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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1916)
FOUGHT III MIDAIR EXPERIENCE OF 8TEEPLEJACK WITH CRAZY COMRADE. Worker Telia of tha Tims When Dan O'Brien Hid in Impulse to Jump and How Narrowly a Trag edy Waa Averted. "Did you ever have an impulse t; jump off a steeple?" I questioned, re calling tho sensutlon of iiiiuiy people Id looking down even from o housetop. "I've kept pretty free from that," Mild he; "hut there's no douht climbing steeples does tell on a man's nerves, Now, there was Dun O'lirlcnj he hull an Impulse to Jump off a steeple one day, and a strong Impulse, too, He went mad on ono of the fullest spires In Cincinnati ; right at the trop of It." "Went mad?" "Yes, sir, raving mod, and I was by him when It huppened. I forgot wheth er the church wus Baptist or Presbyte rlun, but I know It stood on Sixth street, near Vine, and there was a big hand on top of the steeple, the fore finger pointing to hcuven. "We were putting fresh gliding on this hand. I was working on the thumb side and O'Brien on the little finger side, both of us standing on tiny stagings about tho size of a chulr-scnt, and both of us made fust to the steeple by lifelines under our arms. That's un ulisolute rule In climbing steeples never to do the smallest thing unless you're secured by a lifeline. "It was coming on dark, and I was hurrying to get the gold leuf on, be cuuse we'd given the hand a fresh coat of sizing that would be dry before morning. We hadn't spoken for some time, when suddenly I heard a laugh from O'Brien's side thnt sent a shiver down my spine. . Did you ever hear a crazy man luugh? Well, If ever you do, you'll remember It. I looked nt him, and saw by his face that some thing was wrong. "'What are you doing?' said I. "lie answered very polite and steady like, but his tone wus queer. 'I'm try ing to figure out how long it would take a man to get down If he went the fastest way.' "I thought I hud better keep him In a good humor, so I said: 'I'll tell you what, Don, you brace up and get this gold on, and then we'll race to the ground in our saddles. "'That's a fair idea,' said he In a shrill voice, 'but I've got a better one. We'll race down without any saddles; yes, sir, without any Hues, without a blamed thing.' "'Don't be a fool, Dan. What you want to do Is to get that gold on quick.' I tried to speak sharp. "'No, sir; I'm going to jump, and so ore you.' "I caught his eye Just then and saw It wasn't any time to bother about gold leaf. I reached up and eused the hitch of my Hue around the hand so I could swing toward him. I knew if I once got my grip on him he wouldn't make nny more trouble. But I'd never had a crazy man to deal with, and I didn't realize how tricky and quick they are. While I was working around to his side and thinking he didn't notice It, he was laying for me out of tho cor ner of his eye, and the first thing I knew he had me by the throat and everything was turning black. I let go of the line and dropped buck on my saddle-board helpless;, and If it hadn't been for Mind luck I guess the people down below would have got their money's worth In about a minute. But my hand struck on the toolbox us he pressed me back, and I had Just strength enough left to shut my fingers on the first tool I touched and strike lit him with it. The tool happened to be a monkey-wrench, and when n man gets a clip on the hend with a thing like that he's pretty apt to keep still for a while. And that's what O'Brien did. lie keeled over und lay there, and I did, too, until my hend got steady. Even then I guess we'd both have fallen if It hadn't been for the lifelines." What the Sign Says. An unusual way of asking golfers for their co-operation In keeping their course In good condition mid in re fraining from undesirable practice la employed by a Cincinnati golf club, which has placed a large sign beneath the bulletin hoard on the first tee of the course, according to Popular Me chanics mugiutue. It reads: "Treat the course us though you loved It.1 Every player is sure to see the request before starting over the links. A similar sign has been put up at the tenth hole. Aeroplanee Meet In Air. One of the most remarkable ocel dents In the history of aviation is re ported from the cattle front. Two French flying machines, each contain ing a pilot and observer, were seen to meet as If attacking, "lock horns," and plunge downward together. For six thousand feet they fell, performing all manner of gyrations, while the spectators watched horrified. The ma chines finally landed In the top of a tree and the four men were taken down uninjured. How We Waste Wood. There are more than 48,000 snw mllls in tho United States, and their output of waste In the form of saw dust, shavings, slabs and other wood refuse is estimated at 80,000,000 cords a year enough to fill a bin one-hnlf mile high with a base covering a forty-acre lot, or to make a solid block more than a quarter of a mile on each edje. Literary Digest REASONS FOR GROWING OLD. Men of Research Have Been Unable to Agree aa to Why the Human Frame Debltltatee. To the question. "Why do we grow old?" many answers have