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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-15

MoLTKE AND BIsMARCK.-During the
eight years which have elapsed since the
German Empire was founded at Yer
sailles, the writer's of the fatherland have
been busy discussing the merits of the
leading personages in the drama of the
Franco-Prussian war. By general con-
sent, Prince Bismarck and Count Moltke
were admitted to be the two foremost
leaders; but opinion differed much as to
which is really the greater. For some
time the imposing figure of Bismarck
entirely filled the foreground; but more
recently there are many signs showing
that he is not unlikely to be supplanted
finally by the less obtrusive personality
of Moltke. The more the actual events
of the years 1870 and 1871 become
known, from both official documents and
private memoirs-some of the latter as
yet little known in this country, while of
no mean historical importance-the
more it appears certain that Count
Moltke was in reality the leading spirit of
the time. He commanded not only in the
field but in the cabinet. He drew before
hand the plans of battles; and as he de-
signed the meshes on which the German
hosts grasped the capital of France, SO he
delineated likewise the hard outlines of
the treaty following the conquest. All
this was not known before, but is now
gradually becoming known. Moltke,
throughout the Franco-Prussian war, re-
manned very much in the same attitude
he still assumes in the German Reichs-
tag, where he sits with arms folded, inn
movably in the same place, speaking
rarely, seeming often to dream, but still
showing whenever he opens his lips, that
he has not missed word of the debate.
It has in years been the fashion in Ger
many, adopted from comic papers, to
give nicknames to eminent men, Prince
Bismarck is s'ehrlche Makler'' the hon.
est broker, while Count Moltke is called
"der Wagenlenker"-the driver, or the
man at the helm. The title indicates
more than nearly anything else the posi-
tion assigned to the great Captain by his
country London Atheng,sns.
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Two LIVES OF A KITTEN.-Recently
lady in Lowville, N. Y, used chloroform
to kill a kitten. The animal, seemingly
dead, placed in pasteboard box, was
buried in the garden under light cover
heard it mewing, and, upon opening the
box, the kitten crept out. It is now alive
and well.
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Jeff Davis Benefactress.

A New Orleans telegram of the Sth inst.
announced that Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey, of
Mississippi, who died in the first week of
July, had bequeathed her entire estate to
Jefferson Davis. In her bequest Mrs.
Dorsey refers to the great services and
sacrifices of Mr.. Davis on behalf of the
South, and reproaches his countrymen
citation for such services, and regrets the
small contribution which she is able to
make for his relief.
Mrs Dorsey was Miss Ellis, of we'll
known and wealthy family of Natchez,
Miss, where she was born, in February,
1929. She was niece of Mrs. Catherine
Annie Warfeld (7ee Ware) the novelist
the author of ''The Household of Bou-
verie," "Beauseincourt," and other ro-
mances of strange, wild, weird origi-
nality and power. Mrs. Warfeld's first
publications were two volumes OF poems
(1S43 and 1844), by herself and her sister,
Mrs. Eleanor Percy Lee, who appeared
before the public as 1.-TWO Sisters of the
West" Mrs. Lee died soon afterward,
and Mrs. Warfeld's subsequent literary
career was confined exclusively to prose
fiction. She died in 1877, leaving her
niece. Mrs. Dorsey, to act as her literary
executor, with, as is supposed, large
mass of unpublished manuscript in her
hands,
Miss Ellis in her youth enjoyed in
Natchez the advantages of what was re-
puted to be the most cultivated and pol
ished society then existing in the South
west. She married when about twenty
five years of age Samuel Dorsey, a lawyer
and planter of Tensas parish, La, which
was her home until the death of her
husband in 1875, when she removed to
Beauvoir, q seaside residence in the ex-
treme southern part of Mississippi.
Having no children, and her husband
possessing an independent fortune, Mrs.
Dorsey had exceptional facilities for the
enjoyment of literature, society and travel,
in all of which she delighted. She be-
came known to the public as the author
of agnes Graham "Athalie,'' "Lucia
"Panola." OF these novels the best known
and probably the best, lis "Agnes Graham"
believed to be founded upon remarkable
and romantic incidents in the personal
and fanny history of the author. She
published also, in 1867, "Recollections of
Henry W. Allen" late Governor of
Louisiana, ard is the author of several
essays on philosophical and scientific
Subjects especially on the Oriental
systems of religion and morals, in which
she took lively interest, having,
among oIHer accomplIsnmenCS, acquired
some knowledge of Sanscrit literature.
She was Greek and Latin scholar, and
read and conversed in several modern
languages.
Mrs. Dorsey was well known in literary
society, both in Europe and America.
She was on terms of personal friendship
with Carlyle, Herbert Spencer, Dean
Stanley, the Rosettis and others, and had
correspondents in Rome, Dresden and
Calcutta, as well as New York and Lon
don. She kept, up to the close of her life,
the exercise of an elegant and refined
hospitality, and hers was one of the few
southern homes in which, since the war,
anything approximating the style of en-
tertainment of the olden time could be
maintained.-M Y. World.
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The French Academy of Sciences has
elected Professor Huxley corresponding
zoology in the place of the Russian nat
uralist, Baer.
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Latest Medical Endorsements.

