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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-02-14, Page 3P1CTU AM PARTICULARLY SOUTH. ERN ALBERTA. interesting Stories Recall the Early -Pioneer Days When. Indians Roamed Prairies. Cree Indians, 'lead the misfortune to lose hie very valuable, medicine hat by a gust of wind carrying it into the Wilt running Saskatchewan. Return- ing to the epgt later, he named the place Medicine Hat. "Sasltatohewan" is a Blackfoot In- dian ° word •meaning "swift running river" and is the nameapplied to the great river which drains a large part of the prairie province,s• Medicine Hat is on the Saskatchewan. Most everyone knows the origin of Moose Jaw. It -ie not in Alberta, but it Is a name almast as unusual as Medicine Hat The Indianscall it Ti inquire into the history of the 'Moose Ja,w Bone, which is Cree Indian proper degree of humidity. name of a city, village, district, or lo- for "the place where the white man f Don't ..use sprays or douches for cality in which one lives is an interest- mended the cart with a moose jaw- your nose unless under doctor's or. ing thing and will often give valuable bone," The incident calling forth the ders and instruction. Much more bits ol inforinaton which one would , name is said to be the breaking of a Harm than good comes from the use of not likely acquire in any other way. felloe of a cart belonging to a hunting sprays.. If the spray is strong enough Eyery, geographical name has a story party which was spliced with the Saw to destroy the germ, it is more than attached to. it, and most of these hone of a moose; hence moose Jaw. likely to produce irritation in the mut stories are, worth knowing, Strange, "Shaginapee" is Indian, too. Tho ons membrane, which will make it even grotesque, as many names word means "naw bide btyfalo" cat in more .su, ceptible to germ activity, at- tached to places in other lands may ap-strips. The old Red river carts' used • Don't alloiv any member of the fam- pearto be, one's own country affords by early settlers in western Canada fly who has.a cold to come in contact. him some measure of the same feels had yards and yards of "ehaginapee" with other members of the. household,:. ing•were he to pause for a. moment to tieing the parts together.' "Shagina- or to use the same eating or drinking familiarize himself with what he may heve been ignorant or heretofore, Don't Catch Cold! The Medical Officer of Health of To- ronto has issued a list of " Don'ts", to help the many unfortunate beings 'who seem to catch cold upon the slightest provocation. Amongst the most use ful are the following: Don't sneeze or cough except into a handlserebi,ef, and Jeep beyond the range of anyone else who is coughing',. or sneezing. Don't sit in an overheated room; 65 to 65 degrees of heat is enough if you are engaged in any active work. ,en- sist on there being a slight current of air in the rgom you occupy, and also a The red man's contribution to place names in western Canada, and par- ticularly in southern Alberta, makes a' considerable body in- the aggregate. Indian names now permanently at- tached to rivers, lakes, ridges and lo- calities have .a peculiar interest to us all. In thein the Indian has perpetu- ated himself by a monument more eloquent and more imperishable than could have been erected by ' human hands. Before the, white men came to the westland ala the country between the Cypress hills and the Rockies was controlled by the Blackfoot Indians, but they lived, latterly, mostly around trading posts which had been estab- lished at "Whoop -Up," "Slide Out," and "Freeze Out," each name itself telling pretty well why the place was so named. Whoop -Up was •a central meeting place for traders. They had great carousals in the fort and were accus- tomed to whoop her up, thence the name Whoop -Her -Up, which for de- cencys sake has been changed to. Whoop -Up. Whoop -Up lay in the bottom of a deep ravine. On one side was. a de- file in the hills known as Slide Out. On the other side w'as a narrow pass called Slide In. These places re- ceived bheir names through a very simple incident. The 'mounted police on one acyeasion shid in on the traders through this narrow pass, and the traders, being warned of their move- ments, slipped out through the defile now called 'Slide Out" The Origin of Whiskey".Gap. This same incident gave a 'name to another locality in southern Alberta. Patrols -of police scoured the boundary for the 'sniuggiers who slid out of Slide Out, and located them in a defile in Milk River :Ridge, where they 'head whiskey cached. To this day that de - filo is• called Whiskey Gap: • . Stand Off' is really not an Indian name, but it has •had Indiana so close- - ly lose--'ly conected with it that it mightbe included in this story of' Indian place pee" is a station on the C.P.R, in Al- utensils, I•ave everything sterilized Berta. ' that is used by one who has contract - Pen d'Oreille is a coulee south of • ed a cold, the earn, as you would. if.