The Brussels Post, 1950-12-20, Page 7Agagnst TCh[ree
By Richard 11. Wilkinson
,hint Orson had ridden :'lot miles
on horseback to commit murder.
Slouched in -his saddle, one haul
resting carelessly on his thigh near
the butt of the six shooter, he
watched from beneath the bl'itlt of
his hat as the boy came toward
ltim.
"This Mare Newell's place?" he
asked.
The boy nodded. "My brother
will be hack any minute. I'm Davie
Newell. Are you Mr, Dumont,
the cattle buyer?"
Without changing his expression
Jim Orson said: "Yeah, 'Pm him."
"We've Leet) expectin' you. Cotte
on inside and wait. It's cooler"
"I noticed," Orson remarked,
•"that you had a rifle in your hands
when you first opened the door.
Expectin' trouble?"
The boy's face clouded. "I was
afraid it might be Jules Snyder.
He's promised to get Marc."
"Why is he out to get your bro-
ther?"
The boy hesitated. "Because
Marc quit Iris gang. Mare used to
hang around with the Snyder
bunch, but when they began t•ustlin'
and ]thin', he quit 'em.
"Right after 'Marc quit, a roan
named Tom Orson wash
sot and
Jules let it out that Marc done 11.
The story spread an' nobody dared
deny it because they're afraid of
Snyder."
Jim Orson thought: "The
boy's lying. He's like his
brother—a liar and a killer. It
was Marc Newell who killed
Tom, and it's Marc Newell I'm
going to settle with fee the
crime."
"You'll like my brother," Davie
was saying. "He's swell, He—"
Faintly the sound of hoofbeats
came to them. Davie set down the
pan of potatoes and scurried to a
window, turned hack into the roost,
white-faced. Without a word he
Jane was beautiful. She at-
tracted men, lots of them, She
was, in fact, a bit reckless
about it all, and :refused flatly
to take the matter seriously.
snatched up the Winchester rifle.
Three men had drawn rein be-
fore the gate. .Halfway down the
walk Davie was facing them de-
fiantly.
"You git nut of here, Jules
Snyder!"
The leader of the trio, obviously
Snyder, said placatingly: "Put
clown the gun, kid. We only want
to have a talk with your brother,"
"You want to kill hint!" the boy
cried shrilly. ".I ain't gonna let
you. Marc -never done nothin' to
you.,'
Behind Jules Snyder one of the
riders had drawn his gun, It was
one against three, a bay against
a Crib of killers.
Jinn Orson stepped through the
kitchen door. ITis hand was on his
gun.
"All right," lie said. "This snakes
it more even. I'm backing the
kid's play."
Snyder's eyes bulged. "Who
the devil are you?"
"I'm Orson, Jim Orson.
Brother of the man you killed,
Snyder!"
Snyder's reaction was a dead
giveaway.
The Ulan who had drawn his gun
suddenly levelled it, Orson's hand
whipped to his hip. He got his own
weapon clear and shot as lead
spurted from. the horseman's six-
shooter.
Snyder gwore savagely and went
Inc his own gun. Orson shot again.
Two of the horsemen were clown,
the third streaking up the road.
Orson, smoking gun in hand,.
bent over the two still figures, The
boy watched 1h110, wide-eyed, awed,
"Son, 1'11 ride into town and get
the sheriff. Yon stay here. When
your brother conies back, explain
What's' happened."
The boy nodded, chocking'. "Y—
you're not lefts Dumont? -You're
,fiat Orson?"
"That's right," Orson smiled and
patted the boy's' head. "Come 200
miles on horseback to get a lesson
in courage."
„You're going hack now?"
"Chat's right, I'm going back.
You see, son, I acenmplished v :tat
T come for."
Thanks for 'the Memory... In
Maftinslnu•g, W. V- t , Maria nd and
i3essie 'Greenfield were divorced
after 19 years of marriage, 17
Children,
They Built A Wall
Across Africa? . .
lnnvi,:nt explorer Wendell Phil-
lip, believe, that gulden ornaments
may he found in the buried city of
Timms, Southern Arabia, where
the t hn'eu of Shelia is said to have
lurid her court.
Ainhum history describes Thane
as u city of forty temples, and the
explorer is convinced that deep ex-
cavations would reveal one of the
worhl's greatest archaeological trea-
sure houses,
"There are se feral outer "lost
cities" in the world.
