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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
YaIue of Wet Land.

Don't worry because you have a wet
piece of land on your farm" says J. s.
Trigg, of Iowa. 1.-The chances are that
it is by all odds the most valuable tract
of land on the farm. Study how it may
be most economically and advantage
ousiy drained, and then tackle it. The
richest lands in Europe are the reclaim
ed farms wrested from the bottom of
the North Sea in Holland. The redeem
ed peat bogs of Minnesota give fields of
inexbaustible fertility. The muskrat
bogs of Iowa will grow eighty bushels
of corn to the acre when drained. The
wet lands of the Northwest, upon which
a settler would have starved to death In
an early day. now ditched and reclaim
ed, are richer and more productive than
those of the historic delta Of the Nile.
Give us bogs before gravel knobs, wet
flats before limestone ridges, a black
gumbo before light loan.
wet lands are invariably good grass
lands. Where grass will grow stock
will thrive, and stock means money for
the man who raises it,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
THE COVERED BRIDGE.

Tell the fainting soul in the weary form,
There's world of the purest bliss,
That is linked as that soul and form are
linked.
By a covered bridge, with this.
Yet, to reach that realm on the other
shore,
We must pass through q transient
gloom,
And must walk unseen. unhelped and
alone.
Through that covered bridge-the tomb.
But we all pass over on equal terms,
For the universal toll
Is the outer garb, which the hand Of God
Has flung around the soul.
Though the eye is dim, and the bridge
is dark.
And the river it spans is wide,
Yet faith points through to shining
mount
That looms on the other side.
To enable. our feet in the next days
march
To climb up. the. golden ridge,
We must all lie down for one nights
rest,
Inside of that covered bridge.
Washington Star.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Contraband.

In English country places the lilac Is
considered an unlucky flower. A sin
gle boutonniere of lilac has been held
responsible for solitary spinsterhood.
For the same reason mothers with mar
riageable daughters never allow a jug
of sweet smelling blossoms inside the
house. 1t may stand on the outside of
the window sill, but there's no love
luck about the house" when there are
lilacs In It, To give ones sweetheart
sprig of the flower is the death blow to
the most secure of engagements White
lilacs are even more fatal to love affairs
than the colored ones; they are in fact,
as ominous as an opal ring. Love,
however, laughs at artificial flowers,
and only the real tree grown ones can
come between the lover and his lass.
Stony hearted bachelors sometimes
sport a lilac boutonniere as a charm
against feminine Establishments.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
GOLD AIR HEALTH.
Winter About the Best Stimulant Peo.
pie Can Have.

Winter About the Best Stimulant Peo-
pie Can Have.
Many persons regard the winter sea
son as an unfortunate visitation. 1t is
considered both uncomfortable to the
body and harmful to health. This Is an
error. Cold is a most potent agent for
the restoration and preservation of nor
NAL activity on the part of the organs
Of the human body. 1t is a wise plan
Of providence which gives US change
of seasons.
The winter cold comes as tonic to
repair the injuries done by the ener-
vatiEg heat of summer. Summer, it is
true, has many wise uses in the matter
of health. 1t induces outdoor life, rids
the system of poisons through copious
perspiration and through the scorching
rays of sun destroys germ life.
Winter is the great bracer of the sys-
tenn. 1t stimulates activity in every
organ. When cold attacks the surface
Of the body the blood is set into more
free circulation as a means Of bodily
warmth. 1t is through the circulation
Of the blood that the human anatomy
is kept in a state of repair.
when the food has been digested and
converted into liquid form, it is taken
up by the blood and carried the rounds
of the waste places. When the cold
causes increased circulation 1t also
brings about more perfect nutrition.
Mans face and hands illustrate how
weather-proof the body becomes when
exposed to air. Continued activity in
circulation on the surface caused by
the air coming in contact with the skin
tends to neurish and thicken the skin
Thus mans skin grows thicker in win
ter just as animals are supplied with
double coat of fur. The savages who
dwell bareheaded in the open air are
seldom, if ever, known to be afflicted
with bald heads, while, with the civil
ian who shields his scalp from air, bald
ness is prevalent.
The Indians who, If not now, In for
mer days roamed our Western borders
practically without clothing to shelter
their bodies, became, through long eX
posure, so Injured to cold that it gave
them but little discomfort.-St Louis
Globe.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09

