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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1923-12-27, Page 7a, ....AND THE WORST IS TC COME COLD��TQRA�E �� FOOD: PRODUCTS: • �' t.. Y.. .. Effects of I>ratroductionof Refrigeration in. Marketing Cer. tamtalames of Canada's . Resources. By J. A, Ruddick, Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner. In regard to the natural resources the warehouse proper and the power- of ower- ofndti n dwo things; have to be eon- � plant, The warehouse, eight stories ar their production, second- I high, of reinforced concrete and of the ly, their transportation to the point ! most modern design, covers a ground „where they•are to be utilized. The lat- space of 440 by 110 feet. TVA Building ter part of the problem assumes dif- is so large that ten refrigerator cars tsrent aspects according to the char- at one time can be filled or emptied atter of the product, A' .comparatively i without loss of refrigeration. In ad- few years ago only those goods of thedition to this, ten more cars can be most nonsperishable character eould.'.loaded or unloaded just outside the be transported any considerable die- building and thirty motor trucks. at n tante. Now by the applieatioof rico-i one time deliver•or receive goads with- dern methods the drawbacks' of time.1in it.. By means of the very complete and distance have beenlargely over- .arrangements perishable goods of Come. . The problem has been met in i whatever kind can be transferred from different ways according to conditions., I cars to ship or from ship to cars with - tut in° no direction had the advance out being exposed to risk of deteriora- been more marked than in the way of 'tion through rise in temperature. preserving goods by cold storage. The l Among the noteworthy features of Dominion Government, through the the building are, the apparatus tor Department of Agriculture, has stead- washing and purifying the air in the Sly promoted the adoption of cold stela; rooms trot germs, and thethermom- age metlsode with most beneficial real eter installation for the purpose of as - 'suits to the health and economic weal certaining from outside the tempera - fare of the people. .By means 'of this tura within• the rooms. The fire pro - agency perishable products are car- tection facilities include in addition to ried long, distances to centres of popu- the character of the building itself, an dation and. also exported overseas. ,automatic sprinkler system which will 'This steadies and extends markets and operate at a temperature below zero supplies valuable food products when land an automatic alarmsystem which and where they would otherwise be operates fire "gongs and signal lights unobtainable. The public has been familiar for a long time with the sight of refriger- ator cars on railway trains and of late rooms are maintained at various de- years the subject of refrigeration on agrees of temperature, so that the pro - ocean steamships has been more than ducts may be kept just above freezing, ever in evidence. To connect the rail- ,just below freezing or solidly frozen way transportation with that of the: for as long a time as may be desired steamship it is necessary to have suits! and in this way themost delicate pro - able_ warehouses for transferring the ducts of the farm, dairy, orchard, or goods from one to the other. These'. the sea and lake, such as meat, but- have been located at different sea-. ter, eggsgtender fruits and fish which ports. Thelargest of these cold stor- a few years ago. could, be marketed age warehouses is that recently eom only a short distance from the place of plated by ;tlie Harbor Commissioners ,production, can now be landed in first- • ` •at Montreal. class condition on the other side of the The plant consists of two buildings, Atlantic. and closes doors in elevators and air shafts. In this immense Minding different Beaten ' By An Elephant. The lista d . men who have encoun- tered lions at desperately close qt..,, ters 'whet have been actually "maulea' by them and have yet survived,- le long. Far fewer in the annals of Alai - can can exploration and hunting are thofie who ,have come into ddegatapere6nal contact with an angr, `elephant in;his native wilds and have•-- ed to tell''the ,div tale. One of them is Cap't':, ,,••hlport- •'hose, who has recently related his ter ince in his 'hook, Sport sell' Adventuresan Africa. • He had shot and wounded a bull elephant after follow- ' bag it for six hours, and the creature A Marvelous Boy. One of the most astonishing ex- amples of intellectual precocity, says a writer in the Fortnightly Review, was that given by Blaise Pascal, the famous Preach scholar and philoso- pher. • In the little Life of Pascal his sister, Madame Perier,succeeds• ad- mirably' in picturing for usthe child- hood of her brother and itsinfluence upon the man he -was to be. -The elder Pascal was learned; he had also strong convictions about the principles that should underlie educa- tion. ducetion. Latin eand-mathematics — in inathemetics'he'led few contemporary equals -he determined to withhold till the boy was twelve years old. Latin was to come first As soon as he had `,had thundered away late.. the bush. learned it he was 'to be introduced to 'Renewing the pursuit, he soon caught the sciences, which he eagerly desired an undefined glimpse of a gray bulk i to learn. Then comes an almost incredible statement. 