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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21


aration OF ammonia beside her kitchen
sink or in the bathroom. 1t is ver1
useful in many ways. as the house
holder knows. 1t has also another use
Fill teaeup with tepid water in ths
morning and add to 1t three drops Of
household ammonia. Pour this OF tht
soil of the geranium, or other rapid
growing plant in your window. Ap ap
plication of this kind once or twice 9
week will add wonderfully to the
growth and appearance of the plant
1t is, in fact, concentrated liquid fer
tilizer that is effective, cheap and
handy. For number of plants twelve
or fifteen drops to a quart of water il
sufficient. Twice week on sunny
morning is enough.-Agriculturis
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

Electricity has been adopted as the
motive power of the machinery in con-
nected with the drainage system in
New Orleans.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

Newton calculated the speed velocity
of the comet of 1860 to be $780, 900
miles an hour. Brydonne rated the
speed of the comet he saw in ITO at
2, 500, 900 miles an hour.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

The most extensive cemetery in the
world is that at Rome, in which over
6, 200, 900 human beings have been
inferred.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
The WOMAN Question.

"Woman will never make a success
full politician. She cares too little foI
public sentiment"
"Of course, woman does not like pub
lie sentiment. No gentleman would
make love to a woman in public, any
Enquirer.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

All Eastern. Syrup, so-called, usually very
light colored and OF heavy body, is made from
Sugar Cane and is strictly pure. 1t is for sale
by irst-class grocers, in cans only: Manufac-
tured by the PACIFIC COAST SYRUP Co. All gen.
uine "Tea Garden Dfips'" have the manufac-
turer's name Autographed on every can.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

Inquirer-How do you expect to come
out in the race for Office?
Aspirant- I'll be satisfied with a
place.-Yale Record.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

To Prevent Posts from Decaying.
1t is the rapid alienation from cold
to heat and from dry to moist that
makes posts decay so rapidly. This is,
of course, worse on sandy soil, through
which the air rapidly percolates, while
in the heavy soil the air does not enter.
The best preservative for posts in any
kind of soil is to thoroughly dry them
and then char their surface. After rub
bing off the fakes of coal dip the char
red ends in oil. taking care that both
the charring and the oiling come up
above the point where the post enters
the soil. Posts treated thus have been
found sound after fifteen or twenty
years, when, without this treatment.
posts on sandy soil had rotted at the
junction with the ground after eight
or ten years service.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
AGRICULTURAL NEWS
THINGS PERTAINING TO THE
FARM AND HOME.
Pointers ON How the Farm Can Be
Made to Pay-Advantage of Having
Wells in Barn Basements-How to
Prevent Posts from Decaying.
To NJ. Ike the Farm Pay.

One of the greatest hindrances to
profitable farming is a desire to go too
fast at first, and to purchase things one
could get along without. The obliging
agents tell you that you need not trou-
BILE about the money; your note will do
just as well; but you will find that you
must pay big interest for the privilege
of going into debt, and you are always
at a disadvantage with your creditor.
Have the money ready to pay, and
you can then make your half of the
bargain. Take good care of your farm
and your stock and they will furnish
the money for the necessary outlays.
will just say to young men who expect
to make farming their occupation, that
they may expect hard work and plenty
of it, and they will not need to join
any baseball nine for exercise; but If
they take care of their health and hab-
its it will not hurt them. l have tried it
for over sixty years, and am to-day
well-preserved man. l can truly say
that with the blessing Of our heavenly
Father upon the labors Of myself and
family, have made farming pay, and
what l have done others can do.-John
Laramour, before Bloomingburg, Ohio,
Institute.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

Piso's Cure for Consumption is the only
cough medicine used in my house.-D. c.
Albright, Miff1inburg, Pa, Dec IL, '95.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Live stock Points.

