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Oorvallia Gazette. EVERY PjsswISHED FRIDAY MORNING BY Editor and Pboprrtok. TERMS: (coin.) Per tear, tx Months. Three Mouths, 3 BO 1 M 1 o. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (OftVALUS OSESOH. FFICE ON FIRST STREET, OPP. WOOD- IWA At BALUWIH'S Hardware store. o Sfiecial attention given to Collections, Fore closure of Mortgages, Real Estate cases, Probate and Rond matters. Will also buy and sell City Property and Farm Lauds, on reasonable terms. March 20, 1879. 16-I2yl J. K. WEBBER, Main St., Corvallis, Oregon, DEALER IN Stoves, Ranges, FORCE AND LIFT PUMPS. HOUSE FURNISHING HARDWARE, Constantly on hand, the ltW RICHMOND RANGE, Boston Market. The BONANZA COOK STOVE, Something New. And the New VECTA PARLOR STOVE. Jan. 1, 1880. 17:1 tf J. R. BRYSOIM, ATTORNEY AT LAW. All business will receive prompt attention. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. Corvallis, July 14, 1879. 16:29tf J. W RAYBURiV, ATTORNEY AT LAW, okvu,u oRieos. OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and 'ihird. T. is-Special attention given to the Collection of Notes and Accounts. 16-ltf JAMES A. YANTIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, UKVALLIH, ... OBKOOH. tl'ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS of the State. Special attention given to Blatters in Probate. Collections will receive b m j .t and careful attention. Office in the Court use. 16:ltf. DR F. A. ViNCENT, DENTIST. CORVALLIS o ( REGON. FFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER Max. Friendlev's New Store. All the latest improvements. Everything new and complete. All work warranted. Please give me a call. 15:3tf G. R. FARRA, M. D. H? RIA.1 AND SURGEON, Q FFICE OVER GRAHAM A HAMILTON'S w Drugstore, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-26tf Wi C. CRAWFORD, DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCK?, JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE, etc. Also, Musical Instruments &o. 'Repairinst done at the most reasonable rates, and all work warranted. Corvallis, Dec 13, 1377. 14:50tf GRAHAM, HAMILTON & CO., CORVALLU ... OSEfiOX, DEALERS IN Irtig,s, Inints, M EDICINES, CHEMICALS DYE STIFFS, OILS, CLASS AND PUTTY. PURE WINES AND L QUORS FOR MEDICINAL USE. And also the the very best assortment of Lumps and Wall Paper ever brought to this place. AGENTS FOR THE AVtRIll ch-:isu PINT, SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER Piij'MlelBfia ! ascriptions re tails oiupoantied. Corvallis Gazette. BATE8 OF ADVE RTISING. VOL. XVII. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. Ml. 8. WOODCOCK, Attorney and Counselor at Law, CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1880. NO. 23. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. Corvallis Lodire Ho 14. r. A- A. r Holds stated Communications on Wednesday on or preceding each full moon. Brethren in good standing cordially invited to attend. By order TIT t Barnum Lodare So. 7. I. . . Meets on Tuesday evening of each week, in their hall, in Fisher's brick, second story. Mem bers of the order in good standing invited to at- T, 1 r P. A. CHENOWETH. F. M. JOHNSON. CHENOWETH &. JOHNSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW COKNALLI8 .... OREGON September 4, 1879. 16:36tf 4LLEV & WOODWARD. Druggists and Apothecaries, P. O. BUILDING, CORVALLIS, OREGON. Have a complete stock of DRIBS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OIL, GLASS, ETC., ETC School Pooks - tationeny, fce. We buy for Cash, and have choice of the FRESHEST and PUREST Drugs and Medicines the market affords. Prescriptions accurately DreDared at half tee UBuai rates. ZMayl6:lStf FRESH GOOD8 AT THE BAZAR of FASHIONS Mrs. E. A. KNIGHT. COBTALU8, OKFUUV. Hal just received from San Francisco, the larg est and Best Stock of Millinery Goods, Dress Trimmings, Etc., Ever brought to Corvallis, which I will sell at prices that defy competition. Agency for SI me. ueutorest's reliable Patterns. 26aprl:17tf Woodcock & Baldwin (Successors to J. R Bayley & Co,) JTEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT THE old stand a large and complete stock of Heavy and Shelf liaidvyare, IRON, STEEL. TOOLS, STOVES, RANGES, ETC Manufactured and Home Made Tin and Copper War, Pumps, Pipe, Etc. A good Tinner constantly on hand, and alt Job Work neatly and quickly done. Also agents for Knapp, Burrell & Co., for the sale of the best and latest im proved fA-OM MACIirNEttY, of all kinds, together with a full assort ment of Agricultural Implements. Sole Agents for the celebrated ST. LOUIS CHARTiR 0K S OVES the BEST IN THE WORLD. Also the Norman Range, and many other patterns, in all sizes and styles. " Particular attention paid to Farmers' wants, and the supplying extras for Farm Machinery, and all information as to such articles, furnished cheerfully, on applica tion. No pains will be spared to furnish our customers with the best goods in market, in our line, and at the lowest prices. Our motto shall be, prompt and fair dealing with all. Call and examine our tock, before going elsewhere. Satisfac tion guaranteed. WOOKCOCK & BALDWIN. Corvallis, May, 12, 1879. 