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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-01
To the Blue Ridge Mountains
Farewell! but not for long; / come again to thee!

Blue, heavenly blue are thy far distant hills
And distant far the heart that turns to thee:
Never songs reckoning washed
More soft-allurng than thy waving lines
Tender inefabe mysteriously fair.
One who has long time breathed the rarer breath
Ut thy sweet air, fresh from the winds of heaven,
That thrills mildest wine the pulsing blood
Or dwelt beside thy forests broidered fine
With myriad blooms all rosy flushed like dawn;
Loved thy primeval hemlocks and thy pines
And thy great aures in the shadowy ways,
Glstening with silver light beneath the moon
Heard the wild merry plash of mountain streams
And wakened to the futing u-o-lee
OF brown wood thrushes answering to the morn
One who has climbed thy lofty mountain tops
Sat with creative powers little space
And seen the home whence wandering clouds forth;
Watched the sharp lightnngs flash from peak peak
The chasing shadows and the shifting lights
Play thy granite walls and verdant slopes,
Until the eye most gently led along
Doth rest upon the wide unnumbered waves
Of distant hills, so like unto the
O. such happy one,
Who has for long years since thus lived with thee
And loved thee thus may say to thee farewell
But for time the soul that leaves thee of haste
Will be drawn back to thee again. wandering bird
Returns to chosen haunts while life doth last.
Thou fades from my sight;
Home, love and distant hills all melt away
In softest lines of heavenly blue.
Farewell, O dearest hills but not for long;
My heart turns still to thee; farewell, I come again!
MARY CHAPLIN SMITH
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-01

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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-01
The Dust of Bloom
By r. n. Myers

THE sun-scorched plain
grew naught to ease my
burning, restless eyes. I
had wandered long and the
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10

September is a good month to look
about for stock, and if one has not al
ready settled upon a particular varie-
ty, hint in that direction may be Of
some use. Unless a woman can afford
to keep plenty of help she should not
keep over fifty fowls. feel that l am
writing for the woman who takes care
of her chickens herself, and to her
would say that if she has the room it
is good plan to keep a small flock of
two varieties-one for broilers or
fricassees and one for laying eggs, and
when it comes to the genuine bust
ness, then give me the Black Minor
cas-. The eggs are large and pure
white. The hens are almost perpetual
layers and do not make good moth
ers. The eggs will command the high
est fancy prices, and if your stock is
pure you can sell the eggs for sittings
at prices according to the stock you
keep.
The Plymouth Rocks or the Wyan-
dottes are suitable breeds for broil-
ers or for home use. l think there is
more money in the selling of eggs to
private customers, or even in the mar
kets, than in broilers. There is less
work and less worry. The latter fowl
is a good layer If she does not get too
fat, but when this occurs make a pot
pie of her.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
Fowls and Eggs.

Farmers Bulletin No. 1913, United
States Department of Agriculture,
says: "The eggs of different kinds of
domestic poultry vary in size as well
as appearance, and there is also con-
siderable range in the size of eggs Of
different breeds. Thus, hens eggs
range from the small ones laid by ban
tams to the large ones laid by such
breeds as light Brahmas. On an av-
erage a hens egg is 2.27 inches in
length, and 1.72 inches in diameter or
width at the broadcast point, and
weighs about ounces. or eight eggs
to the pound (11a pounds per dozen).
Generally speaking, the eggs of pullets
are smaller than those of old hens;
those of ducks somewhat larger than
hens eggs, while those of turkeys and
geese are considerably larger. Guinea
eggs, on an average, measure 1Bx11a
inches, are rather pointed at one end,
and weigh about IA ounces each, or
IL ounces to the dozen. Goose eggs
weigh about SIS to 6.7 ounces each, or
about pounds to the dozen-that is,
more than three times as much as
hens eggs. The eggs of wild birds are
said to be smaller than those of the
same species when domesticaeed. Wild
ducks eggs are said to be, on an av-
erage, 1877 to 2.17 inches in diameter;
domestic ducks eggs, 2.36 to 256
inches.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
Keep the Road Drag Going.

