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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1919)
| Fire the G reat Destroyer Fire not only destroys about $300,000,000 worth of property annually in the United States, but 15,000 people are burned to death and 50,000 are injured by fire each year. Most of the victims are women and children. It is an established fact that most fires are preventable and due to the careless habits of the American people. Europe, by being careful, has an annual per capita fire loss of less than 30 cents. Ours was $2.63 last year. More than half our fires are in homes. The majority of these occur because of defective furnaces and flues, faulty electric wiring, careless smokers, open lights, thoughtless use of electric appliances, rubbish, care less use of matches, gasoline and kerosene, and other easily avoidable causes. Therefore the following suggestions are made: Make sure your heating plant and appurtenances are in safe condition before starting fire for winter. Paper flue-stops court disaster. Place ashes in metal cans, never in wooden receptacles. Examine electric wiring for worn insulation and defects in installs-, tion. Protect open lights with globes. Clean up rubbish, especially in basements, attics and back yards, and keep clean. Use gasoline, if you must use it, only with greatest care and never near a fire. The vapor from one gallon of gasoline has an explosive force equal to 83 pounds of dynamite. Never fill kerosene lamps while lighted. Never use kerosene to start fires. Keep matches in metal boxes and away from children. Never discard a match until the last spark is out. Place used matches in metal recep tacles. Never throw them on the floor or in waste baskets. Oil mops and oily rags ignite from spontaneous combustion. Keep them in closed metal receptacles. Never leave an electric iron, or other electric heating device, even for a minute, without disconnecting at the socket. Careless smokers cause thousands of fires, costing many lives. Cigaret butts and cigar stubs should be extinguished befoie being discarded and care should be used in depositing pipe ashes. Observance of these and other simple precautions will do much to reduce our fire waste. It is the duty of every person to assume a sense of personal responsibility#to prevent fires and to be careful at all times and in all places under conditions likely to cause fires. A Side-Show Romance * By JANE OSBORN ( C o p y r ig h t , 1919, b y t h * M c C iu r * p a p e r S y n d ic a t e .) N o w »» O utside of her Improvised tent Maia could hear the voices of the eager young “barker," shrill against the background of Jazz music th a t came from the veranda beyond, and the buzzing of voices of the crowds that she could Indistinctly see outlined through the canvas th a t hid her from the rest of the men and women, girls and boys who had assembled on the Woodmere lawn for the fete th at was to raise enough money to tide over one of the local charities through the sum mer. "This way to have your fortune told,” went on the persistent young “b a rk e r;” “greatest gypsy in the world. Come and have your fortune told. Learn your past and know your future. T his way, ladles and gentle men.” Then another higher pitched boyish voice— the voice of the barker for a rival attraction. “T his way to see the wild anim als! G reatest menagerie in the world! Largest alligator in captivity. Fiercest bear In the w orld! E ats 'em alive! Hugs ’em to d e a th ! This way, this way. Best show on the grounds.” And then the incessant “Tills way to have your fortunp told. G reatest gypsy in the- world. Cross her palm with silver and she’ll tell you your for tune.” And still Mala sat w ithin her close little tent, none too com fortable be neath the heavy load of eliains anil tawdry Jewelry th a t embellished her costume. Moreover her h air was hanging loosely on her shoulders and the mask across her face w as oppres sive. But w orst of all, she was sit ting there In her tent w asting her time and the vocal energy of her willing young aid with the megaphone outside without having the satisfaction of tak ing in any money. Wasps Are Wise and Vain; She wondered w hat she would tell the people when they did come; it Know AJI About Aviation; didn’t seem exactly easy. Still, it Keen on Air Resistance was all In the day’s work, and if Mrs. Stanley Burton chose to keep her on Who would be a w asp? The bees get at a g raduate nurse’s salary to idle