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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1914)
EF OR CALMNESS Things That Mother and Father Had to Worry About. By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY. ICopyrlght, 1914, by th MoClure Nowspa- por Hynilluuin.) - Whim the glorious duyi of autumn came Mr. John Treadwell Bald to her duughtor Ida: "Your father can gut away from Ills business next week." ; "I'm glad of It." ' "And luHt night he suggeted thut be and I take an auto trip of sevorul days." "Good!" "You wouldn't want to visit some girl friend of yours for four or five days would you?" "So that the house might be closed while you are gono?" "Yes." "You are a poor hand to plan, mother. Whore would the cook go? What would become of my rabbits? We have chickens to be cared for. If the house Is left alone some one will rob It." "Yes," sighed the mother. "Whereas," continued Miss Ma, "If Mollle Perkins comes down to keep me company nothing whatever will happen, and things will go along just lovely." "I wonder If they would?" reflected the mother. "Why, how could they help It? In my mind's eye I see the dally pro gram: Arise at 7:30. Dreakfast at eight o'clock. Feed the chickens. Feed the rabbits. Walk In the dewy grass. Climb an apple tree. Throw stones at the crows. Lunch and then a long walk. And then, and so forth and so forth, until time to lock up the house at night, and get the cook In and have her tell murder and ghost Btorles for an hour, and then all go to bod and shiver." "Yes, that will be the way of It, and your father and I can't go." "You and father can dust right along, and you need not worry one little bit about the house. If you come back and find us dead you may be sure that we died game." Miss Mollle Perkins was telephoned to and she uttered a shriek of delight and within two hours was on her way down. In due time the autolsts got away, but not until they had wasted half an hour In cautioning the daugh ter, the visitor and the cook. If anything happened each one was to be calm very calm. Even If It became necessary to shoot a tin ped dler with the ancient and unloaded revolver, reposing on the top shelf In a closet, It must be done calmly and the hurrah left out. Nothing happened the first day. Nothing but that the kitchen chim ney burned out, one of the rabbits choked to dealh on a hunk of sweet apple, and a young farmer, who called to sell a creek of butter, winked at the visitor and was heard to mutter: "Gosh all hemlock, but she must have tumbled out of bed up In heaven thlB mornln' and fell clear down here!" The cook told three murder Btorles that evening, but somehow after mid night all three women got to sleep and nothing happened to disturb their slumbers. Nothing happened on the second day. Nothing but that the old rooBter got tho feeling that his work on earth was done and laid him down and sighed and breathed his last. Shortly after lunch the cook struck for higher wages, but after an hour's argument she lowered her flag and started In to make some apple tarts. A stray pig got Into the garden, but it wasn't over an hour before he was made to see the error of his ways. At night the cook, whose conscience troubled her for striking, related no less than five true ghost stories, each one of which was received with the proper number of shivers, but no white-robed figure wandered up and down the halls, and no murderer tried to gain access to the bouse by the pantry window. It was the next day that It hap pened. There were plenty of apples on the ground and In the kitchen, but there were ome on the tree that looked a great deal better. Besides, there was the fun of climbing the tree. It would not be true to say that Miss Mollle Perkins shinned up that tree like a squirrel. She didn't do It even like a boy- No girl can. This one drew herself slowly up after re peated efforts, and at last reached a limb about twelve feet from the ground. She was being congratulated on her athletics, when she lost her hold and uttered a yell and struck the ground. As the victim struck on her head, and as she was unconscious when yelled at, It was the logical conclusion that she was either dead of a broken neck or badly Injured. In either case the doctor must be summoned. Ring! Ring! Ring! No answer from central. The wire had got tired of being a live wire and bad gone dead. The cook must go three miles after the doctor. But how could she with that rheumatlo knee? Miss Ida ran down to the gate. There wasn't vehicle of any sort in sight. She must go for the doctoi herself, and after she had Instructed the cook to throw an occasional pail of water over the girl under the tree, he set off. Her mother had cau tioned her to be calm. She wu calm. Her shoestrings were flapping about, she was bareheaded and hor hulr fly ing as she climbed the fence Into the highway. Mr. Karl Dcpow, who lived In the big town and had something to do with a large manufacturing plant, had come down that morning In his auto to see a relutlve, and there stood the machine In front of tho hour-. The calm and unuxcltuble Miss Ida taw It from a distance and hud time to lay her plans. As she reached It she climbed to tho