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THE SUNDAY OEEGONIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 5, 1915. CAPE BLANCO ON jOREGON COAST IS AMERICA'S WESTERN LIMIT - " Windy Promontory Arouses Imagination of Writer as He Considers Point's Lonjr Resistance Against Inroads of Sea Light for 40 Years Maintained by One Keeper Guides Ships Safely From Rocks. ,SiaVi . - '"1 v! i-1 ,f- ;J -j BY ALFRED POWERS. LANGLOIS. Or.. Sept. 4. (Special.) Cape Blanco, In Curry County, Oregon, Is the windy promontory n-here the mainland of this Nation atretches farthest toward the sunset. It is the westernmost point of the United States. "While the coast to the north and to the south crumbled away, this rocky headland still successfully defied the sea erosionless, everlasting-, impregnable to the eternal wash f stormy waves. There Is a sea to the west, a sea to the north, a sea to the south, but "upon this lofty peninsula flowers grow. It stands as It has stood In unrecedlng endurance, our westernmost dispen ' atlon of land, the farthest reach of our National Occident, the very brink of the West, closest to the crimson bars of evening-. Standing on this point from which ell the rest of the United States Is east and looking- out over the limitless area of the sea, one recalls, through eome association of Ideas or moods, the men who have historically gazed from the various edges of the world the Wandering Jew looking across Bering Straits, stout Balboa on a peak of Darlen, Napoleon, the Ten Thousand Greeks. Romance Hovrn Over Cape. The spirit of romance hovers around these distant places. Much of the ro mance of the world is a romance of reography. It is almost tangibly present at Cape Blanco. One seemn to be a part of epic forces. It is a re juvenating environment. There is much intrinsically to com mend Cape Blanco to the imagination but its projecting position in the sea, Its vanguard station, its place at the end of a compass needle, these are the things that unbind the conception and let the eyes see more than they really see. If Cape Blanco hadn't been the westernmost point in the United States I don't suppose I would have thought much about It, but. as it was. 1 lay awake a good while in a bed in the 1 tghtkeeper's big house, my mind con tinually provoked by that one thought. Sea I, Ion and Birds Frequent Site. Geographically. Cape Blanco is a little peninsula. It is a little westward reaching Florida. Standing on its 'neck one can almost sling a stone Into the Mar del Sur and the Mar del Norte, which lap at its shores. Sea lions gather here in innumerable multitudes and sea birds in even greater multitudes. The sea lions and the birds with the wind and the sea make it a dynamic locality. The sea lions cows and calves and retund bulls sun themselves upon the rocks or splash bellowingly In the waves. Little snipes, with pipestem legs, run along as smoothly as if mounted on wheels, chasing the deploying waves. The gulls count them if you can rise up with simultaneous sound and whiten heaven with their flight. Looking up at this bright moving sky of breasts and plt.ions. one can appre ciate Longfellow's description "white as a seagull's wing." Head Called Birthplace of Wind. The Cape Blanco winds are never tipgathered "like sleeping flowers." There is no passivity about those breexes. They move liRe ladies' skirts across the grass like ancient Dutch ladies' skirts when there were seven or eight of them. They assail you. these breezes, with such force as to make you walk tipsily. My companion, who Is of Cassius llke build, had not sufficient avoirdu pois to ballast him down. I had plenty of avoirdupois but this seemed only to serve most adequately as a sail; so we s Li lilteiii hi' - ? c3 Si 7(5 (Pctn czjo o ts2Lf Z, s$r-6, Cjm J?Sr7 co. fared about alike In the teeth of that Summer gale. I Heceta Head is .ihe only place I know that is anything like as gusty as Cape Blanco and Heceta Head will have most decidedly to yield the prize. The August heat may lay quiet and shimmering over the lnlnad but upon Cape Blanco will be found only a nominal Summer. It Is the birthplace of breezes. " Haya Light Sea Far. Quiet places may be found, however. On the south side of the cape, where the sea is sheltered from the wind, the waves run unbroken to the shore. Here is a natural ocean harbor a good deal like the one at Port Orford. On almost any Summer morning one could successfully put out In a rowboat Here at the southern base of the shel tering cape one's unaccustomed ears can find peace and one. without dis comfort, can take off his coat. There is no better place along the whole Pacific Coast for a lighthouse than Cape Blanco, and here in 1870, at a cost of $90,000, the Cape Blanco Lighthouse was built. The material for its construction was landed from a boat on the southern shore of the cape. The