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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-10-04

Charles A Cash, foreman of the
L ,lephone linemen, was married at
the Catholic Cathedral on Thurs
dsy evening to Miss Leel, a "hello
girl" who worked in the Telsph one
central.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-10-04

Special Agent Cooper, OF the
Public Works Department, made a
tour OF inspection of the city's
roads yesterday, accompanied by
Road Supervisor Dwight.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-10-04

Next Tbursday is the last day Tor
registration, when the Board will
hold an all day session from 8 a. M.
to p. N. Now get move on and
register
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-10-04

The steamer Doric arrived Of
port at midnight last night from
San Francisco. She leaves at 6
O'clock this evening for the Orient
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-10-04

Our Edmund Norrie came down
10 the Claudine as expected. He
looks we'll and has grown fat during
his enforced regeneration.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-10-04

The usual Saturday evening con-
cert and entertainment will be
given at the Temperance Hall"
this evening. There will be- songs,
dances and laughable sketches, also
a requested solo by. II Swinton.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-10-04

The Home Rulers held two meet.
ings last night, one at Puuuui, at
the terminus OF the RAPID Transit
line, and the other out at waikiki,
at the residence OF Candidate j. Aea
Both were rousing meetings.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-10-04

Prince Cupid returned by tie
Claudine. He was accompanied by
the Rev S L Desha, Judge Mahaulu,
j X Nakookoo, S X Kaloa and Rep
r 81 Makekau. All are looking
we'll and not any the worse for their
campaign tour.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

Drear is the home where God sends them
not:
But once, Just once, through the gates ajar,
Gods own Child came, and there snone
Star.
Over desert places it's golden light
Flamed like torch the livelong nlgnt'
In stately procession, king and priest,
And a marvellous, moving caravan
Sought for the gift that had guefocneo
man,
When, banners of glory waving far,
Once, for his people, God kindled star.
The Emperor sat in his purple robe,
Bent the slave to the laboring oar
Little to him was a groan the more;
Wreathed with laurel the conqueror strooe'
Trampling hearts on his naughty ROAD;
The cry Of the anguished Quivered Tar,
And 10! In the darkness there snone
Star.
Out from a cave in the riven rock
A candle lickered; who will may mock;
That thread of fame was the answer sent
From Earth to the Star in the armament.
On the silence trembled a Babes first
Child to be Lord of Life and Death;
safe as a bird In the tiny nest,
In the mothers arms, on the mother
While the lowing kline stood wondering near.
And the angels sang on the midnight cieaf,
And the midnight waned, and the dawn's
great car
Swept in where brightly there shone Star
Margaret E. Sangster, In Woman's home
Companion.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

Not even great noise PROGRAMMED its
undoing, but huge cloud or dust
arose and settled for time over the
big square of which for centuries it
was the crowning glory. In descend
ing it leaned over enough to tear out
part of the front wall of the ducal pal
ace, otherwise no damage was done.
The immensity of the campanile
could not be comprehended when it
stood the lofty sentinel overlooking
Venice and the Adriatic $50 feet in the
air. Now that 1t was turned into de-
bris, filing a space 300 feet long by
100 wide and 10 feet high, its colossal
proportions could be understood. Even
the Venetians who were born within
its shadow. and lived beneath it to
old age, did not realize its mighty di-
mensions until it was turned into
crumbling mass.
To recover the figures and designs of
various kind used to embellish the
lofty pinnacles the great mass was
fenced in, the public excluded and Ia
borers set to work to sort over the de-
bris before consigning 1t to the barges
which carried it out to sea. SIngularly
enough all the iron and brass used to
beautify the tower was recovered and
found to be practically uninjured. For
a time good-sized lump from the de-
bris brought 25 cents. But the supply
soon outran the demand and souvenirs
of the catastrophe came to be had for
the asking. To-day the foundation is
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
Buried on HorsehacE.

