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La Junta tribune., 1902-05-10

suu VIII SOON oe eukitieo " the
degree OF doctor OF medicine, his
education being secured entirely
through his own efforts. He is
twenty nine years of age.
Regular services at the Pres
byterian church tomorrow, con-
Quoted by the pastor, Rev. Robt
Coltman. Morning su &c l.,
"Faith." Evening subject. eth
les of Etiquette. The evening
sermon will be especially address
ed to young people. and all are
invited to attend.
The Postal Telegraph Company
expects soon to have an entrance
into Mexico. The company has
secured the commercial rights
over the lines which will be strung
ny the Kansas City, Mexico &
Orient Railway Company along
its road. All the existing lines in
Mexico are owned by the govern
ment.
Engineer J. c. Smith received
orders from Superintendent Hur
ley Wednesday morning to report
for duty, and has resumed his
former run on passenger trains
No. and s. He has been off
duty sir ce the wreck at Syracuse,
Kan, several months ago, in
which he and Engineer Madigan
were concerned.
The Santa Fe is now bringing
back the extra cars which were
taken to California on the club
women's specials. The second
section OF No. Sunday night was
composed entirely of empty Pull
mans, and there were FIVE of them
on the first section, bringing the
total up TO fifteen cars. There
were also seven or eight OF the
same kind on No. q Saturday.
Rev. Robert Coltman and wife
leave on No. Sunday night for
New York City to attend the
general assembly OF the Presbyter.
ian church, which convenes in
that city next week, the former as
a commissioner from the Pueblo
Presbytery. Mr.. and Mrs. Colt
man will be absent about one
month, and will visi, New York,
Washington. Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and other eastern points.
La nnta Lodge No. 7oI, B. P.
O. z entertained number of
brother members OF the order from
Pueblo and Denver at social
session held in the Elks' hall last
Friday evening. Among the visi
tors were: District Attorney J.. n.
II. Low, ]. b. Lynch, J. NJ. Cobb,
Judge M. ]. Galligan, A. II. Stan
ard and Ben Bergerman., all of
Pueblo Lodge, No. 90. and c. w.
Tousley, OF No ~, Denver.
One OF the prettiest entertain
ments ever given in Ration was
the May Day party and closing
ball at the opera house Thursday
night, given by Prof. and Mrs. l..
+. Buttrick. Over three hun
dred persons were present and all
were delighted with the children's
exhibition Of the terpsichorean art
The little misses were daintily and
exquisitely dressed and their part
ners did the gallant as masterful-
lv as their fathers or older broth.
ers. Ration Reporter.
The TRIBUNE is evidently pan
acea for all the ills that afflict
mankind, also womankind, judg
ing from the following epistle re-
ceived from A. r. Eaton, of San
Diego, Calf. which reads:
"Please send my wife copy OF
the TRIBUNE, Of April 7oth. in order
to prevent an attack of sickness.
| think it will make her i'll If she
does not receive it," The desired
ros,veuyas cent vae terdav poct haste
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09

Take Time for the "Good Things
Come back into the life of thought
againi Read and converse with family
and friends. Get out your music. and
practice again at the piano and organ.
Go to church on Sunday even If the
Sunday dinner must be plain as con-
sequence. Take time to think. Con-
centrate into little time the necessary
nome work; master 1t, and do not let it
master you. Choose what shall occupy
your thoughts, what shall engage your
tongue and what shall take up your
time.\ Stop living in the small tea cup
round of house-work and neighborhood
society. Live with your children. That
is the only way you can live for them.
Enter into their higher life. Learn to
foster the first sparks of generous am
bition, and to fan into glow the early
and feeble glimmerings Of deep feel
ing. Give up what is small, and see
that you learn to know great from
small and to choose wisely. Art, liter
ature and music, all the refinements Of
Intellectual and emotional being. stand
ready for those who invite them in.-
Woman's Home Companion.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
DRAGGING FOR FOUNDERS,

