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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-02-08


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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-02-08
FASCINATING HAIR.

Do you read the East oregonian7
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06
SHOULD WAKE UP.

1 Many a young man-and you will ! find him iu the small towns and cities
 oftener than you will on the farm
 who pays attention to some nice girl
 insists on wearing good clothes, open
 work socks and the latest color of tie, but is mighty loath to look at life se- riously and buckle into some of its hard work that he may lay something by for himself and for the girl whom he may some day hope to call his
 wife. The point we are driving at is
 that it takes something more than fairly good looks, a buttonhole bou- quet, good nature, good intentions or moonlight nights to furnish a home. 1t takes cash--the stuff that is got in exchange for hard work-to buy clothes for two, bacon, flour and po- tatoes for two, pay rent and buy washing machines, baby cabs, cook stoves and various and sundry other lncidentals. The whole lineup of stuff need not daunt the heart of any young man who has gumption and a moder- ate supply of red blood, but it's a cinch that there is a scad of half baked mollycoddles who are contemplating matrimony in a sort of dreamy, hazy way who will have to wake up and get next to some good hard work with both hands if they ever expect Mary to share life with them in some vine clad cottage. There Is no influence so potent for good as the affection of a good girl and the home which both unite in making, yet the right kind of home and the furnishing of 1t come not by chance, but by hard work and much pain. Simple as are the above statements, yet there are literally thousands of young fellows who ap- parently do not realize the force of them
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06
COOPERATIVE EGG MARKETING.

The patrons of a creamy within fifty or sixty miles Of Duluth, Minn., have inaugurated a system of cooperative egg marketing that might we'll be adopted in many other rural communi- ties where poultry raising is carried on as a side line with the dairy bssi- ness. Briefly, the plan is as follows: The patrons enter into an agreement to collect their eggs daily, wash them If necessary, stamp on them the date on which they were laid, separate white eggs from brown and deliver them at the creamery in packages bearing their individual name and la- bel. When sufficient number of eggs have been received they are shipped in refrigerator cars with the butter product to Duluth, which is the mar ket center for this particular section. Using the care that the producers do in packing, the eggs do not have to be candled or otherwise handled at the creamery. A demand has been estab- lished for these certified eggs, with the result that the farmers who produce them are receiving from G to 10 cents per dozen more for them than for eggs of uncertain pedigree and character, marketed in the usual slipshod man. her. There Is no patent on this plan, and it is one that the patrons of every creamery might look into seriously.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06
PLENTY TO DO.

Neither boy nor girl just graduated from high school need feel especially discouraged because they do not. land a remunerative job right away or cal not continue their studies at college CT university. The chances are that a year at home will be a good thing for them, as it will give them time to sort of get adjusted to the new conditions, while 1t is also likely that there will be plenty for them to do and give demonstration of their executive abil- ity. The girl graduate can learn to make as good bread and pies as does her mother and put the house in or der, while the boy can get a Job dur ing the vacation on some farm where he will get a whole lot of practical schooling, develop Il swarthy complex ion and strengthen and harden his muscles. Perhaps the most important thine to remember Is that the big world is full of things that need do- Ing, folks that need helping, and that the real value of life consists in lend Ing hand to bring these things about.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

ELAChO H ONOh& d1S rAIhhn through the window, while Mrs Mur. phy tried to crawl under the kitchen 1 stove. .E ..+.tt#.... s@-.
 All this excitement afforded the boy good deal of delight, but he reserved for the evening the continuation of his 1 joy. He intended to blow his father ] up as he sat in his chair on the back 1 stoop. #... at. < l Mickey thought it would be an in spiriting sight to witness his father flying across the back yard and blow ing up the ground with his nose. In order that he might have an audience appropriate to so great an occasion Mickey had spread the news among all the boys of the neighborhood, and at 3 o'clock fifty boys sat on the fence surrounding the back yard. MT. Finn. tired of the excitement of the day, had fallen asleep in his rocking chair on the back stoop when Mickey lit the stem of the big cracker and placed 1t carefully under his fathers chair
 The moon shone brightly, illuminat- ing the grin on every boytsh face. Ev- cry ear was strained to catch the faint hissing of the fuse and every eye in tent upon the sleeping man.
 The fuse burned itself out, and the silence and suspense were deepened A minute passed and another until Mickey could stand the strain no long CT He reached down and lifted the firecracker from beneath the chair.
 As he held 1t up in the moonlight to examine 1t mosquito lit upon his fathers nose, and the old gentleman awoke. Grabbing the f1recracker from his sons hand, he arose and. holding it aloft. said:
 Boys, there will be no explosion to- night I'm sorry to disappoint you. was afeered that Mickey might do some harrum wid that big cracker, so whln he wasn't lookin' this afternoon l took the powder out of.it and filled 1t wid clay. So you see that the show is over, and ye may as we'll go home and go to bed. There'n be no more explosions only what I'll give Mickey wid shingle afore turn in. Good night to ye all Come around some other night whin there Is somethin' doin'."-Washington Post.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

