THE CORVALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1SS9.
THE MORTGAGE.
We worried through spring and winter,
through summer and through fall,
But the mortgage worked the hardest and
the steadiest of them all;
Zt worked on nights and Sundays, it worked
each holiday;
It settled down among us and never went
away.
, Whatever we kept from it seemed almost as
bad as theft; . ,
It watched us every minute and it ruled us
riuht and left.
The rust and blight were With us sometimes
and sometimes not;
Ibe dark-browed, scowling mortgage was
forever on the spot.
The weevil and the cutworm they went as
well .as came;
The mortgage stayed forever, eating heartily
all the same;
It nailed up every window, stood guard at
every door,
And happiness and sunshine made their
place with us no more.
Till with failing crops and sickness we got
stalled u pou the grade,
And there came a dark day 'nionjj us when
the interest wasn't paid.
And there came a sharp foreclosure and I
kind of lost my hold
And grew weary and discouraged, and the
farm was cheaply sold.
And the children left and scattered when
they hardly yet were grown;
My wife she pined and perished and I found
myself alone,.
What she died of was a "mystery," and the
doctors never knew, .
. But I know she died of mortgage just as
well's I wanted to.
If to trace a hidden
sorrow were within
the loet:r's art
They'd 'a' fou..d a mortgnge lying cn
that
poor woman heart.
Worm or beetle, drmmht or tempest, on a
farmer's laud may fall,
But for first-class ruination trust a mortgage
'gainst them all.
3f.O FEET HIGH.
The tallest smokestack in the
United Stales, and in fact the tall
est in the world designed solely
. for the purpose of providing a
draught for boilers, is receiving its
final courses o-day in this city",
says a Fall River correspondent of
the Boston Globe of date October
25th. It is intended to meet the
requirements of the entire steam
plant of the tour new mills of the
Fall River Iron Oonipairy.
Some idea of its size can be had
from "the following figures, furnish
ed by the contractor, Win. M. Mau
ley of this city: From the top of
the granite foundation to the cap
is 350 feet, the diameter at- the
base is 30 feet, at the top 21 feet,
the-flue is 21 feet throughout, and
the entire structure rests on a solid
. granite foundation 55x30, 1G leet
deep. In its' construction there
was used 1,700.000 bricks, 2,000
tons of stone, 2,000 barrels of mor
' tar, 1.000 loads of sand, 1,000 bar
. rels ot Portland cement, and the
.estimated cost is $40,000. It is
arranged for two flues 9 feet C
inches by 6 feet, connecting with
forty boilers, which are to be run
in connection with four triple-ex
Parisian engines of 1,350 horse
power each.
In erecting this immense shaft
no outside staging has been used,
but as the work progressed cross
pieces were set into the inner wall
and on these a platform laid for
thetime being. All material was
carried up on an .elevator, and self
closing hatches precluded the
danger of either workmen or ma
. terial falling from above, while by
speaking tubes and a system of
electric signals communication
.was established -between the
workmen and those below.
. It is circular in form, and to in
sure its being built absolutely
plumb observations were -taken
"with a transit at a point 400 feet
distant and the true center verified
every twenty feet the work was
carried up. The cap is. terra cotta,
in 128 sections, and below this a
distance of twenty-five and fifty
feet are piojecting rings. .Between
these is the narrowest point in the
dfameter of the shaft, fifteen feet
four inches.
Ground was. broken April 6th,
and bricklaying commenced June
5th. . Ten men have been engaged
on the job, under the direction .of
Michael McNally, and no accident
has marred the undertaking.
