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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-03-08

GENERAL KELLY-KENNY
commanded a cavalry force which he
organized himself and which was
known as Methuens Light horse.
General William Forbes Gatacre
who met his Waterloo at Stormberp.
has seen service In India. He also
served under Kitchener in the Sudan.
General Gatacre was born In 1S43
and entered the army when he was 10.
From 1875 to 1879 he was instructor in
surveying at the Royal Military col
lege, Sandhurst quartermaster general
at Aldershot during the following year.
and military secretary to the COM
mander In chief at Bombay In 1881.
General Kelly in command Of
the Sixth division, is having his first
experience In South Africa. He served
In China and In Abyssinia.
General Sir Charles Warren. whose
name will henceforth be associated
with the disaster at Spion kop. was ex.
pected to be an Invaluable assistant to
Butler, for he had the reputation of
knowing South Africa as well as any
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-03-08

ID Egypt and the Sudan instead of In
India. He is not soldiers officer.
In fact, he Is personally unpopular
with his men. but they have great
confidence In him. and when thew
Know he is planning things they are
generally sure that all will be for the
BEST with victory al the end.
Kitchener Is second Moltke in the
machinelike precision Of his calculat-
ing mind He Is brilliant example of
the scientific soldier the clyilizing. rail
road building. administering modern
Cesar and also the genius incarnate of
military organization. He is known as
the general who leaves nothing nm
done. One of the secrets of his suc-
cess is the fact that he always makes
IL point to master the vernacular of
the country or district iI which he NAV
chance to be campaigning.
The brilliant Sudan campaigns of this
remarkable fighter are of too recent n
date to he expatlated on here. Fifteen
years of hard work. ii must be remem-
bered. preceded his brilliant victory at
Omdurman But in South Africa there
was no chance for preparation. He
hnds nothing but lighting cut out for
him
Or the ether British officers com.
handing divisions in the war against
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-03-08

For the space of three weeks this ex-
petition disappeared entirely from hui
man ken At length it emerged from
the trackless and, for the most part
waterless regions between Kabul and
kandahar and Under the walls of the
latter city fought battle and won
brilliant victory, inflicting crushing
defeat upon the Afghans.
This Is not the first time that Lord
Roberts has been ordered out to South
Africa. He was assigned to the chief
command there after Majuba Hill, but
on reaching the Cape found that the
Gladstone government had In the
meantime concluded peace with the
Beers.
In many ways the direct antithesis
OF Lord Roberts is General Horatio
Herbert Kitchener, lord of Khartum,
who Is second In command. He Is
more than six feet in height for one
thing. His reputation has been won
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-03-08


he expected great things Of himself.
But England's confidence in Butler has
been shaken.
General Butler was known prior to
recent events as one of the fighting
aristocrats. He gained the Victoria
cross and most of his reputation by
lighting the Zulus. He has found the
Beers very different proposition.
Early In his career he won favor with
Lord Wolseley. This was during the
China war of 1860 He also took part
In the Red river expedition and was
chief Of staff in the Gordon relief ex-
petition Of 1884. But whatever pres
tige he ever had has been sadly dim
med.
General Methuen's reputation. which
went down in that catastrophe on the
Modder river was. it might almost be
said, heritage. He comes of a dis
tinguished family of soldiers and dip
lomats. AS the heir to a peerage it
was comparatively easy matter for
him to gain promotion when he went
in for an army career. His active serv-
Ice consisted of a few months during
the Bechuanaland campaign. when he
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-03-08

The officers who are now leading the
British force In South Africa against
the Beers are the pick of the army
List. 1t Is quite true that the first divi-
siOns sent out were commanded by
men who were better known as war
ONCE pets" than as fighting leaders.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-03-08
GENERAL LORD ROBERTS.

