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'U : Around the Hearthstone. THE PRAYER OF CCELEBS. hr gonel Alas, one mors . laded by a woman's trick! , :'ar stalwart bachelor . - . i figure as a benedick! yrfmarnage, see, naa been arranged Between Miss Blank and" res. and ; Harry! ly well-loved friend, you most have changed; Yon, of all men alive, to marry' t Cambridge, on debating nights, ' Brown and yourself shone in the lists s valiant foes of "Woman's Rights," A pair of stanch misogynists; How valueless yonr spuecb.es prove! thrown, top, I understand, is fated pake-. Ilka you, the deadly move Viich loses all, by which you're mated. rt, ihonghvl mourn fo? you, my friend. Jiy tears are not tor you aione; his fall of yours, does it portend A like disaster of my own? b love a brief insanity W hich seizes all of us? Shall no men scqpe its ravages? Shall I Become a lover? Absit omen! a. Mao d, or Muriel, or Kate! Your name, from force of circumstance, cannot definitely state; Let us entreat you ir advance; J h, unknown maid whoa I shall woo. Let me pitt forward mv petition .. jj efore yon Have reduced me to - A semi-imbecilo condition. yhen, on some fragrant summer eve. i vow that you are quite divine, nd ask yon simply to believe There never was such love as mine. pespise such platitudes as those, From my demented self protect me. nd if I finally propose. Be kind, be generous and reject me. London World, WISE AT LAST. He bad ran through some 30,000 or 10,000. Be had dropped money on e tnrf, at the tables, and made a toI f- himself In various ways; but e fellows who knew him best were 1 of a mind that "dear old Harry" ad never before made such a fool himself as he did In converting tie Myra Bromley Into Mrs. Henry peL eevertheless, It was a matter of opin io, the theater. In the dressing- oms, there were not. wanting ladies Miss Bromley's own profession who bsldered that the girl was getting rood deal the worse of the bargain. My dear," said the girl whoj)layed i Amazon chief In the highly suc sful burlesque which ba !uet en- ied the second year otVits ran. "mv Yr, take my adviceaiid never marry Yntleman! Marfy a mummer for Ice, or a shopkper or a shoeblack, Jkst.-o4 don't marry anyone. Jut a Ktntlemair's fatal, and a gentle- an w-tfcont any money good Iord!" Words failed her; she threw up her knds y..-irnlngl, and a small chorus approval snowed that the house as with her. 1A11 : the same little Myra Bromley a marry her Harry Capel. For one Ins, he was the first man who had er asked her to be his wife; and for other, she was very genuinely in k'e with him. Indeed. She migrated from her "combined lorn' in the Kennlncrton nnsrtpr m rnished apartments la Maddox eet. antt-ljere, on the flr floor ota "3-thifirssorted couple itaijtfed-liousekeeplng. It Is scarce necessary to say she left r.e stage. Some things are inevitable, nd one of them Is that an actress al ways, leaves the stage when she mar- ies, and" as Invariably returns to it ooner or later. Ebi d'd not want to leave It for she new her husband's position, and un erstood that the 5 a week salary hat she was drawing would be very setui to them, but Mr. Capel inslst- My dear child," he said, "is It like I would allow you to remain? We ay not be very flush Just at present tori am sure we shall be comfort pie, and I should not know a mo- en t's peace if you continued at the ndacity as. my wife. No, no; we'll ve quietly here for awhile until I rop . Jnto something, and presently. hke my word for it you will forget bo.: were an actress at alt" A a matter of fact the conclusion a$ somewhat irrelevant for her de- -e had been prompted far less by py yearnings for histrionic triumphs un py the wish to augment their easier Income. But she obeyed, as wife should, and for six months or ore; ber only visits to the theater erenade In the dress circle or the lalls.. Sometimes she got orders, and mctitnes Jlr. Capel paid. At first It J is very good fun, the unaccustomed sitlon- on tb9 other side of the foot- tnta. She enjoyed the novelty of It r gloved nanas folded and the lorg tt by her side, but by degrees both the' pair began to sigh for the past 'i uau . reunquisneu. xne girl s oushts followed the players to the esslng-rooms between the acts and a man began to reflect moodily that e matrimonial blisses were a shade )w compared with the bachelor frol- s of old-lang syne. ind he did not "drop Into" anything u ineir capital ran very low. The pgerbread began to show through e g'Jt, and It was stale gingerbread. breover, at least to .