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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-07
TEN SHOTS FIRED
OVER JUG OF WHISKEY
fsnec,al to The Times

PULASKI. "a. July S-Fred Lottier
shot John White on vera wa fIy.d Street, this
~ emetying his pistol. Lottier ran and
he police ire after him. White was hit
several sew raj times, and is probably fatally
wounded
ottiar struck another man with a bar
Of iron about month ago. almost fatal
~. oy one..rnaa h,oo,,
Ia La"i ,,io claimed the LIQUOR, was shot
int in the head during the firing and may
die.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-07
G. & o. Earnings.

The following Is a comparative statement
Of the gross earnings of the C, & %. Rail
Way for the fourth quarter. arts &c Of June;
1903, S5lS,744,lS, 1902, SsodooIss; ineroase,
Fnr tSe month OF June: 1903. 81, 52l 46O2S
1907. 81. is4. S23. 81; Increase sS27.436.42.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27

than mere muscle. Of unskilled Ia
borers there are ten for every place.
but for men even slightly skilled,
work is going begging. In these
facts there is a lesson for boys and
their parents in America as well as
in Great Britain. AS civilization ad-
vances, as the waste pieces Of earth
are made to blossom, as population
there Is less and less pro-
portionate demand for the man who
has merely his hands and no special
knowledge and how to use them.
There is less and less demand for the
tradeless man.
The time was in this country when
there was a great deal of work to be
done for which little more than mus
cular strength and a willingness to
use it was required. But those times
are rapidly passing away. Muscular
strength is still a good and necessary
thing. Without it there cannot be
good health. But more is now increas-
ingly demanded, and that is the knowl-
edge Of how to do some particular
thing at least reasonably well. The
parents who permit their sons to grow
up-the boys who permit themselves
to start out in the wOrld-withOut that
knowledge are laying up sorrow for
the future. Beaten in life's race from
the start is the tradeless man.-Chi-
cagO Inter Ocean.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27

older men will stories that make the boys
hug bright freight and at strange noises
again sisdes will echo back the joyous
laughter a funny story and then comes midnight
per and eggs boiled in sweet and potatoes
baked ashes Games and stories follow the night
on till the sap boiled down and the fires banked
sleepy but crowd udge homeward the
frozen stubbe in the early dawn.
sugarngof at the end of the is the day
Of festivities and hard work combined. The neighbors
there gathered around the seamng kettle of
sirup dishes and little paddles whitfield out Of
basswood eagerly waiting for the word when the rup is
thick enough to stir into sugar.
patch found in sheltered spot in the woods
by dpperfu of thick liquid thrown it. 1t
quickly cools into the form Of tafy. 1t Is fine.
That night the sticky is washed from hands and
little children the afy is combed out of their hair
theyare put bed full Of sweet stuff and thoughts Of
an enjoyable day in the old sugar bush'
frost is all out of the ground the hillside The
winds have dried up the The soft naples
already in bud and the willows in full bloom
along the creek The pals all gathered in and
away The fire in the furnace is flooded and the
sugar house, is locked up and the camp deserted.
squirrels chase each other the roof and
cods in the branches of the old birch
ducks splash nosy around in shadowed pool
of the creek trying settle down for the night.
The full moon is rising above the swamp, while two
wagon rumbles up the lane adened with the sweet
spoils sugar season-E. A. Bushnell in Cincinnati
Post
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27
Vast Increase of Wealth.

eT-HE increase of wealth within past twenty
| years. in this country has been enormous By this
l statement that the country Is richer in
everything that makes a country rich, but
chiefly that there multtudes of very rich
men where quarter Of century there only
few. Fifty years ago it easy individuals
who had income of frty thousand dollars a year.
an income implied productive property of than
million. The American style is the most extravagant in
the world. 1t demands the best everywhere usually
gets it, and pays the highest prices for it. Are
then nation of spendthIfs the rich people setting
and the rest following fast and far they
We do not think We called money worshipers by
some; reckless prodigals by Neither charge
correct. There Is scale of wealth. and there
people who have large possessions than
before in history. But there proportion
sensible and thrifty persons in country ever
There fewer reckless spendthrifts,
who besowng vast of money in phanhropic
charitable works The wealth which is gathered is not
boarded Much of it is distributed throughout the
given away in charity and philanthropy. There
sedenia and less saving the virtues have
sent to the background and charity and fiendness
hospitality displayed and advertised good things
which multimilonaires doing with gold pub
lished far and wide and 1.-The with mites
little chance of commendaton in with
What the end will be it is impossible to predict
the rich getting richer that the cost of
everything which rich people and demand growing
day. and that competition
yond business and entered social and church life
ways that offensive good breeding menacing
pure religion. Unless along with the living
and personal expenditure standard
ence and seIfsacrce shall only repeat In this repub
lie the experience Of other ages reap and pain
full Great wealth without mercy charity and self
DEVOTION is not blessing but curse-New York OBJ
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27
The Value of Spelling.

