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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1922-12-14, Page 3t • —AND TUE WORST IS Y ne but s � fi• r' Lor Balfourha.ppinlon, There, is a story goitre round about Lord Balfour discussing .tlie adylsibiii- ty Of on bachtelotn with, Sir Robert. Hoene. l'he proposal put forward was that the tax should irn.ei ease proportionate, lly for eive+zy ten years of Unmarried life. "Yeas"- remarked the Chancellor of the I7xch+equ+er, with that canny smile of fids, "in: your cruse you would have to pay about 440 a year." Lord Balfour was quiet for a mo- ment, and then replied; "egging( it's worth L" "Haiti" This is being told of President Haat- ling: He wa,e beiht,g driven to an im- portant meeting while a tremendous attorrnt was raging. The hailetomes• rat- tled ,oar the roof of the carriage: Mean- while a baud, undi'ssnayed by 'the weather, began to play,. "That 18 the most realistic music I `have ever heard," said the President to a friend in the carriage. "What are they playing?"' 'Hail to. the Chief,' " saki Mr, Harding; "and they are playing it with real hail:" His Own "Double!" Few modern statesmen are the sub- ject of so many good sitories as M. Olemeuceau, wlto is eighty-one. Here is 'one of the latest. The other day he went round the street markets' of Paris testing prices, following lass usual habit of seeing things, for hians"elf. Asking an. old wo- man at ane of the stalls the 'price .of same carrots, he was told `sixty cen- times. "They are too dear," he protested. "I will give you fifty." The woman looked at claim a minute, perhaps to sere if it wasworth while ,baggileg, and three •e'aid , "VeeY well, Yee shall liege them foe fifty, because, Otey little olid urian, you resemble our good M, Olemenceau." Shocking the Queen, When Lord •Claud Hamilton_., who has retired from this chairmanship of the Great. Eastern—was first present- ed to Queen "victoria at the age of four; he was in a bad temper, for the Queenwas occupying the family house ia. Scotland, .and ire had ben turned out of +lis nursery to snake way for the T oyal :ch'ildmen. toad Frederic Hamilton relates that his mother, after telling Hen' M+€tjesty, "This is my second boy," said to Claud,' "Make your bow, dear," but "my brother, his heart Estill hot witihdn him at being expelled from his, nursery instead of bowing, stood en his head in his kilt, and remained idle that" The Boy Knew! Much of the success of Chauncey Depew, the veteran humorist, springs from, the fact that many of hie best jokes are bold against himself. During a reoent after -diener speech he related the story 'ofa boy on whose father he, Mr. Depew, once paid a call. After +h'ts departure the father turned to the boy and said, reverentially: "Do you know who. that mean is? He: is Chauncey Depew, the world's greatest story -teller." The result Was that when M. De - pew called .again he was met enthusi as'tdcally by the boy, who exclaimed joyously, as soon os the visitor enter- ed the room: "H<alloa! I know all about you!" "Really?" remarked Mr. Depew, slightly taken back by the vociferous nature of the welcome. "And, pray, what do you know about nee?" "Why, you).* the world's biggest liar—father says so!" APP # EXPORT IN- DUSTRY OF CANADA CHIEFLY TO THE BRITISH ISLES AND EUROPE. Dominion Possesse x r Tracts •That olis ancl' In the 'yea` 4,046 813 barr valued aa':s2 Nova Scant 433 betels rens,' Quebec; 35,0' Brunswick, 33,000 b the Nova Scotia .yield " estimated at 1,577,000 barrels; that of British Col- umbia, 795,000 barrels.; Ontario, 1,151,- 000 barrels; Quebec, 61,600 barrels; and New Brunswick! 