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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02

not, however, till l showed her your
check that she would consent to do SO.
She said that she was sure you would
not recommend anything that was
wrong; that you would advise her as
If you were her own father, and she
hopes you will stand by us. We shall
be married tomorrow, before Mr..
Meadows is up. Very thankfully,
HARRY CONRAD"
The old gentleman brought the note
with him to the table, opened it out be-
fore him, adjusted his spectacles and
read it over and over again.
I'D give E1O note" he said chuck
ling, ito see the old fellows face when
he hears how Harry has done him."
1t was the custom of Mr.. Sheldon to
read his newspaper at breakfast, while
waiting for his only child and daugh-
ter, who, little spoiled by oyerindul-
gence, was generally late.
But this morning Matty was later
than ever.
The banker had read all the foreign,
as well as the home news. and even
reperused Harry's note, and still she
had not made her appearance.
'The lazy puss!'' he said at last. Then
he looked up at the clock. Half an
hour late! Now, this is really too bad.
Johnw he cried, addressing the man
servant at the sideboard, 'send and
see why Miss Sheldon doesn't come
down. Tell her." with severe air, ''I'm
tired of waiting"
John came back in about five min
utes, looking very much 1ustered.
''If you please, SIR" he stammered,
Miss Sheldon's not in her room, and
the maid says that the bed looks as il
it hadn't been slept in all night"
The rich merchants jaw fell
He started up, with cry of agony, to
go and see. But he was prevented by
the footman appearing at the door with
a telegram.
"a telegram cried the merchant.
unfolding it with his trembling hands.
"What can it mean? Has she been
| found dead anywhere?"
This was the telegram:
Dear Father-Harry and l were
married at s o'clock this morning.
would not consent to an elopement till
Harry assured me you had advised it.
and had shown me your check as proof
He says you promised to stand by us
and know you pride yourself on never
breaking promise. We wait for your
blessing. MATTY."
well, neverr' calculated Mr.. Shell
don, when he had recovered breath
''Ehe impudent, disobe-'
| But here he stopped-stopped, ant
mopped his bald head, which, in his ex
citement, had broken out into grea
drops of perspiration. he remembered
that he had himself advised Harry tt
elope, and that, If the story got wind
he would be the laughing stock of tn,
town, including cut of all-Mr
Meadows. He remembered, too, tina
he had but one child, and that she wal
all In all to him.
So he accepted the inevitable and tel
egraphed back:
"You may come home, and the soone
the better, SO as to keep the ESQ for phi
money. Tell Harry he's too sharp t.
remain a clerk, and that I take him to
day into partnership. Only he mus
remember that partners never tell tale
out Of school. God bless you!
n. SHELDON"
/ The runaways returned by the mex
train. The marriage proved, too, a
eminently happy one. The story neye
got out. We only tell it now in conf
dence.-Woman's Life.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02
ALARMING The YOUNG MAN.

How the Young Woman's Mother
Cinched the Case Early.
1t was the second time that the hero
Of the story had accompanied the young
lady home. She asked him if he would
not come in. He said he would.
She was hardly gone before her moth
er came in, smiled sweetly. and, drop
ping down beside the young man, said:
II always did say that If poor but
respectable young man fell in love with
our Sarah, he should have my consent"
The young man started with alarm.
"She has acknowledged to me that
she loves you," continued the mother,
'and whatever is for her happiness is
for mine"
'I-I haven't" stammered the
young man.
"Oh, never mind; make no apology.
l know you haven't much money, but,
Of course, you'll live in my house"
ST had no idea Of" he began.
81 know you hadn't. but it's all right"
continued Sarah's mamma, reassuring-
ly. "With your wages and what the
boarders will bring in we shall get
along as comfortably as possible.
The young mans eyes stood out like
hatpegs, and he rose up and tried to
say something.
"Never mind about thanks" she
cried; 81 don't believe in long court
ships. The Goth of May is my birth
day, and it would be nice for you to be
married on that day"
"But-but-but-" he gasped.
''There. there! I don't expect any
reply" she laughed. '.I'll try and be a
model mother-in-law. l believe I'm
good tempered and kind-hearted, though
did once follow young man a couple
Of hundred miles with broomstick for
agreeing to marry my daughter and
then backing out Of the engagement
She patted him on the head and sailed
out.
/ And now the young man wants ad
vice. He wants to know whether he
/ had better get in the way of locomo
tive or jump off the nearest bridge
Tit-Bits.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02

