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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-11
DRUGLESS CURE.
Husbands Announcement of His /,
tentions Worked Wonders.

Husband's Announcement of His In
tentions Worked Wonders.
"John, DEAR" feebly called the inva-
lid wife, who was supposed to be near
ing the end of her earthly career.
Yes. darling" answered the sorrow
ing husband. what is it?"
when l am gone" she said, 81 feel
that for the sake of the motherless
little ones you should marry again."
do you really think it would be
best. darling?" asked the faithful John.
Yes, John, really do" replied the
invalid. after reasonable length of
time you should seek the companion
ship of some good woman
"Do you know, my dear" said the
husband, that you have lifted a great
burden from my mind? Now, there is
that charming Widow Simkins across
the way; she has acted rather friendly
toward me ever since you were taken
ill. OF course. dear. she could never fill
your place; but she is young, plump
and pretty, and I'm sure she would do
her best to lessen my grief"
John Henry Jenkins!' exclaimed
the female whose days were supposed
to be numbered. as she partly raised
herself up on the pillow, ''if you ever
dare install that red-headed, freckle-
faced, squint-eyed hussey in my shoes
TI-I'll-" And then she tainted.
But the next day Mrs. jenkins was
able to sit up and two days later she
was ownstairs.-Chicago News
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CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION.

What a New York Episcopal Congre-
CATION Has Done.
The parishioners of the Church of the
Ascension. New York, recently cele-
brated the seyenty-ffth anniversary Of
the founding of this society. The
church is on Fifth avenue, where 10th
street crosses it, and when it was be-
gun in 1927, this section was pretty
much given over to pasture and timber
land and the church was looked upon
as an outpost of what might some day
be part of the city. To-day this To-
cality is filled with splendid residences
and great commercial buildings and
the march of progress has made it
down town instead of being the place
where the pioneers used to retire early
lest wolf and fox might waylay them
after dark.
Ascension Church has been fortunate
in its pastors. but five serving it since
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-11

An exhibition lately held in London,
Of more than ordinary interest to the
antiquary, was composed of all kinds
| of curious relics of royalty, including
paintings of monarchs of Great Britain
and Ireland, and their descendants.
Many of the objects shown. though
devoid of beauty or artistic value, yet
possessed a melancholy, romantic or
tragic interest from the associations
connected with them. No one who had
followed the fortunes of Roundhead
and Royalist through the pages Of his
torical romance, or wept over the death
Of the unfortunate King, saw without
thrill the piece of the ribbon Of the
Garter worn by Charles l. on the scat
fold, or the bit of the pail that covered
his coffin.
In case Gent by the Earl of Ash
burnham) were some of the undergar-
ments worn on the same melancholy
day. The Kings garments were divid-
ed amongst his attendants, and these
fell to the share of John Ashburnham,
the ancestor of the present earl, who
also left lock of the Kings hair. In
front of a magnificent portrait of
Queen Elizabeth, lent by the Duke of
Devonshire, was a case full of pathetic
Interest. At one end were the tiny
garments fashioned and beautifully
worked by the same great Queen, when
Princess Elizabeth, for the child which
never came to gladden. her sad faced
sister; and at the other end a little
tippet Of imitation minever, with sad
brown stains upon it, left there when
It was taken off the neck of poor head
less Anne Boleyn. Here were shown
her high heeled shoes. too, together
with rough taggy beaver hat, reddish
in color, with a green ostrich feather
stuck in it, belonging to Henry VIII.
Attached to these was a note Of con-
siderable interest, showing how large
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-11
ENeEiSHMz2sSV VIEW OF LINeoIN
An American Greatly Revered by the
Masses i'm England.

