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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1910)
A Qaastlun of Keonomy, "Ton'd better buy what you n»e>1 ATCHISON OLOBB BIOHTS. new 1 net er had any patience with It Is natural for «very man to want thia Idea wf gathering up old rubbish 1« gal ths best poaalbl« wh«n ha goes You can account for very few mar- Just because it's old. And then there's In to bring out soma naw farm ma- rlagoa. tha microbe theory; It sounds reason» china. This often brtugs a fallow to able and theres probably a good deal Every time any big bill Is prvsenlod grief, however, «Ince the dealre to tn It." to you. It looks Ilk« robbery. By spend as little money as possible "Horrors! The garret's probably If a woman can get her flrat man, •omstliiies causes the purchaser to full. Perhaps there are some In those MEREDITH NICHOLSON lake the cheap machine. If confront* she needn't worry about her «econd, love-letters." Zelda laughed; her rd with a proiHialtlon to take a sulky or third. mirth was seemingly spontaneous, and bubbled up Irrelevantly. plow, for instance, that will Inal fiva "My duty,” said an unhappy mar "If there's anything of mine up hare, year« for 125. or another that will ried woman today, "1« anything IIN for heaven's sake burn it right away. last ten years for 135. which one object* to." And now clean yourself up amt come would you take? Which one would It out with me You must show yourself There la plenty of cooking aa good pay you to taka? This la about th« or people won't know you're in town, I A little machine that will be highly ■urn and substance of buying a cheap as "mother's,“ but very few appetites CHAPTER II — (Continued 1 ind brought several old candlesticks And come home to luncheon with ms "Who's afraid?" she said, and laugh- from the parlor. The attic was a greit afterward." appreciated In the kitchen Is the pea farm Implement. It may not seem like a boy'* ed again. ow room extending over the whole We have observed that thero I* It- "I'd like to. Aunt Julia, but I really shelter Invented by a t'tah man This that way In the warehouse — when “Til be back in a moment." he said of the house It was unplastvred. Box mustn't. Father comes horn« to lunch handy little de each tool looks gaudy with paint, the t!e complaint about tho high prices an.l he went up stairs, returning pros 's and luirrels abounded Bunches of eon.” vice will shell a cheaper one looking even th« mor« of beer and cigar«. •ntly. carrying a small basket filled 1 herbs, long dried, and garden tools oh. he d»>ea. does he? Well, he has peck of peas In gaudy but In actual work, In th« with keys hung here and there; in a corner an had a good many meals alone and the Th* women pick at men and st the time It would rough and tumble of the ranch, this "These are yours, my daughter." he old saddle was suspended by one stir- shock wouldn't kill him." goods offered at special sal«, la the the cook to take aald. and waved his hand with a little ■ rup. Pieces of furniture covered with Is about th« way It always turn« out. same Industrious way. "He's perfectly splendid* He's just Shell a dozen by — Denver Field and Farm. touch of manner. cloths were distributed under the as kind and thoughtful as can be. I You ar« always al a disadvantage ta It con- hand “Oh. so many!" She poured the keys i eaves, their draperies heavy with dust, didn't know that anybody's father up*-' the talde. There were half a utd the light of the candles gave them could be so nice.” arguing with a man who doesn't know sista of a hop usee «»tilas nt Milk. hundred of them, of many kinds and a spectral appearance. what ho 1« talking al>out. per-like arrange- Mrs. Forrest rose and swept the gar sixes; and they were all tagged with There were several trunks of her ret disapprovingly with her lorgnette ment damped to Have you ever noticed how sudden IV bits of ivory, on which their sev- mother's clothing and Zelda peered In- and there may have been an excess of the table by an ly a useful man can die. and how long •cal uses were written clearly In ink to these bravely. Her mother had ar- disapproval that was meant for somc- upright, iron a worthless man holds out? “JTour mother was very methodical— ranged them thus shortly before her thing else. Julla Forrest was a worn- Above the hopper a pair of roller bear- very painstaking----- “ death, The girl was touched by their an without sentiment. for there are lugs studded with A book agent speaks as highly of blunt, pyramldlal He shook