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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
THE RETURN.

While wandering down a shady lane
One summer day, not long ago,
1, listening, caught the sweet refrain
OF happy voices, soft and low.
Fond memory brought back childhood's
day,
When had tripped along this nook,
And passed into the old church, gray,
Behind which sings the silver brook.
Oh, many years have come and fed
Since last walked beneath these trees;
The friends of youth are scattered
dead
1 hear their requiem in the breeze.
Not one in all my native place
Is left, who can remember me:
/ look into each passing face,
But all are strange; no friend I see.
The babbling brook is just the same,
The stepping-stones across it, too;
And here's the tree; but, ah! the name,
O'ergrown with bark, is lost to view.
Mine and another's, deeply traced,
The letters clear and intertwined,
Times finger has long since erased,
But left the scar for me to find.
Perhaps upon this Sabbath blest
l may, beneath the old church tower,
Find happiness and peace and rest
To strengthen me in sorrows hour.
l enter through the open door,
And with the worshipers l sit,
The broad, low windows reach the floor,
And through them song birds swiftly
fit.
From near the roof there comes a song,
solo from feathered throat,
And then a chorus mid the throng,
With not a harsh discordant note.
The humble worshiper looks up
In wonder at the music rare,
The birds with peace have filed my cup,
And sweetly bade me welcome there.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30


While most of the seed stores sell
special lawngrass mixtures, which,
perhaps, contain half-doZen or more
varieties of grass seed, we doubt if any
of them will give better results than to
mix one bushel Of Kentucky bluegrass,
a half bushel Of clean redtop, or
bushel in the chaff, one peck of sweet
vernal and one pound of white clover,
the above being amount for one acre.
The bluegrass is earlier than the red
top, and the redtop resists summer heat
better. while the fragrant, sweet vernal
is good both early and late. Have
the ground thoroughly pulverized and
made rich with about six hundred
pounds lawn dressing per acre, which
has more nitrogen and potash than the
usual superphosphates, and SOW in
spring as early as the ground can be
well worked, or sow in August. We
prefer the artificial fertilizer to the
barnyard manure for lawn, as being
free from weed seeds. The above mix
ture is also good one for permanent
pasture.-New England Farmer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
USE OF TOBACCO IN EUROPE
1t Is Three Hundred and Fifty zsar~
Since the Weed Was Introduce


Since the Weed Was Introduce
Three hundred and fifty. years ago,
according to the allegations, Jean Nicot
introduced tobacco into Europe. 1t was
from his name that the word ''nico-
tine" was derived. The French gov
ernment has just made an appropria-
ton for the erection of bronze statue
to Nicot. 1t is to be set up in front of
the main government tobacco factory
in Paris. This French claim to the in
PRODUCTION of tobacco into Europe is
somewhat at variance with the general
supposition that Sir Walter Raleigh
first carried the fragrant weed across
the water to the old country. Raleigh
smoked his Virginia tobacco in the
presence Of Queen Elizabeth in or
about the year 1885. Thirty-four years
earlier, however, Jean Nicot, while
French ambassador to Portugal, pur-
chased some tobacco seeds that had
been brought over from Florida and
sent some Of them to France. A year
later he presented some of the plants
to Catherine De Medici, and together
they smoked the dried leaves in pipes.
1t is interesting in this connection
to recall that when tobacco smoking
was first introduced into Europe, first
by Nicot and later by Raleigh, it was
extremely unpopular. 1t was called
'the stinking habit" and at least two
popes, Urban VIII. and Innocent XI.,
issued DEGREES against it. A Sultan Of
Turkey-in which country smoking is
now almost UNDERESTIMATE it a crime
punishable by the offenders having
their pipes thrust through their noses.
In Russia the noses of the smokers
were cut off. King James l. of En-
gland characterized smoking as "a GUS
tom loathsome to the eye, hateful to
the nose, harmful to the brain, danger
GUS to the lungs, and in the black, stink
ing fume thereof nearest resembling
the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit
that is bottomless. ss.'-Savannah News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
Barbed-Wire Fences.

