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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
JUST LIKE TEMPERED COPPER.

New Combination of Metals Which Is
Expected to Be Very Useful.
BY new process of rolling a Massa-
chusetts genius has succeeded in at
tanning results that, SO far as sheet
metal work is concerned, are almost
equal to what he would be able to ac-
complish If he had rediscovered the
secret of tempering copper. The Mas
sachusettts genius has succeeded, ac-
cording to the Cleveland Leader, in
getting Frank Rockefeller, brother of
the president of the Standard Oil Com
pany, and himself a very rich man, in
terested in the matter.
The inventor has succeeded in max
ing sheets of seemingly pure copper of
wonderful thinness and with the
springfness, strength. and capacity for
being tempered that steel has. The
process consists In rolling a hot steel
plate and two heated copper plates at
the same time in such a way that the
copper forms a skin over the surfaces
of the steel and gives it all the weather
resistance that pure copper has.
On his desk in the standard Oil offices
in this city Frand Rockefeller has a
small sheet of the new material, no
name for which has yet been selected
The sheets were the size of letter pa
per, and so thin as not to be much
heavier. The steel itself was several
times as thick as the copper, and yet
on each surface Of the steel there was
a perfect skin of copper, so thin that
a strong magnifying glass did not ex-
pose the edges. To all appearances the
sheet was all copper, but it's springi-
ness showed that it was not
Although he has had considerable
correspondence with the inventor, Mr..
Rockefeller has not yet met him. Last
summer the inventor sent some sam
Piles Of his new sheet metal to Mr.
Rockefeller, who had an idea that such
plates of greater thickness would be
valuable material for making steel lake
steamers. He arranged with Captain
McDougall to tow a model made of the
new material behind one Of his whale
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
England, and English firms have a

England, and English firms have q
practical monopoly of the experience.
The first Atlantic cable was made by
and the loss of the second resulted in
the formation Of great company-the
Telegraph Construction and Mainten-
ance Congratulated by great capi-
tai, and this company made a success
of the third cable and gave impetus to
further work Of the sort. But the nee
essary experience had been expensive
and England was the first to acquire It
Then, in 1870, when England paid $780,
100000 for the land telegraph lines of
the islands, that capital went at once
into plants and ships for making and
laying ocean cable. Thus England had
the lead. To make the cable in Amer
lea we would have to have big plant
and good many men of practical ex-
perience in such work.
"For this, a large investment, far
into the millions, would be required,
and If the cable, when laid, should fail
in any way, its makers would suffer a
dead loss of all their work and have to
replace the cable at their own cost
Then there must be some ten ships Of
at least 4,50O tons specially constructed
for the work. Each ship requires q full
outfit Of apparatus for every branch of
the work and to be manned by men of
experience. All this equipment is found
only in England. Evidence of this ap-
pears in the course taken by Germany
in the matter of the new German cable
to New York, via the Azores. Ger
many wanted cable she could be sure
Of and wanted it quickly-just the situ-
alton at present Of the United States.
She guarantees about per cent. Of the
whole cost, and then the cable is made
in England. That shows the German
appreciation of this need of experience
and great equipment."-New York
Evening Post.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08

There is q 7-year-old girl in Alviso,
Nobody would want to share her world
with her, because it is a topsy turvy
one-so very topsy turvy that it makes
the head dizzy just to think about it.
Little Mary Terry sees everything bot
tomside up and backward. The ex-
periences that each day brings TO this
child in real life are more remarkable
than those which befell Alice in Won
derland, for Alice was fiction and Mary
Is fact
This sole inhabitant Of topsy turvey-
dom is the daughter Of a Portuguese
rancher near Alvarado. For two years
she has ATTENDED the Alviso public
school. She is pretty child, shy and
graceful, with rosy coloring and black
hair. Her case puzzles the wise men
Of the West. So far as is known, SIM
liar Instance has not been brought to
the attention of science.
1t was nearly a year before her
teacher, Miss Carrie Parrish, discov-
cred the strange popularity of Mary.
The first six months work in the re-
ceiving class consists mainly of the
teaching of English. From the first
Mary appeared timid and seemed
slower of comprehension than the 9TH
er members of her class. Nobody
could understand why she did not
learn faster. For a whole year her
strange hieroglyphics appeared utterly
meaningless to her teacher, who could
only wonder at their invariable incor-
rectness. One day a certain method
in their madness became apparent to
Miss Parrish. Then she discovered that
her little pupil was not only writing
everything upside down. but was re-
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
Reverie.


