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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
THE FARM AND FIRESIDE.
Notes for the Housekeeper,

N. M. Writes to the N. Y. Tribune:
"Where one has to manage with
small income and has good health, it
is good plan to dispense with help,
and by economizing in other ways, buy
such articles as will contribute to the
comfort of the family and especially
such as will make the work easy-a
Dover egggg-beater, carpet-sweeper, a
washer, a meat-chooper, kerosene
stove with fixtures, combination
baby high chair with rocker, little
carriage, an adjustable gate that will
fit any door or window, so that you
can keep the babies very near you, and
yet not in the same room where the
work is going on. A great saver of
time is to have place for each thing
and each thing in place when not in
use. 1t is surprising how the little
two-hear-olds will remember where
each thing belongs, and how soon
they will learn that it is the
right way to pick up the blocks be-
fore asking for the animals and how
the younger cnes will teach the older
ones, this is our drawer and that is
mammals; we mustn't open mammals
drawer 1t is rather hard at first to
leave all your important duties to
show the babies how to pick up the
playthings, right away, when they are
through playing with them; but have
patience, they willie and will know
no other way, and the first you know
they will do it of their own accord and
give you no more trouble. My two
Oldest babies now pick up their blocks
and pile them in the boxes without be-
ing told. At 1870 every morning they
have each glass of warm milk andgo
to bed for their nap, where they stay
until 1 o'clock. Sometimes they sleep
all the time, sometemes only part oft,
but they don't know any better than
to stay there, and they need the rest.
How much work can be crowded in
while they are asleep need not men
tion here, as any one can try for her
self. At $50 the babies 60 to bed and
sleep from p. m. to 6 a. m. The
evenings we spend very pleasantly.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
Cistern Water.

B. writes: "If A. l.. S. will use the
common chain pump in his cistern he
will have good water the year round.
I use rain-water from tin roof, and
fill in early spring enough to last till
fall: use a chain pump and the wa
ter is nice enough for a king. Water
needs air and the chain pump sup
plies" c. w. H. writes: After consid-
cradle experience in using well and cis-
tern water, myself and family prefer the
cistern water though we have a splendid
well. Ny cistern is built on the north
side of the house, 18 feet deep, bricked
up and cemented. In the bottom is
built a chamber about feet square and
four feet high of one thickness of brick
laid in cement, into which the pump
pipe passes SO that all water
must pass through the brick before
using. Inever allow any water to go
into the cistern till it has rained hard
for some time and until have proved
it to be clear by taking a glass full of
it and holding it up to the light. 1
turn the water off while it still runs a
good stream, as the water; that has
dripped over the shingles is liable to
taste of pine. The smoky look and
taste in rain water comes from the
smoke in the atmosphere and from
the shingles. It takes quite a rain fall
to clear both. The water from my
cistern is clear as well water, very
cool and almost tasteless. After one
weeks use no one would think ofusing
even spring water in preference to it.
A cistern properly managed Will DIS
count the doctors bill SO per cent"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
vond it. It is not so many wears

yond it. 1t is not SO many years
since pleasure boats piled upon it; and
even now chartered to commerce as it
is, trip along its length is delight
and O. surprise, not only to the Lon
doner, who may not be adverse to the
novel form of amusement to be found
in learning something of his own town
but even to the alien prowler by pro-
fession, who prides himself on thor
oughly knowing his beloved prowling
place.
The Regents Canal is the last link
in the great canal chain of England.
By it the Mersey is married to the
Thames, and shakes hands with the
Humber; it connects the whole great
scheme of inland navigation with Lon
don and the sea. The Grand juno
tion Canal, through which flows all the
traffic of the canals of the North, of
the midland counties and the West,
joins the Thames at Brentford, and,
entering it here, we may pass around
and through London, and come again
into the Thames at Limehouse. The
Regents Canal proper reaches from
Paddington to Limehouse, distance
of eight and one-half miles, in which
distance there are forty bridges or
more, and twelve locks, at short in
tervals, to enable it to make the de-
scent of eighty-four feet. There are
many basins and docks, some deep
cuttings, and to pass through the
great ridge at Islington it was neces-
sary to cut a tunnel, straight and
deep. The canal has mean depth of
about six feet, is thirty-feet in width
at the bottom and forty-eight feet at
the surface, to allow three full-sized
barges to pass comfortably, these
barges being thirteen to fourteen feet
wide, and from sixty five to seventy feet
long. The whole inland navigation of
the country once stopped at Padding
ton. This Canal, continuing the wa
ercommunication of the interior of the
Thames and it's docks at Limehouse,
was begun October IA, 1912, and
finally opened for traffic August 1,
1920. 1t received it's name from "the
first gentleman in Europe" as he was
then regarded by asubservient nation.
There were fine doings at it's formal
opening; an aquatic procession of
boats and barges Haunting with
streamers-fags flying everywhere.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
Through London by Canal.

