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Stouffville Tribune (Stouffville, ON), August 13, 1931, p. 3

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ancient city may contain secrets of civilization canada drives back the last frontier weird stories of honduras jungle told by visiting british explorer buried in tho jungle of honduras riven by earthquakes and guardod by bo3u of venomous reptiles and in jects lies a city older than any other yet found in central america so old is it that f a mitchellhedgc3 ex plorer for the british museum be lieves it to he tho origin from which tho later mayan and aztec cultures epraug and he believes the country round about it to be one of the ancient cradles of mankind it is no dream city of that mr mitchellhedges has already shown proof tor last year he brought to the museum of tlio american iudian over 1000 pieces of pottery fragments of tools aud weapons and ornaments front the ruins of tho ancient city scientists have studied these they havo found them to differ entirely from the relics of other indian civili sations discovered iu tho juugles of central america it is old mr mitchellhedges ad mitted guardedly when questioned about his and it i3 so old that there are not oven any dato stones to bo found in it as far as i can say there are no carvings of tho feathered ser pent god of tho mayans whoso cities we have dated back to goo bc it is older than any of these do you know he warmed up to the subject im a little diffident about speaking of this becauso it seems so extraordinary there is a wall about the city inside thoro are two mounds and these mounds havo stones about them exactly liko stonehenge nothing liko it has yet been found in tho three americas strange happenings strange lhing3 have happened on tho site of this ancient city according to mr mitchellhedges kirthquakes havo torn and tossed the masonry walls they have opened great cracks through the od city thoy have ele vated portions of it and turned others over the vii of destruction has been aued by the jungle plants whose fast growing roots hav- torn to pieces what other structures here were built of stones its a weird sort ot place mr mit chell hedges said remiuiscently there is a threeacre patch ot land that is a lot like that lost world that conan doyle wroto about on this patch there aro gigantic lizards with a spine that make3 them look as it great combs for the hair are growing out ot their back bones they aro seven feet long he continued they must have been cut oft from tho rest ot tho world for thousands ot years for i cannot otherwise under stand how they can have developed in such fashion peculiar animals animal lito according to tho ex plorer has altogether received pe culiar stimulation along that part ot tho caribbean from which ho will mako entrance to his secret city next january i have caught turtles there which wero 11 feet long from trout to back and over nine feet in width ho said i havo found crabs three feet across and in tho lagoons towards the in- torior there aro crawfish that aro ilvo teot long ami then tho explorer was once more discussing his city ho has had experience in judging tho ago ot the old walled towns buried under the jungle ot honduras and yucatan for 17 years ho has been collecting speci mens for tho british and other mus eums in 921 ho was ono ot the co- dlscoverers ot lubaantum oldost maya city in british honduras whose site has been entirely taken over by tho british museum now the only duo i havo so far found to the age of this uew city is a strange one ho confessed i havo found statuettes about is inches high buried in tho ground when i dug among the ruins now do not forget that they woro granite but when i touched thorn i found that parts ot them had becomo as soft as toothpaste that thoy had turned to clay a geologist could tell you moro about their ago thero aro othor strange things storms also mike railroad work often as dangerous as exploring 1 the men who aro doing this practi cal exploratiou aud construction are las different from the oldfiiue pioneers by russell owen in the new york prospector and trapper as could times magazine j be imagined tho pilots aro young ar- dent adventurer who will take their canada s northern frontier the last wu t planes anywhere you wish to go pro- frontier la north america jos moved la the last two years 1000 mil near er tho pole it rests now on tho fringa ot thoso arctic islands which used to be bo inaccessible so far from civiliza tion that the fate of franklln3 expe dition among them is still a mystery tho north country once thought a land ot ico and snow valueless except to tho trapper has become tho happy hunting ground ot prospectors to parts of it homesteaders are turning pianos