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u. K. FARRA, M. D,
iPhysician. fe Surgeon.
OrriCI-OVER GRAHAM, HAMILTON & COS
Druf Store. Corvallis, Oregon 19:25yl
T. V B. EMBREE, M. 0.,
!Ph.ysic..nii& Surgeon.
OSce 2 doors south of H. E. Harris' Store,
OoavALLi- - - Oregon.
Residence en the southwest corner of block, north
fcud west of the Methodist church.
l;2l-Vrl.
F. J. ROWLAND,
Blacksmith & Wagonmaker,
Philomath, Oregon.
Mr. Rowland is prepared to do all kind of wacon
maktng, repairing and hlacksmithing to order. He
uses the beat of material every tia.e and warrants
hi. work. I"-32-11,
W. C. Crawford,
J E WEI E R .
T7-EEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE
.La. awortsnent of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, etc.
All kinds of repairing done on short noticd, and all
work warranted. fS:33-yl
Real Estate Agency.
have some very desirable property on the Hay for
1 in lots from to 237 acre3. Some of this is
er the O. P. K. R. terminus. Persons wishing to
invest will da well to call on me when prices are .-
notable. Address with stamps to pre pay postage.
R- A. Bxnseu.
New -or- Benton County Or.,
THE YAQTjSnSE!
In now prepared o accommodate travelers
in first-class style at all hours.
' Ideals Only 25 Cents.
Hor feed constantly'on l and, t the lowcs liv
i nitrates. Situated on the Y jUina Road, tan 'ay
Ioui Corvallis to Newport.
S0:lSyl- r- K AST-
" KELSAY & HOLGATE,
Attorneys at - Law.
Col. Kelsay n J myself have formed a copartner
ship in the practice of the law. The Cc-iV ex-
eerience at tba liar and ou the Bench and bit; atudious
abita is a sura guarantee that all huaine.- intrunted
to us in tbe line of suits or actions in Court will be
well at leu-led to.
I will continue other buuness and give prompt
attention to the same as heretofore. Sui:h as Collecting-.
being1 a Notary Public will attend to coney
ancing' iu ajl its brauehes, licods, !ortaes, Keal
and Chattel, Lecies, Huk-ased, Towers of attorney,
Contracts, &e. &.c. Buy bell and ieue Heal J-state
both farms and town projerty, collect rents, ne
gotiate loans, search and examine titles, &d a gen
eral ac ney business.
Am nuw in brick building and have fire proof safe
for the saie keeping of notes and other valuable"
papers left for collection &e.
Office in Pin n I'M new brick, first door at head of
team
lfcl7tl E. HOLGATE.
COHVLLIS
Photograph Gallery.
PHOTOGRAPHS FOJC MI NATURE TO
LITX SIZE.
First Glass Work Only!
Copying in all branches. P uce of all kinds and
fire wood taken at cash prices. E. HK8LOP.
E. H, TAYLOR,
DENTIST
The oldest established Dentist and
the best outfit in Corvallis.
Allwerlc kept in repiir free of charge and satifac
a guaranteed. Teeth extracted without pain by
he uee of Nitrous Oxide Gas.
tJTitoo:ns up stairs over Jacobs k Neugass' new
Brick Store. Corvallis, Oregon. 19:27yi
NEW FIRM!
MUEDLTIIUi IMPLEMENTS
We have in stock the
Deering Twine Binders,
Deering and Standard Mow.tr,
Minnesota Chief Threshers,
Morrison Plows,
Minnesota Giant and Stillwater Fnjrincs, Klwnod
mounted Horse-Power, Centennial Fanning nrill, cel
ebrated Buckeye line of Seeders and Drills.
We also keep the celebrated Whitewater and
Ketchum wagons.
juneiyl W. H. MILLHOLLAND.
OCCIDENTAL HOTEL.
Corvallis, Oregon.
CANAN & GiBLIN, PROPRIETORS.
THE OCCIDENTAL is a new brtiMing,
newly furnished, and is first class in all its
appointments.
RATES LIBERAL.
Stages leave the hotel for Albany and Yaquina Bay
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
targe Sample Room on First Floor for
Commercial 31 en. 19-35 ly
THE ST. JOHN
LAND & IMPROVEMENT CO,
Directors :
T. P. THOMPSON, P. T. SMITH,
I. A. BANKS, W. BYRON DANIELS,
JAMES T. GRAY.
O fflce, corner F1rt and Washington Stgt
Portland, Oregon.
