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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
Farm AND HOUSEHOLD
Farm Notes,

Wood ashes contain every element of
food for plants except nitrogen, viz,
potash, lime, magnesia, and phos-
phoric acid. They are, therefore, use
full for any crop, but are especially
valuable for grass. From 40 to 100
bushels per acre may be used, and the
effect will be felt for many years.
There are very few or no steam
plows in use in Amtrica. The only
place where they can be used is on the
large wheat farms in the Northwest,
and there they have not been found
profitable, because they are used only
for a few days, or weeks, and then lie
idle the rest of the year, costing some
expense to care for them. Meanwhile
just as many horses are required on
the farms to do the other work. 1t is
not probable that steam plowing will
ever be common in this country.
Good mutton is always in demand;
by improving our sheep tor meat, and
feeding better, sheepkeeping can be
made profitable even when wool is
low. Then when wool advances the
profit will be correspondingly in
creased. In England sheep are kept
principally for mutton, and although
good f1eeces are produced, yet the
sheep would return profit without the
wool. Our common sheep by crossing
with the best mutton sheep of Europe
may in a few years be so far improved
as to become good mutton producers.
Even the Merinos when crossed with
Cotswolds produce grades which, when
well fed, make good dmutton-nearly or
quite as good as any.
A good preservative for shingles on
a roof is common pine tar laid on hot
SO as to soak into the shingles. Orthe
shingles may be dipped in crude petro-
leum before they are laid, and left to
soak in tubs or barrels. Coal tar is
not good material for preserving
wood, as it contains an acid which
causes the wood to decay; but if it is
mixed with lime to neutralize the acid,
and is then applied to the wood, it has
better effect.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09

Keeping.
You will find it a very hard task to
keep the sight and sound of bad read
ing away from Tom. It is everywhere
If he does not see it at home some Of
his school mates will have their pock-
cts filled with it. Any quantity of
stories bearing such fascinating titles
as ''The Madman of the North Pole,
or the Boy Mazeppa OF the Artic Seas -
which is an actual title, can be pur-
chased for five cents each, and in many
cases the buyers will dispose of them,
after perusal, for two cents. Broad
sides containing wonderful pictures,
and the opening chapters Of such tales
are weekly distributed by enterpris
ing newsdealers. And 1 think these
stories are far worse than they used
to be. For even pirate stories
had in them the smack of the
blue ocean, and the fascination
of white sails and tropical islands
and all the thousand and one charms
that visions of the sea- summon up
before the eyes of an imaginative boy
And Indian tales bore the flavor of the
prairies and buffalo hunts, and of a
wild, free, open air life. But these sto-
ries, which are thrust into Toms
hands and under his eyes at every cor
ner are mainly detective stories, and
the reader is led through the lowest,
slums of New York and London
crimes of the bloodiest and vilcst ma
ture are depicted, and the language is
the worst of thieves slang. The Ip-
dian fighter and pirate were pictured
as brave and chivalrous; but these vii
lians are only cruel and murderous
from the beginning to the end of the
story; and the only way to keep Tom
away from them is to fill his reading
hours so full of something else that he
will have no time for them until his
taste is so far formed that they viii
have no fascination for him, and the
remedy lies almost entirely in the
hands of the mothers.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
Wanted in Wall Street..
From the Wall Street News.

From the Wall Street News.
There is man in Wisconsin whonf>
some of our railroad kings.should get
hold of. The fact that he is in state
prison won't be much of an objection,
as srailroad kings are supposed to have
governors and judges under their.
thumbs. This man, in the space of
three months, organized three canal
companies, and foated out 5000
worth of stock at 500. lie organized
two mineral companies, and got RID of
SIT, 900 worth OF stock for $3.50 He
organized asanitarium, and gave away
$27, 900 worth of stock for 1926 He
organized water-power company,
paid individuals before a dam was
built, and came out 81, ,12O ahead
He was organizing arailroad company
and was about to call in capital of
$50, 600, when the law grabbed him
and shut him up. Theman, if proper
ly coached, has a great future before.
him.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
Church Attendance Diminishing.

