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CORVALLIS
GAZETTE.
SEMI-WEEKLY.
I VIOS Kxtxb. July, 1897.
89i7863.! Consolidated Feb., i899.
CORVALLIS, BEXTOX COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1900.
GAZKTTI Ktab. lec
VOL. I. NO. 23.
TIME'S VAGARIES
We wandered by the riversidu.
The maiden fair and I;
My arm about her waist was tied.
Her looks were coy and shy.
!The moon on high in brightest sheen
Looked down with face benign
My years they numbered just sixteen.
While she was twenty-nine.
We talked in lovers' tend'rest strain,
That maiden fair and I;
My blighted state was my refrain,
She gave me sigh for sigh.
And sweet words, too, which she did
mean,
Were meted out to mine
My years they numbered just sixteen,
While she was twcaty-nine.
But cruel interruption came
Betwixt that maid and me,
And I was hurried off to claim
A fortune o'er the sea.
I thought of her, my fairy queen.
And for awhile did pine
For I was only just sixteen,
While she was twenty-nine.
Now, thirteen yenrs have come and gone
Since we met by the shore,
And I've come back from torrid zone.
And we have met once more.
But what is this- it beats me clean
Explain it, orb divine!
IThe lady now is just sixteen.
And I am twenty-nine!
Life.
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S Ihe Doctor's Revenge.
5 t
GROUP of gentlemen were en
joying their after dinner cigars
'in the smoking-room. Pereira,
the Jewish director of the theater, stood
before the fireplace.
"I am not a dramatist," remarked
the tall Maurice, an attache of the em
bassy. "Nevertheless, if you wish,
Pereira, I will tell you a story of which,
It seems to me, a professional might
make use."
"Go ahead."
"The story went the round of the
Viennese salons during my Austrian
service. There was, In Vienna, a phy
sician who was famous for his suc
cessful treatment of heart disease. His
came I change the names naturally,
lor the affair was a tragic one was Dr.
Arnold. Although scarcely 40 years old,
he had a splefidld practice. He was a
handsome man, with regular features
and fair whiskers the true Austrian
type but with a pair of eyes blue and
cold as steel. A Russian family resid
ing at Vienna we will call them, if you
please, the Skebeloffs called the doc
tor in consultation concerning their
daughter, in whom the specialist recog
nized at first glance the commencement
of aneurism.
"Although received in good society,
these Skebeloffs were regarded with
suspicion. They lived in style at a
hotel, and maintained a large train of
servants, but their diamonds were said
by some to be false.
"But the doctor was infatuated with
Mile. Macha, and asked her hand in
marriage. He was accepted, and the
wedding took place in three months,
and then the Skebeloff family, sudden
ly tiring of Vienna, fled to more agree
able surroundings. The doctor's wife
made a very favorable Impression upon
Viennese society. The couple were
very interesting. The doctor loved
Macha as his wife and his patient he
adored her and he prescribed for her.
"The young wife seemed so well that
her husband allowed her a turn of the
waltz, now and again, as a medicine,
but I think from motives of jealousy be
would have forbidden it. For Capt.
Blazewitz an Apollo in a white uni
formwas always the first to write his
came on Mme. Arnold's card, and he
used to hold her in his arms very teu
terly." "Good," said Pereira, "There, Mau
rice, your scene Is set and your char
acters in place. Now for the action."
"So be it. One day the doctor dis
covered a package of letters."
"A package of letters? Oh, that's
old!"
"Pereira, you are aggravating. In
your plays you may put in what you
choose. But in reality there was a
package of letters."
"Which gave the husband proof that
his wife was in loveV"
"Apparently."
"And which caus"ed him to conceive
a plot for vengeance?"
"You know the story, Pereira? Then
tell It yourself."
"No, my friend, but I guess, that's
all; then the husband had his re
venge "
"By one of those crimes that ever re
main unexplained."
"How do you know?"
