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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1914)
The Man Without a Country E g g E a t in g F o w ls. The egg eating habit is u bad one and not easily cured. The probabilities rush made to the hogshead by way of are that it is first caused by a broken P A R T II. spontaneous worship of Vaugbun as egg Iu the nest or a soft shelled oue OLAN must have bean In every the deus ex machina of the occasion. found under the roost in the morning sea and yet almost never on “ Tell them.” said Vaughan, well After once getting a taste o f their owu laud. lie told we once, with a pleased, ‘“that 1 will take them ail to product the liens want more aud will grave smile, that no man in the Cupe Palmas.” try to break every egg they can find world lived so methodical a life as he. This did not answer so well. Cape When one discovers that the hens are “ You know the boys say I am the Iron Palmas was practically as far from euting the eggs, strenuous measures Mask, and you know how busy he the homes of most of them us New Or should be taken at once Scatter china was.** He said it did not do for any leans or Uio Janeiro was—that is, they eggs on the floor in order to let them one to try to read ull the time more would be eternally separated from •*er that all eggs cannot be brokeu You than to do anything else all the time, borne there. Aud their interpreters, us will find that they will pick at these but that he read Just live hours a day. we could understand, instantly suid, for a time und then desist. Feed plen “ Then,*’ he said. "I keep up my note “ Ah. non Palrnua,” uua begun to pro ty of raw meat for a time aud keep books, writing In them at such and pose iuhuite other expedients iu most them busy working for all food they j Vaugbun was get. such hours from whut I have been voluble luuguuge. If you find a hen persistently reading, and 1 include iu them my rather disappointed at this result of breaking eggs you had better have her scrapbooks.” These were very curious his liberulity und asked Nolan eagerly for dinner Watch the hens closely indeed. He had six or eight, of differ what they said. The drops stood on fill the trouble ceases.- Kansas Farmer ent subjects. There was one of his poor Nolan’s white forehead as he tory, one of natural science, one which hushed the men down, aud said: C le a n U p the P o u lt ry H ouse . he called “ odds and ends.*' But they “ He says ‘Not Palmas.' He says. If the cleaning of the poultry houses were not merely books of extracts T ak e us home, take us to our own has been neglected now is the time from newspapers. They had bits of country, take us to our owu house, to remedy the matter, for it won’t do plants and ribbons, shells tied on and take us to our owu pickauiuuies and to let the fowls into ii dirty house carved scraps of bone and wood, which our owu women.' Aud this one says,” for the winter campaign. First of all he had taught the men to cut for him, choked out Nolan, “ that he has not • lean out the loose filth, droppings and and they were beautifully illustrated. heard u word from his home in six 4rnit«‘lilng material: then spray the Till he grew very old, he always went months, while he has been locked up in1 whole Interior—walls, roosts and nest aloft a great deal. He always kept up an infernal barrucoon.” boxes with a good disinfecting fluid, Vaugbun always suid he grew gray and besides ail this a thorough fumiga his exercise, und 1 never heard that he was ill. I f any other man was ill he I himself while Nolau struggled through tion of the whole premises will not be wus the kindest nurse in the world, this interpretatiou. I. who did not un out of order und he knew more than hulf the sur- j derstand any thing of the passion in geons do. Then if anybody was sick or • volved in it, saw that the very ele M a k e H e n s E x e rc ise . died, or if the captain wanted him to I ments were melting with fervent heat It is not advisable to have bent In the on any other occasion, he was always | and that something was to pay some henhouse While It may be the means reudy to read prayers. I have remark“- j where. Eveu the negroes themselves of inure eggs. It also has been the start stopped howling as they saw Nolan’s ing point of more colds. Warmly built ed that he read beautifully. My own acquaintance with Philip I agony and Vaughan’s almost equal houses and the fowls compelled to Nolan begun six or eight years after agony of sympathy. As quick as he exercise will f>e far better than artl the war. on my first voyage after I could get words, he said: Hein 1 ly heated houses was appointed a midshipman. It was “ Tell them yes, yes. Tell them they in the first days after our slave trade shall go to the Mountains of the Moon treaty, while the reigning house, which if they will. I f I sail the sehooue# S e le c t in g S te e r s F o r F ee d in g. was still the house of Virginia, had through the Great White desert they In selecting steers that will feed to still a sort of sentimentalism about the shall go home!" a profit the Wisconsin station advises: suppression of the hori'ors of the Mid- | Add after some fashioa Nolan said They must have beef characteristics, die Passage, and something was some- j bo . And they all fell to kissing him and m wide, strong back and a large beurt times done that way. 1 first came to wanted to rub his nose with theirs. girth understand Anything about “ the man | But he could uot stand it long, and, They must huve strong frame, with without a country” one day when we getting