been given, MoiNcnniknti suggested, that we are poisoned by the ubsorptlon of the pn ducts of bacterlul uctlvlty In the large Intestine, for this brings about hard enlng of the walls of the arteries und ulso corrupts our bodyguurd of wunderlng umoebold cells so that they become traitors, turning upon the. cells of the central nervous system, Others have suggested other modes of autointoxication. To some It has Boerned enough to refer to wear and tear of hard-worker organs like brain und heart, liver and kidneys, for u chain Is no stronger than its weak est link. Others have referred to the waning uetrtty of the all-Important organs of internal secretion, und others to the lmportunt fact that there Is no multiplication or replacement of the cells of our central nervous sys tem after a very early date In our life. It may be pointed out, however, that most, if not all, of tho theories breuk down becuuse they do not admit of all-round application. Thus it is plain that many nnlmals that are not troubled with a large Intestine never theless grow old. Furthermore, thu theories seize on symptoms: rather than on causes, for while it is good sense to refer to wear and tear, the question urlses why all animals do not exhibit the perfect recuperation to which some nt least have attained. Prof. Child, of Chicago, has been working for lfi years or more with simple creatures called Planarlan worms. One of the features of their life which he brought to light Is their capacity for periodically becoming young ugaln. Thus It often happens that a Planarlan separates off the posterior third or quarter of its body, which speedily grows into a whole, while the diminished original heals Itself and grows a new tail. When a Plunnrlau is starved it can continue living on lis own resources for sev eral months. Its cells become smaller und they ulso boeomo fewer, but life Is not surrendered. Such fucts have led Prof. Child to a survey of the animal kingdom, the result of which Is to show that there Is a much wider oc currence of rejuvenescence than has been hitherto realized. It occurs especially in connection with vege tative multiplication, nut there are other occiislons in which the creature becomes younger in whole or in part by lying low for a season. Perhaps this mny be part of the value of pro cesses of dying back and rearrange ment which occur in winter In some animals and In ninny plants. Blood Transfusion. This mouth's number of La Revue describes a new method of transfusion of blood, an operation often necessary under conditions which do not always allow certain precautions to be tnken. The method is due to Prof. Luis Agote, an Argentine surgeon, and su- cessful experiments have been mude before the rector of the Swboune, the dean of the faculty of medicine, and several professors and doctors. Blood Is taken from the bend of the elbow of the subject willing to lend his aid and collected In a receptacle which contains a solution of neutral cltrute of soda, prepared in the pro portion of one gram of salt for 100 grams of blood. This mixture pre vents the blood from coagulating, without destroying Its vital proper ties, and as the citrate employed is in offensive to the organism It can be in jected into tho forearm without dan ger, thus obviating the chief draw backs to tho transfusion us generally practiced. The receptacle for the blood drawn Is a graduated glass with double tub ing and has a large enough opening to allow the blood to fall directly into It. The end Is pointed to allow the tube for Injection to collect the maxi mum of blood without allowing air to enter. From three to five grams of so lution ure placed in it, a suillelent quantity for IKK) grams of blood. rurls Correspondence to New York Sun. Investigating New Srum. Scientists In the Johns Hopkins uni versity ure experimenting with a new ly discovered serum which they believe will eventually lie able to restore a person to life after asphyxiation or drowning. The experiments performed upon animals in a number of Instances restored them to life after they had been to all appearances dead for sev eral hours. A few days ago an ani mal was brought back to life four hours after its upparent death by the injection of this serum. In this case, however, the aulmal died shortly utter ward from blood pressure. It is be lieved that this tendency can be oveV came and the new serum utilized in the resuscitation of human beings who would otherwise "die" permanently. Electric Lamps In Verdun Fighting. According to a special correspondent of the New York Times, electric pocket lumps have played an Important role In at least one engagement around Ver dun, namely, the retaking of the IIuu dromont quarries by the French, of which he says In part : "Underground In the quarries the darkness was abso lute save when bursting grenades showed brief visions of carnage and terror. Friend often grappled friend, until the French adopted the plan of fastening uu electric pocket lamp to the tunic button. The light gave the Germans a better mark, but enabled the French to rally together and sweep the foe buck In the final rush en umsse." Plenty of Fresh Air and Pure Water Will Keep the Doctor