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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27
FEATs OF HORsEMANsHIP.

Threading Fine Needle While Going
at Fast Ga11op.
"The greatest feat of horsemanship
ever saw performed was by a Riffian
irregular cavalryman," said Capt. j. e.
Rathbone, of Los Angeles, Cal. This
was in reply to a story related by an
ex-Confederate, who had served with
Gen. ]. E. B. Stuart in the valley of
Virginia. The latter told how, on more
than one occasion, Turner Ashby had
ridden up to an opposing cavalryman,
seized him around the waist, lifted him
out of the saddle as If he had been
child, and taken him back on his own
horse into the Confederate lines. 1t
was agreed that this was more of feat
of strength and display Of courage than
horsemanship.
"I have seen Cossacks at full gallop
snatch a baby from its mothers arms,
toss it into the air, catch it, and repeat
the performance" said Capt. Rathbone.
"I once saw an Indian rider in the far
West spring from his pony's bare back
while the animal was moving at full
gallop, pick up an arrow, and remount
instantly in standing posture. I have
seen other performances all over the
world, but for a neat, clever, clean-cut
feat this Rifflan exceeded them all, I
think.
Several of us had been at Gibraltar
and found ourselves at the town of
Militia on the Rifian coast. We were
entertained by the Spanish commander,
who did the honors finely. One morn
ing we rode outside the town and
reached level stretch Of sand. where
there were a number of Riffian horse
men. They were fine-looking fellows,
and attired in snow white burnouses.
They were mounted on small animals.
slight, but quick and wiry, Of the thor
oughbred Arab barb type.
1--WE were amused some time by their
charges and evolutions. They would
throw their swords and matchlocks in
the air, catching them by the hilts and
stocks infallibly. Finally 1t was an
nounced that something Of unusual in
terest would be accomplished. One of
the men produced needle and a piece
of thread. possibly two or three feet
In length. They were both handed
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

What genealogical excuse Is there
for the substitution Of 'locomobile" for
automobile" as a name for a horse
less vehicle? Automobile, though not
an exact designation, closely approach
es it. The word means that the We
hicle runs itself-that is, that it is in
dependent Of attached power. Loco
mobile doesn't mean anything in par
ticular. 1t is not as good a word as To-
comotive, which Is likewise an inexact
designation. Therefore, If we are to
use either Of the built-up names auto.
mobile is the better. But why run to
Latinized appellations at allf Why not
stick to "horseless carriage''-or truck
or wagon-which is ordinary English
and understood by everybody?
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27
sticks to an Ancient Custom.

The Queen (Victoria) at home is sim
ply attired in black dress, not al
ways of silk, and wears widows cap
with small lappets at the back, her sill
yer hair plainly brushed on either side
her temples. Upon her fingers are
plain memorial rings, and she invari-
ably wears bracelet having the por-
trit of he latest grandchild or great
grandchild placed in 1t as medallion.
The Queen always has a handkerchief,
bordered with lace, resting in her hands
as they lie folded in her lap, the sur
yiyal of an ancient fashion.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

A young freshman, while waiting one
day last autumn for a room to be as
signed to her in a college dormitory,
picked up an old newspaper and read
in 1t an editorial upon escape from
burning buildings. The suggestion
was there made that by once thinking
out a plan of action for an emergency,
the action itself would become some
what mechanical. The girl laughingly
said to herself that an opera-cloak
would be good thing to have near in
case of fire by night. When she un-
packed her trunk. her warm evening
cloak was given a hook near the
closet door. She decided also that her
night slippers might reasonably be kept
under the bed. A few weeks ago, on a
bitterly cold night, that very dormitory
burned to the ground. The young girl,
aroused from sound sleep by the alarm.
had only time to seize her cloak and
slippers and flee for her life. Not an
other of her belongings was saved.
Having to run some distance for shell
ter, the wraps saved the girl from an
exposure which on such night might
have been fatal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27
NO REST FOR LINCOLN.

