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THE CORVALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1891. Highest of ali in Leavening Power. AESCLliTEOi' IN HONOR OF THE COPDESS DOORCA. M'errible Totures Undergone by Natives of the Inland of Mauritus. Thousands of Indians had assembled on the grounds when I arrived and presented a picturesque appearance with their yellow, pink, or scarlet robes, wrapped in graceful folds about them, while the men wore massive gold or silver ear, toe, and finger rings, anklets, etc. An old man, who seemed to be acting as a priest, after going through various incantations, was ap proached bv a well-dressed Indian. The old fel'low muttered something and then they both set up a shout. The priest uncoiled a rope and began lashing the Indian over the head and face, bringing blood at every blow. The victim, or "happy man," as he was called, never winced, but stood motion less until the flagellation was over. He was then smeared with ashes and scarlet paint, and was considered one of the heroes of the day. My attention being attracted by a crowd at the en trance, I went to see the cause, and found a young man lying quite nude upon the ground. On "making inquiries 1 discovered that he had been very sick and had made a vow that if he re covered he would roll around the tem ple, and lie was about to fulfill his vow. As he rolled along his wife went before him to clear away any chips or stones that niicrht hurt him. He appeared to be in the last stages of consumption, and when he had completed half the distance he fainted. Buckets of water were thrown on him and he revived aufliciently to continue, the crowds en couraging him. He finished the circle of the temple and then fainted again. Four men removed him to the shade of a, tamarind tree, where the women combed the dirt out of his long hair -and washed his body. He was speech less when I left him, and it did not seem as if he could long survive his task. The religions rite which is called running upon tire created a good deal of excitement among the wor shipers. Piles of wood were burned which in about one hour became a bed of live embers. These embers were distributed over a square of about twenty-six feet. An excavatiou a foot deep and six feet square was made near the embers, which was filled with water. When everything was declared to be ready by the priest, who was the master of ceremonies, music was heard in the distance and a procession moved along the grassy plain, preceded by a man bearing a "platform, upon which was an image dressed in Indian cos tume, loaded with jewelry. A similar procession advanced from the opposite side and faced the first. At a given signal an old man with only a cloth .about his loins, bearing a child iu. his arms, stepped into the square and walked across the bed of embers with out flinching. Three young men fol lowed, and then a dozen rushed in aud ran across, stopping for a moment to cool their feet in the trench tilled w ith water. The contortions, screeching, and yelling of the latter were terrible, and "would make the stoutest heart quail. The Indians who walk overthe tire have to pay for the privilege of so doing, aud they claim that it is only when they are sinful that the tire cau hurt them. Another form of worship or rather torture, was to run wires through the body and then work them back and forth. When the blood ran a certain powder was thrown upon the body so it would not show plainly. I saw men and women with skewers thrust through their, cheeks, tongues, and lips, and one poor wretch had a sharp wire, as thick as a large pin, in serted in the forehead and passed through the face downward, until it came out at the chin. These men paid $2 each for the privilege of having a wire run through them, besides other fees to the gods and priests. Brooklyn Eagle. Berry Names. "Strawberry." A fruit. The word is made up of "straw" and "berry." The Aryan root of straw is star, which means to strew the star being a strewer of light. ' By the time the Ar yan root has passed through several changes in passing from Asia to the Anglo-Saxon land it has become strae. Straw is a corruption of strae. which means to stray. The strawberry is a straying plant is a stray-berry in re ality, but owing to the corruption no ted is known as strawberry, So star and straw-berry are both from the same Aryan word. Both are beautiful. "Berry" comes-from the Sanskrit bhas, to eat." In Anglo-Saxon it is berga, and in Gothic, bhas, the same as in the older tongue, .the Sanskrit. The sense of bhas seems to be "edible fruit." "Raspberry." The old name was rasmse-be.rrv. In fact, as mav oe no ted in Bacon's Essay, the fruit was called raspes, without the berry. In Italian it is rasno, a rasp, a rough im plement, which quality this fruit is supposed to resemble hence its name rasp-berry. 