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The Seaforth News, 1923-07-05, Page 3For the Boys and Girls • THE YOUNG SAMARITAN. One August afternoon, -just after one of those heavy summer rainy .had drenched the streets of a large pity, small hoy of nine years found a half dead little bird which had, apparently fallen from a nest. The little creature Was feebly hopping about the middle of the rood in the very path of an approaching horse and buggy. The boy made an attempt to draw the driver's attention, but not before the Unfortunate little bird had been struck by one of the horse's hoofs. and knock Y ed into the gutter: I distinctly remember th incident as I was the ni boy who had made the nese thosigh ipany years haye"bi I still feel proud' of my a R, Schadel, cold and make up by senttzng them off in March, if the weather permits:'= "Ani YOU don't want to ask us to change the rules, do you?" said the Physician, exchanging knowing glances with his -colleagues 'l3ut, in other re• spects, are you: satisfied?" have to be,' Boxiffarrl answered insane. Allow me to tell you that I P v cholerically. • "They say that I am e foregoing am as sane as you are." ne year-old'i "Yes; I know you are:" ue, and., al- The examination was over. rice ,id passed, The door having doted, the doctor ct,—Joseph loaii'edtaward hfa colleagues and said, said, • comfldtial1y. "'Phis 'man whom you have Just ee ht acts too normally. At first blush 1 ge N THE ideas waled seem sensible. But his In E. ono of the rarest and most dangerous.: A BIG GAME HUNT I AFRICAN JUNGL A big: game hunt will me our next party.: It isn' aine,,so>no one will object y g ke a hit at cases of insanity, Nine times out of t a rough ten the patient is hopeless. to havingTurning to the attendant nurse, the room, and president of the commiesion pro - people in "Dimmable," pounced the single -word "Incable," Chopand Bouffant met that even- ing alter dinner; Chopin lamented: rows ofl "You'll never catch me' being Letitia' the centre again, These. Russians always bring less chair bad luck, But you—how died you get hen some! through?" names all the others. One may be hist Bouflard. "I told them thin sap anothe h' were very reasonable and very stens- ible," ou put it on in the living' L7 With a mingled feeling of; pity Mid 1 it indignation, the boy defied zero con be just as many as you have guests, - r. First of all,, place two hairs, bask to back, down f the room, there being one an there are players. T to is selected to be th road and tenderly took the littlee fea- thered creature from the wet:mud and placed it in hit cap. He then made his way home, where his kid mother received the little bird and made it as comfortable as possible. A shoe box was fitted up as a sort of nest and home; some soft rags were placed inside, and, as the storm was past, the box placed ou an outside window=sill The developments interesting.oPments were In fact, hardly. a half. hour had elapsed before two,. -pretty! birds with tufted heads appeared I the electric wires near the window and were causing a regular commo- tion in bird language. They were par- ents of the libtle bird and were seek- ing their lost baby. The little Samaritan watched the birds with interest no sound or motion for foto making riing away the visitors But the baby bird was already, Struggling Jo get out, of the box. It had heard the cal'. of its parents. Suddenly, one of the larger birds P timidly flew to the wlndowsill and,1 glancing about hurriedly, crushed' some red berries into the hungry lit-, m tie mouth of the baby, then fiew oil i again. But the young bird semed to' a want to go with its mother and father.! s returned an vihour later, the older birds c flew to the window sill. Afteore food r both les ter a ser- oP• c hi ' x in s `P and d h o ' P m P s ab th • g out t there was a flutter of wings,I three birds were.gone. Thtin d the e had finally managed to Y bird g from "a large hole in thebocoverelf Ine c 0 t0h enter, riei It was very simple," expiafned x is gun, another his