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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA, OREGON. PLUN FOB SMALL FRAME HOUSE m Uppl Makes Comfortable Dwelling and Is Inexpensive. HAS ATTRACTIVE EXTERIOR •MARKABLE RACE BY HORSE ____ tor, Morgan Gelding, F inishes Long Q| Endurance C ontest W ith Clean Speed Record. rpured :er must be eonimtd Pipe o varlties—Machine ectuse ii is hard it ay be had inalidì- )out the same aa or- î, Twin Falla, W«n- i that jou get prompt a y the U n ite d S t a t e s Depart ment of Agriculture.) a 309-mlle endurance content tjjtltti horses of th e p u rest AruhlnB edlng, “C astor," a Morgan geldiitg «1 by th e United S tntes d epartm ent ag ricu ltu re a t Its M iddlebury, Vt., trgan horse farm , w as the only e with a clean speed record at end of the fourth day of the lellng contest. “C astor" won third lace for speed at the end of the con- it, notw ithstanding th e fa c t th a t he gall In the deep sand on a bad bit of ■Bad, Injured his nose, and made the ■ at five miles in a walk. This iM irhievem ent is an indication of what Bas been accomplished by th e depart- K S peut of ag ricu ltu re in th e rehabilitu- Slon of the Morgan breed during the <evv years since the work w as under- 5 Hen. ■ The race was from F o rt E than AI- ^ B n . Vt., to Camp Devens, Mass., large l y over uidmproved roads. T h e pur- jse was to stim ulate Interest In the eeding of cavalry m ounts through- it the United States. A m ajority of (e horses entered w ere Arabians, in** was a crossbreed th a t had seen pverseas service and was th e first arse to pass successfully through uurantlne a t Newport News. Two p re re Morguus. bred a t th e d ep art ment’s furra. The veteran of overseas frvlce, "Bob,” owned and ridden by alonel George, led th e field at the (ginning of th e race, but w as taken <hit before the finish. The two Arab- Design for Home T h a t Will Appeal to the Builder Who W ants Room for Large Family a t Low F C o st ssa, Orejfo By WILLIAM A. RADFORD. V » ««s' * &&& «ssa a & o” »'count of hie wide experience t f » o h ^ e Ai ,,h«r *5d Manufacturer, he “■ doubt, the hlgheet authority to W lm .T AUbJ2 r!f; Aj ,<lr^*r to W illia m A. Radford, No. *" 1827 Inqolrlee P r a ir ie gveaue, Chicago. lit. and only enc'oeo two-oent etamp for reply. Home builders may be placed In two general classes. In one class a re those who build a home because they wnnt a place th a t has an ex terior th a t pleases them, and Is arranged Inside to suit th eir Ideas of w hat a home should be. In the o th er class a re those who have an eye to the f u t u r e ; they build a borne th a t will be th e most easily saleable should the occasion re quire. Consequently, th e la tte r select designs for homes th a t will m eet the needa of the g reatest num ber of peo ple. D uring the last ten years many thou sands of fram e houses have been erect ed th a t have w hat might be term ed a “stan d ard " room arrangem ent. These houses contain eith er six o r seven rooms, all arranged a fte r a m anner th a t has been found to best employ the available space. From this statem ent. It might be Inferred th a t the exteriors a re “sta n d a rd ” a lso ; th at all of these houses look alike. T h at Is a m istake, fo r arch itects by altering th e root lin e s; changing the designs of the porches and by adding a dorm er win dow to this one. and changing Its loca tion la the next one have planned rows ruriMi and e a th e second floor three rooms and the bathroom . T he entrance n t one end of th e porch leads Into n reception hall, on one aide of which a re the stalra to th e second floor and on th e other, connected by a double cased opening, th e living room. T his room, while not large, Is big enough to provide a com fortable sitting place. It Is practically square, being 13 fe e t 3 Inches by 13 feet. T he dining room, also connected by a double opening, la 11 by 14 f e e t The double openings EX-KINGS EYE DANUBE STATES Federation Is Formed on Paper .by Plotters in Switzer land. DETAILS ARE NOT COMPLETE Exiled Rulers, Seeing the Hopelestnesa of T heir Cause, Now Center All T heir Plotting on One G reat 8cheme. Berne, Sw itzerland.—From “the play ground of Europe” of before the w ar, Sw itzerland has become “the plotting ground of Europe” of a fte r th e war. And all of this plotting may now be sum m arized In one general end of “the constitution of a D anublan confedera tion." To the credit of the Swiss It m ust be said they resent In the extrem e de gree the abuse th a t Is now being made of th e ir country and th eir hospitality by th e exiled rulers and statesm en of erstw hile em pires and states, but they a re as helpless In the m atter as they are Innocent. Keeps Everybody Busy. W hile they cannot keep th eir little country from being converted Into an Incubator, however, they can a t least try to keep the plots being brooded Second Floor Plan. therein from actually hatching, and the Into the