-the man. iLittle Mrs. Capel was neglected by r unsound and bored by . her medi tiens. He took to going out alone the evening now. He said that if p was to get hold of any post it was Jjcessary to meet fellows, and keep in tfle swim. -..There may have been something In It but it was not lively for the woman staring at the clock pnd tto reread periodicals or the scaf- toldlas of the houses that were under ling repairs on the opposite side of he way. She told him so once; It as Ihe prelude to the crisis. He was int all day and only returned at din ner time to hastily swallow the meal End retire to his room in order to dress. When he re-entered tne parlor, she nrjuired where be was going. 'Is it essential," she said Ironically. 'to come In at all? Your visits are : o brief that it seems to me you must nd It an inconvenience to make them." "What do you mean?" "I mem." said Mrs. CapeL "that I id moping myself to death. : I mar led you for your society, Harry, and need not remind you that I am not Mas much of it" .... W lie was hipped, angry, out of sorts. fa bad lost at a race meeting that I am sorry." he said savagely, "that li regret uiy marrying you; If you re single again, you may take my rd" for it I wouldn't" t was the first occasion that any- like plain speaking on the sub- bad occurred between tbem. Be seized bis bat and left the bouse In a rage: Myra sat still with tears In her eyes and mutiny In her souL ' Why . should she be left to eat out ber heart like this, she demanded of herself. Better the distractions of ber old life a thousand times. He regret ted their marriage, and she, too, re gretted it Well, then, be could lead his own life, and she would lead hers. She would go to the "Audacity" the very next morning, and try for a re- engagement She would go to-night- now! . The sooner the wiser. To-mor row might be too late. ' She ran into the bedroom her hus band had Just vacated, and hastily proceeded to don her cloak and bat In fastening the latter, she dropped the pin, and, stooping for It found that it bad fallen on the jacket be bad exchanged for a dress coat She picked them both up together, and a note fell out of the Jacket pock et a note in a woman's handwriting, which began "My Ducky." She was not a heroine, only a very natural girl, and she read the note through from the address to the sig nature. When she had finished the perusal, she took the cloak and hat off again and sat down In the armchair, thinking, until Mr. Capel returned. It was 1 o'clock when the street door was unlocked, and bis steps were beard ascending the stairs. Mrs. Capel stood up, with the note in ber hand. "You should be more careful." she said, "or perhaps, since you regretted your marriage so deeply, you were anxious I should assist yon to regain your freedom. I promise to do my best." "Are you mad?" "No," she said, l am very saue. We have both made a desperate mis take and my eyes are open to It Six ronths ago I should have been pros trate with misery to find you false to me. To-day I thank heaven for my chance of escape. I "an divorce you and I mean to do It" "You are mistaken," he answered sullenly. "I am sorry to dispel an illu-s"-n, but you cannot dlverce me. I may have been false to you. but 1 have never been cruel. You are my wife, and you will have to continue so." "I will not live with you another day."- . - "Oh, that may be, but my wife you are, and will remain. Any lawyer will tell you as much." She broke down then and wept pas sionately; and clumsily, because he was ashamed of himself, he strove to console her. His efforts, however, were quite unavailing, and after aban doning the attempt in despair and seek ing refuge in a pipe, he left her to her self and turned into bed. When he woke the next morning she was gone. He must have slept sound ly, for her box was packed and her preparations had not d'sturbed him. Abetter lay on the table beside him. and reading it he saw thr : she had left him forever. On the whole, he was relieved to learn It and he was not surprised, in the course of three or four days, to see ber name announc ed as a member of the forthcoming Audacity burlesque. Well, the episode was over. He had tried most things and found them a failure before es saying matrimony, and marriage had proved as" empty as the rest There was nothing now co prevent him re suming, without restrictions, the more -unfettered life he hat forsaken at the temptation of