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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-19
Lees Birthday to Be Observed by the
Daughters Of the COnfederacy.
THE BIGGEST ENGINE IN THE STATE
Being Installed by Citizens Electric Light
Plaul--lhe hctel Logan.
GENEALOGICAL DATA FOR DECEMBER
Death of Mrs. George Macntee Mt
Chica Eo--Time up on Paving Ger
titicates--Otbcr News.

Today is one OF especial interest
throughout the South as the anniversary
OF the birth Of that great soathern pa
triot and soldier, Robert E. Lee, aad
as such it will be observed in this city
by Robert E. Lee chapter, Daughters Of
the Confederacy, who will give re-
ception in honor OF the occasion at the
Parieh home this afternoon from to .
o'clock, al which Will be rendered an
appropriate programme Of songs and
recItatinns. All the memIoeTs of the
chapter are expected 10 be present and
an invitation is extended to the neln-
bers Of Dick Bowling camp OF Confed-
crate Veterans.
OF all the eulogics In literature there
are none more beautiful than the fol-
loving tribute to Robert e. Lee, which
IS worth reproducing. 1t fell from the
tongue Of that eloquent Georgian, SEN
ator Ben II. Hill:
when the future historian comes to
survey the character OF Lee he will md
it rising like q huge mountain above the
undulatng pain OF humanity aud he will
have to lift his eyes high toward heaven
10 catch Is summit. He possessed every
virtue OF the other great commander
without their vices. He was foe with
oUi nate. friend without lreacncry. d
nslder without cruelty and victim
without murmuring lie was a public
officer without vices, q private citizen
without wrong neghbor without re-
proach Cnristian without hypocrisy
ana man without guilt. He was Cae-
Bsr without mis- ambition Frederick
without his tyranny Napoleon without
his selhshness aud Washington without
his reward He WAS as obedient tC
authority as a servant and as royal II
authority as true king He was gen
tie as woman in life pure ana mod
est as virgin in thought. watchful as
Roman vestal IN dry submissive to Law
as Socrates aud grand in battle al
Achilles
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-19
VIII BE Married In Now York.

1t is announced that Miss Lucle Hick.
enlooper. daughter of Mr.. C. Hickon,
looper, the present local manager for
Goggan Bros. in this city. viii ". mar
ried in New York on Monday at ) p. IN.
at the San Reno hotel to Mr.. Bows
Loutsly Of Berlin Mrs. Hickenlooper,
mother OF the bride-cleet, and Mrs. Il /.
Grunewaid, her grandmother, both we'll
known in Houston. whore they formerly
lived. are in New York to be present at
The nuptials
MIR. and Mrs. Loutzly will immediately
after their marriage sail for Naples.
They will make their future home In Ber-
lin.
MISS Hickenlooper is one OF tho most
accomplished pianlsts the South has pro-
duced and her leaving this country is
sad disappointment to her musical friends
and admirers in Texas.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-19
The Hotel Logan.

Mr. W. A. Malin, the new lessee OF
the former Lawier hotel, opposite the
Grand Central depot. has renamed the
house the Hotel Logan, in compliment
to the owner OF the property. This
hotel will be ready to receive roomers
tonight and the dining room will be
opened en- Tuesday or Wednesday OF
next week. Major J. J. wheadon. one
OF the oldest and best known hotel men
in Texas, will be in charge OF the Lo-
gan
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30


The first grass in spring is watery and
has very little nutrition in it, partly be-
cause it is usually to be found on the
low lands. where the better grade of
grasses do not grow. Yet we used to
like to get cattle and sheep into it as
soon as it was large enough to give
them a fair bite, as such grass is poor
at the best, and almost worthless after
1t gets tough and harsh. But we never
depended much upon it as food for
them, excepting for its succulent quail
ties. We fed as much hay and grain
the morning before we let them into
pasture as if they were to remain in the
yard. Then we took them in early, and
at night they were fed at the barn
again. The green grass loosened the
bowels, and perhaps we had little
more milk, or little thriftier growth,
but it made the. change from hay to
pasture more gradual, and they seemed
to relish it, especially if the roots were
all gone, as they usually were likely to
be at that season. That was before the
days of the silo, and if we had one
well filed we might think it better now
to feed ensilage, and let the bog grass
grow to be used as bedding, or to be
used as covering for strawberries or
spinach, or as a mulch for some other
crops.-American Cultivator.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
Farm Senarators.

