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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-28
MARRIAGE IN the FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

How were young ladies dealt with
and how were marriages managed in
the fifteenth century? Ifthis genera
ton of young ladies have any notion
of it, they will rejoice that they We're
not born to be married 400 years ago.
They know very well that if they
have attended to their duty, and
trained up their parents in the way
they should go, they may choose for
themselves, with or without discrimi-
nation as the case may be. Neither
they nor their parents may have taken
the view which recolect to have
heard from Mr.. Rogers that it does
not much signify whom one marries,
as one is sure to find next morning
it was somebody else; but tt ough
they may not be prepared to 60 quite
this length, yet, from one cause and
another, the young, in their Wiling
ness and strength, will not seldom
act; and the old, in their impotency.
concede, in such sort, that they might
seem not to stop far short of it. 1t
was otherwife in the last century.
Parental rigor in those days could
hold its own as firmly as the parish
stocks; and there was bnt one escape
the flight to Gretna Green, sane
tuary known now only to history.
The GOODNESS with which it was
sometimes resoited to may be exem-
pllfied by quotation (given to me
by a grandson Of the par,ies) from a
letter written not, however, to the
parents of the lady, (ior she was an
orphan) but to her guardians begin
ming thus:
"Gentlemen: Yoar unnatural be-
havior TO your ward, Miss -, in
duced her, however reluctantly to
take journey to Scotland, in which
she allowed me the ho.or of accom-
panying her.
The slackening restraint in this
century may have better results on
the whole than the unnatural be.
havior" of the last, hut it sometimes
leads TO impromptu arrangements by
young people which may seem not
to have been made with sufficient
sense of their seriousness. | have
known of Il proposal in this century
ny young gentleman to a still
younger lady who gave this ready
reply: "Oh, yes, let lis he married..
Il will be such awful fun" I trust
that her somea hat sudden and san
guine expectations were fulfilled. |
have no reason to think they were
not. But there is something to be
said for taking time on such occasions
and looking before and atter.-Nine-
teentll Century.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-28
BILL ARP'S VIEW OF. LIFE,

We had a good old-fashioned
country dance last night, and don't
feel any worse for it. We bad young
people and middle a.ed people and
old people, and those of us who didn't
trip it on the light fantastic toe, sat
on the broad piazza and talked and
looked on and enjoyed ourselves. all
the same as we did when the gush
and vigor of youth was upon us.
What a blessed thing it is that kind
nature takes away our desires for
frolic and gai-ty as We grow old
and begin to wear the sere and gel
low leaf. don't care to dance now
that the spring in my ex,r@mities is
gone and there's lead in my shoes,
and l don't lament that old age is
creeping on me, for have many new
pleasures, and one Of them is to look
on and see other people happy.
Enjoy your day, whether it be
youth or old age; enjoy every day,
make the most of it; get all out OF
life you can. 1t won't pay to be
always hankering after something,
and grieving over troubles that have
not oome, and may never come. I
know people who let the dark eide
of life cheat 'em out of every days
happiness. who ponder and fret over
little troubles unlIl they swell NJ like
dried apples, and get to he big ones,
and they can't eat or sleep in any
peace.
Life to them is grindstone, and
the grit of it is always cutting away
little by little, until there's nothing
left. Enjoy the day; get some good
out of it, even if it's nothing but
contentment for good health and
being out of Jail. An old gentleman
of three score years was here last
FIVE or SIX miles Just TO
see young people happy, and he was
az bright as a !uil moon. and it was /
a pleasure to see him and listen to
him discourse upon life and how to
farm, anu so on. He's seen trouble
enough, goodness knows, but he
never took it to heart or surrendered
his manhood.-Atlanla Constitution.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-28
WHATIF YOU DON'T LIKE IT?

