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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1913)
Wood Sawing, Grain Chopping and Ensilage Cutting I am prepared to promptly execute orders in the above lines. Prices ‘ reasonable. We solicit your orders. L. B. T hompson , sweet home , ore . Annual Industrial Fair Big Ben should be in every farmer’s home i \ You men who live on the farm /have got to be heavy workers. ( And if you are heavy workers \ I you require heavy sleep and lots i [of it* For heavy sleep is heavy work’s [reaction and it’s not always easy for the heavy sleeper to get up without help. r That’s where Big Ben comes in. He makes it easy every morning. • Big Ben is a truth ^telling and ■reliable alarm clock. \ He gets you up, he never fails. J You’re always up on the dot if I he’s in the sleeping room. r See him in my window next time you come to town. Hear him .greet you Good Morning. He is \jmll worth meeting, indeed. — A$2.50 The Holley Grange will hold the annual industrial Fair on Saturday Oct. 11, 1913. A corner of the hall will be reserved for the use of Sweet Home grange where they may store their exhibits using their own marks of distinction. A special invitation is extended to all of the Sweet Home people to attend and take part in the pro- gram. R. W. V an F leet Master Holley Grange Sweet Home Church News Sunday school at 10 a. m. Preaching1 at 11 a. m. Afternoon service at the Santiam school house. Preaching at 7:30 p. m. in the upper church. Prayer meeting and Bible study Wednesday evening. To all these services you are wel come. Come and bring your friends. L. H. Wood, Pastor. SIGARD LANDSTROM You cannot wrong a neighbor without injury to yourself, socially Oregon nor in a business way. JEWELER Lebanon, A. SCHOLL DEALER IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots Shoes, Agricultrral Imple ments, Sash Doors, Paints, Oils Ranges, Cookers, Heaters and Tinware A large line of Bedding, Rugs and Furniture If what you want is not on hand, we will order it for you A Sweet Home JooogSoo printing UNRIVALED FACILITIES ENABLES US TO GUARANTEE OUR QUALITY AND IT AMOUNTS TO NO SMALL DEGREE, FOR THIS REMARKABLE SUCCESS IN PLEASING EVERYONE The kind you ought to use and when you ought to have it, this is when you really need it. We have contracted the habit of satisfying our customers. TELEPHONE MAIN 672 Our work as a business getter is of the highest quality Goodenough printing will not do. Print* THE TRIBUNE ing is the lever that moves your goods Printing Office Its style and quality are most effective obogSoo ooZjoJo ooogj-oo Without waiting for his answer'I was so favored me, 'but 'he“did “not avail turning away when he stopped me. himself of it. He turned away with a “What can you do?” he asked. grunt, saying: - “Any ordinary work.” “We can’t avoid fate, which is much “Your name?” more liable to strike than to coddle us. I gave it to him, and. taking up a In the first case it does no good to check book, he wrote a check for $50 grumble, and in the second it does no payable to my order and handed it. to good to wonder. In either event we me.- I looked at it dumfounded. must accept what she has in store “I haven’t earned anything yet,” I for us.” Each Was Used as a stammered. The secret came out in time. Mr. “You look tired and hungry,” was Marston was taken ill and sent for 4 Pawn by Fate the reply, “Report here tomorrow1 me to come to see him. I went and, | By EDWARD C. ALSTON morning and you shall have a job.” when ushered into the bedroom where I was so used to attributing my mis he lay, stood transfixed with astonish fortunes to the color of my hair that ment. He had been ill two months, I now laid my good luck to the same during which period I had not seen cause. I had an idea that the man’s him. His hair had grown and for One day as I was entering a court- action had something to do with the about an inch from his scalp was red room I met a lawyer coming out. contrast between the glossiness of his and the same shade of red as my own, Something in my appearance attracted raven locks and the disagreeable red- the rest being black. It was evident his attention, I knew very well what ness of mine. < Probably his had that he had been accustomed to dye it had and during his illness had ceased to it was, for from childhood I had been brought him good fortune as mine him brought me misfortune and made do so. used to exciting the attention of all “It is time,” he said to me, “that I who saw me. It was not I, but a head sorry 'for me. At any rate, this was of hail’ of a peculiar redness. Words the only interpretation I could put let you know the reason why I have helped you. It is because some twen describe only color; they seldom sug upon it. I found it very easy to cash his ty years ago 1 would have suffered the gest an especial variety of color. Mine was of a variety that few persons had check and spent a part of it in buying death of a felon had it not been for ever seen before. The lawyer stopped a good dinner. The next morning 1 you. A third person, who also had red me