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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1924)
t ******************4****** been a letter In one of tfiese envelope# with the same handwriting every day from the one after he went sway." A D ebt of Dorothy tried to glower at her H onor + brother, but was not eminently suc cessful. It was not easy to blush and to glower at the same time. “ What I was going to say.” said Mr. Yates, “ Is that this young fellow By JANE OSBORN ♦ ♦ Tom Payson, Is Glover's nephew. He went out West and so did Ills folks, and seems like now old Glover has ufc. I » l * . by U c C lu r a N a w a p a p a t S y n d i c * « . ! died and Payson found out that he'd A depressing anil unaccustomed si left this debt. More'n likely the old lence hung over the supper table In fellow wanted to pay It, but didn't the Yates dining room. Occasionally have a chance. He never was over Mrs. Yates cast knowing looks ut her shrewd and the chances are he didn't husband, with side glances at her any more'n keep the wolf from the daughter, Dorothy, who was eating door. Might have been a dying re valiantly In: spite of her aching heart. quest of the old man’s. And so Pay- Iter brother, Samuel Yates, was si son comes on and pays the debt in the lent because the only thing he wanted only way he can, by working It oat, to talk about was the thing that his and he didn't tell us until It was all father had ordered him not to men- worked out. lie doesn't say It in Just tarn. Grandmother Yates, knowing that many words in his letter,” Mr. nothing about the situation, was won Yates continued, “ but I Judge that is dering whether she hud grown so deaf what happened. He says, though, that she couldn't hear what people that he still owes the Interest, but he'll said or whether the unusual silence get around to paying that In cash. was real. Now, that's what I call being pretty Finally Father Yates said, “ Ahem," honest. I shouldn't say,” added Mr. by way of beginning, and then after Yates, talking for his daughter's a pause and with his eyes on his wife benefit, but not looking at her, “ that to see that she approved he began: “ I Tom Payson amounted to a whole lot. suppose you have heard the news, Dor Probably won't ever be anything but othy. a hired man, and not a real smart one “ Y e s ” was all she answered. at that; but he earned his four dol "And you don't know where he has lars a day all right. A fellow that's gone?” only a hired man at his age— near “J do not," said Dorothy. “ I f he thirty, I should say— won’t probably wants to go, I supiwse he has a right.” ever be anything but a hired man.” At least, reilected Mr. Yates, Dorothy pouted. thankfully, there had been no tears. “ Maybe he's never had a chance," “ Have you any idea what made him she defended. leave T” After supper Dorothy went to her “ No, father." she said, and then bit father as he sat reading a magazine her lip and looked down to stitle the In the family living room. sob is her voice. “ I suppose you'd feel awfully dis “ Well, then, there Is something appointed if I was to marry a hired crooked about It. He would have told man,” she said. you. I guess, if there hadn't been." “ I ’d rather you didn't,” said Mr. Dorothy’s eyes, now raised daringly, were glowing with Indignation. “ How Yates. “ Still, Tom I ’ayson's a mighty can you say that?" she asked. “ You honest fellow, even If he Is a hired know Tom Payson didn't take any man.” “ But he Isn't, dad,” said Dorothy, thin; with him. I know what you've been doing all day. You’ve been ask and then from the passageway be ing down at the hank and all around tween the living room and the front to see If he forged a check or any door appeared Tom Payson, only a thing. and you and the men have been completely transformed Tom Payson. looking all over the place to see if Dorothy ushered him into the pres ence o f Mr. Yates and, after rather he went off with anything.” “That’s Just what we hnve been do- embarrassed greetings, went on, “ he's lng.” said the father. “ So far every a mining engineer, dud. and no more thing seems to be O. K. And the a hired man than I am.” They all talked for a while, but funny thing about It Is tiiat he went off without even getting a cent of eventually Mr. Yates put the question what’s due him for the work he has that puzzled him. “ I f you are an np and coming mining engineer, then why done.” “ Why, papa,” Interjected Mrs. didn't you pay that debt In cash In Yates, “Tom has worked here nearly stead o f giving up your time to It?” three months. Why in the world didn't he asked. “ Because,” said Tom, “ my uncle you pay him regularly, same as the told me about the difficulty between other hired men?” “ ’Pause he asked me not to when he you and him and said that though he came,” said Mr. Yates, with satlsfac- felt that he was probably to blame be tlen at not being to blame. “ He said wouldn't pay It and made me prom he’d rather have the money piling up, ise never to pay It, either. You see, or something