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Zurich Herald, 1924-05-22, Page 7or Glacier, in Glacier National Rockies—willrnacron rr Can same Park in the Selkirl<s to come in dischargethese itsame real contact with. anowfields and la- waters into the Pacific, or e en i be to g into the distant Arctic, or even into creta. It. is not only the mountaineer. who weels the attraction of these cool clean solitudes where glaciers are born and do their wonderful work. Every normal man and woman yields to the delight of holidaying in these inspiring surroundings. Timber m r L' me at 7,500 Feet. Hudson Bay. Growing Fame of Rockies. None of the Canadian National Parks in the Rockies and Selkirks are without glaciers, great or small, the very names of which carry one away into a region of fairyland and ro- mance. The opening up of the parks Leaving the lower altitudes in the by means of motor roads and trails grip of midsummer's heat, • the travel- has made readily accessible some of ler climbs up to view the great gla- the greatest glaciers; and there is al- cial machinery at work. At an alti- ways the attraction tbat just behind tude of about 7;500 feet timber -line is and beyond, in the virgin and untrod- reached and then come cliffs and den wilderness, there are others to be rocky slopes and grassy or sedgy up- found and explored by those who love lands, where mountain sheep and the spirit of adventure. It is this cam - goats pasture and wildflowers grow in bination of comparative ready access millions- The edge of the snow may to the beauties of the Rockies and the now appear, melting because the sum; possibilities of still further discoveries mer's warmth mattes itself felt even that is the cause of the growing fame thus far up on the mountains. From of this region and the anually increas- now'on the trip may be .over a great ing number of tourists who gather to snowfleld, the source of a glacier, and study these great wonders of nature, In What Class Are You? Some men need coaxing; other men need commanding. Some men delight in flattery; other men despise it. Some men need watching; other men resent it, and do better when they are not watched. I Some men need driving, urging; other men need holding back, re, I • straining. Some men can't stand the gaff; it sinks in and wounds; other men don't mind it, they let it roll off like water off a duck's back. Some men need a lot of praise and appreciation, a lot of patting on the back; other men care nothing about it; the satisfaction they get in doing their best, the joy of work well done is enough for them - The snapought to be in the horse, but if it isn't, one tries to put it in with the whip. Some men have to get the snap outside of them; other men don't need` whip or spur, the snap is inside of them Sonne men are fair-weather sailors, and get discourgaed in rough seas; - when they meet with obstacles, when things go hard with then, they slump on their oars: other men thrive under difficulties; opposition and handicaps only stimulate them; the best that is in them comes out when they are buf- feting with the 'storms of ilfe; they never get discouraged. • Some men dawdle over their work, shirk when they can, and then com- plain of their job, of their long hours and the lack of any chance of promo- tion; other men will do as good a day's york in three hours as they do in ten hours; they put their heart in their work, never• thinking of hours, or of promotion,, and very soon they are away over the heads of the shirk- ers and grumbles. Some men are weak in the back- bone; they depend on others for guid• ante and advice; they can't stand alone, can't do anything without others to lean upon; they don't want to play the game alone, and never get any- where: other men have a surplus of •backbone; they want to play the game etIone; they are self-reliant, indepencl- eent; they believe more in the power inside of them than in any boosting -:.trona the outside; they make their plans' without advice or help frons others,, and then go ahead and work them out; they are the men who will Au the great game of life . In which class are you? -ry-•_."Sonne Men" or "Other Wen?" ---Success. r i i Getting at the Point. Her Suitor—"No, I haven't money but I have a good job Gladys isn't mercenary-" Her Father—"i know she isn't cenary but I am. Can you suppo father-in-law in the style to which he is accustomed?" How to Learn Singing, The art of singing is a precious pos- session which comparatively few peo- ple can claim, despite the fact that there are thousands who are certain' in their own minds that they alone are the