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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
How to Raise watermelons.

An Iowa contributor to the Farm,
Field and Fireside says: Select rich
loam-sandy loan is best-and dig
holes six feet each way, or in one long
row, and put shovel full Of we'll
rotted manure in each hill, covering
with two inches Of dirt. Plant about a
dozen seeds in each hill, covering one
inch deep. Plant from the 9th to the
10th of May. Soon after planting these,
say five or six days, plant hill be-
tween each two of the first ones. These
will come up about the time bugs show
up generally, and they will not touch
the first vines, but will destroy the Sec
ond planting. This Is much easier than
putting ashes on the vines, and surer,
too.
The main thing after this is to keep
the ground loose around the hill, and
you can raise melons in spite of drouth.
Should the bugs come early and attack
the first vines. they are all gone before
the others are up. A wheel hoe Is the
best tool to use, hoeing twice week
at least. The seeds should be saved
from the earliest and largest melons,
providing they are sweet.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
A Chineae Wonder.

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore describes
in the Century great national phe-
nomena which she has observed on one
of her many visits to the long-lived
Chinese Empire.
There are three wonders in the his
tory of China" she writes, "the De-
mons at Tang-chau, the Thunder at
Lung -chau, and the Great Tide at
Hang-chau, the last the greatest of all,
and q living wonder to this day of the
open door, while it's rivals are lost in
myth and oblivion. On the eighteenth
night Of the second moon, and on the
night of the eighth and ninth
moons of the Chinese year, the great
est food-tides from the Pacific surge
into the funnel mouth of Hang-chau
Bay to the bars and fats at the mouth
of the swift-fowing Tsien-tang. The
river current opposes for a while, until
the angry sea rises up and rides on, in
a great, white, roaring, bubbling wave,
ten, twelve, fifteen, and even twenty
feet in height. The Great Bore, the
White Thing, charges up the narrowing
river at a speed of ten and thirteen
miles an hour, with a roar that can be
heard for an hour, before it arrives, the
most sensational, spectacular, fascinat-
ing tidal phenomenon-a real wonder
of the whole world, worth going far
and waiting long to see"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
Mammoth Docks.

The marine docks at Portsmouth,
England, are the vastest in the world,
covering more than 300 acres, and en-
ploying some 10000 men. Two of the
largest docks are 600 feet long and IS
feet broad. All are what is known as
stone craving docks. They are dug
out of sufficient depth, length and
width to enable vessels of a certain
size to be admitted. They are con-
structed Of granite and fitted with
heavy gates; the vessel Is floated into
the dock and properly shored up on the
keel blocks-the gates are closed-the
water then pumped out. Such docks,
says a correspondent of the Provi-
dence Journal, are all below the level
of the dockyard. The walls are built
with stairs like the seats in an amphi-
theater, SO that workmen may go up
and down; and great cranes lifting for
ty tons are used in handling materials.
When vessel is completed, all that is
necessary to launch her Is to open the
gates, fill the dock, and she floats out
without risk or trouble. The advan-
take of a number of docks at sta
ton Is the readiness with which a small
vessel may be put into q small dock
and large vessel into a large one at
once, this being done with so much
economy Of time and labor.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
GyhElR. 8 3. T1dRIyE5

