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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
A Suitable Dust Bath,

= All chickens seem to thoroughly en-
joy a dust bath, and it's use undoubted-
ly is benefit to their plumage, besides
Kidding them of lice. If the plumage
is to be kept clean and bright, especial
ly OH birds intended for exhibition pur-
poses or Of white varieties, it is essen
tial that the dusting place be kept ABB
solutely dry, as otherwise it will soil
the plumage and the fine bird on which
you may pride yourself will look very
dingy.
The rooted box in the sketch will
give an idea Of how birds may be pro-
vided with dry dust bath in nearly
all kinds of weather. Cloths may be
tackled across the top ends, with hooks
at bottom for stormy weather, if the
box is in field. Some poultry raisers
allow their fowls the liberty of the
sheds where the farm machinery is
housed and here they get fine busting
in all sorts of weather. but if the birds
roost on them it does not improve their
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
AN OLD DEBT.

Wagner Paid the Reckouinp After
Lapse"of Fourteen Years.
The little Steiger Inn, near Dresden,
has celebrated it's centennial, and this,
among other memories, is quoted by
the Staats-Zeitung as belonging to it.
In lS49, on morning in May, the
hostess of the inn heard distant firing,
and saw armed Insurgents running
along, the road, as if in. flight. This
was the last remnant contributed by
Dresden to the May revolution, and the
Prussians We're hard upon their track.
Suddenly the hostess found herself
confronted by little man with smoke
begrimed face and hands, who nodded
and rushed into the inn.
Give me basin of water" he pant
ed, land some bread and meat! Quick
An instant's delay may mean death!"
The hostess obeyed him. 49,.
You don't seem to know me-" he
said. -.
"Oh, l have seen you often, but"
well, | hope l have credit enough
for my breakfast, for haven't a pfen-
d
show me the way through the forest to
Freiburg.' X
So the hostess sent her son to guide
him through the woods.
Fourteen years after well-dressed
little gentleman presented himself one
day at the door of the inn, and ad-
dressed the hostess, with a smile:
"Good day, Frau Wirthin! l have
come to pay my debts. 1 have not for
gotten what you did for me that ninth
of May"
He then paid for the breakfast eaten
so long before.
Now" said he, that is off my con-
science. Perhaps you would like to
know whom you have trusted so long.
Allow me to introduce myself as Rich
ard Wagner, then a rebel, now amnes-
tied by the king"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
(To be conrlnued.)
Why He Wanted to Go.

Up at primry school No. 9 in Brook
lyn the other day, one of the boys pre-,
sented note from his mother, asking
to be allowed to go home at 2 O'Clock.
The teacher looked at him severely.
"See heie," she said, ''you've been
out great deal lately, and here you
have note to go out again. Now, we
can't do things that way. If you are
coming to school 1 want you to stay
here. What do you want to go out
for?'
'sMy mother wanted me to go to New
York." replied the small boy.
"Wouldn't Saturday afternoon do
just as well?'
"No, ma am"
''Do you have to 60 at 2 o'clock?"
eyes, ma 'am."
"Wouldn't half past do as well?"
"No, ma 'am'.'
"Well, what do you have to go for
"Please, ma am. my cousins dead"
The expression on the teachers face
was wonderful to behold as she gave the
boy permission to go.-New York Even
ing Mail.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
Raiuy-Day Friends,

Rainy Day Friends.
One lonesome day l felt so bad,
Because it rained, you see;
I couldn't go to see my friends,
Nor could they come to me.
Then mamma said, "I'H make some
friends
With whom you'll like to play"
And so she folded paper up
A sort of fanlike way.
She shipped and shipped with scissors
then ~
The paper opened wide,
And such lot of little girls
Before me then I spied!
They all took hold of hands, like this,
just so they wouldn't fall
And | made noses. eyes and mouths
with penciD for them all.
l gave them names, and set them in
A row on my footstool;
l played they were my company,
My sisters, AMI my school.
l took them boating in pan,
And riding on the train;
We Ring Round Rosy played while,
And-I forgot the rain.
We snapped the whip" and skipped the
rope,
And played menagerie,
And mamma gave us popcorn balls
And frosted cake and tea.
Oh. dear! twas such. lovely time
The hours just flew away!
really hope fore long Well have
Another rainy day. -
Youths Companion.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
offers such as the one above stated. As
a rule, it is entirely safe to refuse to
sign any paper offered by a stranger
for even simple receipt may turn up
q note, which must be paid.
A One-Man Saw.