lens alone cost 120.000. It Is u first-order light. The rays that go out from this light have a 45.765-candle-power brightness. Keeper on Job 40 Yean. James Langlois, the keeper. Is the veteran lightkeeper of the United States, as well as the country's super lative Westerner. Probably no other man has been so long as he in the service and certainly no other man has been so long at one light. He has been 40 years at Cape Blanco. Curi ously enough, he has never in all his life been In another lighthouse. On August 12 he rounded out two score years' of service as keeper of this one light. Mr. Langlois came to Port Orford at the age of 6. After serving In the Army several years against the Ore gon Indians, he came to Cape Blanco, at the age of i7, as first assistant keeper After six years he was pro moted to keeper. At the age of 67 he still attends to his duties. Although he has passed most of his life upon this remote and isolated r .-: - i . . . ,: 1 1 headland, he has thousands of friends throughout the state. All who have ever visited Cape Blanco Light are glad to call this hospitable, genial man their friend. Lamp Lighted 15,000 Times. This light that Mr. Langlois has lighted almost 15.000 times has done its work well. In 40 years there have been but three wrecks in the neigh borhood of Cape Blanco the Bondmore In 1895, the South Portland In 1903 when 17 were drowned, and the Fuller ton in 1904. J. W. Hughes, who is at the same time one of the most successful farm ers of Curry County, has been first as sistant keeper for 26 years. R. J. Nead, formerly of Tillamook Light, is second assistant. At one time a woman, Mrs. Brotherton, was second assistant She was transferred to California. A new law now disqualifies women from be fhg lightkeeper. 200 Visit Point Each Year. During the last 20 years there have been 4042 visitors at Cape Blanco. This average of 200 a year is pretty good, considering its remote position. It is 30 miles from Bandon along the road, although shorter by way of the beach athwart which several good sized but wadable streams flow. It is five miles from the main highwav running south from Bandon to Port Orford. There Is also a wireless station at Cape Blanco which employs five oper ators. They are a wide-awake quintet of young men and with the light keepers form a congenial community life, which lightens their isolation out there on a side button of the Nation's waistband. MILK-FED POULTRY BEST Continued From Fimt Page.) p...cu. repecnveiy, 30 per cent and 25 per cent more in weight per pound of solid food than 'the chicks which received no milk, the sour milk chicks enjoying the slight advantage of 5 per cent. . Overgrowth la Danger. Jt appears that In the case of early hatched chicks that are brooded wholly or for the most part ' Indoors, it ia necessary to exercise caution in feed ing milk or else the chicks may be grown off their feet. When milk is supplied freely to chicks it becomes all the more important that they have abundant exercise. The early aim continued feeding of milk, whether sweet or sour stimu lates growth and vigor to such an extent as to increase materially the re sistance of the chicks to whkte diar rhea organism. "That this important function which milk possesses is not due to acids that may be present or to bacteria, espe cially those of the acid-producing type, has been clearly demonstrated in our experiments. Whether the milk was fed as sweet or naturally soured or acidified by means of the Bacillus Bui garicus, the results were essentially the same," it is asserted. In each case a most favorable in fluence was exerted on the growth of the chicks, and when the miik wai supplied soon enough the death rate of the chicks was kept dfcldedjy be lowxthat of the pen which received no milk. Hence, milk, whether it is sweet or sour, is an important food for oung chicks. Dietary- Change OppoMed. That either sweet or sour milk may be used successfully as food for youn chicks is of considerable Importance In the warm Summer months it is more practical to feed ordinary sour milk. In fact, from a practical, standpoint, it is impossible to feed sweet milk,, as any milk that is supplied to- the chicks will, even in the course of an .hour or. two, undergo marked souring. On the other hand, in the early Spring it is difficult to obtain milk at will that is sufficiently soured to be classed as sour milk. Hence, it may be left to the Individual owner whether sweet or sour milk is to be used. The' same kind of milk should be .fed, however, throughout a milk-feeding period.