Lord Dacre, who died fighting for
he Lancastrians at Towton, England,
n 1461, directed that if he were killed
in the battle his favorite war horse
should be buried in the same grave
with him. According to his wishes,
when his interment took place in Sax
IN church yard after the battle a tre-
tnendous grave was dug and in it the
warrior was buried, seated upright on
lis horse. For centuries reflections
we're cast upon the accuracy of this
tradition, but a few years ago while
excavations for new graves were be-
ng made close by the reputed burial
place of Lord Dacre the pick of dig
ger struck into great bone and upon
further search being made the skull Of
l big horse was brought to the surface.
AS this was found almost at the very
spot under which the body of Lord
Dacre was said to lie it was accented
Is confirmation Of the tradition, par
tfculariy as the skull was found to he
vertically in the soil. The
skull was replaced carefully in its or
ginal position and the excavation filed
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
CHANGING THE SCORE.

ants did their baking in ancient Dutch
ovens, while suspended above the big
log fire by iron chains and tripods were
big pots and stew pans. The two great
turkeys which formed the pieces de re-
sistance at the Christmas spread in 1900
were ''hand raised and hand fed by a
country gentleman in Fairfax County,
Virginia, who presented them to Mrs. Ad-
ans with his esteemed compliments"
The affair was homelike In it's details
and the distinguished diners discussed
with equal satisfaction the smoking vi
ands on the honlely dining table and the
great questions of state which were agi-
tating the American people at that cru
There was an absence of stiff formality
and the host and genial Mrs. Abigail Ad-
ans babe the guests to feel "at home
and help themselves just as they would
at their own boards.
Christmas dinners at the White House
now are elaborate affairs in contrast with
the simple Christmas dinners during the
days of Adams, Jefferson and Madison.
To-day many courses are served and the
state dinners continue about three hours
with an accompaniment of soft music by
the Marine Band. Then there was but
one course, in reality. 1t was a sort of
go-as-you-please affair and help your
neighbor and yourself.
The Annual Greeting.
"a Happy New Year to your This is
the greeting which is heard on every side
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19


raw"
Thus spoke Edward De Haven con
cerning the Seri Indians Of Tiburon
island. He was one of the participants
in ARIZONA Charley's" expedition to tbs
Tiburon island, and he says the trip
was success. The party met at Her
mosillo, Mexico, and consisted Of
Charles and Frank Meadows, of Ari-
zona; John Arnold, of Randsburg; War
ner Weak1ey, Of San Francisco, and
George Furgard and Edward De Ha-
ven, of San Diego. Cal.
They stopped two days at Hermosillo
and then proceeded to Guaymas. All
this place the serious work Of the ex-
pedition commenced, namely, that Of
getting a boat and an outfit. When
ever the name of Tiburon was men
toned no one would go.
A Yaqui Indian was hired, but he
backed out as soon as he heard of their
destination, saying: ''I would not GO
for a million dollars"
The party finally bought the sloop
Ella, of eleven tons, and sailed to I'll
buron, which is about 125 miles down
the gulf. They sailed around it for thir-
teen days, making two trips inland, one
of eight miles on the Sonora side and
the other four and a half miles on the
gulf side.
Whenever they saw any Indians they
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
United States Patents.

The whole number Of patents issued
by the United States Patent Office il
more than 65o,ooo, of which $4,000
we're to foreigners. The number of
i've patents is about $4,000.
The Industries and appliances upon
which the larger number of patents
have been issued are, approximately,
stoves and furnaces, 10000; steam en-
sines, $4,000; railways, tracks. and
larvesters, each, $1,000; electric lights.
5000; bicycles, 5000; pumps, 5000: re-
frigerating, 4,500; telephone, 1000:
electrical railways 5000.
1t has been estimated that the four-
motion feed for sewing machine nat
ents earned $32,0OO,OOO for its owners
larger amount probably than any
other patent issued prior to the Bell
telephone patent.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