chauffeur's sent, threw In the clutch and away she went. The doctor was not at homo, but three miles away setting a bono. The trip back was mado by another road, und thoreby they missed Mr. Depew, who had procured a horse and was galloping about the country In search of the bold faced thief, After wasting hours on the hunt, the young man put the case In the hands of the sher iff and hied himself to town. The cook had not poured over half a dozen palls of wator over the form of the girl on the grass when there was a revival. No one had her neck or any boneB broken. Even a girl ennnot tumble from a tree and strike on hor head and hope to escape a stiff neclt for the next few days, but the doctor thought that would be the ex tent of It. Miss Ma muBt take the doctor home In the stolen auto. It was while doing this that they were soon by a party who knew the doctor, but not the oth er. This party telephoned the sheriff, and an hour later the doctor found himself under arrest. "Why, that auto belongs to a young lady." ho protested. "Oh, It does, eh!" "At least Miss Treadwell came for me with It." "I see. You will have to appear In court In this case. The owner of the machine says ft was a brazen case of theft." Miss Ida took the auto back to the house and left It, but no one saw her. Two hours later the "herlff arrived, and, being full of official zeal, he said: "It's a state prison offense, but If you plead guilty you may get off with a light sentence. Is this the first auto you ever stole?" Miss Ida's mother had not cau tioned her against getting mad, and recalling that commission the girl told the officer what she thought of him and ordered him from the house. Having no warrant for her arrest he went, but he turned to her to say: You cannot escape the grin of jus tice!" And to the stiff-necked Miss Mollle: "And you are an accessory before the fact and equally guilty. If you hadn t climbed that apple tree the auto wouldn't have been stolen. Think not to escape me by flight!" The next forenoon when there came a ring at the bell two trembling maid ens bowed their heads and held out their wrists for the handcuffs. "Beg pardon, but 1b this Miss Tread well?" "Y yes." "I am Mr. Depew." "Yes?" "Owner of the auto you borrowed for awhile yesterday. Is this the young lady friend who fell from a tree?" The introduction was made, and then Miss Ida said, "But I don't want her to go to jail. I alone am guilty." The young man laughed. "No one will go to Jail. I hereby apologize for my own stupidity and for the over zealousness of the sheriff. When I came out and found the auto gone I thought some rascal of a boy had taken It for a lark." And as the three sat talking on the veranda Mr. and Mrs. Treadwell ar rived home, and as they caught sight of Mr. Depew Mr. Treadwell whis pered: "If that young fellow asks me for Ida's hand, what shall I say?" "Better make It yes," she laughed. Phosphorescent Aeroplanes. Phosphorescent aeroplanes and air ships for night exhibitions, for adver tising and for increasing safety In night flights are now proposed, and phosphorescent modei flying machines were recently exhibited before an American aeronautic society. By some new methods the light may be made of other colors besides the familiar greenish blue, so that aero planes painted with this phosphor escent material may make a striking color display without carrying an ap preciable amount of additional weight. The luminous glow, of course, will come only after the paint has been given a good exposure to light, but the aeroplanes would absorb enough sunlight to give a noticeable glow for some hours at night. It has also been found that mercury vapor lamps will stimulate the glow, so the machines could be given a soaking In light be fore going aloft at night. Saturday Evening Post Revives a Venerable Witticism. The "bat the rat" movement In Kan Bas recalls the story of the traveling witch as published a generation or more ago In a magazine for youth. The witch stopped at a poorly fur nished home and asked for a night's lodging, offering to pay for the accom modation by killing all the rats In the place. She was entertained and im mediately after breakfast the next morning was ready to take her depar ture when the hostess reminded her of the promise of the evening before. "Oh, sure enough." said the witch, and picking up a stick lying close by, she leaned forward, resting with one end of the stick on the floor and the other in both hands, said: "Bring on your rats!" Kansas City Star. SUCCESS WITH SWINE Most Important Factor Is Healtl of the Animals. Extraordinary Care Should Be Exer cised In Purchasing Hogs to 8et That They Are Free From Transmissible Diseases. (By N. MAYO.) In the successful raising of swine there are problems, other than that of feeding, which often determine success or failure. The most Impor tsnt of these Is the preservation of the health of the swine, Wherever a considerable number of animals aro gathored together the risk from dls ease Is considerably Increased. Extra precautions must then be taken to guard against disease and to keep the animals In thrifty condition. The first essential Is that their quarters be kept clean and sanitary. In