dining room and hall make the Swiss secret service, together with Its living room ap p ear larg er than It Is gendarm es. Its policemen, Its detectives and tak e aw ay the sense of sraallnesa and Its public officials generally, are th a t a room closed off would have. putting In quite a few steepless nights T he dining room Is a ttractiv e and to th is end. cheerful, made so by the bay, which Now th a t the gradual readjustm ent has tw o good-sized windows. At the of E urope has left no doubts In the re a r of the dining room Is the kitchen, m inds of certain exiled rulers, like ex- 9 by 12 feet, which has a large pantry. King C onstantine of G reece and some At the side of the dining room Is a bed of the form er rulers of German states, room, 9 feet 6 inches by 14 feet. of the hopelessness of th e ir cause, all The three bedrooms upstairs all are of the plotting In Sw itzerland has well lighted and well ventilated. Each come slowly to center on one great room sets Into a gable, one a t each scheme, a schem e th a t Is not only con side of the house and the other a t the sidered possible, but th a t Is considered by many of the g reat m inds and au thorities of E urope as being absolute ly Im perative and Inevitable. T his Is th e constitution of a D an ublan federation to replace the old dual m onarchy, and which, according to Its backers, is the only thing th a t can Insure th e life of the half-dozen or more sta te s Into which th e old Austrl- an-H ungarian monarchy has been di vided. V ital and Im perative. W hether th is D anublan federation has Its cen ter north of the D anube w ith w hat is left of H ungary and Aus tria a s a basts or w hether It nas Its center south of the D anube w ith Serbia and Roum ania playing th e .ending ro le; w hether It he m onarchical or re publican In form, together with half u dozen other possibilities o r ram ifica tions, are generally considered unim portant. All th a t is regarded as \lta l and Im perative Is th at such a confed eration be constituted and th a t It he organized in full harm ony w ith end, support of th e allies. H ungary and German A ustria, as they will exist when the peace confer ence finishes its work, will be dead states—th eir own people and states men adm it th at. Poland and Czecho slovakia a re merely gam bling bets. B ut Serbia and Roumania a re consid ered as the tw o big fu tu re bets of south central Europe. On the o th er hand, th ere a re Just as many supporters and Just as many plotters in Sw itzerland who would like to see Vienna regain some of Its past Exhibit at Montana State Fair Sent People Away Thinking. EPITAPHS DRIVE HOME TRUTH G reater Convenience and a Larger M easure of Comfort In the Farm Home th e Big Lesson Conveyed by M iniature G raveyard. W ashington.—I t w as a n eat little country cem etery, much like most lit tle country cem eteries, yet th ere was som ething queer about It. T here was the arched gatew ay and the custom ary weeping willows by It. T he clipped hedge w as like m ost cem etery hedges. The tom bstones w ere about the aver age run of tom bstones. B ut, w ithal, there w as som ething queer—even shocking. T hen you discovered what It was. T hese w ere tru th fu l tom b stones. Consoling platitudes—“Too pure fo r e a rth ,” and th a t like—found no place. Instead, th ere w ere such epitaphs as these : “M other—walked to death In h er k itc h e n ;” “Sacred to the memory of Ja n e —she scrubbed herself Into e te rn ity ;’’ “G randm a— w ashed herself a w a y ;” “Susie—sw ept 8ns to finish ahead of the Morgan a f ar his accident w ere R ustem Bey and Itumla. MaJ. C. A. Benton (retire d ) w as one the Judges, acting ns the represen- Itive of th e bureau of anim al lndus- in and | of such houses th a t a re exceedingly front. All are connected by a short d issim ilar In outw ard appearance. hall, opening off of which In the center COST OF HORSE BLEMISHES Accompanying th is article Is a story- of the house a t the re a r Is the b ath and-a-half fram e house th a t has a room, located conveniently to every defects Cannot Always Be Prevented, "sta n d a rd ’* floor plan. B ut its exterior bedroom. Each of the upstairs bed but One Bad Spot Will Prove Is different from most of those th a t rooms has a closet, while there a re two Expensive. have th is Interior layout. Its steep more dow nstairs, one in the entrance pitched roof, extending over the porch, htfll and one In the bedroom. A horse m ark et report from one of the gables on e ith e r side and over the T he house has a full basem ent, th at he W estern selling points say s: dorm er, and the projecting roof ra fte rs Is, a ba'sement extending under the [W hen present, blem ishes tak e off up all m ake this house "Individual.” Then whole of th e stru ctu re. Its concrete $50 or even more from th e price of th e re is th e unique com bination of walls should be finished with a cement ■rst-rate anim nls of the sam e type." plain siding, shingles