Zurich Herald, 1923-02-15, Page 3Stories About Famous People
How Denglas Durkin Spent His
First Cheque, ,
4ug1'wti a.-1Durkim, the Canadian auttor,
of.'cltitdena; sttc rte , wht? •ha,s been in the
laffel'ic :eye a good deal lately ,tltraugh ,
]iris literary sueceseese in New York,
tells nen unusual, story h Connection
" with lits 2irst literary Success', and the
,events )ending up to _it. s
,As a boy of eleven he came to the
Swan River valley, making the 125-'
'mile trip to the homestead in a, prairie
chooner. When still,a lad, be walked
t1i'e 125 miles] back again out of the
'valley. One of the "jobs" he under-
took to make his living was "that of
?water boy to a gang Working on the
transcontinental. railway.. Here he
was successively promoted to time -
;keeper, co.cldn, and, as tis stature in-
creased, to axenaw, felting trees, for
"ties." Ittook three years to complete
the read, but before and durinrg that
t'itno Durkin had had the inepirationt
of an unusual friendship, He had b'e-
oo•nse the protege of a little English
n'ii,ss1on•ary, and Lhrough hie Help and
under his guidance, he finally went to
'Winnipeg as a 'student at Wesley, Col-
lege. •
"Years ago," says Dunkin, "when I
first thought of writing a nova], I
made up inn mind •I'd buy that little
sllcy-phot .a• brand-new set of preacher
clothes out of my first royalty cheque."
And that wee bee way Durleiai's first
renumeration for hie hoal1,s wee speat.
—in buying a „whole ' new set of
Preacher clothes" for'' a -little bDnglis'u
missionry who lead befriended, him in.
Srvnnt valley.
The Champion Typist.
How many ,girls have fingers worth
$25,.000' Such, le the value set upon
the hands of, Mies Millicent Woodward,
the c'ham'piontypist of Europe. She
.cars type at the Fate ai' 239 words 'a
minute! Even when blindfolded ' she
can take dowis 169 words' from dicta -
t .tion without a single shirt. All the
time she is, at her machine she tanks
merrily upon every subject imagin-
able. She seams, to make no effort at
all.
Miss Woodward was asked the other
day for the eecrot of her great speed.
She believes in thoroughly unlder-
standing her machine. A sound know-
ledge of Enlgilsh she thitate essential.
Clumsy fingering makes high speeds
1 impossible, - :e she says, and above ail
things,, tp be a typist' of more than.
usual skill, you mush take a great in-
terest in your work.
ll„FUR FARMING IN 1922
According to revised ,.figures a' 'hie
Oanadian Bureau of Statistics, there
Were 821 fur farms in Canada in 1921,
,comprising 775 fox farms, 12 mink, 10
racoon, 3' marten, 2 skunk, 3 beaver, 3
muskrat and 4 Karakul sheep ranches.
Of these ranches 375 were located in
Prince Edward Island, 108 in Nova
Scotia,. 64 in New Brunswick, 109 in
Quebec, 94 in Ontario, 25 in the Prairie
provinces • and 37 in British Columbia
and the Yukon. The .total value Of the
sale of fur -bearing animals and pelts
sold from fur farms in that year was
$1,498,105. Compared with the year
1920', 1921 showed an increase of 225
fur farms for the twelve months, or
ever forty per cent., and in the Salle of
animals and pelts an increase of $246,-
449.
,846;449:
It will be some time beforethe sta-
tistics of the (operation of Canadian
fur farms in 1922 wilt oe available,
but such a survey as can be made of
the situation at the present time re-
veals every • ndication `of a fait ter
substantial increase in this compara-
tively new Canadian industry and • the
yet wider spreading of the popularity
of the peodaot of the „Dominion's do-
mestic establishments. Not on1jr has
Canada been the.fouuder• of the domes
tic fur -breeding _ incl str and co tinues
t y ?�
to maintelasher' early pz'eatige'in this
yegard, blt sheha been instrumental
•establis.hing the tur-lire 3ding indus-
try
in ;pane—other where
canadt5ii fownelation stock has been
In demrand.
