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Zurich Herald, 1926-01-14, Page 9TE. GOVERNOR GENERAL' TRIP • TO• TWARCTIC OCEAN 1 -lis Excellency. the Lord By ng of Vinay Makes Perilous Voyage to Visit . Eskimo at Home. Tile visit of His Excellency t Governor General, Lord Brig, to th Northwnet Territories during the p' summerwas an event of outstanding instep cst, This was the first time that a Governox General had sailed down the Mackenzie to its mouth and coast- ed along the shore of the Arctic ecean, The journey was the result iA erre of His Excellency to visit the Most outlying parts of the Dominion, and indicates the advancement in .transportation i'•acildties into those re- gions which in years' past have had such meagre • communication with the outside world.. His Exceileney, who was ancon- paned by his private secretary, .Major P. K. Hodgson, travelled north from Edmonton and Peace River Crossing by way o2 the Peace and Slave rivers and reached thesouthern boundary of the Northwest, Pelletal -les at Fort Smith on July 22. Here he was met by Mr. 0. S. Monte, Director of the North West. Territories and Yukon Branch of the Department of the In- terior, the District Agent and leading •citizens, and given a hearty welcome to the Territory. At Fort Smith are located" the local administrative headquarters of the Northwest Territories. His Excellency visited the public offices and hospitall, and on the following day embarked on the steamer Distributor, especially equipped for the distinguished visitor, for Aklavik, which lies about 1,360 ranee, to the northwest in the delta of the Mackenzie. Stops were made at all the posses en route, and hospitals,. mi'ssions•, schools; wireless stations, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachments w•eee inspeoted and many interviews were accorded returned soldiers, trappers, and other resi- dents. he by all risthg'and bowing with profound •e I respect to the Governor General, • est' After a stay of three hours-, :event in an inspection of•the settlement; dur- ing which the Governor General was presented with a collection of native' arrowheads, hunting and • fishing ima plerae�nts, etc., as mementoes, 1: -lis Ex- cellency sdrq'ok hands with the chief men, and the panty left on their return journey, Eventful Return Journey. A Perilous Trip. This portion of the journey in a comparatively large and modern, elec- tric -lighted river-siteanrer aoross Great Slave lake and down the Mackenzie, • was full -of interest, but the outstared- ing feature was the extra trip—the dash from. Aklavik to the native vil- lage iscage of Kletigazuet on 'the shores, of the Arctic 150 miles distant, to meet the Eskimos -in their own hamlets. The rives• -steamer coli not venture out into the ocean, and the journey had to be .made in a small gaso_esre motor • boat, piloted by an Eskimo. Those ac- companying His Excellency on this somewhat perilous voyage, in addition to Major H•odies'ou, were Mfr. Finale, ''Inspector G. le Fi;etcher, 0.0. Macken- zie River Sub.- District, R.Cai.P,, Rev. rCanon }rester, in charge of the Church. of England mission., at Aklavik, and ,Mr. J. P. Melvin, - Assistant District Agent, oe the Hudson's Bay Coniipaary for the Mackenzie district- v Leaving Aklavik at 8 o'clock in the morning the elrere of the Aretie ocean; was reached about 9 o'clock teat even- "ing.' Here there was a brief stop foe supper on the beach. On resuming the journey eastward then followed a period of intense anxiety,' for in a short time an impenetrable Arotic fog 'enveloped the little crdit and shut out all signs of sea:or sky or share. After the boat had floundered about in these treacherous waters for an hour, the Eskimo pilot, with .a skill!' that seemed uncanny, recovered his bearings dur- ing a momentary rift in the fog by noting the direotion of the wind and the'Pound 'of the waves on the store. Striking a coulee through the fogbank, hse steered the launch. with such pre- cision that, suddenly, about 4 a.m., the Eskimo village loomed out of the mist a few hundred yards away. !Eskimo Breakfast. Aith.ough the Eskimos were not ex- peeting visitors} they had heard the noise of the launch's, engine, and many were on the beach to welcome them. Witten' they realized that this was a 'visit from the Governor General they Mild everyt,lvinig p'ossible to honor the occasion. The chief, William Magila- liuk, invited the party into his, teepee, which was the largest in t'he place, and offered refreshments consisting of tea,, fish, and bann;ocle; This evidence of hospitality wars• much appreciated by the visitors, and