v ' "" ' - ' 1 1 ' - . . - - Occidental Lumber Co. SMCCMMtr to Corvallis Lumber Co. We are here to supply your need, in the Lnmherline. Please call on J. B IRVING for information and price. And take notice that if we have not got exactly what you want we will get it for you- - G.O. BASSET 1 Local Mer. TTsJL . - e - .- mr NOTES VST xavzxasB PA. o SOLICITED F(S)ILHia BUSINESS COLLLOL V ' . mO Hip MAY. lick to a reatlon. We know It makes ne beef and pans the egg. Fowls must have bulky food to render theli 1 concentrated grain ration uijjwuuir I nod save them from hard crop. Clover I i. not lust dry stuff like sawdust. It contains nitrogen and lime and is rich tn nutrition. iW look at this table, which shows the ratio of nutritive qualities: Clover. 1:6.1: corn, 1:&9; potatoes. 1:1.T: barley. 1:6.1: wheat 1:6.5. Clover, has more lime than any ol these and Is almost the same as wheat No wonder it makes Biddy cackle. It, is cheap, easily prepared uuu keeps indefinitely. Cut second growtn ciover - rnis uiieuiNCTON AND TENTH STREETS PORTLAND. OREGON write FOR CATALOG Hut School that Placet Yo i a Goo Potion, .Copyright, by C. M Barnl These articles ana iuusirau"u - -- - printed without special permission.! - FLOORED. Farm arid (Garden reach workable condition except In fa locations. - f iut. , . The aim. then, should De to "e""" " .it. for aHt vegetaDies wmvn reach a workable condition as eanj any soil in the locality. A well draln t. f ind should be chosen, and : .. .... n m If the slop te to tne somn nt 1I earlier.-John W. Loyd. Illi nois. U . A PHILOSOPHER I knew a man In I-Told-U-So Who thought he knew tt all. He feared to walk too near the rim For fear the world would fall. He discoursed on the universe And on orlsinal sin: There wasn't much of sky or eartn That he did not butt In. One day I met him on the street. v He looked so wondrous wise. I thought the hour very meet . For me to catechise. "Wise friend." aald I. "will yow ten In the wheneeness of the when Which the other did precede. BBC rooster or the henf - He stared long into vacancy And then replied to me. - "Will you Just wait until I see My "Moral Phllosophyr " blossom Is turning. in strength in leai ana sum ." go to seed. - . ' Half dry. turning both sides to sun. "sack and hang in barn to cure. Thns it keeDS its strength, color and cws. " In the winter it is cut Into short lengths and fed dry In hoppers or steamed and fed in tne soil CHICKEN BUSINESS. Nut Growing. Hnt m-owlne in tne umwa States I THE great FIRST CHICKENS. mvaterv! What? Not of Eggs. EGG FIENDS. The old bay horse snaps up Biddy's in the manner. Easiest way to catch Mr. Skunk is to set the steel trap ... SW.waai 1st waft YiOTk 1111 it. wff-M n n fllil. UVWD vr v Eggs are popular. We can't blame chickens for eating them. They know a good thing when they lay It. But naturally, the egg Is aacred to the hen unless she has tho habit, and she gen erally handles them with care. v.- it's exasperating to lose eggs, to find the telltale yellow on nest eggs and feathers of hens and rooster .for roosters, too. lore eggs, but to them w ... - Warn In TT. also an egg is sacreo. as u m . i .anitnm mncroruui. , . a... Ulg ill u. i - the Brooder Turning Double Coops. Ur experience has been that in rals- , ii A. nttr nonlrrv tn jjl g early oruuerw w "u,-j fcntrh the chicks in the Incubator and raise them in brooders gives best re sults. A day or two before the time nr them to hatch I heat the brooder to 00 degrees and keep it as near that point as I can for two or three days would be a much more pm"" Sl.000.uw roDoery nor - y-"" . 7.,. nr,aka)re and consequent-egg not tor tne ucv rfnionial graveyara. oux rnarr jitiahv wr It which Inhabit the kernels, rendering them unfit for food. This is especial y r t chestnut and chinquapin - . . . ..Li. and to a lesser extent or pecan, u ory and hazel nuts, while others, which ... , 1 .n1 el. Include butternuts, m monds. suffer little or no injury from this source. Considerable diminution in the yield of many forms or nuts also caused by the inroads of insect i in tti BTowine nusiis. tiaui- lai o i liv he traced to care- . u. hibon tHhe tot away over into eauug mj India's deep tiger den jungles when created In the earaen oi . . 