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THE DETECTIVE. I ELL, well! Per haps it was iny fault peruaps It was not. He was a clever fellow ah, that he was. They asked me to catch him; I eaiu I'd try. I wouldn't promise no. I'd only say I'd try. I tried. His offense was nothing merely what Is commonly called a "Railway Plant." It succeeded, though, and my gentleman was "want ed." I made p grand hit when I nabbed his comp.-.nlon. He told me his haunts and his habits, but he wouldn't aid me in catching him. I determined to do it myself. I was a green hand then. No matter; I had the will. I found the way. He was to be at a tea party on that Thursday night. I was invited. Shall I take two policemen in disguise and "rrest him. No; all his friends woull rescue him. I will go alone. I went. I left my little house a four roomed dwelling at 6. I locked the front door, and off I went to Mrs. Jot.es' tea party. It was in the month of December. We had great fun at that tea party. There was a gentleman there that I believed to be my man, despite the fact that, when I was introduced, I was in formed he had just come from the con tinent. We fell into conversation. He began to pump me. This was what I wanted. I was determined to play the simple, and tell him all he asked. He stared hard at me. Perhaps he knew me perhaps he did not. He was a pecu'ir man, with short black hair, a clean-shaved face (parish priests and pickpockets are dike clean-shaved strafe coincidence!), dressed in a suit of very light gray. He appeared smart. I might safely have shouted, "All hands to pump ship!" for he pumped in a most bare-faced manner. He asked me where I lived. I told him. I saw no use in deceiving him; besides, I had a little plan in view I might invite him to my house, and pin him. Had I any company? None. Any one else in the house? No. I was a bachelor; I preferred to live alone. And ther, in the most quiet and insinuating way, hj asked me did I shoot? I did; he had been shooting lately last week he was shooting in Suffolk. He went down there for a day or two. Ah! and I rem: -ked, in a very innocent wa3', looking up benignly at him, that I thought that was, I understood he had just come from the continent. He started. I pretended to be sur prised, and he assured me, in fact, he had been to the continent since! But about the shooting? No, I didn't shoot; I was .'.raid about firearms; the sight Inly, i-mwed him, of a loaded gun lade me tremble (pass me here, read er; there Is a loaded gun always hang ing over my chlmueypieee in the par lor). Had I no firearms? He had a beautiful gun. No, I had none. Then he returned to the house in question. Did I sleep on the ground floor? No. Where then? At the top of the house it was two stories high. Oh! back or front? Back. He was very inquisitive, I thought; but I seemed to enjoy tell ing him all I could. He thought he was d'';ing, poor devil! Then be asked me as if casually, did I approve of keeping money at home, or did I 5?nd It to the bank? I started. I began to think this was too good. No matter; I would go through with it. I had told him lies enough, why not tell another ay, why not? I kept my money at home. Banks were unsafe; but I as sured him I felt uneasy "just then," be cause 1 happened to have more than usual, and it wasn't mine. Five hun dred pounds ready money, I think I told him. No; It was 500 "in notes" ha! ha! utft Five pence In coppers wor.d have been nearer the mark. But no uir 'ter; poverty is no sin. i'es, I kept it in the bouse; and he thougu it strange I had no arms. Here 1 stopped him, and begged his pardon; I had. What were they, might he ask? He might. My arm was a boiler stick, with two ounces of lead let into the top of It. Oh! he seemed greatly relieved. 1 told him the doors and windows had bolts on them, and were all barred all but one. He pricked up his ears, and a faintly murmured "Which?" led me on, and gave me hope. I thought It i jst to encourage him all but one. The front window on the ground floor, I said, had no bar on the shutter. They had f bells, I told him. It bad a bell. It was very safe. Thieves never think of getting Into a house by the front, you know. And there was no area or garden. The door opened on the pave ment. Yes, it was very safe wasn't -ft? Y,es, he thought it was. Then he talked about politics, etc.; and then he got up to go so soon? and Mrs. Jones begged him to stay; and I begged him - glre me a call some night, for ah! rea'y, he was very that is, his com pany was very ah! very agreeable, ha! lia! ha! He was going my way, would I go with him? or would he wait for me? No; I would tay an hour longer at least, and then see the Misses Browne to their home. Ha! ha! ha! what a notion I bad of it. He thought me very simple, no doubt he thought