and the touch of p laster coat, and the floor should be of flem ishes can 't alw ays be prevented, concrete. The basem ent provides a nt It is good business t . try to pre- place fo r the heating plant, with un enf them, for, as can readily be seen, Inclosed fuel room adjoining. O ther ne bad spot In th e m akeup of a rooms may be partitioned off for fru it arse may m ean th e difference be- and vegetable storage and to provide heen profit and loss on him. O utside places fo r storage. precautions to prevent Injury the T his Is one of the most economical lly safeguard ag ain st blem ishes is of houses to build. It will be noted by breed only sound m ares to sound the floor plans th a t the foundation lallions. Sometim es a colt will be 1 walls have only one “Jog,” th a t for the jrby o r otherw ise defective. In spite dining room bny; also th a t there are all th a t can be done to avoid such no fancy ex terio r fe atu res th at are Weaknesses, but th a t Is no argum ent costly. At the sam e tim e It is a com gainst trying to produce only ‘ the modious. convenient and good-looking nod ones. home. D uring th e coming building season P ostm aster Chance of W ashington, D. C., taking cartons of unbroken th ere will be many thousands of homes AD D ITIO N AL FEED FOR PIGS eggs from a bag of mall dropped via p arach u te from a m ail airp lan e flying erected in the United S tates. In every over the cap ital from College Park, Md. city and every town, and In the rural :alded Middlings, W ith Milk Added, com m unities th ere a re not enough Placed In Shallow Trough la homes to accom modate the fam ilies Fin# fo r Porkers. living In them. T his Is an unprece dented condition, and one th at has When the pigs a re about three enabled the owners of homes to de leek s old they will w ant to e a t more mand re n ts th a t seem out of propor ta n the milk they can get from th eir tion to th e size of th e Investm ent In Production for Year 1919 Broke bother. A sm all shallow trough these homes. Still the head of the Funeral Held tor Cat, All Records. honld be placed w here the sow can fam ily Is confronted with the necessity not get to It. Scald some m iddlings. Pet of New York Woman of paying w hat Is dem anded, or build j r and pour In some milk. P u t Into him self a home. W orth Almost T hree Tim es aa Much |lie feed about a tablespoonful of Lenox, Mass.— F uneral rites When th e building season opens I “ as Average for Five-Year idasses. D rive th e little pigs care- over a cat h ere w ere attended by those who expect to build this spring | Silly over to th e trough. T hey will Period. all th e em ployees on the sum or sum m er will find th a t contractors le t the odor from the m olasses, put m er estate of Mrs. C arlos de already have many building Jobs. To | |h e ir noses to th e feed, lap it and H erodias of New York, and the W ashington.—T he vnlue of crops meet th is condition it Is a wise policy egin to e a t • feline’s “rem ains" w ere burled to select the home design now and en produced In the U nited Stat»w th is year ot< the esta te In a metal casket. gage the contractor. Then when the Is nearly th ree tim es g re a te r th an the H yacinth, a P ersian cat, said to »ROPER QUARTERS FOR PIGS tim e comes to build th ere will be no average annual value during the five have cost $6.000, w as greatly delay and no disappointm ent. Every years preceding the outbreak of the Eu treasured by Mrs. de H erodias, Lnimala Should Be Kept In Dry Pen* person who expects to build a home ropean w ar, according to the rep o rt of F irst Floor and when It died a t her home In and Fed In Clean T ro u g h s — stucco th a t Is found a t the porch cor next season should m ake bis plana at the secretary of agriculture. “On the New York th e ow ner had the P revent Chilling. basis of prices th a t have recently pre once. ners. body borne here In a sp e c ia l'a u vailed," says secretary, “th e total value T he size of th is house Is 22 feet by tom obile truck. of all crops produced In 1919 Is $15,- Pigs should alw ays be k ept In dry, 38 feet, b u t It contains seven good Liabla to Fade Out. clean q u arters and fed In clean rooms and bath. Consequently, It Is a “You m anage to keep In th e public 873.000,000. com pared w ith $14,222,- 000,000 fo r 1918; $13.479,000,000 for troughs. They should not be allo y ed house th a t can be set on a narrow lot, eye.” to run out In cold rain or allowed ta and a t the sam e tim e provide accom “Yea," aald Senator S orghum ; “but 1817; $9.054.000,000 for 1916; $«,112,- become chilled In any way. Sows run- m odations for a fam ily larger than the every now and then I experience a 000,000 for 1914; and $5.829.000.000 for not net retu rn s to th e producer. The ling through filth and then being average. strange fear th a t the public la about the five-year average. 