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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-08
ATTORNEYS

=. r. BRYSON ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in Post Office Building, Corval-
liz, Oregon.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-08
WANTED

W,NTED-ALLKiNDS OF POULTRY
lressed pOrh, veal oi mutton etc- T..
T.. Clark, Philomath, Oregon.
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE-ESTE9 ORGAN. SOLiD
walnut case. Enquire OF Dunn q
Thatcher.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-08

WOODCHOPPERS WANTED TO CUT
$40 cords Oh FIR and k wood. Ap-
ply at once to P. 4. Kline, Corvalils
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-08

4I.iHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR
Ill kinds of Poultry also dressed Pork.
smith & BouIden. Corvallis, Oregon,
next to GAZETTE Ot1re.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-08

J,)sEPH H. WILSON. ATTORNEY
st-Law. Notary, Titles, Cenveyanc.
ing. Practice In all State and Federal
Courts. Office in Burnett Building.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-08

Wouldn't you be glad if you could get
a responsible Fire Insurance Company
to insure your buildings for $500 per
year? That is just what you do when
you buy one of those handy fire fighters.
adopted by the U. S. Government and
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
About Salads,

Nothing is more decorative on the
table than a bit of salad served in the
heart of some lettuce leaves, in lem
on or orange cups, cabbage leaves or
scooped out onions, cucumbers, to-
matoes, beets. turnips or peppers. Gel
cry salad, plain or mixed with apples
or nuts or plain lettuce salad, is
served always with game.
Potato salad is perhaps the most
popular for the home table, and moth
ing seems to take the place Of nice
chicken salad for social affairs.
Every housewife who wants the>fac-
tor of satisfactory life to abide in
her family will seek to include salad
in at least one menu each day. A
leaf salad. cress or lettuce. should be
served with heavy dinner.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
Eleuance In Mantles.

Very elegant fichu mantles are
made of silk. trimmed with ruches
and frills of lace or killed chiffon.
Some are trimmed with feathers.
They have stole ends in front and are
fastened with jeweled clasps. Young
girls will affect Sbencers and Marie
Antoinette fichus of embroidered
white muslin. The Rejane mantle Is
of gathered silk, trimmed with dou-
BILE ruches and bias folds Of silk. 1t
opens V-shaped at the neck and has
long rounded stole ends In front.
There are endless varieties of cape
lets and tiny shawl capes, empire
fichus and such like frivolities, but
the fact remains that the best coats
are the tight-fttlng and the Carrick.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23

ferred, but the model, from which the
drawing was made, is Of brown cloth
with the collar and cuffs Of tan color
finished with handsome banding.
The coat consists of fronts and back
and Is fitted by means Of shoulder and
under-arm seams. At the neck Is the
big collar and the sleeves are simple,
full ones, gathered into straight cuffs.
The back is laid in an inverted plat
that provides additional fulness and
the fronts are Tapped one over the
other and closed in double-breasted
style.
The quantity Of material required
for the medium size Is years. is Az
yards 81 inches wide. 21s yards A
inches wide or 2M yards So inches
wide, with 70 yards Of any width for
collar and 1s yards of banding to
trim as illustrated.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
Great Sea Disasters.

Loss of the Russian flagship Petro-
pavlovsk at Port Arthur, with Adj
miral Makaroff and an estimated
strength II nearly 800 officers and
men w@!le severe blow to Russian
presnge in the far East, is one of
those catastrophes in naval warfare
to which an actual combatant Is al
ways liable, though happily their oc.
currence is not common. In 1853,
when Hawke did bang Monsieur Con-
fans at Quiberon bay, Sir Edward
Hawke ordered his pilot to lay the
Royal George of 100 guns, alongside
the Soleil Royal, the French admiral's
flagship. Before this could be done
another French ship, La Superbe, OF
seventy guns, CALAMITY interposed
and, receiving her opponents broad
side, went down into the deep with
her colors flying and $50 souls on
board. Her revenge, however, came
on Aug. %, 1852, when the Roya1
George sunk at anchor off Spithead
| in a squall.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
The Silk of Corn.

