The Brussels Post, 1961-04-06, Page 7LICENSED MOONSHINE - The
bootlegger's "white lightning"
Ga.,.
respectable in Albany,
Ga., where Viking Distillery
markets 90-proof corn Whisky
En glass fruit jars, the same
type container favored by the .
moonshiners. Only this has a•
government tax stamp.
tag each item meticulously in his
company record3, duly noted that
I3enj. F, Farrar bad been assigri,
ed as orderly to Iviejer X, but
in the press of the pawing id ,
fairS neglected to Pete that the
:job didn't &Me off as advertised,
Void( was indifferent about it
then, but 50 years later he got
mad..
,Qn Abe 50th •anniversary of the
Battle of Gettysburg Uncle Sant
assembled the veterans of the
fray for an expense-paid bivouac
on the scene, Surrounded by the
honors that had accrued, these
Grand Army comrades waved
farewell and entrained for are-
union,. All except Frank Farrar,
who was one of the 36 officers
and men retrieved that dey at
nightfall, but who Persistkd , ill
50 years as a historical orderly
off on some !major's errand, Such
is the attitude of things like a
Pentagon that no amount of rea-
son, explanation, and persuasion
could now change the, recorded
word. Gramp's moving; finger
had writ, and that rras that,
Frank went to the reunion be-
cause hewas,,a, bona fide vete-
ran of, •the first engagement at.
Gettysburg - but be paid his
own fare. Far, "this he never truly
forgave Grandfather, and When-
ever he unbraided' tentmate
Grandfather would feet bad and
apologize, „
The other.situation concerned
Harry Anderson. As the first
Confederate onslaught struck the, ,
Union' line,' precizelY where the
16th Maine was .searcely ready,
the pressure 'caused a /ailing
back in such a, way, that.;a smal-
lish knoll came ,abotit the:middle
of the fracaS„ Later on in the
day many prisnnei were taken
by the •South, and this' knoll 'be-
came, a-deciding factor' in 'their
fate. Those on one, side went:to
the' Libby 'Prison; thOse,,on,the,„
other were exchanged or,paroled.
a -few days later. Harry Ander-
son Wai'one ')sf,C thoge
enough to be on the' prison 'side.
Again; the; re, dusiter, and eex-
citement of "the moment left
Grandfather to complete his
company records as best he could.
Those who were later paroled
were 'Checked beat 'and concern:
Jag them his minutes proved' to
be proper. -But. those, who,Isad
been sent back „to,,prison • disaP-„, ,
peared,„, and , there was , no, im
mediate way to know about
them. .
There had alscrbeen-cerisider!'
'Able deserting .alaoUt'. this"thrie ,-
and this was •• one matter every,
clerk •.was expected to record
properly. ,Some_ how, the way the
thing went; Gramp included
Harry'Anderson amongst` those"
officially listed under "deser-
tions."- Harry,, meantime, was in
a case where real desertion
would have ,been wonderful, and
didn't' know that he was 'enjOY-
ing this distinction willy-nilly,
thanks to Gramp. •
So the war went.,alpng, and
one day _after, many. campaigns
Harry Anderson, showed np. He'd
had a hard time; but 'he waS' all'
right, and' he 'rejoined his corm. r
pany with much good feeling all
around, The "boys" liked Harry, .
and were not only „ glad to see
him back, but glad to learn' he'
had never been, a 'deserter. The
war moved along, Harry .with it,
and Grandfather never thought
twice aboUt the entry he had
made the day Harry returned.
Since Harry' had .fitst been listed
as a "deserter," Gramp 'had dutV
fully entered that he had "re-
turned from desertion." This
made sense, bookkeeping-wise,
and ,peace returned,
Then came the pension, and
Harry Anderson was denied a
pension because he had been a
deserter!. He approached-Gramp
with fire in his eye, and Gramp
had to lay clOwn his fartn work,
dress up, and take the steam-
cars to go and swear that his
Own faithfully kept record's Were
Wrong! By John Gould in The
Christian Science Monitor.
