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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1923-01-11, Page 3A Graveyard of the Great A eiriiile •ceremony in London re- cently drew attoretion to the fact that the authors of the two most popular works in the Dnglialh langeage are buried in Bunhil1 Fields cemetery. 'hese authors, wieese works heave been more widely read than any books pro- duced ro-d Iced sinee the birth of English liter- eture, are John enliven, the ianmortel dreamer of "The Pilgrim's Progress," and Daniel DeFoe, creator cif "Robin- son Crusoe," clear to the heart of boy- hood the world over. The ceremony, which has revived interreet in the literary arid• other aS,W eiations which cluster about Bnnhill; Fields, the historic buria'1ground or English Nonconformists, was the de 4ication of the restored monument to John Bunyan. This little cemetery, bang close'deforpurp,osee -of burial, but maintained as a public sanctuary, con- tains the duet of a greater rrunmber of notabilities than any other burial Place in England with the ,sole excep- tion of ;Westminster Abbey. DeFoe le buried only a. fewyards from" Bunyan. Near the creator of Robinson Crusoe is the tomb of Isaac Watts (1674-1748)., author of 600 hymns. Ilia best inspirations _ er+e among the finest iWmns in -the Eng- ai h language; and, altho0gh much of his work has become obsolete with the pe.ssingof time, a dozen or so of his pieces may still be found hi any stand- erd hymn 'book -among there "0 God Our Help in Ages Past." Nearer to the Bunyan tomb but acmes a walk from. Dr. Watts' grave, sleeps the re- doubtable Susannah Wesley, mother et John Wesley, flounder of Method- ism, and of Charles Wesley, the !hymn Writer. Southey 'called! Bunhill Fields "The Clampo Santo of the Dissenters." This is so .to a great extent, but not ex - elusively go; for probably every de. nomination of Qhrietians has here found a resting place, including Catholics and certainly members of the Eseabliehod Church. The video probably dates from about the Re- formation. In Strype's Stow we read that in 1549 more than one thousand. cart load's of human bones were rd- moved- from the charnel of St. Paul's Oethedral and' deposited here, In the two centuries preceding 1862, when. the cemetery was closed, not fewer than 120,000 burials were ni'ade. Nee is it .ignoble dust that molders about the graves of such worthies as Bunyan and Defoe and Mrs. Wesley and Dr. Watts. Here'•are notable mon and womenof all professions and of all,-- religious oommunions - divines, authors, artists, statesmen -a crowd of worthies whose works and achieve - merits not only adorned the age in Wh}cit they lived, but 'havebecome to a greater or less extent part, of the imperishable heritage of mankind. Some of those who hereabouts sleep are Lieutenant General Charles Fleet- wood, Cromwell's son-in-law; Dr. John Owen, Cromwell's chaplain; Strot=hard,, the painter, and William Blake the, artist and engraver, who achieved un- dying fame in his illustrations of the Book of Job; and Rev. James H•ughes, founder of the Bible Society. The Uni- tarians claim Dr. Nathaniel Lardner, author of "The Credibility," and Dr. Abraham Rees, editor of the Encyclo- pedia. .Ritson, °the antiquary and Dav- id Nesmith, founder of City Missions, both ,are here, as are Dr. Daniel Neal, historian of the Puritans, and Dr, Na- thaniel Mather, of the English Math- ers, represented in- America by the Revs. Increase, Richard and Cotton Mather, stalwart Puritanpreachers, all of whom are buried together in Comes' Hill cemetery, Boston. Ski Song. 'he skies are bared; and beautiful, are beautiful with light, Bale -swept, pale -swept, the evening's windy bright. The cloud herds • have stampeded, stam- peded down the sky, And snow streams hiss a-ourling, a leaping, a -whirling-. Oh, west wind, best` wind, how jubilant your cryl Comeferth and drink the glory in, the glory of the North. Niki -winged, free -winged, Oh let us swiftly forth! Bare -yellow swinge. the sun -forged moon, a flame -sharp scimitar And all the west's a -burning, a -Fading, a -turning-- Tire -red, pyre -red, about a blazing star. i?lo Bind your ski-then:gs tightly, and lightly shall he glide, JHert=swift dart -swift, you Beer' by my side. You'll need not say a word, nor I, for friends are they who know, A.nd on we'll rush a -winging, a -mount- ing, a -swinging- -Mr -free, care -free, across the wind packed snow. T. Morrie Longstretch. How Tar Can You See? Do you know that your eyesight is affected -by the place in which you 'live? - To have really good sigh t,you must reside in :a country where the land ,is Sat and unbroken. The people with the