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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
Torne Mountain Legend.


There is Washington legend con-
nected with Torne Mountain in Ram
apo County, New Jersey. says the New
York Tribune. Half way up the noun
tain there is a deep cleft in the rocks,
at the bottom of which is a spring.
From some hidden point water falls
into the spring with a steady drop
ping not unlike the ticking of a watch.
Listen and you will hear George
Washington's watch" say the old set.
tiers. '.He dropped it into the spring
when he came up the mountain to
watch the British leave New York"
ck-tick-tick-tick" is the sound
which comes out of the rocks.
1T Is going yet" says the guide.
"Must have been good watch, don't
you think so?''
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
Is GALLANTRY LANGUisHING ?
observations on the Decline of Street
Car Manners in the South

Observations on the Decline of Street
Car Manners in the South.
1t cannot be concealed that there is
growing tendency, even in the South,
where masculine gallantry has held out
longest, on the part of men to let wo-
men in the street cars shift for them
selves. 1t has not come to that point
yet, but the movement is growing in
that direction.
1t is fact that men are rapidly fail
ing in the courtesy which was once uni
formly shown to women, and the rea-
son, to a large extent, is that men are
meeting women as competitors in all
fields of labor, and this fact vastly
changes the social relations between
the sexes. Women are claiming all
sorts Of equality with men, moral, po-
sitieal. and physical, and are declaring
more and more their Independence
The effect on the next generation will
be very marked and peculiar. The
men and women of the present are af-
fected to an overpowering extent by
the influence of old ideas and training,
and that is the reason they talk about
street-car manners and social ethics in
their relations to the sexes; but in the
year 1885, just thirty-three years or the
period of one generation from the pres
ent time, people will no longer concern
themselves about such manners.
The greater the number of women at
work in proportion to the men, the
more stringent the competition, and it
can easily be seen that, according to
the figures shown, the day might come
when there would be no street-car man.
ners, but every individual would look
out for himself or herself, as the case
may be. But even should chivalry be
eXtinguished from human manners,
there will always remain the Christian
grace Of charity; so, in the time to
come, able-bodied young men and wo-
men who have seats in the cars will
rise to give their places to old men and
women, and to others who may be sick
or disabled.-New Orleans Picayune.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
Clover in the Rotation crops.

1t Is now generally understood that
the rotation Of crops is practiced SO
that the plant foods in the soil may be
drawn upon about in equal quantities
instead of using heavily Of one and lit
tie of the others, as Is the case when
one crop is grown several years in sue
cession. There is another point about
the rotation of crops that is not So
well understood by farmers, and that
is the value Of using clover or some
plant Of similar character as a part
of the rotation crops, and simply be-
cause it returns more plant food to the
soil than it takes out of it. Thus is
one reason why authorities on legumes
have urged so persistently that farm
ers use them more freely and have
shown where cowpeas. Canada field
peas and the velvet bean can be used
to advantage on farms where it does
not seem possible to get good stand
Of clover.-Indianapolis News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
SUGGESTIONS ILLUSTRATED.

Farm and Fireside. The fifth cut repre-
sents new method Of protecting half
hardy or tender trees in winter by
bending them over a log rolled close to
the tree, and firmly fastened there by
bundles of cornstalks thrown over the
tree. A barrel Or hogshead can be used
in place of log, with much saving Of
labor. Picture No. shows peculiar
way of making strong bushel crate.
These bushel crates are used now ex-
tensively by farmers who gather from
the fields potatoes, onions. carrots,
apples, ETC., placing them into these
crates, then placing the crates directly
into the wagon, from whence they are
carried to cellar, without dumping
tEsm into wagon boxes, and shoveling
them out again, as was done in old
times. This cut Is from American Agri-
culturist. The last cut is from Farm
and Home and represents an easily con-
structed sawbuck.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04

