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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1919)
»»»»*#»###»»»»»•»»»»#####»#»»»<( > o f Her Rowdy * By W IL L T. AMES (C opyright. 1919, by th « McCluro N#wo- papsr Syndicate.) The strike was called by the raotor- meD and conductors themselves, at the end of a turbulent meeting, during which the men, yielding to the mag netic Influence o f Kolb, the oratorical agitator, had booed their own officials and jeered at a letter from the head o f their national union declaring the proposed walkout to be 111 advised, if not wholly unjustifiable. ‘‘You 8re be ing sold o u t!" Kolb bud shouted. And somehow he made the men believe him. Setting tradition and discre tion alike at defiance, the trollcymen streamed out o f their hall alight with the excitement of a fight in which they felt, under the spell o f Kolb, that they were championing the cause o f all op pressed workers as well as their own. An hour after midnight the last car hnd been returned to the barn, and next morning not a wheel turned on any of the city lines. At 5:30 that afternoon a girl with gold-brown eyes and red hair plodded wearily along on the last half mile of a two-mlle walk between office and home. All the town was walking, save a handful of adventurous souls who took chances on the one occasional car the traction people had been op erating since noon, defying the Jeers o f the mob and the risk of pebbles flung by hoodlums. But company 1n misery very slightly palliated the discomfort of the unac customed tramp that Glory Blair had been compelled to take with scarcely an idle minute In It. She could do very well without any pedes trian exercise Immediately before or after It, she thought. " I t ’s an outrage, that’s what It Is 1” she protested. The worst o f It was. Glory was wor ried about the Job, too. She had be gun to suspect that McKnlght, the pro prietor by whom she was employed, might be a bit o f a wildcatter. Glory was merely his stenographer and had nothing to do with his accounts; but little things recently had given her the Impression thnt It would not be sur prising if McKnight were to close that office of his suddenly, some of these days, and fade away. So, altogether, Miss Blair was in a rather depressed state at the moment when a group of uniformed trollcymen, standing on the corner and scoffing loudly at the e f forts o f a couple of traction company office men to run a car, caught her eye. It wasn’t exactly the group thnt caught her eye. It was Ford Bur- eoyne. Ford was one o f the strikers. He hadn't been a trolleyman very long, he hnd been a “ tech.” school man, and then he had g< ne across and got gassed and came back with a bron chitis that forbade his staying indoors, the doctors said, for at least two years; and meantime his fnther had died broke, and Ford had found him self obliged to quit college and earn a living, and do It at ‘‘outside work." All o f a sudden Ford, who was laughing as loudly as any o f the crowd at the unfortunate amateurs on the car, realized that Glory Blair was standing stock still, six feet nway, looking at him with an expression he had never seen on her face before. He left the group Instantly. Glory didn’t give him so much as time to say "H ow do you do?" “ I ’m rather glad that I chanced to see you, Mr. Burgoyne.” she said, and the chill of disillusionment was In her voice. “ I f some one else had told me they heard you hooting and black guarding decent people on the public streets, I should have refused to be lieve it.” “ But, Glory,” protested Ford, "those fellows are Just plain strike-breakers, now surely— ” “ Surely,” blazed Glory. Interrupting him, “ to be a strike-breaker In this kind of a strike Is Infinitely more cred.- Itable. Ford Burgoyne, than to set a city full of tired, wornout people afoot in torrid weather like this. But I see now that I have given my friendship to a mere rowdy, who could never, by any possibility, look at things as I do. I Just wanted to say that you needn’t come to see me this evening— nor ever. Good-by.” And Glory Blair, stepping around Burgoyne, who would have de tained her If he could, marched off with the air o f a duchess— and a lump In her throat and an ache In her heart — for she had come to be more than fond o f this tall young fellow, who had faced his altered future with so sunny a laugh and so willingly fo l lowed the admonition: "Whatsoever thv hand findeth to do.” The strike had been on a week. The company was operating. The public was riding when It could. The strik ers, feeling themselves losing ground and falling to secure the Indorsement o f their own national organization or o f other labor unions, had