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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
PERSIA. Learned Shah.

\ There is every probability that the
'1ion'' Of London's next season will be
the new Shah Of Persia. His majesty
is a very learned parsonage. He is a
lover of poetry and has an extensive
acquaintance with general science. He
wishes to extend his area of knowledge
by personal observation. Hitherto his
studies have been founded principally
on Plato and Herbert Spencer, but he
has now ordered supply of modern
English poetry, by poets still alive, to
be forwarded to him for perusal. He is
a bit Of an author himself, and has even
rhymed a little for amusement.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
Cool Baths for Couehs.

A physician advises cool sponge
baths twice a week in winter and oft
ener in summer for the cure of the
common .'children's catarrh.'' The
baths should be given in a warm room
and be followed by friction by rub
ing to produce a glow. If they are
not followed by chilly feeling or
headache, the reaction has been prompt
and beneficial. The baths should be
begun with warm water, changing
gradually In succeeding baths to tepid,
then cool water. 1t Is well, too, to
begin this atment In the spring, sum-
mer or early autumn, rather than in
midwinter. They will stimulate the
circulation, prevent colds and act upon
the nasal membrane, as upon the rest
of the body, to promote its healthy ac-
ton. Mothers with children suffering
from catarrh should guard them zeal
ously from colds In every way pos
sible. Every access of Inflammation
upon such chronic cases is good deal
more than temporary step backward.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
.aKEAr PERSONAL EVENTS.

A series Of articles of unique interest
has been undertaken by the Ladies
Home Journal. It is to be called
"Great Personal Events and will
sketch the most wonderful scenes #
popular enthusiasm and thrilling hii :.
torio interest which have occurred in
America during the past fifty years.
Each one will be graphically detailed
by an eyewitness, while leading artists
have been employed to portray the
events in pictures made from old illu >
trative material. The series has just
been started in the current number of
the magazine, Hon. A. Oakley Hall, ez-
mayor of New York city, sketcaing tt 9
scene when Jenny Lind Sang n
Castle Garden" which still stands
the greatest single concert in the annals
of American music. Mrs, Henry
Ward Beecher in the following issue
will tell of aremarkable scene in which
her husband was the central figure;
"When Mr.. Beecher Sold Slaves in
Plymouth Pulpit" Then Stephen Fiske
will portray the furore and excitement
When the Prince Of Wales Was in
America. Parke Goodwin will follow
this in a succeeding number with an
account Of the unparalleled excitement
in New York "When Louis Kossuth
Rode Up Broadway" Hon. John
Russell Young will sketch "When
Grant Went Around the World,'' Mr.
Young being of General Grants party
The great scene in the senate chamber
when Henry Clay Said Farewell to
the Senate will follow. Lincoln will
figure twice in the series: First. in a
description of "When Lincoln was
First Inaugurated, and, next, "When
Lincoln was Buried The stirring
story of the discovery of gold by John
w. Mackay will be revived in "When
Mackay Struck the Great Bonanza.
The series will extend through all the
numbers of The Ladies' Home Journal
during 1897.
There is no form of energy that is SO far
reaching in its benefits to the welfare and
comfort of the world as electrical energy.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
Alexanders nerves were N a queer

