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1 .ii jSheep Industry in Valley 'Is Stable Industry; Flock Improvement Is Important .Karl Steiwer, One - of Most Fanners Should Strive Especially for Increase In Average Fleece; Save Best Lambs -" " - - - '-"'.-' i " nTTARL Steiwer, brother of t-;;XV. Steiwer, is one of the leading sheep breeders and dealers "' of the Willamette valley: His 'way about ten miles south of ijr. is Jefferson. He is a breeder of pure . not say they are the best. . youth up; but he told the Slogan man oyer the; phone the other evening that be ' does ' not "1! claim to know all about sheep yet. 'He says the particular breed Is a 'question of taste, like the style of . :a lady's hat. Bat he does say' all .sheep are good. He Is more than ",'a breeder. He owns a large farm ' and does all the things that go "'.with high class sheep breeding; ' Talses clover as a rotation crop. Raises rape for his sheepjetc, etc. 'Whatever he sows, he says the - sheep get some of It. The sheep -do well on fall sown . wheat or 1 other grain; and they do not in '"J' Jnre the crop of grain. He sows '"'some rye with the Idea of helping ' his sheep along. And he does still f more. He ; rents pasturage for ' bands of sheep. He buys and sells cheep, and operates this industry " in rarious ways. ' :' Tays to Rent Land 1 Mr, Steiwer has often told' the '- Slogan man that the sheep Indus try in the Willamette valley Is 'more stable. and more profitable than It Is in eastern Oregon (and .' he has had sheep in eastern Ore ' gon); that a man with sheep can ' rent stubble fields In the Wlllam ' "ette valley and other good sheep ' pasture; toofor around IS cents '-a sheep a month and that this is 10 cheaper than keeping eastern Ore 11 ' gon sheep herders with all their expenses at $80 a month salary u for each herder. ' I: The contract price for wool here was around 40 cents a pound for the 1928 clip. But prices ad vanced, and wool has lately been bringing 40 to SO cents a pound ' here. " -Early June lambs brought 11 to " 12 cents a pound. They are now ' about 10 cents a pound. 'That h. meant for the early Jambs $9 to ' ' $10 each, and that the range is r-now $8 to $9 for lambs.' Ewes ;:are selling now from $11 to $14 )'Caeh.; : Compared with last year's piicesl .of 30 to 35 cents a pound, there o -..has been a decided advantage this u year for onr wool growers. - The prices for lambs hare ranged slightly lower than those of last .,yeaf. mi - Increase In Xambers r.r There has been a decided In- crease in the numbers of sheep on the farms of the Salem district. This increase is going on. It Is a good sign for the coming back of land - prices and the . general stabilisation of the industries on .the land. -Mr.. Steiwer believe that, since 'Srould seem to be good business to-, try- to improve them In some .particular. We have In the past given . considerable attention to the . mutton .. lamb, because that ,was where the profit lay. ' acrease" the Fleece J. "Inasmuch, as the next two' or three years will see a: large per. .tcentage of our flocks replaced .t jrith something younger, why not ; .replace with- a better wooled k t sheep?'! Mr. - Steiwer Is being .e. noted. He adds that, "with more care In the selection of rams. and , ;the proper cuUlng out. of the off r spring, it should - be easy to in crease the fleece a pound or two, . and at. the same time not detract .rom the Quality of the wool." He explains: : I am not speaking of purebred' sheep, bat more ee . peelally of the common kind. By selection of rams I don that we should . all raise fine ... woled or all coarse wooled sheep, but blend the two together, de pending upon what we have to start with, and more especially do "mwar with rams that do not pro- .""Huce wool. . Call Lambs Costly This class of rams will always e numerous until farm era cease o be afraid to castrate spring lambs. There is no sense. In spend ing good money for rams and then permit a Jot-of cull lambs to sire the next- year's crop. Too many sheep men wait for a favorable moon, or until the, crops are in, or until the lambing season .is over. By this time the lambs are perhaps too big; and they decide to let them go. My experience has been that the best. time Is when the lamb is from one day to one ""week old. and today , Is always Dates of ; Slogans in (With a few possible changes)" -Loganberries, October C, 127 Prunes, October 13 . , , ' Dairying, October 0 , . Flax, October 27 - . - ' Filberts, November 3 Walnuts. November 10 - Strawberries,' November IT". - 4 Apples, Figs, Etc- Not. 24 v. Kaspnerries, iwuiu( a - Mint, December Beans; Etc; December 1 S -Blackberries, December 22 t.; Cherries, December 29 Pears, January 5, 192$ . Gooseberries, January 12 Corn, January " 1 9 Celery, January 28- , Spinach, Etc., February Onions, Etc., February 12 : Potatoes. EteW February It Bees, February 26 Poultryand Pet Stock, Mar. 4 City Beautiful, Etc March 11 Great Cows, March It Paved Highways, March 25 Head Ittnce, April 1 ... Silos, Etc, April 3 - . " .JLegumes, April 15 Asparagus, Etc., April 22 ' Successful Breeders, Believes United States Senator ;Fred home is on the Pacific high Salem; nearer, to Jefferson bred Oxford sheep but he does He has handled sheen from his better than tomorrow.