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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1920)
Love and B re a k fa s t By SHIRLEY MONROE :8 (© . 1119, by M c C lu r* N « w a p a p «r Syn dicate.) strong protest, ” 1 haven't the nerve to face your father with my present bank account. Just give me a couple of months, though, und ‘oh boy,' but I’ll make some killing! Then we can be married.” A charming blush suffused the face of the girl. To cover it she asked what he meant by "a killing.” “ Why, e«erlastingly watching my rivals in business, catching them nup- plng and swooping down upon them like— like that kingfisher chap over there— and coming home with the spoils.” As ho spoke, prompted by an instinct he didn’t stop to analyze, one hand gently detached Itself from the hand of the girl and ^mght his watch. With a start an arm was withdrawn from a slender waist and with a nim ble movement the prince wus on his feet. “ But why need you go so soon?” the girl objected. “ Breakfast, darling! And I forgot to tell you ! I got out at four this morning and caught some snapper blues for you. That's whut made me a little late here. Gosh. It was g rea t; getting up at that hour and killing meat for my mnte like a regular prim itive cave man!” The girl gazed up at the glowing countenance o f her prince and many things ran through her mind In the second that she hesitated. He had fe lt a need for food, with his arm around her I He had killed Innocent living creatures, even as the kingfisher had, nnd the marsh hen— but not, thank goodness, not like the crab! And he had killed them for her— be cause be loved her! A fter all, what did It matter? There were many things she didn’t under stand, and nothing mattered but that “ He loved her.” The girl sprang up with a happy smile. While the (Jew wus still on the grass and the sun not yet full-orbed over the eastern hills, there cauie down the steep, narrow path which led, between thickets of sweet fern and hayberry, to the pebbly shore be low, a maiden fair as any queen of fairy tale fume. Her slim little frock seemed to have borrowed Its color from the rosy dawn. A wandering ray o f sunshine found her hair and transformed it Into a crown o f flne-spuu, virgin gold. Her daintily shod feet appeared to barely touch the ground, yet they brought her quickly down to the bench. There she threw wide her sun browned arms and took long breuths o f the sea- washed air. “ Everything Is perfect this morning — yes, everything!” She spoke aloud. A kingfisher successfully* camouflaged against the rain-bleached limb of a dead tree near by turned a startled eye In her direction for the thousandth part of an instant, perhaps, then con centrated again on the sparkling water beneath him. The girl looked at the tiny Jeweled disk bound to her wrist. She seated herself, carefully smoothing out her frock tlint It might not be wrinkled, and, picking up handfulls of the shin ing pebbles, let them trickle slowly back to the ground, talking to them meanwhile. Her happiness was o f the sort that BROUGHT JOY TO ROOSEVELT demanded expression, and at first glance there was no animate thing Companion Tells of Colonel’s Joy in Unlooked-For Discovery in the nearer tlinn a lonely osprey which cir Bird World. cled high over the hay. So the pebbles and sedge grass Roosevelt’s Intense eagerness ovet heurd her wonderful news— a tale as old as the spectacle of the dawn, yet nny new discovery In the bird world ever as new and marvelous to one who Is Interestingly described by John M. Parker, who once entertnlned the col experiences It for the first time. Only the evening before had It hap onel on a camping trip along the Gulf pened— the miracle— when he had coaet o f Mississippi and Louisiana. taken her Into his arms and of a sud One day they discovered one o f those den It had come nnd she knew that she queer birds known as the bull bat, and loved him I It would end in marriage, the colonel was greatly excited about of course ; but she didn’t want to think It. Here Is the way that Mr. Parker of that now, only o f the utter perfec describes the Incident: tion of her prince nnd o f the beauti “ One (lay my sons were running ful, beautiful world, which wus such a around on a little Island, nnd presently begnn waving for ns to come over. happy place to live In. On parting they had agreed to meet We