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D ELIZABETH'S BIG BOY By MARIA CRAWFORD o (Copyright, 1910, by Associated Literary Press.) "I never believed Elizabeth really loved him, so I am not surprised to hear of her broken engagement. How did It happen?" Aunt Martha Bradner laid down her embroidery and looked over her glasses at the girl. "You're right, Teresa," she said, slowly. "Elizabeth bever loved Jim Martin. They just drifted into an engagement. She thought she was hurt the other day, but It was only wounded pride, and I knew the best thing possible had happened to her. Time, after all, la a sure surgeon: his knife may cut slowly, but it always goes deep enough to take out the sting." "Dr. Martin has felt so sure of Elizabeth that he didn't care what he said or did or left undone, for that matter. It has been his sins of omis sion that I have resented most for Elizabeth. He thinks every woman Is In love with him, and I am glad that everybody in this town knows that Bhe refused him. I was afraid that she wouldn't resent what he said the other night, or else that he would come back the next day and explain things, as he has a habit of doing, Aunt Martha." "I have never liked his attitude to ward Elizabeth, but I wouldn't Inter fere. Young folks can usually fix up their own matches better if we older ones leave them alone. He was al ways telling Ellzaboth that he had to pay some attention to visiting girls for the sake of his practice, but I be lieve that if a doctor can't make a living by depending on hi3 knowledge of medicine ho had better go Into some other business. "If only you could have heard the silly things he said to that Howell girl. Sho Is visiting Fanny Warren, you know, and have seen the way he "I Wouldn't Hurt Anybody Unjustly.' tried to take care, of her, you would have hoped that Elizabeth saw with our eyes just as wo did. I am glad Bhe turned him down, but how did Fho do it? Slio Is always so afraid of hurting Boinebody." "He came hero tho morning after that dance and asked her to go on a country call with him and I was dumb founded when she thanked him and said she couldn't go. I didn't know what had happened at tho dance and when he began to argue and apologize I left the room. Elizabeth cried so ' when she told mo about it afterward that I don't think I quite understood. What did Jim say to her?" "A crowd of us was standing with Elizabeth on tho side gallery of the clubhouse, cooling off botwecn dances, when Doctor Martin appeared on the Bc-ne with the Howell girl. He very carelessly askod Ellzaboth for her dance card and after scratching his name off two places remarked that Miss Howell had just promised him those dances. 'I didn't hesitate about taking them back, Elizabeth,' ho said, 'for you know we'll have to dance to gether for tho rout of our lives any way.' Just then Jack Dunbar loaped off the balcony railing, and with a rather nonchalant air, said: 'That's good, Doe. You've saved Miss Eliza beth and mo from being abominably rudo, for wo wore expecting to go rowing on the lake during those very dances.' I could have hugged him for It. Aunt Martha, and then he wont on to tell Doctor Martin that since ho had como 2.000 miles to see Eliza beth sho had given him permission to take her home in his car and that they would leave early, for he knew Just a 'duck of an Inn' where they could get supper and ho wanted her all to himself for a little while. Eliza beth took her cue Immediately and they wont off together to tho boat house." "What did Jim say?" "Not a word. His face was a study, looked as If something had flattened It out suddenly and I'll wager ho dldut enjoy those dances." "It takes something like that to make men like Jim realize they love a girl. He has been here repeatedly and telephoned a dozen times, but Elizabeth seems to have turned com pletely against him this time. Here he comes now." "Teresa, how glad I am to see you," Elizabeth said, and then fell to crying at sight of the dear friendly face. When Teresa would have stopped her, Aunt Martha said: "No, let hef cry, dear, It will do her good. Tears for a woman are like steam in a boiler. If there wasn't some outlet child, something would have to blow up." "Run, Elizabeth," cried Teresa ex cltedly a few minutes later, catchln.v sight of a broad-shouldered fellow swinging up the path, "run, wash your eyes and put some powder on you' nose for there comes Jack Dunbar li here with a big box. I hope to good ness it's candy." The young people stayed to supper Elizabeth's Aunt Martha insisting tha she needed some youth and laughter Later the dear designing old lady fc! satisfied when sho heard Elisabeth' voice ring out merrily and observe; that she was beginning to soem hei self again. When Teresa hud bee: taken homo and Aunt Martha had d dared it was time for old folks to hi "abed," she had had enough excite ment for one evening, Elizabeth aiv the young artist eat down on the vine covered porch and looked out over th old-fathloned flower garden where tin moon had mysteriously touched th blossoms with her silver brush. "It was good of you to help me out the other evening, Jack. I have wanted to thank you ever since then but somehow I couldn't bring mysell to the point." "That little matter at the dance? I certainly enjoyed that night. 