The Seaforth News, 1952-05-22, Page 3Far North Diary
This diary- was written at the
Hudson's Bay Company fust by
lamplight in the winter; or by the
never-ending daylight of the sum
mer nuutthi:, or scri m:w here he-
tweea the two. But soma of it was
written 0 snow house; on the win-
ter. trail, lying in a sleeping -bag;
comforted- Illy the frieudly roar of a
-.Triotus stove. Some was written by
the pale- radiance of a seal -oil lamp,
in the snow houses of various Eski-
mos with whom I was lodging for
the night. Some was written in' a
tiny wooden cabin in the bows of
our tittle Peterhead schooner,.
which was dignified by the ]tattle of
the fo'c's'le, where my eiderdown
sleeping -bag shared the small sur-
face of planking with the serpentine
coils of• the anchor chain.
The diary was written for some-
thing to do; and also front an un-
willingness to allow so-- muds that
was sn strange, sit atnnstttg', and
so exciting to go entirely tin-.
recorded..
Cape Dorset fust stands on a
shetviug rocky slope overlooking a
little cove, It stands in fact, ou an
island. For the cove llas a broad
opening to the sea, to the I':ast;
and narrow rocky bar where the
tides race, to the \Vest. The Post
is the conventional group of build-
ings that go to matte lip a Hudson's
Bay Company Post. The trading
store, and the fur loft above it, is
the quoin building. It carries above
the door, in the large lettering of
a bygone age, the inscription
HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY
INCORPORATED 2ND. MAY
1G70
All these buildings were solid ex-
cept the dwelling -house. Chesley
and Herbert pulled this down be-
fore the boat arrived, and from the
boarding• built a comfortable struc-
tured for us to live in until we built
a new one.
As there is no timber for many
hundreds of miles the Nascopie had
to bring all the planks, boards and
wooden shingles needed to build
the new one. They made a dis-
orderly mountain on the rocky
shore above hightide marks; and
the cases, barrels, and sacks con-
taining merchandise for a whole
ndue Real T or Sumer Plies
in DOROTHY iviA»DOX
ABIG scoop of vanilla, cof-
fee or mint ice cream
with a tablespoon of molasses.
over it, and a bright red
cherry on top ---well, chat's a
West Indies Sundae. Isn't
that the perfect treat for your
next warns - weather porch
party?
We like to serve old-
fashioned soft molasses cook-
ies with il. My grandmother
used to make then) --•-they are
really wonderful,
Molasses Cookies
(Yield: 6 to 7 dozen 31/2 -inch
Cookies)
Seven cups sifted enriched
flour, 9 teaspoons soda, 1 ta-
blespoon salt, 1 tablespoon
cinnamon, 1 tablespoon gin-
ger, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 cup
shortening, 1-1/3 cups sugar,
2 cups unsulphurecl molasses,
2 tablespoons vinegar, 2 eggs,
i cup milk,
Sift together first six in-
gredients. Melt shortening in
a saucepan large enough for
mixing cookies, Stir in sugar,
molasses and vinegar. Cool,
Beat in eggs. Add sifted flour
mixture a l t erne t e l y with
milk. Chill dough about 30
minutes. Drop from table-
spoon onto greased cookie
sheets. Bake 12 to 15 ruin -
sites it pre -heated moderately
hot oven (400 degrees F.).
Tf you like the rich flavor
of molasses as much as we do
i0 our home, you'll welcome
this recipe, too.
Fruity Fudge Bars
(Yield: 24 bars)
Two-thirds cup sifters 'en-
riched flour, IA teaspoon
soda, 4J11 teaspoon salt, 6 ta-
blespoons cocoa, 1/3 eup
shortening s/,I cup sugar, 3.i
Clip tlnSUlpbured molasses, 1/r,
teaspoon vanilla, 2 eggs, %
cup chopped nuts, 1/3 cup
raisins.
Meal oven to 35(1 degrees F.
(Moderate). Sift together first
for' ingredients. Melt short-
ening in a saucepan large
enough for mixing batter.
Stir in sugar, molasses and
vanilla. Beat in eggs. Add
flour mixture; mix well. Stir
in nuts and raisins. Spread
batter in a well -greased,
lightly floured, 9 x 9 x 2 -inch
pan. Bake 35 minutes or un -
hi done. Turn out on wire
rack to cool. Cut into `31
bat's when cold. Top with
pecans or almonds if desired. •
year's trading made another. The
crew and the passengers helped us
to get the house started. With
foundations laid and the uprights
to fonts a skeleton, the crew and
the passengers packed up their
tools, and we said our good-byes.
