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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1908)
Ti:Z STATE FALV flood Progress Being Made Most . Modern Appliances to be -Installed. " In line with the progressive policy adopted by the manage ment of Oregon's great state fair to be held from September 14 to 19, Secretary Frank Welch is testing several modern- appli ances which liave already been used successfully by the big ex positions of the country. One of the im provements which will probably be made is the in stallation of five modern auto matic gates at the main entrance to the grounds. This gate is operated by the dropping of a coin in a slot, which turns the stile and admits one person. At the same time the passing of the visitor through the gate is re corded at the entrance, and also jn the office of the secretary, by means of electricity. This ma chine also adds the number of paid admissions, and thus every night the officials of the fair will know exactly how many persons have entered the grounds during the day. Another device which has al ready beenpurchased, and which is now on the grounds, is a set of announcers for flashing the time and positions of the horses at the finish of each race. Form erly this was done by means of sliding . boards, but the . new method is considered a great im provement on the old. The ma chine is worked on the principle of the typewriter, there being a keyboard which controls the dif ferent figures. It will be possible to show the position while the winners are actually passing un der the wire. It will be neces sary to use a separate machine for the running events. Work on the big grand stand is also progressing rapidly. This structure will be built down to the track, thus nearly doubling its already immense capacity. Private boxes will be built along the entire front of the grand 6tand. The races this year have filled with the best blood in the west. The list of entries for the big stakes is unusually large, and the present stall space will not accommodate all the animals. It will be necessary to put up sev eral new barns, and it is prob able that work on these build ings will commence soon.Sa leni Statesman. Young Folks AN AMUSING TOY. Simple and Easily Made Whirligig That Provides Lots of Fun. Try this and you will find it lots of fun, nud it is easy too. All around a porcelain dish, such as is used to cook eggs in, glue a series of small figures cut out of cardboard. Place this pre pared dish on an ordinary plate of about twice Its diameter, somewhat convex on the bottom, as plates usual ly are. If now you give the inner plate a gentle swing it will revolve upon Itself. If the larger plate is not convex, pour half an inch of water over it, so TOY IN OPERATION. that the inner plate will float and turn easily. Watch the plate spin and the figures go around. This can be turned into a game by placing a figure outside the plates as a goal. Each figure inside the dish has a number, and the game is to spin the plate. When it stops, the number on the figure opposite the goal is put down to that player's credit. At the end of the game the one who has the most counts wins the game. Magical Ex periments. A Road Club. The farmers of Pleasant View dis trict, ten miles south of Eureka, Green wood county, Kan., have organized a good roads clnb with S. F. Rocky pres ident and M. O. Hanson secretary. The club has eighteen charter mem tiers. In the district are eleven miles of rot d. and it is the object of the clnb to have eacb mile properly graded and worked regularly with the road drag. The club will hold regular meet ings to discuss necessary improvements ' and methods for work. j ."";- STAR AK3 CRESCENT. :if - 111 II ' tfj Origin mt tka Symbols Used M ttM Turkish Flag. rr.. ." -?.