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A TRIFLE DAZED
"Why the black eye, old moan?" a
'm toriously much -married man was
asked by a friend.
"Well, you see," said the black-eyed
one, "I came home rather unsteady
the other night and thought I'd read
•a little before going to bed. My "wife
came down and caught me, and there
was some very pronounced trouble"
"What were you reading?"
"By ill -luck I'd chosen the chess
board!"
BREEDING FANCY PIGEONS IS
A CHARMING HOBBY
Two or three years ago Hon. Mir.
Motherwell, then Minister of Agricul-
ture, visited' the Royal Winter •Fair
and arranged matters so that the last
hour should be spent with the poul-
try, and particularly the utility poul-
try which figure so importantly in
-agricultural statistics. To reach the
pens, he had looked at them with some
slight displeasure and made a re-
mark to the effect that he could not
quite see the point of any part of a
federal grant being distributed emong
these pets and playthings. • So be fell
into conversation•.wiht the superin-
tendent of this section who proceeded
to explain to him some of the varie-
ties of fancy pigeon and their desir-
able points. He showed him some
parlor tumblers which have been
bred for many years to the end that
they are unable to fly, but when agi-
tated, simply throw somersaults back-
wards along the floor, 'sometimes for a
distance of 30 er 40 feet. Mr. Moth-
erwell became engrossed with these
extraordinary little acrobats, and
when at last he looked at his watch
lie found he had no time to inspect
that backbone of agriculture, the util-
ity hen.
Others have bad similar experience
and from such casual and accidental
encounters there often emerges the
pigeon fancier, who is generally con-
sidered to be subnormal mentally.
Nevertheless, 'the breeding and ex-
hibiting of fancy pigeons form the
bobby of hundreds 'of Canadians who
seem to be law-abiding, respectable
and in other respects normal citi-
zens. The Royal Winter Fair, com-
ing at a time of year when the birds
have completed their moult, which.,
incidentally, is a yearly process, sees
'them in their best new plumage, and
thus attracts some of the finest speci-
mens from the United States as well
as from the lofts of Canadian breed-
ers. We think that few people who
pause to glance at the pigeons can
fail to be struck by their beauty and
grace, even though it is to be admit-
ted that same are mere monstrosities,
with no more essential and obvious
charm than a toadstool. But among
those who would find nothing to ad-
mire in such a bird as a barb or run
might admit the charm of the nomen-
clature of the pigeon tribe. Atten-
tion to this point, which had never
previously occurred to us, was drawn
a short time ago by The Drifter in
The Nation. Lovingly he recited
some of the names: Damascenes, La -
horses, Florentines, Helmets, Hya-
cinths, Nuns, Porcelains, Priests, Jac-
obins and Archangels. 'We might add
to the inusieal list, Scandaroons, Mon-
daines, Dragoons, ISatinettes, Turb-
iteens, ,Blondinettes and Fantails.
it is believed that all 'varieties of
fancy pigeons have a common ances-
tor in the blue rock. One breed may
be crossed with any other and no evi-
dence of sterility occur. Oecasion'ally
breeds are thus crossed to establish
in one of them a feature which the
other possesses. But 99 per cent. of
all pigeons are kept pure and undefil-
ed while the breeders strive for the
elusive standard of perfection which
has never yet been reached and nev-
er will. The truth is that the perfect
pigeon has never been: grroduced, and
this, oddly enough, provides the chief
fascination of the art and! sort of
breeding them. 'When an existing
standard has been almost approached
and it seems likely that in the next
year or two it wild .be attained, the
fanciers of the particular breed get
together and change it. They raise
the bars, so to speak, and with in-
creasing enthusiasm set out for the
'Quite Impossible It. But no stand-
ard yet devised ever succeeded in ex-
pressing to the real breeder a full
description' of what he wants to . find
in a bird. The mysterious thing call-
ed by the varying names of type,
quality and character is something
visible to the true fancier's eye but
hardly to be communicated by any
such clumsy means of expression as
pen or brush.
Whine the quality and consequent-
ly the value of pigeons in Canada has
steadily increased and continues to
do so, it is doubtful if there are as
many breeders as there • were 30 years
ago. Most of us can remember the
time when behind almost every house
was a barn' or shed and in this build-
ing, if there was a boy in the family,
there were pigeons, bantams, rabbits
or guinea pigs. Barns and sheds have
vanished from the city to a great ex-
tent and with them have vanished
their former occupants. Something
liars been lost here, and something
valuable. Mm. Wilson of the Humane
"society they other day quoted a lead-
ing American criminologistas saying
'that Tees than one and a quarter per
'cent. of all eriminle elver had a pet
of any sort.
Vile do not doubt the accuracy of
'this but candor compels us to say
that a searrih of our memory dredge's
Up a precious young seoundrel, since
'Barged no doubt, who 'appears in Dom -
."bey. and San, and that the trapping
of stray .pigeons wag big chief delight,
We nista add that it i:�s not infhte-
quenr*ly the ease that it is by the trap-
pitg of .stray pions was his chief
delight + e ilat bdd that! ft is totelgt'tennty �e rise that it is ty
t '4001Aritsof" otrb , `gbo s that t1L6
4,1* nt lfset�d'ines forittred
the)
often h,14� ws nit �
ardent fancierr, y enoug" t4 °4#oi
wuthout sonie of tete cornf is of life,°
.i tbereby"he ca'n,add' to',his t}taelc of
pigeons . It is this lova of trhe birds
that natures and directs the skill
shown( in their breeding.
ePseeeewe
UNIVERSE DESIGNED: BY A PURE
MATHEMATICIAN
Guesses at the riddle of eeistence
are generally interesting if not al-
ways clear or instructive, and if we;
refex to a new one it is without any
intention of stirring up again the cid
battle between science . and religion.
