PAGE SIX
ASHLAND TID1NG9
Thursday, November 21, 1912.
PREPARE FOR
THE NEXT! FAIR
STATK HKPAUTMKNT OF I'lT.MC
ixsTKi tiox ;iyi:s aiivkk.
URGES CHILDREN TO EEGIN NOW
Circular Sent Out iives Yaltiiildc 1
Pointers as to (idling Heady for
Next Year's Children's Industrial
Contest.
e stat dr partment of public in
struction lias sent out the following
letter of instruction regarding the
matter of preparing for the coming
School Children's Industrial Contest
at the 1913 state fair:
To the Parents and School Children:
If you would catch a train start
in time. No matter how fast you run
if you start too late. If you would
win a prize in the School Children's
Industrial Contest next year, begin
now. Parents, if 'you would have
your children grow up to lie indus
trious, law-abiding, useful citizens,
winners in the race of life, start them
early in the right direction.
We are all agred that an education
is an essential to success, but what
is education? True education is that
which fits us for the duties of life.
The old pedagogical Idea was to cram
the child with text-books. The new
idea is that we must know how to ap
ply our knowledge to practical uses
that we must know how to use the
hand with the head. Thus the need
for, and popularity of, industrial ed
ucation along with the "mental cram
ming." Though started late and with lack
of organization in many instances,
the result of the state-wide move
men inaugurated this you.1 is quite
encouraging, and inspires ii all, 1
trust, to greater efforts the coming
year. Many of your children entered
this conteht this year, and whether
they won a prize or nor., they are all
stronger in, every way tram the exer
cise and experience, and what Miey
liave learned to do with their hands
will always be an available uiid valu
able is.-et. We hope to havi cveiy
school boy and girl in th 3 state re
ceive a personal benefit by entering
this contest this year. Will you co
operate by giving your children an
opportunity by giving them a little
ground to cultivate, and starting
them in the chicken business in a
small way, and perhaps giving the
boy a brood sow or a pig to feed?
And most important of all by allow
ing them to have as their very own
the profits of their effort? Very
much depends upo n the parents as
to how great a success can be made
of this movement.
Poultry the Snwlulty.
While it is not the intention to
slight any ef the other lines of activ
ity taken up tnis year, it is the plan
to make poultry raising the leading
feature of the school children's con
test the coining year. There is
scarcely a boy or girl in city, village
or country but what could take care
of a few chickens or ducks without
interference with their school or
other work. It costs the state about
$9.60" a pupil each year to carry on
our public school system, and it is
our ambition to have the school chil
dren increase the production of poul
try and eggs enough to cover that
expense. Children, wouldn't you be
proud to be able to say, "It doesn't
cast the state anything to educate
us. We pay the bill with our chick
ens and eggs"? The result is easily
possible, and to reach it each school
boy and girl would only have to keep
a few fowls. I do not know of any
thing that would'attract more favor
able attention to Oregon than the
fact that all her school children are
raising poultry and producing there
by more than enough wealth to meet
the expense of the public school sys
tem. The poultry on the farm is a sec
ondary consideration with most peo
ple. Little attention is paid to it as
rule and its importance and possi
liiliies are not "conceived. We have
no reliable statistics later than those
of the United States census for the
year 1S99. That year there were
7,709,970 dozens of eggs produced
in Oregon, which, at an average price
of 25 cents, were worth $ 1,927,492.
r0. The value of all jioultry raised
in the state in 1899 was $826, GS7.
The poultry product that year was
worth considerably more than either
of the following products, viz.: Ani
mals slaughtered, hops, fruits of all
kinds, and was almost equal to the
oats crop in value, and was almost
a third as great as the wheat crop.
Since 1899 there has been a big in
crease in the production of poultry
and eggs, but there has also been a.
big increase In consumption, and last
year there was about a million dol
lars' worth of poultry and eggs
shipped to Portland from the east.
That million dollars might just as
well go into the pockets of the school
boys and girls of Oregon as to the
farmers of the east, and while you
are earning it you will be occupying
part of your time in healthful and
interesting pastime and be learning
how to do something worth while
how to do business, to depend upon
your own efforts and to be an impor
tant factor in society.
An elementary poultry bulletin
will be issued by the Oregon Agri
cultural College after a little, which
will give valuable information upon
how to raise and care for poultry.
In thy meantime be talking it over
with your parents and making prepa
rations for starting a little flock, if
you have not already got one. Get
a little garden, patch ready to plant
also, and win some of the fine prizes
that will be offered this year, both
at your local fair and at the state
fair.
PHKPAKIXG l'Olt SHK1XKHS.
Dallas, Texas, is Making lOxteiLsive
Preparations.
