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FEAR i ~ \ iL A Hard Way To Get A Grindstone "No," said Jimmie Griffin he other day. "We don't touch a hand-scythe at all." * "Then I don't suppose you'd want to buy a good grindstone?" asked my friend, Flats Jackson,' "in the tone of voice he likes to "adopt when he ,assumes a philan- thropic role, and hopes to sfick some innocent bystander with a rough trade, Jimmie said he guessed not. VE : "That's too bad," said Flats. "1 got the best grindstqne anybody ever had, and it's legally mine, and it's available at a Young and tender price." "I suppose it's a coarse stone," I said. "No, it's not," said Flats. "It's coarser than medium, but it don't draw on the metal, and it's a * quick cutter without being flinty, if you know what I mean," "How did you ever come to' own a grindstone legally?"I said. "I bought it. I bought it from old man Guppy up above Fair- banks." Nobody said anything, '0 Flats added, "The mean Guppy." 'Nobody said anything again, go Flats said, "I suppose this Guppy was the meanest man that ever set a foot on the State of Maine. He had an ingrown belief that nobody under 15 should ever have any fun at all, and that over 15 you out-lived the desire for it. I can't tell you all the mean things that man did. But we boys around there "used to like to work on his dis- position: when we could think 'of anything, and sometimes the more agile-minded were able to contrive a situation that should have reformed him. "Anyway, come Fourth of July night, I took it into. my head to. do something that would reform Mr.- Guppy in a complete and helpful way and I took it out on his grindstone. It took a little doing, because a grindstone is heavy, and 1 was closer to the ground then, and I wanted this to. be a big surprise. , "Today, naturally, 1 don't have an idea why this was supposed to be funny or nice, or why it was supposed to reform Mr. Guppy, or -what possessed me to work so hard for such a little - possibility. But I stole up behind his barn, and weht Into the shed, and with the strength of ten men I lifted that great gorm- "ing grindstone down out of the ~f - BEARING up -- lvan Kudryavi- sev doesn't seem to mind this -sort--of thing--as «a performer with a Russian troupe appear- ing in Wembley, England. Ivan "found the 'bear as a cub and trained him. a» stand and got -it on the ground. "It was a hand-crank stone, The kind that sat on four rollers, and the shaft came out: with two bends on, Funny nobody in "the old days of Yankee ingehui- ty néver figured a clutch on a grindstone, If you had a good bearing for, it, you'd kick up quite some momentum, and the . handle would fly around like a windmill. "Well, that's neither here nor there, I had 'in mind to roll this grindstone down past Mr. Gup- py's front porch, where he was. sitting in his rocking chair thinking up new things to be "mean about, and while I say I'm 'a little hazy. now on just what effect this was to set up, it seem- ed at the time like a good thing to do. Roll it, you know, like a hoop. So, I got it rolling all - right, and I was cuffing it with. a little stick, and away we went. "We went by Mr. Guppy's front porch, and he sat Gp and took notice. We went across the yard with .the crank flying free' on the other, side, and we wound up about 35 yards of hog fence on the handle, pulling out some stakes and taking them. with us, and then we hit the soft ground of the sink-drain area and come to a muddy and final conclusion. Quite a run, 'twas. "So Mr. Guppy came down and says, 'That looks like my grindstone!' I now realized deep inside that whatever it was I had in mind at first hadn't pan- ned out 100 per cent. Anyway, he looked at the edges of "the grindstone, .and se said I'd chip- ped it beyond repair, and would have to pay for it. v "I have never known, then or now, what a grindstone is worth, new or secondhand. Money, then was just something you touched on in 'the eighth grade under 'Banking & Currency,' so after Mr. Guppy and my father had a - summit meeting 1 agreed to hoe the corn for Mr. Guppy until grindstone was paid for. © "It took :two weeks. His corn patch ran from the main road .. | down to Sandy Stream, and while I suppose "it's half a mile; it seemed like the same distance as Utah. Every night he'd tell me I © was doing well, and at the end of two weeks he said, 'There, now I figure the grindstone is paid- for. Let that be a lesson to you, and you, ought to be glad I was kind and lenient instead of try-- ing to make things hard on you.' Meg'into the wagon, and I drove up to Mr. Guppy's and began to load the grindstone into the wa-: gon. He came out and said, 'What do you think you're doing?' 