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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1950-1-18, Page 3Benny Wises Up By 1l lebard aril BVtlithtsms Ileum g„l -x hilt kick out of 111111114 on the sheriff, it ,narked 01 adventure and the wild life be loved. Ile got a bigger kick whtn hc• heard Sheriff Conrad men- tion Slick Dearborn. Slid( Dearborn was uhc ;tartest OM I:1W with whom Conrad had ever had to contend. lie was Benny's Mel, for he represented the danger- ous freedom of which the boy had always dreamed. One day three Ovral;;; ago Benny had seen Slick in the Parltwav Saloon, and something 111,0111 the worshipful loot: in the youngster's eyes had al1ra'ted the outlaw's attention. Benny had been almost sucechlcss with gratitude when the outlaw spoke to him. They had a lout, c,tn- rersatioI, tad when it wee over Benny knew a sense of importance that was almu)st the fulfillment re his dreams. Ear glued to the side of the build, mg. itenny held his breath while -Sheriff Conrad and his deputy, Joe licks, c:u•ricd ott their low .voiced conversation. At 4 o'clock that aiternuvn Benny drew rein in the secret calyou where Slick was hiding. lie gave the setlr:•t 13lti.tle that lie and the et four o'clock that afternoon Benny drew rein In the seem% canyon where Slick was hiding. outlaw had agreed upon, then wait- ed lircatllleeely. 'Minutes passed andnothing hap- pened. Bent' mover) down the can- yon a ways and whistled again. Sud- denly two then emerged front be- hind a boulder, One of them was Slick Dearborn. Benny shouted at them. "Slid:, 1 inn heard the sheriff and his deputy talkkn'. 'I'itev found out it was you who held up the haul: last week. au' they know you're hidie' up here an' they're comic' to get yah.” "\'nu come with us." said Slick shortly. "Scnunfue kcepin' guard." Slick cape „ and the other outlaw slid hack to the grouted. "We gotta get out of here and gin fast, Kid, did anyone see you leave tower?" "No. sir. Not a soul. f [tone jest like yott told me" "Good. '1(,u'1•11 (•on1111' with its." 'l'he second outlaw came from be- hind a screen of bushes riding one horse and leading; another. Slick 1113 ung aboard the extra animal. there carne the sound of a shot, The second outlaw uttered a scream, clutched at his breast and phutged from the saddle. A second shot followed, and Slick's mount went to its knees. Slick swore violently as Benny crawled up beside 1»m, "You damned little rat! 'Thought you said nobody followed stmt out of town?" "1 fattest Slic11--" "Shut up!" Suttlettly Slicic seized him around the middle and leaped out of plain view of the two coin- ing up the canyon. 't'Ice pair reined in, holding their fire as the outlaw, using Benny as a shield, began shooting rapidly. Shcriif Centrad and Joe 1 -licks, sensing the bandit's purpose, flung themselves from the saddle and scurried for shelter. Benny suddenly understood the purpose he was serving, suddenly knew that Slick was using hitt Its a means of protecting his own hide, "Slick) Slick! Leteme go, They'll blast me clown in mold bloodl" "Shut tip, you rat," Slick brought the .barrel of his gun down crush- ingly on the boy's head. Benny gasped, struggled feebly, then went limp, . When 13enny opened Ills eyes ha- foetid Sheriff Conrad and sloe Hicks bending over him. "heeling better kid?" "1'e -e -ss. I'm all right. Witere'e ---Slicic?" "Taken care of," Sheriff Com•ad eyed Benny intently. "Liston, Bea- tty, you better get home before your maw begins to worry. You can say you helped tis run flown Slick Dear- born. Fact la, you did, When we saw you talkin' with hint three weeks ago we figured sometiin' • like this, which is why we did solve talkie' so y111 could lead us to where he was." "Gosh!' said 11 enny.'l here were teal's in his eyes, For the first time. in hie lift; he t•calire,l wbal a per- fectly swell guy Shetitf Conrad was. "Green Plies, Powdered Rhubarb, Ground Cuttlefish Pone" Students at the Ontario College of Pharmacy live itt a world of glossy green flies. powdered rhu- barb, ground cuttlefish brute, and some 8,000 other items which are the tools of their profession. The flies, laboriously collected in Spain, are for blistering pla5- tees. 