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The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1901-02-13
WILD cAMeLs IN ASIA.
The "Ship OF the DESERT Now Known to
Thrive In Cold Countries.

The "Ship OF the Desarts' Now Known to
Thrive In Cold, Countries.
According to a recent dispatch from
st. Petersburg the wild camel has been.
discovered in large numbers in that
portion Of Asia which lies between
Lobnor and Sajuy. This will dispose
Of the doubts that have hitherto pre-
vailed on the question as to whether
the '.ship of the desert" really exists
in an untamed condition. From time
immemorial, says the New York Trib-
une, two species Of tame camel have
been in use, namely, that known as the
dromedary, with only one hump, and
found in India, Arabia and Africa,
while the one with two humps is met
with in Central Asia, Persia and the
south of Russia. Both species figure
in the sculptures of Assyria, and are
mentioned in the Oldest books of the
Bible, but always as domestic animals,
and no trace exists of their being
drafted from their savage state into
civilized life, Indeed, it has generally
been supposed that the camel never
existed otherwise than as beast of
burden, and the few specimens of wild
drome daries which have hitherto been
secured by travellers and hunters have
been rega rded as merely some of the
domestic species that had reverted to
the freedom of barbarisrn. Geologic
ally speaking, the newly discovered
wild camel of Lobnor does not differ
widely from the domestieated 8 nimsl,
except there is almost an eatire lack
of hump, and that its sagaeity and
sense are developed to; most remarka-
Bile degree of keenness. And. whereas
we have hitherto been accustomed to
associate this animal with IDEAS of the
torrid heat Of the African and Arabian
deserts, lit would appear that it thrives
nowhere so well as in the coldest por-
tions of Siberia, suffering no oinconven-
ience even from the most severe win
ters, when the thermometer is many
degrees below zero.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1901-02-13
CONSTRUCTED HIS OWN GRAVE
Pennsylvansan VAN Now Arrange sos
His Fuaeral aad Dig His
Wisess Grave. y

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Having finished his own grave ana
lined it Substantially vito granite,
Samuel Reinert, of ShoeG1akervilIe.
Pa, win now dig a grave for his wiz.
He said:
y consider it most appropriate that
I should dig my own grave. Nest nas;s.
are careful in the selection Of their
earthly habitation, but pay no. after
tion 10 their last resting place. It's
matter to which I have paid consid :
erable thought for seFera. years, arr!
/ made up my mind that | must have
a Substantial grave. l have it row
It viii lie ages before its granite walls
viii erunhie This is a comforting re-
fiectioa. / don't see why lots of mel
shouldn't have their graves dug ard
walled out, ready to receive their re-
mains. don't see anything grew
some in it at all.'' :
Reinert says that he will now be-
gin arrangements for his funeral, such
as selection of the pall-bearers, choos-
ing. the text from which his sermon
IS to be preached. the style of shroud.
and how his body is to be arranged in
the coffin.
Reinert,s grave is feet long, 2Hs
feet WIDE and 5 feet deep. It is lined
with grants the total weight Of
stone required being 1880 pounds.
The top stone weighs CTS pounds, and
it took six men to place it in posi-
ton. It is 2 feet inches wide and
7 feet long. The grave is one of the
most Substantial in the county.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1901-02-13
LITTLE sLooP's VOYAGE.
Craft Sailed by Capt. Slocum Covers
A6.s90 Miles in Three Years
and Two Months.

The sIoop Spray, in which the owner
and captain, Joshua Sloeum, has sailed
10 almost every part of the world, has
arrived at New York.
In the winter of 1892 an old vesse,
was given Capt. Slccum, and he built
the Spray from material taken FROM
4he vessel. He sailed April "a, 1895,
from Boston for a voyage around the
world. He was not accompanied by
even cat or a dog He encountered
htgh seas, head winds and gales, but
finally arrived at the Azores, Is days
frotn Cape Sable. He set sail from
Horta July 24 and from~Gibra.tar Au--
gust Is. He touched at the Canary is
lands. The Cape Verde islands and final
ty feaehsd Pernan bueo. The Spray
went ashore on the coast of Uruguay,
but Was gotten off with little injury
He was caught in a gale rounding Cape
Horn. sighted the Marquesas, and was
withaut a port for 72 days.
At the islands of Samoa he was re-
eeived ny King Malietoa and afterward
went to Australia and Trinidad He
sailed FOR home and arrived at Newport
an June 81. 1898, after a cruise of more
than 46 600 miles. He was absent three
years and two months.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1901-02-13
MOSQUITO COMMISSIONER.
Is the Title Of a New efRctal with Ex-
traordinary Powers, In
Mexico.

