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Cm"; SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. COURTESY. There is no individual quality which is as valuable as courtesy. No one can aflord to be without it whether rich or poor, private or official. No quality so smoothes the rough places in human life and makes human association sweet and enjoyable. A kind word, a pleasant answer, a genuine compliment may lighten the load of some f.ad heart and smooth e the rough path of some struggling mortal. Courtesy costs nothing but is exceedingly valuable even in a business view. Courtesy has caused the business success of many a man where the sour and morose have failed. Most men who have risen to greatness have been exceedingly courteous. Many a man who looks cold and reserved when in repose makes himself doubly appreciated by grace and courtesv when in association with others. Lord Beaconsfield, one of England's greatest Premiers, was one of this kind. An old lady, a Mrs. De Burgh, hearing of his asthma, sent him a pot of btock holm tar with a note advising him to expose it in his bedroom at night. It proved beneficial. Many men in his position would have sent a note of thanks, but Lord . Beaconsfield took the time from his very burdensome duties and visited her in person and thanked her for her kind present. Such acts are better evidences of true . greatness than any high position . Be courteous and polite to every body, young man; it will prove better than capital. FACTS ABOUT RAILROADS . The interstate commerce com mission has issued its annual re port, prepared by Henry C. Adams. This shows that the to tal mileage of the railways in the United States on the 30th of June, 1889, was 149,901.72 miles, or one mile of road to every 20.14 square miles of country. The total amount of stocks, bonds and out standing debts for 136,883 miles of railway was $8,129,787,731, or $59,392 per mile of road. The total income for the same number of miles of road was $1,000,214, 691, and the total expenditure, exclusive of betterments, $880, 487.0S9. The revenue per passen eer per mile was 2.349 cents, while the average cost of carrying one passenger one mile was 2.042 cents; revenue per ton of freight per mile, 1.001 cents; average cost of carrying one ton of freight one mile, .63 cents; revenue per, train mile, passenger trains, $1,139; aver age cost of running a passenger train one mile, 84.691 cents; reve nue per train-mile, freight trains, $1,657; average cost of running a freight train one mile, $1 .038; av erage cost per train-mile of all trains earning revenue, 96.05 cents; percentage of operating expenses to operating income, 65.34 cents, of the total stock, 61.44 per cent., and of the total bonded debt, 21.69 per cent, paid no dividends or in terest. Theodore Urban states that he has evidence that America was settled about 650 years after the deluge, and that the tribes that sprang up had tools of metal as well as of stone. . The population of Norway shows a higher percentage of light eyes (97.25) than any other country in Europe. BJack hair is found in only 2 per cent, and red hair in 1.5 per cent. After immersion in water for thirty-seven days, specimens . of pine were found by Frof. D. V. Wood to have been lengthened 0.065 per cent., oak, 0.085 per cent., and chestnut, 0.165 per cent., the lateral swelling being 2.6 per cent, for pine, 3.5 per cent, for oak and 3.60 for chestnut. The loss of light in passing through glass has been tested by two physicists of Berlin. A sim ple translucent but not transparent glass diminished the light 27 per cent.: cathedral glass, both white ,.nrl with a eliVlif ormind tint. 12 cuav if .v.. O O 7 I per cent; plain white Rhenish "double glass," 10 per cent; and plain thin mirror glass, 10' per cent. Ground glass with cut glass stars and a white glass background, such as is found in house fanlights, obstructed 60 per cent of the light, and plain ground glass with the background, 40 per cent. Experience has 6hown that brick tunnels and drains cannot be made water-tight .when exposed to con siderable pressure, as water is forced through not only the "bricks but the cements and mortars. In experiments last year by Mrs. J. B. Ffancis, about fourteen gallons of water per square foot of surface nasKprl through a thickness of f o nearly sixteen inches of cement in twenty-four hours, under a pres sure of seventy-seven pounds per ssauare inch. Other engineers have concluded that it is not practicable to build a tight bulk-head o cement-laid bricks when the pres sure exceeds sixty-four pounds per square inch. THIS YEAR'S ELECTIONS. Pennsylvania will elect a state treasurer. Ohio vwill elect governor and state officers. Mississippi , will elect governor and state officers. Virginia, will elect governor and