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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

BERLIN. Nov. 2l-It is thought probable
that the decree forbldding the importation
In confirm the report of the hygenic com
mite DIR. Bronondell states that the cases
of trichinosis in Saxony were produced by
German meat,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

HoNG KONG, Nov. 25.-The possibility of
war has caused great drain of specie at
Cant IN. Wellt!ly Chinese have with
drawn S., OOO, ,OOO in the last three months
from Chinese bank in Kwany Tung prov
ince Chinese mercantile interest at Hong
Kong and Shanghai are paralyze,l.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30
KELSAY & HOLGATE,
ATTORNEYS at Law.

Col. Kelsay and myself have formed copartner.
ship in the practice of the law The Co.'s
periepce at the Bar and the Bench and his studious
habits is guarantee that all business ntrusted
in the line of suits actions in Court will be
well attended to.
will continue other business and give prompt
attention to the same heretofore Such as Collect
ing. Being Notary Public will attend to convey
ancing in all its branches, Deeds. Mortgages, Real
and Cnattel. Leases, Releases, Powers OF attorney,
Contracts, &c. g.. Buy sell and lease Real Estate
both farms and town property, collect rents, me-
gotate loans, search and examine titles, a2d gen
eral agt ncy business
Are now in brick building and have fire proof safe
for the safe keeping OF not;s and othtr valuable
papers left for COLLECTION &c.
Zee in Burnett new brick, first door at head Of
stairs
I9;I7u KELSAY & HoLGATE
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30
PACIFIC COAST.
violated Law.

SAN Francisco, Nov. pa Call eli
toriaI Oh the wa lies he landing of the So
called Chinese traders, says: The record of
this country furnish no parallel for the vio-
lations to which the Chinese Restriction
Act has been subjected. The work COM
menced in the Cabinet and has been contin-
uel in the courts, uutil under the present
ruling the law only puts our officers to
| some trouble and the Chinese companies
to some expense.
Mormon Press Indignant.
SALT LAKE, Nov. 25.-The Mormon press
is very indignant over dispatch to an
eastern paper, saying that secret clubs, sim
liar to that Of Cleveland, were being Or
ganized all over the west. 1t calls them
| clark seances" and warns them to go slow
1t does not believe that such IS the case.
Such, however, is the case, as they are now
established all over Utah, Ilaho and Mon
tana, and meet regularly in this city. The
Mormons have more fear of this new move.
ment than any other yet male.
Australian Mail Contract Renewed
SAN FRANcIsco, Nov. 25.-rhe mail con-
tract between the Pa:ic Mail Steamship
Company and the New Z.aland and New
South Wales colonies has been renewed.
The contract was continued from the time
| of the expiration Of the present agreement
i'll next November, to extend for period of
not to exceed two years. The steamship
company is to receive il subsidy not to ex-
cecil ESQ, 900 annually, of which the portion
to fall on the colonies shall not exceed flS,-
$50 for carrying mail matter between San
| Francisco and Australian colonies. In the
contract is a proviso that unless the con-
tribution in all of the line is received from
the United States or some other source, the
renewed service shall only continue for
| twelve months 1t is desired tn vt the Uni
ted States government shall contribute at
| least one-third Of the annual subsidy of the
| extended contract. Every month from
p, 90 to $4,000 letters are shipped from
the San Francisco post oiice to Australia,
| not including several thousand more sent to
the various South Sea islands, where many
OF our business men have large mercantile
interests. BY the present mail line letters
60 direct to Australia and all the South Sea
is anis, and should this line be withdrawn
all correspondence woull haze to make u
circumference of the globe.
A-cI7n Of c1:n,s, L,o,rs.
Notwithstanding the precautions which
the city authorities are supposed to take,
Chinese lepers manage to find their way
here. DR.. Foye, of the Twenty sixth
street hospital, reports that two more lep-
ers have just been admitted. and two others
will be brought in. to-day. All of them
have arrived here within the last month.
soash sra Pa :lhc Robbers.
San FRANCISCO, Nov.26. Railroad Off
cials have teleg-aphed from here. offering
$1,000 for the capture of each of the cow
buys who robbel the train near Gage station
Satur ,ay last. and $40. 900 for the capture
OF the whole party, the amount to be di-
vided b.tween the rlilroll AMI express
companies.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

Send tor Samples and
Prices to the Gazette Of
fee if YOU want the Best
work at Lowest Pric g.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18
Condition of Successful Prayer.

