ffanuty Clerk
CORVALLIS
GAZETTE.
SEMI-WEEKLY.
Gzx-t'L-ece. ! Consolidated Feb., 1899.
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1900.
VOL. I. NO. 25.
THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
Its worn-out acres fallow lie,
Unpruued the orchard stands
For they who tended them long since
Have gone to other lands
One to the prairies of the west.
And one across the sea;
The rest have readied that blest coSntry
Where partings may not be.
The elm boughs tap the skylight dim
As, in the days agone.
They tapped to waken merrily
The little folk at dawn.
The woodbine curtains tenderly
The shattered window pane.
Yet grants admittance to its friends,
The sunshine and the rain.
No step, no whisper, breaks the hush
Bat hist! A sweiip of wings
Athwart the attic's dreaming dusk.
And tender twitterings!
A tenant for the empty nest?
See from the window ledge
A phoebe bird calls to its mate
Upon the cradie"s edge!
And in the cradle, vacant long,
Four downy fledgelings peep
And cuddle close. They'll dream of wings
And twitter in their sleep
All through the quiet summer night;
While on the dingy wall
Flit silently the thin, weird shapes
.That come at moonlight's call.
O life ond love that were of yore!
O sad old house bereft!
To thee but memory's treasured store
And the little birds are left.
One of thine own is in the west.
And one across the foam;
The rest are in that fairest land
Of Home, Sweet Home.
Utica Globe.
THE LAST
FOUR LEAGUES.
IT was sundown in Santa Rosalia.
The raiuy season was on in Cuba,
and low. rumbling thunder had
been heard all the afternoon. That is.
the people who lived in the little clus
ter of palm-thatched houses called San
ta Rosalia thought it was thunder. And
so it was the distant roar of Spanish
artillery that came up from the south.
One little cottage stood by the road
side, some distance apart from the oth
ers. It was the home of the Moncados.
The father, Jose, was dead. He had
falien a victim to the last, the "ten
years', " war. Three sous were left to
carry on the tight, and they were then
with Brigadier Lopez Recio. Only
mother and Emilia, the sister, a little
girl of twelve years, were left at home
ta watch and pray to God to aid the
Cubans in their struggle for liberty.
Suddenly the noise of clattering hoofs
came from the southwest. The still
night air bore the unmistakable sound
with distinctness. In an instant every
head was at the open door. Nearer and
nearer came the galloping rider. He
was alone. His horse was covered with
foam and panting like a tired hound.
Up to the little gate of the Moucado cot
tage he staggered, and then his rider
reeled and almost fell into the arms of
bis mother.
"My God! Rafael, you are wounded,
my boy "
"It is no matter; I can still ride. The
battle of Saratoga is raging. 1 am on
my way to Colonel Pena. He does not
know of it. We need him and his cav
alry. Help me to a fresh horse and I'll
catch Pena at Santa Lucia to-night. I
must "
The poor fellow never finished the
sentence. He had fainted. The arms
of tender women bore him into the
house. Poor little Kmelia followed,
the tears streaming from her eyes. She
watched them draw off the riding boots
filled with her brother's blood. She
brought water to moisten his parched
lips. She saw the ugly wound in his hip
and murmured through her gritting
teeth: "Bad Spaniards! Bad Spaniards!
They will kill us all yet!" And then
her borther's eyes opened. The cold
water had revived him. He tried to
move, but only groaned in agony. Once
more he strove to rise.
"Mother, some one, help me to my
feet! I must go on I must go on. I
have ridden sixteen leagues since morn
ing. There are only four more to Santa
Lucia and to Pena. We must have him."
And with a mighty effort he rose to his
feet. Then he wavered, tears of help
lessness came into his eyes, and he sank
back on the bed with a sob of anguish.
"To think that I should go so near to
the end of my journey and then fail!"
"How were you wounded, my boy?"
