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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
STAR DISTANCES.

Arc So Enormous as to Be Practically
Uncomfortable.
The stars are suns and they look like
mere shining points Of light because
they are 80 far away. The nearest Is
80 far that a cannon-shot fired In Ad-
ans time from the Garden of Eden,
and flying continually with undimin-
ished speed. would even now hardly
have started on it's journey. 1t would
be Us if a train bound for another town
had lust pulled well out of the station.
On a summer evening you may see
Arcturus high up in the south or south
west in June or July, and further
down in the west in August or Septem-
Der. You will know it by its red color.
That star has been flying straight
ahead ever since astronomers began to
observe it, at such a speed that II
would run from New York to Chicago
in a small fraction Of a minute. You
would have to be spry to rise from
your chair, put on your hat and over
coat and gloves, go out on the street
while it was crossing the Atlantic
Ocean from New York to Liverpool
And vet If you should watch that star
all your life, and live as long as
Methuselah. you would not be able to
see that it moved at all. The journey 1t
would make in thousand years would
be as nothing alongside its distance.
Many. perhaps most, of the stars are
really much larger and brighter than
the sun. Canopus, as it appears to u.s.
Is the second brightest star in the heav'
ems. 1t never rises in our northern lati-
tudes; to see it well you would have to
90 at least as far south as the gulf
States. Although it shines to US only
as a very bright star, it is really thou
sands of times as bright as the sun. II
our earth should fly as near to 1t as II
is to the sun, the whole sky would
seem TO be ablaze, and everything com
bustible on the earth's surface-forests
houses. and fences-would be burned
by the fervent heat as II thrown into
hot fire. But the distance OF Canopus
is immeasurably great, SO that astrono
mers have not been able to learn any
thing certain about it. The most In
teresting conclusion from this is thai
Canopus, although it is only a star II
the sky, is really thousands of times
brighter than the sun.-PrOfessor 81
mon Newcomb in the Youths Compan
ion
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
MOUNTAIN TROUT IS sirIN..

When the mountain trout is bitin', in the
lazy days o May,
Why, the spirit leaves the body, an goes
wanderin' away
Strayin' by the fields O clover, whar' the
golden sunshine seems
Silenced waves o song still hoverin' on
the pastur's an the streams;
An you loll within the shadders nigh
some blossomin' wild rose,
Jest dreamin',
Dreamin',
Dreamin',
Half awake an half adoze!
All the glory O. creation is compressed in
one short day,
When the mountain trout is bitin' in the
lazy days O. May.
Now an then across the medders rings
the tingle O the bells
Like the orchestry O. Nature somewhar'
hid among the dells;
Orioles wing up and over, an'-infoatin'
from the hills
Comes the bluebird's hallalooyer in the
softcst thrills an trills.
'Tain't unnaterel fer feller, ct he's ever
loved at all,
To be thinkin',
Thinkin',
Thinkin',
OF some one beyond recall,
An to wonder eff her spirit amt still
with you anyway,
When the mountain trout is bitin' in the
lazy days O. May.
New York Times.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
hoMEsPUN PHILOSOPHY.

