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$,l.OO $$I.25 =$l 50 $2..OO

L T Damask Towels, red af5o !ae borders, knotted frll S size 2lx44, worth }5e eaci Il 25C.
 I fine Table Linens we ask a*t you examine our line. 1a prices run from Sl.f & Q Sl.5O a var and for | ality and style cannot be improved on. Napkins to match at from S3.50 to
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Furniture.

Child Rockers from
 soc to $500 Misses Rockers frotu
 Sl.5O to S3. 50 Ladies Rockers from sI to $4 90 Ladies Willow Rockers. from $3.5O to S9,2 Ladies Fancy Wool UphoI- Stered Rockers from
 $500 to SIO.OO Split Botton: Chars, Set
 S2.5O Double Cane Chairs, Set
 S3.45 Bedsteads from
 $2OO to SC, 50 Dressers from
 $6. 50 to SIP. 50 WaShStand from
 S2.OO to SiO.OO Suites from
 5000 to s65.OO Ladies' Dressing Tables,
 from SlO 10 S2O Ghifforiers, from
 S7.OO to S22.5O Book Cases ard Writing Desks from SLIGO to SlS.5O Sideboards, rom
 siO.OO to S25.OO Wardrobes. from
 S7. 50 to $500 Safes, from
 S3 co 10 S7.50 Dining Tables, from
 &4.50 to $I5.O0
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Outdoor Air e Cufea!l.

Outdoor Air CufeaE.
 The man reason why consumptives are sent to New Mexico is that it is al- ways warm enough there to stay out ioors Staying out Of doors is tho sDecifc tor almost every i'll.
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Professional and business men will he interested in learning that high grade visible typewriter is now on the market, the Pittsburgh Visible" price S75 Address BindIey Hard
 ware Co.,. Pittsburgh, Pa. 120
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Ladies, Three Dozen Free.

pr. Charcot's Anti-Germ Pastilles. Positively infalible in troubles pecu- liar to the sex. Monthly remedy. Never disappoint. Harmless. Simple. Convenient Particulars with free box Dr. Julia Pinard, Wood Bldg, Nassau St, New York City. dtf
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COLONEL AARON T. BLISS. governor as Little Bob" for he is shorter than the average height of men.
 Connecticut's new governor, George P. Mclean, is 43 years of age and is first bachelor governor that the Nut meg State has had for a very long time, if, indeed, he is not the very first. He Is the son of clergyman and was for short time a journalist
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CORRESPONDENT WANTED il

CORRESPONDENT WANTED in every city, town and village in Amer tca. Newsnaa: and other work EX- perieced and Inexperienced. Good remuneration. News and stories wanted. For particulars address The Bulletin Press Association, New York. dtf
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Blankets and
 C0n1fOrfables.

We have on hand , wei assorted stock didm and high grade Blankets which we offer for retail at whole sale prices.
 A special thing in Comfort ab fe5 Was l E 5o seller we offer 2t the cut price of
 Sa. 175
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0sf-0n Fif II aveuue betwe2r Olive and E- Cherry stre9's, one blart rih64s telt with cameo D IL J. R. LEDBEfTlK it Joe ' Meyers IIs
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FOR SALE AT E=#GAIN--A ae ca
 | aev erye ud Uuida- Mo :. a D. ply 7i2 Che tnfft street or tIca ohic offae.
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Towels.

Linen Huek Towels, red and blue b0rdered, as follows:
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
Making HOfbed.


We used to believe as we were taught
that the way to make hot bed was to
put in manure about three feet deep.
trample it down well and allow it to
heat up, then fork it over and let it
cool, after which put it back and when
it showed temperature of 100 degrees
or more, cover with six inches of earth
and allow to heat up again. When the
heat had increased again and then fall
en- down to 80 degrees it was time to
SOW the seed and after the seed came
up it should be at rs to so degrees dur
ing the day and 60 to 20 degrees during
the night, at which temperature plants
make a good natural growth, not too
rank. We should not dare to risk the
growing of lettuce, radishes, tomatoes,
cucumbers and some other dollhouse or
hotbed plants during winter in any
other way now, unless on a small scale
as an experiment, but there are those
who assert that one foot of manure is
enough where the object is only to start
plants like tomatoes, peppers, cabbage.
caulifowerS and others to be set in the
open ground, and when the tempera-
ture reaches 100 degrees cover with
earth and SOW seed at once. 1t will not
often rise above the terminating or
growing point again, or if it does, it
may be lowered by raising the sash,
and the plants will be more hardy,
making vigorous but more stocky and
hardy growth than by the old method.
Some gardeners should try both plans
and report the results in plant growing.
American Cultivator.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
A Rat and Storm Proof Coon,

