HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1927-04-21, Page 2r
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A FIGHT BY LAMPLIGHT.
BY DAVID KER.
"H°Ito, Annesley! I was just com- the stealthy tread which came creep-
, ing
reep-,ing over to you." ing toward thin under the, shadow of
the, trees, and never saw the onuel,
greenish -yellow eye that glared en
npon them through the darkness.
At length Captain Annesley began
to dream a very •curious dream.
He thought that he ,and ,his com-
rades were still watching far the
with the eagerness of a genuine tiger, but that :their watch was being
seertsmane "Well, what then? Have kept, in the interior of •a vast Hindoo
you seen any more tracks?" „
"More than that, my boy. I've seen
the brute himself."
"Killed hint?"
"No such luck; but I will before I've
done with him, or P11 know the rea-
son why. Only think, he came right
into my verandah last night, and
*)pounced upon my pool old chokidttr
(watchman) .
"The poor fellow's cries aroused
me, and I ran for my gun, but al-
though I fired two shots after the
brute, T hardly think I can have hit
him. At all events, I didn't bring
hien down, and that's just what I
want you to help me to de to -night."
"Ineyour man!" cried the captain.
"Shall I bring 'Fancy Jack' along
with me."
"Do, . by all means. He's a good
shot, for a• young fellow. Dinner at
eight sharp, minds"
"All right."
"Fancy Jack," otherwise Ensign
John Parker, was the junior officer of
Captain Annesley's regiment, the—th
Native Infantry. As Judge Edwards
had said, he was 'a good shot, for his
age, and in spite of the dandified look
.which had earned him hie nickname,
the roughest soldier in the ranks was
not braver than he.
Young as he was, he already wore
the Victoria Cross on his breast, for
leaping singly into an Afghan bat-
tery, before the fire of which his men
were beginning to give way; and
both the judge and thecaptainknew
that they could not have chosen a
better comrade for any service of
danger.
The dinner -party that evening was
a very merry one, and many were the
jokes cracked about their "fourth
guest" (i,e., the tiger), and his want
of politeness in being so late.
"If he knew how anxious we aro
to see him, I'm sure he'd be moree
yes.
punctual," cried Fancy Jack. "Well The two shots came like one, and
the tiger, giving one convitlsivq
spring, lay dead before thein.
Poor Jack's handsome face, was
out-and-out the finest fun in the sorely marred by his wounds, and to
world." this day he has not wholly recovered
"Perhaps it is, so long as Ws you the effects of that death -grapple.
who are hunting the tiger," growled But that night's work probably
Judge Edwards, with an emphatic saved many lives, for the dead tiger
nod of his gray head; "but when the was afterward recognized by the na-
tiger takes to hunting you, it's not tives as one of the most formidable
quite so pleasant." "man-eaters" in the whole district,
"Do you speak from experience,
"Anything I can de for you, old
fellow?"
"Why, yes. I oan give you Some
sport, if you want any. You remem-
ber that tiger I told you of?" -
"Whose tracks you found in your
garden?" oiled Captain Annesley,
temple, larger by far than any he
had ever seen.
At the far end of it, in a dark re-
cess of the wall, stood a monstrous
image, strangely painted and decor-
ated.
All at once the idol's hideous face
began to writhe and grin, as if sud-
denly endowed
uddenlyendowed with life, and then
the recess changed to a deep, gloomy
cavern, and the image of a tiger,
which sprang upon him with a deaf-
enging roar, so loud' and terrible that
he started and awoke.
But he awoke too late.
The floor was strewn with broken
glass, the judge lay stunned beneath
the overturned table, and: poor Fancy
Jack was writhing in the clutch of an
enormous tiger.
But. Annesley's iron nerves were
proof against even this terrible sur-
prise
Quick as lightning he sprang up
and seized his rifle; but man and
beast were so mingled together that
he hesitated to pull the trigger.
