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ARTE SAR PR RE a a» g AS 3% - {18 oy SELENE LY darian lr a A op LER. Sy f oe All The Sehosling Lincoln Ever Ha When Abrabam was thirteen years old, the people in the Pigeon Creek settlement decided to build a schoolhouse . . . It was much like any other log eabin. The door was at one end; and on either side there was a small square window. Nearly the whole of the other end * was taken up by the fireplace--a huge affair, built of blue clay and flat stones. Benches made of logs split in halves were placed around toe wis ce ol the room for seats. A rude shelf was put up near the door to serve as a dosk, before which the few pupils who wished to study writing could stand by turns and trace their copies. Of course there was no floor, There was no glass in the windows, but it was expected that when the weather grew cold the master would paste a sheet of greased paper over each operding-- and this would serve just as well, The (first master was Azel Dorsey, and the boys |and girls from the Lincoln cabin were among the pupils. School began at sunrise and was not dismissed until the sun was setting, It was scarcely day- light, when the children started fo school, for the house was three or four miles away, and often the stars were shining before all were back at the home fireside. "The master had agreed to teach 'spelling, read- ing, writing, and arithmetic "to the rule of three'; but only a few of the scholars studied anything but spell- ng... + Azel Dorsey's school soon came to an end, and it was two years be- fore another master was employed to teach in the littlé log school- house. But all this while, Abraham was quictly teaching [himself at home; and it is not likely that any backwoods schoolmaster could have taught him better. His father thought that it was folly for him to learn anything more, and that so much reading of books was a great waste of time. But when Andrew Crawford at |last opened another school in the little cabin, Mrs, Lin- coln declared that. the six children should attend--and so they did. The second school was even shorter than the. first. The settlers scemed to think that a very little learning was sufficient, and so it was a long- time before the log sciiovlhouse- again echoed with the voices of children conning their spelling books. When Abraham was nearly sev- enteen years old, a wandering schoolmaster [whose name was Swaney, opened a school in a'de- serted cabin four and a half miles from the Lincoln home. Of course young Lincoln was one of the scho- lars. He was so anxious to learn, that he thought nothing of walking nine miles every day to gain what little he could from a man who knew far less than himself. But his father soon came forward and de- clared that the boy had already had more schooling than was good for him, and that he must stop all such nonsense and go to work. And so. a Lincoln's 'school days were at an end. If all had been put together, they would not have made a twelvemonth.--From "'Abraham Lincoln," by James Baldwin. - I have Been Faithful--After My Fashion--This dead dog has a really faithful buddy. little fellow sat beside his fallen friend when the The animal was struck by a car and remained there until the body was removed eight-hours later. JGINGERFARM endoline P. Clarke There is one thougit in every- one's mind these days; one topic that takes the spotlight in all con- versations . . . the drought! That is, insofar as country people are con- cerned. Whether city folk are equal- ly worried is a question -- actually I appears not to concern them "right at the moment. Some might even grumble if it rained and spoilt a picnic. How we would welcome it, supposing it spoilt a dozen picnics -- but at present there is no sign of a break in the weather. It is heart-breaking to go out at night watering plants and things in an effort to keep them alive, We give them a real drenching, and yet by the. next evening they are wilted and weary again. One wonders what is it that makes rain more beneficial to plants than water from the well or cistern? We still have our tomato plants, cabbage, peppers and some annuals in baskets just as they came from the greenhouse. We find them easier to care for that way than if we set them out in the garden. The wheat is out in head but without main what will there be in the kernels? Yesterday Partner was looking over one of the fences with a view to future repairs when he saw quite a number of dark objects hanging on a tree. On close inspection he found they were wild plums -- undersized, premature, and dead ripe. He picked one or two and split them open. Except for the stones they were hollow -- abso- hutely no flesh or juice 'in them at all. That makes me wonder what will happen to the cherry crop? Maybe this is one of the "seventh years" of which the Bible 'tells us during which we should neither sow "no reap, nor gather any of the fruits of the earth, Maybe what we don't do voluntarily we may have to accept without choice. No, I don't wish to be gloomy but you must ad- home, But Pariner's sister has had it all to do, and, until a year ago, an invalid mdéther to look after as well, Now she is alone and we are hoping a holiday in Canada will do her a lot of good. At this moment Bob is away to Toronto to bring her back to the farm which she has not seen for twenty-two years. Incidentally i am thinking she will wonder what she has struck when she sees our front steps. They are pale green -- and only partly finished at that! The other day, when 1 was looking them over I was