" 'Twas near El Desmayo late this
afternoon. I had changed horses at La
Vinda an hour before. Suddenly I ran
into a body of Spanish guerrillas from
San Miguel. I could not fight them
there were too many so I took up a ra
vine toward Isidro. They fired five vol
leys after me and gave chase. They
knew I bore a commission. My horse j
was fleet and strong ana I got away,
but carried with me one of their rifle
balls. I tore off parts of my sleeve and
pushed them into the wound, but it still
bled. I'm better now; I'm rested; I'll
go on." And again he tried to get on his
feet.
"Rafael, my boy, it is impossible; you
are weak. You cannot ride: the motion
of the horse will cause you to bleed to
death. Guido must go. Emilia, tell him
to saddle a fresh' horse and get ready to
ride to Santa Lucia."
Emilia started toward the door, but
ber brother raised his hand in protest.
"Guido is only a half-wit. He might
start for Santa Lucia, but he would
never find his way in the dark. Even
if he reached the place he would forget
whom he wanted to see."
"But there is no other man in Rosa
lia." pleaded the mother.
"True! Therefore I must go. wound
or no wound. Emilia, tell Guido to sad
dle a horse and bring it to the gate
quickly. We are losing time."
"Brother, we can't let you go. I'll
Sever see you again." And the poor
child buried her head on her brother
neck. Then, suddenly rising, she ex
claimed: "O. why was I not a man?
Cuba so needs men! Yes, I'll tell him
to get Linda ready at once. Colonel
Pena must go to help Gomez." Turn
ing, she kissed her brother's forehead
and hurried out to the stables. Soon
the quick gallop of a horse was heard
approaching the house. But it did not
step at the gate. On it sped in the di
rection of Santa Lucia.
A moment later Guido. the half-witted
black boy, wandered aimlessly into
the room.
"Where is the horse, where is Emil
ia?" inquired her brother.
"Gone!" replied the boy.
"Gone? Where?" came from all pres
ent.
"I dun know. She said somethin'
'bout St. Lucia, jumped on Linda's
back, and looks to me as how she's
gone."
II.
And so she was; the brave little Emil
ia, ah! ugli not a soldier of Cuba, had
taken her brother's place. She had gone
to get Pena; to tell him that the fight
between Gomez and the Spanish Gener
al Castellanos was on at Saratoga and
that every Cuban in Camaguey was
needed.
On the little heroine rode in the dark
ness of the night. She had been born
and raised in the country, and she knew
the way to Santa Lucia, although she
had never before traveled it In the
dark. But she was riding to save her
brother's life and for Cuba. Darkness,
danger, nothing daunted her. Bare
headed and alone, she urged her horse
over the road at a pace which would
have made most girls tremble with
fear.
Not even when an hour later the trop
ical storm broke In all Its fury around
her did she hesitate. Lightning strik
ing the tall "palma reals" caused Linda
many times to shy and almost bolt the
road, but the brave little rider held on
and never loosened rein until in sight
of Pena's campfires.
"Quien vs!" suddenly called out the
picket.
"Cuba!" answered the brave little pa
triotas. She reined up her panting steed.
"Adelante una!" ordered the guard,
and Emilia, pale, wet. and dripping,
rode forward.
"Caramba! It is a child. Who are
you? What do you want?"
"I am Emilia Moncado. I want to tell
Colonel PeDa that there is a battle at
Saratoga. General Gomez has only 530
men against over 2,000 Spaniards, and
he needs help."
A few minutes later, almost fainting
with fatigue and nervous strain, she
was borne into the presence of Pena.
"Dios mio!".he exclaimed, as he list
ened to her story and then gave the sig
nal for his command to mount.
"You poor little thing, you should be
abed and asleep." Wrapping his coat
around her little," trembling, wet form,
he Jumped into his saddle and had an
officer pass- the child up to him. The
order was given to march, anil In his
arms the fighting Colonel of Camaguey
carried the little heroine back to her
home in Rosalia.
"Take her," he said, as he handed her
over to the half crazed mother. "She
brought us the news. I'll speak of her
to General Gomez. She deserves the
rank of a Major General. She has
saved her brother's life, and her brave
deed may win the day at Saratoga."