"Fire, Harry, for God's sake!"
gasped the ensign, "Fire, or I'm
done for!"
"1 daren't," shouted the captain. "I
might hit you."
"Never mind!" cried Parker. "Take
your chance." The opening of the new immigra
Instantly the whole, ~room was filled tion season with its amici °ted
With smoke, as the heavy rifle poured p
forth its contents. heavier flow to the Dominion of
Tho .report was followed by an farmers from the "United States
angry roar from the wounded tiger for establishment and workers
from
So sensitive as to employ only the billionths part of a watt of electricity
or about oneefortietlr of "fly power" when the fly is drawling vertically up-
wardst one inch 4n one second, this instrument, called the Knowles grid -glow
relay, will start a battleship automatioafly.
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LAND VALUES AND
FARM LABOR
and a stifled cry from the ensign, the British ^Isles and
showing that the cruel claws were other countries for agricultural em -
at work ployment, renders "particularly pectin -
But just at that moment Judge Ed- ent the Dominion Government's sur -
wards, recovering from the first vey of farm land values and farm
help wages covering the year 1926.
clutched his gun while Annesley took It is an established fact that Gan- considerably higher productive ca,
shock' of his fall, started up and
The outstanding figure of interest
in the survey is the low value' of lands
in the Prairie Provinces, which are
the goal of the greater number of
migrating farmers and new settlers
establishing. ...Their average values of
respectively. $29,-.25, and -$26 per
acre are in striking contrast to the
values in adjoining states of the Un-
ion of similar general condition. The
last United States census shows the
average value of'farm land - and
buildings in North Dakota at $41.10;
South Dakota $71.40; Nebraska
$87.91; Minnesota $109.23; and Iowa
$227.09.
CANADIAN VS. U.S. PRODUCTION.
It is interesting too, to note the
steady aim with his second barrel adian lands at the present time, hav- parity of Canadian lands_ The aver
right between the monster's flaming ing regard to their quality and pro- age return from wheat in Canada in
here's his health, anyhow; for what-
ever they may say about pig -sticking
and bear -shooting, tiger -hunting's
judge?" asked the ensign, laughing.
"I should rather think I did. When
we were out hunting with the old eFee
King of Oude, just before he was de-
posed and sent to Caleultta, he started
a tiger suddenly in the very thickest
of the jungle, where the grass was
twenty feet high and more.
"The elephant made a sudden turn,
and I lost my balance, and down I
tumbled off his back almost into the
tiger's mouth.
"But just as the brute had got his
paw on my chest, and was looking
about for the best place to take a
good bite out of, poor Frank Apple-
ton (who was killed at Delhi the
very next summer by those rascally
mutineers bowled hint) over with a
shot through the head."
This sporting yarn recalled to Cap-
tain Annesley a similar adventure of height of 6,927 feet. It is named after
his own, end story after story was the Right Hon. George Oanning, Bee
told, the three friends being so taken tlsh Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, 1822, who carried on the Bri-
tish negotiations with Russia regard-
ing the Alaskan boundary.
gee -
Might Play One Piece.
Sbe--"Sorry I can't play for you—
my guitar has broken in two."
He—"Oh, please, lust play one
piece."
t Canning.
.on 9
Mount Canning is situated on the In-
ternational Boundary between British
Columbia and Alaska ' and reaches a
up with their conversation that no
one noticed how late it was getting.
But this after-dinner talk ended
as after-dinner talks very often do,
Judge Edwarde began to nod and
then to snore; Ensign Parker leaned
back in his chair and his eyes gradu-
ally closed; and by the time the first
gleam of the rising moon had begun
to peer above the mountains, the
whole party was sound asleep—so
sound, indeed, that they never heard
Carry Supply of Fuses.