How the Net Is Constructed and
Handled.
The scheme of our fishermen was to
scrape the bottom at a slow pace. The
net was a good sixty feet in length, a
sort Of twine fence that rose to a
height of thirty feet or so at the middle
part and tapered to six or seven feet
at the ends, which were each bound
with a stout piece of wood and briGlled
on to the drag-lines that led to the
sloops.
On these drag-lines were short wood
cen Stats, Of about the stoutness of
fence palings, placed from six to eight
feet apart. Twisting and twirling and
ever moving forward, the Stats We're
calculated to create panic among any
founders that might be outlying and
scare them toward the center of the
line of advance.
The founder is slow swimmer, and
it is sedately moving arrangement.
indeed. that does not overtake him. He
Is not only a slow fish, but also one
of placid ways. and when overtaken by
the advancing line of netting, it is his
habit to seek a quiet spot. The quiest-
est spots that he can find in hurried
search are the inviting pockets that
open out. left and right on the net
These pockets were sufficiently wide
and hospital BILE to enwrap a wine cask
| at the entrance, but at the inner end
so rapidly do they taper, it would take
| no infantile arm to wedge in a work.
ingman's dinner pail.
The crew of a founder sloop are two
| in number; sometimes 1t is two grown
| men, sometimes a man and a we'll
grown boy. In this case, Charlie, the
Minna's skipper, was a fair-headed fel
low of &c or %. compact, muscular and
| active. The boy, August, 16 years OF
age. was short and stock boy, rather
slow to grasp an idea. but q safe exec
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
DIED FOR ANOTHER.
UNPARALLELED SELF-SACRIFICE
OF THREE SONS.
They Voluntarily Submitted to Be
Devoured by Pack of HungryWo1ves
in Order to Save Their Old Father
from Similar Fate.

When Scaevola, in the days of ancient
Rome, to show his contempt for a ty-
rants power, thrust his right hand into
fire and held it there until it was
consumed, he gave an example of sub
lime courage and daring which poets
and orators have since immortalized.
But the story is only legend.
Infinitely greater than the legendary
deed of Scaevola, because of the sacri-
flee, was the action of three young men
in Russia, according to a story which
has come from the far northern govern
ment of Archangel, along the borders
of the White sea- who voluntarily
faced death in it's most awful form and
knowingly embraced it that they might
by the sacrifice of themselves save the
father whom they each loved and rev.
erenced The names of these heroic
young men are not revealed, but their
devotion is worthy place at the head
of the highest deeds of self-sacrifice.
The young men and their father set
out to make journey by sleigh from
Archangel to village $50 miles dis
tant along the shores of the White sea.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
CAVE JEWELLERS IN CHINA.

A Large Number on Hill Slopes Along
the Yellow River.
The fact has escaped attention until
recently that there are many cave
dwellers along a part Of the Hoang Ho
or Yellow river. 1t happens that they
are found on that part of the river
where the bridge on the railroad which
is to connect Pekin with Hankow on
the Yantse is to be built, and August
Slosse, a Belgian engineer who lived
among them for six months while max
ing studies for the railroad in that re-
gion, has been telling some facts about
the troglodytes.
Along the banks of the river the peo-
pie live in clay huts, but higher up,
among the hills, only short distance
from the stream, they make for them
selves permanent habitations dug in
the hillsides. There are many villages
but also the temples, the shops and
the storehouses for grain being moth
ing more than these dark artificial
caves. Many of the caves are nearly
as spacious as the smaller New York
flats. They are about nine feet high,
ten to twelve feet in width, and have
a depth of fifty to sixty feet. They are
dark and gloomy abodes, but the peo-
pie who live in them think they are
much preferable to the clay huts in
which their neighbors live on the river
bank No adornment of the interior is
attempted, excepting in the temples,
whose walls are whitewashed and coy-
cred with rude paintings in lively col
ors, that under the bright light which
is constantly burning gives these sa-
cred rooms quite gaudy appearance.
The only particular advantage the un-
dergrouDd rooms seem to have is that
they are cool in summer and warm in
winter. The Inhabitants are gentle and
even timid, and Mr.. Slosse said that, be-
ing unaccustomed to seeing whites,
they almost invariably disappeared in
to their caves when they saw any of
his party approaching. 1t was curious
to see them at a distance working in
their little fields above or below their
dwellings, only to find not soul in
sight upon nearer approach. They
| would all mysteriously sink into the
ground, and apparently there were no
human beings for mile around, though
| undoubtedly there were thousands of
| the troglodytes in their burrows listen
| ing at their doors for the footballs of the
intruding strangers.-NewY York Sun.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09

