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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-09
LUMBER TRADE.

The lumber trade reports no special
changes during the past week. with
general business picking up, and pric ss
stiGcning, II anything Cement con-
tinues as before, with the mills unable
to supply the demand, and everybody
reaching out for the article.
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THE NORTHERN PINE.

a lonely pine on northern shore;
The blue sky laving the sands be-
low;
The homeland breezes blowing DER,
And the white winged sea-gulls cir
cling slow.
yard where the ak and the mallet
ring
Through the busy course of the sum
mer days;
A stately ship like a living thing.
That leaps to the ocean down the
ways.
A shadow of black on the ocean path;
brazen cast in the tropic sky;
A typhoon loosing its awful wrath;
A ship that Is shattered while brave
men die.
A battered spar, by the currents
spurned,
Which has floated far on the surg
ing main;
A sandy beach where the tide has
turned,
And the northern pine is at home
again.
Youths Companion.
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weather Facts.

The Farmers Club OF the American
Institute mas issued the following
rules for forecasting the weather:
1. The wind never blows unless
rain or Snow is falling within 100
miles OF you.
2. When cirrus clouds are rapidly
moving from the north or northeast
there will be rain inside of twenty.
four hours. no matter how cold 1t is.
3. Cumulus clouds always move
from a region Of fair weather to re.
gion where storm is forming.
4 When the temperature suddenly
falls there is storm forming south OF
you.
5. When the temperature suddenly
rises there is a storm forming north Of
you.
s. Cirrus clouds always move from
a region where storm is in progress
10 a region of fair weather.
7. When cirrus clouds are rapidly
moving from the south or southeast
there will be cold rainstorm on the
morrow, II 1t is in summer; IL It is In.
winter, there will be snowstorm.
8. Whenever heavy, white frost oc.
ours storm Is forming within 1000
miles north or northeast of you.
9. The wind always blows in a cir
Gle around storm, and when 1t blows
from the north the heaviest rain is
east Of you; If IT blows from the south
the heaviest rain is west of you; If It
blows from the east the heaviest rain
Is south Of you; If 1t blows from the
west the heaviest rain is north Of you.
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man to suffer imposition. Besides, he
had strong faith In his hole In the
ground" and relied upon 1t to unite
him In time with his beloved wife. He
rode on, considering what he should
do. He had no faith In peaceful meas
ures for claim jumpers we're not re-
specters of justice and usually did
not jump claim unless prepared to
maintain their ground He finally con-
cluded to reconnoiter the jumpers from
distance and watch for a good op-
portunity to catch them apart,
1t was about 10 o'clock In the mosn.
Ing and bright summer day when
Ben left the road and struck trail
through wood which led to his claim.
now but half mile distant. The birds
were singing In the trees and every
thing about him was so peaceful that
he approached the encounter before
him with still greater reluctance. His
young wife was ever present In his
thoughts. and he could not dismiss
"a picture of her anguish II II were
fated that she should hear that he had
been killed by the jumpers. After 70.
Ing as far on horseback as he dared
lest he attract attention, he dismount.
ed and proceeded on foot, pausing be.
hind a tree In sight Of his claim and
his cabin beside Il.
There was no one about. but the
cabin door stood open. and smoke is.
sued from hesstovepipe chimney. Be
tween two fires swung hammock. in
the center Of which was a bundle Ben
eyed all this cautiously. listened till
be was convinced that there was no
one present. then boldly went forward.
Curious to learn what was In the ham.
mock. he pulled apart Its sides and
revealed a roll OF blankets. But as
the blankets contained something he
pulled aside corner covering one end
OF the bundle and revealed
Well. what Ben revealed was no
more striking that the expression OF
his face on seeing It. The stern look
hs had worn up to this moment melted
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into one as kindly as, or more kindly
than, had ever rested on his features.
He looked down into the face OF a
sleeping baby.
For time the diminutive creature
slept on, then began to stretch It's lit
tie legs and fling Its little fists about,
at last opening pair OF blue eyes,
which 1t fixed intently on Ben.
Reckon you're the little jumper"
said Ben, giving the baby his finger
to clutch. II hope the big one Is no
more formidable. II your dad has
taken my property I don't see how
l can have the heart to disposses him"
BY this time Ben was on his knees
beside the baby, making all kinds Of
grimaces and saying all kinds Of ridic-
ulous things to show his good VIII
and attract the childs attention. Then
sudden thought struck him. He re-
membered Andy Kitchens grin when
he announced that the claim had been
jumped.
by thunder" he exclaimed Sup
pose the big jumper Is woman!"
For a moment his face fell, If this
were SO, what an uncomfortable situa-
tion! Even the shooting he had ex-
pected was not SO bad as that
He was so engrossed with this
thought and the baby, in whose face
he fancied he could see trace Of some
thing pleasantly familiar, that he did
not hear footstep approaching. Then
he felt light touch on his shoulder.
Instinctively his hand flew to his re-
volver as he turned.
He looked into the smiling face of
his wife,
There are certain scenes as well as
emotions that are indescribable. Mel
ther the scene nor the emotions In this
case can be painted In words. Never
was man more completely turned from
the passion of strife to that of love.
There was one long embrace that 1t
seemed would never end, then grad
ual REIMBURSEMENT, after that explana-
tions.
Susie had prevailed upon relative
to furnish means with which to prose-
cute Ben's claim, besides funds to en-
able her to take them to him herself.
A letter telling him of her intended
journey had arrived the day after his
departure for Frisco. Susie on her
arrival, finding him gone, quietly took
possession of his cabin and waited
his return. When he came she had
gone for water.
Bens claim turned out bonanza.
In time he organized company to
work 1t. and he called 1t the Little
Jumper Grit.
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and by the same token their athletic
games obtained like designation. But
why should prize fight be called
classy? Probably the word is q
slangy equivalent Of high class" AL
any rate, 1t is illegitimate and Of
fenslve as "brainy."
But the offending Is not confined to
the editors of sporting pages. To &c
through the catalogue of misused
words would far exceed the limdts Of
any editorial article, Yet one can
hardly leave the subject without re-
cording a solemn protest against the
phrase armed with warrant" or the
aeronaut who 'negotiates trip
around the aerodrome. And one would
like to add that 'inaugurate, which
means to induct In office, does not
happily characterize the running OF
new railroad train or the opening
sale of autumn millinery.
The colleges Of America are doing
good work In their departments OF
English literature to prevent the wan
ton misuse and abuse of our magnifi-
cent language, but the education
should begin in our grammar schools,
where the great majority of our chill,
dren receive their only education.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-01-14
He /. a Genuine Hlghlana Chief.

