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SAL i ps PAS ~ KL Ne ee a hm rr LL Se } 5 Ah wr Sonik SSeS as is a Lots Of Gold If You Look 'There was a sudden boom in quicksilver shares on the Paris Stock Exchange recently when news was received that a Chicago scientist, Prof. Dempster, had suc- ceeded in extracting five per cent. of 'gold from mercury. Optimistic speculators; with vis: ions of making quick fortunes, hast- ened to buy up quicksilver shares, but scientists remained extremely. sceptical, } - The truth is that the ¢> traction of gold from mercury has been done before, and no one has made a profit out of it. : g {The French scientists, -M. and Mme, Curie, did it, and British scientists, using different ricthods, all succeeded in extracting a certain amount of gold. + The novel feature, however, of Prof. Dempster's experiment was that he employed a new method-- bombardment by neutrons. le ob- tained a larger quantity of gold than other experimenters, but it cost him - many more times as much as the gold was worth. In view of the peculiar proper- ties of mercury, it is not surprising that gold can be obtained from it. Mercury has a remarkable power of dissolving, or combining with, other metals without the aid of heat to form amalgams, come ol which are important. : For instance, mixtures of merc- ury with powdered tin, silver, or gold quickly form solid amalgams and are used in dentistry. - Mercury is, in fact, used in gold gnmning. The gold-bearing rock is first reduced to a fine powder and then treated with mercury. This is afterwards © pressed through chamois leather which re- tains the amalgam. The amalgam, a compound of gold and mercury, is ce distiled--in--earthenware-or-iromr-re<-- torts, and solid gold is left behind while the mercury distils over. But gold is found in a number of unexpected places. For instance, nearly all European . rivers carry along a certain amount of gold dust in their sands. Gold has been ex- tracted from 'the Seine, the Rhine, the Danube, beside the Clyde in "Lanarkshire, and many of the other streams in Scotland, Wales and Cornwall. One ton of sand from the bed of the Rhine yields nine and a half grains of gold, or one-hfticth part of an ounce. French metallurgists once calcu- lated. that a certain 100-mile stretch of the Rhine contains no less than 36,000 tons .of pure gold. When the cand of the River Seine, rear Paris, is used for gliss- making, it is common to find here and there in the glasshouse a cruc- ible which is slightly gilt at the bottom. : Monsieur Sage, a professor of chemistry, went a step farther by burning vines' growing near the Scine. From the ash of these plants he extracted enough gold to make three coins as big as hali-pennies. The - gold from the sand had found its way into the plants which go near the banks of the River eine. TT ee Ace Scout -- "America's top- ranking + Scout" is Raymond Cobb, 24, seen displaying his 'merit sash containing 110° of a possible 111 awards. Ray- mond is an Air Scout Ace; Explorer Scout Ranger, Quar- termaster in' the Sea. Scouts and Scoutmaster for a local troop. He lacks only the merit badge for skiing to attain per- fection in the Scout world. op SIX HUNDRED INMATES of the workhouse in Warrensville, 'went on a sitdown strike for bet- ter recreational facilities, Their chief demand "was for (television sets. : i New World Of Light--One of the youngest persons ever to wear spcetacles 'is 11-month-old Johnny Peoples, seen being fitted with special glasses at an eye hospital by nurse Madeline Dorey. Born blind, Johnny underwent a series of four opera- tions for the removal of cataracts, and saw for the first time when the glasses were put. on him. - THEFARM FRONT market and restaurant down in In- - diana -- but what he says, might - strike right home to some of us' living north of the border as wel: McKinley buys his animals 'locally and kills all his own meat, He claims that farmers are their own worst customers when it comes to buying the fat --and finish they strive to put on thar stock. * * * "About half my business is selling" beef in quarters and halves to farm- ers who want it for freezers or locker storage," he says. "They like a lean grade of meat that 'would only grade commericial to good. They don't want choice or prime. Too fat, and they hate to sce the fat wasted. This is funny, when on their farms they feed their stock to pyt an fat." . PR * Worth thinking over, isn't it? And not only in regard to beef. i * X * When you buy new fencing, keep in mind that the price of the wire is only a small part of the price-- is the good advice handed out by J. F. Schaffhausen, writing in "The Country Gentleman." The big cost is.posts, labor to set them and erect the wire, staples and annual main- tenance. : > > * This means that to get the lowest fencing cost per year you should bégin with wire that is strong enough for the job and properly galvanized.i Also, you need treated posts, placed properly, braced where needed, and on them the wire must be stretched and [stapled correctly. - * * ' * After the fence is in place, it needs at. least one annual inspec- tion so that staples that have pulled loose 'can be renailed, broken strands repaired, and weak or bro- ken