HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1914-04-10, Page 5W ONTARIO'S CLAY BELT
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STATES.
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,oernplitea1 Loesa(i08 Poin(ed
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Out -- Climate of the
C'onnlry,
Continual reference] to New. On-
writs te.. the "Northland," "North
ntario," etc., have done much to
reate a 'false• impression regarclirng•
he geographical location of the
clay -belt. People who would eager-
ly seize the opportunity to avail
themselves'of Government grants in
Southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan,.
or Alberta, if siich were available,
hudder atthe thought.: of, locating
its a..dist•rict:• a. few hundred miles
north o Turonao.
There is a genuine surprise in
store forthose whe have the im-
pression that Timiskaming igen, re-
mote section bordering on the Arc-
tic Circle if they will. spread' out a
recent Map of the Dominion of
Canada and study it -for an -instant.
It will immediately be seen that al-
most the whole district to which re-
ference has been made in these
omni lies south of the latitude of
the city of "Winnipeg, while. a large
portion -of the 'clay belt lies south
of .the latitude of the international
boundary between the Canadian
i Neirthwe.it and the American North-
west States.
Having located the town of Coch-
rane, at the junction' of the T. &
• N. O. Raihvayw, and the :National
' Transcontinental, then• trace a line
westward'.into- Manitoba. It will
be found that the city of Winnipeg
=lies soave distance north of that
line. �L line' westward from
Englehart will land.. in northern
Minnesota.
Having correctly located the clay
belt all fears of arctic blasts and
polar bears will be dispelled. The
clay belt is a Northland in relation
to Toronto.
It is a South -East Region
in relation to the city 'of Winnipeg,
and it is far in the south when corn -
pared with Edmonton, Alberta.
Referring to the elirnate, "Op-
portunities for Settlers in th3
Northland," a pamphlet issued by
the Titiiiska`tning & Northern On-
tario Railway. • Commission, says:
"The elimate of the ' Timiskaining
country* is attractive at ell Seasons
of. the year.. _,The rainfall is from 20
to 40 inches per year. while the
snows of the winter are fairly: deep
a•nd generally cover the ground
from. the beginning of December to
the end of March. The winters are
' brilliant and the summers average
from 60 to 65 deg. F. During the
summer season the mid-day heat is
inclined to be intense, with cool
evenings."
In "Opportunities in New On-
tario," a booklet issued by Ernest
Hatin, Toronto,,.the climate is re-
ferred to ne hot in summer, cold
but dry in winter. "Summer frosts
are rare, the crops ripen more re-
pidly than in the south, owing to
longer hoursof sunlight."
The writer has visited the clay
- belt .on several occasions and found
the 'climate there but little different
from that of the most southerly
portions of the Province:
In • another . pamphlet, • issued by
the T. & N. 0. .Railway Commis-
Bion, 'entitled "The 'Great Clay Belt
of Northern Ontario,'''. the climate
is dealt with thus: "`Owing to the
long days and to the greater num-
ber of hours, of sunshine, , crops me
ttre very quickly in New Ontario.
The air is dry and healthful a.11 the
year. To spend a September in
the North is adelightful eaperi-.
'enee. •
known as oee 0f they fereztarnst dairy'
districts in the .w earls•."
" airness in every'cls;•tail eiiarac
teiizes the writings' if, -those who
have undertaken to intiacitiee to
the,. world• bhe,. magnificent i)ppor
tnnities w'hicln'' ate offered in the
land of 'Pita64( fhit*. It has been
repeatedly stated in:these column$.
that the,; ,chief -requirement n ece:s-
nary to .•tho•se who I enter the clay
belt are Ititrength and courage,• The
clay, belt is ne place .for the weak
or faint-hearted, ';,S.tiirdy 'pioneers;
men prepared to. undergo the pi•i-
vations which fall. to .the•'.eoirirrmit
lot of all those who locate en 'the
frontier will make isoodeinthe clay
belt. Thousands haye done so, and.
are doing so, and will„ continue to
do eo. Misrepieeentation;.ean., only
prove harmful to any cotintry •in
the.long run. One knoeker-.can da
more harm than a, half-dozen boost-
ers can •overcome: The T. & N. O.