- " ; Fewer and Better Dogi . "The SUtesman's i efforts ; for more and better sheep should be appreciated, and .in this eonnec tlon something might alstf be said tor zewer ana oerter oogs. . 1 re call, from a couple of years ago, two very, ordinary dogs now' de ceased that in 24 hours killed outright not less than' $500 worth 1 sheep and goats. The damage to the balance - of the flocks In cripples,- orphan , lambs and loss of morale would probably exceed twice that amount," . Mr. Steiwer says the losses from the depredations of dogs have sot been large In his section this year, and no coyotes hare shown up out Jefferson way.elther. l What he has to say about the wooled or all coarse wooled sheep. tative, and it Is : important. - He "speaks as one having; authority.' He is rather long on practice and ihort on theory... : SHEEP IS VRVET i State Treasurer jKay Ber Heves Our Farmers Should Breed More Sheep T, B. Kay, state treasurer, and president and manager of the Thomas ' Kay woolen j mill . com pany in Salem, ought to know something about the sheep Indus try. He commenced working ' in his father's woolen mUl when he was nine years old. He has been connected -with some form of the producing or 1 manufacturingi branches of the industry ever since. He has managed, the Salem woolen mill for 2ft years. Mr. Kay has himself been i a . breeder " of 3heep a good deal .of the time. Sbeep Better Than Hogs 7 He told the Slogan man yester day that sheep' are '.better: than logs. Sheep come to market here without feeding, while! hogs come with half their value consumed In the feed they must have to render 'hem marketable. There Is there "ore more profit to the! breeder in theep for mutton than In hogs for pork. And the wool of the sheep is all velvet." considered, for the purpose, of this comparison. " . More Than Dollar for ifoQar. Mr. Kay says you can now buy ewes for $12 a head, and most of them will produce two - lambs. Take 100 ewes, and count the in crease at 150 lambs, selling at 1 9 3ach, and you have 11350. and the wool win sell at $300 to $350 So you have $150 to $1700'gross for v your investment f $120 0. "Can you. beat tbatni asks Mr. Kay. . i - . . , He aays he was for a long time Interested In a 400 acre farm north of Turner, and he had 100 head of sheep, and they; paid more profit than all the rest of the pro ducts of the farm, year after year: more net nrofit. Wool waa hn mMIU..m . . . ! - lTTn ai i arouno 3 cents s, a pound. It Is 45 to; 50 cents now. and the; lambs are higher than they were then. The wool from or dinary sheep here runs from eight to 10 pounds a head, and from the Cotswold type to 10 to 11 pounds: though the Cotswold fleece brinrs about five cents less a pound than that from the Shropshire type, andn the mutton of the Cotswold la sot ts good as that of the Shropshire. It Is coarser.- . ' : , yi ... - ;'-." Should Have More Sheep Here Mr. Kay thinks we should have many more sheep In the Sa lem district. The United States produces' now about 300,000,000 pounds of wool a year, and It im ports about 350,000.000 pounds annually. Our .country ought to produce all the wool it uses, he thinks. And we produce less than half our requirements now. He Oregon Statesman " Grapes, cW April': 21 j ' ; " Drug: Garden, May C i , Sugar Industry, May 13 -r Water. Powers, May 20 ; IrrlgaUo May 27ft 4 v Mining., June 3 1 " . Land, Irrigation, Etc, June 1 Floriculture, June j 17 .--:, 'V, Hops, Cabbage, Etc, June 24 . -Wholesaling, Jobbing, July 1 Cucumbers, Etc, July t :- '.: Hogs' July lli- r,fv,:ii-K'iHV ,v GoaU, July 22 Schools, July 29 f 1 - Sheep, August 5 Seeds,' August" 12 'n 't National Advertising, Aug. 19 : Livestock, August it" 1 Grain ft Grain Products, Sept. 2 i Manufacturing, Sept. 91 . Woodworking, Etc, Sept. If : 1- Automotive Industries, Sept 21 , Paper Mills, Sept. 30 : (Back copies of theThurs ' day edition of The Daily Ore . . gon Statesman are ' on hand, . They are for sale at It cenU ; each, mailed to. any; address. , Current topics I cents. L XTHIS WEEK'S SLOGAN DID YOU KNOW That the Salem district is one of the ' best countries in the world for the raisin? af medium wool sheep; that