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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

Ut IS in this possible overlapping OF
rival spheres and consequent clashing
of interests that the peril of occupation
lies. This the Chinese diplomat may be
trusted to promote in the forlorn hope
that he himself may pick up a plum or
! two that may be dropped in the scuftle.
Herein lies his only chance, it would
seem, of obtaining a portion of his own
/ territory, for in addition to the spheres
already outlined there Is another coun-
| try or Two to be reckoned with. Japan,
Which secured the island OF Formosa by
treaty, has made it manifest, by land
ing troops at Annoy, that the main
land opposite will be considered as
her sphere in case of division of ter
ritory, while it is so we'll known AS to
i be looked upon as a foregone conclusion
| that if Manchuria remain in the hands
| of Russia. Korea will revert to the Jap
anese. Not that Japan desires Korea
above all things else, but that she
would not want such an admirable
strategic territory to go to any one
/ else.
] 1t would appear, then, that il the
| United States We're to engage in the
scramble for territorial spoils she
would be confined to a very restricted
| area and that a selection of a port and
province would be a case OF '.Hobson's
choice" In point of fact. but one coast
province remains unappropriated-Ch
kiang, lying to the south of Shanghai
land the Yang-tse river mouth. 1t has
at least two fine cities-Ningpo and
| en-chow--and if British professions
of friendship count for anything, the
Britisher would be made supremacy
happy by having the Yankees as his
Ineighhors.
There is one objection to its acquisi-
ton, even If there should not arise that
insuperable one of popular protest
against it in the States, and this is
that Italy considers it already hers
through prior claim, entered, but not
allowed by China, a year ago. 1t is
hardly worth While going to war about
lit, anyway, and if sober. second thought
prevail with the other powers they will
heed the warming conveyed in that
4 QUAINT Chinese proverb, 1.-The higher q
rat creeps up cows horn the narrowe,
he finds It'll"
i FREDERICK A. ODER.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11
EVAPORATION OF TREES.

Some curious facts concerning trees
have been discovered. A single oak of
good size is said to lift 1913 tons of water
during the months it is in leaf. This
moisture is evaporated and rises to
form rainclouds. From this estimate of
the labor of G single oak we can gain
some idea of the immense force which
the forests exert in equalizing the evap-
Grafton and precipitation and prevent
i ing periods OF inundation and drought.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

Every xeon put forth by the and relief committees
missionaries
has 50 in India The shows the
monsoon rains effect famine districts but
suffered history famine 1878 the total a
0oo
reles
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

Few men of this age are so agile and
athletic as Secretary Hay.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16

imperial Chinese troops, whom he de-
signed to use for holding the places
won by himself and his soldiers of for
tune. This time he captured the city
although outnumbered a hundred to
one.
The only reyerses he encountered
were in two successive attempts to
capture Sing-Po while the defenders
were commanded by an Englishman
named Savage. In the first assault
Ward was wounded in the jaw.
Brought to trial by the foreign consuls
of Shanghai for violating the neutral
ity laws Of his country, he escaped by
swearing that he was no longer an
American citizen, but Chinese sub
ject. He met hero's death in pitch
ed battle near Ning-Po. Shot in the
stomach while leading a charge, he re-
fused to leave the field, but remained,
like Wolfe, to urge his men on to vic
tory.
The Chinese buried him in the Con-
fucian temple, which was a unique
hsnor for foreigner. A shrine was
reared over his grave and declared
miraculous. Some years later the Pc
kin government proclaimed him joss.
New York World.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16
Great Greed for Lands.

1t is said that the flag follows the
trade, but in the Russian case it is the
trade which follows the flag. Russia
has never made a movement from
which she has gone back; her great
land -grabber and her great Cecil
Rhodes was called Yamak, and he PEN
etrated and annexed the great part of
Siberia for the car of the day, and
Russia within the last few months has
christened her most powerful ironcla6
after this great explorer.
The counts of Mouravieff, uncles of
the late minister of foreign affairs ts
the present czar, are known in history.
one as the man who annexed the great
er part of the Caucasus for the czar OF
his day, and the other completed the ST.
berian annexation; and their successor,
the late Count Mouravief, was follow
ing in the footsteps of his ancestors.
The Russian minister of foreign af-
fairs acts Independently, sometimee
without consulting any of his col
leagues, and very often without con-
sulting the czar. He always employs
men who have been trained in the de-
velopment of the Russian empire, at
the expense Of other people.-Londol
Express.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16
Too Many Fried MesseS.

