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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1928 Stork Sense of Direction Innate, German Observatory Finds Bavarian Professor's Experi ments Show That Young Birds Fly Unerringly South Even if Leaderless How Wll i infallibl. the* th< Diessen-Am- ten. tne lonely spit of sand and salt! "I decided marshes on the Kurischen Nehrung, poses stands the great bird observatory in which so many experiments already have been made toward clearing up Professor Thlener.iam et about finding aaswi iroblems and describes 1 storks for pur because thi to fly. They were kept and were extremely restless and upset for a week or so after the others | were gone. Then they quieted down and were set free. Bad weather set in and the storks made no attempt to set about the customary flight. j However, a couple of weeks later, when the weather cleared they all set ; the author of seven volumes of ! original lyrics.and the author of "The j Dynasts'" Is one and the same manure Test To Be Repeated This' Thomas Hardy. --N.Y . Herald-Tri-Year on Larger Scale Presence of of Species In- dicates Prosperous Area ' Rosi.iei This taken by these typical i tory birds to the southern extr of Africa has been determined bi possibility of dcubt by the, e " birds rings bears: the problems of bird flight. The fit- ■ t of D1-ov!dillg ting out of the birds with rings bear- - Each f (he tten, Germanic. Route Taken k>d of sresting , low Professor J. Thiene-j director, is about to use the migration to make various: rds 'Vogeiwart i Afric, 'he route taken by the birds leads in the hope-of dis-!l!0m East Prussia toward the south-covering something about the methods east, through Hungary, over the Bos-by which the birds find their ways I porus, through Asia Minor and by way on their far flights to warmer lands, j oi Syria and Palestine to Africa, and The question which the professor put i then up the valley o£ the Nile and in to himself was the following: | the eastern half of the Dark Continent "What happens if migratory birds, down to the Cape. This being estab-tificially held lished, I can at once observe whether back in i all the and i ither birds of th s diverge the professor lnade an ex-u a small scale. A few e artificially held back ;her storks were preparing IS, 1926. The ne: flying in i 1 the group to Nehrung; oyer the Samland. and then nothing y were sighted, the south of the the day after In East Prussia, rds grew up On both ay water, the Baltic irische Haff, and to the Nehrung, with its s stretched alike in -why did not these tupidly toward the until the beginning of December, when the professor received a report from Athens that one had been found. It had been discovered, in company with others of a similar species, between Athens and aurion. The foot ring, also was returned' The Greek police 'had forcibly retained it in the interests of sc spite of the protests of the fortunate ted to keep Do Popovers Pop? The Conduct of the Popover Becomes More Predictable if a Standardized Recipe Is Used There is something about popovers, flat sal both directions--why did not these aPPa! birds fly off stupidly toward the feeling of inadeq north? On the contrary, they flew off self-confident cook: quite correctly toward the south, al- thing, to draw though they had no leader. It would own experii seem, therefore, that they have a; the fact that in every cookbook yo feeling for the southerly direction. j find an entirely different recipe fo "This year I have repeated the'ex-: making hot bread. Apparently ther periment on a much larger scale, for 'are as many different ways to maki one must give chance as much space 'popovers as there are'ways to raise i as possible. I am at present the ' baby, and each fjhappy owner and nurse of seventy-five jher >Ypy ls the only possible road 8S a lucky talis (his family. The finding of that the experin flown further west for himself and :his stork showed! ental ' storks vard than th ;e," said Professor ha! young ! >rks. It is 1 joke to be success the foster-father of such a family. The problem of their daily dinner is not so lightly solved. The fishermen of Rositten are hard put to it to haul enough dabs out of the Kurische Haff, |and the village boys, I am afraid, have become very inattentive to their lessons, for they think of nothing but catching frogs. THE LAST OF THE VICTORIANS The Death of Thomas Hardy Closed the Career of the Last of the Great Victorians--For 50 Years He Enjoyed Fame, and Lived Long Enough to See His Books ^ Definitely Among the Classics ' *3gg&A *----<--> ^Vife^' Y ' By WILLIAM LYON PHELPS --^ Author of "Essays on Modern Novelists" and "The Advance of the English Novel" rer forget the first time I el by Thomas Hardy. I attack of "flu" coming, iberiug that I had been siliitis by reading "Treas-' 1 decided to read an-book, in the hope that it niiid i id the ln this respect he was in advance of his time. I got along better on other themes. I asked him what he thought a novel should be. He replied emphatically that it should always be a story; th* foundation must be a fable. He dM not