Omaha Bee.
Wanted the Birds Cared For.
There is a story just now current in
Rome to the effect that a sculptor in
that city, in an evil hour for his reputa
tion as an artist, undertook some time
ago to produce "to order" a bronze stat
ue of President Kruger. One of the
conditions imposed was that no liber
ties were to be taken with Oom Paul.
He was to be represented in all his
native heaviness of features with the
fidelity which Oliver Cromwell exact
ed; and for personal decoration he was
to be depicted in his ordiuary frock
coat and tail hat. The most trying stip
ulation of all was, however, that Mad
ame Kruger, Oom Paul's amiable lady,
insisted that the crown of the hat
should be made concave so that it might
catch and hold rain water for the re
freshment of little birds! The artist
has succeeded in doing the bidding of
his patrons, and the statue is now al
most ready for transmission to Pre
toria. This concern for the welfare of
the harmless little birds is creditable
to Madame Kruger's maternal heart,
but humanitarianlsm of this kind Is cer
tainly not conducive to the production
of a keen aesthetic sense. St. James
Gazette.
Matches Made from Paper.
The days of the old-fashioned wood
en match are said to be numbered.
Matches are to be made of paper. By
a new process the paper is cut In strips
about half an inch wide. These are
drawn through and saturated with &
flame-producing material. They are
then rolled into tubes and cut the
length of ordinary matches and dipper
in the phospohrus to form the head,
which Is lighted by striking in the
same fashion as the ordinary match. I
is predicted that the match-making in
dustry will be entirely revolutionized
by this new method. The matches are
very much lighter and are thought to
be more reliable than the old sort. Pa
per of various kinds will be employed,
that made from wood pulp being better
adapted for this purpose.
Gf-rman Juries.
In Germany, when the vote of the
jury stands six against six, a prisoner
is acquitted. A vote of seven against
five leaves the decision to the court,
and on a vote of eight against four the
prisoner is convicted.
After a man has accumulated as
much as $5,000 it is perfectly proper
for his wife to refer to the "grounds"
surrounding their home, instead of thr
"yard."
PORTO RICO'S FAIR MAIDENS.
Love-Making Is Somewhat Difficult
Down at San Juan.
Augusto Ortiz, of San Juan, Porto
Hico, said to a Baltimore Sun re
porter: "San Juan is a pretty town,
with lots of colors and a gay people.
Fhey dress nearly like you here, except
L-ouceruing the trousers. The men wear
a coat and vest, collar aud shirt, like
Americans; but the trousers are half
Spanish and half French, very wide to
the knee and very tight below.
"The girls have a hard time, not near
ly as nice as tne Baltimore girls, and
the young men have lots of trouble in
making love. The girls wear gowns
like those here, but arrange their hair
with a swoop that takes it back off the
forehead to a knot in the back, and
sometimes it hangs all the way down
without a knot. It is very pretty, but
still they have a hard time. Why, a
young girl there cannot go out alone
like "one can here, but she must take
some older friend or some relative as
a chaperon. At home, when a young
man calls to see his girl, if he is much
in love it makes him very mad to find
either a father or a mother or older sis
ter sitting in the same room, and they
will sit there until he goes. Really, the
only chance a fellow has to talk to the
girls without some one hearing all he
says is at the dances, which are given
every week at the different clubs, and
even then he has to talk to her quickly
while he is dancing, for when they stop
she has to go back to her mother, or sis
ter, or aunt, or somebody. The young
men, however, make the best of the
dances. When you want to marry a
girl you have to ask her parents first
of all, because you get no chance to ask
the girl. This is a very bad custom
Roth men and women In San Juan and
all over the Island wear clothes of
much more color than Americans, and
you rarely see a dark suit of clothes on
a man. The girls are gay, with all the
colors of the rainbow, and with more
of a chance to see them without chape
rons life there would be very pleasant.