little Myra Bromley's pertty face. He would clear out of t"-e Maddox street lodging and take a couple of rooms somewhere en gar--n. He bal- nivu tlia faari anil tatAA Ka I. iwas - Justified in treating himself to well-chosen little dinner and a music hall afterward. As for Mrra, he did not want any more to do with her. She bad left him, and he did not Intend to think of her again. It was his "re ward," he told himself bitterly, for mr.rrying ber her recriminations and desertion. He felt that be bad been guilty of a cerH'n FIng Copbetua no bility In making her bis wife at all, when No, he could not dupe him self about that She bad been hon est enough, but It bad been a mesalli ance, and when a man made a mesalli ance the least be bada right to look for In return was gratitude and devo tion. Bah!' If ho were wise be would go down to the theater and box her ears In the presence of a witness or two, and let her get her divorce after all. On the whole, he thongbt he would. Let the account close wipe It out ob literate it Hang her! Whether he would or would not have dom so in the ordinary course of events, however, there Is no means of determining He did not as things turned out because, while be was still considering It Myra Bromley made a sudden and unexpected leap into pub lic favor and commanded in the course of a very few monthr. a salary of first 25, next 30 and ther 50 a week. Mr. Capel. his ire exhausted, perceived that in ridding himself of a wife on whom be had a right to levy handsome con tributions, he would be to use an ex pressive vulgarism pulling bis nose to spite his face. . His circumstances, thanks tj the ill ness of the "principal," into whose shoes the fortunate little "understudy" had stepped, were now vastly im proved. He took -ery cozy chambers. Mudeed called on his tailor, and was no longer ashamed to sun himself in Piccadilly between the hours of 3 and 5. His correspondence with the goose 'jo laid the golden eggs was rare and brief, but sometimes, when his allow ance failed to suffice for his weekly re quirements, he dropped a polite re quest for an additioral "tenner," and as Myra lived quite cheaply she al ways had It to spar- and sent It to him. This state of things continued for three years, and then, as might have been foreseen, Mrs. Hemy Capel fell In love with an actor. . He was ready and anxious to marry her, but she explained ber position to him and told bim, without disguising her love, that they could never be any thing . more than they were to each other while her husband lived. She was, as she had been, strai bt as a die, and no breath of scandal bad touched her. Charlies Eanies, who was a tboroufhly good fellow, did not attempt tojshake her resolution. He only pondered miserably, and then, arriving at a pla" o action, went to her at last and suggested It "This blackguard o yours I It so ciety. Isn't he?" he said. "Knows all of swell people, and they all know he Is married to you? . Well, look here, My ra darling, you can't divorce him com pel him to divorce you. If you are known to be openly living with me be won't be able fo belp himself. He' daren't let it' be said that he- refuses to divorce you because he makes you keep him out of yonr salary, and there could be no other explanation of his attitude. : For very shame he'd have to proceed, and I swear -to you on all my gods I'll make you my wife the moment the decree nisi is made abso lute. What do you say?' She demurred a long time, but she, ended by saying what most women similarly circumstanced would have said. She. said she -rusted ber lover and that ber husband was a scoundrel. She consented, and Mr. Capel, to his egregious disgust, found his . hand forced beyond remonstrance. - Myra Capel Is Mrs. Charles Karnes to-day and a very nappy wife. Henry Capel is borrowing fivers and drifting so rapidly toward a subsistence de rived from the billiard-rooms that be already regrets his concession to ap pearances. Such a number of people know the true inwardness of the un defended case of "Capel vs. Capel aid Eames" that to many this narrative f It will be dull reading. Tt is writ ten for the larger public who knew nothing that did not appear in the newspapers, and who wasted such a great deal of unnecessary sympathy ou the petitioner. Plck-Me-Up. THE GIRLS ARE IN THE WAY Of a Stronger, More Forceful. Li tero tore) So Some Author Insist. In the Ladles' Home Journal Ed ward W. Bck editorially discusses the plaint of certain authors, that