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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-25
New Surgeon General of Army.

Washington, July 23.-The president
has designated Colonel R. M. O'Reilly
to be surgeon general of the army, to
succeed General Forwood, who will re-
tire on September 7 next. Colonel
O'Reilly will have until January, 1909,
to serve as surgeon general. He was
appointed from Pennsylvania as a
medical cadet in 1864. He is gradu-
ate of the medical department of the
university of Pennsylvania.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-25
Forty Thousand Strike.

New York, July 2o.-The 5000
gar ment makers who struck yesterday
for higher wages and shorter hours
were joined today by about $4,000
others,a who asked that Sc hours be
considered a weeks work As this is
the dull season in the trade, it is ex-
pected that it will be some days before
the various interests get together.
About nine different unions are en-
gagged in the strike
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-25
RAISING THE STRIKE FUND.
Several Large Contributions Have Already
Been Received by Officers.


Indianapolis, Ind, July 24.-Presi-
dent Mitchell will leave for Chicago
tomorrow afternoon. He will stay in
that city day or two and will go
direct to Wilkesbarre to resume active
management of the strike.
The national officers attach a great
deal of Importance to the resolution
reported by the committee appointed
by the convention to draw up an ex-
preston in regard to the recent mine
horrors in which so many men lost
their lives. In this resolution atten-
tion is called to the fact that in several
instances the miners have been back
to work in mines before the bodies of
their friends had been removed.
This afternoon several large con-
tributions for the strike fund were
received. District No. Is Iowa) sent
$4,000; the Boilermakers' and Iron
Shipbuilders' National sent $546.
indianapolis unions met tonight
and resolved to assess members at least
/ per cent per week on their earnings
for the anthracite strikers. This will
amount to $4,000 per week.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-25

Capt. NJ. l. Smith, the.first man who
stretched wires across the state of Wis
consin, is still living in Topeka. kar.
Chicago chemists have invented a
process for making wall paper stronger
that promises TO revolutionize the in
dustry.
The largest stockholder n the United
States Steel Company, "Mr. Cutler, /"
is John d. Rockefeller, not Andrew
Carnegie; his dividend is 81 900, 200
annually.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-25

Springfield, ILL.,, July "a At a
meeting of the executive board of the
United Mineworkers of America, Illi-
nois department, held this afternoon,
$50, 900 was voted in aid of the strik-
ing miners in the anthracite fields Of
Pennsylvania. A check for the amount
was formally drawn and tonight the
amount was telegraphed to the national
officers at Indianapolis,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-25

The prune crop in Marion county
will be about 40 per cent less this year
than last.
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hume. OF hoy. ana Girl..

From twelve on an increasing per
eentage Of the children relinquish the
idea that self is necessary in the joke
and give more impersonal accounts.
Girls more frequently than boys quote
the humor Of the refined adult and In
personal experiences often describe oc-
casions of their own timidity. This ID
probably due to the different home
training a girl receives. She is con-
dnually drilled Ito be a lady," which
In most cases means to drop her natu-
raj instincts and to initiate the adults
of her environment. About twelve she
loses the fearlessness she has hitherto
shared with her brothers and becomes
good prey for their Soaring" schemes.
This seems to develop the boys teas
Ing abilities. for, while before almost
all their tricks were on their own sex,
now the acme Of their fun as recorded
Is to brighten some girl or to make her
look ridiculous. A boy Of twelve H.
Illustrates this tendency and by his
mixed clauses gives further material
for smiles. "The best joke l saw
played was putting a bunch of fire
crackers by a lady that were not lit,
and they scared her."-Century.
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For His Sovereien,s Sake.

