The Cottage Grove sentinel., January 21, 1910, Image 11

the eighth year $1, the ninth year $2
the body of a type and the portion of a
and tenth year $4 per tree. By plant­
line formerly occupied by the letter
ing 24 feet apart 75 trees can be set
M, then a square type. One thousand
to the acre. This would give a net
ems an hour on book work or 1,200 on
return of $300 an acre the tenth year,
newspaper work would be considered
which would be equal to a $5,000 in-
faster than the average, but George
vestment at 6 per cent, This is a very
Arensberg and Joe McCann, two old-
conservative estimate, We have' seen
Dorothy herself. Susan’s clothes haa
Marie Corelli says that she has met time “swifts,” each set more than two'
ten-year-old trees at different places & great many American women, but thousand ems an hour in a typesetting
once been Dorothy’s own, until out­
which yielded from 10 to 20 bushels, never yet a dull one.
worn or too small for the little girl,
contest in the early eighties.—New
and large trees which yielded from 30
who delighted in dressing her big doll.
York Herald.
rr
The
German
empire
consists
of
four
to 50 bushels.
“O, Dorothy,” cried her mother, “I’ll
kingdoms
and
some
twenty
grand
Ten acres of the sand pears at the
KILOWATT AND WHAT IT DOES.
tell you how to do it! Let’s play every
Keeping; the Soil Fertile.
above conservative estimate would duchies, duchies, principalities and
morning that you are Big Susan, and
According to Prof. Whitney of the bring $3,000 income, or equal to a free cities.
Some Suggestions in Electricity Tlint
then it will be as easy as can be to bureau of Soil, United States Depart:
Will Help Industry.
Santo Domingo, according to an En-
$50,000 investment, at 6 per cent.
dress yourself.”
ment of Agriculture, a soil to be fertile
Owners
of electric vehicles are often-
glish
mineralogist
who
explored
It,
is
Dorothy laughed, and thought that niust contain a sufficient quantity of
a geological curiosity shop, containing puzzled by the different terms used for
would be great fun. So the next morn­ the ash ingredients of the plants to be
Orchard Pent«.
the measurement of electric current.
ing she called herself Big Susan, and cultivated, and these must be in such
Whether there is a good or poor scattered samples of nearly every well- The words “amperes,” “volts” and
known
mineral.
all the clothes went on so easily it soluble condition as to be taken up fruit crop it will pay to keep the fruit
was just like a game. Mother only did by the growing, plants. Soils once fer­ trees as free from disease and injuri­ France is buying many locomotives “watts” are quite meaningless to the
uninitiated and when an electric
just a little buttoning, where Dorothy tile are said to be exhausted when de­ ous insects as possible. The healthy in Germany. The latest order is for charging
station makes a price for
could not reach very well, and praised prived of such food as is required for and uninjured tree is more liable to thirty for one line. For years French current of 5 or 10 cents, per kilowatt
her small daughter for being so help­ plant nutrition, but rest and meliorat­ bear and prove profitable than the railroads have regularly ordered loco­ hour the average unscientific man
motives in Germany.
ful.
ing treatment will, in time, restore one full of disease and injury. The
doesn’t quite grasp its meaning.
And after that Dorothy dressed her­ such soils to a fertile condition.
China buys in San Francisco $100,-
orchard will last longer if it is kept
To explain the term needs first a
self all alone every day. Although
D00 of seaweed a year, The claim for clear definition and then a compari­
Until past the year 1750 no Just clean and healthy.
ANN MABEL.
the big (fairs clothes were sometimes ideas upon the rotation of crops seem­
Borers are among the most Insidi* seaweed is that when it is used in up- son, the Kansas City Journal says.
not changed for days at a time, Susan ed to have been formed in any part of ous pests of the apple orchard in some holstering furniture is kept free of Every one will understand that a cer­
JNTow, this is no fanciful fable,
never seemed to mind a bit.—Youth’s England.
localities. On . account of their habits moths and other insects.
tain amount of force must be used to
3t’s what I heard people say—
Companion.
