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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-02-06, Page 3MEMEMMEMMEAMM EMMEMMEMMMEMM WINIMMMEMMAMEM EMEMEMMEAMMEN 1111111111111, MMEMEMEEMMEWN ®®®:,ENE®jji:: ®'g ®W ®O®®®®®'.•'3®®®®® MMUMEMMOMNIME minsimmammima N®®M®*AI®®S ®®® RIIMMOMMEMEMOM Animal Instinct Or intelligence? It was pitch-dark„ ,cold. De- cember night and the slender, jet -haired Spanish girl shivered slightly as she lay in bed -listen- ing to the wind whistling through the eaves of the old country house. She hated being alone in the Meese. But it was inevitable that night. Her girl friend, who lived there with her„ had been called way to " the sick -bed of her mother in Madrid. , How the wind whistled! And how the twenty -two-year-old girl's heart thumped when she suddenly began to think of her plight should a burglar be tempted to break in while she was alone and defenceless. She took a couple of aspirins to try to soothe her frayed nerves. But sleep would not come. Suddenly, the scared girl sat bolt upright in bed. Between gusts of wind she had heard sounds on the ground floor be- low. Then it came - a crash of glass. The girl leapt out of bed andput on a dressing -gown be. • fore plucking up courage to go outside on to the veranda. She could see shafts of flickering light which apparently came from the room beneath. When she finally nerved her- self to go downstairs, she was amazed to find Juan, her friend's pet monkey, chattering excitedly as he confronted one of the ermchairs, which was ablaze and burning furiously. The girl swiftly smothered the flames with a rug and then saw that the monkey's face and arms were cut and bleeding and that the glass of one of the French windows had been shattered.' It was obvious what had hap- pened. The fire had been caused by a burning cigarette -end acci- dentally dropped by the girl dur- ing her after -supper smoke there an hour or so earlier. The chair had smouldered; then burst into flames. The sharp-eyed Juan, who slept in an adjoiningouthouse, BOUNCING. BELLE - Ballet stu- dent Susan Black is sticking around -all over the landscape. Her pogo stick, made by a California toy manufacturer, is called Nike -Ride and operates on compressed air. What is bal- let coming to? had seen the 'flames and had broken through the window to give the alarm. There are many remarkable stories of animals and birds which have done things which can only be described as "almost human." Nigger, a 3ongrel, dog who attached himself', to a United States fire brigade by the simple process of walking into the fire station and declining to leave, did six year's service as an honorary `fireman." During that time he learned to scale, ninety -foot ladders and was directly responsible for the rescue of several men and womenwho had been trapped. "Nigger's nose, even in the thickest smoke, told him where the fire victims were, although his human fellow -firemen could not locate them," wrote a news- paper reporter. Nigger even rescued two kit- tens from a blazing tenement before going into retirement, Another mongrel, Spot, jump- ed into a canal with a steep. concrete bank in Essex to save a cat two years ago. He • swam 200 yards holding the cat by the scruff of the neck to where the owner, a nine-year-old ' boy, could get to the water to help him. Spot's reward for his hu- manity? A new collar and lead. Because of "quick thinking" Siamese cat raised the alarm and roused its shopkeeper -master, raiders in Middlesex missed a £1,500 haul of cigarettes about three years ago. The cat heard them breaking in and pawed its sleeping master till he awoke, put on the light and caused the burglars to run. Many horses seem to be able to think and reason. Sandy Shore, an old and very clever horde, decided some years ago that the day was too hot for him to race at a trotting meeting at Christchurch, New Zealand. So while the horses paraded he keeled over and deliberately staged a collapse. The crowd thought he was dead. Then, just as a tractor approached to shift him, Sandy got up - quite fit. By then, of course, the 3.30 had been run without him! A man riding through a forest at night collided with a tree and fell from the saddle unconscious. His horse continued his journey and on reaching home kicked at the, door until it was opened. Then, turning, he swiftly led the occupants back to the spot where his unconscious master lay, neighing excitedly when they ;reached him. 'Some people argue that ani- mals have instinct but no Intel- ' ligence," the late Professor A. M. Low once said. "It may be a matter of degree, for human be- ings do much by instinct with- out intelligence." Animals are sometimes seized with panic, just like human be- ings, and many scientists are convinced that they have the faculty of language. "Animals not only call each other as human beings do, but communicate their impressions of disquiet, joy and anger,' says a German scientist who has a e. high opinion of animals' "think- ing powers." - A rabbit was attracted by a stoat, he says. Then a man sud- denly appeared and the terrified rabbit crawled despairingly to him, lay down between his legs and said as plainly as wordless speech could: "I leave it to you." The stoat was driven off. The rabbit recovered the use of its limbs and skipped away, joy- fully. The $2 note is traditionally popular among racetrack fans, who find it handy for a $2 -mini- mum bet. One U.S. Federal Re- serve bank last year reported an increase of $150,000 in the de- mand for twos during the first month of the racing season. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS -1. Spoiled. 4. 