DR.. Jacobi, writing in the Medical
Record, says that in the United States
there is one physician to every 600 peo-
-proportionately twice as many as
in Great Britain, four times as many as
France has, five times as many as Ger
many has and six times as many as
Italy has. And DR.. jacob might have
gone on to show that we take an inter
est in patent or proprietary medicines
and in various other forms of eXtra-pro-
fessional treatment which is almost
non-existent in Europe.
There must be some explanation of
this American craze for doctoring. Ger
tainIy it is not that we are sickly and
an ailing race. On the contrary we are
exceptionally hardy and enduring.
1t may be that our backwardness in
the art of cooking has a great deal to
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16
LAW AS INTERPRETED.

An agent who forwards collections to
a sub-agent and directs him to make
any other use of the funds than an ap-
plication thereof for the benefit Of the
principal is held, in Milton VS.. johnson
(Minn.), Al L. r. A. 500, liable to the
principal for such misuse of the funds
by the sub-agent.
A person excluded by a co-tenant
from a mine in which he has lease
of an undivided interest is held, in
Paul VS.. era gnas (Nev.), 47 L. r. A. $40,
to. be entitled to maintain an action for
damages and not to be limited to an
action for partition or an accounting
of rents and profits.
An intention to convert real estate
into personality when bought by part
nership is held, in Darrow vs.. Calkins
IN. ", 4S L. R. A. 299, to be manifest
ed by it's purchase for partnership pur-
poses, with partnership funds, and it's
use in the partnership business indis-
criminately with chattel property.
Right of the owner of life interest
in lands to maintain an action of parti-
ton against the owner of the estate in
remainder is denied in Love vs.. Blauw
kas.), 4S L. r. A. PSI, where 1t is held
that a decree settling over a part of
the property to life tenant in fee sim
pie in partition case is wholly void
Garnishment against an executor to
reach a debt of the decedent before de-
cree for distribution of assets is denied
in Hudson VS.. WILDER (Mich.), Al L. R.
A. 345, in the absence of statutory per-
mission, although the debt has been
placed in judgment in a suit revived
against the executor. The numerous
authorities on the question of garnish-
ment of executor or administrator are
reviewed in a note to this case.
Provision of penalty for violation
of a statute enjoining upon railroad
companies the duty of blocking switch
es is held, in Narramore VS.. Cleveland,
G. G. & st. L. Railway Company &C. C.
9Th Co., 4S L. r. A. 6S, not to make that
remedy exclusive of actions by persons
injured by the neglect of the duty Inn
posed, unless such is the intent to be
inferred from the whole puryiew of the
statute. With this case is a note re-
viewing the authorities on the liability
of an employer for injuries to servants
caused by want of blocking at SWITCH
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16
FISHING IN CHINA.


How the Pts scatorial Art Is Practiced
by Cunning Ce.estiaIs.
In this country the fisherman is a
man who uses hook and line or the net
in following his profession and folks
would stare with wonder to see him
start off with flock of birds to help
in catching fish. Yet this is done in
China. There the Chinaman may be
seen in his sampan surrounded by cor
morants which have been trained to
dash into the water at his order, seize
the fish and bring them to the boat
Should cormorant capture a fish too
large for it to carry alone, one of it's
companions will go to its assistance,
and together they will bring it in.
If the Chfnaman wishes to catch tur-
ties he will do so with the aid of a
sucking fish or remora. This fish has
on top of its head long disk or sucker
by which it attached itself beneath
moving objects such as sharks, whales.
and the bottoms of ships rather than
make the effort necessary to indepen-
dent movement.
The fisherman fastens the remora to
a long cord tied to brass ring about
its tail, and when he reaches the tur-
tie ground puts it overheard, taking
care to keep 1t from the bottom Of the
boat. When turtle passes near the
remora darts beneath him and fastens
to his shell. Struggle as he will the
turtle cannot loosen the grip of the
sucker, and the Chinaman has only to
haul in on the line, bring the turtle up
to the boat. and take him aboard
Washington Post.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16