1 think I gave the doctor a turn he won't forget soon." "I broke my engagement with him the next morning, Jack. He thought that he could say or do anything and my word, once given, would protect him.- Real love has no sting In It and I have come to the conclusion that I have been cheating myself by a false belief." Jack Dunbar flicked the ashes from his cigar and waited for her to finish. "It wasn't the first time he has slighted me," she went on, "and lately I have been realizing that things were coming to an issue which would mean severing our relation. 1 wouldn't hurt anybody unjustly for the world. You are a man, Jack, and can judge for me. Do you think that I did right?" He waited so long to answer that she turned and asked again, "Do you think that I did right?" "More than right, Elizabeth, for a man ought to be so proud of a wom an like you that he would be glad to turn from all the world If necessary and cling to you. You trust people so. Elizabeth. I remember when we were children in Maynardsville. I used to carry you across the creek whenever the water came over the stepping stones. You were such a little thing and I was such a big burly fellow that all the girls were afraid of me except you. I can almost feel your little yellow curls bobbing against my face now as they often did In those days. I used to pray for rain then, Elizabeth, so that the water would cover the stones and wet the little girls' feet unless the big boys carried them over. I was always your big boy, Elizabeth, wasn't I?" His very tenderness seemed to hurt, and Elizabeth felt a lump ris ing In her throat. "I went away, you remember, to college and never came back until last summer. I wanted to succeed and bring that success to you." "We are all so proud. Jack, of your wonderful pictures and the great name that you have made for your self." "I wanted to bring that success to you, and when I came last summer and found that you were engaged to Doctor Martin I packed right up and left. I am going to Japan next month to stay a year and work. I wish that you would go with me, dear. I have the right to ask you now, for all through the years I have always been your big boy, Elizabeth, and you have been my Inspiration and my dream." "Rut what would people Bay, Jack?" He stood up and lifted her to her feet before him. "They would Bay that when you were 111 last year, you learned to depend on Martin, and that for a time you believed it was love. You see, I have already heard what I feel muRt be the truth. Don't you believe that you can lenrn to love me? Are you going to let the world's opinion stand between me and my great happiness, for I am selfish, dear. In this. I want you if you are willing to come to me." "You used to carry me when I was little, big boy. Now I've grown heavier and I may bo a burden." "In that case I'm willing to risk It," he said, looking down Into her face, touched by tho silver brush of the moon, and Elizabeth, yielding, felt from tho strength of his arms that she had found tho heart home for he' love and life. HOG RAISING IN OREGON. Feeds Think This Over. Fortune Teller (to plain heiress) Your husbald will be a poor man. Miss Rhine How do you know that? Fortune Teller Well, rich men gen erally don't marry for money. At the Card Table. Mr. Henpeck I don't like my wtf for a partner. She never leads mi anything. Mrs. Sharp Why, everybody sayf sho leads you a dance. Lacking a Point BIob That was a well-rounded Joka Borem told, wasn't It? Knox Yes at least, I failed to see any. point to it Finest Bacon Produced From Native to This State. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- vallls. That hog raising can be carrier! on verv profitably in Ore gon and the Northwest is the opinion of Dr. James Withycombe, Director of the Oregon Agricultural Experi ment station. Relative to this mat ter Dr. Withycombe says: "The production of hogs is a neglected industry on many Oregon farms. This great American farm mortgage lifter for some reason does not receive the attention to which he is .entitled. This is perhaps due to the inability of many farmers to disassociate the hog from corn. In the great hog-producing states corn is the staple food for these animals and the opinion is prevalent that there Is no other feed that can suc cessfully compete