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. ^..' .^..â- ^â- â- ;'^^,^., V V • 4 [4 < Wm-Cy-the-Wisp Stm a My^^ > BinmsMd by SdentisU as a Doubtful or Extinct Pheno- menon, It has Now Been Revived as Authentic By Fresh Observations Th» racent pracres* that has been general reference worka glT« this * aad« In the atady o( himin«w:ent phenomenon brief noUce, and repeat VMnomena, laehidloe the work of f6r the moat part, tlereotTpwl and OoMenU and hia associates at the antiquated sutementa. Including Im- UBited States Bareaa of SUndards. poaalble chemlcaJ esplanaticna. A •neonragea the hop* that science wtU . comprehenslTO. acientine and n^to- MOB Uckle In earnest the Ions ne«- date dlaciiask>n of Ignia fataaa la not iactad taak of OmUng out aomething to be ft>and in any book in the world. tanslUe aboat wiH^'-tbe-wiai>. I One of the moat circumatantlal ac- The preaent attitude of the aclen- oonnU of ignis tatuns was that pub- ^ tUe worM toward this raraterions lished In the Belgian Joomal, Ciel et piienomenoa la a paradox wlttaont a Terre, in the Sommer of 1920 by a » parallel. For ages "Ignis fatuus," or retired army surgeon. Julea RosslgnoL ^ wiU-o'-the-wisp. haa arooaed the cur- He obaerred the myaterloDe lighU on iosity of mankind. Presumably, it many occasions in some marshy woods • ha* be«n seen by handreda of thoo- near Ompont They assumed the aands of human belnca. When, fai the form of little white clouds, which rose « seventeenth oentnry. the Royml Soc- from the ground and changed to ^ lety of London issued what were the Kiminoos globes on attaining an akl- earHeet tnatructiona U Engliah for tude of a docen yards, and they re- t UUng metheorologleal obserraUons matned risible for sereral minutes. J this phenomenon was mentioned akmg T»»o Noteworthy Cases ^ with cloude, rain, lightning and other in the United States two eapeciaUy ^ atmospheric manifesutions that were trustworthy reports have been pub- ^ to be recorded In the dally register of llshed In recent years. One of these weather, yet at present no meteorc^o- caaes wae obaerred by Mauhew glcal instltuUon in the world collecU Luckleah. a weH-lraown electrical en- obserrations of w11I-o-4he-wi»p. and gtneer. who encountered the lights In < there ia hardly 'a textbook of meteor- great numbers while passing some • ology published within the last fifty temporary pools of shallow water In " ycsre thateren mentionelt a Nevada desert. His description ap- • iJ» ®*'°"' DIcUonary, under Ig- peans In the Scientific American Sap. nte fatuus." aays: "It seems to hare pigment for December 9, 1916. The J been formerly a common pheitomenon, other case is described in the Mentor but Is now exceedingly rare." This is for May, 1925. by Professor U A. I a curious sUtamenL Animal9 and Hausman of CorneU nirersity who *" excellent Cheering The Veterans Air War His Royal Highness did cot forget the disabled reterans when attendij:* Warriors' Day at the C .V E Ha ..♦r!''.^*^**^'^ ^""^^ "*"* *"â„¢"^ ^^'>^- o' Shelburne. shown on the left, who was brought to Toronto to attend the parade. He also shook hands with all the disabled and blind, who were out in strength to do him honor. a ,. _..„„..,. „„„ macadamized highway plants become rare and eren extinct, saw a fine dUplay of will-o'-the-wisp **'*'' '^'"''^ '*** n>otor buses are oper- bnt we hardly associate ench a process near CAyuUTllle, NY.. Ai>rU 7, 1921, 1 «edâ€" pai« oC tte main tiruai^ro*d with a physical phenomenon, such as The tradiUonai scientific explana- â-  "J^tem of the district of Timiskaming. ignis fatuus is generally supposed to tlon of this phenomenon is that it is ' ""'^ ***"* of Kirkland Lake has about be. However, the idea of its increas- due to the spontaneous combustion of ''^'*® Inhamitanu and U prorided with Ing rarity Is freqaently met with in gaae* formed by decaying organic ' *^**** telephone