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The Seaforth News, 1960-09-08, Page 7AHard Way To 'het A Grindstone said Jimmie Griffinthe Mb: 7 tlily. "We don't touch a ]rand-seythe at all," i'e•u I don't suppose you'd want to buy a good gr'indstune?" asked my friend, Flats Jackson, in the tone of voice he likes to adopt when he assumes a philan- thropic role, and ]topes to sleek some innocent bystander with a rough trade, Jimmie said lie guesser] not. "That's too bad," said Fiats. "I got the best grindstone anybody ever had, and it's legally ]nine, and it's available at a young and . tender price." "I suppose les a coarse stone," 1 sid, _.. "No, it's not," said Flats "It's coarser than medium, but it -don t draw on the metal, and it's a quick cutter without being flinty, ifyou know Y i w what I mean." "How did you ever come to own a grindstone legally?"I said. "I bought it. I bought it from old man Guppy up above Fair- banks," Nobody said anything, so Flats added, "The mean Guppy," Nobody said anything again, so Flats said, "I suppose this Guppy was the meanest man that ever set a foot on the State of Maine. He had an ingrown belief that nobody under 15 should ever have any fun at all, and that over 15 you out -lived the desire for it, I can't tell you all the mean things that man ense did. But we boys around there used to like to work an his dis- position when we could think of anything, and sometimes the more agile -minded were able to contrive a situation that should have reformed him, "Anyway, come Fourth of July night, I took it into my head to do something that would reform Mr. Guppy in a complete and helpful way and I took it out on his grindstone. It took a little doing, because a grindstone is heavy, and I was closer to the ground then, and I wanted this to be a big surprise, "Today, naturally, I don't have an idea why this was supposed to be funny or nice, or why it was supposed to reform Mr. Guppy, or what possessed me to work so hard for such a little possibility. But 1 stole up behind his barn, and went into the shed, and with the strength of ten men I lifted that great germ- ing grindstone down out of the BEARING up — Ivan Kudryavt- sev doesn't seem to mind this sort of thing as a performer with a Russian troupe appear- ing in Wembley, England. Ivan found the bear as a cub and trained him. stand and got it on the ground, "It was a hand -crank stone, The kind that sat on four rollers, and the shaft calve out with two bends on. Funny nobody ha the old rirys of Yankee ingenui- ty never figured a clutch on a grindstone. If you had a good bearing for it, you'd kiek up quite some momentum, and the handle would fly around like a windmill, "Well, that's neither here nor there. I had in mind to roll this grindstone down past Mr, Gup- py's front porch, where he was sitting in his rocking chair thinking up new things to be mean about, and while I say I'm a little hazy now on just what effect this was to set up, it seem- ed at the time like a good thing to do. Roll it, you know, like a hoop. So, I got it rolling all right, and I was cuffing it with a little stick, and away we went, "We went by Mr. Guppy's front porch, and he sat up and took notice. We went aeross the yard with the crank flying free on the other, side, and we wound up about 35 yards of hog fence on the handle, pulling out some stakes and taking them with us, and then we hit the soft ground of the sink -drain area and come to a muddy and final conclusion. Quite a run, 'twas. "So Mr. Guppy came down and says, 'That looks like niy grindstone!' I now realized deep inside that whatever it was I had In mind at first hadn't pan- ned out 100 per cent. Anyway, he looked at the edges of the grindstone, and se said I'd chip- ped it beyond repair, and would have to pay for it. "1 have never known, then or now, what a grindstone is worth, new or secondhand. Money, then was just something you touched on in the eighth grade under 'Banking & Currency,' so after Mr, Guppy and my father had a summit meeting I agreed to hoe corn for Mr. Guppy until the grindstone was paid for. "It took two weeks. His corn patch ran from the main road down to Sandy Stream, and while I suppose it's half a mile, it seemed like the same distance as Utah. Every night he'd tell me I was doing well, and at the end of two weeks he said, 'There, now I figure the grindstone is paid for. Let that be a lesson to you, and you ought to be glad I was kind and lenient