best sight are found !lathe neigh borhood of the North Pole and . at the Equator. In the first o1 these places th. ere are frozen waters; in the other ere are vast deserts. ,An Eskimo can see a white fox ainst the snow at an incredible die- nce, and an Arab cam name objects at a distance of five miles. In America those who live on the 'great: plains have wonderful. sight, 91ince the country ie without obstacles 4 Which shorten the range of vision. In latirope the Norwegians, are gifted with ©,best eyesight. Those who live in towns and cities have the worst sight. The Best Satisfaction. Successful parenthood is the most permanent and satisfying experience ';Mian earth Dr. H. Crichton Mliler. see Is America Adrift? That the .continents of the earth are not fixed, but adrift, is the startling theory propounded by Dr. Wegener, a German geologist. According to this • theory the land 11111.56.06, that eventually become welded together into continents were original- ly dependent from the north and south Poles like bunches, of grapes on their stalks. Thence they broke away, eventually coming to anchor near where they are at present. But just as no ship can be anchored immovably for all time to 'a shifting bottom, so is, it with continents. They tend to drag'thedr an,choru, as it Were, and the motion, is away from the Poles and from east to west. This drifting motion, however, is' not uniform. America, say these theorists, is going west faster than Europe. Greenland der travelling even faster in the same direction, observations taken in 1870 and 1907, showing a dritt of about three-quarters of a mile in the intervening period. • hr: Wegener's explanation of these moveneensts is a curious one. Con- tinem,ts are composed of comparatively light rocks, known collectively to geo- logists as "sial," and the rocks below the eea, termed, "sima," are far afeavier. The alma extends under the sial of the continents, which float upon its heavier surface and are upborne by it like icebergs in an ocean. A Brother in Disgrace. The parrot had been naughty and hurt the baby. This made the mistress so angry that she threw the bled un- der the bed, where it remained in dis- grace. When the husband came home he in- quired for the bird, and was told that it was under the bed. As he crawled in after it the bird. inquired "Hallos, what have you done?" Our Forest Resources. The Dominion forest reserves, which are theareas unsuitable for.agricul ture in the Prairie Provinces and Rail- way Belt of British Columbia set apart permanseutly for forest production, in- elude an area of 35,185 square miles or nearly twenty-three million acres. Aye, Aye. An occulist ought tote a happy man. Are not all his days eye -deal ones? A Loaf of Bread a Day. Ilow large is Canada's wheat crop is year? To the man on the street e fact that Canada has a crop of over 340,000,000 bnsheils means little • more than a mere jumble of iigurea. it, It you were to tell him that if anada's ere') offf wheat this year was ground into flour and made into bread, here would be enough to supply every -,ran, women and ceild in Dngland with erg, loaf of bread weighing twenty-four unces every day for a whole year, or similar nation of the entire popular" tau of the United States for four Aeneas, he, Would gain a clearer idea 0.. the enormous crop, of wheat that : Oannda produced. With a minimum. *eat yield •oat 343,000,000 bushels, t tistics show that this quantity is trivalent to 20,580,000,000 pounds of Wheat, or 10,290,000 tans, or 0,500,- 00„ 3,500,- 00, barrels of hour, wbi.ch could be. Ludo into 12,862,500;000 loaves- of r¢rl, weigbing 24 ounces each. early ,everybody" has, read of the axi h' of the frernia . soldiers through Oel:s end low it top'i`c seler lietire t 5 . , offi) �iie troops ls o � �lY . e � d event ivas 043;1 cjo =", WO • e aaa•nalsa of nellitell iii# trt:i, l ht p9 you imagine 7,850 'trains running at intervals of live minutes apart, taking 252 days, to pass a given -point? That is just how long it would take 257,250 (40 -ton) grain cars loaded to Capacity, to move this year's• wheat: crop. Placed end to end these cars would make a train 1,946 miles long, or one extending from Montreal to a point 26 miles west of Swift Current, Sask., or trona New York to Denver, Colorado. Allowing thirty-five cars to a locomo tive, it would require 7,350 te, haul • 257,950 cars, which would make a total length of ears and locoimrotives cone bleed of 2,060 miles. The largest trans-At/Laic freight carrier of the CanadianPaelfio Steam- ehips, Ltd., is the S,S. Bosworth, with e oapacfteeof 352,000 bushels of wheat. It would take 974 steamships of the Bosworth'; capacity to carry