two incidents in connection. with the meal showed the progress of civilization and Clrris,tian- itfamong them. The first was in con- .notion with the seating of the guests. It is the custom, of the Eskimos to sit at nueais'on skins on the. ground, but, knowing ;the white men use raised teat , these were provided in the form Of wooden covers of sewing na.cinlues, which Made a very good substitute for chairs. The other Incident was that when the guests were seated tire.' Es- kimo host stood up and reverently ask- ed a blessing on the meal. After breakfast a gathering or pow- Wow was called which was attended by all the natives, fifty-two in- nurnber, • antasrsed in their best native raiment, Canon Hester, whd has had muds ex- • Iieriet ce both in the "eastern and went - ern Acetic acid speaks the I6skitno lan- giiage fluently, acted as interpreter. Hips lBxeel1.ency made a brief address in which he eaplalned• that it •had long been his desire to viislt the hlskimoe -in their own homes, now that he had been able to do so he would: write to His Majesty the King to •bell him What a happy and loyal, people they Were. The Eskirnoe were greatly de- lighted with this enatotarcettealt and marked their apprer a,tiot of the hO During the trip back to Aklavik the fog again came down, making naviga- tion difficult, and es a result the launch several times ran on to sand bans which are so common in the delta of the Ma,ckenzie river. Aklavik was reached gu the morning of the second day after departure, The party was somewhat fatigued by being forty- eight hours without sleep, but satis- fied atinfeed that this unique experience 'head been worth the effort. On the return journey up the Mac- kenzie river while crossing Great Slave 'lake a storm came up and it was neoessary to seek shelter for twelve hours under the lee oaf aur island in the mouth of the Big Buffalo river, At Fort Smith His Exoellency wit- nessed the raising of one of the masts for the wireless .station (since com- pleted) and enjoyed a game of golf over the two -hole course, which is as far as the devotees of the royal and ancient game in the Territories have progressed in the construction of links. Before leaving Fort Smith' His Ex- cellency expressed the pleasure and profit he had derived from his trip, and especially from his visit to the Esklm;o village, The Governor General left the Ter- ritories on 12th August, travelling by way of the Slave and Athabaska rivers to Waterways, Alberta, and thence by rail to Edmonton. Use Animal Methods in Care of Furs. Fur -wearing women should imitate fur -bearing animals to the care of their furs, advises home economies special- ist, if they would prolong the life of these furs. An animal elwayss shakes its fur vig- orously after it has been out in, the rain or snow=which is exactly what the woman should .c.10 who is wearing the animal's coat. After this thorough shaking, the coat should be hung on a padded hanger and allowed to dry slowly. Animals• -alto use their own "dry-- cleaners," for their fur coats, for they use the simple and very effective Methods- of rubbing sand thoroughly in their . fur by rolling up •aard down and back .and forth in it. The owner of a fur coat may clean hers by thor- oughly-- rubbing certain similar ma- terials into it. Hct bran, sand, or cedar and ma- hogany sawdust may be used for darle. colored fuss. White cern mewl, salt, Fuller's earth, cornstarch, or powder- ed magnesia will clean white furs. Any one of these materials may be used., but should he rubbed thoroughly into the fur. It is then removed by whipping with • two pliable smooth sticks•, after which the fuer is brushed with a clothes brush ,or furrier's comb. Rips and tears in a fur coat may, often be mended at home, but a fur- rier's needle should be used, as it does not tear the skins as easily as a sewing needle. Mercerized cotton thread is good to use. A padded hanger is preferable for furs, because skins are often weaken- ed through dyeing; and hangers with' sharp points are likely to cause tease in the fur. • Vigorous beating with 'smooth, pit able sticks- is excellent • for furs, ex- cept the more delicate ones, such as squirrel. A thorough whipping for ten or fifteen minutes not only renews the freshness of ,the fur, but also kills moths, and removes the moth eggs. Warning the Whales. The simplest and moeit coriseant sound in Nature, the washing of the sea, serves as a radio beacon to warn whales, porpoises, and many fishes to keep away from the shore and below the surface in rough weather. According to Dr. Austin Clark, form- erly netural3,cst on the scientific ship Alb -Arose: "The simple breaking of the waves is of immense importauee to sea •creatures, as an index of the dangers they are running. In times of storm the repellent rotted increases., and by this they are warned to keep farther from the shore and farther down beneath the .surface." * Q A Piller. Little Robbycame hone with his new hat limp as a dish -cloth. "For goodness' sake!" cried his mother, "where have you been?" Robby began to whimper, as he re- plied,: "Afeller threw my hat into the frog ponds" • "Oh, Robby! exclaimed his sister,. "you threw it in yourself. 