A shipment of American black bass
was made to France, and they have
fiourished so marvelously that to-day
they are common articles of diet in the
hotels and restaurants. When the bass
were introduced the French streams
were practically deserted.
During the Franco German war the
German artillery fired 100000 shots
and the infantry twenty million. This
terrible hail of shot and bullets re-
suited in loss Of forty-five thousand
men to the French. Thus every French
man killed involved an expenditure OF
bullets sufficient to kill regiment.
A big piece of granite has been cut
from the Palmer quarry, five miles
from Vinalhaven, Mo. 1t measures in
the rough state sixty-four feet in length,
and is eight feet six inches thick by
seven in width, the total weight being
80 tons. When turned into cylfndri-
cal form 1t will be fifty-four feet in
length by six feet three inches In di-
ameter, and will be the first of eight
columns which are destined to support
the great dome of the Episcopal cathe-
dral of st. John the Divine of New
York. ..
The Southwest claims that the larg-
est orchards in the world are located in
its own territory. The largest bear
ing apple orchard is the Wellhouse or
chard Of 1,450 acres, situated near
Leavenworth, Kan. The Olden orchard
at Olden, Mo-, contains 1,450 acres Of
apples and peach trees; the McNair or
chard at st. Elmo over 1000 acres; the
Huber orchard at Senace 1,4OO acres;
the Parket- Winans orchard near Sey-
mour 1000 acres; the Ozark Orchard
Company's orchards at several points
on the Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad in
Missouri and Arkansas 2,200 acres, and
there are many orchards ranging from
80 to 800 acres.
In the Yellowstone National Park is
curious freak of nature. Along a
little frequented trail leading to the
fossil forest stands great glacial boul-
der, twice as large as an ordinary street
car, which has been split apart from
top to bottom by pine tree. The tree
IS thirty or forty years old, and it
grows entirely through this block of
granite, spreading the pieces wide
apart on one side, while on the other
the crevice remains comparatively
small. Everything goes to show that
the tree has split the rock by its own
force, perhaps assisted each winter by
the ice. 1t seems to have thrived on
the task. Though it has moved apart
these massive fragments, each weigh
ing hundreds of tons, 1t is the healthi.
est tree in that locality.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15

year-old horse. Girard, the non-killer,
declares that he has seen one of them
charge into the midst of 300 Arab horse
men on an open plain and drive them
back to their encampment, the boldest
of them with their horses remaining
PROSTATE along his path.
In India a man-eating tiger kills
more than a hundred people a year;
sometimes four or nve and even seven
persons at once. In some districts 800
or 400 human beings are annually slain
by tigers and in lower Bengal as many
as 700 are killed. One tigress has been
known to close the public roads, cause
the desertion Of thirteen villages and
put over 25O square miles of territory
out of cultivation. They become bold
enough now and then to penetrate a
city and are accorded its freedom until
they are shot.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
LATTER-DAY MARTYR
DEVOTED BISHOPS TRYING OR.
DEAL IN CHINA.
Beaten with Sticks and Stoned and
Left for Dead in the Streets-He Was
Saved by Royal Decree and Decor
ated by the Empress.

Tortured at one period like the an
cient martyrs because of his efforts to
spread the gospel in China, Mgr.
Amer, vicar apostolic of the Celestial
empire and bishop of Shantung, has
by his rare courage and diplomacy so
ingratiated himself with the controll-
ing power of Chinese affairs that he
now, in safety and even with great cer-
emony, can conduct services in the
principal cities of the land Of Ii Hung
Chang. Mgr. Amer met China's all
pressed with his rare virtue that she
extended privileges to him that were
far beyond all expectations. She also
conferred upon the bishop the second
highest rank in the empire by making
him a mandarin of the second order
with the red button. There are nine
of these orders, and it usually takes a
person a lifetime to achieve the rank
now held by Monsignor Amer.
A Remarkable Career.
The Catholic prelate has had most
remarkable career. He was ordained
priest in 1876 and three years later
went to China as a missionary to strive
to attain for the Catholic missionaries
of the present day the proud, almost
Independent, position they enjoyed in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centu-
ries. Upon going to China, Mgr. Amer
secured place as teacher in the Hong
Kong Seminary, and at the same time
became pastor of the Catholic hos
pitfalls, but the new professor of philos-
ophy and theology attracted so much
attention by his great knowledge and
his ability to adapt himself to native
conditions, that he was soon promoted
to the presidency of the college. At
that time the Catholic Church main
tanned twenty-seven vicarates in
China. These were distributed over
five ecclesiastical regions or provinces,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
Why Incubator Chicks Die.