T hose who have green crops such all th e credit I B ut our nffection for her time aw ay In this fashion, why it as w heat, oats, rye and barley for bees Is lnrgely cupboard love, due to renlly wnsn’t going to disturb Maia. For Maia hnd not been back from their fowls are fortunate. T here will the honey they provide us w ith, and be tim es during the w inter when these the wasp has virtues w lilch few people her long months of Bed Cross duty In F rance many weeks, and even a crops will do th e fowls much good. trouble to recognize. W asps a re wise, declares a w riter in respite such us this from the more B ut w here fo r nny reason no green I t is doubtful trying sort of nursing w as bringing crops are available o ats m ay be London Answers. sprouted to provide green feed for the w hether any action in a beehive is welcome relief to overwrought nerves. more sagacious th an th e action of a She had gone to Woodmere to take fowls. A good way to do this is to get a wasp when he has killed a bluebottle, charge of Bobby B arton’s strained and Is faced w ith th e problem of c a r knee, hut the ten-year-old Bobby had few boxes th a t may be easily handled. lying him home. H e carefully cuts oft recovered rapidly. Fill th e boxes w ith gnrden loam soli the legs and w ings, leaving the body ol Meanwhile Alleia Barton hnd flatly and put In the barn, cellar or outhouse its victim quite com pact. refused to sit In the stuffy tent tell w here there Is ventilation. Moisten W hy does he do th is? To save weight ing fortunes, though she had been th e soil and sow oats In these boxes. when flying home w ith th e booty? Nol promised by her m other to the com T he seed may be planted very thick, a t all. T he w asp knows all about avia, m ittee and duly advertised as one a s It will be best to set the box out tlon, and h e gets rid of th e legs and of the “side shows.” As a last-min and let the chickens have access to of the bluebottle to reduce ail ute substitute Main, about to return them ns soon ns the plants a re an wings resistance! v to town, hnd been urged to stay a Inch o r more above the ground. An W asps a re stro n g as well as wise little longer for the purpose of ta k other sowing muy then be mode In the They enn carry a w eight equnllng 4( ing Alicia’s place. And Alicia hnd box. bluebottles. T hey are also more friend In this way th e fowls may have ly th an one imagines, rarely stinglni gone sniling and Main had been put enough green food to give them a w ithout good cause. B ut they arc Into tlte gypsy costume specially good appetite and keep them In lino vain, for yellow and black are theit made for Alicia, and Mrs. Barton was health and vigor. It Is a very difficult favorite colors. And, w hen all is said sure If Maia kept her mask on no one would know the difference. m atter to keep hens in good laying and done, they are a nuisance! Meantime Bobby Barton, entirely condition during the w inter w ithout recovered as to his strained knee and green food. T he best way Is to sow more than enthusiastic over the one green crops. If this has not been done, Students of Flight of who had brought comfort and diver then onts may be sprouted as has been Birds Give Gull Title sion to ills irksome days of con suggested. of “ Master of the Air ’1 valescence, wns continuing to "hark” outside her tent. As m inutes passed and no shadow A stu d en t o f th e flight of birds li Inclined to give th e title o f "m aster ol darkened the entrance of her tent WORDS OF W ISE MEN the a ir” to th e gull, w hich often fol Maia was aw are of a slight disappoint lows a ship a t sea and lives on thi ment. Then she heard her b ark er: I t’s th e ensy Job th a t Is hard scraps throw n from th e galley. N« “G reatest attraction on the grounds. to get. Today’s decisions may deter- | ; oth er bird, he says, perform s sue! Hey, why doesn't some one come and seemingly impossible fea ts of flight oi get th eir fortune told?" Apparently m ine your destiny. It Is ensy to find rem edies fo r ! looks so completely a t home in th e air Bobby, too, was .becoming discour Sometimes, by the p erfect adjustm ent aged. other people’s troubles. Then through her mask Maia was A broken friendship m ay be ! of th eir bodies, th e gulls will poise or outstretched wings and ap p ear to defj aw are th at some one was rapidly soldered but will never be th e lnws of gravitation by rem aininj making for the tent entrance. She sound. perfectly m otionless; or, again, thej