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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30
ONLY One Way.

Insurance against the dishonesty Of
employees Is recognized feature of
modern commercial life. One of the
great corporations carrying on this busi-
ness published an estimate Of the
amount lost in the year 1894 by embez-
element and defalcation. The total loss
for the year was put at the enormous
sum of $25,OOO,OOO. Immense as this
sum is, it does not include the losses,
undoubtedly large in the aggregate,
which have never been made public
by the individuals or firms defrauded.
1t Is far from encouraging to note also
that this estimate shows an increase Of
about 81 100000 over the previous year.
Most of this kind of stealing Is done
by men of good education, and at least
fair opportunities for honest success.
The real cause Is the too prevalent
haste to gain wealth and enjoy life
without hard work-to get something
for nothing.
One of the most valuable lessons that
can be learned is that everything worth
having must be earned by steady, hon
est effort. Henry Ward Beecher once
received letter from lad who wanted
to find an ''easy BERTH" Mr.. Beecher
in reply, after warning the boy to avoid
the law, medicine, the ministry, trade
and other forms of Industry, because
each involved hard work, ended with
this exhortation:
Don't work. Don't study. Don't
think. None of these are easy. o my
son; you have come into a hard world!
know of only one easy place in 1t, and
that is the grave."-Youth's Compan-
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30
The Longest Running Jump

According to the latest authority or
sporting matters, the longest running
jump on record was made by Johr
Howard. in May, 1854, at Chester, En-
gland. He cleared the astonishing dis
tance of 20 feet inches, using 5-pound
weights; but as he took from solid
block of wood, 1 foot wide, fee,
long and inches thick, wedge-shaped
and raised inches in front. the per.
Torrance can not form a record as
against jumps made on level ground
The same authority declares that the
best American jump, with weights, was
made by Charles H. Blggar. of Guelph,
Ontario, in October of 1879, when he
cleared a distance of % feet 3A inches.
Without weights, G. s. Reber, of De.
troit, Mich, In July of 1891. cleared a
distance Of % feet 61a inches, and c.
B. Fry, of Oxford, England. in March.
1893, distance of % feet 611 inches.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30
A Neat swindline Trick.

The latest swindling- game was prac-
ticed successfully the other day at Ben
ton, Pa. Two men, who appeared to
be strong silver and gold advocates,
were in the central depot and became
involved in a heated discussion. The
gold man offered to get gold double
eagle that If he hammered the coin into
a shapeless mass 1t would still be worth
$40. He was ostensibly taken up by
the silver advocate, but when 1t came
to selling the lump to Jeweler Roth the
store was closed. James Hagerty, a
strong sound money advocate who
stood by and who had implicit faith In
the value of gold, gave the man $50 for
the battered coin. The two enthusi-
asts disappeared shortly after, and then
it was discovered that the metal left
by them was spurious.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30
THE GIRLS ARE in THE WAY

OF Stronger, More ForcefuI Litera-
ture; So Some Authors 1nsist.
In the Ladies' Home Journal Ed
ward w. Bck editorially discusses the
plaint of certain authors, that young
girls stand In our way of having a
strong, forceful literature. They ar
que that these offending young girls
constitute the majority of book-buy-
ers and readers, and that they insist
upon having smooth, pretty and con-
ventional reading matter" Mr.. Box is
evidently disposed to treat this pro-
test in facetious spirit, pointing out
to the writer's how they can pursue lit
erature in accord with their own de-
sires and aims, without disturbing the
young girls, or publishers either.
ut Is very strange" Mr.. Box we'll
says, that certain of our authors
should so constantly complain Of being
circumscribed in this matter Of writ
ing about the great truths of life and
the problems of humankind There
Is no reason why they should feel SO.
The world Is large, and all ways are
open to those who wish to travel them.
If authors want to go into the darkest
and Vilest sewers of human life why
should they not? Every man Is his
own master And after any author
with such a mission has thoroughly
saturated himself with the atmosphere
of the places he has sought, then let
him write of them. He will not offend
any one No one will disturb him
least of all. the publishers. Certainly
the young girl will not Refined and
well-bred women will not annoy him.
Decent men will not obtrude them
selves upon him: they are busy with
weightier affairs. So. why should not
the author anxious TO solve the prob
lens of life go ahead and solve them?
There Is no reason on earth why he
should feel any sort of thraldom. His
facts are to be had for the experience;
ink and paper for few cents. Re-
yond that, he need feel no anxiety. He
need not worry about tyranny; there
will be none. He need only satisfy
himself; no one else Not human be-
ing will obstruct his going. And If,
here and there, stray specimen Of
the dreaded young girl happens across
his path, he need give himself no un-
easiness of mind. She will get out Of
his way. So, why this complaining?
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A common Ineoualitv.

