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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
raltar, 1920 at Marseilles, and S2.6s at

raltar. 1920 at Marseilles, and $269 at
Naples, in addition to the profit in the
home price of $3.50 a ton. Yet this
freight charge is vastly greater than
would hold IL colliers. especially con-
structed, were to do the carrying.
All of the possibilities leading to this
new exploiting of American coal have
found source in the high rates of
freight in Great Britain, the cost of
mining, and in the unmistakable limita-
ton of the coal supply. The foreign
production of coal is not decreasing, of
course; it is increasing steadily.
Freight Chief Factor.
With freight rates from the United
States at So ton, some one has figured
the comparative showing that the Uni
ted States product can make with that
of Great Britain in continental ports.
Bituminous coal, with the mines
profits already added, is worth $3.50 a
ton. The freight to the Mediterranean
is IS ton, making the cost. with only
local profit to the mine, $3.50 a ton at
the several ports on that sea.
Welsh coal is worth ST ton at Car
NAAA, esAu tAS AiSA6ht " 40
So. 16, making it $9.16 a ton. These
freights vary until this Welsh coal
brings 1910 a ton at Marseilles and
$9.5S at Naples. Over this coal the
American product has margin of
S1.56 ton at Gibraltar, 1920 at Mar
seilles, and $26S at Naples, even after
the mine profit has been received on the
American side
These figures are reached, too, with
the inadequate present means of trans
porting coal across the Atlantic. Most
of the vessels now carrying coal were
designed for package freight and are
about as well adapted for the coal busi-
ness as is box car compared with one
of the modern 100000 pound steel coal
cars. Golfers especially made for the
coal trade will be indispensable to
transatlantic business. 1t has been
calculated that the cost of operating
7,OOO-ton steamer to such an accessible
port as Gibraltar, making the length
of the voyage and time of unloading
fifteen days, will be as follows:
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
why He wanted to Know.

A rather amusing story is told in con-
nection with a certain learned profes-
sor. He had been asked to deliver q
lecture he readily consented to
do-in the village schoolroom, and on
the important night the place was
packed with an expectant audience.
The front seats were occupied by a
few of the shining lights of the neigh
borhood, and apparently the lecturer
was addressing the select few, for be
talked completely over the heads of the
rest of the audience.
At length, at the expiration Of cou-
pie of hours, the professor dropped his
lofty style and blandly remarked:
"And now, friends, in conclusion, al
low me to say that If anyone has a
question to ask I will do my best to
answer him.
1t was a very old villager in the back
seat who slowly rase to his feet and
asked the first and only question.
AVID be vurry mich obleeged, meas
ter" he remarked, ''if ye'd jest tell us
wot on airth 1t is that ye've been praich-
inc hoot III ondon Snare MomentS
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12

With 1000 the estimated maximum pos

with 1900 the estimated maximum pos
sible. Russia, of all these countries,
may develop unexpected deposits.
British India shows only $4,000 square
miles Of coal beds. and the total OF
all these is only 1880 for Europe and
India. AS against this are the United
States deposits of 1874 600 square miles,
with thousands of possible miles uneX-
plored and undeveloped. To this Alas
ka is promising inexhaustible deposits
of anthracite, which at least must re-
place the English coal that is now sup
plying the Pacific slope of the United
States.
Aside from the United States in this
coming world supply of fuel, only China
and Japan can be looked to. These
countries have deposits about as large
as those of the United States, but are
lacking in means of development. Their
positions upon the map, too. are not ia
yorable to the European trade.
Worlds Yield of Coal.
AS to how the mines of the world
have been drawn upon, the figures for
1898 are accurate enough for compari-
son. They show in long tons of 2,240
pounds:
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
COAL FROM AMERICA.
EUROPE COMES TO THIS couN-
TRY FOR FUEL
The Inadequate Supply Abroad Pro-
notes Our Foreign Trade-Best Coal
for Fighting Ships Now Comes from
the United States.