A canal nine miles long, sixty-five drive electric current through a cir­
The rotation of crops affords time they cannot be reached by poisonous
“There once was a child named Ann
Mabel,
for the disintegrating action of the at­ sprays, and nostrums placed about the feet wide, and fourteen feet deep, in cuit. This force Is measured by volts,
Flies on a Card.
roots, as sometimes recommended, are Desha County, Arkansas, has been com­ thus, we have 110-volt currents and
Who polished her shoes all the day.
Cut several small pieces of card­ mosphere, rain and frost to prepare utterly useless.
The most efficient pleted and is draining about 120,000 220-volt currents, the one expressing
new
material
from
the
rock
particles
Folks called the child so unassuming; board about the size of a visiting card in the soil and get it in a form to be means of preventing damage from acres of land contiguous to Arkaii^as just twice the force of the other. But
Folks said that Ann Mabel was shy. and draw six flies on each, numbering
these pests is by anual inspection of City.
tiie quantity of .. current passing
them from one to six. The object of used by the plant. One crop may use the trees and removal of the grubs
"She never is pert or presuming,”
“Closing out sales” and the like are through a 'circuit depends upon the
They said, but they didn’t know the game is to see who can first cover up the available food of a particular
with a sharp pointed knife. Various
why.
all the flies by throwing with a die. kind faster than it cen be prepared protective measures are also used. being placed under ban ia many of the force and the resistance, and so the
by
these
natural
agencies.
When
prop
­
leading cities of Russia, where strict quantity Is expressed by a different
Each player in turn throws with a
One of the most effective is to paint rules are established governing such term, viz., “amperes.”
They spoke to Ann Mabel politely,
erly
managed
it
enables
one
plant
to
die and covers the fly corresponding
the lower part of the stem in late sales to prevent an imposition upon
And sweetly Ann Mabel replied,
Now, the efficiency of the current
to the number thrown. He who covers prepare food for another.
-But never looked up at them brightly
winter
or early spring with a fairly the public.
depends upon both force and quantity,
All plants exhaust the soil, though
or
kills
all
the
flies
first,
wins.
As
a
And ever her blue eyes did hide.
thick paint made from pure ready
Oyster production in Canadian wa­ and to express this efficiency or United
variation, eighteen pieces can be used, in an unequal degree; plants of dif­ mixed paints for this purpose, since
ferent
kinds
do
not
exhaust
the
soil
in
ters
is steadily decreasing. The yield action we multiply the force by the
’*30 some one once made an endeavor
each player throwing three times in­
others may contain injurious sub-
the
same
manner;
all
plants
do
not
To find why she acted this way,
fell
from
35,757 barrels in 1903 to 27,- quantity—that is, the volts by the am­
stead of once. After thé first three
stances. Wood veneer strips and wire
And said to her: “Why do you never
throws the game begins to get excit- restore to the soil a like quantity or gauze are sometimes used to prevent 297 barrels in 1907. Canada imported peres, and express the result in watts.
Thus 100 volts multiplied by. 5 am»
Look up .when you’re talking, I ing, as the exact numbers necessary quality of manure, and all plants are
the eggs from being laid on the trunks $271,760 worth of American oysters peres is 550 watts.
pray ?”
not
equally
favorable
to
the
growth
in 1908 out of a total export of $653,-
to fill the card are seldom thrown.
A kilowatt is, of course, 1,000 watts,
of weeds. Upon the above principles of the trees, but white lead paint is 832 worth.
*It*s not that I’m shy,” said Ann Ma-
simple
and
cheaper.
which is the equivalent of about 1 1-3
is based a regular succession of crops.
What Makes Me Dream,
bek
Black rot is a fungous disease which A Salvation Army officer in London horse power. In charging a battery
Though the system of rotation is
I dream the very nicest things !
“Nor bashful at all, but I choose
attacks
the fruit, foliage, old bark and says he asked a boy what work he did the lighting companies bill for the use
adapted
to
every
soil,
no
particular
bicycle
has
wings,
I dream my
'To look down whenever I’m able
branches
of apple and pear trees. The to provide him with food, etc., and the of so many watts for so many hours,
rotation can be assigned to any one
Because I’m so proud of my shoes.” I dream my doll can laugh and talk;
I dream my woolly lamb can walk.
description of soil which will answer leaf spot form probably causes more reply was: “I pick strawberries in Thus, 1,000 watts for ten hours would
Dressing; Susan.