The following from the Venezuelan
Herald will be of interest to Vene-
zuelans:
sSThe Mexican Central Railway COM
pany is engaged in new experiment,
which, if il is all that is claimed for it,
will be of inestimable value to the res
idents of this city. To show how ear
nest they are in the ma tier, they have
created new offfce-that of mosquito
commissioner, and the portfolio was
award ed to Capt. George C. Sperry, SUI
perint tendent of telegraphs for the
company.
Experiments in different parts of
the United States, and in New Jersey
in particular, have demonstrated the
fact that the extermina ton of the mos
quito can be successfully accom-
plished."
ter, says:
Scientific investigation has disclosed
the fact that a few grains of perman-
ganate of potash will destroy all the
embryo mosquitoes in very large area
of mosquito swamp. At two cents an
acre all the mosquitoes can be killed off
for a space of 30 days. and as the breed
ing time is but two months, four cents
will assure protection for the entire
year. This places it within the posi-
bility Of a state. and certainly city,
to entirely rid itself OF a great nuis-
ance-"
April and May are the two months in
which the mosquito breeds. They are
purely local in their habits, and not
migratory, as some suppose, and they
seldom move more than a hundred feet
from the place Of their birth. Hence
Ito exterminate the breed in certain
Ilecality would rid that locality Of the
pest for that season at least, and the
method of determination is SO inexpen
sive that an entire community may be
rid. of them at q very small expense.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1901-02-13
IN HER MOUNTAIN HoME3 ALONE.
A woman Who Leads the Life of a
Hermit In the Afieghanies.

On a barren ridge of the Alisgnanies,
in the northerp part of Clinton county,
a party of hunters few days ago dis
covered a ca bin nesting among the
rocks on a hillside. The spot was ten
miles from human habitation, and
the curiosity of the hunters was
be- Going up to the shut, oane of the
party hammered at the door 1t was
speedily opened by woman of about
50 years. who demanded their business.
The boadest member of the party asked
for a drink Of water. In reply the wom-
an pointed to a spring which buobled
up among the rocks, and then closed
and barred the door.
The hunters carried their story to
farmhouse in, the valley, where they
learned that the woman leads the life
of hermit, having no companionship
but that of great st. Bernard dog,
which she has trained to carry mes
sages and bring provisions from the
valley Nothing is known of her hiss
tory before her arrival on the noun
tain The country folk say that she
made her first appearance ten years
ago. During the summer she constr uct-
ed the hut unaidkd, and none but a
Few children have been allowed to en-
tier it. The youthful scouts report that
| the hut is carpeted with the skins of
E;bear and deer, which she evidently shot
| with her own hand. A repeating rifle
! and smaller arms hang on the walls.
/ No one has any solution to offer to
+ the question as to what drove this wom-
an to live in the wilds atone. She
shrinks from contact with grown peo-
/ pie, though the children, who call ner
| Aunt Maggie, are always welcome sum
mer visitors to her cabin.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1901-02-13
Efforts Of Prominent New Yorkers
in This Direction.
What Tt Is Hoped to Accomplish Through
Such Law-To Be Employed Only
Tor WHe-Beasers and Brutal
Thugs