young girls stand In our way of having a strong, forceful literature. They ar gue that these offending young girls constitute the majority of book-buy era an.1 readers, and that tbey insist upon having "smooth, pretty and con ventional reading matter." Mr. Bok is evidently disposed to treat this pro. test lu a facetious spirit pointing out to the writers how tbey can pursue lit erature In accord with their own de sires and aims, without disturbing the young girls, or publishers either. " "It is very strange," Mr. Bok well- says, "that certain of our authors should so constantly complain of being circumscribed in this matter of writ ing about 'the great truths of life' and the problems of humankind.' t There Is no reason why tbey should feel so. The world is large, and all ways are open to those who wish to travel them If authors want to go into the darkest and vilest sewers of human life why should they not? Every man Is bis own master. And after any ' author with such a 'mission' has thoroughly saturated himself with the atmosphere of the places he has sought then let him write of them. He will not offend any one. No one will disturb him least of all, the publishers. Certainly the young girl will not Refined and well-bred women will not annoy him. Decent men will not obtrude them selves upon him; they are busy with weightier affairs. So. why should not the author anxious to solve 'the prob lems of life' go ahead and solve them? There Is no reason on earth why he should feel any sort of thraldom. His facts are to be had for the experience; Ink and paper for a few cents. Be yond that, he need feel no anxiety. He need not worry about tyranny; there will be none. He need only satisfy himself; no one else. Not a human be ing will obstruct bis going. And If, here and there, a stray specimen of the dreaded 'young girl' happens across his path, he need give himself no un easiness of mind. She will get out of bis way. So, why this complaining? Only One Way. Insurance against the dishonesty of employes Is a recognized feature of modern commercial life. One of the great corporations carrying on this busi ness published an estimate of the amount lost in the year 1894 by embez zlement and defalcation. The total loss for the year was put at the enormous sum of $25,000,000. Immense as this sum is. It does not Include the losses, undoubtedly large In the aggregate, which have never been made public by the individuals or firms defrauded. It is far from encouraging to note also that this estimate shows an Increase of about $7,000,000 over the previous year. Most of this kind of stealing Is done by men of good education, and at least" fair opportunities for honest success. The real cause Is the too prevalent haste to gain wealth and enjoy life Without bard work to get something for nothing. One of the most valuable lessons that can be learned is that everything worth having must be earned by steady, hon est effort Henry Ward Beecher once received a letter from a lad who. wanted to find an "easy berth." Mr. Beecher in reply, after warning the boy to avoid the law, medicine, the ministry, trade and other forms of Industry, because each Involved hard work, ended witb this exhortation: "Don't work. Don't study. Don't think. None of these are easy O my son; yon have come Into a hard world! I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave." Youth's Compan ion. Something Wrong.. While Colonel" Powell was exploring the canons of the Colorado bis camp was visited one day in winter by an Indian hunter and trader, named John son. He had no fixed borne, but in formed Colonel Powell that he' intend ed the next spring to plant corn, pota toes and other vegetables on a certain long Island in the Uinta river.. "You will be along there in the sum mer," be said to Colonel Powell; "stop and belp yourselves to anything you wish.' True enough, on one of the early days of July the Powell party came to the Island, and in looking about came upon a garden. It was In a sad condition, having received no care since it was planted. The season -was early, more over, but one of the men suggested that potatD tops were good greens, and in their strong desire for something to vary their salt-meat fare, they gath ered a quantity and cooked them for dinner. Soon afterward one man and then an other was taken with nausea, violent pains, and other symptoms of poison ing, till the whole company lay tum bling about tbe grand groaning. Cot Powell was really alarmed, and