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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1905)
IN THE FIRELIGHT. I "The fire upon tlie hearth Is low, And there is stillness everywhere. An.) like winged spirits, here and there The firelight shadows fluttering go. And ns t!ie shadows round me creep, A. childish treble breaks the gloom. And suftiy froul a further room Comes; "Now I lay me down to sleep." And somehow, with thnt little prayer And that sweet treble in my ears. My thought goes back to distant years, And lingers with a dear one there; And as I hear my child's Amen, My mother's faith comes back to me Crouched at her side I seem to be, And mother holds my hands again. Oh, for an hour in that dear place, Oh, for the peace of that dear time. Oh, for that childish trust sublime, Oh, for a glimpse of mother's face! et as the shadows round me creep, I do not seem to be alone Sweet magic of that treble tone And "Now I lay me down to sleep." Eugene Field. I The Point of View. !a '"'u "e matter wiui you, Tirr.O 1 .. 1 Tl ..11. . i uuui surveyeu iier brother keenly. "No." "What's the use of fibbing to me?" ehe demanded with sisterly frankness. "Something's gone wrong, I can see that clearly enough. Any trouble at the oftTce?" "No." "Well," Impatiently, "what is it, then? You always tell" me things In the end, so you might as well go ahead and save me the trouble of dragging It from you." Jim stared moodily out of the win dow and vouchsafed no reply. "You've not quarreled with Clarice, have you?" A swift change In her brother's face lold Ruth that she had touched on the truth, and she followed up her advan tage promptly. "That Is It, I know. Now. what was the fuss about?" "There was uo fuss and no quarrel. my sapient sister, only " "iio on, do!" "I made a trifling error when I sup josed she cared for me, that was all." Are you crazy, jini I am sure that Clarice cares for you. Don't Jump at conclusions." "I didn't Jump at any conclusions. I assure you. I asked her to marry me and she flatly refused." "But why? why? why?" Roth asked In honest bewilderment. "I know something of girls and I am positive that Clarice cares for you." "I had sometimes entertained such an idea myself, but you see that we both made a slight mistake." "Don't be so maddening, Jim, dear; tell me all she said. I am awfully sor ry for you, but I cannot help feeling that there Is a mistake somewhere." "Not much chance for It," Jim Ruth erford said grimly; "She had fifty un answerable arguments against mar rlage. She liked me, she was good enough to say, but she did not dare try the trials and tribulations of domestic life with any man. Servants were al ways' leaving on a moment's notice. and generally, too, when the mistress was 111. She had seen so many men act like brutes on such occasions that she had not the courage 'to face It. I 1ried to laugh her out of the mood. I told her to ask you If I did not behave like an angel In all crises of that kind "You really do," Ruth Interposed warmly. Jim nodded his thanks and then re sumed his story with a discouraged air. "It was all no use. for Clarice said that she had observed that men's na tures changed after marriage, and that nome who had lieen models of courtesy to their mothers and sisters were the embodiments of selfishness and inco:i plderateness toward their wives" "Well, of all things!" "Oh, there was lots more of It, too, and she was In deadly earnest. I never saw her In such a mood. I had good business, but I was not rich, and I would probably expect her to run the house and dress herself, too, on about five dollars a week Ruth, I any," breaking off suddenly with a pa thetic appeal In his voice, "what do j-on suppose made her talk so?"' "1 haven't the least Idea. I've not Keen (Mn rice for three or four day, but 1 cannot see how she could have al tered so radically In such a short time. I'm going to see her, though, before 1 am an hour older and find out the truth." "I don't suppose that there Is any thing to find out She seemed to know l.er own mind," Jim returned gloomily. "Now that Is Just what she didn't do. It Is no use for us to argue, Jim, but If I can find a grain of comfort for you I will. The whole thing Is beyond my comprehension." When Ruth Rutherford (an allitera tive name which the girl detested) was putting on her wraps preparatoryto a belligerent call on her friend, she heard tell- 1 Photography, like bicycling. Jumped Into popular favor with amazing rapidity. Every family has at least one member who takes an Interest In photography. When first Introduced a camera was a luxury, but now It Is MAKES DEVEL0PI50 EAST. width and height. Both ends of the frame are left open and free, the back end having a tight-fitting door and the front end having a doorway, with a door fitted to slide in guldeways on the side. The entire frame Is covered with a flexible