GIANT ELEPHANT'S TUSK.
lirouchi Out of Interior of German Baat
A rica, and Weighs 241 Ponnds.
A gigantic elephant's tusk has been
brought from the interior of German
East Africa. A native was the fortun
ate hunter who bagged the trophy, and
it is said that the fellow tusk was only
a trifle smaller. The big tusk weighs
241 pounds.
The two tusks were brought by way
of Bagamoyo to Zanzibar, where an
American acquired them at a fancy
price. Some idea can be formed of the
gigantic size of. the elephant when it is
tilAXT JiLKPHANT'S TUSK.
known that it carried about with it an
appendage of nearly 500 pounds in
tusks!
Elephants of this size are becoming
rarer every day. The merciless war of
extermination carried on for years
against the elephant by ivory hunters
has been only too successful. Where
once immense herds were to be seen, a
man now may travel for hundreds of
miles in the vain search for those forest
monsters. They tend to retire further
and further from the coast in quest of
solitudes as yet uninvaded by man.
FLIES ARE VERY SHORT-LIVED.
Two Weeks la Abont the Average of
Their Karthly Kxis'ence.
"Owing to the natural diffidence of
flies, not much is known of their fam
ily arrangements or how long, they live
after they get to be old enough to vote.
It is estimated, though, that if papa
and mamma of the early spring could
hold out to attend a family reunion of
their offspring held In the latter part of
August upward of 2,000,000 of their
own blood and kin would come to the
picnic, not counting maggots in arms.
Fortunately for them, papa and mam
ma do not live much more than a fort
night. Even a fly's perseverance would
be unequal to the task of keeping track
of 2,000,000 of descendants. As Arte
mus Ward says, 'This Is 2 mutch.'
"Fortunately for us, flies do not live
much longer than a fortnight, for If
they were long-lived and preserved
their fecundity man would soon be
forced to look for some place where
things were not quite so crowded and
the real estate advertising columns
would be full of, 'Why fight flies? Se
cure a planet of your own on easy
monthly payments.'
"However, it is well to point out that
the saving clause, 'it is estimated,' cor
rects the 2,000,000. Scientific men are
just like other people and hate Just as
much to have to say: 'I don't know,' to
a plain question. They have learned
that It is estimated' acts on the same
principle as a boy's 'over the left,' and
authorizes them to tell with impunity
the most jaw-dropping, eye-bulging
whoppers, causing the public to wag
heads and cluck: "Tchk! Look at that
now! There's learning for you!"
"There is a good deal of the 'it is esti
mated' about the life history of the fly,
for the reason that the beast is hard to
rear. Other insects will live, move and
have their being in a box with a gauze
over it and let in the air and light. All
they ask Is board and lodging, and, like
the curios in a dime museum. tb-- ib
answer any and all proper' questions,
photographs for sale for their special
benefit. But fit up the most luxurious
quarters for flies, well aired and light-
ed, stock with all the delicacies of the
j stable and the garbage box, and the in
mates incontinently turn up their toes
' and die. While the entomologist won
ders what for, a fly buzzes past his ear.
He chases it away. It comes back. He
slaps at it. It dodges, buzzing gleefully,
and alights again. He flutters his hand
and shoos it from him. He thinks It is
simply another case of fly persever
ance. He does not k'now. he cannot un
derstand, that it is mocking his failure
with the cry of: 'A-a-a-a-ah! Did you
ever get left?' "
KEEPS THE WHEELS GREASED.
Convenient Automatic Oiling; Device
for Vehicles.
The labor of oiling wagon wheels by
the usual method is somewhat ardu
ous, and he who can perform the task
without soiling the hands and clothes
is an exception to the general rule.
With the idea of doing away with the
necessity for removing the wheels
every time the axles are oiled Van Don
Roe, of Maury City, Tenn.. has design
ed the automatic oiler illustrated here
with. It consists of an elongated oil
cup secured to the hub between two
spokes, with an opening cut through
the hub and box to allow the oil to flow
to the shaft. Inside the oil-cup is a
weighted plunger, which reciprocates
at each revolution of the wheel, thus
forcing a small quantity of oil through
the minute opening in the wheel box.