'file- rhubarb is for tonics. the cuttlefish (lone for canaries. The undergraduate must become familiar with the Chinese beetle and many another insert; tree hart( such as cascara wood and cinchona (which ,yields quinine); and a wet- ter of liquids. oils and chemical salts from which pill,, emulsions, tincture, and- iu111510ns are made. So complex has pharmacy learnt ie that the course note demands four ye1u•5 0l intensive (11011 instead of the three mouth; considered Icing enough in 1882. The College of Pharmacy' i. a, - filiated with the (.'nit•crsity 0i 'Tor- onto. Curricula, admission stand- ards, and examiner, are under the jurisclit•t!on of the lltivereiip Sen- ate. Many lectures are given by Yar,ite professore. Located near the jumcthin 01 Gerrard and • Church, the three- . storey College is in a one-time "fashionable' area which has he - come part of busy dotvnroivu Tor - 0n10. Students have a tight sched- ule of about 28 hours a week of tabs and lectures. 1n addition to studies (tutting the academic year, students 1111151 work 18 months in a store or a plant its "interne" (usually during the summer months). After they. graduate man), will spend seven or eight years in retail stores before they can afford to start t in 1. 1t eine.e for themselves. Women who graduated from the College in 1906 are still among Canada's 4,000 practising pharma- cists and 50 women are enrolled this year. In 1948 the first avid second prize winners were women, something male graduates of that year would rather not discuss. The College is proud of its high standards. At most of the .619 ac- credited colleges of pharmacy 1n the United States, the entrance re- quirement is junior matriculation. In Ontario it is third class honours in senior matriculation. Students in pharmacy spend half their time in University building'.; taking such subjects as botany, pharmacology, chemistry, physics, zoology and English. At the Col- lege itself bhey take various courses in pharmacy, p'hartnaceutieal chem- istry and materia 11tedica, The last is a grouping of courses in physiol- ogy, first aid, the study of animal and plant sources that yield. crude drugs,, and the sturdy of biological products. Also taught, of course, is elle ab- breviated Latin that makes up the language of the prescription. The scrawled note a Canadian doctor hands his patient makes easy read- ing for a druggist because there are only about 200 abbreviations to memorize. Orders front overseas aren't so simple. A good many people in Central Europe are sending pre- scriptions for relatives to have filled here and Ontario (druggists are having quite a time with theist, And In some Ontario communities mid - Europeans buy as many as 100 leeches a month at $1.50 a leech from one store alone. The leeches (bloodsuckers) are used to reduce the swelling -in black eyes. r Pharmacists fill prescriptions that may range in price front less than a cent to $4 for a single pill. Ingredients conte from all over the world and students are taught to pick them out at sight. "No two humatte look exactly alike and neither do any two of the sub- stances we use,' pharmacists say, though to the layman many of the bottles carefully stacked side by. side 5116)11 to contain the sane mat- erial. After- first becoming familiar with their materials, pharmacy stu- dents work itt a lab where the bottles are numbered. If a student isn't sure, he can erose to the other side of the room where a list iden- tifies the substattres. However, the number system trains his power of observation and after a white he knows at a glatl'e what a bottle contains. The College museum Inas a fas- cinating display of old stencils, prescription books and preparations. For instance, there's a packaged commercial product of the early part of the nineteenth century known as "Electric Beans". 