1 said I was taking my grindstone .heme. He said I couldn't do that. I said I could, that I'd paid for it, and 1 wanted it. "He appealed to my father, and I remember my father spoke 'very slowly, like a judge with a weighty decision, and he said, 'Now, Mr. Guppy, I don't want to appear-.to be defending the boy, but it seems to. me you have exhausted --your discretionary were worrying more. about the price of the grindstone than you were the rehabilitation of a way- 'ward youngster, In that cross- - "wind of motives, you have been hoist on your own bargain. 1 suggest you take what it would cost to hire a man for two weeks, -and go buy a new grindstone -- and I'll take on from here .and 'handle the boy.' "That's what happened. .He - drove in and bought a new grind- stone for haying season, and I still have the one I bought from him. It's the best grindstone we ever had, and every time I use it I dodge the chipped 'edges and reflect on my misspent youth and John Gould in: The Christian Science Monitor. A Wolf: A ay 'who knows all the ankles. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS surface 1. Undisturbed 3. 8craped linen i mall b beds 4. Things of 9, Wee moment 12, Anpioh 5. Berry used od Asfaite region in sauces 13. 6. Had .._ obligations - 1 Oriental lute -- AION A55R ~~ ). Ventllate Remote "German river. . Insect . Doclle ' OWN 1. Two-wheeled vehicle ) .%. Extent of Answer 8 Method = 27. Enchants . Acute virus 28. Period of disease light .Of us IL Ya hostility . Meeting of 32, Improves 9 0 1 neighbors -- upon 1. Hog 9 2 34.18 worthy of . Short open 35. Public carrier spout 37. Cravat . . Huge 28. Apple drink 23. Military 40. a f (prefix) assistant 41, Entrance 24. Caegura 42. Russian river 26. Injury to 43, Three-spot ride 44. Beam 26. Central male 45. Compass point character 46. Large tank J elsewhere on thi¢ page ----"So.-:that-night..I 'hitched Old. _ _the iniquities thereof." -- by | powers. I'm inclined to think you | CENTENNIAL PORTRAIT -- Artist Grandma Moses celebrates mont Art Centre. her 100th birthday with this presentation of her portrait. The painting is by Dean Fausett, prasiden of the Southern Ver- 1 Amendments to Canada's fruit, vegetables and honey regulations have just been put into effect, the most significant of which deal with potatoes. They call for greater uniform- ity in sizes of potatoes, 'especially for those sold in consumer-size packages weighing less than 25 pounds. (Size limits are specified for both round and long varietes. J LJ * Seriously misshapen potatoes are {o be excluded from Canada «No. 2 grade. However, a slight- minimum-size potatoes in both . No. 1 and No. 2 grades and pro- portionately more potatoes with 1. hollow "heart in Canada No. 1 . Large grade will be permitted. ~The provision dealing - with _ various types of damage in po- tatoes, such as maturity, clean- liness and sprouting, have 'been re-defined to bring potato grade standards more in line with pres- ent-day market demands. The sale of new potatoes which have special size requirements has been extended from August 31 each year to September 15. * i J * kK R © Of the importance for export sales to points other than the |__United States is the provision ging must be used so that it will not tear during shipment. * L EL] Some revision in grade stand- ards have been made for cher- ries, peaches and pears. They ~ relate to cleanliness and permiss- also lower the box. count for peaches to prevent inclusion of under-size fruit in graded con- . tainers. Cherries meeting the re- quirements of Canada No. 2 grade may now be marked Can- ada Domestic when packed in any of the standard containers. Er dame EEE FESS ETI SS Other changes wording some sections because the- agriculture department and several additions to the sched- ule that sets out the dimensions and capacities for standard pack- ages for fruits-and vegetables. the Fruit, Vegetables and Honey Act, "which is administered by the Fruit and Vegetable Divi- sion of the Canada Department of Agriculture.r * LJ L] A devastating disease of poul- try known az; Chronie- Respira- tory Disease (CRD), is