- Very ancient are the , star and crescent of the Turkish flag. Their origin is explained as, follows: The characters of the language of Mes opotamia, like the Egyptian, were originally hieroglyphic. One of the ; early picture words was a crescent and a star, and this picture, which , was pronounced "shiptu," was em ployed to express an incantation or exorcism or anything capable . of i driving the evil spirit from the 1 body of which it had taken posses , sion. Clay tablets recording the ancient exorcisms have been found in the ruins of Mesopotamia, and at the beginning of such tablets ap pears the sign which developed from the crescent and star. The symbol therefore may have been not only the word for incantation, but a charm from which the evil j spirits were supposed to flee. In every age in the orient the people Have possessed similar charms. The Assyrian kings stationed winged monsters with forms half human at j their gateways to keep all evil from entering within the palace, lhe poorer people suspended clay tab lets above the entrances of their houses. The modern oriental may purchase in the bazaars blue glass beads, verses from the Koran wrap ped in leather cases and other de vices to serve a similar purpose. The crescent and star formed a symbol which the Hesopotamian of 6,000 years ago employed as a charm. Among the early peoples of Mes opotamia all of - the - heavenly bodies were regarded as deities, but the moon, because of the variety of the shapes which it assumes, was the chief of them all. Special reverence was therefore paid it and some of the oldest and most im portant of the Babylonian temples, as at Ur and Haran, were devoted to its worship. Thus the crescent, the symbol by which the moon god was represented, was supposed to have the power to avert evil, and then together with the star it form ed the word for incantation. When Babylonia passed into the hands of the Persians the symbol appeared upon the coins. From the Persians it was transmitted to the Parthians, the Byzantines, the Eo mans and the Greeks.- Finally the Turks, who succeeded in the pos session of the greater part of the countries of the ancient world, adopted it as a device for their flag. (Jhicago JN ews. Never Says Goodby. "Did vou hear what that man said when we left him?" asked one friend of another as they made their way from the inner office of a well known financier. "Don't know that I did," was the response. " 'Goodby,' I suppose, wasn't it?" "Nota bit of it," the first re joined. "I've never heard that man say 'Goodby.' I've mentioned the matter to him, and he's told me that he has a prejudice against 'goodby.' With him it's always 'Good day,' or 'Good morning,' or 'Good night,' or maybe, if he knows you well, 'So long or 'See you later."' . - "I wonder why that is?" was the interested comment. "I can only guess," was the re sponse. "Probably it is because he has some painful associations with 'Goodby.' For 'that matter, most of us have, if we but stop to think of them." New York Press. The Clock Plant. - There is a plant, a native of Borneo, which is known - as the "clock plant." The name is derived from the action of -the sun's rays on the leaves, which are three in num bera large one" extending for ward, with two small ones at the base pointing sideways. These, coming in contact with the rays of the sun, oscillate like the pendulum of a clock, the larger leaf moving upward and downward, going its full length every forty-five min utes, the smaller leaves moving to ward the larger, completing the distance ? forward and backward every forty-five minutes, thus re sembling the hour and minute hands of a clock. Macaulay the Wit. During the time when Lord Dis raeli was startling sober Englishmen by his eccentricities of dress Lord Macaulay, that was to be, was elec trifying his dull witted constituents by his witty sallies and repartee. Having been defeated in 1847, he ran again for parliament in 1853. For a change he was the popular candidate. One day while standing on the hustings side by side with his oppo nent he was violently struck by a dead cat. - The man who threw it immediately- apologized, saying he had meant the cat for his opponent. "Indeed !" said Macaulay. 