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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1905)
SOM E OLDEN SONO. Come, line to me some olden song. Some tune that will recall The golden daya of childhood. My mother’s face, and all. P R IN C E G U S T A F , N O W R E G E N T O F SW ED EN AND NORW AY Some sweet, old-fashioned, simple air, The crooning, soft refrain, That mother used, in years gone by, To soothe the aching brain. Some olden, golden, lovelit song, Forever fresh and young; Some melody long handed down. By mother lips long sung. — New Orleans Times-Democrat. A F in e T a b le F o w For some years the old English game fowl of England has been coining to the front. We see much lu print ubojt the revival of the old English game This fowl occupies a foremost place as table poultry. They are most dell cate and Une flavored fowls, a well known fact to those who have feasted on what we call pit game. In fact. It is said that they outrank the pheas ants lu delicacy when served on the table. They grow very fast and are always plump and ready for tjje spit any time after they are six weeks old. The colors bred are black breasted reds, brown breasted reds, duekwlngs, blue reds, piles, black, white and spun gles. the latter the most popular. As shown by the illustration, these fowls are beautifully built and free from the long shanks of our standard games. THE DESERTER 1IE corporal in charge, who had been drinking steadily, hic coughed his anecdotes. "Y e l low Imps! That's what they are, with teeth as long as your linger. First they shoot and then they eat you. V gh !” Stepanovltch shivered. He was re viving from the stupor in which the •vents of the past few hours had plunged him. He had never expected to be called upon— he, a man Just mar ried. It was unfair— horrible. Why should he be sent out to this far and perilous country, called Manchuria, to be eaten by these yellow goblins? I f what the corporal said was true, he would never come back alive. None o f them all would come back alive. W hy had he been such a fool, when the yellow card was given him, to go to the depot and be enrolled? Why had he not done as the others— crept out In the night and met the Germuu agent who helped men to cross the frontier and go in a ship to a coun try where there was much gold? Was it too late? The train rolled on through the frosty flats. It was a bitter cold night, but the carriage was stifling. The oth er recruits were asleep, or stupid with fright. They lay back against the wooden walls of the carriage with closed eyes, heedless of the Jolting. The corporal, who bad taken yet another drink from his bottle, seemed to be sleeping, too. He was a flerce-looklng man in hla sleep, fiercer even than when he was awake; but it was a thing to be thankful for that there was a breathing space from those mon strous stories of his. They hurt a man’s Inside, those stories. To get rid o f the feel o f them, Ste- panovlteh tried to fix his thoughts on Katluka. She was a good girl and la borious, and It was a shame that she should be left— as good as widowed— ao soon. How she had wept when the yellow card came! She had wept so much Indeed that when the hour for bis departing arrived her eyes had been quite dry. He hoped that she would not forget the Instructions be had given her, In case he came back; especially with regard to any money she might save. It was not likely that ahe would save any. Very few did in their village, and Katlnka was a hun gry one always. That was perhaps why she was so plump. She was the plumpest girl for miles around, and it was for this reason that Stepanovltch had loved her. Well, It was not to be supposed that she could stay plump forever, especlaly with her man away. She would not have the food. That was natural enough— not to have much food when one’s man Is away— and Stepanovltch did not regret that he had kept secret from her the place un der the floor In which hls savings were stored. She might have been tempted to spend them If she had known where they lay; and then when he came back and needed them there would be noth ing left. But would he ever come back? It seemed the question would recur what ever one fixed one’s mind on. The railway carriage was altogether asleep now. There was nothing but snores through the whole of it— snores that kept time with the monotonous vibra tion of the train. Stepanovltch, who waa in the corner by the door, put hls hand on the handle and turned It. H e had not meant to open the door, but suddenly It was open. The train went very slow; he could see that by looking through the veriest chink that caused no draught and disturbed no sleeper. A mnn could drop Into the snow very easily and take no harm. Tw o days later, In the evening. Ste panovltch stood outside the cottage in which he had left Katlnka. It seemed a year since he had left her. but It was only two nights. He had walked all the time, and run, too, ex cept in the daylight, when he had hid den himself In a straw stack. He had eaten nothing and slept not a wink. All the time, while he walked and while he hid, he had thought o f this moment and