Bad roads are an extravaganza that
no farming community can afford.
Just what they cost in unnecessary
expenses it takes but moment to de-
termine.
A team and driver are reasonably
worth SO a day, and by the use of
these it is possible to deliver to mar
ket from your home 100 bushels of
corn. Hauling over good roads, the
cost of delivery is 3 cents per bushel.
But If, in consequence of bad roads.
but fifty bushels can be delivered. the
cost is doubled and the difference is
what the impossible roads cost Won.
Continue this calculation, applying it
to the hauling of all your crops, and
it quickly becomes apparent that it
amounts to very burdensome tax
Good roads help in every way; thew
promote sociability by making friends
and relatives accessible. and by means
of them it is easier to reach the
schools and churches and to generally
do and enjoy the things which make
life really worth living.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10


1t stood in the cellar low and dim,
Where the cobwebs swept and sway
ed,
limb
AT the feet of autumn laid.
And oft, when the days were short
and drear
And the north wind shrieked and
roared,
We children sought in the corner her"
And drew on the toothsome hoard
For thus through the long, long win
ter-time
1t answered our every call
With wine of the summers golden
prime
Sealed by the hand of fall.
The best there was of the earth and
air,
OF rain and sun and breeze,
Changed to a pippin sweet and rare
By the art of the faithful trees.
A wonderful barrel was this, had we
Its message but rightly heard,
Filled with the tales of wind and bee,
OF cricket and moth and bird;
Rife with the bliss of the fragrant
June
When skies were soft and blue;
Thronged with the dreams Of a har-
vest moon
Ger fields drenched deep with dew.
oh, homely barrel, I'd fain essay
Your marvellous skill again;
10 70 T
AS willingly now as then
Back to the tender morns and ewes,
The noontides warm and still,
The f1eecy clouds and the spangled
leaves
OF the orchard over the hill
Edwin L. Sabin, in Lippincott's.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
SOME MARRIED MEDITATIONs.
By Clarence L. Cullen.

Another dead-sure preliminary to a
touch is when she tells you that you
are looking so tired around the eyes.
The time used to be when only men
called an evening of wild and hysteri-
cal rummiferousness having a good
time"
Why IS it that the woman who
harps necessarily upon the incon-
stancy and the Witness of men usually
has face like that of perturbed sun
perch?
1t makes man feel pretty cheap
when, after admiring some woman he
meets in company, his wife tells
him that she wears whole wig, and
proves it.
Why is 1t that a woman will strive
frantically for years to catch her hus-
band in lie and then weep till her
nose and eyes are all puffy and red
when she finally succeeds?
When a woman is extraordinarily
careful to lock away her own letters
aren't you filed with a sort of in.
voluntary suspicion that she'd read
other peoples letters If she got a
chance?
Why is it that, when a man sits
still for ten minutes or SO, probably
thinking that he'd better get a hair.
cut tomorrow, his wife makes up her
mind that he is dreaming of some
other woman?
When the regular day arrives for
her to have what she calls "a good
cry" why shouldn't she phone the in.
formation to her husband, so that he
can stay down with the fellers and
have good laugh?
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
exTY YEARS a HARP1sx.
hOsalie SpOhF q Figure in neRlAA's
Musical and Social Life.