Observations on Commonplace Thin9s
by the Atchison Globe Man.
The trouble seems to be that most Of
US have $50 tastes and $25 salaries.
An old man is usually too conserva,
tive; his son is usually too "enterpris-
Ing"
when you smell sugar." said an old
fly to her children, 'look out for fly
paper" ..r..e.
A girl can't speak about any one be-
ing in love without using the word
desperately"
The people who hate a one-man town
will have hard time getting recon-
ciled to heaven.
II it were necessary for you to satis-
fy everybody, you would have been
hanged long ago. .-,
1t Is one evidence that girl is grow
ing fond Of a man when she begins to
tell him her real opinion of her girl
friends.
1t always makes a man mad to have
his name misspelled in q newspaper,
because he believes everybody ought to
, know his name.
A pretty woman can look sympatheti-
cally at the happiest man In the world,
and he will at once begin to feel that
! he has troubles.
When man has such a bad cold he
can't talk above whisper, how he
does enjoy talking If there are any
sympathetic women around!
A hen trying to steal a nest doesn't
act more suspiciously than an old girl
who is preparing for her wedding,
while trying to keep it secret.
Have more patience with those who
rubber. 1t is said that stretching the
neck does more than anything else to
keep of undesirable wrinkles.
Wherever you find big fat woman
married to thin, weazened little man.
you will find wife SO affectionate she
likes to sit in her husbands lap.
| A woman can buy an inferior article
IN groceries, because better is too ex.
pens1ve and keep her contentment- but
she can't do it in a dry-goods store.
Every man who practices hypocrisy
snould know that he Is not fooling any,
one. Other people know he is a hypo:
critic as well as he knows it himself.
When fool stays up half the night
and blows In lot of money he calls i,
"Hving," and points to his saving 90.
to-bed-early neighbor with contempt.
A young man seems to be willing to
make almost any sacrifice for the girl
he loves, except to go home early and
save her from scolding next morning
1t would be hard to estimate the con
tempt woman feels for sister in he,
church who leaves 1t, and devotes he,
labors to the entertainments of another
church.
After woman has seen the new hats
she goes home and looks thoughtfully
at the servant girl, as If wonderins
how much of a cut she will stand in hel
wages.
1t is the secret desire Of every girl Of
sixteen to have her picture taken look
ing down at rose, but it would bt
more practical If she looked at a pud
ding she was mixing.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
Value of Shade Trees,

Trees have distinct value on place
and add greatly to the enjoyment Of
the farm as home and also to its sell
ing value. The worth of a we'll grown
tree will differ In different localities, of
course, and there are few places in
the west, comparatively treeless as the
prairies are, where trees are worth as
much as in the Eastern States. In
recent lawsuit in Niagara County. New
York, a row of shade trees had been
destroyed in front of a country home
by the building Of a trolley line, and
expert testimony was called to settle
their value. The trees had been plant
ed twenty-six years and were mostly
maple The testimony showed thir-
teen of them to be worth 800 each,
nine We're worth $65 each and few
others We're appraised. at $125 each.
These values were hot reduced by the
testimony Of the defendant company
that had destroyed the trees. AS a
country grows older adornments of this
kind become more valuable because
more appreciated and it would be hard
to predict what a good, well-located
shade tree would be worth twenty-six
years hence.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19

Helianthus tuberosus. A recent report
of one of the experiment stations states
that in fatening hogs excellent results
have been secured, by giving them the
run Of the artichoke plot and supple
menting this food with small amount
of cornmeal each day. Artichokes will
persist in the ground from year to year,
wherever the soil is covered with fair
amount of snow during the winter. In
case it was thought that the soil was
too poor to give good returns, it might
be enriched by sowing In the drill, at
the time of planting, superphosphate
at the rate of eight hundred to ten hun
dred pounds per acre. The feeding
value of the Jerusalem artichoke has
not been Investigated to the extent that
it's importance deserves.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
Rurted with $500 i'm His Pook

It is not often that man is buried
with $500 In his pockets. His relatives
generally look to that. But such case
has actually happened.
A few days ago Don Sabine Trujillo
died and was buried in Dolores on Mon
day last. After the funeral the niece
of the deceased informed the relatives
of the dead man that he had at the
time of his death the sum of $500 in one
of his pockets; for he was buried in his
ordinary clothes. She had seen him
pay the doctor, short time before his
death, some money and put the re-
mainder, $500, in his breast pocket. As
no one had thought Of looking for the
money, and as the young lady was
prostrate with grief at the death of her
uncle and SO did not remember any
thing about the matter until after the
funeral, the money was buried with
the corpse.-Two Republics.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
Tornatoes as a Farm Crop.

The tomato seed was planted in bed
made by driving down stakes and nail
ing up wide boards and covering it's
nights and cold days. 1t was planted
April Is in rows to inches apart
and covered one-half inch deep. The
plants came up slowly, but grew well,
and we raised about 5000 from one
fourth pound Of seed. The variety was
Stone. The ground was plowed to 8
inches deep, narrowed, cross-harrowed
and marked in rows 311a feet apart. We
set lust an acre, beginning to transplant
Nav "a and finishing June Z, setting the
plants 8 feet apart and using 4,136. A
few plants had to be reset, principally
ON account of cutworms.
The young plants were hoed June IL
and the weeds were cut out with hoe
on June 10, "a and July II. They were
cultivated June IA and %. The tomato
worms were not bad, but we went over
the patch and killed 100. Some Of the
tomatoes were in bloom July and the
drst were ripe Aug. IL. We began pick
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
MADE RICH BY sALTED MINE.