1.1 Eden, on the plain or Iran, in sr. No, there were the three sons of Noah Ham. the black: Shem. the yel and Janheth. the white. ,When they parted. Shem going east, Japheth north and west and nam, me u.a man. going to Africa, yon would have SOA TUBHSK BKADT FOR BUSINESS. ft- I nut the chicks In. Then I be gin to let it run. down two or three degrees each day until I get it as row as 65 or 70 degrees. 1 keep a lamp burning 01 the lme. day and night, for two weeks for fear ot a udden change. Of course I let them in a mn bv the time they are a week old. but when they begin to feel cold they will go back to the brooder. says S. H. Bass in American Agricui . h. rt rinss are the chestnut ,,,, Him would have got away worms or weevils, or ae I with the cnicirens. rerni . kv wrm and walnut curcullo. .rk K-tter. or maybe Shem bagged them first. i-....ni.ntfna Cabbage. Anvhow. when Mr, Darwin went on t Oxiiontin cahbaee plants for ii Trwdition to prove that man Is a the early crop put them in deep enough souvenir of the monkey tribe he dls- to completely cover the stem. t,a nAiill rtrmen. '"a " J . The causes are sort ana mm o.. eggs from lack of grit: nests that are too high. Bmall, puDiic. oyr j too many hens laying in one nest and i.,tr hAof scran. . LI. n n-hia Is the whole trouuie racked esKshell, and all can oe rem- One advocates placing eggs nft soan before the hens. Good tr. rln 'em out Another tells us : j .i.ll. fwim to take all caston eggs i Million a Year For Roads. Connecticut still leads In the good roads movement as a state. She was the third to get into It New jersey being the first four years Derore ner. and Massachusetts the second, in 1893. Now Connecticut spends 51,oou,utiu a inr while the first spends but $600,- n A v, aoonnri but $100,000 less turist in which the following timely . . Connecticut spends the lar Items also occur: amount per capita for good roads Turnlne ettcs Dy nana is u . th. nniv other states wnose ess if many must be turned at a time.- total annual appropriations are larger iri dovloe shown herewith saves . . vnrt with S5.000.000. and . " . . . . UCIUK . .v.. ' " much time since by a partial turn oi penusyivanla, with $1,500,000. but botn tha roller back or forward all the eggs vflstV lnrser than little may be made to turn at once, a he drawer mav be built of any light stuff. with still llehter divisions. The bot tom Is replaced by a rough cloth trAtrhnd between two rollers and held tleht with a crank for winding. One turn of the roller should be enough to turn the effes. Any one can make it. The double brooding coop shown in the drawing is four feet square, three Connecticut. Bad Roads, Indeed. It is no wonder that the grangers are o tine nWa In ravor oi ueuci t"- . , . , - , miria na the mud is somemiug ukuu- dable on the country roads. At East Longmeadow, Mass., one ui recent ouu- hnrohps was closed on a nf the mnddv condition feet high at rear and two and a half of tfae roads gay8 the Hartford Times. in front, it may oe oum ui Hnrtford funeral party, driving to and groove stuff or straigni ease boards one-half or three-quarter inch ii,.v The hineed lids should have two cleats each to make them firm. In front Is an inch mesh wire netting, and Cromwell, found the roads impassable In some places, rendering it necessary to take to the fields. The milkmen and teamsters declare that they "never saw the beat of it" and the cnauneur wno WHY FIVE ACTS? thaksepsarVa Playa nd the Work Hi Commentators. Shakespeare was a professional playwright, and he had no merelj academic theories, in compo" his tilavs he followed unhesitatingly i i , ., ,i i . , i i the principles tnai naa guiuwi u immediate predecessors. He wa seeking ever to give the playgoing public what it had been accustomed to enjoy in the theater, better in degree, no doubt, but the same in kind. Like these predecessors, he t-tmt to the traditions inherited from the mediaeval mysteries, and he thought in terms, not ot acts and of. scenes, as a modern play