Remains Of the Martyred President
in New Abode.
Fate seems to have denied rest to the
great emancipator even in death.
When the body Of Abraham Lincoln
was taken to temporary vault in Oak
Ridge cemetery, at Springfield, ILL.,, re-
Gently, it marked the eleventh removal
Of the remains of the martyred Presi-
dent. For thirty-dve years the metallic
casket has been shifted hither and
thither to meet the exigencies Of time
and change. The following table gives
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27
PORTO RICAN PEASANTS.
Their Wants Are Few, Simple and
Easily Supplied.

Their Wants Are Few, Simple and
Easily Supplied.
The life Of the peasant, the peon, of
Porto Rico Is not a dream of ease and
luxury; neither has he ever passed
through the nightmare of wretched
hunger and biting cold which adds so
vitally to the hardships of the poverty
stricken of northern climes.
In squalor and filth, in crudity and
ignorance, the larger number of the in
habitants 60 through their compara-
lively short lives; for one does not see
many aged people among them. They
die off from fevers, contagious dis
eases, and troubles handed down from
sickened forefathers, at a comparative
ly early age.
At no period Of the poor mans exist
ence can he suffer the tortures of star
vation because his job Of work has
given out, for, while during whole
months of the year he may not earn a
single centavo, he still has his little plot
Of vegetables on the hill; then, If worst
comes to worst, or the landowner
turns him out, he may live on the pro-
fusion of fruits and roots of the forest,
or, as is a common practice of the
country, upon the fruits filched from
his more opulent neighbor.
In the dry season he complains of the
cold of the early morning, yet he needs
but the merest rags to cover his naked
ness, for on no day in the year is it
colder than our mildest Of autumnal
weather. Shoes are useless burden
to his bare and sole-leather-lined feet,
which have trodden the rocky, briery
trails in their nakedness from infancy:
and hat, If he must have it, he makes
in his own house from the grass grown
around the doorway.
The house in which he is domiciled
he builds in few short days from
poles and thatch and bark rolls of the
royal palm; and good house it is in
spite of its primitive appearance, for it
screens him from sthe colder winds Of
night, and sheds the water of the driv-
ing rains like ducks hack.-Harper's
Weekly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27
PORTABLE ARMoR SHIELD TO PROTECT RIFLEMEN

first large island they came to. He was
a musician, and took. his violin with
him. A threatening crowd of savages
greeted his arrival, but Orpheus play
ed to them till they thought him a god,
brought him unlimited pigs and yams.
and bowed in alteration. Finally he
married the chiefs daughter, succeed
ed him, and ruled the island for years,
till ship came in, and he sailed away.
Sidney Bulletin.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman
in the United States, has officially an
nounced that she does not want her
daughter to marry Spanish duke.
She would much prefer to become
mother-in-law to "a bright and wide
awake newspaper man." AS an exam
pie of "jollying," this puts Hetty in an
unapproachable class by herself-a
sort Of feminine Petronious, as 1t were.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27
PORTO RIco's PNEUMATIC FISH.

When It Appears Inflated the Young
People Hasten to Marry.
With two horns on the front of its
head, feather on its back, and de-
cidedly bovine expression of face, the
coming Of the cowfish is welcomed In
Puerto Rico. 1t is migrating, usually
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

