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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23
The Resources of Siberia.

Under government encouragement it
is said that Siberia is gaining 100000
farmers per year. Among its exports
are cereals, butter, wool, leather and
dried and preserved meats. Already
this remote country, which the popular
imagination is apt to picture as a vast
waste. the abode of frost and snow. and
misery, is becoming talked Of as pos
sible competitor with the well-known
cereal-producing countries of the world
A member of the French bureau of for
eign commerce estimates that, on the
basis of the present population of Rus
sia in Europe, Siberia can sustain S0.-
100000 inhabitants, although it now
has not one-tenth of that number. 1t
produces one-tenth of the worlds yield
of gold, but owing to climatic obstacles
many of it's mines are not worked, and
it's immense coal deposits have hardly
been touched.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23
DON'T LIKE WOMEN.
Some Land1adies W ho Discriminate
Against Their Own Sex.

come Landladies " ho Discriminate
Against Their Own Sex.
Il have always felt that it was some
thing of an inconvenience to be a wom-
an, but never regarded it as cause
for positive regret and modification
until a couple of weeks ago." said a
young woman recently.
at was while l was attempting, in
the words of the song, to find a place
to eat and place to sleep that l was
made to feel my inferiority to the other
sex. The advertisements were the first
shocks to my nervous system. With one
accord all those who had apartments
to let announced that they took gentle
men only.
'HEhis qualification was so general
that finally one day 1 ventured to in
wade house so posted and asked to see
the rooms. The woman of the house
regarded me scornfully.
1--WE don't take ladies here she said.
"'Why notY asked, argumentative-
ly; I'm very busy person. | work dur
ing the day and 1 disturb no one. /
can give you unexceptional references.
I don't whistle in my room, or throw
my clothes in the corners, or smoke; nor
am likely to come in intoxicated at all
hours. really can't see why shouldn't
be as desirable as lodger as man..
"All this I said to induce her to di-
vulge the reason for this prejudice
against women.
"'We don't take ladies' she respond
ed, doggedly. They quarrel about the
sheets and pillow cases, and find fault
with the towels and the way the room
is swept. There's boarding house
next door; perhaps they'll take you
there
Shades of my grandmother! Perhaps
they would take me! AS though were
an outcast, whose faults might be for
given if promised to be good!
"But they wouldn't take me next
door, after all, though added few
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23

other virtues to the list I had reeled of
before and showed letters from my for
mer hostess.
There's the third floor front you
could have, If you were only man.
said this landlady, refectively. We
don't care to take ladies'; they make
trouble in the house. We don't seem
to be able to make them comfortable,
and one urges the other on to COM
plain
"The next morning, when started
out to renew my search, l was fort1.
fed with certificates of baptism and
confirmation and letter from the rec
tor of the church l attended. These
finally admitted me to the domicile Of a
weary-looking person, who acknowl
edged, desperately, that she took hei
own sex to board. Then, such is the
contrariness Of human nature, | In
stantly took loathing to the place and
decided it must be very second-rate, in
deed. took rooms there, however.
"Now the question arises, are women
so intensely disagreeable in other peo-
pies houses as all this, and if so, why ?
If the dust lies undisturbed for weeks
in the corners of room, the feminine
lodger will naturally call attention to
it. But need she do so in an imperious
manner?
"At all events, I'm sorry I'm wom-
an, since must board, for 1t seems that
T the most Objectionable of the lords of
creation is preferred before any wom-
an, however amiable she may be, in
lodging ouses.'-Baltimor News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23
MUSsELS ARE GOOD FOOD.

