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Newspaper Page Text10 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION The Episode of the Bachelor Dinner! BY EVERETT P CLARKE. A LAWYER having been sent for to call at the city Jail at 10 o'clrrS in the morning to see a prisoner, found B young man in evening dress ery-much cast down. "Here's a pretty how-de-do," exclaimed the prisoner "locked up on a charge of burglary, Insanity or both. For heaven's sake, get me out of this before my fiancee hears of it. - I would not hare it get into the papers for a million!" "What's the trouble?" asked the law yer. "Well, you see, I'm to be married to morrow, and last night I gave my bach elor friends a supper. We broke up at 2 o'clock this morning, and I went home. Nobody got full, and I was sober as a judge. I live in a row of ten stone front houses, ail alike as peas in a pod. My house is the sixth one from the end of the row and the fifth from the other end. "The light was turned low in the hall. I heard something moving in the parlor. Remembering that the front door hadn't been locked, it occurred to me that a burglar might have come in. What I heard sounded exactly like some one try ing to tread softly. My fiancee lives on one side of the city, and I live on the other. Being used to walking home nights after visiting her I have become used to carrying a revolver in my hip pocket as a protection against footpads. On hear ing the sounds in the parlor I drew the weapon and cocked it. Then I went into the room. "I couldn't see anything, hut I dis tinctly heard somebody in Cue adjoining room in the rear. I listened and heard him go into the kitchen. Stepping out into the hall. I went back to the kitchen myself and listened at the door. All was still for awhile; then I heard the fellow scurry across the floor. "Next I heard him in the dining-room again. He evidently stumbled against something, for I heard it drop on the floor. By this time I had made up my mind that either I must get the burglar or he would get me. I didn't know exactly what to do. My mother is in poor health, and I feared to give an alarm on her account. Be sides, the telephone booth was upstairs and if I went to It the burglar would prob ably get away with the plunder. While I was deliberating I heard a tin pan tumble down in the kitchen. It made a big racket, and I dreaded lest my mother 1 I i WOOD TANKS For Water, Oil, Wine, Mining and Cyanide. Wood Pipe (or Irrlistloa. CUy Sye temt. Milling rawer Plaits. Pacif icTank & Pipe Co. 275 Oak Street. Portlana; Or. Sheet Music Buyers Accept This Offer To responsible parties we will Rend the latest Sheet Music on Trial Write for complete information to day. The late song, "My Dreamy Rom," is yours for five 2 -cent statnpt. Mack's Music Shop 347 Morrison St, Portland, Or. rou CAN earn $50.00 PE1A2 Qsirleit haarawd Staaatrs HfH VrUlrfta tjachlna Drill tVoash ear taaaasaal Five yeM shaaa at ear eaSar. I- aa e and orivioi caiini is 9 hour jorWrmn)wf70fewiidrJWCT2Hl.trimll.; It 9cMrfal OnemaaesaoperaM. EWnieallr equipaed la. - i . r- l ... lEIEMON MACHINERY CO., Mintu.. Partial, Or Wanted to bear from owner of food trm for sale. Send cash price and description. D, F, BUSH, SflaaxaaolU, Mian. OnemaaeaaoperaM. l Fahiazjo. baaote , should be awakened, for if she learned that there was a burglar in the house she would go into hysterics. "I opened the kitchen door softly and looked In, but it was so dark that I couldn't see anything. I heard a scratch ing, however, that made me suspect the noises might have been made by some animal. But as we didn't have any dog or cat I didn't take much stock in this theory. "Not hearing any further noise, 1 went cautiously into the kitchen. After stand ing in the middle of the floor awhile list ening for new sound I made up my mind to light a gas jet and take the con sequences, whatever they might be. "Every house in the block is built alike, and there is a square opening in all be tween the kitchen and the dintng-room through which to pass dishes. I ap proached this opening with dread, be cause if the burglar was in the dining room he could see me through it and make short work of me. "Gathering courage, I stood at the aperture and looked into the dining-room. There he was, sure enough. Both of us raised our weapons. It was a matter of life and death which fired first. I pulled the trigger, and there was a loud report. "I supposed I had killed my burglar, for the range was very short, and I aimed straight at him. There was nothing for me to do but await the inevitable rousing of the household. I heard footsteps above and voices; then down came a man in his nightshirt. "Great Scott! I had never seen him be fore! "I had got into the wrong house. "The man, seeing me standing with a smoking revolver in my hand, ran back upstairs, and I heard him call for the police. "What should I do? "I wanted to get out, but knew that would be worse tor me in the end than standing my ground. I heard nothing from the burglar not even a moan. While waiting for the police I determined to go into the dining-room, light the gas and learn the worst. "What I learned was that there was no living thing in the room except a cat crouching in a corner. Directly opposite the opening between the dining-room and kitchen stood a sideboard topped by a mirror. The mirror was shattered. I had put a bullet through it trying to kill uiy own image. ,,, "When the police came the man np stairs called down to them to run In any one they might find there. 