Many Of the good, old, biblical In
functions are being questioned to an
alarming extent, and DR.. Pentecosts
suggestion that to be led into tempta-
ton Is better ordeal for the soul than
forever to remain untested will cause
some CONSERVATION among the godly-
minded. This is, Of course, the, old
Browning theory, the belief In growth
through sin, and that evil is but step
towards the good. OF course, these are
all we'll as theories, but to apply them
might be a dangerous experiment. Yet
sometimes there Is borne in upon one
the awful conviction that it Is the
goody-goody people who are responsible
for much Of the evil of the world, who
unwittingly, by the example or their
own narrow, arid lives, drive others to
the opposite extreme. A story Is told OF
how Thoreau's mother, gayly-dressed
lady of 70, went to call upon Emerson's
aunt, an austere maiden of "a, and how
when the former rose to go the prim
hostess remarked: perhaps you no
ticed, Mrs. Thoreau, that l closed my
eyes during your call. l did so because
I did not wish to look on the ribbons
you are wearing, SO unsuitable for a
child Of God and a person of your
years." Was not this enough to drive
a woman of spirit into the most violent
ribbon excesses? But this is the atti-
tude of many would-be reformers, Of
many misguided preachers. They look
at the sinner with mentally closed eyes.
and wishing to show him the folly Of
wearing ribbons produce just the op-
posite result. In the final estimate Of
erring mortals 1t will not be the mega
tive virtues that will count for most,
and individuals will not be applauded
for refraining from sins that they had
no temptation to commit. On the con-
trary, perhaps, a man who has broken
all the moral laws may have brought up
his general average by innumerable
''unremembered acts Of kindness and
Of love" and proved himself a man for
"a that and a. that" This is not argu-
ing In favor Of evil; it Is merely de
manding that judges should not close
their eyes because of ribbons, but
should try to discover If there Is not
something under these furbelows. Why
should not grown people be treated in
the same charitable way that the new
educational theories demand the child
shall be treated? You must not say
"don't' to a child, but turn his activity
for evil into the right direction. 1t Is
useless to say, Don't go to the degener-
ates," but it Is possible to make the re-
generates more attractive. The reader
who revolts against the washy
literature of moralists may turn to de-
moralizing French novels as an agree
able relief, but If he chances upon
Meredith and Barrie he may find the
squalid elemental portrayal of passion
of the Frenchman tame In comparison
with the piquant morality Of the En-
glish writer's. 1t is perhaps well to be
led into temptation-and it is still better
to be delivered from evil, but both the
leading and the deliverance must be
wisely ACCOMPLISHED
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

How soon the electric car has be-
come "the carriage of the people" An
official report says that in Massachu-
setts there is one thousand seven hun
dred and thirty-five miles Of street rail-
way, and that only four miles Of track
is now traversed by horses.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

When field guns are made that will
carry fifteen miles the chances are that
the combatants will take up position
sixteen miles apart. The men who
fought at Bunker Kopje got too close,
and a large proportion Of them were
unable to trek when the battle was
over
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

One Joseph Zotique La Joie, Cana
dian trapper, claims to have found the
north pole. There is Munchausen
flavor to Joseph's narrative. He Is
probably in training for job in dime
museum.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

the history Of the unquiet remains of
Lincoln, from the time of his death
thirty-five years ago:
Died in house near Ford's Theater,
Washington, in which he was assassin
ated, April IA, 1855.
Removed to White House.
Removed to Capitol Building.
Removed to funeral car.
Removed to Capitol Building, Spring
field, Ill.
Ridge cemetery.
Removed to temporary vault.
Removed to sarcophagus, Lincoln
monument.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27
Cheerful Antipodean Truthteller

An ex-sea captain, now living in Sgd
ney, many years ago was in charge of
ship carrying some convicts. The
convicts mutinied, numbering the crew,
and ordered the captain to navigate
them to the islands, and, being a pru-
dent man, he did so. When satisfied as
to their course, the convicts deliber-
ated. decided that he had behaved him.
self well, and put him ashore on the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

Women Make Good Prompters.
1t has been discovered that the pro-
fession of prompter is more suited to
women than to men, as their voices
carry better across the stage, and are
less audible in the auditorium.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27
Away Down i. the Earth.

The deepest hole in the earth is at
Schladebach, near Ketschau, Germany.
1t is 8, ,735 feet in depth and Is for geo.
logic research only. The drilling was
begun in 1880 and stopped six years
later because the engineers were un-
able with their instruments to 90
deeper.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

The young woman who married for
a joke claims to have discovered that
husband Is not choice bit Of delicate
7 humor. On the contrary, he is a seri-
GUS serial.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27
TO PROTECT RIFLEMsN.

