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Rushville, Ind.

Rushville, Ind.
Messrds. Ely Brothers.: ] have been
a great sufferer from catarrh and hay
fever and tried many things, but
found no permanent relief until
found it in Ely's Cream Balm about
eight years ago, and we have been
fast friends ever since
Grew R. M. BENTLEY.
Messrs. Ely Brothers: Find enclos-
ed so cents, for which please send me
your Cream Balm. find your remedy
the quickest and most permanent cure
for cold in the head, catarrh, etc.
Yours truly, DELL M. POTTER,
Gen. Mgr. Arizona Gold Mining Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-12
Brutus' Little Joke.

"Brutus." said Cassius, when Marc
Antony ha6 modified two or three
corps of legions and got his eight.
inch rapid-fre guns into play. II have
no longer any stomach for war"
well" replied Brutus, after his
customary five minutes for thought.
having no more casus belli, wo
might as wei. lay down our arms"
And it took Caesar another I've
minutes to figure out the deadly CD
tendre that lay in the words Of the
coolest Roman of them all.
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A KISS BEFORE
ENGAGEMENT
[Original.1
The
oraphie's


Aleen and l We're on the beach.
"a woman said .Aleen, 'is mom
prone to forgive than Il man. She has
more heart. A man acts with justice,
a woman with tenderness
Il doubt if any woman can be char
table to another wonan.''
Il can. When there is an opportuni-
ty, will show you.''
Would you forgive girl for permit
ting me to kiss her without my being
engaged to herr"
Il would not forgive you il you did"
well turned. Why would you not
forgive me:'
THE man is the stronger. He should
not take advantage of woman's weak
ness. Whom have you been SHINING
With!"
If l should give you her name, l
would be doubly guilty"
"A girl who would SO demean herself
would not care
Don blame her. You have just said
that you can be charitable
70 this the only reply was brief
silence.
Il suppose" she said presently, you
Aean tell me what sort of looking
Wing she was.'
Thing! She was more than thing.
She was human being with Titan
hair, brown eyes and a skin white as
milk
with IL ehalky complexion
"On the contrary, she was very pref
ty."
What were the circumstances lead
ing up to-
"Yhe kiss? Oh, that came about
very naturally. Ii you had seen it all,
you wouldn't blame her.
Il do blame her,"
But you said that when there came
all opportunity YOU would show me
that you could he charitable
Charity begins'-
AT home?'
A slight color came to her cheek and
mild flash to her eye at the asper
sion.
when the sin is confessed and the
sinner is penitent. But tell me more
about this bold jade
''She was gentle, contiding. Her
voice was soft and sweet So inno-
scent was she that she did not wait for
me to kiss her: but, throwing her white
arms around my neck, she kissed me-"
1.-The horrid thing!''
There was a long silence. Aleen sat
down on the beach and began to punch
the sand with her parasol.
You are offended at me-" l said,
seating myself beside her.
Il am hurt that l should have be-
slowed my friendship Oh such tri-
fer. When did this disgraceful epi.
eode take placer"
Last evening"
"Where?"
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[)Al!c:Y!: ]: !: :; :IoHx :; :;
FIND THE WATCHMAN.