all I said was true. I often wonder now whether he ever sus pected that the quiet individual who did not shoot nor put his money in the bank, and slept in the house alone, and put bells on the doors and windows, was a detective, who would do his best to see him safely "in quod" before twelve hours were over. Ha! ha! we shall see what we shall see so we shall. He is gone. He shnts the hall door. He looks wildly about him, and then sets off in the direction of my lodgings. I am watching him from my window. Oh, I forgot to tell him. Ah! really I must go. Good evening, Mrs. Jones; ta ta! I will clap on my hat and fol low him. I shall shut the hall door quietly and start in the same direc tion. Ha! I thought so. There he Is in the dark, round the cornc t. He does not think any one sees him. Here Is a low wall how handy! I'll just get behind It and watch him. His position is well chosen no one can see him unless just where I am. Look what he is at. Well, I'm bio wed! He puils out a coat from goodness knows where. It is quite bla '.. He puts It over his other coats, and even pulls off his trousers. Ah! he others on under them toej black, too. And then he takes off his tall hat, and stows all his traps where the coat came from. His hat is re placed by a glengarry. Then out comes a great black beard and mustache, which are carefully adjusted. My yah! I wouldn't know him again. Look again; he is examining some thing in his hand; it shines as he turns it over it gives a faint click, click, as he holds it up. Ha! I thought so; it is a pistol. He puts it into his breast, and then looks about him. I creep closer to the wall. He does not see me, although he is coming this way. He passe? me, and walks on. I whis tle a tune, and step after him round the corner. 1 am coming up to him. He asks me the time. I tell him, and ask, did a gentleman in a light suit pass that way? Yes; he went up yon street smoking a cigar good-night, sir! Ha! ha! good-night! But surely he is fol lowing mei Yes, there can be no mis take about it. No matter, I will out wit him. I reach the corner he is ten yards behind me. or more. I set off at a run down the street till I reach the next corner. Round it I fly. A glance backward he has not en tered the street yet. I enter a half open door. The next mniute I hear his steps; he is running for life and death, one would think. He reaches the cor ner, too, and stops. He Is not a yard from me, and I am grinning at him through the door, which is about six inches o-n. He looks about him. He is at fault. "Blast him," he mutters, "I'll have him yet!" He sets off at a headlong speed along the street, and I saunter out quietly and follow him at an easy walk. I arrive at the corner. Heavens! he is coming down the e'-eet towards me. Yes, it must be he, al though his beard and mustache are replace . by carroty whiskers, and he has a pea jacket and a jerry hat! By what trick of sleight-of-hand is this done? I cannot imagine. It must be he. He is filling his pipe. My house is just in advance; still he follows me. I enter the house. Casually he glances up at the windows. I bolt tne door. I hear him turn Into the lane that goes up alongside the next house. I steal quietly into the front parlor, ana leave the shutters open, and put beck the window fastening. Then I go up stairs to the back room. I light the candle. I don't draw down the blind, for reasons of my own. One glance at the lane. I thought so; there he is, staring at the house. I can see him; the lamp Is not far off. I draw back out of sight, and, taking my revolver out of the drawer, I put fresh cart ridges therein, and slip it into my pocket. Then I go to the window again, with my nightcap In ff" hand. I stnre into the glass while I adjust it. I am full in the glare of the canule light; I am sure he sees me. Then, quietly drawing down the blind, I ex tinguish the light, and pull it (the blind) a little on one side to look out. See! he is running round to the front again. I steal down stairs; I creep into the parlor. I thought so; some one at the window. Slowly and silently the sash is lifted and the blind pushed back; the next moment a man enters the room. It is he. He pulls out his pistol, cocks it, and lays it on the table. Then he pokes his head cut under the blind, and glances up and down the street. Apparently satisfied, he withdraws his head, and then faels his way to the fireplace; he is goinT to strike a match. I quietly put out my hand and grip his pistol. I stealthily draw myself up and face him. He strikes the silent match; gradually it brightens up. His back is toward me. He lights a candle and turns around. He does not start, but turns white as a sheet. I a in facing him, covering him with my revolver and his own pistol. For a moment we glare at each