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Zurich Herald, 1926-10-28, Page 7WRAP THE HUMANE WAY Esurbearing animals are mostly "mental agony" onthe game, surely el.r t"t in—steel traps, Some folies who the feeling that th'er'e was uo chance for escape would be creel. And we ail know that poisoning is not humane,; that many animals suttee for days and days only to clie a loss ao far as their pelts are coucereed, And in laying out but other oison,not iy do you kianimalsand game apests, swell. This eau not be denied. Withoutt traps, ,game would multiply. would be more. weasels to suck the do not understand the art Unsettle that et is cruel to take the pelts in. this .manner; that the antmals.,suffor "un- told agonies." To you who have fol- lowed the line this appears ridiculous, but nevertheless, because of this be- lief, there are many who would abso- sutely prohibit the use oY the steel trap. It is even reported that a society has been formed to prevent }blood of rabbits.; there would be mo. trapping; that a prominent. actress is i wolves to feed on live deer—and what would we gala? The steel trap, in my opinion, is not a cruel way to take game. When the jaws snap onto a leg, prove this sets in quickly. to your entire satisfaction. Use a small -sized trap; let it catch .a linger and see if there is much pain. In most cases during the winter months, cold kills the game quickly—a quick and merciful death, not cruel but humane. When trapping along streams for aquatic game, most sets are made so as to drown the animals. This, too, causes little suffering. Don't overlook traps which kill in- stantly. There are several types of these on the market, particularly for the smaller fur -bearers. The trapper. who finds live animals should kill them quickly. He should visit his sets frequently. Not only is this mer- ciful, but it pays in dollars and cents. Let us all be humane in trapping; show those who have been under the impression that the business is very e c. cruel, that they have a mistaken idea ed with hounds, but if there is. the of the facts.—George J. Thiessen. heading a.movement to boycott all furs caught. It is my personal opinion that much of this movement has been started up on misinformation; that trapping can be done—and is done—in a humane manner. I am certain nobody who feels pleasure and profit in pelts wants to be cruel. And yet, you who are fa- miliar with wild life, who have spent years studying game, know that Na- ture is cruel. Need I point out to you, for instance, the wooded deer which lingers alive for days in the woods with wolves and other furbearing animals feeding upon it? Have you' seen the relentless weasel, for instance, suck the life- blood of a rabbit?. Have you Nature upon a mink feeding? —cruel, relentless. And yet, man need not be cruel in trapping. But how could we catch the game without the steel trap? Some who ad- vocate abolishing traps should suggest a method of obtaining wolf, mink, fox, t Thelarger animals can be hunt - Ina Library. The Understanding Heart. They left me there, The head is usually associated with In that great, silent room the understandidng, the heart with the Lined on all sides with books, affections. We are rightly supposed The sunlight filtering through cid, ' to think with the brain; we are wrong - I1 supposed to feel with the heart. Probably it was because joy, sorrow, anger, and love depress or accelerate tyle beat of the heart that that organ came to be regarded as the seat and centre of emotion. It would thus seem that "under- standing," applied to the word heart, le a mistake. It is, surely, to endow the heart with the proper function of the brain — that of thought, reason, calculation. To attribute these hard tasks to the heart, inseparably associated, With the feelings only, is to insult the brain, that 'Wondrous, almost mystical grey matter, more or less of which makes the difference between an idiot and a genius. The Bible says, not a feeling heart, not a sympathetic heart, not ae loving heart, oven; but "an understanding heart:" "Tbe seeing eye, and the un- derstanding heart" The function of the eye is to see; but—the under- standing heart? Can that be right? Should it not be: "The seeing eye, the understanidng brain" e There are two distinct types of un- derstanding, and one of these is un- doubtedly the function of the brain. If it bo a question of mathematics, physics, chemistry, finance, these need the brain. The brain is a cold and exact calculator. It can measure the distance which separates the earth from the stars. It can weigh the moon and tell the content of the ooean. It can analyze an atom, gauge the thick - nese of a gnat's wing, and form an optical instrument whereby it may taunt the facets in the eye of a fly. These things are the great achieve- ments of the brain. They are so wonderful as to be awe-inspiring. But there Is a warmer type of understand- lug than this. It has to do with things greater than anything material. It is not exact and meticulous. The under- standing which puts mountains