ad ministered emetics to as many as would take them. By the middle of tbe after noon all hands were much better. Then, as Col. Powell says, Jack Summer re corded in bis diary: "Potato tops are not good greens on the sixth day of July." Her System of Orthography. Mamma Well, Elsie, what did yon learn at school to-day? . Elsie (aged 6) Learned to spell. Mamma Now, what ' did you learn to spell? , Elsie Man. . ' Mamma And bow do yon spell "man?' Elsie (promptly) M-a-n... man. Mamma Now, how - do you spell "boy?" .. ; . . . r - - Elsie (after a moment's reflection The same way, only in littler letters. Washington Times. - One on the Doctor. Doctor This bacon doesn't appear to me to be well cured; does it to you? Lady of tbe House Perhaps not, doc tor; It is probably like some of your patients doctored, . but , not cured. Richmond JVa.) DUpatcb, x ", . Milking- a Zebu. Mrs. Braddock gives in the Iodepend ent the exciting story of her attempt at milking a zebu, or Indian cow, a weird, uncanny little creature like all ber kind, with a hump and long ears "sewed In crooked" so that they point backward. One morning the gwala, or cowherd informed his mistress that the calf bad died in the night, and that the cow would not allow' herself to be milked unless the calf's skin should be stuffed and set up before. her; more over, he suggested that if certain ru pees should be given him for the pur chase of material, he would stuff the skin himself. , In America I had milked more than one kicking cow. Calmly, not to say loftily, requesting the gwala to bring bis pail, I marched down to the cow bouse, inwardly resolved to see tbe rea son why that cow should not be milked, and more than that meaning to illus trate what an American could do when an Indian had failed. Outside the cow-shed the zebus were tethered in a row. They paid no at tention to the half-naked brown gwa la, but at my approach each, with wild eyes and uplifted bead, snorting and trembl-pg, seemed, but for the restrain ing tether rope, about to bound away Into the jungle. The gwala called a second man to his aid. With a new rope they lassoed the hinder legs of the bereaved, bold Ing tbem In a slip-noose. One man held tbe end of tbe rope, while the other with the pail cautiously approach ed ber. In a twinkling the pail was a rod away, the man witb the rope was pull ing as for bis life, tbe man witb tbe pall was with It still. ' I was gasping, to regain my breath, while that zebu was kicking aa noth ing unpossessed could kick. She ap peared utterly Indifferent as to whether there were ground under ber, as all four feet seemed continuously in the air. The adept who was declared able to dance with - One foot six Inches oC de grouu, de oder not quite touch in', must deliver up the palm. Thankful that my valorous resolu tions had been mental, I meekly gave the gwala exactly one-third the amount be bad requested, and directed hixn to stuff the calf's skin. This having been ' accomplished, I was again summoned to. tbe scene of action. There stood that remarkable cow, contentedly licking and fondling her offspring, and occasionally lunch ing scantily upon the hay stuffing which protruded through her progeny's hide, while the native milked merrily away, sitting, as is customary, on the wrong tide. ' A Remarkable Oak. There is a wayward white oak tree near Laporte, Ind., that may well puz zle naturalists witb the vagaries of its growth. The tree is, nine feet in cir cumference at tbe base, and there are no branches of any size below fifteen feet from the ground. . Tber the great Dole aiviaes into a numoer or. umos. Two, leaving the trunk about twenty Inches apart, grow west their lines di verging for six feet and then each bending toward the other. Twelve feet from the body of the tree they unite again, making a perfect oval, and out of this grow two smaller branches. As If not satisfied with that expressed dis regard for the laws of nature, this old tree has performed another feat Six feet from Its base grows another white oak, less than half its size, and no sooner does the smaller tree arrive at the charmed circle of those branching limbs than one of them grows right Into it and is absorbed. The second tree is very much larger twenty feet from the ground than at Its base. A Neat Swindling Trick. The latest swlndling-game was prac ticed successfully the other day at Ben ton, Pa. Two men, who appeared to be strong silver and gold advocates. were in the central depot and became involved