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Corvallis Gazette. PUBLISHED IVRY FRIDAY MORNING BY W. . CARTE R,, Editor and Pboprietok. TERMS: (coin.) Per Year, an Mod Ilia, Itrce Honibs, ft? SO 1 .10 1 O J INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. VOL. XVI. CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1879. NO. 24. Corvallis Gazette. RATES OP ADVERTISING. I 1 W. 1 M. 8 M. 6 M. Itk". 1 Inch i 1001 3 (JO 6 00 8 00 12 QH 2" 3 00 1 6 00 1 7 00112 06118 00 3 " I 800 6 00 I 10 00 I 16 00 22 00 " 4 00 7 00 I 18 00 I 18 00 I 20 00 KCol. I 6 CO I 9 00 15 00 I 20 00 I 85 00 ' 7 fp 12 00 18 CO 85 00 48 00 Yt " i 10 00 I 15 00 25 UP I 40 00 I 60 00 1 " I 15 00 20 00 j 40 00 t 60 00 1 1C0-00 Notices in Leal Column, 20 cents per line, each insertion. Transient advertisements, per square of 12 lines, Nonpareil measure, (2 60 for first, and SI for each subsequent Insertion in ADVANCE" Legal advertisements charged as transient, and must be paid for upon expiration. No charge for publisher's affidavit or 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. WOODCCCK, Attorney and Counselor at Law, (OKVALLIS. S : UHKtiK.V OFFICE ON FIRST STREET, OPP. WOOD COCK Sc. 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, 187. 16-12yl F. A. CHENOWETH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, COBTALUs, : : i OBtUOI. JOFFICE, Corner of Monroe and Second Street. 16-1 tf" J. W. RAYBURN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, tOBViLLl, t OBEOUN. OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and Third. ;0&Special attention given to the Collection of Notes and Account 16-ltf JAMES A. YANTIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, CWKVALLIS. OREGON. tyiLL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS of the State. Special attention given to matters in Probate. Collections will receive b-ompt and careful attention. Office in the Court fouse. 16:ltf. DR. F. A. V.NCENT, DENTIST. I X THE L HEW X L TO RE Corvallis, - Oregon. (OPP. SOL. KING'S LIVERY STABLE, SECOND STREET,) Must sell, to make room for a large invoice of New Goods to arrive, Ii-y Goods, Olo tiling-, Boots &c Shoes, Carpets and Fancy Goods, At PRICES NEVER BEFORE offered to the Citizens of Corvallis and vicinity. Remember the new I X L Store, opp. Sol. King's Livery Stable, Corvallis.Q Corvallis, April 4, 1870. ie:17m3 COHVALLIH OREGON. QFFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER Max. Friendley's New Store. All the latest improvement). Everything new and complete. All work warranted. Please give me a call. 15:3tf G. R. FARRA, M. O. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, rfcFFICE OVER GRAHAM Sc HAMILTON'S Drugstore, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-26tf . J. BLUMBERC, (Between Souther's Drug Store and Taylor's Market,) COBTALLI4, OKKOOM. (GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, FURN- ishing Goods, Cigars and Tobacco, etc., etc. JSW-Goods delivered free to any part of the City. Produce taken, at highest market rates, in ex change for goods March 7, 1878. 15-lOtt. NEW TIN SHOP. J. K. Webber, Pro., MAIN Ht . COBVALLI8. STOVES AND TINWARE, All Kinds. AB All work warranted and at reduced rates. uostc W. C. CRAWFORD, DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE, etc Also, Musical Instruments Jfco. Repairing done at the most reasonable rates, and all work warranted. Corvallis, Dec. 13, 1877. 14:50tf GRAHAM, HAMILTON & CO., COKVALLIM ... oBCeOS, DEALERS IN Drugs, Paints, MEDICINES. CHEMICALS, DYE STUFFS, OILS, GLASS 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 AVERIIL CHEMICAL PAINT, SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER. SW Physicians' Vi eserlptloma Core- fuUj Compounded. I6-2U The Breakwater at r Cape Foulweather, Is a necessity and owing: to an increased demnad for GOODS I IV OTTIR, 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 Fanners 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 cents on the dollar, which will be kept separate from our 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 S6c to fS. Boots from 1 to 03 SO. Hats from SSo to 01 Y&. Buck Gloves, 50 cents. Silk Handkerchiefs 38c. Gram Cloth S cents. Kid Gloves, TS cents to Si. Don't forget the place, one deor south of the post office. Corvallis, May 7, 1879. Sheppard, Jaycox & Co. 17:19m3 CORVALLIS Livery, Feed . AND.. SALE STABLE, AX u. lii est., Corval is, Urogon, SOL,. KING, Porpr. OWNING BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED to offer superior accommodations in the Liv ery line. Always ready for a drive, OOOI 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 BIKE. Particular alteutlon Pal to Boarding M orfM. ELEGANT HE.VRSE, CARRIAGES AND HACKS FOR FUNERALS. Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1879. 16:lyl ROBERT N. BAKER. Fashionable Tailor, "FORMERLY 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. All work warranted, When made under his supervision. Repairing and cleaning promptly attended to. Corvallis, Nov. 28, 1878. 