Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1931, Page 82

F2 bin lookin' for. I wuz watchin’ them 2 close with one eye and t'otber on Cap'n Jethro. He hed lit his pipe and wuz actin' kinder narvous. He hed scen what I did and Cap’n Jethro cud . It turned out he had plans uv his own for Penelope. I knowed that the Maine Soules were famus seamen in squar'-rigger days and a proud race. I got a word on the quiet th the boy hand ad Fe told me Cap'n Jethro well off and hed bin capnm of squar’- He sed Penclope couldn't make him sea. ‘ !d -schooner begins to tremble and in hed kedgcd her out uv her with the surfboat, with them oars, we towed T cleer. - Cap'n. Jethro's silent prayer, he wus a prayin’ man, the wind drew off land, the fog lifted and the Emmeline Soule with everything she carried set, jumbo jib, fore and mainsail, stood to the Easterd, hardly the wuss for wear, with a girl in a flannel shirt wavin' good-bye over the tafrail. T nite under the bulkhead Sam sed that Miss Soule hed sed that he cud rite to her care uv Smith Cclleg, Northampton, Mass., and he cud expect a anser. I didn’t josh him none; I just shook hands. ’Bout a week later the Skipper gits a letter postmarked Machias, Me., which red as follows (I ecpyd it): At A : We tied up here safe and after a gocs passage foom your old I wish I could express our.ap~ for your expert assistance in our Give my lovs to Surfman Little- and all the rest, keoping a lot for your- Yours truly, Penclope Soule, Steward, Schooncr Emmmeline Soule, Machias, Me. wuz listenin’ carefu! and blushing Mke He must hev thot the Skipper that letter just rite. He struck THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 1, 1931, see that letter.” IL was an order and the Skip- per knowed it. He handed Sam the letter and that red-headed barnacle g'ggled as he done it. I told Sam what I hed noted in the Em- meline’'s cabin that day, that old Cap'n. Jethro wuz a keen wun and hed seen just wat I did. “He'll watch out and put a stopperr on Penelope ,hitchin’ up with a plain surfman. He thinks she’s good nufl for the Skipper uv a big liner or a senator, and Il be dam'd if I don’t think so too.” Sam didn't say mutch but I knowed he'd gut sum mitey nice letters from Miss Penelope and knowin’ Sam and thinkin’ I knowed the girl, I s2en this match wud take a hell uv a lot uv stoppin’. Long in December, wun nite under the bulk- head Sam sed he’'d just got a letter from Miss Sculzs sayin’ that Cap'n. Jethro hed got a freight for Boston that wud bring him there the week 'fore Christmas, and he hed writ her to meet him there and go home to Machias on the Emmeline. We both agreed Cap'n. Jethro had better tie the cld jade up and all hands go home on the train. I want ter say thet all hands wuz more or less wiss to wat wuz goin’ on. Sammy enjoy'd foolin® but ncbody done any coddin” 'bout this Penelope girl. The night afore Christmas I hed the 12 to 4 watch South. It hed ben moderet all the forenoon, but long after dinner the wind hauled No'theast, breezed up and shut in thick uv snow. Just afore it shut in we hed sighted a coaster stannin’ in 'tween Thatcher’s and White Island. Ipswich Bay is a nasty hole in a No'th- Between thé gusts horn. the Skipper wusz reddy and the first shot went over her, just under the spring stay. Cap'n. Wells wus a wonder with the Lyle gun. TH!: vessel carried no top masts and her spars weare still standin’. Where she laid, Little Cove Point, made kind uv a lee, but no boat could live to git to her owin’ to jagged recks showin’ all 'round her. Pretty soon we felt a strane on the shot line and the whip went shootin’ out. They signalled when the tail block wuz made fast and we sent out the hawsar. On cignal that the hawser wus fast we put a sirane on the hawser, up with the crotch and cut went the breeches buoy. We knowed the wuz & sailor 'board that wreck that knowed L. S. Gear. The first party we took “out uv that busy was the boy hand on the Emmeline Soule. The next wuz the mate, then ecum Cap'n. Jethro hisself, mumblin’ his words and ‘'bout all in. He sed that girl hed disgraczd him, but she told us afterwards if he hed waited last he never cud hev got into the bucy alone. _ And then: “Man that lee whip, you scupper- mouth,” roars the Skipper, and over and thro the seas in that breeches buoy rides Miss Penelcps Soule, senior of Smith’s Col- lege, Northampion, Mass.,, steward of the schconer Emmeline Soule of Machias, Me. Cap’n. Wells stands bye to lift her out uv the buoy. Surfman Littlefield, No. 2 man on that crew, heaves his Skipper one side like a fleck uv foam, and lifts her out in his arms. On the other side I stiddys the r. When Sam gits that young woman in arms, all drenched with icy salt water, he kisses her squar’ in the face. I seen him do it. The Skipper and all The Soule went to piezes. 