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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1905)
C H A P T E R I. "Yea. air,” I replied In hla Claudius B oiulum ic, Special Corre Evidently we could understand each spondent Twentieth Century, Tiflis. other. The Ice was brokeu, and theu Transcaucasia." question followed ou question rather rap Such is the »>11 roes o f the telegram I idly between us. found on the 13th of May when 1 arrived “ W alt a bit." said my American. “ I'll at Titlia. lay ten to oue that you are a reporter!" Thja if what the telegram »aid: “ And you would win! Yea. 1 am a " A * the matter* hi hand will terminate reporter sent by the Twentieth Century on the 13th instant, Claudina Houibariwu- to do this journey.” “ Golug all the way to Pekin? 8o will repair to Uaun Ada, a port on the east roast of tha Caspian. There he am I.” “ 8ame trade?” said I, Indifferently. will take the train by the direct Grand “ No. You need not excite youraalf. Transaaiatlr, between the European fron tier and the capital of the Celestial Em W e don't tell the same atuff, air.” “ Claudius Bombaruac, o f Bordeaux, la pire. He will transmit hla impreaalona In the way o f news. Interviewing remark delighted to be on the same road ae----- ” "Fulk Hphrlnoll, of the firm of Strong. able people on the road, and report the moat trivial incidents by letter or tele Bulbul A Co., of New York City, New gram as necessity dictates. The Tw enti York, U. 8. A .” W e were mutually Introduced. I a eth Century trusts to the teal. Intelli gence. activity and tact o f its correspond traveler in newa, and he a traveler tu ent, who can draw on it* banker» to any — in what? That I had to find out. “ Have you ever been In the I'nited extent he may deem necessary.” It was the very morning I had arrived States, Mr. Bombaruac?" he asked. “ No, Monsieur Ephrinell." at Tiflia, with the Intention of spending “ Y'ou will come to our country some three week* there in a Tiait to the Georgian provineee for the benefit of my day. Them you will not target to explore newspaper, and also 1 hoped for that of the establishment of Strong, Bulbul A Oo.r Its reader*. “ Explore It?" Here was the unexpected. Indeed; the "Y ou will see one of the most remark uncertainty of a «pedal correspondent's life. I had hardly arrived before 1 w hs able Industrial establishments of the New Imagine a colossal work obliged to be off again without uuetrap- Continent. shop, Immense buildings for th* mount piug my portmanteau! It was hard, but there was no way out ing and adjusting of die pieces, a steam of lb And to begin with, at what o'clock engine o f fifteen hundred horse power, did the train for Tiflia start from the ventilator* making six hundred revolu Oaepian? I went to the railway station tion* a minute, boilers consuming a hun at a run, and rushed into the departure dred tou» of coal a day, a chimney stack four hundred and fifty feet high, ra ti office. "W hen la there a train for Baku?" I outhouses for the storage of our good*, which we send to the Are parts o f the asked. world, a general manager, two tub-man "Six o’clock to-night.” agers. four secretaries, eight under aec- “ And when does it get there?” rctarlee, a rtaff of five hundred clerk* and "Seven o'clock in the morning.” “ Is that in time to catch the boat for nine hundred workmen, a whole regiment o f travelers like your servant, working Uaun Ada?*’ Th e man at the trap door replied to In Europe, A da, Africa, America, Aua- my salute by a salute of mechanical pre traliaaia, in short, a turnover exceeding cision. The question of passport did not annually one hundred million dollars! trouble me. The French consul would And all that, Mr. Bombaruac, for making know how to give me all the references millions of— yes, I said millions----- ” A t thia moment the train commenced to required by the Russian administration. A t 5 o'clock, having secured my pass »low under the action o f it* automatic port. I hurry to the railway station. brake*, and he »topped. Our conversa There there la a crowd of Armenians. tion it interrupted. 