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The Seaforth News, 1924-08-07, Page 3• " '94,•,•" Be Your Own Hero What Is Your Ideal Man? If You're Quite Frank, You Will Admit That it is Yourself— Idealized Perhaps, But as You Might Become if You Took the Ideal Seriously. We all indulge in 'hero-w-orship th some form or other. Nature -encourages us to do LO be- cause it ie good for us. It is an in- fiuence for growth. We mould our own character to the one we admire, and thus enlarge the filed of our in- terests.. Tonuny copies his father deliberate- ly because lie is too young to be self. conscious or introspective. His father is naturally the child's hero. 'In Tom - ma's view, he gets out of life all the good things that he—Tommy---would like to obtain. SO in imagination, Tommy places himself in his father's shoes, and acts as much like his parent as he can. • Father's Model. Tommy's father, in his turn, copies the head of the firm. But he is too self-so/melons to do it deliberately. So he does it instinctively at the prompt- ing of Nature, who says to him by ,sug- "You would like a job like Wouldn't you? Then improve youtself. Be like him and you may have a post like his one of thee days." Kindly Nature, to look after her children so well! This may sound funny to those who don't understand science, but 1 assure you I am net writing in a jocular vein. It is all sober fact, however strange it may appear. But, then, nothing is so surprising as scientific truth when we first meet it. Every one of us has at times in mind the ideal peroon eve should like to be but we are not. The ideal may be high, and its attainment might bring us very near to an allround complete- ness of character, or it may be a poor ideal and only include one small trait that we would like to alter. Yet if our ideal is an improvement on the actual in however small a degree, to that extent it is. helping us in our life. •We would become better men and wo- men if we could realize it. Ambition's Healthful Urge. "Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself," says a famous writer. "This ideal man which we project, as It were, out of ourselves and seek to make real, this By Geoffrey Rhodes, eeeadoioate'goodii ess which we aim to trathefee from our thoughts to our life, aae an imago more or leseaower- MI an each man.;' Deep clown in the heart every man ariCwolaaneleee a passionate longing. It is the desire to be a certain sort of person, Our ambition may show itself at un- epected moments when we ane art play Yosi want to see Roberts when he's playing billiards" was a remark made , • about a certain friend of mine the other day, "Brown seems a sleepy old fellow," was another remark. - "You wouldn't say so if you saw him on duty," came the rejoinder. Althetugh we may be quite uncon- scious of this desire it is there all the Same, and it is helping ne to play the hero to our small sphere. Home-made Heroism. As I have already said, this mimick- ing is a provision of Nature for raising us all to a higher level. We instinc- tively admire in the character of others what we lack in our own, and thus an improvement goes on which is none the less real that we are main. ly uncanscious of it. We all have our heroes ,the cha.rac- tors we would like and strive to be, To most of us, however, this hero is not a person we have seen or heard of, He only existe in our imagination. True, in all departments of life we always have to start learning by copy- ing somebody else until we can stand alone, It is chiefly for the same reason that we are keenly interested in fie. tion. We identify ourselves with the heroes pictured there, and enjoy, as' it were, by proxy, the triumphs of John and Peter over evilly disposed per- sons and adverse circumstances. Have your heroes of this kind by all means, and emulate them in work and play. But if you think it out you will find that your real hero, the one that stands for all the others, is, as I have said, an imaginary being. You don't know him; you have never heard of, much less seen him. He is really built up of ltttle, heroics chips off quite unheroic people waom you do. know. Consider the mater a little further. Think harder about it for s, moment, and you will have to admit that he Is remarkably like you. In fact, he is you. You as you oaght, should, or ceuld be if circumstances pernatttedi So, you see, after ale is said and done, you are your own hero, And a very good thing, too. For this form of hero-worstip does not involve any Mawkish senthnen. thlity or undue conceit of which we need be ashamed. • It simply means that in running af- ter our ideal character we strengthen our own. And it is character alone that counts in all we undertake. Our success or failure in life depends More on our own temper and disposi- tion than on anything else. Character Is Fate, Remember this, too—we can't get away from our thonghts. Per good or ill they follow us throughout our days, and 'that is why 11 18 so important that we should s•eek unlifting and inspiring ones, Thoughts lead to acts as cer- tainly es day follows night. If your ideas are noble it lano more possible for you to act meanly than for the sun to cease shining or the earth to stand still. Even in the most ancient days and among the moat primitive races men found that they could not get on with- out their 'good" as woll as their "aw- ful" examples,. Now, you