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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

prisonment at solitary confinement, as
has been recommended. The object of
punishment is twofold-to serve as an
example to others and to protect society
by removing the criminal from a posi-
ton where he might further endanger
lives and liberties. AS to the deterrent
effect of the punishment upon others, life
Imprisonment would probably serve as
well as capital punishment. Conspira-
tors against the life Of a ruler or high
official of our own or any country, when
the conspiracy results in the death of
the person plotted against, should be held
equally guilty with the one by whose
blow death is inflicted, and all doubt
should be removed, so that there should
be provided the same degree of punish
ment as for the murderer.
Laws should also be enacted making 1t
misdemeanor, punishment by long i'm
prisonment, either in writing or by spok-
en- words, to incite to violence against the
life Of any person. This law should be,
however, carefully safeguarded so that
it would not interfere with the rights of
free speech guaranteed by the constitu-
ton. Incitement to acts of general vio-
lence during strike or other disturb
ance, for instance, should not be pun
ished so severely. The law should espe-
cially aim to prevent the promulgating
and teaching Of the doctrine of anarchy.
There is, in my opinion, no necessity
for amending the constitution of the Unit
ed States to secure proper laws for the
treatment of anarchy. State laws are or
can. be made amply sufficient, and the
prosecution for conspiracy or other out
cropping of anarchy properly belongs IN
the State where the crime is committed.
Convictions are more readily and quick
ly secured, also, under the State laws.
At present the punishment provided by
the federal statutes for such crimes as
have been mentioned is wholly insutti-
cient. No one has thought Of the possi-
bility Of anarchy and attempts upon the
Presidents life, and hence there is none
in force where Congress has jurisdiction
to sufficiently punish the criminals and
avert such calamities as that at Buffalo.
| Anarchy differs from rebellion in that
| it opposes all law and seeks the over
throw of all government. 1t is a crime
not against a nation but against civil
ization, and must be so treated.
FOSTER NJ. VOORHEES,,
Governor of New Jersey.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

GO HE country fair is the harvest time
for the genial faker. The faker is
x not a husbandman and he sows not,
and neither does he gather up and bind
into bundles, and yet, when the harvest
season is over the faker has more money
than the honest farmer who has titled
many golden acres. For the faker gets
up early in the morning and goes to bed
late at night, and he makes money all the
livelong day.
The temptation to get something Tor
nothing, or at least much for little, to
f1irt with coQuettish fortune, is irresistl-
BILE. Though a man knows full well that
the faker is not at the fair merely for the
sake of his health or for a pleasant out
ing, and that his tricks put to shame
those of the heather Chinee, still the vic
tim will take the one chance out of
million of beating the game. He doesn t
beat it, for the game wasn't rugged up
so that he could beat it. Still he is will
ing to take the chance, and he suffers no
disappointment when he fails.
Chief among the catch-penny attrac
tions Of the faker is the cane rack. The
| cane rack OUTFIT does not cost the faker
much. A net rack may be bought for
from 65 cents to SIPS and canvas one
for from so cents to $1.30. Canes cost
from so cents dozen to $1.5O per dozen.
Rings cost 65 cents per hundred. With
this outfit and permit the faker sets
up his rack on four stakes, which are
purposely loose, so as to allow the rack
to sway slightly. Then he plants his
canes.
| The cheaper ones predominate, but
canes with swelled heads are occasionally
seen and here and there are crooks, some
reproducing a miniature, lower member
vary from one and one-qquarter to one
and three-qurters inches inside diameter.
The heads of some of the canes are al
most as great in diameter, and those with
crooks are turned in such way that it
is almost impossible to ring them unless
the ring is dropped Immediately upon
them. 1t is difficult even to ring the
smaller canes, for they stand loosely in
the rack, and a side blow tips them so
that the ring slides off.
Next in favor is the knife board A
board costs from $1.50 to $3.50, and a
complete outft-board, 100 rings and
eighty-four knives-may be had for
$14.5O and upward. Knives may be had
from 80 cents dozen to $3.9S dozen.
These knives, the cheaper predominat t.
ing and costing about two and half
cents apiece, are conspicuously display
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
"THE WOMAN DID IT."
A Pointed Conversation Overheard il
the Street Car.