braces corrected, Clean fence rows are an asset, but don't burn the brush and grass away. Heat may destroy the galvanizing on the wire and permit rust to develop. * * * Corner posts are the critical 'ones from a maintenance standpoint. For most farm uses, an 8-inch diameter corner post is needed. It should be set in concrete to a depth of 3; or 4 feet to reach below the frost line. The post-hole can be 18 inches squarc on top and flared out to 20 inches at the bottom. The concrete mix best suited to the job is made 'from 1 part cement, 2 parts coarse .sand and 3 parts coarse gravel, Use lege gallons of water to each sack of cement. . » * * The best corner brace for a wood- en fence is a thrust post between the tops of the corner post and the 'second -and third post from the cor- fuer These two brace posts should not be oven 10 fect apart. The first one may be 6 inches in diameter * and the other 4 inches. The thrust posts "should be at least 4 inches in diameter. To complete the cor- ner assembly, apply a wire-tension member from the bottom cof the corner post to the top of the second post, and another frosi the hottom of the sccond post to the top of third one, . » * * : This tension member can be made Yip of No, 9 galvanized wire wrap- ped so there are 3 strands on cach . side of the posts. As each strand of wire is wrapped around the post, staple it to the post separately. When these wires are in place, use a short piece of pipe to twist them and create a 'tension great enough w 1 _ operate, to pull the tops of the posts until they are leaning slightly in the op- | posite direction from which the fence is stretched. Then, when the fence is tightly "stretched, these posts will be plunib. Leave the pipe in the wire to permit adjusting this brace on your annual rounds. »* x x . A line post which is not perform- ing its full function is a weak link and should be replaced at once. Rot- ted and weather-cracked posts that no longer hold staples should be cut out and replaced. Since the ground may be frozen when you make your fence inspection, digging holes for naw posts may be difficult. It's easy, however, to drive a.steel post, and the fence can he attached in a few minutes. So carry a supply of steel posts on your fence round and drive them 2 feet down into the ground along the fence line where you find von need them------ * * * Broken strands im a woven-wire fence may be fatal to thelife of a fence unless they are promptly re- paired. If you do not already have a good wire splicing tool, acquire one. If you do the job with a pair . of pliers, the chances are that the galvanized costing on the wire will be removed: * - * Ii you are-making usc of an oc- casional steel post alongside wood posts to provide spots for ground- ing fence wire against lightning, check to see if both the woven wire and the barbed wire are well grounded, Animals often drift into the wind into a fence corner, where they huddle. The weight of their . "bodies occasionally disconnects in- /securely grounded wires. . * EY * Persons climbing over a fence can cause considerable damage. Wires are stretched or staples are torn loose; braces are cracked and nails pulled out. Prevent this dam- age by constructing stiles "in the places along the fence line where the traffic is not heavy enough to warrant the use of the gates. * * * Large gates usually present a problem. The light ones are casy to but can be broken when livestock crowd against them. Heavy gates, on the other hand, "often sag and arc hard to operate -- tinless they are well designed and properly hung. Plank the fence for 12-feet on both-sides of the gate if large herds of cattle will be passing through, This will reduce damage to the fence. } * * * If the passage is used frequently by trucks or tractgrs, you may want a cattle guard instead of a gate. To build one, dig a pit 18-inches deep, as wide as the lane and 5 or 6 feet long. Place an 8-inch-wide reinfor- ed concrete wall around the pit. Form 'a ledge in the walls at the sides of the road to support pipes, rails or timbers flush with the Tane, Now divide the pit into three' parts and build two additional walls to support the guard rails at the inter- mediate points. When the concrete hardens, place the rails 6 inches, apart. Use 2-inch steel pipe to sup- port cars, tractors and light trucks. For supporting loaded trucks, you will need discarded railroad rails or small 1-heams. . * x 8 ~ To control goats or sheep, V- shaped wings sloping from the ends of -the pit to the fence or gate should be provided. These animals will cross over if even a2-inch-wide smooth passage exists. « w-- $10 wel TCRITIC The late and still lamented Ring Lardner wrote some of the greatest sport yarns that ever saw print, But one of the things which dif- ferentiated him from most of ise tribe was that he never.choked up or grew misty-eyed over the char- acters hay was describing--a decided corftrast to 'some of our modern sports chroniclers who would have you lhelieve that, even though some ' of our baseball, prize-ring and race- track heroes may be a -trifle-rough on' the outside, they're solid 24- carat gold at heart, - he * * . Read such of Lardner's stories as "Champion," about the great prize fighter