Away By DR. R. H. BISHOP, JR. ConunitiioMf of Health, CUmlud, Ohio If everyone would drink as breathe as much fresh air as they think about a doctor. Air is the first necessity of life. It is more important than good food it is even more important than water. We can live days without food, s considerable time without more than a few minutes. Air that is good for breathing motion and the proper degroo of most people. Yet a gentle draft is Colds do not come from drafts. disease and are caused by germs. Of some portion of the body so much as but as a general rule air currents do The proper way to get good ventilation in a house is to have a cross current of air. To do this you must an open window or door on the opposite side of the room for the used air to go out by. When this is not practical, circulation of air can be secured by having a window open both top and bottom. Stagnant air is almost as bad obtain this natural motion of air, artificial means should be employed. Electric fans are good. Iland fans help. American men could well adopt the custom of the Jap, who goes to his business with a fan in his hand. In this country there are 35,000 deaths annually from typhoid fever most of the cases being caused In European cities where for many years especial care has been taken to provide safe water supplies, the annual death rate from typhoid fever seldom exceeds 10 per 100,000 people, while often the rates are lower than 5 per 100,000. The water we drink should be from an excessive amount of minerals. FILM FAVORITE -y , ' 5JJ, 7 vf Anita Stewart Movie star who recently has built a magnificent country home near New York, out of some of her earnings on the silent stage. All Around the World. It is estimated that nearly 70.000.000 wild animals are killed yearly for the sake of their fur. Electrical machinery hns been In- stalled in the world's richest Iron mine, which is In Lnpluud. T. E. Wilson, once an oftlce hov. now draws $200,000 a year as head of a New York corporation. A calculator that shows the monev vnlues of one country In the terms of several others and applies the values to various welirhts and measures hns been invented by an Englishman. The records of the Anierirnn cnn. sulate at Grenoble, France, show ship ments of women's gloves to the United States durlna 1915 to the value nt $1,108,819, compared with $1,875,185 in 1U14. According to a French scientist ill. gestion proceeds more swiftly when persons are recumbent than when erect because In the process of evolution the stomach lias not advanced as rapid ly as other organs. Americans in Shanghai. Chlnn. nre planning to form un Americun Country club. As there are 1,500 members of the American colony It is expected that the venture will be successful. Shnnir. hal Americans already have a chamber of commerce, an Association for China, a bar association, a volunteer com pany, university club, women's club, and other organizations. Making Photograph on a Leaf. A photograph on a leaf is an Inter esting curiosity' easily made as fol lows, from the Scientific American: Fasten a negative with strong con trasts to a very smooth, thin, hairless growing leaf such as the Indian cress, scarlet runner or nasturtium. and leave it exposed to strong sun light for several hours. Then cut the leaf from the plant, steep it in boiling water for half a minute, then Immerse It In warm 80 per cent alcohol. After a little time the leaf, now white. Is Im mersed In a dilute tincture of Iodine, The result is a positive photograph, often of surprising sharpness. i 1 -. r - ft much pure water as they ought and think they do, no one would have to water, but we cannot do without air purposes should be fresh, cool, have humidity. Drafts signify danger to one of man's best friends. They are various forms of catarrhal course too strong a draft will chill to lower its resistance to these germs, more good than harm. have an entrance for fresh air and as no air at all. If impossible to by infected drinking water. wholesome, absolutely clean, and free POULTRY POINTERS Sudden fright and excitement at once tells on the egg crop. Never allow strange dogs about where the hens are. Don't relax the care of the chicks. They will become inactive and dis eased. Market the broilers and all the roost ers that you don't want to keep for breeding purposes. Uniform products command the best prices. Purebred fowls produce uni form products. When selling the eggs to the coun try merchant or cash buyer, Insist that the transaction be on a quality basis. After one lot of chickens is re moved from the brooder house, clean thoroughly and spray with a disin fectant. Clean up the Incubator; use a good disinfectant; empty the oil and throw the wick away. Allow the machine to dry thoroughly before closing the door up tight. Regularity of feeding means much. Those who feed spasmodlcnlly are likely either to Injure the fowls by overfeeding or not give enough, per hnps both. The birds should have their feed regularly. Eggs are easily affected by bad odors. Do not keep In a musty grain bin, or In the vegetable cellar, or where they can absorb the odors of kerosene and gasoline. Marketing must be dune ut the