A Pointed Conversation Overheard in
the Street Car.
Since the time of Adam men have
been laying the blame for all the ills
in the world to women. Do they fail
in .business-the women of the family
did it. Do they become inebriates-
they were driven to drink by the fri
volity Of their wives and daughters.
Do they wear shabby clothes and be-
come careless about the cut Of their
hair-the extravaganza of those who
are dependent on them has divorced
them from their pride and left them
nothing but rags to wear.
Even those of the sterner sex who
admit that their forefather Of the
Garden of Eden was hardly gallant
and was bit of coward are prone
themselves to put the blame where it
doesn't belong sometimes. There was
a man in car yesterday who was ap,
parently Of this class. He wore the
conventional afternoon dress of frock
coat, striped trousers and tall hat, and
every time he leaned toward his com.
panion the pile of his immaculate
headgear came in contact with the
prow-like brim of her hat and was
rubbed the wrong way.
After the man had repaired the dam.
age twice his patience gave out
You'll never get me to wear a silk
hat again when you are wearing that
thing on your head, so you needn't ask
me to-" he exploded-his tone was the
irritated one of relative.
Il didn't ask you to wear it this time
did IY' asked the woman.
''That doesn't make any difference
you'll never get me to do it again; I'm
not going to spoil an So hat for you
pleasure growled the man, and dis
regarding the surprised look if his com
panion he sunk into gloomy silence.
Directly a fuse blew out of the ca
wheel and the vehicle came to halt
The man reused himself from his alb
straction. Don't you ever ask me t,
ride out in the suburbs with yol
again." he said with much concentrat
ed energy; "here we are two miles from
home. and I'll be late at the meeting .
my society. was to read a paper
too."
Goodness gracious" replied the VIC
man, using favorite feminine ejaeula
ton in. her :mpatience. 81 did not as
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
lyEER SroR'E5

Saturn's largest moon is 2,092 miles
in diameter, slightly smaller than our
own. -
AS President, Washington first lived
in the house at Cherry street, the site
of which is covered by one of the piers
of the Brooklyn bridge. Later he moved
to the Macomb house at 80 Broadway.
There are nine members of the Su-
preme Court of the United States-one
Chief Justice and eight associate JUS
tees. They are appointed for life by
the President, with the concurrence of
the Senate.
A pigeon in harvest time eats it's own
weight in grain day, and blackbird
or thrush will eat it's own weight daily
of ripe fruit. Many kinds of birds exist
in summer largely upon plants raised
by man for his food.
In order to obviate the frequent dis
putes as to the ages of children the
steamboat authorities in Switzerland
have decided that in every case where
doubt arises the child must be meas
ured. All children under two feet are
to have free passage while those be-
tween two feet and four feet are to pay
half fares.
The dressing Of the hair is the most
important part of Chinese woman's 8
toilet. The district she comes from
may always be known from the manner
in which she does her hair. 1t also in
dieates her station in life. Young girls,
whether married or single, wear cues,
coiling up their hair. as their Western
sisters do, on attaining a certain age.
There are three nut-cracking plants
inst. Louis, giving employment to con
siderable number of people. The nut
crackers are driven by electricity, each
nut being fed individually into the
crusher. After the shells are cracked
the nuts are winnowed by an air blast
anIthe meat is picked from the crushed
shells by hand, women and girls being
employed for this part of the work.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
Desirable Qualities in an Opal.

