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12 THE SUNDAY ORE G OXT AX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 22, 1914. Li By Helen Hessong Fuessle Now running on the woman's page of the Daily Oregonian discusses the big questions of American life of the day you shou: It Will In It treats of a subject of vital interest to every man and woman. If you have not started this wonderful serial, do so now. . Call or write The Oregon jan for the first six installments, then continue the story Monday, February 23d in r LKZS LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL PAVES WAY FOR MANY NEW BUILDINGS Last Obstacle in Path, of Southern Pacific's $750,000 Passenger Station Removed Man Who Gave Fortune to Charity Dying in Poverty in Hospital Swain Prefers Hobble Girl to Dad's Money. OS ANGELES, Feb. 21. (Special.) Millions of dollars In new build ings and improvements east of Main street in the Vicinity of the Arcade depot were assured last week by the action of the City Council, which, removed the last obstacle in the way of constructing the new $750,000 South ern Pacific passenger station on the Arcade site. Tnis action was the unanimous passage of the ordinance vacating the stub end of Fifth street and approving the supplemental con tract' whereby the Southern Pacific agrees to return this stub end to the city for ..street purposes in the event the company should ever abandon the property as a depot site. The Council instructed the building department to issue the railroad company the neces sary buildings permit immediately upon the presentation of the company's ap plication. The ordinance was promptly Bigned by Mayor H. H. Rose. Officials of the railroad company say the dirt will be flying at once prepara tory to the construction of the new station and that actual construction work will be under way in ten days. By the passing of this ordinance building operations will be given a new Impetus in a district which for many years has been occupied by cheap 'rooming-houses and ten-footers. Al ready the building department has re ceived applications for building per mits whose total valuation are over $1,000,000. Two eight-story hotels will be erected close to the site of the new station and a number of large con crete buildings suitable for stores and offices are contemplated. H. V. Piatt, who has just been elevated to the position of assistant general manager of the Southern Pa cific, returned to Los Angeles from San Francisco Friday to take up the work of his new position, and was accorded an unusual reception when he alighted from his special car at the Arcade sta tion. The delegation that greeted him was made up of laborers in overalls, who had gathered to express their gratifications at his appointment. The new assistant general manager will have complete charge henceforth of all lines from San Francisco on the coast line and Sacramento on the valley line to El Paso. Father Sanctions Truancy. Patrick Scott, 7 years old, son of Joseph Scott, for seven years member of the Board of Education, has for i week been a truant from the Los An gelea city schools and with the full approbation of his father. At a meeting of the Board of Kdu cation last Tuesday night, Mr. Scott spoke against the half-day school and hurled defiance at the truant officers by announcing that he was going to have his boy play truant until the con ditions are remedied. The defy came when Deputy Super intendent J. B. Monlux announced that the additional teachers were being em ployed for half-day session schools, necessitated by the rapid growth of the city. "This system of having the school children eat at 11:30 and go to school at 12 to stay there all the afternoon Is abominable," declared Mr. Scott, "and I want to serve notice on this board now, that my boy, suffering under the system, is going to play truant until this condition Is remedied. "It is better for us to cut off our . school term a week or two if necessary. If we should not have enough money to run them for the full term, and WffMWIBIIBWWWMIIMMII spend right now to relieve this situ ation." The Board of Education has voted to remedy the condition, but In the mean time Patrick is enjoying a vacation. After weeks of consideration the City Council has passed the ordinance cre ating a .special commission to super vise the work of the bureau of fire alarm and police telegraph and cleared the way for the early Installation of a new fire alarm and police signal sys tem in Los Angeles. This ordinance will become effective In three weeks. Under the new ordinance the bureau of fire alarm and police telegraph is consolidated with the city electri cian's department. The special commis sion is to consist of the chairman of the puhlic safety committee, the city electrician, chief of the fire depart ment and chief of the police depart ment. The ordinance makes City Electri cian Manahan superintendent of the bureau of fire alarm and police tele graph. He will have direct supervision of the construction of the new signal system. In time his salary will be raised from $200 to $250, in view of his additional duties. "I will stick to the girl; I do net care a rap about the money," said Carl Richardson, the 23-year-old son of C. W. Richardson, a merchant of San Ber nardino. Richardson, the father, has declared that if his son Insists on marrying a girl who- wears a hobble skirt he will make a new will, leav ing out a $6000 Item In the son's favor. Young Richardson is not worrying. He weighs 200 pounds, and believes he is able to take care of himself and a wife. The girl he intends to marry Is Miss Marina A. Fox, of Los Angeles. She wore a hobble