Unless you are the one person out of
every fifteen who has eyes Of equal
strength, you are either left-eyed or
right-eyed. You also belong to the
small minority of one out of every ten
persons IL your left eye is stronger than
your right. AS a rule, just as people
are right handed, they are right eyed.
This g probably due to the generally
greater use of the organs of the right
side of the body, as, for example, a
gunner, using his right arm and shoul-
der, uses his right eye. thereby
strengthening it with exercise. Old sea
captains, after long use of the tele-
scope, find their right eye much strong
er than the left. This law is confirmed
by the experience of aurists. If per-
son who has ears of equal hearing pow
er has cause to use one ear more than
the other for long period. the ear
brought into requistion is found to be
much strengthened. and the ear which
is not used loses it's hearing In a CORE.
spending degree.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30
Milking a zebu.


Mrs. Braddock gives in the Independ,
ent the exciting story of her attempt
at milking zebu, or Indian cow. a
weird, uncanny little creature like all
her kind, with hump and long ears
s'sewed in crooked" so that they point
backward. One morning the gwala,
or cowherd, informed his mistress that
the calf had died in the night. and that
the COW would not allow herself to
be MIXED unless the caIf's skin should
be stuffed and set up before her; more
over, he suggested that if certain ru
pees should be given him for the pur-
chase of material, he would stuff the
skin himself.
In America l had MIXED more than
one kicking cow. Calmly, not to say
loftily, requesting the gwala to bring
his pail. marched down to the cow
house, inwardly resolved to see the rea-
son why that COW should not be MIXED,
and more than that, meaning to Illus
trate what an American could do when
an Indian had failed.
Outside the cow-shed the Zebus were
tethered in row. They paid no at
tention to the half-naked brown gwa-
la, but at my approach each, with wild
eyes and uplifted head, snorting and
trembling, seemed, but for the restrain
ing tetner rope, about to bound away
into the jungle.
The gwala called a second man to his
aid. With a new rope they lassoed
tho hipdar Jooc of fbo harnoyod hold
Ing them In a slip-1oose. One man
held the end of the rope, while the
other with the pail cautiously approach
ed her.
In a twinkling the pail was a rod
away, the man with the rope was pull
ing as for his life, the man with the
pail was with it still.
l was gasping to regain my breath,
while that zebu was kicking as moth
ing unpossessed could kick. She ap-
peared utterly Indifferent as to whether
there were ground under her, as all
four feet seemed continuously in the
air. The adept who was declared able
to dance with
One foot six inches off de groun'.
de oder not quite touchin',
must deliver up the palm.
Thankful that my valorous resolu-
tions had been mental, l meekly gave
the gwala exactly one-third the amount
he had requested, and directed him to
stuff the calf's skin.
This having been accomplished,
was again summoned to. the scene OF
action. There stood that remarka BILE
COW, contentedly licking and fondliug
her offspring, and occasionally lunch
ing scantily upon the hay stuffing
which protruded through her progeny's
hide, while the native milked merrily
away, sitting, as is customary, on the
wrong side.
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Around the
HearfhsfOne.
EHE PRAYER OF coLEss.