woolly and stem1ess loco weed some ef-
fort has been made to find out where
they get their deadly poisons. That
Of the loco weed Is a most subtle
thing. The poison of the woolly loco
produces strange hallucinations in its
victims. 1t affects the eyesight and
silently reaches one after another of
the vital functions, killing the victim
in two years time.
Some animals after eating it refuse
every other kind Of food and seek only
this. They endure a lingering period
of emaciation, characterized by sunken
eyeballs, lusterless hair and feeble
movements, and eventually die of star
vation. So mystic an element gather
ed from the earth and the air naturally
causes wonder and the desire to know
what such things may be and why
they are.-Ainslee's Magazine.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09

They had taken a supply of ammuni-
tiOn so as to be provided against an at
tack by wolves, with which the region
dampened the powder that it was use
less, and before their stock could be
renewed the dreadful wolves to the
number of 200 appeared. Knowing that
If they remained together they would
all perish, the sons determined upon a
desperate scheme through which it was
hoped one or more of the party might
escape. The scheme was for one Of
them to leave the conveyance and give
fight to the wolves, thereby delaying
the latter in their pursuit of the sleigh.
When he fell, as undoubtedly he would,
the wolves would stop to devour him
and probably to fight among them
selves, for injured wolves, especially
when stained with blood, are frequent
ly eaten by their stronger comrades.
The delay would give the occupants of
the sleigh possible chance Of escape.
But if the wolves again grew hot in
the trail another of the brothers was
to make a sacrifice of himself, and so
ON until the father remained.
To determine who would be the first
victim the sons drew lots and the
choice fell upon the youngest. Grasp
ing his knife and with an affectionate
adieu to his father and brothers, he
waited until the leaders of the wolves
were at the back of the sleigh and he
could almost feel their hot breath as
their red, hungry tongues shot out in
rage and their baleful eyes shone in
savage ferocity. And then with COM
mitting prayer to Heaven he jumped
to the ground, sheathing his knife in
the first brute that reached him. Again
and again the bloody knife was raised
and as often found a feshy scabbard
until overpowered by numbers he was
dragged to the ground and torn to
pieces.
! For the occupants of the sleigh, which
was speeding along as fast as the pow
erful horses could draw it, it seemed
but a few minutes before the cries of
| the wolves again filled their ears, and
soon the leaders of the now thoroughly
maddened pack were up to the sleigh.
Lots were hastily drawn and the second
son, knife in hand, jumped out and
faced the infuriated beasts.
He did not die unavenged. For lit
tie later, as the pack again took the
trail and came in sight there was not
over half a hundred of them. The two
young men must have made awful
havoc among them to so deplete their
numbers, for even allowing that the
sated ones fell out of the trail, the
number killed or so injured that they
were devoured by their companions
was great.
AS the leaders again came up to the
sleigh the remaining son, after implor-
ing his father to drive to the utmost,
and if necessary to turn two of the
horses back toward the pack and ride
the other to some possible place of
safety, jumped out of the conveyance
and faced the animals with his knife.
Only Imagination can picture that
scene, for the third son perished as the
other two. But the father was not
again pursued by the wolves. The de-
lay saved his life. and he reached a
settlement in safety, to tell the horri-
BILE story of his escape and of the sub
lime deaths of his heroic children.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09

and form in waiting line in front of
the church. By dint of much crowd
ing the regular congregation is en-.
abled to give up one-third of the room.
In the meantime, about fifty Of the
throng have been admitted to the
church. Now comes the president,
trailing no unnecessary glory, and hur-
rying as if to keep a tardy appoint
ment. In reality he is always prompt
Iy on time. Sometimes he is accom-
panied by Miss Alice, occasionally by
Mrs Roosevelt, whose regular place of
worship is st. Johns, and almost al
ways by his side or close in his wake
skips little Archibald or Kermit, stur-
Oily initiating his fathers imperial
page. Not infrequently the President
is accompanied by guests. and at times
the eight places in his pew have been
filled
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
The President,s Church.

