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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1954-12-30, Page 3it Never Can Tell Where You'll Find Treasure It had always been a nuisance —the rusty old stove which a Berlin woman shopkeeper had stored for many years in her attic after picking it up or next to nothing at a sale, She had never made use of it, yet in some strange way she felt she dM not want to part with it. Then came war - and the bombing of Berlin, Her shop was 'badly damaged and she was evacuated with what belongings she could salve to Westphalia, She did not abandon the old stove. It went with her. And when, not long ago, she return- ed to open a new shop in a Ber- lin suburb, back went the stove as well. But she could see imecliately that to keep it any longer was sheer folly. The ugly thing was out of place in the new shop, though she still had a vague feeling that she ought not to part with it. She decided to put it in the window for a week, not really believing that anybody would buy it even at the bargain price she marked it. But someone did buy it, on the very first day. "Thank goodness," muttered the shopkeeper. But somehow she wasn't really pleased when the stove was taken away. Nor was the little old lady who had bought it. Two days later she rang up, complaining bitterly that the stove was "ka- put"—that it just wouldn't work. She asked the shopkeep- er to take it back. The shopkeeper hesitated — then refused to do so. So the new owner called in an engineer to try to make the stove function. He noticed some screws were missing and said he would first have to dismantle It. Suddenly, as he worked, there tumbled out a stream of golden coins, • jewellery, watches and other treasure from a secret re- cess at the back of the stove. At a conservative estimate, the treasure was worth $75,000. Police were told, but the owner of the treasure, probably long -dead, has not been traced. So the lucky little old lady re- ceives every penny of the for- tune. And the woman who solid her the stove? She is furious that she finally ignored her hunch. Unsuspecting treasure is con- stanly turning up ,in odd places. A poor Italian peasant almost burst into tears when his spade broke as he was digging his meagre piece of land in the pro- vince of Parma some years ago, He knew he could not afford a new one. The spade had struck what he thought 'was a large stone but what was actually a huge metal box. When he realized what it was, he borrowed a spade from a neighbour and uncovered the box which had been buried deeply in the soil. Opening the box he found it contained a mass of gold coins which proved to be worth $350,000. Intensive in- quiries failed to reveal the own- er of this long -buried wealth. So to -day that lucky peasant no longer digs for his living. SALLY'S SALUES "What are you waiting for? Mistletoe?" Two men were going through the papers of a bachelor f'r'iend who had died suddenly when they found a scrap of paper ad- dressed to them in his hand- writing with the words; "Seven thousand pounds in till, , t' They were puzzled, The dead man' had never been in busi- ness and although they searched his house carefully, they could find no money. The one of them had an idea, He remembered that their friend had often been found reading a book of "Tillotson's Sermons." Could this be the meaning of the word "Till"? They found the volume, A- mong the leaves were banknotes to the value of $20,000. When John Addington set out from his old Kentucky home at Southdown ninety years ago to fight in the Atnerican Civil War, he decided to take no risks with his great store of gold. So he buried it in a huge pot in his garden. He died in captivity and his secret was buried with him. And his pot of gold? In 1926 a hen and her brood of chicks broke through the fencing of the present woman owner of Addington's house and got busy in her cabbage patch. Hearing the noise they were making the woman rose in wrath to eject the invaders and found that the hen, if it had not laid a golden egg, had at least unearthed a gold five -dollar piece. She in- vestigated, found many more gold pieces and then, with a shovel, dug up the long -lost pot of gold and the fortune it con- tained. Yes, it's usually the folk who aren't looking for treasure who strike it rich, A pretty young housewife's lucky pull at a bootlace resulted in the discovery of $10,000 in 1923. She was cleaning out a room when she noticed the tag of a lace peeping from a crev- ice. She could easily have push- ed it back in; but she chose to pull it out, and found on the end of it a bag containing more than $10,000 in scrip and notes. • In a Durham house a work- man was stopping some smoke - holes in a chimney stack when he came across a large tin box crammed with bills and on top a small piece of paper marked "$2,000." Five minutes later he found another box packed with notes and marked "$2,500." Before he could recover from the shock