An American Greatly Revered by the
Masses i'm England.
When our Civil War broke out, the
supply of cotton to English mills stop
ped Hard times followed. and the
English working man watched the war
with as much anxiety as did any Amer
! lean James e. Holden. who writes
MY Story of Abraham Lincoln" In
the Outlook. was born in Lancashire
during the cotton famine on day
when there was only half a loaf of
bread in the house. The wealthy
classes, supposing that the North, If
victorious. would not give them cot
ton. We're on the side of the South. But
the working people were with Lincoln.
The Emancipation Proclamation ID
the best-known foreign document
among the common people of Lanca-
shire to-day. Many boys and girls
have been taught it by their parents.
who remember the day it was issued.
and can repeat 1t offhand. A govern
ment inspector of schools asked a
school of twelve hundred Lancashire
children:
w nom do you regard as the greatest
man outside of England? 2"
Hundreds of voices shouted in cho-
rus, abraham Lincoln"
When the question, '.Who Is the
greatest living Englishmang was put
and variously answered-Bright, Glad
stone. Thomas Hughes-one little fel-
low said. my dad says Lincoln is big
germ IN ALL"
In the Cotton Exchange in Manches-
ter is stand on which is miniature
bale of raw cotton. Behind it Is the
inscription: part Of the first bale Of
free cotton. Shipped from West vir-
ginia to Liverpool, 1865"
The story of that bale of cotton
marks great holiday in England. Ian
cashire people walked to Liverpool, got
wagon, trimmed it with bunting and
flowers, and put on it the bale of cot
ton, the flags of England and America,
and between them the picture that ap-
peals to plain people in all the world
Abraham Lincoln.
They dragged the wagon through the
streets to st. Georges Square, where
it served as an altar for the Bishop of
Manchester, who preached a sermon
to twenty thousand people on the les
sons of civil liberty.
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estate in Herefordshire passed into the
hands of Nicholas Bristowe

estate in Herefordshire passed into the
hands Of Nicholas Bristowe
Amongst the manuscripts was the
confirmation of all gifts and charters
Of the founder (Henry VIZ granted by
himself to Elton College, with the Great
Seal attached. All the Royal Seals
of England, a very interesting collec-
ton, We're lent by the Society of Anti
quaries, and there was a fine collec-
ton, too, of English gold and silver
coins. Conspicuous among the paint.
ings was a very beautiful diptych OF
Richard II. adoring the Virgin and
Child, lent by the Earl of Pembroke.
The young, almost effeminate-looking
Madonna. who appears surrounded by
angels robed like herself in exquisite
luminous blue, and all wearing the
Order of the White Hart, which ap-
pears also ON the Kings left shoulder.
No one seems able to say with any au-
thority by whom it was painted. Much
interest was concentrated on the Coro-
nation relics. shown in a large case in
one of the galleries. Several are lent
by the Earl of Ancaster. The helmet
shaped ever of silver gilt used at the
coronation of Queen Anne was a per-
quisite of the first Duke of Ancaster
as Lord Great Chamberlain, and the
ever and salver used by George Ill.
became the property of the third Duke
in like fashion, as well as the corona
ton robes of George Nv. The pens
used by Queen Victoria at her corona
ton and her marriage, were lent by his
majesty, and one Of the arm slings
made by her late majesty for the
wounded in the Crimea, but relics Of
Queen Victoria were not so plentiful
as might have been expected. The Or
chardson portrait group of the four
generations of the royal family, and
one of the best portraits of the King
that painted by Mr.. A. Stuart Wort
ley, and lent by the Junior Carlton
Club, were much admired.
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adapted to sidesaddles or wheeled We

adapted to sidesaddles or wheeled We
hicles.
| The Walker horses and cattle have a
very extensive range, but vey little
Of it is level, and when the HMs go to
"cut out" a horse or cow some lively
racing has to be done. The riders are
apt to be going straight up the noun
tain one minute and straight down the
mountain the next or to be lowering
over a precipice. But however it may
chance, the girls are always equal to
the occasion and keep a firm seat.
The herding and handling Of wild
stock is very hard on their saddle
horses, so that they are constantly
breaking in new ones to ride Before
their colts are year old the Walker
girls lasso and brand them on the
range, apd then allow them to run wild
until they are years old, when the
girls get them up and saddle and con-
quer them. 1t is wild work, but the
plucky young women do 1t to perfec-
ton, and have never even been hurt
at it. 1t is no simple matter to break
and train one of these horses. They
are as wild as any animals to be found
In the West.
They kick and strike and "buck" and
iunge, and throw themselves over
backward with intent to crush their
riders. Yet for daring and skill in
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-11
Nothing Easier.

Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey, young couple
recently married, were beginning their
housekeeping, and were doing the
work of putting the rooms in order
themselves.
Mr.. Bailey was having some trouble
in hanging one of the presents. a fine
clock, upon the wall Of the dining
room.
why is it taking you SO long. dear, -
asked the young wife. ito put up that
clock?''
Il cam" get it plumb" he replied
Then why don't you send for the
plumber?" she asked. in perfect sin
cerity.-Youth's Companion.
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Carrying Goals to Newcastle.

When the woman VINO loves flowers
went to California to spend the win
ter. she insisted on taking along hel
pet Gala, says the Troy Times. 81 new
er thought so much of plant as dt
of that calla," she replied to her hus
bands objections. ''It will be full OF
blossoms this winter, and l wouldn't
miss seeing them and smelling then
for anything"
So she ana the Gala started. How
they Jared is told in these paragraphs
from her first letter home:
LAS to that Gala, it was the greatest
bother. l almost wore myself to 4
shadow taking care of it. By the time
/ got to California l was sick and
tired Of it. But remembered the com.
fort the blossoms would be when they
came
when 1 got up on the morning of
the last day l looked out of the cal
window, and may I never see home
again If the train wasn't running
through field of callas so big that !
couldn't see it's limits! just sat down
and had good cry!
ITO think that an ordinarily sensible
woman should cart a twenty-pound Dot
and lily more than three thousand
miles just because she wanted to see
1t in bloom, and then find millions OF
the same lilies growing wild! 1t was
enough to make an angel weep! l just
took that calla and threw it out of the
car Window
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souNnLlhos IN DEMAND.
Not Enough of the Little Castaways to
Brighten Lonely Homes.

Not Enough of the Little Castaways to
Brighten Lonely Homes.
It is surprising to discover what q
rushing mail-order business for babies
could be transacted. Inquiries for ba-
bies come to the State Charities Asso-
ciation and the Guild from all over the
country. Recently the Mayor of a
f1ourishfng Massachusetts, city wrote
for a baby, inclosing plans and speci-
f1cations for the same, which included
blue eyes, light hair. girl. anywhere
from 15 months to years DID,
From a colored family in Pittsburg
was received request for "a boy any
where under 2 years. not black. Must
be light colored."
From as far west as Denver and as
far south as Alabama come the, re-
quests. and il Investigation proves the
parties to be really responsible the
foundling does his first travelling. I'm
less the child Is legally adopted it is
always under the supervision of the
organization that indentured it. Rare
ly does 1t happen, however. that the
child Is taken away, even if it is not
legally adopted. Legal adoption is an
expensive affair for parents of moder-
ate means-the class that usually OBJ
tain the children-and the formality of
drawing up the necessary papers is Of
ten omitted. But the founding is to
the satisfaction of its foster parents
regularly adopted and treated as such.
Only one instance is on record where
child was returned as unsatisfactory.
That was when woman, angered by
the visit of one of the State Charities
agents. who called to make inquiries as
to the care that was being taken of the
child, resented the investigation and
sent back the infant.
That the founding never quite gives
up the hope of discovering who his real
parents were is shown in many a pa
thetic incident in the office of Mrs.
Dunphy, the superintendent on Ran
dall's Island, where the records of New
York foundlings for the past twenty
years have been kept by her.
Often man, sometimes prosperous
looking. oftener with the stamp of the
toiler upon him, will ask to see the
books of the infant hospital for a GER
tain year. Running his finger down the
page Of entries, he will pause at a
name and ask if there is any record Of
parental inquiry after the infants ad--
mission to the hospital.
1t is the founding come back, with
the haunting hope that he may, after
all, find out who he really is.
But the founding never does find out.
And SO, even If he rise to be Gov
ernor or manufacturing magnate, he is,
beyond everything else, pathetic to the
end.-Ainslee's Magazine.
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HIS NERVE FAILED HIM.
Sad, Sad Story of a Do11a
Panama Hat.

