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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21
THE IDEAL WOMAN.
Opinions of Young Men as to What
She Should Be.

Opinions of Young Men as to What
She should Be.
The majority of young people, In
speaking Of the ideal woman, refer to
the woman of poetry and romance, and
as Mary Wilkins says, "a pedestal is
altogether too shaky place to place
any human being.
So we use the term in its practical
and more definite sense. making the
subject more real and giving the ordi-
nary girl hope of emulating her.
Not long ago certain clergyman
sent out questions to young men all
over the country, and to few young
women, asking them for their concep-
ton of the ideal young woman. The
answers were from men in all walks
of life-professional and commercial
amid the din of city life and from
quiet country homes. From these an
swers we are glad to note that the
young men generally do the subject
Justice and speak in kind and BROTH
erly manner.
The one clear-cut wish of the young
man Is that his life companion must
be a housewife, with all that the term
implies, while not denying the inn
portance of education, this must not
be merely ornamental, but Of the kind
to fit her as home provider and en-
able her to take her place as an every
day worker in this very busy world.
The young men do not object to her
knowledge of Gibbons Decline and
- h,,f
quire her to know Of the decline and
fall of the people by whom she is sur
rounded.
Mere dolls have no place in woman's
work and women's hands are more
beautiful after they have been soiled
by useful employment.
AS to the subject of morals, the
young men say. that to have one stand
ard for men and another for women Is
relic of barbarism. and a doctrine
that has no place in modern times.
The rigid rule that keeps girl at home
evenings should also restrain boy
from wandering around the streets or
country at unseemly hours; the evil
effects of this conduct tells on the one
as much as the other.
ALI the answers require a girl to be
Christian; and many Of them speak
Of special objections, such as card
playing. wine drinking, dancing, but
with the exception of wine drinking,
these open up too wide a field of dis
cussion. and the opinions of parents
are controlled largely by the particu-
lar society in which they nave been
brought up or the locality where they
reside-what might be right in one
section would not be tolerated in an
other unless it be wine drinking, about
which there cannot be two opposite
opinions among right thinking people.
In olden times parents stood out
against the education Of girls. but now
adays the danger is of running to the
opposite eXtreme-the education of
mere adornment. To many Of the girls
the business of their husbands or
brothers. the way they vote and their
cares and worries have scarcely any
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21
interest ror them. SO long as they can lli'

interest ror them. SO Tong as they can
dress well
We have not given the ideal woman
from the young girls point of view;
but one sensible girl expresses it in a
few words. She asks to be judged by
the same standard by which she judges
young men, land. allowing for sex, let
her have all the liberties which a
young man ought to have"
So then we can certainly say that
the essential idea in young mems minds
of true womanhood is her ability to
make homeAin a palace or a cottage
in aff1uence or in poverty-she is the
one who makes it-or as true mother
and wife gives it: 1--WE had home
long before we had house to put it
in."-Housewife.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21
The Slaughter of Elephants.

Antwerp has within the past fourteen
years developed into the most impor-
tant ivory market in the world. A
few years ago only twelve tons of
ivory were imported into Antwerp
from the Congo Free State, but to-day
the trade has grown SO greatly that
over 200 tons are yearly disposed of in
the ivory market.
About one-half of this comes from
East and West Africa, in nearly equal
proportions, the rest being divided be-
tween South Africa, Egypt, India and
the fossil ivory, which comes from ST.
IBERIA, the tusks Of extinct mammoths.
This increase in supply has not pre-
vented a still larger increase in prices,
and at the last Antwerp sale teeth
which were valued at $3.50 per hun
dredweight brought $270, and all
grades rose correspondingly.
= A famine price for ivory is tolerably
certain before long. The present sup
ply destroys from 10000 to 10000 ele-
plants in Central Africa, and about 49,.
600 the world over.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21
Stephen Phillips Psychic Experience.