- OMEBODY with views of spelling original than
orthodox has written to Chicago paper to protest
against the prominence given to this study in college
~ examination papers, He contends that professor
of professors justly condemn a freshman
for being poor speller, long stress laid
this education before the days of Samuel John
son. other words if great Shakespeare had
right to spell his in six different ways and
George Washington shaky orthography, mere
college student should be forgiven for not being able
master intricacies twentieth century spelling
This sound plausible and judging from the kind of
work the pupils American public out
are many parents in this land who hold similar views
the faacy lies the that
high graduate is not expected be Shakespeare
George Washington, and that he is expected most
bookkeeper of ordinary
man.
employer will not ask him if he write immortal
plays lead army. He will ask him to write note
Mr. Smith such such number, Broadway; that
note ridiculous if the of the street spelled
pboneticaly OF there is reason logically why
phonetic spelling office:
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27

he soon came to realize that the fresh
men were his best customers. AS a
result, directly after dinner, during the
fall evenings, there are lined up doz-
en- of these musical artists with their
several instruments dispensing 'Boolo
YALE" "We Won't Go Home Until
Morning." ''We Must Love Some One, "
and other Yale favorites in a distract
ing chorus.
At first, when there were compare
lively few instruments in the city,
there was fun enough in simply dane
ing to the music or in tossing pennies
from the windows, but as competition
grew keen and more Italians appeared
the fun grew more furious.
One night, says the Boston Herald,
an old favorite held up his hand for
the accustomed coin, and when it land
ed it was hot. Instinctively he tossed
it up to be caught by the next fellow,
who in turn let it fly. The boys heat
ed the pennies in the fireplaces Of their
rooms, and then dropped them down
to the unsuspecting Neapolitans. Now
there Is more caution on the part of
the players, but every night the boys
rain the red-hot coins down. and the
grasping musicians pitch each of them
up In the air to cool, as they hesitate
whether to risk a scorched hand or
allow, their neighbors to become richer
on account of their timidity.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27
THE TRADELESS MAN.
Boys Should Not Grow Up Without
Special Training.

Boys Should Not Grow Up Without
Special Training.
When the first severe weather OF
the present winter struck London the
dispatches from that city chronicled
much suffering among the poor and
an unusually large number Of mer
out of work. Many of the unem-
ployed were stated to be men dis
charged from the army because OF
the return of peace in South Africa
The facts were stated in such a way
as to lead to the inference that Brit.
ish employers were somewhat heed
less of the special claims Of men who
risked their lives in their country's
cause. According to the statements
Of a society formed to secure EN-.
ployment for discharged soldiers such
inference against the patriotism of
British employers was not well
founded.
This society states that employers
show preference for men who have
served in the army, If only they
know something about some trade
1t states that it's books prove that
there is no lack Of work for men who
have even rudimentary training in
some occupation calling for more
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27
The Meat-Eater's Eefence.

- HERE certain esthetic persons who quail before
| luscious blood red steak These persons hard
1 y abreast of scientific thought else they would
also quail before the Of the gentle asparagus
The asparagus is undoubtedly form of life and the
distinction between the higher vegetables and the lower
animals hard make. Bacteria for instance though
usually supposed fall in the field of zoology said
belong of rights to botany The fact is that the vegetarian
agitation served its in emphasizing the good there
eating fair proportion of vegetables and the evil
there in eating unfair proportion Of meat This
pose being accomplished exclusive devotion to vegetable
perhaps longer necessary except during sickness
No of object to IAN affection la Plato
for bashfu young potato not too French French
comic OPERA but affection of the propagan-
dist fruits cereals and vegetables the antago-
of meats is happily longer desirable feature of
life. We allowed by the highest authori
ties enjoy the taste and stimulus of meat without COM
punction.-Chicago Tribune.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27

1-HE "Caw! Cav! Cawr' of a bunch of ever-hungry
crowd, lazy tapping their way across the meadows
the frozen honey combed wheat fields; the
treetops edge of the wood lot the redbreasted
robins hopping the short dull In
the sheep pasture; the bluebrds chirpng in the dead
old beech tree looking last years
headed woodpecker rappng on the dead bark
hickory the edge of the clearing where the
swollen washes its muddy waters against the lower
of the pussy willow, just beginning to show
nge green, and the skunk cabbage forcing its
way through thin ice in the marshland Those all
signs spring. but the sures signs from practical stand
point when the farmer and his boy and hired first
approach sunny hillside of the old sugar BUSH where
still subborny hangs in curouslooking wet
patches among the dead leaves and branches With auger
bit spout and pail they proceed to the crystal
drops sap that spring from the roots of the maple
at the first breath of spring.
When all the naples in the "bush" tapped the
stoneboat bobsled with barrels saked
it, the camp made, gathering the first
of sap.
The sap is dumped into huge wooden trough and from
pipe it into the evaporating brick
the house. When it freezes hard
night followed heavy haw the next day, it produces
'big sap Then the farmer, his boys and hired
will stay up all night to boil down the sap be-
fore 1t gets
Usually neighbors will drop in during the
ing and while the boys tend the fire and skim the the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27
ADJUSTMENTS OF YALE MEN.
Members of the Senior Class Take to
Feeding Squirrels.