consider- ed the most important respira- keys in Canada. CRD is believed to be caused by the pleuropneumonia-like or- ganism (PPLO), and according to Dr. S. E. Magwood and Dr. G. L. Bannister of the Health. of Animals Division, Canada De- partment+ of Agriculture, the clinical disease is commonly ag- gravated by secondary bacterial invaders. ) . - . A CRD control program should aim at the establishment of PPLO-free flocks, as the rearing of PPLO-free chicks is depend- ent on: the parent flock being free of the bacteria, The organism is transmitted through the ¢gg to the chick. N LJ Ll If flocks are known to be in- fectéd, the transmission cycle 'can sometimes be broken by antibiotic injection, although this methpd has not been uniformly successful, The use of PPLO-free flocks is the most reliable method of securing disease-free chicks but it is a very exacting proced- ure, * L] Ld +-When-- "Fas confirmed the presence. of PPLO as the principal agent in an outbreak of respiratory di- low should depend on the poten- tial value of the flock. Improvement in environment Is always essential, Also, aiten- ly "larger proportion, of below- case, the course of action to fol- and no maturity requirements' that "a heavier "weight "of "bag-" ible damage at time of sale. They of a recent re-organization of The regulations come under - _ tory disease of chickens and tur;.. ~laboratory-- diagnosis -- "one jacket. THEFARM FRONT tion should be given to ventila- tion, possible crowding, sanita- tion and nutrition. : With broiler and production flocks, oral medication with anti- biotics may be helpful only by improving the appetite. Antl- biotic medication of flocks of average value may often be un- economical, but good nursing will minimuize the fianancial loss. ™ * Valuable breeding flocks may be given more prolonged anti- biotic medication and antibiotic injection' might be considered. Obvious symptoms of the dis- ease are: nasal discharge, con- junctivitis, respiratory © rales, "snicking" sounds and coughing, followed by loss of appetite, loss of weight, and in laying birdy, lowered egg production. . . * To reduce insects and nites that persists in crevices, empty - farm granaries should be cleaned and sprayed before new grain is . stored, advises E.-A. R. Liscombe, Winnipeg Research Station, Can- ada Department of Agriculture. J . Ld Granary walls and floor should be swept thoroughly before spray is applied, and the sweep- ings buried or burned, he warns. _.Waste grain around. the exterior | of the building should be treated similarly. Insecticides recommended in- clude one per cent lindane, three per cent malathion and five per cent methoxyclor., Any one of these may be applied with a garden sprayer at one gallon per thousand square feet, or to the point of run-off. N » . . All interior surfaces of gran- aries should be treated and grain should not be stored in them for seven days after application. | Two OF Everything included -re-' -- Even Mortgages ! There has been a good deal of talk "lately about our lack of national purpose and the need for putting an end to what has been rather lyrically déscribed as our drift and indecision. If they mean me or the fellow : down the street, they have a . point. But if they mean Ameri- can business, they couldn't be more wrong. If there's one thing American business doesn't lack it is purpose. I! there's another thing it is totally innocent of it is the merest hint of drift or indecision. I know. And I've got the bills to prove it. - As far as I am concerned, American business has charted a clear course with the express - purpose of providing me with an abundance of things I didn't know I could not do without until their gray-flanneled min- fons opened my wife's eyes 'to the virtually primitive lite I have been forcing her to -lead. It began with the two-pant suit. The. clothdng industry pointed out that with a two- pant suit I woyld always have al least one ' pair of neatly pressed pants. And they were right. My {rouble is with the "The spare trousers look neat all right, but the jack- et tends to take on a slept-in look unless I wear the baggy, unpressed other pair of pants, Actually, this bothers my wite more than it does me. What does bother me is the latest and most disturbing phase of this two-in-one national-pur- pose drive. It comes from the Douglas Fir Plywood Associa- tion. They think I should have two houses. And, I presume, two matching mortgages. 