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Corvallis Gazette. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY W. IB. CARTER, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS: (coin.) Per tear, . tlx Ifoultis. Tbree Mouths, 50 1 50 - 1 oe INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. mm Corvallis Gazette. VOL. XVI. CORVAIXIS. OREGON, FRIDAY. JULY 18, 1879. NO. 29. BATES OF ADVERTISING I iff. ) i m. 3 a. I e it. 1 n. 1 Inch 1001 S 00 5 00 8 00 U 00 2" 200SOO700I2 00lgQO 8 " I 300 6 00 I 10 00 16 00 M 00 4 " 00 70018 001800a000 M Col. I 6001 900I1500I2000I85O0 14 " I 7 f O 12 00 I 18 00 85 00 48 00 S" I 10 00150025004000a000 1 " I lSO0)a0 0040O)6000M0O Notices In Local Column, 20 cenU per line, each Insertion. Transient advertisements, per square of 12 lines. Nonpareil measure, 92 60 for first, and SI for each subsequent Insertion In ADVANCE' Legal advertisements charged aa transient, and must be paid for upon expiration. No charge for publisher's affidavit of publication. Yearly advertisements on liberal terms. Professional Cards, (1 square) $12 per annum. All notices and advertisements Intended for publication should be handed in by noon on Wednesday. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. M. 8. WOODCOCK, Attorney and Counselor at Law, COtTlLUB, i : VKBOOBJ. OFFICE OK FIRST STREET, OPP. WOOD COCK & BALDWIN'S Hardware store. Special attention given to Collections, Fore closure of Mortgages, Real Estate cases, Probate and Road matters. Will also buy and sell City Property and Farm Lands, on reasonable terms. March 20, 1879. 16-12yl F. A. CHENOWETH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OKVA L.I.IS, : OUHOH. -OFFICE, Corner of Monroe and Second Street. 16-Hf J. W. RAYBURN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CORVALLIS, 1 : OKEGOH. OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and Third. ;S!rSpecial attention given to the Collection of Xotca and Accounts. 16-Hf THE NEW I X L I X L JAMES A. YANTIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, rOKVALLIS, OREGON, tyiLL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS T of the State. Special attention given to matters in Probate. Collections will receive rompt and careful attention. Office in the Court onse. 16:ltf. DR. F. A. VINCENT, X 15 Pi" T I S T . COUVALLI8. - OREGON. r)FFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER v Max. Friendley's New Store. All the latest improvements. Everything new and complete. All work warranted. Please give me a call. 15:3tf C. R. FARRA, M. D. PHYSIC I AH AND SURGEON, QFFICE OVER GRAHAM & HAMILTON'S v Drugstore, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-26tf J. BLUMBERC, (Between Souther's Drug Store and Taylor's Market,) CORVALLIS, OR EGO Si. QROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, FDRN- ishing Goods, Cigars and Tobacco, etc, etc JVGoods delivered free to any part of the City. Produce taken, at highest market rates, in ex change for goods March 7, 1878. 15-10tt. EW TIN SHOP. J. K. Webber, Pro., MAIN CORVALLIS. STOVES AND TINWARE, All Kind. JWAU work warranted and at reduced rates. 12:13tf. W. C. CRAWFORD, DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, TEWELRY, 8PECTACLES, SILVER WARE, etc Also, Musical Instruments fco. "Repairing done at the most reasonable rates, and all work warranted. Corvallis, Dec 13, 1877. 14:50tf GRAHAM, HAMILTON & CO., CORVALLIS ... ORCGON. DEALERS IN Drug's, Paints, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, DYE STIFFS, OILS, CLASS AND PUTTY. PURE WINES AND LIQUORS FOR MEDICINAL USE. And also the the very best assortment of Lamps and Wall Paper ever brought to this place. AGENTS FOR THE AVERILL CHEMICU PAINT, SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER. Corvallis, - Oregon. (OPP. SOL. KING'S LIVERY STABLE, SECOND STREET,) Must sell, to make room for a large invoice of New Goods to arrive, Try Goods, CI o tiling-, Boots Ac Shoes, Carpets and Fancy Goods, At PRICES NEVER BEFORE offered to the Citizens of Corvallis and vicinity. BRemember the new IX L Store, opp. Sol. King's Livery Stable, Corvallis.3 Cox. vail is, April 84, 1879. 16:17m3 The Breakwater at Cape. Foulweather, Is a necessity and owing to an increased demnad for GOODS IIV OUR L.UVE, W X HAVE THE PLEASURE OF STATING THAT WE HAVE THE LARGEST AND best selected stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE Ever brought to this market, and oar motto, in the future, as it has been in the past, shall be 'SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK SALES," thus enabling the Farmers of Benton County to buy Goods 25 per cent, less than ever before. We also have in connection a large stock of Soots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Privately by our Mr. Sheppard, at a Large Bankrupt Sale in San Francisco, at 50 cente on the dollar, which will be kept separate from oar regular stock, and will extend the same