At the Rhode Island station careful
Investigation has been made Of the
cause Of the death of young incubator
chickens. The total number of dead
chickens examined during the spring
and summer of 1899 was 1926. 1t was
alleged that about one-third of the
chicks had been more or less injured
by uneven heat during incubation.
Another common cause Of trouble was
in overcrowding of brooders, resulting
in death by suffocation, trampling, etc.
tuberculosis was found to be very
prevalent, and Is per cent. of the
chickens were more or less affected.
For guarding against this disease it In
recommended to give the interior of
the brooders all the sun and air possi-
BILE on pleasant days. Bowel troubles
were a common cause of death. Feed
ing should be as nearly as the time of
the attendant renders profitable con-
tinuous operation, but by no means a
continuous gorge. Sometimes too much
animal food is given, but in moderate
quantities animal food results in rapid
growth. Lack of animal food some
times causes diseases of the liver and
gall bladder.-Orange Judd Farmer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
Long Names for AUTOMOBILES.

"What is the longest word in the Ian
guage" is an inquiry that frequently
turns up in an editors mail If some
other languages were in question, he
would dread to see it; the answer would
take too much space.
Thus in Berlin one Herr Then, who
has long been prominent in local trans
portation interests, has recently estab-
lished motor cab service. The pleas
ing German name for his vehicles is
''automobiletexam xameterdroschken."
Itxis said that, despite the preposter-
GUS title, the new cabs are remarkably
handsome and graceful But If there
is anything in a name, the motor car
riages introduced into some parts of
Belgium should instantly become sway
backed and top-heavy. The Flemish
word for automobile is "snelpaarde-
ooszoonderspoorwegpetroolrijuig."
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
General Interest to Farmers.

It is estimated that the loss of cattle
on the range in Montana the past win
ter will not exceed per cent
Mixing about one pound of oil meal
with five of wheat and wetting it up
with skim milk makes a good feed for
growing pigs.
Governor Richards of Wyoming has
issued a quarantine proclamation with
instructions governing the shipment of
cattle into Wyoming.
A bushel of wheat, as an equivalent
amount of -four, can be shipped from
Minneapolis to almost any point in
western Europe for about 20 cents.
Every fruit-grower and horticulturist
should have scrapbook wherein he
may place formulas. hints on culture,
etc, and where he can also keep a rec
ord of varieties planted.
At the recent congress Of veterinary
physicians at Baden Baden, Dr.
Hecker, of Halle, maintained that the
foot-and- mouth disease can be trans
ferred to healthy animals by birds,
etc.-a fact which, If substantiated,
will call for a modification of legisla-
ton.
The largest orchard in South Dakota
is owned by Mrs. Laura A. Alderman,
near Hurley, Turner County, and con-
tains 15O acres with 5000 trees. Two
acres are covered with plum trees. Be
sides the trees, there are 1000 currant
bushes, 1000 gooseberry bushes and
500 grapeyines. Three acres are devot-
ed to strawberries.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
Angora Goats.

Angora Goats.
Iu Texas Angora goats have been
cultivated for some years, and Farm
and Ranch says there are $4,000 of the
animals within it's borders, while near
ly fifty tons of their fleece, commercial
ly known as mohair, were shipped last
year from Uvalde alone. 1t now sells
at prices ranging from 25 to 351A cents
pound for average grades, while some
of the very finest quality not yet mar
keted is expected to command 40 cents.
Not only is the fleece of considerable
value, but the hides and flesh are also
said to be in active demand.
Apparently there is an excellent op-
portunity for many American farmers
in the raising Of Angora goats. 1t is
asserted that these animals can be kept
at much less expense than sheep,
while their fleece is Of far greater val
ue than wool. 1t requires dry climate
and short grass, while a country of
broken and billy nature, with scrubby
tree growths, is well adapted to its re-
quirements. The statement Is also
made that breeding the Angora with
the common goat produces an animal
of greater size than the latter. while
the fleece is soon graded up to profit
yielding quality.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
Derrick for STACKING.