•R•y,. Commission isle -nee the follow-.
Mg warning against 'giving up the
bird in the hand to seek the two in
the bosh, yet it points out to those
who are empty-handed that there is
a bird or two in the bush of the
clay b•e]t;—
CHINESE AT INDIA'S CA1[S
1OT\GI[1.SBA 1Ij tiWOR f1.lr
TO It; EAT 13R1''P:1'TN,
Not AIl. Sunshine. -
"But if a man be snaking a, com-
fortable living in other parts, he
would. however, be doing himself
and • •those depending upon him an
injustice to throw up everything
blindly and move to New' Ontario.
without first ]ookin)g , it over' and
then asking himself if he can make
the best of these opportunities. Tori
much thought cannot be put on this
one point. A man May have ability
to make good progress in an older
settled district, but for hint to go
Where conditions` are•.avelifferent as
day and night, he may have disap-
pointments at first. Then, again,
for -the 'man who has les at stake,
the man who finds he cannot make
ends meet, to New Ontario and a
homestead farm is the answer. In
any -event a man with only'ordina•ry
business ability, in possession of
good health and . strength, there
need be no 'fear as to his making
progresis. Thousands of others are
doing it, and in the majority of
cases the start was made under the
most adverse conditions. .No one
need starve in New Ontario, and
no one needs to be idle if he is able
and willing to work..
..C'[u.ntJis 1'V,:110RsE, '
Released .frons Lail Because He Was
''Dying," Is Mueh Alive..
Charles W. Morse; -who was par-
doned by farmer President'Taft be-
cause, as it was then alleged, the
, financier convict was at death's
door, arrived in New Yurk the other
day aboard the se. ' `Imperator,"
1 very much alive, with nut even a
thought of departing from this life.
He was (with the exception of his
moustache, which he had rid himself
of) the same :Charley Morse who
was known to the world of finance
before the panic of 1907. With him
was Mrs. Morse. The excellent
health 'and spirits of both were due,
The Air Is T?5taaliy Warm,
hazy and invigorating. Tn 'the *in-
ter, a rhiie: the mercury sometimes
tenches a lower notch than at Ot-
tawa or Montreal, the cold is nob
Felt .nearly so n'iuch as at either
place, owing to :the dryness of -the
The 'rare pro.anetiveness .of the
'kesnds ryf tive Clay Belt is referred..
tel as. follows :---"There is no place
in Ontario There bigger crops of
:Ilan , roots, ' b arley , peas, oats and
rr hest. eitn be grown, cllfalfa, too,
ss
quite at home in New Ontario.
torn 'too, can' be grown, althougli
it Nee,heen,tr•ii„d by only a; few;,as.
het," •
Again---=' Then clover, alfalfa,'
i0ielcl rdsi'hs., barley and tither graieie
'lean be grown with, each plienoine-
sial sue s it is tit `o110, ir1.14030 c1
that truly ideal lenditions edict for
tlaaryrarg and .beef cattle, raising.
1:8
s ,i lu oast a• siafe .pro i iety that in
'the' not distant fain*, Te Onn-
.,taeie will be ? 45 'lid 0Sv+k3' with cheese
feetor'iea nart2 cveatrtierted; avid be
Ali
'yy
A w
Pieture-u u' Career of Briton, Bora]
I!a Iaitiia,• Who Opened •
Oriental ]rands.
C'rilGintta appointed •nt. r..
ed Y ou:nl;husband
tet the important and diffroult post
,f'British Resident et the Court of
the Maharajah of Indere, .subse
fluently realizing the dream of the
colonel's life by giving hula the gem -
mind of the expedition to Thibet.
It was ori , his return from. lelase
that be was cteited a Knight. a
Com,.
*ander of the Order of the Tedi n
Empire,
Sir Frank's last post in India was-
that of British Resident of Cash-
there, and if he was allowed to re -
Colonel ' Sir Francis Y run Mitis- tire
o � fro•in: the service without any
band is credited with knowing more aclditieeal honors it, was beeai f
tseo
about the interior' of Asia than any
other ni,an .living, and . was • already
famous as an explorer when ;jest
ten years ago he won for himself' a
place in the pages of history by slit;
cessfully leading an armed expedi-
tion to the niysterious'strongho'ld ?f.