Corn silk has received considerable
attention from our corn scientists. 1t
is a somewhat unusual manifestation
of nature, the cavity to be fertilized
by the pollen sending out this long
silky messenger to guide the pollen
grain to it's goal. The growth and
development of the silk bears an i'm
portant relationship to the crop of
corn that is to be harvested. The silk
at the butt of the ear appears first
and is the longest, as 1t must grow
the whole length of the cob to get to
the light at all. Yet it does this and
is waving in the air catching the pol
len before the tip silks have appeared.
The butt cavities or ovaries are there
fore the first to be fertilized. 1t is
generally believed that the shorter the
ear the more likely it is to be GOV.
cred with kernels, as the longer the
ear the later will the tip silks be in
getting out to the light where they
can be of service. For this reason
the tips of long ears are frequently
found with no kernels on them. The
silks did not get out till after the
stalks had ceased shedding pollen. II
an ear of corn that is sending out
silk be covered with long paper fun
mel, the silk will continue to grow in
length till it has attained length Of
twenty inches or more. At the lowe
station an ear of corn treated in this
way seemed to despair of getting pol
len and sent out two new ears neal
it's base; and these two new ears de
veloped a good mass of silk. The
falling of the pollen on the silk is fol
lowed by the grains being conveyed
to the oyaries, after the completion
of which work the silk dies.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
Public Opinion on Milk.

The matter of public opinion is
large one when 1t relates to the milk
traffic. We must have higher level
of requirements for milk If we are to
have better milk produced and sold.
The public must be educated to refuse
any except perfectly pure milk, and
must be also educated to the point of
paying for that milk what it costs
more than the milk that is now being
sold, which has low average as to
cleanliness. At different times, talk
ing with large producers of milk and
butter, they have deprecated the agi-
tation OF the subject, for they have
said that If the public found out how
dirty the milk really is they would re-
fuse to use it and that would hurt the
milk trade. But that is not the effect
OF proper enlightenment of the pub
lie on the matter. Once the public
comes to understand that the milk
for which they pay certain price is
low in freedom from dirt they will
demand a milk that Is clean and will
be willing to pay for it. That is the
course as it works itself out in prac-
tice. AS public opinion rises the quail
lty of the milk also rises, for the men
that sell dirty milk find that they can
| not hold their customers. The papers
and the men that are telling the truth
| 70 the public about this matter are the
| ones that are turning the trade to the
vendors of pure milk and that are
driving the other men out Of business.
To illustrate: About two years ago
one large milk concern in Chicago
was discovered to have preserved its
milk with formalin. The papers of the
city published the facts. The next day
all the customers of that company
stampeded, and the company went
into bankruptcy within few weeks
This will be the result with every
company that is discovered not to be
doing right by the public, provided
the public finds it out. Public opinion
is mighty power that is seldom fully
counted on. Turn it in the right direc
ton and nothing can stand before it
The strongest aid that we can call t.
the production of q good and pure
milk supply is this same intangible
force. Rightly informed it is invaria
bly, a mighty weapon for good.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
Corn Pollen.

