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CAPTURING PORPOISES
BY PHILANDER EVERGREEN.
Who, that lives near the seashore,' die; catch up the spear, thrust it down
or has ;had occasion to take even a into the water and almost invariably
short sea trip, has not had his often- bring up the porpoise, He worked
tion drawn to the lazy tumbling of thus rapidly because a dead porpoise
the porpoise in the water about him? sinks at once.
Why not call this animal the sea -pig? In a little while; he had captured
for .in many respects' he resembles a several in this way,, and when the
pig.'. indeed, he 'goes` so far as to shoal had ceased to play about him,
/pend much of his tinge rooting about I invited him on board the vessel. He
in the mud with his nose, in search', came on cautiously.
bf food. - We showed him several things,
The creatures have some singular,such as'a. breech -loading rifle, etc,
habits. They live, in schools, or shoals, which we knew would interest an In-
pf course, for moat animals do that, dian, and after .awhile, he became
but the porpoise keeps near the shore, quite free to converge,
and delights to play around a vessel.' From him I learned morei articul-
Sometimes they will run a race arly than from his father concerning
with a ship for several miles, owe- their mode of living. He supported
sionallg coming to the surface, an& his family during spring and summer
then disappearing with a peculiar and autumn by catching porpoise, as
movement which looks as if they were he was now doing.
playing "turn somersault". in the' He explained that he also sold the
water.•I oil obtained from them, that he also
I suppose theylive in all waters;.sold.. the skins, but used the bodyfor
but.I have never seen them so reamer.' food.
ous elsewhere as in the Bay of Fundy., In summer -time he made a living
I was once on board a vessel' that lay by fishing on the bay,where cod, had -
becalmed for several hours on that dock, herring, etc., were very plenty.
theet of water,close up, to the beau- During these seasons he got along
tiful shores of Annapolis County— very well, but in winter they fre-
that"gardeen of the lowland peninsula,.'quently had a pretty hard time of, it:
There is nothing very attractive in He lived by hunting, or tried to get
an old schooner lying motionless on a living in that way. But he said
the water, particularly if one has been hunting was poor business. Game
on board for a week, and is anxious was scarce, having been nearly all
to reach his place of destination. ,killed, or driven out of the country.
At least I thought so that after- Hunting for, the Indian is a matter
noon, and I induced one of the sailors of dull business, and, with his native
to pull me to the shore, where I might and inherent laziness, he only works
wear away the time by strolling about. bard at it when hunger compels him.
I' began rambling along the rocky, But hiswhite brother hunts for
coast, intent upon seeing whatever pleasure, not for gain, and usually,
curious thing nature had put there, having but a little time for it, he
and had gone perhaps a mile, when I' throws himself into the sport with
suddenly came upon an Indian wig- an ardor that succeeds in anything,
and without which nothing will suc-
ceed.
warn.
In front was a smouldering fire,
above which hung a pot containing
seine savory meat—as my senses told
me. Nearby sat an old man mending
a fish -net. Under a tent made partly
of boughs from evergreen trees, and
partly of bits of old sails from s'ho`t
vessel, sat a woman, holding a belie,'
and singing to it in real Indian dial-
ect. A numberof young redskins
wereplaying among the .bushes not
very far away.
At my approach, a miserable -look-
ing little dog yelped fiercely, and
when I found they quieted him by
talking English, I walked "up to the
old man and saluted hint,
He could make use of a little "pig-
eon English," and after patiently
waiting till hie proverbial taciturnity
was overcome, I drew from him some
interesting things.
He informed me that he belonged to
the Micmacs—a once powerful tribe,
Who formerly owned the entire penin-
sula of Nova Scotia.
He said there were now but a few
families left, and that they mostly
lived along the coast between there
and Grand Pre.