felt an unexpected sense of confusion Plutonic friendship Is like car rying m atches In an explosive j may be seen moving w ithout a singl« —stage fright, it seem«>«l—and she visible effort, straig h t ag ain st a gal« shuffled her fortune cards nervously. works. of wind. T h eir flight Is altogethei She hnd gone Into the operating room O ur Ideals a re not w orth much If we surrender them a t ; different from th a t of the Caspian te rn duty often with far less nervousness which Is ns graceful ns it is unusual than this. th e first attack. There was a fumbling at the tent T he ignorance th a t Is bliss ; j “U nlike th a t of nny o th er birds, w heth er of sea o r land,” says som e one whe flap, n sidewise shuffling of the feet generally leads to the knowl hns w atched the terns, “it rem inds on« and then n dark face was th ru st in edge th a t Is expensive. a little of th e high, ap p aren tly uncer quiringly In. It wasn’t an unkind fare tain flight o f a large-w inged butterfly nor nn especially ferocious one. and and It Is in p erfect hnrm ony w ith th« Its expression was on«> more of ln- Idea of a being w here life is spent qulsitlveness than anything else, but Ingredients Required for amid wind and m ist an d fluctuatin; still one doesn't encounter even gentle brown hears ev«>ry day and It was Home-Made Apple Butter wave." with diftiexilty th at Alula changed a Apple bu tter Is generally m ade w ith First Woman School Official. shrill scream of terror Into a terrified. "Oh. please somebody do something. cider, but this can be left out If de- slre«I. F our q u arts of sterilized sw eet Probably th e first woman in America The bear I" But somebody and a good many cider should be boiled down to two to hold an elective school office was quarts. To this add four q u arts of ! Bmnm W illard, th e fam ous educator, somebodies had done something. apples peeled and cut Into sm all ! who In th e early p a rt o f h er careet Ilohhy hod seen the vanishing black pieces. If the te x tu re of th e ap- w as elected superintendent of schools legs of Bruno, dropped his megaphone and hnd seised the trailing rope. plea Is coarse they should he boiled In th e town of K ensington, Conn. "Hey, you menagerie people, your and put through a strain er before be bear's loose,” he eall«'ii to the group ing addl'd to the cider. Boll this mix Wire in the White House. of ten is across the path, and before tu re until the cider «loes not sep arate Mala had time to think ju st wlmt was from the pulp. When two-thirds done In th e W hite H ouse th e re a re about I the wisest course of action when m eet add one pound of sugar. One-half te a } 175 miles of electric w ire, providing for ing a M r single-handed, “the mena spoonful of cinnamon, allspice and 3,000 Incandescent lights, together w ith gerie" people had come, four or five of cloves may be added. Tour Into steril a call bell system and a p riv ate tele them, and had dragged off their en ized Jars and steum for five minutes. phone system fo r th e use of th e execu tirely harmless and spiritless beast, tive household. who had prow led off in an unguarded First Elephant Shown. moment. Migration of W ater FowL But every <»ne In th at p art of the T he first elephant ever exhibited In Woodmere lawn had heard the com T he m igration of several species of motion. and like wildfire spread the A m erica w as shown at Philadelphia In 17IK1. Grown people w ere rhnrgcd a w ater fowl Is from w est to ea st Instead Information th a t a ferocious beer d o lla r a look and children a quarter. of north to south. had broken Into Alicia B arton’s tent, that there had been a narrow escape, HINTS FOR THE POULTRY GROWER that one of the yoong men from the menagerie te n t had perform ed the rescue and th a t on the whole the a f fair had been very thrilling. T hat seemed to turn the tide to ward the gypsy’s teut. For now they came eagerly, they stood In line out side, and the eager Bobby was more occupied now in timing the applicants to see th a t no one stayed more than five m inutes than in shouting through his megaphone. And Main, between those five-minute interviews, noticed that the tam bourine in which she put the silver with which her palm was crossed was getting to look very tem pt ing, apd some of the “silver" was real It is the plain, public duty of every ly paper. citizen to criticize proposed govern She rath e r regretted th at Alicia Barton would have ail the credit, for ment measures believed to