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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25

himself, he pulled up his trousers, dis
playing pair of brilliantly colored
socks. The boy moved over to the
doorway. and. crouching, with his head
inside the door, fixed his eyes In
fascinated stare on the gayly clad
ankles. When he was sure he had
attracted the attention of all the pas
sengers to the offending articles, he
yelled derisively:
Bum show! Drop der curtaln!''
BY this time the genial passenger
had reached his corner, but before he
had a chance to get off good-looking
middle-aged woman pushed by him
and stepped off the car, remarking
sharply as she did so on the evils of
smoking OF course her speech was
directed at the boy. Quick as a fash
he retorted: "The girls mad because
I would not firt with her.
The car moved off with the boy smil-
ing and happy and the woman flushed
with anger and wishing she could box
the young scamp's ears.-New York
Press
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25
HANDY WHEN YOU GO CAMPING.

The average American boy often
feels the desire to get into the wild.
Sometimes he is able to fulfill the de-
sire. When he is, he should be con-
graduated, for the life of the well
regulated camps Is joy unknown to
the cooped-up city man.
The tent is the important feature,
and q good one is absolutely neces-
sary. Otherwise the camper Will be
subject to unexpected dackings, or
NAV wake up to find himself without
cover in a windstorm.
The camp FIRE is another important
consideration. Several styles are used'
depending on the locality. A good nre-
nlace is built of stones, piled one on
ton of tie other in circular shape. Ine
snaees between the stones furnlsn
dror+ The stones retain heat and the
fire will give greater heat and ourn
longer than in the open bonfire. 10
hang kettles, uprights and crosspieces'
as shown, will be found useful
A simple table can be made from
fanca boards or from the cover OF a
packing box, as shown.
Cots suitable for all requirements
are made by driving crotehed sticks
into the ground and placing the
stretcher-made cot Ia piece of canvas
sewed on two poles) into the crotches.
Another simple cot is shown in the IL
lustra hon.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25
RADICAL CURE FOR LockJAw.
Severe Nature of the Remedy Calcu-
lated to Inspire Fear.

Severe Nature of the Remedy Calcu-
lated to Inspire Fear.
A large number Of deaths from
tetanus that have recently come to
light invests with great interest any
report of a cure of the much-dreaded
disease. The severity and radical ma
ture of the remedy, however, are well
calculated to inspire almost as much
fear as the original attack of the mall
ady. Unlike other kindred infectious
ailments, there is usually no ealcula-
ton for results until the poison has
done it's work by attacking the brain
and nervous centers and producing
the fatal spasms. Hence the only
hope rests In the injection of the
tetanus anti-toxin directly into the
severe and dangerous one, but is the
only means at hand that appears to be
founded on the rational scientific basis
Of directly neutralizing the poison.
The successful case reported from San
Francisco is one in point in which 1t
was necessary to bore into the skull
of the victim for the purpose Of intro
ducing the neutralizing agent. No
more forcible argument in favor Of
prevention Of lockjaw could be urged
than that afforded by the necessity OF
the situation.
Although of late large majority Of
the cases of tentanus have been charg-
ed to the toy pistol and poisoned cart
ridge, it Is well to bear in mind that
the real cause is the accidental pres
ence of the bacillus on dirt-soiled
hands, and that the microbe, being
naturally developed in damp and fer
tilted earth, can thus be easily driven
into wounds by an explosion. Rusty
garden implements, nails and the like
are also frequent causes Of Infection,
especially when they produce punctur-
ed LESSONS. When such conditions are
present obviously the only course to
pursue is to endeavor to anticipate
lockjaw by Immediately cleansing the
wound and by injecting the anu-toxin
locally, knowing full well that with
such an opportunity lost the last, most
desperate remedy is all that is left.
In connection with such facts, too
much stress cannot be laid upon the
avoidance of all wounds from soiled
or rusty instruments.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25
age housewife engaged in her ordinary

