The Exeter Advocate, 1923-12-27, Page 2COLD STORAGE OF FOOD PRODi
gffects of Introduction of Refrigeration in Marketing Cer.
twin Lines of Canada's Resources.
By J. A. Ruddick, Dairy and Cold Storage pommiesioner:
In regard to the natural resources the warehouse proper and the power-
ed a nation two things have to be con- plant. The warehouse, eight stories
eidered; first, their production, second -I high, of reinforced concrete and of the.
be their transportation to the point most modern design, covers a ground
yvhere they are to be utilized. The lot- space of 444 by 110 feet. The building
ter part of the problem assumes die- is so large that ten refrigerator cars
terent aspects according to the char- at one time can be Oiled or emptied i
£ eter of the product. A comparatively without loss of refrigeration. In ad -1
few years ago only those goods of the dition to this, ten more cars can be
Most non-perishable character couid loaded or unloaded just outside the
be transported any considerable fila- building and thirty motor trucks at'
tance. Now by the application of mo-. one time deliver or receive goads with
Bern methods the drawbacks of time ,in it. By means of the very complete
and distance have been largely over- arrangements perishable goods of
come. The problem has been met in ± whatever kind can be transferred from
different ways according too conditions,'. cars to ship or from ship to cars with -
but in no direction has the advance out being exposed to risk ot deteriora-
been more marked than in the wayof tion through rise in temperature.
preserving goods by cold storage. The Among the noteworthy features of
Dominion Government, through the the building are the apparatus for
Department of Agriculture, has stead - washing and purifying the air in the
fly promoted the adoption of cold stor- rooms from warms, and the thermom-
age methods with most beneficial re-. eter installation for the purpose of as -
sults to the health and economic wee certaining from outside the tempera -
fare of the people. By means of this ture within the rooms. The fire pro -
agency perishable products are car- tection facilities include in addition to
:led long distances to centres of popu- ,the character of the building itself, an
lation 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 alarm system which
and where they would otherwise be operates fire gongs and sigual lights
unobtainable. 1 and closes doors in elevators and air
The public has been familiar for a ; shafts.
long time with the sight of refriger-+ In this immense building different
Iter cars on railway trains and of late , rooms are maintained at various de -
years the subject of refrigeration on green ot 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 i for as long a time as may be desired
steamship it is necessary to have sult- and in this way the most 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, eggs, tender fruits and fish which
ports. The largest of these cold stor- f a few years ago. could be marketed
age warehouses is that recently cam-
pleted by the Harbor Commissioners
&t Montreal.
The plant consists of two buildings, Atlantic.
.-AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME,
only a short distance from the place of
production, can now be landed in first-
class condition on the other side of the
Beaten By An Elephant.
The list of men who have encoun- One of the most astonishing ex-
tered lions at desperately close guar- amplea of intellectual precocity, says
tars who have been actually mauled a writer in the Fortnightly Review,
was that given by Biaise Pascal, the
by them and have yet survived, le famous French scholar and phiioso-
A Marvelous Boy.
long. Far fewer in the annals of Afri-
can exploration and hunting are those
who have come into direct personal
contact with an angry elephant in his
native wilds and have lived to tell the
tale, One of them is Capt. W. T. Short -
hose, who has recently related his ter-
rible experience in his book, Sport and
Adventure in Africa. He had shot and equals—he determined to withhold till
wounded a bull elephant after follow the boy was twelve years old. Latin
ing it for six hours, and the creature was to come first. As soon as he had
had thundered away into the bush. learned it he was to bo introduced to
Renewing the pursuit, he soon caught the sciences, which he eagerly desired
en undefined glimpse of a gray bulk to learn.
Then comes an almost incredible
peer. In the little Life of Pascal his
sister, Madame Perier, succeeds ad-
mirably in picturing for us the 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. Latin and mathematics — in
mathematics he had few contemporary
Some eighty yards distant and fired
again.
"The enraged beast," he writes,
"dashed off a to yards and, catching
our wind, uttered a shrill scream of
anger and came tearing down his
statement. The boy began in his play
room to work out the principles of
geometry for himself.
