The Corvallis gazette., April 02, 1897, Image 4

fliscellany.
GRANNY'S MESSAGE TO JACK.
You're writing out to Jack to-day
Because his birthday's come.
And I must send to him. yon say,
A message straight from home.
Dear boy! If I could just sit down
And take his hand in mine.
Instead of putting all my love
In one poor little line.
But write out clear, and let it read
"To Jack, away from home.
Granny says get ready
For the kingdom come,"
Ton're smiling, daughter, as yon write.
But Jack won't smile that way;
His mind will just go tilting back
To thoughts of yestedray.
Before he got so great and tall.
And oh, so very wise,
When he was granny's white-haired boy,
A-dreaming of the skies.
So write out clear, and let it read
"To Jack, away from home,
Granny says get ready
For the kingdom come."
Somehow the letters that we get
Don't seem to come from him;
And often when I've read them through
My poor old eyes are dim.
He talks too much of worldly things
Our Jack was never proud
Of men of wealth, of power and fame,
And going with the crowd.
So write out clear, and let it read-
"To Jack, away from home,
Granny says get ready "
For the kingdom come."
Yon think his birthday calls for more
Than such a simple line;
Nay, there are those who love him less
To make him wishes fine.
My words go from a faithful heart;
They're tender, true and warm;
With loving wisdom in them, too,
To keep my boy from harm.
So write oat clear, and let it read
"To Jack, away from home.
Granny says get ready
For the kingdom come."
I'd like to see him as he reads,
His bright eyes brimming o'er.
And good thoughts rising white and
strong.
To be forgot no more.
Heaven will be nearer to his heart
Than it has been for years,
For he will read in that one line
My love, my hopes, my prayers.
So write out clear, and let it read
"To Jack, away from home,
Granny says get ready ,
For the kingdom come."
Toronto Globe.
THE SURVIVAL OF
THE FITTEST.
Jim threw another log on the camp
fire, and the blazing circle of light grew
to its old dimensions. We could see
the stars dodging back and forth be
hind the tops of the pines, and the lone
coyote who had a monopoly of noises
down the gulch was indulging us
with a temporary rest. The patriarch
occupied the seat of honor, a camp
tool, and the rest of us were ranged
on a tree trunk.
The patriarch looked at me. "I'll do
you the favor," he eald, "of filling my
pipe with your tobakky. Speakln' of
sea yarns, that story of Jim's about
the Icebergs that hunted in pairs, keep
In' a -keen lookout to squeeze a ship
caught without a breeze, while the
polar bears sat by and laughed, was
tol'bly good, and the one you told about
the thing that could stand on Its head
on the floor of the ocean and flap the
face of heaven with Its tall, was purty
fair, yea, purty fair. But they war
Just yarns, plain yarns, neatly unrav
eled. And that makes me think of
what old Absalom Biggs used to say:
'Always tell the truth, my lad. If you're
a master smart hand at It.'
"Absalom had a distant relative he
lived In Nantucket, and his brother was
anchored In Jamaiky who bought and
old everything, from queer shells to
queer money. His brother was a smart
man, nigh as smart as Absalom him
self, and he might have lived to be a
great one if they had given him plenty
of rope. As It was, he war a leetle too
high-strung to make a success of life.
It's queer how the furrlners acquire
all of our Improvements, even the art
of lynchin'.
"Absalom was master and sole pro
prietor of the good old tradin' brig.
Keep Mum. They war two of a kind,
Absalom and the brig. Absalom wore
a suit of homespun that hung on him
like a sail wrapped around a windmill,
and the brig was all right If she was
only as black as she was painted, for
he needed sprucin' up badly, but they
war both hard to beat In their decep
tive lines, I reckon. The Keep Mum
was one of the best of her kind that
ever faded out of sight of a revenue
cutter, and Absalom was entitled to a
patent right on lots of the tricks of his
trade. He was a quiet kind of man,
though he had a good command of lan
guage, resultln' from hard study of cir
cus posters when he was a lad, and
the Keep Mum sailed so stilly that the
wind couldn't whistle through her rig
gin' even.
"Now, Absalom was a temperance
man from principle and interest,
though he wasn't particularly religious
and worshiped nothln', so far as I
know, except savin's banks. 'Never
taste the intoxicatin' cup, young man,'
he used to say; you might miss a
chance to make a dollar.' But Just the
same, after his brother came aboard
at the end of my first trip to Kingston,
bringin' with him a mysterious air
(kind of strongly scented), Absalom
loaded the Keep Mum up with rum.
