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The Wingham Advance, 1921-10-06, Page 3-.4 44 1* flunfmg Well Gazelpioo are familiar to all readers of poetry, where they appear In 430 gentle'and domestic a guise that YOU are a little shocked to read about parties being made up to Lunt them. as mop�e or wildcats, or rhinoceroses ore hunted, In Morocco however, they are a particularly choice sort of game, and A correspondent of the London Times writes to his paper an, Interest - Ing account of a gazelle hunting ex- PeditiQu., There are four of us, HaJ Thanif Glawl,' the Pasha of Marrakesh, Nald Hammou of the Atlas-, Bid Ayadl, Kald ,of RafiamnA, and myself. There Is a car for each for us, and at the InVita- tion of my hosts I take my seixt, beside the ch4uffeur, with, two beautifully dressed black slaves In attepdhace on the back seat. The kalds enter their cars, and we set out. The cultivated lands 4re quickly left behind, and. the great plain of 11abum- tia lies stretching away be -fare no, with the snow peaks of the Atlas bounding Its southern horizon. Kaid Ayadl gives the signal, and the four cars spread out—a few hundred yarda'apart—and proceed at a slower pace, 14bout fifteen miles an hour. The ground Is stone -strewn and rough, and careful steering Is, necessary. There are b-puldera of every shape and size, loosely strewn over the plain, end lit- tle channels- warn by water, insignifl- cant enough In themselves, but highly damaging to motor cars If the cars are ,net skillfully manceuvred. Our chauf- feurs, three Frenchmen and an Algerl- as M Morocco mInuteg later we see t-hom appear on the outline Qfp6 low hill,. bounding. over the rocks. It vao not long before fresh berds, appeared; but, (tlwAys breaking away to, the lort�, they succeeded In reaching tile low,4400Y slopes that form the nortborXi.,'4ouodary of the Rahamna plain. At,,oL signal from It -aid AyvAI we turn southward to seek more ad. yantago,ous, grou)id., and, emerging from the stones, our cars roll across the loeyel. plain at a pace of thirty milles AA: hour, - Qame,- however, ii ocarcer-UP'Te—though a great busturd %alln to*idy. gun-, brought down by a At lost we spy a lord of a dozen gazelleg in tho oppn, and at an In- creiise,4 ispeed the ears ruoh forward. The speedometer of my car marks forty miles an hour, but we are not gaining. on the g4zelleo, which, appear easily,"to.,keep their distance of tour or five hundred yards ahead at us. At another signal, we increase the pace to, fltt�, �411ea an hour. The Plain Ii level, 'but there 'are Stoneor and little undulatlo�lis and many small water- oouriseo; merely little declivities. In the surface,, but none the less exciting to pass ovei. The exhilaiation is In- tense. It Is wonderful driving on the part of the chauffeurs. The cars sway from side to side and rise and fall, like boats In a -rough sea, We are closing upon the herd, and it looks. as if my car will be first to come up with them - but suddenly they swerve tothe rIghi an, are skillfuldrivbm and accustomed anu Pas"own `0 Alue 'ut auva"Ang to this sport of the "great kaide." cars. Sudde,ily one of the slaves. In my The Pasha of Marrakesh's lithe figure is clearly visible as. he stands car tries out, and away a -head of us I in his, swaying can The gazelles pass r, ee a.herd of gazelles bounding over him, and with right -and, left barrels he the plain.. My car Is on the extreme, brings down two of them, It Is beauti- left of -,he line, and our object is. to ful shooting. Kaid Hammon's cax Is head off the herd from the more stony the next, and hie too shoots two gazel. ground and turn them to the right, 1,oa, Once more the ber-dowerves, and, where the plain is more level, Edging passing between the cars, breaks back away always to the left, our,car quick- to the rear. We allow them to escape ens Its pace, rq4ling from side to- Bide —all except one, a young doo, which, and bumping, Seizing every QppGr� paralyzed with fear, stands motionless tunity of a few yards of good ground, and is easily captured alive and un - we spum forward, only to have to slow hurt. It Is carefully conveyed back to down agaln in order to cross. some Marrakesh to become. a Pat in the awkward spot, The gazelles -are out pasha's house. of range. You can shoot them only You may argue that this clus-at with a saotgun loaded with solid tullet hunting Is not sport, that the, gazelles or buckshot: to. shoot with a rifle out o -f a car going at from forty to fifty have to chance of escape; but it Is miles an hour over rough ground la too ,at so. The risk is