davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-11-03
VII nIsssss.Us -.
AGRICULTURE.
Good Work Done for Farmers
by Mckinley.

The diseases Of farm animals have re-
ceived special study in the Department
Of Agriculture in the last four years.
Nearly 2,0OO,OOO doses Of blackleg vac
cine have been distributed among the
farmers and cattle owners In the infected
districts, with the result that the mortal
ity among the young cattle in the infect
cd districts has been reduced from ten to
fifteen per cent annually to one-half OF
enc per cent In the case Of sheep, the
gasoline process for DISCRIMINATING para
sites has met with great success In hog
cholera and swine plague seventy to
eighty per cent of treated animals have
been saved.
Butter, Eggs and Pork.
Encouraging results haye been reached
| In the shipment OF butter and eggs to
| England and also remote points in Asia
The inspection OF pork advanced from
$500, $50 in 1896 to 10S,92S, 1913 in 1899,
or nearly 500 per cent.
| Aiming to create home supply OF
| chicory, the department has seen the i'm
ports fall from n value OF SOD, 229.31 in
| 1896 to $13.47O in 1899.
In seed testing and in seed and plant
| introduction large number of improved
products have been added to American
| cultivation. notably resistant alfalfa
| from Turkestan. drOught-resisting
| grass from southern Russia, and several
cereals adapted to the arid regions.
Porto Rico and the Philippines.
AS soon as Porto Rico began to be Of
special interest an exhaustive report was
prepared on the commerce of that island,
setting forth in the fullest possible man
ncr the character Of the trade carried ON
with the several foreign countries, and
especially with the United States.
| Later report OF 100 pages was pub
| lishcd regarding the trade of the Philip
pines, embracing practically all the avail
able statistics on the subject that could
be collated from the official import and
export returns OF the various countries
enjoying commercial intercourse with the
islands.
Owing to the scarcity Of reliable data
relative to Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines, the preparation Of the re-
ports on these former Spanish posses
sions required u vast amount of research.
| Grasses and Forage Plants.
| Experiments with grasses and forage
plants have been vigorously prosecuted.
during the past three years. These eX-
periments are necessary in order that
ranchcrs and farmers may be informed
OF the kinds suitable for their respective
districts. After these preliminary facts
are determined the promising varieties
can be recommended and adopted with
out further and useless expenditure of
time and money.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-11-03

stratiOn In favor nf the public credit, and
1t showed TO other nations the tremendous
resources which the people Of the United
States were able to command almost at II
moments notice. The success Of the war
loan had an effect, both at home and
abroad, scarcely less important than
were the naval Sietehies at Manila and
Santiago.
Pacific Railroad IDdebtedness.
The settlement OF the Pacific Railroad
Indebtedness Is also to be ranked as one
OF the greatest achievements Of Presi-
dent McKinley's administration. This
indebtedness had for years been sub
ject of fruitless endeavor. all efforts,
either by Congress or the executive de-
partments prior to 1897, were Of little
avail in protecting the governments in
terest in these roads; In fact. there were
grave doubts whether the government
would succeed in being reimbursed. even
in part, the vast sum expended by thu
United States in aid Of their construction
Yet the Mckinley administration. by u
firm and business-like course. achieved
great success.
Out of an Indebtedness OF about $780,
DOC, 900, more than one-half OF which
consisted Of accrued interest. the govern
ment realized, In cash or Its equivalent.
the sum Of $124,421, 870.95 within PEE
Rod of less than two years.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-11-03
WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS

n M in h pph threw po h department amuno fwk Geqmp
ping di the f active di a
h t the p %
in a OIL
% y service
lied tt i Of Io to
res
i0
the pass pnoph board
organize for ph OF nry ships fife careful Of ar
commits nd p IN H
n to ~ to v BY p f
OF OF
flor empmny srhc,a nd the enn force increased t w
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-11-03

In Tho plat
which Mckinley elected gov
4. o syst EN- on a firm basis
2. reform Damaging son tariff protect
American capital
8. Monroe n 8 ext tent.
IN 4. q for .ign polio WI
Amorc ontro Islands
THESE PLEDGES HAVE
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-11-03
Summary Of the Achievements in the De-
partments at Washington.
IS KEPT AND PROMISES FULFILLED

Unprecedented Results Accomplished in Every Department Of
the Government Since March 4th, 1897.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
The House Habit.

