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Store Talk
With the Farm Show back of us,
we can see a big year ahead of us.
ART ROBINSON and HOMER SLUS-
SER attended it, and report that
we'll have a lot of new equipment
from “Oliver”, ‘“Allis-Chalmers”,
Bean Sprayers, etc. Unless we guess
wrong, there won’t be enough to
supply all callers, but plenty for
those who decide early.
POULTRYMEN. Can be a bit more
choosey this year about their foun-
tains, feeders and other equipment
as our line is nearly complete.
You'll like our brooders, thermom-
eters and accessories. Prices are
attractive too. ,
TYLER HOSPITAL: You bet we're
supporting the drive with our dona-
tions and efforts—we think it a
fine opportunity for us all to in-
vest a few spare dollars in the
health of our community. If you
don’t already believe in the Tyler
Memorial Hospital, visit it and you
will,
“FRIGIDAIRE” is out with 2 new
sizes of freezers and a 10 cubic
foot refrigerator that’s really a
‘beauty—not too large for the aver-
age home. either, as it has a good
sized Zero Chest at the top. See
Frigidaire before you buy.
SKATES and SKIS are still selling
in our sports department. We can
give you your choice of Hockey
or figures in the famous Brooks
Skates. Our sharpening machines
give you an expert job of flat or
hollow grinding so you can cut
fancy figures.
ARMSTRONG LINOLEUM, 12 feet
wide, is here again, in both kitchen
and floral patterns. New pattern’s
of “inlaid” are also rolling in. Vis-
it our second floor and see for
yourself,
GAY-MURRAY CO.
Tunkhannock
Sweet Valley Firemen
Plan Sausage Supper
Sweet Valley Fire Company will
sponsor a pancake and sausage
party in the Church of Christ Hall
next Thursday evening, Januray 27.
Serving will start at 5 o'clock. Al-
fred Bronson is general chairman
of the affair and Charles Long and
Carl Root, heads of the Ways and
Means Committee. °
Proceeds will be used to com-
plete the new Fire Hall.
Tickets can be purchased from
any of the stores in Sweet Valley
or from any members of the Fire
Company.
The food is guaranteed to be of
the same fine quality and [flavor
established by the Firemen’s fam-
ous pig roasts.
Oysters, crabs, terrapin, clams
and fish are the leading seafood
production of Maryland.
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THE POST, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1949
The Book Worm
DIARY OF A BACK MT. FAMILY
John, Gertrude and Sylvia Doane
Monday
Blue Monday and the tasks of
the week are upon us. Thank heav-
ens the election is behind us and
we can keep our minds on the
duties at hand. The realms of his-
tory and fiction into which we
have delved over the weekend must
now be a pleasant memory. How
fine that the
brary books made our weekend
leisure hours so pleasant and
worthwhile,
Tuesday
This day we must write dad a
speech for the Rotary Club lunch-
eon, mother an article about the
Woman's Club for the newspaper
and daughter a story for English
class. Yes, those weekend books
will lend inspiration to each one.
Wednesday
At the end of today we went to
a family supper at our church in
the city. Dad found himself dis-
cussing the historical novel he had
just finished from the Back Moun-
tain Library; Mother visited with
someone else who had been re-
reading several of Willa Cather’s
books; and daughter advised some
of her pals to get the same books
from the Osterhout and Hoyt Lib-
raries which she had just read.
Thursday
Dad was working on a difficult
cross-word puzzle tonight and
would you believe it—three names,
which otherwise might have both-
ered him, he knew because they
were locations in his most recent
historical novel. Mother too came
forward with some help obtained
from a biography she had enjoyed.
Daughter was busily studying Biol-
igy, French and Algebra but she
, shouted from the distance that she
knew the name of the place begin-
ning in A and ending in U. She
had read about that island in her
travel book.
Friday
Dad and mother went out to
dinner tonight. How pleased they
were that some of their dinner
companions had been reading the
same books which they had just
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Back Mountain Li-
brought down from the Back Moun-
tain Library Thursday evening.
Daughter went to the movies to see
the movie version of her latest
book.
Saturday
New books here and there about
the house and how we want to
read them but dad must rake the
leaves. Mother expects the rest of
the family for dinner and to spend
part of Sunday so she must cook
and bake. Daughter had to help
Mother in the morning then there
was an important football game in
the afternoon and the Blue and
White at Wyoming Seminary in the
evening. Never mind, tomorrow
there will be time,
Sunday
Hurrah! We have been to church,
have had a family get together at!
dinner time and now we can lose
ourselves in the exciting books from
the Back Mountain Library.
YOUR HEALTH
PAIN-RELIEVING DRUGS
M stands for metopon, merpi- |
dine, methadon, and morphine. |
M also stands for mercy and |
misfortune. |
Pain-relieving drugs have been a |
boon to mankind, and also they
have been a bane.
We are familiar with the know-
ledge that morphine is a pain-
killer, and also an addiction drug.
Metopon, meperdine, and meth-
adon are newer drugs for the re-
lief of pain and they too are ad-
dicting.
The insidious factor in using
morphine is that it brings on ad-
diction.
When morphine has to be ad-
ministered over a long period of
time, tolerance to it develops so
that the dose must be increased
from time to time to obtain ade-
quate relief from pain.
