OREGON STATE NEWS
WAR ROMANCE CULMINATES IN BRITISH HOSPITAL
W h ile W a lk in g Streets of B rooklyr
M an Detects O dor of B urning Po
tatoes— Cook Reading Novel.
How Dairymen Succeed.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
va llis— Successful dairymen are those
who produce the largest amount o f
milk and butter^at the lowest cost pos
sible. Large and cheap production de
pends on the_use of cows that have in
herited the function of producing large
amounts o f milk, and supplying them
with economical nutrients. Inherited
productivity isjietermined by test ap
plied to ancestors and to the individual
cow, and economical feeding calls for
food in such forms and amounts as
w ill enable the cow to exercise her in
herited ability to its full extent with
out drawing upon her own body for
milk material.
From the foregoing, taken from
Professor Graves’ bulletin on feeding
the dairy cow, it is seen that profitable
d a iry in g 's rapidly being reduced to an
exact science, and that it will be
profitable just to the degree that it
conducted on scientific lines. System
in breeding and feeding, and the right
system at that, is requisite to steady
consistent success. Hap-hazard meth
ods o f selecting the dairy cows and
maintaining the dairy herd may occa
sionally
win when conditions art
favorable, fbu t” assured success only
awaits those who enter systematically
upon the work of securing real dairy
cows for the dairy and then feeding
them in such a way that their bodies
w ill be maintained and their milk flow
kept at the maximum for the amount
o f feed consumed with the least waste
and at the least cost.
O f course, the handling and market
ing of the milk and dairy products are
parts of this system, but that is an
other story. Those who are interested
in proper methods of feeding may get
a copy o f the bulletin, “ Feeding the
Dairy Cow,” prepared by Professor
Graves and issued„by the college ex
tension division,{Corvallis, Oregon.
He was walking along one of tht
residential streets of Brooklyn tht
other day when he suddenly stopped
and sniffed the air in all directions
His nose had found a familiar odor,
and pretty soon he traced it to a cer
tain chimney and ascended the stepi
of a house and rang the bell.
"Excuse me, ma'am,” he said to the
woman who came to the door, “ bul
do you keep a cook?”
“ Yes, sir," she replied as the looked
at him In a puzzled way.
“ Is she In at the present time?”
‘‘Yes, sir, but she doesn't want to
see no agents just now.”
‘‘Oh, I ’m no agent, ma'am. You Jusi
tell the cook that the water has all
boiled out of the potatoes and thal
the said potatoes are burning. Smell
’em very plainly In the street. Hap
pens every day at my house. Cook it
probably reading a novel or got a cold
In the head. That’s all, ma’am—nc
trouble at all—good evening!”
A war romance, which is the talk of Winnipeg, Canada, where the principals of the story reside, has just
culminated in the marriage at an English hospital of Miss Stonehouse to her soldier sweetheart, who was brought
back from the front incapacitated by wounds received in heroic action on the fighting lines. The bridegroom left
Canada with one of the first of the Canadian contingents. His name listed among the wounded impelled Miss
Stonehouse to leave her home in Winnipeg to make the long Journey of 4,000 miles to comfort her wounded soldier
sweetheart The photograph shows the happy pair, groom with head bandaged, bride at his left. The groom is
being congratulated by his bunkie, who had been wheeled out to the grounds of the hospital in order to bo present
at the wedding.
GUARDIAN OF THE CAPITOL
VIRGINIA DAY AT THE EXPOSITION
$600,000 Plant to Rise.
Medford — Two industrial projects,
-vital to the future economic and agri
cultural prosperity o f the Rogue River
valley, are assured: The beet sugar
factory promoted by the Western
Sugar company, backed by Mormon
capitalists, and the Portland Beaver
Cement plant at Gold Hill.
Both projects represent an outlay of
more than $1,000,000.
A $600,000
factory w ill be built in the Rogue
R iver valley in time to handle the 1916
crop.
The Portland Beaver Cement plant
at Gold Hill has issued a call for its
superintendents, foremen and employes
to report for work at once. The plant,
which has been in course o f construe-
tion for the last 18 months, is now 85
per cent completed and practically all
o f the machinery has been received
and installed.
