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Bounty Clark GAZETTE. CORVALLIS SEMI-WEEKLY. SESWSSSS-.! Consolidated Feb., 1899. COBYALLIS, BENTOJf COUKTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1900. VOL. I. NO. 20. I'VE GOT THREE SWEETHEARTS. I I've got three sweethearts and I'm a married man: Now think of something worse than that if any of you can; My wife is pure and faithful, she's al ways good and true. And her hair's like burnished sunshine, her eyes are honest blue. She's the queerest little woman, she don't mind this mix at all; One sweetheart "taught me how to pray" that He knows the sparrow's fall. She's old and wrinkled, bent and gray; I love her like no other One sweetheart that my wife don't mind is my own, my darling mother. The next one is a "terror," full of happy, childish glee, And the picture is a sweet one when he's at his "grandma's knee." He calls my wife "his mother" and we know him as "our boy," So I can love this sweetheart and my wife without alloy. Oh, thou who guardeth the angels, hover them with thy wing. Grant all three Thy blessing in every lit tle thing; Guide me to know "the only way," so when my life is past I may join the woman, boy and girl at Thy "gates of pearl" at last. Denver Times. $ THE REDEMPTION m m m OF RALPH MORTON HEN Miss Amy Warden, only child of the wealthy broker, Anthony Warden, tripped into her father's office one December after noon she was the embodiment of beau tiful, healthful 18. Nodding kindly to ward the clerks, who had for a moment ceased their Scribbling, she approach ed the door of her father's private of fice. A privileged character, as she well knew, she turned the knob gently. Intending to surprise him in the usual way. - As she peeped into the dimly lighted room she discovered at a glance that her father was not there; but his confi dential clerk, Ralph Morton, a good looking young man of 25, was standing before the desk. For a space she was puzzled by the young man's peculiar actions for he raised his hand twice to the side of his head, then, as if un decided, slowly lowered it again, and each time she caught the gleam of pol- ILrn MORTON WAS STANDING BKSIDK TBI DESK. Ished metal as it flashed in the rajs from the electric bulb. Then, as 11' fully decided upon his action, he partly turned his face toward her; but she, noting the tenseness of his white fea tures, realized In a flash the awful Im port of his action, and darting across the room snatched the deadly weapon from bis hand and held it behind her. For a space he stood, regarding with wild eyes the beautiful, terrified face before him, then, uttering a low groan, he sank into a chair and hid bis face In his hands. She stood looking at him, the color gradually returning to her face; theii she said, a wondering pity in her tone: "O, Mr. Morton! How could you think of such a thing?" He slowly raised his head and met her pitying gaze wildly. "Why do you stop me, Miss War den?" he said, brokenly. "I am a thief! I caught the accursed fever of specu lation and used your fathers money. I prefer death to discovery and dis honor." His eyes closed, as if blinded by her accusing gaze." "And do you Imagine this will save you from dishonor?" she said, gently, holding out the revolver. "O, Mr. Mor ton, do you not realize that it will only add to it? Will such an act restore my father's money or absolve you In the eyes of the world and God?" Infinite pity shone in her eyes as she softly breathed the last word. He did not look up, and she continued: "You are young and talented, Mr. Mor ton, perhaps above the average. The world Is before you. Do you presume to dictate in this way to the tender mercy that has bestowed such priceless gifts upon you? My father may not overlook this, but there is one, at least-, who will. How much money have you ta used?" she concluded. He threw out . his hands despairing ly. "'More than I can repay," he fal tered. "Two thousand dollars at least." She remained silent so long that he ventured to look at her. She seemed to look beyond him, a smile like that of a pleased child an her now flushed face the warmth of a high, noble resolve. 