into the scales, and balances the planets, would be out of its element should it leaded glass• half -bushed They did not notice my delight At the dear, beckoning sight Of that wide world of books; They did not see my eager, wonder- ing looks; They only thought that I must wait somewhere And left rno there With countless' treasures that called' out to me In friendly greeting, so persistently That I stepped forward. How could I choose Among so many? After a long while ItimidlY reached out and took A little, well -thumbed book And laughed aloud because the very lines Penciled so heavily in deep, firm blue Were passages I loved and treasured too! "Were we so very long?" my three friends said, I looked about the dear, low -vaulted room, Looked at the well -thumbed book up- on my Iap, And shook my head. • —Eleanor G. R. Young. Restore Germ i coe's Burial Place OLD LAPID HONORS MEMORY OF TORO'4TO'S FOUNDER Above is shown the burial place of Lieut. Gen.nd Gravess ahistoric len rcoest'rkt overnor burialopof paer iCanada, in a elzaand pel founder of Toronto, which is to be restored and preserve at Wolford, East Devon, England, which was founded by the statesman. In Praise of Learning. I have seen violence, I have seen vio- lenoe, give thy heart after let- ters. I have seen one free from labors, con- sider there is nothing beyond letters. Love letters as thy mother. I make its beauty to go in thy face. It is a greater possession than all honors. He who has commenced to avail him- self is, from his infanoy, a coun- sellor. He is sent to perform comintssions. He who does not go is as sackcloth. they represent? mormonwwww ANCIENT HALLO 'EN CUSTOMS The Sona They Sang. Harry Cornwall was tee author of songs of a rather mere vigorous types•' "The lustiest =Me } nuisance that seer took }rocseseion of the town," as Charles Mackay called it, was Corn- wall's gong, set to m-ue a by the Ohs-, 'eager Neu comm "The sea, the sea, the open sea, The blue, the fresh, the ever eree." „Home, Sweet Home" had made its first appearance in May, 1823, in the opera of "Clari, the Maid of Milan." The eettdng was by Bishop, and its• touohing rendering by Maria Tree brought the gong into immediate favor which was to prove immortal. In the, first year alone over three hundred thousand copies were sold and it has appeared among the favorite numbers of most singers since, such as Jenny Lind, Antoinette Sterling and Adelina Patti. The words were adapted by an American, J. H. Payne, from a lyric of BaylY's. Besides ballads of which some ex- amples have been given, there was a great run on pieces from the operas of Rossini, Donizetti and Mozart; Yet. even these ,classics were drowned, so to speak, in the sudden volume of song produced by the three composers who reached their zenith in the '40s—Balte.' Wallace and Verdi. La1fe's opera, "The Maid of Artois," appeared in 1830, Henry Phillips, the baritone, made on extraordinary hit in it with "The Light of Other Days.", For nearly a year this was the most popular song in England. Then in 1843, Balfe produced "The Bohemian -Girl," and for months and years to come there was scarcely a houso in the land where someone was not sing- ing "When Other Lips," or "I Dreamti That I Dwelt in Marble Halls." . . ., Many of Baife's songs are still sung or are coming once more into favor;I "The Arrow and the Song," "Good Night, Beloved," "Come Into the Gar; den, Mand," and last, but not least; "Killarney," are certain of immor- tality. The lyrics of Belle's songs ante operas were mostly by Edward Fitz - Ball, a well-known librettist who also wrote the words to which Wallace composed his masterpiece of "Mari tans." The songs from this opera are as well-known as any of Balfe'a: "In Happy Moments, Day by Day," "Alas; Those Chimes So Sweetly Stealing,", "'Tie the Harp in the Air," . - are classics too familiar to need comment.' Nor, indeed, is it necessary to do more than mention Verdi's operas which at- tained an unprecedented popularity in. England. Those who could, sang them in Italian, for those who could not, there were English renderings --in either case the tune was the thing. The vogue of many of the descrip- tive ballads in the '50s was largely due to the catchiness and beauty of Henry Russell's setting of Charles Mackay's words. His "Woodman Spare That. Tree," was the most successful of that Almost every section of the country which is probably the reason why the now celebrates Hallowe'en. Not that! idea of goblins and spooks has bean it is a national holiday, or a day off at I added to it. More or less superstitious � lk school, but it is a fine occasion for pro- grams, meetings and parties; it fur- nishes an opportunity for elean sport and fun. Did you ever stop to think of its on Hallowe'en. With some of the pee - origin? When you see a lot of black' pie actually afraid of supernatural cats, and witches, and ghosts with creatures walking about wickedly, the folks still believe that spirits wa abroad during the dark hours of this evening. That, most likely, is what started the old practise of boys doing mischief pumpkin faces hanging from the ceil- ing at a Hallowe'en party, what do more practical -minded jokers began playing tricks on their neighbors. As few in this country believe in ghosts, Consider, there is not an employment Hallowe'en has a long history. Just however, there is little room for such destitute of superior ones when and where it started is not' nuisance nowadays. Except the Scribe, who is the first. i known.