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The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-11-17
For Sale.

For Sale.
so acres timber land for sale, 3
miles from Corvallis. Cheap if
taken soon.
M. Senders,
Albany, Or.
New lot OF freshly loaded shotgun
shells. All kinds of football supplies.
At Hodes Pioneer Gun store.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-11-17

Seeds.
Red. White, Crimson, Alsike and AL
falfa clovers. Vetch, cheat, Rape. Speltz,
English and Italian Rye grass, Orchard
grass, Timothy, Black and gray oats.
Grub oak wood sawed. Vetch hay.
Leave orders at Robinson
and Stevenson's Office or telephone to
L. L. Brooks.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-11-17
Baking Hour Changed.

At 400 o'clock each day you can
have hot cinnamon rolls, doughnuts
and bread at Small's Bakery. We have
the finest baker IN Oregon.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-11-17
For Sale.

Choice oats, vetch and cheat seed to
be had at reasonable prices, either at the
Corvallis or Benton County Flourin
Mills. A. w. Fischer.
One Dollar Saved Represents Ten
Dollars Earned.
The average man does not save to exceed
ten per cent. of his earnings. He must spend
nine dollars in living expenses for every
dollar saved. That being the case he can
not be too careful about unnecessary ex-
penses. Very often few cents properly in
vested, like buying seeds for his garden, will
save several dollars outlay later on. 1t is
the same in buying Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It costs
but few cents, and bottle oft in the house
often saves doctors bill of several dollars.
For sale by Graham & Workman.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-11-17
Trespass Notice.

There will be no shooting on the K
ger place this winter. Stay aw or ge
cinched. This includes night ahooln
Richard Kiger.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-11-17

New lot of freshly loaded shotgun
shells. All kinds of football sup
plies. At Hodes Pioneer Gun store.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-11-17
Dressnaking.

The undersigned is prepared to do all
kinds of dressmaking at my residence on
Sixth street.
Mrs. Mary Avery.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-11-17

We have just received a new lot
of Columbia disc and cylinder rec
ords. Also a lot of the American
Blue records. the best record that
is made. Graham & Wells.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-11-17
For Sale

Phonograph records In first cl
condition-twenty cents each.
G. W. Denman, Corvallis.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-11-17

Call at Zeiro1fs for fresh grass
seed, timothy, clover, alfalfa, vetch.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-11-17
Butter.

Try roll of that Maple From
Creamery Butter, the sweetest, c1eanest
and best. At Thatcher & Johnson's.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14
The Farmer and His Duty.

The first duty of the farmer is to
provide food, clothing and shelter for
his family, his next duty to properly
feed and protect his stock, and his
third to care for and keep fertile the
soil which he works. Most men will
do the first, only a few are remiss i'll
regard to the second, but there is a
raft of sinners concerning the third.
Men go On year after year plowing the
same old fields, sowing the same old
crops and growing the same old weeds,
seemingly unable to realize or else in
different to the fact that their land
is wearing out. Forty bushels of
wheat to the acre have been grown
in England upon a soil which has
been cultivated by man for a thou
sand years, but it was not accom-
plished after the way of the grain
growers land piracy Of these modern
times. Rotation, fertilizing with clo-
yer and manure, seasons of rest in
pasture and weed destruction must be
adopted as a farm policy if the fertility
of the soil of even these fertile prai-
ries of the northwest is to be main
tained.-The Home Friend.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14
Care Of Work Animals.

1t is safe to say that thousands OF
work horses are injured by kindness.
The owner thinks that because his
team is worked hard it ought to be
heavily fed, but he forgets that it IS
not what a horse eats, but what 1t
digests, that counts. This is especially
the case in summer, when there is
much field work to be done and little
time in which to do it.
The horse hurries home. hot and
weary, is given all he al hog" and
goes out to the watering trough, where
he fills up with water, and goes on to
work again. First of all, his stomach
was not in a fit condition for the re-
ception of food. The fatigued, hot,
sweaty horse can not digest food. He
needs a rest first, and then a drink OF
water, which passes through his stem
ach and stays in the large intestines.
If he first eats grain, and then drinks
water. the food is largely washed out
by the water, and passes to the small
and large intestines, in which such
food is not digested, but decomposes,
gives up gas, and thus sets up more
or less disturbance and Distress
Farm and Firsside.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14
QUEER DIET OF INSANE MAN
Skeleton of Mouse, Handkerchief and
Other Strange Things Found in
Body at Danville, Pa.