Immediately answered. When we on the secluded beach, out of sight of got close to them we saw them point the hotel, before breakfast. She had ing to a bird on the ground, blended anticipated the time set, for the night so well with oyster shells and debris had been sleepless and the glorious that It was almost Invisible unless you morning called. But at nny moment, watched closely. They motioned to now, there might come the sound of the colonel to step up to the bird, and as lie did so It flew off the nest, flut footsteps down the narrow path. Instead of u sudden step there was tering along the way ns a great ninny a splash In the wuter a few feet from birds do, simulating being bndly shore. The girl turned In time to see wounded or crippled In order to lend a fountain of ralnbow-hued drops and us away from Its nest. It was a bull emerging from It a gray bird with a bat, or night hawk, and as the col white collar around Ills throat, carry onel glanced at the nest be remarked: ing In his beak a small silver fish. The ‘By Jove, this bird Is hatching now.’ bird flew straight back to his perch on “ Herbert K. Job, the nearest and the rain-blanched limb of the old dead possibly the most famous bird pho tree, swallowed bis booty and resumed tographer In the world, enme In an swer to our call and fixed up his old the watchful waiting. “ Why—you horrid thing!” exclaimed green shnde from under which he the girl, startled from the tule she made some wonderful pictures both was relating to the shining pebbles, of the bird returning to the nest, and “ to eat up that beautiful little fish who then how lie scored her off (he nest. wasn't doing you one bit o f harm— He made pictures of the two little bull and on a glorious morning like this, bats breaking the shell of the egg, and when every living creature must be to see the eggs divide was wonderful ly Interesting. Mr. Job photographed filled with Joy at being nllve I” In the sedge grass, a few feet away, them with patience and with a total a lump which she had taken for a disregard of mosquitoes. “ The evening we returned to Pass brown atone moved cnutlously for ward, step by step. There was an in Christian the colonel went around my describably quick motion of u sinuous yard with a great (leal o f Interest, and neck, u glitter of silver, then a lump announced that be bad found nests of moving down the long throat as some- 27 varieties o f birds. One In partic tlilug was hastily swallowed. It took ular Interested him very much— the but an Instant for the tragedy; the crested fly catcher. I told him that murderer resolved ngaln Into a brown the bird bad nested there since I had stone, ceuselesly watching Its chance. bad the place, nnd that only n few In disgust the girl turned her back days before hnd raised an entire brood on the kingfisher nnd on the marsh- of young ones, which were now flying hen and, after a fleeting glance up the around the yard. He Immediately ask steep pnth, turned to the sparkling ed me whether I had ever Investigated the nest carefully myself. I told him waves breaking almost at her feet. At least there was one creature on no and asked why. He stnted that he that beach who could enjoy the fair hnd never found a single nest o f a beauty o f the morning without think crested fly catcher that did not hnve ing eternnlly nnd only of eating, she In It a shed skin o f a snake, nnd said soliloquized. Something grotesque and that lie would like very much to see horrid o f form was moving sideways whether this nest 'wny down on the and with difficulty out o f the wnter. Gulf of Mexico conld be an exception. With one ugly claw It was pushing be We got a ladder nnd I took the nest fore It an object almost as big as It out. Instead o f having one skin In It, there were two, to his very great de self, which feebly struggled. As the girl gaied, fascinated, the light and Joy.” — Tulsa World. thing took a great mouthful of Its liv ing prey In Its free claw and crammed It Into Its mouth. It was only that common occurrence, one crab eating, with relish, a disabled brother; but to the girl looking on there came a nauseating revulsion o f feeling and she stoned the cannibal till he dropped his victim and scurried away. “ How perfectly a w fu l! Why, I’ll never eat another crab as long as I live— they’re too disgusting. Nor an other fish, eithert Poor things; they