part- ridges, one an etepipunt, one a bush, another' a; tiger, and so on.. The players then sit down, while the hunter starts a story, walking around the seated players as he does so, lie may begin by saying, "I am'. going on a big game hunt, so I. put' on my cap—" At this, the player nam- ed "cap" gets up and takes hold' of the hunter's coat, marching with him around the.chairs, While the hunter goes on with the story.. He may say next, "Then I took my gun." The N " • gun lxunps up and joins the pro- cession. The` hunter keeps on .with his story, bringing into it the different names he has given out, and each player as his name is mentioned gets up and takes hold of the coat of the-Iii'st'one in the recession. This continues until every one is in the line. - Then the hunter begins to walk ore slowly, .saying, "I think there s big game near." He keeps on talking bout how he is stalking the game, till marching, round and round the hairs. Suddenly he shouts out, "Bang!" T he game has been found, and this is he Signal for a rush for the hairs, very. one going for: the nearest one. he player who does not succeed in getting a chair is the hunter for the xt round a ga The Proof of Bottffard's Insanity By .Marcel Dubois Translated by William L. N1cPiterson They met far the first time on.a December night to one of the lodging houses in which the municipality shel- ters the homeless for a few hours. They had struck up a friendship in the simple manner of outcasts. Ohoplu and Bouffard, although, they were poor claylike were resourceful and Ingenious. They ended by salving their preblem of existence. One fine day they both simulated madness so arc tis- tically.�that they were lodged attheg'overnment's expense in an insane asylum. Relieved and tummy, the two reseals grew fat. They had but one care in the world—.to play mad, in which they succeeded marvelously. But these beautiful days were not to last forever. Whether;their system had been employed by too many other poor tel Lo ws inque quest of bed and board', ' or whether the number of real psycho paths 7 - oP th me. A little dieconeerted - by the gro- Leeque spectacle which Chopin pre- sented, the doctor repeated, gently; . "Are you well fed?" "Not as well as at the Kremlin,": Ohepin answered In •a dead voice, . "At the Kremlin?" "Yes; at the Kremlin; You vlsh to know the whale story, do you? Well, I am Dentine, the King of the Rut - edam, the Emperor of the czars, the benefactor of huinan.Lty. You are hold- ing me a prisoner in your hell. But know' that behind me I have a hundred $ildddon Cossacks, who -will run to me at the first sdgna9. Bring me my gray mane„ To give more realism to hiss menaces Chopin ;began be make queer noises with hie tongue and lips, directed to an imaginary steed, "Very good, very good," the doctor interrupted,. Unfortunately this was the third Lenine Whom he ,had en couneened in the lash twenty minutes. "Very good,, my friend; we are going to set you free so that you;ean return to your Cossacks:" This decision was only a feint on the doctor's part. But it did its work. Chopin, in , tom , pLetel taken lean abeek,stop- ped ' making the 'ni>;is;os to his gray inane d said reproachfully to the ex- doctor, x doctor, you will not do that!.sure of it," the doctor whis- o his colleagues. "All. right, nd, you are free, He added, severely: "Don't let me see you aged, Next!" Bong'ard advanced brembilaug. The interview began with the regular gees- genes My friend, are you bts:PPy hare:? I hope you are. Are you well fed?" You are too good, doctor.," Bouffard replied Deathly. "Tile meals are not increased astonishingly, mare, an there were no longer any vacant places amfner: "Oh, "I was pared t my free n the asylum. Chopin and Bouffard were distressed to hear that a medical commission was about to subjeot all the patients to a rigid examination, wlxdoh would be followed by the libera- tion of such as seemed to show' lin- Provemenit. Slender and, elegant in hie black frock coat, stzolotng his beard familiar- ly with his amistooivutic ,hands, the