The Seaforth News, 1933-12-07, Page 3TPfURSDAY
DECEMBER 7, 1933.
THE SEAZ+ORT
NEWS.':
NEW HOCKEY RULE'S
The Can Amateur floc icey
tAlssoclation` 'has adopted the .proles-
isiorai Code al'm'ost in its entirety. The.
ifoilowing synopsis has been issued to
'referees by the C!AIIH.A,;•
Starting in the defensive zone, the.
pincic may be passed or kicked for
'ward and taken in the first biiio :lune
by any defending player,
, i
'However,,s:hould the prick be pass-
ed or ldcked over the blue (line any
defen'din'g player who was dnr`the dte-
ifending zone when the puck crossed
'the;', blue line inlay skate up into the
cenitre zone and play the puck,
For a v'io'lation of this rule (that is
ifor a defending player in the centre
zone to take from the defending zone):
an offside is to be called and the face-,
off is to take: place at, the point where
the pack crossed the line.
This brings the play to .the Icentre
zone. In Chis there is no 'offside, and
the puck may be passed or kicked
+forward' by attacking :players',iip to
the second blue line:
When the attack reaches the sec-
ond ' blue line either the puck or the
,puck carrier roust be the first over the
dine:
'That is to say, t'he player in po's
,session may carry or kick it across
(the line or pass St laterally or for-
wardly into ,the third zone.
!When the puck or puck carrier
'crosses 'i the second blue line all the
'players who were in the centre zone
Iw'hen the puck crossed .the line may
,skate up and play the puck,
The puck may be kicked across the
second blue line or licked by any
player in the third zone.
dif an attacking player enters the
third zone ahead of the puck or puck
carrier play shall bestopped with a
fface-off at the blue line; should, How-
ever, an attacking player cross the
'blue line and the puck does mot enter
•the third zone play shall continue
without interrup'tion,
Thisbrings into play the attacking
Or third zone,' and the puck carrier
may onlybe bodied by the defending
tea -m.
r this zone (as in the ,tether zones)
eMssie110 o'ffside and the puck may
'he passed or kicked forward by the
attacking players but not into the net.
Special attention is paid to the fact
(that only the attacking player in pos-
session of the puck may be bodied by.
a'h'e defending team. He must not be
Icha'rged or cross-checked.
Referees are instructed to watch
this particularly and penalize all at -
'tempts at rough and illegal checking.
The attacking players are not permit -
'ted to interefere in any way with the
movements of the goal -keeper or his
vision of the puck or the play. The
penalty is a face-off at the blue line.
A goal scored under such conditions
shall not be allowed. No other ste-
eling player but the goalkeeper is.
'a lowed to sit, kneel, or fall on the
'puck, within .tat feet of his own goal,
'Penalty, a face-off ten feet directly in
front o'f the goad.
When an at'tackhrg player commits
a foul in the defending zone the face -
Off shall tale place at the blue lime. H
a defending team conhanits a foul the
puck shall be faced where the foul oc-
curs, except when otherwise 'specified
as in else preceding. clause.
The puck must at all tapes be kept.
in notion..
The ,team in 'possession in the de-
fending AMC,
e-fendingz!ne, may carry the, puck be
hied the goal line once, but after that
shall always advance the puck unless'
prevented by opposing ;prayers.
In the centre zioiiie they can pass'
the puck bacic and' forth but must not
canry it or ,pass it back into the de-
fending zone.
efendingrzone.
The penalty`is a face-off, ten feet
in front of the goal of the , 'offending,
team.
.On all face-offs every player must.
be on. his own side of the puck and
no player except those facing off can.
came within ten' feet of .the puck.
I
Atttervtia i' is called to this rule be
cause of ,the no -offside areas now in
the galme.
DANGEROUS CARBON
(M'ON'OXIDE
Tdie gasoline engine' is a useful in-
vention, wheclh .has, through its ser
viceableiness to the automobile, gone
far to revolutionize the habits • and
modes of our lives, But it has one
•drawbacic. In the course of combus-
tion—especially when the combustion
is not complete---ehe exploding gaso
prodtices 'a gas which, tinder certain
conditions is dangerous to health anti
even to life. That gas is carbon mon-
oxide; it is one of the most deadly of.
gases, and it is discharged from the
exhaust of every auto w'liose engine is
running, •whether the car is moving or
not;Though the warning against the
practice of starting- an automobile en-
gine in a closed garage has been wide-
ly spread, there are a great many
deaths caused by it every winter.
