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PAN-AMERICAN FINANCIAL CONGRESS OPENS TOMORROW
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lly JOHN F1ARUKTT.
inreclor CJenerul of tho Pan-American
Union,
PAN-AMERICA and Pan-Americanism
are becoming the slogans of
the hour. The people of this coun
try are awakening, an never before, to
an appreciation of the Importance of
the relations of the United States
with its 20 sister American republics.
These countries and their pooples, in
turn, nre showing today a more kindly
feeling than they have ever done be
fore toward the United States and its
peoph-.
While the work and propaganda of
the rail-American Union, the official
international organization maintained
in WashinBton by the 21 American re
publics and devoted to tho develop
ment of commerce. friendship and
peace among them all, together with
the altitude aud addresses of Its gov
erning board, has been in a large de
cree responsible for this new spirit
of Pan-Americanism. tVie Kuropean war
has also been a mighty influence in
its promotion. Considering the effect
of the great political and international
events of history on the policies of na
tions, it might be said that the Euro
pean war has done more than any
other similar influence since the dec
laration of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823
to encourage solidarity, common sym
pathy, common interest and common
purpose among the republics of the
Western Hemisphere. In other words,
tho silver lining of the Kuropean war
cloud might be described as the fa
vorable effect which that terrible con
flict has had upon both the commercial
and political relations of the American
nations.
I.ntln Americans Invited.
Recognizing the extraordinary bear
ing and Influence of the war on the
financial and diplomatic relationship
between the United States and Latin
America, President Wilson, acting on
the recommendation of Secretary of the
Treasury MoAdoo, and duly authorized
by Congress, extended invitations last
March to the governments of all the
other American republics to send their
Ministers of Finance and three repre
sentative men in their official or pri
vate financial life as delegates to a
rail-American financial conference to
meet in Washington In the week of
-May 24-29. At this writing every
country invited has accepted the in
vitation and has appointed delegates.
The only countries not participating are
Mexico and Haiti, and their absence is
due to unavoidable political conditions.
There will be present approximately
BO picked men from all over Latin
America, together with the Ambassa
dors and Ministers of these countries
who have received a special Invitation
from the Secretary of the Treasury. In
addition to these delegates and diplo
mats. Secretary McAdoo has also in
vited a select list of representative
barjkers, financiers and commercial
leaders of the United States, and also
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POINTERS ARE GIVEN ON
FEEDING OF CHICKENS
Study of Composition of Fowls' Flesh and Eggs Suggested in Planning
Rations to Give Effects Most Desired in Poultry Yard.
BY IV. Lt'DWIG. '
THE term protein designates the
compounds found in the tissues of
all plants and animals and feed
uffs which contain nitrogen. Some
times these compounds are referred to
as nitrogenous substances because
their most distinguished characteristic
is the constant presence of nitrogen.
Nitrogen is an absolute essential to an
imal life and It Is because of this fact
that the nitrogenous compounds are
called proiein. Carbon, hydrogen and
oxygen and sometimes sulphur, phos
phorous and Iron are found in the pro
tein compounds.
Protein is the substance which forms
the white of the egg. Casein in milk
and gluten in wheat flour are familiar
examples of protein. The most impor
tant group of materials found in the
body is protein, as it forms the base of
all living tissue. It supplies the mate,
rial for bone, muscles, skin, blood,
feathers and eggs. It produces the
tissue desired in growing chicks or
young animals and repairs and builds
up the waste tissue in the adult.
The flesh of poultry contains a
greater portion of protein to fat than
t found in other animals. More than
31 per cent of approximate composition
of a Leghorn hen is protein, while it
constitutes 4S.9 per cent on nearly half
of the total dry matter. The newly
laid egg contains 11.4 per cent of pro
tein and with the large amount of
water and ash it constitutes 49.8 per
cent of the dry matter of the contents
of the egg. The dry matter of the
white of the egr is nearly 94 per cent,
while that of the yolk is more than
31 per cent protein.
Wheat High In Protein.
Trie average protein content of wheat
Is about 12 per cent and corn a trifle
more than 10 per cent. Our most com
mon grains have about the same ratio
of this valuable element. By-products
Mich as wheat and middlings contain
IS. 2 per cent and gluten feed 25 per
.cut. but are fed In rather limited
1 im n t i ties.