"Because the doctor has spoken. Yes,
the culprit himself afterward yielded
to that Irresistible and fatal need of
confidence which dwells within every
one."
"The husband "
"Conceived a horrible revenge, but
one specially reserved to a member of
his profession. Macha, as he well knew,
was not completely cured of that heart
trouble for which he had attended her
with so much zeal and love during two
yeat's. Controlling his anger, he forced
himself to play the role of a restless
and suspicious husband, and thus cre
ate fear and agony In the mind of his
guilty wife. He knew, by the letters
which he had found, of the passion
which consumed the two lovers, and he
was sure they would endeavor to meet,
even in the midst of dangers and diffi
culties. This domestic Machiavelli
profited by the situation. From that
moment a mysterious power placed all
sorts of obstacles between Macha and
M. de Blazewitz. Without entirely sep
arating them, It caused them to miss
their meetings, Interrupted their corre-
s pon ience and poisoned their love; and j
In this life, filled with keen and sor- j
rowful emotions. Mme. Arnold's healtl
again changed rapidly. The doctor kill
ed his wife with as much skill as be
had formerly exercised in curing her.
The adroit man would cause an hour of
wild terror, which gives a morbid ac
tivity to the circulation, to be followed
by long days of sadness, which con
tracted the heart and withheld the
blood. Then he would suddenly seem
to have bo suspicions or jealousy, and
would appear deeply touched by his
wife's sufferings. 'Why, what is the
matter, my poor Macha 7 he would say.
'My diagnosis can discover nothing, yet
you seem to be dying of grief. Are you
not happy with me?' And at the same
time he would observe with a diabolical
pleasure the progress of the disease,
and would torture his victim with his
hypocritical despair. At the end of six
months her syncopes were more fre
quent, her palpitations more rapid; the
most distressing symptoms of aneurism
had appeared. Ah, ah. Pereira, you
don't Interrupt me now!"
"Ah, yes, that's the second act, the
kernel of the piece. But the catastrophe
the catastrophe!"
"The catastrophe Is called for; here it
is. One evening the doctor strode into
his wife's room in a tempest. 'Mad
ame, I know all. M. de Blazewitz is
your lover.' Poor Macha became as
white as a sheet, and her lips assumed"
the bluish tint of a corpse. 'Kill me,'
she said.
" T will not raise my hand against a
woman,' continued Arnold. 'Your lover
has paid the debt for both of you. I
have just fought a duel with M. Blaze
witz and I killed him.' Macha fell
senseless to the floor. But the doctor
lied. He would not have dared to lay
his finger upon the handsome captain,
who enjoyed the reputation oTbeing
the best shot in Vienna. He knelt be
side his wife and took her hand. The
pulse still beat; she lived. Then the
assassin gave his care and resuscitated
her.
" 'Put on your ball dress and all your
diamonds,' he ordered, 'and come with
me to the ball of the French embassy.
We are invited.'
" 'Never! I could not.'
" 'Go and dress immediately! I
fought the duel with M. de Blazewitz
under the pretext of a quarrel over a
game of cards. But you were compro
mised, so you must show yourself with
me to-night, or J, shall be disgraced
Dress I corn-Brand you!'
"The unhappy woman was obliged to
obey. How could she resist the man
whom she had so cruelly deceived? She
made her toilet and accompanied her
husband to the ball. There she sank
into a chair in the first salon, where
the hussar announced the names of the
arrivals.
"The doctor was In full dress, with
all his medals and decorations upon his
breast. He stood behind his wife's
chair. Suddenly, after a quick glance
into the aute-chamber, he leaned over
the chair as if to whisper an endearing
phrase in Macha' 8 ear.
" 'Your pain has not killed you, mis
erable woman?'
" 'Alas,' not yet,' she murmured in
reply.
" 'Very well, then, look here,' he add
ed, pointing to the door, 'and die with
joy.' At that moment the hussar an
nounced 'Capt. Baron de Blazewitz!'
