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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-11-20

And now it is Ontario land that
American capitalists are taking. A
deal was closed in Toronto yesterday
whereby Americans take possession of
1900, 900 acres of that province. The
Americans purpose to put 1900
American settlers on the land, and
are pledged to colonize with none but
English-speaking white people. On
tario evidently wants no Dukhobor
experience. This transaction does
not demonstrate any fear of an Ameri-
can invasion into Ontario, though
some Of the Canadian Angiomaniacs
are already viewing with alarm the
possibilities of the Amerfcanfzation of
Canada through American fmmigra-
tion, The more sensible take the
view that if there is anything essenti-
ally Canadian worth maintaining, it
will assert itself against the invasion.
And in western Canada the opinion is
by no means unanimous thai Ameri-
canization is an awful fate.-Journal.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-11-20

A man who heard the statement of
President Hill at Crookston that the
farmers of North Dakota are better off
than those on the other side of the
river, because they do not fight the
railroads, remarked to a friend on the
way out, That's all rot.'' The Da-
kota farmers are better off because
they don't spend 50 much money for
BOOZE" This Is another way of look
ing at it, and the Minnesota man is
responsible for the explanation.-
Grand Forks Herald.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-11-20

The two congressman from North
Dakota will support Uncle Joe Can
non for speaker Of the national house
of representatives. Now If our state
house of representatives will elect
Hon. NJ. b. Cassell speaker all will be
well.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08
The Press and Crime.

Much has been said and written upon
the idea that the press, by the publication
of the details of crime, incites to the
commission Of other crimes. Because the
details of a suicide or a murder are some
times copied by other suicides Or mur-
derers there are those who generalize
from that fact that curb should be put
upon the press to restrain them-from CIV
ing the sensational incidents of such ira
gedies.
People who argue in that fashion to
such conclusions understand human ma
ture imperfectly. They who know most
of the psychology of the human animal
understand that there is no rigid law of
imitativeness that will explain incidental
replications of example. The futility of
appealing to any such law was evidenc-
ed in the cases Of Cain and Abel The
law does not exist, else both those boys
would have been righteous instead Of but
the one, and to-day we would be rejoiced
by seeing only good boys and good girls
in the families of which the parents are
models Of morality.
Humanity is born croked-twisted into
living Interrogation point. 1t wants
to know all about things as soon as it
finds out that there are things. 1t instinc-
lively wants to put this and that together
and get at the ends of things and that
is why the baby tries to put his toes in
his mouth! That same inborn curiosity
follows the human creature always and
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08
Revival of Crouuet.

Croquet, in it's improved form, is
more popular in England than ever it
was. Tournaments take place in all
parts of the United Kingdom and
wherever the English do congregate on
the Continent, while iron hoops once
more adorn the lawns of country
houses that were for years surrendered
Internationally to the lawn tennis net.
In the neighborhood of London GRO
quet is all the go at Sheen House Club
the headquarters of the association
at Ranelagh, birmingham, and other
fashionable resorts. The croquet
championships will soon rival cricket
and golf fixtures in popularity and as
the game has caught on at the var
sites, it will, we suppose, take its
place among the hotly contested events
in the annual battle of the blues. Mr..
Kipling will have to find scornful
phrase to describe the croquet players,
for as ladies are among it's most en-
thusiastic votaries, ''fannelled fools
will not do.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08
DIIORIAIS
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

accounts for the enormous growth Of
newspapers and gives inyincible support
to the doctrine of the freedom of the
press.
One of the greatest laments of read
ing civilization is that the worlds his
tory begun before the printing press was
invented and the reporter who interviews
got on the scene. How really satisfying
it would be even now to read the details
Of the meeting between Satan and Eve
stenographic report of their conversa-
ton and graphic interviews with Adam
after he got fred from the Garden or
Eden and with Noah after he ran
aground on Ararat!
Newspaper makers know human ma
ture better than amateur moralists. Ihey
do not find that news reports of crimes
breed crimes any more than news reports
of sermons breed conversions, or news
reports of gifts to charity set everybody
or many bodies crazy to make large dona-
tions and get their names printed. Inc
real newspaper gives the news-tne $40
ries of the daily life of the world-the
good, the evil, the wise and the silly, De.
cause the public want to know it all ana
will be satisfied with nothing less. Inc
newspaper is printed for the ninety and
nine that are wide awake, and not TOE
the one who yearns for the miiiehhi''
ape!-Atlanta Constitution.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08
Cuha,a Flag Is Old.

