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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1913)
The old beliefs persist in southern Europe, and a tragic comic instance When Swinburne Was Very Close Unto reaches me from Venice. A cockatoo, kept by a British resident as a pet. Death by Drowning. In Mr. Edmund Gosse’s reminiscent had been accustomed to propnenade article. “Swinburne at Etretat,” in the about the roof garden when the fam Coruhlll Magazine he relates the poet’s ily went up there. But one day re bathing adventure that nearly cost cently it extended its constitutional to him his life in the late summer of a neighbor’s roof and was promptly 1868. The timely appearance of a, fish shot by him. He subsequently offered ing smack on the scene prevented the as a complete explanation the plea premature silencing of the voice that that he thought it was an owl and that was presently to entrance the world there was a very young baby in his household. Now, students of ancient (or some part of it) with .the “Songs Greek and Roman augury know that Before Sunrise.” “I asked him.” writes Mr. Gosse, the perching of an owl on the roof “what he thought about in that dread foreboded death to one of the inmates, ful contingency, and he replied that •while Ovid is among those who charge he had no experience of what people screech owls with sucking the blood of infants.—London Express. often profess to witness—the concen trated panorama of past life hurrying Various Kinds of Wisdom. across the memory. He did not re Wisdom is of many kinds. Natural, flect on the past at all. He was filled with annoyance that he had not finish long fibered, we call genius; the col ed his ‘Songs Befo.rb Sunrise* and then lege kind is a factory made article, with satisfaction that so much of it known as learning: common sense is was ready for the press and that Maz handmade and generally homemade, and there is an imitation known on the zini would be pleased with him. “And then he continued. ‘I reflected street as “bluff,*’ in society as “pre with resignation that I was exactly tense” and in the Bible as “hypocrisy.” the same age as Shelley was when he -Life. was drowned.’ (This, however, was Old Habits. not the case. Swinburne bad reach “1 believe that phrenologist Is a ed that age in March. 1867. but this was part of a curious delusion of fake.’* “Why?** Swinburne's that he was younger by “He asked me in an absentminded two or three years than his real age.) Then when he began to be. I suppose, Way If I didn’t want a shampoo. Tried a little benumbed by the wafer his to laugh it off immediately, but I have thoughts fixed on the clothes he had my suspicions.”—Pittsburgh Post left on the beach, and he worried his How Wheat Perspires. clouded brain aboiit some unfinished When you are perspiring furiously in verses tn the pocket of his coat** So here again, comments the Dial, r the dog days it may or may not con we have an instance of the failure of sole you to think that an ordinary field an actor in a real life drama to, rise to of wheat is giving off moisture quite the dramatic possibilities of his part as furiously. Between the months Of April and July, according to Str They do these things better in fiction. James Dewar, a field of wheat per There is nothing whatever to be gain spires sufficient moisture to cover the ed by nigging the ration of the grow- | surface of its ground to a depth of nine ing calf. The highest priced as well inches. Another interesting fact is that as the cheapest meat is usually that I it requires three and a half pounds which is produced in the shortest of water to produce sixteen grains of time, abd to do this} a generous ration wheat. Speaking of the solar radiation must be given. Stunting the calves in in tropical places. Sir James says that evitably means slow growth and high in six hours about four?tenths of a priced gains, and these mean relative i square mile receives heat equivalent to the combustion of 1.000 tons of coal, loss in the feeding operations. I have but one ¡amp by which my while an area of 1,300 square miles feet are guided, and that is the lamp receives in one year heat equivalent to of experience. I know no way of 1,000.000.000 tons of coal—the whole judging of the future but by the past I estimated coal output of Europe and America.—Philadelphia Ledger. -Patrick Henry. HIS PAST DIDN’T BOTHER HIM. 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As a Rule They Make Loans on a 20 Per Cent Margin. Most Wall street banks Insist on having a twenty point margin behind each .loan. That means that a man borrowing $100,000 must put up as se curity stocks or bonds of $120,000 mar ket value. If the securities decline to a point where the $20,000 margin is reduced to $15,000 the borrower is call ed upon to put up additional securi ties. Most brokerage bouses do not wait for such a summons, but send the necessary collateral to the bank as soon as they see that the price of their securities has declined. But the banks are guided always by the character and the financial stand ing of each borrower. Each bank has a list of favorite borrowers who can secure whatever money they need in times of’ stress or in times of calm. The loan clerks know who the favor ites are and show them every cour tesy. . It means a good deal for a Stock Exchange house to get on the “favor ed list*’ of a Wall street bank. Some borrowers, in order to stand well with a bank, never complain when the bank raises jthe rate on their loans. They go on the theory that it is foolish to dispute a rate with a bank when the difference between 2 per cent and 2% means only $1.39 a day on the interest charge for a $100,000 loan.