his head and turned to the nice order; they were folded many such In the world. The lumber-room the book he sells as a reformer speak« A handle teeth are In close relatlou Are. as though to hide anw ahur of times in tissue paper and were sweet .lid not Interest her. and she was anx of tho reform he represents. ftselin g. with lavender. One fiat packet had lous to get out Into the sunlight, She turns these rollers, while the mouth Zelda was turning the keys over In been crowded into the top. and the ltd was too Indolent by nature to have of the hopi>er opens over the table, Bcrapplng In families 1« objection her hand, and she did not look at him. had crushed It. so that the paper much curiosity: she was not a woman where a dish can be placed beneath It able, but It 1« not so bad as when kin A mist had come into her eyes, She wrapping had fallen aside, It held a who »¡Ant all her rainy days poring The pods are Inserted between the praise each other too much. remembered the dark woman who had small address book, bound in red leath over lavender-scented trifles and weep rollers end foremost As the rollers When you bear a smart aaylng by been so gentle and patient with her er: and Zelda ran the leaves through ing over old letters. She was born In a child. It la a sign tho child ha* a childhood. They used to walk togeth her fingers, noting the names of per this old house, and she had played as are turned the teeth engage the differ- er in the old pasture; and they carried sons who were her mother's friends. a girl in the wooded pasture that once ent shells of the pods and rip them smart mother, and that sb« made It their books to a seat that had been "Margaret Dameron" was written on lay east of It. Her father’s fields were open, allowing the peas to roll down np are then Into the bowl The shells built under a great beech where her one of the fly leaves. The book had now fort.v-foot lots, through which A man and woman going on a w«4 ■nether read the quaint tales and old been intended as a register of visits, streets had been cut. and the houses tossed out the other side of the ding trip try hard not to look happy, ballads that were her delight. These begun at the threshold of her married that had been built up thickly all wringer ” Of course, the two rollers and on th«lr return try Just aa hard were the only happy memories she life; but. from appearances. it ha-1 about were of a formal url»an type are not close enough together to crush The beat results In keeping milk bad kept of her mother—the times un been abandoned soon as an address The Merriam homestead was to Julia the peats, but Just close enough to en to look happy. sweet and maintaining the highest der the beech, with which her father book. At the back, where the Ink was Forrest merely an old. shabby and un gage the pods. quality of cream are oblalncd by sel was not associated. fresher and of a different kind, some comfortable house, whose plumbing "I'm sure it's your time to go to bed. of the pages were filled. The girl car was doubtless highly unaanltury. Sh« ling th« cans In cold water. Th« box AdJuMfthlr Mep for I.adclrr. ftither. You mustn't let me break In ried the book close to the shrouded had been married there; her father as shown should be neur to th« pump House paluting Is very easily done on your ways." Zelda walked ever to table where her candles stood an»! and mother had died there; but the aud Ice house. by palmers having their own scaffolds, him and put her hands on his shoul opened it. place meant nothing to her beyond ths ders. “I want to be very good to you. but a person desiring to do his own "This Is to you. Julia or Rodney fact that It was now her niece’s home. 'll»« A»rr*MA larnirr. ftither; and I know we'll live here very I t occurred to her that she ought to work will have only a ladder to taks They have told me to-day that I am Farms In the United States pro happily. You won't mind me much— place of a scaffold To paint and stand going to die; but I have known It for see Zelda's room, to be sure the girl when you get used to me!" was comfortable; but Zelda did not In on the rungs of a ladder all day will dm ed 18,780,0®«,I 00 la IW8 But did She touched his forehead with her a long time. The end is nearer than vlte her In when they reached the sec- am going to set tire one’s feet, As the writer had to th« farmer get bls share of It? We they think It Is: and I tips. read a whole lot about th« American ond floor. down here an appeal that I can not do some painting and a ladder was “Thank you. thank you"—and there farmer being king and we are told to either of you bring myself to make "The letters were beautiful; th-fv the only thing obtainable to climb up- was a helpless note fn his voice. of the farmers siorllng automobiles She turned away from him quickly, directly. It is about Zelda. I think wrote lovely letters In those days." on, a tint detachable step was made to restored the keys to the basket and she will be like us. God grant it may Zelda persisted ironically: "I wish I put upon the rungs of the ladder to slid sending their children to college be so. I know what I hope her future could have some half as nice." or to Europe If they have been given ran with It to her room stand on the same as a scaffold The “Do get your things. Zee, it's fine the college course, but It Is the on« The next morning she was down to may be; but I dare not plan it. My step can be adjusted to any part of his 7 o'clock breakfast in the cold, for own—you know that I planned my outdoors and the outing will do you th» ladder for the painter to stand I best bet that th« averago farmer Is as you tried own. • • • Save her, good." no plutocrat. The farmer Is conald- bidding dining-room. She was very "I’m very sorry, but I can't KO this upon and paint a surface within easy er»-d lucky If he can keep the tntorvst gay and made him talk a great deal to to save me from myself, If It should be necessary. She is very dear and morning. I have a lot Two Irons are bent V shaped. to do. I’ll bu her. He had been up for an hour at paid up on the mortgage, and if final work in the bam. where he cared for gentle; but she has our pride. I can freer after a little. ly, after years of hard labor, h« owns see It growing day by day. They say "You're foolish, very foolish. When his own horse. He carried the morn his place clear of all Indebtedness h« ing newspaper to the table, as he had that we Merriams are hard and proud: shall I see you. then?" is considered well off Th« American but she will never be hard. Do for "I'll be along late in the afternoon done for years. farmer Is a long way from being th« This will never do. father! You her what you would have done for me. some time.” real ruler of the country.--Field and "And then stop to dinner----- " must talk to me and help me to learn Do not let him kill the sweetness and Farm "Very sorry; but father will expect the American breakfast habit. I'll be gentleness In her. Keep her away from him If you can: but do not let me. It doesn't seem quite kind to for lonesome if you read at the table." VX hat Heeu( the Corn, her know what I have suffered from sake him—when he's so nice to me." Hts thoughts seemed far away; he People often wonder, particularly "I suppose not. but bring him along. had long been out of practice in the him. I have arranged for him to care those who hate traveled for hundreds •menlties and graces, and the morning for the property I have to leave her, We're all an unsociable lot. They say of miles through the corn belt, what had brought him once more face to so that she may never feel that I did the Marrlams and their connections face with this change in his life. The not trust him. He will surely guard are queer—1 don't like the word. Your becomes of corn which Is grown every uncle and I want you to raise the fal -place across the table had been empty what belongs to her safely. year In the year 19011, when tho to Perhaps I was unjust to him; It may len reputation of the family. I»o be for so many years that he resented the tal crop was 2,668,000,000 bushels, have been my fault; but If she can re- dark conventional, whatever you do." appearance there of this slender 241,000,000 bushels w«r« consumed In "Oh. I shall be that—commonplace girl, pouring his coffee with an ease spect or love him I wish It to be so” Zelda read on. There were only a flour and grist mill products, 8.000.000 him. even." that puzzled and even touched few pages of this appeal, but tho bushels In the manufacture of starch, "There had been another girl like her. "Don't come down In those clothes! words sank Into her consciousness 9,000.000 bushels for malt liquors. 17.- in the long ago, and Jhis was her with the weight of lead, She was to Mrs. Forrest was descending the stairs. 