THE STÄYTON MAIL
e. D. AltXANDtR. Publi»h»r
Entered at the puatoflU-e »I Slayton. Oretron. *■
mail matter of the second cla.«.
From n literary point or view it la
t great pity that Vletor Hugo never
taw an American tornado.
lVrhapa M ih Alfred G Wynne Van
derbilt doesn’t like a husband who
cornea In every night smelling horsy.
You can’t always tell. Sometimes a
man who boasts that he never worries
Is being supi>orted by his wife or her
relatives.
The Cornell co-ed who won the col
lege oratorical prize spoke on ’M en,
Women and
Human Beings.” This
bits the most of us.
According to the Atlanta Georgian,
TOO churches have been found with In
adequate fire escapes. Still, that may
not be the reason why so many men
stay away from the services.
The discovery that that “tired feel
ing” is hereditary leaves very little that
has not been charged up to our dead
and gone ancestors who have no chance
to say a word in self-defense.
Mr. Bryan predicts that Ireland will
regain
her
freedom.
The
London
Times will at once divide that Km|*er-
or W illiam has been egging Mr. Bryan
on to try to make trouble for England.
The mandate having Issued that
women must wear flower
hats this
year, the lady milliners will now show
Dame Nature a few of the opportuni
ties she overlooked In creating the
floral kingdom.
A number of young men in Kentucky
have formed a club to abjure smoking,
swearing, chewing and drinking,
if.
in addition, they cut out night riding,
they may become models for their fel
low citizens.
“Uncle Sam's arruada ls a success."
says thè St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
“and all thè more because ita inissimi
Is friendly to all other nations.” Bure.
Also because its target practice at Mag-
dalena Bay shows how we behave when
we get nngry.
It Is alleged that the Illinois Central
Railroad Company has cheated the
State of Illinois out of $15.000,(Mi. If
the charge is true the outrage can nev
er lie forgiven.
Illinois might with
that money have Ixuicht dukes for five
or six of her daughters.
So many i*ers«>ns have patronized the
free public library In the Jewish dis
trict of Brooklyn. New York, that work
on the new building for It has been
stopped, and architects are drawing
plans for a much larger building than
was originally designed.
On W ash
ington's birthday when the n/en have >i
holiday, the temiwirnry library
was
crowded all day. and a waiting lint
was formed outside. So long as Immi
grants are so eager for learning as this
indicates, they will
not endanger
American Institutions.
News items from various parts of
the country must lend the laouglitful
parent to wonder .what has become of
the sort of diseipine he was used to in
his own youth. Because of the exclu
sion of a student from a theater in a
Western town, the other students of
the State university wrecked the place
of amusement, and defied both |snice
and faculty.
A few days Inter the
students of the New York University
organized a strike because a memtier
of one of the upper classes was sus
pended for ducking a freshman. About
the same time ten students of a Massa
chusetts high school defied the school
committee by holding an entertainment
which they bad been expressly forbid
den to hold. The Interest of parents
In such acts lies In the fact that no
organized rebellion of this sort can
succeed without either the open or .ue
tacit approval of the parents.
Those
who have the real welfare of their
sons and daughters at heart will ask
themselves whether It ls wise to en
courage the tendency to revolt against
law and order whenever It conflicts
with personal desire.
Keren happuch or K durah, or her son
ücsalcel or Mcrodach Baladan, would
1 k » a stränge survlval of the taste of
fermer time«. The roinantlc mimen of
the etghteentti Century hnve fortuimte-
ly gone out of uae. But the old fasli
loned onett suggestive of virtuos still
reniuin liisplrlng. Constance und llops
ut)d Kniest, and eveti Pnltli and P a
tience. sound a m ll to noble Itvlng. If
tln» wtscst negative counsel ln regurd
to tlio buby's nanu» is tliat tt sliall not
he eeeentric, pcrlwtps the best |s>sltlve
advlce Is tliat the generatlon of to-day
sliall, so fnr as may be, glve to thelr
chlldreu tln» fatulljr na nies worthlly
Istrne by the men and woinen of yeater-
day. A respeot«**! na ms gatliers abmit
It unnumbered asaoctatlons.
