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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
TRAVEL OF DoueTFuL VALUE.

Save for the Study of Languages a Trip
to Europe 1s Not Advisable.
In series of papers on the education
Of children Florence Hull Winterburn
writes as follows In the Woman's Home
Companion upon the benefits of travel:
"It is quite doubtful whether children
get much permanent benefit from trips
to Europe. For the purpose of learning
modern languages residence abroad for
few years between the ages Of and
12 is of great advantage. But other
wise these tours are rather detrimental
than useful. To see many things which
we cannot understand, and have no
present desire to understand, brings
about habit of Indifference to what is
strange. The youthful tourist often
shows this in his face. He is blase with
wonders. He has begun at the wrong
end, and it is doubtful If he can ever
get back the freshness. the enthusiastic
curiosity which has been quenched.
"All this Is unnatural The young are
eager explorers when they are Journey
ing toward what has interest for them.
DuI tACAl SJ dLC li1OIS lA-tu0
present, with the nearby. For this rea-
son we should be ruled by the axiom of
our greatest modern Philosopher, and
proceed from the known to the uh-
known Familiarize child early with
his surroundings, and so prepare him
gradually for extended journeyings.
Show him all the interesting features of
his native place, the haunts which
strangers come to see, and which pos
sibly you have never taken the trouble
to visit How Faof tan han heard elder
" men and women say that they al
ways meant to go to see such place,
within easy access of their homes, but
haven't got there yet!
81 do not say that one should see the
whole of his own country before going
abroad; but he should see its character
istic features. Our land is the land of
the living. Offering immense contrasts,
presenting in little all the races and
something of their life, it yet deals with
what touches ourselves at every point.
1t is most interesting to youth. While
Europe, full of the dead, mingled at
every turn with suggestions that ap-
peal to mature, cultured mind, may
well be reserved as the eapsheaf of a
complete education"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
TWO MATINEE GIRLS.
And How Performance Was Spoil
.-.s.-..---.s for. Til an,

And How Performance Was Spoiled
~ for Them.
The sympathy and affection that one
woman sometimes feels for another
who is a stranger to her was illustra-
ted at matinee recently.
Woman No. had come in and placed
her coat on vacant seat beside her.
She kept on her bonnet
Woman No. 2 then entered, took the
chair on the other side of the vacant
seat and, taking off her hat, a mag
nificent structure, placed it on top the
others coat.
Woman No. evidently regarded this
as great impertinence. She stared
and stared at her neighbor over the
intervening space bridged by the hat
and the coat, but that young woman
was busily studying her program and
refused to see the glances.
Then woman No. 1 did most un-
neighborly thing, for she pulled her
coat off the seat with an impatient toss,
and, of course, sent the hat flying. 1t
landed under the chair in front on the
tip of an iridescent wing, rolled over
twice and finally rested on the cloth of
gold roses with which the brim was
massed.
Its owner fished it out with much diff
hcnlty and her cheeks were flushed and
her eyes flashing as she Strengthened
the flowers, felt of the wing to see If
it was intact and f1ecked some dust off
the grebe breast that ornamented one
side.
Then she turned her attention to the
villainess who had wrought this ruin.
1t was quiet attention, as if she were
calculating the exact reason for such
creatures existence, and the other
woman writhed under it perceptibly.
Then both turned their attention to
the stage and an armed peace ensued.
but it was noticeable that woman No.
2 kept her hat in her lap and a pro-
tecting hand upon it thereafter. while
woman No. sprawled her coat luxuri-
ously all over the vacant chair.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
Market vaIue of EnsiIage.

Prof. Phelps makes quite an elabor-
ate computation as regards fair mar
ket value of ensflage, from which he
decides that it is worth about one-third
to one-fourth the price per ton of a
good stock hay free from clover. He
figures it in this way: There is about
4SO pounds of water free or dry matter
in ton of ensilage and 1,740 pounds
in ton of hay, but when the digesti-
bility is calculated there is 1886 pounds
of food elements digestible in the ton
of silage, and about 1, 200 pounds in the
ton of hay, being near enough to call it
one third of the food value. But we
do not always compute the value to the
dairyman by the nutritive value if the
Professor does. The more succulent
and easily digested silage when given
as part of the food ration will pro-
duce more milk than one third of its
weight in hay. That is those who have
tried it say that thirty pounds Of en-
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
Fruit Storage House.

