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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
BEANS IN CAMP.
Mark Twain Tells of an Example of
Strict Etiquette and Fair Play.

Mark Twain Tells of an Example of
Strict Etiquette and Fair Play.
There was a strict camp etiquette,
law by all, and 1t was of this etiquette
that Mark Twain told me an example.
A Boston man was eating breakfast
early one morning, at a table near the
open door and the half bar half res
taurant of the place. He was just fin
.ishing his plate of pork and beans when
two Missouri men passed along and
saw the Boston man and his breakfast.
They stopped within a foot or two.
"Look at that" said the bigger Of the
Missouri men, contemptuously. DO
you see what that blankety blankety
blank Boston thing is eating? Why,
down In Missouri where / come from
we feed them things to our horses. Only
the brutes eat that grub down there"
Presently the bully stepped inside
and sat down opposite the Boston man
at the same table. When the plate of
beans had been eaten the Boston man
me another plateful Pile 1t up. l like
'em." When the heaped-up plate came,
the Boston man, quick as flash, had
pulled out his revolver, had the Mis-
souri, man covered with it, and then,
pushing the full plateful of beans across
the table, told the Missouri man to
.eat it and like it." or he'd shoot him.
like the dog that he was.
The bully had his choice between
beans or death, and he knew it. When
he had eaten every bean, he was made
to say that he liked beans, and then,
and not till then, did the Boston man
put his pistol up, pay for both orders
of beans and leave the saloon.
"Now," said Mark, 'the reason the
Missouri man didn't whip out his gun
and shoot as soon as the beaneater's
back was turned was because of camp
etiquette Each man had his fun with
the other, and they We're even. If the
Boston man had been shot, the Mis-
souri, man, as quick as news could fly.
would have had his body filed with
lead from the revolver of every man
in camp, regardless of party. You see.
we We're quite stickIers for fair play
in those days."-New York Journal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18

CATERS almost fell over her. She was
sitting In the middle of the path, with
Muggins' head In her lap. She looked
at Gerard with her mouth open and the
big tears running down her cheeks.
"Ah, Gerard" said she, poor Mug
ginsp
what has happened?' gasped Van
Caters, kneeling down beside her.
There was a distinct cracking in the
underbrush. Van Caters sprang to
his feet.
mo, no." said Marie, catching at his
arm; 'it's too late now-the man-oh,
oh, such brute! If it hadn't been for
Muggins-"
Muggins tried to lift his battered
head, but dropped 1t with queer, gruff
moan. He was covered with blood, and
so was Marie.
'The man sprang out and caught my
arm, and l called Muggins, who was
some way behind, and Muggins flew at
his throat. and the man let go. And
then Muggins got him by the arm and
hung on and wouldn't be shaken off.
And the fellow beat him with a great
stick, and finally Muggins dropped"
Muggins quivered and wagged his
stump of tail feebly, and Marie took
one of his clumsy paws tenderly and
held it in her small hand.
Poor Muggy, poor, bad, brave old
Muggy, who loved me!'
"Rookv said Muggins, family. "a
rook, a-rook! Woof," and SO, with that
hoarse bark. he died, game to the last,
and most sincerely mourned.
Van Caters buried him there un-
der a big oak tree, and cut "Muggins"
in the bark, and proposed again to lit
tie Marie on the way home.
please. Gerard" said little Marie,
another day"
To-day" said Gerard, stoutly. But
it was not that day, nor for many
long day, that little Marie made an
swer.
BY that time Muggins' epitaph had
extended until it climbed up into th'
branches. Van Caters added some
thing to 1t every time he and Marie
visited Muggins' grave.
THAT beastly bull pup" said Gerard.
jealously, one day, when Marie was
reading the finished epitaph aloud:
We've made him out regular angel"
"Poor Muggy," said Marie, softly,
putting her frail little hand on his
sleeve. "Poor, bad, brave old Muggy,
who loved mer
And that, think, should have been
Muggy's epitaph.-Vogue.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
Erect of an Audience.