every near where we are sitting"
l saw I, spark of sunlight refracted
from her eye 10y IL tear. There was 10
mistaking it.
''Aleen,' | said. forgive me-
You have treated me shamefully."
''Aleen, 10 one in the wide world
save YOU
The time for words had passed, and
it was fortunate that there was some
take their place. put my arm about
her waist, drew her toward me and
kissed her.
A burst of merry laughter from be-
hind, a child's arms about my neck, a
rosy mouth against my cheek
"Aleen,' l said. this is the thing
the 'redheaded girl with chalky CON-
plexion.' the sinner who kissed me.
She has offended again"
Aleen rose and without word
walked away and crossed the board
walk. and in few minutes her re-
treating figure was lost within the por-
tails of the hotel.
lis she mad?" asked my little friend.
Mad doesn't express it. Can't you
find word in your child's vocabulary
that will better describe her condi-
tiOn:''
What did you do?'
had drawn her on to bitterly con-
denim woman who would receive !:
kiss from man to whom she was not
engaged and then kissed her myself.
81 have acted very badly l said t.
the child. land am heartily ashamed o
myself. wish you would go to hcl
for me and tell her so.''
took her hand in mine and led he.
to the hotel. Since it WAS her bedtime
and l preferred that .Aleen's anger
should have time to cool deferred the
message till the next morning. but the
next morning Aleen's mother an
nounced that her daughter was indis
posed and would keep to her room.
Toward evening a cold wind came
up. and the guests of the hotel Occu
pied the drawing room. Aleen sat
reading at the other end from where
was. She did not deign to look up at
lI0. tlIOtSA i was NultV SUI Z SlIC NINN
l was in the room. My little friend
came in and bade me good night.
"Go tell Miss Aleen." l said to her,
"that you have taken back the kiss you
gave me yesterday and wish to give it
to her."
She danced off to Aleen, who looked
from her book when she came up, and
l saw that the messenger spoke. Then
fov the first time in twentyfour hours
l saw Aleen's face break into smile.
She did not look at me, but took the
child in her arms.
Later Aleen put down her book and
left the drawing room. l strolled out
on to thc piazza and found her looking
out upon the ocean. I approached her.
put my arm about her, kissed her, and
the next stage in our relationship was
betrothal.
When my wife attempts to fling in
my face a catalogue of the superior
virtues of woman, l fire a round shot
at her in this little episode.
f. A. Mitchell.
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Discriminating Gotham.

The returns indicate that Hon Tim
Sullivan has been overwhelmingly
elected in congressional district Hon.
Perry Belmont was unable to carry.
How they do size up people in New
York. k.-Washingto Post.
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A. HOLLAND
Accountant
Real Estate Broker

Scrip school warrants, levee war
rants, ETC., bought and sold.
Special attention to redemn' of
forfeited lands.
Tax titles confirmed abstracts ex-
amined and deeds prepared.
Let me handle your real estate for
you and save you trouble and exrcns-
eive errors. Have some choice lots
now on sale.
Office in county treasurers Office
till further notice.
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They Don't Know 1t All.

The action of the Chinese govern
Mongolians to different universities in
America would seem to imply that
some things may be learned in this
country which have not been known
in China in 5000 years.-Kansas City
Star.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-12
Going to Extremes.

The manager of a football team at
Tampa is an undertaken. Unless the
other players in that town kill each
other deader than they do elsewhere
we should think surgeon would
come in handy.-Montgome Adver.
tiser.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-12
All Doubts Removed.

They followed President Baer right
into the voting booth and saw him
vote the straight Democratic ticket
in Pennsylvania. This would seem to
settle it.-Boston Herald.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-12

What's the secret of happy. vigorous
healtho Simply keeping the bowels,
the stomach, the liver and kidneys
strong and active. Burdock Blood Bit
ters does it.
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CAsrozIA.
Bear. tn. a The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature s3 T<@AzzzM
A Common Failing.

Common dIITHH.
A London tailor says the shape of
trousers will remain the same, not
only fifty or sixty years, but for the
next million. The kind we have here
bag at the knees in two or three
weeks.-Philadelph Ledger.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-12

Diphtheria relieved in twenty min
Eclectric Oil. At any drug store.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-12

At the moment of his birth ever.
man has a brilliant future before hin
and it usually remains there.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-12
ASTORIA.
Bear. Ii. y The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature a. LA1Azzz<m

Preachers may not amount to much
as carpenters, but they are usually
expert joiners.
Some mems heads are so soft that
a shadow from a, brick wall produces
a serious impression.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
WILD MUSTARD IN BLOOM.

ground for period of twenty-five years
when buried so deeply as to prevent
termination, and yet after this time
have grown vigorously. 1t is because
Of this Characteristic that it is specially
important to prevent wild mustard
from seeding. In fields where the plants
are few in number the labor expended
by way of pulling them up by root
would be most profitable.
Where it is not practical to pull out
mustard, owing to the large amount
present, it may be advisable to make
the cereal crop into hay rather than al
low it to ripen. If some such plan as
this is not adopted where fields are bad
ly infested with mustard it may be nec-
essary in the near future to allow the
land to lie idle and adopt the summer
fallow system in order to get rid of the
pest This would be an instance where
an ounce of remedy would be worth
many pounds Of cure.-Iowa Home
stead.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
The Farmer,s Te1ephone.