`, 'Lethbridge city. .The coulee is named they lied scarlet fever. after a tribe of Indians of the same Don't go to any public meetings if., C. names. A gang of whiskey traders headed from Fort nater on, Montana, saiv, for Canada, was intercepted by a United States marshall, but they suc- ceeded in standing off the marshall and escaped into Canada. Around a Gold poured out like pebbles on the oamp fire at the junction of the Water- ocean's floor! Treasure chests burst - ton and Belly rivers these traders de- ing with specie! Bullion lying in tided to call the camp ground Stand heaps like brushwood amid• the clutter Off, and it is so called to -day. of seaweed and shells,! A sea -knight At Freeze Out smugglers had whis- in armor questing with spear and key in a cache on the Belly river about lance amid the rotting wreckage of a fifteen miles froxn where the town of ship fathoms deep in the murky Macleod now stands. Indians attack- waters churning off Lough Swilly! ed them, but they Were frozen out af- The treasure is the precious freight ter •a long seige, and the place hail of the White Star liner Laurentic,. since been called Freeze Out.: sunk these six years off Donegal on` Belly River was called atter a tribe the Irish coast; the sea -knight is a of Indians living in the United. States diver in a clumsy miracle of a suit, known as the "big bellies." and his lance le a great knife for Old Man, River is the English equivi fighting off deep-sea monsters as he lent for `:ApistOli," the Blackfoot seeks for ingots far beneath the tide. Deityand"Creator. He is believed to The spear is a thing of magic, a mod- e have lived at the source of this river, ern divining -rod with which the sea- and the cave out of which the river knight tells the gold from the copper, pours is also called Old Man Cave. Whiskey was •once stolen out of a cache, and the Indians named the place by an Indian word meaning Rob- bers'Roost. It is still Robbers' Roost. Jumping Pond was named by In- diens from the fact that on a creek of the same name about three miles west of Calgary Indians had a "pound" for • catching buffaloes. The place was or- iginally tailed Jumping Pound, but this has been abbreviated to Jumping Pond. • Okotoks, ajthriving town south of Calgary, is, a Cree word meaning a stony crossing ou,,Sheep river. Crowfoot, a creek flowing into • the Bow river and, also a station on the C.r:IR,., where the railway crosses the Blackfoot Indian reserve, is the name Of the greatest of the Blackfoot chiefs. Blackfoot is an abbreviation for "fiVO Blackfoot hills." On, these hills five-I3lackfoot Indians werekilled by Creel. The river flowing through Calgary is the Bow. This is a translation of an Indian word meaning bowwood. Medicine Hat's Name. There is a burying ground on the Red Deer river called Ghost Pine. It was an, Indlan ,custom once to bur the dead in trees. To this, day the Cree Indiaos. believe that spirits haunt •• the old burying ground at Ghost Pine. aledicine Hat is ati-Indian ;lame. A great many stones have arisen re- garding its origin,. but the one general- ly accented is that litany years ago a name, you have a cold. You had better stay at home until it is better. You millet, 113t Causes Sleep? probably save others from contracting your cold. What is the cause of sleep? This "Don't stand close to any one with question has long puzzled scientists, 'whom you are conversing if you have and a new theory is that sleep is "due' cold, rcold, and do not in any circum - to complete muscular reaction either stances shake hands with any one. voluntary or involuntary. Remember through the frequent use When a human being lies down, the of your handkerchief your hands are visual sensations become monotonous, always contaminated with the germs and muscular reaction, removing the of the disease. impulses which usually pour into the Have you catechised your hands -and brain from the muscles,, tendons, and fingers with regard to everything they joints, precipitates the condition call- have been in contact with inthepre ed sleep. If one wishes to sleep it is a mis- take to tire oneself with excessive vioua twenty-four hours? One of the surgeons • in a military camp during the Great War kept a careful record.of exercise in the hope. of exhausting one- the number of possibilities of con - self into slumber. It is also a waste of tominating his hands for one single time to put a hot bottle at one's feet day, and it amounted to approximately in the hope of "drawing the blood '120. from the brain." Slee p is not due to anaemia of the brain following fatigue at the end of a day's exertions. According to scientists 'there is an excess rather than a deficit of blood in the brain hands?" would be a valuable motto to during sleep. Experiments have . also be placed in every dining -room. tended to give the lie to the theory that sleep is due to "auto -intoxication with fatigue produots." It has been proved that blood sugar,. this