presidentof the oommieedon inspected the inmates: Per one, who eippaered better, he signed a release; to another, whose condition was Less Promising, he recommended strict rest. That meant a new lease of life. Chopin and Boufterd, shill bleeper - able, anxiously awaited their turn, "My friend," the doctor said hetet, nally to Chopin, "are you happy here? I hope you are. Are you wall Ped?" Chopin, hie eyes burstingfrom their sockets and his month strangely die - traded, seemed to want to phynotize the examiner. Itouffard, who Yellowed these manoeuvres, murmured - admir- ably to himself: "The animal! Whet talent he has!",I A library, is. not to be deliber- ately made, You cannot plan it out on paper and then buy it en bloc. Of course you can make a collection' of books in that way, but a coIleetion of books- is not a library. A bookstere.is a collection of books, but ie is not a library. Y Alibrary Is an organ - l' ism developing oPf n side ids by side with the mind and character of its owner. It le the house or his spirit and is thus furnished pro gressively in aocordance,-with the progress of hie mental life,— Richard Le Ga1llenne. bad. Perim/to they make its• eat beets too often:" "I will give orders to change that" "011, Doctor, i3 I allowed myself that observation it was not with the idea of making a protest Pond "i understand you. Of cbains;e ivot. Otherwise are yon well -treated?" "Perfectly yes, perfectly, Ondy-" "Only what?" the dootoe, interriuptesi beginning to find his subject ether reticent, . 'It •le• not. a Personal idea which I ate going to lay before you. I think that there are too many guards here. There about three hundred inmates, , and bo %teatitch us there are one hun- dred and twenty guards, who, most of the tinxe, have very little to : do, Watedn't it be better, "as a matter of economy ?" --- We will see to that, my loan. Have you anything elseto tel mel" , "Yes, Doctor, The weather is cold and there n is nohti+at _ vet in the hails," "But, my friend, we are only at the; 151 h of Ootob er " And what 0b ;that Doctor?" The rules of the asylum, tike the rules of all Dubldo buildings, provide for furnist'iug beat only from Novem- ber 1 to April: f," ' It wolrld be: more reasonable, per-. ha pm to light the stoves when it gets "Weal?" "Then -they thought I wets insane." The Firefly."Aih�! little firefly, turning on Your buid's-eye in the dark," I cried, "pray tail me what you, see In garden, field and park,— What trysts beneath the laurel bush,. Wheat dunces en the lawn When all the things that creep ani! fly. Make merry until dawn." "As. soon as twilight falls," he said, "I throw this beam of mine On every Shady corner where A beamof light should Shane.I saw a cricket prectiaing A melancholy tune Upon his tiny violin To Serenade the moon, • "I happened on a bee asleep Within a lily bell, On honeysuckle dew he'd dfued Not wisely but -too well. I showed we d tit. e highway toa snail wished , : ed to move his house, And from a predatory owl My flashlight saved a mouse, "A moth was in a spider's web, And by nxy welcome ray She snipped the shackles from her feet' And swiftly dew away. - I peeped into the oozy neat Of Jenny Wren, and found Her downy babies cuddled up In slumber safe and sound, ".All's well, so I will say good -by, It's time to leave my beat, And .to my resting place beneath: An ivy sprayretieat nes- And helliographing his adieu With flashes of 'his light, The fired, sop went off patrol 'And vanished in the night. • Minna Irving, "Bits of a Song Come Drifting ThrougFt My Brain!' Bits, of a smog sono drifting through M Inning . And Yet I cannot etng its iiaunting. Though. it tames . stealing o'er itie unaware Upon the wake•ot each delight or pain; Hour long, I try to catch its notes ihi Zein, And 'three, dereated; thrust it from me, till When aught befalls of sudden good. oz ,11, Wradeheike, it stirs, WiCiuIn my thought /gain,. Is it, perclinnoe,.a song: au old nurse ` sang Before I could repeat its lldting tune, And that my wiettul chastise fancy clung Unto the rhythm of les simple tune, Se that it strive in thnes of Joy or stress To creep' once more into my con- sciousness? - Charlotte Becker; What the Atolls Are. It was been shown* by the inyestLga.