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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
Shore Cargoes that Shift.

"Once In while we read" said Mr.
Bozzle, that the ship So-and-So or the
steamer So-and-So has returned to
port, or has arrived, perhaps, with "a
decided list: cargo shifted Sometimes
we see land craft, truck, with cargo
shifted-a big pile of boxes, towering
high, shaken over to one side or the
other by continued jolting along on
the side of the street on the slope.
"a load thus shifted can't be shaken
back by running along on the opposite
slope Of the road; it is like stick of
wood that has been bent and kept bent
till the grain is set; whatever you do
with it the crook stays in.
''If care is exercised in turning cor
ners and in navigating generally, the
shifted load can usually be carried to
its destination as it is without upset
ting, though it may work harder; the
experienced truckman knows just
what can be done with it, and whether
it has shifted so far as it will go, and
all that. If it is so badly shifted as to
make the operation of the truck diff
cult or dangerous, he hauls to one side
by the curb and anchors-that is to
say, he halts and unloads the shifted
top courses of his cargo and then re-
loads and makes everything trim and
secure and sets out again"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
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 leggings
of sage-green duck canvas, which she
made herself. She wore the heaviest
kind of winter boots, and a 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-
tial 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, 1900-10-16
REASON OF HER LONG LIFE.
Queen Victoria. Longevity and Heaitl

Queen Victoria's Longevity and Health
Due to Regularity.
An eminent physician of this city Who
has recently returned from London,
where he had opportunities of learning
nuch of Queen Victoria's habits of life,
IS of the opinion that not only her
longevity, but also her wonderful ex-
amption from the ills and aches to
which humans are ordinarily SUD
ject, are due to the fact OF the extra
ordinary regularity which is followed
IN the daily routine of her majesty
life. Nothing makes difference IN
this routine, for everything is arranged
by rule and compass, in a fashlon
which no incidents whatsoever ever
interfere with. The queen rises every
morning at the same hour and retlres
at the same instant every night, her
meals are served to the second, Wnlle
ner drives and airings are regulated
with the same punctuality; indeed, the
royal household of England far out
does any great public business institu-
ton for scrupulous and perfect pune
tuality. This state of affairs has gone
On, year in, year out, ever since the
1eath of the late lamented prince con-
sort, whose very irregular and free ana
easy temperament frequently got
little on the queens nerves ana causeo
between the otherwise SO united a
couple great many scenes which were
the reverse of pleasant. So dear to
Victoria is this abnormal punctual1ty
that she has instilled it into all her chill
dren, and the Prince of Wales house
mold, for instance, is almost as noted
for Its accurate appreciation of time as
is that of his royal mother. The prince
1uring his entire lifetime has never as
yet been known to be five minutes late
for any meal, either in his own house
,r in anyone else's. On one occasion a
very popular and well-known English.
duchess. famous for her unpunctuality,
gave the greatest offense at Marlbor-
ough house because she was few min
ltes late for dinner. As she entered
the drawing room the prince pointedly
glanced at a small clock which stood
IN the mantel shelf. The duchess
quick eye observed the action and she
knew at once that a long time would
elapse before she was ever again likely
10 receive an invitation to dine with
her future king. With a somewhat
constrained laugh she exclaimed:
why, sir, it is not that hour" NO,
replied the prince, you are only four
minutes late, but l like to have all my
clocks five minutes fast, for it keeps un-
2unctual people up to the mark"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
MExtco,S SCENIC WONDER.
Waterfall of Juanacactfan a Little
known but Picturesque Cataract.

