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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-06-13, Page 7r -- AT 62—IN BED WITH RHEUMATISM At 65—Working Again Why worry about rheumatism, +f 'Phis old fellow had it almost as bad as it could be. But he just found the right r•eanedy, stuck to it, and now .he's working again—a t 65 years of alae. Let him tell you all about it: "For two years and a half," he writes, 4;.. "I have suffered tromp, rheumatism. For eighteen months I could not turn over in bed, nor help myself in any �vay l]5y 1egs•and feet were swollen, and I could not sleep or get rest unet it started taking Kruschen- Salts. After taking one bottle, I went about on, two canee, I kept on taking it as I fund the .pains vseiipi\ leaving- sne.. I Nave; taken'•slx bottles, and now have: eit�arted'. to' Work aln 1 air1, 65. years' of 'age, and every`bgd that knot's me says I am a'� }vdiidelii fto : getlafial after ',That I •_was."-J.B, Do you realize what .causes,.rheu- mattsm.? ; ;Nbth`ilig but .sharp -edged uric acid crystals which form .as; the, result• of sluggish eliminating organs. Kruschen` Salts.:can• always eie count- ed upon to clear those painful . cryst- als• ffOrd the :eysten, .'Yk i1ter ill g Of Crops One unfavorable factgr•of the season, declares .thu,plet, was the winter it air +" clover. Both sufiered.'u iii, , i uch of the wheat had -to be reseeded and ,, many fiieIds of clover will have to be . plowed up,U tnd sown to spring rain or pfanterl SHWhat makes this the more serlqus is the fact that the meadows were ,badly winter killed a year. ago ,last ;winter. This resulted in a severe hay shortage last year. With a few old meadows and severe winter killing of new seeding, the hay e;oar, will again be light. . Winter+ killing of meadows is a severe loss to the fanner. Grass and clover seed is expensive. It costs a ,.. lot of money to seed a meadow. Winter • killing destroys this invest- ment, aind adds to the acreage to be sown or planted in the spring. At the same time _it.. destroys the plan of crop rotation adopted by the best farmers and the soil loses the re- tnewed ' fertility furnished by the growing: of clover. NEW MIX ES Feed mixture for live stock have been carefully tested at agricul- tural colleges and experimental 'farms across Canada with the re- sult that many new facts have come to light on the food needs of animals 'for their various productions: Coin mercial feed manufacturing com- `.panies have been keeping step with their findings, trying at all times to offer to fanners products which con- tained the proper amounts of the. ' essential feed substances at a justi- • fied cost. Ginger Exports From Jamaica Increase 44 P.C. Ginger has long been associated with Jamaica, an island in the Brit- ish West Indies, forming a part of the Greater Antilles, in the well- known commodity "Jamaica ginger," which was so much used medicinally in the days of our grandparents. Ex- ports of ginger from Jamaica during ' 1934 increased nearly 44 per cent. over the.previous year, which would indica *hat• there is an increasing demand Tor it. Approximately 2,394,- 700 lbs. were exported in 1934. Rats have 'been taught to dip their paws in ink and spell out dot and •dash messages in;,the Morse code by Josef Novotny, of Hovazadovice, Pouthern Bohemia. He was once a lion -tamer, mmmmmm 1Ci`,iW.MM11111,1••ii;irimlf KV •1111i :::: •'°.5.e area 1111 . r••i hili ;;.� iii.::.:..:::::: t`i .:3..9............ �� rc •� :e r: ,,• • •...•..•.... r \ C, e♦�-N...AN �. tit\ti4�. !.�'-,..v:l ti y a• w R 1 ',41% ,.:4,-..,s. x.„; v Z;\ '.\ „:., \ \ ND's .'\ .;i .t I. . \ -vs.\\..,\.'"' ' .. .s.X.,...),\, ,,\,., ,„ s. ..;$ �� ti . SCOUTI Here There Everywhere G A brother to every other Scout, without regard to race o �r Gilt Crosses for life saving were presented to Troop Leader Do*iat Thauvette and Petrel ;Seedind Bruno Poirier by Mgr;• Couturier., .Bishonl of Alexandria, at a• largelyattended entertainment of the :1st -Alexandria Troop, Ont. Addressing the Bathee- ing^ in French and English, Bishop Couturier strongly et)doed Scout- ing. andst$tedi that "it Yveshis great desire to see more Sedts every.,, where." A special rpati3{I'e of the Scout show was witnssedaby sorra •500•sehool children. , The' Nielson; •' B.C. ` Scouts were