Capital Stock - - $375,000
Parties desirinsr a safe and profitable invest.nent
should call or write for information at once.
Messrs. Buford & Waggnor are agents for the
Company in Corvallis mid can give information on
TBlas to persons seeking first-class investment?.
SS-llmS
VOL.
CORVALLIS, OREGON, MAY, 4, 1883.
NO. ia
F. J. Hendriclison,
Boot and Shoe Maker,
Philomath, Oregon.
I always keep on hand iunerior ma
terial ana warrant my work. 1 a-tfc an examination
of my goodd before purtrhaaing elnowhere
19-32-lyr F.J. Hendriehson.
LAWKS WISHING TO LKAKN THE
Rinker System of Dress Cutting
will please call on me as I am the only
authored agent in Corval
rs. W. H. Huffman.
20.11ni3
F. . Sawtell.
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SSSFOR PA LE AT THIS OFFICE nWn
HL. E. HAKRIS,
One Door Soutli of Graham & Hamilton's,
CORVALLIS, - CKEGOIV.
Groceries,
Provisions,
DRY GOODS.
ComHis, June 31, 1SS2. 19-19yl
PORTER, SLESSiNOER & CO,,
Manufacturers anl Jobbers of
THE CELEBRATED
IRON GLAD
BOOT & SHOE.
These Goods are Warrant
ed not to rip.
All Genuine nve the trade mark "IRON CLAD"
stamped thereon.
117 Battery Street, San Francisco, Cal.
GOODS FOK SALE AT
MAX FRIENDLY' S
CorvaUis, Oregon.
ISTew This Week.
lOOO Men and Boys
AT
J.W. HANSON'S.
CLOTHING m TAiLCRI'iQ EMPORIUM
To Ct. them out in the latest style of ready
. made Clothing. Also the finest lot of
Panis Patterns and Suitings
Ever brought to Corvallis.
Call and Examine Goods.
No trouble to show goods.
Two doom 8outh ot Post Office,
COKTALLIS, - - - - OIIF.GOS.
AUGUST EKIGHT,
CABINET MAKER,
Cor. Second and Monroe Sts.,
COSVAUIS, : OSEGO,
Keejo constantly on hand all kinds of
V XT T t I T X I I I
Coffins and Caskets.
Work done to order on short notice and at
reasonable rates.
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SSRMON OS T3S LIQTJOS QUESTION
B. v. T. L Elliott recently deliv
ered a sermon on the liquor question
before the people of Portland from
which we extract the following:
Wherefore ia there a price in the hands ef a fool,
to tfet wisdom, aceing he hath no heart in it?- Pre.
17, W. Text.
Briefly staled, my proposition is,
that, the people are now gammoned
to a contest, representing law and
order, as against an organised rebel
lion of over a hundred mtn, repre
setitiii!; two-thirds ol a guild or trade
in intoxicating diink, who have de
liberately set themselves to defy or
obstruct the law making power and
so doing have forced an issue away
from any special question, such as of
temperance and intemperance, good
or bad policy, and are wai ring against
government itself. This and this
only now faces us. These men liave
refused the avenues open to a free
people. They refuse to fight their
battle under the laws, which might
be done, by protest, by endeavoring
to change those laws through agita
tion and by an appeal to the people
at the ballot. They have gone out
from under law, defying it, and so
doing they antgonize not merely a
temperance sentiment, not only those
who believe in high license, but they
antagonize every law-abiding citi
zen, so that even a man who might
disbelieve in high license, or ques
tion the wisdom or practical value of
the late legislation, would be forced
to say: "This action wars against
our very existence as society and
government. It is not so much tem
perance defying, as law defying, and
society must rise in its might and
stamp that spirit so fine that the
very dust of it w'll scatter and be
Suppose, for the sake of argument,
that a law is hurting somebody.
Dues that make it less a law ? Sup
pose again, for the sake of argument,
that it is infringing personal liberty
(whatever that may mean), does
that justify insurrection ? Does that
justify rebellion against law as a first
step? Does that justify a man to
bolt all legal remedies, all appeal to
argument all effort to change? ma
jorities and statutes, and land him
self among law defiers ? If he thinks
hi- cause is just, is law-breaking the
way to vindicate it ? Granting that
a man's persona! liberty (whatever
that may me.m) is infringed, is his
remedy to bresk law, and in so do
ing attack ledhanded the foundation
of all libert y and order ? I could
argue this miserable fallacy of "per
sonal liberty" into latters, but what
has it or can it have to do with the
issue forced upon us when a law 16
defied ? Will you argue with a thief
as to whether laws of property are
right or wrong, or the statutes defin
ing his crime are more or less iust ?