have enemies enough! Oh. why need such cruel things happen in such a beautiful world?" A loose pebble rolled down the path, announcing the swift approach of an other human to the secluded beach. The girl leaped to her feet; strong aims held her tight. It was her prince, o f course, and there followed an hour of that ecstasy only new lovers experi ence when they tell, to each other, Just how unutterable that love Is. For gottei. were the greedy birds and the cannibal or crab. Once more life was ecstatic— a gift o f the gods! Then the prince announce«! that he must return to the city on the morrow. “ Why, dearie," he answered to her Explorers on Floe fo r Flvo Month*. Scientific data o f considerable value were obtained by a party of IS men who returned to civilization recently after spending about five months on a drifting Ice floe In the Arctic ocean, according to Populnr Mechanics Maga zine. Special attention was gven to the currents In Beaufort sea. that part of the ocean which stretches north of Alnska and Canada as far as Banks Land, and numerous soundings were mnile In the cold water. The floe on which the strange voyage was made was seven mile« wide and fifteen long. Many seals, polar bears, ducks and land birds made their homes on the floating block o f Ice. Bedroom Farce. “ That there troupe o f show people wux In a wreck down the mad a pie«?* an’ I don’t believe they'll he able to play at th' opery houae tonight." “ Was anybody hurt, Hiram?” ’’Nope, hut th’ pink and white bed they wux brlngin' along got smashed to kindlin' woo«l an’ th' property man says he can't find anoth«w one like It In tii' hall blame«] village."— Binning ham Age-Herald. Do Men Know What to Elat? There Ought to Be a College Course to Teach Them, Domestic Science Specialist Declares There should be a college course to instruct young men in the art of selecting what to eat, an instructor in domestic science at the Kansas State Agricultural college said recently. Not only are many men required to select their own food at public eating houses, and by such selection unwit tingly impair their efficiency, but they absolutely refuse to eat the carefully thought out meals prepared for them by their wives. They clamor for meat three times each day when the domestic science experts whom they marry know they should not have it, she added. “What will it avail carefully to instruct our young women in the art of planning a carefully balanced meal admirably fitted to meet all the re quirements of the body if the husbands, for whom they cook, will not co-operate with them in their efforts to promote health and efficiency by the formation of right food habits?” she argued. “ lo meet this problem in a certain degree the young men seniors of the college are urged to accept the invitations of the dinner work girls and try out in this way the effect of scientifically planned meals. By this means these men will have their attention directed toward balanced rations and may be favorably enough impressed that the wives of the future will not find the correct feeding of their husbands such a difficult matter.” Cedar Apples, Mistaken for Fruit of Tree, Said to Be in Nature of Tumor “ ‘Cedar applies' have been so named because they liuve been mistaken by some persons for the fruit of the cedar tree.” writes Frank D. Kern In the department “ On N lure’s T ra il” in Boys' Life. “ They n e found rather commonly on the n I cedar, perhaps best known as the V .¡¡nia red cedar but they have no re'.itlo* to the fruit which Is a small 1 n h berry. “These brownl-n roundish or kid ney-shaped'bodle n e In reality caused by a disease of the cedar. They are In the nature of n rumor und are pro duced by a par- site, a low form of plant life belon ng to the group known as the ‘plant rn rs.’ These tumors or galls are more properly spoken of as ’cedar rust.’ F r in the surface are pro jecting horns . T rusty color. The galls may be found on the twigs during the fall. They gradually Increase in size In the winter, and toward spring the radiating horns develop. These horns absorb moisture like a sponge, nnd af ter warm rains In the spring they be come much swollen and turn from rusty brown to yellow. With the ab sorption o f so much water they become Jelly-like and, with the Increase In size and change of color, are conspicuous. In this I'ondition they are noticed by many persons who would otherwise overlook them. A fter a shower in the spring a tree which has numerous ‘ce dar apples’ appears as if It had bloomed. One old Swedish botanist was so much interested In the fact that a rain could bring forth such handsome things where, only a few hours before, one had observed noth ing unusual, and thought them so wonderful that he said surely they were Coell flos (flowers of heaven).” EUROPEAN BORER IS DESTRUCTIVE Estimated Loss of Million Dollars Daily if Insect Once Gets Established. FOUND IN EASTERN STATES Larva la Dirty White Caterpillar, About One Inch Long, With Brown Head— Ears of Corn Are Bored Through. A million dollars’ worth o f damage a day Is conservatively estimated as the effect o f the Eurdfcean corn borer If It once gets established In the corn belt of the United States. This Is the statement o f George A. Dean, head of the entomology department In the Kan sas State Agricultural college. The Insect, which has done tremen dous damage in Europe and Asia, has been Introduced Into New York and Massachusetts and la looked for In other regions. Larva Is White Caterpillar. The larva o f the European corn borer Js a dirty white caterpillar, about an Inch long, with a brown Form Habit of Giving Cheer head. It passes the winter In a nearly full-grown condition within Its food and Encouragement to Others plants. In the spring Its growth Is completed and It then bores Its way to Cultivate sunny hcartedness, and the surface o f the food plant, where it you will have a priceless charm for makes a slight holes, to serve as an brightening existence and hushing exit for the resulting moth. The grower who expects to realize troubled waters into happy peace. The larva now forms a cocoon in the a nice profit from his poultry, will Form the habit of giving cheer and burrow, passes into the pupal stage, keep purebred stock. Any o f the encouragement to others, never utter and In about two weeks the adult moth standard breeds of poultry have years ing needlessly a disheartening word. emerges. The moth, which lives about o f Intelligent breeding back of them Don’t quench hope, or throw cold wa two weeks, deposits 300 to 700 eggs on ter on reasonable enthusiasm, or chill and they can be depended on to give the food plant In about five days the ardor, or create an atmosphere o f cen satisfaction. eggs hatch, and the young larvae at Cross-breeding Is a step backward. sure and fault-flndlng, but make folks first feed on the tender shoots o f the Most breeders who practice cross tingle to the fingertips with the hearti We as a people can render the best serv plants, but finally bore their way Into ness and spontaneity o f your presence breeding, mate one o f the larger breeds ice to suffering humanity abroad through the main stem o f the plant. In about with one o f the smaller, as Plymouth and greeting. Make others happy and Intensive Industry and prudent economy six weeks, after burrowing through all Rock and Leghorn. The Idea In cross you cannot help being benefited. Don’t In the conduct of affairs at home. parts of the plant, the larvae pupate breeding Is to produce a fowl that let the black-pinioned raven’s croak ns before and emerge as moths about T ry These. will not only lay well, but one that down the skylark’s note. Always look It is difficult to serve a salad dress the middle o f summer. will also make a good table fowl. The on the bright side.— Rev. Philip Greer. The female moths of the second ing which contains oil to those who result o f such crossing Is always dis refuse to eat o il; but the following is brood do the greatest damage to corn, appointing and results in a flock that Plants Should Be Watered one which will pass without comment since they attack not only the stalk, Is little better than mongrels. but also the tassel and the ear, and Thoroughly When Very Dry on the o i l : The advantages o f keeping pure Into a mixing bowl drop the yolks continue feeding until cold weather. bred stock are numerous: One can Destroy Ears Completely. Water pot plants only when they o f two eggs, one teaspoonful and a market a uniform product In eggs The ears o f corn are bored through need It, then water them thoroughly, quartet^of salt, one teaspoonful of mus and stock. The value o f uniformity When the soil begins to get dry and tard, one-eighth o f a teaspoonful of from bottom