'Gooseberry.1 The word has noth ing to do with goose. The proper name is groise-berry. The word is krus, or kroes, crisp, curling, or frizzled which relates to the condition of the surface of the rougher kinds of the wild goose berrv. "Huckleberry." The same as whor tleberrv, both variants of hurtleberry, which is but a corruption of the old English heorot, a hart (u male deer) anSberige, berrv. Davenport Democrat. Why ARE we Sick? Because we allow tbe Liver, the bowels, nnd the Kidneys, these great organs, to 1 ecoine closed or torpid, and poisonous humors are forced into tha blood. - Expel them by using Plun der's Pregon Blood Purifier. U. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889. THE WHITE ANTS OF AFRICA. " They Build Great Structures of Clay In the Trees and on the Ground. The white ant is blind; it has maziy enemies, and can never procure food until it comes above ground. How does it solve the difficulty? It takes the ground out along with it. I have seen white ants working on the top of a high tree, and yet it was under ground. They took up some of the ground with them to the tree-top; just as the Esquimaux heap snow up, build ing it into the low tunnel huts in which they live, so the white ants col lect earth,' only in this case not from the surface, but from some depth un derneath the ground, aud plaster it into tunneled ways. Occasionally these run along the "ground, but more often mount in endless ramification to the tops of the trees, meandering along every branch and twig, and here and there debouching into large covered chambers which occupy half the girth of the trunk. Millions of trees in some districts are thus fantastically plastered over with tubes, galleries, a'nd cham bers of earth, and many pounds' weight of subsoil must be brought up for the mining of even a single tree. Peering over the growing wall one soon discovers one, two. or more ter mites of a somewhat larger build, con siderably longer, and especially of the mandibles. These important-looking individuals saunter about the- rampart in the most leisurely way, but yet with a certain air of business, as if perhaps one was the master of works and the other the architect. They are posted there as sentries, and there they stand, or promenade about at the mouth of every tunnel, like Sister Ann, to see if anybody is coming. Sometimes some body does come in the shape of another aut the real ant this time, not the de fenseless neuropteron, but some val iant and belted knight from the war like forniicidaj. Single or in troops this rapacious little insect, fearless in its chitonous coat of mail, charges down the tree-trunk, its antennas wav ing deliance to the enemy and its cruel mandibles thirsting for termite blood. The worker white ant is a poor, de fenseless creature, and, blind and un armed, would fall an immediate prey to these well-drilled banditti, who for age about in every tropical forest- in unnumbered legion. But at the crit ical moment, like Goliath from the Philistines, the soldier termite advan ces to the fight. With a few sweeps of its scythe-like jaws it clears the ground, ami while the attacking party is carry ing off its dead the builders, uncon scious of the fray, quietly continue their work. lo every 100 workers in; a white-ant colony, which numbers many thousands of individuals, there are perhaps two of these fighting men. j The division of labor here' is very won derful, and the fact that besides these two specialized forms there are in every nest two other kinds of the same in sect, the kings aud queens, shows the remarkable height to which civilization in these communities has attained. These ruouuds are built into a mesh work of tunnels, galleries, and cham bers where the social interests of the community are attended to. The most spacious of these chambers, usually far underground, is very properly alloca ted to the head of the society, the queen. The queen-termite is a very rare insect, and as there are seldom more than one, or at most two, to a colony, and as the royal apartments are hidden far iu the earth, few per sons have ever seen a queen, and in deed most, if they did happen to come across it, from its very singular appear ance, would refuse to believe that it