Mine operators from the United
States and their agents are all over
the European continent in the interest
OF American coal and almost every day
vessels loaded with the product of
American mines are clearing for Euro
pean ports, where they are to lay down
bituminous coal at English prices.
Great Britain, with an estimated coal
supply for only 200 years, has been ex-
porting 55,O00,OO0 tons annually. The
British public has been looking upon
this with disfavor. An export tax upon
the product Is anticipated, and in the
event of it the Mediterranean ports
must draw upon the United States for
their fuel. Already the United States
has been supplying the best coal for
use In naval vessels.
In Europe coal deposits cover 27,OO0
square miles in Russia, 5000 in Great
Britain, $500 in Germany, 1,S00 in
France, and in all the rest of Europe
are only 400 square miles. In Great
Britain, France, and Germany especial
ly these fields have been drawn upon
for HUNDREDS of years. Every square
mile of resource has been sounded.
Some of the English veins are
worked to a depth of 1887 feet,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
wbv the Bishop Did Not scold.

"a little boy in the neighborhood Of
Bishop Brooks home in Boston was
one day mischievously ringing door
bells and running away before the
doors were opened" says a writer in
the Ladies' Home Journal. "In pursuit
Of this amusement he ran up the steps
of the Bishops residence and the Bish-
op, happening to be in the hall ready
to go out, opened the door quickly, be-
fore the boy had turned to descend the
steps. The child was so startled by
the sudden appearance of the good
man, who had a kindly smile for all
children, that he ejaculated: why,
Phi'ps Brooks! Do you live hereY In
spite of the misdemeanor the Bishop
could not find it in his heart to scold
the little fellow. He, also, had been q
boy"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
FISHING IN THE PHILIPPINES.

ingenious NJ Mechanism by Which Natives
Make Piscatorial Catches,
The Malay race is probably the most
skillful in. fishing, and the Philippine
Islanders are not behind the other
branches. An Illustration shows one
of their favorite ways of catching
fishes which run along the bottom Of
rivers, bays and arms Of the sea. 1t
consists of long raft ranging from
twenty to sixty feet in length, and from
eight to twenty feet In width. At the
rear part or stern there is platform,
and on it a little house, in which the
fishermen doze during the heat of the
day and sleep at night. In the middle
Is a small furnace in which they do
their cooking, and jar in which they
put fine fishes, and a tank through
which the water moves where they
store their catches. In the bow is
cumbrous but ingenious drop net mech
anism. 1t consists of two long and
strong poles fastened to the raft on
axles and by rope at the upper end of
the two, which here touch each other,
running down to a windlass in the
stern sheets. To the top of this jury
mast are fastened two enormous bam-
boos, crossed in the middle and bent so
as to form semi-circles. The four ends
of the bamboos are connected by
great bag net ranging from twelve feet
to forty feet square. When used the
fishermen throw lot of bait into the
big net, and lower the arrangement bN
loosening the windlass and permitting
the rope to unwind. The masts rotate
forward upon their axles, and the net
sinks until it lies upon the bottom of
the water. The fish, attracted by the
bait, are soon crowding around the CEN
ter of the net. The windlasss is slowly
turned, which raises the bamboOs, then
the rope connecting the ends, and last
of all the center of the net. By the
time the fish are alarmed the ropes
have passed the waters edge and es-
cape Is impossible. With this ingeni-
Gus mechanism a fishing smack will
often take 1,0O0 pounds of fish in a sin.
gle cast.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12