fallen into an ngly mood. They stood moodily about In groups. There was no more o f the amused railing at Incompetent strike-breakers. Some o f them, com pletely dominated by the ublqultotfs Kolb, were working themselves up to the point o f violence. Sheer stubborn pride kept most of the men In line. One o f these was Ford Burgoyne, who had been harder hit by the disaffection o f Glory Blair than by the loss o f his Job, and who was In a somber, pessi mistic frame o f mind- He felt like smashing things. Ford was standing, one o f a group twenty trolley men, at the very com er where had occurred his dlsaa- trous encounter with Glory. H alf an hour before a West side car had been held up. stoned and the motornmn and conductor taken off and beaten. Now every passing trollev was a target for verbal abuse for passengers and crew alike. Several of Kolb’s best adher ents were In the crowd o f riff-raff that fringed the group of strikers. One of these, a red-faced rough, suddenly called out: “ Get onto what’s on the tall end of this car— a skirt I Whatchn know about that I Hey, you people, you got ta stop that when it’s startin' or they’ll have 'em in all your Jobs. Come on un’ get her!” The red-fuced man started toward the car as it stopped for the crossing. Three or four gang ster type youths yelled, "Get the sk irt!” As with one Impulse, half a hundred men and boys surged about the platform. The red-faced man, leaping up the steps, seized the small figure of the conductor and dragged It to the street. Some one struck at the strikebreaker over the red-faced man's shoulder— and then Ford Bur- goyue came smashing and boring into the crowd with all the grim relentless ness o f those football days before the gas had got to him. "You dirty yellow dogs!" he panted, ripping the collar clear off one gang ster's coat as he hauled him out of his path and landing a rangy right uniter the red-faced man’s ear at the same Instant. “ Turn around here and fight a man— you woman beaters I” and an- rloter went down fo r the count. The little conductor, freed from her assailant's- grip, was reeling, her hands to her head, when Ford seized her arms, lifted her to the platform and, kicking a 'last ambitious rough off the step, rang the starting bell. As the car pulled away from the corner and out of the Incipient mob, he looked down at the little conductor. "Good God I Glory B la ir!” he breathed. “ You see, Ford,” said Glory, ns they sat on the tiny side porch of Glory’s little home, “ If It had been Just for me it might not have rande quite so much difference. Any man will fight for the woman he wants. But I knew you didn’t get a good look at me— and how could you ever guess I ’d lose ray place and Just had to have work, with that Interest coming due on the houses? And a man who'll do that sort of thing Just for woman— any woman— well, he Isn’t a rowdy, any how, Ford. Seeing that you're not— and now thnt crazy strike Is all over — maybe, as you say, I ’d better give up conductorlng and take the job you offered me.” GOT GOOD IDEA FROM HUNS French Scientist Has Adapted Idea Which Made “ Big Bertha” For midable to Aerial Travel. When the Germans accidentally dis covered that a projectile fired from a big Bertha normally designed for a range of from 25 to 30 miles would achieve a range of ubout three times the normal by simply elevating the muzzle so that the projectile would travel through the rarefied air in the high altitude they unwittingly con tributed an Idea which may revolu tionize aerial travel. The resistance to progress qf an object In the upper reaches of the air is very' much less than In the denser atmosphere o f the lower altitudes, but the rarity o f oxy gen In the higher altitudes reduces the efficiency o f the gasoline engine by as much as 50 per cent. To overcome this, remarks the Van couver Sun, a French Inventor has at tached an automatic air condenser to the exhaust, and air with a normal content of oxygen is thus supplied to the engines, which, retaining their normal power, drive the plane through the rarefied air at a greatly accelerat ed speed. It Is now said to be possible, with this Improvement, to cross the Atlan tic In one day. Spiders Hard to Tame. A spider Is one o f the hardest crea tures in the world to tame, according to scientists who have made the at tempt. They say the insect hasn’t any idea o f time, and to seek its confidence one must have unlimited patience. One scientist, after gaining the confi dence o f a spider by feeding It flies, sought to test Its senses by fooling It with a piece of meat, the size o f a fly. rigged up with a fly’s head and wings. The spider stopped in its web, about an inch from the