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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-09-10
Clover as a Fertilizer

Waldo, in the Ohio Former says: cut J!
crop of clover hay last season, and turned
under the second growth some six weeks
before sowing the wheat. The result is Al
splendid crop of wheat, heavier than on
adjoining land in the same field that was
heavily manured. Here is an additional
proof of the great value Ofclover. l have
81 acres of wheat on this farm, which was
so run down three years ago that it Was
not supposed capable of producing pay
ing crop One-half of this field manur-
ed with stable manure at lost of not
less than 500; the other half had the
one crop of clover turned under, and the
wheat is much heaviest on the clovered
land-the lO3 acres manured giving 247
thocks, against 3i3 on the clovered half of
the field. / estimated the average per
acre on the 21 acres at 20 bushels per acre,
but if it should thresh to the shock as
well as my wheat did last year, the aver.
age would be above 2S bushels. AS long
as clover will give such results as this on
my land / shall sing its praises loudly.
We drilled $3 worth of bone meal to the
acre on two-acre strip through the mid
die of the wheat sown on the clover land,
and there was no difficulty in telling us
you drove round the field with the reaper
when you came into the strip thus furtil-
lied.
Ibis is the fourth year have grown
the Fultz wheat, and it shows no sign of
deterioration. 1t has produced more un ;.
form crops and given better satisfaction
than any wheat ever grew. 1t stands up
better. produces more grain to the straw,
and is less liable to loss or damage. l am
glad to be able to give this testimony, for
it has been reported that it could not be
successfully grown year after year on the
same farm
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How to be WeatherwIse.

John III. Tice, the weather prophet of
st. Louis. gives the following directions
to those who aspire to be weatherwise:
As everybody is interested in the
weather so each one should qualify him
self or herself to read the sky, and to in
terpret the meaning of the winds, sky
and clouds.
An intensely blue and serene sky in
dicates heavy rains and severe storms in
from twelve to forty-eight hours. A
gray, hazy sky indicates continuous
dry and generally hot weather.
A southeast wind indicates the exist
ence of low barometer, if not q storm
center in the northwest. The aspects of
the sky and clouds will tell whether it
means mischief or not. An almost inn
mediate cessation of rain may be ex-
pected as soon as the northwest wind sets
in. It matters not what the aspects of
the sky are when the west wind sets in,
fair weather will ensue it, and continue
from three to four days. The passage of
storm center from the gulf and south
ward of our locality is partial excep-
tion only SO far that it clears off more
tardily.
There are really but two primary
kinds of clouds, namely (1) those that
iAono No q grow AoAS5uU 0OOVC tAAO CfhA oAA g
surface, and (2) those that float low.
Those that float high, say from six to
to nine miles, are of fibrous and gauzy
structure; they are hence called cirrrs,
that is hair or tuft clouds. The clouG7
that form in the lower strata of the atl
mosphere, say from one to three miles
! above the earth, are irregular in struc:
/! ture, and of more or less nodular form
They are called the cumulus, that is The
! heap or pile cloud.
While the cirrus remains nebular il
! structure and indistinctly defined
against the sky no rain need be expected
Under the low barometer, however, they
develop by accretion, become smooth
and compact in structure and much er,
1arged in volume. They now sinl
| lower and become sharply defined agains
the blue sky. Rain may now be expected
especially if they unite with the cumu
! lus forming the nlmbus or rain cloud. I
the cirrus, instead of forming the MIN
bus, reascends, it dissipates, and no rair
need be expected until it lowers again
which generally is in twenty-foul
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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-09-10
A Story for the Boys.

