Ti:Z STATE FALV
flood Progress Being Made Most
. Modern Appliances to be -Installed.
" In line with the progressive
policy adopted by the manage
ment of Oregon's great state fair
to be held from September 14 to
19, Secretary Frank Welch is
testing several modern- appli
ances which liave already been
used successfully by the big ex
positions of the country.
One of the im provements which
will probably be made is the in
stallation of five modern auto
matic gates at the main entrance
to the grounds. This gate is
operated by the dropping of a
coin in a slot, which turns the
stile and admits one person. At
the same time the passing of the
visitor through the gate is re
corded at the entrance, and also
jn the office of the secretary, by
means of electricity. This ma
chine also adds the number of
paid admissions, and thus every
night the officials of the fair will
know exactly how many persons
have entered the grounds during
the day.
Another device which has al
ready beenpurchased, and which
is now on the grounds, is a set
of announcers for flashing the
time and positions of the horses
at the finish of each race. Form
erly this was done by means of
sliding . boards, but the . new
method is considered a great im
provement on the old. The ma
chine is worked on the principle
of the typewriter, there being a
keyboard which controls the dif
ferent figures. It will be possible
to show the position while the
winners are actually passing un
der the wire. It will be neces
sary to use a separate machine
for the running events.
Work on the big grand stand
is also progressing rapidly. This
structure will be built down to
the track, thus nearly doubling
its already immense capacity.
Private boxes will be built along
the entire front of the grand
6tand.
The races this year have filled
with the best blood in the west.
The list of entries for the big
stakes is unusually large, and
the present stall space will not
accommodate all the animals. It
will be necessary to put up sev
eral new barns, and it is prob
able that work on these build
ings will commence soon.Sa
leni Statesman.
Young Folks
AN AMUSING TOY.
Simple and Easily Made Whirligig
That Provides Lots of Fun.
Try this and you will find it lots of
fun, nud it is easy too. All around a
porcelain dish, such as is used to cook
eggs in, glue a series of small figures
cut out of cardboard. Place this pre
pared dish on an ordinary plate of
about twice Its diameter, somewhat
convex on the bottom, as plates usual
ly are. If now you give the inner
plate a gentle swing it will revolve
upon Itself.
If the larger plate is not convex,
pour half an inch of water over it, so
TOY IN OPERATION.
that the inner plate will float and turn
easily. Watch the plate spin and the
figures go around.
This can be turned into a game by
placing a figure outside the plates as a
goal. Each figure inside the dish has
a number, and the game is to spin the
plate. When it stops, the number on
the figure opposite the goal is put down
to that player's credit. At the end of
the game the one who has the most
counts wins the game. Magical Ex
periments. A Road Club.
The farmers of Pleasant View dis
trict, ten miles south of Eureka, Green
wood county, Kan., have organized a
good roads clnb with S. F. Rocky pres
ident and M. O. Hanson secretary.
The club has eighteen charter mem
tiers. In the district are eleven miles
of rot d. and it is the object of the
clnb to have eacb mile properly graded
and worked regularly with the road
drag. The club will hold regular meet
ings to discuss necessary improvements '
and methods for work. j
."";- STAR AK3 CRESCENT. :if
- 111 II ' tfj
Origin mt tka Symbols Used M ttM
Turkish Flag. rr.. ." -?.-
Very ancient are the , star and
crescent of the Turkish flag. Their
origin is explained as, follows: The
characters of the language of Mes
opotamia, like the Egyptian, were
originally hieroglyphic. One of the
; early picture words was a crescent
and a star, and this picture, which
, was pronounced "shiptu," was em
ployed to express an incantation or
exorcism or anything capable . of
i driving the evil spirit from the
1 body of which it had taken posses
, sion. Clay tablets recording the
ancient exorcisms have been found
in the ruins of Mesopotamia, and at
the beginning of such tablets ap
pears the sign which developed
from the crescent and star. The
symbol therefore may have been
not only the word for incantation,
but a charm from which the evil
j spirits were supposed to flee. In
every age in the orient the people
Have possessed similar charms. The
Assyrian kings stationed winged
monsters with forms half human at j
their gateways to keep all evil from
entering within the palace, lhe
poorer people suspended clay tab
lets above the entrances of their
houses. The modern oriental may
purchase in the bazaars blue glass
beads, verses from the Koran wrap
ped in leather cases and other de
vices to serve a similar purpose.