41,250 barrels making a total harvest for tlhte Domini- on ominion of about 3,625,850 ba reals, a slight dec.rease from the 1921 production, but an increase over that of 1920. Further- more the oro is stated to be uniform- ly clean and of good' quality. Government records stow that there leas been a substantial increase in ap- ple production in Canada •in recent --"years, and that the culture is experi- encing a consistent growth. In the year 1901 all orchard and small fruits in Nova • Scotia were worth only §1,- 407,369 iu production, in Ontario $7,- 809,084, 7;809,084, in Quebec $2,564,801, in New Brunswick $394,337 and in British Co- lumbia $453,794, makings; a total value for the Dominion in that year of $12, 629,385. By 1911 tlhie value of orchard fruits alone in Nova Scotia had risen to $1,548,855, in New Brunswick to $264,915, in Quebec to $1,189,926, in Ontario to $5,568,870, and in British Columbia to $1,082,481, making, the total value in the Dominion of orchard fruits that year $9,653,047. Whilst all the Canadian provinces have exhtibited gratifying progress in fruit production the greatly increased volume of the crop at the present time is largely due to the development of apple culture in British Columbia, which was a neglig- ible factor at the beginning of the cen- tory, and whose Okanagan Valley alone this year is expected to account for 2,281,000 boxes of high quality trait. Exports in 1922. Exports of Canadian apples in the fiscal year 1922, which would include the disposal of the 1921 crop, amount- ed to 1,845,955 barrels valued at $8,- 865,379, as against 1,358,499 barrels in the previous year worth $8,299,099, and 873,882 barrels worth $4,242,219 in 1920. The United Kingdom is the principal importer of Canadian apples, taking more than two-thirds of the en- tire crop. The United States is the next t customer, followed by the ollow^in ••the order named: Aus. , Bermuda, Newfoundland and ealand The rapid growth of fanapple"exort . industry. g'ed „f • nigh fact that in feted to only 1Y410 to 32,304 bar - 1915 t+j117g36 ba);relst' a § apple z>mp'ket 'lien' in the. European continent, .more especially In the -British Isles, to which practical- keiEgthe entire Canadian export trade flndkits";;t ay at the present tine. Of Nova Scotia's, total exports of 1,288,- 241 barrels and 6,494 boxes in 1921, 1,171,827 barrels and the entire box shipments went to various United King- dom ports. There is a great apple ex- port trade developing on the Pacific coast via the Panama Canal to Europe, and last year 500,000 boxes of apples travelled from. Vancouver across the Atlantic by this route. This year ship- ments are expected to be materially in- creased, ncreased, and faith in the permanency of this traffic and its expansion is indl- cated in the provision en steamers sailing from Vancouver to Europe of refrigerator space for carrying 600,000 boxes of British Columbia apples. A. new feature of the Canadian export apple trade to Great Britain may be added this year if the Ontario Govern- ment carries out its. plan to send ship- ments of the provincial apples+ direct to the British markets, following up the success it has achieved with its peach and plum shipments. U.S. Canada's Competitor. With a comparatively small propor- tion of the land in Canada adapted to apple culture under cultivation, it may be thought that there is not sufficient encouragement to increase apple pro- duction in view of the limited ey/Eent of the Canadian export nearketa''As a matter of' fact, with intelligent de- velopment and commercial aggression, the. British market would be in a posh tion to absorb a considerably greater volume of the Canadian product. Whilst the United Kingdom may be Canada's best apple ouetdmer it octet-' `c'EraoeRaP geenotith LIN ''?� :� Anton' set eery "Wee r, rr''liewchareetr' M OMIT) 6,11 NV s4taa gat t fill bl4gtt11L _. AIRWAYS IN EUROPE Coantivereaayair rotates• in Enrolee are already well developed, ss• the map sstiows, rp+here are five air trtaiites between Leaden and Pati three; of whish are British -owned, all there *Another Binisilt liflle fiend tettitioii ttr Clalttgtie; via 131,tises1e. brlie it ow, pies the same position with regard to the United States. Annual exports' from the Republic to the British Isles for the past ten years • have averaged 1,099,412 barrels per year, or 65.8 per cent. of the total annual apple exports, of the country. The United States ap- ple export