GENERAL LORD ROBERTS.
But there has been change of policy
since Magersfontein and Modder River.
In the early days of the war the
British spoke Of "the expedition" which
they were sending to the Transvaal.
That was when Butler was talking
about eating Christmas dinner In Pre-
toria. The English have ceased to re-
fer to the war as "an expedition"
also they have summoned their best
nghting leaders and sent them to the
front.
Fine looking leaders these men are,
too, each and every one with his repu-
tation. his title and his glittering med.
ais. Alas. many Of them have left only
their titles and their medals! Their
regulations won In India for the most
part, lie buried along the borders of
the Boer republics.
In sending Lord Roberts, the hero OF
India, and Lord Kitchener, the hero of
the latest Sudan campaign. the British
war office admitted the gravity Of the
situation Lord Roberts has reached
the verge Of threescore and ten, and it
was supposed that he had done his
work. A year ago the suggestion that
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-03-08

the Beers only those who have recently
arrived have succeeded in preserving
the regulations which they took with
them to the lower end of the dark con.
tinent When General Sir Redvers
Butler was sent to take command
great things were expected of him.
and, II he has been reported correctly
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-03-08

was already fighting the Afghans as a
lieutenant of the Bengal Horse artil-
iery. Before he was five and twenty
ne nad mad i've horses shot under him
IN battle had been twice wounded, re-
peatedly mentioned in the dispatches
ana had won the Victoria cross. which
constitutes the climax of every Eng
lishman's ambition.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-03-08

boer He served there against tho
halnrs and as a member of the ROYAL
engineers surveyed the new boundaries
of Griqualand West when that terri.
tory was taken from the Orange Free
State.
such are the leaders who are con-
Quoting the campaign against the
Beers.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26
"Mit Lots of Feddars. !"

Robert Frank, the well-known artist
is self-made man, and not until he
had become self-supporting did he
have a chance to pursue the regular
studies which most people have in ear.
lier life. When he began drawing fol
a living his workmanship was so excel.
lent that he had no difficulty in secur.
ing orders. One day he delivered some
sketches to an employer, who said: 'By
the by, Frank, want a picture drawn
in great hurry. 1t Is novel thing
a boxing kangaroo"
"Ja wohl," answered the artist, 81
will have 1t ready tomorrow for you.'
"You know what a kangaroo Is, OF
courseY'
Frank must have been thinking of an
ostrich, because he answered with q
complacent smile:
"Ja, gewisslich. 1t Is a long, tall
thing NIT lots Of feddars." And Fed.
dars" has been his nickname ever
since.-Philadelph Post.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26
SOLD BODY To44E DOCTOR.
Missourian Near Death Saved His Life
Insurance and His Farm.

Missourian Near Death Saved His Life
Insurance and His Farm.
In the Office of an old physician In st,
Joseph there hangs the skeleton of 4
man and with 1t there hangs tale
that is somewhat grewsome, but never
theless true. The physician bought the
mans skeleton before he was dead,
paid for it and it was delivered to him
after death by the mans wife, accord
ing to contract. The man who useG
the bones first and to whom they De,
longed in life was a Doniphan County
farmer, living across the river from 81,
Joseph. He was in bad health and!
needed money. In fact he had to have
money to keep up his. life insurance,
and there had been partial failure or
crops that year. The farmer knew the
end Of his life was not far off and he
must have money at once to pay up MS
life insurance. He had a wife and chill,
dren and he would not mortgage the
farm.
One day he came to the city and said
to the physician, whom he knew very
well: doctor, what will you give me
for my skeleton?" It was a startling
proposition at first, and the physician
shrank from making such purchase,
but after the farmer had explained his
situation it did not have such bad
appearance. The sale was finally made,
the contract drawn and signed and the
physician paid for the skeleton OF the
living man. The amount paid was more
than enough, the farmer said, to pay
for the life insurance as long as he
would need it. He lived longer than he
expected, however, and came BACK
again to see the physician. He had
spent part of the money for other pur-
poses, and another payment was almost
due on the life insurance. Il am still
using these bones, DOCTOR. he said, "and
came over to see If you could not afford
to advance little more on them" The
physician demurred, but finally made
another small advance, over and above
the price he was to pay. Soon AFTER
ward the farmer died, and his wife de-
hvered the body to the physician. 1t
was dissected in a medical college and
the physician still has the skeleton. 1t
was a grewsome bargain, but 1T was
business. The Kansas woman still has
the coffin In which her husbands body
was brought to the city.-St. Joseph
(Mo) News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26

