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The Seaforth News, 1952-02-21, Page 3Dreamed Of Religion Also Great Riches Probably themost mysterious man in the gallery of great dreamers is Joint Wesley, who .dreamed of a religious revival to purge: the soul of the Anglo-Saxon people. A man of apparent simple piety, John Wesley had within himself yet another dream which dial not concern leis religious fervour; a dream concerning a huge fortune which, so far as is known, was largely a myth. "You are heirs to a large property in lndin if you can find it," said John Wesley to his nieces and nephews; "for my uncle is said to have been very prosperous." But, before we look into the case of the uncle, let us look at the house, in itself something of a mystery, where a great fire took place when ;folm Wesley was a child, Mystery Voice Parsonage IIouse belonged to John's father, the Reverend Samuel Wesley. In 1709 a great fire broke out there and the little boy John was rescuer. Some years later there was a certain amount of controversy about this fire and a drawing of the rescue of John Wesley we made. A small boy was the model and Inc unknown reasous a signed state- ment was made when the small boy attained manhood affirming that he indeed was the model for john Wesley. Between 1715 and 1716, about six years after the fire occurred, "mystery voices" were heard in the house. There was, one supposes, some suggestion to the occult, but with regard to the "mystery voices" there were also suggestions that this voice or voices had some con- nection with the mysterious uncle in India who was reputed to have made a vast fortune. Samuel Annesley, the uncle, had gone to India and found employ- ment with the East India Company. He was reputed to have made a fortune and then to have disappear- ed, That he disappeared is an estab. Belted fact, but the fortune may well have been a myth, for not a penny of it was ever traced. One curious fact stands out: his proven will showed that he cut off his sister and brother-in-law, tate mother and father of John Wesley, with a shilling each. This will makes it all the more difficult to under- stand why John Wesley told his nieces and nephews that they were heirs to "a large property." Wife Forged Letters The background to the life of John Wesley throws into relief the great things he accomplished, but there are other factors which should be more widely known. The Wesleys were a very austere Methodist fancily. The children had to be 100 per cent. obedient under the penalty of dire punishment, but the austerity did not stop there. Even the simplest amusements and distractions were taboo and it is on record that a Wesley child was for- bidden to cry. With such a childhood behind hint one could but wish to record that the great preacher had a happy life thereafter, but such was.by no means the case; his married life was a veritable hell on earth. It is understood that his wife used to beat hint, and was in the habit of dragging hint round a roost by the roots of Itis hair, Like many an outstanding re- ligious preacher of his time. John Wesley was beset by enemies who tried to besmirch his character and drag hint down. Did Mrs. Wesley stand by her husband and defend hint from his enemies? She did not. She chose the opportunity to steal his letters and tried to use them for the benefit of his enemies. Whole passages from these letters were deleted and replaced by pas- sages forged by Mrs, Wesley her- self. These forgeries sought to con- vict her husband "out of his own mouth" of the most dreadful moral lapses, lapses sufficient to bring about the ruin of a layman, let alone a preacher. And yet John Wesley triuntplted over every obstacle acid built up an edifice of faith which hae already lasted more than at century-ttnd-a-half. Slaves and Gin -Shops Jahu Wesley was born in 1703 and took orders when he was thirty- four. Ile went to (Georgia as a missionary and linked up with the Moravians, Two years spent as a missionary were an absolute failure; he acknowledged Itis defeat and dis- illusionment and returned to Eng. land. It was near the first half of the IBIh century when the England John Wesley saw was the England of the clave -trader, the kidnapper and the sntttggler. It was au Eng- land of gin -shops, corrupt politics acid soul -lose religion. But England, to John Wesley, was a land of immortal souls, He believed that. he was inspired to revive religious faith. John Wesley the priest became John Wesley the prophet. One of his- most characteristic exclamations was : "Church or no church, the