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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
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- HAD been graduated two years,
and had a practice sufficiently
large, L deemed, to warrant my
taking apartments. Apartments sur
round young doctor with an air of
prosperity which people like to encour-
age and add to. A month later 1 was
comfortably, almost elegantly, estab-
lished on the first floor of handsome
North Side apartment house, with a
careful middle-aged woman to act as
my housekeeper and cook.
Pretty well fixed, old man, eh!' said
Jack Winters, my college classmate and
chum, who had come over that even
ing from the West Side to make a
housewarming for me. "All you need
to complete your happiness is to get ac-
quainted win the pretty widow on the
floor above you. She's John Redmond's
cousin, you know, and sweeter little
woman never"
Thank you," 1 said, checking Jacks
enthusiasm-Jack always goes off on a
tangent when pretty woman is dis
cussed. Il am trying to get patients,
and have no time for social pleasures,
and, besides, l don't mind saying it,
Jack, I'm not fond of widows"
"All have to say to that is," said
Jack, you don't know Mrs. Traine."
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
The Art of Listening.

Would that there were more people
who know how to listen! We some
times deplore the fact that there are so
few good takers; may we not rather
regret that those who can talk so sell
dom find people who know how to hear
them?
The habit of interrupting is one that
sit quietly by and take notes of a casual
conversation he will be disagreeably
surprised to see how few sentences are
allowed to run their smooth and even
way without some Interruption. When
a story is in telling by one of a small
group it is bound to be paragraphed by
exclamations, needless questions, or
would-be jocose speeches. To listen
properly one should look at the speaker
and think of what he is saying. Such a
listener is in himself an inspiration. We
sometimes hear it said of a man or
woman: ''That person brings out all
that is best in me in the way of con-
versation." And generally the reason
for this is that this particular person
gives appreciative heed to what is be-
ing said.
To look at book, to turn over the
pages of a magazine, or to glance over
the columns of a newspaper is not to
listen attentively, and will serve as
damper to the most enthusiastic of
speakers.-Harper'sB Bazaar.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27

Meekness' with God leads to might
with men.
No prattle is so purposeless as that OF
prayerless preaching.
You may measure man by the
things that move him.
Religion is not scheme to get good
crops from poor sowing.
1t is only as long as Gods sun shines
on this world that 1t is fair.
There is only one place where gold
rusts, and that is In the heart.
The worst Christian watchers are
those who are taking cat-naps.
The man who reflects deeply will soon
be light instead of reflector.
He who drinks to drown his despair
is trying to extinguish hell with fuel.
Heaven is our home, but there are a
good many Of the family here on earth.
If the devil would play harp or sing
a solo people would have him in heaven.
Diligence in business is religious only
when the business becomes divine SER
vice.
The fellowship of His sufferings
makes possible the sympathy with
others.
The distillery would be blessing if
the devils they bottle up only stayed
that way.
A mans life never rises above its
source, hence the need of being born
from above.
1t is better to let your family wreck
the house than to allow fashion to ruin
your home.
Only the life that has mountain
heights to tap the clouds can have
fruitful valleys.
The hope of salvation from the sins
of society depends on our own personal
'sensibility to sin.
Only the man who can say "all my
springs are in thee" can go through the
dry and thirsty land.
There are too many Christians too
poor to give to the Lord who yet can
always rake together enough to go to
the circus,
The value of your salvation is on ac-
count Of what it cost Christ and it's
worth to the world depends on what it
costs you.
Had the woman who gave the two
mites been wise like some of the chill
dren of this world who now belong to
church, she would have kept her mon
ey and begged some flour to bake a
cake, to be sold to the highest bidder
for Jesus sake.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
DANGER FROM ovEREATlNa.
Insanity Is Often Caused by Too Lib.
eral Indulgence in Food.