Throw the dirty thing awayl Pm afreed O me life while you have 1t in your hands! Now. don't be goin near the stove wid it! Arrah. ye little spal- peen, will ye take ii of the stove? Take it off afore ye blow the roof off the housep' And the frightened wom- an ran into the bedroom and peered through the keyhOle
 With the reck lessness of boyhood Mickey exclaimed as he iii match and reduced his mother to mysteries by pretending 10 light the trecracker stem:
 'You needn't be afeered. mother I'll nip it out afOre 1t goes off,
 In this simple fashion the afternoon of the Fourth passed away in the Finn household. varied by the boy with oc- casional visits to the neighDorS. whom he threw into Il panic of fear by pre- tending to light the big explosive.
 Mrs. Murphy and her three children were gathered around the kitchen ta- ble when Mickey placed the lighted mammoth in the middle of the table Two of the boys went head first
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

''T'LL NIP TT OUT AFoRE IT GOES OFF" in telling it, for the incident occurred on the eve of the Fourth. and Casey was afraid that the big firecrackers would be carried over the national holiday and remain loss on his hands. In order to deepen the impression al- ready made upon the boy Casey per mitted him to handle one of the twins.
 The boys eyes had widened to their utmost capacity when he was outside of the window, but now that he could feel the red jacket his hands trembled with the eagerness of possession, and he would readily have given ten years of his life to own it.
 Take it along wid you, Mickey" said Casey cajolingly. "Thim crackers were made in Chowchow, in China, for the Cooney Island trade, and l want to get rid of thim have on hand be- fore send another order to Wan Lung, the haythin."
 But l have no money" said Mickey sorrowfully. My father is goin' to give me three punches of little fire crackers and pinwheel, but l know he wouldn't buy wan O thim big fire crackers for me-"
 Well" continued Casey. you come down here tomorrow mornin' and car ry in half ton of coal for me, and I'll give you the big cracker"
 The next morning Mickey was busy for two hours carrying chestnut coal in a nail keg and dumping it in Casey's cellar Just after noon, with a smile covered with coal dust and a bosom full of chuckles. he received his prize.
 No grass grew beneath his bare feet as he ran homeward. the precious pow der mine clasped to his bosom Hold ing the big firecracker aloft as he dart ed through the kitchen door, he ex- claimed:
 Mother. I have ttI Ain't tt-a beau typ
 Well. don't see anything about it to be maxim a fuss over," said Mrs. Finn. who. like most mothers. had no love for fireworks. Now, don't be bringin it nearer to me-" as Mickey ran toward her. Il don't want to Oe blown into the middle O next week.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06
THE GRIMM ALFALFA.

The hope for alfalfai raising north of latitude 42 degrees seems to rest on the Grimm alfalfa, the history of which is full of interest. Early in the fifties there lived near the village of Kulsheim, in the grand duchy of Baden, Germany, q substantial and progressive peasant by the name of Grimm. There had been grown for three or four hundred years in the val ley where he made his home a strain of true alfalfa. But in Grimm's patch this became crossed with the wild vel How lowered sickle lucerne. At this stage of the game, in 1857, Grimm came to America and settled in Carver county, Minn., and, as good fortune would have 1t, brought with him few pounds of seed from this mixed field and sowed it. Most of the plants which the seed produced died, but a few lived. and in time this type of alfalfa got used to 20 and 30 degrees below zero weather of the Minnesota winter. Grimm made money raising it, and so did his neighbors, but only recently has the full value of the service rendered by this hardy Teuton been appreciated. That he succeeded in producing q type of alfalfa possessing exceptional hardi- ness was shown not long ago when plants raised from seed procured from Gfmm,s native German valley were given a winter test alongside those of the acclimatized Grimm variety. It was found that 75 per cent of the for mer, but only per cent of the latter, E{IIad
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06
Mickey's Big
 FireCraCker
Ii WO mammoth firecrackers stood in the window of Casey's gro
 cerY. They were twelve inches

