A LL BLA N K ET Y BLANK.
It la December. The new year
Is quickly drawing nigh.
And Mr. Blank sits by his desk
Just making hla pen fly.
[PO ETR Y
NO TES
W a y does he write so furlouslyT
Does he fear dissolution?
Why, no—ahem!—he's getting up
His New Year's resolution.
BY
There, Mrs. Blank Is writing too!
She Just has written down,
" I promise not to scold you. dear.
N or all the twelve months trown.”
IC.M.BAKNITZ
RIVERSIDE
EA.
O
Tes, It Is lovely, and we hope
Both to their vows keep true;
That they may be sweet, lovey doves
And ever bill and cpo.
CORRESPONDENCE
■ S O L IC IT E D ■
It's evening. January first.
The pledges are b<gh busted.
She started In to henpeck' him.
Now both are mad, disgusted.
[These articles and Illustrations must not
be reprinted without special permis
sion.]
E X H I B IT IN G D R E S S E D
A N D EG G S.
MLLE. TRENTINI MOST DOMESTIC
OF PRIMA
DONNAS.
M M A T R E N T IN I, who slugs the title role In “ The Firefly” under
the management o f Arthur Ilammersteln, Is a native o f a small
town near Milan, In Italy. She attended a convent when a girl,
and her voice attracted attention while she was singing in the
choir o f that Institution. She could not stand the restraint o f the con
vent and ran away. Milo. Trentini was already established ns a grand
o|>eru artist before she Joined the forces o f Oscar Ilninmersteln. She
was a great favorite in coloratura soprano roles and made an especial
hit in "Tales o f IIotTninn.” When Mr. Ilammersteln retired from grand
opera Mile. Trentini changed to popular light opera. Mile. Trentini Is
the most domestic o f prlmn donnas. She lives in the quietest manner
and seldom attends receptions or large parties of any kind.
E
Culinary Don’ts.
T ria l T rip *.
In order to gauge her average speed
oven for simple a vessel when on her trial trip is
milk will curdle.
made to run four times over a meas
meat should bo ured mile, twice with and twice against
salt meat In cold the tide.
Don’t hnve a hot
milk puddings or the
Don’t forget fresh
put in boiling water,
water.
S tre n gth o f Ice.
Don't let soup boll, only simmer, ns
Experiments by French nrmy officers
the excellence o f the soup largely de
have shown that lee an Inch ntid three-
pends on this.
Don’t fry anything unless the fat Is fifths thick w ill bear the weight o f a
boiling, liecnuso It makes the food mnu, four and three-quarter inch ice
I light artillery and eleven nnd one-half
heavy or sodden.
Don’t forget In boiling meat that it Inch Ice the heaviest weights the trans
must not be nllowed to boll. In boil portation of an nrmy requires.
ing vegetables do not let the boiling
N e w ca stle ’s Coal.
stop.
In 1230 K ing H enry I I I . of England
Don’t wash moats more than Is abso
lutely necessary, especially game and gave to the city o f Newcastle the right
fow l, because It has a tendency to de I to dig coal, this being the first charter
of its kind granted.
stroy the natural savor or aweetness.
Everything in Hardware
¡¡S i
r a===é,
1
Metiriif -
n
W yn n e & W ood s Co.
G ive the Leader a Trial
PO ULTRY
Oh. no; don’t say. "W h at silly fools!”
My. no, don't say, "It's rank!"
Remember from the first to last
The whcle blame thing was Blank.
C. M. UARN1TZ.
MR. F A R M E R , G E T W I S E , A D V E R
T IS E .
Until recently no fairs nor poultry
Seventy-live per cent o f the adver
shows have encouraged the exhibition tisers in the London (O.) Democrat are
of droused poultry and tnble eggs, two farmers.
points where Uncle Sam's shows are
They are wise to the quickest, slick
far behind England, Ireland, Denmark. est, easiest way to get bon tou trade, to
France, Belgium and even Canada.
keep goods moving out and the cash
Such exhibits have mostly been coming In.
shown by students at our agricultural
No, Mr. Farmer, advertising wasn’t
collfigps. the fairs and poultry shows invented for the exclusive use of the
unduly encourogfog the fancy, being town merchant to boom busiuess any
"dedicated to fanciers, who appreciated more thab you were horn to stand In
the beautiful in standard bred fow ls— i curbstone market and freeze off your
file people whose Ideas are not based up nose and toes wnltlug for customers to
on pouthte Of flesh and dozens o f eggs.”
meander along to buy your butter and
But the people wtfo raise these eggs at any old price.
pounds o f meat and delicious eggs for
The prosperous merchant smiles
when some fellow with cobwebs on
his cerebellum asks, “ Does advertis
ing pay?” W ith him It's the slue qua
uou.