age housewife engaged in her ordinary
duties the answer would be wrong.
Though startling it is true that the
death rate of the patient domestic
drudge is greater than that of the
soldier. So says Dr.. Dickinson, of
Chicago, who has investigated. At
the battle of Santiago 100000 soldiers
were engaged and 800 were killed-a
death rate of three-tenths Of 1 per
cent. The death rate of the woman
who keeps house is considerably larg-
err. These are some of the dangers
which the woman who In engaged In
the slavish task OF housekeeping and
kitchen keeping faces daily: Death
by scalding. BY gasoline or gas ex-
plosions. BY falling down dark stair
ways. BY heat prostitution. BY dis
ease contracted through bad sewer
age and unsanitary kitchens. by eS-
haustion and unending drudgery. by
suicide induced by the hepelessneSs
OF the daily routine, These arc not
fanciful dangers. Each of them has
its frightfui statistics OF death-an
alarming mortality, And, strangely
enough, these dangers follow largely
In the wake OF the effort by modern
invention to tighten the toll OF the do
mestic drudge. Labor saving devices
have increased the risk. Notable
among domestic tragedies are the IA
tai accidents caused by explosions or
gasoline or gas stoves. The mothers
of the race are being slaughtered by
the progress OF civilization. Especial
ly is this true OF the so-called middle
class wives and wives Of workingmen.
Housekeeping at the best is a menial
and dull occupa ton. There is little to
compensate for the weary and spirit
less routine. To many frail woman
the bondage to monotonous common
place Is In itself a domestic tragedy.
When there 10 added to the miracle Of
labor required dangers more real than
The remedy? Society must do more
for the housewife. Safety must be
joined to facility Of labor. Better san
itary conditions. Kitchens in homes
and fats and tenements should be
made more habitable and convenient.
Women should be better educated
concerning the dangers of explosives.
Children in school should be taught
the common things as well as the
higher things of life. Diversion must
somehow be introduced into the life
Of the exhaustive and ceaseless round
Of household drudgery. Work Is not
a curse, but drudgery is" Let the
world forget a while the sorrows OF
1.-The man with the hoe" and contem-
plate the fate of the woman with the
dish rag.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25
MISERY'S MILLIONS.
Lost Religions of "the Great Abyssn
In London.

Lost Religions Of t'the Great Abyss''
In London.
London's wealth, says Men and
Women, Is ever before us. 1t takes
care that it shall be- But London's
poverty is hidden away in vast areas
of agony with which rank and wealth
and fashion are as unfamiliar as they
are with Franz Joseph Land or Cen
tral Africa. The moment that a small
contingent from the mean streets of
working class London reveals itself
to the eyes of the west there is an
outcry. Fashion turns shuddering
away and complains of the rnen with
the begging boxes; wealth buttons its
pockets and calls upon the authorities
to withdraw their countenance and
the bodyguard of police from "a pack
of impostors." And fashion and wealth
are perhaps wise In their protest If
these unemployed workers are allowed
to parade in search of sympathy we
may one day see all the lost legions of
1.-THE great abyss" crawling forth from
the alleys and the slums to give the
west an object lesson on the poverty
that the great city hides away in it's
hooks and crannies.- The women and
the children, the one room heIots Of
unspeakable siums, the diseased and
desperate outcasts of our great guilt
gardens, may form up In one mighty
mass Of misery and surge into the
crowded thoroughfares and aristocrat-
ic streets, which fashion regards as
it's own.
Picture, If you can, London given
up for one day, not to the gay page
ants which on great occa sions gladden.
our eyes and make our hearts swell
with pride at the vastness Of our en-
pire and the splendor of our court, but
to a dead march Of London's lost ones.
Crowd balcony and windows with
rank and fashion, with the world of
wealth and the middle class well-to-
do, give to the fair matdens and ma
irons who lead life Of pleasure and
Of ease the front places on the line
Of route. Then let the millions of
Misery Land creep by! Such spect-
acle, If it could be arranged, would
be a revelation which would shock
the national conscience as it has never
been shocked before. From the win
dows and the balconies the women Of
luxury would shrink back trembling,
white faced, terrified. And the men,
the busy gatherers Of gold and the
idle squanderers Of it, would feel a
shame that no written story of the
city's want and woe has ever made
them feel before. Even as one pic
lures what such a scene as this pro-
cession would mean, one feels the hor-
ror of it. For the comfort of the pros
porous citizen that sort of thing must
be kept within its own area, to be
looked upon only by those who are of
the company of woe.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25
Seeking an Everlasting Ink.