thinking they were going to soak up an awful lot of paint when I did get around to giving them a paint job, So 1 got Bob to gather up all the odds and ends of paint that happened to be around and. mix them altogether to use as a first coat. The conglomeration emerged as the colour | have men- tioned -- pale green, But for a first coat what did the colour matter? So that same evening I went at it . . . had the top of the steps finished and was starting on the first riser when Partner called me to look at a calf that had suddenly become very bloated. So | went and we worked with that calf until one a.m. 1 imag- ine we saved its life for which it appeared to be very grateful. Would it have been, 1 wonder, had it known that we saved it only so that it might be sent to market in a few weeks time. Anyway it was the calf that interrupted my step-paint- ing ob -- and I haven't got back to it yet. Funny thing how it is often so hard to get back to a job once it has been interrupted, Well, we hear quite often about cats and birds, but on Ginger farm we do things differently. Here it isn't the cat that gets the birds, it's our Honey. The other night I found no less than five fledgling starlings on the back lawn. Not one of them was. eaten so I knew the cat was Buying A Tractor? I you are thinking about buying "a tractor, here are some questions you may want to answer before you close a trade: 1. Is my farm large enough to support a tractor? Can 1 keep it busy* enough doing real farm work to make it pay: ' 2. Can 1 replace enough horses with a tractor to make it pay from that ang ¢? : J. Are my fields large enough to use a tractor, or can I make them so?" 4. Would a tractor iit in with my system of farming? Would 1 Tke tarmmng with a tractor? Am | the type of man who can change over from work stock farming to tractor farming and do a good job of it? . 0. Can I enlarge my farm cnougl --in row crops, paSthres, te.--to do "my farming mike a tractor pay? A man with a small farm may buy a tractor and minke money and spread overhead costs with it by doing custom plowing and other work for neighbors. Ability to get his own rush jobs done on time is another advantage. Many good farmers who perhaps could not afford a tractor for row crops alone make it pay by doing other jobs. 'They use the tractor to saw wood, thresh grain, grind feed, stretch wire, and many 'such farm jobs, An Agricultural Experiment Sta- enongh tion found in a recent study that tractors used less than 400 hours a year cost Y5 cents an hour to oper- ate. Those used from 400 to 800 hours cost 64 cents; from 800 to 1,200 hours, 51 cents; and over 1,200 hours," the cost was 37 cents an hour. In the area covered by this study each tractor had replaced an aver- age of 4.5 work stack. The study secmed to indicate that each tractor should have replaced about five head of work stock. With 'maximum use of power and cquipment it was figured that each tractor could have replaced up to six work animals. If you decide not to buy a tractor now or if you can't get one, perhaps you would like to do these two things: 1. Keep accurate records for one Year to see what it costs you to keep and use eich horse, how much time each horse worked, and how better to | New Gadgets and Inventions You'll Probably Be Seeing KITCHEN COVER RIMS Aluminum rims held in position by flexible steel springs, are offered for kitchen use. User places sheet of wax paper over jar, glass, dish or bowl, and slips rim on. Each rim adjustable to several sizes of containers. Come in sets for small, medium or large bowls and dishes ranging from 134 inches to 10% inches * . . FOR. THE KIDDIES Frozen fruit-juice on a stick can be made at home by use of poly- ethylene plastic molds soon to be introduced to the Canadian market, Molds come with supply of wooden sticks. Stick is inserted through hole in end of mold which is then filled with fruit juice and put in ice compartment of refrigerator. When frozen push down on stick to release from mold. Mold is washable, may be used indefinitely, maker states, FSUINDAY SCHOOL G eS LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren The Songbook of the Bible Psaln 1; 67. Golden Text: -- Serve the Lord with gladness: come before His presence with singing. Psalin 100: 2, During this quan we are to study the Psalms of Ancient Israel; These arc a group of lyrical pdems of which seventy-three are accredited to David, the sweet singer «© Israel, Some Psalm. have been the object of sharp criticism because of the anathemas they contain. An ex- ample is Ps. 13:9. "Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy litle ones agamst stones." But it should be noted that the anathemas are usually prophetic and not necessari- ly the personal sentiment of the writer, Neither does the psalm hint approval of the beastly action pic- tured in the forecast The first psalm is really a pre- face. Here the line between the righteous and the wicked is clearly drawn. The righteous is happy. Since he does not walk as the un- godly advise, he does come to stand in the way of sinners nor take his scat with the scorners. He is dif- ferent. But his righteousness is positive, too. He delights in God's Jaw and consequently his life is fruitful. How different from the un- godly who are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. The diifer- ence will be manifest to all in the day of Judgment. From Ps. 6 it is evident that the writer conceived of God as not only Israel's God bi t One who would govern the nations. 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