Men who fail In business are often
blamed for lack o f business capacity
when it is simply lack o f advertising
sagacity.
The farmer who advertises in n good
medium niul backs his ad. with a
square deal has n cinch.
People do not buy calico, shoes,
stoves and paint every day, but every
day they must have eats.
The farm er'feeds the nation.
The people depend on him for bread,
and there are always empty stomachs
and empty pantry shelves for him to
an.
With such continuous demand for
his product why should the farmer
travel in that snine old rut to market
or trade his products at the cross
Photo by C. M. Barnltz. « ’
roads store or get gold bricked by the
E X H IB IT O P DRESSED PO U LTRY,
the feeding o f the nation are the vast city middleman when on advertise
majority, who, while they love beauty, ment will bring him into quick com
will not sacrifice Juicy flesh nnd line munication with his customer, build up
eggs for fancy feathers, five point i bon ton private trade, give him high
er prices and save him so much time,
combs nnd long rooster tails.
This great majority, on which the wear and tear?
The modern newspaper Is a business
poultry industry depends, has had lit
tie opportunity hitherto to exhibit its miracle worker, and it not only works
practical products in competition, and wonders for the town merchant, but
the utility side has received scant rec for the farm er as well.
ognition.
H ow ever, there is a change. The
FEATHERS AND
EG G SH ELLS.
American Poultry association, after
A two-year-old W hite Hock-* hen In
years o f urging. Is now issuing a utili the Missouri egg contest laid eighty-
ty standard. Its standard o f perfection two eggs in eighty-two consecutive
for the promotion o f the fancy having lays ond up to date o f report with her
been Issued, with frequent revisions, 170 eggs was ahead o f the whole bunch
since 1874.
which contained many pullets. It has
The shows nnd fairs are beginning been demonstrated that hens vary In
to renlize that feathers aren't the the time o f tlielr top notch perform-
whole chicken, nnd n number are now mce, some doing the trick In their pul-
offering premiums for utility exhibits, et year and others waiting to that pe
the great Allentown fair, Pennsylva riod when Dr. Osier would give it to
nia, perhaps the largest fall show in
very body in the neck.
America, taking the lend tills year,
One thing the egg laying contests
with an exhibit o f over 1,000 fnney
eggs and an egg laying competition. lemonstrnte—viz. that members o f the
In which only fnrm stock, mixed or nine breed differ In laying capacity.
I t one place a breed leads, and nt an-
pure, was allowed to compete.
The high cost o f living Is making peo ithor comi otltlon the same breed is
pie more practical nnd soon utility ex the tallender. Thus It does not depend
in the breed name, but the strain of
hlblts will crowd out fancy feathers.
Such exhibits are educative. They that breed, for a good record.
Professor Llpplncott o f the Kansas
set n standard. They mean more nnd
xperlment station has been conduci
ng egg candling schools throughout
the state fo r the Instruction o f all per
sons dealing in eggs. By the old plan
the wholesaler only candled eggs and
the customer eventually paid for the
rots. All the states should give this
Instruction.
Some hotels refuse to buy ducks un
less guaranteed not to have been fed
on fish. Ilo w different from the day
when the puddle duck was in vogue!
It lived on mullets, tndpoles, frogs and
water skippers and was considered an
epicurean j erfecto.
There is n marked difference In the
appearance nnd flavor o f eggs preserv
ed with lime nnd water glass. The wa
ter glass eggs are almost like new, nnd
then it is so much easier and more
pleasant for the operator than the old.
disagreeable, dauby lime method.
The old turns nnd pullets should be
l>enned separately. The pullets should
Photo by C. M. Barnltx.
be fed liberally, ns they have not at
B LU E RIBBOH W T AE PO TTE 1008.
tained full growth, but n lavish ra
better poultry products. They Inspire tion for old hens means overfat, few
competitors to finer e ffo rt
W e hope eggs nnd disease.
to see more o f them at the county fairs,
Five thousand dollars was voted at
whose chief aim should he to encour the American Poultry association meet
age production o f the useful
ing nt Nashville for the publication of
The Alleutown fair charged no en a "U tility Standard.” I f this book Is
try fee for eggs, offered lltieml pre prepnred by practical poultrymen and
miums and Judged the eggs according sold nt a reasonable price it will hare
to the follow ing excellent plan;
an immense sale.