people must be saved." Conversion 11e,persunded his brother Charles to join hits, '1'., •h°s ats,octeree carne George Whitfield and for a time he was Wesley's pr'ncipal as- sociate. • Together they held meet- ings at the Old Foundry, near Moorfields, in the City of London, It was here that the famous "con- version" took place. In 1741 yet another blow struck John Wesley. Whitfield, his cham- pion, broke away from trim and went to America, where he• died Wesley went on alcnie and lived unt'l Inc eighty-eighth year. His life, which I have here des - This Cake Was Loaded—Eddie Cantor cuts into the 150 -pound, six - tiered cake that was a feature of the $2,600,000. party honoring the comedlan,on his sixtieth birthday. More than 1700 persons each bought $1000 worth or more of. State of Israel bonds to attend the Cantor party. cribed us being partly mysterious, was Le Jerthelees a very great ex- ample to hundreds of thousands who, like the Master, hail to fight adversity but yet overcame and conquered it. In view of a possible shortage of certain fertilizers in 1952, many farmers will be placing their orders early so they won't be caught Short in the spring, .Fertilizer ob- tained now is well cured, dry and will remain 5o if properly stored, The following storage ruies are offered by agricultural experts: Store fertilizer in a dry, well - ventilated building. Keep windows and doors closed during damp weather and open'tvhen dry. Neser pile wet or damaged bags with sound ones. Bags must not rest on bare ground, cone•ete, metal or against the side of the building, but should be piled oa rkids at least four inches off the ground. The pi'.e should not be more than seven bags high. A space should be left between piles for circulation of alt, A Few inches of straw on top of the pile will prevent moisture from sttling on the bags. e >a 5 The Canadian corn crop may someday become highly important to the perfume industry. On the basis of experiments at the federal government s Prairie Regional Laboratory at Saskatoon. Sask., a new antibiotic made front diseased ears of corn offers nope for a source of musks used as fixatives in the manufacture of perfumes. The antibiotic, known as ustilagic add, is produced from the black dust caused by a snout which at- tacks corn plants. Musk is ,essential in perfume manufacture to prevent the evapor- ation of the highly volatile oils which provide the sweet smell to perfumes. It was originally oh- tained franc the glands of the male musk deer of Tibet at a very,' high cost. In recent years, however, chemists have devised a way of making a synthetic musk called I How' to 2Y • HAROLD ARNETT 'TO PREVENT EXTENSION CORDS FROM f3ECOMiN.C9 DISCONNECTED, CLAMP THE TWO PIECES TOGETHER WI74 WOOPE'l4 81.00(5. 'THIS IS VERT' USISIaUL WHEN WINO A VACUUM CLEANER. "Astrotmte" c.it:clt is now doing the job as a perfume fixative much more economically than musk from the Tibetan deer, r * * Cows aren't hutch different from humans after all. They too have a weakness for sweets —especially sweet grass. This observation was recently made at the Oklahoma Agricul- tural Experimental Station where it was not'ced that cattle prcterred to graze in eertain areas of a pasture and left untouched other sections contain in g succulent growths of grass. Through chemical analysis, it was determined that grass whicl. the cattle favored was higher in sugar content than the grass they passed up. The explauat;on given for this bovine "sweet tooth" was that cattle seemed to prefer pasturage where the phosphorus content of the soil was fairly high and that plants high in phosphorus always contain more sugar than plants with a phosphorous deficiency. * * F The X-ray ]las helped medical science accomplish wonders since its discovery by Professor Roent- gen 57 years ago. It has greatly simplified the detection and setting of bone fractures and has taken the guesswork out of the diagnosis of many human ailments. Tuber- culosis, once a malady responsible for thousands of deaths annualy, is now on the waste thanks to free chest X-ray critics operating in every province. w Until recently, the X-ray was used almost exclusively on humans. If a horse broke its leg it was in- variably shot. If a cow swallowed a few bits of barbed wire and her milk production began to drop drastically, she was butchered. If a pet cat or dog was seriously 111 it often landed in the gas chamber. But this situation is changing today. Veterinary science has adopted the X-ray as one of its tools. Results have been so gratify- ing in diagnosing animal diseases