The head of SO.0O0,O0O of people wor-
ships In what is probably the smallest
city church in the United States. The
dimensions of the little building are
2ex51 feet. 1t is a quaint miniature Of
a chapel, with tiny. though orthodox,
steeple. Otherwise it is bare of Or
namentation, within or without Save
for their pine board backs, its cush-
ionless pews are like the rough-hewn
benches of frontier schools.
No carriages roll up to the Presi-
dents church. He himself Invariably
walks And there is no hint of half
heartedness nor backsliding iA his
tread, for his sturdy gait serves the
President in his Sunday pilgrimages as
well as his secular tramps to Cabin
Johns bridge.
The little German Reformed church
has a membership of 200, with sittings
for only 175. Before 10 o'clock Sunday
mornings visitors begin to assemble
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
THREE STORIES IN ALL.
How Witty Guide Described Mr.. cleve-
lands BoathOuse.

lands Boathouse.
During Clevealnd's first term az pres
ident he had Euilt for himself hand
some boathouse on the shore of Upper
Saranac lake, near the Saranac Inn. 1t
was long, low affair, with a deep ex-
cavation beneath for the storing OF
boats and fishing tcakle. Dave Kronk,
famous guide of the region, never
tired of describing the glories of the
presidents boathouse, which he regard
ed as the real wonder of the neighbor-
hood. On one occasion Richard Hard
ing Davis, then a reporter in Philadel-
phia, visited the president socially, and
was met at the station by a native,
who said he had been sent with his
wagon to drive the guest to the inn.
"There is Mr.. Cleveland's new three
story boathouse," he said, passing the
structure.
''Three-story?" asked Mr.. Davis.
81 see but one."
"Well," said the native, "there's
the story you see, the story underneath,
and the story Dave Kronk's allus tell
lin about it, -.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
| healthful. Science has at last paused

healthful. Science has at last paused
to inquire why this should be SO. and
some day the chemical action which
can make deadly poison by whiting IA
leaf when the fresh one is harmless
will be discovered.
. Similarly it has been observed of
American false heIlebore or itchweed
that the seeds are poisonous to chick
ems, and that the leaves and roots are
poisonous to men and horses, but that
sheep and elk, which chew the cud.
seem to relish the plant. In all the poi
son, when In the system, acts alike,
paralyzing the heart and spinal cord.
The poisonous element of corncockle
has not yet been explained, but it's curl
Gus action has already been observed
When extracted it mixes freely with
water, froths like soap and, though
odorless, will when inhaled produce
violent sneeZing. Caper spurge, the
common gopher plant or spring wort,
is curious in that the mere handling of
it will poison to the extent of producing
pimples and often gangrene. 1t is a
thing that cattle can eat without harm,
and goats eat freely, but the milk of
the latter will then be deadly poision.
In men a moderate dose will produce
general collapse and death in a few
hours. The poision of the sneeze weed
develops mostly in the snowy yellow
flowers and is violent. The young
plants are comparatively harmless and
even in the mature ones the poison
varies greatly-some having scarcely
any at all.
In the case of this plant and the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
MILES OF VARYING LENGTH.
Measures of Distance Differ Greatly i'm
Several Localities.

Among the English-speaking peoples
of the earth there are four different
miles-the ordinary mile of $3.50 feet
and the geographical mile of 6,0S5 feet,
making difference between the two OF
about one-seventh; then there are the
Scotch mile of 5,92S feet and the Irish
mile of {, 6,720 feet-four various miles.
every one of which is still in use. Then
almost every country has its standard
mile. The German mile today is "a, ,31e
feet, more than four and half times
as long as ours. The Dutch, Danish
and Prussian mile is IL ,499 feet, time
and half times as long as ours, and
. the Swiss get more exercise in walking
one of their miles than we get in walk
ing five Of ours, for their mile is 9, ,153
yards long.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
Partly Familiar with Il.

aHow do You manage to make two
kinds of apples grow on one tree?"
asked the alderman, who was on his
vacation.
81 don't know as you'd understand
it il was to tell you," said the owner
of the e'orchard, 'but it's done by pro-
cess of graftin', and
''Oh, I know all about grafting," in
terrupted the alderman, impatiently.
"What's that got to do with it?''
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
BashfuI Elijah.