had "any connection with white ants. Her one duty is to lay eggs, and it must be confessed she discharges her function with complete success, for in a single day her progeny often amounts to many thousands. Full Mall Gazette, They Painted the Church. A church in Jersey City needs paint inr. Instead of squandering funds on professional painters the trustees of this church are going to economize by getting some of the church members to help them. Most of these good people have never handled a paint-brush. That will make little difference. They are iroinir to lav the paint on with all their might. A firm of dealers in paint will supplv at a "-onerous discount the needed pigments. When the brethren meet at the church, all armed with paint brushes of various sizes and pat terns, there will be sucn a picnic as is seldom seen. A church in Kansas tried this home made method of painting last summer The brethren who laid on the paint were so liberal with it that it was not thoroughly dry for several weeks. The backs of the pews' were not cushioned, so it seemed good to the amateur paint ers to adorn -the backboards with a coat of white. This was laid on so thickly as to be glossy, and was much admired until the hrst bunday, wnen the people who sat in the pews leaned arainst it. Many of them stuck fast. The pew-backs were disfigured by the marks of the Sunday clothes which were pressed against them. The Sun dav clothes were spoiled by the paint which thev took from the pew-backs. The congregation, homeward bound, presented two remarkable spectacles one from behind, the other from before. The rear view gave the idea of a white washed flock of worshippers. From the front the faces of the victims of home-made painting had a discon tented and sorrowful look, as if just let loose from a funeral. The pastor escaped the baptism of pigment, as no body had thought of painting the cush ioned back of the pulpit sofa. New York Press. Steamer excursion June 7th. mV" HEALTH RESTORER. S USE IT! IT T8 TITFj img A.Ii MEPTOIffP. It rones the .Liver and Kidneys and Stomach, cures Headache. Dvsnersia, creates an Appe tite, Purifies the Impure Blood, and Mafres The "Weak Strong. Used everywhere. $1 a bottle ; six for $5. S. T. JEFFREYS. Attorney at Law, Deputy District Attorney. Corvallis, ... - Oregon. fHIDrC Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Bronchitis, bUn UO Hoarseness, Whooping Cough, Croup, Sore Throat, Asthma, and every affection of the Throat, Lungs and Chest, including Consumption. Speedy and permanent. Genuine signed " L fiuttt." $30,000 TO L0 AN ton Oountv. Call on or write S. N. STEELE & CO., Albany, Oregon. If you want THE BESt, buy fil F&j'Q NORTHERN HLLLfi O crown If the Merchant you deal witli doa3 no keep them send to ALLEN direct. He pays the postage. Beautiful Catalogue sent free. Address: E. W. ALLEN, 171 Second Sir mum or,. PHILIP WEBER, dealer;ix Carpets, Wall Paper, Furni ture and Bedding, CORVALLiS, - OREGON. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE COR vallis Gazette, the oldest pa per in Benton co. One year, $2 G. R. FARRA, M. D., PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Special attention given to Obstetrics and diseases of Women and Children. Office up stairs in Crawford & Farra's brick. Office hours, 8 too a.m., api to 2 and 7 p. m. 1:13-71. DENTISTRY. J. 15. WELLS, D. D. S.. (Successor to, N. B. Avery.) Ether administered for painless extracti f teeth. Oflice over the First National Bank. PIONEER BAKERY! AND RESTAURANT, August Schloeman, Prop., Meals at all hours. Fresh Bread Every Morning Delivered Free before Breakfast. I BAKE DAILY The following varieties: American Home Made, German Milk Bread, French and Bye Bread, also fresh cakes, pies, buns, etc. Wedding & Fancy a kes A Specialty. Special attention paid to orders from abroao. o:2-ni3 L. G. -AMMAN, M. D., lIOMfEOPATIIIC PHYSICIAN. OFFICE Over Nolan's Store, Second and Monroe Streets. RESIDENCE On Jackson Street, tetween Eighth and Ninth OFFICE HOURS From 8 to 12 a m., and 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 p. ro. CoiTallis, - - Oregon. ffl. A. CANAN, PRO. THE' OCCIDENTAL IS A. NEW Build ing, newly furnished, and is first class n all its appointments. RATES LIBERAL. 