He took a piece of charcoal, says
Madame Perier, and drew figures an
trach straight at me. My two track- the floor tiles, trying to make a per-
ms speedily got out of the way. I fectly round,, circle or a triangle with
equal sides and angles, and similar
figures. He found out all these
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 in a ! that sort from him that he did not
second, and, dashing into the thick even know the names of his figures:
grass on my right, I fired at his head. He was obliged to make definitions
"Neither shot seemed to affect him, for himself; he called the circle a
and he nimbly swerved and caught me "round," a line a "bar," and so on.
a blow with his trunk. Never had. I
seen anything move as that elephant;
the speed was terrific. My fate was
irrevocably sealed, I thought, but had
little time to consider anything as I
was 'smudged' from place to place,
squashed ,and beaten, expecting every
moment 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 leaped upon me with
a snort, and the 'smudging' process be-
gan again until I saw millions of stars•
and seemed to be thrust into the
bowels of the earth.
"Suddenly I became aware that the headed up the street. Finally he met
elephant was no longer mauling me a man who leaked as if he might be
and started. crawling into the long one of the natives.
"Pardon me," said the stranger, po-
litely raising his hat, "but are you an
Inhabitant of this town?"
"Yes, sir," was the ready .rejoinder
of the other. "I have Rived' here for
something like fifty years. What can
I do for you?"
"I am •lookingrfor a criminal lawyer,
He reached a tree and on a second responded the stranged." '"Have you
trial managed to climb to the first fork one here?"
The other paused for a moment; as
if iuthought.
than never -came rushing. He slid "Well," he said et last, "we have,
„
pulled for the frontal brain shot when
the elephant was about fifty yards
away, but the safety catch was off.
Be Positive.
Don't "I ani" 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" le 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," "I am
strong," "I am happy," ""i -am success-
ful," "I am efficient," I can be all that
I •want to be." And make'this posi-
tive, creative mental attitude habitual.
There is • no possibility of building
a strong, poised character by being
negative one day and positive the next.
This is the great trouble with -most
People. Every twenty-four hours they
tear down by their negative thoughts,
their doubts, their fears, their des-
tructive "I ams," their failure and
poverty and misfortune affirmations
and predictions, almost all that they
have built in their harmonious, crea-
tive moments.
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 world Thereafter
there was no more talk of holding bh
back. When he was sixteen years old
he produced a little work an conic
sections that seemed to those of his
day so powerful that they declared
there had beenothing of such im-
portance since Archimedes,
Hard to Prove.
One afternoon a stranger alighted
at the station of a country town and
grass at the beast's left. I seemed to
remember him tearing at something on.
the ground."
It was the hunter's rifle, which the
elephant broke in two pieces at the
stock while its battered and half -faint-
ing; owner managed to stagger away,
listening fearfully for another charge.
and from that refuge to shout for help.
His native companions --better late
.from his precarious perch and fell in a but we can t'prove it on, .him,
helpless heap as they reached him. He
Was suffering agony and supposed that
half the bones in his body were "broken,
The natives iniprovishel. a hammock
from his waterproof coat and Carried'
hint back to camp. There they 'sent
out word of his condition, and two
days later white friends reached him
on motor cycles,and not long : after-
wards a docttor.
Six days later, although he was still
wear shaken and frightfully ,bruised,
he had the reassuring knowledge ;that
all his organs were intact and that
nothin.g was broken ' except ,.his collar.
p
bolo,
hon h,;ite wounds
The elephant, t 0
were probiblY mortal, esoaped:, :
MILK
10t
Tc
We're Eatlhg It Too Fast.:
"Lumber is getting scarcer " and
scarcer -the market is terrible:''
"Yee—those breakfast-faait .factories
Q.tJ'V.
Would Feel Rich at That Rate.
Wifle—"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 id that it toasts
mare evenly, g
and Is more di estible
Stories Aborti1ell�Know People
The BIInd Organist.
Though hoes quite blind, Dr. Alfred
Hollins, of Edinburgh, ie one of the
most gifted organists in the country.
He has fought and conquered his af-
fliction, and one would 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 was•'trained at the Royal
Normal College .for the Blind, and is
now the organist at Flee St. George's
Church in the Scottish capital. Re-
cently he received the degree of Doc-
tor of Music. No one, I believe, has
ever deserved this honor more.
The Trust Buster.
In succeeding Mr. Harvey, Mr. Frank
Kellogg, the new` American Ambassa-
dor in London, will find himself loom-
ing larger in the affairs of Great Bri-
tain, 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 al modern
times. In )one, -auie alone els- Zees
totalled nearly 1,00,000.
Tile- nickname in'the' Vn:1tee t3tatee
is "The Trust Buster," because of his.
victory , in the Government action
against the Standard 011 Trust.
In a Forbidden City.
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- 1
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. C. Christie, wha 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.
It is remarkable how the oil lamp
has survived the era of progress in
which we live to -day. Only about
eighty stations in the London area
are equipped with electric lamps.
o
Who Did?