'Then I wish you had meant it for me and struck him." Mile NOTES C.MBAEMTZ BXVZK3DB PA. o CORRESPONDENCE 40UCIXED Copyright, 1908. by C. M. Barnitz. These articles and illustrations must not be re printed without special permission. : PIGEONS, PAST AND PRESENT. The fluttering and cooing of doves Bound through all history. . Favorites In golden court and eon vent, they nested o'er threshold of palace and peasant cot and were held In sacred awe in heathen shrine and Christian temple. But this eentle bird of lovo and art. once offered as sacrifice, is now served as quail on toast. Oh, epicurean appetite, what crimes are committed in thy name! -When Noah drew the dove into the ark he knew not that he was -saving the foundation of the squab business and making possible the squab graft company. Wouldn't he be horrified to stand in a 50,000 squab plant and behold thou sands of young doves slaughtered? Would he be tempted to overturn "the seats of them that sold doves?" Would he preach against the squab graft company? Would he eat quail (squab) on toast V Perhaps Noah's greatest surprise would be to look on the wonderful de velopment in dove life the varied de scendants of his little Blue Eock dove, the Homers, Runts, Dragoons, Duch esses, Carneaux, Mondaines, Carriers, Tumblers, Magpies, Nuns, Helmets, Spots, Barbs, Jacobins, Blondinettes, Turbits, Pouters, Moorheads, Swal lows, Fantails, Croppers, Owls, Sati nettes,. Scanderoons Orientals, Frill backs, Firebacks, Priests, Brunswicks, Suabians, Shields, . Breasters, Porce lains, Mookies, Hyacinths, Quakers, Crescents, Ices, Lahores, Florentines, Starlings, ; Archangels, Antwerps and Trumpeters. Astonished at this marvelous flutter ing picture of winged grace, color and beauty, the patriarch would ask, "Who brought such wonderful results from my little Blue Eock dove?" And the modern would be forced to reply: "We also have sought an ex planation for all this. We may have added something to the remarkable work, but in the main the marvelous achievement belongs to the wisdom of the ancients, and the breeding of these beautiful doves is one of the lost arts that were buried with them." THE Cut out STRAIGHT HOMER. highballs, but take homers straight. Straight homers are unsurpassed in quality and quantity of squabs and when fed and housed scientifically HOVER SQTTBAIiEBS. - shonld yield from eight to twelve pairs a year. But amateurs will yelp over some thing new when they blunder In buy ing, through careless methods, super fluity of genius or hot air picture book advertisements. Then they quit, chase the homer or get the know how. Yes, the giant runt raises 1 large squabs, but only four pairs a year, and consumes more feed. "Where did your undesirable, un popular dark skinned squabs come from?" " - Thafs one of your experimenting stunts in crossing homers and runts. Now take your darky squabs to mar ket and learn what "love's labor lost" means. Dragoon squabs are good size, but take five weeks to mature for market, while the cash for the homer squabs has been on interest a week. A cross between the two makes a nice "squealer," but it's only to lovers "the longest way round is the shortest way home.'- You bother with two va rieties to get less than if you take it straight Yes, the Duchess Is a pretty bird, but a poor feeder, and who wants a feather legged Duchess or a half breed homer with-fuzzy stockings? . - The Mondaine did make a big ex citement, and the demand gave our English kozens the chance to raise the price to $20 a pair, and they ship ped any old thing across the ponL But why this tomblike silence? - Oh, the Mondaine fanatics got it in the neck, and the craze Is dead. But the straight homer Is doing busi ness at the old stand for the fellows who have the sense to "keep in de middle" of the straight road. ' - Don't fan to sift cracked corn. - Pi geons do not care for f.ne meal, and It ' sours. Tf - tr-AiEtt-S VACATION. . . rest 'Mats shad of appla trees. Where frasraat creeses blew.' " AB4 Hat to birds and bussing bees -T .' Aa they ait to and fret .. . T , But others gallop by the' sea And roast both neck and shin s And laugh at hayseed country Jakes . Who boodle don't blow in. , " I rest and drink from Ice cold springs And watch my fine crops glowing. ' I'm euldvatine long greenbacks - While others do the blowing. ' I have no mortgage on my farm. - They put one on their pay. . . i and for their sporting in the surf They'U skimp for many a day. " I feast from oft my well spread board J - And dine on tender duck. But these poor chumps along the sea Just get left over luck. They'U get a lovely coat of tan And learn some stylish tricks," But all they'll bring when they return Will be a few "gold bricks. y C M. B. PUSHING THE MOLT. Many push : the ; feathers . off their fowls with this method: . Separate the sexes, -turn the fowls on grass and cut the ration down to one-fourth the -usual quantity for