It was only a few years ago
that the Caspian Sea was so affect-
ed by drought that its level dropped
and revealed the last traces of the
ancient city of Harabashager, be-
lieved to be 10,000 years old,
Strange Race
During operations that ended in
the liberation of Abyssinia during
the war, I:.A.:F,pilots reported the
existence of what they believed to
be a lost .city in a mountain range.
Robert Bagnall, one of the pilots,
was forced down near it because of -
a bad oil leak. He and his navi-
gator. were surrounded by strange
dark-skinned people,
They understood Arabic, badheard
nothing about the war, and had
never heart) - of the Emperor of
Abyssinia or the capital, Addis
Ababa,
"From the top of a nearby ridge,"
Bagnall told intelligence officers,
• "we were' shown a perfect miniature
Roman city, completely different
from any city we had ever seen. It
was one of the most astounding
sights
one could imagine."
But to prove that he did not
"imagine" it, Bagnall produced a
coin which had becu given hint by
one .of the natives. Experts identi-
fied it as a Roman coin of 2,000
years ago.
Most fabulous "lost city" would
be that of Farini, somewhere in
the midst of the waterless Pala -
hart Desert—if somebody could
locate it.
[t is Wanted• after an old ex-
plorer, Farini, who is said to have
found traces of a buried township
in the desert. •
This ties up with a strange Afri-
can legend to the effect that hun-
dreds of years before Christ men
built a. great wall across Africa
to guard the jewels, precious
metals and valuable woods that
they exported to build Solomon's
temples, and that Zimbabwe, an
ancient city of Rhodesia, and Far-
ini, were two of the fortresses that
formed part of the wall.
Ptolemy's Port
An expedition set out to find
Farini in 1949. An area 200 miles
long by 70 wide was carefully
explored, but no trace of the lost
city of Africa was found.
There are "lost cities" 0 Brl-
taiu, ton, One of then) is known
as Ptolemy's Port, and is thought
to lie under the waters of More-
cambe Bay, .Lancashire.
Fishermen say that soundings
have revealed what may be ancient
harhour walls,
The Roman port is 'marked on an
ancient map known as "Ptolemy's
map" and is also mentioned briefly
in old history books, but its exact
location has never been decided.
BLOOD IRON VARIES
Scientsts report finding that the
amount of iron in the blood plasma
. of healthy individuals undergoes a
regular day -and -night variation, fall-
ing front a high point in the morning
to a low point in the "evening. In
tests nharle on nineteen healthy
• Persons, they deternnined that the
mean level of iron hi the plasma
was about 66 per cent at 5 P.M,
and had risen to about 148 per cent
at 9 A.M. The daily rhythm of
plasma iron appears to be related
to activity and sleep. as two Scandi-
navian scientists have found that the
rhythm is shifted in night workers,
with iron levels highest in the after-
noon or evening after waiting and
lowest in the morning after working.
Similarly the scientists, have found
no definite cycle in normal persons
with irregular hours.
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9.14.149410
Recognition of the havoc caused
by soil erosion is by 110 means new,
It is more than 150 years ago that
a famous statesman said "—he is
the greatest patriot who stops the
most gullies".
But in the years that have elapsed
between his day and ours, golly
erosion has increased tea -fold, be-
cause of intensified farming and
lack of forsight cut the part of the
fanners.
Erosion .has been going On since
the beginning of time, and it will
go on till the world ends, But natur-
al erosion is slow and not partic-
ularly harmful, for Nature is
continually making amends for the
damage she does. It is only when
careless farming practices allow the
water which -is the principal cause
of erosion to flow haphazardly ac-
ross unprotected land, erosion gets
the upper hand. Result: gullies.
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There are three train types of
gullies: those caused by water flow-
ing over a bank and undermining
it, those caused by a stream of water
flowing across insufficiently pro-
tected lamp, and those caused by the
alternate freezing and thawing of
the land. The ratter type to most
commonly seen in those parts where
winter temperatures fluctuate
around the freezing point, and rain
is more common than snow.
The first step hi a plan to re-
claim gullies is to put a check on
those that exist. Yott must remem-
ber, however, that prevention is
more economical than cure, and
keep on tine alert to .eliminate those
unsound farming practices which
lead to the formation of gullies.