- teena condgicted by scientific expedi- tions to the Pacific islands that 'there is e slow elevation going on there, which, by lifting the reefs gradually above the waves, preserves them from mashes at the top and enables vege- tenon and certain animal forme of a terrestrial character to exist there. This le in apposition to the old- idea that the atolls were formed by the gradual sti:beklence of small !elands, and that the carat insects, built up en- circling reefs as the islands sank - Recent reports show that the eleva- tion of the Wanda is a general phe• nomenou, but variable iu amount,: some tsiande rising rapidly and ethers very slowly. Both the flora and the fauna oe these: isl'an'ds are confined to a very few speci'es, although seen from a distance. some of them appear. very rich in vege- tation. - " 'heir Name b.ive'th The name' of -every British an:d•e•rery Fre nc hoI i s de r slain in the battles of the Sor nt n e will be inscribed in golden books to be tsIaced in the side chapels of a memorial sanctuary to be built outside Amiens, ' At first it was intended to write the namea of the dead on the wails of the sanotuazy,, but there were so many thousands of men lost in these battles that this: idea bad to be abandoned. The side chapels of the sanctuary will be dedicated to different divisions. 112. Klotz, president of the French committee, is in London consulting members of the British committee and the committee of the League of Help. Particulars may. be obtained from the 'Somme Memorial Fund, Surrey House, Marble Arch, London, w, ees Charaotcristic Sound. "This fllvver pt yours is In its second childhood, d Smith." "Flow sol," "Don't you.hear its rattle?" Here -Sick. A little girl' was &Donding Isar first night from home. As the darhneae gathered she began bo cry, The hostess asked, "Are you home - side?" "No," she answered, "I'm lrere.sick," Hub b Y W h never to flirt?"Y do you advise gills Wifey-"See what it got me?" Largest Air Le Bourget, near Parts, is now dig riffled with the title of Largest and most important airport In the world, Four thausaxnd eight hundred and twelve passenger and freight airplanes ware used lies tyear; 19,974 passengers, anaverageof 65 delay, and 109 tone of express. were carried, "JUST CARRY 'EM FOR ME A BIT!" ti •. x%f -41 Philadelphia Ledger, w:.Make the_ aN!,S1101,0. .ins ON CARRIER Ple liquid first , TO LEARN HOW T ,. Do not put Rinse direst FIND, THEIR from the package into the tub. !?11g half a package of /A Rinoo in a little cool water : until it is like creairn. When add two o1iar1e of boiling water, mead when 'the'=froth sub- sides, you will have a clean arslhex-coloured' liquid, Add this liquid to the, wash tufa, until you get the big lastingl~'isiso suds. Then. soak the clothes clean. lasso is m splendid for the regular family mashing as L. r is for finefabrics. Levor Brother. Limited Toronto glommagetrawszagemszemeasmastmsamo Stories of Wet- ilown People 8305R9 5 The Qui Who May be Queen. • Sir Rider Haggard I do not know how many times. dur- arietocratio pair who was wished seeed tobx- Ing the junketines over the wedding" Press their: gratitude to him for ax- oP hlt n t i heg Duke of York heardbeen theen re- Inst rune sial in .vin the e ilio mark. "of , "It more likely beth wilt bo 5 than not Eliza- their son. The boy was suffering from Queen of the British; Em- pneumonia, had reached the crisis and Jpineohn !rone oY these days," writes Sir it was vital that he be made to per- oster Fraser. spire. They tried many things to se - Ali girls have their dreams, but. I titre this end, but without success doubt if this little Scotch lassie, the patient was very weak. and listlessthe ilady Elizabeth Bowes -Lyon, younger Nothing tuteresteR him untiii ey. daughter of an an0lentllneaged, but rhe eP not particularly distinguished Eiari, of Ridertrieds