Waterfall of Juanacactfan Little
known but Picturesque Cataract.
The great waterfall of Juanacatlan is
one OF the grandest, though least
Known, scenic wonders of Mexico. The
immediate approach to the falls is in
itself an artists dream of rural de-
lights. Leaving the railroad at the
little station of Ell Castillo, one is con-
veyed by native tramcar for a dis
lance of five miles through beautiful
circular valley thousands of acres in
area and resembling in the graceful
curves of it's surrounding hills and the
lelicate tints of its labyrinths of wild
towers mammoth seashell.. At fire.
auent intervals above the tops of the
ong grasses and tropical shrubT
ylimpses are caught of the broad. wind
ng Rio de Santiago, it's waters hasten
ng onward to the sea.
Having traversed perhaps two-thirds
If this enchanting landscape, ones ear
gradually becomes conscious of a low,
distant murmur, which steadily in
.reases to a deep rumble, and from
hat to a mighty roar, and presently the
-ramcar comes to standstill at the
very brink of high precipice, from
which is viewed through clouds of va
porous mist the sight of thousands of
tons of water plunging over wall of
gray granite in steady, unbroken
cataract $50 feet in width for a sheer
distance of sixty feet in seething,
eddying vortex below.
For time the mind is apt to be held
IN rapt contemplation of the spectacle;
then, by degrees, the senses are awak-
.ned to the various characteristics, the
exquisite effects and weird vagaries of
the foaming, falling waters. At the eX-
IRENE further shore a portion of the
cushing flood is turned aside by spur
Of granite and hurled against the face
IF the confining wall, from which it
rebounds in a fine veil-like cascade,
while from the top of the precipice ON
he nearer side long trailing vines droop
down and reach out their tendrils as if
in vain efforts to grasp the descending
torrents.
Associated with these falls is
strange and beautiful phenomenon. 1t
Is the constant presence of myriads of
gorgeous butterflies, which fit in and
Dut of the riffs of the great cascade and
to and fro through the clouds of drift
Ing vapor, seemingly attracted and fas-
.inated by the dazzling, buffeting ava
ianche of foam.-St. Louis Globe Demo
crat
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
AN OrIeinaI Order.

An order came to a wholesale hard.
ware house one day last week.
That is, it was presumably an order,
for it was written under a business
heading and had all the general appear
ances.
The employe who opened the letter
studied it and said it beat anything he
had seen up to date.
He sent 1t to member of the firm,
who read it and threw up both hands.
Since then he has been showing it to
his friends. 1t was written by a rural
dealer, and is as follows:
'Gentlemen-Please send me at once
two long-handled shovels, one dozen
sixteen-fnch hinges and two kegs Of
tcnpenny nails. Yours truly,
JOHN ROBINSON.
"P. S.-My son tells me we have plen-
ty of above, SO you need not send. ]. r."
Chicago Tribune.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
APeter the Great !" Boom /"

We are about to witness the outbreak
of boom on Peter the Great similar to
that which has ragged for some years
round the person Of Napoleon. Sir
Henry Irving. with all the world open
to him, has chosen play on Peter the
Great, written by his son. Prof. Oscar
Browning Is about to publish life of
the inevitable Peter; and ]. NJ. Gra-
hams historical novel. 1.-The Son of the
Czar," has already attracted consider
able attention, and will certainly be
widely read, as 1t gives a powerful pres
entation of Russian life at the most
critical epoch of Muscovite history.
There is something significant in this
renaissance of Peter the Great The
smaller states of Europe are vanishing,
one by one, and everything points to
eventual collision between. the Teuton
and the Slav. In the meantime every
thing that Holy Russia and the anoint-
ed person of the Kaiser can do to mag
Nifty their respective missions will cer-
tainly be accomplished Harper'a
Weekly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
HaDflnkz1u
lin the
WzEGke Z
World

has such q record for alb
soIufeIy curing female Ills
assd kidney troubles as
has Lydia e. Pksklsasss,s
Vegetable COMPOUND.
Medicines that are adj
Ves'fEsed to 0azre every
thing cannot be specifics
for anything.
Lydia e. PInkham's
Negefable Compound will
NOT cure every kind of ILL.,
ness that sssay afflsof men.
women and ckiIas-e7y hNf
proof is monumental THAT
IT will and does cure all
the ills peculiar to women
This is a fact Essayspuf-
ehFe and can be verified
by more than a million
women
; IF you are skOk cont ex-
pesri7senf, take the sssedT-
cine fhaf has the record
of the largest number of
cures.
Lydia E, Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn. Mass.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
LONG FINGER NAILS
Indicate Rank and Good Breeding l.
Many Oriental Counfr:es.