skirt to San Bernardino last Sunday, and when Papa Richard son saw it, he called his son aside and delivered his ultimatum. "Miss Fox was merely dressed as other girls of the present day dress," said Carl. "Father Is not used to the modern styles. The dress wasn't ex treme. ' Penniless . and friendless, estranged from his family and "by the world forgot," J. W. Ellsworth lies dying at the San Bernardino County Hospital. He gave a fortune to charity and re ceived none. Once wealthy, his name sounded in praise by unfortunates from one end of California to the other, his labors perpetuated by dozens of philanthropic institutions that he started, Ellsworth is nearlng his end, hopeless and help less in the last days of his struggle against consumption. Ellsworth Is a Shriner. and his last moments are softened by the aid of that order, a stipend not great enough to give him great comfort, and yet enough to bring into his last days an occasional luxury. At that Ellsworth shares his little revenue with his children, from whom he has been separated for years. Ellsworth's present condition Is a living evidence that the casting of bread upon , the waters is not always iouowea Dy remuneration. Yet he doesn't complain. In a queer autobiog raphy that he has written and placed in the hands of Dr. C. C. Browning, he says: Reason Is Pointed Oat. "I believe that the real reason my wife is teaching school today In order to support herself and , children and that I am being cared for by the Ma sonlo order, Is tnat I left the work D Will Phone, that God called me to do In order to make money." It was he who started the Florence Crittenton Home in Los Angeles after having started a similar Institution in San Francisco. "My total gifts to religious and charitable work amounted to a little more than $180,000," he says in the story of his life. "Of this $60,000 was given in the year 1900; Crittenden and Gregory, attorneys in San Francisco, have or had the book containing the 1900 gifts. The book of record which I kept before. the year 1900 was de stroyed in the great fire in San Fran cisco in 1906." It was that disaster which robbed him of his fortune and which later broke his spirit, undermined his health and left him a poor, helpless piece of humanity to drift along to his day of doom. N George "Williams, who served four years as Councilman, during the admin istration of ex-Mayor George Alexan der, has been appointed to fill the va cancy caused by the resignation of Councilman Reed on account of illness. In the following interview Williams set forth the policy that he said he would pursue. "I am for a new City Hall on the Temple Block site. That was my at titude during all the time I was a mem ber of the Council. I think we should do our best to shape up something def inite and start construction of the new City Hall as soon as possible. I shall do all I can to further the improvement and have It become a reality at the earnest possible date. t e should distribute the Owens River water as soon as possible, bend ing every effort to get the aqueduct water on a revenue-producinsr basis. This is a matter of vital importance to tne people. "Another matter of highest import ance to the city is the completion of the power project and the municipal oisinoution oi power. 1 nope the pend me ueKui.iiii.iuns win De successful, so tnat tnere may be no further delav on the matter. If these negotiations are not successful the city should vote bonds with which to install its own aistnoutlng system." A new City Hall Is needed to accom modate the prisoners arrested by the lkjs Angeies police. The present build ing has been enlarged to keep up with me pace or increased volume of busi ness and the expansion of other divt slons of the Police Department, This is evident from the conditions now ex Isttng in the Jail wherein orison able to furnish bail and awaiting trial are compelled to pass the time in stuf fy cell-rooms and take their chances on getting a decent place to sleep The matter was taken to the atten tion of the county grand iurv and mem bers of that body visited the jail a few days ago and made a thorough Inspec tion of the out-of-date prison. It is not unlikely that when the grand jury issues its report this subject will re ceive attention. Jailer Shand says he is doing his ut most to accommodate the inmates of the Jail, but the limited" facilities makes it impossible for each prisoner to be comfortably situated. During the last month the daily average of misdemean or prisoners reached 240 persons. These men nao only zis bunks for their ac commodation. The extra prisoners confined on the first floor and in one tanK on tne second floor. They sleep on the bencheft and tables -each nie-ht .T-he matron's department la somewhat Will 7 Main 7070 or A better, but even that is crowded and the whole structure would be a fire trap in case of fire. ICICLES CARRIED ON HEAD But Mrs. O'Brien Objected to Adorn ment on Her Hair. CHICAGO, Feb. 16. Lieutenant Gur- ney, clad in his newest and warmest uniform, drew his official swivel cialr up beside a nice warm steam radiator in the South Chicago police station and mused. Outside Mr. Mercury and Jack Frost were struggling over possession of the zero mark. Suddenly the office door opened and in stepped a woman from whose head hung lots' of Icicles instead of locks of hair. "What's this, a Joke?" asked Lieuten-i ant Gurney, rising to receive his caller, Well, I should say this Is no Joke," retorted Mrs. Mary O'Brien, with i frown literally frozen on her face. "A. joke, is it? Well, if you call it a joV e for a woman s husband to duck hfer head in a bucket of cold water on, a day