| Alexanders nerves were n q queel
State. He turred very pale.
"a woman, sir"
"a lady %
81 think, sir, she's num-"
Alexander walked into his study
| Amazed he saw rise before him figure
in black, with Tapping sleeves and
flowing skirts.
A calm, good face looked from under
| the white band and sable veil.
.Is it your said the nun, quietly
"who have been advertising to discover
the address of Hedwig Schwalb?' s.
/ His heart sank.
.tYes-yes."
"She is with u.s.
"Hedwig! A num-
| She shook her head with a grave air
Nuns are not made so quickly. Oul
order has chapel and infirmary neal
Soho. We work there. Two days age
I found the poor young woman lying
| on the chapel steps, l am Sister Fran
| ces. She was ill-insensible; we took
| her in. Her name is on her clothes
| we could not find out anything about
her. She has fever-it is on the brain
! she doesn't speak sense. But we see
| she is good. girl and has been well
cared for-innocent, refined. If you are
a relative and wish to see her you can
come with me-"
"Not a relative" gasped Alexander
ian old friend"
The nun bent her head.
81 am sorry to have to say it, but
there is no time to lose if you want to
see her alivew
Beds, narrow beds, white beds, sick
beds in rows. Walls-gray walls, ST.
lent walls, glimmering walls-with pic
lures. Lights-dim lights, kind lights,
holy lights-like flowers. And on pill
| low Hedwig's face, with the roundness
and the roses and the splendid hair
gone from it, and Hedwig's voice bab-
bling in German wildly.
"She won't know you," said Sister
Frances.
But she did know him. He took her
hand and bent over her and she began
talking in English at once. A light
came into the sunken face.
IL lS yOu. dIu plCd5Cu " SSC youp
at all. l was knowing you would come.
What a fine day! What blue sky!
Happy, happyw Her gaze wandered.
"And look only-the beautiful tame
deer! Can 1 give him bread? No, no.
His eyes are too sad! Take him away.
am tired. Cute nacht"
Perhaps Sister Frances had had a
love story in her youth.
She turned her back when she saw
how Alexander's tears rained down
and how he held the poor, delirious lit
tie girl in passionate, yearning clasp.
Was ii the warm tears, the warm
clasp that brought Hedwig back to
life's shores from which she had been
fast drifting2 Who can say?
AS soon as she was better Alexander
asked her very timidly il some day she
would marry him.
In whisper came Hedwig's reply:
81 will-at all"-Answers.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
STEALING INVENTIONS.

Few Men of Genius Reap the Benefit
of Their Ingenuity.
Just why inventive genius and guilt
bility should go together 1t is hard to
say. Certain it is that inventors are
the most guileless Individuals In their
dealings with others on business mat
ters, and fall easy victims to the spi-
ders who lie in wait for such flies. The
list of clever men who walk to-day,
while those who ride owe their luxury
to the other mans genius and their
own shrewdness, is an interesting one.
Here are few cases picked haphaZ-
ard from the chronicle of inventions
that failed to benefit the inventor, or,
what was his due.
1t Is not necessary to be very old to
remember when hooks were first put
In mems shoes In place of holes, in or
der to save time in lacing the shoe at
the top. This was the brilliant idea of
an inventor to whom it should have
brought a fortune. 1t would have
done so had he been shrewd business
man. Being merely an inventor he
AAetNh SChcC ChOdSA " hCOP AAo AASh
to himself until the patent Office pad
lock had secured 1t against theft. In
the innocence of his nature the In
ventor confded the idea to friend
while crossing the North River ferry
boat, and the friend hardly waited for
the boat to tie up in Jersey City be-
fore he excused himself, started back
to New York and went on dead run
for patent lawyer, in order to have
the idea secured for his own especial
benefit, Another man is known to-day
as the inventor Of the lace hooks. He
owns splendid house and Is wealthy.
The confding inventor got nothing.
The Inventor of a patent stopper for
beer bottles, something that had long
been wanted by the trade, sold the In
yention for $4,000 to q man who rec
ognized Its money-making value, The
purchaser is now worth $5,000,00O all
of which he made from the patent stop,
per. Out of the goodness of his heart
he presented the original owner of the
patent with $4,000, so that this man
got $4,000 in all for his So, 5000, 900
idea. To give some notion of the value
of patent rights on this bottle stopper
the price came down from 81 to and 7
cents gross, and even at this enor-
nous reduction good profit can be
made.
This last inventor was treated with
princely generosity, however, in COM
parison with the genius who devised a
pocket-book clasp in the shape of in
terlocking horns, with balls at the end
which snapped shut with single pres
sure. The idea was afterward applied
to gloves and became very much in ia
vor. The inventor re1inquished his
prize for the magnificent reward of
kidney stew dinner and so cents, the
latter having been advanced by the
purchaser to pay the inventors ex-
pense from Newark to New York. The
man who secured the idea and patent
dit after treating the inventor in the
royal manner mentioned made big
fortune by his shrewdness. What be-
came Of the inventor is not known
~
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
Tartar Medicine.