Two Widows Get Wealthy After Being
Imposed Upon by Sharpers.
A good story Is going the ROUNDS
about how two prospectors had salted
a mine In the Galena district in order to
rob a couple of rich widows, which re-
suited in the aforesaid widows becom-
ing much weather..
The prospectors had spent their last
cent in digging hole in the ground to
the extent of sixty feet without striking
anything but yellow clay. But one of
them knew of two rich widows who
were Just spelling to have their money
sunk in a mine. Accordingly they spent
two nights in sailing their mine. They
hadn't sufficient money to buy some
paying dirt, but they stole this from a
neighboring mine and hauled a lot OF
If over to dump into their mine. When
several tons Of this paying dirt had
accumulated in the bottom of their
mine the widows were sent for, and
while one was talking about the In
creasinR value of the district the other
was dumping out all kinds Of lead and
zinc ore before their astonished eyes.
The widows bought half interest In
that hole In the ground for $1,000. The
next day there was no more ore In the
shaft and the fellows declared they
would dig no longer. Then the widows
bought the other half interest at total
cost of $1,000, and the men hiked out
for Missouri, laughing in their sleeves.
But the women, blindly believing that
there must be more ore, continued with
the digging, and at depth Of ten addi-
tional feet struck the richest vein Of the
whole belt, realizing $4,000 in less than
one years time.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
silva AND Dew.

The Fearful Devil of the Hindoos and
His Principal Wife.
silva is both typical of destruction
and of reproduction. But the latter at
tribute was doubtless a later addition
to the sum Of his qualities. The orig
inal conception of this deity was that
Of power delighting in destruction, in
the achievement Of physical evil and
wrong, and in hurling death and de-
vastation upon the people and their
land. He Is represented in the sacred
books Of the Hindoos as ''the terrible
destroyer" "the one who delights in
the destruction Of men," But in all
this there is no whisper as yet of any
moral qualities Of evil. The concep-
ton is entirely one Of physical power,
used with the utmost malevolence and
injustice against men.
Along with his principal wife, who is
variously called Devi. Durga, Una,
and Kali. he is portrayed as the incar-
nation Of physical evil wrong, injus-
tice, or misfortune. In the "Puranas"
silva is described as wandering about
surrounded by ghosts and gobllns, In
ebriated, naked. and with disheveled
hair, covered with the ashes Of a
funeral pile, Ornamented with human
skulls and bones, sometimes laughing,
and sometimes crying. Devi, his con-
sort, is represented with a hideous and
terrible countenance streaming with
blood, encircled with snakes. hung
round with skulls and human heads,
and in all respects resembling fury
rather than goddess. The only pleas
ure which silva and Devi feel Is when
their affairs are drenched with blood,
which, Of course. could not be shed
without the destruction Of some form
Of nfe.-Westminster Review.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
A DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE
BOYS AND GIRLS
Something that Will Interest the Ju-
venile Memb bers Of Every Household
Quaint Actions and Bright sayings
Of Many Cute and Cunning Children.