admire the modern custom of writing treatises, diaries, propaganda, what not, and calling the thing He sincerely believed that "God" was an IT with no moral characteristics, and that men and women would have been happier and better off if they had not had minds, but had possessed only the senses of the lower I animals; and how far astray his ' theories led him as to the actual con-I ditions of modern life may be seen , by the following extracts from "The return of the Native": "The view of life as a thing to be put up with, replacing the zest for existence which was so intense in early civilizatons, must ultmately enter so thoroughly into the constitution of the advanced races that its! facial expression will become accepted as a new artistic departure." Is it any wonder that Hardy, with all his artistics genius, and with all | Hard: not know how I had escaped g about Hardy's love of tragedy, began reading in that ignorance has been called bliss. After I i point in the story -cine 1 the t fficultics but : had ! which the leading 1 told him that even known he had been a architect I should know ing his books. "Because so many architects?" "( I, "bacause the whole i 'your novels tecturally." metrically engaging a Hardy joined i prose fiction for twenty-five years and poetry for nearly thirty. His poetry has enough quality to insure him a place among the poets of his time; but suppose you had to choose between Francis Thompson and Hardy, or between Alfred Hous-man and Hardy, or between Rudyard Kipling and Hardy, which would you take? His poetry is interesting because it proceeded from an interesting mind; but in poetry, style and expression are the main thing. There is no doubt that Hardy's mind was far more interesting than the mind of Alfred Tennyson; but no one of Hardy's poems, interesting, original, appealing as it may be, is equal in beauty of expression to "Ulysses." seems clear to me that' recipe novels are the most import- J Popovers may be made with one, two or thre eggs, according to the cookbook you use. The recipe -may or may not call for a little butter. Some authorities take a firm stand about the necessity of using heavy Iron pans for baking the popovers, while others ignore this matter completely. Practically no two cookbooks give identical directions for regulating the oven temperature for baking popovers. One recipe will advise a quick oven and another will recommend a slow oven throughout the baking time. If definite temperatures are given they may vary from 350 to iff degrees in various cook-It is easy to see, in view of all this variation in recipes, why so simple a thng as a popover may go astray as often as not. That the popover may truly be simple, tractable and easily managed was recently proved in the research and testing kitchen of a stove company. All the popover recipesavailable were tested and the results were carefully compared. It was found that satisfactory popovers may be made by using the following METROPOLITAN CHURCH, TORONTO tecenBy destroyed by fire. The Sunday School Lesson 'ebruary 19. Lesson VIII.-- Miracles of Power.--Mark 4: 3E 5: 15-19. Golden Text--What r ner of man is this, that < the wind and the sea obey hin Mark 4: 41. SUBJECT THB his sincerity, failed Prize? One of the most i about hi f I had not professional •t from read- I introduce tructure of STreat ictoriani get the Nobel ant part of his work; but in order that the other view may receive ade-emarkable things- Wate expression, coming as it does that he attained! from the high' -- [e I will ----- A Tested R< lk, : egg. irist s power over i> MIND OrjrfAN. Introduction--The personality of Jesus was such that his followers could neither comprehend ;t nor describe it in the languagr of ordinary human life. When, looking back from .. later standpoint, these followers i spoke of his as the Son of God, they were thinking, not only of the unique | degree to which he manifested the «K-jvine love, but of the extraordinary peace and serenity which hi displayed of Na- four kinds of art. with the profound g! respect and appreciation, from a let- Mr We vaIked the effect p of blue eye; free that' a,Jout the garden and entered the r alarm, mere- house, where we saw some of her paintings. I was invited to come to ige it. | tea the next day, and I told them that ing this article has ' while I had rather do that than any-of Blue Eyes" I in-!thinS else, we had only a few days s.lf way through thej'eft in England, we were on a bicycle yourself this ques- tour> and I must consult my partner ay could the story! O'fe). He said they would be having hurt my feelings | tea in the garden the next day at 5 sure no one would o'clock anyhow, and we could come 3 an ending so bad or not, as we found it convenient, last chapter. When ! We Went el I threw it as far j He ,vas literally covered with cats, strength would per- ■ several large cats were purring over mid never read an-: llim an(i at different places on the fly. I went to bed. lawn an(j jn the shrubbery I saw one week. Such j saucers of milk. "Are all these your iduced on me by a j own cats?" "Oh, no, only a few of