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Here is a rather cheap, easy
way to check a gully that is shallow
and has a fairly small slope. Strips
of sod are placed in trenches dug•
at intervals of about five feet along
the gully. The run-off water will
deposit rich silt on the upper sides
of these checks, thus in tante the
golly will be filled. The deposits
may be planted with heavy grass,
such as Bluegrass, clover or red -
top.
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The gully may also be completely
sodded. Although more expensive,
results will be quicker and pernlan-
SOW
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ARNETT
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CLIP. FASTEN CLIP BELOW THE PULLY,AS PICTURI C
est. The sods may be held in place
by wire and stakes. An ititportant
thing to remember is never to re-
move sods from areas where erosion
may start, leaving you in 'no bet-
ter position than before.
A stronger type of check, fur
larger gullies, is the dam made front
woven wire of the type used to
fence livestock. These dams should
be built with greater care in pro-
portion as they are used in steeper
and deeper gullies. Set a row of
posts along the curve of the dant at
four -foot intervals, two or three feet
deep. After that, dig a trench
six inches wide and deep along the
upstream side of the posts Place
the wire in the trench, fastening it
securely to the posts, with the wide
mesh at the bottom.
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An apron should be conse.ueted
of - sod or brush on the downstream
side, If brush is used, place a
layer of fine mulch under it to act
as a bond with the earth.
Place the brush with the butt
ends through the wire, hi overlap-
ping layers as shown in the dia-
gram. Stakes may be used to hold
1t securely in place,
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The bath should be rounded off
in the region • of the dant, in order
to prevent crumbling. To complete
the structure, place layers of straw
mulch and loam—tamped to a 2:1
slope—to act as a seal on the up-
stream side.
•
A more permanent and efficient
structure is trade of stone. These
darts arc especially used in areas
where rock is readily obtainable. Of
course, similar dams may be built
in concrete or brick, is desired.
4, 5 *
Dig a trench one foot deep in the
selected spot, to form the base of
the dam. The rocks should be placed
in rows across the gully; overlap-
ping in a shingle effect. Flat rocks,
or flagstones, are best. If irregular
stmlea utast be used, encase the
dant in woven fence wire to hold
the rocks in place, or, if preferred,
they may be fastened together with
mortar.
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Keep the centre of the dam
lower than the sides to form a spill-
way—this is true of any fairly
large dans, Make an apron of flat
rocks countersunk ht the gully and
extending for three or four feet
below the structure.
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Of course, the three basic types
of checks mentioned above only
scratch the surface of the subject.
Hard and fast rules do not apply,
Rather, the dans—which range
from the simple sod or brush checks
to full size earth or concrete struc-
tures—must vary tvitlh the ability
anti imagination of the builder,
Always keep in mind the suitability
of the proposed darn in regard to
the size and nature of the gully,
Shopper's Helper—Mrs, Bette
Noneuian demonstrates a new-
ly -developed adding machine
which is mounted on the handle
of a market basket. By check-
ing off the price of each item as
it is selected, the shopper can
de:ermine just how ]such
money she'll have to pay at the
cashier's counter, where the
items are again added.
the availability of materials and
the length of time the structure
should last to give the required
protection.
And. above all, remember that
this article deals only with checking
erosion once it has well started. A
few hundred dollars put into seed
and fencing to check areas open to
erosion may well save you a thou-
sand -dollar reclamation project in
the -future.
YOUNG EXPLORERS
Something more than an outlet
for surplus energy is provided for
British boys by the British Schools
Exploring Society, of which the
Duke of Gloucester is patron -in -
chief, The Society may next year
send an expedition to Northern
Canada.
This year, 55 boys, with a leader,
five assistant leaders and two med-
ical officers set off on an expedition
to survey and map an area near
Bodo on Norway, They worked
like real explorers, and have come
back with valuable new information
about zoological, botanical and
geological conditions in the area.
They set up meteorological stations;
and, dividing up into two groups,
tirade 5 -day marches over the'
mountains from their base camp.
