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W H Y IT PAYS TO PRODUCE EGGS OF QUALITY M IC E PER DO ZEN A T N E W YORK 6Y FE B . JAM. MAR. APR. JUNE JULY MAY THREE YE> SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC. F W T H I, r A V • R A G ! i* R M >2i r 0 19 6 ff AUG. ? s% 5 5* SO* V r 45* 40* Ä W 5~ T 35* §/ \ s 0 30* 0, / Iff - / 9 4 J r * * •«N*/ f i* - — 25* / / f % / \ \ ® / e . f j S IA M - ocauca 6R1CULT« RAl row BATIO N That everything with a shell on goes, isn’t the rule any longer. On the mar ket today, It still goes,’but at a price below a first-class egg. Opportunity for the greatest success in egg production lies in producing an article that Is better than the average, then selling It as such. It isn’t hard to find a market willing to pay a premium of 6 to 7 cents a dozen over firsts and from 9 to 13 cents a dozen over seconds, according to the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation. The premium on fresh-gathered firsts at New York City during a three-year period over fresh-gathered seconds was substantial as shown by the accompany ing chart. During February, March and April, when practically all egg’s are good, the prices of extra firsts average only from 1 to 4 cents higher than tor seconds. In May the spread begins to widen. In August the margin on extra firsts Is around 9 cents. It continues to widen until In November, when the high peak is reached, with extras at 62 cents a dozen and seconds at 41 cents. It costs a little more and it takes a lot of extra effort to market high quality eggs. Yet the gain is ample return for the extra expense and labor. Shark Furnishes Man With Many Products The old-fashioned shark Is now be coming sought and respected on ac count of the many uses which are be ing found for his jacket and what he contains. A considerable amount of “ cod-liver oil” Is really shark-liver oil, and possesses medicinal properties of the same character. Shark-fin soup Is appreciated by the Chinese. The eyes of the shark, after they have been boiled, lose their outer covering, and the residue becomes quite hard and has a sort of shifting light in its tex ture. These are mounted on tie-pin or other forms of jewelry and present an unusual appearance. A valuable part of the man-eater is the skin. The thin outer skin is removed and When dried has a remarkable hardness, and is used b y . cabinet-makers for giving polish to hard woods, ivory, and so on. The in ner skin is tanned so carefully that It eventually yields a waterproof, non cracking leather. Different parts of the skin give differing shades of color, and the tanning process succeeds in preserving these dark greens and browns so that shoes, traveling bags, purses, belts and similar articles made o f the skin have a handsome appear ance. Feathered Duelists Blackgame may soon fight out their early morning tourneys in the woods of Wiltshire. A writer in the Sporting Times (England) announces, that he intends to Import their eggs and hatch under French partridges. The blackcock, now confined almost entirely-to Exmoor and the North, is a powerful bird and a lusty fighter. Any wood which holds him has, some where, a smooth trampled patch of grass some 15 yards in diameter. This is the arena. As dawn breaks the first blackcock sails over the treetops, pitches and sounds his challenge. Another an swers and the two bow like gamecocks. The rest is 'a maelstrom of feathers and daws. The grayhens, as the fe males are called, stand by and look on, after the medieval fashion. What a Daguerreotype Is The name is given to the result of the first successful attempt at photog raphy, in honor of the inventor, Louis Daguerre. The process was perfected in 1889 and consisted of a copper plate silvered and covered by the action of the vapor, of iodine, with a thin film of iodine of silver. By means of the action of light on the Iodine of silver at the focal point of the camera, N a pic ture of the object is formed on the plate. This result is afterward devel oped by means of vapor of mercury and fixed by treatment in a solution of sodium hyposulphite. In recognition of the importance of his discovery the French government awarded to Da guerre a life pension of 6,000 francs. —Kansas City Star. Moon Has Always Been M ystery o f Mankind We all feel very wise nowadays about the moon, and smile indulgently as we relate tales of its lonely old male inhabitant to the young. Our wisdom, based as it is upon maps and photographs and scientific theories, la, however, of very recent origin. The moon fer generations was the greatest mystery of mankind— m a te r even than the sun. When Galileo, in 1609, first turned his tele scope upon the moon, he created throughout Europe a much greater sensation than did Columbus when he discovered America. Till then the scientific men had be lieved in Aristotle’s theory, that the moon is a perfectly smooth and round body, its markings being the conti nents of the world, reflected, as in a mirror. Every one else explained away the mysterious marks with myths. There is nothing more remarkable in history than the strange resemblances which exist between the explanations given by different races. Almost all.'of them Internreted the marks as being a* man carrying a bundle of wood. Furthermore, they all seemed to regard him as one who. on account of a crime, was condemned to eternal isolation on the moon. He was, indeed, a horrible example to young and old