New York proposes to ,attempt to re-
g1ve the system of corporal punish
nent for certain classes of offenders.
st least certain people in New York,
led by Elbridge T Gerry, viii try:t
have the following made a law at the
next session of the legislature:
Whenever q male person shall be
convicted of felony consisting of or
accompanied by the inhiction of phys
ical pain or suffering upon thetperson
of another, the court may, in its dis
erection, in addition TO. that penalty
now prescribed by law, impose an ad-
ditional sentence of corporal punish
ment to be inflicted upon the offender
ia the prison to which he shall be SEN
fenced Such corporal punishment
shall be inflicted in private in said
prison, in the presence of the warden
and sun geon thereof, who shall certify
the fact to the court wherein it was
imposed. 2
g Commodore Gerry is very much in
earnest in the matter. and in an inter-
view with reporter for the New York
Recorder stoutiy defended the plan on
the ground that it provided for the
only punishment that is really feared
by the brutes that it is intended to
reach.
Crime said he, "of the more brutal
and fiendish character is frightfully on
the increase, especially in the case
where children of both sexes are the
victims. Instances in which lifelong
injuries have been inflicted on girls
and boys of "a tender age are becoming
was done to strike at the very root Of
evil, and am sure the only weapon
that can be effectively used against the
brutes who, in their passions, exhibit
no thought or feeling for their victims
is the lash.
ssOnce let the brutal element of the
community know that the pain and
suffering inflicted by them on others
will be 1neted out on their own bodies
and the shocking state OF affairs now
existing will be to a great extent
wiped out. I am thankful to say that
the creatures responsible for the of
fenses are foreigners. The grade OF
crime against which the resolution is
aimed is peculiar to men from other
countries. And the onl way to show
these wretches that they cannot in
dulge in such things in t.lis continent
is.the crack and the sting of the lash.
1T has been erroneol7sly stated that
wife beaters are included among the
creatures against whom we are fight
ing This is not so. We are only ad-
vocating the lash for felony committed
s by men. Wife7 heaters belong to an
other class Of animals which may or
may not deserve q good thrashing.
They, however, do not enter into the
discussion.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1901-02-13
Not Appreciated.

The. crown prince of Sweden is to
practice ruling while his father is
sick, but the prince OF Wales is never
allowed TO be the whole thing, re-
marks the Chicago Record, even for a
few hours, no matter what may all
his royal mamma.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1901-02-13
Blue, monday.

A South siGe woman petitioned the
courts to protect her in her regular
washday, but it is believed. says the
Chicago Record, that the ma ajority of
women would rather petition the leg
islature to abolish washday alto
sether.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1901-02-13
Trans-siberian RAILROAD.

The Trans-Siberian railroad wiilsbe
ing. in about two years, the cost. prob
ably considerably exceeding the orig
inal estimate of $175 5,5OO, 600.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1901-02-13
Aastrfa,s crown. ).

The Austrian emp peror's crown was
recently photographed in. order to corr
rect imperfect represe tations of itson
coins and official documents. The
crown issregarded assene of the finest
works of European goldsIniths The
material alone is worth $5G0, 0,O00.--N.. :.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1901-02-13
Kites Sent to Great Alsitude.

When Mr.. Eady first began to fy
kites at Blue Hill, Mass, an altitude of
1900 feet was considered remarkable,
but recently an altitude of = 400 feet
above the level of the surrounding coun-
try was attained by kite. The Boston
Transcript says: The Blue Hill boys
have now some two miles Of strong wire
on hand and think that they can achieve
still greater penetration into the upper
air than the present record of q mile
and quarter. The experiments of the
present week are likely to be of i'm
portance, since Prof Harrington, late
chief of the weather service, and Mr..
Archibald, from England, the first per-
son to use kites for meteorological pur-
poses, are in town. These gentlemen will
visit Blue Bill and trials will be made
during the week to eclipse even the al
ready noteworthy record. /"
1t Gets Away from Its Owner and
Travels Over 600 Miles
Before 1t Lands.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1901-02-13