bargains to customers who will give us a call. As a sample of our psices, we will sell Shoes from SOc.to S3. Soots from SI to S3 SO. Hats from S5c to &1 75. Suck Gloves, SO cents. Milk Handkerchiefs 38o. Gram Cloth. S cents. Kid Gloves,' 75 cents to Don't forget the place, one deor south of the post office. Corvallis, May 7, 1879. Sheppard, Jaycox & Co. 17:1 9 m3 CORVALLIS Livery, Feed ...AND... MTPbyHlclBne' fully CaspU' v e.criptlous tmt 16-2tf SALE STABLE, Bin in at,, Corvallis, Oreaton, SOL,. KING, - Porpr. O WNING BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED to offer superior accommodations in the Liv ery line. Always ready for a drive, GOOD TEAMS At Low Rates. My stables are first-class in every respect, and competent and obliging hostlers always ready to serve the public REASONABLE CHARGES FOR HIRE. Fariiealar attention Pld M Btardlst ROBERT N. BAKER. Fashionable Tailor, pOBMERLY OF ALBANY, WHERE HE has given his patrons perfect satisfaction, has determined to locate in Corvallis, where he hopes to be favored with a share of the public -patronage. AH work warranted, when made under his supervision. Repairing and cleaning promptly attended to. Corvallis, Nov. 28, 1878. 15:48ft v Grain Storage ! A Word to Farmers. TIAVING PURCHASED THE COMMODI OUS warehouse of Messrs. King and Bell, and thoroughly overhauled the same, I am now ready to receive grain for storage at the reduced Sate of - ets. per Bushel - w accp UAW niUW Wheat, separate from other lots, therebv enabling me to SELL AT A PREMIUM. Also prepared wj pay me Siffkest Market Price. for wheat, and would most respectfully solicit a snare oi puDiic patronage. r. j. BLtA.ia. uorvaius, Aug. 1, 1B78. 15:32tf ELEGANT HEARSE, CARRIAGES AND HACKS FOR FUNERALS Corvallis, Jan: 3, 1879. 16:lyl LANDS! FARMS! HOMES I 1HAVE FARMS, (Improved and unim proved,) STORES and MILL PROPERTY, very desirable, FOR SALE. These lands are cheap. Also claims in unsurveyed tracts for sale. Soldiers of the late rebellion who have, under the Soldiers' Homestead Act, located and made final proof on less than 160 acres, can dispose of toe balance to me. Write (with stamps to prepay postage). R. A. BENSELL, Newport, Benton county, Oregon. 16:2tf ACCIDENTALLY INNOCENT. JOHN 8. BAKER, PRO. COBVAIXU, OKECtOH. TIAVING BOUGHT THE ABOVE MAR ket and fixtures, and permanently located in Corvallis, I will keep constantly on hand the choicest cuts of BEEF, PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL. Especial attention to making extra Bologna Sausage. Being a practical butcher, with large experi ence in business, I flatter myself that I can give satisfaction to customers. Please call and give me a trial. JOHN S. BAKER. Dec. 6th, 1878. 15:49tf. Corvallis Lodge Bo 14. F. A. M. Holds stated Communications on Wednesday on or preceding each full moon. Brethren in good standing cordially invited to attend. By orde W. M. r a Lodge mm. 7, 1. O. O. F. Meets on Tuesday evening of each week, in their hall, in Fisher's brick, second storv. Mem bers of the order in good standing invited to at- veuu. ov oraer or n . u. No lawyer likes going into conrt with, a thoroughly bad case, yet how can he help it sometimes ? I should have more patftnee with the question, "Do you ever think it right to defend a man whom you be lieve to be guilty?" were it less fre quently put by people who spend six days of the week seeking to get the upper hand of their neighbors, and the seventh trying to circumvent their Maker. To the honest inquirer, I commend the answer Dr. Johnson once gave to Boswell, "Sir, the law yer is not the judge. Was it my place when George Gil bert s little care-worn wife came with tears glistening in her eyes, to be seech me to do what I could for her imprisoned husband, virtually to turn my back and leave her tired, troubled heart to break or not as it might? I was neither a priest nor a Levite to find a ready excuse for passing by on the other side. Yet what could I do? George Gilbert had been sent on a collecting tour and had gambled away money received for his employers. It was a plain case of embezzlement, and the penalty was a term of years in the State's prison. "I am sure he never meant to be dishonest," pleaded the loyal little woman ; "he was tempted by a crafty and designing man, but instead of running away, as others would have done, he came back and confessed his fault, offering to let his whole salary go toward making up the lost money till every cent was paid. Mr. Meek, the junior partner, was willing to be merciful, but Mr. Man gle, the head of the house, who just returned then after a year's absence, insisted that the law should take its course. I gave her what poor consolation I could; for lawyers, like doctors, must keep their patients' courage up at times. "In the first place, I'll see Messrs. Mangle & Meek," 1 said. "Mr. Mangle may be brought to hear reason after all if he can only be made to see his interest in it." The