000,000 bushels In tbe production of child. The resemblance between moth "All right. Aunt Julia. Good-by! ” distilled liquors, 40.000,000 bushel« for er and daughter was so marked that be saved from her father. If need be. When the front door had closed. Z»»l- he grew uneasy as he pondered It; ho by her aunt and uncle; but she must da u; down on the stairs and laughed glucose, 190,000.000 bushels for export not know what this dead woman, her made a pretense of holding up his and 13,000,000 bushels for seed, mak softly to herself. mother, had suffered at his hands newspaper to shut out the girl, and "Oh. Polly.' she called, ing a total of 518,000,000 bushels, or There was the heart ache of years In when he dropped it Zelda was waiting The black woman shuffled slowly in 19 3 per cent of th« entire crop. The the lines; they had not been written to for him, her elbows on the table, her hall and looked up gravely at to ths her, but fate had brought them under remaining 80 7 per cent, or 2,118,- E ru linen combined w»tli s d«rk > '<»» hands clasped under her chin. the girl. 000.000 bushels, seems to have been dotted linen, w re ven rfi-ciive » u «.! 1HL ADJ t Ml ABI E STEP. “Oh. pardon me!" he exclaimed, ris her eyes. She closed the book, clasp ing it In her hands, and stared Into the "Poliy, I wish to see the footman ■n tin« «umineiy little dreli. II- I.».- i used almost entirely for feeding. ing ’hastily. dark area beyond the candlelight Her the moment he returns to the house. wax ot the handkert hiet «ort. nt er. As she helped him into hts overcoat mind was busily reconstructing the life And the butler’s work is very unsatis us illustrated, each end having a te ial being tuc»»«aty fur the gsthrre.l Ilenlh < hick«. her hand touched a hammer he car of her mother, of whom she knew ro factory; I shall have to let him to. circle to fit over the rungs of the skirt ried in his pocket with a miscellaneous little. The book that she held, with And pleas» say to the cook that mere der. Th« trouble which causes the denti- Two holes are drilled In assortment of nails, for use in repair its pitiful plea for her own security will be pie for dinner until further no- top angle In which to put bolts for of many young chicks is commonly ing the small properties he owned in Different and happiness, opened a new world to lice—apple-pie with cheese. Ami the lastenlng the step. The step enn be known as whit« diarrhea a RESTRAINING MANTA many parts of town, and she drew the her; her mother's words brought tho peasants—they will be received by My quickly changed from one position to breeders have different theories as to implement forth and inspected it at past before her vividly and sent her Majesty on tits lawn at b as usual, and mother. A person will feel as safe the cause of lbl« trouble, among them Its Action Followed bjr a Vote« I bat arm a length. thoughts into the future with a fierce largess will be distributed. Will you ■n the step as if he were on a stag- being a lack of vitality of breeding %% ■mod. "Why, father! What on earth Is haste of transition. one»*. ng.—Popular .Mechanics. execute these stock. Improper feeding and poor ven "Patrick H. McCarron once told in« this?" This was her home-coming and this Polly? Stand not on the order of your tilation lau'k of sunlight and Imper of a funny Incident that hapix-ned In The nails jlngt»d. and she made a was home! She forgot for the moment going—" Shs laugh».»d down at ths Mito Good tor Hairy. fect sanitation cause th« death of Rome," said a Brooklyn lawyer. "Mo- dive into the pocket and dr.-w forth a that she had friends anywhere; she amazed colored woman and then ran Milo can take the place of corn In many chicks The diet should contain Carren «aid that on his first visit to handful. felt herself a stranger In her native swiftly up stairs. "Why. you’ve forgotten to empty city, in the house where she was born, She did not pause until she reached feeding dairy rows, and will yield an a sufficient quantity of animal food Rome, after he had seen the (!ollaeuin your pockets! You mustn't go about Her heart went out to her mother, the candle-lighted table in the garret average of twice as much grain an and the chicks fed often and not al ■ nd the Forum, he visited tho Ar* with this hardware In your clothes ” across a distance that was vaster than an»l knelt before it, with her face a r<* as corn In dry regions hi seasons lowed to get so hungry that they will Cool! Church, on tho left of tho (’apt- He reached for the things, -a- little any gulf of time, for there was added against E, and so dry that corn will be a total failure devour large quantities at times and tollno Hill. He climbed the grand Shamefaeedly. the greater void that sympathy and sobbed would rnllo will usually yield fifteen