into the business of collecting rope
ends for paper factory, let him not
discriminate against any piece because
Of its s0iled condition. The dirtier and
biacker it is, the better the quality of
paper it will produce. Indeed, if you
can get any old scraps that have been
used In ceal pits or yards until they
are saturated with coal dust and grimy
particles and sticky with tar-the more
tar the better-you will be fortunate,
for it Is from such material that the
very finest grade Of tissue paper is
made. So sheer and fleecy is this quail
ity of tissue that ream of IA sheets
will tip the scales at only two and
one-half pounds, and this weight in
cludes the wrapping and string in
which it is inclosed for shipment. This
tarred-rope paper is very tenacious,
numerous tests having demonstrated
that sheet of it twisted ropewise
would easily sustain weight of 100
pounds. 1t is used principally in pot
teries. being superior to any other SUBJ
stance for transferring the patterns of
earthenware.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
Chicks Need Grit.

The chicks will be benefited by hav-
ing some kind of gritty material mixed
with their first feed. Coarse sand or
egg shells dried and run through the
coffee mill is probably as good as any
thing for this purpose. The supply
houses keep in stock what Is known
as "chick grit" but we do not believe
that 1t is any better than what has
been above suggested. Next to the raw
ages Of lice. bowel troubles lead to
the heaviest loss of chicks, and the
grit tends in great degree to prevent
such troubles If chick Is killed at
the end of the first day that 1t has run
with the hen its crop will be found
to contain considerable quantity OF
sand and fine gravel. and If the wealth
er Is such that the hen can be turned
loose the day following that on which
the brood is taken from the nest, and
be allowed to select the food, the own
er will generally be safe in relieving
himself of any concern regarding their
health The hen sees to 1t that the
chicks get something which is not
usually thought of by the owner. and
that is grit.-Drovers' Journal
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
illustrated susgestions.

The first illustration is a Georgia
peach carrier, holding six small baskets
of peaches. which we re-engraye rom
a cut in Country Gentleman. The next.
No. 2. is bushel box from the New
York Tribune. Notice that the end
pieces Of this box are notched at the
bottom and pointed at the top. so that
lot Of crates may be stacked one over
the other for sorting apples. potatoes,
etc, in the cellar or for carrying to
market. The third Illustration is a
wagonload of bushel crates, illustra-
tions copied from American Agricultur-
list. Notice the lower tier Of crates,
then the retaining board, which holds
in position the second tier Of crates
placed over the first. The fourth illus
tration represents an opening in the
fence through which people on foot can
readily pass, but which cows and
horses cannot get through, copied from
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
P1owins Under Green Crops,

That there is merit in green manur-
ing, adding humus to the soil, no one
will deny who has tried 1t on moder-
ately heavy soils, but that it should be
generally practiced without regard to
soil or local conditions is not correct
principle. Most of the plants used for
green manuring are leguminous in
character, hence have absorbed the
greatest quantity Of nitrogen from the
air when they have reached maturity.
and, in most sections, the hay Of clover.
cowpeas and velvet bean has value
too great to warrant one in using 1t as
green manure, and this is especially
the case on light. rather sandy soil,
where the green manuring is Of the
least use. Under the conditions refer
red to the most profitable plan would
be to let the crop mature and feed it
for roughage, using the manure on the
farm; In this way one has all the ad-
vantage that would come from the
green manuring, under such circum-
stances, and the hay for feeding be-
sides. Again, there is danger of sour
ing the soil by too much and too fire.
quent green manuring, SO that enc
should know his soil thoroughly. or,
better still. experiment carefully and
note results, before going into green
manuring too extensively.-India
lis News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
Growing the Best Ann1es.

Nurserymen report an unusual de-
mand for the older and best-known va
rieties Of apple trees, such as Rhode
Island Greening, King, ETC., ana those
who have fruited these old favorites
are encouraging the demand for themJ
Growers have paid much attention to
the later introductions and lost sight
of the good things at hand. The writ
er remembers buying several barrels
Of King apples some twenty years age
in New England which We're superb
in quality and size, far superior to the
majority of the varieties of recent in
PRODUCTION, and where this variety can
be grown it may be safely said that it
has no rival At this season Of the
year the good old varieties like King.
Rhode Island Greening, Spitzenburg
and Northern Spy bring more money
than the newer sorts.-Exchange.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
Dairy and Creamery Notes.


