The Wingham Advance Times, 1924-03-20, Page 6114111.1 ADVINCE.TIRES
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Dr. Robt. C. R
Leather Industry in Canada
Canada being one of the fereat eat-
tle-raleing coantries et the world, it 10
only- natural that the leather ladustry
should oceuPY a position of mnch imt
portanee in the industrial• lite ef the
tountry, end it O intereatiug to nate
that the Taltve of Preduction in, 1922
ehows a eubstantial inerease over the
figures • for the preeeding twelve
inonthe. , The valueof preduction of
the tanneries in 1922 wee $24,291,884,
compared with $22,905,528 in 1921.
These totals are exclusive of the value
of hides and skins tanned • fer cus-
tomers but Include the amounts re-
ceived by the tanneries for custoin
work.
• An analysis of the production value
slows that, of the total, "sole" leather
amounted to $9,175,420, The output of
"upper" 'leather totalled $10,497,813;
of harness leather, $1,845331; of other
leather, $1,702464; of wool, hair and
glue stock, $210,834, and a other pro-
ducts, $289,734. , •
Capital invested in the industry in
1022 amounted to $32,816,775, which
wa.s opportioned as followe: Nova
Scotia and New Brunawick, $286,000;
Quebec, $4,554,426; Ontario, $27,852,-
4e4; and. Manitoba, Alberta and Bra
SO Columbia, $125,885. There were
employed, during the period under re-
ond
M.R.C.S. (Eno).
• L.R.C.P. (Lend).
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
(De Chisholm's old atand)
DR. R. L STEWART
Graduate of ' naiversity of Torontet
Faculty of Medicine,- Licentiate or the
Ontario College of Phytnenans and
I/argot:las,
• Office Entrance:
•OFFICE IN CHISHOLM BLOCK
gOSEPHINE STREET PHONE ge
-Dr. Margaret C. Cilder
General Practitioner
Graduate illettrersity ot Torontoi,
" acuity of Medicine.
MileseenionephIne St„ two door s south
t of Brunswick' Ho.teL
Andephones—Oalce 281, Residence lel
• Osteophatic Ph3r5ician
a,
,) a *
t 'DR F A 'PARKER
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
.All Diseases Treated.:
()Mee adjoining repidetice neXt
:nanglies,n. Church on Centre Street..
Open'tivery day eel:opt Menday'arld
ctiiVednesdey afternoons.
Osteopathy • . Electricity
• Phene 272
ant.TGLESg. PIRYSICIAISTS
..Dr. J..A FOX.
e- CH I ft0 PRACTOR
Office Henn; • 2 to 0 arid 7 to 8 pete
WedtteedaY Afterenteens by APpoillin
•" •rnent only.
• Telepone 191.
DR. D. H. McINN
• CHIR.OPReA,CTOR
enteIft reduete
Adjestmeete -given. for diseases of
ern k1nd,aneelalize la
tituildreia Latin •.titttennant Nigiat PAIN
Seepondett to.
• °Mee en Stiott Ste, 11,6Ingharo, oat.
. xta 4ou,13.o. the. ./aS Walker).
• Phone 150r,
WIINIGnAVI ADIT.A.NCE,TIXFA
view, 3,854 pereens, to whom salaries
alla wages Aetalling• $4,302,918 were
paid, , •
The Uumber of eetabliehments M
1922 Was 116, which is a decrease com-
pared with 1921. but an increase of 16
tanneries compared with 1920. On-
tario and Quebee, with 39 and 65 tan-
neries respectively, May be said to be
the centre of this industry in Canada.
The livestock yards at Toronto and
Montreal annually handle hundreds of
thousands of livestock and provide an
abandant source of material for
plants •in these provinces.' The re-
maining establishments are spread
over the Dominion, Nova Scotia hay -
Jug 3; New /3runswick, 2; Manitoba,
2; Alberta, 3; and British Columbia, 2.
