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LODGE DI RECTORY
TU BERCU LAR HERD
SERIOUS MENACE
( P r e p a r e » ky tk s P a l i s » States L x p e r in e a l
of AffUuilur• )
47 /5 e T À L E .
KIDDIE KATYDID
o
Arthur Scott Dailey
L E A P E R 13 W O R R IE D
t ^ ID U IK KATYD ID looked on hap-
* * plljr while l.euper tint tax-ust
■IrufflMl lo fire himself from Ilia
clutch«-« of the liieswiigrr who hail ita-
llvereil Ilia mysterious m«'»»nge (hat
bad cauaed amw unpleasaiilneaa. Hut
Lea|««r waa no match fur the stronger
In the end he had to accept the tuea-
sate
“ Now,” aatil the stranger, •‘your
coualn and hla family will reach here
by tomorrow at the lateat. Ho you'd
better bn making arrungciuenla to
welcome them.
“ Itemeniber I Have plenty of food
ready! I'll warn you nuw that If your
Hhowlng that milk production In ■
herd begun to decline utmost simulta
neously with tbe development o f tuber
culosis among tbe cows, a report re
ceived by the Unite«] Mtatea Depart
ment of Agriculture dlaruiees a topic
By D0UQLA6 MALLOCH
of unusual Interest In practical dairy
-Vl ing. The Insidious nature of tuber-
(T t i.r e havs bsan many rsqu sits for cuioela makes tbe time o f first Infec
this famous U lti» poem by Mr Msllooh
tion difficult to establish and other
lia rs It la. sa ravisait by Uta s a ib o r .)
variable factors make the study of
F YOU ran't he a pine on tha top thla queatlon vary complex. Hut In the
raao reported the evidence Indicates
of the hill
that in two years the spread o f bo
Be a scrub In the valley—but be
The best little scrub by the aide of vine tuberculosis caused a redaction
In tbe milk o f the herd, which aver
the rill,
aged about 10 cows, from an annual
lie a bush If you ran't be a tree.
I f you can't be a bush be a bit of the production of 111,170 p«>unda to 82,-
178 pounds. The decrease In Income
gram,
Doing something for somebody's from the sale of milk amounted to ap
proximately $870.
sake.
Officials o f the bureau of animal In
If you can't be a musk le then Just be
dustry, United Stale» Department of
a basa,
Agriculture, point out that the Indem
Hut the liveliest baas In the lake.
nity paid for tuberculous cattle de
We can't all lie captain», some have to tected by official testing Is well known*
to be a means o f hastening tuberculo
be crew.
There's something for all of us here. sis eradication. However, In the light
There's big work and llttla for people of the foregoing figures the reduced
Income from a tuberculosis herd may
to do,
And the task we must do U the equal or even exceed the mount of In
demnity ordinarily paid. This loss, the
near.
I f you can't tie the highway then Juat officials conclude, should be aa great
an Inducement ax tbe expected Indem
be a trail.
I f you ran't be the sun be a star.
nity for having the teat applied
For It Isu't by alxe that you wtn or promptly ao as to check tbe ravage»
of the disease, economic looses, and
you fall—-
Be the beat o f whatever you are!
danger to mankind.
BE THE BEST
were »afely rid of the whole affair.
"I know what I'll do!" lie cried at j
last. 'T il disguise myself. I'll make i
my bonis so long lhal people will
think I'm noun-body else.
Ho he fet to work. And, biting off
some »lender gras***, he bouud them
to hla stubby honta with threada from
a spider's web which ha found In the :
pasture.
Then he looked at blmsalf In a pool. ;
“ I'm a l-ong horn now I" he ex
claimed And he waa gre illy pleased
at the sight of himself he who had
once acolfed at Kiddle Katydid's
honta and advised him to have them
trimmed.
Meanwhile the strange messenger
had disappeared. It waa said that he
had gone to meet the other travelers
and guide them to their cousin, I-eaper
the I-oeust.