given. a. spebial demonstration at the City Fire Hall. in the handling of ap- paratus by Fire Chief Maloney. , * a • The charting and marking of pre- viously uncharted 'reefs in nearby water was the very useful project carried out by the 1st Fort Frances Baptist) Sea Scouts, working from he ice before the spring break-up. aterial\'is being prepared for the building of a small lighthouse at Sunny Cove, the troop's camp -site. Prizes for the . snaking of bird houses by the Cubs and Scouts of Swift Current, Sask., were given by the Lumbeimen's Association of that district. Each house was to be made of old lumber, such as packing cases, and the first prize was • $2.50. * * For the highly successful "Cy- clorama" of the Scout Groups of the Parkdale District, Toronto, Park - dale Assembly Hall basement was filled with Cub and Scout handicraft of every description, while upstairs Scouts engaged in competitions in rope spinning, knotting, signalling, etc. * The .Town Council of Blairmore, Alta., made sure that all of their Scouts saw Lord. Baden-Powell by voting $25.00 to help defray their expenses to the Calgary' rally. ed Scout news column clippings from all parts. of Canada tell of a great number of Parente Nights held iinir ing the spring months. The pro- grammes ' are well worked 'out, 'arid usually are • aimed to show Aust what is done at Scout meetings, This {is an excellent practice, and should be on the' spring programme of evei,y Scout troop. I l . n 'inteirriatienal Boy Scout Troop, of Canadian and American boys, has been .•organized in 'the ,twin border �j towns ' of Coutts, Alta., and Sweet Romantic History Grass, Montana. The troop is under the sponsorship of the Border Lions' Club. LARGE PACKAGE Sunny Ontario's nature -flavoured tobaccos, blended and cut just for rolling your own -you'll lake the result, we knowl The mildest, most mellow cigarette tobacco any man could askew!, CIGARETTE TOBACCO Ontario's Finest Nature -Flavoured leaf • * • Scouts of the 1st Lucknow, Ont., Troop has been operating a check room in connection with entertain- ments at the Town Hall, the small have a history of romance. charge going to the credit of their~ They had crossed the Atlantic camping fund. from Europe to the Bermudas and * * * back for untold ages before Colum :During the next school year, prim- bus was born. There is not one cipals who were former Scouts will single eel in the Theme or the head the public schools of Kentville Severn, in the Po or the Ellie, in the Danube, even -in -the Nile, which was not bred thousands of mics off in the West Atlantic. • 1•• So, let me give their history, and let this history start at some pond in a quiet English meadow, on an Autumn evening, warm, still and dewy. For some time before, an eel in that pond has been changing. From being yellow, it has become silver, its eyes bigger, its snout sharper, its movements more restless, it has ceased to feed. On this night the moment has come. It pushes out of the pond through the dewy grass, until it reaches a ditch, wriggles down this till it conies to a stream, then to a river, then to the sea. There it will find other eels, from Morocco, from Spain, from Egypt, frons Italy and from Sweden. All start to cross the sea to their distant breeding ground. How long they take over the journey we know not: all we know is that they leave in Autumn and that their eggs hatch in Spring; and that males who may enter the sea at five yearsold do not breed until they are in their eighth to tenth year. The females are always older. They breed at a depth of about 400 meterss `',n water of fairly high tem- `vttsrature, pro�rably` guided'io it be- cause its saltness suits some chem- ical necessity of their being. Anyway, they all go to the same spot, southeast of the l3ermudas. After breeding, the parents die. The eggs float and hatch near the sur- face, and here the young begin to feed fast and to grow rapidly. And now their real romank starts. At once they begin to cross an ocean which they have never traversed to reach homes which they have never seen. Most of them travel northeast with the Gulf Stream, floating at a depth of about 100 fathoms in water of about 68 degrees temperature. They grow in size. By their sec- ond Summer they are in the mid- Atlantic. They are then about one