the eye does not convey to the mind
an idea Of its size. 1t covers one and
one-half acres of ground and is 165x4OO
feet
In order to provide greater isolation
for the hospital and furnish basin for
the anchorage of the steamers used in
transporting the immigrants, new
island, about three acres in extent, has
been made southwest of the main. ISL
and and parallel to it. The two are
connected on the Jersey City side by a
crib. The hospital is being built on
the Jersey City end of this new rect
angle of land. The physicians house is
to stand on the southwestern extrem-
ity. The other buildings are on the
main island, the restaurant, laundry
and bathhouse adjoining the main
building on the northwest end and the
power-house occupying the north side
of the island.
All of the buildings and the landing
piers and ferry slip are to be connected
with covered passageways, so that
from the moment he lands on the isl
and until he leaves it the immigrant is
not once in the open air unless he is
permitted to walk upon the broad prom
enade on the roof. There are no loop
holes by which he may leave without
the consent of the officials.
Ellis Island has been used as an i'm
migration station since 1891 Shortly
after Congress relieved New York State
of the supervision of the European inn
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16
YANKEE DElFuED IN CHINA.
American Soldier of Fortune Wor.
SHIPPED as Col by Mongo1ians.

American Soldier of Fortune Wor.
SHIPPED as Col by Mongo1ians.
To worship dead American as a
god to make pilgrimage to his shrine,
to hear tales of the miracles enacted
there-all this is possible in China,
where a josshouse stands over the
grave of Edward T. Ward, who Gre
ated the ever victorious army to which
Gordon afterward owed his fame.
Ward, the Yankee soldier of fortune,
was the only foreigner ever deified in
China. He won this sacred regard by
his military genius, for to him more
than to any other individual was due
the crushing of the Taeping rebellion
that bloody CONFUSION which for
years devastated the richest provinces
of China and cost millions of lives.
He was born in Salem, Mass, in 1928,
and from boyhood sought desperate ad-
ventures Baked of West Point edu-
cation, he went to sea. At the out
break of the Crimean war he Joined
the French army, but after his arrival
at-the front he had a quarrel with his
superior officer and was allowed to re-
sign. After taking part in Walkers
filibustering expedition against Mica
ragua he shipped as sailor on vessel
bound for China.
He reached Shanghai in 1859. The
city was in panic. Chung Wang, the
greatest of the Taeping generals, had
reached Sung-Kaing, eighteen miles
away. The foreign powers were do
ing nothing. In despair the merchants
of Shanghai proclaimed a reward of
100000 to any body of foreigners who
would drive the Taepings from Sung
Kiang.
Ward presented himself to the chief
merchant and entered into contract
by which he was to receive the entire
reward if he should raise force and
capture Sung Kiang. He gathered un-
der his standard 100 European and
American sailors and in the face of
great difficulties marched on the enc
my. In a pitched battle before the
walls of Sung -Kiang he drove back
1900 Taepings, but retreated when an
other force attacked his flank.
On his next expedition from Shang-
hal he was REINFORCED by body Of
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16

ton, when completed, will consist Of
the large examination and Office build
ing, restaurant, laundry and bath
house, power-house and a hospital
and physicians house. All of these
are to be ireproof. The government
does not intend that the catastrophe
which destroyed the old station on the
night of June 15, 1897, and threatened
the lives of between 200 and 300 immi-
grants, shall be repeated. No wood
has been used in the construction of the
main building except in the floors of
the offices on the second story and in
the trimmings.
The architects have adopted a color
scheme in red brick, Indiana limestone
and Maine granite. The design is pick
ed out in the light stones and accentu-
ated by the contrasting tints. The big
building is further accentuated to the
distant passer-by on the water by four
towers. The exterior in some respects
suggests an exhibition hall. Owing to
the absence of any buildings not in har-
mony with it in dimensions and design,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16