A cross-cut saw will get through a
great deal more wood with a given
amount of muscle than any other hand
device. With this rocking walking
beam attachment and it's weighted and
swinging pendulums, one man can cas-
lily manage the saw. The post, as
shown in the cut, should be about eight
feet high to admit of having pendent
sufficiently long to give the required
length of stroke. The weight on the
outer pendent should be, just sufficient
to prevent the saw from riding, The
spring from main post to the saw
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
Aids to WhitewashinC.


The use Of the fruit-spraying pumps
makes easy the task Of whitewashing
stables, henhouses and cellars, and it
is much more effectual than the use of
the brush, because by making the
stream a little larger and more forci-
Bile, which most spraying nozzles ad-
NIT of, stream can be sent into cracks
and crevices where the brush would
not reach. 1t may not prove as pene-
-trating or as powerful a disinfectant
as the gas from burning sulphur and
charcoal, but it takes next rank, and
can be used where it might not be well
to use the sulphuric acid gas, as In
cellars, under living rooms. If it is to
be used as disinfectant, or as an in
sect destroyer, the addition of little
carbolic acid or a little dissolved cop
peras to the whitewash may be an adj
vantage, and we prefer the latter, at
least-i COW, stables, becausesit emits
no offensive odor. Let theslime be
thoroughly slaked, and strained through
cloth, so that it may be thin enough
to work well in the nozzle. And sides,
ceilings, corners and floors can be we'll
sprayed in one-fourth the time needed
for the use of the brush. Applied dur
ing the hot weather, it does not take
long to dry, and two coats can easily be
given if one does not look thick enough
when dried.-New England ! Home
stead. rri -
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19

PAPER for Invitations

There is specially imported station
cry for little maidens to use in sending
out their party invitations. One style
has the small sheets of heavy white
paper decorated at the top in coIors
with little girl and small boy fencing
On another are two wee new women
In bloomers exercising with dumb-b bells
and Indian clubs. Other note paper
bears on the top a scene of tiny sum-
mer belle and her attendant cavalier
on board a yacht. What is known as
harlequin paper" is decorated with
an elephant in scarlet trousers playing
a trombone, and below: = - -
The elephant played the trombone
With his trunk so very long.
He played the airs so finely.
That never note was wrong.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
Schemes of the Tree Agent.

= It IS really surprising how frequent
" farmers are taken in by tree sharps.
One would suppose that the informa-
ton concerning tree growth and soils
possessed by all farmers would be suf-
ficient to make them suspicious of big
stories, but it is evident, from the way
in which the rogues thrive, that they
find easy victims in the farming COM
munities. One of the latest schemes
Is for the tree agent to offer to plant an
acre with trees for 500 and to care
for the trees for five years. In addi-
ton he agrees that the firm he repre-
sents will buy all the fruit from the
trees at an advance of from 10 to % per
cent over the ruling market price. 1t
would hardly seem as if any man of in
teIIigence would be taken in by such a
proposition, yet hundreds of dollars
are being put in the pockets of these
rogues by unsuspecting farmers. There
are many nurserymen in the country
who sell their products entirely
through agents, and such men are re-
liable, but they do not tell improbable
tories or exhibit wax fruit and claim
to be genuine; neither do they make
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19

should be strong enough to help the
sawyer on the return stroke. A stout
cord running over pulley with
weight attached. may take the place of
the spring. A, stiff wire with hook
in the lower end answers very we'll in
place of the wooden pendent shown in
the cut. When it is adjusted just right
the walking beam will see-saw easily,
as it follows the motion of the saw
John Jackson, in Agricultural Epito-
mist.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
Our Patriotic Songs.

