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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-06-24
The Lesson We Must Learn.

county has got to learn before the
condition of her people becomes
materially benefited, and that is |
the lesson ofbecoming home buyers.
The great trouble with the progress
and prosperity of the county at the
present time is that we buy abroad
SO much more than we sell abroad.
1t does not matter how much we
buy at home or sell at home. The
balance of the trade is our own in
that case, but when we buy more
from abroad than we sell, then 1t
is only question of time when we
shall reach the end of our string.
The condition Of our people today
is that they are buying more than
they are selling. We are sending
out more money for other peoples
products than they are sending sc
for ours. This condition does not
exist entirely by reason of force of
circumstances, neither is it probable
that it will continue to exist for a
long term of years. The county is
in state of development, an6 judg-
ing from the advancement made
during the past three or four years
it will not be long before we will
have clean balance sheet as far
as our trade is concerned, or what
is better still. have a balance sheet
showing the balance of trade in
our favor.
Meantime we should make it an
ironclad rule never to buy anything
from outside of the county that we
can buy inside; we must patronize
our own industries. We know
that it is true in many instances
that we will be compelled to pay
higher prices than if we had the
same articles shipped in from the
outside, vet the home produced
article would be much the cheaper
in the long run. Money sent to
outside parties for things that can
be made or produced at home is
that much money taken out of the
circulation of the county, and the
very man who thinks he makes a
saving by sending away is liable to
lose by reason of the absence of the
very money he himself has shipped
out of the country.
We are all striving to build up
and develop country, and to that
end we should give every aid and
patronage possible to our own
people. Patronize our own mer-
chants, our own sawmills, our own
farmers and gardeners, our own
manufactures, even if they be
small and humble. By mutual
help we can thrive and prosper,
otherwise the road to prosperity for
a county like ours will be a long
and devious one. In the state of
Nebraska they have a motto "Stand
up for Nebraska" 1t is a good
one and has been worth an untold
amount Of money to that state
because Of the spirit of state pride
it has fostered, causing the people
to buy every Nebraska made article
they needed whenever they could.
If we would adopt the motto,
Stand up for Lincoln county,"
and then live up to it, patroniz-
ing Lincoln county people, buying
Lincoln county products, and keep
ing every dollar that we have to
spend within the confines of Lin
coin county as long as possible, we
would soon see vast difference in
the times in Lincoln county. More
money would be here to employ
more home labor; more home
laborers being employed would have
more wages to buy from home
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-06-24
r. c. MILLER,
+BARBERk

Has opened shop in Toledo and
solicits the patronage of the people.
Nine years experience and all work
guaranteed frst-class in every par
ticular. Shop in Grady building
next to Copeland's store.
TOLEDO, OREGON.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06
Horticulture.

If you have bit of spare ground
plant fruit tree there. After awhile
it will produce something, and
meantime it is adding something to
the value of the farm.
OF course, prices are low when the
yield of fruit is overabundant, but
even then careful cultivatOrs will
find the business profitable, because
they will have better fruit than 9TH
ers. Plant more this year if you
have the energy and intelligence to
care for it afterward.
Profit in fruit culture has its be-
ginning in the careful selection of
the best varieties. Investigate well
before you plant. Nothing is more
discouraging than to throw away
two or three years of time and cul-
tivation and care upon trees which
prove worthless at last.
The ounce is slow grower, and
it is we'll to plant twO-year-old trees.
Keep the borers out if you can; if
not, dig them out. Thick brown
paper, tied closely about the stem, is
a good preventive, for they are in
clined to lay their eggs in the soft
bark about the roots. The ounce
needs good soil, and should be kept
closely pruned.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06
DObbiasS s. EsCilas.
Agricultural and Live Stock Department.

reach the best age for breeding to
the greatest advantage.
The main principle to be observed
in feeding the milch COW is to feed
moderately, and to avoid all sudden
changes in the rations. Let the
quantity be ample, but never excess
sive.
Breeding young animals certainly
lessons the vigor of the offspring;
again, 1t is the wiser plan to keep
good breeding animals as long as
possible after they have proved to be
such.
The time limit now has all to do
with the profit in raising stock. Give
tendencies, and the pork or beef will
be made in half the time our fathers
counted on.
The owner has the opportunity
from the day the calf is dropped un-
til it is full fiedged COW to make it
gentle. Kindness is an important
item of the stock in trade on the
dairy farm, as it is everywhere else.
South America furnished us &c.
100000 pounds of wool during the
last ten months, and China contrib
uted no less than 1876, 1893 pounds of
coarse wool to our surfeit of the
foreign staple during the same
period.
Cows of great excellence for the
shambles and the dairy do exist, and
sometimes they produce butter as
economically as the strictly dairy
breeds. Where such a cow is con-
sidered desirable it is neither silly
nor chimerical to seek for her and to
try to breed her. Such cows are in
! creasing in number.
Let us never stop preaching that
it is poor economy for farmer to
keep poor animals, whose feed costs
more than the value of the milk they
give. Every step connected with
dairying must be conducted upon
business principles in order to get a
fair per cent of profit,
The fact, says an exchange, that
the country is short on swine and
long on corn renders it especially
desirable this year that growers
should feed and care for the pigs in
"a way that will develop them rapid
ly and perfectly. The tendency is
to feed the growing pigs too much
corn. Some corn is all right, but the
ration should contain some more
heterogeneous food to give good de-
velopment of bone and muscle; then
when you come to fatten on corn
you will have something to build on,
Rural World.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06
Notes About the Farm.

