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The folding megaphone is made in sections, one fit ting in the other, and when not in use the horn collapses Into a package about the size of a bat box. WHAT WILL BECOME OF CHINA. None can foresee the outcome of the quarrel between foreign powers over the division ol China. It is interesting to watch thegoing to pieces oi this ancient dui unproKrussive rv. Many people in America are also going to piece because of dyspepsia, constipation, blood, liver and' stomach diseases. We are living too fast, but strength, vigor and good health can be retained if we keep off and cure the above diseases with Hoetetter's Stomach Bitters. Naples is to be connected with Mount Vesuvius by a direct railroad line, which will conncet with the cable line running to the top of the volcano. TRY ALLEN'S FOOT-BASK. A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this season your feet feel swollen, ner vous, and hot, and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. 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It Is announced that Italian ex periments on vegetable life with Roent gen rays have shown that the effect ie identical with that of sunlight. For the Summer Girl. A love In soft white straw is Just made for the summer girl. It has ac airy, fairy fold of white taffeta round it, and two quills curve back from the knot in front. White violets coquet with Miss S. G. 's tresses in the back. It is ideal summer hatgear, all white and inexpessibly' dainty. Prevents Drying; of Mucilage. Mif oannot dry up nor the brush become hard in a new bottle which has a rubber stopper, in the center of which the short brush handle is formed, the handle adjusted by a screw socket as the mucilage is ex hausted. He Would Try. A Denver girl kissed a soldier good bye at the depot with the remark: "God bless you; stand up for Colo rado. " Between his sobs he replied "I'm from Nebraska, but I'll try and stand up for both states now. There upon she kissed him again for Nebraska. In the town of Chile most shops are open till midnight, and during the hot afternoons, When everybody takes a siesta, they are locked up. "Red rain dust" from a heavy fall at Melbourne in 1896 has proven iden tical in composition with ordinary soil from volcanic rooks. New Jersey was the first state per mitting the right of suffrage to women; this was done nearly 100 years ago. It takes eight times the strength to go upstairs that it requires to accom plish the same distance on a level. The average velocity of the Gnll stream is three miles. REGAINED HEALTH. Gratifying Letters to Mrs. Pink ham From Happy Women. I Owe Ton My Lite. Mrs. E. Woolhiskr, Mills, Neb., writes: "Dear Mrs. Pinkham : I owe my life to your Vegetable Compound. The doctors said I had consumption end nothing could be done for me. My menstruation had stopped and they said my blood was turning to water. I had several doctors. They all said I could not live. I began the use of Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and it helped me right away; menses returned and I have gained in weight I have better health than I have had for years. It is wonderful what your Com pound has done for me." "I Veal Like a New Pew on." lire. Geo. Leach, 1809 Belle St, Alton, 111., writes! " Before I began to take your Vege table Compound I was a great sufferer from womb trouble. Menses would ap pear two and three times in a month, causing me to be so weak I could not stand. I could neither sleep nor eat, and looked so badly my friends hardly knew me. " I took doctor's medicine but did not derive much benefit from it My drug gist gave me one of your little books, and after reading it I decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. I feel like a new person. I would not give your Compound for all the doctors' medicine in the world. I ean not praise it enough." Plain or with Cutter. The best needle in the mar ket. Used by all sack sewers. For sale by all gen eral marchaudise stores, or by WILL te FIWCK CO., tot Market Street, San Frmaclaco. CaL ist cures wHtRE Ail Else BEE ISl Beat Cough Sjrnp. Taste Good. Dae ri! in time. SoU br drasBiMa, Love Story SHE was a bit haughty to me on that particular day, but I didn't care, for I was desperately in love with another girl. The "she" of whom I am writing Is my wife, and as my pencil traces the paper, she sits by my side, smiling and cooing softly to our youngest grand child, a lovely baby boy. I can't recall the day that I have not known my wife. We were children to gether in our lovely home In the Blue Hills. By some freakish relationship, for which one of our ancestors was re sponsible, Jane