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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-23

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-23

The summer schedule OF the Long is'auu % e,. ran,
. - 9TH Increased train service, viii take eHeGt
ThursdaY Juna 23rd-Ad't
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-23

There was n photographer that lived in a stew
t1a had so many chlldren he didn't know what To
do. Eockwood. Broadway and Fortieth- -st-Adyt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-23

Continued on second page.
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Absolute sale at public auction of the JohHSSyt"
>wsry Co. stock daily. II Union Square'--Au
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-11

ing with desperation, perhaps insanity
launches out in a firm and steady voice
the words, Sic semper tyrannls, ana
then walks, with neither slow nor very
rapid pace, diagonally across to the back
of the stage, and disappears.
"a moments hush, scream, the cry OF
murder. Mrs. Lincoln leaning out of the
box with ashy cheeks and lips, with IN
voluntary cry, pointing to the retreating
figure, He has killed the President?
"And still moments strange, incred-
ulous suspense-and then the change
then that mixture of horror, noises, I'M
certainty-the sound somewhere back OF
a horses hoofs gathering with speed-the
neonle burst through chairs and ratings
and break them up; there is inextricable
confusion and terror; women faint; quite
feeble persons fall and are trampled on;
many cries of agony are heard; the broad
stage suddenly fills to suffocation with
dense and motley crowd, like some horri-
ble carnival; the audience rush generally
uDon it: at least the strong men do; the
actors and actresses are all there in their
play costumes and painted faces, with
mortal fright showing through the rouge;
the screams and calls, confused talk re-
doubled, trebled, two or three manage to
mass up water from the stage to the Pres
ident's box; others try to Chamber up.
IN the midst of all this the soldiers Of
the Presidents guard, with others sudden
" drawn to the scene, burst in-some 200
altogether; they storm the house, through
all the tiers. especially the upper ones,
inflamed with fury, literally charging the
audience with fixed bayonets, muskets
and pistols, shouting Clear out! Clear
out"
"Such the wild scene, or a suggestion
of it rather, inside the playhouse that
night. And in the midst of that
pandemonium, infuriatcd soldiers, the au-
dience and the crowd, the stage and all
its actors and actresses, its paint pots,
spangles and gas lights, the life blood
from those veins, the best and sweetest
in the land, drips slowly down, and deaths
ooze already begins its little bubbles on
the lips"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-11

1t is not generally known, says John
Muir in the Atlantic, that, notwith-
standing the immense quantities Of
timber cut every year for foreign and
home markets and mines, from five to
ten times as much is destroyed as Is
used chiefly by running forest fires
that only the federal government can
stop. Travellers through the West in
summer are not likely to forget the
firework displayed along the various
railway tracks. Thoreau, contemplat-
ing the destruction of the forests on
the east side of the continent, said that
soon the country would be so bald that
every man would have to grow whis-
kers to hide it's nakedness, but he
thanked God that at least the sky was
safe. Had he gone west, he would
have found out that the sky was not
safe; for all through the summer
months, over most of the mountain re-
gions, the smoke of mill and forest fires
is so thick and black that no sunbeam
can pierce it. The whole sky, with
clouds, sun, moon, and stars, is simply
blotted out. There Is no real sky and
no scenery. Not mountain Is left
In the landscape; at least, none is In
sight from the lowlands, and they all
might as well be on the moon, as far
as scenery is concerned.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-11
Lincoln as a Doorseeper.