sole possessors of the jewel, the talisman which they can pass on to others. It is something which is far more than the mere knowledge of the voice or of the organs of the throat. It is a great art which must be trans - matted rather than taught. Listen to the birds and note how they learn their songs from their teachers in the nests. The songs of their parents are their only models, and they just sing as they heard their parents do it. It must be obvious, therefore,that one of the first prin- ciples in studying singing is to inti - ate. Not to mock as a parrot imi- ates, but to listen to great singers un- erstandingly and analytically. Hear ow they produce their tones, Feel the character, the quality of their oices. Often this quality is a matter f years of careful development. Very ew singers of consequence sing with q same voice they employed when hey began their careers, Why? For e reason that we all imitate when e are children. We imitate the oices that are around us. Often these ices are very bad ones indeed, but e instinctively imitate them. Then e have to rebuild our voices after we ve destroyed the bad habits. The ucation of the voice is in 'a large easttre the education of the ear ma- ned with the individual voice ideal the student. much and Northward my fancy takes wing, mer- Restless am 1, ill at ease, rt a • Pleasures the city can bring Lose now their power to please, Barren, all barren, are these, Town life's a tedious tale; That cup is drained to the lees— Ho, for the pack and the trail! Ho, for the morning I sling Pack at nay back, and with knees Brushing a thoroughfare, fling Into the green mysteries; One with the birds and.the bees, One with the .squirrel and quail, Night, and the stream's melodies— Ho, for the pack and the trail! —B. L, T. To Motorists, w While making a forced landing in Toronto Bay, one of the Ontario Government planes struck a submerged log, which re illIMMINmemieneWminfswitIrrcimmazonsammismaieraceocamaessetaame machine. •The pilot managed to bring the boat pito shallow water before it sank. °ked the undercarriage of the Do It Now! To -day is the day that your tasks should be done— The clay that God's given to you; You're living Right Now, and this is the one To do what you're going to do. This second—this minute is all that you've got; The future's a chance, anyhow; _ The past, with its shadows, the sooner: forgot The better—so do it right now. • You number your days from the day you were born, And count them with sighing and tears, But really, my friend, you're reborn ev'ry morn— In spite of the calendar years; Each day, you start life with a view- point that's new; The past is a dream that has fled; You cannot go back to the you that was you, In days that are finished and dead. Nor can you go forward one day in advance, And glimpse what the morrow may hold; You can't change the future, or one circumstance, Except as the minutes unfold; - To -day, is the day that your tasks should be done; So live that you never should fear What's 'going to happen,' with each. ' rising sun Next Week—or next month—or next year. Queer Villages. Tucked away in odd corners of Great Britain are some villages with pe- culiar navies, In Kent we find Painter's Porstal, Dripping Gore, and Old Wives Lees. The r last place derived its stra Stories About Well -own People From the Canon's Mouth. One ambition of Canon Hay Aitken, vice -dean of Norwich Cathedral, is to beat John Wesley's record of preach - name from the fact that old women of Ing 27,000 sermons. But Father Time the district used to run an annual race I may intervene. The canon is eighty - there fer prizes offered by the local two; and, starting when he was seven - lord of the manor. Dripping Gore was teen, he has now delivered 22,000 ser - so called because the Danes and Sax- pious. ohs are believed to have fought a bat- He has never preached from a writ- tle at this spot• ten one, and as it is stated that Wes - Essex .'has a village with the ale- ley made one sermon serve many turesque name of Tolleshunt Knights, times it is possible that the Canon has while near Huntingdon, in the Fen dis- already delivered more original dis- trict, is a. place with the fierce title of courses than the great Nonconform- Warboys. Lincolnshire seems to be ist. particularly rich in queerly named vil- lages and) hamlets—Cowpit, Twenty, Inch, and Inches. Near Middlesbrough, in Yorkshire, is a little place named Cargo Fleet, while other northern villages with pic- turesque names are Monkinkoles, in Yorkshire, Parsley Hay, in D Solved the Problem. At literary banquets the art is to talk of the