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About The Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1893)
THE BELLBUOY. Like a restless, troubled spirit. Self accused beyond excusing. Seeking rest where none i offered. Vainly striving for release Writhes the bellbuoy in the ocean As each wave in mad commotion Buffets it without relenting. Or a whispered word of peace. Sunbeams may each day enreps it. Or the storm king howl above it. To each one the wail goes upward In a never ending owan. And the glistening seagulls bear it As they hover and pans near it. And the rocky shores repeat it In a mufiied undertone. Oh, the pathos of its life song. Changing not as years roll onward Its one note of weary wailing Outward borne uuceasingly! Prisoner in Neptune's claopfcig. Chafing under Cord and hasping -Angel thou of mercy! warning Countless sails that pass thee by. -Katharine H. Terry in Good Housekeeping. Tying Cp Wool. I No part of preparing wool for market adds more to its presentability than proper tying. In the first place noth- ( ing but pure wool should be brought ( onto the tying board. All wet or soiled j locks should be clipped off, and any i straw, chaff or other foreign substances j picked off or shook out as muck as pos- j Polite Photographers. The knack which French photogrsv phers, and especially those of Paris, possess in relieving their sitters of a constrained and distressed look while sitting for their portraits has long been the envy and perplexity of photogra phers of other nations. An American photographer, on a recent visit to Paris, took pains to study the means by which this very desirable result v-;is reached He reports that it all lies in a very simple device, which well illustrates the nature of the Frenchman. When a lady, for instance, is sitting to a photographer for a portrait, the operator does not. in a perfunctory manner, coldly request her to "Look pleasant now, ma'am!" lie says to her. in the most natural and graceful man ner in the world: "It's quite unnecessary to ask madam to look pleasant; she could not look otherwise!" The lady of course acknowledges the compliment', with her most gracious and highbred smile. "Click!" goes the camera and the picture is obtained, re vealing the sitter at her highwater mark, as it were. Youth's Companion. How a Prisoner Escaped. If we will only rightly use little things it is surprising how much may some times be done with them.' A vizier, liav ing offended his royal master, was con demned to lifelong imprisonment in a high tower, and every night his wife used to come and weep at its foot. "Go home," said the husband, "and find a black beetle, and then bring a bit of butter and three strings one of fine silk, one of stout twine, another of whipcord and a strong rope." When she came provided with every thing he told her to put a touch of but ter on the beetle's head, tie the silk thread around him and place him on the wall of the tower. Deceived by the smell of butter, which he supposed was above him, the insect continued to as cend till ho reached the top, and thus the vizier secured the silk thread. By it he pulled up the twine, then the whip cord, and then a strong rope, by which he finally escaped. Detroit Free Press. uy rum' tablets, stationery, etc., at L'he Gazette stationery store. FOLDING BOARD FOE TYING WOOL. Notches in edge of board are for holding twine. sible. Then the fleece, with the fresh side down, should be drawn together closely, so that when it is folded too much of the inside will not be exposed. Two strings each way is ample and as little as will keep the fleece together in best shape, less rather than more should be used, as a stringy lot of wool justly makes a bad impression upon the sorter. Each fleece should be tied up separate ly .and compactly, but not close enough to give it a suspiciously soggy, heavy feeling. This is very apt to impress the buyer with the idea that the tleece contains too muh oil ar dirt, making it liable to heavy shrinkage the bugbear cf all ! wool buying. There are various kinds of presses and other mechanical devices for doing up wool, but the simple flat folding board, which with eight com mon hinges any farmer can mi.ke, is nearly always preferred by the busy shepherd. The center board should be about twelve inches square; tlso the tww end boards, while the two side3 should be just as long as the three. A little prac tice will soon teach any one how to do up the fleece in the neatest manner. Dakota Farmer. Borne Made Dolls Cheaper. A "doll with real hair" is the desire of most small girls. As a rule, only the expensive varieties of dolls are so en dowed -But." suggests a close shop per. "1 buy a seven ty-five cent doll, for which I get a good kid body with bisque arms and feet, and then at some small hairdresser's 1 get the jute curls replaced with a wig of real hair at much less ex pense than 1 could buy the doll thus en dowed in the first place." New York Times. Playing Horse. ' A wealthy hermit who dwelt near Springueid, O.. has started fcr western Indiana with a cart made from old bag gy wheels and shafts, to which he' him self was harnessed as though he was a horse. A large dog accompanied him as a bodyguard. An Uncanny Monster. The people residing along Palmetto creek. South Carolina, as well as those for miles back in the "slashes," are highly excited over the appearance of a strange and uncouth creature in that vicinity. The beast is described as be ing a creature that far outdoes the night mare ideas of the mythologists. It is equally at home in the water, on the land or among the tall trees of the neighborhood, where it has been most frequently seen. The general contour of the head reminds one of some gigantic serpent with this exception: The "snout" terminates in a bulbus, monkey faced knot, which much1 resembles the physi ognomy of some gigantic ape. From the neck down, with the exception of some fin shaped flippers, which extend from the arms to the waist, the creature resembles a man, only that the toes and fingers are uriued with claws from two to six inches long. . Tracks made by the beast in the soft mud around Hennis lake have been taken to Donner's Grove, where they are kept on exhibition in a druggist's show case. Those who have seen the horrid thing face to face say that it is a full nine feet in height, which could hardly be thieved only for the fact that the trri'-'is mentioned above are within' a small fraction of fifteen inches in length. Fishermen who surprised the monster sitting silently on a mass of driftwood declared that its back looked like an al ligator's, and that it had a caudal ter mination a yard long, which forked like the tail of a .fisu. St. Louis Republic. LiUie .short of Murder. The heigli'oors around a certain corner of Ash street were alarmed on Monday night by low moans issuing from a close ly curtained carriage that stood on the corner. A driver sat upon the seat. One of the neighbors came out and ap proached the team to ask what was the matter. Before he reached the corner the driver caught sight of him, and whipping up the horses drove rapidly off. The folks were doubly alarmed, and after a good deal of exciting talk asked a policeman to call at the house on the corner and ascertain who was hurt, or if any mystery was in the moans. He talked with an excited woman who came to the door, and also with a man who wiped his eyes with a handkerchief, while the neighbors stood across the street in suficious silence. The officer came over the street and told them that the old family dog, the hero of dozens and dozens of fights and of 28 years, had been carried off to die by a bullet. The dog evidently understood his faterfor he began to moan and moan as soon as they took him from the house. Lewis ton Journal. A recent order for books sent by Mr. Gladstone to a Ldndon dealer embraced works ranging in.character from a vol ume of Eton verse to treatises onBolar physics and myths. An apparatus for purifying lutorica,. tag oils coming from machinery na been patented in Norway whereby tbJ same oil can be used many tame at 9 trifling expense.