of what a surprise It would be to Katlnka. He would go very cautiously in, put his hand on her lips lest she should cry out, and, tak ing hls money from the place under the floor, beckon her to fly with him. That very night they would cross the frontier with the help o f the German agent; and In the morning he would sleep— sleep all the way to the land of gold! What a morning that would be! It seemed, however, as he stood out side the cottage, that there was a noise within—quite a long and loud noise, as of some one singing. It could not be that Katlnka waa tinging, with him away, aa she thought, among the yellow Imps In the Manchurian coun try. Nor. again, was It her voice. It wss a man who waa singing. What man had the right to be tinging In hla cottage? Stepanovltch licked hls lips. which were very red with the cold wind, and went to a crack he knew of In the T O LD E N G LIS H Prince Gustaf, who has assumed the regency of Sweden and Norway, owing to the illness of hls father, King Oscar, is the first born o f the four eons of the latter monarch. June 111, 1858, Is the date of hls birth, and in 1881 he married Victoria, daughter o f the Grand Duke of Baden. From Jan uary, 1898, to January, 1901, he also was in control of the government. When Guataf formally ascends the throne, upon the death of hls father, he will be the fifth sovereign of the house of Ponte Corvo, being a great- grandson of Marshal Bernadotte, Prince de Ponte Corvo, founder of the dynasty, who reigned from 1818 to 1844 under the title of Carl X IV . Johan, Prince Gustaf also bears the title o f Duke o f Wermland. He has three sons. The King o f Sweden and Norway must be a member of the Lutheran church. He nominates to all the higher offices and possesses the right to preside, if he desires, In the supreme court o f Justice. G A M ES— -S PA N G LE D , They have full, plump breasts and longer bodies than our exhibition games. In fact, they are the same as our pit games, only they are bred to exhibition form and color and not for the pit.— Country Gentleman. C u re fo r th e D o g K v il. The Rural New Y’ orker says: The only cure for the dog evil Is a law re quiring the owner of one male dog to pay a small sum for a metal tag. with the nnine and address of the owner and the date, placing a practically pro hibitory tax on additional dogs and female dogs, making it the duty o f the proper officers to kill all dogs not tng- ged. When a dog Is killed while wor rying sheep or other domestic animals or fowls, the tag would show the own er and recourse could be had for dam ages done. A law something like this was on the statute books of Indiana several years ago and worked well; the revenues from that source were trebled, and the dog population de creased two-thirds, but for some rea son It was repealed. I f a majority of farmers could he induced to put a small flock o f sheep on their farms sentiment would goon be molded to back such a law. Now the dog owners are In the majority and sentiment trends the other way. The same com plaint may be made In most sections of the country. motley crowd of mourners, relatives, sightseers and children, was laid un coffined upon a rough bier that looked like a huge mortar board and hidden from sight beneath a - shroud orna mented with red and green scarves. Upon arrival at the graveyard, an un kempt place, with stones Innocent of the mason's hammer marking the head and foot o f each grave and serv ing as stands for pumpkins to dry in the sun, the dead man was carried to a primitive bench or table made o f two slabs set upright in the ground about seven feet apart and the third laid on them crossways. Here, while a woman sitting on a little mound at P r a c t ic a l S h eep B a rn . a distance set up a most wild and The plan shown is intended for a melancholy wall for the departed, a priest, stepping forward, began to offer sheep barn, although it would answer up prayers, to which the audience equally well for cattle, and Is arranged made an occasional response. The lu such a manner that hay Is stored brief service concluded, once more the body was lifted and borne round the cemetery to Its grnve. that seemed to be about three feet six Inches in depth Here it was robbed o f its gay-colored scarves, of which a little child took Ten minutes later the deserter came charge, and after a good deal o f ani out from hls cottage, lie had not mated discussion lowered Into the hole slept for two nights or more, and he in a sitting posture with the help of milled as he walked toward the fron two linen bands that one of the com tier. In the morning he would sleep— pany unwound from about his mid In the morning, when the German dle.” a $500 B A R N . agent had put him on his way to the L o n d o n 's F ir s t B r id g e . over the pens at the sides, and this country where there w h s much gold. The first Ixvndon bridge Is said to space Is tilled directly from a wagon Sometimes, being very drowsy and have been built in 078. A bridge of driven through the center alley. forgetful, he would call to Katlnka to wood was constructed in 1(!44 and was The space at each side o f the alley hasten, before he recollected that Ka- partly buried In 113(1. The last old Is divided up into separnte pens by ttnka was not with him. being already bridge was commenced about 117« and the feed racks and each pen lias a sep asleep. completed In 1200. There were gate arate window and door. This gives The morning, when It came, was not houses and the bridge was lined with so peaceful or so Joyous as he ex stores. It was the custom to hang the pected. But it was better, he thought, heads of criminals on London bridge. than It would have l>een if the train The head of Sir William Wallace was had lieen taking him to the Manchu hung there In 1305: Simon Frisel. 