Vaughan to say he might go plenty or room for vital orgaus. for a overhauled a dirty little schoouer buck, be beckoned me down into our weak coijstitutloned animal cunuot en which had slaves on l>oard. An officer boat As we lay back in the stern dure (lie feeding season was sent to take charge of her. und sheets and the men gave way, he said A wide bead and muzzle usually In after a few minutes he sent back his to me: “ Youngster, let thut show you dicates good feeding qualities boat to ask that some one might be what it is to be without a family, Short legs, heavy hind quarters and sent him who couid speak Portuguese. without a borne and without a coun arched ribs are essential in the feed We were all looking over the rail when try. Aud if you are ever tempted to mg animal the message came, and we all wished The skin should be reasonably thick, say a word or to do u tblug that shall we could interpret when the captain put a bar between you aud your fam soft and covered hv a heavy coat of asked who spoke Portuguese. But none ily, your home aud your country, pray hair of the officers did. and just as the cap The Muliiinl should nave a straight i tain was sending forward to ask if any God hi bis mercy to take you that in back and low -et appearance, due to j of the people could. Nolan stepped out stant home to his own heaven. Stick tile depth o f |tod\ and short legs and said he should be glad to interpret by your family, boy. Forget you have if the captain wished, as he understood a self, while you do everything for the language. The captain thanked them. Think of your home, boy. Write him. fitted out another boat with him. and send and talk about it. Let it be That Little Scare W ord and in this boat it was my luck to go. nearer and nearer to your thought the TAX is an awful sounding When we got there it was such a further you huve to travel from it. and scene as you seldom see and never rush back to it when you are free, as word and seems to bring up men want to. Nastiness beyond account, that poor black slave is doing now. tal pictures of dollars and dollars, and chaos run loose in the midst of the And for your country, boy.” aud the nastiness. The negroes were, most of woids rattled in his throat, "and for when in reality, it is only collec them, out of the ho.d and swariuingall that flag.” and he induted to the ship, tively that it amounts to much. round the dirty deck, with a central “never dream a dream but of serving A five mill special road tax if throng surrounding Vaughan and ad her us she bids you, though the service dressing him in every dialect and pa carry you through a thousand hells levied against the property own tois of a dialect, from the Zulu click up No matter whut happens to you, no matter who flutters you or who abuses ers of Estacada, would have av to the Parisian of Beledeljereed. As we came on dock Vaughan looked you, never look at another flag, never eraged less than $1. per tax pay down from a hogshead on which he let a night pass but you pray God to er, but it would have helped had mounted in desperation aud said: bless that ting. Remember, boy, that build some new pavements. “ For Hod’s love. Is there anybody behind all these men you have to do wbo cuii make these wretches under with, behind officers and government The Portland Railway Light & stand something?” and people even, there is the country Power Co. and a few others Nolan said he could speak Portu herself, your country, and that you be guese and one or two fine looking long to her ns you belong to your own would have paid the greater part Kroomen were dragged out. who. as mother. Stand by her, boy. as you of the tax, and they would have it had been found already, bad worked would stand by yotir mother if those paid it willingly, as usual for the Portuguese at Fernando Po. devils there had got hold o f her to There is hardly a tax payer in “ Tell them they are free.’* said day ?' Vaughan. **and tell them that these ! I was frightened to death by his Estacada. who would not “chip rascals are to In» hanged as soon as we calm, hard passion, but I blundered in” from four bits to a dollar, can get rope enough.” out that 1 would, by ail that was holy, Nolan explained it In such Portu and that 1 bad never thought of doing for any sporting fund, or charity, guese as the Krooiuen coiild- under anything else, i !e hardly seemed to and do it gladly, but when it stand and they in turn to such of the hear me, but be did* almost in a whis- comes under the guise of a TAX, negroes as could understand them. I>cr. say. “ Oh. if anybody had said so it scares them and they vote it Then there was such a yell of delight. to me when I was of you age!” •»Hurtling of fists, leaping and dancing, i down and let the mud holes re- [ To be continued. kisM-.ig of Nolan's feet and a general N main. Dale’s W ou ld like to have you come in and see the nice alumnium ware that they are g iv in g away absolutely FREE as premiums. It pays to trade with them, as their prices are always right, their goods the best and their treatment, courteous. Yes. the fruit trees have come in, that we told you of, some days since. See them also, and pick out - just which you want. See DALE’S *Let Us Solve Your Christmas Gift Problem % Slightly Used and Second-hand Instrum ents (1500 Chickering Player Piano, >> 1150 Weber Pianola ” »» 500 Kingsbury >» 600 Angelus $976. 488. 288. 225. $246. 178. 153. $500 Weber Piano 600 Everett ” 375 Wheelock ” Hundreds of other, equally attractive bargains. 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