Farm eggs hnd their own comped
The Jewish holiday trade makes a
Mon and each breed of thoroughbred
lB t o " t li" d w k population"'hut
poultry had Its own egg competition ,ome {n rn w n w , „ hol(1 on t0 duoU,
Then sueepstnke prizes went to the w Ith the false Idea that there is more
best dozen o f brown shelled and the
thcm at Thank9R,v,ng. They thui
best dozen o f white shelled eggs. The must expend tw o months' more labor
scale o f points was: Quality, 30; fresh nnd feed, often must sell for less and
ness, 20; size, 20; color, 20; shape, 10; do not get the duck yards Into rye to
total, ioa
renew them for the next season.
Quality includes color nnd condlUon
Ilen ry HI hnrdson, a negro o f Rome,
o f yolk, denseness nnd firm ness of
(la., confes- od to stealing 1.000 chick
albumen and thickness and cleanness
ens in three mouths nnd making over
o f shell.
$100 per month through their sale
F ifty chickens was often a night's
DONTS.
Don't use heavy planks for roosts, haul.
but use a slat that fits the bens’ fe e t
Don't expect hens not to root up
clover if the sod is full o f grubworms.
GOOD
FOR SALE
R O A D T IP S .
For This Snap on Chestnut avenue
see the Leader for price and
terms. Four-room cottage, pan
try and closets, practically new,
sewer connections all in, cement
sidewalks, fruit trees all bear
ing, plenty of shade.
da-p
A fter roads are laid out bills
will have to be excused, but If
the roadway remains tilled with
cobblestones It shows rather bad
taste for the community.
In selecting road overseers it
is well to forget “ pets" and |ioll-
tlcs nnd Instead select a mau
who cun do the work.
A width o f eighteen or twenty
feet for a local road grade and
not too high in the center will
cost less In grading, make less
work In drugging, and it does
not leave so much space for
weeds us a wider grade.
A tenm drawing a heavy load
generally has enough to do iu
moving along with Us burden, to
say nothing o f the torture that
the end o f a wagon tongue makes
In striking their sides and Jerk
ing their collars because o f rocks
in the roadway.
Horse, harness and buggy.
A
nifty outfit. Only $200. See
M. P. Garroutte. .
Cows F'or Sale.— Four good Jersey
milk cows. W ill lie fresh this
fall. A re giving milk now. T w o
for $50 each; two for $60 each.
Inquire at Leader office.
Kale Plants For Sale.— Giant vari
ety. 60 cents per 100. I.ea\e
orders at DesLarzes grocery.
Typewriter
Bargain. — A
fine,
practically new, L. C. Smith,
visible, two-color
typewriter,
with back spacer, tabulator and
modern
improvements,
only
$57.50 cash, or $60 on easy pay
ments. See it, at Leader office.
A HORSE’S PULLING POWER
DETERMINED BY GRADES
Dean
R a y m o n d of Iow a U n iv e rsity
B r in g s U p N e w Queetion.
A totally now element has been
brought luto the good roads question
by Dean William G. Raymond, head
o f the college o f engineering o f the
(State university o f Iowa, In an address
before the Johnson county good roads
convention.
Although Dean Raymond is working
for permanent roods, be wants the
state to go In with Us eyes open a ad
consider all the problems. This one
relates to grades.
“ With dirt roads." said Dean Ray
mond. "the pulling power o f a tenm o f
horses Is limited more by the condi
tion o f the surface o f the road than by
the steepness o f the grades. But with
concrete, brick or mneudura roads the
pulling |(ower of a horse on the level
Is Immensely Ip'Teased, and it is the
grade« which determine the size o f a
load that cun be pulled Consequently
In order to get the benefit o f perma
nent roads It will be necessary to cut
down the grades.
“ The practical effect Is about as fol
lows,” says the dean:
"A tenm o f horses can exert steadily
on a dirt road a pull o f 250 pounds,
which Is enough to pull a load o f two
nnd one-hulf tons on the level, and the
team can pull the same load over short
bills o f a rise o f from five to eight
feet in the hundred by extra exertion.