alike. Incident W ell Called Impossible, but True Most persons can remember at least one startling coincidence in their ex perience. The elder J. Pierpont Mor gan liked to tell of one lucky encoun ter he had while he was seeking a pair of vases to complete a set of Sevres table decorations on which he had set his heart. Collectors had been ran sacking Europe for them in Mr. Mor gan’s behalf, and then one stormy night—as Mrs. J. Borden Harriman tells the story In “ From Pinafores to Politics”—he arrived in London from Liverpool, having come from America without warning the servants when to expect him. As he ran up the steps and put his latch key to the door a shivering figure in the vestibule drew two vases from under a torn coat and murmured, 'T ve been going from house to house all day; won't you buy these, sir? My children áre starving.” The light from the half-opened door fell on what seemed to be porcelain from the famous set. While the man Waited Mr.- Morgan rushed upstairs to compare the marks. They seemed the same, but it wasn’t possible t “ How much do you want for them?" he demanded when he came down. The man asked a small price, took the money and melted away into the night. The next day all the London con noisseurs were at Morgan’s house, ex claiming, “It's impossible, but true!" The vases matched, and the set was priceless. “ I wasn’t expected in London,” said Mr. Morgan. “The man didn't know what Sevres was worth. I never could trace him. How did it happen! Out of all London to come to my house and at that moment1"—-Youth’s Companion. W hen Ears o f Gadding W ives W ere Cropped The ancient Assyrians, 2100 B. O., punished severely their gadding, wasteful wives, according to writings on clay tablets recently unearthed by Doctor Hrozny, Czechoslovak archeolo gist. I f a gadding wife went to see an other married woman in a distant house her ears were cropped as a penalty. If a husband found his wife with another man he was at liberty to kill or mutilate both. , A scold or reviler was separated from husband a n d , children and a wasteful wife could be called to ac count before the authorities and di vorced. If the husband did not di vorce her she had the option of be ing a servant to the second wife. An Invalid wife had the same tragic op tion, or she could go home to her fa ther. If a married man was living in his father-in-law’s house and his wife died he had the right to marry one of her sisters on the same dowry. Naval Recruiting Resumed Navy Recruiting Station. Portland, Oregon, July 30.—Navy recruiting will be resumed on August first, according to word received today from Washing ton by Lieut. Comdr. D. E. Barby, of the Portland navy recruiting station. , Naval recruiting activities were sus pended about a month ago, as the naval complement, at that time, was more than eleven hundred men in excess of th a t' authorized by congress. While the navy is still slightly over-comple mented. recruiting on a limited scale will be put in effect to obtain very de sirable applicants. j Trivial Things Lead Deeds o f Young Men to Broken Hom e L ife Blazoned in History I Alexander the Great kicked over the parental traces and conquered the world at twenty-three. Over in Carth age, when they needed a commander in chief for all the armies, they picked on a youngster by the name of Han nibal—and he was twenty-six. Colum bus had plans for his voyage all laid when he was twenty-eight—-and failed to get started only because he couldn’t convince his elders. John Smith, the first of the line, staked out his colonial empire in Virginia when he should have been serving an ap prenticeship somewhere. He was twenty-seven. A visionary young man, Martin Luther by name, was just past thirty when he started the Protestant Reformation. Luther was Joined by John Calvin, who was twenty-one. ..Cal vin wrote one of his greatest books at twenty-three. Joan of Arc, when she was seventeen, emerged, from ob scurity in France, made her way to the leadership of the nation, and at nineteen was burned at the stake. Patrick Henry cried “Liberty or death” when he was twenty-seven. Hamilton whs thirty-two when he was made the secretary o f the treasury and laid the-plans for America’s na tional banking system. A youngster of twenty-six discovered the law of gravitation. The first American mod ernist, Roger Williams, was a ban ished heretic at twenty-nine. And that’s only the beginning of the list! -^Stanley High, in Collier’s. Difference as to “ Cat and D og" Law Animal pets may on (¡pension scratch, bite, and commit, other In juries, and the owner’s liability for damage , will vary according to the na ture of the animal. It is much more risky to keep a monkey or an elephant than a dog; while cats, which in natural history primers are described as “of the tiger kind,” are more favored by the law than almost any domestic pet. Generally speaking, the first ques-, tion asked by the law is whether the animal is fierce by nature. If so, its owner is liable for damage whether, he knew of its vicious propensities or, not. and it is immaterial whether he was careful or negligent. A tame menagerie elephant and a pet monkey have been held to be ani mals fierce and vicious. . Although their ancestors were in dubitably fierce, cats and dogs, as a result of many generations Of domes ticity, are now regarded as friendly to mankind. An injured plaintiff must, show that the owner knew of the ani mal’s vicious