And there waa great excitement
throughout I’leaaunt valley. A good
< A ky M eC la rs N sw apapsr S r a d ic a le .)
many of the held iteople stopped at
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Farmer Orem's dooryard and told
Kldd)e Katydid that they (bought be
had made a mistake.
"You might have had the honor of j
recalling the gueets," they said.
"No, thank you!” he replied to all 1
such remarks. "I'm willing enough to |
B y F. A. W A L K E R
let l-eni>er the Ixiriut do the honors.
And unless I'm much mistaken he's
trembling In bis slmee tbls very mo
M A K IN G Y O U R M A R K
went."
Then the field people would shake 1
VERY day you are making a mark
their heads and say that they didn't
upon the tablet of time that tbe
understand.
Wasn't every body glad passage of years cannot obliterate or
to have company once In a while? 1 In any way modify or change.
And wouldn't It be a pleasure to talk
Ouce made, whether ugly or beau
with atrangera who ratne from some 1 tiful. coarse or fine, this mark endures
far-off place, and ask them how the forever, becoming a part of your
crops were where they lived, and what rhararter. your soul, your spiritual
the weather waa?
and physical self.
Hut Kiddle Katydid only said mys- t
It becomes a familiar slgnutnre by
terlously, "Walt a bit! And If you j which you are known favorably or un
want strangers to talk to. ihere’H be ! favorably to the world, your friends
plenty of them In this neighborhood. and associates.
If I'm not mistaken."
It passes current for good or evil,
Well, Kiddie's neighbors couldn’t for friendliness or enmity, for enter
Imsglne wliut he mesnt. They made prise or Inaction.
*
a good many guesses. Hut there was
As your life advances It will be
always somebody to point out some found to be the matter key that un
flaw and upset every calculation. Ho locks the great door of happluess or
at last everybody stop|>ed guessing misery, or the gate that opens to the
and admitted that he hail no Idea as fertile flebls «if usefulness or to the
to what Kiddle Katydid hnd In mind. barren soli where nothing grows hnt
It was Just another one of Ida secrets. lares and polaouous weeds.
And people might as well wait patient- j
When you get up In the morning
ly to see what happened. Even Solo- ' with a scowling face, with nerves
mou Owl agreed to thut. •'Tittle will ! swry from a night HI spent, you are
tell I" he suld with a wise nod o f hla In a mood to make un unsightly,
head.
scratchy record In your Doomsday
( B br Orossst A tvuslnp)
book, which lies ever open before you.
He careful as you make the entries,
for nothing can rub them out. not even
tears or regrets. You may In memory
turn back to the horrihle blotches,
scrawls and stains, hut you cannot
reopen the written pages themselves,
for tli«>y are sealed till the end of your
• Y J O S E fll K A Y E
__ days.
You may he able vaguely to recall
At 21:— Ovid» Musln, Belgian violin what you wrote, but the exact ahsde
matter, Introduced the ensemble music of the meaning of each word and sen
tence lias esctt|ied you. The tone or
of Brahma to Paris.
color Is gone as well as the Impression
you had meant to convey.
“ Y X F IIE N I was twenty-one, at the
Among the many thousand follies.
• ' suggestion of (Instate Snndre, j
Inaanltlra and eccentricities so often
I organised u quartet called the '(Juar- i
Jotted down not one will return to you
tette Modern«-,' the itleu being to play ;
tn Its original dress, though at times
works hy modern composers.
you would give all you possess to re
"I am proud to »ay that thla orgnnl-
touch It and tunke n change In a few
xatlon was the first to play the en
dexterous atrokes which you feel now
semble music of Johannes Itrahnia be
you are capable o f doing.
fore the public lu Paris. These se
I.et this Impulse to do better con
ances, given In the llall Iiiltllpe Here,
trol tn the future your fever of thought
were always crowded.