materlul, openings being allowed In which to lit a sleeve on each side through which the operator passes his hands. The sliding door Is fitted with a piece of red glass, so that operations within the cabinet cun bo observed by the user without the admission of actinic rays. This cabinet can be carried and placed In any place desired, the operator being able to see perfectly at all times what he Is doing, with no danger of any light entering and spoiling his negatives. The Inventor Is Brady W. Stewart, of Pittsburg, Ta. Clarice's voice In the hall below. She went down hurriedly to meet her. "Come Into the library," she said hastily, knowing perfectly well that Jim was In the room just beyond. "Now, I want you to give an account of yourself. What have you been do ing to Jim? He Is just about broken hearted, for he believes all the non sense that you were talking to him yesterday. What did you mean by it, Clarice? You know that you think that Jim Is kind and lovable and bril liant " "I don't " Clarice flashed Indig nantly, although her voice trembled a little, "he is not brilliant at all! He Is the most stupid man that ever lived." "Perhaps you will kindly explain," Ruth said coldly. But this Clarice stubbornly refused to do, and it was not until Ruth put off her dignity and descended to ten der coaxing that she drew the truth out of her friend. "He he came around yesterday morning and I had been suffering for three days with an ulcerated tooth. I didn't have a wink of sleep during all of that time, and I was too great a coward to go to a dentist at first Well, Jhn came then, and of course my nerves were all on edge and the world loked blue and I was all unstrung, and I con id n t see anything In Its proper perspective. Everything was distorted and out of proportion oh, yon understand how I felt " "Perfectly," said Ruth, with sympa thetic comprehension. "You called him brilliant just now, but It seeing to me that even a man might have known better than to make a proposal of marriage at such a time. I thought at once of all the skeletons I bad seen In married lives, and of every warning I had ever received from any one on the subject and well of course I would not listen." "I should think not, indeed," Ruth said promptly. "I do not wonder that you called him stupid. I hope that tooth Is all right now, Clarice; it has done mischief enough, I should say." "The tooth has been pulled and I have had a night's sleep, thanks." "Then perhaps you would not object to hearing the story over Jim," rais ing her voice. "I think that you may coine In now." Jim came, obedient to the summons, and Ruth, after a murmured "Bless you, my children," had the good taste to leave the room hastily. Waverley Magazine. TROPICAL TREES LITTLE KNOWN This J a Much-Neglected Field of Botanical Study. Acording to an expert lu the bureau of forestry lu the Department of Agri culture, there Is, comparatively speak ing, little known concerning tropical trees, and this, despite the fact that naturalists and !otan!sts are constant ly exploring the regions near the equa tor. Indeed, It Is stated, Bays the Philadelphia Record, that there must be many hundreds of varieties that have been little known and that are unidentified by name. This curious fact is due to the excep tional conditions of the tropical for ests. In temperate zones forests are fairly open and, generally speaking, Include trees, of only a few varieties. TIiuh there are oak , forests, hickory forests, etc., but rarely any forests where three or four kinds of trees exist in any number. In the tropics, on the other hand, the case la exactly the opposite. For ests composed of one variety of tree, matmr JlhofjEflrapht) B J. within the reach of everybody. To obtain good results a photographer must have a suit able dark room In which to develop his nega tives. Few can obtain a room at home espe cially for this purpose, and to those who are so situated the portable dark room shown here will be of Interest. Anyone could make one, as the parts are few, with no me chanical apparatus to worry about. It Is really a frame cabinet which can be made any size that would be most convenient preferably like a small box, longer in length than it Is In or even of only three or four kinds, are practically unknown. So many different sorts of trees grow closely together that frequently more than 100 varieties may be counted within a short radius. Moreover, all these grow together in great confusion. They tower to extraordinary heights, each tree, It would seem, striving its best to reach the sunlight. Consequently the trunks are extremely long and thin, because each tree is reaching to get higher than its nelghlmrs, in order to escape the twilight of the primeval tropical forest. Leaves and branches ore so confused that in many forests one can see neither sky nor sunlight for miles, the crowns of the trees