The Brussels Post, 1959-02-26, Page 7'Country Store
On A Back Road
It was well below zero, a chill
night embellished by a ripe wind
from Canada, and we were corn,
ing Home from upstate over the
back roads. I like back roads.
People live on them. Nothing
seems to happen to me, ever
'
on
the big bonded highways, They
have no mail boxes akimbo, or
lighted kitchenS,*Or frosted tie-
up windows, I like to swing,
along the rivers, and over the
hills, and keep in touch,
So she said, "Better find a
place to pick up a •loaf of bread."
I don't understand the feminine
Inventory She had been riding
along, checking the cupboards
and shelves back home, conduct-
ing a running account of provi-
.sions. Bread — yes, bread was
low, and breakfast would be
coming up. So we came to a fork
In the road shortly, with a store,
and I pulled up.
"And I guess some prunes,"
.she added.
This was far from somewhere.
We were back in the woods. Yet
progress hasn't been selective,
and you can have about any-
thing now back in the woods.
No reason to expect any de-
ficiencies — the little country
:store now has its frozen foods
-and such, I pulled open the door
and stepped in — and there was
.a difference.
They were burning wood, in
a wood stove.
It smelled good. You have to
have a little touch of wood
smoke in the air whenever you
burn wood, because a-little puff
or two comes out when you
open the front door and stoke.
And you have to keep stoking.
But more than that, wood heat
is another kind of heat, and you
Scan feel it.
It was cozy in the store, warm
to hot, and as I left the door
:and walked forward it began
getting hotter. I went by a stand
,of axes and a couple of chain
saws on the floor, and saw a
'display of felt boots. This was
lumbering country, and such
things would be in demand in
the winter. There was a fellow
sitting by the stove—just sitting
—and he was gray and elderly.
'Mackinaw and mittens on, cap
down over his ears, he didn't
look up at me. He• didn't know
I was' coming in, so he hadn't
planned to look up. And a wom-
an came out of a back room
when she heard me close the
door.
"Hi!" she said.
I said, "Hi!"
She said, "Guess it'll be colder
'fore it's warmer."
"Oh,' I said, "It'll warm up
come June."
The man said, "II it don't, it'll
be a long winter."
Now, I report this fully, for 1
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Captured by . Norwegian Naiiy
ship Is spotted on Newsthap.
Charged with violation af 'Nor-
way's fishing boundaries, the
Russians escorted to the
town of AalesUd.
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believe there are expatriate
people present Who will want 10
know there still is such a store,
with ales on display, and old
men at a stove—a stove, even—
and a society' where conversa-
tional by-play is es important as
ringing the cash register.
"Wood fire feels good," 1 said
"Best kind," she said,
"None better," said the man,
The woman said, "Been so cold
I have to get up once and fill
it. Freeze up if I didn't, Most
Of the time it'll hold hot ashes
to morning, but these cold nights
I'd wish it to burn longer."
"Can't you get oil here?" 1
asked, knowing that they could,
but giving the conversation
every opportunity.
"Oh, sure," she said. "But I'd
look sweet buying oil with the
profit on what groceries I sell
here. Besides, I got 10 men
cutting hardwood, and if I just
take out one stick to a cord, I
couldn't burn it,
"Not that I do," she said, "put
I could, Scalers would never
know,"
"Wouldn't you like to have an
oil furnace?"
"Well, yes and no. Be a fine
thing, but old John D.'s got all
he needs without support from
me. I got fifteen hundred acres
I pay taxes on, and wood just
lays around. That stove can
glow red, and it don't cost me
a cent."
The door opened and closed,
and it was my girl friend com-
ing to see what happened to me.
"Oh, smell the wood fire," she
says, "I burn wood at home
some," she said to the woman.
"Best to bake by," said the
man,
"I want some baking powder,
too," she said to me.
"Baking powder," said the
woman. "Anything else?"
"Bread and prunes," I said,
"I got loose ones and tight
ones," she told me.
-"Loose ones is lcist," said the
man. "They cook up better, and
got more gumption"
"Let's have a snatch of loose
ones," quoth I.
"Best kind," said the man.