pale, despondent face cheered up a little. My words seemed to have inspired a sort of undefined hope that I was far from feeling my self. Mr. Mangle received me with stony politeness. "xoung man, bis manner said, "don't waste time in appeals to senti ment; you won't if you'll only look at me." I took the hint and came at once to business, repeated Gilbert's offer, and put it as strongly as possible that more was to be gained by leniency than harshness all of which Mr. Mangle listened to with a con scientious scowl. "I cannot be a party to compound ing a felony," he answered witn a solemn intonation. "Nor have I asked you," I replied, not a little nettled. "1 have merely mentioned a plan of paying back your own, leaving it to your gener osity to press or not to press this prosecution. "Oh, its all the same," was the contemptuous rejoinder "anybody but a lawyer, with his head full of quibs and quiblets, could see that. Besides, there is something rather cool in the proposal to retain your friend in our employ under pretence of working out the money he has stolen, with the opportunity of filch ing twice as much in the meantime." I felt my temper rising, and not caring to imperil my client's interest by an outright quarrel, I took a hasty leave. Had I been in the prisoner's place on the morning fixed for the trial, I could hardly have ascended the court-house steps with more reluct ance than 1 did. And when I entered the court-room, and found Gilbert and his wife already there, and noted the hopeful look with which the lat ter greeted my coming, my heart sickened at the thought of the bitter disappointment coming. "The Jreople vs Gilbert, caned out the iudge. after disposing of some formal matters. A jury was immediately impaneled and the case opened by the District Attorney. Mr. Meek was the first witness The nervous, hesitating manner in which he gave his evidence would have greatly damaged its effect had it not evidently arisen from a dispo sition to do the prisoner as little hurt as possible. .But no softening could break the terrible force of facts he was compelled to relate. In his partner's absence he had employed George Gilbert as a clerk; had found him competent and trust worthy; had sent him on a trip to make collections; after receiving considerable sum, he was induced by a respectable looking gentleman with whom he had casually fallen in, to join a social game of cards; at first they played for amusement, then for money, and after losing all his own, in hope of retrieving his loss, with the fatal infatuation of that dreadful vice whose end is swift destruction, he had hazarded and lost the last dollar of money he had in trust for his employers. Mr. Meek's voice faltered as he closed his narrative. He was about to volunteer something about the prisoner's good character when a disapproving glance from Mr. Man gle brought him to a halt. Just then the prisoner chanced to turn his head, and catching a glimpse of the senior partner, who had just entered and was standing among the crowd, he started quickly, then whis pered hurriedly in my ear. "Turn aside your face," I whis pered back. And the case for the prosecution was closed. "Have you any witness for the de fence?" inquired the judge. "I will call Hezekiah Mangle," I replied. A buzz of surprise greeting the announcement, in the midst of which Mr. Mangle stepped forward and was sworn. "You have been absent for the past year, Mr. Mangle?" I began. "I have." "Traveling in different parts?" "Yes, sir." "The prisoner was employed by your partner in your absence, and was arrested about the time of your return?" "Such was the case." "Have you ever seen him?" "Not to my knowledge." "Or met him in your travels?" "If he will turn his head this way can tell better." At my bidding Gilbert turned and faced the witnesss. The effect was electrical. Mr. Man gle turned red and pale by turns. "One other question, Mr. Mangle ' I resumed. "Do you recognize in the prisoner a young man from whom you won a thousand dollars at 'poker' while on your travels r and 1 named the time and place at which the pris oner had met with his misfortune. The man of iron nerve hesitated worse than his amiable partner had done. He was halting between a point blank lie, which might entail the penalties of perjury, and the truth, which would cost him money. Cowardice performed the ofhee of science, and tne truth came out. The firm's money, which George Gibert had lost, had been won by the senior partner; and the court instructed the jury that, as the sum in question had actually been delivered to one of the joint owners, who was bound to ac count to his associate, the prisoner could not be convicted. " God bless you, Mr Parker ! " fal tered the happy little wife. " 1 knew you would bring us out all right." It was evident the truthful wo man's nature gave me all the credit of a result in whose achievement my share had been next to nothing. The lesson