The N. Y. Independent speaks
thus plainly to those who find fault
with the work of revising the New
Testament: srhe great mass of com
plants against the new Revision
reduce themselves to this; | don t
like il; 1t does not please me; it disa-
grees with my taste and opinions; the
old version conveyed p!easafiter or
a deeper sense; in TACT, don't like it.
Eut what if you don't like il? what
difference does tha. make? The
Bible was not written to please yon
but to instruct you. The business of
the revisers was not to bring out a
translation that shonld be accommo-
dated to your likings, but one that
shonld be accommodated to Gods
Greek text. If it suitably translates
the Greek text, their work is properly
done and that is an end Of it. 1t
may not suit You; but WY shou' d it?
Paul's beautiful hymn in praise OF
charity, as given in our old English
version, may seem to you much more
beautiful than Paul's Greek hymn in
praise oflove; but that question was
not before the revisers. Their busi-
ness was not to select the most beau
tiful ideas, but discover Paul's ideas
and put them into English.
There is just one question for yout
to ask, and that is not, Does the new
translation please my taste or my
theology? but, Is it correct? Does it
represent Gods word in the Greek?
The fact is that great part OF the
complaints against the Revision il Iii:
rected squarely against the Bible.
1t is will worship,a a pride and concpit
OF the will that prefers what we think
God ought to have written abovo
what he actually did write, that sits
in judgement On God and his reyeIa-
ton
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-28
NE REPRESENTED The GOVERNMENT.
Detroit Free Press.l

One Of the postoffice agents who
was making tri p through the north
ern part Of the lower peninsula this
summer came across a mail route
through the woods from one hamlet
to another, with weekly average of
two letters and one paper in the bags.
The carrier wore coon skin cap and
rode a pony about as fat as case
knife, and he took things SO easy
that the agent saw fit TO question
him a little: "My man. do you realize
that you represent the Uni'e ed
States?" wall, l kinder reckon -
''And you feel the responsibility, l
pre- sume?" Bet your goggles I dew. -
"You know You must brave all perils
TO get your mail safely through. "
"That thar hoss an me ar good fur
anything twice our size, reckon. .
eff attacked by robbers, what woald
you do?' "Bury emf Suppose you
were offered money to give up the
mail bag?" No danger O. that, mis-
ter; don't believe the hull country
could surape up fifty cents ''There
are awful fires in these woods some.
times" 'K'rect, I've seen bars
roasted alive when they wasn't with
in a mile of the fames." "Well,
now, If you were surrounded by a
fierce forest fire what would you do?"
"FIre all around?" eyes" "No
chance to burrow under or fiy- over?"
"No." "Wall, mister, it would be
kinder tuf,. but r6 remember that
represented the ernment. I'd
kill my hoss, eat the mail, and die
shouting, sWe have met the enemy,
and he is our'np'
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-28
STORE WHEAT IN YOUR GWN
GRENARIES.
SuEED, Oct. 10, 1881.

SHEED, Oct. 10, 1881.
Eaitor Willamette Farmer:
see 10y the farmer that wheat
growers in different parts of the State
are anxious 10 hold meetings to see
il they can't hold their wheat and
force spectators to pay them what
their wheat is worth. l can say TO
Mr.. Darneli, and all the rest of the
farmers that seem so anxious to hold
their wheat, that as long as they put
the wheat IN warehouses and mills,
they can not. hold. Whenever a
shipper in Portland wants wheat all
he has to do ls to call -On warehouse
men and say l want 50 much wheat
to load vessel, and he gets the
wheat whether it is bought or not.
Now let the farmers call on ware
housemen and notify them that if
they snip any more wheat before it
is bought, that we mi ght be forced to
do as we used to in California, when
we caught thieves robbing onr sluice
boxes, leave them dargling at the
end of a rope. And putting our
wheat in the mills is no better; the
millers grind the wheat as soon as it
is IN the mill and ship the -four to
Europe get the money and pay you
for your wheat: aud what they get
one dollar and quarter for they, often
having the use of the MONEY for
whole year, and pay seventy-five
cents. Now l think it would be
more honorable to rob a railroad
train or Wells Fargo than to rob the
farmers by taking their wheat before
it is bought. No wonder the farmers
hate portland we will give one-fourth
of our farms to have the Yaqrina
Bay improved and the railroad fin
ished to that place so we can avoid
Portland. Now, farmers look we'll
to the warehouses and see that no
more grain is shipped before 1t is
sold, aud all will be well; and next
year put yonr wheat in your own
barns and will insure you one
dollar a bushel.
A 4sER.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-28
GENE RAJ NEWS.

