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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1961-09-14, Page 3MUTUAL ADMIRATION - Wishing her Hereford steer good luck, 12-year-old Patty Davis gets a good lick in return at the recent Sagamon County 4-H Agricultural and Livestock show. BACK BREAKER - Bending over backward to obey the law is Mike Aubrey of New York, Less agile motorists would rather avoid the park- ing spot, but the actor-dancer Mike found no trouble reading the upside-down no parking sign. He had to move, FROM J069Auseti tautly. They also helped .prepa.P. the way fora favorable mo, tion for him in Corinth where he had an effective Ministry, After the cloth of Claudius,, Aquila and Priscilla returned V,t. Home, Paul's greetings to thorn in his letter to the Romans Cate that Intleh of their valuable service is. unrecorded. Here it isR "My helpers in Christ Jesuit who have for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom net • only I give thanks, but also the churches of the .Gentiles,'" From this we see that they risk- ed all for Christ and had .a 1.40* ful ministry among the yarietta Gentile churches, • God can make the wrath et man. to praise Him. The decree expelling .Jews from Rome turn- .ed out well for .Aquila and Priscilla, They were led into e. friendship with Paul and an Un- derstanding of the Gospel that opened the door for effective lives of service, Would that we had more lay, 111p/1 who would enter such an.. experience of the salvation at Jesus Christ, that while continu- ing with their work, they would be effective witnesses for their Lord, Helpful Hints If a drawer or door pull has come loose because the screw has worn a hole too large to grip the wood, an easy remedy is plastic wood. Fill the hole, let it harden for a few hours, then screw the knob in place. Plastic wood handles like putty and hardens into wood. * When stitching fabrics madd of a synthetic fibre, the thread should also be of a man-made fibre. Otherwise, seams may pucker or, if the fabric is long- wearing and the thread is not, seams will pop long before the garment is worn out. By Rev, R, B, Warren, 1114.0 Aquila and Priscilla, Able Teachers Act 18:14, 1841, .31,-28; Romans 16;342, Memory Selection: Every man bath his proper gift of God, 1 Corinthians 7;7, The Jews have suffered at the hands of many rulers, In Paul's day, Emperor Claudius Caesar commanded all Jews to depart from Rome, the capital city, But the Jews are an enterprising people. For so many centuries without a homeland, when driven from one country, they are soon doing a successful business in another. For Aquila and Priscilla, their explusion from Rome had a happy sequence, As they worked at their trade of tentmaking in Corinth, they were joined by Paul who had the same trade, For a year and a half Paul preached in Corinth, When he left for Ephesus, Aquila and Priscilla accompanied him. They remained there when Paul pro- ceeded to Antioch. In Ephesus this consecrated couple performed an important service to Apollos, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scrip- tures, who came to Ephesus. Apollos knew of the baptism unto repentance for sins. Aquila and Priscilla expounded to him the way of the Lord more per- NDAY SC11001 3 6 5 10 9 8 4 3 13 t6 17 Is 23 it 24 26 25 30 31 32 113 33 3 30 39 44; .41 • 43 45 St 34 I 1 1.23 elsewhere on this page, 4 48 5 3$ • Answer THOSE WHO StAND AND WAlt An tail German family stands behind a bathed Wirt Thrown across the line' Sefstarating• 'Berlin from the Allied sector Of West Berlin., nieMISteri theCOniniuritst Oaks. stand poorti id the barricade: MIGRATION TO WEST -GERMANY (Monthly trate per year in thousands) Wanton .Pe s t ctign Qf Animal Life NaturAikti .v7 over the world were elated reeeetly at the birth of a wimoeing .esetie Amerieles rarest awl tallest bird -- in the. New Orleans Zee, Why? Because these birds with their snow-white plumage seem- ed likely b beceme as extinct as the .dod ,), Some scientists were beginning to call them "modern' dodos." Short of the hatching of a dinosaur egg, no other event in the animal -waeld could have given bird-lovers a greater There are only seven whooping cranes in captivity and only forty still alive throughout the world. It's these great birds' resonant, trumpet-like cry that gives them their name, On windless days it can be heard three miles off, Man's interference often leads. to the wiping out of wild crea- tures, but the dodo is 'extinct because he allowed himself to forget the art