The man who keeps bis farm trim
med up and cultivates his crops in a
proper manner and at the proper
time can do more to regenerate his
careless neighbors than all the news
papers in the country. 1t is to such
men we look for the beginnings of
better things when improvements
are needed.
That man is wasting his substance
who keeps a steer after he is read for
for the market.
Better to sell an inferior animal
than to breed it even if it must be
sold at sacrifice. 1t is a good thing
to grade up stock, but better thing
to Gull out all below par.
The services of a finely-bred ram
or bull once a year will give results
sufficient to satisfy any farmer that
his money is well spent; and at
present prices of stock, the cost of
introducing new blood into our flOcks
or herds is not great.
The best way to get something bet
ter is to breed it; if you do not, some
one else will have it to do, and it is
cheaper to raise the COWS you want
than to buy them, and then you are
much surer of getting what you do
want.
The cheapest way in which we can
lessen the cost of production is to
shorten the time we take to MAKE it
ready for market. This we must do
in the keeping of all live stock.
Stock is property which grows the
year round, whereas perennial plants
and all productive growth from the
soil are dead property during con-
siderable portion of the year.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06
Save Your Life

By using "The New Great South
American Kidney Cure" This new
remedy is great surprise on account
of its exceeding promptness in reliev-
ing pain in the Kidney, Bladder and
Back in male or female. 1t relieves re-
tention of water, and pain in passing it
almost imm ediately. Save yourself by
using this marvellous cure. Its use will
prevent fatal consequences in almost all
cases by its great Alternative and healing
powers, Sold by A. B. Rains, Druggist,
Columbia, Tenn. (febl2 ly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06
f themselves when once

care of themselves when once
started.
Give the young chicks all possible
care and attention. They may be
future prize-winners and world
heaters, and will justly repay you
for your pains.
The season for chicken cholera is
at hand. Watch closely for any
signs OF it and separate the diseased
birds from the rest of the flock; it is
very contagious.
Kerosene is useful adjunct to the
poultry yard. Use it on the pur-
ches, on the heads with lard for lice,
on the legs with sulphur for scaley
legs. For roup, take one part each
Of crude petroleum, kerosene, tur-
pentine and four parts of sweet oil
or glycerine, inject into the nostrils
and throat.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06
Poultry.

Lime is a good disinfectant. 1t
keeps the air pure and drives away
disease.
Young fowls need bone meal to
supply strength and vigOr to the
growing frame.
SuntiOwer seed and linseed meal in
small quantities will be very benefi-
cial to the moulting fowls.
THE best is always the cheapest;
the cheapest is the most costly in the
end" is good motto to follow when
purchasing poultry or eggs.
Turkeys are profitable fowls to
raise, although they are extremely
tender while young. They will take
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06

DR.: W. NJ. BLDDLE, :
COLUMBIA, TENN.
Office: Corner High and Eighth Streets.
Office hours: to l0-3 to 4.
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Young
People

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cured by doing a little work at home for the
Youths Advocate, an illustrated semimonthly
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Jone aud especially interesting std profitable TO
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people Of all ages Sample copies sent free.
Address Youths Advocate Pub. Co., Nashville,
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06
The NeW-JOHrnaliSm.

New Reporter-Old Golding says
that if l approach him again regard
ing that bank scandal, he'll break
every bone in my body; and he
means it, too.
City Editor-Great! That'll be
good for three columns; go inter-
view him at once. I'll have an am
bulance at his door when they bring
you out.-Harper's Weekly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06
live stuck nnhnairy.

If farmers keep cows at all, let
them be of good dairy stock. Make
use of them until they have their
third calf, and then sell them to
dairymen for a good, snug price.
Do not sell either the bOars nor
the sows when too young. In too
many cases they are sold before they
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06

And don't forget that we are bead
quarters for
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06
Great Sale at
The Bargain House.