eading bucks,to Atim- Oncefrom his oncuriositySir Strathmore, ever thought that she was aroused, rind when a thrilling would be wooed for over tufo years by climax was reached he broke into e the son of a Ring, married to him in profuse perspiration. From Westmins then his ter Abbe amid m1d t : c em e recovery t' er " s nous P Y was r ai D fl, rejoicings, be elevated in Buckingham' Palace to the rams of Princess Eliza- beth and be entitled to be addreseod as "Your Royal Highness." At the wedding breakfast the Prince of wale table with the sat at a bridesmaids and had a merry time, and pelted the young couple with con- fetti when they want off on. their honeymoon, so that the Duke of York shouted to his elder brother, "It'll be your turn next time, old man," But there la a gathering conviction that the Prince of Wales has no in- tention to marry. For some months gossip • linked hie name with Lady 1VIary Cambridge, :his cousin, and Lady Rachel Cavendieby the pretty daughter of the Duke of Devon"shire• But with. II in the last few weeks boththosedam- aels have been betrothed to other men, A bachelor King would be unpopular with the British people, Besides, the Prince is none too strong physically and he is constantly risking his royal' neck when steeplechasing. Further, dignities les g and ceremonials always bore the heir to the throne and I believe that if the had his choice he would pre - for to lead the healthy life of an Eng- lish country gentleman and let his tall Mother Albert and 'Me dew little see ter -in -lav, Elizabeth, have the .throne. That le why, when people look at the Scotch girl Who hasbeen made a royal princess, they keep asking, "Will she ever be Queen?" Famous Writer Succeeds Where. Physicians Failed, A -writer in the Qentury Magazine tells an anueing story of an episode that is said to hays taken place at a garden party at: Buckingham Palace. Ole".eeee. A Warning. Papa Centipede—"Be careful with that toy pistol, son, or you'll blow off. five or six of your feet!" It is better to say a good thing about a bad fellow than to say a bad thing about a good fellow, f'I am always for the man who wishes to work." -_•A. Lincoln, i Brio;. tolifinift Kend ll'e Spavin Treatnif,t}wlll et Shat iomo orae back on the 5+ b • caul, �F` r oro than forty yeaP aa.ICrFit , e $pnv a nqg haq ,yy,maaajanioyise o r Int n oya' !h*, , 1e A rr g a1q� i�na bod,d geowiha, R'aaa of 1,.1lth,t urdreaglliis d loathe %e bookJF 4 Tie,Yi5 Ppn tip ,+gas and Si. rne esy ,,7;78,,,,,z or WHk loses Po oft. B d KgNCALL, COMPANY. IYnesbueg finlli, Of., U.S.A. Kel lansilil Spav i. eetitmet'4t a t t s y,. e h r t b T to an sit it do re ate ter staved is ©wort/unities in the rh lar ref & If you desire~''to enter into a profession you shoo d con - eider what .the new field of Veterinary Science as ie offer.. Graduates have splendid opportunities for a successful career. You should inquire, cedes Be &EIS October 1 9 1923 Write for bulletin and calendar to ' C. D. McGilviay, M.D.V, Principal s,_ F tiro®V t 1'ar � e GUELPH ONTARIO ' Aff3'rslauhed with Univn vtiby 01 Tbitorobo Under the Ontaziq Depar'treent of Agriculture Study Made by Scientists i Paris to Discover Mysteriouai` Sense of Direction. The. tem of carrier pigeons ter sen•, ing "messages is as old as the ancien Greeks, who used to announce the names of wieners of their Olymple games ;to the various '.cities by thin method. In the ninebeezith ceutur Holland trained Pigeons for civil and. military es, and this led event:: wally to their extensive use in military service. To -day the value of carrier plgeousJ as a means of conveying, messages 1s greatly trainediminished because of the de•'; velopznent of wireless telegraphy, but' the question of how these birds, used throughsomany centuries, find their', way, remains an interesting one and; one about which surprisingly little is known. It is believed that the dig. ' covery of the principles underlying the pigeon's .method of orientation would not only satisfy the curiosity of people who happen to be interested in