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R U R A L K N T tK P R IS K
RURAL L M L k l ’RLSE
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AN OILY BUGBEAR
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Daddy’s Evening
S. S. Letton
Fairy Tale
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By Mary Graham Bunner. Copyrighted
by Western Newspaper Union
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Garden Plant Destroyers
Lesson for April 19
Most Productive Hard Red
W inter Wheat.
A BROTHER’S SISTER
L IF B IN T H E E A R L Y C H U R C H
Mlmmle's brother was devoted to her
even though he was eight years older
LESSON T E X T —A cts « J l - Z i l l .
GOLDEN T E X T — The m u ltitu d e of than she was.
them th a t b eliev ed w ere of one heart
He used to let her play with him
and o f one so u l.”—A cte « 12
PRIMARY TOPIC—A Story About and with b it friends a great deal.
It bad snowed the night before. Mlm
G iving
JUNIOR
TOPIC— H ow
the
Pleat mle had gone to sleep while the snow
C h ristian e Loved One Another.
storm bad kept up steadily. I t was
IN TER M ED IA TE AND SENIOR TOP
IC— H '.w the E a rly C hristiane Lived wonderful the way It had kept on
T ogeth er.
while the whole world, almost, had
YOUNG PEO PLE AND ADULT TO P gone to sleep.
IC— L esson Prom the E arly Church.
The Inst thing M im m le had heard
Characteristics of the Prim itive I w lg ,be Breat f° e horn whlch was f U8t
Church ( w . 81-35).
z
I ®°*Mde the harbor. The bell on the
The cotton-growing states a rt
being stirred up by the oJe<
folks to protest against oleo
Improved Methods
The “ good will ” of Dodge
restriction by law in the north
on Cattle Ranges
because of its alleged depressing ''o th ers’ automobile factory is
effect on the sale of cotton-seed slued at only $75,000,000. If
oil for use in making the bogus lenry Ford hadn’t come into the
Land May Be Made O f i l l
1. I t Was a Praying Church (v. 31)
baoy whlch told ah|I” "h e re the hud
butter.
ompetition with bis high wages
These early Christians for every rocka w" i‘ had rla n BPd steadily. For
More Productive.
Here a t home the oily propa ind low prices the Dodges might I want and ever7 nped bHook then»- 88 ti,e„bu<>y ,08aed •h01“ 00 the waves
gandists shake before us the
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selves to God In prayer.
the bel1 at 01 8 t0P o t the buoy rang.
(P rep ared by th e U nited Stax«« D ep a rtm en t
mu, a ted someth mg worth j z I t Was a Spirit-filled Church (v.
11 bad be"n 8
snowstorm
o f A g ricu ltu re.)
bugaboo of reprisals by the
■ bile.
31).
I they had said the next day and the
Although farm ing has keen biaking
south if we curb oleo.
When they prayed, the place was I
aion€
coast had hod a hard I Inroads on the pasture lands of the
The fact is reported to be
w ere I shaken wherein they were gathered I time of lt- Bnt w,tb tbe day p»ul‘‘ Western range area for the past 30
If
all
our
‘‘
alienists’
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that cocoanut oil from the Phil
s an d to* ether- and they were all filled with s“n8bln' ' “ d "h e n M immle awoke years, lt is still the great beef reser-
ippines has crowded out the cot reduced to the rank of a lie n DS
an u I the Holy S p irit
I stle thought for a moment why she fe lt I v° lr of the country. T hat there are
Imported
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It Was a Church Which Had so very happy.
tonseed product until only 2 pei
tnany ways In which this native grass
It was really annoying to feel so land may be made still more produc
cent of the vegetable oil used in vhich th e re is o v e rp ro d u c tio n , ° * * « * Boldness In Preaching the Word
happy and not to know just why. But tive, Is brought out by the United
the oleo sold in Oregon comes o uld decrease,
^ od ( T- ®H-
States Departm ent of Agriculture In
from cottonseed.
T he ministers of a Spirit-filled In a few moments she remembered. It
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. church w ill not offer any apology for was 8 Saturday and they had planned I Farmers' B ulletin 1383, Beef-Cattle
If the south would join Ore
Germany
ill expend all tl
their I the nigbt before to build a snow fort j Production In the Range Area, Just Is-
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------- off a ’load by j the Bible, but w in
gon farmers in the move to shut
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t|je gnow didn't | Urn int0 rajB ^lur sued.
t epudiatmg 95 per cent of her energy In fearlessly preaching IL
bull butter out of this state she ational debt.
ing
the night.
