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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
COUNTRYMEN ARE SMART.
Not to Be Taken In and Done For at
City Hotels.

Not to Be Taken In and Done For at
City Hotels.
eve meet some very strange people
in the course of day." said the down.
town clerk, musingly. "The longer I
live the more firmly I become convinc-
ed that it takes all sorts of people to
make a world. Last night, for in
stance, a man who appeared to be we'll
to do wandered up to the desk and ask
ed me how much would charge him
for the privilege of occupying one Of
the office chairs until daylight. l told
him that sort of thing was not GUS
tomary in this house and offered to
give him comfortable room at mod
crate price, but this he refused and
insisted upon renting chair.
after great deal Of urging he said
that he came from Vermillion, 8. D.,
and had 81 500 concealed in his boot.
DO you suppose for ten seconds said
he, that l am going to trust myself
and my money in one of those rooms? !?
Suppose the blasted house caught fire?
Suppose some jiggered sneak thief
managed to get into my room while
was asleep, or suppose three or four
hundred other things that might hap
pen where there is a houseful of
strangers. And then, again, to tell you
the truth, 1 don't know the proprietor
of this joint and am not sure but that
he would undertake the job of easing
me of the cash. No, sir, all want is
a place to sit down and watch that
boot. If anything happens 1 am right
on deck and take no chances
another distinguished stranger"
continued the clerk, "after renting a
room the other night insisted that the
bellboy turn off the light before leav-
ing the room. He. said two friends of
his had gone to the other world by way
of the gas route and the bellboy's ex-
planation of the workings Of the mean
descent light failed to satisfy him. He
was willing to undress in the dark and
the boy took him at his word" d."-Chica-
go Chronicle, o.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
A National Pawn.hop.

Two recognized national institutions
In Mexico are the national pawnshops
and the thieves market. In the for
mer, every article pawned Is for sale,
If unredeemed within six months, and
there are always bargains to be picked
up. The rate of interest Is not high,
and on each article deposited some
thing like the real value is given.
Strangest thing of all to our own
money lenders, If, when at the end Of
the time, the owner is unable to redeem
1t and the article is sold for more than
was loaned on 1t, a note to the borrow
er invites him to call and claim the
surplus over the amount he already
has. At the thieves market there is
not so much philanthropy, and he who
has lost something of value and would
purchase 1t back is apt to pay dearly
for 1t. The pawnshop keeps short
hours, but the candles in the booths of
the thieves market burn long after the
boulevards are deserted. 1t occupies a
half square, and every article for sale
Is, if not confessedly, at least tacitly,
known to have departed from its for
mer owner without his consent. Con-
tractors who leave tools or lanterns on
the streets come to the market every
morning to buy their property back,
for the Mexican thief is clever crook,
with persistency that might be directed
to better use, and locks and bolts do
not deter him any more than the police
man on every square that is under the
rule of the Mexican city authorities.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

ample feeding. The sanatorium at
Nordach is famous for it's requirement
that the patients shall eat certain
their repasts in the presence of medi-
cal supervisor.
Fresh Illustration of the benefits to
be derived from an abundant diet by
persons who suffer from tuberculosis
are afforded by DR.. Jane Fl. Walker,
physician to the New Hospital in Lon
don, and superintendent of the East
Anglican Sanatorium. A particularly
striking case was that of a housemaid
who was under DR.. Walkers care at
one time. The maid exhibited some
unusual SYMPTOMS. Her temperature
would run up to 1O5 or even ITO de-
grees without apparent cause, and then
drop down to the normal level. The girl
was exceedingly obstinate and difficult
to manage, too. She was so deter
mined to preserve her figure that she
would not at first comply with the de-
mand that she either relax or abandon
her stays. However, she lost weight
steadily for six weeks, and in other re-
spects appeared to be losing ground.
She then became alarmed and consent
ed to obey the doctors orders. She left
off her stays, began to eat heartily, and
at the end of single week she had
gained twenty-three pounds. Suspect
ing that there was some mistake, the
physician caused the patient to be
weighed on three different sets of
scales. These figures were fully veri-
fed, however. During the next week
she gained only six pounds. She i'm
proved in other ways also, and was
soon afterwards discharged. The girl
is alive and well to-day, and hard at
work in her old place.
DIR. Walker expresses the opinion that
the perceptible falling off in mortality
from tuberculosis in England Of late
years is due to the fact that the work
ing classes there are better paid and
consequently better nourished than for
merly. 1t is probable, however, that
they are also housed more comfortably
and amid better sanitary surroundings.
Possibly more than one cause operates
to produce the observed effect.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Miss Susan Wymar.