Sad, Sad Story of a Twenty-Do11ar
Panama Hat.
The man looked hang-dog and guilty,
He walked up the steps of his home
with his shoulders sort of hunched
forward.
There was a furtive, hunted express
sion on his face.
On his head there was a $40 Panama.
He had paid $40 for it that afternoon.
This is why he looked guilty.
During all of his previous married
life he had been stalking himself to
lids of the $2.3S brand.
But he had been aching and hunger
ing for this $50 top-piece, and in mo-
ment of recklessness he had bought Il
for himself.
But as he went up the steps he look
ed mighty hang-dog and guilty.
He knew that when he broke the
news to his wife there'd be something
doing. and quick, at that.
1t made no difference that he had
blown her to $32 spring hat only a
month or so ago.
But he had firmly made up his mind
on the way up in the car that he'd
boldly tell her that he'd dug $50 for
the hat, and take what was coming to
him.
She was upstairs when he let him.
self in the front door. He braced him
self as he heard her descending the
stairs.
He felt that his time was coming
pretty swift. AS she got TO the bottom
of the stairs. however, all of his nerve
fooled out.
"Why, what pretty hat?' she ex-
claimed. picking the hat off the rack
as she reached the hall. "How much?'
1t was nor or never with him.
1t was the chance of his life to as
sert himself and make a stab at pick
ing it up and running away with it.
But his knees shook beneath him,
and the hot beads began to pour from
his forehead.
Three a-half," he replied, weak
ly, and then he tossed In bed all night
trying to dope it out how he'd explain
for the expenditure Of the remaining
1880 that he'd paid for the Panama
headgear.-Washingt Post.
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HER IDEAL.

07E glanced out of the window at
lHl the cleaning avenue, and watch
oSed the snow-fakes hurrying to
find their places there, only to be re-
lentlessly trodden under foot by pass
ing pedestrians; and then he looked
back again to the bright, girlish face
opposite him.
Ideals are all very well in their
way" he ventured, lazily. 'They af-
ford pleasure, | suppose to the person
indulging in them, undoubted amuse-
ment to him who has to hear of them;
and, besides this, they have two other
advantages, their harmlessness, and
their convenient submission to being
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Necessary Precaution.

Samuel Foote, the English actor, was
one day invited for few moments into
a club where he was stranger. Left
alone a minute, he did not seem quite
at ease.
Lord Carmarthen, wishing to relieve
his embarrassment, went up to speak
to him, but became embarrassed him
self and could only say:
"Mr. Foote, your handkerchief :s
hanging out of your pocket"
Whereupon Foote, looking round with
playful suspicion, and hurriedly thrust
ing his handkerchief back into his
pocket, replied:
Thank you, my lord, thank you: you
know the company better than do.''
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its establishment. The first was Rev.
Mantor Eastburn. afterward made
bishop of Massachusetts; then DIR.
Gregory Thurston. who became bishop
of Ohio; John Cotton Smith was third
with 2O-year rectorship: DR.. Winches-
ter Donald fourth, and Percy S. Grant
the present incum oent. under whom
the church has attained its greatest
vigor. There are over 1000 communi-
cants and the donations for church
purposes are on an uncommonly gener-
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out whenever he heard of a bad blaze.
Directing the department at the time
of the big fire. his report is among the
records of the Chicago Historical So
ciety. He was able to tell much about
1t was his opinion that the fire would
have been confined to tract two
blocks wide from the starting point to
the lake had not the manager of the
gas works at Market and Adams street
turned the gas inte the sewers to avoid
an explosion.
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A Observation-Disclosures

At reception of the Authors Club
in New York the guest of honor was
Sir Martin Conway, the explorer and
mountain climber. One man who did
not know the guest asked another:
"Who is here to-night?"
"Sir Martin Conway"
Conway? Who is he? 1 can't place
him"
"The mountain climber"
"Oh, yes! But what is he doing in
New York"
Merely travelling from climb to
climb"
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Gus scale. He is now raising an en-
dowment of $250,OOO which will soon
be subscribed.
The congregation has given literally
to aid and establish Episcopal mission
churches throughout the country. Un-
der DIR. Thurston $275,0OO was contrib
uted and distributed in this way. All
told over $3,OOO.OO0 has been spent in
advancing Episcopananism in fields
apart from that occupied by the Church
Of the Ascension.
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horse breaking the Walker girls have
few superiors. Furthermore, they are
seasoned mountaineers, and dead shots
with the rifles they always carry across
the pommels Of their heavy stock sad
dies. They are thoroughly at home in
the mountains, and if night overtakes
them far out on the range, they can
curl up in their saddle blankets and get
a good nights sleep on mother earth.
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American Leather Che Rest