the compass was clear to me. BY a
strong effort of the will repressed the
growing panic, sat down on a log and
covered my face with my hands and
waited-I had no idea how long-but
until I felt quite calm, and when ]
looked out on the landscape again ]
found the sun in his proper place and
the landscape as I had known it. ]
walked back to my boat without diff.
Guilty and went home, and never lost
my head again while l frequented th4
ilderness.-AtlanticM Monthly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26
DRIVEN MAD BY THE FORESTS.
Some Travellers in the Woods Are
Strangely Affected Mentally.

Some Travellers in the Woods Are
Strangely Affected Mentally.
One of the woodsmen had told me of
waterfall on a trout stream of consid-
erable size which emptied into a lake
near by us, and in the hope of finding
subject on it took the boat one af-
ternoon and began to follow the course
of the stream up from the mouth. After
half mile of clear and navigable wa
ter it became so logged with fallen
trees that more lifting than padding
was required, and as its course was ex-
tremely tortuous occasionally got out
and examined the vicinity of the
stream bed and the course above If per-
chance there might be better naviga-
ton beyond. On one of the digressions
l suddenly came on the stream running
back on it's previous course and parallel
to it. Instantly, in the twinkling of an
eye, the entire landscape seemed to
have changed its bearings; the sun,
which was clear in the sky, it being
about o'clock, shone to me out Of the
north, and it was impossible to con-
vince myself that my senses deceived
me or accept the fact that the sun must
be in the southwest, the general direc-
ton from which the stream was flow
ing, and that to get home again must
turn my back to it if had lost my boat,
as seemed certain.
Then began to come over me, like an
evil spell, the bewilderment and the
panic which accompanied it, and which,
fortunately, 1 recognized from the ex-
pcriences l knew of, and l was aware
that if 1 gave way to it was lost
man beyond any finding by the woods
men even If they attempted to track
me. Fresh wolf tracks were plenty all
along the bank of that stream, panthers
and bears abounded in that section,
and the wilderness beyond me was new
er explored and hardly penetrable, so
dense was the underground Of dwarfed
frs and swamp cedars. l had one ter
rible moment of clear consciousness
that If went astray at that juncture
no human being would ever know
where was, and the absolute necessity
OF recovering my sense Of the points Of
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26
A Rats Tail.

A rats tail Is wonderful thing. The
great naturalist Cuvier says that there
are more muscles in this curious ap
pendage than are to be found in tina,
part of the human anatomy which IL
most admired for Its ingenious struc
ture-namely. the hand. To the rat, In
fact, it's tail serves as a sort Of hand
by means Of which the animal is ena
bled to crawl along narrow lodges OF
other difficult passages. using it to bal
ance with or to gain hold. 1t is pre-
hensile. like the tails Of some mon
keys. By means of it the little beast
can jump up heights otherwise inac
cessible. employing 1t as projectile
spring.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26

The American College at Rome.
The American villa stands on land
that once formed part of two villas, one
belonging to Clodius and the other to
Titus Sextius Gallus. OF the historic
temple there is but little left to-day. A
road, paved in the antique style with
large polygonal blocks of lava well and
closely set together, leads from the ad.
joining Appian way to this temple, and
indicates the honor in which it was
held and the frequency Of visits to it.
A few low walls in reticulated work,
formed Of tufa, some square blocks
scattered here and there, the bases of
columns and slabs of pavement, are all
that is left of this suburban shrine to
which the women of the neighborhood
thronged of old. Three columns of
peperino stone are standing here, but
they are of very recent date, erected to
commemorate events or persons con.
nected with the recent prOprietors of
the villa. On one of them is an inscrip-
ton in Italian referring to the day OF
suffrage for the soul Of Prince Don
Domenico Orsini I'D July, 1874, whose
children came here-Giacinta, Filippo,
Giulia-with number of his nephews
Another column bears an inscription re
lating that, on Sd of September, 1874
there were brought here the mortal re.
mains of Paolo Giordano Rodolfo Or.
sini. These are family memorials Of the
Orsinis who owned the villa, and they
relate chiefly to death and SORROW
Catholic World Magazine.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26
Lacking in Experience.