—nor can we tell when the Our present custom of having par- e ghosts and witches became a part of `ties and getting together on Hallow - For he who knows letters, h then is better than thee. I it. In olden days, however, and even • e'en dates back to the old English ap- Should'et thou walk after great men,! to -day, in some churches and coon-' plc -bobbing parties. Cracking nuts at th e to proceed with good trips the first day of November was the old fireside, ducking for apples in —Translated from the Ancient Egyp- lows or All Saints. The eveningn be- less little revelries comprised the E - ouar• Eng - knowledge. celebrated as the festival of All Hal- a tub of water—these and other harm - Gold Medal Awarded to New Canadian Rose. The Agnes rose, originated by the late Dr. Wm. Saunders while Director of Dominion Expermental Farms, has been awarded a gold medal by the American Rose• Society. This medal, called the Walter Van Fleet Gold Medal, was presented to the American Rose Society tobe awarded for a thor- oughly hardy outdoor rose originated on the American.contineut.. Although the American Rose Society received the medal three years' ago, it was not awarded until the present year, when it was given to the Experimental tiara by Sir E. A. Wallis Bridge, "Dwellers on the Nile." NothingCa 'fake Piano's fore was called Hallow -Even, known. -Heti Hallowe'en. Sometimes the young now os Hallowe'en. 1 sters would engage in games of a more Various practises originated with. or less superstitious character, there n this festival night Meths different would be charms, for instance, to re - Place. - countries. In the old Celtic calendar : veal the future husband or wife of the There is absolutely no instrument in this was considered witches' night, questioner. existence, no invention of modern an Heroine. Canadian of Tomb Cdi times, that can'take the place of thens the second piano. Who cares to sing a song to The foundations a "radio" accompaniment, or to the Church of Ste. Anne, commenced in accompaniment of a phonograph? 1718, are believed to have been dis- For musical self-expression the covered during excavation work being piano is the best instrument. As an carried on in connection with the Ste. accompaniment to a. solo, either vocal Anne de la Perade Aqueduct, Que- or instrumental, no instrument has bec. The church was erected when been invented that can accomplish Madeleine de Vercheres and her hus- this one-half so well as a piano. As• a band, Pierre de la Naudiere, were musical entertainer, the piano, to use seigneurs of Ste. Anne, and under the an English expression, rinks"top-seigneurial pew in the church were hole." I buried the remains f the Vercheres. And the pla.yer1 iano is a piano, plus i a player action, which does not de. Bloodhounds Fail to Follow Cold tract from the instrument's musical Scents, Tests Indicate. capabilities, but rather enhances thaw Ili There rsa popular or bloodhound can. thatfal o'w aand makes, possible their enfoldment by every lover of good piano music. without difficulty the trail of a person, whether friend or stranger, by merely Water ices. sniffing some garment which the fugi- Water ices are made by mixing fruit tine has worn. Tests made in Ger- juices with sirupTwi pints of syrup Itmany show that this is notdthe case. lungs as found. as gme i have been have is made in the following way: 2 lbs. It was found that hea good dog can fol ; by a London scientist to live ee land. whtte sugar to 1 pint water. Boil for low, his master if has been over the tas. trail recently. Farms, in recognition of the merits of I attempt to weigh human motives, to the Agnes rose, test the strength of human passion, to The Agnes rose is a cross between calucuate the heights and depths of Rosa Rugose as the seed parent and hume a an virtund depravity, to mea - Persian Yellow as the pollen parent. isure the separating dine—oftimes. thin 'The cross was made by .the late Dr. l as the pencil of an unbeam—which 'Wm. Saunders at the Central Experi-1 separates the saint from the sinner. mental Farm, Ottawa, Canada, about I The brain is quite capable of these the year 1900. It bloomed first in higher mathematics cf tho soul. These 1902 a.nd has been under test at Ot- ; things need the understanding heart, taws over since anti although never ' reason tempered with love. Burns protected during the winters, it has felt that when he wrote: -- never been noticeably injured by the Who made the heart ,'tis He alone weather. The flowers, double and pale Decidedly can try us; amber in color, are borne singly and Ho knows each chord ---its