several olive trees had been allowed to spread wild: ly.. But the Marshal soon restored or- der and began .cultivating roses on a large reale. Now he is engaged' in grafting and le said to have developed one variety of blue rose which, unlike others,, may be kept flowering for• weeks with a snail quantity -of water daily. The products of his gardens are being eagerly sought by Riviera per- fume makers, wlio are proposing to or- ganize a stock eon -many to market Pe- tain brandsr• in competition withthe classic nalnes adopted by Senator Coty. The British Navy possesses 18 bat- tleships, 4 battle cruisers, 2 cruisers, 48 light cruisers, 186 torpedo -goat de- stroyers, and 66 submarines. Something Kept Me. A business man said recently in an informal talk to his Bible olaas of young men:: "My stepfather was un- kind to me, and. I lett home for good when I was only eleven Years old. MY mother was a 'good woman—I loved her, and she loved me -but she knew little of the world and could not ad- vise me he an experienced father ringlet have done. "For the text nix years X mingled with all classes of people except good people and had every opportunity to become a tough and criminal. I wasn't a model boy by any means, but I never lost my footing. How I kept it I don't know, As I look beet at those days I can't remember that I had the instinc- tive shrinking from wrongdoing that is the safeguard of some sensitive na- tures, The things I saw and heard Postponing 0),d Age. Old age Wes- inevitable ae death and taxes. But the term "old age" le elas- tic; some persons• are old at fifty years; some erre young -at 'eighty. A witty Frenchman said once that a man is as old as his arteries, winch ie Pertly true, since the condition of the I The outstanding quality of a strong,' LAM— arteries, is a pretty fair indication of , virile personality. the state of the othertiseues and or- Never associated with a weak, nega- gane. Many physicians believe that the de- generative ehanges e-generative:ehanges that are character- istic of old age begin in the arter'iee ' gement, an end to wavering, an end and appear later In' other tissues as I to doubt and uncertainty. When I a consequence of the diminished sup- take hold there is nothing to do but' tiro mind, with a peen, who lacks backbone, but has no 1 -ion in les blopd. That force which puts an end to me ply of blood end of impure blood. One' carry out my dictum. Cheery is that thearterial thickening I Spconstructed that I go only in one. and hardening Invariably found in the direction—always for erd, never back - aged (the aged as measured by 4.1-1 ward, When I cast the die;' it is cast minished function and not by yeaa's) i for good. I silence all suggestions of are owing to auto -intoxication acting reconsideration, all temptations to go didn't disgust me. through many years; the poisons in' backward, "When -I was about seventeen years the blood cause degenerative changes That power which nerves people to old a, lad from the country came to in the walls of the arteries, • Another i undertake tbe things they are amble work In the factory where I was em- theory is that senility depends on; tlous to do: I buttrese their ability, to •ed and he and I became intimate. ,changes in the cells and •tissues caused! enlarge their initiative', strength=Jo n � Wilson—that was his name—told by a . principle in them that leade in " their determination, ailwtraprake them J mg e a good deal about his home; which early life to growth and in. later life I adamant against" all temptations to lied been a far different home from to decay. But whatever the theories, mine, John had had his share of temp- and there are many of them, they all Mations, but he sold frankly that he be- lead to the eameoonclusio•n; depending lleved his mother's prayers had helped in the cans of one person on an an - der whether my mother had ever pray- limited eonatituWM and in the ooseof ed for me. If she had prayed for me, another on the mode of life he has, fol - she had done it in secret, lowed, the period at which old age be - "One evening I went with John to gins varies within wide limits, and, a religious meeting in a little Metho- barring an inexorable inheritance, the dist chapel in the suburbs. Some of the earnest prayers I heard that night amazed me. What most impressed me were the petitions for all who were tempted, helpless, destitute, distressed, lonely or friendless. That seemed odd individual can do much to postpone it. Unfortunately, the time to begin is the carpenter's purpose or aim, so :a early adult life, just when old ago heedful of faculties to a'man without: seems s'o remote as to be -negligible. me is a chest of tools of comparatively The secret of postponing old age little value, Iles in observing. temperance in the to me. I had always thought of broad sense of the word—moderation prayer—when I had thought of it at in everything; in sating, in coffee an—as asking God, for something we drinking and tea drinking, in sleeping, wanted for ourselves. 