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Muskrat-Skinning
ChaMpion Repeats
Drowsily a'drift on the ai5rawi-
big niarsheSHOf the Choptank
Rivet, in the beep South atmos-
phere of. Makylarin'S• Eastern
Shore, the town of Cambridge
(population: 12,000) stirs.
each fall at the belloWs of
duck hunters' shotguns and.
rouses itself in months with R'S
When the' oyster boats put .otit
for the :beds in Chesapeake Bay,
But Cambridge, the seat of' soggy
(70,000 acres of inarahlanci) Dot.,
ehester CountY, really comes
'aliVe in Midwinter,: That's when
littnciteds Of Strangers over
A good Part of the U.S. and Can,
add descend on peaceful Cana-
bridge to take oart in a tradition=
al folk festival that is concern-
ed With the' wholly commercial
'business -Of iiitiSkrat skinning:
A few Weelta ago,"the Musktat
akirinera Were back iii Cain,
bridgC Yorf"the 24th year in a
if* they had doitie'to.lown from
the ..swamps" of Louisiana, the
bogs of 1,7eW Iehey, the fens of
belaWare. They looked On
tolerantly While lumberjacketed
woodsmen Vied at sawing' logs,
perked tip a bit at exhibitions
of Skill, hi setting jumpy, jagged,
jawed steel ttePS, admired the
PkettY teeliagerS' who competed
'for.' the title` of iVit§§ CiUtddthi„
1'054 (winter: bitie,eyede aubutti.
SAT IT WITH MUSIC -a. Oteheitra leader Osiergiii Melathrino hat a sad tong- for Ike burglar.
who haVe saCkaierhil Londloit Wei, His ditty'it dear that there's nothing triOrti
take.
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By Rev.. R, Barclay Warren
BA.,
The iOrd of %Ife and 'Death
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Memory Selection; I am the
resurreotkin, and the life: he that
believeth in Me,, though he were
dead, yet shell he live; and
whosoever liveth and believeth
in Me shall never die, John 11;
Piedmont. ,itg, in the Oreat; Valley
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and small forge, Here, he. could
Make nails, sharpen PM-Points,
mend wagon tires and remedy
'the many accidents common to
th
ne
fpu
rclei r aoonnf it r
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2. *as e o f `badlytla
"bri ttl
et made,tdy,1 haan 01111",
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own. Seldom did the ayerag
farmer have the skill and tool.
to shape a horseshoe and put I
on, or make a grubbing' bee, ale '
'as a result the blacksmith wall
one of the most Important mart
in any community.
Any frontier o o mm Unit y
would have been helpless with-
out blacksmith tools and a man
able to use them. Still, we can•
not say the blacksmith was this
foundation of all pioneer life.
So complex and interlocking
was the world about the stoCk,
ate walls that each skill or toot
. depended upon another. The
Iblacksmith, for example, in Order
to function had to have cooling
tubs; too heavy and unhandy to
bring by pack horse, William
Ramsey bad his made by some
neighbour, most probably Wit-
ham Overall, an early settler
with hteaetof
blacksmith '
c
also
opper' nietiLlse.i. a
tot •fire; he could Ilse seasoned
(hickory, •or even' oak hark; bait
tthelonerblacksnithlike glen-oratinsiforemmwoikedb4withihaoai.
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,Q4e9ftief
hmadear°1nd
any fe :
station
wouldhavehnz*
form of charcoal kiln, usually`
nothing More than a carefully.
arranged stack of split Wood, ,
cunningly laid so that it wouht
burn 'slowly. - From ,"Seedtime
-On the Cuinberland," by Barri-
ette Simpson Arnow.
DEATH TUMBLES THUTOWN,A, car,• rig1:4, lies 'beneath the wreckage of a building after
a slag .heopravcilanche swept down on the mining village of Moulin-Sous-Fleron, Belgium.
, Several bodies have`been located in the rubble.