Of it was gone. He had heard his chill
dren declare, between sobs, that they
would never hang up their stockings
again, and after all it is the stocking and
not the tree that is the essence of Christ
mas-and the mystery of mysteries there
of is the wonderful fact that Santa Claus
can spend SO much time and take SO
much pains in filing the stockings.
But John Howard was human. He
himself had looked forward to this Christ
mas with greater expectations than had
any of his children.
He rose from bed and put on his dress
ing gown and slippers. Then, with a
little night lamp in his hand turned very
low, he went stealthily into the bedroom
where his children slept. Their clothes
were laid neatly on three chairs, and
from each chair he took stocking and
pinned it where the sleeping children had
been accustomed to pin them in previous
years.
After this he made frequent trips to
the library and brought up load after load
of toys, candies and trinkets. And then
he began to fill the stockings. 1t was
slow work. He had seen his wife do it
once. He had watched her then in a
mechanical sort of way. 1t was on the
preceding Christmas eve. She was i'll
and nervous and afraid to go about the
house alone. In a grumbling, protesting
way he had accompanied her.
How glad he was now that he had! He
dropped a moderately heavy object into
the toe of each stocking to hold it down
then an orange to make it capacious.
After this he slipped in present for the
sake of surprise, and on top of the pres
ent he put layer of candy. He won
dered that the ''tick-tick-tick" of the
candies as they dropped did not awaken
the sleeping children.
He was slow at the work. 1t was early
down when he finished. He blew out the
little night lamp and sank into a chair,
burying his face in his hands, and his
heart in memories. Suddenly he looked
up and saw his three children standing
about him in the arc of circle.
Its papa" cried his eldest girl, rush
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

the great piles of oak and hickory in the
broad fireplace, while the atmosphere of
the building was redolent with the odor
of the viands being prepared for the
Christmas feast.
There were no chefs and assistant
chefs, with scores of Whitehead assist
ants, nor such ranges and cooking uten-
sils as are provided for the White House
kitchen of to-day. Old colored imam
miles," neatly clad in bright calico frocks
long white aprons and bright-colored ker
chiefs ON their heads, fitted hither and
thither before the roaring blazes on the
hearths. as they prepared the food for
President John Adams end his Yuletide
guests.
Indeed, Mrs. Abigail Adams herself
performed the functions of executive
chef. Wearing an immaculate apron, she
busted herself giving directions first to
one negro servant. and then to another.
Mrs. Adams and her corps of assist
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

as we cross the threshold of the new year.
1t has become a custom to repeat it. In
many cases it has little meaning, and is
nothing more than an empty compliment
or an idle wish. How much do you mean
by it? 1t is very easy to repeat the
formula. 1t is a very simple matter to
buy a New Years card and enclose it in
an envelope. But when you send this
greeting, or speak it, do you regard it as
pledge or promise that you will do
nothing to make the recipient of it un-
happy, and that you will do all in your
power to relieve his anxieties and bring
gladness to his heart ?-Baptist Union.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

made landing. At first the Indians
were very suspicious, but finally they
consented to do some trading.
The party obtained some of the ma
tives' bows and poisonous arrows and
peculiar bamboo boat. The Indians
poison their arrows by taking the liver
Of deer, allowing rattlesnake to bite
it and then dipping their arrows into
the inoculated liver. The Seris are sup
posed to have horses, as the party saw
several hOof marks. The island is about
thirty-two miles long and eighteen
wide.
Members Of the expedition shot many
deer and reported that the island is
filed with rattlesnakes.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
The New Year.

The New Year.
List, the New Year bells are ringing
To and fro,
Messages of comfort bringing
Clear and low.
Over mead and plain and valley,
Where the forest giants rally,
Up through park and street and alley
Paeans flow.
List, the New Year bells are calling
Far and near,
Like some prayer triumphant falling
On the ear,
Lo, the past is past forever.
In this hour its bonds we sever, q
And its clouds shall darken never
Our New Year.
List, the New Year bells are swaying
High and low,
Pulsing, pleading, praising, praying,
As they go.
Now may every sin be shriven,
And our hearts from sorrow riven,
All forgiving and forgiven
Here below.
Minneapolis Housekee2e
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
Christmas FeastinS.