In a New York paper appears the re-
port of an interview which CORE
spondent of that journal says he had
with Stephen Phillips while in London.
Mr.. Phillips and the interviewer" had
lunch. ''I'll tell you strange thing
that happened to me once," said Mr..
Phillips, and he laid his knife down, as
though psychics and cheese would not
blend. ''My wife and I had taken a
little house for the season in Surrey.
Beerbohm Tree wanted me to go to
Mariepbad with him in order to discuss
Herod, and l went. When l returned
my wife met me at the station and told
me that nothing on earth would induce
her to live any longer in the Surrey
house. She had heard horrible noises,
and every night the wailing of child
kept them all awake. Il did not laugh
at her." Mr.. Phillips is reported to have
said, "for these things do not appeal to
me, as they do to others, as ridiculous.
I determined to investigate, and wrote
to the late F. w. H. Myers, Of the So
ciety for Psychical Research. Mr..
Myers sent a man down and gave us
particular instructions not to tell him
what we had heard or to give him any
clue whatever as to the kind Of noises
that had disturbed us. The man came
down, slept night in the house, and re-
turned to London. We had no inter-
course with him at all. Later on Mr..
Myers wrote us that after due investi-
CATION they had discovered that child
had once been murdered in this particu-
lar house. 1 thought it, and still think
it, remarkable, for it was the wailing Of
a child that had annoyed us, and we
had not mentioned the fact to the inves-
tigator. That, 1 may say, is the only
psychic experience ever had
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21
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4 ~ AO
: sIlventiOn

Hypnotizing by mechanical means is
the novelty of NJ. Leduc, who uses a
midirectional electric current with $50
to 200 Interruptions per second
A dry" accumulator, from English
makers, is transparent, unbreakable
and non-spilling, the acid solution be
ing replaced by an almost solid electro
lyte.
Remains of a pre- Columbian sacrifice
or signal station on the top of the Ne
yada de Chani, at height of 10000
feet, are one of the Nordenskiold expe-
dition's late finds in northern Argen-
tina.
\ suggested new American industry
is the making of fish -four. In Nor
way, at seasons of abundance, the flesh
of fresh fish is dried and pulverized by
special apparatus, and the highly nutrl-
tious product can be kept and easily
transported.
The American built Oroya Railroad
in the Peruvian Andes attains the
greatest elevation reached by any rail-
road in the world. At one point 1t
passes through tunnel 1865 feet
above sea level This is nearly 1,5OO
feet higher than Pixies Peak, and but
little over 100 feet less than the eleva-
ton of Mont Blanc. The Oroya Rail-
road also enjoys the distinction of haV-
ing cost more per mile than the great
majority of railroads. 1t is l3S miles
long and cost $43.OO0,O00. The many
tunnels, bridges and zigzags presented
difficult engineering problems.
The recent volcanic cataciysm in the
islands bordering the Caribbean Sea
has awakened fresh interest In the
geological history of that part OF the
earth's crust. Prof. ]. Milne, the great
English authority on seismic phenom-
ena, remarks that the ridge on Whlch
the islands of Martinique, st. Vincent
and their neighbors lie is a line OF
weakness characterized by unusual In
stability. Geology points backward to
a time when the Isthmus of panama
was submerged, and when a belt OF
land, spoken of as "Antillia," connect
ed North and South America along the
eastern border of the Caribbean Sea.
bul, ike Tie ldUACu I1IA1hSios 1AAS A~-N
has sunk out of view, and only line
of islands marks it's site.
The hydraulic mining cartridge of
James Tonge, Jr., is designed to re-
place explosives in mines liable to con-
tain firedamp. 1t consists Of a steel
cylinder twenty inches long by three
inches in diameter, across which are
arranged a series Of eight small tele-
scopic rams, and in use the cartridge Is
pushed up into drill hole in the coal
and hand pumps force water into the
cylinder, driving out the rams. A pres
sure of three tons per square inch can
be readily obtained. In about ten min
utes the rams bring down the coal IN
large pieces, and with much less waste
in dust and fragments than when ex-
plosives are used. A test of two years
has shown the cost to be about the
same as ordinary mining. But the coal
is more valuable, and the dangers are
greatly lessened, many deaths result
ing yearly both from accidents with ex-
plosives and from the igniting OF explo-
siye gases. The British Society of Arts
has found the cartridge worthy OF an
important prize.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21

OlD
FAvORlTES
The Lest Hymn.

