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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1903)
to m innel ton, rezsz-z?r&- r- nrrri i i ' Kethods to Hunuurian Millet. In sections where the hay crop is fhort, one or me nest anu quicKest catch crops is Hungarian millet. The seed Is comparatively cheap, ranging from $2 to $12.25 a bushel, and the crop does well on any good soil. In many localities farmers make a good busi ness.of sowing Hungarian millet for a bay crop on any ground from whicl . A.l 1 11.. . a crop can ue iukcii uy iue uuuuie oi August. If the crop was a cultivated one, but little preparation of the soil Is necessary. Shallow plowing and a rail"!! hnrrnwlnir will probably he futliclint In most cases. It Is gener ally considered that this millet crop is worth nil it costs to get it, and it is particularly valuable for cattle, or the grain may be saved and fed to poultry during the winter. One of the most A LATE MILLET CROP. successful poultrymen In the country has millet as a part of his winter -ration for the laying hens, sowing it on the ground from which early pota toes have been harvested. A Warm Koontlnir Peti. In a bulletin Issued by the Canadian Department of Agriculture, giving much valuable Information tor the benefit of Dominion poultry men, the following description and accompany ing Illustration of warm roosting quar ters for winter are worthy of special attention: The burlap curtain, which can be lowered in front of the fowls at night, should be tacked to a light wood frame COSVEHIENT AND COMFORTABLE. and hinged to the roof of the house directly above the front edge of the drop board. This burlap-covered frame should extend across the pen apd should fall an inch or so below the drop board. When not required In front of the fowls the frame should be hooked to the roof of the house. This frame when lowered, together with the bonrd Bides of the roosting quarters, form the warm roosting pen. The fowls will generate sufficient heat to keep themselves comfortable during a cold night. Fnrm Notes. Every farm should have a separate building where sick animals can re wive special care and attention. A renl live farmer does not keep from making mistakes, but bo does not keep on making the same mis take. Potatoes should never be marketed ""less assorted. Uniformity of size nd appearance will benefit both the buyer and the seller. It Is the small Potatoes .that Injure sales and return low prices. If you want something choice for yourself and not for market grow the Emerald Gem musknielon and the Kleckley watermelon. There are other good varieties, used mostly on account or their excellent shipping qualities, out no varieties can compare wltb those mentioned for home use, as they xcJ ji others la quality. On thin land deep cultivation will have a tendency to shorten the yield. On deep, rich, loamy soil the cultiva tion may be deeper. Pigeons will thrive on a variety, grains and grass seeds of all kinds be ns suitable, hemp and rape seeds be ing also acceptable. A onito-i fli. should hang where the birds can have access thereto. 11 Till Orminil Avutnn shells, gravel, pure water, etc., should ue provided If they are confined. This nation is increasing in popu lation faster than it is in meat pro duction. In the fifty years from 1850 to 1000 the population increased 3.28 times. Beef cattle increased 2.95; dairy cattle, 2.08; swine, 2.07; sheep, 1.83. Considering these figures in con nection with our enormous exports it does not look like the business is go ing to be overdone in the next fifty years. Just what it will be then can be only a matter of conjecture. When you go into a seed store to buy grass seed, examine it carefully, pre- leraoiy wnn a magnifying glass, on a sheet of white paper. If you discover in it, instead of timothy, the seeds of the white and yellow daisy, plnntalns, yellow dock, peppergrass, thistle, pig weed or wild carrots, or Instead of clover, seeds of the plantain, swamp woed, wax weed, chicory, or sorrel, better let it alone. If such seed were given you it would be poor policy to take it. Gotn' to the Fair. Put on yer newest caliker, an' comb the young 'una' hair, An' jump into the wagon fer we're goin' to the fair; An' we'll make the finest showin o' all the people there Fer Jeimy'll be flhe finest gal a-goin' to the fair! We've got a yoke of oxen that weigh a hundred ton, An' a mule thut in a century wuz never known to run! An two live alligators, an' rattlesnnkes to spnre Hut Jenny'll be the finest gal a-goln' to the fair! Oh, jump into the wagon! the road is smooth an' wide An' the crisp wind's kinder sayin', "It's a mornin' fer a ride!" I'm holdin' o' the ribbons! an won't the people stare! Fer Jenny she's the finest gal a-goin' to the fair! Now, don't the oi wheels rattle! we're kiverin' the groun'! white san's jest a-flyin', an' the trees air goin roun'! Jenny, with her eyes o blue an' sunny, flowin' hair finest an' the sweetest gal a-goin' The An' The to the fair! Atlanta Constitution. Oats in Place of Wheat. There are many localities In which It does not pay to grow winter wheat. Possibly because of the low price in some sections, or for other