instead of try - Ing to make things hard on you' "So that night I hitched Old Meg into the wagon, and I drove up to Mr. Guppy's and began to load the grindstone into the wa- gon. He came out and said, 'What do you think you're doing?' I said 1 was taking my grindstone home. He said I couldn't do that. I said I could, that I'd paid for it, and I wanted it. "He appealed to my father, and I remember my father spoke very slowly, like a judge with a weighty decision, and he said, 'Now, Mr. Guppy, I don't want to appear to be defending the boy, but it seems to me you have exhausted your discretionary powers. I'm inclined to think you were worrying more about the price of the grindstone than you were the rehabilitation of a way- ward youngster. In that cross- wind of motives, you have been hoist on your own bargain. I suggest you take what it would cost to hire a man for two weeks, and go buy a new grindstone -- and I'll take on from here and handle the boy.' "That's what happened. He drove in and bought a new grind- stone for haying season, and I still have the one I bought from him. It's the best grindstone we ever had, and every time I use it I dodge the chipped edges and reflect on my misspent youth and the iniquities thereof." --- by John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. A Wolf: A guy who knows all the ankles. CROSSWORD PUZZLE AI I f,S) 1. F !,,4Isit shed Smelt 1 la t. Weep 12..tncicnt a''1ntle , ealm, 13, ,)f 16.. Tint 1 Iltrn 1 ,rent n In Il,e•i 20. SOft 1:lel 1. ,dille nn.or 10 0111044 i Ie,dt nnl 100,515' pi In ed •, ar,ue 29 1100011 iI 31 1 1140010,014 n nl'Non sa. 19:u•n„ or 0,•44,' 33. W❑n t. Sheth 30 itertngr• 36. 1411 :,d 35 ,.url all 144,\'r nln,rte 41) l Ie nt tit• 49. 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The painting is by Doan rouseit, president of the Southern Ver- mont Art Centre. TIIHARN FRO(T Jo k ' se tN• Amendments to Canada's fruit, vegetables and honey regulations have just been put into effect, the most significant of which deal with potatoes. They call for greater uniform- ity in sizes of potatoes, especially for those sold in consumer -size packages weighing less than 26 pounds, Size limits are specified for both round and long varietes. a 4 Seriously misshapen potatoes are to be excluded from Canada No, 2 grade. However, a slight- ly larger proportion of below - minimum -size potatoes in both No. 1 and No. 2 grades and pro- portionately more potatoes with hollow heart in Canada No. 1 Large grade will be permitted. The provision dealing with various types of damage in po- tatoes, such as maturity, clean- liness and sprouting, have been re -defined to bring potato grade standards more in line with pres- ent-day market demands. The sale of new potatoes which have special size requirements and no maturity requirements has been extended from August 31 each year to September 15. w a a 01 the importance for export sales to points other than the United States is the provision that a heavier weight of bag- ging must be used so that it will not tear during shipment. " e e Some revision in grade stand- ards have been made for cher- ries, peaches and pears. They relate to cleanliness and permiss- ible damage at tine of sale. They also lower the .box count for peaches to prevent inclusion of under -size fruit in graded con- tainers. Cherries meeting the re- quirements of Canada No. 2 grade may now be marked Can- ada Domestic when packed in any of the standard containers. Other changes included re- wording some sections because of a recent re -organization of the agriculture department and several additions to the sched- ule that sets out the dimensions and capacities for standard pack- ages for fruits and vegetables. The regulations come under the Fruit, Vegetables and Honey Act, which is administered by the Fruit and Vegetable Divi- sion of the Canada Department of Agriculture. .A devastating disease of poul- try known as Chronic Respira- tory Disease (CRD), is consider- ed the most important respira- tory disease of chickens and tur- keys in Canada. CRD is believed to be caused by the pleuropneumonia -like or- ganism (PPLO), and according to Dr. S. E. Magwood and Dr, G• L. Bannister of the Health of Animals Division, Canada De- partment of Agriculture, the -clinical disease is commonly age gravated hy secondary bacterial invaders. • A CI1D l cn troprogram control pt „r.un shouLt elm at the establishment 01 1 PPLO -free flock;, ae the rearing of PPLO free chicks is depend- ent on the parent flock being free of the bacteria, The organists is transmitted through the e;,; to the chick. if flocks are known to be in- fected, the transmission cycle can sometimes be broken by antibiotic injection, although this method has not been uniformly successful. The use of PPLO -free flocks is the most reliable method of securing disease-free chicks hid 11 is a t•cry exacting pr:)ced- toe. 8 8 When laboratory diclgno.i3 has confirmed the pl'escnre of PPLO as the principal agent in an outbreak of respiratory die - ISSUE 36 — '. 