The Lest Hymn.
The Sabbath day v as ending, in a village
by the sea,
The uttered benedt.tion touched the peo-
pie tenderly:
And they rose to face the sunset, in the
glowing lighted west,
And then hastened to their dwellings for
Gods blessed boon of rest.
But they looked across the waters, and
storm was raging there;
A fierce spirit moved above them--the
wild spirit of the air
And it lashed, and shook, and tore them,
till they Numbered, groaned. and
doomed,
And, alas! for any vessel in their yawn-
ing CULTS entombed.
Very anxious were the people, on that
rocky coast of Wales,
Lest the dawns of coming morrows should
be telling awful tales.
When the sea had spent its passion, and
should cast upon the shore
Bits of wreck and swollen victims, as it
had done heretofore.
With the rough winds blowing round her,
brave woman strained her eyes,
And she saw, along the pillows, large
vessel fall and rise.
Oh! it did not need prophet to tell what
the end must be,
For no ship could ride in safety near that
shore on such sea.
Then the plying people hurried from
their homes and thronged the
beach
Oh! for power to cross the waters, and
the perishing to reachi
Helpless hands We're. wrung for sorrow,
tender hearts grew cold with
dread,
And the ship, urged by the tempest, to
the fatal rock-shore sped.
"She has parted in the middle! Oh. the
half of her goes down!
God have mercy! Is His heaven far to
seek for those who drown2'
Lo! when next the white, shocked faces
looked with terror on the sea,
Only one last clinging figure on spar
was seen to be.
Nearer to the trembling watchers came
the wreck tossed by the wave;
And the man still clung and hoated,
though no power on earth could
save.
Gould we send him short message?
Here's a trumpet-shout away"
Twas the preachers hand that took it,
and he wondered what to say.
Any memory of his sermon? Firstly?
Secondly? All, no.
There was but one thing to utter in that
awful hour of woe;
So he shouted through the trumpet:
Look to Jesus! can you hear?
And "Ay-ay, sir!'' rang the answer DER
the waters loud and clear.
Then they listened. "He is singing
Jesus, lover of my soul,'
And the wind brought back the echo
''while the nearer waters roll;"
Strange, indeed, it was to hear him
till the storm of life is past
Singing bravely from the waters-"Oh,
receive my soul at last"
He could have no other refuge. Hangs
my helpless soul on thee;
Leave, or, leave me not" The singer
dropped at last into the sea.
And the Watchers, looking homeward
through their eyes by tears made
dim,
Said: He passed to be with Jesus, in
the singing of that hymn"
Marianne birmingham.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21

Our Turkey.
Aunt Sallie sent a turkey egg
To Mabel and to Pitt.
They gave it to the speckled hen
When she began to sit.
1t hatched little turkey out,
And never anywhere
Did any fowl more kindness find
Than fell to this ones share.
They planned it for Thanksgiving Day,
But, as the time drew nigh,
They talked less of the turkey feast
And more of pumpkin pie.
And then at last they came to beg
The turkeys life we spare.
And said they would contented be
To dine ON palmer fare.
With teardrops brimming both their eyes
l could not say them nay,
And so we killed a big, fat hen
To celebrate the day.
Thanksgiving came, our turkey still
Was monarch of his beat
Instead of making up our feast,
He helped the feast to eat
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21

the United States of the world, new
nation which is to result from a politi-
cal union Of Great Britain and the
United States, the latter being the NOV
ing factor. This will doubtless be TAX
en- by most Englishmen as an insult
and certainly by many Americans as a
joke, though Mr.. Stead seriously thinks
that the United States ought to accept
the gift and gladly undertake the new
ta ell
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21

~H, greenly and fair in the lands of the
sun.
~ The vines of the gourd and the rich
melon run,
And the rock and the tree and the cottage
With broad leaves all greenness and bios
SONS all gold,
Like that which DER Nineyeh's prophet once
grew,
While he waited to know that his warning
was true, ,
And Ionged for the storm-cloud, and lis
tened in vain
For the rush of the whirlwind and red fire
rain.
On the banks of the Xenil, the dark Span
ish maiden
Comes up with the fruit of the tangled vine
laden;
And the Creole of Cuba laughs out to be-
hold
Through the orange leaves shining the broad
spheres of gold;
Yet with dearer delight from his home in
the north,
On the fields of his harvest the Yankee
looks forth,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21
A Marked Woman.