10s bad enotgh have | my two-pant suit, Ima- iaving two houses with little closet room. house "gambit was, 1 ISSUE 36 -- 1960 suppose, inevitable. For years the automobile industry has been after me to buy a second car. I could then sport two high license plates and lack twice the status I do now. And the telephone company has been urging me to have at least two telephones -- not a teleplione now, + and an extension. That was be- fore the stock split. Now, ex- tensions are as fundamental as a roof on your two houses. Not having extensions is equivalent te .milling youv own flour, The . thing today is two telephones, each with its own number. And they should be in colour, yet. Next thing I know, the paint people will be after me to re-do my rooms to mateh" the tele- phones. If I were to suggest that I could re-do my phones to" match the rooms, the paint peo- ple would sulk. And, doubtless, so would the telephone people. If my wile finally convinces me that we must have two se- parate telgphones, I think I'll hold out for letting them clash with the décor. My two-pant suit does already, she tells me. To help me do my part in fur-\_ thering our national purpose, tha banks are urging me to use more of their services. banks and loan companies keep falling over one another in® an effort to lend me money. On the othe oe the saving banks wag admonitory fingers my way, urging me to put aside some money every weck for the things I need, writes J. Norman Me- Kenzie in the Christian Science Monitor: And I do. But the money 1 put aside .every week is for the things we already have. These are the things the nondrifting, decision-makers convinced me we needed last year. They .in- clude a big-es-life TV screen that enables me to be exposed to suggestions +or- the other necessities I lack such as swim- ming pools, refrigerator-freezers that loom like skyscrapers in the kitchen and hold a year's supply of TV dinners, a dandy boat and trailer I can hitch on to either of the two cars I ought to own, and other basics for ordinary, everyday living. Incidentally, the boating in- dustry is the only segment of American business that is miss- ing -- ot all things -- -the boat in this national purpose move- ment. They're only trying to sell me one boat and trailer. This attitude is as anachronistic as "the Corn Laws that Adani Smith | grumbled so much about. And it may well be the chink in our shining national armour. It is from backsliders like the boat- Ing industry that loose talk of drift and indecision can -- and probably does -- arise. They are interfering with the national purpose. What do they take ma. for -- a second-class citizen? What about that other house I may buy? Is it to have that barren look with no boat and trailer parked in the front yard? "One boat and trailer, indeed! This is America;- And I mean to have them, even if T have to put in thot other telephone -to. place. my ordes. Many men have acquired an education just by reqding small print. Commercial | T=want--twor} NDAY SCHOO0I LESSON By Rev, R. B.A, Barclay Warren B.D. God's Hand in History "Isaiah 10:5-7, 12-15 14: 24-27 Memqry Selection: The Lord of hosts hath purposed, who als disannul it? and his hand? stretched out, and who shall ity. it back? Isaiah 14:27. "I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need 'bf noth- ing." Revelation 3:17, spirit of the Laodicean church, is strongly reflected in But there come occasions to all of us, when our self-sufficiency, dips sharply. A young friend, whose capacity rated close to the genius level, is doing his stint of servicer in the United States navy, He wrote to his father, "I'm beginning to realize that I haven't got the world by the tail." . To us all there are times when we stand in awe as flashes gf light reveal to us that there fs a higher Power over the destiny of our lives. We sce God's hand in history. A friend missed his plane by a few minutes. It was well that he did, for that plane crashed, killing. all on board. As we grow older, we can sea how events that scemed insignifi- cant at the time, were really dis- plays of God's hand in history. The acceptance of my Christmas article by a newspaper in 1041 didn't even get mention in my diary. Now I can see that it was one of the most important events Cin omy life. - In our lesson we see how God used the. heathén Assyrian to punish Israel, The