every farm in this section ought to have some sheep; that they provide two crops a y ear th wool and the lambs; that besides this the sheep pay for. their keep in rendering- the lands free from weeds and in fertilizing it; that sheep breeding (3 carried on here with jthe minimum of cost afid care, with green grass the year through; that the young man here who will get some land and some sheep wiQ always have a . bank account, and that the Willamette valley ought to become known as the home of pure bred sheep, as It is now famed. the wide world over for its pure bred cattle? High Priced Land Will PaV Here With' Flock of Sheep Says Buyer Who Trys Plan S. E. Purvine Makes Own Farm Pay by Keeping Sheep; He was At4i loss wun umer uperations; Sheep Leave Land in Better Condition S. E. Purvine Is manager of the Clifford W. Brown estate wool buying firm, the pioneer concern In its line In this section, with headquarters at 171 North Front street, Salem. He has been con nected with .this concern many years. He Is a competent man to Judge as to the benefits of the sheep Industry here, and he Is en thusiastic about them. This ' con cern buyTwool throughout the state, and Mr. Purvine is neces sarily in close touch with the pro ducing as well as the marketing end of the business: In comment ing on the wool industry, he told f Ka dna'ait man It is absolutely the best basis for. the. average farmer in western Oregon. With this of course . goes many side lines, but. taken as a whole I believe it is more remun erative than any other one line of agriculture. I realise that land is comparatively high-priced In the Willamette valley, that Is, as com pared with the range district; but land at $100, $150 or $200 an acre can be made to pay by prop erly handling a flock' of . sheep. The wool crop in western Oregon Is estimated at approximately three - and a half millions o f pounds annually. To this! must be added the -returns for; mutton sheep and lambs." '-7 (This :shows a considerable In crease. Mr. Purvine put the pro duction of wool for western Ore gon last year at two and a quar ter million pounds. He thinks now that was perhaps a little con servative. But there has been rap- Id growth.)' ' Makee His Own Farm Pay I am now able to make my own ranch of 375 acres. In Polk county, pay," added Mr. Purvine, but I could net do it until I put on a flock of sheep. It will easily carry a flock of 250 ewes, and, by paying more attention to the rais ing of feed, I believe that I can carry- 300 ewes. If that i number were carried on the place, it would be necessary to sow various :rops to be fed off to the sheep. ;ucn as rape and clover. "The range men are finding it such more expensive to produce too! and mutton than formerly. in account of the restrictions of the national forest reserves, ' and consequent added expense. This Is all in favor of the sheep man who . maintains his sheep on the 1 arm under farm conditions. "iA'Ffstern Oregon Wool "There are two principal class es of wool in eastern Oregon, one Is known as range wool which is the - wool - from the large bands that run on the ranges. We buy comparatively small quantities of this class of wool. The other is known as the ranch wooL which Is produced on the ranches under feeding conditions. They have the run of alfalfa and blue grass pas tures that are irrigated, and dur ing me winter season the flocks are fed on alfalfa hay. We buy this extensively. . r i : "The United States : imoorts about as much wool as we pro duce. There is an Import duty of 32c per pound on a scoured basis. This means approximately 15e or lfe per pound in the areas. me iieece is taaen irem the sheep. With the. present price, here of around the 4 5c mark, this would mean that we can very successful ly compete with New Zealand and believes there is no farm in the Willamette valley than can make room tor sheep that should be without them. Wool Is protected by a heavy duty. He says it is 31c a pound, average, on the scoured basis.. And Willamette valley far mers who did not contract early got this year 50 cents a pound for most, of .their wool. - ' - .. EVANSTON, HL, Aug. 4. ( AP Describi ng sunlight, . wi ter", carbon dioxide and various lnorganie salts - as the "raw ma terials," Dr. Charles A." Browne of the bureau of chemistry and soils of the federal department of agriculture, declared today1, in an1 address before the .institute , of chemistry of the American Chem ical society at Northwestern unl versitx. -i. that every farm iinthe United States is a chemical "iae- tory. r- 'ty :;- " The operations of plant and anl- - . W. W." ItOSFJBRAUGH . . llaanfactarcrs of I r; Warm 'Air Furnaces. Fruit Dry ing Stoves, Smoke Stacks, Tanks, ' Steel - and foundry