Zurich Herald, 1926-04-01, Page 3DISCOVER LAKE
PIRING SURVEY
IMPORTANT WORK OF
TOPOGRAPHICAL
'''`v:! • SURVEYORS. ,
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Traverse a Great Unknown
Area Southwest of Great
Slave Lake.
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Daring the peat season in carrying
out work under the Topograpb.leal Sur-
,
VOY of the Department of the Interior
in the Northwest Territories- party
in charge of Mr, G, H. Blenehet ex-
plored and surveyed that great, almost
miluneen, etistidet, 60,000 square miles
in extent, lying between lake Atha-
baska and Great Slave lake and eastwerd from Slave river to Duthawnt
river.
Over 6O !ilay of Interior waters
*ereragelled during the season's
work, In the oours-e of wincha lake
one hundred and fifty miles long and
. several miles, wide was discovered;
Portions f the headwaters of thtee
great riverof the North, the Titiston
the Thelon, and the Snowdrift were
traversed by canoe, and much terri-
tory heretofore untrodden by white
men was eurveyed. Previons know-
ledge 'of the area was limited to that
,gained by Samuel Hearne during his
easterly journey across it in 1772; and
the more Te,csttt explorations of Mr. J.
W. Tyrrell, D.L.S., on the loner' The-
den river, anti Dr. Charles Oamsell on
the lower Talton river, Most of this
year's work was original exploration.
New Country Traversed.
The party started out. from i"itz-
gorald oa the Slave river on June 12.
'As the groater pare of the country to
be traversed was entirely new, efforts.
were made to engage Indians as guides
but witk little success, the Indians
agreeing only to accompany the party
to a certain point beyond which they
would not go. Froin Fitzgerald the In
dian canoe and the 19 -foot freighter,
containing the surveyors' equipment,
followeda route well known to the In-
dians between the Slave river and the
Talston, arriving at the latter a thort
distance below where the Tazin river
joins it. Proceeding up . the Talston,
the surveyors entered country abso-
lutely unknown and with 'supplies re-
duced so that they had to depend
largely on what fish and game they
could •secure, they pushed on into the
'interior. Three days later the Indiana
turned back, and the four white men
were thrown on their own resources
and with only meagre, information
gained fromtheir late companions. Im-
enedlately after the departure of the
Indians, the party reached a lake,
which. the Indians called "The Big
Lake," It proVed rather more than
two tittles wide and separated only by
cascades at a few points where rock
ridges crossed the valley and which
:eulminated in an oddly shappen, lake,
nearly 75 miles lens with a 50-nille
bay stretching away to the northeast;
-This is called "foionachoh", or Big'
Point lake by th,e
Discovered Portage Route. ,
After four days searohing the mouth
of the Upper Talston river was dis-
covered emptying into the lake. The
upper river was followed to the limit
of navigation but it was found to rise
in country unfavorable for further tra-
vel into the interior. A return wa.s
made to Nonachoh lake and a base
was established at its most northeast-
erly point. From here two members
of the party travelled overland carry-
ing a small. collapsible eanoa, and an
ter some ,searching discovered an an-
cient Indian portage route marked by
a few smell cairns. which led by a
aimber of lakes, across the divide to
lintel% draining to 'Hudson bay. A
moderately rolling plain was reached
entrees which stretched a big irregular
Wee tdlI of; large islands. - On -this
plain the edge of the woods is marked,
by a.n oecasiontel clump or fringe. In
the lake the Thelon river apparently
has its main slime, probably the weet-
erly branch as found by Mr. Tyrrell
entiagiration upstream to the forks in
1900. The course and eharaoteelif the
Thelon was determined and the party
returned to the base.
As a •trip down the melon', up Han -
bury river, and thence by Ptarmigan
and Artillery lakes to Great Slave
lake wottld entail too much heavy por-
taging for the big freighter and autfin
it was decided to seek a portage route
from the Taltiein to the Snowdrift
river, and on to Great Slave lake. The
Snowdrift had been placed on the reap
by Hearne from Indian report and its
mouth at Great Slave lake hal-been
located during the survey of the lake
Iti recent years. Following the north-
eastbay of Nonaohoh lake the portage
to :Snowdrift river was feentl through
a shattered defile between 'kills, and
oceapied by a- small lake. The trip
down the Snowdrift showed it to :nee
ander from side to Slide i 1te Oben,
sandy valley until about 20 Miles filoni
itAninouth When it 'enters the hills and
makes a descent of about 600 feet in
time meet 15 miles, by means of a series
of cascades and ,falle, oulminating
Glory falls, a drop ef 60 feet, It then
eases Half into' the clear sparkling
waters, of Great Slave lake. , •
Revealed Waterways.