Dallas, Texas. W. S. Brown of
Pittsburg, Pa., imperial treasurer of
the Ancient and . Arabic Order of
Mystic Shrine, a visitor in Dallas
Monday and Tuesday, November 4
and 5, in company with Imperial Po
tentate William J. Cunningham of
Baltimore, Md., for the purpose of
ascertaining Dallas' ability to prop
erly care for the Imperial Council
meeting in May next, gave out a
statement in which he expressed him
self as highly pleased with the re
sults of his visit and as being confi
dent that the facilities of this city
were ample in every way to care for
every visitor. He was especially
pleased with the results of a cam
paign conducted by the Chamber of
Commerce, in which approximately
$55,000 had been subscribed to the
Shrine entertainment fund.
"Dallas' ability to handle conven
tions of the largest kind is known the
country over," said Mr. Brown, "but
I must say I was astonished at the
metropolitan city I found upon my
arrival. I like the spirit manifested
by your business men as evidenced
by the success of the Chamber of
Commerce subscription campaign. It
is gratifying to know that your citi
zenship appreciates the importance of
the Order of the Shrine and of the
high standing of its membership.
Plans for the entertainment of the
Imperial Council gathering should be
laid months ahead, and the fact that
Dallas is doing this is highly com
mendable. One feature that espec
ially impresses me is the splendid
hotel facilities of Dallas. In fact, in
this respect Dallas offers better fa
cilities for handling large gatherings
than many other cities in the country
which have convention prominence,
and the hospitality of Dallas and the
old Hella is well known to every
Shriner in attendance here in 1S9S."
Lunch at School.
Woman's Home Companion: Far.
nie Merritt Farmer, cookery editor,
writes an article entitled "h.ol
Luncheon" in the September number
of that periodical. She ?ives 14 reci
pes for good things for children to
eat at lunch, and by way of intro
duction says:"
"The power dT the child to grow,
mentally as well as physically, de
pends chiefly on his food. Children
must have a relatively larger propor
tion of proteid and fat in the dietary
than their elders. The baby receives
his from milk and cereals, but the
older child needs, in addition to
these, eggs, meat and butter. Much
of the pallor and stunted growth of
some children is largely attributable
to the lack of these very foods. As
carbohydrates (sugars and starches)
furnish the cheapest form of food,
they are almost never found wanting,
and oftentimes are used to excess.
The child's craving for sweets is a
natural one, and should be grati
fied; but they should be eaten at
the close of the meal. Milk, eggs
and meat are sources for furnishing
mineral matter, but the chief value
of fruit and vegetables lies in this
food constituent.
"Never allow a child to go to
school without a proper breakfast of
which a cereal, served with sugar
and rich milk or cream, should form
a principal dish. Do not forget that
digestive processes go on very quick
ly in childhood, which makes the
school luncheon important.
"In these days of Thermos bottles
many children are provided with hot
oup, cocoa or milk. Whatever else
goes with the luncheon basket, sand
wiches must hold first place. Cold,
thinly sliced meat or chopped meat
may be put between thin slices of
buttered bread. Most children enjoy
hard-boiled or stuffed eggs, and
Binall glass Jars with shelled nuts
and raisins offer a .change. Fresh
fruit shoudl be provided, and sweet
chocolate by way of .variety."
Phone Job orders to the Tidings.
JAMES C. CR0PSEY.
Former Hsad of Nw York
Police Who Blames Gaynor.
Thoto by American t ress Association.
WMT CAN WE OFFER?
Correspondent Wants to Know What
Advice to (Jive Virginia Cor
respondent. Editor Tidings: I have the fol
lowing letter from W. Jt. Barker,
R. D. No. 1, Box 43, Hilton, Va.:
"Write and tell me if there is
plenty of work there that a poor
man could get to do. I live in Vir
ginia and it is a hard old plate for
a poor man. I wish I could better
myself, so write and tell me about
the climate and the price of land, and
what wages are. I may come in the
spring. Write me the truth. 1 have
nine children three boys grown and
four boys less size; two girls, 15;
they are twins.- It will take all I
have to bring me, so write soon and
advise me." " .,
What has the Rogue river valley to
offer this man? Do we want them
at all? Isn't it about time for enter
prise to succeed land trading, so that
our overgrown cities and towns need
not shrink any more? To those who
have come from the busy manufac
turing towns of the east the remedy
is hot hard to see. Western towns
must follow practical, businesslike
methods to continue a healthy
growth. The stimulation of public
improvements following bond issues
is like all stimulation, followed by
reaction.
Work is the main necessity of
every western community. Manu
facturing is the only answer. To get
it, business men must be enterpris
ing. Cities must get together and
offer cash bonuses, free sites, exemp
tion of taxes for a term of years, re
duced cost of water, electricity, etc.,
as inducements. to men or companies
experienced in manufacturing to lo
cate plants of various capacities and
to operate them a given length of
time. This enterprise built up the
greatest manufacturing district in
the world in western Pennsylvania.