three or four weeks. freed mostly, oats and wheat and twice a week, on clear days, make the ration soft mash, in which you mix two tablespoonfuls of sulphur to fifty birds. - At the end of three weeks rush the feed, giving plenty of green bone, sun flower seed anc" best grains. The light ration helps them shed their old coat, the heavy shoves out the new, and- thus while other people's chickens are eating feed and hunting sun rays yours will -be laying eggs, and you will be hunting a market We have found this does not hurt their breeding qualities. It is just as natural for a hen to molt as for a horse to shed his hair or a blacksnake to shuffle off his skin. FEEDING PULLETS. - Xou will naturally be proud to find that first egg with a splash of blood, but that first pullet to make her debut may not become the best layer. Some, like precocious chickens, drop back into mediocrity. If ration is too stimulating, easily digested or liberal, the fowl may be pushed to lay before proper growth has been attained. Thus Its development and future usefulness may be Impaired, just as a young tree may die or be stunted by bearing a heavy crop of fruit too early. Then, also, if food is deficient in building quality, scanty or indigestible. we see poor growth. . " To avoid the premature, feed meat sparingly and ground feed once a day. - Have the pullets on grass and make their grain ration of wheat, oats, corn, peas and barley equal parts and not too heavy. Too much corn, buckwheat and bran retard the growth. If pullets show a tendency to lay too early, keep moving them around. for disturbance often retards laying. But keep them away from the old stock, for they will be continually bul lied out of their feed and be sure te get lousy. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS Canada is bragging of a forty-two pound turkey, "Tom Royal," at the Ontario show, and a fancier says, "If any one has a heavier bird, let aim speak up." But listen. "Hello, Mis souri:" "Hello!" "How heavy was the champion torn at your big show?' "Sixty-five pounds." "Well, you bet ter wire the news at once to Canada for- they are getting a bad attack of hot wind puff." A Canada lady fenced seventy acres with wire wolf proof fence to keep the wolves from her turkeys, but did not close the river front. Vicious dogs entered by water route and killed eighty turkeys. What i3 a roaster? A soft meated young fowl for roasting. "Small roast ers" weigh from four to five pounds. "Large" weigh eight to nine pounds. And. both must be fat Those jiggers in the warm states that- bury themselves in the fowls' flesh can be cleaned out with ground tobacco. If you have a thunderstorm handy it will wash them off the sur face. One feels like cutting -out cut bone these blowfly days. The man who runs his bone cutter by power saves wear and tear, but the other fellow may sweat and swear unless he Is a poultry woman. And what about the crawlers? "Oh, do give us a rest!" Yes, you deserve to be arrested if you allow those hens to be playground for myriad crawlers. Don't you know that the third gen eration of a single louse reaches 125,000 in three months, in ten 1,250,000, etc.? Beware of the pallidums, the varia bilises, the goniodes and gonicotes. - And now, Mr. Kicker, listen. You're putting off buying those breeders until in the molt Then they'll be undressed, their combs will be shrunken, and they'll all look like three cents. What a good time for a knock on your thick bull head! Eastern Iowa In three months ship ped 600,000 pounds of . dressed poul try to Chicago. Each car held 20,000 pounds. Yon may easily figure out the length of the train, but what other big poultry cards Iowa has up her sleeve you can't guess. "Say, Iowa, won't you Just hold up a little bit? You're run nin too fast. Australia, having cleaned out the kan garoos,, is certainly hustling the roost er, business. Talk about boosting the rooster! Why, the schoolteachers are running Incubators in the schoolrooms! Must be a sight to see the youngsters rubber, when. the little ruffle Muffles be gin to peep.. "What do you want, boy?" " "Teacher, may I go see the chickr ' "Me too!" "Me too!" "Me too!" WOMEN IN POLITICS. M - - " 5- : To fold the shirt, iron it firmly up to Mr Taft Thinks Woman Shoulceach shoulder, just to the edge of the