1 lower the window Georgians. Miugrelians, Tartar*. Kurds, on my aide, and open the door, being de Israelites, Russians, from the shores of sirous o f stretching my legs. A * eoon as the bell begin* to ring I the Caspian, some taking their ticket* direct for Baku, some for Intermediate return to our carriage, and when I hare shut the door I notice that my place is station*. Ye*! Facing the American, a I take a ticket for Baku, first class. I taken. with that go down on the platform to the carriagee. lady haa installed herself According to my custom, I install myself Anglo-Saxon coolness which l* as unlim My French gal In a comfortable corner. A few travel ited as the infinite. er* follow me, while the cosmopolitan lantry prevents me from claiming my populace invade the second and third corner, and I sit down beside this person, class carriagee. The doors are shut a f who makes no attempt at apology. Bphrinell seems to be asleep, and that ter the visit of the ticket inspector. A last scream of the whistle announces that stops my knowing what it Is that Strong, the train is about to start. Suddenly Bulbul A Co. of New York manufacture there is a shout— a shout in which anger by the million. It was nearly midnight. Weariness in 1* mingled with despair— and I catch vited me to sleep, and yet, like a good re these words in German: porter, I must sleep with one eye and one "Stop! Stop!" I put down the window and look out. ear open. A fat man. bag in band, traveling cap on In this way I heard the shouts of head, hi* legs embarrassed in the skirts Geran, Varvara, Oudjarry, Kiourdamid. o f a huge overcoat, short and breathless. Klourdane, then Karaaoul, Navagi. I sat H e ia late. The porter* try to »top him. up, but a* I no longer occupied th* cor T r y to atop a bomb in the middle o f its ner from which I had been so cavalierly trajectory! Once again haa right to give evicted. It was Impossible for me to look through the window. place to might. And then I began to ask what la hid The Teuton bomb describe* a well-cal culated curve, and has just fallen into the den beneath this mass of veils and wrap» compartment next to ours, through the and petticoat* which haa usurped my door a traveler had obligiugly left open. place. Is this lady going to be my com Th e train begins to move at the same in panion all the way to the terminus of Shall I ex stant, the engine wheel* begin to slip on the Grand Transaslatio? the rails, then the speed increases. W e change a sympathetic salute with her in the streets of Pekin? are off. I must gradually have fallen sound I t is still daylight at 6 o’clock In the evening in this latitude. I have bought asleep. Withdrawn from exterior influ a time table and I consult it. Then I ences, I did not even hear the stentorian began to examine my traveling compan r«*piratlon of the Yankee. “ Baku! Baku!” ions. There were four o f us, and I need The word, repeated as the train stop scarcely say that we occupied the four comers of the compartment. I had taken ped, awoke me. It was seven o’clock in the furthest comer, facing the engine. the morning. A t the two opposite angles two travelers C H A P T E R I I I. were seated facing each other. As soon The boat did not »tart until three as they got in they pulled their cap» down on their eye* and wrapped them- o'clock in the afternoon. Those o f my aelves up in their cloak*— evidently they companions who intended to cross tha Caspian hurried off to the harbor, it were Georgian», a» far as I could see. I d front o f me was quite a different being necessary to engage a cabin, or to type, with Dothlng of the oriental about mark one's place in the steameri» saloon. It; thirty-two to thirty-five years old, face Ephriuell precipitately left me with these with a reddish beard, very much alive in word»; took, nose like that o f a dog atandlng at “ I have not an instant to loss. I must point, mouth only too glad to talk, hand» see about the transport of my baggage.” free and easy, ready for a shake with “ Have you much?” anybody; a tall, vigorous, broad-ahoul- “ Forty-two cases." dered, powerful man. By the way In "F orty-tw o cases!” I exclaimed. which he settled himself and put down I f he had had a voyage of eight days, his hag, and unrolled his traveling rug instead of one o f twenty-four hours, and o f bright-hued tartan, I had recognised had to cross the Atlantic instead of the the Anglo-Saxon traveler, more accus Caspian, he could not have been I d a tomed to long journey* by bind and sea greater hurry. He did not think of of than to the comforts o f his home, if he fering his hand to assist our companion had a home. H e looked like a commer in descending from the carriage. I took cial traveler. I noticed that hi* jewelry his place. The lady leaned on my arm was in profusion; ring» on hla fingers, pin and jumped— no, gently put her foot on In his scarf, studs on his cuffs with pho the ground. My reward was a thank tographic views in them, showy trinket* you, air, uttered in a hard, dry, unmis hanging from the watch riiain across