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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05
THE OLYMPIAN.

Although Olympia may be said to
be newspaper-ridden community,
from the number of "mush-room"
publications which spring up, have
their day and shrivel up and die, we
cannot omit a word or two OF common
dation of the enterprise, grit and in
dustry of the projectors OF the Oym-
plan, the only daily newspaper pub
lished at the Capital. 1t is not large,
nor does it try to give the worlds
news service, but it is good local
newspaper, and it's publishers put into
it every year, month and day more
muscle, brain and grey matter, than
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05
BREWER & SYPKER.

A new enterprise, one month old, at
3I7 Columbia street. 1t has already
established a reputation, however, for
best grade of graham and whole-wheat
flour and corn meal. They also deal
in chop feed for stock, the purest,
best and cheapest, stock food, in price,
in the Sound. They have new up
to-date roller grinding mill. They use
no mill sweepings or oat hulls in their
chop feed. Ask the grocery for their
product, and if they do not have it,
call at the store and get it direct.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05
J. S. DOBBINS.

Mr.. Dobbins has resided in Olympia
for the past 30 years, and during that
time, he has shown himself to be a
very efficient gentleman. He has held
several political offices serving term
as Mayor, and also County Commits
sioner, City Councilman, City Treas
urer, Deputy Coroner and now he is
holding the Office of Justice OF the
Peace.
Mr.. Dobbins also has Undertaking
Parlors on Main street, in which busi-
ness he is doing his share.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05
MADAME MORANDE.

This lady has attained an enviable
reputation AS a stylish dress and cloak
maker, and the ladies who wish to be
in the front rank of Fashions world
should not fail to consult her when a
new costume is desired. Her parlors
are at 2O9 Fifth street.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05
No. II.
Notice of Sale of Olympia Tide
Land.

Notice is hereby given that on the 10Th day Of
February. 1900, at the hour of two O'Clock in the
afternoon, on said day, at the door of the Court
house in Thurston county, Washington, the fol-
lowing described tide land will be sold at pub
lie auction TO the highest bidder therefor, to-
wit:
Lot ., block 9S; appraised value per lot, $40.
Said tide land Will be sold for not less than
the appraised value and subject to the impr owe
Board of state Land Commissioners in the man.
ner provided by law, Il statement of which is
now on file in the Office of the Auditor of said
county.
Terms OF sale are: Under contract, one tenth
to be paid ON the day OF sale. and one tenth au
nually thereafter on the first day of March Of
each year, with accrued interest on deferred bal
ance at per cent. per annum Provided, That
any purchaser may make full payment at any
time and obtain deed.
The purchaser of such land will be required TO
pay at the time of sale the appraised value of
any improvements valuable material on such
land in full In addition to the one-tenth of the
sale price.
The above described tide lands are offered for
sale by virtue of an order of the Board of State
Land Commissioners, made on the 18th day OF
December, 1899 duly certified and on file in the
Office Of said County Auditor.
X. a. GRAHAM,
County Auditor.
Dated at olympia, Wash. this 18th day of Jan
uary. A ID. 1900. jo-5t
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05

their patronage warrants. The poll
tics of our contemporary is somewhat
awry, and it is not devoid at times OF
the frailties of human judgment, but
it is, for all that, deserving of the cor
dial support of this community.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05
CA9To1IA.
Bears the 1The Kind You Have Always Bought

c. A. Snow x Co., Patent Lawyers,
opposite the Uuited States Patent Office.
Washington, d. c., who have actuall
clients in every city and town Of the
United States and Canada, report that
never before in their % years practice
has the work of the office been so well
up to date. They claim that patents
can now be procured in less than half
the time formerly required.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05
MARR'S DRUG STORE.

This dispensary, conducted by Rnbt.
Mari, is a great convenience to people
living in the eastern part Of the city.
The stock is new and pure and Mr.. NJ.
is thoroughly competent druggist,
managing every detail of the business
himself.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05
Oh. Lordy!