15:48ft. WJOTKTE IS HEREBY UIVKN TO WHOM IT may concern that the undersigned has been awarded the contract for keeping the Douglas County paupers for a period of two years, ill persons in need vt assistance from said county must first procure certificate to that effect from any member of the County Board and present it to one ot the following named persons, who are authorized to and will enre for those presenting such certificates: Button Sc Perkins, Roscburg; L. L. Kellogg, Oakland; Mrs. Brown, Looking Glass. Dr. Woodruff is authorized to furnish medical aid to all persons in need of the same and who have been declared paupers of Douglas Count v. W. B. CLARK. Crow & Hall's RESTAUR AT. This popular Restaurant, now under competent management, is prepared to accommo date the public in a manner unsur passed in the eity. Supper for Balls and Private Parties, Furnished on short notice. Give us a Call. CROW & HALL. LANDS! FARMS I HOMES! T HAVE FARMS, (Improved and unim T 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 tne balance to me. Write (with stamps to prepay postage). Address, R. A. BENSELL, Newport, Benton county, Oregon. January 7, 1878. l:2tf, Grain Storage! A Word to Farmers. TTAVING 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 IB ate of 4 et. per- Bushel. I am also nrenared to keen Extra, White Wheat, separate from other lots, thereby enabling me to SELL AT A PREMIUM. Also prepared to pay the Highest Market Price. for wheat, and would most respectfully solicit a share ot public patronage. I. J. auikia. Corvallis, Aug. 1, 1878. 15:32tf IT SEEMS BUT YESTERDAY. Dear love, it seems bnt yesterday That you were by my side, When down along the orchard way We wooed and laughed and sighed; The birds are singing in the trees, The clover's breath is sweet. And far across the mossy leas I bear your pat'ring feet. Though seas divide the loving hearts That beat so fond and true, There is a love that ne'er departs, But always leans on you; It seems but one brief sunny day, . I cannot call it more. Since you were standing on the quay To see me leave the shore. I'll come again, ere roses fade, And meet you at the gate, For I remember that you said You'd watch for me and wait. Althongh 'tis years since last we met, It seems but yesterday ; And, darling, I cannot forget The words you had to say. Miscellaneous. The four-line will of a lately-deceased resident of Norristown, Perm., be queathed his entire estate to his wife, de siring her to give their three cnuaren so much as she thought proper, and to retain the remainder for herself. Tt. ia nn.irl t.Vin.t, the reason whv biaramv is of such rare occurrence in Hungary is that once on a time a man who was conr victed of this crime was sentenced by the Court to live for two years with both wives. The punishment was considered cruel, but it had the desired effect. Father Vinyard, a Catholic priest at South Bend, Ind. , is the latest victim of the dangerous habit of sleeping with false teeth in the mouth. A gold plate with teeth slipped part way down his throat, and as surgeons are unable to re move them, he must die. Making waistcoats at fourteen cents each, cheviot shirts at four cents apiece, heavy overalls at fifty cents per dozen, and woolen trowsers at ten cents a pair, are some facts gleaned by a society of ladies who are investigating the con dition of sewing women of Cleveland, O. " Mother wants you to let her take her polonaise pattern, and be so kind as to fill this cup with yeast, and is your clock right, and what time is it, and a little meal in this pan, and won't you write down your recipe for rye muffins, and please not let your turkeys roost on our fence any more, cause dad says he'll shoot them." Somebody says that the woman who runs into a neighbor's because it thun ders, and screams at every flash, will, when she goes home and finds the fire low, hurry it up with kerosene turned on from a gallon can, as calmly as a doctor giving a baby a spoonfull of narcotic soothing syrup. The Syracuse Evening Herald vouches for the following : " Oh, heavens, save my wife 1 "shouted a man whose wife had fallen overboord, m tne Jtiduson JSiver recently. He succeeded in rescuing her, saying : " My dear, if you'd been drowned, what should I have done ? I am t going to let you carry the pocket- book again." Representatives of the different civi lized tribes in Indian territory met in convention at Eufaula for the purpose of considering the invasion of the territory by whites and the settling on ceded lands by squatters. The leading men of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole and Sac and Fox nations were present. The convention organized by the election of Ward Coachman, chief of the Creeks, chairman, and J. H. Moore, of the Choctaws, secretary. A committee from each nation was appointed to pre pare a report