The Vermont Station gives descrip-
tion, with Illustration, of frame stor-
age house in which low temperature
and ventilation are provided by throw
ing open doors and windows during
cool spells in the fall and keeping them
closed at other times. The house is 81
by so feet and has two stories and base
ment. The basement and first floor are
used for storing fruit and hold 1000
barrels each. The second floor is for
empty barrels, etc. The building has
double walls and double windows. An
oil stove gives heat. enough to keep the
fruit from freezing in winter. The. Ium-
ber used in the construction Of this
house was as follows:
Three thousand five hundred feet
wall boarding, 5000 feet roof boarding,
$500 feet ceiling Gnside), 1900 feet
floor boards double foors), 1000 feet
clap-boards, 25 bundles lath, and 221.
squares slate.
Outside Finish-Two hundred feet
Qinear measure) 5-inch crown mold, 19C
feet Qinear measure) 3-inch bed mold
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

800 feet Qinear measure) Is by 10 mold
for freize and facia. 200 feet Qinear
measured A by base and water tables,
200 feet Qinear measure) T by II
planers .ss -
g Corner boards, four p,aees, by 5. 1l
feet; four pieces Is by 6, 15 feet.
Sills, eight pieces, 2 by 8, 10 feet; Ii
pieces, 2 by 8, 13 feet.
Floor joists, Sc pieces, 2 by 9, 151s
feet; 26 pieces, z by 9, 80 feet.
Collar ties to rafters, 26 pieces, IL
By 8, 10 feet.
Wall studs, 100 pieces, by 4, Il feet;
20 pieces, by 4, II feet.
Rafters, 56 pieces, by 8, 21 feet.
Braces, 26 pieces, 2 by 6, 6. feet; 26
pieces, 1 by 6, 8 feet.
Ribbons, 16 pieces, by 4, 13 feet.
Ridge poles, four piecs, 2 by II, 13
feet.
This bill is estimated at S443. SO, and
the house cost $1,5O0 finished The la
Dor of building was performed by the
owner at spare times.
Such storage buildings as the one
just described, which depends on the
outstanding and utilization of low tenn
perature during cold waves in early
spring and fall, would not, of course,
fulfill. their purpose during the hot sum-
mer months. They are obviously best
adapted to cold climate, such as is
found in the Northern States. Here
they can, in the opinion of the New
Hampshire Station, be made more use
full in our present transitional period
of storage construction than any other.
Their defect is that they do not main
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
Vigorous Measures.

For a long time the favorite form of
"make believe of little Faith was that
of getting married" For weeks she
was a bride, marching down an imagin-
ary aisle to the strains of an imaginary
wedding march, to meet an imaginary
bridegroom. At last her mother becom-
ing tired of it, she said:
Faith, don't you know that when
you get married you will have to leave
meY
This was a rude awakening, and the
game stopped.
Not long afterward she came to ask
the difference between Miss and
Mrs" To make herself clear her
mother said:
well, when you grow up and become
| a young lady you will be Miss Butler;
but if some man should ask you to mar
ry him"
I'D call a policeman exclaimed
Faith, and her interest was at an end.
It is probably safe to say, however
that in dozen years from now ths
future ttman" need not seriously co,
slider the chances Of arrest.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
DRIFTWOOD.
Er rsseeseeesseeeeseesesee,

7'VE walked too far" she said wear
lily. "I'm tired" She sat down on
a log at the edge of the wood and
looked off at the lake. She was not in
her first youth-Janet Long. Her eyes
showed experiences and sorrow; yet in
society she passed for brilliant wom-
an. Her critics accounted her some
what too exclusive. But her critics
were few in comparison with the num-
Der of her friends. This day, with the
chilly autumna1 wind announcing that
the summer was at its close, she had
walked into the woods with Edwin
Walker, one of the men who had mad4
up her brothers house party.
.'I'Ve been. careless, Miss Long, hs,
confessed ought to have remem-
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08


