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.6 THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA. OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1908. II-, V.?l foflTIITDYK'-' &ui NOTES rCMMRNTTZ WVTRSIDE PA. O Jj tmasmnstiKz SOLICITED j THE POULTRY 'SNEAK THIEF. The weasel as a sneak tblef and oftly stealing assassin is beyond de scription. Silently gliding like a serpent, he allps through an Inch opening, bounds on his harmless victim, sucks its blood and wantonly cuts the throat of every fowl. The beautiful thrush, nestling Its young or on leafy branch caroling to Its Maker, is suddenly seized and its trilling throat pierced by the fangs of the murderer. Bis technical name, putorlus, from putor," "bad smell,' is appropriate, for, like the polecat, he throws off a Tile odor. Diminutive in size, he Is a consolidated devil a cross of deep dyed villain, skunk and silent striking copperhead. Behold that long, lithe, wiry, restless, quickly moving, muscu lar body! That fiat head, projected from all the openings in his retreat seemingly at once, sways from side to side, like the cobra ready to strike. THI IrCBJDEBKB MASKED. Above are the feaiful jaws and serpent fangs that cut the throats of eighty chickens in one night The skin is drawn back to unmask the murderous killing weapons and to dis play the intricate network of muscles that work the powerful jaws, which njake the weasel the most dreaded enemy of the poultry keeper. Though he weighs from five to eight ounces and is from six to ten inches in length, yet this little sausage shaped creature Is much feared and formidable. He has been known to kill the eagle and attack five prong buck. On Jan. 17 last a miner was ter ribly lacerated and bitten by a weasel , at Bear Valley shaft, Shamokin, Pa. In the darkness the weasel seemed master, but miners, hearing the cries of distress, rescued their companion and killed the weasel with drills and hovels. This animal has been known to kill six full grown hens, twenty tur keys and eighty chickens in three nights. His victims am not disfigured. He bleeds a rabbit between the eye and ear, but has been known to chase one into a stone fence and open an artery In the hind leg. j He will clean the rats and mice out of a barn and bleed them the same way. He bites old chickens in the arteries of the neck close to the head. Young chickens, pigeons and wild birds are caught back of the neck and sucked dry. If wounded, he will suicide by sucking his own blood. A hunter followed a weasel for twenty-five miles, tho little animal stopping to kill only eight rabbits dur ing the race. At times he would dis appear and travel undr the snow for fifty feet. In this way he kills many quail that seek shelter under wind falls, the fanners In the spring re porting them frozen by the hard winter j weather. - In one night a hunter trapped a dark brown, light red and white weasel. The most common color Is brown. Weasels are dark and light brown, dark and light red, maltese and white. Maltese are rare. The weasel wears white in winter. On the snow he can hardly CAUGHT AT LAST. be seen by his victim and enemy. His white fur is the ermine of royalty and august courts, and the dark spots on these robes are the black tips of weasel tails. The mink and weasel should not be confused. Minks reach two pounds and have half webbed toes. When a chicken Is ripped from the neck down the back, it is neither a weasel, mink, rat hor opossum, but a cooper's hawk did the damage. Weasels are born from April to May, six to two to a litter. The young ones, nre great poultry 'Sends and arc easllv , caueht lu steel traps. They are comuloh all over the country, except In Arlaoua, New Mex ico, southern California and the gulf states. JOHNNY, GIT YER QUNI Johnny, git yer run! . A. weasel's In th pen; Clv It to Mm untight;. Don't elioot tho speckly hen. Hit 'lm with tha ax; ' Stab 'lm In the collnr; Tha feller what flxea 'Ira 'II sit a ha'f a dollar. Tou'ra a bully feller) My, but you kin shoot! Here's yer ha'f a dollar, ' An' fifty cents to boot. Nail Mm to tha barn, Warnln' to the real; , , Ekunka an' weasels alt. It yer know what's best Johnny's pulled hla gun; Thig hain't nary lie. Better go a mile aroun' Else yer want to dla. C. M. & D0NT3. Don't fall to advertise, but fall to tell lies. . Don't use the same trough in all the pens. Epidemic Don't" buy medicated nest eggs foi lice. They are quackery. Don't keep too many breeds. It beats Kilkenny cats and will beat you, Don't think how hard your work Is. It brings on grumps and lazy prostra tion. Don't dust the mother hen with sul phur. Make sores and blinds chicks. See? Don't get your troughs and water vessels mixed. Roup, cholera, chicken pox, canker, are contagious. Don't use rotten eggr. for ojst eggs. ...Ik.. I.. I...