The Herald, 1908-04-03, Page 3Freaks f t:e Fun: Tide.
1reaan2 Thin Into Navigabk Rivers
Twice a Day.
That restless pulse of the ocean, the ods long enough to enable a scanty
tide, works wonders everywhere, but in growth of salt grass to struggle up -
and about the Bayof Fundy, where it w trd. In the late summer the Nova
y, Scotia farmer mews this grass, for it
attains its greatest height, its mantes- makes fodder much appreciated by cat-
tations are the most varied. Here is tie in the long winter.
an arm of the ocean, from thirty to But though the farmer has his hay
fifty miles wide, extending for 180 miles he . cant get it to the barn, for the
between the Canadian Provinces of Nova marsh, though it will bear the weight
lootia and New Brunswick. ed further rrrto ClignecfotChatis ptrnel e
horsesro- of nand!wagons.will not arSolttheessalt baye wight of
° stacked upon piles. When winter sets
and the Basin of Minas and their many in and the marshfreezes over the farm -
tributaries, er casts the hay away on sleds at his
Into this bay the sea pours twice every .ensure.
twenty-four hours an immense volume of In the autumn months these marshes
water . Theoretically there are four tides dotted here and there with what look
a day, the moon and the sun causing like brown huts on piles, present an odd
two tides each. But the solar tides are appearance, especially at high spring
so much larger than the lunar and so tides. Sometimes the fanner is cheat -
largely merged in them that they escape ed of his harvest.. An extra high tide
notice, in the early winter will sweep floating
Twice a month, however, the moon and ice against these haystack, knock them
the sun pull together, resulting in. -the off the piling and then bear them out
unusually high spring tides. When the to sea,
pull of the sun is at right angles to that Navigation in these tidal waters has
of the moon, at the first and t,i •. many problems. No commander wants
terof the moon, the neap tides, which his ship to repose ingloriously on a nud
are always low, occur. flat waiting for the tide to rise ro en -
The rise of , the tide in the Baye of able it to resume its journey. Yet this
Fundy varies from 12 feet at a low nil ap often happens for the wind is more tics
tide to 60 feet or more at a high spring kle than the tide.
tide, The variation is fax from regulae, But the mariner soon gets accustomed
as local conditions enter into the P b- to tying up to a wharf and then Being
lem. the water go clear away from there,
On the Nova Scotia side of the Bay leaving !him inland. A steamer wlrrh
the tide is held in check by a wall of Plies between Wolfville, Parrsboro and
precipitous basaltic rocks, from 300 to l�Tngaport, on Minas Basin, follows the
000 feet high, known as the North Moan- schedule of the tide. Otherwise it would
tain. Prom Brier Island, at the mouth need to be an airship to make its l:uid
of the bay, to Cape Blomidon, nearly ins'
o need of drydoel s in this part e£
200 miles, there is only one creak in the world. The barnacles haven't a
this rocky barrier. show when they can be scraped oil over-
night. This is Digby Gut, 700 yards wide, night.
which leads into the beautiful Annapolis o
Basin. Through this narrow opening the At Canning, which is a small port four
tide rushes withgreat force to spread miles from the mouth of the Habitant
P River, is a shipyard. There is now
itself over the baein. building there a vessel of more than a
The Annapolis River, which if left to thousand tons. If you visit the yard at
itself would be only a streatnlet, becomes low tide you will wonder how on earth
navigable at high tide for fourteen miles. that ship will ever get to sea, tar there
The basin itself is caused by the contin- is no sign of water anywhere bout ea-
ual submergence of the lower reaches of cept a rivulet 300 yards away.
the river bed. You can step across the rivulet voila -
The water sweeps with mighty force out wetting your feet. But if you
through Minas Channel into the Basin of hang around long enough you. will see
Minas, the same Basin of Minas which that rivulet grow big with a sense of
Evangeline could see from her front its own importance and the water creep
porch and in. which, for all we ::now to steadily up and up the slimy banks un -
the contrary, she paddled barefoot at til it touches the brim. Then you will
high tide. From Minas Basin the tide understand the building of the ship.
reaches long fingers into the land. Visitors who merely catch glimpses of
Southwesterly, back toward Annapolis tidal manifestations from car windows
Basin, it has five river beds for its own. carry away many mistaken ideas. Three
Two of these, the Cornwallis and the Californians, a man and two women, did
Habitant, are navigable for many miles the Annapolis Valley last September by
at high tide. To the southward and the making the journey eastward from Yar
southeast are the River Avon and Lobe-
mouth one day and returning on the
qui. Bay, running deep into the land. next. The train was passing Bridgetown,
Watch. Minas Basin and its envir ins which is at the head of navigation: of
for a day and you will see many wonder-
ful transformations. Small streams,
some too small to merit a name, wan-
dering pettishly in a waste of mud. and
marsh, turn into respectable rivers, then
at highest tide into broad. estuaries;
peninsulas are cut off from the land
and become islands; broad stretches of
uninteresting mud flats are flooded
deep; the entire basin and its many arms
fill up to their green and yellow brim
of forest andpasture, orchards and tilled
land.