trade is negligible in com- parison to its production, but at the present time is occupying the British market in competition with the Cana- dian product, wlhiich meets. on a basis: of equal tariff. With an increased Canadian production, there is little doubt that Canada could secure the entire market, even if it were neces- -sary to give the Dominion product a preferential entry. There are gratifying indicationsof developing interest in apple culture in Canada and there is ample room for such expansion. There are yet unset- tled other Okanragan and Annapolis valleys which only the years to come will make known to the world. In New Bunswick, for instance, which has a vary small output in comparHon with its •possibilities, interest in apple grow Ing tis reviving, "and the St. John. Val- ley is doaeebt$ess destined to take its plane. °wrthethe .fr eappixe reg the onttnent. In 1921 Nova. Scotia had 'the richest year In its hir+`ory, frorn:the -standpoint .of apple industry, and ,more than $6,000,000 was left in the Annapolis by foreign buyers. Even the Prairie Provinces are proving that they. can grow excellent fruit, and; ac- oordiu",g to government authority, Mani- toba this year has a crop of apples ex- ceeding anything yet achieved there. Scan there will not be a province is Oans,da but is raising apples sufficient at least for its own consumption. Progress -Always. The peoeineists are wrong. Progress, at least material progress, despite the jolts rind s epsy in, the end always ad- • Tn re still'existted a few years ago a country that did not know the elec- tric telegraph. It was the mysterious land of Tibet. Now it is all changed. As iu:�the most civilized canariesTabet �" w possesses its'telegraph sea to i' ,,e first telegram cianfainfngztlre sa the Graind,Lama,to the Tice - TO has been tran�amitted; Neaghe re w "'R rong; Progt,. RADIUM SPRINGS IN THE ROCKIES This picture, taken in the Kootenay National Park, shows the radium hot springs which are considered by experts' to canteen, the highest radium content of any known. s+17ri;ngs, The temperature :in three pool ranges up to 118 degrees Fahrenheit and the daily flow is 750,000 gallons', They are situated on a part of the 6,000 mile highway from Calgary to California. • The Leaf. It lay upon the frozen road A li+alf •a mile from town, Beneath a wind stripped maple tree, A leaf of withered browns, Just like an. empty pocketbook A careless. hand threw down Leo! it was filled not long before With glinting yellow gold Of morning sun and goldenrod And ehineinng silver odd, Of moon and stags. and gleaming frost, As much as it cowid 'hold. But spendthrift aintum.n, wild young blade, In coat of scarlet gay, Soon squanderedlit on gaudy crotfies And prodigal elispiile r, *lid When it .411 was spent he flung His empty pun -se 'away. Minna Irving" Pot of Potatoes. The total petate crop et nearly all ootuutries ill 'reported. to be 128 per Cent, larger this year teats last. Radio Per Dutch. A radio station has •been erected at Malabar in the I.)titeh Weet WestIndies', for direct • commmntcation with Heltlastd. !Oak'sTennis Rackets. Steel fratnes. for tennis rackets, are Made at +a speed of ten ar minute by nvaeli•laery in a New Jersey factory. _w Y s_rrn. A Hearty Statesman. Lille a vice from the Middle Ages, says the Weettmingtsr Gazette, has spoken Bisn3tmeks cook, who is still alive and in retirement at Danzig. The old gentleman taloes us back in his re- miniscencee to that eupeptic states'. mean. who remnrloed a few weeks be- fore hist death, "I willingly leave every- thing to my' heirs' except my wine cel - lam, I grttdge them those," That was the Biemttrck also used to bosat that he had &unit twenty thous- and bottle of champagne between the ages ot twenty and eighty. From his cookwe learn .that Bismarck's fever- lee avorire 'dish when he was past seventy was crabs with mayottnais+e or, if be could escape the eye of hie muetir~harassed physician, 'a d+irsh of lobsters, When the s+tateeman's -appetite' was a little jaded telegrams would be sent