The handsome officer entered with a
smile upon his lips and looked about
for Mme. Arnold, but he scarcely rec
ognized her. She had just arisen from
her seat as though moved by a spring.
Her countenance was livid. She glanced
at him with a strange, wild light burn
ing in her eye. raised her hand to her
throat and fell heavily to the floor
this time dead. The doctor threw him
self by her side, uttering wild cries of
grief, and the despair of M. de Blaze
witz would have provoked a scandal
had his friends not led him away. The
guests retired, the waiters devoured the
supper, and the ambassador's wife was
in a rage, for she had designed an espe
cial figure for the cotillon, which she
hoped would make a great sensation."
"Well, and what became of the doc
tor?" "As I told you, In an unguarded mo
ment he boasted of his crime, which of
course escaped punishment. But a
residence at Vienna became impossible.
To-day he is at Varsovie, where he has
a large practice, and his constant ad
monition to his patients Is 'Avoid ex
citement! Avoid excitement!' "
The Nose Lasts Longest.
Bone and cartilage enter so largely
into the structure of the nose and de
termine Its characteristics, that it un
dergoes little perceptible change, as a
rule, with the lapse of years. The
brow becomes wrinkled, and crows'
feet gather round the eyes, which
themselves gradually grow dim as time
rolls on; cheeks lose the bloom which
cosmetics cannot replace, and lips their
fullness and color.
The chin, dimpled In youth, develops
angularities "or globularitles, as the
case may be, and the eyebrows be
come heavy with the crop of many
years' growth. The nose shows no
mark comparable to these familiar
facial indications o fthe approach of old
age, and practically enjoys immunity
from the ravages which time makes on
the other features of the face. Next to
the nose, probably the ears, as a rule,
show the fewest and least obvious
signs of old age. Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Shooting Fish.
The shooting fish is a native of the
East Indies. It has a hollow cylindri
cal beak. When It spies a fly sitting on
the plant that grow in shallow water,
with remarkable dexterity It ejects out
of a tubular mouth a single drop of
water, which seldom misses its aim,
and striking the fly into the water, the
fish make it its prey.
O Is the most charitable letter In the
alphabet; It Is found oftener than any
other In doing good.
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
A. DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE
BOYS AND GIRLS.
Something: that Will Interest the Ju
venile Members of Every Household
Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings
of Many Cute and Cunning Children.
The Victoria Cross has been won on
three occasions my boys in 1855, dur
ing the Crimean campaign, by two
young members of the fatuous Naval
Brigade, and in 1867, when a combined
fleet of British, French and Dutch ships
made war upon Japan, by a midship
man of the Euryaius. The first of the
trio was Edward Daniels, who, when
the lorses taking an ammunition wag
ou filled with powder were killed b: a
shell, rushed out and headed a party
which safely brought in the ammuni
tion under a rain of bullets in which it
seemed impossible for anyone to live.
The second act of bravery was per
formed by a young boatswain, named
Sullivan, when the famous Malakoff
battery was taken. He took out a
flagstaff and placed it on a certain
mound which hid a Russian battery
from our gunners, having in so doing
traversed the enemy's line of fire. Ou
the mound he bad to dig the hole for
the flagstaff with his fingers and pile
stones around it to keep it firm. His
coolness so excited the Russians that
they all aimed wide, and the man es
caped to receive, in addition to the fa
mous cross, the French Legion of Hon
or. The act which won the Victoria
Cross for Duncan Boyes, the middy of
the Euryaius, occurred when the com
bined fleets landed a contingent of men
against the Japs. It was thought, how
ever, that the Britishers alone could
successfully tackle the situation, so the
Trench and Dutch were sent back,
whereupon a large body of Japanese
came into view and made a determined
attack. The middy, who was carrying
ihe colors with the leading company,
rushed ahead for some twenty yards
toward the defenses, as though about
lo attempt their capture single-handed.
He was called back and severely repri
manded by his captain, but the spirit
of daring he had displayed infected the
others, and as one man they followed
him and soon took the defenses. Boycs'
uniform was torn to rags by bullets, as
were also the colors he carried, but lie
himself came out safe and sound, hav
ing well earned his reward. Navy and
Army.
