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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27

GO HE different manners by which
people meet death are peculiar:
- When an engine boiler blows up
without scratching the engineer, and
when the prick from a needle causes
death in few days, one has reason to
wonder
Blanche Young, of Wabash, Ind, was
the victim of needle point. In sewing
she stuck the point deep in her finger,
but continued with her work. The poi
sonous fabrics caused the injured mem
Der to swell terribly. Blood poison de-
veloped and she died In agony.
Edgar P. Seeger, a Chicago travelling
man, carelessly picked pimple, which
appeared on his face, with a pin at
Ithaca, N. Y, and died shortly from
blood poison.
Within a week the dentists chair cost
three lives in more or less direct way
At Sioux City, Iowa, the filling Of a
tooth caused stroke of apoplexy to
DR.. Adelaide E. Kilbourne, and she
| died as she was leaving the chair. At
Loyal, Wis, an aching tooth drove KIM
bal j. Berry to dentist. 1t was mo-
lar, far back in the jaw, and was so
firmly rooted that in the pulling Of it
the jaw bone was fractured. Blood poi
son set in, killing the patient in a few
days. In Chicago the other day Miss
Mamie Ferry, of Oak Park, died from
fear of the dentists chair, to which she
was going.
Little Barbara Bothman, Of Jackson,
Miss, was the victim of the acorn. She
complained of pains in her side and
was obliged to submit to an operation.
In the appendix the acorn was found,
much enlarged from the heat and moist
ure The child swallowed it at play.
She died from the operation.
Lloyd Rogers, of Galesburg, ILL.,, got
a grain of corn in his trachea and was
seized with violent fit of coughing
from which he died.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27

Edward Fisher, of Rockford, ILL.,, was
eating peanuts when one Of them To-
Gated in his windpipe, choking him to
death.
Joseph Carter hit Edward Campbell
over the heart with his fist in friendly
scufHe and he died instantly. This oc
CURED in Baltimore.
In South Chicago the other day the
axle of a baby carriage suddenly broke
while Mrs. Mary Moran, Of 1852 Buff
falo avenue, was out wheeling her IL
months-old boy. The collapse was so
sudden that the mother could not save
the child, which was thrown to the
pavement, fracturing it's skull. Ordi-
narily, such an accident scarcely would
make healthy baby cry.
Charles 81. Ormond, of Milwaukee,
was treating horse that was in agony
and in leaning over the animal to ad-
just rope around it's hoof, the touch
of the doctors hand caused the nerv-
Gus animal to strike out with it's hoof,
striking the man in the forehead, kill
ing him almost instantly.
David Gregg, of Salt Lake City, al
most bled to death the other evening
without knowing it. He accidentally
thrust both hands through plate glass
window, but did not mind it. Later he
felt stinging sensation in his hands
and tainted. 1t was found that two
arteries had been severed, one requiring
nine stitches and the other six, before
the flow of blood could be checked In
these last few days. however, no other
| class of accidents has compared in
fatalities to the accidents in the hunt
| ing fields. Scores of men have been
killed or injured while deer hunting.
When one also considers the large
number of sick people who have taken
poison for medicine in dark rooms the
list of these peculiar fatalities will be
| greatly sWelled.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27
Bridge Hunting Pigeons.

Those who visit Fort George, and
who yield to very natural impulse to
have look at what is going on down
on the Speedway, are apt to have their
attention drawn by a sound of many
luttering wings as they descend the
steep paths and stairways close beside
the Washington Bridge. The wings be-
long to runaway pigeons from nearby
private cotes, the birds making their
new found home in the bridges stone
abutments and the iron arches.
The pigeons are there summer and
winter-lay eggs there and hatch their
young. They live in the indentations
which have been left in the masonry
to prevent the sweating of the rock.
These indentations provide the coziest
sort of homes for them, just big enogh
for two. When the fiedgelings are
strong and able to fly they soon find
mates, and also crevices somewhere
in the rocks of the bridge to set up
housekeeping on their own account.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27
LoNDoN's DOCTOR FOR BIRDS.
Makes a Speciality of 1t and Is Busy
All the Time.