According to statistics gathered by a
church paper, not more than per
cent. of American artisans in cities
habitually attend religious services OF
any kind. All but two of the letters
say that the attendance is diminish
ing, and all but one that the neglect is
not from unbelief in Christianity. The
cause of non-church attendance, as;
given by these experts, may be sum-
med up as follows: The men have to
work all the week, and they recreate
on Sunday. They cannot dress as
well as those with whom they must as
sociate, and therefore stay AWAY
They think secret societies are as good
as the church. They are unable to-
pay for the privileges because OF the
high prices of things which they must
have. The large salaries of the minis
ters disgust some. Some feel that the
minister is a hireling, and therefore
seeks to upbuild his church as a doc
tor seeks to increase his practice, not
from love of souls, but to increase his
salary. Some employers of labor are
so bad in their treatment OF their EN-
ployes that the men do not want to
go where they snail meet those I'D
whose real Christianity they have Sc
little faith,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
western Men Have Ideas.

Two 'menswho announced that they
we're from Chicago, rushed noisly into
veEysauietiharber shop uptown the
other day, rand pulled off their sooats
with "a great deal of talk about the
heaE @nescf them fell into the hands
of the fboss;a tall saturnine mans with
want ,on his bulging throw, and
the other >subm itted to the latherbrAsh
Of the solemn foreman.
''PheWH said the man wh1 hart:fall-
en- unde- the ,fereman's cafe, '':wAat a
boiling rhot ,day!"
s'Hot,," said the foreman ecasakNy.
'''I was sayingtto the boss few min
,ntes agetahatwe had better lave ,sone
of the Windows open as the WisitGrs
from out cnf Stewn would be apt ito
think one weather was SnuSHany
,warm."
Windows. apso?" said the Chicago
: man. 'ISshOnld hope so. Danityou
.sall SO daasses,thet?''
s.Well,"' said che foreman intiall-
gently, New Yeukers don't mind s9G
degrees. We don't usually pnt .ar
fthin coats here santil it tops 3 lhun-
. hred by double fgEres."
About the same moment voice
was heard fromtthe next chair eroop-
ing lazily. >fN.es, we usually decide
e.call IL w;arne here when it reaches
S12A degrees, hat >yan can't tell any
thing at all about heat. You thiak to-
day that it is hat. ,I.,don't think ID. is.
Quite seasonzhle tGay, though mot
quite warm anaagh; that shows hhat
it is partly a Matfer .af opinion
The Chicago men Were sileut for "a
long while, and fhen,OLae of them asiE-
ed eaGelessly, t4Mhat. DIS you call cold
weather here?"
EDO you mean an ,Winter?" asked
the boss.
YES in the dead OF wiR ter"
"Weu, we consider 2G1degrees be-
low rather cold"
At thds the victims Launched forth
into stories of what kAnd of weather
they considered cold IN Chicago.
The anecdotes had covered periods
extending considerably more than 120
degrees below zero before the shave
was over, aHd when they got.up to go
out the BARRIERS were cheerfully fold
ing up their towels again aud placing
sthe brushes ia methodical rows .lsader
the mirrors. The whole conversation
had been carried on with the utmost
sSaemnity FROM beginning to end.
II like them western men," said the
boss. cheerfully. as the door closed,
'haeause they have got ideas. Now,
a New Yorker, when he comes in to
get shaved, don't care for back talk or
argument. He just lays back stiff,
allows the artist to toy with his hide.
and diseourages all conversation by
going to sleep in the chair. The west
erners are perfect gents. though; they
give barber a chance to cultivate his
mind, don't they, TobyP"
Every heat said the foreman,
heartlly.-Ney Yg7S Sun.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
Summer Seeding to Grass.
From the American Agriculturist,