'Your case requires-no such desper ate remedy as this," she said, turning her face a little from the growing eagerness of his gaze. "Supposing that I I replace this money, would " He sprang to his feet. "No! no! Miss JWarden," he cried, entreaitingly. "You must not thlrf of such a thing. I nave sinned; I must suffer." "You must do as 1 say. Mr. Morton, she firmly replied. "My father, I know, would not forgive you; but that is no reason for sacrificing your future ca reer. Besides, you can repay me soma day." He regarded her through a mist of tears, then held out his hand. "I will accept your offer. Miss Warden the offer of an angel," he said, huskily. "But 1 must leave this place and re deem myself among a strange people." She started a little, but; laying her soft hand in his, whispered: "It may be for the best; but, wherever you go, God be with you," and she left him. Five years had passed by when Ralph Morton again entered the city of his past folly. He' did not bring the proverbial fortune, but he had amassed a competence which many less fortu nate might envy. During all this time he had never for gotten the sweet-faced young girl--hts savior. Thrice had he written to her, but no answer came; and now, when he went to the old office, he was told that Anthony Warden had failed three years previously and had died, leaving his daughter penniless. He determined to find her if money, backed by love, could do so: but all search was unavailing. She had disap peared, like many unfortunates, into that mysterious realm where despair, perhaps, Is the larger portion. "You will find her yet, Ralph," said his friend, Dr. Banks, to whom Ralph Morton had confided his story. It was a bleak winter evening, and they were on their way to the doctor's house. "Heaven will surely guide me to her," answered Ralph. As they turned into a side street a young woman a short distance ahead stopped and uttered a low cry. A drunken ruffian had barred her path. He had already grasped her arm when Morton, running forward, planted a well-directed blow that sent him reel ing. Ralph caught the young woman, half fainting. In his arms; then, as the doctor hurried up, he turned her face to the light. It was a thin, pale face, though beautiful a beauty matured by days of struggle and sorrow. Ralph Morton almost dropped the light burden as he gasped: "It Is she Amy! O, Fred, thank heaven I have found her at last!" It was in the doctor's cozy house, af ter he and his wife left them aloue, that he said: "You were my guardian angel once. Amy; will you continue to be such ? The debt I owe you can only be repaid with a life's devotion. Will you accept It, dearest?" And she whispered: "I believe I loved you then, Ralph; at least I was sorry to have you go." Boston Post. Sugar Juice Piped. One of the marvelous accomplish ments of the Utah Mormons is their beet sugar industry In the valley of the Great Salt Lake, where 18,000,000 pounds of white sugar are turned out each year. Cheap as sugar Is, the Mor mons make a good profit in the manu facture of it, and largely because of their ingenious device to deliver the juice from the vats to the factories, twenty-two miles distant. Instead of transporting it at what would be pretty heavy expense, the Mormons pump the juice from vat to factory in a three inch pipe. This enables the juice to be made into sugar close to the producing center, and saves a large amount of money that would have to be employed otherwise, in the transportation. The beet sugar industry of these people is In the hands of a company that appor tions to each farmer the amount of land he may devote to the raising of the beet. The company pays cash divi dends regularly of 10 to 20 per cent a year and dividends of something like 20 per cent on the stock. New York Press. A Lingual Tangle. Farmer Hornbeak While I was at the village this afternoon I heard a drummer in Hopper's store say he had jest read that Hi Chang Dang h'm that don't sound right; Hang Ling Chi no; Lang Chung Hi eh-h'm lenime see. It's Hang no; Chi Lung Hang oh. pshaw; Cuing no; Lung - Mrs. Hornbeak Mercy on us, Ezry! What in time are you tryin' to git off? Farmer Hornbeak Why, I was jest goin' to say that Iling Lung Cbi-Kh. drat it! Chang, Lang. Hang, Jang, Dang, or whatever it Is Mrs. Hornbeak Great day, Ezry! What nonsense are yon tryin' to recite? You talk like a dinner bell. Farmer Hornbeak I guess I do. for a fact. I was tryin' to say the name of that great Japanese or Chinese statesman. Mrs. Hornbeak Oh, you mean Li Hung Chang. Well, what aboat him? Farmer Hornbeak I I dunno. Puck. A Discouraging Entry. The performance of the Shakspear ean drama of "Hamlet" was draggiug itself slowly along. The time had come for the appearance of the ghost. There was a slight delay, owing to the tardiness of the ghost in responding to its cue. The profound stillness that followed was broken by a loud voice In the front row of the main balcony: "Mamma, there are thirty-seven men down there with round white spots on top of their heads!" And no stage ghost ever made its ap pearance under more discouraging aus pices than the armor-clad phantom that came stalking upon