great, an- accident much to expect, There are less stones may occur at any moment, and the I stony surface of the ground gives the now, and we are making headway. gazelles a good chance. Of the many T.he three cars on my right keep a herds- that we saw the four gazelles little in the rear in order to facilitate that we shot and the one that we took my turning movement; but they too alive were our whole bag, though we are making good pace. At times, for covered over one hundred miles on the a few minutes, wo are travelling at over forty milea an hour, -and once or twice 'plain alone, without counting cur Ode to and from'Marrakesh. Thehandling the gazelles are almost within range; of the cars. required the greatest skill, theu.some little watercourse or some -and the shooting ii by no means easy. extra stony patch gives them their Tohit -a running gazelle from a motor, chance, and Vney increase the distance again, At last our course seems clear, car travelling at the rate of fifty miles an hour over rough ground needs no and the car bounds forward. The pace 'little skill. Is splendid but rather terrifying. Halt We return to -a late luncheon at Kald standing, halt kneeling on the seat, I Avadi�s house, --a meal beginning with wait to get my chance to shoot; then a roast sheep and continuing with un - suddenly the car -swerves in a way limited courses of meat and fowl and that nearly thrcws me Dut—and stops. sweets,—most of which Is! left im- h yard or two ahead is a dry water -'tasted. The afternoon is well on, an(I course, a metro wide perhaps, half a the snows of the Atlas are rosy with metro deep and full of boulders, an the rays of the setting sun as we roll Impassable barrier—or rather a barrier back to the city along the straight that makes, us search for a Practicable 'whita, road. Before sunset.'we are In passage and allows the escape of the the pasha's palace, having covered gazqllos, whose course toward tile more than one hundred and eighty tt-ony ground is now tasy. A few miles since our start in the morning. X -Rays in the Factory. The next development of the uses of radiography will be the application of X-rays to Industrial purposes, Experiments which have been In progress, for some time point to won- d,e.rful possibilities. in the near future, when every great factory and foundry will have its Own radiographer and laboratory, ,There is no reason why the X-rays hitherto used only for medical and sur. gical work, should not 6 utilized In detecting flaws in, say, an ingot of metal or block of concrete. Progress in this direction. only awaits the per- fecting of sufficiently powerful appar- atug, The importance of this to the metallurgist and manufacturer must be obvious, and research work Is only hindered by the abs-ence of the neces- sary funds to prosecute what are necessarily v�bry costly experiments. Last Time Round. Just as two Irishmen. were In the middle of a large field, one at them turned and saw an angry bull making for them. With a yell of warning he bolted and just managed to clear the hedge. His. companion, less nimble, ran wildly round the hedge to find an opening, Twice he went round without escap- Ing. Then as he passed his anxious friend for the third time he shouted: "Tell my missus my Insurance policy Is In the bottom drawer. This is my last time round." Measurements. A two -foot rule was given to a la- borer in a Clyde boat -yard to measure an iron plate. The laborer not being well up In the use of the rule, after spending considerable time, returned. Mick," asked the plater, 1 " 7!n — - — - � - — "Well," replied Mick, with a grin of Camel Meat Like Beef. satisfaction, "it's the length of your The hump of a caniel Is said to I rule and two'thumbs over, with this, taste like beef, and is regarded as a I piece of brick and the breadth of my great delicacy by the Arabs and hand and my arm from here to tbore, others. bar a finger." ' MN irNn4rz"� I I JUST C�\W_= kt-1 c>T-T- ­�I­� RJ:*\D A04 BIZ006Kr— , e, W ) / e I , , - , - S CLEVER BIRD AND STUPID BEAST The ostrich' and the rhinoceros, are stupid. So at least most persons. think. But Mr. Carl E. Akeley, who has spent years In hunting, collecting ,and stud7ing wild antinale, says that, though they are right a -bout the rhinoceros., they are wrong about the ostrich. The ostrich, -he declares, has brains, and to prove It he tells this ex- perience of his In, Afrlca: "One day I had been for some time following a wary pair of ostriches when I came to a wide opening in the scrub growth In. the centre of which was, a dense green bush a dozen, feet In