Their Use In the United States Has
Been Very Much Neglected.
There is one shellfish, the mussel.
the use of which as an article of food
seems to be totally neglected in the
United States" observed an English
man of several years residence in this
country to a Star reporter recently. "In
fact it. is so seldom employed that it
may be said to be practically unknown
ON this side Of the Atlantic. 1t is rare
ly seen In your markets, and near the
salt water bays and estuaries in which
it is taken it is used, l am told. as a
manure for certain crops. This lack
of recognition of mussels as an epicu-
rfan delicacy probably arises from the
popular superstition among Americans
that this shellfish possesses poisonous
qualities. Such an impression is, how
ever, rather absurd, for in England
they are largely consumed by the poor
and middle class people. and if they
contained any Injurious properties their
use would be promptly prohibited.
at is well known that some persons
are unable to eat of particular sorts of
shell fish-to some oysters, clans or lob
sters are more or less poisonous. but
mussels are only 'noXious' to the great
er number for the reason that they de-
teriorate more rapidly when removed
from the water than any other species.
There are mussel beds within a radius
of ten miles of New York and other east
ern cities of sufficient capacity to sup
ply millions of people with clean and
nutritious article of food; one that
would lessen to large degree the ex-
haustive demands made Upon the clam.
oyster and lobster fisheries.
ITO prepare mussels for the table
they should be selected of medium size
and care should be observed to wash
them carefully and place them in YES
sci of salted water for several hours, so
that they may clean themselves: that
is, discharge the dirt and grit found
within their Shells When this pro
cess is completed the bivalves should be
placed in water and boiled-or steaming
is better in the vapor generated by their
own juice. When they are done they
may be easily taken out of their shells
and are ready to be used in one of the
many forms of which they are suscep-
tible. e.".Washington Star.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23
RECOGNIZES THE WILD MAN.

Georgia Spectator Finds Him to Be His
Long-Lost Brother.
During the Macon (Ga.) street fair
one of the attractions was wild man,
who ate raw meat and was bound in
chains.
The wild man has been at his business
so long that he understands it quite
thoroughly, and now he thinks he ought
to have better wages. To the public he
never says a word, but he talked some
good plain English to his employers the
other day. He intimated that he would
form a wild mans union If necessary
to get higher wages His employers
undertook to tell him who he was and
to remind him that he was In their pow
er, but he swore In all the oaths Pc
culiar to the wild mans vernacular. de-
claring that he would quit being wild
and become civilized before he would
continue to eat raw meat and wallow
around at the end Of steel chains In a
hot pit for $1.50 day. II was finally
agreed that he could have 81 day, and
he went back down into the pit and Is
now wilder than ever.
This particular wild man has broth
er who has for some time been wander
ing about in civilization, and a roman
tic meeting occurred between the two.
They didn't fall on each others necks
and weep. The civilized brother paid
his dime to see the wild man. not
dreaming that he was to see his own
long-lost brother. After gazing into the
pit for few minutes, his eyes resting
on the raw meat and huge steel chains
rather than on the creature so securely
bound, he looked at the well-advertised
wild man. He started as if about to
scream. Then he caught the wild mans
eyes, and they recognized each other.
They both broke out in big ha ha! the
wild man laughing just like his civil
ized brother.
The management did not allow the
two to get together, but hurriedIy eject
ed the civilized brother. AS the wild
man had just received raise of so
cents day, he was satisfied to let his
brother continue to wander in the
walks of civilization.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23

The first lighthouse in the Chicago
harbor, says the Chronicle, If it could be
so denominated, when the smallest YES
sells made their way with peril into the
shallow mouth of the unimproyed river.
was erected in 1881. Reckoning from
that date, which, in fact, was six years
earlier than the city's birth as cor
poration, the vast commece now car
ried on here had its beginning only
sixty-nine years ago. There is nothing
like this commercial wonder in the
world now, nor ever was. All this since
an immense number of men still living
and not yet accounted old were born!
When it first was in agitation to erect
a lighthouse here of the old pattern.
with stationary light of no great
power, there was man in France deep
in studies and busy with experiments
to produce marine light on "a new prll-
ciple that should take the place of eye:y
other the world round. Fresnel was
that man. Indeed, he began with his
experiments ten years earlier. Over
In France was Fresnel at work on
marine light that was destined to send
its apprising flashes from six several
towers in the Chicago harbor over the
waters to the horizon. The Frenchman
lived to perfect his light; he. was ap-
pointed secretary to the lighthouse
board of France in 1925 and while he
was in that position he replaced reflect
ors with lenses and invented the-revolv-
ing light Then he added prismatic
rings. The result was the system that
still goes by his name and has long
since changed the mode of lighthouse
Illumination throughout the world. 1t
is now used exclusively by the United
States.
Chicago people are accustomed to see
ing the Fresnel light in the several
lighthouses in the harbor, but probably
few have ever inquired into the mech
anism of the apparatus by which the
flashes are produced. Take the one on
the north pier as typical Within it is
an arrangement of lenses, supplement-
ed by prisms, which revolve around a
sperm oil-burning lamp. When one of
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23