14:4tf Bees Hamlin. Emmett F. Wbenn. DRAY ACE ! DRAY AGE! Hamlin 6c Wrenn. Propr's. HAVING JUST RETURNED FROM Salem with a new truck, and having leased the barn formerly occupied by James Eg lic, we are now prepa ed to do all kinds of D RAYING A4D HAULING, either in the city or country, at the lowest living rates. Can be found at the old truck stand. A share f the public patronage respectfully solic ited. Corvallis. Dec. 27. 1878. 15:52tf J C. IVI OK ELAND, (cmr ATTORNEY.) ATTORNEY AT LAW, POBTLASD, 0E0. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. OFFICE Monastes' Brick, First street, between Morrison and Yamhill. 14:3Stf THE STAR BAKERY, aln Street, 4 or vail is. HENRY WARRIOR, PROPRIETOR. Family Supply Store ! Groceries-, Bread. Calies, i les, CUindies, Toys, rr Ktc. Alwayje on Hand. Corvaliie; r c z -Jan .Jt, 1877, , l2tf LANDS I RMS I HOMES! HAVE 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 he Soldiers' Homestead Act, located and made final proof on less than 160 acres, can dispose of tne Daiance to me. Write (with stamps to prepay postage). R. A. BENSELL, Newport, Benton county, Oregon. 16:2tf II. jE. HARRIS, One door South of Graham A Hamilton's, COBVALLIH, - OBBaeaT. GROC SKIES, PROVISIONS, AND Dry Goods. Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1878. I6:lvl DRAKE & GRANT, MERCHANT TAILORS, CkKVAI.I,lS, OREUU.M. "WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE and well selected stock of Cloth, viz: "Wesr of i upland Broad. loths, renob assimeres, votch Tweeds, and -a mericaa eultlnir. Which we will make up to order in the most approved and lashioriable styles. No pains will be spared in producing good fitting garments. Parties wishing to purchase cloths and have them cut out, will do well to call and examine our stock. DRAKE A GRANT. Corvallis, April 17, 1879. I6:16tf Boarding and Lodging-. Philomath, Beaton Co , Oregon. QEORGE kisor, T ESPECT FULLY INFORMS THE TRAV- readiness to keep such boarders as may choose to give him a call, cither by the SINGLE MEAL. DAY. OR WEEK. Is also prepared to furn'sh horse feed. Liberal share of public patronage solicited. Give us a call. GEORGE KISOR. Philomath, April 28, 1879. I0:18tf CORVALLIS Livery, Feed .AND.. SALE STABLE. Main (St., Co.val Its. Oregon. SOL. KING, - Porpp. QWNING BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED t offer superior accommodations in the Liv ery line. Always ready for a drive, GrCOD TEAMS At Low Rates. My stables are first-class in every respect, and competent and obliging hostlers always ready to serve the public SEASONABLE CHARGES FOB HIRE. Partlenlar attention Paid to Boardlaa- ' or sen. ELEGANT HEAR8E, CARRIAGES AND HACKS FOR FUNERALS Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1879. 16:Iyl $300 A MONTH guaranteed. Twelve dollars a day made at home by the industrious. Capital not re quited; we will start vou. Men. women, boys and girls make money faster at work for us than at anything else. The work is light and pleasant, and such as anyone can go right at. Those who are wise who see this notice will send us their addresses at once and see for themselves. Costly outfit and terms free. Now is the time, Those already at work are laying up large suras of money. Address TRUE & CO., Augusta, Maine. $66 A WEEK in your own town and no capital risked. You can give the business a trial without expense. The best opportunity ever offered for those willing to work. You should try nothing else until you see for yourself what you can do at the business we offer. No room to explain here. You can devote all your time or only your spare time to the business, and make great pay for every hour you work. Women make as much as men. Send for special private terms and par ticulars, which we mafl free $6 outfit free. Don't complain of hard times while vou have such a chance. Address H. HALLETT A CO,. Portland, Maine. 