1 tried to ex plain to the police what had happened, showing them the opening through which I had fired at the mirror. Some of them thought me a housebreaker, who had been caught redhanded; others took me for a lunatic. Anyway they arrested me, and here I am." Happily the attorney secured bail and succeeded in hushing the matter up. The next evening his client was married with out his bride knowing of the episode fol lowing his bachelor dinner. Work of Government Forest Service During Past Year SELLING some billion and a half board feet ot timber and supervising the c tting on several thousand different areas, overseeing the grazing of more than 1,500,000 cattle and 7,500,009 sheep and building more than 600 miles of road, 2000 miles of trail, 3000 miles of tele phone line and 700 miles ot fire line are some of the things which the Govern ment forest service did last year upon the National forests, as disclosed in the re port of the Chief Forester for 1811. There Is need, says the Chief Forester, to Increase the cut of timber from Nation al forests wherever a fair price can be obtained, because a great deal of it is ma ture and ought to be taken out to make room for young growth. Unfavorable conditions In the lumber trade caused new sales of National forest timber to fall off somewhat during the year. There was, however, a big Increase in small Umber sales, these numbering 8298 in 1914, against 6182 the previous year. All told, the Government received $1,304,053.66 from the sale of timber on the forests in 1914. After eight years of experience, stock men are well satisfied, says the Chief Forester, with the way the grazing of livestock on the forests is regulated, and have even nrged upon Congress the ap plication of the same method of control on the unreserved public range. Almost 29,000 permittees graze stock on the Na tional forests, and these paid to the Gov ernment in the fiscal year 1914 fees amounting to over $1,000,000. . The pres ent tendency to raise fewer sheep and goats and more cattle and horses, is shown in the fact that the number of cattle and horse permittees on the Western forests increased last year by 1S79, while the number of sheep and goat permittees fell off by a total of 268. The forester points out that the Western stock business is be coming attached to the soil, and the itin erant sheep grower and the speculator In cattle are giving place to the permanent resident and owner of Improved ranch property, - The latter Is always given the preference in the use of National forest range. Since 1909, when systematic classifica tion of the National forest lands was be gun, more than 10,000,000 acres have been eliminated. Scattered Interior tracts which it is not practical to eliminate are opened to settlement through listing, which allows them to be taken up under the forest homestead law. Anyone may apply to have land within a forest ex amined to determine whether it is best suited for agriculture, and if found so, it is opened to settlement under this law. During the year 2690 tracts, totaling 282, 483 acres, applied for by individuals, were opened tor entry. By elimination and listing, the percentage of unpatented ag- . ricultural laud withtu the National for ests, never large, has been reduced to a very small amount. Small Lambs. Lambs may be small yet healthy. The heaviest lambs are not always the most profitable feeders. The size to buy do peudsvupon the time they are to be mar keted. In feeding for an early market a 60-pound Mexican lamb will perhaps prove the most profitable. If they are to be held over until Spring and shorn be fore marketing, which method is prac ticed quite extensively, a 45-pound lamb, if healthy, will as a rule, yield the most satisfactory returns. , In the range country most sheep and lambs are sold by the head, although of later years the contracts call for weigh ing at some, unloading point where they have scales. This method has its advantages as a fellow then buys by weight and gets what he buys besides the benefit of the shrink and the saving of time and'expense of chasing around over the range. No mat ter where sheep are bought, however, the first step toward a successful and proflt , able feed is to get the right kind of stuff and at the right price. A