The desire that simply fits across the
soul, as the shadow of the cloud glides
over the summer grass, is no true prayer.
1t must take hold of the spirit, and gather
into itself all the energy and earnestness
of the suppliant. The popular idea, in
deed, is that prayer is very simple mat
ter; but, in reality, it is the highest exer-
else of the soul, and requires for its
presentation the concentration of all its
powers. The English prelate was right
when he said, that ono man was likely to
do much good iniprayer, who did not be-
gin by looking upon it in the light of
work to be prepared for, and persevered
in, with all the earnestness which we
bring TO bear upon subjects which are, in
our opinion, at once most interesting
and most necessary" So much as this
must be evident from the phraseology of
the Scriptures themselves. Observe the
graduation in the terms, "asking," "seek-
ing" knocking" The "asking" is the
lower form of requesting; but the "seek-
ing" implies the activity of one who puts
himself to the labor of a search and the
"knocking refers to the continued i'm
portunity that repeats its application,
until it is satisfied that there is no one in,
or until the door is actually opened. Here,
too, come in those parallels spoken by the
Lord, to the end that men ought always
to pray and not to faint. The true sup
plant is importunate. Like Jacob, he
wrestles with the angel, if need be, until
the dawning of the day; or, like the Syro-
Phenician woman, he renews his entreat-
les in the face of seeming rebuff and,
from an apparent refusal draws plea
which in the end prevails. No mere slug
CARDS Journalism, therefore, will suffice.
That is not prayer. That is but the husk
of appearance. The true suppliant will
continue instant in prayer !" and, when
he is over, the exhaustion of his spirit
will convince him that he has been labor
ing indeed. "Believe me-" said Cole
ridge to his nephew two years before his
death, /" to pray with all your heart and
strength, with the reason and the will, to
believe wildly that God will listen to
your voice through Christ, and verify do
the thing that pleaseth him at last, this is
the last the greatest achievement of the
Christians warfare on earth. Teach us
to pray, Lord."-Dr. VIM. NJ. Taylor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18
The ROhan Potato.

Several years ago worthy minister,
who was scared at the grange, complained
bitterly of some of our grangerism in
these columns, and expressed the opinion
that we had better confne our lucubra-
tions to Jersey COWS and Rohan potatoes.
We were as mad at this as the fishwoman
was whom Burke Gf it was Burke) called
a parallelopipedon. We didn't know
anything about Rohan potatoes, and didn't
believe there was such thing. We we're,
in fact, as badly disgruntled with the
reverend man as Brother Tinkham was
with us when we called him donkey.
But now, for the first time, we learn from
an old politician, Ben Perley Poor, that
Rohan potatoes did once really exist.
Ben says in the Cultivator:
"Looking over the journals which have
been kept at Indian Hill farm for up
wards of sixty years past, find that fifty
years ago the fashionable crop-for there
is always some fashionable crop, nipple
ment or breed of cattle, sheep, swine OF
poultry-was the Rohan potato. 1t orig
mated with European nurseryman, who
named it after Prince Charles de Rohan
and only few potatoes could at first bt
had, for love or money. 1t was cultivated
by trenching the earth twenty inche.
deep and planting the eyes four feet apart
The hills were very high, and the stalks
which grew to be six or seven feet il
height, were trained to stakes. The DO
tatoes often weighed nine or ten pound
each, and the yield was sometimes enor
nous. Hervey Luce of Elmira, N. Y
obtained one potato which yielded fit,
pounds. The next year he planted il
April forty-eight pounds of seed, and TIN
following September he harvested 4,4O
pounds, which measured seventy-fou
bushels. Other planters of the Rohan
were equally successful, and they wer
sold at seventy-five cents each. 1t wa
probably mammoth species, stimulate
by deep cultivation and high manurine
When planted in the ordinary way,
soon degenerated, and / doubt whethe
there is a hill of Rohan potatoes plante
in the United States this year. Yet
was then thought that the Rohans woul
soon be the only variety planted
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18
Indifference to Sin.