them. But. may cats invite the cats of the neighborhood in to tea. They know that saucers of milk will be provided and many come who are not incited. They just hear about it." This pleased me, for I have always been an ardent cattist. A poem that Mr. Hardy published many years later. "Last Words to a Dumb Friend." Is the most beautiful and affecting tribute to a cat that 1 have ever seen. I asked him if he had put much of his own experience into He said that "A I^aodicean" had more of the events of his own life in it than any other of his books. That was published in 1881; during its composition nd expected to . «. successful and prize-winning, rehitect; he became the foremost liv- ter that Mrs- Hardy was kind enough ing English novelist, the last of the,-Jo write to me February 14, 1926. in enrolled per- {"which she notes "the curious fact ,.e can see--lAmerlcan critics bestow nearly their ith Dickens, Jane Austen and Field-pwhole^attention on the first half of lg: he became one of the leading j English poets of the twentieth een-; . .. .W i*io the But such is the inconsistency of hu-Rii nature that within one year I :d read hte man's complete works, nee then I have reread many, as he one of the few authors of our time hose books become more interest-g on repertisals. He was the Eng-ihman whom I most wanted to meet; id my wish was gratified on a beautl-! September day in the year 1900. We were on a bicycle tour in south--stern England; at Weymouth I tight a copy of one of my favorites Far From the Madding Crowd"-- d armed with this I called at Max ite. Dorchester, the author's home, lich looked like an illustration for 'he Woodlanders." The servants '......(ii me that Mr. 'Hardy would Mauri was nt awaited in the garden • his i-agen that I door He niekerbockers, possibly out leration for my informal ire. He was a smallish, iry man. with a gray mus-a gray face. And although sion was grave, and though j ' laugh, he was as j tury; his epic tragedy of tin poleonic wars, "The Dynast« apparently given him a place the great English dramatists, for it safe to say that it will find readj' for many years to come. He always (after 1898) wished to j be regarded as a poet, not as a novel-. has done to critical pronouncements ist; he insisted that his poems were j and judgments one is--or should be-better than his prose and that they j humble. It is, of course, possible that wouldl ive longer. | some centuries from now Hardy will It Is possible that "The Dynasts" i 09 known chiefly as a poet; to-day while those 1 half were the result < j personality." When one remembers dictated by accidents •ill 1: .ythin Had he jvelist think of firstl1 ia ferences. good answer to the Baconian . _ novel his' fanat1cs that for one ma" to write Id have won for him an \the thirty-seven plays was marvelous; audience; but it was fortunate forj^'^ f°y„?nf.*tL him that the poems were published with the tremendous prestige of his name. It is true, as he always insisted in later years, that his career j It i» an ara«ing fact ln our own* school t at a poet, even going only by actual j time that the author of "Tes»," "The! teacher, publication, was longer . than his' Return of the Native," "Far From the "Why, the bell rang before I got career as a novelist. He published Madding Crowd," "The Woodlanders," i here," the little fellow explained. ['Essay was marvelous, but that » both was incon Jable. he presence of the , The addition of one tablespoon ot J™* « whent ff edJ^:£"*f fat wil! increase the tenderness of Ms^™^J^™^^ SSd product. !y,eve describe the Master is the ian- The addition of one egg will also j guage which we find in such an inci-increase the tenderness of the pop- j dent as the Stilling of the Storm. We overs, but a three-egg recipe results see a Jesus who is not only fearless in an eggy flavor. ! in the presence of storm and tempest, but who subdues them by his word. So in presence of dementia, insanity, frenzy in human- souls he is not dismayed, but commands the evil spirits and they obey him. If we leave out such thoughts and such incident* in the lift-- " * The most desirable recipe for pop-overs was found to be: 1 cup flour, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon melted butter, 14, teaspoon salt. Add the beaten egg to the milk and combine slowly with the sifted flour and salt, beating just enough to mix thoroughly. Beating the whites and yolks of aggs separately not only does not improve the product, but causes the texture to become some-, what similar to that of muffins. The best temperature for baking popovers was found to be 450 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes and then 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Melt the butter and add it last. Use heavy iron muffin pans, previously heated for ten minutes in an oven heated to 450 degrees. Pour about one and one-half tablespoons of batter into each small pan. Quite. you late at Sunday rning, Tom?" asked the die. He 1 lable to i , bein therefore dictated the whole novel rom a horizontal attitude. My admiration for Hardy'? novels, Imost idolatrous as it was and is, did 