The Brussels Post, 1949-4-6, Page 7The
Give -Away
JOHN T, KIERAN
'1'ha ' little bag was- Plunger'.;
chief •oncerrt. As he eat down at
the table he placed it carefully
between his feet. Then he looked
at his two companion% with the
elated expression they knew of old,
His face always lighted up like
that when one of the ambitious
dreams had hold of Ulm.
"What's up, ?.'lunge r?" one of
them asked with a 0211110. Is it a
mint or a diamond mine this tittle."
Plunger looked amour.] quickly.
"It's not a dhunond mine. But
it's something. like. Only better."
The second of the two men
turned partly away. Ile• was in no
mood to listen to one of .the glow-
ing, never completed plots that had
given the young fellow his nick-
name. But the !lest man lead him
on.
"Better titan a diamond urine?"
he asked with mock incredulity.
"Yes. A whole sackful of rocks
as big, as your fist. And only a
flimsy wail safe in the way, To-
night—"
He stopped short as he noticed
that a stranger was shantering to-
ward their table. Plunger's first
companion nodded to him and then
said to !'lunger: "Don't mind hint.
FIe's all right. He's cracked a few
himself. '?'hat's Al Dryser."
Dryser sat down in the fourth
chair and Plunger recovered his
enthusiasm with a rush, Rather it •
increased. FIe was in great com-
pany. A successful cracksman,
that's what Al Dryser was, or at
least he had been before they
caught him.
"I've got the address here,"
Plunger went on, taking a slip of
paper from his pocket. "The maid
put me 0/110 it. A whole. sackful
of shiners!"
"What's all this, young man?"
It was Dryser who spoke. Plainly
he was disapproving the boy's ex-
citement
"Why a swell chance for a rich
haul! The maid said there was
"I've got the address here," Plunger
went on. taking a slip of paper from
his pocket._
fifty grand lit the sack. Fifty
grand! And mine for a little
work—"
'"Little, but dangerous, young
fellow."
"Not this job. The maid said
there wasn't even a houseman on
guard. They .thought nobody knew
about the rocks bein' hid there and
didn't avant to draw attention to
them,"
"Don't tell nuc there ain't no dan-
ger. I've been in this business, see?
And I'm advisin' you to stay clear
of it."
"!tory do 3•ou think you're gonna
get by with it? You don't know
notion' about crackin' safes."
Plunger reached for the black
bag and opened it proudly. "See
them tools? They told me how to
use 'cm where I got 'em. Besides,
this wall safe ain't lunch ntore'n a
tin can."
Dryser•'a lip curled, "What did
they know about Jt? If you get
the rocks you gotta divvy with 'est.
If you don't get 'est they ain't out
nothin'. }feeds they ,win, tails you
lose. No wonder they're willin" to
have you try. I know those birds."
Suddenly pc !cancel forward and
looked directly into Plunger's face.
'Listen, young Duni. Let me
speak to you like a father, I'm sur
old hand at this business. I know'
all its griefs and false hopes. You
don't even leilnw' its first principles."
Plunger recrossed his legs nerv-
ously. Ile kicked the hag under the
table then he puscd his month,
regretful) and Ca .1 the wadded
address alio to the floor.
"Geess maybe I'd better be guin'
home was all he said as he arose
and walked away.
Drtscl sat There inecUlativeb
until the other two had left 'Ilteu
he reached down for the addreas .
slip, Carefully he smoothed ,r,.,.
outi Richly, h 'srm....1 thei little''
Mark hag under hl 111,11, palled •
his' cap lower oyer his Nee and
slatted out,
He'll Get Ribbed For This Boner—'.footsie, a O-ntouchs-old
terrier; looks at more bones than he's seen In a long time—
and all of them, except one, his own. He's studying an X -Ray
of a 4% inch pork chap.hone he swallowed—which was removed
al a clinic with the forceps shown holding it. V1'1ien 'footsie
carte out of the anaesthetic he barked happily and licked the
L'et's hand.
TIIEFA1M FRONT
Although not many of tltent play
the horses or shoot dice, every
farmer is a natural -bora gambler.
He has to be, or he would not
keep on matching wits with such
unpredictable things as hungry
bugs, bad weather --to say nothing
of that cold beam you see in a
livestock buyer's eye.
Such being the case, says• Jim
Roe, it stakes it all the harder to
understand why so many apparently
smart farm operators pass up a
sure thing year after year. That
sure thing is a sweet clover
in ter -crop.
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Time after time such an inter -
crop has proved its ability to give
a terrific increase in yield—an in-
crease reaching, in the case of corn,
as high as 15 to 25 bushels per acre.
This, in return for a planting cost
of three or four dollars per acre.
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Just why should this be? Well,
high-priced seed is part of the
answer. But sweet clover costs
only from a third to a half as much
as the highest priced clovers. And
ten POUNDS of that sweet clover
seed can produce twenty TONS.
green weight iiteluding roots, of
some of the finest green manure
you ever turned tinder.