fly over it any time of the year its barriers aro down to stay mining the hope ot mineral wealth has beon the greatest incentlvo to this northern movement tho rich dis coveries ot gold and copper a few years ago in conjunction with the ad vent of tho airplane as a reasonably safe means of transportation gavo a tremendous impetus to northern min eral exploratiou planes flew all over the north country it is known that thoy wero disappointed in their flrst inspections just west ot hudson bay hut what they have found further west they have kept pretty much to them selves it is significant however that a company has been formed to build a railroad line from churchill on hud son bay west to lako athahaska where there are rich mineral deposits tho airplano is tho advance agent vided a fuel cache is in the neighbor hood thoy are used to forced land ings when tho thermometer registers 10 below zero they know how to warm their englucs under difficulties and to fly by instinct and by their knowledge ot landmarks over a deso late country many of tho prospectors now aro young engiueers or geologists working on salary for large companies hopping by piano from spot to spot where photographs havo shown interesting formations ono ot the most import ant pioneers ot this now north is tho construction engineer tho man build ing tho railroads and hydroelectric plants a mau who does not know when ho is licked who will divert or dam a wido iceladen stream to build his bridgo or furnish water for power the hydroelectric plants are built to fill a real ueed but the railroads aro built largely on hope and tho fover ot mining when one goes out from the pas to flin flon an 80- miie trip which take3 moro than five hours by train it is possible to real ize the lure ot mining tho hope ot rich reward which has mado these towus spring mushroomliko in tho wilderness in the pas which only two years ago was a wilderness town coiuiug money aud filled with labor- what new york is wearing by annebelle worthington illustrated dressmaking lesson fur nished with every pattern of the railroad and canada always e ineora ai11 prospectors they noted tor pushing hor railroads m ad- p bdua and wear di vance of development work is gamb- ackota t0 dailcm 1llt plill pum j ting heavily on what the airplanes will tqwn tn0 maju gtrect is find and side by sido with this far- qu muskeg and is iuim iu wi flung exploration tor minerals thero and kilee lu mul tll0 spring the houses and stores havo exists tho steady advauco ot settle ment it is the dvaiice of a machine age using all tu tools at its command to conquer syltil a country hitherto in accessible if it had not been for the development of the aircooled motor thoso northern fligi-t- would have been impossible and without the stimulus ot finding ore and even cial iron and oil it 13 doubtful if the railroads would be willing to spend huge sums on ion- oer building as it is they are large ly subsidised by the government iu many cases government ovaad yid operated the obstacles which they have faced at times have been tremendous at first glance much ot northern canada seems au ideal country over which to build a railroad south ot the bay it is almost flat rising slowly toward tho height ot land and then aloping gent ly down to the north its rivers are broad and filled with smashing drives ot ice in the spring but they can ba bridged tho timber gets thinner and shorter as one travels north and fin ally disappears in the tundra fur ther west ot course there are moun tains and broad valleys but whore most of tho railroad extension has been taking place the country is ap parently ideal canada however is cursed with a surface kuown as mus keg it exists in largo patches al most everywhere in the north tt is swampy a mushy mass ot decayed vegetation the bano ot all railroad builders year after year the lines take on a snakelike or rollercoaster appearance and have to bo reballastod about this ancient city according to mr mitchellhedges thero aro great llmestono caves under and around the city many of them havo ot courso been filled by earthquake subsidences but many aro still left aud these have mancut shafts going down into their blackness from what formerly was the great city vcrsj my husband always puts ten conts on tho plato on sunday i shouldnt think that would do much good in a caao liko his dummy fronts run up to mako thorn seem larger in tho timehonored fron tier manner prospectors havo found moro than minerals in these areas ot the onco barren north in the peace river district and tho lake st john coun try areas which for years were thought unsuitable aro being settled by fanners a map ot tho resources of this north ern country is dotted with markings t copper and gold lead and zinc sil ver