with corn. This is a mistake ana 11 nas oeen proven such time and again. It is a, well known fact that the highest priced bacon in the world is produced in Canada and Denmark. This high priced meat is not produced from corn but from just such feeds as can be grown abundantly upon the Ore- Ton farms. There is no better grain than wheat or barley for producing a high class pork product. Barley should be the staple hog food upon the Oregon farm. Splendid results can be secured from barley and skim milk or barley and tankage as a fat tening food for hogs. "It has been found at the Oregon Experiment Station that skim milk and tankage are both excellent sup plemental foods with barley for fat tening hogs. These supplemental foods lower the cost of production. Ordinarily it rquires 4.5 pounds of barley to make one pound of gain but with these supplemental feeds much less barley is required for securing a similar gain. "In a recent experiment conduct ed at this station, 3.21 lbs. of ground barley and 4.87 lbs. of skim milk produced one pound gain in lot 1, comprising 7 hogs, which gained in 60 days, 786 lbs. and consumed 2525.5 lbs. of ground barley and 3S32.5 lbs. skim milk. In lot 2, consisting of 7 hogs, it required 3.43 lbs. of ground barley and .25 lb. of tankage for one pound gain. This lot gained in 60 days 778.3 lbs. and consumed 2676.75 lbs. barley and 191.5 lbs. of tankage. Estimating that without the skim milk or tankage it would have re quired 4.5 lbs. of ground barley .to produce one pound gain, this would indicate that 3832,5 lbs. of skim milk saved 1011.5 lbs. of barley which at $27.00 per ton would give a return of $13.70 for the milk, or about 36 cent3 per cwt. Estimating upon the same basis for the tankage fed hogs 191.5 lbs. of tankage saved 825.5 lbs. of barley, worth at $27.00 per ton, $11.14. Cost of tankage, $4.73, thus making from the investment in tankage $6.41. There is no question but what swine husbandry, when properly con ducted is profitable in Oregon. From a number of experiments conducted at this station results show that it costs approximately . 3.5 cents ner pound to grow a hog to a fattening stage. For example, pigs farrowed in the early spring and allowed to run on clover, alfalfa, vetch, or rape during the summer and fed a small supplemental feed or grain can be brought to a fattening stage In the fall, weighing about 125 pounds at a cost of about 3.5 to 4 cents per pound. Presuming at this time they are placed in fattening yards and fed for 60 days on ground barley, of which it will require 450 pounds to produce 100 pounds gain. Thus at this time the hog will weigh 225 lbs. and at present market values worth cents per pound, or $18.00. The cost of production will be about as follows: 'Cost of maintaining breeding herd about $2.00 per pig; initial weight at time of fattening, 125 lbs. at 3.5 cents per pound, $4.37; 450 lbs. of barley at $27 per ton, $6.07. Total cost of production, $12.44; net profit per hog, except labor, $5.56. This of course allows commercial rate for all food consumed. If skim milk or tankage be fed even better results would be secured. It is evident that there is good money in hogs. "Sows should farrow two litters a year. The fall pigs could be wint ered in Western Oregon very largely upon roots and kale with a small supplemental feed of grain and fat tened in the spring or early summer. In Eastern Oregon they could run on early sown grain or be fed some roots or nicely cured alfalfa or pea hay. "In the matter of breed there Is lit tle difference in the leading breeds of hogs. It is largely a matter of per sonal choice with the farmer. It is not necessary to have pure bred hogs to make a success of the industry. Pure bred sires, however, should al ways be kept. Some growers have excellent success in cross'ng breeds, for example, taking high grade Berk shire sows and crossing with pure Lontreat Kuirllsh Lamoit, The longest lawsuit ever heard in England was that between the heir of Thomas Talbot, Viscount Lisle, and the heirs of Lord Berkeley respecting certain lands and possessions not far from Wootton-under-Edge, In the coun ty of Qloucester. It commenced at the end of the reign of Edward IV. and was pending till the reign of James I., when a compromise took place after it had lasted about 120 years. London Answers. bred Poland China Bires or vice versa. This is feasible with a graded herd, but too expensive with, pure bred herds. "Young pigs should not be fed coarse, bulky feed, neither is coarse grain, such as ground oats and bar ley, good when the pig first begins to eat These coarse feeds irritate the intestinal tract and may be re sponsible for producing what is gen erally known as thumps and convul sions. The ideal food for a young pig is skim milk and shorts or mid dlings. Food