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About Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1903)
UNCLE SAM GOVERNS HIS CLOCKS BY OBSERVING ONE OF THE FIXED STARS. HE United States government does not make use o f the sun in reckoning time, but instead one o f the fixed star»" as they are called. Every clear night an astronomer with a big telescope looks at certain o f these stars and makes his calculations, from which he can tell just when the sun would cross the 75th meridian. One o f the great docks in the observatory is « ailed the transmitter, because It trans mits or sends out the signal that keeps standard time. This clock Is set and regulated by the star-time and then every day at 3 minutes and 15 seconds before 111 a switch is turned on and the beats o f .the pendulum o f tills clock are sent by electricity over the wires to the telegraph offices in Washington and New York. When the telegraph operators hear this sound on their instruments they know that the noon signal is about to tie sent out and they at once begin to connect the telegraph wires with other towns and cities until In a minute or two the “ tick, tick” o f the d o c k at Washington is heard in hundreds o f telegraph offices. The beats stop at 10 seconds liefore 12 as a notice that the next tick will be the noon signal, and so as to give the opera tors time to connect their docks. There are time balls in a great many cities — usually on top of some prominent building, where they can easily lie seen. The one at Washington Is on the roof o f the State. W ar and Navy Depart ment Kulldlng. at the top o f a high pole, ready to drop the instant the signal conies over the wires. In the government offices at Washington and in many place* in other cities there are large clocks connected with the observatory by electricity. These are so arranged that when the 12 o’clock signal 1« flashed over the wires the hands o f each one o f these din k s spring to 12, no miUter what time the clock may show ; In this way hundreds o f clocks are set to the correct time each day. Well, the moment the sun is supposed to cross the 75th meridian the telegraph Instruments give a single tick, the time-balls drop, the clocks begin to strike and everybody In the district knows It is 12 o’clock. or "gloom ily dark” rather than "not clearly apparent." And If the wretch ed man should venture to declare his honest preference for the ordinary over the extraordinary form o f expression, he was forthwith dismissed with Irony, arrogance, or even Insnlt. and without a word o f apology / o r the rude inva sion o f his rest. One night, a little after 12 o'clock, as his majesty was on the point o f going to bed. like any plain citizen of regular habits, he fell to thinking how most accurately to render Into English the Siamese word "phi,” which admits o f a variety o f Interpretations—ghost, spirit, soul, devil, evil angel. A fter puzzling over It for more than an hour, and getting himself possessed with the word as with the devil It stands for. but to no purpose, he or dered one o f his lesser state barges to be manned and despatched with ail speed for the British Consul. That functionary, inspired with live ly alarm by so starting a summons, dressed himself with unceremonious celerity and hurried to the palace, conjecturing on the way all Imagina ble possibilities o f politics and diplom acy, revolution or invasion. To Ids vexation, not less than to his surprise, he found the king en dosha lillle engaged with a Siamese-English vocabulary, and mentally divided be tween "deuce” and “ devil” in the choice o f an equivalent. His preposterous majesty gravely laid the case liefore the consul, who. although inwardly chaHng at the situa tion. had no choice hnt to decide with grace, and go back to bed with phil osophy. 1 i A n Id ea l W o n 't I vegetable garden, good roads, breeds ofda lry cattle, bread making, how to I raise apples, rice culture, tomato grow- ! |Dg sugar as food. Insects affecting tobacco, cotton and grapea; diseases of ! potatoes and apples, how to detect 1 oleomargarine and renovated butter. | tree-planting on rural school grounds. I (he Angora goat, and scores o f other things. . . ... It would be difficult to estimate wlih any degree of accuracy the financial benefit which has accrued to the farm ers from the perusal of these bulletins. Such men as believe they must be con-1 tlnually studying to keep abreast of the times and to understand the possi bilities of their