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tiwiw thursday atjocbt 16th 1934 the acton free press nrnirp 1 qjlje vw press ijort tnnj the ozark rainbow c a stephens j4fr4tx b telegram which had come the previous evening- was awaiting ah5ison on his return to yale from 6ne of his occasional brief visits to the old farm while he was in college we need you again come at once if possible the message ran it was from john bushrod of a mining company in new york the man for whom addison had already made three trips to determine the value of mines addison in fact foundthat this new vocation into which lie had drifted al most by chance at first bade fair to occupy much of his time and attention to the exclusion of school duties he did not like to ask too many indulgence however and in response to the telegram sat down to write a letter saying that it would hardly be possible for turn to undertake another commission of the eort for a time when who should burst in upon turn but mr bushrod himself i didnt hear from you yesterday he said so i came down the fact is wc want you to go to arkansas and go im mediately he showed addison a clip ping from a little bock newspaper whch read there is great excitement up la the ozarks they have found what they take to be silver ore there by the thousand ton the mountains are full of ithhey say our friend judge hoke who hails from that section thinks there is silver enough on his farm to pension off all the old boys in gray who fought in the war he showed us some flickers and they certainly do shine like silver we reckon the judge has struck it rich he is mak ing brick and is going to put tip a smelter in the course of a week or two be expects to be drawing out hot silver toy the ladleful i think that there is really something in these reports mr bushrod said at any rate we want you to find out leave of absence was again conceded y the college authorities and addison set off next day going first to st louis ty way of chicago and thence to spring field mo missouri railways were then in bad condition he was two days in reaching springfield from st louis for the train was twice derailedspn route from this foattle town of the civil war the only conveyance southward into arkansas was by stage wagons of primi tive construction they were three days in reaching yellvllle and did not pass the buffalo river until a day or twa afterward rumors of the new silver dls covery were current at the taverns an4 flame appeared for a hundred feet post offices along the road judge hokes above the chimney top the sky was span- new smelter was the subject of common ned with blazing gases of every lmagin- talk at yellvllle addison was able iouble hue and tint the display conflrm- locate it without difficulty and finally ed his previous surmise as to the charac- reached the place on foot during the i for of the ore afternoon of his twelfth day out from look up he shouted and pointed new haven for he had- decided to find aloft there is where you want ta that smelter first of all and to start his look what youve smelted is up there prospecting from that point a lively scene indicative of conslder- pondently they had expected to find silver which could be coined into olg white dollars sucltls ever the lure of the precious metals on his return to jfewyork addispi did jot have much better success for a wlulc in convincing mr bushrod and his company that this discovery of zinc in the ozarks eight prove more lucretvc even than silver they hesitated to om bark in zinc mining and as the event has shown lost a priceless opportunity for investment when the nuts abe passed have you ever watched your guests when the nut dish or jar was passed few if any refused at least a scoop or madison calhoun and jefferson respec tively or neighbors continued to call till late in the evening and they talked of little two and if you were carefully observ- except future fortunes in sliver ling the choice of nuts i feel sure you addison soon had a look at the heaps have noticed how each guest endeayofd of ore piled near the smelter some of to get at least one of those big brazil it was browncolored some pink and nuts young and old seem to look upon other chunks of a peculiar salmon hue these as favors in fact the only fault he put several bits to his pocket and one can find with the brazil nut in toe later that night when alone lighted his nut dish is that none are ever left when blowpipe and gained an idea as to the it reaches the last guest splendid fertilizer fusing point in fact he was not long making up his mind as to the nature of the deposit he said nothing that night however for he preferred to wait and see what would happen when the blast was fired next morning the stir of the household waked him at daylight early to as was the hour people were arriving afoot and on horse back from miles around sunup had been the time set for firing the smelter and promptly with the first peep of the great luminary they touched it off amidst great excitement gradually the furnace shaft heated and in the course of an hour lambent tongues of blue flame issued at the top it grew hotter till the whole structure glowed at every crevice with brilliant dazzling incandes cence apparently it was time to tap the smelter seizing an iron bar the judge punched out the clay with which the plugged a sheetiron spout had been higged a sheetiron spout had been laid from the vent to a safe distance and here the judges three sons each with a kettle in his hands crowded