And such rum! In barrels, with rust
ed hoops and cobwebs cling-in' round
'em, they hoisted h on board. The pir
ates that hid it a century before stored
not h in' weak, and every year added to
Its strength. Our second mate, who
was a man of much liquid experience
ashore as well as at eea, took a cargo
of one cup. It was Just three days be
fore he could navigate, and would you
believe It! for two weeks after that
whenever he dreamed of that rum at
night he'd wake up in the mornln'
tipsy.
"Absalom was a man who glanced
over newspapers from curiosity and
read trade Journals for profit So I
knew somethin extremely uucommon
was up when he spent a Whole fore
noon porln' over a newspaper, with his
elbows on the table and his fingers
clutched In bis hair; and when I beard
him chuckle, I was Interested. Absa
lom Biggs never wasted a chuckle. I
beard him say, as be went out of the
cabin: They're strong In the body, but
weak In the head.'
"Of course, I picked up the paper. It
told a story of an awful tribe of can
nybals who resided on the west coast
of Afriky. It seemed they war a tribe
of reg'lar bunko-eterers, for all the
missionaries who went there war In
variably taken In. Then the Queen of
England sent down a gunboat, and the
captain of the gunboat sent a man with
a white flag and a proclamation In vio
lent language to these canny ba Is- But
there was some mlsunderstandin about
the matter, for the cannybals ate both
the gallant tar and the proclamation.
It hurt the captain's feelin's very much,
so he landed most of his force and
went after the heathen. Alas! he didn't
know 'em. I disremember all of the
affectin lines the poet larryate wrote
about 'em, but the centerpiece of the
work run somthin' like this:
" 'They war an awful hungry lot,
And havin' nothin much to do,
Invaygled the tars the sun was hot
Into a nice, seclooded spot,
Then ate that gallant crew.'
"Her Majesty missed a reception on
account of that, and the foreign secre
tary missed two first-class races. Then
a cruiser went down there on business,
but the captain, not beiri' onto his Job,
was shortly on the rocks, and when the
men swam ashore, the heathen met
'em with a hearty reception. And It
was awful annoyln' after that to the
people on the English boats that went
sailin' by to see them savvidges a-elt-tin'
on the rocks and eunnin them
selves, dressed in British naval uni
forms and sarcastic smiles. And the
foreign secretary had taken to his bed.
So the papers said.
"We reached London and Absalom
put on his best store suit to go up to
see the foreign secretary. He put one
leg of his trousers outside his boot and
one Inside, 'for I don't know,' he says,
4 how the foreign secretary has his'n.'
You see, Absalom Biggs could carry
water on both shoulders about as well
as anybody. We had to pass about
twenty secretaries and assistant secre
taries, and every blessed one of 'em
had an objection, but Absalom out
maneuvered all of 'em. The foreign
sceretary was sittin' In a chair as if It
had been built up around him. 'What
do you want? said be, lookin' at his
watch. 'Permission,' says Absalom,
'to catch Wally Bo Logn and his canny
bals.' 'You have It,' said the secretary,
'and if you are successful her Majesty
will be pleased to extend to you her
grateful thanks and gracious commen
dation.' 'And what might that com
bination be worth?' asked Absalom
Biggs. Ten thousand pounds,' said the
secretary, shortly. When we had a
note to that effect we left.
"So we sailed down the African coast
with a cargo part of rum and part of
water. We had no firearms. 'Ammy
nitlon,' said Absalom, 'costs money.' I
didn't understand his plan. Once after
a trader had tried to do business and
Wally Bo Logn at the same time with
rum, but that sly old chap ate the
trader first and drank his rum after
ward. 'Business before pleasure,' re
marked Wally Bo Logn.
"We went Inshore at night "by the
dark of the moon and while the heath
en was sleepin' we lightered that rum
to land. And then at daybreak we
stood off. There along the beach, stood
barrel after barrel of rum. And every
barrel had a spigot and a bright new
tin cup, chained fast, 'for tin cups cost
money,' was what Absalom said.
'The heathen came down to look at
the brig and speculate about the
chances for breakfast; the tin cups
caught their eye, and then, pretty soon,
the rum caught them. Absalom stood
on the upper deck and watched them:
They're strong In the body but weak
In the head.' Then he went down be
low and read his 'Pilgrim's Progress'
and 'Guide to Wealth.'