Carbon monoxide is the poisonous
constituent of illuminating gas, espe-
cially water gas, and it isalso produc-
ed in large quantities by burning coal.
The air of stove -heated and furnace
heated houses is sometimes contam-
inated to a dangerous extent with this
gas, which escapes when the draft is
poor. 11 may even pass through tiie
wall of the stove if the iron gets red
hot, and poison the air of the room
sufficiently to give the oc'cup'ants
headache, nausea, lo's's of appetite,
vertigo and a constantly irritable c011 -
clition of the 'mucous membranes of
the air passages, When the gas es-
capes continuously it seriously affects
the general health for it lowers the
powers of resistance and causes sus-
ceptibility to colds, grip and pneum-
onia,
The gases from automobiles contain
from four to eight per cent of carbon
monoxide; b.ut as little as one per cent
is enough to produce serious, if not.
fatal, consequences. Of course, this is
still further diluted by The atinoshpere
in the street, but if there are thirty
or forty cars crowded into a small
area the dilution is mot enough to
make it entirely' harmless. Those who
must continually breathe the air in
the midst of automobile traffic that is
mticll concentrated are likely to find
theimselves vulnerable to the attacks
of common disease germs which they
A QUEER 'FI$r'I
Every part of the world has its an-
imals of peculiar interest to the tor-
ist, Id he goes south to the country _af,
the Sloth he will see an animal whose
very existence he might .deem impos-
sible. If he goes out to the prairies,
the ranchers in that country will tell
'him Met -edible sttories of that cunning
wretch, the coyote; if he goes still
farther west into that little region of
dry land's in British Oolunt'bia about
Okanagan Lake he will ,'find some
very remarkable forms of life.
Seated early omie warm September
evening '7 on a hotel verandah in thatl
cotlniry, some tourists were coiapar
ing the, strange creatures they h'ad
seen, When they :had talked awhile a
native of the place volunteered to in-
troduce then to another curios ty:'of
natural history that they might add
to their' collection. So at his invitation
they followed him down, to a moun-
tain stream,that emptied- into the 'lake
,close by it was only a yard or so
Heide,' but it shot clown over its steep
course' in a tremendous hurry to
reach 1110 lake. Ol'ose under Elle 'bank
lay what Iseemed to be reddish ytoaes,
fronteight to twelve inches long..
Tlae tourists were told to walk quietly
.to tlae, edge, kneel clown, place their
Moods slowly in the water, then just
as deliberately to grasp : those red
Pilings, keeping their hands carefully
towards the end pointing ' upstream.
To their amazement they foundon
lifting their prize from the water that
they had a "lcickaninnie," a species of
trout, and not a stone at all. The fun
had started. Never before laud they
caught a fish with nothing but their
bare hands, and in less than half an
hour the threemenhad 'caught', en-
ough for the breakfast of the guests
01 the small hotel.
The kickaiinaies begin to rise from
the lake bo'ttoin when the September.
moon begins to show, and the "run"
is most numerousas the moon be-
comes full. Then gradually they de-
crease in :number. At no otheii time of
the year are they to be seen. They
will not bite at a hook; so they are
never Naught in 'the lake. Some people
say they are a deep -water fish and
that they cone fro'ni the depths for
the spawning season only. They dart
with wonderful swiftness up the cur-
rent and come to rest in a pool For
a few minutes, then on up again,
taking advantage of stones and twigs
to clamber up the, rapid's of the
stream till they can go no farther.
The boys go out at night to these
streams with lanterns and gaff ,the
fiisli' as they, dart by for the kicka'n-
inteies prefer to go up by moonlight
rather than in the daytime. This prac-
tice of gaffing had to be stopped, as
the fish were so easily caught that it
was feared they would be exterminat-
ed, One "old-timer" used to build a
dam across the stream and catch'.
then by hundreds to spread as fertil-
izer on his land. He took for his own
Wants what he could use, salted down
what he needed for winter and the.
rest he spread about under his peach
and apple trees. The law now forbids
any such wasteful use of the fish,
which without some protection of the
could easily resist if tlae air they took sort would unquestionably become
into their lungs were pure. extinct.