The flag of the Cuban republic ante
dates the establishment of the republic
itself by a good msny years. 1t dates
back to about 1850. 1t has a Masonic
origin and hence the triangle. The
red field is the emblem Of war. The
purpose of the movement here in the
United States was to conquer the ISL
and. Southern people, fighting Ma
sons, were the leaders. The three
stripes represented the three depart
ments into which the island was then
divided. The white stripes were put
in merely to divide the blue. The star
which appears in the red field was the
lone star of Texas. In New Orleans
there existed the Association of the
Lone Star. They assisted Narcisco Lo-
pez with money and in other ways
when he invaded Cuba in 1851 and
adopted the flag of the association out
Of gratitude. When Cespedes began
the revolutionary movement Of 1868 he
had another flag, but the people Of
Puerto Principe and of Santa Clara
raised the present flag, which was
adopted as the Cuban national flag
when the first constituent assembly
came together in 1869.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08
MORGAN BUYS VALUABLE pORcELAINs
FROM THE GARLAND COLLECTION.

J. P. Morgan purchased the Garland
collection of oriental porcelains, the
finest collection in the world, which
has been on exhibition at the Metro
politan Museum of Art in New York
for many years. 1t was announced
that a London dealer had purchased
the collection from the Garland estate
for 100000 and would take it to Eu-
rope. Morgan decided that the collec.
ton should remain ia America. What
he paid is not known, but it is sup
posed that he gave considerable more
than the amount offered by the Lon.
don dealers.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08
VISITING KING MENELEK.

Ruler Who Knows and Can Conceive
Nothing Outside His Own Country.
Oscar T. Crosby gives in the Century
Magazine his Personal Impressions Of
Menelek," the King of Abyssinia, a
ruler who, Mr., Crosby says, has never
been out of his owr kingdom, speaks
no European language, and must de-
vote most of his time to internal af-
fairs. But in spite of the lack of ad-
vantages Of travel and education, in
the ordinary sense, Menelek is a power
full figure and has done more for his
country than all of it's previous rulers
accomplished.
Such an expansive body of water as
lne ocean, says Mr.. Crosby, he cannot
conceive. The rotundity of the earth
mas been explained to him, but was not
grasped. He marveled when l told
him of the difference in time between
New York and Adds Abeba.
OF New York he seemed not to have
heard when l referred TO it as the big
city of my country. Pictures of great
commercial buildings and views of
cil.es made, thought, rather faint
impression on him. The Brooklyn
bridge was more effective, and he mar
veled at it's height, although just how
the Interpreter translated figures and
distances l do not know, since in my
transactions with Abyssinians did
not discover any unit of length, al
though such measures exist. The Cap
itol at Washington, which was de-
scribed 20 him as corresponding to his
residence, made some impression on
him when it's size was explained.
When the books were put aside, a
new magazine pistol which had pick
ed up in Paris came in for minute ex-
| animation, and then took it's place in
his collection of small arms, which
must now be well-nigh complete.
Among the Illustrations shown to the
King were some of the big New En-
gland cotton-mills. These 1 tried te
| identify to Menelek as the places in
which were manufactured nearly all OF
the cotton goods which his subjects
wore, a fact that 1 had learned with
surprise and pleasure while on the
coast.
| In other ways also l tried to make
clear my nationality; but in the end he
dictated, or his secretary wrote: 'Mr
Crosby, the Englishman, has permis.
sion to go down the Blue Nile"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08