The Feast of Dolls,
Every girl in Tokio. from the tiny
toddlers to the maids who think them
selves women, devote a whole gala
week to their dolls. The dolls are beau-
; tiful, nicely modeled, and clad often in
! the quaint old court dress of Japan.
And yet whether the dolls or their own
j ers little girls, may be of seven, with
; their hair "done up., and beflowered,
j and walking about in loug, fantasti
! cally colored kiminos, with pert airs
i and solemnly affected dignity are the
A JAPAXESS DOLL'S OWNEIt.
more entertaining, it would be hard to
say. The little dolls belonging to one
little girl invite the little dolls belong
ing to another little girl to a feast, and
everything is conducted with decorum
j and stateliness. Then the invitation
: comes from the other side. And all
I day long the little dolls are being taken
J round to call on other little dolls. For
geven days this charming feast of dolls
lasts, the most eagerly looked-forward-to
festival in the Japanese calendar.
Eiamp'.e Better than Precept.
Paid Mrs. Crab unto her son,
j One pleasant summer day,
; "It really grieves me very much
To see the awkward way
j "In which you walk. If you'd appear
As othei-3 do, you'd go.
ZSot in that stitt, one-siuea style,
But straight ahead." "Just show
"Me what to do," said little Crab,
"And quickly I'll obey."
"Well, follow me!" cried mother Crab;
"Watch, and I'll lead the way."
Then off she started to the right,
"A slight mistake," quoth she.
As to the left she slowly turned,
As awkward as could be.
Then little Crab smiled to himself;
"Perhaps, some other day
When you can do it right, I'll learn,"
He said, "but now I'll play."
Just bear this fact in mind, my dear.
Before you start to teach;
Be sure that you are well prepared
To practice what you preach.
A Splendid Receipt.
"I want a drink," said baby,
j "Go to the kitchen. Mary will give
' you a drink," said mother.
I "I don't want to," baby demurred.
; "Mary is cross."
"Why, what made her cross?" asked
mother.
"I dess I did sumpin' to her," said
I baby.
. "Then if you have done sometheng to
make her cross you would better go
aud do something to sweeten her," sug
gested mother.
Baby thought over it a minute, and
then trudged to the kitchen.
"You are a sweet Mary," he said,
j "and I want to hug you."
Mary stopped her work and stooped,
and he threw his arms about her neck
and kissed her, and said, "I love you
two hundred bushels."
When he came back, smiling, mother
asked, "What did you do to Mary this
time?"
"Oh, I sweetened her, I dess," was
the reply. Our Morning Guide.
Wanted to Know.
"If you are not good I'll send you to
bed without your supper," said his
mother sternly.
Freddie's face assumed an aspect of
ingenious inquiry.
"What are you going to have for sup
per?" he asked. Brooklyn Eagle.
A WONDERFUL TIMEPIECE.
The Matile Watch, of Which Mark
Twain Wrote a Description.
What is, perhaps, the most wonder
ful watch in the world is in the posses
sion of a resident of Prince George
County, Maryland.
This remarkable timepiece, known as
the Matile watch, from the name of its
maker, was made at Looe, Switzerland,
about forty years ago. It formed a fea
ture of the Swiss exhibit-at the cen
tennial held at Philadelphia In 1870,
and was purchased on that occasion by
its present owner. A description of the
watch by Mark Twain (S. L. Clemens)
is as remarkable for accuracy as hu
morous. The well-known writer thus
gives his impressious of the marvelous
piece of mechanism:
"1 have examined the wonderful,
watch made by Mr. H. L. Matile, and,
indeed, it comes nearer to being a hu
man being than any piece of mechan
ism I ever saw before. In fact, it
knows considerably more than the
average voter. It knows the move
ments of the moon, aud keeps exact
record of them; it tells the day of the
week, the date of the month, and the
month of the year, and will do this,
perpetually ; it tells the hour of the day,
and the minute, aud the second, and
even splits the second into fifths, and
marks the division by stop hands, hav
ing two of the latter; it can take accu
rate care of two race horses that start,
not together, but one after another; it
is a repeater (wherein the voter is sug
gested again), and musically chimes the
hour, the quarter, the half, and the
three-quarter hour, and also the min
utes that have passed of an uncom
pleted quarter-hour, so that a blind
man can tell the time of day by it to the
exact minute.