Lhasa, eapital, of the hermit state of
Thibet, which until that time had
been rigorously closed to the outer
world. Every white pian Who' had
endeavored to. penetrate into the
country, and to reach the holy eity:
of Lhasa, had been either killed cti.',,
turned back, fortunate indeed if lie
escaped with a whole skin.
It was Sir Francis Younghusband
who first drew aside the thick veil
by which Lbasa, and, indeed, all
Thibet, had been concealed, from sovereignty, converting Thibet into
view • and by fore n • 'his way a, Chinesenessi even by the efnt they
Earls Of
, gpzovi:ttee, dirt]. now main- l'ekial, Which in tlxtent they far sur -
through, m the face of almost in taming there a large body of troops: They are over twenty miles
superable obstacles; and by, ext •et- Whereas, Sir F raneis I-oungbus- p
ing not •only reparation from the 'laand'•s treaty :with •the I)al;i Llama
Grand Llama for Thibetan attacks' .had left Thibet. as a friendly_ buffer
upon t -h~ £rontiei' 'state•; of India, state, between China and British'
but by else concluding a treaty' Of:India, China may now be iiaid to
friendship with that sate:osanet pe-, be. thanks to her military oceupa-
tentate, created a profound impre.etion of Thibet, at the very gates of
sion upon all those races and.tribee British India.
of Asia, Which, professing various Since his return -to England, Sir
forms of Buddhism,. regarded,.11asa, 'Francis, who has the goldmedal of
as the Holy of Holies, and the `Dai the Royal Geographical Society and
L' hama, not merely as their .supre ne ^ honorary degrees f---- most f the
pontiff, but even in the light of a'.
divinity.
Indian Lore :Born Within Him.
Born in India, within the. sighte Cashmere Mountains,, Sir , of,
• �'1ff•. (YhtarIes 1�': �1d'o1•se.
it is said by Mrs, Morse,to the cure
at Wiesbaden, which.: had been a
great +succes:s, having restored an
almost, '"dead" rnan to 'a, man full
of health and vigir; Mrs. Morse
brought a unique oduea.tional toy
fir her young Nola. which she bought
London, It is •a complete ant's
nest with e queen, with the indus-
ntrious worker* running about in an.
inelos•ure, Mrs. Morse explained
that the' ante had to be fed once, a
moist].
the rigorous criticism to which be
Subjected the polies of the present
3 p
Administration in withdrawing its
:agents from.Llase-and in •eaerificang
zyll the advantages and privileged
pssition which he and Lord Curzon
shad secured in Thibet by means of
Itis expedition to Lhasa.
China at Itidia's (sates:
These sacrifices were made for the
Purpose of cementing British
friendship with Russia. But the re -
Stilt has been unfortunate, • For
England's withdrawal was regarded
throughout. Asia as •a sign of weak-
ness, and China toiik advantage
thereof to transform her purely
nominal suzerainty., into effective
•
11'.1.0 S OF NA NIt tlh'fx, 'f'O to;O..
ERoM
Government Agrees to P)•oposal to,
Destroy Ancient Structure.
Deep regret will, he excited b the.
J
news. that the Gover'nrnent has •ae-
eee�cled to the petition of Fong Kno-
C•hang, the Tutuh, and Han,, the
Civil Governor of Kiangsa, for.
leave to' demolish that part of the,
beautiful old wall of Nanking
which fronts the river. The petition
has largely been .prompted by the
merebants, who argue' that while
the walls remain there is eonistant
danger that •the city. may he paned
as a rebel.headquar••ters and. further
that ccrinmerce will benefit by their
destruction. ,Neither..argurnent is conclusive,
since' the obvious function of Nan;
kieg.is to serve as a strong Gov-
ernment outpost to control the
Yangtse Valley, ' while the eom-
nreroe of Nanking is so inconsider-
able that it is' not likely to he af-
feted whether the walls are dis-
mantled or not. • been closed on account of Measles,
The walls, which were completed has now been re -opened.
in. 1390 by Hungavu, the founder of C."rontarty Town Council have ae-
the Ming D't'nasty, possible the c pted custody of an old 64 -pounder
greatest man China ever produce:el gun and carriage from; the War
form one •of the noblest arcl,itec ' Office.
tural featuressof China, . Sir Thomas. Munro, Lanarkshire
(, a, and Sire not . a
exceeded in dignity and massive 'ottnt5 Clerk, iso the firs:. county,
'Clerk in . Scotland to receive a
knighthood.