Danville, Pa.-The skeleton of a
mouse. a bandanna handkerchief and
other articles of a curious nature,
found in the stomach of a dead man,
have furnished a puzzle for the resi-
dent physician and his assistants at
the State Hospital for the Insane here.
John Alexander, in whose stomach
these evidences of a queer diet was
found. died in the hospital recently,
and his body was sent to Philadelphia,
where, under the direction of the State
Anatomical society, it was examined.
Danville physicians say the case of
Alexander stands alone in medical an
nails. What renders it remarkable is,
not that the man should have swal-
lowed the things found in him, but
that he could have lived two years
after the carcass of a mouse had dis
i~ntegrated in his stomach, which is
believed to be the case.
Alexander was a foreigner and had
been in the hospital for two years. He
had no relatives in this country. He
had complained of abdominal pains,
and the hospital physicians were I'M
able to diagnose his case. He was
classed with the harmless" insane.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14

"Eor the purpose of showing the
part played by owners, cash tenants
AMI share tenants in cotton produc-
ton, we take the crop of 1904. The re-
suits in a few states will be sufficient
fol the object in view:
"Alabama-Bales produced by own
ers, of farms, 541, 900; by cash tenants,
$4,000; by share tenants, $4,000.
'Georgia-Bales produced by owners
of farms, 707 900; by cash tenants,
46G 600; by share tenants, $4,000.
North Carolina-Bales produced by
owners of farms, $751; 00; by cash ten
ants, 81 1000; by share tenants, $4,000.
South Carolina-Bales produced by
owners of farms, 100000; by cash ten
ants, 400, 900; by share tenants, 100000.
''Texas-Bales produced by owners
of farms, 1906, 0G0; by cash tenants,
2lG, goo; by share tenants, 1858, 000.
The sum of it is that share tenants
produce "a per cent. of the cotton Of
the five states just named. These ten
ants must be brought into line. But
the landlord, in requiring a reduction
of cotton acreage, should make some
concessions in the matter of rent. To
cut acreage means much to share ten
ants, for they plant IS to 80 per cent,
instead of the traditional and custom
AIRY 62K per cent. of their land in cot
tor. The proposed reduction in the
quantity of fertilizers used will not
disturb them in the least; they make
the reduction at the very outset. Cost
of production does not them loss
of sleep.
While the landlords are getting the
share tenants into line on cotton acre
age, their interests demand hat they
look to the matter of a larger guam
THY OF fertilizers per acre under corn
and other supply crops. If this be
cone, the result will be a revelation
to share tenants.
Landlords will protect their W by
saving their land from utter exhaus-
tiol. if they will see to it, in cutting
cotton acreage, that they make it SO
defp as to authorize and require heav-
Ter fertilization of each acre with a
view to profit and to the betterment Of
the land. This can be done and yet
conform to the New Orleans suggeS-
ton"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14
HOGS ATE BABES BODY.
Mother Tells Story of Terrible Suf-
fering in Michigan Lum-
Der Woods.

Alpena, Mich.-A revolving story is
related by Mrs. George Mcclellan, who
has just been sent back here after
frightful experiences in the lumber
woods of Montmorency county.
Some time ago her husband was ar
rested here for no%n-support of his
wife and three-year-old boy, who were
living in restitution in this city. He
begged off, by saying that he had a
job in the woods and said he would
take care of them if they would go
with him. Mrs. Mcclellan consented.
They lived in a lumberman's shanty.
A babe was born to Mrs. Mcclellan
a week ago while she was alone. In
her weakness she was scarcely able to
move. She was discovered by chance.
The mercury was neal zero in the
house. The babe was lying dead on
the floor. It's body was buried under
q pile of refuse and snow temporarily,
but the hogs discovered it and de-
voured it.
Mrs. Mcclellan says she left the
howell in the dead of night and carried
her three-year-old boy four miles TO
the nearest neighbours. Finding no
body at home, she crawled into the
barn until forced by the cold to break
into the dwelling, where she was dis
covered next morning in a pitiahle
condition. Mother and child were
sent to Alpena by the poor commits
Sioner.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14
ORGIES ABOARD
STRANGE CRAFT
MYSTERIOUS PLEASURE YACHT
IN THE ADRIATIC SEA.
GIRLS INDUCED TO EMBARK
Young Peasant Maid Who Was
Shanghaied Tells Remarkable
Story of Drinking, Feasting
and Dancing of Hosts.