The range area is described as that
4. I t Was a United Church (v. 32).
would be buttering her own
M lttm le got up and shook off some region, west of the one hundredth me
They were all of one heart aud one
bread, for she would get fai
soul.
This shows that they had a of the snow which had fallen on tbe ridian, where cattle and sheep are pro
big eiderdown quilt.
duced largely on native grasses, a re-
unity o f feeling and purpose.
more income from the cotton Do Not Plant Trees Too
11 er sleeping room was at the top K*on which takes In about 45 per cent
I t Was a Charitable and Gener
seed meal Oregon dairymen
Close in Home Orchards ous 5. Church
of the house and It was very cold. Its
° ( the total land area of this country.
(V. 32).
would feed to the increased
Standard trees placed at standard
They held nothing back from those wlndt>ws to lle d out over the harbor There Is. of course, no sharp dividing
number
of calves and othei distances are better for the smnll
‘
who had need. As needs nrose, sup- j and her bed was near the windows so line, but In a strip varying In width
livestock than she would in re- home orchard than dwarfs or crowded plies
from 7J5 to 160 miles along the meri
were given from a common fund. lhat often patches of snow were on the
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ticoa, said Prof. Joeeph Oskamp of
She loved dian there Is a general tendency from
6. Its M inisters Had a Powerful quilt. But she loved I t
the pomology department of the New
moving the hot-water bottle about so east to west to devote less land to
duced sales of oil to makers of York State Oollege of Agriculture on Testimony (v. 83).
Thia shows that there must be a ! that It warmed the sheets, and some farming and more to pastures. Dur
oleomargarine used in Oregon. February 0. at Farmer«* week F ille r
ing the past 30 years an Increasing
personal experience before there can | times when the w ater in the bottle
trees or small fru its can bo planted
had frozen down at the end of the bed percentage of the land w ithin the
be a powerful testimony.
the standard trees foe early returns,
range area has been devoted to fsrm-
___ __ a Church Whose
„ „ „ „ Mem- sbe had bad t0 ,eav«
txntll she was
7- I t Was
"R a in m a k e r” Hatfield played ho says, as apple tree« should he
bership Exhibited "unbTemlsTZd
I drfcssed and 11 was melted so she could I *“«• the rai"lt of ^ ‘ ter crop adapta-
planted
40
or
80
foot
apart.
in luck ones or twice and got cash
acter (v. 33)
I pour 11 ont-
I tion- better methods of conserving
Most growers are Inclined to plsut
Great grace was upon them slL
She Went d<>WI18tal™ to her play-
and Irrigation.
from California farmers b.cause
too much, and discourage themselves
II. Barnabaa’ Generous Act (vv I r0° m t0 dres*' ,o r she °n ly used this
The bulletin covers the various
the amount of rain he promised by the «lie of tbetr orehurd, Mya Pro 36-37).
’ I ro<3m tor sleeping. Sometimes people I problems of tbe range cattle producer,
came Withil the specified time. feasor Oskamp. One tree of each va
H e sold a piece of land and turned dldn 1 M ie v e ’ he w ater in a w ater hot- I Including management of the breeding
riety
Is
sufficient,
or
even
one
tree
on
Tbe newspapers blazoned these
over all the proceeds thereof to be U* C° Uld freele ln one corner o f the herd, handling cattle on the range, na-
wblch has been top-grafted two or uaed for the help of those ln need It bed whUe Ulnnnle was Quite warm ln ,lve f °r««e plants, prevention o f loss
“ successes" in all directiens, but three other varieties.
should be borne ln mind, however
anotb®r Part ot *t- But she had shown from poisonous plants, parasites and
we have seen no scare heads over
Small fruits may be grown with leas that lt la not said that Barnabas sold 11 ,0 her fan)l|Y “»d they had told
diseases, selection of bulls and cows,
'rouble
by
one
who
desires
fru
it
for
his latest stunt. For 14000 he
alt the land he had.
I P ^ P 1* *t was so.
I Improvement of ranching properties
le>me use 8t»awberrito, red raspber
I I I . T he Sanctity of the Church v i„
“H u rry “ P. M lm . we w ant to get and Increasing the beef-producing ca-
contracted to Jgive certain Kern ries. purple canes, blackcaps and
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urtn v
' started soon.”
