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"Oh Annie, isn't this too bad?
I've just learned that the dear
provost is so fond of raspberry
am and I can't find any berries
n the village shops,"
Mrs, Ramsay, standing at An-
nie's front entrance, was talking
rather excitedly. She knew little
of household arts. For 20 years
She had been companion to a
rich relative and together they
had roamed the world, Yet her
Inner desire had never been for
luxurious travel, but just for a
home of her own. Since becom-
ing the bride of the Scottish is-
land's mayor, she had had her
wish. There was so much she
didn't know, however, that to her
young neighbor she often went
for advice, Annie replied, "It's a
bit late for them, but there may
oe a few somewhere."
"I ken where there are sante,"
put in Bella Muir, the "servant
lass," unexpectedly, She had
opened the door but not yet re-
tired from the scene. She went
on, "My mither has a fine crop o'
them ower on Bracken isle."
"You hear that?" exclaimed
Annie, "Let's get them tomor-
row" ,
"You'll go with me? 'How dart-
.ng of you,"
The following morning accord-
ingly they were on the pier when
thesteamer s mer• pulled alongside. As
they crossed the gangway, Cap-
tain MacNab hailed them laugh-
ingly, with a nod at the basket
each was carrying. "Are ye off on
a picnic?"
Annie laughed back. "No, we're
on business. Tell you about it
later."
On the return trip the baskets
were filled with luscious crimson
fruit, "Jam for the provost," she
stated, "Have a taste."
The captain did so muttering
with a smile, "That man gets
spoiled. No wonder he looks
contented," Mrs. Ramsay flushed
happily,
The jam was made next day,
Soon after twelve o'clock Annie
went over to give assistance. and
found that none was needed. The
jars were already filled and even
sealed. She remarked, admiring-
ly; "You must have bad an 'early
start.
-. "I did, Maggie is off on holiday
while the provost is away so
there was no waiting for her to
finish l:ec work, But Annie -
only 10 jars. I lost so much with
the stuff boiling over."
"Well, I'll help you store what's
left. -Where is it to go?"
"In the scullery. Top shelf -
and hidden from view."
"Why the secrecy?"
"Oh, the dear provost is like a
boy in some respects; He'd have
this lot gobbled up in no time.
But if he doesn't see them all at
once."
Annie ohuckled. "Good plan-
ning. I'll get the stepladder "
It was just outside, so she re-
entered immediately and propped
it against the wall. Then a series
of small incidents hatpened
swiftly. Bella appeared hi the
doo:way, saying, "The joiner -
wants me to bring word where
the wee bit fence is to he set
up." At that. moment Mrs Rain-
say was coming toward them car-
rying the laden tray. Her heel
caught on the edge of one of the
paving stones which formed the
floo:, She pitched forward with
a startled cry - and 10 jars of
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Every single one was broken, In-
to the momentary silence came
stolid Bella's voice, offering com-
fort. "Jam can be made again."
Mrs, 'Ramsay almost 'sobbed.
"There are no more berries."
Said Bella, ".Tock and Jean
Jarvie hae them still on their
bushes."
Annie rounded on her in ex-
asperation. "Why didn't you tell
us before?"
The answer was naive. "I want-
ed my mither to hae the sale,"
This explanation was so utterly
frank that Annie's annoyance
evaporated and she turned to
Mrs, Ramsay. "We can sail over
for them in my boat. Tile wind is
south that means a quick skim
both ways," Then to the maid,
"You'll have to clean this mess,
Bella Muir, It'll serve you right,"
"But, Miss Annie - the joiner
"We'll stop there on our way,"
When they got back Bella had
done the job and gone. Soon of-,
terward the second batch of jam
was on the stove. There were
again 10 jars, although less fruit
had been purchased. There had
been no spilling over because
' Annie had slipped in a tiny
wedge of butter each time the
mixture rolled too near the rim
of the pan. With the 10 on the
table, she said, "I211 be in tomor-
row - for the storing."
On the morrows. Ramsay
tnsay
met her with a flustered air. The
"dear provost" had sent a tele-
gram. He was arriving on the
first boat and bringing a guest.
She had prepared the spare room.
She was making lunch. The jairt
would have to be discovered af-
ter all. Annie replied, "No, it
won't. I'll hide it for you."