'The boy began inhis play room to work out the principles of aonie- eighty yards distant and fired again, "The enraged beast," he writes, `"dashed off a few yards sand, catching geometry for himself. :our wind, uttered a shrill scream of He took a piece of charcoal, says anger' and came tearing dawn his Madame Perier, and drew figures on track straight 'at me. My two track the floor tiles, trying to maks a ,per - ere speedily got out of the.way. 1 teeny round circle'or a triangle with pulled for the frontal brain shot when equal sides and angles, and similar the elephant was about fifty 'yards figures.. He found out all these away, but the safety catch was off. things for himself, for my father had Hastily putting it on, I fired as soon as taken such pains to keep matters of I ,possibly could. He was on me iii a' that sort from him that he did not -second, and, dashing into the -thick grass on my right, I fired at his head. "Neither shot seemed to affet'hin, and he nimbly swerved and caught me a blow With. his trunk. Never had I seen anything move as that elephant; the speed was terrific.. My fate was 'irrevocably sealed,. la thought,' but had little time to• consider anything as- I was 'smudged' from place to ptade, saluasked and beaten, expecting• every 'moinent that my head would become a pancake, or that I should have a tusk thrust throug my heart. Being physi- cally strong, I kept my muscles as taut as possible and waited.- I was suddenly hurled into .the air and, luckily landing on my feet, was able to startcreeping away. "Scarcely had I -.moved when the in- furiated beast leapedupon me 'with a snort, and the 'smudging' process be- . gat again until l saw millions: of stare and seemed to be thrust into the bowels of the earth. "Suddenly I became aware that the elephant was no longer mauling me and started crawling into the long grass at the beast's left, I seemed to remember him tearing at something oil the ground." It was the hunter's rifle, "which the even know the names o4,his figures. Ile was .obliged to make definitions for himself; he called the circle a "round," a line a "bar," and so on, After inventing these terms he made axioms and ended by making perfect geometrical demonstrations;: and as he pursued the subject he got as far by himself as the thirty-second proposi- tion in the first book of Euclid. At that -interesting stage his father broke in upon him suddenly one day and caught him at work! Thereafter there was no more talk of holding him back. When he was sixteen years old he produced a little work oh conic sections that seemed to those of his day so • powerful that they declared there had been nothing of such im- portance spice Archimedes. Hard to Prove. One afternoon a Stranger alighted at the station of a country town and headed up the street. ` Finally he met. a man who looked as if he might be one of the natives. "Pardon mo," said the stranger, po- litely raising his hat, "but are you an inhabitant of this town?" "Yes, sir," was the ready rejoinder elephant broke in two pieces at the , of the other. "I have lived here for stock while its battered and half -faint- something like fifty years. What can I do for you?" , "I am looking for a criminal lawyer," responded the stranged. "Have you one here?" The other paused for a moment, as. if in thought. "Well," he said at last, "we have, but we can't prove it on him." • ing owner managed to• stagger away, listening fearfully for..another Charge. Ile reached a tree and on a second trial managed to climb to the first fork and from that refuge to ehotit.for help, Itis• native Co:mlianio is—better late than never --came rushing. He slid from hie precarious perch and fell in a helpless'heap as tli,ey reached hint He was suffeiiig-agonyand supposed that half the bones un his body were broken. The natives hnprovished a ha tnetek froze hie waterproof• teat and carried :the back to camp. There they sent ofte'aserd of hie conclitien, and two -days later white friends reached him en,- elator cycles, and not long after- aids a docttor. Six days later, althoii.gh he was still weak, shs,icett and frightfully braised, ho hitd the reassuring knowledge that all his : organs were intact and that nothing was broken except his collar bone: T1io ` elephant though its wounds were probably mortal, escaped. We'r'e Eating It Too Fast, "Limber is •gottieg scarcer scardere-trio market is