- . -1 1 Don't expect a five dollar cockerel for a dollar. Have you any real five dollar birds for a dollar bill? We have never bought any and would like to try It. Don't forget when chicks, ducklings and poults appear that they should be kept separate from each other and the old stock. The old gander will guard the gosling. Don't forget heredity A crooked tall on a hen puts a crooked tall on a cock erel. Hat ditto. A crooked beajt on the cock puts a lopsided mouth' on the pul lets. Where did you get your crook edness? ' Don't spend your time writing spring poetry, but raise spring poultry. The former will bring you an N. O. check to your aspirations, but the latter will bring a check to pay for your wife's Easter hat 8ETTINQ A HEN. Test her first with doorknobs and corncobs. If her enthusiasm Increases, arrange' a roomy nett, so she may turn and leave and return without breaking the eggs. Underlay the oat straw with tobacco stems and dust the hen with louse powder two days before you give her egjrs and redust the fifteenth day. Hint A hen will not eat at once after dusting and will soil the eggs if put right back on the nest. Set ber in a secluded spot and you will get a good hatch if you have a good heu, good eggs and you are a good fellow to tend her. Bill of Fare. Whole corn, grit, wa ter, dust box; no green food, meat scrap nor mash. If you are faithful, It will not be twins nor triplets, but on the twenty-first day she will serve a whole family of cblcklets on the half shell. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. Ducklings, white clover and honey bees are a bad combination. Better be careful. To get a white flesh market chicken feed white ground oats and skimmilk: corn for yellow backs. When you buy dressed low Is, if the bird is healthy kick against a packed crop. Too high for corn. It's against the law to sell packed crop chickens In some states. Call the cop. It's common sense to keep fire ex tinguishers handy. It's no joke to grab a redhot incubator and fire it out wide the fire zone. Swish, swash, hiss, and the extinguisher has saved you ! from being beaten by the Insurance company! The yield of farm products for 1907 reaches $7,412,000,000, or $057,000,00:) above 1900. The farmers' poultry did their part. Who cot tit- hiannJl? "The I "Tr? """"""iwitb am n-noked material, can you? IRENJ THE SHE'S A' QUEEN is an expression that is always heard at sight of a well developed woman. If you are flat chested, with BUST undeveloped, a scrawny neck, thin, ' lean arms the above remark will never be applied to you. "SIREN'' wafers will make you beautiful, bewitching. They DE VELOP THE BUST in a few weeks from 3 to 6 inches and produce a. fine firm, voluptuous bosom. They fill out the hollow places. , , Make the arms handsome rA well modeled and the neck and shoulders shapely and of perfect contourCSSSK?'? ! Send for a bottle oday and you'll be pleased and grate ful. "SIREN" wafers are absolutely harmless, pleasent to take and con venient to carry around. They are ;oM under guarantee to do all ' claim or MONEY back. Price $1.00 per bottle. Inquire at good drug stores or send DIRECT to vs. CpppDuring the next 30 days only we will send you a sample I KLLottle of these beautifying wafers on receipt of 10 cents ti 1 pay cost of packing and portage if you will mention that yc saw the Advertisement in this paper. The sample alone may be sufficier.i if defects are trivial. tub Star Is erecting a plant at TORTLAND, OREGON" for tho manufacture, of their world famous PORTABLE WELL DR'uLINO MACHINES for vater, oil, gas, etc., etc. A moderate amount of money will atari yon in a profitable business. STAR PORTABLE DRILLING MACHINES have been proved by Competitive Tests to DO The Best In The World. For full particulars regard ing well drilling machines, tools, supplies, etc., write to THE