4 I lied never in exercising, in working and indeed in thought that Christians the world over. every Phase of human existence. prayed far people whom they didn't Athletes are not longlived; neither know but who needed God's protection are those who are too strenuous in and help, And during those years of business, nor those who worry, The hardship and temptation such prayers obese aro usually short-lived for the had been going up to God for mei reason that they are likely to be heavy Something had kept me all through eaters or to have defective nutritive or - those perilous days 1 Something was gaps. Breathing fresh airday and keeping nsnow and would keepaP me night and walking moderately without to the end! God's people had called missing a day are essential to long God's attention to me, and Ho had turn aside from their purpose, That which makes people self-ree liant, independent, ,and bids- them not to look for outside help; but to And their resources where all strong char- acters tad them—within themselves., The pointer and -director of all of '- the mental facultieg: Just as a chest of tools without a trade is of very little practical use to a man without been watching over me. life, as they are essential to health. "I think I learned the secret of Music is Human Activity • prayer that night. Praying for people The accomplishment cf yesterday is I don't know has a meaning for me. goingto be one of the most valuable It isn't a formula; some one needs it educational factors of to -morrow. Great progress' has already been made but there is much land yet to be pos- Who can say where I should be to -day but for the prayers of strangers?" OANI ALS SUE F AIN AS HU Some people who regard animals as merely "dumb brutes" also aseume that they are incapable of severely suffering pain. A woman recently gave expression to that heresy to the press. She argued that animals "dos not' suffer much pain when injured either accidentally or bylhe hand of man," and would, I as- sume, be willing .to have the rising generartion taught that shameful doe - reed books and magazine articles on trine, singing but let us bear in mind thee One would expect one of the gentler it Is of no use to read without disc sex to see, believe, know, and feel that crimination. The same truth applies to the hearing of singers. Do not con - elude after listening. to a prima donna, he animals suffer terribly from pain as do humane. Not all do so, however. In- deed, cruelty to animals is so pre- valent that we may well say, ,with By Dr. A. S. Alexander, Veterinary Surgeon. seem: so, no doubt, to those who, "hay- dose -of morphine, and in a few ruin- ing eyes, see not," who, "having ears, utes the sweating and rapid breathing hear not" and the chords of whose cease, the horse gives' a deep sigh of hearts refuse to vibrate in sympathy when an animal is evidently suffering pain. People often are so thoroughly oc- cupted with their own miseries—many of them imaginary—that they fain to nate the sufferings of their "dumb ser-. rants.:. Conus with me, .ail ye who believe that animals do' not acutely suffer pain! Note the actions o2 the work horse in this box stall thrown open by a groom. -The poor beast stands there. steaming with sweat, olding one foot off the ground, breathing fast through whose lower jaw wobbles she when s apologies to Babble Burns, "Man's do reddened nostrils and manifesting ter - singe, that the „me sings well humanity to. beasts, makes countless rible •suffering by his haggard face. is because her jaw wobbles aucl,that creatures mourn" His pulse, we find, is running like a you must make, your jaw do as hers does in ender to make good tones. It you hear a singer wlio holds high notes until you forget which ballad he was singing, do not straightway go home with the nation that you have Sieved the pain, and appropriate treat - found in this cheap method of geicting ment afterward banished • the disease. applause the true key to interpreta- tion. One morning several menthe later we tion. were awakened at four o'clock by the There was once a young:man who mournful howling