"In the afternoon Absalom Biggs sur
veyed the scene again. He seemed
kind of pleased. And, finally, when
Wally Bo Logn got his marine cap
jammed down over his eyes and his
lieutenant's sword tangled up with his
legs and sat down to unmix himself,
Absalom ordered out the boats. Take
care of all of them that can't take care
of themselves," kindly said he. By
nightfall we had all the heathen care
fully stowed below.
" These are your Instructions: Keep
the brig out of sight of land until fur
ther notice.' And Absalom went back
to bis 'Guide to Wealth.'
"We sailed up and we sailed down.
We tacked this way and that, and
roamed around at our own free will.
One more order we had from Absalom:
'All you need give the savvidges is
plenty of water and room to play. No
rum,' he added, absent-mindedly, 'for
rum costs money.' And then I heard
him chuckle again and say: They're
strong in the body, though weak in the
head.'
"Well, we went on a-sailln. And
Absalom consulted me just once more.
'What do you know about 'rithmetieal
retrogression? he asked me. I was
young In those days almost young
enough to know everything and, hav
in' the cannybals on my mind, I an
swered up smartly: The water is a
leetle brackish, but the harbor Is fair
and there are plenty of palms. It
hadn't any Inhabitants the last time I
was there. 'Never mind,' he said; 'if
you take 760 and divide it In two, and
then every four days cut your Aggers
down one-half, how long'U It be until
you have only one? Bein'a little weak
on riggers, I said nothing. And then he
fell to clpherin.
"But finally, one day after he had
held a deep consultation with the al
manac, our course was laid for Lon
don. The morning we went up the
Thames Absa'om's interest in our targj
came to life. He lifted up the hatch,
careless like, and after a bit Wally Bo
Logn's black head appeared. Now,
through livln' with and on mission
aries Mr. Bo Logn could speak;. En
glish. 'We're goin' ashore,' said Absa
lom. To eat?" asked Wally Bo Logn.
Yes,' replied Absalom, and Wally nod
ded his head. So we disguised him
with a linen duster that fitted him rath
er soon, and added some other clothes
by way of adornment; then up went we
to the foreign secretary. Between
you'n me, he's a better man to do busi
ness with than the lord high admiral,
not havin' so many titles. The first
assistant to somethin' stood In the
doorway with his nose tilted skyward.
'We've business with the secretary,'
said Absalom. 'And what might your
business be? said his highness, with
considerable scorn. 'Eat,' said Wally
Bo Logn, and he smiled at him with
his meet-you-at-lhe-messroom smile,
and his highness just shrank into noth
ln. Then we steered for the secre
tary's office, and found him at home
with the same big chair around him.
" 'What do you want? he said, fio.vn
in. And then Mr. Bo Logn and the
secretary sized each other up, for Lhey
war two of a kind.
" 'Allow me,' said Absalom Biggs, 'to
Introduce to you Wally B. Logn, king
of the Guinny cannibals.'
" 'And where are the rest of the
tribe?' asked the secretary, Impatiently.
'Then Absalom drew himself up to
his full height and made his best, best
bow.- They're strong In the body
though weak In the head. They're In
him,' said Absalom Biggs."
Just then the waiter at the cook
house sounded bis sheet iron supper
call and the patriarch rose stiffly,
scraping his pipe. "It's supper time,
boys," he said. San Francisco Argonaut
A really smart preacher Is one who
knows when it Is wise to be "tailed"
to another field.
- A Bad Cage.
"You wouldn't believe it, but Gram
py has a bad case of swelled head."
"There must be some mistake."
"Not a bit of it. Genuine old-fashioned
mumps on both sides." Detroit
Free Press. ' -
The costliest rugs in the world are
owned by the Shah of Persia and the
Sultan of Turkey. It 4s said that each
possesses a mat made of pearls and dia
monds valued at over $2,500,000. The
Carlton club, London, owns the largest
mat or rug ever made.
Weak boards for cistern covers are
in good repute as thief catchers in
Wabash, Ind., since a burglar fleeing
with jewelry from F. W. Wood's house
fell through one and was hauled ont
of the water and arrested.
The cries of sea-birds, especially sea
gulls, are very valuable as fog signals.