Government chemists are much in
terested in obtaining ink which will
be lasting. Many government docu-
ments have to be written In ink. and it
is desirable that the ink should remain
legible as long as the document re-
mains intact. Notwithstanding the
popular idea that everything made in
the olden times was perfect the oldtime
inks were by no means perfect. The
original copy Of the Declaration Of
Independence Is almost undecipherable.
Only one signature, that of John Han
cock, stands out clear and bold.
All acts OF congress are filed with
the State department for safe-keeping
and registered. Up to few years ago
it was customary to engross the acts
of congress by hand with pen and ink.
but now they are printed. 1t Is claim
ed that printers ink will outlast writ
Ing fluid and that there will be NO
trouble for future genera tions to read
the acts of the present congress.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25
- fDI I ORIAISnZZ
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

result is race strong When class distinctions
the gentry gain culture without losing strength
That the highest type of manhood 1t was seen In the
Augustan age Rome In the chivalry Of medieval
Western Europe In the planters of own Southern
the first half Of the nineteenth century The de-
veopment of the highest OF manhood involves the con-
demnaton OF the iory rude and aborious fe But
be from generation to generation
only long they remain in their rural environment
In the cities degeneration occurs Here and there vgor
transmitted through several generations Of city bred
men, at least in individuals who maintain the famlly
standing The tendency Is to degeneration and
yields tendency. The result s In the
slums and the potters field The who dominate
cties-at least in America-are country bred-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25
Kept the Company Awake.

He couldn't have been more than Is
and he was a perfect specimen Of the
type of street boy one reads about, but
seldom sees. He was standing on the
back platform, smoking, when the at
tention of the genial passenger was
first called to him and this because
the boy brushed of the genial pas
senger's coat and apologized for nearly
setting 1t on fire.
"Been ter ther ball gamer the boy
inquired. The genial passenger ad-
nttted that he hadn't had that pleas
ure.
Peach of game" said the boy.
Just as this point a fashionably
dressed young man boarded the car
and went inside, where, after seating
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25

great of the cities of to-day congestion
of population in the and squald districts this
and increasing rush from the country
Is not only and cause Of crime and suffering
Of economic waste of the dangerous costly
kind. While the farmers of the West plead help
fields, cities filed with
who will not leave the city where they subss largely
charity. 1t Is not alone in the West in harvest
that labor is needed in the country the demand for
good wages from every farming district in every
State in the Union all the year. most serious
problems confronting the farmer Is the scarcity work
The rush the cities continues nevertheless and the
and idle find the eco
noic laws reversed by those actually seeking
ways of helping those live deliberately will not
work.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25
BUILD UP GREAT EMPIRES.
Railroads the Instruments of Great
ing Wealth and Power.

R.iIreads the Instrument of Great
ing Wealth and Power.
Just fifty years have passed since
the ground was plated ON which the
Seattle of to-day stands. Just about
the same length of time has passed
since the state of which 1t Is the me-
tropolis was organized as territory.
In the case Of each of them, how
ever. the real growth has been but re-
cent. and it has been largely crea-
ton of the railroads. Although Wash
inxton was organized as territory in
1883. it had only 1900 Inhabitants in
1860. $1,000 in 1870 and $4,000 in 1880.
Then came a jump to $4,000 in 1890
and to $4,000 in 1900. The spring
from the $1,000 mark to $4,000 be-
tween 1880 and 1890 was due to the
fact that Wizards Northern Pacific
railroad, which was completed in 1888,
had connected that State with the out
side world in the interval.
Throughout the whole of the West
and of course through the East and
South also-the railroads have exerted
a beneficent influence, although its ef-
fects are not quite SO marked on all
communities as they have been on
Washington and it's leading city. At
the outset Seattle's expansion was SO
slow that as recently as 1880 it's popu-
lation was only $500. 1t has fine
location on an arm Of Puget Sound,
through which the Asiatic and Alaska
trade of large part of the continent
is pouring, and through which in i'm
measurably larger quantity will pour
a few years hence. The lumber indus
try, which has had much to do with
the growth of it's State, also contrib
uted greatly to Seattle's advancement.
1t is the railroads, however, which
have been the chief instrument In that
Northwest city's expansion. The North
ern Pacific road opened in 1888. sent
that towns population up from $500
in 1880 to $4,000 In 1890, and it was
$4,000 in 1900. Probably the increase
in the current decade will be greater
than it was in the past ten years. The
entire West is growing at rate not
touched in the decade which had the
1887 panic I'm 1t. The new North
west is getting large share of this
growth, and as the trade with Asia
and Alaska is bound to increase with
great rapidity in the approaching time
washington, Oregon and California, es-
pecially Washington, are sure to ac-
quire much greater Importance
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25

