ïfes A u ro raObserver
Farm Pointers.
FACTS OF INTEREST
Husky Individuals in
TO ALL AM ERICANS
Days of the Georges
A succession of cover sprays at
Entered as second class matter March
In an old London inn known as the
28, 1911, at the postoffice at Aurora, about two weeks intervals is ap­ Sign of the Coffee Mill Mr. E. V. Lu­
Oregon, tinder the Act o f March 3,1879. plied by southern Oregon apple cas found a pair of scales on which
during a century and a half many
growers to get best results in clean
notable men were weighed. Ever
Geo. E. Knapp, Editor and Publisher fruit. The practice is continued
since the year 1765 records of illus­
through the early summer months trious and also of regal ponderosity
with cover sprays recommended in have been kept at the place, which Is
in St. James street. If you want to
the experiment station spray pro­ know how much Charles Lamb
Opinions of the gram for Oregon.
weighed in 1814, writes Mr. Lucas in
Soils in the best physical condi­ the “ Romance of Old London,” I can
tell you that when he was thirty-nine
tion and well supplied with plaDt years old he turned the scale in his
food are essential to vegetables of boots at one hundred and twenty-nine
good quality because they need to pounds, much more than I was expect­
ing. But hl3 boots may have been
grow quickly. Where well compost heavy.
In commenting on the danger to
ed stable manure caunot be had a
I discovered that Lord Byron, who
national security resulting from
| commercial fertilizer made up of 3 we know was sensitive about his bulk,
constant agitation in congress for
was weighed many times, first in 1806,
per cent nitrogen, 7 to 8 per cent when he was living at No. 8, only five
amendment to the United States
phosphoric ascid and 3 per cent pot­ doors away; then he weighed one hun­
Constitution permitting congress
ash is recommended by the Oregon dred and ninety-four pounds in his
to override or otherwise interfere
boots. The realization must have dis­
experiment station.
tressed exceedingly one who lived in
with the court’s present status,
fear of embonpoint even to the ex­
Anthracnose
canker
and
fruit
rot
Secretary of the navy Wilbur says
treme of drinking vinegar and gener­
are
prevented
by
a
single
thorough
such action would destroy the pres­
ally mortifying the flesh. In 1811 in
ent American system of executive, application of bordeaux 4-4-50. shoes only—he had got his weight
judicial and legislative powers. Good economy is to put the bor­ down to one hundred and thirty-seven
and a half pounds. Tom Moore seems
Limitation of the power of the deaux on with the July or August similarly to have decreased, for in
worm
spray,
says
the
O.
A.
C.
ex­
1807 he was one hundred and forty-
Court would require it to substi­
six pounds and in 1809 one hundred
tute voting power for logic, a periment station.
and twenty-five.
change which would lead to po­
A profitable crop rotation in
Another famous man, one who also
litical controversies over the selec­ Oregon contains a cash crop : uch could have had no wish to lose his
tion of such judge.
as wheat, a legume crop, a culti figure and who will go down in history
as much for his insolent question as
vated manured crop and livestock to the identity of the prince regent—
feed crop, grouped to distribute “ Who’s your fat friend?”;—as for his
An Unsound Policy
farm labor as evenly as possible. fastidiousness in ties, was Beau Brum-
mell. In 1798 Brummell stood at one
The small grain is disked in follow­ hundred and seventy-two pounds In
Agitation has been started in sev­ ing the new row crop, and follow­ boots, in 1811 at one hundred and
eral states to force monopolistic ed by clover which may be turned ninety-two pounds in boots and frock,
state insurance in the casuality under for the new row crop. and In 1815 at one hundred and sev-
entyreight pounds In shoes. In 1810
field covering workingmen’s com­ This does away with plowing for the Beau had to fly from his credi­
two years and makes only two
pensation insurance.
plowings in the four years to com­ tors to Calais. None the less there
The theory of state working­ plete the rotation.— O. A. C. Bulle­ is still one more entry, in 1822, sug­
gesting that he was able to visit the
men’s compensation laws which tin.