"When," says John Muir in the At
lantic, II asked Mr.. Emerson's friends,
il we were not going up into the grove
to camp they said: No, it would never
do to lie out In the night air; Mr.. Emer.
son might take cold, and you know,
Mr. Muir, that would be a dreadful
thing In vain urged that only In
homes and hotels were colds caught,
that nobody ever was known to take
cold camping in these woods, that there
was not single cough or sneeze in all
the Sierra. Then I pictured the big
inspiring fire would
make, praised the beauty and fragrance
Of sequoia flame, told how the great
trees would stand about us transfigured
In the purple light, while the stars look
ed down between the great domes; end
ing by urging them to come on and
make an immortal Emerson night Of 1t.
''But the house habit was not to be
overcome, nor the strange dread of pure
night air, though it is only cooled day
air with little pure dew in 1t. So the
carpet dust and unknowable reeks were
preferred. And to think of this being
a Boston choice! Sad commentary ON
culture and the glorious transcendeut.
alism. ~
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01

thrust forward so that he seemed al
most bumped; heavy face, shapeless
with unkempt, gray-tinged black hair;
lowering, heavy brows, from under
which small, cunning, foxy eyes peered
shiftily. A broad brimmed gray Boer
felt hat was pulled down low, a loose
brown overcoat, ordinary dark trou-
sers; nothing military, not even spurs
on his brown veldt boots. The only
thing he carried that seemed to speak
authority was a thick, heavy stocked
whip of hide, which he grasped and
swung as one accustomed to use it. By
his side rode his secretary and inter-
prefer, a long, bony young man, with
struggling red beard and very light eye
brows and eyelashes. They passed into
the square of highlanders, who had
been drawn up to receive them. .
'Commandant Cronje,' was the brief
Introduction, as the Boer leader swung
himself heavily off bis pony and, curt
ly answering Lord Roberts salute,
shook hands.
g I am glad to see you. am glad to
meet so brave a man. was Lord Rob
erts' brief welcome.
'"The two generals sat in chairs al
ready provided and the formal surren-
der followed.
"Gen. Cronje sat deeply sunken in his
chair, with his hands in the pockets of
his overcoat, and sullenly regarded the
scene. Every consideration was paid
him, but until the last was seen of his
bulky form driving away to Modder
River In the close carriage which had
been provided for him, his set, hard
ened face only suggested that the bit
terest hour Of his life was being
barely endured by the man whose
pluck, whose capacity and whose
traightforwardness we, his enemies,
are the first to admit"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
THE MOSQUITO PROOF HOUSE.

pectation that malarial fever will be
wiped out and millions of human lives
saved.
AS the mosquito Is a night worker,
the doctors will quit their houses only
when the insects are off duty, and then
they will protect themselves from the
danger of being stung by a chance
mosquito.
Few people have correct impression
Of the frightful ravages Of malaria. 1t
is the great disease Of the tropics. It
is the principal cause Of sickness and
death there, and of social stagnation.
1t, and practically it alone, is the rea-
SON why Africa is the Dark Continent;
why some, in fact most, of the fairest
and most fertile regions Of the earth
are but bowling wildernesses covered
with worthless jungle and inhabited
only by wild beasts and sprinkling Of
wilder men. Five millions Of people die
annually of fever, principally malarial,
in British India alone. That figure,
heavy though it is, gives no idea of the
amount of suffering, Of invalidism and
poverty caused by this one disease.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01