It wasn't n
and keep It cool, peaceable and pru
large hall, sealing about Ml) people,
dent
but Meal for chninlter mule, The Drat
Make no mark today that you will
two rows were always reserved for ]
regret tomorrow.
the king of llnnovet and his suite.
Inscribe no word In your Doomsday
"A t the close of one of these con hook that will wound the heart of a
certs I was told that there wits a man friend or obstruct In the leust your
In the audience who would give a bun- path to a clean and noble life, even
dred thousand francs to see me, and though In following this high resolve
he mentioned the king of Hanover. At | you may he forced to tnnke humbly
first I waa puzzled, then I saw the ; many personal sacrifices; for after all
light. I recalled that the king was the world's empty vaunting* humility
blind. I did nol find the price exorbi Is the price which all humans must
tant.—Ovlde Musln."
pay for honor, glory and fume.
<© by M cC lu r« N «w a p a p er S yn d ica te.)
T O D A Y :—Ovlde Musln Is one of the
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greatest teachers of the violin In the
world. In his younger ditys he was
s famous virtuoso, and made two
tours around the world with enormous
success.
Itut now his success Is ]
equally great us a teacher. He Is co
author of that noted iiundcal podtt- |
gogtc work, “ The Belgian School for
Violin." lie lives In New Y'ork.
SOMETHING TO
T H IN K A B O U T
E
• I'a Willing to Let Leaper Oo the
Honor*."
con »In » fumlly have tn go hungry
they'll be pretty angry with you."
"I don't believe I need to worry,"
leaper lax-ust remarked rarcleaaly.
" I f they don’t like what I have they
can go without, for all 1 cure."
Though the »(ranger »aid nothing
In reply to that, he glared at leaper
tn a threatening faahloti which haunt
ed him all the real of the night.
"I wlab I had never heard of thla
horrid meaaage I" be eirlalmed at laat.
" I wlah I had never laid claim to It.
It'a going to cuune me trouble, 1
know I"
The more ho worried over the vlalt
o f hla unknown coualn the more
l.eaper the t.ocuat wlahed that he
«THE W H Y of
SUPERSTITIONS
■ y H.
IRVINQ
KINQ
S T IR R IN G T O T H E R IG H T
T F YOU want to have your bread
A or cuke ram» out of the oven light
alwuya atir the dough from left tn
right—thut la "elockwlao" or "with
the aun." Alao In freezing Ice cream
or churning milk with u crank chum,
alwaya turn front left to right.
Thla auperatltlon la a remnant of
aun worahlp and the movement from
left to right la wliut la called the
"ceremonial circuit." Not only In stlr-
rlng cake hut In dealing card* do we
preserve the "ceremonial circuit"
though It would accm much more nat
ural to deal the other way. Hut the
"ceremonial circuit" la the path In
which the aun god mnvoa and the di
rection In which those processions of
priests and people, hla votaries,
moved when celebrating hla rllea,
either nt llellopolla or Stonehenge.
Stirring from left to right Is merely
an unconscious, Inherited form of
Invoking the sun god to see that your
rake, or your game o f bridge, cornea
out In a satisfactory manner.
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How It Started
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E A T IN G A “ D R U M S T IC K ”
W H E N I WAS
T W E N T Y -O N E
GIRUGAGu?
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chicken la being served and
W ORN
there Is a small hoy at the table
there la almost rortuln to he a de
mand for the "drumstick.” If he Is
it polite little boy he walls, of course,
to he consulted, or take» what Is given
to him. Hut that the drumstick la
the universal preference In matters
of poultry, of the »mull hoy, la well
known.
To understand the use of thla term
to describe (he lower leg Joint or
poultry, we have but to see the old
type of contraption used for beating
a drum. Tbls was a stick with a ball-
like end with which the drum was
struck. Although In most Instances
we see the tapering sticks used In
performance today, the hall end typo
Is hy no means obsolete And It la
because of Its similarity In shape to
the Joint with lls slick like bone on
which the meat broadens out to h
heavily rounded end, that the drum
stick hna bequeathed Its name to th*
parlance o f the table.