to Boreliardt's in Berlin, and the Ham- burg express would s'l'ow up as it pass- ed tlhiroitgh b'-rie+driclistmh while some special dell+eacy wes handed off to the statiten master, The whole nation seems to have taken :a kind et merle in the appetite of the wonderful old masa. On his eightieth birthday he received so. many touching gifts from his country- men that It was months before they could all be epoxied. Plovers' eggs, a special weakness, came from ever!y- wheee; an eighty -pound cheese carne ftYofti-Ali+gnu, and, ibtappfest thought of all,: fr'ont a sausage factory at Gotha came eighty metres of tho best Wurstl The Expert He knew the other fellow's work much' hatter than hie One A her chap 'Should do he And what tl:>e� other readily made known. He shad a lot of time to tell tele netigh^ boa' how to work, But when the had to task lt,iunself, he'd very po'nept'ly s+htrk. He'd' tell the plumber how to plumb, he bakery 'how to bake; He'd girve a banker friendllry tipe one money hie could, make. He buttted into evez':y+tbing tbat came across hie view, Except the• most important allege— the Jobe' be had to do. He'd tell the lawyer, Blow to work a hard and knotty case; He made a nuisance of himself •when- e'er he showed his Pace. Wheireem he ,rent bis gave advice in wisdom's' lordly t8n;e— An expert he In every iiaze of were ex- cept his own. Grander Than Niagara. A traveller destcribes• the wonders of the Victoria Falls in Xthodesia. • "They are not only the grandest waterfalls'," the says, "but also the most sublime spectacle in t'ble world. To say that the river Zambesi mea- sures more than, a mile in breadth where it rushes, over the peecipice in a roaring,, snow -White drop 400 fleet, and to throw up columns• of spray to some 2,000 ;feet visible fifty miles distant—this is to say nothing. "Nothing, at least,:' that conveye any idea of •the magnitude and beauty of the Falls. " "Only by eamparisons can any idea he given of the grandeur of Zambesi's fall Anyone wino Inas sees Niagara may gain some little notion of its un- known, untamed, unspoiled rival by imagining s+ometh:ling nearly twice and a half ast hii{gh and twice as wide. "And, as this, is. a practical age, a comparison of the amount of honsie- power running away in each case is he teresting. Niagara's horse -power is 7,000,000, the Victoria Falls show 30,- 000,000 hors' -power to run to pic- turesque waste! Fir-st Round the World. Who was tine first man to sail round the wrorilid? Most people would claim the honor for. Di"ake, but as a matter of fact a Spaniard perfumed the f'eeat fifty- eight years• before the great English- neaansr famous. voyage. He was Sebas- tian del melds voyage took place jt rdr, oral a e iiis `a• .- as^captain of o agellanfs• expsditiotte, 1L 1619- . Tale oth 81 Ik u listed what he:::, .et Dart e•aey. started with. seventy men,. but 131s -the time he reached home in 1522 only eighteen were left. ' me others had been carried off by disease and pirates. It took him nine weeks to get round the Gape of Good Hope, and his ship was so leaky that it was, only by a miracle that it remiained afloat. When the intrepid explorers reached safety, they made a pilgrimage through the streets of Seville in: the rags in which they haat arrived home, to return thanks for their escape from the ninny dangers they had encountered. Teaching Violin to School Chilaren Cl ocs. Mr. Harvey Joatte+a, the e.d+itor of Canadian 'Music Tattles Journal, hal been writing his impreeted+on!s+ of the resent national (or internal) con- ference of music supervisors held in Nashville, • Trent-, where the Musical instructors in the siohooge of Amerloa came together to give end to gather suegestign:s that might peeve lie9.pfu1 in their work. This to what he has to say in regard to the teaching •af the violin,. 