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A largely increased cost for station
ery, including letterheads and envel
opes, is shown by the recent legisla
ture over the one preceding, the cost
for the last legislature being $796.24
for such printing and for the one pre
ceding $366.16.
A good roads meeting was held in
Orenco, Saturday, which was attended
by a large number of farmers from the
surrounding country. The foundation
was laid for a permanent organization
to work for better roads in this section
of Washington county.
Eugene business men at a meeting
held in the chamber of commerce re
cently launched plans for the forma
tion of a $50,000 corporation to take
over the flax industry in Lane county,
not as a community promotion project,
but as a business proposition from
which they expect profit.
Dr. Owens-Adair, “mother of the
sterilization bill,” who stopped in
Salem Wednesday on her way home
from Caifornia, declared that the con
templated referendum against the ster
ilization measures will meet with de
feat at the general election in Novem
ber 1918, if it is attempted.
A new method of smuggling liquor
into bone-dry Oregon was unearthed
by the police at Albany when two men
traveling as hobos were captured with
24 quarts of whisky in their posses
sion.
This liquor was concealed in
blanket rolls, exactly like those carried
by workmen beating their way on
freight trains.
Miss Irene Medinnes, aged 23, of
Portland, was killed, and Mrs. M. L.
Granning, also of Portland, sustained
serious spinal injuries when their auto
mobile, driven by Mrs. Granning,
turned turtle off a grade half a mile
north of Corvallis about noon Monday.
They were the only occupants of the
car.
Douglas county's largest quicksilver
mine, a few miles from Yoncalla, will
be in full operation some time next
week, according to E. B. Perrine. The
mine, idle for 15 years, has just been
thoroughly renovated. The mine was
recently acquired by Montana capital
ists, and J. A. Anderson placed in
charge.
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John Rydzeski, 21 years old, fled
from the house of Joseph Kosydar, at
Lower Farm on the Siletz reservation,
Friday night, while apparently de
ranged mentally, plunged through the
darkness over a bank 30 feet high into
Euchre creek, and was taken from the
water an hour later in a dying condi-
tion.
Fish Specialist for Yakima.
North Yakima—The Yakima County
Game commission announces that it
will employ as deputy game warden
for the coming season E. C. Greenman,
a fish culturist, who has had experience
in Federal, sute and private hatchery
work and is well known to sportsmen
here.
The change is made because
Game Warden Bryant will be in Brit
ish Columbia developing mining prop
erties. With Mr. Greenman to look
after the fish hatcheries and another
deputy looking after the game birds
and game animals, the commissioners
feel they can mainUin the present
high standard the county has atuined
in the state.
Of the 7100 hunting and fishing li
censes in the county it is probable
that two-thirds are for fishermen and
the time has arrived for the fishing in-
teresU to be given more care. This is
the reason given for employing a spe
cialist in that line.
Apples May not Be Wrapped.
Lewiston, Idaho —“The 10 per cent
advance in the cost of paper this year
over last makes it imperative that the
shippers of the Northwest discontinue
the wrapping of apples, except the ex
tra choice variety,” said George E.
Crum, of the firm of White Bros. &
Crum Co., which is the largest ship
per of apples in this territory. “There
is no justification for wrapping apples,
anyway," continued Mr. Crum, "ex
cept the extra fancy grade of the best
varieties. It is an unnecessary cost,
which the consumer has to pay ulti
mately. I am confident the producers,
shippers and consumers will be glad to
do away with this needless wrapping.”
Cantaloupe Crop Will Be Large.
Portland—With 4000 acres more of
cantaloupes this year than were plant
ed last year in the Imperial valley,
shippers are already beginning to dis
cuss the coming crop and its distribu
tion and sale. At this writing, says
the Brawley correspondent of the
Packer, about 85 per cent are planted,
most of which are up out of the
ground, some very far advanced in
growth.
Plants that are showing
above the ground seem to be very
healthy and in good condition.
Prac
tically the entire amount is estimated
as a perfect stand.
Harwood to Have Cheese Factory.