Improvements, in the shape of sidewalks
and crossings, are progressing in satisfac
tory manner, in different parts of Harris
burg.
One of the juries last week in the Circuit
Court at Salem who were unable to agree
upon a verdict, shook the case up in hat
and drew out verdict. A rather promis-
cuous way of deciding case,
A remarkable disease has appeared in
Platte county, Missouri, which is described
by some as black smallpox, and by others
as the original black scourge. Its victims
rot before death, and instances are given of
their bodies falling to pieces while being
prepared tor burial.
The attorneys of John G. Powers, who a
short time since was found guilty in the
State Circuit Court of murder i'll the first
degree, have filed motion in that court,
asking that the verdict be set aside and a
new trial granted. The State will answer
in few days by filing atfidavits counter to
those in the application, and the case will
probably be argued the first of next week.
Secretary Lincoln, of the war department
has issued an edict prohibiting the use OF
tobocco in any form by the students in the
military academy at West Point. All
honor to this noble son of martyred sire.
If he had the same authority over all the
young men of our land, and used it as well
the next generation would be far more in
telligent and healthy than it will BE-
Santa Cruz Transcript.
In the case Of B.llantyne, Chalmers &
Holmes vs. the Oregonian Railway Company,
limited, for dana 5es sustained by the latters
resembling a contract for building the bridge
piers at Rays landing, in the United States
District Court, last week, the jury returned
a verdic.. in favor of the plaintiffs for SIi,-
$40. The suit was for $4,000.
A change has been made in the Portland
reportorial corps by the appointment of
Mr. Eugene L, Thorpe as assistant local on
the Telegram and Mr.. Frank Blake to the
same position on the Oregonian. Both
gentlemen have had valuable journalistic
experience and will make desirable ad-
dition to the city news department of the
Portland press.
At last the terrible agony is over. 1t was
decided by the Erodelphian Society. at the
College last Friday afternoon, in hasty
contested debate, that the mind of woman
is inferior to that of man. This will be of
vital interest to Queen Victoria, Mrs. Duni-
way, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Belva Lockwood and others, most
of whom have been laboring. if not for the
supremacy, at least for the equality, of wo-
man. Albany Democrat.
The Walla Walla Union of Oct. 18th says:
The case of the Territory vs. Tonne Hap
towne, indictment for murder, was called
for trial Tuesday morning. Col. Hamilton
and Hon. Edward Whitson were appointed
by the court to defend the prisoner. Ten
jurors were excused for cause and six pre-
emptorily challenged The jury were
charged this Wednesday morning, and after
being out about an hour returned verdict
of guilty of murder in the first degree. The
prisoner was apparently unmoved by the
verdict The prisoner was one of the mur-
derers of the Perkins family. The day Of
the execution Of the murderer has not been
fixed
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-28
A 49ER.

Suit has been commenced in the United
States Court against Architect w. H.
Williams and Mr.. Fred Mathews by Cottier
b Co.. for an alleged Infringement upon
their patent system Of ventilation
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-28

Notices in Local Column not less than Is cents Tor
each notice. Exceeding this amount 10 cents per
line for each insertion
Transient and Legal Advertisements s2.eo per
square for first and 81 90 for each subsequent nser
ton No charge for affidavit of publication.
Transient advertisements to be paid in ADVANCE.
Professional or business cards & square) s12 per
annum,
No deviation in the above rates viii be made In
favor of any advertiser.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27
he keans.

