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rim rsday, February 13, 1936 4 FI.OYD GIBBONS A d v e n tu re rs ' C lub Page 5 TIMES. W IL L A M IN A . O REG O N P o n d o f W a te r Is V a lu a b le on F a rm Fish Will Provide Supply of Meat; Water Plants Are in Demand. By I. A W h id o o l, Associate Prulrutit of Butany, N orth Carolina State C o lk x e .— W N U Service. >411 Ground ïA e House T w ine will tie bundles much tig h t e r and .-"I1 not sill* when knots a re m ade If it la dam pened before using. • • • If fru it cake becomes very h ard It can he w rapped In a cloth sa tu ra te d w ith oran g e o r spiced iieach Juice and stored In an air-tig h t box. N OR A N Y E X C U SE A cross baby Is HI, b ut a cross m an o fte n has not th a t excuse. W eek ’s Supply o f Postum F ree Ite a d th e o ffe r m ade by th e P o s tu m C o m p an y In a n o th e r p a r t o f tills p a per. T h e y w i l l send a f a l l w e e k's sup p ly o f h e a lth g iv in g P o s tu m fre e to an y o n e w h o w rite s fo r I t — Adv. B u t W e M ust C on tin u e "M aking th e world safe." W hat A good pond of water, adding beauty a p h ra se ! I t never was. to the landscape and 'providing a source of profit and pleasure. Is a “The ('lue That Spelled Death" P lace a hot w ate r b o ttle In th e valuable asset to utmost any farm . clothes basket w hen hanging out and By FLOYD GIBBONS Nestled In a small hollow by a wood taking In clothes In cold w eather. It F irn o u i Headline H unter. land, a pond may he marie one of the will keep th e hands warm. most a ttra c tiv e places on the farm , i • • • E L L s ir , w e ’ ve g o t a d e te c tiv e s to r y t o te ll to d a y — a n d a re a l If the pond Is large enough, p a rt of It : D on't heat fudge as soon as It Is d e te c tiv e to te ll it. H e is R ic h a rd D . S m ith , a n d he s p in s u s a may he used for boating and swim- I tak en from th e fire. You will find It » w e !, y a r n o f h o w he w e n t o u t lo o k in g fo r c i t i e s — a n d fo u n d A d v e n r il in g . The overflow may he utilized will he much cream ier If first put to develop w ater power. "I luvs mm m r M tu r e in s te a d . Into a cold howl, and th en beaten. Well stocked with fish, th e pond • • • m rfc I« kaUsf ntf O r m a y b e I s h o u ld sa y th a t D ic k S m ith fo u n d A d v e n tu r e , to o — ; should supply the farm home with b m s s s tB a jIm fc «I If woolen stockings sh rin k w hile fo r he fo u n d th e c lu e s h e w a s lo o k in g fo r. a good meat supply the year around. tuUatpsw«». I ss*sa Dick says lie's fifty-one, and feels hist ns lit ns lie ever did. lie 's a m a O ften the w ater plants may he gath w ashing, p ut them through th e w a te r again nnd w hile still w et put Clabber GW, «Usuisi?.“ gician now not n detective. T oday lie goes around to clubs an d p arties, g iv in g ered and sold to local fish and pet them on a stocking stretch e r. other people m ysteries to think over. Instead of solving them him self. Hilt not U r i M. E Rynensa stores or for planting In garden pools • * • so ninny y e a rs ago he w as one of the tru ste d fp ern tlv e s of an In tern atlo n i lly and aquurla. ls«aaa SUU Fair Wlsssr A few b right colored flower pots, known d etective agency. Anil according to some of the n ew sp ap er clippings, U nder Ideal conditions, a pond w ith a n arcissu s bulb p lanted in Pick m ust have been n w onder. should produce as many pounds of each, se t on th e window sill in th e Remember all those detective stories you've ever read? Most of fish per acre as a p astu re will pro living room will, when th e bulbs them start off: “ The telephone rang In the office of the detective bu duce pounds of beef. blossom, give color and decoration to reau.” Well, thia one Is no exception to that rule. The only difference Although a w ater area cannot be th e room. It that this story Is a true one— and the telephone rang in Dick’s