1 saw you iso' it" "Well," said Robby, .00ntemptously, "axon I not a Yeller?" Radio licenses Were issued by the Dept. of Marine and T'isheries during • the twelve .'months ending March, 1925, to. 9•4996 persons, DEVPPiiEN1' OF A1tTIOCDAL SILK • While at first .eight It seems ;Aeon gruous that nen should rn,airefactur sulk from wood yet the reasonablanes of thi's appears when it in seen the flue first idea of its possibility •earn from entomologisits who suggested that silk might be made from the eel iuiesme of mulberry leaves without the intervention of the si!lkworm. One such suggestion wee roadie by Reau mur, a French naturalist., in 1742, and although' nothing definite came of this till 1855, when_a process: was patented by' Aeclen ars•, a Swiss, the getting r•id. of the selkworm and the drawing out and sspinuing of -cellulose threads by IN THE NORTH chemical and mechanical means has Above is shown. the first stage that came out of Rouyu to tweet the first been the object of invesltigators. Cen- trals of the T. & N. 0. of the Ontario side. ^ eellulose isidistsolved and filtered, spun a as ,a thread, ,and washed and purified • if neeessery. For spinesing, the net- t ouo soiutisonw of ,cellulose derivatives e are forced through a nozzie containing many minute openings producing lines • filaments whieh are solidified acoorelin:g to the needs: of the varioue Pro.cesmres, and twitted late thread, " As predicted by early chemists and experiMemsterst, artificial stik hale proved exceedingly useful for many different purposes in competition with natural silk, and its use issteadily in- creasing.'^ In 100'24 more than 100,000; 000 'rounds were produced, and the world's manufacture and consumption: 'of artificial silg is• now almost double that of the natural variety. With cot- ton it enters into the manufacture of underwear, hosiery, ribbons, moire, plush, pile fabrics, shoe coverings; cloth gloves, umbrellas, and wire in--.. sulat'1one. Independently it is used for trimmings, elastic webbing, satin, knitted goods, stockings, hairnets, laces, ribbonseemb•roidery, and, due to its high resistance to fr•ietion for lin- ings. The drying quali=ty is high and When woven with cotton many de- signs are possible due to the dyeing quality of the artificial silk. There is an enormous, field fox re- search in the manufacture and use of artifloia1 silk. The raw material is abundant, and the mechanical process- es involved in its manufacture are not costly, ,though they require expensive madhin.ery and trained operators. The ,cfhemical procerues involved are com- plicated and investigators all over the world axe endeavoring to simplify them. With the attainment of a clear- • er conception of the chemical prooess- ess the difficulties which beset the manufacture of artificial silk will in a large measure have been ,eliminated, How to Burn Soft Coal. Properly used, soft coal really is,jua' as good a fuel as anthracite for do mestic purposes and 40 considerably cheaper, says' "Popular Science Month 1y." Its only drawbacks are that it is a bit smoky and dirty and requires that more attention , be given to the furnace. oda, with her great resources in suit- able woods; is naturally interested in these processs,es„ which are constantly 'l o a Little Girl. being reviewed and checked np by the t In yotir vague world of serfaoe oar- Forest Products, (Laboratories of the tainties Forestry Branch of the Department of You are a potentate by grace divine, the Interior. Since the time of Arid - t Waving your grand imperious •decrees, mans many chemists have -devoted at- Your "Come!" end "Go!" your teuticn td this subject and in 1890 and. "Give!" and "Me" and Mine!"