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INR SHORT STORY Fifty Grand A Year By FREDERICK MEDLIN -- SHORT ~ "Tive' They still wonder why Johyson Lwent mad so suddenly after he got Clif stirs That is, all but Leo, the Ro remembered it all as he ode feverishly through thd hot, sreathless night, The black curtain of darkness that pressed upon every side could not hide those things that = had gone before. Even their meniory sincreased: his furious pace, and it 4 8 an effort not to cast a furtive. Slance over his shoulder as he drew / near the spot on which the great oak should stand. He remembered the night of ten years ago that he 'had stolen the Alsmeyer jewels, It had been a desperate thing to do, and he had half ¢xpected to be caught, His mind's-eyve saw himself crawhng up those precarious tracers of ivy on the high back wall of the Alsmeyer manskon. He recalled how cautious- Iy- he had opened the window with a glass-cutter and a file, how care- fly he had placed the charge of explosive Fhainst the cleverly-con- cealed wall sdfe, how feverishly he bad hurried through the dacrid smoke to the battered door after the muffled explesion had shaken the room, : Then down that sweep of ivy _ again to the ground and over the wall and along the hard road as ihe uproar behind him steadily grew . . . --the--car~ withthe fingering sehirch- light darting down the road . . . his _ dogged ilight across the field_to the momentary haven of the huge oak ... His fingers trembled convulsiyve- ly again as they had when Ic had * tumbled the jewels quickly nto the _lezther bag and buried it safely, far back under the upcurled root. He heard again the deep-throated bay- ing of the hounds, growing always He: had half 'expected to be caught. . closer, as he had heard it that night, hour after hour, twisting and dodg- ing and hoping, knowing in his own heart that he would be caught, and fearing it with hysterical terror-- And that - cidpture! The quick shots . ! . the rapid whine of the bullets ... . the huge dogs dragging him down . .. Bot they had never found. the jewels, He hdd hidden them well, . and for that he had been grateful for ten years. ' -~ "He came quite suddenly upon the clump of trees. They scemed in the thick darkness to be the same stand of ten years ago. He moved about quickly with the. ashlight until he found the peculiar root that curved outward and looped upward sligntly, just as it had so long ago. He dug back through the loose earth under it; his fingers tingled as they touch- ed rotten leather, and there were the jewels spread out. They were dull--but they were the Alsmeyer "Jewels. {An hour later they were shimmer- ing on velvet in Leo's back room . that he used for business of secrecy; and Johnson was trembling with excitement, Johnson paced the floor. "Five hundred grand!" he gloated. "That's fifty grand a year in the big hous®, _and still they say crime don't pay, Leo, 1 khow lots of big guys on't make fifty grand a year,' in the big money now and it vonderful," know what these 'are ' uh. Sure [ 'do. So do vou." g_of the. dread died in John- art. "Ain't you the hast 's why I came to you.' ow that" I'm, honest?" wis very grave and ays have been.' itvels," said Leo y, 'ero just imita- aht be wo th five ed 'd ollar still wonder why Jolinson 1 so shortly after he got that is, all but Leo, of would know, for he is Rd jude of human jewels. It is said, meal aps' he only wantéd to bargain, , | try was partitioned... 'net at 8 am. and set an' alarm to asleep and with his. net still in TEST YOUR I. Q. ONLY A YEAR AGO Someone once coined the phrase "a 'old and forgotten as yesterday's news". How trye this is you may dis€over when you attempt to fill in- the blanks in the following quiz. Each of the ten sentences below deals with an item that made head- line news during 1947." Can: you fill in the missing names? 1" In January 1947 the British Ray- al Family left for an extended trip to .... (name of Country). ' 2. On April 21, 1947,.......c....... RA (name of man) bettered the re- cord of service as a prime minis- for of an Empire Commonwealth previously held by Sir Robert Walpole, 3. It was in April of that year that a chemical blast started a series of fires and explosions that razed cirri {Name of place) in one of the worst disasters on this continent in recent years, 4. The spring' of 1947 also witness- ed another great loss in the pass- ing of (name of man), former head: of one of America's great industrial enter- prises, He died peacefully in Michigan, 5. A world champion, ............. (name) was given a car by home-town enthusiasts; had to give it back to retain amateur "1 statps. . 6. The Arctic supply ship... Seagehes + teen (name of ship) went down in July 1947 after running =~ aground near Cape Dorset. 