and three-quarters of an inch long. After two and a half years, fully grown and three inches long, trans- parent, flat and leaf -shaped, they reach' the west coasts of Europe and Africa. There they undergo a change:i their bodies shrink in breadth, they lose half an inch in length, they become cylindrical or eel - shaped. They are now called elvers or glass eels; and in their fourth Spring, in thousands. They push up these rivers, up tributaries, up ditches, sone even to ponds. In fresh water they feed voraciously, the males liv- ing usually five years, the females' staying longer and growing much bigger. Then one Autumn night they in their turn get restless and repeat their parents' journey, from which they never return. The most remarkable part of this remarkable story is what guides eels to certain rivers. Shoals ar- rive in the East Atlantic: some have to go to the Channel, some to the Adriatic, some to the Baltic, spine to the Mediterranean. What directs them? They have never seen these seas, nor the rivers running into thein. There can be no memory, and instinct is only a name. Yet the fact remains that eel -bearing rivers always have eels; the elvers never seem to miss theail. What guides an individual elver to the Nile instead of to the Severn? It is strange; and, stranger still, ponds, if once they hold eels, al- ways seen to do o. Whydos 'an s Y, eel which enters the homely and muddy Thames not stay in its lower reaches, but push on many riles in order to cross an uncomfortable field to reach a pond in Oxfordshire? gave the elvers who do this been hatched. from ron a ggs of parents who e lived in thatpond? It is incredible - Of the Eel is Told (By Major John W. Hills, M.P., in the London Spectator.) Unprepossessing in appearance, often looked on with disgust, eels and Aylesford, N.S., and will act as vice -principals at Annapolis Royal; Windsor and Wolfville. • * * Wolf Cubs of. the 1st Smith's Falls (St. John's) Group sold garden and flower seeds to raise funds for the purchase of a Pack flag. * * .* Stirling, Ont., Cubs and . Scouts were guests at an evening entertain- ment of the Men's Club of St. John's Church and contributed a number of Scout work programme numbers. * * * Jeanne Baptiste Boulanger, young editor of a successful French jour- nal, "Le Petit Jour," published in Emonton since 1931, is Secretary and a Patrol Leader of Alberta's first troop of French- Canadian Scouts. WHEAT With Canada dependent in no small way on wheat for general prosperity both in the east and the west, it is interesting at this time of•.thhe year to watch crop reports; even if it 'Is `a bit early, and so to get some grasp on the possibilities of the future An official report from Ottawa states that crop news during the past month has been of a variable nature. Timely rains have been received in many parts of Can- ada and the United States, but the winter wheat crop in the United States has been irreparably damag- ed. The United States Department of Agriculture reports that 31.2 per cent of the sown acreage has been or will be abandoned and production is estimated at less than 432 million bushels as compared with 405 mil- lion harvested in 1934, and as com- pared with an average production of 618 million. from 1928 to 1932. Europe reports a slight increase in wheat acreage for 1935 and ex- cessive winter damage has been con- fined to relatively small areas. Re- ports are favourable from most areas in central and southern Eur- ope with the exception that drought has caused considerable damage in Spain and Iatly. Unfavourable re- ports have also been received from North Africa and substantial re- duction in production is indicated from this area. The Canadian Trade Commission- er at Melbourne, Australia, has cabled that the weather continues too dry for the seeding of the new crop throughout the Australian wheat belt with the exception of the State of New South Wales where prospects are generally favourable. FIGHTING 'HOPPERS IN WESTERN CANADA Control Campaign Against Destructive Gras shopper Has Been Inaugurated. An edition of 5,000 neap -posters in regard to the grasshopper situ- ation in the province of Saskatche- wan has just been issued and dis- tributed by the entomologist branch of the Dominion department of agri- culture aspart rt of