The easiest, surest and least ex-
pensive way to find out who owns the
Ledger is to advertise for the owner in
the News want columns.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05

Now is the time to subscribe for the
WASHINGTON STANDARD.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05

to learn the names of more than a few,
devoted to business, in the center, and
of these Use a map to keep tab on
them. | met c. l.. Whiting, lorg a
resident of Olympia, on the steamer
for San Diego, where he goes to reside.
| expect to he back in Olympia about
the 10th Of January, when | will tell
you all about it, but | premise by
stating that the land of summer in
mid-winter has no attractions for me,
and am still content to make Olym-
pia my permanent home.
ASToRI
Bears the \, The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature sf &X2zzzzm
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05
$ 20 inches.
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SUMMARY FOR JANUARY.
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IArrr were 10 clear ia during the month.
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Prevailing direction OF wind was from south,
Iight frosts I'd, 18th, 18th. 10th, 18th. 9th
a. ->'l.
~ hLlIng frnels dining the month.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05

\ new trial has been granted II The
ease "i Young y. ~tunri!er IN the
: Superior Court Til" first trial re-
-u.trd in a non-su.t t"e Young.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
Wanted the Birds Cared For.

There is story just now current in
Rome to the effect that a sculptor in
that city, in an evil hour for his reputa-
ton as an artist, undertook some time
ago to produce Ito order" a bronze stat
lie of President Kruger. One of the
conditions imposed was that no liber-
ties We're to be taken with Dom Paul.
He was to be represented in all his
native heaviness of features with the
fidelity which Oliver Cromwell exact
ed; and for personal decoration he was
to be depicted in his ordinary frock
coat and tail hat. The most trying stip-
ulation of all was. however, that Mad
anne Kruger, Dom PauPs amiable lady,
insisted that the crown of the hat
should be made concave SO that it might
catch and hold rain wafer for the re-
freshment of little birdsi The artist
has succeeded in doing the bidding of
his patrons, and the statue is now al
most ready for transmission to Pre-
toria. This concern for the welfare of
the harmless little birds is creditable
to Madame Kruger's maternal heart,
but humanitarianism of this kind is GER
tainly not conducive to the production
of keen aesthetic sense-St. James
Gazette
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
PLANETARY MOVEMENTS.

True Theory Advanced byAncient Ph IL
osopher Pythagoras.
In the earliest times In which men
began to give anything like scientific
attention to the movements of the heav-
emily bodies, the planets or wander
sers," as their name implies, appear to
have been regarded sometimes as living
beings, mostly deitied heroes, and
sometimes as the abodes of these be-
ings. The men of these ages naturally
took what they saw for granted and
believed the earth to be the center of
the universe, with the sun, moon and
other heavenly bodies moving round it.
In course of time, as observation be-
came more exact, the irregularity of
the apparent orbits of the planets was
noted and accounted for by fixing them
in revolving crystalline spheres or
zones, the smaller inclosing the earth
and the rest outside working at varying
distances and at varying speeds. In
each of these a planet was fixed, and
SO the irregularity was accounted for.
swiftness or slowness of revolution be-
ing taken as criterion of proximity OF
AAiS was pIdCllCdiiy tuS luG-
ory adopted in what is called the Ptole-
maic system. This system had been
shaping itself from the times of Plato
and Aristotle, and remained generally
accepted until the demonstrations of
Copernicus demolished it. 1t is, how
ever, well worthy of note that Pythag-
oras. about five centuries before Christ,
had advanced the true theory of the
universe, that Is to say, the revolution
of the earth and its sister planets round
the sun. This, however, conficted
strongly with the preconceived ideas
of the philosophers of Greece and
Rome, and subsequently with those of
the theologians, who considered that
they were bound to consider the earth
as the center as well as the end and
aim of creation. Hence, 1t was not
until something like 1900 years after
the death of Pythagoras that his theory
was practically confirmed by the as
tronomers of the sixteenth and seven
tppnth centuries
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
SERENADED THE JAIL.