of this character should be fed until the pig is at least three months old. Then again the pig should have exercise. Many nigs are ruined by being feed rich feed without being given any exer cise. They are prone, under such conditions, to develope rheumatic arthiritis which is a very serious trouble. This, however, can be en tirely eliminated through exercise. Young growing hogs, in fact all hogs, should be provided with clean, com fortable quarters during the winter months, as hogs are very susceptible to cold and suffer if not provided with warm sleeping quarters. "Hogs should be finished for the market at the earliest practicable age. The younger the animal the low er the cost of production. A four months old pig will make a pound gain with at least one-third less feed than a one year old hog. Economy in production means growing the pig in the open field during the summer and finishing it for the market quick ly in the fall In a fattening period not exceeding over about sixty days." NOTES FROM THE EXPERIMENT STATIONS. (From Washington Experiment Station, Pullman, Wash.) The only remedy for China lettuce is absolutely clean cultivation. A cul tivator or harrow should be rigged with knives, so that it is possible to "shear" two or three inches below the ground, and completely cut off all young vegetation. You should go over the ground often enough to pre vent any leaves from appearing above the ground. This kind of treat ment will gradually wear out the weed. However, if you neglect the cultivation in busy times, the good you have accomplished will be lost, and you will have to begin over again. It Is by reason of this neglect that many people are led to say that clean cultivation is not a suc cess. It is a success, and the only method, when it is thoroughly done. The best method of keeping the gophers away from your trees is to rid the orchard of gophers. This can be done" with comparative ease and with very small expense if the owner will carefully go over the field with pieces of poisoned carrots, and place a piece in every place where the gopher shows fresh work in the soil. The carrots should be cut into pieces about the size of a quail egg, with a small slit made in the side of the piece in which a few crystals of strychnine are inserted. This dis solves to poison the entire piece of carrot. It will be necessary to go over the field twice or three times during the fall or early spring .before one can be sure that it is entirely free from this troublesome orchard pest. "Strawberry- mildew" is an old Eastern disease of the strawberry which in recent seasons, has been found in the West. Where it. is found, carefully rake off as much of the trash and leaves in the spring as possible. Do this just after growth starts. Destroy all of the leaves, for i mildew will live over in these leaves, and be there to bother the plants another year. After thorough ly cleaning up the patch, give it a thorough spraying with Bordeaux mixture. This is to be done before the plants start into active growth. Watch your plants very carefully during the growing season, and spray again if it i3 necessary. Logged-off lands treated with an application of well-rotted stable ma nure should produce good crops of potatoes. If the manure is not avail able in large quantities, light appli cations of nitrate of soda put on soon after they start to grow produce good results. This fertilizer should be used at the rate of 75 to 150 pounds per acre, and should be given just as the crop needs it. It will therefore be necessary to give two or even three applications during the growing season. One should not experience difficulty in growing potatoes on bottom land r sandy soil. However, if land is peaty, it may dry out a little too early if it happens to be in a com paratively dry section. If early po tatoes are desired, probably the best variety would be the Early Ohio. But if you desiie to grow late pota toes, the Burbank is a satisfactory one. Some people are very much in favor of the Beauty of Hebron, while others think there is nothing equal to the Early Rose. Persons who wish to plant flowers a the spring that will grow during the summer and be in good shape during the fall could make use of ,he very late varieties of sweet peas, any of the asters, zinnias and pos sibly a few pansies. Another plant is the cosmos. Get the late flowering sorts of these, and delightful results will be secured. MESSAGE FROM VENUS J. 8. ASTRONOMER CLAIMS TO HAVE ACCOMPLISHED FEAT. Head of Naval Observatory at Mar Island Declares the Star Is In habited by Intelligent Beings. San Francisco, Cal. Prof. Thomab lefferson See, the famous astronomer who is now in charge of the United States naval observatory at Mare sland, has established communication vith the planet Venus, according to