King Edward is about to start on
his round Of country house visits for
shooting, writes Londoner. The most
interesting OF all his majesty's hosts.
from every point of view, is The Mack
intosh, of Macintosh, laird of Moy
Hall, Scotland.
The Mackintosh's ancestry is like a
page of Scottish Chiefs, SO closely con.
nected Is 1t with the history of Scot.
land In ancient days. The Mackin.
tosh is one of the few genuine High
land chiefs of purely Celtic descent In
the male line. His ancestry goes back
to the invasion Of Irish Scots from the
north of Ireland, which destroyed the
original inhabitants OF the Highlands
the Picti. the Romans called them.
because they painted their bodies--and
altered the name of the whole coun-
try north OF the Tweed.
He Is the chief of the Clan Chattan
which ruled for centuries over the
greater part of Inverness-shire and
Aberdeenshire, including the great for.
est of Badenoch. AS BELTS his ances-
try. The Macintosh Is very tall, with
long, aquiline features and a droop-
Ing yellow mustache He wears the
kilt and sporran of his clan. skened.
hu (knife), a dirk and a Highland
cap. In this costume he will greet the
King.
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At the average rate of twenty bushs
els of wheat per acre (which is much
less than the average yield of either
Germany or England), the State Of I'LL
nois, with a few Indiana counties
thrown In for good measure, cultivated
exclusively to wheat, would produce
annually more of this product than
does the entire country. If Ohio and
Iowa's 76,7S4 square miles of improved
land Census 1900. with 1858
square mile strip of Kansas, should
be planted in corn. there would be
harvested, with an acreage yield of
fifty bushels. 3,022,144,O0O bushels, an
amount practically equal to the total
1906 corn crop Of the United States,
Canada and Mexico.
With the 10,615.644 acres of
Georgia's improved land producing a
bale of cotton per acre, the yield would
amount to nearly is much as the total
annual cotton crop of the country; and
yet large part of the 15,776.413 acres
of so-called "unimproved farm land"
in Georgia can be made to produce as
well as the best land In the State,
with still balance of 11,191, ,94S acres
of unclassified land, of which a por-
tion only is irreclaimable to agricul
ture.
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4x4-foot chute. This should extend the
entire length of silo and have small
windows both at the top and bottom.
The hay chute is 5x5 feet square and
has door at the floor line for forking
out hay. The chute is of sufficient size
for feeding Stock II barn Is full. The
silo and hay chute are boarded up
tight to prevent dust, dirt or odors
from entering the COW barn. The loft
floor should be made tight for the
same reason, and il made double with
tar paper between 1t will be better.
The construction Of the calf and
bull pens, also the box stall, should be
such that the animals may readily see
the other animals In the barn. They
enjoy company as well as human be-
ings do. and many an otherwise good
tempered animal has been rendered
unsafe by being placed In solitary con-
finement The milk room is handy to
the cow stalls and has both an interior
and exterior exit. The door leading
into the barn should be closed at all
times. The interior arrangement is
such that one attendant can feed and
care for the stock, In short time; q
point not to be overlooked In this day
Of high-priced labor. An or 10-foot
opening should be left in the loft floor
over the driveway for passing up hay,
etc. The grain and bran bins are To-
Gated over the feed room and the feed
drawn through 8-inch wood spouts
and mixed In the feed room. The
driveway. also the space between the
feed room and COW stalls, may be used
portion Of the year for tools or
wagon. The floor above the drive
way should be II or IL feet high: the
floors over the pens and cow stalls
should be 7 feet high, and those over
the box stall and horse stalls should
be feet high. This arrangement pro-
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-01-14
MISUSE OF WORDS.
Correction of Wanton Abuses should
Begin Ina Grammar schools.