This periodical flooding of the flats
adjacent to river beds has created vast
neutral tracts which are neither sea nor
land, and which remain neither one nor
the other long enough to be of much use
as either. Two hundred years or so ago,
in the early days of the french occupa-
tion, these neutral tracts were much
more extensive.
The F'Srench took issue with the greedy
sea, and before the all -wise British Gov-
ernnient saw fit to • empty Acadia of its
settlers thousands of fertile acres, at
Grand Pre and elsewhere, had been re-
claimed. The English colonists, from
Maine and lelassaehusetts mostly, who
took up these lands, extended greatly
this work.
The practical elimination of the Can-
ard River illustrates the progress that
has been made. The Fren::.t first built
a. wall of mud and rock across the ri✓er's
upper reaches, a dozen miles or se from
the mouth. It worked beautifully,
They grew bolder and threw up breast-
works against the tide a few miles fur-
ther down. Suecess again attended their
efforts.
Their audacity could not be contained
and the Grand Canard dike was built
about four miles frorn the basin. Then
came the English, who defied the tide to
do its utmost and built the Wellington
dike across the river bed and the marsh
almost at the river mouth.
These successive operations have re-
claimed bottom lands of perhaps fifteen
miler in length .by from a quarter of a
mile to two miles hi width. The soil
produces a luxuriant crop of hay and
affords excellent grazing ground in the
late summer and fall, farts of the
of the: bore's appeaTanee„ns await a +j�e
railroad time tables. ;'D`he bore, IOW;
`;7,`
working and conscientious and 'hvi s 11 b
to ft9 schedule; the a•rtili•otula art.• list'
working it ie true, but as to seht4tilo•a-
well, then: is norecord' of a trai1'having
been on time, .But what odds?” ;Ck;ere's
no hurry. Vulgar haste is left ' -to those
benighted regions Seu.eially referred , to
as "the States."
But we set ;cut to tell about the bore,
It comes up the elver twice every twen-
ty-rour hours, its appearance being a
little less than an hour later each day.
Some days it is more worth looking et
than on. others, depending on whether it
is the spring or neap tide season and ori
the condition of the river itself without
tho tide. Given conditions conducive to
making a "good" • bor.e and a moonlit
evening end yon will have a sight well
worth watching.
' It is agreed that the best place from
wl.ieh to view the bore is the wharf at
the foot of Pleasant; street. Go there on
a moonlit evening about fifteen minutes
before the bore is scheduled to arrive.
You will find a. goodly company assem-
bled. Many of the onlookers have been
doing this for years—it relieves the mo-
notony of lifein a small city. You peer
over the edge of the wharf.
Below you, thirty feet or more, is mud
,—slimy, red, unlovely. You look across
the river bed. More mud, still red, slimy,
unlovely. Here andthere are patches
of water lying still or flowing lazily sea-
ward. The opposite bank Is more than
a mile away. Nothing at all to enthuse
over in this expanse of water and mud:
Suddenly you hear a faint rumble. It
is the bore, forming some dozen miles
below you. The rumble grows louder,
finally increasing to a roar as of many
railroad trains passing over a bridge.
A mile or so below the bend begins.
You watch that point, and around it
comes a waif of foaming water. five or
six feet high. The roar, increases in
intensity. As the bore advances rapidly
the spray flashes into sight, woven by
the moonbeams into fantastic shapes.
Before you realize it the wall of wa-
ter is upon you and has passed. A few
miles farther on and . it ceases to be a
bore. The river bed is now all covered
with water. The mud. is mercifully cov-
ered u, .
But you need not depart at once,
thinking you have seen it all. For the
bore is but the advance agent of the
tide which rises majestically and irresis-
tibly. ,
You may see it creep inch by inch up
the piles of the wharf.. If a ship is
moored theer you may watch the water
reach her keel, then reach upward grad-
ually to the water line, until at last she
floats again in the element for which she
was intended. A few hours and yen are
on the shores of a • ''•tty river, uaviga-
ble for big craft. Y '"_ :all, to mind that
stretch of mud an s l marvel.