camouflage, and later couldn’t be gotten from its nest to even look at the thing. Other spiders evinced the same wariness, although it Is not known whether it was their sense of sight or smell thnt was keen est. One scientist destroyed a spider’s web and stayed up all night to watch It make another, believing It worked at night. At 6 a. m. It ran out o f a window without attempting to work before his gaze. Only One Explanation. It was at an evening party. A young man with a tall collar and pale hair was reciting a poem. He had ground out 47 stanzas— and the end was not yet. “ What’s going on?" whispered the guest who had just come In. "Rhymer Is letting out his latest poem,” answered the pessimistic per son. “ What’s the subject— the motive?" queried the late comer. “ 1 have forgotten the subject,” re plied the pessimistic person, “ but 1 suspect the motive must be revenge. At least I can’t see any other reason for It.” -------------------------------= = — ----------------- New Orleans’ Exports Heavy By U. S. Department of Apicultura (Prepared by the United States Depart be obtained from the department o f ment o f Agriculture.) agriculture. Lighter Carrying Export Beef Cattle From Jersey City to Steamer Dock ir New York Harbor. During three months period ending September 30, a total o f 1,330 hogs and 31 cattle were shipped from N ew Orleans to Havana, Cuba. The hogs were destined for slaughter, while the cattle consisted o f well-bred dnlry animals, mostly Holstelns. Prospects Indicate that future trade through the port o f New Orleans w ill include shipments to Mediterranean and South Amer ican points. In this connection It Is worthy o f mention thnt the live stock exports from New York during the same period consisted of 1,252 cattle to Antwerp, Belgium ; 60 horses to London, England; 61 horses to Havre, France; 40 cows and 157 horses to Berm uda; 6 horses and 2 mules to Trinidad; 40 mules to British W est Indies. Registered Cattle and Babies From a Bulletin of the United State» Public Hceleb Service Horse and cattle breeders owning "blooded” stock do not fa ll to have their animals “ registered.” It adds to their value, and is therefore Justly regarded as highly desirable. In sharp contrast Is the attitude o f many care less parents o f children. H ere are a few reasons why baby’s birth should be registered: T o establish Identity; to prove nationality; to prove legiti macy; to show when the child has the right to enter school; to show when the child hns the right to seek employ ment under the child labor la w ; to es tablish the right o f inheritance to property; to establish liability to m ili tary duty, as well as exemption there fro m ; to establish the right to vote; to qualify to hold title to, and to buy or sell real estate; to establish the right to hold office; to prove the age at which the marriage contract may he entered Into; to make possible sta tistical studies o f health conditions. IN CULLING KEEP ONLY GOOD PULLETS Every well-developed, early-hatched pullet In good health Is a potential egg layer. Just as there Is no method o f Judging the speed o f a horse before he hns been raced or o f determining the butterfnt record o f a heifer before she has been freshened, so there Is no accurate means o f telling how many eggs the pullet will lay until she has been given a trial. As a rule, most pullets which stnrt laying before win ter w ill lay at least enough eggs to pay fo r their feed during their first laying seas<m. A ll mature, vigorous pullets should be kept. Any weak, un dersized, late-hatched, or deformed •pullets should be culled out In the fall. Other methods o f estimating the fu ture egg production o f pullets tire In accurate and their use Is not ndvlsed. The real problems in culling a poul try flock are found with hens that have finished one or two laying sea sons. T h e general rule with pullets Is to keep practically all and with aged hens to dispose o f nil, but with all yearling hens and with two-year- old hens o f the lighter breeds some should be sold and others kept. T o cull hens o f these ages every bird must be studied to determine her value. Nature has marked the poor producer, and the poultry keeper should be able to recognize the marks. Violin Maker Manufactures Fiddles With Pocketknife Material o f strange description con tributes Interest to the productions of an eccentric Ohio violin maker whose Instruments are noted fo r their ornate carvings. Extrem ely simple tools are used by the workman, an old pocket- knife with nicked and rusted blades being one o f his favorite Implements. In spite o f this, the Instruments have an excellent appearance and good tonul qualities. Wood taken