Dees thieving become defensible and
orderly if the law is stringent and
infringes the "personal liberty" of
thieves ard receivers of stolen goods?
"No rogue e'er felt the halter draw
With good opinions of tbe law,"
For it oppresses him, forsooth, and
infringes his "peisonal liberty;" but
do we resne,ct his argument when he
is a lawbreaker, a law defler ?
But, perhaps, these citizens, drink
selleisi, think their rebellion acquires
dignity by bebtg "organized," pub
lishing cards to the public, entering a
show of jusi ideation, through legal
technicalities and the law's delays.
The animus ot antagonism is all the
more dangerous for being now
sheathed, and all the more defiant
for being "organized."
A I oor peildler of soap and tooth
picks the law can fasten on with
ease if he has no license, but a hun
dred liquor sellers, fortified by the
constituents of dissipation, the law
cannot easily reach, either seriatim,
or together.
Let us spend a moment ftpon their
delusive cry of "personal liberty."
Liberty of tbe person to do what ?
"Pursue a certain craft, the selling
of liquor by the glass an innocent
vocation, supporting families, and
the personal liberty of others to buy
the same, without limit." The plea
of personal liberty breaks with its
own weight of absurdity; with tbe
weight of the admission every liquor
set Its' makes when he lakes out a li
cense at any pfice, and it has been
broken once and for all by the sa-
I
preme tribunal of the land, which has
asserted the right ot the state, or in
dividual states, not only to regulate
but to prohibit the mannfcclnre and
sale ci intoxicating drink, whenever
a majority so decides, tbe words of
Chief Justice Tany being a follows:
"If any state deems the retail and
traffic in ardent spirits injurious to
its citizens, and calculated to produce
idleness, vice and debauchery, I see
nothing in the constilut ion of the
United States to prevent it from
regulating and restraining tha traffic,
or from prohibiting it altogether if it
thinks proper. n This decision lias
been repealed and confirmed by
cases in nearly every state in the
land, the following being a sample:
"It cannot be said with propriety,
as we think, that it is the policy of
our laws to regard the business of
dram selling in any other light than
as a mere privilege, granted under
restrictions and conditions that clear
ly imply a tendency to afFeet injur
iously the public morals, and there
fore not to be encouraged either by
the laws themselves or the courts of
the country. The business then
which the retailer seeks to engase
in is not a matter of personal right,
nor one that the interests of the pub
lic at large demands that Ihe should
be permitted to carry on."
In brief, the right to abridge, ham
per, oppress, heavily tax, restrain, or
prohibit the sale of intoxicating li
quor as a beverage is the same as
that- which controls smallpox, the
sale of poisons, the transportation of
dynamite, and the treatment of pub
lic nuisances. There are some dis
eases which the slate intends I shall
not have the "personal liberty" to
lake-or die of, or infect other people
with, ard it will shut me up from
"supporting my family" while that
disease is going oh in my house.
Secondly, let us pass to another
way in which the issue may be dis
guised and slurred. And now I ad
dress friends, my coadjutors in the
great cause of temperance. A ma
jority of such workers are convinced
that total abstinence is the only safe
ground for tbe individual and the
withholding of license altogether.
Now, I should prove myself poorly
informed on this great question did I
not share the doubt of these friends
as to the outcome of high license.
Making drinking over bafs re
spectable does not appear to me a
permanent step forward in the social
we 1 being. But consider this: the
law is on our city statute book; it
expresses, whatever its terms, or
however you and I may forecast
its effect, it expresses a growth
in moral sentiment, and an
emphasized conviction on the
part of tbe community against
intemperance. It is the law, and 100
saloons, dives, drunkeries are array
ed against it. The issue is, therefore,
as I said carried up to a question of
society's right to exist. The issue is
law and order against law-breaking.
I cannot hesitate no, not an instant
as to my duty. I must throw the
whole weight of voice, vote, influence
to uphold authority. And though
the question is slightly modified,
when we come to an election as it is
morally unchang"d, for a vote at
that time against the license is an
endorsement of this law breaking,
law-defying element. Will you put
your moral weight and voice with
law and order, or with law-breakers.