STAR DRILLING MACHINE CO. PORTLAND, OffCQON. or AKIfON, OHIO. trusts," lays the farmer. Yes; thj play their trick, and the farmer gets a gold brick. ' Chickens that pick toward the sharp point of the shell seldom get out. They do not absorb the yolk; It bursts, and i they drown. Sometimes a chicken will ' stick fast to the shell. You can help It to liberty, but the majority of these stickers have erooked backs, crooked necKS nuu crooseu leer, ami amount i nothing. If nature cau do uo better "Dear reader. If John Brown's pretty peacock gets over your fence and lays an egg under your rosebush and you get It, whose egg is that?" "Mine, of course." "Yours? Well, prove It." "Oh, that's easy! I've got the egg, and possession Is nine points of the law." "Sure your right?" "Well, I guess, aud If you weren't so pigheaded you'd see it." "Well, then, my dear, would it make any difference if that egg had been laid by a pretty peahen?" Who ever heard of a goose special? Well. then. Itussla is ahead. A special goose train of twenty to forty cars steams over the Russian border Into Berlin every day. Each car holds 1.200 cacklers. imagine 48,000 geese honk ing and hissing while a multitude of our good natured German friends bid for them! Berlin's "goosey gander" bill is 12,000.000 n year. The German 1 emperor relishes ronRt goose stuffed with onions, decorated with liquid hops. Tills Is not lose majesty. SIGN OF A BEATEN MAN. Runner Who Looks Behind Almost Sure to Lose the Race. , "There are many more good distance runners now than in my days," said an old time champion after watching a three mile scratch race at the New York Athletic club games. "But the habits of the runners have not changed i any, for I noticed one little trick In ! the race that bore the significance that ; nsed to attach to it. j "To the casual onlooker there was nothing to choose betweeu the two leaders when they were beginning the last quarter of a' mile. Right from the crack of the pistol they were running almost stride for stride with the low, ::r:z: B umiuutc i untie . j "Neither had called Into use the re-! serve power which must be utilized In the finni sprint for victory when they turned into the stretch for the final lap. Tlieu one of them slightly turned i his head to seo where the third man was- i imi n-an ueaten.- was tne ; thought which declined to me at once, i and It proved true, as always, for when the dash for the finish began he allow ed his rival to j;et a lead of five yards before going after him In earnest pur- l suit. "From that point to the finish there was no perceptible difference in the speed of the men, but tho man who had turned his bead to make sure that he would get second place, Instead of bending every energy to win, of course landed where his thoughts placed him." New York un, nrwpi nn BUST SHE'SIA SIREN CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS HELP WANTED WANTEDGIRL TO WORK IN printing office. Enqlre at Astor ian office. 7-29-tf cTrTTWaNT" eTTPcjr GEN ERAL housework. Apply Mrs. G. Zciglcr, 314 17th street. 7-30-4t SITUATION WANTED. WANTED rOSmON BOO K- keeper or clerk or both; exper ienced in latter; graduate Ferris In stitute, Big Rapids, Mich.; best of references. Address, J. II., Astorian. ! . 7-29-3t FOB SAUL FOR SALE A 100-PIECE SET OF 1 Haviland China, in perfect condi tion, cheap. Inquire at the McCrea- Ford studio, 7-IS-tf i 1 ' FIRST.CLASS DENSMORE TYPE ' .writer, at half price; also light driv ing team, buggy and harness; to gether or separately. C. E. Barney, with Warren Packing Co., Astoria. rox RXNT. FOR RE N'T, FURNISHED HOUSE keeping and single rooms. Apply 77 Exchange street. 7-31-ot LOST AND FOUND. FOUND PAIR GOLD MOUNTED eyeglasses. Apply at Astorian office, j 7-30-tf FOUND IN FOARD & STOK ES Hall, an umbrella; owner can have same by paying for this ad and prov ing property. 7-31-lf FOUND POCKET taining papers, etc. torian office. , CASE CON Enquire at As 7-30-tf LOST-WHITE SILK BELT, with silver buckle. Finder return to this office and receive reward. 29-3t MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED TO BUY FARM IN j the Nehalem Valley; state price terms, improvements, location, etc 'Address!. H., Astorian. 7-31-tf FOR SALE FURNITURE IN A room house; almost new; very rea sonable. Apply 410 Exchange. 