I p arity of pastures.
county farmers 1} inches .of rain blackberries, with a few gooseberries dlcated (8:1-11).
The boys— eight of them— arrived a
11 ls 8ald ,hat the runge area con-
This
new
community
l
a
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o
v
for
the
within a specified time. The :md currents make up a good small first tim e called the church. The men little later, and at each end of the yurd trU,utes nearly 40 per cent of the na-
e rd e n for home fruits.
In | tl0Il s beef cattle. Corn-belt beef fin
money was raised. The rainfall
tion of the church ln Acts 2 :47 Is spu a splendid snow fort was built.
Nearly all red i-aapberrlee In New
ishers are dependent on this region to
was .8975 of an inch and Charles Yot4i slate are Infected with morale rious. They now have broken with
u large extent for their feeders.
Judaism
so
that
their
success
depends
M. Hatfield Went away without disease, according to Professor O e
upon th eir being recognized.
Since
l.iunp, and anyone planning to plant
the cash.
“ Jim ,” the big gray tom
this new community superseded tbe
iham should first consult the New
cat at Mill View, i el of Petjgy
York F rn lt Tasting a e m la tlo n a t Ge- ° ! d' Ood WBB t0 tna^ e Hla dwelling
land Edward Hayes, climbed up
I his i» a day of gigantic mergers newa. Protomor Oskamp states that It pl" ° * “ ‘“ “g them— the very sacred
tbe screen door on tbe back porch
in big business. The greater part Is not ganerally a wise policy to trnst nBS" ° f the tah“rnu<'*« and temple was
and put hie paw on the button
of the electric light and power nil traveHn« tree agents who eall at I tranaferre<1 to them. T his lesson, the
jo t'» door, bnt R to bettor to get yonr chuzeb
rauat le“ ™. as well as
that rings tbe door bell. No one
business of the United States is plants through an old and reliable nnr- ,he
maaa surrounding I t The
Answered him the first time, go he
sacredueao o f God's dwelling place
practically under one control. Just serr.
| raog again, getting results.— Ver-
Yellow Tranq>areot la one o f the men * " * alow to 1“, r n
Moses did not
oonia Eagle,
now seventy-five of the largest best
early vorleries of apple. Thia ton
,a k " Off hl’ sboM nntH.hIdden by the
lumber mills in Oregon, Washing ho followed by Barly Harvest Bed Lord
i,ad ab and Ablbu must be
ton and norhern California, where Anttochan, Sweet Bough, and M d n 8trlcken down ln the beginning of the
tosh. Rhode Island Greening and M ,’aaJc • TOn" “ J for their presump-
Mock than he would lose in re
most of the country’s remaining
timber stands, are planning
combination that will be virtuall
a monopoly of tbe lumber busi
ness, with a capital of $130,000,
000. The farmers have nothing
of tkal nature.
The I'tiitud States bureau of
M ine*says the annual loss caus
etl by smoke in the principal in
dustrial centers is $7.«6 per
capita and th a t it could be
avoided by substituting gas and
coke for fuel. A bigger loss
caused by smoke could be done
away with if all the tobacco
I »ui ned wem dumped in the sea
instead. A ren’t we rich and
luxurious, though?
The “alienist” who volunteer-
id to testify that Dorothy El
lingson was insane proclaimed
that lie did it without hope of
reward, but he put himself in
line for a job «f paid swearing
sometime in the future. These
’ experts" are made, as well as
born.
•
Every few days some archeo
logist discovers ruins older than
those somebody discovered a
few days before.
Egypt and
Babylon have become quite
modern, relatively, and Grandp«
Adam a parvenu.
_ Mother Goose will lie popular
in the nursery when the prudes
n ho are attacking her, together
w ith all their writings, are for
gotten. Mother Goose gets to
the juvenile heart. Her critics
do not-
G snsrsl Hiadeuberg, who has
always claiaie.l that tha Garman
forces were not dafaalad by tbe
liea but by lack of u<>ed«d aup.
Northem Spy or Balrtwto are late va
riotles for w inter storage.
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,UO1“ o fr,rln * ot strange fire before
tha Eord.
A chan was put to death
for secreting a p art of the booty soon
Few Hints
for Carpflll
.
a r e ilil
Bruning of Young Trees
a it *
I
She Did Not Spoil T h o lr Fun.
