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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1889)
j GROWING MILLET. 7 A Valuable Appendix Crop for tha Silo nil tint liny-How, V f One great advantage In jrowinjy 1 millet h that it may m sown as late w Jane in our Northern latitude, and be sure to mature before frost. ThU remark applies to tha common millet. The coarse or , broad-leaved millet. called German millet, requires from ten days to two weeks longer to ripen The common millot will ripen Its seed within one hundred days uftor being sown. In ninety days, or perhaps less, it will be sufficiently matured to out for hay. The ground should be 'well harrowed and made fine so that the seeds will terminate well and not be destroyed if lying under clods and lumps of earth. It is an excellent plan, if the land is not fine, to roll it before the seed is sown and then to cover it with a brush or light harrow, and roll it again. The seed tthould not be put in, in this way, if the ground is wet and liable to pack or become crusted. The seeds sends up a tin shoot and it must not be obstructed in its growth or the crop will be reduced. The seed will grow well if sown on top of the ground and left to be covered by a rain, and when m rain falls on it soon after it has been sown this is an . excellent plan. If the seed Is covered too deep there will be a great loss. A very little manure will give the crop a fine start, if it is put upon the surface. For these reasons commercial manures can be used to advantage. I sow this form of fertilizer broadcast, mixed , with land plaster equal bulks at the rate of 100 to 300 pounds per acre, ac cording to the quality of the land. A peck of seed is ample for an acre, if Mie laud is well prepared; if not, more seed must be used. I have always sown the seed broadcast I have allowed the millet to ripen its seed and used it for chicken feed and ground it with oats for food for animals. The seed makes rich food; but it is unwise to grow millet in the way best adapted for this purpose as the forage will not then be nearly so valuable. I am sure that when the seed is allowed to ripen, the amount of digestible nutriment in the forage is reduced one-half. It makes very poor hay. When cut while the plant is coming into bloom, millet makes excellent hay which is good food for any kind of stock. Cows do well on it It is nutritious and cattle are loud of It Millet Is a goo crop for . the eilo. 1 have cut it the last of .September and cured it for the mow. It should be put into the cock as soon tin it is dried a little, and if the weather is threatening, it may be cocked as soon as cut It is better to have it wilted if possible before cocking. It is pos sible to gather a crop of clover and - then put in millet on the same land and have it mature sufficiently for bay. A profitable change can be made with a run-out meadow, or pasture, by turning it over the iirst of Juno, or even up to the middle of that month, and growing a crop of millet Millet may very properly, like fiat turnips, be termed an appendix crop. Cor. Iiural New Yorker. IN LINE OF DUTY. ' Am IntrrMtlnf Story That Torn on the CnUKtructlon of the I'liraoe. Official construction of the term, line of duty," in the matter of -7 pensions has caused so much ion that the following story, a gentleman connected with nmcrital affairs in St Louis, will , , und interesting. Said he: jpeakingof the oflieial construction lae phrase, 'In the line of duty,' Sails a case to my mind. During ,ne"war there were thirty Tennessee regiments, composed of what were called 'loyal men.' One of those regi ments was operating in East Tennes see, jit a given period. In one of the companies of tha regiment was a man who found himself upon a particular occasion within only one mile of home, where a mother and only sister re sided. He secured permission from his First Lieutenant to pass the ni'ht at home. The guerrillas were exceed ingly thick in the nolghb;nhood about that time, and as the man was known to have joined the Union forces, a close watch was kept for his return home, of which ho was aware. Fy close watchfulness he reached home in safety, but feared to remain under the parental roof all nilit Taking n small boy cousin with him he repaired t to the woods to pass tuo night, intend ing to visit home again in thelmorn ing. Shortly after midnight his hid ing place was discovered by the ene my, his body and that of the boy rid dled with buckshot and left for deud. A friendly Confederate shortly after discovered the victims still alive, and, placing them in a boat, rowed them down the Tennessee river and deliv ered them into the Union lines. The man, after having fourteen pieces of cold load -taken from his body, recov ered. In due time he made application 'or a pension. Meanwhile the Lieu tenant who had granted him permis sion to virtit his family that fateful oMit had died, lie had no evidence eiuupl his unsupported word U) at he was absent by authority. The Wash ington authorities refused his app" cation for a pension because, as the construed the law, he had not rocolvea his injuries while 'in the line of duty.' Congress, however, by a special act, granted tha pension, and. as I think, deservedly so." St Louis Globe Domocrat "Young Man," says a wise man, advising the youth of his country, "be gin at the lieginning." Not If you want to get up a river, you don't