announcement, says Pennsylvania Grit,
of Williamsport, is stubborn fact
which will not yield to argument; the
other statement will appear less alarm
ing if we examine it in the light of such
information as we are able to get.
According to statistical reports the
output Of coal in the United States last
year was in round numbers 250,OOO, 900
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02
THE WORLDS COAL
Facts and Calculations Touching
Increased Price.
FIGURES
Annual Output When Considered in
Bulk Gives Rise 10 Fears.

But 1000 Years of Reserve Left Surely
Allays All Auxiety-The Imagination
Illustrated by Diagrams and Forti-
fed by CaIcuIations-A Train 1900
Miles Long to Transport Our Annual
Product.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02

say, the coal still in the bowels of the
earth would make a cube of 100 miles
dimensions. AS a matter of fact, il
the coal supply is 5OO,OOO,OO 900 tons
the cube would be very close to 173
miles in height, breadth and thickness.
and the thirty years output would be
a cube Of about 1.73 miles. But for con-
venience the even numbers are used,
though they are far below the actual
figures. The proportions, however, are
given with sufficient accuracy.
A London paper has dug up a procla-
nation issued 600 years ago by Ed
ward l., which indicates that coal was
not appreciated so much by the people
of the fourteenth century as it is now.
The proclamation is referred to in 1852
as follows:
God 1906, King Edward the by proc
lamation prohibited the burning of sea
cole in London and the suburbs to
avoid the sulferous smoke and SAVIOR of
the firing there is SO great
scarcity of wood throughout the whole
kingdom that the inhabitants
in general are constrained to make
their fires of sea cole or pit cole even
in the chambers of honorable person
ages. Within thirty years last the nice
danes of London would not come into
any house or room where sea coles
were burning nor willingly eat of the
meat that was either sod or roasted
rr;%b Soo o0Io fro "
World Neei Not Worry.
Now the world is beginning to worry
lest it be not able to get enough coal to
burn. 1t may be of interest to know
what proportion of the worlds total
| output of coal is credited to the vari-
GUS coal producing countries. In 1899,
| the last year in which statistics are
available, the production In metric tons
was as follows: United States, 22S,-
| III, $40; United Kingdom, 223, COG 66S;
Germany, 135, ,S24, ,427; Austro- Hungary,
36, ,OOO, 600; France. 32,779,9 ,965; Belgium.
p, ,917,740; Russia, 100000; Japan,
! 6,65O,0OO; Australasia, 100000; India,
100000; Canada, 4,141, 600; Spain, g.
$4,000; Mexico, 4O9, ,125; Sweden, 239,-
S44; Italy, 375,OOO; all other countries.
3,5OO,OO0; total, partly estimated, 727,-
| 603,6
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02
interesting smoking statistics.

Holland holds the first place In the
world as a nation of smokers. Every
Dutchman consumes on an average 100
ounces a year. The Belgian comes a
good second with an annual consump-
tion of 80 ounces, followed closely by
Turkey with 70 ounces, and the United
States with 60 ounces. Germany,
France, Spain, and Italy tread closely
on their heels, while the United King
dom comes comparatively low on the
list with % ounces.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02

HE coal barons
announce that the
price of coal will
advance by a fixed
gradation accord
ing to a schedule
agreed upon by the
producers. We are
also told that the
coal supply will be
exhausted in a few
years. The first
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02
Japanese Fuel.