The force of the fall of the plunger is
broken by a coiled spring at either end
of the internal chamber, thus making
the device noiseless, and it is only nec
essary to fill the cups at long intervals
to keep the shafts and boxes in good
condition.
PLANETARY MOVEMENTS.
Trne Theory Advanced by Ancient 11 il
oaopher Pythafgoras.
In the earliest times in which men
began to give anything like scientific
attention to the movements of the heav
enly bodies, the planets or "wander
ers," as their name implies, appear to
have .been regarded sometimes as living
beings, mostly deified heroes, and
sometimes as the abodes of these be
ings. The men of these ages naturally
took what they saw for granted and
believed the earth to be the center of
the universe, with the sun, moon and
other heavenly bodies moving round it.
In course of time, as observation be
came more exact, the irregularity of
the apparent orbits of the planets was
noted and accounted for by fixing them
in revolving crystalline spheres or
zones, the smaller inclosing the earth
and the rest outside working at varying
distances and at varying speeds. In
each of these a planet was fixed, and
so the irregularity was accounted for,
swiftness or slowness of revolution be
ingakeu as a criterion of proximity or
distance. This was practically the the
ory adopted in what is called the Ptole
maic system. This system had been
shaping itself from the times of Plato
and Aristotle, and remained generally
accepted until the demonstrations of
Copernicus demolished it. It is, how
ever, well worthy of note that Pythag
oras, about five centuries before Christ,
had advanced the true theory of the
universe, that is to say, the revolution
of the earth and its sister planets round
the sun. This, however, conflicted
strongly with the preconceived Ideas
of the philosophers of Greece and
Rome, and subsequently with those of
the theologians, who considered that
they were bound to consider the earth
as the center as well as the end and
aim of creation. Hence, it was not
until something like 2,000 years after
the death of Pythagoras that his theory
was practically confirmed by the as
tronomers of the sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries.
SERENADED THE JAIL.
Ludicrous Error of an Organ-Grinder
in St. Paul.
A wandering minstrel, who started
his wanderings in the neighborhood of
Genoa, pushed his hand organ up Fifth
street the other afternoon about 5
o'clock. When he got halfway up the
hill he stopped, looked up at the win
dow in which Mr. Soutball keeps the
little geranium which solaces his im
prisonment, swung the organ around
off his back and began to play. The
flower had set life wrong. He didn't
know It was the county jail and he
wouldn't know yet but for the fact that
he started to play the dear old tune, "I
Never Care to Wander .from the Old
Fireside." Somebody threw a piece of
stale bread at him from the window of
the boys' ward and he moved on. St.
Paul Globe.
New War Balloon Invented. '
An officer in the Austrian army in
Vienna has invented balloons which
will float both men and horses across
a river. They are to be fastened to the
belts around the men and the harness
of the horses.
When a young man finds that be can
make two girls believe the same com
pliment, he begins to look upon him
self as the Real Thing.
AUTOMATIC OI1.ER.
Prevents Rapid Hating. ! .
The feed trough which we illustrate
below has been patented by George E.
Combs, of Chadwick. N. Y., and is in
tended to prevent the animals from eat
ing their feed too rapidly, and also to
prevent the waste of feed when the
animal is inclined to push It out of the
trough. The new trough is of semi
circular shape, with a hopper mounted
on a raised base In the center of the
tear portion of the trough. At the
bottom of the hopper is a disk which
can be raised or lowered by the adjust
ment of a thumbscrew, thus varying
the size of the discharge opening. The
feed falls through the opening around
the disk into the trough below, and a
little watching on the part of the
hostler will soon show the position to
give the disk to regulate the discharge
to the proper quantity. Projecting
VARIABLE DISCHARGE FOR FEED TROUGHS.
from either side of the hopper is a short
arm, which is connected with a stirring
device inside of the hopper, this ar
rangement being useful in starting the
flow of feed if it should become clogged
in the hopper. If the feed stops the
animal will move Its nose about the
trough to pick up the stray grain, thus
coming in contact with one of the arms
and dislodging the feed and starting
the flow again.