In a heated discussion. Tbe gold man offered to get a gold double eagle that If he hammered the coin into a shapeless mass it would still be worth $20. He was ostensibly taken up by tbe silver advocate, but when It came to selling tbe lump to Jeweler Roth tbe score was closed. James Hagerty, a strong sound money advocate who stood by and who had implicit faith In tbe value of gold, gave the man $20 for the battered coin. The two enthusi asts disappeared shortly after, and then it was discovered that the metal left by them was spurious. REFORMS MEED MORE THAN A DAT To bring them about, and are always more complete and lasting when they proceed with steady regularity to a consummation, few oi the observant among us can have failed to notice that Dermanentlv neaitntui changes in the human system are not wrought by abrupt and violent means, ana mat tnose are tne most salutary medicines which are progressive. Hostetter's btomacn mters is tne cniet oi tnese. T ! ; .. j f V..- ..'.mm ..V.O.-CW. tor . ODiiteratea py it. . The British admiralty is about to take up the work of training carrier pigeons for conveying messages at sea. Special On" r to General Stores, Dry Goods Stores, Dealer in Notion. 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Chener lor the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations uiww bj uit-ir firm. ... Wholesale Druggist. Toledo. O. WaI.ding, Kinxan A Marvin, . . Wholesale DrngieUts, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken luiemallv. rattiis directly upon the blood and mucoas surfaces of toe system. Testimonials sent free. Price 76c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hsu s f amily Kills are the best. - Wanted! s Your tea trade from now on. . 3 :-J-"- Schilling's Best wants it your money back if you don't likfi it - i . A Scbillior fc Company - rOR CHILDREN TCKTHINQ - ; rsJiwN stia. TOPICS FOR FARMERS A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Farm Life Fall of Independent Com fortBe Cautions in Making: Changes ; , Cultivate the Social Features of Life on the Farm Notes. - Full of Independence We believe the farmer, who produces tbe good things of earth, is entitled to enjoy tbem to the full extent of his need. Farm life Is potentially very full of Independent comfort, but only upon condition that the farmer shall devote a fair share of his time to the task of making himself and family comfortable. It is surprising, when one thinks of it, how very little of the necessities of life the farmer is obliged to buy, as compared with the amount that he actually does buy. He might hare a table covered with fruits, veg etables and meats, all grown within the limits of bis own farm, and of a quality and freshness that is not pos sible with the people living in towns and cities. Like all good things. It re quires some effort to do this, and yet it is easily possible. The garden is one point; the orchard, of both tree-fruits and small-fruits, is ".notber, and his own feed lot is still another, of the Bources of liberal supply. They ought to be cultivated and made the most of. Be Cautions. Improvement is needed In every di rection. ""But experience has taught the most of us that many things are not what they seem. It is, therefore, the part of wisdom to be cautious in making changes especially as regards seeds. Be sure they are adapted to your soil and climate; do not take an other's "say so," but know for your self. Many expensive mistakes may thus be avoided. This is one of the principles of successful management. Tbe Social Bide. The social features of farm life are not as attractive to the young as they should be. Town people make a study of their social life, and they are con stantly working and planning some new feature of pleasure and enjoyment. The parents plan for their children and their children's friends, and they spend both time and money for the advancement of social culture. Why not incorporate more of this idea Into our farm life? It's surely worth try ing. A Cheap Hog Pea. It does not need an expensively built pen to house a hog, unless it is one of the variety that stands on two legs. The genuine hog, which is the only kind really profitable, goes in for com fort and not at all for style. A pen warm In winter, with a tight roof over it to exclude rain, and floor enough for the hog to stand on while he is eating, is better than a painted house of matched lumber that will cost a hundred dollars. It is a good thing in a hog house to