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INVARIABLY IN ADVANCK.
VOL. XVI.
CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 26, 1879.
NO. 39.
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
M. 8. WOODCOCK,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
CORVALLIS
COaVALUS
: VREOUX
OFFICE ON FIRST STREET, OPf. WOOD
COCK 4 BALDWIN'S Hardware store.
Special attention given to Collections, Fore
closure of Mortgages, Real Estate cases, Probate
and Road matters.
Will also buy ami sell City Property and Farm
Lands, on reu.-onable terms.
March 20,1 87'J. 16-I2yl
Livery, Feed
..AND.
SALE STABLE,
F. A. CBBNOWETH.
F. M. JOHNSON.
CHENOWETH & JOHNSON,
Attorneys at Law
CORVALLIS, OREGON,
September 4, 1879. 16:36tf . Main est.. Coival is. Oregon.
J. W. RAYBURK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
IORTAUIM, : OBtOON.
OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and
Third.
SOL. KING, - Porpr.
O
"-Special attention given to the Collection
of Notes and Accounts. 16-ltf
JAMES A. YAIMTIS,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
(ORVALLIH,
OBKGOH.
ty ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of the State. Special attention given to
matters in Probate. Collections will receive
rum pt and careful attention. Office in the Court
ouse. 16:ltf.
DR F. A. ViNCENT,
DENTIST.
COUVALLI8
'REGON.
QFFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER
Max. Friendley's New Store. All the 'atest
improvements. Everything new and complete.
All work warranted. Plca-e give me a call.
tkau
C. R. FARRA, M. O.
PHYSICIAN AND &URGE0N,
O
FFICE OVER GRAHAM A HAMILTON'S
Drugstore, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-20lf
J. R. BRYSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
All business will receive prompt
attention.
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY
Corvallis, July 14, 1879. 16:29tf
NEW TIN SHOP.
J. K. Webber, Pro.,
MAIN at,. - COHVAL.LIH.
STOVES AND TINWARE.
All Kind-.
JtB All work warranted and at reduced rates.
12:13tf.
W. C. CRAWFORD,
DEALER IN
WATCHES,
CLOCK?.
JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE,
etc. Also,
Musical Instruments 5fc
J&B Repairing done at the most reasonable
Ifttes, and all work warranted.
Corvallis, Dec 13, 1877. 14:50tf
GRAHAM, HAMILTON & CO.,
cottVAuu ... ojteuoar.
DEALERS IN
Drugfs, JPaiwtts,
MEDICINES,
CHEMICALS, DYE STUFFS,
OILS,
GLASS
AND
PUTTY.
PURE WINES AND L QUOfiS
FOR MEDICINAL USE.
And also the the very best assortment of
Lamps and Wall Paper
ever brought to this place.
AGENTS FOR THE
AVCRILL CHEMICAL PAINT,
SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER.
arPbyalelMB F.e.crlptlons fare
tally CaoipuuDdad.
16-2tf
WNING BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED
to offer superior accommodations in the Liv
ery line. Always ready for a drive,
GOOD TTJEA. MS
At Iw Bates.
My stables are first-class in every respect, and
competent and obliging hostlers always
ready to serve the public.
REASONABLE CHARGES FOR HIKE.
Particular attention Paid to Board lug
M oraea.
ELEGANT HEARSE, CARRIAGES AND
HACKS FOR FUNERALS
Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1879.
16:lyl
K1
Woodcock & Baldwin
(Successors to J. R Bayley & Co,)
EEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT THE
old stand a large and complete stock of
Heavy and Mieif Hardware,
IRON, STEEL,
TOOLS, STOVES,
RANG F 8, ETC
Manufactured and Home Made
Tin and Copper "Ware,
Pumps, Pipe, Etc.
A good Tinner constantly on hand, and all
Job Work neatly and quickly done.