He was too old to do much work,
but lived with his son, and tried to maiden voyage from German. Ger-
help along by doing little jobs such many to -day, as our„press report the
as he was now engaged upon. figures, is sixth among the nations in
He told me that his son—the father the size of her merchant fleet. Ahead
of the children whom I saw—was” now of her stand Great Britain, the
down on Phe bay after! porpoise. United States, Japan, France, and
Thinking I might find him at it, I Italy. In ship -building, according to
rose to depart, when my eye caught Lloyd's, Germany has recently push-
eight of some queer -looking skins ed Italy into third placeand herself
stretched across poles, and drying in into second, being surpassed only by
the sunshine. These were porpoise- Great Britaie.
skins, which, when dried, he sold to
be made into leather. Their Last Resort.
As I returned to the vessel, I saw In a class of Greek 'history a youth
the young man at his work, and row- was asked to tell the story of the bat-
ing up near, I watched him for a tle of Thermopylae.
While. I The lad had unusual deseripttve
He sat in a little birch canoe, which ability and proceeded with, great zest.
iiss he rowed along with a single short No detail was left out. The heroic
paddle. Beside him lay an old muz- stand was described vividly.
zle-loading gun, and a spear with "—and they fought and fought and
a handle perhaps fifteen feet long. r fought," said the pupil "They
Whenever a porpoise broke the fought until they lost their arms, Then
water at a distance, he would paddle they used their hands:"
his canoe rapidly to a point near the
ripples, tipd then, taking up his gun, •• inner Man's Argument.
watch him: Mother—"Robert, you're a naughty
As the fish again came to the;^sur boy. You can just go to bed without
face, he would shout, and then, catch- your supper."
ing up the paddle, would row up to Bobby—"Well, mother, what about
his game in an incredibly short s>tice that medicine I've got totaleafter
of time, when he would drop the pad- meals?"• i
Germany's "Come -Back" on
the Seas.
Black clouds of war destruction
shmetimes have thick silver linings.
"For instance, France's antiquated
factories knocked to pieces by Ger-
'man and Allied shells have been re-
placed by up-to-date factories. No
less noteworthy is the way in which
the drastic reduction of Germany's
shipping during and after the war
has virtually given Germany an up-
to-date merchant marine., For Ger-
many, it seems, is three-quarters of
the way back toher pre-war place
as a carrier on the high seas; her
ships carry 9.2 per cent. of the world
trade, as against 12 per cent. in 1914.
And what seems extremely signifi-
cant to a number of newspapers is
that while 16.5 per cent. of the
world's merchant ships are leas than
five years old, fully 40 per cent. of
Germany's are in that class. Ger-
many's come -back has been brought
into public notice by the recent arriv-
al of the new 21,000 -ton Hamburg-
American liner New Yorlc, on her
In Buffalo National Pare, Alberta—The end of a duel between two male
mule .deer. Their antlers became entalrgied, holding them firmly, and the
wardens• had to rope them before they.00uld be released,
In Canada, the big game country of
the continent, -the finding In the woods
of, skeletons of two male deer with
antlers firmly locked together lea com-
paratively frequent occurrence. These
remains are taken to indicate that the
bucks became locked in combat and
that when thus rendered helpless,
death caane guickly in the shape of
wolves or by exhaustion. _Rarely, how-
ever, have wood men comet, on deer eo
s p
entangled, and probably the "fleet oc-
casion upon which the combatants
have been freed occurred a short time
ago in one of the game. sanctuaries of
the Canadian National Parks, Depart -
went of the Interior.
In this inetaaee the oineer in'oharge
of the. cattalo eneloem'o at the Buffalo
national park at Wainwright, Alberta,
where the .mule deer ,are numerous,
noticed two books !oohed together by
their antlers and unable to get free,
in spite of desperate otruggtes. Being
alone lie was un'abLe to deal with the
situation, but next morning with three
others to assist him the combatants
were roped and separated unharmed,,
Beware of Sunburn
This Year.
Bathers and hikers ,who "burn" in-
stead of taking ona coat of tan had
better give a thought to sun spots be-
fore the hot weather comes, according
to Dr. Edison Pettit, an astronomer at
the Mt. Wilson Observatory in Cali-
fornia.
This teeing pre-eminently a "sumespot
year," the ultra -violet rays of the sun
will be about twine as Intense as they
ordinarily are. One courting a come
fortable sunburn, 11 there is such a
thing, may acquire it by remaining
out in the sun one'hadf'as long as was
necessary last year, for instance.
