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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1919)
# We Fantom Diver Business V eering S lo w ly to N orm al Federal R eserve Board Makes Public Summaries of Reports By GEORGE W . LE W IS The federal reserve board has made public summaries of reports from federal reserve agents throughout the country in ansu*r to a questionnaire recently sent out to ascertain the extent o f business and industrial read | Big Harklnson stepped oil- flie raft justment. The report showed in general large stocks on hand by manu and disappeared downward. The facturers and dealers and a lessened demand, with prices decreasing in gray-green water lapped above his head, u few blister-like bubbles many cases. A typical example o f the reports from industrial districts was afforded by the tabulation o f replies to questions from business concerns in the P h il adelphia federal reserve district. These questions and classified replies were as follows: Are the quantities o f materials, supplies and goods as shown by your last inventory larger than usual? Yes, 114; no, 129. Are they principally for war or civilian business? War work, 20; civilian business, 221. Have the prices o f your product been lower recently from the high prices prevailing during the war? Yes, 148; no, 93. Is labor more abundant? Yes, 225; no, 21. Is labor less restless? Yes, 147; no, 91. Is there legs re-einployment? Yes, 18G; no, 62. Is labor more efficient? Yes, 90; no, 142. Has there been any lowering o f wages? Yes, 17; no, 228. Are you paying less for raw materials? Yes, 131; no, 89. Have you a satisfactory amount o f orders on hand ? Yes, 81; no, 150. Hints for the Poultry Grower young chicks should not he fed for from -1 to SO hours after hatching, and will not suffer If given no food until the third day. The yolk o f the eggs, which is absorbed by the chick, fur nishes all the nourishment required during this time. It Is this provision o f nature fo r the first sustenance -of the chick that makes it possible to ship newly hatched chicks considerable dis tances. A fter feeding is started it Is advis able to feed the chick five times a day, at equal Intervals, and alternat ing n mash o f soft feed, such as john ny cake, with a hard grain or scratch feed. “ A model variety ration fo r very young chicks,” said John L. I ’rehri, extension poultry -hnslmndninti for the Kansas State Agricultural college, “ Is a scratch mixture composed o f live pounds o f cracked .corn, three pounds o f cracked wheat, two pounds of pin head oatmeal, either hulled or rolled oats. I f corn is not available, cracked kailr or rolled or bulled barley may be substituted. Feed this mixture, scat tered in chaff, morning, noon and night. “ For making the Johnnycnke, use live founds of cornmeal, six Infertile eggs, and one talilespoonful of baking soda. Mix in enough milk to make u stiff batter, and hake it well. “ Instead o f the Jolinnycake a mix ture of dried crumbs with hard boiled Infertile eggs, making about one-quar ter of the mixture o f the eggs, may lie used. Rolled oats may be used In place of the broad crumbs. Feed tills In the middle of the forenoon and aft ernoon for the first ten days ¿>r two weeks. “ Wheil infertile eggs are not avail able use double the quantity of baking soda, and add half a pound of sifted beef scrap. Infertile eggs nro those which have been tested out from sit tings or from an Incubator. “ Some tender green stuff should ho fed to baby chicks after the tlrst week. When a regular supply in quantity Is needed it is usually most convenient to use sprouted onts." , . Holding Breath. Gargle, and Sneezing, Hiccough Cure. 400 Years Before Christ The hiccough epidemic being preva lent In a mid-western state recently, a man comes forward wlkh a remedy successfully used by a Greek poet 400 years before Christ. It Is found In "Th e Banquet,” trans lated from Pinto, nnd here It Is: “ When It came to the turn o f Aris tophanes to speak it happened thnt he had a hiccough which prevented him; so he turned to Eryxlnmehus, the physician who wns reclining close by him, nnd said: 'It Is fair thnt you should cure me o f my hiccoughs or speak until It is over.’ *1 will do both,' said the physician. 'I will speak In your turn nnd you shall speak in mine. Meanwhile, if you will hold your breath for some time It will subside. I f not, gargle your throat with water, nnd If It still continues take something to stimulate your nostrils and sneeze; do this once or twice, nnd even though It should be very violent It will cense.'" General Foch Bom in 1851, Near the Spanish Border Ferdinand Foch wns bom at Tar- hes, France, near the Spanish border. In 1S.M. He was a subaltern In the Fmneo-Prusslnn war In 1870, and In 1871 entered the Ecole Polytechnlque. He served as an artillery officer until 1884 when he entered the Boole de Guerre. Twelve years Inter he re turned to the school as an Instructor. In 1007 he was made a brigadier gen eriti. He served In the war until April, 1017, wjien be retired from active serv ice to become adviser o f the war coun cil, aqd was appointed generalissimo o f the allied force« March 29. 