Merrlam was nominal ly my aunt, though several years rny Junior. Her father and mother died before she was 12, and from that day on she made her home with our family, with whom she was connected by dis tant blood ties. I was away at school at the time of her bereavement and upon returning for vacation found her at the old Marcelline homestead. "Aunt Jane," the younger children culled her, and I soon fell into their way, although she was Jennie to me, and we were playmates. "Aunt Jane" was a beautiful child, with dark hair and rich gray eyes, and she had grown Into a handsome girl, when at the expiration of my college term at Richmond I returned to my home In the Blue HlUs to hang up my shingle as a lawyer. It was Just a year before the breaking out of the war. I was getting along famously, when all my calculations were upset, and I en listed In a company of volunteers from our little place to help Lee defeat the enemy. It was on the day of my departure that Jane Merrlam gave me that haughty answer, with which my story begins. "Aunt Jane," I had said, when I told her I was gotng away that night, "I'll be back In less than six months. By that time we'll have driven the Yan kees across our lines, and I'll celebrate the victory by marry lug the girl I lover "You don't know what you are say ing," answered Aunt Jane, with a haughty stare. "I fear the Yankees will do us all great barm I" Tossing her beautiful head that I might not see her furiously blushing face, she ran into the house. There -was Yankee blood In Aunt Jane, although of a distant strain. Her great grandmother bad come from En gland to marry Jane's handsome an cestor, from whom she Inherited her dark beauty. "Aha I" I whistled softly to myself, "Aunt Jane's sympathies are a trifle divided!" I said nothing to the family about my discovery, but hurried away to take leave of Cousin Lucy Gordon. I had been In love with Lucy before I went away to college, and I fancied myself more desperately smitten than ever now that I was to bid her farewell. We were distant ly related, Lucy and I, and she was of the same age as Aunt Jane, barely 2L Two women were never more strangely contrasted. Lucy wns a but terfly, a doll with golden curls, eyes like the summer sky, lips like cherries and kittenish ways. She shed bitter tears and kissed her farewell. With out much coaxing on my part she promised that she would wait for me till the end of doom to become my wife. So I went away happy after all, for sweet Lucy's promise was the talis man that strengthened me and bade me hope In the terrible days that fol lowed. Several gushing, girlish letters came from her In answer to my passionate avowals of undying love and fealty. How they sweetened the hardships and dull, aching moments of those inter minable days and nights! I had been In several battles and a number of the boys from our place were either killed or maimed. Charlie Ferguson, my collegemate and the son of the district attorney of Marcelline, with whom I had been reading law, es- TOU DOW'T KJTOW WHAT TOU'BE SATING, caped without a scratch. Our good luck made us vow to stick together through It all, or see each other's bod ies home, should fate deal more un kindly with us than it had. Months passed without a word from home. Then a letter came from Lucy, postmarked New York. It bore the marks of having been opened, censor ed and resealed, to prevent contraband information, before it was sent to Its destination Lee's camp. Lucy had been sent to New York by her parents to some of Aunt Jane's re lations to escape the dreariness of the war at home. Aunt Jane was asked to Join her, but she chose to remain with my father and mother and the smaller children in the dear old, desolate Mar celline home. The little sweetheart's letter was as gushing as ever. It was filled with endearing terms, and re counted enthusiastically how delight fully she was being entertained by a select circle of New York friends. Somehow, the ingenuous ring In the butterfly nature was lacking, that dic tated that first letter from her new home, and my heart ached for It We were nearing the days of Gettys burg, and needed all the encouragement that should be given to men who real lze that they ara fighting for a lost cause. Our army had been victorious at Chancellorsville, and . from all over the South came the clamor for Lee's army to Invade the Northern States Early In June our forces were centered at Culpeper, and Charlie and I were two of 100,000 men ready to sacrifice our life's blood for Lee and our coun try. In the waning days of June my friend received a letter from home. I caught bim reading it in a corner of our tent by