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As an intercrop—sown in small
grain this spring. plowed down next
spring for corn—it doesn't take the
field out of cultivation for a 17t!n-
tHe. It's a bonus, pure and simple,
and easy 10 collect.
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Lots of well-intentioned folks
-have been scared out of trying to
grow sweet clover because they
failed to get stands. Nine chances
out of ten' their only trouble was
lack of lime in the soil, as sweet
clover is more sensitive to this
than most of the other clover
varieties in general use.
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Proof of this was seen in a field
on a farm I've beard of. A couple
of years ago . this field was split
for a season—half in corn, half in
wheat. In August the wheat half
was listed: Then' the field was
switched back and farmed as one
unit. A. year ago sweet clover was
seeded on the entire field. Ott the
limed side the sweet clover grew
rank and strong. On the unlisted
side you couldn't see a single clover
pian(.
So test the soil in your small
grain field. If it needs lime, add it.
Then inoculate the clover seed, and
seed it carefully. Broadcast fairly
early in the spring, so that a freeze
or two will cover the seed for you.
Or sow shallowly, on a first seed
bed.
Sweet clover makes a slow growth
in the spring. But by the first fall
its taproot is big and deep. The
crop stakes nearly all its nitrogen
that first season. So, for a green
manure. crop, it inay as well be
plowed clown then and there.
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Some like to plow it down in.
the fall, some the next spring. Ex-
periments made over in Iowa indi-
cated that sweet clover adds the
most nitrogen to the soil when
plowed down between May 3 and
,fay 18th. Next largest amount
was when the clover was plowed
down bchveen November 1st and
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The best all --round time to plow
it down—to kill all the plants and
yet save as Hutch nitrogen as you
can—seems to be fairly early itt
the spring when the clover is knee-
high or a little shorter.
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So, when planning your farm
work for the year, it might be an
idea to give some thought to this
sweet clover proposition. It will
give you free nitrogen, excellent en-
silage and lush midsummer pas-
turage. Its taproots will punch
holes in tight sub -soils. The leaves
and stents slow down the spring
and fall rains, protecting the surface
soil. And those same leaves and
stems. when plowed down, can
stake tight soils loose, wet soils
better drained, and poor soils richt
and' fertile again.
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In short, according to those who
know, sweet clover is the cheapest
fertilizer you can buy—and just
about the surest sure thing on which
you ever risked a dollar.
FUNNY MANS ,
Years ago, when Mark Twain was
. doing his best to entertain his guests
at a dinner patty, a woman turned
to the young daughter of the humor-
ist and said: "Your father is a
very funny man."
"Yes," responded the child, "when
we have company."
BY Tom GREGORY
IF YOU HAVE AN ULD
SPRING IN .THE HOUSE
--SUCH AS THE KIND
THAT WAS USED IN THE
HAND -WOUND PHONOGRAPHS -
YOU CAN UTILIZE IT TO GOOD
ADVANTAGE AS A SELF AD'
JUSTINO 800K END. •
SIMPLY FASTEN THE
,SPRING TO THE SHELF S0
THAT THE FREE END COiLS
AGAINST THE LAST 800K,
PROVIDING SUFFICIENT
PRESSURE TO KEEP THE
BOOKS NEATLY iN PLACE.
T1415 WILL PUT A DEFINITE
END TO THAT ANNOYING TEN.
DE CY THEY HAVE OF SLUMPING
DOWN UPON HEIR SIDES
HE- CHANNELLED PARi Olt A TELESCOPING CURTAIN ROD,
NAILED TO THE UNDERSIDE OF A BOOKSHELF TOP AND FITTED.'
WITH A FOLLOWER, IS ANOTHER
EFFECTIVE DEVICE FOR KEEPING
BOOKS UPRIGHT, MAKE THE FOL.
LOWER OUT OF TWO STRIPS OF
HEAVY SHEET ERASE, BENT
AT RIGHT ANGLES NEAR THE
UPPER ENDS AND SOLDERED
TOGETHER TO FORM A••"T.
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GARDEN NOTES
SAVE YOUR MONEY
It is a waste of stoney, time and
effort in trying to grout flowers
and shruhs only suitable for the
Southern States or tate warner
parts of Europe, in most parts of
Canada. Our climate, soil and other
conditions are not suitable. To
guard against discouragement one
is advised to stick to those flowers,
shrubs and vegetables that are
specially recommended for Cana-
dian conditions, These are the var-
ieties and types listed in an Cana-
dian seed catalogues. These have
ail been tested under Canadian cot-
ditions.and recommended by Cana-
dian authoritise.
INFORMALITY USUALLY
BEST
In garden layouts, the informal
type is almost invariably the best.
This is built around a piece of lawn.
Even in thetinycity very • gardens
this drakes the most effective treat-
ment, the level stretch of green
grass setting off the flowers, shrubs,
vines and trees which surround it.