1918. Seventeen §pecies of the Humming Bird Family Are Summer Visitors to U. S. It Is said that altogether 17 spe cies o f humming birds are summer vis itors to tile United States, and that one o f these, the red hummer, Is found on the Pacific coast as far north as Alaska. The Brazilian forests are noted for their many varieties of these magnificent birds, though n few speci mens are o f somber colors. In most species the bill is straight. In a few the hill curves upward at the tip and in others downward. The length of the hill differs greatly, that o f “ the sword-bearer” being five Inches long, or longer than the head nnd body to- together, while in another it is only one-fourth o f an inch. Among the most plentiful o f hum ming birds wns one to which the name Chrysolainpis nmsqultus has been given. Tills species was once espe cially numerous In Brazil,. Venezuela nfid the Gulnnns, but skin hunters have slaughtered them by thousands, the skins being exported to be used in the manufacture o f ornaments and deco rations. Illusion Used as a Test of Correctness of Vision In parlor physics an Illusion Is some-, times demonstrated ns follow s: a sheet of newspaper is rolled up to mnke a tube three feet long which Is held in the right hand In front of the right eye which Is focused through the tube upon some dlstnnt object. The left eye Is directed upon the palm o f the left hand, which is held against tiys tube and near its peripheral end. The two eye pictures are fused in the brain so thnt the right eye appears to see its objective through a hole In the left hand. This trick is o f value In testing the eyes. I f the hole is seen In the middle of the hand binocu lar vision Is perfect. I f seen on the right side there is exaggerated con vergence; If on the left side there is a divergence. Why Birds Prefer North to Nest Year After Year It Is not an easy question to answer. It has been explained that there are vague promptings o f instinct derived from long Inheritance; especially the “ homing Instinct,” which bflngs the robin or the oriole hack to the very same nest year nfter year. But these explanations really explain nothing, says a bulletin o f New York slate edu cation department. This, however, Is true: The vigorous races o f living be ings nre the children o f the north. That has been true all through humnn history nnd through all Uie history of life on the earth. The birds early lenrned to bring forth their young un der the Invigorating surroundings of the north, that they might get a right start lu life. ûirCrüirCrCrCrCrtrCrtrCrtrtrlUrCrCfCrCrCrCrtrCrir WHATJWAKES A FRIEND. The first person who offices in when the whole world has gone ou t • A hank o f credit on which we can draw supplies o f confidence, counsel, sympathy, help and love. • 'One who Oorabines for you alike the pleasures nnd beoeflt« o f society nnd solitude. A Jewel whose luster the strong acids o f poverty nnd mis fortune cannot dim. One who multiplies Joys, di vides griefs, and whose honesty Is Inviolable. — Ji Marrying First Cousins. Marriages between first cousins Is forbidden In Alaska, Arizona, Arkan sas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas. Missouri. Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dako ta. Ohio, Oklahoma. Oregon. Pennsyl vania. South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming. danced and exploded in the tiny swirl thut marked his exit. That was all. The sepulchered Helena was uhout to receive a second visitor from the laud o f the living. The slender conduit that linked the diver with life paid out rapidly, then suddenly stopped, und we knew that Hurkiuson was aboard the wreck. “ Seventy-one feet,’ druwle<X ^Gar- rick. “ A little pale, wasn’t he?” queried Wenry, keeping a watchful eye on the line. Garrick looked over to the speaker as though lie had expected the ques tion. * “ What d’you s’pose "Is wrong?" be said. The faintest trace of anxiety was tn his great, slow voice. " I t ’s Connors—I mean the mysteri ous way Conuors’vair-tube parted,” re turned Wenry. “ I don’t believe in spooks, 'specially submarine ones* but th ere^tn ’t no more cause for the A t lantic cable coming in two ut this minute than there was for poor Con nors’ hose— a brand new one, too, mind you— separatin’ as it did. It ’s queer.” Garrick, listening, spat reflectively at tile last remaining bubble. Watch ing front my seat in the dingey, I knew thnt the two men, whatever de nials they might make, were at last Impressed with the gruesomeness