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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1910)
ORGAN IS OUT OF DATE Only a Few Year Ago Every Rural Home Was Proud Possessor of One. ONCE COST $150; NOW ONLY $35 To-Day the Upright Piano Is In stalled in the Place of the Joy of the Family. Thirty years ago home wasn't happy unless it had its cabinet organ in the parlor, so that the daughter of the house could entertain the visitors ev ery Sunday afternoon by chording a little after she had been sufficiently soaxed. The organ was always a beau tiful thing very beautiful. A real beveled edge mirror was set in the top so that daughter could look upon herself as she industriously pumped with both feet and chorded with both hands. It was great exercise playing the organ in those days: All organs were decorated alike. On one side was a picture of mother's fa ther and mother; on the other side were fatiiei'i paicklo. Cousin Harry, who was doing so well in Denver, beamed out from one side of the Chi nese lily that Aunt Molly brought back from the city on her last trip there, while on the other side of the lily, looking down severely upon the wax fruit in its glass case, was Prof. Dar win, who used to be principal of the high school. - But those days are gone now, the explained away all the pleasures of the Mother Goose book of rhymes, would you have grown up to be any w'r man or woman? asks the Wichita (Kan.) Beacon. What if she huu ex plained that the cow never jumped over the moon; that there was no Lit tle Miss Muffet, and if there had been there was no tuffet for her to sit on; that Jack didn't violate etiquette by sticking his thumb into a plum pie; that Jack and Gill's parents used hy drant water and they never went up a hill to get the drinking pall filled; that Jack Sprat could eat any kind of meat set before him instead of only lean meat; that Old King Cole was a grouchy dyspeptic and the very oppo site of a merry old soul! that no black bird ever disfigured the king's wash erwoman by picking off her nose? Would you nave been a better boy or girl if your mother had done all these things had explained away the delightful books of childhood and had told you that the amusing, jingling rhymes were written by some hard-up story writer who wrote them for money and not for truth's sake? Would you? Is anything accomplished by squar ing a child around and setting it face to face with the realities of life be fore it has come into the years of re sponsibility? Let the children enjoy childhood In a' childish way, for it la brief and comes not again. GATHERING SEA FOWLS' EGGS. P'HInm Work of Cliff Climber on the English Const. With the advent of spring the York shire cliff climbers are making prep arations for gathering the eggs of the myriads of sea fowl that build their nests in the dizzy precipices of the northeastern coast, according to the London Daily News. At Bempton, a few miles from Brld lngton, the favorite resort of these egg MAKES TEST OF SMOKE CONSUMER. . ..; :;..;:: v:y:::y':y-:;:;.-:;::;:, .;;:;:;:;:;::.;.;:;.;.;;:;. v..yym ;:. ;:::yv.:.'.v:; .:.w:vv:V!;:-& L-K'Srv . ( -Trm,w ' " ""'""Hon, , ( , TESTING NEW SMOKE CONSUMER ON LOCOMOTIVE. Solution of the smoke problem is claimed by P. J. Doyle, the inventor of a coal-burning device which was recently tested in a Chicago Junction railroad locomotive in the presence of road mechanics and expert engineers. While moving at various rates of speed with a number of heavy-laden cars attached to it the engine emitted only a slight stream of white smoke, which resembled steam. The device can be attached to any locomotive. It can also be used in the boiler rooms of manufacturing plants, the inventor de clares. The secret of the apparent effectiveness of the appliance Is said to lie in the fact that It causes perfect combustion. The coal Is transformd into coke, the gases from the coal being consumed In the process and then the coke is burned. Kansas City Times says. A cabinet organ used to cost $150. Now you can buy an ordinary piano for that amount, while a new organ goes for $35 a dollar down and 50 cents a week. A second-hand organ sells for from $10 to $25. The farmers that used to own or gans are now buying pianos. Some of them are buying player pianos. Books have been written for the farmers' daughters that teach them to play a piano almost as well as if they were taught by an expensive teacher. By the diagram method they learn where to put their fingers when they see cer tain notes, and many farmers' homes 3iave daughters who have taught them sselres to play .almost as well as If they had employed a teacher. "It was the coming of the upright piano that put the organs down and out," said a piano dealer recently. "The old square piano couldn't be sold for less than $500. The upright was easier to handle and easier to put to gether, and it sold at first for about 300. Twenty-five years ago only the rich the class that buys motor cars now owned pianos. The medium class owned organs. Now only the poorer people buy organs. Pianos are being Improved rapidly. I think that in ten years all pianos will be made with player attachments." The musical taste of the people Is improving right along. Many organs are still being sold. Every family must have some sort of a musical In strument in the home and the man agers of music stores testify that the music that is being bought is of the higher-class. Just as much popular music is being sold as