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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1899)
THE STAY-AT-HOME. There's dress an' hood to buy f'r Jane, A pair o' pants f'r John, - A whole outfit ft Buster Bill, An' winter's comin' on. But baby Nan, the stay-at-home, J is laughs, an' never knows That all on earth she has to wear Is ole made-over clothes. There's books to buy ft them at school- It makes a pore man sick To hear 'em holler "joggafy" : An' "mental 'rithmetic." But, thank the Lord! the stay-at-home Is not so hard to please; Jis gits the fum'ly almanac An', reads it on her knees. An' writin' books an' drawin books They never seem to thiuk How much it costs to buy sich truck, An' pencils, pens, an' ink. - But little Nan, the stay-at-home, t . . She knows her daddy's pore; ": ' Jis gits a charcoal pen an' writes - Her lesson on the floor. , There's boots to buy f r Buster Bill, An' boots to buy f'r John, An' shoes f'r Jane an' ma an' I, , Till all my money's gone. -' So Nan, the last, the stay-at-home. Is left to do without; Jis wears her home-made moccasins, An' crows, an' crawls about. 'Pears like that all I rake an scrape - Won't hardly satisfy -The pressin' needs o' Bill an' John An' Jane an' ma an' I. But baby Nan, the stay-at-home, V '' Is full o' sweet content; j. ? Jis cuddles up in daddy's arms An' never wants a cent. , , Century. THE MIDDY'S CAPTIVE i. IUBBERING won't do any good; you had better report the matter - to ' Captain , Wilson at once," said 'the navigating lieu tenant of her majes ty's ship Triumph, as he gazed qulzzing ly down at Jthe chubby-faced midship man who stood In such comical dismay before his superior officer. "Come with me; I'm going to his stateroom now," Ihe snpHker added, not unkindly, as he noted the lad's evident distress. "I'm not blubbering, and I don't care If he does stop my leave!" ludignantly responded the youngster, drawing him self up to his full height. "What Is It. Stuart?" Inquired the captain, as the twain entered his cabin. "I merely wish to say that we are ready to get under way whenever you please, sir; but Robson has -a report to make," said the lieutenant. "Not seaRlek yet. I hope?" ejaculated Captain Wilson, Ironically. "Well, I'm listening." "Please, sir, It's the 'First Lord;' he's bolted f He ran off while we were ship ping the soft tack I mean the bread!" Incoherently stammered Robson. "The 'First Lord' bolted with the soft tack!" exclaimed Wilson in astontsh- mant ' "VVImt Hnaa ha maun Stuart? .111 U li I I iiu, V . VI uv V 1 1 V Who's the 'First Lord?" Is the boy a raving maniac?" ' Lieutenant Stuart had perforce to ex plain that the cadet, being In charge of a boat sent ashore to ship provisions, had lost one of his men an able bodied seaman answering to the name of West, but who was, by reason of his superior bearing, nicknamed by his companions "the First Lord of the Ad miralty." Charley Robson meekly endured the reproaches of his commander, who was a stern martinet, and made no allow ance for youthful Inexperience. "But at any rate," mused the young fellow, when he was at length dismissed, "he said nothing about stopping my fur lough." - And then his volatile spirits threw off the recent discomfiture as only youth knows how to, while his thoughts .wandered far away to that pleasant country home In Surrey, with, all Its attendant attractions, . from which he had been separated for one long year. And If among the dream faces conjured up there was one which eclipsed all others, the fact should not cause undue surprise. The usual stops taken to secure the arrest of the deserter were of no avail. TTIo ifoatTlnHnn ttas olrmiliittirt ltv tliA police throughout the country, and all the majesty of the law Invoked to cap ture the runaway, but the man disap peared as completely as If the earth bad opened and swallowed him up. He was of a strangely reserved nature, mixed but little with bis companions, and had evUently once occupied a far superior station in life. There was one person, however, who did not forget the runaway. Robson often In Imagination ran the scoundrel to earth. - . Little did Charley Robson imagine as at the commencement of bis long-deferred leave he lounged In a first-class smoker on his way to Guildford bow noon, or under what strange circum stances be would meet the villain of his melodrama. "And you have come- home; Alice will be able to resume her Interrupted country walks," said the mother of the youthful sailor next morning. "But of course," added she, addressing the girl, "Charley has not heard of your latest admirer. 