Ludicrous Error of an Organ-Grinder
in st. Paul.
A wandering minstrel, who started
his wanderings in the neighborhood of
Genoa, pushed his hand organ up Fifth
street the other afternoon about 5
O'Clock. When he got halfway up the
hill he stopped, looked up at the win
dow in which Mr.. Southall keeps the
little geranium which solaces his i'm
prisonment, swung the organ around
off his back and began to play. The
flower had set life wrong. He didn't
know 1t was the county Jail and he
wouldn't know yet but for the fact that
he started to play the dear old tune, 81
Never Care to Wander from the Old
Firestde." Somebody threw piece of
stale bread at him from the window of
the boys ward and he moved on.-St.
Paul Globe
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
PORTO RIco's FAIR MAIDENs.
Love-Making Is Somewhat Difficult
Down at San Juan.

Love- Making Is Somewhat Difficult
Down at San Juan.
Augusta Ortiz, of San Juan, Porto
Rico, said to a Baltimore Sun re-
porter: San Juan is a pretty town,
with lots of colors and a gay people.
| They dress nearly like you here, except
concerning the trousers. The men wear
coat and vest, collar and shirt, like
Americans; but the trousers are half
Spanish and half French, very wide to
the knee and very tight below.
THE girls have hard time, not near
ly as nice as the Baltimore girls, and
the young men have lots of trouble in
making love. The girls wear gowns
like those here, but arrange their hair
with swoop that takes it back off the
forehead to knot in the back, and
sometimes it hangs all the way down
without knot. 1t is very pretty, but
still they have a hard time. Why, a
young girl there cannot go out alone
like one can here, but she must take
some older friend or some relative as
a chaperon. At home, when young
man calls to see his girl, if he is much
in love it makes him very mad to find
either a father or a mother or older sis
ter sitting in the same room, and they
will sit there until he goes. Really, the
only chance fellow has to talk to the
girls without some one hearing all he
says is at the dances. which are given
every week at the different clubs, and
even then he has to talk to her quickly
while he is dancing, for when they stop
she has to go back to her mother, or sis
ter, or aunt, or somebody. The young
men, however, make the best of the
dances. When you want to marry
girl you have to ask her parents first
of all, because you get no chance to ask
the girl. This is very bad custom.
Both men and women in San Juan and
all over the island wear clothes of
much more color than Americans, and
you rarely see dark suit of clothes on
man. The girls are gay. with all the
colors of the rainbow, and with more
of chance to see them without chape-1
rons life there would be very pleasant"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
Matches Made from Paner.

The days of the oldfashioned wood
en- match are said to be numbered.
Matches are to be made of paper. By
a new process the paper is cut in strips
about half an inch wide. These are
drawn through and saturated with 8
fiame-producing material. They are
then rolled into tubes and cut the
length of ordinary matches and dipped
in the phosphorus to form the head.
which is lighted by striking in the
same fashion as the ordinary match. L.
is predicted that the matchmaking in
dustry will be entirely revolutionizesi
by this new method. The matches are
very much lighter and are thought to
be more reliable than the old sort. Pa
per of various kinds will be employed,
that made from wood pulp being better
adapted for this purpose.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
FLIES ARE VERY sHoRT-LIvED.