bushels then fast for long Intervals South ■tairwny leading to tho church. th« "You dop'< understand. I need them love would have filled If mother ami break. of grain or more an acre. Dakota Farmer. finest open air stairway In the world. to make trifling repairs, you know.” child might have touched hands to (To be continued.) The heads of mllo may be snapped He smiled, and she put th» things back day. He pushed l>a< k tho heavy leather cur from the stalks and fed to cows giv into his pockets, still laughing at him Her fingers came upon the broken tain, «ml, entering, ho found a service Loomis’ i'lu-r Again. ing milk. This Is an economical way “I must go about with you. I can wrapper that had fallen from the lit In progress. So lie put his hat on th« Hank Johnson had long enjoyed thb to feed this grain, as a cow has to carry the hammer. Maybe you will let tle book. She lifted it to the light ami marbla floor at his side and took a distinction of b<-ing the homeliest chew a head a considerable time be me drive a nail once In a while, if I read: ■ent a«i good." "Private. For brother Rodney or man in Canyonville, so it was some fore she Is satisfied to swallow It, and "After ten minutes or so he decided what of a shock to him when Steve the more she chews It the better it He drew out a faded silk handker sister Julia.” he would go and reached down for his Billings came into the Tourist's Re will digest. chief and began twisting it about bis hat But a restraining hand was laid throat, but Zelda took it from him and treat and announced: “Boys, there's CHAPTER III. The whole heads may be ground on bls, and he desisted. Ho knew, of adjusted it carefully under his coat The front door-bell rang—it was nn a homelier man than Hank over at the without threshing, and the small course, that some churches don't like collar; and she brushed his old brown old-fashioned contrivance, on a wire, depot. Fi ller by the name of Charles stems that hold the seeds form, when derby hat with a whisk broom that and pealed Censoriously—and Zelda Battel Ixiomls that gives lecture«." people to leave In tho inldHt of a serv ground, a good material for diluting lay on the hall table. thrust the book back Into the trunk let. Without a word Hank started across the meal and making |t more easily He suffered her ministrations with and ran to the second-floor landing to 'Ten or fifteen minutes more passed. digested. his patient smile, Into which he tried ! sten. Polly, the colored mald-of-ail- the road anil was gone some time. The service still continued. Senator "Waal," Steve said when Hank re to throw something of a look of pride; work, admitted Mrs. Forrest warily. The threshed grain rnay be ground This ventilator 1s always In work McCarron got Impatient ami agnln and when sh» had set the hat square "Good morning. Aunt Julia! Wei- turned, “d'ye give up?” before feeding. It does not pay to ly on his head, she drew back and re come to your ancestral home! Como “Heck!” Hank replied with suprernu feed unground threshed grain, as the ing order as tiie hinged doors are kept renehed for Ills hat. Hut again th« garded him critically and then kissed on up!” Zelda called from the top of disgust. “He's a professional."—Suc cow chews the whole grain but little closed on the windward side and at Unseen band restrained him from th« the stairs. the same time tho connecting board rea r. him on the cheek. cess .Magazine. before swallowing it. and a large pro "A little later, however, tho senntor "Now be sure to come home to pre«««« open the door on the opposite “What on earth are you doing. Zee?” portion passes Into the mauure undi You didn't come demanded Mrs. Forrest, gathering up luncheon always. llnonicl* no <•<»<»«! mb n. I’eiiRt. side. The cord and pulley enable the quite lost patience. This was. ho told gested. yesterday and it was lonely. I must her skirts and beginning the ascent. connecting board to lie lifted Io the hlinself an Important service, of What real good does an addition to get Polly to show me the way to the “I'm cleaning house a little.” dotted line when both doors will re course. Nevertheless, he did not pro Green Food for Chicks. fortune already sufficient procure? a grocery, I don’t Intend to let her be “My dear Zee, this will never do'” pore to mis« his luncheon, and It would main closed. Could the great man by Not any. Growing chicks demand green food, the boss, I’m sure she's been abusing And Mrs. Forrest, having reached th» harm no one If he slipped out quietly. you all these years.' ,\<iinhrr «»f I'licw I'rr flow. second floor, surveyed her niece with having his fortune In»reused increase and by all means give them plenty of "So a third time ho reached for his also his appetite, then precedence grass range if you have it; if not, "Oh, in time you will come to It. disapproval. The number of pigs a sow raises la you Polly will do very well, and “Do you mean the clothes?” asked might lie attended with real amuse* supply them with an equivalent, such something worth taking Into account hat, and the Invisible hand a third time detained him. He persevered, oughtn't to be bothered with such Zelda, putting her hand to her turban. ment.