'T don't see why there Is all this
opposition to women voting" said a
beardless young fellow from his van
tage ground beside the Lyceum, watch
ing the women going in to the equal
suffrage meeting. 'It just means that
a man has two votes instead of one
his own and his wife's," concluded the
youthful sage.
"Young man." questioned gray vet
eran Benedict, "are you marriedT"
'No, no; Pm not married"
"Well, then, you don't know anything
about it. 1t means that the women
will have two votes and the men won't
have any vote at all."-Memphis Scim-
itar
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26
NO MORE THE GRAND MANNER.

There Are No Longer Gentlemen OF
Dignity and Breeding.
The ''grand manner" has gone from
the world and the world seems little
put out at its departure. Time wac
when 1t was token at once of breed
ing and education. Scholarship un-
adorned with it was held up to naked
scorn as naked pedantry; manners with
no touch of the grand air could not
pass muster in polite circles; literature
saw in 1t the sum and substance of its
being. 1t did duty for whole lexicon
of qualities, but its outward aspec,
was unmistakable, depending upon a
very simple theory of society and hu-
man life. If men are to wear honors
and successes lightly. the background
of ease will come into prominence, and
they will study to amuse. And SO came
that social finesse which our great
grandmothers adored. those bowings
and smirkings which their grandchil
dren scoffed at, and the whole pleasing
science of the beau monde.
The tear of sensibility may be drop
ped over its tomb. but there can be no
question Of its revival. The most its
admirers can do is to write the history
of its foruit. 1t belonged to an age
when wealth. leisure. culture and all
the good things of life were confined
to class, and it dropped and with
cred at the advent of democracy. Our
modern seriousness and our modern
business-like air killed It, and they
chose the cruelest of weapons 1t might
have survived frank opposition; 1t
could not endure being made to look
ridiculous.
But with the rubbish went much that
was admirable. At its best this grand
manner meant an exuberant vitality. a
genuine zest for life. Its exponents
might fail, but they failed CALAMITY.
1t all worked out to a kind of intense
self-respect. which might be ludicrous.
but was rarely ignoble.
Most great men have been many-sid
ed. but with the gentlemen of tn.
grand air 1t was a social duty, and all
traces of the process must be hidden
from sight.
Disraeli was almost the last of the
grand manner" disciples. and the
abuse of him which was current for so
long shows how people had come to re-
gard the affectation. For an affecta.
ton it was. though a charming and
sometimes noble one. Versatility can
never be abolished. but a pretense of
ease and fnsouciance and a parade of
divers accomplishments may easily be
discredited. The splendid impassive>
ness of the great gentleman has sue
cumbed to modern worry and haste.
and for the most part we frankly con-
fess that dignity is a nuisance and an
anchronism. But the other side Of the
thing-the taste for a liberal culture
shows signs of revival and we may see
return to the grand manner, brought
up to date and purged of Its silliness.-
London Spectator.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26
A Curious Result,

Amateurs Of the woods and wild
scenes sometimes have queer luck
Here is an instance of a girl who took
q picture Of a party Of friends near a
patch Of trees. When she came to de-
velop it she found that there had been a
bear beyond the group, making for the
woods at full speed when the shutter
was snapped. Another amateur pho
tographer got a curious result from a
snap shot at a clump of woods. When
he developed the plate he found that
three partridges had been sitting on the
ground eight or ten feet from him, deep
ly interested in his actions, as the posi-
ton of their heads plainly showed. An
other of his "shots" also developed curl
ously. 1t showed a fox trotting across
an open space in the woods. The ears
were sticking up and inclined forward,
and it was evidently in search Of some
small prey.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26
Leaving No Sting.