Mothorists always will find it an ex-
cellent plan toa.•carry a half dozen
fuses. One of tlieee may come in
handy at any time. To have a fuse
blow out on a lonely road with no way
of replacing It is an unpleasant expert -
Mies.
ductive capacity, are the cheapest in 1926 was 17.8 bushels to the acre,
the world, and farm labor is revealed whereas in the United States it was
as a distinctly remunerative occupa- only 14.7 bushels to the acre. Oats
tion especially in its manner of re- in the Dominion yielded 30 bushels to
gard to -day as an educational course the acre as compared with 28.2 in the
leading to actual farm ownership and Republic. Canada's barley yield was
agricultural independence. 27.3 bushels to the acre .against the
The opinion was authoritatively ex- United States 23.3 bushels, rye 16.1
pressed that in 1925 farm land prices bushels against 11.4 bushels; flax 8.0
in Canada were as low as they would bushels against 6.7 bushels; and hay
ever be, but nevertheless a further 1,48 tons against 1.33 tons. The esti-
slight decline is noted in 1926. The mated average production of tobacco
average value of the occupied farm in the United' States. in 1926 was 795
lands of Canada as a whole, including pounds per acre, while Ontario pro-
both improved and unimproved land, diced an average of 854 pounds per
as well as dwelling houses, barns, acre, Quebec 880 pounds, and British
stables,and other farm buildings Columbia 1,225 pounds. In consider -
thereon, is returned at $37 per acre, ing the purchase of Western Can-
es compared with 938 in 1925 and adian lands it is further interesting
$37 in each of the two previous years. to note that the average acre of Mani -
Farm land value is found to bo high- toba land worth $29, seeded to wheat
est in British Columbia at $80 , per
acre, and lowest in Saskatchewan at
$25 per acre.
•AVERAGE LAND PRICES. re
Volleying. are the average prices
in all provinces with the 1925 figure
in brackets:—Prince Edward Island
in 1926 returned $24.63; the $25
acre in Saskatchewan returned 917.50
and the $26 Alberta acre returned
919.33. • .
AVERAGE WAGES PAID IN 1926.
The tendency in farm wages was
to be slightly higher in 1926. For the
$46 ($45) ; Nova Scotia $36 ($37) ; whole of Canada, the average wages
New Brunswick $31 034); Quebec per month of farm helpers during the
$53 (954) ; Ontario $62 ($67) ; Mani- summer season of 1926 were for men
toba $29 ($29)•; -Saskatchewan $25 $41 against $40 in 1925, and for wo
($24)- Alberta $25 ($26) ; British men $23 as against $22 in 1925. In
Columbia $80 ($88), The average addition, the value of board is placed
values in 1926 of orchard and fruit at $23 for men and $19 for women,
lands, including buildings, etc., in the both rates being the same as for 1925.
fruit growing districts are estimated Thus the total wages and board was
to be as follows:—Nova Scotia $129•i r• men 964 and for women $42. By
($108) ; Ontario $124 0163); British the year the averages for men, in -
Columbia $820 ($301). While not in eluding board, was $639 and for wo-.
eluded in this return, another publica- men $465. The average wages for
tion of the same bureau states that men and women was highest in West -
tobacco land may be purchased in ern Canada, the respective rates be.
Quebec at from $100 to $250 per acre '
and in other parts of Canada at from
$100 to $1,000 per acre, information
of interest at the present One in
of the movement from certain states
of the Republic to Canadian tobacco
lands.
g $60 and„$40 to iviatrirooa; poi anu
$45 in Saskatchewan; $69 and >$47 in
Alberta. and 976 and $50 in, British
Columbia.