Insanity Is Often Caused by Too Lib.
eral Indulgence in Food.
It is well known to the few medical
men that many cases of insanity are
directly due to overeating and the con-
sequent absorption into the circulation
of toxic matters from the intestinal
tract; and melancholia, whether in mild
or severe form, is generally due to this
cause. Violent paroxysms of temper.
whether in children or adults, are often
properly referable to bad state Of the
blood from this .auto-toxemia, as is, in
deed, the exceedingly exuberant spirits
Of old or young at times; just as we OBJ
serve in alcoholic poisoning, some indi-
yiduals are made temporarily jolly and
good natured; others are made ugly and
unreasonable. In view of this condi-
ton of affairs isn't it rather wise plan
for us all to consider rather the needs
of the organism for food than the mere
question of palate-tickling; to aim to
eat good instead of bad food and
enough Of it-that is, not too much; to
have the conditions about right when
we take our meals; in brief, to try and
treat our bodies decently, even though
we act from purely sensual point Of
view? In no other way can we secure
the highest possible degree of pleasure
on the average, while by acting thus
sensibly we may enjoy practical i'm
munity from disease.
The more exercise we take under
proper conditions, the more we are ex-
posed to cold and the clearer we keep
from excess in clothing the more we
may eat; hence, in order to enjoy the
fullest measure of table pleasures we
must live actively, wear as little cloth.
ing as is consistent with comfort and
do considerable roughing"-sometimes
called hardening. With all this we
should take our meals at times when
the body or brain Is not overtired and
when we shave leisure to digest" And,
of all things, we should never eat unless
we are hungry; to eat without an appe-
tite is self-abuse of the most stupid
sort, since it affords no pleasure and is
productive Of disease.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
HAIR SHOULD NOT BE CUT.

Erroneous Belief That Frequent Clip
ping Promotes It's Growth.
Does cutting promote the growth of
the hair? This question is answered by
the Frankfurter Wochenblatt in this
wise: 1T is believed by laymen and
professional hairdressers that cutting
largely increases the growth of the
hair This belief begins with the in
voluntary comparison of the hair with
plant. As grass that is often cut
short grows again and becomes thicker,
so, it is believed, the hair should do
when it is cut. This comparison, how
ever, is a false one. A developed hair
is a perfectly formed mass of horn
which has nothing further to do with
the case in which the hair rests than
to receive from it from below further
growth and to be held firmly by it.
In this mass of horn, as in the
nails of the fingers and the toes, there
is no longer any sap in circulation; this
mass, SO to speak, is product which
cannot be quickened and strengthened
by new nourishment, because the lat
ter cannot enter it. On the other hand,
what happens in blade Of grass is to-
tally different.
1.-THE blade Of grass Is network of
fine ducts in which is constantly circu-
lating the nourishment which the blade
draws from the root; it presents, in con-
.trast with the dead body Of the hair,
a living, vegetating substance which
has a most intimate connection with
the condition of its root and which
dries up infalibly when it Is separated
from its root, while the hair will re-
main unaffected for thousands of years
after its papilla has withered away.
We need cite only one irresistible proof
of this-the hair on the heads Of num-
mics. The root of the hair as long as
it exists can produce a new hair when
the old hair has fallen out, while the
root of many plant gives existence
to one sprout only and then together
with it declines and dies. The more
hair is disturbed in it's natural growth
by continually cutting off its ends the
less rest its papilla, the real producer
of the hair, finds; the papilla, being
constantly melted to excessive produc.
ton, wavers finally in it's activity, de-
Gays and dies. For this reason a won.
an with bald head is never or seldom
seen, as the natural and very slow
process of the growth of a woman's
hair is not disturbed. The individual
hair reaches a definite length; after
years it falls out of itself and a new
hair begins to appear as soon as the
papilla has had time to rest itself thor
oughly and to prepare itself for the
process of new growth. These are
the reasons which lead to the obvi-
ously valid conclusion that cutting the
hair Is rather injurious than useful" ),
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27

A Word or So About Opportunity.
There is an old saying that opportuni-
ty is kind, but only to the Industrious,
As an illustration of this idea we may
cite the old Persian legend that a poor
man waited a thousand years at the
gates of paradise hoping that they
would open and he could enter. Final
ly he snatched one little nap Of a few
minutes duration, but then it was that
the gates opened-and shut. Won
Moltke, the triumphant strategist of
the Franco-Prussian war, said:
''To win you must be at the right
place at the right time, with superior
force"
The great Napoleon made that the
active principle of his marvellous mill
tary career. The rule holds good in all
the pursuits of life.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
shaResp ara and the Bible.