The next tallest chimney in this
country is at the Clark Thread
Works, Kerney, N". J. This is 335
feet high, 28 feet 6 inches at base,
and was finished about a year ago;
1,697,000 bricks were used in its
construction, the cost being $30,
000. ' '. There are but three taller chim
neys in the world, and these are in
connection with chemical works,
: w&ere high shafts are essential to
carry noxious gases and odors off
without endangering the public
health. That of Townsend's
works in Glasgow, Scotland, is
454 feet high and 32 feet at the
base; that is, the height of the biick
work; but owing to the fact that it
was struck by lightning, and some
what damaged, as a precautionary
meaure, a copper extension subse
quently was added to it, making
its entire height 488 feet. In or
der to get a man up to do this
work, a kite was flown over the
chimney and a line dropped across.
Then a rope was hauled by this
means over, and thus the workman
was pulled up, to whom the copper
sheets were hoisted one at a time,
and who did the perilous job at the
top alone.
When this chimney was building
and nearly finished a heavy gale
canted it nine feet out of plumb,
but this was remedied by sawing
into the mortar on the side from
which the stack leaned, until the
immense slialt gradually settled
back to its former position. It was
three years building and cost
$40,000. '
I he next highest is at Tenuant
& Go's, also in Glasgow. This is
435 leet, 40 feet base, 13 feet flue,
and was one year building.
The puly other taller than the
Fall River chimney is at Dobson
& Barlow's Bolton, England. It is
367 feet 6 inches high, 33 feet 10
inches at base, 13 feet 2 inches
flue, and cost $15,000.
The Fall River one is graceful
js . ,
aim symmetrical in snape, unt oc
cupies a position near the Shove,
on the lowest level in the city, and
does not show ' up to good ad
vantage. HE BET ON A SPRINTER.
A young San Francisco sport
rushed into the police station last
evening at about 9:30 o'clock and
asked for an officer to go out to
a restaurant and arrest Ilarry
Bethune, the sprinter, a man
named Gibson and several others.
When the young sport recovered
his breath he informed assistant
district Church, who was present,
that he had been induced to put
up $500 on Gibson in a sprint
which had taken place earlier in
the evening at the racetrack be
tween Gibson and Bethune. The
latter won the race 125 yards
handily, and the sport lost his
money. lie declared he had been
swindled, and wanted Gibson and
Bethune arrested. Assistant dis
trict Bhurch informed the young
man that he had recourse to the
civil courts only. The young man
went att-ay muttering revenge
upon the sprinters. S. F. Chroni
cle, 6.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker
is having trouble over the desire of
the town of. Folsom, Del., to'
change its name. The town was
named some years ago in honor of
Mrs. Cleveland. The voters are
now anxious to stand well with
the administration and want the
town to be named Lynne Mawr,
The postmaster general has taken
no action in the matter, but is in
receipt of the following letter- sent
by Mr. Cleveland to the people of
Folsom: aI have no objection
whatever to the change of name of
Folsom postoffice to Lynne Mawr.
I did not know there was a post-
office by the name of Folsom at
that point. Indeed, I think it a
very proper thing to do."
Or you might feed the lion;
"What is the best system of short
hand?" a student wants to know.
Well, there are several good did
you ever try a buzz saw! Point
at that two ox three times and it
will leave you as short handed as
a country paper on circus day.
Burdette.
Out of a population of 1,700,000
it is estimated that with the most
liberal education, there ate iu New
York a million non-church-goers.
They are, as compared with the
church people, two to one.
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Qastorla,
. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.
It has so long been accepted as
a fact that the use of alcoholic
beverages shortens life, that evi
dence 'to the contrary causes a
shock such as might be expected
from proof against the rotundity
of the earth. The textbooks on
alcohol which have been iu many
states forced into the public
schools, are gotten up on the theory
that the use, in any form, of that
poison shortens life The British
Medical association, a scientific
body of the first rank, with a de
sire to prove the evil effects of
spirit-drinking, began a compre
hensive investigation, collecting
vital statistics and building .up
life tables with the greatest care.