the stage at that moment. Chicago Tribune. Occasionally a man refuses to drink beer unless his physician recommends it or unless he thinks he ought to rec ommend it. Two weak partners are seldom able to make a business firm. CHILDREN'S COLUMN. A DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. Something that Will Interest the Ju venile Members of Kvery Household Quaint Actions and Bright Say ins of Many Cute and Cnnnlng Children. In every conflict with foreign powers, some of those who perform the most Important services are persons who for one reason and another have been com pelled to remain at home. As a strik ing illustration of this truth, the Pil grim Teacher recalls an anecdote of revolutionary times. Luke Varnum lived in a small village among the Green Mountains. He was 15 years old and was lame in his left foot. So when every other boy and every man, old and young, shouldered his firelock and marched oft to join General Stark and fight the Hessians at Bennington, Luke was left behind. He limped out and held the stirrup for Lieutenant Chittenden to mount, and then he had to stay at home with the babies and the women. The company had been gone an hour and a half, more or less, when three men galloped up on horseback. Luke went down to the rails to see who they were. "Is anybody here?" asked one of them. "Yes," said Luke, "I am here." "I see that," said the man, laughing. "What I mean is, is there anybody here who can set a shoe?" "I think I can," said Luke. "I often tend fire for Jonas. I can blow the bellows, and I can hold a horse's foot. Anyway, I will start up the fire." So Luke went into the forge and built a fire. He hunted up half a dozen nails, and he had even made two more, when a fourth horseman came slowly down on a walk. "What luck," said he, "to find a forge with a fire lighted." The speaker threw himself off the horse meanwhile, and Luke pared the hoof of the dainty creature and meas ured the shoe. He heated it white, and bent it to the proper size. "It's a poor fit," he said, "but it will do." "It will do very well," said the rider. "But she is very tender-footed, and I do not dare to trust her five miles un shod." For pride's sake the first two nails Luke drove were those he had made himself. When the shoe was fast he said: "Tell Jonas that I lit up the forge and put on the shoe." "We will tell him," said the Colonel, laughing, and he rode on. But one of the other horsemen tar ried a minute and said: "Boy, no ten men who left you to-day have served the country as you have done. That Is Colonel Warner." And when we read how Colonel War ner led up his regiment just in time to save the day at Bennington, we can thjnk of Luke Varnum, who bravely helped his country. The Thimble. Little fingers, slim and nimble. Here am I, your friendly Thimble. (Germans call me "Finger-hat"; jolly little name is that.) Put me on and you will see What a helper I can be. Brother Needle's very fine Sharp and clever in his line, But he oft would puzzled be. If he had no help from me! When the cloth is stiff and hard. Oft his headlong dash is barred. And he balks, and frets, and pricks. Says, "I'm in a dreadful fix! This will never, never do I shall really break in two." Then's my time. No fuss or rush. Just a steady, patient push And the stiffened fiber slacks, And the stubborn threads relax. And Friend Needle darts along, Singing his triumphant song. Yes, I may not be so keen. Nor so brilliant to be seen. But 'tis true that without me Ofttimes he would puzzled be. Laura E. Richards. Observation the Basis of Discovery. Bright-hued, soap-bubbles, blown from an ordinary tobacco pipe, were observed by Dr. Young, and suggested to him his theory of "interference," and eventually led to his discovery relating to the diffraction of light. Cuvier, when but a boy, was one day sauntering along the sands near Flqualnville, in Normandy, when his attention was arrested by a cuttle fish lying on the beach. He picked It up, took it home, dissected it, began the study of the molluscs, and in time be came one of the most eminent natural ists of modern times. Alolsio Galvani, an Italian physiolo gist, was one day struck by a remark of his wife's, that the legs of- some frogs that had been skinned for eating, and, by chance, placed near an electric machine, contracted evecy time a spark passed from the machine. The hint was sufficient. He at once began to make experiments, and finally discov ered the electric phenomenon now called "galvanism," after him. Sir Samuel Brown had been thought fully studying tne construction of bridges with the Intention of construct ing one across the Tweed, near where