16:31yl FRANKLIN CAUTH0RN, M. D., physician and surgeon, "UNE DAME SEULE." Corvallis, Oregon Special attention given to ot tne Kye. fan be tqand Graham, Hamilton day or night. ' June 3, 1679. ttiree,-y,An at ntvtfthce Oo.'s Otaa Store r 1 d diseases , in rear of up stairs, i6-2t We were nearing the Christmas holi days aud had planned all sorts of festivi ties; gifts and games for the children, a Christmas tree, dancing and all that, when my brother received a letter which sum moned him to England. He would be absent from Paris several days would re turn Christmas morning, or at the earliest the night before. His two boys, one eight, the other ten, had been left at Stuttgard in the family of a learned pro fessor who charged himself with their instruction. My brother had arranged to go for the children to bring them to Paris for the holidays, when this unfore seen demand upon him made the carry ing out of the plan impossible. We talked the matter over at the breakfast table, thinking of this and that way of getting the boys home. It was out of the question their mother's going for them she could not be spared from the little ones at home. It was an emergency, and I found courage to suit the occasion. I am convinced heroines are made not born "I will go to Stuttgard aud fetch home the boys," 1 said. My brother looked up, astonished. "You go to Stuttgard alone!" "Yes, I will go to Stuttgard." "Mais, mais," began his wife. "Don't say a word. I want to go. know the road; it is all plain and simple; it will be a pleasunt excursion. I will leave here in the morning, spend the night with the professor and his good wife, and the next morning, with a nephew under each arm, I will take the train for Paris. Oh! I shall enjoy it ever so much." My brother and his wife were persistent in their efforts to dissuade, but I overrul ed every objection and, as a result, I found myself one tine morning in a train going eastward. I has one companion at the begining a lady with her maid and a Spanish poodle. From Paris to Strasbourg not a word pass ed the lips of mistress or maid; sileniiutn was the order. The lady was stoutish in figure and a good deal encumbered with wraps; she was fresh in color with pale, hay-colored hair partly concealed by the white Shetland scarf with which her maid had replaced the bonnet that was carefully bestowed in the rack above. The maid was tall, thin, witn wide-open eyes, in every way the opposite from the lady. Her black, scanty vestments cling ing to her scantily-made person made her a contrast indeed to the rather corpu lent mistress in a large, scarlet, circular cloak, who sat with closed eyes and with her hands folded over her red-covered guide-book. I could have made this dis- cription more brief by saying simply that my vis-a-vis was a symphony in red. Though I did not speak during all this journey, I felt I had company that I was not alone. At 9 o'clock we reached the station at Stuttgard. and I confess I felt a little the worse for wear, as my breakfast had been but a cup of coffee at Strasbourg I had made the slenderest sort of repast. My hope buoyed me up. I should soon be at home with the brave professor and his kind-hearted wife, and in the warmth of their welcome and in the joy of seeing our dear boys I should forget how dreary it has been during the last lour or nve hours of the way, with the dark and some other disagreeables that I have-not set down. I found a cab at the station. I mentioned the street and number. There seemed to be some needless delay in start ing, especially as the driver saw fit to leave his horse and vehicle while he ran off to speak with a comrade. The house I sought I remembered to have been not far from the station, but the way by which it was reached on this occasion seemed interminable. I peered out, from time to time, in search of some familiar object or land-mark to help me to guess where I was. To shorten the story, as I would have the journey the carriage stopped. I got out with my wraps and hand-bag; paid my cabman; stepped toward the door, saw that it was unfamiliar; looked aound and found that it was in a region altogether new to me. It was strass, it was No. 10, but not "10 A." I held mv breath for a moment, then recovered, and re-entered the cab; 10 A was a new house at the other end of the street, and we soon reached it. I recog- nized it by a tree beiore tne aoor leaness now but with the same twisted trunk. 1 was surprised when the cabman demand ed another fare, but paid it and bade him good night as civilly as I could as I mount ed the steps to tne nouse l rememoereu. The house as I had seen it in the autumn I had thought almost shabby in its characterless newness but now it was the House Beautiful. 