the wheat crop of the Prairie Proviftces across the oeean, Taking the Bosworth'; geese tonnage at about 6,000, this would mean a ileet of 5,844,000 gross irons w r the largest mercitntdle fleet in the MY�xil< with t e exeption of the e �oro �X thd tli1t i - AND THE WORST IS Y 0 COME Mushing With Bears in Alaska By Stratford F Corbett In Alaska they are talking of what teem in harness, furs or other corn- may materialize into one of the most reedit -les could be transported iet loads interesting experiments ever attempt- now unthinkable, ed in the north country: The Alaskan There should be little trouble with fur trader would train the polar bear a teem, well trained -and there is to pull his sledge! much to be gained; not only in heavier It -was the representative of a large loads but in speed. While the Eskimo fur company who •first conceived the dog''usually averages anywhere from scheme. Mashing along the northern- 20 to -40 miles per day the bear under most rim of the continent in search of the,:; dame conditions is capable of do- furs,.,he was surprised to come upon ing X00 miles or more. Even Perry, an Eskimo boy with a small sledge who, if anyone, knew how to get the pulled by two polar cubs.. Both bears best from his dogs, never expected to had been in harness for some time, make ' more than 50 miles a day con - were fairly well broken, and showed sistertly. The polar bear can travel no signs of viscousness or stubborn- twice `that distance and do it day in ness. and clay out. While the Eskimo is, by necessity, On the march, large quantities of too busy with hunting and fishing • to food, seal, fish, and birds, would have attempt training the bear in a serious fassli, carried for the team -a much I f quantity than the dogswould e, but even allowing for this eight, the bear would be a fall ort animal than the best Canada's Wheat and Flour Exports Exports of wheat and flour, from Citna,da to the ,7.Tnited $ta•tes, the United Kintdom and ether countslea in the year ending Ausuet 81, 1922, amounted to 194,003,407 bushels, valued at ,$246,$03,872, compared with 167,163,305 bushels, with a value of $363,145,288, in corresponding period of 192041, according to a stateinent is- sued by the Eternal Trade Division Of the Bureau of Statistics" Of this, wheat exports in the 1921.22 season totalled 168,54.9,757 bushels, value $196,168,771, as against 136,173,786 bushels, value 9293,866,419, in the pre, ceding period. Flour shipments in the year ending August 81, 1922, totalled 7,873,689 bushels, value $50,634,601. compared with 6,886,560 bushels, value $09,279,869, in the preceding twelve months. • While experts of wheat one hour were greater in quantity in the 1921-22 season than in the preceding period, the value spews a considerable drop, due to the slump in price which Occurred last spring. The most notable features of the re- port are the remarkable decrease and itncreese in experts of wheat to the United States and the United King- dom respectively, caused mainly by the Fordney tariff put into force this year by the United States Government in the year ending August, 31, 1921, wheat shipments to the United States totalled 4%213,551 bushels, value' 9103,- 468,829, compared with exports of 16,- 968,169 bushels, value 919,127,407, in the following twelve-month period. Shipments to the United Kingdom in the year ending August 31, 1922, total- led 112,294,680 bushels, value $139,346,- 678, 139,346;678, which is a considerable increase over the corresponding period in 1920- 21, when exports totalled 34,-754,356 bushels, with a value of 972,628,833. Of the total exports to the United Kingdom, 83,015,124 bushels were shipped via the United States and 29,- way, the manager of the•fur company referred to sees actual possibilities in the ,idea for his kind of work. Polar bears -naturally swift, capable of run- ning long distances witb,outtirieg, and strong enough to pull heavy ]loads - would make the most powerful sledge teams in the Arctic. Two of the species might easily pull a load' that dogs ,could . not budge, and, with, six'' of lar con ex be 0 ransport e fact is a great advantage, and t ay be that what is now a sport in a: -=mail, section of Alaska will in time econne a common practice all throirh the Arctic. A Huffman Document. One of the most curious wills on re- cord was recently filed at Somerset House, London. It is in the form of a Royal Naval identification disc, about the size of half-a-crown, and bears on one side the name and description of the man to whom it was issued. .On; the other, by the aid of a microscope, there can be plainly read a will. leav- ing all the owner's property t•• his wife. The