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Indian 11, imnnonive 06 t; hosts mulberry Answer elsewhere on th s page ete PORTUGUESE CONVERTIBLE -With the top up, this proud farm worker of Tomer, Portugal, is ready for anything the weather- man has to offer as his faithful donkey plods along. The long-eared beasts serve country districts throughout Portugal, hauling cargo as well as passengers. TIME FRONT Every farm columnist - in- cluding this one - keeps telling „farmers of their sins of omission and giving thein gratuitious ad- vice about how to improve. That is - it look' to me - telling' us how to raise 'bigger crops for less profit. Just to threw you a change - of -pace ball, what comes after this tells about winter on a Vir- ginia farm. It was written by Ann. Perkins Cabell, and ap- peared in The Christian Science Monitor; and T hope it will please you as much as it did me, * * * It is bitterly cold and the snow has melted very little. The bird- feeding shelf is crowded and one raucous English sparrow jumped in the bird bath, which I had just filled with warm water hop- ing it would not freeze until the birds had a chance to drink. He looked at the other birds and gave a defiant splash. The others contented themselves witheirink- ing and the sparrow soon came out, for even bravado couldn't keep him warm enough. The poor lady cardinal sits timidly on the flower -garden fence,,' waiting her turn. Her hus- band is beautiful, but a bully, and she is never allowed to eat until he has stuffed himself and flown off. Even the sparrows peck her. She is one of the meek with whose inheritance some- thing has gone radically wrong! * * * I wonder if people who sleep late in the morning and who never get out of doors until day- light covers the world know the meaning of the Bible description, "The morning stars sing to- gether?" Those who see thestars in the morning before dawn know its meaning, for in the early morning the stars are set in the sky with a beautiful pre- cision. The twinkling ones have disappeared and only the steady ones remain. Vere is something chaste and exquisitely geometri- caI about the pre -dawn sky. * * * A covey of partridges live at Upton and feed on the lespedeza seed that drop in the1e,lds. In spring they call from a fence corners, and in winter when snow comes they draw nearer to the house looking for food. Their favorite spot is in the open shed nextto the apple house down in the orchard. Here they can find shelter and we always put grain there for them. During the last heavy snow 'I took a bag of cracked corn and eats and started out to feed the partridges. In the orchard the snow was smooth and deep and over the surface was sketched the story of small animals and birds who'had traveled that way. The clumpy -tracks of an old hare led to the straw stack. Follow- ing .them, I saw where he had hollowed out a snug little nest under the straw. Farther along, headed for, the shed, were the dainty tracks of a covey of-par- tridges,that disappeared on the, dry ground under the shed. I threw in some grain and went on across the orchard, along the edge of the woods to a black- berry patch, where I was sure the birds sheltered. There under the blackberry vines, safe from Hawks, was a little patch of ground cleared by the birds scratching for fallen weed -seed. I thew out more grain and looked out on the quiet earth, green pine tops pinioned against a bright blue winter sky, deerberry bushes laden with red berries curved down to touch the snow. A young oak stood, on the edge of the woods, all the brown leaves still holding to the branches. The wind made them, rattle. I stepped into the edge of the woods. A brown creeper gave its liseing call from the trunk of a sycamore; a cardinal streak- ed past; and cutting across my path ran the delicate trail of. a mouse, probably making for his hole under the blackberry bushes. * * * Why do some people talk with such assurance about what they are going to do with the world, ' as though they owned it, when really our share is such a small one? Birds and butterflies, bees and flying insects fill the air; tiny animals climb and burrow and •scuttle. There is all the intricate pattern of bush and tree, of moss and flower and weed. A n d underneath t h e ground, a whole world of life goes on that we never see moles with gray velvet coats push along, their strong front feet swinging through the earth with a swimmer's breast stroke. Behind them come the ground - mice op sly, flying feet, and tucked under a stone is a gray worm, rolled up for the winter. There is myriad life under, on, and above the earth, The other day I uncovered a daffodil bulb by mistake and the green spear was already pushing up toward the light. Aboveground my p e r e nn i a l phlox look dead but underneath the snow and the richbrown earth exquisite, pale green leaves are flattened against the roots. In Barns 'Green, England, wo- men were asked in a contest, "What is the best household utensil?" the winner's reply: "A good hard-working husband." Drive With Care Now's The Time To Pian That Garden With the seed catalogues start- ing to arrive, it is time for for- ward -thinking garden makers to start planning. Annuals are one of the first items to merit at- tention and while it is far too early to doany planting, even indoors, quite a few week ends or evenings may well be devoted to deciding what varieties will be planted this year and where. Facts as to their growing habits, colors and heights should be noted. There are many annuals and a lot of gardens can be planted for a couple of dollars by select- ing carefully, lylarigods, zinnias and petunias are without doubt the three molt popular of the annual group and all are showing a yearly steady advance due to the work of the hybridizers. Modern day forms and colors of this group