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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-10-16, Page 3He Broke The Bank. At Monte Carlo IINDAYSC11001 LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren .ft.p. HE'S CULTIVATING COURAGE—Gardening is a challenge rather than a chore for Fred La Mara, 8, at a day camp near Pearl River. The blind Iqd must feel his way in learning to ,hoe. a „straight furrow. The gardening activity is one facet of a two-year program In which sighted and• sightless children participate jointly. Its purpose; to develop a near-normal life for the blind youngsters and give sighted children insight into their fellows' problems. 4 1 4 111 4 1 , 4 4 4 SesiAlit Making Needed TtefOrn4 Xings 23:1.3; 33: 1-5, 2$ Memory Selection: X am a eight? panlon 9( all them thatfeat thee, and of them that keep fiat precepts, rsahn 1l0:63, It seemed like dire tragedy when 24-year-old Alllorl, king 44$ Judah, was assassinated by hill servants. Actually it turned oull to be a good thing for the coutlo try that he was destroyed. Mil father, Manasseh had led the people to be worse than heathen, whom the Xiord h destroyed before the pepole Israel. When he was carrie captive to Babylon and was 1.4 affliction, he besought the Loa . and humbled himself and pray* ed. He returned to jerusalenS and began to undo the evil 114 had done. But Amon learned nothing from his father's exporl*, ence. He trespassed more ring, more. Fortunately his, reel, lasted only two years, Josiah was only eight year old when he ascended th,‘ throne. When lie was 16 he be- gan to seek after the God a David his father. At 20 he begatt to purge Judah and Jerusalem, While the temple was 'being rev paired Hilkiah the priest foun4 a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses, The reading of this in the presence of tilt king led to a religious awaken- ing among the people. God still speaks through Hi, Word. Billy Graham begins i* numerous quotations by, "Thor Bible says," The Psalmist said„ "Thy word have I hid in m heart that I may not sin against' three." It isn't enough to hay. the Bible on the table. We need its truth in our hearts, There is no flattery in th Bible. "All have sinned," sat a French Court preacher. Thell, he caught the angry eye of tilt king and hastened to add, "A least most have sinned." Mett should declare the whole coutt‘ set of God without fear or faVat. Miss Sara Gregory writing Arnold's Commentary tells of traveler in Australia noticing young lady reading a Bible the railway coach and asking he might look at it. When 7a4 turned to the flyleaf he saw thefi the usual notice, "Appointed 3 be read in the churches," ha been changed to, "Appointed be read. everywhere." I .. Are you a diligent student a the Bible? The Sun. does „ .00 A Hoge Rampage , That heralded Interna- tional GeophyAcal Year got off to an official start with the spectacular ,cti)uporeation .pg exploding sun. Vast solar flares, were first noted by a Russian observatory near Moscow. which immediately reported them to the IGY World Warning Center at Vert Beiveir, Va. There, excited scientists in spite of some eccentric radio transmission — flashed the. word to sun-watching observatories around the world, and declared a Special World Interval, a pe- riod of maximum research . ef- fort. At the Boulder, Colo., La- boratories of t h e National Bureau. of Standards, for ex'- ample, frustrated astronomers: waited anxiously for daylight. By the time the sun came ,up the flare was over. But a signifi- cant burst of hissing,' which poured through the loudspeakers of their radio telescopes indicat- ed that they were picking ..up .some of the radioactive debris the flare had thrown off. To scientists, who had been wait- ing eleven years for a period of maximimum solar activity, it. was a highly satisfactory sound, IGY was deliberately schedul- ed for a period of high flare and sunspot activity, but only a few optimists expected such an im- mediate and grandiose display.. cken4,4, too. One woman rushed up to w; he was entering the .elsino and demanded $25r. 000 which, e:4ereamed, she had lost and he had won. Another time he WIll4 concerned by an Englishman who begged for $10,000 which ho had gambled aWay. Th(= man said the°M0ay was his daughter's flowery. If he didn't get it she would not be able to get married.. Wells bad to be rescued from. this man, Who turned violent when his plea was refused.. At the end of the season Wells disappeared, but the following year he was back again. This time he arrived in a magnificent steam yacht, the Palais Royale, built to accom- modate 50 guests and fitted with a ballroom and music roan), His guests overflowed and were en- tertained lavishly at hotels ashore, The guests at one din- ner included five millionaires,. four British peers a famous French diplomat and a scatter- ing of high society from the capitals of• every European na- tion, At the end of the season Wells sailed for London—and then his fortune turned, He was arrested for extensive frauds, and at;Lon- don's Old Baily was sentenced to eight years penal servitude. When he was released he changed his name to Davenport and continued with his swindles, both in Britain and in. France. He served two more prison sentences, but finally lost his nerve,. both as a swindler and a gambler. He settled down and lived out his life in moderate luxury on .his iligotten gains. Not long before. he died Wells told a newspaperman that he'd had no system when he was so successful at breaking the bank. Any systems he . had tried he had soon discarded. The song that was. written about him had even more suc- cess than Well's at the height of his fortune, The Man Who Broke the Bank. at Monte Carlo was turned down several times before English music hall star Charles Coburn gave $30 for it. He sang it 4,000 times. It was translated into six languages and remained popular long after the man who inspired it was for- gotten. 