ton, when one comes to think of 1t, is
simple one. Women have for innum-
cradle generations been engaged in work
which does not admit of vacations, while
mans work does. Hence a public opin-
ion has grown up in the one case which
does not exist in the other.
The type Of woman who is liable to
oyerwork is conscientious. IL she goes
away for an absolute rest Of month
or three months, or year, she hears a
chorus of voices denouncing her as idle,
incompetent or negfectful of duty. This
is especially the case if she be the mother
Of family. She never gets away from
the care of that family, and she is al
ways conscious of the fact that If any
thing happens in her absence she win be
condemned by jury of her peers for
having been away when it occurred. This
! sort of thing takes all the rest out of a
vacation, and few people have the nerve
to disregard it.
This morbid conscientiousness, how
ever, is not thing to encourage. The
thing which every human being should do
is to make sure, first, that he or she has
fair amount of the work of the world
to do, and second, to stop when that share
is done. If rest is necessary.
Of course, most people who are worth
anything in life do more than their share
| of work. but they should not break them
selves down in the process. Every sensi-
BILE person should find out how far it is
possible to go, with safety to health and
| usefulness, and stop there unless life and
| death are involved. In that way
more will be accomplished for ones sell
| and for others than by continual over
| work out of some notion of pride or duty
which is not real conscientiousness al
all.-New York News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08
Changes of a Lifetime.

1t took the Roman republic some ages
to pass from the simple poverty of its
early days upon the seven hills to the
age of Augustus, but the American re-
public has made that change in one gem
Grafton.
In the second decade Of the nineteenth
century the lives of the American people
were severely simple and plain. Most or
the necessaries of life were raised on the
farm by the people living on it. Most of
their trading was done by barter. The
country people scarcely ever got i'll the
course Of a year more than enough money
to pay their taxes. The farmers houses
were almost destitute Of furniture. Elk
cept few school books and the family
Bible, there was no reading matter, ex-
cept in favored neighborhoods where two
or three families took weekly newspa-
per together. Mails were infrequent and
postage was almost prohibitory. The era
of invention had not begun. The only
means of cooking was the open fire and
the brick oven. Meat was roasted by
suspending from a cord attached to a
hook in the ceiling. 1t was with great
difficulty that fires were started or kept
going. Tools and food and the labor Of
men and animals were freely borrowed
deficient. The poverty Of farms in re-
spect to tools made it impossible for farm
ers to prosper except by cattle raising
and the cultivation of the small grains.
Heating stoves or furnaces We're un-
known. Communica ton between dis
tant parts of the country was practically
non-existent and transportation was of
the crudest sort. Men were narrow and
or
There was a prejudice against innova-
| ton and change, a belief that all wisdom
was in the fathers.
Contrast this simple, narrow life with
the complex and broad life of the poorest
farmer of our times. Think of the tools
and horses. the machinery and the inn
proved methods he has. Think of the
comforts and luxuries that are his. Think
how farming has been changed from
slavery to inspiring work. Then con-
trast the picture of the past with the
general wealth, progress in education, diff
fusion of knowledge, opportunities and
| hopefulness of our own times. Only the
| beginnings of the great power of the
| people are so far seen. AS a matter of
| fact the tremendous changes wrought by
| improvement of communication and
| transportation have made it possible for
great free governments to exist perma-
nently.
1t is now and ever will be the fashion
to talk of the good old times, but in
America the old times are not to be COM
pared with ours. Our wealth has not
spoiled the nation, though it has ruined
some classes. At the core the nation is
sounder now than formerly because it is
wiser and better trained and equipped
Minneapolis Journal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08
Particularly Out.

An acquaintance called on some la
dies who had been much wearied by
an endless succession of callers. The
door was opened to her by Pompey, the
faithful old servant.
care the ladies in, Pompey?" said
the young lady.
mo, ma'am, they'se all out, ma'am." !"
responded the old retainer
I'm so sorry, l missed them," replied
the visitor, handing in her cards. 81
particularly wanted to see Mrs. Bell"
"Yes, ma'am, thank ye, ma'am.
They'se all out, ma'am, and Mrs. Bell
is particularly out. ma'am." was the
reply that greeted her hearing as the
visitor opened the gate and the front
door closed.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08