Frances Skinner has made transla
ton of a novel by Peter Roseggor, the
popular German novelist, entitled '"The
Forest Schoolmaster.''
"The Life of John Paul JONES'" by
Augustus C. Buell., represents the re-
suit of fourteen years researches in
England, France and st. Petersburg, as
well as in this country.
In commenting ON the fact that
James Lane Aliens "The Choir Invisi-
Bile" is reported to have sold 100000
copies, the London Academy makes the
surprising statement that no book Of
equal merit ever received half SO warm
welcome in England in the same
time.
More than 100000 copies of "To Have
and to Hold have now been sold and
the demand for the book continues. IL
the dramatization of the work proves
successful the story will doubtless have
a fresh boom. The writing Of the stage
version has been intrusted to Ernest
Baddington, dramatic critic of the
Brooklyn Eagle.
book in press which, it is said, will be
published as soon as the author and
publisher can agree upon title. This
is not an uncommon stumbling-block to
publication in these days, when the
marketable value Of title Is recOg-
nized by both author and publisher,
often from Numerically opposite
points of view.
"On the Wing of Occasion" by Joel
Chandler Harris, includes a novelette,
Of about 10000 words, entitled THE
kidnapping of President Lincoln" and
three stories, entitled why the Con-
federacy Failed,' In the Order OF
Providence and 1.-The Troubles of
Martin Coy" dealing with the unwrit-
ten history of the civil war and with
the elaborate secret service then main
tained. .
The editor of the Century Is receiv-
Ing Inquiries about the author of ''The
Helmet Of Navarro" the historical rO-
nance. Miss Bertha Runkle is the
only chilo Of Mrs. L. G. Runkle, a we'll
known New York journalist, and one Of
the editors of the Library of the
Worlds Best Literature" The pres
ent work is maiden effort at fiction
writing. She was born in New Jersey a
few and twenty years ago, never went
to kindergarten as child, nor to col
lege as young woman, has travelled
little. and has never been in France
which possibly accounts for her laying
there the scene Of her romance.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12

1t will be seen from this that Great
Britain, with only 5000 square miles
of coal beds, already lean from long
mining, is drawing more heavily on her
resources than Is the United States,
with more than twenty times the de-
posits, and they scarcely sounded in
comparison.
The exports of coal from the United
States within the seven months ending
July 81, aggregated 992, ,4S1 tons of an
thracite and 3,6O9,274 tons of bitumin-
GUS coal The total exports showed an
increase of 1856, ,663 tons over the cor
responding period of 1880. This in
crease was largely in shipments of btu
minous COAL Export shipments of
American coke during the seven
months ending July 81, amounted to
24O, ,253 tons. an increase of about co.
OOO tons over the same period in 1899.
No Demand for Anthracite.
The United States coal which is to re-
place the product of England and
Wales in the markets of the world Is
the soft coal of Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, and Alabama. Anthracite
coal has practically no opportunity for
foreign exploitation at the present time
or in the near future. 1t is fuel so
much different from the coal that for
eign consumers have been accustomed
to using that they are not at all in
clined to take 1t up, necessitatlng, as it
does, the use of new CRATES or new
stoves and entirely different methods
Of firing Only the several varieties of
soft coal now finding a market abroad
need be considered.
In Pennsylvania there is produced
for the seaboard trade what is known
as Clearfield coal, originating mostly on
the line of the Pennsylvania railroad,
but also reaching market over the Phil
adelphia and Reading railway. This
general name includes the coal from
several minor regions and Is compre-
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
The Cook Got Even.

A cook here who quarreled with the
owner Of the resta urant got even in this
way: After making the soup he i'm
proved 1t by the Introduction Of several
foreign ingredients, such as quantity
of sand, half cupful Of red pepper, a
pound of tacks, bunch of kindling
wood chopped fine and a couple of old
kid gloves a la noodles. The feeders
sat down as usual last evening, but as
soon as they sampled the soup they
rose up again en- masse and almost
mobbed the whole shooting match. Ac-
cording TO the evidence produced at the
preliminary hearing a more fearful
brew than this soup was never con-
cocted, even by Macbeth's weird Sis
terp. The cook is now in the consomme.
New York correspondent Pittsburg
DISPATCH.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
When You Write to the Queen.

