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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1914)
DAMAGE BY SPRAYING Shade Trees Injured by Ignorant or Careless Persons. Widespread Treatment of Different Petti Hat Made Necettary Teit ing of Many Remedlet Many Oils Art Injurlout. ' (By T. W. MOORE.) We have at different times had oc casion to observe Injuries to shade trees brought about by various causes, In many cases resulting from treat ment applied by careless or ignorant persons. The present widespread treatment of different pests has made necessary the testing of many reme- dies, some of which have proved to be more Injurious than the pests themselves. These materials have not only been UBed by careful people trained In the use of different meth ods for controlling lnBects and fungt, GOOD MANAGEMENT OF BOAR Titk of Keeping Him From Herd U Rather Laborlout, But It It by Far tht Beit Method. The best hog raisers do not per mit the boar to run with the herd- There are reasons why this should not be done. If one Is to control the time of farrowing and the use of the boar It can only be done when he n kept by himself. It Is a too common practice to sen the boar when the season Is over rath er than keep him for future use, de pending upon getting another young one. This Is a ruinous practice and la largely responsible for email Ut ters and weak bone. Get a good boar and keen him for a few years. Ma turity Is good for him. Have a small yard with grass, If possible, hog tight and away from the sows, so he will not be worried. A quarter-acre, with a good house and shade will afford ample exercise In the open air. When grass Is not avail able In his lot, give him cut green stuff dally as long as It lasts. Feed Sparingly of fattening foods and sup ply plenty to keep him In good trim and growing If not fully developed Mill stuff, skimmed milk, clover, al falfaanything that furnishes protein, Is advisable. Of course, supply ashes, salt and charcoal. This keeping the boar away from the herd Is more trouble than letting him run. but It Is the only way to know just what you are about In hog raising. i ne Lady Governor's A Novclization of Alice Bradley's Play B GERTRUDE STEVENSON Illustrations from Photographs of the Stage Production Fundamental Principles of Copyright, 1M IPuoUoattoa Hlssis Hasan a) t7 l)Tla Balatoa, 8YNOP8I3. more, her voice quavering, "in ine only one who tells you all mi irutn. Daniel Blade, suddenly advances from a Everyone else Is afraid of you. penniless miner to a mllllonalro. He is "Don't let them flatter you. She ambitious to become governor or i . . ... matnrnnl than wlfelv state. His simple, home-loving- wife falls said, wltn more maternal man wiieiy to rise to the new conditions. Blade meets Katharine, daughter of Senator BtrlcK land, and sees In her all that Mary Is not He separates from his wife and takes rooms at his ciuo. Kcmor merrui, has been attacking: Blade, Is won over to the latter's support because he cannot otherwise supply the money demanded for European trip for Mrs. Merrltt. Kath arine agrees to marry Blade when he is 'rA hivm in lnve v in nainemia, has a stormy session with ner over ner affair with Blade. Mary, anxloug to make it up with Blade, appears at Strickland s houBe during a political conference. Blade Informs her that separation Is final. CHAPTER VIII Continued. Slade nervously assured hlniBelf that all the doors were tightly closed. He suppressed the twinge of shame tlent and colorless. solicitude. "They can. I found that out Father! You're an awful fool with your money. You never had but one real friend. That's me. You'll find It out." "I'll look out," Slade promised, and there was a note of relief In his tone at her change of attitude. "Do you want me to go away from our house right off T" Mary asked, as If the Idea of actual leaving had just occurred to her. "Oh I" Slade hesitated. The details did seem rather cold-blooded. "But It'll be better when It's all settled" "All right." Mary's voice was pa- I'd like to feel By ALBERT S. GRAY, M. D. SUNLIGHT FOR THE POTATOES Tubers Should Not Be Stored In Dark Placet at It Is Injurious Keep Free From Frost. Aside from the reason that the tu bers will sprout If stored In the dark this practice generally makes It neo- essary to treat the tubers in the spring for scab, while If they are u U lleht. durlnsr the Effects of Spraying MMy n on wnte, and taken out and aired o Trees The Oil Penetrated ine Darn , wn.ro there la n0 danger and Killed the Tissue. b , frost bItten they wlu be ln ex. . . i . A 1I,.V, but by others who are reckless to the ceiieni snaps bo mat a uu . Bu. AMht in taklne bath for a week or ten days just be chances. fore Plant1ne wiU be 88 g00d or better Many kinds of oils have been used man s u . tn-cf nnata. some of scab. This is not theory but the plan ,mA.