and telegraph services literature. As far back as the year matter m the ground. Marsh gas and i *^ '^''^ hotels. •1845 a writer in The Peony Magazine phospMne have generally been men-' Th« Irst discoveries made in tbls eypressed theeame noUon. noting that tloned in this connecUoo, but neither ' »1cJaity were in 1906. during the boom most persona are aware that the mov- will produce the appearaoea described. ' days of Cobalt, when many claims ing lights called will-o'-the-wlsp. or A Belgian chemist. M. Leon Dumas, war® staked for goM around Swastika Jack-o'-Iantem. weire much ntore fre- asserted some years ago that he had "»<! northeasterly to the lake now queatly seen and lalked of in former produced eomathing stndlar to Ignis known as Kirkland. Moat of these years than they are at present," fatuna by means of a mixture of \ claims were abandoned later, but one "Ignis Fatuus" Always Rare. ! phoq)&lne and sulfnreted mydrogen.' P^perty, at SwasUka, continued work- Tha truth of tbo matter probably ia but this has not been confirmed i 'a*- and by 1911 had produced some that observaUons of 'ignis futuus' were ? Luminescence rather than combus- KoM- This, together with the success always rather rare, but that at any Uon seems at present to be a piaus- heing obtained at Porcupine, aroused given Ume they were thought prevl- ible exjrfanaUon of most oases of ignis "e"*" Jaterest in the older <^- ia to the ously to have been common; Just •m fatnus. Swarms of insecu rendered «"*. »itl» the resultant discovery, is the delusion has a!wa>is prevailed that luminous by diseaae. birds with l^^l- of 80''' near the store of Kirk- the "old-fa&hioned Whiter" was onoe luminocs fungi attached to their l""* ^*e on- what is now a part of the rule rather than the exception. | feathers, lumJnooa bacteria eecapfaig t^** Wright-Hargreaves mjne. In Dr. Fosdick Writes a Pastoral Letter He Asks Piirk Ave. Congrega- tion Not to Expect Regul^ Calls Y^lien New Church Is Built PRAISES HiTaSSOCIATE jyoar feUowship without actnowledg- jing my special icdebtednesj to Mr. lCa.nler. my satisfaction In working with hira, my Incomiag and confident dependence upon him. Happy is the man who. coming into a new pastor- 1 ate. Inherits such a colleague." Dr. Fosdick had reference to the |Ri?v. Eugene C. Carder, the associate {pastor. Dr. Fosdick devotes several para- I graphs to stating what he considers I will be the additional responsibility I when the new edlfloe is finished. ; 3t will be ardiltecturaliy gloriotis: ione of the great edifices of the na- jtlon." he writes. "But if it is to house a real church it mast be domes- fiooded with frienditeasa. Discusses Plans for Future amd Reports on Finances for $4,000,000 Building When the new $1,000,000 edifice at Ucated Riverside Drive and IMnd Street, made a natural home for ail aorta of ' **â„¢>ais'»e3 a density upward which the congregation of the Park | groups, gathered around common pur-''"*"''** thousands of feet above the Arenue Baptist Church, now at Sixty- \ poses of study for service. This **rth hear withremarkab> ciearnjsa fourth Street. Is completed and ser-: means hard work, patient perscaal in- s**'""'*a from the ground below, bat vices have been transferred there, the , tersst in individuals, creative insight P**^'* 0° *** ground can not h?ai WhOe the Britiah delegatai at Geneva w«rB upfaoldtn; tbecr coos' try's need for li^t cmisera for Um Hjht croiaers for the protectioB of her commaree in time ef war LondoB had the opportaaaty to witoeaa tlM ^-uinerability of England from a»^ otfcer source of wartime danger. Fh* days of spectacaiar aerial maaoeuvrea resulted in the "ecensy" eondactin^ 106 air raids aad, theoretieally, lay- ins waste the British capital One <d. the leeaons tao^ the public was thai even a London fo^ cooli afford tlM dty no re«l protectjoa. It had beeB Vhougbt that the capital's famo^M 'Tiea-aoup" fo^ at least had the merit of concealing it trata. iovadBng: air- t^aoea, but it was very de£m:ely lo- cated, and the raiders were able t« reach the heart of London within twelve minutes after the time they doeaed the Channel coast liue. and drop their bontbs almost as sooa as defecce piaaes eouM get on their traiL To meet this danger a new hotne de- fence force is being or^rai;iis-i. which in 193o will have in cotsunission fifty- taw air sqcadrocs. No scorer doea the world begin to coiratder iersoa:rfy the reductk«j of its arr.'