Queer Region. Nebraska's sandhill region offers one of the most unusual fields for 'scientific investigation in this country. In some places the wind begins its work on the Yery top ot a hill. Gradually while the outline of theiill remains intact, the hole goes down deeper until it reaches hardpan or rock where water collects. The top of the excavation may be only a few yards across and then the pit has the appearance of a great well. The air seems to go down Into one of these holes with a sort of suction, and the day is never so calm but that some sand rises from the pit. It alwuys piles out on the northeast side. The excavations are not confined to the hills. They may start on level ground and then as in the other case, the hole will go down to water. The level land excavations may be of any site from a pond of many acres to a narrow pit three times as deep as it is wide. They are called blow-outs. Alberta Sets New Record. The record sale of wheat in Alberta was made in Major, Alberta, when Preston Mills, a farmer in this district, sold a car load of wheat, even 1000 bushels, to a flour company for $1450 or at the rate ot $1.45 per bushel. Officials of the Ca nadian Pacific Railway predict that the price will go much higher and many farm ers are holding their wheat They also say that the high prices are resulting in a . great many inquiries from prospective set tlers. "Oregon newspapers have been the most potent force in spreading the doc trines of progressive agriculture and they are entitled to a big share of Its fruits," says the Oregon Agricultural press bulletins. $ Get Your Farm Home From the Canadianracific SOUS where you have hbh' 9ro doctivs soil rood climate ready markets aoexoeued transporta tionfine ctaurchet and schools when you can eajor all comforts ot dvOUattoa. This land Is sold only to settlers who arm aatiully occupy and Improve tt, YouHave 20 Years to Pay fUti land fcr from til to l9tmn InigatatJ tan frw IX. OM-twmtNtrt .Wa. boiooca withia twaaty roan, tnUrtm at 6. Long foro Anal paytMBt HM (tea, your farm wifl paid for itaoif. 92,000 Loan for Farm Improvwnwito WtwHl lal rvt to 2,000 ia certain cotuS ttoaa. with no otlwrooetintr than tha land .taolf. FartieaimnairaqoMt. Yon havoVToiri to par btartflt oaty . Urea want a alaco already wtaWUbod-oatlf 'to atop into-grt onoof oar raodr-Kftdo farm. Plaaood 07 axptrt. Our aorriot and adriea ti yoorarw. . Tkiu Croat Qffwr Bm on OaW Lami. Ftnoat land aa oarth for mired faraiiag aodj grata growia-irngata and 4iMrlaaa. .DfcirytaftHoaM and LtrMtock M&keiBlg IncomM Her Stock brlngi good price aad can b ralaol cfceapor tbaa anywhere eiM. Cattle dtseaaea practically unknown no duty on live cock from Canada, Ideal country for dairying-. Laat year'i ertrar inllk prica paid by Carlyle Dairy Company, Calgary, troa 1.U per rOO lbo. On ttiii low prlcotfland with Ita nn grain oropa, yon can mako big profits raising gram, Owing to prevent condition! in Europe tht continent mutt upply Korope with grain aad food product, which fnrarvs higkut prion ovtr known Tha boat land will ba tattoo ntaaUaaa k precious la you. GUmwtm4m , L. O. THORNTON, Dint Representative, ' 271 Pine St, Portland, Or 3. riliTlfil ' The treatest most Dowerful Puna "Klltine ever built to aell nt aurh a ' Dri. Can be attached to anv niirnn ' luniiBiiiiir uuuDuaiire ox ronuina r water for every txirooaa. Alan rnra cream separator, feed mill, washing Tlie ' Monitor" costs little to etKrate. rower nrta than aur other rvm nvimiit- 10 gvi out f onier. aow nnaer aneoiuie Sua ran lee, Trice reere $60. I (at Id aarrMus. Pest ROW. .R.M.WmUJ.4. . ESilowthorne fort rand. Ave. Ore. DROUTH Prepare your "Inll t retain molitnr and produce bister rrop )iida hy maklrif a perfect bed with tha IWPF.RIAI. r-UI.VKltfZr.R Packs the iub.nl i and crushes, rolls, levels and pulverlsen the topvoll. Pnes the arerk of I Implements all la one trip. Cava husln more Implements eaves OaVCS two extra trip, over the ploaed ground. Peierana Mnf. Ce., ITS Mm rt K rat, Otl. ftend at ears for aur booklet 1 .uaaaae. 4 .a .-sssa T yW'Ma.i644CT4Q( The Stay Round Silo B. H. Davis, Silverton, Or., says that after using his Oregon sjlo two yeara and not losing a pound of ensilage, that it is good enough for him. W. K. Newell, Seghers, Or., with two Oregon silos, one in constant use for two years, and the other not used at all and both in the same condition, says this is severe enough test for him, and the silage is good enough for his thor oughbred Holsteins. It is guaranteed to STAY ROUND five years. The adjustable roof joint is NOT self adjusting, as some of the silo bright lights would wish it. This has always been the trouble with silo tops, but this one stays put. Ask for free catalogue, also CLIMAX ensilage cutter, and PERFECTION milk ing machine, the only one with the nat ural DOWNWARD squeeze. . Oregon Silo Co. 208 Northwest Bldg, Portland, Or.