with the words “One moment” and reported myself to Mr. Marston—such hair like yours and mine, committed a stood looking at me, turning something was his name—and’ after a brief con murder. I would have been identified versation. during which he questioned as the murderer had it not been for over in his mind. Presently he said: me with a view to learning what line your opportune appearance with the “Your name, please.” of work I would prefer, he said that same or a like shade of hair as the I gave it. nerhaps 1 had better try several dif other two. You deserve no credit for “Come in here.” departments successively In or having saved me from an ignoble He led me into an office and said some ferent thing to a man at a desk, who filled in der tb learn for which I was best death, but it has given me no end of pleasure and comfort to reward you a blank and read me a subpoena. I adapted. was ordered to be present that after My advancement with the Marston as the unintentional cause of my es company was something extraordinary., cape. I have done it selfishly and for noon in the courtroom as a witness. When I appeared I found that I was I had not, been with the concern a my own satisfaction, not yours. “I have sent for you to tell you this wanted in• a trial for murder. What month before I was placed in charge astonished me was that the accused, of a department. There were em and to say to you that I shall not who was a very respectable looking ployees who represented various hold again return to the management of the man. possessed a head of hair the same ings of the stock of the company who. business. Fortunately for us both, you seeing me jumped from one position have shown yourself capable of man color as my own. I was placed beside him, and a wo- to a better one, conspired against me. aging a large business like that of the man who was giving testimony was But with all their machinations they Marston company. I have decided to called upon to say which of the two, found it impossible to budge me. give you one-twentieth of my holdings myself or the accused, was the man Among other things they accused me of the capital stock of the company, she had seen kill her husband, She of being the cause of the loss of one for I think that the manager of a busi-x looked us both over with a puzzled ex of the best customers of the concern. ness should be interested in that busi The very next day I received an ad ness with its shareholders, and, with pression and finally pointed to me. The incident produced quite a sensa vance in salary of a thousand dollars the holdings of my family, you will be able to keep the control. At the tion in court and naturally filled me a year. Though there was no satisfactory ex election which' comes .off next month with consternation.. The lawyer at once called for the discharge of the prisoner, planation of all this, I knew that Mr. I you will be made president. I have no which was granted. As for me, I was Marston, yho owned six-tenths of the doubt the interests of all concerned required to prove where I had been at stock of the company, was at the bot- , will be well served so long as you hold the time of the murder, and I had no tom of it. I was a hard and efficient the office.” Why Mr. Marston so long kept from difficulty in substantiating the fact that ! worker, but there were other employ I was not within a thousand miles of ees who worked as hard and as effi me the cause of his preference for me ciently as I. The matter was more'a he did not tell me. but I can see ad where the deed was done. The only feature about the man mystery to me than to the others, for vantages in it. If I did not show my whose acquittal I had secured that employees of a concern managed by self worthy it would be easier for him fixed itself bn my memory was his one man power aré used to seeing' that to drop me out of the business or hair. He was between thirty-five and man take very sudden and inexplica leave me among the lower grades of forty, while I was not more than twen ble fancies among those who serve employees. But. as has beep said, he ty. Being in limbo, he had no oppor him. While I was filled with wonder, was an odd man and had an odd way tunity to thank me for having saved my fellow workmen were simply play of doing things. him from the gallows, where he would ing an ordinary game to pull me down have gone had it not been for the sim and build up themselves. The time is not a great way off ilarity of our hair, but I noticed him I had not been’ with the concern long when every farmer in this country who looking at me with great interest. I when Mr. Marston asked me to dine pretends to farm scientifically will did not live in the place where he had at his house. It was evident the mo have a concrete floor to his’barnyard i been tried and left it as soon as I had ment I appeared at his home that I and feeding sheds so that the waste proved an alibi, So I did not see any was an object of great interest. Mrs. of the liquid manures and the deterio thing more of him. Marston’s grasp of the hand, the in ration of