Almost all of our grains contain the
lemetits for eirat-making, but they are
not iry the rit:IU proportion for making
the egg. Usually they contain too
much of the fattening eleemnt and not
tumuli protein or nitrogenous clement
President Wilson lo
the members of the Cabinet, the Coun
sellor and Assistant Secretaries of the
State Department, the Assistant Secre
taries of the Treasury, the Controller of
the Currency, the members of the Fed
eral Reserve Board, the members of
the Federal Trade Commission, the
Federal Reserve Agents, the Governors
of the Federal Reserve Banks, the
membrs of the Federal Advisory Coun
cil, and the Director-General of the
Pan-American Union
Wllaon to Welcome Uelcgatea.
The headquarters of the conference
will be appropriately located in the
beautiful Pan-American building. An
address of welcome to the foreign dele
gates will be made by President Wilson
in person.
According to present indications, this
conference bids fair to be one of the
most important international gather
fings which has ever been held in the
history of the United States, and cer
talnly tho most important Pan-American
meeting that has assembled since
the first great Pan-American confer
ence met in Washington in the Winter
if 1889-90, and was presided over by
James G. Blaine, then Secretary of
State. The estimate which the govern
ments of Central and South America
have placed on it is shown by the
recognized prominence, ability and
quality of the men whom they have
appointed delegates.
If this conference is a success. It may
mark the beginning of a splendid new
era in the commercial, financial, eco
nomic and political relations of the
United States with all the countries
which reach from Mexico and Cuba
south to Argentina and Chile. To be,
however, a success, it must achieve
tangible practical results, which will
enable the delegates to return to their
respective countries feeling rewarded
for the time and trouble they have
taken in accepting the Invitation of
the United States Government. If
nothing more Is accomplished than a
careful discussion of Pan-American
financial and commercial problems,
some good will undoubtedly come from
this exchange of opinions, but there
will be keen disappointment through
out North and South America unless
ways and means are devised for the
betterment of present conditions.
It can be assumed that one discus
sion will be of practical Improvement of
banking, exchange, credit, discount and
trade facilities in inter-American finan
cial and commercial relations and
transactions. To understand the signifi
cance of this point, it must be realized
that the Kuropean war has cast, fig
uratively speaking, a gigantic "monkey
wrench" into the commercial machin
ery of all Latin America. Prior to the
war nearly all of the banking, ex
change and discount transactions of
Latin America, in both its export and
import trade, were conducted through
banking and financial agencies in Lon
don and the capitals of continental
Europe. In other words, nearly all busi
ness of this character was in pounds
sterling and continental European
which Is the most expensive part of
the ration.
If results are desired it is necessary
to supply the material in such propor
tion that the strength of the hen may
be kept without being impaired while
producing large numbers of eggs. Ex
periments have proved that for every
pound of protein contained in the food
fed to the birds there must be supplied
four pounds of carbohydrates.
Protein is the most valuable and the
most costly part of any ration. In com
pounding the ration It must be remem
bered that protein is indispensable and
that its place cannot be satisfactorily
filled by carbohydrates or fat. If the
protein content of the feed consumed
is In excess of that amount which is
required to build tissue and for egg
production, it- is burned in the body
like carbohydrates and furnishes mate
rial for the formation of fat.
Insect Provide Protein.
Grains contain some portion of pro
tein, but the poultrymen must depend
upon other things to supply it in the
proper quantity. . Nature provides
worms, grubs and insects which are rich
in protein value. These elements are
readily obtained when the birds are al
lowed to roam over the range, where
enough bugs and worms can be picked
up to supply the amount of animal
food necessary and thus largely supply
the meat requirements of their ration.
If the birds are confined protein in the
proper quantity must be supplied in the
form of green bone, beef scrap, milk
and oil meal.
Fresh meat is undoubtedly the most
palatable feed of animal origin, but
the cost of it Is beyond the reach of the
average poultryman. Meat or beef
scrap Is the best form of supplying this
demand. It Is composed of the meat
trimmings from various animals
slaughtered at the packing-houses.
These are cooked under steam pressure
for a given number of hours to render
the fat. This sterilizes it completely
and kills any bacteria of a detrimental
nature which might be present. No
poisonous matter is apt to be found In
scrap prepared in this way, as is some
tlmes.found in the manufacture of low
grade meat scrap to which no treat
ment Is given that would purify it: In
other instances it is treated with a
strong acid. Where sueh methods are
followed there is danger of disease
riTK SUNDAY
Welcome Delegates Who Seek to Establish Banking and
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money Instead of in dollars of the
United States. The war suddenly cut
oft completely these facilities, and both
Latin-American nations and the United
States found themselves without ma
chinery for the exchange of trade.