Burdetf.a NIJNII-NOVGOROD'3 FAIR. A Bar Barometer of the Commercial J'roptrlty of Riuala. The fair has just begun. According to the traditional usage, the flags that announce the opening have been hoisted on their poles and blessed with grand ceremonies. .A naval officer presides over this ceremony;' it is a solemn moment According to the hereditary superstition of the Kijnil merchants, if the flags mount without a hitch and float at once bravely in the breeze the succoss of the fair is certain; but if they got entangled in the cords it is useless to hope to do good business. The level of the waters of the Volga is also anxiously consulted. When the waters are too low in consequence of the excessive heat the heavy boats laden with metal, stuffs and cereals run aground on the sand-banks in the river and can not Ret up to the fair, which is limited to the triangle of al luvion formed at the confluence of the Volga . and Oka rivers. On this sandy plain, bare and marshy in spring-time, a large city rises for the space of two months, with its wooden houses, its long streets with names established by ancient custom, its Chinese quartor with pagoda roofs bristling with dragons and bells. The municipalities of our proudest West ern capitals mignt learn much by studying the problems which have had to be resolved in order to insure the administrative service of this ephe meral town, and its provisioning in food and in water. Two things are particularly worthy of attention; tho system of sewers and the organization of the fire-brigade. Fire is the great enemy or tne latr; every year It de stroys shops to the value of a consider- able sum. Everywhere there are towers for watchmen, and stations where powerful engines are always ready under steam with horses stand ing beside them. The firemen of Nijnii Burpass all their European col leagues in skill and rapidity. General Ignatief, the Governor of the town in 1881, left here traces of his activity, and marked his passage by useful re forms. To him is due the foundation of night refuges, immense dormitories which give shelter to a floating popu lation of sweepers and dock laborers who formerly slept in tho doorways of inns, and did not contribute much to the security of this vast agglomeration. The population of Nijnii is formed of types of the whole universe. You see there all the costumes of Asia, and bear alt its tongues. The Chinaman from Fekin rubs elbows with tho Mus sulman from Constantinople. Khivans and Bokharians and Persians have ar rived in company on the Caspian steambouts; tho German fur-trader from Leipsic bargains for sables with the trapper from the borders of the Lena. It would require a correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette to trace the realiHtic pictures which may bo seen in Xijaii in all their patriarchal candor. You may study here the most abject misory and vice, and at the same time tho most incred ible follies of wealth. There in a few weeks a Hussian merchant will drink more champagne than a whole provin cial town in Franco consumes in a yoar, and spends a fortune such as Paris rare ly sees squandered within the same lupse of time. The.se great business op erators seem to bo seized with vertigo; in good years every thing is out of all proportion their proDts, their libor ality and also their pompous piety. Some of them ruin themsolvesby ded icating a church to St. Maeaire, the patron of tho fair. The total amount of business transacted at Nijnii is tho surest barometer of tho public fortune and commercial vigor of Kussio. The Vicomte Eugone Mei chior do Vogue, in Harper's Magazine. A Jamesburg (N. J.) Christian iadeavor Society has opened a .Christian parlor for young men and boys, whoro reading, quiet games, music, etc, can be onjoyed. A sing ing school, literary entortainments, a library, eta, are furnished, and all under the charge of different mem bers of the society. A savings eystem has also been instituted in connection with the "parlor." Such efforts as this are being made by a number of the societies. A Kew lorlc bootblack of an en terprising turn of mind sends out his business cards with the inscription: "Shoes shined by week or month at your rewidenco daily, or other job work done. Scud tne b iuil- -The Sundwv-Sehool Yei.i Hooks of tne Methodist Enlsuopal Church re ports 25,005 schools, with 2.080.848 scholars. In Montreal there Is an nssoolnttoo (or the Professional Education of W men, wMah fits its members for dilTor- ent branuhos of professional life. in Luzerne, Switzerland, there are 2,856 Protestants a seventh of the en tire population. In eight years the number of Protestants lias doubled, Six hundred and forty-nine con verts were reeontly rocoivod into mem bership of a colored ehuruh in Balti more, tho Centennial Methodist Epis copal. There are twenty-four ohaplalnt in the United States navy. Of these nine are Episcopalians, five Methodists, four Baptists, two Prosby lor Inns, one Congrcgutionalist, one Roman Catho lic President F. L. Patton, of Prince ton College, in his address at the Inter national Young Men's Christian Asso ciation at Philadelphia, the other day, oh modern unbelief among young mrn and its antidote, with characteristic patness of statement declared: "The antidote for doubt is the Bible." One of ths tonuhori in tho Second ward school, Allegheny, Pa., celebrated the centennial by telling hor scholars the