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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAP RANDOLPH, UTAH Dewey Flagship to Be a National Shrine LOW TEMPERATURE FOR FRESH FRUIT Products Keep Well Only Within a Limited Range. (Prepared The Olympia, Admiral Deweys flagship during the war, shown above as she rests In the Philadelphia navy yard, is almost certainly to be preserved. The house naval affairs committee approved a bill the expenditure of $25,000 for reconditioning the vessel and taking her to Washington where she will be a shrine. Spanlsh-Amerlca- n Tree Man Keeps f Secret 25 Years $ More than 20 years ago Brown purchased a suitcase from Brinkley and returned the next day with it packed and asked Brinkley to allow him to leave it in the store. The suitcase remains In the store today. On rare occasions Brown comes into the store, opens the suitcase, takes or leaves some article and then departs. No other person has ever seen the con tents, says Brinkley. Lives in Suspended Iron Tank, Gets No Mail and Seldom Talks. My past Is burled, Eoratio, Ark. ask no questions I For a quarter of a century these curt words have been the only reply of the tree man of Horatio" to all who have sought to penetrate the wall of mystery he has raised about himself. So successful has been the recluse in veiling his past that few persons ever question him now, and in fact only a few residents of this little town know of his existence. It was a bitter cold night more than 25 years ago when, a few minutes after the night train south had made Its brief pause here, a middle aged man walked Into the small hotel and asked for a room. Just call me Fred Brown." he replied in a German accent to questions as to his Identity. The hotel proprietor soon discovered that Brown had placed a secret lock on his door. The eccentricities of the stranger continued to arouse the curiosity of the landlord. He investigated. Finally he discovered a small iron ring at the base of the hall opposite Browns room. A pull on the ring released the secret lock on the inside of the strangers door, but the sudden arrival of Brown cut short any exploration by the hotel man, and a few minutes later the mystery man checked Sells Vegetables. The recluse grows a small amount of vegetables on his plot of ground, which he sells through the Brinkley store; He comes into town about once a week, but always after dark. From his garden and a few chickens he do rives most of his necessities. Last summer he complained that some re was stealing his chickens, and in order to thwart further raids on his fowls he nailed a long pole upright on the gate of his 'chicken yard. On the top of the pole he fastened a white flag and, while working in fields neaiby, he kept his eye on the white cloth. Any movement of the cloth denotes the opening of the gate. Theft of his chickens ceased, he said. Several weeks ago Brown was summoned to De Queen to court as a witness in a minor case which originated In the vicinity of his place. He Ignored the court order and a deputy sheriff was sent for him. When brought into the courtroom. Brown vehemently expressed his opinion of all courts In general and the Sevier county tribunal In particular. The judge sentenced him to jail for contempt, but he was allowed to depart after a few days. out A few Lives in Tree. days later. Brown requisi- iron tank along tioned a huge cast-of- f rolled it While Brown was in Jail Sheriff Roy the railroad about a hundred yards away and on land owned by Tom "squatted BUILT LIKE A SHIP Green of Horatio. There he remains to this day. Cutting the ends from the old tank and then hinging them as doors. Brown swung the contrivance high up in a large tree. In the tank, he established his home, becoming known as the tree, man. A rope ladder furnishes means of reaching the aerial house, and as soon as Brown is p,erched in his swinging home, the ladder Is pulled up. A large piece of tin securely fastened to the trunk of the tree prevents anyone climbing up without arousing the tree dweller. In winter Brown closes the doors of his home, while they are allowed to swing For many open In warm weather. years the tank was the only abode of the recluse, but recently he has built a square shack without windows which he occupies on some of the coldest nights. Another shack houses a few chickens and furnishes storage for food supplies which' he grows on about an acre of ground that he has fenced off from the owt,s ners estate. HoraO. T. one man, Brinkley, Only tio storekeeper, is on intimate terms Fritz Hoger, German architect, was with Brown, and he has never been able to delve into the recluses past commissioned to design a building Brown has worked on Brinkleys farm shaped like a ship for a Hamburg' at times for the last 20 years, and man,, and this was the result The structure, which makes all his purchases from his em- eight-stor-y is 000; store. by clinics and offices. occupied ployers right-of-wa- y, ' six-fo- ot s J ! cost-$75- $ Talks Messenger Out of $90,000 $ New York. Have you got the bonds for Block & Co.? Give em to me. Ill take em. And with that, a daring young confidence man inveigled a vet- messenger for the B. Keith company to hand over to him t $90,000 in bonds. The messenger, named Morehouse, was accosted by the confidence man at 50 Broadway, where he was to have delivered the bonds to the brokerage firm of Benjamin Block. by the Onited States Department of Agriculture.) Temperature plays a most Important part in the storage of many fruits that are shipped to market from distant areas of production. Most fruits keep well only within a rather limited range of temperature. With meats and dairy products the important thing is to keep them cold enough, but many fruits are Injured seriously by a temperature only a few degrees lower than the most favorable temperature for storage. The life processes of fruits and vegetables, says Dr. Lon A. Hawkins, of the United States Department of Agriculture, in explaining this fact, are chemical or physical In nature and are governed by chemical and physical laws. According to Van Hofts law, the rate of a chemical reaction is doubled or trebled for each 18 degrees Fahrenheit rise In temperature. The rate at which the life processes of fruits and vegetables proceed in storage increases a3 temperature rises. Doctor Hawkins illustrates the point by giving experience with Bartlett As a rule, he says, this pears. fruit will keep