The leather export situation during
1922 was very satisfactory. 'rite value
of leather, nmanufactured, exported
from Canada during the calendar year
1922, was $5,091,384, an Increase over
the previous year of over a :million dol-
lars. The import situation also shows
an improvement, the 1922 figures
showing a decrease compared with the
previous year. Import e in 1922 total-
led $3,764,929. compared with $4,059,-
222 in 1921 and $8,467,528 in 1920.
Fine leathers formed the major share
of the imports, accounting for nearly
one4k1rd of the total value.
He—"You waaldn't love me any
more if I had a million dollars, would
you?"
She—"N-n-n-o—I wouldn't love you
any more.".
Passing
March Mornings.
March. mornings! Each a brimming
•cup •
That dancing Phoebes filleth
zp—
.A. drink to start the blood to race
And prick the feet to trip apace.
Meech mornings! When the darting
sun
Leap,s forth, a clear new muse to run
Like nettled steed that feels the spur
And bounds with every: pulse ,astir.
March mornings! When the boisterous
wind • -
Retorts the witistling lad in kirea
And kicks' the fuzzy cloudlets high
Like toothaJliaoDa201d of Eery.
March mornings! Let them come
• apace
To show old winter's run his race,
And that the world is all awing
And waitieg for the calk of spring!
—Maurice Morris.
Who bravely dares must sometimes
risk a fall.
Thursday, March 20,, 924..
-AND 1171 -IE WORST IS YET TO COME
The Useful Tin Root
"I'm figgering on putting a tin roof
ori one bedroom • of my house," an-
nounced • Gap •Johns= of Rumpus
Ridge at the auction..•
"Roof leak?" asked an acquaintance.
"Nope, not specially. But with a tin
reef I can hear it rain in the morning,
and won't have to get up till I feel like
it."
Bad Ettglish.
. "You are an edneated man.," stead the
Tudge, but this is a di graceful mime
you have •been found guilty of. Have
you anything to say before sentence?'t
"Only this, your Honor," replied, the
pedant. "Whatever the een,tandit May
be, for hertv•ext's sake don't end it with
a prepositien." •
DehOration of Canadian Fruit
In the pest year ,a great step forwardever, beyond the reedit of commercial
has been taken In demonstrating to economy, In all mules' a regulating
mentheid of heat content is essential,
and still more so the praetical exportenee of operators who by touch and
eight can tell to a eiceity the liao that
separate e correct. .elehydretion from,
cooking. Two men owned 490 acres
of fruit orchard in California.; the one
eaved $100,000by nnowledge end
personal attention, the other Jot $80,-'
090 ley lack of, care.
The Penticton plant was bought In
Ike various branches which had LO''do California, and, With certain =edifice -
with the, fruit Industry. • It was in-
structed to gather information and re-
port. The committee was composed
of E. S. Archibald, director Of pcperi-
mental Farms (chairman); Geo. Eh.
Macintosh, fruit coni'ditssioner; 0. 5,
M,cGillivray, ehief eanning inspecter,
Health of Animals Branch (Secretary)
Dr. F. la ShuttSdirector chemical la-
boratory division, and.W, T. Maeoun,
Don-Ifni:ea horticulturist..
• As it result of its interim seport, the
' fruit growers how dehydration eat
save fOr nee :much of the fruit that, at
• Certain seaSons„"glutie the market or 10 •
• Waisted, pays:, the., II fthuial Resources
Intelliseece Beevite 4 the .'bepartrtient
of the, Interior. ,
:Reelizing the need for some Immedi-
ate 'action: to be taken to ;trona the
marketing of the .increasing. amount
of fresh fruit, the Department of net-
riculture appointed*. a committee from
Modern Ways.
Mr. Spendix---"Any installments due
today?" ,
M. Spendix-1-"Not dear, I think
net."
dens to 'suit thp- climate, was set up'
and successfully operated last )or.