Do not allow any person or dogs to
worry the milk cows.
The neglected cow neither fills the
pail nor the farmers pocketbook.
Never stop nor let the work be inter-
rupted when milk is "coming."
Milk dry! Milking dry develops the
udder and consequently the power Of
giving milk.
If there is any one thing that needs
a dairyman's personal attention moro
than any other, it Is milking.
If there is little milk left in the
udder each time 1t will cause any COW
to decrease in her milk flow and finally
cease giving milk at all.
Knowing how means much in butter
making. This is why one persons but
ter Is quoted at 20 cents pound, while
another's from just as good milk, will
bring only 8 cents.
A cow should be MIXED three or four
times a day If she is suffering from
any disease of the udder. u
There should be no loud. boisterous
language permitted while doing tho
milking, for the cow is a nervous crea-
ture, and any uncalled for excitement
affects the quantity and quality Of
milk unfavorably.
It is the little attentions that 90 to
make up the successful management
of dairying. and he who does not study
the needs of the common COW and her
environment need expect no success
with her blooded sister.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04

FITS nothing. I'm not a scrap uncom-
Portable. 1t strikes me as being sort
of lark-h'm-a joke. / mean. I feel
as jolly as a sanG-ooy, and" with a ten
der, earnest glance, far jollier, because
/ can now see you"
But how long is it to last ?" says she,
neryously. 1T can't go on like this for
ever, and Seaton comes down here some
times, and he knows you."
Il dare say / shall manage to avoid
him. Though / have often thought late
ly that it would be good thing to take
him into our confidence"
"Oh, no, no, no indeed" cries she; she
might tell his father, and then all would
be up with u.s."
"Well, there's my sister, Gracie-she's
very good-natured woman, and clever,
too. If were to tell her all. she would
tell Seaton, and between them they
might manage something. There's a step!
Go away, and try to see me tomorrow
if you can"
They have barely time to separate be-
fore the gaunt figure of Crunch is seen
approaching through the laurels.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
A Correct Cellar.

A cellar can be kept as pure and dry
as any other part Of the house If It
but have a reasonable amount of atten-
tion. Unless the ground be low, SO as
to make water collect in the cellar, III
is not necessary, although desirable,
to cement the walls and floor. Bricks
set on edge and laid with tight joints
form a clean and satisfactory floor!
Slope the floor so that drain will car
ry off any water that may collect. This
gives opportunity to fully wash the
cellar, for cleanliness is as necessary
here as in the other rooms. Light,
cleanliness and pure air make the per-
feet cellar, as they do the perfect liv-
ing room.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04

wheat were required to produce 100
pounds of gain in live weight In two
trials with cornmeal 49S pounds were
required to produce 100 pounds of gain.
When mixture of equal parts Of
wheat and corn was fed. better results
were obtained than when either wheat
or corn was fed alone. It required
4S5 pounds Of mixed wheat and corn.
half and half. by weight to produce 100
pounds of gain in live weight
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
Mutually SURPRISED.

There must have been about four
hundred people at Lake Bennett, writes
Mr.. Secretan, in his entertaining book,
ITO Klondyke and Back" making four
hundred different varieties of death
dealing conveyances, for each had to
construct his own boat for descending
to the Yukon River. The owner of a
little wheezy, portable sawmill, which
was putting away day and night, tear
ing spruce logs to pieces for one hun
dred dollars a thousand feet, was get
ting rich.
Anything that would float was at a
premium. Once in a while you would
see something resembling a boat, but
not often. AS a general rule, the soap
box and coffin combination was the
most popular pattern.
Some men could not wait to be sup
piled by the wheezy sawmill, but went
in for whipsawing on their own ac-
count. One man stands on top of the
log. and the other below, and the saw
is then pushed up and down along a
chalk mark.
4 story is told of two ''pardners"
who commenced whipsawing. After
working a while. till his tired muscles
almost refused duty, the lower one ex-
cused himself for Il moment, and hav-
ing hired the first man he met to take
his place in the pit, disappeared. The
saving proceeded until the uppermost
''pardner," all unconscious that he was
working with an entire stranger, be-
thought him of device to rest. Max
ing some ordinary explanation. he got
down from the log and quickly hired
an Indian to take his place at the saw.
The ''pardners" were mutually sur
prised to meet each other shortly after
ward in an adjacent saloon.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
CHAPTER XIII.