The shah Of Persia when in France
suffered from a toothache, and so a
dentist was summoned to emove the
offending tooth. But, like less exalted
mortals, the shah, when he found him.
self face to face with the dentist, dis
covered that his toothache had disap-
peared, and so absolutely refused to be
operated on. However, his majesty
declared that he did not wish the den.
list to lose his time, and so commanded
that a tooth should be extracted from
each of his suit. He said this with
his eyes fixed on the ground, and then,
suddenly looking up, found, to his it,
tense amusement, that all his minis
tiers and staff had quietly slipped away
except the grand vizier, whom he CON-
plimented upon being the only one
faithful enough to undergo a little dis
comfort for his sovereign's sake. Then
he dismissed the dentist with a present.
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ax.tem with a Method.

! have nearly u my legs off going
about department store making a few
purchases for my wife," said the man
with the bundles. 81 believe that
was directed to six different parts of
the establishment for each article
bought. 1 was sent upstairs, down
stairs, across the shop, along the aisle
and from one point to another, just as
though nobody kn2w where anything
was"
"You evidently don't understand the
system" suggested his friend.
Indeed 1 don't. If it is a system, it
is beyond my understanding" he an
swered.
"Well, it is a system that is not with
out method replied the other. "You
did not realize it, but it was a great
exhibition of stock for your benefit. 1t
would have been a great deal of trou-
BILE to have seated you on one of the re-
volving stools and brought all of the
goods in the store and paraded them
In front Of you; so you were started off
and directed from place to place so as
to make Il tour of the establishment
and get a general view Of the goods in
each department. Do you see the ad.
vertising scheme?"
Il believe that you are right, my
boy, for hat is the only rational ex,
PLANTATION of the proceeding - New
York Herald.
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A Score.

Twenty is called a score because II
represents the whole man, ten fingers
and ten toes. Etymologically it means
a cut or mark. In very early times,
when men could not count beyond
twenty, or lone man." it was usual
to cut a notch in a stick and begin
again. and so it went on, one man, two
men. and so on. Thisais why sheep
are still counted by the score. Now, a
tally French taille. cut or nicked)
means an account kept by means of d
notched stick, and until the end of the
eighteenth century such sticks were
given as e%Xchequer receipts, accom-
panied by a written document. This
was also the usual way of keeping &C
counts in the inns of the middle ages.
The number of drinks or meals a Gus
toner had were scored against him on
what was called a tally stick, and
when it reached twenty, or q whole
man." he was expected to pay. In
some English country inns scores are
still kept on a slate, four chalk marks
and n across-ive-and four Of these
make twenty, or a score.
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Two Clever Stnteam en-

One crisis in Lord Palmerston's life
illustrates the absolute good humor
which may prevail even when political
enmity is at it's worst. Lord Derby had
made an attack upon him in the upper
house with such energy and eloquence
that the odds against him seemed over
whelming. But he defended himself
and his policy from the dusk Of one
day to the dawn of another with such
tact, dexterity and force of appeal to
the national sense of honor that he was
acquitted of all blame by a majority of
fourscore.
Next day in passing through the COR
rtdor leading from an anteroom to the
upper house IN swing door opened to
his hand and at the same moment the
other to that Of Lord Derby. They
were opponents, but they were also
manly and sweet natured men. They
smiled.
II was just thinking" said Palmer
ston. what a clever fellow he was who
so nearly put me in a hole!!'
"Ah," was the rejoinder, "but moth
ing like the c~leverness Of the fellow
who got you out of it,"
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A B G d L f 6 Hi X l. NJ
The Ancient Hour,

The early Egyptians divided the day
and night each into twelve hours, a Gus
tom adopted by the Jews Or the Greeks
probably from the B~abylonians. The
day is said to have first beer divided
into hours from B. c. 293, when a sun
dial was erected in the temple of Quiri-
nus at Rome. Previous to the invention
of water clocks, B. c.. 1913, the time was
called at Rome by public criers. In
early England one expedient Of meas
uring time was by wax candles, three
inches burning an hour. The first per-
feet mechanical clock was not made
until about A. D.. 1850. Day began at
sunrise among most of the northern ma
tons. at sunset among the Athenians
and Jews, at midnight among the Ro-
mans, as with us.
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Fashionable Life In ItnIY.