The birds cluster on the cliffs and
coasts, and their cries warn boatmen
that they are near the land.
hTe New Jersey grange does not be
lieve in giving tobacco to the convicts
in the penitentiary. Part of their
punishment, it thinks, should be a de
privation of such luxuries.
In the British Museum there is a
queer and ancient love letter engraved
on a brick.- tl is a proposal for the
hand of an Egyptian princess, and is
about 3,500 years old .
The Italian Medical Council is im
portuning the government to no longer
allow foreigners to practice medicine
in Italy unless they have Italian
diplomas. '
Glowworms are much more brilliant
when a storm is coming than at other
seasons. Like many other mysteries of
nature this curious circumstance has
never been explained.
Persons you meet every day,
WILL
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Whether in the form of pill powder
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in the bones at the same time.
The suppleness and elasticity of the
joints give way to a stiffness, the rack
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gradually bends, the bones ache, while
decrepitude and helplessness prema
turely take possession of the body, and
it is bnt a short step to a pair oi
crutches. Then comes falling oi
the hair and decay of the bones, a con
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Contagious Blood
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diseases, and has al
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS
THINGS PERTAINING TO THE
FARM AND HOME. ,i
fuel Value of Corn aa Compared with
Coal Experiment as to the Coat of
Butter in Eastern Canada How to
Feed for Strength.
Fnel Value of Cortr. -
The present abundance and low price
of corn throughout the Northwest has
caused it to be used as fuel by hun
dreds of farmers and by some dwell
ers In the towns. To test the economy
of this practice, the station burned
5,232 pounds of corn In a furnace un
der a boiler, and a careful account was
kept of the quantity of water evapor
ated by the heat The next day a like
quantity of coal was used, and a care
ful account kept of the quantity of wa
ter evaporated (converted Into steam).
The experiment proved that ' one
pound of coal will evaporate nearly
twice as much water as one pound of
corn the exact figures being one and
nine-tenths times as much. The coal
used cost $6.65 per ton m Lincoln, and
according to that price the corn was
worth, for burning, $3.50 per ton, or
12 cents per bushel. When coal is
worth $4.87 per ton, corn is worth, for
burning, 9 cents per bushel; when coal
is worth $5.41 per ton, corn Is worth
10 cents; coal $5.85, corn 11 cents; coal
$6.49, corn 12 cents; coal $7.11, corn 13
cents; coal, $7.57, corn 14 cents; coal
$8.11, corn 15 cents. But, by burning
corn, the farmer saves hauling the corn
to town and hauling the coal home. An
other consideration, however, is this:
May it not pay better to hold the corn
till next year than to burn it? Two
years ago wheat was so cheap that
farmers were feeding It to hogs; now
It Is well up in price. It Is not unlike
ly that corn may go the same road.
Bulletin of Nebraska Experiment Sta
tion. The Cost of Batter.
A very close calculation was made by
a writer, "F. J. S.," in the Farmers'
Advocate last year on the cost of but
ter in Eastern Canada. He divided the
question into three parts: "Grass but
ter." "fall butter," and "winter butter;"
and worked It out on the basis that a
cow gives 5,000 pounds of milk, yield
ing 200 pounds of butter, and that she
milks nine months.
Labor is charged at 10 cents an hour,
board included. The strictly grass but
ter season he puts at two mnths. May
20 to July 20. The total cost Jor feed,
labor, milking, caring for milk, churn
Ins and marketing he puts at $5.80 per
cow for sixty days. He then charges
up to this "grass butter" the proportion
of cost of keeping the cow three months
In Idleness, which is $1.33, making a
total of $7.13, which brings the cost of
the ninety pounds of butter which was
produced on grass by a two-hundred-pound
cow to be eight cents a pound.
The fall period he placed at ninety
days. For this period the cost per
pound of butter was found to be fif
teen cents.
The cost of winter production for a
period of 120 days, with ensilage used,
Is placed at 20 cents, while the cost
of milk per 100 pounds was found to be
58 cents.
Feeding for Strength.
It is not accidental that oats, the
grain which, next to whole wheat, is
best for furnishing growth to the mus
cles, should have always been the fa
vorite food for horses. They are better
than wheat for all animals except man,
and as good also for man, If properly
prepared. It is the large proportion of
hull which makes oats superior for
horse feed, as the hull distends the nu
triment and prevents it from compact
ing and heating In the stomach. Oat
grain not only contains a large amount
of nitrogenous nutriment, but it has be
sides a certain stimulative substance,
which is peculiar to the oat.