be harmful. as yet her mask had not been re moved and she had heard more than Swift & Company is in a better pos one rem ark from outside th at Alicia ition perhaps, than others, to under certainly looked charming in gypsy costume. stand the meat packing business in all The afternoon was alm ost over and its relations to public and private inter Maia was beginning to feel the strain of her unaccustomed work when some ests, even tnough the others m ay have one came who caused her heart to been giving the subject a great deal of beat faster than had the inquisitive bear. sincere attention. “Perhaps you had b etter knock off. Miss B arton,” he began. “You Swift & Company is convinced that must have had quite a frig h t from interference with its legitimate business th a t beast.” It was Dr. Rodney Hill —Rodney Hill, by whose side Maia function by governmental agencies, had worked during those most trying however well intentioned, would be an days and nights In F ra n ce ; Rociney Hill, who, when they parted four injury to every man, woman and months ago, had held Alula’s hand In child who wants meat to eat, as well his own and had told Alaia th a t she was the pluckiest girl in the world as to the men who raise the meat and and had told her th at he didn’t know to those who dress and distribute it. how he was going to get along w ith out her. Alaia had not heard from Maximum service that cannot Doctor Hill again, and there were times when she had had to confess to monopolize because of keen competi herself th a t in her disappointm ent tion and lack of control over sources there w as g reater cause for the ex haustion she had felt during these of supply is furnished at a minimum months back in America than was the of profit— a fraction of a cent per memory of all the work in France. Maia didn’t intend to take off th a t pound from all sources. mask even then, but once she spoke Rodney H ill knew her and he knew Therefore Swift & Company is it was not Alicia Barton, to whom he taking every legitimate step of citizen had been sent to give any profes sional aid th a t she might need after ship to prevent such interference. the bear episode, which had been get ting more and more interesting as the These advertisements are intended afternoon passed. to help you, and to help Congress He was holding her hand again and telling her th a t she was the pluckiest decide what is best to be done. Mis girl, and Bobble had been told to give takes are costly and apt to be harmful them “double tim e,” which m eant ten minutes. in these trying times. “But I didn’t know you were one of these people—money and society and all th a t sort of thing,” he told her. “And I never dreamed that you Let us send you a Swift “Dollas.” were,” she said. “You never seemed like these Woodmere people or th at Address Swift & Company, you knew girls like Alicia Barton." Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. “B ut I’m not, and I don’t,” pro tested Rodney. “You see when I got back from France I’d rath e r lost my grip. I had Just finished raedicnl college when I went over, and ex hausted as I was I w asn’t in shape to p ut up the fight th a t would be necessary to s ta rt in on my own. Then I got In touch with these million aire Dorklnses who wanted a resident TH IS SH O W S doctor for the summer to look aftei WHAT BECO M ES OF . old Dorklns’ gout and Grandma Dor- THE AVERAGE DOLLAR kins’ bad temper. Well, to tell the R E C E IV E D B Y , truth, it was because of the fa t salary ^SWIFT & COMPANY^ FROM THE SALE OF MEAT th a t w ent with It th at I accepted it for AND BY PRODUCTS SS CEN TS IS PAID FOR TH E the summer. LIVE A N IM A L 12.06 CENTS FOR LABOR “I w anted to make sure I had EXPENSES ANO FREIGHT enough to keep the pot boiling for a 2 .0 4 CENTS REMAINS W IT H year and then I was going to look you SWIFT «.COMPANY up and ask you w hether you’d help AS PROFIT me to sta rt. I wanted to tell you back there in France, th a t night when we W hat “Cenotaph” Means. left, but I knew we had both been i f V C Rests. Rclresbes. Soothes, ' Heals—Keep your Eyes through too much to think of ourselves T he word is derived from th e Greek Strong and Healthy. If w ords “kenos," m eaning “em pty” and then. Besides, I w anted to have a they Tire, Smart, Itch, or home to offer you before I asked you. Bum, if Sore, Irritated, j “taphos,” m eaning “tomb.” In other Alaia dear—” Inflamed or Granulated, i words, a cenotaph is a sepulchral mon- “Ten m inutes is