When You Write to the Queen.
The paper on which letters to Queen
Victoria are written must not be folded.
No communication which bears evil
dence of having been creased will ever
fall into her Majesty's own hands. The
proper method Is to write on thick,
glossy white paper and to dispatch the
missive In an envelope which fits it.
Any folded communication never reach
es the Queen, for the simple reason that
she never looks at it. All such letters
are opened by the Mistress of the
Robes, and as rule their contents new
er get beyond her. or, If the letter is of
Importance, 1t is returned to the writer
with the directions how to forward it,
Exchange.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
LONG FINGER NAILS

indicate Rank and Good Breeding in
Many Oriental Countries.
The countries where the long finger
nail is most affected are Siam, Assam,
Cochin China and China. The approved
length varies from three or four to
twenty-three inches. A Siamese exQui-
site permits the nails on his fingers to
grow to such an extent that his hands
are practically useless. The aristo-
Gratis who affect these nails can not
write, dress themselves, or even feed
themselves.
The Siamese hold the long finger nail
in the same reverence we hold the
family tree. Many of them never have
had their nails cut from the day of their
birth. On the first finger the nail is of
moderate length-three or four inches
while on the other fingers the nails
grow occasionally to two feet. The
thumb nail, which is also allowed to
grow long, after reaching certain
length curves around like corkscrew.
In both China and Siam the owners
of long nails wear metal cases over
them to preserve them, made of gold
or silver, and jeweled. While long
nails are not regarded as singular in
China, they are rarely met with ex-
cept on fanatics and pedantic scholars.
Among the fakirs in Hindoostan
peculiar custom is that of holding the
hand tightly clenched and in one posi-
ton SO long that at last the nails grow
through the palm, emerging at the back
of the hand, and growing thence al
most to the wrist. When the wasted
muscles refuse to support the arm any
longer it is bound in position with
cords.
In Nubia the long nail is regarded as
indicative of good breeding. The aris-
tocrats constantly subject their finger
tips to cedar wood fire to insure a good
growth.
The Inhabitants of the Marquesas
Islands are among the most expert tat
tooers on earth, and not even the crown
of the head, the fingers and the toes are
exempt from the needle. The hands
are ornamented with utmost care, all
the fingers having their own pattern,
so that the hand would look as though
incased in a tight-fittig glove were it
not for the finger nails of enormous
length which complete the hand adorn
ment of the weather. natives.-Chica-
go News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
What She Wears.

The famous woman, Annie s. Peck,
who has been noted as having scaled
the Matterhorn and broke the record
on Mount Orizaba, going 5000 feet into
the clouds, wore flannel undergar-
ments, waist of serge, a wooden
sweater, knickerbockers and Ieggings
of sage green duck canvas, which she
made herself. She wore the heaviest
kind of wilter boots, and shoemaker
in Switzerland put an extra piece of
heavy leather over the whole lower
part of the shoes, toes and heels, and
then nearly covered them with nails.
In many of her trips she has worn fur
topped gloves, but for the Matterhorn
she wore woolen mittens. A substan-
tfal canvas hat, tied on with ribbon,
and veil, as well as smoked glasses,
complete her outfit. She takes the pre-
caution to put cold cream on her face
before facing the severe weather.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
A Version.

We were not surprised to find among
these simple pastoral people of the Far
East a beautiful poetic version of the
story of the fall of man.
In this it was related that when the
Serpent saw Eve with her mouth full
of pins, fitting herself to clothes. his
heart smote him.
"Can be of any service?" he asked.
'sWell, don't known faltered Eve,
and blushed violently.
1t was in this way, they naively said,
that the garter snake had origin
Puck.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
To Keep Cider sweet.

Cider may be kept sweet indefinitely
by bottling. Boil the cider thirty min
utes, then bottle; stand the bottle in hot
water with cloth at the bottom to
prevent breaking), and boil thirty min.
utes longer; boil the corks also, to ster-
ilize. Cork tightly and keep in a cool
place.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
Prosaic Reason.

$50 she has gone home to her mother,
has she? Don't you know, it is the sad
dest thing on earth to think of trust
ing, fond woman awakening to find her
ideals have been shattered; that she
loves him no longer; that her idol has
feet of clay"
''Oh, there was nothing of that sort
In it. She loves him as well as ever,
but she went back to ma because she
was ryr'-Indianapolis Press.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
No I<OSa.

1.-THE boys are eating your green ap-
ples," said one of the guests.
That's all right" replied the honest
old farmer who was taking boarders for
the summer. .Let them eat all they
want. It'll keep 'em away from the
table for the next two or three days,
and I'll charge their daddies for the
apples besides. Chicago Tribune.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
Sorry He Learned.