1 rang gently, once, and again. The third time I pulled vig orously, for the cabman had mounted to his seat, and I begun to regard him as a friend, though I knew he might prove a costly one. The door opened and the hawt meigter Dut fourth his head. What did I want, he asked. "Prof. Fersten." The head Drotruded a little farther, then a hand reached out, and a little lamp in it was waved two or three times before my face. "Do you want to see Prof. Fersten? He's pone to Paris." I gasped. "His wife Mme Fersten." "Gone to Augsburg will be back next week " The cabman had gathered up hia reins. was making a preparatory chirping to his horses. I shouted to him to stop. I learned that the professor had gone, with my two nephews, to Paris, and his wife to visit her friends. There was no one in the apartment. Whether this intelligence was conveyed to me in a few words or many, I do not know. I turned away. "Madame surely knows it is tne custom to reward the ham meigter when he is call ed upon at a late hour!" Madame did know, and she put a half franc into the outstretched hand. I re turned to the carriage. "You must take me to some hotel." "Which, madame?" I did not think to ask the hausmeiMerlo recommend me one, and I do not believe he cou'.d have in his then stupid condi tion. I suddenly remembered my brother had spent a night in Stuttgard once the hotel was near the station. I did not know the name, but the cabman did. We found it or a substitute. I paid "thrice the fare," as did the grateful stranger to the boatmaa iu Uhland's verses. An unkemp man a stable boy in ap pearance, represented the landlord. O yes, they had a room! and a woman who had evidently been suddenly roused from her slumbers' took a light to show me to it. We passed first through a room where at two or three tables, men were playing. cards as I saw through almost bunding smoke then through a kitchen where a maedchen with her head on a table was soundly sleeping and where a small black dog came out from somewhere to growl at me then across a stone passage. It was a small, low room we found, with a porcelain stove that occupied consider able space, a short bed, a chair, a wash- tand and two trunks. The room had that forlorn air of tidiness thata room may have that is never occupied. The bed was covered with a handsome enough knit cove, and the window-curtains were crocheted. The floor was bare but clean There were two colored French lithographs on the walls heads and shoulders of blandly smiling women. On the top of the stove was a pile oi bed-cloths, with which the woman made the bed with dexterity that surprised me, she was so heavy-looking. 1 ventured to try mv limited German on her by asking if I could have my tea and some hot rolls and butter brought to my room, for 1 felt the need of establishing a connection with somebody in my dreary condition. The woman evidently did not understand me, though she responded J a, J a. tier du ties ouiekl v over she bade me eood-nisht. and fighting a crumb of a candle that she found amonng other crumbs in her apron pocket, departed. How desolate I felt! Tired, hungry, sleepy, and not a little nervous at the prospect of spending the night in such unpromising quarters. But I determined to begin well by making myself a little tidy for my tea. I soon found that I had counted without my host, or had no host to count on. My washstand contained ja hand basin, but no ewer, and so no water.Jl must wait till my tea was brought for there was no bell to my room. I tried to be amused at the situation, to see it in its ludicrous aspect, but 1 was so cold that any attempt at a smile must prove a fearful grimace. I shivered so that I could not sit still and I got up and tried to pace around my little circle. The clock struck 11. I waited a while longer for my tea. my teeth chattered with cold and dread of the long night beiore me. At length 1 took my candle and sallied out into the passage to try it possible to call some ono to serve me, for I was sadly iu need of something refreshing. 1 crept noiselessly along the unlighted corridor to the head ol the stairs and began to decend when the door suddenly opened below me and let out upon the passage two or three such sinister looking individuals that I quickly returned breathless to mv room. To my door there came up the sound of shuttling feet and excited voices aud a good deal of underlined noise that 1 was glad to try to shut out. With suspense and some anxiety the minutes dragged, but at length the clock on some near tower struck iz. I gave up all hopes of even an apology for a supper and decided to make the best of it. There was no lock on my door, and no wav of fastening it, so 1 made a barri cade before it by piling one trunk on the other and putting my chair od that in a way that any pressure ou the door irom the outside would throw it to the ground. I could not think of going regularly to bed under the circumstances, but 1 lay down on it and over myself a big, over-stuffed couvre pied, which fell to the floor the moment I dropped asleep. That, however, must have been near morning tor l count ed several of the hours as they struck, and my spluttering candle had burnt it self out, leaving only a suggestive odor I would gladly have been rid ot. At length a gray morniug made itself visible, and as soon as I could see I made my way to the lower regions, still dark, where I found the man of the night before with a lantern in bis hand. An old woman was called and a fire lighted in the kitch en stove, where I watched the brewing of my coffee while I warmed myself. 