Percy Carlton she first met there. who,
being much interested In her history,
after a few months of marked atten-
ton, married her.
They went Immediately abroad.
Beatrix said before she went that upon
their return Chauncey could go abroad
to study art.
Two years had flown by and not
line had she written him. At length,
poor and careworn, he took a room il
the slums of the city. What little
sketches he made for paper barely
kept him alive.
Edythe had tried faithfully to find
him, but had failed
One day as she was passing through
the slums on an errand of charity, she
happened to glance up at a window and
saw Chauncey Selford.
She started back as If struck Dy a
thunderbolt.
'He in this place of all others, the
proud Chauncey, come to this" she
said.
She knocked at the door. An old
woman opened it. Edythe asked to see
Mr.. Selford. After much bantering
with the woman she gained admit
tance.
Chauncey still sat at the open win
dow. He did not move as she ap-
preached him. She touched his hand,
but sprung back, as she felt the cold
touch Of his hand as it came in contact
with hers.
Beatrix's picture was In tile other
hand. He left this world with the one
thought that had always been in his
life, that was his sister, for whom he
had sacrificed all.-Boston Post.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Hunting Ostrich Nests.

Although the skin of an ostrich is
worth from forty to one hundred dol
lars on the spot, the hunter of the des-
ert usually prefers to search for the
eggs when he has discovered an os-
trich in flight. An English traveller in
the Sahara, Mr.. III. B. Tristram, de
scribes this search.
Once, and once only, / had the goo:
fortune to take an ostrich's nest, al
though fresh eggs were not infrequent
ly brought in by the Arabs. We OBJ
served with our telescopes two birds
standing for some time in the same
spot, and were induced to ride toward
them They rapidly scudded off, but OH
intersecting their track we turned back
and retraced it instead of continuing
vain pursuit.
An ostrich's track Is by no means
easy either to follow or to retrace, for
his stride measures, when he is at full
speed, from twenty-five to twenty
two toes at SO wide intervals affords
no very evident track to any eyes less
expert than those of Bedouin huuts-
man.
We retraced the impression to the
spot where we had seen the birds stand
ing together, and where the sand was
we'll trodden down. Two Arabs al
once dismounted and began to dig with
their hands, and presently they brought
up four fresh eggs from depth of
about foot under the warm sand.
Ostrich-egg omelet we always found
a most welcome addition to our desert
bill of fare, and convenient and por-
table provision, for from the thickness
of the shell the eggs keep perfectly
sweet and fresh for fortnight or three
weeks
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09

When the harvests are gathered and
the seasons work is finished the Siam
ese become wonderfully jolly people.
They have festivals, where they play
like an army of big children let out for
a romp, but they enjoy the "sky
swing" best of all. This festival swing
is gigantic structure over ninety feet
high, and it's seat is nearly fifty feet
above the ground. When the crowd IS
all ready for the sport, there is a blare
of trumpets, and two lightly dressed
natives climb up the side pillars to the
high cross-bar, walk nimbly out to the
swing-ropes fastened nearly 100 feet
above the ground, and then slide down
to the frail seat Of the swing. Then
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
A SKY SWING.

the fun begins. Like couple of boys
in an ordinary backyard swing the
Siamese men begin to '4teeter" the
swing back and forth till it gets to fly
ing at speed of perhaps mile a min
ute. The swingers work till the swing
ropes stand out at right angles to the
frame; then they sit, one on the other,
and wait for the swing to end its pendu-
lations. Usually there are very excit-
ing contests to see which team Of
Swingers can make the swing fly the
highest, and 1t occasionally happens
that man will lose his grip and fly
through the air to certain and almost
instant death.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Gomez Is Truthful.