100$ ease, the course of action to fol- low should depend on the poten- tial value of the flock. Improvement in environment is always essential. Also, atten- tion should be given to ventila- tion, possible crowding, sanita- tion and nutrition. With broiler and production flocks, oral medication with anti- biotics may be helpful only by improving the appetite, Anti- biotic medication of flocks of average value may often be un- economical, but good nursing will minimuize the ftanancial loss. Valuable breeding flocks may be given more prolonged anti- biotic medication and antibiotic injection might be considered. Obvious symptoms of the dis- ease are: nasal discharge, con- junctivitis, respiratory rales, "snicking" sounds and coughing, followed by loss of appetite, loss of weight, and in laying birds, lowered egg production. e p 5. To reduce insects and mites that persists in crevices, empty farm granaries should be cleaned and sprayed before new grain is stored, advises E. A. R. Llscombe, Winnipeg Research Station, Can- ada Department of Agriculture. G e Granary walls and floor should be swept thoroughly before spray is applied, and the sweep- ings buried or burned, he warns. Waste grain around the exterior of the building should be treated similarly. Insecticides recommended in- clude one per cent lindane, three per cent malathion and five per cent methoxyclor• Any one of these may be applied with a garden sprayer at one gallon per thousand square feet, or to the point of run-off, All interior surfaces of gran- aries should be treated and grain should not be stored in them for seven days after application. Many men have acquired an education just by reading small print. uyinllathy for 1 335 rn I .t•s kaaWe _ at not zpur'rali 111 Calwtltl pawtr:1: to granting greater privilege; of self-expression ,seri eelf-got.-ern- rrrent to the: P"'g_;J0$ under tlr=^ig rule, Colony after colon •, y, fly Ilex, It. Barclay 15'arren 15.&, B,I), God's Kind in 1listury Isaiah 10:5-7, 12-15 14: 24-27 Memory Selection: The Lord of hosts hath purposed, who shall disarunul it? and his stand is stretched out, and who shall turn It back? Isaiah 14:27. "I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of noth- ing.]" Revelation 3:17. This, the spirit of the Laodiccan church, is strongly t ugly reflected in this age. But there come occasions to all of us, when our self-sufficiency dips sharply. A young friend, whose s capacity p y rated close to tare genius level, is doing his stint of service in the United States navy. Ile wrote to his father, "I'm beginning to realize tient I haven't got the world by the tail." To us all there are timet when we stand In awe as flashes of light reveal to us that there is a higher Power over the destiny of our lives. We see God's hand in history. A friend missed his plane by a few minutes. It was well that he did, for that plane crashed, killing all on board, As we grow older, we can see how events that seemed insignifi- cant at the time, were really dis- plays of God's hand in history. The acceptance of my Christmas article by a newspaper in 1941 didn't even get mention in my diary. Now I can see that it was one of the most important events in my life. In our lesson we see how God used the heathen Assyrian to punish Israel. The Assyrian, with lust to conquer the world, was not yielded to God. Nevertheless, he was the rod of God's anger against Israel. In time God used the Chaldean to break the power of the Assyrian. Then in succes- sion came the empires of the Medes and Persians, the Greeks and the Romans. God is still above the affairs of man. I have no leanings whatsoever to atheistic communism. But I wonder if Russia's professed especially in A rice, is gaifrin its independence. We speak dies para circ .1,v of tee cnlutnunidt agi. tutor. We tenet to forget the de- sire of all men, everywhere, to be free. Cod