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'no feeety no werity." Howriver,
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eunily scheme" to prettent ta my
mother. She„ as a rule, humored
him a; he was not just another
old reteiner but a privileged pe13.
son, for he had seeved my grand
father Nemec Kemal in 11113
yoeth. Extremely intelligent and
witty, he also had a tongue as
sharp as a thorn and delighted
ie teasing all Of us unmercifulle,
even my father. Ile did not etay -
in our house but came to see
us practically every day. Not
one 01 1113 had ever teen the place
where he lived. Hove could we?
He- was alweys in our house.
frame must have been really
bored the day he came to eee us
with Kadife the goat. That day
we had gathered unsuspecting-
ly for breakfast, and after the
meal my mother had gone up to
her room to attend to her morn-
ing chores when Isaac burst into
the house, Instead of going to
the kitchen for his breakfast,
as was his custotn, he nimbly
climbed upstairs to see Iny
1110111C,11. She was his confidante,
his treasurer, his benefaetress,
as he used to call 1 er; and it
wail at her feet that he laid all
his impossible schemes and his
troubles wheel were mostly fin-
ancial.
"Hanitndjine it dove my heart
good to see you work so hard,
what with so many people to
take care of your house. 1 al-
waye sly that hard work keeps
the heart young," Isaac grim.
aced and grinned at her by way
of greetings.
"I wonder how you manage
then, for I have not seen great
evidemse of your love for work,"
my mother retorted,
"Some of us work with our
hands, others with our tongues,"
he laughed. "When it comes to
working with the tongue . ."
"You don't have to tell me!"
msr mother interrupted. "I am
quite familiar with your weak -
nesse... But you did not come
here at this early hour to watch
me work and wag your tongue.
Net me look at you. I recognize
symptoms and signs which make
ana think I am going to rue this
dee ./esamee.olheits.sesehe ease.
"Irow you •nalign me! My
whole aim in life is to serve you,
to make life easier for you all.
The other day, when our ret-
ired Eleni suhffled to the deo
to pick up the milk from th
good-for-nothing vendor, I hear
her say that if he kept addle
more water to the milk sh
would not buy any more. Th
subject preoccupied me. Th
childrens feeding was in jeop-
ardy and I wondered what I
could do. I was still at it when
I fell asleep. Can you believe it?
I woke up suddenly in the mid-
dle of the night saying out loud,
'I have it! A goat would solve
the family's milk problem.'"
"A goat?" my mother repeated
aghast, "What on earth do you
xnean? Is this one of your jokes
or another one of yeur schemes?
have nothing to do with it,
anyhow."
"Do me the favor to hear me
to the end," Isaac answered with
great patience and a sigh. "When
1 followed the great Kemal into
exile on Meellene, I soon found
out that there was not a single
cow on the island. What did the
people do? They grew healthy
and strong and lived to a ripe old
age on goat's milk There were
hundreds of goats on Mytilene,
and a prettier sight than a herd
of goats you never saw. I'd take
a goat, in preference to a ewe any
day. Batt there is more to it. Ex-
perts agree that goat's milk is
lighter, has less fat content, and
Is infinitely more beneficial than
cow's milk."
"But, Isaac, how can we keep a
goat in the city„ This is not 1Vlyti-
lene. Who will take care of the
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and 1 tece care. of them48'0I, (ei
milked them i1117:111. As for the
taste, we Will 13e1.811 gee if. the
children like 11 (113
"Don't tell . ." 1)17 (1)0111.er stopped her clustirtg and 100113-
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looked uneasy.
"1 eould not resist this ber-
gain," he said. "it is such 31 love-
ly pedigreed animal and a great
milker. I bought It for almost
nettling."
My mother was speectlihrse, but
we children, delighted at the
thought of owning a goat, ran
out in the garden to lee followed
at once by Ise= and my mother.
It was a lovely goat with a
sleek brown coat so 13)1800318 (0
the touch that we. named .her
Kadife or Velvet. She had large
limipd eyes, but every ounce of
her body indicated mischief.
When she saw us she tossed her
head, kicked her hind legs, and
tried le every way to free her -
twit. We tried to make friends,
but all she did was to butt with
her head and show us her horns.
We had aur troubles indeed.
featic spent the rest of the day
building her a secure enclosure
for the night. He advised us to
tie her for the first few 11(3111118111(31111181until she got Used to her new
home. We did, but that night she
bleated inceesantly and kept us
awake. We finally decided to un-
tie her, but the next morning
when we went into the garden
there was no sign of Kadife.
She had vanished.
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A neighbor finallsr .brought her
hack saying, "Your goat alinoet
ete all of my garden." He was
indignant and rny mother had to
make retribution and soothe his
.ruffled feelings.