.ar.wr.ts thaa s-inie new weapor. is cevt".o?<-i >:â-  taka the plsee of the »i<l !):sar:nim«n| is a proWetr. which we sha". k-sg hava with 03. * Why Thunder Is Not HeanI Fai Artillery firing can be heard.at mach greater di^ts^ces than thonder. Dop- ing the World War cannonading \m Ftanders was often heard In Fnglin< at places 140 to 130 miles fnna tht ba::!e-fie'.d3. while thunder is not gen- erally audible at a greater distaaea '.iiin tea or twelve miles .anl hanCy ever as far as forty miles. This mystery can bs explained a» eoniicET to CSaries Fitshagh Talman. Ia iis Sfieace Service featcre, "Why the WeatherT" (Washiajtoct. ha says: •"The intensity of a sound depends up:n the density of the air la which it Is produced and not upon that of the air in which it is heard. The air Bal- The Encyclopaedia Brltannlca does with bubblee of z»a from marshes and January, 191J. gold was also found j members must not expect the old-fas- 1 into new needs and invendve ways of «*â„¢>lar sosnda from the bailoon Bot include an article on tgnia fatuus the luminosity of decaying wood three-quarterw of a mUe northeast of "'-' ' and menUona the subject only Incident- known as "fox Are" are some of the Kirkland Lake on the Tongh-Oakes ally, to the extent of a single phrase, | numerous explaoatlona that have been claims. >Jo great excitement was te connection with folkl ore. Other suggested. j caused, however. untU 1913. when the I shipment of two carloads of or* taken Gold Produced Canadian Mines Shows Increase Total Nearly Doubled in Ten Years Now Tenth in World Production PORCUPINE LEADS First Discovery Made in I908i in That Feld Which Has Seen Developments â- nie present poaitlou of Porcupine among the gold-producing dtstricta of the world .a position that is ilkely to \m matrially improTed In the not far dtatant future, can be seen at a glance in tbe following table of annual outputs of a number of the world's chief gold-producing regions: The maximum, production of gold lor any one year was in 1915 when the directly a consequence of the silver â-  ^^^ *" Wnch vein oa the Toogh- dlscoverlea pade »t Cobalt about five \ Oahes brought returns of tS.9M la years previously. The host of proa- ! K"*^ '° "^* *"' '^*'"- *°* *S.07J m the ^_ _ Aa hioaed 'nwlce-a-year or even oncea- â-  meetias them. Xo staff of minsters thunder is mainly produced at the year pastoral call" from the Itev. Dr. land paid workers alone can adiieve â- *'^«! o' tl»e clouds. It is subject to tha Harry Emerson Fosdick. the goal. K great church is built only r-eouliarity. Agaia. cannonading U Dr. Fosdick makes this announce- '^'i*" *il the people become builders, heard at great distances cnly when meat in a letter on tha first annlver- i All Christians Welcomed '^* *''" ^ comparatively calm, anl sary of his pastorate issued to the I »how much worh while our enter- i'*^'^ '^\ "'*° '' !' »™i^ *? I w _ '"^ »u.>c vjiir eaier ; well-deflaed toruontal layers, of sack are dlsoonrage,! to-' ^ character as to keep the soual from far aloft. Very differeat hU Summer home. l.ihtnM-- ~.-..,"l~'^^_r»~"r" JTtir".' <^='i't^''o^ prevail during * thunder- members of his flock and printed In 1 prfse u. Many ,.