How many boys and girls Of II can
write the words of The Star Span
gled Banner" and America ?" We
ought to know our patriotic songs as
we'll as we know our multiplication ta-
BILE. In England the other day the
Brighton school board examined the
children on Rule Britannia" and the
London Chronicle published the work.
One boy wrote down as the first line of
the chorus, 'Royl Brick Tanner, Brick
Tanner rules the Way" Another be-
gan, "Rore Britainer" A third thus
adjured his country, Rail Briltanil
Briltanil Rails the Way" doubtless
thinking of the Cape to Cairo project
A fourth, more ambitions, gave a
whole verse, thus: THE nations not
so blest has he but still in stern but
still stern to God most all this was the
Chelter and Chelter of the Stall and
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19

The four braces are made of AKA
stuff. The post may be either round or
be ten feet high. The pole "a" should
square and should be about thirty feet
long, SO. as to. make good-sized stack
1t should be made of pretty good tim
Der. White oak is good and seasoned red
elm is also very good for this purpose
Have the blacksmith make a fork like
that seen at ''b'' to fasten on the top
of the post upon which the pole re-
wolves. An old buggy spindle is
very good thing for putting on this
piece. The illustration shows the To-
cation of pulleys and the method of
adjusting the pole for stacking In
stacking set the derrick to the wind
ward of the stack.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
Lord Kitchener a schoolboy.

Lord Kitchener SchoO1bOy.
Lord Kitchener received a part of his
education at school about four miles
from Montreux, not far from the point
where the Rhone enters the Lake of
Geneva. "Grand-Clos," as the school
was called, numbered some thirteen
boys, and the headmaster was cler-
gyman of the name of Bennett. They
seem to have had an enjoyable time
there. A former master of the school,
says, the London Express, describes
Kitchener at the age of 15. HE was
of medium height, broad chested, a
very, model of strength. but not pas
sienately addicted to sports. Solitary
in his habits, not cumming especially
with any of his. school fellows, he
worked quietly and steadily, and
proved always amenahle to discipline"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
Make Bequests of Their Brains

The Cornell Brain Association, OF
which Prof. Burt 6. Wilder is presi-
dent, has received more than 100 be-
quests of the brains of highly educated
people, as result of the circulation
of a unique form of twill and testa-
ment," which he drew up and asked
them to sign.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19

looks nor the working of the farm i'm
plements. Better keep them out, and
assign them quarters more fitting. The
cost of cleaning machinery of hen
manure on some farms would build
palatial abodes for the hens and make
them a profitable part of the farm
John G. Knott, in Farm and Home.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
Where Potatoes Grow.

Humboldt says that at the time OF
the discovery of America the potato
was cultivated in all the temperate
parts of South America from Chile up
the coast. The Spaniards at first no.
ticed it in Peru. The variety of potato
cultivated in Europe and North Ameri-
ca grows wild in Chile. Different spe-
cies of the plant are found growing
wild in most parts of South America,
and, it is claimed by many botanists,
In Mexico and Arizona
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19

LOT DullQlnS STICKS
out in the field.
The. runners are
nAfde+out of 2x12
stuff fourteen feet
long, the center
cross piece 3xS,
and the outside
cross pieces !2xS,
all let in as shown
in the Illustration.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19

A word to the wise may be sufficient
yet doubtless you have observed that
most of the letters you receive are writ
ten at length.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19

sawed out doors may be ranged one
above the other, with a stationary
ladder placed alongside running to the
top of the silo, as shown in the cut.
When the silo is built on the outside
of the barn, roof is needed. This
may be simply shed roof constructed
with plank, or neat, inexpensive shin
gle roof, as shown in the cut.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19

The man who Is always calling for
the fool-killer would be the first to hide
if he saw him coming.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19

It is easier to get man to tell you
how a thing should be done than it is
to get man to do it.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19

God in Angles sang the, Strang Bull
biantanya biatanya woves the waves
for Britains never will be slain." s'Bul-
biatanya" has a fine South African
tWang about 1t.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
Handy Hay Derrick.

W. A. Clearweather, of Indiana,
sends Iowa Homestead sketch of Il
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
Feeding Grain to Steers.