was not lost on George Gilbert. His first false step was his last, and the richest fee I ever re ceived was the heartfelt gratitude of of his noble, faithful wife. He vYanttd Some "jseenery." On a train coming east over the Central Road the other day was a Cahforman bound for New Jersey, and the train had scarcely left Chicago behind when he stopped the conductor and said : On winch side Of tne car can i nest see the mountains ? " The conductor told him that there were no mountains along the route, and the man indignantly replied : "What in blazes did you Duiid tne roaa for? What do you suppose I'm traveling for? This must be a one-horse road if it dont take in at least one mountain ! " He cooled down after a while, but in half an hour he tackled the brakemen with the query : "Does this road pass Dy any om ruins oi interest?" The brakeman couldn't remember any ruins except an old log house here and there, and the Californian was man in minute. "Do von think I shinned on this road as freight or live stock fjf He called out. "If you don't run past any old ruins why don't you say so on the time-cards, and not be deceiving the people? " When the conductor next came along, the Californian was looking from the window to catch sight of the bridges, and he turned and said : ''If we come to any bridges over eight hundred feet long just give me the world. I don't care about seeing any shorter ones.-' The conductor had to admit that the road was trying to get along with a few short bridges, and the passenger bobbed around in his seat and replied : "What did you wan't to build your old road for? If you haven't any long bridges on the line why don't you hunt for a new one?" About thirty miles west of Detroit the Californian caught sight of a lake afar off, and going out on the platform he asked the brakeman : "Don't we run along the shore of that lake, over there?" "No ; we are as near as we shall go." "You are, eh? Then that settles this road with me ! When I come back I'll mIa i-n lumrior n'orrnn f Vmi PHTl t.fltc P your confounded railroad and eat it, but you can't fool me again. Looks to me as if the folks who built it simolv wanted to connect Detroit and Chicago, and don't care a cent for scenery. I'll get off at the next station and walk." Temperance During the Past Fifty Tears. From a Private Letter by William E. Dodge. 1 But those of us who can go back to the very commencement of the teinner- ance reform well know that in all parts of tne country outside our large cities there has been a most remarkable change in the customs of the great mass of people as the result of temperance efforts. Then there was hardly a family of any standing that sat down to dine without some kind of in toxicating drink on the table. Men were hardly expected to work on the farm or in their shop without their regular allow ance, it was kept in every country store; was used at all public gatherings, and, in my remembrance, was passed among the attendants at funerals. As you sat down at the hotel tables every second man had nis Dottle or glass of some kind of intoxi cating drink. Now we know that to a great extent this is changed. Go where you will throughout the country, sit down to the tables of a great majority of our families, and you will find no intoxicating drinks. Sit down at our hotels on the great liues of travel and you will not see one person using strong drink, where fifty years ago you would have seen ten. Had it not been for the vast increase of population from the old world during the last half century, the results of the tem perance movement would be more ap parent. But those of us who have watched t feel that its progress has been most en couraging. I have just returned from an absence of two months, in which I have traveled through ten States and over 2000 miles, and I have seen less drinking and fewer drunkards than ever before in the ame time and distance. Fish Not a Brain Food. Dr. J. W. Draper, in an article in Har per's Magazine for April says : Since dur ing the acts of sensation and intellection phosphorus consumed in the brain and nervous system, there arises a necessity to restore the portions consumed, or, as the proper expression is, to use brain food. Now, as everybody knows, it is the property of phosphorus to shine in the dark; and as fish in a certain stage of putrifactive decay often emit light, or be come phosphorescent, it has been thought that this is due to the abundance of phos phorus the fish contains, and hence they are eminently suitable for the nourish ment of the nervous system, and are an invaluable brain food. Under this idea many persons resort to a diet of fish, and persuade themselves that they derive advantage from it In an increased vivid ness of thought, a single improvement in the reasoning powers. But the flesh of fish contains no excess of phosphorus nor does its shining depend upon that ele ment. Decaying willow wood shines even more