Edmund Kean livedt to see the dawning
success of his gifted son. He had al.
ways acknowledged the genius his boy
possessed, but for years had had an IN
conquerable objection to his following
was a boy of II he ventured on a recita-
ton to his father, whose acting he had
often watched and of whom he had in
vain solicited instruction. Edmund
Kean listened to the boy, carried away
by his enthusiasm, INDUCED in theatrical
defamation, then interrupting him, said
coldly, "There, that will do; good night;
no more = acting, Charles p and as the
lad, crestfallen, left the room, his father
exclaimed passionately, "That boy will
be an actor if he tries, and if he should
I'll cut his throat" However, Kean
was given to strong expressions, and
meant less than he said. In time he
yielded to his sons strong desire to enter
the theatrical profession, and his last
performance of Othello, on the 25th of
March, 1888, was in company with the
younger Kean as Iago, and the lady who
was afterwards his sons wife as BESIDE
mona. Edmund Kean was now wreck,
SO feeble that when the play began he
could scarcely walk across the stage; as
the evening passed he remarked,
"Charles is getting on. suppose that
is because he is acting with me-" To-
wards the close of the third act his weak
ness became so great that he appealed
to his con. "Charles," he said, "keep
before me, 81 doubt whether I can
kneel, but if I do be sure to lift me up
Shortly afterwards he staggered into his
sons outstretched arms, and was re-
moved from The stage. 81 am dying, +"
he whispered as he was carried off; but
he fingered three weeks, and died at his
house at Richmond.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27
The TELEGRAPH and Herrinqs.

Even the dwellers in the sea feel the
influence Of this age of discovery and OF
progress. Surely such inofensive and
insignificant beings as behring's might
be supposed beyond the reach of cleo
tricity. Far from it Upwards of l 200
miles of telegraphic wiring span the
Norwegian coast, where behring's most
do congregate, and Geographic stations
are established on the various shores OF
the Lofodden Islands, and even in the
hollows between the precipitous cliffs
that form the Arctic face of Europe.
The sea birds scream, distracted by the
rapid flashing of intelligence as the
watchers of the herring shoals keep the
markets in Norway and Denmark in
formed of the probable supply; and
upon the information they receive hangs
the wealth or poverty of those providers
who will buy and ship them to meet the
needs of the inland Catholic countries
where fast days demand the sacrifice Of
many thousand unoffending behring's.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27

UNCLE SANS CONDITION POWDERS are recon-
mended by stock owners who have used them
as the best Horse and Cattle Medicine to be
had. If the animal is Scraggy, Spiritless or has
no appetite these Powders are an excellent rem
edy and every owner of stock will do well to try
them; they are prepared by the Emmert Pro-
prietary Co.. Chicago, H., very reliable firm,
and sold by all good druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27
The TALE OF A COMET.
BY c. P. CRANCH.

o red-tufted stranger
o starry-space ranger
Say Dow-is tn re danger
Approaching with thee?
Is there much Of a risk in
Thy train in its whisking;
Young stlr-dragon frisking
SO iocund and free +!
Say where, through the spaces
No star-gazer traces,
Thou has run thy long races
In deserts apart?
Though bearded and hairy,
Thou'rt light as fairy;
All gasey and airy
Some say that thou art.
Though old superstition
Once haunted our vision,
And death and perdition
We're shook from thy hair
We now, with reliance
On figures and science,
May look with defiance
On thee and thy glare.
To sin and to error
You were once sky-terror,
An awful great kero-
sine splendor afar.
But now since Leverrier,
We skye-terrier
Name you, a merrier
Sort of Dog-star.
You may frisk through creation
Aud court observation,
And the cannibal nation
With fear be appalled,;
You may drop from the summit
OF space like plummet,
But you cannot quite come-it
Though Comet you're called.
Perhaps, in your ermine
OF gas, you determine
To sweep off the vermin
That bother the times
A reformer-a new man
With purpose quite human,
Like the sky-sweeping woman
Of nursery rhymes.
Though daily and nightly
You are burning more brightly,
The earth will dodge lightly
The whack of your fail.
Like train on a car-track,
You'll speed on your far track,
And never your star-track
Repeat your bright tale.
The Partisan
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27
HAnNred and RleSf.

