The Exeter Times, 1924-8-14, Page 2OPEN LETTERS TO A FARMER
I3y; Rev. M. V. Kelly, C.S.13,
(Continuedfrom last week)
XVI. vanceinent give entree to what is
called; .high society, o i s le es.
said the better. Not long, ago in. a
large city a young girl, having mar-
ried into immense wealth, within
three years formally announced her
decisien to lave done with g vain church-go-
ing.to explain
in 112a•ny tried in 1
lain
the astonishing perversion; mean-
while, women of some years acquaint-
ance declared the explanation was
quite simple. "No one who gives her-
self up to tale life of society can con-
tinue a practical Christian."
Where Satan Holds Sway.
For one ward has lived all his life in
the country it is hardly possible to.
realize the thousand snares to entrap
the young to be met with in every
busy city. Yon hear of them now and
then, hut only by living among them.
Can you understand' how numerous,
how ubiquitous, how seductive they
are. It would be nothing, 1•es:s than
foolhardy to suppose' that your child
ren :could be immune from danger.
Long, idle evenings, late hours of re-
tiring, the street corner gatherings in
parks andsquares; the automobile,
• promiscuous company -keeping, the bel•
liard hall and gambling den, public
dance halls, the cafe chantant, the
p questionable theatre, the ever-present
picture show, with the thousand other
modern varieties of aitiusement;: im-
, moral and irreligious literature sown
broadcast, sensational fiction and.
stories of romance, the language, the
example, the :acquaintance -making so
-frequently associated with employ-
ment in large factories, socialist meet
ings`,and organizations, and meetings
of many other movements founded; on
a false philosophy and false ideas of
religion, the degeneracy of shim dis-
tricts, the unmentionable resorts of
sin and debauchery, the •street. ao-
quaintances ' who lure the young in
these directions, temptations from the
example of elders—every city is pro-
vided with them all. Can anyone sup-
pose for a moment that such condi-
tions are without effect on the re-
ligious spirit of our ,Canadian young
people. Can - any Christian parent
• think of it without a shudder ,isf, hur-
1 roe? The _father and mother who give
up the innocence of a country home
in quest of greater gain, or easier oc-
cupation, or opportuuities of 'enjoy-
ment, perhaps never realize the dread-
ful responsibility they are assuming
in bringing their children so near
those haunts of iniquity and degra-
The Unremitting Blight,
In my last letter I drew your atten
tion to the decline in religious spirit
and practice when people are given
tip to enjoyments and pastimes, But.
there is even a greater eaetny o
f rae
f-
lz;n than this uniter ittcut aove
pleasure and excitement. Nothing so
bliglcta:,.every interest in a liereafter,
as the eeirit: of the world. There is
no room for G'od in the heart of a
worldly-mindedman, aud the actuat-
ing spirit of progress and, success in
city careers is this spirit of the world. 1t
There .is the all,absorbing struggle for
prosperity, and gain, the pride of
wealth, the ambition for distinction
and honor,, the craving for recogni-
tion, the aim to reach the first place,
the readiness to make any sacrifice
for the, sake of a place in society.
With these .come subservience to the
dictates of fashion, the vanity and ex-
travagance which such aspirations
necessitate, bringing up a family in
idleness, marrying for position, even
though the alliance be with the most
irreligious and irreverent, a studious
observance of caste, a mare or less
concealed contempt for 'the poor or
humble, forgetfulness of their needs,
the hard-heartedness that comes
from lack of'sympatey with, and un-
derstanding of, their, sad and wretched
lot, and a greater self-indulgence by
consequence -all this but faintly des-
cribes ` the atmosphere surrounding
that portion of a. city population whose
ccesses are held
su up as models for
those who would, strive to "make
something of themselves in this
world. And because people of stand -
leg
P p
are actuated b '' this spirit, its: in-
ing 5 P
rank -and aall-
fluence extends to every r nk d c
ing. - In the homes and families of the
struggling laborers there isa constant
temptation to imitate; its presence
cannot,, be altogether excluded from
the minds of children in our primary
schools. Nevertheless, this isthe
menace to religiion "which seems to
give least alarm. Everywhere good
old habits at simplicity, vigorous .fami-
Iy traditions, longings for an eternal.
reward are gradually disappearing be-
fore this subtle, unsuspected, perse-
vering enemy of Faith. Faber finds
still another form of worldliness the
most dangerous of .all. It is the dis-
position, the habit of seeking one's
awn comfort. How seldom wefeel
called upon to warn -the money-maker
of the danger of surrounding himself
and his fancily with every possible
comfort that wealth can procure. Very
often increasing wealth and social ad
•
(To be continued).