Damage, to the extent of $500 was
in circumference and at various caused by a .fire that broke. eta in
points they range. front 60 feet to 80 Dobbie's Loan, Public School, Glc -
feet in height, while for the larger ] gew,
part of their vast perimeter two The. death has. taken place •
carriages can easily drive abreast i Burnhead, Glenbervie, of Mr: Jeb..
along the top. Once the work of !Stormont, late overseer on the
destruction begins there is no know- I Glenbervie Home Farm.
ing where it will end." It is earnest- The Rev. R. Mitir, of St. Mark's•
ly to be hoped that when China is ,Parish Church, r_.lasgow, ]tae• be-erx
already being stripped of so many inducted to the Chapel of E•aes,
of the splendors of her antiquity
COltAN•
](TICS OP INTEREST PlIOM )1f:I1
RANKS AND BRAES.
What Itn txeafng on In the IEIIglifan
and Lowlands of Auld
ticotia.
Irvine has had an application
ground for another shipyard.
A signalling station is to be erect-
ed by the Admiralty •at. ; Dtanbar.
Rents. are to be increased in Dum-
fries and district at the n,pproaeh-
ing term.
The death rate in Glasgow one
week recently was 21 .per 1,000 of
the population per annum.:
It is to cost $20,000 to extend the
ear lines from the Park Gates to
the Raith Rovers' Field, Kirkcaldy.
Lochgilphead School; which has
A main usually gets ±ltxe• short end
of it after cutting hid• sifr'e rlloiv-.
+Mace,
o these may yet be spared.
universities of the United Kingdom,
has been Rede lecturer at Cam-
bridge, has travelled extensively in To Show British Industry.
South Africa, and written much
...theta that part of the world, and is A moving picture exhibition of
married to the widow of Colonel the British industry will start on a
Cowdenbeath.
Lady Tullibardine formally open-
ed a cottage, which has been built
as a home for the nurses of Dun-
keld, Birnam and district.
The death is announced of Mr.
William Cochran, writer, Glasgow,
cid belongs to a family, the name of` lon, T. Vesey Dawson,.of the Cold- world tour this year, visiting north- senior partner of Messrs. William
which is one to conjure with in Eng-.• stream Guards, who inherited a ern Europe, then the North amen- Cochran & Son.
land's great Oriental Empire. Both very large fortune from her father, can continent, and afterward South The death has occurred of Mr.
and .grandfather distin the late Charles Magit•iac, M.P., the America, South Africa, Australasia, William Thomson at the age of 88
his father
guished themseIve.s as generals in Lombard Street banker, in London. India, and the far east. In all years. A,aelI-known figure in Stir-
• eighty-eight cities are included. The ling farming circles.
those wars,. by means of which.
Great Britain established her mass.
tery over India, hisbrothers and
cousinsdmi have a renownd.
there,rwhilande an automobile in Belgium, while their methods. A commercial refer- ,
administrative renown wli}!e R7 � very rare bird. -�
Itis mother •-wae the' sister of tliitt. walking; in the,.-icinity of Spa sus- once book, Industria,) Ei:pansion,' 9 At a meeting of the Invergordon
Robert Shasy 'who was the first•Fug raining, among other injuries, a• printed in English, -French-and Ger- i Town Council the deeds iece signed :.:.
lislrnra.n to cross,. the Himalayas to compound fracture of the thigh, to man, will be distributed,and vari- 'for the :lean -of $20.000 for the erec-
tile plains of Turkestan beyond. which congestion of the lungs su- ous efforts will be made to bring tion of workmen's houses_
While serving as a captain -of the pervened, his recovery being in the
First Dragoon Guards in .Northern nature almost of a miracle.