Vienna.-A mysterious pleasure yacht
is cruising around the Adriatic, kidnap-
ing girls. it's owners INDUCING in orgies
of the kind described in the tales OF the
'Decameron." The fishermen along the
coast are planning to blow up the mys-
terious yacht at the first opportunity.
Fishing boats and coast steamers winch
have sighted her tell remarkable stories.
The yacht is of considerable size. she
is painted black, is, of course, raklsh,
and carries no flag or name. she a a
goodly sized crew, all smartly uniformed,
and about half a dozen guests or own
ers. Because she did not answer sig
nails the steamer Godollo threw a search
light on her, revealing peculiar sights.
Half a dozen men and the same num-
Der of women, Enthusiastically dressed.
were on the deck feasting, drinking,
dancing and behaving in remarkable
ways. A fuller story is told by a peas
ant girl who has just returned to her
home in Croatin after a fortnights sud
den disappearance. She says some uni
formed soldiers came ashore IN pre-
vailed on her to go aboard to sell veg
etables. She was taken to a huge cabin
furnished with beautiful carpets and
divans. after the Turkish fashion. She
was piled with wine and the yacht
steamed away. When she awoke she
found herself undressed, and in place of
her clothes were many others of finest
silks and laces. These she donned, and,
on the promise of much gold, Joined half
a dozen aristocratic men and a number
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14
FARMER AND PLANTER.
THE COTTON SITUATION.
Tenants, Cash and share, Are q Big
Factor In the Cotton Re-
ductiOn Plan.

Reports indicate that there will be
nearly three times as many bushels
Of whaet for sale in the spring of 1905
as at the same time in 1904.
lit pays farmers as well as poultry
fanciers to change their breeding cock
erels each year. 1t improves the dock
ard also helps to strengthen the health
ana growth of the young stock.
Martin v. Calvin, secretary of the
Georgia Agricultural society, in dis
Gu ssing the cotton situation, says:
In seeking to wheel into line all. the
cotton producers, the tenants must not
be overlooked. There are two classes
of tenants-cash tenants and share
tenants.
THE cash tenants are on a footing
with the ~land-owning cotton produc-
ers, that is, they plant what they
please: they can not be dictated to by
the landlord; they must be appealed
to just as you would appeal to the men
from whom they rent.
Share tenants sustain a relation
sh p to the landlord exactly the reverse
of cash tenants. The landlord can
pr ascribe the acreage which such ten
ants shall plant in cotton, corn, etc.
Usually, he makes no requirements ex-
ceDt as to cotton. He contents HIM
self with fixing the minimum produc-
ticn.
In the crisis now upon the south,
THIS order must be changed. A limit
must be set for share tenants. This
is absolutely necessary for the reason
that they produce a considerable pro-
portion of the crop.
For example,: According to the
first cotton estimate sent out by the
government, the eight strictly cotton
states produced in 1904 II ,035, 200 bales.
1t is a matter of interest and impor-
lance to know the factorship Of share
tenants in that aggregate.
IN order to compass this situation,
we must know the ground. Here it is:
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14
Calls Servants by Wireless.

William j. Hammer, the electrical en-
gineer, has found a novel use for the
wireless telegraph. In his New York
home he is employing it to call the serv-
ants. On his dining-room table is a
dainty transmitter and pole connected
by means of a flexible silk cord with
batteries under the table. Down in the
kitchen is another pole, with transmit
ter and receiver, connected with an cleo
trio bell. The transmitters are no big
ger than paper weights. When Mr.. Ham
mer wants the maid he sends a wireless
current through the walls of the room.
The electrical waves are caught by the
pole in the kitchen and the bell rings.
A system of signals permits him to call
for anything he desires.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14