Our manner of doing a thing often
counts for more than the thing itself.
Some people have the gift of doing a
gratious things ungratiously. They
seem to think it of small moment how
they act, if they do the right thing.
Their gifts are felt like a blow. 9th
ers refuse with kindness that falls
like balm. The Italian who is asked
for aims, unable to help, replies:
"Pardon me, also am poor devil. -
That leaves no hurt, while the open
hand of some others inf1icts a sting.
"God cares more for adverbs than for
VERBS" says an old writer. Do the
right thing, but do it rightly, courte'
ously. sympathetically.-S. S. Times.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26
QpER 5RRb8

The chance Of two finger prints being
alike is not one in fifty-four billion.
There are nearly two thousand
stitches in a pair of hand-sewed boots.
San Diego, CAL, has a lemon grove
covering one thousand acres. 1t is said
to be the largest in the world. 1t was
begun in 1890, with ITO acres.
Eighteen thousand bills and joint res
olutions were presented by members
in the last Congress-12.6OS in the
House and 1856 In the Senate.
Table Mountain, Cape Town, South
Africa, is a magnificent natural curl
osity. 1t is nearly four thousand feet
in height and has level top about
three square miles in area.
Wedding festivities in Cairo, Egypt.
usually continue for three days, during
which time there is constant feasting
and jollification. The guests are ex-
pected to remain while the festivities
last.
In the western part of British Colum-
bia is novel railway, two miles in
length. The rails are made of trees,
from which the bark has been stripped,
and these are bolted together. Upon
them runs a car, with grooved wheels
ten inches wide.
At Bosco Reale, on the slopes Of
Vesuvius, near Pompef, excavations
have brought up the most remarkable
paintings of the Roman period yet dis
covered. In the grounds Of the Del
Frisco villa great peristyle and four
large rooms have been unearthed, the
walls of which are covered by twenty
large frescoes of rich covering and care
full execution. The figures are life
size.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26

From the official report of the Wash
ington police it is shown that while the
whole number of arrests in the Dis
trict, with barroom for each AL of
it's population, was equal to one arrest
for every / of it's population, the num-
ber of arrests made in the First pre-
cinct. with barroom for every 113 of
its population, and in the Ninth pre-
cinct, With a barroom for every 1,04S
of it's population, the arrests was only
one for every 18 of it's population. A
petition to congress to prohibit the
liquor traffic in the District of Colum-
bia is being prepared.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26
DOG STOPS A TRAIN.
After Saving a Baby's Life He Modest13
Takes to the Woods.

After Saving a Baby's Life He Modest1y
Takes to the Woods.
Train No. 20 on the Indianapolis and
Vincennes, in charge Of Conductor F.
w. Russo, of Indianapolis, was tearing
along toward Indianapolis the other
evening fifty miles an hour. The train
was loaded with passengers and was
behind time. East Of Edwardsport En-
gineer Dorsey saw on the track far
ahead dog that was jumping about
and acting in peculiar manner. The
dogs actions looked suspicious, and, as
q measure Of caution, Dorsey shut off
the steam, SO as to have his tain uuder
control When the train reached a
nearer point the dog stood aud barked
at it, aud then, with yelp, started for
the woods.
Then it was that Dorsey saw that
there was something red between the
rails, and he threw on the emergency
brakes and opened the sandbox. The
train came to a standstin within ten
feet of pretty, faxen-haired baby in
red frock. The child was about two
years old and had been playing with
the dog. The train crew ran forward
and Baggageman Franklin picked up
the child, which laughed and crowed
and patted his face in glee.
About 1 800 yards distant was farm
house and toward it Franklin started
with the baby, to meet a man running
toward him like an insaneperson. 1t
was the child's father, who had missed
the baby just as the train stopped, and
supposed that the little one had been
killed. How 1t got SO far away from
home and into such a dangerous place
no one could understand. The passen-
gers were considerably jolted by the
sudden stopping of the train, but no
one was hurt, and when they learned
the cause of it they clustered about
Engineer Dorsey and congratulated
him on his caution.-Indianapol News.