Official information on the wages
of farm labor is very valuable just
now when .the various movements of
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GE INDUST
"WI -10 PLANTS Y ,
"TREE,
incorporated by Act f Parliament n' stance• she lox ms t alistic looking 1
The Canadian Ilanchcrafts Guild, With this white, vermicelli -like sub -
1906, was formed with the oU cut of little white birds and beim laid pout -
J ti y, us,• ng colored pi.•h for the comb}) Billy took- the last spadeful o£'
encouraging the varied and beautiful beak iurcl' Ic,,s. .At a little distance it earth out of the deep hole, laid it
crafts tisat newcomers bring to •Can- is not unlike carved bone. " The
west
earefnl]y, black and inelldsv and
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iida, and to preserve the native cot- coast Indians inspired another crafts- crumbling, on the heap 'beside , the
tago industries. It is an association man to produce ""a pottery lamp in excavation, and gazed into the hole
of men and women under vice regal the form of a squat figure such as that he had dug. The smell of earth.
patronage, who serve 'without. re. is 'seen 00 the totem poles, with a came up to him, strong and sweet;
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muneration: , Annually the guild dis- shade in the shape of the woven hat .a pungent scent of growth and vig-
oroustributes an average. sum of $70,000 worn by these Indians a design alto-
districts,
lto- strength that moved linin ,
among its workers.gether very characteristic of this ' strangely. He leaned his weight oh !
To settlers in sparsely .inhabited Priraitrye people. Iu tan Women are
ricts, to. farm women and to 'city fond of malring boxes of porcupine his gave wandered along the side of
o where other
i,d• the spade,and inhaled deeply While
dist , the school playground,
residents the Canadian i•Iandicrafts quills.'
Guild oilers a remedy for loneliness, From the Province of New Bruns-' children d•ug holes and planted other ;
and a chance to tarn spare tuna into Tuners come some pieces of pottery trees, under the superylsion of the
pleasant, revenue producing work, 1t, made of the native red clay. The teacher. His gaze came back to the
is onl nece sa th th ork shall .writer saw an -interesting plate 'with hole in front of him, and ho breathe ;.
y s ry at ° w e' I a great sigh of happy contentment.
coma up toga hfglr standard gf technr raised border. !
th t 1 hall b useful, brOdered in nosegays in cross-stitch d ;'
cel and artistic excellence,' and that. 4 heavy
white linen bedspread ens- The maples that Tined the' road in
e ifront of the schoolhouse rustle �
oar is es- s e use u , o the first,soft murmur of
Patchwork guilts of intricate •re u• was purchased by an 'interior deoora-I faintly,
g for and looked substantial enough to immature leaves, as the fingers of the
9arity and well-chosen coloring, Hoole- last a century. Useful leather work, breeze stirred through the )Tranches; i
ed rugs from city and faun house, .including book bindings in tooled a rustle made up of the combined,
lace, embroideries, basketry, leather calfskin, are expertly made. I voices of countless growing leaves • l'
work, pottery, raffia, are but a few Rather touching are some of the small voices that spoke to the boy o• I
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the articles made. little hooked rugs from country sun and soft rain, and intimacies o
Quite novel were some` hot water. craftswomen, depicting subjects taken, birds and weather. The shadows ofcosies recently shown, and shopping from farm life—cows coming up the; the maples lay lightly marked on the •
bags made of natural -colored raffia, lane, views of sea and shore by moon- soft green of the roadside, thin, vague i
mounted on. a padded Hein nod err- light. If the perspective is not al- patterns of light and shade; slender
hroidered in tight little colored nose ways observed, the work' is at least splashes of shadow, with :little chinks(I
gays. One in the form of a quaint original. and interstices of sunlight that made f
habitant cottage with a rose roof and £`
vine -embroidered walls. was quite ir-
resistible. tion schools. To gather city children
.A. new medium which has been de- off the streets and teach them pleas-
veloped by an enterprising worker ant, useful" craftwork during the
is the pith of the bulrush, a material- summer vacation is helping to make
common in the Canadian• country. `good citizens of them.
A variety, of work is Slone by
chil-
dren under 16 in various Bible vaca-
immigration into Canada are directed
into agricultural channels, and a per-
iod of farm work is regarded as the
safest stepping stone for all to farm
occupation, as regards both the ae
quisition of experience and capital.
