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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-25

their friends herring and mutton CHOPS
for dinner. Ca ne Sc fati plus, and you
know it."
sighed. Yes, did know it-more or
less.
"If were to marry on $2.500 year."
continued Percy emphatically,' should
be in debt two months, and my wife
and would have quarreled forever"
Why didn't smile? had been mar
ried more than two months, and.
though had certainly been in debt
most of the time, my wife and l had
not quarreled-yet.
But vision of pouting mouth and
tear-dimmed blue eyes rose uncomfort-
ably before me; instead of smiling IL
was now who sighed.
Perhaps my wife had not brought
home small, soft parcels enough from
Jones' sale instead of-as had meaRly
supposed that morning--toe many.
But man can work." said I, as
bravely as could. dra wing my papers
toward me.
Work. echoed Percy, bitterly.
''Fhat's all very well II you've got
brains. l have no qualifications for
earning money, and love in cottage
isn't good enough nowadays"
Somehow this speech restored me to
my balance.
He smoked another cigaret and then
took up his hat, and l breathed sigh
Of relief.
"It's devil Of mess for fellow to
be in," he said, gloomiiy. ...
"Yes," said l. I'm afraid you'll have
to find wife who can work on her
own account. There are good many
Of them about nowadays"
He looked at me doubtfully. 20,
hate that Sort" he said. ga girl with
moneys better, but that won't help me
just now"
$50 supposed" said l. And I let
him out. had sworn at his entrance.
but he had brought me luck.
The words literally few from my
pen when l sat down again; there was
something spurring me on-there was q
goal in sight that l knew OF.
And when had put my name to the
last sheet and was free sought 1t.
Upstairs in the nursery my wife sat
beside the cradle; she had our child in
her arms and was lulling him to sleep.
Her eyes shone as she looked up at me,
her face was fresh, and she was as
dainty as any man could wish in a
plain, white frock-ready to welcome
me to dinner after>my work. AS bent
down to kiss her l said gayly: "Fve
made up splendid week. darling; 50
you needn't worry about the pur-
chases."
And she laughed, saying: There
weren't so many after all, you know,
Only few dollars worth. But
shouldn't have Interrupted you while
you were making them!'
And then we went together to the
dainty meal of her frugal ordering, and
l was sorry that l had not been able to
explain to Percy what 1t was that
made it good enough"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-25
THE PATENT LAWS
BREED MOhOPOLIES.
A Drummer Continues His Chats
on Trade Changes.
Reorganization of Employing Companies
Affords Larger Opportunities 10 the
Men - Expansion Gives Drammers
New Fields.
concluded from last week.

Monopolies in this country are due
more to the patent system than any 9TH
er cause: the average trust could not mo-
nopolize its product, and it will not try.
If 1t does, there is the same old remedy
(which we free American citizens, who
are supposed to have something to say
In the election of our State legislatures,
can apply. We can pass State laws for
the regulation of those monopolies. And,
by the way, speaking of politics, the Re
publican national platform declares
against monopolies and would propose
national legislation against them.
Gov. Roosevelt, singularly clear
headed public man ON civic questions, let
me tell you, sees the point. He would
legislate against monopolies. | firmly
believe that this legislation will come,
and with it other laws intended to regu-
late Industrial corporations, a good deal
as railroads and banks are regulated now.
Why, not? When the trusts really get to
going so that they themselves know what
they can do, and so that they won't be
ashamed to show in what a cheap, prim-
tive, experimental stage most Of their
meLHDuS uOW dESs luch, ihS lhC udhhS
and the railroads, they ought to be made
to SHOW down." and they will be.
Then the Wall street investor-for
whom we don't care anything in particu-
lar-will be protected from making bad
Investments, and the unwary investors.
the widows and the orphans, whom GER
tain sand-bagging plutOcrats like to tell
us about with so many tears, will be
doubly protected. Moreover, the en-
pIoyes of the trusts, the clerks in the
of1ees and the hands in the mills, can buy
trust stocks, and they will want to.
spoke about the Wall street investor.
He hasn't been making so very much
money in industrial stocks of late. He
got caught lots of times. Perhaps you
recall the case Of the bicycle trust. The
promoters of that scheme went to GER
tain bankers in New York on an eighty
million dollar basis. 1t wouldn't go. 1t
wasn't worth the money. There wasn't
the property in plants, good will, etc.
About a year later the promoters, the
same promoters, no doubt, who had learn
ed q good deal III the meantime, came
back with the bicycle trust proposition on
a forty million dollar basis, and it went
at that; could earn dividends on the forty
millions 1t is probably true that the
American Bicycle Company is not fully
satisfied with every single one of the mill
ion details Of its business, but doubtless
1t will get there. Other manufacturers
and big manufacturers, in the bicycle
business will also get there; and other
big trusts in the bicycle business are
bound to get there, too. You can't keep
q good man down-or good proposition
You can't corner all the capital and
brains in the country. Remember that.
But l was speaking about the investor
the wary one, not the widow or the or
phan. He has suffered on account Of the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-25