Aosalie Spohr a Figure I'm DeRliA's
Musical and Social Life.
One of the most interesting charac-
ters In the musical life of Berlin Is
Resale spohr, the harpist, who is a
niece of the great violinist Louis
Spohr, an exchange says, She made
her first appearance in public on Dec.
10, 1S49, at a concert given by Jennie
Lind. She attracted attention first be-
cause of her distinguished musical de-
scent, but after the world had once
heard her her art made her famous.
There are few women before the pub
lie to-day who play the harp as vir-
tuosi, although one sees them occasion
ally In the opera orchestras. So 1t Is
difficult nowadays to realize that Ro-
salia Spohr toured Europe in triumph.
She found in Franz List devoted
friend and enthusiastic admirer and
he was proud to play with her at Wei
mar as we'll as give her the benefit of
his artistic advice. Her career as a
public performer ended after about
six years. Then she became the wife
of Count Saurma and the stage knew
her no more She still lives in Berlin,
more than 80 years old, but enthusiast
tic in her devotion to the instrument
with which she won the triumphs of
her brief professional career. For three
hours every day she practices the harp,
and her technique has for that reason
remained very complete for one of her
age. Her talent was in a measure her
editary, since her aunt was a we'll
known harpist In her day. 1t was
through her playing that Rosalie
| Spohr, who had begun her musical life
as a pianist, turned her attention to
the harp.
A widow for more than twenty years,
it has been her devotion to her art that
made life interesting to her during all
this time. Her education was sound
in the first place, for she studied foi
two years under the harpist Grimm
who allowed her to play in public al
the end of that period, although it was
one of his principles that harpist
should study for ten years. Countess
Rosalie has been an intimate friend of
the German royal family, and both
Friedrich and the empress were de-
lighted to hear her play. Nowadays
she is a unique figure in the musical
and social life of Berlin and an in
spiration to the younger students, who
see what a joy and consolation an art
may be to one who has acquired 1t
faithfully
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10

Sunfowers are grown by MANY
poultrymen and farmers. The seed
make an excellent feed for poultry
and can be easily and proftably pro-
duced. The seeds can be sown in
rows and the crop cultivated the same
as corn. When ripe the seed is thrash
ed out and fed to the poultry either
whole or ground. If the sunfiower
heads are thrown into the chicken
yard, the birds will thresh the seeds
out themselves with no expense to the
grower. 1t is an excellent fattening
food. and when fed with cracked corn
gives good results.
It is too late this season to SOW the
sunfower seeds, but It is good thing
to keep in mind for another year
Farmers Guide
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10

Reports come from Ontario that the
perennial SOW thistle has gained a.
firm foothold, making it the greatest
weed enemy with which the farmer
has to contend. 1t has been spread
from one farm to another by the
threshing machines, the numerous
seeds being easily carried. One meth
cd being advocated for it's eradication
Is to sow winter rye in September and
pasture it the following spring. This
can be followed in June by rye, tur-
nips or buckwheat. In this way crops
are secured and the sow thistle
fought at the same time.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10

then that first called her Barbara to
myself-and over at me.
"The world itself is 80 much more
wonderful than anything it contains, and
the beauty of it all so much greater than
any single beauty, isn't it?''
could not agree, looking into her
deep, serious eyes, so held my peace.
why is it, 1 wonder, that we only
think these things, only really live, so
rarely"
There was something in her words that
made me hope; they seemed to say that
she had often felt thus.
Zone exists so much, but lives so lit
tle," l said "but l could imagine circum-
stances when one would be always liv-'
ing"
Her eyes changed, the depths in them
vanished there lay only the surface light
that Knocked me.
"Onef' she echoed.
''Two," l answered The moment Of
thought was over; she had changed as
swiftly as the shadow of one of those
clouds flying beneath the sun.
you are great dreamer" she said.
Are you also man of action, l won
der?"
Give me the chance"
''Give you the chance? Men of action
don't wait for the chance they make it. !"
tide to come in"
The red blood flushed her cheeks, her
eyelids dropped. forget everything but
the picture that she made-the 1oveliest
picture that had ever seen or dreamed.
Next moment she sprang up. "But
the tide is still out" she said, land all
your wishes will not bring it in. l must
be going home"
was up and standing beside her, lean
ing on the bulwark. but you will come
again? You'll come again to the Ship
and take tea with me- or take supper on
the Ship? When will it be?"
wait not for a day or two"
She crossed the deck, and, drawing out
small handkerchief, held it to the
breeze
THE wind is from the northeast" she
said. "That means storm. We may
have to wait many days"
Several, not many" l answered.
She gave little cry; the handkerchief
had blown from her hand and over to the
shore.
Get it for me-" she said.
The inland sea was low. recovered
the handkerchief and came back, to find
her half way across the causeway.
Thank you. This is the second way
you devised Of leaving the ship on foot"
"But it's not the best way,"I answered.
went with her to the great gate of
the club and said goodnight.
"Oh !" said she. I'VE forgot and left
the cushions lying on the deck. 1t may
rain. A good sailor should make things
tight"
Il WILL" l assured her.
A storm was certainly coming; it sang
In the boughs Of the pines as ] hurried
through them, It grew in the gathering
clouds that hid the beach, it roared in
the loud waves that threw themselves on
the shore
crossed the mussel-backed path, and
climbed on the ship. AS picked up the
cushions something slid from them on to
the deck. 1t was locket, the locket she
had worn on the chain about her neck,
and It lay. open, face upward, looking at
me. saw a small, round photograph of
Rodney Islip.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
CHAPTER vi.