Under the system of farm labor pro-
vision developed .by the Canadian Pa-
cific Railway, farmers, are being so
well suited as to their requirements
that practically all applications from
farmers offer yearly employment. A
few years of such congenial work and
the newcomer to Canada is equipped
with sufficient experience to render
himself reliant and he is able to put
by enough money to make a first pay-
ment on Land under the easy terms
prevailing. Yet it is to be stated
that applications received from farm-
ers- very greatly outnumber workers
coming forward to fill them.
The Land of ,Beyond.
Have you ever heard of the Land of
Beyond,
That .dreams at the gates of the
day?
Alluring it lies at the skirts of the
• skies,` •
And ever so far away;
Alluring it calls: 0 ye the yoke galls,
And ye of the trail overfond,
With saddle and pack, by paddle and
track,
Let's go to the Land of Beyond!
Have ever you stood where the
silences brood,
And vast the horizons begin,
At the dawn of the day to behold
far away
The goal you would strive for and
win?
Yet, ahl in the night when you gain
to the height
With the vast pool of heaven star -
spawned,
Afar and agleam, like a valley of
dream,
Still mocks you a Land of Beyond.
Thank God! there is always a Land
of Beyond
For us who are true to the trail;
A vision to seek, a beckoning peak,
A farness that never will fail;
A pride in our soul that mocks at
goal,
A manhood that irks at a bond.
And try how we will, unattainable
still,
Behold it, our Land of Beyond!
Robert Service, in "Rhymes of a
Rolling Stone."
Choose the Middle Floor.
Children who s-1eep on the middle
Boors of i oases are less subject to
rheumatic heart disease thanthose
who sleep ;habitually above or below
time levels in these places where this
disease is prevalent. Science is en-
deavoring to lend out the reason for,
this.
Submarines Are Three Cen-
turies Old.
"The sudden prominence of the
submarine as an offensive weapon Billy's gaze traveled- from the crow,
during the World War, coupled with outward over the countryside. Beauty
arguments against the submersible of trees everywhere; tall, . slender,
and wide publicity whenever an sec graceful trees;- short, thick, comfort -
dent occurs, have lent support to the able trees, with outstretched branches
impression that the submarine is a already misty with the first of their
recent arrival, whereas underwater load of the treasures; spruces with
navigation antedates steamships andanus held strongly for birds' nests,
navy lists have includedsuchclasses and toweringu to pinnacles where
for more than thirty years, writes thrushes would sing itwilight; trees
A. B, Seamans.. H -ad Napolthat stood in protecting ranks before
heeded Robert Fulton he might have houses, and trees that stood aloof,
utilized submarines to paralyze Eng- and spoke with the voice of the wind.
land in 1814, for 'Fulton had per- Billy knelt and untied the protect ge
-
ing burlap from around the roots of `
the tree that he bad brought. As the
burlap came away, there arose a per-
fume of leafmold, a cool breath front
moss and dew -drenched earth. He
plunged his fingers into the black mold
and it seemed to him that he could
feel .the certain promise of its growth. til
The crow left hisinnacle. of elm
p ,
and flew over Billy's head with a
great clamor of shouting.* As he .
seemed' to be watching the boy as he
bent over, understanding what he
was doing, and there was an approv-
great clamor of elioutang. And he
crow passed,'Bflly was packing the
earth around the roots of his tree,
and with his bends he could feel the
mingling of roots and earth into the
certainty of growth.
• The teacher came down to him; and
looked upon hiswork with approba-
tion. "What a fine, sturdy tree!" she.
exclaimed. "I'm sure that one will
grow."
Billy looked up with a little inward
glow of assuronce not dependent upon
her approbation, a surety that went
up from the earth. in his hands to
meet the tiny whisper of young leaves
above his head.