like this, then it is a Joke. BiYt I cannot see the joke. I want him locjced up." "Well, I declare," said the lieutenant. "He ure did give you a cold recepftion and he ought to be locked up." But as Mrs. O'Brien's icy locks thawed' out in the warm station so did her heart, and, turning a dropping race to the lieutenant, she said: ""Well, maybe, I'll have him arrested. V guess it's pretty cool in those cells jusl. now." MARGERY HART WINS PRIZE (Continued From Page tyl) history of the marble halls, the gentle man replied that their creatlon was brought about by the same forces that had been at work In KeriAucky and other limestone regions kiotetic or mo tion forces and a bit of th:rt boundless chemical activity that Is gblng on un ceasingly in the Immense laboratory of the earth. The fracture and dis location of calcareous tor limestone strata during periods of upheaval left crevices or faults, through which water could penetrate. The water became laden with carbon dioxTUe. and humic acid, or other dissolving elements, and passing along these natural highways. disintegrated the Hmesltone and swept it away, leaving empty! rooms and hol low tubes walled In byf the harder sub stances. As to the origin of fine stalactites and the beautiful incrustations, he pre ferred to quote from Lieblg: "The mold of the fuperficial soil, be ing acted upon by , moisture and air, evolves carbonic aid. which is dis solved by rain. Thel rainwater thus im pregnated, per meatI ng the calcareous strata, has the power of taking up a portion of the lirrse, which it retains in a liquid condition, until from evap oration the excess of carbonic acid is parted with, when the- lime again re turns to its solid state and forms the incrustations." , The discolorations which' are noticed in certain of tb stony draperies are caused by impurities which the water has collected j.'rom superincumbent strata through 'which it has had tb pass. Leaving the cf.ves reluctantly late in the afternoon, The Mazamas spent an other night at ' the base of old Gray back, returned fcn foot the next day to their waiting automobiles, and motored luxuriously bafk to Grants Pass. Here the hospltablei thoughtf ulness of their hosts was still) evinced by a multitude of pleasant coffirtesles, and the travel era returned t Portland on their spe cial train that night, feeling pride in the caverns -Whose marvels they had seen no less tifian in the cordial friend liness of the t citizens of Grants Pass whose kindly spirit had made their visit possible and so eminently sue cessful. ,, r r' AD TFi: T' 60S5 MI A W INEXPERIENCED FARMER MAKES , PROFIT IN SMALL OREGON RANCH i v 1 -- - Hf ns Lay "When Fed, Despite Predictions of Neighbors Crops Raised Prom Newly-Cleared Grotmd Hay for Winter Put Up From Small Tract Land Easily Cleared by Dynamite and Horses. BY MATTIE VANS. WE were living In a good town in the State of Washington. Husband had been admitted to tfhe bar and had his share of law prac tice. As the years rolled by, his 'thoughts often turned to "Webfoot," where he had lived when a boy, at tended district school, -went fishing or hunted chipmunks and ate salmon berries. He thought of the warm, misty Fall rains that freshened every thing, the green woods and the glossy Oregon grapes with their purple bunches of berries, but he did not re member the mud or any objectionable feature of Oregon life! So at last John and I moved; we came down to "Webfoot." He listened to several real estate men, but finally found a place himself. It was the oldest ranch In the coun try. It had an old neglected orchard, all mossy and top-heavy long branches sweeping the ground. John saw a great, future in those trees. He would, dehorn them and thin out the worst specimens. But the old house, that was the worst! The road bad been changed so It ran in front of the kitchen. The house looked out over the ranch. It had one narrow dormer window and a window on each side of the cramped, little old porch. Wild blackberries ran riot everywhere. The berries seemed, so small that I hardly thought them worth picking, but others, did, and sold some to us for SO cents a gallon. ' House Some "Cheesy." Our fun really commenced when we rummaged through that old house. It had not been vacant long. The farmer tenant had many cows, and he made cheese, mostly llmburger. In fact that house had been a cheese factory. The pantry floor had received all the whey drained from the vats. The foul odor permeated the whole house. Even John admitted that he could smell it, although he had always been proud to affirm that his sense of smell was deficient. John went to the village and bought several packages of Pearline.' He opened up the rooms and went to scrubbing. He worked hard for two days; then opened up the house and left it all night. When he went back In the morning the house smelt worse than ever. He declared that he found llmburger in every corner. Finally he ended it by having that old house torn down and building a small cottage. All this time we camped In the old apple house near by. It was Summer, and pleasant living out In the fresh air. Our nearest neighbor, a tall, raw- boned, sallow-looking man, with gray fringe of whiskers and almost toothless, was much Interested in our work. He gave us a great deal of advice. From the appearance of his little farm, he used up about all of his energy in attending to others (in the way of advice) and chewing tobacco: I saw so many chickens at the Smith place I concluded I would buy some eggs of them. Mr. Smith was in the house. His wife said they were ot getting an egg. Mr. Smith said: "No, our chickens have got too blamed fat to lay." "What do