Havana, Oct. General Maximo
Gomez has written letter, in which
he says:
MANY persons are mortified at the
prolongation of the American interven-
tion. Many also view the situation in
q pessiristic light. But the Ameri-
cans are not to blame for the delay, as
the Cubans have placed obstacles in
their path. No good man can doubt
that the promises of the United States
secretary of war and the American
people will be faithfully kept
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Branching Celery.

In the market garden all sorts Of
schemes have to be followed to save
labor in blanching the plant-the art Of
removing the natural bitter quality. At
times the plants are set close together
SO as to partially shade one another,
and finally boards are set upright
against the plant in the rows. At other
times albino varieties are employed that
seem blanched because they develop no
structure. But the bitter taste remains.
To have good celery the process Of
earthing up must be continuous. It
requires very rich soil, and If plenty
Of water can be given so much the bet
ter. says Meehan's Monthly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09

Chicago Oct. Ia special to the
Chronicle from Milwaukee, says. APP
plication has been made to Judge Wall
ber for the appointment of guardian
for Seth Abbott, father of the late EN-
ma Abbott. Mr.. Abbott was adjudged
insane in the Chicago courts last Fri
day, and his commitment ordered to
sanitarium at Wauwatosa. The appli-
cation for guardian is made by Fred
erick Abbott, son, who asks that he
or some suitable person be-. appointed
guardian. Judge Wallber has fixed
the hearing for October %.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
HOG Cholera Problem.

The hog cholera problem is ever pres
ent and it is not improbable the time
will come when this disease can be sue
cessfully treated or at least held within
bounds, says the Orange Judd Farmer.
The so-called new treatment for hog
cholera, that of feeding the meat from
swine dying of cholera to healthy pigs.
is the subject of the latest bulletin sent
out by the agriculture experiment sta
ton at Purdue University. Indiana.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Handling Corn Shocks.

Handling corn SHOCKS.
The report of the Kansas State Boarf
of Agriculture says where hand labor
Is plenty the standard price for cutting
corn by hand IS cents per shock, four
teen by fourteen hills square, without
board, or 80 cents per acre. as there are
sixteen shocks of this size per acre.
Corn should always be cut on bright,
clear days, or on such day as Is coed
to cure hay in. Two men should work
together, and the shocks should be
started on jack. which is made by put
ting two legs, well braced together,
near one end of 1O-foor scantling, and
having an auger hole near tae upper
end for broom handle. AS soon as
four armfuls are set up against the jack
the shock should be loosely tried with
a stalk and the jack removed. AS soon
say two weeks after cutting, those that
are to be stored in the barn should be
baled under 5000 pounds pressure and
tied up with a wire common hay-baling
wire, one wire will tie up two shocks),
and those that are to be fed from the
field can be pulled up tight with rope
and pulley and tied with binding twine;
the twine should be saturated with coal
oil to prevent mice and insects from
destroying it. Eminent professors have
agreed that it only takes one and half
inches of rainfall to wash all traces of
digestible matter out of a shock of al
faffa, and corn shocks are also affected.
but not to so great a degree. They have
also agreed that well-cured corn fodder,
put under good roof without having
had any rain on it, is in every respect
just the same as ensilage, except the
water content, and it is only necessary
to cut it and add water to secure food
identical to ensilage without the cost
of a silo, with it's short life, and also
without the 20 to % per cent waste that
mold causes in the corners of the silo.-
Prairie Farmer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Economical Feed Barn.

Here is a convenient and economical
feed barn. Above the triangular hop
per, which extends the length of the
building, is a floor with traps. through
which feed can be placed in the hopper
and eve-ly distributed throughout its
length. There is door, closed in the
cut, by means of which the hopper can
be fed from the wagon. The hopper
opens into a trough, from which the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
ADurable Structure.