Ufi, ky U.U Syndic»!».)
Plan to Maintain Dairy
Herd by Raising Calves
Cotta of poultry production can b*
lowered by raising big hatch«* Juat
as th« coat of pork production ran
6« reduced by tha raising of big Ut
tar*. Heavy mortality among chicks
can often be prevented by timely ob
servation and care.
Knights o f Pythias o f N . <
Hy the lime they are a week old
tbe chirks should be allowed. In tbe
A.« h* A,* I.. i A*t A* anil A,
ordinary sea sou, to run out door*.
(Operating Under Ftipervi-
Confine them In small yards at first
sion o f U. 8. Government)
or until they learn where the heat
Is to be found and they will go In
415% M alvern Avenue
and out of the brooder house freely.
H o t Springs N a t. Park, A rk . • 1
In tbe early spring the yard should
be Inclosed In muslin-covered frames
; Hot Radio-Active W ater Furnished by the Government
which later ran be supplanted by poul
For A ll Baths. Sanitarian has 10 Roeas, Did and Operating Rooms
try netting or lath. Aa the chick grow,
tbe yard should be enlarged sufficient
ly to keep them on green grass. Once
Hotel has 56 Rooms; Telephone, H ot and Cold Running
put on free range, there la likely to be 1! Water in Every Room.
Rates $1 to $3 per day
difficulty In feeding tbe chicks unless
they are kept apart from the hens.
B A T H RATES:
Tbe same difficulty arises when chicks
J
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>21
Baths
.
.
.
$13.00«—10
Baths . . . .
$6.50
of different ages are being raised
close together. To avoid Interference
! I
21 Baths to Pythians and Calantheans, $8.50
by the older chicks or hens, tbe young
er ones should be fed In small mov ♦ ♦ ♦ o » » » « o » « t >o x « « o o o o » » » ' » » m o » » o » o « o o o » o « « o M O M M i o i
able pena, aaya N. K. Chapman, poul
try specialist at University farm at
SL Paul. The aldea o f the pens may
be made of latb placed ao that the I. B. P. 0 E OF TH E W ORLD
lower »trip la high enough to permit
the entrance of the «mailer chicks,
but low enough to keep out the larger
ones.
Pullets will grow more rapidly If
separated from the cockerels when
about eight weeks old.Cockerels that
are to be sold aa broilers should have
the run of a small green yard while
N O TIC E
being prepared for market.
3 S Pythian Bath House:
and Sanitarium
The chief factor In changing the
taste and odor of milk Is the bacteria
which are Introduced front many
sources and which grow the more rap
idly as the temperature at which the
milk ta handled rises. In order to limit
the change In the milk to the mini
mum. It Is necessary to limit both the
number of bacteria Introdm-ed and
the growth thereof. In seeking to ac
complish the former, the milk produc
er la faced with the question as to the
relative Importance of the various
sources of- bacteria, for upon the an
swer to this will depend the place
where Improvement should begin. Im
portance Is measured not only by the
number of bacteria a particular
source may supply but by the kinds as
well. Some kinds grow well In milk
as usunlly handled, others very slowly
or not at all. Slut-e bacteria produce
results only as they grow. It Is evident
that the latter will be fnr less Im
portant In their effects, although us far
as original niimbers Introduced, one
might he led to regard them as more
Important
Dairy Facts
Alfalfa and silage form the basis of
the best ration for bred heifer*.
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Well cured hay or green food Is
necessury In the ration of dairy rat
tle to cause the annual shedding of
Hair.
Dahlia Temple No. 202, I. B. P.
O. E. o f W., o f Portland, Oregon,
meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesday
nights in each month at Stag Audi
torium. A ll visiting Daughter
Elks in good standing in their re
spective Temples are invited to
meet with us.
