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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18

The popular cyclone cellar on the plains
of western Kansas, where cyclones a
few years ago were almost daily oc-
currence are ordinary sod houses, built
low and strong.
In the Russian communities of Kan
sas these cyclone houses serve as the
family residence the year around. They
are about seven feet high and built ex-
ceptionally strong. The roofs are slant
ing. and the houses are set to the wind
that is, the ends are faced toward the
east and west.
In Oklahoma every farmhouse is
backed up by a cave, a hole dug lto
the ground and covered by an earthen
roof Some farmers have gone so Ear
in protecting themselves against cy-
clones that they have a small cannon
loaded with salt and buckshot, which is
fired into the whirling clouds as they
approach. This has been known to turn
the course of storm. 1t is common
event to dismiss school on the plains of
Oklahoma when a bank of clouds be-
gins to arise in the southwest. These
wind and transforms are becoming
more uncommon every day, and it is
believed that the planting of trees and
settlement of barren sod has had much
to do with it.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
81 brought him to the Inspector.

81 brought him to the Inspector. A
woman confronted me like pythoness.
".You liar and blackguard. Richard
Morrison! That man never circulated
forged notes! He is my husband-an
honorable gentleman! If notes were
passed, l passed themp
"Good heavens! The author of this
self-accusation was my sister Rose!
"'Oh, Richard walled a woman at
my feet, don't hurt him-don't kill me:
Let Hugh come with me! We were to
be married the day after tomorrow
Il staggered back. This was Ethel
my Ethel! The man had caught was
Hugh Maitland. He was to. have been
her husband.
'They were two of the greatest scoun-
drels. sir, who ever played upon the
credulity of women. They are now ex-
plating their crime in Portland.
"And what of Rose and Ethel? Prov
idence only knows. l am an outcast
from their affection-a traitor, the ruin
er of their happiness, the man who has
wrecked the careers of two heroes. Do
you wonder, sir, that crime inyeStiga-
ton has no longer any romance for
me "-Family Herald
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
PLOTS AGAINST LOUIS PHILIPPE.
Several Attempts Upon the Life of the
King of the French.

Several Attempts Upon the Life of the
King of the French.
Louis Philippe, king of the French.
after experiencing several minor at
tempts on his life, was nearly murder
ed July %, 1885. The day was one of
the three appointed to commemorate
the revolution Of 1880. The king was,
with three Of his sons, taking part in
a procession, and while riding along
the boulevards a violent explosion is
sued from a window overlooking the
and the princes escaped uninjured,
though fourteen persons were killed
outright and forty others wounded. On
investigation the discharge was discov-
cred to have come from a machine con-
structed of twenty-four musket bar
rels, laid horizontally on a single frame
and so adjusted as to be raised or low
cred according to the angle required,
says the Gentleman's Magazine The
touchholes communicated by means of
a train of gunpowder, and consequent
ly all the barrels could be discharged
simultaneously. The window behind
which this deadly contrivance was
placed stood open, but Persian blinds,
not opened until the moment Of dis
charge, screened it from the public
gaze. 1t is probable that. owing to
some delay in removing the blinds, the
life of Louis Philippe was saved. He
had hardly passed when the explosion
occurred, actually ,wounding the horse
he rode. The man who was guilty of
the outrage, a Corsican named Fieschi,
was seized and subsequently guillo-
tined. Three more attempts were made
on the life of the same monarch One
by the discharge of walking-stick gun
into his carriage June %. 1886; an
other, at Fontainebleau, in April, 1916;
while the third and final act of the
kind may be recorded as having hap
pened when the king was standing on
the balcony of the Tuileries one daJ- in
June, 1916.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
As His Child Saw Him.

