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The Brussels Post, 1960-12-22, Page 3. eeteesis FIGT,RE SKIING elem. Refundable to daYe. OUTDOOli INTERESTS.. Goya- wood, Ont, a pgR4oN141. FREE Booklets: on Life, Death, Sill Hell, I3ibie Standard, 2105 south. raleadelphla 48, Pennsylvania, SHY. Avoid drugstore erobarrasnlehi.. Order personal needs by mail. Cone- emitlue prompt service. Personal Phapk- Macy, Box 98, Slution D, Toronte. , — 1,1VESTOCK, 12 PialtieeklaRD Holstein Heitere open.. Vaccinated, 'Icemptville Malt; 4 Pere... (bred ,cows due in January,. 6 .grade cows -due in November, 111 vaecinatee! accredited area, I team of hawk Pete (therm Mares, quiet. Hulse etcOooneil, CHESTEPVLLLE, Ontario, lialerest 2408. MEDICAL HAVE. YOU Heap ABOUT DIXON1 Mum's AND RHEUMATIC PAIN REMEDY? IT GIVES YOU GOOD esset”, MUNRO'S DRUG STORE PS ELGiN OTTAWA $1.2.6 Express Collect. POST'S ECZEMA SALVE BANISH the torment of dry eczema rashes and weeping skin teeeeles, Poses Eczema Salve will not disAppoiet you. itching, scalding and burning ecze- ma, acne, ringworm, Pimples and foot eczema, win respond readily to the stainless odorless ointment, regardless Of how stubborn or hopeless they seem, Sent Poet Free on Receipt of Price PRICE $3,50 PER JAR POST'S REMEDIES 1865 51, Clair Avenue East Toronto NURSES AND NURSING; ASSISTANTS NURSES and certified nursing assist- ants required for a new hospital open- ing in December in Kawartha-lealibur- ton resort area. Good personnel poll- eles, OHA pension plan, Director of Nursing ROSS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. LINDSAY, ONTARIO NURSES WANTED REGISTERED NURSES FOR general duty nursing in modern hospital in progressive community east of Port Arthur, Ontario. Starting sal- ary $259.00 per month, Room and board provided at no cost in modern.nursee residence. Excellent employee benefits and year-round recreational facilities available. Apply stating full particu- lars of age, experience, availability, etc, to Box No. 226, 123.18th Street, New Toronto, Ont. NUTRIA ATTENTION PURCHASERS OF NUTRIA When purchasing Nutria, consider the following points, which this organize• tion offers; 1. The best available stock, no cross- bred or standard types recommended. 2. The reputation of a plan which is proving itself substantiated by files of satisfied ranchers. I. Full insurance against replacement, should they not live or in the event of sterility (all fully explained in our certificate of merit.) 4. We give you only mutations which are in demand for fur garments, 0. You receive from this organization a guaranteed pelt market, in writing. 6. Membership In our exclusive breed- ers' association, whereby only purchas- ers of this stock may participate in the benefits so offered. '7. Prices for Breeding Stock start at $200. a pair. Special offer to those who qualify: earn your Nutria on our cooperative basis. Write:, Canadian Nutria Ltd., 11.11. No. 2, Stouffville, Ontario. OPPORTUNITIES 1 OAKVILLE 8 CAR taxi service. Excellent turnover. Circle Taxi, 4 Cowan Ave.. Oakville. VI. 4.3241. .BABY CHICKS altAY plaices, ipsz week old, also some etarted davits, pienept shipment, end (Weide to order Ideal purpose and, seecialte egg Prediteere), all at seeolei low ereecasun prices, 430014 February-Siarrle 41))11,-oivi‘e1;:iste noorwa.y Cizitictthiteery‘lo1701. John North, Hamilton, gni, BUSINESS PROPERTIES FQR SALE Shop and conreCiionerve situated on Queen St., pagers-on-the-Lake, apt. ahovE, wee. Further inforrnetion eon-tact C. facet, Box 392 Niagara-on-the- 'I'L:10111'6. sale. $15,900 — $5,000 cash. AA, Service station, lunch counter garage, highway 10, 6 miles from Tillaonburg. Apply Mary Grose, Straffordvitle, P.O. Or phone Straffortiville 184. HARDWARE STORE UPPER Ottawa valley; this is a reel buy lor anyone interested In the hard-were business In an area of over 9,000 people. This Is the only Lull equipped hardware business, 'rats business has a turnover of $150,000 for the past year, Building Is of modern design. 3 years old, paved entrance, good location. Poien payment $29,000, This includes $18,0e0 stock on hand. Stewart Q.' Dev- lin, Realtor, Box 971, Peep River, phone JO. 4.2061, BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR RENT GROUND floor offices, .Corner toes- tion; business block; suitable for dep. tel clinic or other professional offices. Reasonable rent. Alterations to suit, Most progressive• town in Western On- tario, Write P.O. Box 500, Petrone, Ont. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES TAXI BUSINESS on ,Can A rf.h.. Vvel 7),N whivii were atolen fool a -lake irl An Austrian PUblie park were estimated to 11,!0 so Old that they had been :registered under the Austrian -Office for the Preservation of Ancient IVIonuinentS. The tnia was heavily fined. But experts who* have been studying stories about the great. ages to which, many of there freshwater fish. are said to live. are saying bluntly that the so- called longevity of carp is dubi- ous, "Carp certainly don't become centenarians nowadays and it's very doubtful if they ever did,' pays one, "The greatest age fop a carp for which we have reli- able evidence is forty years," Yet fantastic stories about carp centenarians are likely to. linger in many parts of the world. Strange .methods for recording the age of a fish . were once adopted if the story about a carp found in a pond in Swabia (an early Duchy of Germany) in 1497 is true. The fish ,is said to have had in its gills a metal ring bearing the following inscription in La- tin: "I am the first fish that was ever put into this pond by the 'hand of Frederick II, Governor of the•World, on the 5th day of October, A.D. 1230." According to this, the carp must have been at least 267 years old. Many years ago a giant carp weighing 281/2 lbs. taken to the aquarium at the London Zoo was nicknamed Methuselah be- cause it was believed to be very old. 'This gave rise to the story that it was 150 , years old. One writer hailed it as "the biggest fish in Europe." Carp in Britain are usually kept as interesting additions to Ornamental watersaBut in parts of Europe, partiallarly in Russia and Poland, the carp is a popu- lar food, Great farms, with acres of 'breeding, rearing and fatten- ing ponds, supply a ready mar- ket. An Egyptian King Tells His Story • The young king's accession to the throne came at a moment in Egyptian history when, thanks to almost two centuries of un- paralleled achievement both at home and abroad, the country was at the pinnacle of its politi- cal power, economic prosperity, end cultural development. More- over, the world was at peace and there was leisure for the ruler and the people of Egypt to en- joy the many pleasures and lux- uries which We now had to offer them and to indulge to the full a truly oriental penchant for opulence and display. Typical in every respect of the brilliant setting over which he presided, Anaunhotpe III con- trived throughout his long reign to combine the unwavering pur- suit of all manner of • worldly pleasures with a program of self-glorification more elaborate and on a far grander scale than any previously undertaken: The king's desire that his every action be made known to the world is attested by the extraordinary series of large commemorative scarabs which he caused to be issued during his first twelve years on the throne and which, like modern PHOTOGRAPHY FARMER'S CAMERA CLUB BOX 31, GALT, Gto. Films developed And 8 magna prints 400 12 magna 'prints 60¢ Reprints se each KODACOLOR Developing roil 90e (not including prints), Color prints 300 each, extra Ansco and Egtachrome 35 nun, 20 ex- posures mounted in slides $1.20, Color prints from slides 320 each. Money re- funded in full for unpritited negatives. ---PROPERTIES FOR SALE $5,500 FULL price, In lovely town of Meaford. 6-room residence, city con- veniences, 21/2 acres orchard and'lawns. Bargain for quick sale, $3,000 cash re-quired. H. D, Powell Beal Estete, 2498 Yonge St., Toronto, •• : SALESMEN WANTED COMMISSION Salesmen Wanted. To sell Chemicals for Septic 'yanks, Cess- pools, Toilets, Sewers etc,'Protected territories, L. O. Durnart & CO La- vigne, Ontario. SALES HELP WANTED FULL OR SPARE TIME SALES WORK ARE you the man we require to sell our plan in rural areas? If so, here is a chance, at no cost to you, to aug- ment your present income, or, prove to be to your benefit on a full time basis. Interested? Please write, giving details as to age, schooling, sales ex- perience etc., to ALLIED FARM SERV- ICES (CANADA), P.O. Box 1020, LON- DON Ontario. SALESMAN WANTED REAL ESTATE TO represent us in your own district, large commission paid on every sale. You can earn good commissslon in your spare time, Write for particulars to EPwerth Realty Limited. Owen Sound Ontario. STAMPS HONDURAS; 33 different mints plus 16 different values