60 forward. under Bryan we turn back.
The coming test of silver question
at the polls must, in all human proba-
bility, be the final one. The will of the
voters twice registered will not be the
third time disputed. Each year that We
preserve our present money standard
gives it additional security. The Amer
>ican people do not like experiments with
their currency, their school houses, their
churches or their savings banks. A re-
versal of the popular verdict Of 1896
would mean a reversal of all the achieve
ments that make up our national pros
perity. Bryan's election would mean that
the sovereign people had decreed that our
laborers shall be paid in silver, while
our foreign debts must still be paid in
gold.
Convinced as I am that the financial
question is the paramount issue in No
vember, 1900, as it was in November,
1896, it is worth while for Democrats
who supported Mckinley, as l did, four
years ago, to ask what are the issues
upon which our party could have appeal
ed to the American people with fair pros
poets of success, and what we can con-
tend for in future contests, after this
economic and financial question is finally
settled. To my mind these define them
selves as reform in governmental admin
istration, economy in governmental ex-
penditure, the taxation and regulation OF
oppressive trusts and combinations, and
the immediate enactment of just and
honest scheme of colonial government.
These would have been issues upon which
every patriot could have been honestly
asked, to vote. Why should we not set
fairly about reform in our old system
of taxation, and, at the same time, initi-
ate a departure which might well result
in throwing the cost of government upon
those who can best afford it?
The silver problem solved once for all, as
it will be in November, the colonial prob
lem at once becomes paramount. We
must either give up Hawaii, Porto Rico
and the Philippines, haul down our flag,
and shamefully abandon the righteous
fruits of our prowess by land and sea.
or we must prepafe to govern these dis
tant additions to our country fairly and
honestly and capably. A per-
petual, constitutional barrier must be
erected against the statehood of all our
non-contiguous possessions. That su-
premely important problem is to be met
and overcome, not by cowardly evasion
or disgraceful retreat, for the American
people will tolerate no such course. We
must institute honestly and wisely and
administer economically an American Coz
lonial system, worthy alike of our new
possessions and of their mother country.
We are not incapable of governing them.
We are, as nation, incapable of nothing,
/ fully believe in the future of the
American republic, and that we are wise
and brave enough to bear the burdens
and fulfill the task Providence has allot-
ted us. Let us not falter at the thresh,
old NJ E. INGALLS,.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-25
ARTIFICIAL TREE INDUSTRY
Factory Made Palms of Life Like For
nation Are Now Numerous.