-r0nw nnrl others has been practiced by many growers i(.i- itomc. nil ran he used for years. Another thing in the care ' a. nnndl. of seed potatoes is not to keep them ,tv.,t ,. !(, whiin m where tney will get too warm; they UUUB WlUiDUl tOUD.i.B ."JWI ...... . . ,.t , ,nf ,., other cases it will kill them. We have w - seen aulte a few shade trees killed bv snraying with kerosene and water to exterminate woolly aphis; the oil soaked into the hark, reached the cambium and sapwood, destroying the tissue. Gas oil, a heavy oil used in the manufacture of water gas, is very in jurious to trees when used as a spray. A few years ago several hundred shade trees were severely injured in one of the eastern cities by spraying the trunks with this oil to kill clusters of sriosv moth eggs, it being used with out any knowledge whatever oi its adaptability to this purpose. Ordinary house paint has some times been used on smooth-bark trees -with ereat injury. Occasionally commercial oils usea for Bpraying fruit trees for the San Jose scale cause local injury, ana some shade trees have been known to be affected by their use. Oils and other materials to keep down the dust in roadbeds are now for hie stealthy action by assuring himself that it was not fear simply business caution. To his cowardly wrenching of his wife's heart he gave no thought at all. It was a move Jn the game. He made It as dispassion ately as one moves a chessman on I was goln' where you wanted me to go wherever 'tis and doin' what yer wanted me to " "Thank you, Mary," and the surface politeness seemed strangely out of place from this man who was turning the wife of his youth adrift "Of 1 i. Fine Quality of Potatoes Even Size. but the temperature should not be much in use, and we have observed above 40 in order to have the best re- some injury from this source, when BultSi Kept on light shelf-trays so the trees were located close to tne that they can be taken down and highway and the buttresses of the Bnifted about occasionally, they will roots were exposed. keep in excellent shape If handled as Salt used on sidewalks, in gutters suggested. jind trolley lines in winter nas been known to injure the root systems 01 FARMER OWNS HIS EQUIPMENT trees. Arsenate of soda, potassium . cyanide and other chemicals are ex-1 Happent t Wou(J B. ireilltSly UUIBUUUUO W nwwa ... -cause death. the board. Mary was looking at him course it'll be arranged that you get with a new light in her brown eyes the best of the divorce. I'll attend to ha turned tn hr aealn. She SDoke that You Bimply leave It to me" lEaln "A divorce," interrupted Maty. Her "It was all right until you made eyes widened with amazement, and that lucky deal. Dan, with the money Bhe came up to him, her mouth open t hoinort vnn tn mnite and vou nulled with surprise. "A divorce?" ma nut from hehlnd mv stove and "A divorce why, yes a separation tried to make me a parlor ornament, -what's the difference?" Slade was tm hto tn think whnra vou'd a been stooping now to deceive the little tnriav if vr had. Five vean aiso you woman, who was herself the soul of tnnb oil th work I loved to do out of truth and honor, mv hind, anri nnw vnu'rs nunlshing "What?" the woman gasped. m because I did work." "A separation is the tame thing as "No, I'm not," Slade remonstrated, a divorce," and he lied shamefully, tnnvorl In anite, nf himself by her "Is it?" .i i it ,,nt "It will be done quietly," hi went "Yea vnh arA. T)an. VOu're lUSt SB On. good as whipping me for layin' up "Why, Dan Sladel" sne couio noi tn. foundation of everv dollar you've believe her ears. "Give up your name? ,nt .nri w t am at mv aee. Bitting Why, you might aa well ask me to In Idleness In a areat bis barn of a give up my eyes. I've got it now tnh on." aha finished you're looking for a