he lived. One morning, while walking In his garden, he observed a spider's net thrown across his path. Stopping, he examined it carefully, and the idea came to him that a bridge of iron ropes or chains might be fashioned after the spider's net and thrown across the Tweed. The final result was the in vention of the suspension bridge. While working as a quarryman Hugh Miller observed remarkable traces oi extinct animals In the old red sand stone. He studied them, imbibed a taste for and a profound knowledge of geology, and became a distinguished geologist and author. A Question Game. The leader of the game must put the following question to his right-hand neighbor, and also to all the players In succession: "My cook likes no peas; what shall I give her to eat?" If any player replies: "Potatoes, parsnips," the other answers: "She does not like them. Pay a forfeit." But if another replies, "Onions, car rots, veal, chicken," she likes them, and consequently no forfeit is required. The trick of this game Is plain to be seen. It is the letter "P" that must be avoided. Thus, to escape the penalty of a forfeit It Is necessary that the player should propose some kind of veg etable or food in which the letter "P" does not occur, such as beans, radishes, venison, etc. Making It Worth While. Old Gentleman My boy, don't you go to school? Boy Yes, sir. "It's a long time after 9 and here you are plas-ing." "That's all right. We had a rather late breakfast and mamma was afraid I'd be late, so she wrote me an excuse and I've got it in my pocket." Never Satisfied. When a small boy gets five pocket knives on his birthday anniversary he generally says he hasn't quite enough yet. The Same Old Hart. Kenneth (aged 3, very tired by a long walk) Mamma, my shoes are getting new again. DAD'S" LIGHTNING STROKE. The Many Things that It Did Besides Curing: Hia Rheumatism. "A few years ago 'Dad' Wright, of Salvisa, this State, had a very remark able experience with lightning," said a gentleman from Garrard County, whose stock of good and true stories is always large. "His escape from Instant death at the time was miraculous. While hastening on foot through an open field toward his home during a terrific thun derstorm he was struck squarely on the head by an electric bolt. It stripped the hair from one side of his brainpan, tore the clothing from his body, and made a ci'ooked black stripe an inch wide down his left side from head to foot. When struck he bounced several feet in the air and fell back upon the ground as if dead. The shaft entered the earth, throwing up a shower of mud. "At the time Wright carried in his hip pocket a loaded revolver. Every cham ber of the weapon was discharged, the woodwork was burned, and the- metal partially fused by the heat. His left shoe was ripped from his foot. The un fortunate man lay senseless and naked for several hours in the drenching rain, but, incredible as it may seem, finally regained partial consciousness and be gan to stagger uncertainly about over the field. He was in this pitiable condi tion when discovered. "He was soon recognized, taken In charge, and conducted to his home, where he was clothed and given proper attention. "As a result of the stroke his teeth and toenails were loosened, his scalp almost denuded of hair, and his hear ing permanently impaired. On the oth er hand he reaped an unexpected and decided benefit. For years prior to the occurrence here outlined he had been a great sufferer from muscular rheumat ism, but never afterward felt a twinge of pain from that disease! being com pletely cured of It by the rrible shock. "The dark zigzag stretik along the left side of his body indicating the scarred path of the electric current, could never be altogther removed, al though various methods were tried for this purpose. In a very short time Wright was up and around and as cheerful asa bird. From that time forth he was famous in that section as the human lightning rod." Louisville Post. Grogan's Boys. I heard a good story the other day, and maybe you have heard it, too; .but, anyway, it Is worthy of repetition: "Dan Grogan was a prosperous con tractor, and he had four boys, great, big, strappin' fellys, wid hands on 'em like canvas hams, an' wan day whin Dan doid these same boccos bad a floral pilly made fer 'Im, wid 'Papa' in purphel Immartels ophon et. Phwat do yees tlnk ay thiiu, 'Papa,' and thini wid hans es big es hams? "Well, they tuck Dan, pace be to his soul, out ta the cimetary, and phwin they got 'im thayre the pall-bearers all walked along and dhropped a clod av dirt upon 'Im, and thayer whoit glover, as well, and thin the-undhertaker kim along wid