Miss Susan Wymar. teacher in the
Richmond school, Chicago, ILL.,, writes
the following letter to DIR. Hartman
regarding Pe-ru-na. She says: "Only
those who have suffered as l have, can
know what blessing it is to be able to
find relief in Pe-ru-na. This has been
my experience. A friend in need is a
friend indeed, and every bottle of Pc
ru-na 1 ever bought proved a good
friend to me. SUSAN Wymar.
Mrs. Margaretha Dauben, 1214
North Superior street, Racine City,
Wis, writes: 81 feel SO we'll and good
and happy now that pen cannot de-
scribe it. Pe-ru-na is everything to
me. I have taken several bottles of
Pe-ru-na fol female complaint. l am
in the change of life and it does me
good" Pe-ru-na has no equal in all
of the irregularities and emergencies
peculiar to women caused by pelvic
oatarrh.
Address DR.. Hartman, Columbus,
O., for free book for women only.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
An lronic Coincidence.

When a man becomes suddenly rich
1t not infrequently follows that he be-
comes as suddenly oblivious to his old
friends. Thus, a Persian having OBJ
tanned a lucrative position at court, a
friend of his came shortly afterward
to congratulate him thereon. The new
courtier asked him: "Who are you and
why do you come hereY" The other
coolly replied: do you not know me,
then? l am your old friend, and am
come to condole with you, having heard
that you had lately lost your sight
San Francisco Wave.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Proof Positive.

Two men were standing outside a
jewelers. window, admiring the gorge
Gus display of glittering gems that lay
before them. Presently one of them,
pointing to an object in red plush
tray, said:
'Just look at that scarf-pin represent
ing fly. Any one can tell that's not
real.''
well, should think so," answered
his friend. ''Whoever saw common fly
with such bright appearance? Why,
it makes me weary when I think that
the jeweler who produced that fondly
hoped that some one would purchase it
to deceive his friends. If l saw that
on mans scarf l could tell directly
that it was enameled imitation"
At that moment the object of their
condemnation moved across the tray,
flew in the air and vanished. The two
men looked at each other, gasped and
moved away without a word.-Pear-
sons Weekly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
His Position.

A meeting of negro "literary socie-
ty'' was in progress, and the business
part of the program was under consid-
Grafton.
Some one had proposed that the regu-
lar time of meeting be changed from
Monday to Wednesday night, and the
proposition provoked much discussion.
Finally the president of the society
was appealed to for. his opinion, and
he said, with much gravity:
'Well, membahs OBJ de s'ciety, pus-
sonally, now, pussonally, don't car
which night de s'ciety meets, but fo'
myself / prefers Monday
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
GylHHElR d 3 STEelJE5 81

Russian soldiers are supplied With
handkerchiefs at the expense of the
Government.
Women employed on Japanese tea
farms work twelve hours and are paid
Is cents day.
Every day there hangs over London
vast smoke cloud that is estimated
to weigh about three hundred TONS
The baron of beef-two sirloins join
ed together by the end of the backbone
is always served on the royal table
at Windsor Castle Christmas day.
A newspaper printed on the excur-
sion steamer Ophir published one num-
Der in eighty degrees north latitude.
1t claims to be the paper published
farthest north of any on record.
Spiders are serious plague in Jap
an. They spin their webs on the tele-
graph wires, and are so numerous as
to cause a serious loss of insula ton.
Sweeping the wires does little good,
as the spiders begin all over again.
The only place where "black dia-
monds" are found is in the Brazilian
province of Bahia. They are usually
found in river beds and brought up
by divers. Others are obtained by tun-
neling mountains. The largest speci-
men ever found was worth $4,000.
Water containing salts has a lower
point of congelation. Sea water Is
more or less salt in localities, but in
general it freezes at q degrees min
utes Gin round numbers % degrees). II
water be saturated with sea salt, the
freezing point sinks to 4 degrees be-
low zero. In freezing, the pure water
floats as ice and the salt separates.
The number of winks in given time
is found by Kotz, Russian physician.
to furnish fairly accurate measure OF
the degree of eye fatigue caused by
various illuminants. This method gave
the following unexpected results from
readings of ten minutes: With can
die, 6.S winks per minute; city gas,
2.S; sunlight, %; electric light, 1.S.
Among the curiosities in deeds, at
tention is called to one in Belfast,
which gives the course and distance
'.to a hole in the roof of the shed of
the blacksmith shop" This, H. P.
Farrow, the Belfast civil engineer,
says, should be considered an 'fnde-
structible monument" as the hole still
remains, although the shed was burned
many years ago. Another queer deed
is of shipyard in Rockport, and one
course is described as ''in line with the
bow of two vessels now building at
said shipyard."
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Less Chance of Recovery.