Surprising fair she was, and yet
Grim Fate had shared her in it's net
A price was on her head!
And as she walked among the crowd,
Some sneered, some even laughed aloud
For Charity was dead.
Her fair cheek-mantled with dismay,
For walking forth that summer day
To bow at Fashions shrine,
She found that on the hat she wore,
A printed slip the legend bore:
Reduced to forty-nine."
-Philadelphia Inquirer
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21
Not in the Trust.

whats that?'' queried the old hen,
as she observed strange plant in the
garden.
.sThat," replied the gray goose. sis
what they call an egg plant"
''An egg plant, eh p observed the old
hen. "Well, they say that competition
is the life of trade, but Pm getting too
old to take any chances, SO I'll nip
this In the bud"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21
MEN WHO DELIVER MAIL.
Heart Tragedies that Line the Route
of Letter Carriera.

Heart Tragedies tnaC Line the hOute
of Letter Carriers.
''Tell you story? Why, yes, l might
tell good many stories if that was in
my line" The gray carrier blew
pearly wreath of smoke upward and
flecked the dead ash from his cigar"
says the Denver News. LET me see.
There's an old lady on my route down
in Alabama who sits knitting the live
long day by the front room window.
Every morning and afternoon when
whistle at the door Of her next door
neighbor she lays down her knitting
and peers with a tired, eager face out
Of that window until go by. She's
got boy somewhere out West. He
doesn't write to her twice year. YET
twice each day the whole year through
she sits there with that anxious look,
waiting, waiting, waiting. l feel a
twitch at my own heart every time
pass by and see the look Of expectancy
fade into disappointment. Sometimes
I'd give $50 to be able to stop and give
her Eve lines from that good-for-noth-
ing boy of hers for whom she's eating
out her heart"
"That reminds me-" said a younger
man who heard the gray carriers
story, "of a pretty baby on my route
in a Louisiana city. She's a dainty
tot about or maybe 5 years old. She
has blue-gray eyes like a wood violet
that look fellow straight to the heart.
Some little girls can do that after they
are older, This tots mamma died six
months ago, and for month after
ward she used to come tripping down
the walk to meet me with little white
note in her hand, and looking me to the
heart out of those big, trusting eyes,
she would say: Mr.. Postman, won't
you please take this letter to my mann
ma in heavenY / used to take the
dainty missive from the wee pink hand.
1 couldn't tell her how far away her
mamma was. One day she came with
out letter and there was pain in the
great, sweet eyes. Mr.. Postman,
baby wants a letter from mamma.
Please, Mr.. Postman, tell my mamma
me wants some letters, too,' and, boys,
every day for a week 1 had to pass
that baby with the pain in the gray
blue eyes, and wondered the angels
did not find some way some how to
make her baby beart understand"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21
STEAD SHOCKS BRITAIN.

William T. Stead, the famous English
publicist, has shocked Great Britain by
writing a book to proclaim and support
his theory that, if the British empire
Is to be saved, it must be merged into
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21

President Lincoln and Thanksgiving.
1t was President Lincoln who restored
Thanksgiving day. In 1868 the regular
Thanksgiving custom began, and the last
Thursday in November has since been
one of our national holidays.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21

81 7 was Charlie
il Towns frs
q year at the Val
ley Prep" School,
and he had made
the varsity! This
is a most unusual
thing for a fresh
man to do, for most
of them are away
below the average
of strength and
weight necessary to
the Zine" and
backs" who, as a
rule, are two or
three years older,
and that at a period
of growth when two
or three years per-
init a wonderful in
crease in bone,
sinew and solid
muscle. Still, by
virtue of his cat
like activity and
phenomenal sprint
ing abilities, Char
lie was a fixture at
the all-impOrtlnt
position of quarter
back. He was en-
We'd by his class
men, less fortunate;
his companionship
sought by the SEN
iors, and-oh! SUI
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21
Pope Leo's Poems,

The volume of Latin poems written
by Pope Leo Kill, which has recently
been published, contains some poems
written in 1922.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21
Appreciation.