right time and in the right manner. This is very important for it will be the final test of profitable poultry raising. There should be method in marketing. Not only should feeding be regular, but the quantitiy should be ample. It would be waste of feed to give too much, but enougli should be given and Just enough. Surely this requires method. Method has much to do with poul try raising even where farmers have small flocks. Just as method is re sponsible for much iu general farm ing so is it Important in raising poul try. Things You May Not Knew. The fishermen of the Gold coast of Africa devote each Tuesday to the sea god, doing no fishing, but utilizing the time to mend their nets. Sugar Is extracted from 16 varieties of palms which grow in Ceylon. Under normal conditions, France makes 26.000,000 pairs of gloves per year. Pearls are steudlly increasing in value ; they are now worth three times as much as they were ten years ago. The two-edged weapons are found among the earlier specimens of Jap anese metal working. Biblical mention is made of 19 different precious stones, 0 metals, 104 trees and plants, 35 animals, 39 birds, 6 fishes, 11 reptiles, 0 insects and other small creatures. A rifle ball covers 1,200 yards in two seconds. The divers boots weigh 20 pounds each and the helmet 40. In addition he Is otherwise weighted. It Is said thnt a lion will not attack a trainer who has perfumed himself with lavender. Milk Is sold in bricks In Siberia. London's Inhabitants include 417.000 flat dwellers. The first lighthouse on the conti nent was built In 1715. at the entrance of Boston harbor, by the province of Massachusetts, and was supported by light dues on all incoming and outgo ing vessels, except coasters. Several other lighthouses were built hv th. Colonies. BEEF SERVED WITH MACARONI Nutrltloua and Appetizing Dleh That May Be Prepared at Compara tively Small Cost Two pounds of shunk (or any pre ferred cut), llave suueepun very hot, fry out a piece of fat or greaHe bot torn with butter, cut up meat and place In pun, allowing to fry until seured on every side. Suit ond pep- per, dredge with flour, pour on boiling water to Just cover meat, cover close ly and simmer slowly until nearly done. Do not add more wuter unless there is danger of going dry for' you only want enough for gruvy and not a stew. Twenty minutes before serving pure potutoes and odd whole with small pieces of onions, At the same time put macaroni to cook In rapidly boiling water and allow to boll 13 in In utes, stirring often with a fork so us not to breuk, then drain and add to meat. Cook all together until pota toes are done; take out thick part on deep pluttcr, thicken gravy with tuble spoonful of flour dissolved with little cold water, beut very smooth, then pour contents In platter und serve very hot. Dumplings cnn be added, but we never eut them. We like It made of round steak, but cheaper cuts are just as good, and really It is a delicious dish. Boston Globe. GOOD THINGS TO KNOW When Ironing tuble linen, iron with the selvage and not across the gruin. To cleun bamboo furnture use u brush dipped in wurrn wuter und salt. The salt prevents the bamboo from turning color. Salt rubbed on tea cups will remove tea stains, and discoloration on crock ery or china will respond to the same trentment. To clean collars apply benzine and after an hour or more, when the grease hus become softened, rub It or remove with soapsuds. A little clear coffee can be added to starch for tan or cream materials, and this Is better than pure white starch in many colored things. For black garments black starch Is sold that Is quite satisfactory. White starch is almost sure to give unsatis factory results on black material. Iron saucepans should be cleaned as soon as possible after use, and If any thing greasy has been boiled in them put In some soda and boll up. To Whip Condensed Milk. Place one cun of condensed milk In water and heat to boiling. Remove promptly and thoroughly chill by plac ing the can on ice. When cool, open the can and pour the milk, the entire contents of a small cnn or half the con tents of a large one, into a chilled bowl, placed In another bowl filled with cracked Ice. After the milk has be come thoroughly chilled whip In the regular way with an ordinary egg beat er for five minutes. Sweeten and fla vor If desired. Keep it on ice until served. Condensed milk will whip without heating, but there are better results when following the above di rections. 