regarding the present con dition of affairs in the territory, and the convention adjourned. m French Doctors. The fees which French physicians re ceive, says the London News, would seem to their English brethren very low. I gather from a recent controversy in the papers that some leading iionaon practi tioners lately raised their fee for a first consultation to two guineas. In Paris the best physicians expect four dollars for a . . . . . i i l.ii s c consultation at uome, ana eigne uouars n thev eo out; but a rather exaggerated sentiment of professional delicacy pre vents tuem, as a ruie, irom uemanumg more than a patient chooses to give. The table of a busy doctor is littered over with gold-pieces so grouped as to convey the hint that fees of one, two or three napo leons have been received ; but if a patient lays down two dollars, or even one, he re ceives his bow and thanks without a pro test, the doctor assuming (often wrongly) that the man has given all he can afford. In country towns one dollar is the usual fee, but forty cents are often given by men who ought to know better, and forty cents is the invariable fee which village doctors put down per visit when sending in tneir bills at the end of the vear. One is ashamed to say that these doctor's bills often give rise to tne soriest Haggling, ior there exists a crooked opinion that a physician should regard himself as a phi lanthropist, and pay his butcher's bills tth tne mere thanks of his patients, a untrv doctor attends a prosperous peas ant proprietor, day after day for weeks, supplies medicines, effects a cure, and at the end or the vear is treated as an extor tioner because he has charged a sum which will barely pay for the wear and tare of the horse and gig. Some doctors draw a regular salary from a medical club ; but these are the worst used of all, for every member of the club feels bound to take out five or six times the value of his sutr scription in doctor's visits, even if he have nothing the matter with him. Oldest American Newspaper. The earliest newspaper in the new world dates back to 1680 and was printed at Boston, Mass. It has generally been supposed that The Boston Newsletter, pub lished in 1704, was the first journal printed in America, and certain popular books of reference give The Newsletter as the earliest publication, but in the State Paper office at London there is a copy, perhaps the only one extant, of a folio newspaper sheet printed at Boston, and bearing the date of September 25, 1690, "to be issued monthly or ofteuer, and printed by K. Pierce for Benjamin Harris, at the London coffee-hoase, 1690." An Able Progenitor. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The ablest forefather of the age, judged by the number of his descend ants, has been discovered, flourishing like a green bay-tree on Turkey Cock Mountain in Pittsylvania County, Vir ginia. This extraordinary individual bears the name of Owen Adkin, and made his first start in life on Christmas day, 1782. While yet a boy he ran five miles in 26 minutes, and at the age of 14 killed a bear with a pocket-knife. He could run faster, jump higher and scream louder than any other boy on the mountains, and the admiring neighbors prophesied that there was before such a boy an extraordinary career of high pressure usefulness. And yet they had a very imperfect conception of the tre mendous possibilities wrapped up in the frame of the fleet-footed young man. Mr. Adkin married in 1805, and settled down within a hundred feet of his father's cabin. There were no Mormons then, but Mr. Adkin held stoutly to the theory, that a man was justified in taking as many wives as he could support. In the course of a few years he built three more cabins on his farm, and installed a wife or concubine in each. His first wife died in 1830, having borne him in twenty- five years nineteen children. He mar ried again, and also took another concu bine. His second wife died in 1839, hav ing borne her husband five children. He continued to live with his concubines until the last one died, in 1856, and he took another. He had by these forty- six children, and by wives and concu bines seventy children. The children all settled m his imme diate vicinity, and 66 of them are still living. All that are married have large families, and Mr. Adkin's offspring.count ing children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, number 550. Mr. Adkin has ruled among his descendants like a patriarch of old, and up to the date of the war, voted his family as his ideas oi whims influenced him. He threw his township solid for Andrew Jackson for President, and on another accasion his colony cast over 100 votes for J ohn Ran dolph for President. That gentleman was not a candidate, but Mr. Adkin con cluded to vote for him and have his friends vote for him, anyhow. He op posed the war of 1812, and opposed seces sion in 1861. Two of his boys enlisted against his