James Elter is one of the oldest door
,cpers in the War Department al Wash
tgton, and has been stationed at the
'eventeenth street entrance of the Win
.er Building for many years, occupying
while he acted as doorkeeper in place of
Mr.. Elter. Speaking of the incident, Mr..
Elter said:
Zone day tall, lank gentleman came
to the entrance and asked me if the Sec
retary was in, and I told him no, that it
was too early for him. He then asked at
what hour he would be likely to find him,
and told him. With n pleasant Thank
you something we don't always get he
walked away. At the hour told him the
Secretary would be in he again walked
up the steps and asked me if | would not
go to the Secretary's room and tell him
that he wished to see him. l told him |
could not leave my post.
"'Oh, that is all right. l am Mr.. Lin
coin, and l will keep door while you de-
liver my message Tell him that 1 want
to see him here in the lower hail. With
this the President unpinned my badge,
stuck it in his own coat, and took my
chair. l FASTENED to the Secretary s
room, and soon the two were together
near me, but in quiet and earnest talk.
l never did know why Mr.. Lincoln did
not want to go to the Secretary's room,
but I know that 1 prize this chair. l
call it Abe Lincoln. No doubt that was
the only time q President ever acted as a
doorkoaparo
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-11
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1t has never been satisfactorily explain
ed why the 14th of February is called st.
Valentines Day. 1t has been ascribed as
being named after Valentine, who suffer
ed martyrdom as presbyter of the
church, under Claudius, about 2I0, but
nowhere in the history of his life can there
be found the least incident connected with
him that could possibly have given rise
to the practice of that day, unless as some
authorities claim, Valentine being man
possessed of great .ove and charity, his
name was thus honored and revered, but
this idea does not seem plausible.
Some authorities have given the suppo-
sition credence that it is possibly derlF-
ed from the custom practiced by the an
cfent Church of Rome, to choose on this
day patrons for the ensuing year, and
was perhaps taken up by gallantry after
it was dropped by compulsion by the sup
erstitious at the reformation, for since
that time the custom of choosing valen-
tines was q sport practiced by the Eng
Iish gentry as early as 1476 in their homes,
but as all this is an uncertainty, we are
left in the dark as to the true origin and
purpose of St Valentines Day.
cit is q ceremony" said Bourne, "nev-
er omitted among the vulgar to draw lots,
which they term valentines, on the eve
before Valentine Day. The names Of a
select number of the sex are, by an equal
number of another, put in some vessel;
and after that everyone draws a name,
which for the present is called their val
entine, and is looked upon as good omen
of their being man and wife afterwards. .
In some places, we are told, the Gus
tom was considered heathenish, and to
abolish = >of certain saints
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-11
famous tail hat. In it Mr.. Lincoln car

famous tail hat. In it Mr.. Lincoln car
ried many valuable papers, the briefs of
his law cases, and other documents.
On the night of Mr.. Lincoln's election
to the presidency several ladies who had
gathered at the old homestead at Spring
field testified their glee by using the hat
as football.
A few of us went over to assist Mrs.
Lincoln about the supper which was to
be given some gentlemen who had come
in to hear the returns. 1t was after mid
night before enough had been learned to
warrant the belief that our candidate had
been elected. We went nearly wild with
joy. and congratulated Mr.. Lincoln most
heartily.
Someone saw the famous 'stovepipe"
in the hail. and, seizing it, threw it up to
the ceiling. Another caught it, and then
it went the rounds till it fell to the floor,
when one gave it kick. and then an
other, and another gave the hat send
off, until it was so battered that it had
lost all resemblance to its original shape.
Mr.. Lincoln looked on and smiled good
naturedly at the childish performance
PHILADELPHIA Record
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-11
BLACK AND BLUE.

Black and blue colors are not subject to
fashicl this season nor in any season.
They hold their own and will not wash out.
They are pretty solid colors, and but for the
misery of wearing them, might become
fashionable. Some men take pride in wear
ing them as tokens of their profession, as
soldiers do their scars. But bruises, black
or blue, or both, ought to have immediate
attention, for under them may be a nerve
hurt or a muscle badly wrenched. A black
and blue bruise is a bad thing, not only
from its tender soreness but the confused
blood is prevention of regular circulation.
While sore spots like these will not wash
out, there is something that will rub them
out in no time, and that is St. Jacobs Oil.
1t is peculiarly adapted to their, quick cure;
A pennant can be won only by hard
knocks, with scars and bruises, but after
the ball is over, if any remain. this one
cure is the best. Bruises come from con-
fusion in all avocations, and it is well to
remember at all times just what will cure
them the best.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-11
"HONEST OLD ABE"
Mr., Lincoln as He Was Before the Wa
Changed His Nature.