Here are 14-year-old boys direc-
tions for making an inexpensive toy
railroad:
To make car is not very hard, but
may require patience. First, you need
two blocks of wood about 6 inches long,
2 inches wide and inch thick. Bore
two holes through each block about 5
inches apart and one half an inch from
the bottom, as in Figure 1. Then take
two spools quite large ones), and put a
round piece of wood or spike about 5
inches long through the spools and into
the holes you bored; put board on top
of the blocks of wood and your car is
finished and looks like Figures and 8.
The track is made of strips Of wood
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
THE FOUR WINDS.

Wind of the North,
Wind of the Norland SHOWS,
Wind of the winnowed skies, and sharp,
clear stars
Blow cold and keen across the naked
hills,
And crisp the lowland pools with crys-
tai films,
And blur the easement squares with gilt
tering ice,
But go not near my love.
Wind of the West,
Wind of the few, far clouds,
Wind of the gold and crimson sunset
lands
Blow fresh and pure across the peaks
and plains,
And broaden the blue spaces of the
heavens,
And sway the grasses and the mountain
pines,
But let my dear one rest.
Wind of the East,
Wind of the sunrise seas,
Wind of the clinging mists and gray,
harsh rains,
Blow moist and chill across the wastes of
brine,
And shut the sun out, and the moon and
stars,
And lash the boughs against the dripping
caves,
Yet keep thou from my love.
But thou, sweet wind!
Wind. of the fragrant South,
Wind from the bowers of Jasmine and of
rose
Over magnolia blooms and lilied lakes
And Towering forests come with dewy
wings,
And stir the petals at her feet, and kiss
The low mound where she lies.
Charles Henry Luders.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

bered that such a jaunt would wear
you out. You look chilled, too"
81 am," she said. "I'm cold and-and
lonely"
You look as if you were-though for
you to say that you are lonely is not
perhaps, much of compliment to me" !"
Il didn't mean it for compliment or
a criticism. It's the truth
He looked at her with sudden fame
coming into his eyes.
"If you are lonely" he cried, "it's
your own fault. If you would let
me"
'"The human soul is always lonely,
suppose" she replied. But I'm stupid!
Please forgive me. l said was tired
but I was mistaken. I'm really cold.
Come down to the beach. and build a
fire Of driftwood."
He couldn't follow her mood-but
that was nothing strange. She had
bafied and perplexed him for a long
time. She ran down the embankment
like a girl, and began tugging great
pieces of driftwood and broken
branches of trees to one spot. He
helped her, saying nothing, but noticing
the grace of her tall, slender figure; the
beauty of her tossing hair beneath her
slouched gray hat; the insouciant gay
ETY. of her laughter, and her mood made
her more charming to him than she had
ever been before. They heaped the
driftwood high and sat down before it
together, and as the flames leaped up,
surprising the dun sand and the gray
water and sky, she fell to talking.
"0ld ships, old wharves, old trees, y
she said musingly, looking into the
heart of the fire.
'old loves, old memories, old pains, .
he said, musingly, too.
II can imagine the time when the
ships sailed the lake triumphantly and
when the wharves were staunch and
of much service to men, and the trees
felt the sun and the wind in their
branches - murmured Janet Long.
: 81 can remember when the love was
full of hope, when there were more an
ticipations than memories, and when
there was no PAIN" said Elwin Walker.
A silence fell between them The lake
made a melancholy murmur on the
shore. The flames leaped and cracked
The wind stirred through the dead
coarse grasses in the sand.
Wen be back in town presently, !,
said Janet with brisk reopening OF
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
Too Much Salt.