bituminous sands ami oil coal and iron oro from the coppermino on tho arctic circle is no longer an impossibility and between all those points extending almost to the mouth ot tho mackenzie river on the arctic sea lies the limitless forest year after year the paper mills have been growing iu number and size and re- forestation is being dono to conserve their supply in the lako st john country there aro onormous paper mills and there also a little town ar- vida has been built around a mill which will turn bauxite oro from south america into aluminum a mill mado possible by water power a little further west in ontario the town of kapuskasing has been con structed as a unit a modern comfort able town with all the household com forts aud many ot tho entertainments ot much larger cities in tho south it has its moving pictures its community houso badminton courts hockey and curling rinks this town was erected in a region formerly so desolato that during tho war it was used as an in ternment camp because tho prisoners could not possibly mako their way out a paper mill was built and tho care fully planned town grew around it a railroad was constructed over the muskeg to smoky falls and a hydro electric power houso built to supply tho mill thero are hundreds ot such centers ot activity in regions which used to bo beyond tho reach ot all hut tho trapper all along tho southern tringo ot tho new frontier from british co lumbia to labrador they explain why tho hudsons bay company has been forcod to push ita posts further and further to tho north even to the arctic islands men dig for coal a short distanco from tho placo whero hudson died and drill for oil almost at tho arctic circlo tho trappers aro turning from the trap lino to the fur farm aud there is talk at a fishing industry in hudson bay as largo as that ot tho north sea it may bo year3 botoro somo ot tho dreams are realized but tho skeptic is shouted down by tho optimist of tho north who already jias doeds for proof 2633 smart midsummer it can as well wear its an economical choice be worn ail through the fall its slimly straight and becoming a flounce that provides attractive flare to the skirt is cleverly designed to keep the silhouette slender it shows a sharp downward curved line from just below the right hip it con centrates its fulness at either side in youthful kilted plaits style no 2g33 may be had in sizes 14 1g 18 20 years 3g 33 and 40 inches bust linen shantung silk pique and silk shirting aro smartly appropriate size 16 requires 3 yards 39inch ma terial with yard of 39inch con trasting y how to order patterns write your name and address plain ly giving number and size of such patterns as you want enclose 20c in stamps or coin coin preferred wrap it carefully for each number and address your order to wilson pattern service 73 west adelaide st toronto avoid herd instinct says chief scout adelaide s aust reading writ ing and arithmetic are important but thoy do not matter so much as character declared lord baden- powell chief scout at a luncheon tendered him hero by the common wealth club recently writes a corres pondent of tho christian soienco monitor character building ho said is the keynote ot the scout movement many of the boys ho went on wero learning too much of tho herd instinct and wero having every thing dono for them thoy did what was fashionable and therefore began to lose initiative resourceful ness and courage generous in love a man may bo a miser ot his wealth he may tie up his talent in a napkin ho may hug himself in his roputation but ho is alway3 gen erous in ills love lovo cannot stay at homo a man cannot koep it to himself liko light it is constantly travelling a man must spend it must give it away macleod the world today is many times moro interesting than when i be gan lincoln stcffens physicians slow to recognize j 40000 rural homes presence of cancer in themselves to be built in britain to be let at less than 1 a week to relieve unemployment london a bill introduced in the even doctors do not always know i there were no important symptoms un- when they have cancer of the stomach j til the time for a successful operation but may go on tor years neglecting had gone by these individuals being symptoms which should send them at i victims ot the kind of cancer which once for an xray examination and it gives almost no warning until it kills necessary to a surgeon so reports evon in physicians who should be house ot commons by right hon ar dr walter c alvarez wellknown j able sooner than other people to dethur creenwood minister of health stomach specialist ot the mayo clinic j tect dangerous symptoms stomach provides for construction ot 40000 at rochester minnesota in an account cancer easily may become fatal dr j