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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1922-09-28, Page 5Learn How to Handle Your Car, I noises, which increase in volume as It is: quite evident to folks who fre- the tank is drained of its liquid con- quent our highways either on foot or, tents. The owner is puzzled lay the in motor ears that evetr same who; feet that irritating noises have begun have owned their cars for some time after he :has traveleda ebundred melees have not yet become. very 'skilled in mastering them, The prospective driver seats him- self behind the wheel. • It is a good idea to have en experienced man by his side until he gets on to the funda- mental principles of driving. One, of the first things to do, of course, is to start the engine. This he does by stepping on the self-starter pedal, If there is no self-starter ,,he will be re- quired to get out and crank the thing, But :before starting the engine there are a few preliminary" details that need attention, and they are very ins - Portant, too. For instance, he ,should. place the gear -shifting lever in the neutral position, put the .emergency brake on, retard' the spark fully, or, if .well acquainted with the motor, to a point where the :spark will surely occur after the crank :has passed top centre. Open the throttle about one- third. (After getting acquainted "with the machine he will find a position far the throttlle-where'the motor will al- ways start best). Put on the switch. If the motor habitually rstarbs• hard, prime the carburetor. After the engine starts close the. throttle and advance the ,spark about three-quarters. If the engine . has been started on the battery and a magneto is used, switch immediately from the battery to the magneto. Do not allow the motor to - race. When running idle it should turn' over at its slowest .speed. Always place gear lever in eutral when the ec r is stop- ped and make sure that it is there before starting the motor. Don't let the ear stand with the motor stopped in the winter time; unless the radiator is filled with anti -freezing 'solution. Look the car over thoroughly after each run, Testing Bearings. The motorist is sometimes puzzled to know just what shape his bearings are in and does not know how to test them..Connecting rod bearings should be tested by tapping them very gently with a hammer and watching for play. For the crank_ shaft bearings, rock the shaft a little and with petcocks open; if you scan do this the bearings are all right. Tank Noises. In certain fuel teaks of. the cowl variety thene is a tendency to emit or so, whereas ~we're were none at the beginning of the journey, The obvious remedy is to keep the tank filled up. 'Motor Traffic Into Canada. Returns compiled by the Canadian Department of Customs indicate a 600 per cent, increase of motor traffic into Canada. Automobil'esn entering Can- oda for -touring purposes during the last calendar year totalled 617,285, compared. with 93,300 for the previous calendar year. Of the total number of cars regis- tered in the last calendar year 615,074 remained in the Dominion for less than one month and 2,211 for more. than one but less than six months, The Parks branch of the Department of the Interior hats calculated that this motor traffic represents an expendi- ture in Canada of mare than $108,- 000,000, .and it is :estimated by the same authority that en a basis of 5 per cent "improved roads are worth ovei $2,000,000,000 without talking into account the service they render, Can- adians themselves." The Parks !branch.•,.estimate of ex- penditure in Canada by motor tour- ists is based on a stay of seven days for the larger number of ears and thirty ,days for the smaller number, while the daily expenditure for the former is put at $25 and $20 for the Fatter. Heed These Maxims and Avoid Grouches. Here is .some excellent up-to-the- minute advice offered !by the latest issue of "Motor Travel" to those who would heed that "word teethe wise," whicih is said to be "sufficient": An ounce of' attention is worth a pound of •overhaul. An oiling a day keeps the repair pian away, ,,,Look before you aback. Spare the oil and spoil the car. A rolling car gathers no crowd. A tool in the kit is worth thousands in the 'garage. Service is as service does. Fools rush in where experts fear to ride. A little knowledge of, electrical sys- tems is a dange ousthing. An ounce of instruction may save a pound of repair, A skid to the wise. is sufficient. TEMISKA INGISBIG FUR AND GAME AREA BEST IN WHOLE DOMINION. WIDE Annual Pilgrimage of Keen Sportsman to This Happy Hunting -Ground. ly pleasure which is, in some ways, unique-eteael4n;, calmly between tree - darkened shores, with no visible indi- cations of human life, save an occa- sional trapper's -log shanty. The water is strewn with 'thousands ofloge, borate for many miles. on the current, and bound for the mills below. The vessel steers gingerly round many a log jam, or rides valiantly over a boom. It is 'not at all unusual to see from the rail a moose