Ehsr gonei Alas, one more
luded by woman's trickl :
liner stalwart bachelor
figure as q benedick!
Bmarriage," see, "has been arranged
between Miss Blank and'-yes, and
Harry
|fy well-loved friend, you must have
changed;
You, of all men alive, 20 marrys
II Cambridge. on debating nights,
Brown and yourself snone in the lists
5 valiant foes of "Woman's Rights"
A pair OF stanch misogynists;
How yaiueiess your speeches prove!
Brown, too, understand, is fated
lnake, Ike you, the deadly move
hich loses all, by which you're mated.
d. thought mourn fos you, my friend.
My fears are not for you alone;
fhis sall of yours, does it portend
A like disaster of my cwn?
s love a brief insanity
Which seizes all of usf Shall no men
Escape its ravages? Shall /
Become a lover? Abs:t omen!
3h. Maud, or Muriel, or Kate!
Your name, from force of circumsta nee,
cannot definitely state;
Let US entreat you il advance; !
b, unknown maid whom l shall WOO,
Let me pi.: forward NV petition =
before you nave reduced me to
A semi-imbecile condition.
When, on some fragrant summer eve,
VOW that you are quite divine,
md ask you simply to believe
There never was such love as mine,
Pespise such platitudes as those,
From my demented self protect me.
md if l finally propose.
Be kind, be generous and reject me-
|ELondon World.
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Marketing Fallen Fruit.

None but the best, perfect fruit
should be sent to market. That will be
worth more than the poor fruit, and if
only the best is sold the market will be
kept up to paying rates. so that the best
sold by itself will bring more than the
whole would do. The poorer quality
of fruit, or that which from bruising
will not keep, may be fed to stock, or
If there is too much of 1t for that, evap-
orators may be procured and the fruit
be evaporated SO that It will keep. One
extreme naturally follows another, an
light apple crop is very likely next
year in the localities where 1t is most
abundant this season.
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Something Wrong.

While Colonel Powell was exploring
the canons of the Colorado his camp
was visited one day in winter by an
Indian hunter and trader, named John
son. He had no fixed home, but in
formed Colonel Powell that he intend
ed the next spring to plant corn, pota-
toes and other vegetables on a certain
long island in the Uinta river.
You will be along there in the sum-
mer," he said to Colonel Powell; "stop
and help yourselves to anything you
WISH
True enough, on one of the early days
of July the Powell party came to the
island, and in looking about came upon
a garden. 1t was in a sad condition,
having received no care since. it was
planted. The season was early, more
over, but one of the men suggested that
potato tops were good greens, and in
their strong desire for something to
vary their salt-meat fare, they gath
cred a quantity and cooked them for
dinner.
Soon afterward one man and then an
other was taken with nausea. violent
pains, and other symptoms of poison
ing, till the whole company lay tum-
bling about the grund groaning. Col
Powell was really alarmed, and ad-
ministered emetics to as many as would
take them. By the middle of the after
noon all hands were much better. Then,
as Col. Powell says, Jack Summer re-
corded in his diary:'
Potato tops are not good greens oD
the sixth day of July"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30
The Mother Hen

The experienced poultry keeper rec
ognizes vast difference in mother
hens, even in those of the same breed.
1t is not always the most persistent
sitters that are the best for raising
brood, as they are often too sluggish
and Indifferent. The non-sitters are
too active for the little chicks, even
when they can be induced to stay on
a nest long enough to hatch. Some
hens are quarrelsome, and kill or in
jure the chicks from other broods that
come within reach. Now and then a
hen is found that seems designed by
nature to raise family. She is a good
sitter, a careful brooder, and easy to
handle. All the chicks in the yard
may find shelter under her wings with
out fear of injury. She may be of lit
tie worth as layer, but the wise
owner keeps her from year to year as
one of the most valuable habitants
of the yards
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The Shepherd.