Members of the Senior Glass Take to
Feeding Squirrels.
The establishment of squirrel COM
mons in the center Of the Yale campus
is the innovation that the present
senior class has to it's credit. Each
class during its stay of four years on
the campus plans to introduce some
novel form Of amusement which shall
thrive after it leaves the university
and which is always associated with
its numerals.
In this way top-spinning, hoop-roll-
ing, crap shooting and the several 9TH
er amusements that have become part
of the university undergraduate pro-
gram have been introduced. The mem
bers of the class of 1903, however,
have the honor of introducing the first
amusement which has a tendency in
the line Of feeding the hungry and
housing the homeless.
The Yale campus, with it's beautiful
elms, has always been an ideal home
for the squirrels and the chipmunks
and many years ago they, with their
respective families, sought the peace
supposed to be within the classic walls
of Yale. But the Introduction of the
Boston terrier as a roomer there. as
well as a frequent visitor, frightened
away many of these lively little ami
mails, until a couple of years ago the
sight of a squirrel was most uncom-
mon.
Then a reaction set in, the terrier
was ostraciZed or at least was curtail-
ed in his liberty, and the bright, busy
little animals were encouraged to re-
turn to their abandoned farms by the
Yale boys. Then plans were made to
keep frisky chaps on the campus, with
the result that what may very prop
erly be termed squirrel commons
now exists.
All during the early fall the Yale
men congregate in numbers on their
respective fences, and with bags full
Of peanuts and walnuts. entice the
squirrels and chipmunks to come down
to supper.
Another amusement, which is said to
have originated up near the Sheffield
scientific school, is pitching pennies
Pitching pennies has been one of the
frolics of the Yale campus since the
Introduction Of the first monkey into
New Haven. But the occupants Of the
freshman dormitories have originated
a feature which intensifies the fun to
the Yale mind.
1t took the Italian with the hurdy-
gurdy less than twenty-four hours
after his arrival in town to learn that
tho forfiIo fold for RfS la horS Was In
the region of the Yale campus. And
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27
GRABBING IN MARYLAND.
An Ingenious Method by Which Man
Are Caught for the Market.

Am Ingenious Method by Which Many
Are Caught for the Market.
Those who crab for market on the
Choptank river, Maryland, have an in
genious method of catching crabs In
quantity. A rope about the thickness
of a clothesline, several hundred feet
long, is kept coiled In keg. The closer
the cover the more pleasant the sail
with the fisherman to the grabbing
grounds, for at Intervals Of two feet
along the entire length Of the rope he
has untwisted 1t and inserted between
the strands short pieces of salted cells.
The torsion Of the strands holds them
tightly in place. Each end of the rope
has keg buoy attached, together with
heavy stone.
Arriving at the favored place, usu
ally on oyster beds, he throws keg
overheard and pays out his highly
scented rope as he sails. When the
other end Is reached he anchors 1t with
another stone and throws out another
buoy.
After lowering his sail, he waits a
few minutes, then takes his stand on
the bow of his boat. Alongside of him
is his landing net, with a handle six
feet long. He raises the buoy and
stone and, hand over hand, pulls his
boat along the line. When crab,
clinging to its refreshment, comes in
sight, he ssizes his net, dashes it un-
der the crab and filings 1t into the boat.
The wary crab may loosen his hold and
dive for the bottom, but such is the
fisherman's dexterity that his net is
swifter than the crab. One seldom
gets away.
Several hundreds of crabs are often
taken at each overhauling Of the rope.
When he has caught all he wants, says
the writer In Country Life in America,
he packs them In barrels and sells them
to local dealer, who ships them to mar
kof
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27

The Emperor Francis Joseph was
leaving the Church of st. Antonius the
other day after attending the ceremony
of conservation, when a lad dressed as
a bakers apprentice pushed his way
through the crowd, evaded the swarms
of detectives and ran right up to the
emperor's carriage, which was already
in motion. He held up letter which
he wanted to hand to the emperor, and
Francis Joseph had the carriage stop
ped to take the missive. 1t ran as fol-
lows: Dear Mr.. Emperor: My mother
has been very i'll for many years and
no hospital will admit her because she
is an incurable. l can earn enough for
myself, but I cannot earn enough to
give my sick mother the things she
needs. / beg you, dear Mr.. Emperor,
to order that she shall be admitted to
some hospital" Two hours later (says
the Vienna correspondent Of the Morn
ing Leader an ambulance arrived be-
fore the lads house and conveyed his
mother to a charitable institution,
where she can end her days in peace.
-Leslie's Weekly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27
WORLDS A-GOlN' RIGHT.