It is indeed an anomalous condition
that, although the United States In the
last normal year before the .war broke
out, 1913, bought and sold products with
Latin-America value in excess of $800,
000,000, nearly all of the exchange and
discount transactions covering this
trade was done through Enropean bank
ing connections. Naturally, therefore,
the war suddenly stopped the working
of this machinery and it became neces
sary for the banking, financial and
commercial interests of both the United
States and Latin-America to devise a
new plan of action and build up new
machinery. Much has been done al
bacteria in the feed, or a strong acid I
residue may remain when ready for J
luamei. ueer scrap or tnis cnaracter
has been known to cause the loss of
valuable birds. After submitted to
great steam pressure they are then
ground to various degrees of fineness
and sacked. Prepared in this manner,
it will keep for a long period if stored
in a cool, dry place. In purchasing
meat scrap it is eafest to buy only
that with a guaranteed analysis and
from a known and reliable firm. An
examination of the meat may be made
by placing a small quantity on a piece
of white paper and carefully noting
the particles, which have more or less
the appearance of a "dark brown
glass." These .will be found to repre
sent the hoof and horn, which are very
rich in nitrogen, but not in the form
that is adapted to the nutrition of
fowls. A small quantity of meat can
be placed in a dish covered with boil
ing water, and if there is a putrid
odor it indicates decomposition and
the scraps should not be used. The
safest plan is to consult the analysis,
as It varies widely in protein, some
times running as low as 30 per- cent
and again as high as 80 per cent.
Milk laed for Meat.
Beef scrap is adapted to chicks and
fowls at all ages and is the most gen
erally used source -of animal protein
there is. In some sections It is being
displaced by the use of milk and milk
pr6ducts. Beef scrap should not exceed
from 5 to 10 per cent of the total feed.
When it is fed to market stock it can
be liberally fed. . Several tests in feed
ing beef scrap at Cornell to poultry
proved that the ones receiving it from
the start grew faster than those that
did not receive it. The proportion of
animal matter fed the first two weeks
was 13 per cent, second to fourth
weeks was 14 per cent and fourth to
eighth weeks was 9 per cent. In an
egg-producing ration it is safe to feed
It at the rate of 5 to 10 per cent of
the total feed. The exact percentage
varies with the analysis of the meat
and the character of the other com
ponents of the ration. It is usually
fed to the birds by mixing It with the
dry mash, permitting the birds to have
constant access to it. If at any time
it is desirable to force the birds for
some particular purpose the scrap is
often fed in separate hoppers. In or
der for the birds to do their best they
must have the meat In some form and
In such quantity that la ample for
their need3.
The buyer should remember that the
word "beef scrap" does not imply any
thing so far as the quality is con
cerned. The price should bo governed
ty tho protein content. It can be said
that some of the beef scrap on the
market is good only for fertilizer.
Green cut bone is also another source
OREGONIAN, PORTLAND,
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ready along this line, as is illustrated
by the action of the National City Bank
of New York City in establishing
branches in Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and preparing
to open offices in other cities and ports.
This effect, however, is far from being
sufficient, and now a general feeling
pervades the Pan-American financial
and commercial world that there should
be established, in the capitals and prin
cipal cities of each of the 20 Latin
American countries, banks controlled by
United States capital which can care
for direct exchange In dollars and act
as foreign credit agencies for the buy
ers and sellers of both North and South
America. It is hoped, consequently, that
the work of the Pan-American financial
conference may accomplish something
practical along this line.
Another Important question, which in
of animal matter for poultry and Is
seldom fed. as poultrymen are not
equipped to grind it. It is a stimulat
ing product and is unexcelled as an
egg producer. In warm weather it is
hard to keep fresh, as It molds and be
comes tainted. It should be cut daily
and then used. It is difficult at times
to keep the grinder sweet. It is fed
either dried or green. After the meat
has .been trimmed from the bones they
are run through grinders or cutters
and fed to the poultry when fregh.
This is a palatable and nutritious food.
This food cannot be shipped or kept
any length of time before It spoils.