7. Britain ended her 150-year rule MSs isiirenripes (name of. Country) in August 1947, when that coun- 8. On October 5, 1947, Russia an- nounced the formations of the nine nations ..... ... CAA .. (name of otganization) osten- sibly to block the Marshall Plan. 9. In December 1947, under pres- surefrom the- Communist Party, LOW A «..(name of King) abdicated his throne, 10. And 'twas just about Christmas tine a year ago that ...7. - (name of 'city) had its record snowfall of 25.8 inches, crippling the city for days and costing in the millions. 7 Score ten points for each answer. Answers will be found printed up- side-down 'to prevent "peeking" un- derneath. QUIZ ANSWERS "AWD 0X MIN Of 'RIUBLLOY JO [dedi Buiy °6 - : 'ulojuiwo) °g. BIPUL 4 ad y otdodseN '9 L008, uuy eieqaeg 'g > 'pio AUS py ® £31) sexay, Buty] 21ZudyorJy UOAT WEI ; eIny. : 'SAU YY ut sowieu Joy A1owdws pood Apiemoi -ied e dAey nok ' wiojuiwo), pue (O1dooseN,, 108 nok jj - gino jew no& pip MOH "/p6l JO Sduipedy 3} ul_spiom £3) ay} due aH oe Costly Fishing A magistrate 'in New Waestmin- ster, B.C., fined a fisherman $25 for fishing in his.sleep, Ed. Simmons of Stevenson told Magistrate H. J. Johnston he set his awaken him at 8 a.m, The alarm failed .to awaken him and a fisheries - patrol found Mit. Simmonds, still position, at 7.50 a.m,--an hour after the fishing season closed-' - The .magistrate disregarded Mr. Simmonds' plea' that "thefe was no conscious violation," =» ull BR Ws Off On her Way To Claim Ei #3 ghteen Million --Ursula Bauer, seen at the extreme left of the picture, enters a snow white bridal coach in Berlin with her American bridegroom. She had never been able to leave Germany to claim the $8,000,000 fortune left by Henrietta E. Garrett of Philadelphia, but the marriage made it possible for her to cross the Atlantic at last. SIX CROPS A YEAI Boil each acre of soil en your farm with steam for 83 minutes, then get ready 'to plant--and har- vest--from six to eight crops a year. The method might be worth the trouble even .for a "victory _ garden." It has proyed practical®and payable on an. 1l-acre farm near: Edinburgh, Scotland. Steam:heated pipes pasy about two feet below the surface to give _ the soil a warming glow, buy far- three mer David Lowe and his brothers have to work hard to keep the crops on their way. They are probably the most successful truck- gardening experts in the British Isles. They boil their killing all vestige of weeds. David Lowe. calls 'it "soil sterilization." Each year, every acre is given no less than 100 tons of fertHizer and decomposed matter. The 1943 crops that resulted from the intensive treatment were greater than those for 1942, but the latter seem im- pressive enough. *Hére they are: - A total of-343,695 heads of lettuce, 945,000 turnips, 1,102,800 carrots, 46,000 heads of cauliflower, 1,500,- 000 leeks for transplanting, 21,960 ° bunches or radishes (25 "to. the bunch), 271,320 heads of celery, 560 pounds of onions, '7,517 marrows, 1170 'pounds of cucunibers, 518 pounds of French beans, 480 bunch- es of mint, 2280 pounds of toinat- oes, six tons of rhubarb and 284 twenty-pound bags of brussels sprouts. This year the production of celery and radishes has been doubled. : The plot is broken by by wooden frames. As the days grow colder, these are covered with glass and the heat from below is intensified. Lettuce, turnips,' carrots' and cauliflower grow together. The car- rot seed is first broadcast, then the ground rolled and the lettuce plants placed. Six weeks later; turnips are planted in every remaining avail- able space. -As soon as the lettuce heads are cut; the carrots 'jump sun- | wards. Simultaneously, cauliflower. is planted, and at about the same time the turnips mature, followed shortly afterward by the carrots. 3 ® Surveyors have been working to map out 40 acres which', will be added to the original eleven. > MOPSY by GLADYS PARKER WHAT'S THE MATTER, THEODORE, DONT | THINK IT'S POLITE TO POINT 2 YOU 1 ~~) os FTG 05 ARK ThE) M soil in December, ~ "I'he hot waters of Iceland are the only ones found in any ablund- ance in far northern regions; a large proportion of them are hot springs rather than warm; they are located inthe most populous and best agricultural areas, and wliat is of prime importance from the stand- point of: utilization, they carry a smaller percentage of dissolved mineral" matter and gases than is ordinarily --found--in-springs--of-this- type. This is most important be- cause it minimizes the amount of mineral scale. which would be de- posited in the plumbing systems, and [decreases the obnoxious odors so often attendant in such types of ~ underground. waters. Twice as large as Nova Scotia, Iceland is a vast volcanic pile of over 40,000 square miles. It is a young land, having been built, up for the most part during the last ice age by outpourings of tremend- ous lava flows. Twenty of its 200 volcanoes have been in eruption in modern times. The greatest of these occurred in" 1783 when lava streams from Laki covered an area of 218 square miles and spread a volume