business have been the moat diligent readers of the publica tions of the Department o f Agricul ture. It I» the lament which these men have derived that Justifies the contin ued expenditure o f money by the gov ernment for free education of this kind, an education almost as neoessary to national prosperity as that provided for the children In the public schools. Wi Fold in* S k e l e t o n S t a i r s . It Is often desirable to have the stairs in the wagon bouse or barn so arranged that.they may be removed quickly. As this is not often practicable, the next best plan Is to have them so constructed as to fold np out of the way. A good method of doing It Is shown by the sketch, in which a shows one side of the stairs, the dotted lines representing the various steps. The steps should not be less than three feet In length and eight Inches wide. The upper end of the lower portion of each side Is hinged G ra in Food*, G o o d a n d Bad. to the side of the building at f. while Among the hundreds of feeds inge the lower end is hooked to the floor st A rope. b. Is sttached to the stairs. niously combined from the ground grains, or coutaining portions of these grains left as byproducts lit. the mau’ ufacture of malt and spirituous lhl* uors. of starch, sugar and glucose, of breakfast foods or of vegetable oils, the feeder finds a wide raugc of puz zling compounds. Led only by bis eye, touch or taste (helpful as these are to the purchaser who is guided by good understanding of principles) be would flud It exceedingly difficult to make a sure selection of the feeds best suited to his needs. Oat hulls, corn cobs, coffee hulls, cottonseed hulls and other materials are very skillfully used as adulterants, so that In some feeds TLA.X o r T O L D IX O ST A IR C A SE . now for sale the percentage of fiber is passes over two pulleys, and is there so great that nearly all the energy rep fastened to a weight, c, which is Just resented in the food must be used to heavy enough to raise the free end of masticate the material aud pass tt the stairs up to the ceiling. When the through the animal's body. Of corn lower end o f the steps U released the and oat fends on the market at least whole folds up closely against lts'‘ ui>- ten brands examined by the New York per floor and is entirely out of the station contained from ten to nearly way. Tw o or three feet of the rope are sixteen per cent of fiber; while a mix allowed to dangle as seen at d, by ture of equal parts of coni and oars which the whole appurtus is again should contain less than six per cent. pulled down into position. The weight, Good oats normally contain less than c, should slide up and down close to ten per cent of fiber, while several oat the side o f the building, so as to be en feeds examined contained from twen tirely out o f the way.— D. E. Smith, in ty-two to twenty-nine per cent and Farm aud Home. sold for from $20 to $30 or more a ton. Prices of feeds of equal value also H om e-M a d e C a rria ge Jack. vary remarkably In markets lying side While the heavy jacks used on wag by side. One dealer in New York sells ons answer very well for the carriage a certain brand for $30 a ton. another aa well, a lighter Jack, such as la shown dealer In the same city asks $40. Good In the Illustration. Is easier to baDdle. bulletins for those who feel the need It will take but a little time to make a of studying the subject are Nos. 217 Jack o f this kind by any one who la at all handy with tools. The standard is of the station at Geneva, N. Y., and 85 made o f Inch-and-a-quarter stuff, three of the station at Amherst. Mass. Some Inches wide aud tapered to two Inches: of the new feeds are desirable, and some are decided frauds. Fortunately the States are investigating so closely and testing so many samples that It Is possible to size up the various products at pretty nearly their true feeding val ue.