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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-02-05, Page 7 ,Chartio Had Time For Boys. Cold weather has a way of buttoning up the rural pursuits, and • I was remembering the Other day how 1 used to amuse myself by going into Charlie Dunning's blacksmith shop of a winter afternoon. You couldn't find a shop, like it in the whole World today, It wasn't a 'farrier's. shop--fur shoeing horses, Charlie never shod a horse in his life; didn't know how, There may have been scruples he didn't have, but he recognized his own art .and con- sidered horse-shoeing beneath his dignity. He was on a higher plane, and the town had a couple of blacksmith shops anyway, a you wanted a shoe set. It was fun to go visit the liorse-shoe shops too, of course, 1St I found Charlie's place much better and spent' my time there In the shadows of a richer cul- ture, Before My time, Charlie had learned his trade in the shipyards, Building a wooden ,hip called for mastrings and eyes, and a great many iron fit- flogs that were turned out on. the job by the smiths. Charlie used to make pulleys, or blocks, and kept all manner of "taykles and falls" rigged up in his shop, mostly for lending. People would have a job to do -now and then, and they'd go and borrow from Charlie, He didn't rent them;, he lent them. I guess *thee wasn't so much money- grabbing then. Charlie made things and fixed things, and was mighty good at ornamental • work. His andirons were lovely. Every now and then he would make a dooteenokee in some pattern he originated. They were beautiful. He had thein hanging in his. shop, and once in a great while would sell one, hut he never dared charge for the labor in them. He'd tinker and hammer and ileac and pound, end his time didn't cost him any- thing. Some years afterward, when I was grown, I went in one day and the door'eiockers were still there. I took a couple of them and told Charlie I'd see what I could do. I wrapped them up and mailed them to the hardware buyer at Macy's. Everybody hears about Macy's,. but I'd never seen it. It • was just a name' to me. However; I enclosed a bill for $10, and a letter. saying. they could send that amount to take care of my trouble, nad if they'd like to buy a quantity I would pass their order on to the maker, Charlie was asking $3.50 for the things, with screws, and I some- how thought in terms of $4 ..piece, Anyways, it was an in- stant. sale. Back came a cheek for $10, and an order for 150 gross ill rssorted, styles. I went down and showed the order to Charlie, and he, smiled pleasantly and s a i d, "They must-a liked 'cml" Charlie couldn't have produced a gross, let alone 150 gross, its a hundred years, and it was too full a program for him to con- template - to say nothing of undertaking, But be was pleas, ell, and kept the letter tacked to the inside of the door, and of course I've always suspielonea. the Macy buyer expected that outcome. Once in my smallish times I asked Charlie if he would iron a sled for me, He nodded, said, "How big a sled be it?" I hadn't 'built the sled yet, so didn't know. Boys project many things. So Charlie said around three- four dollars, he guessed, and with this meeting of minds the subject was dropped, But I did make a sled. It wasn't one of the little belly- floppers Charlie thought I in- tended, but was what we called a hand-shark - a utility vehicle of some heft and size, It was a kind of wintertime wheelbarrow for hauling grain bags and cord- w o o d and dragging boxes of armies and potatoes to the store. When I brought it to Charlie he surveyed it without a flicker of expression in his face and said, "You done a good job, boy this calls for careful ironing." He fitted the runners, made the rings for the rope, and brac- ed all the uprights two ways. He would ;fashion a brace, and then drill holes with his wall- hung hand drill. He made all the bolts and nuts himself. It went along all winter, and a good part of the time I sat on a keg and watched him. He must have done" $40 worth of work, even in those days. But he charged me $3.50 and said, "I think she'll hold up." She has: There was the forge, sand as Charlie made all his own tools and jigs he had a. magnifrcent array. The bench was loaded, chests were full, and the rest hung from the 'walls. He made logging sleds, fixed tipcarts, re- paired buggies. He made axes and chisels, He also made stone boats - drags for moving rocks. An assortment of these stood around w a ft i n g, customers. Charlie had time to 'sit around, and his work never interfered with conversations. He always had time for boys.. And along about now, in the winter, it was wonderful to drop in at his place, .maybe to tinker with your own dollar watch, or to 'sit and inspect the progress or to listen to the discussions. Or, perhaps most important of all, to ask questions and get good answers. "I don't know how hot it be," Charlie would say. "I just know what color it is." Then he'd plunge the hot iron 'into the tempering bath and a hiss of steam would climb into the raft- ers: It would be hard to say all we did there, or what we learn- ed, or how the visits widened our cultures, But .a shop like Char- lie's had its values, that I know, You couldn't find one today, and yet we still have boys. There must be something takes its place, for things are not all bereft and gone and unknown. -by John. Gould in The Chris- tian Science Monitor. NO CARPENTER, HE - "B i g Wood" is the name of the corn- position being studied by an unidentified viewer during the Bicentennial. International Ex- hibition. Alberto Burri execut- ed the work from various pieces of shinglelike board. GOOD CHAPS In Hereford, 'England, when an infants' school class was told. to come in one day dressed in costumes suitable for a world pageant, every child showed up wearing a cowboy outfit. 