A prominent real estate man in Los
Angeles had an experience few even
ings ago that kept him guessing for a
little bit as to whether he should feel
complimented or otherwise. He was
at home with one little daughter while
his wife and another of the children
were downtown. Darkness was COM
ing on and the little girl was anxiously
watching for her mothers return. Her
nervousness grew apace, in spite of the
fathers attempts at reinsurance. At
length the little one burst into tears,
saying:
81 just can't help it! I need mamma,
and I must have her.'
do you do this way when your
mamma is here and I'm away?" asked
the father.
mo, of course not" replied the little
one "'Cause then there's some grown
up person about the house. Los An
geles Herald.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
Their Last Words,

Mr.. Rhodes was not given to high
flown talk and suspect the story Of
his ''last words" is a fiction. Sydney
Smith observed that it seems a neces-
sity that every distinguished man
should die with some sonorous and
quotably saying in his mouth"
Mr.. Pitt was supposed to have ex-
pired exclaiming, "How do leave my
country?" 1t was afterward estab-
lished On conclusive evidence that his
real last words were 81 fancy 1 could
eat one of Bellamy's meat pies" Mr..
Fox was credited with some becoming
observation about public affairs, where
as his last words conveyed a requisite
for barley water. Sir Robert Peel was
stated to have died after an ejaculation
about the blessings Of cheap bread. In
reality, he awoke for a few minutes,
after several hours Of sleep, said "God
bless you ALL" and died. Lord Beacons-
field was reported to have exclaimed,
"Any news in the Gazetteer with his
last breath, whereas he muttered, 81
feel overwhelmed."-Lon Truth.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
Sailors Curious Pets.

1t has been said of the jackie sailor
boy that he is so passionately fond of
pets he must have something to love
if it is ''only cockroach in a 'baccy
box" This statement was founded on
fact, for one of the most remarkable
pets of an English ship was mon
strous cockroach. He was four inches
long and one inch broad
One of the sailors had tanned him
and built for him a cage with a little
kennel in the corner of it. This insect
prodigy learned to recognize his mas
ter's voice, and when he heard him
call would hurry out from his kennel
in response.
Among other odd pets that have been
beloved by English sailors was a seal,
who had a tank residence on board
and a daily round of pleasure and
duty; his pleasure seven meals day,
his duty a bath after each meal. An
other was a deer who would take a
quid of tobacco with so much delight
that the fellow feeling aroused by his
appreciative taste made him a general
faVorite.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
WAS HAND or PROVIDENCE.
He Missed the Explosion, but Isn't
Sure It Was for the Best.

He Missed the Explosion, but Isn't
Sure It Was for the Best.
T was never an atheist" said
northern Michigander who was loafing
about a Detroit hotel the other day.
but it used to make me smile to hear
people tell about Providence doing this
or that. III tell you why I quit smil-
ing.
81 had an interest in an oil well in
Pennsylvania, and one morning L
planned to get up at an early hour and
ride across country for eight miles with
teamster. / was up at the hour
named, but found that the fellow had
started off fifteen minutes ahead of the
time set. My only recourse was to hire
a blackboard, and while a man was
looking around for me and l was eat
Ing breakfast there came rumble and
a crash, and l fed from the hotel, be-
lieying that an earthquake was on.
"Others thought so. too, but in the
course of half an hour we got word
that 400 pounds of nitroglycerin which
was being hauled over the hill on a
wagon had exploded. More than that,
it was the same wagon l had missed
getting ride on. l went out with
others to view the spot, or rather the
hole. What they found of driver. horses
and wagon you could have loaded on a
wheelbarrow. The hole made in the
highway was forty feet long. thirty
wide and twenty deep, and men, horses
and cattle for half mile around were
knocked silly"
'And you laid your escape to Provi-
dence, of course?' was asked.
well, I'm not exactly sure about
that" was the reply, according to the
Detroit Free Press. II told you ceased
to smile after that when anything was
mentioned about Providence, but was
never quite satisfied that a mistake
wasn't made"
What sort of a mistaken"
"Why, it wasn't three days after that
when our well played out, the COM
pany went into bankruptcy and I've
hardly been able to raise enough to pay
my street-car fare since. Sometimes it
seems to me that Providence stepped
in to save my life, and again it seems
as If she missed me on the explosion
and dropped the bottom out of that
well to get even. It's about an even
thing, l guess, but if you've got an
other cigar about you it'll tip the scale
a little bit in favor of Providence and
help me to believe that was saved for
some useful purpose"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18