No flock of sheep can be expected to
do its best If scab. ticks, lice or any skin
ailment exists among them
An exchange says: Sheep grow Wild
In Alabama, and they have ranged SO
long in the briar thickets upon scant
herbagc that they have ceased to pro-
duce either wool or mutton.
Sheep do well in the corn field. They
get full rarions and clean up the land.
destroy weed seed. and get an occa-
sional ear Of corn, perhaps. which does
no great harm to any one.
An eve should be at least Is months
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30
Economizinx with Manure.

1t never pays to stint the manure
dressing for any crop that requires
much labor to grow it. All the labor IS
made more effective in proportion as
the soil is made more fertile. In other
words, on rich land crops that require
most labor may be grown with profit,
while on poor soil the balance will be
on the loss side of the account. The
proper idea of economizing with ma
nure is to apply it where it will most
aid in increasing soil fertility. This is
in every case where a part of the bene-
fit of the manure will be soon applied
to growing large clover crop.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30
Salt for Wireworms.

A Canadian farmer reports that he
has experimental and found that salt
is a complete remedy for wireworms.
On a patch of spring grain, he plowed
up and resolved all but one acre,
which he left for trial. He sowed
three hundred pounds of salt on this
acre. and forty-eight hours afterwards
he sowed three hundred pounds more.
The result is the wireworm has COM
pletely disappeared.
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REFORMS NEED MORE THAN A DAY

To bring them about, and are always more
complete and lasting when they proceed with
the observant among US can have failed to
notice that permanently healthful changes in
the human system are not wrought by abrupt
and violent means, and that those the
most salutary medicines which are progressive.
Hostetter,s Stomach Bitters is the chief of these.
ohliterated by 1t.
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HOW'S THIS?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned. have known r. J..
Chenev for the last Is years. and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obligations
made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. O.
WALDING, KINNAN 4 MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggi lists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally. acting
directly upoh the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c
per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30
Feedinp Oats in the strav.

If oats are not ground they may be
profitably fed in the straw. The horse
will chew oats and straw together more
thoroughly than he will the oat gra n
alone, and the grain may be given in
larger quantities than would be safe
if eaten by itself. Oat straw is mainly
carbonaceous. but it is commonly much
less hard than the straw of wheat, rye
or barley and is better for feeding to
stock.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30
One Last Remark.

Judge-Have you anything to say be-
fore the Judgment of the court is passed
upon you?
Tough Prisoner-Beggin' yer honor's
pardon, hey We heard the score, judge7
Philadelphia Record.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30

l believe Piso's Cure is the only medi-
cine that will cure consumption.--Anna
NJ. Ross, Williamsport, Pa, Nov. IL, '95.
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One ON the Doctor.

Doctor-This bacon doesn't appear to
me to be well cured; does 1t to you?
Lady Of the House-Pe Pexhaps not, doc
tor; it is probably like some of your
patients doctored, but not cured
Richmond lva.) Dispatch, ....a
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30

HANDS-For all kinds of work furnished free or
short notice. Address Hfgley's Employment Of
fee, 142 Third Street, Portland. Oregon
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30

The total population of the earth is esti-
mated at about 100000 souls, of whom
35, PA 900 die annually-an average of 9s,-
21S dav
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A Chean Hog Pen

A Nneap nOS rec
1t does not need an expensively built
pen to house hog, unless it is one of
the variety that stands on two legs.
The genuine hog, which is the only
kind really profitable, goes in for COM
fort and not at all for style. A pen
warm in winter, with tight roof over
it to exclude rain, and floor enough
for the hog to stand on while he is
eating, is better than a painted house
of matched lumber that will cost
hundred dollars 1t is good thing in
a hog house to have a dirt floor, and
that the hog house be light and strong
enough so that it can easily be moved.
Every time the house is moved there
will be a new floor, and the hog. if I'M
ringed, will root it over. A hog left
free to root in soil that has not been
contaminated with hog manure, will
generally keep healthy, and will make
healthy pork. In summer time, the
house is mostly superfuous. The hog
likes to be cool and will root for himself
in wallow in the moist soil, where he
will lie most of the time if well fed,
and will keep in better health than in
the most artistic hog pen ever built.
Many of the experiments in hog grow
ing begin with much too expensive hog
houses. These make the pork cost far
more than the cheaply grown hogs of
farmers, who can thus undersell nthe
amateur farmer, who handicaps HIM
self by putting on too much style.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30