Every particle of pollen is a minute
germ that is meant to fertilize the
cavity at the end Of the corn silk and
thus produce a kernel Of corn. The
pollen is not in itself seed, but Is
the germ Of seed. The number OF
pollen grains borne on a single corn
tassel is surprising. On the basis OF
counting large part, it has been reck
oned that each tassel, or rather col
lection Of tassels, on corn stalk, has
about so million grains. Thus ma
ture prepares to have most OF her eff
fort wasted. There are probably not
more than a thousand kernels on the
ordinary ear of corn, and this would
give $4,000 grains of pollen for each
kernel. In other words nature sup
plies the pollen so abundantly that
nearly all may be wasted and yet
enough be left to do the work Of
fructifying the cavities that are tG
produce seed. The necessity for this
great waste Is seen in the methods
used to pollenize the silks. The vino
is the chief carrier. But many times
the wind is blowing the pollen away
from the silk instead Of towards it
1t is only the occasional breeze that
carries the pollen to the place where
it may be useful yet so great is the
supply that single zephyr may watt
enough to the silk to fructify the
| whole clump. This abundance of pol.
len also helps to cross fertilize the
corn, and it is probably the rule that
| ~ l. lie
| oped from germs borne from other
stalks rather than from the stalks on
which the particular ear grew. This
Is the more likely to be the case for
the reason that the wind is generally
blowing the pollen away from the
stalk on which it is borne and to the
silk of some neighboring stalk. Thus
nature provides against self.fertiliza
ton, which seems to be abhorrent to
the general plan Of life production
Pollen is blown to considerable dis
tances, If we may Judge Of the re
suits obtained. Some time ago we
heard of a man that had very fine
strain Of sweet corn, which brought
him good price when sold green in
the market. He would not sell the
seed, and as it had been bred up By
himself, no other person could get 1t
To be sure that his seed did net ge'
into the hands Of anyone else. be
planted his corn on an island in &
river. But neighbor was smar
enough to plant his corn on the rivel
bank opposite the sweet corn. Tht
sweet corn was white and the othe
was the yellow field corn. He right!
judged that some of the million o
grains of pollen would reach his field
In the fall when he gathered his vel
low corn he found many white kernels
scattered among the ears. These h
picked out and planted the next yea
with the result that he had the SAM
variety of corn as his neighbor H
had stolen the variety, but in man
ner entirely legal.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
oPossUM A CRAFTY BEAST.
Writer Declares He Is Very Much
More knave Than Fool.

To the uninitiated the opossum is
slowgoing, stupid beast, with hardly
enough ambition to eat his food. But
those who have studied his habits de-
clare that there is more of the rogue
than the fool in his makeup, and that
his apparent stupidity is but part of
his business policy. He seldom goes
hungry, and he always has a hole to
crawl into when he b sleepy. And,
in spite of the slowness, he manages,
some way, to catch many animals
much swifter than he is. 1t Is said
that even the brisk squirrel falls a
prey to him in the open woods, where
one would think the spry little crea-
ture had all the advantage. The
opossum catches rats and mice, and
eats ground birds and their eggs. He
is not entirely restricted to a meat
diet, however, but is fond of nearly
all the berries and other wild fruits
that grow in the woods and fields,
and has been Known to creep into or
chards and berry patches to devour
cultivated fruits.-Detroit News-Trib-
une.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
The Eve of the Cow.

The eye of the COW, as of the human
being, is indicative of much. 1t shows
the character and force of the nervous
energy back of it. If the nervous
force is strong the eye will show
marked intelligence. 1t will be wide
open, and the sight will appear to be
penetrating, 1t is said that a COW
with a placid eye always has a good
disposition, and this is doubtless true
of the human animal. The COW with a
placid eye will get along easily at all
times, and will generally be contented
with her lot, whatever it may be. She
Is Tho kind of an animal that would
luxuriate in English meadows or con-
tentedly chew herring on the bleak
coast of Iceland. But there is such a
thing as having an eye too open, and
this indicates too great nervousness,
and that the animal is easily fright
ened. The same is true of the quick,
| dashing eye. The eye OF the COW can
be studied with profit.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
Old SoIdier'a Story.

Sonoma, Mich, June 1S-That even
In actual warfare disease is more ter
rible than bullets Is the experience of
Delos Hutchins of this place. Mr..
Hutchins as Union soldier saw three
years of service under Butler Barke
in the Louisiana swamps, and as a
result got crippled with rheumatism
SO that his hands and feet got all
twisted out Of shape. and how he suf-
fered only rheumatic will ever know.
For twenty-five years he was in
misery, then one lucky day his drug
gist advised him ito use Dodd's Kid.
ney Pills. OF the result Mr.. Hutchins
says:
The first two boxes did not help
me much, but l got two more, and
before l got them used up was a
great deal betten / kept on taking
them and now my pains are all gone
and feel better than have in years.
l know Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure
rheumatism"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
He CAUGHT the Idea.