- The Church Monthly. The letter was day about the churches. There is Ilt- pectors attracted to Northern On-i*««^<'- ^'^''^ prospecting by sur- dated from Mouse Island. Boothbay y^ ^^ ,m^,(^^,yy ^^^^ ^^ sprtfa^iag tario by the wonderful finds mare at!'*«» trenching now became the rule Harbor, Me.. hU Summer home. slbtUUea. One example Is worth ^ '^='^'^>'°^, , Cobalt, gradually and naturally, as the ' '^^ "»• consequent discovery of pro-j -As for my personal share In the ojousand anramenu We are free to """"" condu.ons are older field became more thoroughly ! ™«^^°* '*''*» o** * number of prop- J enterprise, I must In one regard throw j ^^Icome Christians - â€" '•" -^- "^*° ^â- ^^' ^^ ** ^"^"'''"* *<^''^ *""* We are free to explored. spread northwesTwrrd | «"â- "«*• '«••: "*• Bumaide. later merg-. myself upon your mercy.- vrrites Dr.!,ithout reeinl~t7 crj^'al *sublcrt> •^"*''^'* '^^ Kmad-waves through the country traversed by the ' •* "^^ ^*^ Tougtt-Oakea ; the Rob- 1 Fosdick. after dwelling -' ' newly constructed railway between ' '>''^ '"o* Sylvanlte Gold Mines; Cobalt and Cochrane, and In the ^ ^rt**''"*'''**'^**' <^^*^ "*' ^^*** course of Its advance a number of Shore; Teck-Hughes; Wettlaufer, or finds were made, of whi<A the most O"- °*>' merged with Teck-Hughes; Important has proved to be Porcupine, i Wood McKane. now Kirkland Lake; Porcupine developed rapidly, -.- and Huron. The astounding i>esulta being obtained at Cobalt had made a vlrld Impressloa on the minds of speculators, and' TM.OOO, of that total the Transvaal ac- counted for $188,000,000 and the Uni ted States for I1O1.OO0.00 and Canada The dividends paid by the tbree chief producing compaalea to the end __ of 19 J6 amount to over $3.000.C>()0; money made at Cobalt was among the ; ^^^^ Shore Mines. Ud.. have paid first avaUable for the development of »l.62«.*>«: Wright-Hargreaves. IL- Porrtiplne. A severe but temporary ! ^'^.SOOO; and Teck-Hushea has more setback occurred in 1911. when forest i re««"»lly **«» added to the list of fires sweeping the country destroyed dividend payer*. many of the newly constructed mine bulldtngs and resulted in a regretable loss of human life. "Very many men." she said, "will be miserable when I marry." "That „__ „^^_^ ^^^ DurUtg the first sixteen years of Its 'depends oa how often you marry." he world 'production" amounted ^oltYss!- •»l»»*n«> t*>»t '« «<> say to the end of! replied, with easy gallantry. 19S3, Porcupine h&$ produced gold to and paid out In dividends about $44,- 944.000. At the time of writing, there for 119.000.000. In 1*15 total would ,*'"•â- *'**»'*•*'" P"^"*'"* «^"* "»'»*» production amounted to $394.00.000, of '" '^^ "^•"'^ "* "" ^ 'â- **** ""• which $198,000,000 • was from the r*â„¢"'* *"^"'^"*'* of 1.1»«,1»9 flnei Transvaal; $48,000,000 from Che Unl-i ?"""*• *' *">" "» "*5 must be altrl- In the U. S. there are asylum In- mates who hold motor licenses. In the'camfc"to"'iirx"i7whrcb"Thi'"^ «>»"''' "« asylum Inmate holds i a motor license. Incredible as It may •««m to the average pedestrian. tad States and $35,900,000 from Can- ada, of which $30,tOO.000 waa froaa the Porcupine district. The three principaJ mines are; tha Holllnger. Consolidated and tha Mdn- tyr« Porcupine near the town of Ttm- Bins, and th6 Dome, three miles to the •outheaat The ore-bodies of the ounp are of large else, low to medium ta grade, and of the lode, or compos- tte. type In structure, contalaiitg much Bhteraliied iCblat. No. S vein oa tka Mclntyro haa aa ore-ahoot l.SOO tket long-ihat continues for at least aaoth«r 100 'feet in HolltugeV ground. No. 1 vein on the Holllnger areragea 40 feet In wMth for a length of over 1.000 faet Holtlnger's No. 84 ore â- one is 900 feet long. There are i many ore-shoots In the camp 500 feet buted. Listed In the order of their productive Importance, they are as fol- lows: Holllnger. 