After accumulating many thous
ands of cases, in which the habits
of deceased persons in respect to
the use ot liquor had been care
iuny asseriaineci, me wnole mass
of evidence was examined, with
the most astonishing result. The
classification was into teetotallers.
moderate drinkers, and drinkers
who drink between drinks, making
excessive use of spirits. It was
found that the average life of the
teetotallers was 51 years 22 days;
of the temperate drinkers 63 years
13 days; careless drinkers, 59 years
67 days, and the'free and haditual
drinkers, 57 years 59 days. Either
the investigation is absurdly in
accurate or it "happened to cover a
class of people of such hardv
habits and constitution as to re
sist the effects of stimulation. It
is easy to believe that the mod
erate drinker may have long life,
since medical science has been
unable to find any weakening
trace left by liquor in the sjTstem,
provided the effect of one in
dulgence has time to completely
disappear before another follows it.
But it taRes a man with organs
like a steam engine to stand the
constant stimulation of stronr
iquor. Men like to live long, but
we don't think they will prefer to
purchase longevity by keeping
their clay soaked. A shprt and
sober life has more in it than a
long and drunken one. There is
no doubt that the effect ot alcohol
upon the duration of life depends
much upon the age at which in
dulgence begins. The Romans
seldom drank wine until they had
passed thirty years. The Norse
men abstained until after they had
been in battle, another method
of fixing an age at which spirits
might be drank. Not many men
in this country are hurt by either
liquor or tobacco, if they refrain
from both until they have reached
maturity, at twenty-five or thirty
years. The liquor habit is distinct
from the practice o"f using vinous
or malt beverages as a part of the
diet. Taken with food at regular
times, light wines or sound beers
are often a preventive of the al
coholic habit entirely, and there
certainly is no proof that they lead
to it, as is often asserted by the
prohibitionists.- Alta.
At a recent meeting in
lyn, Dr. Benjamin Lee,
Pennsylvania board of
Brook
of the
health,
urged the purchase of Cuba by the
United States, for the protection
of our sanitary interests. He said
that it was evident that Spain
would never undertake the task of
clearing the island of epidamic
diseases, and that a single wide
spread epidemic of yellow fever
would cost the United States more
than the island, to say nothing of
the suffering and sorrow. His
argument, which is a strong one,
is attracting a treat deal of at
tention An international law. suit of a
religious character, involving indi
rectly the pope and the King of
Belgium, has been begun in New
York, over the disputed ownership
of 9,000,000 francs of ecclesiastical
funds. The strangest part of ; the
ease is, Robert Ingersoll will rep
resent the pope's interests.
Bargains in dress goods at Nolan's. '
Children Cry for .
Pitcher's Castorla.
IT WAS LOHA IHOrJOB,
Colonel Well, what's tho matter now T
Prirate I've rot llrer trouble and dyapepata,
and ought to get leave for thirty days.
Colonel I'll elre you ten, and If yon. take
Joy's Vegetable Sarsmparilla that will be lone
nou;b. .
Fred H. Blacker of 19 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, writes : I hire spent many a dollar
for medicines, but the only thing that ever
stopped my liver trouble and dyspepsia was
Joy's Vegetable Sanaperilla.
Guitar Solomon of 223 Valencia street. Baa
Francisco, writes that It has entirely fretd him
of his ladigestiou au i sick headaches.
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Time Between ;
ALBANTand SAN FRANCISCO
33 HOUKH.
California Express Train Sea Sally
FOUTLAND and SAN FKANCISCO.
SOUTH.
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Iff Aibwr., ....8rlS p. m,
4v ftap FVispo...7:45.ni.
KORTII
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Ar I'ortlaiid 10:45 m
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For accommodation of second-class
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TJro S. P. Co.'s Ferry makes connection with al
the regular trains on tue East Eviue mtisian
loot of .F street.
Wort Sido Division.
BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS,
11x11 Trail. -Daily Except Sunday.
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Portland 7:30a. iu.
ConallU 1:88 p. ia.
ABASH.
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Portland . . . . 440,0.
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Liava. J AiuuvR.
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Za December we .shall commence publica
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