ever, but the demand for high class music has de veloped rapidly in the last ten years. Childhood's Brief Hoar. If your mother had let the house work so and taken you on her lap and hunters, the chalk cliffs tower 400 feet above the sea. They are the home of thousands of gulls, cormorants, kltr tiwakes and other sea birds that have just begun to build their rough nests In -the chalky crevices. William Wil kinson, who has pursued this perilous calling for many years, is known local ly as "the king of the egg hunters." He is a bluff, weather scarred man of the sea, with as much nerve and agil ity as are possessed by the most dar ing steeplejack. Wilkinson wears an old helmet to protect his head from the pieces of rock dislodged by the rope by which he Is suspended in midair. Around his body he buckles a kind of leather hammock, in which he is able to sit. On his arm he wears leather protec tors. "Lower away, boys," he cries, as he swings himself over the brink in an almost horizontal position and press es each foot firmly against the chalk surface. Three of the men sieze the rope, and foot by foot the Intrepid climber is lowered till his cheery voice Is lost amid the fluttering sounds ot the disturbed birds. He swings from nest to nest, putting each egg careful ly in a bag slung over his shoulder. As soon as his bag is full he gives the "hoist up" signal on the guide rope and the men haul him up. - Wilkinson makes several descents and at the end of the dy share3 the spoil with his assistants, who sell the eggs for eating purposes to the Inhab itants of the neighboring villages. ' You often hear life-long friends abuse each other. This should cause you to ask yourself the question: "What do my friends say about met" Coal Aahea Are Worth Sarins;. In many sections of the country coal (s the principal winter fuel used v farmers and a large quantity of ashes result which are usually looked on as waste, but an authority says there 's more value in coal ashes than is gen erally realized by the farmer. For the amelioration of heavy clay land they are exceptionally valuable. This is particularly so with the ashes of soft coal, as such usually are reduced al most to a dust. Coal ashes have a fertilizer value. This opinion, how: ever, is not held generally. The coal beds contain phosphorus, potash, nitro gen and lime, as well as the other less Important Ingredients. When the orig inal trees out of which were formed the coal beds were reduced to coal the mineral elements remained in them, and consequently those same elements go with the ashes. One reason why people have formed an idea that coal ashes contain no fer tility is that the trees now grown have in them less carbon than those in the old days uud lima Uo i,ciccitaC of other elements to carbon is prob ably greater now than then, which gives a larger value to our wood ashes, but does not annihilate "the value 'n the coal ashes. Ashes can be- used o advantage without sifting, but large quantities of half-burned coal are by some considered a detriment to the soil. Rural World. The kind of luck they, have is suf ficient to keep most hunters from be coming Game Hogs Good Hog Sense. It is not a good plan to take all the pigs from the sow, unless one or two of them can be turned with her some hours after, to draw the milk she will have at that time, and again, say after a lapse of twenty-four hours. The pre ferred way Is to leave about two of the smallest with her for several day3, and after that leave only one for' two or three days more, by which time the flow of milk will have been so grad ually diminished that no injury will result to the sow by keeping them jn tirely away from her. This extra sup ply of milk helps also to push the smaller pigs along in growth and put them more nearly on an equality in size with their thriftier mates. Co burn's "Swine in America." A Convenient Calf Tronsrh. A farmer near Paullina, Iowa, has been using an irgentous method for feeding his calves. It was suggested to him by the fact that he used a manure spreader In his sheds and con sequently all obstructions that extend ed out a foot from- the wall were in the way. As calves require a low manger, one can be hung on hinges so that when it is turned up it will not becupy more than five or six inches of space out from the wall. It may be any length, but It Is better to have it made in sections about six feet long. The accompanying Illustrations show the trough when it is all ready for feeding purposes, and also when it is hooked up close against the wall. ' Keeplnif Kami Accounts. Farmers who visited the Ohio State University were Interested In the sys tem of accounts used on the farm. While the land Is not tilled for the same experimental ' purposes as the fields at the Agricultural Experiment Station at Wooster, a certain amount of experimentation has to be done In order to determine the most profitable methods of handling the land. These experiments are the same In kind as should be conducted, by farmers "gen erally. The accounts are kept In such form as to show the results of the dif ferent methods employed on the dif ferent fields. rotanh Content of Clay Soils. According to a recent bulletin of th) New Hampshire Station, the clay and clay loam soils carry sufficient potash for the production of maxiun ylehb of hay, and that a large part of the potash applied In fertilizers Is lost so far as the crop U concerned. In other words, the a(M.t on of commercial potash to such soils