0 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 22 23 24' 25 26 17. 21 27 33 41 400404.4.444W s 49 50 51 r54 57 Answer elsewtirte efte this Page ACROSS 1 Land measure 5. Pouch 7, neevatises „ salutation 12. ElYdriblio pump 13 Arabian garment 14. Spirit flak DUSk 16. Lusting 18. &Si bird 20 Renting contract 21, Manage 23, liehreW letter 271 High In the Seale 28. Urifstraillar . 30, Card gaine 31: MOVIng PiCture .34. NOISeleSe 30: Plitt of it curve' 37, Btillditig angle- . 39, Dittinorid „.. Cain 40 13arke 42, AS a *held ClOse (etseet.). 4R. Auction 49. Oriental 53, Nothing 54. Ingeets 55. C mrseriesse . tree. '58. Pagoda. 57, Youthful years 68•...Sdotdh river 59. DeOd In 8, Passehs.s•er- 32 Mar's name steamer ".., ;43. Choiige 9.Smallest 35. A great many inte g er 38 Allow e d the 10. Domestic fowl line of 11. Emmet it Female DOWN horses 1. Mountain 19 Egyptian crest river 2,Poe's',+bird 22. Title 3. PreSsing 24, Large filmsetters nniplele 4. Weaken u 25. Male child 5. Poplar 20 heated 8. P p to the Side 29', Par across7. Woe Is me - Tail CROStWORb PUZZLE 15 6 41. Devil • 43. Bird 44. Of an ancient Or city 45, Fresh supply Promontory 49. Lizard.like animal 6b Alcoholic beverage ' 51 Elisimnrie 5,2 riPit, eggs, 31 36 40 32 34 46' 47 52 , 55 58 18' 19 20 ,:••••.?"4,44.1AIN, 48 P3 56 ' 59 43 44 37 8 39 .;;y.28 35 THE LITTLEST PONY-William Hine keeps a rope tether on two ponies-mother and daughter. But, for the little one, it might as well be a dog leash. Baby weighed in at 16 pounds the day after she was born, and was 16 inches long, 16 inches high. Now, a couple of months later, she's fatter, sort of broadened out, and higher. But even as a grownup, Farmer Hine predicts, she'll be one of the smallest ever. IIIETAIIM. FRONT 40..6 Say trey. 1lt, Oaretay Warren 8,A,, 8.9, •" Questioned About the Resurrection ]Memory L:le:eeet2t00::7:e8 is, not t God of the dead, but of the ing: for all live unto him. Luke 20;38. Let us face it, We don't fully understand the mystery of the resurrection, We know that mat- ter may change in t o various forms of energy but it never is really destroyed. But that doesn't fully account for the resurrec' t Christians know that Jesus ChristiAril arose from the dead. They know it because they have met Jesus Christ, They haven't seen Him with the naked eye as Mary and Peter and 500 disciples at one time. But they have ex- perienced Him in His soul- changing power. Thee know He lives. This is the Christian's strongest assurance of a resur- rection. If Jesus Christ lives we shall live also. The Saducees were a sect of the Jews who did not believe in the resurrection. They were wealthy and educated and com- paratively few in number. But they had a prominent place in Jerusalem and in the Sanhedrin. They tried to baffle Jesus,by asking of the woman who wl been married to each of seven brothers, "I n the resurrection whose wife of them is she?" They got an answer that silenced them. The future life is dif- ferent from this. T h o s-e who prove worthy of the resurrer tion are equal to the angels of God. They neither marry nor are given in marriage. Then He went farther and pointed out to these who were so fond of speaking of the. God of Abra- ham, Isaac and Jacob, that God wasthne ivoltain.Gg od of the dead, but of It is a sobering thought •that we shall live for ever. We do not lay our deceased friend in the grave. We just lay the body away, The soulis in the presence of God. In 'the day of the re- surrection the soul will be re- -united with •the body. But the body •will be different. It will be a glorified body suitable for the new ytpe of life. The righte- ous will forever be in God's pre- sence. Those who have rejected Jesus Christ will be forever cast out of God's presence. Let Jesus come into your heart. • Jesus ISSUE 6 - 1959 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking CODAIIMULIE DOU CIO®HOULI 0111111 OBWOOMODE EIMOU DOMMU OUWEIDODE MOO MIDO MWEIHSSO BEIBMUO UMOMON 000 MOM - OMB, MOM MOBMENCIE BOMBE MOW UMEMOOMBO AMU MUMEWHODELMOD MEMO "NU© 'WOO THEY TAKE A SHINE TO THIS BUS - Mobile shine parlor, a cons vented city bus, fakes on "pcissengers" during d pause fot business on Fifth Avehue. The price of a shine matches the fart Charged on New York buses few yeah back-15 cents: ee. ske erstee Are, SHOW-OFF - Barbary sheep seem! to be clinging' to the brick wall like a fly. He's caught by a high-speed camera after racing Op