The seaStnin. Work w,hieli entailed
nearly miles Of eatiee travel and keavy
portaging through tile t1olniOWil In-
terior, reetaled an exbellettnseries of
waterways eying 0;66S.S.5 to it, great
etretch tif ,eountrg and providing
AMUNDSEN'S DIRIGIBLE
The Italian craft, the Norge, built for Amundsen's Math Pole expedition, leaving the Oanapino airdrome,
Rome, on its first trial flight. The Norge will fly across Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, Russia and Germany to
Spitzbergen,,where it will lee met by Araundeen and Linooln Ellsworth.
highway for travel by which the lin-
gering ice of Great Slave lake may be
avoided in springtime. These waters
lead to the, interior country prom
which the Indians occasionally bring
samples' of minerals and in which'..thie
geological situation Is. promising to
the prospector.
Looking On.
One who goes to a foreign land for
holiday enjoyment without a business
elan, a political errand or an •educatien-
al mission somettinee looks -at the
passing pageantry of life before him
as if it werenbere for his amusement.
He la like one who enters, 'a gallery
and reviews the paintings, goes to a
•library and takes from the shelves' the
books that please Min, wanders among,
the glass cases of a musefim with
Moods that range from indiffe.renoe
a lively curiosity. The people, toiling.
or at Play, were there long before the
visitor came, but for him it is as if
they were assembled for his amuse-
ment and his speculation. He scrut-
inizes, analyzes, offers comment,.
points out hew much better things are
done at home, and if he is leered. Or
offended is inclined to feel either that
those who arranged his tour defraud-
ed him or else that the land itself
„where such things can happen is
socially and morally inferior and has
no right to membership in the family
circle of civilized nations.
It may be an agreeable pastime te
go through, life regarding the world:
objectively,proneuncing opinion
the way upon our environment of:
places and -persons as thoughnve..were,
travelers' with no responsibility for
anything we beer or see. Bt a world
carrying burdette and craving relief
Is likely to rise up and ask what we
have to offer besides our sunning fire
of criticism and •comment. Wh.at do
we create and what do we put into the
world .of beauty, dignity and utility
on our own constructive account? It
is so easy to find something that is
wrong and to declare vaguely that
"they" ought to set it right. Why is
it that the Attie firt personal pro-
noun is BO ready to stand tip and as.-
sert. itself when praiee and honor are
cleat out and so ready to take refuge
M. the twilight zone of obscurity when
blame is to be affixed or a distasteful,
onerous duty le to be assigned?- The
-crowd in the street watching a tall
building taken down or put up reveals.
a. typical attitude, There are sic mairif!
ready to supervise ;what one man la
doing. Said Huck Finn of Toni Seen-
yer: "That boy eould, outsuperiutend
any boy 1 ever did eee." There neyer
yet was a dearth of those wbo look on;
there is always a shortage of those
'vho lay hold. --
Tar Shoes for Geese.
Holiday 'geese, driven many miles
from Poland to 1narkets on the Ger-.
man frontier, are shod with a tar pre,
paration in order to stand the strain
of the long walks. The tar stickle to
the feet and prbvents bruising. What
roast turkey is to the Anglo-Saxon din-
ner, roast goose is. to the 'Germans.
A goose in the hand . of a German
hous•ewife is, utilized- as cennoletely as
the pig in an American slaughter
hcatea. The tat and even the entrails
are used in making "drippings," a de-
licacy which takes. the place of but-
te' ou the family table.
Exactly. •
Beggaineunt dead broke,' I haven't
a cent, mister'!"
The Prosperous Ortb----"YoU poor
nein"
A Child's Bright Smile.
Across the •street an humble woman
lives
To her 'tis little fortune ever gives.
It puzzles me
To know how she can laugh so
cheerily.
This morn 1 listened to her softly sing,
And, marvelling 'what this effect could
bring
I locice.d; 'twas but the presence of a
child
Who passed her gate, and looking in,
had smiled.
But self -encrusted, I had failed to see
The child had also looked and laughed
at me.
My lowly neighbor thought the smile
Godsent,
And singing, through the toilsome
hours she went, '
0! weary singer, I have /earned the
wrong
Of taking gifts, and giving nought of
song; • . . •
I thought my blessings scant, my
mercies fen; •
Till I contrasted -them with yours, and
you; "
To -day I counted much, yet wished it
more—
While but a child's bright smile was'
all yoUr store. •
—E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahione
wake).
Color.
Young Lady (at the library): •
" 'The Scarlet' Boat,' please,"
Librarian—"Sorry; we have no book
by that name,"
"Maybe it was 'The Red Launch.'
"There Is iid book with that title
that I know of." " •
"Or 'The Garnet Schooner,' perhaps:"
"I ani sorry; we have none of those
books."
An hour later she carne back for
"The Rubaiyat."
No Difference.
First Cabby ---"You're always touch-
ing up your horse on the right side.