“Grand-
mother was the lK»st wonian 1 ever
knew,“ km hl n young mother to her
husband.
“ I want bahy nauied after
her. and then we will try to pass 011
A m e ric a n A g ric u ltu re .
grarulmottier’s vlrtues ln anothsr wom-
Although agriculture In America Is
au, as well as oti a tombstoue."
young oomjmred with some of the Kuro-
| « « n and Asiatic countries. It has 1 m *** ii
It was said of tin» ancient Jews that develop'd to such an extent that the
one generation stoned the prophets older countries look to us for Ideas and
and tin* next generation built monu methods to help Mieiii solve the farm
ments in tlielr memory.
Something problems they have to meet. Our sci
like this might be said of tin» American entists and Investigators are among the
people ami their forests. The last gen foremost In the world and a* an agri
eration wantonly wasted and almost cultural nation we need stand aside for
destroyed the virgin forests of
the none.
T\> be sure, agriculture owes
country, and the present generation many of Its greatest scientific dlaeov
atom»s for It by trying to replace them. cries to English. German and French
At one time It really looked as if tlie'c experimenters, but hi aggressiveness
forests were so extensive that defor and practical development
of
hhtis
estation was Impassible. But the time Amerlea Is one of the leaders.
has already come when white pine and
Oilier nations are sending their sol-
the hard wissls have almost dlsappeur- entlsts to America to study how we do
ed and when the burren hillsides. In things here. Our country presents most
stead of absorbing and holding the of the agricultural problems to bo met
rains, have turned the water courses with In the countries of the old world
into alternate flomls and dry I k » i 1 s . and we are finding out how to solve
thereby destroying the water power and them, and the old world wants to know
Inflicting loss Instead of producing how we do It. A Juimnese exis»rt ls
wealth. Almost every ncwa|>ai>er and now In the United States to Investigate
magazine that Is now Issued contains our nietlsKls of Improving worn-out
an alarming article or Item In regard solla He says: "W e have In Formosa
to the ruined forests.
The beat the over 500,000 acres under cultivation
present generation can do is to check and we want to find out how the United
deforestation and plant more trees States g(R*s about It to Improve the con
Happily both the United States govern dition of Its land, so we can Improve
ment and many of the State govern our country." This Is but one Instance
ments are now doing all they can to ac of where we are sending our Ideas
complish these ends. In 1H!C> the l e g abroad.
islature of Illinois enacted the follow
W e have every reason to ts* proud of
lng law : “The Governor shall annual our ngrlcultnra1 advancement, mis’ll of
ly. in the spring, designate by official which Is due to our State ex|H*r!ment
proclamation a day to be designated stations and federal Department of Ag
•Arbor Day,’ to be observed through riculture.— Ooodall's Farmer.
out the Stute as a day for planting
M a c h i n e f o r XVa*hln j( Cans.
trees, shrubs and vines nlmut the homes
The ohi metluxl of cleaning milk
and along highways and alx>ut public
grounds within this State, thus contrib .•ans. lard cans and similar nssirtacles
uting to the wealth, comforts and at will In the near future Is» superseded
tractions of our State.” This law. by a very Ingenious apparatus Invent
albeit It does not apjiear to have tH-en isi by a Boston man. As shown In the
drafted by any professor of English Illustration this <»nn-washlng machine
literature, is one of the most salutary washes the cans and automatically de-
statutes In the State rode. From the
j day w hen It was Instituted. Ar!*or Day
lias lieeu duly observed, and with gn*a»
enthusiasm. Tree planting is an act of
philanthropy. For the man who plants
a tree hardly expects to enjoy the l*»n-
eflt of It. Ills thought Is. or should I k *.
that almost every good thing that he
enjoys is the result of the lalsirs and
forethought of previous generations,
and that, therefore, the least he can do
is to provide In some little way for the
generation that is to follow him. The
cynic who says. ‘'Posterity never did
anything for me and I do not mean to
j do anything for jxisterlty" ought to be
! mad** to feel mean.
Targrl
la
Sim ply
n f Mn f h«»ma t
UeriuMuy
Holds
Sol t i e d
brush heap will » » m dispnee of n enr
cam», with the certainty that nil gemo
nr«» destroyed.