The analysis of rock
near Gold H ill shows one of the finest
deposits of cement material in the
West.
Tests made by the beet sugar expert
o f seed planted in the valley this year
shows a high degree of saccharine and
size and productiveness. On some land
sowed to beets the crop is estimated at
from 20 to 24 tons to the acre. The
beets have not yet reached the height
o f their development.
In the best sugar beet districts of
the Rocky Mountain states, the aver
age tonnage is from 15 to 20 tons an
acre.
The bottom land is highly
adapted for the growth of beets. Mr.
Bramwell w ill arrive in Medford soon
and with the sugar interest expert A.
Storey will pass a month inspecting
conditions here.
Too Few Sign Petitions.
Elliott Woods is the superintendent
of the United States capitol and
grounds in Washington, and has en
tire charge of the policing of the build
ing.
Virginia uay at the Panama Pacific exposition at San Francisco was
a great success. Our illustration shows the color bearers of the Rich
mond Light Infantry Blues on parade, and, at the right. Governor Stuart
delivering his address.
NEW U. S. TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
Device fo r F astenin g Doors.
Placing a wedge under a door Is
one of the most effectual means for
keeping it closed, for pushing upon
the door from the outside only In
creases the effect of the wedge. A
convenient device of this kind is
made of metal, and it not only serves
to wedge the door but also contains
a mechanical bell mounted on the
same base and behind the wedge in
such way that pressure on the face
of the wedge by the door causes the
bell to ring. The base carries a set
01 short points underneath so that it
can be put in place and grips upon
the carpet or floo-ing so as not 'o
slide out of position.
Such a de
vice can be carried in the pocket and
it is to be recommended for travel
ing.
Marshfield— The movement for bond
ing Coos county for $370,000 to con
struct “ permanent” roads met a rebuff
when the petitions were circulated for
two days and, instead of the required
1000, less than 500 signed them. The
campaign was opened as a plank road
proposal, but the plan was criticised.
The petitions were drawn by District
Attorney Liljeqviet, and the promoters
stated the word "permanent” would
A P ra y e r
be construed as hard surface when the
Let me have a good sense of propor
court would finally pass upon the term.
It is planned to obtain another 500 tion. Let me live more in today, in
names and ask the County court to stead o ' living so greatly in the past
and counting so largely npon the fu
grant a special election.
ture. Teach me to realize that regrets
over the past will get me nothing
Sew er Plant Approved.
Forest Grove— Plans, specifications while too great preparations for the
future many find me in my grave and
and estimates for the construction of
unable to cash in on the climax. Teach
sanitary sewers in the city have been me to realize that the man who spends
completed by Consutling Engineer R. all his earnings is simply and solely an
E. Koon, of Portland, and A. A. Kirk asset to his relatives. Enable me to
wood, city engineer, and approved by get into the cheerful frame of mind
the city council and state board of where today always looks fair and
health. The final date fo r remon bright, where all the disagreeable
strance has been set as August 24. The things in the past are forgotten and
work will consist of about 14 miles of where the future does not assume a
pipe sewers and a disposal plant. The vastly overrated importance ’ In the
estimated cost is $90,600.
The en present.
tire plant w ill be constructed in one
district.
F oreig n e rs In C hinese Service.
Woman’ Runj for Office.
Roseburg— Mrs. F. E. Alley, w ife
o f a former Roseburg land attorney
and prominent horseman, has an
nounced her candidacy for the office of
city treasurer. Miss Agnes Pitchford,
incumbent of the office has declined to
accept another term.
A fter August 1
she will pass her entire time looking
after other interest in this section.
DIED LUE HEROES
SPOTTING A FAMILIAR SMELL
Many foreigners are engaged by the
Chinese government in its various _ j -
partments, either in the customs, rail
ways, post offices, or other branches.
According to the lat it Information
the total is 3,948 persons, whose na
tionalities are as follows:
British.
1,105; French. 1,003; Germans. 533;
Russian, 463; American, 174; Japa
nese. 207; Italian. 75; Austrian, 50;
Belgian, 171; others, 158.