Mr. Lincoln as He Was Before the War
Changed His Nature.
Mr.. Lincoln practiced law for many
years, but all the grasping meanness, the
vindictiveness, the ugly selhshness, the
criminality, both daring and sneaking,
which converge out of a whole community
into it's court rooms, seemed to leave no
trace on him. / knew him as a youth
studying profession knows practitioner
of middle age, who is a friend of the
youths friends, and kindly and approach
able in himself. His sobriquet of Hon
est Old Abe" condenSes into, q phrase
what men thought of him.
l met him one day in the street of the
town where I lived, and knowing that
there was a wish in the Office where l
was reading to know the state of a matter
of it's business of which he had charge in
Springfield, l took advantage of the op-
portunity and asked him about it.
"Well, now, my boy" he answered, "Pll
have to go into my office to find out about
that
1 supposed he meant his Office in Spring
field, and replied: "Oh! well-never mind,
then. l only asked because 1 happened
to see you here"
He laughed in his curiously boyish way,
sat down on nearby doorstep, doubling
up his long legs till his knees came near
to his chin, took off his silk hat and, plac-
ing it inverted between those elevated
knees, looked up with genial smile and
said: "This is my office-for odd jobs"
The hat was literally crammed with
folded papers of many kinds, apparently
stuffed in without any attempt at order
" arrangement, and through these he be-
gan to look, in much the same overhanded
kind of way in which dog swims. He
found the memorandum he sought, and a
glance at it refreshed his memory of the
whole transaction down to the minutest
particular, and he made his statement to
ne with the same fullness, gravity and abb
solute good faith with which he would
nave given it to my father.
Ihad seen him often before, l saw him
many times afterward- his great polit-
:cal campaigns and in various stages of
he colossal whirl and clamor of civil
war, but the most vivid picture of him
.arried in my memory Is that of the long
igure, doubly doubled, as he sat on the
'ow doorstep and cheerfully "clawed
,ver" the amazing multitude of papers
.rowded into the rather battered old silk
.at.-G. NJ. Mcconnell, in Chicago Times
:JoralJ
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-11
LINCOLN'S BIRTHPLACE.
Poverty and Deso1ation Waited on til
Ea,uouS Raby

Poverty and Deso1ation Waited on the
Famous Baby.
Abraham Lincoln, the great war Presi-
dent, was born in Larue tthen Hardin)
County, Kentucky, in a rude little log
cabin. says St. Nicholas. This cabin has
recently been restored and so far as pos
sible made exactly as it was eighty-eighi
years ago, when little baby boy was
born to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, OF
"Linkhorn," as the name was then spell
ed-humble Settlers" who had moved
to the neighborhood from Washington
County four years before.
The few living people who remember
Thomas Lincoln, the father, say that he
was q rather improvident man, not work
ing long at any one thing. He was &
hard worker, but was poor mana ger, and
the little family was often without more
than the simplest necessaries of life
Thomas Lincoln cleared a few acres
around his cabin and raised a small croi
of corn and grain. Then he became a car
penter and tinker, working at such ode
Jobs as he could find among the pioneer
neighbors He was away at work at tht
time Abraham was born.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In a recent work On the birds of Col
o1ado, w. w. Cooke brings up the num-
Der of species and sub-species found in
that state to 1868.
Trolley car ambulances are to be in
troduced in the city of Pittsburg. run
ming independently over all the street
car tracks as called for.
Miss Eleanor Ormerod declares that
the English cockroach is in danger Of
determination before the hordes of i'm
ported German black beetles.
Greater New York consists of 45
islands, just as many as there are stars
in our flag. 1t might be appropriately
called the Island City.
What is probably the largest locomo.
tive in the world has just been COM
pleted and weighs, with the tender,
over $4,000 pounds. 1t is for use in
Mexico.
The largest parish in London in point
acres; and the largest in population is
Islington, which has now $780, 900 in
habitants.
A writer in a magazine has made the
prophesy that in 800 years from
now the world will only know three
anguages-English, Russian and Chi
| nese.
Many collieries in Silesia are pro-
vided with bombs filled with COM
pressed oxygen for use in cases of acci-
dent or entrance into old galleries
where the air is foul.
Harvard this year, for the first time,
has colored person as candidate for
the degree of A. B., in the person of
young colored woman from Miller
ton, N. Y.
The famous Louis XIV drawing-room
suite, composed of a sofa and six arm
chairs, with old Beauvais tapestry, has
been sold in Paris to a London dealer
for $40, 900.
The tramways, omnibuses and un-
derground railways in and around Lon
don, within a radius of five miles, carry
each year, it is calculated, about 453,-
90, 900 passengers.
At the grape cure establishment in
Switzerland, France and Austria, pa
tients are usually turned loose in the
vineyards and allowed to gorge them
selves at pleasure.
Before fire brigade can start for
fire in Berlin the members must all
fall in line in military fashion and sa-
lutte their captain. This proceeding
wastes at least three minutes.
There is an enormous demand in
| New York for Fifth avenue property
facing Central Park. Only the rich
can buy, when bare lots are held at
from 81, 900 to SIS, 900 front foot.
A Kansas minister says that --one Of
his favorite hymns is the one Begin
ming, "Blest be the tie that binds"
because he makes ''more money in
marrying couples than in preaching"
In Delaware two brothers lived for
40 years within eight miles of each
other, attended the same church and
frequently traded with each other with
out knowing that they were related.
Col. Thomas Hoyer Monastery, the
veteran fencing matser of Chicago, who
is 85 years old, is in Chicago hos
'pItal, suffering from rheumatism. He
saw military service under 12 different
fiasE.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-11
a VALENTINES CURSE.
1t Estranged Father and Daugh te
and Disinherited Her.