A longer march, for 14 days, was
made by a selected group of volun-
teers to explore mountains and
glaciers. The boys ;aveu constructed
a foot -bridge over a river, saving
themselves ]ouch labour it) trans-
porting stores and equipment,
The age§ of the boys ranged from
16% to 18; and of course they had
to be fairly rugged as well as en-
thesiastic,
Another ,party of 23 British
schoolboys have just acme back
front a three months tour of Africa,
where they travelled nearly 9,000
miles, visiting lead, z'nc. diamond
and gold mines. Some of thein re-
turned with native spears s
and
shields; and all of them had ihad exc
ing tales to tell. This tour was
arranged by a South African fund
which encourages British boys to
travel overseas,
Other Papers
Pull Boners Too!
TM-
A Sweet Meat
Many of you have tcguin [daced
your orders fur a half ora whole
Lee for your freezer. Your favourite
cut mlglu be sirloin of bee ar stand-
ing rip, roast of bee. --•Des Moine,;
grocery advertisement.
What Better for Firemen?
A bunch of smoldering rags was
quickly doused by the Washington
Bose. Company on their arrival
in a bucket of water.—Coatesville
11 ecord.
Modern Alchemy
The experiment Inas succeeded.
The four rabbits are thriving and
are beginning to turn to vegetables.
—Hutchinson News -Herald.
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Good Riddance!
The soprano, who is well known
in music circles, reported to police
that her jewel case containing
$5,000 worth of germs was stolen.
—Colorado Springs Gazette Tele-
graph.
ECONOMY HINT
With prices on the increase, we
should all be on the alert for even
the smallest way of economizing.
How about that old gal aniz
d
tub or bucket that has become so
rusty you can no longer soak your
clothes in it. It has yet many month.,
of service left. Rub the rusty spots
with medium sandpaper until
smooth, then paint the surface with
aluminum paint, When the first
coat has dried thoroughly, give it
a second coat. You will feel well
repaid for your five-minute job.
Special! For Those 'Who Kept
Putting Off Baking "That Cake"
It's pretty late in the season, I
know, to be talking about Christmas
Cakes; but I think this one . may
appeal to some of yott who just
haven't found the time to make
yours.
The woman who created this re-
cipe has this to say about it. "I
have a husband who adores rich,
dark fruit cake; but fundamentally
I ani a- lazy woman and the many
recipes that suggest you take one
day Inc preparation and one day
for mixing and baking fill me with
horror. So I decided to develop a
recipe of my own. The fruits and
candied peel in my cupboards prov-
ed to be rather low so in an op-
timistic moment I seized some cran-
berry satire and threw it in to see
what the result would be, It was
surprisingly good. The cake had
an especially attractive flavour and
a good firm consistency for slicing
—even after keeping only one day.
The wonderful part of it is that
this fruitcake is ready to eat after
standing 24 hours, and will keep
in splendid condition for three
months. And it's so easy and quick
to make—just one hour from be-
ginning to the point where the cakes
are in the oven."
DELICIOUS FRUITCAKE
Grease two H -1x10?! -inch loaf pans
and litre with waxed
paper.
Cream. ..1 cup shortening
1% cups brown sugar
Add 6 beaten egg yolks
1!a cup fresh orange juice
1!a cup heated molasses
Stir in 9' cup thick, sweetened
whole cranberry sauce
Mix together
1 cup chopped dates
2'4 cups mixed candied
fruit, finely chopped
1 cup chopped walnuts
4 cups raisins
1 cup currants
Sift together
2 cups sifted Sour
teaspoon cloves
?. teaspoon nutmeg
zl teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
Add 3 tablespoons sifted dry ingre-
dients to fruit -nut mix-
ture and shake in a paper
sack.
Add fruit -nut mixture and dry in-
gredients to creamed
mixture,
Fold in...6 egg whites, stiffly
beaten.
Pour batter Otto pans.
Bake at 275' for 3 hours. Put a
large pan of cold water
on oven bottom when
calces go in.
Cool cakes in pans; remove, wrap
in waxed paper; store in
cool, dry place.
Stork, Not Santa, Stuffed These Socks—Old Saint Nick will
have 12 less socks to fill thanks to the stork who swooped down
on this washline in Middleborough, England, to present Lady
Ruth with a dozen English Springer Spaniel puppies. .Lady.
Rttth makes no bones about the fact that she's just too doggone
tired to try to have the socks emptied and hung by the chimney
before Santa's sleigh soars across the skies.
JITTER
By Arthur Pointer