An animal will seldom go near enough
to barbed-wire fence to be badly dam
aged by it, if led up to it when first put
out, and allowed to learn how sharp the
barbs are by a slight prick from them,
which will do no real damage. But
sometimes one will push another
against it. The greatest danger is from
a barbed-wfre that is not in place, but
has become detached from the post and
has a part Of its length lying on the
ground to entangle the legs of any ami
NAL or person walking along and not
noticing. See that all such fences are
made safe before any animals are let
out there.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
Little Hay Goes a Long Way,

fed in excessive amounts when they
are upon the road or worked hard.
Stuffing with hay when required to ex-
ert their strength or speed is liable to
cause serious and lasting injury. 1t is
also without doubt more frequent
cause of heaves and windbreak in
horses than in anything else. When
either of these troubles exists it so ag-
gravates the disease as to endanger the
animals life. At morning and noon
only very little hay should be given,
with enough grain to keep up the
strength and flesh of the horse, but at
night a liberal amount of hay should
be fed.-Farm and Home.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
Liuseed.Oi1 Cake

1t is an English tradition that some
thing like century ago farmer used
the refuse from linseed or fiaxseed
oil mill to manure a field. and then
turned sheep on it. Going there a
while afterward he found that the
sheep had eaten the grass and the ma
nure as well, and had made a better
growth than those in other fields. This
is said to have been the beginning of
feeding Hnseed cake to sheep. Posi-
bly, it is true, for some of our most
beneficial discoveries have been made
in ways as accidental or providential
as this.-Exchange.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
Eighteen La Old Enoupb.

1t appears from President Eliot's re-
port of last years work at Harvard
that boys enter college trife younger
than they did generation ago, and
few of them proportionally are now
prepared by private tutors. The num-
Der entering from public schools is
steadily increasing. DR.. Eliot thinks
that the excellence of the preparatory
schools ought to still further reduce
the average age of entrance There
is no good reason why nine-tenths of
all the boys who mean to go to Har-
ward College should not be fully pre-
pared for admission at Is years of
age" he says.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
Extra Coverings.

Some birds and animals put on ex-
ira foot coverings for winter use in
walking on snow and ice and boring
into it for food. Among these are the
ruffed grouse, the ptarmigan and West
ef1 rabbit. The latter is sometimes
known as the "snowshoe rabbit" be-
cause of the long and stiff hair which
appears on its feet in cold weather.
The ptarmigan has broad, stiff feath-
ers on it's feet, and the ruffed grouse a
sharp-pointed fringe. These drop off
in the spring of the year.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30

ty as a picture, and for three years has
stenographer. Mrs. Otis objections
were overruled. Young Ott slipped
away from the military school at Ashe-
vile, N. c., to which his mother had
bundled him, and he married his hearts
idol. His mother refuses to forgive
him, and he is now working for So
week, but happy, while his bride will
hold her position until his income is
larger,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
GAVE UP MILLION TO
WE'D TYPEWRITER GIRL.

Clarence Otis romance, which cul-
minated in an elopement to Jefferson
vile, Ind, has sequel. He is the son
of Louisville widow of wealth. AS
he was but 10 years old, his mother OBJ
jected to his paying court to Annie Pey-
ton. She was one year his junior, pret-
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
Covering Tree Wounds,

Among popular conclusions arrived
at from the general experience in using
various preparations, such as shellac
varnish, liquid grating wax, tar and
white lead paint, for healing wounds
made in pruning trees is that, taking
all things together. nothing seems to be
better than covering the wounds with
common lead paint, somewhat thick,
and that grating wax is close Sec
ond. Wax is the superior to paint in
the matter of healing, but it does. not
last so well, nor is it so convenient to
apply.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
Fun in Handkerchief Tuss1es.

Look at the diagram and see If you
can discover a way for the boys to get
apart. Two small girls Of my ac-
quaintance rode home in a street car
tied together in this fashion, slept all
night over it and did not guess the
riddle until after breakfast next morn
ing. The antics which they cut up fur
nished entertainment for a whole room
full of people.
To make it really exciting a number
Of couples should be set going at once
and prize offered to the pair who get
apart first. Such a wriggling and
twisting into all sorts of absurd posi-
tions as this will result in could hardly
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
The Woodpile.