younger. You ,()lo.iraiw . can't have a divorce, Dan!" All her "Well, that's life," declared Slade tears were dry now and a new fiber unfeelingly m Der vo'ce. "Then It's a pretty poor thing," and "I will have it," stormed Slade, en- -,fr h.r h.. .dv No. It ain't raged because her mood had changed ne. rf .v,iHn' h Them's some- at the word "divorce," Just when he thing wrong ln a man's getting so had been congratulating himself that far nn hn can't live with the Wile ne me auucuuy was an mi.mj ujuu married because she cooked and worked instead of playing. It ain't lust!" Oh. what's the use, Mary 7", Blade lghed wearily, as though he, and not she. were the Injured one. "Dan," Mary lowered her voice ana looked at him earnestly. "If I brought up a girl today and we were poor, .il A h nvl.a ma tn ftflV. Take pTano lon", learn languages, keep how, tonight, , East U navai mind flninff Uiuiiww. uu ' ' or beg economical?' " 1 Ti ! ... ...ii." H I n ri A 1-A- IV 'mo. w " " " J - -- ' im uui e'"6 a", - . . . t hov. Yuh can't Dan," declared Mary with conviction. "There ain't no ar gument It's one-sided. Suppose I'd changed and you'd stayed the same, what would all your friends lay I "Robert! Ton can take me homi Vt:::o:: l Dk. ....... - J V.aI. 1... V ,..,.,.......-."..--"-"t".-"" .. nOW, pienBQl sua luiucu unvft jubi once to the man gating moodily Into the fire. "I'm goln1 to fight yer, Danl" CHAPTER IX. Thirty years of one way of living becemet a habit so much so that it Is almost a human Impossibility to adjust oneself to any other mode of life. Mary Blade, living year after year with Dan Slade, Interested In hie work, watching him rise and succeed, had come to think of the man as only another part of herself. With him out of her life she felt as It a part of her own body had vanished with out which she was restlest and ill at ease. As the sat In the little old cottage where with Dan she started out on married life, the experienced a feel ing of detachment as It either this were not the right place, but some sort of Inferior substitute, or as though the real and vital part of herself were absent The room was just the same as It was the day she and Dan had walked out of It to take up their new life ln the handsome mansion in town. Not a thing had been changed or disturbed. The same crooked hatrack, with her old knitted shawl dangling on one hook, hung behind the door. The same well-worn tidies were carefully pinned on the plush-upholBtered chairs. The Bame cheap little ornaments that so delighted Mary's simple heart ln the old days still cluttered the mantel. The same near-crystal crowded the sideboard. The tablecloth remained laid from meal to meal after the time- saving custom of middle-class fami lies. Everything was the same but the atmosphere of contentment that once filled the room; everything the same but Mary's happiness ln her buBband's love. Outside the window the rose (Copyright, 1914. by A. S. Gray) FOOD AND DELINQUENTS. Under a recent date an Associated PreBB dispatch credits Charlei C. D, Hllles, formerly private secretary to President Taft, now president of the New York Juvenile asylum in Dobbi Ferry, with the discovery that bad teeth make bad boys. What Is the cause of bad teeth ln children under fifteen years of age? It Is universally admitted that the fundamental cause of the early decay of children's teeth is anemia, a lack of sufficient building material during , the growing period. Obviously a lack of brick and mortar will result ln an Imperfect building, and the same lack of material must result ln an Imper fect body. Wilson Bruce, following other wit nesses before the Scottish commission ln pointing out the startling superior ity of Industrial school children, added that If we fed and clothed the elemen tary school children as suitably we should "make a new race of them." The commissioners noted this con- au Wniaon thA Ill.nniiriahRd ele bush Dan had helped her to plant still mentary school children of respectable nooaea ana Diussomeu m . DarentB and well-developed Industrial muk imu. . . " a-school children of those who have "at- lJXilnS 'r ln fw i wrltin, place, in Uncomfortable old chair "" where evening after evening Dan " " , " 'v ' ' Slade had Bat reading hli newspaper fine moral have we here. Be a bad and dreaming of the great future he