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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1915)
ONTARIO BOYS GOI TO PAYETTE FIRE MMMtaj NlK ilN Threatens Destroy M.i in Business Mock to Payette DM a serious fire lute Sunday evening, and for a time one Of IM main business blocks was In danger of destruction. A barber shop and resturnnt were destroyed Md clothing store liadly damaged by water. The Golden Utile store whh on the other side of the Are and was saved only after a hard fight by the Payette department. The danger was so great that an emergency call was sent to the On tario department, nntl six or eight of the boys responded at about 1 A. M. The Ontario crow was In Pay ette twenty-two minutes after an ; unto had been secured for the trip. However, by the time they got there the Payette fighters bad the tire unci- l er control and there was hut little for t hi'in to do. A curious incident of the fire was thut a hot water tank exploded ami shot half way through a brick wall. The hole It made In the wall was clean cut and smooth with none of the bricks around it broken A yiilel Wedding. Last Sunday a unlet and most beautiful wedding took place at the home of J. A. Williams, in the west part of the. city, when Miss laiulac Williams and William K. llrown were united In holy matrimony In the pre nenee of a few of the near friends immediately after the ceremony the bridal party, with the friends, re paired to the dining room where u bountiful repast was prepared foi Hi raslon. The ceremony wan performed by Itev. D. K. Maker of the llapf 1st church. The happy couple will at once take up llielr home on the Uoulevard near Arcadia OUR PUBLIC FORUM P. C. HOWE, On the Ad .iui.iv' of Free Port Mr. f. C. Howe, Federal Commie loner of I in in i gratlon, who li one of the beat American author Idea on marine commerce, In die cussing the u la Hon of free porta to ii. develop iiii-iii of sua trade aid lu part: "Ships will go humli. il.i of mile out of their wa to avoid ports aurrounded by a tariff wall. Tin- only way, therefore, for a country with a tariff to compute In the shipping world with a free trade MM try i to establish free porta at Urate glial point uioug It coust line. Uer many ha done o, and lu a coin para lively .-h.iii period haa built up a car ryiug tr&da which before the war war seriously Hit cttleiiiiig Bugluiid a au ni in,., y. Huuiburg, one of the thret i i i imii Inn porta, now runka aa tin i 1 1 n I Knatint seaport In the world It total foreign commerce III I'.'li be lug only fti.OUO.OUU innler that of New I "The freo port would otter great op port unity for financial operation, now mull pottlhl by the receut curreuc) u( It would stimulate liiturnutiona. b.i ding, and would tend to ahlft thi tiu.iiK ilal OMtdll of the world to (lib OOUntry, And America, by the logh of evuntt, ha h.'couie the natural OM t. i in lint world! financing. Juat at London became that center several centuiies ugo, when It shifted from tin cltlM of the Netherlands Hut Hit financial center will only move to thlt Country when It becomes a clearing limine of good aa well a of money For rtredlt the world over la created by currently created wealth In traualt or ehunge ao that even our financial oxpuiiaiuu Is dependent upon the open lug up of American porta to the clear inn r of the wealth of the world. A purl should nut operate to yield a re turn i. u the Inveatmeut, but to develop the prosperity of the country." In re capitulating the advantage. Mr. Howe bring out the Importance of the free port in developing our ablpplng, and linking u with South America, Aia uud Africa, and then conclude: ' 'l'ln- iiio.it Important gain la the di rect gain to America. It will cheap u . ..uiiiioditie by bringing great quantities of good to our door for Importation or export, aa trade need demand. It will stimulate the growth of i .porting houaea, which can bold goods for an indefinite period without the payment of tariff duea (often equal to the coat of the article Itself) for dlsiMsal to meet the trade demand of the whole world. It will upbuild mi i national credit, and ahlft to Amer ica un increasing and ultimately a pre dominant abare lu international ex change. "Finally. America la the natural coun try to be the counter of tho world Its Beai OMt face every other continent: It is tin ii-ateat of all reservoir of raw material aud foodstuff, lu Iron and steel and standardized production It la in a puaitlou to compete with the world liut international trade (and thia is always overlooked) must be reciprocal. It cannot be one-sided, and credit and balances