CHAPTER XIII.
Four long days have crept languiily
into the past, four of the dullest days
Griselda Dysart has ever yet endured, as
she is compelled to acknowledge even to
herself. Slowly, with aimless steps, she
rises and filings aside the moldy volume
she had found in one of the rooms below,
and which she has been making a fruit
less effort to read, and looks out upon
the sunless pleasure ground beneath her
window. She becomes suddenly aware
of an unfamiliar figure that, kneeling on
the grass before one of the beds, seems
to be wedding away for its dear life.
1t is certainly the new gardener. Poor
creature, whoever he is, what could have
induced him to come here? Uncle Greg
ory had evidently found no difficulty in
replacing his former employe. Had he
secured this new gardener on the old
poor terms? Unhappy creature! poverty
indeed must have been his guest before
he and his clothes came to such a sorry
pass! AT this moment the unhappy
creature" lifts his head, turns it deliber-
ately toward her, and-she finds herself
face to face with Tom Peyton!
A little sharp cry breaks from her; she
STILES it, but turns very pale.
You! you" she says.
Don't look like that!' he says, in a
low tone, but sharply. would you be-
tray me? Remember, it was my only
chance of getting near you. Don't faint,
mean, or do anything like that"
"Oh. how could you do such a thing?'
says she, in a trembling voice. "And-
and how strange you look, and what
dreadful clothes you have on"
well, 1 gave a good deal for them,"
says he, casting an eloquent glance at his
trousers: 'more-four times more-than
l ever yet gave for a suit. I'm sorry you
don't approve of them; but for myself, l
think them becoming, and positively
glory in them; would rather have them
than any clothes I've ever yet had, and
think them right down cheap. It's
rather a sell if you don't think they suit
my style of beauty"
He is disgracefully unalive to the hor-
ror of his position. He is even elated by
it, and is plainly on the point of bubbling
over with laughter. Given an opportu.
nifty indeed, and it is certain he will give
mirth away; Griselda, however, declines
to help him to this opportunity.
ITS horrid of you'll don't know how
you can laugh says she, beginning to
cry. Il can't bear to see you dressed
like that, just like a common man."
Well think you're little unkind,"
says he, regarding her reproachfully. II
did think you would be glad to see me.
1 thought. fancied-I suppose 1 was
wrong-that when we parted on that last
day you were sorry-that you would Ike
to see me again."
well, that was all true" says Gri-
selda, sobbingly.
Then what are you crying about?''
Il am unhappy that because OF me you
must be made so uncomfortable"
If that's ALL" says he, beaming afresh,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
Quick WinkS.

Experiments have been going on with
an ingenious machine which shuts
over a mans eye so that the eyelid as
it winks opens and closes a chrome
graph. So far the 9liskest wink on
record is about a sixth OF a second.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
A Cerfain WaY

How can you tell mushrooms from
toadstools, little boy?"
Easy! If de guy dat eats 'em Is
alive next day deys mushrooms. II
he's shifted of de mortal coil den deys
toadstools.'
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04