- ' It should be stated that in all of our work on milk feeding we have obtained no evidence that milk was in the least injurious, no matter 'how young the chicks, or how sour the milk. KverJ precaution was "always . taken to pre vent the feeding of milk that was musty or mouldy. No milk should be fed that is filthy or that has been held too long. The receptacles should be cleaned and scalded frequently iu order that the best results may be ob tained. . The addition of junket tablets to sweet milk is unnecessary in practical milk feeding, as the liquid milk is ap parently relished to the same extent as that which has been curdled with rennet. y The Utah experiment station has Is sued a report, based upon nearly 1500 records of six flocks of single comb White Leghorns, .ranging in age from seven years to one year and of com mon ancestry, practically unselected as to egg production, but severely se lected for vigor. They hold that the average productive life of this strain of fowls appears at the' present time to be about four years. The average production of all the flocks the first year is 124 eggs. The average sec ond year production was exactly the same as the first, while the average of the third year was only one dozen less. The flock average of this strain of fowls in the first year is apparently between 100 and 160 eggs, the sec ond year between 105 and 140 and the third year between 100 and 130;. after that the average for all ages has been close to 90 eggs a year. There ap pears to be a fairly definite potential laying Capacity for a flock of this strain of fowls which finds expres sion in the first three years. Apparent ly nearly all of the longer-lived hens of a flock will lay more than 500 eggs; the majority of them will lay 600 or 700. while some Individual rec ords running from. 800 up to nearly 1000 may be expected. Considering only tne hens that have made a three-year or greater record, the uniformity of the three-year av erages is most striking. In flocks mak ing high first-year records the second nd third years' records were low, but the higher layers of the first year con tinued to be the highest producers o these flocks for these years. The 10 hens making the highest second year's record gave a higher three-year total than the 10 making the highest first year record. More hens have made their highest year's record after the first year than during that year. Three hens, made their highest record the fifth year. Nearly all th"e hens in, these flocks, total production or wnicii nas been extremely high, have made low or only medium first-year records. It is hard to understand why a' great many breeders of thoroughbred poul try, who are well posted in practically every other branch of their business, exhibit so little Judgment when it comes to the advertising end. After the breeding season is over a great many poultrymen discontinue their ad vertising until the next show season. They flgrure they are saving money by doing this, but are they? A first-clas advertiser knows that he must keep his name before the public even if he has nothing to sell at this time. It certainly would prove a profitable in vestment with dividends payable next breeding season If he would continue advertising only his name and the breed carried. Many poultrymen remark that there are no sale3 in trimmer and It is use less to advertise, as' no one is buying chickens. We know this is a mistaken idea, for the reason during the last several weeks we have had Inquiries where the writers could buy this or that breed of chickens. The writer does not feel that It Is within his Jurisdiction to recommend any certain breeder in answering thesej inquiries. He would rather be able at all seasons of the year to direct In quiries to the poultry advertising col umns of the paper. Right now is the time to advertise the sale of your surplus breeding stock that you do not Intend to carry through the Winter. The room on your plant is needed for the growing stock. Select your breeding birds you intend to keep and then advertise your sur plus breeding stock for sale at reduced prices for prompt purchasers. Buyers lookin for and requiring good stock will take advantage of this opportunity to purchase stock at bargain prices. It seems to the writer than no poul trytnan who intends to stay in the business and make money out of the poultry business can afford to pass up the opportunity offered in The Ore gonian's poultry advertising columns. The department is read every Sunday by countless thousands of persons in terested in poultry, many of them on the verge of making a start with thor oughbred fowls. This is a matter that should be of interest to every really wide awake poultryman. Kngland'g First Scientist. Glasgow News. The first great English scientist was Roger Bacon, who died in 1294. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but it is believed that this year marks the 700th anniversary. 