Also agents for Knapp. Burrell & Co.,
for the sale of the best and latest im
proved FARM MACHINERY.
of all kinds, together with a full assort
ment of Agricultural Implements.
Sole Agents for the celebrated
ST. LOUIS CHARTER OAK S'OVES
the BEST IN THE WORLD. Also the
Norman Range, and many other patterns,
in all sizes and styles.
WS" Particular attention paid to Farmers'
wants, and the supplying extras for Farm
Machinery, and all information as to such
articles, furnished cheerfully, on applica
tion. No pains will be spared to furnish our
customers with the best goods in market,
in our line, and at the lowest prices.
Our motto shall be, prompt and fair
dealing with all. Call and examine onr
stock, before going elsewhere. Satisfac
tion guaranteed.
WOOKCOCK & BALDWIN.
Corvallis, May, 12, 1879. 14:4tf
LANDS 1 FARMS! HOMES I
HAVE FARMS, (Improved and unim-
proved,) STORES and MILL PROPERTY,
very desirable,
FOR SALE.
These lands are cheap.
Also claims in unsarveyed tracts for sale.
Soldiers of the late rebellion who have, under
he Soldiers' Homestead Act, located and made
final proof on less than 160 acres, can dispose of
the balance to me.
Write (with stamps to prepay postage).
R. A. BEN8ELL,
Newport, Benton county, Oregon.
16:2tf
ALLEN & WOODWARD.
Druggists
and
Apothecaries,
P. O. BUILDING, CORVALLIS, OREGON.
Have a complete stock of
DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OIL,
BUSS, ITC, ITC.
School I'ooks " tationeny, Sfco.
We buv for Cash, and have choice of the
FRESHEST and PUREST Drugs and Medicines
the market affords.
30f Prescriptions accurately preoared at half
the usual rates. 2Mayl6:18tf
FRESH GOODS
AT THE
BAZAR " FASHIONS
Mrs. E. A. KNIGHT.
CO RVA LI.M , ... OKFOOH.
Has just received from San Francisco, the larg
est and Best Stock of
Millinery tiootis,
Dress Tri turnings, Etc.,
Ever brought to Corvallis, wh'ch I will sell at
pr ces l hat defy competition.
.igenry far Mine. euaoreat'a reliable
Patterns.
25aprlC:17tf
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
( orvallis Lodge No 14, F. Sc. A. K.
Holds stated Communications on Wednesday on
or preceding each lull moon. Brethren in good
standing cordially invited to attend. By order
W. M.
Bar u ii ik Lodge Mo. 7, I. 0. O. ft .
Meets on Tuesday evening of each week, in
their hall, in Fisher's brick, second story. Mem
bers of the order in good standing invited to at
tend, ay order ot in. u.
ROBERT N. BAKER.
Fashionable Tailor,
PV)RMERLY OF A LB NY, WHERE HE
nas 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
prompt! v attended to.
Corvallis, Nov. 28, 1878. 15:48ft.
JOHN S. BAKER, PRO.
COBVALUS, - 0KE60H.
TTAVING BOUGHT THE ABOVE MAR
ket and fixtures, and permanently located
in Corvallis, I will keep constantly on hand the
choicest cuts ot
BEEF, PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL.
Especial attention to making extra Bologna
Sausage.
Being a practical butcher, with large experi
ence in business, I flatter myself that I can give
satisfaction to customers. Please call and give
me a trial. JOHN S. BAKER.
Dec. 6th, 1878. 15.-49tf.
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
Kate of i- cts. per Bushel
I am also prepared to Keep Extra, White
Wheat, separate from other lots, thereby enabling
me to SELL AT A PREMIUM. Also prepared
to pay the
Hifghest Mar lie t Price.
for wheat, and would most respectfully solicit a
share of public patronage. T. J. BLAIR.
Corvallis, Aug. 1, 1878. 15:32tf
One door South of Graham A Hamilton's,
COBTAUIS, OBESOK.
GROCERIES
PROVISIONS.