The crow flew away, over toward
the willow -fringed pond, where he
met a trio of friends, whom he greeted
with clamorous salutation. All four
of them flew back over the school
yard, and shouted as they went. Billy '.
watched their passing as one watches
the familiar passing of old friends,
the shade and sunlight one in pat- !
tern and form; a single unit of con..
glomerate shades' of, common beauty,
A crow swooped down from the
woods beyond, and shot up'effortless-
ly in a'great are of flight that ended
in a lofty elm across the road, whero
he swayed with half=closed' wings, and
shouted lustily -"Haw! Haw! Haw!"
And to the boy it seemed as though
there was a. personal message in his
cry. "Trees! Trees! Trees!" he wad
shouting, "Haw! Haw! Haw!" And
fected a model operated by a hand -
revolved screw, resisting depth pres-
sure to twenty-five feet, and supplied
with compressed air. This invention
was used by the United States dur-
ing the War of 1812."
Mr. Seamans states that a subma-
rine was employed in the American
Revolution, the invention of David
Bushnell --"egg-shaped, with a small
conning tower on its larger end,
which was the upright position, a
powder charge being carriedin a
magazine at the back to be attached
to the bottom of an enemy ship.
Motor power was supplied by a' hand
' propeller and a hand pump controlled
the water. ballast by which.submerg-
ence and emergence were obtained."
The first submarine on record, says
Mr. Seamans, was the invention of a
Dutchman, Cornelius Von Dibble. It
was propelled by oars encased in lea-
ther bags to prevent leakage through
the ports. Von Dibble took King
James I. on a. successful trip in .it
up the Thames in the year. 1624.
The River.
Surely a river is among the most
gracious? of the works of God
Without it,the faheset ; landscapes
would be desert and intolerable,. in
fancy as well as in fact. It renders
brown earth habitable, and adds
thereto the first highway across its
surface: Irnegine the Argentine
without the Plats, or Burma without
the Irrawaddy. Where would be the and with a vision that was clear and
mangrove swamps and rice fields, the sure, he saw them swooping down and
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fireflies and moist heat, the carved swaying in the top of his tree, sway-
ingand high-sterned junks and tinkle in vigorous arcs, and shouting in
robust glee, 'Haw! Haw! Haw!
Trees! Trees! Trees!" •;
The boy rose to his feet, brushing -
the earth from his knees. He looked
up at the teacher, and asserted,
"Grow? You bet it'll grow. Why,
it's growing nbw."
and glitter of tall trees. All gone,
and they are Burma,
So Egypt is the. Nile, and Vene-
zuela the Orinoco, and whets° is not.
the Nile or the Orinoco is but a few
sand -blown leagues of the Sahara, or
the name for region of hearsay and
fable. A river with four heads, we
are told, flowed through Eden, and
made Paradise' possible. There is --
there must be --a river whose streams
make glad the city of God. The per'-
fectien of beauty would be incomplete
without it.---ltex Clements.
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Rescue.
The Thames Embankment saw one ,
of the most ' dramatic incidents Iii '. i' •
its history' recently, when a young
roan dived into the river and saved
drowning pigeon.
It was opposite Cleopatra's Needle
that themaimed bird was strggli2i';'
watchede by a crowd of people.
young man joined the crowd. Heti
was . . . of a type which is often
seen walking . dejectedly along the
mile stretch of riverside.
Someone in thecrowd said the bird
was "nearly done for." That was
enough for the "modest hero'
He threw off his coat, unlaced h's
boots, and dived into the river.
clasped the bird's feet and swans 1p
the steps. , Then he picked up his
coat and pressed it round• the bird.
The last , act; in this little drama .
eves . staged by an onlooker—a cit'
ratan on his way •home. He stopp i
a taxicab, had a whispered word wit
the driver, and the "modest her;
and the London pigeon he had save
were soon out of• sight, i
It is easier to live up to a tee
advertisement than to live do
untru],hful one; truth is goo
near, Sir' Harold Bowden.
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