of these two discoveries, he had found a large toffee tin which he afterwards said was "cram- med to bursting point :'b notes." The total value of 'es finds was $7,500. A schoolboy passing by a cor- poration refuse dump in the north of England found on it an ancient trinket box containing money and watches worth $1.500. A cobham, Surrey, man had a fortune in a spare room at his home for years before he discovered it. In the dark one night he stumbled over an an- tique oak chest which had come to him years before on the death of his parents. It had stood there for years. He decided to overhaul it and get rid of it. He was amazed to find that it had a false bottom and beneath this he found a number of old and very valu- able paintings. They included a Rembrandt and two Correg- gios. As a result of his discov- ery, the man, a labourer," was raised to wealth. There was also the Clacton woman who bought an old and dilapidated piano at a local sale. When shegat it hon'io, she fail- ed get any music out of it, so she decided to take it to pieces. ' Hidden among the wires she found notes of a different kind —$3,000 worth of them, CAN'T BEAR TO BE BOTHERED—While most of us huddle in warm clothing, Ivy, the polar bear at the London, England, zoo, finds the cold temperature just right for a snooze. Protected by her keayy warm cor't, she looks comfortable as she curls up on the frozen earth. Light Champ, Heavy Honors — Only man ever to capture the world's lightweight championship three times, Jimmy Carter displays his massive championship belts at his home after regaining title in a recent bout with Paddy De Marco. "GEE, CHIEF, I'M SORRY" -- Brian Cullman, d, wrings his hands as he finds the passenger special is due to meet a freight head-on just out of this picture. "Chief Engineer" Daniel Dun- ning, 8, son of actress Celeste Holm, is highly skeptical of the explanation. The boys were en- joying a pre -Christmas display of a toy train manufacturer. Reaching The Top Of Mount Everest Giant cornices on the right, steep rock slopes on the left, I went on cutting steps on the narrow strip of snow. The ridge curved away on the right and we had no idea where the top was, As I cut around the back of one hump, another higher one would swing into view... , I had been cutting steps con- tinually for two hours, and Tenzing, too, was moving very slowly. As I chipped steps around still another corner, I wondered rather dully just how long we could keep it up. Our original zest had now quite gone and it was turning more into a grim struggle. I then realized that the ridge ahead, instead of still monotonously rising, now dropped sharply away, and far below I could see the North Col and the Rongbuk glacier. I looked upwards to see a narrow snow ridge running up to a snowy summit. A few more whacks of the ice -axe in the firm snow and we stood on top. My initial feelings were of re- lief — relief that there were no more steps to cut — no more ridges to traverse and no more humps to tantalize us with hopes of success. I looked at Tenzing and in spite of the balaclava, goggles and oxygen mask all encrusted with long icicles that concealed his face, there was no disguising his infec- tious grin of pure delight as he Safety's Always in Season A fellow buys rubbers to put on his feet, A hat he obtains for his dome, And in that direction of needed protection He bulwarks the place he calls home. Our fighters in khaki wore helmets of steel, Our banks have alarms by the ton. For. merely the reason that safety's in season A copper must carry a gun. But think of your family's future, my friend, Get wise, use a little restraint) Despite your endurance, YOUR MITE OF INSURANCE IS ALL THAT IS LEFT WHEN YOU AIN'T! YLive Lora er 0f You're Married Hall a century ago the ele- phant outlived us; to -day we outlive him byseventeen and a half years. But we have a long way to go to catch up to the lively salmon which outlives us by some thirty-three years! The newest life -expectancy tables, published recently in the United States, indicate that our life span is increasing every year. • Primitive man lived a short, furious life of eighteen years; the early Roman averaged twenty-two years; the Briton of 100 years ago averaged thirty- seven years; in ancient Egypt man reached twenty-nine years, and in modern Egypt he reaches only thirty-eight point six years. The modern Western world male should reach 120 expec- tancy before the end of the cen- tury, scientists claim. Married men live longer than bachelors; university - educated men longer than grammar school boys; professional men and farmers outlive skilled workers, but the latter outlive unskilled workers. Here are some figures to show how the insurance companies might rate the animal kingdom; tortoise, 150 years; salmon, 100 years; cockatoo, ninety years; pelican, fifty-two years; ele- phant, fifty years; ostrich, forty years; toad, thirty-six years; horse, thirty years; gorilla, twenty-sb