1t Estranged Father and Daughte
and Disinherited Her.
James Martin, well-to-do farmer O
Ballietyille, Pa, recently died, leaving ::
will by which he disinherited his onl.
daughter, the result of disagreemc!
about valentine fifty years ago. 1t W;
a few days before st. Valentines d;
fifty years ago when the daughter askc
her father for a new dress. He refuse
to buy it for her. The girl took her fatl
er's refusal much to heart. On St. Val
entine's day Mr.. Martin received a valen
tine addressed to him in his daughter
handwriting.
1t was a rough caricature, representing
miser counting and gloating over his
money. He at once took his daughter tt
task for what he considered an insult
She denied that she sent the cartoon
There lived in the neighborhood another
farmer who had treated niece living
with him brutally. Martins daughter
said that she and this girl had purchased
each valentine and that she Miss Mar
TIM had bought one entitled The Honest
Farmer, while the other girl had purchas
ed the caricature to send to her harsh
uncle. In addressing the envelopes the
valentines, she said, became mixed.
But in spite Of explanations, Mr.. Mar
tin would not believe his daughter, ant
from that day he never spoke to her. She
soon married and lived on a farm adjoin
ing, and, although the old man was on the
most familiar terms with her husband
and children, he never noticed her. He
died the other day, leaving an estate val
| ued at $45, 5,G00.
By his will he left his widow $4,000
and to his son-in-law the remainder, pro
| vided he survived his wife, the farmer.
own daughter. If the son-in-law dice
first, then the money was to be divided
among his three children. To his daugh
ter Mr.. Martin bequeathed "a package t.
be found in his trunk, tied and sealed will
green wax" When this was opened i
was found to be the unfortunate valen
tine that had caused the estrangemen
of the farmer from his daughter half
century ago.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-11
A VALENTINE.

,ear little maid in the scarlet hood,
know you're merry, I'm sure you're good:
Tour little blue skirt Is patched and frayed,
ou've a shoe-string bow on your towsied
braid,
Your shoes are stubby, and square, and old,
Your raveling mittens let in the cold;
.;ut you pass each day when the school-bel
rings,
Nerrily making the best of things.
IoppHy y-skippng, l watch you come,
rms entwined with gggling chum,
;orne on the crest of q wave of girls,
\ motley tossing of hoods and curs,
friends behind you and friends before
surging In shouts to the schoolhouse door
lonely and happy. and shabby and proud,
The laughing queen Of the chattering crowd.
Wise little maid of the hundred friends,
'heerily taking what fortune sends,
.our nose Is snub and your mouth is wide
I've seen a cooky tucked whole inside0
ind freckles all over your round cheeks lie
ike cinnamon sprinkled on pumpkin-pie;
But your eyes are gay, and your laugh Is
sweet,
Us you hoppity-skip down the dingy street.
Dear little maid in the scarlet hood,
am your friend, and will you be mine?
know you're merry, I'm sure you're good.
And I'd like you, please, for my valentine
Youths Companion.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-11
Compressed Roads,