North Yakima — The third cheese
factory in Yakima county will be
erected in Harwood, in the Wide Hol
low section.
The organization of a
co-operative association was perfected
with E. M. Alexander, of Harwood, as
president. The company will have the
product of 200 cows at the outset and
hopes to increase this number rapidly.
The company is capitalized at $2000,
with 200 shares of stock. The equip
ment has been ordered, and a site do
nated. A call for bids for a suitable
building will be made immediately.
Following the plan carried out with
marked success in other cities, the or
ganizers of the Baker corps of high
school cadets will have a girl sponsor
elected for eight of the 11 divisions.
Farmers Start Field Work.
It will be the duty of the girls to en
Odessa, Wash.—Farming operations
courage enlistments and insist that the
boys pay strict attention to drills and have started here in a small degree.
A few farmers south of town went
attend all the meetings.
into the fields the last few days, har
Sixteen carloads of baled hay, said rowing their ground in preparation for
to be the finest stock feed shipped spring seeding. Work is expected to
from this section this season, were start in earnest this week south of
sent to various parts of Baker county town, although the frost is not entirely
during the past three days. The heavy out of the ground. North of town it
shipment came as the result of an will be several weeks until spring
acute hay shortage in several sections work can be done.
of Baker county, where cattle and
sheep are said to be starving.
The recent interest in sheep has
caused considerable activity among
owners around Powell Butte in the
Redmond district. At a recent meet
ing in the Powell Butte community
hall 18 woolgrowers organized an asso
ciation with O. E. Butterfield as presi
dent; N. P. Alley, vice president, and
Earl Saunders, secretary-treasurer.
NORTHWEST WARMET REPORT
Portland — Cattle — Steers, prime,
$9.2509.65; good, $8.90@9.25; me
dium, $8.2508.75; cows, choice, $7.7 5
@8.00; medium to good, $7.00@7.50;
ordinary to fair, $6.50@7.00; heifers,
6.50@9.00; bulls, $5.0008.00; calves,
$8.00@10.00.
Governor Withy combe has named
Hogs — Light and heavy packing,
the members of the State board of $14.00@14.50; rough heavy, $13.00@
textbook commissioners, who, on June 13.50; pigs and skips, $12.75@13.00;
1, 1919, are to designate the textbooks stock hogs, $11.50@12.75.
which will be used for the succeeding
Sheep — Wethers, $11.50 @ 12.00;
six years by the 150,000 school chil ewes, $8.75@10.00; lambs, $10.75@
dren of Oregon outside of Portland. 13.00.
The textbooks for the Portland schools
Wheat—Bluestem, $1.72; fortyfold,
are selected by the Portland school $1.68; club, $1.67; red Russian, $1.62.
board.
Oats—No. 1 white feed, $37.25.
Barley—No. 1 feed, $39.00.
At a special municipal election held
Millfeed—Spot prices: Bran, $29.00
in McMinnville Wednesday, the meas
ure authorizing a bond issue of $90,000 per ton ; shorts, $33 per ton ; rolled
for the purpose of increasing the city’s barley, $42.00@43.00.
Corn—Whole, $51 per ton; cracked,
gravity water system was carried by a
large majority, although a light vote $52.
Hay—Producers’ prices: Timothy,
was cast.
The waters of Haskins
• creek, a stream which has its source in Eastern Oregon, $19.00 @ 20.00 per
the Coast mountains, will be added to ton; alfalfa, $14016; valley grain
hay, $12.50014.00.
the present supply.
Butter—Cubes, extras, 361@37c per
Many Portland organizations are pound; prime firsts, 351@36c. Job
urging the appointment of W. D. bing prices : Prints, extras, 38c ; car
Wheelwright as ambassador to Japan, tons, 1c extra; butterfat. No. 1, 39c;
to succeed Ambassador Guthrie, de No. 2, 37c, Portland.
Eggs — Oregon ranch, current re
ceased.