So• we paid up and, drove
along, with an invitation to stop
in again, and while the bread
had seen better days, the prunes
were delicious. We cooked them
on a wood fire, which is the
best way. It's nice to know that
that little store is there, hotter
than a two-dollar pistol, and het
by wood through preference and
prudence. It's on the road less
traveled by, right in the fork,
back a piece.
—by John Gould in.
The Christian Science Monitor.
$200 A Shot
"This is a money - making
scheme," a Canadian official said
frankly last month, his eye on
the huge amounts wealthy,
sportsmen spend on big-game
hunting in Africa. The scheme:
To open up the isolated grass and
muskeg country of the North-
west Territories to buffalo hunt-
ers. The North American buffalo,
onetime king of the plains, is
almost extinct in the U.S. but
more than 13,000 closely pro-
tected by the government, still
roam Canadian grasslands.
Strays from the Wood Buffalo
National Park in Northern Al-
berta and the Northwest Terri-
tories.haye been straggling north
in • such numbers that food is
running short, so hunters will be
allowed to kill 2,700 of the un-
gainly but tasty beasts, Bag lim-
it: One per year. License' fee for
United States hunters: $200. —
From NEWSWEEK.
A mother with six. children
boarded a bus and gave the con-
ductor so Much 'trouble that he
said at the end of the trip, "I
wonder 'you "don't leave half of
your youngsters at home when
you' travel.'
Wearily the mother looked at
him and replied: "I did."
BALLS OF YARN — Railroader Ed Wilson uses colorful balls of
yarn, to knit sweaters.' Taught by his wife, Wilson is now suf-
ficiently skillful to shame most females. He sold enough sweaters
last year to pay for a vacation for himself, his wife and their
'four children. He's regularly employed as a baggageman,
THE FARM FROM
Joktuusea
trees are grown on their own
trunks.
* * *
Singleworked, o r standard,,
trees of Kendall; Linda, Red Spy
and Sandow practically all per-
iehed during a series of test•win-
ters, while double-worked trees
of the same varieties, while in-
jured to some extent, largely re-
covered and bore good crops.
The Antonovka wood that
makes up the trunks and lower
portion of the scaffold branches
was not injured.
* * * -
While forming only 8,9 per
cent of total beef gradings in
1958, the new Standard grade,
introduced a year ago .filled a
gap in national bed/ grades and
justified its creation.'
Homer J. Maybee, Canada De-
partment , of Agriculture, said
Standard beef was In demand by
institutional purchasers like the
Armed Forces and hospitals.
In fact, on occasion some sup-
pliers with. Department of Na-
tional Defence contracts substi-
tuted Good grade beef because
of the shortage df Standard.
* *
Owing to the lack'of volume;
Standard has yet to be sold in
any proportions on the retail
level.
Though this grading was fair-
ly uniform throughout the year,
the high point was May when it
averaged 9.9 per cent of total
Canadian slaughtering.
A built-in possibility is that
Standard will be called on if
Canadian consumers demand a
leaner' type of , beef- and prices •
fall into line accordingly.
"The Standard grade has
.proved a
up
change,"
summed up Mr. Maybe!.
The Lewis' woodpecker of the
far Vest doesn't dig into wood'
for. its. toed, It 'catches insects
and bugs on the ground or in
the, air, or bores into fruit for
them.
MAY SCHOOL
LESSON
ISSUE ,9 — 1959
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
EY Itev O. Warren, B.A., KU,.
God's Love and Man's Refusal
Matthew 21;33.43
Memory Selection: He is des•
lased:arid rejected of men, Isaiah
03:3.
The day of Calvary would
come later that week and Jesus
knew it. In parable he foretold
His own death at the hands of
God's favored people, Israel. God
had bestowed great blessing on /
the chosen seed of Abraham. He
expected fruit, But they had
beaten and .slain many of His
Messengers, Micaiah and Jere-
miah were imprisoned; Zechar-
iah the son of Jehoida was stoned
to death, Then Gad sent. His be-
loved Son, Against Nirn they
poured forth their hatred and
envy as they prevailed on Pilate
to crucify Him. It seemed on
that dark day that God was de-
feated. But He wasn't. Three
days later He raised His Son
from the dead. Forty days later
He received Him into Heaven to
sit at His own right hand,
In 70 A.D, God's judgment fell
on this rebellious people. Their
city was destroyed by the Roman
army and they were scattered
throughout the world. Only in
the last forty years have they
been allowed to return to their
own land and that under some
restrictions. The. Gospel which
was first presented to the Jews
was given, a more favorable re-
ception by the Gentiles.