of the sort. I suppose he had made quite a fortune, a mil he was afraid he’d spend It. I was lion or so, and left me as his only looking in the time book, and It ap heir. I couldn't take that money with pears lie’s worked a nilte over ninety- out paying his debts. I promised not I didn't propilse not eight days. His wages was four dol to pay money. lars a day— which would make It that to pay In work. But I didn’t say any I'll fig 1 owed him $392, to be perfectly ac thing about paying Interest. ure that out, Mr. Yates, and pay It curate.” “ Well." put In Grandma Yates, who at once, and then we’ll be square and was Just getting the drift o f events, I hope you’ll be willing to forget the “ that's klnda queer.” She paused to little difficulty with my uncle.” “ A million or so,” said Mr. Yates laugh. “ I ’ve heard of having people < tear out owing you something, but I stupefied. “ I'm blessed I Well, I see never lieord of having them clear out no reason why you shouldn’t marry Dorothy.” when you owed them something.” “ Yes,” reflected Mr. Yates, "I'v e had And so Mr. Yates gave his consent the other thing liuppen, but I don’t before It was asked. know as I ever beard of Just this sort of thing. I remember the time Henry Glover cleared out owing me for horse WAS REAL “ DUTCH TREAT” fodder I'd been supplying him all win ter. It was his Idea that the fodder Invited to Dinner and Theater by Friend, He Has to Pay One-Half wasn't O. K. He lost n horse and he the Bill. laid it to the fodder, though later he Florida Is Ready for Her \/ir*ter Visitors Florida's winter sc u m n h. < opened und the resorts there are ready to greet the thousands of Northerners who dislike cold weutl er. These fair mer maids st Miami bench ore being taught how to haul In u life boat. Turkeys Are P articular About W inter Q uarters Turkey raising la a distinct and sep arate business from that of raising chickens; the nature of the turkey Is so different from that o f the chicken that tt requires different management altogether. The turkey still retutns many of its wild haunts. Then, of late year», serious diseases have played sad havoc with the business In many parts cf the country. Blackhead par ticularly, has carried off many l :ou- sunds, compelling some of the lar. est growers to quit the business. 1 ie farmer who has never had turkeys ->n hts farm Is not likely to suffer, provl 1- e«l he starts with perfectly hesltl y stock. When diseases can he avoided, the cost of raising a turkey Is less than that of raising a chicken, while the former weighs more nnd sells for more per pound. The fact that tnrkeys will, from the time they are eight weeks old until winter sets In, obtain the greater part o f their living from the bugs, grasshoppers, waste gmln and weed seeds picked np In their wanderings over the farm, Insures their mainte nance throughout the summer at a low cost to the grower. Breeding stock should always he se lected from the flock In the fall, before any have been marketed, at which time the choicest specimens enn he picked out. I f this has not been done there should he no further delays. Those selected probably would bring a little more money than some of those mark ejfd. but they are also worth more as breeder* than the poor ones, strong, active, healthy birds— those that have never been afflicted with a serious disease—are wanted if the future turkey crops are to prove profitable. The old turkey raiser should separate his breeders from those that are to be marketed before fattening commences, as breeding stock Is easily Injured by becoming overfat. Up to their fifth year turkeys are profitable as breeders, though It Is a good plan to change gobblers every year, especially If some of the young females are retained for breeding. Hens are not fully matured until two years old and they are at their best during the next two or three years. During the mating senson the proper proportion in which to divide the sexes Is from six to ten hens with one gob bler. The breeding stock should receive good care during the winter months. Without proper care nnd attention, as w-cll as suitable quarters, turkeys will not go through winter In good health, and, consequently, will not be In such good condition for the breeding senson, and that means poor success with the young. Young turkeys bred from healthy stock are hard enough to raise, without the extra handicap of un healthy parentage. Turkeys do not thrive In damp, stuf fy quarters In winter. A well lighted open shed or loft, fitted up so as to prevent direct draughts hut having good ventilation at all times, makes a good place. Tnrkeys can stand a good deal o f cold, but they cannot stand close, foul smelling quarters. Fix up some broad perches a couple of feet from the floor; provide troughs for grit and water and. In real cold weath er, put some straw or other litter on , the floor. Feed com and other grains regularly and, during severe weather, give an occasional warm mash. W hite Rocks and W hite admitted he was wrong; hut we'd