Butter makers kick on farm separa-
tors, says the Northwest Farmer. Some
of the butter makers are making a live
ly kick against the Introduction of the
farm separator. They might as well
kick against a stone wall, for kicking
will not stop its coming. There is only
one thing that will check its rapid in
PRODUCTION, and that is better skimmilk
from the creamery. Farmers are get
ting more and more determined to
raise good calves, and they propose to
do this with separator skimmilk. If
the butter makers don't clean up their
pumps, pipes and tanks and give the
skimmilk thorough pasteurizing the
farmer is certain to lend an attentive
ear to the farm separator agent, a sep
arator will be installed on trial, and
you can count on its staying. 1t will
then be too late to protest, for after a
farmer pays $100 for separator he is
quite apt to find a factory that will
take his cream. Dairymen of expert
ence have found that the best of calves
can be raised on good separator milk,
and every intelligent butter maker
knows how to return it in good condi-
ton
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30

What an awful disappointment it
must be to a calf to wake up some
morning and find its mother missing
and no warm breakfast waiting, and
how disgusted it must feel when the
farmer comes in a little later with a
pail of skinned milk. straddles the
calf's neck, inserts his finger in its
mouth and tries to convince it that
drinking Is the proper method of feed
ing from that time on. Happy would
be that calf if the farmer would pro-
vide it with the feeding arrangement
here shown, and happy would the far
mer be if he did not have to waste his
time in teaching the calf to drink. The
calf seems to get along fairly well un-
I'll the farmer undertakes to withdraw
his finger and make the calf go it
alone, but then rebellion rises and an
upset pail is the result in some cases.
Once introduce the calf to this device
and he may bunt to his hearts con-
tent without upsetting the milk. The
arrangement consists of a reservoir,
suspended from the wall, with a tube
leading to a block underneath, on
which is mounted a rubber nipple. AS
the nipple is screwed on the block it
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
NEITHER ARMS NOR LEGS.
Rare Example of Human Being With
ont Trace OF Limhs.

Rare EXa m pie OF human Being With
out Trace of Limbs.
This remarkable person, who was ex-
hibited in Paris at the time of the ex-
position, Is one Of the rare examples
Of human being who has been from
birth deprived of his arms and legs.
He was born in France in the depart
ment of Norman (Brittany), his father
and mother being in easy circum-
stances and living upon a small farm.
Both the parents are of good constitu-
tion and physically normal. Their son,
now about 25 years Of age, has no ap-
parent trace of arms or legs, and hence
is generally known by the name of
fHOmme Tronc, or trunk man.
Outside of this remarkable peculiari-
ty, the rest of his body does not present
any marked variations from the nor
NAL; the head is somewhat large in
proportion to the body; the capillary
system is but little developed, and the
head shows a premature badness. His
of him, and he lives in normal way
apart from the use of his members), as
none of the essential organs of life are
wanting. He eats, drinks and digests
like another person, but if left to him
self he would undoubtedly die, as it is
impossible for him to move his body
in order to procure food. It may be
thought that his condition would react
upon the mind and that he would be of
a sad disposition and place but little
value upon existence. On the contrary,
he seems to be satisfied with life.
The writer questioned him upon this
point and he responded that he was
quite contented with existence. He
does NOS suffer from want of occupa-
ton, as might be supposed, as he has
different kinds of work to keep him
busy. One of his chief occupations is
that of making small tables and chairs
and other objects by mailing together
pieces of wood which have been pre-
viously cut out for him. He takes a
nail in his mouth, plants it in the wood
and drives it in very adroitly. He can
also thread needle with his mouth.
and can take up glass or metal cup
which is given him to drink and empty
it without spilling drop. He seems
to be sufficiently intelligent without be-
ing particularly so.-Scientific Ameri-
can.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
Honesty at a Discount.

