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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21
ANOTHER one of the "bnnc

ANOTHER one Of the s'bunco'
Banking institutions by which sew
eral sections of the state of Ore
gon7 have been victimized, col
lapseds the other day at North
Yamhill. G. A. MARITIME, who
constituted "the bank" assigned
the ..ssbunco" traps over to G. A.
Douglas. Liabilities are stated at
$4,000, with assets sufficient to pay
40. cents on the dollar-per-
haps. A glaring feature of the
affair was this .bunco banker's''
unblushing acknowledgment that
he, had no capital invested. As
the Yamhill Reporter pointedly
asserts that ssthere must be
sonnet hing, radically wrong
with the banking laws of
the state, that adventures like
MARITIME and Baldridge, with
capitalization of gall. are able to
establish themselves in tie imper-
tant function of banking and be-
coming custodians Of the peoples
money!
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21

Two printers got held up by
footpads in Portland the other
night. When the crooks threaten
ed to shoot if they didn't divey,
the ssprints" made race down the
street like quarter horses. What
the robbers ever expected to get
from two printers is puzzler;
and what the printers ran SO for to
keep from, losing, is equally as
mysterious.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21
THE American counsel bay

The American counsel have
drawn first blood in the Behrine
sea case. The point which the
tribunal has decided in their favor.
relating merely to the admissible
ity of certain documents, does moi
affect the merits of the main ques-
ton, but it efectually disposes o.
the English newspaper assertions
that our representatives have been
standing OH frivolous technicall-
ties. 1t also shows that -notwith
standing the overpowering reputa
tions of Sir Charles Russell and
Sir Richard Webster, a good Amer
ican lawyer has no OCCASION to
feel outclassed in their company.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21

THR most striking case of pat
riotism unrecognized is witnessed
In the columns Of the Lafayette
Ledger, which urges the fact that
the best way to build up its home
town is to patronize home mer-
chants, whom it asserts are s'strict-
ly, honorable business men and
you need not be afraid that they
will rob you" A glance at the
Ledger's columns reveals the fact
that one solitary merchant patron
ICES the paper.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21

It would be useless for to try to tell the suffering
this boy endured. I took him to two different
doctors, both gave him lots of medicine but all to
no use. He grew worse. therefore despaired OF
benefits promised to those who would use CUTI-
cURA REMEDIEs. I went right away to the drug
store and bought them. must confess had but
little faith in them. However used them accord
ing to directions and to-day say truthfu1y to all
the world, if you wish to publish it, that my 10
entirely cured, thank God and thank the dscoverers
of CUTIcURA REMEDIES. They cured him in four
weeks as sound as a gold dollar.
- JOHN SAVAGE, Fishkill Village, N. Y.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21

ACCORDING to reports from down
the Columbia the fishing season is
now in full blast all along the
river. An Astoria paper says :
"There will not be very much trap
fishing in the river this season.
On account Of the weather the
trap men have been unable TO fix
up their traps, and it will be sew
eral weeks before they can get in
any kind of shape.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21

The very popularity and pleas
ure of bicycling should be the
main reason for not riding reck
lessly Oh the sidewalks. There is
no quicker way to put damper
on this exercise and destroy its hold
than to, have few accidents re-
suit from carelessness OIL the part
of bicycllsts.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21

In 1890 the United States had
S43 cattle to the 1000 population,
in 1898 it has775 head to- the 1000
population. This would indicate
that the price of cattle should be
higher than it has been. But then.
It is not worth while to make pre-
dictions, cattle may be lower next
year.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21

In fact, if the distinguished barris :
ters mentioned deserve to rank as
heavy weights, it would seem ad-
visable to invent new class for
Mr.. Carter and his associate s.
Those "frivolous technicallitiesn
were worthy of being sustained by
the tribunal, it noted.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21
CHoLERINE IN PENNSYLVANIA.

Swickley, Penn: We had an epidemic
of cholerine, as our physicians called it, in
this place lately and l made great hit
with Clamherlaln's Collie. Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. 1 sold four dozen bot
ties OF it in one week and have since sold
nearly gross. This Remedy did the
work and was big advertisement for me.
Several persons who have been troubled
with diarrhea for two or three weeks
were cured by few doses of this medicine.
P. z. KNAPP, Phi. e.
25 and so cent bottles for sale by T.
Graham, Druggist.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21
THESI.NGLE TAX IDEA.