the light of bis pipe, for the sun was Just going down behind Culp's Hill. "From home?" I asked anxiously. "Yes, from Aunt Jane. She sends her of the War. love to you and bids you not to grow discouraged." "Any word from Lucy?" ..! "None." I had never known Charlie to be so reticent about his letters, which he usually handed me for perusal. Bui this I saw bim put away In his breast pocket. In the days that followed I had little time to wonder what had made my mate so downhearted and gloomy. Then came that memorable duy In July, which none can forget who lived to tell Its tale of horror. Charlie was shot by my side on Seminary Ridge. I saw at a glance that he was badly wounded and picked him up in my arms to carry him back to the lines. There I laid him down, putting him In the care of one of our boys, whose arm was shattered by a bullet. "Stay with him," I begged, "until I return, and if he should be dead, do not let his body be burled. I promised to return it to his poor old mother." Toward night, when the battle ceased, I hastened back to my friend Charlie. He had died while I was gone, and his body lay In a long trench with hun dreds of others ready to be covered niiVEBESILY I OPENED IT. with earth as soon as the men who hud dug this wholesale grave could catch their breath and complete their terrible work. The guard I had put over him stood by the side of the ditch where he lay. "Lieutenant," said he, "Mr. Fergu son requested me to tell you that the letter In his breast pocket should not be taken out by any one but you. He also bade me tell you to read It" Gently I lifted the body In my arms and from his pocket extracted the document he had left me. I thought It perhaps a memorandum of his last wishes, which he wanted me to carry out The receptacle over his heart car ried nothing but a letter. It was from Aunt Jane. Reverently I opened it I knew that Charlie was fond of her, but I never dreamed that he loved her and bad asked her to be his wife. Tenderly but firmly she refused him. I love auother," she wrote. "You may guess it is my old playfellow, Ben Sut- HfJE, but he will never know. He Is madly in love with Lucy she has for gotten him. Yesterday we received the anouncement of her marriage with a wealthy Boston merchant Do not tell Ben this! He needs all his courage. It would be cruel to blast his hopes In these hard, trying times." My eyes filled with tears as I read Aunt Jane's letter. A sigh for Lucy, yes, fickle Lucy, wrung itself from my heart; but the pain her faithlessness gave me was wiped out by Aunt Jane's divine love. I placed the letter In the pocket over my heart. There It lay until I returned to Marcelline at the close of the war. Aunt Jane stood by the gate to wel come me. My father had died, but my mother was still there to greet me. That night under the trees of the old homestead, with no other fuce but the moon for a witness, I told Aunt Jane of my find. She turned scarlet and then deadfy pale, but before she had time to fly from me I caught her In my arms and exacted the promise that made her my wife. Utlca Globe. Needed His Right Hand. "I have heard and read many pathet ic stories," said Senator Hoar, recent ly, "but none of them ever awoke so much sad sympathy as one which Pro fessor Gallaudet related. The profes sor has a favorite pupil a little deaf mute boy, exceptionally bright. Mr. Gallaudet asked him If he knew the story of George Washington and the cherry tree. With his nimble fingers the little one said he did, and then he proceeded to repeat it. The noiseless gesticulations continued until the boy had informed the professor of the elder Washington's discovery of the muti lated tree and of his quest for the muti lator. 'When George's father asked him who hacked his favorite cherry tree,' signaled the voiceless child, 'George put bis hatchet In his left hand ' " 'Stop!' Interrupted the professor. 'Where do you get your authority for saying he took the hatchet in his left hand? " 'Why,' responded the boy, 'he need ed bis right hand to tell his father that he cut the tree.' " A Queenly Milkmaid. The Queen of the Belgians and Prln cess QJementlne, while driving In a pony-cart one day last summer, bad a charming rural adventure, which tbe London Post describes: They stopped at a farmhouse to buy a glass of milk. Nobody but an old, paralyzed woman was In the house, and she replied that no milk was left In the Jugs, and that she was unable to go to milk a cow. "Never mind," said tbe queen; "if you will allow me, I will go to the pas ture. Just tell me where the Jugs are. "But my dear lady, you are from the town, and you will never be able to milk a cow," objected