''May you take this lesson home with
you tonight, dear friends" concluded
the preacher at the end of very long
and wearisome sermon. "And may Its
spiritual truths sink deep into your
hearts and lives to the end that your
souls may experience salvation. We
will now bow our heads in prayer.
Deacon White, will you lead"
There was no response.
Deacon White" this time in loud
er voice, Deacon White, will YOU
lead?"
Still no response. 1t was evident that
the good deacon was slumbering. The
preacher made third appeal and
raised his voice to pitch that succeed
ed in waking the drowsy man.
Deacon White, will you please
leadY
The deacon rubbed his eyes and
opened them wonderingly.
''Is it my lead? No-I just dealt
Detroit Free Press.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08

tablets he seeks the most secluded part
OF the boat upon which he has shipped
and, hiding himself among the cargo,
lies down and enjoys the vision Of rest
that the drugs cause. The effect Is
very like that of opium, only far less
violent, more restful, sleepy feeling.
For little while the cocaine fiend is
as happy as a mortal can be, and he
will probably keep on swallowing
tablets until the mate comes around
and finds him shirking duty and dream
ing among the cotton bales, and admin
listers a strong and effective antidote
with the hickory stick which is his
badge of authority. This continues
throughout the roustabout's voyage, as
long as the box of cocaine tablets holds
out. When the box has run out he will
play craps with the other "rousters"
and buy more cocaine If he wins.
The evil has grown steadily of late,
and number of drug stores In the
negro district do an immense business
in cocaine. So large is the business
that the average negro walks into a
drug store and puts down a quarter or
half-dollar without q word and re-
ceives box of cocaine tablets in re-
turn. the drug clerk knowing by intui-
ton what he wants; or If the negro
says anything 1t is likely to be only
Tabs"
The cocaine habit is most common
among the river negroes, nearly all of
whom are addicted to 1t. They take
their cocaine in tablets. These are
dissolved in glass Of whisky, If whis-
ky is handy. but If not the tablet Is
swallowed. The city negroes, who use
the drug less generally, take it in the
form of crystals or powder, which is
snuffed up the nose. The cocaine habit
is fast driving out the morphine habit,
which, however, never had much hold
among the negroes. The cocaine can
be taken so much more easily, and
when mixed with phenacetine is
cheaner
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
Cost of Feeding Dairy Cows.

An accurate statement of the results
Of the State Agricultural College herd
in Minnesota shows that the average
feed cost per cow last year was 5.4
cents per pound of butter and the aver
age price realized by patrons from
sales Of butter was II cents per pound.
The average price obtained by patrons
of the creamery was nearly 25 cents
per pound. There are over 700 cream
cries in Minnesota and over 500 of
them are operated and owned by farm
ers as cooperative creameries. In
Meeker County there are fourteen
creameries. and the amount realized
la year by patrons was $25O,O00 in
Steele County, with eighteen cream
cries, the sum was over 5000, 900, while
in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, the
enormous sum of $1,75OOOO was real
lied by patrons of creameries in that
county alone.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
Very NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..