wishes in the Confederate army, and both were killed in the battle of the Wilderness. Nominally Mr. Adkin was a farmer, but he made the money that supported his large family in shooting matches, foot races, horse races, etc. His great foot race was that in which he ran eleven miles in fifty-eight minutes. The old gentleman is now 96 years of age, and points with pride to the fact that he is the father of seventy children, while he privately declares that there are ten or twelve more whose names are not on the "records. All the children, grand-children and great-grand-children resemble their able progenitor, and the old man of 9b is proud of this tact, lie is still nimble of foot, can shoot as well as ever, has every faculty m full play, is m no way diseased, and has never been under a doctor's care. ' He has not been ten miles from home in twenty-five years, and his only ambition is to live until he is 100 years old and die where he was born. None of Mr. Adkin's children inherited his peculiar notions as to the marriage relation, which the head of the family considers a great weakness. Betting on a Sore Thing. Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle, j A fstnoh.lnnkino- citizen walked into one of the Justice's Courts, a short time n ham, mnnli infftvin.tful J Tl A rPHMAfifPrl that he be allowed swear off drinking for ior a year. xiu nuuui uumiuij ,uv him through the solemn motions, and the convert with a confused rumble of well meant but profanely expressed resolutions, stumbled out of the court-room. " Bet he don't keep it an hour," said one of the grinning lawyers. " Bet he sucks to it a wees, anynow, observed the Court with confidence. " Nonsense! " cried exerynody. " What'll you bet ? " asked the Judge. "Twntv to ten." exclaimed an eaeer attorney, producing the money. TVna t " nrioA Wis Wrn nr -wnrl the 1 ' j . . . . v - - -' ' , I . stakes were turnedover to a Chronicle re porter. "Constable," said the Court quietly, "go out and fetch that man back. In a few minutes the reformed one was dragged in, and the Judge ascended his dias, rapped for order and looked severe. " Charged with being drunk," said the Court, " What's your plea? " " Guess I'm full." admitted the prisoner. with an idiotic smile. ' Ten days in the County Jail. Con stable, lock up your prisoner. Mr. Re porter; hand this Court that wealth. Court's adjourned. Boys, let's go and flood qjcr lower levels. The Beginning. Giarantic results often spring from a small beginning. Years ago, a man sail ing between New York and JNorwich, said to the captain of the ny " I wish I had something to do." whereupon the captain replied : " Do you see the bundles and pac&ages in tne uirtn oi my state-room ? Their number is increasing every trip ; they are m my way, and the care and attention I have to give to them takes more time than I can afford. bup pose yon collect and take charge of these private packages for a fair compensa tion. I think you can easily build up a paying business." This man, whose name was Adams, took the hint, and from such a beginning originated the Adams Express Company. "It's bad enough," said the eldest "fi as nralunnlA to hT seven sisters ; "it's bad enough for pa to talk about marrying at this tune of me ; dui wneu Via otphw Viimanlf hv Ravine that that pert, made-up young thing will help us girls by attracting men to ine nouoe, n a HH-lo lui nntntmwniR to stand. SO it 19. And they passed a resolution to enter a nunnery in a ooay. Oar Front Parlors. The average American parlor is not to be lived m,. It is solely for " company. It may be sat in occasionally and respect fully gazed at, but no familiarities may De ratten with tne mrmture. it confers little sense of ease. The chairs are always on dress parade. They never stray an inch irom their places. The books on the table are likewise accu rately and regimentellv disposed. Every thing bears the impress of the last luneral. It is a sad, solemn, and often gloomy place. The front blinds are seldom opened. A dim, sepulchral light struggles through them. The sun is an unwelcome intruder. If allowed to en ter, he would cheer up matters and disperse some of the poison of dampness wnicn siowiy garners day by day but he would fade the carpet. Health, cheer, light and even life, m the housekeeper s estimation, are trifles when compared with the perpetuity of the colors on her carpet. The front parlor is a well-furnished family sepulchre. It is a costly shrine consecrated to gloom, silence and obscu rity. The family hve. move, and endure being in the kitchen. The furniture ac quires no individuality through use. The chairs and tables are as bright and shiny as when they came from the uphol sterers. They have no character. In the comparatively few parlors which are lived in, every household appliance develops certain features, the result of use and usefulness. The arm-chair of pater familias has a dignity worn upon uj t-iio maternal