New South Wales ships annually 29O,-
600 beef cattle to Europe, while Queens
land ships e5O,OOO. These and the
beeves from Argentina are the ones
that mostly come in competition with
our cattle in European markets.
1t is not hard to raise colt by hand.
In case of very young one left with
out mothers milk, add little warm
water to some fresh cows milk and
feed that. If the foal has not yet
learned to drink, put the warm milk
into a long-necked bottle, so that the
liquid will drain through slowly. The
colt. tasting the milk upon the moist
ened rag will begin to suck it. After a
little time the young animal will learn
to drink. and after that all is plain
sailing. The colt will soon drink out of
shallow pan. Give the milk four
times day. To teach the baby horse
to drink, pour just little milk down it's
throat, so that it will taste 1t and want
more. With patience the thing is soon
accomplished.
Don't turn livestock in upon tender
green pasture while the ground is soft.
If you do you will ruin both ground
and grass. Let the grass get a good
start and the ground become solid.
When pigs are three weeks old they
need more food than the sow's milk
generally yields. Give them skim
mill with little wheat middlings and
linseed meal in it. This is good for
pigs till they are six months old.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Remarkable Newepaper.

The most extraordinary. journal In
the world is published at Athens. Its
contents are written entirely in verse
even to the advertisements.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

One of the cheapest ground returns
that can be built for electric roads may
be constructed of old rails. Flat rails
are the most convenient for the pur-
pose, and are usually the most availa-
BILE. They may be readily laid between
the rails 1t is necessary, however, in
order that the rail thus laid shall mate
rally reduce the resistance of the re-
turn circuit, that it be exceptionally
well bonded, otherwise there will be
little gained. One point may be noted
as being extremely favorable to this
class of bonding The rail is not sub
ject to continuous jar, as in the case
of rails doing, at the same time, me-
chanicat service, still the joints are
subjected to the gradual motion of eX-
pansion and contraction. The bond
must, therefore, be flexible, or it will
gradually work loose. If such feeder
were laid with it's joints staggering.
those of an active rail and cross bonded
thereto, the failure of bond on either
rail would be provided for. BY draw
ing a sketch of the two rails and the
bonds, it will be seen that by stagger-
ing the rails each joint is bridged by a
rail, the path having four bond joints,
If the joints are opposite, the number of
bond joints in this reserve bridge is in
creased to six. The use of old rails for
this purpose would seem to be very ad-
visable, being both economical and dur
able The electric continuity of the
bond may be preserved from corrosion
by embedding it in an asphaltic COM
World.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

A funeral at house attracts people
who never go there at at any other
time.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

Ammonia for House Plants.
Every housekeeper has her bottle of
Household ammonia" " or some prep
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

Watercolor drawings will, it is said,
last four hundred years if they are pro-
tected from direct sunlight.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Wells in Barn Easements.


Every basement barn built for hous-
ing stock should have a well under it.
In this way water of proper warmth
can always be secured for cattle, and
tub or kettle kept full all the time will
add greatly to their comfort. 1t is well
for all stock to run out of doors in cold
weather for a while each day, but the
animals ought never to be forced to
drink water nearly or quite down to the
freezing temperature. We have scores
of times seen cows turn away from the
water under a hole in the ice because
they were so chilled that further drink
ing of icy water was impossible. Much
of the lack of thrift of cattle in winter
Is due to drinking ice cold water, and
will be remedied by having supply of
water from well in the barn base
ment.-American Cultivator.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

When public sentiment declares that
q loafer d as good as anybody, he never
fails to make sarious trouble
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

In Kansas whole sections of land have
suddenly disappeared, leaving only
iathomless lakelets.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Working rhree-Hor.e Team.

The true economy of team work is
better understood by Western farmers
than by the average of farmers in the
East. 1t is to the Western farmer that
we owe the idea Of cultivating hoed
crops with two horses. requiring no
stoppages, while the man may if he
chooses ride behind and manage the
hoes, so that none of the grain is de-
strOyed. 1t is rather more difficult to
turn two horses on a cultivator at the
end of the row. Therefore, this plan is
best adapted to large fields where the
rows are long. But three horses will
on heavy plowing do nearly twice as
much as will two horses Now that
horses are cheap, 1t is the farmers in
terest more than ever before to make
horse labor accomplish all it will, with
as little as possible of the much more
expensive human Observation-Disclosures.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Rinps in BuIl., Nosea