terrible" "'des---thdee'breaki'ast-food fae, are petting it on the bum," Be Positive. Don't "I am" anything that you don't want to be. Don't say "I am poor," "I am dis- couraged," "I am a failure," for this."I am-ing is affirming, creating, making you the very thing you don't want' .to.; be. If you want to be all that you long to be, drop the negative, pessimistic destructive note and key yourself to the positive, optimistic, creative men= tal attitude. Let your "I am" be positive instead of negative. Say "I am well," "T am, strong," "I am happy," "I am success ful," "I am efficient," I can be all that I. want to be." And make this posit tive, creative mental attitude habitual:: There is no possibility of building a strong, `poised characterby being negative one day ani positive the next This: is the great troublewith' most people. Every twenty-four hoots they tear down by their negative thoughts; their doubts, their: fears, 'their. `des- tructive "I 'ams," > their• failure_ rand. poverty and iaisfortune affirmation Cleaning Policemen's Bulls'- Eyes. One of the quaintest of old-time jobs which still survive in London is that of cleaning the oil lamps Used by mem bers' of the Metropolitan Police. These have not yet been entirely discarded in favor of electric lamps. The police: are not responsible for the cleaning • and filling of .their own lamps. This has been done.under contract for many years by the firm of J. Q. Christie, who employ a staff of twenty-nine men especially for the work. The men are known as "trimmers," and for thirty-five years it has been their job to trim the wicks, fill the lamps with oil, and make them quite fit for service by the policemen of 200 stations in and around London. • :cries About.Well-Known People The'BIInd Organist. Though he is quite blend, Dr, Alfred Hollins, of Edinburgh, is, one of the most gifted organists 1'n the country, He has fought and conquered hie af- fiietion, and one woeld ever imagine that he had not the use of his eyes. He never makes the slightest slip and every part of the music is perfectly timed." Dr. Hollins wale trained at the Royal Normal College for the Blind, and is now the organist at Free St. George's Church, in.the Scottish capital. Re- cently he received the degree of Doe - tor 'of Music. No one, I believe, has ever deserved this honor more. The Trust Buster. 5,'. succeeding Mr. Harvey, Mr. 'Frank la llogg, the new American Ambassa d;br in London, will find himself loom 'ing larger in the affairs of Great Bri Rain and America than any of his,pre- 'decessors, Mr. Kellogg is a great admirer of British institutions. He is a lawyer who• has been engaged in some of the greatest commercial cases of modern It is remarkable how the „oil Iamp has survived the era of progress in which we live to -day. Only • about eighty stations in the London•area ere equipped with electric lamps•. ;. s Who Did? and predictions, almost -all thatthey have built hi their harmonious, crea- tive moments., • Would Feel Rich at That Rate. Wifie—"I feel like thirty cents!" • Hubby -"Why grumble? In Ger- many you'd feel rich at that rate." If you will dry bread slightly in the oven, you will ,$9id that it toasts more evenly, and s more g Scciiic • The musician was .making such a terrible hash of his piccolo solo at the. church meeting that. finally an agon-. lied masculine voice in the congrega- tion oried: "Oh, shut up, you darned fool." Whereupon the minister locked the doors and announced that no one would be permitted to leave until he learned the identity of the 'person who 'called the piccolo player a darned fool., ',At which announcement another voice from the congregation replied: "I don't care who called the piccolo player a darned fool. What I want to know is, who called the darned fool a, piccolo player?" Whiskers Explained. A little fellow watching his father shaving said, "Daddy, what makes - hair on your face?" "God put it there," his father re- plied. "Oh,•said the .youngster. "I guess God: started to make a dog and then 'tided he had enough." time's'. In ono suit alone' his feefry'. totalled nearly $100,000, His nickname in the United, owes. is "rhe Trust Buster," because of h14 victory in the Oovernn ent action, against the Standard 011 Trust. in Forbidden City. To have penetrated to mrsterioue�' Lhasa, in Tibet, which is known as the Forbidden City of the Living Buddho, - is an achievement of which few, if any, other white men than an English scientists, Dr. William Montgomery Govern can boast. Dr. McGovern, who made the Jour, ney on anthropological, literary and antiquarian grounds, had to go most of the way disguised as a coolie. He had to study for a long time the habit* of these coolies. Tremendous courage was required to carry the enterprise through, and that he not only reached the city, but also gained possession of many priceless manuscripts and took. many photographs, is tribute to his dauntlessness. He