interlacing and forming a thick, im penetrable roof. To add to this confusion great vines and creepers and hundreds of varie ties of vegetable parasites overgrow the trunks. It is said that It is well-nigh impos sible to cut down any one tree for pur poses of examination, for the reason that the forest Is so dense that there Is Insufficient room for the tree to fall, even' after its trunk has been cut through. It would be necessary to clear a great space, and that Is im practicable from the standpoint of the raturalist or botanist. Hence the world is still in comparative Ignorance of the wonders of the tropic forest. A Useless Craft. "It does beat all, Michael, what they're teaching girls now in these city schools," wild old Mrs. Millikin, laying down the advertising section of a big daily which she had been read ing closely for the last half-hour. "Of course when Jamie went to the farm school and they gave him digging and chores and Mich, It seemed right enough, for he was a boy. and was fitting himself for making a living off the land. "But what I can't make out is why ever city folks, and girls at that, anil ones that don't need to be scratching to make ends meet, should lie paying twenty-five dollars extra, as the paper here says, just to learn fencing." "Does seem kind o' queer, ma, come to think of It," returned the old man. at the other end of the table, "but seems like of late I've been hearing ;i lot of talk 'bout nature studies and 'back to nature' and simple llfes and such, and maybe that's the city folks' way o getting at those things, though It 'pears to me as if 'twould come han dler for 'em to take a jaunt out in the country where real fences was, If they're so mighty anxious to be learn ed 'bout the building of "em!" The Professor's Function. An Oxford professor, distinguish? I for scholarly habit of the most pro nounced deocriptlon, remarked to his companion at table that he had accept ed the invitation of a well-known peer for a week's shooting in Scotland. "Why, Prof. Ithink," exclaimed hU companion, "1 didn't know you were a gun!" " "I'm not, my dear," said the profes sor. "I'm a knife and fork." Macaroni in America. French and Italian parties contem plate manufacturing In Canada, on a large scale, all kinds of pastry food, but particularly macaroni. As the present output of macaroni in the United States consumes 3,000 barrels of flour daily, such a project should have the attention of those engaged in the milling industry. Too many people are trying to make honest dollar dishonestly. Automatic Poultry Feeder. An Illinois farmer, evidently a poul try raiser, haspatented the automatic poultry feeder which Is shown In the Illustration. As soon as daylight ap pears, chickens are about and ready for their morning meal, and to pro duce good stock their wants, must be attended to. This means that the poultry raiser must lie awake early In the morning to feed them, and this automatic feeder Is designed to do It for him. It consists of a hopper hav ing an outlet, this outlet being closed by means of a partition or diaphragm, which is independent of the walls of the hopper and being plvotally mount ed at Its lower end. This partition or pivoted door can be adjusted to any AUTOMATICALLY FEEDS I'ori.TRY. Intermediate point, so that the capaci ty of the hopper may be varied and an unobstructed discharge maintained, A latch arm Is connected tothe pivot ed door, this latch arm being con trolled by an electro-magnet. The lat ter Is operated by a clock, so that the contents of the hopper can be emptied at any predetermined time. Home-Made ftabsoil Plow. A very serviceable and practical sub- soiler may be constructed with but lit tle work. The beam and handiest are the same as any other plow stock. The two uprights which support the plow point can be made from pieces of old wagon tire, each two feet long. The point bar should be about the same length and about two luches square from one upright attachment to the other. The front end should be made with good steel, well tempered and drawn to a point which Is best if made wide and fiat. The uprights are at tached to the beam by stirrups or clamps made of three-quarter-Inch lrou rod. The front upright should be sharp ened on Its front side, which will as sist in cutting the old roots and thick day. This plow will break the bottom of a furrow mado by any two-horse break ing plow. If made for one-horse, It should be constructed lighter, and need have but a single upright. It Is espe cially adapted to loosening up sod which has become very solid from long trumping. Farm und Home. Keep the Young Stock Growing, The calves, the colls, the pigs, nil from the time they were put In winter quarters until spring, should suffer no cessation In their growth. The calves or yearlings and cults should be kept steadily vigorous mid growing; not merely holding their own, but