of three cubic miles over -the land. : The youthfulness of its volcanic activities indicates that there exist widespread and numerous pockets of molten matter which have not yet reached the surface. This insures a permanency of subterranean fur- naces." Freshly stoked with white- hot molten rock, these fiery pock- ets will héat the underground waters for a long time ta come, ' As geological su~scys are made, hot waters of a Ligver semperature than those now emerging at the sur- face will 'soon become available to transform this paradoxical land of ice and fire into an. Arctic oasis where subtropicil fruits and veget- ables will be rais¢d the year round, interrupted by the 'vagarjes = of seasons. . : "Before long the day may come when Iceland will Soy A the hot- house of the world, and the only. country where fuel will be as free and plentiful as the air itself. Business Getter Aw old Italian who was blessed with that certain spark that distin- guishes a great merchant decided to open a shoeshine parlor .near. the gates of Camp Upton. His friends did all they could to dissuade him, pointing out that there were already six shoeshine emporiums on that self-same street. "I fix," said the little Italian--and did. Within two weeks five times as many soldiers were patronizing his little stand on their way to New York for a beg weekend as all his competitors could muster together. Directly over his stand was a sign with big letters that read: "One shoe shined free." In 1907 the United States Mint coined eagles and double eagles fat- ter in the middle than at the rith, with the result that they would not stack and had to be withdrawn, | Profit Drop It is always possible to find in- dividual companies which appear to be making an abnormal profit, (It's equally easy (o point to those which are losing money.) On closer ex- amination the excessive profit often springs from a temporary and non- recurring condition, or represents © the peak years of a feast and fam- ine 1 try ine industry. At other times it is merely a statistical phenomenon. For in- stance, a man may start a small business with a capital of $5,000 and within a few vears (or dccades), by dint of hard work, may be earn- that much iy « prosperous year. To say his profit of 100 per cent on the original investment is excessive is meaningless. Yet that is often the basis of the distorted slogans which are flaunted by those who embark on witch hunts for profiteers. In their haste they ignore those enter- prises which have fallen by the way- side. The Canadian olanufacturers® As- sociation recently examined the re- cord of profits in Canada, and found in the figures published By the De- partment of National Revenue that 6,278 corporations reported losses in 1945 against 20,951 which made a profit. . Also, sotzl profits after taxes in 1939 repraaerited 11.4 per cent of the national income, while in 1947 they . were only 9.4 per cent. Similarly, dividends in 1939 amounted to 6.7 per cent of the national income, Last year they were a mere 38 per cent. In words, stockholders' shar¢ of the national income had shrunk by almost hali since 1939. other Converted Cactus Cactus CIEL: grow by the side of the road to be a friend of man, And yet--1 : Cactus blossom honey, cactus candy, jam, jelly, aid conserves are sugar saving dainties of growing appeal. Commercially they're mark- eted "by mail and sold direct to tourists. So are many plant species on a scale running well into thous- ands of dollars annually. Cactus canes and oddity souvenirs are an old story, but not to be scorned. Nor are the fresh and dried cactus fruit. displayed at Spanish-American markets, Cactus pulp affords cough syrups, a heart medicine, and strong alka- loids which may have a big future in medicine, . Near liome cactus has long serv- ed as very protective hedge fencing, fuel, and building material. Dust bowl years proved its value as nu- tritious fodder; then cactus on pas- ture lands enabled grass to make a welcome come-back. : Rope and binder twice come from hennequer, a cactus. Prickly pear is host to cochineal insects, which yield a standard red dye. Silky cac- tus cloth, too expensive now, is a possibility for the future. Perfume, soaps, cleaners, water softener, and boiler compound are chief among the modern - cactus products from which we benefit "all unbeknownst." ing water and cleaning the inaasis of radiators, heating systems, ete. r / / 0 This is the time of year when most of us make good resolutions for the coming year, even though we 'know quite well that they're liable to last about as long.as a snowball in--well, you know where. Personally I never hear of "good resolutions" without thinking of old Sandy McTo-h,- back in Bruce County many years ago. * * * Sandy?