remained ells weeks, and then had to fly for his life, when bis disguise'was discovered and the city raised against him. A Chagrined Sea Fighter. Outside ti' s harbor of Charlotte Amalie, on the coast of St. Thomas Is- land, a huge rock locros out of the sea. Sail Rock it is called, and it bears a startling resemblance to a ship. As I gazed upon it, says Mr, A. Hyatt Ver- rill in his book In the Wake of the. Buccaneers, I could not blame the bel- licose captain of a French frigate who a century and more ago sighted the rock one night and, mistaking it for a privateer, ran close and hailed it. No response came back. Again he hailed, and as atilt no response came he' blazed a broadside at the shadowy mass. Back came the echoing thunder of the cannonade, and the rebounding shot, falling on the frigate's deck, con- vinced the Frenchman that the priva- teer was returning his fire. For hours the battle raged; the French guners poured broadside after broadside at the massive cliff. Not un- til day dawned did the deluded com- mander of the frigate discover his mis- take. Then, crestfallen and mortified, he crept away, leaving Sail,Rock un- scathed and triumphant. Teaching the Blind in Burma. Few people realize the devotion to duty shown by foreign missionaries. "I live as a native," said the Rev. W. H. Jackson, director of the Mission to the Blind of Burma, "dressing as they'. do, and sleeping on •a mat in a climate that kills, 40 per cent. of Euro- pean inhabitants. "I made my first printing plant," he continued, "out of old kerosene tins, hammering out the Braille dots on the flat sides. I calculate that it took 5,000 strokes of the hammer to com- plete: one sheet, of which one-third were on my thumb. "We have 25,000 blind in the jungle villages, and on an income of $12,000 a year we keep up a staff of four Euro- peans and fifteen Burmese, to say nothing of supporting sixty children until they become independent" l Y'a'r.n.'" When Philosophy Comes in, "So he's quite a philosopher, eh?" "Yes; quite—having failed in his ef- forts to get rich." Jasper National Park in the Cana- dian Rockies has just concluded its most important tourist season. The predictions made at the opening of the ,year have been fulfilled and the great scenic playground in northern Alberta has -tome into its own. This bark, which. is the largest of the. areas re- served by the Government of Canada for park purposes, was. set aside in 1907, Lack of adequate aceommoda- tion for visitors prevented its use by the public in proportion to its import- ance and it was not until after the erection of Jasper Park Lodge on the shores of beautiful Lac Beauvert by the Canadian National Railways two years ago that tourists began to ar- rive in apreciable numbers. Notwithstanding .the increased fa- cilities for accommodating guests pro- vided at the Lodge in the 1928 season, its capacity was again taxed and num- bers had to be turned away. The de- lightful surroundings and the • splen- did service contributed considerably. to the great popularity of this region and it is proposed in the coaling year further to enlarge the Lodge, increase the number of bungalows, and pos- sibly erect canape at Maligne Lake or other linpertant scenic points. Since the reservation of Jasper Park, the National Parks' authorities have steadily carried on clevelopmient work in the construction of roads and es- peCially trails to the scenic beauty spots of greatest importance. Jasper; Park's. expanse :of 4,400 square Smiles offers great possibilities for trail travel, hence it may be considered and chiefly as a "trait park." Facilities for Metering aro lunited , and as the Hee only convenient means of access is aver the main --line of the 'Canadian oiidcrs of Jasper Park. National Railways from Edmonton the amount of motoring within the park is comparatively small, The Maligne Canyon road, 9 miles 131 length, the Edith Cavell highway, which has been completed for 14 miles out of the town of 'Jasper, and the road along the Atha- baska valley are the most important motor roads in the park. Over 600 miles of trails have been 'completed linking up the majority of the scenio wonders of the park and opening up a world of beauty` to the pony back rider. Of the many beauty .