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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-10-29, Page 3globi Beaty Ey Lori Chapman Ly in Coburn slamy;ed- the floor to h's' dilapidated shack with a bang al:.1 set down dejectedly in .an aid board bottom chair. just sixteen, Lynn was full of life and ambition. This winter his heart was set on running a trap line here in the bottom lands of Waukesha River. But that had been a week 'ago when Lynn baited the last trap in his line and walked with the swagger of an old trapper back to his shack, Then for six days in s row he ran the line 'and ilad only one small beaver, ' As Lynn sat there in his shack alone, blue, and downhearted, lie didn't 1cnow that the gentle breeze outside had increased to a savage. howl; Lynn built a fire in the rusty iron stove and put the coffee pot on. By now the wind was blowing a regular gale. Suddenly as Lynn was about to pour himself a cup of coffee, some- one banged heavily on the 'door,. then without waited to be let in the 4%or burst open and two roughly garbed straggers stumbled, into the room. The larger of the two smiled. "Hof Hol Kid!" he said as he shook the water from his back, "A damn brat!" snarled the smaller man, "What are you doing In these hills, kid:" "1'm trapping, Mister. And 1'tu no kid. I'm sixteen years old." "Shore," smiled the big man. "1 was a man when I was sixteen, Well, we're trappers too, son, You don't mind us holing up with you till this blizzard blows over?" "Sure don't," Lynn said hastily. "You see," continued the big man. "We got a cabin 'bout a mile further up. We'll move on in a few days." "Move on, bell!" snareld the small man. "We'll stay as long as this brat's grub holds out. So git busy and sling out something Co cat kid." Soon Lynn had beans, corncakes and coffee on the table, then he : called to the strangers to "Conte and get 3 " t t. "Dist a minit," growled tlfe short . man as Lynn was about to seat himself at the table. "Once a day is enough for a Icid yore age to tat." Lynn walked to the window and looked out, Sleet and' rain had changed to biting snots. Lynu turned and watched the two men who sat at his table. They ate wolfishly. Suddenly he had an idea, but he'd have to hurry. Out- side the snow had drifted almost to the window sill. Again he turned and looked at the mea, He looked at titir gun belts, thrown carelessly on the The door burstopen and two 'sdughly grbed•btrangers stumbled. tato the room. bench : car the wall. Then at the door. Ti -e latch string hung inside. fie measured the distance. 'Then suddenly swooping law he swept up an awkward bundle and raced wildly from the house. As -Lynn hit the store] no shots followed him, he wondered about this. But before he had gone 50 yards he began to realize his folly. In the blinding snow travel on foot was almost impossible. He was about ti, turn back when suddenly from higher up he caught the glimpse al horsemen. They saw flim too, A moment later be was sur- rounr:ed b?' the Sheriff and his posse. "Lynn Coburn," bellowed the Sheriff. "We thought you was one f them bandits." "Bandits!" cried Lynn, "lleaded for these hills? I'll bet that's them down there in the cabin." Quickly Lynn told the Sheriff his story. "Go on and get then; Sheriff, but watch out, they're heavily armed," "If the report is true that's been coming up the line, 'they're out of ammunition," roared the lawman. "That's wily they didn't shoot at me then," Lynn cried, as he raced with the posse back toward the cabin. "Brut wait Sheriff. Look here. They can't go far in titis storm without these," The Sheriff stopped and looked with amazement at the bundle of wet shirts slid boots Lynn had dropped in the snow, Then he glanced toward the , cabin where two tough half-cladoutlaws stood caging in their stocking feet. "They's a two thousand dollar reward for these Hombres; T.ynn," bellowed the lawman. Chlorophyll -Or "Green. Magic" Bveryone has seen large amounts of chlorophyll, even if they do not know it by that name, for it is the stuff that makes grass and leaves green. For year's it has fascinated set entists because it is the chloro- phyll In plants that enables thein to use sunlight to turn water, air, and minerals from the' earth into living material. To -day thele is a boom in chlo- rophyll which started. in the United States, has spread in - Britain, and will probably go round the world, The boom is due to tate almost