Daily British Whig (1850), 14 Nov 1910, p. 6

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S-- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1910, Tr ---- EE -- -- ---- », ah Long a . a Loli Sarl, eel me 8 card an Ww = . ON 87. : jaundry. 156 wiLLIRGTO snd Claren Phone 201 DAY' OR NIGHT « * CANADA'S BEST to ort in the Ontarte Grape Grow- he Lh Manufacturing Company's i he tharines. It is guaranteed 10 i oid, and is a pure, dry and per- equal to the best imported at the price, " n. 3. LAWLER, Golden WM. 9 Auctioneer, les given special at. Rr me HT of Farma ve my speciaity s Fr If farmers want get my services. MARKET SQUARE. ath featuhutatbeatdbhdaiuiig H PARKS& SON, % Florists | Day 'Phone 239. Night 'Phone 236. , All kinds of Cut Flowers and Plants season. Wedding and Funeral De- signs specialty shipped to all patsr. a ng Street. 7 -- ------------------------ COAL Try WM. DRURY, 285 WELLINGTON STREET. 'Phone 443. Our Crystal Brand Of Standard Granulated Sugar is ua- excelled for preserving or table use. ANDREW MA Suiario Streat. a card to 19 Pine Street when € anything done in the Carpen- ne. Estimates given on all kinds and , new work also. Floors oF all kinds. AlN ive t attention. A rich yet mild, hrew lke REGAL Lager, is mood for the nerves, Beart and = stomach, Your physician knows this, and will tell you that REGAL Wn =» Barm you. Try it. iN MAXY LITTLE ONES FELT CANADA. The Sensitive Modern Instrument Reveals Them--They are More Prevalent in Winter Than in Sum- mer. z, Dominion Astionomer, x says the sensitive modern in which record 'earthquakes, show that there are many little quakes ly occurring, even in Canada of these extend over days and vasionally over weeks. Writing on this subject Mr. Klotz says: "In general, they are far more pre- valent during the winter season than in the summer. These pulsations or tremors 1 call microseisins, The ques. tion naturally arises, what produces these v'Lrations? Are they due to a constau. stress in the earth's crust, which, at times, adjusts itself by a rupture along some weak line, along a fault, or are they produced by ther mometric or barometric conditions of the atmosphere? Among phenomena of the latier we may consider winds, snd the position and movements of low barometer." Careful comparisons of the earth quake records with the daily weather- maps during two years have convinced the author that the position of areas of low barometer is closely connected with these infinitesimal earthquakes, They make their appearance when lines of equal barometric pressure are closely crowded together, and they are absent when these lines are far apart, indicating slight transitions of pres sure. For some strange reason, how- ever, it seems that the area of low pressure" ust be over the water to produce the little earth-tremers. As we read: "Examination from day to day re vealed the important fact that the position of the low is a very mater ial faetor in the production of microse- isms. For instance, we have a low approaching over land from the west: ern quadrant, as they always do, showing on "the face of it a strong cyclonic movement, yet our seismo- graph does not seem to be affected by it, as long as it is to the west of Ot. tawa. However, after it has passed Ottawa and descended the St. Law- rence, apd over Newfoundland to the Atlantic! then the miscroseisms be- come very active. The important dis- covery tliat we have made is that the area of low with steep gradients to be most effective in producing microse- isms must be over water, i.e., the ocean: So far our facts seems to be well correlated, but there is one ed. Treatiat aN SOll Wissing, viel, "HOW does the area of low barometer with stegp gradients resting on the water produce the microseisms? To this question I am not yet prepared to give an answer, ™ The following points, however, Dr. Klotz regards as setthéd-«the depend. ance of these microscopic earth. movements on barometric pressure, the fact that they are due to lessened pressure over the adjacent cdean-bed rather than over the continent, and the facet that they represent vibrations of vast blocks of the earth's.crust, cov: ering tens of thousands of miles, con. tinuing for some time after the re- moval of the immediate cause. Notable Man Passes. The sudden and r ttable death of Prof. Penhallow of McGill University, will leave a blank in educational and social circles. As professor of botany, he had been with Recain for dver a quarter of a century. He sustained a wonderful enthus- iasm for his chosen studies; and had the faculty of impasting something of his own mood and feeling to his stu- dents. He did not make friends carelessly; but those in whom he felt he could re- pose confidence, and whe disclosed traits and qualities which found in himself answering response, he bound to him with hooks of steel. In the company of choice and kindred spirits, he was gay, sparkling, delightfully unconventional. He had been a wide reader, and had a well stored mind. He said bright, witty ingpiring things. One forgot the staid 'and dignified professor, who may rather have intimidated the freshman; and in social life, in the little circles which met together for a feast of rea- son and flow of soul, Prof. Penhallow was always a weloome member. While thoroughly virile, he had the delicacy of a woman. He had thought about