Correction of Wanton Abuses should
Begin Ina Grammar schools.
Those who tind neverending
pleasure in reading the works Of
Goldsmith. Addison. "Rollicking Dick"
Steele and our own genial Irving must
suffer something like literary nausea
in turning over the pages OF some
modern newspapers in quest of news.
the Buffalo Commercial says, Why
should the society editor Insist that a
wedding occurred" instead of taking
placer But this abuse OF the word
seems venial when we turn to the
sporting page and find that every
event recorded from dog fight to a
running race Is classy" 1t may be
assumed by some critics that this word
flashed upon the sporting fraternity as
great prize through the revival OF
the Olympic games. Greek authors
wrcte books now known as classics,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-01-14
FISH THAT oAH VALE.

climbinG Perch Travel Over Lama
from Water to Water.
It may seem absurd to speak OF
fishes as walking. The flying fish is
we'll known, but its flight looks much
like swimming In the air. We natural
lIy think of fishes as living always In
1.-THE water. as being incapable, In fact.
of living anywhere else, Pearson's
Weekly says. But nature maintains
Ino hard-and-fast lines of distinction
between animal life which belongs to
the land and that which belongs to
the water. II we can believe the ac-
counts Of naturalists, there are fishes
that traverse dry land.
1t Is reported that Dr. Francis Day
of India has collected data Of several
instances Of the migration Of fishes
by land from one piece Of water to
another.
A party of English officers were
upon one occasion encamped in GER
tain part Of India when their atten-
tion was attracted by rustling sound
In the grass and leaves. Investiga-
tion showed 1t to be caused by myriads
of little fishes that were passing slow
ly on. There were hundreds of them
moving by using their side and small
fms as feet, now upright, now falling
down, squirming. bending, rolling over,
regaining their finny feet and again
passing on.
These fishes were the famous climb
ig perch and they were passing over
the country to avoid drought. When
the stream in which they had been
spending the season dries up they
scale the banks and, directed by some
marvellous instinct, crawl to another.
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Hogs and Fences.