Why don't you give him a little on
his left side for a change?"
Second Cabby—"It doesn't matter.
So long as I, get one side going the
other is euro to come."
Lying in Bed.
Some years ago Sir James M. Bar-
rie—though he had not then been
knighted—wrote a delightful essay en-
titled A Holiday in Bed. In it he des-
cribed the comfort and satisfaction to
be•derived from taking a day off, ow-
ing to some slight if not quite imag-
inary ailment, and spending it quietly
in bed. The essay is perhaps net one
that would commend itself tomenof
rigorous ruind—believels in the virtue
of unflagging industry and tireless ac-
tivity; it preaches a doctrine of indol-
ence that they might condemn as im-
moral.
It is not our purpose to condone the
habit of indolence, yet we wish that
everyone who is unable from time to
time to take a holiday in bed, as Sir
James Barrie recomraends, might so
order his life as to enjoy for a little
while daily the luxury of lying in bed,
says a writer in Youth's Conipanion.
Some illeberal personsregard lying in
bed after one has waked up as little
bettor than a sin—a slothful indul-
gence demoralizing to character. They
maintain that with the first waking
moment at the end of a night's rest
one should be up and doing.
e Unfortunately, too many people find
intecessary to 'oonform to thatstern
rule. Those who are able, however, to
linger between the sheete, whether on
a pleasant ,summer morning or after
the dawn of a bleak winter day, enjoy
something batter than physical restful-
ness; their minds engage in serene
coatemplation—perhaps of no weighty
matters—Or in pleasant flights of
fancy "Oh, sweet fancy, let her
loose," urged Keats; and he -added,
"Pleasure never is at'hoine" The time
when it is easiestand most natural to
"let fancy loose," and when she is
most likely to bring pleasure home
with her, is when one is lying in bed
in the morning. After sending her
off on her excursions one is In a better
mood for entering on one's own adven-
tures for the day.
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'Mother is a Live Wire.
"If he proposes, shall I consider him,
Mother?"
"No—take him."
CHILDREN'S FESTIVALS IN SWITZERLAND
Of late years the Maize customs of
Switzerland have been medifted, a geoid
deal on account OE -the pretence
ttritagers, 'hat In some regions theY
may still be found as, they bare been
observed for centuries.
Among the most interesting of all
4re the children's festivals, celebrated
nowhere now, perhaps with quite as
math °annuli:nun, aa in Mestere Swite
zerland, and partioularly ta the lefty
valleys of Inagadine,
Two of these, the sering and autumn
festivals, are worthy of especial ma-
ttes. - The first is called the Chalaada
Mars, and takes place ou the fired of
March.
Shortly before daybreak a number af
the larger boys'go through the -streets
of the villages and awaken everybody
by a vigorous ringing of large oowbells
—not -Buena as are worn by cattle in
Canada, but -composed of real bell
metal, beautifully shaped and giving
forth mu} teal sounds
A Innen:line is given for breakfast,
and then all the boys of the village
gather about the mountain In the pub-
lic square, each with a bell suspended
from bis neck.
Here they are arranged in the order
of march. First comes one of the
largest of the number, who is dressed
in black knee -breeches, white siValt-
ings, old-fasitioried wooden shoes and
a long nightcap.
He represents the owner of the herd;
and carries a milkpall on hie arm.:
Then follow the others, each Person-
ating a cow, and the Whole company is
arranged M single file, as the cattle of
Switzerland are taught to march
The end of the line is brought up by
another large boy, who is dressed in
rough clothing, wears .a broad -brim-
med hat, and carries a staff in his
hand. -
He is the herdsman, whose duty it is
to see that none of the cows drop out
of the line, or stray from their accus-
tomed places of pasturage.
When all is ready, the column be-
gins its march, the leader singing what
is called a "yodle-song," and the rest
keeping time by ringing their bells.
In this way they go from house to
house throughout the village, at every
one of which they are presented with
nuts, or fruit, or something M the way
of food.
In the afternoon they provide a lit-
tle feast with these gifts, to which the
older people are also invited, and the
day ends with music and the singing
of such songs ae are often heard
among the Alps
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The whole thing is a celebration of
returning spring, and the procession
represents the march of the h.erdsanee,
with their cattle, to the .high pasture
lands of the Alpine Mountain.
It is a time of great joy, and those
who are too old toactively participate
in. the merrymaking never weary of
telling what was done on suchoacca-
sions when they were young. •
Then follows the summer, wenn ant
bright, though short, during which the
herds are driven higher and. higher, as
the snows melt away from the moun-
tain slopes and the gra,se• springs -green
and sweet, while the traveler hears at
nightfall the song of the ,herdsman,
and the notes of. the Alpine horn re-
echo from the snowy peaks.