6uet Pudding With Sterling Sauce. One cupful finely chopped suet, one cupful molasses, one cupful milk, three cupfuls flour, one teaspoonful soda, one and a half teaspoonfuls salt, one- half teaspoonful each ginger, cloves, nutmeg and one teaspoonful cinna mon. Mix and sift dry ingredients; add molasses and milk to suet; com bine mixtures. Turn into buttered moid, aover and steam three hours, Serve with sterling sauce. Raisins and currants muy be added. Sterling Sauce half cupful butter, one cupful brown sugar, one teaspoon ful vanilla, four tablespoonfuls cream or milk. Cream the butter, add sugar gradually and milk and flavoring drop by drop to prevent separation. Creole French Dressing. Four tablespoonfuls of the best olive oil, one tnblespoouful of vine gar, one teaspoonful of dry mustard, yolk of one hard-bolied egg, salt and pepper to taste. Rub the oil Into the mustard, a drop at a time, until mus tard is moistened und smooth, then nlternate the oil and vinegar until all is in. When smooth add the hard boiled egg, salt and pepper to taste. nd beat well. If the oil seems to sep arate, a few drops more of vinegar and a hard beating will make it smooth again. Using Left-Overs. Here is a good way to use cold tongue, even If there Is only an end left that is too small to slice: Cut the cold tongue into small dice. Now put two tablespoonfuls of butter Into a saucepan and let it melt slowly. Add the same amount of flour, salt, pepper, and the Juice of half a lemon. Add a cupful of strained tomato pulp. Sim mer slowly for ten minutes. Strain, then return to the saucepan, lay In the tongue, and let It stand where It will keep hot without boiling for five minutes. Serve In a hot platter. Homemade Cork Cleaner. When cleaning steel knives I have found that a cork Is much better than a cloth for rubbing on the soap or scouring powder. It cleans the knives quickly and at the same time polishes them. A cork from an olive bottle is the best. Exchange. Prune Salad. Mix fine qunlity prunes, steamed, stoned and cut In pieces, with shred ded nuts pecans, walnuts or almonds. Serve on lettuce with a cream mayon naise In which Is mixed a little celery, very finely minced, or run through tha finest cutter of the meat grinder. PROTECT CORN FIELDS! Plow Land in Midsummer to Era dicate Cutworms. Vegetation 8ultable for Mothi to Lay Eggs Upon la Removed Pastur. Ing Hoge on Infested Land Is Good Practise. ' Land to be planted to corn the fol lowing spring, especially such land us has laid In grass for a considerable thne and Is likely to contain cut worms, should be plowed In midsum mer or enrly full about the time the eggs are luld, or better, before the eggs are laid, for then vegetation which Is suitable for the moths to lay their eggs upon Is removed. The enrller the preceding yeur grasslands to be planted to corn are plowed, the less will be the probability that the cutworm moths will have laid their eggs thereon, and the less, consequent ly, will be the dunger of Injury by cut worms the following yenr. Late fall and winter plowing of grusslunds, although not as effective Variegated Cutworm a, Moth; b, Nor- mal Form of Caterpillar, Side View; e, Same In Curved Position; d, Dark Form, View of Back; e, Greatly En larged Egg, Seen From Side; f, Egg Mass on Twig. ns early plowing, will destroy many of tne niDernatlng cutworms, as well as such other important corn nests na white grubs, and should be practiced when earlier plowing Is Impracticable. Pasturing hogs upon land supposed to be hurbor cutworms Is a beneficial practice, as these animals root up and devour insects of many kinds, includ ing cutworms, in large numbers. Farm poultry, if trained to follow the plow, will prove of Inestimable value. When cutworms are found to -be abundant on corn land, the use of the poisoned bait is recommended. This may be prepared as follows: Mix fiO pounds of wheat bran, 2 pounds of pans green, and 6 finely chopped or anges or lemons. Then brine the whol mixture to the consistency of a stiff dough by the addition of a cheap mo lasses, such as is used In cattle rations. adding water when necessary. Dls- triDute this bait over the Infested field in small lumps, taklns enre to snrlnkl it sparingly around each hill. In ense Dran cannot be readily obtained, mid dlings or alfalfa meal mnv he fully substituted. Frequently cutworms mlm-nte tn cultivated fields from ndjolnlng grass land, and in such cases the crops cnn be protected by running a narrow band of the poisoned bait around the edge of the field or along the side nearest the source of infestutlon. IMPROVEMENT ON A TRACTOR Joilet Manufacturer Granted Patent on Steering Mechanism Draw-Bar Pivoted to Rear. Patents were recently granted a Jo ilet, 111., manufacturer on an improve ment in the steering mechanism. A draw-bar Is pivoted to the rear portion Tractor Improvement. of the tractor to swing about a ver tical pivot, this draw-bar having a renrwurdly extending part in combina tion with the drive wheel and steering wheel. Farming Business. ACTIVE FEEDING TREE ROOTS Does Not Do Much Good to Pour Wa ter Around Stem Distribute It Around Under Branches. (By W. C. PALMER, North Dakota Ag ricultural College.) The active feedlne roots of tree nr not near the trunk, but out on the very enus or the new roots. In watering a tree it does not do much good to just pour water around the stem. Distribute it from the trunk out as far as the branches reach. GET INFORMATION ON SPRAYS When In Doubt Write to State Experl. ment Station or Department of Agriculture at Washington. If you are not perfectly sure thnt you know Just when and how tha spraying should be done, write imme diately to your state experiment sta tion, or the department of agriculture, v asnington, ana ask lor Information, It will be furnished In printed form, free of charge, and very nlnlnl stated. Don't put It off. Write todaj)