AND
Dry Goods.
Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1878.
16:lvl
DRAKE & GRANT,
MERCHANT TAILORS,
COKVALLIN, -
OBEdOH.
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE
'Wear. of ; norland Broad
Cloths, rench ,'asglmeres,
eeotch Tweeds, and
Jk merlcan w ui tin k.
Which we will make up to order in the most
approved and fashionable styles. No pains will
be spared In producing good htting garments.
Parties wishing to purchase cloths and have
them cut out, will do well to call and examine
our stock. DRAKE A GRANT.
Corvallis, April 1 7, 1879. 16:1 6tf
Boarding: and Lodging-.
Philomath, Benton Co , OreffOB.
GEORGE K1SOR,
RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE TRAV
Aim. miMif. t Viat ha ia now TimraLrAVi anil in
readiness to keep such boarders as may choose to
give him a call, either by the
SINGLE MEAL. DAY. OR WEEK.
Is also prepared to furirsh horse feed. Liberal
share of public iiatronage solicited. Give us a
call. GEORGE KISOR.
Philomath, April 28, 1879. I0:18tf
Albert Pyg all. William Ikwin .
PYGALL fc IRWIN,
City Trucks & Drays,
TTAVING PURCHASED THE DRAYS AND
Trucks lately oiatrd by James Eglin, we
are prepared to do all kinds of
City Hau In if. Deliver! an of
Wood. te., Eic,
in the city or country, at reasonable rates. Pat
ronage solicited, and satisfaction guaranteed in all
WILLIAM IRWIN.
Corvallis, Dec. 20, 1878. 15:51tf
Vi C. MORELAND,
(city attorney.)
ATTORNEY A.T JL.A.W.
fOBTLANU, . . O!
riFPIPl? .Mnn.dut' Rrir-lr First afreet.
W ... V. - HiUUWnV. " ..... .n 1
between Morrison and Yamhill. 14:38ti
THE STAB BAHEBY,
XMu Street, t'orvaUie.
HENRY WARRIOR, PROPRIETOR.
Family Supply Store !
Urocertea,
iireaa.
Cakes,
Pies
Caudieo,
Toys,
Ktc,
Always on Hand.
Corvallis, Jan. 1,1877. l2tf
HARRYING AN HEIRESS.
"Rosamond Estcourt" was the name on
the boxes and trunks when they arrived
in solid phalanx, at the front door of
"Althea Lawn," as Mrs. Johnson had
loftily christened her one-and-a-half-
story farm house. City boarders were
the pet ambition of that worthy dame's
heart; and here was a young lady who
realized the most sesthetic visions of her
brain.
"Miss Rosamond Estcourt, No.
Fifth Avenue, New York," was neatly
inscribed on the cards accompanying the
aforesaid baggage, and Mrs. Johnson
felt a sinking of the heart as Miss Est
court rustled in a premonition that the
carpet was faded and the curtains
darned, and the whitewash streaky.
"I hope, Miss, you will find things to
your satisfaction," she said courtesying,
and. bobbing her cap strings.
"Oh, it's delightful !" lisped Miss Est
court, "Such sweet, sylvan solitude.
such a balmy odor of new mown bay and
clover blossoms ! I hope you have
nightingales in these woods.
"Well, there's all sorts of birds," said
Mrs. Johnson, "and they do sing enough
to drive a body distracted at this time of
year, specially afore sunrise
"Oh, I know I shall be happy here!
said Miss Estcourt, "! do so revel in
the grand manifestations of nature.
Miss Estcourt was not very young; in
fact, she had long sinoe passed the Ru
bicon of thirty rosy summers; anp she
was not very ju-etty, being of that Vlgu
lar type which is opposed to the popu
lar idea of beauty. Moreover, her hair,
crimped though it was, was scanty and
light colored, like a damaged article of
tow, and her face was unpleasantly apt
to break out into little patches of ma
hogany color. Roses on one's oieeks
are very well, but roses on one's cheek
bone and chin and nose, are not so
pretty. But Miss Estcourt dressed ele
gantly, with sparkling jets and dangling
eardrops, and roseatted slippers, and a
general twinkle of chains all about her
fair person, which astonished the coun
try eyes into something scarcely less than
an impression of beauty.