60-day trial period, reported his steers gained an average of 4.8 pounds a day as a result of the dietary supplement. * * Developers of the air-condi- tioned greenhouse say it will be- come a regular part of equip- ment on progressive farms, ranches, an d dairies. It will, according to the developers, be of special benefit during drought periods, when stockgrowers are forecd to cut back their basic herds because of lack of ade- quate grass. It also will turn out a green supplement regu- larly during the cold winter months, lilt FARM FROM J0642usseil Millions of people have sung the ,rollicking Old song The Man Who 13roke the Dank at Monte Carlo without knowing • why it was written. Was there a man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo? If so, who was. he? Them was such a man, but. despite what the song says he Was no dandified ladies' man, He was • a seedy English rascal name ,7-harles Wells. Until he "brok.1., bank" he lived mainly W swindling. - - He .first showed up at Monte Carlo in July 1891 with $.20,000 garnered from a series of swin- dles in Britain. He had fled the country after being exposed for having sold crackpot inventions of no value to credulous En- glishmen. But at Monte Carlo nobody had heard of him. He made for the Casino, sat down at a roulette table,. put. his money on a number and, if it won, let it ''ride." But he never played the same number more than thre times in succession. This was a system which had ruined many gamblers but smil- ed on Wells, • The first night, after 11 hours paly, he walked out winning $50,000.. This is how he "broke the bank." In those days, at the start of each session, each table was provided with $20;000 'worth of chips. If a lucky gambler ex- hausted this sum at his table he was said to have "broken the bank." This had rarely been done be- fore Wells came along. •He was probably the luckiest gambler who, ever stepped through the doors of the Casino, The next morning he sat down and began to. play again. And again he broke the bank. His fabulous luck caused a ..sensation. Other gamblers tried - to follow his play to cash in on his luck. People began to follow him, just to touch his coat, be- lieving it . would be lucky to them. He mingled with British .nobility who . vied to get the secret of his "perfect" system. But his sudden fame had its .pitfall& He was pestered by "Farms to Sprout Skyward?" is the intriguing title of a re-- c ent article in 'The Christian Science. Monitor, and the pos- sibilities of this system of grow- ing crops without soil seemed to me so interesting that I am passing them along to you. Odds and Ends Swiss authorities in Bern, have started to fluoridate milk destined for consumption by children. The new method is said to have produced excellent results, * * The word "cedar" is derived from the Arabic "kedr" meaning worth, and "kedrat", meaning strong. The definition aptly de- scribes aromatic red cedar closet lining, which is best known for its durability and ability to repel moths. BOTTLE BABY—With the aid of a doll's bottle, Howard. Lorber starts a hare-raising eXperi-. ment at his home. The nine- year-old - youngster found the newly born rabbit, apparently abandoned, and is raising it on milk. Upsidedown to ,Prevent Peeking A convenient HOLDER FOR 'A BALL OF MEW can be cots trived by nailing a plastic mea- suring cup to the wall. Run t14 twine through a hole in the cue, handle. the Carrier Corporation *ere called in to work out a system of air conditioning. The air-conditioning unit is mounted outside the greenhouse. Its carefully regulated a i r is piped through a duct into the greenhouse and blown across a 100-gallon vat of chemically treated water which is used to feed and irrigate the planting. The tanks are uncovered to maintain the humidity between 70 and 80 per cent. Optimum growth temperature is between 68 and 70 degrees. To maintain the, temperature at this level, the conditioner recirculates the air every 80 seconds. . The daily output of the air- conditioned greenhouse is enough to supply supplementary feeding for 24 dairy c o w s, 50 feeder steers, 150 hogs, 200 sheep, 6,000 laying hens, 2,000 turkeys, or 5,000 guinea pigs; ac- cording to Mr. Howsley, Between 70 and 80 tons of feed may be harested annually from the greenhouse at a cost of $10 to $20 a ton, or less than a cent a pound. One turkey raiser reports that increased profits through the use of green forage supplement paid for his greenhouse unit in seven weeks. A cattleman, in a MR RE MO OEM DOS gEMM UMW monnear MEM MEM MNSJEM EgitIgN MEM MIOE EMMEMWM MWWOU E'en WOMMUM W00 - EMIR WELI 0 EJE PPM/GM MOMB HEM RHOMMEE MEW MEM WPM WEE MIME gICM A small town is a place when the news gets around before t1s newspaper does.—Hal Chadwick. HOW 'PET PROJECT' PAYS OFF CRO$SWORD PUZZLE 2. Nat Ire meal 5, Toward the P181ng 01111 4. Stirls.. person G. Band instru- ment O. Scotch uncle 27. Comfort 7, Toward the 28. Residue setting sun 0, Slander 40. Coating of 0, /111bber trees grain 10. Scraped linen 31, Made uniform 11. Boys 44. Copper coin 1 S. Chin, money is, fruits 20. Cereal seedu 37.1) Wan 21. Mulberry bark 83, Malignant 22, Spoken 03. City In Nevada 23. Auctions 40, "(toil slowly 25. Chaffed 43, FIggs :la, Real estate 44. Tear limiters. 