the solid manures by leaching Twelve years passed, years that had tensity of her gaze at receiving me, may be prevented. This is one of the not brought me success. I was thirty- would have, astonished me had it not big leaks on the American farm and two and had not a cent in the world. been that I had received so many sur is the more deplorable because the av Neither had I wife or children oi prises already, The children all gave home. T think it was the color of my evidence of the same interest. I was erage farm on which this waste is hair that told against me. On apply treated as affectionately as if I had taking place is in dire need of the fer- ing for a position the person to whom , been some dear relative. When I took tilizirig elements wasted. I went would look at my head and my leave I. was urged to make their That nature makes a strenuous ef- simultaneously reply, ‘‘There are no home my home, coming and going fort to produce a crop even under ad- vacancies just now.” And wherever 1 without ceremony. verse circumstances is shown in an in applied I received the same reception. I became sufficiently friendly with The consequence was that from twen one of t¿he heads of departments to ask cident reported from near Pipestone, ty to thirty-two I was most of the time him one day what he considered the Minn. Early in June a large crop of oats on a farm near the place mention out of employment. cause of Mr. Marston’s and his fam But the end of this period brought a ily’s kindly treatinent of me. He said ed was badly damaged by a hailstorm. change. One afternoon just before the that Mr. Marston was a very singular After the storm what there was left closing hours of business I entered a man. He had been accustomed to re of the crop was cut formfeed and placed mercantile house and asked to see the warding the employees of the concern in the silo. But enough grain was head of the concern. A gentleman for faithful and valuable service sud knocked on the ground so that a sec with coal black hair, in which there denly and with no reference to what ond crop grew, which was just as was. despite his fifty years, not a sin the reward was given for. It seemed thrifty and will yield a larger crop gle gray strand, sat at a desk in a pri to be a fancy with him, and no one than was expected from the original vate office. So great was the contrast ever questioned or discussed anything seeding. between his and my own top adorn he did. This gave no inkling of the Experts in the bureau of animal in ment that I was sure I would receive reason for my preferential treatment, a curt refusal and was about to turn for it had begun before I had had a dustry at Washington believe they have bit upon a crossbreed of horses away when he lifted his eyes and saw chance to earn it. that is worth while and one that will me. His gaze was first fixed on my In two years I was made vice presi be as tough and useful as the mule head, then was directed to my coun tenance. There was nothing for me to dent of the company, and Mr. Marston, and yet possess the intelligence and do but approach him and make the who was getting tired of the business, speed of a full bred horse. The type began to throw- a great deal of the re in question is the result of breeding usual request. . “I’m hunting a job,” I said. * “I’ve sponsibility he had theretofore taken to Dan, the heavy ^ebra in the zoological been hunting one for months. Indeed, himself upon me. I must have devel gardens, to a Morgan mare at the I’m so run down financially that I’m oped a certain amount of business ca Maryland experimental farm. Thé pacity or I would not have been able foal resulting from this cross is pro- ready to work for a song.” I received no reply* for awhile. The to bear this burden for any considera flounced most promising by horsemen. man sat staring at me with a strange ble period. It was about this time that who are urging that the government look in his eyes, and I suspected that I married., and Mr. Marston gave 'me. procure as many more of these zebra he was thinking of„something_else. a house. At the time of this gift I led sires as possible. thejway for him to tell me why-he had As a rule, any tree bordering a tract of land devoted to the growing of corn or other crop in the production of which considerable moisture is req hir ed will exhaust the soil of both fertili NO FUMES, NO FREEZING, NO HEADACHES ty and moisture for a distance con siderably greater than the spread of the branches. Where trees do not add Guns, Ammunition and Bicycles to the appearance of a farmstead and are not needed for pasture shade there is little reason for letting them stand, Everything for the Sportsmen and Athelete for where they border the highway they tend to cause snow to block the BICYCLE AND GUN REPAIRING road in winter and keep it from dry ing out in summer. The writer has noticed this year that many of such HAUSER BROS., Props. old border trees—chiefly soft maple, willow and cottonwood—are this sea* Oregon Albany JPB being felled. t : Three Red Heads Trojan Stumping Powder ALBANY GUN STORE OHKH