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Zurich Herald, 1925-03-05, Page 2TRAM BLAZING ROMANCES IN CAN A Taal 1,iazing, as it was went to be rivers, the salt springs, the bitumin- ixxaown in the early days of this come- ous sands, the musitox, and the mil - try, leas almost passed into history, lions of caribou, are all features of _but it is still interesting to hear of special attraction. For those who the difficulties net and overcome, the seek it, this region still offers plenty privations sometimes endured, and the of excitomeut and novelty and adven-' e zperiences, sometiin•es fraught with ture. In few places of the world can great danger, of the explorer and sur-; greater scope be found for such in- veyor in the work of pushing back the stincts than in this region with its Canadian frontier. great tracts of unexplored territory, Mr. Fred V. Seibert, of the Natural The methods of to -day may be differ- Res•ourees Intelligence Service of the ent, but they call for the same quail - Department of the Interior, in a recent ties of resource and endurance as address before the City Club of Chi- those which distinguished our fore- cago, "Trail Blazing Romances," gave fathers. some intimate sidelights on the work of opening up Canada. After many ' years spent in the field, traversing the virgin country from Lake Superior to the Arctic, Mr. Seibert was able to carry his audience with hint over what is now the great wheat fields of the Prairie provinces, through flourishing cities that have grown up iu a genera- tion, past the great coal fields of Al- berta to the outlet of the Mackenzie river. To those who only think of a ro- mance as a love story, the experiences of a surveyor are far from being ro- mantic. Far removed from anything that savors of romance in the general- ly accepted meaning of the word, he is up against the realities of life to a degree which is seldom appreciated and which few people ever know of. Sitting at our cozy fireside in the dead of winter, with the thermometer at zero or even lower, oue would con- sider .the matter very seriously before undertaking a trip of a hundred miles or more with nothing but a pair of snowshoes; a gun, an axe awl a very limited amount of food. Yet such trips are but incidents in the survey- or's everyday life. On trips of this nature he trust sleep on a brush bed, in many caees without covering, keep- ing himself warm by the heat of a campfire fed at intervals by dry wood obtained in the vicinity. Such a fire takes a lot of wood to keep going all night. When there are two_ or more in the party it is called "the little game of freeze out." They all lie around the fire as best they can and as the fire burns low the one who gets cold first must replenish it. Looking at it from this distance a warm eiderdown in a snow bank might _ be considered a hardship, but for all who have had the good fortune to live for a time at least under natural con- ditions it is a real luxury. Summer or winter, spring or fall, a cold is almost unknown in a survey camp two weeks after a]1 contact with civilization- is broken. The surveyor who roams the track- less wilderness `sees little of romance in his everyday life. Tie usually takes it as a matter of course. Climbing mountain peaks which were formerly considered inaccessible, traversing roaring streams which even the In- dian seldom follows, and a hundred and one difficult tasks are his daily trouine. He may grumble at the files or even swear a little when the smoke !from the camp fire blows in his eves. •He usually kicks at the grub, although he may eat twice what be is accustom- ed to eat 'when in civilization. He may even swear by all that is holy that this is his last trip, but the following sea- son finds him eager and ready for his next job. One such individual, a French Canadian, speaking of the chief of the party, said, upon his re- turn from kis first survey trip, "You tank the Gouvernmont she be glad when she know what he do, dat sun of a gun, tak a poor man seven hun- -dred miles on de wilderness and stuff him wid prune." itis, however, long after one has re- turned, when, in a reminiscent frame of mind he turns over the pages of his survey album. that the real romance of what he formerly considered a mis- spent life strikes him. Aside from the unique life a survey- or leads when on his work, he has the Mercy. "Whoever restores a young bird to the limb Or gladdens the lives of dumb crea- tures in need, Is one of Christ's helpers, whatever his creed, Clasps hands with 'the angel that comforted But whoe'er finds pleasure in adding one hurt To an innocent life, be it insect -or drove, Is somehow in league with those who found sport In nailing the bands of the World's Greatest Love. Oh, how dare we ask a just God to bestow The mercy we grant not to creatures below!" If all men should bring their mis- fortunes together in one place, most would be glad to take his home again, rather than to take a portion out of the common stock.