The oldest inh t will tell you
that bores to -day I not what they
used to be. No t t is rare when
one stretches el ,' ';the river.
There will (•' ne side and
just a rippl there will
be two bore i'b'a rising
tide beth' ' s da.years
the Annapolis River, ttj their retlprw 8S.
journey when one of the women re:ctb...thite
marked to her companions: was sen
"See that ship over there in the mea• As a ma,.,
dows. It was brought there on. the rail- times danger
road. When it is unloaded and loaded years ago a bte
up again the railroad will carry it back large schooner n
to the water. That's what they told street wharf, tort:
me yesterday. Isn't it wonderful?" and carried it rap.
Now, Nova Scotia railroads aren't up the river the s
built to carry thousand ton ships. So a against a bridge
young man who knew the country felt
ib his duty to inform her that the ship
had come up the natural way and :hat
the river was only taking a few hours'
vaca tion. She seemed to think that
even more wonderful.
On the northern side of the Bay of
Fundy the tide is responsible for two
phenomena which get good notices in
the guide books, the reversing falls in
the harbor of St. John and. the bore in
the Petitcodiac River.
The St. John River enters the harbor
through a gorge. Stand on the bridge
at the turn of the tide and you will see
the water running both ways at ouee.
There is a decided fall from the river to
the harbor and a decided fall from the
harbor to the river, The effect is very
picturesque and very wonderful. Here
is what happens.
The bed of the river is seventeen feet
higher than the bed of the harbor. At
low tide the bed of the river is twelve
feet higher than the level of the harbor.
Thus we get a fair sized waterfall.
At high tide, however, the level of the
water in the harbor is five feet above
the level of the river. So twice every
twenty-four hours the rapids are re-
versed.
The Petitcodiac Inver is an arm of
Chignecto Channel. About thirty miles
from its mouth it takes a decided bend.
At the bend is the city of Moncton.
Moncton used to be known as the !.lend,
but that was before it got ambitious.
At present Moncton has three institu-
tions, the railroad shops which the Tut
enenent is building for its Intereolanial
Railroad, a steam roller which wanders
amiably' about the shaded streets ap-
parently with no other purpose than to
scare timid horses, and the bore. Of
dikes built by the French still remain. thee() three the bore hal the advantage
The tide leaves the marshes which are of immorality.
still unreclaimed bare of water for peri- Tho daily papers print the time table
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a:itrrt's ail Bra:alo l Y cunimereial
agencies 4innapi1e statistics Xoregarding the
}�potiourof suncoss and failure in bnsi-
liiess. Of 100 people starting iu business,
all lines, all amounts of euparal eonsider.:
od, 05 fall and drop oitt. '1'!u• other five,
one -twentieth of the whole mon bet., slay
in business, and of this number tui aver-
age of one, ora proportion of ) in 100,
wins what may be called a success.
So in business the average person is
doomed to failure; and the person who
is in a position eithey throng!: his own
efforts, or through fortunate circum-
stances to start in business for himself
is just so much farther ahead of the
average worker as a Man with some cap-
ital is ahead. of the ma;^k'.without, a cent.
Be is up one stage of the hill with the
much coveted top. The percentage which
perish in the .climb from. the bottom to
his starting point is immeasurably larger
than that which falls from his ranks on
the way farther up.
One in 100,000 is Rich.
Of the average worker in this country
—the best country on the face of the
earth for the worker.
One in 1,000 canis more than a "living
wage."
One in 5,000 saves as much as his best
year's income.
One in 20,000 is independent when he
"breaks down" or is "let out for old
age."
One in 25,000 i5 in n position of respon-
sibility and importance.
One in 50,U00 "works into the firm."
Ono in 100,000 is "rich," therefore "suc-
cessful."
One in 500,000 is "a great man."
One in 1,000,000 is satisfied—possibly.
The figures look bad, particularly
those which show the small percentage'
making more than the price of a bare
exietenoe. In reality, However, that
particular section of the table is the
least discouraging.
The American workmau lives on a
plane of comfort and expenditure never
dreamed of by workers in other lands
where to be t worker is to know dire
poverty and the eeonohny which pinches
to the last crumb. Partly because the
cost of living here is so high, especially
in the large cities where the great pro-
portion of wage. earners live, and partly
because of a national spirit of extrava-
gance, the average workman in this
country wastes in his lifetime of activ-
ity enough to leave him a competency
for his old age were it saved.