hla takable British • voice. waist coat. I should not hare been sur Twenty-five years Is apparently about prised if he turned out to be an Am eri her age, she ties an Albloneaque complex can. ion, a jerky walk, a high dress like an I f I am not mistaken, he will be just equinoctial tide, no spectacled, although as glad to speak to me as I am to speak she has eyes of the Intense blue which to him— and reciprocally. I will see. But are generally ahort-adgbted. W hile I bend • fear restrains me. Suppose this Amer my back as I bow, she honor* me with ican should also be a special correspond a nod, which only brings into play the ent, and suppose ha haa also been or vartabraa of her long neck, and abe walks dered to do thi* Grand Asiatic. That off straight toward th* way out. would be most annoying! H * would be a Aa eleven o'clock strikes, I make my rival! way to tha roots a rant at the railway. A * I am an taring Bphrinell rushes out. C H A P T E R II. "Breakfast?” aay I. A t last I was about to opan my mouth " I bar* bad it,” h* replies. when my companion prevented me. "And your cases?" "T o n are a Frenchman f ka said in "I bare still twenty nine to get down ■ay nativa tongue. to tha steamer. Bat, pardon, I hare not a moment to I nee. When a man repre sents the firm of Strong. Bulbul A On., who send out »very week lira thousand cases o f their good»----- ” “ Go. go, Monsieur Ephrlnell, we will meet ou Uianl. By the bye, you have not met our traveling companion?” "W h a t traveling companion?" "T h e young lady win» took uiy place lu the carriage." " W a i there a young lady with us?" l lie cause o f fo w ls taking cold la a l " O f course." lowing them to aleep wnere they aro “ Well, you are the first to tell me eo. cspoM d to drafts and feeding them Mr. Bombaruac." soft anil sloppy foods And thereii|sm live American goes out It requires capital to go Into th* of the door, and dlaap|»viira. It ia to be poultry business on anything hut a hoped I shall know before we get to Pekin what it Is that Htrong, Bulbul A very small seal*, and economising on A M ain ly G s r i l s u t a r t . t\>. tend out lu auch quantities. Fire No out» realize* how handy a small some things Is the wrung thing to do. thousand cases a w eek—what an out cart la on the farm until one has used put. and what a turnover! Klinllug A a * o f Kuwla. It; the wheelbarrow is all right lu Its A pullet will show rose colored vein* When It Is taro o’clock I think I had place, but there ar* times wbeu the better get down to the boat. I must call ou the au rfar« o f the skin under tha at th* railway stariou where I have left hand cart answer* th* purpose much wings; there w ill also be long silky Th e IIIUNtratlon ahowa how my light luggage at the cloak room. Moon better. hair» grow ing there. A fter a year old I am off again, hastening down oua of one o f these carta may he mad* with these disappear, ao, too, do the veins, tha isaada leading to the harbor. a little lumber and any old wheels A t the break In the wall, where accaaa from a m ower one may have. I f there ami the akin shows white and veln- Is obtained to the quay, my attention le are no such wheels and shaft on the lesa. T h * dlffereuc* can he aevu at a glance Again, a pullet that haa not attracted by two people walking along fHrtu, the local blacksmith can prob laid, or haa only just commenced to togethsr. The man la from thirty to tblrty-flr* years old, the woman front ably supply the want from arttelea lay. w ill have th* hones o f th* pelvis twenty-fir* to thirty, tha man already uf th* kind that come to htm. Tha II or haaln almost touching Th e honee grayish brown, whh mobile fare, lively gradually widen aa the fow l continues look, easy walk with a certain swinging laying, and at tw o y ««r a old are much of the tup* 'live woman still a pretty further «part than they were at ou* blonde, blue e.vea, a rather fresh com year old. Th e third |Kilnt o f difference plexion, her hair frlxsed under a cape, 1^'* In th* cluwa aud shanks; In a a traveling costume which la In good young bird the akin o f the claw la taste uelther In Its uuf^tUoiuible cut nor In it* glaring color. Evidently a mar »ripple, aud th* scales thin and b ril ried couple coiue lu the train from Tlfii», liant. Th e skin gets coarser and and uulesa 1 am mistaken they are stronger nml the scales barrier aa tha French. bird grows, and the nail o f th* last toe, They are too much occupied to see me which doc» most o f the work, when In their bauds, ou their shoulder», they the bird scratches, gels much worn. have hags and cushions