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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1900)
THE HEART OF THE TREE. What doe lie plant who plants a troe? He plants n frlontl of sun and sky; He phints tliv ling of breezes free; The blui ft of beauty towering high; lie plants u liome to heaven nulgh I'or wing nml mother-croon of bird In hushed anil happy twilight heard The treble of heuvea's harmony These things he plants who plnuts n tree, What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants cool shade and tender rain. And seed and btul of days to be, And, years that fade and tlusli again; Hp plants the glory of the plain; He plants the forest's heritage, The harvest of the coming age, The joy that unborn eyes shall wt Thete things he plants who plants a tree What does he nlant who plants a tree? He plants, In ap and leuves and wood. In love of home and loyalty, And fnr-cat thought of civil good His blessing on the neighborhood Who In the hollow of his hand Holds all the growth of all our land IA nation s growth from sea to sea Stirs in his heart who plants a tree. Century. Ml V S A CULINARY TRIUMPH. lb Ur iooIIEX Iorothy Griswold, after yWf " brief but blissful courtship, became Mrs. Philip Marston, It teemed to her that life could bold no more of happiness. Hut, alas, a cloud appeared ou the sky of couuubial bliss which Increased lu dimensions aud density every day. The fact of the mntter Is this: Dorothy could iiot cook not a little bit. Like too many of the girls of the present period, she was educated in anything and every thing but the one thing needful to a housekeeper whose husband is a clerk lu a Chicago department store. Dorothy awoke from her dream of bliss to a realizing t-ense of her de ficiencies. She discovered that burnt rteak, muddy coffee, soggy biscuit, and dried-up roasts were not exactly the right sort of fuel with which to feed the flickering nauie of domestic love. I'hlllp was too much of a gentleman to Indulge in unkind or sarcastic speeches to the bride of a few mouths, but he lost Ills bright spirits, became serious and preoccupied in his inauuer, lost his appetite, aud, horrors, began to get thin. Dorothy became anxious and worried, him nearly to death with her solicitude. When, one morning he announced to her that his ttnu desired him to go to DOLIfT DtFTI.V CIIANOKD THE PLATK8. New l'ork to buy goods for his depart ment, she actually rejoiced, though It would take ill in from her for a time, b'nylng: "I am. glad, Phil, dear; the change will do you good. 1 can stay with Aunt Sarah, you know, while you are away." She put her flat In order, locked the doors, and betook herself to her aunt's house, which was a few blocks awav. A few questions from her aunt, who noticed her troubled eyes, brought the whole matter to light. "O, Aunt Sarah, I am so miserable," Bobbed Dorothy, "and we were so happy. What shall I do?" "Do?" cried Aunt Sarah, energetic ally. "Why, learn to cook; that's all." "But where, and how?" asked Dor othy, bewildered. "Here," said her aunt. On the afternoon of Philip's arrival, n busy little llgure In a giughntn apron llltted through the rooms ou household duties Intent. Philip would not get homo until C o'clock in the evening. She had planned a good plain dinner with a few kickshaws as a treat. liv ery article was of her own cooklug, and she felt as proud as a queen. Her bread had turned out beautifully white and spongy and baked a beautiful brown. I'hlllp was so fond of home made bread when It was good. She was so glad the pie was a success; I'hlllp doted on apple pie. Then thert was a Charlotte Itusse, aud a mold of lemon Jelly to go with It for dessert. Everything was ready for the salad, tho dressing made, the lobster pre pared, nnd tho lettuce crisp and cool. Twenty minutes to 0 tho bell rang. Dolly Hew to the door, expecting to see only her llego lord. What was her Htirprlse to Hud with him a stranger, whom he pieseuted as his cousiu, Jack JUynolds, from New York. She had often heard her husbnud speak of this cousin, however, and received him cor dially. "A real stroke of good luck, Cousin Dorothy," said this young man, pro ceeding to make himself at homo at once, "my running against Phil Just as he got off the train. He could not escape me, though I believe he tried," which was truer than ho thought. Tho soup was good nnd was followed liy raw oysters, celery, nud olives, with delicate soda biscuit. Dolly deftly rJiangcd the plates, and she could scarcely keep her face straight when Philip, carving the tender, Juicy roas as if In n dream, stared at the benutl ful, snowy bread and tho well-cooked