"So your mother has got a city
boarder," said Agatha Pleyell, with a
toss of her pretty brown curls, as Hiram
Johnson "stopped in," on one of those
bright July afternoons, "and they say
she's very stylish."
"Not half so goodlooking as you, Ag
gie," said Hiram, looking with round,
admiring eyes at that young lady's vel
vet cheeks and long eyelashes.
"That's nonsense !"
"I should like to know why?" stoutly
demanded Hiram.
"Because she's a Fifth Avenue heir
ess and I'm only a country farmer's
daughter."
And Agatha shot a solitary, roguish
glance at her cavalier which said plainly
enough, "There's a statement of facts
which you are expected to contradict out
of hand." And Hiram Johnson contra
dicted accordingly.
"If she were as beautiful as Venus,
and as rich as Ccesus' eldest daughter,"
said he bodly, "do you suppose I should
care so much for her as I do for you,
Aggie?"
"Do you realiy care tor me coquet-
tishly demanden Agatha. "There, now,
you've tipped over my basket, and father
is coming in at the back door! Will you
please to behave yourself, Mr. John-
on?
But she was not very angry, neither
was honest Hiram, perhaps, as much dis
comfited as he ought to have been.
"What a dreadful long tune you ve
been!" said Mrs. Johnson, repiningly,
as Hiram came in that afternoon with
the roll of "things" from the village
store, of which the postoffice was but one
feature. ' 'Miss Estcourt has been saying
what a delightful afternoon it would be
for a walk over Buckstone Hill."
"Well, why didn't she go and walk,
then?" unceremoniously demanded Hi
ram.
"Mercy upon us! You know she's as
'fraid as death of Squire Garney's cows.
But what kept you so long, any way?"
"Oh, 1 stopped a minute to see Agatna
Pleyell.
"Agatha Pleyell! repeatea Mrs. jonn-
son, with an indescribable accent in ner
voice. "Well, Hiram, if you aren't the
biggest flat I ever did see! "
"I don't know what you mean, moth
er," cried Hiram, with a puzzled countenance.
Mrs. Johnson ironed away at the house
hold linen with a face of ineffable mean
ing. "When there's an heiress right here in
the house." she said, as if addressing the
three-legged iron stand; "and when she
was a sayin' only yesterday, you was the
handsomest young man she ever see "
"JLna she say tnat, motnery saiajai-
rani, with sheepish gratification.
"Of course she did. And when she as
good as asks you to go out walking with
her, and lends you poetry books, and
takes every chance to be in your com
pany, why I, for one, can't be blind to
what it all means."
"Mother," cried Hiram, "do you really
think"
But just then Miss Rosamond Estcourt
fluttered into the room, gorgeous in a
black grenadine dress, embroidered ail
over with straw-colored butterflies, and
the familv soliloanv was brought to a
premature close. Nevertheless, the fuse
had been fired, the little grain of mus-
tard-seed sown, and poor Agatna if ley-
ell's peace of mind was seriously threat
ened at last.
Hiram sat in the moonlight that night
on the little back porch, thinking over
the new subject of meditation so sud
denly opened to him. Rustic youth
though he was, he was by no means un
susceptible of ambitious impulses, and
this idea of a Fifth Avenue heiress in
love with him, at once spurred on his
aspirations and nattered his sell-appre
ciation.
JBut there was hazel-eyed Agatha
Pleyell.
True, but there was not, ana never
had been, any formal engagement be
tween himself and Miss Pleyell. They
had always been tacitly acknowledged
sweethearts, but nothing more. Agatha
couldn't say any compact had been
broken, and after all Hiram's face grew
unpleasantly hot in the cool moonshine
it was a man s business to consult his
own interest in these things.