-pots which may be reached by trail in this park those, which through the striking beauty at their surroundings demand mention, are, Maligne Lake, Tonquin Valley, Mount Robson, and Athabaska Falls. All are within two clays' trail travel of the town of Jasper. Malign° Lake, considered by many the most beautiful lake in the Cana- dian Realties, is 85 miles from Jasper. During the trip hlaligne Canyon and aledicine Lake are passed before the wonderful setting of Malign° Lake is disclosed. The lake is 18 miles long ate is divided into two parts by what is i known as "The Narrows," Prob- able nowhere can a concentration of !such line scenery be found as in the lower half of the lake. Giant mouit- tains encircle ,it rising sheer from the ' water's edge, their silos clothed with unscarred forests and their heads leiwned with •gleaming white glaciers ercni which waterfalls cense tumbling down to the lake, with Mount tJnwin, climbed for tho first tint° last Season i b Howard Palmer and .Alan Carpo, y members of the Appalachian Club of Boston, standing cut prominently to the south, The- return trip 3s xnado ovOr S] ovol Ptise, with its altittt;de of 8,000 feet, from which one of the most magnificent panoramio views is ob- tained. This year a new trail was completed to the Tonquin Valley, bringing this, wild and majestic mountain region within one day's ride of the town of Jasper. Bare, castelled peaks along The Blot on a Sportsman's Day. Lions are apparently still plentiful in parts of Africa. They leap arid play in throngs across the pages of Mr. J. Stevenson Hamilton's article in the Cornhill Magazine. The author some• what diminished theirnumbers, howl ever, for his, eye was good, and his rifle was in excellent working order. Here is the account of one bit of lion stalks ing: After a while "Watch" nudged ma and whispered, "Nansi inkunzi i " 1 peered out cautiously; sure enough, a couple of hundred yard black head was moving The problem was how easy shot of the creatu a big male, without disturbing the females that very 1 the vicinity. Leaving my companio crawl slowly forward a self at last under a thor sixty yards in front of right I could see the hes i she was gazing about never in my direction.• front of me and a litil hundred yards away the lying down, at interva forepaws. He was sic and I could see little head; he had a fine black -and -yellow mane. Presently he ro was entirely lost tog si' half' an' hour passed. T sound except the humm and it was becoming uncomfortably hot under my bush. lioness got up suddenly over to the old lion, lay down close beside him. She proved and kept sitting up and staring about in all directions. Once or twice in the the old lion roused hiaself,. but the female was always in could not fire. At las came. From somewhor ground a younger male, couple of females, apps preaching. The old lio haunches, and for once remained quiet. Hes ba to me, and I had a pert nape of his neck. Crack! He dropped but in that instant there was pande- monium. Lions seemsd to Pump up from everywhere. whence the danger cam wildly about in all directions, staring and leaping' blindly hither and thither. The old lioness on m to her feet and trotted straightstone, toward me, When she was about twenty-five paces distant she halted and began peering about. I did not want to shoot her, but instinct made me do it. Is the excitement of the hunt I had for; gotten all about eay camera man wait+ ing patiently in the rear; I had cheat* ed him of a unique photograph, He had got his machine set up about twenty-five yards behind me and wag about to take a picture when I spoiled, his chance. One snapshot of a Boil under such conditions would of course the Divide, dominated by the uncon- have been a finer trophy than half a; quered Mount Geikie, feature the land- dozen merely shot! Iviy friend way scope in this section. good-natured about it, but 1 must say Mount Robson, although not within ' that I 'felt the incident was a blot on, Jasper Park proper, is reached by rail an otherwise perfect day. from the town of Jasper, horses being That night there was feasting and secured for the remainder of the trip rejoicing both among our own follow, at Robson station. The trail winds up ere and among the people of the small the Valley of One Thousand Falls to adjacent village. For hereabout lion Lake Kinney and Berg Lake at the flesh is esteemed the greatest of all base of Mount Robson. ' delicacies. The beautiful Athabaska Falls are reached by following the west side of the Athabaska Valley as far as the Whirlpool River along the old route, worn a century ago by fur traders and: trappers to the Athabaska Pass. Tne falls and the wonderful gorge are about 22 miles from Jaeger at the foot -of Mount Kerkeslin, Trail riding as a means of seeing the national parks is rapidly gaining in popularity. It is being realized more and more that in order really to gat the best of mountain scenery and at the sante time'roap the full benefit to health of the great out-of-doors, the trip should be made on pony 'back:. Intending visitors who desire to essay this delightful mode of travel need net fear lack of facilities because the meats Have .increased with the grow* ing demand and during the past sea - eon between 400 and 100 horses were employed for the transportation of in- dividuals and parties from Jasper to all parte of the pant. Worth Considering. The Ilridegr'ooni—"Ilow much dei you charge for marrying us?" 'The Justice of the Peaoe—"Two dol. late. And for another dollar I'll pal your woman under bonds to kaefi the peace."