other. He mutters, "No firearms, eh?" and I hiss, "Surrender!" A moment, and the candlestick it, dashed in my face. There is a flash, a report another! He dashes at the window. Now 1 see why he left it open. I rush madly forward. A heavy blow de scends on my face. I stagger back only for a moment. I start up and take down the gun; in an instant I am standing in the street. He is fifty yards away. I fire one barrel, then the next of course, I miss and there I stand crestfallen at my window, while the neighbors gather around. "Thieves!" says one; "the ruffians!" cries nother; while a third eyes me calmly saying, "You've missed him!" I never saw him again. Elmira Tele gram. Cause of Office Drowsiness. "Some men are quite martyrs to of fice drowsiness," a physician remarked the other day. "Any monotonous sound near them, the hum of traffic outside or even the scratching of a clerk's pen Is sufficient to induce a feeling of sleepi ness which it is almost impossible to resist. The worst of it is that this symptom Is seldom regarded as any thing serious, though I have known it to be the beginning of critical mental trouble. Far more often, however, it is merely the effect of constitutional eccentricity, though in either case a few simple remedies might be tried with advantage. "For instance, I always advise the old indigestion cure a glass of hot water when the feeling comes on. To keep the eyes tightly closed for three or four minutes And then bathe them in very . arm water often gives relief nt once. Another good idea is to lower the head for a few seconds to a level with the knees. Above all, one should never give in to the feeling of drowsi ness by taking a short nap In the hope of waking up brighter after it. At the same time the condition of the office might be looked to. The slightest de fect in ventilation will often cause one man to be affected by office drowsiness. even though other people in the same room feel nothing of it whatever." London Tit-Bits. Voted Early and Often. Rev. Washburne West, who died lately in London, had the distinction of being able, through a Judicious distri bution of his property, to cast twenty three votes at each parliamentary elec tion. He was kept busy In rushing from one polling place to another on flection day, as he was interested in politics. At the 1892 election he man aged to vote the Conservative ticket seventeen times. Civil actions speak louder than words: a indzment is worse UttD-av AN USUAL BUSINESS. German Who Reaps Profit from Train ins Watch Dogs. A patient and Ingenious man, Herr Straus of Berlin Is engaged In a novel and unusual business, something which he has thought out for himself and which is proving very lucrative. It has long been admitted that the dog stands unrivalled among animals for the Intelligence he so markedly dis plays, but, notwithstanding this, it seems that a certain amount of train ing Is necessary to turn out what might be called a really good watch dog. The fact seems to" have impressed Herr Straus to an unusual extent, for he has established in Berlin an acad emy where watch dogs are turned out by the hundreds every year. For this purpose he has invented a system whereby every dog, by judicious appli cation, might finally develop into a good watch dog, and also an affection ate pet. The system does not consist of teaching the bow-wow a few tricks which, however pretty they may look In the drawing-room, are scarcely of value but in. educating the dog so that he may distinguish burglar from master, and treat them accordingly. Thus, every dog placed under the care of Herr Straus is put through a scien tific training and Is taught, should oc casion occur, what part of the man's body must be attacked to prove most encouraging to nonresistance. Before this can be mastered, how ever, the value of obedience must be instilled into the mind of every dog sharing the hospitality of his master, and consequently the recruit is first of all taught such ordinary tricks as sit ting on Its haunches, jumping in va rious ways over certain obstacles, and carrying stones from one place to an other. When these simple tricks have been properly grasped by his canine pupils Herr Straus proceeds to more Import ant instruction. A dummy represent ing a tramp is placed outside the gate, and to the knob a string is attached, which is held by an assistant. Slowly and stealthily the gate Is opened until the head of the dummy is perceivable inside. The dogs are taught to fly at this dummy as soon as they see it, and the educated dog promptly does credit to his master by springing at the throat of the imitation tramp. The teacher was the victim of his own system not long ago. He dressed himself In a rag ged suit, and opening the door of the room where the dog was made a noise. The