Raw furs are the:,ehlef commercial
product of the wild life of Canada, and
as such repreeenit the' only economic
return from a large area of the Do-
minion, Through the greater part of
this: area will 'be a perpetual trapping
ground and source of raw furs, agri-
cultural settlement tends to curtain,
this region to some extent, and the in-
ereasing establishment of fur Pamela
calculated to offset'thf depletion and
keep' up, to standard the Dominion's
annual fur output. The total value of
the raw fur production of Canada for
the season 1920-21 was '$10,151;594,
comprising pelts of fur -bearing ani-
mals taken by trappers, and those.
raised on fur farms, the' revenue from.
the latter, at the present time, consti-
tuting' oaly
onstituting'only about six per cent. of the
whole.
Foundation Stock Widely Distributed.
In the experimentation with domes-
tic fur farms in other parts of the
world the foundation stock has almost me."
invariably been secured from Canada, ! Johnny-•-"W'y, that; wouldn't hurt
-I•
and where these farms • have been suc. You:
cessfully established stock has been Bill- _"It did, too—it was hard sifter,"
introduced Loin the Dominion for pus-!
Medicine Hat, Alberta, with $50,000
eapitalizettion. In the same province
the ranch established at Camrose some
years previously shipped furs to Lon-
don and New. York, Within the past
month 264- silver -black ,foxes were
shipped from New Brunswick- to be-
come the nucleus of the ranching en
terprise of ' the Calgary Fox Ranch
Company, recently organized. A fox
ranch was established during the year
near Winnipeg an4l ranches at Saanich
and Merritt, British Columbia, all of
which are 'prospering.
In marking a. review for 1922 of the
domestication of Canadian fauna; "the
important significance of a new Inno-
vation should not be lost sight of. This
was the successfully getting under
way of the first reindeer -raising enter-
prise, that
nter-prise,that of 'the Hudson's Bay Reins
deer Company, headed by the explorer
Stefans'son•, which introduced six hun-
dred ofthese animals from Norway
and tuxined them out on their expan-
sive lease on Baffin Island. This may
be the commencement of a new indus-
try for Canada of great possibilities:
During the fall of the year, Cana-
dian big game has been found runner -
one 'i'n all sections and proved the
scene potent attraction. Nearly all
migratory game fowl, accardiag to re
ports, have increased during the year
to a 'marked clegree. Fur -bearing ani-
mals in the Northland are stated to be
'plentifuland in good condition and
r,. ac t....
frappe s face profitable season.
..gyri f::G rose 3yY•.r� n.. yy. s oma. e &
Mena �4n.• ?L^i• .. Yui ',. sra.7 1e •• ••• W .Glv'a:'YfN•Y < •. I.YYE i4iLfri•p
GUIDING'THE RiVERS,OF GOLDEN GRAIN FROM EAST TO WEST
The handling of Canada's .immense graizi: crops; which;last year included fust inside four lundrod mlllion
bushels of wheat alone, is to be the subject.of a searching inquiry -by a Royal,Ooznmissior, which is to 'investigate
he freight rates or>, lake transportation. The. total production .5t wheat in Canada totals 35 bushels for every man,
woman and child. Only a sural portion of this can be consumed in Canada, and ••a market must be found for the
remainedr. The Royal Commission -will he asked' to find out why by far the greater part of: the wheat shipped
east from the head of the lakes goes to United States elevators, *here -ships have been 'held as long as fifteen
days. fora turn to unload at the elevators. Diversion of this traffic tq,,,Eastern Canadian ports would mean in-
creased business tor. Canadians. The •picture, .,top, shelve grain being loaded upon trains on. the prairies, at. the
right shown samplers taking small portions of, the grain froin the oars at the head of the lakes, at the left, the
process of testing and grading the, grain, and bellow, a grain. vessel on its journey, east. In the background is the
nterior of a grain elevator showing• the' conveyors for moving the grain stocks.,
Sanctuary.