But where is the use of following out
' the chain of argument and self stultify
ing logic by which Hiram Johnson delib
erately made up his mmd to be a villain.
Poor Agatha! All in vain now she
dressed her sell m the pretty pink calico,
which made her look like a newly blos
somed sweet pea, and brushed her curls
until they shone like brown satin all in
vain she sat at the window in the twi
light, watching and listening for the foot
steps that never came.
"It's harvest time," thought Agatha,
resolved to invent some excuse or other
for her faithless swain, "and I suppose
he is very busy. He will come soon.
But Mrs. Hartly came in one sultry af
ternoon, and triumphantly proclaimed
the piece of village news which was just
then floating in the atmosphere.
"Hev ye heard," quoth Mrs. Hartly,
"Hiram Johnson's engaged to that rich
city gal that's a boarding to his mother's
next month.'
The scarlet rushed in a sanguine ride
to Agatha s face, and then receded, leav
ing the transparent skin marble pale.
"I do not believe it," she ejaculated,
almost before she knew what she was
saying.
"Well, we may, for Mrs. Johnson told
me so herself. She s dreadful set up
about it, Mrs. Johnson is. She always
was an ambitious, driving creature, and
Hiram's just like her. Well, I hope the
Johnsons will feel better now," some
what viciously added Mrs. Hartly, who
had a tall, raw boned son of her own,
concerning whom and Miss Estcourt she
had entertained secret hopes ever since
one rainy Sunday afternoon, when the
heiress had graciously consented to walk
home from church under Seth Hartly's
green cotton umbrella.
She went away to spread the news
elsewhere, adding to it the item that
Agatha Pleyell was clean took aback, and
no wonder; for everybody s'posed she
and Hiram Johnson was as good as en
gaged; them Johnsons would any of 'em
sell their souls for a ten dollar gold
piece, and give back five dollars in
change."
And poor Agatha, pitied by the whole
neighborhood, was quietly sobbing her
self to sleep in her own room, fondly
supposing that no one knew her secret.
Hiram Johnson and his elderly bride
were quietly married in the little Elder-
tewn Church, for Rosamond declared
"the sweet summer idyl must end where
it began ; she could not go back to the
city to be married, on any account; it
would spoil the whole illusion." And
Mrs. Johnson made a wedding cake
nearly as large round as a cart wheel, and
invited all the neighbors in a spirit of
ostentation which made Mrs. Hartlv
secretly long to pull her cap ribbons out
of joint. And so Hiram Johnson and the
fair Rosamond, set forth re joicing on
their wedding tour.
They went to Niagara, Saratoga and
the Thousand Isles of the St. Lawrence,
and Hiram began to grow a little uneasy,
as nothing was said of the prospective
fortune he supposed himself to have
married into.
"Well, ducky," he said, one fine even
ing, "shall we go straight on to JNew
York, or first to Eldertown ?"
"Why to New York?" asked Mrs.
Johnson innocently.
"xou live there, don t you r
Rosamond showed her false teeth in an
artless smile.
"I live where you do, Hiram dear."
But; number Fifth Avenue? Was
it not your house ? gasped the bridegroom.
"My goodness gracious, no! What
eter made you think so ?"
"It was on your baggage when you
came to our house."
"Of course," said Mrs. Johnson. "But
that was because it was the place I lived
at last."
"The placef"
"Yes, Hiram dear; I'm a dressmaker
by trade."
"A dressmaker! sut, Kosamand, 1
thought you were an heiress," broke
from Hiram's dry lips.
"1 can t help what you thought, said
Rosamand. "I never said so."
"But you allowed everybody to think
so.
Rosamand put her handkerchief to her
eyes, and the point of her nose blushed
scarlet.
"I'm not to blame for what people
may choose to think," she sobbed hys
terically; "and if you married me be
cause you imagined I was rich "
And here ensued the first tnorougn-
going "scene ot tneir married me.