The Old Testament tells of
three people Who were restored
'to life; the widow's son, (1 Kings
17:22); the son of the Shunarn-
mite, (2 Kings 4;35); and the
man whose body touched the
bones of Elisha, (2 Kings 13:21).
In the New Testament we read
'of Jesus raising the daughter of
,fairus, (Mt. 9:35); the son of
the widow of Hain, (Lu, 7:15);
'and' Lazarus of Bethany. Also,
anany Saints arose at the tuns
of Jesus' resurrection, At the
prayer of Peter, Dorcas was re-
stored to life (cts 940). Rttty-
.ohus was taken up dead 'but
came to life as, Paul ministered
to him, (Acts 20:10). 'When Je-
sus arose from the dead,` He con-
quered life forever and brought
the keys of death and hell with
There are three'` incidents' re-
corded of Se.sus and the amiXY
of Bethany,' Irrthel''firet, -Mary
was commended-, for choosing
the good part as she eat at 'Je-
sus' feet and listened to Kis
word while Martha was cum-
ibered about much serving„That
second incident fOiMe our' lesson.
When Lazarus was sick they
Sent tar Jesus. Too many have
little• or no• thought ,fhe Jesus till
trouble sallies. It is well to have
a previous acquaintance with
,Him. In the third incident we
see Mary's great expresiilion of
gratitude as the re-united 'family
ate together,
Jesus is Lord of DU and death.
'Recently heard- ap evangelist
before a large audience, offer
$5'.00 to anyone who could guar,
antee that he i,vould''b4`
tomorrow. No one moved. If he
had asked, "Will-those who hope
to be alive ....?.tomOrrOW, "'stand,"
doubtless all would ;have Stood.
If he had aSked, '"Will,
who expect to be alive tomor-
row, stand," l most, if .„not
would have stood. But not a soli-
tary person could guarantee that
lie would be alive. Our lives are
in God's hands. But Jesus is also
Lord of death. In conquering
death, He has opened the way
for us all to rise from the grave.
Even now He can give :'to' ins
eternal life which indeed is hea-
venly.
Grandpa's :Records
Caused Trouble,
When the lines were being
drawn for the Battle 4f GettyS-
WM, the 18th Maine Volunteers
Were the first Union soldiers to
engage the South, Company I be-
ing composed mostly of boys
front our nelghborhgod, and my
grandfather, a sergeant therea
at the time, He had been doing
the work of company clerk, but
as of that critical moment in
history his job felt to pieces
around him and was never the
same again.
The history book describes the
engagement,' one in which the
eventual outcome of the Gettys
burg contact hinged, and tells
how the gallant 16th Maine held
back the tide long enough, for a
more orderly arrangement of the
larger forces, In the evening the
book says the regiment was with-
drawn, ", . . if 36 officers and
men may be called a regiment."
Grandfather, facing the book-
work after the excitement was
over, was himself a boy of - 19,
schooled as far as the second
book, and had no occult method
of foreseeing what was going, to
happen in later times. He there,
fore called the shots as he saw
them, and set up a couple of
situations which caused him keen
embarrassment in years to come.
Inasmuch as' the volunteers
came from around here eery
body. knew each other, and in
some ~ instances were close
friends. One such was Frank
Farrar, officially listed as Benj,
F,, but nobody except. Uncle
Sam ever called Ian Benjamin.
Frank and Grandfather were
tentmates, and my own father
was named after Frank.„when
he was born in '78. This should
shoW that` the two were close,
and In the general posthaste rot
approaching the great.iGettyp
burg engagement; , Frank had
drawn special duty. It was One
of those spur-of-the-moment
things. Frank was assigned to
Nome passing officer:net of his
nwn regiment, as an orderly.
Immediately after, the ,officer
*lipped himself on his hcirse,
applied the rowels, and dis-
appeared out of Frank's life
forever, leaving him an orderly
without an officer and nothing
to do but go back to his com-
O
any and pick up where he left
ff.