One house,'of :all tole houses I have
known,
Bides Unto me a tried end faithful
friend,
Whose time stained rooms and
brooding roofs still lend;
Protecting tare, like fibres. warm, lov-
Nature's Secret Strength
Leaving electricity' out of=the hues is then poured on the 'plug and grad -
tion, there are still many forces in Na- uaily diffuses iiito'the tiny cells, caus-
ture about which very little is known. ing them to' s-well-Wi•th such force that
'A married couple lrvimg in a wooden cast-iron up to three incites thick can
hut in 'Valenciennes, France, were•re- he split by this device. •
To force water to the top of a tree
two hundred' feet higir' would require
ing crone cently ,startled by a portion of the
Who's. watched one's. first slow halting flooring bursting upwards with a loud
steps alone..explosion. Beneath the boards was a
And, though the years bore one ohs. gigantic .misshroons which, by its. grad -
far emprise, uzl growth, had finally exerted suf-
Yet waited one's return with wistful ficieut psessrire to splinter the finer
eyes" boards.
That claimed j d
a. cainie one's joys
an sorrows,
as her ee. The origin of the force which en -
find when l'm lonely,of its cheer I abies mushrooms, although so frail
,
and soft, to heave up heavy fla.g-stones
drenur,
a And warn' ' my- heart before its •
phalt d,'sroad surfaces is largely a mys-
Canadian national fur eales "in -ore I
hearth's. s bright flame,; e
firmly established than eters and eaCh
s tt�T;St,e , -
Untii d ca _ •like fleetin ' moment
e � fig
dr3
and brealc throizgli..the strongest •as=
reucce'SSlve a actioh•preveg•ta '° 'eater" ..,,:•.;,,sncvsi•:.;�•- '_....•, w!- •.t39,•; k ,:. � a• �ts,`:tu;).1' lone' oT.e u
'degree -the, -ability of the quality and • And I :•nus' back whence long .a'go I nis!h l by'tys.cr roots of trees, -which are
quantity of the Canadian pack to at- came;
tract buyeres from every corner of the Held in Ithe"comfort of thoso.shelterin
t g
globe, walIs,.
I pray to end my days, w'late'er be-
falls.
That's Different
Johnny--" C'ot's the matter, Bill?"
I3111 --'Tom threw dome cider. on
poses of improvement, In the pa•stI Nature's Froggy Freaks,
and immediately previous years, foxes. When Nature desigised' the frog she
anal other fur -bearing animals have ! made him specially for ,swinming. But
p
gone from Canada to: the 'United ° some trope took a dislike to watea• and
States, England, Japan, Switzerland,' adopted a land life.
Russia, and Norway. • A recent cies The tree -frog lives almost entirely
patch from Loudon, England, deem. amongst, lofty branches. "Want to be
crilbe•d tho development of silver and a bird,do you?" said Nature. "Very
black• fox raising in Ross -shire, Scot- well, well see what we can do." The'
. land, into an important industry, which result is a weird creature with a small
district imported its foundation stock body and long skinny legs evened with
froau Prince Edward. Island two years hird-lilfe claws.,
:,ago. • Aniong`the larger Canadian fur The barking• frog possesses• 'enerni.-
Shipenents"of the year were three hun- ous aiir pouches. which he Mates when
dned foxes from Prince Edward' Island tie isannoyed. Suddenly he opei e his
for points in the United, States and 100 mouth and yaps like an ,an cry dog.
"foxes from New l3rusiswick for New The nurse -toad was .given. a decora-
York State, whilst a large fox -ranching tion. whi,clt looks exactly like a pair, of
,And fur�marketfng :organization in Min- red bathing drawers, pesters. to re-
neapolis tirade heavy importation's mind Brim that his Draper piece is its
the water,
Surinam toads. are covered with
deep pits, who' e use was not disoover
ed for Mame time 'leach one is a
nursery. The ntale takes the eggs ae
--Charlotte'Becker.
2•
Canadian Mail Route 3,500
Miles of Wildh.