The arrangement Illustrated is in
tended for stacking hay, fodder, ETC.,
out of doors, and is also useful, If of
convenient size, for loading shocks Of
fodder on to a wagon in the field, one
team being used to haul the derrick
from shock to shock. 1t can also be
used to advantage in loading hay from
a stack on to wagon. 4 telegraph pole
is best for the center pole, which turns
in any direction. 1t is made with
shoulder to fit in the hole in the cross
plank at the bottom. The bottom
frame should be about one-half the
height of the entire device. 1t is made
principally of scantlings 4x4 and 2x6,
as occasion requires. Three pulleys
are necessary to operate the derrick,
and the crane can be swung around
whenever wanted. This stacker can be
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15

Obstructing the building of railroad
Is rather unusual feat for lions, yet
that is what two of them did some time
ago in Central Africa, near Victoria
Nyanza. The matter was referred to
by Lord Salisbury in one of his address
es In the British House of Lords.
These lions were man-eaters and for
more than eight months they terror
lied 5000 laborers engaged in the work
Of construction. Scores Of these men
they dragged off and devoured. The
greater part of the camp, having at
length moved up the country beyond
the forging ground of the lions, several
hundred were left behind to build
bridges. Upon these the lions made
still more sanguinary descent. Night
after night they would carry away one
and sometimes two men. They attack
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
AN ODD SUPERSTITION.
Walks, Rain or Shine, Rather than Ride
Through a Tunnel.

walks, Rain or Shine, Rather than Ride
Through Tunnel.
"Nearly every man has his supersti-
ton" remarked La Sale street
broker to a friend as they boarded a
car. ST came across a little story the
other day on that line. Every morning,
year in and year out, with the excep-
tion of Sundays, prominent North
Side business man gets on the Clark
street cable car at Fullerton avenue,
rides to Illinois and Clark streets, then
alights and walks to his office, which
is within a stones throw Of La Sale
and Randolph streets.
'The other day gentleman who was
visiting this mans house rode down
town with him, and on arriving at the
corner of Illinois and Clark streets ex-
pressed his surprise when the Chicago
man, with an apoIogetic tone, asked
him to meet him at his Office, as he al
ways walked from this place across
the bridge and thence to the Office. The
visitor, rather fancying the walk HIM
self, swung off the car with his
friend.
What's your idea in walking every
morningY he asked the Chicago man.
Like the exercise, supposeY"
No, not particularly rejoined the
other. Superstition, reckon. Some
ten years ago 1 was riding through the
tunnel with a friend and we occupied
a seat on the grip car. The car was
very crowded, passengers standing
upon the foot board Of the grip. The
movement of one of these passengers
accidentally brushed my friends hat
from his head. In making a frantic
attempt to recover it he pitched for
ward between the tunnel walls and the
car. In spite of frenzied efforts upon
the part Of myself and others to drag
him out, he was crushed to death be-
fore the car could be stopped.
"'Since that time l have always had
q premonition that should ever ride
again through the tunnel my end
would be the same. You may think
me foolish and attribute this to super
stition, but have never been through
that tunnel since. l walk to Illinois
and Clark streets in the evening and
take a car; in the morning 1 always
alight at that corner, rain or shine, and
walk to my Office. If l accompany my
wife to the theater l leave her on the
car at this corner and walk to the the
ater. 1 would not go through that
tunnel again for $1,000. The strange
part of all this is that the other tunnels
possess no terrors for me. / frequently
ride through the Washington and Van
Buren street tunnels without
thought of danger, but the La Sale
'"-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15

ese court he got the Empress consent
to look into his grievances and in the
end she gave him the great privilege Of
an audience. AS a result an imperial
decree, allowing him a residence in
Yeu-Tscho-Fu, a house like that de-
stroyed, and many other favors, was
published. Since he has built two big
churches in his bishopric, several
schools, three old peoples homes, two
founding asylums, as many orphan
asylums, a seminary and Chinese
high school.
The missionaries have 1000 acres un-
der cultivation and teach all sorts of
European trades-carpenterin shoe
making, weaving, etc.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
st. Elmo's Light.

st. Elmo's fire, or light, is the popu-
lar name of an appearance sometimes
seen, especially in southern climes, dur
ing thunderstorms, of brush or star
of light at the tops of masts of vessels,
at the ends of the yards, or on spires or
other pointed objects. 1t is occasional
ly accompanied by kissing noise, and
is evidently Of the same nature as light
caused by electricity passing off from
points connected with an electric ma
chine. It is said, in Grecian mythology,
that Castor and Pollux, who were es-
teemed mighty helpers Of men, calmed
tempests, appearing as the light flames
on the masts of ships as described, and
the ancient mariners took the appear
ance of these balls of light on their ves-
sci as sign that they had nothing to
fear from the storm.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15