’ “ be<lnuJng
terlDg the of promised
land. thlg
So,
the church
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little
special,
UT FLOWERS
-S H E E T MUSIC
HALL’S
A
Floral and
Music Shop
Albaa *
Modern
Barber Shop
Roth Ananias and Sapphlra fell
down dead and the young men carried
them away for burial.
3. G reat Fear Came Upon the
Church (v, 11).
Thia vindication caused the people
to know th a t God was with them, and
It also kept the hypocrites from Join
lng w ith them (v. 13). L et us tnr
ware I
Laundrv tent Tuettlayt
Agency Hub Cleaning Works
A B E 'S P L A C E
F. M. GRAY,
DRAYM AN
A lfw o rk done prom ptly’ and reason
•b ly .
I'hone ,%»
P resistanc« o f L ife
Strange, lsn t IL that marvelous per
sistence ef life | But that Is a way
that life haa W e speak of It souie-
tlmea a t very fleeting and transitory,
and yet there are w> many thing-,
about u i a fte r all, that are very bard
te kllL
T e a rs S h a ll C o m . N o M o re
God wsshea the eyes by tears until
they can heboid the Invialhle land
w here tears shall tom e no m o re_H
W. Reecber.
that was a great compliment, she
thought.
She knew that was tree
H e r broth
er had taught her to ride in tbe ex
press to r t so she could be dashed
around corners and she could balance
without letting the cart upset.
All
the boys thought It fine the way she
could do th ia And she could clltnb up
and stand on her brother's shoulders,
and when he got down on the floor
she knew how to stand on his chest
so as not to hurt him.
Very few. ex rep t those whose busi
ness
was to do this, knew how she
could steer a tl.-d and turn somersault,
on the bed. H e r brother had taught |
her to do all these great things
she
could vault a fence, too, and In an old
tree she loved to cllmh he had made
seats for her where she sat— high
above the earth.
These were the things her brother I
and his friends bed taught her to do
n ig boys could really be so nice
W hy did some children think other j
Becaura they were cry babies j
tlon of hard red w inter wheat Into
certain of these localities which bad
been abandoned by the earliest set
tlers later made possible a permanent
wheat-growing Industry.
H a rd red
w in t* r wheat Is now the principal
crop In many sections of lim ited rain
fall, Including much of Kansas and
Nebraska, western Oklahoma, north
eastern Colorado, central Montana,
and the drier portions of the Columbia
basin of Oregon and Washington.
Kanred, ln general, was the most
productive hard red w inter wheat for
tbe Great Plains area. O ther high-
yielding strains are A lberta Red, A r
gentine, Belogllna, Blsckhull, Karmunt,
Montana No. 36, and Nebraska No.
60.
Turkey and K h arkof, the two
leading hard red w in te r wheats, were
found to be practically equal In yield,
w inter hardiness, and other agronomic
characters and ln m illing and baking
qualities. M ln tu rk l and Karm ont are
among the most hardy and Kanred la
the moat rust-resistant of the hard red
w inter varieties.
The results o f varietal experiments
w ith w inter wheat at 16 different sta
tions form the basis of a new publi
cation Just Issued as department bulle
tin 1276. A copy may be obtained, as
long as the supply lasts, from the
United States Departm ent of A gricul
ture. Washington, D. O.
Good Plan for H eadingv
Back Young Apple Tree
Young apple trees should be headed
back to about 20 to 30 laches from the
ground. I f lt Is a one-year-old tree
then all th a t Is necessary Is to cut off
the top the desired height. I f lt Is a
two-year-old tree then the central lead
er should be removed and from three
to five lateral branches retained, these
being cut back to about 8 to 10 Inches
In each case the lateral branches
should be cat to ah outside bud, ln
order to cause the tree to spread prop
erly.
A fte r the tree has pasted Its
third year about all that la necessary
Is to take out Interfering branches ta d
keep the tree from becoming too dense
I f the tendency Is for the tree to pro
duce long slender branches, then these
should be shortened ln the same way
that peach limbs are shortened in, un
til the tree begins to fru it, a fte r which
tim e Uttle pruning w ill he necessary
with the exception of thinning out the
IntArferins branches
To K now All
‘To know nil Is to forgive a ll”— and
to forgive Is to save.