parent, or confess yourself unable to was confident the fates held ln store control your own cuuurou, uuu for nlm. will be attached to an industrial In anita of herself Mary'i thoughts school, given tnree moais a aay, largo- were of her husband the first bitter ly at the expense of the ratepayers, thought! she had ever harbored and they will become brlgnt ana in against the man. She turned Blck at telllgent boys, developed physically heart at the thought of it Dan and and mentally in a satisfactory way." herself estranged, hopelessly at odds, jhls touches upon and brings sharp fighting each other ln the divorce iy t0 tne (ront the whole subject of court, fighting even over tne posses- gonhlBtlcated foods around wlilctt a slon of the little cottage that bad shared in the first happy flush of their youthful love and happiness. This, the only place where she could find peace in her loneliness, Dan was trying to wrest from her. It was too near to commercial battle royal Is at present raging In this country. In no field of knowledge Is there so general a lack of personal information founded on experience as ln the fundamental one of food. It la generally admitted, and "That's all there is to it. I will have it" , 'Anything else, Dan. Anything else not a divorce. You mustn t ask me to take the name I've carried all these years and throw it away. I'm giving in, but leave my name. I'm givln up everything else." You might as well stop!" he warned her threateningly. "You're going town, too near to the scene of his ther6 r9 nundreas of proofs ot the new activities, ne nao sent. wu vu gltUmi tbat Barii through the her. She must vacate. She must go of c(mturle8 of civilization, has so far away that his charge of de- nBt, Qf nourah. ertion" would stand fire in a court n ... . . . nmA tha his Economical to Hire From Other Interesting Data. this done ln my own way Oh. Danl" she shrank from wrath. "I'm going home." No, you're not, until this thing Is settled. My mind s made up. . I don t Poor Slade, hUif'eVcrazy-r bad- want to nuarrel w,th you, and I ihould nrnhahlv had.' No. var can't set me " J"" w " f" - to see it!" "Well, whether you tie It or not, that's Just where we stand. You a better let me call Robert to take you home. "Wait, Dan," rhe pleaded, "Will you see me again at home, if I go now?" There was a tense pause. Slade did not reply. "I see, I lie." She dropped wearily "I won't let you. You can't do it." "I can't do it, eh?" The word can't was like a red rag to a bull. He stood over her wltn oaritening iauo uu shaking fist "Don't you know better than to stand there and tell mi mat 7 Have I got to hear it from you? Haven't you seen what happened to man, woman and child, all of 'em, who ever told me that to my face? I'll dolt! I'll do it now, by God!" ana ne (By 8. 1 MACDONALD. Coloraflo Agricul tural L.-oiiese.i The writer is of the opinion that many a farmer is tempted to purchase his own equipment when in reality It would be more economical to hire from .... "I. , ..rXr,,: strode angrily up and down the room, rne anarier uei uubuouu the calmer and more determined waa Mary Slade Do not wait until apples are dead others. -ripe before picking for winter storage. Wait until the vines are touched with frost before digging sweet pota toes. Let us endeavor to ascertain how many acres of grain a farmer should cut as his annual average before the purchase of a self-binder 1b justifiable We assume the following data: Initial cost of binder tMO.OO Do not be in a hurry to bring in the H pumpkins. They will rot if housed too early. The water in the cistern may be low and it should be well cleaned before the fall rains. i When the pieplant wilts under the first frost cover the roots thickly with -coarse manure. Store sweet potatoes ln a perfectly dry and warm place. Dampness will quickly destroy them. Take the last of the sweet corn, cut off the kernels and dry in the sun. It Is fine for winter use. A fine place In which to store fruit during the warm days of autumn is a thick-walled room ln the barn. If you will clean out the stove pipes and chimneys now you will have a bet ter draft next winter and maybe pre vent a fire in the chimney. Cabbage should be stored In the ground, roots up, covered with five or six inches of earth. But do not cover until freezing weather cornea, Annual