brilliantly than decaying fish ; it may be discerned afar off at night. The shining in the two cases is due to the same cause oxidation of carbon, not of phos phorus, in organic substances containing, perhaps, not a perceptible trace of the lat ter element. Yet surely no one found himself rising to a poetical fervor by tast ing decaying willow wood, though it ought, on these principles, to be a better brain food than a much larger quantity of fish. A Curious Lake. In Colorado there is a ten-acre field which is no more nor less than a subter ranean lake covered with soil about eighteen inches deep. On the soil is cul tivated a field of corn, which produces thirty or forty bushels to the acre. If any one will take the trouble to dig a hole the depth of a spade handle, he will find it to fill with water, and by using a hook and line, fish four or five inches long can be caught. The fish have neither scales nor eyes, and are perchlike in shape. The ground is a black marl in its nature, and in all probability was once an open body of water, on which was ac cumulated vegetable matter, which has been increased from time to time, nntil now it has a crust sufficiently strong and rich to produce fine corn, though it has to be cultivated by hand, as it is not strong enough to bear the weight of a horse. While harvesting, the field hands catch great strings of fish by punching a hole in the earth. A person rising on his heel and coming down suddenly can see the growing corn shake around him. Any one having the strength to drive a rail through the crust will find on releasing it that it will disappear altogether. The whole section of country surrounding this field gives evidence of marshiness, and the least rain produces an abundance of mud. But the question comes up, has not this body an outlet? Although brackish, the water tastes as if fresh, and is evidently not stagnant. Yet these fish are eyeless and scaleless, similar to those found in caves. A cabinet-maker can make a flower stand the hottest day in the season, but a washer-woman can't make a linen collar stand more than fifteen or twenty nun rites after the mercury crawls out the top of the thermometer and begins to climb the liberty-pole. f England's Indebtedness to Fbance. A netition latelv Dresented to the French Senate by a M. fe Baron sets forth that the English Government is indebted to France in no less a sum than 64,776,132 francs, and prays that restitution oi tne mm mflV be claimed from the English Taeasnry. It is stated that by the treaties and conventions Detween .cneiaiiu auu France in 1814, 1815, a sum of 6,500,000 francs, payable annually for a certain number of years (representing a capital sum of 130,000,000 francs), was awarded to England as indemnity lor tne losses bui- . . t - i-i Z .no ierea Dy .rngiisu buujocu m me tion or confiscation of their property in the execution of the revolutionary laws, and on understanding that if any balance was left unappropriated after payment of the claims of various sufferers, the bal ance should be refunded to the French Treasury. It is calculated on what grounds is not clear that the sum of nearly 65,000,000 francs remains in the hands of the English Government unap propriated, and the petition suggests that its payment should be demanded. As an equivalent it is proposed that England should surrender to France Mauritius, the Seychelles, and neighboring islands, and recognize French supremacy in Eastern Africa and Madagascar. The Ocean Floor. There is an end of all romance about hidden ocean depths. We can speculate no longer about pearls, or mermaids, heaped treasures, and dead men's bones whitening the coral caves. The report of the exploring expedition sent out from London in H. M. S. Challenger has lately been published. Nearly four years were given to the examination of the currents and floors of the four great oceans of the world. The Atlantic, we are told if drained, would be a vast plain, with a mountain ridge in the middle, running parallel with the Ameriean coast. Another ridge crosses it from Newfoundland to Ireland, on the top of which lies a sub marine cable. The ocean is thus divided into three great basins, no longer " un fathomable depths." The tops of these sea-mountains are two miles below a ship, and the basins, according to Keclus, fif teen miles, which is deep enough drown ing, if not for mystery. The mountains are whitened for a thousand miles by a tiny, creamy shell. The depths are red in color, heaped with volcanic matter. Though the black, motionless waters of these abysses move gigantic abdormal creatures, which never rise to the upper currents. There is an old legend coming down to us from the first ages of the world by which these scientific deep-sea soundings throw a curious light. Plato and Solon recorded the tradition, ancient in their days, of a country in the western seas where flourished the first civilization of mankind, which, by