We offer for the next 30 days
Meu's all wool black worsted
suits, worth $3.50, for $685..
Finer and heavier, worth Sill,
for. ......... 1856.
Mems all wool brown suits,
worth $1,000, for. . 1925.
Brown and gray mixed all
wool suits, worth $l4, for. 1926.
Youths and children's suits at
very low prices ............
Mems shoes worth $500 for $l.25.
Mems good quality shoes, worth
H0.UU, LOT ........... .'...'.. .Tl''o.
Ladies' and children's shoes and
Oxfords at very low prices. Also a
new line of mems fine dress shirts,
fancy and plain collars at very low
prices. twill pay you to see our
prices.
Columbia Bargain House,
june4 3m South Main Street.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06
TWO GRAVES.

"To fill the tiny compass of this grave
A mothers heart was emptied of its
bliss"
| read it where the church-yard grasses
wave
The peace of that world on the pain of
this;
And sighed for her twiXt whom and her
childs face,
Blind daises grew, until read again
"To fill the compass of this resting
place
A mothers heart was emptied pain"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06

"They are handles" said Thos. Bowers,
of the Crockett, Texas, Enterprise, while
writing about DeWitt's Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills for sick
headache and disorders of the stomach
and liver. A. B. Rains. ly
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-06

1t isn't always well to look
\ bulldog in the eyes
If there is any way in which
One can do otherwise;
Nor is it always best to tell
A liar that he lies
Unless your big and strong and he's
Not more than half your size.
Detroit Journal.
The herald., 1897-11-07

| kirk-yard, who came forward with his
hat in his hand and conveyed her tC
her horse with a privileged and court
| ly air. Then the three rode off to.
gether, Alexander Gordon turning
about in his saddle and crying back
in his loud, hearty manner, Haste ye
and come over to the Earsltoun. and
we will yet show you the way across
| the Red Sea out of the Land of Bond
age
And I was left standing there, sad
| ly enough, yet for my life I cannot tell
| why l should have been sad. sFor the
folk came thronging about me, shak-
/ ing me by the hand, and saying how
that they had found their minister and
would choose me in spite of laird or
prince or presbytery. For it seems
that already some of my sayings had
given offense in high quarters.
Yet it was as if l heard not these
good folk, for God forgive meD even
at that solemn moment my thoughts
were circling about that proud young
lass, who had not deigned me look,
even in the hour of triumph, but had
ridden so proudly away with the man
who was doubtless her lover.
Thus I stood awhile dumbly at gaze,
without finding a word to say to any.
And the folk, thinking that the spirit
of the spoken word was yet upon me,
drew off little.
Then there came voice in mine ear,
low and persuasive, that awoke me
from my dream
This is my father, who. would bid
ye welcome and that kindly to his
house of Drumglass."
1t was the young lass whose "piece"
1 had eaten in the morning.
The feeling in my heart that I had
been shamed and sighted by Mary
mell's word sweet and agreeable to me.
l turned me about and found myself
clasping the hands of a rugged old
man, with broad and honest face,
who took snuff freely with one hand,
while he shook mine with the other.
I'm prood to see ye, young sir" he
said, "prood to see ye! My dochter
Jean here, feat and bonny bit lass,
has telled me that l am to gle we my
guild word. And my guild word We shall
hae. And mony O. the elders and kirk
members owes siller to auld Drumme
aye, aye, and they shall do as l say
or shall know the reason
But sir" I said, hastily, IT desire
no undue influence to be used. Let my
summons, If it come, be the call of a
people of one mind concerning the fit
ting man to have the oversight of them
in the things of the spirit"
"Of one mind!" exclaimed the old
man, taking snuff more freely than
ever, I'VE are dootless maist learned
and college bred young lad, with rowth
O. learnin' and lashin's O. grace, but
ye dinna ken this parrish O. Balmaghie
If ye think that ye can ever hae the
The herald., 1897-11-07