Through carelessness on the part of
the committee of well-known London
club, and some dexterous wire-pulling
by the individual concerned, an ex-
ceedingly unpopular man contrived to
secure his election; but he soon made
himself generally obnoxious to his fel-
low-members by continually posing
and staggering on the steps at the en-
trance.
One morning, not long after he had
taken up his customary position, a
prominent member of the club, whom
we will call Major Dash, came up the
steps, and in passing him said, with
quiet sarcasm:
"I say, x, 1 could get subscrip-
tions to the tune of five hundred
pounds for you in the club If you
would only take your name off the
books"
k rushed off in tremendous
rage to a friend Of his with the story.
"What do you thinkT' he shouted.
81 have been outrageously insulted by
that Major Dash. He has just said that
If would take my name off the club
books he would get up subscription
Of five hundred pounds for me. What
would you do?"
"Well," replied his friend, "if were
you, wouldn't take it. You stand out
a bit, and you'll get a thousand"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
MONOPOLY IN CABLE BUILDING

England Alone Can Lay Telegraph
Lines Across the Great Oceans.
There are no American makers Of
ocean cable, so the insertion Of clause
in the Pacific cable bill by the House
Committee on Commerce, providing
that "the cable shall be of American
make, and that the cable ships shall fly
the American fiag," is considered by
President Scrymser of the Pacific
Cable Company to be likely to affect
the rapidity and thoroughness Of the
work.
He said to-day: 1--WE in America
never have done that work, and the
plants, the capital and, above all, the
experience, which are required for
ocean cable-making cannot be impro-
vised under the touch Of government
undertaking. A look at the history of
cable-making for ocean lines will show
why we haven't done the work and
why we cannot do it offhand, even II
we try.
practically all ocean cables, from
the first transatlantic line in 1857 up to
the present day, have been made In
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
everything that she wrote.

versing everything that she wrote. If
you will take a sheet Of paper, write
your name on it, turn it upside down.
reverse the sheet and hold it up to the
Light you will see what Mary Terry
sees when she has the pleasure of be-
holding your honorable signature.
Since the date of her discovery it has
been perpetual struggle for Miss Par
rish to keep pace with her pupils pc
culiar point of view, and after patient
effort. most praiseworthy on the part
of teacher who is In constant charge
Of four and five different grades Of pu-
pills, Miss Parrish has succeeded in
making the little girl understand that
to be herself understood she must re-
verse and invert what she sees.
1t would seem as II Mary were not
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08

OF Interest to the Farmers.
A Kansas City horseman has con-
tracted to supply the Government 4OO
cavalry horses at $112.50 head.
The prune growers of Washington,
Oregon and Idaho have combined to
advance prices, and If the rest of the
coast producers join them they promise
a raise shortly.
Many farmers who have marketed
much maple syrup from Vermont have
become discouraged on account of the
ravages of a forest worm, which is
killing the sugar maple.
Oleo production in Chicago in Feb
ruary was 4,1O6, 900 pounds, compared
with 1887 900 pounds a year ago. Six
ty-seven licenses to retail oleo were is
sued, against forty-one year ago.
The recent sale of four cars of choice
unshorn fed western sheep at Chicago
at $6 per 100 pounds meant the highest
figure touched since 1893, when $6.75
was paid. The sheep averaged 132
mounds and were sent In from Winona,
MINI.
The only cereals grown in the Phil
ippiues are rice and corn. OF these,
rice is by far the more important. be-
ing the staple food of the native popu-
Iation, as well as the Inhabitants of
other oriental countries. A scarcity
of rice always brings hardship and suf-
fering to the people.
From the Scientific American 1t is
learned that horse can draw on the
worse kind Of road about four times
as much as he can carry on his back.
On a good macadamized road he can
pull ten times as much and on a paved
road twenty-five times as much and ON
a street railway fifty-eight times a.
much q he can carry ON his hack,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
InocuIation Against Blacklex.