Factory Made Palms of Life Like For
nation Are Now Numerous.
This is the age of things artificial A
palm mandatory has recently opened
salesrOom on Upper Broadway, and
a huge sign lower down on the same
thoroughfare notifies the mob that an
other store of the same sort will soon
be ready for business. The artificial
tree industry is comparatively new and
it must be profitable. All over town
one sees counterfeits. Many Of the
large stores, and most of the more
prominent hotels Of this city, incfud-
ing some of those that are most taste
full in their decorations, now have huge
palms in their halls or entrances. and
even in private houses it is not uncom-
mon to find plants with removable
leaves,
The prepared palms, such as are used
to-day, are infinitely more real In ap-
pearance than the old artificial plants
of few years ago. Many are so close
in their resemblance to the live plant
that it is hard to detect them as imita-
tioiss without close scrutiny. The leaves
are real leaves, and not constructed out
of enameled tin, like the old kind, and
the fiber OH the trunk is real fiber. 1t
is only on approaching them and ex-
amining them that the leaves are seen
to be painted and the stalks inserted
into. but not growing out Of, the stem.
The price of the manufactured article
varies from so cents to $50 for the Or
dinary specimens, but some of the
larger and finer ones amount to $50,
or even 500. A small fern palm sprig
of some fifteen inches high Is sold at
half dollar;a tree, such as those that
are seen in the halls of hotels, measur-
ing. say, nine feet high. and with about
eighteen removable leaves, will cost
$17. The sago palm is more expen-
sive variety. tree of five feet selling
for as much as $40. We may rail
against humbug to our hearts content,
but, somehow Or other, the laugh is sell
dom on the fellow who fools us.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-25
NO FAL1ERIhG UNDER
The NATIONS DUTY.
Silver and Expansion Are the
Paramount Issues.
N. e. ingalls,, Lifelong Sound Money
Democrat, Writes of the Neces-
sity for Assuming Larger
National Life.

One of the most successful, distln-
suished and popular railway presidents
In the United States is the Hon. Mel
Vile e. Ingalls, of Cincinnati. From the
very ground of railroad construction he
has worked his way up to the presidency
OF the Chesapeake and Ohio and Big
Four railway systems, among the most
prosperous of our great trunk lines. MIR.
Ingalls, is one of the people, and is prac-
tical in every idea. He is lifelong DEM
ocrat, and from the September issue of
the North American Review the follow
ing extracts are made from MIR. ingalls,
Advice to Gold Democrats:
What has happened since November,
1895, to warrant reversal of the Judg
ment which the American people then
pronounced at the polls? Under what
conditions have we entered on the pres
ent presidential campaign, and what, in
this regard, is the duty of patriotic citi-
sens, independent of partisan afhiation?
TO the Democrat who voted for Palmer
and Buckner, as we'll as to the Democrat
who voted for Mckinley four years. ago,
the situation to-day presents peculiar
embarrassments. Preferring to act with
his party, when possible, the patriotic
Democrat must, nevertheless, answer the
call of duty, no matter i'll what direction
1t leads him.
The second and supreme trial of the
great financial issue, which never should
have been dragged into partisan politics,
will be made at the polls in November,
1900, This test will, believe, be con-
elusive. What are the conditions under
which it is to be made?
There is in the United States at the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-25
present day unparalleled prosperity. in

present day unparalleled prosperity. in
which every citizen has a right to share.
If any citizen is prevented from sharing
in that prosperity, he is the victim of
conditions which cannot be righted by
the election of Bryan, strongly as he may
be tempted to trust in that remedy. I'm
der the gold standard we have become
the leading creditor nation, and we are
financing the world. We have produced
three great crops in succession, and we
are feeding Europe. We have had three
years of unexcelled manufacturing in
dustry, and we are finding prompt and
generous market all over the world. The
American farmer, the American laborer
and the American business man were
never as prosperous as they are to-day.
1t is by their suffrages that this presiden-
tial election must be decided. In what
direction do their interests lie?
The American farmer is selling for
371a cents a bushel corn which it costs
him 10 cents to produce. His wheat and
cotton, his beef and pork are selling at
profitable prices. He is spending his
money in luxuries and enjoying himself.
He is riding in railroad trains, and, as he
looks from the car windows over the
bountiful harvests, he is taking new
view not only of his native land, which
was never fairer or happier, but is also
thinking of his new markets and new
possessions" across the seas.
The laborer Is to-day receiving more
wages than he ever received before, and
he is receiving them in currency that is
good all over the world. In many in
stances, undoubtedly, there must be a
readjustment of wages, and the sporadic
strikes now reported in various manufac-
turing centers point probably to the be-
ginning of this readjustment. In my opin-
ion, these and kindred difficulties will be
safely and speedily settled.
Now, can any sane man tell me how
the laborer will help his condition, or the
solution of the problems SO vital to him.
by voting to debase our standard of value
and thereby reducing his own wages?
What has labor to hope from Bryan,
ostenshly the friend of the dissatisfied,
the champion of the aggrieved, and the
chosen candidate of all the long-haired
reformers in the United States? Does
not the supreme salvation of labor de-
pend, after ALL upon preserving our
standard of value upon the non-partisan
regulation of trusts, and upon the appli-
cation to those great commercial aggre-
cations. which are so peculiarly a pro-
duct Of this age, of a system of license
and taxation? Is it not idle to denounce
the trust as an evil, a menace to the ma
tional welfare? Is not the trust a nat
ural and essential development Of our
time? A quarter of a century ago the
word Corporation" implied an inherent
reproach in the minds of exactly those
citizens who to-day regard the trust,
which is the incorporation Of corpora
tions, with the same disfavor. Yet it is
to the solution of the trust problem that
the American business man, as well as
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-25
Works Great Work.