information obtained here. Further, hat he has received a message from Venus. It is claimed by Professor See that lot only is Venus inhabited but that he inhabitants are of a high order ,of ntelligence, capable of reasoning and f receiving and responding to coin nunlcations from the earth and other istral bodies. Just what the nature of the message Professor See received from VenjiS he iecllnes at this time to make known. ,le is reserving that detail for the ifflclal report he is preparing to make )f his remarkable discovery. That Professor Soe is not a vlBlon iry and that his statements can be iccepted with credence may be attest 3d by his career. He is a graduate f the University of Missouri, claBS 'of 88. After his graduation he matricu ated at the University of Berlin, vhere he received a doctor degree, rle was for three years in charge of :he Yerkes observatory at the Uni versity of Chicago. While in Germany Professor See startled astronomers by his discovery of the so-called "double stars." After leaving Germany Professor See en tered the service of the United States, becoming attached to the naval ob servatory service. He now holds the highest rank in that service, bearing die title of captain. Professor See says that he now feels quite certain that he has estab lished his remarkable theory showing the evolution of the stellar system, which, if true, as Professor See be lieves, knocks into a cocked hat near ly all of the reasoning on cosmlcal evolution that has been accepted since the time of LaPlace. Professor See claims this theory has been vitiated by a false premise to the effect that the planet had been detached from the sun by acceleration of rotation, when the matter of this globe was originally expanded into a nebula fill ing their orbits,, and rotating under conditions of hydrostatic pressure and that the satellites have been detached from the planets in the same way. All this reasoning Professor See claims, on the shedding of planets and satellites under the suposed influence of the accelerated rotation of the rela tively large central bodies which gov ern their motion, is now invalidated. He says it is also demonstrated in more ways than one, but especially by means of the important criterion pro osed by Rabinet, in 1861, and here tofore very generally overlooked, that the planet and satellites could never have been detached by rotation with the existing momenta of momentum, and must therefore have been captur ed and built up In a resisting medium revolving as a whirling vortex and es sentially devoid of hydrostatic pres sure. In this way, and in this way only, can these small bodies have been formed, and their orbits reduced in size and transformed Into such singu lar circularity, according to Professor See. The Landmark. "Ah," said the gray-haired wayfarer at the railway refreshment room, "this U tho old place. I recognised yonder landmark at once." "What landmark V Inquired the Bar maid, considerately. "Tears ago, when I traveled orer this Una," said the stranger in a chok ing voice, 1 carved my Initials and the date o yonder ban. I see you bar It atilL Excuse an old man's tears." FARMER GOES ON A RAMPAGE While Angry at His Wife He Kills Dog, Shoots Horee and Fires House and Barn. Danville, 111 Newton S. Melton, one of the wealthiest farmers in Ver milion county, is in jail here on charge of arson and attempting to murder his wife. The offenses were committed after a trip to Danville, in which he sold some hogs to a pack ing house. Returning home he accused his wife of hiding the animals. She denied the charge and Melton, with a shot gun, drove her into an upstairs room. She barricaded herself and Melton fired through the door. He then ran out Into the yard, killed a pet dog and shot the ear oft the family driving horse. Melton then set fire to a new $5,000 barn, an old barn and fired the fam ily dwelling in three places. The shooting and flames attracted a crowd of farmers, who armed themselves, and they finally overpowered him. Boosts $3 Violin to $300. Alma, Mich. A $3 violin can be transformed into a $300 one by George Porter, a Jeweler of this city. He dis covered a chemical process for aging the wood while repairing a violin for a friend which removes all sap and resin, Just as time does. A cheap vio lin, bo treated and submitted to an expert who owns a $300 instrument was pronounced as good as his own Sues Husband's Slayer for Support. Pittsburg, Pa. Abandoning all at tempts to have Frank Chowe tried for murder because he shot and killer her husband. Mrs. Mlchaed Chekan has brought suit for $15,000 against Chowe tor the support of her four email chll lren. It was found the killing was accidents OREGON AND WASHINGTON FARM LAND'S Lought and Sol J HARRY M. 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