It is usually prepared on the farm or
in the market for a local trade. The
fowls are very fond of meat in this
form and care must be taken- not to
feed an excess or any that is tainted
In the least, as it is conducive to the
infestation of the intestines by round
worms. Some caution must be exer
cised in feeding bone. Some poultry
men start with half an ounce a bird
at first, gradually Increasing the
amount to an ounce a bird three or
four times a week. The amount per
bird should never exceed an ounce a
bird a day.
Pork and fats are sometimes used
to give weight when mixed with beef
scraps and is a cheapen product than
the lean meat that contains the protein,
besides it has a low digestibility, for
which reason it is not as desirable as
beef scrap.
Blood Products Not Kateemrd.
Dried blood and blood meal are of
doubtful value and are not palatable
for poultry. Wheeler found that even
when supplemented by bone meal
dried blood gave a much slower growth
when fed to ducklings than did one
containing meat scraps or another con
taining milk albumen supplemented
with bone meal. Lack of' palatability
appeared to be the cause.
Fish meal is beginning to be fed by
many poultrymen . with splendid re
sults, the protein value being as much
as o per cent In some products. There
are t,wo kinds of fish scrap on the mar
ket. One is made of the refuse flsk
and is only fit for fertilizer, and the
other Is made from the whole fish
and is cooked, dried and ground. A
misconceived idea that has existed
among poultrymen who have fed fish
scrap is that it taints the egg. Then
another class says that the proper ar
ticle does not flavor the egg In any
manner, besides the eggs have greater
fertility and that the chicks have
higher vitality. Many poultrymen who
find fault with fish scrap are unwit
tingly feeding a commercial dry mash
that contains a liberal portion of fish
scrap in it.
Analyses of 45 dry mashes on the
market showed 15 of them to contain
fish scrap and eight to lack any animal
3IAY 23. 1V13.
Commercial Relations With
if
a sense is corollary to the one first dis
cussed, is the development of conditions
favorable to the placing in the United
States of governmental, provincial, mu
nicipal and responsible private loans of
the Latin-American countries, which
were formerly placed almost entirely In
Europe. During a long period of years
and up to the outbreak of the war,
nearly all Latin-American bonds and
loans, whether official or private, were
floated in London or the capitals of
continental Europe. This market was
completely cut off by the war. and will
probably remain closed to Latin-America
for many years to come. It is,
therefore, absolutely necessary for the
financial and commercial Interests of
both North and South America to get
together in this situation. The Latin
American countries. In view of the re
markable progress that they are now
matter. Fish scrap may be fed In al
most the same manner as beef scrap.
Experience shows for layers that from
one-seventh to one-tenth of the mash
mixture is the proper proportion. A
poultryman declared recently that good
fish scrap Increased the size of the
egg, as well as the quality of the shells.
He has noticed that several days after
a moderate amount had been added to
the ration there was a 10 per cent In
crease in weight of eggs.
, Milk Supplies Protein Need.
Milk when fed in large quantities
furnishes protein in an easily digested
form. It is desirable on account of the
protein content which it carries and
also on account of its palatability.
Skim milk, especially the sour mate
rial, should be used more extensively
by poultrymen in the feeding of all
classes of poultry, aslt not only car
ries a high nitrogenous content, but
is palatable and the presence of the
lactic acid material aids digestion. It
possesses beneficial effects when fed
to birds In large quantities. In fat
tening poultry on commercial lines it
is used to moisten the mashes. The
feeding of buttermilk or sour milk to
baby chicks reduces the danger of in
fection and the spread of white
diarrhea.
Success in feeding poultry is a con
stant source of study, observation and
good Judgment. Mixtures of grain and
mill products ground grains can be
prepared and placed before the birds in
hoppers, permitting them to help them
selves, but in animal substances con
stant observation Is required, other
wise a wrong diet will result' quickly
in heavy mortality. The following table
shows the composition of various poul
try feeds and of the finished product:
Material and
Products.
Feeds
Corn
Oats
Meat scrap
Green clover
Finished products
Hen
Pullet
Capon
Freeh egg
ilO.B 10.3 6.0'72.
1.5
3.0
4.1
2.1
3.8
3.4
3-7
11.0 U.S. 5.0.63
110.7 00.2 25.0 .. .
ITO.S,: 44i 1.1 21.6
.'5.8 21.6 18.8..
.U5.5 21.lVlS.tt'.
. 4 1. ',. 4 -."l.".. St!.
. !.7 12.SI S.Oi.
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Study of Components Proposed.