Hiram's reproaches were bitter. He
claimed in the heat of his anger that he
had been deliberately entrapped under
false pretenses, and Rosamond retorted
by accusing him of mercenary motives;
and there can be no manner ot uount
that both were right. One thing though
was quite certain they were married,
and there was nothing left for it but to
wear the chains as easily as possible.
Hiram J ohnson went back to his farm
and to his work, and Mrs. Hiram John
son eked out their slender income by
making dresses for the neighborhood.
And it so happened that the second dress
she made was one of white Swiss muslin
for pretty Agatha Pleyell to be married in.
Hiram wasn't worse than other men,
but it did chafe him that Agatha couldn't
have mourned over his defection a little
longer. Agatha had consoled herself,
and he was tied for life to an ugly, ill
tempered old msfSf and all because he
had fondly hoped to "marry rich."
Charles Dickens, son of the great nov
elist, manages one of the largest print
ing offices in London, perhaps in the
world. He has very successfully pub
lished the "London Dictionary" and the
Ouide to London, and is now prepar
ing a "Dictionary of the Thames." He
inherits his father's early love for print
ing offices and newspapers.
AGRICULTURAL A5D HOUSEHOLD.
Butter Making. Mr. A. W. Cheever
gives the following description of the
methods of managing his dairy : " My
dairy at present consists of fifteen cows
in milk, seven of which are two and
three-year old heifers. Eleven of the fif
teen are homeless, being chiefly descend
ants from the English Suflblks crossed
with the Jerseys. Two of the others are
of the same blood, but taking strongly
from the Jerseys have small horns. The
feed is from good English hay, as good as
I know how to produce, cut early and
well cured. It is given in two meals only,
one in the morning from six to eight, and
the other between four and six o'clock in
the evening. Grain is fed after the hay
in the morning at the rate of four quarts
of wheat bran, one quart corn meal and
one pint cotton-seed meal each to the
heifers and an additional quart of corn
meal to the older cows, all made into a
stiff dough with spring water. The ani
mals are bedded on clean sand which is
laid up under cover in summer in large
quantities. This is thrown under them
twice a day in liberal quantities, and the
raised platforms upon which they stand
are kept as clean as practicable. The
gutters back of the cows are made quite
open that the liquids may pass through
immediately. This with the free use of
sand aids much in reducing the amount
of labor required in keeping the
bodies of the animals clean. Tin
milking pails only are used, and the
milk is strained through both wire
gauze and fine cloth. After straining,
the milk is set in an average tempera
ture of about sixty degrees in old fash
ioned, shallow tin pans, holding some five
or six quarts each. The pans are pressed
and seamless and much more easily
cleaned than those made from pieces
soldered together. Skimming is done
every morning, one-half the milk being
twenty-tour and the other thirty-six
hours old. It is skimmed in the morning
because the cream is then cool and firmer
than at night and comes off more per
fectly and with less waste. The cream is
kept in large tin vessels, plenty of fine
salt being thrown into each pail when
commencing to gather the cream, and a
glass paddle is kept constantly in each
vessel with which to stir thoroughly
when new cream is added. I churn twice
a week and have the cream slightly sour
when it enters the churn. If sweet cream
is added at the time, a little delay is made
before pushing the churning, that the
sweet and sour portions may become
thoroughly mixed. Unless the tempera
ture is known to be just right, the cream
is either cooled in well water or warmed
in a kettle of warm water, the thermome
ter being kept in the cream, which is
stirred constantly until the desired de
gree is reached,, which is never over
sixty-three degrees in winter nor below
sixty degrees in summer. The churning
is done in the liullard osculating churn,
and occupies from forty-five to sixty
minutes, and often more, including the
getting ready and finishing up. The
churning is stopped as soon as tne
butter is in fine particles, like turnip or
wheat seed, the buttermilk being then
drawn off and a pail of cold water thrown
in to rinse the milk from the surface of
the little crumbs. It is then taken out