home, “farm ed” on as scientific a basis as • • • one night in August, 1923, while he sat there listening to the radio. land, due to the Inadequacy o f Infor W hen m aple siru p becomes cloudy P ick answ ered th a t phone. It wus th e office. mation now available regarding the set It over th e fire until It boils, then T he olllce told P ick to ta k e the night tra in for O gdensburg, N. Y., way care of fish and ponds, it can be m ade ta k e It off the fire and let cool. up on th e St. Ijiw re n ce river, rejiort to th e general m an ag er of th e H iilland to produce a good supply of vegetation • • • railro ad , an d see If lie could find out any th in g about .'MX» hags of su g a r th a t and fish. If cake Is very h ard It can be had been stolen from the railro a d 's w arehouse on th e w aterfro n t. W here fish are raised, th e w ater m ade Into a delicious pudding by should lie kept at a fairly co n stan t T h is W a s a S w e e t C a se — L o o k in g f o r S to le n S u g a r. steam ing ;jo m inutes lu double boiler, level, and th ere should be shallow Pick arriv e d In O gdensburg on the follow ing «lay. lie talk ed to th e ra il and serving hot w ith any desired places where the sm aller fish can feed road eo|<S and th e loral police— he looked th e scene of th e robbery over. 'Ih e sauce— hard, cream y, foam y or fru it. und breed. A quatic plants In the stial- police knew nothing definite anti th e scene of the crim e yielded no clues. T hen • • • ows give additional food and protec P ick went and looked up a friend In (he U. S. custom s service w hose Job wus tion to the young fish, W hitford stated. Iodine sta in s may be rem oved from to w atch th e riv er for sm ugglers trying to run liquor In from C anada. w hite cotton or linen If sta in s a re ! Dick knew that the men of the underworld have very few secrets Roaked In a solution of am m onia an d , Improved Rules Outlined among themselves, and he had a notion that if he could get the customs w ater, a teaspoon of am m onia to a I When in the Northwest men to co-operate by capturing a crew of rum-runners, he could learn for Measuring Hay Stack p in t of w ater. | something from those rum-runners about the sugar theft. The customs New rules for m easuring stacked C A sso c ia te d N ew sp ap ers.— W NU B erries. men fell In with his idea, and that tame night, five of them— and Dick nay. more accu rate th an those used In along with them— went out In a government launch and hid in a cove the past, have recently been worked a little way up the river. our by the experim ent stations In some T he first n ig h t P.ey s|>cnt—w ell—Just w aiting. Nothing happened. Hut states, co-o|»eratlng with the United the second night they sided a dark object out In th e middle of th e riv er nnd States D epartm ent of A griculture. L. F. Garey of the division of ag ricu ltu ral A C areless One economic). University farm , St. Haul, U n the hub of Portland. Oregon's He— You're good a t conundrum s, says these are the only rules based shopping end theatrical c en ter... try th is one. on research. these two splendid hostelries of She— Sure, go ahead. T hree dim ensions of the stack must fer you every comfort and luxury lie —T ak e aw ay my first letter, t.e determ ined In f e e t; namely, the tak e aw ay my second lette r, tak e at extremely moderate c o s t length. " I . ” ; the width. "W "; and the aw ay all my letters, and I am still over, “O'". T he over m eans the dis th e same. W hat am I? BEST IN THE WEST tance from the ground on one side, She— T h a t’s easy. You’re a mail- Portland's newest and finest ho over the stack and down to the ground c a rrie r.