When a board of eminent physicians ana
chemists announced the discovery that by COM
bining some we'll known valuable remedies, the
most wonderful medicine was Produced which
would cure such a wide range of diseases that
many were skeptical; but proof of its merits by
actual trial has dispelled all doubt and to-day
the discoveries of that great medicine, Hop Bit
tiers, are honored and blessed by all as benefac-
tors - Democrat
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27

INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, nervous prostration
and all forms of general debility relieved by
taking MENsMAN,s PEPToNIzED BEEF Tonic, the
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. 1t contains blood-mak-
ing, force-g generating and DEMONSTRATING
properties; is invaluable in all enfeebled condi-
tons, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous
prostration overwork, or acute disease, par
tcularly if resulting from pulmonary COM
aplints, Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprietors,
New York,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27

SCOTTISH pipers and Bach's Band will
furnish the music on the occasion of the
Scottish games at Scblitz's park, Mil
waukee, on July 81. Forty-three money
prizes will be contested for. James Nor
gan, 1856 and 3SS E. Water St., Milwau-
kee, is now offering his $500, $3.50,
So. Is and 81. rs fine Grenadines at 81. IS,
$1.75, $1.75 and $1.25. He is offering
cheaper goods in the same proportion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27
A Fool Once More.

For ten years my wife was confined to her
bed with such complication of ailments that
no doctor could tell what was the matter Or
cure her, and used up small fortune in hum
bug stun. SIX months ago l saw y: nag
be fool once more. I tried it, but my folly
proved to be wisdom. Two bottles cured her,
she is now as well and strong as any mans
wife, and it cost me only two dollars. Such folly
pays.-H. W., Detroit. Mich. Free Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27
uow go SECURE health.

1t is strange any will suffer from arrangements
brought by impure blood when SCOVILL'S SAR-
SAPARILLA AND STILLINGIA, or BLOOD AND
LIVER SYRUP will restore health to the physical or
ganization 1t is strengthening syrup pleasant to
take. and the BEST BLOOD PURIFIER ever discov-
cred, curing Scrofula Syphtc disorders Weakness of
the Kidneys, Eryspelas Malaria, Nervous disorders,
Debility, Bilious complaints and Diseases of the Blood
Liver, Kidneys, Stomach, Skin, ETC.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27

EILERTs EXTRACT OF TAR AND WILD CHERRY
has been used for twenty years, and during that
time has saved many very valuable lives. Do
not neglect cough or cold until it is too late,
try this excellent remedy, and we are sure you
will be convinced of its merits. Chronic Coughs
and even Consumptives are cured by following
the directions every bottle warranted to give
satisfaction. Prepared by the Emmert Proprie-
tary Co., Chicago. Sold by all good Druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27

TAKE new fower-pot, wash it clean,
wrap in wet cloth and set over butter;
it will keep it as hard as if on ice. Milk,
if put into an earthen can, or even tin
one, will keep sweet for a long time, if
wrapped in wet cloth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27

The Chinese must go, and all Americans should
go-and buy a bottle of Carboline, the deodor-
lied petroleum hair remover and dresser. Since
the recent improvement, no preparation ever
had such sale or gave such general satisfac-
ton as Carboline. Sold by all druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27

GEORGIA is to have new million dol
lar capitol.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27

DRUGG1sTs and physicians recommend and
prescribe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound for all female complaints.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27
EIieS and MOSQUITOES

15c. box CROUCH on Rats" heeps house free
from flies, bed-bugs, reaches, rats, mice, etc.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27

KIDNEY-WoRT is the enemy of Indigestion
and biiousness. 1t is sure to conquer them.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27
Look Out for Sudden Changes

of weather, and guard against them by using
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27

DIR. ROGERS WORM SYRUP instantly destroys
WORMS
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BAKERS PAIN PANACEA cures pain il man and
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Ch7 . A WEEK, Sl2 day at home easily made. Costly
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