Within minutes the jam were
in a neat row on the high shelf
and Annie was again in the kit-
chen holding one and saying,
"Want to serve some of it today?"
"Oh, yes. There's a crystal dish
in the press. Will you - please?"
As she carried the daintyitem
to the dining room Annie glanced
from the window and saw Willy
MacICim's horse-drawn landau,
with two passengers, halting on
the road. She called to, Mrs. Ram-
say, "Take off your apron . Here
they come. 'Bye."
Then she hurried out, round
the house, through the gate into.
Drumwiddrie Wood and so home
- aglow with the good feeling of
having helped a friend -By
Mabel Grey Gehring in the Chris-
tian Science Mbnitor,
Aid For Sectarian
Schools Dangerous
Americans are fighting against
influences that' segregate them
into groups which have no
means of communicating with
.each other.
The United States has been
looked upon as the great melt-
ing ' pot, whcreb' peoples of all
races and religions were amal-
gamated. But there is a proposal
now which could undo all that
has been accomplished.
That is the one which would
provide federal financial aid for
sectarian schcols,
All • that would be necessary
to put most al' the scheol chit-
= dren of the nation into separate
compartments, each suspicious
co worse than suspicious of all
the' others, would be for the gay-
ernment to start subsidizing sec-
tarian ism.
• We can tliinlc of no more effi-
cient way to make all the little
Methodists think that they are
different from all the little Bap-
tists cr all the little Mormons'
or all the little Catholics than
to put each in a separate g:oup.
For this much is certain: If
federal r.id is voted to sectarian
schools it will not be merely to
the sectarian school's which exist
today. It will 'be to the schools
which will be quickly establish-
ed to take advantage of "free
federal fun :s." - Independent
Record (Helena, Montt.)
•
WAXING VIGOROUS - Preparing for a season of slippery
going, Mike O'Brien waxes the inside of the Barrel of Fun
,at Coney Island, The revolving barrel will contain a full cargo
of slipping, sliding fun -seekers when It opens.
• THE SPHINX SPEAKS - The Egyptian sphinx, long a symbol
of silence, is now talking to visitors - in four languages. The
huge stone monument with the head of a king and body of a
lion, at the desert's edge neer Cairo, has been equipped for
sound' and light. A recent French Invention provides a drama
of floodlights, music and tape-recorded narration telling of
the glories of ancient 'Egypt,
TIIHAQM FROM
The strangest crop in Canada -
and perhaps the most dangerous
- is being harvested regularly in
a small Canada Department of
Agriculture laboratory in Hull,
Que., just across the river from
Ottawa.
The crop is tubercle bacillus,
the active agent of tuberculosis
from which the department
manufactures all the tuberculin
used in Canada to fight bovine
tuberculosis.
e
Like other crops grown on the
department's experimental farms
across the country, it is seeded,
cared for an carefully harvested
on schedule, A new crop is
"planted" every month and each
crop requires 70 days to mature.
The ripe culture, growing on
top of a specially prepared broth
in glass flasks, resembles brown
sugar in appearance.
It is nurtured in a tiny, vault-
like room: The room or incubator,
is heated to blood temperature
(98.6°F.) and reeks of the new
growth of tubercle bacilli.
' * * *
The lethal gerden is in one
of the three small laboratories
at the CDA's. Animal Pathology
Laboratories used to manufacture
tuberculin. Dr. P.T.G. Plummer,
director of the laboratories, says
his team of scientists are still
improving upon the tuberculin
discovered by Dr. R. Koch, a
German scientist, in 1890 They
have, made many changes in the
culture medium and the particu-
lar strain of bacillus they are
using now is referred to as "Bo-
vine 110". From it is preduced
all the tuberculin used to test
cattle in Canada for bovine
tuberculosis.
• •
"It's the same as growing a
lawn," Dr. Plummer seta., "You
must add the nutrients,"
Head man on his team of sci-
entists is Dr, Herman Kunst, a
veterinary graduate of ,Budapest,
who has been growing tubercle
bacilli and developing tuberculin
all his adult life.