Come, boys. will tell you story.
How your eyes dance! You love to hear
me talk. You are good boys. Well, I
will tell you about George and James.
They both wanted an apple. So James
got up one dark night. He left his nice,
warm bed. He went to Farmer Jones'
orchard. He stole his apples. James
was very bad boy. [ see by your
bright faces that you think SO, too.
James did not fall and break his neck
when he slid down the spout; great
stone did not fall on him when he
climbed Farmer Jones' wall; Farmer
Jones' great dog did not seize James in
his cruel jaws and hold him till the far
mer came out; and the farmer did not
come out and talk to James of the sin OF
stealing apples while the dog chewed
James leg and then horsewhip him after
ward; and the apples did not make
James sick, and he did not pine
away on sick bed, and he was
not laid away in the cold ground
the next Sunday; and he did not give
the minister chance to preach on the
sin of stealing apples. No; James was
a bad boy. He slid down the spout
hands; he jumped over old Jones' wall
THAT was the way the bad boys spoke OF
the good man), and when the dog came
he rocked him into the stable. He filed
himself full of apples; he filled his
pockets and his hat, also. Then he went
home and slept like log. The good
George would not do such thing. Oh,
no; he asked his papa for some apples,
and his dear papa bought him a cents
worth of worm-y ones; the good George
only eat one. That night he dreamt he
was acrook-neek squash; he thought the
circus procession, with all the ele-
plants, was walking over his ab-do-
men. He lay in bed one week, and read
nice little books about nice little boys
who never could have lived, and little
girls that nobody wants to see. The
moral of this story, boys, is this: Once
in a great while bad boy has an un-ac-
count-a-ble run of good luck, and good
boy vi ce versa. a.-Bostom Transcript.
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The SALMON POWER OF JUMPING
Frank Buckland, one of the British Sal
mon Fishing Inspectors, has prepared a
report, which, says London journalist,
contains much practical information on
'ssalmon farming" which will be found
extremely valuable to all engaged in the
cultivation and restoration of salmon
waters. Taking us through the anatomy
of the salmon, Mr.. Buckland talks pleas
antly and at some length on the wonder
full arrangements of structure of this in
teresting and valuable fish. We are told,
for instance, how the beautifully con-
trived spine gives the salmon the elastic
ity, strength and power of jumping,
which, combined with his s1fan-shaped"
and strongly constructed tail, enables
him to rush up rapids and turbulent
waters in which no other fish could hold
its own; and how the eye is arranged and
fitted into the skull, giving the fish great
good stead when wandering to and
fro in the salt water as well
as in the fresh water. His
sense of smell, too, appears largely de-
veloped, and forms another important
element in the organization of the
salmon. When in the sea, and in
travelling humor," he smells about till
he scents the waters of his own river.
This guides him in the right direction,
and he has only to follow up the scent to
get into fresh water. From babyhood up
salmon appear to have an intuitive fear
and dread of nets. This Mr.. Buckland
proved by experiments with artifcially-
reared fish at his museum at South Ken
sington, where the first sight of a net
created a terrible scare among the fish in
the troughs. The salmon is, moreover,
capricious fish, not only in regard to
taking flies, but also in respect to nets.
At times, when stake and bag nets have
been fishing, they have been known to
avoid altogether some particular nets,
while others in close proximity have
made large captures
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-09-10

Hans Growyost, worthy German
farmer, who had been lifelong resi-.
dent of Berks county, has shrewish
wife, who has long rendered his life any
thing but bed of roses. One day, not
long ago, she, in fit of pique, picked
up her duds and left him, vowing never
to come back. The news went round
among the neighbors-you know how in
telligence of all kinds does travel in the
country, and at night several of them, Of
whom was one, went to condole with
Hans. He sat on his front stoop putting
away at his pipe. Hans" I remarked,
II pity you" '.My boy" replied the
honest Dutchman, disturbedly knocking
the ashes out of his pipe, 'syou vas right.
She has shust come backi'- Chester
Penn. Democrat.
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Bodies Tor Dissection.