1 did not criticise mv bread which I ate with a compote of stewed pears and mustard for the butter was an indignity nor my account neither though it was exorbitant and when the morning train came up from Munich I was the first to enter. I was alone in my compartment that for "lone woman," and the excessive cold aggravated my general wretchedness. No notice was taken of me by anyone, and I got safely to Strasbourg, nursing my nhvsical discomfort. At Strasbourg the officers of the train were changed, and I became an obiect of interest and attention two of the guards one a big middle-aged man with half gray side whiskers, the other younger, a tall, stooping individual, who smiled in at my window on every occasion, with light blue eyes of most inane expression. How uncomfortable those two men made me! At the second station after Strasbourg the elder of the t wo demanded of me my passport. X replied that I had none that none was necessary on a jour ney from Stuttgard to Paris. At this the younger was informed that my name was Gretchen, but it was impossible to say to which part of Germany I belonged. At the next station I was asked for my visit ing card, with my Paris destination. I produced it while the old man watched with evident enjoyment my apparent dis comfiture. As we approached Paris the miles seem ed longer. The train I knew wonld ar rived after dark and but I will not follow the thoughts of fancies that, stimulated by my fears, filled my mind. At X. the train stopped, and I saw mv two persecu tors looking down toward me, and, O, joy! I saw on the platform of the station my good old friend Mr. C .tranquilly smoking a cigarette. I waved my 'hand kerchief I shouted: "O Monsieur! Monsieur C!" jMo fettered Andromeda ever welcomed aTbming Perseus with more delight than I did this old friend of my childhood. My shout attracted bis attention; he was soon at my side. ''Why, Marie, where are you coming from where have you been?" Don't ask me anything. Come into this compartment; I can't stay alone any longer." 'But I will not be allowed. This is pour les dames seules." "Then take me with you anywhere I don't care where, only take me." The light by which I write this shines on the beautiful face and gray hair of the good man I have referred to. In yt ars he is twenty my senior, but in all but wisdom and goodness he is very young. I have just read him this account of a journey to and from Paris, and he responds, with "And that was the day you offered yourself to me asked me, in short, to marry you." "Aad," I replied, "it is a dreadful thing to be 'un dame seule.' " Spring jeld Re publican. Dickens and hi Wife Again. The manifest fact that everything near or remote about the late Charles Dickens is yet a source of interest in America must be my excuse for quoting in exlenso from the Boulevard a series of paragraphs "inside" paragraphs I sup pose they call them concerning poor Mrs. Dickens. One has abundant rea son so know that the writer is well in formed. The Boulevard, I may ob serve, is a society paper printed in Eng lish, and published in Paris for circula tion there, and also on this side of the channel. It has a large and steadily in creasing circulation. The proprietor is a lady named Burke, and the editor, con jointly with her, is Clifford Millage, a Paris correspondent of considerable con tinental experience. Now for the para graphs : " The novelist, being of all men the greatest admirer of the useful virtues in women, of course chose a wife for good looks and good nature alone. She be longed to a generation in which hyster ics and attacks of nerves were indulged in by all women as a matter of course whenever the affairs of life seemed griev ous to them ; they were dowdy, slow, strictly feminine, and laudably innocent of aesthetics; but the love of excitement inseparable from human nature, found its vent in fits of screams and tears. Without any wish to speak unkindly of the gentlewoman who is just dead, it must be