Refuses to Save Money.
Substantially he never knows want—
the average worker. His high pay,
higher then anywhere else in the world,
puts within his reach luxuries which,
from habit, become considered as neces-
sities, The abundance of employment
makes the much bruited "rainy day"
nothing of a menace, and consequently
but a small percentage lay anything up
against its arrival. It is the man who
saves who wins, and the disinclination
of the worker for saving is not offset
even by the national spirit of ambition
which prompts him to work for a hold
on the ladder that leads to the top.
The successive rungs of the ladder, the
feat of saving a little being the first one.
ad out the great army that tries to
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d o �'� t3s:: eli�lb evR'�:• increasing swat-
91°
wift-
of ,t VAC As the round% go higher the num
some-
ot many
re seized a
the Pleasant
its fastenings
stream. A mile
r was jammed
hie masts napped
out of her.
The bore is causer . y the inward rush
of tidewater opposing the slow outward
movement 'of the river water. The tide as
it drives in is first wedged by' the nar-
rowing banks.
It encounters the river water. pushes
it up to a flattened angle, and finally
breaks over it with a roar. Thus it ap-
pears as a huge breaker which moves
majestically onward.
Just remember that the river bed is
about a mile wide, and you will get some
idea of the immense body of water that
comes up the Petitcodiac twice a day.
M U ST FAIL.
Deadly Figures Govern Fate of Aver-
age Worker.
If you are the average American work-
er you are going to be. a failure. This
isn't a nice sort of thing to stare one
in the face on a Sunday morning, it is
quite true, but if you were playing a lot-
tery and a lot of people bad gone around
and told you that your ticket contained
the lucky number, Iv:Andn't you sooner
have somebody come up an tell you the
truth—that you were not the winner—
than to go ahead and figure how you
were going to spend the thousands that
you were going to win?
Isn't it better to know the truth in
the beginning than to go along in Happy
delusion until the smash of expectations
and hopes comes in such a lump that
one gives ivay to doapair? Of course.
Therefore, it is well to•fac:e the fact that
if you are an average, American worker
you are not going to be a success, count-
ing success as it is :taunted nowadays,
with the bank book as the only founda-
tion.
This does not mean that you cannot
succeed, that it is innposible for you to
win your way. You eau do both, of
course. But if you and your career are
reprosen.,ttive of the general run of the
worker you.aren't goeng to do it. You
afae not going to be a success any more
than the average lottery player is going
to be a winner, or the average human
being live to be 80 years ;old.
Average Player Oan't Win.
•
Quite true, there are winners in lot-
teries, and there are people who are 80
years of ago, but the average lottery
player is not a winner, the average per-
son never gets to be" 30. So the average
worker cannot be a suecoss; the fatal
figures make it impossible. The extra-
ordinary exeoptioii wins; the average
does not.
SPRING LOOD
IS BAD BLOOD..
How to Get New Health and
Strength in the Spring.
The winter months are trying to the
health of even the most robust. Confine-
ment indoor in overheated and nearly
always badly ventilated rooms—in the
home, in the shop and in the school --
taxes the vitality of even the strongest.
The blood becomes thin and watery, or
clogged with impurities, • the liver slug-
gish, the kidneys weakened. Sometimes
you get up in the morning' just as tired
as when you went tee bed.. Some people
have headaches; others: are low spirited;
some have pimples and: skin eruption.
These are all spring symptoms that the
blood is out of condition. You can't cure
these troubles with purgative medicine.,
which merely gallop through the system,
leaving you still weaker. What you need
to give you strength in spring is a tonic,
and the one always reliable tonic and
blood builder is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
These pills not only banish spring ills,
but guard you against the more serious
ailments that follow, such as anaemia,
nervous debility, rheumatism, indigestion
and kidney trouble. Every dose of Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills makes new, rich red
blood which strengthens every nerve,
every organ and every part of the body.
This is why Dr. Williams Pink Pills is
the favorite spring medicine with thou-
sands and thousands throughout Canada.
Try this medicine this spring and you
will have energy and strength to resist
the torrid heat of the coming summer.
Mrs. Jas. Haskel, Port Maitland, N. S.,
says: "I was troubled with headaches,
had a bad taste in my mouth, my tongue
was coated, and I was easily tired and
suffered from a feeling of depression. 2
got a supply of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills,
and it was not long before they began
to help me, and I was soon feeling al
well as ever I had been." You can get
these pills from any medicine dealer or
by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxeS
for $2.50 from the Dr. Williams' Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
ber that is dropped off grows larger,
the number of those who hang on fewer.