In a free talk with reporter of the
Le,1iston Me- Journal, prominent
physician and surgeon said: esThe law OF
the State provides that each medical
student before he receives his degree of
NJ D., shall dissect Another law of the
State pro .ides shat the body of no person
shall be given up for dissection unless it
be the body of criminal, who has suf-
fered Death by hanging; aad in that
case, even if desire is expressed by the
condemned man or his friends, that his
body be buried, his body cannot be
claimed for the dissecting table. The
last straw the Legislature piled on was
when it abolished capital punishment,
and made it absolutely impossible for us
to get bodies for disse, Ion in legal
way. The laws, as they now stand, en-
courage body-snatching No man can
geon until he has dissected, and the laws
absolutely prohibit our getting bodies in
legal way. We can't legally bring
bodies into the State from other States,
as their laws prohibit it. OF course, we
mast have bodies. We must rely on
the generosity of friends in New
York who will send us bodies, and run
the risk of getting caught and paying
the penalty of the law. can't tell how
many bodies are used in Maine for dis
section in the course of year. The
Bowdoin school probably uses twenty
five bodies year; the Portland school
ought to use about ten bodies; two years
ago, when our Lewiston school was IN
operation we used ten bodies year.
Then many physicians, who have good
deal of practice, use one or two bodies
year. We've got to have bodies. When
physician comes upon rare disease,
he's obliged to post himself on dead
body in order to save live one. The
price of body depends upon where you
buy it. To get body here costs US
about $35. You buy them in New York
for IS apiece. The Maine Medical Asso-
citation is taking steps in the matter and
trying to make a way to secure bodies
illegally. Again, people don't consider
| the risks their doctors run in fitting
themselves for work. Every man who
works over bodies runs the risk of being
| poisoned from the decaying aesh. DR..
Garcelon once came near death from this
cause. was once sick six weeks from
being poisoned from body, and an
Auburn physician has suffered in the
same way. Bowdoin College has paid
the price of three of its professors to the
cause of medical science. No less than
that number have died from poisonous
exhalations from corpses upon the opera
ting table. would rather have old bod
les than new ones. Bodies two or three
| weeks old are best for dissection"
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The ssBig Farm scare.''

A great deal has been said about the
multiplication of big farms IN this coun-
try, and doleful predictions have been
uttered by those protesting to believe
that the United States, are destined to-
repeat the experience Of England and
Ireland in the monopoly of the land by q
few. That there is no real danger of
such an issue is clearly shown by the
following statistics, which the Tribune
complies from the several census reports:
In 1850 the average size of farms in
the United States was 203 acres; in ten
more years the average was four acres
less, and at the last census a further
reduction of AZ acres appeared, and
farms averaged only one hundred and
fifty acres The decline between 1860 and
1870 was so general that the only excep-
tions in all the States and Territories
were an increase in California from 466
to 482 acres, from 81 to 233 in Massa-
chusetts, and from 25 to 30 in Utah.
Prior to 1850 land monopoly had some
claim to existence in California, in ten
years the average size of farms was
diminished by reduction of just 1000
acres In Texas the reduction was in the
first decade from 942 to 591 acres, and in
the second to 301 acres. The next
census is expected to show further
decline. Minnesota had 157 farms in
1850, 18, ,1S1 in 1860. 46, 500 in 1870, and
now claims more than 68 500, and her
farmers are not much frightened in view
of the competition of half dozen s.mon-
ster" wheat farms. There were 1854
farms of more than 1000 acres each in
1860; in 1879 there were only 3720. In
the same period the number from 500 to
1000 acres declined from &c, ,319 to 10,
S73, while all the classes of smaller
farms increased, the ratio of increase
getting larger as the scale Of size de-
scended.
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A REMARKABLE CURE.

DAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 70, 1879.
w j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss, 702 Market street, San Francsco-Sir:
am truly grateful to you for the wonderful CURE
your valuable truss has effected on my little boy.
The double truss purchased from you has PER-
FECTLY CURED him of his painful rupture on
both sides in a little over six months. The steel
truss he had before bought yours caused him
cruel torture, and it was happy day for all
when he laid it aside far the CALIFoRs1A Elias
TIC TRUSS. | ain sure that all will be thankful
who are providentially led to give your truss
trial. You may refer any one to me on this suo-
ject. Yours truly, VIM. PERU,
63S Sacramento Street.
This is to certify that I have examined the son
of VIM. Peru, and find him PERFECTLY
CURED of hernia on both sides.
L. DEXTER LYFORD, NJ. D.,
Surgeon and Physician.
11usses oraoarded to alt parts of the United States
at our expense on receipt Of the price.
Send Stamps for illustrated Catalogue and
Price List.
Giving full information and rules for measuring
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Peasant Life in Bengal.