animal flew at hUn and chased his instructor for several squares. Chica go Chronicle. The Salt Habit. The use of salt as a condiment Is so general and so universally believed In as necessary that we rarely hear a word against Its excessive use, but there are a multitude of persons who eat far toe much salt eat it on every thing, on meat, fish, potatoes, melons, in butter, on tomatoes, turnips and squash, in bread and on a host of foods too numerous to mention. To so great an extent is it used that no food is relished which has not a salty taste, and this hides more or less the real taste, which is often very delicate. Now, the amount of salt required in the system is comparatively small, and if the diet has been rightly compounded very little is necessary. Some go so far as to discard its use altogether, but whether this is wise or not we will not here consider. What are some of the ev'ls of jhe excessive use of salt? They are to paralyze the nerves of taste, or to pervert them so they cannot enjoy anything which has not a salty flavor, aud in addition there is a direct tax on both the skin and the kidneys in re moving it from the blood. Whether the skin is harmed by this tax we do not kuow. Possibly it is not greatly in jured, yet we kuow that few people possess a healthy skin; but it is now pretty well settled that an excessive use of salt does overtax the kidneys in its removal, and that the great num ber of cases of derangement and dis ease of these organs is due to this use. It takes only a little time to learn to enjoy many kinds of food without salt, and we advise our readers and others to look into this matter and to try and diminish the use of this condiment so far as possible. We believe they will be better for it. Journal of Hygiene. South Sea Caresses. When a South Sea Island' mother wishes to chastise her child she seldom resorts to slapping and slippers of course she has none. Instead of using the forms of punish mt ' customary among civilized moth ers, she pulls the child's hair and bites some part of tbe body, generally the fleshy part of tie arm. In wandering about the village she sees many children having on their body scars produced by wounds Inflict ed by their mothers' teeth. When a mother wishes to caress her child she deftly draws her thumb across Its eyebrows or cheek, or gen tly seizes Its cheek between her teeth. The rubbing of noses is also a mack of affection among the Kingsmill Isl anders, as it Is among the Maoris of New Zealand. To tbe Point. Africa always has been afflicted with drought, and among the Boers prayers are regularly offered up usually when the drought already has begun for re lief from this evil, and the author of "On Veldt and Farm" tells a story of a pastor who pointed out the futility of assisting people who would not as sist themselves. A Presbyterian con gregation once pointed out to the min ister that, in view of tbe Impending drought, It were well to approach the Almighty on the subject of the rainfall. "I will not Insult the Almighty," re plied the sturdy Scot, "by asking such a favor of Him, after the way In which you have let His past mercies run away with you." The rebuke was leveled at the Inade quacy of the water storage, and It Is to be hoped was not without due effect. Valuable Auto;;iaph Collection. One of the largest collections of auto graphs in Connecticut is owned bj 'will lam L. Ransom of Litchfield. In his selection he has confined himself main ly to the pen written letters and por traits of the members of the provincial congress, the signers pf the Declaration of Independence, the Presidents of the United States, Senators and Represen tatives of Congress, Supreme Court of ficials and famous army and uavy of fleers. He has the autograph of every President, Mr. Ransom found that An drew Johnson's autograph was the most difficult to secure, from the fact that Johnson wrote little, and when he did write used a lead pencil instead of a pen. Goethe tbe Popular Favorite. The London publisher, Walter Scott, recently asked the subscribers to his "Scott Library" to ballot on the ques tion of what classic they would hav for the 191st volume of that series Goethe was victor In the composition and a selection from bis critical paper was accordingly chosen. THE FARM AND HOME MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM ER AND HOUSEWIFE. One Farmer Whose Ingenuity Saved His Muscle The Pasture Being Su perseded by Grain Feed Points on Grape Grafting. A Cheap Horse-Power. Tbe fall of 1894 I cut fodder corn for ten cows by band one month, and, while resting and "getting wind," was looking and studying. I took hard wood boards, made a wheel nine feet in di ameter, put a rim on each side and bolted. I next got an old timber, one foot square and long enough