Prof. G. Sims Woodhead. M. D.,
professor of pathology. Cambridge Uni
versity, pehaps the greatest authority
on pathology in the world, recently
wrote for "Abkari," edited by W. S.
Caine, of London, as follows: "For the
last year or two l have been keeping
note of the various observations that
have been made in regard to the use of
alcohol in disease, and am coming to
believe more and more firmly that the
patient who takes, or has taken, alco-
hol has less chance of recovery than
the patient who abstains.''
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
cLoTHEsPINs.
fhey Are Made and Used by the Hum
dreda of Millious.

Ihey Are Made ana OeeQ Dy the dun.
dreds of Millions.
There are probably few people out
side the trade who know anything
concerning the vast number of clothes
pins that are annually required to sup
ply the millions of housekeepers
throughout the United States said q
wholesale dealer in such goods in New
York to the writer yesterday. "It is es-
timated that as many as $4,000, 600 doz-
en-, OF 100000 single pins, are man
ufactured in Eastern and Western fac
tories every year. The product is su-
perior in workmanship and finish to
anything of its kind turned out any
where in the world, and is shipped
largely to all parts of Europe; where
1t can be sold cheaper than the rough
and poorly made home article.
."Clothespins are made in this country
principally out Of beach and maple.
Blocks of this wood are fed to very
ingenious and exceedingly rapid-run-
ning machine, which has. three sepa
rate compartments. One of these cuts
block Of wood up into dozen or more
pieces, each of which is suitable for
forming pin. 1t next sizes and cuts
the 'crutel,' or place that is to grip the
wash on the clothesline, and the final
operation turns the neck and head of
the pins and smooths and finishes
them off by the bushel, ready for use.
The pins are then packed in boxes, each
containing 72O, and the boxes are then
nailed up by another labor-saving ma
chine, ready for the market. Wash.
lngton Star. .-a.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
FOR WOMAN'S HEALTH
Earnest Letters from Women Re-
neved Of Pain by Mrs. Pinkham.

DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM Before I
commenced to take your medicine 1
was in terrible state, wishing myself
dead a good many times. Every part
of my body seemed to pain in some
way. At time of menstruation my
suffering was something terrible.
thought there was no cure for me, but
after taking several bottles of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound all
my bad feelings were gone. am now
well and enjoying good health. l shall
always praise your medicine. - MRS.
AMOS FEscHLER, Box 226, Romeo, Mich.
Female Troubles Overcome
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM had female
trouble, painful menses, and kidney
complaint, also stomach trouble. About
a year ago L happened to pick up
paper that contained an advertisement
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and when 1 read how it had
helped others, thought it might help
me, and decided to give it trial. l
did so, and as a result am now feeling
perfectly well. 1wish to thank you for
the benefit your medicine has been to
me. MRS. CLARA STIEBER, Diller, Neb.
No rIOre Pain
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM Your Vege-
table Compound has been of much
benefit to me. When my menses first
appeared they were very irregular.
They occurred too often and did not
leave for q week or more. l always
suffered at these times with terrible
pains in my back and abdomen. Would
be in bed for several days and would
not be exactly rational at times. /
took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, and menses became regular
and pains left me entirely. E.
F. CUsTEE, Brule, Wis.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
BARON RoTHscHiLo.

Great Paris Banker and His Gifts to
Charity.
Baron Alphonse De Rothschild, who
died recently and left upward of 25,-
OOO. 600 francs to the poor. was the head
of the Paris house of the great family
of bankers. He was highly honored in
France, member of the Legion Of
Honor, an associate of the Institute
and a regent of the Bank of France.
The baron married his cousin, a daugh-
ter of the English Rothschilds. His
home in the Place de la Concorde was
the finest private mansion in Paris. He
was not only eminent as financier,
but was also a conspicuous figure in the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Physician and Morphine.

In recent address before graduat-
ing class of medical students occurs
the following most sensible advice:
"While fewer physicians become in
sane than members of other profess
sions, larger proportion become ad-
dicted to the use of morphia. Opium
in any form is exceedingly dangerous
when self-administered. No physician
should attempt to treat himself, but
always take the advice and follow the
direction of another physician"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Enuine Losses in War.

In all protracted wars the loss IN
horses from disease is terribly heavy.
In Napoleon's campaign across the Me
men, out of 10000 horses, no fewer
than 45, 900 succumbed in six months.
At the siege of Plevna the Russians
lost 80 per cent of their draught ami
mails, and in the Egyptian wars of 1882
the English horses were disabled, OF
which 800 died from sickness and only
60 on the field of battle.-Pearson's s
Magazine.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Try Aliens Foot Ease,

A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At
this season your feet feel swollen, nervous
and hot, and get tired easily. Ifyou have
smarting feet or tight shoes, try. Allen s
Foot-Ease. 1t cools the feet and makes
walking easy. Cures ingrowing nails.
callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions
of all pain and gives rest and comfort. We
have $4,000 testimonials. Try it today.
Sold nv all druggists and shoe dealers for
25c Trial package FREE. Address Allen
S. Olmstead, Leroy, N. Y.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Crime Prevalent in Berlin.