In judging an opal, color is of the
greatest Importance. Red fire, or red
in combination with yellow, blue and
green, are the best. Blue by itself is
quite valuless, and the green opal is not
Of great value unless the color is very
vivid and the pattern very good. The
color must be true; that is to say, it
must not run in streaks or patches, al
ternating with a colorless or inferior
quality. Pattern is described as being
an important factor, the several vari-
eties being known as "pinfire,'' when
the grain is very small; harlequin"
when the color is all in small squares.
the more regular the better, and the
''fashfire," or "fashopal," when the
color shows as single flash, or in very
large pattern. Harlequin is the most
common, and is also popularly consid-
cred the most beautiful. When the
squares Of color are regular and show
as distinct, minute checks Of red, vel
low blue and green, it is considered
! magnificent. Some stones show better
on edge than on top.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

Professional shoppers are employed
by large dry goods firm to test the
abilities of their clerks. This firm owns
over thirty large shops, andy employs
nearly one thousand assistants. To
find out whether every customer is po-
litely served, number of lady custom
ers are employed to call at the various
shops. They are told to give as much
trouble as possible, and sometimes to
leave without making purchase after
looking at nearly everything in the
shop. Should the unfortunate assist
ants temper not be equal to the strain,
or should a single word be said that
might offend, a report will infallibly
reach headquarters and lead to the dis
missal of the sorely tried handler of
silks and ribbons.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

have heard the racket in the lion house
1t was very near their dinner-time and
they were all hungry. The old lion and
his wife were prancing round their
cage. roaring with all their might
Their noise started the puma, and
when he began he started the panthers.
1t was, assure you, pandemonium let
loose. =
So Mamie poured half of Florida
water on a piece of raw cotton and
threw it in the lions cage. He stopped
his noise, shifted at it, rolled all over
it, and acted just like good-natured
puppy dog. He rolled over and over
with his four big strong legs in the
air. He was perfectly happy and for
got that he was hungry. Then Mrs
Lion came up and had a roll, and he
never once snarled at her as he so often
does. They both were as nice and quiet
as two pussy cats. Mamie and l didn't
regret having spent our money on the
perfume. u J.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

ed with all the blades open, and therein
lies the secret of the knife board. The
cunning faker arranges his knife board
so that the rings slide over them as water
does ducks back.
The wheel of fortune seems as fair as
any game can be, yet the arrow has
'sneak" and the faker can stop it at
any number or article he desires. A
wheel may be bought as low as $40. in-
Guiding 25O pieces of jewelry, but this
is of the cheapest kind. rings, for exam
pie, being quoted as low as one cent
apiece. With this cheap wheel the first
profit at 10 cents a whirl, without any
sneaking, amounts to $15, and the busi-
ness requires no previous experience" F"
A full outfit of $50 pieces of jewelry
costs but So, thus making gain of $50,
and some takers make as much as $50 a
day.
The higher the cost of the wheel the
more easily and quickly the money is
made, as they are fitted with large pins
to separate numbers or colors, and the
arrow point has a screw feather, making
certain winner of any desired number
or color and avoiding all possibility of
dispute.
Nothing is more tempting than the
| striking machine, and nothing looks fair
er. But these striking machines are in
genious arrangements, and, in the words
of an advertisement of new kind now
on the market, "can be manipulated
without a helper" One of these may be
had for $50, while prize cigars are offer
ed to the takers for $40 a thousand.
Red, white and blue is dealing game
There is Layout with three shields OIL
it, one red, one white, one blue. ASboA
and sixteen balls, five of each color ant
one dealers percentage" goes with the
outfit. Players place their money on s
given shield, a slide opens in the box
and out pops a ball. Ii the ball is of the
same color the player puts his money OF
he wins. If not he loses. II this was {
fair game the player, by the law o
| chance, would stand some show of win
ming, but as the box is fixed the deale
can produce bail of any color he de
sires, yet any one not in the secret cal
examine the box at any time and find i
apparently square, vet it is tricky box
There are half hundred tricks work
ed with cards, and all of such nature
that they can be worked without th
slightest fear of detection.
But the visitor to the fair is looking
for fun. The faker and his outfit enter
tains him and he doesn't begrudge tn
lmoney.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

age Of foreign born in 1900 was North
Dakota, that element constituting 35.4
per cent; the next largest being Rhode
Island, with 31.4 per cent. The other
extreme is found in the Southern States,
where the lowest percentage is in North
Carolina, her foreign born constituting
but OF per cent of her total population.
Nearly all the States in the southern sec
ton come below per cent. The number
Of foreign born in some States seems to
be decreasing; in fact, the percentage in
the whole country has decreased l per
cent.
CARROLL. D. WRIGHT,
United States Commissioner of Labor.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
he is pinned to the ground with. an ar