Charles E. Bunnell is president of
the farthest: north- college school of
mines at Farebanks, Alaska. The col- •
lege, 'which is situated in the Arctic
Circle, has an •experimental mine in
operation at the foot of the school hill.
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Many Mine Records Are •
Held in Canada.
Canada has many production re-
cords to her credit and this is espe-
cially so in the mineral field. • The
world's largest amber mica, plumbago,
nickel, asbestos and other mines are
situated. in Canada, while during the
war many other minerals were in
such great demand that individual
mines overcame all handicaps and
met the acute needs with a prompt-
ness that was of very material help
in providing war materials. -One of
these latter minerals was molybdena.
ite;'` the sulphite of molybdenum. The
metal, molybdenum, finds its greatest
use as.`an alloy for steel, which it
strengthens and consequently 'reduces.
the weight required. In electrical
,work molybdenum replaces platinum
to .a large extent at a much reduced
cost. It is extensively „used in radio
work.
Before 'the War there was practi-
cally no production of molybdenite
Canadn,i'with the 'exception of a few
tons of 'ore taken out on possibly
"Big" Men. occasions. , 4 •ifew promising deposits
and numerous "occurrences of the min -
To call a man "big" is to utter a eral were already known, and the war
challenge. Those who hear the word 'demand led to the active development
applied are aroused to ask, "What of the better known of these and the,
has he done?" It is useless for any systematic prospecting of numerous
man' to insist on his own pre-eminence; occurrences of 'the mineral. The close
his quality must be determined and of the war quickly cut o the marlret
his place assigned by others who have that had' been developed and left large
seen and appraised his work. supplies_ of the mineral on the hands
The "big"man is not, the- noisiest. of mineral brokers and consumers in
His are often the "schemes accom-' England. Prices at once declined and
plished in repose." ` He has, great pa -Canadian, operations ceased.
tience and can' wait. It does not fret ( In the `peak year of 1918, Canada
men arriving, before. became th :second largest producer of
him:: to find other a e
him; as he- is not puffed up over. any molybdenite.•Most of the output carne
success of his own, so, in, the belief from a-'deposit':near Quyon, on 'the
that all work is more important than Ottawa:- river ain't Quebec, about. 30
the workman, he; is glad that •a worthy' miles weseibf.Otti_t. t -Whig 'mine dei
undertaking' goes forward, whoever is' some :time- was ..the :world's largest
honored and rewarded for it. producer. Since the war many ex
It` is the' little man who clamors for. perirnents have'b'eep, made in the'
the credit, and must be advertised as making and tesfirig of commercial
the figure of supreme importance on' molybdenum steels. These have prow -
the landscape wherever he appears. ed the value of low rnolybdeniins alloy
Petty claimants for applause and steels, a fraction of one per cent. of
praise invite the amused tolerance of the metal being used for structural
the truly great, who wonder why hu-, and engineering purposes where'' great
man beings should- so perturb th"m-` stresses and strains are involved.
A Poem You Ought to Know.'
The Solitary Reapers--
Wordsworth,
eaper." Wordsworth, the poet of Nature,
went for a holiday into the Flighlands, I
and this is one of several unforgen I
able poems he brought back with bite..
Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass•!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Al'one'she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings `a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale prnfeund
Is overflowing with the sound"
No Nightingale del ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary hands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,.