rocKing-cnair iooks easy, gracious and accessible; the table covered with opened books and papers seems endowed with mental activity and vigor; the pictures on the wall look as if imbued with satisfaction as a source of constant pleasure to human eyes; the remaining chairs scattered about, even when not occupied, seem on social terms with each other, and the opened piano suggests the' hospitality of harmony. But lor the parlor which is not lived in the shut piano suggests a screwed-down coffin. The ever empty chair seems a well-dressed chief mourner, the other chairs are pall-bearers. The pictures are without heart-soul, and the table might as well be a pulpit. Everything seems eternally sitting, wrapped in sombre con templation and meditating a dreadful judgment on somebody. Company can never warm up and be enlivened in such a place. The influence of days and days and weeks and weeks of a sad, gloomy, brooding solitude is too strong. Skele tons and ghouls haunt the room. You cannot see, but you do feel them. Jokes only weakly fizzle there, wit splutters and dies out, humor is frightened and flees ; because the room and its furniture have not been educated in their parts. It is an upholsterer's show. Thousands of these domestic tombs are superstitiously kept up in our city. They may be known at once by the long rows of closely-shut green blinds on the outer walls. Occasionally they are lit up, like the little tomb chapels in Pere la Chaise on All Soul's Day. Men and women buy from time to time out of their hard earnings some new ornament, and dedicate it to the fetich of the sad and gloomy front parlor. In this they they live in the kitchen. The kitchen is the stokehole in which much of the work is performed to man the dignity of the sepulchre up-stairs. The family lives in an atmosphere and rattle of stoves, pokers, scuttles, tongs, pumps, suds, frying-pans, peeled potatoes and buck wheat batter. The entire family mind is ever crammed full of these things. Be cause, even when away from the stoke hole for a limited period, the stoves, pokers, tongs, scuttles, peeled potatoes, suds, frying-pans and buckwheat batter are still in remembrance ever present realities. The real use of a front parlor is that of a cheerful refuge and rest from these things. But a prevalent custom has con verted it into a tomb. These parlors need only a gravestone erected in the center to make them consistently com plete. On it should be inscribed : "In memory of Iiife, J-iight and (Jheerful- ness, who starved to death in this place long ago ! A Mother's Influence. It is hard for a young mother, who has not yet overcome the wayward tenden cies of her own youthful nature, to realize the influence she exerts over her little ones. She is constantly surrounded by critical imitators who copy her morals and manners. As the mother is, so are her sons and daughters. If a family of children are blessed with an intelligent mother, who is dainty and refined in her manners, and does not consider it neces sary to be one woman in the drawing- room and an entirely dinerent person in her every-uay uie, dui wuo is a true mother, and always a tender, charming woman, vou will invariably see her habits of speech and perfect manners repeated in her cnildren. Great, rough men, ana noisv. busv bovs. will always tone down their voices and step quietly, and try to be more mannerly when she stops to give them a kind word or a pleasant smue for a true mother will never fail to say or do all the kind, pleasant things she can, that will in any way help to lift up and cheer those whose lives are shaded with care and toil. The mother of to-day rules the world of to-morrow. Think of it, dear sisters, and guard well your home treas ures. The strike of horseshoers and stable- m jni n Um Uaw York f.itv railroad is about ended, without the increase'of pay demanded. Third avenue, where the strike began, reports a full force of men. The Second avenue line has all the men naoAaA navinc SS2 25 instead of 82. and employing some of the workmen from the Third avenue line wuo uejuajjueu. io RTI fha Ttclt. linn in also snrmlied at $2 25 for horseshoers, and $1 25 for stable - men. Tne uoity -second ana urranu f.aat foTrv Una io still somewhat short of horseshoers, but the places of strikers are gradually being filled. On other lines trouble seems virtually over for the present. Agricultural Notes. Very weak lime water will kill worms in flower-pots. Half a pint of lard, melted in a pint of new milk, given warm, will remove cos- tiveness. For bruises or sores, boil smart-weed in chamber lye, add a little soft soap and wash twice a day. According to the statistics of the adver tising agencies, the entire circulation of agricultural newspapers is about 600,000. Fifty-three percent, of the population of France are engaged in agriculture. Of this number one-fifth cultivate their own property. A solution of carbolic acid in 300 parts of water has