wright is forced to do, but ot a con tinuous narrative shown in action. There is no reason, to suppose that he would- have approved, of the at tempt of the editors ot tne iono to cut up his plays, each into five acts. T'Vioro is pverv reason to buuuubc that.Tie would have been greatly if he could have foreseen h wnv in which later editors have further to subdivide the acts V11UBVU - . into an infinity of scene a subdi be sure was lUivu v j never his intent. . Nowadays we have been so accus tnmaJ: tn read Shakespeare in one nr another of the trim and tidy modern editions, with a division aita and scenes, each of which indicates a change of place and each of which seems to suggest a cnange of scenery, that it is only by a reso- . a . 1 11 At A o A lute effort ol tne wm mai we n Vink off the prepossessions derived from this misleading and .nnfnsinfir nresentation oi nis text,. . o . PrKahlv even todav-a maiornv those who enjoy reading Shake speare would be surprised to De toia r . A ll..4nna that there is no warrant wublc. for this alleged change of scene and for those superabundant sub of his storv. Many of these readers would be taken aback SHORT WORM. Her Ar tjomeV The VoUowing rAragraph onThe -Use of Short Words'1 is attributed. vr !to Horatio Seymour. It practices what it preaches therein, sinew there is no word in it with more than two syllables save such as are quoted for purposes of illustration: "We must not only think in words, but we must also try to use the best words and those which in Rrech will put what is in our minds into the minds of others. This is the great art which those must gain who wish to teacn in me ;uwi, church, at the bar or tnrougn iuo press. To do this m tne ngni. way thev snouia use me m.v-. which we learn in eariy which have the same sense to all classes of men. The English. oi our Bible is good. Now and then some- lone words are louna, ana mey - ways hurt tne verses in wiucu L ., ml. i.U.4- M.U?nli eaira find tnem. isse " wu"-" '0 ye generation of vipers, who hata warned you to nee irom av to come?' There is one long word which ought not to be in it name-, ly, 'generation. In the old version- the old word oroou i uwu. i the verse with the term, and yoii will feel its full force, "U ye viper brood, who hath warned you to nee from the wrath to come? Crime sometimes does not took like cnmr when it is set before us in the many folds of a long word. When a man steals and we call it a defalcation, we are at a loss "to' know if it is s .ij r a crime. If he does not '? tell the truth and we are told that of lit is a case of 'prevarication, it takes us some time to Know jus what we should think of it. . No man will ever cheat himself into wrongdoing nor will he be at a loss to judge of others if he thinks and epeaks of acts in clear, crisp terms. It is a good ruie, u u by the unexpected discovery that all to know if an act is right or wrong, tnis cutting up xof Shakespeare's j to jte it down in short, straight- out English. ot was the work of his commenta tors, with Rowe at the head of the the incubator and' feed them to the proceBBi0n. Some of these readers hens until tney get n eutmu would leel as tnougn vney But all peo- hara nnnr hatching eggs. ni Ann't ran incubators, and thou ricted eras to come from in the winter? We taKe tnose eu-s minus the shell and mix them in soft feed, ana our ucu cackle for more. had effir nenas. n hr. prived of a precious possession it . re tiio htA onlv an edition in which Don't Fold Your Arm. Bv folding your arms you puu the shoulders forward, flatten the- thev had only an edition in which chest and impair deep DreaimuK. J . . . J , i i- ...o oirnae the chest all this useless maenmery waBi":Fi, IOiaing mc " ,. away. rum. Brander Matthews in Fq- We never had one. we would file the point of His Quick Answer. TTti,w the heading "Peasant ! . . 