Once there was little boy named
Jimmy. And he had always lived in the
city, and the only animals he had ever
seen were horses, dogs and cats. But
he had heard Of leopards, because one
Of his boy friends had told him all
about them and how they had spots on
them and they could climb trees and
eat people.
WE'LL one day he went to the country,
and in course of time his cousin, who
was older than he, helped him into an
apple tree and then went into the house
to get something-maybe 1t was an
apple.
Jimmy was rather alarmed at being
left alone in the tree, but he managed
to stay there Suddenly he saw beast
come prowling up the road. 1t was
about the size of leopard, as he imag-
ined, and it was covered with spots
even larger than leopard would have,
so it must be Thought Jimmy very
awful kind of leopard. And, to make
things worse, this leopard had pair OF
horns, and large, ferocious-looking ears,
and every now and then it roared like
this: s.Moo-oo, moo-oo." Jimmy was
frightened half to death. But he had
the slim hope that the beast would 60
away without seeing him.
Oh, horrible! The animal came right
| to the tree, and put it's head right up
among the branches, and began to snin.
Then it ate an apple. Jimmy was sure
that In a moment 1t would climb the
tree after him, so he got up to the top
of the tree, though how he did 1T he
couldn't tell till next day. He was weak
and white with fear when he reached
| the top branch The dreadful beast now
came close to the trunk and began to
| rub up and down. Now he would
spill up into the tree, beyond doubt!
But just as Jimmy thought he was
! c:ouching for spring he saw his uncle
come out of the house, and he scream
! ed to him, "Oh, Uncle Ed, save me.
, save me! This leopard Is going to eat
me!'
Now, some uncles would have thought
the mater a huge joke, but Uncle Ed
was not that kind. He knew that to
little Jimmy the horned beast was as
/ bad as the most terrible leopard that
ever roamed the jungle, and so he went
over to the tree and said, my boy, you
are safe while | am here, because, In
the first place, this kind of leopard cant
climb tree; and, In the second place
| it isn't leopard at all, but COW; and
in the third place, it is Daisy, our pei
cow; and If you take my word for II
you can ride on her back as If she
were a horse"
There was something In Uncle Eds
voice that had very calming effect on
Jimmy, and inside Of two minutes the
dreadful leopard that had come to cal
him was turned into a good-natured ole
cow, and he rode her all around the
place, holding on to Uncle Eds hand.
Now Jimmy is grown up and has 8
Jimmy Of his own, but he will never
forget the horror Of that five minutes
with a horned leopard Outlook.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
Couldn't Fool Her.

Speaking of kindergartens for colored
children calls to mind the experience
Of a "befo de wah" matron, who was
teaching one of the little darkies on
her plantation how to spell.
The primer she used was a pictorial
one, and over each word was it's ac-
companying picture, and Polly glibly
spelled OK, OK, and box, box, etc. But
the teacher thought that she was max
ing right rapid progress, SO she put her
,and over the picture and said:
'Polly, what does OK spellf'
"Ox," answered Polly, nimbly.
.How do you know that it spells OK,
oolly?"
'seed his TAIL" replied the apt Polly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
A Girl,s Accomp1ishments.


Some one has suggested twelve things
that every girl can learn before she is
II. Not every one can learn to play or
sing ,or. paint well enough to give pleas
ure to her friends, but the following
Accomplishments are within every
body's reach:
Shut the door. and shut It softly.
Keep your own room in tasteful or
der.
Have an hour for rising, and rise.
Learn to make bread as well as cake.
Never let a button stay off twenty
four hours.
Always know where your things are.
Never let a day pass without doing
something to make somebody comfort
able.
Never come to breakfast without a
collar.
Never 60 about with your shoes un-
buttoned.
Speak clearly enough for everybody
to understand. =.
Never fidget or hum SO as to disturb
others.
Never fuss or fret.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19

standard The standard Is the most
novel feature about this machine. 1t
serves to shorten the draft and elevate
the draw rope to the arc of a circle, the
derrick being pivoted in the center of
gravity, thereby minimizing the power
required to elevate. The draft Is the
same at all points until the hay is de-
livered One horse does the elevating.
It is claimed that the new invention
will do an equal amount of work in less
than one-fourth the time required by
the old-style derricks. Its capacity is
estimated at from Is to 100 tons day.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
A RaGtlehead.

Farmer Dunk Catching them)-Ar-
har! So you are tryin' to elope with
the hired girl, are ye?
His Son-Ye-es, sir.
Farmer Dunk-Wa-al, If you amt the
gol-vummedest feller for wantin' ex-
element all the time! Didn't let you
60 to the circus last summer, and to
your gran-mother's funeral In the fall,
and didn't you stay up as late as you
wanted to seein' the last eclipse of the
moon? What In tunkett do ye want
anyhow-a continual hooraw wY-Puck.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19

where they preen and dress their feath.
ers in the early hours Of the morning.
Sparrows bathe often, both in water
and in dust They are not SO particu-
lar about the quality of water as about
the quality of the dust. The city spar
row must take water bath where he
can get it. Road dust, the driest and
finest possible, suits him best. Par
tridges prefer dry loan. They like to
scratch out the soil from under the
grass, and fill their feathers with cool
earth. Most birds are fond of ashes.
Take walk some early morning across
a field where bonfires have burned, and
see the numbers Of winged creatures
that rise suddenly from the ash heaps.
A darting form, small cloud of ashes.
and the bathers disappear.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
Tho Storm.