One of the peculiarities of the ora
torical temperament is that it is sub
ject to what our grandmothers called
''vapors," or depression of spirit. In
such a mood molehill seems a noun
tain, and grasshopper is burden.
Mental effort is impossible, and an en-
gagement to speak in public as repug-
nant as is the sound of the dinner-gong
to seasick passenger. The only cure
for such an attack of spleen is to get,
by hook or crook, the orator before the
audience, where the excitement will
put him mentally and physically on
his feet.
In 1859 Thomas Corwin, Ohio's most
eloquent orator, had consented to de-
liver the grafton at the celebration of
the Fourth of July on the Tippecanoe
battle-grounds. The night before the
celebra ton, Corwin called his son-in-
law. Mr.. Sage, to his room and told
him that he had been unable to sleep
and was much discouraged about his
address the next day. He had tried to
think over his speech, but his memory
had failed him, and he was afraid he
would make failure. His son-in-law
advised him to dismiss the speech
from his mind and go to sleep.
The next morning Mr.. Corwin felt so
indisposed that he announced his ina
bility to speak. The marshal of the
day finally persuaded him to ride out
to the grounds and take seat on the
platform, Whence he might explain to
the people why he was unable to de-
liver the Grafton, and thus lessen their
disappointment.
At the proper time, Mr.. Corwin rose
to make his apology; but as he looked
over the audience of forty thousand
people, that "sea of upturned faces"
stirred both body and brain. He made
a few commonplace remarks, and then
struck upon the first sentence of the
manuscript he had prepared.
at is all right, he will speak," whis-
pered Mr.. Sage to the president of the
day.
1t was all right; the orator went on
and spoke for two hours. The manu-
script he had prepared was the intro
duction of the speech-a page and a
half of legal cap-which Mr.. Sage had
read the day before. The audience
made the sick man well, and an orator
again.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18

For a pretty decoration at summer
wedding when the ceremony is perform
ed at home Bell Bayless offers the fol-
lowing suggestion in The Ladies Home
Journal:
'sTake tennis net, fish net or ham,
mock that may be cut the desired size
and fasten it to the rings Of a curtain
pole, looping it twice and then allowing
il to fall to the ground Then weave
= hite flowers in and out the meshes,
king ferns or delicately cut foliage for
fringed border, being careful not to
Fe too solid an appearance, and cover
bping cords with a rope of flowers.
hite narcissus, hlacs and honeysuckle
tn white clover ropes may be used,
any flowers in season may be util-
Bsd-daisies, spireas, apple or plum
blossoms, roses, chrysanthemums, any
thing white, but if preferred, pink, blue
or yellow for border or entire drapery
would be very dainty. Asparagus vine
works in beautifully for green back
ground. %
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
Odds and End.

If India rubber bands are put around
bottles carried in a sachel or packed in
box they will prevent the bottles from
grinding together, and perhaps break
ing.
Soap for household use will last as
long again If, after it has been cut into
blocks, it is put by for few weeks be-
fore being used. New soap melts SO
quickly and is extravagant where much
is required.
The rubber rings Of fruit cans will re-
cover their elasticity If soaked for
while In weak ammonia water. This is
quite an item when canning is being
done and the rubber rings are found to
be stretched out Of shape
A coloring for white flannel or other
goods to be used for rugs or hangings
may be easily obtained by gathering
from stone walls or rock work the thin
moss that grows there and boiling 1t
with the goods in an iron kettle. 1t will
make them a tan color.
In washing grained wood work use clear
water or weak cold tea. Where there
are finger marks to be removed. such
as around the door knob or on the win
dow sill, little fine soap may be used,
but only just enough to do the work,
for soap should not be used on this
woodwork If 1t can be avoided.
In mixing cakes always use large
fork, or two forks together, instead of
an iron or wooden spoon. Mashed DO
to tooS chould navnr no hoo FOR, with a
spoon. They will be twice as light if
fork is used. They should first be mash
ed with potato crusher, then, when
the milk and butter are added, beat
well with fork.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
Abscondiur swarm.,