1 .... i . , TTT 1 her beak nntil it was sore. " '""f iiepartee we hsiuiuik jun-t ctnn hpr: we would file off her .... . .i nf farmer who. on his uiuu . uw ,v - t mi sou may x. ha fi fU waa attacxea dv a cv,omA(i f our shapes, xue uobi- scratching f , ttrnh n saw the dog vnn v,0ia vour body in most of so flattens it down that it require a conscious effort to keep the chest in what should be its natural posi tion. As soon as you forget your self down drops the chest. We can others eee uSa- If we could, many of us would be one corner, as shown, is the nest four Inches deep and fifteen to eignteen at the edges are strips of three-quarter macadam is entitled to a . . a a. l...a Innitaa asl trln ifrtT lTl I B py !Mi men stun w. uu premlnln The Cheapest Roadmaker. Tho "mod roads without money" movement that has by means of King's split log road drag converted the slough holes of tne "corn Den iww into model turnpikes Is extending to the eastern states, where most roaas are either very good or very bad, say Garden Magaalne. Mr. King is arrang ing with the various state Doaras oi agriculture to give a series m jjrncu- demonstrations of the use of his de vice on eastern roads where tne suc cess of road dragging is more doubtful because of sand and roc as. POVBU BROODENa COOP. Inches square, according to the size of h hens kent The board floor is cov ered with sawdust or sand. Food and drink are readily supplied through the door, which preferably lilts in iront Ud to Date Gardening. Three things are essential to the pro AnMnn of an early crop namely, early varieties, early planting, rapid growth. as useless to attempt to beat a competitor on the local market with irarietv that Is normally ten days later than his variety as It would be to tor a draft horse In a speed contest against a standard bred trotter. While t la trim that many of the earliest vari- tlM are not of as high quality as the Jater sorts, when earllness is the factor sjrhich determines the profits, other torartortstica of the variety are of .oonnriarv importance. Of course the man who is growing vegetables for his own table will Include in his garden some of the later high quality sorts, but the present attitude of moat mar kets offers little Inducement to the commercial grower to select varieties of high quality unless they, are also vry early In the spring there are usually a few day of warm weather and a cessation of showers, resulting 4. .nfflMnt drvin of the soil In favor ed locations to permit the preparation . mA hint and the planting of cer- . hawt. vegetables. It often hap- that in this brief period of fa rorable weather thafoO 4oaotuite Home Truths. Vn man Is half as smart as his wife tries to make people believe he is. You can kill time, but it wm com- back and haunt you. He who realizes his own wewmeM thereby adds to his strength. It is never too late to break your uif nf i had habit That kind of life is most happy which .nghiM ns t do the most good. Because a man has more money than hHim it Is no sien he's wealthy. it poos a lone way toward helping a man to succeed to let him know that think he wilL The greatest proof that marriage Is not a failure is that widows and wid- on. niwava anxious to try it again. . "Cherrv Tree" Dress. a rharmlne little one piece dresa for Ko hr w was fashioned of white linen .mhmldered in a design of cherries and leaves highly conventionalizes n. was not only unique, but very pieasin and of unfailing interest to the small man, who clamored for the time hon- atorv of George and the cherry tree every time he donned this partlcu i.. .tmm. The deshzn waa worked. iur In all white, while French embroidery stitch and buttonhole atitcli were combined with excellent eneo. . XOSOLB FOWIi. covered the progenitors of the chicken fomiiv wav over among the palms and alligators of the Ganges, and the pretty bird was called "gaiius Dansiva tnnerle fowl. TTinrtnos do not eat chicken, and the fnnrlfl WPrA allowed to multiply until thA forests were full of the beautiful orange colored birds, and as they flash ed from tree to tree and prouaiy su-ul-ted among the ferns and palms and magnolias their golden glow made honiiHfnl the sylvan scene. But white hunters on elephants, while tiger hunting, shot them down, the na tives drove them into uorsenair snares, and Mr. Hagenbeck. the great animal trainer, caught them for curiosities ana shipped