India he detotec1 him +eIf to the task' That after 'eseaping from extra-
Ilit by :].ata. exhibitors will include some of the Shooting en the river Dee in Kirk-
Amanufacturers of Great Bri- t cndbri htshire, Colonel Kenmaway
Couple of years ago Sir Frank leading g ,
was knocked down and run over by tain, and the films will. illustrate 1 Greenlaw, ,shot a male gadwall. a
of ,exploration. He began in ismordinary dangers in barbarous and
with Manchuria,. and then made his unknown regions, and in ' the nu -
memorable trip from Pekin' to In. merous campaigns in which he par-
dia, crossing the Gobi desert, push. ticipated. he should have been over-
ing through Turkestan to Kashgar, taken by an utterly commonplace
surmounting the Hiinalay.as, in 'accident such as this, at Spa, is
chiding the 19,000 feet Musta.gh entirely in keeping with, the lot of
Pass, and finally reaching Cash- other equally famotts explorers.
mere. This unprecedented feat ler] Thus, John Speke, one of the dis-
him to be transferred to the Indian coverers of the source of the Nile,
Political Department and Secret after the most hairbreadth escape
Service, as well as to the Indian ,from death in Central Africa, re -
Staff Corps, and from that time tn•ned in safety, and wholly unin-
forth. until he retired. in 1910 there lured, to 'England, only to be killed
was no British officer who was the
object of more unremitting atten-
tion on the part of the Russian
Government than Frank Younghus-
band.
When lf'e 'llesteel Onrzon.
His first encounter ' with Lord e ''
Curzon was a curious one:'.'In'189h, LETAIRASS IS EXPENSIVE.
through an accidental discharge of
his gun while rabbit-shoo•tingi•in the
neighborhood of Bath. And there
are at least a, dozen.other instances
.cif the sante kind that could be men-
tioned..
before Curzon had entered Parlia-
ment, or before' even he Was
thought of in connection •with Iti
dia, he read a paper. before the
Royal Geographical' Society in Len -
don on' the subject of the Pamirs,
which hehad .recen•tly, visited. Cur-,
zon in those days, much more than
in the present time, was inclined to
be . Very positive in his statements
to assume a knowledge of his sub-
ject superior to everyone , se'.
Curzon had no 'sooner fruiehed his
address than there arose from the
benches a quiet -looking man, wbully
unknown to anyone present, with a
singularly soft and pleasant voice,'
of middle height, square -jawed,
with heavy eyebrows,' moustaches,
who proceeded to apply to Curzon's
paper, in a very simple tnatiner, a
criticism sharpened 'and painted at
•
O Car a Year Imported, But That
• Is Worth $2,393.
•
Every year Boston gets a cargo of
bel -grass from Yarmouth, N.S., andprobably not one person in a thou-
iSand knows' what it is used for. A
`whole lot of people who spend, a few
weeks at •some• seacoast place in the
=sunr.nrer months, and have tried to
:do some swimming where the tall,
'rotigh eel -grass abounds, have fig-
ured out that it isn't good for much
:of anything except to be cuseed.
• It seems, however; that eel -grass
is of:somo use ; indeed, of so much
use that last year Boston people
paid $`2,393 for at single cargo of it.
It is used by a big Ohelsea• paint
concern in the manufacture of
lam bleak
• turn with personal ex peri- The grass could be gathered some-
every tt w 1 �_ tearer home than:i'aa•inouthy
X.S. but the beet quality of. the
grass ismore easily to be secured
off the Nova Scotia coast than else-
where.
tls.a, rule, one, cargo of the •grast.
is enough to furnish the •,l>:aint nmagn-
ufaet•urers for year, and the g,ath-
ering of the grass cannot be espe-
cially ,profitable. Exceptionally
tow tides are taken advantage 'of by -
the reapers of, the grass, who; with
;scythes, =cut acres in a short time,
ences, all the more scathing and what i
severe because it was spoken in a.
Conversational tone, with slow, de-
precatory gestures, and without
the slightest passion or prejudice.
trot until he had finished speaking
did 'his hearers become :aware • thee
he was Freiik.'i'ounghtieband, of
the Indian, Staff. Corps, the hero of
the -at that titue quote recent jour-
ney from Pekin to I idi.a, through
tshxi heart 'ofthe Asiatic continent.
Promoted by (nrzon.