—Goldsmith. as lettuce, cabbage, weeds, clover, al- if she Is to be kept over for another things, I—I usually buy the groceries “I flattered myself that I looked rath lalia; they relish It and will thrive breeding season; it Is equally impor however. The silent hand pushed and myself, One of my tenants is a gro- er well. I'm exploring the garret I'rn An Honest Horse Trade, Ills silent hand pushed ngalnst It But on It. Provide chicks with shade and cer and—and—he does a little better not really doing anything but pose "1’11 have you arrested for making where a cool breeze can fan them In tant to know something about her just a« he was conquering In the strug for me!” about; and it’s great fun, raking In false representations. I bought that warm weather. This should l>e sup motherly Instincts when young sows gle a voice said In good American: “Oh, to be sure. You must do It In the dust of the past—a very remote horse of you only because you told plied, even if a temporary board roof are to be selected from her litter for "Cheese It, boss; that's my hat your own way, father.” There was a past, too!” the breeding herd. For this reason you'r« taking." me he had a record.” is the only thing that can be note of disappointment In her voice, “This Is a horrible hole. Zee. You every man should keep some record "Very true, but the record is a bad nisbed. * and he would have liked to concede must go right down.” Mrs. Forrest Ample Proof. of the size of tho litter* bl« «ow* one. You didn't ask me what kind something to her, but he did not know was staring about frowningly. Ixyttle—lx your young minister, so Till««« of the Peach. ralie.—Farmer«' Tribune. how. of a record he had. ” A trunk stood within the arc of tho /ery, very fascinating? No tree Is more sensitive to tillage She roamed Idly about the house, candle's flame. It was filled with old New llarvaatln* Maehlno. Hattie—Fascinating! Why, lots of than Is the peach. Probably more George Reucker, who worked his going finally to the kitchen, where tha papers and letters, and Zelda flung A new harvesting machine ha« been girl« In our church have married men colored woman told her that orders up the lid to pique her aunt's curiosity. way to America as a coal shifter and failures In peach growing are due to for the remaining meals of the day "You must burn all these old things. accumulated a large fortune In the ho neglect in tillage than to any other Introduced fn »Nebraska. The harvester they hated, just to got one klsi from bad been given by her father. Polly Your grandfather never destroyed any tel business In Brooklyn, died at his one cause. The most diverse views is propelled by It« own power and 1« 'he rector after the ceremony.—Puck. viewed Zelda with admiration, but she thing, and your mother kept all he left. beautiful villa, in bls native place. are held by different growers. One followed by a truck-carrying gasoil no did not ask advice, and Zenda contin Old letters ought never to be kept; Bronkensen, Germany. Postponed. good grower will declare that the or engine, which operate« the harvesting ued her wanderl.’MOU. going finally to they’re dangerous, I’m about settled Dolly—Why aren't you at tho cook chard should be tilled early tn the mechanism of the machine. This Is the attic with the key-basket myself. I came In to see how you’re Every failure teaches a .man some» season, and bls neighbor will maintain used mainly in wet field«, where the ing school? The place was pitch dark when she getting on, Zee.” Polly—Teacher'« laid up with dy» thing, if ha will learn.—Charles Dick* that early tillage will endanger the power of th« harvester Is not sufficient threw open the door, and as there was what I can do with "I'm going to see p«p«l*.—Cleveland leader. to mak« headway «•a. •roo. •o way of lighting It, aba wont down thia old furniture. Zelda Dameron FASHION HINTS