Two Weeks Is About the Average of
Their Earthly Existence.
sowing to the natural diffidence of
flies, not much is known of their fam
lily arrangements or how long, they live
after they get to be old enough to vote
1t is estimated, though, that if papa
and mamma of the early spring could
hold out to attend a family reunion of
their offspring held in the latter part of
August upward of 100000 of their
own blood and kin would come to the
picnic, not counting maggots in arms.
Fortunately for them, papa and mann
ma do not live much more than fort
night. Even fiy's perseverance would
be unequal to the task of keeping track
Of 100000 of descendants. As Arte-
mus Ward says, This Is mutch.'
Fortunately for us, flies do not live
much longer than a fortnight for if
they were long-lived and preserved
their fecundity man would soon be
forced to look for some place where
things were not quite SO crowded and
the real estate advertising columns
would be full of, why fight fiies2 Sc
cure planet of your own ON easy
monthly payments
However. it is well to point out that
the saving clause, it is estimated cor
rects the 100000. Scientific men are
just like other people and hate just as
much to have to say: L don't know to
plain question. They have learned
that it is estimated acts on the same
principle as boys over the left,' and
authorizes them to tell with impunity
the most jaw-dropping, eye-bulging
whoppers, causing the public to wag
heads and cluck: ''Tchk! Look at that
now! There's learning for your
''There is good deal of the 1T is esti-
mated about the life history of the fly,
for the reason that the beast is hard to
rear. Other insects will live, move and
have their being in box with gauze
over it and let in the air and light. All
they ask is board and lodging, and, like
the curios in dime museum thu will
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
Uns-aked Lime for Rats.

A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman says that to keep rodents out
of oats take unslaked lime, just sprin-
kle it over the floor or platform on
which one will put his grain, then lay
er of sheaves and another liberal spread
of lime Continue in like manner,
lining each layer of grain to the last,
not smothering the last layer, and that
is all there is to it. l keep rats and
mice out of my corn crib in the same
way, and it is invariably a success. I
also keep large quantities Of unthreshed
oats in barn free from rats and mice the
same way. One barrel of unslaked lime
is enough for 1000 or 5000 bushels of
corn or eight tons of sheaf oats.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
co-operatiou in Fairs.

We. should like to see the stock of
every fair association in the country
scattered out in small blocks among the
representative farmers. breeders and
business men of the community. Then
they would all have some direct person
al interest in making the fair a sue
cess, and they would do it, too. Wher-
ever the managers of fair have the
good win and help of community
which is proud Of its fair we find a
clean, instructive and successful exhi-
bition. Fair managers as a rule are
anxious to give the public clean fairs,
but they cannot do 1t without such pub
lie support as will keep them 4out Of
the hole" fnancially.-National Stock
man.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
THE OLD HOMESTEAD.

fits worn-out acres fallow lie,
Unpruned the orchard stands
For they who tended them long since
Have gone to other lands
One to the prairies of the west,
And one across the sea;
The rest have reached that blest coantry
Where partings may not be.
The elm boughs tap the skyl;ght dim
AS, in the days agone.
They tapped to waken merrily
The little folk at dawn.
The woodbine curtains tenderly
The shattered window pane.
Yet grants admittance to its friends,
The sunshine and the rain.
No step, no whisper, breaks the hush
But hist! A sweep of wings
Athwart the attic's dreaming dusk,
And tender twitterings!
A tenant for the empty nest?
See-from the window ledge
A phoebe bird calls to its mate
Upon the cradles edge!
And in the cradle. vacant long,
Four downy fiedgelings peep
And cuddle close. They'll dream of wings
And twitter in their sleep
All through the quiet summer night;
While on the dingy wall
Fit silently the thin, weird shapes
That come at moonlight's call.
o life and love that were of yore!
o sal old house bereft!
To thee but memory's treasured store
And the little birds are left.
One of thine own is in the west,
And one across the foam;
The rest are in that fairest land
OF Home, Sweet Home.
Utica Globe.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
An Overwhelming Thought.

Our sun is third-rate sun, situated
in the milky way, one of myriads of
stars, and the milky way is itself one
of myriads of sectional star accumula-
tions, for these seem to be countless,
and to be spread over infiinity At
some period of their existence each of
these suns had planets circling around
it, which, after untold ages, are fit for
some sort of human beings to inhabit
them for comparatively brief period,
after which they still continue for
years to circle around without atmo-
sphere, vegetation or inhabitants, as
the moon does around our planet. There
is nothing SO calculated to take the
conceit out of an individual who
thinks himself an important unit in the
universe as astronomy. It-teaches that
we are less, compared with the uni
verse, than colony of ants is to us,
and that the difference between men is
less than that between one ant and an.
other.-London Truth
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
Prevents Ra Did Eating.