How do the dreams get in my head
at all times, and on the demand for damage than the other forms. Some­ the summer, I pick hops in the au­ be charged as ten kilowatt hours,
When Dorothy was four years old As I lay quiet in my bed?
different kinds of produce. On clayey times black rot cankers on the trunk, tumn, I pick pockets in the winter, which at 5 cents a kilowatt hour,
her mother said to her one day, “Now, Do I just think while I’m asleep,
soils, beans and clover, with rye grass and the limbs develop so rapidly as to and oakum for the rest of the year.” would be 50 cents, a charge that seems
dear, you are such a big girl that I Or does a little fairy creep
Of the $8,200,000,000 that the farms little enough for (ten hours’ use of
are generally alternated with grain endanger the life of trees, but this is
think you should learn to dress your­ So soft and still up to my ear
seldom
the
case
except
where
spraying
of
the United States have yielded in 11-3 horse power.
crops;
and
on
dry
loams
or
sandy
self. That would help mother so much And whisper dreams for me to hear? ground turnips, ’"beets, potatoes and is wholly neglected. The fruit Is rarely 1909 the'South’s share is $2,400,000,000,
But what a kilowatt hour is worth
•every morning, and every afternoon
One Way of Putting; It.
clover. On rich soils this system of seriously Injured, though outbreaks in according to estimates by the Manu­ may .best be judged by what it will
after your nap.”
“Mamma says ‘shut up’ isn’t a nice alternate husbandry is most conducive this form may sometimes be quite se facturers’ Record. Of the South’s to­ do. Thus a kilowatt hour will light
“Why, mother,” replied Dorothy, “I thing to say,” said Dolly.
tal between $900,000,000 and $1,000,000- twenty' sixteen-candle-power incandes­
to the plentiful production of food, vere.
don’t believe I could do it, and be­ ’“Why, don’t you, ever make a noise both for men and animals. One por­
000 represents the crop of cotton, with cent lamps or two standard arc lamps
sides, you know I have to dress Big at your house?” asked Dot.
Potatoes and Corn.
its seed, an increase of between $150,- for one hour; it will pump 100 gal­
tion of a farm would thus be always
Susan every morning.”
While there is much difference of 000,000 and $200,000,000 over 1908.
“Oh, yes,” explained Dolly, “but Bob under grain crops, while the other por­
lons of water to a height of twenty-
Now “Big Susan” was the name of always .tells, us to ‘fold up our noise tion was growing roots or cultivated opinion as to the rotation of crops
Canadian reports show that the five feet,’ compress 470 cubic feet of
a great cloth doll, almost as large as and put it in our pockets.’ ”
grasses; but, as the major part of ar­ on a medium heavy loam, we have had wheat crop in western Canada this free air 100 pounds, drive an ordinary
able lands can not be preserved in a the best results from following corn year increased the tide of trade beyond passenger elevator 1,750 feet, print
state
of fertility with even this kind of with potatoes; el ways being careful to all previous reports. The Winnipeg 2,500 circulars on a 15x21 Gordon press
I CHAMPION KNITTER IS DEAD.
•i THE CAMELOPARD AT HOME |
management, it is .requisite that the heavily manure the ground for the bank clearances for the week ending or 1,000 sheets on a 32x47 cylinder
corn and not use any stable manure Oct. 31 were $24,365,858, an increase of press, run a sewing machine for twen­
Atlanta Woman, 63 Years Old, Knits portion of the farm which is under
at
all for the potato crop. By heavily $8,000,000, compared with the corre­ ty hours, supply air for a church
cultivated grasses should be pastured
Most Intricate Patterns.