Kansas and the Western States cat
tie are susceptible to blackleg, which
cannot be successfully cured, but i'm
munity is practically secured by inocu-
lation. The Kansas experiment sta
ton, Manhattan, Bulletin 81, treats
this subject, after sending out free ma
terial sufficient to inoculate 100000
cattle. Kansas lost 10000 cattle from
blackleg in 1893, worth 100000. Some
cattlemen report loss of per cent
of cattle. Vaccination is the only sue
cessful preventive measure, producing
a mild form of blackleg, from which
the animals readily recover and are
then immune from further attacks. If
properly vaccinated, 80 per cent can be
saved.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08

less but more gifted than the average
child to have been capable of under
standing the complex and difficult COM
mand laid upon her, though the testi-
mony of experts is all on the other
side. This is, however, reasoning by
analogy. as the writer has SO far found
no Identical case in optical annals,
spiegelschrift or mirror-writing. which
is found to be common among half
witted children. being the nearest az
proach to this perversity Of vision. la
cases of mirror writing. unconsciouSly
produced as a correct copy of ordinary
writing paralysis Of the right side is
often found.
A simple inversion of things, without
the accompanying reversion. is fairly
common conception. and the attempt
to conceive of the various physical and
psychical phenomena consequent on
living In an upside down world. has
been made the subject of practical ex-
pertinent In San Francisco, when q.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08

NJ stratton, A. NJ, professor of psy-
chology at Berkeley University. made
his famous looking-glass experiments.
But neither of these reached the unique
point Of view which is Mary Terry's
popularity. The other day at the
school. in looking at the words on the
blackboard, she seemed to be trying to
peer over them-to the other side.
which is exactly the mental attitude
necessary to the ordinary observer for
the conception Of the origin Of Mary's
kind of writing.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08

defect in Mary's makeup is mental
rather than physical. That as an
image reflected on the retina is invert-
ed. and that as it is a mental effort
only which enables man to see things
right side up, it must be a mental lack
In Mary's case which hinders her from
seeing as the rest Of mankind sees.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
Nurs;np Bottle for Calves.


A nursing bottle may be used as a
feeder for the calf by. which its wean-
ing will take place at much earlier
date than by the old method, and by
this device the calf absorbs the thin
blue substitute fed to it in a way so
entirely natural thatit remains in ignor-
ance of the deception being practiced
upon it. A bracket or supporting device
for the milk receptacle is first provided,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08

small stones, and on top is laid some
brush. A correspondent says he has
put in drains for the last sixty years
according to this method, and has
found them to work well. better than
the square stone drains.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08

1t is apparently impossible for her,
until she has been over the letters. to
understand their meaning. Imagine the
mental gymnastics required of that lit
tie head. 1t was amusing to see Mary
hold her reader indifferently upside
down or rightside up. reading equally
well in either case.
Doctors express the belief that the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08

mistaken. No farmer ever gained any
thing in the end by plowing his soil
when not in a proper condition. Per-
haps there is some advantage in mark
ing out lands in field that Is natural
ly wet and heavy, as the burrows thus
made act as surface drains, and If the
land be nearly level the water is drawn
from the surface soil to distance Of
several feet upon each side, and IL it
can be drained off at the end of fur
rows a positive gain will be accom-
plished.-Orange Judd Farmer.
Kansas Farmers Salt Their Land.
Two farmers living near lola, Kan,
have received a 4O,OOO-pound car of
salt from Hutchinson, which they will
use on their farms, says the Abilene
Chronicle. Both have extensive farm
interests which they look after them
selves and they propose to sow the salt
with oats, wheat and fax, on the the
ory that land SO, treated Is given the
chemicals required by those grains and
in the belief that chinch bugs will shun
the fields. Some of their impractical
town friends have rather a hankering
for the belief that wheat SO treated
will grow loaves of self-rising bread.
At any rate the test Is one which will
be watched with interest and the farm
ers may reap good returns from the
500 or more invested by these gentle
men in an experiment.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
Stone Drains.

The accompanying cut shows an e1-
cellent way of making a drain where
there Is plenty of stone available. AA
are two fiat stones placed as shown,
one upright and the other sloping; the
rest of the drain, B. is, filed in with
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
Sterling Follows the sDarrow

The English startling has been
brought to New York and Is domesti-
eating itself rapidly. Although intro
duced only a year or two ago, 1t has
increased considerably in numbers and
in many of the uptown streets its musi-
cal piping can be heard this spring.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
Human Nature.