A schoolteacher of Bayonne recent
ly had occasion to talk to her schol-
ars about the different spellings of
the word ITO" She explained with
great care the ways in which the
word could be spelled and the mean
ing of it, as spelled in the different
ways. Finally, in order to find out if
the children had properly grasped the
idea, she decided to give test.
Now, children, as quickly as you
can, want you to give me a sen
tence with all three of these spellings
contained in it,"
Hardly were the words out of hel
mouth before up went hand.
well, Isaac?" said the teacher, in
terrogatively, and the boy, who was
the solitary Jewish child in the class
answered glibly:
1.-TWO dollars is too much to spend.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23


Light gray taffeta silk makes love-
" afternoon dress for cool days In
summer.
II you cannot buy the embroidered
pattern dress perhaps you can have
one embroidered for you just as hand
sornely. There is one advantage
about that-it gives you a chance tor
an original design.
The waist has deep girdle ana
above 1t a heavy padded design OF the
embroidery, which Is studded with
palest pink corals. A chain of these
beads is worn around the neck.
A large black chip hat with PINK
roses and handsome lace veil worn
with 1t make very stunning cos
tune.
Flowered silks, muslins and nets are
very popular, and what material could
be prettier for dainty evening gown?
This particular dress Is Of soft white
silk spotted with tiny rosebuds. The
soft lace and folds around the neck
are held in front by one large SILK
rose. Simplicity is the feature OF this
gown.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
French MPowder Raa.v

French women apply powder to
their faces in such way that 1t is
never noticeable or blotchy-lool1ing.
They abhor the powder puff, and use
instead a piece Of chamois leather,
This is dipped in the powder and
passed over the forehead and temples
(avoiding the eyebrows), then over
the nose and upper lip and next over
the chin and about the mouth, leaving
the cheeks and parts under the eyes
untouched. After the powder has
thus been applied, a clean piece OF
wash-leather is passed over the face
to smooth down the powder and rub
1t in. Attention must then be paid
to the eyebrows, and IL any powder
has fallen on them it must be removed
with small brush.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
Digestive Power of the Cow.

Digestive Power OF the Cow.
The power of the COW to take and
digest large quantities Of food regu'
lates to a considerable degree her
value in the dairy. The small eater
is of little value, as it is impossible
for her to make milk, and force ener.
gy and milk out of food that con-
tains too little of the elements for
force and milk making. In all cases
a large eater is wanted. The large
eater will have q depth Of body not
seen In the small eaters. The breadth
OF the body will also be more than
that OF cows that are small producers
OF milk. In the same connection, we
may say that the body must also be
long. 1t Is not enough that the COW
have q deep and wide paunch II it Is
short. With these go the strong jaws,
which must be strong to masticate the
amount of food the animals require
to fill the large cavity Of the stom-
ach. The greatest number Of good
feeders have marked depth Of body
and the ribs are what we call we'll
sprung. This means that the ribs
are not bent down in such way as
to decrease the size of the abdominal
cavity. No matter what the temper
ament of COW may be, IL she have
not the power to digest easily great
quantity of food, she will be Of little
use as a milk producer. One Of the
best milk cows the writer ever knew
had this great power Of digesting
feed to a remarkable degree. She
had powerful jaws and big paunch.
Nothing seemed to be able to put her
off her feed. She could fill up with
anything and digest it without trou'
bile. One night she broke loose in the
stable and got to the place where the
different feeds were kept. She sam.
pied everything in sight and filled
up on corn meal, bran, gluten feed
and middlings. When the owner
opened the door in the morning the
COW was standing facing him. with
sides bulged out too far to allow her
to pass through the door. He said
You're a dead cow" for he thought
that COW stuffed so full of dry
| ground feed as she was would Ger
tainly die. But the COW seemed tC
think otherwise and proceeded to di
| gest her midnight meal as If it hat
been a common ration for her. The
same amount Of overfeed would have
put most cows out of business, fol
some time at least. That digestive
ability in a COW is valuable, and where
found it should be carefully transmit
ted by breeding.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
GRAY Taffeta Gown.