and injuries that it is fast becoming as essential to the profession as radiology is to modern tnedicinti, '5 4 H: Research workers in Canadian agricultural colleges are using the X-ray to produce mutations in the plant world ,which stay someday help alleviate the world food short- age. One scientist' produced a corn plant with ears two feet long, but this. "giant" was lost to the world because no record was kept of the amount of radiation used in the experiment, * * r< Another beneficial use of the X- ray is its ability to '"see" flaws in metal which has resulted in strong- er and longer lasting arm imple- ments. It is widely used to detect foreign matter in processed foods. It has brought to light the wonders of birth by revealing what goes on inside the shell when an egg is hatching The radiologist and the X-ray may do as much in the future for agriculture .as they have for medicine, Hints About Using Hair "Color -Rinses" Just as tired, drab skin can be given 'a glow with color -founda- tions, so tired, drab hair can be sparked 'with new color. Discol- orations from dried ends, sun-bad- ing, or drab streaks from the first gray hairs can be "rinsed" back to natural color. Because a color rinse last only front shampoo to shampoo you can try different shades for the fun of change or until you discover which shade is most flattering. You cant become so adept at using a color rinse that you can tint your hair as you shampoo it without a hint of artifictalty. Unless you are blending in gray hair, don't try to match your own hair color precisely. Choose instead a shade lighter or darker than your own. Blondes can give their hair a golden or amber cast. Brown heads can be transformed from just plain brown to a prettier, livelier shade, sparkling with bronze lights. Red- heads can be toned down or livened. Black hair can regain its jet gloss with the sante rinse used to accent dark brown hair, Select your per- sonal color carefully by means of the color selectors displayed at cos- metic . counters. These show a choice of three or four shades for each of the various types: blonde, medium; . dark brown, as well as gray. Blending color into gray hair can be done naturally with a temporary color rinse Many women have be- come so expert at this that their friends have never been aware that they had any gray hair. If your hair has turned gray all over, how- ever, you can stake it a shining crown by the use of silver or steel gray rinse. The first time you use a color rinse read and follow instructions carefully. The amount of water you add will vary according to the depth of color you want to achieve. There are many ways of applying a rinse: pouting it through the hair; stroking it on with a brush; daubing it on with cotton; or using a color applicator, a plastic squeeze bottle with a long nozzle tip, This gadget makes blending color so simple you can almost do it with your eyes shut! 'The beauty of experimenting- with xperiutentingwith a color rinse is that you can correct a mistake by simply sham- pooing the color out again. A good rinse, put out by a thoroughly re- putable manufacturer may be used without fear of injury to the hair or skin. Are Two -Track Railways A Big Blunder? Some Scientists Claim They Are An inventor named Louis Brett- nan produced a working model of a gyroscopic train which ran on one rail at a speed of over 100 m.p.h. Since then engineers have been wondering whether a colossal blun- der was not made in building our railways on the comparatively slow and expensive two-line system which we have in use to -day. Brennan, who was born 100 years ago at Castlebar, Ireland, was a watchmaker who had an uncanny flair for mechanical inventions. He made a great deal of money from them, one way and another. Top Secret He first hit the jackpot with the Brennan torpedo, now obsolete but formerly thought to be the perfect weapon for defending docks and harbours against raiding ships. The British Government was so impressed by the invention that they gave Brennan the unpreceden- ted sum of £110,000 for it, paid hint a retaining fee of £5,000 plus a salary of £2,000 a year and ex- penses, and told hint he could spend his whole time trying to improve the invention, (Brennan didn't think twice about it. He set to work. Tltat was in 1887. Tweny years later Brennan had taken to play- with tops. Right from boyhood he had been interested in their balanc- ing power. He was much intrigued by the sight of a top-heavy top keeping an upright balance when spun. To get at the explanation he bought all kinds of tops, made new kinds, an