Why do people reject Jesus
Christ? While many of the Gen-
tiles have accepted Jesus Christ,
many still reject Him, It's hard
to understand. We know that to
obey. God and accept. His salva-
tion as provided by Jesus Christ,
is the proper thing to do. But
sin blin,ds, our eyes. It requires
effort to turn from sin and seek
God. Of course, we are not saved
by our effort. We are saved by
faith. But it requires exercise of
the will to repent of our sins and
thus get into the position where
God can give us the faith by
which to believe. Jesus, in his
lament over Jerusalem, said, "0
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that
killed the prophets, and stonest
them which are sent unto thee,
how often would I have gathered
thy children together, even as
a hen gathereth her chickens un-
der her wings, and ye would
not!" A. hen has several calls for
her chickens. They must heed
the call and come to the shelter
of her wings. So we ought to
heed God's call. If we don't, we
shall have no shelter when the
storms of God's judgment break
upon the earth.
Let us come to Jesus Christ!
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PHOTO FINISH — Mouse, lower left, has
up in the face of cat-astrophe, as kitty
from the bottle's stopper. No, hero, he.
kirgement, and this little drama was
grapher's studio.
his emotions all bottled
prepares to take a nip
"Kitty" is a photo en-
played out in a photo-
NEWSMAP
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namesake was, for the stranger
had left owni Ott, Put this, was
not the end of the story. When
the traveller reached Kirkby
Lonselale and stayed the night
there, he found the following
entry in the visitors' book: .Jones
Pthith Brown John, his. own
Amnia ,exactly in reverse!
Some coincidences seems so
far-fetched that it is difficult to
believe them, even when one has
PreVed them true. Not long ago,
for example, a writer set out to
walk from John o' Groats to
Land's End, meaning to write a
book on his travels. On the very
same day, another writer set out
to walk the opposite direction,
from Land's End to John o'
Groats, also with a view to Writ-
ing about his journey.
Investigation showed that the
two travellers, unknown to each,
other, had actually stayed the
night in the same hotel—the
Trust Reuse at Abergavenny—
and that their respective pub-
lishers had officee exactly op-
posite each other in the same
street. The two books might
even have appeared on the same
day if one of the travellers had
not seen a newspaper report of
the other. Eventually one of
them gave way.
But for the most staggering
coincidence story of all we must
turn to the statisticians. They
assure us that if a monkey were
given a typewriter and continu-
ed to batter away at the keys
for an infinite period—perhaps
billions of years—it would one
day type a correct draft of
Shakespeare's play "Romeo and
Juliet," quite inadvertently, of
course.
It's that sort of possibility
which adds edge to a line from
Shakespeare himself: "There are
more things in heaven and
earth . . than are dreamt of in
your philosophy."
Car sickness: That feeling you
get every month when the pay-
ment falls due.
attempts to overthrow —foreign dornitiation civil ui sur`=
tettlotit- and subversions; batintian disputes and the
gusting bf home grown dictators i the tooq recent 'being
-trick dtibaii itevolottoti,, lidckgrOUtict to • it all has been
the continiiing ndbld' War" between taiteth
and Western hot' ,beeti' rileif'Wer-Vlied
"peaeetimen era it fititeryi
Registered warehouses have
been advocated by a leading
government official as a means
of bolstering a sagging potato
industry in Canada.
* * *
E. G. Paige, Director of Fruit
and Vegetable Division Canada
Department of Agriculture, re-
minded the Potato Section of the
Ontario Soil and Crop Improve-
ment Association that potato
consumption has slipped by,
about 40 per cent over the past
30 years.
He said an urgent examina-
tion Of production and merchare,
dising methods is warranted to
`see what can be done to . halt
this disastrous downward trend.
* *
Mr. Paige noted that with re-
gistered warehouses, the onus.
would be on the grader or
packer to comply- with grade
standards and other regulations.