A Rat and Storm Proof Coop.
sSays correspondent of the Poultry
journal: The brood coop l have had
most success with is made as follows:
length, "a inches; height in front, 20
inches; rear; II inches; width, IS inches
INSIDE measurements. l make the
coop of matched pine, with board floor,
the cleats being on the outside so as to
raise the coop off the ground. The top
projects three inches at the sides and
four inches at the rear make closed
front (boards the same as the coop,
the front being hinged to the top and
front mitered SO as to close tight when
down. The coop front is kept in place
by cleats on the inside, these cleats al
lowing about seven-eighths of an inch
space on both sides when the door is
down for ventilation.
The front has iron strips, with three
or four holes fastened about the center
for the purpose of forming a hood to
the coop which can be set at different
angles by placing screw eyes to the
sides of coop. This feature of the coop
is grand, as by the hood the hot sun
can be kept out as well as driving rains.
These coops save me many chicks each
season. They are rat proof and storm
proof. The hen is kept in by lath
front fastened just at the edge of coop.
By painting these coops and storing
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
HE REASONED DIT OUT.
How a Small Boy Accounted for Bad
Weather.

How a Small Boy Accounted for Bad
Weather.
There is always some one who has
good baby story to tell, and here is the
latest. This baby is one of a larger
growth, a small boy who has reached
the mature age of years. He had a
great disappointment the other day. He
was to be taken on nice little excur-
sion, and he certainly would have
gone but for the weather, which ON this
particular day was so very bad that no
mother would take a small boy out in
it. Being boy, the young man did not
cry, but he felt hurt, and set out in
logical masculine way to reason mat
tiers out. He is we1l-taught smart
boy, and he has learned many things,
among others something of the creation
of the world ages ago and the Creator.
He also knows that the Creator of the
world is the Creator of what is known
as the weather. After thinking the
matter over, he went to his mother.
Mamma, it is a long time since God
made the world, isn't it?'
"Yes," answered mamma, "a long
time"
Then, don't you think, mamma" he
went on, earnestly, that he is getting
pretty old to manage it?"
The young mans reasoning had what
he must have considered a sound basis.
the family concluded in thinking it
over, for he has grandmother who is
now an old lady, and he has frequently
heard remarks as to her inability to do
this, that, or the other on account of her
age-New York Times.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
Cats. Rats and Chickens.


A certain well-known writer for ag-
ricultural papers says that "the cat
should be fed but very little. If they
are given enough food to satisfy their
hunger, they will hunt but very little"
Now it has been our fortune when we
lived in a house that there should be
one or more cats in it, and sometimes
others at the barn, ard not one of them
was ever allowed to go hungry much
longer than the members of the family
did, yet most of them that we remem-
ber were good hunters, and seldom
would one Of them ever eat rat. We
have seen a half dozen or more rats
piled up around the doorstep in the
morning, when we were newly moved
to a farm where the buildings had stood
empty for some time, and the cat that
caught and killed them, after she had
called her mistress to look at them, was
as ready for her breakfast as if there
had not been a rat on the premises, and
she had it, too. The cat hunts because
she likes it, just as many men do, and
if she was hunting because she was
hungry she would have found better
picking at the chicken pen than among
the rats at the barn. Our cats catch rats
and sometimes snakes and even frogs,
but never are hungry enough to eat
them, and, being well fed, seldom touch
a chicken or a small bird as a half
starved cat will do. Starve no cats in
our neighborhood when we have chick
ems in the yard and birds in the trees
Massachusetts, Ploughman.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
THE JOKE WAS TURNED.
A Man Who Digged a Pit and Fell in
1t Himself.