757,S0< fine ounces: Dome, SlO,051 fine ounces; Mclntyre^ 178,S5( fine ounces; Vlpond Consolid- ated, 27.144 One ounces; Consolidated West Dome Lake. 13.5S3 fine ounces; and Night Hawk Peninsular, 9.4C0 ouncea. The mills on the other two producers, the Ankerite and the Pay^ master, ware not put Into operation until 191$. so that their production recorda will trst appear In the retuma for that year. The Holllnger Is being quickly put In sl^ape to mine and mill S,000 tona of ore per day, aa compared with less than S.OOO tons at present; the Mclntrre will probably greatly lo- I crease its present output of about 1 1,400 tons as soon as the uew central shaft can be connected with the older for ^ ^ *"â-  •o™«,!tlon. sectarian afflliaUon or ritual ob- length upon the new church structure, servance. Each disciple of Christ who -XJarrytng not only my own part In >^„gj to us U at liberty in these re- the pastorate but a professorship 4n|g^, ^^ ^ -^.^,1^ persuaded la his the Union Theological Seminary as ^yf^ mind' weU. I find life In New York exceed- -,^ ^^ platform, an unsurpassed Ingly preoccupied. [location, a splendid heritage of accu- "Pastoral vlsiutloa ia your homes maUted strength and personal sup-' in the old-fashioned sense is practi- port in a "city set on a hill that can- csOly tmposaible. This vlstUUon In ; not be hid'â€" with such an opportunity oar church, as In most Metropolitan j we surely ought to make a signal con- ' parishes today, must bo a coopera- ' tribuUon to the Christian causa and tire matter engaged in by a staff of the Christian Church." mtnisters and workers and not mon- opoUied by any one. Anxloita to AW individuals. "Bat 1 eagerly shall welcome every banco to know you personally. In Dr. Fosdick expresses pleasure over the recent accomplishments for finan- cing the church for the next fiscal year. "Between six aad seven hundred _^ Our African Rival ia length. The persistence of 04-e In . ,^. , , , . dapth haa been psoved to at leaat ! **«•"«»«» and property equipped iOOO feet by dtamond-drlUlng. 1 »>«»*"«»« : ^^ «»>• > »P»°d has construc- Pereupine Oavalopad in Tvranty Year* OnUrio Is Canada's greatest gold- piaduclttg province and rnrcuplne On (arto'a most productive roM-fi^M; the larceat of Its gold mines, the Holltng- «r, ranks with the great gold mines of tha world, both ta quantity of gold pro- dueed and in tonnage of ore treated. TtramlBs. the buslneae and commercial «aatr« of the Porcupine gold-fields, a valMmUt town iuppllcd with all mod- em conTentencea and having a popula- «•• e( 18,000 or more. Is aitnated on a braadt of tha Tsmtakamtng and Ncrth- •ra OaUrlo Rallwar» about 485 miles Berth of Toroato: and caa be reached IroB that cttyby a eomfbrUble rail- way Jouraey of aboat N houn* dura- tioa. Tka Ant dIseaTarr of toW^at Poraa- »tB« «â- â€¢ iM*» ta 1M« aa« wM la- jtton under way that will increase Its milling capacity from 150 to 300 tou a day. In the case of the Dome only, does any Immediate iacreaiie In pro- duction seem at all unlikely. Kirkland Lake Oold-Fleld Kirkland Lake ia Ontario's second most productive irtild-fleKI. Though souUIar than PorcupiiM, It baa attract- ed much attention during the paat few year* on account of the richness of Ita ores aad the rentarkablr favorabla resulta that haro attended Its develop- ment at depth. It lies about 60 miles southeastward from Porcupine and ta 39$ miles by rail from Toronto. It Is connected with Swastika station, about 4H nitlea to tka soathwaat on the Temlskaming aa4 Northeia Ontario railway and by t skort ktaadi Una ot taUway an4 by times of special need and trouble l . contributors responded to the appeal shall wish to help. |*» generously ibat. taking Into ac- "My study door Is open to you for , <-"oant the gifts which wlU naturally personal consultaUon whenever you i ">™« •>» during the next year, our will make aa appointment to come: j church support and benevolence for I would rather help IndlvlduaU than another twelve months are pracOcally preach sermons, j covered." he writes. 