scenes of his old triumphs again; and
then he was one hundred and fifty-
specify how much and when an
three pounds in boots.
injured workman shall be paid, if
As for the “ fat friend,” later George
he is entitled to compensation, is Leacock Tells Hou) to
IV, he evidently earned the epithet
Help
Son
Get
Lessons
In 1791 he weighed two hundred and
generally accepted as a sound eco­
The greatest aulsance of all to the forty-two pounds in boots, in 1798 two
nomic policy.
schoolmaster Is the- parent who does hundred and twenty-four pounds “ af­
The same might be said of the his boy’s home exercises ■ and works ter gout,” in 1800 two hundred and
various laws governing the state his boy’s sums. I suppose they mean forty-seven pounds in hat and boots,
and national banking which specify well by It. But It is a disastrous thing and later that year two hundred and
-to do for any child. Whenever 1 twenty-nine pounds “ after gout.” In
restrictions and provisions for the found myself correcting exercises that 1803 “with gout” he weighed two hun­
protection of bank depositors, stock, had obviously been done for the boys dred and eighteen pounds.
The figures help us to picture those
holders and officials. The faet that In their homes I used to say to them:
“ Paul tell your father that he must solid men of a century ago. We can
the state provides legislation for ase the ablative after pro.” “ Yes, sir,” see them trotting or mincing or prom­
protecting and compensating an says the boy. “ And Edward, you tell enading with an air, small and large,
injured employe is no more an ar­ your grandmother that her use of the down the sunny side of St. James
dative case simply won’t do. She’s street to weigh themselves before din­
gument for creating, a monopolistic getting along nicely and I’m satisfied ner.—Youth’s Companion.
state insurance department cov­ with the way she’s doing, but I cannot
Going Too Far
ering workingmen’s compensation have her using the dative right and
left on every occasion. Tell her it
Mike and his family are blessed
to the exclusion of all private com­ won’t do.” “ Yes, sir," says little Ed­
with lively Imaginations, which is a
panies than would be the argu­ ward.
good thing, since, what with a large
I remember one case In particular of brood of children, doctors’ bills and
ment that because, we have state
a parent who did not do the boy’s ex­ things, they are not able to indulge
banking laws for the protection of ercise, but, after letting the boy do it
in many luxuries.
the public, we should, therefore, himself, wrote across the face of it a
“I saw a mighty foine sedan this
establish state banks to the exclu­ withering comment addressed to me afternoon, Nora,” remarked Mike the
and reading: “ From this exercise you other evening, “ an Tm thinkin’ I’ll buy
sion of private banks'
can see that my boy, after six months it next week. It’s only $5,0001”
The only reason that the people of your teaching, is completely Igno­
“I’m thinkin’ ye’ll have to wait a
or law makers listen to the argu­ rant. How do you account for it?” I couple o’ weeks, Mike darlint, for the
sent the exercise back to him with the rint’s due nixt week.”
ments for state insurance monopo­ added note: “I think It must be
“I’m goto’ to sit on the front seat
lies is that they understand the hereditary.”—Stephen Leacock, in with dad 1” piped up young Denny.
business Of insurance less than they College Days.''
"No, sir, that’s my place!” put in
E D IT O R IA L
^TT^^Observer
The Nation’s Safeguard
do the businesof banking or selling
groceries.
It is a legitimate function of the
state to provide laws for the pro­
tection of its people and see that
these laws are enforced. It is not
a legitimate function, however, un­
der our system of government, for
the state to set up monopolistic
state enterprises to the exclusion
of private initiative and endeavor.
The fight for monopolistic state
casuality and workingmen’s com­
pensation insurance is an entering
wedge for other lines of state en­
deavor along socialistic lines — Ex­
change.
Tr Build Experimental Lines to
Oregon Farms.
Information recently compiled by
Mountain States Power Company
with headquarters at Albany, Ore.
shows that considerable progress
has been made by that company in
extending service i o the farming
and fruit growing districts in the
Willamette Valley
and
Coos
Bay Districts of Oregon. The to­
tal number of rural customers sup­
plied with electricity is now more
than 1,000.