By the same token, the luckless
wights who remain out under the sun
rays as long as they used to will get
twine the "burning" they are accus-
tomed to, and are in for some: uncom-
fortable half hours with liniments and
lotions,
Dr. Pettit is in earnest, and main-
tains that unless people heed his .warn-
ing, painful sunburn cases will be just
about twice as frequent and as serious
as in 1926 or 1925.
People who have diseases favorably
affected by the sun may look forward
to a good year, Dr. Pettit admits, al-
though even they had better bear In
mind the increased intensity of these
potent ultra -violet rays, and take them
in moderation.
Sun spots operate in cycles, he ex
Plaine, and in 1923 they reached their
lowest ebb, and the violet rays reach-
ed their lowest intensity. That year
the rays were only two-fifths as power.'
ful as they will be this year. This sum-
mer some time there wile be a maxi-
mum, of sun spots—'bhe first maximum
since 1917. Another maximum is not
expected for several years.
Whale Dr. Pettit 1`3olemuly warns of
the discomfort cthat will follow pro-
lenr•ed and ill-advised exposure to the
sun this year, he does -not take the
alarmist views of some French and
Russian scientists, who blame the
spots for everything but the war debt.
jam.
Professor A. J. Tchijevsky, of Mos-
cow University, says when there are
many spots on the sun there is much
influenza, and that other diseases, such
es :cholera, increased notably during
periods of sun -spot activity in olden
times.. The majority of Russian soien-
tists are laughing at him. They regard
the spots as a very beneficial phen-
omena.
Members of the French Academy of
Medicine have gravely forwarded. the
Finland is Prosperous.
Of Europe's new nations, Finland
is 'said to •lie .one of the most pro-
gressive and industrious, Its little
capital of Helsingfors is described as
remarkably busy, and the country
seems able to keep free from entangle-
' nrents with its neighbors. There is
la general air of alertness and cleanli-
ness about • Helsingfors, notes a con-
tributor to the London Daily Herald,
and he has been irnprest by the extra-
ordinary number of women who take
part in every form of work. There
,has always: been a large preponder-
ance of women in Finland, and since
the war this majority has increased,
we are told. As a matter of fact,
informant goes on to say, Finland,
for its size, has produced more far-
ous women than any other country,
and he adds:
"The Finnish woman has a remark-
able presence, and seems to leave a
distinctive impress on everything she
does. You are always conscious of
her great strength of character, in
dependence, and energy, Of all Con-
tinental women she most nearly re-
sembles the English housewife,
"The Finns have a great history
behind them, and in her fights for
freedom, the daughters of Finland
have shouldered rifles, and have
shown as much enterprise and daring
as the most valiant of her sons,
"Denmark may have its farm girls,
but the women of Finland are in
Ievery profession—doctors, lawyers,
dentists, architects, and engineers.
Even the most strenuous of manual
labor is not too exhausting for them.
They become trans conductors, brick-
layers, mechanics, and even road
sweepers,
"
There are many women members
in the Finnish Parliament, and they
seem to monopolize the seats on the
equivalents of our Borough Councils
and Boards of Guardians. The
government offices seem really to be'
controlled by women. Men apparent-
ly occupy only the subordinate posts,
and accept orders from the women I
with a very good grace,"
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The chief cont
roversies in'Finland,
according to the Timescorrespondent,'
are the rivalry between the 'Swedish -
speaking and Finnish -speaking sec-
tions of the population, and prohi-;
bition. The new Government strong-;
ly favors the new Prohibition Law,
but thoughful public opinion is said
to be divided as to whether it really is
good for the country. ,
theory that the sun spots throw the'
body out of normal operation and
weaken 1t, and are the cause of many I
sudden deaths,
alkali extravagant claims are regard-
ed as absurd by the Caiefornian, who
thinks the ultraviolet rays do not, as
a rule, cause anything worse than a
mighty sore back.