hundreds Of years ago: Praise large
farms, but cultivate a small one" This
matter of large farms, many portions
Of which are neglected by our farmers,
should receive much consideration.
The cheapness of land in this country
Is one cause of this. Many farmers
buy more land than they can properly
till. The result is a ~slovenly style of
conducting agricultural operations. In
almost any county in any state a close
observer may see numerous orchards
festooned with caterpHlar-webs and
scorched by canker-worms. He will
see the fields covered with daisies and
%goldenrod, while the roadsides are dec
Grated with Canada thistles, and rem
dered dangerous by sumacs and dog
wood or other noxious and trouble
some plants. The cause of this is that
the farmer has undertaken too much.
He should give proper attention to his
roadsides. Ne~ighboring farmers have
a right to demand that he shall not
make his farm a nuisance to them by
converting it into a seed-bed and nur-
sary for these weeds and insect pests,
so that they are constantly supplied
with fresh accessories, no matter how
much pains they may take to keep
their own farms clean and clear.
A rotation of crops is, of course, de-
silable. No crop should be planted
twice in succession on the same
ground. 1t is difficult to understand
why a farmer should be content to
make ten dollars an acre raising an
improbable crop, when by proper
management he could make one thou
sand dollars an acre raising onions,
for instance. 1t is estimated that from
one thousand to fifteen hundred bush
els of onions can be raised on one
acre. and often much more under good
| culture. Asparagus, which is extreme
ly healthful, and which was a ~favorite
dish of some of the greatest of the
Roman emperors, yields nearly one
thousand dollars an acre when prop
erly cultivated. Why is it that the
| cultivation of crops like these is 50
much neglected by our farmers? The
| cultivation OF celery, cabbage, beans,
tomatoes, carrots, peas, lettuce, cauli-
flower and beets will all pay hand
somely if careful attention is given to
the best methods of raising them
Henry Hardwicke, in Dixie Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14
Didn't Know | Had Kidney Trouble

I had tried so many remedies without their having
benefited me that I was about discouraged but in a few
days after taking your wonderful Swamp-Root 1 began to
feel better.
/ was out of health and run down generally; had no
appetite, was dizzy and suffered with headache most of
the time. i did not know that my kidneys were the cause
of my trouble, but somehow felt they might be. and 1
began taking Swamp-Root, as above stated. There is
such a pleasant taste to Swamp-Root, and it goes right to
me, making me stronger and better in every way, and /
cheerfu1ly r~ecommen it to all sufferers.
Gratefully yours,
MRS. A. L. WALKER, 3I East Linden ST., Atlanta, Ga.
Weak and unhealthy kidneys are responsible
for many kinds of diseases, and if permitted to
continue much suffering and fatal results are sure
to foNow. Kidney trouble i~rritates the nerves,
makes you dizzy, restless, sleepless and irritable.
Makes you pass water often during the day and
obliges you to get up many times during the
night Unhealthy kidneys cause rheumatism,
gravel, catarrh of the bladder, pain or dull ache
in the back, joints and muscles; make your head
ache and back ache, cause Indigestion, stomach
and liver trouble, you get a sallow, yellow COM
plexion, make you feel as though you had heart
trouble; you may have plenty of ambition, but
no strength get weak and waste away.
The cure for these troubles is DR.. Kilmer's
.Swamp-Root, the world-famops kidney remedy.
In taking Swamp-Root you afford natural help
to Nature. for Sw~amp-Root is the most perfect
healer and gentle aid to the kidneys that is
known to medical science.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14

blue haze, like a small puff of smoke,
gather neal the window pane in front
of which she was standing. She
thought nothing of this until the haze,
seeming to settle on the glass, took
the form of a human being and re-
manned upon the glass.
Doubling the evidence of her sight,
she called in her husband and children
to witness the phenomenon and the
picture still remained. News OF the
strange happening spread rapidly, n
the Rogers home was visited by people
from all over the county. The picture
is that of a slender figure of a woman
dressed in the palest blue, with rufiies
on her skirt and a veil owe her face,
seemingly standing by an excavation
similar to an open grave. The like
ness is in the glass, and no rubbing
with cloth and water has taken away
any of its distinctness.
Much excitement and not a little
superstition has been caused among
the miners and ignorant people by the
mysterious picture, and their curiosity
has been so great that the picture had
to be placed on exhibition to relieve
Mrs. Rogers from distracting question
ing.
Several learned men have seen this
remarkable pane of glass, and no n
has yet advanced a really plausible
theory as to the cause of the impress
sion on the glass.
Mrs. Rogers still retains possession
of the glass, and her friends are try
ing to induce her to send the ghost
picture to some eminent scientist at
one of the large universities and have
it investigated.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14
BUT WHERE'S THE MAN7
Even the Widower with Nine Chill
dren Was Not Immediately
at Hand.