'file It :tend on the package says beans Create Rich Red Blood. Pills were potent in the old days; one patent medicine was labelled "Anti -1'111 Cure." ''hen there's a poison regis- ter egi- ter kept by a Torero druggist in 1877. At the top of one page, in a long straight hand, is the sig- nature of Sir John A afacdollald. The thea father of Confedera- tion bought an eyewash solution. one ingredient of which was a pnieen. -Front Varsity Graduate Trees That Weep Priceless Tears Per; ap; the greatest dollar -earn- ing asset in the Empire is rubber, most of it front troubled Malaya. a British possession. Tilt re the rubber tret•e weep to bring in 60 million pounds worth of dollars a year. '1 his most versatile and widely - applied of all the earth's natural products is indispensable to twen- tieth century civilization, and ht a world plagued with shortages it is almost the only essential commodity of which there is an ab indent sup- ply. One can hardly count its present use,. or set bounds in its possible future use, so fast are we finding new ways of employing it. During the war alone, st neral hun- dred new uses were discovered, ranging from "pliofilm," which pro- . tccted aircraft engines sent to dis- tant battlefields, to conveyer belts now used by the mile in up-to-date mines. The United States uses well over a half of the whole world's produc- tion, for natural rubber is one of the few commodities she has found it impossible to produce herself. The rubber plant is not a native of British Malaya. it carte originally from the New World—one of the first products of America to be noted by explorers and one of the last to be exploited. Columbus himself, during his sec- ond visit there, was astonished to seenative Indians amusing them- selves by playing with heavy black balls made from vegetable gum. In 1740 a Nrench scientist, Charles Marie de la Condamine, sent back specimens of this amazing "bouncing guns," Ile called it "caoutchottc," a variation of the Indian name for "weeping tree," and raoutchouc it Still remains in the French diction- ary. 'Ellen in 177'0 Joseph Priestley, an ' tglish chemist Invited attention to a tnaterial which he found to be "excellently adapted to the purpose of wiping from paper the marks of a black -lead pencil." Englishmen tried it and promptly gave it the name "rubber.' Its or- igin they indicated by the prefix "India" (meaning trout the West Indies), and thus the label "Indian rubber" carte into being. Samuel Peal patented a process for making waterproof fabric. by using tubber dissolved in turpentine then in the 1820'5 Phonies Flaucock and Charles '"Let's Seo You 1)o This"--,Fr1l , the dachshund of the Rol Miller family' tries doggedly to nlak,e friends with tl)e new china Iiullting frank belonging to one. of the hillier children. The. hard-headed bulldog just site. FIiIi ..., hr +r?.i.tiLr,.. \ m?h.t•N.:, , <:wr.s,w.✓. m:.,eis;, .rr. ,,'J :::: When the roadway is a skidway, beware of ra rid accelerationn, quirt( stens and sudden. swerves. Also deadly are excessive siteld. especially on turns, and utueven bratl:ne. xe .,Nrx 57xp>$..: -.... -< .P; :u: ta ^:a '!:'%: :rii :i5i:".'•'p;%:•:.. '.S°5' 'am ll"fiN'i9Rra. V-- ir•p t!§° ■ To slow down, pump the brake gently; don't hold it down steady. Under skid eonditfons, never try to stop suddenly, but check your speed a little at a time. Macintosh established rubber Fac- tories in London and Glasgow. Everyone to -day associates the Scot's uan11 with waterproof gar- ments. "The tree thatweeps" became the most precious timber in the world, and Brazil, where it had been first discovered, still held the monopoly of supply. But in that country the natural rubber forests had been ruthlessly exploited. Many millions of trees had been "bled" to death, and the price of rubber rose steadily as it became necessary to penetrate deeper and deeper into the Amazon forests to tap new supplies, The Brazilians hung on grimly and refused to allow the precious seeds to be taken from the country so that plantations could be laid down elsewhere. Several unsuccessful attempts; were 311135(13110 smuggle seeds out, Finally it was left to the resource of an Englishman. Henry Wickhatn (who was afterwards' knighted), to go through with it in the good old Elizabethan way. He undertook to procure by hook or by crook a sufficient number of seeds to ensure the future of rubber. Chattering a steamer, he succeeded in smuggling 70,000 seeds out of the country packed between leaves of the banana tree. He reached Liver- pool, where a special train was wait- ing. to rush the seeds to ICew. There some of thent germinated and the plaits were sent out to India, Cey- lon, and Malaya, Total cost of \Vickman's expedi- tion was .21,500. Out of it have g'r'own 700 million trees, producing 800,000 tots of rubber annually, Haven to -day we are far from