upon an inclined board, and after being
pressed together pretty compactly, which
operation forces out nearly all the butter
milk, the color and salt are auaed and
worked evenly through the mass while it
is yet pliable. The color is applied in
fine white sugar, which is worked in verv
slightly before applying the salt. Apply
ing the color in tnis way, 1 always Know
when the salt is sufficiently worked in,
and can know just when to stop a very
important kind of knowledge to have
when working butter. .Depending upon
the color for a guide prevents the liability
of overworking, while it insures perfect
freedom from stripes and streaks caused
by uneven salting. The proportion of salt
is two-fifths of an ounce to a pound of
butter, measured by the eye, which in my
case is very accurate after so long a prac
tice. My worker takes from twelve to fif
teen pounds at once, and when I have
two or more parcels one is piled upon
another and then cut down through and
immediately reworked, thus insuring
perfect uniformity in salting and coloring
each churning. The butter is then ready
for putting in one-fourth pound cups by
hand labor. It is then folded in new
bleached cotton wrappers and packed for
market, three layers deep, with cloth be
tween, in round wooden boxes, holding
fourteen pounds each. These boxes are
then enclosed in strong shipping cases,
and in summer broken ice is used be
tween the smaller boxes while in transit.
Twelve to sixteen pounds of ice, costing
from three to four cents, is all I have
found it necessary to use for each trip, the
expressman taking it ten miles by stage
and twenty-five by rail between the hours
of eight and ten o'clock in the forenoon,
then carrying it over the pavements across
the city to Quincy Market during the next
hour. No ice is used in the dairy for any
other purpose than shipping the butter
over the road in hot weather. All the
work of tempering the cream, churning,
working and putting up the butter is done
on the same day and as rapidly as possi
ble. On no account would I ever rework
or handle butter after it once becomes
thoroughly cold and stiff. Working but
ter the day following churning I consider
a bad practice. Good, sound, well made
butter requires very little ice for hand
ling or marketing, while that which is
poorly made, either in the churning or
the working, will seldom harden well even
on ice. In presenting this statement, I
have endeavored to give all the principal
important points in my somewhat old
fashioned method of butter making, but
if I have overlooked any matter of inter
est I will reply to any questions which
such oversight may suggest.
A youag gentleman from St. Louis was
walking along the shore at Lake Michi
gan with a Chicago girl, when he saw on
the sands what he supposed to be a devil
fish, with its long tentacles spread out
upon the submerged soil of Illinois. He
was awakened from his dream by the
young lady, who said: "I have just
dropped my glove."
The McGregor News discovers the pre
cise thing for the season, "A cool ro
mance courting a girl over ice cream."
Corvallis Gazette.
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Down the Andes In a Hand Car.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times has been having some experience
and taking a ride among the Andes, an
account of which is worth reading. He
says:
"Here I am at Chicla, Peru, among
the snow-capped peaks - of the Andes,
12,220 feet above the sea, acclimating
myself for a trip over the mountains,
whose highest point, 17,570 feet, I in
tend to scale. Leaving Lima this morn
ing with a party of officers, I came over
the celebrated Oroya railroad to Matu
cana, and from there by the light express
to this place, the present terminus of the
road. The building of this road was one
of the greatest undertakings the world
has ever known. It is only completed 8G
miles, and cost $30,000,000. From the
sea coast to the summit of the Andes we
passed through 44 tunnels and over
many high bridges, one of them 200 feet
high. The road follows the valley of the
River Bimas, crossing and recrossing it
many times. From Matucana to the top
is nothing but succession of Vs, Zs,
and doublings. Some of the places are
really frightful. As you pass around a
mountain peak you can look for thou
sands of feet and still above you can see
the lofty peaks of the Andes. Even here
at Chicla we are 5000 feet from the top,
and the railroad tunnel on the summit
will be over 12,000 feet above the sea.