Open Type of Equipment
Useful for the Chicks
There are two good reasons why
An excellent method of maintaining some open type o f equipment la useful
the herd la by raising calves to supply In raising young chickens. They are:
the place of old cows that are no Need for more room than la supplied
longer profitable. Such a herd will by tbe regular equipment and need for
always contain a considerable num a house that can be thoroughly ven
ber of young animals that have not tilated In hot weather.
yet reached full development, and.
A house can be cheaply constructed
therefore, such a herd will seldom that will be of material help In suc
equal In average production per ani cessfully growing out young chickens.
mal a herd that Is maintained wholly For a small flock this can be made six
by purchase. At the same time, a feet square and a board roof extend-
greater degree o f uniformity of type Ing from tlx Inches to a foot over tbe
may be maintained where the animals tnrlosnre. The framework of the houae
are raised. If land Is abundant and | may be made of 2 by 2-inch pieces If
cheap, tbe cost of raising a calf, up to they are well braced. Two-Inch wire
the time that she becomes a fully de mesh Is satisfactory for the walla. No
veloped cow, will be leas than that of floor Is necessary, as the house can
purchasing a similar animal outright. easily be moved
Through force of circumstances by far
On a small house the side walls do
the greater number of dairymen must not need to be over two and one-half
rely on raising the cslves necessary to feet high, which will make it some
maintain the herd. This being the what higher tn the center. Low roosts
case, the ordinary dairyman will need should be provided so the chicks may
to provide himself with the services he comfortable and be off of the
of a bull suitable to produce useful ground.
dairy cows. In most rases he will
After the warm weather comet the
need to own this bull, as the question protection which the chickens need Is
of the selection and care of the breed
from storms and rodents and other
Ing bull has an Important bearing upon pests which bother mostly at night
th* maintenance of the dairy herd.
Bacteria Chief Factor
in Changing Milk Odor
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GROWING CHICKS
NEED CLEAN PEN
P A U L IN E Y O U N G ,
Daughter Ruler.
ROSE C IT Y LODGE No. 111. L
B. P. 0. E. of W.. M EETS tho
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2ND A N D 4TH W E D N E S D A Y
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E V E N IN G S OF E AC H M O NTH
A T TH E STAG A U D ITO R IU M ,
38154 E. MORRISON STREET.
ALL
V IS IT IN G
BROTHERS
A R E C O R D IA L L Y IN V IT E D .
Transmit Tuberculosis
From Poultry to Stock
Some thought should he given by
poultry raisers, particularly In the
dairy districts of northern Illinois, to
the probability of finding tuberculosis
In their poultry flock. It has been
definitely proved, ns described In the
Orange Judd Illinois Farmer, that tu
berculosis may he transmitted from i
poultry to other live stock or from ]
other live stock to poultry.
I f chickens show distinct white
spots on the liver It Is safe to be very
suspicious that they have tuberculosis. j
In case of any question on matters of j
this kind It Is possible to send sped-
mens to the state universities and ar-
range to have technical examlnaUon
made.
T. H. W IL L IA M S , E. R.
STAG A U D ITO R IU M
38154 E. Morrison St.
LULA
HUBBARD,
Daughter Secretary. -
Syracuse Lodge, No.
1, K. of P., meets the
second and fourth Fri
day nights each month
at the Stag Auditorium
38154 E. Morrison SL
G. N. W H IT E . C. C.
65 East 10th Street
E. J. M INO R. Secretary,
419 Abington Bldg.
A R T H U R NELSON,
K. of R. & 8.
Levi P. Jones
Post No. 118
Meets every first Wednesday night in each month at 8 o ’clock
a t its
Headquarters and Club Rooms. 28454 N. 17th Street
«All ex-service men are welcome to join. For further information
CALL BROADWAY 5426
SAMUEL MALVERN, Post Command"
Mash Brings Forth Eggs
It's the ntash that Is going to Influ
ence the egg yield, yet If hens have
their choice of grain or mash, they
may slight the mash. By giving them
a light feed of grain tn the morning,
their hunger will drive them to the
ntash hopper and hence to the nests.