disc was recovered from the sea and cleaning revealed its romantic .sec- ret, for it proved to be the : "last will and testament" of William Skinner, R.N., plumber aboard H.M.S.Indefatig- able, ,who was lost with that, ship in, the Battle of Jutland " on May 31st, 1916. His property amounted to $1,290. A man who was supposed to have committed suicide at Monte Carlo by shooting himself with a revolver had, before doing the fatal deed, written a will on his shirt front. As it had no witnesses it was pro''ably illegal, but the intention was pl :in, at any rate, as was. that of the man found in an empty house who had written a will on the bare plaster of the wall. • Toistoi's : last "wi'!r was written in 1910 on the stump of a tree a few miles from his home at the time; it left alr his literary property to his daughter Alexandra, and among other things said: "E'ury me where I die; if in, town then in the cheapest cemetery, in the cheapest coffin, like a pauper.. No flowers, no wreaths, no speeches." A man who feared very much the inter!ereece of certain eeople with, his own free will in the disposal of his property'wae supposed to have died in- testate; to the grey.': joy of certain re. datives. They were chat -fined to Sind, however, that he had had a will tat- tooed -on his' back and properly attest - There ":are queer ways of making .even an ordinary lawyer's. will. A tes- tatrix, suffering from a paraltic stroke, s had a pack of card.; dealt to her by' her solicitor, bearing the,names of her relatives, while on another pack were the details of her various properties. The solicitor "dealt" her a card with the name of a person, and she played to it a card with an item of her estate upon. it: .T ,' solicitor gathered the "trick" ere it town in the will.. li-IE BNTRANCE'TO 'l Filo Tomo c)F " p7 E.,NKHAsxrw`1'. Thetllscover of this tomb 2000 rears old, throws light, on an almost uu- Y s Irtuov'n iiericcl of Egyptian history. It is in the galley of the zings, near Thebes, Tipper 7ugypt. The antiques dise overyd are -trained at many millions of dollars. • 279,566 bushels via Cans.diun.port$. Shipments to athor countries de+; creased from ,52,205,87$ busitel5, value $117,787,757, in 1920.21,' to 30;286,908. b nshela, with a value'o1.'$37,694,687, )11 the following twelve menthe. Wheat flour shipments, to all cattle tries, with, the exception of the United' States, seemed an:lnereshse in quantity, as Compared with the preceding year, • but ell show a decrease in value ofeex- ports, The United States imported in the twelve menthe ending August 31,' 1022, 679,299 barrels of 6idur, value $1,.' 308,888, as compared with 1,257,139i barrels of flour, with a value of $12;`. 271,861, in the previous year. The United XCingdo x received 4,587,429' Ibarrels of flour :in .1921-22, against 3, i 625,425 barrels of flourin the prated-' ling twelve months, with values of $28,-s 865,473 and 934,732,800 respectively, A' total of 2,611,861 barrels of flour were shipped to other countries in fiscal; year ending August 31, 1922, with a value of 917,460,240, compared with 2,003,996barrels, value $22,275,208, in, the corresponding period a year ago. With a wheat crop that is as large as that of the bumper year. of 1916, if not greater, and with a decrease in. wheat production in European noun- tries, demand for this commodity in the coining months should be particu- larly aetive. Lately there have been numerous large shipments of flour to foreign countries•, especially the United Kingdom, China, Japan and the 'West Indies. The flour mills in West- ern Canada are working to capacity in an endeavor to catch up with their Oriental orders, and there is an insist- ent demand from England for Cana. dean flour. Shipments from the Port of Montreal, both tour and wheat, during September and October, have • been unusually heavy and are indica tive of an excellent season in 1922-28. farthe export of °weadi= wheat and flour. Srinivasa Sastrr A native Indian leader, who recently toured this country and the United States, is growing impatient at the de- lay in handing over the command of British regiments to native officers. He says Britain has nothing to fear from the natives and declares his faith in the British Commonwealth cia na- tions. Decided He Was Samson. Sam Simpson worked hard. All day long he carted heavy iron bauiks and girders to and fro. Towards evening he said to the foreman, who was a notorious slave-driver: "Ross, you -am suah got mo down on dat payroll, year?" "Yes," he said sternly, "here you are: Sam Simpson. That's right, isn't it?" "Yeas, boss, but ah thought mebbe yah done got me down dah as Sam- son." Learning Young. The teacher asked her class to ex- plain the word "bachelor," and was very much amused when a iittie girl answered:. "A bachelor is a very hap- py man." "Where did you learn that'?" asked the teacher. New Cave is Discovered. Glacier, B.C.