81 think l am an honest man." said
the man with scar ON his chin, "as
honest as the average, but when the
owner of Boston news stand changed
$40 bill for me and gave me S. too
much the sudden temptation oyercame
me. l crowded the money into my vest
pocket and hurried away"
''And when at a safe distance you
counted it over?", queried the man with
the Shakspearean forehead.
Exactly"
"And instead of finding So too much
you found yourself dollar short?"
Two dollars short, SIR"
"And you-you cussed?"
81 did,"
"And hunted for something to bite
on?"
Yes, SIR
''And declared it the most damnable
outrage of the twentieth century on an
innocent, honest man?"
you've hit it. And now, sir
ooh, no explanations are needed in
terrupted the other, with long drawn
sigh. "I'ye been right there myself.
and as honest men you and l have nc
chance against the world and can only
hope to receive our reward when we
die.''-Boston Globe.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
One of Them Didn't Get On.

Visitor docking at the photograph al
bum)-You have fne-looking family
of boys, Mr.. Bilkerson. And they all
seem to have turned out remarkably
well. This is Henry, isn't it?
Mr.. Bilkerson proudly)-Yes, that's
Henry. He's in the music hall line.
Gets EGO week for merely singing
what they call a topical song. Henry's
a good deal of genius. That next one
is Christopher. He's a jockey. Made
$1,000 out Of it last year. The one on
the next page is Oliver. He keeps a
Stock Exchange. ."bucket-shop." Built
a fine house out of what he made out
of it last year and the year before. Yes,
my boys are doing pretty well. Come
out with me to the stables. L
Visitor-But you have another son.
haven't you?
Mr. Bilkerson deluctantly)-Ye-e-
His names Gabriel. He's a professor
of Greek, or theology. or something OF
that sort in college. Gabe is good
enough fellow in his way, but he doesn'i
seem to get on. Come out to the sta
bles, Mr.. Swackhammer. want to
show you my new pair Of grays."-Lon.
don Tit-Bits.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
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What l. Inside a Watch.


If you own watch, open it and look.
at the little wheels, springs and screws,
each an indispensable part of the
whole wonderful machine. The busy
little balance wheel alone is the result
of hundreds of years Of study and ex-
pertinent. The watch l have before me
is composed of ninety eight pieces, and
its manufacture embraces more than
two thousand distinct and separ-
ate operations. Some of the small
est screws are so minute that
the unaided eye cannot distinguish
them from the steel filings or specks of
dirt. Under a powerful magnifying
glass a perfect screw is revealed. The
slit in the head is 2-10O0 Of an inch
wide. 1t takes 3OS,OQO of these screws
to weigh a pound, and a pound is
worth $1,585. The hairspring is a strip
of the finest steel, about nine and one
half inches long, 1-10O part Of an inch
wide and 27-10OO0 of an inch thick. 1t
is coiled up in spiral form and finely
tempered. The process of tempering
was long held a secret by the few pos
sessing it, and even now Is not gener-
ally known. Their manufacture re-
quires great skill and care. The strip
is gauged to 20-10OO of an inch, but
no measuring instrument has yet been
devised capable of fine enough gauging
to determine beforehand by the size of
the strip what the strength of the fin
ished steel will be- A 100000 part of
an inch in the thickness of the strip
makes difference in the running of a
watch of about six minutes per hour.
The value of these springs, when fin
ished and placed in watches, is enor-
nous in proportion to the material
from which they are made. A .compari-
son will give good idea. A ton of gold
is worth $627, 1915. A ton of steel made
up into hairsprings when in watches is
worth $7,SS2, ,29O-more than twelve
and one-half times the value of pure
gold. Hairspring wire weighs one
twentieth of a grain to the inch. One
mile of wire weighs less than half a
pound. The balance gives five vibra-
tions to every second, 300 times every
minute. $4,000 every hour, 432, 900
times every day, and 157, 100000 every
year. At each vibration it rotates
about one and one-quarter times, which
makes 1877, 100000 revolutions every
year. In order that we may better un-
derstand the stupendous amount of
labor performed by these tiny works,
let us make a few comparisons. Take,
for illustration, d locomotive with six
driving wheels. Let its wheels be run
till they have given the same number
OF revolutions that watch gives in
one year, and they will have covered a
| distance equal to twenty-eight COM
plete circuits Of the earth. All this a
watch does without other attention
than winding once every 'twenty-four
hours. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
Killing Brush.