10* exceeT; my admiration of the man. ie was simple, unaffected, quiet. ;'.nuine; and I felt that he would ;ave immeasurable sympathy for any ne in sorrow or troubie. My previous belief, that his pessimism was caused ' sympathy for others, was sirength-led by talking with him. .0"° I The dawn of the twentieth century rer' found Thomas Hardy withou'. a living I, j rival among English writers. By com-red mon consent he stood first. He re-89g Iceived all kinds of honors, university „„ j degrees, medals, and the high' In ■ I ; >ved hin night he told me that he greatly preferred his poems to his novels, whereas T liked the novels much better. At that time his first volume of poems had been out only two years. He also said that he regarded the shooting of game birds as wicked, as sinful, and nsked me ff I indulged in that practice. Alas, 1 told him that I was rery fond of shooting, though not in ♦he English fashion. 1 was lucky to bag two or three birds in a day's march. He said that he had endeavor-! «d to get others to co-operate in an attempt to abolish shooting in England, but he rightly regarded the Merit. He won everything winnable except the Nobel rize. and in my opinion his friends did him a disservce by bringing his name up publicly every year. If the Nobel Prize were granted merely for literary distinction he might have received it long ago; but, like the Pulitzer prizes in this country, the Nobel Prize must be given to work of an idealistic and uplifting character. Now, although there is not the slightest doubt of Hardy's literary eminence, or of the sincerity, beauty and nobility of bis character, his philosophical views were atheistic and pessmistlc. I say this not eusstlon, but as an accurat Canadian Athletes Leave For Olympic Games ihe lir*-<^-^I«- .... -m .....■- --- picture which falls short of the reality. We do not apprehend the greatness of Jesus as his disciples apprehended it, nor do we grasp the full measure of his faith in God. I. jesus and the powers of nature, 4:35-41. ■ Vs. 35-38. The incident which is i reported here indicates that one of the mightiest factors in the impression which Jesus made was his absolute serenity in the face of storm and tempest. The incident records a deeply religious experience of the disciples. "Master," cried the disciples, "would you let us go down without a thought " It indicates the impression which the Master had made that the disciples turn to him in their crisis. Had Jesus been only a teacher or philosopher, would they have looked to him for help in an emergency like this? sV. 39-41. The result. The important element here is Jesus' rebuke of his disciples' fears. "Why are you afraid like this?" He cried. "Have you no faith yet?" Surely when they were all engaged in God's business they might have felt that they were in God's keeping! The words which follow indicate how deep was the religious impression made by the incident. The disciples are absolutely overawed, and their question, "What manner of man is this?" shows that Jesus could . not be explained by what merely appeared to the eye. The disciples were continually being driven back upon a deecer. indeed, a supernatural explanation of his person. II. jesus and the soul of man, a: 15-19. Vs. 15-19. If in the previous incident Jesus showed that true religion, true faith in God, was a mightier power than nature, in the incident which now follows he shows also that it is mightier than the Satanic forces which assail the souls of men. The cure of the Gerasene demoniac has been de-scribed. The demoniac in question exhibited an acute type of melancholic madness, nding expression in homicidal and suicidal frenzy. All ordi-snry human methods of dealing with the case had failed. To the man's own thousand, had taken up their abode in him. We see the madman no longer driven about by ihe old nightmare-like terrors, but pitting as a disciple at Jesus' feet, no b>n^e<-naked, but clothed, no longer mad. but self-possessed. It is a wonderful picture of what was daily happening bo-fore the eyes of the men who followed Jesus. The fact to notice is that, the adma ,-lti.M Canada's representatives at the | camera man at Montreal en rou Olympic Games at St. Moritz, Swit- Halifax. Photographs show: L serland, now on their way across the Mt The varsity Grads hockey I pourneyed from their hom«"> ' Maritime Ex Xfttional Rail eligious society is now n disciple of Jesus. He wishes to follow Jesus back to Galilee, like the others, but Jesus has other business for bin:, sends him to do the work of a •iple among his own heathen kins-[folk and fellow-countrymen. Imagin« impression which the tolling .>f simple story would make upon i pagan folks! t project as hopeless. It may b« that, f ion. ihe seaboard via Canadian National'"' Toronto; right, Lehan and Dupuis I speed tl descvip- Rrfiu-ayn. Most «f the party were photo-;of Montreal and Ottawa respectively,, present ' eraplicd by the Canadian N^lonal'ektlng representative*. Upper right, 'events. '"' nne witJ re" Haggerelon Wife - "My husband • H>eed ehating not)K not mind what people rail Mm »t I come of a good stock and do. »