Launching of the newest American torpedo-boat deatroyer, the Conyng-
bam. at the Cramps shipyards, Philadelphia, and little Miss Anna Conyngbam
Stevens, who was sponsor for the vessel.
W hen T o m m y " P u t O u t to Sea.”
Describing the death of a British
Tommy who had been riddled with
shrapnel, an army surgeon in London
on leave said:
"As we laid the poor fellow tenderly
on the hospital cot, suddenly he be
gan to sing Tennyson's ‘Crossing the
Bar,' to Sir Joseph Barnby's beautiful
setting. His voice was one of the
sweetest tenors I ever heard. Doctors,
nurses and orderlies gathered at his
bedside ilstenin
in silence, deeply
moved, while he sang the song through
to the end, his strength waning with
each verse. It was almost in a whis
per that he finished the line, 'And
may there be no moaning at the bar
when I put out to sea.’ A moment later
he waa dead."
G reatest
L iv in g
Poet.
Two Companies Hold Position
Five Days Without Relief.
O n ly H a n d fu l o f W re c k s L e ft of As.
•s u itin g P a rty W ith M ission to
C a p tu re C hapel— T h e y Cap
tu re d It.
How two companies o f French In
fantry took a chapel defended by Ger
man trenches and held their narrow
strip of captured ground for five days
under a continual fire f.om German
artillery Is related in a letter pub
lished In the Figaro of recent date.
The letter was written by the officer
commanding the party, who was one
of the handful who remainod when
they were at last relieved. The ap
palling gruesomeness of modern war
fare is told in thrilling phrases in this
recital of a heroic act. Parts of the
story have been elided by the French
censor, but enough is left to give a
graphic description. It is as follows:
A n E x tre m is t.
“ There was much agitation upon the
Marcella— Mrs. Umson doesn’t be
plateau. The order had been given to
iieve in slang.
Waverly—That’s all right, but sh< my majer to take the chapel at all
costs. My company had the honor of
Is entirely too circumspect.
being designated as the attacking
“ Do you think so?”
“ Indeed I do. A show called ‘HI company, and I am sent to reconnol-
Jinks’ came to town the other day and ter the point of departure.
"The chasseurs who man the
she Insisted on calling It ‘Hiram Jen
trenches from which we are to leave
kins.' ’*
look at us with interest, because we
are going to give the final blow, and
T h e T ro ub le.
“What’s the matter?” asked the can because everyone is sure that the
nibal chief as his prime miniate! chapel has been mined and that the
choked on his mouthful of roast min storming company will be blown up
with it.
slonary,
“ I give my last orders, then the
“ Oh. nothing much," replied the
minister,
as soon as he got hii whistle signal and we start off on the
breath; “ only another good man gon* run. For two hundred yards, a great
distance In an attack of this kind,
the wrong way.”
we run through shell holes at points
deep as a man's height. W e take
U n co n tro lla b le C u rio s ity .
” 1 don’t see why Mrs. Jorwag hai three trenches that are not heavily
so many friends. She gossips terrl defended. But by the time we arrive
at the chapel half the company is
bly.”
"Yes,”
replied
Miss
Cayenne. down behind us, for we made the trip
“Everybody seems willing to take a in the cross fire of three machine
chance on being talked about for th« guns.
“ My sub-Heutenant, a cashier of the
sake of hearing what she says about
Bank of France in times of peace, but
the others.”
a lion on the battlefield, at the head of
ten men, jumps Into the little trench
H e Got the N e w S u it.
“ When I was a boy of your age 1 that surrounds the chapel and drives
used to have to wear my father’s out the German sections. We have
taken the chapel, but it has been a
trousers cut down to fit me.”
“ I know, pa, and If you were th« hard task; then my lieutenant signals
boy that I think you were I ’ll bet you to Captain X's company. Without an
vowed many a time that If you evet Instant's hesitation he leads his com
had a son he'd never be made to weai pany behind mine, through the cap
tured trenches. H e joins me and is
such clothes.”
killed Just as he shakes my hand. I
take command of his company as well
S tudying E ffr .ts .