American kid feathers are growing IL
favor abroad. especially in Australia
Recently one Of the largest morocco
manufacturers in Lynn, Mass, made 6
shipment to that country of 1900 dozer
skins, which shipment is said 70 be the
largest ever made from there for for
eign parts. 1t is not so very long age
when the best kid shoes were made
from skins imported from France. Now
France is buying large quantities Of kit
from this country.
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visited about to suit all circum-

twisted about to suit all circum-
stances"
She looked at him as he finished
speaking, and he smiled at the indig-
nant flash of her eyes.
do you not agree with me, Miss
Louise?' he asked, good-naturedly.
You know do not" she exclaimed
with warmth. You are only airing
some of your wretched cynicisms be-
cause you know how l despise them;
as for ideals, l believe in them, and
do not understand your assertion that
they will bear twisting about
Perhaps | am wrong there; but. to
illustrate, l believe most girls have
their ideal lover"
He paused.
"Well. go on she said, coolly. "You
don't expect me to answer for more
than one girl, do your
Certainly not" he resumed. "but
don't they generally declare that, if
that paragon neglects to appear on
the scene, they will never marry?'
They may"
Now do you think this ideal ever
comes?"
'Of course | do" she answered, earn
estly. What would life be worth If it
did not?"
HAS yours?' he quered, softly.
81 don't see what that has to do with
the matter" she retorted, with dig
nifty and pink cheeks. Let us keep
to the subject. please"
Certainly. Well. granted that some
do appear at the proper time and in the
proper place, you know that that is
the exception. Now for the point of
nv explanation: 1t Is very easy, is it
not, to cause your ideal to undergo a
change-gradually of course-until 1t
becomes reality in form less per-
feet. perhaps, more human than be-
fore?"
Some people may find it so, but not
many, l think"
Would not you?" he asked, quickly.
"Since you insist on being personal,
may as we'll admit that nothing
would induce me to alter my ideal"
II see there is no use in trying to
convert your
Not the slightest"
"The least you can do, then, it seems
TO me-" he continued. lis to Introduce
the gentleman to me. l am quite ready
to listen to lengthy description"
Are you so much in need of amuse-
ment, then" she asked, reproachfully.
.after all my efforts to entertain your
Go on" he commanded, with a
wave of his hand. Il am waiting"
well, where shall l begin?'
First, what does he look like?'
~ thought that was girls ques-
ton" she suggested, miSchievously.
Really have not thought much about
his personal appearance. except that
he must not be handsome. Handsome
men are always conceited."
Miss Louise, excuse a personal ques-
tion, and one that has nothing what
ever to do with the subject, but did
you ever hear any one accuse me of
being-well. passably good-looking?"
Yes. indeed" she replied. promptly
Edith Harland assured me that you
were by far the handsomest man at
the ball. the other night, and Alice
Barnett admires you more than Mr..
Courtenay, and you know everybody
raves over him: and Marie"
THAT yill do. Proceed"
"Well, he must be tall"
Would six feet two suit you?"
'Oh, no. too tall Six feet is quite
enough for me: and then. prefer light
hair and brown eyes. and" Just
then a pair of gray ones met her own,
and she stopped abruptly.
what is the matterT'
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after an illness of
four weeks.
Mr.. Williams was
proud of the fact
that he had never
missed an impor-
tant fire in Chicago
for more than fifty
years. Even during
the last few years,
when he was en-
ployed in the Coun-
ty Treasurer's of
flee he wOuld Slin
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Cod Like Cold Water

A Christiania professor has discover.
ed that at the Lofoten Islands cod are
invariably to be found in waters whose
temperature is always between four
and five degrees above the freezine
point. Norwegian fishermen now make
use of the thermometer as a means of
detecting the presence of the fish.