Since her appointment as superinten-
dent OF Indian schools Miss Estelle Reel
has accomplished wonders by the intro
duction of manual methods in agency
schools scattered throughout the West
ern States and territories. Early III
her career as superintendent she be
came convinced, as she herself express
es it, that among all children, Indians
and whites alike, the shortest road to
the brain is through the hand" In
perfunctory way manual training had
been in operation before Miss Reel re-
ceived her appointment, but since then
it has received close attention and the
results have been gratifying in the
extreme. In the early days of the re-
public most Indian teachers sought to
lift the aboriginal mind to the plane of
Christian enlightenment by means OF
texts and sermons, catechisms and i'll
functions, and too commonly their eff
forts ended in the sad realization that
the seed was soWn on stony ground.
Half a century ago some teachers be-
gan to realize that the chief need of the
Indian is for practical education involv-
ing manual training and actual intro
duction into the arts and industries of
their Caucasian neighbors, ana the eff.
forts of those teachers who adopted
this plan were always more or less
fruitful. 1t was not until the advent
a really fair trial. The result has been
SO satisfactory that doubtless the work
will be still further developed in fu-
ture. Observers of educational prog
resS are impressed with the increasing
ly practical character of instruction in
our own schools; the kindergarten has
passed the experimental stage and be-
come an important educational factor;
manual training has been substituted
for the dreary grind of word drill, to
the Unreasonable benefit of pupils, and
nature teaching is rapidly replacing the
husks of dead knowledge in every uni
versity and in all the better normal
schools and high schools, as well as in
many of the primary schools through
out the country.
In speaking of the benefits accruing
from TINS system or education Miss
Reel said recently: 'The benefits OF
this educational revolution to the chill.
dren and youth of America have been
very great, yet the advantages of the
modern method are incomparably
greater to Indian children than to thei1
Caucasian contemporaries. Allowing
for exceptional cases, the Indian child
is Of lower physical organization than
the white child of corresponding age
His forearms are smaller and his fin
gers and hands less flexible; the very
structure of his bones and muscles will
not permit so wide variety of man
ual movements as are customary
among Caucasian children, and his
very instincts and modes of though
are adjusted to this imperfect manua
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16
fists was John Sweeney, the. son of q
well-known livery man.

fists was John Sweeney, the son or
well-known livery man.
During the evening it was suggested
as an additional means of entertain
ing the guests that some one be hypno-
tized. Young Sweeney. who is quite
powerful young man, offered his serv-
ices, and was soon under the influence
of a young operator named Cook. In a
few moments it was seen that the young
man was completely under Cooks in.
fiuence. The company became annoy
ed and suggested that the spell be
broken and the victim released. This
was attempted, but in vain The young
man cut up all sorts of antics. In his
efforts to release his patient the opera
tor was terribly slugged and several
of his front teeth knocked out. Sweeney
manifested wonderful feats of strength
At times half a dozen or more men at
tempted to seize and bind him, but
could not do so. The services of a sta,-
wart policeman were called upon. When
he got within reach of the latter's fist
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16
NV notion is that heart an head
Finds Revenge at Last.

We see by an item in our Harlan cor
respondence that COW down there died
from drinking too much water. 1t is
cows. We have toted water for a cow
ourselves, and when, after turning up
her nose and shifting around as though
she didn't think much Of water any
way, and we might go to hades with it,
she suddenly changed her mind and
swallowed a bucketful in two gulps and
kept on doing so for ten or fifteen times
and called for more. we just whacked
her over the head with the empty buck
ct and hoped that she might bust and
blest to her! We are mighty glad to
get that item from Harlan.-Gaylord,
Kan. Herald.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16

development. In like manner his face
is without that complete development
of nerve and muscle which gives char
acter to expressive features; his face
seems stolid because it is without the
mechanism of free expression, and at
the same time his mind remains meas
urably stolid because of the very ab-
sence of mechanism for its own express
sion. In short, the Indian instincts and
nerves and muscles and bones are ad-
justed one to another, and all to the
habits of the race for uncounted gener-
atoms, and his offspring cannot be
taught to be like the children of the
white man until they are taught to do
like them. The children of our aborig-
ina1 land holders are now wards of the
nation, and in the minds of most right
thinking people they are entitled to
kindly consideration"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16
HOW 4 JAP WROTE ENGLISH.