THE 'MAD STONE"
B'efore a core and a preventive' for
itydco';ph'obi'a. were discovered no cry
struck greater terror to the childish
'heart Cham that; of ",\itad dogl" :Louis
Pasteur of Paris discovered how to
cure' andp revetat the disease about
11690, but before that:time the wildest
cuts andP reveutives were used:
The greatest f 1
the 0'1d -time
o all
cures asy �
s a writer, vas a "mad
stone." When as a boy in the fourth
grade I was buten by a ferocious doe
noth eg would satisfy any parents un-
til I was taken to a-"t0.aad stone." The
village physician recommended it
'hi'ghly. The postmaster had been
treated with a mad stone years' be-,
fore and had lived ha'lf, a century to
tell of its wonders, A''learned lawyer
had seen the stone save the lives of
at least a'dozen 01 his frieids WIT
were fortunate enough :.to be able to
get to it and have it sock the poison
from their bl'ood. They all told of, the
way a m'adstone stuck to the lacera-
tions of a dog _bite and of the difficul-
ty with eshic,'h it was removed if a
trace oe poison remainedin the fvie-
:So "try parents sent me to a '- mad
stone in a distant part of the -country.
Strangers pointed me out as the
lucicy one who was on the road to
the fountainof health. 'Ajolly .,con-
ductor;of the Wabaslh'.fed me a bit of
candy and cheered nae up by telling
me that his own boy had died through
not having the privilege that was note
mine.: Lt appeared that, people knew
in advance that I was corning. A
train crew let me ride in the engine
cab in order to- get nae' to the stone
before I went- mad. So we arrived in
Carrollton, Missouri, on a cold, fros-
ty sprung morning. The banker of the
town sent word that tae would bring
the stone to the hotel.
II had :heard. so much of it that I
imagined it was the size ,of a worn-
out rmillstone, and I was disappointed
when tlae banker. did' not arrive in a
dray with a bunch of moa to carry
the stone into the hotel. Insltead he
had the stone in his pocket. The stone
was reddish and must have been an
inch •long and half an inch square at
'the end. He told me that it had been
in the 'fancily for years ,and had orig-
inally been found in the stomach of
a' deer in Scotland centuries ago.
He asked of some varni milk to
soak it in; he said 'that would make it
work better. He said ala that it had
stuck for 'hours on dog -bite wounds
and would then turn green becapse it
had absorbed so much poison.' Bet try.
as he right, it would not stick to
the wounds on - me.
Of course we naw know that mail
stones have no value as a preventive
or a cure for hydroph'obia, though no
doubt they did considerable good by
keeping nervous people from worry-
ing too much.
This old fashioned cure has a par-
allel in the story told by "Trader
•I -Torn," that the native witch doctors
in Africa applied living pullets which
had the'‘flesh scraped away on the
breast, to poisonous snake bites, Ho
maintained that in a short time the
pullet would absorb enough of the
poison to cause its death; then a se-
cond pullet would be applied to the
wound which frequently died, but set-
ter
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dorsa, 'would the third' one 'die, the crane baskets which take it up to the
poison being completely drawn ' by 1,level to be broken up arca. the' stones
the first lavo, separated'from the,; gravel.
THE SWARM
The immense,cone-aha ed rt
s.
n
of :bees known as 'a swarm 1s
composed of thousands of ri-away
bees. Thee 'have h, ,. ',suddenly derided to
leave all the comforts' of on their ,we11-
well -
ordered t h nc and to gooLtt.a
into
the
world, seeking new quarters.
The reason foe ,this sudden restless-
ness
restlessnes can only be guessed at. It may
be rine to over -crowding of ,the hive
duriiag a good 'honey season, or poss-
ibly,the queen may be growing old
and they wish to raise a new queen.
There can never be more than one
queen in a hive, It is a proved fact
that' the swarm leaves' the hive always
at a-7 time when it has, reached a peak
of .prosperity anti activity,
The swarm is coni.poserl of the
great majority possibly 60,000 out of
30;000 'bees, 'The remainder takes up-
on itself ehe ' rearing of the young
,queen 'and the care of the old hive,
The old queen always goes with the
the lwarnl, ,'S'ometitnes'.slie seems to
be a little reluctant to leave her home
but generally allows' herself t0 be per-
suaded. A swarm without a queen
would be utterly disorganized.