“ Shall I put a little tonic on youi as mine, and throughout the night a
savage struggle takes place.
hair?” inquired the barber.
The positions we occupy are In the
“ No.”
form of a spoon, the captured trenches
“ It’s getting quite thin.”
“ Let it alone. A bald head Is the form the handle and the chapel the
only thing that will give me any claim large end. Through the trenches am
munition and food are sent to us, as
to an intellectual appearance.”
we are being attacked on three sides.
The next day, seeing that they,
T h a t ’s So.
“ The country is simply being could not drive us out by assaults and
ruined by this idea of rushing every not having been able to blow us up,
for the precaution had been taken to
thing.”
“ Yet where would this country cut all electric wires which the shell
have been if they had arrested Paul explosions revealed, the Germans be
Revere for exceeding the Bpeed gan bombarding. All their artillery
in that neighborhood was concentrated
limit?”
upon the small space we held, and I
humbly pray to God that I may never
A L ittle M ixed.
Inquirer—Don’t you find it danger again fin'd myself in the midst of such
ous work knocking about in a sub a hell.
"Huge shells burst among the liv
marine deep beneath the sea?
Engineer— Yes, but a man must do ing and the dead uninterruptedly; we
something, you know, to keep his head breathed only a thick and nauseous
vapor. Everything was burning, every
above water.
thing was whistling ail about us. The,
reinforcements that were sent in to
HA D TO.
me melted away and I was obliged
to send again and again for more men
to add to the handful of heroes whom
I have the honor to command.
“ W e could no longer get supplies,
and for more than twenty-four hours
we had to go without food or drink.
What a sight!
When, both day
and night, hands and feet slip cease
lessly upon unnamable things which
once were human bodies; when of
these things one has before one the
thickness of four men, one realizes
how small one really Is In the scheme
of things, and It restores religious
ideas to the most skeptical. For five
days that continued, and for five days
my colonel, who waa watching the
bombardment of the chapel, kept say
ing to his staff officers: ‘How can
you expect a company to hold out in
The Old Man—Did you ever work I p that hell? It Is not possible!’
But hold we did! We held until
your life?
the moment when a huge twenty-one
The Beggar—Once.
centimeter shell struck three yards
The Old Man—When was that?
away from me, tearing everything
The Beggar—When I was in jail.
about me to a horrible mess and bury
ing me with five other soldiers. Wo
Jud icial Proceeding.
“A friend of mine who is a magis dragged ourselves out, and finding that
trate found bis practice came in handy no one of us was wounded we took
when be found a valuable book with off our kepis and on our knees *4re
thanked the Blessed Virgin for having
a leaf loose.”
saved us.
“ What did he do?”
Shortly afterward we were relieved.
“ He had it bound over to keep the
And when I descended that slope to
piece.”
the plateau with the handful of men
left from what bad once been two
T h e Reaeon.
“What made Jaggs so blue the other full companiea we were all crying
from fatigue and shattered nerves.
day?”
Some of us, with eyes sunk Into
“ He went to hia private cupboard
the other day and found hia spirits our beads and contorted mouths, were
chattering our teeth, without being
were low.”
able to atop. With our clothing torn
and covered from head to foot with
H e r Opposite.
Nell—Do you believe people should blood and brains we were horrible ob
jects to see. But the chapel was
marry their epposites?
Belle— Yes; my fiance lives Just ours!”
across the street
Thero is no "great poet” living to
day. Between the few so-called poets
of today there is but little choice.
This Is not an age of poetry. The at
mosphere of the time would Instantly
Even.
choke a real poet to death. The
Lily—What a handsome coachman
chances are, however, that we will you’ve got!
have some real poets later 09 when
Daisy— Yes; but you ought to see.
this war is over, and the real soul ol
m y husband s manicure!—Judges
humanity begins to assert Itself.
Pest Office C u p id ’s F rien d .
Redding, Cal.— For the fifth time the
lumbering town of Lamolne has lost
Its postmistress by matrimony. It Is a
position that has always been filled by
a woman.