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 a 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 a
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, 1900-10-16
The Cook Got Even

A cook here who quarreled with the
owner of the restaurant got even in this
way: After making the soup he i'm
proved it by the introduction of several
foreign ingredients, such as a 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 more fearful
brew than this soup was never con-
cocted, even by Macbeth's weird sis
ters. The cook is now in the consomme.
New York correspondent Pittsburg
DiSDatch.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
A Cemetery for logs.

In Paris there has recently been OPP
ened special cemetery for dogs where
the deceased CANNES can be buried
with as much pomp and be marked by
as pretentious headstone as their late
masters can afford. Along the front
of the cemetery grounds a handsome
stone wall has been erected, andEwith-
in the entrance on either side are the
house of the concierge and the Office.
Directly in front of one entering is a
handsome marble monument. A heavy
relief in the stone represents the dog
bearing child on his back, and COM
memorates the saving of a little one
lost in the snow of st. Bernard pass
whom a st. Bernard dog found and
brought to safe refuge.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
Sorry He Learned.

''Did you ever know the difference
between a 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 a young woman
who had had experiences, and she pro-
ceeded to unfold them
81 was thrown last summer" she
went on. with a 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 it, 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. / 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 a day to
teach him to pick them up. At first l
had to remind him, but after while he
did it quite naturally; and at the end of
the season he thanked me sincerely.
.'The sequel came few days ago,
when l received a letter from him re-
preaching 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 it
before 1 stop to think. 1t will take
years to undo the direful work Of last
summer."-New York Telegram.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
The Only One

Miss Wellwood-Yes, 1 belong to the
Daughters of the Revolution, and pride
myself upon being the most distin-
guished member of the society.
Mr.. Hargreaves-Indeed I suppose
you trace your lineage back to some
man who was lion in his day, eh?
Miss WellwOod-No, my great-great-
grandfather was only private, but
fror1 all that l can learn he seems to
have been the only one in the whole
Leader.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
When You Write TO che 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
as the Queen, for the simple reason that
she never looks at it. All such letters
Ire opened by the Mistress of the
Robes, and as a rule their contents new
ar get beyond her. or, if the letter is of
Importance, it is returned to the writer
with the directions how to forward it.
Exchange.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
Chinese COMMERCIAL wealth.

The progress of China in the last 60
years is well illustrated by the fact
that when the Yangste valley was
opened, about that many years ago,
$500, 600 represented all that the Chi
nese could buy or sell to foreigners,
and few small vessels carried all the
freight and passengers. Now all the
annual foreign trade of the Yangste is
valued at over 100000, 900, and a
larger feet of ocean anS local craft ply
between Shanghai and Hankow than
on the Columbia, Mississippi and Hud-
son rivers mbined.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
Sold By Drugglsts, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The ground for strawberries should be

The ground for strawberries should be
selected year in advance. 1t should
be planted to some crop that requires
liberal manuring and frequent hoeing,
SO as to destroy all weeds. 1t is grass
and weeds that cause strawberry beds
to become worthless after the first
year, and after the rows are matted
there is no way to get rid of weeds in
the rows except to pull them out by
hand. If the ground is kept clea
the previous year but few weeds will
appear.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16

There il more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For great many years doctors pro-
remedies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, m an
ufactured by F. J. Cheney d Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is The only constitutional cure on the market.
Itsis taken internally in doses from 10 drops to
a teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Ad-
dress, F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16

God is the Master of the scenes; we
must not choose which part we shall
act; it concerns us only to be careful
that we do it well, always saying:
''If this please God, let it be as it Isl"
and we who pray that Gods will may
be done on earth as it is Heaven must
remember that the angels do whatso-
ever is commanded them and go wher-
ever they are sent and refuse no cir
.umstances; and if their employment
be crossed by a higher degree, they sit
down in peace and rejoice in the event
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16