Two recent attacks by bulls on theil
owners in Connecticut call attention tt
the danger which always exists ever
from bulls that are regarded as gentle
and entirely safe. The fact is, no bull
over one year old is to be trusted. Ever
without meaning malicious attack, he
is liable in mere play to make a wound
bringing blood. Then, however gentle
he may have been before, the sight OF
the red fluid will infuriate him. The
only safe way is to put stout ring il
every bulls nose when he is year old
Then with cord through this and 8
stout stick with hook at the end tc
catch the ring and hold the animal al
a distance, the most vicious bull may
be safely led.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Durham or shorthorn Cattle.

The valuable breed of Shorthorn cat
tie originated in Durham, England, and
there are yet old-fashioned farmers
who speak Of them altogether as 'Dur.
ham, cattle. Until comparatively re
cent times it was a fair-milking breed
giving a good mess of extra rich milk
horn in which the tendency to milh
production is retained. Those who
have such cows need wish no better,
But, as rule, most Of the modern
Shorthorn cattle have been bred tc
make beef, and in some Of the cows
this tendency is SO strong that they be.
gin to fatten within three or fouI
months after dropping their calf.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Hanging Above a Tiger.

A British officer in India had gone out
upon an elephant in search of tiger.
which had just killed man and two
bullocks within half a mile of camp.
The hunt was brief, and the officer pres
emily got two shots at the tiger, but
without killing him. The jungle was
heavy, and it was already getting dusk
when the servant touched the officer
from behind and said, "There he isr'
The adventure is best described by the
man himself, as quoted by Gen. Wilkin-
son.
The tiger was lying within ten yards
of me, unable to rise, as l afterWard
found out, from his loins being broken.
Seeing that he was not dead, however,
| was in theeact of taking up my rife.
when something struck me on the back
and jammed me to the front of the
howdah. had just time to lay hold of
the branch of a tree and pull myself out
of the howdah, otherwise my back
would have been broken.
Then the frightened elephant ran
away, and left me suspended immedi-
ately over the tiger, which lay looking
up at me, growing and lashing his
sides.
You may imagine my feelings. In
vain l tried to get into the tree, and at
last, my fingers becoming cramped, l
lost my hold and fell on the tiger. 1t
was like dropping into the jaws of
death.
The instant touched the ground, the
tiger with terrific roar seized MY left
foot in his mouth and with one bite
crushed the heel and ankle bone to
powder. Then he gave me three other
bites. two on the calf of the leg and one
on the knee, every bite breaking the
bone to pieces.
NV agonies were dreadful IN vain
called for help, but after struggle /
got my right leg free and gave the tiger
tremendous kick on the head, which
induced him to let go. Instantly | got
ND and hobbled to the foot of the tree,
where fell exhausted, with the tiger
still few PAGES off.
The sepoy, who had been with me in
the howdah, had lodged safely in the
tree. and witnessed the whole scene.
Now he came down within few feet
of the ground, and begged me to get
into the tree. At first thought could
not, but when the sepOy told me that
the tiger would be at ME again, gave
the fellow my hands, and he managed
| to pull me up into the lower branches.
BY and by my brother officer, whose
elephant, like my own, had become un,
manageable, came back, and finally
killed the tiger, after which l was
somehow got into the hawdah and car.
ried back to camp.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-23
They Are Getting Desperate

The protracted hold-up of the lower
house of the legislature is a source of
much grief TO the army of applicants
for clerkships, who have swarmed
around the state capitol since the 1Ith.
The situation to many Is simply des-
perate. They had been promised po-
sitions, and have been to considerable
expense in going to Salem where they
expected to get employment after the
first day of the session, but those prom
ises have not materialized. Some of
course expect that when the house is
once organized, they will be put to
work and their pay date back to the
beginning of the session. as this rule
has prevailed in many instances in the
past, but the members of the lower
house are not now governed very
strictly by precedent, hence the would
be clerks, even if they get work at all,
may suffer disappointment as regards
back pay. At all events the, situation
is esperate for those who have been
looking forwarc since last June to the
time when they would be permitted to
sit aroung for 40 days with little else
to disturb them but to draw their sal
aries
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-23
It's q Stranger.