vegetables In amazed wonder. His spirits rose visibly. By tho tlmo all wore served and he beheld his Cousin Jack attacking tho viands be fore him with groat zest, his happiness was complete. His relief was so great when the dessert arrived that hu bC' came almost hilarious In his nppreehi lion of his couslu's Jokes nml Dorothy's witty responses. Ho tried In vain to catch her eye. She resolutely uvoldcd meeting his glnnces. "l'oti arc the strangest fellow I over came across, l'hll," declared his plain spoken cousin, when dinner was nearly over, "lou were as glum as a iieatns head before dinner. Who could Im nglue that a full stomnch would make such n difference?" at which I'hlllp Hushed guiltily and Dorothy laughed outright. When Jack was leaving ho said heartily: "Cousin Dorothy, you arc prime housekeeper, l'hll Is a lucky dog to get such a wlfo. Almost thou per suadest me to become a benedict." "Do It," said l'hll, with his arm throwu across his wife's shoulders aud his face glowing with pride and affec tion. "If you can find another like Dolly," and Jack went his way, de lighted with his visit. "What a hypocrite you arc, Philip;" cried Dorothy, her face hidden on her husband s breast. "But you needn't get your breakfast down-town any more. I can cook lots of things" she was sobbing now "b-b-bcefsteak aud b-b-baeon nnd m-ni-mu-mutllns and" 'Some Infernal fool had to tell you that, I suppose," growled Philip, with his head laid on her yellow pompadour. I swear I'll never do It any more, Dolly." "You won't need to," cried his wife. triumphantly, lifting a tear-stained but beaming face so near his that he did what auy young husband worthy the name would do lu his place. from What to Eat. BEAUTIFUL FEET ARE RARE. Present-Day Footwear Distorts the Ex- treinltlcH Abominably. A man who denies that he Is preju diced, but claims that ho Is a good udge of feminine beauty, declares that there Is scarcely a beautiful 'foot to be found among tho women of to-tlay. The high heels, the exaggerated curve at the ball of the foot, tho stiff heel stays and the pointed toes, he declares, have distorted the foot In a paluful and ugly manner. The ankles are misshapen In some cases the bones are enlarged until they bulge out so that every bone Is percep tible. The weight of the body throwu -upon the toes has caused them to pread out. Crowded Into pointed toes, they stick up in clusters of knotty corns. The foot should be as shapely as the hand. Footwear should fit as a glove fits the hand. The perfect foot is slen der, with an arched Instep and toes that lie smoothly aud easily. The first step toward acquiring a pretty foot Is to wear shoes that fit It comfortably. The next Is to take ex ercises that will render tho toes strong and supple. Pegln by spreading out the toes to the utmost extent; then hold four toes still aud attempt to move the remaining one. Every toe should be distinct and able to move separately. Every nail should keep Its shape, just as finger-nails do. The big toe should be stralghter and shorter than the next one and tho arch should be shape ly and pliant. The feminine foot, of to-day renders a graceful carriage an Impossibility. And all because Dame Fashion has de creed that a short, high-heeled, pplnt-ed-toe shoe Is the correct thing In dressy footgear, forgetting that there never was a human foot built that way. Tit for Tat. It Is characteristic of those who are severe on others that they cannot bear severity. Dean Swift, the severest satirist of bis day, was one day dining with a company of gentlemen, one of whom he had made the butt of his ridi cule, with repeated sallies. At last the Dean poured upon a piece of duck some gravy Intended to be eaten with a roasted goose. The unfortunate gentle man, seeing this, immediately said: "My good dean, you surprise me you eat a duck like a goose." The company roared, and the poor dean was so con fused and mortified that bo flew Into a rage and left the table. Benefit from Smudges. A curious bit of adaptation to cir cumstances may bo seen in summer among the cattlo of the swamp lands along the Mississippi. From July to mid-September blood-stucklng Insects mosquitoes, flics, gnats and so on aro so bad their cattlo are sometimes In danger of their lives. So are people unless they make smudges that Is to say, tires so tuicuiy smotuereu tney mi tho nlr with clouds of smoke and thus drive away tho pests. Tho cattle soon learn the use and value of the smudges. lloy "Without a Cliance. Little George, who lives In a hand some house on n flue avenue, bad been reading tho biographies of Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln, George