Makes a Speciality of 1t and Is Busy
All the Time.
Birds are subject to disease quite as
much as human beings. Phthisis car
ries off many parrot, and pet canaries
are very subject to enteric. Treating
these ailments and performing minor
surgical operations upon feathered pa
tionts keeps at least one London bird
doctor busy most of the time The
methods by which he operates are
given in the Strand Magazine.
One of the refractory patients treated
was parrot suffering from a horny
growth over one of its nostrils. Its
struggles were absolutely terrific, and
In the end it had to be wrapped in twine
to prevent wing Tapping.
Canaries, being naturally fragile and
nearly always delicate in the climate
of Geat Bitain, are a class of patients
to which the bird doctor gives special
study and attention. They form, as a
rule, the larger portion of his clientele,
for, as drawing-room pets, they are by
far the greatest favorites of the winged
world. The treatment accorded them
has to be of the most delicate descrip-
tion, while the handling of their bodies
for various ailments is in itself an oper-
alton demanding the utmost care, as an
inadvertent squeeze might cause their
death. The affection showered by own
ers Of canaries upon their little pets is
often quite touching, many ladies max
ing it stipulation that they are present
while any necessary operation is being
carried out. Tears are shed freely, on
such occasions, and joy becomes mani
fest as soon as the poor little brides are
pronounced "out of danger"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27

Mrs. Mckinley is reminded at every
turn of the sorrow that shouds her
life. When her husband was living he
was by her side whenever her condition
warranted his presence. No matter how
heavy might be the cares of State he
found time to read to her, and every
day before dinner the family Bible was
opened and selection was read. But
these thoughtful ministrations are hers
no more to enjoy, and she turns from
the kind offices which others would
pay to commune with the dead.
After the Presidents funeral it was
Mrs. McKinley's custom to go daily to
the vault and sit for time by the cas-
ket. A rocking chair was placed there
for her accommodation, and a strip of
carpet was spread on the floor, lest the
dampness might injure her health. Her
friends feared that these visitations
consequent sickness, and recently their
opportunities prevailed to this extent
that Mrs. Mckinley is now satisfied to
drive to the tomb, whose gloomy walls
and dark recesses her earnest, pleading
eyes seem to pierce. From the tomb she
turns to the family plat where her
children lie and then she returns to her
home, where ever before her eyes is the
memory of two children stricken in in
fancy and the image of him, cut down
like flower in the zenith of his powers
and usefulness, and at the height of his
political fame.
She has no desire in life now save to
die and be with him. This feeling she
expressed soon after the funeral and
the same feeling burns in her longings
still. To those around her she speaks
| little She sits silent, contemplative,
with fixed eyes and pathetic face, her
thoughts being ever on him who is
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27

gone. Her sister. Mrs. Barber, con-
stantly attends her, but the most as
siduous care cannot recall her mind
from her own and the nations supreme
tragedy.
She has lost all interest in the little
domestic labors that formerly enabled
her to forget that she was an invalid.
1t was her custom to embroider and to
knit slippers and turn out many other
kinds of handiwork. These little ar
ticles she used to give to her friends as
presents. Sometimes they went to
bazars when money was being raised
for charity. But she knits and en-
broiders no more. The pastime so long
delightful to her no longer appeals. All
her thoughts are attuned to one heart
chord and that vibrates only to the
memory touch of William Mckinley.
Similarly, in former times, Mrs. Nc
Kinley loved music and was as happy
as a school girl in the midst of little
family functions and the quiet enter
tainments furnished by her friends. But
these, too, are of the past. She no
longer cares for them. 1t is doubtful if
she ever thinks of them. Her mind has
but one subject and that subject alb
serbs all her thoughts, waking and
sleeping.
AS to her physical health, she is as
well now as at any time in many
years. That is, she is in her normal
state of invalidism. But it is not her
mere physical condition that gives the
most anxiety. Some day it is feared
the awful load of sorrow that weighs
upon her mind will prove too heavy
and her life will go out at the same
time. Hers indeed is melancholy, pa
thetic widowhood. Her frail body sub
mits to the encroachments of time, but
her heart is divorced from it and lies
buried in the grave.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27
iWAAg THE WORLD GOES ON