Feeding grain to steers on grass is
justified when pastures are short and
where these cannot be supplemented
with some kind of fodder. Where
steers are partly warmed up with
grain before being turned to grass it
may prove an excellent practice to con-
.tinue feeding them about one peck per
day. By following this practice the
animals may be kept going from the
first day. Such animals may be mar
keted earlier than those that are grass
fed alone and invariably will command
a little higher price. 1t is generally ad-
visable to grind corn for grass fed
steers. Animals on grass alone fire.
quently lose weight during the first
weeks after being turned out, so that
the time required to make this up is
entirely lost. When grain is feed it is
a good plan to feed little roughage,
such as timothy or clover hay; during
the first week after turning to grass in
order to prevent scouring.-Iowa
Homestead.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19
Poultry as Insect Destroyers,

TouItry as IHsect Destroyers,
No one who has not made .observa-
ton in that direction can form any es-
innate of the large number of insects
destroyed by farm poultry in season.
The guinea is constantly at work and
carefully searches every square foot Of
land. In an orchard a flock of active
hens, such as Leghorns, win do excel
lent service, and they Will need but
little assistance, if any, as they will
secure more food than may be sup
posed
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-01

spectacle, with a black coat and the man
ners insofar as his business was concerned)
OF an archbishop-yes, doubtless 1t was
laughable to think Of. Yet somehow as !
looked at the honest fellow standing there
so anxious. SO a~ffectionate, so careful at
cnce for my digestion and for my good
name, the tears leaped into my eyes and l
could hardly speak for the sobs that broke
in my throat.
MASTER John-Maister John, what's
wranE? Dinna, Master John!" he cried,
coming and laying a shaking hand on my
shoulder. Here, hae a sock msir o. the
tea an leemon. 1t will do ye guild. Sic a
daftlike business as TO suppose that ye
are ht to leeve up here wi only a dotted
auld body like Baby to look after ye!
Faith, it's just not to be thocht on"
BY this time / had controlled myself, and
now strove once more to say what was
in my heart. But again Grierson inter-
rupted.
II cauna bide ~hearkenin' till ye the
noo," he said. 81 maun cen gang doom
and Dit that aul yammerin' wife DOT o. her
meesery. I'll tell her that / wull MARRY
her-that is, condeetionally."
Then having succeeded in making me
smile, he caught up his gravity Of de-
meanOr Win InS INSTANTANEOUS
ness of perfectly oiled machinery and
marched to the door as steadily as IL he
had been leaving the dining room of Castle
Cover on q county night.
He turned about, however. before finally
quitting the room as II a sudden thought
had struck him.
"when will 1t please you to dine, sir?'
he INQUIRED, exactly as he had done every
day TO my father since ever l could re-
member.
Diner" / cried, laughing aloud at the
absurdity, which 1 understood to proceed
simply from old Duncan's desire TO
make me forget his kindness, well, / get
my porridge and milk usually about half
mast 7, II that is what you call ~dining!"
Thank you, sir" said Grierson, bowling
gravely.
And that night I dined upon roast duck.
new notatoes. a salad and q pudding at
half-past 7 to the minute. And Baoby In
person carried the dishes to the door while
the Cameronian elder sat In the kitchen
with his hands upon his knees and his head
bent forward, speecbless with astonish-
ment.
At the close, after / had partaken OF a
cup Of excellent coffee, Grierson entered,
holding a smiling and almost a blushing
Baby by the hand-a transformed Baby
indeed, the like of whom ] had never seen
before-a Baby who looked at least twenty
years younger than when she had scolded
that morning for making holes in my
socks by twiddling my right great toe.
'Mr. John" he said, "Baboy an me wish
YOU to know that we are engaged to be
married-the to take place by
mutual agreement when We have gotten
YOU. as II were, an our hands and have
leisure to attend to sicean bit trihes!"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-01