I have no doubt of the issue of
the coming June election, let me say
in the third place, if the pol ileal
wire pullers will onca let the people
alone. Their vote will be instructed
and drilled both in secret and in pnb
lic, to know nothing ot any question
save "Is he pledged to onr interest?
Is he one of us?" and tbe next elec
tion decides onr city government for
three years probably the most im
portant in its history with more
at stake than a few years hence a
whole generation of municipal life
can efiect. Shall we have a city
government which will subordinate
every question of public good to
that of whisky rule? Shall we now
plant the seed, and after a while
reap the whirlwind, as Chieago and
other cities are doing, where it is bit
terly conceded that law and order plat
forms inevitably fail? Shall we en-
conrage a" tendency of things wbicl
will put us where Cincinnati is now,
with a liquor association fighting any
tax or license? In short we shall
bind ourselves, to the side which
threatens to weaken authority and
show contempt of law! The side
which every law breaker and enemy
of society will wish to succeed?
Finally the real responsibility of
this hour rests upon that class of citi
zens who do not value their votes
and inflence sufficiently to intermit
an hour, or a day, in their money
making for the sake of their country.
The chief peril to America to-day, as
is proved by statistics, is the stay-at-home
vote. We must break up the
moral inertia, or the nation' dies by its
own hand. Can we content ourselves
or shake off responsibility, by register
ing our own vote on election day?
Must we not attack by every means
this mor il inertia? Should there not
be a canvass, a circulation of printed
matter public meeting, and the supply
of funds for legitimately arousing the
people and consolidating those who
believe in the authority of the law?
The vote of a citizen is placed by
the constitution of America, of Oregon
of the city in his hands, as the price -of
wisdom the circulating medium by
which the judgement, the conscience,
the intelligence of one can pass over
into public wisdom and sovereign law.
He who disregards it writes for him
self the name of our text "Wherefore
is there a price in the hands of a fool
to get wisdom, seeing he has no
heart in it?" Have we, friends,
no heart in the issue between authority
and law-breakers, no choice between
a government suborned to a baleful
source of crimes, destroyed homes and
costly courts, and a government of in
teligence and conscience? If not, then
indeed the price of wisdom is in the
hands cf a fool; and when our country
falls, if it ever falls, it will be because
of such indifference. Women denied
a vote can prove their faith in. the
bal'ot as an end to a means, by arous
ing their indifferent friends and by
pleading this as their cause, the cause
of the family and of viitue. It is then
voices also that can best plead with
even this law defying crime-making
trade or those who have sided hastily
with it, in order that conscience and
their better reason may awake.
BENTON COUNTY.
Til II8T.
CORVALLIS PRECINCT
(Continued from hut issue).
Ingle, John W $ 38 40
Irvin, D B 7 76
lrvin, David Sr 28 88
Johnion, J D 20 91
Jones. Z P 7 84
Jackaon, S W 70 56
Johnson, FM 304
Joy, L 1 34
Jacobs 4 Neugass 453 60
Job, Ben '. 63 88
Johnson, Mrs. Fanny 16 00
Jonea, Mrs Florence 25 60
Kiger, RC 148 56
Kennedy, John Estate of 12 81
Keudoll, J S 169 65
Keesea, John 101 65
Knotts, Mrs. Margarstt... 32 40
Kline, L G 4 Co 160 00
Kline, L G 317 44
Kelly Mrs J H 5 44
Knight, Manuel 71 20
King, Isaac heirs of 40 00
Knotts, Wm 38 96
Kennedy, Belknap 4 Co 62 40
Kinney, James 91 20
Kime, J H 9 04
King, Sol 2.-0 03
Korthauer, George 101 53
Kelsay, John 63 81
Knight, J A 67 76
Logsdon, F B Estate of 52 82