There Isabel-we Noah we'll
Wood by bashful feller,
For Theodore of this belle
Adored but dared not Ella.
At last one Eve upon the porch
In Ernest tones he pleaded,
He'd give up Paul to win her heart
Her love was Saul he needed.
81 wish that Ida heart to give"
Unto herself she Seth
'If Phebe Levi am a fiirt
His 81 will close in DEATH"
He'd Caesar Randall little while
AS Titus he was Abel
From his big Guy a tender Luke
Beamed Dora tresses sable.
No sooner Adelaide his arm
About her waist SO clever,
Than up she Rose Andrew away
She wouldn't have it-never!
In vain did he for Mercy Sue
This foolish swain Elijah.
"Oh, Hugo Ira hail." she jeered,
81 never could Abijah!'
He ne'er came Mary time again
And never after seen 'er-
And he's grown Grace since that sad d
While she's grown Evelina.
Eugene Field.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
WEEDS THAT POISON MEN.
Animals Can Eat Them Without the
Slightest Injurious Effect.

Out of weed study is certain to come
remarkable information, for the poison
Gus plants are the most strangely con-
stituted and given to astounding varia-
tionS. For instance, the common poke
berry presents a spectacle of contradic-
tory qualities. Birds eat the berries,
which to men are poisonous. Cattle may
eat the leaves when green and fresh.
but if perchance they should eat n
wilted leaf it would poison them. The
roots are deadly poison, yet the shoots
which grow up six inches high in the
spring are an excellent food for man
the rival Of asparagus and equally
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
Air !.

81 tell you," said the landlord of
the summer resort near the top of the
mountain, "a man can't get too much
of this pure air."
"No," gasped the tenderfoot, who
was unused to the elevation. 81 can't
get half enough of it!''
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09

utiye once he understood what 1t was
that his captain ordered.
During this dragging operation, says
James B. Connolly, in Scribner's. with
the vessel sailing always across and
sometimes almost into the wind, the
crews take things comfortably. Every
thing was working nicely by O'Clock.
and then our two shippers had an easy
time of it to watch each other and sail
their parallel courses; and, with drag
ging lines taut and with the net ia the
right place, with everything working
properly, it became the boys business
to boil the coffee for breakfast.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
Too Cautious.

81 have the greatest confidence in DR.
Slocum as a physician" said one of the
doctors patients. HE never gives ar
opinion till he has waited and weighed
a case and looked at it from every side >
"Um-mv' said the skeptical friend
.That's all right if you don't carry II
too far. There have been times, you
know, when he's been so cautious thai
his diagnosis has come near getting
mixed up with the post-mortem."
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
Agree to Norway's Demands.

The Swedish Norwegian commission
to draft plan for the revision of the
consular system of Sweden and Norway,
proposes separate services for the two
kingdoms. This was generally expected
in both Co.'S, and in nntieNorway no
other solutf the difficuion olt question
would havn acceptable.e bee
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
Raising Eagles.

Nils Dvag, farmer living some miles
from Rorvik, earns some extra moeny
by capturing eagles. He knows where
the nests are and scales the high cliffs
and takes the young, which he sells
for good prices in Christiania. He has
had many fights with the parents, but
never harms or kills them, as by their
death his source of revenue would be
gone.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
Pigmy CameIS.

The western portion of Persia is in
habited by species of camel which is
a pigmy of its kind. These camels are
snow white, and are on that account
almost worshipped by the people. The
shah presented the municipality of
Berlin with two of these little wonders.
The larger is 27 inches high and weighs
81 pounds. The other is four inches
less, but the weight is not given.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
His OCCUPATION.

Haven't you any occupation?'
asked the woman at the kitchen door,
after listening to his tale of woe.
eyes, ma 'am," said Tuffold Knutt,
81 am hunter"
ga hunter2 OF what?"
Scrub, ma 'am.'
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
What Had He Done.

Husband (reading the paper)-What
fools some men will make of tqem-
selves.
Wife-Now,H enry, dear, what have
you done this time?
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09

Jndge- hat proof have you that this
man absent minded?
Attorney-Why, he actually stopped
his automobile at a wtaering fountain.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-09
Heard i'm a Book Store,

"I suppose that work in sixty vol
umes is an encyclopedia"
"No; it is called The Love Letters
of a Mormon Elder