The new book by Henry James, "The
Soft Side," is not novel, as has been
reported, but collection of the au-
thor's typically longer short stories.
Gilbert Parker has lately completed
the first novel he has written in more
than two years. 1t is called 1.-The
Lane That Has No Turning" and, like
SO much of his work, it deals with life
in Quebec.
Robert Barrett Browning, it is re-
ported, Is engaged in carrying out a
long-cherished ambition of his fathers
that of restoring to Asolo the silk
mills that Browning made memorable
in "Pippa Passes"
Mrs. Wharton's new novel, upon
which she is now at work, will bear
the title of ''The Valley of Decision" !"
1t will portray the general spectacu-
lar pageantry of life in northern Italy
in the eighteenth century.
Literary Paris is much agitated by
the problem of deciding whether the
copy of 81 Ami du Peuple.' stained with
the blood of AIarat, now exhibited in
the exhibition, is really genuine. A
Partisan paper discussed the question
a short time ago and has ELECTED the
statement that there are in existence
at least eight genuine" copies. similar
ly stained, to say nothing of one or
two books.
The announcement that Joel Chand-
ler Harris has retired from newspaper
work in order to devote his whole time
to story-making gives special inter-
est to his new book. 'On the Wing
of Occasions" The stories Zone nov
'elette of 10000 words on 'The Kid
mapping of President Lincoln') all deal
with "unwritten history" of civil war
times, without any actual fighting, but
introducing many details of the elab.
crate secret service. The volume is
perhaps chiefly notable in adding an
other irresistible character to those i'm
perishable figures like Uncle Remus
and Aunt Minervy Ann, which Mr.
Harris has already given us. Billy
Sanders, the old Georgia countryman
who goes to kidnap the President, has
a supply of funny stories which rivals
Lincoln's own and his shrewd, homely
humor Is most characteristic.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23
KEEPS LONELY VIGIL.
LIGHTHOUSE MAN HAS WORRY
AND RESPONSIBILITY.
Works Amid Deep Solitude and Must
Endure All Sorts of Weather-Place
an Appointive One and Free from
wiIes of Politicians.

The keeper of a marine lighthouse
has not a job, but an office. He Is a
Presidential appointee and holds
commission which when read out
sounds as important as that Of the col
lector of customs or the postmaster.
He holds an Office Of large trust and
high responsibility. He is to keep his
lamp trimmed and burning from the
dusk of evening till the next daylight.
His post is advanced to the edge of the
deep and often raging waters-it is
lonely situation and through nights of
all weathers he must stay and be vigi-
liant at his post. Should he fail once in
the performance of duty what disaster
to vessels and crews might not come!
The navigator knows and testiies to
his worth in the position where he has
been placed by the government, but it
is certain that he is not much regarded
by the general public.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23
man yearnea for d closer acqualntancs


with the postmaster and would prob
ably have interfered seriously with the
future delivery of the United States
mail but for the fact that Hamilton is
something of rough rider and had a
horse under him.
Postmaster Hamilton had for the
time being left the affairs of state in
went out to round up some straying
cattle. He went about three miles from
home and was standing beside his horse
wondering which way to turn next
when there was stir in some brush
ahead of him. 1t looked too small a
disturbance for a COW, but he thought
it might be calf and went forward
to investigate. He was within a few
feet of the brush when a big grizzly
stood on its hind legs and threw him
kiss.
Hamilton didn't stop to catch the
kiss, but made bolt for his horse. The
steed had seen Mr.. Bear and started
away almost as eagerly as did his mas
ter, and it was nip and tuck for the
Sduule UelWeeu UTuiu anu Tue postAds-
ter. After a run of 100 yards Hamil-
ton caught the pommel of the saddle
and threw himself aboard just as the
bear made bound for him. A pair of
spurs went into the horses hide and the
animal leaped forward with bound
which made the bear feel that his meal
of man was apt to escape. But he
doubled himself up into ball of fury
and started red-hot after his intended
victim. The chase kept up until the
door of the postmaster's cabin was
reached, when bruin turned about and
made for the woods. He was allowed
to escape.-Denyer Times.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23
Clock of Three Graces.