are always scrubbing themselves in
not water and amounting themselves
with Oil afterward, but the habit does
not extend to their clothes. They will
take an elaborate bath, and then put
on clothes that never saw the wash
tub
Our home was a typical one of the
upper class, a great one-story bung-
allow, seventy-five feet long, built of
brick, covered with the inevitable
white corrugated iron, and with We
randa twenty feet deep. 1t was seven
hundred feet above the entrance to
the mine, and the hills all about were
cut into great terraces, which were
planted with magnificent tropical
plants. had two hundred banana
trees, besides oranges and lemons,
guavas and pineapples. strawberries,
peaches, all kinds of vegetables and
the most beautiful flowers. We even
had tea-plants in the garden. We rails
ed the finest lemons 1 ever saw; all we
could possibly use, and barrels and bar
rels for the hospital
An idea of the enormous supply OF
native labor may be had from the fact
that every foot of this great terraced
garden was made Of earth carried up
the mountain on the backs of Katfirs,
and the irrigation, without which moth
ing could grow, was accomplished by
watering pots in the hands of Kaffir
boys.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
PATTERlNG FEET.

Something's a-foot; beware, bewarei
Something is climbing the bedroom stair
With here stumble and there a slip,
Into the passage-trip, trip, trip.
Sharp little footballs queer and quick,
Never a careful step they pick.
Quantity marking a morning song,
Hurry-scurry they rush along.
Tripping bright on the passage floor,
Up they come to your bedroom door.
Never was music half 30 sweet
As the pit-a-pat patter of tiny feet.
Dear little voices, high and clear,
Ring like bell in the sleeper's ear,
Small hands pluck at his touzled head.
Daddy, oh, Daddy, get out of bed"
Keeping the rules-it's all game
Out they patter as in they came,
But somehow the song moves rather slow.
As down the passage and off they go.
And it's oh for the years that have
passed away,
And the feet that pattered at break OF
day.
Now they are heavily booted feet,
And they tramp and stamp in the busy
street.
And some of them seemed to tire Of fun,
So they wandered away till they met tine
sun;
But he sends them sliding along his
beams.
To patter again in your morning dreams
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
DOMESTlCS IN AFRICA.
Most Work Done by kaffir Boys Who
Take "White" Names.

Most Work Done by kaffir Boys Who
Take "White" Names.
An amusing picture of domestic con
ditions in South Africa is given by Mrs
Blow in an article in the New York
Tribune. Mrs. Blows husband was
manager Of mine in South Africa, anG
both husband and wife lived there fol
several years. In recalling the domes.
tic problem as it exists in that region
she says:
Most of the work is done by Kaffirs
who, like the Southern negroes in slav-
cry times, are called boys" no mat
ter what their age may be.
When the kaffir boys come from the
kraals no one ever uses their native
names. AS soon as they are brought
into contact with the whites they take
a white" name. This produces re-
suits which are not lacking in elements
Of humor.
Among the house boys knife,
"Fork" and spoon were common
names. TABLE" "Chair," Carriage
watch" and Matchbox" were other
names that 1 had in the house at va
rious times. One of my house boys
took the utilitarian name of "Ham and
Eggs"
The Kaffirs are very fond of rice,
when they learn to eat it among the
whites, and our stable boy thought lie
had found the finest name in the world
in "Rice" But the Kaf1irs have the
same difficulty as the Chinese in pro-
nouncing the letter 81" and so poor
Rice always called himself Lice"
The Kaffirs are the cleanest people
in the world in some respects. They
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
Knee.Deep in Kansas.

Eugene f. Ware, the new commits
-sioner of pensions, who, over the name
Of "IronQuill," long ago established his
reputation as wit and writer of verse.
has been much interested for years in
the condition of roads in his adopted
State of Kansas.
Recently R. W. Richardson. secretary
of the National Good Roads Associa-
ton, who is preparing to take good
roads construction train across the con-
tinent, said to Mr.. Ware:
How do the farmers in Kansas
stand on the road question:"
up to their knees" was the reply
Philadelphia Post
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
HOW TO AVOID BADNESS.
Do Not Wear Your Hat Too Tight
Over Your Temples.