1 don't know whether the girl's nerves are out of order," con tinued Mrs. Robson, "but she declares that a strange man has been following 1 ber about during the last few weeks al though no one else has ever caught a glimpse of him." "I shan't be afraid of any loafers while Charley Is with me," responded the maiden. "In proof of which, he shall convoy me for a walk now." And Alice Westerne buoyantly danced off to array herself for the proposed jaunt. The eyes of mother and son followed the girl with a wistful ook as she quitted the room. "I suppose nothing has been beard of him?" queried the latter. "No! Your father thinks there never will be. Doubtless Sir Richard died abroad, believing to the end that he was a murderer." "And Allie Is still Ignorant of ber father's sad history?" queried the lad. "Yes. We have decided not to. say anything to her until she Is of age, un less some contingency should arise, such as your obtaining a sublleuten- ancy, and being of the same mind as you are now." Robson colored at the hint delicately conveyed by his mother, and so well understood by himself. To see their only son mated to their ward was the dearest wish of Admiral and Mrs. Rob son, yet they had the good sense to re strain the Impetuosity of the youthful couple until both arrived at yeans of maturity. II. . With the course of true love running thus smoothly, and the crisp, frozen ground under their feet, the twain started upon their ramble. With buoyant steps they breasted the "Hog's Back," from which favorite vantage ground a splendid view of the surrounding country could be obtained. "Yes, , there's the dear old Towers," said Alice, "where I should be living now If the pater had not died." "You've found another home," whis pered Charley, "and other parents." "I know that, dear," responded the girl. "But you cannot Imagine what It feels like to have one's birthplace given over to ruin and decay, and to know one hasn't a single living relative. Only to think I cannot even visit my father's grave, because he died in some far away outlandish place!" Then, with returning vivacity, she added: "Don't you remember that day In your school holidays when we walked over there and rambled .. through the disused rooms? How we thought there was a ghost in the hall, and ran all the three miles back home without once stopping?"- "I should Just think I did," said the young officer. . "You caught a chill through being overheated, and the gov ernor said he would make a tailor of me for being such an Idiot." "You wouldn't be afraid now?" queried the girl. "No fear!" laughed her companion. "Life on a man-of-war soon knocks all the fear of spooks out of a man." "Let us pay another visit, then!" A sharp walk soon brought the twain to the rusty lodge-gates of Westerne Towers. - . ' "How dreary It looks!" said the girl. "I wonder If that scullery window Is still unfastened?" Charley tried, and to his surprise the sash slipped up without difficulty. "It's a case of gentlemen first this time," said he, stepping through the aperture. "Come along, tomboy. If you're not careful you'll tear your dress. The window's no bigger than the lubber hole of a brig." The casement being negotiated In safety, together they wandered through the cobweb-festooned rooms of the once palatial residence. Ascending to a sec ond story, Robson carelessly threw open a door of a room which faced the landing. Here an unexpected sight met their gaze. Sitting before a wood fire was an elderly man, contemplating the flames with a ruminant air. At the sound they made he turned his face to ward them and started In alarm. The next moment the youth was across the room and grappling with the stranger. "You villain!" he panted, "I've got you at last! Run, Allie, bring some one quickly! I can't hold him long; say he's a deserter from the navy." The trembling limbs of the girl failed to carry out his behests as she stood fascinated, watching the unequal strug gle, which was speedily ended. Youth and agility were no match for the sail or's sinewy arms, and In a short time Robson was lgnomlnlously pinned against the wall. With lowering brows and eyes, which boded no good to his captive, West stood staring at the lad as if undecided what to do with him. Then, catching sight of the pale face of Alice, who was petrified with horror upon recognizing in her companion's antagonist the man who had so persistently dogged her footsteps of late, bis own features as sumed a softer expression, and he mut tered: "It Is kismet!" After a pause of breathless silence the ex-sailor, addressing his captive, said: "You are not so muscular as was your father la his youth, young fellow. The Charley Robson that I knew would never have allowed an old man to get the better of him; but let that pass and come to the crux of the matter. You want to arrest me for deserting from the navy. Very well, you shall. If you still wish to after hearing what I have to say." , : " . Releasing the grip upon his would- be captor, the elder man, In a strange ly .cultured yoice, addressed his audi tors. . '., t'Years ago," said he, "I was known and respected ir. this neighborhood, a man of substance, and a