very long till she came back. And o, what
a change there was on her face! She had
been sad the night beforehand sobbed her
self to sleep, indeed, and even after she
was sound, l. lying awake, could hear the
click and catch Of the grief working in
her bosom, only too utterly weary to be
conscious any longer
But now she came In swiftly with a
bright face and an alert eye. She ran TO
me and held me in her arms.
"Oh, you wicked, wicked Fairlie!" she
palpitated breathless, why did you not tell
me? Were you afraid to tell me? oh, l
have been SO miserable. And all for moth
ing!"
Tell you what. Kate. darlingH" I gasped
For l could not imagine what had befallen
the girl.
"Why-that Rupert, my husband, is
dead" she cried. THAT is why l am glad.
DO you not see. l thought that he never
came to see me because he did not love me
any more. But it is not that, thank God.
l can pray again now. He would come IL
he could-only he cannot. He is dead. Now
l can think about him and understand"
"Kat-Kate," l said. sadly, who has
told you this %
"Ah," she cried, clapping her hands as
~ NAOAhbSt gOu htNtT COuIO
guess-no, nor If 1 gave you a hundred
gueSses. Try just once! Try!"
And because / thought it might divert
her mind / guessed that she had met Mr..
Glendonwyn.
But she cast up her head and said: do
you think / would have spoken to the man
who tried to take my husband away from
me? No. nor yet believed him had he
told me a hundred times overt"
But who told you. Kate?" 1 asked, for I
saw her look over at the cot, and knew
that II she began to play with Babe Rupert
she might not tell me at all.
well. l will tell you" she said. 81 went
over quickly into the wood at the foot OF
our garden and kept up the thickest part
till / came opposite the old burying ground
Of the Glendonwyns. Rupert used TO say
that whether he ever lived to heir the
castle or not he would always be sure OF
six feet Of ground there at any rate.
And, do you know the old path through
the plantation, the one by which / used to
go to meet Rupert at our trysting place. is
almost grown W. l could hardly hnd it
till after / had crossed the road. But over
the field where we used to walk together,
arm in arm, on the path where no one
could see us-you should try that win John
sometimes. Fairlie (by the way, why does
John never come to see you now, Fairlle ?
Is he dead, tool? Well, at any rate. l got
to the stone seat within the porch where
we two used to sit down. And when I got
there the great door was altar. / had never
seen 1t like that before. though often and
often 1 had asked Rupert to bring the key
and let me look within. But he would not,
for he said We would be treading on our
own graves.
But now 1t was open. and there were
mason's tools about and a great pile OF
lime and sand behind the door. So ! went
inland do you know what they had been
doing-putting up a monument OF white
marble inside! And thought-who can II
be? Perhaps to Rupert's mother. And
/ wondered II old Gregory loved her as
Rupert loved me. And then / began 70 cry
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-01

be full TIL after the dismission Of the con-
gregation. But the morning broke dark
with binding drifts Of snow, and IL It had
been possible I would have stopped the
people from coming out that day at all.
However. since that could not be, l re-
solved to shorten the service. When we
arrived upon the shore at the rocks Of Dhu-
barran, as our outdoor cathedral was
called, the ground up to the edge OF the
gravel pit was lying white with snow. Even
within that surf-beaten shell Of sand and
pebbles It had drifted and lay in wreaths
upon the very banks Of single which had
been roughly arranged for the worshipcrs
to sit on.
I preached to the accompaniment Of wind
and snow and by the time l was finished
It was difficult to distinguish the people
from the wreaths Of snow on which they
sat. Add to this that, as 1t was communion
day, the elders carried round a mixed
chalice indeed-for the snow and sleet fell
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-01

us0hi fEspinf o. the latch and muttering OF
AHectionate maxims az TO my health and
not ~injuring myself BY overstudy (which
was Babhy's way), nor yet with a bang and
the scraping Of great triple-soled boots on
the mat (which was Anton's). but noise
lessly as n Il had drifted to upon wings Of
mountain mist.
It seemed 10 me, thus musing. that / had
not been q minute alone before the door
was open again. l thought that Baby had
not understood. and l said, somewhat
GROSSLY, / admit, but like a boy to his nurse:
'It was some tea 1 wanted, Baby. Can
you get me somef'
yes. siri" said a voice, familiar to me
from boyhood indeed, but very far from
being that Of my ancient lame Barbara
1 leaped from my seat in great astonish-
ment. And there, Immediately at my elbow,
in his correct buffers dress, cutaway coat,
old indeed, but clean and speckless, his
white tie broad almost as the palm Of my
hand. accurately squared at the angles,
stood Duncan Grierson. He had a wooden
tray In his hand and a yellowish liquid in
a tall tumbler bountifully fragrant.
"Duncan!" l cried, what are you doing
here?"
Tea. sir!" he said, in his professional
manner. And then relapsing into the ia
miliar, IL indeed under any circumstance
Duncan Grierson could ever be called ia
miliar. 'ye-see. Master John, l brought
up a few lemons that / happened to get.
And l made ye the tea as We like II when
ye are tired, W plenty o. leaves, a meenite's
boilin' water and the leemon! Drink It
doom, Master John. 1t will do ye guild. l
wadna cushion a rat wi the stun that