Grandfaiher, labortAIY.
belt. The corn belt is the cradle
of the.U.S, hog producing indus-
try.
The price support polidy, man-
datory under 'the Agricultural
Stabilization Act,. is one of a
number of advantages Canadian
hog:producers enjoy.*Others are
„ the premium' paid dik gra'ae
hogs; higher average price per
cwt.; lower. cost ' of prpduction
due to the higher number of pigs
per, litter (weaned and raised)` In
C an a d a compared' With the
United States.
'Real Tough Way To
Stop The Noise I
Bang! Bang! Bane went= the
pile driver, as construction crewel:
toiled day andnight in the
Tokyo street. In his lodging*
above, 21-year-old Mitsuru 'Sas.
agawa, boning up for his third
and probably last attempt to
pass his law-school entrance ex:
ams,, angrily picked up hia books
and'moved Out to*a quieter room.
several blocks, away.
,Igo sooner• had he moved than
the 'banging started again.* Near
his window, another construction
gang' with- another and bigger
pile driver started digging a new
sewer.
Mitsuru stood it as long as
possible. Then, one day last
month he figured out a despe-
rate way to escape the disgrace
of ,failing his exams and at the
same time lodge a dramatic pro-
test against the noise., Racing
into the street, 'the young student
placed his head on the block of
the pile driver just as the hglf-
. ton weight came hurtling down.
Bang! Blacksmithing
In Early Times
The skills and tools needed' to
do at least 'the rudimentsf•tef
blacksmithing were not'pedfiliar
to the pioneer farmer. The iron •
of the day, labouriously cut and'.
'wrought by charcoal fire, and
water-driven hammers, was sold
in long bars of a thickness suit-
able to the making of tenpenny
nails. The farmer, who wished
to save a blacksmith bill, would,
using the fireplace .as a forge
and a block of wood covered
with a thick piece of iron as an
anvil, cut his own nails in the
evening with chisel and hammer.
Most farmers, save those in, san-
dy Tidewater, had to have at
least enough iron for horse and
ox-shoe nails, and the thrifty
New Englander could earn a bit
of money by buying iron and
selling or exchanging nails.
The well-to-do farmer on the
Have. You Noticed'?The more
h&autiful the valley vista the
more likely•, a superhighway will
'slice through it,
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' Because• it takes more feed to
put On a pound of fat than'a'
pound of lean meat, high quality
-Canadian hogs have an addition-
al advantage, :Mr. Bennett point-
ed out.
' United States demand for top
quality cuts from Canada, par-
' "titularly hams andplaacks,-1,01r..,
„ Bennett said, 'works to the' ad,
„ventage of the Canadian hog pro-
ducer. "Apparently U.S. consum-
ers . associate "leanness" with
'Irian'S'.and backs 'and: therefore,
these cuts bring a-substantial
• • premium in price oteiy the re-
mainder 'of the hog."
Because of U.S. demand for
lean pork products, some Cana-
-dint "cuts go to the _p.5, even
when the Toronto price is con-
siderably higher than the' pH&
• at Chicago, Exports of pork'cuts
to the. U.S. in' 1960 averaged
about % - million ppunds• per
week. • • •
Canadian hogs, he said, are of
better quality .on the average
than U.S. hogs. This is reflected
in average lard production.'Pack-
ers in Eastern Canada obtain a
yield of about 18 pounds of lard ,
per hog, This is rendered from
about 24 pounds of fat trimmings,
. including the leaf lard. Ameri-
can packers' average yield of
lard per hog is about.29 pounds,
rendered from about 39 pounds
of trimmings, the leaf lard in-
cluded. The difference is reflect-
ed in the average prices of top
grade hogs at Chicago and. To-
ronto during 1960 where Cana-
dian 'dressed. carcasses brought
almost $3 more than the Ameri-
can pride,
tressed. Sharon Robbins, 16, a
sophomore at Cambridge High).