accidental dis- covery that this chemical which makes plant life possible has the strange property of making li- quids completely odourless. Chlorophyll seems destined to produce a world without a bad smell. • When eaten chlorophyll ap- pears to be completely harmless, and whin a short time destroys all scent, Eat onions' or garlic, swallow a small dose of chime)- , phyil, and- within a matter of minutes your breath is as sweet as a new-born babe's. Chloro- phyll is going into dog foods to eliminate the "doggy" odour which owners admit is the one unpleasant thing about their pets, Vaporise chlorophlyy, and whatever undesirable smell may be in a room disappears. Chlorophyll is going into ,toothpastes, soaps, creams, as well as millions of tablets. The -husband who has stopped on his way home to "have one"and the heavy smoker who wants to kiss his sweetheart, just swallow a minute amount of chlorophyll and all is well. Frightened that id one of their prisoner's escaped with a bottle of chlorophyll tablets the dogs kept to track escapes from jail Ctochend.Cup Chapeaux Bare Hairlines Dark' green Woe 3ersey makes a debonair turban tilted ,fust off • center. • • The fabric is swathed about a fiat crown, fastened by Sot clips and tied In a casual knot at the side. • ' IIX AAAA MMES. rj'lkIEsleep fiat that cups the head but does it becomingly, keynotes the fall millinery collections of top designers, This means that the hairline is bared and the hat is worn deep ,and straight on, or tilted ever so slightly. ' As -done by Tatiana of Saks Fifth Avenue, these are j?oung- looking'ltats with a great deal of flattery. Black is all- important but this year it's black polished with jet, satin or velvet braid, In color, there are delicate shades of lav- ender, pale blue, pine glowing reds and greens, 'In' fabrics, there are velours, velvets, pleated horsehair, wool jersejfl."and' a .new very chin silk stocking jersey, There's netl's in a J. r'ench fabric that's imaginative. .It's fuzzy and soft much like angora, but is in reality a mixture ,of'nylgn.,anct rayon, • The cloche Is' much in evidence. This designer does, one in purple veiours,.gives it a short, rippled brim and a long black quill. For the equally important turban, There are lines that bare the brow and curve over the ears. One such is done in dark green- taffeta with markings of 'Cut black velvet, For after -live -o'clock wear, the beret appears in white •sequins, dazzling as slid -winter snoiK, slanted against a black velvet•arc, For. a second beret, there's black velvet dotted by tiny red silk tassels, 'rite three -cornered "'hat is a' pixie mood, with, .swills -at each corner 5o that the,crovll ices Hat yet eddies in pretty dips about the head. Mule of a,new nylon that looks lute angora, would not be able to pick up their scent, wardens in America's southern states have banned the tablets from their prisons. ' A very little chlorophyll goes a long way when it comes to destroying odours, and this is fortunate because, although when you look' at a landscape you may see tons of the chemi- cal, it is very finely spread and expensive to separate from the rest 'of' the plant, Very green grasses have lots of it. But it takes about one ton of lucerne. to give 4 ib. of the precious green colouring matter, and the cost of extracting it may be $250. IIL FA1N FRONT J 9,u4sell Guns are barking across the. country. Farmers are keeping a wary eye on their livestock as red - capped hunters stalk through fields and woodlands on. the lookout for game. Several cows and horses' will fall victim to the irresponsible actions of a few so-called sportsmen. "I thought it was a deer" is be- coming a trite phrase even among. hunters themselves. But it's still in common use -after a fellow hunter or a domestic animal has been shot. h N h There are still too many week- end hunters who sally forth into the rural areas in the belief the land belongs to tient. They blaze away ' at rocks, tin cans, trees and buildings with little thought of whatmay be within effective range of their bullets. They cut wire fences and tail to mend them after they leave. They open gates and neglect to close them with the result that livestock wander off and the farmer must spend tedious hours rounding them up. They often,: start bush and grass fires on private property. a e * Because of such thoughtless acts, relations between farmers and hunters have deteriorated to such an