Both he and Dr, Plummer
came to the Animal Pathology
Laboratories in 1926. At the time,
recalls Dr. Plummer, he aces only
a student. . . *
Maria M. Sclringh, a graduate
nurse who has assisted Dr. Konst
for the past 10 years, said the
unusual crop is highly danger-
ous. But every care is taken to
protect employees, and despite ...
the lethal nature of their "farm-
ing", there have been no acci-
dents. , ,;:
"We snake a 50 -litre batch of
bovine tuberculin each month,"
she said. "To grow the tubercle
bacillus, a small amount of broth
(a synthetic medium of sterilized
distilled water and a mixture of
chemicals) is poured into each of
a dozen small flasks. The broth
is then seeded with live tubercle
bacillus, cotton plugged, and left
in the heated room to grow
"When the growth is two or
three weeks old, it is seeded in
about 100 large flasks, earl, con-
taining Vs -litre of the sterile cul-
ture medium, and the seeded
flasks are incubated for 70 days.
The rich growth of tubercit bac-
illi, developing during this per-
iod, is then killed by sterilization
in flowing steam, removed from
the flasks and used in the menu.
facture of tuberculin,.,
A 50 litri botch, she sale, gives
10,000 cc's of concentrated tuber-
culin. For issue, the tuberculin is
bottled in 3 cc. glass containers,
80 bottles to a carton. At the rate
of ' 1/10 cc. to an intra -dermal
dose, there are 30 doses to a bot-
tle,
* *
The tuberculin is shipped to
all parts of Canada for use in
the government's fight to con-
trol bovine tuberculosis, In the
38 years that the department has
concentrated on wiping out the
disease, the tuberculin has been
used in some 49 million tests of
Canadian cattle. The tests have
uncovered more than 587,000
cases of tuberculosis. Tuberculin
has cut the level of the disease
from 6.023 per cent in 1928-39 to
0.087 today.
Dr. Konst said the laboratory
also grows a human strain of
tubercle bacillus and from it
makes a second type of tubercu-
lin. This tuberculin, lie said, is
more potent than the bovine tu-
berculin and, when used, may
bring out reactors not discovered
by the bovine type.
' The Hull laboratories, said Dr.
Plummer, is the only agency in
Canada developing and distribut-
ing tuberculin.
He said that he and his staff
had never calculated the cost of
the tuberculin, but 'that it "prob-
ably is terrific," However, he
added, the cost of producing the
tuberculin in a government lab-
oratory with government scien-
tists handling the operation, was
only a drop in the bucket com-
pared to what the cost would be
if the tuberculin had to be pro-
duced commercially.
4, * *
It was exciting news, he said,
that the department of agricul-
ture in the next few weeks would
wind up its program for testing
all cattle in Canada for bovine
tuberculosis. The program was
launched 38 years ago and will
be concluded in June when the
last herd will be tested in the
Peace River district of Northern
Alberta,
But, he said, his laboratories
would continue to manufacture
tuberculin because the testing of
cattle 'will go on indefinitely.
His laboratories bottle and dis-
tribute about 4,000,000 intra-
dermal doses of bovine and hu-
man tuberculin annually, Dr.
Plummer said. This, he felt, was
considered sufficient to handle
the continuous testing of cattle
In Canada.
Says She Did it
All For Love
Blonde and trig in a neat blue
uniform, stewardess Simonna
Christmann was the very sym-
bol of modern travel as Air
France flight No, 011, a jet air-
liner, eight eight hours out of Paris,
taxied to a halt last March 21 at
New York City's International
(Idlewild) Airport. A shapely 5 -
feet -6 and 130 pounds, Simonise,
38, had been tabbed as the air-
line's next chief stewardess.
Then U.S. Customs Service of-
ficers sprang a surprise inspec-
tion. Simonne, they said, was
trying to hide a plastic bag be-
hind a filing cabinet but it had
burst, and had dusted her Air
France blue with a telltale white
powder - heroin. Women in-
spectors searched her, found an-
other plastic bag in her bra, two
more in her girdle - a total of
4i pounds of "the horse," worth
about $500,000 at retail sale to
American addicts,
Simonne told a tearful tale of
passion and crime and betrayal.
She said a Mr. Mueller, who
described himself as being in the
flower business in California, met
her at a New York hotel coffee
shop, dated, dined, and wined
her. He asked that she bring in
some packages, offered her $200
which she rejected. "He told me
it 'was essence of perfume," she
said. Narcotics sleuths, unhappily
for Simonne, never could find a
Mr: Mueller.