had O rpingtons Are Sim ilar At the Insistence of his friend Snm such a time over It by then that he The characteristics of White Rocks swore he'd never pay me that money Jones, Bill Smith stayed In town for I snd White Orpingtons are very slml- even If he was right. Henry was a dinner and a show the other night, al great hoy. My best friend until that though to do so he had to cancel a lar. Sometimes It Is quite hard for pleasant engagement In Suburbia. But the Inexperienced to make a dlstlnc- happened.” Jones had said “ You simply must. Bill. ^ tion between the two breeds. The “ How much did he owe you, dad?” I put that deal through today and I White Rocka should have a yellow asked the practical Samuel. beak, while the White Orpingtons have want to celebrate.” “ Just three hundred and ninety-two j a white or pinkish white beak. Roth They dined at an expensive restau dollars,” said Mr. Yates. “ I remem j breeds have reddlah-bay eyes and In ber—■” Then he stopped short and rant, Jones ordering elaborately and | each breed the comb, face, wattles and without thought o f cost. He paid the looked around at the faces o f mem ear-lobes should he a bright red. The bers o f his family round the supper cheek, tipped the waiter, and then do j shanks and toes o f the White Rocks table. They had all been struck by ing a sum In mental arithmetic, turned I are a bright yellow, while with the to Bill Smith. "Yon owe me,” he said. the same fact at the same time. exactly— ••' naming half the price of Orpingtons the shanks and toes c n m illl 1 .A ic l.l»/ . In 1 - I . 1 . _ t . It n “ Queer coincidence,” reflected Mrs. should be white or .. pinkish white. You Yates, and Grandma Yates laughed the check. The same thing occurred at will note, therefore, that the chief char the theater after Jones purchased the and said she w-nsn't sure It was a co acteristic to look for In distinguishing tickets. incidence. onp breed from the other Is the color Smith felt properly angry. However, "Did it ever strike you. Mr. Yates," of the beak, also that of the shank and asked his wife slowly, “ that this fel he was too polite to say anything, hut toes. on the way to the train after the the low looked s mite like Harry Glover— ater he turned to Sam as they were | like enough to be his son?" “ P.nt how could he be his son when psssmg an ex saloon. “Sam,” said he. it is Seldom Desirable "let's drop In for a glass of near heer.” j Ms name Is Payson?” asked Dorothy. to Cross Chicken Strain Jones agreed, and with their drinks | “ Besides. I'm sure he Isn't the son It Is seldom desirable to cross before them Smith handed the bartend o f a man who would be so dishonor er a quarter and received a nickel In | strains. It con he compared, In t way, able.” change. Rocketing this he raised his to crossing breeds; the first cross may Somehow supper progressed without to appear to give uniform offspring, but much further reference to the disap- | glass and without a smile said in the second generation many unde Jones: “ Sam, you owe me ten cents.” peerance of the young man who had sirable qualities kre liable to appear. — New York Sun and Globe. rom« to the Yates farm four months If you have reason to believe that before asking for work. He had been some other strain will give you better Increase in Coffee Drinking. taken on as an extra hand to work for results, gradually work Into the pure the summer and had been housed | Americans, always heavy users of strain. Crossing the strain may set coffee, are drinking more than they with the other hired men in the old I you back several tears. farm house where a special house- I did last year, according to figures se cured by the foreign commerce de keeper provided meals. The Yateses were up to-date farmers and one of I partment of the Chamber o f Com Cow Is H ighly Nervous the points that Mr. Yates Insisted on merce o f the United States. In a pamphlet Issued by them cov and Is Easily Excited ‘ for his wife's sake was that the hired men should never have to be provided ering the volume of the principal ex- The cow Is a highly strung nervous for in their kitchen or dining room. ports and Imports between the I nlted organism and easily excited, shocked A week later Mr. Yates announced | States and chief foreign markets for or affected In one way or another to at supper that he had had a letter j tb* mix months period. January to resultant lessening of her milk J-ne. 1023. Importations o f coffee for flow T o n l,n|r ont , „ »i* frem “ that fellow that disappeared." “ And I guess a!s has been getting j • rst six months of this year were «s^dy or wet day to drink Ice-cold ws- letters from him tight along.” put In | ♦WG.O0GJ■ *) :n*K as afainnt fctO.im.