making his way across the lake .from Otte shore to the other, to glimpse a deer at the water's edge scurry away at the closer ap- proach of the vessel, or to disturb a An experienced hunter and trapper b who had followed his calling all his life in every section ofCanada and then settled in the region of Northern Temiskaming finding there thie goal of his dreams, described the country as. the best fur and game section of the wide Dominion. Allowing the ejustife able claim' of other areas of an ex- pensive realm to this distinction, one eeannr.ot, after but a rough and cursory inspection of the region butconcede that such assumption has a basis a. proven merit, and that the area on either side of Lake Tenliskaming is,. in feet, a veritable paradise for the hunter, fisherman, or out -o' -door lover. Not only in this section, by reason of the ruggedness of its formation and rough topography, the natural habitat ofbig game animals andfur-bearing fauna, but for the very same reasons is likely to largely remain so in per- petuity and this haven never be at- tacked by the inroads of more domes- tic industries. The unique feature of this country is that it is by no means as inaccess- ible as its primitive, iuiblemis'hed na ture would suggest, and whilst exist- ing in a state but little changed front when nature completed her work, is in daily touch and communication with the modern, civilized world, with such conven•tences and advantages as this may bring in its wake, From tlee 'main line of'the Canadian Pacific Rail- way at Mattawa, a branch Line runs for forty mess to the settlement at= Temislranritag•, on the lake of the same name, whence a 'lake setoalner travels three times a week the seventy miles to the lake's further extremity, Prom such points as 1to•n7treal or Toronto it is little ntoe than;a matterof an over night's travel to leave civilization be- hind and plunge into the irnrnaoulate realm of nature. The wilds here are. serprisingly• close to the Centres of Cacadia.n business activity, with all that this means to th- inti of affairs with but a limited time for holiday or diversion at; hii (Valiant. Civaintty't+eieterscouo Scenery. 'rine eitcoteer, t ., ul.s.o the oulzn Swat le et tee 1,..,.. i 1 itself a leii uee ear at his abdutions and send him lumbering clumsily into the timber. All is as nature first planned it, the only modern touch. being the little steamer serenely pursuing its way, bound from the point of railway con- tact to an economically productive sec- tor at the northern end of the lake, without .in any way disturbing the tranquility of the shore Ince between, The vessel with its human freight passes between the densely wooded shores and when it has passed on all is still again, as it even the fringe of civilization's progress had never tonotlied there. Only where, in a sytnetrioalfy rounded bay, the ,Kipawa river pours ,its temeptuaurs waters :over boiling .rapids into the lake, is there a sign of human dwelling where the hunter and trapper, who found bis life's dreams realized, has established a log camp. Tree and bush life• on either shore. of the lake are so thick as to appear almost impenetrable, Per the main part they constitute the undhstu•Y•bed dwelling -places of nature's wild things.• Merely a few trappers and hunters in-- habit nhabit the region, and they have blazed out tfails which are grown only to thentselyes, But there are a thousand unknown and unmarked, paths be tween the -timber: Bear. are plentiful and are shot and trapped in consider- able numbers. It is, impossible to tra- vel any distance in the bush without'. encountering the tracks of. noose and deer upon the :soft earth near some stream, or pond where they pass by day or comedown under 'cover" ot darkness to drink, Teeming With Fish and Game. Not only the waters of Lake Tends- kaning : but the many rivers which Veer their waters into It and nd cion~- Lese smaller lakes inland ,on eltber shore, teem withvarieties of fist) and eternise excellent sport and the most satiesefaotor e flailing. Bass, pike, pick ere! and : whitefish ,aro to be found in the larger, lakes and rivers, whilst meaty of tee smaller ekes col tein trotte These same waterways are a joy to the canoeist, the lakes and streares interlocking for miles and 14 -tire wor t Is... yet to come permitting lengthy and varied travel through most wonderful country, with- out the inconveniences of. portaging. Not a few ardent ,sportsmen from widely separated points on the "Ameri- can. continent have discovered the joys. of Temfsekaming and make their an- nual pilgrimage there to unsullied na- ture, taking their toll of the region's bear, moose, deer or fish. For the main pant they hold the secret of its charms close, fearful of. spoiliation. But it deserves to be more widely known among out 'o -door lovers .of the. continent, for it can provide numbers with the most_ enthralling of outings without undue toll being eaiactsd of its fish or fauna and' without in any way losing that charm which disap- pears with the onslaught upon