The Farmers Telephone.
A surprising thing is the development
of the telephone system among the
farmers here on the prairies, says
correspondent in Nebraska. An indie
pendent telephone company has been
extending its lines from town to town
and village to village. The result is
that farmers living from five to ten
miles from town are connected and
within speaking communication with
doctor, storekeeper, bank, grain buy
er, etc. Farmers telephone into town
in the morning for the price of grain,
and If they like it they drive in with a
load or two. For their telephones the
farmers pay from 81 to $1.50 month,
and as tme-savers they are said to be
worth from ten to twenty times their
cost. At the rate the telephone sys-
tenn Is now being developed it will not
be more than a couple of years till
nearly every farmer in Nebraska is on
the wire. With cheap telephones, rural
free delivery and consolidation of dis
trict schools into central buildings,
where there are several rooms, as
many teachers and grading pupils.
modern life in the rural regions is not
what it once was.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
cAPACIOUS BED OF WARE.
Is Large Enough to Hold a Dozen Per-
sons Comfortably.

Is Large Enough to Hold Dozen FER
sons Comfortably.
The great bed of Ware is famous not
only for it's size, but because Of
Shakespeare's allusion to it in
Twelfth Night" When Sir Toby
Belch urges Aguecheek to send chal-
lenge to his supposed rival, he says:
Put as many lies in a sheet as will
lie in it, although the sheet were big
enough for the bed of Ware in Eng
land" This enormous bed is 10 feet
o inches square and Z feet inches
high. 1t is made of Spanish oak, ele-
gantly carved, and Is a wonderful spec
linen of antique furniture that for
three centuries has been the pride and
glory Of the Saracen's Head at Ware.
The top is a solid canopy of beautifully
carved wood made in one piece. AT
the base of each footpost are boxes. 1t
was the custom in old times for
newly arrived guest who had never
seen it before to drink a toast to the
bed in a can of beer. Twelve persons
have slept in it at one time, and 1t Is
asserted in the old chronicles that
twenty did so at a pinch.
When Elihu Burrett, the learned
American blacksmith, went on his
walking tour from London to the
Lands End he turned aside to see the
great bed Of Ware, and might have
slept In it, but didn't. Some modern
authorities declare that it is not Older
than the reign of Elizabeth, but this
can hardly be, as when 1t was put UP
for auction part of the coat-of-arms OF
the Earl Of Warwick was found on the
bottom or back of it, with the date
II, and there is a tradition in the
counties Of Berks and Warwick that l,
was originally in Warwick Castle and
| made for the accommodation of King
Edward Nv. Of England, who could moi
sleep in an ordinary bed, being an i'm
| mensely tall man, only one inch short
of seven feet. This tradition says thai
it was removed from Warwick Castle
where it is called in the household
book "the kings bed"-to the inn al
| Ware to accommodate Edward in one
of his campaigns during the wars OF
| the roses There is common sanse II
| the story, for Edward was a voluptu
GUS man, reveling in all the luxuries
which could be procured in so rude al
age, carrying with him when he wen
to war or hunt silken pavilions, cup
boards of plate, feather beds, many
changes Of apparel and choice wine fol
| himself and his favorites.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
EATING TIME ON CAT FARM.
Dietary Table of an Up-to. Date Felin'
Boarding House.

Dietary Table of an Up-to-Date Feline
Boarding House.
The care Of cats Of absent mistresses
and of those which are raised for sale
has become q matter commanding great
attention, and in it's up-to-date features
is sufficiently amusing. The dietary
timetable and daily routine on one of
these modern cat farms Is described as
follows; At $50 the cats have saucer
fuls of food, prepared rs for a baby,
and given while warm at the consist
ency of cream. At 1890 they dine either
on a well-boiled Sleeps head, cut up
very fine, or by way Of change they
have a fish dinner. At 8 o'clock drink
of warm milk is provided. At p. M.
they have fish and rice, or biscuits soak
ed In milk. Clean boiled-they are en-
phatic about the boiling-water Is al
ways kept at hand, as cats suffer from
thirst more than is generally realized.
A white cat should be cleaned exactly
as YOU would clean the fashionable
white neck fur. The hand of the cleaner
should be dampened, not wet, in some
water in which a few drops Of am
monia have been poured. The cat
should then be stroked. 1t should then
be sprinkled generously with flour,
which must be rubbed into the fur.
This must then be thoroughly brushed
out. and the coat polished with a silk
handkerchief. This ceremony should be
rarely INDUCED in, as healthy cat will
keep itself clean in clean surroundings.
The cats at the farm in question realize
prices which frequently run into three
figures. SO the care bestowed on them Is
not altogether unreasonable.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
A STUDY IN SCARLET