The daily life of the family is series
of pictures of Arcadian simplicity. At
day break, when the crows begin to cav,
the whole household is astir The two
elder brothers are off to the fields, while
Gayaram is seeing after the COWS. The
women are busy in the huts and court
yard. Sometimes the men come home
to their midday meal, and sometimes it
is carried to them in the fields. At sun
set the labors of the day are brought to
close. A mat is spread in the court
yard, and the men sit down cross-legged
and smoke their hubble-bubbles; and at
such times it is the Joy of Badan's life to
listen to the childish prattle of his little
daughter Malati. Occasionally the BROTH
ers pay visits to their neighbors, or
neighbors drop in and join in the
smoking. The conversation is nearly
always tine same-the weather, the bull
locks, the crops and the COWS; the plow-
ing, harvesting, sowing or irrigating.
But money is ever the burden of the
talk; rupees, annas and pice; the zemin-
dar's rent; the interest paid to the money
lender; the cost, loss, or profit of every
transaction connected with the farm
or household. The whole family
is religious; indeed all Hindus are
religious. They may be everything that
is good or bad, bet they are never
wanting in fear of the gods. They are
constantly uttering the sacred names and
they offer portion of every meal to the
gods of the earth, water and sky. They
see deity in everything that exists, and
omens of good or evil in everything that
moves. If they meet COW or we'd
ding, they rejoice over their good for
tune; if they see widow or funeral,
they are downhearted at their ill-luck.
They engage in no business, or journey,
or transaction of any sort or kind, with
out prayer to the goddess Lakshimi or
an invocation to the elephant headed
Ganesha. Every family or group of
families has it's own Purohita, or domes-
tic Brahmin, who performs endless
ceremonies of propitiation, consecration,
or purifcation at births, deaths, mar
riages, fasts festivals, religious cele-
brations, and family incidents of every
kind. In return, the Purohita receives
all the offerings of rice, fruits, and vege-
tables that are made to the gods, with
occasional presents of like character.
Every year tI3 Guru, or religious teacher
of the sect or district, makes his appear
ance to receive shilling fee from every
household, and to confirm younger
noophytes by whispering into their ears
the name of the god that each one is to
worship as his own individual deity.
This name is known as the s'seed prayer,
and is to be uttered by the worshiper
10S times every day until the end of his
earthly career.-MacmiLla7a's Magazine.
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AApTO Sc, 900 year, or SIS to $50 a day in
e. ssa j. ssfy ss !. mem s' IL. Sssy MAKE s
Wv more than the amount stated above.
No one can fail to make money fast Any one
can do the work. You can make from $50 cts to
So an hour by devoting your evenings aud spare
time to the business. It cost nothing t, try the
business. Nothing like it for money making
ever offered before business pleasant and strict
" honorable. Reader, if you want 70 know all
about the best paying business before the public.
send US your address and we will send you full
particulars and private terms free samples worth
IS also free; you can then make up your mind
for yourself. Address GEORGE STlNsoN &
CO., Portland. Maine. l6:3lyI.
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What Boys Should Be.

FirstrBe true, be genuine. No edu-
cation is worth anything that does not
! include this. A man had better not
know how to read, never learn a letter of
the alphabet, and be true and genuine
In intention and action, rather than be-
ing learned in all science and in all Ian
guages to be at the same time false in
heart and counterfeit in life.
Second-Be pure in thought and lam
guage-pure in mind and body. An
impure mind. young or old, poisoning
stories and impure examples, is moral
ulcer, a plague spot, q leper who ought
to be treated as were the lepers of old,
who were to cry "Uncleanr' as warning
to save others from the pestilence.
Third-Be unselfish. To care for the
feelings and comforts of others. To be
polite. To be just in all dealings with
others. To be generous, noble and
manly. This will include genuine
reverence for the aged and things
sacred.
Fourth BE self-reliant and self
helpful, even from early childhood. To
be Industrious always, and self-support-
ing at the earliest proper age. All
honest work is honorable, and an idle,
useless life of dependence on others is
disgracefnl.
When boy has learned these four
things, when he has made these ideas
part of his being, however young he may
be, however poor, however rich, he has
learned some of the most important
things he ought to know when he be-
comes man. With these four properly
mastered, it will be easy to find out the
rest-HOnse Arts.
RUsKIN's OPINION Books being
"up' just now, / hear that the great
Mr. Ruskin has been wedding out
his library, and some Of his works
have brought absurdly high prices
at a recent auction, not for the rarity
and excellence Of the books, but be.
cause they belonged to Ruskin; such
is the folly of the age. But, as
usual, tho money went into the
pocket of the hook dealer, and by
very cunning little device. Mr..
Ruskin was asked if he wouldn't just
write line on the fy-leaf of the re-
jected volumes with his initials. So,
in his innocent and frank way, he
wrote on his s.Demothsenes' Ora
tions":: "Old school trash; never
read a line of it. J. r. And on his
Pliny": "Poor stuff not worth the
paper it is printed on, and so on.
These books, with their quaint com
ments, sold for twenty times their
real value. London Truth.
The British museum has purchased
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agp4r'
Frenn 8 Merchant.