history of Washington and then re quiring them to write what they re membered of it This is what one of the youngest scholars wrote: "G. Wash ington chopt with his hutuhot and bust into tours." According t. h Atlanta Consti tution more money has been spent by Northern mon for collegiate education for the negroes in Atlanta alone than any six Southern States have given to collegiate education for white boys; and the Northern Methodist Church alone is spending more money in the South for higher education than all the Southern States combined give to their colloges. The London Times, referring to New Zealand, says its evangollzation is now certainly an accomplished fact Christianity has not failed of success in a single Island. The advance, accord ing to Bishop Stuart of Waiapu, has been almost like bush fire. The num ber of native clergy at present laboring thore is quite three times what it was a few years since. Moreover, these workers uro not supported by money from home, but by the contributions of their own people. According to the latest educational report or 1884, only 1,466.913 of the 15.000,000 children in the Bussian Em pire attended schools. About 90 per cent, therefore, of young Russia re ceive no instruction at alL In 60 gov ernments there is only one school for secondary instruction to every 18,000 boys and 22,000 girls Only C3 per cont of the boys of en age to attend a public high school can be accommo dated. For girls, the number of such schools is even morn insignificant The schoolmaster can not be said to be abroad in Russia yet WIT AN a WISDOM. A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, nover with its reason. Al ger. Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. Goldsmith. A man without rharactor Is always making a fuss about having it vindi cated. X. O. Picayune. A man who puts off his enjoyment too long will find it mislaid by the time ho gots to it Jamestown News. Sumo skeptics who refuse to be lieve what they can not understand may be excused for boing ignorant Mer chant Traveler. Whence comes happinoss? From tranquility and self-control. Men without 8elf-ro.!traint drift before their passions like rudderless boats before the wind. Once a Week. Any work, no mutter how humble, that a man honors by ellielont labor and steady application, will bo found important enough to secure respect for himself and credit for his name. A wiso merchant wants just ns few partners as lie can possibly gi-t along with. If ho lias genius for his trade he can invent for the others to carry out but oftentimes tho currying out can bo done much bettor by a clerk than a partnor. Dry Goods Chronicle. Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but, by ascend ing a little, you may look ovor it al together. So it is with our moral Im provement; wo wrestle fioreely with a vicious habit which could have no hold upon us if wo ascended into a higher moral atmosphere Boechor. It is often supposed that tho only opportunity that a man has to show his modesty, is when he has douo soms groat or good thing, for which ho has boon praiued, or is at least desorving of praise. But just .as much may one bo modest when he has blundored, or has done something questionable, er that is worthy of cenmiro. Then it is that on is most tomptod to rise up and assert himsolf, to doolare his superiority of judgment, or taste, or knowledge. , MUCH THE NEWEST, Nobbiest and Largest Stock of GLOTT In the County, is now to E Of Albany, Oregon. &T When you want to "dross up," we would l gluJ to show you through and make the right price. Merchant Tailoring a upocialty. Mu. has charge of this department. We guarantee Butisfnction. i I P. COHIf Declares that he will again pay HOKE I'OB WOOL, EGGS, BUTTER, OR Any kind of 'Produce, than any other house in Albany AND Will Sell Goods Cheaper If you want to Make Maney, Call on Him. G.T.COTTON, lit A 1,1011 IN Groceries and Provisions, TOBACCO & CICARS, SMOKERS' ARTICLES, Foreign and Domestic Fruits, CONFECTIONERY ltuernnare and 1uhui-p, I.aiupM and liimp Fix tui'i'H. Main ttt., l.eldinttii. Orrgon. LEBANON Meat Market, Ed Kellenberger, Propr. Freehand Baited Beef and Pork MUTTON, PORK, SAUSAGE, BOLOGNA and HAM. Bacon and Lard Always on Hand Main Street, Lebanon, Or, 1 1 1 G! be Seen on th u i '( 1 1 t AIM,.'. 12. A. Sem:m.EK is an cxiiert, and VVVf r aa va ba baa th" W, th W. I Dawfla prism tanMMT urn iHtbwij. lanm wllkout nani anil lite bottuiu, put likan down V7. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE CENTLEMEN. Itaat In taw world. F.xamlna bl S1.IKK1CM INK II ANlt-hr W 1 l NffOE. 4.M II AM-hKYVKl HUT MIOK. fc.t.rvn roi.n k ami FAKMricH tuiOE. .AO K XT II A VAI.HI-: Al K KUOK. . -l.Xti MOIlHISt.M AN'M MIOK. 4.UO and )1.7a ItOYH' NIKMtL BHOESV All uiauv in v.nnirrrM, iiutluu aim I W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE LA DUE 8. liat Matnrfnl. IU.t Rlyln. Boat ntting. II nut try yuur f1-alr, ffriii W. L. lOl lil.Ah. liltOCKTON, MAB& "I'.xnmlu W. I.. It.itiffln MUv-a for Kt'ittlrnirn unit litti-M.n For Sale by C.'C. Hacklcman. J. M. Keene, D. D. S. Dental Parlors Office: Breyman Bros. Building,. Kt M:.ii.oitt:c. gST" Hours trora 8 A. M. to G P. M. Land Company. R. F. ASH3Y and CEO DICKINSON,. OKNKKAf. AUI.NTH KOK Albany, Lynn Co., Oregon. Buying and SuIIIiir. M Estate on ComMssioa, And DoiiiK n entiAl Itaal Kxtutc LAND SOLICITED FOR SALE. ASHBY & iaCKINSON """"""