"Such is this extraordinary watch.
It ciphers to admiration. I should
think one could add another wheel and
make it read and write, still another
and make it talk; and I think one might
take out several of the wheels that
are already in It and It would still be a
more intelligent citizen than some that
help to govern the country. On the
whole, I think it is entitled to vote
tuat is, if its sex is of the right kind."
The watch was sold for $1,400, and
it Is still performing its complex func
tions with the greatest regularity.
Washington Times.
Leaf-Rolling Caterpillars.
There are many kinds of "leaf-rolling"
caterpillars, each employing a dif
ferent mode of rolling the leaf, but in
all cases the leaf is held in position by
the silken threads spun by the caterpil
lar. There are plenty of birds about
the trees, and they know well enough
that within the circled leaves little
caterpillars reside. But they do not
find that they can always make a meal
on the caterpillars, and for the follow
ing reason: The curled leaf is like a
tube open at both ends, the caterpillar
lying snugly in tne interior. So when
a bird puts his beak into one end of the
tube, the caterpillar tumbles out at the
other, and lets itself drop to the dis
tance of some feet, supporting itself by
a silken thread that it spins. The bird
finds that its prey has escaped, and not
having sufficient Inductive reason to
trace the silken thread and so find the
caterpillar, goes off to try its fortune
elsewhere. Vhe danger being over, the
caterpillar ascends its silken ladder,
and quietly regains possession of its
home.
A Much-Married Centenarian Turk.
In the village of Bodra a Turk
named Ismail, aged 120 years, is in
such good health that he frequently
walks to Bartin, six hours distance, to
sell eggs, for he is a poultry dealer. He
has had thirty-four wives, the last of
whom he married only a few days ago.
The bride is sixty years his junior, and
the marriage was celebrated with much
solemnity, to the sound of drums and
fifes and of volleys from firearms. The
whole village was en fete. The wed
ding procession Included all the male
progeny of the patriarch bridegroom,
consisting of 140 sons, grandsons and
great-grandsons. The number of his
female progeny Is not stated. Con
stantinople Terdjumani-Hakikat
The Deer's Acute Scent.
The power of scent possessed by a
deer is wonderfully acute. These ani
mals have been known to take fright at
the scent of a man twenty-four hours
after he had passed the spot.
American Cotton.
Germany uses each year one and a
half million bales of American cotton.
A long-suffering wife says her hus
band's income is anywhere between 1
and 3 a. ax
Plow Attachments.
When plowing down corn stubble,
green crops, tall weeds, manure or
straw, a number of devices are used
to draw the stalks and litter into the
furrow and distribute along so as to be
covered by the plow, the most commou
of which is the chain arrangement
shown in the figure, reproduced from
the Rural New-Yorker. The chain usu
ally is about five feet in length, one end
fastened to evener and the other to
plow beam at the place where the coul
ter is attached, allowing the chain to
drag along the bottom of furrow and
ATTACHMENTS FOB TUE PLOW.
I over portion of the uuplowed ground.
! Some prefer to fasten the chain farther
back on the plow beam or at the stand
I ard. In turning under very heavy corn
I stubble the chain is sometimes found
j too light to do its work well, and an
extra device is added. This is a round
stick of wood one foot long and two
; inches in diameter, one end pointed and
; the other flattened, and wired to chain
at point chain leaves furrow to fasten
i to plow beam. The earth as it leaves
the moldboard falls on the stick and
j causes it to hold the chain always in
j the right position, drawing to the bot
' torn of the furrow the heaviest corn
! stalks or weeds.