member of the diplomatic corps. Unfortunately, in my official capacity, ' I became . em broiled in a quarrel with a political op ponent, and, as was more common even fifteen years ago, the result was I had no alternative between flgljing a duel or being dishonored. "Not to make a long story, my ad versary and our seconds Journeyed to Guildford with me late one night, in tending to setle our differences at day break, on the following morning. With the courtesy that such affairs demand ed, I offered the whole party hospital ity for the night "From the moment my head touched the pillow until I was awakened the next morning my mind was an entire blank, but judge of my borror when. essaying to rise, I found the bedclothes dabbled with blood, and at the foot of my couch a gory hunting knife belong- Ling to myself. Simultaneous with my horrible discovery the servant found the man I was to have fought lying foully murdered. . "Although conscious of my Innocence, I dared not face the Inquiry which was sure to follow, as who would believe my own theory of the matter, which was simply that I committed the terri ble act in my sleep, as from childhood I had been subject to attacks of som nambulism. Hastily caressing my in fant daughter, the only pledge left me by my departed wife, I left the bouse like a felon and fled the country, and It was hunger for a glimpse of my dear child's face that has worked my undo ing. My faithful secretary connived at my escape, and subsequently sent me the news of the charge of the willful murder against Sir Richard Westerne. Yes. You will be able to deliver up to Justice a more Important person than the deserter West. My devoted retainer Burton, who assisted me at such great risks to himself, Is not here to help me now. He is dead." - "He was a villain, Sir Richard!" cried Robson, in wild excitement. "It was be himself who killed Lord. Marcus, and artfully foisted the blame upon you In order that you should hot discover his defalcations. My father possesses his dylny confession to that effect.",. The sudden revulsion of feeling was almost too much for the baronet. Tot tering to the nearest chair, he buried his face In his toil-worn hands. Silence reigned In the room for a few Intense moments. Then Sir Richard, feeling a gentle hand upon his shoulder, looked up into a sweet but still scared face and two half -frightened gray eyes. "Daddy, dear," Charley heard a trem ulous voice murmur softly as he stole from the room. , Powerful friends at the admiralty soon glossed over the delinquencies of the seaman West, and Sir Richard Westerne once more assumed his prop er rank and station. As time wore on, and the -vividness Of his past misery faded, he could even afford to joke about the matter; and sometimes, upon the rare occasions that he saw a certain young officer, ' would, ' much to the amusement of his daughter, simulate extreme terror and cry In affected dis may: "He has come for me at last!" When some few years later a very ex cited youth, with a golden circlet upon the arm of his new uniform coat, burst unceremoniously Into the room, he was greeted by the same old Joke, and In re sponse blushingly replied: "I'll let you off this time if you will give me Alice as a hostage." And as the girl seemed to be a willing sacrifice, Sir Richard gave them his blessing. THE YOUNGEST DEPOSITOR. Flaxen-Haired Girl to Whom Someone la Always Kind. Once every month, In the long line of men and women that forms In front of the teller's window on "open day" at the Union Dime Savings-Bank, a flaxen bead appears at the height of their elbows. Looking down, one sees that close against the breast of a shabby frock is tightly clasped a bank-book and then, says the New York World, the secret Is out The flaxen-haired lit tle girl is the bank's and New York's youngest depositor. Alice Metz is her name, and her home is close by Hell's Kitchen. She Is bare ly eight years old. How she gets the money nobody knows, but each month there Is a deposit of fifty cents to swell ber account, which has now reached the sum of three dollars. There - she stands patiently In line till some one less hurried and preoccupied than the rest bends to question her. .'' -"Will you help me?" asks the, little maid, breathlessly. "I have fifty cents two quarters. Johnny got It changed for me; there were fives before. And I want to put it In there," pointing to the window, "and they write It down here In the book," finding the row of. figures. "But I don't know how. by myself. Will you do it? O, yes, I can put down, my own name, - 'cause ' I couldn't bring my money till I learned to do that." .. : She Is so engaging in her pretty youthfulness that men or women, as the case may be, forthwith fill out the deposit blank. Alice laboriously In serts ber name,, and is in a state of ecstasy when she Is lifted up to give In those precious quarters. Her December helper was a woman. When the ceremony was over It was already dark. 