various in great profusion. It is fragrant and I tone, blooms early but only once in the sea- I Bach spring ---its various bias; son. Because of its extreme earliness Then at the balance let's be mute, and great hardiness and the distinct t We never can adjust it; and attractive color of the flower, this ; What's done we partly tan compute, variety should prove a valuable adds But know not what's resisted. tion to the roses of• the i2ugosa group. ; That is the expression of an under- --------nee. I standing heart. It made Burns the The Best Trick great poet of humanity. Shake;peate, O the Week.I too, in defining "the quality of mercy," A small,bine toy• balloon is held up also ,defined the quality of the under - to view, and some one is invited to standing heart when he said the* Mindere it with a pin• point. The iii= Earthly Power doth then show Blest I Stant this is done, the balloon changesI Cody Wheat mercy seasons justice. There is a lesson for all of us in this. Sport. Somewhere, in deeps Of tangled ripening wheat, A. little prairie chicken cries— Lost from its fellows, it pleads and weeps, Meanwhile, stained and mangled, With dust frilled eyes, The unreplying mother lies Limp and bloody at the sportsman's feet. —Hamlin Garland. "Beauty Treatment for Oranges. Oranges which are too pale in color are frequently subjected to various "treatments" by unscrupulous dealers to give them a darker and more sale- able appearance. Fish That Len Land. class of song. It was followed by "A' Life on the Ocean Wave," while othere which gained great popularity were "Cheer, Boys, Cheer!" and "There's a' Good Time Coming:'—Arthur L. Hay- ward, in "The Days of Dickens." A.DAMSSON'S ADVENTURFS--By 0. macobssof. its 'chlor, becoming red. No trace o the blue ren:mine. Two balioone are used, a reed inside a blue. Inflate both balloons, and put a rubber band around the neck of the Grandmother (quite pointedly .to into the outer balloon, so that an air i �liee> who is getting up at 11 o'clock) pocket fs formed between it and the i .,When I v.as your age I used to inner balloon, Hold the balloons by I watch the sun rise every morning." the neck, which le away front the is I Alice—"Why, grandma, i am sur punctured, tilwill en he plode,e outer band balloon prised at. you! I've never stayed oitt that late but twicel inner ba:loon. Then blow more ale' .tt ��....;�.,_...._ eihrivedlel pieces will be drawn to the Clue Spartstnan King.neck, whetre the bulk of the red hal• loon will conceal there l;rorn view: King George is credidted with al This is .a very startling and sue`iiris- wonderful shooting feet—he took four Ing trick. Any colors niay be used, pheasants ..with successi+re shots, t:ltc1 i' but time outer ',alien Shade be darker fourth bird being bit before the first than tireinner , had reached the g, round. }. • •S' ..r. •e; ,. .. Naughty Grandma! 110 RAY! / TIitisaNe Machine That "Reads" You. Extraordinry claims are made for a; new instrument, the "diagnoscope.' invented by a Berlin scientist. It is said to register mental develop- ment and capacity with such accuracy that it can be eniployed to determine the career for which a person is best fitted. The "patient" sits in front of an ape paratus having the appearance of a wireless set without valves or crystal. A metal roti. connected to the machine by wires, is held in the hands, while a specially devised band is clamped over the head. The current is then switched on and the operator proceeds to pass an elec- trode over the sitter's head and face. By establishing electric contact with the different nerve centres of the brain the apparatus registers the men- tal reactions of the sitter, the com- plete record being made in half an hour. By comparing the results charted by the machine with the sitter's answers to certain questions relating to his per- sonal ambitions and leanings, it is said to be possible to give definite ad- vice on the part in life the sitter is best equipped to play. Old Indian Legend Explains Odd Formation of Arch Rock. Many Amerieau a•oeks are famous either for their forms or for the leg- ' ends dealing with their origins, etc. ;Asch Rock, the natural bridge of Mackinac lsland, which is an outatand ire;, feature of the eseenery where the we tere of Lake Huron and Lake Mich!- gs:tt meet, was carved, accorliug to an old Indian legend, by a woman's tears.. The 1•egenl relates how the daughter of an Iroquois chief fell in love with the sag of the evening star. But tho father, leeng bitterly opposed to the match, tied her to a huge rock where she could not see the star where her lover dwelt. There the maiden wept so long end so copiously that the flood of her tears crttinbie;d the wail of the rock acid formed an open arch, through which the •evening star appeared and bore her away to dwell in peace with his shining family. The Indians, believed that she returned: to the rock on still summer evenings and sat on the arch singing a love song, and that when a pair of lovers heard her voice they 'w One. were assured of a 'happy union.