on. cover, $1. Busson, (W), Apartado 544, Tegucig- alpa, Honduras. U.S. PROPERTIES FLORIDA MOTELS, homes, citrus, pasture and development acreages in Desoto coup- ty. Only 40 miles to Florida's famous west coast. J. HAMILTON, SALESMAN JANE WHIDDEN, REALTOR 22 MAGNOLIA ST. ARCADIA, FLORIDA, U.S.A. U.S. VACATION RESORTS FLORIDA Low sununer rates to DIM 1, Special December. and January rates. Write for brochure. Lillian Milan, 538 Bayehore Dr., Colony Apts., fort Lauderdale, Florida. newsletters, were distributed throughout the country and even dispatched to the more distant outposts of the empire. The first series, of these scar- abs, carved at the very begin- rang of the reign, announces the pharaoh's marriage to Teye, woman of non -royal birth; and with engaging 'frankness, which, is repeated on many of the king's later monuments, gives the names of her untitled parents, `Nye and Tjuyu, adding, how- ever, that "she is (now), the wife of a mighty king"' whose empire extends from Karoy in the northern Sudan to Naharin in western Asia. Three scarabs of this series, acquired by the Museum with the Ward, M,urch, and Carnarvon collections, are made, as are most of their mates, of glazed steatite and measure between three and three and a half inches in length. Character- istically, the first five lines of the ten-line announcement in- scribed on their undersides are taken up with the titulary of the .king: "(Long) live the Horns, Strong-bull-appearing-in- truth, He of the Two Goddesses, Establisher-of-laws-(and-) Paci- fier - of - the - Two - Lands, the Horus of Gold, Great - of - valor - who - smites the - atics, the King of, Upper and Lower Egypt, Neb-ma'et-Re', the Son of Re', Amunhotpe, Ruler of Thebes, given life!" — From "The Scepter of Egypt," by Wil- liam C. Hayes, The man in the neighborhood who exchanged his car for a bi- cycle Saves his money in a dis- carded automobile gas tank. The device is neatly fitted with a slot for depositing money.' When questioned, our ingenious friend confided he was following the habit of his motoring days—put- ting all his money in the gas tank. ISSUE 46 — 1960 CHRISTMAS TREES CHRISTMAS trees: Pruned "'Scotch pine Christmas trees ' several thousand ready for market, approximately 10,000 in one block, will sell complete block standing as Is. Will also consider small contracts. Angus Cameron, R.R. 1, Norland, Ont. COINS WE pay $3 for 1925 Canadian nickel; complete buying list 10 cents. Crown Stamp &. Coin, 81 Queen St. E.. Tor- onto • FARMS FOR SALE CHAROLAIS beef breed of the future. Choice Charolais Hereford Cross Calves for sale. Bulls $185.00. Heifers 6300.00. Write for free booklet, Robin. Hahn, Durham,, Ont. FRESH and springer Holsteins, grades and perebredd Area accredited, cows, vaccinated or blood tested. Your pick of a quantity. We will deliver, Jos. W. Cochrane & Sons R.R. No, 5, Barrie, Ontario. Phone; IA1121 Strottd, COINS wanted, pay highest prices. 1961 coin catalogue 25e, Gary's (8) 9910 Jas- per Ave., Edmonton, Alta. Paying 500 each for 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925 Canadian small pennies. Mrs. Mora gap, 767 Wilsbn St., Victoria, B.C. FOR Sale: two one-hundred-acre fume. five miles from Clinton. Each with house, barn and driveshed. One with hydro and considerable bush. Carl Diehl; R, 5, Clinton.', • 100 ACRES rolling clay loam, excellent buildings, completely decorated, brick house, oil, modern convenience, sepa- rate hen house, pig pen; thriving_vil- lege 3 miles, 4 miles Hwy. 0," high school bus. •'Harold Pratt, Grand Val-ley, Ont. FOR SALE — MISCELLANEOUS PORTABLE HEATERS Boats farm buildings, pre-heats equip- ment, thaws out pumps, pipes, frozen ground. Safe, clean, economical. 4 mod-els 75,000.450,000 B,T.U.'s/hour. Roe Tractor & Equipment Ltd., Cooksville, Ont. AT. 9-3161. SHREDDED, Foam Rubber. Stuff your own pillows and toys, 5 lb. bag $2-30, postpaid. Mail money order to Allied Products, Box 62, Port Credit, Ontario. PAL-PLUG COMBINED shot gun plug end match container, $1 each. Box 63, Postal Sta- tion D, Hamilton, Oct. GIVE health and beauty for Christmas our jewelled magnetic bracelets are health restoring and beautiful to wear. Priced only at $12.50. National Products, 346 Sablet on St.. Nanairno, B.C. Agents' wanted. HELP WANTED MALE ELECTRICIANS OTTAWA WE require immediately qualified electricians for major construction and hodsing projects in Ottawa. Current rate $2.60 per hours Contact