of a dog that now ii,ad a very rounds toll volae, He had and then stopped to scratch at the Yearn ago a St. Bernard dogwas trip-hammer, and the thermometer- r@- brought to my veterinary hospital sul- gisters three degrees of fever. How long has tering terribly from inflammatory • he been acting in this rheumatism. Anodynes quickly re- way?" I ask, The attendant answers, "A little MOTS than two days, Doo." Two long: days of - torture, which could have been quickly alleviated by treatment. But the owner of this poor suffering creature, like thousands of others, has not read the symptoms aright; has made only crude attempts to lessen the lanrenese, and no doubt looked to nature to repair the damage, so altthese had something that he lacked, the place where prevlausly he had Examination disoioses that pus from so after watching several of and found- relief,. and with appealta, .eyes a corn. in the heel of the'. hoof has all noting an 'occasional toss of the head and tortured crctes tried, as best, he the time been burrowing upward un - and gesture of the eye he decided to couldto say:: der the wall, and seeking vent at the incorporate these tactics , into his junoture of the horn and flesh. The method, : But alas, it was invariably "Here I am again, Doctor! The resultant pain is excruciating. In- bhe, unstressed syllable or unimpontant pain's' as bad as ever. or pity's sake, stantly I administer a hypodermic all the mind and technic necessary to please unthinking folk, but he was not satisdied. He realized that many other back door of the house. On going down I; formed the St. Bernard again afflicted with ,the Inflammatory trou- ble. He had returned seven miles to word onwhich he elected to brandish hurry up and give me another dose of or ogle, and pa the last state of the that helpful dope!'' singer was worse than the first. Another time when going' to visit a An opinionated young soprano once' patient, a Great Dane came hopping fell unto the Brands of a new teacher. towards us holding up one foot, and After she had perpetrated several of whimpering in distress, He stopped the "best sellers" in the operatic re- at once when I' called, "What's the pertoire of all divas she gave the teach- matter, 'odd fellow?" and let me Look' er an opportunity to speak, and he at his, foot. The cause of his suffering criticized her tone, whereupon she re- was apparent, A big pin was buried torted, "Well, my tortes are good, and to the tread in his paw. Seizing it with I know they are, because I went and ,forceps' 1 plucked it out—then you heard Melba sing all those songs, and . should have seen drat dogs Away he I made my tenesjust the way she did." went with a "Wouf! Wouf!" of joy, (running in a wideeircle, returning .to A dKeeps Plants Moist. -1 my feet, waufing again with happiness, ouble walled jardiniere to keep! until he had make three trips expree- growing plants moist by capillary an -1 sive of thankfulness, and then went lion through small siphons has been on his way rejoicing. invented in France. Pain has been defined as undue press. sure upon eenory nerves Animals possess these nerves just as do people, and also tile -Cerebral centres to which they transmit their messages of misery. - Some: animals, b.owever, are lens "high strung" in nervous sensi• bility than others: Tire' horse, for ex- ample, smflerif more acutely than the COW or 'sheep, and' gives plainer ex- pression to pain than do the rumba ants. Yet I have seem mute quite ?lain - 1y evinced by many a supposedly stupid, senseless' oow. To the trained and appreciative observer symptoms of pain are as noticeablly expressed by other "dumb" animals, But are animals duinb? They may Only Shifted' Her Ground "Well, what difference has the com- ing into great wealth made iii Mrs, 121abb ?„ "Very little guseles on the treat porch now instead of over the back Some." relief, and the foot comes to rest on the ground. Then, when the pus has been liberated the hungry "patient" thankfully starts eating feed. What plalner evidence of pain and suffering couldthere have been than that shown by this afflicted horse? And was not blessed relief as plainly manifested when the narcotic was ad- ministered. To' me the evidence was conclusive, es I am oertain it would bave'been to every sympathetic read- er, and I thank God for the means He has, given me of assuaging pain. Are hogs dumb on -killing day? Do the eriee that came from the slaughter place denote pleasure or pain? Do they not' loudly proclaim the cruelty of a man who has neglected humanely to stun or shoot