have got to make up your mind which of these two you are going to be. "Every mans own character is the sole arbiter of his fortune," says Re - 1 man sego. I By means of this automatic charac- ' ter-improvenaent scheme of Nature we admire in others the qualities which we lack ourselves, and so tend to build ourselves up to a higher level. But don't worry if you have to con- tinue running after a hem and never catch up with him. The exercise will do you good. In any case, no one le a hero at home. But perhaps that is as well. It Would go hard with some of us if we wtesrle only loved for our heroic quell - ie For Boys and Girls 44211==== TRAINING A DOG. TO SWIM. One of the most useful things that you can teach a dog to do is to go into the water at your command, not mere- ly to frolic and cool off on a hot sum - rim's dase'but, if necessary, to recover the water to "fool" a dog; you will some floating object or even to.reseue succeed only in destroying his con- e person in danger of sinking. fidence. The training should begin when the It is best to put off lessons in div- ing until a dog is eighteen months or two years old. Choose a spot where the water is shallow and clear and pond or lake where the water is shal-' sink a small basket where the dog can low and station yourself in a boat a see it. Later other articles may be short distance from the shore; or, jfused but they should be as light - I you are in your bathing suit, wade colored as possible, so that they may out a little way and call the dog to be.perfectly visible under the water. • you. Never force him into the water.When a dog has learned to swim The dog will rapidly acquire confi-, with confidence and to put his head dence and will soon cease to be nerv-lunder water he may be trained to ous when he gets beyond his depth.. Jump into the water from various When that stage is reached it is a heights. Begin by throwing a stick good plan to accustom the dog to foal for him into the water, and after- • low the boat at first for a short dis-lwards withhold the stick and teach tance and then gradually on longer him to jump only at the word of come trips. At the end of each swim take, 'nand' the dog into the boat to rest and Sorne dogs will dive from a bridge praise him for his perseverance. I or from a spot fifteen or twenty feet The dog should be taught to select above the water. Such animals have s eep banks that are hard to climb: Possess unusual will power. That can be accomplished by callingl If your dog 1s particularly strong bine to the land only at spots where and intelligent, you can with care and the banks are low. Re will soon learn: perseverance teach him to rescue a to select each places of his own accord.' drowning person. Begin by using a A young and intelligent dog will dummy that has an arm that the dog to perform the trick only once or twice at a time and never allow him to play with the rescued stick or to take it into the water himself. Never pretend to throw a stick into animal is eight or ten months old during the warm days of midsummer. e Select a place near the edge of a My Country. The love, of field and eoppice, Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered wood and gardens Is running in your veins; Strong love of grey blue distance, Brown streams and soft, dim skies; I know, but cannot share it, • My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt mantra, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains,. I love her far horizons., I'keve her jewelled sea, Her beauty and her terror, The wide brown land for me! Core of my heart, my country! Her pitiless blue sky. When sick at heart, around us We see the cattle die— But then, the grey clouds gather, And we can bless again The drumming of an army, The steady soaking rain. An opal-heal:tea oountry, A wilful, lavish land— All you who have not loved her, You will not understand— Though. earth holds many splendor, Wherever I may die, I know to what brown country My healing thciughts will fly, —Dorothea Mackellar, Near -Sightedness. Ne,ar-sighted children, in the opinion of the council of British oplithelmo- logists, should be awarded no scholar- ships intended to fit the incumbents a good landing -point and to- avoid been exceptionally well trained and for teaching. The opinion has na- turally caused considerable dissent, especially among parents-, but it is probably based on sound sense and looks to the ultimate mid. of the great: q y earn to recover a stick or , can seize. Then wrap your own arm -,01 the population of Great Britain other object from the surface of the in cloth to avoid injury and letatha 80. per centlive in town areas, «water, especially if he has already; clog take it into his rnouth.e. „Any anie - been trained to do the same thing on mal whose training leeeaadvanced to land. Upon seizing the object he; that stage will goon understand what should be made to bring it from the is expect: lif him and will quickly: water at once and to seat himself leann to' seize a person's arm without with it at your feet. Call upon him 11,Ihg his teeth in it. Investigations Into Strength of Timbers. The effect of ale rate of growth On ager-aaattaacif Canadian woods has 'been the subject' of investigation at • the Forest Products Laboratories of • the Forestay Branch, Department of the Interior, within the past year and considerable new knowledge has