years; lion, twenty- five years; rabbit, eight years; [mouse, one and a hall years, mayfly, one day. looked all around him. We shook hands and then Tenzing threw his. arm around my shoul- ders and we thumped each other on the back until we were almost breathless. It was 11:30 a.m. The ridge hacl taken us. two and a half hours, but it seemed like a lifetime. I turn- ed off the oxygen and removed my set. I had carried my cam- era, loaded with colour film, in- side my shirt to keep it warm, so I now produced it and got -Tenzing to pose on top for me, waving his axe on which was a string of flags — United Nations, British, Nepalese and Indian. Then I' returned my attention to the great stretch of country ly ing below us in every direction. To the east was aur giant neighbour Makalu, unexplored and unclimbed, and even on top of Everest the mountaineering instinct was sufficiently strong to cause me to spend some mo- ments conjecturing as to wheth- er a route up that mountain might not exist. Far away across the clouds the great bulk of Kangchenjunga loomed on the horizon. To the west. Cho Oyu, ' old adversary from 1952, dom- inated the scene and we could see the great unexplored ranges of Nepal stretching off into the distance. — From Chapter XVI, "The Summit" by Sir Edmund Hillary, from "The Conquest of Everest." "That pretty girl seems to be having a good time!" "H'm, yes—her fiance, a young medical officer in Korea, is coin- ing home to marry her next month." ,"Well, she eertainly seems to have solved the problem of what to do till the doctor comes!" w PLAIN HORSE SENSE .. By 0. (BOB) VON PILIS Canadian farm net income in 1954 will be down a cool billion dollars from its peak of $2,200,- 000, 000 in 1951. The continuous recession of farm income over the last three years is due mainly to the de- cline of prices of all agricultural commodities to which in the current year was added the crop failure in the West. Beef price was practically cut in half, butter has been at floor price for the last two years, hogs came close to it this fall and eggs, in many parts of the country, are below the 32 cents per dozen supposed to be a mini- mum price to the producer. These 324 per dozen of eggs, incidentally, are not guaranteed by the government, but prom- ised by the packers. The pack- ers, however, received a guaran- tee from the government of 38 cents per dozen plus storage and handling charges. Although feed grains are down, prices of mill feeds and mixed feeds have gone up; so have the costs of production in general. Increased costs coupled with decreased cash income have actually cut the purchasing power of the farmer in half. The slump in agriculture has already had its effect on indus- try as rising unemployment fig- ures show. Unless the trend is changed. it may drag down the whole economy. 1954 has seen Great Britain withdraw from the International Wheat Agreement unwilling to accept Mr. C. 11 Howe's de- mand for a top price of $2.05. In view of the considerable drop of the wheat price below the ceiling, Mr. Howe's insistence on the extra nickel proved to be lack of foresight, unless, of course, Canada's Minister of Trade wants to get away from co-operative marketing and back to the old catch -as -catch -can. The Canadian Wheat Board has been under constant attack and a British Columbia farmer has taken legal action, presum- ably with anti -Board backing, to test its constitutionality. The floor price policy of the federal government, meagre as it is, has also been attacked by the press, processors, distribu- tors and even a provincial Min- ister of Agriculture. Particular- ly the butter floor of 584 is be- ing criticised as too costly for the taxpayer. The net cost tit' the federal government of the butter support program since 1949 has been $2,606,742. Half a million dollars per year, how- ever, seerns to be a low price for the stabilization of the dairy industry, most important branch of farming outside of wheat. In 1954 the United States of ,America imposed further restric- tions on the importation of Can- adian farm products, meekly accepted by the Canadian gov- ernment which also refused the advice of the CCF members in the house of Commons to ex- port farm surpluses against pay - meat in foreign currencies, The idea was taken up by the Ame- ricans and the U.S. Adminis- tration is authorized to sell abroad farm products up to one billion dollars and accept the buyer's currency. Encouraging signs, •however, are coming from the ranks of Canada's farmers, signs of re- bellion against the fallow agri- cultural policies of the Liberal government in Ottawa. In the West the hue and cry for direct political action of far- mers has been raised and upon the initiative of the Interpro- vincial Farm Union Council a farmer -labour committee has been established together with TLC and CCL to consult regu- larly on questions of common interest. 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