Fattening Beef Cattle.
Reports from the West indicate that
a great many of what are called "feed
ers," young stock ready to be put up
and fattened, are being sold in the Chi
cago market, and that the farmers of
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa will feed
more of them this year than ever. One
reason for this is probably in the com
paratively good price at which beef cat
tle are now selling, and another is the
large corn crops which the farmers
have grown, and which they find it
more profitable to sell "on the hoof" as
It is called, or iu the shape of cattle and
hogs, than to sell by the bushel. They
have learned that their soil, fertile as it
was once thought to be, needs to have
something in the way of fertility re
turned to it, or continual cropping will
exhaust it. The corn shredder, which
utilizes the stalks of their great fields
of corn as rough fodder for stock, also !
helps them keep more. Most of these i
young cattle come from the ranges in
Texas and In the Northwestern States, :
where little corn is grown, and It seems
easier to bring the cattle to the corn
than to take the corn to the cattle, es
pecially as the feeding points are nearer
to a good market than are the ranches.
Something of the same sort is being
done near Kansas City and Omaha,
which draw range cattle from Moutana,
the Dakotas and even from Winnipeg.
Where drought has been too severe
these range cattle are what is called
"grass fat" when they come In, and
need only a few months on corn to
bring them up to prime beef, fit to ship
to England or any other point where
they will pay good prices for good meat.
American Cultivator.
I
Good Strawberries.
The Nick Ohmer strawberry is a fine
grower and carries its fruit on strong
stems well up from the ground. It Is
heavy and large
in leaf. The fruit
is of a beautiful
shape and color,
coming in as early
as the majority
and continuing as
late in the season
as any on the list.
In Its variety
trials of strawber
ries for 1900
American Garden
ing found fully a
nick ohmkr berry, quart per plant to
be easy figuring in the cases of Nick
Ohmer and Sharpless, which stand pre
eminently in mind as the leaders of the
test. Frost caused some injury, but
Gladstone, Gem and Star suffered most
seriously in this respect. Wilson and
Sharpless were tremendous croppers
and gave good fruit early to late.
Urn: and Acid Phosphate.
Mch having been said lately about
the tests made at the Rhode Island Ex
periment Station in the use of lime
upon certain soils and for various
crops, we desire to call attention to the
possible danger of using lime with an
acid phosphate. The object in treating
bone and phospbatic rock with sul
phuric acid is to render the phosphoric
acid soluble in water so that It may be
come more readily available for plant
food. It does this by removing from It
a part of the lime, changing it to a sul
phate of lime. If now more carbonate
of lime is added it will be taken up by
the dissolved phosphate, and it reverts
again to the Insoluble form. Lime ma;
be used with bone meal, because that
already has its phosphoric acid com
bined with as much lime as it can take
up, and it really becomes available, as
it is acted upon by the acid in the soil.
But where one uses enough of bone
meal there Is little need to use lime iv
any other form.
Bloat in Cattle.
Bloat In cattle, from whatever cause,
is very dangerous,; and unless help is
soon obtained, the animal will die. The
most effectual way of relief Is to use
the trocar and canula, an instrument
that is designed for this purpose. It
this Is not at hand, a knife may be used.
the small blade of a penknife being the
right size. We used the small blade of
a jackkntfe, with rubber over the blade,
to make the right length. Push the right
side of the cow against the wall. Place
the knife on the left side, about midway-
between the short rib and hip
bone. Give the knife a sharp blow with
the hand; withdraw the knife, insert a
goose or turkey quill, and leave it there
until the gas escapes. The quill should
be watched so that It may not become
clogged with blood. The next day after
the operation we gave the cow one and
one-half pounds of Glauber's salts, and
as she was not chewing her cud by the
next day a strip of salt pork was given
her. This brought her out in good
shape. The knife operation is not dan
gerous, but the gas is.