been secured. The fact that rate of growth oxen cises an important influence on the mechanical properties of timber had been brought to light by previous re- search. It wee known that in soft- woods, such as pintaand spruce, slowly grown material tended to be stronger than that of very rapid growth and that in the so-called ring -porous hard- woods, such as asa and oak, the re- verse was true, slowly grown wood being inferior in strength to that of more rapid -growth. ' Analysis of the results of many the Laboratories, has now enabled the investigators to go a step further and to determine definitely the rates of gtowth at which maximum strength is developed in a number of the im-. portant commercial woods of Canada. This information finds practical ap- plication in a large number of uses of wood in which the strength of the ma- terial is a primary consideration. Outward. Boond. "The Jersey coast is slipping sea- weed, they say." "Sneaking out to the twelve-niiie thousands of strength tests, made at limit,011 0101,' • One of the visiting bluejackets from the Britiah naval squadron at Van. Sourer, photographed with a bear in the park at Banff, Alberta. r FAMOUS BACHELORS OF THE PAST There are famous bachelors in the Modern world; and a list, beginning' with Lo•rd Balfour, Laid Haldane, and the Hon. Maurice Baring, would be interesting, says an English writer. But in the long list of the men who lived and died in a state of "single blessedness" there are more than any single article can mention, and a 18NY of the great bachelors 0-0 the past must suffice. There is, Oliver Goldsmith, for in- stance. His "Iessamy Bride" is one of the fragrant flowers of literature, but, although there is no doubt of his love for her, and her strong affeotion for him, yet sae.married another, and the author of "The Vicar of Wakefield" an.d "The Deserted Village" died a bableelor. Oliver's greatest friend and com- rade, Sir Joshua Reynolds, also lived and died unmarried. He, too, is credited with -his love affair, and, al- though he painted all the loveliest wo- men of his time, including Kitty Fish- er, there seems to have been only one woman for him, and th.at was the fa. Mous woman painter and R,A., An- gelica Kauffinann, whom he was wont to call "Little Angel." She made an unhappy marriage, and it might have been well had she married her some- what elderly and very deaf adorer Perhaps painters, are "evedded to their work," for it was a painter who said that no artist should ever marry, and It is a fact that there are perhaps more distinguished bachelors among The fairies they're abroad to -night lof "The Task," and deemed almost the best of English letteravriters, died unmarried. Yet the poet had many women friends, who were devoted to him, an.d many of his meet sprightly amel . churning epistles are addressed to therm Of course, he was subject to intermittent dementia, and perbaps that fact kept him from matrimony, else he might possibly have married in later life Lady Austen, the "Slater Anne" of some of his most charming letters. Cowper's Love Affela It was she who, when the poet was distraught and melanoholy, scggested that lee should find distraction for his thoughts in writing a poem. "But what _shall I write about?" said the poet, "Oh, anything—the sofa we're setting on, for instance," said the pretty, lively evidow, and thus, "The Task" begins with the words "I sing the Sofa," and the poem which began so frivolously ran to six Books and close upon six thousand lines! But 0owper's real. love affair had been much earlier (says a writer in 'John o' London's Weekly.' This was in respect of his cousin, Theodore JaneGowper. Coevper. Cowper was articled to an attorney, and his fellow clerk was Thurlow, who became a famous Lord Ohancellor. The two youths spent most of their evenings at the house of Cowper's uncle, In Southampton Row, and there he met his lively and hand. some cousin. But the father object- edo, No persu-asion or tears would move him, and the cousins parted never to meet again, Sean Og. Now where is It you go, Sean Og, And where is it you go? artists than among any other single As ev'ry one must know. close. Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A., The moon is up, the tide has turn'd for instance, was a bachelor. And soon the cock will crow— But, although he never married, he Then where is it you go, Sean Og, And where is it you go? was a "squire of dames," a very las- chatting man, and there is no doubt he caused the famous itirs. Siddons to think that he had matrimonial inten- tions in respect of one of her daugh- ters, although even she did not know "whioh." I go into the glen, old man, I go into the glen, That I may meet the White Lady And be the talk of men. One of his lady apologists—and he You see me young, you see me strong, had manywho made excuses for such And fear I do not know— a "dear man"—says: Then to the glen I go, old man His manner was likely to mislead without his intending it. He could not write a common answer to a dinner in- vitation evithout Its assuming the tone of a billet-doux; the very commonest conservation was held in the soft, low And to the glen I go. But what will be your fate, Sean Og, And what will be your fate? 