We see much said in our Western ex-
changes about the value of the Angora
goat to destroy brush. If that is their
strong point we do not want them. 1t
used to be the fashion to advocate
keeping sheep to kill weeds and briars.
They will surely do that if kept on
them, but we never knew any one to
start with sheep with that as his main
incentive, who did not come to the
conclusion that there was no profit in
sheep. If we want good wool and NUT
ton the sheep must have something be-
side briars to feed upon, and if they
choose to take a few briars or weeds
as sort of condiment with the other
food, well and good. So we think IL
Angora goats are kept to kill brush en-
tirely they will furnish but little mo-
hair and poor flesh. Give US the old
plan for killing brush. NOW in July,
burn in August, and then let sheep pick
a few Of the tender sprouts If they
want them the next spring.-American
Cultivator.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
RIVER BOATS IN RUSSIA.
Strange Looking Craft that Ply tn
Waters of the Muscovite Emp pire.

Strange Looking Craft that Ply the
Waters of the Muscovite Ernpir
Everywhere up the Volga and its
hundred tributaries ascend the iron
barges Of the Caspian sea oil fleet,
while through the canals to st. Peters
burg alone pass annually, during the
215 days Of free navigation, thousands
of steamers and barges bearing mill
ions Of tons of freight. Every known
who, like oxen, tramp the towpaths,
hauling the smaller barges, to powerful
tugs that creep along by means of an
endless chain laid in the bed of the
canals and minor rivers, dragging af-
ter them at snail pace great caravans
of heavy barges.
From the greater streams immense
craft nearly 400 feet long, 15 feet in
depth, carrying 5000 tons of freight,
drift down to the Caspian, where they
are broken to pieces to be used as fire
wood on the steamers going up stream.
In all there are 5000 miles of naviga-
BILE waterways in the valley,of the Vol
ga, or, If the streams which float the
giant RATS that form so large part
of the traffic of the rivers are included.
the mileage is increased to nearly 15,-
900, or as much as that of the valley of
the Mississippi.
- Fifty thousand RATS are foated
down the Volga annually, many of
them 100 feet long by thick. and this
gives but faint idea of the real traffic
of the river, for in addition there are
100000 tons of produce passing up
and down the river during the open
season. Much of this centers at Mini
Novgorod. To this famous market
steamers and barges come from all
parts of Russia, bringing goods to be
sold at the great annual fair, over
5000, 100000 worth of merchandise
changing hands in few weeks; 80, 900
craft, including RATS, are required for
this traffic; they come from as far north
as Archangel, as far east as the Urals,
from Astrakan in the south, st. Peters
burg and Moscow to the west, while
great caravans Of ships of the desert
arrive daily from all parts of ASIA
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
equaled by energetic boa construct

be equaled by energetic boa construct
ors.
And the problem is after all quite
easy of solution. The couple whom 1
spoke of above when they had finally
hit upon the correct plan of procedure
could not understand how it had es-
capped them so long.
To separate, the girls had only to
push the center of one of the handker-
chiefs under the loop made by the
other handkerchief where it was tied
about the. wrist and then carry the
loop over the hand.
Tie some of your friends together in
this way and follow the directions
carefully; you will soon catch the idea
of how quickly to separate them.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
What Result to- the soi1?