houses in rural england renting for to the american medical association alvarez concludes before it is recog- less than 1 a week as part of a great of 41 physicians operated on in thatjuized as dangerous tho only sure scheme to aid farm laborers and to clinic during tho past seven years tn precaution ho suspect would be for relieve unemployment some cases the physicians failure to everybody over 35 to have a skilled i the bill has not yet completed ita realize in time what was causiug his xray examination overy six months j passage through the house it pro- own trouble apparently was due to long standing symptoms of ludlgestion so that the victim did not at first re cognize tho relatively slight difference iu the new symptoms ot cancer in othor cases the trouble was regarded at first as a stomach ulcer presenting whether or not he fools ill but this is vide for an advance of 110000001 recognized as impossibly expensive i from the government to rural muni for tho average individual a more practical suggestion is that every dis turbance ot digestion that appears suddenly iu a middleaged or elderly person should bo taken seriously and relatively little dauger in a few eases studied at once by an xray specialist i sunday school lesson august 16 lesson vii sowing and reaping temperance lesson galatians 6 110 golden text be not deceived god is not mock ed for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap gatatians 6 7 analysis 1 cently scan your brother man rial 6 15 ii rewards for workers gal g g iii natural law in the spirituai world gal 6 710 introduction the painful news reached paui that his converts in the galatian churches were forsaking his teaching judaizing missionaries from palestine had come a long them they were evidently belittling paul js a mere underling gal chap 1 thay were also rapidly persuading the gala- tions to accept circumcision and itb it the regulations of the old law 5 2 4 the galation church was in danger of becoming a sect of judaism in the first part of this letterchaps 1 to 5 12 paul vindicates his own indeperjence as an apostle and sets the choice before hem christ or the law another danger confronted this galatian churci the liberty of the gospel was being abused no longer undr the law some thought that hcy were free to indulge their lower im pulses in the second part of the let ter 5 13 to g 10 paul warns against this danger and gives prac tical guidance for avoiding it he mentions four safeguards the first is love 5 13s they are indeed free from the law but if a man love of christ v 2 and following his own example matt 17 the great hindrance to such a kind ly attitude is selfrighteous pride the man who considers himself too rood to have anything to do with a stumbl ing brother or sister is deceiving 1 im- self v 3 let no one take another as his standard of goodness he who takes christ as his standard will he saved from the sin of the pharisee who said lord i thank thee that 1 as not as other men each me is responsible for his own character verses 2 and 5 are not contradictory they refer to different kinds of bur dens some can be shared others cannot verse 2 refers to those troubles sorrows shames which our sympathy can lighten v 5 to a mans own responsibility which he mult shoulder for himself ii rewards for workers gal g g paul turns to one special duty that of paying the christian teachers v g the galatians had evidently been fail ing to remunerate adequately hose who were rendering to society the most vital and important services thoso who teach the community how to live the educationalists social and a crepi silk hat youll find useful religious workers are among the isost poorly paid of all public servants iii natural law in the spiritual world gal g 710 one more warning the conse quences of sin cannot be avoided on a technicality god is not fooled one is rewarded or punished according as his deeds are good or evil rewards and punishments are of two kinds arbitrary ami natural a diploma is an arbitrary reward for work well done the enriched person ality the increased capacity for work service enjoyment are the natural rewards a jail sentence is an arbi trary punishment for drunkenness trembling nerves lowered resistance lessened efficiency weakened will are cipalities the stato expects how ever to gain 25000000 by the re moval of 100000 mou from tho dol fund lists for construction of the houses is expected to employ 100001 men directly and indirectly the average weekly rent of th houses would be 75 cents or 113 in eluding local taxes ham and diamonds tho lunch counter mau goes to work for tiffany first customer i would like a ladys wristwatch salesman bellowing lustily on waterbury on a handcuff female second customer may i see soma matched pearl