tea and Z`he tiny silvery hairs very in alkali reserve of the blood, and pias- Bedford,' I should come to thee and ma (the fluid in which the red par- the small white pieces which look like put my hand on thy shoulder and say to thee, 'William, the mayor wants to see thee.' Don't in any circumstance touch any article of food, whether for yourself or for anyone else, unless you have, previously thoroughly cleansed your hands. "Have- you :washed your Orange Pecoe Tea. Many of us' like orange pekoe tea. e. A STURDY NEW CANADIAN The efforts of immigration officials to secure desirable settlers from the Old Land are meeting with a very gratifying response, especially In the fine, sturdy, industrious types secured. Among those•recently landed were several 'hundred Scots, mostly from Glasgow. Many of these brought out their families and "Wee Jock Ross," pictured above, is; a splendid sample of the sturdy young stock thus transplanted, to grow into sterling Canadians. The Mayor's Man. Quakers are well known to be cau- tious and restrained of speech. There is a story long current In New Bed- ford, writes Mrs. Phoebe S. Howland, of an old Quaker resident who once ;had occasion to doubt some state- ments made` by a cousin of his who was not one of the Society of Friends. "William," he said, "thee knows I. never call anybody names; but, Wil- liam, if the mayor of the city were to came to me and say, `Philip, I want thee to find me the biggest liar in New titles of the blood are suspended), body weight, appetite, temperature, ability to name letters and do mental arithmetic, show no variation from normal during a period of sleepless- ness. The Hldeoua'Reptile. The teacher was giving a lesson on the crocodile. "You must give me all your atten- tion," he- said. "I•t is impossible for you to form a true idea of this, hide- ous reptile unless you keep your eyes: fixed on me." stems are really the things that give this. 'tea its delicious flavor. The tea plant constantly throws,out new shoots -at the end of each. twig. The leafbud, which is just unfolding, and the small leaf next to it, produce ` the finest quality of tea. These fest t leaves •are covered with fine hale ...1 Many a man in business fails be- cause he does..not putenough money into his business to make it pay. He is e t with .poor ecquipment and frtplaya incompetent help. There is Which, when the leaf is dried, give a so much waste that the man soon goes silvery appearance to the tea and from into bankruptcy. Many a school, too, this comes the name "pekoe," the Chinese words "pal" and "hao" mean- ing "white hairs." • Dr. John Bostock, an Englishman, designated hay fever as such in 1819. is failing because of poor equipment, incompetent teachers -and supervisors, and failing because not enough money is being put into the school to make it pay. The failure of the school, how- ever, passes by unnoticed. ging Deep=Sea G the copper from t e ease a were in a stro..g ch whole adventure is like a page from the "Idyls of the King." amidships, protected walls and heavily All but a few bars of the $30,000,000 Weeks slipped by wbil worth of gold that the submarine scat- blasted to make way tered on the ocean bed that still gray and it was not until morning have been recovered by these June that the actual r Watch -Dogs Are Sharks. The watch -dogs of the wreck are sharks of intenseand terrible hunger that swim in packs in search of prey and make the quest a thing of peril. Many a battle of knight and shark has. the floor of the ocean seen since the day the indomitable little salvaging ship anchored ,at its lonely post. In addition to the millions in gold, the strong room of the Laureate con- tained five millions in specie, mostly in English two -shilling pieces, all of which have been safely'brought from their briny resting places by the hel- meted crew of the Racer. The business of recovering the trea- sure started fn the •spring of 1919, but when the adventurers of the deep made their first descent they found a difficult tasli. The gold and silver amber 'locatt,d. by thick steel barred down. s the hulk was for the divers, the middle of ecovery Of gold knights of Neptune with their magic began, wands, and presently the whole of the Disappointment at First. wealth that. has been lining the ocean will be on board the salvage ship Racer. The Magic Wand. The galvanometer, as the magic wand is called, is a divining -spear with time later the crew left above drew up a dial attachment that shows whether the first loaded bucket, leaned over it the spear point is touching gold or a eagerly and turned away in disappoint- base metal such as iron. Tle'cleek- inert. .It contained a meager assort - like dial is kept aboard the salvaging ment of coins of no particular Value. ship and is canected with, a spear in But the sun had not reddened• the the hands of the diver working more waters at dawning more than half a than a hundred feet below the surface. dozen times beforethe buckets