the poor beasts be- fore cutting their throats? Aro those calves thatbeing branded enjoying themselves? And does net: that cringing, sweating horse, supposedly balg!ng on a siteep hill, up which he has. failed to pull a heavy load, suffer from the rain of angry blows' shower- ed upon him by his brutal boss? As- suredly be does, and all because his ignorant driver does• not know enough' to grease the dry, heated axles of the wagon wheels. Note haw that work horse thrusts. out one aching foot as hs" stands "resting" at the curb. Watch how that other suffering horse constantly shifts. weight from one foot' to an- other.' Perhaps a corn is hurting; a nail has been driven too close; the t -1E ( Pola v5H1cN eel°set.is '(ov 'RATHER' SE (Hp PREstaEr1T OP THC let-41TGD STATES Ole P.' REAL cop'',vbl' A CLUB PtN A fl?,,Z A1'1° gvEReninaG (e e.r kdY'aN E s ANS 0? hoof hes contraoted by reason of per- sistent mutilation in the shoeing shop, and squeezes the sensitive tissues and organs enclosed; or a tight shoe is pinching; or a picked-upstone bruin ing the sole. The "pointing" of the sore foot calls for help. For :goodness sake, let's remove that shoe and stop the squeezer What blessed relief would result! But day after day the neglected horse has' to go to bed with his boats on. He cannot kick: them off and soak. his feet in hot water, as does a person whose No. 5 feet have been.forced into No. 3 shoes. The woman writer of sessed, We hear much talk at prize distri- butions., public 'dinners', and the like- of the humanizing influence of music —but one often wonders whether those who use thisexpression really know what they mean. What is very clear le that the humanizing influence of music is to be found in te different way from that of which these worthy speakers dream. Music Is a human aotivity and it is not to be approached in a spirit of mental idlenessas a soporific;'it le not a species of vapor bath in which our senses may wallow, but it 4s an art to be understood and appreciated by the alert use of our mind and the exercise of our intelli- gence. Let us see to it that the foun- dations of this true appreciation are laid seausely at the time of all others when mind and heart are responsible to pure and healthy impressions,-- that unjust amtiule hosperhaps, on namely in childhood.. more than one occasion after hours of Thus and only thus shall we be on= dancing, limped painfully, expressed abied to create a mare serious' regard anguish, and then thankfully pried or for the ant of music as a force be our her pinching shoes and consigned her national life, worthy of the exercise of aching feet to the soothing tub. One the best oP, our mental powers, and would expect, therefore, that this Per also as a means by which those powers stinal experience would have taught may in turn be developed, strengthen - her to notice the sufferings of the i11- ed, and enriched: shod work horse that doily, for weeks, - has been pounding his. aching feet up- on hard pavements and can render. Just Be the Best. himself no assistance. The horse If. you can't be a pine on the top of driven with a torturing tight overhead : the hill, check rein or harsh bit suffers less, Be a shrub in the valley but be for the harness is removed after work, The best little shrub at the side of the but the sgeezing of the contracted rill; hoof 'knows no relief. Be a bush if you can't be a tree. Would the lady, I wonder, deny that If you can't be a: bush, be a bit of the a cow suffers agony while her horns grass, ane being cut off with a biulit saw or Some higbiway to happier make; dull.dehorning shears; or that Sin ani- If you can't be a muskie, then just be. mal is uncomfortable, to say the least,. , a bass— when hog nose -rings have been insert- But the liveliestbase inthe lake! ed in its lips or tongue 'fro prevent self- sucking? I scarcely think she would deny that aerate pain was endured by the bleeding bulls a humane agent found in a .railroad truck theother day with their nose -rings torn out by a thief who had done that fiendish aot to obtain the paltry 45 cents that each ring w rs worth! • But animals do not always loudly proclaim presence of pain or show it by readily recognized symptoms. Of- ten they suffer silently, and thus fail to . attr•ate 'attention. Temperament largely : regulates this, as it does in man. Never shall I forget the stoicism exhibited by a Chinese student I once • knew. The delicate little chap re- turned after en absence from class for ten days. At the close of the lecture I greeted him and gave him a friendly