Logsdon, Mrs Mary 3 76
Locke, A R 48 86
Lewis, Hainan Jr t . . . 46 88
Locke, A J 17 58
Locke, AN.. 19 18
Locke, VVS 23 33
Look, S H 51 33
Lilly, S N 12 82
Lee, JB , 176 00
Larkin. J W 2 22
Lewis, John H 52 10
Ledgerwood, WE 12 80
Lewis, H C 345 85
M alone, Luc ret a 28 33
Matheny, Robert 27 34
McBee. WH... 64 91
Molkey, AG 2160
Mulkey, John 2 72
Motley, R T 72 35
Mulkey, D B , 62 58
Marple, E - 18 80
Murphy, Daniel 17 44
Middleton, John 2 24
Moore, C E., 89 78
Moore, John W.,., 48 00
Moore, Isaac : 40 00
Mulkey, Mrs Susan 27 20
Marvel!, Wm H 25 60
McFadden, W S 22 40
McElro?, E B 40 97
Miller, I A 1 78
Miller Si Scrafford 8 43
Moore 4 Spencer 4 80
Mensinger 4 Speidell . 2 40
McLagan, Wm 30 00
McOune, R V Eatatn of 28 00
Mason, Joshua 30 24
Manns, Henry 3S 00
Moore, J W 2 75
Mawk Wong. Jaw 4 Co 17 60
Moore, Sidney 9 60
Mason, Mrs J " 3 20
Miller, Mrs Mary 16 00
Masonic, Lodge 12 80
N'ickolson, D W 17 60
Nugass, Mrs S 33 60
Newhouse, Isaac 38 81
Noftsger, L M 10 61
Nitsgmander, F M 3 20
Nash, Wallis 114 92
Osburn, John W , 12178
Paul, WE 9 60
Preston, Mary P i 17 60
Preston, W P 15 44
Puh, Wnl 10 44
Powers. Thos H 4 80
Piirdy, Andrew 15 92
Phile, Philip 135 20
Porter, Mrs Mary 14 40
Holly, Jos C 7 66
Polly, Peter 95 65
Perham, AS 12 48
Polly 4 Powers i; 7 71
Pitman, Wm 22 23
Powers, Cyrus 24 40
Quivy, SophrorJia 16 00
Quivey, John 38 46
Quivey, G W 1 CO
Right, Mrs M 12 80
Kay, John 46 40
Ray, Albert 23 60
Randall, Mrs H..i; ; 33 60
Rowland, John R 193 34
Right, John W 11 05
R'eadman, James Srand Jr 18 10
Rexford, Mrs S 2 16
Rexford, Charles ; . . . . 38
Rexford, John L. 3 80
Rowe, G C 6 64
Rosenthall, E 49 97
Rusaoll, Levi 11 20
Ray burn, JW 8 00
Rayburn, S 3 20
Rickard, John 30G 50
Ray, John & Son 119 20
Scott, Prior 122 16
Stewart, John 242 5S j
Simpson, Mrs A 70 24
Swiok, M 30 84
Smith, CM 16 00
Smith. John , 260 12
Sanier3, Jacob 60 80
Stevens, Mrs Anna 22 40
Shedd, EN 32 00
Shedd, Mrs SL 48 64
Shedd, S L 19 50
Spidell, Mrs HE 12 88
Spencer, Geo W 58 85
Sylvester, John 51 28
St Clar, Wayman ,. 34 64
Stock, M 4 Co 122 63
Smith, Mrs JeruSha 52 40
Smith, I H t 5 68
Simmons, R G 18 12
Simmons, R G guar, for 0,Kiger. .. 4 00
Spangler, Mrs John 12 80
Smith, W P 15 40
Straight, Mrs Margaret 12 80
Sawtell, Mrs Martha 3 20
Sawtell, FH 480
Stilson, Jejsiea M 17 34
Stewart, Mrs L J. .- 60 80
St Germain, Madetia 17 12
St Clair, Wayman heirs of 75 20
Smith, Green B 879 90
Thayer, Mrs Melissa D 160 00
Taylor, George 22 53
Tuller, Mrs M A 24 00
Thompson, R M 68 13
Taylor, B T 50 99
Tyler, 11 C 1 15
Taylor, E H 560
Taylor. B 1 4 Son 31 20
Thompson. Mrs Mary 9 60
Trimble, Mrs H 3 20
Taylor, J C. 24 00
Vinyard,E... 20 35
Vincent 8 24
Vaughn, EC 6 76
Wyatt, John E. 37 10
Wilson, Mahala 25 60
Wilson, Louis F 83 97
Walden, Edward 82 14
Wilson, James P 51 68
Woodcock 4 Baldwin 172 18
Witham, AM 214 18
Woodward, E 86 88
Woodcock, MS 113 60
Wilkins, JT 120
Wadsworth, H 1 60
Wilson, Albert 4 05
Wilkins, H L 11 36
Wilson, Allen 19 60
Whi ney, C H 4 Co 67 89
Webber, Jacob 35 30
WiU Bros . 38 38
Winkle, Montgomery 16 88
Webber, Philip 25 44
White, BG 8 24
Wells, W A 83 17
Wheeler, W H 12 80
Wrenn, Mrs Geo P 11 20
Yantis, Jas A Estate of 25 44
Young, AJ 56 48
Zierolf, PMftCo 4800
Zierolf, PM 32 00
Zeis. John, ' 10 40
W O R R Co 864 00
Land department OCRRCo 192 00
T Egenton Hogg 4 Wallis Nash ... 631 00
Real Estate Agencyf
6RE60M
Real Estate Agents, will buy. sell, or
lease farms or farm property on
commission;
Having made arrangements for co-opera
tion with agents in Portland, and being; ml
ly acquainted with real property in Benton
county, we feel assured of giving entire sat
sfactinn to all who may -favor us with their
patronage. O. A. WauGo&eb,
20-fiyI T. J. Buford,
The Gazelle Job Printing Office
IS PBKPABSD TO DO ALL KID OP WOHK NRATLT.