'Pio' you be yoang and you be strong, Your daring is. too great, whisper, and with that tone of defer- Oh, do not seek the White Lady, ence and Interest which are eo calcu- Lest she might think it so— lated to please. Then never home you'd go, Sean Og, Re is said to have been actually "en- gaged" more than epee. , William Cowper, the famous author itee ITS N use 'Fos. I1 To STUN SPELUN 4 MOM "MA. c. REA. ALWAYS CHAN 4ES -me 'v./0kb S ! r And never hom.e you'd go. No heed paid he, the wild Sean Og, No heed at an paid he; 1.1e went into the deep, dark glen To seek the 'White Lade'. And now of men be is the talk; • His name is high and low, For never home he'll go, Sean Og, And never home he'll go. —Patrick Kelly. She—"Nobody loves a fat man." Mr. Derlbroke—"But I'm not fat." She—"No? Well nobody loves a flat man either." A well-balanced mind is the best 0 remedy against, affliction, IS THE SUN'S BRITISH -CANADIAN WHERE • COAL SUPPLY THE AIM OBJECT OF PARLIAMENT BEING ATTAINED. Growing Demand for Welsh and Scottish Anthracite in Canada. The House of Commons in its die- cussion on the '31st of March, 1924, of the fuel shortage in Ontario and Que- bec in 1922, arrived at the conclusion Which was expressed in a resolution that the time had arrived for Canada to have a national policy in relation to Its coal supply, and that no part of Canada should be left dependent on the United -States, The same resolu- tion expressed the opinion that the Government should immediately con- sider the initiation of an all -British and Canadian coal supply. A means of giving effect to one phase of this resolution had already been pointed out by reports prepared under the di- rection of the Honourable Charles Stewart, dealing with the desirability of developing a permanent market for British anthracite in Cat ado. In view of this it Is Important to note that the imports of Welsh and Scottish an- thracite Into Canada, which began in 1922, increased largely in 1923 and pro- mise to still further increase this year. The amount imported in 1922 was 180,- 000 tons and in 1923 262,000 tons, an increase of nearly one-half. Of the quantity imported about 90 per cent. has graded as of "domestic" size and has in consequen,ce commanded the best market prices. In this connec- tion, however, it ,should be borne in nand that the 1923 figures oover a full year's trade movement,' while those for 1922 may be said to he confined to the summer and autumn period, fol. lowing the visit to England of a repro. sentaUve of the Canadian Department of Mines. Demand for British Product. Nevertheless, the 1923 development must be considered highly favorable since it has taken place through a comparatively small number of deal- ers, often without facilities for crushing and grading, in competition with supplies of United States anthra- cite which are again plentiful, and in view of the increased attention de• voted by the Dominion Fuel Board to the possibilities of domestic coke. Moreover, certain prejudices against the British product had—and have yet —to be overcome as a result of some of the earlier shipments which were not properly screened. Tha supplies now available are understood to be uniformly high in quality and with the fine duet removed. Quebec and Ontario dealers supply- ing both British and American hard coal report a small but a very definite and even insistent demand for the British product, including briquettes. Moreover, this demand is actively growing as certain qualities of the British coal are becoming more widely understood, namely: ltd small ash con- tent (2 to 4 per cent.); high heating values (14,600 B,T. Units); responsive- ness under draught, both to pick up and throttle down. It bas been tho uniform experience of those using this coal that It re- quires less attention either for stoking or ash -handling than similar grades of United States coal; there is less waste, and, everything considered, less expense. The objection to it is that it is brittle and tends to break up In handling. Demand and prospects on the whole have been so satisfactory that certain promieent Welsh colliery interests have now completed requisite plans for the installation of a breaking and grading plant, with docks and railway sidings in Montreal. This plant will have a capacity for handling about 400,000 tons annually, and the owners plan on shipping to Canada at least 100,000 tons during the present year. Coal Balanced by Superior Quality. In regard to price, the British pro- duce, of course, competes with United States anthracite. Even in districts where the former has had to be sold at a higher price than the latter, the difference is counterbalanced by the superior quality of the British coal. The first cost and the dust retard- ed its early popularity, but an im- . proved grading and distributing sys- tem such as that under way will, no doubt, overcome to a ceertain degree -these objections. The cost of transporting coal from Swansea to Montreal is only about half that of bringing It from Pennsyl- vania. This is clue to the vary favor- able ocean rates and to the large sur- plus of eargo space regularly coming from England to Calincla, There are many factors to encourage a pea manent anthracite trade development between Great Britain and Canada, Which would be extremely advantage. ous to bath countries and an uninixed bleesing to the ooemaaattelara. -1; Use of Water -Power in Canada. In the central electric station endue - try, on which every city and town in Canada is dependent for light, heat, power, street