The feeder recognizing that there is
close relationship which exists be
tween the composition of feed con
sumed and the products therefrom is
able to select those feeds which pro
duce the results desired. For the basis
of a fattening ration to fatten capons
the selection naturally would be corn,
which is rich In fat and carbohydrates.
A ration to feed the mature hen for egg
United States Capital and Business.
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making, must have money from this
country for a thousand and one pur
poses. Just as the United States in its
earlier days had to borrow money from
Enrope. and later the Central West
and Far Western sections of the United
States from the Eastern states.
Without such help, there may follow
a long prostration of economic develop
ment in some of the republics of Cen
tral and South America. It might,
therefore, be said at the present mo
ment that Latin America needs the
money of the United States more than
it does its merchandise, and that, if
the financial and banking interests of
the great Northern Republic could loan
$1,000,000,000 during the next five years
to Latin-American governments, states,
municipalities and responsible private
companies, they would be taking steps
which would increase the commerce of
the United States with those countries
an equal amount. It is believed that
the Pan-American financial conference
will help greatly in bringing about
this result.
Better Ship Service Needed.
Another point bearing possibly more
directly on the commercial than on the
financial situation is the betterment of
first-class passenger, mail and freight
steamship facilities between the prin
cipal ports of the United States and
those of many of the Latin-American
countries. At the present time the only
first-class service flying the United
States flag Is that which exists be
tween the ports of the United States and
those of the ports of the countries bor
dering on the Gulf of Mexico and the
Caribbean Sea. When the war broke
out. It produced almost as much of a
blockade for the ports of Eastern and
Western South America proper as It
would have if the countries of South
America themselves had been at war
with Europe. Fully 90 per cent of the
exports and Imports of these South
American countries, including their
trade with the United States, was car
ried in vessels flying European flags
and mostly the flags of the nations
at war. If there ever was a time and
moment when a merchant marine fly
ing the United States flag could have
done or could do a mighty service, it
was then and now.
Having learned a sad lesson from
this situation, the governments, as well
as the financial, commercial and busi
cerned, must consider In a practical
ness interests of the countries con
way what can now be done to provide
new steamship lines which will fly
either the flag of the United States or
the flags of the South American coun-
production would consist of meat scrap
and green clover because of the large
amount of protein and water. Studying
the table one will readily understand
why a high egg yield cannot be rea
sonably expected from birds that are
fed on an exclusive corn diet and why
other feeds besides corn Is required to
bring the pullet to maturity in good
laying condition. A properly balanced
ration should show a proper relation
between its nutrient content and the
compound desired In the product. When
eggn are considered as the manufac
tured product it is plain that raw ma
terials of the right kind and in proper
amount are essential to their abundant
production.
A bird in reality is a machine. It
can be compared to an automobile, the
engine of which must be kept running
at a low speed but must have reserve
power when the occasion requires. The
fuel required to keep the engine run
ning at ordinary speed may be likened
to the feed required for the bird's
maintenance. When greater power Is
needed additional fuel i supplied and
the speed is increased. So it Is with the
bird. When a certain product is de
sired, feed in addition to what is re
quired simply for maintenance must be
supplied in the proper proportion and
of the composition which will best at
tain the desired end.
SETTLER'S HISTORY TOLD
(Continued From Flr-t Fm.'
Ewing Young's grave. 200 yards away
In the pasture, for a stroll.
Smith had been caring for Young's
grave and on their arrival there, see
ing that the dirt bad become omewhat
settled. . tilted the four-square paling
over and leveled the covering with a
stick. Miranda had found an acorn in
the leaves that littered the ground,
already bprouted. and as silly lovers
will insist in saying extremely silly
things, she proposed to Smith that she
plant the acorn in the middle of the
grave and watch to see if It would
grow. Having done so. Smith, not to
be undone, then proposed to Miranda
that she remain, on the farm Indefinite,
ly, as "his wife, in order, partly, that
they might the more satisfactorily
watch the progress of the acorn.
And it was there and then, as she
covered the acorn with the toe of her
shoe, that she consented to become Mrs.
Sidney Smith, which she did three
months later. She Is still living and
was with us last week as we visited
this Interesting locality. and stood
under the spreading branches of the
tree, grown from that acorn, and which
measures at the ground nearly eight
feet in circumference. During these 70
years she has lived in this neighbor
hood and most of the time on this
,. -r aHiiff nfcbjm
trles. There are two most important
opportunities under this head-" one for
liiK'S running between the Atlantic and
gulf ports of the United States on the
one hand, and the Atlantic ports of
the eastern coast of South America
proper on the other; and another for
lines between the correspond ing ports
of the United States and those of h
west coast of South America. The lat
ter routes, of course, would be via the
Panama Canal. Subordfnatc to tbeso
opportunities also Is that one of iha
new lines from the Atlantic and gulf
ports of the United States to the west
ern coast of Central America and
Mexico.