—M ilw aukee Medical Times. tels. . . .located in the hub of th e on the other side. The avernge of sev eral m easurem ents should he taken for shopp>nfl and recreat onal district C an ’t E at ‘Em and H ave 'Em the over, If the stack Is Irregular. . . .are the unquestioned, choice o f “Go on, Johnny, ea t up your crusts. Knowing the above th ree m easure experienced travelers. T h ere may come a day when you’ll ment« In feet, the volume of the stack be glad of them .” HARRY E. HEATH MAN MX* A e r a In cubic feet should he com puted ac "O. K. Then I’ll save 'em till cording to one of the following meth- then.” ! o d s; “ It Turned and Rammed Ua Directly in the Center." Elat-topped stacks (O.fiflXO) — (0 55 XW ) X (W x L ). S k ip p e d H is T u b wulted until It hail come acroaa to the Am erican side. T hen they set out full High round-topped stack s (0.52XO) Old Lady to Old T a r—E xcuse me speed ah ead u fle r th e ir q u arry , and tn e next 10 m inutes w ere th e most I’lng — (0.4fiXW) X (W X L ). —do those ta tto o m ark s w ash off? of D ick's life. TWÍ 7N£ NC.W Low round-topped stack s (0.52X 0) HEATHM AN Old T a r—I can ’t say, lady.—S tray HEATHM AN F ir s t B lo o d in B a tt le o f B o a ts . i — (0 It • W) X (W x L ). •SO M »*« a U LH cn rww XT SALMO« S tories M agazine. Bays P ic k : "W hen th e oilier bout saw It could not get awuy, It tu rn ed mid H ere Is an example th a t will m ake ram m ed us directly In the center. T he o th e r bout w as h eavier th a n ours. P u r clear the use of the ru le : A high roiind- S o W h at’s He to D o? boat w us cu t clean In two. mid I, w ith iny live friends, w as th ro w n Into the ; topped stack Is 50 feet long. 20 feet "A re you in th e habit of speaking river. Then, not satisfied w ith having disabled us mid throw n us In th e w ater, wide, anil has an over of 45 feet. to g irls you don't know ?" the rum -runners cam e h a c k —circled around u s —try in g to bruin each of us us 0 52 X 45 = 23.4; 0 4« x 20 = 9 2 ; OREGON “ Yes. T h e g irls I do know won’t we were try in g to get ou r bearin g s In the w ater. ' i 23.4 — 9.2 = 14.2; 20 X 50 = 1,000; speak to me.”—A nsw ers M agazine. There followed the fight of Dick’s life. The custom» men's guns 14.2 X 1 000 = 1-1.200 cubic feet. were behind them In the wrecked boat. Dick v.as the cnly one who T he num ber of cubic feet to allow Dew Tell had a revolver on him. “ I drew it out and tried to ehoot it out with per ton for hay stacked 00 days or more T ea ch e r—Who knnw s w here dew the rum-runnera." he says, "but a piece of iron pipe came down from [ Is ns follow s; alfalfa. 470; wild hay, a boat and knocked the gun out cf my hand. i 450; o th er hay. 025. I f the stack In ' comes from ? Boy—T he e a rth tu rn s so fa st it "T he m an who w as w ielding th a t piece id pipe could work it lot faste r the exam ple above w ere alfalfa hav. perspires. Ilian I could in th e w ater. T he blow that knocked the gun from my hand also the 11200 would tie divided by 470, O ver ICO B u sin es« O p p o rtu n itie s fo r m * il o r d e r b e g in n e rs . I> .'a lls 10c. Q nnker Sal»«. broke the hand Itself. T he pipe w ent up mid cam e down again, th is tim e h it \ giving the am ount as 30.2 tons. 1110 H a w o r th . P h ila d e lp h ia . P a. P ro f K new D oc ting me II hard elout on th e head. I could feel my senses slipping aw ay from D octor G uberpea—An aw ful lo t of me. T hen, fo r once In my life, I thought my tim e had come. The First Tile Drein girls a re stuck on me. ELECTRIC LIGHTS D ic k L e a r n s W h y I t F a y s to B u y L i f e In s u r a n c e . It ts Just a hundred years since the P ro fesso r Cornpone—They m ust be W in d d r iv e n . Y ou b u ild th em W rit« W ind M otor E le ctric , R idg-w av, M on tan a. first tile drain was laid In this coun an nwful lot. “My last thought was th e satisfying one th at I had paid my life Insurance •emluin fo r a month. I said Io m yself Unit th e folks hack home would have try by a cnnnv Scotchm an named John house to live In, mid a live thousand do llar In su ran ce policy to live on. T hen Johnston. Rorn In 1791. he had come In O ther W ords to America at the age of th irty and felt m yself going down u nder th e