Over Your Temples.
The writer Of this squib has much
hair ON his head. AS a young man it
was black as crows wing, curly. the
envy of rivals and the despair of imi-
tators;' as a middle-aged man. iron
gray, thick, luxuriant, with no disposi-
ton to grow less. How does it happen
that this one individual is singled out
from all the rest to be the possessor OF
so much hair? Has it been the use of
hair tonics? Is it the result of frequent
Der? Has he been spending money for
some famous hair restorer? Nothing of
the sort None of these things has hap
epend. 1t has been brought about
neither by wise management nor hered-
fty. This is the way it happened: The
head upon which this luxuriant hair
grows is of long diameter from before
backwards, but of short diameter from
side to side. That is to say long, thin
head, with rather hollow temples. This
makes it impossible for him to buy
hat that fits tightly to his head. His
head being so long, he is obliged to buy
~, which is always too wide for his
thin head. He has probably never worn
hat in his life that fit tightly over the
temples.
: Well, what has all this to do with lux
uriant hair? 1t has much to do with
it. The temporal arteries that supply
the scalp with blood run up the side of
the temples. The average person wears
hat that fits tightly over the temples.
This construction of the arteries and
veins that supply the circulation of the
blood and the pressure of the hat upon
these blood vessels cut off in part the
circulation of the blood to the scalp.
This makes the hair unhealthy and in
clined to drop out. Bald-headedness
comes on prematurely. But in case of
the long-headed person we are describ-
ing, no hat could be found that would
fit tightly across the temples.
1t was no wisdom of his that preserv-
ed his hair, but merely the accidental
shape of his head. He has always been
obliged to wear hat that touched the
forehead and back of the head, but did
not touch the sides of his head. This
left the circulation Of the blood free to
the scalp. Hence the bristling, rugged,
healthy mop of hair on his head Each
hair stays in its place with the tenacity
Of pine stump. A pound weight would
not be sufficient to pull out a single
hair.
Now, If there is any lesson to be
learned from all this, it is simply to
avoid wearing anything on the head
that presses the temples. This is prob
ably the reason that women have a bet
ter growth Of hair. 1t is rare indeed
to see bald headed woman. 1t is very
common to see a bald-headed man.
Women's hats are worn as ornaments
rather than for protection. They rare
ly touch the head at all. Men wear hats
tightly clasped about the head, inter-
fering with the circulation Of the scalp.
This is why they are bald. They ought
to be bald If they don't know any bet
ter. Doubtless they will continue to be
bald in spite of this article or anything
else that can be written. Round-headed
men are bound to become bald-headed,
simply because their hats hug tightly
to their heads.-Medical Talk.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
Women Copying Mems Fashions.

Do women initiate mems fashions, or
do men appropriate the ideas of the
fair sex? Our opinion is that in the
vast majority Of cases it is the women
who copy the men. For some time past
the Englishman's ideal of style in cloth
ing has been the easy-fitting waists
and the emphasizing of height. Ladies
have now adopted the same idea-the
tall, straight figure, without form or
shape.-London Tailor and Cutter.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
CYCLONE CELLARS.
Means of Protection Against Storms
by People in the West.

by People in the West.
The cyclone is by far the worst form
of disaster that visits this country
coming at unexpected times and deal
ing death and destruction in such wide
spread manner.
When the summer days bring waves
of heat across the stretches of hot sod,
then the residents of the prairie west
begin to cast their eyes to the wind
ward. They are watching the forma-
tfon of the clouds, and he who could not
distinguish a cyclone bank from any
other is indeed a tenderfoot. Then the
cry of warning is carried across the
plains, and the members of every fam
lily make for their cyclone cellars. These
cellars differ in various communities.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
Mineral Waters for Senators.