90 HE woodpile was mountain for
height. 1t lowered above the mills
- which it fed; and the men who
carried the wood to the furnaces tun-
neled in the mountains like ants.
That is to say, the Town of Lead
lived on the mills-the mills ran by rea-
son of the existence Of the woodpile
For years the logs had poured down
from the nearer and the farther hills
to sustain it. For years the furnaces
had famed and the great crushing and
reducing works had turned out their
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30

1t is not the height some men attain
that makes them giddy-it is looking
down with contempt ON the crowd be-
meath them.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30

It's a mean man who will deliberate
ly walk between a woman and a milli-
neg's window.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
was not good, we would each say TIC

S<@ 11oS 6OOSxf
the other made it.
After 1t had cooked about ten min
utes, we took it off the stove and went
out doors and began to stir it. Pretty
soon our hopes began to rise, for it was
beginning to look and taste like fudge.
We decided that we had stirred it
enough, so poured it out on buttered
pans and went out in the barn to play,
running in every now and then to take
piece of fudge that we had made our.
selves.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
M;1k yes.e,.

Milk vessels should, as far as possi-
BILE, be made without seams, and all
soldered joints be made as smooth az
possible.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
strong Constitutions.

StrOnp OOhSIIIutIOnSs
Many animals lack in constitutional
vigor, simply because their parents
have been allowed to get too fat, and
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30

It is an art to be able to conceal the
defects of art
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
Inks of the Ancients.

The inks of ancient days were much
like black paint, and, on account of the
large quantity of gum used in their
manufacture, the letters stood up IN re-
lief on the parchments IS though en-
bossed.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30

A small boys idea of forgiving an in
jury inflicted by another boy is to lick
him first and forgive him afterward.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
THE HAPPY CALF AND ITS FEEDER.

may be removed as soon as the feeding
Is finished, or the entire feeder can be
taken down if desired. Henry B. Smith,
Of Chauteaugay, N Y, is the inventor.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30

And Jams Jensen put on the finger of
Nell Onderdock little ring made from
the gold of Lead and set with glitter
ing pebble Of the Black Chicago
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-07
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.


Chicago. Sept. 7.-WHEAT-An grains
opened nervous and at a decline of yes
terdays close. December wheat was IA
3sc lower, at 7034d701sc, on lower cables
and larger northwestern receipts In the
first hour it rose to Tic. but later reacted
to 7oS4c. Local receipts were POP cars
of contract grade. Minneapolis and Du-
luth reported 80 cars, making a total for
the three points of 1,112 cars, against L.
The market weakened later and closed
5sc lower, x eO3zc.
CORN-Decerber corn opened kG%c
lower, at 57d5754c, and gained gradually to
571zc, and reacted to 571zc. Selling was
mostly by professionals. Receipts were
;367 cars
december corn closed a shade up. at
size.
December oats opened 1hdl4c
lower, at 35Q351sc. Trade was featureless.
Price increas ed to 351s6351zc. and at the
NlSIONS-PrOvisiOns were steady
January pork opened Zoe lower, at $3.50,
and rose to $3.50, lard opened sc lower at
$90712, and advanced to $9171a; ribs open
ed 7i2c lower, at $S.O27a, and reacted to
IS 10
WHEAT-Cash: No. ? red. $50 a704 c;
No. red. 6S14 q 6954 C. No. hard winter.
6S14Q69l4c; NO. ] northern spring. lV140
71Ac: No. northern spring, $50 Q691zc;
No. spring, 6Su6s1zc-
CORN-No ,. 551zc; No. 3, 5494 d55c.
QATS-zNo- 2, 3412434s4c No g S4aS4Ac
RYE-Sept- 52s4c, Dec, 54U5412c.
ARLEY-Cash: 52d61c.
TINOTHY-Sept., $40
FLAX-Cash: Northwestern, Sl.4012; No.
! northwestern, Sl-4012; No. l southwest
ern, $l.39; Sept, Sl.3S1a, Oct, $1.36.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-07