Pea body and Gen. Grant. Laying down the book with great Impatience he ex claimed: "If wo were only just poor there might bo some chance for me," Detroit Free Press. Spoiled Children. Jinks There's ono good thing about spoiled children. Blnka What's that? Jinks Ono never has them In ono'a own house. Now York Weekly, Dogs are not dentlste but they some times Insert teeth. i liflfnm, TUP A Gigantic Industry Employing Millions of Capital and Countless Hands. At the present time the quantity of wheat which Is sent abroad from the United States and Canada annually Is about 250,000,000. Yet this, large as It Is, will certainly be more than dou bled within the next ten years. Sir William Crookes, the distinguish ed president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, writ ing recently of the proportion between wheat production and wheat consump tion, ventured to name the year 1031 as a date when the world's bread-caters would cry for more wheat than the world's farmers could produce. This may be an overestimate, yet the statis tics from which such prophecies are drawn show how very closely the con eumer treads upon the heels of the nro- ducer, and how Imperative Is the neces sity of distributing the crop grown perhaps half a world away from the centers of consumption as soon as It Is shaken from the threshers In a mill ion fields, in order that every white man snail nave his loaf, and have It Derore nis last supply has run out. Great Britain eats her entire wheat crop in about thirteen weeks, and then she must be supplied Immediately with tue prouucis or America or Central Russia or India, or else she must suffer, If the United Kingdom bo completely blockaded, say by the ships of allied Europe, her population would probably bo totally extinguished by starvation within three months. The like Is true of. every country In western Europe, although In some of them actual star vation could be much longer averted. When a European thinks of food he thinks In terms of wheat, ne Is tho greatest of bread-eaters. Yet in the best of years Europe never produces enough, even Including the crops from tho vast fields of Busslo, to supply her own needs. She Is tnerefore absolute ly dependent on the United States, Canada, India, Australia and Ar"en tlne. Progressive Wheat Growers. Tho American and Canadian farmer, and particularly the Northwestern wheat farmer, who ploughs and reaps and threshes by machinery without so much us touching his product with his hands, Is becoming pre-eminently a man of business. The Governments have supplied colleges for educating him, and they send him regular bulle tins containing the results of long-continued experiments conducted by the Department of Agriculture. He Is ft wlito reader, sometimes a thinker, and SCENES IN THE WHEAT COUNTRY. U7UPAT rrrr V 4 always a politician. Every morning uuring tne days of harvest he receives the reports of the Board of Trade or the Chamber of Commerce where his wheat Is likely to be sold. He has also on liis desk dally prices and a general advisory letter from his commission men. The primary movement of wheat is tue natural now to the local flour mill. where it Is ground to feed the farmer's family, aud toward the granary, where it is storea up for seed. The propor tion of wheat tnus actually retalnmi and consumed In the country where It is grown is very large. When the farmer has amply provided for himself, he begins to think of sell ing his surplus-whlch In 1808, for the united states and Canada, amounted to the enormous total of 450,000,000 uusueis. ui mis, something less than half Is consumed In the cities of the united Mates aud Canada, aud some thing more than half Is exported to foreign countries, either as wheat or as uour. The wheat crop of the averogo year Is, therefore, divided Into three more or less equal parts, the first being con sumed by the farmer nnd his immedi ate neighbors of tho smaller towns and villages, the second going to supply the concentrated masses of population in the great cities, and the third being ex ported as wheat or flour to feed the foreigner. Mr. Bay Stannard Baker, lu an article on tho Movement of Wheat, In Mc Olure's Magazine, tells of the manner in which tho wheat crop is disposed of by the wheat farmer. There are three general methods by which this Is done. lu tho proline Northwest, whero largo numbers of farmers aro cultivating from 3,000 to 10.000 acres of wheat a year, where the various farm buildings are con nected by telephone, where the plough lug Is done by complicated machinery whero tho farmer owns from two to ten threshing machines, from