twice as long at 31 degrees as at 36 degrees Fahrenheit, twice as long at 36 degrees as at 43 degrees, and twice as long at this temperature as as at 53 degrees. In other words, it will keep about eight times as long at 31 degrees as at 53 degrees. At 65 degrees, however, the fruit keeps about as long as at 53 degrees. Spray Rings Insure High Quality Wisconsin Fruit Wisconsins 169 spray rings, with a combined membership of 1,800 persons $ living in 27 different counties, account for the high quality of Badger apples grown during the season of 1929, acHooper made Intensive inquiries In the cording to C. L. Kuehner, extension North and East but could obtain no horticulturist at the Wisconsin College information on the recluse. of Agriculture. So far as is known Brown has never Consistently high yields and favorreceived any mail through the post able prices reward extra effort on the office here and he never reads, alpart of farm orchardists, says though he apparently has a good edu- Kuehner. cation. He now appears to be about Wisconsin spray rings, especially sixty years old and is in the best of emphasizing insect control, disease health. eradication, orchard fertilization, hand Mentions "Mounties. picking, grading,, and careful packing One day while 1 was talking to him have aided the improvement of fruit he mentioned having been with the quality. mounted police in Canada, but when 1 Spray rings, in addition to raising tried to continue the tend of the con- the yield and improving the quality versation, he departed suddenly and it of Wisconsin apples, have afforded was several weeks before I saw him their members opportunity to pool again, says Brinkley, the storekeeper. their resources in purchasing supplies. So far as anyone here knows, that Consequently considerable savings in is the only time the recluse has ever the amount of cash that necessarily mentioned any incident in his past. needs to be expended for the purchase He appears to be an expert naturalist, of spray materials, fertilizers, gradand will talk for hours about trees ing machinery, and other orchard supand birds, but only of those in this plies have made possible, Kuehner section. Brown is violently opposed points out. to photographers and the only pictures ever made of him have been Work of Honey Bee taken while be was caught off guard economic importance of the The and with the cameraman running the risk of having a chunk of wood or honey bee to the fruit grower was some other object hurled at his head. well demonstrated last spring when weather conditions wTere so bad at Brown, as he chooses to call himblooming time. It is a vital problem. a be who titled self, may European that is, fell into disgrace, he may be a man Some varieties are own with will set not their fruit they in of a number of love, disappointed other things, but 1 will never believe pollen. If such varieties are planted him a fugitive from justice, declares in large blocks alone, they rarely produce good fruit crops although other ApparBrinkley, his closest frienu. If you factors may be favorable. man who he a wants to be is ently, block one of a have variety large let alone to live his life as he sees fit, and 1 hardly believe anyone here will rarely can you produce a good fruit ever interfere with him, for they crop, due to a lack of pollen from havent during a quarter of a century. some other variety for He is getting along in years now, but Is robust from his outdoor existence. He may live many more years, but my oooooooooooooooooooooooooo guess is that he will take his lifes oooooooooooooooooooooooooo secret to his grave. Lime should be purchased and kept in containers. Prescribes Doctor, 98, self-steril- Horticultural Hints air-tig- Paris A new prophet of longevity has arisen in the person of Professor is still Gueniet, who at ninety-eighstudying medicine and is looking for a country home in which to pass his declining years. He has not a wrinkle on his face, possesses clear eyesight and good hearing. His prescription to enable one to live to 100 years or longer Is : Dont eat too much. Eat only what is good for you. Breathe deeply because oxygen regenerates the blood. Take sufficient physical exercise to ensure this. Be chaste after middle age. Live in the country if possible. Gueniet himself eats eggs and butter every meal, with a little meat, vegetables, wine and fresh fruit. pipe-sniff- j I How to Take Care of Your Pipe (Hint Ntf. 4) Dont use a sharp knife to clean out the carbon. You may cut through the cake and chip the wood. A lot of little "wood spots take away from the sweetness of a pipe. 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KINGWELL, Roseburg, 8- - high-frequen- The ambition of every unmarried Woman is to make a name for herself. WSTIPATm 7 If trees are sprayed in full bloom, It may not only injure the bees but also prevent fruit pollination. Take N? NATURES BEUEDT tonight. Your eliminative organs will be functioning properly by morning and your constipation will end with a bowel action as free and easy as nature at her best positively no pain, no griping. Try it. . Discs and tips for spray guns and nozzles, If kept on hand, will not increase expenses in any way, and may prevent loss of valuable time, or im proper application. Mild, safe, purely vegetable- at drugcuti only 25c FEEL LIKE A MILLION, TAKE - Many clean crops of grapes may be grown without following any set spray schedule, but the grower should be on the lookout for trouble and start control measures as soon as Insect pests are found. Oregon Safety Airplane Appliance Hazards of airplane landing in dense fogs may be eliminated by a landing beam being perfected by Dr. J. H. Dellinger, bureau of standards. The beam will not only lead a pilot to the landing field, but will enable him to slide down for the actual landing. t, , er. e, cross-pollinatio- n. Rules for Longevity why smoke a pipe that smells burning insulation? . . .The poor ebap probably never beard of Sir Walter Raleighs favorite smoking mixture. He doesnt know theres a tobacco so mild and fragrant it gets the O. K. of even the fussiest He doesnt know that true mildness neednt sacrifice body, flavor and kick. He doesnt know be can smoke a pipe all day long without gettu g himself or anybody else all hot and bothered. In other words, be hasnt met Sir Walter Raleigh. Sbme day be will. Lets hope its soon. BUT IRIT.ONIGHT HI IIAVOM OR w. N. 1G U, Salt Lake City, No. 131930. ' t |