New York. Sept wall Street.-The
stock market opened with great declines.
First quotations of Canadian southern
at g. compared with e9l2 last night rms
was quickly followed by Quotations Of
Missouri Pacific at 101. compared with
1O6 last night. Rock Island sold az 14O
and ST. Paul at l60. compared respectlye-
" with IA and 1852 last night. Union IA
cific opened at 975a to SO, as against l0O12
New York, Sept. 7-Wan street was
astir early today with preparations
the Ina fnancial World = the shooting down
of the president at Elnalo yesterday As
London was closed all efforts were con
centrated TO meet the e1ects Wi men y, W9 1l
converge upon the New YORK STOCK tx
The news from Buffalo OF the presii-
dents condition this morning was consul .
cred favorable, as mitigating lnS 7 ~
imminent probability or the pfesiu-llle >
death. The announcement by the clearing
house authorities before the market open
ed that the associated banks had the SIT
surfing factor When the market opened
there was a general feeling that every
nossihle preparation had been made 70
provide for the sudden emefgePcy III
quotation on the tape was Cana4a SOutH-
ern with a drop of ~ points Ihen came
Southern Railway with 10 points lower
than last night. Missouri Pacl1c IOl-
loved with a slump OF points and Erie
first preferred after opening OH "a
points dropped an extreme ~ points anu
so IT went with other stocks ali through
the list The leading railroad stocks We're
the sexerest sufferers, the grangers. Pa
cifcs and southWesterns showing decllneS
of over points. United States steel
the common being of 900 shares at II TO
42i5 compared with ass last night. ana s.
600 shares of the preferred sold at q to
9lH. compared with s4s4 last night Anal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-07

ing to the Central station OF a six-foot
tall foreign looking man, who was kept
in the sweat box from about midnight
until early today He seemed a work
ingnan by his dress, but was al par
entity a man of some intelligence
Chief Of Police Corner and Captain of
Detectives LOhrer We're alone with him
in the chiefs Office during the examina-
ton and all police officials are under
orders to answer no questions concern
ing him
A dozen or more addresses found on
the man under arrest by the Buffalo
police were telegra phed to the Cleve-
land police and each of these is being
run down. None of them has yet led
to anything that the police have given
out but it is thought the tall man in
the sweat box was brought in on such
information.
The police have not abandoned the
search for the supposed anarchist or
ganization and the search for the men
indicated in the information from Buff
falo win continue. it is stated all day
and men who may be located arrested
or kept under surveillance in the hope
that they may betray other members
Of the supposed band of anarchists.
According to the Cleveland directory
a. person named John Cfzologosz.a a
street. An investigation, however, fail
ed to bring forth any knowledge Of the
whereabouts Of the man by that name
Atleast five families livein the buildings
which occupy the lot at No. so Herschel
street, but all of these people denied
ever having known of such a man or OF
having heard of any one by that name.
Neither were the police able to learn
anything more than this about the per-
son named in the directory. None OF
the residents or merchants in the vicin-
ity could remember of any one of that
name in this neighbOrhOOd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-07
WICHITA MAN KNEW IT.
Had Been Told President Was to Be
AssassInated.

Wichita, Kan, Sept Fritz HUT
man, a reporter for the Eagle of this
city, reliable in every particular, while
singing with the Andrews Opera COM
pany last March, was confidentially
told by Antonio Maggie cornet player
with the same company, that President
Mckinley would be assassinated before
October and intimated that orders to
that effect had been received from an
anarchist society in Rome, Italy.
Mr.. Huffman was a tenor singer with
the Andrews Opera company and is the
son of the late Colonel Huffman. internal
ident Cleveland In his statement to
night he said:
''While travelling in February or March
between Abilene, Tex. and FL PaSO. An
pany, told that he belonged to Ma
leStes' anarchist circle, with headquarters
in Rome. Italy. He told me that Presi-
dent Mckinley and Emperor William
We're doomed to assassination and that
men had already been selected to kill
them. When I asked him concerning the
time he said, The time is not yet set for
the aSSassina tom of Emperor William, he
said. but President Mckinley Will be
killed October l. Why 1 asked. Be
cause he said. he sent soldiers into the
diers to kill the natives Of Africa All
who seek to Cypress must die
L thought he was giving me hot air at
the time, but now / believe that he was
Gle had assassins in the household of EN-
perOr William Maggie made some
threats against Manager Andrews of the
opera company and was discharged at Sill
City. N NJ. where he was irnmedi-
ately engaged to play in a saloon Maggie
also told me that he expected some day
that when he is it will be the proudest
moment of his life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-07
CONDITION IS CRITICAL.
Continued from FIRST Page-l