That the swarm is moved with a
fixed purpose is shown by the fact
that the departing bees always carry
with them enough of the stored honey
to 'last them five or six days.
The swarm is liable to take up its
nesavquarters on the branch of a tree
or any 'friendly surface such as a net.
Such a teeming mass'o'f bees looks
rather terrifying, but as a matter of
fact' it is a very good-natured crowd;
Tliisis apparently the only, holiday
the worlcer bee ever gets and she evi-
dently makes the most of it and is in
a very happy, good-natured frame of
mind.
Ply means of the scout bees the
swarm finally locates a place for the
new home, and the golden brown
stream makes its way there. Once
more the hand work of building a hive
and storing it is .taken up.
The busiest member of the colony
is tlae little worker bee. Her jobs are
many and include the 'foraging for
'flower honey, pollen, ,(known as bee
bread), water; also ,the planning and
building of tate hive, She is also the
humble cleaner and the Amazon at
'the door .to 'keep all intruders away.
'During the height of the season When
there are many flowers in bloom and
countless stores' of 'honey to be gath-
ered, the 'little worker bee wears her-
self out in a few short weeks. If she
is fortunate enough to start laer small
life in autumn she may live through
until the next spring,
Tlae queen bee, with her long, ele-
gant body, 'being, the mother of the
hive, is treated with every attention,
being given her own attendants and
led only on the fnes,t honey. She
does ilo work 'beyond caring 'for her
own error -mous family. She is a much
more beautiful creature than the faith-
ful worker bee 'but has not so keen a
brain.
'The drone is the only member of
the bee (household who is allowed to
trifle away' the golden hours and he
is ,only tolerated until the hive be-
comes too crowded. Then he is bund-
led out whether he will or not. He bas
the distinguished privilege of being
the 'husband of the ween bee for a
very short time, but he does not live
long enough to become king.
,We have heard e. lot about the vir-
tee of the ant, but the bee is still
more diligent, and her work has a
lovely ,result. What in the world is
daintier than homey, so delicately
wrought by the little ; golden bee?
'Honey is concentrated sunshine, sun -
mer winds and the breath of flowers
tvitlathe bee sweetness added to at in
full measure,
AFRICAN ADVENTURES
When Miss Lucille Thompson left:
her hone in California in 11023 to es-,
ta'blisda'thee department of social econ-
omics in the University of Johannes-
burg she little realized the turn which
her holidays were to take, One year
Pegging out a diamond claim and dig-
ging for the precious stones. Another
"shooting" wild game (with a cera
era)' in elle preserves. Another similar
hunting trip to 'Victoria Palls, And,
perhaps most fascinating of arid, an ex-
pedition into the Orange River coun-
try to seek for a famous "diamond
'pipe" from which the datives bring
out stones to sell but which no white
Haat has yet seen,
Every year the 'British Government
lets out a little of the alluvial country
in the 'Transvaal, the fortunate per-
sons with allotments get their 'lic-
enses, and hire natives 't'0 dig. You
may go along without a cent of tak-
ings with which to pay ehe natives,
and theca Etre up a $5000 stone,
"Always," ehe says, 'yon • must
watch your native diggers. They sung
and 'bring their picks up and down in
unison. LTot a flicker of expression will.
indicate when one of them turns up a
'stnne. But hare toes' will snuggle it
farther and farther bate the clay until
an opportunity offers for the digger'
to swallow it. The picks dislodge the
clay. Then it in shovelled into iron
"By this time no prospector• 11 eves/
'trustinghis, own partner and together
P G g
they gto .the sieve with its wooden.'
sides where the,rotating th'iows the
oto acs onto tlaa soirtiia = t; bl` and with
1 6 Cl e a 4t
tr.au„tela'. piecr i,f t:n tl0 sC'nes'
010 ssgregiited into :parcels;
Every Saturday iitorning the buy-;
er dIipears;`ri111 what he takes :is care-'
fully get down its • the record book';
against the'., government tax.”