Single tax means the eXemp.
tion of all personal properly from
taxtion and the derivation of all
slate and federal revenue from
an imposition on land values. 1t
is but Just TO Confess that tie aG-
vocates OF this idea include a num-
Der of men of superior intellec-
tual ability, like Mr.. Henry
George, and it Is an interesting
subject of theoretical discussion,
but in New York state where it
has been most throughly discussed,
it has won no supporters among
the farmers, and intelligent skilled
labor, like Chief Arthur, of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, have pronounced against
it.
The people in the older states
of the country are not willing to
carry it into effect, and certainly
the single tax idea must expect a
cold reception from the people Of
a new country such as the Pacific
states, where land has not been
developed to its full capacity of
productiveness and already bears
a share of the public burdens out
of proportion to its relative earn
ing capacity. Any man who
would propose to-day to put the
entire burden of state and local
taxation upon land-would be re-
garded by our people as man
with a ''bee in his bonnet"
The drift of tax reform in New
York is toward the relief Of the
farming class by corporation taxes,
collateral inheritance taxes, etc.
The system, as shown i'll a recent
article in the Seattle Post Intel
ligencer, it would seem has many
advantages. This method of tax
alton aims to relieve real estate
of all tax burdens, except for local
purposes, and to provide for the
needs of the state by taxes on
legacies and corporations.
Neither the. farmers nor the
skilled labor classes in New York
state have taken kindly to the sin
gle tax idea. The court of appeals
of Maryland recently declared the
proposed system of single tax
theorists to be contrary to the
constitution of the state. The
was tried in the town
Of Hyattsville by vote of the peo-
pie and its operation was awaited
with much interest. The asses
sors, according to their instruc-
tions, separately assessed the land
and its improvements. The i'm
provements were to be exempted
from taxation and the entire tax
from the land values.
The minority, however, protest
ed, and carried the matter into
the courts. The lower courts sus-
tanned the new system, but on be-
ing carried to the court of appeals
that tribunal undid all that had
been accomplished by declaring
that the people of Hyattsvil}e
could not enact such system
even with the consent of the state
legislature, and further adding
a system would eventu-
ally destroy individual ownership
in the soil, and, under the guise
of taxation, would result in ulti-
mate -confiSoation
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21
OUT OF SIGHT.

The travelling public are now fully alive
to the fact that the Chicago, Union Pacific
& Northwestern line offers the very best ac-
commodations to the public from and to
Chicago, Omaha and intermediate points,
not only during the worlds fair, but all the
year around.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21

The almost unanimous approval
of bar, press and people of Judge
Bellinger's appointment must be
most grateful to him. He certain
~ can enter upon his duties feel
ing that he has the confidence OF
the community.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21

poor boy suffered terribly.
His feet were terribly sore,
he could not wear any shoes,
and had therefore to stay at
home from school. When he
put on pair of dry stockings
In the morning, they would
in ore hour be saturated with
moisture and very offensive
even in the coldee: weather.
The disease began to spread
over his body, especially his
hands and fingers. The
thumbs on both his hands be-
came stiff and as useless as
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21
CENTRIC,

"Papa, if you want your little boy
To have his heart just full of joy,
Give to him five cents or ten,
So he can buy a CENTRIC PEN"
For sale at the GAZETTE stationery stt
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21
Cuticura ResoIvent

The new Blood and Skin Purifier, internally, and
CUrIcURA, the great Skin Cure, and CuTicURA
SOAP exquisite Skin Beautifier. externally, in
stantly relieve and speedily every disease and
hair from infancy to age, from pimples to scrofula
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21

The Dalles has a $4,000 fruit
eannery corporation and now all
they need is a cannery to match
il.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21

Sold everywhere. Price, CUTIcURA, 5oc.; SOAP,
25c.; REsoLyETT, 81. Prepared by the POTTER
DRUG AND CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Boston.
Ca" How to Cure Skin Diseases, :" GA pages so
illustrations, and testimonials, mailed free
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21
OFFENSIVE ECZEMA
Suffered Terribly. Doctors and Aedi-
cines Useless. Cured in Four
Weeks by Cuticura.

have boy, fifteen years old, born in Fishkill,
portrait enclosed, who had the eczema offensive
that could not stay In the room with him. The
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21
a. r. PETERSON,
ARCHITECT AND BUILDER.