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In cattle raising the Indians of
Canada's Middle West have been 1
very sucessful. They own in round
numbers 25,000 head of cattle and
35,000 horses of good type. ,
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Was It Worth 1t?
Five-year-old William was standing
in the kitchen with his eyes upon a
dish of cakes when his mother came
in and found trim. -
"What are you doing here, William?"
said she,
"I was just thinking, mother," re-
plied the youngster.
"Tlrinking? Well, I hope you haven't
touched those cakes,'
"That's what 1 was thinking about,"
came the read an was awee•. "I w s won-
dering whether they were good enough
to be weelpped for."
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SIR RENRY LUNN- DESCRIBES .CANBERRA:
AUSTRALIA'S NEW CAPITAL
Early in May the Duke of York is. to being to erect what 1s called "a 'teal
open the new Parliament Building at
Canberra, Sir Henry Lunn describes
the new city and building in the
"American Review of Reviews'."
"12 le .an eight -hours,' railway jour-
ney from Sydney to Queanbeyan and
then a moton run 1 tweve miles to
Canberra, the made-to-order capital of
the Australian,Commonwealth," writes the present building will be used as a
Sir Henry LunnParliament for at beast hall a century.
'.'Canberra is being founded as a "The Senate Chamber and the Cham -
way out of the rivalry of Melbourne her for the House of Representatives
and ,'enough for double the num-
Sydeley. It was agreed that the are 1argoterrltosy should, be taken out of the her of members that now constitute the
state of New South Wales. .It was one, Federal cs .mien"
of• the bargain* which induced the free I In theo ease of Canberra the -eom-
triade state, New South Wales, to en- missioners have decided thee one die.
ter, lnto a protected Conerhonwealth. • fila shall be industrial. There are
"It was not until 1908 thatthe Aot already being' budded large1 anryndeles
and the at'hsr bnind.ings of Indus -
toryfinally;;peseed� by which this torsi-. trial character that are neoes'sary in a
tory was agreed upon. In addition to 'great residential city. They will have
the 900 square rt111es or more in the full power to prevent any manufacture -vicinity of Canberra, there is also an 'ens arising within the city that would
area of 2,302 acres at Jervis Bay for lessren l•s amenities and: disfigure the
the purpose of a Commonwealth port, soenery:
which is under the same commie-,'. "In another part of the city alto-
.
slaters. Canberra is "edtuated 204 gether it ieintended to cultivate the
miles from Sydney, 429 miles from. development of large reoidenoea. In
Melbaorne, 912 miles from Adelaide, 'yet another part houses are bullt for
and 929 miles from Brisbane. It le, workmen and minor officials.
therefore, nearly equidistant from the ; "There will be a large university
chief centres of population in the ecu- founded, which will attract, no doubt,
thione et is separated by a distance a considerable number of families, and
of twenty miles from the main dividing will furnish opportunities /or educe -
range between the eastern coast of tion to the children of the leading
Australia and therivers that ,empty' civilians and the members of the two
thentsolves into the Murray. I Houses of Parliament.
"The •site is .admirably Chosen, I "Canberra being a garden city, the
bounded by mountains in each direc-. planting of trees and shrubs, is being
tion, The Moionglo River flows carried put on very careful lines. The
through the site in a westerly direction: streets and avenues are to be planted
and joins the Queanbeyan River at with every possible care. A certain
that town, seven miles from Canberra amount of afforestation. work is going
—twelve miles by road, and at pre on in the outskirts of the city. Pretty
sent Hue miles by rail. A new road is' parks' and belts of, trees for shelter
being constructed which will be about have both been planted,
the sarmre length -as therev v'IWay. 1 ''The number of.emp'lbyeesnow con -
"The city will lie in an amphitheatre trolled by the commissioners amounts
' of hills in large areas of gently undu-. to 3,400.
!sting country. The great tributary ofd "I was much interested to find that
the Harrap, the Murrumbidgee, flows 1 Mr. Butters (the chief com.missianer)
through - the territory, but' the main ` was an ardent supporter of church
!river which supplies water is the Cot- l union, not because of any strong ec-
I ter River' clesiastical views of his own, but be -
The Parliament Building is to be cause the rival sects are giving him a
opened by the Duke of 'York early in peat deal of trouble In their demands
May. The architecture is plain, and for gibes for cathedrals, hails and
obviously economical, the intention churches."