Tia ¢nii,gi-faotn e lcraal asst
Elie return°ofation the nativesthafter 1
ofk`wor picturesque, Tliey orne in
, is P qq 9
tatters, a: shirt P
wlaicl1 i< perhaps a. 1
neckband ' and a fai' 9t,a_o of cloth,
andusr i patched t o .e s are i a.che,l bey;unl re-, .;
cognition. Their treaeures are carried;'
intheir hair. 'When they go home
each has :a vivid made -iii -England
blanket. .a bright -colored hanclker
chief for his possessions; and aP ink
or blue tin trunk in which the savings.
are carried home on the=head,,there to
be invested in cattle, which is legal
tender for wives and a permanent in-
vestment. The precious stones are
turned up in a section which she des-
cribes as
es-cribes-as' absolutely desolate, with ex-
tremes of hot days and cold nights,
dust is blown about by fierce winds
with some people extravagantly
wealthy and others, poverty-stricken,
and on a .field so pitted with excava-
tions that it looks as though a battle
had been in progress.
Quite a different sort of holiday
was the 2,000 mile trip in a little Am-
erican coupe through a country where
gasoline costs fel a gallon. the settle-
ment stockades are closed at nightfall
and wild animals are seen round ev-
ery turn. One day it was eiephoute,
'which may charge you if you chance
to be in their way," another rhino-
ceroses, "which charge at anything,''
and still another lions. "which never
bother you if you leave then. alone.'
Tlae only troublesome lion, Miss
Thompson adds, is an old one, ex-
pelled from the herd and compelled to
kill alone. Toothless he cannot catch
game as he used to do and he will at-
tack human food.
IOn this particular trip the car
cavae around a turn and there were
three lions lying across the only path
through the bush. An hour and a
half the little car had to wait for the
lions to move on, Once one of then
came up and smelled the radiator but
liss Thompson found no fear in the
situation. and only a great deal of
pleasure since the lions posed con-
stantly for their pictures, playing with
each other, stretching themselves
while they sharpened their claws on
the bark of trees. They were utterie
hadiltereet to the car even when the
horn was tooted as a traffic signal.
Tlae Orange River prospecting trip
was undertaleen with a prospector
who thought he had a native who
would reveal the "diamond pipe, a
geologist and another woman. The
safari included a motor lorry full of
tinned food, a small automobile for
the four heads of the expedition, and
seven natives, one of then a chief to
protect the guide against reprisals of
the natives. Under a 1+20 -degree sun
and with short rations of water, the
party deflated tires to run through
sand and inflated then for the narrow
sheaves of rock which cropped out,
They dug their way through heavy
sand and crept across rock, Tlaey ate
heavy food and wrapped their faces
against windblown sand, All in all,
they were lucky when they made thir-
ty utiles a day. Finally they came to
their mountain. 'With ropes 1a Iet
down one of the party into the "pipe",
with instruments, aid food for two
days they climbed. And then with vic-
tory staring them in the face, the
guide had an attack of fear. The chief
with was protecting him could not
move hiva. The party waited to see if
he would recover. At lase they had to
leave tlae spot where they are sure is
the cave with .its.. fortune of precious
stones, buried under erosion.
SHARP RISE IN TEA PRICES
Faced with ruin due to appalling
losses over the past three years, tea -
growers of Ceylon, India. Java and
Sumatra have cut down their exports
i'5% this year as compared witch the
peak years of '29 and '30, Thais re-
striction laas had the desired ,effect
and prices have risen sharply.
iPackers"of fine teas in Canada have
been forced to increase prices, but as
the average pound of good tea will
make 250 cups or more, it is still the
cheapest triune next to, water itself,
'Salesman: "Ladies and ,gentlemen,
I 'have there the famous flexible comb
that will stand any kind of treatment.
You can bend it doable, you cat 'hit ii
with a hammer, you can twist it, you
can—"
Interes'ted Listener: "Say, mister,.
can you comb your hair with it?"
MEE';TING OF U.F.O.
On Thursday, December islth, dtu,•-""
ilr.g the week of their annual cancan -
lion The 'United Fla;rlmers 'of Onta'nifi,
ane having a ata ss meeting -in the 'Meg
Edward Hotel, Toronto, begiauaing,at
1.30 p.m, a'