Formerly musk was used as a medi.
cine In various parts Of the world; but
doctors In civilized lands do not hold
musk in high repute. In China it is
still thought to be very good medi-
cine; but the Chinese have queer no
tions about cures and charms. Abee
Muc, a distinguished traveller, says
that when Tartar doctor finds him.
self without his drugs and medicines,
he Is not In the least embarrassed.
He writes the names of the needed
drugs on slips of paper, and these,
being rolled up in little balls, are swal-
lowed by the sick man. ITO swallow
the name Of remedy, or the remedy
ITSELF" say the Tartars, comes to pre-
cisely the same thing."-St. Nicholas
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
Was Man an Amphibian ?

=" 90 4xAAA al PhAUAdb
Man was said to have descended from
a good many types, by different In
quiries into ancient history, some go-
ing for monkeys or apes, and others
for various species of animal life; but
some curious cases of hereditary web
bed hands and feet In human beings
seem to show that our ancestors may
have been amphibian.
An instance of this kind of heredit-
ary popularity has been reported by
Doctors w. R. Smith and J. s. Nor
well, in the case of a family, nearly
all the members of which were affected
by malformation of hands and feet.
In the subjects examined by those
gentlemen, the second and third fingers
were webbed to the tip, and the bones
were disposed in an extraordinary
manner.
Each foot had six toes, all more or
less webbed, except the fourth, which
was comparatively free.
These peculiarities have persisted
through several generations, and it was
found that twenty-one persons out of
twenty-eight had been malformed In
this way, and In all cases In both hands
and feet
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couchant beast, stuck over with cruel
eyes-a beast that swallowed lives
down, and kept the secret; by day the
sunny streets Knocked him with passing
faces, with trim figures that In the dis
tance looked like hers, with glimpses
of yellow hair.
Or was she back In the fatherland?
Safe with friends; with a betrothed
lover perhaps?
If 1t were SO, and he could but know
of It, he thought he should have the
manhood to thank heaven.
He had been returned to4town four
days. As he came in late from a weary
stretch of walking his valet met him.
"A person to see you, sir"
What sort Of person r.
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Around the
HearfhsfOne.
lEA SONG or THE LANoLuRBER.

If you really want song of the sea,
Let no sailor that song sing,
But some lubberly clown from an inland
town,
His song will have the ring.
There never was man who went to sea,
Abaft the mast or before,
Who could sing you q rollicking song of
the sea
With man who stays on shore.
Then pass the steaming punch around,
When the nights grow merry and long;
When the black tides swirl at the har-
boris mouth
Well raise the lubbersong.
Oh, the starboard watch was well wound
ap,
Likewise the port watch too,
When the pinnacle fell from the mizzen-
And the chaplain piped the crew.
Twas n close hauled reach to nearest
beach,
And the spanker foated free,
As We stood by our guns of some thou
With gale upon our lee. il axdkgs
aa
Then blow, ye breezes, blow,
And the guns they go bang! bang!
A sailors joy is the harbor buoy;
Hurrah for Ii Hung Chang! "a
Our capstan sail was hoisted up,
The cardboard strake gave room,
And we sailed away from New York bay
By the light of the spinnaker boom.
The captain found the anchor a-trip
In the salt of the sparkling brine,
And the bo'sun said that the anchor
tripped
When the good ship crossed the line.
Then brazil away on the topsail sheet,
Belay on keel downhaul;
Its our cowsprit yard that is safe and
hard,
And Wen reef in the sounding pawl.
New York Press.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
Proof.
marked