—Solon. Queen Mary is seen outside the west dooa of Noz'wicli. Cathedral with the Bishop and Dean of Norwich, after having attended the dedication of the restored stone of the bishop's throne. ,o.e..,.. _._._ • Sorne Extraordmary A good memory is one of the foun- dation stones of greatness; but it must be combined with acute observation, reflection and other qualities to be ef- fective. The minds Cf some men are like pools which have no outlet—con- stant ingress thereto, but no egress. Consequently they grow stagnant, and are of no use to others and but little comfort to themselves. It is no para- dox to say that they remember every- thing, but forget to tell anything. Young people acquiring an education should avoid "cramming," and remem- ber that true education consists in ac- curate Feais of Memory tkv "The Advantages of Music in the Home." --First Prize Es- says, "A" Class, in the Canadian Bureau .for the Ad- vancement of Music's Essay Competition -By G. An- tonio Beaudoin, College de Sainte Anne de l� Poca. tiei'e, Karnouraska, Que. "Music Cannot fail to strike fire the maltel the purchase of one ieas'y,dlt is, there-, there--, from the spirit of znan."—Beethoven, foie, a wise economy to Seek after! a Music is a universal language, A music as a diversion. Tho• cinema is multitude of the most dissimilar peo- ple will thrill in unison, listening to a considerable sum expended with•the' national hymns, to harmonize happy or least amount of profit. The memory. sad. Music speaks to the heart of of moving pictures fade; very quickly, each one of us,. We know the legend Music promotes happiness in the or Orpheus, who charmed even wild home. Other diversions often gaitse beasts with his melodious sounds, trouble in the home, bring about 'dis- Everyone knows that in Dulls, snake- brtngs eltoge Cher a the i l peace. Motifsioa charmers are numerous. family, ensures . harmony, produces( Since music is so much enjoyed, it must become better known, and have peace. Music entertains, while it in - a preponderant place in the home. structs, associates the family in the Music should be queen of the hearth. name thought, the same joy -and the! Tp those who are looking for some drivesawaylutiresonets Igeople u an d' makes families happy. Happy families make prosperous communities.. Music softens the man- ners, elevates the tastes, and, refines 1 memory. Soon after his coronation as I ous memory, and he determined; if emperor, he was at Erfurt receiving possible, to improve it. Confiding the the homage of kings and princes who fact to his wife, she told frim he must had come to do him honor. - At one train his memory. of his receptions, during cbnversation,• So when he came home each night the date of an ancient pontifical buil he spent fifteen minutes in trying to was called in question. An Austrian remember what had occurred during prelate stated a period which Napoleon the day. At first he could remember declared to be wrong. little, net even what he had for break - "I am better informed than your ria- fast; but after a while he found that jesty on such subjects," said pre- his memory was improving. He could late, "and I think I am certain .of what recall, with greater ease, what had I state." taken place during the day, and with 'And for my part," replieC the em- more accuracy. peror, "I do not •say I believe—I say I ani certain you are deceived. Be - diversion to break the monotony of their evenings, to make them forget the cares 'of the day, music, with all its beauties, offers itself as a source of inexhaustible pleasure. the intelligence of a people, Cana - by wholesome music, produced by singiug or musical instrument, will diens are recognized as possessing a be far superior to any other diversion vent.