handshake. He closed his eyes, but said never a word until I asked him the meson for his absence.. "Inflammatory rheumatism in my hands," he, answered, 'and I.. felt sad over the texture that hand grip must. have caused.. "Does it hurt to put a frozen bit in' a horse's mouth?" a man asked me one winter morning. "Try it in your own mouth," I' an- swered, andho turned' angrily away. That is the anewer, folks. When you doubt that an animal acutely sue ars pain, put yourselfin its shoes! Tay }t an yotueelfl . We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew, There's something far all of us here; There's big work to do and there's lesser to do, And the task we must do is the near. If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail; If you can't be a sun, be a star. It isn't by size that you win or you fail— Be the best of whatever you are. Just the Man Fair Stenog (in newspaper office "I believe my ,heart is weak—always have cold hands and feet,. Whom should I consult?' Editor'•-' "The circulation teenager, I guess.",. The leading factor in .all victories. Coupled -"with sublime audacity, I have won many a doubtful battle against great odds, and have carried many a successful man over perilous crises, where hesitation or long deliberation would have been ruin. Never mulish or obstinate, but al- ways firm, positive, because I think before acting. I know what I want and am never en the fence. I do not waste time shilly-shallying, seeking advice, balancing opinions, 0r splitting action, and plan my hairs. I course of then pursue it without hesitation or wavering. A dynamic power. The man who is not polarized by me is bike driftwood on the surface of a river, whirled about by every little eddy, blocked by every tiny obstruction. Pie is always at the mercy of the stronger current of other people's opinions, beliefs, rind. influence. He belongs far the time to whoever talks with him; he is the echo of the man who had the last word with him. He is neve: captain of his soul, never owns himself, because he is continuaIly swayed by outside iw fluences. That which stiffens a man's back• bone and makes him a force wherever' ' he geesNo one can be a leader with- out me, for I am one of the moat im portant . elements of leadership. I never hesitate .in an emergency; am never rattled in a crisis, but seize in- stantly what seems to be the wisest course, and sacrifice all others; put out of consideration everything else which would conflict with it. An irresistible force. ' The steel tools driven by the great cams In our shipbuilding yards go through solid steel plates with as much ease, seem- ingly, as the lingers of a cook .go though yielding dough, because of the huge balance' wheels whose mighty momentum, without jarring or strain- ing, overcomes all obstacles. I am the balance wheel of life, that which gives' momentum to a man's energy and car,' ries him past all obstaoles to iris goal, 8 AM—DECISION. —Success Magazine. The Printer's Devil. A printer's devil was the name fornv" erly given to the boy who took the .printed sheets from the tympan•of tbe press. They got themselves, so _ bet daubed with black that the working jokingly called them devils. Printing used to be called the Blac Art, and the boys who assisted the pressmen were called imps. According to a legend, Aldus Maure taus, a printer of Venice, had a little Negro boy, who was left behind by a merchant vessel, to assist him In hie business. It soon got about that Atdus had a black imp to assist him, and•to ddape-p the rumor he showed theboy to tali" assemb-led crowd, and said, "Be 1'k known in Venice that I, „Aldus Atlantis this, printer to the Holy Church an the doges, have this they -lca"de'a lie exposure of 'the printer's devil All who think he is not flesh and blood; may come and pinch him. ` The people were satisfied, and n longer molested the Negro lad. Their Secret, A minister of al rural parish, motor- rng hone Bene day after a round et. visits, overtook a girl plodding alo, e country road, carrying a heavy bas ket of provisions'.. Recognizing her as a`servant, en ployed• by a farmer living near his pa sonage, be pulled up and offered her. lift. When. he came to the lane lead', ing to the farm, he stopped to let he; get down, and she said: "Oh, the you, sir;" "Don't mention it," replied the m !star. The g186 blushed prettily,' hung h ]read, then looked up ai ^ehly, right," she said; "mum's the word," Spray g Outfit, A spraying outfit has been invent for cleaning automobile engines e a mixture o2 air, oil tad water lrpd pressure.