MARTINEZ, CAL, Feb. II, 1879.
W. j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 72o Market street, S. F.-Dear Sir:
In regard to your Cal. Elastic Truss, would say
that have carefully studied its mechanism, ap
piled it in practice, and do not hesitate to say
that for all purposes for which Trusses are worn
it is the best Truss ever offered to the public.
Yours truly. j. II. CARoTHERs, M. D.
EndOrAed BY q Prominent Medical Insti
SAN Francisco, March 6, 1879.
". j. Horne, Esq.--Dear Sir. You ask my
opinion of the relative merits of your Patent
Elastic Truss, as compared with other kinds that
have been tested under my observation, and in
reply frankly state, that from the time my at
tention was first called to their simple, though
highly mechanical and philosophical construction,
together with easy adjustibiity to persons of all
ages, forms and sizes. add this further testi-
monial with special pleasure, that the several
persons who have applied to me for aid in their
cases of rupture, and whom have advised to try
yours, all acknowledge their entire satisfaction,
and consider themselves highly favored by the
possession of your improved Elastic Truss
Yours truly, BARLOW j. SMITH, M. D.
Proprietor of the Hygienic Medical Institute,
635 California street, San Francisco
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R U P T U R E
CURED!

DAYTON, W. T. Feb. 10, 1879.
W j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 720 Market street, San Francisco-Dear
Sir: The Truss purchased of you one year ago
has proved a miracle to me. have been ruptur-
ed forty years, and wore dozens of different kinds
of Trusses, all of which ruined my health, as
they were very injurious to my back and spine.
Your valuable Truss is as easy as an old shoe and
is worth hundreds of dollars to me, as it affords
me 30 much pleasure. Lean and do advise all,
both ladies and gentlemen, afflicted, to buy and
wear your modern improved Elastic Truss imme-
diately. never expect to be cured. but am sat
isfied and happy with the comfort it gives me to
wear it. 1t was the best $40 ever invested in
my life. You can refer any one to me, and I will
be happy to answer any letters on its merits. I
remain, yours, respectfully.
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The Khedive has just succeeded in
making raise of 81, ,75O, 900, and has
temporarily abandoned his free-lunch
routes.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-15

Anna Dickinson is still recuperating at
Pittston, Pa.
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PACIFIC BRANCH,
No. 2IO Sansome St., S. z
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Love and Sympathy.

Man, with all his boosted
strength of mind, needs woman
ly love and sympathy. 1t is not
as a worker alone that he wants
wife. If this is all he needs,
hired help can do it cheaper
than a wife. If this is all, when
a young man calls to see a lady
send him into the pantry to
taste the bread and cake she
has made; then send him to in
spect the needlework and bed
making; or puta broom in the
young lady's hand and send
him to witness it's use. Such
things are important, and the
wise young man will quickly
look after them; but what the
true man wants with a wife is
her companionship, sympathy
and love. Heneeds a helper in
spirit-a true, faithful heart on
which his world tossed nature
can rest. Through storms and
sunshine, through conflict and
victory, through adverse and
favoring winds, man needs a wo-
mans love. His heart yearns
for If. A sisters or a mothers
love will hardly supply the need.
Yet many seek for nothing
further than success in house
work. Justly enough, half OF
these get nothing more; the
other half, surprised beyond
measure have gotten more than
they sought.
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Homo and Farm.