Shjep Worms.
The full treatment recommended by
the Ohio experiment station for worms
in sheep or lambs is to put a gallon of
flaxseed in a cheesecloth sack and
place this in a kettle with two gallons
of water and let it steep for two hours.
Then remove the bag and let it drain
.thoroughly into the kettle. When the
flaxseed tea is about as warm as fresh
ly drawn milk, put 4 ounces into a bot
tle and add a common tablespoonful of
gasoline for each sheep of 60 to 80
pounds weight. Shake well for a min
ute or two, then turn into the drenching
bottle and give to the sheep. Have
the sheep set up on its rump and held
between the knees, taking care not to
throw the head farther back than the
line of the back. The sheep should be
soused in 'he evening and not fed be
fore 10 o'clock, when the dose may be
given. Allow them to remain three
hours longer without food or drink;
then let them feed until evening. Re
peat this treatment for three days, and
in a week's time give three days more
of the treatment and again repeat af
end of ten days more, always giving
the medicine after about sixteen hours'
fasting and fasting about three hours
after giving it. The flaxseed tea need
not be made fresh each time, but should
be warmed every time, as the gasoline
mixes better with it and passes down
from the mouth and throat to stomach.
Keep I tiff Geese.
The accompanying illustrations will
give a satisfactory idea of the Toulouse
aud Embden geese. The Embden is
all white, but the Toulouse is much the
larger bird, and will mature one-half
heavier a bird for the markets. It will
have one-half more feathers, and, as
KMDBN GOOSE.
TOULOUSE (lOeSK.
geeue will get the most of their living
on grass pasture and, the insects and
other water food in a stream, they are
quite cheaply kept. One breed of gos
lings will sell in the market at many
times the price of as many chicks, so
that on the whole geese, if properly
kept, will be the most profitable of all
kinds of poultry.
Keep More Stock.
Not one-half of our farmers keep as
much stock as they should or as they
might keep if they would make a little
effort. Their pastures are perhaps
stocked up to or a little above the num
ber that can be fed well at that part of
summer or fall when the pasture is at
Its poorest, but not half up to the num
ber which can find food when the grass
starts in Spring. As a result the early
grass grows hard and woody, and the
stock eat it only when starved to it,
and then find little nutrition In It How
easy It is to provide for green crops to
be fed out as pastures grow scanty, and
stock up to the capabilities of the best
of the season. If butter was made more
cows would enable them to keep more
hogs or raise more young calves, but
they are seldom in that up to the ca
pacity of the cows they have. Very
few in New England have any sheep,
yet we believe that twice as many
sheep as cows can be kept in any pas
ture along with the cows, and after the
first season the cows will find better
feed because the sheep have been there.
I And in poultry the capacity of a farm
i for poultry keeping is only limited by
the ability of some one to properly care
for them. All this means more work, !
but it means more manure, better crops
and larger profits. American Cultiva
tor. Value of Skim Milk.
Prof. tTen rv in "Feri nrwl troertinir n ,
! , , ,
gives a table showing the value of :
skim milk when fed to swine at the rate
rf Ana n r V taa rirtiinlo t- 1 1 r At-! r li o
pound of cornmeal, or when from seven j
to nine pounds of milk was used to the ;
pound of meal. With corn at $10 per
ton the milk was worth 15 cents per
hundred pounds when the smaller
quantity was used, and only nine cents
when the larger amount was used. As
corn advanced in price the rates were !
at $12, 18 and 11 cents; at $14, 21 and
13 cents; at $16, 24 and 15 cents; at $18,
28 and 16 cents; at $20, 31 and 18 cents;
and at $30 per ton for corn, or 85 cents
a bushel, milk was worth 36 and 27
cents per hundred pounds, being in
each case of most value when from one
to three pounds of milk was used with
a pound of meal. These experiments
were made by actual feed tests on :
swine with varying quantities of milk
and grain and grain alone, and are the
most conclusive of any we have ever
seen reported.