At the end of the season a fire des-
treyed most of the Gkevenment
drated• fruit, but the plant was 'saved.
The little fruit that was saved will
provide samples for the, British Eire
pire Eilfibition. -There is little doubt
that these will weather the critical ate
tentton' of etne, hundreds of wholesale
buyers_ who will be. sure to examiele
euch products with unbiased corral -net -
estimates of the Department -of Agri- eiei acumen.
culture for 1923 contained an item of 'British, Columbia growers have eag-
$1e,500 4xPer'ireents •ta' dehYdraa erly co -Operated in the yet& ,They
Sion of fruits and Vegetal:line." During kaow full well thee atetant anarketa
the year, three eniterintental _Planta are to be their salvation, and realize
were erected, namely, a entil recidel that, though their acreage had In -
laboratory plant at the experimental creased tenfold in the laet few years,
farm; Ottawa, operated under the da the.present market is but little larger.
rect supervision on -Da. Sleitt andtrifr. The Ontario growers, having a large
Mitcoun,•,a senancommerdal 'Omit a.tt poeulatio'n. within easy range; are na-
Penticton, B.C., and a medium sized turally less' 'anxiouti, but are by, no
commercial plant at Grimsby, Ontario. MeattS blind- to the importance of de
-
The two latter- were erected .andeoper- hydration.
ated under the supervision Of C. S. , 04>nparathe.panking and marketing.
AlcGillivray. • '
Growers Aseociation, is 'esseatial to
ceases vary in efficacy,according to the
climate tri whith they are used,, and continual success. In British Colurri-
the sYstern adopted by the Canadian -hie- 96 Per of the fruit growers-
- hold to ether and in Ontario progress
It is known that dehy•dration pro- as proved by the California Fruit
Mr. Spendix—"Any payments due on government lattlie result of a,personal • e
• on these' ,is in evidenee. It `
visit to California a.nd Oregon, during
Iles between canners and dehydrators' may'aS
pleat: survey of the `conditions Was will-
ingly given, and especially by Profess -
Mr. Speridix----"'rhen I have ten don
r a. W. Chrietie, of the Agrieultural
Jars we don't need. 'What do you ea. per ment Station of the University
vre buy a new
A Berlin newspaper man was re- illtlid‘redse ef evaPorat lig Proeees
tried„ in the ;United :States handle other fruit than apples, pears,
coney fined for quoting eggs at 160 have 'hew?. peac es and plums, butthe logan er-
billion marks aPie,ce: after the And elsewhere, but the most sattsfac-
•
have their turn If the housewife
the applieatthn, of warm moisture to . - •
billion marks. He explained that' he realties the value of having spinach
had had.to pay the price be had nem- the air
1111131. The 'excellent results ell:timed'
current, and the electric vac- '
ed, but the judge told him.he woo iiat.,
fleially."
the noirse the radlo the ftrrniture, the • - be noted that ,there is no antagonism
• . which every assistance towax•ds a cone
tugs, or .the books?"'
•
Mrs. Spendix—"No."
California ,
es
,
the ,m.arket for the one product does
notAnte,rfere-with the other.
So 'far: the -Department of Agriena
tare:has' not had •time to develop tte
special domestic ,dehydrator, nor to
ernment had fixed the price at. 130 tory are re -circulating processes, with raspberry,
cranberry' etc" :will
tempting . to raise 'the Price ete for the latter system, ak4,. eatendin
to fish end meat, are at present, how,:
Ages Leave.,-U.otooth.O.'...F4roter,...0.f.
squabble about the exact date of Tut-
enrhamun's reign, but tbere c,an lee no
question about the reign of the plow.
Occasionally, ln Anatolia, I noticed a
modern steel plow in use; but, true to
tradition, the farmer was guiding it
with one hand.
Past and Present.