MEsoUIT LAND AND WHEAT.
MIR. c. c. Watterson, of Live
Oak, Bastrop county, who. some
time since, called attention
through the Statesman to the
fact that the mesquit lands of
Texas offer the best of soil for
the production of wheat, sus-
tains his assertion, as follows:
I"All things have families, or
species, as the horse, the cow
and the hog. So has grain
oats, rye, corn, cotton and
wheat. The horse has beer i'm
proved to the racer, the saddle
and draught horse; the COW to
the valuable Durham and Dew
on, ETC.; the aboriginal hog to
the beautiful porker; and we
read that the peach, the most
delicious of ali fruits, was orig
inally a poisonous fruit. We
do not know when or how wheat
was produced, but we do know
that it is a grain plant, with
straw and blades, and the grain
composed of starch, gluten and
the germ. The mesquit grass
has the same straw, blades,
stems, boards, seed, starch, glu-
ten and germ; in a word, all
that the wheat has. Mesquit
grass is composed OF the same
chemicals that wheat is. The
same soils that make one will
produce the other, and for these
reasons advocate wheat Gull
ture in Southwestern Texas.
Aside from this wheat improves
land; the straw is good cattle
feed, the bran is good COW, hog
or horse feed, and -four is very
passabie food for man. Com
mercially flour has been impor-.
ted to a county whence it should
be exported. Cotton is low
the merchants and brokers have
"cornered" on it till cotton has
"cornered" them. The North
and West had a market for their
flour and pork, till they revers-
ed the production by the war,
and now the South should be
self-sustaining, which she soon
will be, if we will diversity our
crops and plant more wheat"
AaStiu Statesman.
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Things worth Knowing.

That fish may be scaled much
easier by first dipping into boil
ing water about minute.
That milk which has turned
or changed may be sweetned or
rendered fit for use again by
string in a little soda.
That salt will curdle new
milk; hence in preparing milk
porridge, gravies. ETC.. the salt
should not be added until the
dish is prepared.
That fresh meat beginning to
sour will sweeten if placed out
of doors in the cool air over
night.
That clear boiling water will
remove tea stains and many
fruit stains. Pour the water
through the stain, and thus pre-
vent it spreading over the fabric.
That a. tablespoonful of tur-
pentine boiled with your white
clothes will greatly aid the
whitening process.
That boiling starch is much
improved by the addition of
sperm, or salt, or both, or lit
tie gum arabic dissolved.
That beeswax and salt will
make your rusty hat-irons as
clean and smooth as glass. Tie
lump of wax in a rag and keep
it for the purpose. When the
irons are hot, rub them first
with the wax rag, then scour
with a paper or cloth sprinkled
with salt.
That blue ointment and kero-
sine mixed in equal proportion,
and applied to bedsteads, is an
unfailing bug remedy, and that
a coat of whitewash is ditto for
the walls of log house.
That kerosine will soften boots
or shoes which have been har-
dened by water, and will render
them pliable as new.
That kerosene will make your
teakettle as bright as new. Sat
urate a wcolen rag and rub with
1t. 1t will also remove stains
from and clean vanished furni-
ture.
That cold rain water and soap
will be remove machine grease
from washing fabrics.
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Notice in Probate.
THE STATE OF TEXAS,