There was no mistaking those fea-
lures; they belonged as unquestionably
to the man in tweeds as did the locket to
Barbara Graham. Moreover, the photo
graph did him justice, and showed an ex-
tremely progressing, slightly smiling
face. and that l considered added insult
to the injury.
/ snapped the locket together and put
It in my breast pocket: then / hurled the
cushions down the cabin-steps, pulled
over the matches, and left the Ship. 1
was In a very different humor from that
of an hour before.
All the way down the beach pondered
the matter. How came the locket to
have dropped from the chain, how came
1t to have fallen open when the catch
seemed so strong? But these were petty.
trivial questions, the merest introductions
to the great, all-absorbing question-how
came Rodney Islip's picture there2
Alas, there seemed only one plausible
explanation, and remembered the slight
air of proprietorship, the amused smile
as though at some hidden joke, that had
struck me when Islip had come upon us
drinking tea. So they were In all like
lihood to be married, and / poor joke
that had been batted back and forth like
shuttlecock between them. l tried to
laugh as one should who sees a clown,
head in air, stumble over a broomstick,
but the laugh was not even a passable
imitation.
The storm was coming, and was glad
Of 1t. wanted no more Of this fine
weather when a man was led to lapse into
rose-colored dreams and fancy himself
prince with the world as his realm.
The rain began to spin against my
face. The storm was coming fast, and
the waves barked angrily at my feet, like
hounds yelping. But l would not run,
would not even turn up my coat-collar to
keep of the wet; would walk stolidly
and let myself be soaked for the poor
muddle-br Drained idiot that l was.
But what Of herr Barbara Graham
looked to me like a consummate firt
playing with me when she was a trihe
weary Of the company Of her accredited
admirer. l knew that women sometimes
did such things; did not consider that
she was the worst Of her sex, but merely q
striking instance Of the sex's insincerity.
Yet she had looked like a child, as guile
lsas ss . maid In short skirts and braid
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
Hired Man and the Boss.

An exchange presents each of the,
two sides of the farm labor question
in this somewhat homely but forcibIe
manner:
He felt that he was working too
hard for the pay received; he knew
better than the boss how the work
should be laid out; he caroused on
Sunday and was dead to the world
Monday; he was jealous of the other
hired men-he got fired!
Gle had no regular hours; he
shifted teams from one man to anoth-
er; he spent his time in town; he had
plenty of spare room in his; house, but
gave the hired man the best in the
hay loft; he grumbled about trifes--
his hired man quit"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
PoLYGAMY IN UTAH.
Thousands of New Cases, "A Salt Lake
Gentle Newspaper Says.

Thousands of New Cases, a Salt Lake
Gentle Newspaper Says.
A little while ago, remarks the Salt
Lake Tribune, we printed a roster of
men who are actually reputed, and
doubtless correctly so, to have entered
into new polygamous relations within
recent years, very recent years, in
deed, as compared with the date of
the manifesto of 1890. The Deseret
News, referring to that list, apparent
ly accepted 1t as correct, and under
took to belittle "the polygamy scare"
by saying that If these were all who
had gone into polygamy since 1890
the list was a matter of no great con-
Germ.
This admission, however, on the
part of the church organ serves not
to limit the number of new cases of
polygamy. but as "a foundation upon
which reasonably to assume that DO
lygamy is alarmingly prevalent, for to
every new polygamous case that comes
to the notice of the nonmormons there
are doubtless a hundred that the non
mormons never hear anything about.
1t is entirely safe. therefore, to say,
as the Tribune has said heretofore,
that the new cases of polygamy are
numbered by the hundreds; perhaps
1t would be no great exaggeration to
even say by the thousands.
At all events, it is sure thing that
there has been such a recrudescence
of polygamy within recent years as
could not have been dreamed of at any
time between the outlying Of the
manifesto and the comforting Of state
hood uDon Utah.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10