1 would not seem to undervalue sta
BILE manure. but it is a mistake to sup
pose that land must grow poor when
we cease to feed everything upon the
farm. 1t is not necessary to sacrifice
all income for the cake of keeping up
the soil. Now that we know more
about the composition of the soil. we
know that productiyeness depends in
great degree upon the presence of Or
ganic matter in it, and not solely upon
stable manure or commercial fertiIiz-
ers. The ideal condition would be one
in which a goodly number of live stock
could be kept with profit on nearly ev-
cry farm, but the cattle feeders of most
fertile Eastern valleys must give up
farm scheme that makes fat cattle and
wheat the only cash products. The
list of cash crops will be made longer,
and clover, peas and sods must be free
ly used to supplement the manure
Farm and Fireside.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30

have not had enough exercise to keep
their muscles firm and the digestive
organs active, while others have failed
because of the feeder having gone to
the opposite extreme. failed to feed
enough. and in giving exercise have ex-
posed them to cold and hard usage.
The box stall or pen is better for the
breeding animal than closer confine-
ment. and as much good food as they
will eat better than a scanty ration. but
it should not be what is called carbon
aceous or heating and fattening food.
but such as to produce muscle and
growth of frame. Out-of-doo exercise
is needed, but that does not mean
standing still in cold wind or storm
until chilled through. or being turned
out to drink ice water to chill the in
ternal organs and the unborn offspring.
Massachusetts Ploughman.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
bricks Of precious metals $35, 900 and
S4l 600 to each massive brick

bricks of precious metal-$35, 900 and
$4,000 to each massive brick.
The people, reckless, wasteful, devil
may-care, had yeneration for this one
thing-for the mountain of wood, the
visible foundation of their prosperity.
Had it come to an end their reverend
ing dancing and merry-making must
have ended, too. The buying and the
Haunting of cheap finery would have
ceased. The plentiful tables would
have become bare. The easily obtained
drink and the pleasures of the gaming
table would have been lost. To the
more sober it meant the home comforts
and privileges for the children. To the
intelligent overseers, the scientists,
the owners, it represented the base of
operations. To Nell Undertook, the
daughter of one of the overseers, it
represented a poetical idea.
She was a thoughtful girl, and she
saw the rude picturesqueness of all
about her, and most all felt the power
Md value of the woodpile. She had
05en spoken about this to Jams Jensen
the serious-visaged Swede who paid
lovers court, to her, and he, a student
and adventurer, full of the weird imag-
ination of his race. saw it, as she did,
with eyes of philosophic appreciation.
He appeared to see all things much
as she did, but that fact, which he ap-
preciated to the full, had never won
: from her any response to his devotion.
She was an American, with prejudice
in favor of American lovers; and while
among all her acquafntances there was
, no one so obviously ambitious and as
piring as Jan, yet she felt annoyed at
the accent that made his speech alien,
and at the strong racial characteristics
that marked him of the land of Swe-
den As for him, he adored her with
the concentrated and consecrated devo-
ton of a homesick and lonely man,
isolated by reason Of his dreams, his
bookishness, and his refinement from
many of those about him. All would
) have been well with him, he often said
to himself, if only Nell would have
loved him.
One day, while walking alone and
thinking of his grief in love, he saw a
plume of smoke lowering above the
mountain Of wood. 1t was sight he
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30
True HospitaIity.

True hospitality always has in it
something of the element of personal
consideration, and that is why it's spirit
is so seldom found where entertaining
is a wholesale business enterprise and
invitations are engraved or written by
secretary. To hear certain persons
talk of entertaining. and to see the
trouble and expense they take to get up
elaborate dinners and to have every
thing ''just so'' for a guest, you would
imagine that the only reason the guest
was invited was to fill his stomach. He
must be given something out of the or
binary or he is not properly entertain
ed. But this is as far as possible from
what the sensible guest wants. AS
Robert Burdette once said, 81 do not
go to my friends house for the meal
he is to give me. 1 can get very good
dinner at hotel for fifty cents or half
a dollar. go to my friends to see
him and to have an hour in his com,
pany; go for a certain quality of wei
come that comes from his personality.
not from his food."-Woman's Home
Companion.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-30

One day a friend of mine invited an
other girl and myself to come down to
her house that evening to cook.
So. after school was over, we all
three started for the girls home. When
we reached there the first question ask
ed, was, What shall we makeY' and
finally we decided to make fudge.
I had made some at home one night.
but as my sister usually made it, was
not very good at it, but knew the re-
ceipt. We took two cups of sugar, one
cup of cream, two small squares of
grated chocolate and a little butter.
We then placed it on the stove to cook.
We girls said that, if it turned out all
right we would each be glad to claim
the honor of having made it. but if it