'On the next high water we salvaged wat we. could, which was not much. €ap'n. Jethro hed hed the pianer and rugs put ashore ’fore levin’' on this, the Emmel'ne’s last trip. We shipped the boy and next day. Cap’n. Jethro and Pene- along 3 days fixin’ up what little Emmeline carried. Penelope hed room and Cap’n. Jethro hed crew’s room. Next day I Jethro and Penelope hevin’ a quiet argument in the Cap'm. room. I can'i rcpete their talk so will have to giv’' it my cwn way. T seems Cap'n. Jethro hed his mind sot on hevin’ Penelope wed a son uv a old sea cap friend, John Arey, who hed cum into a lot money wen old Cap'n. Sol Arcy died. He -] agfiaims 23658 g;s?iiis B g B 5&5? fipey H E L F 1 i - “Feeding Bologny to the Little Brown Brothers” By Will Rogers BREEED egiiggii very 3 looked over his eight or nine hired me in the Cabinet and he choose 3 that Pat was & man that no matter ment the “little Brunette Brothers” 5 the Russians or the Democrats. Now, go on over there. You got nothing to do. We “Now listen; here is some instructions. If they really want their Independence, why about the best way I know to get even with em would be to give it to em. But dont do it too quick, for that would make em think maby we dident want em, and they are a very sensi- tive people. You know every people you deal with are always sensitive, so you musept hurt their feelings. In Diplomacy, the way they work it they always are careful to not hurt anybodys feelings but their own peopie, but you go over there and kinder nose around, and whats eating on our Insular Possession. Bring me back a report, for one more report added to the 623 that arrive back to me daily from my Commissions, wont be much more, . A cant give em their free- dom, why at least refuse in such way that you arrive back here with the report. Kinder look free, so you go explain to em just what a Senator is and get em all laughing again. Ex- you the whole Islands for a package of Cubebs. So he is not just exactly what you would call a disinterested bystander. He is mighty able man, so dont let him get you in argueing dis- Well, Pat went and he saw, and when he come back, he was pine Islands. He flew from another, he talked with everyl talk, and those that couldent w! them. He told em that the Father had sent him over to see if bad off as we were. They all nodded “Uh, Uh, Yes.” He says, “Well I doubt He says, “We want to give you your Independ- ence.” McKinley said, “We lost to Spain and had to take you.” Roosevelt said, “Aguinaldo, we are here! and I think you should have free- dom, but not under my Administration.” Taft said, “Ha! Ha! lets all have a good laugh, and we will set you free, soon as the Democrats get in.” Wilson said, “We promised em their In- dependence, and I will see that the next Presi- dent gives it to em.” Harding said, “It wont be long now.” Coolidge said, “Let Hoover do it” Hoover says, “If the other Presidents have stalled for 30 years, (as a good Republican of six long years standing) I dont see why I should not continue likewise.” So its one of those things that each fellow Cattle Slaughter May Aid Dairyman Stock o('mmm milk products which threatened to assume rather large proportions "'nlrecentncommmdngonotmmu- visory Committee that the number of dairy cattle be reduced by the slaughtering of 1 of man in the city who pays a price for milk and dairy products which has not fallen In proportion to the decline in price of other foods, the recommendation may seem to be aimed at an attempt to set up an artificial shortage of mik products which would keep prices high. There is no doubt that the effect of any such widespread slaughtering would tend toward maintaining present price levels, but the gen- eral effect of the movement would be for the best. 7/ For years agricultural experts have been preaching efficiency to the dairy farmer. They have urged him to test the product of each cow for butter-fat content. They have recom- mended that he keep a daily chart of the weight of milk each cow produces and the amount of feed given to each. At the end of each month a balance would be struck and the outlay for feed compared with the income from the sale of the milk. Efficient farmers follow these methods. Among the individuals