life unconventionally. He would accept nothing which did not appeal to his reason, He smiled at cut and dry formulae which claimed to regulate life and conduct and belief. As a teacher, the late Professor Penhallow was enthusiastic, exacting; always prepared; fresh and magnetic; aver seeking for variety of expression in unfolding the mysteries of form and color, variety and persistence; always giving allurement oa study which is apt to re ung inners, who are ais Po Teel as Peter Bell felt about the "primrose by the river's brim," that to him it was a yellow primrose and nothing more. Give No Credit. Maclennan » correspondent, Sault Star: We notice gat there is much raire and credit given the certain in- ividuals ho attended the Soo fair and received prises. "This is all very well in its place or for the likes of old Mr. Murray. It certainly is a credit but not for all, for if all were to de- o a few acres where would v might say at , for 1 venture to fay that there is more time lost over those small plots than would and coli bios: Fly thirty acres of { do not to d fall fairs sut I cannot give the tredit for the advance ¢ neking. 1 was PORK AND BEAN EXPERT. "Dan" Mann Learned a Great Deal About Them In Early Days. "Donald D. Mann was born in As ton, which is pretty nearly as rocky as Sudbury." siys Aogustus Bridle, writing in Canada Monthly (formerly Canada-West), "and when he was a boy he knew '» mors about the prai- ries than he did about the moon. It was the woods he knew most about. Acton wax not far from the woods, and it was on one of the slowest lines of road in the world. Those days they burned eardwood on the Grand Trunk; and Mann took a few contracts get ting out cordwood for those oid elon- gatéd fire-boxes that had never smell ed soft coal: "In Acton, Mann had become handy with the broad-axe--which in the late sixties and early seventies when he was growing up was much used in getting oul barn timbers. - When he left home in 1871, and struck out 'to the lumber woods of Alpena, Michi- gan, hig first job was river-driving. He was seven and as. supple as a cat,' and the pike pole and the pea- vey wete the joy of his lite. He had been so long hankering to get away from 'Acton lary that this plunge into the Michigan wilds made him forget the schoolmaster at Acton, that used to reason with his father that Donald would never smount to much, he was afraid. He learned timber as natively as 'the duck learns water. When he got tired driving logs down the rivers, he went into a shingle mill, After that he. quit Michigan and. erossed over to Ontario. Back to the head- waters of the Trent he went and did anything he was set to do by the camp boss--learning all there was to know about the axe and the skid-road and the drive. Parry Sound has good rea- son to remember him. Nobody in those years, when Mann was a young river driver and 'camp boss and ex- pert on pork and beans, reckoned thitt in thirty years' time his private car would bow! up into the town over the line built by Mackenzie & Mann, irom Toronto to join up with the main part of the Transcontinental thread. ng the wheat belt of the prairie. But when it happened; there were a good many citizen of Parry Sound who re membered Mann." Odd Masonic Lodge Room. The only natural lodge room in the world is on the summit of Owl's Head Mountain, at Lake Memphre- magog, Canada, says The Masonic Bulletin. Here, in a great ravine, at an elevation of 2.440 feet above the level of the lake, situated due east and west, and surrounded by massive jueks ing ationd perfect seclusion, is a ledge that seems as if hewn by WE NE oF Tatars dor Ae Uae I which it is put. ' The rocks offer suitable watch tow- ers from which sentinels can readily observe the approach of eavesdrop- pers should any by rare chance pass that "way. 3 v In such a spot as this, with only the blue dome of heaven overhead and the imper trable walls on both sides, Masons of to«day imitate the habit of their ancient brethren, who, tradition says, met in just such places to perform the ceremonies of the craft. The spot is not easy of access. The ascent is difficult and at all times hazardous, though at dangerous points, - whenever: 'a meeting of - the brethren' occurs, ropes are stretched for the elimbers. This unusual lodge room has been in. use for half a century. Golden Rule Lodge 'No. 5 of Stanstead, Que- bee, was in 1857 granted a dispensa- tion to open and hold a lodge once in every year on this mountain top, the fest meeting being held July 24, 1867. The original dispensation 'for this purpose was granted by William M. Wilson, the first grand master of the grand lodge of Canada, and in 1869 the dispensation was endorsed and confirmed by John H. Graham, the first grand master of the grand lodge if Quebec. It is the only lodge in 'Xistenoe, it is said, that has a war- rant for holding regular meetings on # mountain. top. Where Kipling Was Second. It was my good fortune to be at fedicine Hat and to meet Rudyard Kipling on his recent triumphal jour- wy over the Canadian Pacific, and t this time 1 became acquainted with « settler from the Battleford country. This man was not sufficiently interest. «i in Mr. Kipling to "follow the rowd" in the great novelist's wake, hough he knew of his fame. Yet three years before this settler had #itched up his yoke of oxen, and with ais wife