DAYTON, w. T., Feb 10, 1879.
W. j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 702 Market street, San Francisco-Sir:
The Truss purchased of you about one year ago
has proved a miracle to me. Ihave been ruptured
forty years, and worn dozens Of different kinds Of
Trusses, all of which haye ruined my health,
as they were injurious to nay 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 so much pleasure. 1 can and do advise all,
both ladies and gentlemen, afflicted, to buy and
wear your modern improved Elastic Truss mme-.
diately. meyer 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 l will
be glad to answer any letters on its merits.
Iremain, yours respectfully,
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Expensive People.

Expensive people are very often not
essentially extravagant, being perfectly
capable of economy, and even of parsi-
mony, after certsin limit, fixed in
their own minds, hs been reached or
passed. They will not live, so to speak,
upon. thousand year; but if they
have two thousand. they are capable of
standard of needful expenditures being
fifteen hundred. Men of this kind are
ruined every year in heaps, and their
friends denounce their extravaganza;
but they are not so much extravagant as
enable 10 practice self-deniai before an
ideal standard of comfort or freedom ex-
listing in their own minds has been
reached. They are not SO much weak
or incapable, as dominated by an ideal.
Whst is the cure? There is none, ex-
cept the habit of self-control, the want
of which is in this matter very often
not detected until it is too late. The boy
is seen to throw sway his money; but
that is set down to foolishness, not alb
normal wilfulness. In the man there is
no cure except TIE strong constraint of
circumstance, and to that the spend
thrift should be eft, as to the only beEe-
factor who can do real good. A weeks
hunger may be a cure; but nothing
short of that kind of pressure is of any
use, and even saas very often fails. We
doubt if hunger would have taught
Leigh Hunt, as described by his friends,
not by Charles Dickens, to keep his
money. 1t is in most of us, we fear, this
spendthrfft habit, but most of us keep
within bounds.
"Would you mind standing here till I
go in and get cigar?. he asked. "Of
course not, she replied; but don't you
fr,E hot 10 ,c.x
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The British museum has purchased
collection of Babylonian inscribed
cuneiform terra Gotta tablets. Amongst
them are additions to the legend of the
creation.
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Latest Medical Endorsements.

MARTINEZ, CAL, Feb. II, 1879
w. j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 702 Market street, S. F.-Sir: In re-
gard to yedr California 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 tor which Trusses are worn it is
the best Truss ever offered to the public.
Yours truly, j. H. CAROTHERS, M. D.
Endorsed by a Prominent Medical Insti-
tute.
SAN FRANcTsco, March 6, 1879.
w. j. Horne. Esg.-Sir You ask my opinion
of the relative merits of your Patent Elastic Truss
as compared with Other kinds that have been
ested under my observation, and in reply frank
ly state that from the time my attention first
called to their simple, though highly me
chanical and philosophical construction, together
with easy adjust bility to persons of all sizes,
ages and FORMS / add this testimony with spe-
cial pleasure, that the several persons who have
applied to for aid in their especial cases Of rup
ture, and whom have advised to use yours, all
acknowledge their entire satisfaction, and consid-
ef themselves highly favored by the possession
of one of the improved Elastic Truss.
Yours truly, BARLOW J. SMITH, M. D.
Proprietor Hygenic Medical Institute,