of their chosen profession—dallying with dead thlngg under the sen. Mayhap It was because Connors had been their tutor, their companion. Indeed, the old diver had been pretty nearly everything to them ; but he had been even more to his employers. In his unaccountable death the world had lost a master-diver, nnd the company had lost money. But because John Connors had been a faithful servnnt, the company had paid - hard money that tlie diver’s harness-weighted re mains might be the first brought up. Harklnson’s signal “ up" was o f that nervous, hurry-up sort that tells of sudden distress. He had been down hut three minutes. A t a similar depth he usually remained thirty or more, for he was a Hercules, and for him water-pressure had no terrors. 1 knew that Wenry, at least— though for no good reason— fully expected to see the big diver come up'•limp and dead. I read his white face like print. But when big Ilarklnson’s .helmet bobbed out o f water n moment later, both his big red hands were clutching nt the raft as frantically ns If some pursuing monster were about to drag him down to death. When his helmet wns off, his face showed mottled nnd chalky. The spluttered-out, meaningless fragments o f speech, and ills eyes were fixed in n terrified stare. Garrick forced half n pint of whisky down his throat be fore anything like coherency could be restored. «. “ H e’s down there— boys— Connors !” Tlie diver clapped ills hands over his eyes ns if to shut out some hideous recurring vision. “ Oh, L o rd !” he walled, “ think— think of the harness— Connors, dead sixty— sixty hours— walking nnd beckoning— ” liurkinson's great strength snapped like agreed*under the strain, ami lie dropped forward upon his face, un conscious. When Garrick consented to go down to tlie Helena, I knew that it wns lie- cause he needed money— needed! it badly. Garrick, unavoidably, had long been Idle; besides, he wns en gaged, nnd the girl was pretty and worthy ; nnd tlie big, slow-spoken diver knew that he must prepare a suitable home for her. He was of a good, hon est sort, was Garrick, and courageous, too. But I had watched his face ns Harklnson, his nerves shattered, re lated from a sick bed his uncanny ex perience nhoard the sunken Helena; and thus I had come to know thnt, badly ns Garrick needed money, lie needed courage more, If he would suc ceed where Harklnson had failed. The thing was on his nerveft right enough;shut I saw the grip o f his big jaw, and I knew that he was in deed going down, even though he might not come up. “ There wns a lot o f wreckage plied up nliout the cnbln-door,” Harklnson had told us, “ and I had to squat as low «is 1 could tn pass under It. As I raised up. luslde the cabin— Coiv nors— dead sixty hours— got up off a bench fixed to the opposite wall of the cnbrti, and came to meet me. Sev enty-one feet uuder the sen with a ghost I Connors— yes. It was him. all right—suddenly stopped and threw up his hands ns though recognition of me startled him. He wore his same diver’s outfit— the kind we all use. After a moment his arms fell limply by his sides; but Immediately he made n hand nnd passed It over his brow perplexedly. Then he seemed to ges ture to me; and I found that I was also beckoning to him. signaling to him to follow me up. Hut he hacked away In a manner almost pf despair, I thought, and resumed his bench at the farther side « o f the cabin as I bent fciw under the wreckage at the door and hacked oat on deck, signal ing to be pulled up.” Wenry's face w a s chalk-white, as / hig Garrick went over the side and dropped out o f sight In the green swell that rocked our raft and dingey. As for me, I confess my nerves were strangely shaken. But I was scarce ly more than a green diver as yet. whereas Wenry thrilled his listeners By U . S. Department of Agriculture —and himself— with well-told tales of* raised treasures and strange subma rine encounters In which, tie it known, he spared himself little o f the com Home gardening m starting oil this year in every section o f the coun mendation due to achievements. try with the momentum gained during the two gardening seasons in Within twelve minutes after Gar which the United States was at war. This is the conclusion drawn from rick went down, the body of Connors reports to the garden specialists .of the United States department o f agri- had been recovered In a fuir state of preservation. Uurkinsou, an old-tim ii I Him i Hi!