Special attention given to job work. stair building
store and Office fitting. Keeping hand choice lina
OF room and picture mouidngs. am prepared to oil
orders for FL! sizes of picture frames with peatnsss
anc dispatch Satisfaction qua, anteod. Give .
cal Office sad shop two blocks southwest of pubEe
school
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04
The Vision OF Birds.

Birds have very acute vision, per-
haps the most acute of any creature,
and the sense is also more widely diff
fused over the retina than is the case
with man; consequently a bird can
see sideways as well MS objects in front
of it. A bird sees-showing great un'
casiness in consequences hawk long
before it is visible to man. So, too,
fowls and pigeons lind minute scraps
of food, Distinguishing them from what
appear to us exactly similar pieces OF
earth or gravel.
Young chickens are also able to 6nd
their own food-knowing its position
and how distant it is--as soon as they
are hatched, whereas child only very
gradually learns either to see or to un-
derstand the distance of objects SeY-
eral birds-apparontly the young of
all those that nest on the ground can
see quite we'll directly they come ont
of the shell, but the young of birds
that nest in trees or on rocks are born
blind and have to he fed. Chambers s
Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04
Tie Audience Was Saved.

During tho performance of play
TO crowded theatre ut Bella, Italy,
enc of the players behind the scenes
thought he saw tiny threads OF smoke
curling up from the floor Of the stage.
He called the stage managers atten-
tion to it. who, on investigation,
found that under the stage the place
was on fire. The manager kept his
self-control md returned to the stage,
where one of the chief actors was
about to appear. The manager
whispered the situation to tic actor,
md asked the latter to feign sickness
when he went out to act his part, and
thus give on excuse for stopping The
performance.
The actor did us suggested. He
went on the boards Immediately md
pretended TO reel and then fell. The
audience rose i'll sympathy. and the
stage manager, rushing forward hur-
riedly, said that owing to the serious
illness of the singer, the performance
would have to close that night. The
doors were promptly thrown open,
and the audience was hurried out.
Just AS the last of the audience was
leaving the flames began to burst
through the stage, and, looking back.
the people saw the real cause OF thei1
dismissal. The theatre was destroyed,
but no lives were lost.-New York Dis.
patch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04

Tobiensky, the engineer, has im-
agined gigantic captive balloon, com.
posed of two hemispheres and three
cylindrical compartments of triple
China silk. Its volume will be IA, 079
cubic metres and its dimensions 93l1
square metres. The weight, including
the castle in the air and its accessories,
with that of 150persons, will be 35, 620
kilogrammes, or about sixteen tons.
The balloon will be anchored by four
great vertical cables.
Two balloon elevators, capable Of
carrying ten TO fifteen persons, con-
meet the castle with the ground. This
elevated platform and -editice, is to be
built of steel and bamboo tubing. cov-
cred with China silk and sheet iron.
According to the strength of the wind,
it can rise to height OF from 600 to
1900 feet. The platform is ninety feet
long, with surface IF 200 square feet.
It can be lowered to the ground i'll
thirty minutes.
Thousands of electric lights will
gayly scintillate from the balloon, as
it hovers in the clouds by night, and
by day hundreds of miles Of the fiat
Belgian country will be visible. An
Antwerp newspaper expresses a hope
that other air castles may thus finally
reach point where they leave the
world of fancy to enter that Of ac-
complished facts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04
Indian Houses at the Worlds Fair.