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An airship went ION tear one night
recently on its own account 1t traV-
eled 600 miles in less than IL hours,
went to sea on one wind, returned on
another and finally turned mp much
the worse for wear in tree at McKees-
port, Pa.
Many people of Trenton and Hanil-
ton Square saw red light and a white
light shooting across the dark sky. DR..
Pearson W. Yard, of Trenton, watched
the lights through powerful night
glasses. He made out that they were
on either side of cigar shapedv air
ship. which quickly sailed out OF his
view. That night the airship, headed
TO the southwest, was seen over the
lower part of Trenton, n. J..
The flying machine is the invention
and property OF Lieut. 6. S. Nirdlinger.
of the Fourth Virginia volunteers, who
lives in Philadelphia Lieut.. Nirdlinger
| invented some remarkable kites, and
has leave of absence to try to perfect
his airship for military purposes. The
| ship was meored outside shop vt
avalon, n =. In high wind it broke
away The gallant heutehant started
| in pursuit, on earth of course.
He traced his wandering flyer to
Trenton. followed it across the state tc
the coast. gayelit up for lcst.s was
much rejoiced tolearn that it had re-
| turned in a west wind from over the
| Atlantic pursued it to Pennsylvania,
and finally caught up at NcKeesport,
| where it had landed in a tree. It start
!. ed from Avalon at S: 45 o'clock Sunday,
and wound Up at McKeegport at seven
I o'clock a. N. Monday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-27

10 at night. Each operation takes about two ana a half hours and the largest quantity of oil as we'll as the finest Tn quality, comes of during the frst hour and half The still is made of copper, and holds about two hundred gallons. The flowers are packed In and the sun is filled with boiling water. Then the head of the still. which resembles an immense tobacco pipe with yha the, the eoT, \. lighted beneath the still, and the water is driven of In the form of steam, taxing the oil with it In the receiver the steam condenses. with the oil floating on .ne on and the oil is left behind. Then the head of the still is taken off and the boil ed flowers removed with long forks. Ihey on the ground to fertilize 1t for the next crop.
 The oil is bottled for a twelvemonth In order to mellow it, during which process It's color changes from light brown to pale gold. It improves with three years keeo- ing. but after this period it deteriorates. The lavender oil In ils raw state Is much too strong to be used as scent; II re- quires to be diluted with from twenty to forty times its bulk Of spirit and some times other perfumes are used. The reel pc as given in Piesse's Art of Perfum- ery'' Is: English oil of lavender. four ounces, spirits of wine. three quarts, rose water. one pint" good deal of laven- der oil issmade abroad, but 1t Is less cost ly than the English article. The best French oil can be bought for IS shillinEs a pound, while English lavender oil costs anything from pounds to 5 pounds for the same quantity. Hitchin, in Hertford- shire, the principal seat of lavender cul- ture, is a quaint little market town Of something more than eight thousand fn- habitants, situated on the Great Northern Railway at the point where the branch line diverges to Cambridge. Lavender has been grown in the neighborhood since the sixteenth century. Lavender IS also cul- | tivated near Mitcham and Carshalton, l though not to the same extent as form erlv Market Deeping. in Lincolnshire l was once famous for its lavender crops.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-27
ADVICE ON FRUIT EATING
When It Causes Indigestion-Its
 Curative Properties.

The curative value of fruit is becom- ing more and more insisted upon by those who make a study of dietetics. Grapes are recommended for the dyspeptic, the consumptiye, the anaemic and for those with a tendency to gout and liver troubles, Plums, also, are said to 'be cure for gouty and rheumatic tendencies. The sacid fruits, especially lemons and oranges, are particularly good for stomach troubles and rheumatism.
 It is not sufficient, say the advocates of the fruit cure, to eat small quantity at breakfast or dinner. One should eat from two to eight pounds of grapes a day. or, if oranges are the curative agency, the number to be eaten in day may vary from three to six.
 "A healthy condition of the body de- bends upon a perfect balance of foods taken. There are many other factors entering into the question. but this feature must not be forgotten" says .'The Syracuse Clinic" Few people there are who can keep. healthy without frui>
 ."'How absurd! some one says, to be told to eat fruit when everybody eats It. Yes, but how do you eat it? Do you take a definite amount of 1t, the same as you do of meat and potatoes. or dc you eat 1t as you do candy? If you Suner rom an acule aIeaSr of indigestion after dinner of soup meatsy pickles, sauces, salad, cakes pastries, with spices and condiments enough to blister the skin, to say noth ing of the delicate lining of the stomach pray do not aver that indigestion arises | from the imorsel of fruit taken at the end Be honest with your stomach for month. Eat no more than you need o simple food. Unto which the true luxurle' | of nature, Such as apples, oranges, pear: | or other,ffu shall enter. Try, II onl! as an Interesting experiment, to ca sparinRly. of the cruder articles Of diet 1 and moret of those suited to your req | needs, ahd' see to it that fruit forms { | part of each meal.
 But there are so many kinds of frui | that I cannot eat
 l ".There 1t is again. Because you can
 not eat seventeen kinds of food at on
 meal ending with fruit, 1t. of course wa
 the apple. or the strawberries that di' | the harm.
 But doesn't fruit make the bloo'
 thln?'
 |. "It certainly does. and we are might | glad of it. Ask any doctor who has prac tised medicine for ten years with hl
 eyes open, and he will tell you that tn
 great majority of grown up folks hay
 blood too. thick.
 "'The minerals and natural acids Of tn fruit are, the very best conceivabl
 remedies for this thickened condition o
 the blood. Fruit then becomes both food and medicine-a necessity and most delightful luxury"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-27
LAVENDER CULTURE.
The Culture and Preparation of "the Characteristic English Perfume"