Increas ing In size and proportion; not neces sarily the laying on of fat, but the en largement of frame and muscle, with a healthy vigor. About BiiKnr Kceta. A report conies that the percentage of su'iir In beets has been largely In creased through a selection of seed. A few years ago the percentage of sugar was 12 per cent; hist -year It Is said to have run from 15 to 1S per cent. People who are posted say that sugar manufactured from beets is not near ly so sweet as that manufactured from cane. The Colt's Feet. When the colt Is growing, the hoofs should be looked to occasionally to see if tbey do not require trimming. - I noUE-MADK SUIIHOILKR. m Water for Farm Animals. It Is admitted that water Is essential to the well-being of humans, and If this Is so, why should anyone presume to think that animals can get along with little or no water? Yet that is the plan on which many farmers work. The cows and horses are, perhaps. properly watered, but the other farm animals are given little water. In a series of experiments carried on by the writer a number of years ago It was found that sheep, swine and poultry gave us nearly 20 per cent better re turns when regularly and carefully wa tered than when the water was given but occasionally. That is, the egg supply was larger from the hens, and the sheep and hogs kept to the desired weight More than this, we found there wos less trouble with diseases, particularly those that had the stomach for their base of at tack. It Is now a regular practice to give all the animals on the farm reg ular supplies of clean water. In water ing the sheep and swine, troughs are provided and kept for the purpose. After the animals have drunk, the troughs are removed, so that there Is no chance of them being defiled. It will pay every time to water all farm animals regularly and with clean wa ter. Indianapolis News. Harvesting Cow pen. The New Jersey Agricultural Experi ment Station used the following meth od for harvesting and curing cowpeas needed for certain experiments: They were cut with a mowing machine and allowed to wilt thoroughly. This re quired two days. They were then ruked In wludrows and placed in small cocks made narrow and about the same diameter throughout In order to insure an even cure. The hay remain ed in these cocks for live days. The cocks were then turned over for a couple of hours to dry the bottoms, which had taken up moisture from the soil. The hay was then hauled to the baru In excellent condition. The leaves retained their green color, and nearly all were preserved. The hay, 'even at this time, felt a little damp to the touch, .and to one who had never had experience with the crop, It doubtless would have appeared unfit to store, but It saved perfectly and was eaten greedily by the animals in the test with scarcely any waste. An average crop of cowpeas showed a yield of two and one-half tons per acre. Home Monthly. Useful New Iniiecta. Among the useful bug Importations of the Agricultural Department, be sides the ladybird, Introduced success; fully among the California fruit groves to destroy the dreaded Sun Jose scale, a small parasite conies from South Af rica wlrtrb In like manner destroys the black scab, another formidable pest doing great Injury to the Pacific roast orange crop. The newcomer goes at Its work In a businesslike manner, and promises to be the means of rescuing almost from destruction an Important Industry. The Importation of protect ive bugs Is sure to expand, as their potencies are made known and occa sion for them rises. American Culti vator. The Amateur Ioult ryman. The amateur who Is Just starting Into the poultry business must be will ing to begin at the bottom und work lip. He will encounter many obsta cles, but If he has a sufficient amount of stick-to-it-iveness In his makeup he will succeed. His rise may be slow, but there Is room at the top. The mushroom poultrymun is short lived. Commercial Poultry. Porting Fays. I had a remarkable crop of 7,000 bushels of apples this year, says A. D. Appletree Barnes of Wisconsin, and by careful assorting and handling was able to sell them for $l,21.r. I tell you there is nothing like systematic sorting und careful handling to make apples pay. Poultry Vurd I'li-kinga. Cheap food Is always at the expense of quality. Quality In food for poultry Is what gives It value. No food Is cheap that does not bring paying results. I )a Hinged food invites Indigestion and various bowel troubles. ' Lack of grit when snow covers the ground endangers the Hock's health. Provide plenty of nests where there are many bens or pullets, (irlt, cither oyster shells or crushed granite, should be kept under cover accessible to the poultry In all the houses (luring the winter. Keep the cockerels and pullets sep arate until a couple of weeks before you commence saving eggs for hatch ing. Both will be the better for the ohm.