you feed them?" I asked. "Xothin"," he responded. And i those chickens were actually scratching for a living. As soon, as our house was ready tor - - ; us, we thought of & cow and some chickens. We bought a nice little black cow. They said she was a cross between a Holsteln and a Jersey. She was a Jewel so kind,! and gave, when fresh, five gallons of milk each day, as rich in quality as the best Jersey's. Next we must get some chickens. AVe drove around the country for two days before we could Snd any for sale. When we asked the reason why there were none for sale, they told us the smaller buyers came around and offered the farmers more than they could get in the Portland market. We finally bought a dozen hens, a few of them Plymouth Rock, the most of them nearly white with small top nots. We bought a full-blooded young Plymouth Rock rooster. Then, the following Spring, we were ready to engage in poultry-raising. Only nine of those hens ever wanted to set. I managed to set them at the same time, and let two of them raise all the chickens. Every egg that we set hatched, and each hen became broody, twice, so the setters each had to hatch out two flocks of chickens. Best of all, I lost only one chicken. That was accidentally killed. So from my nine setting hens I raised 155 nice chickens. The queer part of this was that our new chickens were beautiful Plymouth Rocks in color (barred). All had the cutest little topnots. They were cer tainly a new, vigorous breed. They commenced laying younger than the old Barred Rocks, nd were almost non-setters. Chickens Lay When Fed. It- was with a great deal of satis faction that we supplied all the neigh bors with eggs next Fall and Winter when eggs were Ugh in price. Our chickens were fed HI they could eat, whole wheat, also bran and shorts mixed with scalded milk. I found that too much scalded milk disagreed with them. Then we still received advice from our wise neighbors. They thought that we fed the chickens too high. John said to them: "What is the dif ference; we get the eggs all right." Some thought it was the sunflower seed (we raised an acre of Mammoth Russian.) Others thought it must be the hen-house, and they looked it all over and gave it up. Our first crop of hay ' certainly had GIRLS! GLEAN AND RUFF - - Try This! Makes Hair Soft, Glossy, Pluffy, Abundant Stop Wash ing the Hair With Soap. Surely try a "Danderlne Hair Cleanse" if you wish to immediately double the beauty of your hair. Just moisten .a cloth with Danderlne and draw It carefully through your hair, taking one small strand at a time, this will cleanse the hair of dust, dirt or any excessive oil in a few minutes you will be amazed. Tour hair will be wavy, fluffy and abundant and possess an Incomparable softness, luster and luxuriance. DaND one of ' ORY turned out well. From one and three fourths of an acre John cut six tons and a half. Our little barn was filled to overflowing, and John gave several loads to the man who hauled it and stored it in the barn. This was cheat hay that had been planted in the Fall. William Smith looked at It while it was growing. "Well," he said, "I think the cheat looks mighty streaked." The truth later developed that our little patch yielded more than Smith's entire ranch. His had been neglected, allowed to volunteer so of ten that the land was worn out. When the Fall rains came John got ready to clear a few more acres. He hired a man and bought dynamite to "blow out" the stumps. In a day or two all the stumps were demolished. Then the work of piling and burning commenced. After that was done, the small firs were pulled out by the roots with our faithful span of horses. When the trees were small, several were chained In a bunch and by turning dif ferent ways and steady pulling they came out quite easily. They were dragged in piles and burned. By Spring our new acres were ready for planting to spuds. The tract un cleared was burned over and clover seed sown for a pasture. We had by this time our cow, a yearling heifer and a young calf, also our span of horses. The open well we found on thef ranch we replaced as soon as we could with a bored well. When the re quired depth had been reached cement tubing was Immediately put down. Then a good force pump was put In. "We had as fine water as Bull Run. The real estate men who passed through our neighborhood to show wouldbe land buyers the country, al ways stopped to have the men sample the water and to show them the six acres or newly cleared land, with Its promising crop, all developed in one year by an inexperienced farmer. Our first year's experience with such a small flock of hens was very satis factory. John carried the eggs to market, (we averaged two and one half dozen a day) with-two and some times three rolls of butter a week. Our merchant paid cash for them. It was a fact that they all said that our eggs were the largest that came Into the store. With some unavoidable disappoint ments, I feel assured that John and I did make the ranch pay. BEAUTIFY HAIR 25 CENT E Besides beautifying the hair, one ap plication of Danderlne dissolves every particle of dandruff; Invigorates the scalp, stopping itching and falling hair. Danderlne is to the hair what fresh showers of rain and sunshine are to vegetation. It goes right to the roots, invigorates and strengthens them. Its exhilarating, stimulating and life-producing properties cause the hair to grow long, strong and beautiful. You can surely have pretty, soft, lustrous hair, and lots of It, if you will just get a 25-cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine from any drug store or toilet counter and try it as directed. Adv.. DANDER N