Near the Anthropological Building
are several outdoor displays of more
than usual interest. The party sent
out by Professor Putnam to the ruins
of Yucatan aud Copan secured at
Uxmal, Chichen-Itza, and Labnah
'ssuueezes'' of some doorways, cor
ners, arches, etc, showing every de-
tail of ornament and symbolical cary
ing. From these molds casts have
been made exactly reproducing the
structures. A group of five of these
lies north from the Anthropologlcol
Building. North from this is al IN
teresting series Of homes of various
American Indians. The palm-thatched
hut of the Arawaks of Guiana; the
long house of the, Iroquois, construct
ed of bark, and divided into SIX spaces
within, one for each of the Six Ma
tions; the birch-hark tent of the Pen
obscot Indians of Maine; the skin
covered tepee of the plains tribe; the
dome-shaped framework OF poles, COW
cred with rush mating, OF the Algon-
kins; the plank-covered houses OF the
Kwakiool of Vancouver Island, and
the Haidah of Queen Charlotte Islands
with their symbolical paintings and
totem posts; these range along the
edge of the lagoon on whose waters
float various canoes and boats of the
natives. These houses have been built
from proper materials by the indians
themselves, and most of them are in
habited by families of Indians, some
of whom carry on their native arts and
industries Very interesting IL this
connection will be the series of dances
of the Kwakiools, for which Doctor
Boas has arranged, which will take
place at intervals through the season.
Popular Science Monthly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04
New jerseys Buried Forests.

. A piece of contemporary geology Is
being worked in New Jersey. Tho
whole coast line has been long sink
ing, and the process is still going on
A curious industry is carried on in tho
southern part of the State--the mining
for cedar. Some of these noble trees
exhumed from their swampy buriad
exceed three feet in diameter, with tho
timber perfectly sound. Tho clay"
of these uprooted trees indicates tho
devastation, probably, of e1traor-
binary cyclones, occurring at immense
intervals Of time, thus leveling ono
forest upon another that had been
thrown down long before. The cedars
growing there to-day send their roots
among their long-buried ancestors
The rings upon the cxhumed trees
show a growth OF 1890, or possibly
1000 years, and tho existence Of at
least two buried forests below tho
present growth is indisputable.--
American Naturalist.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04
Highest of ali in Leavenng Power-Laest u s Govt Report
Rg!ya!!!! q! Bski9a Bsx5s':
ABSOLUTELY PURE ->~
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Alaska Fish.

In this modern day Of Government
schools, ready-made clothing, and
two-dollars-a-day wages, almost the
only picturesaueness left to native life
is during the salmon runs Families
and tribes betake themselves to their
hereditary fishing grounds to catch
and dry their salmon for winter use,
and isolated summer camps break the
forested sborc-line with fine effect.
A row of black canoes on the beach, a
cluster of bark or mattel tents, with
frames of drying salmon overhanging
The camp-fres. are set between some
clear still green water foreground and
All abrupt screen Of greenest menzie
or merton spruces. The racks OF fish
give touches of high color to the
scene, as the further north they are
caught the redder the Pacific salmon
ore; and in Lynn Canal some of these
camps look as if decorated with red
bunting. All is salmon that comes to
the Tingit, and he makes no distinc-
tion between king, red, silver, lump
back, or dog salmon, rather preferring,
on the whole, the coarse, rank flesh
of the last, which no white man wants;
hence he RACES at the csnnery's waste
and the destruction Of his chief food
supply. Since the corrupting touch
Of trade has even reached their salmon
streams, the natives now make per-
manent summer villages beside the
canneries. The men work for the
company, and the women and children
10 o little independent fishing, but
more regularly follow the csnnery
scows and fill their canoes with re-
iected salmon, as Gamers nse only
about third of nll fish seized. Thus,
in midsummer, Alaska villages are as
empty of their first families rs any
Eastern city, and the tourists sec
closed houses, and not third of the
regular inhabitants. Census enumer-
ators work zeslously, but vainly, in
attempting to count tho natives when
they are scattered in remotest hooks
all over tho archipelago, half OF them
padding their canoes from one place
to another, and rs likely to be counted
twice es not at all during the summer.
The white mans fisheries are more
prosaic, less fragrant, and never
picturesque i'll themselves. One finds
the canneries in the furthest hooks
and inches Of the archipelago, each
with finer landscape setting than the
last. There is always mountain
background and a clear brawling
stream coming from the dense forest.
-Harper's Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04
German
Syrup,

justice of the Peace, George Viii
kinson, Of Lowville, Murray Co.
Mimi, makes deposition concern
ing a severe cold. Listen to it. Iii
the Spring Of 1888, through ex-
posure I contracted a very severe
cold that settled on my lungs. This
was accompanied by excessive nigh;
sweats. One bottle of Boschee':
German Syrup. broke up the cold
night sweats, and all and left me
in good, healthy condition. I can
give German Syrup my most earnest
commentator. G.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04
PRESERVING GRAPES.