The hearse was white that yesterday
Stood for while before door;
The box was light and small that they
Who were his little playmates bore;
The world goes on-gay lovers sing,
The shouts of happy children ring
Out gladly as they did before.
All, yes! The world keeps going on,
And people plan and children play,
But some ones dearest hopes are gone,
And some ones heart is torn to-day!
A heavy silence fingers where
Gay laughter used to ring, and there
Are useless toys to put away.
/ weep not for the little one
Whose sinless heart shall know no
Not for the child whose shouting's done,
Around whose brow the curls are fair
But all my grievous tears shall be
For them, alone, that have to see
The high-chair standing empty there.
Chicago Record Herald.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27
For Army Horses

Thanks to the invention of an in
genious Yankee, army horses in the
Philippines and in South Africa, are
now enjoying the form, if not the sub
stance, of kind of confectionery. 1t
it known as "hay lozenge," and owes
it's existence to the necessity of provid-
ing easy transportation for food in
country where the roads are bad. Hay
in bales cannot be carried on horse
back, for reasons that need not be men-
toned, but the hay lozenge may readily
be carried. To make the lozenge, hay
is compressed by machinery into disks
from II to 1S inches in diameter, and
inches in thickness. The disks are
packed in rolls just as candy lozenges
are, and are hung from the horses back
in slings, one sling on each side A
single disk, when cut open and loos-
ened, makes a good square meal' for
a horse or a mule.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27
sftting-Roon Drama.

"Who comes thereT called little Will
lie, the sentry, in threatening tones, as
he brought his deadly wooden gun into
shooting position.
"a friendw answered little Tommie
from behind the rocking chair.
Advance and give the countersign,"
hissed the sentry. ''or I'll shoot your
head off"
An ominous silence followed this ter
rible threat, then Tommie said plain
lively:
"I've fergot it."
"You can't remember nuthin'," ex-
claimed Willie in disgust, throwing
down his gun. "Cum over here an I'll
whisper it to yer ag'in. Ohio State
Journal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27

fit for grazing. About ten years ago
some tracts were cleared and drained,
and it was found that the soil, rich
dark loan with sand, was ideal ground
for the raising Of many sorts Of seeds.
The industry has developed, and now
these garden lands sell at from $45 to
$100 an acre, and rent for from 81 to Sc
an acre annually.
The pictures here shown are from
photographs made on one of the ]. G.
Robinson seed farms and in the ware
house of that gentleman, who is at the
head of one of the great business inter-
ests of that part Of Nebraska. The
seed threshing machine is loaded to
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27

which drew up at the curb. while two
ladies and gentleman alighted Some
thing about one of them seemed
strangely familiar, and he took a step
nearer to find out that it was May.
On the way home May confessed all
to George, except Horace's base part
in the evenings work, but she told him
enough to give him to understand that
he had faithful little fiancee in May
Harte, and that hereafter she would
not go skating with young ladies who
had brothers.
So May blessed the day, after all
for 1t taught her to value true love
when she found it.-St. Louis Star.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27
SEVEN DAYS FULL OF DANGER,
Queer Statistics that Show an Evil
Week in Every Month.