'to setlool nhVldlu e+n; "It was the writer's priviilege at ehe Nashville oortf+er+enee to see violin in- strttation. cea':riied oar with a class of 42 public school children. They stood four abreast, tete ,teaeher in, front, and at the bask was a pinniiet' at a ,grated plana, The lesson started out by run- ning the tcal+e in this fashion—play- ing C four times, D fear times.; E four times; and so on. It can be readi- ly inia;glned that even a dry exercise like this being'done by 42 fiddles at once, gives the boys and girls a feel- ing almost the. same as that of playing in an ca teen:a. 'ibe teacher is able to go up and down. the lines, to see that each ohdld is holding the violin properly, correct any„ dstak+ee in bow- lag, owIng, and make suggestions individual- ly. As violin playing depends so much on having a true ear, the class work is paatenarly good to accustom the ear to the 'proper pitch. "After certain exercises were gone through the class played some simple melodies they had been. studying. Then, by way of a change, the violins and bows were placed on ale floor end, a mow tune was taken. up. The teacher called on first one and then another to read this out laud, •not+e by note, seed: tying the counts for each note, indi- cating rests, accents, etc., and when ever one made a mistake the ottere held up their hands .to shorw that they had noticed it. Thee pant of tible clews was •conducted very mace like that is the ordinary readying class. Not only do the venin classes have the advent age of that class spirit, and the bene- fits enefits derived from each one wanting to keep up with the others,which is also true in the piano class, but violin pupils derive wonderful advantage through having their rehearsals to- gether. One can readily understand that the boy otr girl practicing daily le a violin class has' considerable advant- age over the pupil praoticing alone al home.," Veteran Trees of Mammoth Growth. One of the "big trees" et tlie famous l'laripos+a group in. Californfa has been lightning and d e ,t ",1^ed, e are. Looking Out For Number One. A Yuan had rented a held from the owner with the stipulation that the rent was to be ens fourth of the crop raised. At harvest time the owner of the laud was amazed to find that he re- ceived nothing at .all from the renter, and he naturally remo+nsta-ated. "How's thee? Wasn't I to get a fourth of the Drop?" he demanded in- dignantly. "Yes, you were," the tenant replied candidly, "but as it turned out there was only three fourths of a crop." Which a-entin+ds us of tee man who promised, to gime a neighbor one of a litter of pigs when tee youngsters were old enough to leave their native sty. Some weeks later the neighbor asked whether he might come and get the pig. "Well, now, that's too bad," said the other. "You know the pig I was sav- ing for you died." The f ev{' tthat< renm.itr: are ed anti : casette y nmeslrveti o"klly uatowhat • Tlecteg °t'�'Ad� - oa¢1 "_ appearance for at leas t cen- turies These trees were there before, Abra- ham was born, and though we judge stomte of them, from their shortened summits, to be in the last thousand years or so of their lives, the majority of them will probab,y outlast West- ntms+ter Abbey and the Tower of Lon- don. There. are cypress es in Southern Mexico that were alive and �lcurisiliing when the Great Pyramid u -as being built about 3,600 B.C. Ons et these trees, standing in a c•urchyard near the town of Chepultepee, was recently estimated by an. Ame -icae expert to be at least six thousand years+ cid. It was noticed one hundred years ago by Humboldt, who measured it, and found that the girth of the stunk at a height of four feet from the ground was. 126 ft. Ile caused a tablet recording the• fact to' be fixed to the tree. This tab- let is now almost completely covered with new bark, showing that the lace, despite its, great age. is still f, , owing. There are yews in Engi nil entice were stalwart trees before C' =esar landed. • many Dictionaries are forbidden entrance to Turkey because the Sultan is usual- ly mentioned in such books, and that is ,contrary to Turkish law. ._.r.. __.-.tea.,... —--...�..... tae senee 'qtr rp t \ri I It' X THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE'tRADLk 10 tang Nene, .i 4 4 4 a