may be tieing the communist for Ilia perpn,e. But the cotluntini: t, if he coetinue:a iu 1)1.; denial of God, will him self be broken at was the Assy- rian. Any Volunteers For Skeeter Bites.? Four young Australian medi- cal resetarch workers recently exposed themselves voluntarily ear three weeks to dangerous rnosquito kites. They sat on the banke of the Mitchell River, in Queensland gulf country, invit- ing mosquitoes to attack them. As the mosquitoes bit then] the 'scientists sucked off their at- tackers with plastic hoses cov- ered at the mouth with gauze. Eleven thousand flies su, pected of carrying a deadly dis- ease, encephelitis, were thus collected. Packed in dry ice they were flown to Brisbane, where they will be used for research work. Experts hope to isolate from their bodies the - encephalitis virus which, from time to ti1514, ravages riverside settlements in Queensland. It is thought than the virus is brought from Asia by migratory waterfowl, The Australian mos- quito then :reds, on the watcr- fowi. Upsidedown to Prevent t'eekutg 21 AI 2f 3 a 3 21 3 G 1.353CI;,` 5a 50 3 1 1 . i w N I ,1. 3211d'S 3RH8A 805`:":9 9 9 1 w 1 M n 21 V 312Od N 321 A Y V M w °1214 S1 1 dt1VH9 Q iY 3 Q 3 1 .1...1. bpi 213 Y M 10 d d .L N 3i?1 V 11,V W 1 Vj2e RARE TWINS — Charmeuse, a six-year-old mare in Hanson, France, surprises the animal experts and proudly shows off her twin foals. Twins ore an extreme rarity in the horse world. Nessie The Monster Back in The swim • By TOM A, CULLEN • Newspaper Enterprise Assn. London—Nessie, the Lech Ness monster, has reared her fascinat- ing head again • while American tourists are flocking to Scotland. The monster with the six-foot neck and headlamp eyes has been turning up regularly ever since she was first discovered 27 years ago. Usually her appear- ances coincide with what is known here as the "silly season," when newspapers are short •of copy and the Scots are short of American dollars. But this time she has been filmed. Those who have seen this re- markable film made by Timothy Dinedale, a 313 -year-old aeronau- tical engineer, say something funny was going on in the depths of Loch Nese while Dinsdale held the camera to his eye, The "thing" on celluloid first appc•ua as a triangular hump abase the water not unlike a submarine snorkel. It is motion- ilessble, with no head or neck vis- , Suddenly ripples ateleat' and It begins to move, faller than the motorboat which chased it. Dins - dale, who first saw it with bin- oculars at 1,300 yards, says that it was reddish -brown in color with darker splotches. Dindsale, a former Royal Aix Force pilot, discounts the usual theories that the phenomenon was a shoal of eels or 0 midget submarine. "It was definitely a living animal, and it was be- tween 40 and 50 feet long," he says. Dinsdale admits that he read up on Loch Ness lore before stalking Nessie with his tele- scope movie camera, and that he had made a drawing of the monster from eye -witness ac- counts. Certainly, he seems to have known just where and when to rendezvous with Nessie. John Rankin, a Labor ISfetnber of Parliament from Glasgow, earlier this year predicted that Nessie would soon be surfacing again, and that this time she might be accompanied by others. Nessie was first sighted in 1933, and since then over 2,000 people, many of them sober, claaitn to have seen her. All agre.e that she is about 40 '13Q6 ?nay with a long rock that swivels frons side to side, a bar= red chest, humps on her back, four. flippers and a tail. Some claim that she has nostrils cm top of her head like the blew - hole of a whale. Ever since a Iocal circus of- fered $90,000. for the capture of Nessie dead or alive, diving en- thusiasts have been combing Loch Ness in search of her. But recent plans to track Nes- sie in teams with Bron guns end even bombe have brought pro- tests from the Scottish Tourist Board and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals. Nessie has one serious clxattl- pion in Dr, Maurice Burton, de- puty keeper of zoology at the British Museum, Ile believes that Nessie may well be a sur- vivor of the pre -historic plesio- saur, a water -lining reptile thought to be extinct. Although the age of reptiles ended 70 million years ago, Bur- ton thinks that the geographies and climatic conditions of Lode Ness might be such as to pre- serve the pleeiosaur, THIS MODEL of Nessio was constructed on the basis of descriptions given lay those who hlavO "seen" her.