them by thousanas an over the world, so today they are a rare bird. , They are smaller than our chickens. The hens are chestnut brown and Just nt. nnr Kiddies excent they have feathered throats. They lay from six to twelve eggs a year, thus you may see the wonderful development of your birds not only In size, but in laying ability. The cocks have brtgnt goiaen orang hackles, blue brown backs, rich chest nut saddle feathers, steel bine wing- feathers with reddish yeuow eage. breast and under parts dead black and graceful tails of black, rich green and metallic blue. Yes, we call our fowls Ideal m snape and color, but few of them equal this magnificently adorned aboriginal cock of the Jungle glades as ne i the top of a flowering tree ana greeut the rising sun. ' ; dflzen eggs down on "r -8"as 8avae dog. "The man saw the do tion you noia y0ur body in most of floor. Our hens wui looi :at nd coming toward him, growling anS the time 6oon becomes its . natural us as if to say. 'Keep off the egt,s f nTiffer. As the rwinuouslv folding your oTn anlunLr hers TnimnTupon him he used the the chest will davelop ff Afraid our big feet will crush the pitchfork which he was carrying a flat chest and a rounded back, beautiful white globes. . with such good effect that the dog Here are four other hints which was killed. The owner of the am- 8notlid be made habits: Keep tne FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. ma BUe(i the farmer for damages, back 0f the neck close to the bact When you are shipping live fowls and when tne evidence had all been of the collar at all possible times, feed them only solid grains and pien- taken the judge said to the defend- Always carry the chest farther to ty of water before shipment. . roui,j jt not have been just as the ront than any other part ot Cash in the wallet is better than . hayo used tne other end of he aI1terior body. Draw the abdo- chickens in the coop, waiting ior n gu first?' 1 might have done men m and up a hundred times- IS line uuuuiia --- , tha i a rr1, o Vlon dpPTI. 810W ISO, answerea tue paDou., - eacn nay. a. a C a beast had rushed toward me with its breatha a dozen times each day. nrices this time of year for gold mines in the moon. The habit of throwing tne - "XT Jlnwnn nrnra "-s 1 "T f chickens to the poultry is to be con- other end nrs - family x. need not De iuu awarueu, auu. iuc " " : x ne ciuu uccu - . . , . . . . . c 1 1 1 i, i . .1 i- xV. miiAlr nncwor nflf of feed if the bird is maoe to xasi. tnougni tiiat muivo- " , . . for killing. something to do witn tne aecibiuu. The York county (fa.) peopie i h imrh on the Washington au-I Tough Tars. thrttiM when they sent out the news pior;nff ahout one day. a blue The Model. The difficulty of saying a suitable thin about an unprepossessing per son was once cleverly surmounted bv the great Duke of Wellington. J - - . - tt J: - Via nTQCt At a Mansion nouse umuci tvmt ..B-M could be preserved lor an , , , , f cruisers infinite time by simply greasing J no hark of .n..i the health of " , . m.,.n has been acciueuiaiiji ii "f caueu uu w i""- th6 7 Yor tor JevSSvf his shipmate's jumper. ithe lady mayoress whom he had JZ1J:'SZ '0w am I goin' to mend that ;never en The duke got up and Bed tape makes Washington number. Some people feed their stock any thing. A man skinned a dead horse, sold the hide and hung the quarters In his barn to grind for the chickens as needed. Another went to the fer tilizer factory and secureo tne urieu. WT Oiw . - UCYCl owui . . and the bugle goin' for divisions in .proposed the toast, describing the three minutes ?" demanded the vie- 8UDject as "the model of her sex. Now, the lady nappentsu w -very plain wizened little woman, so- ; the tnen lioru huiiau6" - Turn ground, diseased horse for hte f." qilickly sewed up the rent in time and sold the eggs to his neighbors. M J va ,n tim. , "III do it in two two's, aiUUilUi BtUU tut LUCll m- , - ' . i if ' ...a 11.1 . V. A aaii in Without troubling nis cnum w . warij asked the auKe now u . - il, 0iimOT1 . .. . I L 1 1;4-1a AMafnrA Ad remove nis jumper, iuc describe mat ugijr for both to fall