A correspondent writes the Indiana
Farmer as follows: I'VE noticed an
article in a paper published in a village,
not far from the metropolis of your
State, about manufacturer Of steam
rollers who propose to render their
streets impervious to the elements, and
make them durable as macadamized
streets; this simply by grading up and
rolling with a sixty ton roller. The
manufacturer said that after he had
rolled the grade to his satisfaction he
could crush hard granite bowlder to
powder, by simply running the roller
over it, so hard would the earth be COM
pressed. Now If this will work prac-
tically the problem of how to have good
roads throughout the West, where
there is no gravel or stone is solved.
After cogitating over this compressed
load theory, we have about come to the
conclusion that it will work, provided
the road bed be well graded up and
made narrow, and is well ditched Oh
each side, so that there can be no water
standing to soften the substrata Of the
roadbed. This steam roller is made in
two sections, each six feet long, which
run in a frame, one behind the other,
and with the engine and boiler resting
On top, the whole apparatus weights
sixty tons. The compressibility of such
a weight would be great, when we re-
member that where the traction engine
of about three tons passed over our
meadow 1t killed the grass, and COM
pressed the soil for three inches deep,
so that when we plowed across those
tracks we could scarcely keep our plow
in. If traction engine for threshing
machine will render ground so hard in
unplowed land it would be reasonable
to believe that a roller twenty times
heavier on fresh plowed clay or other
soil would compact it SO that water
would not penetrate it, and would be so
obdurate that the wear of travel would
almost be obviated. If those CON-
pressed pixies prove to be efficient, as
be the most expeditions process Of
building roads. With one of the mod
ern graders and steam roller one mile
of road per day could be constructed,
and it would pay for each county to
own one. 1 am speaking of places
where gravel is not available. But even
if gravel were plentiful and compressed
roads prove efficient the compressed
plan would be far cheaper. There Is
one question I've not discussed, how
ever, that is the disintegrating action of
the frost on those roads. l am unable
to form an opinion on such influence,
although I have often observed por-
tions of roads that had become so in
durated that water nor freezing lad
little, if any, effect on them, especially
If graded high in the middle. II the
continual travel of vehicles, whose
greatest capacity would not exceed
three tons, would render those places
| impervious to the elements it would
be but reasonable to conjecture what
the enormous weight of sixty tons
would do. We all know how to have
good roads if we have the requisite
material, but situated as most of the
West Is without gravel Or rock, and
with soil composed mostly of humus,
we want practical experience instead
of theoretical dissertations"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-11
In a Crowd.

"When you are alone In a crowd
what's the first thing that instinctively
comes to your -mind?' asked a woman
.he other day, and some of the other
women said one thing and some an
other, but none, It so happened, said
the same as the first woman, which
was as follows: "Without any why
or wherefore l insensibly find myself
looking out for the face of man that
I feel could trust; one to whom in
case of mishap or injury I could at once
turn, sure Of succor and sympathy.
Now, no mishap or injury has ever be-
fallen ME in a crowd. I've never even
had my pocket picked, but involun-
him who would be likely to help me if
anything did happen. 1t doesn't seem
to matter what sort Of crowd it Is,
matinee, shopping, railway station,
anywhere, if I'm alone find myself
involuntarlly casting my eyes about
for the face of man whom l could
trust Curious, isn't it, that 1t should
be a man? But in such distress 1
should somehow never think of turn
ing to a woman. l suppose it's the
old primeyal instinct bidding us to
lean upon the stronger sex. But still
more curious is the fact that l so rare
ly encounter a man with thoroughly
trustworthy face, one who has that In
his countenance which makes me feel
that 1 could rely upon him. see
plenty Of bright faces and knowing
faces and handsome faces, not to
speak Of greedy faces and sullen faces
and evil faces, but not one man in a
hundred has the physiognomic marks
of being just simply good. Now and
then 1 come across him, but until
you've looked for him, as have, you
can't realize how rare he is"