The fashionable season in Italy, says
Luigi Nillari in Italian Life In Town
and Country is from Christmas to
Easter, the time generally known as
the carnival. At Naples, Messina and
some other places there is also a sum-
mer season. Commenting on the pc
culiarities of life among the upper
classes, Nj. Villari says:
italians. eve in the grandeSt estab-
liShmentS, do not Wear evening dress
for dinner unless there is a party. a
Slack coat is enough for ordinary pur-
pcseS. a few mel who wish to be par
t%icularly fashionable wear a smoking
is sufficient for all save very large din
ner parties and balls. On the other
hand, there are occasions when a man
dons his dress clothes by day. 1t is de
rlgueur at court functions, even in
mornings, and at weddings. Ladies
wear hats at the theaters except on
gala nights. They display more jew
elry by day than English ladies'. The
Italian aristocracy have magnificent
jewels, and even in quite small towns,
where there is DO great wealth, the old
families can make a fine display. The
tall hat is only necessary at marriages,
funerals and at court. Young men Of
fashion wear it also when paying calls
during the season. Among the bour-
geoisie evening clothes are hardly ever
worn at ALL"
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WISDOM OF THE WIDOW.
Views of "a Man Who Does Not Agree
With Tony Weller.

Views u u wan VINO DOes NOR Agree
With Tony Weller.
The man who marries a girl Just out
OF school has need of much shrewdness,
tact and fortitude, for the first year Of
natrimony will produce a violent revo-
luton in her mind. AS she learns to
know her husband-she who has never
seen him except when he had his best
coat on-she will deem him a brute and
will be disappointed and Disguised, for
h will compare him with that impos-
sible ideal of manhood which every
girl has in her mind and of which he,
of course, falls short. But with ex-
perience will come wisdom. In time
she will understand that her girlhood's
ideal, if. she were to have him in the
flesh, would be an unbearable prig,
and that her husband is about as good
as men go and even-if she loves him
a little better than the next man.
A widow has all this knowledge of
men and of the world, which a spinster
lacks. A man talks to a widow freely
as to n who has found him out. She
is expert in the arts of pleasing him,
and if a bright young widow sets her
cap for a man he can escape her only
by fight. A widow has no illusions
and nc ideals. She is well trained and
used to going double, while the spinster
is an unbroken filly and is bound to
kick up a good deal when she first feels
a tug at the Snatfle.-San Francisco
Bulletin
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Quenching Thirst ut Sea.

Many years ago DR.. Hing suggested
to Captain Kennedy that thirst might
be quenched by dipping the clothing
in salt water and putting it on without
wringing it out. The captain, on be-
ing cast away, succeeded in persuading
some of the men to follow his example.
and they all survived, while the four
who refused and drank salt water be-
came d%elirious and died. Captain Ken
nedy goes on to say, after these op-
erations we uniformly found that the
violent thirst went off and the parched
tongue was cured in a few minutes
when we had bathed and washed our
clothes, while we found ourselves as
much refreshed as if we had received
some actual nourishment." London
Standard.
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The Order Pleased the Cook,

The following story is told on a mis-
sionary of the China inland mission, a
bachelor keeping house for himself in
the southern part of China: One morn
ing in ordering his dinner he wished
to tell his cook to buy a chicken. In
stead of saying "yc" for chicken he
aspirated the word, saying, Buy me a
chez His cook thought that was al
eminently proper command and went
about his marketing in high good hu.
NOR. At moor the missionary found nc
chicken cooked-in fact. no dinner at
all, for his cook had not returned
About dark the man came back, say.
ing: "This was not Il good day for buy.
ing wives, and | have been all day
looking for one, but at last 1 found
one for you. She is rather old and not
pretty, but you can have her cheap. !
have promised $40 for her"
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The Name of Stebbinn.