Front the shore we watched the
anchor conte up and watched her
turn slowly and then head for the
straits. Her siren woke the echoes
in the Iinpid Northern stillness of
the Midnight Sun, and then we
were looking at an empty harbor,
We had a house to build, We had
trade goods to unpack, and sort,
and store—From "Hudson's Bay
Trader," by Lord Tweedsmuir,
Prosperity, It's Wonderful!
The north country? Horrors, my goodness nos
The Financial Post has been taking a look at job opportunities for
this year's crop of university graduates.
The opportunities are many; most of then carry a sweet salary
tag and good prospects.
But, it seems most of the young gentlemen want to stay close to
the bright lights. The jobs in the north country? Well, really!
So we hear from the employers' side of the fence.
Jobs in Labrador at $100 to $175 a week to start (most of the money
ran be saved) are going begging'.
' Otte engineer has specified that the job he will accept will be in a
Toronto industrial suburb where the buildings are mostly new and
where the grass is green, He doesn't like driving downtown.
Well, do the best you can, boys.
—From The Financial Post.
Sura Tops Horizon—
Who'lne World Awakes
Presently the first cock pheasant
crowed in the wood, calling on hens
roosting on one Leg in larches with
beaks pressed into shoulders. String
Lug • heard the loud whir of his
wings, his harsh call as he touched
down in the field, and could- follow
his outward course by his voice
although he could not see hint.
Other cocks followed at intervals;
then the hetis cants out clucking
and stuttering. All of then started
to feed, spectral, colourless shapes
In the gloaming. The mist changed
from grey to white as the sun
topped the 'horizon. Overhead, tine
swish and whistle of wings as
rooks flew to meet the sun: in the
trees the twittering of small birds
;ueryiug the thue while they shook
nit cold front feathers. The sun's
'ays reddened the pines, a magpie
atttckttciced, and the whole world
was awake.
Seven great swans flew ovcncead.
Snoopers with voices Trice golden
rum pe ts, snow -plumaged travcllcrs
rout the far north who knew the
tfacild winds of the tundra and the
un -drenched waters of Andalusia.-
SALLY'S
ndalusia:
SALLY'S SALLIES
"Fussy 7 Why, site puts on hp -
'q whets she talks to hint on
the pbone1'
The sun gilded the snow of their
heads as they swept across the blue
arch of sky; then they were gone,
with a far-crrying swoosh of
wings. They had passed over a
Glasgow suburb only fifteen min-
utes before; flying high and strong
in the familiar cold, unheard, un.
seen, eager to splash and stip their
beaks in the cold water of the lock
beyond Laverock ICuowe.
String Lug stretched out as the
sun warmed and the mist over the
field billowed and drifted and dis-
integrated. The sheet of water in
a hollow shone silver sial mirrored
every passing birth. Lusliats rattle
down out of the sun with clap and
whistle of wings, followed by
clamorous gulls which settlers
rotund the water in a heaving cloud.
-String Lug heard the next 1 isit0i's
before he saw them; Ttt-ht-tui they
called in flawless, liquid notes. They
came out over the trees and wheel-
ed in front of hint, half a hundred
strong, the first golden plover of
the season, following the edge of
winter southwards. -
C'hristtuas carte with moonlit
• nights and skill -deep frost, and.
daisies still -bravely opening petals
in the winter =nn. A (lock of teas•
%V111t s arritcd, followed by snow
butitines on their southward flight
For two !lays t ltey ,•fed Lill 111e
beetle; of tiew and thorn, bramble
and brit and then they were
gone. ..
- The moon pitied as the sun rose,
fn the east the sky turned pink and
yellow and apple green, Overhead
it brightened to the colour of a
thrush's egg. Pheasants en -cupped
in the wood and String Lug cocked
his env. Ile was engrossed 1n watch-
ing birds drii,tI,ittg front a rain pool
fifty yarrds away near the hedge,
When the ;theasanhi left the wood
behind hitt, Before the first of -
them carte anywhere neer the
steels, a peewit curled down to the
1)001, posted. under its wings with -
ils peak, and started to' bathes--
Fem. 'String' Lug, the Fox,' by
David Stephen, '
TRE:ARM FUT
.� . JO Aai.l .l.