theco-operation o enation Pp with the province of Saskatchewan in the grasshopper control campaign fora1935. The potter ppresents a mapmn colors foreeasting the distribution of the probable grasshopper out- break in the areas likely to be in- volved in three categories, and also indicates an outbreak of pale west- ern cutworm. The map is supple issue No. 23 '35 46 mented by text cutlining the gen- eral grasshopper control practices to be followed throughout the province. The combined map and poster should be of the utmost value in dealing with the impending outbreak. The poster will be distributed chiefly through the office of the field crops commissioner of the department of agriculture of"'Saskatchewan, and •tri" addition to being on view at all municipal offices and centres of agriculture assembly, will' be dis- played in railway stations and post offices throughout the infested part of the province. Lady Haig to Attend Mem trial Unveiling OTTA'\VA,—That Lady Haig will be present at Canada's unveiling of the War Memorial at Vimy next July has been announced by Brigadier General Alex Ross, Dominion Presi- dent of the Canadian Legion. "I am so grateful to you for your kind letter which has reached me re- garding the Canadian Pilgrimage in 1936," wrote Lady Haig. "It will be a wonderful gathering to unveil that beautiful memorial, and I shall feel much honoured that the members have allowed me to accompany them" Canada's Peace Army, registration to date now over a thousand and expected to reach twenty times that. figure; will attend the unveiling of Canada's . War Memorial at Vim Ridge in July of next year in the preseuee. of representatives of the British and European as well as Canadian and United States Govern- ments, Brazilian Income Again Shows Gain TORONTO, Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Co„ Ltd. reported another monthly increase in gross and net earnings, continuing the run 'of gains that have been reported since last fall. Gross earnings fronj: operations in April were $2,452,16¢ compared with $2,392,550 in the sal, month of 1934, an increase of $59,306, Operating expenses declined $50,1811 from $1,194,389 to $1,144,209 and, net. earnings for the month (before df preoiation and amortization were $1,307,947 compared "'with $1,198,46ir \ an increas se ofr 109 430, $ Aggregate gross earnings for th7 first four months of 1935 were $10,e 030,220, compared with $9,318,273,• aiti increase of $716,.947, and aggregate' xiet earnings for the same pdriot were $5,340,446 compared with $4,1, 645,642, gain 6, ,aof $694,804, .: c FINED FOR SHOUT, ,' that they should; that so much �t For shouting ,, i7p, the Rebels'til knowledge ` and geography should bo Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Sunda}' inherited fronn the egg, Yet how is it afternoon, young 1ose141 Neil has that all waters are regularly repeopl- been arrested and fined ' ed? The only explanation (if it is an explanation and not merely words) is that instinct is not something which inheres in the individual, but something which is the possession of the race. It is as though mind was a reality, but held as it were in solution, not informing any unit, but a guidance to all. Whatever you call it, this force must exist. The young eels get there. There ihust be some motive which steers their small and delicate bodies across many thousand miles of ocean and delivers them to a goal which seem to be predeter- mined. Of course, the eel is not the only living thing which does acts neces- sary for its survival of which it has had no experience. Insect life shows many examples of what looks to us to be reason and inherited knowledge. But the eel perforins on' a bigger stage, against a mightier back- ground. In working out its destiny, it does not turn to a continent which lies close at hand, but travels for years to reach another in which its ancestors lived. This piece of natural history was discovered only 30 years ago. It had for long been known that elvers ascended the rivers in Spring and that full-grown eels went down to the sea in Autumn. But it was be- lieved that they bred there in deep water, not far from the coast. The immature eel was also well known, but it was classified as a separate fish and given a Latin name. Then in 1896 an Italian naturalist, Grassi, discovered