British SoIdfers TO carry ArmOr ShfeIds
of Bu11et-Proof Material.
John Bull has seized upon the inven-
lion Of Chicago man-the Rev. Cas-
simir Zeigler-and will use it In his
army. Mr.. Zeigler perfected a material
hat is bullet proof. and suggested the
idea Of weaving it into shields to be
worn by soldiers. He presented his in
vention to the government and 1t salts
factorily met and passed all the tests
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

An Eastern lecturer was compelled
to cancel an engagement because he
was afflicted with Inflammation of the
ear. Usually it Is the hearers that
suffer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

A Philadelphia woman trained mi
croscope on her walking skirt and saw
2OO,OO germs. Perhaps she had acci-
dentally spilled some drinking water
on it.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27
Duties.

He-It Is a woman's duty to be beau
tiful, If she can.
She-And it is mans duty to make
her think she Is whether she Is or not.
Press.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

A new century may justify the other
kind, but as a delightful form of the
new woman a great deal can be said Of
a girl baby.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

The horrible thought arises that but
for the X-rays we should never have
discovered the man-who-swallows-h
false-teeth.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has
married a man Of half her own age. 1t
Is evident that she is confirmed vic
tim Of the Little Lord Fauntleroy habit.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

The last two years have seen
about a dozen phenomenal successes in
novel-writing. Each Of the success
full novels has quickly run into the
hundreds of thousands. Yet not one
of them is really a great novel. Not
one of them compares in quality or
permanence with vanity Fair" or
"'Pendennis," or "My Novel," or "What
VIII He Do with ItT" or "The New
comes" or "The virginians." or "Gil
Bias" or Captain Fracasse," or
'.The Nabob." or David Copperdeld,"
or Adam Bede," or "Romola." In
this judgment we are sure that every
critic and every intelligent reader will
agree. What, then. does the phenom-
email success of these novels means?
What can it mean except that the pub
lie schools and the newspapers of this
country have extraordinarily increased
the numbers of the reading public"
and that bright and well-constructed
novels find q wider constituency than
any books commanded a few years
ago,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

1t costs So to take a bath at Cape
Nome, but little complaint comes from
there on that account. Comparatively
few of the people up there have found
it out as yet.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

Talking of eloquence, is a good COM
mand of miscellaneous language prefer
able to proper control of one tongue?
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

There are lots Of good women, who,
when they get to heaven. will begin to
watch to see IL the Lord goes out
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

When a man wants to advertise his
mine, he says that the Standard Oil
people are looking at it, with view
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

The thrashing machine trust has
fallen through. 1t went against the
grain,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

A Maine ice company has been sold
for $4,000, 900. Cool sum.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

Usually the harder man works the
more he earns for others.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

WaGfB IN new SOutn WAle6.
In New South Wales the government
has fixed the minimum wages of rail-
way laborerss at Z shillings, or about
$1.75 q day.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

the British army in South Africa with
these shields, which will be used in the
manner shown in the illustration.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

They say figures won't lie; they are
tho biggest liars on earth,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
a CHOICE SELECTION OF iNTER-
= ESTIN0 tTEMA

CeMnsnss anA Criticisms 1aso4 UDeA
the Happsniaxs sf the Day-XisssF3.
cal ana News Notes.
Japan is sleeping these times with
one eye open.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27

l;amaopa. iu LONDON feels SO strongly
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17
THE CRY OF
DISTRESS
Heard In America As Well
As In India
THE ARIZONA INDIANS
Friendly And Industrious, Deprived
OF Their irrigation Waters, Need
Relief.

