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THB UK NO BCTJiKTlN, DAILY EDITION, IlfcfND, OKKflON, H.TVIU).VVf JUNK 81, 1010
Odell at a Glance
(By John T. Farls, writer for
I.ipplncott'a Magazine.)
"When does the fishing get good
In Odell lake?" asked a man thu
other day who hnd taken the limit
from lu limpid waters, and Inside of
two hours. He was quite different
from the family of campers from the
northern part of Oregon, who, on
Monday Inst, rejoiced In their catch
of more than fifty pounds within a
few hours dollies of a, size to mnko
the eyes bulge and speckled beauties
to make the mouth water.
But finning Is not tho only attrac
tion at Odell hike. Tako a good look
at the lake from the hill on which
Brock's comfortable log cabin re
sort for the tourist is built. Take a
motor boat and cruise along twenty
miles of varied shoreline. Look up
at the snow-clad peaks to the right
and to the loft Crater butte and
Diamond peak and Maiden peak.
Look down at their reflection In the
clear water where the trout can be
seen many feet below the surface.
Enter a bay with its sloping beach,
or take the shore at a point where
the water drops quickly away to the
depths. Ramble through the pri
meval forest that clothes the shores,
the ridges and the mountains as far
as the eye can reach. Scramble along
the banks of Trapper creek or of
Maiden creek, from the south, as far
back as you choose to go. Climb the
rock slide at Diamond point and
look down at the blue lake, 300 feet
below, and over to Diamond peak'
with its glacier burdened slopes.
Do this, and other things like this
for a day if you have only a day,
for a week if you can spend so long
on one of the public camp grounds
so thoughtfully provided by those in
charge of the Deschutes national for
est. Yes, do this, and see if you do
not forget the grouch. Ton will come
back to Bend a better man, a better
woman easier to live with and a lot
more comfortable to yourself.
And Just to think thut Odell lake
Is but 74 miles from Bond, first by
the highway to Crescent, then over
one of the attractive roads through
the pines a portion of the thousand
mile system of forest roads that
make our Deschutes National For
est unique.
Sugar From the Garden.
Gardeners who cannot raise sugar
cane may be Interested In the follow
ing description, which appears lu
Chambers' Journal, of the process of
extracting sugar from beets. The uinu
teur must exercise great care In har
vesting the roots that the tender skin
be not broken. The first operation la
to remove nil dirt by washing, after
which the beets are boiled In water
until the skin peels off easily. They
are next cut Into thin slices, placed
In a pan, Just covered with water,
brought to a boil once more and then
left to simmer for ten hours. The re
sulting pulp is put Into a muslin ling
and squeezed until all the Juice Is ex
tracted. The Juice Is boiled down to
a very thick sirup that makes u good
substitute for commercial sugar. As
the sirup will not keep for more than a
few weeks. It Is advlsulile to make
only a muuII supply at a time. The
roots, however, can be stored for a
long period without deteriorating If
they are kept dry and free from frost.
Youth's Companion.
What the Sun Does.
Letting the sun shine for a given
time upon the blackeued cover of a
bos filled with water or some other
liquid, and noting the rise in temper
ature, affords us a method of approxi
mating the amount of heat given off
by the sun. Hy such a method It Is
estimated that the earth receives ev
ery second from the sun enough heat
to raise UUO.tXXMXH) tons of ice water
to the boiling point, or to melt 4SO.0OO,-
000 tons of ice without chunge in tem
perature. If this Is the amount thut
the earth receives, think of the amount
that must be passing off into space and
other planets. This nmount has been
computed to be 2J200.0OO.00O times as
that which the earth receives. Scien
tists have shown that the amount of
heat received by us from the sun may
vary as much as five per cent In less
than a week.
A
Wonderful
Farm Buy
tfjl 7CA Improved 80-acre
P1 I JU""ranch in the Sisters
country. Water for irrigation from
spring on the ranch.
USE TIN TO WEIGHT SILK
Manufacturer Have to. Employ Mate
rial Which Would 8eem Hardly
Suitable for Human Apparel,
We have adopted tunny foreign Ideas
of comfort or utility, but no one has
sought to Introduce (lie wooden shoe
from Holland, The tin stocking Is
even less suggestive of luxury, and
yet many of us wear them. Of course
a person could not wear a sock of
"elghtecn-cnrnt" tin and bo uncon
selous of It, hut If the tin Is alloyed
and disguised with silk lie can wear
a considerable amount of It without
suspecting It.