If there is disease in our modern
theology and our modern philosophy of
life more conspicuous than another, it is
indifference to sin. We lull it with ano-
dyne. We call it anything but sin. We
form our schemes of social improvement
and material progress without any convic-
ton of the deep plague spot of our nature.
We hide it from ourselves until it breaks
out in some scandalous form and startles
us with its intensity. We will drill men
into morality; we will repress crime by
education we will empty our jails by
philanthropic legislation ; but the sin that
dwelleth in us is too strong for human
remedies, too rampant for the social re-
formers pruning-hook. Far truer is the
novelist's sentiment, when he puts into
the mouth of one of his characters the aw-
full, but grand, words, How gladly would
endure the torments of hell, if thereby
might escape from my sin."-Dean Of
Peterborough.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18
The Hardy North German Cherries.

Mr.. A. w. Jias of Rochester, Mimi,
writes in reply to our inquiry in regard
to the Ostheim and Lieb cherries, brought
into the West by German immigrants, as
follows: at is but little know of the
Ostheim cherry, having never seen one, to
my knowledge. have an old German
from Prussia, a practical horticultural,
who has been with me now for the third
season. He says he knows the cherry
well. and that it is the great wine cherry
of his section of Germany. He says
German friend of his brought over some
of them to Wisconsin,, but they did not
succeed very we'll there, the fruit not
growing more than half as large. l under
stand that E. Myer of st. Peter has them.
1 visited the only nurseryman of any note
residing at st. Peter few years ago, and
think he introduced me to Mr.. Myer,
but heard nothing of the cherry. My
acquaintance there is 7. G. Carter, an
old member of our state horticultural
society, and if this cherry was doing we'll
at st. Peter, we should have had ample
notice of it ere this, [ think. / know of
no cherry that is doing first-rate in this
state. have pretty good looking trees
of the May Duke Carnatio, early Rich
mond, and the common pie cherry, but
they don't bear as they should.
l notice that w. 7. Little of Rochester,
N. Y, offers the Lieb cherry. Will try
to learn more of the new sorts of this
fruit during the three great fairs to be
held in this state this fall, viz, at Mime
apolis, o watonna and Rochester. shall
try to attend them all and learn some.
thing of the many new kinds of fruit now
growing in this state. If find anything
of interest in regard to the cherry, or any
thing else, you will be likely to hear from
me-"
We are greatly obliged to Mr.. Sias for
the letter and trust he may soon be able
| to give our readers valuable information
about new hardy fruits.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18
How Watch Cases are Made.

Most persons have an ambition to carry
gold watch case, and yet few people know
how watch case is made, or the vast diff
ference in Inequality of them. Ina SOLID
GOLD WATCH CASE aside from the neces-
sary thickness for engraving and polishing,
a large proportion of the metal is needed
only to stifen and hold the engraved por-
tons in place, and supply strength. The
surplus is not only needless, but undesira-
BILE, because gold is a soft metal and cannot
furnish the stiffness, strength and elasticity
necessary to make the case permanently
strong and close-ftting. The perfect watch
case must combine gold with some metal
that will supply that in which the gold is
deficient. This has been accomplished by
the James Boss Gold Watch Case y MARI
which saves the WASTE of need : D
less gold, and INCREASES the soLIDITY and
STRENGTH of the case and at the same time
reduces the cost ONE HALF.
Send cent stamp keystone Watch Case Factories, Phiia
delphia Pa handsome Illustrated Pamphlet showing how
James Boss and keystone Watch Cases made.
(To be contnued)
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18
eIaritnIfnraI
FARMERS OF THE oLDEN TIMES.


