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THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1910 SANITARY BARNS; HOW TOJBUILD THEM How to plan and build dairy barns that are both aaultary and convenient will be taught tbU year at the Oregon Agricultural College In a course lu farm utructures just In troduced. The students will learn bow to de sign their own house, barns, gran aries, silos and other farm buildings; where to place them; how they should be constructed, and the cost of both material and construction. An unusual feature of the Instruction will be that which will bid students to draw plans In class for buildings solving special problems of their own home furms, such as bams on hillsides or on low ground. The various uses of concrete on the farm, with practical laboratory work In the making of concrete floors, walks and fence posts, will also form a part of the students' Instruction. Problems In fencing. Including the relative merit and cost of various sorts of materials and different de signs, will be an Interesting part of the course, which will Include, as well, a comparison of the efficiency of good and bad roads, and the methods of construction and main tenance of good roads In rural districts. Fleck Vineyard Sold - The Adam Fleck vlueyard, south west of The Dalles, on which E. W Thomas held an option for several months, was transferred last week to the latter and A. E. Itutberford of Chicago. There are about 400 acres In the tract, which Is planted to vineyards and orchards. Products of the Fleck vineyards have lecome noted. The monetary consideration In the deal Is something above $00,000. Hoboes Oct Sarcastic From a notice written on the water tank near the depot, Thurs day, It Is evident that the gay and festive hobo doesn't look on apple picking with glee. In big letters, the Inspiration loomed up as follows: NIN'K SI.AVKH WA.NTKI) To pick apples. Wages 1.40 a day and board. Japs 2.1 cents a day. AI'FLES$abox. Couldn't Stand Prosperity A hod carrier down on the New berg high school Job, who was being paid f 4 a day for eight hours' work, got huffy and quit when he was docked for a half hour that he failed to put lu. One of these days history Is liable to reis-at Itself, and when it does, this sume man will doubtless be glad to put In full time at half the pay. Newberg Register. M THE SQUARE DEAL STORE CARRIES IN STOCK A FULL LINE OF Farm Implements Extension Harrows and Orchard Tools M Bicycles and Bicycle Extras M Fishing: Tackle Guns and Ammunition Gasoline Supply Station 2). MCDONALD HOOD 'RIVE'R, OHEGOJV M S. EI. BARTMESS Funeral Director and Practical Embalmer ESTABLISHED 18 YEARS HOOD RIVER, OREGON White :: River :: Flour Makes Whiter, Lighter Bread ASK YOUR GROCER A PUZZLING PINE. Don't Leave the Hood River District WITHOUT INVESTIGATING Mosier Valley Natural advantaw fur fruit growing unexcelled. Land prices ha doubted in last two'yeara but ar not half that asked for itnilar land in other sections Buy now before peculator! add .their profit. Commercial Club of Mosier MOSILR, ORIKiON 6 Miles Last of Hood River, Oregon HOTEL OREGON Hood River's New Fire Proof Brick Hotel ROOMS WITH AND WITHOUT BATH, SINGLE OR EN SUITE. STEAM HEATED, ELECTRIC LIGHTED. INTERCOMMUNI CATING TELEPHONES. MEALS A LA CARTE. A Modern Motel for Travelers. ONli BLOCK FROM DEPOT Hood River, Oregon Peculiar Tr.. That It Something ef Myttary to Botanist. Upper California U tue borne of a tree tbat baa puzzled botanists. It Is a pine which will grow only near tb seacoast. Its growth la alow, and it does not attain to great size. Xbe strange thing about It Is that there are, to all appearances. Insur mountable difficulties In the way of the perpetuation of the species. Some specimens of It exist In Kew gardens, in London. They bare been carefully examined by competent authorities, and all admit tbat the tree presents a problem unlike anything elsewhere met with. This pine produces at regular Inter rala the usual cones containing seeds; but, atrange to aay, the cones are so thoroughly protected that the seeds cannot be released. The cones are hard and tightly closed and hare atrong overlapping scales. More extraordinary still Is the fact that the pine, after producing Its al most Invulnerable cones, keeps them hanging on Ha branches year after year. Unless through some peculiar accident the seeds would apparently remain attached to the parent tree for ever. Many of the cones on the trees In Kew gardens have been there for years, as is shown by the size of the branches and the formation of the bark. It has been found that the seed Tea sels which this tree so powerfully re tain are so well protected that It re quires a strong knife with the assist ance of a heavy hammer to cut the cone into sections. No ordinary con ditions of temperature can make a cone open. The following is the only explana tion yet offered that seems to have any degree of plausibility: The species may be perpetuated by Are. One who has studied the tree asserts that noth ing but the intense heat of a forest fire could compel the cones to release their seeds. It has been found that under the Influence of intense beat they crack open and the seeds fall out uninjured. Harper's Weekly. TURKISH RED TAPE. Gatting the Kinka Out of a Custom Houaa Tangts. In the far east rules and restrictions may be made to yield to Influence with a latent force behind It, aa Instanced by this serio-comic Incident found In Captain A. B. Townahend's book, Military Consul In Turkey." A certain highly influential foreigner at Adrlan- ople wanted a Christmas tree and or dered one from Sofia to come by train, but when the tree, an unpretentious little fir about ten feet high, arrived at Adrtanople station some one discov ered tbat it was illegal to receive plants" from abroad. "Yasak" (It is forbidden), said the custom bouse. "Tasak," echoed the sentry on duty. The foreigner said whatever was the equivalent to "rubbish" and de manded the tree. Here was a nice quandary for the authorities. Evidently It was a most fearful thing to receive a tree from abroad, and yet the consignee was capable of getting some one Into very serious trouble If be did not get his tree, and he said be must bave it with in forty-eight hours. Some one at the custom house soared above the difficulty. The tree waa sent on to Stamboul on the Orient express, an eight hours' Journey. It came back to Adrtanople by the next train, and the person for whom It was intended received a notice that "a tree from Constantinople" bad arrived for him and would at once be banded over to his messenger. So the wretched little Bulgarian tree had become a Turkish one, brought from Constantinople, and by that means it satisfied officialdom and serv ed Its purpose In the end. Gladiators. The gladiators were originally male factors who fought for their lives or captives who fought for freedom. They were first exhibited at the funeral cere monies of the Romans, 203 B. C, and afterward at festivals about 215 B. C. When Dacla was reduced by Trojan 1,000 gladiators fought at Rome for 123 days In celebration of his triumph. It Is said t lint In the triumphs of I'ompey the Great 10,000 fought through a series of many days. These combats were suppressed In the east by the Emperor Constantine about A. D. 325 and lu the west by Tbeodorlc in A. D. 500. New York American. Hsr Protection. "Why don't you marry, too?" ho asked her, apropos of the marrlnge of her friend. "1 can't," she answered, "without committing bigs my. I haven't my di vorce yet, you know. It's probably a good thing, a great protection. I might bave married some good for nothlug again If I had bad It. 1 am so unfor tunate In my selections." "True," he snld. "You might have married me." New York Tress. Works Like a Charm. Hanson Wonder bow It is tbat the Jugginsons get along so harmoniously. They never bave any quarrels, appar ently. Burt The reason Is stmplo enough. Jugglnson always lets Mrs. J. have the lant word, and she never trie to prevent blm from having his own way. Boston Transcript. Chance For Haroiam. Adorer (anxiously) What did your father say? Sweet Olrl-Oh, be got so angry I waa afraid to stay and lis ten. He's In a perfectly terrible rage. 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