Specimen of the Language as Exem.
plifed by Writer.
The following letter, written by .
young japanese student to one Of the
| members of a Washington club in
which he is a waiter, is an excellent
example of English as 'she" Is written
by the orientals who seek to master
"her:"
''Sir: The spirit of pride and the
esteem of honor which characterize our
countrymen oblige me to write few
words to you regardless of the penalty
for the obtrusive intrusion upon your
precious attention.
To-day 1 went at the club to get my
wages, and met with the steward, Mr..
John, at the entrance. He stepped
back few PAGES, and checking my
way, ordered me to leave with many
repetitions of abominate oaths which
man of some honor can't restrain hie
passion from revolt on such a violent
shower of curse.
Anger was beyond my control, and
1nvoluntarily l returned my share of
compliments; upon which he snatched
the potato masher and was brutal
enough to give me two severe blows
on my person and inficting quite pain
| full injury.
Through all this affair l was never
offensive; when l went there to de-
mand the money to which l am entitled
he unjustly enjoined me to get out;
that is an unreasonable movement, and
canrot fail to hurt mans feelings.
What? without being satisfied with
that insult made my blood boil and the
veins burst with successive onslaught
of ignominious swear. My returning
was completely excusable, for to be in
different to such an ignoble treatment
denotes the one is stranger to the
sense of honor; and SO he ought to
have realized it with abashed submis-
sion. And what again? the tongue,
the countenance that was not capable
enough to vreak his savage fury, and
then resorted to the final step Of vio-
lence as though l was mass Of clay
! insensible to disgrace and pain.
Il could not reconcile to forgive him
for such a cruel assault, and would
have avenged the injury with the same
"edpoA He Wlelueu 10 lily lull SFdtlu-
cation, if otherwise a bystander med
| died in and forced my highly strung
nerves to ordinary coolness.
However, l have no thought to let
his brutality hide from the eye of the
right and just, and so 1 have taken
some trouble to write these lines, and
ask you please to glance over 1t at
once. Very respectfully, your obedient
servant. J. N"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16
ACTRESS SELLS NEWSPAPERS.
Pauline Schroeder Has Stand at q
Theater Where She Once Played.

Pauline Schroeder Has a Stand at
Theater Where She Once Played.
Pauline Schroeder, who was until
three seasons ago a successful actress,
is now selling papers before the New
York theater in which she once won
applause. Miss Schroeder is California
woman, and went on the stage when
she was child. The name of the first
play in which she had part was '"The
Streets of New York." with which she
was later to make such close acQuaint-
ance. In the height of her career she
was married, but soon left her hus-
band. She went to live with her invalid
mother in little fiat in New York.
The actress was still young, but she
gave promise of making worthy name
for herself in her profession, but an
acidcent happened that made her
cripple for life. One morning Miss
Schroeder started on her wheel to get
some medicine for her mother. A trolley
car knocked her down, dragged her the
length of a block, and left her maimeS
and desperately injured. For weeks She
lay in the hospital, persistently refus-
ing to consent to the amputation of her
leg, which had been badly crushed.
Then, for fear they would amputate it,
| despite her refusal, she went home to
the fat where her mother lay. ALI her
money was gone. The two women
faced starvation, and then Miss Schro-
der bought bundle of papers, went to
the door of the Casino, on whose boards
she had been a favorite, and took her
station as a newsgirl.
Leaning on her crutches, her face so
changed by want and suffering, that
few persons recognize her, the once
pretty actress presents pitiable pic
ture. Theatrical managers who knew
her in the old days pass and talk to her.
and many quarter is left in her hands
in payment for penny paper. Here
and there one interests himself in her
case, and there is now talk Of obtain
ing compensation for her injuries from
the street railway company-if possl-
ble That this can be done is not likely,
except at the end of hard-fought law
suit, such as the attorney who has in
terested himself in her case promises
to carry on.