Mr.. Tigg-I don't see how that Mon.
treal girl could sleep sixty days.
Mrs. Tigg (speaking from observa-
tion)-Probably some one kept calling
her to breakfast right along.-Balti-
more American.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08

and to this frame a horizontal bar Is
attached, carrying at Its extremity a
rubber nipple Of ample proportions.
Connected with the nipple is flexible
tube extending into the liquid in the
pail Inside the nipple there is rub
Der tubular reinforcement, having
cross-slits in it. which acts as valve.
With this device the calf may be fed
liquid nourishment, receiving it slow
ly and by natural sucking.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
AN INVERTED BRAIN.
CHILD SEES. READS AND WRITES
UPSIDE DOWN..

seven-Year-Old California Girl, Who
Lives in a World that Seems Bottom
side Up and Backward Her Case a
Puzzle.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08

In teaching the young, be careful not
to deceive them: they will catch you
at it
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08

Some people wear glasses because
they can't bslieve their own eyes.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
Flowing May Be Too Early.


Many farmers are very impatient to
start the plow in the spring. As soon
as the snow disappears and they find
a few dry spots in the highway the
plow is brought out and started. The
soil being cold and wet, the upturned
furrow presents a smooth, glossy ap-
pearance, and IL future freezing does
not occur it will bake hard and firm,
requiring several borrowings to put it
into a proper condition for seed bed.
Not only is this extra labor required,
but the soil at plowing is SO soft that
the horses at each step sink almost to
the bottom of the furrow. This is very
injurious, and most of these early
plowers would not think Of allowing
other stock upon the fields when in this
condition. The act of plowing obliter-
ates the foot-marks, and they imagine
NO harm is done, but they are greatly
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-08
JTsefuI on the Farm.

A good spray pump is a useful arti-
Gle in many ways about the farm. 1t
can be used to spray the potatoes. 1t
is used to apply kerosene emulsion to
destroy the suctorial insects, such as
the aphides, or plant lice. on plums,
cherries and young apple trees, and OF
which I propose to treat in future
chapter. And 1t can be used to white
wash the cellar, the poultry house, the
stable and other buildings. 1t can be
used to advantage in applying disin-
fectants for preventing the spread Of
contagious diseases, etc.
word or two as to the cost Of spray
ing. Say you have four or five acres
Of orchard, 1t will take about five bar
rels of mixture for each spraying.
Twenty pounds bluestone. at cents
per pound, $1.40; Paris green, 30 cents;
lime, Is cents; total, $2.05 for material.
A man and boy with a horse will do it
in one day; say 81 for wages, and you
have the cost Of each spraying, $4.O5.
If sprayed four times, total cost, $16.20.
One good crop of clean. marketable
fruit will give big profit on the invest
'nent.-Farmers' Advocate.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-16

There's story of a farmer and his
son driving q load to market. Of the
team they were driving one was a
steady, reliable old gray mare, the other
fractions, balky black horse. On the
way the wagon was stalled and the
black horse sulked and refused to pull.
'What1l we do father p said the young
er man. WE'LL said the father, L
guess we'll have to lay the gad on the
old gray That homely compliment
to women: The gray mares the bet
ter horse suggests how often when
there's an extra strain to be borne it
is laid on the woman's back. How
often she breaks down at last under
the added weight of some last straw
Women who are dragging along wea-
rily through life can gain real strength
by the use OF DR.. Pierce 3 Golden Med
ical Discovery. 1t puts back in con-
eentrated form the strength making
material which working women use
more rapidly than it can be restored
by Nature In the ordinary processes of
nourishment and rest. DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets are universal favor
ties with women because they are easy
to take and thoroughly effective in
curing the consequences of cOnstipa-
tiOn.