Assyrian, with lust to conquer the world, was not yielded to God. Nevertheless, he was the rod of God's anger against Israel. In time God used the Chaldean to break the power of the Assyrian. Then in succes- sion came the empires of the "Medes and Persians, the Greeks and the Roman. God is still bove the affairs of man. I have no leanings whatsoever to atheistic communism. But I wonder if Russia's professed This, the! this age. - { sympathy for the masses have not spurred the colonial powers to granting greater privileges of self-expression and self-govern- ment to the peoples under theiy rule. Colony after colony, especially in Africa, if gaining its independence. We speak dis paragingly of the communist agl- tator. We tend to forget the de- sire of all men, everywhere, te be free..God may be usihg the communist for His purpose. Bub, the communist, if he continues in his denial of God, will hims self be broken as was the Assy. rian r . "= Any Volunteers For Skeeter Bites? Four young "Australian medl(- cal research workers recently exposed themselves voluntarily for three weeks to dangesqus mosquito bites. They sat on the banks of the Mitchell River, in Queensland gulf country, invit- ing mosquitoes to attack them. As the mosquitoes bit them the scientists sucked off their at- tackers with plastic hoses cov- ered at the mouth with gauze. Eleven thousand flies suse pected of carrying a deadly dis- ease, encephalitis, "were 'thus collected. Packed in dry ice they were flown to Brisbane, where they will be used for research work. Experts hope to isolate from their bodies the encephalitis virus which, from. time to time, ravages riverside settlements (a Queensland, It is thought that the virus (s brought from Asia by migratory waterfowl, The Australian mos- quito' then feeds on the water fowl. 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But this time she has been filmed. Those who have seen this re- markable_film made by Timothy Dinsdale, a 36- -year-old seronau- tlcal engineer, say something funny was going on in the depths of Loch Ness while Dinsdale held the camera to nis eye. The "thing" on celluloid first appears as a {triangular hump above the water not unlike a submarina snorkel, It fs motion- less, with no head or neck vis: ible. Suddenly ripples appear and t begins to move, faster than the THIS MODEL of Nessie was enticed on the basis of JCscriions given by those who have "seen" her.- : motorboat which chased it. Dins- dale, who first saw it with bin- _oculars at 1,300 yards, says that it was reddish-brown in color with darker splotches. Dindsale, a former Royal Air Force pilot, discounts the usual theories that the phenomenon was a shoal of eels or a midget submarine, "It was definitely a living animal, and it was be- tween 40 and 50 fect long," he says. Dinsdale admits that he read up on Loch, Ness lore before stalking Nessie * with _his scope movie camera, and that he had made a drawing of the counts. Certainly, he-seems to have known just where and when to rendezvous with Nessie. John Rankin, a Labor Member of Parliament from Glasgow, earlier this year predicted thf Nessie would soon be surfacing again, and that this time she might be accompanied by others, Nessie was first sighted in 1933, and since then over 2,000 people, many of them sober, claim to have seen her. } All agree that she is about 40 feet long with a long neck that swivels from side t rel chest, four flippers and a tail. claim that she has side, a bar- her back, Soma nostrils on humps on tele- top of her head like the blow- hole of a whale. Ever since a local circus of- fered $90,000 for the capture of Nessie dead or alive, diving en- thusiasts have been combing Loch Ness in scarch of her. But recent plans to track Nes- sie in teams with Bren guns and even bombs have brought pro- tests from the Scottish Tourist Board and the Society for tha Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- -mals. monster from eye-witness ac- | Nessie has one serious cham- pion in Dr, Maurice Burton, de- puty keeper of zoology at tha British Museum. Ie believes that Nessie may well be a sur- vivor of the pre-historic plesio- saur, a water-living reptile thought to be extinct. Although the age of reptiles' ended 70 million years ago, Bur- ton thinks that the geographia and climatic conditions of Loch Ness might be such as' to pre- serve the plesiosaur,. ra is po ¥ - i L 3