Max Pemberton's serial novel, "Feo,"
will soon be published In book form.
.Toomey and Others" is a volume Of
short stories of the East Side, by Rob-
ert Shackleton. !
The manuscript of Lorna Doone"
was submitted to eighteen publishing
firms before it was finally accepted.
1.-The Black VOLTS Breed" romance
of the time Of Louis XIV, is by Harris
Dickson, a young Southern writer only
81 years old.
''The Dear Irish Girl" by Katharine
lyman Hinkson, is published by A. @.
McClurg & Co., and Is pronounced q
very charming story.
Mr.. Anstey has made a play out of
his really humorous Punch novel, 1.-THE
Man from BIankley's," and it will soon
be produced in London.
Constance Garnett has made q trans
lation of 1.-THE Jew and Other Stories" !"
by Ivan Turgeneff. This volume COM
pletes this edition of Turgeneff's nov
els, and contains an Introduction by DR..
Garnett, in which he places the Rus
sian above all other novelists as the su-
preme artist.
William Pett Ridges new novel, "A
Breaker of Laws" will be published in
this country by the Macmillan Com
pany at once. Many people will remem-
ber this writer's clever work in a story
Of the east end of London called "Mord
Emily" He has already written four
or five other novels, among which "A
Clever Wife, and ''The Second Oppor-
tunity of Mr.. Staplehurst," attracted
some attention. "a Breaker of Laws"
takes its name from the chief character
in the book, cockney burglar.
Apropos Of the vogue of the historical
romance, it is related of 'To Have and
to Hold" Mary Johnston's story Of the
jamestown settlement, that it had
been followed throughout it's career in
the Atlantic to within a month or two
Of its conclusion by practical, hard
headed man of business. The practical,
hard-headed man of business one day
had occasion to call on the publishers
of the book. He espied the book upon
a desk, and though he had come to sell
paper, not to buy books, he refused to
do anything until he had sat down In
an out-of-the-way corner of the office
and finished the story which had 80
seized upon his fancy.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01

region Is such that no person can re-
main exposed there during summer
night without contracting the disease.
Drs. Sambon and Lowe will take
with them a mosquito-proof building,
and in it they will make their home
during the summer. If they manage to
live and keep their health where no one
else has succeeded in doing SO, and yet
have no advantage. over the others ex-
cept protection against mosquitoes,
then the case against the mosquito will
be considered complete, and the gov
ernment will set about prosecuting the
pest wherever he exists in the colonies,
and will give all possible aid to other
countries to do the same, with the ex-
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
San Francisco Market.

Wool-Spring-Nevada, 14@ Ice per
pound; Eastern Oregon, 12@ Ice; Val
ley, 20@22c; Northern, 10@12c.
Hops-1899 crop, 11@13c per
pound.
Butter-Fancy creamery 17@17Rc;
do seconds, 16@161ac; fancy dairy,
Ice; do seconds, 14@15c per pound.
Eggs-Store, 15c; fancy ranch,
17c.
Millstuffs Middlings, $17.OO q
5000; bran, $12.50@13.50.
Hay-Wheat Sc. 500 $50; wheat and
oat $6.00@9.00; best barley $1,000
TOO; alfalfa, $5.OO@6.5O per ton;
straw, 25 q 40c per bale.
Potatoes-Early Rose, COG CSC; Ore
gon Burbanks, 70c@$1 90; river Bur-
banks, 40@75c; Salinas Burbanks,
8Oc@1. 10 per sack.
Citrus Fruit-Oranges, Valencia,
$s.75@s.25; Mexican lines, $4,000
500; California lemons 75c@$1.5
do choice $1.75@2.0O per box.
Tropical Fruits-Bananas, $500
$50 per bunch; pineapples, NOM
inal; Persian dates, 6@6Hc per
pound.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
cRoNJE.s SURRENDER.

British Writer'S Graphic Description
of That Dramatic Event.
One of the most dramatic events of
the war in South Africa was the sur
render of the brave Boer leader, Gen.
Cronje. who for nearly ten days held at
bay the vastly superior army of Great
Britain, while he and his followers
were cooped up in the bed Of the Mod
der River, near Paardeburg.
Describing the surrender and the ar
rival Of Cronje in the British camp a
British correspondent says:
Presently body of horsemen came
past the hospital tents into the camp.
Maj. Gen. Prettyman was one of the
leading horsemen. By his side great
heavy bundle of a man was mounted
on a wretched little gray Boer pony.
And this was the terrible Cronje? Was
1t possible that this was the man who
had held back the British army at
Magersfontein? Great square should
ers, from which the heavy head was
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01

who owns the livery stable on Violet
street. Mr.. Williams did not return
our bow of recognition, but advancing
upon us in a threatening manner said:
"Mr. Colwell, you owe me two dollars,
and you either hand itEover or will
take it out of your hide?'s
"Mr. Williams" we kindly replied,
though much astonished at his abrupt
ness, 1--WE know we owe you two dol
lars, but we cannot pay it at present.
AS soon as the money comes In on sub
scripfion you shall have it."
This was the best we could do, but
SO far from letting the matter drop he
knocked our hat into the middle of the
street. Then he knocked us after the
hat. Then he kicked us and called us
names.
We did not fight back. Our editorial
dignity was at stake. and we maintain
ed it. Even when Mr.. Williams hit us
in the back with an old tin can we did
not turn to handy words with him. We
think that an editor should maintain
his dignity at all times and under all
circumstances, and our wife is highly
pleased at our conduct in the affair
mentioned.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
The Land OF the Lazy.