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ceipts, 26 @ 27c per dozen ; Oregon
Hobo movements join with other
ranch, selects, 29c.
signs in proclaiming that Spring is
Poultry — Hens, 19@20c per pound;
here, according to John Catlin, Al
springs, 18@ 20c; turkeys, live, 220
bany’s chief of police. He says that 24c; ducks, 20022c; geese, 12@14c.
instead of the majority of the hobos
Veal—Fancy, 140144c per pound.
traveling southward, as has been the
Pork—Fancy, 171@18c per pound.
case recently, there is an unmistakable
Vegetables—Artichokes, $1.10611.25
northward trend.
per dozen ; tomatoes, $3.75 per crate;
SUte officials, prisoners and many cabbage, $4.0005.50 per hundred, egg
plant, 25c per pound; lettuce, $2.500
prominent citizens attended the funeral
3.25 per box; cucumbers, $101.50 per
of Zenas Ferry Moody, seventh gover dozen; celery, $101.50; Florida, $5
nor of Oregon, which was held Monday per crate; cauliflower, $2.50 @2.75;
at the home on Sute street. The Rev. peppers, 50c per pound; sprouts, 122c;
Carl Elliott, of the First Presbyterian | rhubarb, $2.50@2.75 per box; peas, 15
church, of Salem, officiated.
@17hc per pound; asparagus, 20c per
Believing that the annual strawberry | pound; spinach, $1.2501.50 per box.
Potatoes — Oregon buying prices,
festival held in Roseburg should be
supported by a Ux instead of by popu $2.50 (2.75 per hundred; new Flori
lar subscriptions, as at the present | das, 10c per pound.
time, suggestion was made that the ! Onions — Oregons, jobbing prices :
people of Roseburg next year advocate No. 1, $9.0009.50 per sack; No. 2, $6.
Green Fruits — Applea, 90c@$2.00
the levying
. event, t i— per box; cranberries, $8.00 per barrel.
of asmalltax for this
HERMISTON
HERALD,
HERMISTON, OREGON.
The Habit of Gentleness
By OR. WELLS ANDREWS of Chicago.
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It has been said thut every cross word uttered or angry feeling expe
rienced leaves its unerring mark on the face. This can be verified by a
close observation of the countenances of persons around us whose tem
pers and habits are familiar to us. Its truth is thus established. And
if the lineaments of the face show traces of such things, how much more
must the general moral and mental system be affected by them?
Nothing is more readily susceptible of proof than the assertion that
one angry word brings on another. Remember the good old biblical
saying that “a soft answer turneth away wrath.”
Many people really possessed of a sincere desire to do right in all
things allow themselves to fall into the habit of using ungentle and even
unkind words to persons with whom they come in contact. If their atten
tion were called to the fact in the right way they would be astonished at
themselves. They mean no harm, but they do harm, both to themselves
and their associates. More especially is this harm perceptible in the
family circle, where the developing child is the proud imitator of all the
acts of its elders, and particularly those which are pronounced and notice
able. Here is where the carefully sown seeds of ungentleness are eventu
ally ripened into a harvest of harshness and often gathered in a crop of
vice and crime. This all results from a lack of full appreciation of happi
ness at home.
Happiness is made, not born. It may with reason be argued that
it is an impossibility to be happy at home when one is crushed by the
cares of life, by difficulties crowding on every side. If a man firmly
resolves to throw aside the vexing cares of business or a woman the aggra
vations of domestic life, when the family is united, as mostfamilies are
once in twenty-four hours, the thing is done. After the excitement of the
day the nerves are naturally high strung and an effort is required to
prevent their disturbance upon the slightest provocation ; but each effort
renders its successor easier of accomplishment. Thus a habit of gentle
ness, cheerfulness and kindliness can be acquired, which nobody sees but
to appreciate, admire and desire. The children acquire it in youth and
are saved the subsequent efforts of self-control, wfiile the neighbors are
softened by contact with it, and the result is what we all should seek,
happiness at home.
Conservation of
YOUTHFUL FILM STAR
Boys and Girls.
The difference I k apparent early: A
boy has as much fun In stoning a cat
as a girl has In hunting for violets. A
boy’s curiosity is directed to the ice
box ; a girl would like to see what Is
in the top bureau drawer.