at didn't turn out as Jones figured"
said the talkative man with grin.
"He invited me to pay him a visit at
his summer home in the country, and
I accepted without any idea Of what
he had in store for me. No sooner had 1
arrived than he Informed me that he
had me booked to act as judge of a
baby show that was to take place the
following day. I laughed at him, and
told him that I would have to be ex-
cused. But he pointed out the fact
that I had been advertised to act, and
that it was now too late to withdraw;
so 1 consented, although with a good
many misgivings concerning the out
come.
"Well, when I stood up on the plat
form, and saw twenty-seven proud
mothers holding as many babies before
me, came near losing my nerve and
bolting. However, 1 took a brace and
told them to form in line and march
past me. They did and the sight made
me dizzy, and for the life of me
couldn't tell white baby from col
ored one. To catch my breath and gain
time to collect my thoughts, I told them
to march around once more, the result
being that 1 was more ratified than
ever. 1 was about to ask them to
parade once more when saw Jones
grinning at me from the rear of the
hall, and L realized the hand that
he had had in getting me into the pres
ent situation. Like a flash, I saw a
way out of the trouble, and chance
to even up matters with Jones at the
same time! Clearing my throat, ad-
dressed the expectant mothers as fol
lows:
"I have asked you to pass before me
more as a matter Of form than any
doubt concerning the winner of this
contest. That the babies are all dears
I think you will agree with me, and
also think you will concur with my
judgment when 1 state that there is
one baby here so much prettier than
the rest as to place it in a class of it's
own, and to that baby it is my duty to
award the prize. But to save the heart
burnings of the other mothers think
it best not to publicly announce the
winner at this time. If the mother
who holds the winner at this instant in
her arms-and she knows to whom l
refer-will call at the home of Mr.
Jones tomorrow morning at o'clock
she will be awarded the prize she so
justly deserves
''Then left and caught the first train
for home. I gather from the some
what warm and incoherent remarks
that Jones has made in my hearing
since that there was wildly exciting
time when twenty-seven fond mothers
called in bunch to demand the prize
that had awarded. Jones refuses. to
tell how it ended, but as he appears
afraid to go back 1 rather imagine
that the end is not yet."-Detroit Free
Press
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
HOW A YOUNG FATHER FEELS.
Emotions that Overcome Him Are Ex-
perienced but Once.

Emotions that Overcome Him Are Ex-
perienced but Once.
When the average novel writer
wishes to describe a set of emotions
for which he has no appropriate name,
he usually refers to them as being
mingled" and this, perhaps better
than anything else, reflects the condi-
tion Of a man when he first becomes a
father.
Coupled with the feeling of intense
pride that comes to you as one of the
interested parties in such a moment
GUS event, is the kindred feeling of
utter insignificance you also have,
which acts as an antidote.
After being ordered out of the room
by the doctor and the trained nurse
you wander aimlessly down a side
street, although you cannot for the life
of you tell what there is to be ashamed
at-and as you approach your office you
grow more and more uneasy.
And yet, while there is guilt written
all over your face there wells up in
your heart a veritable fountain of in
on tap to the first moment of con-
fdence
You assume a careless, devil-may-
care air, and carry your Indifference
to the point of intensity. And then in
response to inquiries your face it.
self is story bearer-you announce,
as if it happened daily like the weather
report and the time table, that it is a
boy or girl, as the case may be. Thus
you run the gantlet, and, finding that
the world still moves and breathes and
everybody is inclined to settle down,
| you watch your chance and get the first
unmarried man you can find to consent
to listen to you. You pour into his SYM
pathetic ear the whole story. You tell
| him how much the baby weighs, who
it looks like, how you felt and how you
feel. You describe your aspirations for
| that child, talk about love and duty and
| education and training, get more con-
fdential and finally leave him, with a
sense of your own intense Importance
| which only another interview with the
doctor and the trained nurse-and the
baby-can wipe out.
But all things have an end. At the
end Of a month, while you are at your
desk at profit and loss, someone comes
in, slaps you on the back and shouts:
'Well, old man, how's the baby?" And
| you reply absent-mindedly: "Oh, he's
| all rightY'-Life.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
HOW IT IS DONE.