*s chief weakness was "the in a repentant mood, "The Meen- ister" got hold of him and gave him a real talking-to. And Sandy, whose head was aching terribly, finally broke down, said he'd been an aw- ful fool, and solemnly resolved never to take another drink. * . . Full of pride, the next day, he walked down the main street of the village, passing by the door of his favorite tavern without so much as a sideways glance. Fifteen or twenty steps farther on he suddenly stopped short and said, "Weel done, good resolutions, ye deserve a drink for that" Whercupon he turned back and went into the tavern, * * * However, Sandy and his resolu- tions havaa't much to do with farm- ing, which is what this column is supposed ta be about. So let's see it T can't scare up a few items whgh might possibly be of some interest and service. So here goes. * . * [t's said that comparatively few hatcherymen or producers of broil- ing fowl realize the extreme impor- tance of ftarge size hatching eggs 'in obtaining big and profitable broilers at 10 or-12 weeks. Under from eggs weighing 26 ounces or more per dozen will actually weigh a quarter 'pound more apiece when sold as fryers than chicks hatched from eggs weighing 21 ounces per dozen. % . * . « This many times mean the difference be- tween a fair return for one's labor and no labor income at all. Sixe pf eggs--also- size of day-old chicks --should be taken into considera- tion by broiler growers as a really important factor in profits. According to an American writer that old joke about putting green It stars at soften - spectacles on mules and then feed- ing them on sawdust may not be so far off the beam after all. Success- ful feeding of poultry on chemically treated sawdust has been reported from the States of Washington. . « . The new feed ingredient is a form . of molasses produced by an acld- treatment of sawdust. It is said to contain around fifty per cent of sugar, and has been added to chicken and turkey diets as a substi- tute for wheat and corn. From here it sounds sort of like a foul deal for the fowl--but maybe the diet ishetter than the pun, at that, « * . 'Right around now might be a good time to start repairing any . farm machinery that may be in- need of a little fixing. Foreign aid as well as military defense programs FARM FRONT drink" until one day, when he was, ~ 'exactly the same conditions chicks extra quarter-pound could - are putting the squéeze on steel --and there's a chance that it may be quite a bit harder to get within the next year or so. . + -. No doubt you already know it-- but thick frost o¢ the walls or ceil- ings of your livestock buildings is a sign that they're not properly ventilated. ~~ Slot - type Plug type ventilators are O.K. for Aaitdings with enough height to keep air moving up the ths . » - and its told as a farmers If thi¢ is true fact -- it though ought to strike out for evel higher looks as prices. For it's said that one hun- dred years ago one farm worker produced cough agricultural pro- ducts to support himself and only three other persons, whercas today the average farm laborer produces enough to feed himself and thirteen and a half others * LJ L] . Just how you support a halt-per- son I really wouldn't know--but possibly that represents the amount of food that would b¥ raised by a lot of persons who write telling farmers how to run their business, present company NOT excepted. * . -% Agcording to tests made by a big packing house, carcass losses from improper treatment of hogs aver- age around 48 cents ahead from bruising alone. The tests were made in over a thousand good and choice hogs selected at random and thirty- nine per cent of them were found to he bruised. oh i * * * x "What is even more 'important "nearly half of this bruising occurred on the farm before the animals were loaded for shipment. Forty - eight cents may not sound like a whale of a lot of money--but multiply it by fifty or a hundred and it mounts up. . -! . Which should be about enough of this for one week, don't you think? And you don't really need' to shout that chorus of "Yess" quite so loudly. ventilators work best on low-roofed buildings. QUICKLY BREAKS "COUGHING SPELL Fast Action of Lymolids Leaves Man Grateful | *Thave used LYMOIDS for cough relief for many years," writes 8 Brantford resident, "and their quick action almost alwaya relieves iris tation." Carry LYMOIDS always with you, With its concentrated medicinal oils, LYMOIDS bringinstant relief in throa tickle, coughing and eas. Most stores sell LYMOIDS, bus If unobtainable, send 100 Bb stamps or ' EOD, 1s ect St. ron ; 6-1 Battling A Japanese Black Market--In ToKyo black marketeers have been getting from 5,000 to 8,000 yen for second-hand pants. To combat this condition, the Tokyo City Government con- 'ducted a 10-day-public sale, with all items sold at officially-set prices. Japs waited all day to purchase clothing at. about half lack market prices. Sign at right. advertises men's trouzers at about 2,000 yen. / \ PENNY 9-13 ? hg LEPHON P) ] he a A ' =. \ () A ol : "By Harry Haenigsen TELEPHONE] 2%. a on MA An le