and three children had driven wenty-two miles to Battleford ex- sressly to ree the first stenographer that had ever come into that part of the countey. This young girl, Mabel ffardigan, was for a long time a great. mv celebrity 'in the little prairie settle. went. than Rudyard Kipling was in the dities. She was a tremendous ad: vertisement and her employer, a wide- swake real estate agent, had her work near a Jars window, through which upon as a most wonder: beipe morning until night prettipess of form and face, and she soon had a long train of suitors. The real estate man settled the question by marrying her himself, and he is gow a fich man--J. O. Cur Ld ction. was. a Li HBG] 2 4 TER A Ye. ghecursy und. THE NATIONAL DEBT OFFICE. Humors of 'a Little Known Depart- ment of Britain's System, After spending forty-six years at the British National Debt Office, for fourteen of which he has been chief clerk, Mr. A. T. King is retiring from the civil service. His reminiscences of a little under- stood department make interesting ; reading. He quotés a dear old annuit- ant who used to regularly address them as 'the National Death Office. A farmer once wrote: "Gentlemen--When a man is in pecuniary difficulties what is the best thing for him to do?" Apparently he thought that if they were able to solve so gigantic a prob- - len as the National Debt they could experience no trouble in putfing the small and personal finances of an in- dividual to rights. "I remember perfectly well," con- tinued Mr. King, "that one day = man came in to receive his annuity who was 100 years of age. Accom- panying him was his son, a sprightly young fellow of seventy, and they were a remarkable couple. I is an interesting fact, by the way, that since the first granting of these an nuities we have had only eighteen centenarian recipients. Four enly were men, and the remainder wo- men, Lots live until they are ninety- Bite, but it's the 'last lap' which tells, - "People do get angry with us some- times, and ¥ might almost suggest that some of them are even unreason- able. Here's a curiosity in connee- tion with annuities, In 1840 annui- ties were purchased for two women servants under a will, and every half year for the past seventy years they have come together to receive their money. other still visits us. Turning to another branch of the activities of the office, Mr. King said his greatest source of trouble had been people who were in search of untold wealth in the form of un claimed stock. "As a rule they have heard that a forefather of theirs worked some- where, died somewhere, and left somewhere a huge fortune, which the premises granted--must logically be somewhere. I remember an estim- able couple coming here one day with what they claimed was a genealogical table, and, after haranguing me for some time, they concluded, 'Sir, we are the missing link." And I recail § volatile Irishman wh arrived in a state of perspiration, declaring that he had been told that his great grandfather was a very wealthy man, and that he never married. The de- he 10 sleep to-night? He had just bor- rowed enough money to come over for the fortune he 'believed to be awaiting him. people who occasionally came to see Office. "That the National Debt is a mat- ter of serious concern to some people is proved by the gilts occasionally received. It was not so long ago that a parcel arrived for the Commission ers by post, in which, wrapped up in two old Rouspapers, were © 300 golden sovereigns. ere was no let- ter and no address with the parcel, no means of identifying the sender, and. advertisement failed to find him or her. Bo the National Debt of Eng- land was accordingly reduced by $1,500 by an anonymous benefactor. Nor is $1,500 the smallest sum by any means. "Thus in a statement here you will see two anonymouse donations ace knowledged, one for $50 and one for $25. Then, again, there is the ae. Patriot." is the bequest of £46,750 by a lady-- Anna Maria Reyneolds--and one of £14,300 by Major Thomas Gamble, The smallest sum so received was §10 'From a Valentudmnarian.' "This reminds me that there was -a time--=up to as late as 1823--when lotteries "were employed by ' suctes- sive Governments as a means of in ducing the public - ereditor in some form or other to lend his money to the state. Not for a single year from 1785 to 1823 is the statute book with- out an annual Lottery Act, which secured an income fo the state of times move, sometimes Jess." Society Ladies as Sailors. "There are to-day hundreds of wo- ciety, who understand as much about sailing a yacht as the majority of their-masculine rivals. Lady Tweed: helm as at stalking and bringing dowa a stag at Guisachan, N.B.; the Mar. chioness of Graham spends many of her happiest days sailing on Beottish waters; the Duchess of Fife can steer a boat as well as sho can land a 20-pound salmen, and among the almost countless ladies of rank who can hold their own at the helm with any man are Lady Annes ley, the Duchess of Newcastle, Lady Constance Scott, and Lady Breadal- Oue-seven Ireland consists of bog alone, s of 240 square miles. This im mense area is at present a sterile waste, but it will become a source of great Jealth a soon as a method has m found converting peat into an economical and desirable commer- cial fuel. Briquets of tight as long but the least crumble to pieces. Dialectical