Opportunities, not to corwider the ques-
tion of ability, decrease as the altitude
increases. There are 25,000 "jobs" where
there is one "good position"; there aro
50,000 chances to get on the pay -roll
where there exists one to "get in the
firm."
This does not signify 50,000 employees
to every firm; but death, accident, and
all other hampering circumstances com-
bine to necessitate the use of this num-
ber of individuals before one firm mem-
ber is produced.. To fall sick and die is
not the least of the stumbling bloeks in
the chances for succuss. And it all adds
to the total number who fail; for to die
is to fail, obviously.
Put Not Your Trust in Maxims.
So you can see that you are not going
to win. if you are the average worker.
If you are the extraordinary exception
you will do so, but if you are the aver-
age you are not the exception. Is this
discouraging? Perhaps. But it is bet-
ter to realize the truth and build and
prepare for the future accordingly than
to put your trust in the soothing, =-
thoughtful statements of the pleasant,
bland gentlefnen who assure the Ameri-
can workers that: "Everybody may win
sweoess with hard work, economy,"
etc. For everybody.' cannot do it; not
any more than everybody can hold the
office of President of tb.o United States.
So if you are among the average you
aro going to be a failure. Is this repe-
tition discouraging? No, not in the
least. For you know, as does the man
at the desk beside you, the man at
the counter before you, that you. are not
the average worker, you are the extra-
ordinary exception, just as the next man
is, just as every. ambitious American
is, the extreairdirrary exception, and
therefore you are going to win—like all
the rost.--Chioago Tribune.
Many a man with one foot in the
grave does enough kicking with the oth-
er one to make up for it.
TRANSPLANTING TREES
Done at Night it Works No Injury
to Foliage.
In Revue UniverseIle, according to an-
other
sother foreign contemporary, there is a
practical article of general interest on
transplanting plants in full foliage at
night. The results of some experiments
by Rouault would make unnecessary the
customary transplanting of deeaduome
trees in the fall or winter. He has found
that trees may be transplanted in full
foliage in May or June, with little or
no injury, providing the process is car-
ried on at night. This has been demon-
strafed to the entire satisfaction of
some of the most prominent horticultur-
is'en of France.
WI'IEN BABY IS SICK
GIVE BABY'S OWN TABLETS
The little ills of childhood often
come very suddenly and often they
prove serious if not treated prompt-
ly. The wise mother will keep.
Baby's Own Tablets always at hand
and give her little ones an occasional
dose to prevent sickness or to treat
it promptly, if it comes unexpected-
ly. Baby's Own Tablets cure all the
minor ailments of children and ars
absolutely safe, Mrs. A. H. Bonny -
man, Mattel, N. S.. says: "I have
used Baby's Own Tablets for teeth-
,ing, constipation and other ills of
childhood, and have found them a
safe and excellent medicine." Sold
by all medicine dealers or by mail
at 25 cents a box from the Dr. Wil-
liams Medicine Oo., Brockville, Ont.
ebe�,
Donald's independence.
A Highlander who had been ail-
ing for some was advised by some
friends to visit a professor. He hap,
pened to be in Glasgow and called
on one there, who gave him directions
thus—"You must stop drinking, smok-
ing. snuffing, eat as little beef as
possible, and work: hard during the
dray to keep yourself in order." When
l: a got this length Donald had got his
cap and was making for the door.
"Just one minute," cried the profes-
sor. "1 must have £5 as a fee for
my advice." "She'll no' pe takin'
ony o' yer advice," said Donald.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Tako LAXATIVE 11E0210 Quinine Tabtete.
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The Harp Without the Crown,
(Montreal Herald.)
The Belfast captain, who insisted capon
flying the Irish flab above the Stars and
Stripes, has evidently a keen sense of
humor, in addition to very vivid recol'-
lectiions of his birthplace. In certain
quarters of Ulster's capital, :me sties thb
green emblem more frequently side by
side with this tri -color and "Old Glory,
In fact, a Union Jack or "Red tusitgnk
in the place alluded to would likely lead
to a breach of tho peace.
`ob
Not Realistic.
Mrs. Suburb (at the theatre) --•d
thought this was supposed to be a reale
istie play?
Suburb—And so it b , my dear.
Mrs. Suburb—But it isn't. Six months
is supposed to elapse between the first
and second acts.
Suburb—Well, what of it?
Mrs. Suburb—What of it? Why, they
still have the same cook.