A pretty summer suit is Of yellow
and green changeable silk. 1t has no
trimming but a small V of lace at the
neck. The waist and sleeves are very
full. A fichu collar Is tied in front
with bows of ribbon the same shade
as the gown. The skirt is simply full
and rufIled
A large shepherdess shaped hat
with a cluster of shaded green plumes
completes the costume in the prevail
ing fashion.
Again there is the black and white
check. and Is 1t not just as pretty and
suitable as any material could be for
useful summer suit? The jacket, with
it's long scalloped shoulder yoke anc
full short sleeves, is very smart.
White broadcloth and little blacE
velvet straps and gold buttons trim Il
in a wide band around the edge.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
FRENCH QUEEN OF THE MAY.
Pretty Custom That Prevails In
Southern Villages.


An ancient custom which still OBJ
tans ip many villages in the south of
France is a pretty variation of the
choosing of the May queen with
which we are so familiar. At this
oeason Of the year the mayor-each
tiny village in France boasts of
mayor-and six Of his political OH
GERS choose from among the village
maidens the most beautiful girl. AS
soon as the choice is made known
the queen, dressed in white even to a
long white veil and q wreath of white
roses, assemblies with her parents and
all the villagers in front of the may
or's house. Here he and six friends,
dressed in frock coats and top hats,
form in procession, the mayor and
queen leading, and march to the
church, where there is short cere
mony.
They then march back to the may.
or's house, where favored few are
entertained at luncheon. When no
proposes her health he enumerates
her virtues, kisses her on both cheeks
and hands her an envelope which con.
tains the prize; 5000 in money. But
the ceremony does not end here.
They form in procession, the band
leading this time, and in q sort of
follow my leader" game walk
through the village, up lanes and over
hills for three hours. That evening
ball is given at the inn, where the
queen dances first with the mayor and
his six friends and afterward with the
lads of the village, and SO the cele-
bration ends. The queens white veil,
and wreath, are carefully folded away
and are brought out again only when
| she becomes a bride
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
Green Potatoes.

Potatoes that are allowed to lie in
the sun become green, as all of our
readers that have grown potatoes
know. 1t has been thought by some
that these potatoes are not fit for
planting any more than they are fit
for food. But this is a mistake. They
are not fit for food for the reason
that they are both strong and bitter
and for the additional reason that
there have been elaborated in them
some kinds of compounds that are
thought not to be good for the health.
But the green matter in the potato is
not what makes it bad for the stom'
ach, as it is only the chlorophyll that
Us found in all green leaves. The po-
tato is even better for planting than
before, and some potato planters ex-
pose their tubers to the sun to have
them turn green, as this hastens
growth of the shoots from the potato.
They can thus be planted to advan-
tage.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23

Judge A. ]. Felter of 31S So. e. ST.,
San Bernardino, Calf, says:--"For IL
years my kidneys we're not perform
Ing their functions properly. There
was some backache. and the kidney
secretions were profuse, containing
also considerable sediment. Finally
the doctors said had diabetes. Doan's
Kidney Pills wrought great change
in my condition and now sleep and
feel we'll again."
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Judge Felter
will be mailed to any part Of the
United States Address Foster-Milburn
Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all deal.
ers; price SO cents per box.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
Red a Fayorlte Flag Color.

Red seems to be the most popular
of national colors, if flags may be used
as criterions, OF the twenty-five lead.
ing national flags nineteen have red
in them. The same cannot be said of
any other color. The chief flags that
are marked with red are those of the
United States, England, France, Ger.
many, Austria, Italy Spain, Denmark
Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Tur.
key, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, and
Yer ezuela. .......
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
A Request from Toxic.

II. Kobayahsi, Of Toxic, Japan, has
addressed a note to the village I'm.
provement Society Of South Orange.
N. j., which runs about like this:
THE honorable of the South Oranges
are asked in what way do they rid
themselves of him the much trouble
some mosquito? How do they ap.
preach him in his house among the
reeds and marshes, so as to remove
him efGectually from the dangers that
he does to the people Of good minds
whose skins he much puncture? All
this I would like so much to know