rate of Interest, 1 per cent... J.SO Annual repairs 00 r-nst nf twine npr ap.re 80 Horse labor per hour J Man labor per hour " Assuming that one man and three horses with a six-foot binder can cut 16 acres in ten hours, we deduce that cost ot labor per acre Is 30 cents, As against these items let us sup pose that the farmer could hire the grain cut for one dollar per acre, The above data gives ue the conclu sion, bv elementary algebra that a man should cut an average of 65 acres annually before the purchase of a binder will save him money. Improving Grass. Nitrate of soda at the rate of 150 pounds per acre, applied to the lawn Just before sprinkling or before a rain, hastens the growth of grass and gives it a darker color. It is well to apply two or three times during the summer. Guard Against Filet. Do not buy meat, groceries or fruit from any store where flies are tol erated, and, above all, keep these dis ease-bearing insects away from the creameries by every possible means. started in her eyes. Please, Mary, remember where you are. Blade wat a inne mi com. "IH let you know my plans. All you have to do is to abide by them. You lay you'll do anything tor me, that'i all I ask you to do, abide by my plans. I with you much happiness, the best of everything, a life beyond anything you ever had," and hi wat rapidly being carried away by his own mag nanimity. "I shall always think of you with the greatest affection," he concluded, taking on a patronizing air and trying to make himself believe his own empty sentiments. His self- esteem bad been severely torn in the last few moments of his wife's talk. He had almost caught a glimpse of himself as he really was, but he was regaining what he was pleased to con sider control of himself. "Well, you've conquered." Mary Jabbed her eyes and nose and tried to muster up sufficient courage to meet the iltuatlon. "I give ln. I'll abide by your plans. Whatever you want me to do," her voice broke into a sob, "tell Robert I'll do it" The tears continued to fall ln spite of her. Her heart wai breaking. Her shoulders drooped pitifully, yet ihe felt a certain sad Joy ln acceding to hit wlahet. There was a kind of hap piness In sacrificing herself to please him. She began to pull her gloves, jerk ily, clumsily, finding some relief in having something to do. Bhe waa struggling hard not to brisk down not to cling wildly to him and beg him not to give her up. Bhe steadied herself finally. "Well, Dan, there's one thing you've got to be careful of now that I won't be round to bold you back now that I won't be with you any "Dan," she began very genuy, nut firmly, "you're stubborn, but you ain't a bit more stubborn than I am when I'm riaht. and now 1 am. "You can go ahead. Do all you like, but this time you won't conquer, be cause I'm going to fight you, rawer. I'm eoine to fight you, Dan. Then with head proudly erect, she wnlke.d to the door, threw it open and cried, just a bit hysterically in spite of her effort to keep her voice sieaoy of law. Face to face with the fact that Dan was trying to drive her even from this shelter, trying to drive her out Into strange and alien world, ot wnicn she knew nothing and which knew nothing of her, Mary could scarcely believe that Dan was so changed that even now he would be willing to snatch away from her the place which held the memory of happier days. She had not seen her husband since the night ln Senator Strickland s library, when the awful knowledge had been forced home to her that he not only wanted a permanent separation, but Insisted on having an absolute di vorce. Over and over again a thought came Into the woman's mind. It was Intuitive, Instinctive. Try as she might to silence it, she could not put It out of her thoughts. It was that ever-recurrent feeling that another woman had entered Dan s mind and heart Again and again the pushed it from her, but alwayt and ever the obsesalon clung to ber like a black shadow that haunted her during the day and persisted even ln her dreams at night From the kitchen came the voice ot her mald-of-all-work singing an old- fashioned tune. It wat one that ln her young days Dan had loved to hear her sing one whose sweet melody and melancholy sentiment he had loved ln the dayt before his heart had become hard and his mind Intense on the cold, hard