Queer Statistics that Show an Evil
Week in Every Month.
An ancient soothsayer said to i'm
perial Caesar: Beware the ides of
March"
But if the theory of DR.. Granville
Macleod, of South Chicago, is correct
the modern advisor can say: Beware
the Goth to the 26th of every month"
DIR. Macleod's assertion seems to be
verified by statistics taken from the
records of railroad companies, iron
works, grain elevators, boiler works,
hospitals, and many establishments en-
ploy ing large forces of men, as well as
the books of the coroner's office.
Reference to the records of the Cook
County Hospital for each month for the
past five years shows an average of
ninety-five cases of injuries by accident
a month. Out of this total sixty-five
occurred during the ''fatap' period.
The coroner's Office shows a more
startling confirmation of the doctors s
theory. About So per cent, or nearly
two-thirds of the deaths by accidents
and other causes requiring official in
vestigation occur between the Goth and
the 26th of each month.
OF the days of the week occurring in
this ''fatal'' period Saturdays and Mon
days appear to come particularly under
the malign influence. This may be par
TALLY explained from the fact that a
great many of the laboring class are
paid on Saturday. and many accidents
result from intemperance. AS an old
newspaper man said. Saturday means
pay day. pay day means booze, booze
means trouble, and trouble means
news"
Professor R. A. Mcqueen, now of
Kansas City, but for many years resi-
dent of India, and close student of the
Brahmin religian, theosophy, and occult
sciences, says that the priests in the
Brahmin temples have had the theory
for years that at this particular period
of the month the serpent made his APP
pearance in the garden Of Eden and
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27
PINES FOR HER DEAD.
MRS. M'kINLEY CRUSHED UNDER
HER GREAT SORROW.
Presidents Widow Spends Her Days
Thinking Only of the Past and Await
ing the Messenger of Death-Life
Has No Interest for Her.

The saddest woman ip all the land to-
day is its former happy first lady,"
Mrs. Mckinley, who in the sorrowfui
atmosphere of her home on North
Market street, Canton, is pathetically
solving the poets problem Of living
on earth with her heart in the grave"
For her the world, as she formerly
knew it and had lived in it, is no more.
Its sunshine and its joys, its pleasures
and its allurements, it's ambitions and
its glories make no appeal to her. The
sun of her life has set-extinguished
by the Infamous deed in Buffalo's Tenn
pie of Music-and she sits in the dark
ness thinking Of past splendors and
happy joys and bathing her soul in the
reflected rays of memory. Her world
is now her home and-the cemetery;
Westlawn Cemetery, where in the fam
lily plot her two children lie and the
vault where soldiers stand sentinel over
the dust of her hero and idol and the
nations martyr.
Throughout her life, from the time
when as Ida SaXton she pledged her
faith to William Mckinley, she was
wrapped up in him. While inspiring
him with her own sublime faith in his
abilities and in heaven, she learned,
on account of physical feebleness, to
lean upon him and they grew up in
happy, welded life in as close a COM
panionship of spirit as the ivy and the
oak. The oak is now fallen and the
ivy is bent and torn, deprived of its
support.
In the North Market street house
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27

Thousands of acres Of land in Douglas
County, Nebraska, are devoted to the
raising of garden and field seeds of
many kinds, and the chief industry of
the busy town of Waterloo consists in
finally preparing, asserting, packing
and shipping hundreds of tons of seeds
annually. Shipments are made to all
parts of the United States, to Canada
and Mexico.
Thirty years ago the lands now de-
voted to seed culture could be bought
for 81 an acre. 1t is situated in the
valley of the Platte, between the Elk
horn and Platte Rivers, was covered
with rank vegetation. and not deemed
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27
Monuments to Ministers.

Mr.. Gladstone is the sixth Prime
Minister since Chatham to receive the
recognition of public monument. The
other Prime Ministers similarly hon
ored were Pitt, Perceval, Palmerston
and Beaconsfield.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27
She Rules Manchester.

A recent guest at Tandagaree, the
country seat of the duke of Manches-
ter, was taken by the young duke into
a large room, which was fitted up as
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27
Uninhabited Islands.

Between Madagascar and the coast
of India there are about 10000 islands.
only 900 of which are inhabited, but
most of which are capable of support
ing a population.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27
ResuIt of World's Fair.