1300; rian country to he shot by the yellow- Ixird Bardolf, 1408; Bollngbroke, 1410: imps Instead of to the land o f gold.— "Jack" Cade, 1451; Fisher, bishop of Black and White. Rochester, 1535; Sir Thomas More. 1535. There were many others. All L i t e r a r y (Style. the houses were taken down In 1750 Colonel Frank Beard, for many years and the bridge burned In 1i’74.%n 1821 a stenographer in the General Ses a new bridge was begun 200 feet west sions Court, was discussing with some of the old bridge. It was opened In o f hls colleagues the difficulties o f re August. 1831. porting speakers given to the use of long and Involved sentences. Illustra E n t a n g le d in a l o v e W ir e . tions were given from speeches of W il I f a person is entangled In a live liam M. Kvarts, Boitrke Cockrau and electric wire and you want to extricate A R R A N G E M E N T OF T H E B A R N . Phillips Brooks. him therefrom do not take hold of the plenty of light hiii I permits egress to "W h y," said Colonel Beard, “ none of victim's hands, as Is oft n done In a I them are In It with Judge .lames Fltx- ense o f this kind. You will be shocked ! yards outside. While this barn ls only gerald, now of the Supreme Court. I if you do. Be sure to grab the clothes | ten feet at the side, it gives ample reported a sentence o f hls on one oc alone, and then you are safe, ^nd the I storage for hay and a large amount of casion which, 1 believe, la the longest current cannot roach you. Do not let ! room without nny waste space. The cost will not exceed $500. on record.” anything come in contact with your "Can yon remember it?" asked one. bare hands but his coat and trousers. P r a f t C o lts on th e F a r m . "W hy, certainly," said Colonel t )f course If yon have thick leather Grooming is all important. The colts Beard. “ It waa in the Schoenhulz fire gloves on you can handle with Impun should lie well cleaned twice a day. bug case, and the words, as I remem ity the Individual In distress. Before breakfast they should be thor ber them, were: ’Forty eight years at oughly brushed, the currycomb not be hard labor lu State prison.' ’’— New In terferen ce w th C onlngal Rights. ing used too freely, especially In the “ I'm opposed to these here White summer when the hair is short. After York Times. Os pa." said the strong-minded woman the day's work is done and the team I r r i t a t i n g It e r a t io n . of Billville. ster has had hls supper— the horses "1 don't see why you call him atupiL "You air?" will be dry then—they should receive He any» a clever thing quite often.” “ Yes. I air! I've been a wlilppn' or their second cleaning. Be sure to re "Exactly. He doesn't seem to real my husband for ten year—come move sll the sweat and dirt and leave ise that it should be said only once." Christmas— an' Inst night they railed the horses In shspe to tske s com fort - — Philadelphia Frees. on him an' Jest took the Job right out sbls night's rest. The mane* and tails o' my hand«!” — Atlanta Constitution. \ should be well brushed, and. above A Funeral In Turkey. all things, do not cut off any o f the II. Hlder Haggard in a new hook of The so-called new thought is merely | mane or forelock. The mane la some travel thus describes a funeral in Tur an old thought discovered by new peo j times cut off under the collar and key: "Th e corpse, accompanied by a pie- brldla and does not look so bad when wall o f the cottage. There was a light burning on the table— a bright, waste ful light, so bright and so wasteful that it showed everything In the room at a glance, the stone bottle o f vodka on the table, the rubles he had hid den under the floor in the very hand kerchief In which he had tied them up — only It was untied now, so that you could see the money quite clearly, the man—-Stepanovltch knew him— stand ing with hls back to the door singing, and Katlnka looking at him with Large eyes, her chin upon her hands, as she sat at the table, plump and well- looking. It did not occur to Stepano vltch to wonuder how she had discov ered the place under the floor; or what she had intended to do with the money. He was aware only that the man had hls back to the door, and that he, Stepanovltch, had a bayonet In hls belt. He had thrown hls rifle away as soon as he had leaped from the train, but he had a bayouet still. He crept round to the door very cau tlously. NO W C O RELESS APPLE. the harness is on, but suppose a buyi-r comes to look at the colts on the hal A f t e r Y e a r » o f E x p e r im e n t • N e w ter. what do they look like beside Heed I re i F r u it Hue lie e n P ro d u c e d . those with full manes?