Some people are a-growlin' an a-howlin'
day an night,
An a-rantin' and a-railin' cause the
world amt goin' right. T
They are weepin' o'er its sorrows an
they keep it's woes in view,
An they never note the sweetness O. the
roses drippin' dew.
Some people in their frettin' are for
gettin' blessings rare,
They fail to breathe the fragrance that
is foatin' on the air.
They keep the thorn an thistle an the
nettles aye in view.
They pass the blushin' roses in their
haste to pluck the rue.
This world may have its failin's, but
there's good enough for all,
An we may choose the sweetness or bit
terness an gall.
An If we seek the shadows, an if we
shun the light,
'Tis we, an not the world, friends, that
amt a-goin' right.
Los Angeles Herald.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27
HOW WOMEN STEP OFF CARS.
Few Understand the Art and Many
Are Injured in Consequence.

Few Understand the Art and Many
Are Injured in Consequence.
All over the country the traction COM
panies are being mulcted in heavy
damages for personal injuries sustained
ground on alighting before the cars
have fully stopped. The verdicts are
exemplary in many instances, especial
ly If the plaintiffs are women. The jur-
ors rarely seem to concern themselves
over the question whether the injured
passengers of the precious sex get off
with their faces or their back-hair
turned toward the front of the compass
which claims the attention of the mas
culine creature at the wheel. 1t is the
proud privilege Of the-better half of
humanity to descend from a car Of any
sort in just the way she prefers, with
eyes to the front or retroactive vision
and footsteps, and our transportation
companies must revise their rules in
accordance with feminine caprices and
fancies.
Otherwise juries will deal unkindly
with the owners of the trolley lines,
whether their power is overhead or un-
derground. The matron or maid who
is interfered with In her choice of grace
fully alighting from a car platform
backward or frontward or in any other
way evidently has a sufficient basis
for litigation If she suffers injury and
the car is put in motion before she has
taken her way in unruff1ed security. So
/ I, - 4I,;,,
and unfortunate male nonentities on
the front Or rear platforms of the cars
who are distraught already over the
uncertainty whether lovely women will
make her exit without harm have even
worse troubles ahead than any which
have hitherto afflicted them.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-27

I asked. They explained incoherently
that Nine. Laroche's diamonds were
stolen-old family diamonds Of great
value. All the servants had been
summoned into an adjoining room-in
short, formal search was to be insti-
tuted. An old gentleman, M. Cope,
had been unanimously selected to d.
rect this investigation just as l was
entering, and his first proposition was
that everyone should submit, or, rath-
er, offer himself to be searched. AL
though the thing was rather offensive,
no one protested, and it was decided
that, after the servants, each person
present should be examined.
To tell the truth, all this seemed of
small Importance beside my personal
cares; and, with several others, l
awaited the end of the adventure,
while M Cope, his two witnesses and
our host, began the inspection Of the
domestics.
Very soon I fell again into my medt-
tation, my eyes fixed on the fireplace
as though there were fire, when sud
denly felt light touch on my elbow.
1 raised my head with start, to see
my fiance looking at me most beeseech-
ingly. We were alone near the fireside
and could talk in low tones without
being overheard. She murmured very
low:
eff you love me, arrange that they
search you first; then try to be near
me and, without being seen, try to con-
ceal the object that I shall pass you
from behind"
NV blood ran cold. This annoying
incident became terrible, filling me
with the most passionate trouble. 1
looked at the girl in agony, but forced
myself to smile, and whispered:
''It shall be as you wishv'
My knees trembled, my mouth was
hot and dry. The feeling that over
whelmed me was fneXpressible. 1t
was a strange mingling of bitterness
and pleasure, that my loved>one should
be weak to such a degree. l forced
myself to have q sort Of disdainful
pity, and in reality love beat ardent,
strong, stern in my breast. / under
stood, in a flash, how beauty could
become ulNlu0 dDONC UdScAcSS VI SOuis
and how one could respect 1t even in
dishonor-and a hundred other things
in which were confused fervent love,
devotion without limit, desire noble
and perverse.
Jeanne had thanked me with hardly
perceptible movement of the lips; she
stood by the wall with an air of indif-
ference and pride!
'They are very long about it." she
said sternly. M. Cope is a man of
method" someone replied. And a 81
lence followed which told more and
more on ones nerves, for even the wait
ing in a peaceful frame of mind fin
ished by disturbing and emptying the
brain, like pump. However, the mo-
ment arrived when the searching of
the servants ended. the door opened,