Space Taken Up by Fences.
In a ten-acre square field, if the fence
or wall and the bushes and weeds al-
; lowed to grow along by the side of it
I are one rod wide there Is nearly one-
tenth part of the land occupied by what
j is of no use, but often a damage to the
rest of the field as a harbor for insect
pests and the small wild animals that
prey upon the crops, beside the injury
done by the roots of the bushes draw
ing upon the fertility of the soil and the
weed seeds grown there that help to
make the labor of the farmer harder.
Yet we have seen many fields much
smaller than ten acres so bordered, and j
of course the waste of land was much
larger. To all who have such hedge
rows, we say grub them out. Use the
whole of the field, and if bushes and
weeds are wanted give up some other j
field to them than that which is j
thought good enough for cultivation or
mowing. Exeha nge.
1 humps in Yonne Pisa.
Now is the season of the year that the
young pigs begin to get so nice and fat
and lay around the pen with their
mother in the nest until they begin to
get their breath hard and finally their j
sides begin to heave and thump, and if
you don't watch out they begin to die,
Bays Whinnery's Swine Advocate. This
disease Is usually the fault of the owner
In allowing the pigs too little exercise.
A sow that Is a good suckler of rich 1
milk is the one that is generally so un
fortunate. The best plan that I ever
have tried was to place one or two pigs
at a time in a pen away from the sow j
and let them run around the pen trying j
to get out. This gives them plenty of
the exercise, and if repeated often will
have the desired effect. If the case is j
a severe one it is well at the beginning
of the treatment to give a small dose !
of castor oil to the sow or pigs.
New Churn?.
When it becomes necessary to pro
cure a new churn for the dairy, get one
with a marked capacity at least one
half larger than the quantity of cream
that Is expected to be churned. We
never saw a churn of any pattern that
did not do its work better when from
one-half to two-thirds full than when
more was put in it. We have some
prejudice against those churns which
have paddles or other arrangements in
side, though the best one we ever used
was built so, and we made good butter
and salted it and worked It in the
churn. But that was before we ever
saw an oscillating churn or swing
churn, and when we saw one of those
we quickly decided that they were on
the right principle, easier to handle,
easier to keep clean and sweet and less
liable to injure the butter. American
Cultivator.
ree line Hosts.
Farmers who raise a few hogs to sell
around home should keep the pig ready
for market until the market is ready
for the pig. Kept in good condition on
green pasture supplemented with a lit
tle corn every day, the cost of feeding
for a few weeks longer is very slight,
Try to so arrange matters as not to be
compelled to sell anything until every
thing is favorable. There is profit in
so doing. Texas Farm and Ranch.
No Short Cat to Success.
The man who attempts poultry rais
ing must learn the business. There is
no short cut to success. It must be a
steady, sturdy, persistent line purpose
to carry a man to the sure ground
where he can feel that he is master of
the situation. Happy-go-lucky methods
may serve their purpose for a time, but
these cannot endure. Letra the bust
nes Maine Farmer,
RESULT OF A FALL
SAN FRANCISCO ATTORNEY FALLS
FROM PLATFORM OF STREET
CAR STRICKEN WITH
PARALYSIS.
Shock to the System Brings on Nervous
l'rostration How a Cure Was
Affected.
Volumes might be written in praise
f a popular remedy for the creating of
rich, new blood and the up-buikling
of a worn out body, but it is doubtful
if anything half so convincing could be
demonstrated as is done by the inter
esting story related by Mr. Edward T.
Dudley, a practicing attorney for 25
years in San Francisco, with offices at
83 City Hall avenue. Twelve years
ago, when 39 years of age, Mr. Dudley
lost his balance while standing npon
the rear platform of a street car, caus
ing him to fall, striking the ground
with the back of his head, which
brought on a feeling of numbness and
eventually parah'sis, less of memory
and strength which, however, has
yielded to proper treatment as explain
ed by him hereafter.