1910-1914. These value of live stock on farm s In 1919 values represent gross pro-faction and w as $8,830,000,000, com pared with $8,- Suckled will often cause pigs te scour On th e first floor there are four to. wink." CROP VALUES TRIPLED PITALI JADCNO ed LRK9 PARMA, IO**#! Bay City. Mich.—Telford E Hill, m anager of the M ueller Chicory com pany’s plant, was tak in g a bath In his home ad joining the p lant when a freight c ar crashed through the house and against th e wall of the b ath room. The w all fell, and a coal c a r came In view. T here had been tw o cars stan d ing on the short switch. When th e train- crew attem pted to place more c a rs there they evi dently forgot about them, and th e cars w ere sen t through the bum per right Into Mr. H ill’s bathroom. glory as the center of the new D anubl an confederacy; B udapest 1» equally well represented, w hile th ere a re plenty of others who can dem onstrate from a dozen standpoints, why W ar saw Is Inevitably destined as the fu tu re g re a t center of m iddle E uropean l l ’c. UNIQUE CEMETERY TEACHES LESSON EGGS DROPPED FROM AIRPLANE UNBROKEN hats for yles and eorgette touche* ind silk itick out nd gi« Coal Car Rams Into Man as He Is Bathing * I ( ( ( ( o u t of life with too heavy a broom ." T he people who saw th a t cem etery —and there w ere thousands of them — may have been shocked for the Instant, but they came aw ay w ith the thought th a t one might be b etter fo r seeing such a cem etery. For, you see, It was a m iniature cem e'erjr, th ree feet square, and It w as p a rt of an exhibit a t th e Montana s ta te fair. Such levity w ith the most solemn thing th a t m an kind knows could not be Justified m erely on the theory th a t the things said w ere true—but those who saw It cam e aw ay with th e belief th a t it was Justified by way o f keeping Just those things from being true. And th a t was the purpose of the exhibit, placed there by the agricultural extension de p artm en t of the S tate A gricultural col- lege of Montana. It w as m eant to em phasize the need fo r home conveni ences, for lack of which m any a farm woman has gone to her grave befors h er time. Drive T ruth Home. T here w ere o th er exhibits designed to drive home the sam e hard truth. One w as a model showing a bleak farm house on a b are hill. At the bot tom of the hill ran a little stream , and by th e stream w ere barns and cattle. Struggling up the hill tow ard the house w ith two heavy palls of w ater w as a bent old woman. And the legend w a s ; “Convenient for the cuttle—but not for m other.” Thpn th ere w as a farm house w ith the w ater supply as It should be, the woman In the yard sprinkling her flower beds w ith a hose. And the in scription re a d : “Convenient fo r m oth e r—and th e cattle, too.” A nother model showed a kitchen as It should be, and another, a kitchen as It should not be. And there w as the legend: “A long-distance kitchen shor ?ns life.” T he lesson tau g h t by th e exhibit la one th a t the sta te agricu ltu ral colleges and th e U nited S tates dep artm en t ol a g ricu ltu re a re try in g to teach by every m eans a t th e ir com m and—g re a t er convenience and a larg er m easure of com fort In the farm home. CALIFORNIA RICE DOES W ELL New A gricultural Industry Produce) Crop W orth M i'lions of D ollars. W ashington.—In eight years the Sacram ento valley of C alifornia has developed a new ag ricu ltu ral Industry, rice growing, which th is p a st season has resulted In a gross production es tim ated to be w orth approxim ately tw enty-one millions of dollars. This show ing Is the resu lt of research c ar ried on by the bureau of p lant Indus try of th e d epartm ent o f agriculture. Follow ing experim ents by the bureau covering three years, the first com m ercial rice crop as planted In 1912. T he value of the 1919 rice crop In Cal ifornia will probably be several mil lions g reater than th a t of w heat and peaches, both of which are commonly thought of as relatively large crop# In th a t state. 284.000,000 In 1918; $0,736.000,000 In 1917; $6.021.000,000 In 1910; $5,890,- 000,000 In 1914; and $5,318.000,000 for the five-year average, 1910-1914. "T his increased financial showing, it Is again necessary to emphasize, doe» not mean th a t th e nation Is b etter off to th a t extent or th a t )ta real w ealth has advanced In th a t proportion. Con sidering merely the dom estic relations, the tru e sta te Is Indicated rath e r In term s of real commodities, com parative statem en ts of which a re given In fore going tables. T he Increased values, however, do reveal th a t the m onetary retu rn s to the farm ers have increased proportionately with those of o t h e r groups of producers in th e nation, and th a t th e ir purchasing pow er has kept pace In the rising scale of prices." Aged Fiddlar Playa. Frem ont, O.—“R a t” Gould, chain- plon oldtim e fiddler of America, cele brated his eightieth birthday anniver sary w ith a dance In the Mutual Aid hall In Bellevue. “R a t” furnished tha music. Old-fashioned dances »*-)• r*. vlved. . !