purchasing swine, care should bo takon that they come from herds free from transmissible diseases, that they are healthy, and have not been ex posed to disease In transit. Public stockyards are liable to be Infected with bog cholera; It Is dangerous to 7 ' w, a Prize-Winning Yorkshire Boar. bring swine from such places and put them In a healthy breeding herd. It Is an excellent plan to have a quarantine pen some distance from all other swine, and so located that there Is practically no danger of transmitting diseases to the herd. All recently purchased animals should be held In quarantine In such a pen for ten days, to be certain that they are free from disease, before placing them in a healthy herd. If a disease of swine occurs In the neighborhood, keep away from these farms end do not allow anyone who has been on an Infected farm to visit your herd. If your swine have access to a stream of running water and disease appears on a farm located above yours, on the same stream, re move your hogs at once, as the In fection is liable to be carried by the stream. Dogs and buzzards, also, are liable to carry the Infection of hog cholera and should be kept away If possible. Such measures are simple, but they are very important. While a few swine can be raised confined in limited quarters, if such Quarters are kept clean, they will do better, will keep In better health and san be grown more cheaply if they have plenty of range for pasture. It s desirable to have the pasture fenced off into suitable areas so that the hogs can be shifted from one pas lure to another, not only to provide tresh pasture, but also to afford an spportunlty to disinfect the pastures, alther by plowing and seeding to a forage crop or by exposure to sun and weather. Nearly all cases of intestinal worms, which are rather common in wlne, are contracted from infected ground, and swine can be kept free from these parasites by freemen ihanges of pasture. TIMELY HINTS OF SHEEPFOLD Animals Should Be Provided With Shelter From Fall Rains Let Lamb Run In Cornfield, Sheep need but little care during the fall months, but they need that little, very much. By all means provide shelter from the fall rains. Do not compel them to stay indoors, but give them a shed so they can get out of the rain when they wish. Have some bright hay In the shed rack, so they can eat a little without going in a sleet rain. The Bheep should have been dipped after shearing in the spring. If any ticks escaped destruction a dipping this fall should Burely be given. II new sheep are bought dip before add' ing to the old flock. Sheep fatten better if sheared be fore being put on feed. Close con. Bnement and a heavy fleece are against rapid gains. The field makes an Ideal place foi lambs to feed after the corn gets eared out. They clean out the weeds, eat enough down corn to keep fat, and are ready for market when their task is done. Keep the sheep pens and yards clean. Sheep manure heats rapidly and filth is injurious to Bheep, especial ly to the feet. Proves a Poor Policy. Experiments at the Iowa station In dicate clearly that hogging down ripe small grain is poor policy, owing to the waste. Sometimes not more than 15 cents a bushel is got for small grain handled In this way. With corn It Is different, for the hogging down Bf corn payt well 5 ' f SOW ALFALFA iN EARLY FALL All Danger of Interference From Weeds Is Avoided Plant Is Not Very Vigorous at Start. A great many people who sow al falfa In the spring complain that the "weeds take It." They do In a great many Instances. Weeds and alfalfa will not be able to occupy the same ground. One or tho other must gain the upper Hhnd In short order, and the weeds are the more enduring and the harder to conquer. As a conse quence the alfalfa Is smothered out by them, and along In the middle of the summer you bear another man proclaiming that alfalfa Is no good Weeds have caused more alfalfa failures than sour lands, wet soils or poor seedbed preparation. The danger Is particularly great whore the seed' Ing Is done In the spring. Every weed seed In the soil Is fighting for air enough and warmth enough to sprout, and after it sprouts it will fight for room enough to make Its growth. Alfalfa Is not a particularly vigorous plant In Its first few days of llfo, and it is the first few days that count In the growth of alfalfa versus weeds. On account of the danger from in terference by the weed crop, It Is usually better to sow alfalfa In the full, or In late summer. It will be time and money saved to put In the seed In the summer fallowing of the land, stirring the soil enough to keep down each successive weed crop. The soil stirring will not only get rid of the weeds that have come up, but It will stimulate the remaining seeds that are lying In the soil to germina tion and growth. In this way several successive seedings of weeds can be disposed of and the ground left fairly clear for the summer or fall seeding of alfalfa. Winter or early spring plowing will go a long way toward preparing a good seedbed for the fall sowing of alfalfa. If the ground needs It, turn under considerable quantities of ma nure when it Is broken. If lime Is needed, this should be