Among Arabian sands; •
.. Voice se thrilling neer was heard
In Spring -time from the Cuckoo"l ird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides,
Will no one ° tell' me what she leggs?----
Perinaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy,vfar-off things,
Anda battles long ago;
Or is it some more rumble lay;,
Familiar matter of to -day?
• Sonne natural sorrow, loss, or pain,,.
Thal, has been, and tray be again?
selves over the trivial insignia of The s:cpoit demand for molybdenum
rank, authority and.social pitececlence. is reported to have improved to such
What is any honor that man can be-
stow on man compared with the need
of getting the world's work done?
The little man calls a halt in the
middle of business to affirm his own
consequence, when the real importance
attaches not to him, nor to any other
person, but to the affair in hand.' In
every sort of occupation the personal
equation cannot be - ignored; there is
need of sympathy between the human
factors, 'there is room, fpr the amen-,
ities, and colleagues ought to be
friends. But the thing to be done is
impersonal,' and it has no time to
waste : on the idiosyncrasies of : those
engaged in doing it. in every task
that engages human collaborators,
the man' who is too :,e-.: itire for his
own "rights" mcl too ready to dis-
cover pricvars;s is a detriment, and
all'coneerned would go further' and
f fasinr v'ithou'• him:
"Big' then ar : h n n and are lov-
1 err of their kind. They are sociable
and affable: They do rot ram to wrap'
thereset •.:s 'ia, v^i: of a yful mystery
and ,hake, thereselvse iner;;essible. But
they are too busi-v engaged in living
lift: to the felltobad i•at ,fficwhile
they admiringly oxinnio rl their own
achievemar,t, You aro ',ell the "big";
man, b .ca.u,e he eev. n tries to tall you
-}tow big he is.
Sweeing; the Sky,
The fabl•o1 l,er orm znc.o• of • the old
woman of: the nuraery_i'kiyrne who
"swept" the cofewebs out of the sky
has' a scientific parallel in the ability
of aviators unsle,r sense conditions to.
brush ,small clouds out of the `sky by
flying through them rapidly.
A. fait sdGcd ..,iiitrmer cumulus of fair-
weather cloud -ria" somefinnes tie dis-
ti�;�oat e s ,
p,eitsed by about twenty 'flights through
ft;
Wlate'er tee theme, the Maiden sang
As if her song could have izo ending;
I Saw ,her singing al. her work,
And o'er the sickle bending: ---
I listened motionless and still;
1,
a • e n ed the 1il
And, sIm u t rip e i1,
The music in my heart 1 bore,
Long after it was heard no more:
an extent as to warrant the re -opening
recently of the Quyon nine, a Enquir-
ies
q
ies are being received from the Un-
ited States and Europesupplies.
for su
The concentrates from the above mine
range from 90 to 96 per cent. molyb-
denite, while what is recognized as
standard and thegrade upon which
the market price is 'based hi New
York is ` 85 per cent- The 'increasing
I History of Fminre Depicted : Natural Resources Bulletin.
at Wembley
The Natnra. Resources Intelligence
Thek3mpire pageant is the ,crowning Service of tale Department of the In-
Clotey in 'Wembley's world of wonders, terior at Ottawa says:
As a spectacle alone, it would be in- The sea 'herring is u comparative
comparable, but it is more than a spec ly small fish, yet it is one of the most
is
impoctant of the food fishes of Can- HUNTING.. AREAS NOT
.Acle; it•a ^ecceatiou• of real,, ,events ,,. �y�
out of which came the. Empire of to- ' west ' ' ELL K1�;QWN AT
oda, Oii" ":both ` the "east and " t�
clay. Round bout the vast stadium coasts large catches are securedr On
GAME RESOURCES
PRAIRIE' PROVI
ay . onn a
are buildings typical ofthe lands they the east coast Nova Scotia last year . PRESENT.•
t d i them are displayed
took 8 25b N B k
166 tons, Prince Edward `Island 2,554
tons, and Quebec' 8,245, tons. British 'LargeRe urces
andvaried
-Resources
Cozumbia rodu 'ed 5 000 tons.
p . 6 .