diameter. A beautiful cock ostrich broke into the clearing just below the bush, endas I raised my rifle he dis. appeared behind the bush; f4c.1 held myself ready to catch him when he passed out from behind it on the other side. I stood there until I felt foolish. Then. I ran quickly to the bush. The ostrich was. nowhere to be seen, but his trail told the story. As he had come- into the open he had seen. me, and so when he got behind the bush he had stopped short, turned at right angles and run straight away, keeping I the bush between himself and me. I have not known many animals to do a more clever thing.' I But the rhinoceros. Mr. Akeley holds up to scorn. "Many experienced hunt- ers,," he writea, "consider him as. one of the most dangerous African arxi- mals. I cannot quite agree with that. Of course, If he runs over you, you are likely to get hurt, It Is, also true that m soon as he smells you he is likely tostart charging about in a terrifying manner. But you have only to get out of the way and let him charge by; sometimes even that Is not necessary." One day when Mr. Akeley, far ahead of his gun boys,, was, going along the bank of a river he heard the thrash - Ings and snortings of a charging rhin- oseros. He carried only a camera. "There was," he -says, "nothing to climb. Between me and, the thicket from which the rhino was coming was about tv�enty-flvo feet of open tiiace. Behind me was a thirty-foot drop to the crocodile -Infested waters of the Tana River. The only hope I saw was a bush overhanging the brink; It look- ed as. it it might hold me it I swung out on It. My mind was made up to try the bush and let Lhe rhino land in the river. He came ful tilt into the opening and stopped with aisnort. His, head dropped. His eyes, almost closed. He looked as if he were going to sleep! I felt� a poke in my back. I reached behind and took my rifle from the' gun boy who -had come up. I drew a b6ad on the old fellow, but I could not shoot. A stupider or more ludicrous object I never saw. There he stood, half asleep and totally ob. livIous,, while 1, with the gun half aimed, talked to him about bis ugly self. About that time my porters came Into hearing� The rhino pricked up his ears-, charged thropgh the sa. fari and off through the bush." Mr. Aheley believes that the rhin- oceros is. more inquisitive than foroci. OUS. His eyesight Is -i poor, and when Ile 81110118 Something he come$ charg- ing toward it to investigate. - His blundering bad manners are getting him shot so frequently that already an old rhinoceros with a large horn is a rarity. REGLAR Ht 111111�1 BUM _Mt�t� -.r RNT L L -T" 1�- 'Fhe Seasons. Often we meet people who say that they don,1 like summer, others who don't like winter, occasionally some who dont like autumn, and once In -a walle. some one who doesn't like spring. Seldom will anyone admit -- or boast—thathe likes all the seasons. equally. And yet If a. mun, were to keep a recor& of the days In the year that simply from the point of view at weather and physical comfort he en- joyed, there would probably be no sea- son.that would establish a decisive claim to his, favor. And it there were any such, it would almost certainly not be spring. People -.are generally governed In their likes or disilikes at the seasons by the extremes rather than by the average of weather displayed. Per- sons of cheerful and optimistic spirit or-- likely10 remember a season by its shining days rather than by Its stormy ones; and persons ' who are easily af- fected by -adverse circumstances take their strongest impressions of a sea- son from those days when It Is at Ito, worat, By thatreasoning It might ap- pear that to -such per3ons all seasons, re equally bad, and that to the others, all are equally good. But Impressionp are relative; and anyone who shud- ders and shivers In cold weather is- pretty.sure to prefer summer, how -ever hot it may be, and one, who really suf- fers from heat is likely to think that winter Is the beat time of the year. The law at compensation that Emer- son preached applies in our attitude toward the seasons. It we did not have foggy and windy and rainy days, we should not appreciate nearly so much as, we do sunshine and blue sky and a -oft breezes. If we never looked out into utter blackness of night, with blasts of wind arid snow beating against the panes, we, should not look up at moon and stars and the silent spaces, of the heavens with quIte the -same love of their beauty. Even the most wonderful things in nature might grow stale in our eyes if there were no contrast In. the circumstances