is unnecessary. Whn barnyard manure, which con tains a targe amount or potasn, is added, the value lies, not in the pot ash, but in the other fertilizing ele ments, and In large part in the Im provement of the physical condition of the soil. ' .Dipping Sheep ESfeetlTely. To rid sheep of external parasites or the scab mite they should be dipped In some effective dip. Coal tar dips are effective,' nonpoisonous and do not ordinarily injure the wool. They are therefore considered among the best. Before using all dips should be tested. Mix one teaspoonful of dip with' fifty to seventy-five of water, according to directions. Wrap a few ticks or bed bugs in a gauze and dip them in this mixture for thirty seconds. Then place them under a tumbler, and If they are not dead In six hours the dip Is not strong enough. It should be made strong enough to make a thirty second dip effective. Sheep are to be kept in the dip one minute. Place the dip in the tank before the water, so the mixture will be uniform. The best time to dip is when thi wool Is one-fourth to one-half inch long,' so- that the dip will adhere to the fleece. If the ticks are present at shearing time the whole flock should be dipped at once to prevent the tlcits from getting to the lambs. Heavy Seeds Give Best Plants. To obtain a good stand of grain it is necessary to use the largest and plumpest grain for seed. Small or shrunken grain gives weak plants, mm tftt itiu many of which will tail to mature in an unfavorable season. A sudden change In temperature, a prolonged drought or a slight frost is more like ly to destroy the weak plants than the strong. The increased yield at har vesting time Is quite a consideration. In the Illustration the heavy and light samples of barley A B C and D pro duced plants as Indicated with corre spondlng letters above. The Farmer. He used to wear his pantaloons InBide his muddy boots; He used to sing outlandish tunes And dress In misfit suits; He used to rise at half past four, And milk and hoe and plough; He doesn't do so any more, He's counting money now. The callouses upon his hands Were softened long ago; -For employes prepare his lands For nature's fertile show. There Is no sorrow In his eye Nor anger on his brow. Things are not as in days gone by, He's counting money now. Washington Evening Star. Cultivation for Forest Trees. The young farmer forester should be experienced In the art of stimulating the growth of trees in natural groves by cultivation. When we come to think how hard the ground is in some woods it is really strange that trees get enough, moisture to support them selves. The difference In the amount of rainfall absorbed by a level-plow.-d field and hard-baked hillside Is very great, and It is wonderful how an oak or hickory growing on a hillside ever attains to great height and size. Winter Egg Producers. The essentials to profitable egg pro duction are a healthy flock of fowls possessing constitutional vigor, bred from a laying strain; proper housing, and correct feeding. The best way to secure a laying strain on the farm Is to select the hens of greatest vigor that naturally produce the most eggs during the winter. Mate these hens with a good male, also from a laying strain, and then seiect only the best daughters from this mating. Covrpeas Enrich Soil. Not only have cowpeas been founa valuable as a soil-enriching crop, but they have proved to be most excellent feed for live stock used as a forage and cured hay. 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"I remember one trip out of New Tork we carried mora than one thou sand passengers, and if you put fifty on that ship to-day there" d be a protest that would reach Washington, and make trouble for somebody. To show you how crowded it was and what 'crowded' really means, three days out from New York a chap walked up to the old man, and said: "'Captain, you really must find me a place to sleep.' " 'Where have you been sleeping un til now? asked the old man. " 'Well,' says the fellow, 'you see. It's this way. I've been sleeping on a Blck man; but he's getting better now, and won't stand for It much longer.'" "Ralslna; the Hand." The raUlng of the hand which re places the kissing of the Book in the oath which witnesses In England will henceforth take was In origin a point ing toward heaven. The oath taker extended his hand toward the Being whom he invoked a pagan, for in stance, touching the foot or knee of his god's statue. "I have lifted up mine hand unto the Lord," Bays Abra ham. Our Germanic ancestors raised their spears toward high heaven. A quaint case Is that of the Shrewsbury parliament of 1398, when the lords took a solemn oath by the cross of Canterbury, while the commons 10 doubt to mark the distinction between the two orders swore simply by 11ft tna their hands. London Chronicle. A Deeply Kelt Want. Steward (the first day out) Did you ring, sir? Traveler Yes, steward. I I rang. Steward Anything I can bring you, sir? Traveler Y-ea, st-teward. B-ring me a continent, If you have one, or an island anything, steward, so 1-lul-longs as it's solid. If you can't, su sink the ship. Uncle Allen. "A preacher who draws a big salary," said Uncle Allan Sparks, "sometimes gets a tempting offer to go somewhere and give a lecture, and he asks a col lege young man who Is studying for the ministry to fill his pulpit for one Sunday. The college young man does It, and all he gets Is thanks. 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