"Did you ever know the difference
between boy who has been brought
up with girls and one who has not?
The one whose acquaintance with girls
of his own age has been slight is apt to
be awkward and unobserving; where
as, the boy who has breathed an at
mosphere of feminine influence notices
the occasions for the small politenesses
of life.
The speaker was young woman
who had had experiences, and she pro-
ceeded to unfold them.
81 was thrown last summer" she
went on, with college boy who had
no sisters, nor cousins, nor aunts, to
polish him off. At Yale he had studied
hard, and had not wasted his time as
he would have called 1t, on girls af-
fairs. He didn't know how to do the
few thousand small services that
women like, and as he was really
clever and nice, proceeded forthwith
to polish him. I never went for any
thing l wanted. He had to go on all
my er.ands. dropped my scissors, or
book, or parasol, fifty times day to
teach him to pick them up. At first
had to remind him, but after a while he
did it quite naturally; and at the end Of
the season he thanked me sincerely.
"The sequel came a few days ago,
when l received letter from him re-
me ruefully for having made
him ridiculous. I'm always jumping
around to help people when I'd better
let them alone he says. The fellows
can't drop a pencil in class but I find
myself sprawling on the floor after 1t
before I stop to think. 1t will take
years to undo the direful work Of last
York Telegram.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
Even in the Days of Yore.

"Where is the electricianW yelled
Noah, as he groped his way toward
the engine-room. Thus, even in the
days of yore, was there much commo
ton when the arc lights went out
Brooklyn Life.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
Ionrest Plants.

The longest plants in the world are
seaweed. One tropical and sub-tropical
variety is known which, when it
reaches its full development, is at least
600 feet In length. Seaweeds do not
receive any nourishment from the sedi-
ment at the bottom or borders of the
sea, but only from air and mineral mat
ters held in solution in the sea water.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
>Z2ZIIZZf 'llliTIN7NNS

Languid Louie-Say, dis is bum
news pape o. yourn. put dis ad in for
a pardner wild tree million dollars four
days ago, an l amt got a blamed an
swer yet.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
Rraced to Endure.

"Were you in good health while you
were abroadY'
"Oh, excellent; we couldn't drop out
of our personally conducted party a
day, you know, without losing big
money"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
cnIlece Life.

First College Man-You say your ar
rest was a case of mistaken identity?
Second College Man-Yes. The cop
had on citizens clothes and l didn't
know he belonged to the police in time
to get away.-Puck.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
Fool for Luck.

Quizzell-My wife's the luckiest
goose; found a dollar bill to-day and
ten cents last week.
Frizzell-Humph! Mine finds some
thing every day.
Quizzell-That's so? Whatf
Frizzell-Fault.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
His condiment.

Mrs. Starvem-Wi1 you have some
milk and sugar in your tea!
Grinshaw-If you please, madam;
just little drop of water and little
grain of sand.-Town Topics.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
Ratified.

"Jerry, if you were the only man at
that summer resort you must have had
rattling good time"
Eyes; it ratified me to keep up with
the dollars those girls made me rattle
out"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
As 1t Usually Happens.

u suppose you had Careful rearlng:
Mr.. Courtney"
mo; didn't have any rearing at all;
my parents exhausted all their disci-
plinary enthusiasm on my elder brother
Bill.'
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12

We know a man who has enough in
dustry and ability In his line to make
a conspicuous success, II his fool ways
didn't keep him down
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
Lake that Turned Red.

Lake Morat, in Switzerland. has the
curious property Of turning red every
ten years, owing to the presence Of cer-
tain aquatic plants which are not
L. o%l,ov lo1 t..
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
Poets Love.

Tess-Young Aster, the poet, doesn't
seem so fond of Dora since he met her
cousin May.
Jess-No. It's much easier to write
sonnets to May; there are SO many
more rhymes for her name.-Philadel'
phia Press.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12

UncIe Eden, nave you ever Deen
done in oil?''
..Wal, not in oil, but l hev in gold
bricks"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12

If you once get into the habit of tell
ing the truth you will find it much
easier than lying.