propensity toward man« kind, and that with such knowledge he was negligent In the custody of it. ’ ’ . Geysers Aid to Farmers Geysers are proving useful adjuncts to farming in Iceland. A well-know^ dye works in that country linked up its factory with water pipes direct: from the hot springs and, after using the hot water in the color processes and for heating the factory and the workmen’s homes, conducted it through underground pipes laid in fields, which, as a result, yielded three times as much produce as neighboring fields not so equipped, says the Kansas City Star. Although, from time immemorial, the Icelanders have been familiar with geysers, only recently have their in dustrial uses been seriously consid ered. A project now is on foot to supply Revkjavlk with hot water for heating; bathing and washing purposes from one of the neighboring hot springs. World*s Rulers W ho W ere Labeled “ Great” “ We may talk about the leading Lord Bryce, in an essay on “Great causes of divorce—drunkenness, un faithfulness, cruelty, lack of support— I Men and Greatness,” gives a list of 14 hut in my experience I have found that names to which the adjective great “ Is , it is the pin pricks which poison,” said j invariably, or at least, usually at a social worker, according to the Mil tached by the world at large.” Na waukee Journal. “ These things, of tional appreciation runs on more gen i course, do not appear on the surface erous lines. Spain alone has labeled four of at the moment when ’ the home is. i broken, for one of the bigger questions her kings “ the great,” while France i has cropped out as the predominant pays the same tribute to as many as issue, but I try to go back and find six sovereigns, says the Detroit News. where it all really started. Almost in- Russia, Germany, Austria, Denmark, . variably the first rift was about some Sweden, Portugal and even Hawaii small thing that arose from differ have attached the adjectives to one or other of their rulers. Ethelred the Un ences in character." A good deal of sense to that. We ready, king of England, seems to have once knew a girl—it was in the days been the only monarch branded with when marriages were still carefully this adjective. Some royal epithets refer merely to considered before they were consum physical peculiarities, like William mated—w,ho refused her mother’s Rufus, and the large group of plump choice and was deaf to all pleas. Yes, monarchs known to posterity as “ the she liked Jack immensely and on the fat," Charles the Bold, Pepin the main points of life they were agreed. Short, and Olaf the Hungry, are also “ But, mother, on many little things we of this company. are at total disagreement. I like neat Others have a warlike connotation: ness, and Jack is not neat. I like to Brave, valiant, victorious, hardy, be up and doing with the start of the strong, all appear in the list; also ter day and Jack is a lazybones until rible, though Ivan of that memory was after most others are at their work. not so formidable to his foes as to his You know how strictly. I keep account fellow countrymen. Sulyman I was of all I spend; when we go out to “The Magnificent,” John II (of Portu gether Jack never knows whether he gal) "The Perfect,” Louis V ’"The has a dollar to pay the bill until it is Well Beloved,” and Peter TV (of Ar- , presented to him. I fear that those ragon), “The Ceremonious.” The little disagreements would make our names of the monarchs acclaimed lives unhappy.” “wise," ’.’just” or “ great" would fill a Perhaps one might say that a great large space. loVe would overcome all this. In some cases it may, but the experience of the social worker shows that in many Following completion of the present other cases it does not. We’d have contract on the Montgomery tract more happy homes if the young woman near Mehama, the practice of main and the young man about to be mar- taining prison woods camps at a long : ried each analyzed more closely the distance from Salem will be abolished, little points in the character of the according to A. «M. Dalrymple, warden other. of the state penitentiary. The action was taken, it was said, because of the Slayer in Hard Luck; many escapes at the camps during the Betrayed by Trophy past few years. As in the “ wild West” in the old range days, so in Matto Grosso, Bra zil, a man’s best lawyer is his gun. There is the story of Machado’s ear. Indeed, the affair happened only two years ago. This wise—Machado, a dark-skinned Bahlano Brazilian, was a thief. He stole the cattle of Ben Heck, who had come from Texas to try his fortune in Brazil. Ben spoke to him about it. Machado got angry. He said next time he met Ben he would kill him and cut off his ear (a native custom). Very foolishly, while so speaking, he fumbled with his gun. Having killed his man, Ben had to pack up for a bit. Weeks passed without- news and Ben’s friends got anxious. They found him at last chained to the prison floor, o f a border tefrn. Ben, no great orator, explained as best he could. He said he was just getting safely over the border, when the police raided the train, looking for revolutionaries. They searched every one’s luggage. “And there, in the bottom o f my grip, they found that darned ear."