Continued from tllSt Ease-3
garding President McKinley's eOndi-
ton The other callers at the embassy
included Judge Gray of Delaware, Prot.
saunders of Harvard and practically
all The leading Americans in London
The kilograms Of sympathy and I'M
uuiry received al the embassy from all
parts of Great Britain include messages
from the mayor of Liverpool, Bucklng-
ham and Portsmouth
England prays for Mckinley, IS
printed in great black type across the
front page of the Evening Star ana an
the journals express the hope of the
-nglish people that the president VIII
recover. The sun says
The abhorrent crime was committed
for mere WantOnness-
The Evening News says.
THAT he may be spared is the prayer
of every Englishman throughout the
empire"
This paper mentions the curious re-
semblances surrounding the crime in
Buffalo and that of the murder of Pres
ident CarnOt whose assassin climbed TO
his victims carriage for the ostenslble
purpose of shaking hands.
The Echo eUlOgizes the personal traits
of President Mckinley as those on
which Englishmen can dwell with UNI
affected appreciation.
lit is understood that the American
police are communicating with the pO-
lice of the various European capitals
with the view of learning whether Leon
CzolOgsz has had relations with foreign
anarchists recently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-07
PREVIOUS AssAssINAT1oNs.
Deaths of Lincoln and Garfield Re
called.

Washington. Sept Three presidents
of the United States have fallen at hands
President Lincoln was shot at 9 o'clock
on April Il. 1860. and died at % on the
morning of April Is 1855.
President Garfield was shot on the
morning Of July I, 1881, and after lin
gering illness, died on September 20, 1881
me shootlng OF President Mcklnley has
occurred just six months and two days af-
ter his second accession to the presidency.
ceiVed the bullet of Wilkes Booth there
was no prospect Of his recovery His de-
remained with him through that memoir
able night. when all Washington was in
fever of excitement over the attempts
the life of Lincoln and Seward.
President Garfield was shot at the Penn
he and Secretary Blaine We're about to
depart for Long Branch. As the two dis
tlngulshed men We're passing through the
ladies' waiting room two pistol shots rang
out upon the air Mr.. Blaine saw q man
running and started toward him but inn
mediately saw the president lurch for
ward and fall. A moment afterwards the
cred and was rescued with difficulty from
the crowd When in answer to his eager
questlonS his physicians informed him
that he had one chance in a hundred of
living. he said calmly and bravely:
"Ihen, doctor, we will take that chance"
General Arthur was a. New York when
news reached HIM late at night that the
president had passed away. Among those
who joined General Arthur at that SOL
emn moment We're Elihu Root, now
member of the Mckinley cabinet. Mr..
Blaine and his associates of the Garfield
cabinet had telegraphed General Arthur
to take the oath of office At ? o. clock on
the morning of September q General Ar
thur took the oath of office. which was
administered by local attorney of New
York.
The course pursued during the lingering
illness of President Garfield appears to be
a precedent directly applicable to the
present condition of affairs. President
Garfield, without doubt. was utterly in
capable to perform any executive duty,
although he was himself in certain
sense. There was no acting president at
this period, and in fact the people did not
desire one during such a critical emer-
gency.
The lessons of Garfeld's death led to
the enactment of law on January 10.
1885. providing a mode of succession to the
presidency This established that in case
OF the death or disability of the present
sion should devOlve upon members of the
cabinet in the following order:
Secretary of state, secretary of the
eral, postmaster general. secretary of the
navy, secretary of the interior.
The new law made no construction of
.'dlsa bility-N An important proviso of this
law is that whenever powers and duties
of the presidency shall devolVe upon any
OF the persons named, that is that the
president or members of cabinet, If con-
gress shall not be then in session. or if
it would not meet within 20 days. then it
shall be the duty of the new president to
issue a proclamation calling congress in
extraOrdinary session. giving 20 days
tice of the time of meeting.