'He was persecuted and condemned and much of his work destroyed, so that the extent of his dis coveries cannot bo definitely known. It is certain that he was centuries ahead of his ignorant and credulous times in chemistry, mechanics and mathematics. Branded as a magician, he was thrown Into prison. From 1277 until a short time before his death Bacon was' im mured in a filthy cell. He Is said to have invented the camera obscura. the air-pump and the diving bell and he was acquainted with the uses of opti cal lenses and the nature of gunpow der, although the projective power of gunpowder appears not to have been discovered until the following century. It is said that during a war Bacon set fire to the chief buildings in a town by using burning lenses. Toothsome ISevenge. London Echo. During the reign of Charles II, the age of gallantry. It was the custom among gentlemen when they drank a lady s health In order that they might do her still more honor to destroy at the same time some part of their cloth ing. Upon one occasion Sir Charles Sed ley was dining In a tavern and had a particularly fine necktie on. where upon one of his friends, to play him a trick, drank to the health of a certain lady, at tne same time tnrowing his neckaie in the fire. Of course Sir Charles had to do likewise, but he got even, for not long after that dining with the same company, he drank the health of a fair one. at the same time ordering a dentist whom he had. en gaged to be present to pull out a re fractory tooth which had been trou bling him. Everyone else was obliged in this manners to mourn a molar. SttbJecv for Resjnlatlon. Washington Star. "Of course, we'll have bad weather if the ground hog sees his shadow the 2d of February." "We ought to look after that!" ex claimed the man who wants all the leg- lliKiiun jwaBiuic. k-uuian x we maae a law holding the man who owns the land resposible for the conduct of his ground her AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS MADE IN ELABORATE HOOD RIVER HOME Work of Two Experts Is Carried On for Orchardists Amid Rich Appointments of Former Country Residence " - - - - . -" , of Captain C P. McCan. f IT ; ; f .If ij j-".! . " '""'p wji , . I'll-!.. . ! M , -Wssfc , BmiJsssewaiBs If ' fv?.- rv- -. - i HOOD RIVER. Or, Sept. 4. (Spe cial.) Hood River branch of the Oregon State Experimental Sta tion probably is the most unique of any in the country. The local station, maintained by state and county appropriations, finds a home in the former residence of Captain C. P. McCan, one of the most elaborate country houses in the apple valley, and the tillable acreage of the entire community comprised the ex perimental tract on which the . experts conduct tests for the purpose of solv ing problems of the orchardists. The history of the local station and Its forerunner, the Hood River Fellow ship Association's office of experiments, is interesting. In 1910 the orchardists of the region realized that they must co-operate in an effort to work out disease pest troubles that were becom ing & menace. The task was one beyond the time and former experience of the fruit inspector alone, and the agitation resulted in the organization of the Hood River Fellowship Associa tion. This organization was composed of a large percentage of the apple growers, who agreed to allow 'each acre of their tracts pay a certain assess ment for the hiring of an expert and the cost of his work. Expert Is Employed. Professor W. H. Lawrence, now at the Agricultural College of Missouri but then at the Washington Agricul tural College at Pullman, was em ployed. His work was conducted In co-operation with the faculty of the Oregon Agricultural College. A number of cases of ureaded tire blight were found. However, before the year of 1911 had passed Professor Lawrence and George R. Castner, at that time fruit inspector, had cleared the valley of the plague. In 1912 members of the Fellowship Association, declaring that it was un just for the burden of the cost pf the organization to fall on a portion of the orchardists, when the benefits were reaped by the entire community, began a campaign for the founding of the local station. The bill, providing for the local branch institution was en acted by the 1913 Legislature. The sum of $5000 annually was set aside for the station, the state appropriating 3400 and the county $2000 annually. The 1915 Legislature provided an ap propriation of $3000 annually for the years of 1916 and 1916. Two Are Experimenting. Two experts are stationed constantly at the station. Leroy Childs, a grad uate of Stanford University and Ore gon Agricultural college, nas been here this Summer studying soils and insect pests. J. R. Winston, of Rich mond, Va., a graduate of Pennsylvania State College, who had been engaged in work at the North Carolina College before coming here, is the station's pathologist. The experts may be termed the orchard physicians. They are subject to call from any orchard lst in the community. R. W. Allen, who for the past sev eral years has made a study of irriga tion and grain crops at