the old woman. She was mistaken, however, for a little later her majesty returned with a half-filled Jug. Meantime, Princess Clementine had laid on the table three bowls, a loaf and the needful knives and plates. The old farmer's wife was served by tbe princess, who, It appears, greatly enjoyed the adventure. The Largest Congregation. The largest congregation In America Is that of St Stanislaus Kostka, In Chi cago, which has 30,000 communicants. The number of attendants at the sev eral Sunday services frequently ex ceeds 15,000. A woman never gets so old that nhe outlives an attachment for the wedding presents which were given her. The turtle may be slow, but he usu ally gets there In time for the soup. SIBERIANS IN CHINA. Wild Race of the Siyota Fled Before Russian Invasion. One f the most curious of many cu rious people who make up the great nation of China is the Slyots. They live In the far interior, north of the desert of Gobi, In a region of which little is known. The best maps of the country close to the boundary line be tween China and Siberia, near the headwaters of the Yenisei, are Inac curate, and are of little value to the traveler. The Slyots are Chinese only by adop tion. When the Russians Invaded Si beria 300 years ago the Slyots refused to bend the knee. They retreated southward and forced their way into the Chinese empire. They dispossessed a quiet and peaceful people in order to make homes for themselves. The Slyots are a nomadic people. They live in portable tents, built of lat tice work, with a fet-covered, conical top. Inside the tent is an arrangement Of boxes which serve as seats and beds. They also hold the family stores. Near the Slyots live the Turbets. The lat ter have no boxes Inside their tents and the Slyots consequently have a su preme contempt for them. The Slyots are deeply religious aud evidences of their religion may be found all over the country. At every dangerous ford or difficult mountain pnss are plies of stone or sticks adorn ed with bits of rag or with wisps of horse hair. Every man who crosses the stream or mountain adds a trifle to the collection as an offering to the deity supposed to look after travelers. Smallpox is quite common among the Slyots. Their treatment of the disease is primitive. A "medicine muu" is cull ed to see the patient, and effort is made to drive away the devil who Is thought to be the cause of the trouble. The "medicine man" enters the apartment of the patient dressed in a long red robe, adorned with imitation snakes and brass ornaments. He bents a tam tam nnd yells all night, working him self Into such a frenzy that he falls to the ground, biting his Hps and cover ing his face with blood. Some of the Siyots are Buddhist and are under the control of red-robed lamas. The Lama sometimes has a vis- Ion in which he claims to be Informed that a certain Siyot is to die. The doomed man raises a bribe and tenders it to the Lama, who interferes and a respite Is secured for a time. Then the process is repeated. New York World. RECENT INVENTIONS. Washboards can be securely fastened to tubs by a new attachment consist ing of a rod held on the board by brack ets at either end, two clamps being placed on a rod with thumb screws to grip the edge of the tub. A newly designed bicycle frame Is in the shape of a circle, with the head and running gear clamped on with screw clamps, making it easy to adjust the height of frame and handle bars for any rider. A German woman has designed a music holder for violins which is form ed of a wire frame fitted with clamps to attach It to the violin head, the sheet of music being Interlaced between a number of cross wires to hold It In place. Railroad cars can be quickly unload ed by a new machine which Is pro vided with a section of tubing large enough to receive the car, which runs in on two rails, after which the tube is lifted and rolled upward at an angle until the top of a chute Is. reached, an opening in tbe tube permitting the load to fall into the chuta A New Zealand Inventor has a bicycle which is fitted with a row of small pumps around the rim of each wheel, the pistons running on the ground to compress air which Is designed to be stored In the frame and used to propel the wheels. A Virginian has designed a torpedo carrying balloon which has the explo sive suspended by a number of cords, with a guide rope to assist in holding It until it reaches the right current of air to carry It toward the enemy, when a second cord is pulled, which ignites a slow fuse to drop the torpedo at the proper place. A handy store device Is a take-up at tachment for twine holders which pulls the end of the string up In the