Bees will at times bid adieu to home
and apiary and leave for parts un-
known. This occurs more frequently
in early spring, and arises principally
from starvation. They seem to prefer
swarming rather than to stay in the
hive and starve to death. A cure for
this may be affected at once, by giving
them a frame of brood and honey from
some other colony, or they may be
brought about by feeding. Swarms
all abscond occasionally, and after be-
ing hived will reissue during swarming
time. This frequently occurs from the
cause of mismanagement in hiving
them.
When having swarms, the hive should
be SO arranged as to admit an abun-
dance of ventilation, and in excessively
hot weather the hive should be shaded
When bees swarm they fill themselves
with honey to the utmost limit, and in
this condition they cannot stand close
confinement in hives, with the sun
shining directly upon them. Every
swarm thus hived should have frame
of newly-hatched brood given them
from some other colony. This is prac-
ticed now and by almost all apiarists,
and is sure preventive of absconding
swarms.-Colman's Rural World.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
Around the
HearfhSfOne.
WILL THE ROBIN SING rnEREq

Will the robin sing in that land,
That land SO fair and SO far.
That lies as our souls fondly dream,
In the depths of the uttermost star?
Will the violet bloom in that land,
And the mosses so sweet and so shy,
All the dear common things that we love,
In the dim, distant deeps of the sky?
Will the children sing in that land,
All the sweet, simple songs of the earth,
And shall we rejoice and be glad
In their music and frolicsome mirth?
Oh! will there be friends in that land,
Friends who love and rejoice in our love
Will they look, will they speak, will they
smile,
Like our own mid the strangeness
above?
Oh! shall we have homes in that land
To return to where'er we may roam?
Oh! the heart would be lonely and sad
Fen in heaven if we had not home.
l love not the new and the strange,
But a friend and the clasp of his hand,
Oh! would that my spirit could know
That the robin will sing in that land.
-Woman's Magazine.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
500 REWARD, 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to in all Is
and that is Catarrh. Halls CatGrrh Cure is the
only positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis
ease. requires a constitutional treatment. Halls
Caiarrh Cure is taken internally. acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the sys-
disea e, and giving the patient strength by
building up the Constitution and a, sisting ma
ture in doing It's work. The proprietors have
so much faith in its curative powers, that they
offer One Hund;ed Dollars for any case that it
fails to cure Send for list of testimonials. Ad-
dress, FL CHENEY & CO. Toledo O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18

Mrs. Sophie Keller is the first woman
conductor in Denmark. In 1895 she re-
tired from the operatic stage, after a
brilliant lyric career Of % years, and
began to teach. Last autumn she found
ed an institution called the Women 8
Private Society For Concerts, which
opened with about 1000 active and as
sociate members. Now she is gathering
complete orchestra of girls Both un-
dertakings are proving very successful
The music at the women's concerts is Of
high character, and Mrs. Kel1er's en-
terprises have excited great interest in
Denmark Woman's Journal
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
4 TERRIBLE RIDE.