of their appearance. Enterprising. A business man advertised for an office boy. The next morning there were some fifty boys in line. He war, about 0 begin examining the appli. cants when his stenographer handed him acard on which was scribbled: "DoWt do anything until you see me. I'm the last kid, fix line, but I'm telling you I'm there with the goods.1, Odd Afflictions. Druggists frequently have to listen to amusing things. Here are a few examples,: "My little girl has Just been oper- ated on for egg noggs, in her head." "What can you recommend for my sister? She has Vera Cruz veins in her legs." The Avergae Man— A French statistician estimates that' at the age of fifty years. the avi&rage man has slept 6,000 days, worked 6,500, walked 800, ainuved himself 4,000, spent 1,500 eating, and has been ill 500 days, To Protect the Swallow. The number of swallows that have migrated during the summer months to England has decreased during the past four years, and because of the economic valu& of the bird steps are being taken to protect Wand Its, eggs, Gene Fak the Futur "Cairada is brtter able to face the futuro tban almost any other country In the world," said Sir Robert Kin, derr,ley, a director of the Bank of Ung. land and G*erwr of the Hudson's Bay Company, at tho recent annual meet - Ing of that corporation In London. There are few men outside Canada, better able to speak oh the business,, lature of this. country, for In Addition tO being one of the JeMerfv In the com- morclul and financial life of Great BrI. tala, he 18 -head of a company that has been trading In IDanada. for over 260 years and has travelled It from end to end. He should know whereof he speaks. There Is no corporation that knows more about Canada and few that have been as successful, 40% an the common stock,the rate during the last throe or four yearo, Is. a. pretty fair retura. Taking advantage of the action of the 'United States In placing high duties oft, Canadian exports which, If nothing else lo. bound to make It more dIfficult to sell American goods In M -1A +hr—oh fln. rl.i�w r.+. �f — change, the British are making special efforts to capture Canadian trade, An- nouncement to this, effect was recently made In the British House of Com- mouls, Samples of American goods. that have been sold very generally in the Western: Provinces have been taken to England with the result that The Destination of Canada!s Opfimisfically British nipwitacturoro will endeavor to moot this demand. Unutm.tl Pains are alfo being tAkea to $Locure the ilght kind of agents In this country, It appearf; as It the United States looks with complacency on the action of Congrow In seeltIng to keep out Canadian products, saying that "it 10 an ill wind that blows no. body goo4,11 'Ae gross mercantile warine toii� nage on, the Canadian regWor at tile end Of JUUO Waa 1,680,000 tons. As an Indication of what this -means It may be said that the total gross tonnage of all other Biritish Dominions outside of the United Kingdom Is only tqnal to 400,000 groso. The Canadian Pa. cifle now occuples an Important place AMOrig the goeto of the world and has recently acquired a, furtXor 22,000 -ton vessel, the Empress. of China, Thirty. five Years ago the Company Bent out Its first vos3el, "The W,B. Flint," a sailing ship of 800 tons, from Yoko, Lama, Japan, to Fort Moody, near Vanouver, ton days before the Trans. Continental route wary opened, up. Italian shipping Interests being able to book a great many more Immigrants than they can land In the United States under the present Immigration Restrietfon Act, are apparently look. ]ng to Canada as an outlet and so the NaYlgazione Generale Itallana has In- augurated a Canadian service, the first established line between the two. coun. tries., United States and 1,668,930 barrels SCOTLAND YARD TO SCRAP OLD METHODS, IN FERRETING CRIMES OF THE WORLD. Sweeping Changes Will qivo, London One of Rest Staffs; of Rogue Chmoro, The Scotland Tara nyatem, admirea and feared by the wTongoer in ibo four corners of the earth for hay. w, century, will be scraped, says a ion. don despatch, The old order of *11n a will be revolutionized. A thom)gh re, organization Js being directed -by Gen.! Sir Willigni Horwood, Commissioner ot' Pollee, He bas outlined far reaching reforms. As a moult, London is soon to have a new detective force recruited from the beat and smartest brains of the MetropoUtan police. Some obanges al. ready have been made. "At present 60 per cent, of the Crim- lUal Investigations Department Is ora. ,played as Jnqulry offices," one oiflolal