state officers. New Jersey will elect governor and state officors. Massachusetts will elect govern or and state officers. Iowa will elect governor and lieutenant governor. Maryland will elect comptroller and attorney-general. Elections in ten other states will take place on November 5. Nebraska will elect a supreme court judge and two regents. Kentucky held a general elec tion for state treasurer on August 5th. New York will elect state offi cers except governor and lieuten ant governor. North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington and Montana will elect full state governments and fijrislatures. which will chose eight new United States senators Each new state will also elect a new representative in congress except South Dakota, which will elect two.- - OVERLAID TO CALIFORNIA Southern Pacific Company's -LINK- TIIE MT. SHASTA ROUTE. 3 Time Between ALBANY and SAN FRANCISCO 35HOUKK. ; 0al3snd Express Traini Bus Bally -PORTLAND and SAN FRANCISCO. WlRTif Lv San Frisco 7:00 pm Lv Albany. :45ara SOUTH. Lt Portland ...4:00p.m. I 1 11 ..I J m JW AIU.I.T U.1J i 1 - . . . j ------ -- AT Ran Friaco... 7:45 p.m. Ar Y ortiano. .-.m: a ni Local Passenger Train, Daily.except Sunday L Portland 8:00 a. m. I Euirene :00 a. n i.T Albany 12:4 p. m. I Lv Albany 11:85 a. m Ar KUjfone z:ipm ar runuuu . . . -a. v Local Passenger Train. Daily.except Sunday iin r. m l,v. . . Albanv Ar...6:30 a m q.i n m Ar. . . Lebanon. ..Lv. .11:35 a m 12:60 p m...Lv. .. Albany .. ..Ar. ..2:45 p in 1 :3o p m. . Ar. . .ljenanon. ..uv. . p -Pullman Buffett Sleepers: TOURIST SLEEPING CARS, For accommodation of second-class passengers, attached to Express I rams. m. a D ri 'a ffamr mftlr a nnnnftdton With ill thsrszuiar trains on the East Side Division from foot ol F street. Wort Stlo Division. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS. PURCHASING POWER OF GRAIN. Hail Trail. Daily Except Sunday. t.KAVie. Portland 7:30 a.m. Corrallis 1:30 p. m. AKRIVK. Corvallis 12:25 p. m Portland e:ZU p. m In forty-seven months, ending May 1, the eleven cable car lines of San Francisco killed twenty-one j people. In Chicago in twelve months, ending April 1, the three cable car lines of Chicago killed six people. It is proposed to celebrate in the city of St. Louis, April 30, 1903, the one hundredth anniversary of the greatest real estate transaction in American history, the purchase of Louisiana. Halter the colts early, and if thev must go to town with the mares teach them to lead alongside of their mothers, and thereby save much trouble. The destruction of fallen apple's this ses:6on will greatly aid in less ening the number ot insects next year. LB4VB. Portland 4:50 p. m. UcMinnville 5:45a.m. ARRIVE. MnMinnvllla... 8:0OD. m Portland.. s00. ml THROUGH TICKETS to all points South and East via California. Cm. full information retrardincr rates? maps! etc, call on company's agent at Corvallis or Albany. m n sst?d0 . . i 17 JhD A mint. E. KOEHLEK manager CO. "Columbia River Route." Train for the East leave Portland at I 7:45 a. m. and 9:30 p. m. d;uly. fTT-Tr TjlfTlCl to and from princi Vl J. O pal points in the United States, Uanaua, ana Europe. ELEGANT NEW DINING CARS PULLMAN . PALACE SLE EPEKS. Free family sleeping cars run through on Express trains irom x oruana to OMAHA, In 1816 it took just one bushel of corn to buy one pound of nails; now one bushel of corn will buy ten pounds of nails. Then it re quired sixty-four bushels of barley to buy one yard of , broadcloth; now the same amount of barley will pay for twenty yards of broad cloth. It then required the price of one bushel of wheat to pay for one yard of calico; now one bushel of wheat will buy twenty yards ol calico. KNEW WHAT HE WANTED. "Is there anything I can do for vou?" asked Mrs. Curaso tenderly when her husband was suffering from seasickness. "What do you want?" "I want the earth!" gasped Cumso, as he leaned over. the rail. N. Y. Sun. AN INDUSTRIOUS IOWA GIRL. Miss Jennie Slack, aged 16 years residing in the blue grass region of Iowa, has this season planted and cultivated thirty -five acres of corn, besides milking six cows night and morning and helping in other work about the farm and household. The corn-is in splendid condition for a big crop, and the vounjr. lady who raised it is said to be fine-looking, intelligent and none the worse for. the hard work she has done her invalid father, who was unable to pay a hired hand ox do it himself. Such girls make good helpmeets for worthy and industrious young men. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The S. B. remedies have been tested and will not deceive yon. g-J-nv "There is not," said Gov. Biggs, of Delaware, the other day, "in the state of Delaware to-day a single penitentiary, If a man beats his wife, or sets fire to a neighbor's barn, or breaks into a house, he is not shut up with a lot of other criminals, with full time and op portunity to learn all their tricks of deviltry that he did not know be fore. As a preventive of crime the whipping post has a much oreater terror than a term in the penitentiary, and I have never known of a man that came back for a second dose. He simply leaves the state. Maybe he goes to New York; I don't know. At any rate he seeks another home, and you may rest assured that if he stays in Delaware he lives a very auiet life. To be sure it is a relic of barbarism, but it is our way." The color in a horse is of not so much importance as the size, gait action and form. These are prin cipally what tell when placed upon the market. SWEPT BY THE TIDE OF POPULARITY. To the 'topmost pinnacle of success, Hoe teter's Stomach Bitters stands a shining proof of what genuine merit, backed by the living farce of proven facts, can attain. The North and South American continents, Europe, Australia, the West Indies, Guate mala and Mexico have all contributed wide patronage and testimony of the most favora ble kind but unsolicited to swell the reputation of this sterling remedy. Among the maladies for which the most convincing public and professional testimony - proves fever, billious remittent, dumb ague and annA oaIta. dvunmiftift.. livir complaint. ft 1 - ' nervoueneas, debility, kidney and bladder complaints. i mitigates trie mummies 01 age, hastens convalescence, has a tendency to prevent ill cousequences from exposure and exhaustion. Persons of sedentary ... ... - i 1 II 1? - J 11. : .labits ana iaoonousoc:upations win uuu u, an ever useful tonic. Turkeys should be given lull range as they ' destroy thousands of insects at - this season when foraging. . ' ! - . Among the ' 15-cent, 25 cent," or even $1 barbers none rank any better than John S. Moore and P. Lewis. They are new well prepared to shave you in the neatest style and fix you up as trim as a fighting cock or a Chinese pheasant. This shop is on Mam street, nearly opposite the brick livery stable.' If the Oregon papers see fit they can copy this with due credit P itcher's Castorla. Every man really believes in his bravery until he is tried. . When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, When she was a Child, she cried (or Castorla, When she became Hiss, she clung to Castorla, When she had Children, she gave them Castorfa. The S. B. remedies, manufactured at Dufur, Wasco county, Ur., are last beuom ing standard remedies. g23-m All who are troubled with colds or chronic coughs should try a. U. Co e. cougn cure It speaks for itseJf. ag23-nv VaQderpool's S. B." remedies ought to be good. - - aKnt F. M. JOHNSON, - ATTORNEY AT LAW, CORVALLIS, OR. -zrv- . MHMowtl rMh'a In II t.Hj Mwlrtl A IsVt r&V foe all the first-claw inaur&oce compaiue2:24 : .;: i.i.! ff l.i.i :th'.'-l ..;! l! ' Ikii ...ti it. ri.it ttf.it:) i--t:i r t'e i' i 1 fl ! V. cit ' JITS. 1 (( l!'- V!v. ,tt: " ci. n :: .'iJ: VN a C- i'i i. tMii i .' &&&&& afea-ii ;;,v . TP.A&2 MARMS.; In Vt;' ;. ' " vr- ' ' .: f '. . -GET YOXJH- lliiill At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of the! Oregon Pacific It ailruad. Expnai Train. EiilyEiceptSmliy. miTKniT. BLUFFS. and KANSAS CITY. Free of Charge and without Change. Close connections at Portland for San Francisco and Fnget Sound points. For further Darticulars inquire of any Agant oi tne vompuny or a. i .. iUAAnrjijij. G. P. and T. A. n .T SMTTW. Gen l Manager, Jfortiand, uregoa. MAX. CAPLAN, ME MA NT TA1LUK, frSlinn in flia rnmn fnrmerlv OCCUDied bv g v Williina & naint ahnn. First-class fits and first-clam work guaranteed. A tine I line of importea cloths irom wnicn to aeiech tiive me a trial. a-io-ov-ynt. The BXnmSS' GUIDE is issued Marcn ana sept l each year. It is an eney lelonadia. of useful infor- iffi.tinn fnr ftll who Dili. cnoae the luxuries or ins niMiio wnn uid furnish von with 11 the necessary and unnecessary - appliances to ride.wauc, aance, siesp, m.r oK Vnnt wnrlc. tea to ohttTOh. or stay at home, and in various aises, wl ttnA nnAnlitina. JllHt flcure OUt what is required to do all these things COMFORTABLY, and you can mtkei fog estimate of the value of the BOTjEBB T.TTTTi W TO-Vtih will VlO . sent UT20H receipt of 10 cents to pay postage, MONTGOMERY WARD & CO.i . Ul-114 Miohigai Avenue, Chicago. 111. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. VnfiM vet hAMriir man 4-fieif. T will Tt 1 AlVKMfW IO naav Kavuu V1IW ja. was w sw Mnnoiriltt fs ftrfs Wakfs AM ttWiTfwlfs vjriiuoiuiv u svaMW vi aw sa. avwwaH whatever contracted by any body except l if I 3 if .... uy uiywii w vy uijr wribicu vruvn. iuw chants take notice. W. W. DOW. UO&vaixis, June za, 18S5S. a,tHome2 E2 fi Gr aig & Oono m Gazette Officer, Corvallis, Oregon Children Cry for;