Contrast is perhaps the dominant
note of these realms of greatest -his-
toric antiquity. Over against the
ruins cpf aaarathust which nee In the
great plain north of the present
poli, in Sytia, I found a perfect picture
of the living present amidst the dean
Pests -or perhaps I should say of the
living past anaidet the dead present.
What changes- Maratinie has. seen!
All the splendors of tlae East once
vaunted themselves in her streets;
and hot-blooded men, who are now but
names in bocats such as Sennacherila
and Alexander and Saint Paul, trod
these streets in the flesh. • Prond Ro-
man youths rode in, the gilded char-
iots that made these deep ruts in the
rock; and even in their day the stone
dwellinga were a curiosity to be elan -
ed and disenned. What sort of edged
tools did these prehistoric people upe
for theliselaborate and extenslie•rock
cutting? How -did they drese and live?
The only living thing that my com-'
pardon and I found In Marathus, ex-
cept,the lizards and the grasshoppers,
eras a huge snake.
Now for the -contrast. Around these
beguiling `ruins, and as heedlese of
them as of the woves that lap the
shore of the neighboring- Mecliterran-
ean, the Bedouin families are encamp-
ed in reed hutst harvesting the ,graba.
They are of the same type as the
farmers who used to go forth from
Marathus, for no*, as then, in the
'East the farmers do not live en the
'land but in villa:gee and ton. In
harvest time these Arab helpers coMe
frordath.e East, as they have been com-
ing for ages, bringing their simple
toola with them. What one sees to-
day May be recorded aa persenal
glimpse of pre -Christian -farming.
The home life of these farmers,
Bible Lands
By William 1" Ellis excel* fighting, that the women fio
the ultixnate victor --that is the farmer , not 'carry on; the -favorite. vocation, a
.
bre no haste. - shade, talking or playing games.
For more than 4,000 years conquer- An Age -Old Threshing Scene. ' Feminine labor is bound to be -cheap
ors and empires have been sweeping • Threshing is as wasteful as it is in a .land where extra workers are
to and fro over these oldest of inhabit- pt. -Wait -lye. On aebit of relatively hard secured by the eimple prOcess of mar -
ed parts of the earth; and before every earth the grain and straw are thrown tying them, $o the time and strength
. down, and, animals are hitohe,d to a of two women may be pared for the
Invasion. the farmer has been the ear-
liest to suffer the destruction Wrought sled that has a' hundred- or more bits dreary drudgery of grinding up a, few
by imperialism. Yet to -day it is only of flint embedded in • its under side. handfuls of grain In a heavy stone mill
the farmer who pursues his way in the Then, for weary hours on end, the which they laboriously tern. The
unchanged taslitien of ages ago; the
Always the first victim—and always
of Bible leads. Land during the Surn• mer, there need th.e men. seems to be chitties in the
sled Is driven round and round over meagre measure of th.wEaistern peas -
very 'names -and times' of eome of the
the grain, the 'feet of the animals— ant's life is illuetrated , also by the
once victorious empires are a matter they nairy be donkeya horses cows or pitlful smallness f the store a wheat
of dispute araong bookworms. oxen; I never have seen camels so that serves the family for food, sup -
over this oldest part of the Old World, cushion tires which they w.etur for feet al disb. ef mutton. The variety of am
Anew I have lately been traveling employed, probably because • of the • pleneented by cheese anden occasion -
and mostly off the beaten tracks. For —aiding in the separation of grain ordinary Canadian'S- fare would seem
illustration, t I am jest back from a from husk.. It is usually the chilaree's untoin luxury to theae people, ,
journey throughout the length and work to ride the threshing sled, and Though the tnonuments of old Mara -
breadth of Phoenicia, which lies along one may Bee whole families crowded thus heve' had their' boastful ,inscrip-
the eastern shore of the Mediterran- on a single sled. ' tions obliterated by the gnawing•tooth
eali, from Gaza; whose city gates Sam- Of course by this simple process of of time, the simple contentment of the
son stale, to Antioch, that once spleia threshing apparently -elder than the unsung farmer folk, who have persist -
did city, where the disciples. of Jesus practice of beating with a flail, which ed throughout the peasing of . all em-
wereis in vogue farther south—Much grain pires and- civilizations, -is revealed by
lirst called Christiana Also I
have within recent =meths seen both sinks into the g ounti., and is otherwise the sintlimg teem of 'both adults and
the well-known and the •littleeknown lotst, When the work is done the straw children. A chilcl-like happiness, seems'
regions of Greece. I have traversed is reedited or carried away on the to itia.rk _these primitive peoples. They
the Balkans and. Turkey aud sojottrned beaks of camels or donkeys --the orig.- do not know that tJaeir lotis hard, for
Straw -laden camelto usually led by a wants are fete- and easily satisfied.