One hundred hens should consume 12
to IS pounds of scratch grain dally,
two-thirds o f which should be gives
them at the night feeding. Let the
fowls go to roost with a full crop.
Feed for Ducklings
High-Brown FacePowder
Equal measures of rolled oats and
bread crumbs, with a sprinkling of
A superb toilet necessity. In four shades— Natural, Pink, Brunette
about 8 per cent sand. Wilt make a
good starting feed for Incuhator-
and White. High-Brown Face Powder has earned its place in the
hatched ducklings. This can be fed
esteem o f the most discriminate and skeptical users o f toilet ar
three times per dsy until the fourth
ticles by its own distinctive merit and the complete satisfaction to
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day. when a maah composed of equal
be derived from its use. Also a large assortment o f toilet requisites
Cows tramping over the pastures In parts of rolled oats, bread crumbs,
fo r the lady who cares.
wet weather means less grass In sum bran and corn meal will produce good
mer, and we plead guilty, for It does results. A mash recommended after
not seem right to keep rows In the the first week consists of three parts
Manufactured only by
stable on warm spring duys when they bran, one part low grade flour, and
enjoy the sunshine so.
one part corn meal.
TH E O VERTON H Y G IE N IC
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MFG. C O M PA N Y
If the cream Is too warm. It will
How to Handle Roup
make soft, white butter. I f It Is too
cold. It will be alow tn coming to tho
Roup In «.’ hicks Is successfully han
CHICAGO
butter stage.
dled ns follows: Remove all ailing
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birds from the rest, to check the
Cows giving milk rich in hutterfat spread of the disease. I f over-crowd
will yield a larger quontlty o f butter, ed In houses, relieve the condition, giv
MRS E. D. C A N N A D Y
and the Job o f churning will require ing the light varieties like the Leg
less exertion.
312 Macleay Bldg., Portland
horns three and n half square feet of
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floor space per-bird and the heavier
Cows need regular attention. Yon varieties four square feet. Provide
Pacific Coast Distributor
rannot expect much front animals good ventilation without direct drafts
which have goo«I care one day oml Wash the eyes and nostrils with 3 per
neglect the next. He regular, also, rent boric uetd solution, afterwards
with the mllkln*
greasing thfe head-
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ROUGH W A S H
D RY W ASH
Silage fed to rows un hour before
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milking leaves ott odor Ip the milk
Belter feed It after milking, expert Vary well — Taks tha Accountancy and
nualneaa Management, Private Secretari
enced dairymen agree.
al. Calculator, Comptometer, Htenogra-
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prlc. Penmanship, or Commercial Teach
llelfors would he a lot less trying nl era' Cours* at
their first freshening If they were
O R IG IN A T O R S O F IN D IV ID U A L W A S H IN G
more often got used to having their
W e Do Not Mark Your Clothing
udders handled before the calves came.
The foremost Business College o f tha
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Northwest which hoa won more Accuracy
2 IN 1 W A S H
W ET W ASH
flood cream Is clean cream, cooled. Awards and Gold Medals than any othar
school In A m erica Send for our Success
Place the freshly skimmed cream In Catalog
Fourth Street near Morrison.
807 E. Flanders, Portland, Oregon
the rooting tank, at once and see that Portland, Or. Isaac M. Walker,
the tank la filled with fresh cool P. N. U.
No. 28, 192«
water.
N E W SYSTEM L A U N D R Y
"The I'ilgrliu Fathers must have
Iteeu a gay lot," says sapient Sally. "It
says right In the hlatorles. that they
hud at h-ust one fast dny every week."
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Our E xa ctin g E m p loy eeg
( ® by M cClure N « wb |>. por S y n d ic a t«.)
Adv. In Exchange— "Wanted, a good
plain cook ; one who has no objection
to kitchen work.” Boston Transcript.
Behnke-Walker