- By a mord earnest fosterry pronounced niusical ing tempera - that - can be introduced into the home. Anything else is, in fact, ephemeral, music in our homes, our country will costly, tiresome, is quickly exhausted, produce famous' artists' through whom loses its novelty and its beauty, is Canada will win wider appreciation. valued only by the few initiated ones, Let us cultivate music. It is a hay- valued is soon forgotten. monious language, a fugitive art, that Music, because of its divine quality, charms the ear, and stirs the mind to has none of these drawbacks. Ad interest, "a science with its numbers Ad- vantages of all 'kinds are associated and its formulas, the superiority of with singing and instrumental music. which over all other species of diver - Those who study singing become ae. sion is indisputable, He who loves customed to breathing regularly, and music finds in it the source of the. healthy activity of their lungs is as- highest and purest delights. He does cured. Singing is like sunshine in our lives. Songs tell your joys and soothe our griefs. A musical instrument has the quali- ties of permanence and stability. The very sight of one has always some quality of newness•, and its beauty and Is fit for treasons, stratagems, richness of tone often increase with spoils." not merit hakespeare's perhaps ex- aggerated reproach, "The man that hath no music in litre self, ' Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, at�d Written in Prison. In prison Boethius composed his work "De Consolatiene Philosophiae," while George Buchanan, contemporary of John Knox and a famous Scots scholar composed his Paraphrase o1 After he had followed this system a 1 the Psalms of David in the dungeon few weeks his wife asked him why he of a monastery in Portugal. "Don Quixote" was written by Cer- vantes during that great Spanish writer's captivity in Barbary, and even Royalty 'finds a place in this category, curate knowledge so systematically did not tell his business to her. It d f use at id thet arranged as to be ready or sides, truth may be easily ascer m any moinent. To this end a good tained, would interest her, she said, and the memory is indispensable. He then ordered a certain work to practice would be beneficial to his However desirable it is to have a be brought, saying that, if wrong,' he memory: „ or it is not an. un -would willingly acknowledge it: lie adopted her suggestion,' and.for Charles 1., during his confinement retentive memory, ..•' ' ' every night thereafter, for nearly fifty mixed gooa,as the testimony of many When the book was; b. ought rt at a Royal wrote the d ess d:to e,_ `•- kits,' he. told leer everything that he „The. Royal Image," addressed Basilike, his eminent .persons will show, `Bayard found that Napoleonamazed was right, All present were amazed atthisex- did, or that bappened to pini or around son. Taylor, who read nearly everything him during the day. His memory Queen Elizabeth; while �eonfined by he came across, and consequently hibition of the tenacity of the em- became wonderfully tenacious. It're- much that was worthless, often re-peror's memory, especially •as the sub- her sister Mary, composed several his memory had such a one of which they fanoied he faire.' .faces n•antes, dates, facts and. poems, and tradition says that Mary gretted that ject was ?figures= in chert; everything. strong hold, inasmuch as the contents had lettle knowledge.• To remember well one should pad* QueenoP Scots, during her long ce Mi- d a trashy book would often haunt "When I was lieutenant," said Na- strict e,ttehtion to what one sees, prison lent by Elizabeth, produced him foreweeks• many pleasing poetic effusions. The real fault, however, lay in Tay- poleon—and it is stated that these 'tears or reacts. Some persons strive wrought a strange effect. simple words g for himself for not exercising more on the representatives of the old to aid their memories by systems in- volving an association of ideas, but discrimination in his reading. monarchies present; olio exchanged generally to little purpose. Judicious Selection. smiles—"oiler I had the honor to be a A bum,oiome story, however, is told Sir Walter Scott, whose memory lieutenant of artillery," continued Na- of an old farmer who had a practical was marvelous, complained that his poleon, raising his voice., I remained system of this kind which worked very mind was' burdened by much that was two years in garrison in a city of Dau- well. He had just bought some sweet worthless to him and of little value to phine, which had but a single oircu- 'oil at a city drug store, and, being any one. Hence the necessity of lating library. I read three times asked if there was anything else he judicious selection in wheat we read. the whole collection and not a word wanted, he laid his numerous pack - Centuries ago a king of Thebes de- of what I read at that period ever es- . ages on the counter and, holding up a Oared that the invention of writing caped me. The title of the book which hand with several strings on the fine was a fortune to the human race, as it has just been brought figured on the gess, said: would dissipate the memory and list. I read it with the rest, and, as eventually prove the art of forgetting. you have seen, I have not forgotten