sA cery. They were twelve inches
 long and proportionately thick. For q month before the Fourth of July these gigantic indicators of en- thusiasm had stood In the window like British soldiers on dress parade. while a predatory spider hung flmy ham mock between them and calmly killed his buzz1ng victims over two powder mines. .7s-
 The firecrackers were the admira- ton and the envy of all the boys in Cooney Island. It was seldom that a youthful nose was not fattened against the window pane in ardent covetous- ness.
 But the price demanded by Casey for the thunderers was prohibitive, so far as the boys were concerned. and there was not one of them pa- triotic or courageous enough to invest 25 cents in a single ecstatic explosion.
 Said Mickey Finn timidly one even ing when he had been sent by his mother to get quarter of pound of tea and half pound of pork:
 "Mr. Casey, l suppose now that whin one O thim big fellows wint off it would blow the stars out of the Bky?" his mind filled with blissful thoughts of mighty explosions
 Casey stopped measuring out half pint of New Orleans molasses. raised monitory finger and replied:
 Mickey, my boy, I'd be afeerd to tell you what would happen if stood wan O thim big fellows out on the sidewalk and touched the stem wid the lighted end of a five cent ciga-ar. The noise would be terrible, my son. 'Twould make your head ring like an anvil, and you would see sparks like firehies"
 Would it blow the house downT' asked tlfe boy in an awed whisper.
 "No, I don't think it would" said Casey. Tt might shake the chimly down and break all the glass in the windys in small pieces, and there would be paper in the street as would fill an empty barrel O flour. Oh, but thim big fellows is mighty powerful Mickey; mighty powerful. They use them in China to kill murderers and robbers. They put wan of thim big firecrackers bechune the teeth of murderer and make him light the fuse .wid his own hand and blow his own head of. Thin Chinese is mighty crool. Mickey; mighty 'crooL"
 This vivid description infamed Mick ey's desire, which was Casey's motive
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

Missouri Chief Josephine, the Hol- stein COW owned by the University of Missouri, concluded years milk and butter fat test not long since, but was not able to maintain to the end of the year the pace she set in the first six months. Particularly was there a slump in the last four months. The milk record for the first half year was 17,0O0 pounds, which exceeded any showing ever made by any other COW. Her milk production for the year was 26,861 pounds, which is 571 pounds be- low the yield of Colantha TVS Johan- na. Missouri Chief Josephine's butter fat production for the year was 740.5, equivalent to 870.6 pounds of butter on an 85 per cent basis.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

The experience of an Alameda (Cal.) resident who lives some ten miles from Oakland in trying to get rid of the eighty-fve foot trunk of an unusually fine eucalyptus (gum) tree, and thus early in the game, would tend tn cast suspicion on the extraordinary claims made for the growing of the euoalyp- tus as a money making scheme No buyer who would make commercial use of the tree in question was found, and it was cut up by Japs for cord wood.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

Notwithstanding the fact that fruit raising in the Rogue river valley. in Oregon, on a small scale traces back some fifty years, 1t is interesting to note that no spraying has to be done to combat fungous pests, as has to bc done in practically every state east of the Rocky mountains. While we have never seen all explanation of this fact. there is little question that the warm and dry summers have much to do with 1t. Some Yellow Transparents that we picked last July. though sprayed with arsenate of lead and wa ter only. were as clean and waxy skin ned as could be.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

An Independent" oil wagon made the rounds of locality not far from where the writer lives the other day and disposed of a lot of fair qualit y oil in barrel lots at IT cents per gal lon when the same or a better grade of oil could have been got from the nearby country store at from 12 to 15 cents per gallon. Either the chaps that bit on this game did not take their local paper or the merchants of the town where it was located did not make use of 1t as an advertising me dium
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

The truth about mining investment propositions can be put in nutshell in the statement that any mine which is being or can be worked on a profit able basis will not be hawked in the public press at from 10 to 30 cents per share nor for 80 or 90 cents. Men who really get next to a good mining propo- sition are not selling stock in it; they borrow money on their own account so that they can get bigger slice of the actual profits.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

Reports from a good many brick and tile plants are to the effect that as q result of the drier weather which has prevailed during the past twenty months a good many farmers having low land have decided not to tile just now, as their low land seems to be producing good crops without the arti- ficial drainage. Any farmers who may be working along this theory are ap- parently cousins of that fellow down in Arkansas, so often referred to, who couldn't fix his leaky roof when 1t was raining and who didn't have to repair it when 1t wasn't raining. There is mighty little in the weather data of the past fifteen or fifty years to en- courage the belief that these droughty conditions are going to last. If they don't 1t would seem the part of good sense to single" this job of laying tile while it is nice and dry. The tile can be laid with less expense, while no damage will be done as result of the tilfng If dry weather conditions shouli continue for some time. On the other hand, if the wet seasons should return. as there is every reason to believe they VI l. the job will be done and the low land can be utilized for crop produc- tton instead of lying largely idle.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