the subject, but that 11 would be of value':{ in the development of aviation. Clinic at Paris. University. Two French sntevtlsts—Dr, Roohon- Duvigneau, ophthalmologist of the hos- pitals of Paris, and Professor Maurain, of the department of pb,ysics at the - Sorbonne—have been makipg interest-: ing investigations along this line and have established a kind of pigeon cit- rife. Dr. }lochon-Davigneau, in his small Iaboratory, has Made'nunxsrous experiments on the eyes of several species• of living creatures—fishy rep-•' tiles, insects and birds. Dr. Maurain, interested in the investigations from the viewpoint of physical influences, Sat, Asked -that pigeon fanciers, natur- alists, physiologists and meteorolog : 1 Lets give v <i g nen any iII Y form t a lot may 1 that throw ow li b,i on the "Nature" an article by LouiisePa111ez gives a resume of the material gath tired, The fact that pigeons always do re- turn to the pigeonry Is self-evident, and no explanation for it is sought. Investigations are centred on trying to determine just how they find their way bank over great distances. They not only find their way Invariably, when flying over land,thy return in a direct lino to. the place from which they cane. livea when they have been taken from the pigeon. ry at. night, or have been carried on a railway train, they return in a straight '1 course when set free. Nor is it neces- sary that they be taken in a direct line in the first place, Fly on Darkest Nights. It is flitfeult tor pigeons to Ily against the wind, especially as east wind, but they never find it impossible: Storms often cause pigeons to luso their way, and fogs: present difIlcul- ties, Even pigeons trained to fly at night are inconvenienced by log: All carrier pigeons can be trained to fly at night; andwhen once they have Merit- ed this they fly with greater ease on he darkest nights. It is believed that ,? Ivey make use at some mysterious ansa which is not aided but rather hindered by moonlight, Pigeons. sot free over the water re - urn to the columbartnm by the near- est land* route. They seem to have a horror of the sea for h to put Y P for th nearest share immediately and fly the " est of the way over land, although his may be a Much -longer distanne. Dr; Rochon-Duvign�eau says that this power of orientation cannot be attri. uted entirely to keen sees of sight--'"" There is not enough diffenencebe- v'een keenness ' of Vision ol.•pigeons d that of men to warrant. such e supposition. Dr. Mauratn thinks that 1s. not passible that pigeons are guided by magnetic forces, and he ;Is even more skeptical about electric ac- n as influencing their sense oY` di• otign, since electric properties oP the atmosphere are estremel'y variable. The whole question remains m3s foes, but it _will undoubtedly be vel In time if onoitgh, °interest. in it aroused. Shrinking dneoltnes Still Pinch British' l;'BIrl;1l11C The depletion of, intones due to the has so ,seriaisiy aYfocted many English fazuilles that the `auctioneer's miner le tees disposing of heirlooms estates,. Lady Cowan's `action in of[eringfor sale. largeool- ion of medals .ilii orders awarded her late husband ,has been followed L1eut,-fuss, Sir Francis Lloyd, who, commander of,the London district ngthe war, .held ono of the most onsble 'posts in the <Brittsh' army, His country seat, Aston STa11, at -l?s, ry, Shropshire, with 750 acnes of and hunting grounds,, .,together a large amount of 41d furniture, eons, Van Dyck portraits, Knot Reyri�alda and 'Tiiiaiz paintings, iy auctioned .off: 1 9 Lad Cowan's ease a iV•ealthy d of the General purchased the Is and ,gaffe her their possession ink h-�em lltotdm�, A Cov rnpeut anis beiug'arran,;eci fez item tt4' as others in similar oltoum- es;' but this usually Is; quite snail; IS. a scientificfact that people in ountrzos have larger brains tltazi ` lh 'wixrnx countries, T war En ha and recently Leat to by as dura resp iii wos�t park with helrl . lea•, to be In fries me a I d i i dur �h1bn'si 10111 Stan It i ISSUE Ne, 27—'23. y �'I cold c `poople 5