"That musician is a wonderful man."
"He u.s." answered Mr.. Cumrox. "Any-
body who can get me to pay $25 so
that my family can hear him yell at
the top of his voice is clever."-Wash-
ington Star.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21

Every mothers pet wishes when he
Is grown that the money had been
saved for him that was spent on pho
tographs when he was a baby.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21

Where the crook-n are coiling and yei-
low fruit shines,
And the sun of September melts down on
his vines.
All! on Thanksgiving Day, when from east
and from west,
From north and from south come the pill
grim and guest,
When the gray-haired New-Englander sees
round his board
The old broken links of affection restored
When the care-wearied man seeks his moth
er once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the glri
smiled before,
What moistens the lip and what brightens
the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich
pumpkin pie?
Oh, fruit loved of boyhood! the old days re-
calling;
When the wood grapes were purpling and
brown nuts were falling.
When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin,
Glarng out through the dark with candle
within!
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21
Cause for Rejoicing.

Eyes, sar, pawson, dis is er glorious
Thanksgibbin', en- ez soon ez 1 git home
an clean off er bit, I'll come an jine in
de services at de meetin' house."
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-21

No amount of exposure will make
man an immune in a love affair.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-01-01

Mrs. John Culbertson, who has been
dangerously i'll, Is much better at this
writing. We are sorry to chronicle
the death of their infant which oc-
Cured Wednesday, Dec. 18Th.
There is a great deal of moving in
this section.
Mr.. j. A. @. Martin, who has been
living on Mr.. Joel Mocre's place for
eight years, has moved to MIR. Jno. r.
Owings' home place.
Mr.. Warren Daynell has moved from
among us to near Coronaca.
DIR. j. o. Martin will move in o few
days up near Poplar Springs, where he
will be more accessible to his churches,
which are Mt Olive, Mt. Gallagher,
Princeton and Columbia. The last
named Is in Greenville county, three
miles above Princeton.
Orange blossoms are in full bloom.
There will be three or four weddings
near here this Christmas. Perhaps the
public will hear who these parties are
later. "Harder the times more are
the weddings" seems to be o true say.
ing.
The school at Mt. Olive is being
taught this year by Miss frankie Cui.
bertson. She seem to be giving salts.
faction. The school Is not as full as Il
was last year owing to the fact that
several families have left the neigh.
borhocd.
MAJ
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-01-01
Sale of Valuable Place.

BY virtue of q power of attorney OF
Mrs Mary r.. Lynch and Miss b. A. p.
Garrett, and with the written consent
of those holding mortgages over the
premises below described, 1 will sell
to the highest bidder, at public outcry,
at Laurens Court House, South Caro-.
lima, during the usual hours of legal
sales, on Salesday in January, 1902,
being the 9th day Of the month, all
that tract OF land situate In the County
of Laurens, In the State aforesaid, con-
tanning Two Hundred and Seventy SIX
l276l Acres, more or less, and bounded
by Enoree River and by iandseo of Mrs.
Mary Ann Gore, j. II. Anderson, NJ b.
Poole and others, being the same tract
that vas conveyed to the said Mary l..
Lynch end Is. A. +. Garrett by their
mother, Mary E. Garrett, by hSr deed
dated Sept. Both. 1874, and recorded iu
the Office of the Clerk of the Court oI
Common Pleas and General Sessions,
In Book 4, page 8.
Terms Of Sale--One-half Cash; the
other half enc year from the day OF
the sale, with interest at & per cent Ter
annum, the credit portion being secured
by the bond of the purchaser and b,
mortgage OF premises sold, with leave
TO the purchaser to pay as much more
than half cash as he desires--Pur
chaser to pay for papers.
LEWIS w. SI&KINS,
Attorney In Fact.