A girl can give the impression when
away from home that her parents are
wealthy; a boy cannot.
Every boy Is old enough to be wel
come to sit in the neighbor girl's par
lor many years before his sister thinks
he is old enough to sit In the parlor
at home.
A girl is never so young that she
will reveal to guests at a party that
the spoons are borrowed ; a boy child
never grows so old that he fails to.
Give the boy a dollar and he will
eat It L give his sister one and she
will wear it.
A brother and sister may have hair
of the same shade, but the boy's la
called red and the girl's, auburn.
When brothers fight, It is over the
larger share of pie ; when sisters quar-
rel, one has worn something belong
ing to the other without asking per-
The shortest and surest way to live with
honor In the world. Is to be In reality
what we wish to appear to be; all human
virtues Increase and strengthen them
selves by the practice and experience of
them.—Socrates.
Baked Sliced Ham.
Take a slice of hum cut a half inch
thick, remove the fat nearly to the
lean and chop it fine. Mince enough
onion to fill two teaspoonfuls and the
same amount of parsley, mix with the
fat and spread oyer the ham which
should be placed in a dripping pan.
Add enough rich milk to cover the bot
tom of the pan and bake in a moderate
oven for 30 to 40 minutes.
DOUBLES EGG HARVEST
The use of milk in feeding
chickens will double egg pro
duction, according to the poultry
section of the Nebraska experi
ment station. The hen never lays
an egg until all the ingredients
necessary for the complete devel
opment of a chick are present.
Since the egg contains protein as
well as carbohydrates, any
amount of carbohydrates fed In
the form of grain will not offset
the necessity of protein. Milk
given to the birds, either as a
drink or in the form of wet
mash, will double egg yields.
Commercial meat scrap is of
equal value, and may be sub
stituted when milk cannot be ob
tained.
Baked Apples.
Wash and core a half dozen apples, TO ERADICATE QUACK GRASS
fill the centers, with finely cut marsh-
mallows, sprinkle with sugar, add bits Rye and Vetch Recommended by Wis
consin Station—Can Be Used for
of butter and water to just moisten,
Green Manure or Hay.
then bake in a moderate oven.
Pan Roasted Potatoes.
Use a half dozen even sized pota
toes, peel and remove a small piece
with an apple corer, in the cavity
place a small pork sausage, put the
potatoes in a baking dish with a lit
tle water and baste them while bak-
ing. They should be brown when
ready to serve.
Savory Potatoes.
Boll potatoes as usual, drain and
turn Into a hot vegetable dish which
has already received a tablespoonful
of finely chopped celery, a teaspoonful
of scraped onion, three tablespoonfuls
of butter, a half teaspoonful of salt
and a few dashes of red pepper. Use
a silver knife and . turn the potatoes
until well covered with the seasoning,
then chop lightly Into inch cubes or
small pieces.
Bran Bread.
Mix one beaten egg, two table
spoonfuls of sugar and a teaspoonful
of salt, add a half cupful of molasses,
two cupfuls of sour milk, a teaspoon
ful of soda dissolved In It, two cupfuls
of flour, two cupfuls of graham flour,
then when well mixed add n half tea
spoonful of baking powder and a half
cupful of raisins just before It goes
into the oven. This makes two loaves
of bread, especially good for people
who have little exercise.
the Eyesight
By DR. SAMUEL G. DIXON.
Commissioner of Health of Pennsyl-
vania.
Everybody realizes what sight means
for the 'comfort and efficiency of daily
life. Man is not much better off with
out his eyes than a submarine would
be without her periscope. A blind her
mit would soon die for the want of
food.
One’s efficiency along most
lines nowadays depends a great deal
upon the strength of the sight. The
perfect young eye has a wide margin
of endurance and few of us realize
when Its strength is being used up un
til it is crippled.