owned that she was eminently de son siecle. Dickens was not very tole rant of any form of sensibility, and his wife's hysterics 'gave' on his nerves past endurance. This alone, all scandal not withstanding, was the one cause of the rupture and final parting. The domestic discomforts of David Copperfield and Dora are no exaggera tions of the real miseries of the Dickens household under the flaccid management of its mistress. Things happened there which could never by any possibility have occurred under any other roof tree, as Dickens himself used to declare in desperation of spirit. I have seen their house barricaded and garrisoned by a drunken cook, who executed a war dance at the drawing-room windows, hurling defiance therefrom at the exclud ed family and the assembled inhabitants of the neighborhood. On one occasion a somewhat numerous party was gathered at the dinner table, when Maclise re marked to his neighbor in an innocent voice, "I'nt there something curious about the table-cloth ? It doesn't shine !" On examination, it struck the person ad dressed that the dinner was served upon a sheet. Far more trying to the guests, however, than any little eccentricity was the strong language with which the host received the conventional blunders of the poor little hostess. Miss Hogarth took her sister's place in the household by reason of her order, briskness and managing powers. The world's suspicions of her and her broth er-in-law were absolutely without found ation. She was happily exempt from the weakness of her time, never had hys terics, and always kept brown paper par cels and pieces of string out of view of the ferociously orderly master of the house. Whether the course she took was altogether sisterly may be question ed, but its usefulness and self-sacrifice oan hardly be a matter of doubt. The brothers JUickens were not htted for the holy estate. Nevertheless they all rnshed young into the bonds. Of four, only one lived with his wife. Pri vate separation, the divorce court and flight to America put an end to the mar riages of the three others. How to Get a Dinner.' A gentleman who had traveled about pretty extensively was greatly perplexed to understand how it was that other persons were waited upon promptly and well served at the hotels, while he was almost entirely igDored and could scarcely obtain a square meal complain to the waiter as he might. At last his eyes were opened to the dodge of feeing the waiter liberally, and being ol an in genioas turn of mind he determined to improve upon tbe plan, lbe next hotel he dined at he took his scat very pompously at the table, and took out a well filled pocket-book, extracting therefrom a ten-dollar bill, which he laid on the white cloth beside his plate, aud placed his goblet upon it. In an instant, al most, he was surrounded by waiters, who seemed to vie with each other in attentions. Every wish was an ticipated and all the delicacies of the kitchen and pantry were placed be fore him in tempting array. Having fared as sumptuously as a prince to the envy of many of the guests he took up the greenback, and, beckon ing to the nearest waiter, was imme diately besieged by half a dozen or so. Holding tbe bill in one hand, he pointed to it with the other and in quired of the crowd: "Do you see that bill" "Oh, yes, sir," they all exclaimed in chorus. "Then take a good look at it," he replied, "for you will never see it again." Saying which be departed, leaving the waiters aghast. "I am astonished my dear young lady, at your sentiments; you make me start!" "Well, sir, I've been waiting for you to start for the last hour." I Iff. I 1 M. I 8 M. I 6 at'.TTTS 1 Inch I 1 00 I 300 500 8 00 12 00 2" I 2 00 I 5 00 7 00 12 00 18Q8 8 " I 300 6 00 I 10 00 16 00 g "m " 400 700 18 001800a00 K Col. I 6 00 1 9 0015 00 20 00IS509 i ' 7 50 13 00 i 18 CO 85 00 j 48 09 ! S " I 10 001SOU25 00 4060 60 00 j 1 " I 15 00 20 00 j 40 00 ) 60 00 1 100 j Notices In Local Column, 20 cents per line, ! each Insertion. Transient advertisements, per square of 13 ; lines, Nonpareil measure, 82 50 for tfrst, and 81 ) for each subsequent insertion iu ADVANOB' i Legal advertisements charged as 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 noun n Wednesday. Irish Waste Land. In the review which appeared in your last issue of the able and valua ble article of O'Connor Power, M. P., in this month's Nineteenth Century, you refer to some points of objection in tbe proposal he makes for the "ex propriation and reclamation of the waste lands of Ireland." As his ideas upon this important economic ques tion happen to more fully elaborate the rough outlines of a similar scheme suggested by me in