railways and in many cases water supply, 97 per cent. of the total output is obtained from water. power. In addition to this. many:in- dustrial plants. from coast to coast pas- sess their own water -power plants. Both in use of electric energy per apita and in the proportion of electri- ally lighted abodes. Caeada exceeds he 'United Steam. aoe,eaaiele. „ MISSING PLANET? - 7 uP7elniea Ple41ete, Once re was a ninth. What became -of the, misseng planet? Pro- . feesor Clarke, the geologist, says that It exploded:. The flocera of meteure en- countered by the mirth in itsiligat through space are fragmente of it. Millions of these fragments enter our atmosphere every twenty.fout hours, but nearly all of thein are burn- ed ap' by the res,ultiag friction before they can reeaoh the surface of the earth. Occeeionally" one lands, and we call it a "fallen star." ' All the known meteorites, some of which weigb, many tons, show indlea- dons of a tommon origin, The con- dition .of the subetanceseompoeing them, showing alteration by pressure and other physical influences. proves, in the view of some scientists, that they were originally parts of a planet, , Blown to Pieces. It must have blown up. The catas- trophe ,may have happened in either of two ways. The olanet, revolving too fast on its axis, may have been . tom to piece& by centrifugal force, Or, if it had seas, the water of the latter Ivey have found a way.into the hot interior and blown It up. Our solar system is rather oddly an ranged. Near to the sun are four little planets, one of which is the earth. Of these, Mars, is the outermost, 140,000,- 000 miles distant from the central luminary, or Omit half egein as far off as. We are. But of the four outer planets, all of which are giants ,the nearest to the sun is Jupiter, 500,000 miles away, As for the missing ninth planet, it must have been a member of the inner group, otherwise, in our journey round the eun, we should not be continually encountering its frag. ments. Diamonds In Meteors. The earth was formed in one of two ways. Either it was thrown out by the sun, around which it has since re- volved like a ball that a small boy whirls on the end of a sting, or it was composed of numerous. small bodies that generated heat by oollielon. In meteorites there is an associa- tion of rock stuff and metal, just as is the case on the earth. Not only iron, but copper, tin, and so on. Nearly every substance that we know has been found in these "fallen stars"— even 'small diatnonds In numbers, et Canyon, Diablo, Arizona, where an enormous meteor once fell, making a crater -like hole nearly three-quarters of a mile in diameter and 600 feet deep. Thus the significance of Professor Clarke's remark will be understood when he says that the earth resembles in its make-up a huge meteorite, He estimates that about half 01 115 total bulk or volume is represented by its rooky envelope, the other half com- posing the metallic oore. The supreme agency in generating and developing all forms of plant and animal life was the influence of the sun's rays. The sun, carrying the earth and her seven seater planets with it through the void of space, is travelling northward at a speed of twelve miles a second, or more than a nallion miles every twenty-four hours-. Yon are at this moment more than 1,000,000 miles from the place where you were at this hour yesterday, A Ball of Blazing Gas. It is entirely conceivable that our solar system in its wonderful journey might come across a "dark nebula"— one of those seams of meteoric mat- ter, of inconceivable immensity, which appear to veil great patches of the sky. In such an event, passing ' through the nebula, retardation of the sun's speed would convert part of its locomotive energy into heat, and, the friction helping, our orb of day would be raised to so high a temperature as to be transformed into a mass of blaz- inggitat this transformation it would become perhaps a million of times its present size. What would then become of the earth? It would be promptly burned to a cinder. Indeed, the flaming body of the new -made sun might be large enough actually to embrace the earth within its sphere of barbing gas. Measuring Rain. A rain 'gauge comes& of a small cylinder, the lid of which is in the form of a funnel with a specified diam- eter. Maki° the cylinder is a glass vessel for eollectin.g the rain. The rim of the funnel is usually Mad.e of brass, while the rest of the contriv- ance is 01 copper or japanned metal, which serves as a protection against rust, Valens types of rain, gauges, are in, use at the prese-nt time. Scalia have a diameter of eight hitches and con- tain a -metal bucket, from which the rata is actually measured; others are five inches in altimeter awl contain a graduated glass voevel, from whin the water is poured into another more finely graduated 'bottle. • e • An lagenious inveatea 1-ele ;peewit:L._ ng i0,d 00.6iielriwl&ii rain from ari ordinary receiver pasees to a eylind,er fitted with a float. To thia float is at- tached a lever, which raises, and low - ere e sliding pen. me latter works on a revolving- ariun. When one inch of ram has been collected the cylinder automatically empties etsele, and the readings begin again at zero,. The most extensive, interesting and readily accessible field for alpine climbers in the world to -day is found in the Canadian Rockies.