Now that the price of paper Is soar
ing higher and higher, small type Is
being introduced In all kinds of read
ing matter. It exhausts the eye If
worked long at a time to decipher
■mall letters or figures. This causes
nervous disturbances, headaches, in
digestion, sleeplessness, etc. We had
better be a little liberal in paying for
editions of books, magazines, and
other reading matter with legible type
and economize In other ways—tobacco
or Imitation flowers on our spring hats,
for instance.
Save your eyes from dust as much
as possible.
Never read with a bright light shin
ing directly In your face, but try and
get It over one or the other shoulder,
or shining down over your head.
Try to hold your reading mutter
at an angle so that the light reflected
from the paper will not shine directly
In your eyes.
The color of the paper is worth con
sidering in account books and such
things. The contrast between a pure
white paper and a jet black hand-
writing or type causes a little confu
sion along the lines between the white
and black. It is easier to follow let
ters or figures If they are brown on a
light buff paper. Practical tests will
soon convince you that the lines un
der the latter condition will be more
distinct than when the sharper con
trast of black and white is made.
The desk upon which you have your
reading matter should be of a material
that will not reflect the glare of the
light Into the face which will Irritate
the eyes.
Never forget to take the best care
of your eyes. They are good and
necessary friends.
Mother’s
Cook Book
Experiments at the Wisconsin sta
tion show the following to be a suc
cessful treatment for quack grass
where the acreage Is too large for sum
mer fallowing:
After the grain Is harvested plow
and thoroughly prepare the seedbed,
then sow rye and vetch at the rate
of two bushels of the former and 20
to 30 pounds of the latter to the acre.
Both the rye and vetch are quick to
sprout and will come up before the
quack grass gets a chance to recover.
Winter vetch makes an abundant fall
growth and covers the ground like a
carpet. In the spring both the rye and
vetch will resume growth at a rapid
rate, until at corn planting time these
crops will be from two to three feet
high. Whereupon the rye and vetch
can be turned under for green manure
or cut for hay, and the land planted
to a cultivated crop at once, with slight
chances of quack grass making an ap-
pearance.
Like clover and alfalfa, vetch Is a
legume and as such Is valuable as a
soil improver by means of the nitro
gen It takes from the air and restores
to the soli through its roots. Hence
the vetch-rye treatment for quack
grass can be recommended as doubly
useful.
FARM MACHINERY RUSTS OUT
Much Waste May Be Stopped by Prop
Ham and Corn Patties.
er Sheltering and Keeping Things
Use a cupful and a half of finely
In Good Repair.
minced ham and a quarter of a cupful
of cooked corn, a well ben ten egg and
More machinery rusts out than
a dash of pepper. Make Into patties wears out. More machinery Is thrown
and fry brown In a little hot fat.
away on account of a few parts giving
out than because of the wearing out
of the entire machine. Who pays the
bill? Who keeps the many large ma
chinery concerns in business? The
Lavish.
farmer.
“They received many costly wed
Alice Mary Moore.
When other lines of business are
Young daughter of Alice Joyce, who, ding presents, I hear.”
slack or dead, there is practically no
“Yes, indeed. The bride’s uncle decrease in the manufacture of farm
because of her appearance In many
screen plays, Is called the “most fa astonished everyone by his generosity. machinery, because the farmer is n
He sent a ton of coal.”
mous baby in the world.”
steady buyer and always in the field
for another machine or for some new
type of farm machinery.
How waste may be stopped : 1. By
more careful selection. 2. By buying
from reliable dealers and manufactur
ers. 3. By keeping machinery in re
By SADONIE MATZNER GRUENBERG.
pair. 4. By sheltering machinery when
It was at a ten party, and children self quite a nuisance among strangers. not in use.