Milking Kadife peeved to be
the greatest problem of all, Isaac
Feld lie 8880811(1 do the job; he
was an expert at it. Tbe first
titne he tried his hand, he could
not even get near her; she kicked
-end- tereszel-eleaTe litelea • licad 3113 if
to say, "You clumsy old man,
what do you know about us?" It
took the whole family to hold
Kathie in place, and when Isaac
finally managed to fill half a pail,
she got loose, kicked the contain -
d • er and took off. We spent the
g rest of the day chasing her up
e the hill:1 of our little village.
e Finally a peasant woman, the
e maid of one of our neighbors,
offered to do the job at a price.
With all the milk in the house,
no one would touch it despite
Isaac's eloquent pleadings. Elant
and our old nurse, who had often
been the butt of Isaac's teasing,
got their revenge. Every morn-
ing at breakfast they used to
place a large bowl of milk be-
fore him.
"Drink it," they would laugh.
"It is good for you. Or are you as
good at making goat's cheese as
you are at milking?"
In the end we had to give
Kadife away, much to the regret
of us children, who enjoyed her
antics. My mother would not
listen to our pleadings and one
day Isaac took the goat away;
he knew of a needy family with
numerous children who would
appreciate her better than we
clid.
When he returned he told us,
"I acknowledge defeat, but if
you had seen the joy of that poor
family you would have been
gratified and forgiven me. On
my Way back 1ier 1 was think-
ing ..."
"Not again, Isaac," my mother
interrupted him firmly. "Not an-
other word from you." - By Sel-
ma Ekren.' in the Christian Sci-
ence Monitor.
CROSSWORD
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The valuable thmad 1.13 coaxed
I from the spider be gently peelts
11.1) her from 84 eteall rack, and
keeping her es, el/vended she
apit13 the 13)81 '13188 Ort:And Whieh
11 flees caiefultyroiled onto- a
1,e5r• 011ie' this Angle tented, spun
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. eatching web is tee seeks,. 1Viea
diem -sized spidere are said to do
the best job, awarding to au
('(111013(1131 1(1 the Christian Selene°
- • Monitor. •
Although (Me poet exclaims,
"The sphler's touch, how eiseuis
sitely fine," yet this goealner
• strand is steonger and more
flexible than platinum. wire. It i
is of unlearnt blackeess and (1(1-
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the wire.
WONDERLAND REVISITED - All 0 -quiver, Peter the rabbit
wiggles his nose, snaps his big ears up straight and watches
warily as he senses clanger in his pen at the London, England,
zoo, At the click of the camera, Peter was gone.
^ '1 -
If you happen to milieu a tree
that seems to thrive much more
than others in an inhospitable
locetion, say in ' thin sandy soil,
for example, you could be onto
a gold mine, almoet literally.
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For years experts in Australia
had been puzzled by the very
rapid growth of pines on the
southeastern plains of South
Australia State. This was in an
area of sandy soile, wincl-sorted
soils, as the geologists termed
them, low in minerals that help
provide plant nutrients. But de-
spite this low fertility status,
these soils carried pines that
could have been growing in very
rich soils, judging by their re-
markable growth.
Actually, they were growing
in very rich soils. The deep root-
ing habit of these pines enabled
them to penetrate the thin sandy
soils and tap- rich layers hidden
beneath, unknown to the observ-
er who saw rely the contradic-
tory' surface picture of trees
thriving in very poor quality
soils. * 4, *
The literal uncovering of this
mystery ---by digging down re-
searchist s found rich soil layers
formed by volcanic action and
submerged ages ago -means that
the fertility status of vast areas
of Australia and, for that mat-
ter, of other cottntries, must be
reconsidered and perhaps re-
classified.
In many areas ranging across
the Australian continent scien-
tists have discovered long -buried
soils in areas regarded as marg-
inally productive and also in top
agricultural regions. This means
that the old method of classify-
ing soils by what can be seen at
the surface of the landscape is
no longer adequate. Due ac-
count must be taken in future of
the possible presence of rich
workable soils bellow,
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Buried soils, of course, have
been found in other parts of the
world, but the idea of using such
soils, as indicated by the fast-
growing pines of South Austra-
lia, has been fostered in this
country as opening a new chap.
ter in land development.
Australian scientists of the
federal government's own re-
search organization have been
busy exploring the possibility of
using deeply buried soils, soils
thought to he beyond thhe range
of plant roots. The idea back of
thie study might be termed sub-
terranean farming,
They planned to develop
plants with longer root systems,
long enough to tap deep soils.
Many plants already possess very
long root systems -for example,
alfalfa, writes Albert E. Norman
in the Christian Science Monitor.
Thus soil considered too poor
to carre- this particular plant
might be found, on closer. ex-
amination, to be overlying rich
soils deeper down within the
root range ref alfalfa. Farmers
who would like to grow alfalfa
but cannot, according
to :malice
soil indications, ntig111 take a
deeper look at their Med.
Looking at the butted soils of
Australia, scientists have formed
the concept of "soil cycles." This
Wa .5 described as the interval for
MITE 48 - 1960
formation of a DeW surface in a
landscape, maturing of the aur -
face scat, and its eventual burial.