Canada's longest and loneliest snail
route, covering 3,500 miles, now is in
operation, says'an Edmonton despatch.
With the northern rivers frozen husky
Tewin, Herts, when the rent and riven
teams of the Northern Trading Com -
tomb of Lardy Aline Grimston furnish -
Deny have left Fort McMurray, the es undeniable evidence The thick
tertnfuus of the Alberta and Great
Waterways railroad for the settle- marble ytaba have been split and
Went of Aklavik, 1,'160 miles to the Meavy iron. :railings twisted and torn
men' from the ground by the growth of one
i4lail will be'left at all fur trading of the largest trees in England. Wdietli-
points along the Mackenzie, Slave and
er the legend ca to the grave be
Athabascan rivers. It is expected Ak true or false, none can deny the des-
tructi,,eness of this unexplained f ,rte,
lavik will be reached about February °�
1. After a brief rest itb•e return trig to In clamp weather blind -cards become
P`or.t R•ir a ray will start, ending a.t tighter, h may even break, because
the railhead about will
i.; moisture has made; thein shrink. All
Five relays of dog teams will be a.uiiiial„ and vegetable substances
used, the longest single "musts" being which shrink when wet consist of
masses. of very small cells•, rather'like
tiny saia.s•a.ges. Th.e water forces its
way tuts; these cells and makes them
grow tatter and shorter; in other
words, the material "shrinks,"
Thesrocess' by which the water gets
capable '•of bursting through strong'.
brick walls. In -hilly parts.'of the coun-
try it is easy to find a large rook that
has been split in two by a tee which
has grov,•u from a seed deposited in
'some fleeuro- in the rock. • The great.
force required to do this has all been
developed by;the gradual. growth and
expansion of the minute cells which
make up the wood.
The most notable example of the
terrific iio`<ver exerted by a growing
tree is to be: seen In the churchyard at
that from ]'ort Simpson to Aklavik,
1 886 miles. The mail load will be con
I paratively iigist by the 'time this'
Sstretcin is reached, thus enabling the
t don to go the entire distance without
relief,
The man carrying the nihil 'has no
Space for a tent or ether comforts, At,
night he curbs up in his blankest under
some convenient spruce tree, with his
dogs ;crowded around hint for warmth.
All day he breaks trail through the.
snow and occasionally- 'must chop his.
way through• the tee hammocks Which•
pile•, UP in the Mackenzie,
• ,The ;hedge of the •ciltiznn•ey sweep hi
Bavaria is a high silk hat.
from the island,
The year 1922 wasmarked by a sub-
stantial extension in the number of
ranches throughout the Dominion, the
extent of which will not be known un-
til
ntil GoVernntent statistics are publish- they are laid and deposits :tlhetu one
ed., It will be noticed in the figures of by cue in the pits ori his wife's back.
past years that the domestic fur-ra•is- Here they hatch out and actually go
ing Industry ofCanada has been large- through the tadpole stage, obtaining
ly confined to the Bast, :bet the out- the . in letaire that 'otherwise they
standing feature of 1922 has been the
development of the Western provinces
in this regard, Early in the year a
ir5eiclr'with $100,000 worth of stock was
e stablished at Salisbury, New Bruns -
*16k, :and olio with $50,009 et Sack-
ville In tiro sante province, Another
}astern estah•itslinieft Was a muskrat
rarsch at Newhoro, Ontario.
Industry 5.'xtencring in Western Canada
One ai;'the first 'Western oetabliah-
meati' c,f 'he , ,,nit was a fox ranch at
would: lack
•
The Church on the HilL .
When bells] have ceased to so -dud.
I7pon• a quiet evening, .
And all the folk are praying,
Then eau 1 epee •
Front all tete valley round
The atetes but lately pealiaag ,
.. returning 1871 . id! -3
one by otte rt>tiirt 1 g „
i -"Take • h s Mester i` 'ixocb c. flour fathor ''ave tit's the recipe
tot, .L <. incar'a lce ( i , Itt f
Pike mics a tell tree. „r
— :',-.41\4%; of the World.