and Babylon, and have. crisscrossed man on•a donkey, ase one of the corn- Wealth it ordinaedly 'rated in terMS of
.
the Caucasus and wandered araidsttthe
in Egypt. I have also been through inal nay wagon. Processions of these they ha.ve iixperieneell no other. Their
Arabia and Mesopotamia into• Bagdad
monest sights of this season in the flocks and -herds and. donkeys and
Holy Land. Chopped strawle the or- camels. Now and then the insidious
ruins of Western Persia. dinary fodder for stockellia the Near West has invaded the Arab farmer's
Only a fraginent of these Journeys Enot; it is the neare.st approach to sue- home, I saw a farnily moving consist -
le indicated by the simple statexnent cum of the famous eXperiment a feed- ing of two camera loads of goods, in -
that I have gone fromatlie Garden of ing a horse on sawdust. ' eluding tents and tools; and on the
Eden down ittto the 'Tigris -Euphrates When tbe straw has been removed top of on.e eareel'il :burden proudly
Valley and to. the island of Palmas, from the threshing fittor the wheat' is rode tin American Beetles machine of
where Saint John saw the end. of all ready for the winnowing: This is done the hauel-operated type, which IS the
things. I mention this background, not by the old-fasblithed Method of tessing only kind used in the East, where pee -
that the reader may share the bumpiti wheat and chaff into the air With a• pie nit on titer floor. As uaual, the man
and the' bugs that I have 'endured in three -pronged wooden pitchferk, so of the iitailly rode and the women
hia behalCbut only to accredit the one that the chaff blows ativay and the walked behind.
wheat falls to the ground,. . France hes brougitt good roads and
• In the midst of these Weir harvest safe to . and has forbiddeta the
earning agriculture in Bible lends.
a raill," sitting in the doorway of C)11(i Arab farmers, work 'without. wearing
vived and otteroome the ages. They
of the reed shacks. 'Fete sceItes in guns and pistols and knives and 'clubs,
Wee still. plowing and sowing and reap -
Bible lands better illustrate the Primi; as they used to do. Bnt the neW
ing the ruins of hundreds of for-
ttve scale 'of 'lint' thane -this, It lent- way that ;runs along the • coast has
gotten eitlea whieb. in their day of
the brought its own troublee, in. the form
pride &tented themselves permanent wkile/a is spent -either in the Week firei of all, that the 'women are
workers, This 15 no country for the Of deraorepoisessed autontebiles Which
arta all-powerful, It la curious how the goat's hair tette of the roving Bedottin
'feminist. There Is no kind of work, fly past, scaring•'children hand:animala,
books feeem to:hive-Missed this polet or le men eee been, amegn.