and wraps and There Is also a difference In the eye (tick* and simaliade* and umbrellas. They lid*. The»«« acquire w rinkle« as the are carrying every kind of little package bird gels older, and there la al*o a you can think o f which they do not care to put with the luggage on the steamer. slightly shrivelled look ou the face. I have a good mind to go amt help them. Thia, with age, gets more and tnora .HA.VOV l. A lin ts c a h t . Jurt as 1 am walking up to them. Ephrt- pronounced In the ran* o f cocka, uell appear*, drags me away, aud U leave lustration shows plainly the mode o f above and beyond these point» o f d if construction. the couple behind. ference (except the iMinea o f (he pelvla “ W all," said I to the Yankee, "bow H ave u box o f convenient size. Itelng widening), there are the spurs to judge are you getting on with your cargo?" careful not to make It too lurge, else by.— American Cultivator. " A t thia inomeitt, air, the thirty-sev It cannot be pulled except with eon enth case is on the road." slderuhle effort when fillisl The width New Kerin Gate. "And what may be in those cases. If will, o f course, depend upon the length Herlou» defects to be overcom e In you pluaae?" "In th<«a cases? Ah! There la the o f the axle. Th ills may be made o f gates are strain and leverage weight, thirty-seventh!” he exclaimed, and he any suitable material. If one cannot which result In sagging. W. J. fjlaek, ran ou! to meet a truck »'hlch had just obtain a made pair, and If they are o f Fort Wayne, In d , has Invented a home eonstructed It w ill he easy to gate which It Is claimed w ill large come on to the quay. The A *t*ra ia loaded up. The hold la bring the outer end* nearer together ly remedy these defects. A trtaugulai not big enough, and a good deal of the by placing a two-lneh block between cargo Is overflowed on the deck. The the ends next to the tail and th* box. ■»tern is reserved for passengers, hut from A t the front end o f the h»x a atrip o f the bridge forward to the top gallant I mmis I ta placed, to which the single forecastle there ia a heap of cases cov ered with tarpaulins to protect them tree la attached. from the sea. New Med Grape. There Kphrinell'a case* have been put. Although not yet tested In all grape He has lent a hand with Yankee energy, grow in g regions, the Regal ahowa determined not to lose sight of hla valua promise wherever It haa !>e*n grown. ble pi>»perty, which 1» in cubical cases, SKW r a l l y OATK. a lout two feet on the sida. coverse 1 with Th e vine la a most vigorous grower, patent leather, carefully strapped, on strong and healthy aud exceedingly which can be read the stenciled word», productive. Th e quality o f the berry fraine la hlnged tu thè p«»»t. wlth twu Is very good, though not o f the best rollerà attachr«d. whereoii gate panel “ Strong, Bulbul A Go., New York.” “ Are all your goods on board?" I Th e akin la a rich rod, thin hut very la aupporti-d ami freely operatea. Th# asked the American. tough, and one o f the chief character cut ahows gate In usuai low posti loti, “ There 1» the forty-second caae just latlea o f the variety Is Its long keep elosed, and so aup[«orted at front end coming," he replied. Ing qualities As will be seen from that no leverage w elglit or stralli ean And there was the asld case on the the Illustration, the hunch la compact, In dir to elther gate or poat. Thia lui back o f a porter already coming along provem ent inay b* uscii as a amali alti the gangway. It seemed to me that the the berries o f good alze and uniform. gle or largo doublé slldlug or swing A number o f th* State experiment sta porter was rather tottery. “ W alt a hit!” shouted Ephrinell. Then tlous have tested the variety and apeak gate. In good Russian. *n as to lie better un highly o f It. I f It does as well under No t'alitiagr Hook*. derstood, he shouted: “ look out! Look general culture aa It uns on trial, It will Recently an absurd fear has devel out!” oped In th* minds o f some eaters o f It is good advice, but it Is too late. cabbages relative to the so-called "ca b The porter haa just made a falae st«*p. bage suuke." T h e superstition I» that The case slip» from hi* shoulder», breaks the snake poisons tile cabbages mid so In two, and a quantity of little packet* of paper »ratter their contents on the renders them unlit to cat. Th e exist deck. cnee o f such a creature Is denied by What a shout of Indignation did Ephri our scientists, but so prevalent Is the nell raise! What a whack with bis fist belief that at leust on«« experim ent stn did he administer