cannot for any pioluuged period be paid In gold. Ti .. can only be paid by exchange of Wealth." misv aNLav ooooooooooooooooooivouooot o o o o o o o o o o o o o o I o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o I o o o o o o o o o o o o I PRESERVING EGGS. The water glass egga hare a sort of varnished appearance or a gloss to them, and when the eggs are broken the shell (-nimblest. It doesn't make a clean cut like n fresh, unpreserv ed egg. It will be useless to put eggs into water glass ami expect to be able to sell tbeui for fresh eggs. We havo never recommend ed that nnd will not do so. We merely regard the water glnss treatment as a very desirable thing for ' ini use, but for com mercial eggs cold storage Is a hunt the only thing to be considered. Iu preserving eggs In water glass lie sure to use only crocks or wooden receptacles, and in plac ing (he egg In the water glass use a long wooden spoon. Have the eggs clean and preferably fertile. The water should be thoroughly sterilised by boiling for at least a half hour. When ready dilute oue pound of water glass In nine imunds of water. Kural New Yorker. oooooooooooooooooooooooooo POTATOES FOR PLANTING. Peeling the Seed Does Not Inoraaea the Resultant Crop. During my boyhood days my father Introduced a number of new varieties of potatoes Into the nectlon of country In which we lived, writes n Pennaylva nla f. -inner In tho Hural New Yorker. Ills purchase of any new high priced vsrlety wan always limited in a few pounds. He wished first to teat them out to a limited extent at least before recommending them to his neighbors, Hehsg anxious to test them for their .ooklmt aril eating quslllles aa well M for productiveness nnd slue, at planting tlmo he always made a practice of tak ing ieellng cuttings or sets from the largest specimens, cutting this peeling about ihr.-e eighth or perhaps one-half mi Inch deep, separating tho peel ao ss to leave oue good eye to each section. This would leave a liugn portion of tho IMitato for the cooking ami eating test. As I remember It. the eeled seed grew as readily aud vigorously and made as good a crop its the whole or cut seed. In productiveness, shte or ippearulico they were In no wise any different from Hie tuber nilsed from i hole or cut seed I am strongly of the opinion (hut peeled seed can lu uo way affect the resulting crop to IU bet terment and that the Idea that It does U purely theoretical, (loud cloau seed "hinted In lean ground aud properly fertilized U Hie prime factors lu the Crowing of smooth ;atatoea. aud If the c .-lie conditions are present this peel mg "f i in- seis I can In no wbtu affect or ivercome the soil' Influence ou (be iop or any disease that might be In he seed at time of planting. Qrsftlng Nut Trees. One of the most smvessful methods et devised for gruftlug nut trees is 'he "bark graft" method, asys the Na tional .Sio,:, man. lu thU MM the stock la nut split, aa ii cleft grafting, and Hie scions are ape red on oue side only, as allow u 111 a III the accompanying Illustration. I'hl I then pushed down between the Aood and bark, u howu at b, Silage In Summer. The dairyman who still has silage on band for use during the summer should oii-iiier lilnmeir fortunate. There mny be mail) of our reader who are having their first experience lu feeding sllsge. These Should Isar III Ullud (lie fact that exposed silage sK)lls very quickly lu the warm weather. Hllcd silage la not good for any klud of stock, and pe.lal precaution should be taken in haudllug slluge durlug Hie summer time to pi. -i .in Mpolllug. Durlug (he winter time u small a quantity aa an null of allage may be removed dally from the surface without having any -.silling take place, lu the summer (lino a much thicker layer muat be re moved For this reason a silo special ly designed for summer use should be smaller lu diameter tbau a winter alio for feeding the same number of cattle Where allage Is left over and 1 Ittdug fel during warm weather the ue of a larpaiillii on the surface of the lluge will save some spoiling. Silage can be I iiil from one half of Hie silo at a tluie, I The purpose of the tarpaulin I to ex clude the air from the surface a fully as possible. COLONEL HOUSE by Aineiioau Prose iHvclalKs. Colonel C. M. Mouee, intimate f rien f frealdsat Wilson, ' j vBWsF THE ONTARIO DR. DRAKE HEARD AT N ted Speaker 1'i-gcs Parents Teachers to t'o-oHrate in I Mm at ion anil Dr. Kmma F. Drake a lecturer for the World's Purity Federation, and a speaker with a national reputation, spoke on "The Home, The School und the Church" at the union meet- ug at the Methodist