The Stebbins family is fairly numer-
GUS. 1t is not now a classic name. Its
wear it ignorantly. More the
shame for them. 1t is by right a classic
name, borne as it was by the first of
christian martyrs st. Steven, some
times spelled Stephen. Steven is the
Dutch way of spelling it.. Spell it in
Spanish-Esteban. Drop the initial ST.
lent Sc" and then you have steban.
Among the ignorant the step to Steb-
blhs is very short. And the honorable
name of st. Steven takes on degrade.
ton even as the fine old Norman French
name D'Aubaine becomes the homely
Dobbins.
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Three women were having an expert,
ence meeting. The first told how her
maid had locked her in the bathroom
and fed from the house. The second
told Of a green cook who had boiled q
watermelon. The third said:
"Well, my latest reasure has just
landed and did not know how to wash
windows, so l proceeded to explain
matters to her. We live on the fifth
story Of an apartment house, and I
showed her how to wash the outside by
sitting on the sill and letting her feet
hang into the room. Imagine my
amazement when | went back a few
minutes later and found her washing
the glass on the inside and sitting with
her feet hanging out into the street,
New York Times.
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Witty RetOrts.

When the celebrated physician Sir
Henry Holland told Sydney Smith that
he had failed to kill either one of a
brace of pheasants that had risen with
in easy range nea the ~latter's home,
the witty divine asked, "Why did you
not prescribe for them?"
One day Sir Henry was engaged in
a hot argument with "Bobus'' Smith,
a barrister, concerning the merits of
their respective professions. You will
admit" said Sir Henry, that your
profession does not make angels Of
men" No retorted Smith, there
you have the best of it,"
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Casting SleiEhbcIls,

A question frequently asked is in re-
gard to the method of producing sleigh
bells containing iron balls larger than
the opening in the bells. Previous to
making a cast the maker of sleighbells
puts an iron ball inside a sand core,
just the shape Of the inside of the bell.
This sand core, with the jinglet inside,
is placed in the mold of the outside and
the melted metal poured in, which fills
up the space between the core and
mold. The hot metal burns the core SO
that it can be shaken out, leaving the
ball within the shell. Ball valves,
swivel joints and many other articles
are cast in the same manner.
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A Touch of Sarcasm,

Mr.. Skinfiint ION receiving a deputa-
ton from his employees)-Well. what's
the matter now?
Clerk (spokesman)-We want to be
paid every week instead of every
month.
Ugh! You get all that's due to you,
don't your
eyes, Sir"
"And promptly to a day?"
eyes, sir"
"Then why do you want to be paid
weekly instead Of m%onthly%
please, sir, it's so we won't be get
tin the Iumbago carryin' home our
wagcs.'-London Answers.
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Slams Royal Palace.

One Of the most remarkable buildings
in the world is the palace Of the king
Of Siam. 1t is inclosed in d~azzlingly
white walls over a mile in circumfer-
ence. Within these walls are temples,
public offices, seraglios. stable for the
sacred elephant. accommodation for
1000 troops, cavalry, war elephants
and an arsenal. There is also a very
fine theater, where English. French
and German companies frequently per.
form before the royal household. The
king himself is extremely fond of the.
atricals.
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To Market on Stills,

An interesting and picturesque GUS
tom in southwestern France is that Of
going to market on stills. Groups Of
young men and women mounted on
high stills may be seen daily crossing
the marshy plains known as "the Ian
des." 1.-The Landes" are cut up into
small bitches, pools and hummocks.
and stills are in consequence almost
necessary to those who desire to trav-
erse them.
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and Bladder Disorders. No pay for thor.
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-. cover postage and packing.
'e Frank W. Collier Co., La Crosse. Wis.
Guaranteed euro for Rhe,
IreIand's School Cene,,c

Inc commissioners of National Edu.
cation in Ireland, in their report which
was issued recently state that durine
the past year they had provided places
Tor S97,4OS pupils. The number in
average attendance, which in 1900
was 47S,224, showed last year an in.
crease of 1907.
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Our AristOcracy

"She claims, I believe, to be descend.
ed from a king"
"Yes. Before her grandfather struck
1t rich he was known as the poker king
Of White Hoss Flats.'-Chicago Rec
ord Herald.
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Took Her Literauy-

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was once
giving a piece Of advice to a roomful
OF young men in a little village on the
subject of matrimony. when you
marry" she said. choose a woman
with a spine and a sound set of teeth"
Good gracious. Mrs. Stanton" re-
marked n of her listeners in alarm,
do they ever ON without spines?"
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Her Engagement Ring.