'Where do you go now, little one?" she said, fearing for the child's safety. "Ob, Johnny's waiting across the road," replied the little depositor. So they traveled in company, and sure enough there was Johnny, sturdy and fat, one year older than his small charge. "It's in!" Alice cried, gleefully. "The lady did It! She's ever so good!" , "Somebody's always good to you, I guess," was Johnny s comprehensive reply. "But did you count?" and to gether the two heads bent o ver the col umn. Over and over they counted. . "Three dollars, that's it" concluded Johnny, at last with a sigh of relief. It's in for keeps, Allie." .. . She clutched the book once more to her bosom, and hand In hand the two trotted off Into the darkness. New KaRlish Dictionary. Dr. Murray expects to have more than half of the new English dictionary published by the end of the century up to the middle of the letter L. . Half the people in the world are un happy because they can't afford the things that make the other half miser able. . " The wire trust lacks the ability to control political wire pulling. It seems queer that an Intelligence office should supply stupid servant. Attractive Well House. Few realize the amount of beat that goes down into a well of water through the platform that surrounds the pump. It can be partially realized by going up Into a close attic under the roof some hot day. As a matter of fact, closed air spaces beneath board ing that is exposed to the bright sun become fearfully heated, and in the case of wells this heat is soon transmit ted to the water. A double platform with an air space' between will help greatly, but best of all is a summer house, or regular closed well house, built over the platform, and this In turn covered with vines. Not only will such a little house serve an excellent pur HOUSE OVER THE WELL. pose in keeping the well cool, but It. will be an ornament to the place as well. and, as a "summer house," may be a most agreeable place to spend an hour on a hot day. Woodbine is one of the best vines to use In covering such a house, as it provides abundant shade very quickly and Is hardy even In the coldest climates. A few little things like this done about the farm each year will soon greatly Improve the looks of the farm surroundings, and will decid edly Increase the comforts of farm life. A suggestion for such a house Is given herewith. Cnttine Potatoes Made Kasy. The preparation of no farm seed causes more trouble than that of the potato crop. It Is a slow, tedious task and must be done by hand. - This is usually done by placing the potato upon a board and cutting it in the size desired. Now this task may be great ly alleviated by the use of a device that is not new. It Is simplicity Itself, con sisting only of a plank, a, ten or twelve Inches in width and two feet In length, and a knife, b, driven In one end equal ly distant from either side. - This is placed upon a box, or stool, and tbe operator sits astride It. At his right Is placed a basket c. containing the whole potatoes, and In front, just un der the knife, Is another basket, d, to receive them when cut. The potatoes are cut by being pressed against the knife, one at a time. At first the per son cutting them need exercise a little care to prevent his fingers being cut, FOB CUTTINO POTATOES. but with a little practice there will be no danger, and he can cut an amount of potatoes in an hour that would be Impossible for him to cut in twine that time In-the old way. A. R. B.; In Amer ican Agriculturist How to Set a Hen. Very few people know how to set a hen properly. In the first place, re member that you can't make her set If she doesn't want to. Cut a barrel in two in the 'middle; then cut out one or two staves, so that when it Is stood on Its end there will be plenty of room for the hen to pass in and out. Place the barrel on the ground, with the headed end up, and then scoop out the earth to a concave shape and put In a very little fine hay, and the nest, is ready for the eggs. If It is not convenient to put the barrel on the ground, a grass sod placed underneath the nest will answer. It Is best to place the hen on a few glass or worthless eggs at first, as she may not take kindly to the nest you have prepared for ber. Place her an the nest after dark and she will get accustomed to it through the nigfit If she seems inclined to set after this, she may be given the eggs which are in tended to be hatched. If the hen Is allowed to leave her nest every day a small coop may be placed In front of the barrel, and then she will be sure to return to nest She should always have plenty of food. If the above di; recti'ons are followed and the eggs are well fertilized, a good brood of chickens may be expected. Ex.