problems of finances and political ad vancement. It was the song ln which all lovers from the beginning to the end of time find a responsive note "Nita, Juanita, be my own fair bride.' (TO BE CONTINUED.) EFFECT OF LONG ASSOCIATION Marked Facial and Other Resem blance! Noticed Among Those Who Have Been Together Yeart. That persons who live together for a very long period not only acquire thi same mannerisms, but grow a strong facial resemblance ii an established fact But it is little known that the tame condition often exists among mistress and servant being associated tmr.th.r for a lone period ot yeart. Then is usuall a strong desire on thi n.rt nf moat servants to ape their mistresses, and this, added to thi fact nf constant nearness, often extendi to facial resemblances. There are in a small town In New York ttate two unusual lnstancei of this kind. Two wldowt live there, each ot whom hat been attended by a wom an servant for more than 40 yeart. In both cases the servants have be come so like their mistresses that they are often mistaken for them, and their cases have attracted attention far and near. Their voices over the telephone are to alike that friends ot thi women have given up this method of communication. Thi Recessional. It may be recalled that Rudyard Klpllng'i poem, "The Recessional" ("Lett We Forget") wat never copy righted, but wat a gift to Britain, the empire and the world. It waa pub lished in the London Times at the dia mond jubilee and a check for (500 was sent in payment This check hi returned, laying he , would accept nothing for his poem, which he dedi cated to the nation, so that it la open tor all the world to print and to most helpless and dependent of all animals. Left to themselves under normal conditions, the beasts, guided , by an innate instinct, select natural foodB that enable them to live with out disease. Man, on the other hand, has not only lost this instinct that the beaBt Btlll possesses, hut as the reBult of the misuse of his Intelligence and his freedom to select food for himself and for such of the beasts as he has turned to domestic uses, deliberately imposes preventable diseases upon both himself and them. Eating has become an art which has to be learned by man, and unfortu nately the subject is considered so un- uportant that quite generally our foods are selecd on the statement of persons whosb only interest is ln the profit to be derived from the manu facture and sale of the commodity, and then after the purchase in this slipshod manner it Is too frequently turned over to some incompetent kitchen drudge to be prepared for eat ing. In order that an intelligent choice of proper diet may be made it is ab solutely necessary that we Bhould pos sess a certain smattering of scientlflo knowledge. This does not consist in the memorizing of a few terms suffi cient to enable us to babble about car bohydrates, proteins and fats, of calo ries and of balanced rations, but to ;irve a thorough understanding ot the real meaning of the closing paragraph of the fourth article of this series, which we here again rtyeat for em phasis: "The now prevailing standard of food values which measures the heat units produced from foods and completely Ignores all other elements and factors is not only woefully inade quate in the light of modern science, but constitutes a grave menace to the health, to the morals, to the sanity and to the life of any people." The chief reason for the Improve ment in Inmates of well-governed asylums and industrial schools over Qie rate of development shown by children under home conditions un doubtedly lies in the fact that food matter is bought in bulk and largely on the horse-food basis, that Is to say, the whole grains are bought, cooked and served, rather than the more ex pensive refined processed matter. Of course we are assured by "experts" that the food is "improved" and made "more digestible" by the elaborate process through which It is passed, but any successful raiser of cattle, hogs, chickens, pigeons, dogs or cats' can tell of disastrous results follow ing the feeding of any of these ani mals for any material period of time on "refined" food matter. And hu manity still waits the coming of tome Moset to free It from the bondage ol the observance of universal law to which all living thing are subject