spread before the plowing and turned under so it will have a chance to thoroughly mix with and sweeten the earth. GIVE POULTRY CLEAN WATER Especially Needed by Laying Hens for Production of Eggs Good Plan Shown In Illustration, Let the poultry, and especially the laying hens, have all the water they will drink during the winter and have the water warm and have it clean. The demand for water during the win- Easy Method of Keeping Drinking Water Clean. ter on the part of animals and birds Is great, but they drink less than they should because it is usually cold when given them. Don't be satisfied with giving water to the fowls once a day, but see that they have it three times dally at least, and in a clean vessel into which they can not get their feet. APPLY LIME TO ACID SOILS Only Economic Neutralizer or Correc tive Within Reach of Farmer la Lime Meaning of Word. The only economic neutralizer, or corrective, for soli acidity which is within the reach of the farmer is lime. Ordinarily one thinks of lime as that material used in the making of plaster and mortar. Throughout the agricultural world today, however, the word "lime" has taken on a very general meaning. It not only includes burnt lime, or quicklime, but also air and water-slacked lime, ground lime stone, marl, pulverized shells, and marble dust. These different mate rials, with the exception of burnt lime and water-slacked lime, are common ly spoken of as "carbonate of lime," or "lime carbonate," because they con sist of ordinary quicklime combined with carbon dioxide gas of the air. Build a Strong Fence. It takes time and some money to build a good fence, but It costs quite as much of both to rebuild a rundown one. One of the most important parts of a fence, above all others, is the quality and setting of corner and gate posts. On the corner posts de pends the stability ot the fence, and time and expense should not be spared In setting them firmly. Lighten Farm Labors. When everything has a time allotted to it and It Is finished and out of the way tn that time, the labors ot the farm teem materially lightened. ONE IDEA OF EARLY RISING Senator Lorlmer and Representative Ralney Learn Something of Break fast Hour In Arkansas, Senator Lorlmer and Congressman Ralney of Illinois will nevor forgot their trip down tho Illinois and Mis sissippi rivers sevorul years ago, when they sought to blaze the way for a deep waterway, "The senator and I had many novel experiences on that trip," said Ralney. We traveled in a 2C-foot launch, and our trip resulted In uniting 41 organ izations under 'dig 'er deep' banners. "One night we were floating about forty miles north of the Arkansas line, when It dawned upon us that we ought to put up for the night It was beast ly durk, but we heard the barking of dogs and surmised we had struck a lumber camp. "I jumped out and knocked all the bark off my shins getting over drift wood logB. I finally sighted a hut and begged a woman there to find lodging for two. " 'We'll pay twice the regular rates and even more, and all we ask Is that you wake us early so we can be on our way,' I said. For a time the worn an heBltated, but the proffers of double payment overcame her and she con' sented to let us stop. "'What time can you have us up? I asked. "'Wal,' Bhe replied, we uns down here have breakfast at four, but if you gentlemen must get up early, I reckon I can fix It for you.'" St Louis Post-Dispatch. Providing for His Future. "So you have decided to send your boy to college, Mr. Wasserby?" "Yes. My boy Is too modest to make his way in this world. Judging from the effect collego has on other youths, I figure that three or four years of It will give my son such a good opinion ot himself it will last a lifetime." IN A DEPARTMENT 8T0RE. Blxby Hello, Jones, got a steady job here? Jones I'm afraid so, old man; I'm waiting for my change. A Plot Fathomed. 'Our representative hasn't had time to leave Washington and mingle with us voters," said the smooth cam paigner. 'No, replied Farmer Corntossel. "It's another one o' them party tricks. They're givln' him as little chance as possible to hang around an' make hisself unpopular." When Women Rule. "Madame President wishes her to accept a high place." "Where?" "On the board of complexions. But she refuses to accept." Why?" "A number of senatoresses want to ask her a few questions about her own." Kansas City Journal. Bright Boy. "Willie," said the harassed suitor to the young lady's small brother, "as I was coming in I heard a hand organ down the street If you'll run out, maybe you'll see an Italian with his monkey." "Nothin' doin'," answered Willie. 