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
(Written by a special correspondent.)
TKB NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AND THE
DRINKING TRAFFIC
There are two kinds Of citizenship
in our government, State and United
Stattn. The district ot Columbia
and the Territories, unorganizeed in
to States are under the direct control
of the national government.
Congress exercises exclusive con-
trol over the district of Columbia).
Congress legalizes the manufacturing
and sale of intoxicating liquors in tha
district of Columbia, and other pa-
sione, that are under its control.
Next, Congress reeoguizes and lega-
l;zes and makes the drink traffic a
legitmate commerce with foreign nsv
tions, and also among the States 6f
our union by regulating importation
and exportation, and through the
revenuve and excise" law. There i
vested in Congress by the terms of.
the Constitution, the authority and
power "to regulate commerce witb
foreign nations, and amousf the sev
eral Slates aud among the Indianr
tribes. By these terms Congress nol
only has the power to regulate use
ful commerce but to totally interdict;
and prohibit any traffic that is injuri
ous and detrimental to the welfare
of the people.
Congress prohibited the traffic of
slaves, both foreign powers. State
and Territories of our own govern
ment. Congress has many years
since enacted rigid laws against giv
ing or selling alcoholic liquors to the
Indian tribes totally prohibting it.
The Constitution provides for its own
amendment. We will as temperance
workers find it very difficult to sur
press and controll the liquor traffio
as long as adjoining States and Ter
rilories extend their legal protection
tad encouragement to the liquor bus
iness. J tie liquor tramc m ist, Da
made unifnmly illegal throughout
the United Stat'.-s. This is the work
that is before the temperance people.
It is useless to think of less or ask
less. This is the ultimate end with
the fr'en N of temperance in alt
parts of our nation. We must push
the battle to the last ditch, sprike tha
last gun of the enemy befof the ban
ner of successful prohibition can-
wave from every mountain and hill
top.
ff'SES OF THE ATMOSPHERE.
(South and West.)
"The air we breathe" is a pbrasa
often used, and .he most obvious
use of the atmosphere is, doubtless,
o furnish ox vgen for the lftg of
air-breathing animals; but it serves
other and scarcely less important
purposes in Nature's economy. It
furnishes carbonic acid and other re-'
quisite gases to growing plants. Aa
an elevator and carrier of watery va
por from ocean and lake and river to
mountain heights and over contin
ents, it serves to irrigate the land
and make it fruitful. But it ha a no-
less important, though a loss obvioua
use, as a vast reservoir and distribu
tor of the sun's heat, moderating tha
intensity of his direct rays by ab
sorption, and thus furnishing a warm
covering for the earth's surface. Piof,
P. Langley, of the Alleghany ob
servatory, in his experiment oa
Mount Whitney in 1881, found whea
near the summit that the skin of bi
tttendants appeared burned, and
,-ater in a copper vessel was boiled
y the direct rays of the sun, while
the temperature outside of tha sun'
direct ravs was intensely cold.
About forty miles north-west . of
Goldendale, and some twenty milea
back from the Columbia river is a
large valley of good land, as yet
comparatively unknown to the out
side world. It has quite a number
of thrifty settlers, but there is room
for many more. It is the best grasa
and dairying district in the country,
and does not produce inferior grain
or vegetables. We believe that a
store, a sawmill and a grist mill
would all do well there, and fully
expect to see its population doubled
within a tew years. It is bnt half a
days ride from either White Salmon
or Klickitat Landing, and the boma
hunter might find something desir
able along the route from either
place. Klickitat Gazette.