—American Cultivator. Poor human nature la at least as ro bust in the slums as It Is among the lirownstoue fronts, Good and evil go together in the tenements, says Jacob Itils in "The Battle With the Slutns;” and oftentimes the evil is prominent merely because It is nearer the sur face. Here, as elsewhere, the good outweighs the had. Tw o or three sim ple stories which Mr. Itiis tells are suf ficient to make one accept his optim ism. I remember, he says, a tenement at the bottom o f a hack alley, where I once went visiting with the pastor of a mission chapel. Up In the attic there was a family o f father and daughter In two rooms that had been made out o f one by dividing off the deep dormer- window. It was midwinter, but they had no Are. He was a peddler, but the snow hail stalled ills push-cart, and robbed them o f their only other aource of Income, a lodger who hired cot room In the attic for a few cents a night. The daughter was not able to work. But she said chceerfully that they were "getting along." When it came ont that she had not tasted solid food for several days, was starving, in fact (indeed, she died with in a year of the slow starvation o f the tentments that parades on the mor tality returns under a variety o f scl- cn flc names which nil mean the same thing), she met her pastor's gentle chid ing with the excuse, “ Oh, your church POPULAR IN HAVANA. has many that are poorer than l. I don't want to take your money.” W i f e o f A m e r i c a n M i n i s t e r L e a d s in I found I hat in their time o f dire I lo a p it n llt y at C u ban C a pital. distress they hail taken in a poor old Mrs. Herbert G. Squlers. who Is the man who was past working, and kept w ife o f the United States minister to him all winter, sharing with him what Cuba, has attained an enviable social they had. He was none o f theirs; position at the capi GOOD C A R R IA G E J A C K . they hardly even knew him. as it ap tal of the island re- peareil. It was enough that lie was p u b l i c . Minister It Is thirty Inches long. The lifter Is poorer than they, and lonely and hun Squiers is the most slso one ami s quarter Inches thick, gry anil cold. influential member five feet and six Inches long and four It was ou the Hast Side that the chil o f the diplomatic inches wide. Twenty Inches from the dren o f Mr. Rising's Sunday school corps at Havana bottom cat s notch and seven Inches gave, out of the depth o f their pov and visiting Ameri above another notch: six Inches farther erty. $54 In pennies to lie hung on the c a n s h a v e been up bore s hole for a three-elghths-inch Christmas tree as their offering to the charmed liy t h e bolt and holt the piece on to th~ stand persecuted Armenians. One o f their hospitality o f the ard. so it will swing freely. To use the teachers told uie of a Bohemian fam United States em- appliance, place the notched bar under ily lliat let the holiday dinner she ■ bassy. Mr„ g<|alcn „ „ the axle o f the carriage, lifting the brought them stand and wait, while Mas. H. a. sqriEBS wheel clear from the ground, and the they sent out to I'M to the fea»t four New York woman. She was in 1’ ekiu standard will awing Into place and hold little ragamuffins of the neignhot rood during the terrible Boxer uprising, her securely. Easily made and light, such who would otherwise have gone hun husband at the time being secretary of a Jack should be owned by every man gry the United States legation. She herself who has a carriage to oil. And here it was in "the hard win took an active part In defending the ter," when no one had work, that the legation against the terrible onslaughts T h . Fnrclnv o f P o l . Beans. nurse from tlie Henry Street settle o f the Boxers. The forcing o f dw arf or bush beans ment found her cobbler patleut enter under glass baa been a favorite practice The Universal Apple. taining a lodger, although there was at certain seasons o f the year with moat The latest estimate places the total gardeners, but the use o f the pole or liarely bread enough in the house tor himself and Ills l»oy. He Introduced number o f apple trees o f bearing age running varieties la Just beginning to tile stranger with some embarrassment in the United States at something over receive attention. The pole bean, like and when they were alone excused 200,000,IHJO. This is nearly three trees encumbers, tomatoes trained to one him self for doing It. The man was to every person. These trees yield more stem, sweet corn, etc., must bare plen Just from prison s man with "a his than 175.000,000 bushels. Not sll these ty o f head room or apace above the apples are consumed at borne, for In I bench or bed In which to develop, and tory.” "But.” said ilie nurse, doubtfully. "Is years of full crop more than 3.000.000 doubtless this accounts for Its not hav It a good thing for your hoy to have bushels go abroad. Yet, the apples kept ing been considered heretofore. The at home are more than two bushels for modern iettnee and cucumber houses that man in the ho use 7” There was a passing glimpse o f un every adult and child. W e are a nation with the beds