to the unfortunate 11«>ii lias Issued a circular denying III«« porter as he repeated in a voice o f de existence o f the so-called snake. lu spair, “ My teeth, my poor teeth!" some parts o f the country n small And he went down on his knees to whitish “ eel-w orm " has l»e««n found to gather up his little hits o f artificial ivory Infest cabbages. The larvae o f till«» that were scattered all about, while 1 could hardly keep from laughing. worm prey upon the common green It was for manufacturing five thou cabbage worm, and hence are doubt sand cases a week for trio five part* of less a benefit rather than a detrim ent the world that this huge concern existed! to the cabbage grow in g Industry. Som»« The bell 1» ringing for the last time. o f the more superstitious p«*ople In th* A ll the passengers are aboard. The Aa- South Imagined Mint these worms |«ol- tara is casting off her warp*. Suddenly sonisi the cabbages, and tests were there are shouts fnwn the quay. I rec made by scientific people to d e e r up ognise them as being in* German, the the mntter. Extracts w ere minie from same a* 1 had heard at Tiflia when the train was atartiug for Baku. the worms and Injected Into tue hu It ia the same man. He la panting, he man system. These Injections failed runs, he cannot run much farter. The to produce the least «•ffeet. It Is there gangway has been drawn ashore, and fore considered that the character o f the steajner is already moving off. Luck the lltfle worm bn« been ric a m i o f th* ily there ia a rope out artem which still keeps the Astara near the quay. The German appears Jurt a* two sailors ar* maneuvering with the fender. They each THE REGAL OH A PC. give hitn a hand and help him on board. About a quarter o f a mile out there be o f dlstliu-t advantage ns a market la a sort of boiling, agitating the aur- sort because o f Its color and Its long- face of tha sea, and »bowing some deep keeping qualities.— Indianapolis News. trouble in the waters. I was near the rail on the »tarboard quarter, and. smok P o u ltry Pickings. ing my cigar, was looking at the hartwr W hy don’ t you raise turkeys? The disappearing l«ehind the point round Gape 1 price la high and they are ««aay to Apcheron, while the range of the Cau raise, though some think It la «llttl casus ran up Into the western horiaon. cult. O f my cigar there remained only the Special care must he taken In han end between my lips, and, taking a last dling the eggs the first five «lays o f whiff, I threw It overboard. In an iurtant a sheet of flame hurst Incubation, when life Is not firmly es out all around the steamer. Tha boiling tablished. came from a submarine spring o f naph W yandottea have for the last few tha. and the clgnr end had set it allgrit. years taken a commanding position Bcreams arise. The Artara rolls amid among the fan cier« o f this country, bo sheaves of flame, but a movement o f th* helm «tears us away from the flaming Ing o f American origin and a great egg spring, and we are out of danger. Th* producer. captain cornea a ft and aaya to m* in a A great number o f beginners who frigid ton*: are Just becoming Interested In rais "T h at waa a foolish thing to do." ing poultry, etc., do not know whnt “ Really, oaptaln, I did rwrt know------” breed to select. T r y Barred Plymouth • "You ought alwaya to know, nlrt" Tha** words are uttered In a dry, can Rocks o r Wyandottea. accusation. Gathered from the Garden. Th e best thing for the garden - brains. Gut the black knot out o f the plum and cherry trees. A particular titbit o f the Man Jose scnle Is the currant. Radishes are usually ready fo r use In six weel?s from sowing. Hone meal and wood ashes In th* soil are great fo r sweet pens. Probably no other small fruit w ill give more weight o f crop for the space It occupies than the cu rrant Iio n ’ t trim the cherry trees now. W alt till June, and men he light- handed. T o bleed the grapevin e« by cutting during March, April or May la l»ad m anagem ent Gold fram e« are useful fo r forw ard ing lettuce and cabbage In spring or early summer. I f the rhubarb la run out or more Th e most necessary requirements In preparing fow ls fo r the showrooms are plants are want«*!, It can be propa I turn to ae* who K la It (a tha Eng the beat possible shape, size and plnm- gate«] by dividing the old roots. Each lish woman who baa read a a thia llttl* age that can be obtained. Including eye or bud when broken apart with ■ root attached forma a p la n t clean and well-colored feet and lega. tankerous ton*, a few feet away from me. (Ta be «aatta i i t i