Work, Welding a .Specialty. - , 17th Jk Oak Eta, Salem, Ore. ' i - . aag, other . foreign sheep producing countries on a 20c per pound bas is, . and in addition to that, the transportation from foreign coun tries must also be considered. "The fact 1" asserted Mr. Pur vine, "we can compete with a 36c price for our wool here, which was about the average price f wool in saiem a year ago." Good Fronts la- Sheep The average production for the sheep in western Oregon is now approximately seven pound per neaa. calculating a lamb that is sold soon after-weaning time for mutton, at the market price of $8, this would give a return per ewe of around the $11 mark, .estimat ing me iamo crop at 100 per cent. many or the farmers will exceed this per cent with their crop of lamos. it is a matter of taking proper care of the ewes at lamb ing time. The loss by dogs is a source of aggravation and some direct lossesbut nder the pres ent system 01 ' indemnifying the farmers against such loss by the county, the loss to the individual farmer Is reduced materially. "Then again In calculating the benefits from a flock of sheep, it should not be overlooked that the entire farm operations necessary 10 properly care for a floek of sheep are such that it should leare the farm in better condition, rear aj year, v - r . .1 r V "" -; Mr. Purvine recommends erau. bred sheep for this district; -medi um ano fine wooled animals or medium and coarse wooled. That Is the Shropshire or close wooled type with either the Merino or the Cotswold type. He thinks there is room for continued growth of the sheep industry here, though there are some farms now carrying all they should. The reader has no doubt gathered from the ahor that Mr. Purvine Is verv eonaerva. tlve.Many well posted men here give a much rosier view than , he does, and hold the opinion that we have only started in what oueht to be a wild boom In the sheep in- ausiry; Claiming that it Is not uxeiy to be overdone in many years.r . -' mal life, he said, are the chemical processes, and crops and other produce are the final Output.' - There Is a growing realization. Dr. Browne reported, of the great importance of agricultural chem-i leal . research to the public wel fare. Two fundamental principles which agricultural , chemistry has discovered in the one and a half centuries of Its existence are the law of the minimum and the law of diminishing returns. The last bushel in the yield of wheat and the last pound In the weight of a fattened steer cost . the most to produce.- ' - Y .- - - ;"Wt have only to reflect upon the, very Incomplete state of our knowledge, concerning the chem istry, of . cellulose, lignln. starch, proteins, vitamins and the numer ous other constituents of crops and animals, or. concerning some 6f the' more common processes of plant and animal life, such as pho t o yn thesis or the production of milk in the lacteal gland, in order to realise the immense uncovered distance which agricultural chem istry has' yet to travel." , 1 , By devising7 improved methods of utilisation chemistry is now playing a role of increasing im portance in creating new -markets for agricultural products. Chang ing habits In food and dress tiave made It necessary to readjust the uses that are made of farm pro- duee.-f-v;- --";Y ',;.; usEinim TO CiliJ TOMATOES I WASHINGTON, "Aug. 4.(AP) Tomatoes may be canned by the wash-boiler or any covered vessel A water-bath 1 canner ' may be a wash-boiler or any covered vessel of sufficient depth for. the Jars or cans to be . completely immersed while processing, J and equipped with a rack: or false bottom WHAT IS IT? SEE THEO. M. BARR 1 Phone 192 F, MIUI BEST PLAGE SIHE Institution That ; Does Very Thorough Work and Fills A Real Need PAWHUSKA, Okla., Aug. 4. (AP) Fred Lookout, 67. chief of the Osage Indians, who have been made , rich by oil, hopes they will be happier when they again till the-soil from which their wealth flows. In agriculture he places the hope for perpetuation of the tribe. "Too many of my people inter marry with other people," he la ments In hesitant but distinctly spoken English. "I want Osages to marry - each : other and keep the tribe from dying out. I want my people to show white brothers we can -live on homesteads and run our farms good. I think my people happier if they get out and work on their lands. I want them to raise chickens, grow fruit and corn and hogs and cows. Then I know Osages be better off if there be no oil. ' "Some day oil go," he says. Maybe not in my life time. Per haps In my son's. Then what of Sils children?" Nature always provides for the Indians who know nature's moods, the chief tells his younger sub- J Jets. But those whom nature pam pers, he warns, forget how to win her favors when she is reluctant to give. The Osages were, industrious farmers as well as hunters when Chief Lookout was a young man. But today, except for oil derricks rooted In the soil, much of the Osage land grows nothing planted by man. Many Indians, enjoying; Soja Bean "Meat and Milk To Orientals; r 1' Sis;. flrMa Man cSull iffwi pr JMtW ISaUUf -ralata sr kL - ! 