its That there is much truth in this as- contents.". section we must admit when we con- Freaks of the Ancients. Sider the remarkable memories of the ancients. It is well known that the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer were not reduced to writing for hundreds of years after their composition, but To go back. to earlier times, Cyrus .could call every man of his immensef sweet oil. No, nothing• more." army by name. Seneca was able to re - The I •f' - population of London and its suburbs is almost equal to that of the whole of Canada. Hudson Bay Company's Claim Adjusted The amicable settlement of the Hud- son's Bay Company's• claim to certain lands in Western Canada was an- nounced recently by Hon. Charles Stewart, Minister of the Interior. This contentious matter, which dates back to the year 1869, involved nearly a million acres of land, and its adjust- ment is naturally gratifying to both the officials ot the Department of the Interior and of the Company. Under the deed by which it surren- dered its ownership to Rupert'•s Land,: comprising what is now known as the" Prairie Provinces, the Company claim- ed it was. entitled to nearly 7,100,000• acres of land. After negotiations with,. the officials of the Department of the Interior, the Company agreed to ac cept nearly half a million acres less in Sir Walter Raleigh wrote kis fa- settlement of its claim. mous "History of the World" doling' For -nearly two centuries, by virtue twelve and half years of ioiprisonnient of the grant made it by .King Charles' in the Tower of London. During his of England, the Hudson's Bay Com - last term of imprisonment in Bedford parry controlled the country west of os Jail, John Bunyan comped four of the Great Lakes. In 1869 the Company. his famous works, and it is' said that agreed to surrender this vast territory. his "Pilgrim's Progress" was inspired to the Dominion Government in return and invented during this confinement. for a sum of money and one -twentieth In 1704 there emanated from New- of the land in the "fertile belt set out gate Prison the first•number of a "Re- for settlement." This "fertile belt" view" written by Daniel Defoe, then a was defined by the deed of surrender prisoner there, and the plan of the as consisting roughly of the territory "Henriade" was sketched, and the bet- between the Canadian Rockies and., the lake of the Woods south of the Saskatchewan river. What constituted land "set out for settlement" proved to be the' bone of large cities. Though city life tends to contention in implementing the terms "Let's see! That red string is for ter part composed, by Voltaire during the bar 01 soap; that blue one is for a his confinement in the Bastille. broom; that white cord is.for a calico —tea dress; that braid means four pounds of sugar, and this other string is for I Most folks are friendly—even he 'form a sort of veneer of coldness, it of the deed of surrender, especially in takes but a scratch to penetrate the ?veneer. Underneath one finds pleas- ant friendliness to a surprising degree. eite two thousand verses at once' in their order, and would then repeat were retained in the minds of the them backward without missing a good fortune to be, in most cases, a Greeks and handed down from genera- word. Mithridates governed twenty - pioneer in the districts which he tra- tion to generation until collected and three nations, each speaking a differ - verses. Development. sometimes written by order of Pisistratus. It is ent tongue, and -could converse in any' etepee sometimes rapid, follows in his said to have been no uncommon thing one of them in the native language.' step Cities spring up oxer night for an Athenian to be able to recite A Italian named Maglia Bethi, from his carer grounds, Steam'oats An i the whole of both the Ido and san s- had read all the books published dur- ing the commerce of the country or. , sey, which are composed of thousands ung his lifetime, and many publishes the rivers and lakes which he tra- of lines each. before, could quote from nierno published the tra- verses, Railways follow his trails. of note-books of the poet Sauthey chapter, section and page of any book The fernier makes a home on the land were very numerous. He took notes he heti read and give the exact words he has spied out and surveyed, and, and made extracts from all the books of the author on any particular aril) finally, where none but the red man he read, but afterward condemned the . and explorer knew the way, a new practice of much note -taking, saying ject. c1vb2 zatin las cloning int° being. Mt" that It destroyed his memory: In order to test his memory a friend dnete and commerce replace the moreloaned him a long m Macaulay, the historian, had a very manuscript which, priereitive setunalions of the former remarkable memory. .He seldom fol• he was soon to publish, and not long a arteled inhabttentt, This to the Sur -'after it had been returned called on. aI°tom rate -t r-znan.e Of an. got anything. 