Rape Plant as Weed Killers.
Aside from its value as a forage rape
Is an excellent crop to grow on fields
that are foul with weeds. The late date
at which the seed may be sown allows
the weeds to get well started before the
final preparation of the soil begins, the;
are further kept in check by the culti
vation required for the crop during its
early growth, and later the rape plants
shade the. ground so completely as to
keep the" weeds down. An excellent
treatment for a foiil field is to plow
thoroughly in late summer or early au
tumn and seed to rye or some other
forage crop to be pastured off during
the fall, winter or early spring. When
the crop has been pastured sufficiently
and before the weeds have produced
eed, plow again, plant rape in drills
and give thorough cultivation. There
are few weeds that will survive such
treatment, and the land will have given
profitable returns In forage in the mean
time. The rape Is usually ready for use
in about eight or ten weeks from the
date of seeding. T. A. Williams.
j Imotation rheew.
In 1S99 the imports of Imitation
cheese into Great Britain from the
United . States and Holland, the only
countries where it is made, were 5,087
hundredweight, which was less than
one-half the amount imported in 1897.
Popular sentiment has been so strongly
against the article on both sides of the
water that it was expected the trade
would gradually die out. Recent high
prices for pure cheese have, however,
induced a few concerns In Great Brit
ain to handle the imitation stuff, and
they have inquired for supplies both in
Canada and the United States. To the
credit of Canada it may be said that
the law positively prohibits the manu
facture or sale of the article iu any of
the provinces of the Dominion. Farm,
Field and Fireside.
Irrigation in Rocky Mountains.
In the six Rocky Mountain States of
Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska,
Utah and Wyoming agriculture Is large
ly dependent on irrigation. The distri
bution of the water supply is regulated
by law, and costs about ?1 per acre.
Nebraska and Wyoming have water
commissioners, who receive al appli
cations and determine all controversies.
In the other four States there is much
litigation. But when the ranchman's
water rights are once established, he
thinks himself far more sure of regular
crops than the farmer in "the humid
States," where there is always liability
of drouth or excessive rainfall, while
he has the exact amount of moisture
he needs, just when he wants it, and at
no other time and always on tap.
Uns'aked Lime for Rats.
A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman says that to keep rodents out
of oats "take unslaked lime, just sprin
kle it over the floor or platform on
which one will put his grain, then a lay
er of sheaves and another liberalspread
of lime. Continue In like manner,
lining each layer of grain to the last,
not smothering the last layer, and that
is all there is to it. I keep rats and
mice out of my corn crib in the same
way, and it Is Invariably a success. I j
also keep large quantities of unthreshed
oats in barn free from rats and mice the
same way. One barrel of unslaked lime !
is enough for 2,000 or 3,000 bushels of
corn or eisrht tons of sheaf oats.
Co-operation in Fairs.
We. should like to see the stock of
every fair association in the country
scattered out in small blocks among the
representative farmers, breeders and
business men of the community. Then
they would all have some direct person
al interest, in making the fair a suc
cess, and they would do it, too. Wher
ever the managers of a fair bare the
good will and help of a community
which is proud of its fair we find a
clean, instructive and successful exhi
bition. Fair managers as a rule are
anxious to give the public clean fairs,
but they cannot do it without such pub
lic support as will keep them "out of
the hole" financially. National Stock
man.
GOOD FORTUNE
HOW AN ENTERPRISING FARMER
STRUCK IT RiCH.
Shattered by Disease, Robert White,
While Endeavoring to Cure Hi iinelf,
Made a Fortunate Discovery.
From the Democrat, :helbyville, Ind.
Near Waldron, Ind., resides Mr.
Robert White, one of the best knowu
farmers of the community. He is well
situated, and just now has had an un
usnal share of good fortune.
In his earlier days Mr. White was
strong and athletic, but now while on
the declining side of forty, hard work
and disease have made him a different
man, although today he is in good
health.