church last Sun day evening. Dr. Drake Is a force ful and effective speaker and the meeting wan well attended. In her address site advocated a general educational campaign to reach parents and children regarding matters of sex hygiene. She also chnrged that the morals In public schools throughout Hie country were In many Instances very low, and urg ed upon her henrers the necessity for careful observance on the part of the teuchers and parents and urged also that the parents and teachers co-op-erate as much as possible in the edu cation of the children. Dr. Drake also spoke in the morn ing at the Methodist church, and In the afternoon to a meeting of women aud girls. She is spending her sum mer vacuflon at New Plymouth with ' her son-in-law, Dr. Drysdale. COMMANDER PIERCE ttiulo by American free Aeaoclallun Sir R. H. Pierce, commander of the British fleet of warships which at tacked the Turkish port ot Smyrna. 0 IssssV ail Lw " mM tJH i ARGUS, ,., AttflttSt? L'(, ALFALFA AS HOG FOOD. Comparative Rsturns When Sold as Hay and Whan Qraxed by Hogs. The Arlzonn esjierimeut station fig ures the comparative return when al falfa is sold as hay and when grazed by bogs. These figures represent lo cal prices in Arizona: The net annual returns per acre of alfalfa, yielding six tons, when sold as hay were not over $10. The net re turns fur a similar acre of alfalfa when grnzed off by twelve hogs were $47.23. These hogs were fed a supplemental ration of grnln. but the value of this was determined and deducted. The fertilizing ingredients In a ton of barnyard manure are worth $2.50, calculated according to price of com mercial fertilizers On this basis the value of the hog manure as dropped over the field must be ut least $3 per ton. Figuring that 85 per cent of the six tons of alfalfa was returned as ma nure to the soil, there were then Ave tons of manure, worth $:t per ton, or $15. This lidded to $47 23 would be $(1223. representing the net gnlu per acre of amtlfn when grazed off by twelve hogs, as against $10. which is the net gain per acre when the alfalfa Is cured mid sold as baled hay. In this ease the net price for alfalfa hay was only $8 per ton, and. of course, the hog paid more than that for it. There might easily be another situation where the reverse of this would be true. There are situations in the eastern stntes where alfalfa hay w-iii tiring $18 or more per ton. while small droves of hogs would not pin. In such cases It might pay better to sell the hay and use chemicals to keep up the fertility. TO DREAMLAND SAT. Salambo. daughter of Amllcar, rul er of Carthage, and l'rlestess of Tan It, Is the keeper of the Sacred Veil, "on which human eyes must not gaze." She fall In love with Matho, a slave, who becomes the leader of a baud of mercenaries, fighting for Curtilage, against Home. Matho steals the sacred veil and Salambo lis ordered by the priests to reclaim (It. The lovers meet In Matho' tent and Salambo recovers the Sacred Veil. Matho Is made a prisoner by the Carthaginians through the trea chery of Narr llavas, who Is reward ed by Amllcar for his treachery by the hand of his daughter, Salambo Matho escapes from prison and death and the Oracle of Tanlt Is made to declare, by the Instrumen tality of Spendius, Matho's faithful slave, that Matho Is acceptable to Hie (iod aud will oue duy govern Carthage Salambo. who bus pro tested against her marriage to Narr llavas, whom she does not love, Is thereupon given to Matho and the marriage ceremony Is celebrated with much pomp The next issue of the Telephone Directory will go on the press about September ICth. All listings, changes and corrections desired should be received prior to that time. MALHEUR HOME TELEPHONE CO. K W. Oardner, Manager. 191.1. WALLOWA LAKE POPULAR RESORT Many Oiiliirlnns Fnjoylng Cool Nights anil .Mountain Water That Wallowa Lake Is proving very popular with people from tills section of the state this year, and that when more widely known, will he a clo M rival of Payette Lakes. It .itateil by II. W. Swagler who, with Mrs Swagler, returned last week from I two weeks vacation at the popular resort. The lake Itself Is a luo I picturesque spot und lias been de clared by ninny who lime traveb-il tbroad, to rival any sc r in the world. It Is four miles long ami tWO miles across ami the bottom has nc er been reached. It Is an ideal camping spot, the nights are very cool and the drinking water is brought from mountain springs and Is lee cold Comfortable furnished tents and a restaurant is lurnlshed for those who do not care to take camping facilities with their. Mr. nnd Mrs