The British admiralty is about to take
up the work of training carrier pigeons for
conveying messages at sea.
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MAILED FREE TO sns sSsFsss Fs,es Lis. 81
HoUSEhoL D GOODS, ETc.

This circular is issued for the benefit Of our
country customers who cannot avail themselves
dress You viii find both Foods and prices right
WILL & FINCK CO.,
8lS-S2O Market street. San Francisco, Cal.
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Special OFF, to General Stores. Dry
Goods Stores, Dealers in Notions.

We wish to establish in every town on
the Coast an exclusive agency for the A.
M. W. WATERPROOF DRESS FACING AND
BINDING. Best seller on market. For
terms, samples and particulars, address at
once PACIFIC COAST AGENCY WEBER MANU-
FEATURING Co., Sl9 Market street, rooms %
and "a, San Francisco, Cal
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Watering Cows.

Now that the time for putting up cows
has come some thoughts on how they
are to be supplied with water will be in
order. AS might be expected, cows
giving milk need much more water
than other domestic animals, for 80
per cent of their milk Is water, besides
other secretions of liquid from the
body. 1t Is mistake to suppose that
cows having access to water at all
times will drink more than Is for their
good, but if deprived of 1t half day
and then allowed to drink of cold wat
er, they will often through thirst take
SO much as to injure digestion, the
water having to be warmed before the
stomach can go to work again. We
think that In cold weather water should
be warmed to nearly, or quite, blood
temperature. Where roots. pumpkins
or si1ase are fed to milch cows they
will drink much less water. and a cow
that Is fattening, and is fed on roots
pumpkins and other green food, will
often go twenty-four hours without
apparent desire for any water.
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Her system of Orthopranbr.

Her SySteH OF OrtHUKraphy.
aiamma-Well, Elsie. what did yon
learn at school to-day?
Elsie aged 6)-Learned to spell.
Mamfna-Now, what did you learn
to spell?
Elsie-Man.
Mamma-And how do you SPELL
stman?"
Elsie (promptly)-M-a-n, man.
Mamma-Now, how do you sLell
"boy?"
Elsie (after moments reflection
The same way. only in littler letters
Washington Times.
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The Social Side.

The social features of farm life are
not as attractive to the young as they
should be- Town people make study
of their social life, and tkey are con-
stantly working and planning some new
feature of pleasure and enjoyment.
The parents plan for their children
and their children's friends, and they
spend both time and money for the
advancement of social culture. Why
not incorporate more of this idea into
our farm life? It's surely worth try
ing
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30

A genius and q good fellow are two
different persons.
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old before she Is bred: and one good
lamb is always to be preferred to pair
of inferior twins, whether bred for the
stock or the shambles.
If the current passion for lamb rails
ing, lamb stufting and lamb eating runs
on for year or two longer, we shall
become nation of epicures; and the
sturdy, stately, honest visaged, old
fashioned wether will have passed into
history.
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w Wheat,

Make money by succ ssfHl ,peculation in
Chicago. We buy and sell v heat there on rar.
gins. Fortu es have teen made on a small be.
particulars. Best of reference given. several
wears experience on the Chicago Board Of
Trade and a thorough knowledge of the busi-
ness. Downing. HOPKINS & Co., CHICAGO Board
of Trade Brokers. Ofices In Portland Oregon
and spokane Wash.