as itn-thediately. FEDERAL ELECTRIC CONTRACTORS LTD, 994 RIDDELL AVENUE OTTAWA PA. 2.3953 HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES FOR SALE WATERLESS COOKWARE, 17-piece Triple Gauge Heavy Stainless Steeel, New low, price in Canada of $69.90. Fully guaranteed. Write for fdrther de- tails. Diner Sales Co., Box 215, Islinga ton, Ontario. INSTRUCTION EARN Morel Bookkeeping, Salesman. ship, Shorthand, Typewriting, etc. Les. eons 50#. Ask for free circular No. 33. Canadian Correspondence Courses, 1290 Bay Street, Toronto. LIVESTOCK Tales ef Highest Metnitain Btn Nevis, Britain's highest and most isolated mountain, was dramatically in the news recent,,. ly when a climber fell 000 ft. to his death from its Tower Ridge on the north face after rock on which he had been standing pee way. 4,406-foot whale-bieked mountain has more sudden changes of weather at its summit than almost any other mountain in the world. Experienced climb- ers say that Nevis hurricanes are the most terrible in Europe, But if a climber is lucky he can basic in the hot sun while sitting comfortably on A bed of dry powder-snow there and en- joy an astonishing silence brolc- en only by the remote murmur of a waterfall far down in the valley borne up to him On an eddy of wind, When many years ago an ob- servatory was established on the summit for the study of weather conditions—its ruins can still be seen on the summit—Mr. Wil- liam T. Kilgour, the superinten- dent, and his staff settled down to live in .`the highest house in Britain," as ,they called it. Theirs was a tough job, One night, Mr. Kilgour related, a ter- rific storm began to blow from the south-east and within min- utes the wind was blowing at more than 120 miles an hour. ""The boOm of the storm, the creaking of timbers and the rat- tle of the iron chimneys was so terrific that the building, despite, its ten-feet thick walls, shook to the foundations," he said. "The cold was so intense that a thermometer placed six feet from a roaring fire recorded five degrees of frost. • "All outside observations had to be abandoned because no one could stand ,or even creep to windward." The observatory was main- tained until 1905, when it was closed for lack of' adequate sup- , port. A young London mountaineer was lashed to a rock near the summit of Ben Nevis for eighe teen hours in 1948 after he had been trapped on a ledge when his climbing rope broke. For several hours he directed rescu- ers from Fort William by shout- ing and waving. They got him down safely. Using a rough track which leads from the foot of Ben, Nevis to the summit, an Inverness- shire man some years ,ago climb- ed the mountain on' a 2% h.p. motor-cycle in three hours forty minutes. Although on the ascent of five miles the , average, gradient is about one ,in five, no engine trouble was experienced, Special care had to be taken in the descent which was ac- complished with the engine cut off. When the 'base was reached it was found that the ,rear brake had been worn away till it ewes practically bare, Racing on foot from Fort Wil- liam to the, summit of Ben Nevis became a craze in Victorian times, A. man named William • Swan did the double journey in two hours forty-one minutes. Among freak climb was that of a young man, who pushed a wheelbarrow to the' top, Quite understandably, both he and the wheelbarrow were the worse for wear by the time he'd finished. Modern. Etiquette ity Anne eislihe Q. When is it proper lei begin calling new acquaintances by their first names? A. People today call each other by their given names much earlier than 'formerly. One must, ilowever, sense the proper move- inent to drop formalities. Ii everyone else in the circle in *viiith you move uses first tames, you are at liberty to .fel- low the trend. Q. I've jilet been told that the doable-sheet variety 01 -peesonal Stationery is out of place for a Mitta Is thiS true? A. While' not exactly "out of place," some man think the sin- gle sheet kind 'of stationery is more masculine than the double- sheet typo. Q. Sheath' the used silverware he gathered UP betake tentoving the phiteeffent the hairier table? A, No; the silver should be left on the pieties, and all removed from the table together. Q. is it,proper to itse The liteviatiOrig eliaSe .as., Iteiht,, eir when addressing en. itiOnee of iii the Welting 'of' aalir- tations letters? 