I had seven years' experience in the
Monongahela valley during its great
and permanent upbuilding. Enter
prise and an optimism that surpassed
that pretended but not practiced by
the western boomer built cities from
grass fields to 5,000 and fi.000 peo
ple in three to four years; the best
cities for business in existence, be
cause every dollar expended there is
produced there. If the local country
can't supply them they don't miss
the money when they send it out.
Every one Is busy making money and
spending it. The Interest collector
and the tax collector are less impor
tant than the gas man.
Can't we waken up early and take
the only course to prosperity by get
ting after manufacturing industries
in the only practical way to land
them?
If this interests any live ones I
will go more into detail inxt time.
OPTOMO.
Ashland, Ore,, Nov. 9, 1912.
The recent admission of the wom
en of Italy to a Masonic lodge, de
clares Signora Troise, the celebrated
writer, of Milan, removes the slander
on woman that she is incapable of
keeping a secret.
The czar of Russia will be exciting
the envy of the American billionaire.
News comes from Germany that the
czar's life is insured in an English
company for $5,000,000.
The PORTLAND EVENING TELE
GRAM and Ashland Tidings one year,
$5.00.
La Follettes Weekly Magazine
and the Tidirgs one year for $2.50.
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A
CIDER VINEGAR AND ITS MAKING
(By P. J. OGara. Pathologist In
Charge.)
How to Treat the Juice.
As soon as the Juice has been ex
pressed from the fruit it is best to
place it in some large receptacle and
permit it to stand for a few days be
fore barreling. By doing this, a con
siderable amount of solid matter
held in suspension will settle before
the Juice is placed in the barrels.
All containers should be well cleaned
and it is best to scald them with live
steam or boiling water. When the
juice has stood long enough to per
mit the solid matter to settle it
should be put into barrels or casks
which should not be filled' to more
than two-thirds or three-fourths of
their capacity. It is a good plan for
the cinegar maker to have a specific
gravity hydrometer in order to test
the juice before it is put into the
barrels. As stated above, the juice
of most of our fall and winter varie
ties will test 1.055 specific gravity.
This juice will test a little more
than 11 per cent sugar, and if proper
ly handled will make vinegar con
taining 5 Vi per cent acetic acid. As
the juice ferments its specific grav
ity will decrease, and when it has
reached about 1.000 or unity all the
sugar will have disappeared through
conversion into alcohol. In practice
not all of the sugar is converted into
alcohol, and therefore the specific
gravity is usually a little greater
than water.
Alcoholic Fermentation.
In order to cause the sugar in the
apple juice to be converted into alco
hol, it is best to add one cake of
compressed yeast to each five gallons
of the juice. The yeast should be
softened with lukewarm water be
fore putting it into the cask contain
ing the juice. The temperature of
the storage room should be such that
the juice will be held at a tempera
ture of 65 to 75 degrees F. At such
temperatures the yeast plant grows
more rapidly than at lower tempera
tures, hence fermentation is more
rapid. Higher temperatures will not
be injurious to the yeast plant but
there may be a loss of alcohol by
evaporation. The addition of the
yeast plant to the juice is indicated
and the keeping of the temperature
at the optimum point will result in
reducing the period of alcoholic fer
mentation fully one-half.
Acetic Fermentation.
After alcoholic fermentation is
completed, which may be ascertained
by the use of the hydrometer, an
other group of micro-organisms
changes the alcohol into acetic acid.
The principal organisms causing
acetic fermentation are bacterium
aceti and bacterium pasteurianum,
and pure cultures of these organisms
may be obtained for the purpose of
inoculating the apple must after the
surgar has been converted into alco
hol. After alcoholic fermentation is
completed and before the vinegar
germ is introduced, it is best to draw
off the clear portion of .the liquid
and thoroughly rinse out the con
tainer. The clear liquid is then put
back. . Finally, add about a gallon
or two of good vinegar to each 50
gallons of liquid so as to acetify it.
A small 'quantity of mother-of-vine-gar
may be added or the liquid may
be inoculated with a pure culture of
vinegar ferment which may be se
cured from the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
If natural fermentation is depend
ed upon, old vinegar barrels in which
good vinegar has been produced are
the best. New barrels of any kind
should be washed out and scalded.
After the barrels have been cooled,
they should be rinsed with some good
vinegar or mother-of-vinegar should
1)3 added before the adition of the
juice.
As in the case of alcoholic fermen
tation, the most satisfactory results
for acetic fermentation are obtained
by having the temperature of the
liquid between 65 and 75 degrees F..
The containers should be only partly
filled as indicated above, and free
access of air should be permitted.