guest of honor as if you read all his books. On one occasion Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, the Ameri- can, had to introduce Sir Hall Caine y- at a certain function. Just before the shire, and Boot, in the Lake District. toasts, began a guest passed his menu Crossing. the border into Wales, we card with the request that Sir Hall find the still more peculiar name of Caine would sign it. Legacy. ether queer village names in "That's a great idea," said Mr. Page. I Wales include Upper Boat and Black"I must do that, too. I have to'intro- Pill. duce him in a few minutes, and I want to be able to say I have read some- thing he has written." Her Property, Lady Warwick can telI many good electioneering stories. As everybody In Scotland we find places bearing the names of Kittybrewster, Kings - kettle, and King Edward. Near Edin- burgh is the little town of Joppa. Heads of Ayr and Georgernas are both in the .Highlands, Progressive. —James Edward Hungerford. I It was the custom of the congrega- tion to repeat the twenty-thircb psalm • Spring's -Unrest, Up in the woodland, where Spring in •con.ce -end Mrs. Armstrong's habit to keep abouts dozen words ahead all the way through. A stranger was Comes as a askingone day about Mrs. Armstrong, Whispers the pines that the laggard,King, the breeze WhO�+ he inquired; "was the lady Fallen, has yielded the keys who was already' by the still waters To his white palace and flees 1 while the rest of us were lying down Northward o'er mountain and dale; in green pastures?" Speed then the hour that frees; Ho, for the pack and the trail! Older Than the Law. t d h v 0 tit t tit w vo w w ha ed of rid lduf Said. .gent ---"Yon shouldn't have sell that marrft $5,000 car. Ito ok like he could afford .it to to ---"I knew what t was do man's name has been men• he oil scandal." . o know th'e worst at once, oup of wise hearts is 1!rlerness o:(• fools. The. May'&y Marrt riages lty to he married in May is not so prevalent as it was formerly, but the superstition. still lingers. We got it from the Romans, who ap- parently got it front the Greeks and brought it with theist to -13xtaiu. It shows how a train of superstitious thought once set going will persist through the ages, The curious thing about this surer '- 1 station is that'it should ever have er.. iginated; for the month of May in an_ olent times was dedicated to thegod- dess Maia, the mother of Mercury and the goddess of growth and increase. A latitude is a t_-.. pgreat truth slightly. shopworn. ,Mayhap 'twill save you life or limb, And 'tisn't much. expense Whene'er you are out driving To just use common sense. -.-- An unlawful oath is better broke than kept. A salesmanlike looking inspector was surprised to find a dirty roller towel in the washroom. Indignantly he said to the landlord:. "Don't you know that it has been against the law for years to put up e roller towel in this State?" "Sure, I know it," replied the pro- prietor, "but no ex -post facto law goes in Kansas, and that there towel was put up before the law was passed." Give me five minutes talk with a man about politics or weather or neighbors or finances, and I'll tell you whether he's going to reach ninety- five in good shape or not. If he says he has the finest neighbors in the world and adds that times never have been better or politics cleaner, or the weather finer, their you may be pretty sure that he'll be a winner at ninety- five or any other. age. No natter how long you live, there isn't time to wor- ry.—Chauncey M. Depew, 89 -year-old ex -Senator, lawyer and after-dinner speaker. knows, her sympathies a• le with- the Labor cause, and in the past she has often canvassed for Labor candidates.' Once, when thus engaged, she knocked at the door of a house in a mean street. - Her knock was answer- ed by a severe -looking matron, who stood with arms akimbo regarding her an no friendly spirit.. - "May I see Mr. Blank?" she asked. "You can't," replied the matron. "But I want to see what party he belongs to," pleaded Lady Warwick. "Well, take a good. look at ane," re- torted the matron. "I'm the party what he belongs to, Booth Explains Son's.Generosity With Tips. Mr. J. R. Booth, the veteran Ottawa Iumber king, whose granddaughter re- cently became Prince Erik's bride,' was in the habit of leaving his horse and buggy in charge of the stable boy at one of Ottawa's hostelries, Twenty' five cents was the stable boy's regu- lar tip. Mr. Booth's son, Mr. J. Fred Booth, on the other hand, usually gave the boy fifty cents. The boy decided that a gentle hint to J. R. might be profit- able. So on receipt