—New York Post. . Hjbtel Sweet Home Hotel Foster MYERS & ROSE, Props. Newly refurnished and painted inside. Tables are supplied with the best the market affords Clean and Airy Rooms and Beds. The tables are supplied with the best the market affords Feed barn in connection with the Hotel.............. F. B. K napp , manager EOSTER OREGON Special Orders---- Special Prices Willie—Does your pa ever send you to bed before 7 when you’re naughty? Bobby—Worse’n that. When I’ve been bad be makes me get up before 7.—Bos ton Transcript • Be wise today. fer.— Young. ’Tls madness to de Feed and Livery Barn in • connection with Hotel Prices are Reasonable. SWEET HOME - - OREGON BARGAINS BARGAINS SULPHUR SHOWERS. Not Sulphur at All. Only the Pollen Grains of Pine Trees. Many persons are aware that in spring, and especially in early spring, it happens that after a shower the edge of every pool of water in the streets and along the sidewalks will be bordered by a rim of pale yellow color. As the water evaporates this ring re mains as a fine powdery mass, so much resembling sulphur as to have given rise to the name “sulphur showers.” This so called sulphur is. of course, not sulphur at all. When examined under the microscope it is found to. be made up of a mass of the yellowish pollen grains of pine trees. Instead of consisting of a single cell, as do most, flollpn grains, that of the pine consists of three cells, the two larger end ones being filled with air and the other containing the ordinary fertilizing principle. The ztwo air con taining cells are larger than the other and act as balloons to buoy it up in the air. In pines and allied trees fertilization of the cones, by which they are en abled to set and develop seeds, is ac complished by the wind—that is, the pollen is produced in immense quanti ties and is transported through the air to the cones, which are often on sep arate, widely distant trees. Thus it often happens that the pollen gets up in the higher currents of the air, is i carried for long distances and is only brought down to the earth by the rain, producing the so called shower of sul phur.—Harper’s Weekly. During the next ten days we will offer a broken lot of Misses and childrens Sweaters at 50 cents on the dollar to close them out. Ju£t what you need for fall and winter A New Line of Oregon Flannel Shirts, Coat Style, Military Collar, light and heavy weights. * , The kind that keeps the rain out. Remember this is the store where you will find a complete line of Underwear for any of the youngsters or for yourself. Mens and Boys Hats, Caps and Gloves and Gents Furnishings. A complete line of High Top Heavy Shoes for Ladies. Men, Boys and Youths. The Famous Chippewa Hunkedori Line. ....... ............... -A FULL AND COMPLETE LINE OF-—— (general Merchandise of Quality. The best is none too good for the people who tradeivith J. P. HARRANG - FOSTER Asniana (U.) ben laid an egg the other day that, on b£ing boiled hard and opened, was found to contain a good sized safety pin. Just what this old Biddy had on her mind when she pulled off this stunt it would be diffi cult to guess unless possibly she had discovered that the head of the house needed an anchor for his gallusses. - - OREGON CITY DRUG STORE N. R. LUTHER, M. D. Prop. There are many miracles in the nat ural world, and we do not think of them as wonderful because they are so common. One such interesting phe nomenon, is that observed in the case of fish life, fish being endowed with the capacity to retain the life spark even though frozen solid in ice for months at a time. The freezing and thawing process must be slow or the fish will not survive it. Drugs, Patent Medicines Perfumes, Toilet Articles, Sundries Dr. Robert’s and Korinek’s Veterinary Remedies East Main Street SWEET HOME, ORE. The young men and women students at the North Dakota Agricultural col lege concluded a short time since a tour of some thirty towns of the state in a special demonstration car. The purpose of the trip was educational. The young men gave demonstrations in seed testing and other good farming activities, while the young women gave demonstrations in domestic sci ence. I »■■■,..... An Oklahoma contributor to the Kan sas City Weekly Star recapimends the use of sand for curing scours in calves, having used it in his own dairy herd1 for a dozen years. For a dose he takes as much sand as. he can hold in the palm of his hand, washes it clean and then gives in the form of a drench in a pint of water. He reports this remedy effective in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. 1 ■ V. .»Bl —'A l ::— JI Mealy Bros. Mill Co A Kansas farmer proved the other day to bis own satisfaction that It pays to care for his farm machinery. For years he has followed the practice of housing his farm implements when not in use. One seed drill that he bad used .for fourteen years sold for $41.50. s This ¿fame Implement would cost new today about $60. Other machinery that I had been used a number of years brought correspondingly high prices. 1 Q We have a large stock of lumber constantly on hand. we cannot fill your order from the yards, we have plenty of logs from which, to saw it. j j < . ................ S ILO STOCK A SPECiALtY= =.T ------ 8 per cent interest will be charged on accounts after 30 days Mill located 3 miles above Foster. FOSTER OREGON 3 «ai £ g