of flying and. gradually lost his'wings, So when European sailors came to their homes in Mauritius they were able to kill and eat them whole- sale until the last one had gone. Experts warn that the horse may soon become extinct, But "soon," according to a famous geologist, "means within ten or twenty million years," Two famous Austrian wild creatures, the duck-billed platy- pus and the facinating. little koala bear, reached the point of near-extinction 'a few years ago, Only drastic protection measures' saved them from disappearing from the earth, From the Turkish coast comes news that the eleven-foot-long monk seal, once common on the Mediterranean coasts, may be near extinction, Some Egyptian fishermen found a female monk seal near Port Said some years ago and thought that it had somehow wandered there from the Arctic. They packed the creature in ice and consigned it by railway to Alexandria for examination, The journey killed it, Naturalists are unanimous in asserting that man's craze for wanton destruction was the cause of the annihilation of the beauti- ful bird known as the great auk, or garefowl. Since its extinction - the last specimen was clubbed to death by fishermen in 1844 on Eldey, a rocky isle off the south-west coast of Iceland - more books have been written about it than about any other bird, The men who killed the last specimen, on an island inhabited mainly by gannets, thought it was a witch! About eighty skins or stuffed specimens of the -great auk sur- vive in the museums of the world to-day - the sole remains of -a species which once could be numbered by the million, cate bales of hay or grain cut for feed. Farmers working their lands for summer fallow leave beau- tiful designs similar to the braid loops on a military uniform. tressed," the directors insist, "nor do we feel that there will be any 'panic' selling of live- stock at depressed prices. Panic has been avoided• by actions of the provincial and federal gov- ernments, together with prompt and efficient action of the live- stock men themselves, who have reduced herds to the long-term carrying capacities of their ranges, and by obtaining fodder supplies from a 11 available sources." As he piloted his Cessna across the flat plains, Mr, Minor point- ed out how the colors of the patched landscape below give the full story of the dry period. There were browns and yellows, with little green, writes Bicknell Eubanks in the Christian Science Monitor. Some of these are patches of wheat and coarse grains, such as oats and barley, that manag- ed to head up and will be in condition to harvest. A lot of it never came to proper fruition, or it may be too short, with weeds growing amidst the grain. It will be cut and baled for feed for stack during the winter. It catches and holds the few rains that come down, and it acts as a "seal" to keep subsurface moisture from being drawn to the surface and evaporated. A side effect, equally important, develops from the light color of the surface. This tends to reflect much of the intense heat of the blasting summer sun, No longer is the old "black" summer fal= low considered the hallmark of a good farmer. Despite the drought, farmers are busy. The designs they make in their fields, discernible from the air, mark the kind of work they are doing. A continuous line indicates swathing or mow- ing for hay. Broken lines indi- 4, Furrow 5. Domestic animal 4. Scrape off 7: Homeless child I. Gives vent to 0 Italian river 1.0 Shower Entangle 10. Clothed 21, Cleft 23. Toward and within 25. What person 26. In what way 27. Tavern CROSSWORD PUZZLE 26. Black duet 29. Hurried 50. Adjective suffix 31, Append 34. Creas6 37. W. Indian timber tree 38. Dilute 40. Roman tyrant 41, Draft animals 42, Particle 43. Holly. 45. Sora 46, Egg-shaped 47. Swedish man's name 50. However ACROSS 55 An effectual blow 56. Indian memorial poet 57. Building angs DO WN 1. Fidget 0. To 3. Iranian coin (var.) 1. Animal'. coats 3 Crow's note .Recreation ground 1 Single thing it Sleeveless Arabian garment 14. Algerian seaport 15. Asterisk 16. Three (comb form) 17. River mussel 13. Firm 20. Insult es. Barren 24, Vas being 25. Pallor 29. Narrow inlet 82. Straight- forward 83. Man's e SIS Possess St Visited 38. Ourselves 39. Town in Italy 18, Itinerant' 44, Accept az et *nib ef 48. Passage out 49. Place 51. Shrub of the Depper family 52. Nerre n etwork 62. Compass Point 54 teller of itr,frIltbn Ups ri4,rioWn -t0 Prevent Peeking When the office manager tell you your salary prospects look brighter he may be thinking of the new colours proposed for banknotes. • HMI UM 1001Eil 2ran i/Elfa0 IMMO li1121E1r1lEi EMI:10MM ri 11 EI° ' lliffi Z n EI CI MOD ESEIF L EENN El EE Fr mock : imfilmnom mum Maid it121. E:IINIEI INCIDN- -U 1151E1151 adralfil VADDIE111 .