Crimes of violence, whose perpetra-
tors have remained undiscovered, have
become so common in Berlin and its
nelghborhood that the Prussian min
lister of the interior has given notice
that all violent deaths shall be report
ed at once to special bureau. which
shall decide whether the local or Ber-
lin police shall take up the case, and
in certain instances shall set its own
detectives to work.-N. Y. Sun.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

water, dried in the shade, and turned
on the wrong side to dry.
Black and white cal1coes are benefit
ted by having handful of salt added
to the rinsing water.
Red tablectoths keep their color if a
little borax is added to the rinse water
and they ara dried in the shade.
1t is not needful to boil white cloths
(unless very dirty and have the house
filed with steam every week.
There are 746 saloons in the First
ward of Chicago, and in one section
there are 30 in one block.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
What win Become Of Chinae

None can forsee the outcome of the
quarrel between foreign powers over the
division OF China. 1t is interesting to
watch the going to pieces of this race.
Many people are also going to pieces be-
cause of dyspepsia, constipation and stom-
ach diseases. Good health can be retained
if we use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

Teaching Ger man in the Transvaal.
johannesburg has German school
which last June was giving instruc-
ton to 113 boys. "a girls and 25 chill
dren in the kindergarten.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Papa's Idea of 1t

Little Harry-Papa, what is the still,
small voice?
Papa-It's the voice in which your
mother makes suggestions to the cook.
Chicago News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
n q Madrid Census.

A recent count shows that Madrid
has 1888 buildings with 1S,0S0 apart
ments. The number of Inhabitants ex-
ceeds OOO-497, ,169 Spanish and
$3.50 foreigners.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

A new regulation cog introduced in
Swiss watches, works SO accurately
that the time pieces do not vary 10 Sec
onds in a month.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Chocolate used as Money.

Chocolate is still used in the interior
of South Africa for currency, as are
cocoanuts and eggs.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

During the last 20 years deaths from
alcoholism in Great Britain have in
creased 80 per cent among men, and
145 per cent among women.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

1t will necessarily take great many
years to demonstrate to the lay mind
whether the rejection of the Holland
submarine torpedo boat was a great
economy or a great oversight.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Pn0tsa Trnnh1n

"The gas bill is twice what it was
last month";" said the poets wife,
There must be something wrong with
the meter"
81 wish l were gas company. "
sighed the poet. "Every time my
meter goes wrong lose money ."-In-
dianapolis Press.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

A recent investigation showed that
SO per cent of the inmates of the New
York house of industry were sent there
for crimes resulting from the use of in
toxicating drinks.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
DIET AND TUBERCULOSIS.

Effects of One Upon the Other-Va1ue
of Ample Feeding.
An important feature of the ''fresh
air" system of treating tuberculosis, as
most readers are already aware, Is
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

Every saloon at Tullahoma, Tenn,
has been placed under the legal ban
charged with Sunday liquor selling.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

be legally put in charge of guardians.
Thermometer a Nursery Requisite.
A thermometer is almost indespensi-
BILE, hang in the middle of the room,
away from the door, window, wall and
fireplace, where the mercury may be
affected by the draught. IT the room
where the baby is obliged to sleep is
very hot in the middle of the day, or a
at night, hang wet sheet over the
window and leave the door open.
Sprinkle the sheet as it dries with
whisk broom that has been dipped in
cold water. Ladies' Home Journal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

Some people are good for no other
reason than that they may better
abuse those who are not
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

When the average girl isn't crying
to her mother that the boys tease her
she is looking for boys to tease her.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

City Clerk Donovan, of Boston, has
chosen for his messenger II year old
girl, Miss Annie G. Riley, the first of
her sex to hold such position Ill Bos-
ton. The civil service commissioners
being unable to supply girl IN re-
sponse to Mr.. Donovan's request, he
chose his own messenger.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

Confusion in the head, vertigo, stu
por, faintness, nausea. vomiting, gen.
,eral depression of the nervous and cir
culatory functions, follow the ingestion
of large quantities of tobacco.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infal-
able medicine for Coughs and colds.-N.
w. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. j.. Feb. II,
1000
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

The towns of Eddy and Moody. Tex,
have each voted ''no license" the
former by big majority.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

Anew novel by Gertrude Dix is call
ed "The Image Breakers" and viii ap.
pear In the fall
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

and ironed on the wrong side to pre-
vent fading.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Silence Is Golden.

Mrs. Stubb-John, would you refer
to gun as feminine?
Mr.. Stubb-I should think not Ma.
ria!
"And why not?''
Because guns can be silenced."-
Chicago Evening News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

A women's meanness never fully de-
velops until she uerries.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Sooth-
ing Syrup the best remedy to use for their
children during the teething period.~