give figure G. The triangle G is folded
over at the lettered line B C, figure D
resulting. The left side of figure D is
then folded back on the right, with the
result seen in figure e. Cut along the
dotted line from the center of the long
est side of the triangle, as seen in the
illustration. When the cardboard is
unfolded the perfect star, as at figure
f, appears. The points may be blunt
or sharp according to the position of
the dotted line in figure E. By moving
it further to the right the points will
be made sharp and to the left broader
This process of making the star will be
found simple, if the illustrations are
carefully studied.
The Boy Who Tries.
The boy who wins is sure of praise,
And yet, somehow prize
Through stress of dark and cloudy days
The gallant boy who tries.
Not once or twice nor thrice he lifts
His sturdy hand ere life
Shows bright and clear the blue that
riffs
With peace the sky of strife.
The lad whose valor holds its own
In presence Of defeat
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
IDEA. HAD A FATAL DEFECT.
Plan of an Inventor to Thwart the En-
terprising Burglar. -.

Plan of an Inventor to Thwart the En-.
terprising Burglar.
81 ran across queer old relic in my
line Of business recently" said a safe
and lock expert who is in the city to
see the carnival. 81 was prowling
around a machine shop in town up in
Iowa trying to find fitting that I
needed, when I happened to notice a
sheet-iron box which seemed to have
once been entirely covered with glass
tubes attached to the surface by ce-
ment. All of the tubes were broken,
and most Of them were missing, but
the general arrangement could be cas-
lily traced and the contrivance i'm
pressed me at once with sense of ia
miliarity. Presently I remembered
about it. It was all that was left of the
one-time famous 'anesthetic safe,' an
invention which ought to have been
sponsored by society for the preven-
tion of cruelty to burglars. The idea
Of the thing was that any cutting or
drilling through the outer casing should
release certain chemicals which would
of their fumes. In the morning the
owner would find his valuables intact
and could simply call dray and pack
off the unconscious burglars to Jail.
with such a device it was not nee
essary to have massive steel walls, and
the model which 1 CHANGED to resurrect
was made of one-eighth-inch sheet
iron. The inner box was entirely sur
rounded with glass tubes about the
diameter Of lead pencil and filed al
ternately with two chemicals which
were supposed to produce stupefying
gas when they came into contact.
There was a thin outside casing, and
the theory was that any effort to break
in would necessarily fracture two or
more of the fragile glasses. 1t seems
Incredible, but several prominent CAPT.
talists became greatly interested in the
scheme and stood ready to back it with
unlimited means until actual tests
finally convinced them of it's grotesque
impracticability How the model ever
drifted to the Iowa machine shop I
couldn't find out. 1t had been there
for years and was probably part of
the plunder of some forgotten junk
sale. The only other safe l know of
| fit to rank with the 'anesthetic' as
freak was one designed by an inventor
in Washington. 1t was circular in
shape, with pivot at the bottom, and
at night time the plan was to connect
1t with an engine belt and spin it like
top. The inventor was very much
in earnest and made large working
model. He admitted modestly that the
safe could only be used where steam
power was available What would pre-
vent the burglars from throwing off the
belt he didn't state"-New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
CHARACTER BUILDING.
A tiny form, new breathing clay,
NILhnt dnns. IL rrnnnrn2

A tiny form, new breathing clay,
What does it mean?
An immortal soul has come this way,
Has come to earth, on earth will stay
Until the firm, calm voice doth say:
Come homer
Ours is the privilege to mold
This character,
Each one of US, the young, the old.
Great strength and beauty yet untold
This gift divine may socl unfold
To us.
Protect him from each impure thought,
This newborn babe!
The greatest blessing ever sought,
True manliness, may thus be wrought,
For what he thinks impure or not
He is.
The architects of man are we,
Each one Of us.
And what false builders we should be
Is living that child might see
That wickedness, that calumny
Is life.
The son of friend the son of foe,
1t matters not,
As builders we must strike the blow
To make or mar. Build high or low,
The day will come when we shall know
Onr work.
Reform the worldv' has been the cry
For many years.
with sin, unhappiness must diew
We meet with small success, and why?
The reformation has passed by
Ourselves.
Before we seek to build man
A perfect one
We must ourselves remove the ban
That crushes us; the gulf must span
Between the earthly and the plan
Of God. Bartlett Warner.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
Sowing Letfuce