-5/10E1 raliFi Trying To Give Away A Fine Crop of Hay Consider now the wonderful thing that happened to the Hon. Henry Hankdoodle, who has gone over his book quite a way, and after many years of labor and profit has kind of retired. He thought he would not mow his fields this year, having disposed of the stock, so he began look- ing around for somebody who would do it and haul away the hay, "I wonder if you'd like to have my hay?" was the way he'd start negotiations whenever a likely chance showed up, and for a time this didn't promote any response. Well, this is expectable. Men were cutting their home places before they looked outside, and the weather had everybody about two weeks late anyway. One man had his machinery all off on the other side of town, and so on. But a good farmer who has some nice hay likes to see it cut before the juices all dry up, so Henry Hankdoodle kept asking. Free hay seemed hard to give away, somehow. Finally, and every word I say is true, he came to Meritorious Goodfellow (called. Merit for short), and Merit took most kind- ly to the proposal and said to Henry, "Now I'll see that it gets cut. Just go home and stop think- ing about it, and it'll get cut!" Mr. Goodfellow is a nice man. So in the next few days Henry Hankdoodle would be sitting in his big kitchen window enjoying the leisure of having no hay to cut, and he would look up and see some stranger going throUgh his dooryard, down into the hay- fields to look around. Henry wondered why it took them so long to decide. His hay was very good hay, except the little five-acre piece by the brook, This piece hadn't been turned Over for many years, and it had come in to hardhack and blue- berries, and mowing it was just housekeeping, The hay wasn't worth the time, but it looked bet- ter to cut it. The young stock mouthed it over and got some good of it, and what they left made good bedding, The tail goes with the hide, as they say. For the sake of the fine, tall hay on his other fields, anybody Would be glad to knock down The real impact of the drought which blankets the prairie prov- inces of Canada, choking, off and drying up lakes, ponds, sloughs, and dugouts, shows up vividly in the hills of south- eastern Saskatchewan near the Manitoba border. This is lake country, But scores of the little lakes have shrunk to only fractions of their normal size, In some cases they have disappeared, leaving only alkali patches in their wake, * This is the Moose Mountain country. It is ordinarily a ver- dant land, It is a land of tall trees and a lot of brush, It is a land of recreation as well as farming and ranching. Moose Mountain Provincial Park lies in the middle of it. The park is the choicest of the lands down here, a little over 50 miles above the Canadian-United States bor- der and about 70 miles east of Weyburn, Sask. Moose Mountain is a large promontory rising about 1,000 feet above the flat prairie land. It is the highest point between Saskatchewan's Cypress H i 11 s and Manitoba's Riding Moun- tain. It was a favorite fishing and hunting area for the Indians - the Crees and others, whose area the pastures of Moose Moun- tain and its lakes make excellent facilities for ranching, when moisture is normal, * One of the ranches down here is owned by John B. Minor, who also operates a bigger ranch in southwest Saskatchewan, north of Swift Current in the Great Sand Hills. Flying across the southern part of the province, he ex- plained that much less land is needed to graze one animal on his Moose Mountain ranch than on his much bigger ranch in the Sand Hills. * The flight across the southern part of Saskatchewan gives a clear picture' of the impact of a year of drought, The picture is spotted, Some areas will produce a fairly good wheat crop, such as north of Weyburn, where as much as 20 bushels of grain per acre may be harvested. These are areas which had timely rains - enough to replace at least in part the moisture literally sap- ped from the ground and wheat stems by unusually high temper- atures this summer. The flight, in Mr. Minor's Cessna 172, followed a course which was almost a straight line from the original Minor place 25 miles west of Cabri, Sask. This ranch has been in the fam- ily since Mr. Minor's father came to Canada from Nebraska