the spirit of the dead woman to mani
fest itself.
"Oh, my sister," said he, my un-
known sister, departed from this earth,
come back for one instant in the ma
terial form you once took on. Appear,
evoked by faith and love. Come! Mad
elmer His voice rose and grew ar
dent, while the medium became con-
vulsed with trembling movements.
ALI at once Pierre cried, Listen!
Listen! The sonata of Mozart!'
A harmony, light and soft as a sigh.
foated from the motionless keys of the
piano, which stood just within the pale
stream of moonlight.
'She is coming" said Claymore, sol
emnly, stretching out his hand.
Madeline! Madeline" cried Pierre,
| falling on his knees.
I am telling you what 1 savior
thought l saw. The room was dark
| save for the one thread of moonlight
which touched the piano and traced a
line upon the floor. Suddenly the mys-
terious music ceased and in the moor,
| light, before the piano, the -whiteness
seemed to thicken and slowly to form
itself into the contours of the human
body. More distince it grew until
| saw sitting there woman dressed in
long, flowing gown of white, her head
| back against her chair and a smile on
her pale lips.
| Pierre had sprung to his feet.
| "It is you, my beloved!" he cried, and
with outstretched arms he moved to-
ward the white figure and fell at its
| feet.
At the sound of the fall I threw of
with great effort the spell which held
me and ran to him. The figure van.
ished and 1 raised my friend, to find
that he had breathed his last at the
feet of his dead wife. He had paid
| the price for the vision. On his face
was an expression of purest ecstasy.
| There was a long pause when Fran
co.'s finished his story, which told the
deep effect he had produced upon his
hearers. Finally the young woman who
had been most eager in her request tc
hear the tale said, in low voice:
please let's talk of something else. ,
Translated from the French of "Gil
bert Dore"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08
Playina with Moral Fire.

In various parts Of the country tnere
has been an extraordinary NUMBER oA
tragedies of late arising out OF the aoFeh,
tures of unmarried women with marrieo
men. Morbid literature, chiefly OF 1or-
eipn birth or extraction, has been pro-
noting in this country the myth OF pla-
tonic affection between men ana Woheh'
married and single. Almost lnFariaois
the prismatic illusion is actuahzed IN d
somher ending. If crime does not smlrch
both the parties or annihilate either the
reputation of both suffer, and 1t Is lhe
unwritten law that the woman In such
case suffers beyond repair, while the gull
ty man escapes or endures with conpia-
cency the stigma which cannot be er-
faced from the future Of his companion.
There is no prudence in mlnclng Woros
about these escapades. A married man
or woman who seeks intimate ana con
slant companionship outside the famliy
circle to which he or she belongs Is eth
er libertine or fool.
No plea of extenuation can be set up
for the moral laches of married man or
married woman. They know perfectly
we'll that they are playing with tire or
playing the trapper of inexperience. NO
family of intelligence or self-respect will
tolerate social attentions from married
man to an unmarried woman when those
attentions transcend the bounds of abso-
lutte decorum Yet mothers who are am
bilious or avaricious will let their inno-
cent daughters play with this moral fire
with whose fame nine times in ten they
are bound to be burnt.
Many blackened home is grim
monument to the satanic character of the
myth of platonic love between married
men and unmarried women and no less
often between married women and un-
married men.-Chicago Chronicle.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08
Tors OF ROUTES TO HEAVEN.
More than six Score of Them in One Of
the Canadian Provinces.