the pilly. He bumped up against Mick McCharty and knocked off the first P on 'Papa,' and et left only 'A. P. A.' Thin they tellyphoned fher the caraner." Denver Times. Odd Hindoa Custom. Some Hindoos wear mustaches and beards, but all wear whiskers, which are shaved. off at once when an adult relation dies. The shaving off of whis kers Is thus a sign of mourning. TRUMPET CALLS. Sam's Horn Sounds a Warning Mote to tne Unredeemed. BT is more important for the preacher to prepare himself than his sermon. The lovable need our love less than the unlove ly. He who would be great in thought must meditate. Prosperity In creases the crook In the already crooked man. The man Is the measure of his money. Crooked living makes the cross Chris tian. Polish cannot make a pebble pre cious. God will be served by sons and not by serfs. There Is no righteousness without re sistance. The love of heavenly things makes a light heart. Burning the ledgers does not loose from liability. It is life within that decides like nesses without. The will without the work cannot make the way. It is foolish laying a mud foundation for a stone house. The present builds the palace or the hut of the future. Sometimes when we pray for bread God gives us seed. The political campaign Is either God's campaign or the devil's. The Alpha and the Omega of all things is the love of God. Scandal mongers must wade through mud to gather their goods. Earth is one of the colonies of heaven since Christ migrated here. Some of us must have much care or we shall cease from prayer. The heart may be pierced by a hat pin as truly as by a sword. Victories must be won in the will be fore they are won in the world. The pursuit of pleasure is like" pros pecting for lead with gold spades. Men are willing to be slaves of some that they may be masters of others. When a man's acres are on his heart, he will' be sure to have heartaches. They who know God love Him, and they who love Him learn to know Him best. Echoes in Mammoth Cave. Our guide asks us to keep silent; then, lifting the heavy, broad paddle with which he has been propelling our boat, he strikes with all his strength the flat side on the surface of the wat er. Instantly the subterranean thun ders of this under-world are let loose. From all directions come rolling waves of 'sound multiplied a thousandfold, re ceding, and again returning with In creasing volume, lingering for many seconds, and finally dying away In sweet, far-away melodies. Then, when the last faint sounds have ceased, he agitates the water with his paddle, and asks us to listen. The receding waves, reaching cavities in the sides of the overhanging arches, break the stillness with sweet, bell-like sounds. Some notes, striking the keynote of the rocks, multiply the musical melody; some notes are soft and low; others are loud, almost with an alarm-bell clangor. This music, such as cannot be heard else where on earth, gradually dies away In receding echoes, coming over the wat ers from far-away hidden chambers. The echo is not such as we hear above ground or in buildings, but a succession of receding waves of sound, lasting for about thirty seconds, and adding an In describable melody to all sounds, whether from shouting or from instru mental or vocal music. Century. Pineapple Fiber Fabric. The leaf of the pineapple has a fiber which Is destined to take a prominent place among the constituents of textile fabrics, according to statements made in the report of the United Sta'tes De partment of Agriculture. The report shows that both the wild and the cul tivated plants of this description yield fiber which when spun surpasses In point of strength, fineness and luster those obtained from flax. Summariz ing its value, mention is made of its usefulness as a substitute for silk and as a material for mixing with wool or cotton useful, too, for cordage sewing silk, or twist, laces, etc. In China it is used in fabrics for clothing for agri culturists; it is in request In India as material for stringing necklaces, and Is the substance of the well-known pine cloth of the Philippine Islands. It is remarkably durable, unaffected by Im mersion in water, is white, soft, silky, flexible and long in staple. Samples cleaned, without washing, when twist ed to the size of binding twine, have shown a breakage strain of 150 pounds. The Pathfinder. Japan a Humane Nation. There is perhaps no more humane na tion In the world than the Japanese, who have recently erected a monument in memory of the horses that fell In their war with China. Without Ease. The following stanza contains every letter of the alphabet except E: A jovial swain may rack his brain, And