HALSEY STATE BANK
protected
» “ ruing was needed on the part of the ro* U1’ w her*' M immle was to sit when
Young apple and peach trees have
' cl,urcb to P’W'ent the hypocrisy of ‘ ** in ° W battJ* <ot t0° ,a8t for her-
been pruned too severely ln the past
doubla ••'•vice.
,
In this way they were Hot worried
und bearing trees have been pruned
I L
T*” <->« « » lo n
Which Brought f ° r fear *h* would b* hurt, and she
too lightly or too Infrequently, Paul Tbta D read fu l Judgment on Ananias
dld nOt spo11 tbelr fun-
Thayer, fru it extension specialist of | and SnPPhl™ (vv. 1-4).
Tbe bsttle was a furious one. The |
Pennsylvania State college, says.
It was their hypocritical-Im itation of 8nowbaUs w«re large ones,
Every orchard grower should aim to
the generous act of Barnabaa He and
Bnt a f , , r 8 tlm e th«y became
secure three things ln Ids young
his w ife conspired together In this smaller, as they had to be made and
orchard at the earliest date poesUXe
lfflance of God.
They wanted the remade a fte r throwing, and now there
Thayer reports. These are strength'
honor w ithout paying the price. The was no tim e allowed for snowball-
growth and productiveness. Pruning,
same love o f praise Is causing many making.
especially heading back. Interferes
In the church today to Im itate their
T he hoys had been Invited to stay
with fru it hearing, but a fte r fru it trees
dreadful ndatake.
Peter told them for lunch, and a fte r lunch they played
are mature and fru it bearing estab
they had not lied to men, but to God
for aw hile w ith trains In the house
llshi d, the trees shouldTeoelve a eare-
So fa r as we know Ananias did not T he rain had come and spoiled the
ful and Increasingly thorough annual
speak a word, but his actions spoke snow. M im m le played with the Uncle
priming.
louder than his words. Such actions Tom s Cabin and Noah's ark which
could only be accounted fo r by the fact bad belonged to her brother when he
A skull half an inch thick, un. that Satan filled their hearts. But was young and which now they owned
arthed en Arizona, lias been sent that did not excuse them. They were together.
for allowing Satan a place
He was too old to play w ith them,
o Washington without the formal- responsible
In their hcerts. We should learn from
ity of an election.-D etroit News this that God and mammon cannot be but they still stayed In his room, so
they owned them together.
served at the same time. People to
M immle Uked big boys better thnn
day are w alking ln the way of Ana- she did big girls. Big girls told her the
when they sit down at the Lord's was young for her age. which was not
table with unregunerate hearts.
true. She knew that.
10) T h * J u d ,ln •‘n, W b*ch Fell (vv. 5-
Big boys called her a tomboy, and
Xanred Outyields
Other Varieties
Potato , bugs, cabbage worms and
plant lice in assorted variety are gar
den poets that appear as surely as the
I f O M r U Or t h . U n liM sta ta a D a p a r t n ..«
season -rolls around, and every gar
• ( A fr ic u ltu r « .)
dener must be ready to meet and repel
Many failures o f pioneer farmers in
the Invading hordes of Insect destroy- the drier sections of the western
ere. In aildltlon, the cutworm works i section of the United States were due
Insidiously and destroys some vege- f to the attem pt to grow unadapted
tables, although committing nothing ‘ crops, saya the United States Denart.
111»
b * ,4
o r.
n 11 Ana z.F
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like l the
depredations
o f enemies of »4,!,
the —
ment of Agriculture, ln discussing its
garden that work out In the open. vurletal experiments with hard red
There are also molds, blights and m il w inter wheats ln the dry areas of the
dews to add to the toll.
western United Stages. T he lntroduc-
1 H I. w —f r a N e w y a p e r UaJoa.)
—
Mrs. Anna Cunningham
of
>ary, 111., accussd of poisoning
ier whole family for their life
nsuraijce, is declared by “ ex-
iert alienists ” to he " of a type
apable of any misdeed.” So was
.'aptain Kidd, but he was tried io
ingland, where they hang 'em.
r a r it i w i t «»
• t tka W v .n las Scassi. n . o S r
• tltU t« o f Chlo<<«j )
.’ l.’iiin ile ’» b ro th e r suU. out V ltn m le
knew It was because these big boys
ta im lit b ill did OOl tease.
Halsey, Oregon
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Crowns, bridge work and fillings. It wld
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Hay is worth just as much in storage as
you might gut for it m
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