Acute IndigestI0n„ stomach, the hee,rt action
will subside
It is not unusual to read obituary and the exhausted sufferer will Yale
notices in the newspapers which tell asleep. to the'hiorning a dose of salts
us that aq-and-so died suddenly of or of castor oil will complete the cure,'
acute indigestion. e the ordinary,iOf.course there are many cases of
healthy person, or even to one who discote indigestion to which nerdy causeh
knows from personal experience what discomfort and take an no such
threatening aspect as we have des -
dyspepsia is, it seems incredible that
a man can die from such a simple ribed,
cause, however distressing a condition:
it may produce. Acute indigestion is God's Guest.
a purely functional disturbance of the
stomach's powers'; that is tosay, there
Is no disease, properly speaking. The
stomach simply stops work for a time,
either because it Is overloaded and.
poraay building,' hut it is a bubbling
SPEED WONDERS
OF 1937 •
By 13' S, MARSHALL
The Engtla'h Racing Motorist.
that will last one hundred years', with- s -
out allowing any signs of decay, T
idea le, et a !otos date, to build, the pe r
man�ent Houses'of Parliament behind
the present Parliament House:at a
higher levee overlooking it, and to use
the present structure for "government
ofiloes, but the general opinion is that
The
I am frequently asked what the oar
•: of .1937 will• be like. I do not think
the par of.ten years hence will' be so
fundamentally different:from the
1927 type as the romantic' futurists
suggest.
I Take the question of speed. The
average motorist in this country finds
that thirty-five to forty miles an
hour is the limit at which he can
drive his car with real safety. Sever-
al circumstances hamper him from
touching higher speeds for any length
1of time. The winding English roads
is one of them; but his chief check
is found in the other users of the
roads. As long as vehicles of all
speeds—that is, bicycles,' horse carts,
and motor -car -are allowed on the
same thoroughfare, so long will the
ordinary motorist never be able to
compete with his racing brother. And
rightly so.
HIGH SPEEDS SAFEST
The new artificial roads suggest,
however that speed will certainly be
increased. Perhaps in ten years' time
one will see the entire country cries-
, crossed
ries;crossed with these macadam roads,
themselves divided into groups for
the use of various types of traffic.
Then we shall have the motor roads,
roads for home -drawn vehicles, and
bicycle paths, each separate and dis-
tinct” routes. On such a road the
,motorist could attain high speeds
without danger to the other occup-
ants; in fact he would probably be
summoned for drtving too slowly and
thereby causing obstruction! Some-
thing of this nature already exists in
certain Canadian towns.
My view is that we may live to see
fifty miles an hour a normal speed
for the average motorist; but certain-
ly not more. There is, however, the.
compensation that with increased
"I am a guest with Thee"—Psalm
39: 12.
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0 Lord, there is a state I know,
despairing of iinishing its job, doesn't Of all supremely blest,
undertake' it, or because something has 'Tis when a being here below
been put into it that either ie absolute - Is made Thy guest.
ly indigestible or irritates the lining Of fondest care Thou givest proof
membrane of the organ, or because the
While I with Thee abide—
nervous system ]res received a shock
an fa to trans'mtt the proper signals.
to the quiescent stomach.
Whatever the cause, there may be
no symptoms for a time, and the un-
suspecting victim may pass a few Thy love for needy man appears,
hours after the meal entirely oblivious Yea,wraps him round.
of his stomach, as a healthy person
should, Then of a sudden the case But when Time bids me hence rem
alters; perhaps he is awalvened from g one,
since with headache, nausea, heart-hy pled a is I shall then
Be,B
burn and short breath. The abdomen in a Vetter house above,
is distended with gas which Thy Fest again.
presses —Alexander Louis FY'aser,
upward on the diaphragm and ob-
structs the action of the heart and
Sufficient food, a sheltering roof,
Thou dost provide.