A patent leather will pinch as pain
fully as a raw-hide.
Gratuitous advice may be valuable,
but it is seldom highly priced.
1t is poor economy to keep carriage
and pair to save shoe-leather.
Men could not come near to Sinai,
but they are drawn to Calvary.
The strongest argument for the divin-
ity of Christ is the divine in the Chris
tian.
The cross is our measure Of the heart
of God and His estimate Of the worth
Of man.
Vanity will paint your portrait as you
please, but conscience always furnishes
photographs.
1t is a good deal easier to pull a
mans reputation to pieces than 1t Is to
put it together again.
Fellowship with God Is the climax
of religion on one side and fellowship
with man its perfection on the other.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
some Works Required.

1t is well not to overstep the line be-
yond which the exercise of faith be-
comes something like negligence.
Il tell you, brudders," exclaimed a
young colored pastor, who was preach
ing sermon on faith, 1--WE haven't half
enough of it! De Lord will watch over
our uprisin' an our downsettin' eff we
only got faith like grain O. musta'd
seedl He amt gwine to let no hahn
come to u.s." he went on, fervently,
''ef we jis' exe'cise faithv'
"All de same, Bruddah Flint" spoke
up the white-haired old patriarch upon
whom rested the burden of looking
after the temporal affairs Of the church.
we're goin' to keep dis yer meetin'
house insured agin fire an lightnin'w
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
No Wonder 1t Was Stale.

In a Metropolitan court a woman
was sued for the value of a certain
quantity of bread supplied to her or
der, and received daily.
In defense, she stated that the
amount charged was exorbitant, as,
owing to being stale, she was entitled
to a reduction in price.
Aftel conflicting evidence, presuming
the case would be decided against her,
the defendant placed her hand under
her heavy shawl, and producing a loaf,
she shouted
"Seeing's believing, your honor.
That's a specimen-stale enough for
menagerie, and hard as a brickr'
With smile, the judge tried to press
his thumb into the substantial evidence
before him, but being baf11ed on all
sides, he exclaimed
"My good woman, quite feel for
you as well as the loaf. Judgment for
the defendantv
1t transpired afterwards that the de-
fendant had saved the loaf in question
for nine months.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
Oueeuless Hives.

If any of the hives have a number of
bees hanging idly around the entrance
during March and April, and do not
carry pollen like other normal colonies,
it is pretty sure indication that they
are queenless. They will need watch
ing until some pleasant day when they
can be examined. Queenless colonies
are in danger of being robbed, for dis
couraged bees are not inclined to pro-
tect their stores as prosperous colony
would. If they are not provided with
queen they will gradually dwindle
away.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15

The applicant himself was out Of work.
and his family were in want.
"If you can give work to the bly,"
said he, well git enough out of it to
pay the rint, and we won't be turned
out on the street, anyhow"
The printer promised to do what he
could.
can If ye do," the father went on, his
eye lighting up with generous CLEAN,
well put We in McKinley's placer
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
snnI,urned Potatoes for Seed.

In answer to the inquiry of A. W.
Morton, sun-burned or green potatoes
are all right for seed. Forty years ago
when we raised our potatoes on new
burned land, we had great many
sun-burned potatoes, and, as they were
not good for cooking purposes. We
saved them for seed. 1t came to be the
general opinion among farmers that
the green end of potatoes was much
the best for seed. They were consid-
cred more hardy and produced earlier
potatoes. am not well enough in
formed on this point to claim any ad-
vantage In this direction, but can safe
II say that the green ends. or II they
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15
The "City of Champagne"

The town of Epernay, in France, is
vast subterranean city, the streets
for miles and miles being hewn out of
the solid chalk, fanked with piles of
champagne of all blends and qualities.
There Is no light in this labyrinth of
streets, crossings and turnings, except
what the sputtering candles afford.
All is dark, dank and damp, with the
thermometer down about zero. The
largest champagne manufacturers in
Epernay possess underground cellars
which cover no fewer than forty-five
acres, and contain 100000 bottles Of
wine