Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1905-05-25

TACT in itself But to my personal
knowledge the rats have never seen the
cat. The cat has remained on one floor
and the rats on another There has been
no chasing and no conflict between them.
the cat is on the place.
"The inQuir.- ,.as caused me to indulge
the more intc.~ sting reflection: How
far can RAJ detect the presence OF a
cat by the sens of smell? Evidently at
considerable distance Else the rats at
my place would not have known of the
cats presence under the circumstances
I'm quite sure that they have never seen
the cat. But they know he is there just
the same, and they have been awfully
cautious since his arrival"
PURE WATER COnRODES IRON.
Use of Lime in Boilers Will Prevent Fur
ther Action.
The corrosive power CT ,.uIc water on
new or unscaled boilers was well illus
tlated in the city Of Gla&c -, when
new water supply was injl2rrc- d from
Loeb Katrine, one OF the l,u-~4, Waters
the world which aro cyc lie for
eity consumption. The former supply
lad been poor and calcal cous, and Old
:oilers were much coated with lime
Gale. TO the uismay of the users, those
yho had put in new boilers or new
ubes found them rapidly corroAing.
,hile the old scaled and coated boilers
,c1 lio =;
cmoved every possible trace of incrCs-
alton from their old boilers b. me-
hanical or chemical means, intending
hus to get as they expected, the full
croilt OF the pure water, were also
adly troubled by corrosion; and even
he cid boilers, as the scale was grad
l2ily remoTed by the unv0Tying soft
md pure water from the lake, were
'lCre or less corroded when no means
,ere taken to prevent it. IT was found
sOwever, in this case, that introducing
little lime from time to time-enough
give the boilers a slight calcareous
oating-usually prevented the corrosive
cton of tho water; then. again, in the
2urac of tine, the effect produced was
hat the lime, organic matter and iron
>Xide skin, united in forming protcs
i've oNidized surface which prevented
urther cOrrOsion.
Race Suicide in New ZenlcSd.
In New South Wales the clS!dren
lnder five years old are actually less In
number than they were ten years ago,
9hile in some states there are fewer
under ten years than in 1891 In New
zealand complaint is made that there
ire not enough children to Ill the
schools Mr.. Coghlan notes that the
immigration OF young married women
has fallen off in recent years, yet in
1857 there were in New South Wales
2,247 married women under As years,
While in 1891 there were 1891; still
the number Of children born was about
the same in each year. and in Australia
and New Zealand there are now annu-
ally 10000 fewer births than would
take place had the rate OF ten years
ago been ms!ntained-N. Y. Tribune
Same Ola Weather Talk.
What did you and AlGernon find to
talk about?' asked the cnaperon.
"The weather." was the demure re-
ply. II said it looked as If 1t were 60
ing to rain, and he said he had an UNI
brella and he would like that he n gbt
shield me from all the storms OF life
and that Florida would be lovely
place for wedding trip. we didn't
talk about anything but the weather
for half an hour" r."-Washington Star.
As a result Of q series OF expert
ments by the students OF the Rhode Is
land college Of agriculture at Kingston
and OF the opening OF the breachway
at Point Judith, clans are now being
dug on the shores of Point Judith pond
they have never before been found.
says the Providence Journal. They are
more or less abundant also and the
residents Of the adjoining country have
been taking advantage Of their oppor-
tunity recently since the presence of
the clam beds was discovered. 1t all
came from a series OF experiments un-
and for the class the feasibility of
transplanting and propagating the
clans
Some time ago one Of the classes
took up this study and planted some
young CLAIMS along the shores OF this
body of water Not long ago it was
found that the CLAIMS had grown ard
multiplied until the digging is fairly
good In the beds where the college"
clans were planted. Ali OF which goes
to show that there are several kinds OF
agriculture, and that it is easily posi-
BILE to farm the sea as to farm the
land.