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page 2 the georgetown herald wednesday evening august 3rd 1938 th georgetown herald sakeerirusa w50 per tear m advance ubtted states soc additional single ooples 3c both old and new addresses should be given when chang ot address is requested advertising rates legal no ll goes 12c per line for lint m- jfl aertlon 7c per line for each m subsequent insertion readers jh 8c per line for each insertion ib if in black face type 5c per line i additional notices qualirylng as coming events such as concerts entertainments so ciety church or organisation meetings etc be per uoe mini mum charge 25c reports of meetings held gladly inserted free in memoriam notices 50c and 10c per line extra for poems birth marriage and death notices 50c small ad vertlsements one inch or less soc for first insertion and 25c for each subsequent insertion display advertising rates on application although every precaution will be taken to avoid error rhe herald accepts advertising in its columns on the under standing that it will not bti liable for any error in any ad vertisement published hereun der unless a proof of such ad vertisement is requested by the advertiser and returned to the herald business office duly sign ed by the advertiser and with such error or corrections plain ly noted in writing thereon and in that case if any error so noted is not corrected by the herald its liability shall not exceed such a proportion of the entire cost of such adver tlsement as the space occupied by the noted error bears to the whole space occupied by such advertisement j h moore publisher georgetown each year i laughed when you were planting zinnias what do you see in them i a ways said to me they seemed such coarse and guady creatures flaunting their variegated yellow red you answered they were like strong peasant people wearing with pride their fluted sunday best wholesome of heart with honest sun burned faces smiling above bright scarf and vel vet vest you thought my heliotrope and mig nonette too perfect ladies in their gauxe and lace dressed for pale evenings by sad dripping fountains when a faint crescent veils a timid face patrician taste in perfume it is trow but peasants wear the scent of fields you said and now dear love in memory of you i sow gay i in my garden bed clare wood shipman rainy night this is a night for long light up the ore and watch each ripening spark drift like a firefly where the chimney with all the purple mystery of the dark this is a night for books turn to a page that throbs with aprils that were lost go deep i in folded letters yellowing with age a night of rain is not a night for sleep pile up the hearth with cedar boughs and listen to silver wv ihmt on the speak longforgotten words and they will glisten wrapped in then- vanished glory turn back the dock and suu the break of dawn tour heart will beat with hours that are gone daniel whitehead hlckey nam canada b trmoed to th iroqnoi indiana th derivation of th namt can ada accepted by our leading histo rians who have investigated the rec ords makes it an iroquois word still surviving among them in the form kanata meaning a collection of dwellings or a settlement cartier in one of his vocabularies of the iroquois speech says of it they call a town ville canada reports a canadian resources bulletin its evolution into a place name canada can be fully followed in the narratives of cartier wherein it ap pears first in his account of his sec ond voyage in 1535 observes a writ er in the new york times the two iroquois indians whom he had seized at gaspe and taken to prance the preceding year infprmed him on entering the great river now the st lawrence that their home was m canada which proved later tote an alternatne name for the village of stadacona on the site of quebec city cartier himself seems to have extended the word to the surround ing region as a convenient territo rial name much as the name que bec has been extended from the city to the province accordingly this interpretation of canada is well attested by unim peachable documents but the same is not true of several other current explanations which are nothing oth er than guesses based on chance resemblances between canada and certain other indian or imaginary roots e g from segnada canada meaning men seeking land or a country a montagnais root mean ing foreign mouth of the coun try descriptive of the st law rence a spanish aca nada mean ing nothing here i e in gold a spanish cana a reed extended to an equivalent of beaupre goodyear discoverer of vulcanization methods visions of a rubber civilization haunted the brain of a debt- burdened inventor in 1853 the man was charles goodyear discoverer of the vulcanization process for rub ber and he wrote a book about his struggles his triumphs and his dreams which today is among the rarest of one of the very few extant copies is in the divi sion of rare books of the library of congress and is among the rari ties of mechanical literature says a writer in the washington star goodyear specifically did not ad vise eating rubber nor wearing it next to the skin but otherwise he proposed using it as the chief mate rial in about anything man could need he foresaw rubber books rubber roofs rubber streets rubber sails and rubber ships rubber pi moa rubber bridges rubber vio lins rubber boxing gloves rubber saddles rubber shoes rubber har nesses rubber canes rubber dishes and rubber furniture of various aorta the man s extreme enthu siasm might have been expected for he had devoted bis life to devis ing means for hardening the gum elastic whose strange properties first had attracted him as a small boy his health had been broken he was loaded with debts neighbor looked on him as a harmless luna tic his family had ihred on char ityall in the pursuance of his dream anttmal defense tactics practically all wild animals as well as the tame ones are darker on top than beneath a coloring which per mits them to merge the better into their surroundings the females of both bird and animal world are neutral in tone any brill lance in the species being subdued in them so that when oaring for their young they will notbe too easily dia covered for the same reason bright coloration 1b not developed in even the males in the bab stage not un til they have learned at least some of the lessons of self help do the bright decorations appear strict obedience is a requisite of saf ety the elf willed of animaldom oo not last long each species has its rules