volcanic action, was submerged and lost. The same story is told by the Central Americans, who still celebrate in the fast of Izeall, the fright ful catastophe which destroyed the land with its stately cities. Do Bourgborg and other archaelogists assert that this lost land extended from Mexico beyond the West Indies. The shape of the plateau discovered by the Challenger corresponds with this theory. Noah's Sunday Time. Delicacy of Mint Scales. The fine gold-weighing scales made in Philadelphia for the New Orleans mint, and placed in position recently, are mar vels of mechanical invention and accurate workmanship. The larger of the two has a capacity of 10,000 ounces troy, or about 686 pounds avoirdupois, and, when loaded with its lull weignt, will indicate a varia tion of 1-1000 part of an ounce, or 1-100,- 000 part of its weighing capacity. An other pair of scales is the one intended for weighing gold only. It has bearings composed of the finest agates, which have been ground with wonderful precision. So delicate is this machine that it will give the precise weight of a human hair, and is susceptible to the slightest atmos pheric changes. Millions of dollars worth of precious metals will be weighed an nually upon these scales. i offee-Ba.sing in Florida. While in Georgia tea culture is begin ning to attract attention, in some portions of Florida the culture of coffee is excit ing in 'est. The Tampa lrxbune says : "Mrs. Joe Atzerotn, avmg on tne soutn bank of Manatee river.near Braidentown, was two coffee trees, bearing this year for the first time, as we learn from a gentleman recently irom mere. With proper care and judicious efforts there certainly can be no ttoubt of the practability of raising cotrafe in South Florida, especially in certain parts of Manatee county and in the Caloosahatchie county. It would be interesting to know if any efforts have been made in this lat ter region to grow this tree, and if so.with what success." "What organ," inquires Olive Logan. 14 has such a diapason as the human soul? We don't know, but suppose most any will claim that his organ can beat the diapason of the soul, on a axA hst two in three, pp., ana give the soul ten yards the start. Oil (My Derrick. Dr. Dufaur, a French physician, reports this interesting case : A common brown owl built its nest beneath the projecting roof of a farm-house, where it had a brood of young. One day the farmer, moved by curiosity, drove away the old bird, took out the "young owls, and, after looking at them, replaced them uninjured. In the evening, as he was entering his house with his servant, tne latter suouemy hoard t.h hentincr of winzs. and felt the claws of the owl on his chin, and before he could defend himself received a blow from its beak directly under the eye. On the following day an unsuccessful hunt for the bird was instituted, but in the dusk it appeared again and attacked the farmer nimsen, sinning mm mrecuj u the eye with its beak. Dr. Dufaur found a wound of the cornea and an abundant hemorrhage. The sight of the eye was completely lost and the other eye was subsequently threatened with sympa thetic inflammation. Mr. .ToseDh Arch, the champion of the agricultural laborers, who visited the United States ana anaua u wit jwuo to ascertain the advantages this continent offered to immigrants, in a letter on the existing condition of English agriculture says: "The law of primogeniture and entail must be abolished, so that large estates may be disposed of. Large farms have been a hindrance to the prosperity of our agriculture, and an injury to the country. The game laws must be abol ished, as one-third, and in seme cases one-half, the farmers' crops are devoured i " Tn aAAiUnn " Via savs. "there U V ydUlC. " " 7 ' J . 3 nnnlnm rf lotlll must De an easy auu tueaji njrmcm transfer, and removal of the heavy land charges in short, equal laws for rich and Door." When this is done he thinks there ... , . . . i e 1 t .Ui- fUA lonW will ra Will De liuie iear uui nic " properly cultivated, and the now waste twenty-seven million acres brought under the plow. They had staid at the promenade con cert rather later than she wisnea, ana they were on their way homeward at last, sue leaiiou . . and her blue eyes looked into his as she murmured, "uear love, won i, i : f ha Hurt. limn, and read from their silent pleading when I wish to go ? He said ne wouia, in laui wure uo would, but he probably forgot, because after they had been married about seven years she tore ofl the tail of his coat one night when she wanted him to come away from a church sociable, and after she g-1 him home, she kicked him twice in the stomach, pulled his ear nearly out by the roots, sat on his new hat and said : Y ou thick-headed old mackerel-eyed old idiot, the next time I tell you to come home you climb into your hat and come, or I'll tear the lungs out of you with a croquet mallet ! " He "come" the next time. Scientific American.