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On a recent visit to his native India, D0111 Moraes, poet and youngest Hawthornden Prize- winner, stayed at the palace of a Rana, one of the feudal lords who had life-and-death power over their subjects until 1951. "All the corridors," he writes, "Were hung with framed illus- trations from magazines, alter- nating with the heads of assas- sinated tigers, ,and photographs of dead Ranas tiger-whiskered, soulful-eyed and clutching jewel- led swords," On one occasion iVforaes was sitting with a friend waiting to be received by his host. An en- ormous Himalayan bear crouch- . ed next to the sofa, He assumed it was stuffed — until it snarled at him, rose and shambled out through the door! All over Khatmandu, he says, Ranas, originally Indian prince- lings, built fantastic palaces Where they lived surrounded by women they had abducted from their families. When a Rana passed, any citizen who failed to do obeisance till he was out of sight was, flung into jail. As late as 1942 the chief Rana would ride an elephant through the streets every month, while the women stood outside their houses, Whichever of them took' his fancy were at once seized by soldiers and taken to his harem. Any husbands or fathers who protested were jailed. Halembu, a- mountain village renowned for its beautiful women, was raided and every woman taken off to the harems, One of the Rana's sons told Moraes ,that his father wanted to send him to Eton. To finance the trip they had to go to the family head, the grandfather, who flew "into a rage' and said: "No grandson of mine Will be permitted to defile himself by crossing the black waters to England But I will be reason- able. If you like, you may hire all the masters from Eton and bring them here," Later, the grandfather fell A British Surgeon was fetched from India, He found that the palace was oil top of an unroad- ed hill and wondered how on earth he could get his equip- ment up. That night he slept in a tent at the foot-of the hill and awoke next morning to find a react leading from his tent door to the palace gate, It had been built in six hours by sieve- gang relays working through the night! IVItiraes gives a brilliant ac-, count of his three Months tour in "Gone. Away." It included talks with Nehru arid the exiled Dalai Lama. Latest Word In Keeping Time Enter the atomic clock, the latest, but riot the .last word in time-keeping precision. Devel- oped by the American Bureau of Standards at Boulder, Colorado, the clock runs to an accuracy of one millionth of a second. At that rate, says its :designers, it can keep time for 5,000 years and not lose as much as a second! The clock "ticks" by register- ing the vibrations of cesium atoms, These vibrate at Such a giddy speed that they split the second into 9,200,000 parts, This contrasts With the beat of art ordinary wrist w a t e h, whose balance wheels tick to and fro five times a second. And, after some years, that wheel is prone to metlil fatigue. The Bureau of Standards is actually trying to improve upon the atomic eleele's accuracy, al- mady,guarenteed. As its experts point out, in this age of missile tracking end sputnik orbits, syn. ehronization of superfine occur"-. k'Icy 15 an essential tool of space travel. Befoi'E: man can project hint- :4)1f r.mong the stare, he• nitist have clocks set to celestial titite tables, and under both fool and ehockprOof control. An error ,if rale tltilliont h part of a sceolid could eeeily vest, a space travel- ler big Sometimes Crime Hardly Pays Breaking into a 'Texas wine and spirit store the other night, s thirsty thief made off With - what he thought was a perfectly good bottle of whisky. It had been, But that particu- lar bottle had been condemned, the store manager told the po- lice, because it had been con- taminated by rat poison, Burglars are not always lucky enough to ,get away with a good haul even when they have "cracked a crib" successfully, They are constantly making mis- takes. A shoe shop owner laugh- ed when a thief stole sample eases of shoes — all for the left foot. Another blundering burglar broke into a British south coast businessman's office and Was delighted to 'find a half ton safe there, After two hours' Steettu. ous labour he managed to force the lock, Instead of wads of banknotes and piles of coins he 'found a solitary threepeney piece inside the safe. In a Cornish police court it was revealed theta Mari arrested for stealing bier had renioved- Ir