that it was the young of our eel. Still its breeding place was not discovered for an- other 10 years. A Danish naturalist, Johannes Schmidt, found one of these creatures west of the Faroes. He followed the trail backwards, across the North Atlantic end, with infinite patience, traced them to their :breading grotlilsl ": Thus a mystery which had defied the world for centuries was dis- pelled. Many curious tales have been believed about the breeding of the eel. The great Izaak Walton thought that they were bred from horsehair; others solemnly stated that they originated from corrup- tion or may -dew. But it was left to a writer of last century to start the most fantastic fable of all. He —Cairncross was his name—solemn- ly wrote and published a book, the Silver Eeel, to prove that eels pro- ceed from a certain beetle. And the book contained an engraving, pre- sumably from life, of such a beetle, with its carapace split open and a small eel emerging. Natural history has always been infested by writers of legends, but surely no more egregious one has ever been propagated. Finally, there is affinity between migration of mature eels and mi- gration of birds. Those birds which seek a warmer climate in Winter return north to breed. The chiff- chaffs and willow -wrens now fi' t- tering and singing on our copses have wintered in Persia and Cape Colony. Probably our northern country was their original habitat. And so it may be with the eel. Undoubtedly he started as a sea - fish: that we know. And possibly he lived then south of the Bermudas, and this is why he returns there to breed. But though a sea -fish by origin, he, like the brown trout, has become a fresh -water one by adopt- ion. Thus the eel is the opposite of the salmon: the salmon is a sea -fish, breeding in fresh water; the eel a fresh -water fish breeding in the sea. THE MST BICYCLE The bicycle, like many ether de- vices, is a product of evolution, and it would be impossible to pronounce that it was invented in a certain mn n connected But Englishman year. B t an lash g with the trade—and England pion- eered in the bicycle business—is au- thority for the statement that 1935 is the centenary of the modern "wheel." It was in 1835 that the first machine was built that was driven by pedals and a chain. Prior to that there was the old "Dandy Horse." That consisted of two wooden wheels connected with a sort of flat board. The rider lay across the board and propelled him- self along by kicking the ground al- ternately with his feet. Then came a device with. pedals and a rear seat, the pedals orperating the rear wheel, Despite the dis- comfort of riding, it became very popular, yet there *as a great deal of public hostility to it. Older peo- ple looked askance at the then mod- ern implement that speds along the roads at the probably terrible sPedd. of 10 or 12 miles=an hour. Cyclists were assaulted and bicycles were wrecked. In those days cyclists en- countered the sort of hostility that afterwards was visited upon the heads of the first motorists. In the sixties came the "bone - shaker," which gave propulsion to the front wheel as well as the bacic.'' rubber was not yet thought of for tires. Around about the late seven- ties the solid rubber tire was intro- duced. Next was the `high') bicycle with the huge wheel in front and the little one behind. Riders had to be constantly on the alert for ruts and stones which pitched them over the handlebars. It was for that reason perhaps that the next type, which is standard today, was known as the "safety." But the bicycle did not come into its own until about 1890 when an Irishman named Dunlop invented the pneumatic tire. From that date cycling, boomed.. . Millions of boys and :girls, now driving cars, remember the tI rills of owning their first bicycle. And some of the older riders niay still rub the parts of their bodieu that used to ache on the old "bone - shaker" and the "high" bicycle. 'be- fore Dunlop revolutionized the busi- e s-- tr, t n 1'eacon-I?e1 al\z ,il S .,S-..J.d - Classified Advertising OLD COINS UPTO 550.00 EACH PAID FOR U.S. Indian head cents. We buy alt dates regardless of condition. Up to 31.00 each paid for U.S, Lincoln cents. Up to $150.0 each• for Canadian coins. 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