Farmers like those of oden time only now be seen
Amid the forests of the west the praires green
All antiquated notions have nearly passed away,
And views more modern to be the order of the day.
The antique owners Of the soil could never understand
why folks should learn read who only TILED the land
And an educated man they deemed almost fool,
For their fathers made living" and they never went
to school.
The mothers and their daughters taught to
churn and spin;
And they didn't have to rack their brains to let book
larnln" I'M
Their clothing was all homemade and whateer was
wanted more
They could get with eggs and butter when at the village
store
Then at the dawn of day when the birds began to sing
The music OF the farmers voice throughout the house
would rings
There's farming work enough" said he, for all Of us
to do;
SO Just get out OF bed my boys quick every one of
But reader, times have changed education rules,
And farmers boys must have the very best of schools
And farmers girls know, make good wives
II doomed to kitchen service drudges all their lives.
Selected,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18
Religions Miseellany.
NEARER HOME.

one days march nearer home,
We pitch our tents tonight,
And in the shadow of thy wings
Await the mornings light.
with thanks for mercies past,
With peace Of conscience blest,
with faith in Christ, our righteousness,
We lay US down TO rest.
One days march nearer home
We lift our earnest prayer,
For daily grace our daily tolls
And daily grief to bear.
May water from the rock,
Through all our journey here below
Our every want supply.
One days march nearer homel
Our glorious home on high
Where shades of darkness never come,
Nor night of death draws nigh
o may that gentle hand,
And that Astounding love,
That lead through all our pilgrimage,
Receive our souls above. Selected
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18
Will Cut Eighty Tons Of Hay.
A Farm in Woodbury., VT,
Fifty Dollars Reward.

on the morning of July discovered that burglar
or burglars had entered house during the night and
had taken my pants from my sleeping room, searched
the pockets and left them the front veanda outside
am not aware that the thieves secured from me any
thing valuable They overlooked S33 In my vest pocket
and watch. Several other houses IN my neghborhood
were entered the same night and probably by the same
persons from which valuable watches and considerable
sums OF money stolen. hereby offer reward of
FIFTY Dollars to any person or persons who Will give
information that will the arrest and conviction of
any of the burglars who entered the houses aforesaid
during the night prior the morning of July s, 1885,
remain for one year. I. DEAYITT.
Montpelier, July I, 1888. Ol-tf
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18
Farm Notes.

My SIBERIAN WINTER WHEAT came
through the winter very fairly, but the
Finlay wheat nearly all winter-killed and
so sowed spring wheat on that plot. At
this date, July LIST, very few pods of
American Wonder pea are mature enough
for cooking.
STABLE DRAINAGE.-I drew seven loads
of cows urine upon the grass May Goth,
about one hundred gallons in load, and
the herds grass is lodged, while each side
it is thin and yellowish. saturated sew.
eral loads of muck with this stable sew
age and used it for two hundred hills of
squash and other vines, but cannot now
estimate the result.
In MY ORCHARD the Totofsky and
Duchess trees are we'll filled, but my Red
Astrachan and st. Lawrence do not re-
ward my patience with specimen yet.
l still think l am very fortunate to have
80 many apples of the two Russian varie-
ties, because the trees that live and bear
are better than the trees of fall apples.
/ feel interested in all the new methods
of evaporating fruits. NoD such fruit
brings remunerative price, but when l
have lot to sell, it may be like many
other products, so plenty as to be in ex-
cess of the demand. All over the coun-
try, land owners are planting fruit trees
and vines, and feeling is common that
surplus can be evaporated. Perhaps
the time may come, when farmer will
have among his supplies as many pounds
of dried fruits as he has of salt pork.
WINTER RYE.-This season gives me
my first experience with winter rye. l
sowed two and and one-half bushels Octo.
Der Is, 1882. Early in the spring il
looked very thin, but with more growth
the stand was very fair. The heads began
to appear June Is, and June Odd I cut g
portion for hay, and Immediately plowed
that portion and planted it with southern
white corn for fodder. My rye was three
and one-half to four feet high and woult
have given good bulk of rye hay. My
corn was appearing above ground JUNE
9th and the indications are that a farmer
can make two fodder crops in year. Fo
the second crop there is quite a choic'
allowable, as Hungarian grass, barley
India wheat, turnips and fodder can stant
about equal in promise of a profitable lat
crop. Most of my rye, however, saw
for seed, as last year your crop, Mr.. Ed
itor, was the only one 1 knew in tn
county, and yours the only available seet
this side st. Johnsbury. z.E.J.
REMARKS BY AGRICULTURAL EDITOR
We do not think we or any middle
aged man will live to see the day whei
good evaporated fruit will not be salable
Large quantities will be taken for expol
tation. Farmers certainly should lay in
full stock of fresh and dry fruit to Civ
every member of the family all they want
1t makes the pork more wholesome
"perfect ration"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18