—Arthur Mills, in the Continental Edition of the London Mail. , Curious Shepherd Custom ■■■ There is, or was, a curious custom in Sussex, England, the explanation of which Is somewhat obscure, in connec tion with the burial of the old shep herds, says the Detroit News. A tuft of wool is placed in the right hand of the dead man In his coffin. The pur pose of this is believed by many to be that thereby the vocation of the man may be known, and he will be excused for his nonattendance at church on Sundays. During lambing in particular a shep herd can never lea v e, his flock, and Dick Turpin’s Home Sunday and weekdays alike may be It is reported that the reputed home seen on the downs with his sheepdog of Di?k Turpin, the celebrated high* attending to the countless duties that wayman, Percival or Parsifar hall, a call for ceaseless vigilance. fine old mansion in the valley of tbte Wharfe between Barden and Applet Willing to Be “ Fired" treewick, Yorkshire, is to be sold. It is a hall with an interesting history. . - Some of the inmates of the jail were Here it was that- William Nevison, lathing a room, and the governor was alias Swift Nick, the original of the inspecting the progress of the work. traditional Dick Turpin, was wont te ' After watching the men for a few spend h is, time when not engaged in minutes, the governor said to one of daring exploits on the road. The the convicts: “ Look here, my man, place Is famous, too, as the one-time you are putting those laths too close home o f One o f Yorkshire’s quaintest together. That sort of work will never characters, Parson Heye, while tra do.” The prisoner laid down his tools dition says that one of the most ter rible Barguests—those ghostly dogs •and said: “ Well, sir,.1 am willing to which Yorkshire country people be be turned off if my work don’t suit lieve walk at night—is to bo found you. I didn’t apply for the job, and if you are dissatisfied—well, you can fire ntear the hall. » me." \ J SALE AND WANT ADS Cash for Evergreens, See or wtite S. G. Hostetler, Aurora; J. J. Hostet ler, Hubbard; or G. C. Giesy, Aurora receiving staiion, 3t-p Solid oak square dining . room table, 4x4 feet, three extension bbards, $6.00. Deer head with horns, well mounted, $5.00. Phone Main 5861, Portland, before 6:00-p. m, FOR SALE First class fresh co # fi ve years old. Fred Yohann. near Fisher Saw Mill. - 30tf Dr. Osmar K. Wolf, Woodburn, Ore. is fully equipped to fit your eyes with proper glasses. tf D A N G E R — Lurks in all wires Y ou never can tell when, they are hot, telephone or Elect ric. W arn your children. Molalla Electric C o. tf. A BARGAIN: If you want a farm with irrigation . privileges in exchange for your vacant city lot or improved city property, let us tell you about a 40 acre tract we have near town and school in the grand young state of Washington. For Sale—6 room house with bath, 2J lots; three chicken houses; some fruit; opposite Lutheran Church. Louis Siebert, 45tc We have plenty of money to loan on farms at 6 per cent. No commission. Reliable Abstracts, Oregon City Ab stract Coropanv. 44-tfc For Sale—Am extracting honey now. Bring your own jars. Peter Jager, 3tp Carle Abrams, newly elected sec Rt. 1, Hubbard. Ore. retary of the state budget commission, has started sending out blanks to the For Sale — 4 thoroughbred Scotch various state institutions and depart Collie pups. Male. W. G. Hamilton, ments in quest of estimated expendi Aurora, Route 3, tures during the next biennium. Under the law these estimates must be in WANTED-—2500 good cedar posts. the hands of the budget commission W. L. Bentley. Hubbard, Or. 31-ltp early in October and be compiled and printed before December U . For Sale.— Work horses, 10-18 Case tractor, baled cheat hay. Lorin Giesy, 31-2tc PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISER# Rt, 5. 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It urate founded as a monastery and retreat for one of the Benedictine order oil monks, and from its early inception the monks took, great pride in caring for. cultivating and replanting the for ests, the Detroit News ndtes. tJse.of charcoal in Italy has always been very heavy because o f its almost universal use for cooking and heating. At Vallombrosa a large quantity has always been made, even in the time ef the monks during the Middle ages. Taking It Nicely . Grandmother had been talking to four-year-old Mary Ellen about becom ing angry so easily. After the little girl had listened a few minutes she thought it time to tell of some of her good qualities, so she said: “ Yesterday my dolly got stepped on and broken and I didn’t cry a bit or scold anybody.” “That was fine,” said her grand mother, very much pleased. “ And who stepped on your dolly?” she asked. “ Why, I did, grandma." What’s in a Name? “ Why do you call your wife Christ" Get His Answer This was the question put to a man An Irish' politician was delivering a by a lodge brother who had met the passionate speech to a mixed crowd. wife. He had suffered badly at the hands of / “Because that is her name.” one particular heckler, but at last his “ Seems an odd name for a woman.” chance came. “ Well, her folks gave her- a floral “ You think you’re smart, don’t you?” name. Her full name is Chrysanthe sneered the heckler. “ Well, just tell mum. Of course I might use the last syllable,” went on the husband genial Information can be obtained by us how many toes a pig lias got.” “Take your .boots’ off and count!” ; ly, “ but she’s never , mum.”—Los An writing to the Naval -Recruiting Sta wag the lightning reply; geles Times. tion at Portland. U. G. 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