- ," Potato Fcab. For treating seed potatoes with cor rosive sublimate solution to prevent cab, make a basket as follows: Take three strong Iron hoops, 17 inches in diameter, with holes punched every 3 Inches. Inside of these fasten com mon laths, 28 inches long, with small bolts. Place the bottom hoop 1 inch from ena of latns; make the bottom from a 1-incn board sawed circular, 16 Inches in diameter, and fasten to the end of the laths with nails. Bore sev eral holes in this bottom. Make a ball from a strong piece of wire and fasten to top hoop. Suspend by a rope pass ing through pulley overhead. When filled with potatoes it can be easily raised and lowered into a 50-gallon kerosene barrel containing the solution. Raise from the barrel and allow to drain for a short time, when they can be emptied into the potato boxes. By this method none of the solution is wasted, and It Is a short cut compared with the old way of tying a sack over the barrel' and draining the solution from the potatoes. Woodchoppinr in Pprlnr. It is too hard work to do much chop ping after warm weather comes, while In zero weather the exercise of swing ing the ax and bringing down the tree Is rather a delight than otherwise. But after the sap starts in tbe trees It is easier to chop or split them than In midwinter. A very knotty and tough tree may therefore be left standing un til nature has filled it full of sap, though the wood will dry out' slowly. If beech wood Is cut while full of sap it must be kept under shelter, for If ex posed to rains water will soak In as fast as the sap-dries out '' Spring Is the worst time of year to cut wood and have it kept wet and the abundance of sap It contains is probably the rea son. Most timber will keep best If cut In July or August while the tree is In leaf. The leaves continue to evaporate moisture after the tree is down, and this soon makes the wood dry. . Outdoor Nests. Of course in winter nests are made In the henhouse. Hens are not apt to be broody In cold weather, . and the short time the hen is laying her dally egg does not cause vermin to breed In it But so soon as warm days tempt the fowls out of doors they should be encouraged to nest outside. About this time too fowls will become broody, and If allowed to nest In the henhouse they will Inevitably fill it with vermin. If the outdoor nest Is made on the ground the moisture arising from the sojl will keep the shell in good condition for the chick when hatched to pick Its way through. ' Most hens If allowed any range will steal their nests, and genera ally bring off a larger hatch of chicks than those for which the poltry keeper has carefully set the eggs. . Building: Ftone Piers. Country places are much improved by entrance posts of cobble stones, but to be attractive these must be laid up with great exact ness. Excavate to the frost line, and setup in the square . excavation a . box : like structure of Hr boards, . one side 4m Vv' ' coming only to the surface. Fill In' to '.' f h a - r n n f 9 4hA k .;..:..(.. . ground with loose rock and soft cement soft enough to run Into all the crevices between the stones. From tbe ground up the stones should be laid up carefully In cement. the sides of the box permitting the stones to be pushed, out to make an ex actly even surface. When the top. Is reached the three boards can be sawed off at the surface' of the ground, leav ing tbe bottom of the pier encased, which will keep the frost from getting any lifting power on the stones. It will lift the boards rather than the stones. When the boards are removed from the portion above ground, carefully dig out the loose cement from between the faces of the stones. New . England Homestead. . Kesraftinsr Young Orchards. It sometimes happens that the farmer finds even before his orchard gets to bearing that a large part of the trees are of varieties that will not give him much profit Regrafting to better sorts Is a very laborious and expensive proc ess If the trees have grown to nearly bearing size, because so many grafts must be set to make an even head. A few sprouts may : be left belpw the grafts to draw the sap, but they must be cut away as soon as the grafts get to growing. A better way Is to take a few years to do the grafting, putting In two or three grafts each spring, un til the entire bead Is changed. So much cutting away of the top wood will cause many sprouts to start These must be destroyed as fast as they .ap pear, rubbing them off while the green shoot can be removed with the thumb and finger. '-, .'' ; "'; Oatmeal for YonnK Chickens. Laying hens cannot profitably be fed with whole oats because they have too large a proportion- of hull and are too chaffy to digest well. But oat meal that has had Its hull sifted out of It and has been mixed. with pressed cur dled milk makes an excellent feed for young chickens. Another good way to feed oat meal Is to mix with water and bake It breaking the hard pieces small