Kitty-Constance is wearing a dia.
mond ring on her engagement finger.
I'll bet she's only trying to fool folks.
Maude- Oh, it's an engagement all
right; she told me about it. The en-
gagement is with her dentist, you
know, and she put the ring on for fear
che might forget.-BostoD Transcript
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Rad SneHinr.

One of the cause to which the prev
alence of bad spelling among the rising
generation is attributed is the fact that
the modern Roman method of pro-
nouncing Latin gives nc direct indica-
ton of he pronunciation Of the Eng
fish derivatives and so no cue to their
spelling, as the English sound Of Latin
words did when it was used.
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Hardly.

Bilks-Yes; my wife and l have
agreed that whenever l make a mis-
take I am to acknowledge the fault at
once.
Jilks-But when she is in error you
will call her attention to the fact?
Bilks-Well, hardly. That would
simply be another one for me to ac-
knowledge.
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Great Word Building Contest.

See how many words you can make
out of the letters given below. Do not
use any other letters save those given.
You can use proper names, improper
naincs verbs. nouns, adjectives. prcpo-
s%itions, conjunctious and articles. Do
not use any II letter more than eight
times in n word. Use only nice words.
Here are the letters:
A B G ID Il + q II | J X l. NJ
n O p Q L S II L V W NYZ
Here is your chance! Sec who can
get up the largest lists of words by
using these letters according to the
rules of the contest. For the first largest
number Of words sent in a porterhouse
steak inlaid with turQuoises will be
awarded; to the second largest num-
Der, an elastic glass bottle; to the third.
a pound of medicated pastry.
Every guess must be accompanied by
a coupon from a 4 per cent government
bond.-New York Telegraph.
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His insomnia Completely Cured.
"They tell me you have cured your
self of chronic insomnia"
Eyes, I'm completely cured"
at must be a great relief!!'
Relief! l should say it was! Why,
I lie awake half the night thinking
how l used to suffer from it."-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
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Damascus is undoubtedly the oldest
existing city in the world. Benares and
Constantinople. exclusive of Chinese
towns, come next in point of age.
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In His Fathers FoOtsteDa.

Blnks-Did Smiths father leave him
anything?
Jinks-Only his debts.
Blnks-How is Smith getting along?
Jlnks-Well, he has greatly increased
his Observation-Disclosures American
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Is One as Bad as the Ot]

Is One as Bad as the Others
"PoVerty is no disgrace" said the
young woman with ideas of her own.
EMO" said Mrs. Cumrocks, cts no
disgrace. but it certainly is extremely
Observation-Disclosures Star.
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Aqed Student Of AVA

Thomas c. Boyd, sixty-two years Of
age, of Chicago, has just graduated
from a law school in that city, and
hopes to carve out a career for him.
self by strenuous work.
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Ability.

Iomso1-Johnson has no ability of
any kind.
Observation-Disclosures. Why, he can
ask you for a loan in such a way that
you thank your lucky stars for the op-
p%ortunity to accommodate him.
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Pleased at 1t.

THE fools are not all dead yet" said
the angry husband.
I'm glad of it, DEAR" calmly replied
the other half Of the combination. az
never did look well in black."-Chicapo
News.
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The Wife.

Suppose l were an absolutely per-
feet woman" she remarked sharply,
DO you know what you'd do then|
no" answered her husband.
"What?"
@You'd growl because you had moth
ing to growl about"
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Very Willing.

"You asked her father for her hand"
ayes"
sand he refused you!"
"NO, he didn't. He said I could have
both of hem."-Cleveland Plain Deal
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Granite is the only common rock
which shows nc traces of animal or
vegetable life.