“ But on a coucrete road the team
o f horses can pull a load three o r four
tiroes as gront on the level. When It
comes to n hill, however, the team can-
not pull this added load over the same
grade that It could travel over with
the lighter load on dirt roads.’’
Deuu Raymond figures that the max
imum load for level concrete roads can
only be pulled over a 2 per cent grade
-th at Is. over a hill that rises tw o feet
In the hundred.
In his address he went into the cost
of permanent roads, urging short time
bonds, nnd said he considered perma
nent roads more o f an investment than
an expense. The $5.000 or $10,000 a
mile Invested In n permanent road Is
not loss, be said. The money is spent,
but the community has the road, and
before the road Is worn out It has Its
value in use and In Increased value of
property.—Iown Homestead.
H orses.
The life o f the average horse in
liondnge is twenty-five years, whereas
[he wild horse's age is about thirty-
eight years.
A ra b s and Earthquake«.
The Arabs o f Morocco believe that
the earth Is balanced on the horus of
|i bull, which Itself rests on a fish on
the surface of the sea, the sea being
borne up by the divine power. When
Uie hull is tired he changes the earth
from one horn to the other, with the
result thut there Is an earthquake.
T h « F in e st H arbor.
Tort Jackson, nt Sydney, New South
Wales, with a water frontage o f over
200 miles, i s the tiD e s t harbor in th»
world.
IT’S A BIRD
A Nice Little House and 4 acres,
sandy loam, small orchard, just
ontside the city limits. Cheap.
Call at Leader.
fbp
A Good Trade.— A good close in
corner lot 62 1-2x200 feet in
Merrill, Klamath county, in al
falfa
belt,
good two-story
house,
7 rooms, improved
premises. W ill exchange for
town or country property at
Cottage
Grove.
Apply
to
Leader. See photo.
Little Farm Home.— 12 acres,
3 1-2 acres good bearing or
chard, nearly 5 acres in clover,
oats and vetch, fine straw ber
ry patch, all sandy bottom
land, running water, house,
barn, large poultry house. 2 1-4
miles from Cottage Grove, $3,-
000 with horse, wagon and two
sets of harness, two thorough
bred Jersey cows, 1 Jersey
heifer, 1 Jersey calf,
144
Brown Leghorn
hens,
365
young
chickens,
telephone,
spray pump, 1 cider press,
vinegar
barrels,
cultivator.
Terms $2,000. Balance 5 years
at 6 per cent. Inquire at this
office.
For Sale— Two dressers, Little
Princess, other an oak. Very
cheap. No. 333 Madison Ave.
Good pasture to rent.
of H. C. Veatch.
Inquire
A Bargain.
Nine room residence, modern-
ly equipped, corner lot, 60x114
feet, good private water system,
bearing fruit trees, grapes, ber
ries and shubbery. In west Cot
tage Grove, close in, only $1,300.
O. H. W i l l a r d .
Eggs for Hatching.
Buff Leghorn, 50 cents for 15,
$3.25 per hundred. Also Indian
Runner duck eggs from select
stock, fawn and white strain,
50 cents for 13. Orders taken
for day-old chicks and ducks.
C. F. H a n d y .
Leave your dray and transfer
orders with Goff, the shoe doc
tor, or ’phone 72.
Administrator’s Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been duly ap
pointed by the County Court of
Lane County, State of Oregon,
administrator of the estate of M.
A. DeWald, deceased.
All
persons having
claims
against said estate are hereby
notified to present the same to
me at my office in CottageGrove,
Oregon, duly verified, on or be
fore six months after the date
of this notice.
Dated this 23th day of May,
1913.
O l iv e r 0. V e a t c h ,
Administrator o f the estate o f
M. A. DeWald, deceased.
J. E. Y o u n g ,
Attorney for Estate.
Administrator’s Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been duly ap
pointed by the County Court of
Lane County, State of Oregon,
administrator of the estate of
W . V. DeWald, deceased.
All persons
having
claims
against said estate are hereby
notified to present the same to
me at my office in CottageGrove.
Oregon, duly verified, on or be
fore six months after the date of
this notice.
Dated this 23th day o f May
That’s what the hast ad
vertiser» lay of this pap«r.
W H Y N O T M A K E IT SING A
SONG OP SIXPENCE OR
M O R E FO R T O U f
J.
A / v ff a lu , U c L c d S c U .
E. Y o u n g ,
Attorney for Estate.