in the early 1900's, The younger Mr. Minor, in his mid 30's, a leader in. cattle raising and a growing influence in provincial and national af- fairs, feels that in some ways the drought has been overem- phasized, He feels it is serious. But he feels that published re- ports have tended to give the wrong impression and have led readers in other parts of Canada and the United States to think of the vast wheat and ranching area of the northern Great Plains aS one big desert land, with dust blowing and vegeta-4 tion almost all gone. In this he agrees with the SaSkatcheWan Stock Gr OWert Aso-elation, of which he is a director, The group feels that the seriousness of the present situation has been overerripha- sized, "While the situation is' far froin desirable, it is net dis,, those five acres, So one morning a Man who said his name was. Cas Stranger knocked on Henry's door and said, "Pm going to cut your hay," and Henry walked up through the fields with him, showing him the right places to cross the swales and things like that, Afterward, a whole array of ma- chinery was brought on--tree ter- mower, sidewinder rake, baling machine, trucks, and a station wagon with the lunches. For four days, which happened to be stlI1, ny and good drying days, labor continued, Handsome bales of sweet-made hay were trucked off the farm, and as they went by Henry reflected on all the years he had been building his land up to produce such good fodder. For the sake of keeping his grassland cleared, he had just given away a year's pay - enough hay to keep a large' and profitable herd all winter, Good thing he didn't need the money, he told himself. And just about the time the last of the hay was being loaded on the truck Henry discovered that his brookside meadow of hardhack and blue- berry bushes hadn't been mowed! Henry thereupon said to Mr. Stranger, "You didn't mow the five-acre piece," "No," said Mr. Stranger. "That's a little rocky in there, and the hay ain't worth much, so we left it." Realizing all at once that something had gone wrong in his bargaining, Henry Hankdoodle was dismayed, and could only say, "But, I wanted everything mowed and cleaned up!" Mr. Stranger, whoever he was, seem- ed disinterested, and drove away. Henry felt, really, that he was being put upon, so he went over to see Merit Goodfellow and told him so. "I can't help feeling that the back field ought to be mowed to," he said. "Why of course it should," said Merit Goodfellow, "There's no reason why Stranger shouldn't have cut that, too, Go home and forget about it, I'll see that some- body cuts it, I'll take care of everything." So Henry Hankdoodle went home and a few more good hay- ing days came and went with- out any special activity, and then it came off to a Lowery morning. Henry was sitting in his big kitchen window again, and he saw Mr. Stranger come into the yard. Mr. Stranger thumped on the back door, and said, "I've come to mow that back field." "Good," said Henry, "I just stopped by to talk to you about it first, so there wouldn't be any misunderstand- ings." "Misunderstandings about what?" asked Henry. "Well, about my price. I get three dollars and ninety cents an hour for my time and machinery. 'Course, I don't know how long it'll take, but I'll use you right on hours," "You'll use me right!" said Henry, "What kind of right is that? You've just hauled most 5,000 bales of hay off this farm free of charge, and now you want to hold me up for a couple-hours' mowing? What kind of right is that?" "You got this all wrong," said. Mr. Stranger. "I paid Merit Good- fellow for every bale I took, and I don't owe you nothin'. I just heard you wanted that field mowed, and I'm trying to be neighbourly." le . . at three-ninety an hour," said Henry Hankdoodle, and he went into his kitchen and sat down in his rocking chair by the big window, and he rocked and rocked and thought and thought. - Hy John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor, 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957' 1958 1959 1960 1961' WEStWARD TREK - the EaSt Getman ON/et-tithe-0 dosed aVerines Of gratien, Merit Won 10,060 t.etudees, fleet to' Wetf Getniany in the 'first SeVeii hialiths of this yetie. News hort, aboy6,. tradeS the "rat e of tait to West refuge e flow Odin" 1.9,50% High point .was during. time of oho,rtive reVdit 1:951, To d t fe, about: three million'. persOns have crossed, West Gel tweittdov-ereittiont 'e5tienotess 7:5;000 ho ve !Migrated iti the opposite direction 060 pd thii ISSUE 36 Ott el1111.•