BENZ. Ellis Martin, in Harper's Magazine
When certain famous financier from
San Francisco visited London a few
years ago he was called on the morn
ing after his arrival by his English cor
respondent, who, finding him character
istically anxious to plunge at once in
to the business for which he had come,
proposed to start for the CITY," 'HThe
city," exclaimed our magnate; "why,
what do you call this place we in? I
was two or three hours riding through
what should call a city last night be-
fore reached this hotel" But the
placid and precise Englishman went
ON, statistically, to explain that
"the city" was still a long dis
tance away; that they could go there
inside a cab or outside a bus; by boat
down the river underground, beneath
the houses, by rail; or by raj, above the
roofs, through the borough-all to the
astonishment expressed with naive
and native vehemence, of the San Fran
ciscan. l fear that the resources of
the Pacific slope Language would have
been unduly taxed had he been told
that he might pass from end to end of
London on canal; and am sure his
visitor, as well as most Londoners,
would have felt qualsurprise.
Yet it is true; an unheeded and al
most unknown river runs through the
heart of London, holdingits quiet, un-.
troubled course, while the busy city
has pushed its way all about and be-
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
A Word Of Advice.

Why are girls so injudicious in their
toleration of dissipated young men?
It is very often the case that a
thoroughly good girl will deliberately
marry man who makes no secret of
his bad habits. What can she expect
but misery to ensue? A life-partner-
ship should not be entered into with
out at least as much caution as men
display in making business combina-
tions for limited periods. No man
selects his business partner from among
men who drink much liquor or have
other bad habits. AS for mere man
ners and the ability to make ones self
agreeable, they have mot of themselves
influence enough among men to secure
a'dollar's worth of credit or to justify
any one in believing their possessor on
oath. A girl who is not old enough or
shrewd enough to have learned what
are the standards by which men are
tested, would be far surer of happy
life if she were to let her parents select
a husband in the prosiest manner i'm
.aginable, than if she were to make her
own selection in the manner peculiar
to girls. A life-partnership is not
easily dissolved.-Home Companion.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
Liberty Above All.