BY A. CONAN DOYLE.

the truth, Lucy, it isn't the first time
have thought of doing it. l don't
care about knocking under to any
man, as these folk do to their darned
prophet. I'm a free-born American,
and it's all new to me. Guess I'm too
old to learn. If he comes browsing
about his farm, he might chance
to run up against charge of buck
shot travelling in the opposite direc-
tion.'
But they won't let US leave" his
daughter objected.
wait till Jefferson comes, and We'll
soon manage that. In the meantime,
don't you fret yourself, my dearie,
and don't get your eyes swelled up,
else he'll be walking into me when he
sees you. There's nothing to be
afeared about, and there's no danger
at all"
John Ferrier uttered these consol-
ing remarks in a very confident tone
but she could not help observing that
he paid unusual care to the fastening
OF the doors that night, and that he
carefully cleaned and loaded the
rusty old shotgun which hung upon
the wall of his bedroom.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
Mustard in Grain Fields.

The plant referred to scarcely needs
description, as 1t Is SO common, al
though the accompanying illustration
will impress the reader with its iden-
tity. The flowers are yellow and the
leaves soft, somewhat resembling those
of rape, cabbage, turnips, ETC.; In fact
mustard belongs to the same family OF
plants as those named. 1t Is one OF the
most serious of all the weed pests. This
is due to the fact that it ripens Its seed
before most of the cereals, so that the
ground is again seeded down for an
other year. But this is not all. The
seeds are so oily in their nature that
they have been known to remain in the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
ITO be Contlnued.)
Amusing Errors of Speech.

Bridget, who came to this country
last year, has a limited vocabulary,
and while she is learning fast, some
of the words and expressions she has
acquired do not always fit, her ear not
having been accurate in getting the
right term. Thus the other day she
said to her mistress:
"Shall fix that Kansas back duck
for dinner?'
Again, Bridget was telling tale of
a missing friend in this city, when she
exclaimed:
"Do you know, believe when Katie
turns up she'll be found in the Potash
fieldv'
While at work ON Friday a tremen-
dous blast near by in the subway
ratified the dishes in the kitchen and
the girl cried out:
"There goes that rapid transom
agsin!''
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14

meat of the backbone. BY the aid Of
splits spread the hog to its full width
and allow it to hang until it has thor
oughly cooled. The accompanying dla-
gram will show just how the carcass is
cut. If the ANIMAL is very heavy one,
cut the sides apart, then take off the
shoulder, then the side meat and finally
the ham. By taking it down in pieces
in this manner can handle a heavy
hog myself.-E. Esterley, in Farm and
Home.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14

ciently to make it convenient to take
the clusters from it. In the illustra-
ton half of the tray is cut away in
order that the construction Of the table
may appear more plainly.
The little block (B) on the headpiece
of the tray answers a twofold purpose
it serves as a handle in place of the
hand holes and it keeps the trays from
dropping off one from the other when
they are being piled up in the store
room or when hauling on the wagon
sled.-F. Grenier, in Farm and Fire
side.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
Tr;ck w;th a Piece of Cord,

Take piece of cord about two yards
long, hold the two ends with the thumb
and index finger of the right hand and
form the figure shown ON the left side
Of our illustration ON the table. The
task is to pull the cord off the table
while another person is trying to pre-
vent it by placing the index finger on
any spot inside the figures formed by
the cord. You may be certain that any
one will select the part Of the loop
marked with o. When we now pull
the two ends of the cord, it will slide
past the finger that isstrying to pre-
vent it.
Let us start over again.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
Table for Handling Grapes.

l have seen large, heavy tables for
this work in many grapehouses, upon
which the grapes were emptied from
the trays to be sorted, trimmed and
packed into baskets. 1 do not favor
this method of treating grapes. l think
the less they are handled the better.
The packing table shown makes 1t pos
sible to take the grapes out of the tray
stem by stem as wanted by the packer
and thus avoid the emptying out Of the
grapes. The table is SO constructed
that a tray fits into it tipped up suffi-
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
EyaDorated or Dried Potatoes.