31-3t MAGAZINE kinds done BINDING OF ALL at the Astorian Office LOOSE LEAF LEDGERS ALL j kinds made by The J. S. Dcllinger Company. OLD PAPERS FOR SALE; PER hundred, 25 cents. At Astorian Office WANTED TO BUY A HORSE weight about 1250 pounds; not over 8 years old; must be good driver and j gentle, also city broke. ; torian office. Address As- 6-9-H I WANTED FURNISHED ROOMS wanted - 2.or 3 furnished , , rooms for housekeeping with use of bath; no children. Address H., Astorian. 7-30-2t I WANTED TWO ,OR THREE rooms in a modern house; nicely furnished; gas range, bath; for two ,e Address, A. B., Astorian. HOUSE MOVERS. FREDR1CKSON BROS.-We make a specialty of house moving, car penters, contractors, general jobbing; prompt attention to all orders. Cor ner Tenth and Duane streets. MASSAGE. OLGA KANTONEN, FINNISH masseuse and steam baths, room 6, Pythian Bldg., Commercial St., As torian, Ore. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE. NOWLEN Real Estate and Employment Office , 473 Commercial St., Phone Have fine list of Astoria and coun try property. All classes of labor furnished. 3 HAW! PROFESSIONAL CARDj. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW CHARLES K. ABERCROMBIE Attorney-at-Ltw City Attorney Offices; Clly Hall JOHN C. McCVE Attorney-at-Law "v Deputy District Attorney. Page Building lite 4. HOWARD M. BROWN ELL Attqrney-at-Law Office with Mr. J. A. Eakin, at 420 Commercal St. Astoria. OSTEOPATHS. DR. RflODA C. HICKS Osteopath Office Mansell Bldg. Phone Black 206S i 3 Commercial St.. Astoria. Ore DENTISTS DR. VAUOHAN Dentist Pythian Building, Astoria, Oregon DR. W. C LOQAN Dentist Commercial St. Shanahan Bldg. TEETH Without Pafij. 0 Dili COR. 21TH AND COMMERCIAL. Office hcufs 8:.T0 A. M. to 8: P. M. Sunday 10:00 to 12:00. Phone Number Main 3901. Painless Extractions 5oc Corner Commercial and 11th Sts. over Dauziger store. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. RESTAURANTS. TOKIO RESTAURANT. 351 Bond Street i Op posite Ross, Higgins & Co. Coffee with Pis or Cake 10 Cta. FIRST.CLASS MEALS Regular Meali 15 Cta. and Up. U. 8. RESTAURANT. 434 Bond Street Coffee with Pie or Cake, 10 Cta. First-Class Meals, IS Cta. FISH MARKET. I 77 Ninth St., near Bond Fresh and Salted Fish. 1 Game and Poulirv. Groceries, Produce and Fruit Imported and Domestic Goods. P. Bakotitch & Feo, Proprs. none Rfld tlSI . MISCELLANEOUS. Smith's Special Delivery EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE Leave Orders at Star Cigar Store. Phone Black 2383 Res. Thone Red 2276. Stand Corner 11th an Commercial. SCHOOLS AND mm Fs artel You wanfthe best money can buy in food, clothing, home comforts, pleasures, etc., why not in education? Portland's Leading Business College offers such to you and at no greater cost than an inferior school, Owners practical teachers ' More Calls than we can fill Teachers actual business men In session the entire year, Positions guaranteed graduates Catalogue "A" for the asking I. M. WALKER, Pres. , O. A. BOSSERMAN, Secy. UNDERTAKEN. J. A, CILBAUOII & CO., Undertaken and ISmlialmeri. Experienced Lndy ANNlstant When Desired, Call Promptly Attended Day or Nlglit. TiUtoit Bilg. 12th aud Duane 8U ASTOUIA. OttE.UON IMioue Mali Ulil MIOICAL. UopreosueaM 8uoots f 08. C- GEE li THI CBIAT CHINES! D0CTOI Who la kMa Lthronifboat the United 4i States on arcouat of No poison or drags usee. He futraa Ue to euro catarrh, asthma, lung aad throat trouble, rheumatism, nervousness, stomaeh, liver and kUnsy, fsrnaW com Ulntt and all ohronlc dJeae. lUCCES&rUL H0MI TSZATKZITT. If you cannot cll write for symptom blank and eirculsr, Inclosing 4 etaU r stamps. TBS C. GIE W0 MXDICIHI CO. 1121 First 8t., Corner Morrison. PORTLAND, ORXGOW. PWe tnntio& tho Antortaa. PLUMBERS. I. A. MONTGOMERY PLUMBER Heating Contractor, Tinner AND Sheet Iron Worker KLL WORK 'GUARANTEED 425 Bond Street. Younce & Baker PLUMBERS TINNERS Steam and das Fitting aii worK vjuaranteea. uo eighth Street, opp. Post Office. Phone Main 4061. LAUNDRIES. WE WASH Everything but the Baby and return everything but the dirt. TROY LAUNDRY Tenth and Duane Phbne Main 1901 CONCRETE WORK DONE ANY PERSON WANTING ANY i CONCRETE WORK DONE AT THE CEMETARIES, WILL PLEASE LEAVE ORDERS AT POHL'S UNDERTAKING FICE. OF- E. NYMAN Astoria, Ore. P. O. Box 603. COLLEGES "m Desk 22 ESTHETIC CHEMICAL CO., 31 West 125th St New York