Thomas Hunter, the president of the
New York normal college, was addressing
a band of young women, according to the
Kansas City journal.
Young women" said Mr.. Hunter,
'make excellent teachers. | know young
women whose genius in this work is as
wonderful as the genius of a great paint.
err. Such young women, of course, are
rare. But good teachers, extremely good
teachers, are not rare. Anyone. can be-
come a good teacher who likes the work.
Put # you dislike the work, turn to
anything else but teaching. We cannot
succeed ever in what we hate.
bad teachers, when we find them, are
persons who dislike the work. They are
like the young girl in the country town
who said to one of her friends:
"9Yes, | am going to take up teaching.
"The friend looked amazed.
"'You?' she exclaimed. You a school.
teacher? Why, I'd rather marry a wild
over with nine children
80 would J. said the other. But
where is the Widowert'"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14

of peasant girls like herself, who, how
ever, were all richly dressed.
They Toasted on rich viands and drank
champagne and gamboled around the
cabins and on the after deck all night
and half the day. Her tales of the hap
penings are remarkably similar to those
of Boccaccio. In ten days time the girl
was completely worn out with the or
gies, and her hosts put her ashore at a
place she pointed out. They gave her
their blessing and many gold. pieces.
Other girls were also put ashore and
new ones brought on the yacht. The
girl can tell little about the yacht or her
hosts, except that they talked English,
French, Italian and German equally
well and we're evidently rich and aristo-
cratic. A fisherman who sold the yacht
some fish confirms much of the girls
story, and says there were at least a
dozen peasant girls aboard, but all rich
ly and fantistically dressed.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14
VERY EXCELLENT THING.
The Up-to-Date Stenographer Is Not
at a Loss for Authorities on
Misspelled.

The stenographer who couldn't spell
was called into the private Office, relates
the Brooklyn Eagle.
''This is outrageous" exclaimed the EN-
ployer.
whats the matter?" asked the stenog-
rapher.
''Half of these words are misspelled,'
said the employer.
But the stenographer was resourceful.
Only a day or so before she had been
reading an article on spelling reform.
How do you know they are?" she
asked.
ANY dictionary will prove it," replied
the employer.
Whats the use of relying on die
tionaries?" asked the stenographer. eve
are in a period of great changes"
Thereupon she brought out six different
magazines that had articles on the differ
ent methods of simplifying English spell
ing and demonstrated to him without
trouble that authorities could be pro
duced for any old combination Of letters
that she cared to put together.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14
HERE AND THERE.

1t would appear that alfalfa, which
has enioyed quite a boom the past few
years as a valuable stock food, is now
to become a keen rival of common, or
red. clover as green food for poultry.
-Dairying is about the safest busi-
ness. take it all around, which any
farmer .an take up. The price of but
ter fi~uctlates less from year to year
than almost any other farm commod-
ity.
The increasing scarcity of game
has increased the demand for various
poultry products out of the usual line.
Among these are turkey brollers,
SQUADS, small chicken broilers, and
now it's guinea broilers.
AS the result of two years expert
ments made by the h~orticulturist OF
the Maryland experiment station, the
conclusion has been reached that
either bone or fish tankage is the most
desirable material for top-dressing
lawns.
The feeding of 100, 000, 900 people
will be the biggest problem in this
country inside Of twenty-five years. A
standard of living has been developed
under American conditions which de-
mands much to eat and of a very great
variety.
We passed by the homestead OF q
farmer last fall who had moved his
sheds and old barn to get rid OF the
accumulated piles of manure which
surrounded them, while every acre OF
his farm was pleading mutely for the
fertilizer which he despised.
Audubon societies are now estab-
lished in 35 states, and a model bird
law has been passed in all but eight
Of them. President Roosevelt, who is
in hearty sympathy with this work,
has set aside certain government lands
as perpetual breeding places for birds.
Don't let the hogs run among the
Young trees; they will rub against
them and destroy any protection you
mace around the trees to keep vermin
from girdling them. and the rubbing
that destroys the protection will break
the new roots
The Tupelo journal., 1905-04-14
SPCOK PICTURE ON
A PANE.
Comes During a Thunderstorm and
Scientists Are Unable to Explain
the Phenomenon.

Charleston, w. Wa weird story
comes from the coal mining town OF
Winona, Fayette county, and Mrs.
Rogers, wife Of G. P. Rogers, a Winona
business man, is the authority for the
details,
During a recent severe thunderstorm
Mrs. Rogers, according to her W
statement, was standing by the east
window of her kitchen, preparing tho
morning meal, when, just after a vivid
flash of lightning, she noticed a thin