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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16

city hydrant The city of Chicago rem
dered bill for $65, the cost of a new
hydrant. A few days following Commis-
sioner of Public Works Block received
a reply.
The Burlington road held that the value
of the scrap iron should be deducted from
the bill-that scrap iron was worth two
cents a pound. Deputy Commissioner
Brennan figured that hydrant sold for
scrap iron would bring about $1.07. So
this amount was deducted from the bill.
You would scarcely expect great cor
poration to be SO particular about the
pennies. But watching the pennies makes
dividends possible. Big concerns pay high
salaries to men who can save more than
their salaries by keeping an eye on the
little leaks. Great industrial enterprises
are conducted with success by making
their entire profits from the utilization Of
what was formerly waste.
Take care Of the pennies. The dollars
will take care of themselves" 1ndivid-
uals as we'll as corporations must learn
this lesson. Most men fail because they
have never learned the old-fashioned les
son of economy. There is big differ
ence between stinginess and economy.
The manager of business who can make
the distinction, the manager who can run
the line between thriftiness and niggard-
liness Is the manager who succeeds. A
large volume of business on a small mar
gin of profit with somebody to look after
the leakage-that is modern business
st. Louis Chronicle
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Men with Small CAPITAL.

1t has been objected by some that tech
nical education should not be fostered
with public funds because the fields for
its employment are being rapidly pre-
empted by the trusts and gigantic COM
binations of capital in manufacturing and
other productive technical industries.
Frequently we are told that the man
who has only skill and small capital Is
being put out of the way of business and
success by the overshadowing combines.
Yet it should be plain to any observer
that there are hundreds of profitable tech
nical industries that the trusts have not
captured and. in the nature of things.
could not consolidate and control. The
profit to be made from them in any given
locality is too small to engage the Gu
pidity of trust and yet is sufficient to
amply repay the enterprise and industry
of small operator. Now inventions are
creating new industries almost daily and
In the exploiting of these the man with
technical education and small capital
finds plentiful opportunities for steady
occupation and satisfactory returns.
We find from the census that in 1890
there were 9,977 manufacturing estab-
lishments in the city of Chicago. There
were 19,203 in 1900, or an increase Of
nearly 100 per cent. But the average
amount of capital to the esta tablishment
was 20 per cent less in 1900 than in
1890, which shows that plenty of men
found chances to invest their brains, skill
and small capital in good enterprises.
The trusts do not own all those nearly
twenty thousand factories in Chicago, nor
the majority in St. Louis, Cincinnati or
Atlanta. The truth is that the argument
for giving varied technical instruction to
the youth of the land was never stronger
than to-day.-Atlanta Constitution.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
MRS. NJ. J. nANLEY.


Mrs. NJ. J. Danley, Treasurer of tn.
Rebecca Lodge, I. o. o. F., writes IRON
I24 First St. N, Minneapolis, Mimi.
81 was afflicted for several years with
kidney trouble which became quite seri.
GUS and caused me consider able anxiety.
Ispent hundreds of dollars trying to be
cured, but nothing gave me any per-
manent relief until tried Peruna. 1t
took less than three months and only
ten bottles to effect a permanent cure,
but they we're worth more than as many
hundred dollars to me. I am fully re-
stored to health, know neither ache nor
pain and enjoy life. Mrs. M. j..
Danley.
This experience has been repeated
many times. We hear of such cases
nearly every day.
Mrs. Danley had catarrh of the kid
neys. AS soon as she took the right rem
edy she made quick recovery.
A Prominent Southern Lady's Letter.
Miss Laura Hopkins, of Washington,
D. c., niece of Hon. E. 0. Hopkins.
one of the largest iron manufacturers OF
Birmingham, Ala, writes the following
letter commenting Peruna. She says:
''i can cheerfully recommend Peru
ma for indigestion and stomach trouble
and as good tonic. Laura Hopkins.
Peruna cures catarIh wherever located.
Peruna is specific for the catarrhal
arrangements of women. Address The
Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus Ohio,
for free book on catarrh Written by DIR.
S. B. Hartman.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Prospect of Longevity.

Timid people and pessimists are inclin-
ed to fear that the progress of invention
is increasing the dangers of accident and
disease to such an extent that human life
must necessarily be shortened. This fear
appears to be groundless. Collected sta
tistics show that the average duration of
human life is steadily increasing. Some
interesting and striking facts along this
line are presented in a recent report of
the Chicago board of health. The aver
age duration of life has increased in a
third of a century from fourteen years
to more than thirty-one years. Exclusive
Of suicides, deaths from violence have de-
creased 6.3 per cent. Deaths from rail
way and car accidents have decreased
more than per cent. Since the partial
abolition of railways on grade and the
introduction of tenders on cars, six years
ago, deaths from this source have de-
creased 1875 per cent.-San Francisco
Argonaut.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Church Entertainment.