to stand upright under scaffold on barn floor, put the wheel on the upper end close under scaffold, morticed hole for sweep and guide pole. I next made a wheel nearly four feet In diameter, and one foot long, bolting them together, went to the blacksmith's and got an old bug gy stub and boxing, and put the two wheels upon center post at side of barn door. Two pulleys fastened to main beam (one with a weight attachment), so the rope will run from the large, nine-foot wheel under scaffold, through pulleys, to the one-foot wheel on center post, a belt from the four-foot wheel down to the cutting box. I made a 7-inch hardwood wheel, two inches thick, bored a hole In center for cutter shaft, then sawed it in two in the cen ter, and sawed one inch off from one side, bolted the wheel to the shaft with bolt each side of the center, put cap over burs with screws, and it hasn't "budged" for three years. With a good walking horse, this gives very good motion; it has always been ready for work. 1 put on a one-quarter-inch cable chain this fall in place of the big rope. The whole cost would hardly pay interest on a power purchased. One half day per week cuts plenty of stalks for ten head of cattle. If this descrip tion would help any one who is getting tired of turning the cutter by hand, all's well; it may last until I can decide whether I need a steam or gasoline power. Hoard's Dairyman. Grain vs. Pasture. It used to be common for farmers who had fine pastures, especially on 1- "d that was annually overflowed, to boast that they could fatten beeves more cheaply on grass than on grain. But that time has passed. Tbe pas ture has not been wholly superseded, for the farmer who has good pasture still has the advantage, provided he supplements pasture with grain. In spite of the fact that the pasture sup plies fo-d without labor, while the corn crop, if grown and harvested a? it should be, requires much labor, the latter is much the cheaper feed. There is comparatively little beef now grown which comes from pasture alone. Even in the blue grass region of Kentucky Western grain Is largely used to sup plement the feed of stock which are still fattened on pasture. There is probably no richer grass in this world than the Kentucky blue grass, which is,- however, identical with the June grass in our Northern States. But for cheap nutrition, and especially for stock that is being fattened, it is no match for Indian corn. The grain of a good corn crop has more nutritive value than the grain of any of the smaller grains. And there is besides a great deal of nutritive value in the corn stalks. This is now appreciated iy Western farmers more than it ever has been before. It is the value of corn stalks as feed that has done as much as anything else to make corn super sede pasture as a means for fattening cattle. American Cultivator. Grape Grafting. An old Clinton vine stood at the cor ner of the woodhouse which was so vig orous that its branches spread over everything within reach, but bore no fruit. In April, 1890, I cut both branches off close to the ground and grafted a Delaware grape into one and an Iona into tbe other. I used no wax, simply wrapped carefully with strings of cloth, pasted a little mud over the wound and covered all with eart except the top buds of the grafts. Those grafts made a wonderful growth the first season, owing to the far-reach-ins roots of the Clinton vine. At close of the first season the Iona vine was about eighteen feet long and the Dela ware about twelve. This season, with the vines one year old, tbe Delaware branch bore twenty-four as fine bunch es of Delaware grapes as I ever saw. The bunches and berries were slightly larger than the Delaware generally grows, and so compact on the stems that they could not be picked off easily without beginning at the end of the stem. The Iona branch bore about forty bunches of Iona grapes of the finest quality. This Is a quick way of get ting a grapevine into bearing. I tried the same experiment on a wild grape vine down In the pasture. It grew just as vigorously, but an Inquisitive' Jer sey cow spoiled the experiment. Ag riculturist. How to Irrigate. A writer who has observed methods in California, Arizona, Utah, Wyom ing, Nebraska and other States has concluded (1) that the best method is the old and well known one of gravita tion, taking the water from streams and conveying In ditches to the land where It is to be used.