Victor Hugo was welded to liberty
from his cradle. His father was q
soldier of the First French Republic,
and it was another old soldier in the
same ranks who was to give the son
that watchword which was on his lips
so constantly through life. This was
Laborie, who, in 1904, was implicat-
ed in Moreau's conspiracy against
Bonaparte. On the discovery of the
plot, he was prescribed, a price was
set upon his head, and it was the elder
Hugo who gave him shelter. During
this period of concealment, Laborie,
while talking with some generals who
had sworn not to betray him, turn
ed to the child Victor, and said, "Re-
member-liberty above all!' Who can
doubt that the sentence exercised a
determining influence on the life of the
boy?
Victor Hugo says, speaking of him
selfin the third person, "The man who
to-day publishes this collection
Deeds and Words and who throws
open the door of his life to his iscontem-
poraries in these volumes, has passed
through many errors. He has suffer
ed from the consequences of a complex
and solitary education given him by q
prescribed Republican. But the pa
triot was always strong within him.
He was for Napoleon in 1913, for the
Bourbons in 1914. He has always
acted in perfect good faith. He de-
clares that never in all he has written
will any one find a line against hber-
ty-
"Tn 1S4S, he had not made up his
mind as to the definite social form to
be adopted. Singularly enough, one
might almost say that at that time
liberty hid the Republic from his WIS.,
ion
@'He was member of the Assembly.
One day at its meeting a brave man
came to him and said, with whom
are you in sympathy here?'
With liberty
""And what are you doing?
@''tI am waiting
aAfter June, 1949, he waited no
longer. Atthe moment when the hands
of all the conquerors were held out to
him to drag him into their ranks, he
saw corpse on the field. Every one
cried
"'It is the Republic!'
-ss.eHe went to it and found that ut
was liberty. Then he saw before him
a fall, defeat, ruin, prescription, and
he said, 1T is WE'LL
-'.Fpom that day forward, the union
IN his soul of the Republic with Liber-
ty was complete. From that day for
ward, without truce, without relaxar-
ton, obstinately, foot by foot, he
fought for the great cause. In 1851,
he received what he expected twenty
years ofexile. ."-Youth's s Companion.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
An Obliging Piece of Furniture.

From the Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer.
In a family residing on Woodland
avenue a little girl was playing not
long ago with aplaymatefrom neigh
boris family. They were playing at a
small centre table, and the little girls
noticed presently that when one OF
them put her hand on the tablet it would
lift up and down, and they finally
called others of the family to witness
the strange behavior of the table.
After experimenting some time the
little girl climbed upon the table, say
ing, "Now, let's see if you can move"
To their astonishment the table be-
gan to move along the floor with the
little girl omit. Shejumped of, saying,
"Now, move yourself if you can" The
table started off, moving across the
floor, no one touching it eff you can
move SO well," said the little girls
mother, "move into the next room
and kiss the baby in the crib there"
To their amazement the table started
the door into theroom where the babe
was sleeping in the crib, and tipped up
with its edge as close to the babes
face as it could get. Now, upon what
philosophy can this behavior of the
table be explained? Without going
any further into the phenomena of
spiritualism, or discussing what are
put forward as higher manifestations,
how are these elementary raps and
movements to be satisfactorily ac-
counted for? At all events there is
field here for honest investigation.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
IncOngruOuS.

Many years ago, when Mr.. Marcy
was Secretary of State, Mr.. Buchanan
was sent to represent the United States
at the Court of St. James. It was, as
it still is, the custom for foreign minis
ters to appear at court receptions in
court dress. But Mr.. Marcy, thinking
such a dress unbecoming the repre-
sentatives of the Republic, had issued
a circular forbidding our ministers to
wear anything save a plain suit OF
black. This order led to rather queer
consequences at the Court of the then
youthful Queen Victoria-for this was
in 1853.
Mr.. Buchanan was warned by the
Lord Chamberlain that he would not
be received in that costume, and at the
same time, that an invitation of Her
Majesty was considered equivalent to
a command. Mr.. Buchanan must
have felt himself in the dilema OF the
Scottish chieftain:
"There is no flying hence nor tarrying there"
. He could not obey both the Queen
and Mr.. Marcy. If hewent in no other
dress than the conventional swallow
tail, he would not only offend Her
Majesty, but it would be impossible to
distinguish him by his dress from the
lackeys and caterers in attendance.
The inventive genius of Mr.. Buch-
anan was equal to the emergency. He
dressed himself in the conventional
swallow-tail, but beneath it he ebuckled
on a sword. The lackeys were not al
lowed to wear swords, and so it con-
stituted mark of distinction.
The young queen received him in her
gracious way, but without being able
to repress broad smile. After that
he was decided court favorite, as
well-bred and well-behaved bachelor
deserved to be
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
What a Baby Can Do.