up,” called out the use Murine often. Safe for Infant or Adult I um ent erected in honor of a person cheerful barker outside, and tiicn, At all Druggists. W rite for Free Eye Book. whose body lies elsew here. “This way to see the greatest gypsy Narine Eye Remedy Company, Chicago, II. S. L in the world. Learn your past and Medicine From Stag Horns. Consider th e Centipede. know your future.” S tags are bred in China for their It is a m istake to suppose th a t all instinct in Spiders. centipedes have a hundred legs. The j horns, the h orns being cu t w hile soft Spinning webs is second nature with nam e is m isleading. T he m ost common each year and used in th e m anufac spiders. A fter they are hatched from variety usually have 34, b u t th ere are tu re of medicine. the eggs in a cocoon they cling to o th er species w ith as m any as 100 or gether for about a week. Then they Good Reasons foi Optimism. separate, but th eir legs do not carry 200 legs. T he little world of ours is not grow them very far. Facing the wind and A Lady of Distinction. standing on the tips of their legs, the Is recognized by the deliente fascin at ing w orse to th e men and women who baby spiders raise their ahdomtms and ing Influence of th e perfum e she uses. are doing th eir b est to m ake it better. em it a silken thread. The faintest A bath w ith C utlcura Soap and hot current w afts the gossamer in the air, w ater to thoroughly cleanse th e pores, and when enough is let out to perm it followed by a dusting with Cutleura of aerial flight the Insect d rifts away. Talcum Pow der usually m eans a clear, When it wishes to land It hauls in the thread. W herever it lands it can spin sw eet, healthy skin.—Adv. webs w ithout the slightest Instruc Bends, but Cut Glass. tions from older spiders. Older male An Am erican steel com pany, making spiders seem to lose this gift. There a re about 550 species of spiders in all grades of electric tool steels, an America, but only two, the house and nounces th a t It has produced an alloy garden spiders, are well known. chisel steel w hich can be m ade so hard th a t it will cu t glass, y et m ay be bent Plume Birds Failing. by being ham m ered over the edge of New Guinea Is the home of a large an anvil. percentage of the world's birds of paradise. The supply of these beauti Have Some. ful birds is fast falling. Not only do Okolehao. which is H aw aiian moon I the women of Europe and America demand feathers for th eir bonnets, shine, is sim ilar to a com bination of says the Savannah News, hut the na vinegar and alcohol. tives o f New Guinea and surrounding islands tnnke lavish use of the plu T r a p p e r s N o tice— W a n te d f u rs , a ll k in d s. mage as headdresses. Some precau S h ip n o w w h ile th e p ric e is u p . Y o u r m o n ey s a m e d a y f u r s re c e iv e d a n d to p tions are now taken to prevent visitors p ric e s. S en d fo r q u o ta tio n c a rd s . T h o se to New Guinea from kitting the "most f u rs , k e e p th e m c o m in g to us. O. M. B u n tin g & Co., 579-46th S t. B ro o k ly n .N .Y . beautiful birds in the world.” hut the k r m Von t it i e f i e J ? BEHNKE-WALKER natives are left alone and they con w e i »a sansneo : b u s in e s s c o u x c k H A V E Y O U A SWEETHEART tinue to deck themselves out In capes Son or Brother In camp o r training foe defense’ Is t h e b ig g e s t, m o s t p e r fe c tly eq u ip p ed B u s la e s s T ra in in g S chool !n th e N o r th and headpieces more gorgeous than I If ao. mail him a package of Allen'• Foot E m «. w e s t F i t y o u rs e lf f o r a h ig h e r p o eltlo a Powder for T ire d . Aching. Swol- w ith m o re m o n ey . P e r m a n e n t p o sitio n s any seen on our stage M n l l e s or the j the i -eptie and p r -r e n ts Mister« and «ore spots, a s s u r e d o u r G ra d u a te s . d sk e s welhine eees. ' wives of our mil!icniiir«>s. W rits for sstalog—Fourth sad Yamhill Criticism and Citizenship S w if t & C o m p a n y , U . S. A . P o r t la n d . ____________ Steam Not Needed. Literal Minded. M rs . X . (returning home) “M erer! In Death valley, California, the sum However did the child get that awful m er tem p eratu re in artificial shade bump?” Green Girl—"Ton told me to soars to 135 degrees, w ith 1 per cent let him play on the piano, and be fell of humidity. o ff" _ ELECTRIC MOTORS B seg k t. Sold. R ested end R «soiree W A LK ER ELECTRIC WORKS B s m e id e . ear. 10th. p : N. U. PnrtJend. O t a No. 4«. 1*1»