bear practically no resemblance to their ancestors of 20 years ago, so rapid has been the progress. Several very wonderful mari- golds will make their appear- ance this year and they will be covered later on in these col- umns. Generally speaking, the African types will take longer 'to mature and flower than will the French types though there are some hybrids that will slight- ly upset this schedule. So numerous are the fine var- ieties of marigolds today that one may make mass plantings gradu- ating heights and colors to make a stunning display, They may be used for accent points to supple- ment the perennial border, for edging, or as a spot planting where a spot of vivid but pleas- ing color is needed. Mid -March is about right to start the slower growing African types indoors with the French ones going in about two weeks later. This should result in avail- able plants for setting out in the New York area the 10th to the 15th of May, which is about the safe date in this area. This writer would divide his seed into two lots, one to be started indoors and the other to be started outdoors at the end of May. Following this plan one will have a fresh supply of plants to take over in the late months of the year when the earlier started plants are likely to be blooming out. Annuals are so floriferous, and particularly the marigold, that this tendency to flower them- selves out is natural. Too few gardeners cut their annuals enough. They should be used freely in the home for ar- rangement and maturing flowers going to seed should be snipped off at regular intervals. Once they seed, the quality of flowers will deteriorate, IDEAL NURSERY A seed flat is the ideal nursery M which to start seed. Drainage material of broken crock or coarse cinders should be placed in the bottom of the box. A mix- ture of equal parts of sharp sand, garden loam and humus will make an ideal seed bed. This should be put through a coarse screen. When filling •the box, shake the soil down by striking the box sharply on some solid surface. Never let the soil reach to the actual top of box but rather allow a half-inch between soil surface and edge of flat. Water well and then set for a few hours or overnight when the soil may be worked carefully. Make the rows three inches apart and sow thinly so that no crowd- ing may occur, Crowding of plants will result in spindly specimens hard to transplant. As soon as the plants form two to four true leaves, they are ready to transplant. I prefer planting them in individual small pots which may be sunk in an- other flat of peat or ashes. Sink them to the rim. Following this procedure they may, when the time comes, be planted out in the garden without damage to the roots or setback to the plant. Two weeks before time for set- ting out, the plants should be exposed to outside air on all balmy days to accustom them to the change in temperature they IDAY SCll00I LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. Privileges of Church Membership 1 Peter 2:9-10; 2 Corinthians 9:0- 8; Galatians 6:1-5; Hebrews 4:14-16; 10:23-25. The expression, Church. Mem- bership, does not occur in the New Testament. However, there was a fellowshipamong the be- lievers who met together in them places of worship. Sometimes they exercised discipline upon delinquents in their midst. (I Corinthians 5). This is seldom done today. Standards for church membership generally have fallen to such a low ebb that a church hesitates to exercise disciplinary action knowing that the individ- ual will likely be received by some other church and no ques- tions asked. The New Testament standard is a high one. This is expressed in the memory selection: "Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a pe- culiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of dark- ness into his marvellous light." (1 Peter 2:9). 'Peculiar' does not mean 'queer'. It means that we elin toGod in special sense; beling a p , a people for His own possession. It is easy to see why people who have come intothis beautiful re- lation with God are "cheerful givers". They receive so much from God that they count it 6 joy to acknowledge their steward- ship. The giving of the title, com- manded by the law but practised long before, is the primary basis of their giving. They like to go beyond it. Christians are concerned for one another. There is a sense in which each must bear his owe pack. But we delight to hetp others who are overtaxed with crushing loads. In the hour of temptation let us remember that Jesus was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. He cares for us and will help us if we pray. We are •urged not to forsake the assembling of ourselves to- gether. We gain. strength from fellowship with God's people. Those who deliberately leave thel out except for Christmas anti Easter, live empty lives. Many are the privileges Of those who have been brought into the light of God and walk In His way day by day. will undergo. Water enough to keep the plants thriving but don't overdo it. The seed, under warm house conditions, germin- ates very quickly and most mari- golds will be up and grow' within a two-week period frog planting. This is one of the easiest an- nuals to grow and with even moderate care you should suc- ceed. First decide what varieties you want to grow and then order them from your seedsman so that you will sure to have the var- ieties you want, Frequently cer- tain varieties are sold out when the late buyers get into actioss and the plans you have made will naturally go for nothing. by J. W. Johnston. "The New York Herald Tribune" Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking; ©®a HEWN MOM' 0E® MUMS ONO MEMO MEO©Q,. 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