Not the Salary but the Opportunity.
IF the laborer gets no more than the
wages his employer offers him, he is
cheated; he cheats himself"
1t is said that Bismarck really
founded the German Empire when
working for a small salary as secre-
tary to the German legation in Russia (;
for in that position he absorbed the
secrets of strategy and diplomacy
which later were used so effectively for
his country. He worked so assiduous-
ly, so efficiently, that Germany priced
his services more than those of the
ambassador himself. If Bismarck had
earned only his salary, he might have
remained a perpetual clerk and Ger
many a tangle of petty states.
have never known an employee to
rise rapidly, or even to get beyond me-
diocrity, whose pay envelope was his
goal, who could not see infinitely more
In his work than what he found In
the envelope on Saturday night. That
is a mere incident, a necessity, but the
larger part of the real pay of mans
work is outside of the pay envelope.
One part of this outside salary is
the opportunity of the employee to abb
sorb the secrets Of his employers sue.
cess, and to learn from his mistakes,
while he is being paid for learning his
trade or profession. The other part,
and the best Of all, is the opportunity
for growth, for development, for men.
tai expansion; the opportunity to be-
come a larger, broader. more efacient
man.-orison SWEET Marden. In Sue
cess Magazine.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
Hints ON hog Raising.

Salt buried a few inches in the
ground in certain spots will attract
the hogs and confine them pretty close
ly to such places.
1t is natural for hog to root. but
If you want to prevent him from do
ing 30 simple ring In the snout will
answer the purpose
It is great mistake to mark q. hog
BY mutilating his ears. Better use q
metal tag.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10

She-And do you believe that a wom-
an always turns to the last page first
when she picks up bookI He-well,
1 have no reason to doubt 1t. I know
1t Is the nature Of the fair sex to wana
the last work.-Pick-Ms-Up.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10

While vegetables are given a low
value as food for man or beast on
account of their large percentage Of
water, the dry portion is highly nu-
tritive. In the potato the % per cent
of solid matter is nearly all available
for food. The proteids as flesh form
ers and the carbohydrates as fat pro-
ducers are essential parts of food.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
.CLOSE-IN ACRES
SELLFOR R$175,OOO
INVESTMENT COMPANY BUYS
SOUTHWEST STRIP
PART OF THREE RANCHES IN
PARCEL TRANSFERRED
Enormous Sale Indicates Extent of
Proposed Fall improvements In
Suburban roperty-Purchaser
Plans Many Houses

A sale consummated by the Joseph r.
Lotus company with the Los Angeles
Investment company indicates the pos
sibilities of the great fall improvement
in real estate. This transfer of subur-
ban property is the largest made dur
ing the past two years, and brings TO
mind the great activity of the years
1904-05-06 in close-in acreage. 1t is
believed to be the forerunner of many
similar sales.
George w. Wilson of the LOTUS COM
pany was assisted by C. F. w. Palmer
In the transaction, which includes the
Cook ranch, part of the Grimaud ranch
and a part of the Sentous ranch, south
west of the city, at prices which ag-
gregate $4,000.
Nearly 700 acres are embraced in this
transfer. 1t is on high ground over
looking the ocean, and will probably be
developed into high grade residence
property by the purchasers. When
Slauson avenue is extended through
to the sea it will go directly through
this property
Further activity is reported by the
LOTUS company about Monrovia acres
and in the Imperial valley. The cot
ton situation in the valley looks more
promising than ever, as the season pro-
crosses, and a cotton gin will be erected
by this firm to take care of the crop.
They are now preparing to grow
oranges in the Imperial section, ex-
periments having shown that 1t is pecu-
liarly adapted to the early ripening
of this fruit.