good rea sons. If winter oats will succeed they may frequently be grown with profit, for the market price is generally good. There are many advantages In grow ing winter oats, particularly In warm localities, for the season of growth is during the cool portion of the fall and taring, so that they fill well, while the spring-sown oats succumb to the warm summers. In growing winter oats the seeding should be done early In Sep tember and. on good soil. It Is true that oats will do well on less fertilizing than wheal, but, on the other hand, they pay wflll for good fertilizing. By sowing at the time specified they will gat a good start and cover the ground sufficient to protect the roots during the winter. In the spring they may be late In starting up, but they will come unless the winter has been sufficiently severe to kill them out completely. Tle plan Is well worth trying, at least on a small area. Tonic for Fwlne. The following Is a favorite mixture among some of the large hog-raisers of the central West. It Is thought to aid digestion, hsslst bone-bulldlng nnd help expel bowel worms. It comprises charcoal, one and one-hnlf bushels, common Fait, four pounds, hardwood nshes, ten pounds, slacked lime, four pounds. To be kept In a box where the hogs can eat w'hat they need. Gran for ffoadalde. Orchard grass Is a stayer. ' A rough weedy roadside in New York State was grubbed over,, plowed In spring, plowed and harrowed several times In Bummer until mellow and fine. Or chard grass was sown thickly In the falL That was fifteen years ago and the, orchard grass still holds the fort, keeping out nearly all foul growth and crlvlmr two cuttings a year, onaue uoes not Injure It much. No other choice bay grasses can hold their own like this variety. HE HAD HIS WAY. of Kllllnsr Were Not tt, Usual Ones. Yes, I was all through the civil war," ald the one-armed man, "and I had my own way of fighting when It came to a battle." "Was it a peculiar way?" asked one of the passengers. "Yes, they said it was. For Instance, my first battle was that of Williams burg. The first man I killed was an infantryman.. They were driving us when we turned and charged. I seiz ed him by the arm and foot and held him aloft for an instant and then flung him down head first and broke his neck. A dozen of us plainly heard the snap above the roar of battle. That man never knew what hurt him." "But you bad a musket," protested the man who bad spoken before. "Oh, of course. But I was fighting my own way, you see. So long as I could kill men and save cartridges it was all right. The second man I seiz ed and broke his back over my knee, the third I drowned in 'the creek, the fourth I battered against a fence un til I smashed In his skull and the fifth I chased around until he dropped dead of heart failure. "I ought to have killed ten men in that battle, but I was new at the busi ness and didn't know exactly how to go to work at It. They made me a sergeant, however, and our colonel seemed to think I had done fairly well." And did you keep up that style of fighting all through the war?" Well, no. In my next battle I had been fighting for half an hour before I got hold of a mnn. He was a young man and when I seized him by the ears he called out that he had a dear old mother at home. I have often wished that I had spared him, but the frenzy of blood was upon me at that moment. Having bis ears as a lever I slowly turned his head until I broke his neck. It went clear around till he was looking backward. "When I got hold of my second man I was cooler. I am not sure whether he offered to surrender or not. He called out something, but I seized him and flung him down and then opened the veins of his wrists with my jack knife. He must have died very quietly, for there was a smile on his face as the burial parties found him. I have no doubt that he was thankful to me in his dying moments." "And your third man?" was asked. "There was no third man. Just aa I finished the second one our briga dier came along and said that I was too strenuous and wanted to end the war too soon and I was ordered to the rear and sent home. As to how I lost my arm, that happened when I killed seven cowboys In Colorado, but I never relate the particulars of the affair. I am one who seeks no praise from bia fellow men." SCORES WOMEN'S CLUBS. Words of a Noted Chicago Preacher Have Stirred Up Great Commotion. Rev. William B. Leach, D. D., pastor of the fashionable Methodist Church in Wicker Park, a Chicago suburb, de nounces women'! clubs'. In a recent sermon In the church Dr. Leacb scored women's clubs for "aping" men's clubs In card-plnylng and even in eambllns EEV. DR. LEACH. aU(j drhlklug H styled such clubs "a curse" and charged that they led Inevitably to the neglect of children and the ruin of happy homes. "The women's clubs that I have In mind," he said, "are those mannish organizations in whose club rooms I am told the aroma of the strongest perfumes used by the ladles Is not able to keep down the pungent odors of strong drink. In those clubs the women members are accustomed to stay out late at night, perhaps for the sufficient reason' that they are In no condition to brave the