Over 300 years ago Sir Francis Drake
built an open aqueduct twenty miles
long to conduct water from the hills of
Dartmoor to Plymouth, England. The
town has just outgrown this supply and
a large reservoir is to be built.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09

meat from the kitchen, with soft bones
broken in a steel milt. The bones were
soft and were chopped with the meat
A small stream ran through the plot.
The hens were early chicks Of the pre-
vious year, and-laid few eggs In No
vember of that year. They have never
mixed with the other fowls and have
been confined to their yard the whole
time. The three hens weigh twenty
eight and a half pounds.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
oriental Babies.

Two hundred babies of Oriental par.
entage were recently displayed in a
baby show in San Francisco. The boys
had their heads shaved, while the girls
had their hair stiffened with beads and
paper flowers.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Productixe Wxandottes.

The accompanying Illustration shows
a pen of three Wyandotte pullets which
laid last year 472 eggs and reared 81
chicks. The food consumed cost 500.
The hens were kept in yard by them
selves and had run on fenced yard
covered with good grass which was
kept short by the frequent use Of
lawn mower, as it was used as a drying
ground for household linen. The fowls
were fed on corn. and chopped waste
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09

Everything may come to the man
who waits-eXcept another man who
owes him money.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Border Leicester Ram.

Three-Shear. Bred by and the prop
erty Of Matthew Templeton, Sandy
knowe, Kelso, Scotland. First at the
Edinburgh show ard champion at Gals,
shfels this year.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
FOB LITTLE FOLKS.
@ COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN.
TEREST I'd THEM.

that Will Interest the Ju-
veni1e Members of Every Household
Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Maybe He Needed IT.

why, Willie,"s said the lady caller
"how tanned you are"
"Yes'm," replied the boy, "pa done
II"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09

cattle feed as the grain descends. The
projecting roof affords all the protec-
ton needed for cattle in southern lati-
tudes. For cotton seed the throat of
the hopper should be six inches wide,
and bottom of trough. For corn or oats
three-inch strip can be placed central
ly under the throat to prevent too free
flow of grain. The inclined walls of
the hopper should be supported at in
tervals with 2 by 4 pieces extending
from trough to rafters.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Johnny's Heroism.

''This won't do" exclaimed Mrs. Box
excitedly, there's thirteen at table,"
Never mind, ma" shouted little
Johnny, 81 kin eat for two.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Railway Controlled by Children.

What is probably the smallest work
ing electric railway in the country is
now being built in Macon, Mo. 1t is
owned by the Blees Miniature Rapid
Transit Company, and when completed
will be mile in length, running around
the grounds of a private park. The
gauge of the road is three feet two
inches, and each car will carry eight
people, The corporation which con-
trolls this miniature railway is also on
1 small scale, for the officers are chill
dren. Frederick Blees, 13 years old, is
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Hessian Fly Solved.

The Hessian fly problem has been
solved, according to newspaper re-
ports. A farmer in the central part of
Missouri thinks ne has discovered how
to keep the fly out of his wheat at a
moderate expense. just as wheat was
coming up last fall, he scattered COM
mon salt over half a field, leaving the
other half without any. He used about
a bushel of salt to the acre. He says it
worked like a charm. The part of the
field salted has a good stand of wheat,
entirely free from fly. while the other
half is badly damaged. Another man
says he prevented damage from fly by
sowing barrel Of air Stacked lime on
fifteen acres as soon as the wheat came
up, repeating the process at intervals
of a few days.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09