necklaces please salesman ivo got just what you want bellowing fifty oyster tu mors on a rope lino em up wboi uext third customer i want a riug engagement ring platinum with a dla mond about two karats salesman coming up bellow ing ono tin shackle with a glass eye two vegetables next young mother i want somo jewel ed safetypins for for a 5oung babys er garments you know salesman well er im sorry madam but youll have to go to somo one else im new here life his neighbor as himself freedom from ess e smenlt a legal code will not tempt hr to the natural punistoents a legal cue win not d ishments are st w5 a l the secwd atural as the ripened grain grows will observe all a d from the sown seed so rewards and rpirr5 minwnff olows pumentsgrow i nt f thv new sdirit and activities of man after sowing the promptings of the new spirit within him tarfb v z dv which hehas ingaiylaw the last two safeguards d show its1 compromise our lesson today j children potentialities unde- i cently scan your brother man veloped die on the other hand gal 0 15 j sowing to the spirit produces values th t dealing j atretwtg comes the period ignoring them altogc he r iejing i m harv03t with other pcoploi sins thcs ar ibe ipihtual realm there- ixxotaior he j fore we are not to grow vea r r n fcsfe tore hinf 2m nos but inter- him to his feet again icstore aim a with n0l c 1 a kindly tf to mteato ttst he would ever see land power it will resrlt ma kindly and h d we therefore helpful tttuae toward our- again wrou t sewcstf w also should fall whether sailed on we shall be abb to help the man who is down or not depends on how we manchester holds iooic t fj cleanup campaign whom the sin has overtaken tripped manchester eng nearly boo j up as if circumstances had somehow mor8 receptacles for junk havo been been too much for him who knows place in tho streets ot manchester what burden of bitterness shamedisfj uur the last 12 months in a big germans leaving big cities the falling off in migration from the country to the city noted in germany during tho last few years became so marked in 1030 that 50000 more per sons left the principal cities of prus sia than come to them from the rural districts as the excess ot births over deaths in thoso cities was only 43328 last year there was an actual decrease in their population according to the prussian statistical bureau berlins net loss through migration iu 1930 was 15000 and it will be still larger this year it the rato established iu febr uary when 16183 persons left tho capital against permanent arrivals numbering only 14304 is maintained berlins population on march 1 was put at 4320000 against 4348000 on the same date in 1930 clovelly by donald bain the boats are moored the are spread to dry tho patient panniored donkeys pat ter by as all day long they beat the cob blestones to music of highsounding phones nets jylo- courageraent he may be carrying be cause of that sin robert burns out of tho bitterness of his own burdwad heart wrote in his address to unco guid thi effort to make citizens more tidy and the total number is now nearly 1000 i the improvement in the streets of which this is ovidence is regard then gently scan your brother man ed as sa but littlo improve- still gentler lister woman though they may gang a kennin wrang to step aside is human one point must still bo greatly dark the moving why they dot and just as lamely can ye mark how far perhaps they rue it sharing sympathetically our brother s load wc are fulfilling tho new ment is noticeable in tho patks the authorities aro holding in reserve as a last resourc3 against untidy citi zens tho powor of prosecuting of fenders who leave litter in tho parks law yer couldnt see a man starve could yer lidy not very well ive come out without my glasses mutt and jeff some people play the piano the same way bud fisher seen from below the liouses hang in air bowered in verdure where the fuch sias flare a wealth of color everywhere dis played on terrace balcony and balustrade tho limewashed cottages all spot less white the climbing rose and ivyvine in vito to spread themselves and wave and cling to throw their branches over sill and porilco tho stonestepped streets for thoso who would aspire lead up and up and up and ovor higher o liko ladders plantedin a quaint de vice to reach thl3 little lovely earthly paradise salt on their lips and soamlst in their hair tho men aro sturdy and tho women fair their ways are simplo and their lives aro free the cliffs thoir homo their harvest field tho sea friend vou seem to talk quite freely for publication without ac tually saying anythlnf politician thats tho art of it a man should always avoid louing his views got mired lito his litrr- vlews

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