A CORRESPONDENT of the Home Farm
says that at recent meeting of the
grange, a brother-s pale old man of more
than seventy years-said; ave don u
have faith enough in our farms. We
think others have an easier time and gain
property faster than farmers. That has
not been my experience. If the farmer
attends closely to his business he is sure
to succeed. Then how much enjoyment
he may take in his farm. How much
pride and pleasure he has in showing his
friends his growing crops, his cattle and
his fruit trees. Talk about capitalists
with their bonds and bank stock Do
they ever show these to their neighbors
and friends Do they even enjoy them ~
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18

We now feel that such potato as this,
which had to be trained to stakes like
grape vine, would not have been an un-
worthy topic for our pen and we forgive
our reverend adviser as freely as he would
now probably allow the harmlessness of
the grange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18

WRITE down the advice of him who
loves you, though you like it not.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18

WHAT we ought not to do, we should
not ever think of doing.-Epictet,ts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-12
Bridges and Navigation.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1-Mr. Vest reported
to the Senate from the committee on COM
merce bill bearing on the conflict between
navigation and railway interests along the
Ohio river. The bill is to amend the act of
1872, so that every bridge hereafter erected
across the Ohio river shall have its axis at
right angles TO the current at all stages and
all its spans shall be Through" spans 1t
further provides that every such bridge
shall have at least one channel span placed
over that part of the river usually run by
descending coal flats, to give waterway Of
500 feet span, to be at least forty feet above
high-water mark and at least ninety feet
above low water the bridges above the
mouth of the Big Sandy and one hundred
feet below that point, and that the bridges
below Cincinnati shall have, in addition,
pivot draw, giving two openings of 100 feet
each. The bill has already passed the
House
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-12
A CHURCH DISRUPTION.

The Brethren of Center Church, in Shelby
County, Not Dwelling Together in Unity.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SHELBYvILLE, Jan. ashington town
ship is burdened with church trouble
which is assuming mammoth proportions as
the strife goes on Last August Mrs Flora
Fately and some Others were arrested for dis
turbing a meeting at Center Church, near
Lewis creek, where Rev. Samuel Hawkins
was holding services. From that time the
enmity in the vicinity has increased and re-
yenge was sworn against certain of the ar
dent members of the church This week
affidavits were filed by Mrs. Fately against
Martin D. Miller, the trustee of
Washington township; John Kelsay,
Sandford Hawkins, Martin Moss, Eva Hig-
gins, Amanda Higgins and Seller Waymar,
all attendants of the church, charging them
with disturbing the meeting.
The case against Trustee Miller is now be-
ing tried at the mayors office before jury,
with over one hundred persons in attend
ance from Washington township. Martin
Miller is a leading citizen of the southern
part of the county, and it is believed that the
charge against him has its origin in malice
The other cases come up on Saturday. If the
strife is not soon ended disruption of the
church is imminent.
At 6o'clock the jury returned verdict
acquitting Miller.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-12

the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
FORT WAYNE, Jan. 1.-THE funeral of the
late Miss Minnie L. Coombs, daughter of
Judge William H. Coombs, late of the
Supreme Court, occurred this morning. The
attendance was very large, betitted the high
esteem in which the young lady was held.
Among the beautiful floral tributes were a
magnificent Tyre and broken shaft in immor-
telles, brought from indianapolis by Senator
Bell and lady. The Senator is the law part
ner of Judge Coombs, the firm also includ-
ing Judge Morris, Supreme Court commits
SiOner