which 1 speak," says Seaton, his face
now livid. ''Who?" he repeats, in a low
but terrible voice.
Crunch" replies Mr.. Dysart, shortly;
something in his sons face warned him
not to go further.
You hear?' says Seaton. turning to
Vera. "It was Crunch who betrayed
you. You are satisfied now?'
'On that point, yes. suppose 1 should
offer you an apology" says she, icily.
But" with a swift glance at his father,
''how can be satisfied when"
Her voice breaks.
Sir" cries Seaton, addressing his
father with sudden passion, why did
you speak to her of this? Why have
you deliberately insulted your brothers
child?''
There was no insult. may have told
her that if she chooses to do such things
as society disapproves of, she must only
submit to the consequences and consider
herself ostracised."
Compromised you said"
''Well, it is as good a word; you are
welcome to it."
"Pshaww says Seaton, with a quick
motion of the hand, as if fiinging the
idea far from him, ''let US have no more
of such petty scandal. You forget"
sternly, that when you seek to compro-
mise Vera, you condemn me, your son.
Dysart shrugged his shoulders.
The man is never in fault; so your
world rules" says he. lightly.
"You persist, then, in your insult"
says Seaton, going a step nearer to him,
the veins swelling in his forehead. ''You
still say that She"
II say that, and MORE" replied the old
man, undaunted, a very demon of OBJ
stinacy having now taken possession of
his breast. Il feel even bold enough to
suggest to her the ACCESSIBILITY of an i'm
mediate marriage with you, as means
Of crushing in the bud the scandal that
is sure to arise out of her imprudence."
$50, Vera; leave the room," says Sea-
ton, with great emotion.
why should she go? 1t seems to me
you give her bad advice" says Mr.. Dy-
sart, looking from one to the other with
a satirically friendly glance. Let her
rather stay and discuss with US your
marriage with her."
If he had been SO foclishly bliad as to
hope by this bold move to force Vera
into an engagement, his expectations are
now on the instant destroyed by his son.
understand me, once for all, that l shall
not marry Vera" says he, white with
anger, and some strong feeling that he is
almost powerless to suppress. 'Were
she to come to me this moment and lay
her hand in mine, and say she was will
ing so far to sacrifice herself, should re-
fuse to listen to her,
Vera, for the first time since her en-
trance, lifts her head to look at him.
Was he thinking of Miss Butler? Was
he true at last to her? A little bitter
smile curls her lip.
Il thank you," she says, with a slight
inclination of her head toward her cousin,
and with swift step leaves the room.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
Wheat aa a Hog Enod .

Results obtained at the Wisconsin
experiment station show that there is
practically no difference in the quanti-
ty of pork produced from the same
weight of wheat or corn. In four trials
an average of 400 pounds of ground
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
Stick to One Breed,

If farmers would take one good breed
of fowls and carefully study their char
acteristics, they would make more
profit than if they keep trying to orig
mate some new breed. 1t sounds well
to hear yourself spoken Of as the orig
inator of some new and valuable
breed, but very few ever succeed in
starting a variety of fowls that ever
amounts to anything.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-04
Good Investment,

A boy of II, living not far from
Montreal, in private letter to friend
of the editors Of the Woman's Journal,
gives graphic description of how a
whale strayed into the river. He says:
My Dear Aunt Belle: There
has been quite an excitement up here
for the last week. A forty-foot whale
managed to make his way up the St.
Lawrence River as far as here, and
had been careering around for few
days. All the sportsmen went out to
hunt him with rifles, shot guns, and
all kinds of weapons, without any ap-
parent damage to him; but two or
three fellows got bullets In different
parts of their bodies. One fellow went
out with a muzzle-loading shot gun,
rammed it with powder, put in lot Of
bullets, and pulled the trigger; and
when he woke he found himself on a
cot in the hospital, with his face all
done up in cotton. The doctor inform
ed him that he would be able to take
the bandages off in month, but his
face would be powder-marked all his
life. Another got shy in his leg and
one other a bullet in his arm. Then
the police interfered.
All went well with the whale until
Thursday. when poor man found him
floating belly up in shallow water, full
of holes. He towed him to land and
made the fact known that he had cap
tured the whale. People focked to see
it; but in the meantime the man had
two offers-one was certified check
for 5000 and the other $400 cash, and,
knowing nothing about checks, he sold
for the cash, whereupon the man with
the $4OO who had bought the whale
quickly sold it to the other for 5000.
Now there is a tent over the whales
body, and tickets are sold at 10 cents
peep He made $27 Friday and 500
Saturday. and people are mad to see
him, SO that it is expected that the
owner will make fair profit.