In Shakspeare's name lies the key to
a wonderful cryptogram. The spelling
Shakespeare" was the poets nom de
plume, while "Shakspere" was his
name, an evident change from Shakes
pear" In each of the two spellings
last given are ten letters-four vowels
and six consonants. Combine these
two figures and we have the number
46, the key to the mystery.
Turning to the forty-sixth Psalm in
the revised version it is found the psalm
is divided into three portions, each one
ending with "selah." Remember the
number-46.
Counting forty-six words from the be-
ginning of the psalm, one reads the
word "shake" in the first portion, and
counting forty-six words from the end
of the psalm one reaches the word
4spear." There Is ''Shakespear" as
plainly as letters can make it.-London
Answers.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
Beet Sugar and Bounty.

1t has lately been decided that State
has not constitutional right to pay a
bounty to beet sugar growers or to the
factories for manufacturing the sugar.
Yet this is the way it is done in Euro
pean countries, either by paying boun-
ties or by taxing the use of sugar at
home, and remitting the tax on that
exported, SO that their own citizens can
not obtain 1t at home as cheaply as the
citizens of other countries. BY this
policy Austria-Hungary produced in the
year ending July, 1899, 1,O41, 700 tons Of
raw sugar from beets, and in the year
ending July, 1900, 100000 tons, the
largest product they have ever known.
Germany also Increased her product for
the nine months from August, 1898, to
April, 1899, inclusive, from 1,495,S04
metric tons to 1854, ,492 metric tons for
the same months in 1899 and 1900.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27

culation of air among the corn. The
studding should be 2x6 set three feet
on centers, with 2x4 girts notched into
the studding. The ends of this build
ing are sided with seyen-eighth inch
matched drop siding put on horizontally
except the gable, which is put on YER
tically. The sides are covered with
1x3 inch strips set half inch apart
and are put on vertically. The space
between the cribs is twelve feet wide,
and is closed inside from the bottom of
the cribs to ground, forming an inside
shed, which is not accessible to any
farm animals. This inner shed is
closed by rolling doors at each end.
The cribs are boarded up inside the
shed with three-inch strips placed hori-
zontally a half inch apart to admit air,
and by opening the doors free circula-
ton of air can be obtained in fine
weather. The shed is loored over above,
forming an apartment twelve feet wide
by forty feet long.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27

However, my professional duties
were not so ardous that.I did not find
time to notice trim little figure that
fitted in and out through the big en-
trance door, dressed always exquis tely,
but quietly.
My interest in Mrs. Traine deepened
when heard her story. Her husband
had been killed in a railway accident
three years before. The insurance
money was almost gone, and the little
widow added to the income that must
support herself and invalid mother by
giving music lessons to a few wealthy
girls.
A daintier little rosebud Of woman
1t would have been hard to find. Soft
brown hair, tossed in truant curls about
the low forehead, voice that spoke
always gently, blue eyes full of mirth,
and a complexion that looked like it
had been bathed in the morning dew.
Once or twice had held the big door
open for her to pass out, and bowed in
response to the low thank YOU" Ear
ly after my coming to the building a
boy on tue top floor had been accom-
modating enough to get hurt in the ele-
vator, and had been called in as the
most available physician. Luckily, l
brought the boy through so well that
his parents as well as the youngster
himself, sounded my praises so loudly
that found myself with quite a repu-
tation and incidentally practice in the
neigliborhood. Still, had not met Mrs.
Traine, and l was beginning wickedly
to hope some accident-ever so slight a
one, Of c0ui'se-nnight happen to her, a
sprained ankle or wrist, that l might
have the JOY of caring for. However,
the fates preserved AIRS. Traine from
accident, and l continued to watch for
glimpses of her from my office window.
l had bowed the last patient out for
the evening, and settled myself for a
smoke before bedtime. My m.editations:
mingling with the blue curling smoke,
were Interrupted by piercing scream,
and then another. 1 rushed into the
hall. The screams came from the
Traine apartment above. In Another
moment was knocking on the door,
which was opened by Mrs. Traine her
self, white and breathless. "Oh," she
gasped, catching hold of my arm.
"We've got him-out therein the pam
try-poor mamma"
"Whow / asked.
The burglar. He was hid in the
dining-room-mamm saw him, and he
ran into the pantry-and l locked the
toor-and-he's trying to jump out Of
tie window.
heard a noise as of some one trying
to push up window, and opening the
pantry door there he was, a sure
enough burglar, evil-browed and sullen,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
Ratproof Courthouse.