Covered Bans.
A covered run is absolutely neces
sary for the well-being and comfort of
poultry. If it rains and snows, they
must have shelter; If the fierce rays
of the sun beat down upon them, they
like to be able to get into tbe shade. If
your fowl-pen is small, it should be
covered over with roofing felt, boards
or zinc.
There Is an objection to two-story
poultry-houses. The ground floor may
make a neat-looking run, but it has Its
disadvantages, and tbe main one is
that if it snows or rains during the
day the fowls crowd under, and very
probably remain there all night long
rather than step out into the storm for
the purpose of going to roost in tbe
proper place.
In summer, tbe fowls would not take
much harm, but in winter one night
of exposure like, this would mean
death or disease, and certainly It would
not be likely to add to the supply of
eggs. Massachusetts Ploughman.
Cropping Bearing; Orchards.
It requires some extra profitable crop,
and one that -will Itself pay for a good
deal of manure, to make the cropping
of a bearing orchard pay. We have seen
it done with both blackberries and
raspberries, both of wlileh do well
when partially shaded, and which will
not suffer from drought, as do most of
the crops grown In orchards. On no ac
count should grain crops be grown in
the orchard, unless It be where young
trees have grown to bearing size, but
without producing a crop." Even then
tbe result is better accomplished by
sowing clover, to be grown for a year or
two.Exchange.
Top Dre eing Poor Knolls.
It is orteu hard work to get a clover
seeding on the dry, elevated knolls In
grain fields. Lack of moisture is usual
ly the cause. But the evil may be reme
died by drawing a few loads of stable
manure and spreading over these
knolls Tde manure not only protects
the yomig clover plants, but it also
holds the moisture in the soil by check-
Jug evaporation. A few times seeding
the knolls thus will -make them as rich
as any part of the field. It is usually
the lack of clover seeding on such
places that has kept them poor.
New I'b? for Greenhouses.
The decreased cost of constructing
and managing greenhouses is leading
to a great multiplication of their num
ber, and as another result of tbe uses
to which they are put. A Philadelphia
owner of numerous greenhouses, for
which he could not find profitable use,
devcted several to the growing of pota
toes. Of course in rich soil and with
abundant warmth and moisture, the
crop was very large. He had home
grown potatoes as early as they could
be brought from the South, and made
a rair prom uy selling ax me same price
per peck as new potatoes brought per
bushel a few weeks later.
Persistent Milkers.
Each year in keeping cows confirms
me more and more in the belief that the
matter of having persistent miikers Is
largely under our controL As illustra
tive of this, a certain cow in our herd,
awing to lack of grain feed st aillklng-
time, was dry for six months, and yet,
under our treatment, she can be milked
the year round. Two years ago we
bought a cow that I picked out for a
persistent milker, 'but she had been
carelessly handled and poorly fed, and
was dry three or four months. This
fall we wanted to dry her in time to
give her sixty days' rest, but found her
still giving four or five quarts dally.
Much Is said nowadays about milking
continuously, if cows will do so.
I have had a number of cows that could
be milked without difficulty, and oc
casionally have done so, but have al
ways found it resulted In a loss. The
cow needs at least eight weeks' rest,
and will do enough better when she
comes In to pay for It. Hoard's Dairy-
Phosphate for Timothy.
The wheat plant belongs to the fam
ily of grasses, and all these need phos
phate to perfect their seeds, as well as
for the general welfare of the plant
Whenever timothy Is sown with any
grain, especially in the fall, no small
part of the phosphate used for the grain
crop goes Into the subsequent crop of
grass. The grain may retard the tim
othy growth the first year, but the
phosphate will show in the growth of
grass for several reasons. Timothy
roots do not run far. When the phos
phate is applied with the drill, as it al
ways should be, the grass growth will
show the drill mark as long as the land
remains seeded. American Cultivator.
Team Horses.
I think if we could have a larger
breed of horses, started there would, be
money in raising colts for team pur
poses, as I think a native colt at four
years of age weighing twelve hundred
pounds would bring from $125 to $150,
and it seems as though It might be
made to pay to raise colts for these
prices, and I would much rather have
a pair of such horses than those
brought from the West and Canada.
It will pay you to breed your farm
mares this year, if they are good ones.