Plans of the management con­
template further co-operative effort
with the state agricultural school
authorities and the farmers towards
the building of experimental lines
to work out problems in the appli­
cation of electricity Jto farm pro­
duction, similar
the rural lines
recently built by power companies
in Minnesota and South Dakota.
We’re Boosting
Terry, his twin, and in another mo­
ment they Were deciding the question
Romantic Story of Old
London Jacobite Bank with their fists and feet.
“ Here, here!” cried Nora, seizing
One of the most romantic stories in them by their collars and shaking
banking history is recalled by the an­ them vigorously. “You young rough­
nouncement that the business of necks will have that sedan all scuffed
Messrs. Drummond o f Charing Cross, up, kickin’ around in it that way!"
the old-established private bankers, —Indianapolis Star.
has many associations with the Ja­
cobites. Indeed, its founder, Andrew
Demise Not Unexpected
Drummond, is believed to have -been a
A little girl of Woodruff place was
Jacobite first and a banker afterward.
It is at least certain that he walked the owner of two goldfish, which were
from Edinburgh to London, with a her most prized possessions. Severa1
price on his head, bearing funds to be weeks ago she went out of town, but
used to secure the restoration of the before leaving she intrusted her fish
Stuarts. The Malacca cane with a to the neighbor next door, who
gold crutch handle which he carried promised to look after them carefully.
with him on this adventurous journey Unfortunately during the owner’s ab­
still hangs, a treasured possession. In sence, one of the fish died, much to
the embarrassment of the neighbor.
the bank parlor.
When the family returned and the
The old banker probably thought of
this journey and of the risks he had little girl learned of the death of her
run in taking it, when Simon Fraser, pet, she could hardly keep from cry­
Lord Lovat, the “ old fox” of the high­ ing. “Well, I guess it couldn’t be
lands, passed the bank on his way to helped;,one of them was looking aw­
the tower after the “ forty-five.” fully bad when I left,” she said.—De­
Lovat, whose g-ray hairs did not save troit News.
him from the scaffold, had been on the
books of the firm.
Veteran Razor Wielder
As he passed the bank windows Rob-
Abial B. Anthony, a Burlington (Vt.)
ert and Henry Drummond looked out barber, has been serving customers
to see him, but Andrew sat still at his for sixty-seven years, of which sixty
desk. “ I suppose you would run out have been spent in Burlington. He
to watch me if I was to be beheaded,” is now eighty-five years old, and this
be remarked, dryly.
colored barber is believed to be the
oldest one in Vermont. Among his
customers have been P. T. Barnum
and Grover - Cleveland. When he be­
An attempt to escape from the Ore­ gan his tonsoriai career he received
gon state prison was frustrated when $3 a week, while his customers paid
J. W. Lilly, deputy warden, sent 14 6 cents for a shave and 18 cents for
men to solitary confinement.
The a haircut. During the Civil war hair
men planned to escape through a 40- dyeing was a profitable side line, most
foot underground passageway leading of his customers being women.
from the center of a woodpile to a
That Much Settled
point outside the prison wall. Those
A man with a little asthmatic trou­
implicated were declared among the-
most dangerous criminals in the prison ble was thinking of spending a vaca­
and included five who made the dar­ tion in a high altitude. But first he
ing escape over the wall several went to consult a famous specialist.
The latter heard his story, thumped
months ago. The plot to gala free­
his chest a few times and then said:
dom was conceived several weeks ago, “ I don’t think Pd go."
and had it been successful between 20
“ How much do I owe you?” asked
and 30 men would have left the prison, the patient.
Deputy Lilly declared. The plan was
“ Two hundred dollars.”
to gain the outside of the wall under
“Here you are, doc. Now I know
cover ef darkness.
1 can’t go.”
Publication by Government
Giv<:s Much Information.