Special Correspondence OF the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, April 13.-The cry OF
distress has gone up from famine
stricken India and the civilized world
is about to reach forth helping hand
to relieve in part the misery caused
through lack OF rainfall. America az
usual is forem ost in such work, and al
ready many subscriptions have been
started and many contributions re-
ceived. Probably every religious
journal in the land Is receiving money
from generous Americans who have
been stirred to-pity by the accounts Of
the terrible wants existing in the far
eastern peninsula.
Yet while those noble men and
women VINO would assist the wretches
Of India are putting hand down into
q pocket for the saving of those Of q
far distant and, they might probably
with the other hand draw forth con-
tribution or exert their influence in
behalf of people ia our very midst
who,are reduced to want and starvation.
On the ella Indian Reservation, at
Sacaton, Ariz ons, live eight Thousand
Pima and Papsgo Indians, and here
they are believed 20 have lived for four
hundred years. owning the
land and farming 1t before
the white MAJ set foo. in America,
their annual crops of maize and vege-
tables assured by the waters which they
diverted from the RIO ella. Yet to-
day they stand robbed of their natural
birthnight and reduced to starvation
through the rapaoity of the white set
tier ia draining the ella above the re-
servation.
Nor have these Indians been trouble
some to the government. On the con
trsry they have always been real
friends of the whites and have rem
dered Invaluable services to our troops
in their campaigns against the treach-
erous Apaches. Today one thousand
of the Pimas have given up their saw
age customs and are educated mem
bers of Christian churches. By long
residence, occupation and use they
have q prior right to the water from
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17
lWS of South Dakota

the ella river wherewith they have
always irrigated their little farms
Does not their case appeal strongly to
every American who is preparing tc
assist the starving of India? Have we
not some duties to perform at home, a.
| well as to assist the destitute OF far
lands? Is it not the part OF every citi-
IAN of this republic 20 use his influence
in the direction of making provision
for these faithful Indians. A demand
by American citizens TO see simply
justice done them would be no express
sion of siokly spineless sentiment, be-
wailing the cruel treatment OF the
American Indians, suoh as has over
taken treacherous and numbering
bands of rel M an: for as stated these
natives of the soil have always been
friendly to the whites, their boast be-
ing that their hands have never been
stained with white ~ ans blood.
The dsstltude condition of the Pimas
is no new story. Their poverty has
been increasing year by year and the
authorities have stood by and allowed
their irrigation water to be taken from
then. The government engineer corps
has poi ated out the solution OF the pro-
blem through the construction OF q
storage reservoir on athe ella which
will supply water not ouly for the
Pimss and the Papagos, but for thou
sands of other Indians whom the gov
ernment could then move to this reser
vation and commence the process Of
education and agricultural civilizs
tion.
to authorize ishe construction OF this
reservoir according to the official
surveys made, but yet no action
has been taken. Should congress
take this question up now and
act on It, the relief would be immedi-
ate, for these Indians are Industrious
and could be at once employed on the
work OF construction. The govern
ment OF India, during famine years,
provides "relief work" Why should
not congress In this little instance pur-
sue a like method?
The suffering in India touches the
generous Americ ans heart; the piliful
condition of the Cuban reconcentrado
set on foot measures for their immedi-
ate relief. Shall the condition of the
Arizona Indians, brought about through
American injustice, go urheeded. or
will statesmen in congress take a right
full action?
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17

Why pay 25c for cans OF inferior
tomatoes when you can get 2 cans
Curtice Bros. Blue Label tomatoes
for the same money at Ell Paso Gro
Gerry.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17
A Testimonial From Old England.

81 consider Cham berlain's Cough
Remedy the best in the world for
bronchitis" says Mr.. William Savory,
of Wsrrin gton, England. SIT has saw
ed my wife's life, she having been a
martyr to bronchitis for over six years,
being most of the time confined to her
bed. She Is now quite we'll" Sold by
all druggists.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17

Especial" photographs at Bushong
& Feldman's, S1.50 per dozen until
April 26th.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17

Irwin & Co have a beautiful line Of
HammOcks. Call and see them.