Vote, but Not Hold Office. .... . collar. Turn the shirt right over with Mrs. Taft in a recent interview lsthe breast to the table, fold In a small reported as saying: - ' " . - . , fold on "each side from the sleeves " "I have always believed that women downward about uu inch in the mld should vote. I favor bestowing ond,e' and iroa ,hp fold them every civic right but I should Jhen,f,la, tI,e s,w7s.aowu each lik to nnr in o nw,hik-- i " "We. with the seam of the sleeve to the hrrn tvl t P"Ibitory de-, of tne and tn shoulder office. pubUc"loplng to the necfc wit.' ' . Double up the sleeve so that the cuff thinl- h nof fr fV,ls Jt above the collar. Do this to dioin ed tht SC, TUld both sleeves, and turn the sides over to him, l ? , 8 f1 f thPtne y S of the stiffened front alwavfthv It helF Toice ,s f rTurn up the shirt a few Inches and nothing unwomanly in their casting aoove the ballot and exercising every right Jjsr J W0 J MBS. WILLIAM H. TAFT. of the free citteen but It seems that . 7 Kl . I IUJi'""01"10 " little paper dessert plates are used dur sociate the right to vote from them the summer lt ls a llghtening of right to hold office. some of the dishwashing labor. So the women who would never If a gmall u f cream turn aDL f TOCa?n ?uan thatr ebox, do not throw it out, of being good wives and mothers arebut wWh a fork beat , f nonutea, STf ?h "and a tiny pat of fresh butter and a It K K governing the commumty,ltte ,as buttermllk wlu be through the fear which men have ofrewarJ women stepping down from their ped- An ,ce 8haver u 8Ummer ,uxury estaL Except in rare instances, the ta to overlooked ln tDe househol fluence of women on politics is forfts frult Jnay be chmed more qulck,y tneir elevation. onfl effectlvely by fine lce and for "It is truly said that communities, drlnks ,t fa ftn added where women lack civic pride are in Jf the trave,er w,n a,go take fln a, worse snape man tnose wuere man npflfvfra his nrrA(rntlvi ' WnmMi should be versed in every phase of,0il i ,. ,,, ,. M ,,,, . . , . , ware, a box of tea and a small package politics and should know what every- . . ' " k, Mh a, k 1 of lumP euar- she may have an orien- , e . , . T . tal breakfast at any time of day by Ing on the home environment That - ' , . , , .adding rolls and an egg. is my idea of purifying politics, and 1 thlnlr 1- la tha ti1tt ryi f t Ion! m-io " The Homemade Martyr. She is the woman who bothers over trifles and lets the big things slide She will tell you she can't take ex-as the ..b,ues NeedleM t0 eay a ercise to keep herself from getting mIcrobe ls tne fona et origo of our fat because she is compelled to sit soriodica, fitg of goora and melancholyi much to sew for the children. when everything goes wrong and notn. If she is thin she wul tell you shelng goes right and our temper glvea cant get fat because she has to run and nobody but oni. ever paticut around the house so much trying to geldog can ..ablde us But tnis partie. everything done. If you speak of ah ular,y norrld bacllug does llot ike other Romans pretty costume she bit- buttermllk. In fact lt completelv terly says she cannot see how women bM It so that when the ..bluea who have families get time to makecome on tbs obvlous course ls to quafl pretty clothes; that she also likes,tnls fluld as free, as possible. Clear lovely things, but life is so full of, jt u & thiD no famUy suould be. cares that she hasn't the time towitbou. achieve them. . " . If she is told to read a certain fas- How to Treat Linoleum, cinating book she will elevate her eye- xhe kitchen linoleum should he treat brows and say she has no time toed once a year to a coat of hard oil read; that her husband doesn't like tonnigh. This is because, in spite of all have her engrossed in a book in theadvCe to the contrary, it does need evening and she hasn't a minute's more than a friendly wiping up with time during the day. tepid water or milk and water. It can- If asked why she doesn't go to somenot be kept" really clean by such treat of the pleasant social things going on ment and should have a genuine scrub around her she tells you she hasn't Ding with soap, brush and warm water the clothes to wear; that she used toat least once a month. Without the oil be as well dressed as any one else dressing mentioned above this would when she was unmarried, but