"In late sojourn in Honduras" said
L.. B. Givens to Washington Post re-
porter, 81 came to the conclusion that
1t was a paradise for lazy man. Every
thing grows luxuriantly, with but little
labor on the part of the natives, and
many crops do not need replanting
more than once in eight or ten years.
The country offers fine inducements to
enterprising men, but 1t is hard for a
white man used to civilized ways to go
a,wn there and dwell among an ignor-
az. -..t Of natives who are 100 years be-
hind the times. A man would have no
congenial society, and might as well be
in exile. The natives usually live In
bamboo houses, though in the towns
the dwellings are Of adobe. Children
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
TRADE IS QUIETER.
Quotations Have Weakened In Several
Lines of Business.

Quotations Have Weakened In Several
Lines of Business.
Bradstreet's says: Trade is, if any
thing, quieter and prices are lower than
a week ago, while efforts toward re-
adjustment of productive capacity to
present conditions, are noted in several
lines of industry, notably iron and steel
and lumber. Unsettled conditions in
the cotton trade, and a large failure.
due mainly to overstapling the bull side
of the staple, has tended to weaken
quotations in several lines of speculative
business. Backward crop reports and
the backward demand for cotton goods
are of course partly responsible for the
sharp break, but statistically the staple
remains very strong.
Advices from the dry goods trade are
of backward demand at retail, affecting
orders in many lines. but cotton goods
production is still heavy.
The boot and shoe market is dull
with manufacturers firm but with job
bers asking for lower prices.
Lumber is on the whole weaker,
partly owing to the unsettled conditions
in the building trade and partly to the
feeling that prices have been pushed
too high, and this feeling is likewise
true of number of other lines.
Almost alone among iron and steel
products, structural material is firm
and much is hoped for in the direction
of new business. The weakness in cast
iron pipe is inducing some curtailment
IL
Wheat, including -four, shipments for
the week aggregate 3.698, 1858 bushels,
against 5,l7s, 422 bushels last week.
Business failures for the week num-
ber 167 in the United States, compared
with 155 last week.
In the Dominion of Canada business
failures for the week number Is. as
compared with "a last week.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
insurance Rate Less.

Representatives of the Pacific Board
of Underwriters have finally lowered
the rate of insurance on ali business
property in The Dalles, Or. This in
cludes the larger portion of the build
ings below the bluff, and the rates in
some cases were lowered much more
than the citizens had reason to expect.
This action on the part of the insurance
companies is taken as result of the
increased facilities for fighting fire here
above the other cities of the class in
the Northwest. A perfect fire alarm
system is now in order, and the recent
chemical enigne and hook and ladder
tests have proved very satisfactory.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01

brains to prevent the Standard Oil
magnate from grabbing the 300 square
miles in the Indian Territory, where
oil is smelled by the keen-scented
monopolist. He has engaged Walter
s. Logan and Harx q. Hardy, of New
York, to lay his case before the United
States Court Of Claims, but has little
hone of Justice. He says the white
man has never Kept faith with the In
dians since William Penn's treaty in
1852. and probably never will. Waw-
aleep-eshee-ka Is known to civilization
as Richard c. Adams, and he has writ
tena book, which he calls "a Delaware
Indian Legend and the Story Of Their
Troubles"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
TROUBLES OF POOR 10.

This Indian Says John ID. Rockefeller
Wants His Land.
Waw-aleep-eshee-ka, the Delaware
chief, who Is at war with John D.
Rockefeller, declares that If there, ever
was a time when citizenship was de-
sirable the time has passed. He does
not wish to be citizen of community
which pays rent to foreign landlords
and receives wages from foreign task
masters. He says that his tribe has
been moved again and again by the
greed Of the white man, and will move
no more. He is wealthy and educated,
and Is willing to use all his money and
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01

60 naked for the first two or three
years of their life, and the attire Of the
adults is rather scant. The Govern
ment is liberal with concessions in or
der to encourage the development Of
the country's resources, but there is
no general rule governing the granting
Of privileges; it all depends on how
good bargain may be driven. The
climate is very salubrious, and laziness
is about the only prevailing disease
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
COAST NEWS
Commercial and Financial Happenings
of Interest in the Growing
Western States.
Butchered Seven Whales.