' The British Columbia coastal. waters Protected Against
Are
.Protected
represent, , an n , tons, New' ttieeWzc 12,-
' natural and,manufaeturen products
lustz tin il-
•a sifted resources of the
• g diversified • x
'Dominions and dependencies. All of
these 'depict the strength and extent ,
of the;edfflce that has been 'reared, but are, - however, Canada's• greatest her
in the stadium itself are seen men who ren fishery They are found along
made all this possible, the great dis- a�most the entire length of the coast,
I• coverers and conquerors who planted . but particularly around Vancouver
the flag in hear and', far 'off lands, Island they are very plentiful.
number of commercial uses being
found for molybdenum as a result of
research and investigation may be
expected. to 'create a greater demand
for the metal and a more general min-
ing of moiybdenite throughout Can-
ada to meet- the demand.
pioneers of the. Empire who built.ln .A large paokxng industry has been
con=m wtour; t up forwhat
' "Scotch is. ; way from . being the actual
aeonsnticraterents]risend hasfrocamehose the mag- cured" herring, which consists of truth. The attractions of the Prairie
is known - es a long
gall p
niflcent achievement of which the cleaning, salting and packing the fish Provinces to hunter's and sportsinezi'
exhibition speaks. in barrels. Six thousand barrels of ale not so well known because the ::
I rem the. stadium the Empire looks this pack' were put up in British Col- subservient phases of that territory,.
down upon its splendid and heroic his- umbia last year. are largely oversla,dowed by the reg,'.
tory. There i a great theatre of land The Orient is the chief market for town it has achieved in • agricultural
and sea, of plain and mountain, and on herring, which, to meet this demand, production and because this area is
to this vast stage come men andwo are dry -salted only. Last year fifty not to anything like as large an ex -
men of old time, kings queens, tour- thousand tons wore put-up in this tent visited by sportsmen from other
manner for China' and Japan. This countries, As a matter of fact few
tiers,, soldiers, statesmen and partyP"
adventurers. The Cabot set forth up- 50;000 tons represented approximately areas have gt rater or 'more varied at
on their quest and find Newfoundland, 700,000,000` fish. I1 is claitried by fish- traction for the sportsmen; certainly•
Jacques Cartier sails up the St. Law- 'ernien that the supply, of herring is no agriculturally producing area. Very
mace and rears a cross at S
tadacona • ample and that there is no likelihood many contemplating settlers totally
Champlain follows and Laval, and New of depletion due to, the large takings, neglect this phase of Western life,
Franco comes into being. There is a the 1923 catch of herrings,' 35 which not only offers them engrossing
parade of _honor ~when the wo great tons were used fresh, 5,005 cases were sport 'when opportunity offers but is
and victorious armies of Wolfe and canned, 22% tons`: were smoked, 37,- to the farrier a valuable supplement
Montcalm" march . together. The139 tons (net weight) were dry salted, to his larder.
United Empire Loyalists come, and 21,721 barrels were pickled, 165,133 That the game resources of the
thele are successive scenes of the barrels were use das bait, and72,465 Prairie Provinces, whilst found in an
political and industrial development, barrels were used as bait, and 72,465 agricultural area and belonging in a
Dangerous'Depletion..
A very general lmpressio,n exists:
that the game resources of Canada are
confined to the heavily timbered pro
vinces.of the Eastern. Dominion, which.
making up the story of Canada. Aus- The herring is but one of the many peculiar manner to the farmer, are
commercial fishes for which the fish- sufficiently' attractive to lure sports-
men from elsewhere is evident in the
annual record of one representative
province in this regard. In Manitoba'
telt year 10,158 game bird licenses and
1,801 big ` game permits were issued
by game wardens, and the returns-
from
eturnsfrom ,these ,licenses show that 527
deer, '389. moose, 48,232s prairie chick-
ens, 28,028 partridge, 1,359 grouse, 752
wild geese, and 185,969 brant and
dunks were shot. 'f'he Government
revenue from these licenses aniountect
to $31,533.,
Varieties of Game and Fish.
trance and New Zealand histories are'
treated similarly., and, thanks to the eries of Canada -aro famous, and in•
enthusiasm of a huge army : of velum Point of value, when freshly caught,
teer performers, it ,is all • done ;with brought a revenue to the fishermen
reality -,of $1,620,449,"or a little under one
a wonderful appearance of
•
But perhaps -the most striking of cent. per pound.