to top and from side to In products cannot be over-estimated. powdery on the surface, or when the cayenne, two tablespoonfuls of vine side, the borers feeding on the kernels A case o f eggs all o f a color and size, Complete de- pot Is tapped with the fingers and It gar; mix well and add one cupful of while they are s o ft or a coop o f hens that run uniform In emits a ringing sound, the plant re oil, J>ut do not stir. Have ready a size and color, will usually sell better quires water. Then give sufficient sauce made with a cupful of water, than a mixed lot of eggs or a coop of water so that It runs out through the one tablespoonful of butter or any sub mongrels. bottom o f the p o t; withhold water un stitute, and one-third o f a cupful of When purebred poultry Is kept one til needed again. Giving a little water flour. Cook this about ten minutes In can often sell eggs for hatching or every day, or at any stated Interval, a double boiler. Turn the hot sauce mature stock, at prices that one could Is not the way to \\pter plants. Use Into the bowl containing the other mix not expect to renllze fo r market eggs tepid rain wnter or water that has ture and beat briskly with an egg heat or scrub stock. been exposed to air and sun If pos er. A thick, creamy dressing like mny- And then the satisfaction and pride sible fo r a day or two. The water onnaise will result. This might he o f caring for a flock o f purebred should be just lukewarm, about 50 called a salad dressing stretcher, as It chickens Is a point • that ought to be degrees or 60 degrees. Never use Ice makes about twice as much as other considered. cold spring water for plants in winter, kinds. Warm water may be used to mix with the cold to bring about the tempera Plum Pudding. ture named. Take one-hnlf pound o f finely SAYINGS OF WISE MEN chopped beef suet, two and one-hnlf cupfuls of flour, two cupfuls o f bread There stalks discord with her crumbs, one lemon, juice and rind; town mantle.— Virgil. one cupful o f brown sugar, two eggs, Little discourse Is gold, too one-fourth o f a teaspoonful each of much Is dirt.— German Proverb. nutmeg, ginger, cloves and cinnamon, That only Is a disgrace to a one-half pound of seedless raisins, one- Used to Postponements. man which he has deserved to fourtli pound each o f seeded raisins suffer.— Phaedrus. “ Then you like and lemon peel, orange peel and cit Discontents arise from our de w o r k i n g for a ron, all chopped fine; one-hnlf cupful A Good Harvest of Com, With Good sires oftener than from our Organic Matter Left, Which, If Judge?” each of molasses nnd orange juice. Mix wants. Plowed Under, W ill Make Next Com “ You bet.” nil together In n bowl, adding the A dram o f discretion Is worth Crop a Better One. “ D o e s n ’ t he liquids last. Put Into a buttered mold a pound of wisdom.— German kick when y o u nnd steam three hours. Reheat very structlon o f the ear Is generally accom Proverb. put things off?” hot before serving, and serve with a plished either by the borer or through A clear bargain ; a dear friend. “ Nawv he puts hard sauce. decay which follows the Injury. One ♦ — Italian Proverb. ♦ off half his own moth which emerges in the spring may work every day.” be responsible for from 100,000 to Potato Pancake». Peel three large potatoes and let 300,000 larvae later In the same season. Fashion in Reading as in Every farmer and gardener should stand In cold water over night. Then Times Had Changed. grate them nnd add one-hnlf cupful o f be on the look-out for the Insect, Pro Dress, Which Lasts Only “ Strange Edith should Invite that flour, one teaspoonful of baking pow fessor Dean urges, and upon discover for Season, Notes Writer horrid grass widow to her wedding; der, one egg, salt nnd pepper, and milk ing signs of its presence should Im she has such a disagreeable past.” enough to make a thick batter. Cook mediately inform his state entomolo “ Yes, my dear; but she’s rich enough like ordinary cakes, but spread very gist or experiment station, sending in I cannot understand the rage mani fested by the greater part o f the world to furnish a very agreeable present.” thin. the Insect or the plant on which it has for reading new books. I f the public evidently worked. Not So Chummy. had read all those that have gone be Lemon Pie With Top Crust. fore, I can conceive how they should " I s’pose husband