round to catch the molten outflow the crowd gathered round closer and addison could hear them speculating on ine possibilities of the smelting one man said he had no the slightest aoubt that todays test would prove the ozark region to be the greatest place for silver mirlng in the whole worid aodison smjed to himself and closely watched the hole from wlch they ex pected the treasure to flow but nothing flowed the judge punch ed again punched deeper into the fiery mass nothing except whitehot clink ers came out silence fell broken only by the roar of the blast thus far the attention of everyone had been directed to the glowing orifice a the bottom of the shaft addison how ever was watching the top of it whre now that air had been admitted a most wonderful exhibition of iridescent able local excitement met his view as he came in sight of the place the melter was of the oldfashioned spanish type the chimney shaft being of newly burnt brick thirtyfive feet in height it stood close to an abrupt ledge of light- colored rock where considerable blasting had been done six or eight men were at work charging the furnace flue with charcoal and ore and standing about were no fewer than forty others neigh bors and friends of the judge who had gathered to watch the proceedings not wholly certain as to the reception he might meet addison drew near and inquired for judge hoke a florid genial old pioneer in homespun turned to gxcot him glad to se ye glad to see ye hyer he cried ye don t look jest like the young chaps round hyer whar mout ye hall from addison introduced himseff and dis closed the nature of his business brazil nuts are very nutritious pound furnishes no less than 3265 cal ories it is really among the aristo crats of the table but do not look upon this food as merely a tasty bite for after dinner it may be used in cakes of many kinds in salads in sandwiches in breads con serves pastries desserts and candles it may be used in large pieces in chopped particles or even grated over salads or for a sandwich filling here are three very attractive dishes o diff types that may be easily prepared grahamcracker cream case l cups crushed and sifted graham crackers 1 teaspoon baking powder a teaspoon salt 5 eggs 2 cups sugar 1 cup chopped brazil nuts 1 teaspoon vanilla crush the crackers add the baking powder and salt beat the eggyolks until thick then stir in the sugar and beat well together add the cracker mixture the nut meats and flavoring fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites put in greased layer cake tins and bake hi a moderate oven put layers together with cream filling whipped cream may be spread over the top of the cake if desired banana and nut salad 3 bananas vjr cup brazil nuts chopped 6 leaves lettuce v cup mayonnaise or boiled dressing feel bananas and cut in two length wise roll in nut meats place on let tuce leaf and garnish with dressing equal parts of dressing and whipped cream may be used sr carrot pudding 1 cups crumbs 1 tablespoon butter teaspoon salt v- cup grated carrots 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup molasses cup chopped dates or prunes cup raisins cup chopped ligs j cup ground brazil nuts lemon toast the crumbs and mix them with thebutter sttft the carrots which have in the sky he could not help laughing been grated or put through the meat in spite of himself to see the wholo grinder and add them to the crumbs crowd start back and stare overhead next add the molasses the fruit nuts wood ashes long recognized as valu able for certain crops the ashes of wood have long been recognized as a fertilizer of very consider able vjlue indeed thur use in agriculture is historic says the dominion chemist in all countries practising agriculture includ ing ciruidi they have been highly prized especially for do ir grapes and fruit trees anct kafy crops generally on sandy and light lo mis it was only through the idvcnt of highgrade potash salts tfiat their use fell off though of course the production of ashes is decreasing an quan tities of late years owing to the disap pearance of our forests has been an im portant factor in making it more and mora difficult for the farmer in the older settled districts to obtain them they are cscntiully a potassic ferti lizer ashes of good quality that is dry unmixtd with sand and unlcached con tain between 4 per cent and 6 per cent potash the average potash content being about 5yf per cent this potash is in a soluble form and hence immediately avail able for crop use moreover the potash exists in these ashes in a condition the tarbonate much more favorable for the nutrition of plants than in more commonly used compounds and should be worth at least 1 cent per pound more than in the latter in fact there is no better potassic fertilizer in addition to their potash wood ashes contain some 2 per cent phosphoric acid and from 20 to 30 per cent carbonate of lime this enhances their fertilizer value and makes them in a sense an allaround fertilizer for supplying the mineral ele ments required by crops further wood ashes correct acidity a condition detri mental to the thrift of most farm crops muriate and sulphate of potash are of no value for neutralizing acidity cow manipulates pump a cow on a farm near pembroke ontario doesnt depend nil iiiumn for a drink of water owned by milburn mo bride westmeath township it was seen in the barnyard busy at the well shoving the pump handle up with its nose and down with its horns when there was enough water in the trough