Simonne wanly recounted her
story to a jury of three women
and nine men last month in a
Federal district court in New
York. Her defence attorney did
his gallant best with the material
at hand, calling her "a dupe and
a fool, the victim of narcotics
gangsters, of fiendish conspira-
tors, of an international smug-
gling ring." But it was a narra-
tive out of the Gallic wars be-
tween the sexes and not at all
calculated to impress a New
York City jury.
Simonne was convicted. Fail-
ing to make $25,000 bail, she was
sent back to jail. Sometime this
month she will learn her penalty:
No fewer than five years, per-
haps as many as twenty.
"I wanted to do Mr. Mueller a
favor," she said, "Not for money.
For love."
NDAY SC11001
IESSON
By Rev. It. B. Warren, B.A„ B.U.
The Power of the Tongue
James 3: 1=12,
Memory Selection: A soft ons•
wer turneth away wrath, but
grievous words stir up anger,
Proverbs 15:1.
The tongue is a little member.
but, oh, what power it had; Mil-
lions have been blessed by mes-
sages that come from the tongue
of Billy Graham and from the
beautiful singing from the tongue
of Bev. Shea. On the other
hand, millions used to get fresh
shivers of fear from the words
of Adolf Hitler.
Each of us exerts considerable
power with the tongue. Parente
may give loving and •scriptural
instructions: or in high pitch
voices, quarrelling drinking par-
ents may create an atmosphere
that will be a serious detriment
to the children's normal person-
ality development,
People are known by their
tongue. When a tongue is
described as biting, wicked, slan-
derous, deceitful, flattering, po-
lite, helpful, comforting, in-
structive, it isn't really the
tongue that is being described, it
is the person. "For out of the
abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh" Matthew 12:34.
James speaks very strongly
about the evil which the tongue
may do. "The tongue is" a fire,
a world of iniquity: . . it de-
lieth the whole body, and setteth
'on fire the course of nature: and
it is set on fire of hell." In can
lead to all sorts of sin, sexual,
robbery with the gun or cheating
with the pencil, lying thatcan
destroy a person's good name,
destroy a home, a church. a poli-
tical group and even a nation.
Hitler specialized in "the big lie."
"If any man offend not in
word, the same is a perfect man,
and able also to bridle the whole
body." Man must be born. again.
The sins of the past must be
forgiven. Only Jesus Christ can
do that. The power of sin must
be broken. With a renewed
heart and faith in Jesus Christ
the individual wants to glorify
God with his words as well as his
deeds, With a pure heart and the
law of kindess in 'his lips, the
tongue will be a servant unto
righteousness. Always we need
to keep a bridle on our tongue.
"He thath hath knowledge
spareth his words." Prot 17:27.
ISSUE 21- 1961
CROSSWORD
PUZZLE
ACROSS
1. Difficulty
4. Authority
f. Obscure
15. Rubber tree
13. Cognizant
74. rueglan
ndht
16.Firearm
15. Bicycle part
17. Buddhist
column
13, Enjoyed
20. Singly
50. More
degrading
73. Withdrew
26. English
school
26, Spilt
57. r.ntr
28. the Psalms
29. Dolor
32. Slope
31. Part of a
harness
34. Ability
37. Tropical fruit
38. Sphere of
action
as. or the
morning
40, Long' narrow
Inlet
41. Devil
44. Period of
light
46. Eng. letter
47. Accustom
48. Devoured
49, Perceive '
50. Notinea nt
Denmark
51. Novel
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covering
2. Hotel
3, Blessing'
4. Journal
6. Was indebted
8. Soft mass 30, issue rna,h
7. Epoch 31. Light
8. Told moisture
9. Lamentation 32. Storage place
10. Silly, 33. Head
11, Defeated at covering
chess 34. Anxietle:
19 Field of 35. Soar
vision 36. Rent
21, Waterfall 37. Sheets of
22, River bottom glass
23. Large stream 89. Female hors.
24. Brallgnant 92. Literary
26. Rant fragments
28, humbled 48. Wine cask
29. River In 45. Evergreen
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