Lean. lank hogs and poor fences will
discourage almost any farmer who has.
such a combination. With animals
that will multiply as rapidly as pigs
1t seems almost a shame to see man
breeding old scrub sows to some boar
that has no pride of ancestry or hope
OF posterity. Yet this Is exactly the
course that about half of the farmers
are following, and wondering why
feeding hogs Is not paying substantial
profits. Never get the idea in your
heads that breeding from young and
immature breeding stock encourages
early maturity in the progeny. Good,
strong, well-developed pigs from ma
ture sires and dams will make better
growth and more economical gains
than the understood runts that result
from breeding immature sows to some
6-months-old boar pig.
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An old Bunko Game.

A farmer near Rock Island, H.,
was cleverly swindled out of $25 By a
smooth stranger who claimed to be
the game warden. The farmer was
hunting on his own farm when ap-
preached and asked If he had hunt
ing license He had not. and the man
said he was not excused by being on
bis own farm. and that he would ar
rest him. This did not please the
farmer. and he finally gave the fellow
s25 IS ball When he appeared IN
court the next morning he met the
real game warden. but not his money.
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Feeding silage.

Quite number of practical feeders
have adopted the silage method. One
man In particular having large stock
farm In Ohio puts up annually be-
tween $500 and 5000 tons Of corn and
cowpea silage, which he feeds to his
beef cattle. A 1,OOO-pound steer will
usually consume about so pounds Of
silage per day. When fed ration Of
this kind, some nitrogenous food
should be added. such as oil meal, cot
tcnseed meal or other concentrated
products found on the market. The
feeder from Ohio referred to feeds on
an average about 5 pounds OF cotton
seed meal per day to his steers and
about 5 pounds of clover hay, in addi-
tion to the so pounds OF silage. For
beef cattle 1t is usually considered ad-
visable to allow the crop to mature
before cutting, and also to plant 1t the
same as one plants for grain produc-
tion. The cattle feeder is not partic-
ularly anxious to obtain q large
amount OF forage. but he Is more anx-
ious to get as much corn as possible
A crop OF corn that will produce about
30 bushels per acre viii make from
eight to nine tons Of silage planted In
the usual way and harvested when
mature. It is stated by feeders who
are using silage. and similar reports
have come from stations. that cattle
fed on this produce scour less than
when fed on corn and dry roughage.
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The Claim Jumpers
0~~~~~~~~N-

Ben Hallowell was returning to his
claim. He had been to Frisco for q
month trying to induce some one with
means to 'grubstake" him, but had
failed. This was not because he did
not have good claim, but because the
capitalists he met did not care to look
into 1t. Ben was very gloomy. A
year before he had married the girl
OF his choice In the East and week
after his marriage had returned to his
mining operations. He had hoped be-
fore this to bring his Susie to him,
but the fates had been against him.
And now his failure to secure means
with which to prosecute his work
made him doubly respondent.
Before him, coming on horseback,
the broad brim of his felt hat Mapping
with each lope, was man whom he
recognized as Andy Kitchen, the owner
of claim not far from his own.
..Howdy, Benz" said Andy, grinning
affably, and without lessening his pace
added, ''Yer claims jumped"
What's that to laugh at?" called
Ben, sharply. How many Of emf"
"Two. But one on 'em reckon you
can handle without trouble. He's a
little cuss Tother may down you"
Ben would have asked more ques-
tions, but Kitchen seemed to be in a
hurry and rode on. Here was more
trouble. Ben was peaceful, plodding
man, beloved by his neighbors, and
the last man in the world to fight ex-
cept for his rights. But he was not q
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A combination of fruit-growing and
poultry raising Is especially recon.
mended In a bulletin from the Penn.
sylvania Department of Agriculture.
II possible, locate the poultry houses
so that the runs will be in the or
chard. The fowls will destroy thou
sands Of harmful insects. thus greatly
benefiting the trees and increasing the
prospects for fruit, and the fowls will
at the same time gain great comfort
and benefit by the protecting shade OF
the trees. Plum trees and cherry trees
are especially benefited by the pres
ence of fowls about their roots. Peach
trees will grow most rapidly and soon.
est give an abundant shade.
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Modern Farm Barn.