A Chagrined Sea Fighter.
Outside tea harbor of Charlotte
Amalie, on the coast of St. Thomas Is-
land, a huge rook looms 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 .still 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 prlva-
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 Rook un-
scathed and triumphant,
The musician was making such a
terrible hash of his piccolo solo at the
church meeting that finally an agon-
ized masculine voice in the congrega-
tion cried:
"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 al 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 -u 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
'.cided he had enough."
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 kille•LL40 per cent. of Euro-
pean inhabitants.
"I made my first printing plant," he
continued, "out et old kerosene tins,
hammering out the Braille dots on the
fiat 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."
To have, penetrated to mysterious,
Lhasa, in Tibet, which Is known' as the
Forbidden City of the Living Buddho,
is an achievement of which few, if any, rt,
other . white men' than an English
scientists, Dr, William Montgomery ,
Govern can boast.
Dr. McGovern, who made the joutd
nee on, anthropological, literary ane
antiquarian grounds, had to go most
of the way disguised as. a coque,' lee
had to study for a long time the habits,
of these coolies. Tremendous courage
was required to carry the enterprise
through, and that he not only reached
the city, but also gained poseeSaign of
many priceless manuscripts and took
many photographs, is tribute to his
dauntlessness, Be remained six
weeks, and then had to fly for his life,
when hie disguise was discovered and
the pity raised against him.
' The Blot on a Sportsi<nan's
Day.
Lions are apparently still plentiful
in parts of Africa, They leap and play
in throngs across the pages of Mn J.
Stevenson Hamilton's article in the
Cornell! Magazine. The author some-
what diminished their numbers, how-
ever, for his. eye was good, and his rifle
was in excellent working order. Here
is the account of one bit of 'lion stalk,
Ing:
After a while "Watch" nudged me
and whispered, "Nansi inkunzi!" 1
peered out cautiously; sure enough, a
couple of hundred yards away a big
black hood was moving over the grass.
The problem was how to get within
easy shot of the creature, which was
a big male, without disturbing any of
the females that very likely were in
the vicinity.
Leaving my companion, I began to
crawl slowly forward and, found my
self at last under a thorn bush. Some
sixty yards in front of me and to the
right I could see the head of a lioness;
she was gazing about, but luckily
never in my direction. Straight in
front of me and e, little more than a
hundred yards away the big male was
lying down, at intervals licking his -
forepaws. He was sideways to me,
and I could see little more than hie
head; he had a fine black -and -yellow
mane, Presently he rolled over and
was entirely lost to eight, Probably,.
half an hour passed. There was not e
sound except the humming of insects,
and it was becoming uncomfortably
hot under my bush, Then another
lioness got up suddenly and, walking
over to the old lion, ley down close
beeld,e'him. She proved to be restless!
and kept sitting up and staring about
bi all directions.
Once or twice in the next half hour
the old lion roused himself, but the
female was always in the way, and I
could not fire. At laet the moment
came. From somewhere in the back•
ground a younger male, followed by 4
couple of females, appeared slowly ep.
preaching. The old lion sat up on his
haunches, and for once his attendant
remained quiet. His back was turned
to me, and I had a perfect' shot at thr'
nape of his neck.
Crack! He dropped like a stone,.
but in that instant there was pande-
monium. Lions seemed to jump up
from everywhere. Nat knowing
whence the danger came, they dashed
wildly about in all directions, staring
and leaping blindly hither and thither.
The old lioness on my right sprang
to her feet and trotted straight 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. In
the excitement of the hunt I had^ for-
gotten all about my camera man wait.
ing patiently in the rear; I had cheats
ed him of a unique photograph. He
had got his machine get up about;
twenty-five: yards behind me- and. was
about to take a picture when I spoiled
his chance. One snapshot of a, Tion'
under such conditions would of course
have 'been e, finer trophy than half a
dozen merely shot! My friend wag
good-natured about it, but I must say
that I felt the incidr_:t was a blot on,
an: otherwise petted day,,
from a own a Drees a ng
That night there was feasting and
secured tor• the 'remainder of the&'trip re olein <both 'amon our.own follow
j g g
at Robson station. The trail winds up . ars and among the people of the small
the .Vall'ey oY, Ons Thousand Falls, to adjacent village. For hereabout lion
Lake -Kinney and,;Berg •Lake at. the 'gash is esteemed the greatest of 'alt
a e o delicacies. _
The beautiful Athabaska Falls, are,
reached beafellowing the <west Side of
the` Athabaska Valley ,ass far as the .