Swagler Joined u camping party from l.a (Iraiule Tom Jones and family from Vale are spending their vacation there atnl Mrs. V. H. Staples of Vale has Jm.l returned from an outing there. Mr. Tnggart went up from here about ten days ago to Join Mrs. Tug gart and little son who have been there for a month Last week Mi ami Mrs. Ashford and K I llrogan of Vale, and Miss Hetsy Taylor from here motored over In Mr. llrogan s car and will spend a few weeks boating and fishing. THOMAS A. EDISON (0 1(11. i.v American 1'ieee Aeanrlutlun m " CLUBROOT IN CABBAGES. iVhen cabbages, cnnllllower, turnips or similar crops are grown repeiit'-'lly or lu stlcces t-loii on the same piece of ground the mots of these vegetables are likely to become attacked by what Is known ns elubrnot. In our older gardens we do not seem to hi e very much trouble from that source. Nor Is there much danger In soils that con tain a good prosu-tlon of lime. I.lme applications are therefore often recommended ns n means to bend off the disease. The vegetables of this family should be kept out of any pice of ground where the disease has once made Its appearance, nt least for sevrrol years. If you set plants entirely free from In fection and put them In a spot that was free from clubroot last year you will not be likely to have Miur plants Injured or de stroyed by this disease. ( ;- The Apple Tree Borer. Among the pests with which Hip or chard planter has to contend perhnps he flat headed apple tree borer Is the worst, says the Farm nnd l-'lrestde. The female deposits Hie ei;gs at the beginning of hot weather on the bark of young fruit trees nenr the ground Most of the damage Is done during the summer months. The later broods re main lu the trees all winter nnd emerge the following spring. The borer com pletes Its life round In one year. The eggs are about lis large as the head of a pin nnd are covered by a hard shell. When first hatched Hie larva can hard ly be seen with the naked eye. Hut In spite of Its small size It begins nt once to Injure the tree. Ilurrowlng Into the bark. It tunnels Its way en tirely around the snpwood of the tree, thus girdling mid finally killing It A giMsl met hod Is to mix the purls green w ltd ten to twenty parts of eh up Hour, sifted laud plaster or air slaked lime before applying. It Is always ad visable to iidil lime (air slakedi to neu tralise the soluble acid coiitulneil In purls green, and If this Is done no In Jury will result. Uirge plant can be much more thoroughly treated by spray lug The purls green should be used ill Hie rale of one pound lu 100 gallons of water to which (wo pounds of fresh slaked lime have been added. It can be combined with bordeaux mixture, which Is used lo control blight, without Hie addition of the ex tra lime Lead arsenate is replacing purls green In spraying sitntnes, a lu all other spraying with arsenical. The paste lend arsenate should be used lit the rate of three pounds lu llfty gallons of water or the dry lend arseiiale nt the rate of one nnd one half isniuds lu llfty gallons of waler. The lead urse ii id- Is less liable to Injure foliage, slicks to Hie leaves much better than p. ii I. green, and one application 1 of ten as effectual its two or more of the latter Poison should in- applied as kihiu as the young larvae begin to hatch, ami the number of application to be given will depend upon the abundance of the pest as the season advances Often only uu occasional plant will be Infested at Hi -i. and with u small amount of poison 111 a compressed air knapsack sprayer one can treat these In u short time. Frequently tbl will reduce Him number so that no further treatment will lie uei-eary. Dr. .1 It Smith of New Jersey rec ommend spray lug potatoes as soon as the beetle begin to feed lit order to kill these before the eggs are laid it II. Walilen. experiment Station. New llsvou. Conn. Human I .noil i II. it k I'roin Out lug. W K Human and family have re turned from u ten day outing ut Puyelte Lake, Mr. Hoiuali states (bat loinfortably furnished leiils cun be i.nleii and that they are well equipped with all the necussltb Ik.ii l.iiping While tin ic lhe visited the camp of Dr. und Mrs I'ltyue uud report that the) ban- uu ideal pluce. CAPT. W. H. G. BULLARD l 'lineilliial Capt. W. H. Q. Buiurd, U. 8. Navy officer, placed in charge of the Ger man wireless station at 9ayvllle, L. I. PA(JE B1VE I RELIC OWNED BY Oh! Map Leaies Out Pacitlc Const Ami Shows Texas as Inde pendent Stiite. B. (!. Italley. superintendent of the Ontario schools, has a map of the UattSd Stales made by I'lielps A Kll sign lii New York city In 