The crescent and star formed a
symbol which the Hesopotamian of
6,000 years ago employed as a
charm.
Among the early peoples of Mes
opotamia all of - the - heavenly
bodies were regarded as deities, but
the moon, because of the variety
of the shapes which it assumes,
was the chief of them all. Special
reverence was therefore paid it and
some of the oldest and most im
portant of the Babylonian temples,
as at Ur and Haran, were devoted
to its worship. Thus the crescent,
the symbol by which the moon god
was represented, was supposed to
have the power to avert evil, and
then together with the star it form
ed the word for incantation.
When Babylonia passed into the
hands of the Persians the symbol
appeared upon the coins. From the
Persians it was transmitted to the
Parthians, the Byzantines, the Eo
mans and the Greeks.- Finally the
Turks, who succeeded in the pos
session of the greater part of the
countries of the ancient world,
adopted it as a device for their
flag. (Jhicago JN ews.
Never Says Goodby.
"Did vou hear what that man
said when we left him?" asked one
friend of another as they made
their way from the inner office of
a well known financier.
"Don't know that I did," was the
response. " 'Goodby,' I suppose,
wasn't it?"
"Nota bit of it," the first re
joined. "I've never heard that
man say 'Goodby.' I've mentioned
the matter to him, and he's told me
that he has a prejudice against
'goodby.' With him it's always
'Good day,' or 'Good morning,' or
'Good night,' or maybe, if he knows
you well, 'So long or 'See you
later."' . -
"I wonder why that is?" was the
interested comment.
"I can only guess," was the re
sponse. "Probably it is because he
has some painful associations with
'Goodby.' For 'that matter, most
of us have, if we but stop to think
of them." New York Press.
The Clock Plant. -
There is a plant, a native of
Borneo, which is known - as the
"clock plant." The name is derived
from the action of -the sun's rays on
the leaves, which are three in num
bera large one" extending for
ward, with two small ones at the
base pointing sideways. These,
coming in contact with the rays of
the sun, oscillate like the pendulum
of a clock, the larger leaf moving
upward and downward, going its
full length every forty-five min
utes, the smaller leaves moving to
ward the larger, completing the
distance ? forward and backward
every forty-five minutes, thus re
sembling the hour and minute
hands of a clock.
Macaulay the Wit.
During the time when Lord Dis
raeli was startling sober Englishmen
by his eccentricities of dress Lord
Macaulay, that was to be, was elec
trifying his dull witted constituents
by his witty sallies and repartee.
Having been defeated in 1847, he
ran again for parliament in 1853.
For a change he was the popular
candidate.
One day while standing on the
hustings side by side with his oppo
nent he was violently struck by a
dead cat. - The man who threw it
immediately- apologized, saying he
had meant the cat for his opponent.
"Indeed !" said Macaulay. 'Then
I wish you had meant it for me and
struck him."
Mile
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Copyright, 1908. by C. M. Barnitz. These
articles and illustrations must not be re
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PIGEONS, PAST AND PRESENT.
The fluttering and cooing of doves
Bound through all history.
. Favorites In golden court and eon
vent, they nested o'er threshold of
palace and peasant cot and were held
In sacred awe in heathen shrine and
Christian temple.
But this eentle bird of lovo and art.
once offered as sacrifice, is now served
as quail on toast.
Oh, epicurean appetite, what crimes
are committed in thy name!
-When Noah drew the dove into the
ark he knew not that he was -saving
the foundation of the squab business
and making possible the squab graft
company.
Wouldn't he be horrified to stand in
a 50,000 squab plant and behold thou
sands of young doves slaughtered?
Would he be tempted to overturn
"the seats of them that sold doves?"
Would he preach against the squab
graft company?