na- ture's strongholds by too mane of the human kind. b French Discover Ancient Sacrificial Altars. The veil has been, rent .from the ter- rible bloodstained mysteries :wheel', in ancient Carthage • mormopeee,theeiieeelee00 years_ ago, attendedtheworship of the Goddess Tanit (the PPheoenician-As- tarte). Two French scientists, MM. Petrie, - sot and Lautfer, who are now search- ing the ruins of Carthage, have dis- covered the ancient inner sancture of the e Te m le P of Tanit, and in front of the altar have found secrificial vaults standing three deep before the altar of the cruel deity. Each of these vault% when unearthed, was filled with the charred banes of thourdands of infants, ranging' from new-born babes to infants one or two years old. The two archeologists conclude that they d}secove•red one of the temples where the secret rites of human sacri- fice to Tanit must have been practiced, Infant children were usually sacri- ficed to Baal, the other chief diety'of Carthage, being slipped alive intoa roaring furnace one by one. Just Natural. Some youngsters were playing a game which consisted of everybody in the room making a face, the boy mak- ing the worst face to receive a prize. Every boy, it appeared, was doing his level best. The boy- acting as mas- ter of ceremonies finally went up to one of the most diminutive lads pre- sent and said: "Weil, Harry Peters, I guess you have won the prize. "What are you -talking about?" de- manded Harry, "I ain't a-playin'," SOunds. I woke as midnight turned upon its purple hinges, And heard the sounds day hides with- - in the core of t ence. I heard the shadows running races in the garden;' The lonely dew that wept beside the sleeping lilies. I heard the stars play hymns on gold and silver organs. I heard the moths steal honey from the: dreaming roees; The fairies .snipping patterns out of crimson gauzes; The cocoons spinning wings of black and yellow spangles. I heardthe forest chant a story to its . children As I awoke at midnight, I woke as midnight turned upon its purple hinges And heard the mosses sprouting on the rotting shingles. I beard . the cobw^bs .weaving gar- ments for the rafters; Lent 'echoes searchityg up and down the dusty stairway! I heard the attic step and step'arnoug the spiders. • I heard the gnomes that sit and snig- ger on the bedposts; The "things" that rock in empty clicks and set them creaking. One secret sound was stranger far than rel the others; I heard a laugh that had been left among the worries -- As I awoke at midnight. -Jennie Harris Oliver. London's Amazing Palace. There is so much electric wire in the new London Cour. y Hall that it is impossible to measure it. All that can be said is that there are hundreds of miles' of it. Thio i 1 s o1n y one cramp a of the amazing figures relating to the great building which oost $20,000,000 to build and which contains 30,000,000 bricks, 2,500,000ft. of wood, 175,000 tons of . concrete, and .50,000 tons of stone. Fifteen hundred men worked there every day for. ten years, and this is not surprising when one learns that there are 114 acres of paintwork and 100 acres of plaster: Fourteen miles of sanitary pipes had to be laid and 250,000 tons of earth removed. Ten million steel bolts were needed in the building operations. Stories of Famous . People The Switchman and the. Duke. A good story is related of the Duke of Connaughtwhen he was traveling through a 'rural district in northern Ontario:, . The' train ou which he was traveling' was run on, a siding until theeoncomirig express had passed. One of the switchmen who had heard a great deal . about the Duke of Con: naught,but had not had an oppor- tunity of •seeing hint, resolved reheat he would not let slip this chance of see- ing a real live deka He therefore ran nimbly along the platform, peering ex- citedly into the various coaches; of ,which the blinds were'' drawn, in the hope that he aright catch a glimpse of the great personage forwhom he 'WM. looking.. As it was only 4 am. and not quite dawn, he feared that it Would'be too early for those on boaetd to be about, but, seeing a closely tauf- fled figure sauntering :towards him, he ram excitedly up to hint and said in a stage . whisper, "Say, where' is lr'is nibs? But 1 suppose people like, him wont be awake yet." The man aa• costed said, "Of whom ate .you speak- ing?" "Why," said the switchman's disgustedly, "the `dook,' of course," A. twinkle appeared reared of Con'. 