altrfiice of the w ater." W ife—You don’t love me an y more. ! bought a farm near Geneva. N. Y., When Dick came to, they told him that he had gone down a second H u sb an d —W hy, dear, I certain ly which turned out to be ra th e r poor and was going down fo r the third time before help came to him. In do. and wet. Remembering lessons learned the meantime an approaching boat had frightened off the rum-runners ■ from a wise old g ran d fath er. John W ife—You couldn’t love a w oman and one of the customs men managed to reach him with part of the i Johnston sent hack to Scotland in 1835 w ith such old clothes a s 1 have been wrecked boat. He held Dick up until the rest of the men could get for some open horseshoe tile, with wearing. there. Then, somehow, they all managed to get to the shore. All th a t tro u b le for a d u e —mid still no clue In sight. Hut a f te r P ick had i which he began d rainage experim ents lent a few days In bed resting up. he went out again w ith th e sam e crew of I As usual wltti pioneers, th e neighbors e n - n m l an o th e r boat. T hey w ere a f te r r u m ru n n ers, mid no fooling th is laughed, h i l l the experim ent worked me T hey caught th e m - f o u r of tlie m - n n d P ick talked Io them som ething - out so well th a t by 185(1 he had 5ti ke tills Y ou're In a tough spot n o w - h u t II might he worse, (liv e me n lip ; mites of tile on his farm . His w heat who copped th a t sugar, m . d - w e l l - w e ll forget we ever saw you. H i n t s I yields Jumped from 15 to over 30 io way a lot or crim es a re solved. And on th e tlp o ff those b ird s gave him. , bushels to the acre. In October of . last year, says the C ountry Home, a Ick got th e men he w as n ite r. i group of ag ricu ltu ral engineers gath «>— W S t l s e r v ic e . ered nt the old Johnston farm stead, | overlooking beautiful Seneca lake, to Ship* B uilt of Mahogany I dedicate a monument to the memory E a rly Post Riders P a rin g th e N ineteenth cen tu ry , nnd ; of John Johnston and to celebrate On A ugust 30. 1770. hardly more than a m onth n fte r the adoption o! before, some of th e finest E nglish ships “one of the most significant events In the D eclaration of Independence, the w ere constructed alm ost en tirely of ! the history of American agriculture.'* mahogany. One of th e reaso n s for C ontinental congress passed a resold th is p reference lay In th e fact that lion providing (In pari» th a t “ the com Farm Cullings m unlcation of Intelligence with fre th is wood w as about 15 p er cent light Stable m anure should not he applied quency nnd despatch, from one part cr on the average th an a corresjiond to a good stand of p astu re grasses and .ng cubical am ount of oak or other to an o th e r o f th is extensive continent clover Is essen tially requisite Io Ils sa fe ty ; woods. A nother w as m ahogany's repu • • • tation for stren g th and durability. th a t, therefore, th e re shall be em On riniil out of every nine farm s ployed on th e several post roads a Among num erous vessels built wholly j In tlie United States w ater Is carried or p artially from m ahogany d u rin g the rid er for every 25 or 30 miles, whose i by hand. . . . business It shall he to proceed Imine N ineteenth cen tu ry w ere th e P a r t, con stru cted In London by T. I'o tts in 1810, (llately through his stag e th ree tim es | Approximately a half million calves each week, se ttin g out Immediately the Eliza, b rig an tin e of 180 tons, made were m arketed In Ohio In 1934 at an in 1818 a t H onduras from m ahogany on receipt of th e mall, and traveling approxim ate market value of $4,500,- w ith th e sam e, by night nnd by day, cut In th e vicinity, nnd th e steam pack (»00 w ithout stopping, until he shall have et Comet, built in Woolwich by Oliver ' nnd In 1823. delivered it to th e n ext rider." • « • W u 4 EXPERT O PIN IO N HEATHMAN HOTELS PORTLAND 1 CLASSIFIED ADS THE STANDARD OF QUALITY