but one primary obligation a mong all is that of freezing remain ing absolutely still in tune of danger the least rustle produces not only sound but scent as well people have beenknown to pick wild flowers grow ing almost against ttib nose of a little fawn without discovering its presence although frightened half to death the baby remained so quiet it did not even nune its ejes so the enemy unaware passed on the little people not only see but possess vision vision means perspec live proportion the ability to sense the thing as a whole backward and forward and from the other fellow s iewpoint this sort of vision called instinct in the animal world causes the flycatcher to hang a dried snake skin beside its dwelling or colled in side as a warning to those of its en emles naturally afraid of snakes it is responsible for the camouflaging of nests to merge into their backgrouna it impels the shrike or butcher bird to mutate the notes of other birds thereby luring them to their doom and the lion to roar over the veldt to frighten the wild creatures so they will try to run away disclosing their presence it enjoins on the burrow ing creatures the virtue of many exits and cautions the more wily swallow famllj to build under ledges eaves etc that their dobe huts may not be dissolved by rains it is responsible for all wild and many now tame an imals feeding- and resting against the wind so there may be less surprise attacks it suggests the bramble tan gle to the most defenseless creature on earth the rabbit that the talons and claws of the thicket might sup plant its own lack it dictates the posting of sentinels on high points to anj group or herd together with the flashing of understandable signals leaders toward whom prompt obed lence is required are selected because of it it causes all wildcreatures to feed off the trail never on it it en joins a zig zag couree of escape rather than a straight one the running in water hemlock khis live stack by far the moat virulent plant that grows in the united states is one which is very little known al though it baa caused many fatali ties this la the water hemlock or cicala very different from the spot ted hemlock whose extract was used to execute socrates it grows in low swampy places nearly every where in the spring when the ground is soft and its roots can be nulled easily from the soil and have an attractive odor which causes children to eat them it causes heavy losses m live stock the water hemlock contains a substance known as cicutoxin allied to the an- dromedotoxbi on the honey which affected the greeks of the anabasis which is an extremely active poison causing violent spasms when tour dogl oh when your utue dog is dead thebouse is very still mo pattering of eager feet no barking glad and shrlll then is no small brown form to hold no moist from tongue that llaks your hand in love no holf gnawed no scattered balls and sticks the tw tricks ha usedto do and shake hands the day are desolate and black x have no wish to talk when evening cornea x have no heart v x reach to pat a little head once dose beside my knee x whistle call forgetting that hell coma no more to me ob yon whove known a aman dog love devoted through the year yotth nog ai my grief xfor ridicule my toeia oh shoetossing is older than either confetti o rice throwing ancient israelites started it when a place of land was purchased the buyer teased a sandal on it that gesture symbolized change of ownership later anglosaxons carried it rate the marriage ceremony the father would remove one of his daughters shoes and pass it to the bridegroom the latter would touch the maiden s forehead lightly with the shoer in dicating authority had passed from papa to the new husband a tap be came a toss with p ng years parents would hurl shoes at a newly married couple to convey the infor mation they no longer were respon sible for the young lady the seas f n in the middle of the last the organization known as the of ft- was one of a number of secret societies which was merged in the koownothing order or parry along with the order of american me chanics american protestant asso ciation order of the sons of amer ica and other similar orders its decided charact were nativ- ism jfthen asked as to th objects of mis society members replied i know nothing about them hag dust or water the leaping to one side to destroy scent it directs them to the proper medicinal plants for their various needs and the decisive tunes to migrate to escape bitter winters and lack of food it suggests harves ting and storing food to others it warns of poisons through the senses guides to feedinggrounds and to wat er it presents to burrowers the ad vlsafaluty of destroying the evidences of their digging and to some the des irabulty of disposing or excess feath era and bones from their entrances it indicates to hibernating creatures the foods necessary for winter fat and for padding their stomachs against undue shrinkage it induces soldier termites to discharge a liquid against their enemies which is converted into poison gas and causes the clam tarn uy when burrowing beneath the mud to send up a slender stem of mucous the first periscope to the surface of the water it suggests the virtue of hunting in packs and relays and is responsible for the flying wedge of the canada goose its wisdom fa y fas the snow- white coat of the polar bear and rus sets and browns of the mote southern autumnal woods creatures just as most of the greatest railroad lines in north america are established along what were once indian trails and back of them the easiest trails discovered by the grass croppers and the principal canals are opened up over onetime portages or carries of the early indians so many of our so- called inventions and discoveries are based upon observation rather than initiative through watching and imitating to a degree our little broth ers o f the wild by m jo morgan m our dumb animals by norwegian royal command from june 3 the exportation of live silver foxes and live blue foxes is prohibited from norway wthout a special export permit from the nor weglan department of agriculture we have made special arrangements for the servicing of general motors automobiles we are also in a position to sell new chevrolet ponliac and oldsmobilc motor cars we have a number of good used cars for sale at reasonable prices your patronage will be appreciated j n oneill son phone office 14 res 168 georgetown advertising pays 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