But the party was a grand success.
had not even been mentioned, since
the Weather was tine and none had The strangers, children and adults,
been ailing of late. But then the baby never suspected that Rosalind was one BUILDING FOR FARM SCALES
of the house was brought home by her of the shrinking kind. She engaged
attendant, and of course she was im freely in conversation, and when there Good Manner of Protection Is Shown
In Illustration—Shed Is Built
mediately brought Into the assemblage was none about for lier to engage in
to Side of Barn.
for exhibition and admiration. The she started some on her own initia
little lady behaved herself very nicely ; tiv«. She made suggestions for im
A good way of protecting the farm
she made the rounds of the company, proving the luncheon for “next time"
shook hands, said "How do7” and curt and she asked for what she wanted scales is shown in the accompanying
sied in the approved fashion. Every without any outward sign of hesita diagram. The shed, which Is 20 feet
one was charmed, and the talk did at tion. She helped herself without cere long, 14 feet wide and 14 feet high at
last drift to children. Mrs. Frost was mony to the toys that hud been brought the lowest side, Is built to the side of
particularly impressed. “Would your for the children and expressed prefer a 60-foot barn. It is also used for
child do h II that in company?” she ences and dislikes as to food and games storing buggies, etc., writes Silas Funk
asked of her nearest neighbor. But with the composure of an experienced of McLean county, Illinois, in Farm and
she evidently took It for granted that miss of at least six years—and she
he or she would not, for she went right was only “going on five." If she had
on to explain about her own Rosalind. any doubts or misgivings of any kind,
"Rosalind is going on five, and she is she managed to conceal them most art
fully. On the whole, she was as self-
possessed a young person as one would
wish to meet.
No Chance for Self-Expression.
Now, why did her mother consider
her such a timid child, and why did
she at home give the Impresston of
| being shy? It Is probable that the
Shed for Farm Scales.
| only thing that troubled the little girl
I at home was too much care on the part Home. A hole 6 feet square Is cut In
of the mother and the nurse. She had
the side of barn near the roof to per
always been closely watched, and
mit of loading hay on the scales so the
helped with every trifle. She had no desired amount can be loaded. The
chance to use her own initiative and large end doors are 10 feet wide by 12
resourcefulness, and the advent of feet high. The small door opposite the
He May "Let Himself Out.”
strangers usually meant a performance scale box has a window in it. There
so timid. When there is a stranger In calculated to make the child conscious is also a door for driving stock on to
the house, you can't get her to say a of herself. Under such circumstances the scale from the cow barn. The
word. I cannot make her greet people It Is to be expected that she would scale, being always In the dry, Is never
properly, she's so shy. I wonder how “shrink" on very slight provocation.
out of balance.
When the child gets among strangers
you make your children less timid.”
In
a
new
situation,
where
there
Is
little
You Never Know In Advance.
Mrs. Cummings could not tell just to remind him of his daily associations, WOOD LOT VERY CONVENIENT
how she made her children less timid. the naturally timid child will feel lost
He may be Important Feature of Agriculture and
Did they always speak up as nicely as and uncomfortable.
Worthy of More Attention From
little Lucille had done? No, not al “scared” to the point of being unable
All Farmers.
ways, though sometimes they did, and to do anything at all. On the other
you never could tell In advance. But hand, a fairly healthy child that Is not
Every farm should have a small
the mother did not insist. Sometimes self-conscious will find in the new sur
one person will affect a child so that roundings all sorts of stimulation for wood lot. Forestry on the farm Is to
he Is not like his usual self. He be his activity. Ills curiosity will be day an Important feature of agricul
comes frightened, or he is antagonized. aroused, and he will be tempted to ex ture and ought to receive considerate
And some people make a child self- plore things with refreshing simplic- attention from farmers. A wood tot
Ity. A city child taken to the country Is very convenient to have, not only as
conscious more than others.
Well, Rosalind was invited to go to will be tempted to “let himself out” in a source of fuel tn times of scarce and
a picnic party with a round dozen running and shouting, and If that is high-priced coal, but to furnish fence
other children, most of them strangers, very different from his accustomed posts snd timber for various uses and
and six grown-ups. The mother hesi conduct, it la because his daily life to add beauty to the landscape and
tated about letting her go, she was so does not give him the necessary oppor premises, and afford shade, shelter and
sure the child would be nervous and tunities for free and spontaneous a* comfort to a large extent for all the
Yu Mupweo
Dulling Child With Too Much Care
shrinking and consequently make her-
tivity.
occupants of the Kara