'VrfvtlltMt lint m4 - trim Ian hi rj40- tu t. i - - . - MtJsssTsn - America follows the Orient In adopting: the soy bean, "soja max," as human food. The chart enumerates uses now made of -the plant in tho United States. Above Is a field of soy beans, 1,400 acres of which are growing on the reclaimed bed of old' Lake Matta muskett In North Carolina the world's largest single tract of this Important forage and food erop NEW HOLLAND. N. C, Aug. 4. --(AP) The world's largest field 6f soy beans, the "soja max" of the Orient, stands on 1,400 acres of lowlands near here, once cov-J ered by the waters of Lake Matta-Ily muskett. F -'". ' 1 - " -; i Authorities say no greater sin gle tract ever j has been grown, even in Manchuria . 'where eight million acres are' harvested an nually as the chief ! food - of the poor. .'. Approximately two and a half million acres will be harvest ed this year in the United States. principally" from small "areas and as forage. Having less need of ; Capitol Bargain and Junk House 105-145 Center i; ; . Tet 398 All Kinds of Junk -':- ; : Bought and Sold . ; " . ; Anjthing from a Needle -: to a Steam Engine . CASH PAID FOR RAGS, BOTTLES, BARRELS, OLD PAPER, CARPETS, ntON, WOOL, PELTS, GRAPE ROOT, CIHTTAM BARIC, PEPPERMINT OIL, ETC handsome Incomes from oil. and gas royalties, hare built luxuri ous homes in the three largest towns of Osage county. 1 ' & :' if v.-. v Lack of Improvements and dif ficulty of obtaining long-time leases have kept white tenant farmers away. A large part of the land, alloted 20 years ago in tracts of 657 acres, has passed intq hands of speculators, despite strict regulatlone of the federal government. But the Indians have retained their homesteads of 160 acres, which were included in the original allotments, and all together they still hold about 1, 000,600 acres. '"My people must keep land," the chief declares. "Already they sell too mnch. We must go back to the soil so the tribe can live." Chief Lookout himeelf lives on a farm-four miles fromPawhuska. Too modest to call himself a model farmer, he is glad that his two sons uphold the agricultural traditions of the tribe. Grows in U.S 19 a . x .. '"'Jit, ' r r j T .i v X 4 X ?J ft anlAH ' tOMUl Ut SMaiamf tmm mtMm Ub -M4 iiin 1 Ma 11m 1 11 lSattr aakatttaM MhURM frtatlac lau lakrtaatlac fMakl SAlhJOMfMttM . fcMl UBMMft Oatfaa MlatlUta - feea. soy bean as food, this country will produce scarcely more than 15 million bushels of seed. That cir cumstance gives the Matamuskett crop another distinction. Virtual' the entire field will be allowed to mature, so that Its thousands of bushels of ripe beans may . be sold to southern oil mills. The Matamuskett project is a monument to the perseverance of D. N. Graves.! Three years ago a group of Ohio promoters interest ed August Hecksher of 'New. York and other investors in an effort to transform swamps of the Atlantic seaboard into a region of fertile ' 1 EDITORIAL SHEEP breeding is one of the most important in dustries for the Salem district ; for the whole of the Willamette valley and westerri Oregon. It is tremendously important - v : -And it is growing:. . The wool production of west ern Oregon inrceased to about three and a half mil lion pounds this year, from two 'and -a quarter mil lions last year. Some of the leading business ' men and concerns of Salem are interested in and backing up the industry, to their great credit, and no doubt in most cases to their profit. Among these is the firm of Hawkins & Roberts, who maintain two to four thousand head' of sheep on their farms in the Salem district. "Sheep over clover and clover under sheep" is a slogan used by this concern. Last year, - these people brought 1800 thm lambs from southern Oregon for finishing on their clover pastures. "A flock of sheep on every farm and a registered ram at the .head .of every flock," is a worthy slogan for this valley. We need many more lamb clubs. State Treasurer T. B. Kay tells the Slogan man that sheep would be more profitable than hogs, even without their production of wool, because the sheep fatten' themselves, and they clean up the weeds and make the soil more fertile . . -So the wool is "velvet 7 Read the interview. We have 140 weeds m Oregon; sheep will eat 120 of them, ahd turn them into cash. Sheep with goats will kill out the Canada thistle Sheep