Count Isaac de Camondo Is the owner
of a white marble clock, which is said
to be worth $4,000. 1t is called the
clock of the 'Three Graces." The graces
are connected by festoons of flowers,
surrounding broken futed pillar,
which serves as the base of a two-han-
died vase decorated with festoons of
oak leaves. This vase contains the
works of the clock, to the dial Of which
one of the nymphs is pointing with her
finger. The count will bequeath the
clock to the Louvre.-Kansas City Jour
nal
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23
HOT RACE WITH A GRIZZLY.
Lively Experience of a Colorado Post
MASTER with a Rear.

Lively Experience of a Colorado POST
master with Bear.
w. Fl. Person, local manager of a
typewriter company, received letter
this morning from Tom Hamilton, post
master at Hamilton, Routt County, de-
scribing a thrilling race with bear
which he enjoyed this week.
The bear was big grizzly. The griz-
zly when he sees a human form is
bound to do one of two things. He will
either run at or away from the
stranger, and if he does the former it is
generally case of doughnuts to pref
zels that it is all off with the stranger.
In this case the bear that runs at a
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23

This map shows the formation of the
land which scientists now affirm connect
ed Australia, Africa and America, max
ing of the three one great antarctic con-
tinent. For proof of this the fact Is
pointed out that the ancient sea beaches
of Patagonia, which are now far inland,
have imbedded in them fossil shells
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Seattle Mark cts.


Onions, new, 1Ac.
Lettuce, hot house, 81 per crate.
Potatoes, new. $l6.
Beets, per sack, 85c @$1.
Turnips, per sack, $780,,
Beans, wax, &c.
Squash-1Ac.
Carrots, per sack, 90c
Parsnips, per sack, $1.25.
Caulifower, native, 75c.
Cucum bers-40 @ SOC.
Cabbage, native and California,
1Ac per pounds.
Tomatoes-30@ @ 5Gc.
Butter-Creamery, 29c; dairy, 18@
22c; ranch, lee pound.
Eggs-34c.
Cheese-12c.
Poultry-12c; dressed. 14c; spring,
1870 15c turkey, 1885,.
Hay-Puget Sound timothy, $14.OO;
choice Eastern Washington timothy,
$1,000.
Corn-whole, $500; cracked. $a5;
feed meal, $50.
Barley-Rolled or ground, per ton,
$40.
Flour-Patent, per barrel, $3.50;
blended straights, 1925; California.
1926; buckwheat flour, $500; gra-
ham, per barrel, $500; whole wheat
flour, 1926; rye flour, $3.S0@4.00.
Millstuffs-Bran, per ton. $500;
shorts, per ton. $14.00.
Feed-Chopped feed, $1,000 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $40; oil cake meal.
per ton, $4,000.
Fresh Meats-Choice dressed beef
steers, price TIC; cows, &c; mutton
71a; pork, SC; trimmed, &c; veal, 90
lie.
iHams-Large, 13c; small, 1874;
breakfast bacon, l2c; dry salt sides,
8 nc.
Portland Market.
Wheat-Walla Walla. 81 q 41ac;
Valley, nominal; Bluestem, SIC per
bushel.
Flour-Best grades, $3.4O; graham,
$500.
Oats-Choice white, 42c; choice
gray, 41c per bussel.
Barley-Feed barley, $3.50 brew
ing, $16.50 eer ton.
Millstuffs-Bran, $3.50 ton; mid
dlings, $2l; shorts, SIT; chop, SIC per
ton.
Hay-Timothy ,S12@ 12.50; clover,$7
1850; Oregon wild hay, Sc OF per ton.
Butter-Fancy creamery. 45@5Oc;
store, SOC.
Eggs-32 1ac per dozen.
Cheese-O Oregon full cream, 121ac;
Young America, 13c; new cheese loo
per pound.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, $2.50@
$50 per dozen; hens, $4.00; springs,
$2.OO@3.5O; geese, $6.00@7.00 doz;
ducks, $3.0O@5.00 per dozen; turkeys,
live. lie per pound.
Potatoes-50@6 per sack; sweets.
1ac per pouno.
egetables-Beets, 81; turnips, 75c;
per sack; garlic, &c per pound; cab
bage, / 1ac per pound; parsnips, s5c;
onions, ST.; carrots, 75c.
Hops-New crop, l2@14c per
pound. -
Wool-valley, 13@14c per pound;
t Eastern Oregon, 9@12c; mohair. %
per pound.
Mutton-Gross. best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 8 nc; dressed mutton, 6 % q
&c per pound.
Hogs-Gross, choice heavy, $5.75;
light and feeders. $500; dressed,
$6.OO@6.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef-Gross, top steers, So. so q 4. 90;
COWS, $3.OO@3.5O; dressed beef, 60
&c per pound.
veal-Large, 6k@71sc; small. SO
SIC per pound
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23
Dead Ancestors in China.