says, "The department has been al. lowed to become an Inquiry bureau with only a small nucleus of the staff real detectives. We have many able men, but their energies have not been directed in proper channels, It is V, tradion of Scotland Yard that once a member of the 'C. 1. D.' (Criminal In. Vestigation Department), always a 'C. I. D.1 Crop. valued at $18,370,895 to other coun- Expert Criminal Harmful. tries. Of the experts of Can- "Now It will be the duty of the During the seven yeara 1915 to adlan wheat flour to other coun- department heads without partiality or 1921, the total'exports of grain from tries than , the 'United States, 1,- favor to tell when a man Is getting CAnada amounted to 1,222,664,772 801,964 barrels valued at *17,329,860, stale. During the last three years pro - bushels. Only fifteen per cent. of this were shipped by way of the United i gresa- has been made quietly until now went to the United. States, the balance States ports and 2,884,929 -barrels a detective force of $00 has been of 85 per cent. going to other coun- valued at $27,190,791 by way of Can- equipped in such a manner as to en. tries. Of the total exportation of adian seaports. able the men to take the field against grain during this period, 416,950,748 ----------- f,-- the forces of disorder. bushels, or 87 per cent., left Canada State Education. "The expert crIminal Is the most by Canadian sea ports, whilst 641,900,- harmful to society nowadaye, it isn't 167 bushels were exported via the A political speaker remarked -the the dull witted fellow but the bright,, United States. Grain, however, -ex- other day, "Is it not just as reason- alert, Intelligent, well educated chap ported through the customs ports of able that the province should main- who stops at nothing. To meet thim A-bercorn, Coaticook and St. John's, tain a school for blacksmiths as that type face to face Scotland Yard must P.Q., has to be hauled for long dis- it should -pay for the education of doc- produce his equal fit ability, skill and tances on Canadian lines. The quan- tors who charge -high fees for their resourcefulness. There's been too tity of grain destined for other coun- 'services?" He had, not reasoned far much merit given because of a system tries than the United States and, ex- enough. One learns a trade in less that hitherto exiated, All thb4 must be ported through these three parts dur- time'and at less expense than one! altered." ing the seven years amounts to 137,.F,Iearns a profession. Besides, the ap- The official said that the now policy 449,846 bushels, which for practical, Prentice is paid while be is learning, means that sweeping changes will be whereas the student is under purposes may be regarded as an addi- great put into effect which will perhaps tion to the quantity exported through expense during his whole universityl change the complexion of Scotland Canadian seaports, viz., 415 ' 50 ' 748 course- No one is deterred from be-, Yard completely, but he was certain it bushels and malcing the total to be coming a blacksmith solely because of will be Improved. 653,400,694. the cost of I -earning the trade, butl In the pexiod under review, the many a boy would have to give up his) heaviest export shipments of wheat ambit4on to be a doctor if the province Personality. were made in the three war years, bore no part of the cost of his niedi- 1916, 1917 and 1918, the )argestquan- cal education. And what a price in Variety, we say, is the spice of life. tity being 189,643,846 bushels f5r the human lives would be paid if some Nature provides many sorts of year ended March 31st, 1917. par youth with a natural talent for sur- 1 flowers. We'd tire even of the rose 1919 the quantity fell' to 41,808,897 gery were prevented by poverty :from if we had no other ilower. bushels, the smallest of the series. becoming a surgeonl i The seasons alternate. Pe". etual The total wheat exported for the . The education of its leaders in medi- ummer or perpetual winter IF mono - seven years was 818,696,828 -bushels. cine, in law, in theology, in teaching,[ stony. Of this quantity 713,622,796 bushels, in engineering, and in other walks of i The weather changes. Sun all the or 87 per cent., was destined for coun- life costs the country a great deal of time is as undesirable as continuous-, tries other than the United States, money, but it is money well spent. Where there is� no vision, the peo I rain. 451,691,743 bushels or 63 per cent. go- " ple National customs differ. M)des of perfsh." Where there are no leaders, I Ing through United States -ports and dress and