Sir v itt c;i, I"rotu I.11e.
..:1,, A. CI-, ,•� tt
A Humble I"lxilanthropitit.
"No Man has come to true greatness
who has not felt in some degree that
his Iife belongs to his race, .end that
what God gives .iitim lie gives him far
ntarilt:inel," said Phillips I3roolte.
A philanthropist who fulfills . the
eminent divine's idea of greatness) has
;just been discovered in the person of
a humble butcher, carrying on bust-
ness in Lynn, Massapbnsetts, He is
an Italian by birth end his, name 1s
Michael di Carlo.
By dint of the frugality and hard
work of himself land his wife, for twen-
ty-five years, di Carlo has amassed a
fortune, which he is sharing with.
.those less fortunate than himself. In
the front Yard of his eummer borne at
IVahaiit, a fashionable resort near Ben-
ton, there is a ,Sinn bearing this leg-
end;
eg
end; "Any workingman, regardless of
creed, color or nationality, can have a
room here free for a week by applying
to Mr. M. di Carlo."
The humble philanthropist is par-
ticularly fond o•f children, and in the
long hot days of July and: August, he
gathers parties of them from the dusty -
streets of Lyna, the great shoe manu-
facturing centre of New England, and
takes them out to have a good time
on his cool green lawn at Natant, He
says that "God nsade lawns ,for child-
ren to play on them," and he wrote
Senator Lodge inviting aim to come
to his house and give a -talk to the
children, suggesting also.that he pass
a law in the Senate, making anybody
who has a lawn let children play on it.
It was his love for the children that.
discovered Mr. di Carlo to the world
beyond Lynn and Nahant, for his mere
fashionable neighbors objected to the
noise they made playing on his lawn)
and summoned him to court in order
to put a stop to it. The presiding
judge, towever, on obtaining the de-
fendant's promise that the children
would .not be noisy in the future, dis-
missed the case, saying, "Charity be-
gins at home and I admire Mr. di
Carlo's impulses."
So the butcher philanthropist, whose.
kindness has made him facous, is free
to carry on hie work of•love In scatter-
ing happiness among. his poorer neigh-
bors.
Laugh and Live.
The other day I went to a hockey
match in eompauy with a doctor. He
wanted a (little change from the sick
room-an•d-surgery atmosphere: Near
us, • was a man who, got very excited
and indulged in a fierce and acrim-
a pressure of nearly one -hundred onions argument with another spec -
pounds, to the square inch; but the tater, which only ceased when the first
tiny cells • in the growing wood aro man was threatened with expulsion.
"Silly -ass!" comineuted sny friend.
"He's reduced the length of his life by
two months at least."
During the interval I asked for fur-
ther enlightenment.as to this dictum.
"Violent auger," said the doctor,
produces by. ,scene .subtle process a,
paisciln in the body. It gets into the
' e :; .o� every part, and urea.
10 is t
bad:, •S }? ,
a' nsmst serious and deleterious' effect:'
Certain organs, such as the kidneys,'
are more affected than othere, and lose
efficiency. If the poisoning is repeated
at frequent intervals the whole body'
is in a state •of degeneracy and lowered
vitality.
"The result is that when a genu en-
ters the body it Lias' its 'own way. and a
serious illness follows. And, in any
event, the organs of a self -poisoned
body are going to cease functioning
many years earlier than they sbould.
So, whether it is a month, or two
months—one cannot say definitely, of
course—a spell of violent rage most
certainly shortens life."
"The niosal is—keep calm?" I asked,
"Exactly! The calm, placid person
can always look forward to a long life,
If I had anything to do with it, I would
never pass es a `good life' anyone et
violent temper. The even-tempered
Irian. who laughs a lot has o 'good life.'
And we must not forget that violent
anger wrecks the nerves and injures
the delicate grey matter of the brain.
There is a commotion in each cell.
That is wry, after anger, there is that
feeling of exhaustion ant tremhi!ng.