have a dirt floor, and that the hog house be light and strong enough so that It can easily be moved. Every time the house is moved there will be a new floor, and the hog. if un ringed, will root it over. A hog left free to root in soil that has not been contaminated with hog manure, will generally keep healthy, and will make healthy pork. In summer time, the house is mostly superfluous. Tbe hog likes to be cool and will root for himself In a wallow in the moist soil, where he will lie most of the time If well fed, and will keep in better health than in the most artistic bog pen ever built. Many of the experiments in hog grow ing begin with much too expensive hog houses. Those make the pork cost far more than tbe cheaply grown hogs of farmers, who can thus undersell nthe amateur farmer, Who handicaps him self by putting on too much style. Waterinsr Cows. Now that the time for putting np cows has come some thoughts on how. they are to be supplied witb water will be in order. As might be expected, cows giving milk need much more water than o'.her domestic animals, for 80 per cent of their milk is water, besides other secretions of liquid from the body. It is a mistake to suppose that cowa having access to water at all times will drink more than Is for their good, but If deprived of It half a day and then allowed to drink of cold wat er, they will often through thirst take so much as to injure digestion, the water having to be warmed before the stomach can go to work again. We think that In cold weather water should be warmed to nearly, or quite, blood temperature.. Where roots, pumpkins or silage are fed to milch cows they wlll drink much less water, and a cow that is fattening, and Is fed on roots, pumpkins and other green food, will often go twenty-four hours without apparent desire for any water. The Mother Hen. The experienced poultry keeper rec ognizes a vast difference in mother hens, even In those of the same breed. It is not always the most persistent sitters that ae the best for raising a brood, as they are often too sluggish and Indifferent. The non-sitters are too active for the little chicks, even when they can be Induced to stay on a nest long enough to hatch. Some hens are quarrelsome, and kill or in jure the chicks from other broods that come within reach. Now and then a hen Is found that seems designed by nature to raise a family. She Is a good sitter, a careful brooder, and easy to Dandle. All the chicks In the yard may find shelter under her wings with out fear of Injury. She may be of lit tle worth as a layer, but the wise owner keeps her from year to year as one of the most valuable inhabitants of the yards. - Marketing: Fallen Frnit. None but the best Derfect fruit should be sent to market. That will be worth more than the Door fruit nt if only the best is sold the market will be kept up to paying rates, so that the best sold by Itself will, bring more than the whole would do. The poorer quality of fruit' or that which from bruising will not keep; may be fed to stock, or If there is too much of It for that evan- orators may be procured and the fruit be evaporated so that it. will keen. One extreme naturally follows another, an ! a ngnt apple crop s very likely next year In the localities where It Is most abundant this season. . ' : The Shepherd. No flick er sheep, can be expected to do Its best If scab, ticks, -lice or any skin ailment exists among them. . .. An exchange says: Sheep grow wild In Alabama, and they have ranged so long In tbe briar thickets- upon scant herbage that they have ceased to pro duce either wool or mntton. ; Sheep do well in the corn field. "Tbey get full radons and clean up the land. destroy weed seed, and get an occa sional ear of corn, perhaps, which does no great barm to any one. As sw should bs at least IS months old before she U bred; and one good lamb is always tn be preferred to a pair of inferior twins, whether bred for the stock or the shambles. - ; ; If the current paslon for lamb rais ing, lamb stuffing and lamb eating runs on for a year or two longer, we shad become a nation of epicures; and" the sturdy, stately, honest visaged, : old fashioned wether will have passed into history. . -. . Syrnn from Watermelons., : It was the wish of an pld friend of ours, many years ago, that she could have a syrup made from watermelons. She was sure it would be very delicious. But, unfortunately, all the watermelons the garden produced had eacb year oth er and more important nses