11 in the Mkt k rrangirt's eyes When he replied: "Yes, the duke is aralte. What can i do for you, sir?" 11 the same tinge ex- tending !.is hand, but a face-to-face encorizrter with a real live duke proved too much` for the unsophisticated northerner; , for with one bound he cleared 'the track and diisappeared into the semi -darkness with the swiftness of a marathon, and it is said that some hours after the seareh was being' con- tinued for tine From Hearsay Only, Rather an odd meeting occurred re- ceatly, The authors 'of two of the most noted books of recent times en- countered each other at a London hotel—Mx. A. S. ami, Hutchinson, anth- er . of `1If • Wriiter Comes,,'' which has reached its 30th edition, .and Mr. Sint elair, 'Lewis, the American author of in "Ma, Street," a iiovel 'which has also been wonderfully successful, They, shook sands and engaged in congratulations. But they did not waste ane time ie. vapid, and un- truthful flatteries, It came out, early in their conversation,;that neither had read the other's famous novel. .Frank ly, they' said so, They ,ougtet both to rented,' ;a serious omission. Tii late Sir Herbert Tree was more backward in matters of this kind. It was not until he had highly praised l3arrie's works that Barr -le got Ishii to confest that be had never mead airy- of them, or seen them played , Oa elle: stage, Round thelVorill.for F19 By Ernest A. $ryant The spirit of adventure did n perish' in the grave with Shacklesto It Is the force which is urging the 11 tie Malaya forth upon a t:breo year cruise to lands e,far, A. modest cruise of ninety tons, .ehe is fitted out by 1) C. Lockhart Cottle tosail au' quest, no of fabulous gold from 'ships bemire in deep-sea ouzo, but of the spoil, forest trees and. 'tropical jungles, 1) Cottle and him merry men twely strike a sounding furrow round th world, with rorrrfuttic Iolanda of thgreat oceanic South for goal, with or: chids for mato prize, and half a'hun tired lesser schemes for eamera,and ourator, which shall pemm'anenlly re cord the result of bolding a mirror u to Nature and. fixing her reflection. To some of as orehidehunting may not imply operations to stir the pulse or beguile a rrian from the amenities of civilization, But the lettered botan-. 1st has iris tomes of travel and daring written by he men who risk -ire and limb to seek these bizarre beauties in theeir steaming li;au;ts, flowing in fan tastic majesty high and remote upon the trunks of unfamiliar trees, princes of parasites in a nightmare.. paradise - inferno, to which a man must cleave his way wth an axe, and perhaps fall dead beside his prize, felled as surely by malaria ' as bis tree is felled by steel and human effort. The annals of orchid seeking .are a shimmering romance of courage and endeavor, with tragedy here and there commem- orated by dead men's bones. The treatment of .' •upical diseases advance's so rapidly towards the posi- tion of an exact science that we may expect Dr. Cottle to safeguard his ex- pedition from perils to which many of their predecessors fell victims. But his way is wild enough to demand un- sleeping vigilance. Clearing their last European part they sail south- west to the French West Indies, thence to Trinidad, Colon, Panama, Gailap.agos Isles, Marquesas, where disgruntled Londoners sought a year ago to evolve new existence which should know no taxes and very little else; en thea to Manahtki Islands, Phoenix Islands, Gilbert Islands, Solo, mon Islands, North New Guinea, Vie Islands the Malaccas, South East Borneo rivers, Singapore, Penang and the North Sumatra hinterland. Who would not envy Dr. Cottle? ot n. t - s' r r, t cl gone into the °records'. The conveyance of the cinohon'a plaint from Peru to •malaria-striGlteu Iledria'.: the smuggling of seeds of the rubber pla ell to Kew and from Kew ttogive the Old World s • new, a new industry ansi uudree,�. vests of wealth—these are two of grand ;tollo,aneee of latter-day h r, aoiueved by heroic practical meti e feared none et the many e which beset their paths.. B o is one place to which, m -',other, the story should a Pitcairn Island 'and oth dises to which descend cairners have rowed the mutineers of the peopled Pitcairn, we. resembling that of 11 It• was Sir Joseph out the Bounty and tenant William B1 The little Bounty oeelect bread -fruit p1: - mid -Pacific, some 2,01 east of New Zealand,'. them to the West roll under which Bligh sal taut, and one of the, the men of the Malay reach thene in one of call. After insisting that the be bathed in fresh wat care than was exhibited. the ablutions of the crew; endure runs: "No Dogs, Cats, Mouke Goats, or indeed any anini. ever must be allowed on b cent Hogs and Fowls for panys use; and they must be ea confined to their coops. Ever caution must be taken to de Rats, as often as convenient. with green boughs should alongside, with a gangway o boughs from the hold to he drum kept going below in th for one or more nights; and as ' will be constantly used to des them end cockroaches, the erew to not complain if some of them who ar die in the ceiling make a,n unpleasant smell " The rest is history. The crew, en- ervated by six months of luxurious life at Tahiti, and seduced by the syren voices of the island's dusky beauties, mutated, clapped B•ligh, with eighteen men faithful to him, into a boat and cast them adrift in the open sea. His magnificent voyage, in . that little launch, to the Indian archipel- ago, more than 3,000 miles distant, is still a record achievement for frenzied fanishineg oarsmen. The mutineers, reduced to nine, made Pitcairn, with six Tahitan men and twice as many women. There the native men