During the middle ages the whole
Christmas season was given up to rev.
els and jollity, in which eating and drink
ing had prominent part. The Saxon
instinct of our English ancestors led them
to make of every holiday an occasion
for feasting. Plenty to eat and to drink
was their idea of a festival. no matter
how sacred might be its associations. On
Christmas they not only lined their stom-
aehs with good capon. as did Shakspeare's
justice, but stuffed themselves with all
sorts of rich, nourishing food and strong
ly compounded puddings and pies.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

We use nothing but kind words to reclaim
the unfortunate women with whom we
come in contact, and that has proved to be
the best way. Locking up a woman in
prison is not the way to reform her. When
a woman enters our home, she is given
light work to do, and everything around
her is arranged SO that nothing of her old
life will be present in her habits
Another factor contributing to the ad-
vance made in the cause of temperance in
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
Making Preparations.

Il want to get a turkey, and bottle
of paregoric, and some mince meat, and
some pepsin pills, and some cranberries,
and some furniture polish, and a quart of
oysters, and package of court plaster,
and some sweet potatoes, and fire in
surance policy"
Here the market man smiled merrily
and inquired:
Going to eat all that?'
"No," responded the customer, 'but
the family Christmas dinner occurs at my
house this year."-Baltimore American.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

money. have heard it said rather
in the newspapers, that good looks handicap girl
in search of postion that many employers will have
pretty girls in their Offices because they receive much
attention from the clerks.
Perhaps this Is true in cases-for instance In
office in which the employer has jealous wife; but
orally is not true In instances the young
of prepossessing appearance who is seeking place will
secure audience with the head of firm when her plain
looking sister would be turned away There moral
zng the situation saying that merit ought dis
count good looks in such We must take the world
find it.
Now, I want to say word about the treatment that
in offices receive from the employers. If
to believe all in the sensational
would have the opinion that majority of the
writer's and senogaphers accompanied their employers
lunch the theater and other places and
presented by them with boxes of bonbons and bou
quets of American Beauty
The truth is that the number Of girls of this class Is
small indeed in comparison with the thousands young
who their living in Offices. Business
respect them and treat them in gentlemanly
They much attend during business
devote Of their time to paying compliments to
their ypewrers. Moreover most proud and have
their regulations marked atten
young in their Offices Girls who have
brought up properly, who sensible and have will
need have fear that they will not be treated with
respect wherever they may be.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

the small dealer has been driven from field He
not compete with the trust His occupation Is The
field being clear competition destroyed managers of
various prices consumer at their own
pleasure Is it possible that the people Indifferent
this growing evil? 1t virtually destroys competition 1.-The
life of trade In small degree it the functions
of By intelligent machnation exclusively
its gain. the trust has greatly increased
sumner the cost of articles of daily necessity The shadow
of the trust has fallen hearhsone this land
and the end is not yet The is the monster evil of
day, constant menace welfare as a people
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

feet. 1t was a typ
ical old-fashioned
Christmas day, with
all the accompani-
ments of wind and
weather. Old Jack
Frost was busy and
decorated in fantas-
tic designs with
films of ice the win
dow panes of the
big white mansion.
Downstairs in the
kitchen there WAS a
blaze of light and
~D.sal a,,%h f~o
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

ing into his arms. Papa is Santa Claus.
1t is papa who has been so good to us
and we haven't loved him."
Its papa" echoed the younger daugh-
ter.
"Papa-Santy Close" said the boy.
And they, too, sidled up to him and
chung to him, their little eyes beaming
with love.
And then John Howard knew that Lis
stocking had been filed. also-with the
love of his children.-Criterion.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

history, and our resources are tmmeasur-
ably greater. The industrial and railroad
outlook Of the country is thoroughly salts
factory. The greatest menace is our
financial system. When our business Is
expanding and there is growing demand
for funds, the United States treasury
withdraws money from circulation. The
financial stringency which we have pass
ed through has not been due to lack of
prosperity; it has been the result Of it.
We must have circulation sufficient to
meet the growing business of the country.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
THE RUINED CAMPANILE.
Strange Spectacle of the Celebrate
Square of Venice