Many farmers suffer a great waste
from vermin in the corncrib, and fire.
quently it Is very serious. Rats are
especially great enemy in this respect.
Unless the courthouse is SO made that
there are no hiding places, it is impos-
sible to dislodge the rats from their re-
treat. The courthouse shown in the
Illustration, which is reproduced from
the Ohio Farmer, is made SO it Is mac
cessible to rats or mice, and there are
no hiding places beneath it. 1t Is ele-
waited three feet above the ground on
firmly set stone posts, neatly dressed.
The cribs may be made from six to
eight feet wide and of any desired
length. For 1000 bushels of corn in
the ear the building should be 40 feet
long with cribs feet wide and II feet
high. In building this one should use
6xS timber for sills and 2xS joist.
The floor is made of 2x3, laid half
inch apart, SO as to admit the free cir
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who dropped the window and turned to

who dropped the window and turned "a
face me.
You can't make a jump from that
window, my man." said. 'You had
better be quiet"
l turned the lock again, but Mrs.
Traine, divining my purpose, clung to
my arm. Don't Co." she cried, fran
tically. Eve can't stay here alone a
minute" Then to my relief that same
small boy who had served me SO well
professionally appeared on the thresh-
old, attracted by the cries. Off he went
to call the police, while tried to quiet
two hysterical women.
In a few minutes the burglar was
handcuffed and led away, but the shock
had proved too much for Mrs. Traine's
invalid mother. The fainting spell was
followed by delirium, and her daughter
and l watched by her bedside until
morning. -
OF course, 1 was installed as attend
morning and evenings. When the pa
tient was able to sit up 1 sometimes
read aloud to her as an excuse to re-
main longer, watching the daughter at
some household task.
One evening l staid for tea Mrs.
Traine wore a dainty gown of white
and blue, with a great deal of lace.
There is no sight so welcome to bach
elor as a pretty woman at the head of
a tea table. The next morning 1 pic
tured the pretty widow sitting opposite
me at my own breakfast table, wearing
the pretty house jacket 1 had seen on
my morning calls.
That afternoon l took Mrs. Traine
and her mother for drive, and was re-
warded by another invitation to tea.
A reason for such close attention to
my patient was no longer apparent. I
was hunting about in my mind for an
other excuse to prolong the delightful
calls when Mrs. Traine knocked at my
door one evening.
Il have come to see you on business"
she said. taking the seat 1 offered her.
'You have been kind to mother" she
went on. "Of course, we want to pay
you for your trouble. Would you mind
telling me, please, how much the
amount is?"
l saw the anxious look growing deep
er in the sweet face opposite nae. How
much denial and privation paying a
doctors bill meant to that little wom-
an, already burdened with RESPONSE
bility!
at must be large bill," she said at
last, as remained silent, watching her.
"You-you've made so many calls"
"Yes, it is large bill," said, slowly.
There was a quick uplifting Of the
blue eyes. 81 hope" she said softly,
''that you won't mind If we don't pay.
it quite all at once; If could arrange
to pay you so much every week until
the bill is settled.
NO." l said, in business-like tones.
81 should prefer to have the whole bill
settled for at once"
MY heart smote me for the alarm in
the face that was lifted to mine.
leaned forward and took her hand. "Do
you want to know how much my bill
will be? Well, it's great deal. Moth
ing less than the giving Of your own
self to me, my darling, will satisfy my
claim against you"
You mean" said Mrs. Traine, the
bushes diffusing her pale face.
THAT want you to be my wife,"
said, drawing her head down upon my
shoulder. SIS the price too great?'-
Chicago Tribune.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
A Hard Word to Saw.