About daylight this morning there
allighted on a tree in front of T. T.
Nicholas residence on Third street
stra niger in, this climate. 1t was a
large bird, none of whose species has
ever before been seen in this vicinity,
and puzzles all students of natural
history to class. No sooner had the
stranger allighted than he was shot
down by Max Vogt, jr., and it was
found to be bird measuring nearly
three feet from tip to tip. Its plumage
is most beautiful, being creamy white
on the under part of the body and
wings, while the back and tops of the
wings are bronze. The head is also
dark, and is supplied with strong,
sharp bill some four inches in length,
and from the head are two white
feathers scarcely as large as a lead
pencil and fully eight inches long.
The bird 5 feet are not webbed, though
it has the appearance of a water fowl,
and probably belongs to the king
fisher family. The bird will be on ex-
hibition at the Columb mbia hotel few
days, and will then be given to the
taxidermist, W. A. Bert Campbell,
to be mounted.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-23
Where Music Reigned.

The musicale arranged and carried
out by Mesdames E. C. Pease and G.
p. Morgan, at the home of the former
lady, last evening, was a decided sue
cess in every particular. The spacious
parlors were filed to overlooking,
nearly hundred of The Dalles' most
cultivated and appreciative people
being present to greet coterie of its
best musical and artistic talent. 1t
would be invidious to single out any
number for especial praise, where all
were excellent, unless it were to men,
tion the one who both as purser for the
evening, and as "fair debutante"
covered himself with glory, Mr.. Tru-
man Butler.
The uniqe programs were greatly
admired as souvenirs.
Fancy bon-bons containing surprises.
were distributed between those two
important features of the evening, the
music and the feasting, occasiouing
much merriment. -
The following numbers were rend-
cred:
instrumental selection. .... Mrs. W. c. Curtis
SOPRANO Solo Miss Hattie Cram
Vocal Duet. ..........-...........,...
......Mlsses Edna Glenn and Maie Gushing
Baratone Solo. olo.......................D DR.. Doane
Vocal Duet. .......................... ?,
....... Miss Rose Michel and Charles Clark
a READING. Miss j. Montague Griswoid
Vocal Solo with piano and violin accom-
panyment nt.................... Mrs. It. Butler
Vocal Duet. 49,. Mesdames Condon and Peters
Reading. Truman Butler
Vocal Solo. Miss Maie Cushing
German Solo, IN costume. - Miss Lizzie Bonn
Instrumental Duett, piano and violin. ......
........ Miss Sampson and Henry Burchtorn
Accompanies. .......... Mrs. j. M. Patterson
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-23
The Next AttractIo1.

The Georgia University Students are
billed for the 18th, and on that even
ing will open az the Vogt, where they
will furnish fun and amusement for
Dalles theatre goers. Speaking of
their appearance at Cordray's in Port
land, the Oregonian says:
'The company contains a nun Der OF
real good comedians, four women and.
two little girls, and the Thompson
sisters. There are numerous scrobats,
singers, the usual quartets, good dane
ers including the women and the little
people, and the entertainment is all
that could be desired. In the first
part the entire company appears. The
were: Ernest Hogan, AL.
F. Watts, Allie Brown, Frank Cooper,
Harry Gilman and John Pamplin,
while Miss Ellen Watkins and Madam
Cecil Smith acted as interlocutors.
The singing was good, the gags were
fresh and sparkling, some dancing
served to enliven the scene, and the
whole was most creditable, the women
in the center doing their share of the
good work. There were many encores
to the end songs, and the Thompson
sisters were deservedly applauded at
the conclusion of their novelty dance.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-23
suspended in nlidair.

Yesterday afternoon workmen were
engaged tearing down the high trestle
on the o. Rs N. line five miles be-
low The Dalles, and while J. E. Gra-
ham was cutting away a brace on top
of the trestle some of the timbers gave
way, letting him fall about 25 feet,
where he became entangIed in the
timbers. He was then some IS feet
above the ground, and was so bruised
by the fall that he was unable to help
himself either up or down, SO he re-
mained in that perilous position until
his companions could Chamber up the
timbers and let him down with ropes.
Mr.. Graham was considerably bruised,
but his ply sician, DR.. Sutherland, does
not consider his injuries very, danger
nnl .rsa fr-. +....
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-23
A LODGE OF SORROW.