Too much salt is. used by many but
ter makers. The whole tendency among
consumers is toward fresher butter In
England and on the continent butter
made in those countries is served par
ticularly fresh and white In the best
restaurants and hotels in the larger
cities of this country the butter con-
tains very little salt. A great number
of American who go abroad or who
patronize city hotels and restaurants
in this country are. acquiring the taste
for fresh butter.-American AgEieulz
turist.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

conversation. 81 shall have new gowns,
and you'll make visits tc your tailor.
I'll see people, and hear music, and go
dancing, and will repeat poetry at teas,
and commit other sins"
"And shall never see you except for
moment when you are talking airy
nothings. call on you at the opera for
moment, or troop in with dozen
others at your evenings. You'll have on
all manners of furbelows-and they
won't become you half so much as that
roughing outfit you have on now. You'll
pretend you are intellectualand you
know you INDEPENDENTLY. You'll
affect a heartless gayety-and you
know you are neither heartless nor gay.
Pm saying good-by to you to-day, as a
matter Of fact"
you're saying good-by to my, sum-
mer self. My. winter self is far more
improving"
1.-THE flames are getting low. We
might as well be going home"
you are in a hurry"
''Yes, for if we stay here any longer
I'll tell some things which would rath-
er not say"
''Say them"
'sYou have forbidden me to do so."
But now give you permission"
"You give me permission? You mean
that l may tell you that my whole life
is being embittered by your refusal to
let me tell you how love you? You
realize that when l leave here to-mor-
row leave all that makes life attrac.
tive or even endurable? My whole life
has become centered in you. There is
something haunting and subtle about
your personality which has bound me
as with an enchantment. You are the
core of the world to me. 1t is mysteri
GUS, confess. Why, out Of millions
of human beings should you be the only
one who can give me joy? Why must
read book with your eyes and listen
to an opera with your ears, and care
only for beautiful morning because
think the radiance of it shines on you
can't tell. But it is so.''
She got up and heaped more pieces
of the driftwood on the fame. Then
she sat down by it again, folding he1
arms about her knees.
''I am not young" she said, moi
beautiful, nor gay, nor of the best
courage. am inclined to ask ques-
tions of life. If were married might
be inclined to ask questions of love
should be for saying: is this the best
that life can offer? Is this the ulti-
matum of lover"
81 don't care how much you ques.
tion," he answered, throwing himself
forward in the sand so that he could
look into her eyes, "if you will stay
near me. If can see you in my home
You may question as much as you
please.
She looked down at him for mo
ment, and then her whole face changed
breaking into an expression of radiant
joy.
"I believe ought to be able to get as
much out of life as any one else" she
said. .eThe truth is, love you. love
you-do you hear? But was afraid to
test my capacity for joy"
He put an arm about her with a tense
clasp.
do not be afraid" he said. By the
light of the flaming driftwood they saw
joyful love each in the eyes of the
other.-Chicago Tribune.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

made in ten minutes The cloth should
beiwashed after each milking, when it
will be ready for use again. This sim
pie device will do just as well as the
tin tops that come ready to be adjusted
to the tops of the milk pals, and the
homemade affair will cost nothing.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
Adulterated Flour.

1t is said that one reason why En- :
glish buyers prefer to purchase wheat
and have it ground there, instead or
buying American -four, is that they
have found evidences in the flour of q
aduiteration with corn -four, and even
corn cobs, clay and other substances
If this charge is. true, there is no one.
to blame but the millers if they do not :. !
grind all the wheat we grow, or all Z
they need to keep their mills busy. It
lis said that the MiIlers' National Asso-
citation svin take acton in the matter.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

top of the milk
pail. Put a square
of cheesecloth over
the top of the pail
and hold in in
place by the hoop,
as shown. This is
an aid to cleanly
milking and can be
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

ONT make meal
o ( your seed
corn.
The fruit that
r j p e n S earliest
rots first.
The S k e pti c
s t a n d S ON his
head and says,
"See me hold up
the world. !"
There are too
fe W f a m / | lie S
W b ere Martha
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

tain a sufficiently low and even tenn
perature, and they would be of little
use in a warm climate. 1t is, however,
but step from such a fruit house to
ice storage. Aside from the details of
construction, the only difference is that
the upper story is used for storing ice.
thus cooling the air in the top of the
building, which sinks and in turn cools
the room below.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
Crushing.