In checking the soil cycle of
:tome Australian soils, the radio-
carbon method had shown that
some were formed 30,000 years
ago. *
Massive changes in the soil
cycle appeared in Australia
about 5,000 years ago with dry
cenditions and high winds. These
winds srated the southeastern
twits et South Australia and
buried the rich volcanic layers
M which the fast-growing pines
thrive today.
By reconstructing compara-
tively recent geological history,
experts can piece together bit by
bit the surface-solls picture, By
digging even deeper, they can
indicate soil types likely to be
found beneath the surface.
It makes a fascinating study
for the experts. For the farmers
of Australia and elsewhere in
the world, it opens up equally
fascinating possibilities in land -
fertility -status reclassification.
Like a book, land should not be
judged by its cover.
Making Spiders
Work For A Living
In days of old it was the spider
and the King (a spider helped
a King reclaim his throne). To-
day there is the spider helping
to build roads! Very indirectly,
to be sure, for roads are an en-
gineelds project. But down Texas
way there's a Black Widow
spinning yards of web that ulti-
mately will be used as the crass
hairs in some 2,200 levels and
transits of precision surveying
Smokinc) As A
Cure For Ulcers?
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His hay feVer Watt drowning
him, and now this mt.:Idle-aged
patient had come to Dr. Ralph
Bookman in Beverly Billie Cellf., I
for advice. While chatting with
the aliergy ypecialiSt, he men-
tioned he had given up smoking
eagarettos a 1Q1v menth etirlier
and had (let-el.:)31eil large ulcers
011 1135 tont;th, and, inside his
mouth. ellen, by chence, be look •
up Smoking again - and the 181-
131313) disappeared. What did the
doctor think?
Dr, Bookman was intrieued
hat puzzled. New, after treating
three more. men euffering sup-
posedly incurable mouth ulcera
317 slIggeating they smoke, he
is still puzzled. "I tan not pre-
senting this 1113 1) cure for mouth
ulcers, just as an observation."
-
he said of his report on the eases
in the current journal of the
Californie Meclieal Assoeiation.
"I leave it to other doctors to find
out if there is a relationship be-
tween the two things."
Patient - I have a dreadful
cold - I've already been to nty
druggist. Doctor - And what
idiotic advice did he give you?
Patient - He told me to come
and see yoti.
HOLE IN ONE -• What's in
name? Here's Maurice Hole,
19, in a hole at work in
Brighton, England. He is as-
sembling a telescope destined
for Switzerland.
DAY SCII00LSON1
1.5y nes,. 11, Barclay Warren
D.A., MD,
Be Strong in the Lord
(Temperance Lesson)
Eplu•slans 35: 1 0-311
1 Memory Selection -11e strung
1 111 the Lord, and in the power
iI of kipheslans' 0:10.
Billy. Grahtni, tit,
grethiating class of a theologi-
i cal seminary, said that each clay
be read fiset Padres and one
chapter from the Book cif Pro.
Verl..)s. The PenIttis 8.8(113113 hirn
311..18,' tit worslup and thl
Proviii-Js 13810181:1 him how
tre-t kerne will men. In addition,
13e1..1. -i 75 pages from ihe Bilile,
epart from hi.t ttidy .for sooner/
preparidion. 371 311 1 a Way
rf.ads the and Prot-erb%
1.1061111.11 month and 188(2
Nitire through eaCa year.
I fun stuelyine the Bible teure
t'ince 1 read
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very preent help in trouble."
God's strength is illustrated 38
His pewer to nitwe. nutuniann..
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81ai God." One of (air
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see the Fplendid. 43783313):' (48
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over.,o1n.2r5 in the fio.%!e
combat with Satan: truth. rU;bte.
the Go,..wl of peace, Ole
helmet ut sairation, the shield
of .1 a i t 11, the sword of tile
Spirit, W111111 IS, the Word at
God, and constvnt prayer. W311
ean lv triumphant.
This is the Tempi,ratio., jos-
for 1118.83 quarter, Joan New -
Man of the Toronto Bari of
Control writes, "I have chose1(1
to be an abstainer, lor the sim-
ple reason that, to me, life is
int (Testing and exciting and I
want to -enjoy it to the full
without having any of any per,
ceptive abilities e18et1 slightly
dulled. If you don't drink at
all, if you impose total abstin-
ence upon youraelf, you know
you will 137511313113' alcoholism. To
that extent you -will improve
community Jiving, for the alco-
holic reins his own life and the
lives of those around him, -
The total abstainer eiintinatee
the greatest factor in motor ac-
eidePalltsul''I'vrote, (Ephes(aiis 5:18)1.
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"Be not drunk with wine
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wherein. is excess; but be filled
with the Spirit."
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OBJECTIVE: MORE POWER - Development of further power resources in the Columbia River
basin by joint U.S.-Canada action is proposed in a new treaty. Vertical lines at existme
dams and those under construction show relative electric potentials. Construction of thi (tilt
new darns in Canada - Arrow, Duncan and Mica - and at Libby, Mot tuna, would add 1.4
million killowatts of power to bring bosin total to almost 20,000,000 kilowatt*.
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