The movement in G. A. r. circles to
erect a monument over the grave of
Henry Clay Work, at,Hartford, Conn.
revives the fact that his father was
once confined in the Missouri peniten-
tiary on the charge of aiding slaves to
escape from the State of Missouri to
Illinois. When the elder Work was re-
leased, one of the conditions of his par
don being that he should return to the
State of Connecticut, whence he came
originally, and remain there for the
rest of his natural life. This obliga-
ton he faithfully kept. The son, Hen
ry C. Work, was born at Middletown.
Conn.,, and saw the end OF American
slavery while thousands of soldiers and
citizens sang "Nicodemus," Ring the
Bell, Watchman," and Marching
Through Georgia"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-25

the American farmer and laborer, must
addres .mself. And in the solution of
that y. oplem he will find the present goal
of patriotism.
The business man who does not inquire
into the politics of his bookkeeper is
asked by the supporters of Mr.. Bryan to
allow partisan politics to be injected into
the circulating medium through which he
carries on his business. He refused in
1896, as he will refuse, believe, in 1900,
to impute either Democracy or Republi-
canism to the dollar. He will say that
it is not political question, and that it
should not be made such. Asking HIM
self where he shall seek guidance in the
casting of his ballot, he, like the labOrer
and the farmer, looks out upon prosper
ity unprecedented. He sees trade follow
ing the flag all around the world, and
new markets opening to him under new
national responsibilities. He realizes, as
a business man, that these responsible
ties must be grappled with and adjusted
on business basis. No policy of evasion
or retreat can commend itself to him.
Yet, into the field of partisan discussion
he finds these responsibilities dragged,
like the dollars from his counting room,
by the politicians who seek his vote. And,
like the farmer and the laborer, he finds
his next national ballot invested with
unique importance.
What will be the reply Of the American
patriot, who Is now asked to believe that
his home and his pocketboOk are staked
on the next turn of the ballot, that a
wrong decision spells ruin, and that he
must decide issues of such moment as
were never before submitted to the Amer
ican electorate?
Bryan's election appears to
ME impossible. Good citizens,
irrespective of party, should vote for Nc
Kinley in November. That it is the duty
of patriots to do SO have no doubt.
The safety of the American republic is
not menaced by bogey, crowned with an
imperial diadem of straw. The cry of
imperialism is simply a pretext Of the
Democratic leaders to save themselves
from the fatal blundcr they made in
1896, the blunder of dragging the dollar
to the polls and endeavoring to degrade
it. Imperialism is not the paramount
issue, despite all efforts to make it so.
Now. as in 1896. the real issue is the
Silver Danger. That is the peri! threat
ening this country, not the imaginary
evils attendant on the acquisition of new
territory, which was the inevitable re-
suit of a war for which the shriekers
against Imperialism were largely respon-
sible. The only peril now threatening
the United States is ruin and retrogres-
sion under silver. the turning back of
the wheels of progress and prosperity
to the standards of China and Mexico,
and the abandonment of our position as
the greatest country in the civilized
world.
Shall we go forward or shall we turn
back? That is the question for the vot-
ers in November. Under Mckinley we
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-25
THE COMING MAN.