mur- dered aU but one of the Englishmen; whereupon the Tahitan women mur•; denied all the Tahitan men. The one white survivor, John Adams, was ulti- mately left lord of the island, of eight or nine wives annd several children. From that tragic inception des- cends the Pitcairn settlement of to -day, with many hopes and hazards inter- woven in its later story. The, Malaya will bring no unpeopled island within the orbit of the Empire' wb•ose datable ons are marked red on the map, for we order these things better than our.. forefathers, Dr. Cottle knows his men, and they know him; an estim- able company of right -hearted adven- turess with the Dumas motto of "One for all and all for ane!" p His little craft has set out before ausielous breezes, a model for the rov- ing naturalist. She has every con- ceivable appliance for the accommoda- tion of botanical specimens.; she has an armament of guns for the disad vantgae; of big game; she has tackle for the entertainment of such fish as bait and net may secure, and Mills bombs for the stunning and capture of some of the uncanny lords in rivers as yet uncharted. No one quits the beaten track with- out camera and kinematograph to -day, and necessarily the Malaya has hers for recording scenes and customs among the sable gentry to whose vil- lages the schooner will bear our party. And, that nostalgia shall not prove in- tolerable, .wireless serfs are of the equipment, so that voices, riding apace where the sea -wind sings, may be heard over the aerial telephone. The same mechanism will enable the sears: deters to keep in touch when the party splits up into sections to explore the forests. Many adventures such as this have Radio. How many lovely sounds that else were lost Are borne today along pulesating air To lonely listeners of otherwhere; What largess:es upon the winds are tost Nor time nor space nor world storms may exhaust, That scatter endless comfort far and wide; Poles speak with poles, and lilts of summertide Waft cheer to those immured by win- ter's frost. Perchance some day, since wonders never cease, It may be, frim beyond the bounds of death, That words of those we mourn may ktiow release, And, whispering to its with wistful breath, Bring that dim, unknown land so very near That doubt and grief and dread shall diseppear. —Charlotte Becker. Vocabulary of Shakespeare Comprised SAVO -Words. Sthsicespenrs is Saki to have employ- ed the largest vocabulary of any writer in English, exceeding that of another volurnineus writer, Milton, yet Shakespeare's words count 'orale about 8,000. Modern poets and dram- atists manage to express themsolveet by using from 2,500 to 8,000 words. Writers on science, as they need'tech- nioal and seholastic terms in addition to 'their large eterin and of.r ordinarywords, now lead the list in vnoabuinry. Honor Pasteur. The French Senate .has, una,ninrous- ly voted 2,000,000 francs for the ob. servance of ,the hundredth antiiver- sary of the birth. of -Louie, Pasteur, tltie year, to voting the apP appropriation. riation. Pasteur was deescribed es the "sy tribol of )French science." Baiting a Bear With Buns. In ancient times bei • baiting was a popular European recreation. The bear was chained to -a post, and dogs were set upon it to the delight of the spectators, While Lord Frederic Ham- ilton, the author of Here, There and Everywhere, was in India, he baited a bear in a way that was certainly more amusing, if not more humane, than the old way, We were at breakfast, he sayr, when tubber (news) of a bear only two miles away was. brought in. My host, the Maharaja of Cooch Behar, at once ordered the howdah elephants round. Opposite me on the breakfast table stood a. large plate of buns, which the camp baker made most admirably. Ever since my earliest childhood I had gone to the zoological gardens hr Regent's Park on every ,possible oc- casion, and therefore was in a position to know what was the favorite fond of bears. That they did not live on buns in tete jungle was owing merely to the fact that there were iro buns, there to live en. I argued that the dainty would prove just as irresistible to a bear in • the jungle as it .did to his brethren in the big pit near the entrance to the zoo at hone, and, ignoring the rather obese) gibes of the rest cf the party, I provided ,myself with liaif'•a dozen buns, three of which I alt .,a"red by long strings to the front of my howdah, where they swung like a pawnbro er' g s' sign. The bear was lying in a sezailpr t.r t , h of bamboo and broke rover' at once. As. I had anticipated, the three swing, tug buns proved absolutely irreslet- ible to him. He tame straight up to MS,1 ,and l shot.iifzn with a szno�oihbore, He le most decorative in his present..', position, as a rug en the floor of my drawing -room ---a fact- that is wholly owing to the bum, The color for mourning varies. .Iri Europe it ie black; in China, white; izz 1W� . '. t 'wellow, it Turk Nue; Oylt , ., � Turkey, luxe; while kings and cardinals rtrnot •r i i is purple and violeet, The atie'e is :Wert Sadclotli.