If they are not good, keep selling and
trading until you get good ones. A
good team tells a good farmer. Farm
News.
Percherons.
The horse is a noble animal, but I
think the time may come when elec
tricity will crowd him out. Our mow
ing machines, horse rakes and wagons
of all kinds will be shooting around,
and not a horse to be seen. Bnt for the
present for farm wear, would have
Percheron horses weighing from ten
to twelve hundred, and the feed should
be cracked corn and oats, equal parts
every time. Farm News.
Odds and Ends.
Powdered alum applied to a fever
sore will prevent It from becoming un
sightly or noticeable.
When having occasion to hang out
clothes in winter where a frost is likely
to stiffen them and Injure the fabric
this can be obviated by putting a hand
ful of coarse salt in the last rinsing
water and letting It dissolve before put
ting in the articles under treatment
A thermometer to be fastened upon
the oven door Is one of the most useful
of articles to the cook. With this the
heat of the oven can be determined
without opening the door, and the bak
ing of cakes, puddings and souffles can
be accomplished much more success
fully. To make codfish balls, simmer to
gether equal quantities of raw fish and
potatoes cut In small pieces until the
potatoes are thoroughly cooked. When
done drain and mash; add a dash of
white pepper, a little sweet milk and
butter and the beaten white of one egg
for every cupful of the mixture. Fry
in hot pan, drain and serve at once.
For the sewing room piece boxes in
stead of piece bags are much to be pre
ferred. These may be built along the
wall, forming pigeonholes about eigh-
teen inches square, duly labeled for
each member of the family, and for
linings and patterns. A chintz curtain
falls to the floor in front of such a cab
inet, whose convenience has only to
be tried to be amply demonstrated.
To make linen beautifully white, use
refined borax In the water instead of
soda or washing powder. A large
handful of powdered borax' to ten gal
lons of boiling water Is the proportion,
and you will save one-half In soap by
this method. Borax being a natural
salt, does not Injure In the slightest
degree the texture of the linen, and
will soften the hardest water-
Both dishcloths and dusting cloths
should be put through the wash regu
larly and a fresh supply given out each
week. This is done in order that they
may pass Inspection regularly. They
should be washed out carefully every
day they are used, and dried at least
once in the twenty-four hours In the
open air. This will prevent any dan
ger of "death in the dishcloth" In the!
shape of mold and the germs of disease!
so often bred in putrid and offensive
cloths.
, Honest Horse-Traders.
Swapping horses, it Is said, is of all
trades the most trying to men's hon
esty. Men who can deal squarely under
ordinary circumstances yield to the
temptation to get the best of a bargain"
when It Is a question of horse-flesh.
Hence it Is a pleasure to read the toh
lowing anecdote, which proves the ex
ception to the rule:
Two gentlemen of Marshaltown, Va,
whom for convenience we will call Mr.
A. and Mr. S., met one day and agreed
to swap horses.
"I'll tell you what, John," said Mr.
A., "If you get the best of the trade,
you shall bring me two bushels of
wheat to bind the bargain, and If I
come out best, I'll do the same by you,
eh?"
"That's a go," said Mr. S., "and I 'low
you'll bring me the wheat."
"That's as It may be," retorted Mr.
A. "But let It be agreed, then, that a
week from this afternoon the one that's
best suited, be it you or me, shall give
t'other two bushels of wheat."
The week passed,- the day came, and
as luck would have it, Mr. A. and Mr.
S. met on the road about midway be
tween their respective homes.
"Where to, John?" cried Mr. A., as
they stopped a moment to chat
"To your house with the two bushels
of wheat," replied Mr. S.
"Well, now, that's good," remarked
Mr. A., "for I was on my way to your
bousj on the same erriccL This horse
you U't me have can't be beat"
"Just, what I think of this nag," re
torted Mr. S.. and then they had a
hearty lauglvand separated after ex
changing wheat
On the "Wrong Track.
"Dear me!" said the good-looking fe
male visitor to the superintendent of
the insane asylum,"what a vicious
look that woman has we just passed In
the corridor. Is she dangerous?"
'Yes, at times," replied the superin
tendent, evasively.
- "But why do you allow her such free
dom?" "Can't help It."
"Isn't she under your control?
"No; she la my wife. Up To Date, r
. - "'- ;;?'v
Indian Rainmaker. -' '
AH : ne Indian tribes' had rain
makers, and some are yet left. Thie
is one of their methods of operation.