The dust of charcoal is gathered up
and mixed with the chaff from wheat,
barley and other grains, and with chop
ped straw. in Japan. 1t is then moist
ened into a paste, rolled into balls
about as big as billiard ball, and
makes excellent fuel.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02

country in 1887 as
the king of the
wheat pit" At the
time when William
Dresbach came in.
to national prom
inence G en- eraI
Boulanger was the
man Of the hour in
France, and it was
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02

exported. Nevertheless, comparatively
Insignificant as this amount seems in
comparison with the total output, it
would require about $4,000 cars Of
twenty tons capacity each to haul it to
the seaboard for shipment, and it
would supply cargoes of $500 tons each
to 1000 vessels. England exports an
nually 100000 tons of coal, and, to
transport it, 10000 vessels, each of car
rying capacity of $500 tons, are re-
quired.
71,OOO TrainIoads.
Let us imagine condition In which
our entire annual output would be ex-
ported In that case we should have
II, 900 trains each a mile long carrying
coal from the mines to tidewater, and
the seas would be crowded with more
than 10000 loaded ships. II we carry
the calculations still further and deal
with the output for thirty years, the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02

The women are wearing white
glove now that looks exactly like the
gloves men wear when they act as pail
bearers.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02

Probably every child cnerishes il
against his parents that they once
gave him calf. and kept the money
when they sold it.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02

Why do people give advice? Fools
won't take 1t, and wise men don't
need It.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02
Once .Kine of the wheat Pit. ;,

There died in San Francisco a few
days ago in great obscurity man
whose name was known all over the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02

Rich widows are the only desirable
secondhand articles on the market
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02


College 1889
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20
REFRIGERATOR OUTLINE.

seepage water can possibly get into
it. Northern Iowa is blessed with this
kind of wells, and pure, uncontam-
mated water is the first thing to Sc
cure on any farm.
The windmill sends it first to the
tank in the top of the refrigerator
through the short pipe, indicated by
dotted lines, the overflow runs back
through the other pipe and goes to the
stock water tank. The water is need
ed for stock, so none of it is wasted.
1t is also needed at the house, and
faucets permit its being taken out at
the house as desired. 1t is cool and
pure, and can be drawn out in pantry,
dining-room or kitchen, or all, as de-
sired. Shelves in the lower part hold
the milk, butter fruit and whatever
else is desired to be kept cold, and
the wife does not have to go down
cellar after butter, nor to the well for
water, nor the man of the house have
to get ice for which he has no need.
The tank / use is four feet high,
three feet wide and one foot thick,
and made of galvanized steel. A cup
board-like structure without shelves
in the upper portion affords a good
place to locate this tank, and the wind
mill will do the rest. The pipes run
underground from well to house, in
trench six feet deep, so as to be free
from frost. stopcock at the pump
allows the water to be sent to the
house when desired, or direct to the
stock tank without first passing
through the house tank.-E. c. Ben
nett. in Orange Judd Farmer
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20
BITS ABOUT BRITAIN.

A Dublin firm has produced type
writer writing Irish characters.
1t is said that over e1,OOO,0Oo is
spent by Londoners for flowers year
ly.
Liverpool, with 90 people to the
acre, is the most crowded city in Eng
land.
A party of Suffolk (England) farm
ers have gone to Denmark to secure
hints on dairy farming.
Christ's hospital is about to give
up the historic blue coat" and dress
its boys in modern costume.
If cyclist were to ride round the
coast of England and Wales he would
cover a distance of nearly $500 miles.
A Hobbema landscape has been sold
in London for $11,25O that brought
$3.50 in 1887, $1,42O in 1917 and $1,O25
in 1913.
The United Kingdom produces only
10000 tons of cheese out of the 120,-
900 eaten every year by the people of
that country.
No British ship may carry deck
load of timber into q British port be-
tween the last day of October and
April t.
Jury trials are going out of favor
in England Out of 494 cases in the
kings bench at TIN. present Trinity
session, 1872 are to be tried without
q iury
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20
WHAT WE ARE TOLD.

In India and Persia sheep are used
as beasts of burden.
Belfast is the richest and most
populous city in Ireland.
The price of medicine in Prussia
is regulated by the state.
A six months cruise will decrease
the speed of a ship Is per cent.
There are 11,700 hotels in Paris, in
which there are on an average 100000
guests.
Backwoodsmen of China still use
the bow and arrow as a weapon and
do very effective work with it.
II is estimated that an electric
pneumatic tube for transmitting
packages eight inches in diameter
would cost $4,000 a mile.
Most civilized nations begin the day
at midnight; astronomers and navi-
gators since the time of Ptolemy be-
gin it at noon.
The pain resulting from the sting of
bee may be instantly relieved by APP
plying a small piece of raw onion to
the affected part.
demonstrating with policemen,
cab drivers and street car conductors
is a serious offense in Austria, as all
those persons are rated as public
officers, to insult whom means impris-
onment and fine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20
Production of Milk Fat.