From the Evening Times Buffalo, N. Y.
Along one of the dismal roads in
Western New York, man and wife
were driving as rapidly as the dark.
ness and inclement weather would per-
NIT.
The rain beat down upon the rubber
covering and found its way into every
crack and opening.
The occupatns of the buggy were
Dean Jones and his wife, of Spring
vile, N. Y. Everybody is familiar
with the name. He is the well known
starting judge, who has become famous
for his impartial and fair treatment of
jockeys at the post.
1t was about ten years ago when
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones took that fateful
ride that came near costing her her
life.
Mrs. Jones' clothes were thoroughly
soaked before town was reached.
and she became chilled to the bone be-
fore the little blaze, the attendant
started, warmed the atmosphere.
From that time on Mrs. Jones was
an i'll woman.
Her trouble-wel1, it was about ev-
erything with which human flesh can
be afflicted. She had strange, queer
feeling in her head, that felt as if sew
eral shot were rolling around loose on
her brain. Pen cannot describe the
torture she suffered. Local doctors
told her she had water on the brain.
"A Times reporter called upon Mrs.
Jones, who said:
Ever since that terrible wetting
invalid. had terrible neuralgia pains
in the head which often went to my
feet and limbs. was often in suoh
terrible state that I had to use a
crutch to get around or else slide a
chair before me to move about the
house. was very ill for five years,
in spells, and never expected to get
we'll. 1t was blood disease, guess.
One of the doctors consulted said
had clotted blood in my head, and per-
baps did. He could not cure me.
! neither could several other doctors
tried. I also used many patent medi-
cines, but they did me no good.
Ny complexion was a perfect
white, and my ears were SO transparent
you could look through them. My
blood was turning to water.
"Look at me now; do look sick?"
-The reporter was forced to admit
that he had seldom seen more perfect
embodiment of health.
With pardonable pride, Mrs. Jones
said, "Dr. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People did it.
8 81 can &C anywhere now, while be-
fore commenced using DR.. Williams
remedy I could not move out of the
pouse.
For three years, would you believe
ft, did not even go to church. I was
not always confined to my bed, but
fould not leave the house.
wherever l go people say, why,
Mrs. Jones, how we'll You are looking.
How did it happen?' and I always tell
penn Pink Pills did it..
81 have not had the slightest touch
my old illness for the last six months
and feel as if I never had been ill in
my life -
Mr.. Jones said, "you can readily i'm
agine how highly we regard the REM
edy in this house where we have had a
wife and mother restored to perfect
health''
4 DIR. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all dealers, or will be sent post paid on
Receipt of price, $50 cents box, or six
boxes for 81. 50-they are never sold
IN bulk. or by the 1907 by addressing
Or. Willimas' Medicine Company,
Schenectady, N Y.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
A Sign Painter

Dick-But how do you know he is a
siga painter?
Harry Because he wrote a-gentence
IN whicl, there were six apossrophes
and he got every single one of them in
the wrong position. Boston Trans
cript.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18

cred his body.
81 was in a hor-
rib1e fix " he
says, land the
more tre t..
1nent l receiv-
ed. the worse /
seemed to get.
A New York
specialist said
he could cure
me, but his
treatment did
me- No Onnd
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
roo LATE TO MEND.

There is point beyond which medication
canuot go. Before 1t Is too late to mend, per-
SONS of rheHmatic tendency, inht rited or ac-
quired, should use that benignant defense
against the further progress of the superiena
cions smalndy-rheumatism. The name of this
proven rescuer is Hostetter's stomach Bitters,
which, it snould also be reeollected, cures dys-
papsia, liver complaint, fever and ague, de-
bility and nervousness.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18

Professor Goldwin Smith, in letter
to the London Times, says that the de-
mand for the franchise for women is
dying out in the United States.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18

W h a te yer. I was stiff and full of
pains, my left arm was useless SO
that I was unable to do even the.
lightest work. This was my condition
when began to take S. S. s., and a
few bottles convinced me that was
being benefited. continued the
medicine, and one dozen bottles cured
me sound and well. My system was
under the effects of mercury, and
would soon have been complete
wreck but for 8. s. So
S. S. S., guaranteed purely uegetable)
Is the only cure
for real blood dis
eases. The mer-
curia1 treatment ~ ~ ~
of the doctors al
ways does more
harm than good. Beware of mercuryi
Books on the disease and its treat
ment mailed free to any address BY
Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18

A shoe that can be heated by means
Of an apparatus attached to the sole is
among the latest curiosities at the
Washington patent Office.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18

Sixty dollars was the sum charged
by Police Commissioner Welles, of
Brooklyn, to policeman for taking a
drink of beer while on duty.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18

No fewer than 16, 900 persons die in
Italy every year from malarial fever,
and there are 1000 communes where
quinine is not to be had.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
study of the Criminal.