of the herds are found many which pay their way afid leave over a balance of profit. They represent the paying guests of the herd. Others are the poor rela- tives who live on the bounty of the farmers, not yielding enovzh milk to pay for their feed. A farmer would be far better off without such cattle in his herd and could receive a larger net income with less work by eliminating such individuals. The slaughtering in this case would be justifiable. If the dairyman could receive as large an income—that is, a net income—with less ex- penditure of time he would -have more time for the other farm work which is too often neglected because of the labor entailed in tak- ing care of a large dairy herd. The ability to obtain cash return from other crops would place him in a position of not requiring so great an income from his milk, which in the end would likely result in lower prices to the consumer. Another and perhaps greater reason for the slaughtering of part of the dairy herds is to be found In the fact that the dairy industry faced with an unhealthy expansion at this ‘The prices for dairy products have been on a fairly steady level. If any- bas been an increase in some lines. have been reduced to a low level. These things invite disaster, for they point out a cash crop to farmers harassed by overproduction and low prices in other lines. The farmers might be inclined to increase theéir herds and dairy facilities. A year or two of this and the crash would be inevitable. The consumer would benefit in ome way indirectly frcm the movement to Hmit dairy herds. Heretofore the practice has been to butcher only the bull calves and raise the heifer calves. The importance of calves' liver in the diet has brought about a demand which has put the price of this focd on a high level. An increased supply through the butchering of heifer calves would also resuit in lower prices. Whether or not the warning of the Advisory Council is carried out remains to be seen. With the experience of other branches of farm- ing in which Federal warnings against over- production were disregarded, it seems that wis- dom would dictate the following out of the advice of the dairy leaders. If, however, the warning goes no further than to prevent expan- sion beyond present production, the warning will have served a good purpose. The Mails to Aid Cotton VERY large-city, every little post office in the most-isclated sections of the country, will have one or more Federal workers, per- haps unconscicusly, but nevertheless materially aiding the cotton farmer of the South. In the past the Post Office Department has used jute in tying packages of letters. This jute, weighing annually 3,600,000 pounds, and filling to capacity 80 freight cars, has been im- ported from India. This year the Post Office Department has specified that cotton twine be substituted. In order that a definite standard might be worked out, the aid of the Bureau of Standards ‘was sought and specifications were drawn up for a twine which is expected to fill the needs of the Post Office Department. In the distribution of letters within a post office, for forwarding to other post offices, the regulations require that where five or more let- ters are destined for ome office these shall be tied together in one package. These millions of packages every year consume the immense amount of twine, which the department pur- chases annually. - Copyright, U. S. Aids Citrus Growers 3 like many hercic treatments, highly effective, and a pest which might have spelled complete ruin for the citrus growers of the Alligator State was elimjpated in Like all patients who see the virtue of an laboratories, a large operating office. This building was recently dedicated and is now in operation. The work of the experts assigned to the laboratory will not be confined to study of imn- sect and other pests, however, but will go widely into the field of utilization of the eitrus products and citrus wastes. Not only will study b> Thade of the raising and harvesting of the fruits, but better a: more efficient means of packing and shipping will be sought. There has always been a huge waste in the citrus shipment through the carding of cullss This will be through the develpoment of methods of tracting juices and canning pulps. Dried will be prepared for cattle feed when the are below standards which permit for human consumption. Certain of can be utilized in the manufacture of The rinds are to be processed for tion of orange eil, grapefruit naringin and other materials. !L 0 i i