Totally blind and 63 years old, yet for two or three years, in order to give manuring we mean giving the soil sponding week last year, despite the organ for one service, mix two and
rûore than will be required by the
one-half yards of concrete, heat a two-
The .giraffe divides with the ele­ able to produce knitted articles of ex- it time to recruit. The following is a corn and more than will be necessary fact that farmers generally are holding pint
chafing dish for four hours, mix
First
year,
good
rotation
of
crops
:
back
grain
in
the
hope
of
higher
quisite
workmanship
and
artistic
de-
phant and the hippopotamus the won­
to
make
good
to
the
soil
any
réserve
sufficient
dough for 1,500 loayes of
third,
corn;
clover;
second,
clover;
prices.
der of the gaping Crowds at the menag­ sign, which always take first prizes in
fertility the corn takes from it; in
One of the most curious and interest­ bread and grind 600 pounds of coffee;
erie, the three animals being so fun­ whatever competition they are ex-' fourth, oats; fifth, wheat, The clover other words, so that there will be
does well with oats, and after an early
ing undertakings in years has .been it will drive a runabout four and a
damentally unlike anything in our hibited—
This is. the remarkable accomplish­ mowing can be very well prepared for some of the virtue of the manure left completed in Denmark—the building half miles or a three-ton truck one
staid north -temperate zone. Seen in
for the benefit of the potatoes. For
mile.
wheat.
Ids natural surroundings in the heart ment of Miss Cardelia Lieberman.
the latter crop we confine ourselves of a vessel modeled upon the lines of
When, therefore, a lighting company
Never
possessing
a
very
strong
sight,
Noah
’
s
ark,
as
described
in
Genesis.
«of Africa, he is, says Dr. W. S. Rains-
Modern Farming;.
to an aplication of mixed fertilizer,
charges 5 cents a kilowatt hour for
The
vessel
as
built
is
’
thirty
feet
long,
ford, in the Outlook, a still more strik­ Miss Lieberman went entirely blind at
The use of the most modern meth­
the age of 23 years. She learned the ods in farming is by no means re­ consisting bf sulphate ammonia, bone Qve feet wide and three feet deep—these current for your electric vehicle you
ing and interesting sight.
meal and sulphate of potash, applied
The giraffe is. perfectly harmless; he art of knitting, of which she is now stricted to the huge ranches of this at the rate of 800 pounds* to the acre. measurements being .one-tenth of can estimate the value of what you
are getting by what it will do in other
such
an
accomplished
master,
after
was never known to hurt any one, and
country. In nearly every locality in There may be no objection to the use those given in the Bible. When lines of industry.
that
time,
and
it
has
been
her
chief
he gets his living off the upper boughs
the state farmers are using traction of stable manure for the potato crop, launched the ship, to the surprise of
of thorn trees, which nobdy can reach occupation during forty years of blind­ engines with steam or gasoline for provided one can obtaip it well rotted, the builder, proved seaworthy.
QUICK COURT WORK.
but himself, and no one else would ness.
| power to plow and harrow their land. but the fresh manure is a scab breed­ Recently the Canadian government
At the State fair held recently at Ma­ We know one ranch of 680 acres—not
a Day Rendered by
eat if’it could reach them.
er and we never use it for potatoes, offered 1,116,000 acres of public land Eleven Verdicts
an English Jury.
To see the giraffe’s, beautifully mot­ con Miss Lieberman was awarded two /large for this state—on which the
for sale at Fort Gray, adjoining Van­
Jesse Macey, writing about the great
tled skin towering up among and over blue ribbons oh her work, one for the plowing and harrowing is done with
couver, and buyers from all parts of
A Large Poultry Farm.
advantages
of the procedure of Eng­
the flat green thorn trees is surely one best collection of fancy work of any a 20 horse-power gasoline engine. This
Isaac Wilbur of Little Compton, R. the Dominion flocked to the sale, with
•of the strangest and most beautiful kind and one for the best .pair of knib nauls four 14-inch gang plows and a I., has the largest poultry farm in the many persons from the -United States lish courts over American, dwells upon
.sights the animal world offers man. ted bedroom slippers. At the last At­ 2-horse harrow—the equivalent of the world. He ships from 130,000 to 150,- and representatives of foreign capital. the splendid work of English juries:
“The working of the British jury
As he stands and dips and bends and lanta fair she received five first prizes, work of twenty horses. The distance 000 dozens of eggs a year-. He keeps German investors made a $400,000 in­
twists his nine-foot-long neck in and and was the successful competitor at traversed over tough soil is from two his fowls on the colony plan, housing vestment, while Americans were free system exhibits a marked contrast
«out among the armed branches of the four previous fairs, the Atlanta Geor­ to two and a half milqfe an hour. One about forty in a house 8*xl0 or 8x12 buyers, but it was noticeable that Brit- ; with that of our own. It is possible
gian says.