Lord Curzon, .when the beeaine
Viceroy of Tuella, did not forget }Silt':
eri±ic, and as soon as .he reached
"All life is Set to mune, " say
poet. And the life of w tr*'ap
agtime 7
possible customers .at , each place
visited in direct touch with the
home firms. It is proposed to Bold
an exhibition for one month in the
grounds at San Francisco during
the Panama exhibition.
A Way They Have.
Mrs. Flint came for a visit to her
sister's home, and her „little niece,
Charlotte, was delighted to see her.
"What became of the black kitten
that you had ;when I was here be-
fore, dear?". a•4•ked Mrs. Flint. -
"Why. don't ;you know?" asked
Charlotte, much surprised.
"I haven't heard a word," re-
plied the aunt. "Was he poison-
ed?"
"No, ma'am," said Charlotte.
"Drowned l"
"Ola, no."
"Stolen V'
"No.."
o.'
"Hurt in any way ?"
"No. ma'am."
- "Well," said Mrs. Flint, "I can't
guess, clear. What became of him?"
"He grow•e'cl into a cat," .said
Charlotte.
Skeletons of Warriors.
•Following upon the finding of four
skeletons ' in the'Barberry Banks;
about two hundred curds north-
east of Alnwiok Castle, England,
further excavations were made in
the neighborhood, A 111th skeleton
was exhumed, an older man than
the four found a few days before,
a man apparently between forty
and fifty years of age., The position
of the skeletons indicated that the'
warriors were thrown into a- F.1)a,1
tow trench sifter having been slain
in some early border maid or siege,
of Alnwiek Castle in the year 1093'
or 1185. The .Duke of Noethumber-
land gave directione for..,th:e_hones
to be reburied where utearthed,
and a stone will he erecter] to mark
the Spot, •
•
CItfua,Uaeat on. British Ships.
The Barry . (Wales) seamen .arid
3
fir'ennen, who are protesting •again 4i;
the employment ' of Chinamen on!
British 'ships in the port,' there,;
s
pasted .a r e eolution. calling, for .h;
national strilre in order t•.+, deal,
effectively with this questic n
tlsr•ottjtieui, tate UTnited Kingdom.
E:tiG,LISII EELS FOR (l RMAN"l'.
There is a Great Commercial
ture for the Business.
Stewed eels and eel pie were once
esteemed dainties~ by English peo-
ple; but nowadays, says Country
Life, they tend to disappear from
the table. They have become al-
most as scarce as rook pie. In
Germany this change .,of tastehas
not become apparent. The German •
loves eels, and cannot have toe
many of them. A few years Ago,
that is to say, in 1909, the experi-
trent, was tried of transferring some
20,080 English elvers from the Sev-
er n to an East Prussian lake called
the Paprotker Sea. These have
thriven amazingly, .as was proved
when some were caught and exam-
ined at the Hamburg Fishery Bio-
logical Laboratory. Fifty-eight. al. -
together were examined, three only
being males. These were from 17
to 18r inches' i;n length, while •than
females were from 18 to 253' inch
and the average weight was
ounces. At the same age eels fr
the Lower Elbe measured on ;•
average only 10%. inches. The lake
in which the English eels were
placed was thoroughly well sup-
plied with food, and the experiment
seems to .show that there is a great •
commercial future for the business
of feeding English eels in Prusian
lakes to sell as articles of diet.
New I'se for ''S'aeuum Cleaner.
America has discovered a new use
for the vacuum cleaner, The Park
Department of New York City rises
it for currying horses, of whaoh '
eighty are Bente out every morning
from the stables. The 'yeoman
curry -comb neat only keeps the
horses' coats in better condition,
but relieves the stables and the Oa-
,
bl•em�en of. the dust and genus wbiclt
usually aecom;patiy the Burry ing' of
horses. The groan has no treed to
blow and .hiss as he works, It ala
saves utci'e than Inalf the time over
the job,•
. . 4 elisss.
'�# e, 'i1'as 4 far
"People are so ca:releset about the
re o"i t.one,
proper use of ps p k�
• `'Yes, I know they are: Fred to14,
me he and his bride were going . .'I
lire with the old man, when he r r lw
ly meant on the veld na xk.'''•