Would he eat quail (squab) on toast V
Perhaps Noah's greatest surprise
would be to look on the wonderful de
velopment in dove life the varied de
scendants of his little Blue Eock dove,
the Homers, Runts, Dragoons, Duch
esses, Carneaux, Mondaines, Carriers,
Tumblers, Magpies, Nuns, Helmets,
Spots, Barbs, Jacobins, Blondinettes,
Turbits, Pouters, Moorheads, Swal
lows, Fantails, Croppers, Owls, Sati
nettes,. Scanderoons Orientals, Frill
backs, Firebacks, Priests, Brunswicks,
Suabians, Shields, . Breasters, Porce
lains, Mookies, Hyacinths, Quakers,
Crescents, Ices, Lahores, Florentines,
Starlings, ; Archangels, Antwerps and
Trumpeters.
Astonished at this marvelous flutter
ing picture of winged grace, color and
beauty, the patriarch would ask, "Who
brought such wonderful results from
my little Blue Eock dove?"
And the modern would be forced to
reply: "We also have sought an ex
planation for all this. We may have
added something to the remarkable
work, but in the main the marvelous
achievement belongs to the wisdom of
the ancients, and the breeding of these
beautiful doves is one of the lost arts
that were buried with them."
THE
Cut out
STRAIGHT HOMER.
highballs, but take homers
straight.
Straight homers are unsurpassed in
quality and quantity of squabs and
when fed and housed scientifically
HOVER SQTTBAIiEBS. -
shonld yield from eight to twelve pairs
a year.
But amateurs will yelp over some
thing new when they blunder In buy
ing, through careless methods, super
fluity of genius or hot air picture
book advertisements. Then they quit,
chase the homer or get the know how.
Yes, the giant runt raises 1 large
squabs, but only four pairs a year,
and consumes more feed.
"Where did your undesirable, un
popular dark skinned squabs come
from?" " -
Thafs one of your experimenting
stunts in crossing homers and runts.
Now take your darky squabs to mar
ket and learn what "love's labor lost"
means. Dragoon squabs are good size,
but take five weeks to mature for
market, while the cash for the homer
squabs has been on interest a week.
A cross between the two makes a
nice "squealer," but it's only to lovers
"the longest way round is the shortest
way home.'- You bother with two va
rieties to get less than if you take it
straight
Yes, the Duchess Is a pretty bird,
but a poor feeder, and who wants a
feather legged Duchess or a half breed
homer with-fuzzy stockings? .
- The Mondaine did make a big ex
citement, and the demand gave our
English kozens the chance to raise
the price to $20 a pair, and they ship
ped any old thing across the ponL
But why this tomblike silence? - Oh,
the Mondaine fanatics got it in the
neck, and the craze Is dead.
But the straight homer Is doing busi
ness at the old stand for the fellows
who have the sense to "keep in de
middle" of the straight road. ' -
Don't fan to sift cracked corn. - Pi
geons do not care for f.ne meal, and It '
sours.
Tf - tr-AiEtt-S VACATION. .
. rest 'Mats shad of appla trees.
Where frasraat creeses blew.'
" AB4 Hat to birds and bussing bees
-T .' Aa they ait to and fret .. .
T , But others gallop by the' sea
And roast both neck and shin
s And laugh at hayseed country Jakes
. Who boodle don't blow in. ,
" I rest and drink from Ice cold springs
And watch my fine crops glowing. '
I'm euldvatine long greenbacks
- While others do the blowing.
' I have no mortgage on my farm.
- They put one on their pay. . .
i and for their sporting in the surf
They'U skimp for many a day.
" I feast from oft my well spread board
J - And dine on tender duck.
But these poor chumps along the sea
Just get left over luck.
They'U get a lovely coat of tan
And learn some stylish tricks,"
But all they'll bring when they return
Will be a few "gold bricks.
y C M. B.
PUSHING THE MOLT.
Many push : the ; feathers . off their
fowls with this method: .
Separate the sexes, -turn the fowls
on grass and cut the ration down to
one-fourth the -usual quantity for
three or four weeks.
freed mostly, oats and wheat and
twice a week, on clear days, make the
ration soft mash, in which you mix
two tablespoonfuls of sulphur to fifty
birds. -
At the end of three weeks rush the
feed, giving plenty of green bone, sun
flower seed anc" best grains.