the wall and jug befei'e springing' be& in'ti playful ' leoPia The Sure:reeled tiedst at the Prospect Park Milk production in Canada hit an all-time high of 18 billion pounds in 1958 and is headed for another banner year, ac- cording to Dr. H. A. Derby, chief of 'Dairy Products Division, Ca- nada Department of Agriculture. He told the Dairy Farmers of Canada convention that under present conditions unless the weather. is very adverse, this year's volume of milk may even exceed that of J.958. * *. * Dr. Derby warned that the dairy industry has priced itself out of foreign' markets and even limited trading is done by sub- sidizing the product. And, he noted, selling below cost has repercussions among' trading pa: tions, particularly those whose costs are much beloW those in Canada. * Spurred by good pastures and teed, good herd management, and favorable returns, the dairy farmer last year produced three- quarters of a billion pounds more than in 1957 , . and with fewer cows. The increase went mainly into butter production and the year's total is expected to reach a re- cord-breaking 338 million pounds. 'While the relatively high price of butter stimulated production, it also discouraged consumption which, over an 11-month per- o d, decreased by 10 million pounds. e * * Margarine production,. on the other hand, is expected to reach 140 million pounds in 1958 - an increase of 35 million pounds in six years. Said Dr. Derby: "With the wide difference in the price of these two products, an increase in margarine consumption is likely to continue unless steps are taken to bring the price relationship of the two products more into line." Cheddar• cheese production for the first 11' months last year totalled 84 million pounds, a decrease of 8,000,000 pounds' ever the same period in 1957. Consumption was on the in- crease and domestic disappear- ance by the end of the year was expected to hit 78 million pounds, Or 90 per cent of total produc- tion, Summing tip use of milk for the -year, Dr. Derby noted: (1) The fluid milk outlet varied little: (2) More milk was used iri the manufacture of butter end ice cream; and (3) Less- milk was tised in cheese and ;n the concentrated Whole m i industry, "Economy Of the danactiah diary industry is flourishing to- day," he 'said, "but immediate prospects are affected by t h e ensettled international situation. Canada is dependent on inter- national trade to remove Metall surpluses which, 'if riot tethey- ed, Will detitees deinestic prices," * * donne* Dr. Derby s a i d that meats Must be derived within the in- cittstit to bring the producer end consumer Of dairy products that will be Mir to both teller and ultimate buyer, the ten, thinet, nTh4tThere be progress two eidee, Ott the farm and in the &sirs,. the trend of dairy g 35 tmWards, With ihchistty greeted for greater output.. its * * * It is known t h a t certain species of ticks may cause ascending fatal paralysis in. man and livestock and that' their re- moval usually brings about ra- pid and complete recovery. Pre- sumably the causative agent is a toxin. Its isolation and analy- sis could lead to the finding of an anti-toxin, could make a new drug available for medical use, and could contribute to the vari- ous theories of nerve function- ing. Recent advances in the studies of tick paralysis have been made at the Federal Veterinary and Medical Entomology Laboratory at Kamloops, B.C. - where the Rocky Mountain tick appears to cause paralysis more readily than the species to the east or south. * * Linked with the study of the effect of the tick are studies of the feeding mechanism of the tick itself. They 'have shown that the tick does not burrow in, but cements itself to the skin of the host and, once at- tached, alternately sucks blood and pumps fluid into the tissues. Attempts ,to demonstrate a toxin in this fluid have failed * * Laboratory-raised ticks attach themselves to a host, but do not engorge as readily as "wild" ticks, which, says Kamlobps En- tomologist Dr. J. D Gregson, leads to the belief that climate participates in "conditioning" ticks for their normal two months of spring activity and may even play a part in the varying powers of the ticks to produce paralysis. Modern insecticides have ad- vanced methods of chemical control since the days of treat- ing animals with creosote, lard and crankcase oil. Best of these modern chemicals, according toe. Dr. Gregepn, is benzene hexa- chloride and a spray of Ortho W 1,0 BHC applied at the rate of four onces per gallon of water to the head and shoulders offers protection. * * * Elimination of ticks is difficult since a percentage of the ones failing to find a host will remain dormant and reappear the fol- lowing spiing. Because of tree:, and the fact that the shortest period from egg to maturity is two years. in natur e, control measures, will not bring about immediate results. ,And, because ticks, feed on wildlife, they are likely.to thrive where ground cover permits the presence of rodents Ranchers are thereforeeurged to deliber- ately phsture an area with ade- quately sprayed cattle. 