■ — er, too, hud after ol H allowed himself to be frightened off the Job by some fool, subuqueous phenomenon whose' phases he hud been studying all his precious life. „ Wenry’s superstitious mind lias In finitely relieved. A semblance of color came back into his face, und I hud be gun to feel less o f the uuxiety experi enced by one ut work with a near- maniac for u companion, when all at once Guirick startled us with a fierce ly tugged “ up" signal. He was mum bling strange sounds before we gof his helmet off, and when the I^tit fell on his face It revealed a niasft of ter ror unspeakable. His features were drawn and, seamed unbelievably, and speech had deserted him altogether. Some awful emotion shook his great body like an aspen. It was two long hours before we knew his story. All that Harklnson had seen In tlie Helena's cabli^ Gar rick, too, had beheld— the same In all Its blood-chilling details. The affair began to nag my nerves with a vengeance. 1 would have staked my very existence on 'the grip of Garrick’s big jaw. I almost wished that I had done s o ; for Wenry and I were tlie only nvailables now, und I knew beforehand thut Wenry, if detailed, would refuse' to go down. It was a time when one must be a man or a mouse; when a white feather be comes a white flag, and a white flag means the surrendering o f a career. I am a natural coward, but possess underlying qualities o f resolution. 1 could live without this job, I thought; and, too, I, unlike Garrick, was blessed with no woman’s love save a mother’s; but her comforts were my pleasures, her self-denials my heart Showina “ Before and A fte r” o f a G arden Cam paign— U pper Picture the Neg lected L o t— Low er, the Producing Garden. aches. I went down ! I went down— down, down, down culture from garden leaders in most o f the states. According to these until my cumbrous feet met the slimy, reports gardening has spread to every element of the people and has slanting deck of the ill-fated Helena. The water was as clear as might be become a fixed factor in city and suburban as well as rural life. W ith at a like depth. Everywhere was a experience gained by amateur gardeners in past seasons and with gardens confusion o f wreckage. It had been n assuming a permanent rather than a temporary character, this year is smashing gale that wrought all tikis expected to be the greatest year ever recorded in making waste land pro demolition. I made out the cabin, half-hidden under a tangled mnss of duce food. wreckage, nnd worked my way to the debris-barred door. I avoided the keen edge o f a long knife which some Affection of the Elephant whim o f the storm’s fury had fixed Compared With That of Any firmly in a piece of broken mast. The of the Domestic Animals edge turned outward, menacing my lines, nnd I gasped. The mystery of Connors’ death was laid hare. His It Is commonly supposed that all hose had doubtless caught on the large animals o f tropical jungles ex M ilitia Bureau W ill Extend C all to knife M ade; he had tried to haul it press a sense o f ferocity, but this A ll States after him, nnd— ! is not true o f the elephant, which Is only fierce when his self-protection I hdd to crouch low to pass under the barrier at the door. The cabin With the rapid return to this coun demands It. Perhaps no other animal windows were clear, nnd in the ceil try o f the National Guard divisions is so nffectionate os the elephant. ing was a huge, spar-torn hole which thnt served in France, ottleinls o f the W hatever a horse, a dog, n cat or any admitted light. I stood erect Inside militia bureau of the war department domestic animal will do for its master, the cabin, and— ! At the opposite are making planp for nn active cam au elephant will do, If It it possible, side of the room a second diver In paign to reorganize the'National Guard with equal promptness. However, this full dress had risen before me, mo in every state in the union. Authority Is the case only if the elephant has tionless, Hut erfect with the confident has just been granted the bureau to been treated with kindness. In the East, in India and In Africa, poise o f life. A nervous, insane curi increase its personnel. elephants nre not properly rewarded osity soiled me; a yearning to know The militia bureau will soon extend if the diver that faced me were of a general call to all state troop lead for their kindness and service to man. flesh and blood,' or— or something ers, urging them to give their co-opera- In India this cr<kiture is hunted, else. I advanced toward the appari tion in the formation of the national made prisoner, nnd forced to work in In Africa, his tion ; nnd then my nerve all bflt broke, militin. The new congress will be great lumber yards. for It followed my example and came urged to make adequate financial pro existence is threatened because of the forward to meet me! I hesitated only vision for the re-estnblishment of the way that men track him down fo r for the space o f a heart-beat; then National Guard on a sound basis. The ivory. I f only the demands for ivory I threw myself forward wildly, hands milifhry bill that failed to pass at the would ^cease, tlip elephant might be free to go about his accustomed wr.y3 clutching, but on the greasy, 'slime- last