he is pinned to the ground with an ar
row. .r.. .--
But the most effective method is
what the Indians call the rain hunt
AS soon as the steady ~downpour of
summer rain begins every Navajo who
can walk repairs to the prairie dog vii
lage with hoes, sharp sticks, or any dig
ging implement. With these they hol-
low out trenches, that will lead the
storm water into as many burrows as
possible. Soon little stream is pour
ing down each small home, and the in
mate, much disturbed, pops out to see
what the matter can be. Many of the
animals remain under ground until
they are drowned, and their bodies float
to the surface. After such a hunt, in
which many pounds of prairie dogs are
generally secured, there is a feast for
many days in the Navajo huts.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

to do with labor organization, but # I
was a workingman, and | was at one
time, would not belong to a labor organ
ization. They put all men on the same
level. If l was bright, alert, competent
man, l would not be put in the same class
with the poorest man. Organized labor
means that no man can advance unless
all the others advance.
!; CHARLES NJ. SCHWAB,
President of the u S. Steel Corporation.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
INDIAN PRAIRIE DOG HUNTS.
The Little Animals Are Deemed Daint
Dish by the Navajos.

The Little Animals Are Deemed Dainty
Dish by the Navajos.
The Navajo Indian, while he cannot
be prevailed upon to eat a rabbit, is
greedily fond of fat prairie dogs. Large
communities of these small animals
abound on the western plains, and the
Navajo has resorted to many ingenious
methods for trapping his coveted dain-
ty. One of them is by the aid of bit
of mirror placed at the entrance to a
burrow. When the animal ventures
from his bedroom, deep underground
he sees a familiar image mocking him
at the front door. and he hurries out to
confront the impudent intruder when
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
Contrary to Ethics.

eve had to send him out O. town."
said Bronco Bob.
'He was always talking about his
record as a desperado." remarked the
visitor.
Eyes. That's what got Crimson
Gulch down on him. He wasn't satis-
fed to brag decently. In maxim up the
list of people he'd shot he wanted to
count innocent bystanders. washing
ton Star.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

you to come; you asked me. You said
Let's go somewhere where we can be
peaceful, and quiet and happy, and
came. Don't you ask me to come any
more with you, for l won't do it. If the
skies fell. believe you'd blame me
for it." 50.
The man opened his lips to reply, but
his case must have seemed weak even
to himself, for he shut them again, and
silence profound and unbroken fell
over the car.-Baltimore News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
Lions and Florida Water.

A small girl writing to Our Dumb
Animals tells an amusing story Of a
lion delighted with the perfume of
Florida water:
We have often heard that animals
were very fond of perfumes, so Mamie
and 1 saved our pennies and bought a
bottle of Florida water. which we took
with us to the zoo. You just ought to
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
Trapped Himself.

Dibbs (facetiously)-This is picture
of my wife's first husband.
Dobbs-Great snakes! What brain
less looking idiot! But didn't know
your wife was married before she met
you.
Dibbs-She wasn't. That is a pic
ture of myself at the age of 20.-Lon
don Tit-Bits.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

Dorothy has been my wife for two
happy years, and l have only one Sc
cret from her. That is, that thought,
even for moment. that she had been
false to me-my own loyal darling!
Reginald Pierce has taken the house
opposite ours ''The twin Dorothys,"
as we call our wives, are inseparable
friends.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
M'Kinley's First Diplomatic Victory

WI AIHIcy TIfs1 DIpIUlHaClC VIctOry.
The first social incident of Presi-
dent McKinley's first administration
was his granting Vice President Ho-
bart precedence over the ambassadors.
Lord Paupcefote is known to have re-
ported this innovation to his foreign
Office, which is said to have thereupon
inquired in to the custom of other
countries. 1t was eventually agreed
that Mr.. Hobart should be regarded as
the heir to the Presidency and there
fore on the same social footing with
the crown princes of European mon
arches, whose social rank is second
only to that of the heads of state, their
royal parents.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