Farm folks generally know most
of the answers about Bang's dis-
ease or brucellosis of rattle. This
isn't always true in regard to ques-
tions about swine brucellosis, for
the sante answers don't always ap-
ply. The two diseases have the
same name and are caused by
practically identical germs, but
there the similarity just about ends,
for swine brucellosis is different in
several aspects.
* * *
For one thing, it is nearly al-
ways spread by the breeding act
and seldom by swallowing the
germs with cotttaniinated feed or
water. The exact reverse is true
of the cattle disease, of course,
Bulls may possibly spread Bang's
disease through service, since
germs are sometimes present in the
semen of diseased sires. however,
they are not so likely to be diseas-
ed as boars, since they have little
chance of becoming infected
through servicing reactor cow's,
* * *
That brings out another differ-
ence, for it makes the swine dis-
ease most important in the orale,
while the cattle disease is most
serious in tine female. A boar can
be easily infected and as easily in-
fect all the sows he breeds later,
while a cow will generally act as
a spreader for only a few weeks
before and after calving.
* * *
There is another difference that
stakes swine brucellosis more im-
portant in the male. Sows regular-
ly recover front the disease and
become non-reactors and non -
spreaders within a short time. Tltis
sort of thing seldom happens in
cows; and generally takes months
when it does occur. Both infected
bulls and boars are likely to remain
diseased for life,
* *
This recovery angle • brings up
another difference, for it makes in-
dividual blood tests unrelaltle in
swine. A sow Wright be infr'ted
- and cause a lot of trouble, but he
recovered and negative 1., a blood
test by the time one was run. This
isn't likely to occur in colts when
recc-'Cry takes so much longer.
* * *
'1"•ire is another difference in
regard to protection given by vac-
cination. Cal'hood vaccination gen-
erally gives increased resistance to
cattle for several years, In swine,
5accilatiott gives little protection
after • nine months,
t, *
finally, there's a difference re-
gardingthe clanger of infecting
human beings. cloth types of
geniis will cause undulant fever,
but the swine disease is generally
recognized as. more likely to do
it, -..A great many people are an-
nually infected by handling raw
sorts, and rarely by fresh bees'.
s; *
These various differences sug-
gest that control measures might
be cdifferent, too. Since boars are
so important as spreaders, those
that are untested or have been
"changed" around a community are
poor risks for a breeder. Beyond
careiui boar selection, it might be
well ' to follow a program worked
out at Purdue University which is
based on tite fact that young pigs
are pretty- notch humane to bru-
cellosis. In its simplest form it
merely consists of permanently
separating the pigs from their dams
at weaning time,
* * *
This is done before they are
eight weelcs old, They are blood -
tested at weaning time, and those
that are negative are turned in on
premises made clean by disinfec-
tion and pasture rotation. Froin
that time on they are kept strictly
separated from all other swine.
This plan is both practical and ef-
fective, since it has been used to
rear brucellosis -free pigs on bad-
ly infected farms.
* * 1'
If you're raising pigs, 'it'll prob-
ably pay you to do a little think-
ing about this brucellosis business,
since it's becoming recognized as
a pretty serious disease, And don't
forget—it's different and calls for
different handling than the sante
disease in cattle.
Three Divisions
Most plants fall into three main
classes—hardy, septi -]tardy and
tender. The first group are not
afraid of frost, the second can take
a little but they don't like it, the
third will be krled if the t' .r,'ttry
falls below 3? degrees,
In the first category come
flowers ' •ul '. ..tables that- under
n o rut al conditions world seed
themselves • ss arc things like
alyssum, cosut05, poppies a n d
scores of other flowers. They are
alt specially listed as hardy in any
good Canadian seed catalogue and
• are similarly described on the seed
packet. Among vegetables will he
lettuce, spinach, carrots, parsnips
and, of course, garden peas. •
In the second group there is a
great variety of flowers, ft is at
this time, when danger of serious
frost has' passed, that we • get the
first of started plants transplanted
outside—thinks like petunias, zin-
nias, etc, in the vegetable line,
beans, the first corn and potatoes,
the main planting of beets, car-
rots, etc., will go in at this period.