— Breeders' Ga The coroless apple has been pro zette. duced and it is full of possibilities. The new fruit Is regarded as "the T o P r e v e n t S m u t in W h ea t. Wheat should not lie sowed without world's greatest discovery In horticul being first treated if it has any indica ture,” says a writer lu the Nineteenth tions of having been exposed to smut. Century and After, and In fruit-grow The trouble can be obviated by dip ing circles la culled “ the wonder of the ping the seed wheat in a solution that age.” Its flavor Is beyond question. I f It is sure to prove effective. Smut is car ried over from year to year on the proves as large as its rivals trees pro seed w h eat The mode of treatment ducing the new • wonder, which is a is as follows: Dissolve one pound of winter variety, will be planted by tho copper sulphate in twenty-four gal million in tlie commercial fruit fields lons o f water. Soak the seed in this at home and abroad. There is little solution for twelve hours, after which likelihood of its impeding the proiita- It should he drained off. Then the ble sale of ordinary apples o f high seed should be soaked for ten minutes grade. in lime water ramie by slaking one The new apple, which is both core- pound of lime In ten gallons of water. less and seedless, was Introduced by The seed should then be dried ns soon an old fruit miser. For tw elve years as possible. Care should then be taken j be experimented to obtain the fruit. that the seed wheut is not eaten by The tree is described as blossom chickens or other stock, as the sulphate less, the only thing resembling a blos is a deadly poison. It is the experi som being a small cluster of tiny ence of farmers that land that bore green leaves which grow around the smutty 'wheat the previous year will newly formed apple and shelter it. Be not bear smutty wheat If the seed is ing devoid of blossoms, it Is claimed properly treated, the smut spores in the that the fruit offers no effective hiding ground having been ull killed by the place in which the codlln moth may cold weather. lay its eggs, which it usually does in , the open eye of the fruit. Moreover, P r o fit in S w in e , A young, thrifty, growing hog will ! there is nothing to fear from frosts The color of the new apple is red. turn grain Into money quicker than any other kirn! o f farm stock. Every dotted with yellow on the skin. As farmer who lias not an extensive range with the seedless orange, so with the for his hogs should sow rye to give seedless apple, a slightly hardened them a green winter feed. Rake up all substance makes Its appearance at the the corncobs, burn them, and when in navel end. But this can be obliterated the form o f bright coals, throw water j hv culture. The originator of the core- on them, thus making charcoal for the j less apple states that the further "w e hogs. A little salt may be added. Try | get from the original live trees the to feed young hogs regularly; never | larger and better the fruits become in feed late, especially the evening meal. , every way.” Watch the hogs closely to see if their Apple culture is more Important digestion Is good, for if they are not even than orange culture. In the Uni- healthy they will not thrive well. To | ted States there are 200,000,000 apple get your hogs ready for market they trees in bearing, from which 250,000,- should be on full feed of eorn; but 000 bushels of fruit are annually har after they are ns fat as they can be vested. In ten years these three will without detraction from their comfort, give a yield of 400,000,000 bushels. put them on the market at once, for At the present time the apple con they are unsafe to keep, because hogs sumption of the United States is eighty fattened on the corn diet are very ten pounds a head o f the population a year. der and cannot stuud any abuse or dis- By bushel measure the American up- ease. The hogs kept for breeding pur- ple (<rop ls follr times greater than the poses should never be put on corn diet. | entlre wbeat yle|d of Great Brltaln but require feed that has more bone and Ireland. and muscle-producing quality. Keep a Billions of apple trees are grown In few more good brood sows; they will the orchards of the world, and millions prove to be the best Investment On of them are still being planted each the farm before another year ls gone. year. The apple imports of Great Don't waste good corn by feeding It to Britain alone range between 4.500,000 hogs in the mud. Y'our hogs will be and 6,000,000 hundred weight. In ad dition, the writer estimates the census o f our apple trees at 20,000,000. There are now 2,000 of these core less apple trees available tor propaga tion to supply the orchards of the world. It ls estimated that by 1900 2,500,000 of these trees will be put up on the market. The Spencer apple Is not the first seedless apple that has been grown. i —, • _ i 'j 'i During the last sixty years about half C O N V E N IE N T H O G -S C A LD IN G O U T F