directly on the ground easiness In the cobbler’s glance, but o f apple eaters. This fact may not be are well adapted for this crop. The It w ent as quickly as It had come. He to our credit, however, when w e re soil should be well enriched, containing member that a good part o f all these an abundance o f available plant food, laid Ills hand on the nurse's. "This,“ he said, "ain't no winter to apples are Ben Pavla and other kinds preferably a sandy loam composted by let a fellow from Sing Sing lie on the that a retined and cultivated taste will mixing equal parta o f rich dark loam, not choose for Its dessert. Yet probably sand and manure. The heda may he street." half onr people never raise an apple; mads directly upon the ground, with and o f the half who do raise them hut the prepared soli averaging abont seven A lo v e r o f Vice Distinctions. The Siamese differ from oilier Ori a small percentage grows for market: Inches In depth.— Denver Field and entals In a kind o f youthful rurlonlly and o f those who grow for market, onlr Farm. which has made them reach ont for a part make a proflt from the business. For the Farmer. Knropean Ideas, whereas most Kastern Yet there Is money In apple-growing.__ BIX million two hundred thousand races have repelled the West or been Country Life In America. farmers' bulletins on 140 different sub Indifferent to It. A recent writer on A T ru e C a n v a s -B a c k . jects were printed for the Department Slam gives sn account o f the learning A good story ia told o f John Aatley, o f Agriculture during the past fiscal o f the King o f Slam who died In lSiiS. a fellow student with Sir Joshua Rey year. Aa there are about six million He was s trained Oriental linguist, nolds in l»n d on and in Rome. farmers, exclusive o f agricultural la snd corresponded In llueut Kngllsh W hile walking In the Campsgna borera. In the United States, this la with many Englishmen o f distinction. Reynolds and some other atndenta took one pamphlet for each one. If any From the book by Mrs. Leonowens, off their coats; hut for a long time farmer did not get hia copy. It was be English governess st the Siamese court, nothing would persuade young Aatley cause be did not apply foe It for they the writer quotes sn account o f his to take hia off. At last be was pre are nearly all turned over to the mem majesty's habits o f study. vailed on to do so. and the cause o f bera o f Congress for free distribution. Before my arrival In Bangkok It had hia unwillingness to comply with the There la hardly a subject In which been a not uncommon practice to aend wishes o f his friends was then reveal farmers are Interested that la not dis fo r a missionary at mldntght. have ed by an oil sketch o f a waterfall cussed In some one o f the various bul him beguiled or abducted from hia painted on the bark o f the artist'a letins Information la contained In tied, and conveyed by boat to the pal- walatcoat. them about the feeding o f farm ani lace. some miles np the river, to In mals. hog cholera, bow to kill weeds, quire If it would not be more elegant Judge a woman by her queaUnaa and the care and feeding o f chickens, but te write "m urky" instead o f "obscure.” a man by hia answers. ter making and the care o f milk, the Common elder vinegar Is said to he an antidote to carbolic acid poisoning. A flannel cloth wrung out of salt wa ter is an excellent remedy for simple sore throat. Suit and water Is one o f the best of remedies for sore eyes, aud if applied in time will scatter the Inflammation. An effective reined}' for a bone felon Is an ounce of asafetida steeped In a pint of hot vinegar, the Unger to he dipped in It frequently. For vitriol burns cover the parts burned with a soft, thick paste o f cal cined magnesia aud water. This re lieves the pain very quickly, and there Is seldom a scar left after this treat ment. In an emergency to make a compress for a wound. If nothing better is at hand, clran tissue paper makes an ex cellent application. It Is much to he preferred to a strip torn from clothing or a soiled handkerchief, which may he the only other choice. To assuage thirst and cure feverish ness apple tea is a notable sick drink. It Is made by slicing up raw apples into a Jug, tilling up the Jug with bailing water, as In teamaklng. then sweeten ing to taste. When cold, this apple tea will be found pleasautly tart aud re freshing. So says Airs. Josie 325 So. College S t, | Tenn., o f Lydia L Vegetable Compound. Never in the history of i__ _ the demand for one particular ri_ fo r female diseases equalled tkl tained b y L y d ia E . Plakbi V e g e t a b l e C o m p o u n d , iBd i during the lifetim e of this »out, medicine has the demand for so great » s it Is to-day. From the Atlantic to the 1 and throughout the length and h o f this great contiuent come t!yj tidings o f woman's suffering» r by it, and thousands upon the o f letters are pouring in from gn3 women saying that it will atdl tively does cure the worst feral female com plaints. M r s . P l n k h a m Invitee all, m e n w h o a r e puzzled t h e i r h e a l t h t o w r it e her at lJ M a ss., f o r a d v i c e . Such nr s p o n d e u c e is s e e n b y wowtia a u d n o c h a r g e Is m ade. HIS CLEVER NEPHEW. Y o u n g M a n W h o W a s Met l i p in Hua i- nesa T h re e T im e s . A certain member o f the Stock Ex Bitter Hatred. change has set his nephew up in busi Daughter— O h , ma, Reggie Mot ness three times, but the young man is down in the parlor, aud t knotJ lacks something essential to success in going to propose. the line selected for him, mid lias fail Mother— W ell, accept him, uri ed with each effort. Recently, wlieu I detest the fellow so much thst 1j he came with the fourth request for tend to be hia mother-in-la*.—Hang financial assistance, the uncle de Lampoon. murred: "You must learn to lean on yourself," H O W S T H IS ? he said. "I can't carry you all your life. It would be an uukhuluess In me to We offer One Hundred boiler. RmitR keep supplying you with money to car ease oi Caitarrh that can not bscuiedffk Catarrh i s re. ry ou enterprises that Invariably end , F. J. CHENEY A Co., Propa.Tula In assignments. I'll tell you what I'll : We the undersigned, have knownPJ Cfc the oast l:» years, and believe hirngt» do. You owe a great deal as the result, for bon.Table in ill business transacti-.u of that h i t failure. Pitch in on your sncialiy shle tu carry out any oblig! own hook and go It alone till you can I by their firm. W r it A T r c a x . Wholesale Druggists, ToM, pay off those debts. When you’ ve done W adding K i s s a s A Him that I’ll give you u check for all they | Whole»sis Druggists, tola Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken interssfliA amount to. Such an experience will tirectly on the blood and mueous bum do you more good than all the money I the system. Price TV per bottle. ¡MH arUKKists. Testimonials free. could give yon now." Hsll’a Family Pills are the bat. j Two months later the nephew walked In with every claim receipted In full, M o v a b le f e n c e s f o r C h eep. Charcoal Eph'a Dally Thouflit. It would pay grain farmers to have an 1 the unele was so delighted that he " i k n o w s er mao In 4a aai 1 b\ a movable fence, or. as they are called' gave the promised check. In England, hurdles, to inclose a flock | “ Now, that's something like It.” he said Charcoal Kph, touching np t of sheep where they have taken off! said, "and I'll wager you feel the better mule, "dat prance armin' an' me' oats, rye or wheat and do not want to ' for the hard training. How did you self mouty graceful, an’ yocysn’t ly tell «h a t fambiy he belong put in another crop at once to keep up manage It. Dick?” ontwell t o ’ heal) him bray. D»J the fertility of the soil, says American ! “ Borrowed the money." Cultivator. In England they are used! Now the old gi nth-man is telling them j lota ob diffunce 'tw ixt er jacking not only for this, hut they often break that there Is the making of a great fawn, Mietab Jackson.” — Btl such fields and sow them to the Eng-1 financier In that nephew.— New York News. llsh or flat turnip and then hurdle the i Times, sheep on them to eat the turnips after Mothers will fino Mrs. rVlnsto*1! they are fairly well grown. This doubly Ing Syrup the best remedy to use 1« Shrloreu during me teething period. enriches the Held, which is one reason why the fields in England have a heav ier turf than we often produce here, His Opinion. and why they carry more cattle and Mrs Dashing — How can yaf aheep to the acre than we average. sibly find fault with my own costume? It's certainly a rs" I t a n n s e n i- n t o f S te e p S lo p e s Dashing— Yen; and it’ a ibe Some very good land Is located on tion I object to.