been found effective for scab. A strong decoction of tobacco is a good wash also. Minnesota is destined to pass all other States in the production of wheat, and Minneapolis is already the greatest flour ing center in the world. For throat distemper, grate fine a small 1 .1 ... : : c .1 l tj P ...... .......... ' . , . . MJ, &. V W..f t ing spoonful, mixed with bran or oats. Never fails. Good for cough, also. A few drops of ammonia added to a gal lon of water and applied once a week to . all pots of flowers will do much good and keep the pots and earth from souring. Potatoes cut ten days or two weeks be fore planting, and sprinkled with plaster, will sprout earlier and grow better than when cut and planted on the same day. T T . i . i , , , :Wk i ii ii.j.i'ii.ii.r 1 1 1 riui, anmi en, a rtiAm .a the last two weeks slightly every other i day with water that has had the chill rfp taken off. Some moisture seems to be necessary for turkey eggs. j ( YlflrSP fnrlllpr hiipIi qb pnpn hnttfl ofraur t and over-ripe hay, is improved one-quar- 5 ter to one-half of its value by steaming t before feeding. But the gain in steaming good hay is inconsiderable. Liberal feedinsr is true economv. The aim should be to induce animals of all kinds to eat all they have a good appetite for and can digest, by changing food and also methods of preparing it. A small quantity of superphosphate dropped upon potatoes when planting in creases the yield, and is a remedy against worms and insects, by which scab and other diseases are produced. Recent calculations represent that the Italian workman teceives 17 and 20 per cent, of the profit of his work ; the Frenchman 47 per cent.; the Englishman 50 per cent., and the American 72 per cent. Get the best and never keen a poor cow the second year. No man can ' afford to keep a cow that will not make from 200 to 220 pounds of butter, or its equivalent in cheese, every year. Lastly, make the very best article and get the top of the market. This is dairy economy. A successful dairyman feeds his cows night and morning the year round, and in each feed puts a teaspoonful of salt. tie considers this method ol salting cows preferable to the usual one of giving ani mals salt once or twice a week, and thinks his method adds largely to.the amount of milk given. Every family finds more or less bones accumulating. Burn them with your wood, and the ashes thus enriched is one of the most valuable of all fertilizers. Money cannot buy an article which will i fertilize vour soil. Bones tnus con sumed will quadruple the value of wood ashes, which in themselves are among the best soil-enrichers. People say that Smith is a " lucky dog " because his crops are so much better than his neighbors'. There's no " luck " about it. Smith is a lucky and thoughtful farmer. He selects his seed with care ; he drains his wheat field ; his fences are sound and keep out trespassing cattle. Thrift upon a farm depends upon a thou sand little things, and Smith doesn't neg lect them. That's the cause of his success. An Awkward Messenger. While Mme. Rentz and her female, minstrels were performing in San Fran cisco not long since, a well known mer chant, one of the front orchestra brigade, whose head was more clear than level, waited around the stage entrance to the Standard Theater one night after the performance, trying to conceal a hand some bouquet under his ulster. For a long time he kept anxiously peering at the different specimens of Mme. Rentz's sirens as they put up their umbrellas and trotted away in the rain. After waiting patiently for about an hour, he approached an individual with a red scarf and slouch hat, who stood smoking a queer cigar at the entrance, and said : " Can you tell me, sir, if MissChloro line has gone home yet ? " "Oh, yes ; been gone half an hour." replied the slouch hat party, cheerfully. " Those flowers for her ? " " Well er um yes." " I'll give 'em to her see her later," said the obliging man. "Wul you r That s very kind i.m sure." "Oh, not at all!" said the man, smelling the bouquet with an air of connoisseur. " Anything else ? " " Well ahem yes. Just give her this pair of earrings." " Certainly. What name shall I say." "Just say that "Baby Mine' she will understand sends love, and says 2:30, same place, to-morrow." " I'll just make an item of that," said the red-tie man, writing on his shirt cuff 2:30 ; same place, to-morrow.' All right. Anything else ? " ?, --f- , ..il. 11 O ann to. " jno ; mat uu. auiv juu u. ow net this evening I " Oh. certain !" " Arm vou li (J t '. a 111.111v.t- tti ainaii, tn her when there's nobody around ? " " Oh, dead sure ! You see I am her husband 1" TJoViTT "Vfino " faintnil nTwl tcoa SATtT. lminn i yi a iiarlr ml . ,T ; t. t i- 4.1.,. Z . j. 1 1 . n . ... 1 1 v v i ... l. . .... "ulrr post is so strong in Kentucky that. Pit ! 1 1 1 1 , 11 Ll 111. ICCj. lyOUUmitlCO 1V1 HUD JLJCWA their cnance oi election, xne opject is, save expense.