-By far the largest cave in the series of subterrelnean ca- verns in Glacier National Park known as The Nakimn (eaves has just been uncovered by workmen engaged in de- velopment work. Unusual interest is being shown in this discovery as it opens up possibilitieie for exploration" the extent of which can only be sur- mised. - The Nakimu Caves, the most won derful series of underground cham- bers in Canada, was discovered. .in "- 1904 1904 "by a miner while .prospecting isl the Cougar Valley. The storyof tha early explorations of these under- ground cavespage reads• like from Jules Vewxe. ' Over a mile of high domed halls and eoueeting passages,.; t whose walls of •crystalline 3tree o r�,e, send back the rays, of the lights in a myriad co , ia- of lore are open• 'to'visit5t forming one of the most thrilling ex-,�. periences imaginable; Halfway down the valley Cougar' Creek, which has come down from the glaciers,, is suddenly snatched dowel into the bowels of the mountain and roars along through the caves at the! very feet of the visitors. -Twice due, ing the course of a mile it reappears and flows for a little in the light of day to finally disappear by .au.. under- ground channel. She rumbling of the waters through the caves is probably. responsible for the Indian name, "Nee kimu," which means "grumbling or spirit noises." The new chamber which adjoins Cave No. 4, is a large cath.edrai-like cavern equalling in length and height' some of our largest halls. It is 435 feet long and from 12 to 16 feet in width with an approximate height of 100 feet. w• - Thee man who can say conscientiovvse ly that his wife has been hiss stand-by all through life is the luckiest fellow on earth. -The Mayor of Holborn. Att extremely handy device for in - fluting a tire is in the toren of a small, strong drum that is fililed with a gas, harmlewssss to rubber, end sufficient: in quantity to inflate a tire to 65 pounds/ pres;smre, without jacking, in a few "Father told me." seconds. Nitric Acid Maillfacture in Canada Canada is to have a new and some-' able it is claimed that the Canadiau in-, what unique industry. Two years ago j dustry can manufacture nitrates cheap. . an American company established a 1. South than they can be imported trona South America, which has hitherto: small plant, costing appeoximatelye been tee principal source of supply. In' $3300,000, at Lake Buntzen, on the north' the past fiscal year Canada found it arm of Burrard Inlet, near Vancouver, - necessary ti) import from •other coup• for the extraction of nitrogen from the ' tries nitrate of soda to the extent of air by electricity. Two years of heee,308 pounds, worth 9681,907; operation have proved the practleabili nitric acid to the extent of 71,643 .gal - bons, worth $11,456; . nitrate of ani- moltia., 2,017,078 pounds, worth $127,- 484; 127,484; .and other nitrates to the extent of $71,306, There are immense possibilities to the industry of manufacturing nitrates' from the air in Canada. Nitrates feria a very important ingredient in fertilis- The extension of the present plant ing craps, and Norway utilizes over. ' for the manufacture of nitric and has 800,000 horse -paver in manufacturing been forced on the company by the nitrates in this manner and exportsl recent increase to 600 per cent. in the sortie 00,000' tons of fertilizer. Nitrates. ' United States tariff on nitrate era, form the basis materiels of other: ducts used in malting dyestuffs, paints, Canadian industries, end their absolute inks and filets which the Buuteen Take necessity in the manufacture of Tenth plant has been .turning out. As• the tione Is still an important national con." shots these products out of their sidoretion. WM Canada's unexcelled chief market itt the United States, nit• water -power reeelir oes the maztufac- ric, acid is to be manufactured. far tare of nitrathe front tho air might be - practically nn unlimited cone an industry of auch proportions be - Which there ispt-act y 1 o ie e take seoon tl a the b rii4ni n r� u,lti t �' market. ,�. � ,;, t'in account of the cheap power avail. p ata t • no dthintiiy in this regard„ .ty and cammeroial profit of the scheme, and now the company plans t an elaborate extension of the plant; at an expenditure of between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000, to take care of the pro- duction of Merle acid. There is stated to be only oho other witch plant on the N'orth American continent. a e 4 A