of the tritieaph of the farmer. It struck leesly primitive. The reed Shack,
nie first upon leaving the buried tent- 'which is at once bedroom, dinin,g teem,
Pies of Saltkara, EgYpt. On the nursery and living room—there Is no
a1jet one of the tombs I saw a clear use for a bathroom—of a large family,
pictare, oolors,, Painted thoeSarlds often with More than one wifee'eould•
.of years, age, of an iligyntiall farmer •eatily be placed in the kitehen of the
plowitii. In a, little after lea'- tiveeage Canadian •falethouse,
log Bakkara, 1 saW"'A, 'living farmer In the wheat field, Which has been
:who might Invite poi& for this '-'very piowed With a cro-olted stiek and Is not
pert/aft, so similar were the featurea, fertilized or tuitivated at all, the grain
Dyriastiez had rieen Wel fallen end la eparee and low, and often ,only In
been forgotten, but the type of ot•din- little patches. Dible lande are for the
tricot part atony greuesl, The reaping,
is done' by hand sickles, made' by a
neighbor of smithy skill. Four bits of
bamboo are worn over the kouckles of
the 1,011 hand, of the reaper to facilitate
grasping the stalks of ,grain. Meta
WOttlert and children wield the siekle;
have More than once seen a Beth
toll6ving the 'reapers to 'glean the
,stallts their hands have missed, The
• es,in Is boand into small sheaves and
thetas staeked on their eldee.
;cause there is no rainfall in the Iloly
big observation I desire to make con -
Farming and farm folk have sur- scenes, I saw "tee) women grinding at general' carrying of arms, so these
ary, man had nereistea through:mit the
ages. Net only that, but the living
• aeon, hitehed to the plow of the liv-
ing man, Were no different from those
that had trOdden the Kate fields in
past eeirtttries, 58 pieteren tnthe
Walls of the tomb. 51111 mere eaten -
the Wolf itself Was the Sallie
form of ehatperied Woilden beam that
had been portrayed in colors at least
4,000 yeare, betel*, and that is still the
pgy82jfg a,gricultUral I/boleti:lent
throtigheut Asia, AreliaeologistO mayh
eat
A rennefkable view' is eleoien Caileon, near taekTmad,
Alberta. Oan yott'pick out tho rock ferramtion from which the cut gets Its
The lordly camel loses soraewlant of
his air of scorn when a car approaohes
—the Arabs say tbe camel is so
haughty because he alone knows the
hundeeth name of Allah; every pious
Moslem team recite the ninety-hine
beautiful names of God, but the
and other trent vegetables from her,.
news: garden for winter: use, ail exCel-
lent-•type of domestic dehydrator is
now. on the •market, while the Depart-
ment of Agriculture is likely to pro -
cluce, a model at a .price leas than the
Patented article .
•
In preparation for the growin,g in-
duatry of dehydrated fruit, and indeed
for the -marketing at good prices of
any Milt to be eaten freah canned,
orchardists are strongly advised to
plant the best -varieties only, and evee
to feee a temporaty loss in making
fire wood of.the many inferior trees.
It is well known that when first-class
dredth is the cement secret—and the greengages enter the market they find
stolid little donkey, who has 'cerried, few buyers, -because the housewives
the civilizationeof half a dozen mil-
lenniums 'on his back grows panicky
as..the automobile drawl; near.
-
The Sheep' and Their Gentle .Shepherd.
Tae. tails of • the, sheep:tat:et huge
lumps of woolly fat, as broadees.tlae
sheep therneelvee and as longeas-they
are wide. In the eentre itif this big
tail grows out a small* tAi of'regula-
tion size and sometimee•of r,d1fferent
color. Black' sheeP 'are a eomnion
reality hareabentkltheugh the nrevail-
tug color Is' white:aeyen. as that of the
capering goats fait*.