Dead ancestors are said to occupy too
much of the arabic land in China. Fam
ines would be less frequent il the coun-
try was not one vast cemetery
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23
Feathers Blown or Chickens

A device for plucking feathers from
chickens has been patented in Great
Britain. Cross currents of air set In
motion by revolving electrical fans
completely strip bird of every feather
and particle of down.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23

Whenever girl takes 1t into her
head to wave broom at the head of a
mob, she is called Joan of Arc.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-12
With ALL YIGOR
Campaign in the PHILIPPINES has
Fresh Impetus.
PURSUIT OF ENEMY is yfRY ACTIVE
Gagement-Rctreat Nearly Cut
OR--Two Provinces to
be Cleared soon

The war department has received
the following from General OTIS
"MANILA, Jan. 0.-Bates pursuing
enemy in south with vigor. Schwan S
column, moving along shore Laguna
dc Bay, struck 500 insnrrectionists un-
der General Noricl at Binen 9th inst, q,
and drove them westward on Slang;
captured place, from which point cav
airy pushed through to Indang. .Schw an
captured three of Noricl's six pieces of
artillery and will take remainder; also
his transportation with records and
large quantity of ammunition. Two
battalions of Twcnty.eight, part of
Whcaton's column, struck enemy near
linus yesterday, killing and wounding
one huncred and forty. Birkhemcr,
with battalion of Twenty-eight, struck
enemy cntrcnchcd west of Bacoor yes.
terday morning; enemy left on field
sixty-iivc in dead, forty wounded and
thirty-two rifles"
"Our loss thus far Lieutenant Che
hcy, Fourth infantry. four enlisted
men killed and wounded. Expected
that Schwau's troops will cut off re.
treat of enemy's Cavite army. Wheaton
moving today on Las Marinas. Boyd.
Thirty-seventh infantry, moved east
from Las Banos and surrounded troops
of General Risal and considerable prop
erty. II is expected that Cavitc and
Batangus provinces will be cleared up
soon. In the north Lconhauscr, with
three companies of Twcnty-iiftb, at
tackled robbcr bands in Arayat noun
tain ard dispersed them, destroying
their barracks and subsistence. Found
there five Of our prisoners whom they
had picked mp on the railroads; three
killed, two seriously wounded. These
northern robber bands will Dc actively
pursued"
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-12
May Form Alliance.

The seizure of the Bundcsrath re-.
mains the dominant topic of the Ger
man press. Influential papers like the
Bcrlinger, Tagcblatt, Cologne Nollis
Ieitling. Bcrliucr Neucstc, Nachrich.
ten, Hamburger Correspondent and
the semi-oilicial Berlincr Post. strong
ly hint at the possibility Of Germany
forming an auti-British coalition with
Russia and France. The anti-British
feeling in clearly growing. A series
of anti British demonstrations in the
various cities is being organized Toy the
pan.Gcrmanic leagnc.