tax his fancy's might, To qui! in vain for, 'tis most plain That what I say is right. The wisdom of the sasre is slmnlv th art of concealing his ignorance trow j others. j Another Milking Machine. Recently we illustrated a machine Which would milk a single cow and transfer the milk to a can. We now show an apparatus which can be used to milk a whole herd of cows at once, needing but two men to operate the ma chinery. One man is stationed at the reservoirs to watch the indicators and operate the pumps when necessary, and the other passes along the stalls, at taching the teat cups and starting the flow of milk. At intervals are placed receiving cans, which are connected with the suction apparatus and also to the teat cups. Direct pipes suspended overhead connect the cans with the vacuum boiler, and the teat cups are also provided with a vacuum arrange ment, which prevents the suction from taking too strong a hold on the teat. WHOLESALE CO (V-MILKER. This is accomplished by forming the teat cups with double walls and con necting the secondary vacuum system with the pockets inside the cups, the operator who attends the machinery preserving the proper vacuum in each set of pipes to do the work without in Jury to the cows. Valves are provided to start the milk flowing as soon as the cups are fixed in place. With the new machine a large herd can be milked in the 'time it usually takes to milk a single cow, to which may be added the advantage of cleanliness and the desir ability of a method which shall operate exactly alike at each milking. The ani mals soon become used to the machine, and stand as readily as when milked by the old way. A Hold-Tight Sawbuck. The accompanying Illustration shows how a sawbuck may be arranged so that a log of wood will remain perfect ly stationary. The buck itself is made like any ordinary sawbuck, but on one end a lever, a, is attached and so ar ranged that it can be pushed down and fastened with the peg, e, thus holding the log, b, firmly. By arranging holes, c, in one arm and a series of small HOLD-TIGHT SAWBUCK holes, d, on the other, the buck will hold any size log. This lever should be of hard wood, lMs inches wide.and 1 inch thick. A large wire nail will an swer very well as a pin. By the use of this device the operator is not required to exert any effort in holding the log in place. The small figure shows how the sawing is to be done If the log is to be cut into four pieces. First saw off the cut marked g at 1, then the second cut h at 2, then finally saw the remain ing portion in two at 1, 3. E. Dawson, in American Agriculturist. Oleo Formula. Notwithstanding the protests of the oleo trust and Its friends in Congress, the various formulas for making oleo margarine have been made public, and they are at least Interesting. One of the processes for making the kind of butter that is sold in Pennsylvania as a dairy product is thus described in the patent office records: "The process consists in first forming a soap emulsion of the fats or fatty oils with caustic soda; then precipi tate the lyes; then applying chlorinated alkaline lye or chlorinated gas to the soap emulsion." That sounds like a recipe for making soft soap, but when the color is added the result is gilt edge "creamery" but ter for the Pennsylvania market. Here are a-few of the constituents of the "advanced product of the farm:" Bisulphate of lime, borax, salicylic acid, benzoic acid, orris root, cotton seed oil, bicarbonate of soda, glycerine, capsylic acid, alum, capsic acid, sul phate of soda, cows' udder, sulphuric acid, pepsin, tallow, lard, salt, corn starch, butyric ether, caustic potash, castor oil, chalk, slippery elm bark, caul, ell of sesame, oil of sunflower eed, olive oil, turnip seed oil, brozs chloralum, chlorate of pootash, oil of sweet almonds, oil of peanuts, peroxide of manganese, stomach of pigs, sheep or calf, nitrate of soda, mustard seed oil, nitric acid, dry blood albumen, sugar, butyric acid, bicarbonate of pot ash and caustic soda. One cent a pound Is a very modest rate of protec tion for such a formidable array of mineral and organic poisons and abom inations. Philadelphia North American. A New Study at College. The Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege of Texas has begun to show that it is worthy of its double name by es tablishing a new industry which com bines in .one the two interests of agri culture and mechanics. On June 9 they began work in a canning factory, and at the time the report was written they had put up 4,000 cans of peaches and Intended to put up as many more. This year they have not made their own cans, but have bought them in