The prediction lately made by minis
ter in one of the Western cities-Chicago.
we believe-to the effect that the only
way in which it would soon be possible
to maintain an interest in church work
would be by means Of "the continuous
vaudeville" startled a great many con-
servative church goers, and possibly
shocked some of them. However, the
stream of tendency seems to have set
rather strongly in the direction of full
fllment of this prophecy. Billiards, ping
pong, hops, amateur theatricals, secular
concerts, legerdemain, charades. socia-
bles, fairs, suppers, primarily for pur-
poses Of revenue, music of doubtful sa-
credness-if there is a dividing line be-
tween the sacred and secular in music; all
of these have come to be recognized as
adjuncts of more or less value in church
work. The underlying idea seems to be
to make the church an attractive social
club, and thus bring within its sphere
of influence many who value church
connection at the outset chiefly for the
social opportunities it offers. 1t would
be difficult to find a-serious objection to
this view of so much of the work of a
church as may properly be considered sec
ular. There may be line which 1t would
be dangerous to cross, but where it lies
would probably be as difficult to define
as is the Alaskan boundary.-New York
Times
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16

degenerate sons of Woodworking faith
ers, are making a great change in the
matter of hours, beginning the day
earlier. The business day has thus
been heightened, not for the pad un-
derlings, whose hours have always
been from eight or nine until five or
six, but for the men who manage the
great transactions in the worlds COM
merce.
Not long ago the head of a great
house in the lower end of New York
City was asked when he could be seen
the next day.
I'm be at my desk at seven-thirty
in the morning." he answered.
There is no need to get down so
early" said the other
"My regular hour" replied the great
merchant; Il am there at that time six
days in the week.
This merchant is in a business in
which quotations from European mar
kets are important to his other houses
In the West, and he is getting quota
tions on the wires while others sleep.
The vice-president of d Wall Street
bank is at his desk at half past eight
every day. The president of a Broad
way bank reaches his desk at nine in
the morning. AS he lives up the Hud-
son, he has to rise at six.
One man said that getting to work at
eight was the greatest help in the
world. He got we'll started on his day
by nine, whereas a few years ago,
when he used to arrive at his office
late, there seemed to be no morning
left in which to accomplish anything
worth while.
Then, too," he added, 81 get the in
vigorating morning air. By the time 1
get to my Office have heard the birds
sing and have had the early sunshine.
have met not few in the glow of
health, which tends to inspirit me-"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Emigration to Canada.

Can American emigrants be "assimi-
lated" to institutions and types of gov
eminent inferior to those of their native
land? That is a question raised by the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat in reference
to the American emigration to the west
ern provinces of British America.
1t is very much to be doubted whether
the institutions and types of government
which the American emigrant will find in
Canada will impress him as at all in
ferior to those of his own country. He
certainly will find that they guarantee
quite as large a liberty as those of his
native land, and that the monarchical ele
ment which Is supposed to be injected in
to the Canadian government by its nomi-
nal relations to the British Crown is,
so far as its practical influence in the
affairs of the Government is concerned,
a legal fiction. Nevertheless it is quite
possible that any large American emi-
grafton to the Northwestern British prov
inces might prove disturbing political
factor. Not because the Americans would
be at all discontented with the political
institutions of the country, which in some
respects are freer and better ordered
than our own, but because they would
add a new impulse to the growth of the
opinion that the interests Of that region
would be greatly promoted by annexa-
ton to the United States if annexation
shall prove to be the only means of 1e-
moving the obstacles to free CONNER
ciai intercourse. At present sentiment
of loyalty to the British Crown is so
strong among the British Canadians that
the motives of self-interest which prompt
their occasional consideration of the ben
efts of closer relations with the United
States are held in abeyance. But this
sentiment would probably be gradually
weakened by a large infusion of the
American element in the population of
Northwestern Canada. So that although
Canadian experience heretofore has teen
that American immigrants very readily
assimilate with their Canadian cousins
and, adapt themselves to Canadian insti-
tutions, they have heretofore been known
in Canada rather as transient visitors
than permanent settlers, and the latter
at least have been too few in number to
have any particular influence on Cana
dian politics. But if they get to going
to Canada in large numbers they are like
ly to precipitate problems which Cana
dian statesmen desire above all things
to avoid, or at least to postpone.-St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
ORIGIN OF JOHN w. GATES.
Made Fortune by Legitimate Business
Qualities, Judgment and Industry.