The muskratters didn't really
get interested, though, until the
event for which many of them
had come: The muskrat-skinning
• contest. Twenty-five contestants
showed up this year with razor-
keen skinning knives and a• deep-
rooted passion to demonstrate
that they could peel the pelts off
five muskrats faster than any
man alive.
The,new champion: A 41.year-
old Sewards, Md., trapper named
Russell, Insley, whose, father was
a three-time winner and who had
won twice before fiiinself. Hie
record time for • skinning five
muskrats: 1 minute, 17.9 seconds.
During ,thtsfirstrnine menthe of
this fiscal year„the,,Farm Credit
Corporation loaned $56,000,000 to,
farmere across Canada.
In the next:three months, this
figure will likely "be stretched' to
00,000,000. .,MereOver, it 'is' esti=
mated that•duringethe,nextrfiscal,
year loariss1 nill.**1 474•990:00Q,
This landesiinea the popularity
of the. new F
,
d i t Act
which was, introduced to October,
1959, to bridge a widerrinreaP"
in the agricultural rfindustry.'• Hee, .
sponse teethis„,„&et,A..even,arearei •
significatitovhen, it IL„relaized
that in 055,56; loans' extended
by, 'the 'fornier 'Farm
Loan Board .,,were,. only'„, about
$8,000,000„, , !r- •-•
Why this suciderri upsurge in
farm credit?
A. n er'iar
brought to bear' on this 'whole
Matter. When' farm credit was
under the Department of Fi-,
nance, thez:e;7,vaa riatirt3a14end t..„
ency to resist „releasing 4 large„,„
amounts -Of money 'in this mari-
ner. On the other hand;' 15'r-egg-ft
thinking!isptcil -use 'eredit .tor-help
competent farmers to ae-forganize
their units and to put them on a
profitable basis thereby,con-
, tributing to the economic Weft-
being of the agtieultutal'industry
as a whole:
They are not dealing carelessly, •
with the taxpayers' mone,yin ad-,
ministering the new Act. Just
the contrary. With every Than,
the FCC counsels the farmer on
how to work out a program that
will not, only assure ,repayment
of the debt, but will raise the
income from the farm.
'
In this connection, seine farm-
' ers consulting the FCC receive
larger loans than they originally
sought.
That's because the corpora-
tion's highly trained staff can
often outline ways of boosting
the overall income by a bolder
investmeent than the borrower
had foreseen,
This, of course, works in re-
verse aid an application is turned
down if it appears unreasonable
according to circumstances, In
the first nine months of this fis-
cal year, 7,224 applications were
dealt with. One-quarter of them
were rejected or withdrawn be-
fore or after appraisal.
Loans vary in size up to the
maximum of $27,500. The aver-
age loan froth April 1, 1960, un,
,til the end of the year was
$10,583.
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LIFE IN AFRICA - Woman in
Embu, Kenya, performs an un-
conscious ballet as she frightens
birds away from her husband's
rice plot.' The field was -deve-
loped under a government,plot
to create farmland for the use
of Kikuya tribesmen. So four
acres were given to each man
and the new crop planted.
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Farni credit, works harid-in-
glove with other legislation that
haS been introduced in the past
three Years particularly the
Agricultural Stabilization Act
and the Crop Insurance Act
and it was not by accident that
the' Farm Credit Act was passed
after the other two. it is the
solution tolhe• probleni faced by
Canadian fatiners who were un-
able to modernize •their units be.,
' dente of lack of capital on suit
able feigns'. That it is meeting'
this need is evidenced by the
figures produced to date.
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High quality hogs give Cana=
diait producers a decided ad,
Vantage in competing on thiS con-
tinent, according to Ralph K.
Bennett, chief of merchandising
in the LiVestock Division, Canada
DePattMent of Agricillture,
Mr; Bennett recently told the
annual meeting of the Nova See,.
tie ;Federation of Agriculture
MatitiMe arid Ontario hog
iit'acitidere were "on reasonably
equal terms" Competitively, 'With
Prodtiteit in the American corn
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