Sir James Jeans., secretary of the
Royal Society, former Oam'bridge
mathematician and astronomer, is of
sufficient importance to warrant some
attention to what he says on the sub-
ject, although the title of his recent
Rede lecture at that institution, "The
Mysterious Universe," leaves the im-
pression that he is still doubtful. But
apparently there was no doubt in the
mind of the Daily Empress which bold-
ly declares: "A sensational theory of
the origin of the universe which
brings the most modern discoveries of
science into harmony with Plato and
the first 'chapter of Genesis was out-
recently by Sir James Jeans, the fam-
ous Cambridge scientist, when he de-
livered the Rede lecture in the Sen-
ate
enate House."
Longer and less sprightly reports of
the address were not quite so posi-
tive. The general recognition that
we were not yet in contact with ulti-
mate reality was, Sir James argued,
the outstanding feature of the 20th
century .physics. To speak in terms
of Plato's well known simile we are
still imprisoned• in our cave, with our
backs to the fight, And can only watch
the shadows on the wall. At present
the only task immediately before sci-
ence is to study these shadows and
what we are finding, in a wholes tor-
rent of surprising new knowledge, is
that the way which explains them
more fully, more clearly and more
naturally than any other is the math-
ematical way, the explanation in
terms of mathematical concepts. Our
earth is so innfinitesimial in compar-
ison with the whole universe that it
is all too probable that any meaning
that the universe as a whole may
have would entirely transcend our
terrestrial experience and so be tot-
ally unintelligible to us. But it was
not impossible that some of the sha-
dows might suggest objects and op-
erations. Indeed, nature seemed very
conversant with the rules of pure
mathematics as they had been formu-
lated in the studies of the mathema-
ticians. It is difficult to discuss the
nature of the reality behind the sha-
dows. We have bo extraneous stan-
dards against which to compare them.
For this reason it is profitable to
borrow Locke's phrase that the "real
essence of substances" is forever un-
knowable. We can only progress by
discussing the laws which govern the
changes of substances and so produce
the phenomena of the external world.
And a scientific study df the action of
these laws suggests a conclusion
which may be summed up, though
crudely and quite inadequately: "The
universe does not appear to work, as
at one time thought on anthropomor-
phic lines nor, as was recently
though, on mechanical lines; it ra-
ther works on purely mathematical
lines. In brief the universe appears
to have been designed by a pure
mathematician." At this point the
Times report halts and passes on to
other features, but editorially that
paper says: "Now we are bidden by
Sir James Jeans to look upon God as
the supreme thinker and one more-
over whose thinking is done in terms
of mathematics.i° The conception is
not new for Robert Boyle thought
mathematics the alphabet in which
God wrote the world and Sir Thomas
Browne likened God to a skilful geo-
metrician. Centuries before either
of them, "God goeme'trizes" was quot-
ed by 'Plutarch as a traditional sen-
tence used by Plato.
Perhaps we are not in such deep
water when we turn to man's insigni-
ficance. A few stars, Sir James said,
were known which were hardly big-
ger than the earth but the majority
were so large that hundreds of thou-
sands of earths could be packed in-
side each and leave room to spare;
here and there we come upon stars
large enough to contain millions of
millions of earths. The total num-
ber of stars in the universe was prob-
ably something like the total number
of grains of sand on all the seashores
of the world. Life could exist only
inside a narrow zone which surround-
ed each star at a very definite dist-
ance. 'Outside these zones life would
be frozen; inside it would be shrivel-
led up. At a rough computation
these zones within which life was
possible, all added together, consti-
tuted less than a thousand million
millionth part of the whole of space.
And even inside them life must be
of a very rare occurrence for it was
so unusual an accident for any suns
to throw off planets as our own sun
had done that probably only about
one star in 100,000 had a planet re-
volving around it in the small zone
in which life was possible. Just for
this reason, said Sir James, it seems
incredibl'e that the universe could have
been designed 'primarily to produce
life like our own; had it been s.o,
surely we might harve expected to find
a better proportion between the mag-
nitude of the mechanism and t h e
amount of the product.
At first glance at least life seems
to be an utterly umimportaii't by-pro-
duct; we living beings are somehow
off the main line, and this impression
is only strengthened when. we attempt
to pass from bur original to an un-
derstanding of the purpose of our ex-
istence
xistence or to foresee the destiny which
fate has in store( for our race: Just
as Tantalus standing in a lake so deep
that he only just escaped drowning,
was yet destined to die of thirst so
it ie the tragedy of our rade that it
is pnolbably destined to die of cold
se h le the greater part of the universe
still remains too hot for life to obtain
a footling. (Sir James came to the rpese
simistic conclusion that it mattered
little` by what particular roadthe
final state was reaclhed; all roads
tt*er& said 'be lead to Rosati and the
end of the -3e1^ squid nab be other
than universal death.
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