And in this wondrous house of yearn,
With color, joy and sound,
lungs. That causes a rapid pulse, pal-
Solving the Mystery.
pitation, pain in the region of the Recently the widow of a farmer,,
heart, radiating up to the left shoulder, ' striving to keep the farm going, bad
and increasing difficulty in breathing. I som.o &enmity with her hens, and
Now, if the heart is weak or dig- i wrote the following letter to the De -
eased, the moment is critical, The partment of Agriculture;
lireserme meet
he relieved Pe
yed at -r
once a
"Something
is wrong with my
chick -
the heart
may stop. In mild cases ons. Every morning when I come out
the gas may be relieved by a couple I find two or three'lying on the ground.;
of charcoal tablets or a little bicarbou-; cold and stiff, with their feat in the Or.
ate of soda, and the Immediate danger'Can you tell me what is the matter?"
passes; but there is still a mess of un- I After a little while she reoeived the
digested material in the stomach following letter from the department:
which must be got rid of. A quickly "Dear Madam: Your chickens are
acting emetic Is 'required; if thole is dead."
none at hand, it will °teen serve to
h
tickle e t ehraat
t with the
s As A
year without
ithout
a plan is like
s
soon as this course has emptied the shipwithout a rudder.
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speeds will come greater improve-
ments in braking—already well fore-
shadowed•—'that will enable speedier
deceleration, a result that does and
will make it actually safer to drive
at fifty miles an hour than is possible
to -day at thirty miles an hour.
And what of the cost, It the f50
car approaching? Here again
romance invites, but cold practicality
forbids. With materials and labor at
their present cost, the price of a car
to -day does not leave much room for
reduction,
For the past few years manufac-
turers have confined themselves to re-
finement rather than new designs.
But it is safe to say that drastic
changes in some form or other are
almost due. They may come in the
form of a revolution in the springing
of a car; or the engine may undergo
sweeping revision; or perhaps we
shall see the elimination of the gear-
box, One thing is certain. The
closed car is booming and will soon
be the mast popular type on ,the
road.
All signs indicate that the popular
car of the future will be childishly
simple bo operate and simple to re-
pair, But because people will still
demand comfort, even in 1937, the
oar of that year will 'not be too nar-
row,
too low, or, in fact, in the least
like the tubular monsters that race.
on Pendine Sands.
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An Election by Jury.
Mr, Clarence Day, Jun., is respons-
ible for an amusing election neves-
tion in Harpers Monthly, He writes:
"The jury system is only a make-
shift way of deciding a murder ease,
but as a method of settling elections it
is simply ideal. Every year, inetead of
putting millions and millions of ears
at the mercy of orators, twelve men
would be chosen by lotto listen for all
the electorate.
"These Truman sacrifices would be
locked up in a lecture hale and kept
there throughout the campaign, and
every candidate would be given a key
so that he could go in and make
speeches to them. He 'wouldn't have
to weer out Itis throat either, as he
does now, making the same old
speech over and over—unless he him-
self wished to. If he dict,- he should,
of course, have that privilege. Give him
plenty of rope. As a compensation to
the jury for their hardships, they could
be pensioned for life. Even with this
empense.added, a campaign would cost
far leas than at present.
"Our jury ey'stem' is a valuable
heritage, our great jurists tell us; it
is the most sound and dependable way
of deciding things. Very well, let us
use 11. It wouki be quite as repro-'
sentative of the popularwil] as the
vote. Each juryman would see every
candidate as well•( as hear all his argue
menu,
"That would malte'the new custom
more thorough. It would ' be demo-
cratic, yet dignified. And on Election
Day, instead of thousands of polling
places, voting machines, clerks and
wetehers, and a long and elaborate
taunt of a Whode nation's ballots, the
jury would merely retire for an hour
or so and announce the resuit,"
Nothing m 111e. is more remarkable
than the 'unnecessary anxiety which
we endure, and generally oecasfon
ourselves.—Benjamin Disraeli,
Tests completed recently demon-
strate 'that hemp for fibre can be
grown vel'y succeseftrlly in many
parts of Canada.
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