President and motorman; Alvin BIees,
10 years old, is Vice President; Roy
Denslow, 13 years of age, is Secretary;
the Treasurer is S-year-old Willie Blees,
and the Assistant Superintendent is
Raymond Kirsch, who is 13 years old.
The road operates in Mrs. Blee's park,
and is capitalized for $4,000, just as a
company Of '.grown-ups" would be.
Making 1t Eaoier.
Little Jeans dolly had met with an
accident, and her mother had procured
a new head for it. The removal of the
old head proved to be a rather difficult
task, which Jean watched with great
interest.
'I'm afraid, Jean, can't get this old
head off" said the mother.
jeans face glowed with the light of
an inspiration, as she said:
Never mind, mamma, just take the
body off,"
a Penny Apiece.
The minister had been talking about
the necessity of new heart, and little
Bessie's father, taking her on his knees,
asked her If she knew what a new
heart was.
'Oh, yes" replied the little miss, you
can buy one at the candy store for a
penny"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Soaking Corn for Feeding

Prof. Henry, in Feeds and Feeding,
tells of an experiment made at the
Kansas station in which one lot of
steers ate 1,105 pounds of dry corn and
554 pounds of fodder to make 100
pounds of gain, and another lot having
corn soaked until it began to soften
gained 100 pounds on 938 pounds of
corn and 512 pounds of fodder. Here
was saving of 167 pounds of corn and
AZ pounds of fodder. At another trial
with steers in pasture and hogs fol-
lowing them to eat tn, corn in the drop
pings, steers and swine gained 100
pounds on 791 pounds of dry corn,
while where corn was soaked for an
other lot they got the same gain from
1852 pounds, saving of 80 pounds of
corn by soaking. In test lately made
at the West Virginia Station with two
lots Of pigs, one on soaked corn and
the other on corn meal wet to a mash,
3.S5 pounds of corn made as much gain
as 40 pounds of meal, or saving of
IS pounds of meal to 10 pounds of pork.
In German experiment with sheep
those fed on dry corn made more gain
than those that had soaked corn. We
should expect it to !. profitable to soak
corn for hogs or cattle, but not for
sheep or hens.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09

Poor singers and counterfeiters utter
bad notes.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
An Emperor's P1aythings.

Emperor Kuang Hsu, Of China, Is
said to have the finest collection of toys
If any monarch. While still little boy
Ie became deeply interested in all sorts
# foreign inventions, and, being an EN-
Jeror, the small celestial had his taste
,ratificd, and toy models were secured
Il whatever he took fancy to. He
was given a miniature railroad train
perfect in design, an electric car,
watches, musical toys, a phonograph-
md hosts of other things that he fan
cied. After having learned to ride the
bicycle the young monarch caught his
imperial cue in the rear wheel while
iding one day and was picked off the
machine with as little ceremony as if
le had been just an ordinary China
boy. But the eunuch who had bought
he bicycle for the Emperor was ban
shed in disgrace. From being interest
ID in foreign inventions Kuang Hsn be-
:ame fond of foreign books, including
he Bible, and as soon as he became old
,nough to actually rule he began to in
1roduce foreign methods in his king
lom. This new plan worked all right
until it resulted in the discharge of
high officials and the dismissal of vice
'oys and governors. These appealed to
he Empress Dowager and Kuang Hsu
vas locked up to keep him out of mis-
.hief from an Oriental standpoint.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-09
Old Santa in Sum mer.

Whilst you are wading in stream or pool,
Ducking and diving in waters cool,
Old Santa's sharp'ning up every tool
To- fashion some toys for you.
And this is the song he'll hum, hum,
hum:
.I'll make a trumpet and drum, drum
drum.
Then they can have the joIliest noise
[ love to be working for good little boysw
While you're enjoying the scented breeze,
Swinging in hammocks meath leafy trees,
Old Mrs. Santa, with greatest ease,
Will dress up some dolls for you.
The song she will sing is: ''Stitch, stitch,
stitch.
Which is the prettiest-which, which,
which.
Black eyes or blue eyes, frizzes or curls?
| love to be sewing for good little girls"
The reindeer, browsing mid Arctic
SHOWS.
Searching for moss with an eager nose,
Are getting ready to pull, pull, pull,
Old Santa's pack when it's full, full,
full,
Over the snow with dolls and with toyo
For good little girls and for good little
boys.
Youths Companion.