Much profit can be derived from an
tor Resartus," as the average man Is
prone to forget that the body is more
than raiment. When the Presbyterian
Church realized that those who sought
to revise the creed did not strive to
make new body, but only asked that
more modern garment be put on the
old one, objection to changes in for
mula disappeared, and the new creed
was adopted unanimously at the re-
cent General Assembly. Because the
church was jealous of the faith of its
fathers 1t took fifteen years to secure
approval of the new form of doctrine.
the substance of which remains the
same as the old. Jealousy for the
truth, as it is given to one to see the
truth, tends toward a fuller compre-
hension Of the truth itself. It is be-
cause of the conservatism of the va
rious churches that, although much
has been said about the great changes
in the belief Of men, the change in
thousand years has not been radical.
have been expressed has been revised
and the conduct which was thought
fitting for Christians has been modf-
fed, but the motive of Christian life
remains the same. Each generation
serves God as best 1t may This gen
Grafton is wont to fiatter itself with
the notion that it is more broadly toll
Grant than some Of its predecessors
and that it holds less repellent view
of the nature of God. It remains for
the people who come after us to de-
eide whether this pride is justified.
The new generations will have their
creed revisions and their controver-
sizes, but unless the religious nature
changes there will be no material
change in the body Of their belief,
whatever may be the garments Of
creed in which It is clothed.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25
CURIOUS PLACES TO DWELL
Some People Have Homes In Caves
and Others I'm Craters.

and Others An ArafSre.
Many thousands Of the people of the
earth dwell beneath its surface. There
are human habitations in caverns
where the light of day never pene-
trates, and the crater Of extinct vol
canoes furnish shelter to scores. The
people of Tupuselel have no need to
travel far when they want to take
salt water bath. The town is built on
piles, which have been driven into
submerged coral reef situated far
out in the Torres straits to the south
of New Guinea. Opposite this extra,
ordinary settlement, on the mainland,
is another village that is perched high
In the air among the gigantic palm
trees with which the coast Is frfnged.
The object of both communities in
choosing these curious sites for their
dwellings is Identical They desire to
assure themselves against being sur
prised by their numerous enemies, and
especially they seek safety from the
prowling Dyak head hunters.
People afflicted with diseases not In
frequently develop strange fads as re-
CARDS the choice of their abiding
places. Not long since, for instance, a
number of consumptiyes agreed to-
gether to dwell within the dismal
depths of the Mammoth Cave in Ken
tucky. In pursuance of this extraor-
binary pro.ec building materials were
actually carried into the cave at con-
siderable trouble and expense, and a
tiny subterranean village sprang by de-
grees into existence. When it was
completed 1t was inhabited by thirteen
families.
But, as might have been foreseen,
the profound silence and eternal dark
ness of the place exerted upon the un-
fortunate inhabitants a deleterious ef-
feet which far outweighed any benefit
derived from the undoubtedly pure,
dry air and equable temperature.
Some of the invalids died, others gave
up the experiment in disgust, and the
houses SO strangely and laboriously
built are now given over to tramps,
outlaws and other similar chance So
journers.
Better luck has attended the little
colony Of people similarly afflicted,
who, few years back, settled within
the landlocked crater bay which con-
stitufes practically the whole interior
of the volcanic island of st. Paul, in
the Indian ocean. Here they are en-
tirely protected against all wind, no
matter from what quarter of the COM
pass 1t may chance to blow, while hot
natural baths at varying temperatures
are always available. The very
ground, too, is kept at constantly
equable heat by the latent volcanic
fires within. And, lastly, food Of all
kinds is plentiful and varied, and In
cludes such curious and unusual deli
cacies as sea elephants fins and tails.
crayfish and other succulent "Kerg-
uelen cabbage" No wonder that many
of those who have been cured have
preferred settling on the island to re-
turning to their homes.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25
Timely Warming.