• all tee pageant is that of the Empire's
heroes. It is the final. Into the theatre
ride and walk great -captains who have
fought in all 'Britain's wars for oen-
•
Salving Sunken Ships.
Between 8,000 and 10,000 ships, •of
which,'nearle 6,000 are British, it is
estimated are lying on the ocean bed.
These sunken. ships are reckoned to
account for about 15,053,786 gross
tons, and their estimated value is $34,-
033,900—at pre-war shipbuilding• rates.
With their cargoes•, the shins below -
the sea are worth a ;fabulous amount.
—experts put' the figures at $6,001,01,4,-
400 roughly.
There Is nee l for the ships as well
as their precious' cargoes to be raised,
and there is small- doubt that the sal-
vage engineer will be: kept busy for
years hence:
Ships of lea's than 2,000'tons can
usually be-ra.ised' 'bodily by means of
pontoons; ships. above such a mark re-
quire often more. ingeniious .handling.
Pontooning is employed whenever.
possible for salving sunken ships; the
second method Is for ships to be pump -
.ed „and floated, which means that
divers must go down, locate holes, and
mend them with :plates, before_ the
ship' is pumped',free from water and
raised again.
In a third method compressed air is
used, to force the water out of the ship
at the bottom of the ocean. •
An American has; invented a salvage
submarine which .can.•have its,. door
open below water without, letting
water into the ship.: .4. European sal,
vage company, too, have ;a patent un-
der -water ship which 'carries' several
divers, and is a. complete repair -shop
fitted with telephones and search-
lights.
tunes by sea and land. De Leon is
there with his crusaders, Cromwell
and his company of Ironsides, Marl-
borough, Wolfe, Clive, Drake, Greu-
i ville, Blake, _ Hawke, and the Iron
Duke with the eagle nose and short
side whiskers. They are all there
riding and marching out of history in-
to a new day; all save one. Britain's
I super -hero, Nelson, the captain of cap-
tains. He comes, but not in life. The
body of "The greatest sailor" is borne
upon a state barge, and is placed on a
funeral car with stately ,ceremony..
' High, .officers carry Nelson's banner
I and trappings and a:''military excot
any
about.
follows the oar, while a great comp,
any
heroes are marshalled round
A bell tolls and at intervals a gun. is
Bret. The body is borne to St.Paul's,
and the ceremony changes into a
thanksgiving for the glorious, dead, It
is an unforgettable 'epic, superbly
staged and profoundly impressive.
I By Locust, Post.
While the district mounted -patrol of
the Krugersdorp (Transvaal) police
was at work destroying large swarms
of locustson the north-western .boun-
dary of the West Rand at Middelvlei,
a constable noticed one locust which
seemed' to have,, a white body.
He.gave chase, and on capturing, it
found tied round its body a piece of
paper bearing the following pencilled
message: "26-5-24, Christiania. Boere a
d'oen Julie bestei—J. du Toit- ("Farm-
ers do your best.") •
The distance between Christiania l
and Middelvlei is more than 200 miles,
and the locust despatch flyer must
have covered the :distance with a.
swarm abcut a Mile long in;twenty- f
fcur hours, which included.a rest over i
night.
1
Over one thousand domestic serv-
ants have left ,England for Canada
already this year. �.
.� hatograp'h ,s lows Mr. F. W. Field;
who wa.s;,pi''esented` to' H.M. the King
at St. James' Palace, London, recently,
nd appointed. as' His Majesty's Senior
Trade C•cnIiniesioner in Canada 'anti
Newfoundland:
Eggs As Coins.
alone is not of the onlyform of cur-
.
rency existent, though it is, the only
orin internationally recognized: .Nor:
va • some"
y trines uses corn for coin; the
Fijians use whales: teeth while cliccc-
ate, coc o�-nuts, and eggs, are employed
n the interior of South America.