Babies are often called "helpless
little things" "powerless little crea-
lures" and all that sort of nonsense.
In few words we will prove to our
unprejudiced readers that babies are
neither "helpless" or "powerless," by
informing them of a few things that a
baby can do.
1t can wear out a dollar pair of kid
shoes in twenty-four hours.
1t can keep it's father busy advertis-
ing in the newspapers for nurse.
1t can occupy both sides of the larg-
est size bed manufactured simultane-
ously.
1t can make the author of it's be-
lng's wash bills foot up to SIS a week
and not be feeling at all well.
It can crowd to suffocation the
smoking car of a railroad train with
indignant passengers between two
stations.
It can cause it's father to be insulted
by every second-class clearinghouse
keeper in the city who "never takes
children" which in. nine eases out of
ten is very fortunate for the children.
It can make itself look like a .fiend
just at the moment when mamma
wants to show "what a pretty baby
she has,
1t can look its father innocently in
the lace and five seconds later spoil the
only good coat that he has got in the
world.
1t can make an old bachelor in the
room adjoining use language that, if
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
Better Crops From Sheltered Belts.

Last winter in Southern Ohio, and
indeed over a. much larger section of
country, furnished an illustration of
the value of timber as a protection to
small grain, which the dullest farmer
or most casual observer could not
fail to notice. The only fields of wheat
showing life were those which felt the
protection of timber. Rich land, thor
ough preparation of soil and early
seeding which gave start to the crop
SO that it covered the ground in the
fall, and even top-dressing with fine
rich manure, all counted for nothing
during the terrible winter, for thou
sands of acres which had some or all
of these favorable conditions were to-
tally killed. I rode during the last
week of April twenty miles through as
good wheat-producing locality as
can be found in the Union, and did not
see a single field that promised five
bushels of wheat to the acre, except
in the protection of timber. Here and
there was q green velvety field, and in
every case, without exception, was the
border of timber on one or more sides
oft. Even neglected hedges, allowed
to grow to the height of ten feet, saved
belt of wheat several rods in width.
Professor Townsend, of the Ohio uni
versity, states that in the prairie coun-
tries it has been found that with one
sixth of the land devoted to timber
the remainder produced as much grain
as the whole did before the trees were
planted. I have raised timber belts of
soft maple and of locust on my farm,
and found that double row, occupy
ing less than rod in width of land,
can be grown from seed to furnish good
protection in five years, and Ihave cut
a cord of wood from thirty-fve maple
trees; ten years old, and occupying but
four or five squarero ofland. There
can be no question of thep profit of these
timber belts; they pay in the protec-
tion they afford to grain, grass and
stock, and the timber when utilized will
pay again and often largely. When ar
ranged to protect the permanent pas
lures it is safe to estimate that the
stock can be turned out week earlier
in spring than in an unprotected field,
and a week of pasture at this season
is worth much more than week later.
I would urge every farmer whose land
is unprotected tie start shelter belt of
trees.-Waldo F. Brown.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
seasonable Fashion Notes.

Ottoman ribbons are largely used
for trimming dresses.
Parasols match the costumes with
which they are worn.
White cloth dresses are trimmed
with embroidery or braid.
Black and white striped silk and sat
in are very popular in Paris.
Black, gray and shades of brown are
the leading colors in hosiery.
Dividing the honors with Spanish
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
Strawberri es.

After a bed of Strawberries has fruit
ed, the space between the rows should
be spaded up and raked off SO as to
furnish place for the roofing of the
runners, from which q new bed may be
formed. BY turning the runners, which
grow freely after fruiting is over, into
this mellow, clean space, a large num-
Der ofnew plants will besecured, which
can be removed to new bed and
planted out to replace the old. one.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18

This way of forming a new bed every
second year, as soon as the old rows
are mated, is decidedly preferable to
keeping the old beds in a half-produc-
tive state The old beds are spaded
up next year when the new one will
havefilled therows; the runners on the
new rows should be directed to fill up
the vacant spaces, when the next year
there will be full crop. The year
after the same process is gone through
to form new bed.-New York Times.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
A Boston man suffering from ind