ex- hausting the possibilities of latex or rubber "011111," Apart from its well- known uses, patents are out for iia use as a pereervative for eggs, fruit, and plants. It' is also extensively employed for upholstery, flooring, road surfacing, wallpapering. The tapping of the rubber trees for this precious latex stdll remains Et simple process carried out by man- ual labour, 1 is useful to reflect how many of our great industries, which in later stages depend almost en- tirely on giant, complicated mach- ines, rely in the first ,place on the work of one -ratan -the unskilled Malay labourer, for whom there can he uo mrrhatical substitute, 111. v:nrlc romisls of cutting the 4.1 bark and setting a cup to catch the white latex which runs between bark and wood. At the end of the day he collects these cups and pours their contents into a large tank—a primitive form of labour which can in 110 way be mechanized or hurried. Calcium Spurs Milk Production A 46 per cent. increase in milk production as a result of supplying sufficient calcium in the ration of dairy cows is reported in a 16 -year study of R. B. Becker, dairy hus- bandman of the Florida Experi- mental Station. Cows given rations containing too little calcium pro- duced an average of only 4,856 pounds of milk in 218 lactations, Whereas cows getting sufficient cal - glom yielded an average of 7,092 pounds of milk in 73 lactations. Florida and other states where pastures and other feed crops ate grown on acid, sandy soils may be inadequate in line, which supplies calcium, To overcome the shortage, Beck- er and his co-worker, P. T. Dix Arnold, added two per cent. ,of finely ground steamed bonemeal to the dairy concentrates, In. addition, the heavy milk producers received a limited amount of alfalfa hay. These supplements afforded enough calcium for Jersey cows in commer- cial herds, More recently, however, 0115 per cent. eaolt of bonemeal and kalsito (marble dust) replaced the two per cent, of bonemeal. Deficiency of calcium may ba corrected by spreading lime on im- proved pastures. Then, too, lately', manufacturers of mixed dairy feeds in the Southeast are making up for the lack of calcium by in• eluding bonemeal and finely ground limestone in their feedstuffs. - t'ntnery Gentleman. Mrs, BrowlL: "For months T couldn't discover where my husband spent his evenings," Mrs. Snaith: "How did you lied out?" . "Well, one evening I: „went home and there he was." - - Where "Holy Cow" Isn't Slang , "holy cowl" exc•.leintecl my Amer. ic'an friend casually. not realizing that in India this expression would. not sound tunny, for to most Ilin. dos the cow is a sacred animal. Yet•it is surprising how quickly a young Hindu, when away from house, starts eating beef and titittks nothing of it. Miles away from the influence of his orthodox elders, he views the cow' as a very useful animal, but faile to see the halo about its head, writes Chaturi Vas- wani in The Christian Science Mon- itor. In America, the COW is pastured on farms and dairies. In India, it has as much right to wallc on the crowded streets of a city as any person. It is not uncommon to see a cow holding up traffic while it nonchalantly crosses the street or forces pedestrians to detour off the sidewalk while it gazes at the store displays — window shopping as it were. The cow' even wanders into the crowds at the food market and helps itself to the food. 1'. M i Now, why does the cow 1n In- dia have privileges that even a human biting cannot claim in. any country? Jaywalking, food steeling, and becouting a hindrance on the man street are illegal acts. However, these mat -made laws do not affect the cow in India. But there, the cow is "sacred" and the man is not, Economically, the sow and the bull are the two most valuable ani- mals 'in India. The cow furnishes milk and all its by-products. Farm- ers harness the bull to plow „the land. India, therefore, depends en- tirely on the cow for its food supply and so treats the cow with a revar. ence due to the mother who pro- vides food for her children. In fact, the cqw is often called' 'mother cbw „ however, the ideaof reverence has in some cases been carried too far. Temples have beefs built for the worship of the cow, Many religious ceremonies include the feeding of the cow as one of the