pair Of very chubby legs
Incased in scarlet hose;
pair of little stubby boots
With rather doubtful toes;
A little kilt. little coat,
Cut as mother can
And 10! before us strides in state
The futures coming man."
His eyes perchance, will read the stars,
And search their unknown ways;
Perchance the human heart and soul
Will open to their gaze;
Perchance their keen and flashing glance
Will be nations light
Those eyes that now are wistful bent
On some big fellows" kite.
That brow where mighty thought will
dwell
In solemn, secret state;
Where fierce ambitions restless strength
Shall war with future fate;
Where science from now hidden caves
New treasures shall outpour-
'Tis knit now with troubled doubt,
Are two, or three cents, more2
Those lips that in the coming years
Will plead. or pray, or teach;
Where whispered worlds on lightning
flash
From world to world may reach;
That. sternly grave, may speak command,
Or, smiling win control
Are coaxing now for gingerbread
With all a baby's soul!
Those hands-those little busy hands
So sticky. small and brown;
Those hands whose only mission seems
To pull all order down
Who knows what hidden strength may lie
Within their future grasp.
Though now it's but taffy stick
In sturdy hold they clasp?
All, blessings on those little hands
Whose work is yet undone!
And blessings on those little feet
Whose race is vet unrun!
And blessings on the little brain
That has not learned to plan!
Hhate'er the future holds in store,
God bless the coming man."
-Elmira Telegram.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-25
The Czar,a Scenter.

The Russian scepter is of solid gold.
three feet long, and contains among its
ornaments 26S diamonds, 360 rubiea
and fifteen emeralds.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-13
IN INSTR UCYIYE WaR-

The war in South Africa is going to
be instructive to the Beers. 1t is also
going to be instructive to others. One
of the things it will teach Is the value
of wireless biography. Mr. Marconi,
the inventor of the first practical ap-
paratus for wireless biography, is said
to be very much pleased with the way
his invention has worked in the war
Six Of his trained assistants were sent
with instruments to South Africa in
December last. The War Office intend
ed to use them only at the base, but the
military men on the spot insisted that
they would be of practical use only at
the front, and they were accordingly
sent on to De Aar, Orange river, Bel
mont, Enslin and Modder river. The
results at first were not good, owing to
lack of tall poles kites or balloons, to
hold the terminal wires at the proper
height. The difficulty has been over
come chiefly by the use of kites. With
kites it was found easy to communicate
from De Aar to Orange river distance
of seventy miles. Two of the assistants
volunteered to take instruments
through the Boer lines into Kimberley,
but were not permitted. A Marconi
apparatus has now, however, been taken
to Kimberley, 60 that messages can at
present be sent by successive leaps be-
tween fortified positions from kimber-
ley to that part of Cape Colony which
is supposed to be safe from Boer incur
sions, thus making it impossible to in
terrupt Geographic communication be-
tween the Cape and the front The
Beers, Mr. Marconi thinks, have no
workable Instruments Some instru-
ments of German make, intended for
them, were seized at Cape Town, but
they were not efficient, and would not
have profited the Beers had they receiv-
ed them.
Mr.. Marconi thinks that within a few
years kilograms will be as common and
as much in daily use on the sea as they
now are on the land. And in these days
of working it would be careless
to dispute him.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-13

According to the annual report of the
board of managers of the Craig Colony
of Epilentics,, supported by the State
at Sonyea, a former Shaker colony, in
Livingston county, New York, the col
ony is fulfilling the hopes of those who
were instrumental in securing it's foun-
dalton. The colony's present capacity
is 400. and it is intended to increase it
to 1000. 1t is asserted that less than
8 per cent. of those admitted to the
home have failed to show great i'm
provement while considerable num-
her have been discharged as cured each
year since 1895, when the colony was
established. During the year just pass
ed, in mechanical industries the pa
TENTS earned more. than $4,000. The
principal items were as follows: Print
ing office work done by patientsJ,
$514.92; Sloyd school, patient labor out
side the regular instruction, $46.45;
blacksmith shop $4S9.23; carpenter
shop, $1,S49.1O; brickyard (500,000 bricks)
$3,250; sewing room, Clothing manufac-
tured), $772.36. Total, $6,422.o6.