Baltimore, Md., at a cost of 2V2 cents each delivered at the college. The cost of growing and gathering the peache3, peeling and canning them, and cost of cans is 11 cents a can. They expect to reduce this another year, and to have all the work done then by the stu dents of the college. Now they do it all but the processing and general di rections. The students are thus learn ing an excellent business, which may be made available almost anywhere in that land of fruit, and at the same time they are earning 126 cents an hour to help pay their college expenses. The plant in use this year had cost up to date the small sum of $360. Possibly they may enlarge it and try other fruits and vegetables later on. It Is an as tonishing thing to think how this can ning Industry has grown, and how many canned goods are used. It is claimed that last year 3,000,000 cans of goods were put up in the State of Indiana alone, and 9,000,000 cans in the United States. The Influence of Food. It is the food that gives the flavor to the milk, the egg, the flesh of animals or fowl, or we may as properly say the . food and drink, for -both are absorbed by the digestive organs and passed into the system. In our search for the cheapest food, or that which will pro duce the most, we are apt sometimes to forget that the quality needs to be considered for home use and for mar ket. Good corn and its products gives a better flavor to all the above than any other food we know, and it gives to these products as much nutrlfc ties as any other food that jectionable in flavor or in some other way. It Is not a perfect food, or a complete food in all ways, but needs other foods it, and one of the arta of the skillful feeder is to see how he can best combine those foods so as to feed as much corn as may be profitable without injuring the health of the ani mal. We all know how much better is the flesh of the steer or hog fattened on corn than on other feeds, and poul try, eggs and milk are also much bet ter when com is a large part of the diet than when cheaper grains are used, while many foods may actually give unpleasant flavors. Deep, Soil Needed for Roots. The Cornell Experiment Station showed by illustration In a recent bulle tin the difference in form between beets grown upon a plot where the sub soil was well loosened so that roots could penetrate it 'easily, and those grown where the subsoil was hard. In the former case the beets were smooth and a regular taper from just below the crown downward. Those on the hard subsoil were shorter and were obliged to branch out a number of side roots, making them hard to handle and less valuable for sugar making. They also grow more out of the ground. A sim ilar result was noticed when fertilizer was used for growing beets. The same thing must be true of many other root crops, and they suggest that if potatoes had a more mellow and well drained soil beneath the seed they would not be so likely to expand upward and grow out of ground. They may be cor rect in this point, but we have thought that the growing out of ground was a matter in which the variety made most of the difference, some kinds requiring much hilling up to prevent out growing, while others put their roots down deep er when on the same soil. Lightning in the Potato Field. A London dispatch says: Experi ments in growing potatoes by elec tricity have ben undertaken by the Irish Agricultural Board. Father Glynn, of Athea, Limerick, in charge of the experiments, studded a potato patch with lightning conductors con nected by wires running through the patch. The result was an increase of 80 per cent in the yield In the section so treated. Should the official experi ments bear out this experience, a sol vent for the chronic distress in the west of Ireland will have been found. Hor ace Plunkett, M. P., Vice President of the Agricultural Board, says: "This most remarkable- phenomenon may be the forerunner of a revolution In agri culture. The evidence furnished and the genuineness of Father Glynn's ex periment are incontrovertible." Hay Tea for Calves. Tea, which is quite satisfactory for rearing young calves, can be made by boiling hay in a reasonable allowance of water. The soluble nutrients of the hay pass into the water under such treatment, and are palatable and nour ishing to the young calves. To the hay tea add mixtures of either linseed meal, oatmeal or middlings cooked in gruel form. For calves a few months old, feed any and all the grains just named, according to the wishes of the animal, for prices for feeding stuffs are not important in comparison with thrifty animals and satisfactory gains, W. A. Henry, Farmers' Advocate.