. -
Sheep in the East are shepherded,
not tierded. A Christian's- thoughts
grow tender as he watches, the flocks
and their gentle -eyed ehePherds; for
here before his eyes ,Is the complete
picture which was so familiar to Jesus
that it found worde,in his Good Sitep-
herd parables. Again and againd have.
watched the procedure as we thrive
rapidly toward a nook of sheep that
ellen the highway, the shepherd, in
head roll and long camel's hair cloak
and carrying a staff,- walking in front
of theM, ' At the blowing of our rau-
cous horn does he leap frantically
about, beating his Creatures this' Way
and that in heedless terror as do the
donkey drivers? No, for he is a good
shepherd, and the sheep know his
voice and they follow him. So he
walke quietly off the road to one side,
have already filled their shelves with
a poor. sort of 'yellowish plum, which
le dumped on the market earlier and
at Such a. low price that it brings no
prodt to the grower.
"A Thing of 'Beauty."
Below are the opening lines of
"Enderalon," a poem written- by John
-
Keats when he was twenty-two. It
was severely criticized in the "Quar-
terly Review," and when the poet died
'at the age of twenty-five Bryon wrote:
Who kited John Keats?
• "I" sans the 'Quarterly,'
So savage, and ta.rtarly,
"rwas.one et my feats."
• As a mitten of fact,' he died. in Rome
Of tannumption, telling -his, friend Seee't
ern to 3elacte on lite tombstone: "Here
lies one whose name was writ in
•Water." It has proved to be calved so
deepaand large on the rock of litera-
ture that it can never be erased.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
Ite loyelinetis ittereases: it will never
Pass.into nothingneas; but will keep
A bower Oliet for us, and a sleep
Full of Meet dreams, and health, and
•q,uiet breathing.
Therefere, on 'every morrow, are, we
'wresthina
Iii"ern'eteinelinrnpoWtd"CelOtilkelolelo•lifngterbhai°7cak, h and e A flowery bend to hind tie' to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the Inhuman
strange sounds behind them merely
delve the sheen' to keep closer to their
sh.epherd. Lo,4u a. Minute the road Is
clear, the Sheep are Safe, and the shep-
herd greets the noisy' car with a kindly
smile of curious interest.
, •
As in Abraham's Day.
dearth ,
Of noble nature% .of the gaoomy days,
01 -all ,the unhealthy and:•o3r-darkened
,
Made for our searching; yes, n spite
of all,
Some ship° or beauty moves away the
pall
So it was in the time of Christ. So From our dark spirits. Such the rein,
It was in the time of Davin. So it was the moon,
in the time of .A.brehane So it was .T,reets old and yoeng, 6;proutitkg
the utmeasured ages that stretch badk shady boon ,
beyond the begitming ef -written his- For simple sheep; and secb are defect.
tory. The farmer and his -nettle and Cis, ,
flocks continne uhchanged, preserving With the green -world they live hi; and
the ageless traditions and overcoming clear rills
the world of pomp and power. If these That for themselves a eooling covert
simple farm 1cJk on the plains of ?La- make
rathus, looking ont on ths Meidite, an- 'Clainst the hot season.; the mid -forest
ean toward the lovely aud storied lit-
tle island or Arvad, with Its Springs of
fresh water lesing, up iri the salt sea,
were cursed With-. the sophisticated
raind of Olney:ea, they might eneer Itt
the multiform ruins of Phoenicia and
Greeett and Rome and Asearla and Per-
sia and Egypt that taint:Sued thein, and
ern "Behold the dead! Yet we live,
tmcbanged and undefeatable, a symbol
of the eternal triumph tet the plain peer
pie who toil with Nature and. depend
Upon Nature alone for sustenance. The
ages ate poWerless against us; oar
children play about the eraptY tetebs
of the Singe who ()nee ruled. the, 'world
tcl proclaimed thereetrivoe, ineteettile"
Rich with, a s,prifikling of fair muck,
rese bloonei .
And snok too is the grandeur of the
do'oras •
We have imagined for the mighty
dead;
Ali lovely tales that We have heard ,tir
reed; ,
An endless- fountain of immortal drink,
reuring irate Us from the heaven's
hrtak,
Da losing forttinai Marry a lucky elf
has taiind biroself.
The blast that ws leudeet im tete
ersterblowt,
;'11!
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