THE STATE OF TEXAS.
To the Sheriff or any Constable of Wash
ington county, Greeting: s
You are hereby commanded to cause to
be published, at least once week for four
weeks successfully in the Brennan Ban
ner, a newspaper regularly printed in the
county OF Washington, the following notice:
The STATE OF TExAs-To all persons
interested in the welfare of Thos. X. Hox-
ey and Bessie Bell Hoxey, minors; Thos.
c. Clay, guardian of said minors has filed
in the County Court of Washington Coun-
ty, an application to sell 500 acres of land
out of the Pedro Zarza survey in William
son county, part of survey No. ID, belong
ing to ThoS. K. Hoyey, and FIVE hundred
acres out of survey No. Is. also part of the
Pedro Zarza survey in Williamson county
belonging to Bessie B. Hoxey, which will
be heard at the next term of the County
Court of said County, commencing on the
third Monday in January, 1870, at the court
house thereof, in the city of BRENNAN, at
which time all persons interested in said
minors welfare, may appear and contest
said application, if they see proper.
Herein fail not, under penalty of the law,
and of this writ make due return. Issued
the 10th day of December, 1873.
Witness, H. NJ. Lewis, Clerk of said Court
and the seal thereof at Office, in the city
OF BRENNAN, the goth day of December.
1873. mn
HIM. LEWIS,
c. c. C. w. Co.
l hereby certify that the above and fore
going is true and correct copy OF the
original citation nowin my hands.
!. H. HUTCHINSON,
dec2I-4t Sheriff.
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Social Culture.

It has been the fashion to
complain Of the dreary isolation
of dwellers in rural localities.
But the complaints have been
made most frequently by those
who are entire strangers to the
matters upon which they write
SO freely. Country folks are in
general SO fully occupied with
affairs that they have no time to
discover how lonesome they
really are. So far as this is CON
cerned, we think it a misfortune.
We are too busy. We work
too hard. We take few or no
holidays. We read and think
too little, and do not spend suf-
hcient time in social culture.
There is no reason why those
who pillow the soil, or "wl,ose
talk is of bullocks," should not
experience the refnements
which are the result of formal
social life. In business, at bar
gains, in pursuit of dollars, no
man is seen at his best. He is
thorny, spiny, with his back up
as a porcupine might be at his
business. Let one offhis work
ing clothes and enter a room
full of his neighbors-men, wo-
men, young men and maidens-
and he is a man of another kind.
He naturally falls into the ways
of an intuitive kindness, which
is really the truest politeness;
the doing of his companion
what he would that he should
do to him. He "lets himself
out" to please, and, after an
evening spent in social converse,
he retires with many rough con-
ners and asperities toned down.
For a few days the influence re-
mains. 1t would be permanent
if could be reinforced now and
then, and the good results
would be most agreeable and
useful. There is no difficulty
in bringing these good infuen-
ces to bear. Two or three per-
sons, with energy and some
magnetism about them, can put
them in motion with ease. Now
is the time to begin the effort.
A book club is one excellent
means to effect it. A mutual
Improvement. association is an
other. They are quite enough
for beginning. Let a dozen
persons, or less or more, each
name a book or magazine and
subscribe the money to pur-
chase them. Each of these
books is made to go the rounds
ofthe members; SO that for the
price of one book each member
has the reading ofseveral, and, at
the end, may possess this book
permanently; or, the books
may be sold and the money ap-
piled to the purchase of new
ones.
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Autumn Leaves.

Press the leaves carefully be-
tween newspapers, taking care
to avoid tapping one over an
other. The next day take out
the leaves and dry the papers.
Put the leaves again in press,
and the next day repeat the
drying process. This should
be done three or four times, I'M
til all the moisture is extracted
from the leaves. This is trou-
blesome, but the result will be
brilliant. If the face of each
leaf, after the first pressing, is
brushed over with sulphuric
acid diluted one-half with water
the color will be still brighter.
Do not wax or varnish your
leaves, as it gives them an I'M
natural gloss. They can be
made into sprays or garlands by
means of the fine wire, which
florists use, twisted around their
stems.
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N office in Probate.