Koine recommend tin
construction of u *|H«clnlly arranged
furniuv for this work, but on the ordì
nary farm this would douhtlcsM be aa
addl'd ex|R‘üjM>. It will not I r » a ditti
cuit matter on any farm to gatlioi
enough trash, such ns brush, old rails
etc., to burn a dead nnliiutl and the ex
|M»iiHt> Is liK<ousld<»ruhle. Anyway, It h
the only safe way to Insure .igninst In
feet Ion.
Y e llo w
Huai
1‘ s r s a l i e
on
W lira l,
Aii Instructive account Is published
In the Experiment Record of the Da
purtiiicnt of Agriculture of tin* iiiannct
In which the yellow rust parasite net»
upon susceptible and resistant varieties
of wheat, in an «»x|s»rtiuent with Mich
!gan Bronze wheat, and "rust-prisif”
Fliigorii. young seeding* of each were
Infected by placing sjxires on the leaves
In the Michigan wheat the germ tills»*
passed Into the Inner tissues and devel
<>| hh I rapidly, pnxluclng pustules In
about ten duys. In the case of the rc
slstaut Klngorn wheat the germ tube*
made gixxl their entry, hut almost li
the ls»glmilng showed, through the ml
< tosco | m », weakness and starvation, nnd
were nimble to make further progress
The wheat pluut continued to flourish
except for the siimll dead area wher«
the fungus entered the leaves. The rea
son for this resistance Is unknown, hill
Is sup|x>H*»d to Is» due to some toxic
principles In the Imet plant.
Keep
Ahead
u f
I be
W eed*,
The lmixirtiincc of keeping ahead o,
the weeds Is realized by every mex-ess
ful agriculturist. At tin» ls»giiititiig ol
growth in the spring weeds start u(
and lend tlie farmer a merry chase m
long as the growing sea»«on lusts. Il<
must keep at them <>r they will get t!i<
start and go to m - c «1, thereby lucrenaiiiy
their numbers ninny fold. “ Eternal vlg
htiice Is the price of llls»rty’’ In tlie
ftglit against weeds.
A thorough!)
practical farmer recently remark«*
that be tliought the problem of we*»«,
eradication one of the most Iniixirtanl
tUie fanners hnve to fn«»e. It ls Indeed
one of considerable moment.
Ilreedlnir
H airy
Cows.
I I I ..... r i i
«*ltb
O h *
A f i o r ATM l o u r s .
The celebratisi chancery suit of Jarn-
dycc against Jnrudyce no longer holds
the record for durutloo. aissirillng to
the London Express. A case which has
lasted at least 10U years was mention
ed lu the law courts recently.
Among a niiinlier of motions liefore
the divorce court Judge for leave to
presume the deaths of different persons
was one In the name of <’. H. I'ullciiey.
I'ounsel askisl that the death of <*. H.
1‘ulteney might I m » presumisi to Ini ve
taken plats» In the year 17**»
"W hen?" demandisi Sir Uorell R am e»
In auiazeiueiit.
“ In I7S0,” repeated counsel, amiti
Itasi laughter.
“ Mr 1‘ullciicy.” he explained, “was
married about I77<>, anil hud a tintigli
ter. In 17MII he left England, lie has
been ml vert Isisl for. hut he lias never
I kx - ii heard of since. In 1716* a sum of
fl.msi was paid Into court and It now
amounts to £ 1 ,iM m *.*•
“ What lias It I ms - ii lining there all
(his time?” the Judge Inquired.
Counsel replied that legal prtswtl-
lugs were started In 1716*. hut nothing
further was done'until t H 16 *.
"W h y not?" asked the Judge
"I ilo not know.” counsel answered.
“ Extraordinary !’’
exclaimed
s ir
Gorell Barnes. “ Who wants It now?"
“ I am nfra 1*1 a g»sHi many |s»n|ilc
want It now," •♦alti counsel. "Tlie pres
ent applicant Is a great grandson of the
wife of the brother of Charles l'ulte-
ney."
“Certain is-rsoiis," tie added, "claim
the sum and pr«s»eetllnga are ls»lng tak
en In the Chancery Court. The death
of C. S 1‘ulteney Is the only link want
ing In the title."