Feeling thankful for the good done
sim and realizing many others are in
a similar condition, Mi . Dudley volun
tarily tells of the benefits in his own
way which is given without color or
smbellishment as follows:
"After the fall from the car I passed
it by as an accident that had left no
apparent ill effects; yet a few weeks
later, in endeavoring to get on a car, I
found I could not raise my foot. From
this time paralysis began in my feet
and in time my lower limbs became
numb. I became pale as a ghost and
it brought on a bloodless condition of
my system. From being a strong,
healthy man of 180 pounds, I was re
duced to 145 pounds, and my doctor
told my wife that it was only a ques
tion of time when I should have to take
to my bed. My wife asked if was I
joing to die, and he said, 'No, but the
shauces are that he will lie on the flat
of his back for 20 years.' I thought I
would fool him. Medicines prescribed
by the doctors and taken bv me did no
;ood, and my system was so drained,
my blood bo impoverished and I was
so debilitated that at the time I started
to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
Pale People, if I fell down I could not
possibly get up again unassisted. I
30uld scarcely walk a block. Now I
:an walk throe or four miles without
fatigue and as you see, can lift my
leg and am altogether a different man
and all from eight or nine boxes of
Dr. Williams' Pills. About three
years ago I saw Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills advertised in a San Francisco
paper and decided to try them, and
from what I have told you of my con
Jition, you can imagine how weak and
pale I was.
"After trying Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills, I could see in a very short time
that I was picking up color and my
health and general system was much
improved. I did not change my diet,
or did I take any other medicine, and
I can assert that as a blood maker and
builder up of the system, they are in
valuable, as my increase in weight
from 145 to 185 pounds I can lay to
nothing else than Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills.
"I have recommended them to hun
Sreds whose blood was impoverished,
whose system was run clown and who
needed building up, and shall continue
to do so, as I believe they are the be3t
medicine in the world for that pur
pose." Signed, EDWARD T. DUDLEY.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 10th day of July, 1900.
JUSTIN GATES, Notary Public,
In and for the city and county of San
Francisco, state of California..
All the elements necessary to give
new life and richness to the blood and
restoie shattered nerves are contained,
.n a condensed form, in Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People."- They are
ilso a specific for troubles peculiar to
females such as suppressions, irregular
ities and all forms of weakness. They
Duild up the blood and restore the glow
of health to pale and sallow cheeks.
In men they effect a radical cure in all
3ases arising from mental worry, over
work or excesses of whatever nature.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold in
'joxes (never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a
box or six boxes for $2.50, and may be
jad of all druggists or, direct by mail
,tom Dr. Williams Medicine Company,
Schenectady, N. Y.
Quarantine in Nevada.
Reno, Nev., Sept. 22. Dr. J. E.
John, quarantine officer for California,
ind Dr. M. P. Matthews, secretary of
che state board of health, of California,
re here to inspect all westbound trains
jo guard against the possible introduc
tion of smallpox in their state. Small
jjoxs is said to be very prevalent in
(ireen River, Wyo.. and several cases
lave developed in the eastern part of
che state.
Leather Trust Reduces Expenses.
New York, Sept. 22. At a recent
neeting of the directors of the Ameri
can Hide & Leather Company, it was
ieeided to reduce operating expenses
Dy about $150,000 a year. Today it
was announced that 23 accountants
jinployed in the local auditing depart
ment had been discharged and that the
department had been moved to Chicago.
BIB fire in New York.
New York, Sept. 23. Five police
men were overcome by smoke today in,
ihe fire at what is known as the Ter-.
minal stores, a warehouse blockbound
.i Uv Tvi-Bntv-seventh and Twenty-
eighth streets and One Hundred and
Tenth and One Hundred and Twentieth
avenues. The fire loss is estimated at
$220,000. The stock, principally fur
niture and carpets in the buildings, es
timated at several millions, is stored
bY a number of leadin New York
iouses.
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