“ Know America First” should be a
maxim of wide appeal to Americans
in these days, and a government pub­
lication just issued affords notable
contributions to the general knowl­
edge of some features of our national
domain and history. This publication
is entitled “ Boundaries, Areas, Geo­
graphic Centers and Altitudes of the
United States and of the Several
States, with a Brief Record of Impor­
tant Changes in Their Territory,” by
E. M. Douglas, and bas been issued
by the Department of the Interior as
Bulletin 689 of the geological survey.
The report is sold by the superintend­
ent of documents, Washington, at a
nominal • cost.
The book gives numerous little-
known facts relating to the organiza­
tion of the original thirteen colonies
and of the states after the Revolution.
For example, how many know that the
colony of Virginia once included the
Bermuda islands and also the country
westward to the Pacific ocean, then
called the South sea—so christened by
Balboa in 1513, because at the place
where he first saw it the shore line
runs nearly east and west—or that the
area now called Vermont once be­
longed to New York and that Massa­
chusetts controlled' the area now in­
cluded in Maine.
The reasons for the peculiar irreg­
ularities and jogs in some of the boun­
dary lines are explained. For exam­
ple, the “ nose” projecting into Canada
at the Lake of the Woods, on the Min­
nesota boundary, Is due to the nse of
inaccurate, maps by the makers of the
treaties by which this area became
United States territory. The “ pan­
handle” at the southern comer of
Missouri is said to be the result of
efforts of a prominent property owner
to have his plantation Included In the
new state.
The Indefiniteness of some of the
early boundary lines is illustrated by
a quotation from Rufus Choate, who
in the boundary dispute between Mas­
sachusetts and Rhode Island said be­
fore the Massachusetts legislature:
“The commissioners might as well
have decided that the line between the
states was bounded on the north by
a bramble bifish, on the south by a
blue jay, on the west by a hive of
bees in swarming time, and on the
east by 500 foxes with firebrands tied
to their tails.”
The state of California has within
Its boundaries the highest and the low­
est points of dry land in the United
. States proper, and Alaska has the
highest mountain peak in the posses­
sions of the United States. Colorado
Is the state having the greatest aver­
age altitude; Delaware has the least.
Thé bulletin describes the outlying
possessions of the United States and
tells when and how they were ac­
quired. Of the newly added posses­
sions (Alaska, bought in 1867, not in­
cluded), the 7,000 or more islands com­
prising the Philippine group, cover the
greatest area. The Virgin islands are
the most recent acquisition and also
the most costly. To obtain sovereign­
ty over these islands, which have a
combined land area of a trifle less
than 133 square miles, the .United
States paid nearly $300 an acre. For
Alaska, which has been an Important
source of revenue, the United States
paid less than 2 cents an acre.
It is generally supposed that the
United States has never relinquished
territory once acquired, but this is not
the case. The United States gave up
more than 20,000 square miles of west­
ern land when it purchased Florida
from Spain by the treaty of 1819.
The bulletin contains a facsimile
reproduction of a map of the British
and French possessions in America as
they were known in 1755. A copy of
that map was used In the preparation
of the treaty with Great Britain in
1782, when thé United States was first
recognized as an independent nation.
The book also contains numerous oth­
er maps Illustrating the growth of
the United States and the changes in
its boundaries from early colonial days
iilp to the present time.
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To whom it may concern :
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, Sarah W. Mann, has
this day filed, in the County Court
for Marion County, Oregon, her
final account as executrix of the
last will mid testament and estate
of James D. Mann, deceased, and
that said court has fixed and ap­
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day, in the county court room, in
the county court house, in said
county and state, as the time and
place for the hearing of objections
to such final account and for the
settlement thereof.
SARAH W. MANN.
Executrix of the last will and testa­
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Mann, deceased.
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Quality O, K .
When three years old, Carl, whose
sisters were named Mabel, Josephine
and Rena, was sent to visit an aunt.
Soon after his arrival, the aunt no­
ticed the bright gingham blouse he
was wearing and said to him:
“ Why, Carl, what a pretty new
blouse you have!”
“No, It ain’t new, neither,” answered
Carl. “Mabel wore it, Josie wore it,
Ennie wore it and now I’m wearin’
it.”
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