For the tender group --soil, as
well as air, must be tvarnt before
they go outside. Of coarse with
seed and bulbs, which will not he
pushing through the surface for
tt i,...., da•'s, one can eantble a lit-
tle, but as a rule with the tender
group there is nothing to he gait-
ed by rushing in ahead of time un-
less special protection is • provided
Such as glass or paper caps. Am-
ong the very lender flowers are
canoes, gla'tioli, dahlias and any
other very soft, fleshy stemmed
plants. Melons and squashes conte
in this group and so do cucumbers,
peppers and punticins. Corn and
tomatoes are also associates} tvith
warts weather and as a rule the
main planting of both usually go
in after clanger of frost is over.
# 5' 4,
Transplanting
Successful transplanting depends
on plenty of moisture. Some extra
watering is vital. In this business
it is important to take as tnuclt
soil with the plant or shrub as pos-
sible so that the fine roots are not
broken or disturbed. Then the
roots must be covered firmly with
good, fine soil and dampened down
with water. If the stn is hot it is
good to shade for a few hours.
I:"iter still. transplant in the cool of
the evening.
* * s:
Not Too Much
Many people make the mistake
of .attempting gardening on too
ambitious a scale. They plant a
]calf acre of corn or potatoes when
only a few rows would be ample.
They buy two or three ounces of
a certain flower seed when just a
medium sized packet is all that is
necessary.
\Viten it conies to equipment
they make the same mistake. They
get a big garden tractor where
one of the little chaps would do all
that is necessary and easier to
handle. Usually a one to two
horsepower machine is advisable
where the lot is less than an acre.
This will turn mttrit easier than the
larger tractors and in a small gar-
den there is a nighty lot of turn-
ing. Of course one can hardly ex-
pect to plow heavy land but where
possible- it is best to hire that job
done and keep the small tractor for
the cultivating, lawn cutting, pump-
ing and the other jobs it will do,
and do well.
r�.
JJNMY S.-..
LESSON
By Res. 11. 13 Warren, 13.A„ 13.D.
God's Estimate of Human Life
Exodus 20:13; Matt. S:21-26.
18:5-6; Luke 9:51-50.
Memory Selection: Thou shalt not
kill:
The Ems lish iteviaed Version
renders the commandment, "Tatou
shalt do no reorder." Murder is
the nnlatvfttl and intentional killing
of one human being by another,
whether directly cn' iuclirectly. But
the New Testament stantettt rearcbes out
and condemns the Muse of murder.
ll he sort er 1151011 his brother is
n murderer." 1 John 3115. Jesus
Christ taught that being t'econeiled
to our brother has priority over
s•u•riIicittk b, Clod. 114:inr: grudg-
es has a bad iinfhtence upon us
spunaally mentally and physical-
ly. Some people will never he well
Cott l then humble themselves and
ask forgiveness of 5010 110 they
have wrouged. .\ud, of course, no
one c an have clod's forgiveness .un-
til he forgives those who have
transgressed against hint. Psycholo-
gists and psychiatrists are proving
to many that the way of life that
,}esus taught is the best for ratan.
n: * *
It was unkind of the Samaritans
to turn from the traditional hospi-
tality of the east and refuse Jesus
a night's lodging. But the spirit
of retaliation shown by James and
John was severely rebuked by
Jesus, saying. "Ye know not what
manner of spirit ye are of. For
the Son of ratan is not conte to des-
troy uteri's lives, but to save them."
If the nations of the world re-
ceived Jesus Christ, the billions of
dollars that are being spent in
building up defenses could be turned
to bettering the lot of the multi-
tudes who lite constantly on the
verge of starvation. Of course we
blame Russia for the arms race.
But the fact remains that multi.
tudes in Canada have never fully
yielded their hearts to Jesus Christ.
We are only nominally Christian.
- If we were to straighten out the
differences that exist in our fam-
ilies and society and by God's
grace and love begin to live after
the pattern that Jesus Christ set,
the world would soon be different.
Communism would lose much of
its appeal in the face of such real
Christianity.
IN RUSSIA
Stalin lost a pair of cherished
gold cuff -links, and sounded an
alarm throughout the land. Thirty-
seven suspects were rounded up,
and sentenced to be shot. The night
before the executions, Stalin found
the cuff -links under his bureau, and
wired police headquarters. "Cuff-
links recovered. Release suspects."
Back came the answer, "Executions
must proceed as scheduled. Have
full confessions from all thirty-
seven prisoners."
0
H,' OLD
ARNETT
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