of his next quar- ter he said, "Your son usually gives! me fifty, sir!" "Ah," said Mr. Booth, smiling, " but he has a wealthy, father." Spring Market. It's foolish to bring money To any spring wood, Jewels won't help you, • Gold's no good. Silver won't buy you One small leaf, You may bring joy here, You may bring grief,. You should look for Tufted moss, Marked where a light foot Ran across. Where the old rose hips Shrivel brown And dried clematis Bloom hangs down. There you'll find what Everyman needs, Wild religion Without any creeds, Green that lifts its Blossoming head, New life springing Among the dead. You needn't bring money To this market place, Or think you can bargain for Wild flower grace Louise Driscoll. Worth is by worth in every rants admired. When musing on companions gone, we doubly feel ourselves alone. LONGEST TEAM OF HORSES EVER HARNESSED .sin of tits wagons , hauled d In forty a t testi Pal Y is of tier ses transported r This eat t Vulcan to Calgary, a distance of 70 mites in one load, and asitia l' oto the ed 1,142 bushels o� wheat Crohn r Without Calgary, This team, 0milthel y went onto the elevator platform ?list unloaded path uorses from the probably longest ever Harnessed, adconi tames by e Vulcan district, will trek to Calgary again during 1 1 100.tosaddle a and the Annual Calgary Stampede tri, be held July 7.12 in that cat 7,l rug the fast wean to Cal 1924,is take expected in take about four days.'' At Calgary the whole outfit will ,encampsour tripf tha thorn Vulcan to Calgary hroted to business streets of the city each horning. The outfit is owned' by Glen Hotj'i of .ante will parade and through the driven by Slim nl;oorcilrouse of Vuecan, a pioneer driver ef' fr:hi ht train + e lend team Alta.. and is to h t course; after being started by their driver« s. The !:petit will follow a straight Insert-81bn •Modrhouse No Time for Fooling. Bird hunting is a serious• business with a thoroughbred bird dog -so seri- ous that he will refuse to hunt if the sport is turned to play. Mr. Samuel A. Derieux, in Animas Personalities,' tells a story to the point: I remember once when I was a boy going out with several other boys and taking with us an old LIewellyn Setter named Thad. The dog started out in his sturdy lope and soon found us a covey of quail. W e all shot on the rise, and we all missed. Then, see- ing that we could not hit quail, we be- gan to shoot at easier game, birds that sat still in trees laughing and shouting as boys will. Thad stayed with us awhile; then we missed him. Unostentatiously he had withdrawn from the frivolous party and gone home. An old dog that knows he can do well himself demands that the man who hunts with him shall do well also. An Englisman tells this story on him• self, and I have no doubt that similar incidents have occurred frequently. He went out with a pointer that he had borrowed from a friend who was a crack shot- He himself was a poor shot and missed again and again, and each time the"pointer looked at him in bewilderment- Finally the dog set a pheasant right out in an open field and then glanced back at the ap- proaching man as much as to say, "Now, here's a perfectly good open -. shot. For pity's sake, see if you oan do anything this time!" The pheasant rose and flew off, an easy mark; the man missed twice. Thereupon the pointer sat down on his haunches, raised his nose to high ` heaven and howled long and dolorous- ly. Then with never another. look ai the amateur huntsman he turned and trotted home, A Business Man's Ideal. ITo have endured early hardships with fortitude, and overcome difficul- ties by perseverance; to have founded or, developed a large business, useful in itself, and given employment to many; to have:. achieved fortune, incite, pendence, position and influence; to have established a character above re- proach; to have accumulated the es- teeni, the roniadence rind the friend- ship of hit fellows; to have given largely of money to charity, and •of l time to citizenship; and to have gain- I ed sit this of the world, without losing 1 the soul by avarice, or by starving the. 1heart into hardness --I say, he who has so lived bias nobly lived and he ;should find peace with honer when the shadows begin to lengthen and the evening of life draws on. Privilege of the Condemned, i,a---"I hear that Charlie Green is going to be married next week." Little Robert (whose ideas on the subject • are somewhat confused) '41 "The last three days they give him everything to eat he asks for, do they, Papa7" t' r. Cruelty 1sOu ares er. i i e ih„es. No person is so grips• ulai' a411 person who is •