During this time, too, the dairymen
and women are industriously at work
in the little mountain chalets, making
cheese and butter, and when the sharp
frosts and early snows of autumn re-
mind them that winter is corning on
again, they make preparations to des-
cend to their homes in the valley.
The first step is to transport the
products of their dairies to thebase
of the mountain, in which work both
men and women assist, carrying the
ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES
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APPIMPBUIONFAKII1
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Darn Funny Looking Ostrich!
burfteusoIn hbge baskets strapped fAt
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their shouKers.
thle'peint the butter and eigeee.
transferred to *MOILS prOVJOUSir.
IMOVIde•CI, and when the cows have:
been arranged in: the moiler order the'
long train begins ita 'alardli for the
village.
In the meantime their friends at
home hare been advised of their meg
lag, and arraugeznente have been
made for giving them a hearty wel-
come, •
delegation, with a campany oi
ehil•dren at the head, sets out to meet
the mountaineerwhile yet they • are
a great way off.
The boys and girls are arrayed in
holiday attire, and carry in their hands
wreaths of flOINE3iS and evergreeas,
while the older members of the eonn
parry bear banners and various devises
made of colored paper.
Thp -children stand on both sides of
the read and sing a welcome, after
which they aro assistd to cl•ecorate the
cattle with wreaths and evergreen,
and then to take their seats on the
great piles of cheese with which the
wagons are laden.
This done, amid shouts and laugh. -
ter and song, and waving of flags, the
procession enters the village..
Here they are met by the entire
populace, and while the children sing
an Alpine song, everybody unites wlth
than In the -chorus, the first Hue of
'which is "Hurrah for the .Alps." 'Thi
is sung in their peculiar Rorottosh,
ailtaot--kuown nowhere else but in
thane aalleys-nand with the utmost en-
thusiasm.
otater the procession has marched!
about the village for iMhile, a stop is!
made, and, the butter and cheese are
removed from the wagons to their'
Several storebouses.
Later in the day there Is a great!
gathering on some grassy spot near
the town, where, after a wild frolic by;
the children and young people, all
voices join in singing the praise of the,
Alps, and in honor of the herdsmen.'
and dairymen who have spent the sum-
mer there.
This festival is called the Alpentlan
dung, or the return from the Alpe. Itt
has no fixed date, as it depends upon
the peculiarities of each season; but'
it is' commonly celebrated at about the;
twentieth of September.
It is intended es a celebration of thee,
end of autumn, as the Ohalanda Mira
commemorates the approach of .spring'
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They are, therefore, companion festi-
vals, with similar meaning.
The ceremonies in both cases are
sinew's; but they are looked forward
to with great interest, and seem to -'bo
enjoyed by old and young alike,
= And they serve a useful purpose,
too; for, by thus publicly honoring the
persons who have spent a summer on
the mountains, they make that caeca.
nation appear honorable in the eyes of
the young, and so canes the people te
be conteuted with their country and'
with their work.
The Bourbon Tongue.
"Did your son take French lessons. •
while he was abroad?"
"No, he took Scotch instead."
Our Breakfast Porch is' Great.
All winter we have bean enjoying
our breakfast porch. This porch was
fixed up by our local carpenter last
summer. The porch was just off the
kitchen. It was nearly eight feet deep
and twelve long. The wall of the
house runs to the outer edge of the
porch, which k-eeps the floor warm, as
there is a furnace in the basement.
This also in.a.de it eau to put a regis-
ter in the room. The porch was board-
ed up and sealed for a distance from
the floor and down inane the top. a
foot; then the intervening space was
given over to a row of windows. 'With
the porch facing south, you can imag-
ine how this light room is enjoyed by
the members of the family, and partic-
ularly those whose age keeps them in -
'side more than is best for their health.
We have our meals in this room. It
saves the nennen folks much work
now; and is particularly convenient
when we have extra help about the
place. Were I to build a new home,
I certainly would plan to have a break-
fast poreh where we could bask in the
sun during the winter days.—It, S.
Wrong Again! •
George Wurzel was not a sympatb.-
izer with modern education. To be
quite frank, he did not believe in it at
all, He had never been "learned," he
said, and had got along all right, and
therefore education was unnecessary.
However, there came a day when
George was not quite so confident. He
had bought a quantity of cabbages
fro mthe local •deler, and fam], on con-
sulting a read -reckoner, that he had
been done. On the following day he
descended upon the dealer' and laid
the ready -reckoner and bis complaint
before bim.
The dealer looked keenly • at the
angry man, and then in biting tones
remarked:
"Get away, that's last year's ready.
reamer, you Mot!" And poor George
strolled sadly away.
Optimism.
Build for yourself a strong box;
Fashion each part 'with care.
Fit it with bain and padlock:
P*ck all your worries there.
Mde therein all your troubles.
As each little cup you quaff, e•
Pack all your failitree within It,
And. Sit oU th'i1O d141444%
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