Professor Halpin, head of the poultry department of the University of Wis consin, expresses the view that many farmers confne their poultry too close ly, resulting in an increase of their feed bill from a third to half and a
 good deal less health and vigor for the individual chickens. He attributes this to the fact that when closely con- fined the poultry quarters become con taminated and tend to produce bac- terial diseases.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

Some trouble was caused in west ern orchards during the spring follow ing smudging with crude petroleum through the smoke from the oil pots loading the blossoms with soot This coating is offensive to bees and in some instances has kept them away to such an extent during blossom time that there has not been proper fertiIi- zation of blossoms, with the result that there has been a scant setting of fruit.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

Both the disposition and training of the colt are greatly influenced by the kind of treatment it gets during the first few months. It is because of this fact that cheap, careless and impatient hired men may often prove an expen- stve proposition.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

It Is interesting to see how soon a pair of wrens will take possession of q tin can put up for them to nest in. The writer has cut hole an inch and a quarter in diameter in the end of two of these cans and nailed them up under the caves of barn or shed. and the cheery occupants, the wrens, are now at home in them.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

One or two states of which we have heard lately have passed laws which make it possible for the owner of a farm to secure a copyright on any name he may select for his farm by paying a registration fee of $1. This gives him exclusive right to the use of this name in advertising, on his sta tionery and in any other way in which he may choose.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

A reader of the Rural New Yorker reports the odd instance of damage to steers in his feed lot while the ami mals were resting at night by weasels that crawled over them and gnawed holes in their backs and sucked their blood.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

It is a very open question whether the growing of mushrooms, ginseng or other fad crops will bring in any more revenue than the same time and ener- gy given to tomatoes, onions or cab .bage, while there is little question that the risks run in the growing of the special crops mentioned are consider ably greater than in the case of the more common.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

Never were more automobiles being sold per week than right now, and never did 1t take more to buy a well matched team of draft or driving horses. The doleful prophecy that the automobile would put the horse out of business is not materializing.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

The general investing public so of ten overlook the fact that very seldom is stock in business enterprises put up for sale when it is giving as good re turn as 6 per cent on the money in vested. Stock that really is giving a good dividend is held for the dividend and not sold to trap suckers.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

We sometimes wonder how the ped dlers and collectors who pick up play ed out copper utensils get enough to make it worth while, yet figures for 1910 show that 34,O42,O99 pounds of just such scrap copper was collected and sent to smelters.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

We hear much about the copper pro duction of Michigan, and yet a fact not generally known is that two states excel her in the production of this metal In the year 1910 Arizona pro duced 299,6O6,971 pounds of copper, Montana 2S6, PAP, ,403 pounds and Michi- gan 221, ,4OO,S64 pounds.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

What is known as the June drop of ten removes from overloaded apple trees the fruit that should be removed. In case it does not, however, hand thinning should be resorted to. In this the apples should be thinned to about six or seven inches apart, and in the progress of the thinning all de- fective and undersized fruit should be removed. With those who are thin ming for the first time there is a de cided tendency to not remove enough apples, and sometimes the job has to be done a second or third time. It is well to keep ill mind when doing the thinning that at maturity the apples will likely be several inches nearer each other and to act accordingly.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

1t is all too often trees that are "sick" or have been injured that are most likely to set too heavy loading of fruit. If one wishes to save such a tree 1t is often good idea to remove a good share or all of the fruit so that the strength of the tree can be utilized in the production of new wood grown instead of fruit.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

There is no succulent crop that will be relished by or do the flock of sheep more good than turnips, which should be sowed on a rich and rather low piece of land and preferably one that is as free as possible from weed seed. For field crop the seed may be sowed about the middle of August for the northern attitudes.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

We know a fine row of hard maple shade trees that were thinned three or four years ago, but they will never have the symmetry and uniformity of size and shape that would have been possible had the job been done dozen years ago.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

Many a weed spotted pasture could be cleaned up and kept clean were a small flock of sheep kept on the place. This would mean sheep tight fences, but 1t is taken for granted that the good farm is we'll fenced.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

A fortune awaits the man who can invent fly blanket for cows which will keep off the flies, stay in place and stand the wear and tear.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06

The mourning dove takes little pains when it starts housekeeping to build substantial nest, and as a result it is often broken ups. There are good many folks whose marital enterprises are short lived and for the same req son.