— Chicago News rather steep slopes, hut goes as pasture because the owner fears to break it up SLCCEEDINJ IN LIFE. and rnn the chance of serious Injury by washing. Such fields, when culti Wise Bros., of Portland. Say flood vated. should be covered with some thing all the time. Rye sown early in are Moat Important. fall will do much to hold the sol! dur- Never liefore has there been so Ing the season of heavy rain. The attention paid to personal apr land should be kept In sod much o f the ' as now. time to supply vegetable matter, which _ , The universal prosperity of the makes the soil like a sponge to take np ! SURWI L-"i ,-L I t'on at large seems to emphsli» and hold the water. Clover Is a grand | ¿Meal j importance of success, and tbs crop to follow a hoed crop and rye on ‘ o-J. If I auce of success. Pleasing drew, these steep fields. | maculate linen, being well j and above all showing a fins F a r m N o te a . f white teeth, are absolutely Sow part of the clover early and part j the man or woman who desired late. That Is, sow the same ground j j considered anybody, twice. This makes double work, but j Hotting aside the great qs also oftentimes Insures a double cro p .! “ Now. tell and sometimes a , ................ me' why ls that hyphen the convenience and utility of and aornet me. a crop against no crop, placed In cl,Icken-coop?” teeth, and the pain always to j i ym cent Of waithT'or ‘ T " “ 30 p*r T ' * “ *' ' lr' fer ,he «blcken to roost when they are neglected, it is bet* cent o f Its own weight of salt, and boil- on." far to take good rare of the tsetb Ing about 40 per cent. This makes what H awk aa a Burgeon. j ly as a wise policy in life helping ls known as a saturated brine, which A strange tale is told of a hawk at | >acce«d- What look worse th«); r i r ’wlH“absorb"11 I n 'r a U f f i X n e r The ' » C e n t « ? Park."New {“ » ' ^ r ty or misshapen teeth? ? brine I. seldom made stronger h . n » a T" '° blrd* ,lTeln ,hp aa™e cage. »">b?htly hole, or »4 per cent of salt. * 3 0 , * * £ "°,me * < * one of them £ *> oftewth _. . , , . I reloped a tumor in the le g T h e o t h e r Practlcal consideration of good I The cost of weeds to the farmers In a bird thereupon attacked the t u m o r m» n' beauty in woman, istb» community la enormous compared with with it. „ u —. . „ a tumor I ------- . modern .............................*- cause why dentists are : certain other expense,. Weeds mb tTe T i g It " nd "l" 'CWle" ln lnu' ing their practice a thousand foM- aoil and entail labor from spring until To meet the awakening of pOT1* fall. If the farmers in each community Tea In Dalmatia. this growing necessity of keeptot would unite and determinedly fight . L* ,t ,he Austrian government teeth in good order, dental surgery weeds for three years, not allowing a made ,he flrst tri»l* to cultivate tea taken great strides in advance, single one to grow If possible, they pUm* on the co* s> of Dalmatia in the better exam ple of the completely would find their expenses greatly re- j ‘« «r io ts around the »palate. ’ These p e l, bighest-grade dental ■ doced, owing to the cost o f production experiments having proven very satis be cited than that of the fa room Bros, in the Failing Building, o f weeds snd their destruction being re- ! f »e»ory. further trials are to 1«. moved. _ ln »*----------------* ■ year. land, Oregon. A visit to this the course o f -- this ment the next time you are in P Subsoiling Is a matter which has its A Fine Timepiece. will show you the truth of what to advocates, hot many scientific agricul “ ***• that I* »n eight-day clock." raid. Wise Brothers receive el turists oppose It. It Is Claimed that "B y George! It doesn't look if " and tell them what is necessary • although the subsoil plows break thè soil to a low depth, yet It destroys the run7£t ,h°"‘ 1h- KXery °leht «'a>-s « to their teeth, and the expense, you start the work. All dentw Channels which admit the flow o f air done by this firm isabaolntely and water below the surface. That Is. and the chargee are extremely as plant roots penetrate deep I v and die Cause o r White H .,> ate. It costa nothing to inveati#* they leave channels, which ara numer Gray hairs at an early age are hered matter for yonraelf, anyway. ous and which are Increased every year Yon can rest assured, at Breaking the soli. It Is claimed, deè t o ^ l.nh " ‘rU '!, f " nl" ” - ,l la thought to be he result of men with dark hair now-a-dava, that a woman, or * « m y s them and lenona the supply Q< marrying women with dark molature. v 1 hair who allows his, or her. teeth to J* through several generations •ill eyesore everyone meet, v to »V V V V 1 T O lio they suu; - - - -- - - - - - - » u have half a chance to succeed i® *** i i *