3"Lare Sample Rooms on first floor for Commercial Men. RELIABLE EV1EN Wanted as traveling salesmen for a first class Cigar Company. Must give good ref erences, O. P. CI(iAR CO., Salem, N. C. A. HODES rilOPKIETOR OF TEE And Dealer in Choice Staple and Fancy Groceries. PURE WINES AND LIQUORS. Fresh Bread, Cakes, Pie3, Crackers, Etc., kept constantly on hand. Corvallis, - Oregon. J. M. APPLEWHITE.II. D., residence North 9th Street. H. S. PERNOT, M D., resilience 4th street, two doors north of Opera House. Applewhite & Ternot, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, .Corvallis, Oregon, Offices over J. D. Clark's hard ware store, and at R. Graham's drugstore. Hours: 8 to 12 a. m, 1:30 to 5, and 7 to 8:30 p. m. From Terminal or Interior Points the 8HTHEB KAILROAD Is the Line to Take TO UL FCEJS EAST ai S0CT3 It is the Dining Car Route. It runs Through Vestibuled Trains Every Day in the Year TO ST. 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Made from the very best ma terial, by skilled workmen, and with the best tools that have ever been devised for the purpose. Waranted to do all that can be reasonably expected of the very best typewriter extant. Capable of writing 150 words per minute or more according to the ability of the operator. A machine that will manifold more than double the number of sheets than any other typewriter without affecting the alignment in any re spect, as on this machine the algnment is indestructible. PRICE - - $10O. If there is no aiient in yoiir town, address us on the subject as we are more liberal wUh our Agents than any other Company in our line. . teaiisnal Typewriting Co.,' 2 PARK SQ., BOSTON, MASS. Agents Wanted. RorvalusRakery Bay n Pacific THE Oregon Pacific Ba ilroad T. E. Hogg, Receiver, and Oregon Development Co.'s STEAMSHIP LINE. 235 Miles Shorter; 20 Hours Less time than by any other route. First class through passenger and freight line from Portland all points in the Wiilameite valley to and from San Francisco, Oal. TIME SCHEDULE (except Sundays.) Leaves Albany 1 :00 p. n Leave Coivallisl:40 i n Arrive Yauuina 5:30 p. n Leaves Yaqiina6:45 a. in Leave Cor.allis 10:35 " Arrive Albany 11:10 a. ni. Orejron & California trains connect at Albany anil C.rvallis. The above trains connect at Yaquina with the Orejrnn Development Co.'s line of steamships be tween 1 aquina and ban Francisco. From Yaquina. SteamshiD "Willamette Valley," June 4tb, 13th, 22nd. Fiom San Francisco. Steamship "Willamette Valley," May 31st, June 9th, 18th, 27th. This Company reserves the riirht to chang sailing- dates without notico. N. B. Passengers from Portland and all Willamette valley joints can make close connection wfth the trains of the Yaquina route at Albany or Corvallis, and if destined to Sau Francisco should arrange to arrive at Yaquina the evening before date of sailing. 1'assentrer anil tremht rates always the owest. For information apply to I). W Cummins, freight and ticket agent, Corval lis, or to C. V. HUUUE, Gen. F. and P. Agent, Oregon fa cilic liailroad Co., Corvallis, Or. W. B. WEBSTER. Gen. F. and P. Agent, Oregon Develop. meat Co.. 304 Montgomery St., S. 1'., Cal. F. M. JOHNSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CORVALLIS, OR. itSTDoes a general practice in all the courts. Also apent for all the first-class insurance companies. 2:24 Benton County STRicj c:o. Complete Set of Abstracts of Benton County. Ccweyancing & Perfecting Titles a Specialty, Money to Loan on Improved City and Country Property. J, E. IUULET I CO., - Proprietors. MAIN ST., CORVALLIS. Benton County PLANING MILLS, AND ASH MID 00RHGT0HY. V. P. WIARTYN, Proprietor Doors and SaHh kept in stock or made to order. Mouldings ot all kinds in pine or cedar. All orders will receive prompt at tention. I euarantee all my work to l e irst-class. West of S. I, depot, Corvallis, Oregon. 8 8-tf. Intelligent Readers Will Notice That '7i are not -warranted to cure all classes of diseases, but only such. OS result from a disordered liver, viz: Vertigo, Headache, Dyspepsia, Fevers, Costiveness, Bilious Colic, Flatulence, etc For these they are not -warranted infal lible, but are as nearly so as it Is possible to make a remedy, l'rice, 95 cents. Office, 39 & 41 Park Place, N. Y. CO NOT CRIPE, SICKEN Oil CONSTIPATE. Sure Cure for Sick Headache, I all troubles aiutlng irnm Indication or Constipation. ImproTes toe complexion bv PurifTine the Blood. The dons can be nlcelr adjusted to n. t ths cus, ai ono pill can never be too larte a dose. EaflT to tnUe a no much auaar. 42 pills put up in s strong vtal which ran h i-arried in vest pocket. 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We furnish every thinfc- W atari you. So rik. You con devote your Bpure moment a, or all your time to the work, 'ihia in an entirely new lend, and brings wonderful succew to every vvoiker, Betrinneri. art earning from 9'2 to 50 per week and uptriirds, and more after a little experience. We can furnish you the em ployment and teacb you t'UKK. No anaceto explain here. Full inforuiaUou H.KK. 