The heavens wept violently.
After that the face Of nature looked
. fright.
Her face was enough to ditch .
freight train.
In fact, several such trains were
dltched by it.-Detroit Journal
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19
Dust Baths.

Some birds use water only, some wa
ter and dust, while others prefer dust
and no water in their toilet. Birds are
not only nice in the choice Of bath wa
ter, but also very particular about the
quality of their toilet dust.
Wild ducks, though feeding by salt
water, prefer to bathe in fresh-water
pools, and will fly long distances in
land to running brooks and ponda-
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19

didn't see anything to laugh at. "And
you blushing and looking down"
Don't be SO silly"'
whilst he imprinted a chaste sa.
lute''-
'It is time to dress for dinner" said
Vera, frigidly. She walked toward the
door.
He has a ginger mustache," said
Maud, as parting shot. This remark
was absolutely untrue; it is golden al
most.
He has notv' Vera departed.
Maud hummed a queer little tune to
herself for a minute. Then she sighed
twice e-presumably for Vera. Then she
shrugged her shoulders once-I fear for
me! Then she went out also. After
prudent interval followed.
At dinner Vera and were neighbors.
1 avoided antiquities, and told Eer
amusing stories, just to hear her laugh.
She looks very pretty when she laughs.
She also looks very pretty when she
doesn't.
After dinner our host, who is proud
of his scenery, suggested that we
should go and see the moon rise over
Tall hill managed to escort Vera and
| to lose the others.
"Shall we have our usual quarrel?'
! she asked, when we had perched our
selves upon a big stile at the foot OF
the hill.
NO." 1 replied; 81 don't want to
quarrel, please"
Don't your she said, brightly.
aren't you afraid we shall be dull:'
Not in the least; but if you are
"Oh, no. We can talk abOut-let me
see"
1.-THE usual thingsF' suggested She
looked swiftly at me- and gave little
start l took hold of her arm. Il
thought you were falling / explained
Perhaps it would be safer If held
YOU She didn't seem to mind, so
gathered her arm comfortably in mine
Il can't imagine you talking usual
things you know she said, with an
uncertain little laugh.
Everybody says usual things in the
moonlight" l explained. "See, 1t Ii
just rising over the hill"
| We sat few minutes in silence
+, watching the yellow rim appearing, and
the pale light streaming down the fields
dotted here and there with tall trees.
i '.It is very, very beautiful" she said
\ softly. ut makes one feel good. l an
so glad you didn't want to quarrel to
4 night"
/, "Or any other night. 1 have been go
ing to tell you SO for long time" She
laughed.
How strange! Do you know, have
been wanting to say the same thing te
your
1T was right that the overture should
come from me-" She started anG
glanced at me again. The moonlight
lighted up her pretty, thoughtful face
and glinted in her golden hair. ''Ths
prettiest effect of the moonrise In In
visible to you," told her.
'I think she said, smilingly, 'ft.
incest effect is that it has made two
quarrelsome people" She hesitatet
for the word.
"Good friends?" She nodded. "On.
of them is very glad"
49," she said almost inaudibly, "il
the other"
DO you know, little Vera, dreadful,
as we Quarreled, 1 liked you all thu
time Only thought that you disliket
me so much"
She would certainly have fallen off L
1 had not had the presence Of mind t.
put my arm around her waist.
"Oh, nov she cried, quickly. "Indeet
I didn't"
THAT" 1 said, was the odd thin,
about 1t"
She gave such jump at the quota
ton that she would certainly have fall
en- off the seat-if 1 had not had tn
presence of mind to put my arm aroun'
her waist!-Aail and Express.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-19

The Jerusalem artichoke is Of the
easiest culture. Its treatment Is essen
tally that of a potato. If grown for
the tubers, the stalks should be allowed
to mature. SO that if it is the purpose
to allow the hogs to have the run Of the
lots and root for themselves, they
should not be turned in till after mid
summer. The seed is sown in the form
Of detached tubers, just like potatoes,
except that they are not cut to initiate
single eyes. This plant belongs to the
great sunfower tribe. and is called