Hermiston. lias spent a portion ' of this year at the local station, studying the new Ir rigation needs brought on by the in crease of grains and other cover crops in the orchards. Last Spring at the suggestion of the Oregon .Agricultural College faculty, who aupervise the work of the . local station, the following advisory board of orchardists for the station experts was eleeted: Upper Valley. C. P. Johannsen; Odell, Frank A. Massee: East Side, C. A. Reed, and West Side. Professor C. D. Thompson. The station apparatus was removed this Spring from an office building in the city to the former McCan home. Such a move was found economical, the palatial place being secured at, L ' ;r.i?iVr--" I """" ?" tt j . f - &e - - vc;t. I Z 3r W l;5 Alfc . l - t? nominal'rent, qecause the experts, who are making their home at the McCan home, would be clpser to the orchards in which they are conducting their work. Today the shrubs around the country home. mosquito netting tied like shoruds over them, form the prison homes for different bug pests. The experts visit their captives daily, studying their methods of living. And in the mahogany trimmed drawing room are cases of bugs, ayphides, cod dling moth-and other foes of the or chardists, all pressed and classified. Files o fcollected data are arranged where stood formerly the baby grand piano. And $500 chandeliers shed their rays of light on the station's laboratory. WAGE STANDARD IS RAISED ' (Continued From First Page.) leveling down would meet the addi tional expense cf paying better wages to the underpaid workers. The notion that there Is a definite wage fund which is incapable of in crease haacaused many to oppose any attempt to better the conditions in sweated industries. The report before us shows that, far from the minimum becoming the maximum, a larger per centage of women workers received more than $12 a week after the law went Into effect than before. S12 Class Also Larger. In answer to the question, "How were . the women who received more than $9.25, before the wage determina tions, affected?" the answer is given. "As a group they constitute a larger proportion of the total number, of women in 1914 than in 1913. and an examination of the rates received re veals that not only the proportion but the actual number getting over $9.25. but under $12. increased after the wage determinations despite the decrease in the total force of women." due to the general financial depression. "The proportion of the total force getting-$12 and over also increased." The report published by the Industrial Welfare Commission of toe State of Washington shows the same result and clearly destroys the contention that minimum wage legislation decreased the wages of the better paid. The report concludes that the net it i iri-iriTrittinni'rtiii)Mi,i increase in total female labor jost was 6 mills pe dollar of sales, an Increase which did not result . In closing any business establishments In Portland. Any report on the feature of the law dealing with learners and apprentices Is still premature, as the rulings gov erning that detail are, as yet. only ten tative. The Commission ruled that in no occupation would more-than a year of experience be required to enti tle an adult woman worker to the min imum wage awarded. In some depart ments of the stores a year was ob viously longer than was necessary to obtain proficiency. In these depart ments there was a tendency among certain employers to shift or dismiss the help at the end of a year's expe rience. This method, however, has not proved satisfactory. The employers have found that the loss in efficiency, due to frequent changing, has not at all been compensated for by the lower wage. Consequently the tendency to dis miss girls when they attained a year's experience In these unskilled depart ments has been largely checked. It will probably be found necessary in some occupations to cut down very notably the period required for the workers to be classed as experienced under the law. Horn to Make Straight Hair Curly (Society Talk.) To make straight hair nice and curly In one night by merely applying plain liquid sllmerine that's one of the best beauty secrets that baa leaked out In a long time. Borne peculiar property of this harmless fluid causes the hair to dry in Just th prettiest, most -natural-looking curia and creases imaginable. It - Is valuable as a dressing also, as it puts new life and lustr into dead-looking hair. This means that the singeing, drying curling iron can now be dispensed with forever! A few ounces of the liquid sll merine, which may bs found in any drug store, will keep the hair in wave for weeks. It Is neither sticky nor greasy and Is really quite an agreeable thing to use. It can be applied with a clean tooth brush before retiring, and the transforma tion will affoid a most pleasant surprise In the mornint. Adv. i