'When a boy lie accom-him, pretending that he had Met it „ •, gpaned his father one afternoon to the and wished him to write off as mucin I?Le - a' well Iio�s.: ar c:.et' into iligertce house of a friend. While there he :nit, a orarvh of the Canadian D+ found on the table a copy of Scott's of it as he remembered. eteeerneent of the 1uti r3.or, -,ar, asSist�ed "Lay of the Last Minstrel," which he 1 Greatly to his astonishment, Bahl 'alga et -El tat+at user 1-9 ""e. st in the re- bad never before seen. While his sat down and wrote out the entire :ussl able development of this district father and the other guests were en- article, word for word, as in the mann- by ftirnishing, free of char:! e, authen- gaged in conversation he read the script. 1'• buto'rmation on the natural re- volume. and on his return home re -.1 William. Cullen Bryant possessed: a. sources of Canada to all who are in peaked several cantos of it to his moth well-trained retentive memory. Ho reret,.ted. in ,'leas end in the problems er, without a break, and doubtless : selected his reading with the greatest essoeleted with their development. would have recited the whole poem ', oare. On sea voyages he was usually J'jais information is extremely varied had he been given time, +I too sick to read much, and at suoh 1 and ranges from studies of industrial On another occasion, when but thin.' times would amuse himself by quoting' 1l it ti g natural resources or age,macauiay was ob. front the English poets. —AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME rro.� encr:, a. -et; ii teen years o development ta~, t?+_crust, maps and other inf.ormation for automobilist's, canoe - 5s45 ted boIlday'seekers generally. • i b.r. far north. however. IS not with- out out ecozal lnte"eat, particularly to the ttafti1a1 teeker: The old ideas of a cos tr•y Fru ire and MOW has long since cataloged, Cereals have been gro n almost "lir to the Aretio Circle and potatoes and other garden vege- tables have been grown in the delta of the ffackenZie almost onthe shores of. the'statio azul 'Weil within the Are - tic Circle. The wood buten, the underground iiged to wait in a Cambridge coffee- house for a post -chaise, and while there chanced to hick tip a country newspaper containing two pieces in verse, one entitled "Reflections of an Exile," and the other "A Parody on a Welsh Ballad," lie read them through once, and was able forty years after, although he had not thought of them daring that time, to repeat both with- out hesitation, or, to his knowledge, changing a single woil. Napoleon 'Wae Right. Napoleon possessed a worldei•ful So familiar was he with their pro- ductions that he could repeat page af- ter page of standard fioeins. No mat- ter atter how long the voyage might be, the resources of his memory were never exhausted. He said, late in life, if al- lowed a little time he could recall every line ot poetry be had ever writ- ten. Strengthened by Training. A pour 'memory can be strengthened by rigid training, as illustrate.' in the case of Thurlow Weed, in early life Weed was, troubled by a very timelier - _f11+5)41 regard to Indian and forest reserves. The Company contended that these, lands came under the terms of the deed, while the Government held that' these lands were not "set out for set- tlement." Not only was the dispute one of long standing but the matters involved ''were of a complicated nature. At onei timenit was thought that settlement' could be reached only through a Court' _action, a measure which would have entailed further delay and consider able cost. With praiseworthy fore-, sight, the representatives of both' sides took counsel together and after, a period of negotiation, succeeded it arriving at a satisfactory solution of the problem, People Who Never Laugh. its Ceylon live the '4 eddas, who are • the nearest approach to primitive man known. They have never been, known to laugh. Scientists have tickled their feet to suoh a degree that an ordinary man 'would have been in misery. nut not the 'Vesicles, The Veddas have no marriage cere- tiony. A man takes a wife without any form,: but he remains loyal to her through thick and thin. lvo Vedda has ever been known to • tell a lie, or even to elongate the size of a fiah the fraction of an inch, aa.� wow e-4 we. We Know, 13ug—"Glee, the coldest mor—tingh>( the winter and the furnace out,"