'fR I'E CO. AlUUITA MAIMC fftflOO.OO a year fs behifr made hy John K. Goodwin 'frov.N.Y. Jit work for ua. leader, you may ti"t make aa miKli. but we can tench yinqiic-Kiy now 10 rnru irom n 10 .0 a day at the -Mart, and ni'-ie utyou go on. Hwlh kxvo, an a-re. ni nny pn o, America, roll rau comnteuce at LionM. aiv- hift- )) voirr time.or spare momenta only f the work. All i itew. Great pay htlth. fo everv worker. We tnrt ycui, fttrn!hUig everything. KASII-V, bl'EhlULY learned. rAJtUCLXA ItS FHEii- Add re at once, ntf&n f aVv I VJTa-jni.,t 1 MnNCV 151 -A ste EAST AND SOUTH VIA Southern pacific Routk Shasta Line. Express Trains Leave Portland Dailr. SOUTH . KOKTU Lv Portland . . . 7:00 p. in. I,v San Frisco.... 9:00 pm Lv Albiu:y 10:23 p. in. Lv Albany 6:21 an) Ar San Frisco 10:15 a.ui. Ar Portland 9:36 a m Above trains stop only at followinir stations north of Roseburg, hast Portland, Oregon City, Wood burn, SaJeiu, Albany, Tantrent, Shedds, Halsey. Har risburg, Junction Cit', Irving, Eugene. Kosehurg Mail Daily. Lv Portland 8:00 a. m. I LvKoselnirg....6:Z0 a. m Lv Albany 12:20 p. m. Lv AlbAy 12:00 in Ar lloseburi,' 5:40 p in I Ar Portland . . . .4:00 p m Albany Local Daily Except Sunday. leavk: arritb: Portland .5:00 p. in. .5:00 a. m. Albany 9:00 p. m Portland 9:00 a. in Albany Lebanon Branch. 2:36 p in 3:-5 p m 7:30 a in 8:22 a m ..Lv. .Ar.. .Lv.. .Ar.. .Albany. . .Lebanon. .Albany. . , . Lebanon . ..Ar. .Lv. -Ar.. .Lv . ..9:25 p m .8:40 p m .4:26 p ro. .3:40 p rn Pullman Buffett Sleepers. TOURIST SLEEPING CARS, For accommodation of second-clasa passengers, attached to Express Trains. West Side Eivhion. POKTLAND AND BETWEEN CORVALLIS. Hail Train. Sally Except Sunday. LKAVg. AKRIVK. Corvallis 12:10 p. in Portland 5t30 p. xa, Portland 7:30 a. m. Corvallis 12:65 p. m. At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of tb Oregon Pacific Kailroad. Express Train. Silly Szccpt Sunday. LBAVK. AKHIVK. McMinnville... 7:25 p. m Portland :20a. m) Portland 4:40 p. in. McMinnville 0:45 a. in. THROUGH TICKETS to all points South and East. For tiokets and full information regarding rates, maps etc., call on company's agent at U01 vallis. K. P ROGKRS. Asst. G. F. & P. AffOtlt. K. KOEH LEK Manager UNION PACIFIC RY. "Columbia River Route." Train for he East leave' Portland at 9:00 p. 111. il.iily. rT,Tfin7,nnQ toand from priuci. I LJ IV IU 1 O pal points iu United States, Canada, and Europe. ELEGANT NEW DINING CARS PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPERS . Free colonist sleeping cars, run through oq Express trains from Portland to OMAHA, COUNCIL BLUFFS, and KANSAS CITY. Free of Charge aud without Change. Close connections at Portland for San . Francisco and Ptiget Sound points. For further pa-ticnlars inquire of any A;out of the Company or T. W. LEE, G. P. and T. A. C. 6. Miller, Portland Oregon. Traffic Manager. THEP0RTLAND SAVINGS BANK OF PORTLAND, OREUOS. Paid up capital .?2GO,000 Surplus and profits CO, 000 Interest allowed ou saviugs deposit as follows: '1 On ordinary saving books. . . . .4 per cent per annum . .(i percent per annum On term savings books On certificates of depobit: For three months 4 per cent per annum For six months 5 per cent per annum' For twelve months per eent per annum FRANK DF.KCM. President. D. I. THOMPSON, Vice President, H. C. STHATTON, Cashier. Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, and all Pat ent business conducted for Moderate Fees. Our Office is Cpoosite U. S. Patent Office, and we can secure patent in less time than those remote from Washington. bend model, drawing or photo., with descrip tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. A Pamphlet. "How to Obtain Patents," with names of actual clients in your State, connty,or town, sent free. Address, C.A.SRSOW&CO. Opposite Patent Office. Washington, D. C. OOii-" A1 AGENCY Jon i A pamphlet of information and ab- struct or t lie Jaws, snowing uov toi VN-r Marks. ConvriKUts. sent jree. VV Addreas fffUNN & CO. A$&s3Sl Broadway, R. L. Taylor, PP.OPRIETOR OF THE Little Band Box Sato Shop Corvallis, Oregon.. tgiTSliaviiig, liair cutting, dressing, dying, and shampooing. Main St., Op. Caineron'8,Store.. A quiet room. Good Books. Current Pa pers and Periodicals. The public invited, Straimers especially welcome. . per Order of W. C. T. U. ' yFurnishd rooms (up etairs) to reo$r