who was a louse at heart, or baseball tales such as "Albi lke," and 'you'll see better what we're trying to get at. Ring called them as he saw them, and he saw: them more clearly than 'most; and we'll never forget his comment, when baseball's biggest scandal broke in 1919 and folks were going around saying that the Chicago Black Sox, in addition to heing crooked, had been a pretty poor bunch of ball players to boot: PE " "I don't like: what the Sox did any better than anybody else," quoth Lardner, or words to that effect, "still, that isn't going to make me say that Eddie Cicotte didn't have a swell fast one, or that Shoeless Joe Jackson couldn't take a sweet cut at the ball." © . So it is only fitting that onc oi Ring's sons--John, to be exact-- should do a grand job of debunking onc of sportdom's greatest myths in a recent magazine article. This is 'the myth that the game of base- ball is a strictly United States prod- ---uct--that--it-was,--in--fact,-Jdnvented.. practically in its entirely, and in- cluding its name, one summer's afternoon at a place called Coopers- town, N.Y, in the year 1839. i J * * "Upon this myth has been built the Cooperstown "Shrine of Basc- ball," to * which certain of the. Scotch Influence--There's no lavish waste of material in this trim swim suit "modelled by "Mary Brown. A touch ¢' the' Highlands is also evident in the plaid "kilt" effect formed by the ballerina ruffles at the bottoln. Designed by Margar- et Newman, the suit has a sim- ple, strapless bodice. game's "immortals" are elected at regular intervals. As a producer ot baseball' ballyhoo and material for afterrbanquet speeches in the off scason, Cooperstown kas prob- ably been worth all it cost, and more. The whole trouble is that the records go to prove (1) that the game wasn't .invented at Coopers- town; (2) that-Abner..Doubleday had nothing to do with its inven- tion, or the drawing up of its rules, -and (3) that the name baseball was used for a somewhat similar game in England years before it was ever For example, in the year 1700, the Rev. Thomas Wilson, of Maid- stone; England, was writing some of his memoirs of the century just ending, "I have seen Morris-tanc- ing, cudgel-playing," he wrote, "baseball and cricket and many other - sports on the Lord's Day." (We wonder if they took a vote about it first, as happened recently in the Queen City of Toronto). * * *. More than that, a far greater and better knowh writer than the Kev. --heard-of-on-this-side-of -the-Atlantic, | * * * : CLASSI . BE a---- rst : FIED ADVERTISIN "® AGENTS WANTED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES TO SELL, Sam's Garden 'Tractors, very profitable line. Send for literature. 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If you want both high egg production and high. meat production you can't beat Top Notch chicks, Can supply day old, started, older pullets, also turkey poults in Broad Breasted Bronze, White Holland, Beltsville Whites. Prompt de- lvery. Top Notch Chick Sales, Guelph, On- tario, 3 . Mr. Wilson also made reference to baseball by that name. She was Jane Austen' who, in her novel, "Northanger "Abbey," wrote, "It is not very wonderful that Catherine should prefer cricket, baseball, rid- ing. on. horseback and - running about the country at the age of 14, {io books." . * * A ~ It wouldn't be fair to quote the article at any great length. You'll find "it in the May issue of TRUE MAGAZINE, and it's well worth looking up. But, as John Lardner figures it, the whole thing seems to stem from a controversy between A. G. Spalding--the man who did more to put the game on a solidly -profitable commercial basis than _anybody clse--and one, Henry Chadwick, sometimes called --the-- "Father of - Baseball." : oR x ox | Chadwick, although a real lover of and authority on baseball, was English by hirth. Tc believed that the game derived from the British sport of "rounders." Al Spalding would: have none of such 'heresay. * "T "claim that bascball owes its prestige as our national game to the fact that as no other sport, it is the. exporient of American cour- age, confidence, = combativeness, "American dash, discipline, deter- mination, American energy, eager- ness, enthusiasm, American pluck, persistency, performance, American spirit, sagacity, success--it would be as impossible for a Briton, who his not breathed the air of this free land as a naturalized citizen; for cne who had no part or heritage in "the hopes and achievements of our country, to play baseball, as it would be for an American, free from the trammels of English tradi- tions, customs and conventicnalities, to play the national game of Great Britain." * » * And so, Mr. Spalding appointed an investigating committee to go into the matter. And--sure enough --they investigated and discovered that baseball was the sole invention | of little Abner Doubleday and his - playmates, 0 * PS However, as we said before, we haven't the heart--or the space-- to spoil your pleasure by quoting "more of a grand sports article. Look it up yourself. But try and do so right soon. Because, any day now, we expect that the real, genuine, blown-in-the-bottle truth is. going to burst upon us. 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