- c*na+* a aerloua tl.rlnk In milk pr«v Sam. “ I f that square envelope that 000 pounds for the same period In | d„rtton. Weigh the milk night and came to you was from him, why then I morning, without fall, every day of ths ahe has. because I've got the mall This shows an Increase of 50,147,000 ; year and watch the record. That tells every day this week, and there has pounds, or 9.2 per cent the story of such shrinks. J ««a Birthplace Area of Famous Men | was n daughter of a Dutch mer Few Places Can Challenge Vir I er chant of Rotterdam and tils father wns an English admiral. Roger Williams ginia’s Claim to Heroes Is said by certain authorities to have and Great Minds. been the son of u London tailor, while John Harvard, for whom Harvard uni Washington.— That Benjamin Frank versity Is named, was the son of a Lon- lin's grandfather, who was a black don butcher. The father of William smith, may have plied his trade on Brewster, Immortal leader of the Puri horses owned by the ancestors of tan hand that landed ut Plymouth In George Washington und of John Ad 1020, was postmaster and bailiff o f the ams und John Quincy Adams, before little village of Scrooby In Nottingham any members oi these famous families shire, 70 miles north o f Northampton ever dreamed in trying their fortunes shire. Will inm Bradford, w ho succeed In America, Is ni nteresting possibility ed John Carver o f Nottinghamshire as developed by tin < covery und recent governor o f the Plymouth colonists, purchase and ded lion of the Adams came from Austerfleld, Yorkshire, four ancestral home at i more, Northhunip- miles from Scrooby. Indications are tonshlre, less tliun ',-n miles from the that he was also o f English yeoman Washington home ut Sulgrave und the stock. Franklin home at K< ton. Geography and Genealogy. “ Not content with being the source “ This part o f northwest England, of the Washington, Adams und Frank from which cunie the families o f so lin families, Northamptonshire, a small many staunch American leaders, Is Inland county only u trllle larger tlian that part of the Island In which the Cook county, Illinois, over which Chi waves o f early Invasions melted one cago spreads, also claims thnt within Into the other. The Snxnns and the a ten-mile radius of Sulgrave manor Angles landed along this west const, lived the ancestors of Henry W. Long fought, conquered and then Intermar fellow, the lute Warren G. Harding, ried with the native Britons. In 870 und William Penn,” says a bulletin of the Dunes overran these rolling grass the National Geographic soc ty. plains, repeating the cycle. “ Then, In 1006, came the Nornmns of Notable Virginia Region. “ From Northamptonshire e ld the Viking stock transplanted to France. counties to the north, Llnco. \ York They did their best to Impress the French customs and French language and Nottingham, came the main of pioneer Kngllsh stock to set. nd on the conquered people. Instead, out make America, but few place- -on of the welter of antagonism between Norman lord nnd native serf came a challenge Northamptonshire's eh new Inugunge, the English language an outstanding garden of heroe.- j and a new people, the English people, great minds. drawing from the component races, hut "One counterpart to Nortliumpp bearing a definite flavor anil individual shire in the United Stutes Is to I ity unrelated to continental civiliza found in Virginia. On a clear duy on can stand on the watershed of the Blue tion. Robin Hood and Puritans. Ridge mountains at the Intersection of “This new raelul fusion asserted It Rockingham, Greene and Madison counties and see over a countryside self In the very country from which containing the life-long home o f Madi America drew heavily to found the re son. In Orange county; the birthplace public. In Nottinghamshire's Sherwood of John Marshall at Midland, the forest, Robin Hood became the popu birthplace of Thonms Jefferson at lar hero representing the native Khndwell, the birthplace of Woodrow elnsses successfully challenging the Wilson ut Staunton, the blrlhpluee of Norman lords. He was a legendary Abruhnm Lincoln's father ut Broad Ideal yeoman, one of the class destined way, the birthplace of John Sevier, to steal kingly prerogative lilt hy hit to first governor of Tennessee near Lacey make the Institutions of democratic Springs, nnd the birthplace of Zachary government. Taylor near Orange. "Within n radius of 75 miles from a SEMITIC POLYNESIAN (Miint 43 miles northwest of Richmond, Va., were born 23 men whose names loom large In American history: George Washington, James Monroe, Thomas Llghtfoot Lee, Richard Henry Lee und Robert K. Lee in Westmore land county; Zachary Taylor nnd James Madison In orunge county, Lin coln's father nnd John Sevier in Rock ingham county, Thomas Jefferson In Albemarle county, Henry Clny and Pat rick Henry In Hanover county, John J Randolph In Chesterfield county. Wood- row Wilson In Augusta county, George Sisson In Stafford county, John Tyler and Benjamin Harrison In Charles City county, Gen. Winfield Scott In Dinwid dle county, John Mnrshnll In Farquler county, Sam Houston In Rockbridge county and three sign« rs o f the Itecln- ration of Independence, Carter Brax ton, King and Queen county; John Penn. Caroline county, and George •Valton, Frederick county. Seven Presidents From Ohio. “ Ohio has produced seven presidents, but she generously d i s t r i b u t e d the honors to all parts of the state. “Genealogists delving Into strata of society like geologists exploring gen erations of rocks, sre discovering in A race ef hend-hnnters with Jewish Northamptonshire, and other districts features so pronounced in type that of England, Scotland nnd Wales, what hut for their bronze skin and lack of manner of men were these w hose sons civilization they might have been mis dared to cross 3,aan miles of ocean In taken for the lost tribes of Israel, tiny vessels to build s new nation. have been discovered by Capt Frank They have found that not only was J. Hurley, famous as an explorer and Benjamin Franklin’s grandfather a official photographer for Australia dur piack-urdth. but that the noted philoso lng the war, who has Just arrived In pher, printer, postmaster gencriA, the United States. The Semitic Poly scientist, statesman came from a long nesians were discovered during the line of blacksmiths. ^ eecetit aerial exploration o f Papua "The Washingtons were wool mer- i (New Guinea) headed hy Captain Hur chants. William and Thomas Ran- ' ley. This photograph showa a widow dolph. also of Northamptonshire, came of the Kaimsrt tribe mourning for to America to repair their fortunes her late husband by wearing a bone which had been ruined by the Crom In her nose and welting her akin with well revolution. William Penn's motb- grass ligatures. I sr uinmutamnnm ubimi mai ' Tapestry Depicts U. S. Troops on W ay to W a r 1 | ' ,, B ; Purls.—The large tapestry en titled “ Departure of American Troops From Philadelphia,” which the French government Is to present to the United States. Is nearing completion In the gov- eminent tapestry works at Ueau- vuK Six selected weavers have been three years muklug the piece. The tapestry destined for the United States, 38 square meters In area, represents urtllleryinen marching In u street. In the foreground is a mounted color- bearer carrying n big American flag. In the wide border the deeds of Lufuyctte and Pershing ore linked together with the dates 1770 and 1917. “ In Northampton In 1215 the barons gathered to oppose King John and forced the signing of the Magna Curta at Runnyinede. It has also been the meeting place of many parliaments. Throughout this region were strong holds of the Puritan revolution led hy Cromwell. The heritage of Independ ence wns brought to America by fami lies from this region. Some Famous Vermonters. "President Coolldge was horn nt Ply mouth, Vt. Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio railway, wus horn In the neighboring village of Hart- lund, 18 miles from the Coolldge home stead. "President Arthur nnd Senator George F. Edmunds were horn In the north part o f the state not far from Mrs. Coolldge’s birthplace, Burlington. Ethan Allen, famous Revolutionary hero, though born In Connecticut, lived at Bennington. His courage led to the drawing up of n constitution at Wind sor, 15 miles from the Coolldge home, under which Vermont wns a free and Independent state for 14 years. George Harvey, former ambassador to Eng land, wns born at Penehnm, Brigham Young nt Wlttlnghum. Admiral I>ewey nt Montpelier and Admiral Clark o( the famous Oregon cruise, at Bradford, some 40 miles north of Plymouth, ltudynrd Kipling married Caroline Bub ostler nt Brattleboro, living four year* In this city, which Is a three-hour drive from the Coolldge farm. Not far from Brattleboro lives Dorothy Cnnfleld Fisher, the novelist, who is a Vermont er by adoption.” “Fired” for Being Late, W ife Jumps Into River New York.— A wotnnn who was res cued after she hnd Jumped Into the East river was able to recall hei name nnd her troubles in Bellernt hospital. She Is Mrs. Cecilia Tnnkln of OOf East Thirteenth street. Her husbnnf became Mind two years ago, and since then Mrs. Tnnkln has been th« sole supi>ort of the family, In which there are two children. One of th< children Is In an asylum for the deal and dumb. The other, five-year-old Helen, wai denied admission to a day nursery where Mrs. Tankln was accustomed to leave her> because o f Illness. That kept Mrs. Tankln from reporting fot work on time and (he boss fired her Thnt was why she jumped Into tbi river. Ten-Year-Old Girl Swims W hile Asleep I.aredo, T ex a s— Much excitement was created In Laredo when the newt spread that Dorothy Prennan, ten- year-old daughter o f Hal I . Brennan prominent business man, had mysterl onity disappeared from her home. Investigation proved that the girl while asleep, arose from her bed dressed, secured her bathing suit anf little wagon, proceeded a distance ol a lion t 15 blocks to the Arroyo Chacon donned her bathing suit and took * plunge Is the creek. After battling an* dressing she pertly regained conscious neaa and was In a dazed condltlot when found by her father and others She was standing beneath the Chicot creek bridge. She was not hurt or harmed an4 this was the first time the little ladj bad walke« la her sleep.