Memorial Services Conducted by, the
Workm-n and Degree of Honor.
Last night Temple Lodge, A. O.. u.
W., and Fern Lodge, Degree of Honor,
met jointly in Fraternity hall as a lodge
of sorrow to pay tribute to the memory
of their departed dead. The services
were opened by Master Workman
Crandall, and the services prescribed
in the ritual were observed. when the
choir rendered selection and Re-
corder Ross reported two members of
Temple Lodge has been stricken from
the roll by death during the past year.
They were B. T. Conroy and r. A.
Roscoe. When the name of Mr.. Conroy
was called. Hon. J. F. Moore arose and
pronounced fitting eulogy, and in re-
sponse to the name of Mr.. Roscoe, G.
P. Morgan spoke few minutes, recit-
ing the good deeds of the departed
brother and his long connection with
the lodge. Gray's Elegy was next read
by Mrs. M. E. Briggs, when the re-
corder of Fern lodge called the name
of Mrs. Cassie Wiley Hill, for whom
Fern lodge mourned. and Mrs. c. F.
Stephens responded with a touching
though brief eulogy. DIR. Doane
rendered vocal solo "Calling Them
In," after which Rev. A. D. Skaggs,
pastor of the Christian church, de-
livered the memorial address, in which
he dwelt at considerable length upon
the necessity of preparing for death
while living, and of the preparations
all Workmen mako for the inevitable
end through the beneficiary each holds
in the order. The exercises were con-
cluded with a rendition by the Werlin
Glee Club and prayer by the past
master.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-23
From trluay,s DaIlv


Miss Pearl Williams, of Portland, is
visiting in the city.
NJ. Randall returned home last even
ing from visit to Portland.
Ed Minis, deputy revenue collector,
spent the day in the city.
There are a number of cases of
scarletina in the city, though none are
in a malignant form.
Mrs. S. L. Brooks was a passenger
on the Regulator this morning going
to Portland for few days. visit.
r. B. Hood, who has been in Califor.
mia the past few months, arrived on
the Regulator Last evening. His many
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-23
.They Are the People"

The legislators of Oregon and Wash.
ington are now in session, and for the
time being "they are the people,"
The day is not far distant, though, be-
fore many of them, like their predecss-
sors, will for obvious reasons wish they
had never seen the respective state
houses. OF course they will all re-
member some pleasant features con.
nected with the service of their con-
stituents, such as free entertain ment,
passes, etc.; but between the 'pull" of
the office seeker, the fine and coarse
work of the lobby member and the
Thousand and one vexations, many
will get enough Of the "good thing"
But the citizens who spend this same
season their time and money travelling,
and who use, the Wisconsin Central
lines between ST. Paul or Minneapolis
and Chicago or Milwaukee will be,sub
ject to no such annoyances. Theytwill
get the best service on earth and a
square meal at reasonable cost. For
particulars address Geo. S. Batty,
GenI Agent, 246 Stark ST., Portland,
Or; or call on your nearest ticket
agent.%
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-23

Col. John Kelsay, one Of Oregon's
pioneers and an attorney we'll known
throughout the state, died at his home
In Corvallis last Tuesday night. The
Albany Herald gives this account of
Col. Kelsay's career: y
sHe was born in Wayne county, Ken
lucky, October %, 1919; moved to Mis-
souri, in 1929; was q member of the
house of representatives of Missouri
In 1874, and began to practice law in
1s46. He came to Oregon and settled
at Corvallis, where he engaged in the
practice of law. He served in the
Rogue River Indian war of 1856, and
rose to the command of the Second
Regiment. Oregon Mounted Volun-
teers, and took part in many severe
actions. Colonel Kelsay was MEM
ber OF the Constitutional Convention,
and in 1858 became justice of the
supreme court of Oregon" =