pay j for their keep three times with thei 'Wool, their j increase and their mutton, and their aid in keeping the land clean and fertile. Karl Steiwer says it is cheaper to rent land in the Willamette valley for sheep than to pay the high wages of herders and for their support in Eastern Oregon. ; . ! Henry Porter, veteran breeder of Aumsville, says you can make more than 100 per cent on sheep, un der certain conditions, here in the Willamette valley. How many other investments offer so certain and high profits? Sheep breeding will not be overdone in the Salem .district as long as the United States imports over half her wool; as long as our people eat only about six pounds of mutton per capita annually, while they eat 60 to 70 pounds of pork and beef. We might keep 100 sheep here in the Willamette valley, on our well cultivated farms and our slacker and idle acres, for every one we now have, and still not be doing more than our share towards making the United States self sufficient in wool and mutton. You are invited to read all the sheep articles on the Slogan, pages today. They are intended to help increase our already healthy sheep boom in intensity. And they might be much more exhaustive and inten sive, and not do justice to the importance of this in dustry for our section. land and rich crops. The scheme was a costly failure. Investors lost heavily, and an Investigation resulted In prison terms for some of the promoters. Graves, however, was conrinced that the principle was sound if properly conducted. He Induced Hecksher to invest a million and a half dollars in the Mattamuskett enterprise, and water pumps re sumed operations following a pe riod of desolate abandonment, Canals, drains and ditches control the water that odce covered the entire 14,000 acres. Graves worked out .a rigid schedule of planting. By the time one crop is harvested another is being sowed. In some Instances seeding Is done before the' old crop to fully gath ered.' ,-.-:v k;.- Tractors equipped . wlthr search lights enable drivers- to work at night as well as through the day, pulling plows, planters, harvesters and tlreshers. As general man ager of the farm. Graves obtained a yield of 30 bushels, of soy beans to the acre last year and 20 bush els of rye. He says the 1928 pro duction will be even better. Although the soy bean - is a twentieth, century Innovation In! American agriculture. Its culture and uses .are recorded In ancient Chinese literature and undoubted ly date from a period long before the time of written documents. It was introduced ' to the United States in 1804, but for several de cades was regarded more as a bo tanical curiosity thanr as a plant of economic importance.' . Previous to 1 917 considerable less than 500,000 acres were' grown. The Increase has been general In the east, but marked Increases have occurred in the corn belt and ad joining states and a few of the southern states. Principally a for age crop, soy beans are- becoming important aa , human food. The federal department of agriculture is promoting schedule of their numerous, uses. '' ''' 'r-' V ly In , the far east soy beans are made into a curd, the tofan that takes the place of meat among the . We handle Castle, Gate, .Kingr, Rock . " ' Spring Coal and Gasco and '- . Diamond Briquets ; , - ' ' - - '- " ' v . . ' j" ' , t , - . ' I . .Also coal specially designed for chicken' brooder use. TELEPHONE 930 DiTorce Cares Bigamy? LONDON, Aug. 3. As between divorce and bigamy, divorce U the lesser, of two evils, according to Justice Salter at Winchester Assizes. "Bigamy is a crime la mentably prevalent," says he. "There is less excuse for bigamy in these days, because divorce ha been made so cheap and easy." Fall 800 Feet Safe BRADDOCKvPa., Aug. 3. An dy Churick and Joe Shedlock were, only slightly bruised when the. machine in which they were Hding plunged 300 feet over a precipice here recently. The au to somersaulted several times Is the way down and was a complete wreck when it landed on the low er level. Dog Costa Two Lives BULOGNE, Ang. 3. A little dog, the property of Emile Cris pon,' recently cost two lives here. The dog was being swept out to sea by waves and his master, go ing to ' his fescue, also was over powered. Mary Ledger, an Eng lish girl, went to the rescue of the man and died in the attempt. poor. It is handled commercially in various sized slices. Full fledged dairies are supported by the soy bean, the vegetable milk being bottled for consumption as a liquid- er- as the basis of a vegeta ble cheese; "Natto," or steamed beans,! is' a dally dish, and sojs max supersedes rice in the dietary of the poor. . . O a Ii 1 a n d P o o t i a c Sales and Service VICK BROS. High Street at Trade