married be rather disastrous to oilcloth 01 life is too expensive to think about so-linoleum, but with the protection of cial life. the rubbing oil the scrubbing will not If she ls unmarried she will tell you prove to be too vigorous for the mate that she could have better clothes and rial. go about in society if she only had the luck some girls had in marry- A Shampoo, ing. And so It goes. All the trouble Once ln three weeks the hair should is with life, with circumstances, and be washed. Always after washing -laid at the doors of other people. the scalp should be rinsed in cold wa- None of it is her fault. How could ter to contract the pores. A good it be? She is a perfect person tortured shampoo is made of a raw egg beater. by the hands of fate. In half a gill of lime water. This is That all of these woes exist only In well rubbed over the head before her imagination is a fact that she doefc washing in clear water. Every other not see. That she could be the captain night the scalp may be massaged with of her soul as well as the master of a mixture of boracic acid and alcohol her life is all Greek to her. a dram of the former to three ounce She goes through life fretted. Every of the latter, sentence is punctuated with a sigh. '. She sees the thorns beneath every rose To Currycomb Fish, that Is handed to her and rejects it "Be sure not to forget a new curry Whoever has a pleasanter life than comb," said some one when the mem bers must be a person without charac- bers of a prospective camping party ter, slothful, foolish or of no weight were making their list of supplies She ls a homemade martyr and will "This made me curious, as I knew there go to a martyr's grave, which she has was to be no horse at the camp. In been preparing for herself since shequiry disclosed the fact that a curry was born. comb is better than anything for tak - ing the scales from fish." Good House Ironing a Shirt. keeping. Take lt out of the fold and iron the back of the sleeve first; then the front; Stevenson says, "That people should then the cuff. GIbSs the cuff and curl laugh over the same sort of jest and it round; do the same with the other have many an old Joke between them sleeve. - Now Iron the shoulder, tak- is a better preparation for life by youi . ing care not to touch the breast ot leave than many other things highei collar. Next -Iron the collar until per-and better sounding in the world's fectly dry. . ..... ears." - - jj oiq tne smrx aown uie iuiuuib i the back and Iron ar much as possible For carved furniture there is no bet on both sides of the fold; then spread ter duster than a new paint brush Just r It out on the table, front uppermost tar8 enough and full enough to work i. .11 thi imrfiniii Mrfi ' nicely into the crevices. . Put in the shirt board under the starched breast of the shirt and Iron the bpper side first The Iron must bt hot and clean. - It Is Best to work from toe traal a ; the breast toward tho idea, and t tat iron -roost be brought neatly around the edge. at. th collar. Ira the underside In the same way. Rub the -breast slightly over wRh a wet bit of muslin, apply a glossing Iron to the underside .first and finish It h nicely; , Paying Forfeits. One of the funniest of the old fash ioned forfeits now revived for an even ing's fun is making the blind feed the blind. Spread a sheet in middle of floor and on this seat two persons, blind folded' and facing each other. Hand each a saucer containing ground pop corn or any of the dry, ready to eat cereals and two spoons. Tell each to The struggle to reach each other's mouth, eacb reaching out his spoon, at the same time opening his mouth to receive the proffered food, is funny in the extreme. Other good forfeits are to draw a pig with the eyes shut." Eat two table spoonfuls of powdered cracker crumbs, then whistle, sing a favorite song to an accompaniment played on a table, perform a West Point hazing stunt of being a "choo-choo car," without the glimmer of a smile. If the dalnty ,ace paper and . . , , , J ' teapot and cup and saucer of white Buttermilk Cures Blues. There are two new cures. One is buttermilk. The other is beans. The buttermllk cure is for that very prev- ,,. ,,,.,., , - ' - . Dusty wall., paper can be easily cleaned by rubbing gently s-ltb dean, soft piece of flannel.