of architecture are lot the! 261,831,053, or 87 per cent., going the state retrogrades. Civilization' same. Languages are minutely sub-' through Canadian seaports. itself cannot exist without education. divided into dialects. i The latest r(Aurns of Canadian ex- Canadians will require to become ac- Life at sea is utterly different from port trade show that niore than one- customed to greater expenditures on life on land. To board a shi-i third of Canada's exported wheat and university education. Far railways, next thing to "going from the world, one-quarter of its flour in the season gor water power, for roads, there is we know to one of wonder still." just elapsed, went to the Unifed abundance of money 'but, to provide for these, the universities must strug-1 A voyage through the air is not' States. From September Ist, 1920 to , like a journey by water or on land. 1 May 81st, 1921, wheat exports am- gle along on pitifully Inadequate All through our lives the rule of, ounted to 122,549,528 bushels, valued revenues. On the part of the general perpetual variance prevails. at $268,262,638, of which 47,656,963 Public there 'a needed some clear And so it is with persons. The inex- bushels valued at $100,689,425 went to thinking on the relative value of edu- haustible resourcefulness of Nature in the United States, 28,171,956 bushels cation. creating so many types of character, valued at $60,079,445 to the United so many rates, infinitely various in, Kingdom and 46,720,609 bushels valu- $ome Drawback. feature, is amazing. ed at $107,493,768 to other countries. Two tramps were discussing the Nature did not intend us to look and' Of the wheat shipments to countries ways and meano of living In. this hard -walk and act and feel too much alike.1 other than the United States, 62,378,- world without being IaJd up with She meant us to own our souNl, to de - 194 bushels valued at $109,288,164 bodily exhaustlon. velop individuality, to speak out of, went by way of United States ports, "It It warnt sich a long way off, Bill, our ininds with our own voices; in! and 22,519,371 bushels valued at $58,- we might go to the South Sea Islanda. short, to assert a personality. 335,049 by way of Canadian seaports. Ookernats and bananas all' over the Life is too tame arid tepid if -we Exports of Canadian wheat flour for place for nutlu," remain neutral in the background al -I the nine months ending May 31st, Bill ruminated deeply for some time, ways. 1921, reached a total of 5,432,405 bar- and queried, 'I suppose yer las, to Seekers of the limelight and the� rels valued at $56,713,745, of which pick 'em?" head -lines we have v.ith us always, and 2,617,963 barrels vallued at $9,16,149,756 "Yus$ a? course," they aye odious. I went to the United Kingdom, 1,245,611 "Ughl" was the disgusted reply. 1,1 But it is possible to have a stroilglyl barrels valued at $12,193,107 to the knew there'd be oome, drorback.11 developed personality without making 0 0 a bid for noisy notoriety. Keep AlrplAne Affoat. Change Color of Birds. It is important that we should dare' French and British Invelitom com.- Scientists have found that the color to be ourselves, that we should big blued their Ideas In perfecting bags, of birdo In three or four generations willing to be different. It througli to be quickly Inflated with compressed can be changed. to white'by keeping moral cowardice we invariably aasen� air carried In bottles attached to them them in a white room with white our- to theprovalling, fashion on our *pin- to keep affoat airplanes that hapi rouadings and uttended by Persons Ions, we make one more in a crowd� to fall upon water. Wearing white, but a place of loaderohip is denied up. A controlling force whorev"r goes, whatever he does, in, the ma who has conAotions, and takes sidti, .... .. and does not hide on the defenslvo�11( a Wlight zone trying to assume tint of the bukgroun4. It is a glorious event in a lifetil to met one who hag a strong 4 vivid paroonality. To ruth a pe mW5 rv�xz5 we cleave where and wbsn we And him �%R crateful that the contact gives 111r, and accent and oleetric atimulatiorr keep us going tMough "those h lone days." `71 The avorage COM 1A COW& of I I ironiAl A %W186AW in im w4 �Xry M 9,800. To tW* nwat be of the loss ov am"ge multing Irom 10 commission of RM OAMO, togoth with the support givea to d of the man imprisoned, sis W1 am oconemie loss to tho state of th6maW 'a of labor. Though a limited amount I Vehitentl4rl work wiq <lone at the 4 m (1-uring the past Yoe>, u revenue of f M ,V, to the govern -o, ,143, 44 was r,�.,.urjy.