Butchered Seven Whales.
W. c. King, of Sand Lake. writes to
the Tillamook, Or, Headlight, the fol-
lowing story of the killing of seven
stranded whales:
On May 10. as o. R. Chamberlain
was walking along the beach, he dis.
covered some black objects in the edge
of the water. and upon approaching
nearer he discovered that they were
whales. which had become stranded
from some cause or other. There were
seven of them, and they were making
tremendous effort to get back into deep
water, without avail. The tide was
leaving them. They would open their
mouths and draw in about barrel OF
water and then squirt it through the
hole in the top of their head 20 feet
into the air, and lying sometimes on
their sides it was like getting in the
cross-fire of a hose company. Mr..
hamberlain made tracks for home to
get his gun and a butcher knife to
carve them up. On his return he
turned loose with his gun to kill them.
but after wasting few shots he saw
that he could not kill them in that
way, SO he sailed into them with his
butcher knife, and stuck them as you
would hog. That did the work, and
he soon had seven whales strung on the
beach that were from eight to Is feet
long.
He at once commenced to strip the
blubber from the outside of the body
and inside the head. The fat was cut
into six-inch strips and thrown across
a horse's back and taken home and rem
dered out, which will amount to several
barrels. It has market value, and
Mr.. Chamberlain will likely realize
considerable from it.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
A Great Glacier.

The largest glacier in Europe is the
Josledalsbroe, in Norway. With its
numerous ramifications it covers an
area of $50 square miles. This enor-
nous field of Ice sends its branches
down the valleys in all directions, often
coming into close proximity to the corn
fields. One of the most accessible Of
its branches is the Brigsdalbroe. From
distance its effect is extremely grand,
surrounded as 1t is with dark, bare
mountains, fringed with birch trees
perfect setting for the mighty mass
of snow and Ice.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
Quarantine at Ashland.

George H. McGeer, NJ. D., acting
assistant surgeon of the United States
marine hospital service, has been
ordered from San Francisco to Ash
land by the quarantine service, to in.
spect all Chinese and Japanese passen-
gers of the Southern Pacific passenger
trains coming into Oregon from Cali
fornia, and see that they have certifi-
Gates showing them to have been ex-
empt flom the contagion of the bubonic
plague before entering Oregon.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
TO WIPE OUT MALARIA.

Two Eng1ishmen to Experiment-Their
Lives a Possible Penalty.
Two Englishmen, DR.. Sambon and DR..
Lowe, of London, are to make an inter-
esting experiment and take their lives
in their hands for the sake Of human
ity. These two men are to go to the
Roman campagna, the deadliest place
in the world, with instructions to stay
there all summer and see If it kills
them. If they return home unharmed,
then the worlds most fatal disease
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
His Last Request.

The Captain-There is no hope! We
are lost! 1t Is now half-past 2; within
an hour we will be at the bottom Of the
sea.
Rathkopfsky-Couldn't you manage
to sink her by dree O'CLOCK, captain?
owe Rosenberg here hundredt dol
lars on note dot falls due at half-past
dree to-day, undt if de ship goes down
pefore dot time, 1t let's me out Of pay
Ing it, see?-Life.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
Uncompromisine.

Small boy-Wanter buy a dog, mis-
ter?
Mr.. Dignefde-Not that kind Of dog.
Why, he looks as IL he had f1eas!
Small boyle has got 'em, but yer
got ter Civ dat dog credit fer wun ting.
Mr.. Dignefide-And what's that?
Small boyle don't like 'em.-Ohio
State Journal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-01
THE SURRENDER OF GEN. cRoNJE.

next to consumption-malar will be
at the mercy of science. If they die,
the government will pay the funeral
expenses and the theory about malaria
will be upset.
The theory relative to malaria is that
it is caused by special kind of
mosquito. This mosquito abounds in
the campagna, lying seven miles out
side of Rome, and the condition of that