48.1,ttee "We're.going through the largest cycle in dozens of years," ex- claimed one happy astronomer "This is going to be eye-open- ing," Astronomers and physicists know that solar flares are enor- mous atomic explosions which take place in the sun's own, at- mosphere, so large that our big- gest H-bomb would seem like a firecracker in comparison. They are usually presaged by sunspots, "cool" dark storms which move across the sun's sur- face and raise havoc with its magnetic field. When there is a flare, billions of tons of mat- ter are thrown into space. Ul- traviolet, cosmic, and X rays bombard the solar system. Fortunately the earth is shielded from their searing ef- fect by the ionosphere, a wide band of extremely rarefied air extending up from, 50 to more than 300 miles, But as the solar debris flattens on their shield, the atomic collisions that ensue produce soce curious effects. The most• distressing of these for man is that long-range radio communications are intermit- tently "blacked out." Line of sight systems like television and FM radio are rarely affected, but any method of communication, such as short-wave radio and in- ternational Teletype, which de- pends for transmission upon bouncing a signal off the lone- sliere, is disrupted. Radio sig- nals, instead of being reflected back to earth, are absorbed into a spongy layer of excited elec.- trons. Unfortunately, scientists don't know exactly why, From— "NewsWeek," l'oo often, the bite the hand that feeds therm . Farms ,may some day grow skyward like present-day, mo- dern business buildings. For one of the most persistent handicaps to "tray agriculture" is believed to have been overcome. This tremendous stride in agricultural science can be cre- dited to that familiar room air conditioner normally seen in the windows of homes or offices. The room conditioners are a vital part in a packaged green- house now being used in Texas and other parts of the South- west to produce between 350 and 500 pounds of feed daily in an area only eight feet square. Water, or soilless, gardening is the growing of plants without soil in a medium such as water, sand, gravel, or sawdust to which nutrients have been added. It is a method which has been known to agricultural scientists for more than 100 years as an aid in studying plant-life processes. However, it was not until 1929 that experiments were conduct- ed solely to determine the feasi- bility of using this process to grow commercial crops. One of the most serious deter rents to commercially feasible hydroponics has been an inabil- ity to control temperature and humidity, which are essential parts of the growing method. * * s. Now, however, the H. & M. Manufacturing Company, Inc., has developed a greenhouse which by using room-type air conditioners maintains positive temperature and humidity con- trol, The H. & M, greenhouse, which it calls the Meadow-Mas- ter, consists of double-glass win- dows mounted in large metal frames. It includes 72 trays ar- • ranged in six tiers of 12 trays each. Seeds ate placed in the trays. They are fed chemically fortified water daily to acceler- ate growth. Each basket may be harvested every six days, which means that 12 baskets daily are usually harvested and replanted. Any kind of cereal grasses can be grown in the trays. It takes only 55 to 60 pounds of grain each day to produce 400 to 500 pounds of cereal grass. * The crop from the trays is a combination of fresh, green, suc- culent grass, six to eight inches high, the cereal g t a i n from which it sprouted six days ear- lier, and the roots of the grass. This forage is grown entirely without soil and thus is clean and palatable and can be eaten hi its entirety by the animals. 5 Forced growth of animal feed in green houses is net new, ac- cording to II. & M. It has been done in urope for many years. The company's founders, Louis A, Howsley and Roger A. 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Land hold-ln 66. Mack birds 61, Dtscoyet riOWN Ltiltittuti BOTTLE GROUND—Neatly stac'ked row on row, ci veritable sea of grant bottles covers the ground at Vichy, France, one of Europe's niost famous spas. &time 100 bottles of Vichy water are sent all over the world each year, and' nearly T7 million are stocked in the fields ready for buyers. Atiattiet elsewhere` at the O. The youngest mink farmer in England, 16-year-old Michael How has seen his "pet pnoject" turn into real high finande. The teen-ager has been breeding the animals for two years, and now has some 200, valued at $14,060. Although he complains that the irascible mink often bite the hand that feeds them, he's going to continue his profitable career, which has di' ready paid off in et new mink stole for his mother. Mike, who enjoys taking the little fellows like "Chippy", left, for a stroll, raises them in' the garden 6f his London hormx 4•• .411,•0›.4:•,er.brf.r.!"•'.•••1•• ... kittenish-looking, most minks are spiteful 100th MI Ms future Canadian P6aches Gain POptilarity More overseas markets Ate be- ing found for Canadian canned frith, says the secretary of sev Oral Ontario provincial Market- ing boards, Belgium Mid Verie- ,Euela itiereaSed their peach orders last year, Arabian 'ton, turners took inbre. Largest _inne porter was Sweden, With 155,- 694 pounds of peaches last year. "YOU were very lath this Morn- ing," 'Iret, sir. I'm very sorry, I overslept." "Heavens!' no you Sleep et home as well?"