she drank her fill and nonchalantly walked away rule of the boad why do vehicles in america keep to the right side of the road and those in england to the left this little matter has puzzled many people both in america and britain but now comes the solution at least according to the bureau of public roads in washington the cus tom of riding on any particular side originated in england in early days when men travelled armed on horseback it was safer to keep to the left so that the sword or pistol arm would be on the side of the man passed later in travel by coach the driver sat on the right side to- givefree playin using his whip in america however the driver of the oldfashioned conestoga wagon or freighthauling vehicle rode the left- wheel horse and keeping to the right was therefore more convenient in time other vehicles began to follow their example and keep to the right and slowly the method now in existence developed milk vendors stiles heaven protect us an old minister lemon juice and grated rind mix all ejaculated if that ere isnt the be iu- well together and stir in the baking tifulest rainbow i ever set eyes on powder turn into a wejlgreased mold the spectacle was in truth a gorgeous and steam for four or five hours serve one bar in hand judge hoke stood and with a raisin sauce stared aloft what is it he exclaim- td is that silver goln up like that no that is not silver addison said to him not silver what is it then zinc said addison the habit of beinojbqked yi wsjflf x bvvvvvvvvvvvks aaab taaaaaanmrh btwtjjjjri hgiiju plafcr ibanbaaat iliilib a water diviner this picture taken at the interna tional congress of diviners held at luncbcrg gerinany shows a water diviner in action the photograph was taken at he moment when the diviner crossed a water vein and apparently the action of the twig caused the nazi demonstrator an anxious moment canadianizing tjoukhobohs general individualistic trend is visible in western colonies breakup of the christian community of the universal brotherhood of dpukho- bors would not be a surprise to those close to the sect according to reports published by the lethbridgc herald there seems to be a spirit of discon- ent among the members of the commun ity the paper says the iron h that held the thousands of doukhobors in fear and almost servile obedience for many years seems to have passed on with the death of peter vcregm the hrst peter the younger seems to lack the sure grip of his famous father rumours coming from the doukhobor colonies are that the community spirit il fast ebbing and that a general individual istic trend is visible glare lights all over this continent the automobile death rate is now almost fifty per cent easy i higher during the hours of d irkness than the business du tlc of l tt is the men ice ot mtjht driving is due to it is dangerous to form the habit of being bored some young people form zinc volatilizes that fatal habit so early that by the time in that way when smelted and goes off th are eighteen nothing interests them in gas they go on a picnic and complain of and we haint found silver at all the inconvenience of sitting on the then the old judge cried quite taken ground to eat supper they go sailing aback by this suddon turn of events and grumble about the sunburn tennis a- in fact were all his neighbors lis too much work chess is too much but jou have discovered what i be- like study if they arc thus bored by lleve to be extensive deposits of zinc thcactivltles to which other younn ore which in time may prove quite as people turn for amusement it is iluable to you addison attempted to to guexj their reaction to ex f of tarnlng a wh0 bored illadjusted neglected 7md poor lights on but zinc nlnt silver mother holi- by plaj is praty sure to be bored by raoto cjrs and the worst of all perils wal wall all the way from yale evclainied disconsolately zincs only work l of the night is the giarc light that can college in the state of connecticut and iflt to put under cooking stoves i if you find this tendency in yourself be found in expensive cars and ort old you folks had heard about m new smel- indeed it was not easy for addison to hunt for something you can enjoy pjnd i ones ilcidhght gl ire has madc night ter clean over thar how news do git bring the judge or jils neighbors to a hobby it does not matter how round wal young sir i take it weve understand what possibilities for future appeals to other people if only it in got somethln pooty good hyer i do j prosperity lay hidden in those picturesque terests you study the art of enthusiasm bleeve so but tomorrowh tell the story crags and ledges of zinc ore whlchhe a intently as though jour life depended we thought we would put lire to it tills had noticed throughout the ozarks ana 0 it the habit of being bored steals artcrnoon but we wont quite get round which he now suspected to be the soutl- sunshine from the day and happiness ward trend of the great beds of lead and from the heart if you have made a zinc ore at joplin missouri start n that direction you cannot face sq far as addison knew this was the about too quickly first time that those deposits of zinc in arkansas had been identified deposits danger in grain dust that were destined to yield thousands of tons annually and to be reckoned as one grain dust alone is perfectly harm- of the chief sources of zinc supply in less but when it is mixed with the right north america proportion of oxygen the mixture becomes for a week addison sojourned with highly explosive