Under such conditions of pro-
longed use, physical dependence on
the drug develops.
The feeling of well-being induced
by morphine, although a desirable
action when necessary for the re-
lief of pain, leads to the abuse of
the drug by persons with suscept-
able personalities, resulting in ad-
diction.
The pain-relieving effects of
drugs are due to a combination of
three factors:
The elevation of the threshold
or point where pain is felt, the
alteration of the emotional re-
action to pain, and the produc-
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tion of repose and sleep.
Of these, the alteration of the
emotional reaction to pain by the
drugs is most important.
The search goes on to discover
a drug equal to morphine in re-
lieving pain, which will have less
addiction possibilities.
Morphine is a mercy drug, asso-
ciated with the misfortune of poss-
ible addiction.
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SC Barnyard Notes §
It was while we were thumbing through a volume of Robert Burn’s
poems a few nights ago to refresh our memory on his classic “To a
Mouse, On Turning Up Her Nest With a Plough, November, 1785”
that we ran across several of his epitaphs.
Some of them we have remembered since college days when we
read them and enjoyed them with relish, especially the “Epitaph
On A Wag In Mauchline” which has always been one of our favor-
ites; but times and tastes change and we’d now like to choose the
one “On A Friend.”
It is odd as you look back on a book that you enjoyed ten or
twenty years ago to find that the paragraphs and verses you marked
then are not the ones that impress you most today. Youth has its
interests, so has middle age; but for “a that” here's Robert Burn’s.
If you can’t make out the meanings of some of his words, just ask
Alex Tough, “he kens them a’.”
On A Noted Coxcomb
Light lay the earth on Billy's breast,
His chicken heart so tender;
But build a castle on his head,
His skull will prop it under
Epitaph On A School master
Here lie Willie Michie’s banes:
O Satan, when ye tak him,
Gie him the schoolin’ of your weans,
For clever deils he'll make them.
Epitaph on a Suicide
Earthed up here lies an imp of hell.
Planted by Satan’s dibble:
Poor silly wretch, he’s damned himself
To save the Lord the trouble.
Epitaph On John Bushby
Here lies John Busby, honest man!
Cheat him Devil, if you can.
Epitaph On Burn’s Father
O, ye, whose cheek the tear of pity stains,
Draw near with pious reverence and attend!
Here lie the loving husband’s dear remains,
The tender father and the gen’rous friend.
The pitying heart that felt for human woe;
The dauntless heart that feared no human pride;
The friend of man, to vice alone a foe;
For e’en his failings lean’d to virtue's side.
Epitaph On A Noisy Polemic
Below thir stanes lie Jamie's banes:
O Death, It's my opinion,
Thou ne’er took such a bleth’rin’ bitch
Into thy dark dominion!
Epitaph for Robert Aiken
Know thou, O stranger to the fame i
. Of this much loved, much honour’d name,
(For none that knew him need be told)
A warmer heart death ne’er made cold,
Epitaph On a Wag in Maulchline.
Lament him, Mauchline Husbands a’,
He often did assist ye;
For had ye staid whole weeks awa,
Your wives they ne’er had miss’d ye.
Ye Mauchline bairns, as on ye pass
To school in bands thegither
O tread ye lightly on his grass;
Perhaps he was your father.
Epitaph On The Poet’s Daughter
Here lies a rose, a budding rose,
Blasted before its bloom;
Whose innocence did sweets disclose
Beyond that flower’s perfume.
To those who for her loss are grieved,
This consolation’s given
She’s from a world of woe relieved,
And blooms a rose in heaven.
On A Friend
An honest man here lies at rest, ~
As e’er God with his image blest;
The friend of man, the friend of truth,
The friend of age, the friend of youth:
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d,
N Few heads with knowledge so informed:
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss:
If there is none, he made the best of this,
Tragedy In The Barnyard
Tragedy stalked Myra’s chicken coop sometime Friday night. On
returning from a call on Mrs. G. L. Howell late Saturday afternoon,
our young nephew “Butch” and Murray Scureman greeted us at the
barn doors with the news that one of our nicest New Hampshire
pullets was lying decapitated under the wire at one end of the chick-
en yard. They were both quick to make clear that they had noth-
ing to do with the decapitation. Their part had been only the dis-
covery.
It became our solemn duty to make the investigation and post-
mortem. We walked over the muddy garden, on past the withered
rose bed to the rear of the coop, trailed by the two boys. There we
found the hen, one of our best layers, her sleek feathers ruffled.
Her body lay on one side of the chicken yard fence, too big to go
through the opening in the wire where some animal had pulled her.
Her head was gone and so was part of her neck. She was untouched
elsewhere. We tried to reconstruct what might have happened, but
Sherlock failed in the presence of two youngsters who thought we
must know all the answers.
No rat, we are sure, could have done that job on a lively hen.
These were not the weasel’s methods. He would have taken only
her blood. We have a suspect, but we hate to accuse him. We've
passed him nights out in the orchard, when Buck has ruffled his
back and Sandy Scureman has turned tail and run for home. It's
our old friend the Skunk who lives, we know not where; maybe
under Gordon's garage, but somewhere convenient to the orchard.
We wonder if skunks do kill chickens? We'd hardly believe it while
there is no snow on the ground and plenty of other fodder is avail-
able.
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