twenty to fifty reapers and hundred nr nMi and horses, the sale of a crop becomes a largo business proposition. But tho great mass of smaller farm. ers, especially throughout tho winter wwiu uiBincis, sun Bell In tho old fashioned way, to the local elevator man or buyer. They keen H,omi so thoroughly Informed, however, as luiBuiug prices in tho greit marts and the probabilities as to rise i or fall, that the commissions of the local dealer have been scaled to the lowest notch. Indeed, lu this day of many railroads. If the small wheat grower Is dissatisfied with local prices, he can combine with his nelghbors-n not Infrequent occurrence and ship directly by carload lots to xome elty commission man. who Is only too will lug to buy his gralu ut thcMilghost pos sible price. HjrHlem or Kleviitor. So fierce Is the competition fcmotis the wheat buyers that at some centers, most notably Minneapolis, vast sys terns of elevators have sprung un. each controlled by a powerful central house at tho terminal point. Then. nr.. fewer than thlrty-slx elevator com- !--Z: . .V LAKE VESSELS LOADING AT A CIirOAGO ELEVATOR. panics In Minneapolis, controlling l,82 country elevators with a combined en- pacny or iiearly 50,000,000 bushels of wheat. A single company controls 115 conn. try elevators having a canacltv of 4.. 750,000 bushels of wheat. And tin. head of this company Is also the heud of other companies there, having lines of elevators lu Minnesota nml tin, lin. kotas with a combined storage capacity "cany iu,oou,uuu bushels. He also has lines of elevators in Nebraska and Kansas, Perhaps no ono thine so slumim,,- and facilitates the movement of wheat ns tho present rigid system of Inspec Ion and grading. In former times a load of grain must needs bo carefully examined by every prospective pur chaser, wero ho miller or commission "n; and If this buyer sold again n wm,n.ex a'nlnat,on l necessary, m !h"" nttcnaant disagreement as to luallty. 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West to Ihi' KCiiliiiuni h u butlomtf minimi un iinri-n ii Hi" l,HIKIIIti. ji menus million-) ui il.illnrs a rj,t, IlllllOlld I, llll xblp oh . auj dwiii ,1... ,.jl. ui. ...... i ..r i. ' ii,.- i no,, nviin.fi, i, in.- laic 14,,. IKIgny, Is the demand fur iniiixportation iw shippers llml illtlli-uliy ,u utitiiife enough en , k itinl m-i-u Most of tlte w heut r Hie Northi- now goes ny wnj or n- iitv-. ibrgf the Siiult .Sit. Mnrii io liol where It Is shlppi-il ii, mil urMtuIti New York, Boston, itu.i inure anj 'n uilt'lphtn. I-'ew appreciate t'n- inagtiliudtoliti lake shipping liitercsti. wlilclt hit. been developed to a 'uiiMili-niWci-it by the transportation t wlicat. tilth-Superior Is the m-i'oinl port lath 1'nlteil States In point of touo-jf, t lug t'.xeei'ded only by New York. Ts Sault Ste. Mi, tie Canal p.-unct tnoul a half times us iiiueh tiuina In f rt mouths ns the Sue. Caiuil -msciig, full year. I.nke shlpiiliti; ninUki moreover, the cheapest trannportitls, In the world, the rate ln-Iiiz apprti mutely thrcc-ijiiarti-rs of a will wrta per mile. Snine of the greater hike TM'diw ry enormous cargoes up to nm bushels of wheal In a mIiikIo load. Wh out comparisons, it Is dlilh-ult to (on any conception of the lintiicnMljrf, argo of tills size. In Dultitli. lOOlrtM- els are estimated ns a carload. Atlw rate, a cargo of IKKMHio lmlift. HH has actually licoii iransporliil from Da lull, to BiilTalo. would llll n'Mtmoi nine trains of forty cars end,, Atw teen bushels to the a-rp, tlili Mtjt would represent the sleld of IHM . ,.. .ii.i . acres or num. in ninny loramm farm of KM) acres Is looked upon :i I large one. It would take 10." such firai to raise enough wheat to fumlb lii one cargo. I'ntll recently New York bid 6 lion's share of the whe at export W- ncss; but latterly Boston, Hal Philadelphia, New Orlcaus, Gaiv"" nml .Montreal liavo been lnre P?"! Kor the fiscal year 1890 New lor " only 'J8.8 per cent, while Sew ow and Galveston had JlW'Pef' '.S Boston 12, Baltimore OA.aadl pi, la (l per cent., the ronmlndcr scattered between Slontieal, low Norfolk nml Newport News. To (juoto again from Mr. w average yield of wheat pcrnere hi. i.. i uon t was it"' tinny creepms up. i - . 11.1 bushels to tho ncro; l 1 11 A. i:i.7 IniRhels; wlilie In i' " - -. mi ir. n lmaiio Bv tue um " -- OKI, nn, , tllXl Willi CUl-HI"-. . .... :":.v""" ':: . : ",n,.s. the II MIIMMUI IIUIUII IUI - vjmv snortation lor siu'i'y' -neap- can lylmn over befow ho Mint, i ;; un that. m'110"6. , nnotl mo iiirm pneuo mi L.jmw , tbe'fW"1- age higher from year to year, er's profits are larger, ,ceili An outwHFdlwU oftumei co uu Inward groan.