air after It Is broken off. The cord passes over two pulleys at the top of a frame, with a weighted pulley hung between them which rises as the string is pulled and falls as It Is released, taking up the end of the string. A Thieving Horse. As a country doctor, the horse Is, of course, my constant companion, and I have been carried by him on my visi tations many thousand miles, yet I had no special love for the animal, nor yet any high appreciation of his intelli gence, until n short time ago, when something happened which changed uiy views. On going out one morning to look after Major, I found that I had accidentally left the chain down be hind him. This circumstance he had taken advantage of, and had spent a portion of the night In wandering about the barn, upsetting everything that could be broken. Now, however, he was In his stall, and looked around at me with his great brown eyes, a pic ture of innocence and contentment while under him, carefully spread out, was a fur robe, the fur side up, aud the cushion of my sleigh. These he must have carried to his stall during the night, thinking, perhaps, that for Christmas night, as It happened to be, straw was not good enough, and that for once, at least, be would make his own bed of tbe best material he could find. Jury in the Pasture. "Posturing a Jury" ia the legal style of caring for twelve good men and true in a village In Greer County, Oklaho ma. Funds being short the courthouse was built minus a Jury-room, so when the Jurors retire to make up a verdict tbe bailiff takes them out into the mid dle of a vacant lot, steps out of hear ing distance, and protects them from corruption! st s with a shotgun. Rock Carvings of the Ancients. On coins In the rock carvings of the ! ancients the umbrella often shows Its ! familiar form. This goes to prove that I Jonas Han way did not invent the um brella, but he saw the value of the east ern sunshade and soon It became tbe fashion to carry this useful article. Where They Missed It. "I am L'lirr m11ri mivm'kiul tn hoo. I f fMf Tfr-j JC-af.". u ..... . that they are married. I thought he i was merely flirting with her." j "He thought so, too." Coll er s Week ly. Tbe people waste a terrible portlou of their lives in trying to be prettier than the Lord ever Intended them to be. We have noticed that every mai with a big mustache U very fond i ! Soup. Bad Roads Expensive. General Ray Stone figures that there are 1,500,000 miles of public roads In the United States, over which 500,000, 000 tons of freight Is hauled every year. Putting the average haul at eight miles though this Is probably an overestimate be figures the cost of carting at $2 the ton, or $1,000,000,000 the yean. With uniformly good roads the cost of moving this freight would be only $400,000,000, saving $000,000, 000 to the public annually. This is equivalent to the yearly Interest on $20,000,000,000 of 3 per cent govern ment bonds. One-half of this almost inconceivably vast sum would rebuild every mile of road In the United States at an average cost of, say, $6,100 per mile, and the other half would furnish a yearly In come of $200 per mile for their repair and maintenance. At present the peo ple spend the vast sum of $20,000,000 each year to the repairing of their worthless roads. This sum would build 4,000 miles of thoroughly good macadam road, sufficiently wide for rural purposes. Experiments made In the Missouri agricultural experiment station show that In nearly all road conditions broad-tired wagons pull easier than those with narrow tires. On a mac adam road a load of 2,518 pounds can be hauled on broad tires with the same draught as a load of 2,000 pounds on narrow ones. On gravel road, ex cept when wet and sloppy on top, the draught of the t road-tired wagon Is much less than that of the narrow tired wagon; a load of 2,482 pounds can be hauLx) on broad tires with the draught required for 2,000 pounds on narrow tires. The trials on dirt roads give vary ing results. When it Is dry, hard and free from dust 2,530 pounds can be hauled on broad tires with the draught required for 2,000 pounds on narrow tires. When the surface Is covered with two or three Inches of dry, loose dirt the results are unfavorable to the broad tire. In general the better the road the greater the advantage of the broad tire. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Michigan Roads in Spring. This spring the following presenta tlon of the state of the roods leading to a Michigan village appeared In the Detroit Free Press: The highways about this place are in a very bad con dition, tbe clay mud being, In some places, from two and one-half to three feet In depth. This has Injured travel to such an extent that In many In stances considerable loss has been sus tained. Farmers who are furnishing Detroit markets have been obliged to hold their produce until the roads bo come passable. To-day a German farmer, who was returning from the city, got stuck In the mud and had to finish his Journey without the wagon. The butchers supplying commission houses with pork are also among the losers. Wide Tires. The effect of wide tires on roads has been shown clearly In a street in Springfield, Mass., over which heavy quarry wagons are driven. The road was formerly badly cut up, but a num ber of years ago It was given a heavy surface coat of gravel, with the under standing that wide tires should be put on the wagons carrying the quarry Stone. This was done, the tires being four to five Inches wide, and since that time the street has been In good con dition, although little has been done to It. New York Times. Rood Maintenance. The only way by which a macadam roadway can be kept firm and compact and preserved through summer beat Is to moisten It regularly. If macadam Is worth paying for, It Is worth caring for. But this Is done only In spots, where private parties bear the expense, and, Instead of keeping the roads al ways good and firm. It Is customary to wait until the sun has disrupted the surface and then to spread on a quan tity of earth, stones and sod to "pro tect" it Exchange, Voted for Good Roadn. Speclnl elections were hold In Green castle and Warren Townships, Put nam County, Ind., this spring for free macadam wagon roads. The proposi tion carried by substantial majorities. The dispatch adds that people of that section believe In good roads. Burglar Proof Shutters. A German safety shutter, which Is Invulnerable to burglars, Is made on the principle of the roller shutter, the strips of hardened steel three-quarters of an Inch In diameter, placed over rods or on pivots. The sides, the only vulnerable points, ore hidden In groves, and, as the tubes revolve free Sy, the burglar's tools can obtain no purchase upon them, thus rendering strong rooms, etc., absolutely inacces sible. Theater curtains constructed on the same plan would also prove Invalu able for the preservation of life In case of fire. Canada's Mineral Wea th. Canada's mineral wealth Is gradu ally being developed, and In tbe near future this development Is likely to be carried forward much more rapidly than In the past The reports received from the Chetlcamp gold districts of Novft Scotia lately are to the effect that very rich ore has been uncovered In large quantities. The assayed value Is over double that first found and It was considered rich. Sinking on the lead continues and the footwall has not yet been reached, although the company bag penetrated eighteen feet of ore body. European Postal Rates. Germany leads all other nations In the matter of cheap postage. City let ters are delivered for of a cent and in Munich a licensed company charges but half that sum. A one-half-ounce letter goes to any part of the empire for 2 cents, and a one-half-pounds one for 5 cents. The French postage rate Is 3 cents for each one-half ounce. In England the rate Is for the first ounce 2 cents, for tbe second 1 cent and 1 cent for each additional two ounces. Truffles. Truffles will soon be cultivated on scientific principles and are likely to become cheaper. M. Chatln, who dis covered that the truffle is a mushroom, has announced to toe Academle des Sciences at Porta that the Due de Des parre, brother of tbe Due de Gramont. has found out how It germ mates, and on what leaves Its spores will become fruitful. An Atchison woman says she neve thinks, of opening her husband's mai) unless it is marked 'private." ITEMS OF INTEREST. The highest waterfall in the world is Cholock cascade, at Yoseixiite, Cal. , which is 2,635 feet high, or just half a mile. Not within living memory has there been known so abnormally snowless a winter in European Russia as the past season. A medical correspondent at Paris writes that Dr. Mosso has established tbe fact that the blood ot eels is poi sonous. A curious fact has been noted by Arctic travelers snow when at a very low temperature absorbs moisture and dries garments. Gun cotton is cotton wool, washed then soaked in nitrio acid and three parts of sulphuric acid, washed in water, pulped and dried. It has been found in Switzerland that in building a railway, laborers could work one-third as long at a height of 10,000 feet as a mile lower. The Rhind manuscript now In the British museum is tbe oldest intelligi ble mathematical work extant that has ever been deciphered. The largest theater