— the next decade disrcoveries• were made With the slim gesture of stupendous which rendered the manufacture of faith: artificial •'silk commercially possible. Dolly must eat; dolly must sleep; The raw material for these various the train artificial- hi M' is either wood or cot - Shall pass of not. Reality and, wraith ton. In the case ,af wood the log is, Have but to yield to you, august and barked, cleaned, and chipped. The vain. chips are -digested as, in the manufac- e ture of sulphate pulp foT paper, The In. your vague world there .is a scheme resatltin.g "pulp is bleached, washed, and of things turned out as a Vitale dry sheet. The More lucid than the one you soon four processes, in use, Nitrocelllulose, must know— -,. Cupiramanonliuni,, Acetate, and Visocse, A square of blocks of primal. •coloriwge have certain definite •steps in common. While aar,thracite, or hard coal, con- tains only about 10 per cent. of vola- tile matter .which call he •driven off in the form of gas, soft ooal' is 30 per eent. mane volatile and, in asdition, contains much tarry, sticky material. When you burn soft coal, then, you must keep in mind the gasseous na- ture of the material and take steps to insure the combustion of the excess gas. The first point to remember is that a soft coal fire should not . he banked with a large mass of coal shoveled ta- to the furnace at random. Whenever you add soft coal to the fire ,a great quantity of gas is produced salinoat at once. Consequently, if you bank the fire so thoroughly that the red hoe coal is completely buried, the temperature. of the top layer will not be high enough to ignite the gas and there is a ;good chance foe an explosion. In banking wimth soft coal therefore, be careful to pile on the fresh coal in such a way that et least one spot of red hot coal is left exposed to furnish a flame which will ignite the gas as soon as it is produced. The second point to remember is that theater*, nature of soft coal causes it to form lumps and cakes which impede the flow of air through the fire. This means that soft coal re- quires a good draft. Hencme, you will have to keep the draft door open nruoh more than for hard coal. The ohimney damper should be open at all times, and it will be necessary to keep "closed the door at the back or top of the fur- nace, which, when. open, allows air to flow directly into the chimney: A daily schedule for successful operation of.: your furnace with soft ooal'is as follows: Before breakfaet open chimney dam- pee. Shake well, using slice bar to remove (linkers and stir up the fire. Add a small amount of coal. ' Leave fire door open. Aehpdt draft should be open. After breakfastadd more coal. Leave fire door open. Adjust aspit draft as needed. During the day add coal at least three or four times. After each firing . the fire door should. be left partly open for a short time and then closed some- what. If coal clinkers badly grates . should- be shaken or sliced• at least once during the day. At night the fire should be shaken down and sliced until it appears bright and clean, with a good red glow in the asmhpit, Put on plenty of coal.. Be sure to leave small red spot un- covered. Close a,shpdt draft, partly close chimney damperand leave fire door ajar. And each block has its own place in a row. I stand in wistful wonder at your door To hear the wisdom of your simple lore. —N. Bryllion Fagin. Grey Days Lead to White Days. Mine is the riper wisdom That comes with graying hair; Mine is the fuller knowledge Of God's great love and care; I Mine is the clearer vissiosr; Mine is the wide view; And mine the hoarded memories• Of friendship kind and true. .Mina is a steadier patience To hear the ills of life; Mine is a sturdier oourage To meet the daily strife; Mine is a faith serener a Than ever youth could know To walk the way •appointed Through sunshine or through snow, The gray days lead to white days I Of peace and silence Seep, A stiller hush of resting When Earth •and I shall sleep; And then—a glorious waking When broken ties, all mend; Through gray days of Novembr I wait the long year's end. —Annie Johns -on. Flint. • Why She Was Quiet. Auntie, sewing in her bedroom, no- ticed that little Muriel, whom he had lett to play in •the sitting -room below', was untdsually quiet. At last she went downstairs and opened the 'door. She saw Muriel sit- ting in au easy chair with her hands folded. "Well, dean," said auntie, "can't you find anything to do?" "I can't find anybody to play Hide the Thimble' with me," the child re- plied, "so I've hidden it myself, and now I'm waiting until I forget where I..put it." Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.