The renewing of an old orchard in
the fall should be done by blowing it
and turning the sod under, followed
by an application OF 10 bushels of air
Stacked lime per acre. A disk har-
row may then be used, when a liberal
coating of manure should be given,
allowing it co remain on the surface of
the ground as mulch. Owing to the
roots the plowing cannot be done close
to the trees.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
what win Become of Chinae

None can foresee the outcome of the quar-
rel between foreign powers over the divis-
ion of China. 1t is interesting to watch
the going to pieces of this race. Many
people are also going to pieces because Of
dyspepsia, constipation and stomach dis
eases. Good health can be retained if we
use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
IT Didn't Matter.

The Doctor-Ab bove all things, ma
dam, your husband mustn't worry.
Perhaps you'd better not show him my
bill just now.
''But l did, doctor, and it didn't
make any difference. He said he
knew he couldn't pay it anyway.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
Nothing
Tastes Good

And eating is simply perfunctory-
done because it must be.
This is the common complaint of
the dyspeptic.
If eating sparingly would cure dys-
pepsia. few would suffer from it long.
The only way to cure dyspepsia,
which is difficult digestion. is to give
vigor and tone to the stomach and the
whole digestive system.
Hoods Sarsaparilla cured the niece Of
Frank Fay. 106 N. St., South Boston, Mass.
who writes that she had been great sufferer
from dyspepsia for six years; had been with
out appetite and had been troubled with sour
stomach and headache. She had tried many
other medicines in vain. Two bottles of
Hoods Sarsaparilla made her we'll
Hoods Sas.Sapas.ixEa
Promises to cure and keeps the
promise. Don't wait till you are
worse. but buy bottle today.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16

Some insects, SO Rev. Theodore
Wood says in his recent book on the
subject, have families of O,OoO chill
dren for whom life is simply one long
urbroken dinner time. We are all re-
garded by a mosquito simply in the
light of full meal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
DON'T GET FOOTSORE. GET FOOT.


A powder. AT this season your feet feel
swollen, nervous and uncomfortable. If
YOU have smarting feet or tight shoes. try
Aliens Foot-Ease. 1t rests ard comforts +;
makes walking easy. Cures swollen and
sweating feet, blisters and callous spots.
Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and
is certain cure for Chilhlains, Sweating,
Damp or Frosted Feet. We have over 3d.
O0O testimonials. Don't get tootsore get
Foot-Ease. Try it today. Sold by all
druggists and shoe stores for Csc. Trial
package FREE. Address, Allen S. Ohm
sted, LIE Roy, n. y.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16

We know a man who has enough in
dustry and ability in his line to make
conspicuous success, if his fool ways
1idn't keep him down
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16

Emerson Beaconstreet, making mud
pies in your finest attire?'' ''What
matters that. nurse? There should be
no complaint until l will make mud
pies upon my finest attire.''
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16

A bubble is bigger than drop, but
it does no more to fill the spring. for
bubbles are but drops distended. Bub-
bles of pride. bubbles of hypocrisy and
self-assertion, bubbles of outward SEEM
ing unhelped by inward worth, shine
on the SUI face of the river of time, un-
til God s finger touches them and they
are gone. 1t may be well for some of
us to pray that we may not be bubbles
on the stream, deluding others by pre-
tense of worth; but we need to pray
also that we may not be bubble wor-
shippers, caught by social pretense or
intellectual arrogance and forgetful of
the limitations of human thought and
the revealing touch of the finger of
God
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16
Neither Bright Nor shining.

Neither Bright Nor Shining.
Heine's wit was caustic. When
forced into the arena to fight silly
duel, he said:
'tThe field of honor is dirtyl''
This is SO true that it is hard to und-
erstand why this popular bubble thus
deftly pricked did not collapse for good
and all.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16

am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my life three years ago.-MRs. THos.
ROBBINS, Maple street, Norwich, N. Y,
Feb. II, 1900.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-16

Curious Profession in China.
In China the detection of false coins
IS skillful, prosperous profession.
Known as ''shrofing." and is taught IN
special schoola