DR.. P. Penta, an Italian criminologist,
has discovered new feature of GRIM
inal anthropology, which goes to con-
firm still farther the views of Prof.
Lombrosso. According to modern med
icine DR.. Penta has studied the fingers
and toes of 4,50O criminals, and finds
deficiency in the number, as well as
prehensile toes, marked by wide space
between the great toe and the second
toe; also webbed condition Of the
toes, an approximation to the toeless
feet of some savages. He found the
little toe rudimentary In many cases,
showing tendency toward the four
toed animal foot The most common
of all the abnormalities was the web
bed condition Of the toes. The criminal
Is truly degenerate type.
a. IA n ~ = -
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
oversalting of Butter.

The habit of oversa1ting butter comes
from neglect to properly work It. II all
the milk were got out of the butter,
very little salt would suffice to keep 1t
sweet. 1t is the fermentation Of casein
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18

Piso's Cure for Consumption has been a
God send to me.-Wm. B Mcclellan,
Chester, Florida, Sept II. 1895
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
Mil En EpEE To any address, our ::
HOUSEHOLD GOODS, ETC.

This circular is issued for the benefit of our
country customers who cannot avail themselves
of cur Daily Special Sales, Send Us your adj
dress You win find both goods and prices right.
WILL & FINCK Co.,,
618-820 Market street San Francisco, Cal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
Beware
OF Mercury!

Mr.. Henry Roth, of 1848 South 9th
Street, st. Louis, was given the usual
mercuria1 treatment for contagious
blood poison. Hewas twice pronounce
ed cured, but the disease returned each
time, he was seized with rheumatic
pains, and red Jumps and sores COW
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
A Good whitewasb.

Skim milk and water lime mixed to
the consistency of cream. The milk
must be sweet In order that the cal
cium of the lime may have the right
chemical effect upon the casein of the
milk. For coloring we generally use
venetian red, or, If stone color Is de-
sired, black is mixed with the red.
It may be applied at any time Of the
year, as 1t sets Immediately. We have
seen great many buildings painted
with this mixture, and where two coats
are given 1t makes permanent job Of
1t. To some this may appear too cheap
to be good. It is cheap, especially for
farmers, and after comparing 1t with
oil-painted buildings, as to cost and
durability, it is much the better. Bear
in mind, we are. talking about out
buildings, which usually have rough
surfaces Farming.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
Weeds and Good Farming,

Occasionally farmer is heard to
ask how the weeds can be killed, but
he does not realize that If by some
rapid process they could all be dis
patched new legions would fill their
places at once If the conditions which
they enjoy remain. What farmers
need to comprehend is that without
some radical mistake in the manage
ment of their land the daisies never
would have gained such a foothold.
All plants, including weeds, settle and
thrive where the competition for life
Is such that they can enter into 1t pros
per. A good stand Of grass leaves no
room nor any hope for weeds. 1t is
not in well-tilled fields that Canada
thistles flourish, but in neglected pas
lures and by the roadsides. In the
contest with the best agricultural
practice they cannot prevail. The rem
edy for weeds is to keep the land busy
with good crop on it, and this means
that the farmer must give persistent
and connected thought to his business.
II the daisies crowd out the grass it
is because the meadow has been neg
lected and the grass has begun to fail,
and wherever there is a vacancy, by
the failure of the grass every enter
prfsing weed finds a rightfu1 oppor-
tunity to establish itself. If the farm
er asks, therefore, what will kill the
daisies, there Is one answer: better
administration and Forest
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18

DIR. Bouffe, of Paris, has discovered
the bacillus of leprosy in the blood, as
well as in the tissues.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18


in the butter rather than Of the fat it.
self that makes butter rancid. The
popular taste requires much less salt
on butter than it used to do. One rea-
son for this probably is that butter
eaters have found out that the very
salty taste means an attempt to cover
up defects in the butter, just as highly
salted and spiced meats are open to
the suspicion that they have been made
SO after beginning to spoil In England
and Scotland there is a large demand
for perfectly fresh butter. 1t COM
mands a better price than the salted
butter, for the addition of salt increases
weight without much increasing the
cost. But this unsalted butter must be
eaten within day or two of making
or it will spoil.