IT . a dozen such claimants have made worth the extra cost of a feeding their appearance. But in no Instance trough. Try keeping an account with was It found possible to reproduce your hogs; charge them with every trees from them which would benr thing they eat and give them credit seedless apples. Though no blossom Is at any time for everything they bring In. and you will be surprised to see how much bet visible on the Spencer seedless apple ter they pay than any other animal on trees, when budded or grafted they In the fnrm. All kinds of stock are a sure trees that will produce coreless source o f profit on a good farm. And apples. They are great bearers, and the farmer who thinks he can leave off crop freely In any country where the stock growing is sure to Hud hls mis ordinary apple tree will fruit. take. The pasture must be utilized In 1826 Abbe R. Dupuy, professor and fertility o f the farm .maintained. of uatural history at Auch, drew atten — Agriculture Epltomist. tion to the Bon Chretien d’Aueh pear, which produced fruit without seeds, W h ite w a s h in g th e T ree s . Whitewash may often be applied to though when removed to another lo fruit trees, especially apple trees, to cality the seeds reappeared In the fruit good advantage. For tills purpose the in the usual way. This fact up to brine may lie slaked In the usual man that period had led the fruit-tree dis ner with cold water, though hot water tributers to treat the pear In one local is preferable for that purpose. By add ity as the Bon Chretin d’ Anch and in ing some skiiumllk to the wash it can another district ts the Winter Bon be made to adhere better to the bark. Chretin. But the Spencer apple re To make It adhere still better, some mains seedless in any soil. people add a thin solution o f glue to Tlie coreless apple will produce a » the wash. Tills whitewash should be great a sensation when brought before of such a consistency ss to he easily the public as the seedless orange did a applied with a spray pump, and the few years ago. The orange is a lux application should lie made in the ury; tlie aromatic apple has become an spring. It aids in keeping off fungous absolute necessity. diseases and insect pests. I Io w to R e v iv e M en dow s. C h in e s e F o o d . A German epicure conics to the res cue of the Chinese in regard to their alleged habit o f eating rotten eggs. The eggs, he says, are simply pre served in lime until they get a con sistency like that o f hard butter, and they taste somewhat like lobster. H e declares them one o f the choicest deli cacies he has ever eaten. He think» there are no better cooks in the world than the Chinese. When he went to live among them hls friends predicted he would starve, but he had a good P in F e a th e rs . Do not expect eggs when the hens timé, and gained weight— more than are moulting. he wanted to.— New Y'ork Tribune. I f the fowls be stinted in food they H o o ih e d t o lie u t. cannot lay up material for eggs. The story is told o f a man whose Aside from the question o f eggs a w ife had arranged an “ authors’ even warm quarters is a great saving of ing," and persuaded her reluctant hus feed. band to remain nt home and help her Chickens that are of a marketable receive the fifty guests wno were asked size should be fattened now as soon as to partake of this intellectual feast. possible. The first author was dull enough, but In having food constantly before the second was still duller. The room* fowls the great risk run Is of having were Intolerably warm, and on pre them too fat. tense of letting In some cool air, the Ten days after the hens are cooped unfortunate host escaped to the hall, up with a cockerel the eggs will hutch where he found the footman comfort true to the mating. ably asleep on the carved oak settee. "W ake up!" he said, sternly. In the From this on chicks cannot be ex pected to grow very rapidly unless man's ear. “ wake np. I say! You must particularly well housed and fed. have been listening at the keyhole!” Kerosene on the roosts prevents lice K itc h e n e r 's W a y. on the fowls. An ounce of kerosene One o f the London dallies tells the Is worth more than a pound o f lice. The purity o f one bird ls not Im following characteristic story o f Lord proved for breeding purposes by being Kitchener. “ On one occasion the Gov ernor o f Natal wired to the Com bred to soother of a different breed. Now ls the time to store a good lot mander-in-chief. 'M y ministers and o f dry earth. Non# ls better than drain myself consider we should be vouch ed and dried peat or muck, and none safed further news.' This was Kitch ener's reply: *1 do not agree with will absorb more gas and liquid. either yon or your ministers.— K.' " Where meadows show indications of failing, give an application o f manure this winter, leaving it on the surface. In the spring apply fifty pounds of nitrate of soda. 10O pounds o f sulphate o f potash and 200 pounds o f acidulated phosphate rock. Tills should be done l-i April, the bare places to be seeded with seeds o f a variety of grasses. Keep the cattle off until the grass makes considerable growth.