'You will be In- "It would be unfair to close this tereeted also to know that, in spite of letter at the end of my first year in,* greatly Increased amount to be raised, this result waa achieved alto- gether by the moderate gifts of the many without any Increase whatever la the larger gifta of the few. That our work should be democratically supported Is Indispensable to Its Christian quality â€" and your response haa been most encouraging." John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. a trustee Lastly, the noise of a caanon comes from a single place aad the energy of the Jl» turbasce is coacentrated to produce a single system of fv>nnd-waves; while the disturbance due to lightning ta spread over the loag path of the di» charge." A HoUand Drires Back the Sea "God created the wcr'd." runs an o".d sij-iag. "except the Netherlaaia which were creat^.l b.v the Dutch* Since time imaieincria.! it has be*« the custom of natKras in a^eei of Ijai to make war upon .-» v-eajcer neighbjr. Pacific :it:l.» Ho'.'.and. feeKas t^.e pre* sure of a population far denser than that of G^.-Ti!.ar.!r ia l?l-». makes wai t'.poa the sea. . . To audfrstaiil the rcsjoas for Hol- land's new ."(nd greatest attack upon the s?a it Is cec-ess-irr tJ remember two things: V^^rst. '.h.T. Ho'Iand, des- pite her popuUt'.ot: of over 450 to the ?<;aari> mi'*, is esseutiaiiv an agrical- f.iral countrr. SecoaJ. that, ss a re- sult of this, a^icultural methods are probably more iatensive in HoUaad than in nay ether country in the worlit, that land of average fertility sells for from 1450 to tStW aa acre. And. keeping theee tacts la mind, we stall aot be surprised to learn that Holland is at present at work on the largest attglneerlns enterprise ever nndei^ of the church, has given the site for t***" ''^ » *â„¢*^5 nation, the greatest the church, has promised ko -duplicate ' »°'l =!>'*â-  «^^'*-''' reclamation work ever the cost of the present property, from attempted by a nation Urge or small which rt Is hoped to realiie 5t.5OO.0OO. i Holland, half as big as West Vliv and he will erect a memorial tower to f*o'a- proposes ia the next twenty-five rise 400 feet In memory of his mother. <"" tttrty years to spend two-thirds aa Laura Spelman Rockefeller. much as the I'ntted States spent oa ' the ranan\.i Cvtnal. aad by so doing te 1^ VICTOniA FALLS OF AmiCA The scenic wonder of the coutlnent is to be made a touriat centre^ •U3peaak>a bridge aad liotela are ia proapect^ Garbled History Totvato Teiegraai (tnd Cons.): .\mericaa text bcoks have garbled hts- ; tory until it only tears a taint re- seml>iaace to the truth In order to placate anti-British element la the RepubiK'. But the intelligent Ameri- can Is beginning to be heart and re- ; seats this stupid policy of insular! lgnorar.ee. There Is a strcng agita- \ tioa ia the Vaited States for the re-j writing of .\mericaa school histories : In conformity with the generally re- ' cognised fact*. Irrespective of whether said facts are pcirticulirly flattering! to national pHde>. j « I Proud Mother (exhibiting baby^ â€" ; "Don't you see the resemblance * liook | at our faces side by side." Her Frlejid I â€" "Nothltig rould be plainer." ♦ "Do you know." remarked young Simpson, "a fellow mistook me for a j add seven per-oen;. to her total area and ten per cent, to her total arable • land. She proposes to dike off and drain considerably over halt of that great shallow bay ktKiwn as the Mulder 7.ee. to speod in this way something over $J50.00i>,000. end thus reclaim &5:.000 acres of the most fenil<a land In Europe. â€" The Outlook, I waiter to-night T Of ix?urse he apolo- ...,^_ .^^. ^.._, . iRited." "S-d the waiter accept itr -QtsCx you see we're kitUni (•aid hia friend. people all the ttOMr Nearing Town. \ "Why do you think we are gettiac near the cItyT"