"I have n«t much hesitation In pre-
sinning the death of Mr. I’ulteney," the
j luigi» stnted
"I aui quite sure he la
dead."
Gennany, however, bar beaten even
this record.
A lawsuit between Ita» local author
ity <>f Frlemar, a suburb of Gotha, amt
certain mill owners In a nelghlxirlng
village was amicably settled rt»ts»iilly
after 47 s years <>f constant lltlgntlon,
say a Central News Berlin telegram.
C O A LIN O
M oüfrn
from
APPARATUS.
o f TrnnkfrrrliiK Kurl
l.liclifrr to M r s m r r .
The liiilllelis«» aiiiollllt of work re-
.pilrtxl to eoal th«» iinxlern tx-ean-golug
steamer or warslilp Is not renllzetl by
the average Inyiilllll. Ttie present cus
tom consists In transferring ttn» (»tat
by derrick from lighters In tmgs or
buckets, requiring many days. A New
In breeding dairy cows a man should
have a definite object In view.
Toe
many shift from lss»f to dairy when
dairy products are low, and then shift
hack again from dairy to Is-ef when
beef rises In value. By this method a
man Is constantly shifting from one
breed to another, und as n result he !»
getting a herd that Is gixxl for neither
milk nor lss»f. A man must have an
Ideal toward which he ls breeding and
then Is'inl all his energies to that end.
This shifting from one breed to another
Is n suicidal isdlcy that will ruin any
man and any herd.- Kansas Expert-
ment Station.
In lrm lln s
llrnia,
it rarely pays to f«»»d for n merely
possible Increase In price.
SH O O TING W I T H M O R TAR S.
■ f l t t l i i K
the
Mntt«*r
P R O L O N G E D L A W S U IT S .
■
How do we hit with the mortars?
An observer near the shore who sees
the target communicates the horizontal
and vertical angle at which to lay the
W A S H E S M I L K OAKS.
mortar and the Instant of time at
which to Are. and the gun d<s»s the posits them on the flistr, where the han
rest I f you were standing at the cen dles can be conveniently grasis-d, avoid
ter of a large clock dial laid tint on the ing Che labor of lifting them. The cans
ground and wanted to hit with a base travel while being cleaned on a mova
ball a man walking around on the out ble chain, each can being placed over
side. you would notice how long it took an upright nozzle which holds It In po
the man to get from I to II and again sition. Tlie various nozzles are con
from II to III. Then you would de nected to a sujiply pljie through which
cide whether If the hall were thrown la forced a cleaning fluid or steam. The
over a point halfway between 1111 anil latter Is forced out through the nozzle,
V just as he arrived opfKisIte I I I I the thoroughly cleaning the Interior of the
muii and the ball would reach the same can. The nozzlea also act as guides to
s[xjt at the same time. It being under i dotxmlt the cans on the floor after tMSy
stood. of course, that he maintained have traveled the length of the chain,
uniform speed and direction and that tl»e operation being ¡»erfornied automat
the ball was thrown with proper force. ically and smoothly without injury or
Instruments give us the range and ob accident.
servations. and mechanical devices
Born Dead Anim als.
give us the range differences. Increas
In the attempt to stamp out hog
ing or decreasing by certain short in
cholera and other contagious diseases
tervals of time, too short for a ship of
among live stock the matter of burn
Juliet’s contemptuous exclamation, any size to escape by attempting to
"W hat's In a name?” does not apply to change direction or speed. Our observ ing all dead animals ls one of consid
erable lngxirtanoe. Outbreak* of dis
the Christian name of the new bahy. er's circle has 36,000 divisions.— Cap
ease have frequently been traced to the
The fundly councils over the choice of tain Howell in Scientific American.
careless disposal of the carcass of sn
it may well be serious ones.
Eccen
Infected animal. Burning Is much more
O M s g S ta ter A w a y .
tricity must be avoided. Whoever will
effective
than burying, as the germs of
Little
Kitty (entertaining him) —
"make up” a name should rememlier
some
dlsenses,
ns anthrax, for example,
Mlntle
thinks
a
lot
of
you,
Mr.