Hospitable Host-Does any gentle
man say pudden
Precise Guest-No, sir; no gentleman
says pudden.-Boston Courier.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

Wise is the man who never trIf1es
with an unloaded gun, a woman's opin.
ion of herself or the business end of a
wasp.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

One of John Chinaman,s Ways,
A Ghinaman places his surname first
then his titles, if be has any. and last
ly his "Christian" name.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
siIken Garments in Anc;a,,

Silken Garments in Ancient Days.
Silken raiment has standing anon Q
the oldest garments in the world. Robes
of that material were worn by men and
women alike $500 years before the
birth of Christ.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

Immigration Into Canada.
Immigration returns show that "a
600 people settled in Canada in the last
six months.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
The souirreI,s Arithmeti


The Squirrels Arithmetic.
High on the branch of walnut tree
"A bright-eyed squirrel sat;
What was he thinking SO earnestly?
And what was he looking at?
He was doing a problem Ger and Ger;
Busily thinking was he
How many nuts for his winters store
Could he hide in the hollow tree.
He sat SO still on the .swaying bough
You might have thought him asleep;
Oh, NO; he was trying to reckon now
The nuts the babies could eat.
Then suddenly he. frisked about,
And down the tree he ran;
''The best way to do, without doubt,
Is to gather all ean.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

When a sure thing man takes anoth-
er in out of the rain it is apt to be q
questionable transaction.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
Keep the Boys ON the Farm.


A great deal of plausible advice has
been given under this heading, which
may or may not be practicable when
applied to real life. But one secret Of
keeping the boys in the country home,
and thus solving the abandoned farm
problem, is in arousing their interest
and giving them some personal share
in that farm, something which they can
feel is their own, and which will be
theirs also when the time comes for its
sale. For this purpose nothing is better
than poultry raising. Many boy has
become successful poultry keeper by
having pair of bantam fowl given
him when a child, and being made re-
sponsible for their care and keeping.
Do not discourage the crude attempts
of the boy, nor laugh at his enthusiasm,
but tactfully point out the best way to
accomplish the end he desires; show
him how to care for his little flock, and
foster his interest in every way. Teach
him about the nature and habits of the
hen, and cultivate in him the faculty of
careful observation.
As the boy grows up, his interest will
deepen, and when the time comes that
boys are tempted away from the farm
by the attractions of city life, he will
be unwilling to leave the business
which he has built up and which he
finds profitable. Give him occasionally
pair of fancy fowl; encourage him to
exhibit at the fair and to take pride
in the condition of the feathered COM
munity under his care.
A subscription to good poultry jour-
nal or live farm paper, if he is at all
inclined to reading, will help to stimu-
late his interest. If the boy, the aver
age country boy, has pleasant, mon
ey-making employment, he will not Of
ten desire to leave the farm; and that
employment may often be found in
poultry raising 1t is a business which
is never likely to be oyercroWded. En-
courage the boys; they are the life
blood of New England.-Maine Farmer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

I saw a shoe-tree advertised,
bought me one or two,
But l haven't been SO lucky as
To raise a single shoe.
Detroit Journal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
OR BOYS AND GIRLS.
THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF
THE PAPER.

Quaint Sayings and Cute Doinss of the
Little Folks Everywhere, Gathered
and Printed Here for All Other Lit
tie Ones to Read.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

The brow Of hill may not be wrin.
kled but it is often furrowed.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08
Clean MILF
wooden b

To secure cleanliness in milking the
American Agriculturist suggests a
wooden hoop a little smaller than the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

When gIrI gives concert, sht
makes nearly as much from adyertis.
ing on her program as she makes from.
admissions at the door.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

silage day with ten pounds of hay
will give better results than twenty
pounds of hay. AS those who have
grown it for years say the cost when
in the silo is from $3.50 per ton with
best machinery up to $3.50 when much
hand labor is used. we think it is profit
able for the farmer to put up his ensiL
age.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-08

Needless to add that peace reigned
among the brothers for some days af-
terward.-Collier's Weekly