1841. Mr. Italley inherited the old map from his lather, Cidi'on Italley. who lu turn Inherited it from his lather, William II llniley. The mnp was purchased soon after Its publication and bronchi by Mr Bailey's grandfather lo Iowa in 1849. The map was substantially built being made of heavy paper and past ed on cloth. It Is a map of the roads, steamboat routes nnd canals ol the 1" S. It has ii number nt curious features. The most we .t erly states shown are Missouri, Ark ansas and l.ouisnna and Texas Is Is shown as an Independent stale. Mexico, according to the map, runs up nearly to the Canadian line, and the I'aclilc Const Is not mentioned ut all, nothing being shown west of the eastern slope of the Uocky mount ains The map Is elaborately adorned with pictures showing famous scenes from American history, including Hie battles or Hunker Hill and Lex lugtoii, the signing of the Declaration of Independence und Washington's fan-well to his army, nnd a very quaint picture representing the land ing of the Pilgrims. It bus also the pictures of thn presidents of thn I'. 8. up to that time. It Is especially interesting to note the picture of Washington. K shows the face of a strong man and bear hut little resemblance to the rosy cheeked reproductions, with the lines smoothed out, which are ordi narily seen In school texts today. OUR PUBLIC FORUM PKTttK RADFORD. ) Church and Stat The recent no tion of oue of the leading churches of this nation, la annual convention. demanding that the laymen vole only for candidates for o un ii whose vlewa coincide with those of the clergy ou oue of the leading politi cal Issues und di rect aud indirect utTorts of other church organlxatioua to Interfere with the freedom of the ballot make one of the greatest peril of this age, and present a problem that should receive thoughtful considera tion of both laymen and cltlxeii Suckling babes may well squirm lu their cradles wheu ministers In con vention assembled release the hearts of meu aud grab them by the throa(, for Christianity has broken down, re llgluu has become a farce aud the pulpit a failure. Wheu the church substitutes force for persuasion, com mand for conviction and coercion for ! a -on the herlff had as well pass the sacrammit. plaln-cloiho men take barge of the al(ar and pollceuieu bury (he dead, fur why a church" it I aa dastardly a trim against government for a miulater (o under tuke (o deliver the vote of hi parish ioners (o a candidate, as It la for it ward heeler to deliver a block ot voter to a political boas, and both ough( (o be proaecuted, for the law should be uo reapecter of peraous. It la as objectionable for a conven tion of uiIiiImIi i s to eeek by caiionlcal law to coiil rol the votes of church ui inhere as It would be fur a con vention of manufacturers lo Issue or der for then employee to vote for a attain candidate. Such conduct Is of fenslva to di cency, business morals ami u crime against society. Any convention, whethur composed of saint or amuei, rich or poor, white or bl.H k, thai seek to prostitute pow er and cource i oiibi iiincu ought to be lu oken up in the police and lis lead ers arrested for treason. A crime by any other name la a crime just the same An ecclesiastical robe .iii: i, oi Huncdfy (reasou, author ity (o preach doe uo( carry wilh li Hi disc to I.e. mm a political rlngster or the light to teach us how (o pray give pi-runt to tell us how to vote. No man lu Joining the church should ai nib .- hi citiseushlp, forfeit hi Constitutional I. hemes or subordinate his duty to stuln. The earth many time bus been drenched with (be blood of our forefathers, lighting to throw off the ecclciu(ica! yoke fioin the atulu, and (ha suggestion of ,i return to these medieval condition with their horror and their torture should not he tolerated for a moment Laws should be passed prohibiting OB) preacher, or combination of pi. ai hers, from delivering or aUeaipt in to deliver (heir membership or congregation to any candidate for of hi e and suitable legislation should be pnoood preserving the sanctity of the pulpit from political vumlulism It la u much a menace to church and slate tor a poliilclau to occupy the pulpit u for a minister to preach a political vTiiinu He bus uo more right to preach hi politics from the pulpit than a teacher has to teach his poll lies (o hi pupils. A preacher .mum make political trickery righteous by usage any more thau he caii make p .'tunny respectable by pructlce. It ia one of tho ironic of fate (hat a preacher may bucome a scandal aa well aa a glory to clvllUatlou. IN-1- II- a it et p h t- I. d II is i ! M