—Voltaire. In principle the processes are the same and they ,differ only in the opera- tions necessitated by the chemical laws and reactions upon which they are severally bated, The following operations are common to all. The Refuses Raise. Claiming that he took the job at $7,500, United States Congresisman Henry Tucker, of Virginia (above), re- fuses to benefit by the recent $2,000 salary increase voted, and has return- edit to the treasury. He is satisfied with what he gets, he says. An Under -Water Flame. Submerged in water, an oil flame in- vented by a Belgian scientist will burn for weeks without going out, and so avoid most of the heat loss of an or- dinary boiler. A device similar to a oarburetor blows a spray of crude oil mixed with • air into the burner ued.esr pressure. 1 Water is kept out of the burner until the flame is well started, and then al- lowed to rise around the flame and cover it. The inventor is said to have obtain- ed almost perfect efficiency by putting the flame directly into the water. Two pillar -boxes in the City of Lon- don have been fitted with illuminated signs, directing passers-by to the nearest post -office. G0SN t 1T`S'9-HREE o'cLocK AND THIS IS A TOUGH'S NE1GH130R11000 t I'LL WALK BEHIND "MAT CoP AND BE SAFE! ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES HIEY! WHAT'S THE 1 DEA FOLLOWIN' ME ARouND? DON'T S"i-ART' GABB1N' You Loo1C E A HARD EEGGt KEEP MOVIN' c Hatt, I82i, b rhe 0,11 SyndCe e,,iitc.' Keeping Faith. All life is a trust and gives us, a charge to keep; there are certain obli- gations of which we are bound to be mindful in particular. The Christmas season has laid emphasis on wheat it means to make and keep a promise to a child- The young of the race are the last who deserve to be disappointed, They come.upon the stage with their eyes shining in expectation, believing the world to be as good, as true, as lovely as it seems. He who deceives that expectation justly incurs the uni- versal social censure. Long ago a very wiseebook said that it were bet- ter far such a one to be drowned in the sea with a millstone about his neck. Upon the child himself, though he may not yet be told of it, there lies the neoesslty of keeping faith with the future, where those who have charge of the tasks and burdens of to -day must lay them down. We are bound to keep faith with duty—but that word duty, thrown at us' too often, seemsharsh, crabbed and angular, as though there were little prospects of fun in living up to the law, paying taxes, manifesting gond citizenship in a community, holding the solidarity of the fancily against subversive undermining forces, fuliilir ing th•e daily round of customary 'oc- cupation in office, mill or any sort of workshop, and coming home at night- fall to the family circle, cheerful though weary, finding a refuge and a stronghold within the household walls. Yet that broad, traveled way of con- vention, despised and decreed by so many social revolutionists, bas been the straight road to happiness for myriads of quiet, ordered lives that have never been notorious and yet have blessed our earth. Finally, we have •the faith to keep with ourselves. There is no gain to compensate for the forfeiture of self- respeeat. We have to find content in our own ,society when we must be alone, and we cann•at enjoy the satis- faction of a heart at peace, a mind at rest, if we have hauled down -the flog and surrendered the inner citadel, 0 Eradicating Bovine Tuber- culosis From Canada. In spite of the tremendous cost in volved, owing to the wide distribution of the disease, the Dominion Health of Animals Branch is making good pro- gress in the control of bovine tuber- culosis. The Minister of Agriculture, in his report for 1925, point out that there are now 1,675 full accredited tuberculosis -free herds in Canada and 2,1.00 undergoing the process of ac- creditation. This accredited herd plan is a practicable, workable, and popu- lar one, "and with it it is possible to eradicate tuberculosis in herds and to maintain them free from disease pro- vided the owner takes an active inter- est in cleaning up his herd and pro- tecting it, The Branch is now con- ducting -a "restricted area" plan, cov- ering large districts with many herds, and it is already proving successful, it is possible to test large numbers of cattle more expeditiously and more cheaply by this method than by any other. There is new an area in the Carman district in Manitoba with over 16,500 cattle practically free from tubercul- osis. Another area, comprising the counties of Huntingdon, Chateauguay and 13eauharnois in the Province of Quebec, was dealt with under the "restricted -area" plan last year and 52,642 cattle tested. A Good Reason, Woman (who has given some food to a trainp)—You have a very aiwk witrd way of eating, men," TPame---"•Yea„ nia'•aln; I e'pose it'3t 'cause I'm out ed pr^aati•ce."