Themost successful seeding to grass
maybe done in July and August after
the grain crops are taken off. The
present season has been a bad one for
the.seed sown last fall. The hard win
ter destroyed the timothy, and the
late spring has interfered greatly with
the seeding of the clover. AS rule, it
may be said that summer seeding is
more successful than fall and spring
seeding, but the ground must be thor
oughy well prepared. The whole Sc
cret lies in this preparation. The fol-
lowiRgplan has been found excellent:
The stubble is we'll plowed, not p,ore
than four inches deep,an immediately
narrowed in a thorough manner.
There ARE several new Implements
which sdo this work in the best man
ner, pulverizing the soil, kveling the
surface and smoothing it, so as to
get thenand in the most perfect con-
dition Eorithe seed. After all this has
been done, and the furrow marks OBJ
literated, the seed is sown and the sur
face immediately rolled. Ifthis is done
in July nothing more is srequired. If it
is left iateriit will be desirable to SOW
turnip seed at the rate of one pound
per acre with the grass seed. This
affords protection for the young grass
and clover in the fall and winter. We
have found it good plan to leave the
turnips or the ground and not gather
them. They will be killed by the frost,
and the leaves falling down furnish
protection to the grass during the win
ter, and IN the early spring, when SO
much damageis usually done by the
alternate thaws and frosts. Thegra
will usually furnish one cutting the
same season, bat it should not be pas
tured, as the surface is not firm enough
NOR the plants sufficiently well rooted
to stand such a tax.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
Neatness In Women.

A woman may be handsome or re-
markably attractive in various ways,
but if she is not personally neat, she
cannot hope do win admiration. Fine
clothes will not conceal the slattern.
A young woman with her hair always
in disorder, and her clothes hanging
about her as it suspended from prop,
is always repulsive. Slattern is written
on her person from the crown of her
head to the soles other feet, and if she
wins a husband, he will turn out, in all
probability, either an idle fool or
drunken ruffian. The bringing up of
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
Slow Eating.

The idea OF rest and recreation and
deIilberation in eating no longer oc.
cupiss the thought of the American
boy, aauch less of the business men.
Yet the power of ones life depends as
much upon this as upon any one con-
duct of Life. The relation of the chew
ing and the juices of the mouth to the
after digestion, all along the digestive
track, and to that assimilation which
is 10 give force aud vigor to work, is
suci, that we cannot afford to forget
the essential relationship. Thefailure
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
Strawberries.

There has been bountiful crop this
year, and nearly all of thel larger cities
have been amply supplied. In the
flush of the season they have been SO
plenty that the price scarcely justified
picking and marketing. tits probable
not sufficient arrangements We're made
for shipping the surplus to deficient
points. There are q plenty of such
places. The smaller towns are yet
poorly supplied, and, in many
cases, none are to be had. The great
farming population is not yet one
third supplied with this most delicious
of all fruits. 1t is a gross neglect on
their part. They are easily raised,
and it takes but small patch to sup
ply O. large family with a healthy ap-
petite. AS an idea of the dimensions
of strawberry bed, we notice that
Mr.. E. H. Calkins, of the Burlington
Hawkeye, rejoices over a daily supply
of three quarts ofluscious berries from
a bed eighteen feet square.
The spring season is the best time to
set out a new bed of plants. But at
that time, we know from long expert
ence, that farmers with the crowding
spring work have no time for attend
ing to the garden; or, for that matter,
any of thelesser duties of the farm ana
household, which really in the aggre-
gate contribute more to the real COM
fort of life than thousand acres of
wheat, or double that amount of
corn.
But now is the time for the busy man
to set out strawberry plants. They
do very well any time in July and
August. The sooner now, the better.
But in hot weather great care must be
exercised. In fact, this is the main
element of success, and is all i'm
portant at any time. If fplants can be
had near at hand, which is now gener-
ally the case, they should be taken up
carefully with a large lump of dirt to
each plant, and set out without disturb
ing or exposing the roots. Too many
failures are made by setting out plants
in hot weather with roots stripped
bare and then drenched with water
The soil dries and bakes about the
plant and death is inevitable.
Then the farmer becomes discourag-
ed and disgusted at what he considers
the great difficulty in raising straw
berries. Bat have your wits about
you, and go at the work sensibly,
studying the nature Of plant life and
growth. Some men act as though they
thought that cabbage, tomato or
strawberry plants could be driven in
to ang kind of unprepared soil, like a
stake and then go away and not look
after 4hlem until the time when he ex-
pectssa crop,
We want to see the time when all of
our fsrm houses will be amply supplied
with all of the small fruits which can
be successfully grown in Iowa. But
this will not be until a large amount
of missionary work is done. But THAT
farmer who has not strawberry bed,
we ask that all of the influences of the
household be now brought to bear on
hi1pa to commence this month, and
commence right. just now new plants
are forming on the runners, and by
the time you are aroused to action by
this notice they will be just right for
transplanting.-Des. Moines Register.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
by the other to separate the same guam