- Sublrrlgatlon, where it Is practicable, gives good re sults. Where water is raised by pump ing with a lift of ten to forty feet a water wheel or turbine connected with a centrifugal pump Is cheapest and most satisfactory. Windmills for lift ing water for the ordinary farmer's garden or small truck farming are de sirable, provided wooden tanks are used or the soil Is such that a water tight reservoir can be built. Centrif ugal pumps, water elevators or other pumps when driven by steam or gaso line engines, horsepower or other ex pensive methods are impracticable. He tells in the American Agriculturist that he does not regard any method practicable for general farming except where water flows direct from streams In ditches at low cost Belgian Hares. I have been growing them about a year, and find ready sale for all I can produce for breeding stock at $1 a pair. 1 placed a pair of them in a store in Nntick, and. as a result, I bad a large number of visitors, and plenty of or oVrs. The hares are a new thing in this vicinity. As soon as I have a sur plus I intend to sell them for meat. A pair of them will weigh ten or fifteen pounds. I keep them In a pen of wire netting, with a box house In one corner. Tbe fence must be pretty high, as they will jump almost as well as a chicken can fly. They have given me but little trouble In digging out, as I give them plenty of room and move the coop often. I breed them only in summer, as hares born in winter are not likely to live. Their food Is like that of other rabbits, comprising grain and veg bies and grass. When wanted for meat, I kill them by knocking on the head and bleeding them. The meat is first-rate. The demand for breeding has been so good that I intend to In crease my stock as fast as possible. Massachusetts Ploughman. Keeping 8weet Potatoes. I will tell how we keep them until late in the spring, long after hot beds are mace. We got sand from the river and dried it thoroughly in oven in pans. The potatoes are carefully dug and left until evening in the patch, are then placed upstairs in a cool room and lie until late in November (covering them up cool nights when danger of freezing). We have two large barrels, and a couple of inches of sand is put in the bottom and the potatoes careful ly put in not to touch, the largest and best selected (no bruised ones). Two inches or more is left all around the barrel to be filled with sand, then all covered with sand two inches, aud a layer of sand and potatoes until bar rels are full, covering with three inches of sand on top. Those barrels set on the stairs floor above the kitchen in a log house, wita no floor above. In severe weather a wagon sheet four-double or carpet is thrown over the barrels, reaching the floor. They must be kept in a cool, dry place, as too much heat or damp ness rots them. We have kept them this way for years. Epitomist. Breeding Wild Geese. It Is usually difficult to mate geese that have been captured alive, for most of them have already been mated and will not take on a new love. But some times young geese are secured, and if these are placed with domestic geese each one will select its mate and re main faithful during life. The cross with wild geese improves the size and hardiness of the domestic goose. But it has the disadvantage of perpetuating som of the migratory tendencies of tl wild half of the cross. All geese wi respond to a flock of wild geese flying overhead, aud they doubtless hear their cries much more quickly than do persons. Often in spring or fall when flock of geese Is making a loud squawking, if one looks up into the sky be will see a flock of wild geese fly ing overhead. It is always best to clip one of the wings of all geese, especially of those that have any wild blood in them. Wild geese that have been cap tured after attaining full growth are especially liable to be led astray. They are probably looking for the old mate they had before they fell under man's control. American Cultivator. Linseed vs. Cottonseed Meal. While fully grown animals with strong digestive organs can eat cotton-' seed meal, properly diluted with straw or hay. without serious injury, it is doubtful whether it is advisable to make this part of their ration. Linseed meal can be purchased nt about the same price as cottonseed meal, and has equal nutritive value. The new proc ess meal is the kind generally used. It Is not so fattening as the old process meal, because more of its oil has been expressed. Flaxseed whole is very rich feed, and if boiled so as to swell it out all that hot water-can do, It may be given to cattle, sheep or horses with safety. Only a very little should be given at a time, as the oil in it makes it very laxative, and a small amount daily is better tiian more. There is nothing better for an animal's hair than a little flaxseed daily. It will in sure the shiny coat, which, in either cow or horse, is a sign of thrift. Amer ican Cultivator. What Hungry Hogs Will Do. The Agricultural Epitomist says: "A bunch of hungry hogs will do a good job turning and fining coarse straw manure if some grain is sown upon it. Occasionally their rooting propensities