Qualities, Judgment ana lndustry.
Mr.. Gates is now the most spectacu-
lar figure in the financial landscape.
Wall street, that roaring furnace fed
with life and hope" is gazing at him
in open-mouthed wonder. There is
boldness about him that all admire.
The story of his rise is an interesting
one, and so far as it shows how legiti-
mate success In business is achieved, a
profitable one. One Of his earliest busi-
ness positions was that of travelling
salesman, and the rise of his income
from a modest salary to an almost fab
ulous amount, is an account, not of sue
cessful speculation, but of the results
of common sense and hard work
AS a young man, Gates was selling
hardware for Isaac L. Elwood, when
barbed wire was just beginning to be
used for fencing; and he erected the
first corral in the State of Texas. He
soon decided that there was more
money to be made in the manufacture
of wire than by selling it on salary.
and with some friends bought three
barbed wire machines and started a
factory on a total investment of less
than $4,000. The business proved very
probable and they soon started another
small factory. Here they made so
much money that they declared divi-
dends of about 80 per cent per week.
Gates seemed to be the entire working
force He travelled. sold the wire, came
back. invoiced it. billed it, painted it,
marketed it, and collected the money.
AS he was doing all the work. he final
ly arranged to buy out all the partners
but Mr. Clifford. He and Clifford in
corporated the Southern Wire Com
pany:" and so he pressed from one en-
terprise into another. always enlarg-
ing the field of his activities.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
These Need Encouraqement.

The person who really needs the atten-
ton Of the school commencement speak
ers is the man who has passed his college
days and has found to his dismay that
sheer force of circumstances has crowded
him int, rut. This is the individual
whose mind has stopped growing and who
fancied that his education was com
pleted" when he left his high school or
academy or college. Very likely some
misguided professor assured him at the
time that his education would prove in
valuable to him. He looks back and
fails to see where it has advanced him
materially. He has forgotten most OF
the facts he learned save a few vague
generalizations. He would be at loss
to extract the square root of any number
of four figures: he could not construe
Latin sentence or conjugate Latin verb
to save his life; physics, chemistry, math-
ematics-all are sealed books to him.
That he decides to put these things be-
hind him, concludes that his time for
education is past and puts aside with
sullen resignation all future opportuni-
ties for learning is not at all surprising
Chicago News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
1ntoxica ting Beans,

Among the peasants of Southern
Italy, Sicily and Sardinia a curious
malady has been noticed by physicians,
which is caused by eating beans. One
of the most remarkable effects of the
malady is species of intoxication re-
sembling that produced by alcoholic
drink. In some cases persons predis-
posed to the malady are seized with
symptoms Of intoxication if they pass
field where the bean plant is in flow-
er. the odor alone sufficing to affect
them
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Hen-Pecked Sparrows,

Female sparrows are especially tyr
annical toward their partners, especial
ly at nest-building time, when they
frequently attack their husbands fierce
ly On account of their laziness. At
such times the female voice can always
be detected, both louder and shriller
than that of her mate, as she pecks
and tousles him, until he beats an ig-
nominious retreat. Hen blackbirds
and thrushes are often very overbear-
ing and even spiteful toward their
mates when their houses are in course
of construction.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Marriage Not a Failure.

Is marriage a failure? The answer is
in the wide-staring eyes of that dimpled
bundle in the cradle. Marriage a fail
ure? Ask that young mother as she
croons over her firstborn. Ask the white
faced little woman in black over there
as she kisses the cheeks of her stalwart
son, and sends him into the world to con-
quer. "All is lost but you, Mary" chokes
out the gray-bearded victim of a busi-
ness collapse. An arm steals about his
neck, and a wrinkled hand strokes his
brow, and the sweetest lips he ever knew
whisper words of soulful sympathy and
courage in his ear. Ask him about mar
riage.-Cincinnati Post.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Full Weight Coffee.

Some coffee roasters think it neces-
sary to put water on their coffees when
they roast them. We don't think 30.
The result is that when you buy our
Monopole Mocha and Java coffee you
don't pay for any water weight. It's
all coffee-and better than any other
you have used. You'll think so if you
know good coffee wheI you drink it.
Sold in one and one-half pound car
tons. If your dealer doesn't handle
Monopole groceries, send Us his name.
Wadhams & Kerr Bros, Portland, Ore.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
What English Will Do.

A report in Missouri paper is quot
ed by the Chicago Chronicle as an ex-
ample of what queer tricks the Eng
lish language will play on one who
does not master it.
At recent church entertainment the
master of ceremonies announced:
Miss Bates will sing. oh! That I
had wings like dove, for then
would l fly away and be at rest ac-
companied by the minister"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Losing OPPORTUNITIES.