" Chicla is the highest railroad station -and
within a few feet of the highest city
in the world. In Lima or Callao the
lightest clothing would be very comfort
able, but up here I would wear a suit of
heavy underclothing and a large ulster.
With all my clothes I am nearly freez
ing, and a red-hot stove close by,at that.
Less than a week ago I was in the tropi
cal seas of the equator quite a change.
Most people are troubled with what they
call " scoroche," headache, nausea, and
sometimes bleeding at the nose, mouth
and ears. The air is so rare it is difficult
to breathe.
" At the invitation of the road-master I
took a ride with him down the road. We
were just ahead of the regular train, and
we started off like a streak of lightning.
I have been in a good many tight places
in my life, but never in a position to
make my hair literally stand on end as it
did coming down the Andes on a hand
car. Ne ver till my d j'ing day can I for
get that ride. Starting among the very
clouds, down, down we came, disappear
ing like a flash in a tunnel of pitchy
darkness and out on to a frail-looking
bridge over a mighty gorge from 200 to
300 feet deep. We stopped in a long
curved tunnel to look at some work that
was going on, and did not hear the train
in our rear until it was in the tunnel.
We could not lift the hand car off, so we
made a spring for it, cut loose the brake,
and made a dash for our lives. And
ti looked so, for she came in full view be
fore we were well across the gorge; and
on she came at the rate of a mile a
minute, but we were going by this time
much faster than that, and in a short
time we left her far behind. We reached
Matucana, 200 miles from Chicla, in
safety, but since I had to think it all
over I would hardly try to do it again."
"Don't Blister Me Again."
A young wife in Michigan had just got
settled in her new home. All seemed
fair and promising, for she did not know
her husband was a drunkard. But one
night he came home at a very ibte hoar,
and much the worse for liquor.
When he staggered into the house, the
wife, who was greatly shocked, told him
he was sick, and to he down at once; and
in a moment or two he was comfortably
settled on the sofa in a drunken sleep.
His face was a reddish purple, his breath
ing was heavy, and altogether he was a
pitiable looking object. The doctor was
sent for post-haste and mustard applied
to his feet and hands. When the doctor
came and felt his pulse, and examined
him and found that he was only drunk,
he said:
"He will be all right in the morning."
But the wife insisted that he was very
sick, and that severe remedies must be
used.
"You must shave his head and apply
blisters," she urged, "or I will send for
some one who will."
The husbapd's head was accordingly
shaved closely and blisters applied. The
iinripnt, lav nil nicrht in a drunken sleet).
and, notwithstanding the blisters were
eating into his flesh, it was not until near
morning that he began to beat about,
disturbed by pain.
About daylight be awoke to a most un
comfortable consciousness of blistered
agonies.
"What does it mean?" he cried, put
ting his hands to his bandaged head.
"Lie still you mnsn't stir." said the
wife. "You have been very sick."
"I'm not sick."
"Oh, yes you are; you have brain
fever. We have worked with you all
night.
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i)tur victim, wiiatn me matter witu ui
feet?"
"They are all blistered."
"Yl'.,l! T .. tl,Q site 4-1, -
blisters, do," he pleaded, piteously.
He was in a most uncomfortable state
his head covered with sores and his
feet and hands were still worse,
"Dear," he said, groaning, "if I should
ever get sick in this way. again, don't be
alarmed and send for the doctor, and
above all, don't blister me again."
"Oh, indeed I will all that saved yon
were the blisters, and if you ever should
have another such a spell I should be
more frightened than ever for the ten
dency I am sure is to apoplexy, and
from the next attack you will be likely
to die, unlesSjthe severest measures are
used."
He made no further defense; suffice it
to say, he never had another attack.
An auctioneer was endeavoring to sell
a fowling piece, and failing to get a bid,
a bystander who had read the papers
said, "Blow in the muzzle and it will
go off."