THE STATE OF TEXAS.
To the sheriff, or any constable of Wash
ington county. greeting:
Yon are hereby commanded to cause Il
be published for at least twenty days, ir
the BRENNAN Banner, a newspaper regular.
| ly printed in Washington county, the fol.
lowing notice:
THE STATE OF TExAs.-To all persons
interested in the Estate of H. NJ. Hood
deceased; Jacob Matthews, administrator
de bonus non Of said estate, has filed in
the County Court of Washington County,
his final account with and an application
for discharge from the administration of
the estate of II. NJ. Hood deceased, which
will be heard at the next term of the
County Court of said County, commenc-
ing on the
Third Monday in january, 1879,
on the expiration of twenty days from to-
wit, Jan. I'D, 1870, at the Court House
thereof, in the city of BRENNAN, at which
time all persons interested in said Estate,
may appear and contest said application,
ii they see proper.
Herein fail not, under penalty of law,
and Of this writ make due return. Issued
the 2nd day of january. 1879.
Witness II. NJ. Lewis, Clerk of said
Court. and the seal thereof, at Office, in the
city Of Brenham, the Ist day of JAM. 70.
II. NJ. LEWIS, c. c. c. W. Co.
/ hereby certify that the above and fore
going is a true and correct copy of the
original Citation, now in my hands.
J. H. HUTCHINSON, Sheriff.
Ian got
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For Sale.
a 90 Acre Farm

ONE MILE EAST OF BRENNAN,
good improvements, consisting of resi-
tlence with four rooms, hall, gallery, kitch-
en- and servants room, fine cistern and
plenty of stock water convenient, wood
sufficient for family purposes. Will be
sold at a bargain to'an early applicant
For further particulars, apply at the Ban
ner office.
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CoMPLEXIoNs OF GERMANS
MIR. Virchow, president of An
thropological Society of Berlin,
gave. at a recent meeting of the
society, the result of his re-
searches regarding blondes and
brunettes in Germany. The first
he found in majority in the
Northern section and the latter
in the southern. Blue eyes
predominant in the North and
brown eyes at the South. He
reported that in Alsace children
were sometimes born with green
hair, but that the color disap-
peared several months after
birth.
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Impossible Things.

1. To escape troubles by run
ming away from duty. Jonah
once made the experiment, but
it did not succeed. Therefore,
manfully meet and overcome
the difficulties and trials to
which the post assigned you by
Gods providence exposes you.
?. To become a christian Of
strength and maturity without
undergoing severe trials. What
fire is to gold, such is affection
to the believer. 1t burns mp
the dross, and makes the gold
shine forth with rnalloyed lus-
tire.
8. To form an independent
character, except when thrown
upon ones own resources. The
oak in the middle of the forest,
if surrounded on all sides by
trees that shelter and shade it,
runs up tall and comparatively
feeble; cut away its protectors,
and the first blast will overturn
it. But the same tree, growing,
in the open field, where it
continually beaten upon by
tempest, becomes its own
tector. So she man W
compelled to rely on ms
resources forms an indepseoe
ence of character to which ne
could not otherwise have at
tanned.
a. To be a growing man by
looking to your position in So
ciety influence, instead ofbring-
ing influence to your position.
Therefore, prefer rather to climb
up the hill Difficulty, than be
steamed up by power outside
YOURSELF
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Be merciful of your judgment
Of one another. DO not en-
cetlrage in yourself the habit of
eriticising and commenting up
Apn tie follies and faults by any
Smber Of yoar own family.
Wes nothing gained by it,
a great deal is lost Love
is often choked back and
4fed IN IFS growth by the
sturdiness of weeds which
ag up against It. unchecked,
puses where people say all
ncrof ungeEtle speeches to
other.
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All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings
are under the personal supervision and
management of GEMS. G. T BEAURE-
GARD and JUBAL A. EARLY.
Capital Prize 100000 Whole Tickets, $40.
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The Volumes of the Bazaar begin with
the first Number for January of each year.
When no time is mentioned, it will be I'M
derstood that the subscriber wishes to CON-
mence with the Number next after the re-
ceipt of his order. i--'' &C.,
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ESTABLISHED 1850.
Il osedale Nurseries,

coated II miles East Of Brenham on
the Washington County Railroad
Fall descriptive Catalogues sent o
any address uToh application.
The Gardens, Grounds and who'll.
Nursery Stock, are free FOR inspections
at all times to the public, without their
being expected to purchase anything ii
they DO not wish TO.
will have many new fruits and or
namental tress for sale next fall, and
will be pleased to show them to visitors
while they are growing.
WIZ. WATSON, Proprietor.
Breuham. Nav 23.dv. 1871
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