If the barrels or casks are placed
upon their sides and two-inch holes
are bored in each head, one near the
surface of the liquid and one near
the top of the cask, free circulation
of air is assured. ' These holes should
be covered with varnished metal net
ting to prevent the entrance of vine
gar flies.
(To be continued.)
Cause of Insomnia. 1
The most common cause of insom
nia is disorders of the stomach and
constipation. Chamberlain's Tablets
correct these disorders and enable
you to sleep. For sale by Poley's
Drug Store.
Crescent City.
Special facilities for tourist par
ties at the Bay Hotel and annex,
Crescent City. Hot and cold water,
baths and rooms en suite. 22-tf
Leaders of thought in Britain are
saying that hope for relief from la
bor difficulties lies not in settling
disputes, but in preventive measures,
' Now looka here kiddies, its
"Kids and people are goin clean daffy over this Golden Rod1 Oats
thins, anda whole lot of other Golden Rod stuff such as Wheat Nuts, Oat
Flakes, Pancake Flour and Wheat Flakes."
"When I first heard of this Golden Rod business, I thought it was
some more of the usual kind of breakfast foods, but believe me kids, you'll
never want any more 'ham and', eggs an bacon,' or any other kind of
stuff for breakfast after you've once tasted 'em."
"Ask your mother to let you beat it to the grocery after a package
-all of 'em sell it."
"Take 15c with you."
(Chorus of Children). "Come on you."
PHEFEIMtKD FIRST IIUSBAXI).
San Diego Woman Clings to Youth's
Iiove.
San Diego, Nov. 18. In an at
tempt to regain Mrs. Margaret Sell
man Ostron, who Saturday decided
she preferred her first husband,
Charles V. Sellman, whom she had
believed dead, Earl Ostron, her sec
ond husband, today filed suit in the
local justice court against Sellman.
The papers in the action are in the
hands of Sheriff Jennings, who is
guarding their contents carefully and
who today refused to reveal the na
ture of the action.
Mrs. Sellman-Osjron married Os
tron several years ago, believing
Sellman dead. When she met Sell
man on the streets Saturday she
fainted, and the first husband hur
ried her to his apartments, where
the second husband found them. At
the police station, when asked to
! choose between the two, she chose
Sellman. Now Ostron is seeking to
regain her.
A Xight of Terror.
Few nights are more terrible than
that of a mother looking on her child
choking and gasping for breath dur
ing an attack or croup, and nothing
in the house to relieve it. Many
mothers have passed nights of terror
in this situation. A little forethought
will enable you to avoid all this.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a
certain cure for croup and has never
been known to fail. Keep it at hand.
For sale by Poley's Drug Store.
Sesame to the value of $476,000
was exported from Jaffe in 1911.
This is the grain that figures in the
Arabian story of "Ali Baba and the
Forty Thieves."
A Word About Printing
"With printing, as most other things, that which costs
the least is not usually the cheapest. In printing, that
job is the cheapest which best serves its purpose, regard
less of cost. The additional expense a batch of well
printed, high-grade stationery over a lot of cheap, slop
pily printed stuff is but little. That little is often returned
many times over on one letter because the artistic or busi
nesslike heading of the sheet favorably impressed the
recipient as to the standing of the firm and brought the
desired answer.
When you are looking for a doctor you do not shop
around to see which one will come the cheapest.' Then
why, when your business needs a tonic, should you shop
around lor the cheapest business doctor? What you want
is results. If you are issuing a dodger the first and last
question should not be what print shop will do it the
cheapest, but which one can turn out a job which will X
hold the attention of the largest proportion of those who t
glance at the handbill. The same is equally true regard- t
ing a pamphlet, a circular or a booklet.
Again, what you want is results. We believe that the
Ashland Tidings can get them for you. Not only can we
dress you copy up in neat, up-to-date, attractive type, but
we can, if you wish, help you to array vour thoughts in i
ungiii, catcny language, thus making the job more at- t
tractive and convincing. - j
$ When in need of anything in the line of printing let I
J us help yo'u. Our charges are reasonable and our experi- f
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I PHONE 30 ASIILAXD, ORE.
my turn to talk."
Talent Meat Market
F. T. Guyer, Prop.
CHOICE MEATS
Tel. 370-J.
Ashland Billiard Parlor
10 East Main St.
J. P. Saylc & Son
HAYS HAIR HEALTH
3 Restores color to grey or
faded hair; Cleanses, cools
and invigorates the Scalp.
5 Removes Dandruff-there-by
giving the hair a chance
to grow in a healthy natural
way and stopping its falling
out. Keeps hair soft and
glossy. Is not a dye.
$1.00 and 50c' st Dni Stores or direct
upon receipt of price and dealer's Dame,
Send 10c (or trial bottle. Philo Hay
Specislties Co., Newark, N J., U. S. A.
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