Wellon.
the tribulations of Rose Terry Cooke's
Elderly Suitor— Does she, dearie? retain their virility for a conalderable
little hero, who was named “Atnandar"
length of time. Then In burying car
by his grief-stricken father, In an at How do you know?
cases, unies» they are placed very deep
Little
Kitty—
She
says
you'll
be
the
tempt to enhrlne the memory of the
boy's dead mother, Amanda. The Bible darllngest old meal ticket that ever In the ground, there Is always more or
less danger of their being rooted or dug
Is no longer the one safe source from happened.— Chicago Tribune.
ou t
Doga will dig open such graves
which names may be drawn.
David
Think three times before you speak and hogs will root them out
and John and Mary and Benjamin and
— then you may decide to keep your
Those who have attempted to bury a
Anna have still a Arm hold on the
face closed.
Img or horse will readily appreciate the
memory and the Imagination of good
statement that It Is easier to burn than
folk the world over. But the mother
Some people seem to make a special
bury them.
A little kerosene and a
Who should to-day name her daughter ty of thinking second hand thought«.
It needs faith In your occupation tc
bring nlxuit complete success.
COAI. TRA.NMKKRKm TO STKA M KK.
Send all surplus poultry to market
as soon as the fowls are In pro|s»r con York man has seized upon this opitor-
| (unify to devise an up-to-date appnra-
«lit Ion.
■ tux which Immensely simplifies the <q>-
Don't borrow too much. It Is mor*
eratlon nnd docs away with much of
satisfaction both to yourself and you*
the hard labor now
necessary.
As
uelghlxirs to have bads of your own.
shown In the Illustration, tlie coni Is
While rowqicas are ls»st adapted-tr drawn up an Inclined elevator amt
light, warm soils, any good com Inml dropped Into a chute, where It runs by
will grow the crop In the latitude when gravity Into the bold of the vessel.
the pens will mature.
Within the elevator arc iiiiineroiis
Bees help to make the crops and puy buckets attnclusl to n movable chain.
the farmer for the privilege. They a n The buckets are filled ns they reach
little trouble to k«**p nud may tie thr the end winding drum nnd automatic-
source of n goixl Income.
ally dump the contents Into the wait
A Spanish professor, according to ing chute when they reach the top.
UemiHii newspapers, lias made the dts
('• * * («• • ■ ■ * • • o f th e H e n ».
covery that tlie sunflower yields
a
splendid febrifuge that can be used Si
The Bridles hnd been In their new
a substitute for quinine.
country house for scarcely a week be
W. J. Monroe, of Iowa, has tht fore the girl who went out to hunt for
smallest colts ever bom In that State. strictly fresh eggs came back empty
They are Shetland twins, both mart-*, banded.
"W h ere are the eggs, Ellen?” asked
and one Weighs eighteen pounds and
Mrs. Bridle.
the other twelve pounds.
"Sure, mum, Ol couldn’t folnd a
A lfalfa seed has a light olive-green
wan."
color and Is about the same size ns red
"D id you look In the henhouse?"
clover seed. The ilend nnd worthless
"YIs, muni."
seed are the brown-colored one*. Brown
“And In the haymow?"
seed Indicate old s*»«»d, and Is not apt
'O l wlnt all over the place."
to give good results.
"A n d the manger?"
* A flrst-clHs* quality of red floret
“They warn't there, mom."
seed should lie of fair size, purple and
“Well, sometlmee Henry collects the
yellow color* predominating, and al
eggs In a basket and hangs It under
ways with a luster.
If It ts small,
the cow shed."
with many shriveled brown seed In It
"O l fonnd the basket, but It wut
it should be rejected.
Impty. Ol hunted all over the pla.|>
Egyptian cotton hns been successful and. high nor low, eorra a sign of thlm
ly grown In New Mexico and Arizona eggs conld Ol folnd anywhere.”
by the Bureau of Animal Industry. Sev
"D e a r me," said Mrs. Bridle absent
eral million dollars' worth of this cot ly. " I hope they haven’t been m islaid!"
ton Is Imported Into the United State! - I.ofidon Scrap*
earh year, and Its growth here wl)<
A well-informed physician Is f r »
mean a great saving.
aueutiy Ill-Informed.