Experiments have always demon
strated that cows are able to manu-
facture the milk fat from substances
food. As an instance of this, we fed
two cows about four pounds of fat
in their food during one week These
cows produced in their milk about
nine and quarter pounds of fat.
Three COWS on pasture ate about
seven and a half pounds of fat in
their grass, but made 17H pounds of
fat in their milk. Experiments else
where have demonstrated that cow
is able 90 manufacture milk fat when
practically no milk fat was fed to
her in her food.-Dairy and Cream
cry.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20

peas. An encouraging feature noted
in Canada is that wherever the aphis
occurred it was attacked by para
site enemies, the most vigorous of
these being the small orange larvae
of a species of diplosis-minute mag
gots-which suck the juice out of
the body of the aphis.
The ''brush and cultivator" method
of fighting the pea louise is accepted
as the most generally effective. For
this it is necessary that the peas be
planted in rows, and when the in
sects are noticed the vines are
brushed backward and forward with
good pine switch in front of cul-
tivator drawn by single horse. In
this manner the plant lice are COW
cred up as soon as they fall to the
ground, and large proportion of
them are destroyed.
Peas sown late or on poor ground
sustain most damage. The pea aphis
is sketched many. times enlarged.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20

in front very few of the passengers
seemed capable of eating. The car,
as a consequence, was crowded to-
wards eight o'clock, and the steward
and walters were busy men.
The evening air, drifting in
through open windows, was cooler
than it had been during the day,
but still held enough of the noontide
caloric to make fans a comfort. and
Mr.. Stuyvesant, dining at fourth
hand' table well to the front, and
attempting to hold his own in a
somewhat desultory talk with his
fe1low-men, found himself paying far
more attention to the lovely face
of the girl across the aisle than to
the viands set before him.
She was seated facing the front,
and opposite the austere maiden
previously mentioned. Conversation
had already begun, and now Stuyve-
SAINT was able to see that, beautiful
in feature as was her face in repose,
its beauty was far enhanced when
animated and smiling.
When to well-nigh perfect external
features there is added the charm of
faultlessly even and snowy teeth and
smile that illumines the entire face.
shining in the eyes as it plays about
the pretty, sensitive mouth, a young
woman is fully equipped for CON
quest.
Stuyvesant gazed in fascination I'M
comfortable. He enyied the prim,
precise creature who sat unbending,
severe, and, even while keeping up a
semblance of interest IL the CONVEX
sation, seemed to feel it a duty to
display disapprobation of such youth
full charms.
No woman is so assured that
beauty is only skin deep as she VIII
mas none of it. Her manner, there
fore. had been decidedly stiff, and
from that had imperceptibly ad-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20
WONDERFUL CASE IN INDIANA

Buck Creek, Ind, July 15th.-Mrs
Elizabeth Rorick, of this place, had
rheumatism. She says: 'All the doe.
tors told me they could do nothing
for me-" She was very, very bad, and
the pain was SO great that she could
not sleep at night.
She used Dodd's Kidney Pills, and
she is well and entirely free from
pain or any symptom of the Rheuma-
tism.
"Are you still using Dodd's Kidney
Pills?" was asked.
"No, 1 stopped the use of the Pills
some time ago, and have not had the
slightest return of my old trouble. l
am sure I am completely and perman-
emily cured"
Many in Tippecanoe County, who
have heard of Mrs. Rorick's case and
her cure by Dodd's Kidney Pills, are
using the Pills, and all report wonder
full results
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20
WATER REFRIGERATOR.
Its Designer Claims That for Ordinary
Farm Purposes 1t Has Advan-
tages Over Ice.

For the last two years [ have used a
homemade water refrigerator in the
farmhouse which has some advan-
tages over ice. 1t saves the expense OF
putting up ice; saves labor of getting
it out and putting it into the refrig-
orator. 1t is purer than ice, and
furnishes drinking water of guaran-
teed quality, which is better for the
health than ice water. Director Sage,
of this state, makes a strong point
against putting ice into refriger-
ator and then breaking off little to
put into drinking water-this on the
score of health.
The water used comes from a deep
drilled well, which is curbed with
water-tight and air-tight gas pipe
from top to bottom so no insects or
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20
TOLD OVER THE TEACUPS.