A large body of Creek Indians had
gathered, all decked out in thier best
finery. Two elderly men retired a short
distance and seemed to be mumbling to
each other something like prayers or
invocations; after some time a fire was
made on the bank of the stream, when
the two rain-makers gave an order, and
a young man plunged into the river,
which was there very deep. When he
came up he had a blue catfish in his
band, which one of the old men took
and threw into the fire, the tribe look
ing on in perfect silence. Then there
was .more mumbling, accompanied by
various contortions - and gesticulations,
when the gathering dispersed. It rained
that night. Perhaps, on the whole,
the Indian rain-maker is more generally
successful than the civilized one oc
casionally appearing on the frontier in
times of drought, the former having
shrewder and more experienced forecast
of weather probabilities and putting in
his incantations at the right time. N.
Y. Tribune-
A new device for ringing street car
gongs has two projections placed on
opposite sides of the car axle, the bell
lever being thrown into contact by
means of a foot lever on the oar plat
form. When the car is at a standstill
the bell is rung by a pressure of the
same lever.
CREASE AND INCREASE.
An elephant wears more creases to his
trousers than any other animal. They
seem to be sort of a kilt pleat with a bias
slope. He is not very fashionable, but is
up to date in taking care of himself. Some
sudden, violent pains crease, twist or con
tract the muscles or tendons, and this is
the nature of a bad sprain. If neglected,
the creases increase, and so does the pain,
until sometimes it is very difficult to
straighten them out, but by the prompt
use of St. Jacobs Oil, the friction or rub
bing in its application and the curative
qualities 'of the oil will smooth out the
worst twist or crease and get thcmuscle in
natural shape, where it will remain, re
stored, strengthened, cured. Promptness
in using it insures prompt cure, and when
the sprain is cured, it is cured for good.
C. P. Villiers, "Father of the house
of commons, " who just celebrated his
ninety-fifth birthday, has represented
Wolverhampton uninterruptedly for
sixty-two years.
ON TIME,
And very early too. That's what any one
should be in treating one's self for inact'on oi
the kidneys and bladder. The diuretic which
experience indicates as supplying the requis te
stimulation to the organs without exciting
them, is Uostetter's Stomach Bitters. Don't
delay; kidney inact'on and diseases are not far
apart. For fever and ague, dyspepsia, consti
pation, rheumatism and nerve debility, also,
use the Bitters.
A steel boiler plate seventy-six feet
long, five feet wide and five-eighths of
an inch thick was recently rolled in
England. -
HOWS THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall'B Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O.
We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney
for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business transactions and fin
ancially able to carry ont any obligations made
by their firm.
West & Truajc,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Walking, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. "
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists. Testimonials free.
"Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Johanna, the giantess gerilla, is in
tensely jealous. She could kill a dozen
unarmed men.
HOME PRODUCTS AND FCBK FOOD.
All Eastern Syrup, so-called, usually vary
light colored and of heavy body, is made from
flucose. "Tea Garden Drips" is made from
ugar Cane and is strictly pure. It is for sale
by first-class grocers. In cans only. Manufac
tured by the Pacific Coast Syrup Co. All gen
uine "Tea Garden Drips" have the manufac
turer's name lithographed on every can.
Piso's Cure for Consumption i3 the best
of all cough cures. George W. Lotz, Fa
bucher, La., Angust 26, 1895.
Mr. Grocer: there are
thousands of people, who
want good tea (many don't
drink tea now, because it
hasbeen either costly or bad )
and here is Schilling's Besi
good tea at a fair price.
Don't you want to sell
lots of such tea, and money
back it if your customers
don't like it
A Schilling & Company
Saa Francisco
425
Gladness Comes
With a better understanding of the
transient nature of the many phys
ical ills, which vanish before proper ef
forts gentle efforts pleasant efforts
rightly directed. There Is comfort in
the knowledge, that so many forms of
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease, but simply to a constipated condi
tion of the svstem, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt
ly removes. That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families, and is
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without debilitating the.
organs on which it acts. It is therefore
all important, in order to get its bene
ficial effects, to note, when you pur
chase, that you have the genuine arti
cle, which is manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by
all reputable druggists.