Here ore few good ways in which
grapes may be enjoyed throughout the
winter:
Preserved Grapes-Squeeze the
pulps of the grapes out of the skins.
Cook the pulp few minutes, until it
con be pressed through sieve. Re-
ject the seeds. Add little water to
the skins and cook until quite tender.
Then put the skins and pulp together.
Measure, and to each pint add pound
of sugar and boil fifteen minutes.
spiced Green Grapes-Five pounds
of green grapes wild are best), three
pounds of sugar, one pound of raisins,
one-half pint of vinegar, one table
spoonful of ground cloves, one table
spoonful of ground allspice, one table.
spoonful of ground cinnamon. Stone
the grapes and raisins and simmer one
hour.
Picked Grapes--F'ill jar with
alternate layers of sugar and punches
of nice grapes, just ripe and freshly
gathered. Fill one-third full of good
cold vinegar and cover tightly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04

of embroidered trimming. The mystic
three rows appear again on the bust
and the belt and on the collar are
wider strips of the same design. But
the sleeves with their pinkcd fiounces
are the head and front of offending.
In their shadow--may it soon be less
one reads porterts Of the future
+: is an autumn of honnce, frrbc.
low, frill, futter. frou-frou. The dress
of tifty-two founces, whose fame1 was
first to trumpet forth, is, perhaps, on
extreme. The dress Of six or twenty
ones sister will wear according as her
patience md her purse hold out. Yet
it will be forgiving fashion, with
scope for variety. The plain skirt will
fight for it's life and smaller sleeves
will almost certainly win their skir-
nish for recognition unnoticed i'll the
crush OF might'er matters. rs.-Chicsgo
Herald
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04

THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR SOCIETIES AND
TEMPERANCE.
The Christian Endeavor Societies. with
16, 600 delegates in attendance at the late
convention in Montreal. adopted the fol-
lowing:
Resolved, That we recognize in tho
LIQUOR traffic the chief evil of the T. ae and
chief obstacle 10 the advancement Of Chris
tian civilization that we condemn inten-
perance In every form ; that we stand for the
suppression of the saloon and the abolition
OF its power in the politics OF our land rs one
of the first duties of American citizenship.
and that we heartily commend all righteous
agencies whose purpose is the protection OF
our homes and OF the true interests OF
humanity BY the determination Of the liquor
traffic." -. 3 g $.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04
TIE FAKIRS DIAMONDS.

There was new face among the fakirs Oh
the water front yesterday morning the face
of q man who made diamonds, ruhies and
other brilliants out of old bottles. The color
of the bottles seemed TO be the factor that
determined the nature OF the stone; the i'm
plemeDts we're q small hammer. little pol
ishing wheel and q couple OF boxes that con-
tanned q powder.
The fakir had :. radiant portable stand
somewhat larger than the contrivance that II
scissors-grinder carries and at that he did q
thriving business Waterfront glassware
was sacrificed for diamonds. the accompany
ing sacrifice ofsilver varying with the size OF
the finished product. Glass nuggets as big
rs the Kohinoor. and quite AS brilliant rs the
sun, were placed within the reach OF tho
multitude at fifty cents. and modest-siZed
diamond big enough Tor Il waterfront en-
cageElent ring could be bought for twenty
cents.
Throlga the crowd m old man pushed his
way. aHere's bottle" he exclaimed.
Break tEat up into rubies for me-"
mo -ubies in that replied the fakiT
It's diamond bottle"
Diamonds. then :" shouted the old man.
"Break it anykcw! I've carried that same
bottle for twenty years back. an manys tn"
diamond an' ruby its cost me. Break it ur
und keep the cismords for your trouble -
San Francisco Examiner.