may be utilized in other ways." A Maine farmer is said to re move stumps by fencing them in, mak ing holes under them with a crowbar, placing grain in the holes and turning hogs into the enclosure. In tooting among the roots the hogs are said to root the stumps out by the roots. Poultry Notes. Grit must be sharp. Feed before you water. , Do not feed glass for grit. Feed a mash the year round. Good food Is positive economy. Clean out the feed troughs daily. Oyster shells are too soft for grit. Never throw soft feed on the ground. Do-not feed corn during hot weather. Round pebbles will not answer for grit. Half starve your hens and they won't lay. . In feeding grain in the runs, broad cast It. Millet seed Is a great egg-producing grain. Bone dust Is valuable for growl i7 chicks. Always feed the mash crumbly, not sloppy. Do not allow the mash to sour In the troughs. Charred corn is good for indigestion in fowls. The noon meal Is not necessary dur ing summer. Beans are excellent feed, being nlg'i ly nitrogenous. A quart pf feed for twelve hens is a good measurement No breeder ever gets old enough to know everything. Milk can be fed in any form sweet, sour or buttermilk. Barley is much used In Europe and is valuable as a variety. Sorghum and broom corn seeds are excellent for a variety. Frightening a Grizzly. A veteran hunter tells in the San( Francisco Chronicle of a bear which backed out of a fight frightened by a man's acrobatic performances. He says: "A remarkable instance 1 heard of once, where a famous guide coura geously advanced upon three grizzlies, an old she-bear and two half-grown cubs, and by a series of ridiculous monkey-shines and acrobatic manoevures on the ground within a rod or two of the bears, filled them with such aston ishment and apparent fear that the three hastily retreated into the woods. "Tho guide's gun had snapped in both barrels, he having drawn on the old hoar before the young ones appear- j ed. He afterward said that It was in a nt. OI UcSyclULluu tutu lie liicu nit; turning of a handspring and Jumping up and down, flopping his hands and resorting to other unhunterlike meas ures. "He had been told once that a hunter had frightened a mountain lipn away by similar absurd movements, and he found that it worked to perfection in the case of tbe bears, although be did not encourage any one to go bunting grizzlies armed with nothing more than a capacity to turn somersaults." The mercury never gets warm In its efforts to lower tbe record. Good Roads Crusade. The crusade for good roads is to be taken up on a new and very extensive scale this year. The executive commit tee of the L. A. W. has just approved a proposition submitted by the good roads committee, to print and distrib ute an edition of 1,000,000 pamphlets, devoted to the good roads movement, and particularly to tbe subject of state aid to highways. The Government bu reau is working with the L. A. W. to carry out the plan. Otto Dorner, of Milwaukee, chair man of this committee, is preparing this book for the press, in which he has the assistance of Gen. Roy Stone, the head of the United States Bureau of Road Inquiry at Washington. The national committee for highway im provement and the officers and mem bers of the league, will collect the ad dresses of farmers and State and local officials to whom the pamphlets are to be sent. The highway improvement commit tee has had this project under consid eration for over a year, but. it is only within the last few days that the plau for Issuing and circulating the pam phlets has been finally perfected. At the good roads parliament at Nashville last September, Mr. Dorner and A. B. Choate of Minneapolis, members of the national committee, laid the matter be fore Gen. Stone, who at once declared that the undertaking would have every possible support and encouragement from his bureau. Gen. Stone has is sued, since the establishment of the good roads bureau, some fifty different bulletins relating to various phases of the good roads problem, and containing ; a great deal of valuable Informatiotn j but the appropriations made by Con gress for the support of the bureau be ! Ing limited In amount, it has been im ! possible to circulate them upon a large j scale. It is partly for this reason that i this enormous edition of pamphlets in i to be issued by the L. A. W.. and they will contain the condensed results of all the many valuable inquiries made by the good roads bureau, both in this country and abroad. They will explain the losses due to bad roads, illustrate the different methods of constructing macadam, Telford, gravel and dirt roads, both In Europe and in America, and discuss the various means and methods for raising funds to pay for improved highways. Special attention will be paid to the plans