It would mean a more consist-
ently well-graded pack being
put on the market.
Too, warehouses would pro-
vide records of salei and aver-
age returns, aiding federal sup-
port programs or deficiency pay-
ment systems. And, he added,
production of a better eating
potato would be encouraged.
* *
"Position of the potato in the
national economy is such that
the industry must make every
effort to see that services avail-
able to it through universities
and governments are used to
best advantage," said Mr. Paige.
"Ways and means of improve-
ing its position, however, must
emanate largely from the in-
dustry itself."
* *
While conceding that the high
standard of living-in. Canada is
partly responsible for • the de-
crease in eonsumption of 'pota-
toes and other low-cost foods,
the federal, spokesman claimed
the degree to which changes in
eating habits occur can be in-
fluenced by the quality and at- .
tractiveness of the 'products as
they 'are presented to the house-
wife. • * *
Unless corrective measures
are taken, he said, powerful re-
tail organizations -will assume
control of their 'requirements
through a form of so-Called ver-
tical integration and the indus-
try will evolve into one where
a relatively few selected and
speeialized producers will, under
' direction of these retail outletT,
produce the bulk of potatoes for
,domestic market. The ref laititter
of Produdees -Would be limited
to supplying the export reattire-
merits and what is left of the
domestic ni arket, * *
Besides the swing to notate
Warehouses, he urged nronio-
thins of the nutritional qualities
of the• potato and a driVeetoevard
. new and better proeested potato
products. *
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RUSsiari apple variety may
play, an irtiportatit rOl,e` inetliCe
development' al a More Winter,
hardy Canadian aPple.,
This is the Conclusion Of Ca-
nadian Dena:intent of Agticill-
' hire ofilciali after 20 yea& Oh-
tervation of the AntonOVka
Variety at the Fredericton EX-
periinental Farm,
4. * 's
Various test winters slltCe 1.0t1
have shOtirri: that Antoriolika-
iteei tot:mai-iced to the varieties
'Bancroft, Edgar, Keiirleit
Bed Spy and Saridd*";
''Eetter thanrdati the
'YEARS OF CONFLICT The tia',Called Ora 'of 'peato which
the W,OtIci Welcomed after Woticr:War has been tirly-.
thing loUt petitefUl, NOWSnitip,above shcrOi. The Sarni
Year the ended, frghtind .broke :OUt between The
Netherlands -and Indonesia,. An .over The Warld, nand*
allifie 46'60664 held iii check during the global struggle,
rate: to tidesthat hat.SWOPI in a witia, titles of "limited.
Oita thOy lidve included overthrowing —
That Long Arm Of
Coincidence!
How significant are comet-
dances? From time to time,
even in the most humdrum lives,
events occur which bring some of
113 1,11) with a Jolt. some of these
events may be no more than
mildly surprising; others may
exert a lasting influence on our
lives.
An example of a remarkable
but not really baffling conci-
denee was recently quoted by a
famous Harley Street doctor,
He tells of a man who noticed
a second-hand walking-stick In
a bric-a-brac shop. He bought
it, and when he got home dis-
covered that it bore his own ini-
tials in silver. Closer scrutiny
showed that underneath the ini-
tials was the date of his birth.
Yet investigation showed that
no one in his family had ever
owned the stick!
Even more striking is the tale
of the young sub-lieutenant who
made repeated visits to the
Admiralty to try to discover the
fate of a friend called Green,
who had ,been captured by the
Japanese in Hong-Kong. Eight
or nine visits over a period of
many months failed to yield any
trace of his friend The sub-
lieutenant gave up the search.
On the following day his car
Was halted at traffic lights Just
outside the Admiralty, Crossing
the road in front of him was
the missing friend. He had made
a sensational escape from the
Japanese. It was, in fact, his
very first day in England!
Walter de la Mare, the poet,
told another true• story of coin-
cidence. A friend of his-=-we'll
call him. John Brown Smith
Jones—on a walking tour in
Cumberland, put up "for the
night at a hotel. As he was
about to sign the register he saw
that the last signature in the
book was his own unusual com-
bination of names—John Brown
Smith Jones.
He never discovered who his