be some unseemly disturbance But
saw only great, burly, red-bearded
gentleman with his hair little
touched with gray. The men about
the porch made room for him with
mighty Difference.
Clinging to his arm was young girl
with a face lily-pale, dark eyes and
| wealth of hair. And instead of the
bare head and modest snood of the
country maid. or the mutch of the
douce matrOn, there was upon the
lady's head q brave new-fashioned hat
with white feather.
l knew them in a moment--Alexan-
der Gordon of Earlstoun and his
daughter Mary
L cannot tell If my voice trembled, or
whether l showed any signs of the
abounding agitation of my spirit. But
certain it is that for a space, which
to me seemed ages, the course of my
thought went from me. l spoke words
idle and empty, and it was only by the
strongest effort of will that l recalled
myself to the solemn matters in hand.
That this should have happened in my
trial sermon vexed me sore, for at that
time / knew not that these disturb
ances, so great-seeming to the speaker,
are little if at all observed by his hear
ers, who are ever willing to lay the
blame upon their own lack of compre-
hension. rather than upon their in
structOr's want of clearness
But the moment after, with a strong
uprising of my spirit l won above the
turmoil of my intellects, and ended
with an outgoing of my heart, charg-
ing those before me to lay aside the
evils of their life and enter upon the
better way with zeal and assured con-
fidence.
And seeing that the people were
much moved by my appeal. / judged
wise to let them go with what fire of
God they had gotten yet burning in
their hearts. l closed quickly and so
dismissed the congregation.
Then. when / came down to go from
the Kirk, the people were already dis
persing. The great red-bearded man
came forward and put his hand on my
shoulder.
Young SIR" he said ''it is true that
We have left the Hill-folk, and with
your feet have walked in devious ways.
notwithstanding. if what we have
heard to-day be your message, we shall
yet have you on your knees before the
Eldership of the societies. For the heart
of the man who can thus speak is with
us of the wilderness and not among
the flesh spots of an Erastian Egypt"
At which I shook my head, not see
ing how true his words were to prove,
nor yet how soon the Kirk of Scotland
was to bow the head, which hitherto
had only bent to her Heavenly Lord,
to the sceptre of clay and the rule of
a feckless, earthly monarch.
But though l looked wistfully at
Mary Gordon, and would have gone
forward to help her upon her horse,
where it stood tethered at the kirk
liggate, she passed me by as though
she had not seen me, which surely was
not well done of her. She beckoned a
young man from the crowd in the
The herald., 1897-11-07
were nothing, "and what is more, the
poor beast is like to live and thrive"

were nothing, "and what is more, the
poor beast is like to live and thrive"
SO l was settled in my parish, which
was good one as times went. The
a pleasant stone house. which sat in a
| bieldy hollow beneath the kirk hill of
! Balmaghie. Snug and sheltered it lay,
an encampment of great beeches shell
tering 1t from the blasts, and the hills
| looking down on it with kindly toler-
ant silence
My brother Hob abode with me in the
manse of Balmaghie to be my man. 1t
was great good fortune thus to keep
MN, ana IN the coming troubous days
l. ken not what | should have done
without his good counsel and strongly
willing right hand. My father and
mother came over on the old pony
from Ardarroch, my mother riding on a
pillion behind my father and both of
them ready on the sign of the least
brae, to get off and walk most of the
way, with the bride over my fathers
arm, While my mother discoursed of the
terrible thing it was to have two Of
your sons so far from home, strangers
in strange land.
1t had not seemed so terrible to her
when we went to Edinburgh
But this parish of Balmaghie! 1t was
a FAR cry and a coarse road said my
mother, and she was sure that we both
/ took our lives in our hands each time
that we went across it's uncanny pas
lures.
Nevertheless, once there, she did halt
nor slacken till she had taken in hand
the furniture and penishing of the
manse, and brought some kind of order
out of the piled and tortured confusion,
which had been the best that Hob and
/ could attain
Keep us, laddies," she cried, after
the first hopeless look at our handi-
work. Il Gamma think on either O. ye
takin' wife. Yet I'm feared that a
Wife ye maun get atween ye. For I
Gamma thole to let ye gang on this wild
gate, Wi your meal o. meat ready, and
only gomeril Hob to do it,
Then ven let Anna come to bide
with us for while, if ye are so vexed
for u.s., l said to try her.
Nay, indeed, | Gamma do that. Anna
is needed at hame where she is. There's
your father now-he's grown that
bairnly he thinks there can be nae guild
grass in the meadow that Annals foot
treads not on. The hens wouldna lay,
the kye woudna let doom their milk
withoot Anna. Ardarroch stans on the
braeface because tis anchored doom WI
Anna. Saw ye ever sich fyke aboot
lass?"
"Quntin has" said Hob, with inten-
ton, for which I did not thank him.
"What!' cried my mather, instantly
taking fire, 'hae some o. the impudent
queans O Balmaghie been settin' their
caps at him already?"
There ye are, mither'' said Hob, "ye
speak bravely aboot Quintin gettin'
married, but as soon as we speak aboot
any lassplaff, ye gang up like a watt O.
tow thrown in the fire."
81 wad ike to see the besom that wad
make up to my Quintin." said my
mother, her indignation beginning to
simmer down.
'Then come over to the" he was
beginning.
Hob I said, sternly, "that is
enough''
And when ! spoke to him thus, Hob
was amenable enough.
TO BE CONTINUED.