1t has been found in worlds fairs
lasting six months that nearly three
fourths of the attendance occurs in the
last three months.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27

Millions of men in India live, marry
and rear apparently healthy children
upon an income of so cents a week,
and sometimes it falls below that.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27

The popularity Of lazy people is a
great encouragement to the industri-
GUS.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27

Some people are natural born artists
at drawing conclusion.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27

Nothing in a newspaper can possibly
interest a girl with a party on the
brain.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27

If the new raglan coats fit. why they
don't fit
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27

tempted Eve. with the result that man
fell from the favor of God, and ever
since then this particular time has been
regarded as especially unlucky.
The age-herald., 1901-04-12
RADICAL NOTIFICATIONS NOT
 NECESSARY, SAYS JAS. K. JONES
Chairman of National Democratic Committee Think Talk of Re- organization of Party Absurd-He Admits There May
 be Minor Changes in the Chicago Platform

Fort Smith. Ark, April 11.-(special.)-- Chairman James K. Jones of the Nation- al Democratic Committee, in an interview today. speaking upon Democratic policy in general, said he thought absurd the talk of some formerly recognized leaders of the party about the necessity for re- organization. What the policies of the party at the next national convention may be, no one can say, and 1t would be manifestly impossible for any man, or set of men, to formulate new policy for the party in the interim. It is quite with In reason to believe that there win be notifications of the platforms of Chicago and Kansas City, but what these modi- fications may be, no one can say. al- though it is not probable such modtnca- tions will be radical in character.
 Speaking of the Philippines and Cuban relations Senator Jones said he was gratihed at the more peaceful turn of af- fairs in the Philippines, and hoped it would result In settled government with large independent powers left with the natives. He hopes the government will soon redeem its pledges to the Cubans and leave them to govern their island do- main as 1t pleases them.
The age-herald., 1901-04-12
CATHOLICS ON
 PUBLIC SCHOOLS
They Believe No True Educa- ton Possible Without Re-
 Iigious Instruction

Chicago, April 11.-Delegates to the con vention of Catholic colleges devoted their attention today to technical subjects Professor Edmund J. Ryan, A. M. Mount, St. Mary's College. Emmettsburg, Md, discussed the teaching of English in colleges
 Speakers at the afternoon session de- clared that modern educational legisla- tion threatened the life of the parochial school system All this class of legisla- tive action, they said. seriously discrim- mated against the church schools and every other system of education which seeks to combine religious training with fearing. It was argued that under exist ing conditions Catholics were compelled to pay taxes for the support of public schools which their children do not at tend It was insisted that the State should recognize Catholic schools on the same basis with other educational insti- tions to which financial assistance Is given. These expressions of opinion were brought forth by a paper on Educational Legislation in the United States. read by the Rev James P. Eagan of George town Uni, ersity and were liberally ap- plauded by the delegates.
 Monsignor Conaty said:
 We are not here by suffrance, but we are here as American citizens demanding our rights We want recognition as cit izens and tax payers in shool affairs. We believe that no true education Is possible without a religious instruction. and we have right to insist upon our demands. There is no doubt that nearly all the ed- ucational laws enacted by the states are aimed at the Catholic school system. It is our duty both to ourselves and our people to protest and continue protesting until our objections are needed"
The age-herald., 1901-04-12
TRIAL OF PATRICK
 AT LAST ENDED
Justice Jerome Will Render His Decision-Prisoner Re-
 mains in Tombs

New York. April 1.-The hearing in the case of Albert T. Patrick, charged with the murder of the aged millionaire, wfl- liam M. Rice, closed this afternoon and Justice Jerome announced that he re- served his decision but hoped to make 1t known by Monday. It rests with Justice Jerome whether or not Patrick will be held for the grand jury. Meanwhile Pat rick will stay in the Tombs.
 In summing up, the prisoners cosfpseI. MT. Moore. presented several reasons why Patrick should be freed. The last one was this:
 Admit, If you will. that Patrick ia guilty of forgery; corroboration of that has no bearing on the charge of murder We contend that there is no evidence that Rice was murdered"
 That may be-" Justice Jerome said. but under the common law. on the state- ment Of Jones alone, I should have to hold the defendant for the grand jury Whether the statutes change this, in re- gard to holding defendant for the grand jury, Is the question. That is . mere question of law and can easily bs set- tied"
 Mir. Moore, acting for David L. Short and Morris Meyers, waived examfnatfnn of the charges of forgery against them. as he also did concerning the charre Of forgery against Patrick. The latter was remanded to the Tombs without ball on the murder charge. but no ball was fixed for him in the forgery matter, while Short and Meyers were held in bonds of s10,00o