Strange Spectacle of the Celebrated
Square of Venice.
The crumbling of st. Marks cam
panile, Venice, some months ago was
extraordinary in that no one was
killed or injured of the hundreds who
might have been if it had swayed to-
ward the old ducal palace forty feet
distant from it's base and tore it's way
through that musty pile which has
been defying the ages for centuries.
The lofty tower started to its demoli-
ton after giving full warning and
came down as gently as if some great
genii had purposely held it back to
save those near by from destruction.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
SNAKE VIRUS USED ON WEAPONS

Seri Indians Poison Their Missiles
with Ratt1esnake Venom.
II scarcely can think they are canni-
balls, but one day we killed deer, and,
tossing the Indians hind quarter, they
proceeded to deyour it raw. They live
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

England is the conviction on the part or
the general public that there is too much drinking through
out Great Britain The people themselves-the working
Glass; the radesfok and the better middle clasare all
ginning that of the of cvi
zation and that temperance is its only AS to the
classes the nobility the has been
popular there but really think that there better
and a beginning of sympathy among the
upper classes England have centuries and
tures of back and hard break through
and that there is light the other side.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

English plum pudding and mince pies
both owe their origin, or are supposed to-,
to an occurrence attendant upon the birth
of Christ. The highly seasoned ingredi-
eats refer to the offering of spices,
frankincense and myrrh by the wise men
of the East to the Christ Child.-New
York World
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
Would Take Him Back.

Maud-Why did you break your en-
gagement with Tom Hotchkiss?
Edith-Hush! Don't tell anyone-but
he was growing SO horribly fat. When
grief has pulled him down a bit shall
take him on again.-New York News
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19

laid bare and swept clean of everything
tending to remind one of the catastro-
phe. Money to build another campa-
nile has been freely subscribed and al
ready more than half the amount that
will be required to restore it is pledged.
1t is expected the balance will be
raised before the new campanile is
completed.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
THERE sHoNE A STAR.

81, stars by the mil
iion-fold abovei
In the wide blue
spaces We watch
and love;
Stars like grains Of
sand by the sea,
T hrou g b wheeling
clusters of worlds
they be;
But once through the
gates OF heaven
ajar, ..
When a Child was
born, there shone a
Star.
they come to
the palace hall;
Children they come TO
the cabin small;
To the tent, to the
ship, to the poor
mans cot
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
VALUE OF GOOD LOOKS TO BUSINESS WOMEN
Rv z~ry,na PosenfIaId. St.,ocr.nh..

BY ZerIiHa RoSenffefd, Sfeno0rapher, New YORK.
1t may be set down rule that good looks 60
great way toward making woman successful
in business. But in saying this, am not forget
full of the fact that plainlooking and even homely
women have been known to distance the others in
the race. Take two women Of the same average
ability and common sense and the prettier Of the
two will make the more rapid headway in the
matter of promotion and therefore will earn more
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
Shattered Her Ideals.

Miss Askit-Why is Miss Wunder SO
pessimistic about Christmas?
Miss Tellit-She hung up So pair of
silk hose last year, and some one stole
them.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
A Real Saint.

Old Sanity Is no phantom prim-
The cheer he brings cures many Ills;
Thro' dreamiand's door we follow him.,
And lose the thought of New Years Diaa,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
A WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS.

Day Was Observed with Remarkable
Simplicity In Early Times.
On the first Christmas day in the
White House, it is recorded, snow nlan-
tied the earth to depth of nearly two
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-19
Gold in Rhodesia.

Southern Rhodesia's gold output in
May was the highest recorded, being
over 1880 ounces.