tree he is grace personified.
harrow is placed off to the side so that
ish capital was not so well represented that my experience in British court«
Her prize collection of knitted- work the result Is a double harrowing of feet in Size, these houses being about as had been expected.
was exceptional, but not in a single in­
I saw once seven of these creatures,
150 feet apart, set out in long rows
stance did I see a juror challenged or
the king, his harem and his children, included a baby carriage afghan, a the tract. It was considered too small oyer the gently sloping fields. He has
At the present time, when so much
all gathered round one green-topped pair of bootees, baby’s sack, lady’s an area to warrant the initial expense 100 of these houses scattered over Interest is being taken in the pro­ rejected. In all of the courts requiring
tree. From seven points of vantage shawl, gentlemah’s bedroom’ slippers for the jnachine, but the owners of the three or four fields. The food is load­ posed Bunyan memorial window in juries the necessary number of men
were present and they were sworn in
they dipped into it at once, stooping and a child’s scarf.
ranch are satisfied that it will save
Miss Lieberman knits articles of sev­ its cost in a few years. The time is ed into a low wagon, which is driven Westminster Abbey,, the library com­ without question.
under an unusually thinly armed
In the sheriff’s
about
to
each
’
house
in
turn,
the
at-
mittee
of
thé
Sunday
School
Union
bough bending on another. Their eral colors and by keeping the various coming when the tedium of farm work tendant feeding as he goes; at the think that many Sunday school teach­ deputy court, Scotland, the presiding
hecks seemed to twist two or three colored yarns in seperate positions she will be laid upon machinery.
afternoon feeding the eggs are collect- ers will welcome the opportunity of judge gave notice to the jury that he
never gets them confused,
ways at once.
ed. The fowls are fed twice a day. seeing so interesting a relic as the expected to adjourn the court at 3
The Sand Pear.
Nor are all Miss Lieberman’s ac­
I had the good fortune to be able to
o’clock, and stated that if they could
The sand pear is the only pear that The morning fpod is a mash of cooked Bunyan pulpit, which for many years all remain until that hour he would
•come very near without alarming them complishments confined to knitting.
vegetables
and
mixed
meals
;
this
‘
mash
has
been
in
the
possession
of
the
Only last year Miss Lieberman took is practically free from blight. It iS
—less than 100 yards—and with my
at once dismiss the-men who had been
is made up in the afternoon of thb
glass could see them as if they were up the study of the New York point, a very rapid and continuous grower. day before. The afternoon feed is union. They have therefore decided called for a second panel. The jurors
to
have
the
pulpit
on
exhibition
in
the
not more than ten yards away. But and learned it readily, so that now she It is a prolific bearer and requires whole corn the year round.
library, at 56 Old Bailey.—Westmin­ conferred together, and agreed to re­
when at last the treacherous breeze is able to read anything printed in less attention and will stand more
main till 1 o’clock, whereupon the
ster Gazette.
betrayed us, and they .plunged into this system with the greatest fluency. abuse than any other fruit tree known.
judge notified the other men to appear-
Dr. Waldo, of London, holds that at 12:30. The one jury impaneled for
The sand pear comes into bearing
One Thing; Yet to Learn.
With the latter accomplishment be-
flight—well, no one could call- their
We have learned how to telegraph people should develop a sixth sense to the morning session rendered six ver­
gan Miss Lieberman’s interesting ac- at an early age, and at 10 years old
movements graceful.
The immensely long fore legs are qualntance with Helen Keller, the fa- ordinary trees will yield from 10 to without wires and fly without gas inform them of the approach of dan- dicts in cases Involving prosecutions
20 bushels of pears. The trees usual­ bags, but the antidote for a common ger in the streets, Lafcadio Hearn for thefts, frauds and burglary. In a
thrown forward, as you see a very mous blind girl.