"Jinkles is in love-" remarked a
young man.
How do you know?"
1--WE seen him out bicycle-riding four
times with the same girl
THAT doesn't prove that ne is in love
with her.
no. But they were on 8 tandem and
she weighs at least $50 pounds
Washington Star.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13

One Pound Of Coal on a Steamship.
The value Of one pound of coal at
different epochs of steamship evolu-
ton, as given by Mr.. A. ]. McGinnis,
president of the Liverpool Engineer
ing Society, has been as follows: In
1910 pound of coal propelled dis
placement weight Of .57S ton eight
knots; but the earning weight was
only one-tenth Of this, 80 per cent. of
the displacement representing the hull,
machinery and fuel. In 1850, with
iron vessels and the screw propeller,
displacement weight of six-tenths of
ton was propelled nine knots by a
pound of coal; but the proportion of
cargo had risen to 27 per cent, or .16
ton. In 1860, with higher boiler pres
sure and the surface condenser, 80
ton displacement was propelled ten
knots, and the cargo was 3S per cent,
or .27 ton. In 1870, after the compound
engine had come into use, 1.S tons of
displacement was propelled ten knots.
and here the cargo formed so per cent.
Of the whole, being nine-tenths Of
ton. In 1885 there were two classes of
freight boats; the tramp" propelled
3.4 tons displacement eight and one
half knots, with go per cent. or two
tons of cargo; at the same time the
enormous cargo steamers Of the North
Atlantic were driving a displacement
of 3.14 tons twelve knots, with IS per
cent, or IT tons of cargo. On the
modern express passenger steamers
the cargo weight is down to 90 ton
per pound Of coal.-Railroad Gazette.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
Goblets.

Goblets, with stem and stand like
those we use to-day, were employed In
|Troy 900 B. q. Among the valuable
objects recently found is a golden COB
Diet. Vessels of this metal were COM
monty employed In the service of the
temples. A curious goblet with three
$tems has been found at Pompeii. Its
dse is conjectural, bur the superstition
Is that it was used to pour libations to
the gods.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
Reason for Condolences.

Richard-But what makes You feel
SO sure that she viii marry your
Harry%WeIl, you see. her mother
and have engendered 4 mortal ha-
y Of each other. Boston Transcript
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13

Piso's Cure for Consumption is our only
medicine for coughs and colds.-Mrs. c.
Beltz, 439, 8th ave-, Denver, Col, Nov. 8, 80.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
DEaFSEss cANsor BE CURED

By local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu-
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed
you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear
ing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is
the result, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, /,
which is nothing but an infiamed condition OF
the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of deafness Caused by catarrh) that cam
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circularsi free.
FL. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c,
Hall,s FAM iIv Pilie 70 the hast
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13

The average woman wears corset
as long as II 1t cost $50. and she never
expected to be able to buy another.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13

Sun spots are believed TO be openings in
the sum photisphere, or luminous enve.oI g
through which the orb is seen,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
Contradictory.

Don't do that, Harry, somebody may
see u.s."
81 don't care. I'm no sticlkler to
FORM"
.sYou seem to stick to mine ali right. /"
Brooklyn Life.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
A TENACIOUS cLUToI

Is that of dyspepsia. Few remedies do more
than palliate this obstinate complaint. Try
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, however, and you
will find that it is conquerable, along with it's
symptoms, heartburn, fatulence, nervousness
and loss OF flesh and yigor. Biiiousness and
constipation frequently accompany it. These
besides malarial, rheumatic and kidney com
plants, are also subduable with the Bitters.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13

If you pick up starving dog and make
him prosperous he will not bite you. This
is the principal difference between a dog
and man
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13

They say in Texas that the cowboy of
the future will use wheel instead of a
horse. One cowherder in Atchison, Kan
sas, already uses one.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
what He Wanted,

Boy-I want to buy some paper.
Dealer What kind of paper7
Boy-You'd better give me fly paper.
| want to make a ite.-Scottish Night.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13

HANDS.For all kinds Of work furnished free on
short notice. Address Hgley,s Employment Of
hce, lI2 Third Street, Portland. Oregon
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The right kind Of person Is always
glad to get home, after beirg away on
visit.
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Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.