Whirlpool River along the old route,.
worn a century ago by fur trailers and
trappers to the Athabaska Pass. Tee
falls' and 'the wonderful gorge , are
about 22 miles :from Jabber at the foot
of Mount IK'erk•eslin.
'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
get the best of mountain scenery and
at the same time. reap the,: full benefit.
to Health of the'greaeout-of-doors, the:
trip should; be made ou pony back.
Intending visiters,'who desire to essay,
this delightful node of travel need not 1 '
fear - lack 'S of facilities because the' Worth Considering.
means have increased with the grew- The. Bridegra•om—"Row" muck
ing;demand .and "curring the asCsea- You charge for marrying us?"
-sell'.between 400 :and 500hhorseThe Justice• of the Peace --"Two dor•
_ _s were ,
j1'11. put
em !Dyed for the transportation. of I' • . :ars. And for another dollar P
p p n lars.
dividuels •and' artier from your;woman uuder band's to kelp the
p m Jasper to ._
all parts of the park. eace,"
When Philosophy Comes in,
"So he's quite a philosopher, ell?"
"Yes; quite—having failed in his ef-
forts to get rich."
SccnicWolldCrS of Jasper Park.
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 come into its own.. This: park,
which is the largest ,of the areas re-
served by the Government of Canada
for park purposes, wee set aside in
1007. Lack of adequate . accommoda-
tion for visitors: prevented its use by
the public in proportion to its import-
ante and it was not until after the
erection of Jasper.Peek.Lod:ge en the
shores of beautiful Lac Beauvert by
the Canadian National Railways two
years ago that'tourists began• to Ar -
rive
r
rivo in apreciable numbers,
Notwithstanding the., increased fee
,cilities: far accommodating; guests pros-
ruided at the:Lodge in:the,le23;seeesen
its capacity was; again, taxed and num-
bees had to be.turned::away.. The de
lightful surroundings and the splen='
did. s:ervice contributed' considerably°
to the great- popularity- of this region
and 11 is proposod enthe coining year
f urtlier to.enlarge the Lodge, ,increase
the nuinbee ot bungalows, and pos.
sibly erect camps at :Malign() 'Lake or
other important scenic: points.:
Since'the reservation of Jasper Park,
the National. Peeks' authorities have
steadily carried op development work
in the` construction ot .reads and es-
pecially trails to • the scenic beauty
meta of greatest. importance; beauty
Park's expanse of 4;400 square miles,
.offers ;great , possibilities, fon trail'
travel,,, hence .'lt may be considered
chiefly .,as a "trail park." Facilities
'for motoring are limited , and as the
only ' convenient means `of access is
• ver the..main 11ne of -the Ganain
at Plteting i1 onthe bum.' a.
National Railways from Edmonton the
amount of motoring within the park is
comparatively small.'The ,Malign
Canyon road, 9- miles in 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 hays- been completed.
linking up the majority of, the Scenic
wonders of .the park;aud opening up a
world of beauty to the pony, back rider.
Of the many beauty spots • which.
may 'be ,reached by trail Meth's park
those, 'which through the''. striking- •
beauty.. of their surroundings ' demand
mention, are, Malign Lake, Tonquin
Valley, Mpunt:Robson, and°Athabaska
Falls..-
All are within two days' trail
travel of the,town.of';Jasper.
Maligns Lake, .�consldered -by many
the most ,beautiful lake in, the Cana-
dian„Rockies is `36'miles from Jasper.
During -tlie trip 'Maligne Canyon and
Medicine Lake are _passed `before the.
wonderful setting of Maligne Lake is
disclosed. The lake" is 18 miles long.
and 'is, divided into two parts by•what
is- known as "The Narrows." Prob-
ably nowhere can a concentration' of
such fine scenery be found as in: the
lower halt of the lake. -Giant maim-
., tains encircle it rising sheer from_ the
water's• edge,`thoir sides clothed with
uescarred forests and their heads
-,-awned with gleaming white glaciers
1..ronr which waterfalls come tumbling
clown:;:to the lake, witeeMount Unwin,
climbed fox the first time last Beason
by Howard. Palmer•`: and Allan Carpe',_
-members of the Appalachian. Club'of
Boston, standing out 'prominently ,;to
the south, The return trip is made
over %Shovel>:Pass, with its altltudor;of
8,000 feet, from which one of the most
magnificent panoramic 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, casteIIed peaks along
the Divide, dominated by the uncon—
quered Mount Geikie, feature the land-
scape in this section.
Mount Robson., although not within
Jaeper Park' proper, is reached by rail
f theto f Jasper, h' being
Ls' fMountRobson..
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