The automobile had broken down and
the chauffeur was busy trying to dis
cover the trouble. The impatient
owner of the machine at last broke
out:
"Hurry up, Felix! There are lot
of people crossing the street that we
are missingi"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Wanted to Sample Him.

"Do you take this man for better or
for worse?" asked the parson of the
widow who was taking unto herself No.
3. 'Only time can tell,' replied the
female whose wisdom was born of ex-
perience. 81 can't give you the infor-
nation asked for until I have had him
for few weeks"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Packing I'm.

Lockit-Why are you packing up
everything?
Mrs. Lockit - We must hurry and
get out of town, or people will not
think we have gone to the coronation
Exchange.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Cattle Are Not Natives

In an introduction to recent bulle-
tin on American breeds of beef cattle
the broad statement is made that prior
to the discovery of America there were
no cattle in the western hemisphere.
On one of his voyages Columbus is
said to have brought number of do
mestic animals with him. The escape
from captivity Of some Of the early
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16

1mportations Of cattle was the means
OF establishing the famous native cat
tie herds Of the West Indies and Mex
leo and the long horned herds of Texas.
The wild horses of the plains were sim
ilarly founded.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
An Unfortunate croesus.

"The very rich have their troubles,
too"
'Of course they do. I've got multi
millionaire uncle who has writer s
cramp the worst way'
"How did he get it?''
"Signing checks"-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Automobile for Doctor.

The largest automobile in the world
is being constructed for a Parsian doc
tor. In it, accompanied by two medical
students, he inten Is to make trip
around the world. 1t will have two
sleeping apartments, a large work
room, and four big tanks for storing oil.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Then and Now.

Mrs. Growells-The idea of your cali
ing me goose. When you were court
ing me you said was an angel.
Growelis = We'll, suppose / did?
What is the use of twitting a man
about the lies he told three. years ago?
Chicago News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
EARLY RISING.

Benefits that Modern Business Men
Begin to Realize.
A few years ago nearly all wealthy
men, bankers, brokers, the heads Of
great establishments, did their work
between ten and three. The New York
Sun tells us that the younger business
men, who are often accused Of being
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16

Every now and then we see picture
of an actress who looks1as if she was
reined too high. There ought to be a
law against photographers making
women carry their heads so far back
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Beat His Wife.

Mrs. Crimsonbeak-You say he beat
his wife with club?
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-Sever clubs.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-The monster.
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-Oh.I I don't know.
You see, he beat her at GOLF Yonkers
Statesman
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Different

Cholly-May Gabbie tells me you
said Gussie Gayboy and would never
find any girls to marry us because We
are too fastidious.
Miss Pepperey - There was slight
misunderstanding there. said you
were "two fast idiots. .''-Philadelp
Press.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Didn't Harmonize.

Haven't you read that lovely new
novel?" asked the first summer girl.
tNo'' replied the other. .'The only
edition of it I've seen has horrid
yellow cover that doesn't accord with
any of my gowns" = Philadelphia
Press
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
The Appropriate Vehicle.

"She seems to be sticklef for doing
everything appropriately"
''I should say go; she always does
he, marketing in basket phaeton.-
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Settled.

Jenks-Hasen't you and that neigh
boring farmer settled your differences
yet?
Farmer Akers-No: but our lawyers
have settled.
nks-Settled? How3
Farmer Akers-On our farms
Catholic Standard.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16

ETC Permanently Cureu 40 nts or Nervousness
TITO after first days ase Of Dr. Klines Great Nere
2estorer Send for FREE 90 trial bottle and treaf.
ise. DR. a. KLINE. Ltd s3l Arch St. Philadelphia Pn
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16
Railroad teaches a Lesson.

A few weeks ago one of the engines of
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail-
road Jumped the track and demolished
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16

he has rabies. This would often secure
persons who may have been bitten
against death from Philadelphia
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16

Mothers will hnd Mrs. Ninslow's Sooth-
Ing Syrup the best remedy to use for their
children during the teething period.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16

The price of liberty often depends
upoD the humor Of the judge.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16

Is your home supplied with the great.
est of pain relievers? Hamlin's u lizard
Oll-greatest remedy for emergencies.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-16

Don't Get Footsore, Get Foot-Ease.
It is certain cure for sweating, callous and
hot, tired, aching feet. Makes new or tight
shoes easy. Tryi it today. Sold by all Druggists.
Price Csc. Don't accept substitute. Sample
sent FREE. Address Allen s. Olmsted, Leroy