HAouSfh FAE" n@Fhs
The barn herewith Illustrated will
be found suitable for medium-sized
farm on which eight or ten milk cows
are kept. 1t has a floor space Of 3S by
"a feet, exclusive of the milk room.
The studs should be IL to IA feet long.
The interior is divided as shown on
the floor plan The silo is 12x38 feet,
with 5-foot pit which may be of
stone or cement. The silo as shown
Is connected to the feed room by q
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8DIEHHzv1
<eAM<N5s
~~~~O~DNo

Wilson Vance's novel Of Crom-
wellian soldier In old Virginia en-
titled big John Baldeth" Is to be
brought out in England by the noted
Bristol publisher who introduced Hugh
Conway, Jerome K. Jerome, Anthony
Hope and other novelsts Of note.
Wilson Vance Is the father OF Louis
Joseph Vance, author Of THE Brass
Bowl"
There will be given to the world
this autumn two books about the late
Lord Kelvin, one of the really great
men OF science OF the nineteenth CEN
tury. One Is the formal biography by
Professor Silvanus Thompson and the
other is a volume of personal remdnis-
cences written by his sister, Mrs. King
who has lately followed her brother
into the other world.
Mrs. Velma Swanston Howard has
returned to New York from visit
to the celebrated Swedish author. Miss
Selma Lagerlof. A new edition OF
Mrs. Howard's translation Of Miss
Lagerlof's Christ Legends" has just
been issued. The book Is having a
success as literature aside from its
religious significance. Many Of the
legends 1t contains are not to be found
in the Bible and have distinct
quaintness and charm Of their own.
Harry Delacombe, the author Of the
Boys Book of Airships." has been In
the British army and became much
interested In the subject On which
he writes. He is now specialist In
1t and has personal acquaintance
with most of the leading inventors.
He has withheld his forthcoming book
from the press as long as possible in
order to get In the very latest infornna-
tion, and it includes accounts Of the
Zeppelin dirigfble and the Wright.
Curtiss, Farman, Bleriot, Antoinette
and other aeroplanes as they appeared
at the international contests at Reims.
To see ourselves as others see us
is always an interesting occupation,
and nothing can be more interesting
to an American than to know why he
is unlike the English and the causes
that have made him the energetic,
enterprising. active man that he is. In
A. Maurice Lows Forthcoming book,
The American People" these things
are explained and the working of the
American mind Is carefully analysed.
To be told that American character
has been influenced by the Indian or
that one reason why we are different
from Europeans is because OF our
cold waves" Is interesting.
Cicely Hamilton, the author Of Mar
riage as Trade frankly admits that
she speaks as spinster. Her claim
Is that womans one trade or means
Of livelihood has been to please man,
to marry hkm II possible. and to do the
work that he judges too tiresome or
uninteresting to do for himself. The
result has been not only that her
profession Of matrlmony has been
overcrowded but also that the low
grade Of woman's wages is due to her
lack of interest In her work and re.
gard for It on account Of her belief
that her only respectable career was
the marrying Of some good man, or In
case that failed in becoming the wife
Of an unworthy man. Miss Hamilton
Is an English woman and the author
los Diana of Dobson's."
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natinm Her rnr nncsx.

Miss Passeigh--I have had my pic.
ture taken once every year since /
was 10.
Miss Youngthing oh. do let me see
one OF those olddaguerrotypes. They're
SO quaint Boston Transcript
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Electric Dy.psp.,..

A scientific man In Buffalo proclaims
that he has discovered that working
about high voltage electric apparatus
results In grave disturbances OF the
digestive organs, loss OF appetite, dis
tress after eating and whole train
OF dyspeptic symptoms.
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. sidebone In Horses.

The cut on the left shows a healthy
foot bone. In some cases the cartil
ages are large, extending for some dis
tance, giving an appearance Of side
bone. II the same condition exists In
other feet. it may be concluded that
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Breaking = Record.

What was the matter with that boy
| sent your
.He isn't honest
"You must be misbakeni"
mo. I'm not. He said he was truth.
ful and that he loved work. and boy
that can lie twice with half dozen
words is too swift for our business. -
Houston Post.
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vides ample storge room for hay, ETC..
in the loft. A good feature Of this
barn is that additions can be made
without interfering with the general
arrangement in nay way. q, Bridg-
man in Farm. Stock and Home.