important items of the ritual. Hindu women often start their day by feeding the cow. Any stray cow is welcome in their back yards. The real motive behind this rever- ence has been forgotten. Being a useful animal, the cow has to be perserved for its practical value. Reverence is one way of protecting the animal from physical harm by men who might kill it for meat. That is why beef is taboo among the Hindus, most of whom do not eat any kind of meat anyway. But to believe that it is sacri- legious for k Hindu to use anything of the cow, including the milk, is a misconception. Milk is widely used when available. the cow's skin is used for leather, and its horns are carved into beautiful figures for living -room decoration. + x r The only real offense against the cow is killing it for food or for anything. In some parts of India the penalty for killing a cow, even by accident, is a few years in jail. People have established bomes for the aged cows where they are well taken care of. That is more their they done for human being's. 0).1' tiwu', Lau e t leu,,;o.l 11 >J the cb11n3LUnrs ea mot (011ti,,nr•. 1,.r lung. The pope'aeon t•f the vete ,, as of people, has increased intinee sett' itt India, Not enough [Odder to gr'ow'n. Moreover, the Luodcrtt ma- terialistic Indian works his arli11111 to the bolte and tries to get as un)rit out of it as possibke., One ct•itirisnt levied against the Hindus -is: Why can't they let Some of these miserable -looking creatures be slaughtered and fed to millions of starving people? The answet to this criticism is that it is hard to change traditions. Por a people brought up in the tradition of respecting the cow, it will be years before any change of attitude is brought about. However, some daring young sten have broken away. They have seen better cattle and better farming me- thods in other countries and wish India would adopt similar practices. They no longer consider the cow a sacred animal. Their prejudice against beef -eating has vanished, too, for they 'eat )reef as willingly as any other meat when away from home. Por this they have to ac- count to their eiders on returning to ludia. But they get away by saying, "We were eating American emus. They aren't 'sacred,' are they? ----- Expert Advice Visiting the farm for tate first time in her city -bred life, little eight-year-old Rebecca, the daugh- ter of a filling station operator, was thrilled by the many th(ngs her grandfather showed her. The big turkey gobbler, soon to be killed for Christmas dinner, frigthrened her; and 51•te was astonished to dis- cover that the ice on the pond was thick enough to bear her weight. Most of alt, however, she was fascinated by the cow, Several afternoons she went with her grandfather to the barn and stared wide-eyed as he milked. On a nippy December day when she was anxious to return to the warmth of the farm house, she ventured to tap him on the shoulder and suggested, "Grandpa, if you'd put alcohol in her radiator, you wouldn't have to drain her faucets every night!" "Wool" from Rocks British geologists engaged in re- search work in the Hawaiian Islands found a fluffy fiber made of the sante substance as the rocks on the slopes of the volcano. Since this fiber was probably produced froth lava during a volcanic eruption. the British scientists concluded that' "wool" conld be made from other rocks too. After two years of ex- periments at the Matlock, England, works of a British limestone firm, a method has been evolved whereby limestone and other silicious rocks are transformed into a fine wooly substance which is a first-class heat and sound insulator and is fire- proof and vermin -proof. The wool will be used primarily in beat in- sulation, but it is probable that it will also be used as a heat conserver M 1111 building. construction. An infallible way of intpressittg people favourably is to let them see how much they impress you. Boy Electrifies Farm—After ruutling the gamut of .1G -year -rid Johnny Williams' dusting and counting machine, gladiolus bulbs are carried up by belt conveyor and dumped onto the screen in foreground. Johnny, was one of 35 winners in the "Better Methods" electric contest. Ry Arthur Pointer MX ` al • to VOOI'e-. /MAN 0,1rsts site veuit cAsenpy .Tecaam■. NOW,rt' YAW 5T001. 711.4. 0RNP' NP. YOU: .