If at all possbile one should avoid
straight lines in these surrounding
beds of shrubbery and flowers,
though rigid fence lines and drive-
ways sometimes melte this difficult.
Experts advise, however, a carv-
ing front to the flower beds rather
Man a inmight one, and both flow-
ers 10 this and any shrubbery
alrould In' planted in clumps rather
than ill tows. Generally small flow-
er•., and stealer shrubbery are
brought to the front, though there
should be a little variation in this
rule just for variety.
SOIL MADE TO ORDER
ff very wet and heavy it may be
necessary to drain the garden either
by tile drains or shallow, open
trenvhes. Heavy soils oil also
greatly benefit if manure, rotted
leaves and all other vegetable natter
is dug in. Some people tnalte a prac-
tiee to sow half the garden with
801110 green crop like rye, buckwheat
or clover and dig in when well
grown. Even a good crop of weeds
will help if dug under. All waste
matter like pea pods, carrot tops,
corn stalks, etc. ,should be dug in
or rotted down on a compost heap.
Strangely enough, the same
treatment is good for light, sandy
soil. The rotted vegetable refuse
dug in adds what is technically
known as humus, puts some body
into the soil so it will hold moisture
better.
INSULT
A
man obviously, iud a
nd1
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tion
O '
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tion from the night before stepped
up to a bar and sputtered through
trembling lips, "Give—give the
something for a hangover."
"What do you want?" asked the
bartender.
The sufferer could only blurt:
"Tall—cold—and fuil of gin."
"Sir," snapped a drunk standing
next to him, "you are referring to
the woman I love!"
Where There
The IA ahhanm Watch La Ct lin.;
a
teas uteular "proudly presenter a
nen model, its 33 millionth watch,
Last month Waltham went into
bankruptcy, and 2,300 men lost their
jobs.
Forbes Magazine pins responsi-
bility for the crack-up on tate pre-
vious management and declares the
business has been running down for
25 years.
Labor leader, and ton many
others have long been critical of
management, decrying its import-
ante to a business, protesting "big
salaries and privileges." But ask
those 2.300 ex-Waltbatnites about-
that
boutthat now.
For workers, stockholders, con-
sumers and the public at large, the
value of able management is lin-
measurable and its price is in-
consequential.
Reflecting that fundamental weak•
ness is the fact that it did not ap-
parently keep pace is modernize.
tion. To quote Forbes: "Waltham
failed to provide funds to keep its
machinery. up-to-date. After the
war, when other American watch-
makers had the benefit of the best
of tools and production equipment,
they were able to run circles around
Waltham costs. The latter tried to
make decades -old tools compete
with new. They hadn't provided
adequately for depreciation and re-
placement. Imagine if Ford were
still using the same equipment to
turn out its cars that they had 20
or 30 year's ago."
Not only for management, but for
all the critics of business, and the
planners of taxes, the need for con -
Is No Profit!
-4: r renewal of a bu,i,m M .-the
plan,nng, the sating and the attend -
ng of today—to snake possible
a profit tomorrow is fundamental.
Labor mime, s mord 10 timer graven
in stone the truth, "is`hcrr their rti
t,o profit. there can be no jobs."
ututg lad in tat 1111er lee/idea
tnntplallted to his teacher that he
had a terrific stomach ache. The
teac}tet' seat hint to see the princi
pal• Wle n the little tyke returned to
the classroom, he walked in such
a manner that his stomach stuck
way. When Ilse rather asked
hint wiry he was walking that tray,
e replied: "T told the principal 1
had a stunted' ache and he said
if 1 .dould stick it out till noon he'd
drive me home."
Merry Menagerie-Sywa11 Disney
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't wish you'd go on a dist, Met.,
You're squashing us!"
CANADA PRODUCES SOME OF. THE WORLD'S FINEST SALMON
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When you taste salmon, exceptionally delitions and delicately flavoured, chances are it conies from the silver hordes spawned dna
the mighty Fraser and other mountain rivers of Canada's Pacific Coast..
Uihj Seagram's sells Canadn limit
Tris is an adaptation of one of, a series of ad-
vertisements designed by The House of Seagram
'to promote the prestige of Canada and help sell
Canadian products to the markets of the world.
The campaign is appearing in magazines and
Newspapers published in various languages and
circulated throughout the world. The peoples
of many lands are told about the
quality of Canadian products and
see Canadian scenes illustrating
these products._
The advertisements are in keep -
lug with the belief of The House
of Seagram that the future of each
business enterprise in Canada is,
inextricably bound up in the future
of Canada itself; and that it is in the interest of
every Canadian maniifaoturer to help the sale
of all Canadian products in foreign markets.
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dian industries but also puts -money in the,pocket
of elresy Canadian citizen. One
dollar of every three ape earn comes
to us as a result of foreign trade.
The more we can sell abroad
the more prosperous we win be
at home. 11 is with this objective
that these advertisements are being
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