In cutting round tops and bottoms
nut of tin sheets lu the manufacture
of tin cans there remains it certain
amount of scrap. Men have sat up
nights figuring the maximum number
of such pfeees of various sizes that
ran be cut from a sheet .of the tin,
and still there Is the waste left over
that cannot be worked Into sheets
again. Itellef Is found In the demand
of the manufacturer of silk, who needs
some substance to weight his goods,
A silk garment hangs and fits and
holds Its shape better if weighted.
Everybody knows how soft mid light
nro the unweighted pongee silks. So
the manufacturers of tin cans and of
silks co-operate. One disposes of his
tin waste, and the other converts the
metal Into tin chloride and works It
Into the woven silk. Virtually all the
waste of tin can factories Is put to
that use. Some silk stockings contain
as much as 110 per cent of tin. The
use is entirely legitimate, since the
trade demands a silk thut Is firm and
heavy for certain garments for which
the purchaser desires a perfect lit.
Silk waste, Ntieh as woru-otit and
cast-off garments, becomes in turn a
source of tin worth attention. Hag
pickers give little heed to silk rem
nants, hut carefully collect linen and
wool. The rag-pickers' union. If there
Is such a body, might well take notice
of this Information. The tin chlor
ide in the silk is easily converted Into
tin oxide by burning the material, and
from the oxide the metal can be re
solved. Youth's Companion.
PARK A PLACE OF WONDERS
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Yellowstone Has Many Marvels Which
Will for All Time Furnish
Attraction for Tourists.
In writing of the Yellowstone park.
John Mulr has said: "In some of the
spring basins the waters though still
warm, are perfectly calm, and shine
blandly In a sod of overleunlng grass
and flowers, as If they were thor
oughly cooked at last, and set nslde
to settle and cool. Others are wildly
boiling over as If running to waste,
thousands of tons of the precious
liquids being thrown Into the air. to
fall In scalding floods on the clean
corul floor of the establishment, kee
Ing onlookers at a, distance. Instead
of holding limpid pale green or azure
water, other pots and craters tire
filled with scalding mini, which Is
tossed up from three to four feet
to thirty feet. In sticky, rank-smelling
musses, with tsplng. belching, thud
ding sounds, plastering the branches
of neighboring trees; every llask, re
tort, hot spring and geyser bus some
thing speelul In it. no two being the
same In temperature, color, or composition."
SPAN OF LIFE LENGTHENED
No Doubt That the People of Today
Live Longer Than Did Their
Ancestor,
When rending of people who lived
long years ago and especially when
reading about the length of their lives,
we are told that In the old days peo
ple lived longer thuu tliey do now.
Some of the early historical records
speak of single Individuals who lived
hundreds of years. Theru Is great
doubt as to whether these statements
are founded on fact. In thinking about
tills we must first take Into considera
tion that these records of long ago
were recorded at a time when man
had no accurate bleu of the actual
passage of long periods of time such
as a year. They did not have our cal
endar as n basis for figuring nt all.
Learned men now tell us that the act
ual age of men who lived at the time
these records of great ages were re
corded probably lived shorter lives
than we do now, and that what they
recorded as n period of one year was
probably a much shorter period than
one year.
It Is true beyond the question of a
doubt that the people of today live
longer on an average than people who
lived ten, twenty or more years ago,
observes the Scuttle Post Intelligencer.
In other words, the average period of
life has Increased steadily. This Is
duo to the fact that we have taken
greater care of our bodies; have Im
proved the conditions In which we live,1
and made them more sanitary; have
learned to fight and check and eradi
cate diseases which only a few years
ago we could not prevent people dying
of when they once contracted them,
and we know from the records which
we keep that actually people live long
er on the average today than only n
few years ago. and It Is safe to say
that they live longer now on the aver
age than nt any time In the world's his
tory.
The Mangrove.
The mangrove tree, specimens of
which are In the Arnold Arboretum,
the tree museum of Harvard univer
sity, has a very Interesting method of
sending Its seeds or fruits Into the
world. Crowing as It usually does In
shallow water, it Is necessary for the
young fruits actually to begin growing
before they lenve the parent plant,
"he fruit, which resembles a lurge In-vi-rteu
berry, sends out large leave
nt Its upper end and a long root, some
time 18 inches in length, from the
lower end, while yet attached to the
pnrenl plant. Then as If by mnglc,
tl.e parent plant drops it Into the mud
where the plnnt nready growing begins
to dt-vrlnp Into a larger plant and soon
Is firmly established. If It were not
prepared Immediately to begin to grow
In the mud it would probably he wash
ed nway. A single mangrove Is oft
times able to stnrt a small Island by
It rcanlfold roots and arms.