A Boston man suffering from indi-
gestion tried various kinds of exercise
to no purpose, but being at last pre-
vailed upon to allow himself to be.
tossed in a blanket every other morn
ing for a fortnight, recovered his health
There used to be a report that old
John Jacob Astor, when too feeble to
stir around, was regularly subjected
to this treatment.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-03-12

Our next corporation election, to come on
April 9TH. promises 10 DO one Of unusual in
terest. Besides the usual election for town
officers wslearn vote win be taken ON the
question of transferring the control OF our
public free schools TO the council. or TO
trustees TO DO elected for that purpose
This Ia an important question. and u well
understood, win no doubt bring out a full
vote. petition with over twice the mum
Der Of voters required by law has been pre-
sentsd TO the Mayor, requesting him 10 or
der such vote. With proper understand
ing and discussion, wo have no doubt Il will
carry by decided vote. The position OF
the FEKK Pass on this question Is well
known. II favors II not only because Il be-
lieves II will be much better for the free
schools and not detrimental TO any other,
but also because II Is OF first class impor-
lance TO the future growth and prosperity
of our beautiful town. We shall have more
to say on the subject In our next
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-03-12
Book Notice.

''BnLY's MOTHER" By Mrs. A. Elmore.
New York: J. S. Ogilvie & Co.
We were indebted some time since to the
publishers for copy of the above work,
and as due to talented lady friend and cor
respondent, we have given it perusal, and
found much to admire and approve in the
little volume. 1t narrates the story of a
poor old mother whose boy had gone to sea
years before, making continuous search for
him, and her various ups and downs while
thus engaged. At last she attracts the at
tention and aid of an intelligent young
physician by whose help her son-who has
settled in life as wealthy man-hears Of
his long lost mother, takes her to his happy
home and family, and applies himself to
make all who had aided her in her adversely
happy. The book is written quite in the
the spirit of the old masters of story writing
and leaves good and pleasing impression.
The author with pardonable vanity pre-
faces her book with fac SMILES of compli-
mentary notes received by her from Charles
Reade and John G. Whittier.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-03-12
District Court.

Court again convened on Monday. The
habeas corpus trial & Marshal Shoaf, Frank
Hines and Perry Upton, of Luling, was
commenced before Judge Techmueller and
occunied the entire forenoon. The state
asked and obtained postponement of the
case till Tuesday morning in order to in
troduce newly discovered testimony.
w. Hutchins, assignee of p. X. Turner
& Co, VS. H. E. Barber, suit for damages for
trespass consumed the greater part of Tues
day' The result was a verdict of S4lOO.66
for plaintiff.
The trial of the Shoaf case was resumed
on yesterday and is in progress as We write.
He is defended by Cahill and Mcneil, Pros
ecutor Bethany is assisted by W. IL Bur.
CESS. LArER.-The defendant was refused
bail by Judge Tiechmueller.
The grand jury Monday evening adjourn.
"a. Twenty-Five bills of indictment were
found. seventeen felOnies and eight misde-
meanors.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-03-12
To the Travelling Public.

OFPIcE OF
ST. LEONARD HOTEL. MAN PLAZA,
SAS ANTONIO, TExAs. 1884.
Editor San Marcos FREE Pass
As / desire to make The St Leonard
Hotel" a popular resort for stockmen, where
they may enjoy all the substantial comforts
of frst-elass hotel, / have reduced my
rates 70 correspond with the times, 20
81 so and 81
per day, and viii be glad 10 see yourself
and friends whenever you come 70 town. and
viii be on hand 10 attend 70 yoxr comfort
and make your stay sgreeable.'
DR.. L. A. Trexler. formerly Of the Cen
trail having associated himself With me.
vii be found in charge Of the ofsice, and
ready % receive any q hrs fnends Who nay
favor ne With = cal
Cars Eud stages pass the door.
Tours respsetfully.
PHrxrss ?. LouxsrEzT.
dcs-iT Prnr-ietor.