The light ration helps them shed
their old coat, the heavy shoves out
the new, and- thus while other people's
chickens are eating feed and hunting
sun rays yours will -be laying eggs,
and you will be hunting a market
We have found this does not hurt
their breeding qualities. It is just as
natural for a hen to molt as for a
horse to shed his hair or a blacksnake
to shuffle off his skin.
FEEDING PULLETS.
- Xou will naturally be proud to find
that first egg with a splash of blood,
but that first pullet to make her
debut may not become the best layer.
Some, like precocious chickens, drop
back into mediocrity. If ration is too
stimulating, easily digested or liberal,
the fowl may be pushed to lay before
proper growth has been attained. Thus
Its development and future usefulness
may be Impaired, just as a young tree
may die or be stunted by bearing a
heavy crop of fruit too early.
Then, also, if food is deficient in
building quality, scanty or indigestible.
we see poor growth. . "
To avoid the premature, feed meat
sparingly and ground feed once a day.
- Have the pullets on grass and make
their grain ration of wheat, oats, corn,
peas and barley equal parts and not
too heavy.
Too much corn, buckwheat and bran
retard the growth.
If pullets show a tendency to lay
too early, keep moving them around.
for disturbance often retards laying.
But keep them away from the old
stock, for they will be continually bul
lied out of their feed and be sure te
get lousy.
FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS
Canada is bragging of a forty-two
pound turkey, "Tom Royal," at the
Ontario show, and a fancier says, "If
any one has a heavier bird, let aim
speak up." But listen. "Hello, Mis
souri:" "Hello!" "How heavy was
the champion torn at your big show?'
"Sixty-five pounds." "Well, you bet
ter wire the news at once to Canada
for- they are getting a bad attack of
hot wind puff."
A Canada lady fenced seventy acres
with wire wolf proof fence to keep
the wolves from her turkeys, but did
not close the river front. Vicious dogs
entered by water route and killed
eighty turkeys.
What i3 a roaster? A soft meated
young fowl for roasting. "Small roast
ers" weigh from four to five pounds.
"Large" weigh eight to nine pounds.
And. both must be fat
Those jiggers in the warm states
that- bury themselves in the fowls'
flesh can be cleaned out with ground
tobacco. If you have a thunderstorm
handy it will wash them off the sur
face. One feels like cutting -out cut bone
these blowfly days. The man who
runs his bone cutter by power saves
wear and tear, but the other fellow
may sweat and swear unless he Is a
poultry woman.
And what about the crawlers? "Oh,
do give us a rest!" Yes, you deserve
to be arrested if you allow those hens
to be playground for myriad crawlers.
Don't you know that the third gen
eration of a single louse reaches 125,000
in three months, in ten 1,250,000, etc.?
Beware of the pallidums, the varia
bilises, the goniodes and gonicotes. -
And now, Mr. Kicker, listen. You're
putting off buying those breeders until
in the molt Then they'll be undressed,
their combs will be shrunken, and
they'll all look like three cents. What
a good time for a knock on your thick
bull head!
Eastern Iowa In three months ship
ped 600,000 pounds of . dressed poul
try to Chicago. Each car held 20,000
pounds. Yon may easily figure out the
length of the train, but what other big
poultry cards Iowa has up her sleeve
you can't guess. "Say, Iowa, won't you
Just hold up a little bit? You're run
nin too fast.
Australia, having cleaned out the kan
garoos,, is certainly hustling the roost
er, business. Talk about boosting the
rooster! Why, the schoolteachers are
running Incubators in the schoolrooms!
Must be a sight to see the youngsters
rubber, when. the little ruffle Muffles be
gin to peep.. "What do you want,
boy?" " "Teacher, may I go see the
chickr ' "Me too!" "Me too!" "Me
too!"
WOMEN IN POLITICS.