by the other to separate the same guam
tity being only three hours.
2. Premature cooling of the milk be-
fore setting is more serious in its effect
upon thorough separation than the
first mentioned. When milk conveyed
to a creamery in q common vehicle
by centrifugal separation gave 100
pounds of butter, a sample of milk of
the same quantity and quality con-
veyed in the same manner, and set in
ice-water, gave 9O.9 pounds, while an
other sample that had been cooled,
transported as before, and then set in
ice-water, gave only 87.9 pounds.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09

daughters to be able to work, talk and
act like honest, sensible young women,
is the special task of all mothers, and
in the Industrial ranks there is i'm
posed, also, the prime obligation of
learning to respect household work for
it's own sake, and the comfort ard
happiness it will bring in the future
Houseworl1 is drudgery, but it must
be done by somebody, and had better
be well than i'll done.-Home Compan-
ion
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
An Incomplete Scheme.

Washington has a training school
for servant girls. This Is a stes, in the
right direction. Now let Washia gton
90 right on in this good work OF re-
form and establish training school
for mistre.sses and we will get along
spIendidly.--Bob B@rdtte.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09

The value of live cattle exported
during last year was $17,895,495;
sheep. $85O,146; hogs, $627, ,4S0; a
total of $19, ,s33,121, gain of To-
O64, ,31S over 1883.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
See What Tom Reads.

Mrs. II. Annette Poole, in Good House,
keeping.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AN attempt was made by Corsican on
the Goth to assassinate the French Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs, DeFrey cinet in
the streets of Paris, but failed. The as
sailant was in custody.
ELECTIONS in Prussia few days ago
went strongly in favor of the new German
Liberal party.
REPORTS of the Doth state that the Pope
had decided entirely in favor of Spain i
the Carolines question.
The English campaign against Burmah
was being pushed with vigor on the Doth,
and it looked as if the country of King
Theebaw would soon form part of tn,
British Empire in India.
A PETITION was forwarded to the Cana
dian Government on the 30th ult. by Louis
Riel and twenty -four other half breeds
lying in prison in the Northwest, begging
for mercy on the ground that they had
suffered systematic oppression.
THE discovery was made recently by a
naturalized citizen travelling in Europe
that in several cities societies were organ.
lied to aid discharged convicts to go to the
United States and begin life anew.
In the Province of Quebec three inches
of snow fell on the 30th ult
THE other day an explosion occurred at
Reschitza, Hungary, in coal mine con-
nected with the State railway works.
Thirteen persons were killed and fifteen
injured.
The death of the Duke of Abercorn oc.
Cured on the 31st ult. in London, in his
seventy fourth year. He was the head of
the illustrious house of Hamilton, and
twice served as Lord Lieu tenant of Ire
land.
A CROWD of citizens the other day cap
tured three Mexican brigands at Periban
and riddled them with bullets.
IT was found upon examination by sew
eral physicians on the 31st ult. that Mat
lei, who attempted the life of M. de
Freycinet in Paris, was insane.
SIX Mexicans were killed and fifteen
others were wounded during an election
row on the 31st ult at Bustamento, Mex.
The Mexican Congress had taken meas
ures to impeach ex-President Gonzales
upon charges of misuse of public funds.
THEREl were 1850 deaths from small
pox in Montreal and its suburbs during
October,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06
WEST AND SourA.