'Thus grass is utilized and rodents re- duced, and most. of the adult ticks killed by the insecticide on the animals. * * "These observations, together with the discovery that the .tick population in a givnelecality may gradually. increase or de- crease, seemingly from factors that have involved the feeding and disposition of adult ticks, lend encouragement to the be- lief that tick populations can be effectively suppressed by control measures," says Dr. Gregson. Going Your Way Along The Road --- There is no better way of get- ting to know a man than by driv- ing with him. The best and the worst will come out at the driv- ing wheel. The latent impatience that hoots at the car in front the second the traffic lights change to green; the inherent love of children that will notice the little fellow hesitating on the curb and halt to enable him to cross; the self-arrestion that sparks at be- ing overtaken and must overtake again - all these, the good and the bad, reveal the driver's char- acter as it were a map spread out before you. By the same token I have no- ticed that on a long journey along a main road you become more intimately acquainted with other drivers, without a word be- ing spoken, than you might dur- ing a whole evening's conversa- tion at a dinner party. And as you• are inclined to make friends - socially or at. business -*with those who are, as one colloquailly puts it, going your way, Se tft this business of road travel you tend to strike up silent friend, ships and antipathies with fellow road users. You will almost draw in to let pass the driver wile sits on the tail of your ear, occasionally try- nags s itn p og nistazimlepoasistrbgles!deHeIserae torment in your driving mirror, and for the sake of a quiet life you will seize the first opportuni. ty to wave him on, As be roars into the distance YOU feel the same relief that you do when the door is finally closed on the visi- tor who never drew breath. On the other hand there is the over-cautious, hesitant driver who causes you acute uneasiness as you drive behind him, He will start- to overtake the car in front, - and continually pull back at the last moment, He is like the man who cannot come to the point of his story, although you could have finished it for him minutes ago. You do your hest to be patient, but when the opportuni- ty to overtake him presents itself you seize it as a man escaping from a smoke-chocked room, and pass him with a good deal more elan than is necessary. Which re- veals gaps in one's own character, If the road is much used, there will be a continuous stream of traffic, and as you join it and become part of it you find your- self - as in life generally - sort- ing yourself out with the others into groups. You overtake the cars going a slower pace than your own. They do not talk the same language and are soon left far behind. Likewise the cars going faster than yours meet past, heading for a different world, You brand the drivers as speed hogs and are pharisaically grateful that you are not like them, writes Rosemary Cobham in The Chris- tion Science Monitor. There remain the cars going more or less at one's own speed. The intimacy of the road then re- veals itself in its ultimate refine- ment. The spirit of leadership si- lently but perceptibly asserts it- self. You come pp behind a car driven at what you consider , a safe speed, impeccably handled, neither foolhardy nor overcaus- tious, but with firm, perfectly balanced, judgment and unerring precision. With no word or gesture you accept its leadership, settle down behind it, overtake where it over- takes, slacken when it slackens, as in tune with the thought of its driver as if it were a life part- nership. You become as familiar with that car as with the face of your oldest friend. You are aware of the box of cleansing tissues in the rear window; the corner of the coat caught in the door of the boot; the by now familiar num- ber plate. And if, owing to the exigencies of the road, you should momentarily be parted from this symbol of security, the invisible contact • is no more broken than it is between hus- band and wife mingling with their guests at a party. And when eventually you are again 'behind this old friend the togetherness is the more tangible for the in- tervening episode. I One should, however, not strain this happy relationship too far (as I nearly did the other day) by inadvertently pursuing this friend of the road up his own front drive. He may be a born leader, but his wife may not welcome you to dinner. UNDAYS01001 LESSON success depends on markets, In this field there must be enter- prise and a search for improve- ment all along the line, he said. * * • Less than two years ago, the Rocky Mountain wood tick kill- ed t h i r t y rangeland .cattle in British Columbia while paralyz- ing 290 others. And in the same province, over 250 human cases " of tick paralysis have been re- ported, of which 28 proved fatal. Researchers in Europe, Africa, Australia and •North America are trying to determine what powers the tick possesses. Tick sputum has• .13 e e n collected in tubes the size of a pin and spread over isolated nerve cells. * * * But so far, attempts have failed. 1.•