"Dried potatoes is the name of
new product evolved by the South Car
olina Agricultural Experiment Station.
The potatoes are boiled, peeled and
evaporated in cannery, and will re-
main in perfect condition for years. The
preserved potato becomes fit for eating
after being soaked in warm water for
an hour. Like many other new ideas,
this promises to be big thing, and its
development may have great effect on
the vast potato fields of northern Maine.
1t is reported that an acre of potatoes
yielded 357 bushels, which made 1Oo
bushels of the dried product, nearly
pound to 31a pounds of the raw product.
Although the report we have does not
say anything about it, probably the
sweet potatoes can be subjected to the
same process.-American Cultivator.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
Sowing Clover In Corn.

The farmer who sows clover and finds
In the spring that it was winter killed
considers that ne has lost time, labor
and the value of the seed. This Is not
so, for the growth the clover makes dur
ing the late summer and fall has added
enough fertility to the soil to materially
assist in paying for the time and labor
involved. AS matter Of fact, there
ought not to be much labor spent In
seeding the clover beyond the work of
putting in the seed, particularly If the
work is done at the last cultivation of
the corn. Under almost any weather
conditions, except severe and prolonged
drouth, it may be considered wise to
make a seeding of clover, crimson or
red, at the last cultivation of the corn.
If it goes through the winter, one adds
so greatly to the fertility of the soil that
they can afford to take some chances.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
Bear More of an Attraction.

Parson (who has just arrived for the
first time at his new country living)-I
say, porter, my arrival seems to have
caused a great deal of excitement in
the village.
Porter-Yes, sir; but it's nowt to
when the dancing bear was here yester-
day.-London Tit-Bits.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14

Win q lew GUS
with the knife at
the lower part, loos-
en- the leaf lard, pull
it upward and take
it out. Begin at the
b r e a s t bone, and
with the aid of n
knife take out the
ribs. Run q knife
down between the
lean and the fat
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
ANALYSIS.

She-After all, what is the differences
between illusion and delusion.
He-Illusions are the lovely fancies
we have about ourselves, and delusions
are the foolish fancies other people have
about themselves.-Life.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
The Hay Press.

The farmer who has more hay than
barn room will find it a good invest
ment to have a hay press that he may
put it into smaller bulk, SO that there
will be room for it in the barn, instead
Of stacking it out of doors. 1t will
keep better, and if he has any to sell 1t
will be more easily handled and sell
more readily at better price. If one
cannot afford to buy press, let those
in a neighborhood who are likely to
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14

want to use 1t UNITE In owning. The
hay may be stacked until the cutting
and curing is over with, if one does not
wish to run the press in haying time.
but the quicker the stack is reduced to
bales the better.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
Let us start over again.

We lay the cord again and declare
that if the partner places the index
finger on the same spot of the figure
the finger will be caught and the cord
will not be removed The partner
places the finger on P, we pull, and
the cord Is actually held fast.
Solution: The partner has not no
ticed that we have changed the loops
of the cord. By comparing the two
figures in our Illustration you will no
tice the change. In the figure on the
left right end Of the cord forms first
the loop A, while in the figure on the
right it forms the loop behind 1t, so
that in this case the loop A belongs to
the left end Of the cord.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-14
Great Herrfng Machine.

Very clever is a Swedish inventor
named Ekenberg, who has constructed
a machine which takes herrings as
they come from the net, sorts them
into four sizes recognized by the trade,
scrapes off their scales, cuts off their
heads, splits, cleans and washes them
inside and out.
The machine does all this automatic
ally, and turns out 10000 herrings an
hour.
One Of the big floating herring facto-
ries which go out from GotebOrg to the
herring banks is to be equipped with
the astonishing apparatus, which ought
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