congress contained an nppropria* and then he would always show his coated floor my feet flew from under tlon of more than $14,000,000 f A the affectionate nature. me with the effort,; and I crashed National Guard and authorization for down. the equipment o f all state froops from The fail dazed me. I only knew the surplus war material in war de One of Philippine Group that my hands, in the instant o f my partment depots. Is an Island of Mystery falling, had slipped over a smooth, Authority will be sought to accept hard surface exhctlyl where the np- fo r enlistment for a period o f one year Mindoro, la the Philippine' group, parltion had stood. From the floor all Nationnl Guardsmen who served in Other I strained my eyes upward. The France. The renmlnder o f the six-year is something o f a mystery. strange diver had disappeared. I tot enlistment period will be In the re Islands are rather thickly populated, but pf Mindoro hardly anything Is tered to my fe e t; and then the des serve. known. There Is a fringe o f population peration o f frlfjht sent my hand to around the shore line, hut the Inter my sheath-knife, for ns I gained my ior o f the big island Is practically feet the vanished figure again con Bells Originally Used to It is fronted me. I drove the knife with Clear Air of Evil Spirits unknown nnd unexplored. claimed that but one white man. Dean all my strength, for I knew that the Worcester, ever has crossed the in mysterious diver was not Connors, The use o f bells originifted In su 'y ie knife-point- deflected nnd grazed perstition. They were first used In terior o f Mindoro. Why the Island an Impenetrable, even surface, and the China n great many centuries ago, and has remained thus for nearly 800 force o f the blow carried me with a their original purpose wns to dispel years Is quite hard to understand. It is gpid thnt there is gold in abun momentary shock against something 1 and clear the air o f “ evil spirits,” also dance on this Island, and where there that felt peculiarly like a sleek, en- to break up and drlv^ away storms, is gold there usually can be found nmeled panel. My tense nerves went ' From China bells were eventually In- white men w illing to go after It, slnck, nnd my knees swayed weakly ■ troduced Into Europe. Old records tell whether In frozen waste or tropic from the sudden relaxation as the us how the tolling o f bells kept the heat, but Mindoro’s secrets remain light o f understanding broke upon my ^ “ spirits o f darkness” from assailing safely hidden. groping senses. [ people while In the act o f worship. “The deuc^I" I ejaculated in the ( Hence tfce connection of bells with close confinement of my helmet, “ a | churches. It was only a compnra- Door Should Fit in Frame mlrror I” j tlvely recent date that bells were used Like Stopper in a Bottle — for calling the people to church. For Early English Coffee Houses. ages they were designed solely for It ruffled the tidy tnature o f the In an age when newspapers were keeping evil spirits at a safe distance. hnndy mnn to have to pull and jerk at unknown, or consisted only of offlrlal ____________________ his door to open It, and then to have or strictly licensed prints containing to coax and push to^h u t It. A door only what the court desired to have should fit In Its frame like a stopper In known, the coffee house became the I DO YOU KNOW THAT— a bottle, he thought. A cursory exam great exchange o f news and politics, j ination disclosed that it stuck a t'th e and so marked did Its Influence become j Eve never once threatened bottom. O f course. If the swelling had that the government attempted at one ! Adam to go hack to mother? been at tlie top It would hnve been so time to suppress It. The attempt mere- j A kid with a stick o f candy easy to piane off the surplns. But at iy served to bring out the importance I can get everything in the room the bottom ! He tried tightening the of the function this unique Institution j sticky, too? screws in the upper hinge, which had attained to. for so widespread was j A woman who marries a rake were quite loose, but found the wood the protest o f all classes o f business has to scrjftch for a living? en soft that even longer screws would affteted. and o f opinion roused, that | On the other hand. It would not hold. There seemed to be nothing Charles II was forced to abandon It. seem that a grass widow should to do but remove the upper hinge, dig properly marry a rake? out the soft wood and insert in its F o u n d a t io n M u s t Be There. No matter how fast time flies place a piece o f new wood, which held A man can never be a true gentle i clocks are sure to be s lo w ? the hinge firmly and prevented the man In manner until he Is a true gea door from sagging. tletnas at heart.— Dickens. T o B e Big Y e a r for G ardens To Reorganize National Guard J