More than SIX Score of Tn em in One OF
the Canadian Provinces.
1t may be that Chicagoans can find
as many roads to heaven as are at the
disposal Of residents in Ontario. and Ii
they can there's a-plenty. An author
ity in city over there says there are
no fewer than I27 accorded shades OF
religious belief in that section of the
new dominion. These are among the
many:
Adventists, Agnostfcs, Almighty, Am
NANTES (Amish). Anglicans Church OF
England), Angelicans, Apostles Asso-
citation, Ark of the Covenant, Atheists,
Baptists, Free VIII Baptists. Believers.
Bethelites, Bible Students, Brethren,
Buddhists, Broad Church of Calvinists.
Carmelites, Catholic Apostolic Qrving-
ites), Children of Christ, Children of
God. Christadelphians. Christian Asso-
citation, Christian Brethren. Christian
Catholic, Christians, Christian Scien-
fists, Christian Workers, Church of
Christ, Church of the Firstborn, Church
of God, Confucians, Congregational
lists, Covenanters. Daniels Band,
Deists, Disciples of Christ. Divine Sci
ence, Divine Sect. Dutch Reformed,
Elzeans, Eyangelists, Evolutionists,
Faith Healers, Farringlouites, Fiths.
Followers of Christ, Free Church, Free
thinkers, French Church, Friends
(Quakers), Gathered Out, Gentiles, Ger
man Catholics, German Reformed, God
in Christ, Gospel Brethren, Greek Cath
olics, Helpers, Hittites, Holiness Move
ment (Hornerites), Huguenots, Human
itarians, Infidels, Jews, Jude's Church,
Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Liberal
Christian, Lords Religion, Lutherans,
Materialists, Marshallites, Mennonites,
Messiahites, Metaphysicians, Metho-
dists, Miciats, Millennial Dawnites,
Missioners, Mohammedans. Monice,
NaZarenes, New Church (Swedenbor-
gians), New Era, New and Later House
of Israel. New Theology, Nonsectarian,
One Body. Orthodox, Pagans, Panthe-
lists, Philosophists, Pilgrims, Plymouth
Brethren, Presbyterians, Primitive
Brethren, Protestants. Rationalists. Re
formed Episcopalians, Reincarnation-
lists, Religion of Love, River Brethren,
Roman Catholics, S. Temple, Sabbatar-
ians, Saints of God, Santarians, Sal
walton Army, st. John, Skeptics, Sec
tarians. Secularists, Socialists, Spirit
ualists, Syenicals, Theosophists, Tun-
kers, Truth Seekers, Unionists, Unita-
rian, United Brethren (Moravians),
Universalists, Unspecified, Watch
Tower, Y. M. C. A., Zionists Oowie-
ites).-Chicago Chronicle.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08

II. LABoUCHERE. care a fig for pub
lie opinion or for the good will OF any
creature under the sun, yet in some re-
spects he is immensely popular.
Mr.. Labouchere is no longer young
He passed the seventy-fve-mile post on
'life's journey some months ago. He is
an omnivorous reader, but small eat
er. Except at the stern command OF
his physician he has not touched wine
for years, and then the order was linn
tied to one glass of claret daily. He is
equally Indifferent to eating and to his
surroundings and would dine as will
ingly in the cheapest restaurant as in
fashionable hotel and sleep as COM
fortably in an attic as in palace.
He is a radical of the radicals and
represents Northampton in Parliament.
He has been involved in many libel
suits, and at one time Sir Charles Rus
sell accused him of wearing shabby
clothes in order to reduce the damages
In such cases Of litigation.
At % years "Labby" was an attache
of the British legation at Washington,
where he is dimly remembered as
rather ''fresh" youngster, fond of play
ing Mr.. Seifmportant: m 1868 he was
made second secretary Of Constantine
pie, but failed to assume his duties.
Formal inquiry was made as to the
reason for his delay, and in due course
letter arrived at the Foreign Office
stating that as inadequate provision
had been made for his travelling ex-
penses and that as his private means
were limited the attache was walking
and would in due time reach the shores
Of the Bosphorus. In the following
year he left the diplomatic service.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08

so popular among the elite of the king
dom that she has been called the Pearl
Of Madrid.
Nine Patenotre's maiden name was
Eleanor Elverson. Her father was the
former publisher Of the Philadelphia
Inquirer and one of the millionaires
Of the Keystone State. She was edu
Gated in Europe and on her return
home after a six-years' absence she
was pronounced the most fascinating
woman in the Quaker City. Her facil'
ity for acquiring languages was re-
markable. She is proficient in German,
French and Russian, and haG been liv-
ing in Madrid only six months before
she was able to speak the peculiar dia-
lect Of that province with the ease
and fiuency of a native. In 1894 she
became the wife of Jules Patenotre,
then French Ambassador to Washing
ton. In 1897 he was transferred TO
Madrid
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-08
HE WHO KNOWS A BOOK.

With staff in hand and dusty shoon,
I walked from morning till high noon;
Then rested for little while
Upon the green grass by brook,
And with a morsel and a book
Forgot me many a mile.
And then upon my way 1 strode
With bending back beneath the load,
Until the night beset my way
With cheerful thought on song and tale
And so / fare by hill and vale,
Contented day by day.
For he who knows a book to read
May travel lightly without steed
And find sweet comfort on the road.
He shall forget the rugged way,
Nor sigh for kindly company,
Nor faint beneath his load.
-Leslie's Monthly.