Says a grower in an exchange: AS
soon as the ground can be worked in
the spring a sowing of the black-seeded
variety of lettuce is made in the open
ground, the rows being spaced one foot
apart and every other row being left
out, so that celery may be set in later.
When the plants are large enough, they
are thinned so as to stand one foot
apart in the row. Sowings are made
in this way every ten days until about
the Goth of August. These sowings.
with those under glass, give continu-
ously maturing crops of lettuce the
wear round
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
Hand or Machine Labor.

There are many kinds of work upon
the farm which, if performed by hand
labor, require much strength, and
which can be done equally well when
the machines are driven by other pow
er. The grinding of grain has passed
out of hand labor long ago, but the cut
ting of fodder, saving wood, pumping
water and running of churn and sepa-
rator are yet done on many farms by
main strength of hand labor. The
steam engine run by gasoline or other
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
Saving Fodder.

on the farm has been the reckless way
in which corn fodder has been handled.
The silo has solved the problem of
making the most out of this valuable
food, but not one farm in 100 or per-
haps 500, has a silo. Left to ripen to a
degree that would make it worthless
and then possibly rot in the shock, the
cornstalks Oh most farms have fallen
into disrepute, and very few regard it's
feeding value as they should. With
improved machinery for preparing it
for feeding there should be more
thought given to utilizing fodder, which
can be made a good substitute for. hay.
National Stockman. p.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
Not a "Broncho-Buster" from G

Gov. Roosevelt, in speaking once of
his experiences in the far West, made
this confession: you know 1 am not
nearly so fond of 'broncho- busting and
riding wild horses as some persons
might have you think. 1t wasn't be-
cause liked that kind of work that I
did it. But I always took just what
came, and if it happened to be the
widest animal in the bunch 1 got on,
and stayed on, too, for when 1 got on
1 made upmy mind to stay, and have
yet to see the broncho that could make
me give in."-Ladies' Home Journal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
Women Beat Men Again.

Statistics show that women live
longer than men. For instance, in
Germany, only 413 out of 1000 males
reach the age of fifty years, while more
than 500 out of 1000 females reach that
age. In the United States there are
1858 female to 1,39S male centenarians.
In France, Of ten centenarians, seven
are women and only three men. In the
rest of Europe, of twenty one centenar-
ians sixteen are women.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
Blind Stapsers in Sheen.

Blind staggers is due to indigestion
and the result of it on the brain. The
remedy is to give an active purgative
to relieve the stomach, then give half
a level teaspoonful of bromide of potas-
SUM in bran mash twice daily. It
is frequently an immediate relief to
bleed from the large vein in each ear,
cutting it carefully lengthwise. An eff
fective purgative in this case is two to
four ounces of epson salts dissolved
in half pint of water. To drench the
head and neck with cold water is also
useful.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
Best Size for Si1os.

1t seems that one may make stave
silo too large to insure strength of the
structure, says the National Stockman
and Farmer. Probably 1S or 20 feet is
the limit in diameter. One dairyman,
having so large herd that he could
easily use off the surface of a silo 25
feet in diameter, built two silos of that
size, but the curve of the sides was so
slight that storm drove one side in
despite the tight hopping. The greater
the curve the greater the power of re-
sisting pressure when the silo is empty,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
To Make a Five Pointed Star.

The design shown In the illustration
makes clear the problem of accurately
cutting a 6ve-pointed star for flag or
other purposes: Take square of card
board and draw the diagonal dotted
line, as in figure A; fold the square on
these dotted lines, and the result will
be figure B. Then make the dotted lines
shown here and bend this triangle over
SO that it's point will touch A; this will
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-16
A Little Swapper.

A little boy was suffering from a Sc.
we're cold, and his mother gave him a
bottle of cough mixture to take while
at school. On his return she asked if
he had taken his medicine.
NO" he answered, "but Bobby Jones
did. He liked it, SO 1 swapped it with
him for handful of peanuts"