The chemical constituents of the mush-
room are almost identical with those of
meat, and it possesses the same nourishing
properties.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13

Good roads are as essential to the
prosperity Of the country as the proper
machinery for cultivation Is to the
farmer. A farm that Is easily accessi-
Bile, by reason of good roads, Is worth
double to the owner what 1t would be
otherwise. In no country are good
roads so easily obtainable with SO little
cost as they are here, and in no State
is so little attention paid to them, Little
chuckholes are left until they become
dangerous, plank breaks in culvert
and It goes until some valuable animal
has become crippled. Road overseers
start In some work by tearing up the
road and then leave it unfinished for
months while the public is compelled
to drive around the obstruction. Our
road laws are faulty, we admit, and
under them it perhaps is impossible to
have good highways, but at the same
time 1t Is within our power to elect men
to the somewhat humble and not very
lucrative Office of road oyerseer who
will take an interest in working the
roads. Let property owners and neigh
bors In each respective district get to-
gether before election day, and decide
upon some man who will fill the Office
right, and not leave 1t until the last
day, and then perhaps by a dozen votes
put some one in who cares little and
has no interest whatever to prompt
hlm.-Leader, Irving, Kan.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
Georgia,s Convict Law,

Georgia's Convict Law.
The next General Assembly relative
to the disposal of the convfcts will pro-
vide for a general stockade system
that will permit of the constant i'm
provement of the country roads during
workable weather and afford other
means of employment during severe
weather.
How best to settle the convict ques-
ton has been the text of many lee
lures and innumerable editorials, and
the trend of popular opinion is towards
the above outlined plan. Clarke County
is not to wait for the general measure,
however, and 1t will have perfected
similar system long before the state
machinery Is put in motion. The Good
Roads movement is constantly grow
ing, and soon the State of Georgia will
be as conspicuous for her graded high
ways as she Is now for her dangerous
gullies.-Banner, Athens, Ga.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13

There Is no form of energy that is SO far
reaching in its benefits to the welfare and
comfort of the world as electrical energy.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-20
DYNAMITE ExpLopEs.
Property Damaged to the Extent of 01a..
900 at Dayton, Tenn.

Property Damaged to the Extent of O11..
900 at Dayton, Tenn.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. 17.-Several
persons were seriously and one fatally
injured by an explosion of dynamite
magazine at Dayton Friday morning.
The explosion, which occurred before
daybreak, was preceded by fire un-
doubleday of incendiary origin in the
supply storehouse of the Dayton Coal
q Iron company, where, in addition to
$4,000 In merchandise, 225 pounds OF
dynamite for use in the coal mines was
stored. The force Of the conclusion
shook the earth, and besides blowing
the large two-story structure to atoms,
badly damaged the brick Office and
store OF the company, 200 yards dis
tant, and shattered windows in the
depot, courthouse and nearly every
business house in the place, though
many were over half mile from the
center of destruction. The fact that no
pedestrians were abroad SO early pre-
vented serious loss of life. The dam
age will exceed $4,000.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-20
FURRY IN WHEAT,
An Advance Of Seventeen Cents Bushel
in Frisco Since October 1.

An Advance of Seventeen Cents Bushol
in Frisco Since October 1.
San Francisco, Oct. 17.-Friday was
the banner day Of the present wheat
boom. On the regular morning call De-
cember was forced to $1.411s, an adj
vance of over seven cents on the best
price obtained Thursday for the same
option, and an advance of II cents
since October 1, when the best figure
obtainable for December was $1.24A.
The advance in May was even greater
than December, the regular session FRI
day morning bringing it up to $1.44N,
against s1.3e94 as the best price obtain
able Thursday. AT the afternoon ses-
sion December again gained three-quar-
tiers over the best morning pricas. but
subsequently dropped to s1.4o. May
gained three-eighths also over morning
prices. but closed at $142H.