Home messenger.
 Lavender, with it's charming homely English name, Is the characteristic Eng-
 fish perfume. It is modest ana unpre
 tentious and smells of the telds, yet It stands high on the list of fashionable re- quirements Its reputation goes far back into the romantic days of old English ire.
 The lavender plant comes originally rom the south of Europe. It belongs to the lapiatae which includes other sweet or strong scented herbs, rosemary, mint ana thyme. 1t affects high attitudes. and IS said to grow well on Mont Blanc, as wei as on the hills around Naples. lt IS found in Persia, in the Canaries ana Tn the mountain districts of North Africa. But though not indigenous to our island, | 1t has done so well here that the nnest | lavender culture in England s the Valiey | to have introduced 1t when they settled here in the sixteenth century. and hfty | years ago acres of ecound in the south- east districts of greater London. when are now covered with suburban villas ana l cottages. were blue and fragrant with | lavender fields The name of Lavender | Hill still recalls state or things now
 passed away. Lavender Is now grown | principally in the neighborhood of Hitch | in. It does well on loamy land with a | chalkv subsoil and often condescends to l grow on ground that would not support a ] more utilitarian crop. September and DC tober are the planting months. In spring the young plants are clipped relentlessly. | and no flowers are allowed to form during the first season. The plants reach their prime fin the third year, and by the hftn or eighth they are exhausted.
 At the end of July or the beginning Of August the harvest is ready for gather
 ing The flowers. which must be fully opened. are cut with short reaping hooKs
 and tied into bundles. They are then ta-
 ken to the distilery, and stripped from
 the stalk into pans which are emptied
 Into the still. The still holds from half a
 ton to a ton of the flowers and 1t iS a
 days work for twenty or thirty women
 to make up the quantity. The scent of
 the lavender is obtaired from the OIL
 corolla and leaves of the plant and to
 some extent in the branches of the flow
 CT stalks. A ton of flowers may yield as | much as twenty"one po"nds Of oil: but
 sometimes the yield is much smaller, not
 more than fifteen or sixteen pounds
 while it has been known to fall as low
 ais ten The stills are kept busy al
 through August. September and October
 from 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning til
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-27
Nobility-Gentlemen |.

NUteS and Queries.
 Frenchmen may well be puzzled at the vague ideas and confused terminology of English people with regard to their noblesse. This confusion is one or the results of the isolation imposed upon Englishmen in the sixteenth century. In the main, however, the question IS rath- CT one of terms than of thing.' on tH" Continent "nobesse" means the the opnqi op bv ton of gentility by royal grant or oy GeSCent. tu r.ngland "noblity meats ants. The suited English phrase gen tlefolk" is, perhaps, the nearest equIV- alent to the foreign term. The vague and almost sentimental signlncance or the word gentleman" as now used, re- lins but little of the original mf,eanins If,es though ''gentilhomme; senti'nosnu gem r.annt still imply what all three nrst meant namely. man entitled to armorlal
 arngs When all tass h:s 6f been ssntiltae sntni ass ybefbeT in Englsnd or sny other coun.. y of issS s0te F'fry to f'aT to,i srs .:gsntlsman''-or. as they say on the Continent, q noble" In this