Such state of affairs is not right in this
land, where there is a justifable boast
of the public school system, the best of
all agencies in the advancement of hu-
manity. But l know the trouble with
your schools-you have too much politics
mixed with your education. l have as
certained approximately the amount of
money expended by the people for school
houses, and the results are not at all
commensurate There should be a better
showing for the generosity of the people,
but there has been a dreadful leakage,
and the people will have to be generous
again to remedy the conditions
ELIZABETH Z. HUGHES,
Educational Agent of the British Gov
ernment.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
Labor Unions and Workinqmen.

The question of
organized labor is
not a question Of
wages. 1t is a
question of more
vital Importance.
1t is a question of
administration, Of
running your own
works in your own
way.
| have nothing
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
Distribution of immigrants.

The number of
immigrants coming
into this country
between 1920 and
June 80, 1900, was
19,115,221. Prior
to 1920 the govern
ment did not take
account Of immi-
grafton, but. the
generally accepted
estimate of the to-
tai immigration be-
tween the adoption
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

President l would make the penalty
much more severe than for an ordinary
assault Life Imprisonment, probably,
would be a fitting punishment for the
crime We have outgrown the idea of in
ficting the death penalty for lesser
crime than murder, and l would not re-
turn to it. Nor would l make such i'm
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

Little Willie-Say. pa. did you ever
see sea monster?
Pa-Lots of them, my son. They run
the hotels along the seashore.-Chicago
News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
Women Should Preach.

w omen should be
substituted for men
in the pulpit as
evangelists and eX-
Founders of the
gospel. w o m e n
preachers W o u | d
present the wom-
ans side Of relig-
ion, and that is
something that the
men preachers rare
ly or never do.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
Pressure in oceans Deepest Depths.

There are spots in the ocean where
the water is five miles deep, and if it
is true that the pressure. Of the water
on any body in the water is one pound
to the square inch for every two of the
depth, anything at the bottom Of one OF
"flve miles holes would have a pres
sure about it of 1920 pounds to every
square inch.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

The company manners of her hus-
band and sons is one of the greatest
trials in a woman's life, and that of
her daughters her greatest comfort.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
American SChoO-hOuses.

The school houses in this coun-
try are for the NEST part dread
full and are matter of the
greatest surprise to me. l have
seen some which are little more
than barns and which seem pos
itively unsafe and unhealthful.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
Laws Against Anarchy.

The anarchist is not thu Zoe
of one nation or form of govern
ment, but the enemy of all. Tor
this reason there should be joint
action in every civilized land to
stamp out the brood entirely.
For an attempt on the life of a
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13
Timour the Tartar

Tamerlane, the Tartar conqueror, had
a club foot. His real name was Tim
our Lenk, or Timour the Lame.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-13

People who have soft snaps are usu-
ally the ones who don't enjoy them.
The Delta independent., 1901-08-16
W. ". HASTINGS. Superintendent
LOTT, FRUIT,


Pest and largest display Of fruits grown by
one Icr-on. INT eli: ,ccuLd 81. Third s.: fourth
-; nth 81,
2-Dcsi dlspay Of apples grown by one person.
INT -: scc,nd asc.
a.-bcst display Of pear grown by one crson.
nni u: sccun, sOc.
Hes, d ,p ay of grapes vtown by one prr-
BON. htst u: second y0c.
f.-iiest display named peaches gr,wn by one
pcrsou, hr.i u: second 50r.
o.-iscst display "fnamc'i apples grown by one
person. h'nt u second TIC.
7.-l,csi display of ncctariucs grown by one
person. arst 81; second 3Oc.
s.-i,"st disp'sy Of ~ptlcois grown by one per.
son. ftst u; second Boz.
p-Brst display Of quinccs grown bv one per
son. nr~t 81. second scc.
lO.-Bcst display native piums grown by one
person. int 81: second 10.
li.-Bcst display Of foreign plums grown by
one person. nrst 81: second toe.
12.-Bcst plate Of I've applcs. any variety, hrst
60c; second 25c.