United States Senators are supplied
with bottled mineral waters at govern
ment expense. Nearly every commit
tee-room has something like a bar at
tachment 1t is usually in one corner,
bowl. The bottles of fizz water are
supplied by colored messengers, who
bring them in buckets of ice, like cham
pagne. The excuse for the expense is
the poor quality of the Potomac water.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
Two Sides of a Story,

Homer-When you were in Paris did
you find it difficult to speak French?
Travers-Oh, no, had no trouble in
speaking it. The difficult part was in
getting the jabbering IDIOTS to under
stand it.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
English Cattle Imports.

The United States sent to England
400, 7O3 head Of cattle in 19O1-55. .494
more than in the previous year; while
Canada, with SS,211, sent 16,62S fewer
thai in 1900.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18

What has become of the old-fashfon-
ed boy who expected everything in the
circus that he saw on the bills?
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
Sewerage in Mexico,

By the end of this year the capital of
Mexico will have a sewerage system
covering the whole city.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18

Probably the most important things
in the world are those that never hap
pen.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18

When you meet a woman on the
street at any time of the day, month,
or year, it is safe to bet that she is
either going to, or coming from, a
dressmaker's.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18

smooth. and in after years the bachelor
is often glad of it.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18

When a man drinks like a fish he
doesn't taxa kindly to water.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18

Few critics ever get what they are
entitled to in this busy world.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-18
WHY | RESIGNED.

eo1HY did retire from the
WW fOrce?'
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-06-19
whisky and hurried back to intercept
his quarry.

whisky and hurried back 20 intercep
his quarry.
1t was nearly seven o'clock wher
the two men came down. Tht
watcher, expecting the worst, va
hardly prepared to find the assassin'
quite a. villainous looking as the,
were. The big fellow had but on,
eve. his unshaycn face was SCARED
and red. hangdog, furtive look ac
centuated the disreputable ensemble
of has form and garments. The
smaller man. Bert, by his youthful ap'
pearance, was red-haired, freckled
and bandy-legged. A part Of hi:
right ear. frozen or mutIlated, was
gone. Fully clad, he was yet inno-
cent Of a shirt, except the dirty un-
dergarment that trimmed his scrawny
neck And vet, strange as il may
seem. at sight Of these two pariahs of
the plains, Clarence Neale's courage
rose. He got behind the big stove,
slipped his two pistols from the hos
tiers into ms coat pockets, and then,
with a bantering air, determined 10
drop his man at the first hostile
motion. he strutted up to the stran-
gers and asked;
How is Miss Jennie this morn
ing:'
4 look of sudden terror spread over
the two forbidding faces. They
looked at each other a moment and
coughed and hemmed and then:
Was YOU in the room next 10 us"
growled Jim, lowering but pale.
Yes. sir; that's just where | was
and / know Neale gripped has
guns.
And YOU know We pizened herr
Eyes; know allw
The time for genuine catastrophe
mad arrived, but though it came. 1t
hardly achieved Mr.. Neale's fright
sned expectation.
IF she'd been any other kind but a
pug began Bert, IF she hadn't been
l'most dead anyhow, r if I'd any
Iind of a decent place to keep dog,
wouldn't"
But Clarence Neale, of Boston. was
gone for another drink.-John II.
Rafferty,, in Chicago Record Herald
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-06-19
IN THE CLOUDS.

] saw a smokeless city,
Where all the streets were clean
Where shining walls and paving stonl
On every side were seen
No SCOT nor CRIME nor gases
Befouled the wholesome air.
But roses by the million were
In blossom everywhere
Il was dreaming.
Only dreaming;
was dreaming-that was all"
saw a street car system
As smooth as polished stone.
No accidental killings on
Its tracks were ever known.
There were no jolts to Jar one.
And throw him of his feet.
And wonders, every patron hsd
a clean and spacious seat
Il was dreaming.
Only dreaming.
i was dreamlrg-that was all"
saw a lovely maiden.
A marvel OF her kind.
Who never talked OF thought Of loV
Or hoped a mate TO find,
She kept no trace Of fashion;
Her wishes were so few
She never thought OF pattern hats
Nor sighed for dresses new
Il was dreaming.
Only dreaming.
Twas 6reaming-that was all"
-st. Louis Post Dispatch.