M - - " 5- : To fold the shirt, iron it firmly up to
Mr Taft Thinks Woman Shoulceach shoulder, just to the edge of the
Vote, but Not Hold Office. .... . collar. Turn the shirt right over with
Mrs. Taft in a recent interview lsthe breast to the table, fold In a small
reported as saying: - ' " . - . , fold on "each side from the sleeves
" "I have always believed that women downward about uu inch in the mld
should vote. I favor bestowing ond,e' and iroa ,hp fold
them every civic right but I should Jhen,f,la, tI,e s,w7s.aowu each
lik to nnr in o nw,hik-- i " "We. with the seam of the sleeve to the
hrrn tvl t P"Ibitory de-, of tne and tn shoulder
office. pubUc"loplng to the necfc
wit.' ' . Double up the sleeve so that the cuff
thinl- h nof fr fV,ls Jt above the collar. Do this to
dioin ed tht SC, TUld both sleeves, and turn the sides over to
him, l ? , 8 f1 f thPtne y S of the stiffened front
alwavfthv It helF Toice ,s f rTurn up the shirt a few Inches and
nothing unwomanly in their casting aoove
the ballot and exercising every right
Jjsr J
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MBS. WILLIAM H. TAFT.
of the free citteen but It seems that
. 7 Kl . I IUJi'""01"10 " little paper dessert plates are used dur
sociate the right to vote from them the summer lt ls a llghtening of
right to hold office. some of the dishwashing labor.
So the women who would never If a gmall u f cream turn
aDL f TOCa?n ?uan thatr ebox, do not throw it out,
of being good wives and mothers arebut wWh a fork beat , f nonutea,
STf ?h "and a tiny pat of fresh butter and a
It K K governing the commumty,ltte ,as buttermllk wlu be
through the fear which men have ofrewarJ
women stepping down from their ped- An ,ce 8haver u 8Ummer ,uxury
estaL Except in rare instances, the ta to overlooked ln tDe househol
fluence of women on politics is forfts frult Jnay be chmed more qulck,y
tneir elevation. onfl effectlvely by fine lce and for
"It is truly said that communities, drlnks ,t fa ftn added
where women lack civic pride are in Jf the trave,er w,n a,go take fln a,
worse snape man tnose wuere man
npflfvfra his nrrA(rntlvi ' WnmMi
should be versed in every phase of,0il i ,. ,,, ,. M
,,,, . . , . , ware, a box of tea and a small package
politics and should know what every- . . ' "
k, Mh a, k 1 of lumP euar- she may have an orien-
, e . , . T . tal breakfast at any time of day by
Ing on the home environment That - '
, . , , .adding rolls and an egg.
is my idea of purifying politics, and 1
thlnlr 1- la tha ti1tt ryi f t Ion! m-io "
The Homemade Martyr.
She is the woman who bothers over
trifles and lets the big things slide
She will tell you she can't take ex-as the ..b,ues NeedleM t0 eay a
ercise to keep herself from getting mIcrobe ls tne fona et origo of our
fat because she is compelled to sit soriodica, fitg of goora and melancholyi
much to sew for the children. when everything goes wrong and notn.
If she is thin she wul tell you shelng goes right and our temper glvea
cant get fat because she has to run and nobody but oni. ever paticut
around the house so much trying to geldog can ..ablde us But tnis partie.
everything done. If you speak of ah ular,y norrld bacllug does llot ike
other Romans pretty costume she bit- buttermllk. In fact lt completelv
terly says she cannot see how women bM It so that when the ..bluea
who have families get time to makecome on tbs obvlous course ls to quafl
pretty clothes; that she also likes,tnls fluld as free, as possible. Clear
lovely things, but life is so full of, jt u & thiD no famUy suould be.
cares that she hasn't the time towitbou.
achieve them. . " .