INFORMATION was received on the 29th
by General Miles, commanding the De-
partment of the Missouri, with head
quarters at Fort Leaveuworth that about
four thousand well armed and equipped
men were on their way to Oklahoma under
the leadership of Captain Couch. These
new boomers announced their intention to
stay and fight, if necessary, for possess
sion of the coveted lands.
A WAGNER sleeper on the Bee Line the
other night was raided west of Indian
apolis and 500 stolen from the passengers
by robbers, who got off the train at In
dianapolis. The passengers were chloro-
formed.
THREE immense ranches, valued at So
100000, were given by Senator Stanford
of California, for the endowment of uni
versity and schools about to be erected at
Palo Alto.
AT Grand Forks, D. T., George Miller
was hanged on the 30th ult., for numbering
Mrs. Smell and her child last January.
AN eighteen-hour rain storm had on the
30th ult. caused floods in the Shenandoah
Valley, Virginia, more water falling than
in the two previous years. Near Licking.
ton a trestle collapsed under a train,
the engineer and fireman being killed, but
the passengers escaped. The rivers were
rising rapidly, and merchants on the wat
er-front at Richmond were moving out
AT Port Huron, Mich, four men were
killed on the 1st by the bursting of the
boiler of the tug Frank Moffat.
In portions of Michigan and Indiana
snow fell on the 31st ult. to depth of four
inches.
THEODORE THOMPSON, while hunting the
other day near New Philadelphia, o., mis-
took his brother for squirrel, and gave
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06
LATER.

DAVID B. HILL, Democrat, was On the
Sd reelected Governor of New York by an
estimated majority of $1,000, but the Re-
publicans still hold both branches of the
Legislature. Fitz Hugh Lee, Democrat,
was chosen Governor of Virginia by 15,-
600 majority, and the Democrats have
full control of the Legislature. Will
lam Larrabee. Republican, was
elected Governor of Iowa by a
plurality estimated at 1900. Mat
thew Quay, Republican, was chosen State
Treasurer or Pennsylvania by majority
of $4,000 George d. Robinson, Republic
can, was elected Governor of Massachu-
setts by a plurality of about $4,000. Mary
land Democrats reelected State Comp
troller and a majority of the Legislature.
Colorado elected Republican Supreme
Court Judge by 5000 majority. In South
Dakota the Sioux Falls Constitution
was carried and the Republican State
ticket elected. In Kansas county officers
only were voted for, the Republicans be-
ing generally successful. In Connecticut
new Legislature was chosen, but the re-
suit was in doubt. In New Jersey the Re-
publicans were victorious, the election be-
ing for members of the Legislature. 8 In
Mississippi the Democrats elected their
Governor and other State officers without
opposition. In Nebraska the only officers
chosen were a Judge of the Supreme Court
and two regents of the University, the
Republicans carrying the State by 10000
majority.
The registered bonds of the United
States amount to $1,07l, 100000, of which
less than Sl2,000,000 are held in foreign
countries.
Mr.. A. J. HOPKINS was on the I'd elected
Representative in Congress from the Fifth
Illinois District to succeed the late Con-
gresham Ellwood.
The Princess Royal, a vessel carrying
a cargo of furs valued at $1,000 600, was
wrecked in a recent gale on Rudson's
Bay.
The National Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union at its session in Philadel-
phia on the 81 adopted a resolution con-
demning the use OF alcoholic wines in COM
muuion service, and recommending the
use of unfermentad grape juice. 1t was
recommended that Congress be memorial
zed in the interest of universal suffrage.
SEVERAL women who had been regis
tered rendered their votes aG the polls in
New York City on the Sd. The ballots
were refused, and the aggrieved suf-
fragists proposed seeking redress in the
courts.
AT the Cook County (Ill.) election on
the Sd the Republicans elected the Judges
of the Superior and Supreme Courts and
two of the four Commissioners. The new
Chicago City Election law was also sue
cessful.