in at the call. and .sold the eggs He professed to be a Christian too. aorro -ight the tar with the repaired and pTttllg best foot forward, jumper, after Jg. Those who were naughty last year SOme minutes to get out of it, yen and used other boys' birds to win ed wrathfully: - .tiir.i1 wd the articles against me i Yon bunfflin assi xouvc practice in the Journals and reform be- lj it to my "London Tatler. fore they are caugnt anu gci tu miol nt hpr sex. mc uivuw - ---- ---- . ,, , i. "Why," said the duke, "i tnouguu As they were going to bed that j j d very well. I had never seen but DONTS. rnn't feed heavy in the heat keep the water pure and. sweet Don't forget tnat ouckb uavw u , m MUh -MMltn VATl'll crops, lr you stun. j have no crop of ducks. Don't eet dissatisfied witn your Dreeu everv time you read of another. If wnnrs ta not a success, you ditto. J ... . n Tf Don't cross big Dreeu s wiu causes rupture, crooked back and cross- nntfihM. . . . . , tt,i. non't throw rresn aroppius. nis"- out where chicks can scratch in .them. Not nice. Get lice. Don't have stumbling mocks aoout for ducklings to fall over. Don't be a stumbling block to others. , , Don't study the drug business to De come proficient In removing, color de fects nor surgery to become an expert in trimming combe. '" ' : Dont refuse an answer to dissatis fied customer. A doveHke explanation may dear the sky. but a aogged aeno may prova you U. : '- r neck. when one of our New York duck specialists, who hatches 30,000 a year. tM a Canadian poultry comeuuuu A Kansas Girl's Advice. A T.inpoln countv eirl writes this nio- "Whv do voune men do so ,ii lnofin? Oo to work! -rush III 111.11 XVllLi H - - brooders they all woke up ana too i ciotue mj tS for vou. old laybones. the bank. I lay np more money ,r. I than anv young man x n rt- in Camden. N. J.. a three miles of my home tenant rushed Into the flames to res-4 yferi they get a dollar boys go to hen that was sitting on Rock , home a dollar out. eggs. While a rescuing party was get- j advise gls to cut clear of ting ready to rescue him the hero I . - boys stand by the boy who emerged witn tne nen umier u "": v" ot,j tiovct nut vour arm . . . i 11 -.0 nrrt-ra 'ran m t w. . I - t his rwvkets full of eggs. Ten ol the eggs hatched. Wonder they didn't get overheated. - - The word is pronounced tu-lus (u as in fon,iv not two-louse. There's not a I louse on a Toulouse. . m ima' vhn la too lazv to 'I III. IHIUlLlIUiau - bury dead fowls, but allows them to, today. lie In the sun to Dreeu raass"", breed limberneck, should- keep a few turkey buzzards around to clean up the carrion. He might pass them off on some of our licensed Judges for a new breed. - . " ' '- through the handle of a jug. Kansas City Star. He Answered Right her before and didn't know what she was like and some moaeis ar blamed ugly!" Physiognomy. rru .ianio of nhvsiosmomv can X 1115 1 J O - . be traced as far back as the time ot Pythagoras, who is said to nave ex amined carefully the faces of his would be pupils before admitting them to his school, mppocraica, 450 B. C, refers to the science, and Cicero has many references to it. The first systematic treatise on the subject that has come aown to is that attributed to Aristotle. The sixteenth century , was particularly rich in literature on physiognomy, and the eighteenth shows a still greater interest in the science, La vater's book seeming to be the final jrord on the subject. Active Girls. From an early age the girls of "So," said Tommy's father, "yon japan are instructed in physical took dinner t Willie Stout's house . exeTcise, with the result that at ma- I hope when it came to ex- to : riPlniniTs vou had manners enough to say No.' . ter "Yes, sir," replied Tommy. "I Raid 'No' several tunes." "Ah, you didr'. turity the women are aimosi strong as the men. It is not an unusual sight in the mikado's em pire to see a company of girls who are strolling along a country road Btep bacK a lew yaras iw "U""J - . . . . ui r . .. -. , 3 .11 v .: iw-m snnt itatic aaKxn fn nvinv a leaner, me i I had enough." Philadelphia ; biy dear a fire foot fence