Visitor ( with molehills mounds? One, recently died, but the |.., be made up next day or apy time, the chief clerk of the National Debt | sopressed peat are all as kept absolutely dry, mgistare causes them to jare expectad to "kuow mavigation," but & sea captain depending on navi- {gation alone would make a sorry fist tof it on the Lakes. {oo good in a snowstorm. that contingency, most Jake captains | prefer to tie up, or, if caught in mid. jlake, to proceed with extreme cau- ition, laying to, if at all practicable, |under the 'ee of Whitefish Point, an island, or some such shelter. : { i i (water and a great opaque, smothering tioud of driving snow, close over-arch- ed and all-enveloping. {may make but little difference to a i i the deesu't keep to These are the sort of [Ly } ¥ i } i i | | | Ining up from the stern with the log reading. 1 knowledgment of $30 'From a French | On the other hand, there |e | : i } { | | i ! { i i jder suspension for nine mor { when ®in response to a petition something like £300,000 a year; same. [bY | | : men, many of them queens of so- Ie mouth is just as much at home at the | | | ! } {<his manhood--for less than a | iof pottage. | A Mistake Is a Serious Matter to The stars are naught. The sun is {blotted cat from the sky. ino sky. asters occur. snowstorm," is the commonest ex- small divergence from the angle of ithe prescribed course might, in the ence of fifty miles, and when it is further ¢opsidered that some of the "passages" are narrower by far than the famous Thunder Bay, a doorway {of four and a hali miles, it will be ladmitted that loose course, however degrees bo piri Plows r PNA Dead ERT {order by mistake, and put his wheel {na dock fain Ber yachs {into robbers. OFTHE ROOK. ~~~ u Lake Captain. Captains on the big passenger boats "Navigation" is In faet, in | In a snowstorm evéry landmark or light on shore is shat off as by a wall, There is A Lake Superior snow-storm isolates a ship in space. She is ne where--only a little patch of black It is at times like these that most of the lake dis- "Went ashore in a planation of loss by shipwreck on the Upper Lakes. When it is considered that a very reach of a might's run, make a differ. that at Thunder Cape, opening up into they may be considered by the sea captain of Jim's acquaintance, won't jo en Lake Superior. Twe degrees liner on the Atlantie. The divergence like a man walking across a prairie-- a line like a gar: den path. But om the Lakes, especial ly on. Superior and Georgian Bay, two divergence from the course would im some cases bring on a bad case of shipwreck in nal an hour. The Athabasca went the Flower Pots, due to a wheelman's mistake, in less time than that Captain 'Brown of the Athabasca had been a C.P.R. captain for fifteen years. No more careful or experienc ed man was there on the Lakes. He started out with the-Athabasea from Owen Sound; one day last and it eame on to snow. Out Bruce, the sea was ro g night came down thick as Georgian Bay was getting sweep of a nor'-wester. Wisely Cap tain Brown decided to put about and run back to Owen Sound. Gad captain sent a man back to read the By his watch he knew it must be nearly time to wear around the end § the i l. He wid the man to wait til the figures read right and. 10. come forward then on the run "Fly," said he, and the expre n was quoted afterwards at the inve gation. The island itself was invisi in the storm. To be sure of leaving plenty of room between it and the ship until they were past far enough turn, Captain Brown ordered the wheel to starboard. "The wheelSman, 1s he afterward testified, reversed his log. to port. For a moment the steamer ran on the false course. Then the captain noticed the compass and sig- nalled the engine room to reverse, At the same moment the man came run- The point of the island was therefore dead ahead. Another ment on the proper course and the } Athabasca would have cleared the Flower Pot, apd Captain Brown would be a C.P.R. eaptain to-day The vessel's way gradually slacken d, and she was sheering off to star board when, with searcely noticeable shotk, she slid up the flat rock of a ledge and rested there as guietly For the island broke the seas and the vessel lay in a lee calm. And there she had to stay until the tugs took her off and she steamed in- |< to Owen Sound a day later. Captain Brown's papers were with lrawn on head of this accident, and though the vessel went into dry lock and only ¢ had to be re mo- ¥ the captains and mates of the Gre akes and presented by the local members of Parliament, the Govern: ment restored his papers, did the cap- his old berth with the *h goes to show how com- companies impress the of responsibility upon + rega CPR, Ww letely the cruel wei their captains. made tb vonverbad not only be can also be Figures may lie, but they Many a man has sold his birthright miss J Su 1) \ 8 / the cells i A poor digestion and flagging ering battiesmp action, makes the capillaries and blood vessels work, and the vigorous circulation, thus started, carries away secreted impurities. Waxy, sallow deposits are thus removed. Hard pimply growths are softened and dissppesr. appetite can be much improved by using + Seal Brand Coffee a natural Coffee of the highest grade, unad- ulterated, undoctored. Sold in 1 and 2 Ib. 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