Some Nomenclature.
A Bnltlmorean recently received a
letter from a Pennsylvania town tell
ing of the christening in that town of
a baby in whom patriotism trium
phantly, If vicariously yelled when the
name wns announced as "Victory Un
cle 8am." In this same family were
two other children dowere-J with the
name of "Italy" and "Liberty." A
friend to whom this story was told
made a counter attack on wondering
cars hy telling of two tinforti-nnte chil
dren In West Vlrglnln, who, antedating
the war and its triumphs, were given
the names from adjacent localities of
"McAfee's Knob" and ".Itibel Doon,"
And yet even omniscient Slmkospenro
wanted to know what wns In a name.
Historic Geneva.
Any one nt nil familiar with the
great mime and associations of Gene
va will constantly trace them In
the streets the Hue Calvin, the Hue
Necknr, the Itue Voltnh-e, the Hue
Farcl, and, above nil, the Hue Jenn
.Tnrques-Itotissenil, where Itnusseail's
father lived ; the Grand Rue, where
Rousseau himself wns born, the house
oelng marked with a memorial tablet,
and the I'romkennde de la Trelelci
where, as he relates, hi father and
mother. In their courtship days, used
to walk up and down of an evening.
STRICT ETIQUETTE IN CHINA
Matter of Tea Drinking a Thing of
Much Importance In the Flowery
Republic.
The etiquette observed In tea drink
ing In China Is very rnrloin. If a
lady asks you to drink ten with her
and especially If the tea be sweetened
you can count yourself as well re
ceived and murh liked. If she docs
not like you, the tea Is hitter, nud
report has It that In case of this sort
draining are often used. After one
sip of such ten the unliked visitor
makes a prompt exit 1
When making n call. If the servant
should bring in a cup of ten there
Is no need to take any particular no
tice of It. Allow the servant to plai-e
It where he likes near you, and con
tinue your conversation ns though
nothing hnd happened. If your busi
ness Is pleasant and agreeable to the
mistress or the master of the house,
he or she will pass the beverage to
you ; If not, you are expected lo leave
It untouched, otherwise you are likely
to have a quarrel nn hand, and a Chi
nese quarrel either with a man or a
woman Is unpleasant,
Ancient Asbestos.
There was winding sheet of amian
thus In the Vatican library, soft nnd
pliable In the hand, showing Indica
tions of Ignition upon one corner. The
cloth, however, did not suffer. This
burning Is taken ns showing that some
combustible fiber had been Intermin
gled. Marco Iolo, In the thir
teenth century, reported n cloth which
the native of territory now Included
In Russian Siberia claimed n having
been made of salamander skin.
Marco I'olo satisfied himself, so It
seems, that he hnd to do with a min
eral substance. In fact, he found nut
something as to It manufacture.
In this same general region of country
asbestos Is today known to exist.
We are not to regard asbestos as a
single, definite mineral. Nor are we
to understand Hint tjiere Is n fixed
chemical constitution. Certain forms
of hornblende nnd serpentine. If
fibrous, .are regarded as asbestos.
Fully Qualified.
They were arguing about qualifica
tions for successful careers, and n fa
mous playwright, who was one of the
party, maintained that the stage of
fered the easiest -opportunities for
beginning. As some doubt was thrown
on this claim, he produced n letter
from a man who wished fo be en
gaged for hi new play, which wn
about to be produced. The letter run
as follows:
"Reverend Sir; Wishing to go on
the stage, would like to appear In
your play. Have been a market gar
dener for some years, hut, having
gone bankrupt, have derided to take
up acting, the same requiring nn cap
ital. I urn no longer young, but 0
feet 2 In my stocking feet. Hnve
mtntered a book on elocution, nnd am
fond of Into hour," Windsor.
Scotland's River System.
If there bo one place north of the
Tweed where, at n single glance, one
may view and comprehend tho chief
river system of Scotland, Stirling Is
thut place. From this point one notes
the mnln strenms, the nflluentH, nnd
the gathering of the wnters, which
make the Clyde, the Forth nnd the
Tny, lie run then realize how great
and Important In the political nnd
economic history of Scotland has been
that great central valley, which
stretches from the N'orth sen to the
water of the Atlantic Ocean. Wil
liam Billot Grlftls, in "Bonnie Scot-laud."
The farmer ami the business inttn of this com
munity ure partners in the progress or the I'ailuie of
their community.
If
they pull together, the progress and prosperity is
certain to come.
IF they listen to preachers of class hatred there
can only be failure as n result.
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