successfully adopted In New Jersey and Massachu setts. Both the L. A. W. officials ami road Inquiry bureau have an extensive collection of photographs of good and bad roads, taken in this country and in Europe, which will be employed In il lustrating the proposed book. Work ing drawings, made by prominent en geers, will be used to illustrate the various methods of road construction. To Mark a Historic fc'pot. A decidedly belated but a no less w-orthy movement has been inaugurat ed at Saratoga to properly mark tbe' site of the historic Fort Tleonderoga that figured so prominently in both tin French and Indian wars and that for American independence. It is a section of early struggle in which all New England was interested, when niaur fought valiantly whose descendant are still among us. The old fort has fallen into a state of regretful negleoi; It is now lnrgely a leveled ruin, ap proach to which is made with much difficulty. The citizens of the village of Tleonderoga have recently held public meetings for the purpose of arousin: an interest and formulating systematic plans for properly marking the spot at least. If not doing something to restore a place of such attractive interest. The movement has gone so far as to ap point working committees to accom plish the purpose. The many memorable localities of that vicinity are now said to be suit ably designated except Forts Ticonder oga, William Henry and George. The colonists assisted the English army in capturing these strongholds from the French prior to 1700, and then in 177f under Ethan Allen drove the English therefrom, only to lose aud win it aga:n before the revolution was brought to a close. It ought not to be a great task to speedily accomplish the worthy pur pose that actuates the people of that section In this matter, and now that an organized effort has been begun it may be expected to be properly done. It has probably never been done be cause Its nature was of that kind which makes "everybody's business nobody's business." Manchester (N. H.) Union. How to Drink Water. The effects produced by the drinking of water vary with the manner in which It is drunk. If, for instance, a pint of cold water be swallowed as a large draught, or If it be taken in two portions, with a short It.erval between, certain definite effects follow effects which differ from those which would have resulted from the same quantity taken by sipping. Sipping Is a powerful stimulant to the circulation a thing which ordinary drinking is not. During the act of sip ping the action of the nerve which shows the beats of the heart Is abol ished, and as a consequence that organ contracts much more rapidly, the pulse beats more quickly, and the circulation in various parts of the body Is Increas ed, tn addition to this we also find that the pressure under which the bile Is secreted is raised by the sipping of fluid. Development of Swedish Iron. An interesting paper on the develop ment of the Swedish Iron industry, read by Mr. Wahlberg at Stockholm before the International congress for methods of testing, stated that while in 1833 the mean daily outturn of a furnaca did not exceed" 2.8 tons, the average in 1890 was 12.6 tons, and the highest 26.26 tons, the total product of charcal Iron being 462,930 tons. Sweden has now thirty Bessemer con verters, thirty-three open-hearth fur naces and five crucible steel furnaces. Tbe Japancs i Way. The Japanese version of "A glass of wine with you, sir!" is peculiar. You empty your cup, plunge it into a bowl of clean water, move off your mat, and after putting the cup to your forehead, offer it upon your open palm and with a low bow to the person you desire to toast. He receives it in the same man ner, and the servant fills it for him. A few minutes after be returns the cup with like ceremony. It has always been the style for wom en to carry pocket-books, but of late years so many women are taking care of themselves that it is becoming the style to carry money la them. OEE-WBIZ. At every motion of his body or limbs he said "Gee-whiz." If he raised his arm or ;rooked his elbow, or when he got up or sat lown or bent over; if he bent his knee or turned his head, he said "Gee-whiz." Gee whiz was his way of expressing vexation and trouble, and'he had his peck of it. Thousands do as he had done and have bushels of it. He sini ply did a very foolish thing. He took off his coat at the wrong time and in the wrong place. The time was when he was overheated and the place just where a cold draft struck him. He woke in the morning with soreness and stiffness from head to foot. If he had be thought him of the right thing to do, as most men do, he would have gotten a bot tle of St. Jacobs Oil and rubbed it over his body. 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