enough so that the chicks can swallow them. These feeds supply all that Is needed to make chickens grow thriftily, anM there will be few sickly chickens if oatmeal prepared In either way Is made a part of their diet. If variety is needed feed some whole wheat or rye. wnoie grain or meal wmcn has been baked until it is bard is better than any soft food for fowls at any age. . -. ' ." Repelling; Borer, One gallow of coal tar, two pounds beeswax and two pounds tallow melted and mixed with flour of sulphur and air slacked lime to make it tbe consis tency of paste. This mixture is to be spread on strips of burlap and wrapped around trunk of tree about two or three Inches under surface of - ground and about same distance above ground, w:' . On July 1, 1898, when the battle at El Caney was hottest, a curious commo tion among tbe Spanish soldiers was visible In one of the trenches which de fended the town. . Toward the middle f the day the watching American sol fliers on the nearest line saw a half grown pig come running out of a low thatched building Inside the Spanish trenches, and, rounding a corner of the lltch, take to flight outside the trenches In the direction of the American posi tion. - ; - -. "Evidently he had been lodged under the thatch-roofed house just behind the trench, in the free-and-easy domestic manner in which Cuban pigs' are gen erally taken care of. A bullet or a shell had Invaded his retreat shattered his Inclosure, set him free and scared him almost to death at the same time. ' The Spanish soldiers ceased their fir ing as the pig escaped, and there was commotion among them. Presently this commotion resolved Itself into a rush of several soldiers out of the trench and In the direction of the pig. 3. CAPTUKING THE BUNA WAT. Soon there were fifteen of them out in . the open, in the full sweep of the American fire. Some of them ran to head off the pig and others pushed up behind to catch him. . The pig wheeled and dodged, and the soldiers wheeled and dodged after him. Their voices rose In chorus of Spanish shouts. - Up and down went . the pig; when a soldier's bands were on him he would make a twist and wriggle himself away. , ... Once he made a long straight run to ward the American lines; It did not help him, for the soldiers were after him,, entirely unregardlng the battle. Some of them headed him off again, and In another moment an athletic young soldier had seized first his tail and then his legs. Still another mo ment and the pig, firmly held, was on his way back to the trenches, riding on . the shoulder of this young man, his forelegs gripped by one hand and his hind legs by the other. The soldiers resumed their places In the trench; the one who had the pig put him back Into the thatched roof building, and presently returned to his own place and took up bis gun. . It is safe to say that during the chase of the pig no American soldier who saw tbe affair discharged his gun- at the goup. Tbe Americans who saw it were too full of admiration and aston ishment to add to the dangers which the audacious Spanirds were under; but thousands of Americans who could not see the Incident were blazing away in that direction, and the Spaniards who were chasing the pig must have heard a great many bullets whistling about their heads during their perform- ; , Highly Appreciated. I An old Latin saying, Laudant quod non intelligunt (They praise what they do not understand), was once Illus trated by an English tourist who hap pened into the Lutheran church at Elsinore one Sunday morning. The tourist did not know a word of the Danish language, but he wrote, "The clergyman had a quiet earnestness of manner and a persuasive . eloquence that pleased and attracted. I admired the discourse, although I did not un derstand a word of it" The book from which we have Copied this illustration of a common practice tells the follow ing amusing story of a Dutch audience listening to one of Sbakspeare's plays: I will tell you, such is de powers of de Shakspeare, that I vunce saw a play de great man acted in Angllsh, in Holland, where der vas not vun per son in all de house but myself could onderstond it; yet dere vas not a per son in all dat house but vat vas in tears, 4at Is, all crying, blowing de nose, and veep very mouch; couldn'1 onderstond vun vurd of de play, yet all veeping. Such ' vas de powers of de Shakspeare!- Deaf and Dumb Beggar (at unexpect edly receiving sixpence) Oh, thankee, sir! Benevolent Passer Eh? Whai does this mean, sir? You can talk. Deaf and Dumb Beggar (in confusion! Y-e-s, sir. Ye see, sir, I'm only mind- in' this corner for th' poor deaf and dumb man wot belongs here. Benevo lent Passer (quickly) Where is he' Deaf and Dumb Beggar (in worse con fusion) He's gone to th' park t' heal the music Tit-Bits. " - .' Bell What do you suppose the fal girl In tbe avenue candy store weighs Nell Candy Exchange,