'Td rather stay here an' see si) make ra monkey out of you." Imagination. , "You don't care much for that dia lect author." "No," admitted Mr. Rafferty. "But you must admit he has imagi nation." . "He has. He goes right ahead imagining that an Irishman says Oi' instead of T and 'phwhat' instead ot what.'" Bad Place to Be. "Do you realize that you are lucky to be living In this enlightened age?" "I fear the age Is not so enlightened as we have been led to believe, but I consider myself lucky to be living with several thousand miles of salt water between me and Europe." Words That Mean Nothing. "Glad to meet you." "I'm so sorry." "It's a pleasure, I assure you." "Must you go?" "Pray, command me." "Thanks, so much." "I was out" A Pony Specialist. "Did I understand you to say thai he is an authority on matters relating to the stage?" "No. I merely said that he knows more chorus girls than any other man I ever met" BERLIN OFTEN TAKEN GERMAN CAPITAL FOUR TIME! OCCUPIED BY ENEMY. Most Severe Blow Wat During thi Thirty Yetn' War Captured by the Austrlant In 1757 When Napoleon Entered. Of the capitals of the nations now ai war In Europe, Ilorllu, in times paBt has suffered most at the hands of for elgn troops. In all wurfare, the capital of tin country Invaded is usually the object lve of the hoslllo action. Our own cap Ital at Washington . suffered at tin hands of the British In the war of 1812 Since 1448 Berlin has been the seat o: the Ilohenzollerns and has been occu pled four times by the forces ot an In vading enemy. During the Thirty years' war thi city was practically razed to thi ground. About one hundred years la ter, in 17C7, It was takon by the Aus trlans. They did no harm to the city as they received a ransom ot 1,500,001 thalers about $1,125,000. At the end of the disastrous Jem campaign the capital of Germany fel Into the hands of the French in 1806 It was occupied by the troops ot Na poleon for two years. When PruBsil and Russia allied In 1812 Berlin wai again taken by the "Little Corporal' and was held for a year. Next to Berlin Paris has suffere most at the hands ot hostile troops In March, 1814, the allied armtei which had opposed Napoleon took thi capital of France and held it for twe months. A year later, at the end oi the Hundred Days, the city again fel Into the hands of the enemy. The Germans were anxious to blovi up the Arch de Triomphe, which cele brated the victory of the French al Jena, but the Brltsh were opposed t it and saved the arch. . After a long siege by the Germans it 1870 Paris was again occuped by hos tile troops. This time much damagi was done to the city. Many of the prln clpal buildings were destroyed oi burned, and for several months th fortifications around the city were held by the kaiser's soldiers. Since It became the capital of Eng land, London has never been occupied by foreign troops, nor even has beet threatened by them. It was held bj Danish and Roman Invaders befori England, as a nation, came into exist ence. But since the time of the Nor mans the English capital has nevei been threatened. Before the present struggle Brusseh had not been held by foreign troopst ai the Integrity of Belgium was pre served in the struggle of 1870. St. Petersburg, or Petrograd, as it li now called, has been too far remove from the center of activities in Euro pean warfare to have suffered at thi hands of an Invading enemy. Moscow has been the objective polnl of troops Invading Russia, In 1571 an 1591 it was taken by the Tartars of thi Crimea and destroyed. In 3S12 Napo leon made it the object of his lnvasloi of Russia and aided in its destruction although the Russians themselves ha( done much to destroy the city befon the enemy arrived. The Terrible War Bill. The wars of Nannleon In 13 cost France $1,000,000,000. Our Civil war expenditure of the federal govern ment amounted to 11.400.0(10 nno m nearly 13 times as much a year as Na poieon b. i ne Tanco-uerman was coal France $1,580,000,000. besides an added war Indemnity of $1,000,000,000. Thii same great war. which lasted nnii 190 days, cost Germany $450,000,000 foi an average ngntlng force of 1,250,0011 men. The other ble Eurnnean will, a) . the past half century, the Russo-Turk isa war, cost Kussla $786,140,000, bul she had two years' fighting for hei money. The war in the far East cosl Japan $650,000,000 and Russia $723,. 000,000, not countine lost shi na. OnH towards the end had either side any wing line a million men in the field Italy's little war with Turkey cosl $400,000 a day. allowine for a. mwe fin. 000 fighting men. Wendell Phillipi Dodge, in Leslie's. South America Needs Coal. Coal Is the first need of South Amer. lea. In the Americas, the new nnhlfpn. tlon started by the National City bank, the first big movement of trade from the United States to the southern con. tlnental countries since the war began is visible at Hampton Roads, where three important bituminous coal-carrying roads converge. An expert in the coal business estimates that a million ana a half tons will within a nn leave this country to consumers who nave mtnerto looked to "Wales and Australia for their sunnlv. Smith America normally takes 8,000,000 tons of coal and briquettes a year. The competition with Australia is due chiefly to the opening ot the Panama canai. Hit Opinion. 'War," says a westerner lust hnm from Europe, "Is all rieht at rtutan,.. but when it comes home to ua. a no ceive that it is a savage, horrible, vile imng. I was talking the oth French reservist whose age had just reieasea mm irom lurtner work. Ha had been a good fighter, and I said: You 11 be missed, vou'11 roi-tnini be missed, in this war." He Bhugged his shoulders. "Well,' he said, when a wife and five children to bring up, tt't better to be missed than hit'"