Inquisitive, staring glances of the multitudes In the streets and public places earlier In the night. Homes and children and all the household duties are neglected sadly. Such a state of affairs, I say, Is disgraceful In a Christian country. I have reliable Information that ths drink habit and card-playing for money are fearfully on the increase in the club rooms of many of the most fashionable women's clubs of Chi cago." As a rule Dr. Leach preaches "gos pel sermons" pure and simple, avoid ing the more sensational topics of the day. But whenever he gets out "his big stick" for the evils of the current times he prods and pokes and hits In a way that stirs up a terrific commo tion not only among the members of his fashionable congregation at Wicket Park, but among church-goers as well as non-churchgoers everywhere. Proof of Insanity Shown. Aubrey Youah daughtah has con sented to mawy me, and er I'd like to knew If there Is any insanity in youah family? Old Gentleman (emphatically) There must be! Boston Globe. : 'fc&cience. sgjfiwention The, changing of a river's channel is the greatest project now being con sidered by Italian engineers. The Sale flows into the Mediterranean near Salermo, but it Is to be tapped in the hills, and the water taken across to the Adriatic watershed to irrigate the province of Puglia. For measuring feeble illuminations, like the Zodiacal Light and GegeU schein, M.' Touehet has devised a spe cial Instrument, resembling a theodo lite in appearance. It is provided with a constant flame and a slit regulated In width by a screw with divided head, and when the illumination of the field through tJia slit exactly equals the light to be measured, a reading is ob tained that Is easily reduced to a standard. Although there is a certain area of about three and a half acres on Man hattan Island where the density of population is at the rate of 030,000 to the square mile, yet the city of Taris shows a far greater average density of population than New York, the figures for Tarls being 79,300 per square mile, and for New York City piopuc 40,000 pc-r square mile. The average density of London's popula tion is 37,000 per square mile, and that of Berlin 07,(500. The Finsen lamps are now credited with ten cures of cancer of the skin out of twenty-two cases treated, and with cures of obstinate acne and of baldness due to bacteria. Erysipelas and minor eruptions have been treated with good results. At the Finsen In stitute are rooms for exposing patients to electrlc-llght baths and to sun-baths, and an exhaustive and promising In vestigation of the influence of-light in various nervous diseases and in in sanity is in progress. A New York man has Invented a mirror that can be made translucent at will, so that when placed in a show window it at first reflects the faces of people looking in, but suddenly turns transparent, whereupon the spectators see the contents of the window in place of their own reflections. This Is effect ed by means of a thin film on the back of the glass, which, when the back ground Is dark, reflects the .light from in front like a mirror, but when the background Is illuminated, becomes as invisible as a pane of clear glass. One of the winter sights of St Pet ersburg is a system of electric tram ways on the ice In the Neva, One runs from the left shore of the river to the island of Petrowsky, and an other from the English quay, opposite the Senate House, to the island of Basllio, near the Academy of Fine Arts. Wooden posts solidly embedded in the ice support the trolley wires. Besides these tramways many wooden roads, Intended forpedestrlans, cross the water In various directions. In sum mer bridges of boats take the place of the roads en the ice. The smelting of steel by electricity is still an attractive problem. The two furnaces built In Sweden in 1000 reached a technical solution by pro ducing steel of fine quality, but the furnaces were ruined by fire before commercial success had been attained, Another furnace planned by the same makers Is to hold 3,070 pounds, with a yearly capacity of 1,500 tons, and la to receive the current of a three bun dred horse-power dynamo. Though microscopically identical with crucible steel, the electric product Is claimed to excell In strength, density, uniformity, toughness and ease of working when cold. ERROR THAT COST DEARLY. Millions MiKht Hare Bean Saved If Aster Had Been Backed Up. When, back In 1811, John Jacob As tor, with his Pacific Fur Company, established the trading post of Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia, he took I a step which, If followed up by the support that be had a right to expect from the United States government, would soon have given this country possession of all the territory on the Pacific coast up to Russia's colony of Alaska, which came to us through pur chase in 1807, and thus have shut Eng land and Canada out of access to the great ocean. Denied by President Madison the slight measure of military aid which he asked for the defense of bis post on the Pacific In the war of 1812-15 with England, and with bis appeal to the same President for letters of marque to equip an armed vessel at his