from the heart o f a partly petrified log dug up In an eastern state forms the back o f one of the extraordinary violins. Another un usual Instrument has a back made from one o f the drawers o f a bureau brought to this country from England shortly after the historic voyage o f the Mayflower. Kiev, With About 500,000 Inhabitants, Combination of Both the Old and New K iev contains about 500,000 inhabi tants, and comprises four distinct dis tricts, which may also be called sep arate towns. Podol, the commercial quarter, skirts the river Dnieper, and above It, on a steep declivity, Is LIpki, the residential quarter, and an en chanting spot In summer, with Its handsome villas embowered In dark, luxuriant foliage. North o f that is K iev proper, which contains the university and the cathe dral o f St. Sophia, a building erected in the eleventh century, but so con stantly repaired and added to that It is now a huge and towering structure with more than a dozen large golden domes. Here also are the theaters, hotels and shops, which are quite as mod ern ns those o f Petrograd or Moscow. Petchersk, the fourth district, is honey combed with caves and catacombs that In olden days were used ns places of refuge and as monastic cells, and where, during holy festivals, one can scarcely move through the dense crowds o f pilgrims, o f whom 300,000 annually visit tills ancient and revered monastery. SAYiNG S OF W ISE MEN j The campaign which the United States department o f agriculture, In co-operation with the state agricul tural colleges and other agencies, will begin on October 1 against the scrub sire has created so much Interest and has resulted in so many inquiries be ing received by the department that the follow ing list o f typical questions and answers has been prepared to In form more fu lly concerning the drive fo r “ Better Sires— Better Stock.” Question— Need a person keep all the classes o f live stock in order to take part In the crusade? Answer— By no means. H e may keep only one class or several classes. Question— I f n person has no live stock but wishes to join the campaign, may he be enrolled? Answer— N o ; not until he becomes the owner o f live stock. The person with even one breeding animal, how ever, Is eligible. I f a male, it must be a good pure-bred. I f a female, It may be o f any quality, but must be bred to a good pure-bred sire. Sires Should Be Registered. Question— Need pure-bred sires pur- chased be registered? Answer—Pure-bred animals bought or sold preferably should be registered as a proof o f pure breeding. Question— I f a person has a grade sire, a bull, fo r Instance, o f exception ally good type and which resembles a pure-bred and he Intends to get a reg istered pure-bred bull later, can he he enrolled in the campaign? Answer— Not until he stops using the grade bull as a sire. It Is suggest- Don't Join Until Ready to Comply. Champlon Duroc-Jersey Boar. Question— I f a person enrolls and then finds It too difficult to comply with the requirements, may he with draw? Answer— Y es; he may withdraw by returning the official emblem, with an explanation o f the circumstances. But persons contemplating such a course are advised to defer enrollment until they can comply with the conditions. Question— I f a person has pure-bred sires in a ll classes o f animals he raises to sell but Intends to breed hts work mares, fo r Instance, to a scrub ed that he sell the grade bull, and, until he obtains a pure-bred bull o f his own, breed his cows to a good pure bred bull owned by some one else. In that case he would be eligible to en rollment. Question— May children be enrolled and is there any age limit? Answer— There is no age limit. Chil dren who own live stock and who are able to sign their names and comply with the requirements may be en rolled. Children Interested In live stock should be encouraged to enroll. Briefly, a person must believe that the scrub rooster and the scrub boar are as objectionabte, In principle, as the scrub bull. There must be clean sweep o f Inferior sires I f the owner wishes Uncle Sam to officially enroll him In the “ Better Sires— Better Stock" crusade. But the conditions are easily fulfilled by persons who, realiz ing the need fo r live stock Improve ment, are ready to put their beliefs Into actual practice. 8outhdown Ram, Two Years Old— First Prize and Champion. Everyone has his peculiar f or grade stallion and to raise the colts fo r farm work, lb he eligible to en habit.— Latin proverb. Genius can never despise la- I rollment In the campaign? Answer— No. Horses are Included bor.