began The hand on the dial moves to 'the to come up heavy with gold bars, each left of the zero mark When the spear one worth more than $5,000, They is prodded against a piece of iron, cop- were tumbled out on the deck of the per or other such metal, but when it Racer and the crew knelt down beside touches gold the dial• etwings to the it, laughing excitedly and jostling each right. It veers further when it comes other in their haste to touch the pre in contact with an eighteen -carat bar clops• metal, than when it touches one of Mine That ;was at that Presently the 'carats. sight of small fortunes rolling about T p The jresent apparatus was brought the sloping decks became so much a to the attention of the Admiralty in matter of •course that it could, not halt 1y 920 b. a college professor. Previous the least important member of the to that time the sea -knight went seek- crew in his little round of every day, ing treasure more. or less haphazardly, g and in three` years had brought to the Surface scarcely more than VT bars lflackteet ate, iii a conflict With the af bullioii,. Garbed in goggle; eyed helmets and thick submersible suits, with leaden weights, to keep them upright, the gal- lant gold fishers were lowered from the raft to a depth of ,132 feet. Soine Each bar weighed close • to thirty pollees, They measured nine !Lichee to ig, were two inches thick and four Indies ssMte.. And on eve day of days 1 II --mss "There's Nie Luck About the Floose.." It is "believed; that , this poem wO$ .' . written by Wl114am' Julivar Mickle, whose ballad of "Cumnor Hells' Wage gelded "Iaesfllworth to Sir Walter Scott; But ars ye sure the news is true? And are ye sure he's weel? Is this a time to think o' warp? Ye lades, fling by your wheel! Is this, a time to spin a thread, When Colin'e at the door? Reach down my cloak—I'll to the quay' And see him come ashore, The Usual Work. It seemed to Hughie that there was no end to the instructions his mother gave him when he was starting off with his father for a week's. trip. "Now I want you to be sure you have everything you need," she said., open- ing' hili bag in spite of his assurances that it held all a boy oould possibly re- quire. "Why, Hughie, where Is your hairbrush? . You were forgetting it." "No, mother, I wasn't forgetting it," said Hughie, looking desperate. "I thought you said I was going on a va- cation." 40* And gie to me my bigonet, My bishop's satin gown; For I mann tell the bailie's wife Teat Colin's in the town. My turkey slippers• mann gae on, My stockings pearly blue— It's a'. to pleasure my gudeman, For hers baith leal and true, Rise, lass, and mak a clean fireside, Put on the muckle pot; Gle little Kate her button gown And Jock his Sunday coat; And mak their shoon as black as sloes,. Their hose as white as suave; It's a' to please my ain gudeman, For he's been lang awa. There's twa fat hens upo' the coop Hae fed this month and mair; Mak haste and threw their necks' aboot, That Colin weer may fare; And spread the table neat and clean, Let everything look brow, For who eau tell how Colin fared When he was far awa? r * * a Since Colin's weel, and weel I has nae mair to crave, And gin I live to keep him sae I'm blest aboon the lave; And will I see his• face again? And will I hear him speak? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought, In troth I'm like to greet. For there's • nae luck aboot the hoose, . There's nae luck at a', There's little pleasure i' the hoose When my gudeman's awa. Some writer reminds us that when we see a dog running down the street with his head hanging and his tail be- tween his legs, our first impulse is to kick him. But the fellow that trots briskly up to us with his head and tail up and a friendly light in his eye, we are really : glad to see, and instead of aleick we give him a smile and a pat. It is much easier, and far more profit- able, to be positive than negative. Th.e world needs positive thinkers, and there is an unlimited field for the man who • can lay the ghost of fear and radiate a cheery vitality. Tails up! s content, Britain's Smallest Cathedrals. The smallest cathedral in Great Bri-i tain, and paseibly the smallest in the world, is the cathedral church of the diocese of Argyll and the Isles, situ- ated ituated on an island in the Firth of. Clyde. It provides accommodation for only one hundred worshippers. St Asaph Cathedral, too, is notably, small; but in the commanding beauty of its site it yields to none • of the; greater cathedrals, except, 'perhaps; that of Durham. In the middle of the Vale of Clwyd,' which stretches from Ruthin to Rhyl, stands a ridge forming a kind of back- bone to the valley, washed on the east by the river Clwyd and on the west by the river Elwy. On this ridge is? perched Si. Asaph Cathedral. "Yes," saki, the new -rich mother; "my daughter has been trained under the best singing masters. She can; sing solos, duets, and trios." the sea -knights foraging in the depths of the blue sent to the surface forty- seven bars of gold valued at $350,000. Covered With Sand. The blasting of four years ago to make: the strongchamber accessible actually complicated matters•, for the explosion hurled the gold bars in all directions and the shifting sands that make a silver carpet for the bottom of the sea covered up mach of the sunken wealth.