Nater Harder Than Steel. The heart has been raced, too, and
that does no•good,"
Can you imagine a strong man sent- So avoid all violent anger. You snag,
od with an iron crowbar unable to in your indignant rage, "slaughter" the
drive it through a t in jet oftvatr.i'? other man, hut the real suf erer is
able to convey water from the roots
to the topmost /eat by an obscure pro-
cess 'known as "osmosis," from the
Greek word meaning "to push."
The eeoret of "Capillary attraction".
which, defying gravitation, °eausesl the
ail to rise in the wick of a lamp, is
still unsolved, yet it is this mysterious
farce that retains ,the inc le o ftintaii
pen and ierf
ore manyoLier humble
services ,of everyday life.
The power, by virtue or which cer-
tain substances absorb asttonishing.
quantities of gases, is entirely a mys-
tery. It has been named "occlusion"
and defined ne a sort of molesuiar at -
"traction.. Why charcoal, for instance,
should be able to absorb ninety times
its ownvolume of ammoaia is indeed
a puzzle.
The reason for the terrific pressure
exerted by water as it freezes remains
unknown,,but the expansion is almost
irresistible, and can burst a hydraulic
cylinder capable of sustaining a pres-
sure of twelve tons to the square inch.
Similarly the forces exerted by the
expansion and contraction of metals
when heated and cooled are practically
unlimited, but this source of this enor-
mous power is an absolute mystery.
Although these forces have been at
work since the world began, they are
still to be numbered among the un-
solved problems of Nature. Perhaps,
when, they are solved, we shall dis-
cover something more wonderful than
electricity.
into; t:iio Collis is ballad "liffusion," but Several such jets exist at the new yourself. You are s'ortening your
vert' lzttle i's. knorvti about it, nor is turbine station at Fully, Swi.tzerland. days, The pro.vcrcation. niay be great,
but do not let your angry passions. rise,
It's not worth while--nnles,s you wi„h
to die before your time,
Keep calsus
there •airy curls sly 'satisfactory ex- The nozzles from which they irnued are
planation, leer tiro great force that is about one and a half inches in
dt rrlepe i, diameter, and the water, the pressure
An • veu
more striking 'll: s of which is nearly two tons to the
u c a. 1., g i it.,ts ]tion
of the pressure iarisiiig from the swell' i square inch, is so rigid that if you
ing,of the little •cells le afforded by the 'shrike with asteel bar, the fatter sfmp-
znethed scrn'etimes used for breaking ! iybounces off,
up: old fro z castiuge. A plug of thor- The water is brought from a lake
o•t el�lj dry "good is driven tightly into
, more than 5,000 feet above the station,
a. bole 'drilled in thecasting. Water • us great pipes drawn frons tent
pered steel. They are two feet in
diameter when they leave the lake; on
their way down they become narrower,
and have thicker walls in order to
withstand the terrific pressure.
( The jete are directed on to the vanes
ofhugetutsbInes. There are twelve of
those nicnttere at the generating sta-
t tion 'rt 1 c,a, ,s16 Capable of giving out
” ore ....... ,. .. , it t•i-:,. 5',1 onee 21.1
horse -power produced . by a jet of
r t aa a �y /. ✓sIlk,‘ .., ' Jr...."
itt s'
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if:r,fU.; 111 in 0 C;li1.t • V, 1:�:'
Brief and to the Point.
A foreigner residing in London re-
cently received a government i'orm to
011 up, and after much. tre)niiic return-
ed it with the 'following eatties:
bank -:-•_Ivan Lenskf.
]torn--- V es.
Businee -Nat good.
Men's Relative iinportanoe.
When he 18 .born, 111S. mother gets
the attention; et his zmirriage, the
bride got:; it.; at his lanes], the widow
gels R.
13r'r'r
Son "1 lotocked 'cin cold with isiy
studies this month."'
Pa --""tow's that?"
Son.. "1 got zero."
L1he tet hackie, or plume, worn in
the feather bonnets of the Mack
Watch irighiand'ers is an honor cons
forrecl upon the ret inieiirt, then, the
42.ad, in 1105 for bro.-4 sryis: l "ria , rler