thenany kind of cx- the hoke family making daily trips ternal heat reaching the explosive point to it till tomorrow morninttou stay right hyer with us i want ye to see it were kinder cluttered up jest nov the judge went on but take your things right over to that long cabin je see yender mother and the gals will put ye up as longs ye want to stay with us the hokes have since become wealthy i believe but the log cabin in which the family then resided was puite primi tive addison judged that it was not lessthan eighty feet in length the m through the- ozark valleys and locating of the dustoxygen mixture creates ranid not less than fifty outcrops of zinc ore combustion which in a confined space tcrior was divided crosswise into flveor all of which bade fair to yield good re- is an explosion the heat to create the six rooms each of which was entered by a door from the outside in one of these apartments all by itself mothei hoke and the gals who proved to be the judges wife and two daughters made the wayfarer from the east as corn- turns explosion may be caused by static elec- fortunes are awaiting you he said trtcity developed from friction by defec- to the judge and his sons all you tive wiring by a broken light bulb or need to begin profitable mining here is a by the llgljt of a match or a cigarette railroad when a mixture of grain dust and but how in tunket are we goln to git oxygen explodes there is no wall or roof fortable as need be later he had supper the blamed stuff down out of the sky that can stand against the terrific blast with the whole family and tasted for arter weve smelted it one old pioneer huge concrete blocks are hurled many the first time wild turkey and real horn- exclaimed yards by the force of the explosion toy besides the daughters there were addison explained the simple process three sons tall young mountaineers not by means of which zinc oxide may be heal your horse while it workso apply far from his own age addison still re- concentrated and afterwards rolled in douglas egyptian liniment to sore members ap their nameo the girls sheets necks and galls a sure speedy treat- were called cocoa and miranda the boys but many still shook their heads de- ment driving a game of blind man s buff that often ends in tragcd glare is respon sible for a larger percentage of fatalities than any other one light fault while many of the accidents occurring in dark ness could be prevented by careful driv ing or by proper care of equipment glare is essentially a probem beyond the palo of carelessness according to the conclu sions arriv ed at by special investigators i his is dellnltely established by scientific research in fhe field 1hysiologists have found tliat if it tkes one second for a man s eyes to contract and adjust them selves to the glare it requires sixty sec onds a full minute for his eyes to re turn to the focus required for night driv ing without glare it lias been shown that the driver of n car going twentyfive miles an hour who is subjected to the glare of headlights is blind to any object in his way alter passing the glire for from 111 to 118 feet going at forty miles an hour he is unable to sic clcirly for from 177 to 236 feet brandon sun the taleof a watch an elderly man hurried into police headquarters at vancouver he explained he had felt a tug at his watch chain as he passed through a crowd when he looked in his pocket the watch was goqe a second man hurried into the station ive ust found a watch he said the new comer said he found theswarch hanging to the buttons on the cuff of his coat sleeve exit the elderly man happy once more th entil of a rood dptehvo km is thnt it h simnle 3 k ormwttan the milkman is an international char acter though he- varies in methods and appearance in as many lands as he plies his trade in canada he drives a spot less wagon propelled either by horse or gasoline in many parts of holland he delivers his merchandise in a two- wheeled cart drawn by dogs in south ern europe he specializes hi goats milk and drives his goats from doorstep to doorstep milking them in view of his customers in costa rica the milkman rides from house to house astride a horse with milk cans strapped to the animal many of the horseback milkmen of san jose carry umbrellas to shield the milk from the scorching rays of the tropical sun here every day is nrrcrs day i because hefa3fg- sufficient importance lo the people of ontario to warrant ittliemajor exhibition in the dominion feature agriculture the western fair canadas oldest annual exhibition believes in the agricultural industry and in its future the daily program and the interesting exhibits are planned to satisfy you the ontario farmer a visit to the sixiysevenyear old fair will be entertaining and educational plan at least for a day or more at western fair i j h saunders president w d jackson secretary sept 1015 1934 uiestem fflffi w rio save 4 some idea two irishmen roomed in an elgb storey apartment on the top floor end could not sleep on sunday morning as the sun would shine in the windows and wake them up they bought some black paint and painted the windows and lay down to sleep when they woke up they realized they would be late for work as it was seven fifteen they rushed to their jobs and the foreman looked at them in bewilderment pat says palth and whats the mat ter boss were only twenty minutes late the foreman- twenty minutes where were you monday and tuesday mothers can easily know 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