A novelist who was giving lecture
on the characteristics and surround
ings of the class of people with whom
some Of his books deal, noticed a dis
approving face In the front row of
listeners. 1t was the face of an ell
'der1y Scotchman, and at the close of
the lecture the man waited upon the
speaker.
"Sir," he said slowly, after sol
emn shake of the lecturers hand,
i've read all your books up to this,
and liked them fairly. Man, you
wouldna gle up writing and TAX to
speaking to get your living, would
yep
mo, indeed" said the lecturer, So
berly. "You think it would be unwise,
don't your"
"It would be sac great mistake that
felt must tell ye ma thoughts as
an honest man." said the Scotchman,
with great earnestness. II said to
myself, He may need just word
to set him right, and I'll not deny it
to him. There was ane o. your books
I found bit dull, but as 1 listened
to ye tonight said to mysel', 'Twas
ma so dull as it might ha' been, that
book, after ALL
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25

At last the two-minute trotting horse
has arrived. When Cresceus came
within two and a quarter seconds Of
this -dreamed-of mark two years
ago, even the experts said that horse
flesh could not be trained to do any
better But Lou Dillon easily captured
the laurel from Cresceus. making the
mile in 12O seconds fat, and the last
quarter in the still more remarka BILE
time of % seconds. Yet this wonder
full feat creates none Of the popular in
terest and excitement that marked
Dexter's 2.17A In 1857. the 2:0SA of
Maud 8. in 1885, or even the 2:04 of
Nancy Hanks in 1892. This doubtless
is due to a lessened popular interest III
trotting, mainly through diversion to
other and newer sports. But the horse
man will tell us that the achievement
of Lou Dillon marks a distinct advance
in breeding and training, as well as in
the conditions under which such rec
ords are made. And the more we think
1T over the more wonderful it seems
that horse can trot mile In two
minutes.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25

Lord Charles Beresford. in tracing
someof the Improvements in the treat
ment of the men in the British and
the United States nayies, said that
formerly they had the cat and no dis
cipline; now they have discipline and
no cat
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25
Race Problem.

"De race hez got ter rise en- hustel eff
ever it hopes ter git dar." said the old
colored citizen. "Too many of us
thinks dat all we got ter do is go ter
sleep in de hot sun en- rise up ter eat
watermelons in de shadev'-AtIanta
Constitution.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25

With the progress of civilization not
only is insanity on the increase, but
the occurring varieties are less durable,
the physique Of the town-dwelling sec
ton of the population has deteriorated
both in height and weight, and the
statistics of recovery are less favorable
than they were twenty-five years
ago.. Serious as this may appear,
while such q state exists one can nef-
ther hope for nor expect relief from
the great financial and economic bur
den of providing accommodation for
the insane of the future. If relief is
to come, 1t will be in some great
change affecting the physical as well
as the mental health Of the masses
of the people.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25
Mail nv the siberlan ROAD.

European mail can now be dispatch
ed to the far east by means of the
great Trans-Siberian railroad. Letters
can to-day be sent from Paris, Ber-
lin or Vienna via Moscow to V1adivos-
took and Port Arthur In from twenty
two to twenty-four days, while the
time required by steamer mail via the
Suez canal route is from six to eight
yyopIyS
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-25

What is believed to be the first auto
mobile lawn mower used In this coun-
try is employed on the grounds around
the Whltehouse and the Capitol in
Washington. where 1t may be seen
almost every day cutting grass. The
statement is made that it does its work
neatly and expeditiously, and at the
same time does no damage to the beau
tiful lawns