In the heat of passion Robert had
done something that he was ashamed
of and sorry for after the excitement
had passed away. 81 wish that hadn't
let my temper get away with my good
sense" he said; "but It's done and can't
be undone"
"But isn't there a way to overcome
the effect of wrong doing to a great
extentT" asked a voice in his heart.
"How?" asked Robert.
by owning to ones blame in the
matter" answered the voice. Confess
ing ones fault does much to set wrong
right. Try it,
Now, Robert was very much like the
rest of us-he hated to admit that he
was in fault. ''I'm wrong; forgive me-"
is hard thing to say. But the more
he thought the matter over the more he
felt that he ought to say just that "It's
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
ANDREY.

Audrey knoweth naught of socks. Fl
Naught to captivate the wise; III
But the soul Of goodness looks :
Through the quiet of her eyes. /
She can bake and she can knit,
Cunningly she wields the broom,
All her pleasure is to sit IL
In a neatly order'd room. Il II
Touchstone, shaping a career,
Shines at each exclusive house;
'-Such a clever man, my dear,
Tied to-just country mouse!
Married ere he dreamed of us,
Ere he knew what gifts he had
Strange that Fate should yoke him thus
And very, very, very sad.'
Touchstone Qet him mark it welD-
When the social round is trod,
Bored by dame and demoiselle-
Goes home softly, praising God
New York Tribune.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
when soiiing Pays.

Nearly every dairyman has expert
enced the shrinkage that comes in mid
summer, when the pastures dry up and
grass is scarce. 1t is at this time that
soiling will pay and pay literally. In
what better way can person realize
from $23 to $25 per acre for his green
corn or green alfalfa? When the cows
look over the fence with longing eyes
at the corn, the efforts usually spent
in keeping the cows out of the corn
had better be spent in throwing the
corn over to the cows, says Kansas
farmer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27

set at least three feet in the ground and
four is much better. The cross pieces
tiD are 2xS inch boards, "a inches long.
The stone (e) is firmly buried and
should just about fit the hole. The post
(b) is about six feet from (a). and
through the hole (D the cable from the
buried stone is passed. The brace (c)
is 2x6 board securely spiked in place.
When the posts and the stone are being
put in position the soil should be
tamped until it is very firm. Secured
in this way, an end post will remain
immovable for many years.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
A Queer Alaskan Fish.

In Alaska there is queer fish that
can be used as candle when dried.
The tall of the fish is stuck in crack
of wooden table and it's nose is light
ed. A good-sized fame will burnabou
three hours. 1t gives a good, steady
light of three-candle power and consid-
erable heat
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
To Make the Hen. Law.

If the hens don't lay, turn them out
and let them dig and hunt in the ground
for food, is the advice Of T. F. Nc
Grew, in the Country Gentleman. Bury
small grain where they will find it
when they dig. This will induce them
to hunt, and while thus employed they
will find bugs and worms that will
quicken the production of eggs. 1t is
well to follow this plan as soon as the
spade will turn the ground, for it adds
vigor and strength to the hens and in
sures strong, healthy chicks. The lazy,
idle hen is of no use, but to sit about,
eat, and grow fat If she will not work,
she will not lay. If she will not lay,
her life should end, and her fat carcass
grace the table. You can always rest
assured that the indolent hen is nom
producer; soon she becomes too fat to
lay and too tough to be eaten.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
An Illiterate Country.

Roumania would appear to be the
most illiterate country in Europe. The
last census shows that, in population
of about 100000 nearly 100000 can
neither read nor write, and that only a
little over 100000 have any education
at all
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27
Ferment in a New Sense.

A little schoolgirl was told by her
teacher to write the word ''ferment" on
her slate, together with the definition
and sentence in which the word was
to be used. The following is the result:
"F-e-r-m-e-n-t; a ver.s. signifying to
work. love to do all kinds of fancy
ferment"
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the right thing to do" he told himself.
..If I know what's right and don't @
it I'm a moral coward. I'll do It," So
no went to the one that be had wronged
and confessed his fault frankly and the
result was that the two boys were bet
ter friends than before and his comrade
had a greater. respect for him.-En-
change.