extent that some farm- ers actually arm themselves to protect their property against hunters. "No hunting" signs are becoming more frequent. Soon hunters will, have to travel far- ther afield for game because no farmer will tolerate hunting on his property. * e This situation need not exist if hunters observe common courtesy, says K. N. Mortis, executive director of the Cana- dian Civilian Association of Marksmen. Fust, he suggests, get the farmer's permission to hunt on his land. If permission is not granted respect the farm- er's decision. Treat the farmer's property as if it were your own. a a * Close gates after you pass through them. Don't shoot in the immediate vicinity of the barnyard. Be absolutely certain that what you're shooting at is legitimate game and not• farm stock or poultry. Know the -range of your ammunition. A .22 long rifle will carry a mile; a .303 three miles. Observe pro- vincial game laws by shooting no more than your limit. Be sure to thank the farmer when you're leaving his property. If the hunt has been successful, offer him a portion of. your game. If he is a shooter, leave a. few cartridges or shells or some token payment. And by all means offer to pay for livestock you might have shot accident- ally. a C Grass is the world's most common crop. No other crop can take its place but only in the past few years have farmers, extension workers and scientists CROSSWORD PUZZLE • ACROSS 0, Net this 1,1bonkey "7,`Wadingblyd 4. City In Maine 8. Loather- ' -8. Not all covered seat 12, Small chid . , Spoken 13, Pain 19. Blind animal 14. In a lane 16. Delilah n,o r ey of account 18, Burn 17, 18. Thaws 20. Little one 22. Seven do ,t 24. Nothing 25. Sower 28, Port 32. Paddle 38. Ncgatlec 56, Rather than 80. Restrain 39, Rent 42.17gg drink 44, Strong taste 46. Roams 49, Fast Indinn title 52. Medicinal plant 52. Alaek 50. Feminine name 55,-I tfonmatlen 67. Rail bird Bs. Bird's beak 59, Prophet 00. Country. . in Scott hhierte. 61, Merry DOWN 0 1. Particle or ge matter 0, Sensitive 3, Si nrdy 4, Kind of houn4 PlnYintoraxA 4t. t'it7Rici 19. IBalf score 21. Burrow 23. Knowledge 25. Seed container 28. Town in New Guinea. 57. Old piece of cloth 30. Whinnying 30. Vaso 21. understand 24. ITowcver 37. Mahe precleue 5 t4 s a - /S /0 ,3 �it\tc /e .5. O'le,n 10. County in ;tow York State li. Character In "Tho Po este Queene" 43. Seize 45. Small masses 45. wings 47. Short letter 48, wild p10m 60. Notion 61. Infant 04 Arrival (ab.) :ra^ 1 9 /e // sr /7 /9 22 SeSS 53 4 2./ 12 36 20 see 27 s 17 39 42 k 43 39' isSieesisel 40 29 3S 3 44 47 44 47 49' Se ' St Si SF m 90 SO Si Answer Elsewhere o This Page { BAG MENDING From Countryman's Year. by Haydn 5. Pearson BEFORE men harnessed power to long assembly lines and whirring machinery tossed out completed products for myriad uses, good country- men believed that a penny saved was a penny earned. "Waste not, want not" was a fundamental tenet ort farms among the hills and in the valleys. At the turn of the century farmers in the Northeast still raised barley, oats, wheat, and field corn, In the fall after the threshing was done and the corn husked and shelled, it was common practice to take a load of grain in burlap bags to the local gristmill for grinding. Thus it came to be, and it still is to a certain extent, an essential task on the farm to keep the burlap bags mended. A city dweller might ask why the bags need to be mended. In spite of several cats and a dog, rats and mice abound wherever grain is stored, and they chew holes through the burlap. Therefore bag mending is an important link in the chain of tasks that constitute good husbandry. ' There's an art to the work. After a spring rain,, when the soil is too wet to be worked or the fields are too soft for spreading barnyard on wheelbarrow in the sunny likes to sit a e dressing, the countrymanY yard on on a box in the barn doorway and ply the long needle attached to -heavy thread,. Small ]toles and rips are sewed together with criss- cross darning stitches; they have to be reasonably close to prevent the ground grain from seeping through. Big holes and gashes are another matter. They must be mended with pieces from bags that have served their original purpose and arc now sources of patching material. There's nothing spectacular about the task -it's just a homely, puttery job that has to be done. But after a spell of bard work, many a countryman rather enjoys sitting in the sun and catching up on his bag mending. ' begun to realize its importance as a low-cost livestock feed. a x e i World planners believe that 1 grasslands offer a workable so- lution to one aspect of the prob- Ilem of feeding the millions of people who inhabit the earth. 1 They have gathered statistics on acreages and production. Out of the mass of information they acquired, these simple facts f stand out: with improved seed - 1 ing, fertilization and manage- ment, production of grasslands j on most farms . can be doubled and possibly tripled. M r I How this can be achieved in I Canada is outlined in "Farmers' ! Grassland Guide," by Aubrey Ws Hagar, an agricultural scient tist on the staff of the Ontario i Agricultural College 'at Guelph. Just published by Brunswick 1 Press Limit e d, Fredericton, • N.B., the book describes the 1 growth, persistence, palatability, soil and climatic preference and 1 feeding value of common grasses 1 and legumes. Seed mixtures are suggested with instruction on the iproper time and method of seeding. e w • Special emphasis is placed on the importance of adding plant food in the farm of commercial fertilizers and manure for high yielding, high quality pasture, and hay and grass silage. While broad recommendations are giv- en, the author stresses the value of having soils tested and con- sulting local agricultural author- ities, Methods of application are discussed and probable returns from fertilization set down. • h h In a special section, "Grass- land Balance Sheet." Mr. Hagar compares costs with probable returns and suggests methods which will enable farmers to cal- culate their profits from each ' grassland acre, With 40 acres out of 100 of Canada's agricultural land in grass, this book should be of interest to a large and impor- tant, segment of this country's population. SOLAR STOVE The Indian housewife wilt cook on a solar stove if the Na- tional Physical Laboratory at New Delhi has its way. The stn's rays are focused by a nickelplated coneave mirror of copper, aluminum, brass or any Other convenient metal on the cooking utensil. The mirror gives off the same amount of heat as a 300 -watt electric heat- er. Object? To conserve scarce .filet for industrial purposes. UNSINKABLE Though many a change has been rung on unsinkable suits an English firm comes out with a new one. The basic idea is a "sandwich" of buoyant material between two layers of water repellent fabric. The suit has supported bathers who weigh up to 200 pounds. Leeds Univer- sity scientists developed the buoyant material. Home -Loving Mice Exterminators of pests can learn something from Howard Young, Robert L. Strecker and Prof. John T. Emlen Jr., all of the University of Wisconsin's zoological department. The three have found out that the city mouse is a home -lover and therefore not given to wander- ing. The old fable about the city mouse thatvisited his country cousin is just bosh. The University of Wisconsin experimenters baited traps with peanut butter, which is more tempting to mice than cheese. Then captives were marked for identification and released ex- actly where they were trapped in two buildings, Most of the mice kept well within a radius of twelve feet. Some were re- captured oftener than five times. Only 10 per cent were trapped more than thirty feet from the pointprevious of capture,and these wanderers were Mostly males. At that the wandering was a matter of no more, on the average, than two feet than for adventurous females. More- over the better the shelter the less wandering. The Wisconsin zoologists un- dertook this investigation when they learned that an effective poison was not cutting down the mouse population of an in- fested building. They reasoned that the mice were probably not reaching the poison. The reasoning proved to be right. Lesson for exterminators: Dis- tribute a large number of baits throughout a building. Boy Or Girl? - No Longer A Gamble A. successful test to predict the sex of a child before birth has been worked out by two Chicago scientists, Dr. Gustav Rapp and Dr. Garwood Richard- son. The test is made with the mother's saliva. At present it is 85 per cent accurate, but the two scientists say that with bet- ter understanding of its mech- anism 100 per cent reliability may be achieved. Substance responsible- for a positive test, which indicates that a male child will be born, is believed to be a inale sex hor- mone or chemical which comes from the unborn baby, enters the mother's blood stream, and then her mouth saliva. Tests were made on 373 mothers -to -be. Of 225 who re- acted positively, 218 had boys. Of 151 who reacted the other way, 148 had girls{ For 2,500 years medicine men, philosophers, high priests, and scientists have been trying to take the gamble out of sex - determination. Only fifty years ago many people believed that a child conceived at the waning of the 1710011 was bound to be a girl, and at tate waxing, a boy, if the last child to be born ar- rived at the waning of the moon, the next would be a girl. But if the birthday was during the moon's increase, the next baby would be a boy Other old wives' tales were that swallows nesting in a house would bring a matched family -equal number of boys and girls;. and that if the husband wanted the baby most it would be a boy, but if the wife want- ed it most it would be a girl. A popular theory which still has not died originated• about 500 B. C. through two Greeks, Parmenides and Anaxagoras. They believed that 'the two ov- aries in the female produced different kinds ,of egg cells. The ova from the right avaxy were responsible for male children and those from the left female. Even nowadays some women believe quite firmly that sleep- ing on the right side will gua- rantee a boy; on the left a girl Yet women. who have had one ovary removed surgically still go on producing both boys and girls. Many parents would like to predetermine the sex o€ -•-thein. children, but science knows no certain way by which a couple can have a boy or girl by deli- berate ,chice.. Thereare certain 'facts, however, which da seem to increase the chances of sci- ence finding out before long. NSI SON% USSON By Rey. 11. 13arclep Warren B. A.,, .13. A, teens', rower And Hulnan Neel Matt, 8:5.17 Melnory Selection; Hilnec$ took our infirmities, and batt* our slcicnesses. Matt. 8;17 The power of Jesus Christ to east out devils and heal the sick is manifest throughout his ministry, The accounts of these miraculous works form a very' thrilling part of the Gospel re- cords. Men and women who were a terror to Abele neigh- bours were delivered from th evil spirits which possessed them. They became laweabiding citizens and loyal disciples of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, one of these, was one of the few who. stood by His cross and one of the first at the tomb. Disease never baffled Jesus. Whether 1t were a fever, paral- ysis, blindness or deafness, it mattered not. Of all who came to him, not one went away dis- appointed. He healed them all. It wasn't even necessary for Jesus to see the sick one. On the basisof the centurion'! faith, healing came to his ser- vant back at his home. Can God do such things today? The answer must be, "Yes, it we believe," Does God do such things today? We believe lie" does. Men and women are deli- vered from the evil powers which have dominated their lives. Sinners became saints, as they, under the persuasion of the Holy Spirit, repent of their sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, But what of dis- ease? We know that where there is the genuine there is also the counterfeit just as iii Jesus' day. Our God is a jealous God and will notgive Hisgloryunto an- an - other. If one is miraculously healed it is because he has rest- ed his faith in God and God alone. Not every sick person can arriveat that lace cf fa ith for healing. Nor is it necessarily sin that prevents him. God's ways are not our ways. It is most important that our will be subjected to His. This matters more than the state of the body. The attitude of resting one'o faith in God is always conducive to good health. Space forbids adequate treatment of this in- triguing subject. God can heal, aided by doctor's skill. He can, if He will, heal without maeTs intervention. A specialist speak- ing of my remarkable recovery from rheumatoid arthritis said to another patient, "He attri- butes it to Divine intervention. -I know there's something to it." I do, too. Upsidedown to Pre, eat Peeking Suh-sized Submersible -L1, H. 7. Verry, rear, carefully brings his miniature command to dock at London, England, as his second - in -command, Lt. Ralph Cudworth, prepares to make fast, The British "pocket submarine," the X3-8, is one of Ilse smallest naval units in the world, but is rugged enough to have taken part' in the gigantic NATO naval manoeuvre, "Operation Mainbrace."