The feed trough which we illustrate
below has been patented by George E.
Combs, of Chadwick, N. Y, and is in
tended to prevent the animals from eat
ing their feed too rapidly, and also to
prevent the waste of feed when the
animal is inclined to push it out Of the
trough. The new trough is of semi
circular shape, with hopper mounted
on a raised base in the center of the
rear portion Of the trough. At the
bottom Of the hopper is disk which
can be raised or lowered by the adjust
ment of a thumbscrew. thus varying
the size of the discharge opening. The
feed falls through the opening around
the disk into the trough below. and a
little watching on the part Of the
hostler will soon show the position to
give the disk to regulate the discharge
to the proper quantity. Projecting
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16

answer any and all proper questions,
photographs for sale for their special
benefit. But fit up the most luxurious
quarters for flies, well aired and light
ed, stock with all the delicacies of the
stable and the garbage box, and the in
mates incontinently turn up their toes
and die. While the entomologist won
ders what for, a fly buzzes past his ear.
He chases it away. 1t comes back. He
slaps at it. 1t lodges, buzzing gleefully,
and alights again. He fiutters his hand
and Shoes it from him. He thinks it is
simply another case of fly persever-
ance. He does not know, he cannot un-
derstand, that it is mocking his failure
with the cry of: 'A-a-a-a-ah! Did you
ever get Ieft?'"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
GIANT ELEPHANTS TUsK.

Brought Out of Interior of G ermau East
africa, and Weighs 241 Pounds.
A gigantic elephants tusk has been
brought from the interior of German
East Africa. A native was the forum.
ate hunter who bagged the trophy, and
it is said that the fellow tusk was only
a trife smaller. The big tusk weighs
241 pounds.
The two tusks were brought by way
Of Bagamoyo to Zanzibax where an
American acquired them at a fancy
price. Some idea can be formed of the
gigantic size of the elephant when it is
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
Roe, of A1aury City, Tenn. has design
ed the automatic oiler illustrated here

Roe, of Maury City, Tenn. has design
ed the automatic oiler illustrated here
with. It consists of an elongated oil
cup secured to the hub between two
spokes, with an opening cut through
the hub and box to allow the oil to flow
to the shaft. Inside the oil-cup is a
weighted plunger, which reciprocates
at each revolution of the wheel, thus
forcing a small quantity of oil through
the minute opening in the wheel box
The force of the fall of the plunger is
broken by a coiled spring at either end
of the internal chamber, thus making
the device noiseless. and it is only nee
essary to fill the cups at long intervals
to keep the shafts and boxes in good
condition
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
Fattening Beef Cattle.


Reports from the West indicate that
a great many of what are called feed
ers." young stock ready to be put up
and fattened, are being sold in the Chi
cago market, and that the farmers of
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa will feed
more of them this year than ever. One
reason for this is probably in the COM
paratiyely good price at which beef cat
tie are now selling, and another is the
large corn crops which the farmers
have grown. and which they find it
more profitab BILE to sell ION the hoof' as
it is called, or in the shape Of cattle and
hogs. than to sell by the bushel. They
have learned that their soil, fertile as 1t
was once thought to be, needs to have
something in the way of fertility re-
turned to it. or continual cropping will
exha ust it. The corn shredder, which
utilizes the stalks of their great fields
of corn as rough fodder for stock. also
helps them keep more. Most of these
young cattle come from the ranges in
Texas and in the Northwestern States,
where little corn is grown, and it seems
easier to bring the cattle to the corn
than to take the corn to the cattle, es-
pecially as the feeding points are nearer
to good market than are the ranches.
Something of the same sort is being
done near Kansas City and Omaha.
which draw range cattle from Montana,
the Dakotas and even from Winnipeg.
Where drought has been too severe
these range cattle are what is called
"grass fat when they come in, and
need only few months on corn to
bring them up to prime beef, fit to ship
to England or any other point where
they will pay good prices for good meat.
American Cultivator.