If she is told to read a certain fas- How to Treat Linoleum,
cinating book she will elevate her eye- xhe kitchen linoleum should he treat
brows and say she has no time toed once a year to a coat of hard oil
read; that her husband doesn't like tonnigh. This is because, in spite of all
have her engrossed in a book in theadvCe to the contrary, it does need
evening and she hasn't a minute's more than a friendly wiping up with
time during the day. tepid water or milk and water. It can-
If asked why she doesn't go to somenot be kept" really clean by such treat
of the pleasant social things going on ment and should have a genuine scrub
around her she tells you she hasn't Ding with soap, brush and warm water
the clothes to wear; that she used toat least once a month. Without the oil
be as well dressed as any one else dressing mentioned above this would
when she was unmarried, but married be rather disastrous to oilcloth 01
life is too expensive to think about so-linoleum, but with the protection of
cial life. the rubbing oil the scrubbing will not
If she ls unmarried she will tell you prove to be too vigorous for the mate
that she could have better clothes and rial.
go about in society if she only had
the luck some girls had in marry- A Shampoo,
ing. And so It goes. All the trouble Once ln three weeks the hair should
is with life, with circumstances, and be washed. Always after washing -laid
at the doors of other people. the scalp should be rinsed in cold wa-
None of it is her fault. How could ter to contract the pores. A good
it be? She is a perfect person tortured shampoo is made of a raw egg beater.
by the hands of fate. In half a gill of lime water. This is
That all of these woes exist only In well rubbed over the head before
her imagination is a fact that she doefc washing in clear water. Every other
not see. That she could be the captain night the scalp may be massaged with
of her soul as well as the master of a mixture of boracic acid and alcohol
her life is all Greek to her. a dram of the former to three ounce
She goes through life fretted. Every of the latter,
sentence is punctuated with a sigh. '.
She sees the thorns beneath every rose To Currycomb Fish,
that Is handed to her and rejects it "Be sure not to forget a new curry
Whoever has a pleasanter life than comb," said some one when the mem
bers must be a person without charac- bers of a prospective camping party
ter, slothful, foolish or of no weight were making their list of supplies
She ls a homemade martyr and will "This made me curious, as I knew there
go to a martyr's grave, which she has was to be no horse at the camp. In
been preparing for herself since shequiry disclosed the fact that a curry
was born. comb is better than anything for tak
- ing the scales from fish." Good House
Ironing a Shirt. keeping.
Take lt out of the fold and iron the
back of the sleeve first; then the front; Stevenson says, "That people should
then the cuff. GIbSs the cuff and curl laugh over the same sort of jest and
it round; do the same with the other have many an old Joke between them
sleeve. - Now Iron the shoulder, tak- is a better preparation for life by youi .
ing care not to touch the breast ot leave than many other things highei
collar. Next -Iron the collar until per-and better sounding in the world's
fectly dry. . ..... ears." - -
jj oiq tne smrx aown uie iuiuuib i
the back and Iron ar much as possible For carved furniture there is no bet
on both sides of the fold; then spread ter duster than a new paint brush Just r
It out on the table, front uppermost tar8 enough and full enough to work
i. .11 thi imrfiniii Mrfi ' nicely into the crevices. .
Put in the shirt board under the
starched breast of the shirt and Iron
the bpper side first The Iron must bt
hot and clean. - It Is Best to work from
toe traal a ; the breast toward tho
idea, and t tat iron -roost be brought
neatly around the edge. at. th collar.
Ira the underside In the same way.
Rub the -breast slightly over wRh a
wet bit of muslin, apply a glossing
Iron to the underside .first and finish It
h nicely; ,
Paying Forfeits.
One of the funniest of the old fash
ioned forfeits now revived for an even
ing's fun is making the blind feed the
blind.
Spread a sheet in middle of floor
and on this seat two persons, blind
folded' and facing each other. Hand
each a saucer containing ground pop
corn or any of the dry, ready to eat
cereals and two spoons. Tell each to
The struggle to reach each other's
mouth, eacb reaching out his spoon,
at the same time opening his mouth
to receive the proffered food, is funny
in the extreme.
Other good forfeits are to draw a pig
with the eyes shut." Eat two table
spoonfuls of powdered cracker crumbs,
then whistle, sing a favorite song to
an accompaniment played on a table,
perform a West Point hazing stunt of
being a "choo-choo car," without the
glimmer of a smile.
If the dalnty ,ace paper and
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teapot and cup and saucer of white
Buttermilk Cures Blues.
There are two new cures. One is
buttermilk. The other is beans. The
buttermllk cure is for that very prev-
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- ' - .
Dusty wall., paper can be easily
cleaned by rubbing gently s-ltb
dean, soft piece of flannel.