experimented with them for years. It was by means of these ex- periments that he obtained the master -idea of a mono -rail. Here was a new and much cheaper kind of train which could be ruts at a speed of 100 miles per hoar and more on a single rail, and with greater safety than an ordinary ex- press train on a double track Round the Bend Using the principal of the gyro- scope, Brennan made an engine and carriages which would remain perfectly steady on a single line of track, even when they were at a standstill, They were able to run on the roughest of permanent ways and negotiate the most acute bends without slackening speed. It was a revoluionary scheme by any standards. At' that time the cost of building an ordinary railroad in England was about £30,000 a mile, The cost of the new mono -rail was es- timated to be only £1,000 a utile. Moreover, the single rail could be laid down very quickly. The sleepers were only, three feet six inches long and they were placed on the ground about two feet apart, with cut and ballast. Drennan's mono -rail created a sensation. The Government promptly made a grant to the in - a full-sized experimental line at Gillingham. A car forty feet long was made, the single series of wheels being placed down its cen- tre line. The "brains" of this car were two gyro -wheels each weighing three-quarters of a ton and revolv- ing by electricity three thousand times a minute. They enabled the car to maintain perfect balance, under their guidance sharp curves that would wreck an ordinary train at speed, were rounded smoothly and steadily. In 1909 Bretntan's mono -rail was successfully demonstrated, with forty passengers in the car, before a team of experts. And that was about as far as this brilliant in. ventor got with his revolutionary rail sysent. The experts made sortie vague pronouncements to the effect that "the advanages gained by running on a single rail do not outweigh the increased weight and cost, and the necessity for the • maintenance of an extra piece of machinery." If the experts had forseen the huge cost of maintaining the pres- ent two-rall system; and the fact that the speeds on it would remain practically the sante for the next forty years, Brennan's system might have been adopted univer- sally, to civilisation's great advan- tage, The amount of saving, over the years, of steel wood (for sleepers), maintenance and running costs, is beyond the imagination. Louis Brennan died in 1932 after he had spent the last years of his life (ironically enough) advising the Government on the engineering aspect of aircraft and munitions, Want `High' Groceries An interesting feature in con- sumer preferences has come to Light in recent weeks, (low fast a can of food sells de- pends upon which shelf it is sitting on. If a grocer displays his can- ned goods on the top shelf he can sell 7 to 8 per cent more than if he places the same cans on a tier of three shelves. Marlceting specialists running the test are unwilling to hazard a guess as to why a customer would rather buy off the top shelf than any other. Whether the ap- peal lies in the fact that the food is nearest to the eye or within easy reach they just can't say. As a consumer, the next time you reach for an' article on the top shelf, you might get the answer by asking yourself. Oh, Spinach Spinach, it would appear, speaks louder than words. Shoppers, faced tvit3t the choice of buying the curly greens in a plain Cellophane bag or in an identical bag covered with print- ing, will select the plain one, prov- ing they would rather buy spinach they can see than the kind they can read about. At least that is what they do in Baltimore. Residents there un- wittingly participated in a con- sumers' preference test recently. Besides showing a decided leaning away from the literary in their shopping instincts,. patrons of six super markets there proved that at least 50 per cent of the spinach customers were willing to pay twice as much per edible pound for as for the bulk form. MERRY MENAGERIE 13xxyII�1I11''+-- "From morning til night Mush! Mush! MUSH!" Monte Denies Nazi Identity—German Friar Martin Bodewig (lefl), member of the St. Anthony of Padua Monastery in Rome, has denied the reports that he is Martin Bormann (at right), one-time dumber -two Nazi. The 40 -year-old Monk told reporters in Route that the current story linking him to Bormann "obviously has been taken out of the air."' Bormann's death at the end of World War II was never confirmed. JITTER ivitars7AsG IPnA OFamtisno AM MOilx TOA LecruRa t Iiia simPLtta,'i' cpl NIM IMMO ME AWMI(