in the world is the Grand opera house of Pails. It. covers more than three acres of ground, and cost 63,000,000 francs. The creatures known as ocean hydras have no heart, no lungs, no liver, no brains, no nervous system, nor organs save mouth and skin. Glaciers vary in length from yeai to year, and apparently in cycles of years also, those of the Alps having shown a general dimnnition sinoe 1850. The king of Siam has a bodyguard of female warriors i. e., 400 girls chosen from among the strongest and most handsome of all the women in the land. A recent landslide in China revealed a pile of money equaling in value 7, 000,000 coppers. The coins were made about the middle of the eleventh cen tury. Porous glass is one of the latest nov elties. The holes aie so small that neither dust nor draught follows its use, and yet the ventilation is said to be excellent. Great differences exist between the Arctic and Antarctic regions, and while there is a polar sea at the north, it is believed that a continent exists at the South Pole. Seven Chinese war vessels are at pre sent being built in Gormany. Among them are four torpedo boat destroyers which will have a speed of 32 knots an hour. The Peruvian Central railroad cover ing a distance of 10 miles is at an eleva tion only about 2,000 feet lower than the summit of the higiiest mountain in Switzerland. Five is the sacred number of the Chinese, who have five planets, five cardinal points, five virtues, five tastes, five musical tones, five ranks of nobility and five colors. In northern China one of the princi pal occupations is raising dogs (or their fui, which is fine and dense and much used for clothing. They cost only 40 cents apiece. Variegated plants of almost any spe cies may be produced, in the belief of a German botanist, by grafting upon that species a nearly allied form having colored leaves. The government of Wuertemberg has Just authorized the erection of a hy gienic laboratory in connection with the medical department of the Uni versity of Stuttgart. By tbe use of malleable steel casting for buffers and frame work castings, the Erie has reduced the weight, added to the durability and improved the ap pearance of its freight equipment. Captain Perry speaks of the great dis tance that sounds can be heard during intense cold. We often, he says, in the Arctio regions heard people con verse in common voice at the distance of a mile. Gained Forty-Eight Pounds. "I had a strong appetite for liquor which was the beginning of the break ing down of my health. 1 was also a slave to tea and coffee drinking. I took the gold cure, but it did not help me." This is a portion of an interview clipped from the Daily Herald, of Clin ton, Iowa. It might well be taken for the subject of a temperance lecture but that is not our object in publishing it. It is to show how a system run down by drink and disease, may be restored. Wo cannot do better than quote further from the same : "For years I was nnable to do myl 1. T 11 . V num. x uuuiu jjul sleep nights or rest days on account of continuous pains in my stomach and hack. 1 was unable to digest my food. Headaches and painful urination were frequent, and my heart's action became inoreased. I left my farm and retired to city life, fo 1 was a con firmed invalid, and the doctor said I I retired to city UJe. would never be well again. "Soon after I happened to use four boxes of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and since then I have been free from all pain, headache and dys pepsia. I eat heartily and have no ap petite for strong drink or tea or coffee, and feel twenty years younger. "My weight has increased 48 pounds. I cannot say too much for Dr. Wil liams' Pills and claim that they have cured me. JOHN B. COOK." Subscribed and sworn to before me this sixteenth day of February, 1897. A. P. Barker, Notary Public. To people run down In health from whatever causedrink or disease the above interview will be of interest. The truth of it is undoubted, as the statement is sworn to, and we reproduce the oath bere. For any further facts ooncerning this medicine write to Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Scheneo tady, N. Y. The name and address of the subject of above inteiview is John B. Cook, of 208 South 5th street, Lyon, Iowa. An historic landmark of the town of Had ley, Mass., the old Hooker house, which stood for almost two centuries, was burned recently. It was in this house that General Joe Hooker was born in 1814. " HOW'S THIS T Wc offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props Toledo, O. We the underBlgned, h&vo known F. J. Cheney for the past 18 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and fin ancially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. Wbst & Tbcax, Wholesale Drungists, Toledo, O. Walking, Kinnan fc Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. HaU's Catarrh Cure is taken internally , acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces ol the system. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Hail's Family Fills re the best. You cannot affbrc to drink colored tea. It undermines healtL, and the coloring hides defects. Schilling's Best needs no coloring; it is good enough. The Trans-Mississippi Stamps. Of the Transmississippi Exhibition stamps, the 50-ceut stamp, which is dark green in color, is from a drawing by Frederic Remington of a "Western Mining Prospector," showing a pros pector in the mountains with his pack mules. The $1 stamp is in black and white, from J. MacWhirter's "Western Cattle in Storm." The $2 stamp is brown, showing an engraving of "The Mississippi River Bridge" at St. Louis. A Third-Rail Accident. A peculiar accident occurred on the Chicago South Side Elevated road re cently, which operates a third-rail sys tem. A workman dropped a tool which made electrical connection between the third rail and a large gas pipe carried on the elevated structure, which result ed in burning a hole in the pipe and igniting the gas. The fire department was called out to extinguish the fire, traffic being blocked for two hours. Several cars were set on firo. Gunpowder Motor. Explosive powder is used to operate a new motor, a small quantity of the powder being fed into the cylinder and ignited by an electric spark to drive the piston rod, the expanded gas escap ing through a valve as the piston returns. Celluloid Balloon. In an improved balloon the basket is carried by four air cells adjuBtably mounted on a railing around the basket, making it possible for the remaining cells to support the aeronaut if one oell should collapse. Wheel Nuts With Handles. An improved nut for wagons and other machinery where the nut would soil the hands if touched has a project ing knob on one side which fits in a hole drilled in one jaw of the wrench to prevent tbe nut from slipping out. Typewriters are being manufactured which will write on books, the ma chine being mounted on a frame with an open space in the centre, through which the type levelers are driven down on the page by the keys on the top of the machine. Goldfish are of Chinese origin. They were originally found in a large lake pear Mount Teientsing and were first brought to Europe in the seventeenth century. Tbe first in France oame as a present to Mme. de Pompadour. A plan for rendering paper as tough as wood or leather has been recently introduced on the Europan continent. It conisits of mixing chloride of zino With the pulp In the courso of manufac ture. Padlocks are being manufactured with an auxiliary chamber, which car ries an explosive to be fired by a ham mer inside tbe lock and give an alarm when tbe lock is tampered with. The president of the Berlin police has published a rescript of regulations for the purpose of dealing with unlaw ful competition in the medical profes sion. A mixture of acetylene with oil gas in the proportion of one to three, lias been adopted on the Prusian State rail ways for lighting cars. WAGONS IMPROVED. The new improved 8 tough ton wagons stand the racket. Three more car load; are on the way. It pavs to have the best. Write for free catalogue. JOHN POOLE, pole agent, foot of Morrison street, Port land, Or. A microbe that lives and multiplies in strong alcohol has been discovered by Veloy. The attention of the public is called to the professional work of Dr. T. H. White, No. 271 J Morrison street, Portland, Or. His electrical appli ances are the most modem, and his crown and bridge work is of such artis tic form and finish, that his patients aro delighted not only with the looks, but with the comfort they roceive from the use of suoh artificial work. All operations are painless under his meth ods. See that your teeth are properly cared for and that by a skillful dentist. There is no need to sutler tbe discom forts of broken-down and stained teeth when they can be made useful and pleasant to look upon without pain. A Beautiful Present In order to further introduce ELASTIC STARCH (Flat Iron Brand), the manufacturers, J. C. Hubinger Bros. Co., of Keokuk, Iowa, have decided to GIVE AWAY a beautiful present with each package of starch sold. These presents are in the form of I Beautiful Pastel Pictures They are 13x19 inches in size, Lilacs and Pansies. Pansies and Marguerites. a.W ""'"'lO! 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