Titer& aye' pal•ts o•f New Guinea where
the natives pay -their bills in slaves!
„ are F � hegreat allied conference at tke; ;foreign Office London, In the front l•ow,aro:
L.)elet,ala, are sl.cC�n fc.iJr,�i,izii, tier opening session of •
s : , French 1 remiei 1'd . Ramsay MacDonald (British Premier) Signor 1)o
Kellogg (nnzetican: rlrnbassacad oi); ibi, Tli(ilrnis, (T.:,elgianircmier), $:1lorrzot• ( ),
Stefani (italian Finance Minister); anditarOn 1I ashi (Japanese Ambassador).
_ .
Even in the more settled districts of
the Prairie Provinces (in fact,` many .
game birds increase with settlement),
the prairie chicken, partridg•e,' and
wild duck• are to, be found in large:
numbers. Though the wild goose..
intakes 'merely a'halt in the agriculture
al' areas an his way' to and frcm the -
big lakes of the far north, sportsmen
and. farmers `always take a certain
toll in the spring and fall migrations.
In'addition there are ptarmigan, plov
er, woodcock, snipe, rails and coots_
All these are essentially the property
.&f the'eett1er, one of the. assets` of the
homestead, his sport as occasion of='
fers, and his provender.,
The fishing- is' scarcely less•elabor-
ate and attractive. A partial list of
what the '.Prairie Provinces offer in
this line includes pickerel, gold eyes;
pike, whitefish, lake trout, perch' and
a variety of trout. The lakes and ,:
streams in .this' wide area are so'ex
cellentily distributed that no farmer
is at any' distance front a source'oz '..�
fish supplyand this is a regular ar ticl ,
.of .his 'diet. Fishing through the ice,,.
in the winter ananths is 'equally pro-:
fitabbe and ensures a seasonal ,supply.
Big Game in Alberta and British
Columbia.,
As indicated in the license figures
there is a"variety of big game hunting
on 'the prairie. ,Moose are to be fon.nd.
in most of the wooded districts of the
Western provinces, remote from act -
pal': farming settlement; whilst deer.
fun even . where agricul-
ture
ricul-
are to be o d v g
ture is,: bein followed and are pienti.
fel beyond these areas. In the winter
months coyote hunting frequently of-
fers entertaining and profitable sport.
Real big game shooting is offered by
the mountain section of Alberta and
British Columbia where the mountain
sheaf') and goat and the grizzly bear
abound.
The game resources of the Prairie,
Provinces are nor only 'barge and var-
ied, but precautions are taken against
a dangerous depletion. Bags are limit-
ed' ,to within reasonable limits, and
where it is found necessary restock-
ing takes"p.aces A few Chinese pheas
ants;'. for. instance, introduced` `y ears?
ago, were for,; years protected, until
to -day they are' `found in some nein
bets oyer a.large area. The Hunger
Ian partridge was also introduced to
the region, and, under years :of pro-'
tection, has thrived and multiplied td e
a . wonderful extent. Manitoba made
further importations of this game bird
last year from Czech() Slovakia,
Wembley's Fiery Fountain.
In the' Scientific Sdcticn of the 13ri-.t.
tish Empire Exhibition is a fiery foun-
tain, ,�•
Issuing from a rock is a stream of)
water flowing in a graeoful curve on,
to a glass flower,and thence overflow
ing into a mossy pool.As the ,st ca-
of water touches the flower` it appoarstc.,
to catch fire, and the flower is ilium.`
•inated, As you look -the color changes
from fiery white to fiery red, then from
fiery red to vivid green, but the water
that flows over the flower is colorless,
As it .falls on to the 'bank below it
again s}iows a brilliant irideocencne
Tire oxhfbit was prelnaretl by the Man-
chaster ..College of Technology,, and ,a
good deal of work sled a great :number
of experiments, were Tilade to bring
theevico ' i rf c
d to ectiOn
to: ,
Thehe•r • f a ri' 1 is
a.to CareF,andwhete
'ten a yard in iiamei sr,
rw: