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The Brussels Post, 1949-6-29, Page 3All The Schooling Lincoln Ever Had When Abraham was thirteen years old, the people in The Pigeon Creels settlement decided to build a 601oo1401810 , It was much like any other log cabin. The door wns at one end; and on either side there was a small square window, Nearly the whole of the other end was taken up by the fireplace—a Mgt affair, built of blue clay and tint stones. Benches made of logs *Olt in halves were placed around 1' in. 'tit of the room for seats. A xude shelf was put up near the door to serve as a desk, before which the few pupils who wished to study writing could stand by turns and trace their copies. Of course there was no floor. There was no giasa in the windows, but it was expected that when the weather grew cold the master would paste a sheet of greased paper over each opening— and this would serve just as well. The first master was Azel Dorsey, and the boys and girls from the Lincoln cabin were among the pupils. School began at sunrise and was not dismissed until the sun was setting. It was scarcely day- light when the children started to school, for the house was three or four miles away, and often the stars were shining before all were back at the home fireside. The master had agreed to teach spelling, read- ing, writing, and arithmetic "to the rule of three"' but only a few of the scholars studied anything but spell- ing... Azel Dorsey's school soon came to an end, and it was two years be- fore another master was employed to teach in the little log school- house. But all this while, Abraham was quietly teaching 'himself at home; and it is not likely that any backwoods schoolmaster could have caught him better. His father thought that it was folly for him to learn anything more, and that so much reading of books was a great 'Waste of time. But when Andrew Crawford at Mast opened another school in the little cabin, Mrs. Lin - actin declared that the six children should attend—and so they did. The second school was even shorter than the first. The settlers seemed to think that a very little learning was sufficient, and so it was a long time before the log schoolhouse again echoed with the voices of children conning their spelling books. When Abraham was nearly sev- enteen years .old, a wandering echoolmaster (whose name was Swaney, opened a school in a de- aerted cabin four and a half miles from the Lincoln home. Of course young Lincoln was one of the scho- lars. He was so anxious to learn; that he thought nothing of walling nine miles every day to gain what little he could from a man who knew far less than himself, But his father soon came forward and de- clared that the boy had already had more schooling than was good for him, and that he must stop all such, nonsense and go to work. And so d- Lincoln's school days were at an end. If all had been put together, they would not have made a twelvemonth.—Prom "'Abraham Lincoln," by James Baldwin. Sweeter Girl — Added to act- ress Virginia Mayo's already numerous titles comes `Sweeter Girl,' bestowed on her by the confection industry in Califor- nia, The candy cane came with the title. Pick -Ups From Here and There A very young school student gave this version of one of the old nursery rhymes: "Little Miss Muf- fet sat on a tuffet, eating her curves away."—Guthrie Center Guthrian. There area lot of boys of 18,who just can't believe that some day they'll be as dumb as their fathers. —Guthrie Center Guthrian. 5 5 e 11 we are to have capitalism, there must be competition rather than a monopolistic set-up which is strangling little business.—Indian- ola Tribune. 5' * 5 Darning your luck isn't the beet way to mend ii.—Mason City Globe-Gav te. e it , Teach (all be ri - ~ 4` -only method—by spending less irloney, —Knoxville ,Express, Y have Been Faithful—After My Fashion—This dead dog has a really faithful buddy. The little fellow sat beside his fallen friend when the animal was struck by a car and remained there until the body was removed eight hours later, !CL 61NGE_ Gwcz, doltr.e P. Cto„r1 e There is one thought in every- one's mind these days; one topic that takes the spotlight in all con- versations ... the,droughtl That is, insofar as country people are con- cerned. Whether city folk are equal- ly worried is a question — actually it appears not to concern them right at the moment. Some might even grumble if it rained and spoilt a picnic. How we would welcome it, supposing it spoilt a dozen picnics but at present there is no sign of a break in the weather. It is heart -breaking to go out at night watering plants and things in an effort to keep them alive. We give them a real drenching, and yet by the next evening they are wilted and weary again., One wonders . . what is it -fiat* Snakes rain more beneficial to plants than water from the well of cistern? We still have our tomato plants, cabbage, peppers ami some annuals en baskets just as they came front the greenhouse. We find them easier to care for that way than . if we set them out in the garden. The wheat is out in head but without min what will there be in the kernels? Yesterday Partner was looking over one of the fences with a view to future repairs when he saw quite a number of dark objects hanging on a,tree. On close inspection he found they were wild plums — undersized, premature, and dead ripe. He picked one or two and split then open. Except for the atones they were hollow — abso- httely no flesh or juice in them at all That makes me wonder what will happen to the cherry crop? Maybe this is one of the "seventh years" of which the Bible tells us during which we should neither sow no reap, nor gather any of the fruits of the earth. Maybe what we don't do voluntarily we may have 10 accept without choice. No, I don't wish to be gloomy but you must ad- mit we do take an awful lot for granted and although we work, and plan, yet every once in a while we etre set back on our heels and forced to a realization that we are still ab- solutely dependent upon a Higher Power. I ani wondering what my sister- in-law will have to say in regard to our way of living. Last year, when Cicely was here, we heard very little about the shortages in Eng- land as compared with our land of plenty; mainly, I think, because Cicely had no worries about house- keeping. She had her noon meal at school, which helped her rationing problems considerably, and her housekeeper looked after things at s home. But Partner's sister has had it all to do, and, until a year ago, an invalid mother to look after as well. Now she is alone and we are hoping a holiday in Canada will do her a lot of good. At this moment Bob is away to Toronto to bring her back to the farm which she has not seen for twenty-two years. Incidentally i ant thinking she will wonder what she has struck when she sees our front steps, They are pale green — and only partly finished at [hall The other day, when I was looking them over I was thinking they were going to soak up an awful lot of paint when 1 did get around to giving them a paint job. So I got Bob to gather up all the odds and ends of paint that happened to be arodnd and mix them altogether to use as a first coat. The conglomeration emerged as the colour I have men- tioned — pale green. But for a first coat what did the colour natter? So that same evening I went at it ... had the top of the steps finished and was starting on the first riser when Partner called me to look at a calf that had suddenly become very bloated. So I went and we worked with that calf until one a.m. I imag- ine we saved its life foe which it appeared to be very grateful. Would it have been, I wonder, had it known that we saved it only so that it might be sent to market in a few weeks 'time. Anyway it was the calf that interrupted my step -paint- ing ob — and I haven't got back to it yet, Funny thing how it is often so hard to get back to a job once it has been interrupted. Well, we hear quite often about cats and birds, but on Ginger farm we do things differently. Here it isn't the cat that gets the birds, it's our Honey. The other night I found no less than five fledgling starlings on the back lawn. Not one of them was eaten so I knew the cat was not responsible. Later, by her tac- tics I discovered thg culprit. Honey, by snooping around the shrubberies, found the young birds which had been taken there for protection. Partner says she also gets up into the haymow and finds them there, just as they are learning to fly. If they were any other birds than star- lings Honey would get a scolding ., but starlings . , . well, you know what I mean, don't you? In Los Angeles, Calif., at thief who took $250 from a cafe called on the telephone a few hours later to id his victim the money would be found in public locket No. 3225 in a railroad station—and it was. Wolf Wolf" 116 Bucks Worth—Deputies at Polkity, Ia., bold seven baby wolves found by Ilaroid Wiener, while hunt- ing for mushrooms. Wicker turned the animals in tOr the 1I5 -a -head bounty offered for wolves. They will be destroyed. Buying A Tractor? If yon are thinlcing about buying a tractor, here are some questions you may want to answer before you close a trade: 1. Is my farm large enough to support a tractor? Can I keep it busy enough doing real farm work to stake it pay? 2. Can I replace enough horses with a tractor to make it pay from that ang e? 3. Are my fields large enough to use a tractor, or can I make them so? 4. Would a tractor fit in with my system of farming? 5, Would 1 like farming with a tractor? Am f the type of man who can change over from work stock farming to tractor farming and do a good job of it? 6. Can I enlarge my farni enough —in row crops, pastures, etc.—to do my farming enough better to make a tractor pay? A man with a small farm may buy a tractor and make money and spread overhead costs with it by doing custom plowing and other work for neighbors. Ability to get his own rush jobs done 00 time is another advantage. Many good farmers who perhaps could not afford a tractor for. row crops alone make it pay by doing other jobs. They use the tractor to saw wood, thresh grain, grind feed, stretch wire, and many such farm jobs. An Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion found in a recent study that tractors used less than 400 hours a year cost 95 cents an hour to oper- ate. Those used from 400 to 800 hours cost 64 cents; from 800 to 1,200 hours, 31 cents; and over 1,200 hours, the cost was 37 cents an hour. In the area covered by this study ' each tractor had replaced an aver- age of 4,5 work stock. The study seemed to indicate that each tractor should have replaced about five bead of work stock. With maximum use of power and equipment it was figured that each tractor could have replaced up to six work animals. If you decide not to buy a tractor now or if you can't get one, perhaps you would like to do these two things: 1.. Keep accurate records for one year to see what it costs you to keep and use each horse, how much time each horse worked, and how much clear money each horse made for you. 2. Increase your cash reserves so that any purchase next year can be on a cash, or largely cash, basis. The average 1i'• expectancy at birth of a native of India is 27 years, Government of India actu- aries report. garden/1ff 4'itdd Arm — SANDY THE GARDENER 1f you plant Ronan In the Suring, atert as j Carty as Dosaiblo to work me ground. 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Stick is inserted through hole in end of mold which is then filled with fruit juice and put in ice compartment of refrigerator. When frozen push down on stick to release from mold. Mold is washable, may be used indefinitely, maker states. UNSAY SCrIOOL LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren The Songbook of the Bible Psaln 1; 67, Golden Text:— Serve the Lord with gladness: "come before His presence with singing. Psalm 100: 2. During this quad we are to study the Psalms of Ancient Israel. These are a group of lyrical poems of which seventy-three are accredited to David, the sweet singer (' Israel. Some Psalms have been the object of sharp criticism because of the anathemas they contain. An ex- ample is Ps. 13:9. "Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against stones." But it should be noted that the anathemas are usually prophetic and not necessari- ly the personal sentiment of the writer. Neither does the psalm hint approvalf of the beastly action pic- tured in the forecast. The first psalm is really a pre- face, Here the line between the righteous and the wicked is clearly drawn. The righteous is happy. Since he does not walk as the un- godly advise, he does conte to stand in the way of sinners nor take his seat with the scorners. He is dif- ferent. But his righteousness is positive, too. He delights in God's law and consequently his life is fruitful. How different from the un- godly who are like the chaff which the wind drivetlt away. The differ- ence will be manifest to all in the day of Judgnment. From Ps. 6 it is evident that the writer donceived of God as not only Israel's God bt t One who would govern the nations. "All the ends of the earth shall fear I'lim," The God or the Psalms is a great God. All men are called to serve Him with gladness and come before His pres- ence with singing. 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