own expense to defend the mouth of the Columbia Ignored, Mr. Astor lost his post, which was sold by his treach erous British subordinates, who were temporarily In control, In 1813 to Can ada's Northwest Fur Company for a third of Its value and the place was captured by a British war vessel shortly afterward. In the settlement at the close of the war the place was given back to the Americans, but here again Madison, and subsequently Mon roe, dtnled to Mr. Astor the protection of the few soldiers which he asked and he declined to re-establish the poet. This lack of courage and foresight on the part of these two Presidents In this case was fatal to American Inter ests on the Pacific. Here are some of the few things which would have come to pass had Mr. Astor been sustained by the government: lie would easily have held his ground against the Brit ish warship which captured the post In 1813 and the transfer to the Cana dian company, which took place be fore the capture, would have been averted. With the advantage of his sea base and bis Russian affiliations lu Alaska, both of which had been firmly established before the news of the war arrived on the const, he could readily have excluded England's Hudson Bay Company and Canada's Northwest Fur Company from all the territory west of the Rocky mountains. That dis pute about the ownership of the pres ent States of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, which did not end until Eng land gave up nil claims in 1S40 to the territory, would never have taken place, for England through her fur traders would never have obtained a foothold there. All the present Cana dian territory of British Columbia and Yukon, which are west of the great mountain chain, would have been se cured for the United States. And then, when the transfer of Alaska to us by Russia came and It would have come earlier than 1SC7 In that event we "'0"V1 hvi nn unbroken stretch of territory from the northern border of Mexico up to beyond the arctic circle. Leslie's Weekly. NEW STORY OF ESEN HOLDEN. Little Girl Who Loved a Doll Better Than 8he Did Herself. "Wal," said Uncle Eb, thoughtfully, "I 'member one year, the day before Christmus, my father gin me 2 shill !n I walked all the way t' Suleit, with It. I went in a big store when I come t' the city. See s' many things couldn't make up my mind t' buy nuthin. I stud there feelln' uv a pair o' skates. They wuz grand all shiny with new straps an' buckles I did want 'em awful but I didn't hev enough money. Furty soon I see a leetle bit uv a girl In a red Jacket lookln' at a lot o' dolls. She wus rag ged an' there were holes in her shoes an' she did look awful poor an' sick ly. She'd go up an' put her hand on ono 0' them dolls' dresses and whis per: " 'Some day,' she'll sny, 'some day. "Then she'd go to another an' fus a mlunlt with Its clothes an' whis per 'some day.' Purty soon she as't if they had any doll with a blue dress on fer 3 pennies. " 'No,' says a woman, says she, 'the lowest price for a doll with a dress on it is one sbillln'.' "The little gal she Jes looked es if she wus goin t cry. Her lips trem bled. "'Some day I'm goin t hev one,' said she. "I couldn't stan' It, an so I slipped up an' bought one an' put It in her arms. I never'll ferglt the look that come Into her face then. Wal, she went away an' set down all by herself, an' it come cold an' that night they found her asleep In a dark alley. She was holdin' the little doll with a blue dress on. The girl was half dead with the cold an' there was one thing about It all that made her famous. She hed took off her red Jacket an' wrapped it 'round the little doU." "It's one of those good old stories," said I. "Of course she died and went to heaven." "No," said he quickly, "she lived an' went there. Ye don't hev t die t' go to heaven. Ye've crossed the boundary when ye begin t' love somebody more 'n ye do yerself, if it ain't nobody bet ter 'n a rag doll." Irving Bacheller, in Leslie's Monthly. Good Supply. During the early years of his ca reer as an evangelist the late D. L. Moody was not quite the practical man of affairs which he became as ha grew older and his Judgment ripened. A characteristic Incident of this pe riod of his life Is vouched for by a correspondent He was holding a se ries of meetings In a small town in central Illinois, where, with his wife, he enjoyed the hospitality of a prom Inent citizen. At dinner one day his fancy was particularly taken with some cucumber pickles. "I am very fond of pickles," he said, "and these are certainly the finest I ever tnsted. I wish I could get some like them in our market at home." "I can give you all you want to take home with you, Mr. Moody," said his generous hostess. "But I don't want them as a gift. I would like to buy them." "WelL of course, If you would rather have them that way I can pickle a lot of them from our garden and the neighbors', and my husband can send them to you. What quantity would you want?" "I think a barrel would be enough," said Mr. Moody, without a moment's hesitation. "Send me a barrel of them." But here his more practical wife in terfered, and the order waa cut dowa to a small keg. F i ' I . i f f (- '