`, Sands, too, provided the sal - vegeta with another anxiety, which fortunately proved to be one of the things they need not have worried about—the possibility that the batter- ed .remains of the Laureate eventual- ly might slip • out of sight. A great deal of the bullion was pinned beneath masses of twisted steel and hours were spent by the divers prying a way through the massed debris to the tree- sure. • There are eight of these Knights of, Neptuneaboard the Racer, all veter- ans in the salvage branch of the Bri- tish Navy and experts in their line. Because of the hazards, no one is per- mitted to work' for more tban thirty minutes at a time. An hour actually elapses, however, from the time they leave to the time they return to the ship, for they must spend half an hour in coming to the surface. They are brought up $lowly, sixty feet at a time, with a ten-minute halt at the end of each sixty -foot haul. If they were brought directly from the bottom to the surface the probability of complete or partial paralysis would be great. The Diver's Reward. At the end of Bach day the catch made by the gold fishers is sent to London under an armed convoy. For taking the gigantic risks involved in the plunge, each diver receives one - READING I'm glad I learned, when I was young, to sit me down and read, the lofty strains by poets sung, and tales like "Adam Bede." I'm glad that I acquired a thirst for lore of every sort; I searched for It, the best and warst,absorbed it by the quart. The reading habit .stuck to me till I grew bent and gray,and now beneath the sunset tree I read old age away. I sit among my cauliflowers and read the bards sublime; I have no bored or weary hours, I'm happy all the time. I see so many graybeard wights who .find cid age a bore, their days are dreary and their nights make souls and systems sore. They're tired of pacing withered lawns, of trips in noisy cars, they're tired of gloalnings and of dawns, or watching suns and stare. And they might sit in comfy nooks and have the blainedest time, if they'd acquired the love of !looks, of stately prose and rhyme. And same of them have stored doubloons, and gems as large us beans; they have their spinets and . jargoons, ziroas and tcunialines. They have ten throtrsarid bones, , l: wot where I have only one, but they can't sit With Walter Soott and have a raft of fut. They have fine cars and famous 000lts and !tats from every clipue ,, but they tent sit aanong the books and have a bully time. 1C thirty-second part of the treasure re, covered, which isnot so bad when the{ haul for one day may total more than!• $300,000! Having recovered the wealth of the Laureate, what more natural than' that these daring knights of the sea may try their hands at bringing up'. the lost billions that were gathered in- to Davy Jones' locker during the World War? Six billion dollars is the estimated total of the golden stream; that was poured luta the turbulent waters in those four years. Then there are the tons upon tons.. of sunken treasure lying waiting fors the questing adventurers sines the days of Drake and Queen Elizabeth—'1 Spanish doubloons sent down with the: galleons of the Armada, pieces of eight. lost when a doughty pirate craft took a nose dive near the Canaries, gold and jewels in the wreck of the Titanicj the new minted coins that filled the; chests on the Lusitania. Other Sunken Treasure. Nat far from the British Coast, but outside territorial waters, lies an un+ named vessel full of oontraband gold, Back in 1915, so the story goes, a sot dier of fortune in the employ of Ger- many collected $2,000,000,000 in gold and specie and $11,000,000 in negoti- able Chinese scrip. This wealth he concealed. in 5,000 Dutch cheeses and shipped them on the mysterious ves- sel. A German torpedo prevented the delivery of the cheeses and for eight years they have been lying there on a. feet, rich booty for the intrepid soul who goes adventuring twenty fathoms under the sea. Off the coast of Scotland a privately financed expedition has had a. fair share of success emlrloying suction pumps and diverts in an attempt to re- cover the £300,000 in gold and jewels supposed to be aboard the Spanish. vessel Almirante de Ficreucia. The fact that the ship is actually there 10 attested by the cannon belle, muskets, swords, •daggers and pieces of plate, already brought to the surface. The plant for raising thls treasure includes, a powerful suotiou pump cap- able of taking up and discharging 2 0 tons an hour and a circular cutting machine, driven by a motor that is eu gaged in cutting through the thirty feet of day and silt that covert the wreck.