An Indian and a Russian woman
are among the graduates of the
Woman's Medical College of Pennsyl-
vania this year.
Every year shows an increase in
the number of women who in travel
ing employ Wallets, instead of maids.
The valet acts as courier and attends
to the luggage.
Turkish women, it is said, are be-
coming more Independent every year.
Despite of orders to cover the face
In public, many boldly let their wells
fall aside and keep them off alto
gether when entering a shop.
There are hundreds of women con-
nected with the newspapers of the
land as literary, dramatic and art
critics, society and general reporters,
but the honor of being the only wom-
an city editor is said to belong to
Mary NJ. Lee, of the Titusville Pa.)
Herald.
Miss Rebecca Page Knox, daughter
of the United States attorney gem
eral, is a pretty brunette of 20, and
ID NSSSl IDCb ny Sto q ICfCI-
headed girl Miss Knox has spent
much of her time in study and travel.
She is the constant companion of her
father in their home life and they
are spoken of as comrades.
Mrs. Louis Botha, wife of the Boer
commandant, vindicates women
against the aspersion that they can
not keep a secret. The most expert
enced diplomatist was never more
discreet than this lady. During her
stay in London she has been besought
by interviewers and bombarded with
letters. But not soul has the least
idea of what is passing through her
mind. And she has enjoyed shopping
in Regent street as if she had not a
care in the world.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20

AS a rule, after a man has reached
his meridian, he will go on doing as he
has done before; he has become prac-
tically slave to his environment and
habits of life. Prune your sapling,
before time has made it's rings and
hardened the fibers of the tree. The
most beautiful flowers and ihe finest
fruit are the results of judicious prun-
ing in the springtime of the life of the
plant or tree. The finest manhood and
womanhood can be developed by
wise use of the pruning knife in
youth, and the benefits will be found
in old age.-Success.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

In all transplanting care must be
taken to see that the roots come in
close contact with the soil. A failure
to do this causes loss.
In transplanting plants of every
kind, whether large or small, care
must be taken to keep the roots
moist or the plants will be injured.
If any of the trees in the orchard
have grown forked it will be a good
plan to tie the forks together in such
a way as to afford mutual support.
In order to get the full benefit OF
heeling in trees in the fall advantage
must be taken of the first favorable
opportunity to set them out in the
spring.-Farmers' Voice.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20
THE MAN WHO WORRIED.

"Oh If I might put grief away
And bid adieu to care,
The man who worried sighed, one day,
1.-The world would be so fair!
But peace avoids my yearning breast.
And happiness goes by
All, shall I ever find the rest
1 long for ere 1 ''e?''
'Why grieve?" the sage who heard re
piled;
HAS not your toll availed?
The ones you love are by your side,
Where have your efforts failed?
l see around you luXuries
That many man would deem
The rich and restful properties
OF some enchanting Dream
''My efforts have been fairly paid,
My woes are not alone
From errors I myself have made,
OF chances that are flown
But there's my neighbor! Day by day
He mounts-his fortunes grow
How can drive my gloom away
While he outstrips me sop
IS. E. Kiser, in Chicago Times-Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20
THE NEW PEA PEST.
Destructive Insect Which Has Al
ready inflicted Big Losses on
Vegetable Growers

The new pest, the destructive pea
aphis, has in the last two years in
ficted enormous losses in various re-
gions where peas are grown for can
neries, as Maryland, Delaware, New
Jersey, New York and Connecticut.
Michigan and Wisconsin also have
suffered from it. Some of the
scientists claim that it is naturally
more an enemy of clover than Of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20
An Appreciated Dedication.

Pietro Mascagni, whose fame came
with the production of 'Cavalleria
Rusticana," has grown weary of his
critics, and as response to them has
dedicated his new opera: "The
Masks" to himself. This is the dedi-
cation:
.'To myself. With distinguished es-
,een and unalterable satisfaction
London News,