I'.arope la Depended On.
The importance of this phase of bet
tering commercial relations in em
phasized by comparing the countries
concerned to department stores In a
great city, where it Is impossible in
conceive that one great store would
depend upon the delivery conveyances
of a rival store to distribute the articles
purchased "by its customers. At the
present time the United States and tha
countries of Latin America are depend
ing almost entirely on the conveyances
of Europe, Instead of their own. to
carry back and forth what they buy
and sell. That the Latin American
delegates to the Pan-American finan
cial conference are thoroughly alive to
this situation is proved by Interviews
and statements which some of the more
prominent delegates have already mad
public.
If other questions affecting vitally
the financial and commercial relations
of the United States with each of tha
Latin American Republics are consid
ered by the conference, Rome of tho
topics that would naturally coma up
for discussion would be the improve
ment of lawn covering trade marks and
copyrights, tariffs, taxes on salesmen i
samples, port charges, consular in
voices, rebates, transportation ratcf,
special taxes, etc. The conditions In
volving these subjects vary In the dif
ferent countries, but in most of them
there Is chance for much improvement.
Just as has been the experience of h
United States with its own laws. Tha
present situation is no reflection on the
countries concerned, but simply a char
acteristic of the growth of any gov
ernment In Its foreign commercial rela
tions. In a brief statement of this kind it
has been impossible to touch more than
a few "high places" connected with this
great conference, but, if what I have
said here awakens tho Interest of any
reader in the financial, commercial and
economic possibilities and opportuni
ties of the Latin-American countries or
In the relationship of the United States
with them, the office of the Pan-American
Union, in that phase of Its work
which makes it to some degree a Pan
American International bureau of In
formation, will be glud to answer all
reasonable inquiries.
farm. On the 6th of this month she
celebrated her 86th birthday and is as
hale physically and bright mentally as
a vast majority of people are at 60.
She has three grandchildren llvinir in
the vicinity of Vale. Malheur County.
riniiKkter Ilrsldea In Portland.
Mrs. Smith and her hutiband lived in
the original Ewing Young cabin for
five years after their marriage. Here
their first three children were horn,
the eldest of whom is Mrs. Or. J. K.
Calbreath, now living in Portland, and
who owns that part of her father's es
tate and on which stands the histories
oak.
Sidney Smith was one of those who
attended the famous Cbampoeg meet
ing. May 2, JS43. and voted with Joe
Meek for "a divide" and an organiza
tion. Airs. Smith has had a most unique
and interesting experience in the his
tory of Oregon. To have planted an
acorn with her own hand and toe
on the grave of tho first American set
tler to die in Oregon possessed of prop
erty, to have done this on her 17th
birthday and casting the halo of good
luck on the little romantic adventure
by promising to become the wife of
her sweetheart, and to have lived the
succeeding 70 years in the midst of
those familiar surroundings, during
which time the acorn has grown into
a tree, whose -branches r 4'i feet
across, 'is a career, even the details of
which are not approached by that of
any other woman, here or elsewhere.
With the exception of the third wife
of Rev. J. I. Parrish, who is living
near Salem. Mrs. Smith in the only sur
viving widow of tho &I men who fol
lowed Joe Meek across the dtvidlnglina
more than 70 years ago. and that snn
may live many years yet is the wish
of all who have the pleasure of her
acquaintance.
"PINK MAN" IS NEMESIS
Man Leaps I'roni Speeding Train to
Escape Another Chasing.
NEW YORK, May 16. To avoid "a
little, bow-Iesgeii pink man." who, he
said, had been pestering him several
days. Michael Budish. contracting dec
orator, of 341 Howe avenue, I'assaic.
N. J., startled ,t!ie passengers In an
Erie train recently by breaking a car
window with his feet and then drop
ping out while the train was traveling
at 3S miles an houh through Passaic.
After Kudlsh's Injuries had been at
tended to at St. Mary's Hospital, he
was sent to police headquarters, where
he said that for fecveral days "a lillle,
bow-legged pink man" had been an
noying him. -