and w ife can be Blend one tablespoonful o f corn INSULATE HIVES IN WINTER not wish to read the same work twice very chummy In a chummy roadster?” starch with a little cold wnter; stir over; but when I consider the count “ Yes, but It's a bad place to quarrel Into one cupful o f boiling water and Ample Protection Should Be Supplied less volumes that lie unopened, unre In.” cook until smooth. Cream two table to Keep Out Cold Winds— garded, unread, and unthought of, I spoonfuls o f butter with one cupful Lsavs Entrance Open. cannot enter Into the pathetic com No Need to Worry. of powdered sugar, and stir Into the plaints that I hear made that Sir Harold Hollow- first m ixture; add one well-beaten egg Protect hives from prevailing cold W alter writes no more— that the press nut— I dread old and cook until creamy. Cool slightly winds, and Insulate hives to retain the Is Idle. . . I f I have not read a book a ge wi th Its and stir In the grated yellow rind o f heat generated by the bees. A grove before. It Is, to all Intents and pur wrinkled brow. one lemon and Its Juice. Pour Into a o f trees, an adjacent hill, or nearby poses new to me, whether It was Polly Pickles— pastry-lined plate and cover with a fence may serve as a windbreak. The printed yesterday or three hundred D o n ’ t w o r r y . top crust. Bake In a quick oven. packing usually done should complete years ago. I f It he urged that It has There Isn’t room ly surround the hive. Including the no modern, passing Incidents, and Is enough on your bottom, but the bees’ entrance should out o f date and old-fashioned, thqn brow for more remain open, though reduced in size. It Is so much the newer; It Is farther t h a n one thin Cork chips, sawdust, fine shavings, removed from other works that I have wrinkle. dry leaves, chaff, and similar material lately read, from the familiar routine Chinese Clothing Ripped should be used and packed tightly In o f ordinary life, and mnkes so much Measured by Millinery. Apart Each Time Washed a box built about the hive, allowing more addition to my knowledge. But Patience— Is that her husband with from six to eight Inches space for the many people would as soon think o f her? The Chinese wear clothes which dif Insulation. putting on old armor as o f taking up a Patrice— Yes. fer so radically In style from the hook not published within the last ” How long has she known hlm l" clothes o f other nations that the QUARTERS FOR YOUNG STOCK month, or y«>ar at the utmost. There "N ot long. Only three hats I” American manufacturer o f wearing Is a fashion In reading as well as In apparel will find the Chinese market Preferable to Have Calves Separated dress, which lasts only for the season. Strategy. for his goods limited mostly to fo r — From “ Sketches and Essays,” by From Main Part of Cow Barn__ Subeditor— Nothing doing In the William H a zlltt eigners and to the comparatively few Mothers Net Disturbed. news line todsy. Chinese who have adopted foreign Editor— A ll right. Put n pslr of dress. Chinese clothes are largely Some dairymen fall to consider hous Keeping the Leaves Clean. trousers on the office cat, photograph made at home, being merely basted ing the young stock when tney build him, and w e'll ran a special on the together, tnd they are ripped apart their barns. It la preferable to have Glossy leaved plants such as pslms, oldest living man In the town. each time they are washed. th* young stock separated from the rubber plants and callas, should have main part o f the cow barn because of the leaves sponged with clear water Short but Sharp. odors and because calves near their Most Exclusive Drink. once every week, with an occasional “ Why aren't yon speaking to Mrs mothers will cause the cows to become spraying at the sink. Rough leaved Gadder?" O f the alcoholic drinks wine Is the restless. The quarters for the calves plants, much as the begonia, gloxinias, “ W e had words." most exclusive, having served king« should be connected with the dairy etc., should not be sprinkled over the “ Indeetl I” foliage. Th# under aide o f the foliage “ Yes— one apiece. She called me and the tables o f the rich from the be barn, and a location on th . south or east side of th* ham la desirables ginning o f civilisation. needs attention also. ■upstart’ and I called her ‘cat.’ " OF INTEREST TO POULTRY GROWERS YOUR LAUGH ‘*1 TtejUju.