For a number of years he has been
troubled with rheumatism, catarrh of
the head and stomach. Often in bad
weather his ailments would be aggra
vated and be would be in a serious con
dition. When the grippe visited this section
seven years ago, Mr White was one of
those attacked by this fearful disease
a was confined to his bed for several
days. After- recovering enough to si'j
up for a few days, concluded he was
well enough to get out about his work.
He went ant too soon. Most all pa
tients do that. He had a relapse and
was confined to bis bed for several
weeks. His old disorders became
greatly affected. The efforts of his
physician, who had been attending
him all the time, proved unavailing.
The doctor was dismissed. Several oth
ers were tried but their treatment was
useless.
Mr. White doctored himself and used
many remedies said to be good for his
diseases, but be was not helped.
He went to Matisville and took the
baths, but they did him only tempor
ary good. "It seemed impossible to
get lelief," said he, "and I did not
know what to do.
"At last I was persuaded to try Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People,
and they cured me. I commenced
taking them last June, and alter taking
five boxes, I was entirely cured. They
relieved me from all suffering. Of
course I suffered from rheumatism
most, and I am now completely cured
of that. I bad tried two catarrh spe
cialists, who were said to be good for
the trouble, and they each said my
case was incurable. Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People cleansed out
my system, purified my blood, and I
am now strong-and well. These pills
relieved me of miserable suffering, and
my only regret is. that I did not have
the good fortune to take them seven
years ago. 1 have recommended the
medicine to a number and the dealer
in Waldron says he has a large demand
for it."
It was nature's own remedy that ac
complished this cure caused by impure
blood, for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
Pale People are composed of vegetable
remedies that exert a powerful influ
ence in purifying and enriching the
blood. Many diseases long supposed
by the medical profession to be incura
ble have succumbed to the potent influ
ence of there pills. This universal
remedy is sold by all drnggists.
Ginger and Its Uttes.
In a hundred thousand farm houses
the essence of Jamaica ginger is regard
ed as on of the most valuable of family
medicines. It is still used with sugar
in the cold water furnished to haying
hands for drinking. It makes a whole
some beverage for any one in hot
weather.
Persons of weak digestion will find
a few drops of the essence useful if
taken in water before breakfast with
out sngar.
Ginger tea, made from the root, is of
service, like catnip tea or sage tea, to
produce presperation in colds, or to
stimulate the system after exposure.
It is more palatable than the decoc
tions of sage and catnip.
In toothaches a bit of root ginser
chewed slowly will remove the pain
and make one comfortable till a dentist
can be consulted
Nearly all the good effects of alco
holic stimulants can be secured from
ginger. But the so-called ginger habit
has to be guarded agaiust. So has the
cayenne pepper habit
An Overwhelming Thought.
Our sun is a third-rate sun, situated
in the milky way, one of myriads of
stars, and the milky way is itself one
of myriads of sectional star accumula
tions, for these seem to be countless,
and to be spread over intimity At
some period of their existence each of
these suns had planets circling around
it, which, after untold ages, are fit for
some sort of human beings to inhabit
them tor a comparatively brief period,
after which they still continue for
years to circle around without atmo
sphere, vegetation or inhabitants, as
the moon does around onr planet. There
is nothing so calculated to take the
conceit out of an individual who
thinks himself an important unit in the
universe as astronomy. It teaches that
we are less, compared with the uni
verse, than a colony of ants is to us,
and that the difference between men is
less than that between one ant and an
other. London Truth
They who know G6d love Him, and
they who love Him learn to know 11-im
best.
It is a curious and interesting coinci
dence that while the old confederate
cruiser Alabama was for a long time
known as "No. 290, " the new battle
ship Alabama was numbered "290'' at
the builder's yard before her name was
decided upon, and without any thought
of the original. ' -
Brown I can hit a good canteloupe
every time.
Jones You can! Well, say, how
do you do it by physiogomy or psy
etiology? Indianapolis Journal.