Corvallis Gazette.
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VOL. XVI.
CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1879.
NO. 24.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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 ? "
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this evening I
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her when there's nobody around ? "
" Oh, dead sure ! You see I am her
husband 1"
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their cnance oi election, xne opject is,
save expense.