Miss Lieberman read in one of her ly begin to bear at five years of age. ordinary cold still mocks the foiled once said: “While in a crowd I sel- court of quarter sessions at Taunton.
high-stepping horse sometimes throw
dom look at faces, My intuition is England, I saw a single jury in one
his fore legs forward, till the hoof, for magazines that Helen Keller was able The sixth year each tree. will net 25 searchings of the human
almost infallible—like that blind fac­ day render eleven verdicts. I found
the fraction of a second, is pointed to play solitaire and a number of other cents, the seventh year 50 cents, and Louis Republic.^
ulty by which in absolute darkness
straight out in front. The giraffe games with cards.
one becomes aware of the proximity of that it was customary in the several
makes this motion with a sort of jerk
A SMALL GREENHOUSE.
Thereupon Miss Lieberman wrote
bulky objects without touching them. sorts of court that I attended for the
at the end of it, as if he intended in 'her, asking what cards she used and
If I hesitate to obey it, a collision is same jury to act-in successive cases.
the first instance to fling his hoof as how she was able to distinguish them.
the inevitable consequence. What In no instance did I see a jury leave
far forward as he could, and then with Miss Keller responded by sending Misi
pilots one quickly and safely through their seats to make up their verdict.
.with a sort of afterthought brings it Lieberman a pack of cards marked in
a thick press is not conscious obser­ Usually the issue before them was
to the ground. As it reaches earth he the New York point, with the infor­
vation at all, but unreasoning intui­ made so plain that all who gave at­
flounders, forward with his high shoul­ mation that she marked her own cards
tention knew in advance what the de­
tive perception.”
ders, arid lifts both ungainly hind legs in any one of the several systems with
cision would be. I made note of an
together, lifting and planting them to­ which she was acquainted.
Something of the drain which cen­ exceptional instance of delay, when the
gether, or almost together.
tral and western Canada is making on court was forced to wait nine minutes
Miss Lieberman acknowledged Miss
There is a great antediluvian lizard Keller’s kindness by sending her a |
American farm alife, and American for the report of the jury. In this case
known to us which had two brains, pair of knitted slippers. Out of this
capital as well, is shown in a report
one to move his body and another to correspondence and exchange of gifts,
by the Canadian Inspector of immigra­ the judge who gave the instructions,
move his. abnormally long tail. It has grown a friendship that is cher­
tion agencies, which says that in one was himself in doubt as to what the
looks as if the giraffe, like the long ished by both.
year American immigrants brought verdict ought to be.
“A Scottish jury consists of fifteen
lizard, needed two brains also, one to
with them $60,000,000. What is more
Miss Lieberman was- born in Louis­
persons,
and a majority may render a
move his hind legs and „another to ville, Ky., coming vtd Atlanta about
important, says the Inspector, these
move his fore legs, and as if the two thirty years ago. She lives with her
American farmers brought with them verdict. In England the number is
brains would not act perfectly to* niece at 134 Richardson street and
the farming methods learned by years twelve, and unanimity Is required.
gather.
of experience on the prairies of the But I noted no difference as to prac­
gains a livelihood from the sale of her
Western States; an experience invalu­ tical results In the two countries. The
articles.
A ft er-Effects?—-But Let It Passi
able to themselves, but which is passed twelve men in the English jury were
Owens—I am really bothered more
as prompt and certain in their action
Some men never realize how very
to settlers from other lands.
as were the eight out of fifteen in the
by the after effects of my illness than valuable they are until they are sued
While most greenhouses are expensive to build and maintain, it is pos­
A two-thirds compositor Is one who Scottish jury.”—McClure’s.
I was by the disease itself..
sible for an amateur to have one at small expense, as an addition to the has
for breach of promise.
served two-thirds of the time con­
Franklin—Why don’t you settle the
dwelling. Hotbed sashes cost from $3.25 to $3.50 each, and measure 3x6 feet. sidered necessary to make a full
Troubles may come to a boy in the
Jolly
an
egotist
and
he
will
jump
doctor’s bill and have done with it?—
If steam or hot water heating cannot be provided from the house, an oil fledged compositor. The basis of
form of curly hair, and to a girl in the
any way you want him to
stove will maintain a high enough temperature.
Boston Transcript
measurement Is an em, the square of guise of freckle*