If in the enjoyment of good health,
and the system is regular, laxatives or
other remedies are then not needed. If
afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended to the most skillful
physicians, but if in need of a laxative,
one 6hould have the best, and with the
well-informed everywhere, Syrup of
figs stands highest and is most largely
Jted and gives most general satisfaction.
WHEAT
Hake money by suc
cessful speculation in
Chicago. We buy and
sell wheat there on mar-
rins. Fortunes have been made on a small
oeginning by trading In futures. Write for
full particulars. Best of reference given. Sev
eral years' expsrience on the Chicago Board of
Trade, and a thorough knowledge of the busi
ness. Downing, Hopkins A Co., Chicago Board
ot Trade Brokers. Offices in Portland, Oregon,
Spokane and Seattle Wash.
r " " "cm ldr EiTri e t rTnc" f " w 7
w ICss. Winslow's SOOTHIHO STRUT should always b 3
t ud (or children teething-. It boo thee the child, mod-
It soothes the chjld, oft-
n, curee wind colic.and ia 4
cm. Twenty Are oenU a i
p r j ue gums, auaye an paui, ei
a the beet remedy for diarrheal.
NATURE'S BEST REMEDY.
Paine's Celery
Nervous
Spring has come.
It is time for all persons to think
seriously of their health.
But that doesn't mean taking the
first spring remedy that happens to be
offered.
Persons who make it their business
to get the most effective remedy to be
had are sure to carry home Paine's cel
ery compound. No other remedy . is
capable of cleansing the blood, nourish
ing the nerves and regulating the
bowels and digestive organs like Paine's
celery compound.
If yon are troubled at all by rheuma
tism, neuralgia, headaches or sleepless
ness, even if these attacks come only
now and then, now is the time to purify
the system of them. Don't procras
tinate and dally till frightened into
doing something when you find the
task of getting well has asumed desper
ate proportions.
Paine's celery compound will cure
kidney trouble, heart palpitation and
disordered liver acourately.intelligently
and permanently when other remedies
only raise hopes that are never fulfilled.
Paine's celery compound, which owes
its origin to the most distinguished phy
sician and investigator this country
ever produced, Prof. Edward E. Phelps,
M. D.. LL.D., of Dartmouth college,
has been publicly indorsed among
medical experts as the only spring rem
edy in any sense entitled to that name.
It can be said without fear of con
tradiction " that no Other remedy can
truthfully refer to men and women so
responsible, so trustworthy, so convinc
ing, because' of their straighforward,
enthusiastic and easily-verified testi
monials in praise of Paine's celery
compound.
Dr. Sariden's
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more than it cost if ;I tconld g-etilt. I shall always remember the Sanden Elec
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, 1897.
Men or women who are weak, read Dr. Sanden's book, "THREE CLASSES
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Compound Prevents
Breakdown.
It is foolish to take poor health
"philosophically" these spring days.
There is no reason why anyone should
sit hands in lap, and submit to head
aches, poor appetite, continual tired
feeling or constipation. If every dis
heartened invalid will go right at get
ting well by using Paine's celery com
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and delighted with the quickness with
which this wonderful remedy is able to
call a halt to wasting diseases, diseases
of debility and a "run-down" condi
tion. Paine's celery compound does won
ders in making people well.
Here is what a woman, an ambitious
and hard-working member of the legal
professiion in New York city, says of
this great remedy:
220 4th Ave., New York.
While a student in the New York
university law school and under great
pressure from work and study, I -was
advised to take Paine's celery com
pound. I did so, and its beneficial re
sults to one whose nerves are under the
trial of eevere mental effort, I am only
too ready to assert. After taking three
bottles I found that it produced quiet
ness of nerves and induced sleep, very
beneficial to my health. For those
troubled with insomnia I can heartily
recommend it as a harmless inducer of
sleep on account of its quieting effect
on the nerves. Yours very truly,
(Signed.) Florence H. Dangerfield,
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Paine's celery compound, which
makes the weak strong, has received
testimonials from thousands of people
who had almost despaired of ever again
being in perfect health.
A Pretty Face
Tells ,a story f health. It is the reflection of
strength in all' the vital parts. A face is ex
pressive of joy. and mirth, caused by hea'th, or
' 'of misery and suffering, caused by disease. The
nervek that are irritable and tired cannot give
brightness to the eye; blood that is sluggish
cannot' make the cheeks rosy ; so ill health tells
its storjr, too. But nature provides a cure for all
such troubles.
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