— Abel Stevens. A giant w ill stnrve on what ! among the classes named and the mares must be bred to a pure-bred will surfeit a dwarf. A g ift In the hand Is better i sire. (T h e classes are horses, cattle, than two promises.— La Fon- t sheep, swine, goats and poultry.) Question— When poultry, fo r in taine. I L ittle discourse Is gold, too j stance, are on range and a neighbor's much Is dirt.— German proverb. i Inferior sires nre with them, how Is It A dram o f discretion Is worth | possible to comply with the require a pound o f wisdom.— German f ments? proverb. ! Answer—The requirements are not That only is a disgrace to a { violated unless chickens are raised man which he has deseryed to ♦ from the eggs o f hens sired by such suffer.— Phaedrus. males. It would be preferable, how «• A ♦ ever, to induce the owner o f thé In ferior roosters to dispose o f them. In any case the breeding birds o f a per son enrolled In the campaign should Peaceful Color of Green be confined to his own premises, and W as Mother Earth’s Choice other males fenced out during the breeding season. H ow many o f us ever wonder why Question— Who is to determine Mother Earth chose to dress In green? whether sires are o f good quality as The earth wns not always green. Once well as being pure-bred? It was as naked as the moon; but there Answer— W hile the opinions o f the came a day when the weather grew cool enough to demand clothing, and at that time, no doubt, our material planet began to look about to choose a color scheme fo r her dress. Why she chose green Is not o f record, but that she chose It with her whole heart every pleasant place o f creation testi fies. Scientists explain thnt this Is merely a natural phenomenon, the col or being chlorophyl pigment, turned green by notion o f the sun. But why it did not turn blue, or red, or black no scientist knows. About all we can say Is that Mother Earth wanted a green dress, and she went and got It. TO AVOID EX C E SSIV E W ASTE Statistic« Show That 80 Per Cent of Com Fodder 1« Wasted Annually in Com B ell (B y R. W . C L A R K , Colorado Agricultur al College, Fort Collins, Colo.) There is produced every yenr In this country sufficient fornge to feed lib erally all the live stock o f the land, and leave a good balance besides. The shortage o f supplies each year is due to the spoiling and wasting o f fo r age already grown, and the means of preserving this fornge w ill solve the stock problem o f the country. The principal waste Is now going on with the corn plant. It Is most noticeable In the corn belt states where perhaps 80 per cent o f the stalk and leaves of this most valuable forage Is wasted annually. The silo furnishes a means whereby all farm forage can be pre served and placed In the best possi ble condition fo r feeding. The silo Is too well known to require a descrip tion o f this method, but its use Is cer- tnlnly sadly wanting. It can be safely said that a silo Is a proper equipment, and o f great economic value. PRODUCTION OF CLEAN M ILK Comparatively Easy Matter In 8prlng and 8ummer, but Quite Different In Winter. Weaving of Artistic Rug as Old as Greece Itself It Is a comparatively easy matter to produce clean milk In the spring and summer months fo r the simple reason that the cow Is generally on pasture during these months nnd whtn allowed to care fo r herself she will keep dean. In the winter, however, she Is kept In closer quarters and It Is then that the greatest amount o f dirty milk Is apt to appear on the consumer's table if producer haa not given the proper attention to the cleanliness o f hla anl- rai is. Rug making is as old as Greece It self, hnt It was never made a commer cial Item, and It was rare Indeed that a weaver could be persuaded to part with his rug. Greek rugs are o f two kinds, the heavy ones used In winter and the light ones used at all times. In the beginning the designs were o f the simplest, hut later the Greeks bor rowed floml designs from the Persians, which loan was nmply repaid with the development o f Grecian art. Venetian rugs are also very rare. t Combination ef Utility and Stand Leas Expense Incurred In Marketing ard Quality. Food Crops and Providing Meat owner and others who have examined for Table Uee. the stock w ill be accepted, it Is sug gested that he consult also an ex More live stock on the farm means perienced judge o f live stock before ’.ess expense In marketing food crops filling out his enrollment blank. Sires and less cost In providing animal which are diseased, undersized or oth products fo r the fam ily table. Hvery erw ise inferior, even though pure farmer who raises live stock Is help bred, should be avoided. Information ing provide foods st less cost of pro on desirable types o f live stock may duction. R A ISE M O R E FARM ANIM ALS