a letter which appeared in the Spectator of September 20, 1879, I trust you will accord me the privilege of explain ing with more minuteness those ap parent blots which you condemn as impracticable. In reply to your question as to the extent of culturable land, I have to remark that by the most recent re turns there are 4,653,551 acres of ab solutely waste and unproductive land in Ireland (over a fifth of the 'total area). The unanimous opinion ot those best capable ot judging ot the natural capabilities of the soil and the relative difficultyot its im provement, calculate that at the lowest possible estimate over 2,000, 000 acres are capable of easy and profitable reclamation. Such was the opinion of the Parliamentary Commission, and such is the judg ment of every experienced agricul turist. By alloting this extent of now waste land in twenty-acre par cclmcnts to the landless laboring population or dependent cottier class, over 100,000 families or 500,000 per sons would be comfortably and wisely provided for, who would thereby cease to be an incumbrance as paupers or a disturbance as agita tors. If the problematic claims of a proprietorial class who nobly kept these lands waste since by "fraud or force," they became possessed of them, and who religiously intend maintaining them in the same condi tion, be disregarded and uncom pensated, tbe subsequent cost of drainage and thorough reclamation, and even the initial expense of build ing a house, providing implements, seed and food for the first year, would be an average rent for twenty acres of 5 a year for the first three years, and 14 for thirty-two years, being for principal and interest about 5 per cent, on the original advance. The encouraging incentive that at the end of that term, or sooner if ho purchase the ront-charge, the occu pier of that annually improving hold ing would be its sole and absolute owner, would nerve bis arm and quicken his brain to ceaseless labor and constant toil. With the charac teristic "earth-hunger" of tbe Celt, ho will keep a grip of the farm, and by no conscious act suffer himself to be deprived of the accumulating fruits of his endeavors. Of course, in the surrounding competition for land, and the conviction of the unre lenting sternness of the obligation and the risk of confiscation of years of industry, no one except a criminal or a fool would dream ot evasion or repudiation. The consequences that would follow are sufficient to deter any from such a course, and tbe ex perience of tbe working of the Church act clearly proves the hon esty of jntention and ambition of aim on the part of the Irish peasant to fully and expeditiously clear away the debt, when regulated upon such intelligent principles. As the waste lands are a "common commodity," their allotment as suggested in twenty -acre applotments would more evenly distribute the population, lessen the national weight of pauper ism, and increase the general pro ductiveness of the country. London Spectator, December 9th. The Effect of Coffee Again. Dr. Richardson, the eminent English scien tist, in respect to the popular notion that coffee is an unhealthy beverage, that it keeps up a constant irritation of the stomach, and brings ou depression of spirits, etc. There was a great deal of truth in that statement, says the doctor, as coffee cannot be taken in excess with out producing dyspepsia and irritation, but moderately used it is an invigor ating, healthful and wholesome drink, bringing a man's best energies into play. The quantity taken, however, must not be large, and should be good. Dr. Bock, of Leipsic, another celebrated scientist, says: "The nervousness and peevish ness of our times are chiefly attributable to tea and coffee; the digestive organs of confirmed coffee drinkers are in a state of chronic derangement, which reacts on the brain producing fretful and lachry mose moods. Ladies addicted to strong coffee have a characteristic temper, which I might describe as a mania for acting the persecuted saint. Cocoa and choco late is neutral iu its psychic effects, and is really the most harmless of our fash ionable drinks." An "old turkey raiser," who has been experimenting as to the effect of charcoal upon turkeys, says he shut four turkeys up in a pen and fed them on meal, boiled potatoes and oats, while four others from the same brood were given the same food, except that a pint of finely powder ed charcoal was mixed with it every day, and a liberal supply of it was placed in the pen. The eight were killed the same day, but those given charcoal weighed a pound and a half apiece more than the others, while their flesh was much ten derer and better flavored.