than to have their Juices boiled down into syrup. But an Iowa farmer, who grows watermelons by the acre,, and cannot market all he produces, has tried the plan of nslng some of his surplus for syrup making. The result Is a ' very clear syrup, with peculiar but decidedly pleasant flavor. It is not, however. likely ever to be a rival to the maple. the sugar cane or sugar beet, for pro ducing syrup for general use. Ex. Ripening Tomatoes Under Cover. If tomato vines are pulled up as soon as the first frost touches them and thrown under an open shed where fur ther freezing will be prevented, the fruit that was green when the vines were pulled will slowly ripen from the sap furnished by the stem. We have sometimes put such tomato vines in a corner of the cellar, where the ripening went forward until midwinter. There are many who like tomatoes cut and sliced with sugar and vinegar as dress ing. By this means those who have vines with green tomatoes on can pro long their season, for two or three months, if they have enough greed vines to experiment with. Ex. Economizing with Manure. It never pays to stint the manure dressing for any crop that . requires much labor to grow it All the labor is made more effective In proportion as the soil is made more fertile. In other words, on rich land crops that require most labor may be grown witb profit, while on poor soli the balance will bs on the loss side of the account Tbe proper Idea of economizing with .ma nure is to apply it where It will most aid in increasing soil fertility. This is in every case where a part of the bene fit of tbe manure will be soon applied to growing a large clover crop. Feed inn Oata in the Ptraw. If oats are not ground they may be profitably fed in the straw. The horse will chew oats and straw together more thoroughly than be will the oat gra n alone, and the grain may be given in larger quantities than would be safe if eaten by itself. Oat straw is mainly carbonaceous, but It Is commonly much less hard than the straw of wheat, rye or barley and Is better for feeding to stock. Salt for Wireworms. A Canadian farmer reports that he has experimented and found that salt is a complete remedy for wireworms, On a patch of spring grain, he plowed up and re-sowed all but one acre. which he left for trial. "He sowed three hundred pounds of salt on this acre, and forty-eight hours afterwards he sowed three hundred pounds more. The result is the-wireworm has com pletely disappeared. An Imaginary Illness. Physicians very often meet with peo ple who are carrying around imagin ary ailments and who really believe themselves as badly afflicted as tbey assert Some curious cases have been noted. A lady had been confined to her bed many months with an Illness which wholly deprived her of the use of her lower limbs.. The doctor who attend ed her failed to discover the nature of the affection, which might ordinarily have been attributable to several caus es. Examination, however, revealed nothing calculated .- to throw lirh t on fthe matter, and the doctor, after pa tient and exhanstive analysis and at tention, came to tbe conclusion -that the Illness was Imaginary. Although he discreetly kept this opin ion to himself, proof- was eventually forthcoming as to the accuracy .of his view. Being lifted In the sheets out of her bed one uay, while the mat tress was rearranged, the lady sur prised her attendants by suddenly Jumping from the couch on which she had been placed, with a loud expres sion of alarm. It was discovered that she had been laid upon a needle cush ion Inadvertently left on the sofa, and that the sharp. points - f several needles had pressed violently Into her back. The contretemps revealed the fact that she could stand easily. A Common Inequality. Unless you are the one person out of every fifteen who has eyes of equal strength, yon are either left-eyed or right-eyed. You 'also belong to :the small mlnorlty.of one out' of every ten persons I? your left eye Is stronger than your right. As a rule, just as people are right handed, they are right eyed. This 's probably due to the generally greater use of the organs of the right side of the body, as, for example, a gunner, using his right arm and shoul der, uses his right . eye. thereby strengthening It with exercise. Old sea captains, after long use of the tele scope, find their right eye much strong er than the left This law Is confirmed by the experience of aurists. 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